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[Jeff ] Cogen joins [Sam] Adams on a dirty laundry list—from U.S. Sen. Bob Packwood to Congressman David Wu—of Oregon’s politically elite men behaving like tumescent teens. [“Boys Behaving Badly,” WW, July 31, 2013]. No, no, no. Packwood and Wu both engaged in unwanted sexual behavior. It was certainly sexual harassment, and in Packwood’s case, at least one incident rises to—in my opinion—assault and attempted rape. No matter what you think of the behavior that Cogen and Adams engaged in, one thing is crystal clear: It was consensual sex between willing adult partners. Comparing Cogen and Adams to Packwood and Wu is utterly inappropriate. —“Kari Chisholm” Why is an alternative weekly concerned at all with the sex lives of politicians? It took me forever to figure out what the scandal about Cogen was even about. There really was no scandal with Beau Breedlove; he’s an opportunist with a preference for older men who used his advantage. WW was offended, personally, that Sam Adams lied to you about it (like Bill Clinton and Ken Starr, I’m not sure lying counts when the question ought not to have been asked), and then you decided to seek personal revenge by making it news. Adams, by the way, could easily have been reelected. The competition was pathetic. —“Sean H” Back to the pretzel cart, Jeff. Hire Sonia Manhas, and you’ll have a staffer to put the salt on them. —“lem”

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The [cover teaser] on the newsstand edition read: “Jordan Schnitzer’s Gal Pal Trouble.” [“Puttin’ on the Schnitz,” WW, July 31, 2013.] After reading the article, other than a raft of speculation and innuendo concerning the reputation of a woman I’d never heard of before, I must have missed the part about the “trouble” she’s caused Mr. Schnitzer. Furthermore, her reputation seems to involve people who live in California and/or New Zealand—so why was this story deemed by WW to be of compelling interest to Portlanders or Oregonians? Could it have been a cheap-shot attempt to embarrass a prominent Oregon businessman and patron of the arts—and thereby boost readership? Maybe the headline should have been changed to: “Editors of local liberal rag behaving badly.” That would have been spot-on. —“tb thomas” I’ve never been a defender of the rich, but that’s what reading this trash article has made me. Arguably [the Schnitzer] family has done more for this town than any other in recent history. [Jordan Schnitzer is] not running for public office. This is cheap. We all have our stuff; we all have our side of the story. —“Emanon” 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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Is Portland noisier than most cities its size? I live on a side street in Northeast Portland, and for whatever reason, every dickhead in the city has to walk or bike by between 10 pm and 3 am screaming at the top of their lungs. —Praying for Early Hearing Loss It will illustrate how little we know about the noisiness of American cities when I tell you that the most authoritative ranking we have to date was produced by erection-obsessed Men’s Health magazine. The only noise MH really seems to care about is your turgid schlong clattering against your rock-hard abs. Still, in 2009 the magazine cobbled together a half-baked matrix of noise ordinances, traffic statistics and sleep data for 100 U.S. cities to estimate which were loudest. I admit this method isn’t that different from the one I’d use if I, like the editors of Men’s Health, had been up for 72 hours straight typing 4

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Viagra reviews with my penis. On this admittedly bogus list, Portland ranked 22nd-noisiest. So I guess the answer to your question is “yes.” But frankly, I’m more intrigued by the news that “every dickhead in Portland” is on your street. We can conservatively estimate that one in four Portlanders is a dickhead. (Just imagine if we were doing this column in the Hillsboro Argus!) That’s about 150,000 dickheads, enough to make a single-file line 150 miles long. Since they all pass by within five hours, though, they must be linking arms 10 abreast (a phallic phalanx!) to make their screaming, dickheaded way down your street in the allotted time. Are you sure this is happening every night and not, say, once a month? Because what you’re describing sounds a helluva lot like Last Thursday. But I’m not a fancy bonerologist from Men’s Health, so what do I know? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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The true power behind the fight for control of Portland’s water and sewer bureaus (“Water Bedfellows,” WW, July 10, 2013) is getting less murky. The city’s largest water ratepayer, German semiconductor manufacturer Siltronic, confirms it’s backing a ballot initiative to create a Portland Public Water District and take control of the utilities away from City Hall. (Siltronic paid KAMINSKI $1.9 million in water bills in the past year.) Meanwhile, supporters and opponents of the measure (which has not yet made the May 2014 ballot) are already trying to win over the city’s influential voting bloc: anti-fluoride voters. The measure’s authors—lobbyist Kent Craford and reservoir preservation activist Floy Jones—are competing with environmentalists, led by Audubon Society of Portland conservation director Bob Sallinger, as they woo Clean Water Portland for an endorsement. The group’s director, Kim Kaminski, says her board hasn’t made up its mind on the issue. “It’s complex. It’s multifaceted,” Kaminski tells WW. “We’re more interested in making a good decision than an expedited one.” A member of community radio station KBOO FM’s board of directors says he was kicked off the board July 15 after talking to the media about the station’s recent financial and union troubles (“KBOO Coup,” WW, July 10, 2013). KBOO board president S.W. Conser confirms the board removed Hadrian Micciche; the minutes say Micciche was removed because of a June 20 email he sent to several media outlets (including WW) accusing three board members of wrongdoing. Micciche says a copy of WW’s recent story, which quoted him, was open and on the table when he walked into the meeting. “They were saying I was disloyal to KBOO by blowing the whistle,” Micciche says. “I mentioned whistle-blowing and somebody said, ‘It’s not whistle-blowing unless somebody did something wrong.’” In another update, Conser says that KBOO executive director Lynn Fitch remains in her position but is on leave after the death of her partner. Gingerphobes should avoid Pioneer Courthouse Square on Aug. 17. It’s the Redhead Event, an attempt by Portland software engineer Rusty Weise to break the Guinness World Records’ mark for the most natural redheads gathered in one place. Weise joined a 2010 record-setting event with 890 carrottops. His group’s new goal: 1,256, to eclipse the number at a redheads gatherNETHERLANDS REDHEAD ing in the Netherlands last fall. The event is also a fundraiser for the Skin Cancer Foundation. Admission rules are strict: a $10 fee and a photo of yourself as a redheaded child. Organizers say non-ginger parents may accompany their redheaded kids for the group photo—but must hide from the camera. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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SITTING ON DEFENSE FEDERAL BUDGET CUTS COME DOWN HARD ON COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEYS. BY ANDREA DAMEWOOD

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Steven Wax has become famous for taking on some of the toughest court cases in the nation. As the state’s top federal public defender, Wax represented the so-called “Christmas Tree Bomber,” Mohamed Mohamud, and the Beaverton lawyer mistakenly accused of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Brandon Mayfield. He’s also fought for the rights of Guantánamo Bay detainees and written a book about his experiences. But Wax, director of Oregon’s Federal Public Defender, says his office is going through “certainly the darkest time in my 30 years.” The federal public defenders’ office stands to lose as much as one-third of its staff—cuts so deep, Wax says, his office is turning away cases for the first time in its history. But the cuts—triggered by the automatic, across-theboard reductions known as sequestration—have not fallen on all federal agencies equitably. The Oregon U.S. Attorney’s Office—which gets its funding from a different pot of federal money—isn’t being hit as hard. Wax says prosecutors probably won’t slow their cases. “The U.S. attorneys, they control the spigot,” he says. “There’s no prediction their output will be reduced enough for us to continue to provide the constitutionally required representation for clients.”

Amanda Marshall, U.S. attorney for Oregon, says her office will see a cumulative 20 percent budget cut next year. She’s laid off nine contracted support staff. Right now, the U.S. attorney has 117 employees; after the cuts, it will have money for 93 positions. Marshall says her office will handle most of the cuts through furloughs and attrition. Staff attorneys are now doing work a legal secretary once did, she says. “That’s the problem with the sequester, it doesn’t really make a lot of sense,” Marshall adds. “I don’t think taxpayers want to pay attorneys for what a secretary can do.” But the inequity of the cuts has many experts worried. “If you did a 33 percent cut across both agencies, that would be bad,” says Carrie Leonetti, professor of criminal procedure and faculty director of the criminal justice advocacy program at the University of Oregon School of Law. “But doing it in just the defender office is worse.” Leonetti says Oregon’s federal public defender office is among the most admired in the country. The costs of sequestration are likely to snowball, Leonetti says. People will be kept in prison or on pretrial supervision for longer as cases are delayed, increasing those costs. “It gets really expensive,” she says, “not to mention that it’s a draconian imposition of the government on someone’s life who is presumed innocent.” U.S. attorneys and public defenders get money from two different branches of the federal government: the prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice in the executive branch, the defenders through the federal court system in the judicial branch.

Oregon’s federal public defenders handle about 75 percent of all the district’s cases—the office opens some 1,500 case files each year—and previously only turned down clients when their office has a conflict of interest, Wax says. Wax says his office saw an $850,000 cut in its $13.2 million budget last fall. He laid off nine workers and scheduled about 10 unpaid furlough days. On Oct 1, the start of the new fiscal year, Wax says, his office faces a cut of $2 million more—and he will have to cut staffing to 50 employees, down from 83 a year ago. Sequestration cuts are being done in the name of national deficit reduction. But cuts to federal public defenders actually cost taxpayers more money. That’s because when federal public defenders can’t take a case, it’s assigned to private attorneys. Those attorneys bill at $125 an hour—far more, Wax says, than the costs of defending a case through his office. The federal budget cuts have hit the judicial system as a whole: This spring, Oregon’s federal district courts closed on Fridays. Money for pre- and post-supervision treatment is also gone. Wax says his office met with U.S. Reps. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) to find a way to increase the federal allotment for public defenders. Andrew Malcolm, Walden’s spokesman, agrees making up for a budget shortfall by hiring more expensive private attorneys “doesn’t make any sense.” Malcolm says there’s a $34 million increase in the $1 billion budget for the office in the current House majority bill for the federal judiciary. But Wax is skeptical that a bill will pass this fall. Instead, he’s holding out hope Congress will create a budgetary exception for public defenders in the sequestration cuts. He says federal money for both public defenders and private attorneys will ultimately run out—and then cases will have to be dropped without going to trial. “We can’t make a decision as a country,” Wax says, “that we can put people in prison without counsel.” Willamette Week AUGUST 7, 2013 wweek.com

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JUSTICE LEAGUE COGEN FACES A STATE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. HE’S NOT HAPPY. BUT SHOULD HE BE WORRIED?

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This month, Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen will answer questions in a criminal investigation aimed at finding out if he abused his public office while having an affair with a county employee. Recent public corruption cases investigated by the Oregon Department of Justice, which is handling the Cogen case, show the difficulty in prosecuting public officials. The DOJ told lawmakers this year they conducted 48 public corruption cases since July 2011, but only cited one case that resulted in a conviction. DOJ spokesman Jeff Manning tells WW statistics are not readily available for how often his agency has brought criminal charges against public officials. (His boss, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, is married to WW publisher Richard Meeker.) “The Oregon DOJ conducts all of its criminal investigations vigorously and fairly,” Manning says. “We’ll do the same in the Cogen case.” Here’s a blotter of recent headline-making cases.

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MITCH MORROW

The DOJ investigated the Department of Corrections deputy director this year for allegedly cutting $5 million in deals with prison industries operators.

Morrow got his son a pay raise and a cushy job.

None.

The prisons official who blew the whistle on Morrow was fired.

JERRY WYATT

The Dallas city manager in 2012 booked $1,648 in plane tickets to Chicago for a leadership-training event. Turns out there was no event—Wyatt and his wife were visiting their son at college.

Wyatt made 36 purchases with city funds, totaling more than $14,000.

Wyatt pleaded guilty to five charges in January, including one for felony theft. He’s serving a two-year prison sentence.

According to the Polk County Itemizer-Observer, Wyatt admitted using city money to buy his wife a pink cellphone case.

MARK LONG

In 2010, Oregon Department of Energy director Mark Long allegedly steered a $60,000 contract to a firm co-owned by Cylvia Hayes, companion of Gov. John Kitzhaber.

Documents suggested Long helped get the contract for Hayes, who didn’t know it was happening.

None.

Litigation continues between the DOJ and Long’s lawyers. Cost to taxpayers so far: more than $1 million.

DEAN GUSHWA

A girlfriend accused the Umatilla County district attorney—in the rodeo town of Pendleton—of rape in 2009.

Then-AG John Kroger told The Oregonian that the DOJ found “an extreme form of sexual harassment as well as intoxication in the workplace.”

Seven counts of official misconduct and 11 for contempt of court. Gushwa was convicted only of accepting an unauthorized $6 government discount on a La Grande hotel room.

The DOJ took over the Umatilla County DA’s office and (as The Oregonian reported) botched the job so badly a confessed murderer walked free on appeal.

PATTI GALLE

The Oregonian reported in 2010 that Galle, then the West Linn mayor, bought an online college degree from a diploma mill, then backdated it in her Voters’ Pamphlet statement.

What The O said. Galle resigned.

She pleaded guilty to making a false statement on an official election document, a felony.

Galle put in 120 communityservice hours with Oregon Dachshund Rescue.

JOHN MINNIS

The state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training director resigned in 2009 when Kroger investigated him for sexual harassment and possible sexual assault of a female employee.

The woman said Minnis plied her with vodka in a San Diego hotel room, and she later woke up without clothes on.

None.

Minnis wanted the woman to use state-owned walkie-talkies so they could communicate without being detected by his wife, former state House Speaker Karen Minnis.

SAM ADAMS

Adams, the Portland mayor, admitted in 2009 to WW that he lied about a sexual relationship with an 18-yearold legislative intern.

Kroger’s squad came up short proving Adams and the intern, Beau Breedlove, had sex before the young man turned 18.

None.

Breedlove told Adams’ lawyers the two men rented Kinsey—a drama about the sex researcher—on their first weekend together.

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For Caleb Porter, there was nowhere to go but up with the Portland Timbers. The team’s new head coach took over a dismal squad from last year and appears on track to deliver on his promise when hired: the first-ever playoff spot for the city’s Major League Soccer team. But it’s not just that Porter has overcome low expectations from past seasons (the Timbers, two-thirds of the way through their schedule, have already surpassed the performance of last year’s team). It’s that Porter has made waves in MLS with a high-possession, fast-attacking style of soccer. The Timbers are ranked fourth out of 19 teams based on points per game. (Teams get three points for a win, one for a tie, and zero for a loss.) But despite their ranking, the Timbers’ playoff spot is far from secured. That’s because MLS is seeing one of its most competitive seasons in years. The league’s top 10 teams are separated by just five points. And the Timbers are the equivalent of just one game away of falling out of playoff eligibility, and nine of their remaining 12 games are against teams fighting for the same postseason slots as Portland. In order to help break down the Timbers’ playoff chances, we’ve put together a list of three things the Timbers need to continue doing well—and the three things that haunt their playoff hopes. The meltdowns of the Timbers’ past often came when the team gave up late-game goals. Not this year. The Timbers will need to keep up their tenacious attitude throughout the remaining matches. And much of this new resolve comes from the Timbers’ captain, midfielder Will Johnson. Johnson came to Portland this year from Real Salt Lake, and the fierce, physical style and relentless play (making him unpopular here before this season) has paid off for the Timbers. “[Will] demands a lot from himself and from his teammates,” says Bob Kellett of the podcast 5 Minutes to Kick-

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off. “We’ve seen throughout the season that when the team is facing adversity he has an ability to step up his game and bring the other players to his level.” Porter has proven to have a keen eye for positioning players in unexpected ways and recognizing talents that have been overlooked. Timbers veteran and midfielder Jack Jewsbury had been talked down a bit last season by interim coach Gavin Wilkinson, and he was not a sure thing to return. But Porter has shifted Jewsbury to the back line, where his experience and coolheaded play have helped fix a leaky defense. An even better example is Rodney Wallace, a former defender and infrequent starter who had an uneven performance the past two years. Porter moved Wallace to left wing, where he’s scored four goals and made five assists. “Even Porter was unsure of where to put Wallace at the start of the year,” says William Conwell of Stumptown Footy. “But once the spot for Wallace was found, he grabbed hold of it and has not let go.” Porter must keep finding players adept at different playing styles, especially as he continues to make changes on the back line. Last season, Portland fans howled when the team swapped goalkeepers in a trade with the Montreal Impact.

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The Timbers’ keeper, Troy Perkins, seemed one of the few players who performed well last season. And trading him for Impact goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts, whose performance had been uneven and who faced injuries last year, didn’t seem to make much sense. Fast forward to today. Ricketts, the Jamaican national player, is a revelation. When the Timbers’ defense rapidly deteriorated due to injuries—particularly those to Mikael Silvestre and David Horst—Ricketts was the difference, keeping the Timbers in the game when the back line looked beaten down. Ricketts is in essentially a tie as the top-ranked goalkeeper in the league for goals scored against him. (Real Salt Lake’s Nick Rimando has a .01 goals-against advantage.) Ricketts is tied for No. 1 in the league for shutouts (nine). His speed and agility seem to exceed a keeper of his size, and thanks to his key blocks, fans nationwide have voted Ricketts eight MLS Save of the Week awards. The Timbers’ weaknesses, such as they are, don’t look that large compared to the fiascoes of last season. But they do exist. The team has compiled two remarkable stats this season. First, the Timbers have lost the fewest matches— three—of any MLS team. CONT. on page 12

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From March to July, the Timbers had a remarkable 15-game unbeaten streak. Any team with that kind of record should be running the board, not facing an uncertain playoff picture. But seven of the games in that streak were draws. Yes, the one point certainly helps. But Portland had more ties than any team in the league, and conversely the fewest victories of any team now in playoff contention. While that helps the team’s standing (soccer is one of the few sports in which a team is rewarded for a tie), it’s also created a middling sense of the team’s ability to grab wins when needed. If only three of those ties had been wins, the Timbers would be the top team in the league. The Timbers are also starting to show an inability to finish off great chances. They’ve already scored 32 goals, nearly as many as they scored all of last season (and there are 12 games left in this one). Credit the quick delivery and near magical ball control of attacking midfielder Diego Valeri, a centerpiece in Porter’s system of fast, frequent passes, who has created some truly awe-inspiring setups. Still, despite these amazing chances, the Timbers’ attacking forwards seem to struggle to get them consistently into the back of the net. The Timbers’ 2-1 road loss to the San Jose Earthquakes had one such gamedefining moment. Valeri flicked the ball to Will Johnson, who went one-on-one with

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Earthquakes keeper Jon Busch. Johnson fired—straight into Busch’s arms. “The games that the Timbers have lost this season have not been a result of a lack of scoring opportunities but rather an inability to convert their opportunities,” says Kellett of 5 Minutes to Kickoff. “[The team] will need more production from its forwards, and hope that the goal-scoring committee can convert its chances when they arise.” The biggest challenge: The secrets behind the team’s success are out. The coach’s brand of play—nicknamed “Porterball,” a moniker Porter himself doesn’t care for—runs counter to the typical MLS style of long balls and coun-

terattacks. (Long balls involve players punching the ball up the field hoping it lands somewhere useful. Counterattacking is when one side endures long stretches of possession by the other team with hopes of catching the opponent flatfooted for a breakaway—often with long balls.) In the season’s first half, the Timbers’ new style confounded a lot of teams that couldn’t figure out how to adapt to it. But everyone in MLS has taken a long look at Porterball, and some teams have cracked the code. They include two teams that have beaten Portland—San Jose and Columbus—and, most recently, the Vancouver Whitecaps, who got out of Jeld-Wen Field on Aug. 3 with a 1-1 tie. While creative plays from Valeri are

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now the norm, the Whitecaps seemed to have no problem shutting him down in the center, where he sets off the short-pass barrage that’s key to Porter’s strategy. (Valeri did get the Timbers’ lone assist, on a long cross to Ryan Johnson.) Vancouver seemed to anticipate Portland’s moves and—along with a chippy, rough response in a game choked with fouls—disrupted the Timbers’ momentum. If the Timbers can’t adjust and adapt to Porterball, they could stall in the home stretch—the part of the season, as Porter recently said, that separates winners from losers. Geoff Gibson is the former managing editor of StumptownFooty.com.

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t’s been an eventful month for Portland’s homeless. On July 15, an employee of the Portland Outdoor Store downtown was attacked by a young male who was described by police as a “street kid.” A second Outdoor Store employee was attacked behind his apartment three days later by two assailants believed to be connected to the beating of his co-worker. On July 17, a TriMet bus driver was stabbed outside a break room in Lents. Police believe the attacker was a transient living in the homeless camp under the I-205 overpass at Southeast Flavel Street. On July 23, Mayor Charlie Hales evicted an encampment of homeless protesters who had assembled outside City Hall to demonstrate for the right to sleep on the sidewalk. He did so by changing the zoning around City Hall to “high-use pedestrian.” A majority of protesters moved about 50 feet across Southwest 4th Avenue to Chapman Square. On July 31, Houston Rockets basketball player and native Portlander Terrence Jones was arrested for allegedly stomping on a homeless man as Jones exited an Old Town club at 2 am. And just think: The city was supposed to have ended homelessness by about now. It’s been almost 10 years since 2004, when thenMayor Vera Katz convened the Citizens Commission on Homelessness to come up with a “permanent solution” to the problem. The result was ambitiously titled “Home Again: A 10-year plan to end homelessness in Portland and Multnomah County.” By focusing on a “housingfirst methodology,” the plan sought to fix a system that institutionalized homelessness by “ferrying people from service to service, then back out on to the street.” In fairness, a good deal has been accomplished in the past nine years. Bud Clark Commons, an outreach

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housing facility with 130 studio apartments and a 90-bed emergency shelter for men, was completed in 2011. According to the Portland Housing Bureau, more than 12,000 individuals have found permanent homes, 84 percent of whom remained stably housed after 12 months. The Home Again program has also secured jobs for more than 3,000 individuals experiencing homelessness. And yet, by a variety of measurements, the number of homeless in Portland during the past 10 years has grown. A count conducted for the Portland Housing Bureau and Multnomah County on Jan. 30 identified 1,895 people as “unsheltered”—that is, sleeping outside, in a vehicle or in an abandoned building. This was up 31 percent from 1,438 in 2007, the first year a similar count was conducted. “[It’s] painful to say we’re not going to end everyone’s homelessness in 10 years,” says Traci Manning, director of the Portland Housing Bureau. Last week, we took to the streets to profile 10 Portlanders who are living without homes. Some live in vehicles and makeshift encampments, others sleep under bridges near the Willamette River. Some have been put on the streets by mental illness, drug abuse or medical issues—conditions the 2013 count says affect 64 percent of the unsheltered homeless population. While these profiles are incomplete (and given the nature of the subject, they are difficult to verify), they do provide a snapshot of what its like to be living in Portland without a home. Here are their stories.

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“BUSINESS OWNERS DON’T WANT TO SEE US. NORMAL PEOPLE LOOK AT US, AND IT’S FEAR. BUT A LOT OF FEAR IS KNOWING THAT THEY’RE JUST ONE PAYCHECK AWAY.” —KEVIN DUNN

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“TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVING IS A HARD WAY TO GO.” —JOEL DAVID YOUNG

Kevin Dunn, 41, lives in a camp adjacent to St. Francis Park in Buckman. He says he landed on the streets 4½ years ago to avoid an arrest warrant for domestic violence. He says he uses marijuana and speed every now and then, but is quick to point out that, “I don’t think everyone out here has a substance-abuse problem. Not everyone that uses a substance abuses it. There are people that can get up and go to a job, but they’re still maintaining their lifestyle. I can take it or leave it. If I have money I go look for it, but if it’s not there I don’t sweat it. I don’t steal to go get it.” Dunn prefers the east side of Portland because of the services provided by St. Francis Church, which he says is far less chaotic and harsh than the scene downtown near the Burnside Bridge. “Downtown there’s more standing in line with the same people,” he says. “The more you know, the more trouble there is. I can get anything I want within a 10-block radius of this park. Except peace of mind.” Dunn prefers to keep to himself and not be a nuisance, especially to the businesses in the area. He considers the problems created by the homeless loitering near storefronts the biggest reason the public is fed up with his community. “Business owners don’t want to see us. Normal people look at us, and it’s fear. But a lot of fear is knowing that they’re just one paycheck away.” Mike Vance, 37, is a recovering heroin addict who has been on the streets since 2000. His own struggle with mental health—he suffers from Tourette’s syndrome 16

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and has anger-management issues—has made him keenly aware how big a factor an untreated personality disorder can be in one’s path to homelessness. He also thinks the ease of access to drugs on the streets keeps people like him down. Not long ago, Vance says, all you had to do was hop on the MAX to get a fix. “You had people from Honduras on there running up and down the line all day with balloons of cocaine and heroin in their mouth,” he says. “It was just like going to a 7-Eleven. It was too easy. Every now and then a really strong batch comes in to town and the dealers don’t cut it and it’s killing a lot of new users. A lot of people are dying off that shit. I’ve overdosed on heroin three times, and I keep coming back for more.” TriMet now does a better job of policing the MAX line, he adds. Vance has had work sporadically but kept finding a way to “drink and dope my way out of a place to stay.” He would always find himself going to a treatment center and then a home like the Blanchet House, where you work for your keep. Vance says he has been clean and sober since May. Like many homeless people I interviewed, Vance says more services are needed. “There’s a waitlist for every program or every building,” he adds. “For a lot of folks, if they’re on the street and they’re doing drugs and they want to get off it, they can’t get inside a building to do it, and it compounds the hopelessness in their heads and makes it twice as hard to get off the drugs.” Vance is currently living at City Team, a rescue mission in Southeast Portland, where he helps assist other homeless. But he admits to an overriding sense of hope-

lessness: “After you use and you get kicked to the curb so many times and people catch on to you and you’ve been fucked up for so long, you start to believe this is the way your life’s gonna go now, and what’s the point? What’s the use in trying?” Joel David Young, 44, lives on a boat on the Willamette River and says he is not really homeless. He grew up in Orange County, and he was a session guitar player at Sub Pop Records in Seattle during the height of the ’90s grunge scene. He then headed east and married a schoolteacher in Tennessee, but the combination of culture shock and a motorcycle accident proved to be too much for him to handle. “I wrecked a motorcycle, and my spine feels like there’s a railroad spike in it all the time,” he says. He took up alcohol to ease the pain. “Instead of choosing the narcotic path, which the doctors are perfectly willing to provide for me, or taking the drugs and trading it for money.” Young drifted around Manhattan and took guitar gigs until he was let go from two sessions for showing up drunk. He moved to the Oregon Coast, had the motorcycle accident in Portland and ended up stuck here while his knee healed, so he decided to figure out a way to stay. He ended up buying a 25-foot sailboat from a meth addict and setting up shop on the Willamette River. He drinks a fifth of whiskey a day. “I’m not slumming, but I kinda am,” he says. “There are strings that I could pull to get out. My pride is preventing me from doing that.” CONT. on page 18

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Young is hopef ul about his f uture and believes he’ll be back on track and playing guitar professionally within a few months. “I jammed with a friend the other morning, and the red light should’ve been on for that,” he says. “That’s what I live for right there, that’s what drives me. But I’m a cynical idealist. To believe in this living is a hard way to go.”

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Samantha Smith, 24, is a Rainbow Kid who came to Portland to support the Occupy movement. As soon as her 3-year-old son, Caleb, was old enough to go out on the road, she left behind a bartending job in Jacksonville, Fla., to hitchhike with him to the Rainbow Gathering in Montana. Relying on the kindness of strangers, she and Caleb made it to Portland two weeks ago without a dollar in their pockets. She has been camping at Chapman Square, and found a makeshift family with the Occupy supporters she encountered. “I couldn’t imagine just sleeping on the side of the road,” Smith says. “But because of what’s going on here—we’re all gathered for this cause— I feel safe sleeping out here. These people are like my family.” Smith doesn’t consider herself homeless, but she’s aware she may be lumped in the same category with everyone who lives on the streets. “This is our choice. I prefer to live this way,” she says. “I don’t need more than $5 a day to survive in a place that doesn’t have as much to offer as Portland.” Being misperceived as homeless and destitute presents a grave concern for Smith when it comes to the safety of her son. If Child Protective Services were to come by at the wrong time, she says, they might get the wrong idea about the

choices she’s made that brought her here. “I know half the people out here are here because they have nowhere else to go,” Smith says. “We’re out here and we have nothing, and I’ve never been happier in my entire life.” Erick “Shaggy” Dowler, 36, doesn’t like to be called homeless. When we met, he was sleeping under the Morrison Bridge on the west bank. “You see this pack here?” he asks, pointing to a green hiker’s backpack. “I’m a tramp. If something’s keeping me down, I just pack up and move on to the next town.” Dowler left home in Iowa when he was 19. He ended up back there a few times, but a drinking problem led to several charges of public intoxication. He left Iowa, he says, for fear of landing in jail. With the exception of being married from 2001 to 2007, during which he and his wife lived in a van off and on for two years, he’s been hitchhiking and living on the streets ever since. Before arriving in Portland, he and a friend lived in Seattle for a year. He was stabbed by another homeless person over a bottle of vodka and decided it was time to leave. Portland has been a positive experience for Dowler, he says. He’s found it easy to find places to set up camp, get food and be taken care of much better than he was in Seattle. All you have to do, he says, is find another tramp. “You recognize a tramp by his backpack, or a sign, or just a marker. People normally don’t go looking like that [gestures toward some Rainbow Kids near the river], but I’m not gonna put them down for that, that’s their style. I like to have a decent set of clothing and look clean. I don’t wanna look like that or smell like that.” Dowler believes he could get off the streets if

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he wanted, but he tried for three months in 2010 and didn’t like it all that much. He thinks getting the elderly who can’t work and fend for themselves off the streets is a bigger problem than him flying a sign asking for beer money every now and then. Pamela Dahl, 25, never thought she would end up homeless. While visiting Portland last summer with her boyfriend, her car broke down and left the couple stranded. She was robbed at gunpoint the next day. She couldn’t find the keys to her vehicle, so it was impounded a few days later, effectively leaving her with nothing. “I was terrified,” Dahl says. “I didn’t even think of it as being homeless: I was stranded. I thought I was going home. I was with my now-ex-boyfriend, and three weeks later his parents got him a plane ticket, and he flew back to Ohio.” Dahl began using heroin and chose not to seek shelter because she didn’t feel worthy, she says. “I wasn’t trying to get housing when I used. I didn’t want other people paying for my habits. I don’t like even admitting that I had a problem, let alone having other people take care of me.” For the past four months, she has been living at Right 2 Dream Too, a homeless encampment on West Burnside Street. “This place sleeps 80 people a night. That’s 80 people that’ll otherwise be back on the street, vulnerable, probably doing bad things,” Dahl says. “It’s easy to be homeless in Portland. There’s 19 different places to eat a day, it’s OK to sleep outside. The cops let you sleep under the bridges, they just wake you up at 7. You have all this extra money because you don’t have to worry about an apartment or you get free housing. For some people who need it, it’s good, but for people that want free housing so they can spend their money on dope, that’s messed up.” Julianne Dunn, 39, lost her Portland home to foreclosure shortly before the Occupy Portland movement began in 2011. She took her three children downtown without any idea what was going on, and was immediately moved by what she

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saw in Chapman Square. She told a member of the movement her story; the next day she and her family were set up with a tent. “When I lost my home, I had everything in my tent at Occupy,” Dunn says. “I started going through and realized how much of it I didn’t need and just started giving it away. Jewelry, sleeping bags, all kinds of things I held onto for years, and I thought, ‘Wow, do I really need all this?’” Dunn’s children went to live with their father in Gresham after a month, but she remained with the Occupy movement until police cleared the square. For more than a year, she lived in various tent camps. In March she and a friend bought and moved into a van. “It’s hard to even want to settle into a home when you know at any time someone else can just take it away from you,” she says. “I feel a lot freer now. Why should I pay taxes or thousands of dollars a month to live on someone else’s land? We’re saving a lot of money living in our van right now.” Jay Melton, 26, has been homeless since he left home when he was 17. He’s been using crystal meth off and on ever since, and hasn’t been able to hold down a job for more than a month. Melton says he was abused as a child by his mother’s boyfriend until he left home, and suffers from untreated attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress and other psychiatric problems that have made it difficult for him to get off drugs and off the streets. Until last week, he lived in a tent community under the I-5 overpass with his pregnant girlfriend. Now that the police have come by and told them they need to disperse, he doesn’t know 20

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where they’ll go. Melton says he’s been clean for three weeks, but it’s still a challenge for him to get his life straight even if he’s not using drugs. In addition to his girlfriend, he has four sons by four different women. Two months ago, he served a brief stint in jail after his ex-wife accused him of domestic violence. “It’s hard to keep a job,” he says, “when you’re homeless and in treatment and have a pregnant girlfriend and a case with your ex-wife.” He says he’s performed all sorts of manual labor and was a delivery worker for Dave’s Killer Bread, but a workplace injury has made it hard for him to keep a steady job. Melton says his greatest asset for survival on the streets is his ability to talk to people. He helps them with directions downtown as much as he can, and believes that the homeless like him are good for keeping people from getting lost and wandering into the worst parts of town. He attends the “feeds” at all the missions around Burnside and says it’s impossible to go hungry on the streets of Portland. “If you starve on the streets of Portland, you’re retarded. Write that down.” He wakes up every day, checks to see if his girlfriend needs food and heads across the bridge. “I had a lighter, a wallet and a penny on me,” he says. “I come down here for almost three hours. I come back with two 40 bags of shards [crystal meth], a bag of food from a minimart, $20 in my pocket and two packs of smokes. I just talk to people. That’s it.” Melton considers the train hoppers and gutter punks the biggest problems among the CONT. on page 23

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TriMet: Blind Spot on Bus Safety In 2004, a TriMet bus that was turning left struck and killed a man in a crosswalk. The investigation that followed determined that the design of the bus itself was partly to blame. The 8-inch windshield pillar was so wide that it effectively blocked the operator’s vision during left-hand turns. For small stature operators, the risk was even greater. Further analysis of accident statistics showed that the wide-pillar buses were responsible for over 36% of all crosswalk accidents, even though that model made up just over 10% of the TriMet fleet at the time. SUBSEQUENTLY, the Union presented TriMet with videos, diagrams SUB and expert witness testimony to demonstrate that this particular model of bus was inherently dangerous to pedestrians. The Union went on to request that TriMet provide special training to drivers, especially small stature drivers, so that more people would not be killed during left-hand turns. Lastly, the Union asked that those buses not be used on routes that had left-hand turns.

TRIMET IGNORED BOTH REQUESTS AND DID NOTHING TO FIX THE PROBLEM. Fast-forward eight years to 2012, when TriMet signed a contract for 365 new buses. Operators were horrified to learn that the windshield pillar of the new buses is even wider. As shown in the photos on the left, a wide pillar like that on the new bus can “hide” as many as six adults, two children and a baby in a stroller – all at the same time! When the side mirror is added to that width, the blind spot becomes enormous, especially for short stature operators.

While there is no question that TriMet needs new buses, it is unbelievable that the agency would compromise public safety with such a significant purchase. What’s even more unbelievable is that each of these 365 buses is getting an $11,000 “nose job”. That’s right. TriMet has decided to add a custom-fabricated “snoot” to each bus in order to match the look of the new Max trains. The expense alone seems questionable, but there’s more. The snoot further compromises safety by creating yet another visual obstruction near the windshield pillar. At a time when TriMet is blaming workers’ benefits for its financial problems, the agency is spending over $4 million on cosmetic surgery for 365 new buses. It appears that TriMet not only has a blind spot on bus safety, but also has a blind-eye for prudent spending.

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Lewis & Clark offers students a powerful, personal education. Our college of arts and sciences, graduate school of education and counseling, and law school emphasize collaboration and critical thinking. Our programs and influence stretch from our ideal setting in Portland to sites around the world. We prepare students to succeed and to lead—to change for the better the communities in which they live, learn and work. 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 768-7000, lclark.edu.

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OSM offers training to aspiring massage therapists, licensed professionals and the general public. The certificate program with either a Western or Eastern focus prepares graduates for licensure in both Oregon and Washington, as well as the National Certification Exam. We offer flexible scheduling, including day or evening classes, and training may be completed in 12 to 24 months. Our curriculum develops personal and social awareness, emphasizing integration of psycho-spiritual healing and the study of the human body. We train well-rounded therapists who do more than “fix” bodies; they touch lives. 9500 SW Barbur Blvd., Suite 100; 800-844-3420 Portland, 866-588-8912 Salem; oregonschoolofmassage.com.

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Pacific University is a diverse community where students thrive in a personal academic environment. Tracing its history to 1849, when it began as a school for orphans of the Oregon Trail, Pacific has long been devoted to making a difference in people’s lives. Today, undergraduates at Pacific University choose from more than 60 programs, from the liberal arts and sciences to education and business to the health sciences. Students complement a rich academic experience with close nurturing relationships with faculty, service-learning and study-abroad opportunities, a robust selection of clubs and activities, and a vibrant Division III athletics program. Pacific also offers a combination of graduate and professional programs in the arts and sciences, education, optometry, health care and business. Pacific University has campuses in Forest Grove, Hillsboro and Eugene, as well as offices and sites in Portland and Woodburn, as well as Honolulu. Students enjoy the combination of a small college town, the proximity to the city and easy access to the outdoor adventures of the Oregon Coast and Cascade Mountains. At Pacific, students join in a network of more than 22,000 alumni around the world who share in the Boxer spirit. 2043 College Way, Forest Grove, 352-6151, pacificu.edu.

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Urban. Unique. Independent. The School of Business Administration at Portland State University is located just steps away from the city’s thriving businesses in the heart of downtown. Through entrepreneurial-focused initiatives like the Small Business Consulting Course and Senior Business Strategy Capstone, students graduate with real-world business understanding to help jumpstart their careers while helping Portland businesses. PSU offers on-campus and online undergraduate business degrees in management and leadership, and supply and logistics management, along with on-campus degrees in accounting, advertising, marketing, human resources and finance. To learn more about how PSU’s online business programs that can jumpstart your career, visit pdx.edu/sba/online. 631 SW Harrison St., 725-3712

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The University of Western States (UWS) provides a science-driven curriculum that delivers a solid foundation and competitive edge in preparing students for clinical practice. UWS is a regionally accredited nonprofit institution dedicated to improving the health of society through its educational programs, research and clinical services. Founded in 1904, the university offers a doctor of chiropractic degree program; master’s degrees in exercise and sports science, human nutrition and functional medicine, and diagnostic imaging; a massage therapy certification program; and accredited continuing education programs for licensed health care professionals. 2900 NE 132nd Ave., 800-641-5641, uws.edu.

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SO LONG, DUTCH: A former star of Portland’s pro wrestling scene—a once-thriving industry and precursor to today’s cable wrestling giants—is gone. “Dutch Savage” died Aug. 3, after a recent stroke. He was 78. Born Frank Lionel Stewart in Scranton, Pa., in 1935, Savage began wrestling in 1962. He settled in the Pacific Northwest by 1966 SAVAGE and was a mainstay in the pro wrestling scene throughout the ’70s, performing at places like the Portland Sports Arena (now the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church Family Life Center). After retiring in 1981, he created and hosted Dutch’s Corner, a Christian ministry on Portland public-access television. At the time of his death, he was living in rural Clark County. “I have some fond memories of watching Portland wrestling when I was a kid,” said a commenter on social news site Reddit. “I will miss those days, and Dutch Savage was a part of that.”

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WEDNESDAY AUG. 7 RHYE [MUSIC] Woman, the debut album of this soft-soul collaboration between Canadian singer Mike Milosh and Danish producer Robin Hannibal, manages the rare feat of being both daringly intimate and alluringly enigmatic. It’s sexy, androgynous and one of the year’s best records. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

THURSDAY AUG. 8 NORTHWESTERN BLACK CIRCLE FESTIVAL [MUSIC] This four-day collision of musical dread, insanity and pulverization is highlighted by Portland’s own kings of punk, Poison Idea, and Dead Conspiracy, perhaps the town’s first-ever death-metal band, which reunited last year. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 5 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show individual shows, $56 weekend pass. Through Aug. 11.

FRIDAY AUG. 9 NATIONAL NERD NIGHT [GEEKERY] Settle Catan once and for all at this year’s annual latenight board-game event. Beer sales support a charity that provides table-top games to youth. Guardian Games, 303 SE 3rd Ave., 238-4000, ggportland.com. 21+.

SATURDAY AUG. 10

THE TEN METH COMMANDMENTS WHAT BREAKING BAD HAS TAUGHT US ABOUT BEING A SUBURBAN DRUG LORD.

1. Always start the morning with a hearty breakfast. High-grade meth is made from a precise combination of phenylacetone and methylamine, but the ingredients for a good day at the lab are pancakes, eggs and bacon strips arranged to represent your age on your birthday. 2. Drive the ugliest car you can find. The only reason for the Pontiac Aztek’s existence is to help keep drug dealers inconspicuous. Plus, you can shatter its windshield and dent the hood four times per season and not feel bad about it. 3. Familiarize yourself with indigenous flora. You never know when you’ll have to use a toxic plant to poison your partner’s girlfriend’s son and trick him into thinking the poisoner was the drug kingpin and fried-chicken magnate your

partner’s been working for, in order to win back his loyalties and help you strap a bomb to an old man’s wheelchair and blow half of said kingpin’s face off. 4. Never get high on your own supply. Bitch.

8. If your DEA-agent brother-in-law thinks he’s closed his case, just roll with it. Or you could go, “Actually, maybe that meth lord you’ve been chasing is sitting across the dinner table from you right now!” while winking repeatedly. Your call.

5. Remember the snacks. Never come to a negotiation without a veggie platter. Even the most hardened gangster will listen to reason when offered baby carrots.

9. Be “the one who knocks.” A deluded self-image is crucial to keeping your empire afloat. Also, it’s a bitchin’ line to throw around when trying to impress your estranged wife.

6. Keep a barrel of acid at the ready. Because dumping bodies in the desert is so 1960s-mob-boss.

10. Don’t read where you shit. Quoth Homer Simpson: “Damn you, Walt Whitman!” MATTHEW SINGER.

7. Befriend a junkyard owner who has a paralegal’s knowledge of search-and-seizure laws. Especially if he has access to powerful magnets.

GO: The Breaking Bad Pub Quiz is at Belmont Inn, 3357 SE Belmont St., 232-1998, on Wednesday, Aug. 7. 7 pm. $5. The show’s final season begins Sunday, Aug. 11, on AMC. 9 pm.

PORTLAND ZINE SYMPOSIUM [ZINES] Celebrating Portland’s passionate DIY publishers, the 13th annual Portland Zine Symposium will feature more than 150 exhibitors and dozens of hands-on workshops. Discover zines you never knew existed, and finally get the inspiration you need to finish your own zine, Breakfast Meats of the World. Ambridge Event Center, 1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 239-9921. 10 am-6 pm. Continues Sunday 10 am-5 pm. Free. SINGLEY-FIMBRES ORCHESTRA [FUNKY CLASSICAL] One of Portland’s paragons of quirky contemporary pop, Alan Singley, teams up with omnipresent musical force Papi Fimbres to present a 40-minute, “genre-fusing, avantgarde, future-funk symphony.” The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. 8 pm. Free-$25 sliding scale. All ages.

MONDAY AUG. 12 ANONYMOUS THEATRE [THEATER] Every year, a director casts and rehearses a show individually and in secrecy, with actors arriving to the performance in street clothes and only learning each other’s identities once the first line is uttered from the house. This year’s selection is Thornton Wilder’s allegorical The Skin of Our Teeth. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 306-0870. 7 pm. $25.

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Garden Produce Preservation: Brining and Fermenting Have too many garden-grown cucumbers softening in your fridge? Chef Dan Brophy will cover traditional pickling—techniques that are used to preserve cabbages and cucumbers—in a place that sells cucumber plants. Portland Nursery, 5050 SE Stark St., 231-5050. 5:30-7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, AUG. 8 The Bent Brick Growler Party

Nine winemakers showcase their wines for the purpose of sending you home with a growler full. The $20 entrance fee includes wine tasting and food from the restaurant. BYO growler or purchase one at the event. The Bent Brick, 1639 NW Marshall St., 688-1655. 6-10 pm. $20. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 9 The Bite of Oregon

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Suburbia descends yet again upon the shores of West Portland for Portland’s most egalitarian food festival, the Bite of Oregon, now in its 30th year. The Coney Island of local food offers a wide variety of meat on a stick, food-cart samples and occasional higher-end fare, alongside celebuchef presentations and the wares of assorted food consortia. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway and Harrison Street. 11 am-10 pm FridaySaturday, 10 am-8 pm Sunday, Aug. 9-11. $5. Proceeds benefit Special Olympics Oregon.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 Third Annual Txakparti

While perusing the Alberta Street Fair, stop by Cork for a celebration of Basque wines during its Txakparti. The purchase of a glass will get you a taste of six different wines and two “bites” from each of the three participating restaurants, Aviary, Bar Lolo and Ración. Cork, 2901 NE Alberta St., 281-2675. Noon-4 pm. Must buy ticket prior to event. $5-$15.

SWEET’N CARB-LOW: Gluten-free lasagna.

901 TAKE OUT 901 Take Out—an unassuming shack just uphill from a pair of gas stations—is home to something rare: a vegan, gluten-free food item even better than its meaty, carb-laden original. The sweet-potato layers in 901’s gluten-free lasagna ($7) don’t so much substitute for the dish’s customary sheet noodles as reinvent the dish around them. Lasagna is, more than anything, a feat of engineering, the noodles mere girding in savory Italian layer cake. By contrast, the flavorful sweet potatoes in 901’s rendition are the dish’s actual centerpiece, the ricotta, tomato, carrot and onion the accompaniments. It was a lovely surprise, a warm garOrder This: Sweet-potato lasagna. den of humble delights. Fewer I’ll pass: The soups, uniformly, could surprises await elsewhere on use extra spicing. the menu. 901 Take Out is a neighborhood utility shop geared for comfort, with a capable enough beef or chicken lasagna available not only by the slice but by the tray (provided you call ahead of time). Its traditional lasagna is the thick, sauce-laden, slightly char-topped American classic, womblike in its familiarity. The counter spot also offers a rotating array of hearty soups ($3-$5), plus a likewise ever-changing cast of grilled sandwiches ($5) that recently included a lovely French-Italian Thanksgiving of a sandwich: turkey, cranberry and brie on peppery bread. But while the rest of the menu may be a boon mostly for locals at the northerly edge of Nob Hill—one of the worst spots in the city to find food that’s both good and cheap—the sweet-potato lasagna might give you reason to travel. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: 901 Takeout, 901 NW 21st Ave., 274-8901, 901takeout.com. 11 am-7 pm Monday-Friday. $

Saraveza’s IIPA Festival

One of our favorite bottle shops in town, Saraveza, is hosting its fourth annual IIPA festival, featuring over 30 rotating Imperial IPAs, live music and BBLTs (that’s double bacon, lettuce and tomato). The tap list includes Pliny the Elder, Hopworks Ace of Spades, and Firestone Walker Double Jack, to name a few. Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern, 1004 N Killingsworth St., 206-4252. 11 am-11 pm. $20 for a glass and 10 drink tickets. Advance ticket purchase encouraged.

SUNDAY, AUG. 11 Field to Fork: Venison Hunting and Butchery

The Portland Meat Collective and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will teach an introduction to deer hunting and butchery. The full-day class begins with an archery workshop and venison field-dressing demo, then moves on to a wildgame lunch with chef Eric Bechard of Kingdom of Roosevelt restaurant, wrapping up with a hands-on venison butchery class. 8 am-5 pm. Sold out. Pdxmeat.com. 18+.

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LUCKY AS HELLES (BREAKSIDE BREWERY) When I lived in Germany, “ein Helles” was my fallback order, and I spent many afternoons in leafy beer gardens sipping at half-liters while squeezing excessive mustard onto my bratwurst. But outside of Germany’s borders, the goldenhued lager—“hell” means light, which refers to the color rather than the caloric content—isn’t so easy to find. That’s in part because it’s a tougher beer to brew well. It requires time to age and careful cold-conditioning, and lack of balance can’t be covered up with pumpkin or pepper: Bavarian lagers include only hops, malt, yeast and water. With Lucky As Helles, Breakside showcases its brewers’ patience and their precision. The beer is refreshing, clean and slightly grassy, with a mild bitterness that lingers as amiably as the fading sun. It puts Breakside on track to meet its goal of brewing 100 different beers in 2013, and it’s also on the literal tracks of Portland Meadows—Lucky As Helles will be on draft there all summer. Lucky you. Recommended. REBECCA JACOBSON.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7 Band of Horses

[WILD HORSES] Expectations were high when producer Glyn Johns stepped in to helm Band of Horses’ latest effort, Mirage Rock. Why wouldn’t they be? The man engineered the first Zeppelin album, for Christ’s sake. With Its flannel-clad naivety coming undone, the band’s last album shifted into the Southern-psychedelic expanses and soft-rock touchiness of its Sub Pop contemporaries, but Johns’ undeniable touch gave Mirage Rock just as much a CSNY shine as ’90s-altrock polish. Frontman Ben Bridwell’s tenor is honeyed as ever, his epiphanyladen lyrics in full Carolina swing, but the reverb-heavy guitars still owe just as much to Dinosaur Jr. as the Stones. BRANDON WIDDER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $30 day of show, $35 advance. All ages.

Dreamboat, WL, Concern

[HYPNOTIC MUSIC] Dreamboat, the collaboration between Golden Retriever’s Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff and guitarist Ilyas Ahmed, made its debut at the Old Church during last year’s MusicfestNW, and it was the perfect environment to fully absorb the gorgeous interplay between Carlson’s modular synth, Sielaff’s processed bass clarinet and Ahmed’s hushed vocals and guitar melodies. Combined, the elements create the kind of deep body-mind high familiar to both weed fanatics and distance runners. Opening act Concern adds to the heady quality of the night with long, expressive, droning, loop-based compositions built from acoustic instruments. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.

Bobby Bare Jr., Mike Coykendall, Gabriel Mintz

[ALT-AMERICANA] Watching Bobby Bare Jr. perform, you’d never guess the guy was musical royalty—a dude who was nominated for a Grammy with his father at age 8, and who could have spent his life milking the novelty song “Daddy What If.” Instead, the disheveled troubadour has walked his own path, plugging out epic pop-tinged compositions that traverse a diverse musical plane informed by everything from classic Americana to psychedelia, prog rock and country. Watching him on a stage of any size feels like catching him at a backyard BBQ—which, if you’re lucky enough to live in Nashville, actually happens. He’s a rare performer who, despite being steeped in legend, surrounded by great musicians and in possession of a wholly original voice, manages to instill in every show the feeling that the audience has stumbled across some unknown, mind-blowing up-and-comer. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Gogol Bordello, A Tribe Called Red

[GYPSY PUNK] Gogol Bordello broke through on the heels of 2005’s Gypsy Punks, a shotgun blast of Balkan folk and the ham-fisted sensibilities of modern American punk. Before you invite the quiet girl with the Beirut shirt you met the other day at the laundromat, heed my words: You will get kicked in the head at this show. The reckless abandon common to Dropkick Murphys concerts and the bloodlust of teenagers who show up merely for the sake of hitting things will be stoked by fiddles, accordions and the bizarre theatrics of frontman Eugene Hutz, a legitimate actor who provided the much-needed comic

relief in the 2005 Holocaust odyssey Everything Is Illuminated. Expect a chunk of the set to be pulled from the recent Pura Vida Conspiracy. Expect a chunk of your scalp to be pulled out as well. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $27 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

Alan Jackson

[SOUTHERN MAN] Modern country music thrives on the tension between achieving crossover pop success and staying true to its back-porch, honkytonk roots. Combine the two methodologies, as Alan Jackson has done for the better part of his career, and you’re a superstar. These days, Jackson is busy exploring country’s roots with the upcoming Bluegrass Album, a disc of all-acoustic stompers featuring renditions of classics like “Blue Moon of Kentucky” along with originals. Live, though, the 54-year-old sticks to his best-known material, performed with the “aw shucks” humility of a true Southern gentleman. ROBERT HAM. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-816-7000. 7:30 pm. $35-$199. All ages.

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openly courted controversy, performing alongside notorious Scandinavians Mayhem and alleged white supremacists Blood Axis, but its shows, both in and out of Portland, remain the stuff of legend.

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Gun Pro [METALCORE] Like many genres, metalcore has become watered down, but once upon a time, bands like Gun Pro pushed boundaries. (Full disclosure: My brother, Merlin Carson, was the band’s guitarist.) Formed in Corvallis in 1995, the band found support in Portland’s local hardcore and powerviolence scenes. Several recording sessions at Smegma Studios were never issued, which is a shame, because the music—with its mythological lyrics and bizarre time changes—was highly original.

Geographer, Grmln

[CELLO TECHNO] Whether it’s Mike Deni’s Billy Idol-esque vocalizations or the full trio’s disco-bent electronic sounds, there’s a decidedly early ’80s feel about Geographer. The San Francisco band’s latest album, Myth, offers dance-y percussion, spacey guitars and buzzing electric cello. True to its name, Geographer comes off a bit more exploratory on a second or third listen, prone to shaking off the pop mold for broader, more atmospheric terrain. Polished throughout—sometimes too much—Deni and company are at their best when dealing in stormier terrain. Post-punk band Grmln opens. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Northwestern Black Circle Festival

[EXTREME CONDITIONS] Now in its fifth year, Northwestern Black Circle Fest brings four action-packed days of musical dread, insanity and pulverization. Portland’s own kings of punk, Poison Idea, headline Friday night. And though vocalist Jerry A remains the sole member from its glory days, the group will debut its latest adrenalized lineup here, bolstered by Rorschach bassist Thomas Rusnak. Also on the bill is another local legend, Dead Conspiracy, perhaps the first death-metal band in town. The group reunited last year to remind blackclad youngsters of a more polarized and violent time in local music history. Show your respect, arrive early, and get into the pit. NATHAN CARSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 5 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show for individual shows, $50 weekend pass. All ages. Through Sunday, Aug. 11.

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

[SUMMERY SLUMBER] Alex Bleeker hails from lo-fi masters Real Estate, the New Jersey band responsible for Days, a tremendous record of mildly psychedelic, toe-dragging surf rock. The bassist’s own band is called the Freaks, consisting of members of Woods, Mountain Man and, yes, Real Estate. His debut, How Far Away, is a heartbreak album of sorts, teeming with the same gentle indie rock and jangle pop

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Metal has waged an uphill battle in Portland. For a long time, the city’s indie-centricity kept heavier genres shoved away in the deepest, darkest corners of the local music scene. Things are different today. Relapse Records has an office in town. Sizzle Pie names pizzas after Motörhead and Slayer albums. Red Fang is poised to chart with its next album. We even have regional festivals celebrating the metallic arts, including the Northwestern Black Circle Festival, now in its fifth year. Metal is hip—which means it’s the perfect time to do an autopsy on Portland’s extreme past. Here, we turn over the stones beneath which lurk the bands that helped clear a path through the city’s overgrowth of cardigans and folk music, blasting out a niche that’s allowed this current crop of brutalists to thrive. Dead Conspiracy [DEATH METAL] Only a handful of American death-metal acts had a recording out before Dead Conspiracy’s first 1987 demo; in fact, Trey Azagthoth sent a fan letter and ordered a copy when Morbid Angel was in its infancy. Bulldozing its peers with unprecedented tempos, Dead Conspiracy was drawing big crowds by the end of the ’80s. In a strange sign of the times, the group began incorporating elements of funk, including a horn section, and were courted by a major label. Ultimately, the band moved to San Francisco before imploding in 1991. Last year, the group re-formed with a new drummer and vocalist. Thy Infernal [BLACK METAL] Inspired in equal parts by the imagery of Canada’s Blasphemy and the unapologetic outrageousness of G.G. Allin, Thy Infernal arrived in the late ’90s wearing corpse paint and spitting purple Kool-Aid into the audience. That’s just the beginning: The group also brought pig heads to Satyricon, desecrated graves and garnered blessings from the Church of Satan. The band

Fall of the Bastards [CRUST] At the turn of the millennium, metal was becoming less of a dirty word in Portland. It was around this time that Fall of the Bastards arrived, blending black metal, folk and crust into a seamless whole. Anchored by Eli Bloch’s furious and technical drumming, the group featured a dual-guitar onslaught from Donald Stanley and Kody Keyworth and a singer, Jason Voorhees (not his real name), who wore his hair in dreadlocks and had a face full of piercings. The band splintered into different factions following a farewell show at Satyricon in 2008. Engorged [GORE METAL] One of the more successful deathmetal bands to emerge from Portland, Engorged once recorded an entire concept album about Cobra, the G.I. Joe villain. Later, the group opted for more gratuitously gory lyrics. Throughout the years, a cadre of axe-wielding madmen filed through its ranks. Tendrils of association connect Engorged to highly regarded local obscurities like Wraithen, Frightmare and Lord Gore, while one of the masterminds behind the G.I. Joe era, Rosy Cross, was famously fired from the group, and went on to be famously fired from Danava. SEE IT: The Northwestern Black Circle Festival is at Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., on Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 8-11. 5 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show per day, $56 weekend pass. All ages. Also see listing, this page. Willamette Week AUGUST 7, 2013 wweek.com

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[INSTRUMENTAL AMERICANA] Austin group Balmorhea creates the kind of soundscapes perfect for wandering imaginations. The narrative between quiet minimalist guitar phrases, swelling classical string sections, ambient synthesizer and propelling rhythms forces the mind to travel through riveting and wordless stories for which the perception of sound plays a big role. Originally formed in 2006 by Rob Lowe (not that Rob Lowe) and Michael Muller, the now six-member band released Stranger, its fifth full-length album, last year. Marking Balmorhea’s most ambitious and complicated arrangements, Stranger revolves around dissonance and harmony, chaos and resolution, emotiveness and tranquility—all while maintaining its signature cyclical guitar patterns and means for cognitive catharsis. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Fitz and the Tantrums, Hunter Hunted, the Colorist

[BEYOND PASTICHE] There was a time when saxophonists, not guitarists, were the ruling soloists of modern music. Fitz and the Tantrums vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick knows it. Although he wasn’t born until 1970, it hasn’t stopped him and the rest of the L.A. outfit from tapping into the sound of Motown and the vintage R&B the neo-soul sextet grew up listening to. The band’s second LP, More Than Just a Dream, doesn’t quite shine with the luscious organsax combo that carried the melodies on the band’s retro debut, opting instead for hip-hop beats and new wave panache. The catchy pop hooks and eclectic sound are still there, though, propped up by a sonic backbone reminiscent of another time. BRANDON WIDDER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, AUG. 9 Modern Kin, Kelli Schaefer

[OLD WIVES’ TALES] You may have been wondering what happened to Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives. For a while, the band, which played a forceful mix of garageshaking rock and heartrending folk anchored by its singer-namesake’s propulsive, shuddering voice, was a Portland music-scene fixture. Grow’s been quiet the last few years—basically since a 2011 car accident left him with several broken bones and hefty hospital bills. But the band didn’t go the way of so many other local artists and evaporate into the ether. They just changed their name. Reborn as Modern Kin, the group is prepping a new album, to be released on drummer Jeremiah Hayden’s Amigo/Amiga label. The only indication of the band’s new direction online is a live recording from a Seattle show last month, posted online by Seattle Weekly editor-in-chief and former WW music editor Mark Baumgarten. They reveal the band—now a three-piece, sans keyboardist Seth Schaper—to be tighter, louder and more visceral than ever, and still driven by Grow’s elastic, vibrato shout. According to Baumgarten, Grow seems to have chosen a path of newfound urgency, and “it was a wise decision.” MATTHEW SINGER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

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RHYE WEDNESDAY, AUG. 7 [PRENATAL SOUL] Many artists build their careers from the face up. Robin Hannibal took the opposite route: He’s become an in-demand producer while remaining deliberately faceless. In the past year alone, the Danish musician has worked with some of the hottest members of the hip-hop vanguard, from Kendrick Lamar to Odd Future. He also released a second album of quiet-storm R&B with his own group, Quadron. And he still had time for his most acclaimed project, the enigmatic, androgynously soulful duo Rhye. He’s done it all while remaining in the shadows. He isn’t touring with Rhye, and obscures himself in press photos. Blame Hannibal’s desire for anonymity on his Scandinavian upbringing. “We were brought up to be humble and reserved, and not so concerned with a product,” he says by telephone from London, speaking of his youth in Copenhagen. Hannibal is a bit mystified why people are interested in him at all. After all, his success, he claims, is pretty much an accident. “I haven’t had to plan too much,” he says. “Everything has just kind of happened.” Even so, Hannibal has made some good moves. After moving to Los Angeles in 2010, for example, he hooked up with Mike Milosh, a Canadian electronic artist and singer. They had a lot in common. Both had moved from Europe to L.A. Both were beginning serious romantic relationships. And both were fans of each other’s past work. Indeed, when the two first got together in Hannibal’s bedroom, with Hannibal at the piano, Rhye “just kind of happened.” “Mike started singing ‘Woman’ without even noticing it,” Hannibal says, referring to what would eventually become the title track of the band’s debut album. The result of their collaboration is what Hannibal calls a “homage to all women.” Despite the curvy feminine shoulders that appear on the cover of Woman, Hannibal maintains it’s not about using a deceptively feminine aesthetic to attract a fan base. While the image is certainly sexy, it also resembles an ultrasound photo, and the sound of Rhye is similarly intimate, with Milosh’s softly crooned vocals floating over Hannibal’s arrangement of delicate strings and melodic piano. The music is tied to a genuine feeling of love, Hannibal says. “I’m telling a very personal story,” he says, “not masking it, being direct, honest, pouring emotions out and sharing them. I connect with those brutal emotions in [soul music].” It’s a seemingly contradictory idea, to make such a personal record while attempting to keep the artistic identities behind it shrouded in mystery, but Hannibal maintains that was the best way to do it. Neither he nor Milosh thought the music’s “brutal emotions” would land right if they put their names out in front. Of course, once critics picked up the album, the secret was out. But while Milosh is currently touring in support of the album, Hannibal is content to continue enjoying its success from afar. “We didn’t want to put a face to the music,” he says. “We didn’t want to sell it based on what we were wearing. The idea and concept is always about the love of that music, more than worshiping an artist.” JOE DONOVAN. The ultra-sounds of Robin Hannibal.

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FRIDAY beer-stained house with 20 people you don’t like. Its new self-titled album is marked by the band’s undeniable combination of energetic dream-pop songwriting, fun synths, upbeat vocals and melodies and all-around sun-drenched awesomeness, filled with loads of tongue-in-cheek humor and wit. If you just feel like dancing to an album that sounds like it was ripped right out of the ’80s, then this is probably right up your alley. BRIAN PALMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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[KILLER ACOUSTICS] Seven years ago this month, the Avett Brothers turned Pickathon on its ear, establishing Portland as a Northwest beachhead in their ultimate national

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conquest. Now major-labeled and Rick Rubin-ed, the group is a bona fide phenomenon that has seemingly spawned a genre all its own. But don’t blame them for the lameness they’ve unwittingly wrought in the form of the Mumfords or the Lumineers. That’s like holding Nirvana accountable for Creed. The Avetts are in another league entirely, writing surprising, incisive songs that are brought home by Scott Avett’s singular delivery—at once casual and pregnant with emotion—and brother Seth’s sweet sincerity. One minute they’ll rock at a breakneck pace. The next they’ll break your heart instead. JEFF ROSENBERG. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360-8167000. 8 pm. $40-$65. All ages.

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MOTHER BUNCH DIRTY THEORY (SELF-RELEASED) [ WHITE NOISE] Mother Bunch superior Daniel Menasche has a decent set of pipes and a smooth enough flow for those occasional dalliances into hip-hop, so one imagines the short-fiction writer gives good readings. But in the age of MC Paul Barman and Har Mar Superstar, we expect an engagement beyond mere facility with borrowed idioms. Menasche’s organ-led combo lays down a nifty groove with chops to spare on Dirty Theory, though it never quite surrenders to the danceable maelstrom forever hinted at. The slightly antiseptic backing singers, in particular, veer from purposeless to something more troubling on the many tracks preening with oversold braggadocio. There’s a creeping consistency reminiscent of a car radio chancing upon a faraway funk station and desperately trying to keep the wispy signal in tune. Soul necessitates a certain animalistic baring of inhibitions that this thoroughly tasteful outfit only braves during selfdeprecatory rap “Little Dan,” even if the horndog posturing’s comedic tint reveals little more than a passion for early Woody Allen. Dashed-off compliment “The Way You Smell” flounders in oblique timidity. Just imagine where Har Mar’s nose may have led Menasche. JAY HORTON. SEE IT: Mother Bunch plays the Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., with Redray Frazier, on Friday, Aug. 9. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

WISHYUNU FUTURAY (SELF-RELEASED) [SYNTHSCAPES] Husband-and-wife duo Bei and Tony Yan have been cranking tunes out of their windowless basement recording studio since 2008, and it’s starting to show: This latest four-track EP, the third crop of dreamy, lush tracks the synth-and-drums duo has released under the moniker Wishyunu, sounds like it wafted out of a cloud of hookah smoke inside, well, a basement with no windows. But Futuray also marks a point of development for the couple. Enlisting the participation of Jeremy Sherrer, a local production and mixing artist, it’s the first time the Yans have collaborated with an outsider, and the result is their most consistent product yet. The EP opens with “Neutron,” an effervescent soundscape featuring layers of Thom Yorke-esque vocals. That gives way to “Sprayy,” whose languid beat bears resemblance to Air’s “Playground Love.” Bei has taken up electric guitar, the presence of which is most evident in the prancing “Walkaway.” The EP closes with the haunting, crunchy “Canyon,” rounding out an album that is much more homogenous, sonically, than its predecessor, A Day No How. The consistency signals that the group has finally found a cozy niche in its dark basement, and is sticking to it. GRACE STAINBACK. HEAR IT: Futuray is available on cassette Sunday, Aug. 11.

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Play: Khomha, WEB, Eddie Pitzul, Colin James

[TRANCE WITH TOUCH] Trance DJ Khomha’s bios often tout his “avant-garde” sound, but in the words of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, I do not think that word means what he thinks it means. The word he’s looking for is “refined,” though it is a little odd to describe trance music as such. His tracks hover around 130 bpm— slow for the trance world—and he allows a lot of space between the beats, which shows off all his sonic tweaks. The buildups to his drops don’t overdo it, but you may be disappointed if you believed the buildups in his bio; Autechre or Aphex Twin this ain’t. MITCH LILLIE. The Whiskey Bar, 31 NW 1st Ave., 227-0405. 10 pm. $12. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 Red Fang, Audios Amigos

[MONSTERS OF ROCK] The stoner-metal mountain men in Red Fang play their hometown so often it’s hardly worth mentioning in these pages anymore. You know ’em, you love ’em, you’re going to the show, what do you need from me? Except for the fact that, well, there’s hardly a more powerful live band around, in Portland and anywhere else, and thus it deserves a “WW Pick” symbol for life. This show, though, is particularly deserving, given that the bruising quartet just announced its third album, Whales and Leeches, which arrives in October, and this’ll be the last chance for Portland to have its eardrums pummeled by previews of those new tracks before the band embarks on a fall tour. In addition, this gig represents an installment of comic Ian Karmel’s farewell to PDX tour as he prepares to move to Los Angeles. MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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Jamie N Commons

[GRIT AND POLISH] Not yet 25 years old, U.K. singer-songwriter Jamie N Commons has already been likened to brooding troubadours Nick Cave and Tom Waits. The Bristol-born, Chicago-raised musician garnered buzz this spring with Rumble and Sway, a remarkably assured EP of swampy Delta textures that feels far more Southern than British or Midwestern. Check the title track, a horn and piano barroom boogie stomp, or the soulful refrain of “Wash Me in the Water” or closer “The Preacher,” on which Commons’ gravelly voice simmers in a slow boil of blues, gospel and rock. With their modern production tweaks, courtesy of hip-hop producer Alex Da Kid, “Worth Your While” and “Have a Little Faith” call to mind later Chris Whitley. All those comparisons made, Commons’ post-apocalyptic American gothic intrigues on its own terms. No wonder his acoustic scorcher “Lead Me Home” made the Walking Dead soundtrack. AMANDA SCHURR. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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[BEACH FUNK] It’s easy to call Michael Franti a sellout. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the dude put his booming voice to use railing against a whole battery of social ills in industrial hip-hop radicals the Beatnigs and Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, which were basically the Death Grips of their time. Even as he moved into smoother, neosoulish territory with Spearhead, he was still writing impassioned concept albums decrying the inhumanity of the death penalty. Now, his sunny, reggae-tinted jam funk is light enough to soundtrack beer commercials, and his once

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LIKE A ROCK: Band of Horses plays Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday, Aug. 7. blunt sociopolitical commentary has devolved into vague hippieisms. But it’s still kind of hard to hate on the guy too much. He at least seems sincere in his pleas for peace, love and happiness—even if they’re far more naive than any guy who once made beats out of circular saws has any right to be—and his thick, syrupy baritone still contains hints of the righteous anger that once made Franti a one-ofa-kind revolutionary. NATHAN CARSON. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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[GROUNDBREAKING EDM] Over the past 15 years, BT—that’s producer Brian Transeau—has done more to influence the direction of EDM music than virtually any other artist. His visionary musical outlook helped birth the trance genre, and he’s created multiple pieces of technology that have allowed him and many other artists to do things with edits, breaks and sound that were previously unimaginable. He’ll release a trance record, follow it up with a pop album, fuse hip-hop with trance, create pulsepounding rock-tronica, then completely turn the tables on you with an album that includes heavy doses of jazz and classical music. A maverick if there ever was one, his latest album, A Song Across Wires, comes out Aug. 16. BRIAN PALMER. The Whiskey Bar, 31 NW 1st Ave., 227-0405. 10 pm. $15. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 12 MS MR

[FLORENCE AND THE HYPE MACHINE] Brooklynites of Dickensian monikers, world-chomping appetites and a proficiency for digitized tensions that extends well beyond their goth-speckled pop craft, vocalist Lizzy Plapinger and synth wrangler Max Hershenow first aroused tastemaker attentions with an anonymous (and painstakingly curated) Tumblr before splashing mainstream with the typically dazzling video for standout single “Hurricane.” If something less than consumed by musical inspiration—fully half of all-tooappropriately titled recent debut Secondhand Rapture was previously released on the Candy Bar Creep Show EP—they nonetheless display a flair for folding high torment within sugared beats and a yawning eagerness to engage that’s unmistakably human. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

TUESDAY, AUG. 13 Reckless Kelly

[ALT-COUNTRY] Pulling up roots from Bend to Austin has done wonders for alt-country act Reckless Kelly. With six albums released in its 14-year career—

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plus a new one, Good Luck & True Love, out next month—the quintet helmed by brothers Willy and Cody Braun has seen its popularity skyrocket around its blend of honky-tonk, roadhouse blues and Southern rock, which embraces shit-kicking country while diluting it enough for the masses to enjoy without the trepidation city folk feel when confronted with the idea of actually liking a country band. Make no mistake, though: Despite its wide appeal, the group’s roots remain on a Bend cattle ranch. By blending that style with some Texan grooves, the group is growing into a juggernaut. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Best Coast, Lovely Bad Things, Charts

[COUCH SURF] There are actually an awful lot of albums like a Best Coast album, but—with an imminent EP following on the heels of last year’s Jon Brion-helmed sophomore release, The Only Place— the Best Coast albums won’t soon stop. There’s also little suggestion the band will develop much beyond the befuzzed rapture limned through its 2010 debut’s garage-pop idylls. Still famously resistant to incorporating bridges or pushing lyrical complexity past tweener-diary levels, Best Coast’s tunes remain steady as the tide and presume song-worshipers eager to vicariously bask in frontwoman Bethany Cosentino’s delights and wilt amid delirious afterglow, but even if she never quite finds a muse beyond summer loving, that’s after all a theme wide as the Pacific. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

Steely Dan, Deep Blue Organ Trio

[YACHT ROCK] Whether your dad was a fan, you watched too many episodes of the online video series Yacht Rock, or you’ve actually delved into Donald Fagen’s obliquely paranoid proto-cyberpunk lyrics and Walter Becker’s unparalleled jazz-rock guitar solos, everyone has some connection to Steely Dan. Becker and singerpianist-lyricist Fagen met at Bard College in 1967, uniting under a shared love of jazz radio and contemporary music. Too smart for their own good, the two named their band after a dildo in a William S. Burroughs novel. Their 1973 debut, Can’t Buy a Thrill, sent singles “Reelin’ in the Years” and “Do It Again” into the stratosphere, and the band sailed through the rest of the ’70s in the jet stream. Perfectionism, cynicism, cocaine and briefcases full of money followed, as did classic albums like The Royal Scam, Katy Lied and Aja. By 1981, Fagen and Becker had called it quits in a quagmire of lawsuits, accidents and death. Both pursued lukewarm solo careers in the ’80s, but when the scent

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NOT ALL THAT FREAKY, REALLY: Alex Bleeker and the Freaks play Bunk Bar on Thursday, Aug. 8. of money grew strong enough, the first of many Steely Dan reunion tours commenced in 1993. NATHAN CARSON. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6 pm. Sold out. All ages.

The Heavy, the Silent Comedy, Slim Fortune

[GARAGE SOUL] It takes more than a glance at your parents’ musty R&B collection to endure as a so-called “soul revivalist” band. Thankfully for the Heavy—and the rest of us—the Englishmen know how to turn the classic Stax sound on its head with a pinch of modern mainstream influence. The band’s fourth album, The Glorious Dead, is an uncanny brew of heavy blues-rock riffs and Southern gothic allure, with harrowing gospel choirs, spooky audio clips and singer Kelvin Swaby’s hoodoo-lined lyrics. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD William Byrd Festival

[ENGLISH RENAISSANCE CHORAL] Everybody knows Bach and Mozart, so it’s understandable why festivals would name themselves after those classical composers. But how many Americans knew the music of England’s greatest Renaissance composer when Cantores in Ecclesia founder Dean Applegate and English scholarconductor Richard Marlow (who died earlier this year) created this venerable Portland festival? For 16 years, they’ve done much to reveal Byrd’s mastery. Conducted by David Trendell and featuring fellow English organist and festival director Mark Williams, the opening concert in this year’s twoweek celebration—which encompasses six liturgical services, three concerts and six public lectures— includes some of Byrd’s last and greatest works from his 1614 collection, The Tears or Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul, and the 1607 Gradualia collection of multivoice motets sung during the major Catholic feast days. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Stephen’s Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave. 7:30 pm. Through Aug. 25. $15 seniors and students, $20 general admission. See byrdfestival.org for more information. All ages.

Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits, Loveness Wesa and the Bantus

[ZIMBABWEAN GROOVE] After joining—and then replacing—the great Thomas Mapfumo in the Zimbabwean band Wagon Wheels, the 61-year-old Oliver Mtukudzi became one of southern Africa’s most popular singers. Mtukudzi rasps his uplifting lyrics in his native Shona language (as well as Ndebele and English) over a bubbling beat that mixes compulsively

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danceable mbaqanga and other African rhythms with grooves influenced by American R&B. Using mostly acoustic traditional instruments, his band will play songs from his more than five-dozen albums, including some from his latest, the first since the untimely 2010 car-crash death of his 21-yearold son and musical collaborator, Sam. But then, Mtukudzi’s music has always stood for overcoming difficulties—whether corruption, AIDS or repression—through dance and music. Portland’s own Zimbabwean music maven and Mapfumo collaborator, Loveness Wesa, opens with her own songs and dances inspired by southern Africa. BRETT CAMPBELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 10. $25. 21+.

The Singley/ Fimbres Orchestra

[FUTURE-FUNK SYMPHONY] One of Portland’s paragons of quirky contemporary pop, Alan Singley cheerfully turned his attention to more ambitious musical forms last year, using classical instruments to create his first classical compositions, which he premiered last fall in an impressive benefit for the city’s invaluable music venue, the historic Old Church. Now, after a year of continued study and musical development, Singley is back with fellow composer and longtime collaborator Papi Fimbres and a nonet (featuring horns, flute, vintage synths, piano, organ, electric bass, drums) to present a new 40-minute “genre-fusing, avantgarde, future-funk symphony.” Singley says the piece is inspired by the music of 1960s composer David Axelrod and the brilliant, irascible midcentury post-bop jazz genius Charles Mingus, as well as infused with contemporary tropical rhythms and electronic textures. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Saturday, Aug. 10. Free-$25 sliding scale. All ages.

The Julians

[SASS-ICAL POP] Provocative local indie-classical female vocal quartet the Julians—featuring four of the city’s finest classical singers—specializes in cheerfully demolishing the alleged barriers between pop and classical, past and present, sexy and serious. This time, they seamlessly integrate tunes by Björk, Tom Waits, Baroque master Henry Purcell, the Beatles and more, including contemporary Lithuanian composer Kristina Vasiliauskaite, whose “sassed-up Lithuanian folk song” “Ein Bernelis” was brought to the group by its newest member, soprano Vakare Petroliunaite. BRETT CAMPBELL. Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant, 1435 NW Flanders St., 241-6514. 5:30 pm. $10. 21+.

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Stumbleweed

Muthaship

Oregon Zoo

Dante’s

Slabtown

Doug Fir Lounge

4001 SW Canyon Road Lee Brice 1033 NW 16th Ave. La Cerca

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones CO U R T E SY O F PA P I F I M B R E S

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Samuel James, the Ruby Pines, Left Coast Country

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Spyrals, the Hussies, Communist Kayte

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Pink Lady & the John Bennett Band

West Cafe

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Vikesh Kapoor

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Rhye, DJ Cooky Parker

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Purple

Amadeus Manor

2122 SE Sparrow St., Milwaukie Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Errata Note, the Cool Whips, Robb Benson and the Shelk

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Siegel, Patrick Lamb, Reinhardt Melz

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray, Bob Shoemaker

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Bravebird, Palisades, Our First Brains

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Halden Wafford & The High Beams, Ashleigh Flynn, Quick & Easy Boys

Main Street

Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue The Portland Timbre, Boka Marimba, Festival Brass

Mississippi Studios

115 NW 5th Ave. The Ecstatics, Local Hero

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bobby Bare Jr., Mike Coykendall, Gabriel Mintz

Camellia Lounge

Revival Drum Shop

Backspace

510 NW 11th Ave. Mark Simon Quartet, Karla Harris

1465 NE Prescott St. Lisa Schonberg, LKN

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Mark Simon Trio

8 NW 6th Ave. Gogol Bordello, A Tribe Called Red

Crystal Ballroom

Shaker and Vine

Roseland Theater

1332 W Burnside St. Band of Horses

2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Jamblers

Dante’s

Slabtown

350 W Burnside St. Raw Dog and the Close Calls, Roxcee Monoxide, the Whiskey Dickers

1033 NW 16th Ave. Stepsister

East End

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Alan Jackson

203 SE Grand Ave. Spider Heart, Black Witch Pudding, Atlas and the Astronaut

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Children 18:3, Grizzly, Medium Sized Kids, Grizzly

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Dreamboat, WL, Concern

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore, Dave Frishberg

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St.

Sleep Country Amphitheater

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Hideki Yamaya

The Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. The Javier Nero Quartet

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Musicians Open Mic

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

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Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Arctic Flowers, Smoke Rings, DJ Chazz Madrigal, DJ Dungeonmaster DJC

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Dead Channel, Ordeal

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Bohemian Blues

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Statue of Liberty, Hip Hatchet, Clawfoot Slumber

THURS. AUG. 8 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Barna Howard

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Geographer, Grmln

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Alex Bleeker and the Freaks

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Sorry Devils, Le Orchestra De Incroyable

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Run On Sentence, Tiburones

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Samantha Fish

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Caustic Casanova, Mane of the Cur, Mammoth Salmon

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. The Kitchen, Tiburona, Nonplaying Characters, Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Trio Subtonic, Dan Balmer, Philly’s Phunkestra

Jimmy Mak’s

Andina

221 NW 10th Ave. Brownish Black, the Get Ahead

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Kelly’s Olympian

1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolf Trio 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Grey for Days, Mother Android

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Free Salamander Exhibit, Faun Fables, Strangled Darlings

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Satan’s Host, White Wizzard, Witchaven, Exmortus, Spellcaster, the Dead, Raptor

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Northwestern Black Circle Festival

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Darren Johnson

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. You Me & Apollo, Stone Iris, Eric John Kaiser

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Fitz and the Tantrums, Hunter Hunted, the Colorist

FRI. AUG. 9 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, Moorea Masa

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Antsy McClain and The Trailer Park Troubadours, Edgar Cruz

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ras Attitude, Rising Buffalo Tribe, DJ Red Fyah, DJ Yah Red, Jagga (theater); The Hague, Bath Party, Douglass and the Furs, Ditch Tiger, Avair (lounge)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Ravages Of Time, Sketch The Rest, Set In Stone, Tyranny Theory

426 SW Washington St. Towering Trees, Pony Village, Muscle and Marrow

Backspace

Landmark Saloon

Beaterville Cafe

115 NW 5th Ave. My Ticket Home, Night Verses, I Am King

4847 SE Division St. The Pickups, Miss Lonely Hearts, Honky Tonk Union

2201 N Killingsworth St. Wendy and the Lost Boys

Laughing Horse Books

320 SE 2nd Ave. Poison Idea, Insanity, Coven, Rum Rebellion, Hammered Grunts, Spun In Darkness, Dead Conspiracy, Bloodlust

12 NE 10th Ave. La Bella, Calculator, Solamente

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Father’s Pocket Watch, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Mississippi Pizza

Branx

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Euphonious Thump

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Happy Otherwise, Mo Phillips

Bunk Bar

Mississippi Studios

Camellia Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Balmorhea

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave.

Duff’s Garage

The Press Club

116 NE Russell St. Tezeta Band, the Keplers

Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll? Radio Show: Pat Kearns

6821 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway The Kinky Brothers

203 SE Grand Ave. Laser Me Moses, Mufassa, Akkadia, Dogs of August, Sugar Tits

The Secret Society Ballroom

Ryan Johnson

Dublin Pub

1635 SE 7th Ave. The 44s, Big Monti

2621 SE Clinton St. Hot Club of Hawthorne

WED. AUG. 7

830 E Burnside St. San Cisco, Holiday Friends

The Kitchen

609 SE Ankeny St. Tiburona, Nonplaying Characters, Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat

POWER DUO: The Singley/Fimbres Orchestra plays the Old Church on Saturday, Aug. 10.

350 W Burnside St. Dread Crew Of Oddwood

1028 SE Water Ave. Modern Kin, Kelli Schaefer 510 NW 11th Ave. Weber Iago/David Valdez Latin Jazz Quartet

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

East End

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. The Get Ahead

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Hot Rodd’n Romeos, Back Alley Barbers

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Lenny Rancher

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Texas Hippie Coalition, Eve To Adam, the Rodeo Clowns, Mohawk Yard, Dead Remedy

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. The Sean and Fred Sextet

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. New Iberians

Slabtown

EastBurn

Sleep Country Amphitheater

Gemini Lounge

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Avett Brothers

St. James Lutheran Church

1315 SW Park Ave. Sonata, Histoire du Tango and Petite Suite: Betty Bell and Jane Boydon

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Useless Eaters, Wire Eyes

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Drop Dead Red

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Mother Bunch, RedRay Frazer

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Woolen Men, Spookies, Nick Delffs

The Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Western Haunts, Once In A While Sky, Moody Little Sister, Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Northern Currents, the Hill Dogs

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Applicants, the Kilowatt Hour, Advisory

White Eagle Saloon

2346 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin, Barlow Pass

836 N Russell St. Winter Well, Paul Trubachik, Light Creates Shadow, Reverb Brothers

Jimmy Mak’s

Wonder Ballroom

Jade Lounge

221 NW 10th Ave. Errick Lewis

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Dr. Stahl, Muddy River Nightmare Band, 48 Thrills

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Sharks from Mars, Fasters, the Sellwoods

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Boneworm, Disenchanter, Heavy Baang Stang

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Miller and Sasser, Douglas T. Cremmons

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Country Trash, the Basinbillies, Joe McMurrian & Woodbrain

Mississippi Pizza

128 NE Russell St. Five Iron Frenzy, Showbread

SAT. AUG. 10 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

2527 NE Alberta St. Norman Sylvester

Portland Spirit

SW Front and Salmon One Love Reggae Boat Party: DJ Dullah, DJ Solo Kofi, DJ PIZ, Small Axe Sound Selecta YT, DJ MM

Record Room

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Whitfield Fahrenheit, the Marvins

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Chimaira, Threat Signal, The Browning, Dark Sermon, Proven, Ion Storm

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. The Ryan Meagher Quintet

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Rewind

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Twitch, Lucas Bieispiel

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Whiskeys Lament, Stumblebum, Yo Adrian!, The Knuckles

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Charts, Hont, DV$T

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Red Ships of Spain, NY Rifles

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Twang Shifters, Shorty and the Mustangs

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Forever, Fine Pets, Hooded Hugs 12 NE 10th Ave. Sibling Rivalry, Seacuts 2958 NE Glisan St. The Don of Division Street, Lotus Isle, Miss Michael Jodell, the Western Front

McMenamins Edgefield

Ash Street Saloon

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Michael Franti and Spearhead, Amanda Shaw

Backspace

Oregon Zoo

225 SW Ash St. The Pilgrim, Wounded Giant, Lamprey, Crag Dweller 115 NW 5th Ave. Winchester Holiday, Danna Nieto

Beaterville Cafe

Branx

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Bombon, Guantanamo Baywatch

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Laura Cunard and Dan Wilensky Quartet

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite

Dante’s

8 NE Killingsworth St. Bison Bison, Caustic Casanova, Lord Master

350 W Burnside St. Red Fang, Audios Amigos

Shaker and Vine

830 E Burnside St. Jamie N Commons

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Sawtell

2845 SE Stark St. Otis Heat, The Bottlecap Boys

LaurelThirst

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rose City Voodoo Summer Island Jam

320 SE 2nd Ave. Ghoul, Gravehill, Drawn and Quartered, Theories, Femacoffin, Headless Pez, Compulsive Slasher, Killgasm

Original Halibut’s II

Goodfoot Lounge

Alhambra Theatre

Muddy Rudder Public House

625 NW Everett #101 Buzz Kill, Wild Thing, Past Desires

6526 SE Foster Road Rich McCulley

Laughing Horse Books

2201 N Killingsworth St. Stone & Slate

Multiplex

1800 E Burnside St. Closely Watched Trains

303 SW 12th Ave. John Elliot, There Is No Mountain

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Pura Vida Band, Scott Bartlett

8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

Soul Vaccination

1033 NW 16th Ave. Hausa, Wild Moth, Lunch, Industrial Park

Doug Fir Lounge

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave.

4001 SW Canyon Road Todd Snider, Shawn Mullins, Hayes Carll, Sarah Jarosz

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Rae Gordon Band

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Lolligaggers, Beach Party, Benny and the Jet Rodriguez

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Atrocities, Bullshit 77

Revival Drum Shop

1465 NE Prescott St. Ra-Kalam Bob Moses

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. The Crew, the Gang, the Villain

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Quartette Barbette

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Dream Decay, Useless Children

AUG. 7-13 The Bobcat

E VA N J O H N S O N

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Beat Frequency, Enric Sifa, Gordon Avenue

The Conga Club

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 VYBZ Reggae Night

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Closely Watched Trains

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Femacoffin

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Virgil Shaw, Dave Dondero

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Bipolarbear, Adeiu Caribou, Fringe Class

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Week of Wonders, Mister Tang

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Reckless Kelly

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave. Media Caña

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Midnight Ghost Train

Goodfoot Lounge

DOCTOR’S ORDERS: A hundred years ago, the building at the corner of Northwest Everett Street and Park Avenue held a pharmacy, where druggists administered miracle-promising cure-alls, stomach-soothing licorice powder and blood-purifying tonics. Today, that space houses Remedy Wine Bar (733 NW Everett St., 222-1449, remedywinebar.com), where aches receive different—though still somewhat suspect—treatment. Absent are any old-timey trappings, replaced by blocky wood tables, gauzy gold curtains, beer-bottle chandeliers, cushy armchairs and throw pillows. And rather than cocaine tablets and opium tinctures, the dispensers at Remedy—the folks behind CorksCru, KitchenCru and Bowery Bagels—have a well-chosen wine list, heavy on young wines from small vineyards. Unfortunately named “lowtails” might sound like the cocktail equivalent of Coors Light, but they’re actually mixed drinks built from fortified wines and aromatics— nothing over 20 percent ABV. The Little Giuseppe ($9), made with artichoke liqueur, Italian vermouth, orange bitters and finished with sea salt, is like a very earthy, very adult answer to root beer. Remedy might look torn from an issue of Architectural Digest, but this is medicine that goes down easy. REBECCA JACOBSON.

MON. AUG. 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. MS MR

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie and the Sidecars

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Fatality

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

Kells Brewpub The Alleyway Cafe and Bar 2415 NE Alberta St. Ratbite, Raw Nerves, Murmurs

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Cellar Door

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Ladybird, Bottom Feeder, Contempt

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. The Singley/Fimbres Orchestra

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway The Infinity Of It All, Madame Torment, Stuck On Nothing, Jet Force Gemini, the Buffalo Stagecoach

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Michael Dean Damron, T Junior, Dog Bite Harris, James Hunnicutt, Lukeus

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Three’s Company

SUN. AUG. 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Leon Russell, Emily Elbert

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. JamBallah NW Festival Decompression: Stellamara, Rachael Brice, Krystyn Pyxton

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Olde Friends

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Demure, Kings and Vagabonds, Dead Kingmaker, 9 Road

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Von, Toxic Holocaust, Ceremonial Castings, Panzergod, Usnea, Infernus

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Vie de Boheme

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon

830 E Burnside St. Jessica Hoop, Bevelers, Jake Ray, Lincoln’s Beard

1530 SE 7th Ave. Papa Dynamite and the Jive

Doug Fir Lounge

836 N Russell St. Ian James, the Student Loan

Ford Food and Drink

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Goodfoot Lounge

800 NW 6th Ave. Tim Rap, Tim Gilson, Jof Lee.

2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

2845 SE Stark St. Paa Kow’s By All Means Band

Grant Park

Northeast 33rd Avenue and U.S. Grant Place

Portland Festival Symphony: Weber, Fasch, Sibelus, Strauss, Tchaikovski

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. The Portland Battle Of The Bands

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. The Julians

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Club Love

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Vanessa Sundae: Vanessa Rogers

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Ian Miller

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. Cooper and the Jam

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Stephanie Rearick Jr., Sanantha Kushnick, Jody Katopothis

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Ghost Ease, Palo Verde, Butt 2 Butt, DJ Hero Worship

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Tango Alpha Tango, Soft Bombs

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Psychic Rites, Exotic Club

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St.

2845 SE Stark St. Roseland Hunters (free)

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Beach Party, From the Petrified Forest, Hover Bikes, Gladness

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

WED. AUG. 7

Beech St. Parlor

CC Slaughters

832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton 412 NE Beech St. DJ vs. Nature

Berbati’s

Bossanova Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack

CC Slaughters

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Aquaman’s Soul Stew

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT 722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Jack London Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Boom

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

Hawthorne Theatre

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

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Rondi Charleston Quintet

Jade Lounge

The Lovecraft

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland

THURS. AUG. 8

2346 SE Ankeny St. Shani, Malachi Graham, Kai Jarvis

Beech St. Parlor

Jimmy Mak’s

Berbati’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet, Lori Henriques, Lesley Kernochan

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Hundred Visions, Austin Leonard Jones

412 NE Beech St. Selector TNT

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

CC Slaughters

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

Holocene

Landmark Saloon

Laughing Horse Books

4847 SE Division St. Sagebrush Sisters

1001 SE Morrison St. I’ve Got A Hole In My Soul: DJ Beyondadoubt

LaurelThirst

Rotture

LaurelThirst

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

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. David Ryan Harris, Laura Ivancie, Chance Hayden

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kopecky Family Band, Said The Whale

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

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Cigarette Bums, Piss Test, Love Cop

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Fen Wik Ren, Lures, Charts

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. SIN Night

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Matthew Heller and the Clever, We Are Alcohol, Tangerine

TUES. AUG. 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Korby Lenker

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Steely Dan, Deep Blue Organ Trio

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Matt Kane

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Heavy, the Silent Comedy, Slim Fortune

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Saturnalia Trio

412 NE Beech St. Todos Santos

219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Vandies, Rocket 3 1507 SE 39th Ave. Best Coast, Lovely Bad Things, Charts

FRI. AUG. 9

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session 12 NE 10th Ave. Strange Weather, Lungs

MUSIC CALENDAR

Reproacher, burials, Shroud Of The Heretic, Primitive Man

315 SE 3rd Ave. Soul Nite

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jake Cheeto

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Misprid

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Flight: Mario Maroto, Josh Romo, Heatesca, Andrew Boie

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Pickle Barrel

Crystal Ballroom

Goodfoot Lounge

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Mr. White, Kaj-Anne Pepper, Beyondadoubt, Miracles Club DJs

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Live and Direct

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. SkullfucK: DJ Horrid

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Colin Anderson

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Play: Khomha, WEB, Eddie Pitzul, Colin James

SAT. AUG. 10 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Yard Sale

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. DJ Maxamillion

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Cock Block: Mercedes, The Perfect Cyn, Miss Vixen, Sappho

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. All Decades Video Dance Attack

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. MRS: DJ Beyonda

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Musick For Mannequins: Tom Jones, Erica Jones

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Zac Eno

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Red Cube: BT, Jamie Meushaw, Evan Alexander

SUN. AUG. 11 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Ol’ Sippy

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Freakathon Queer Dance Party

MON. AUG. 12 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. DJ Tim Parasitic

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ RW

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Robb

The Lovecraft

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

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Sweet Jimmy T

TUES. AUG. 13 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Aurora

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Tango Tuesday

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

Eagle Portland

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. ZamZam Lounge: E3, Monkeytek, Tarsier

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ No Regrets

Sleep Country Amphitheater

VICTORIA SMITH

BAR SPOTLIGHT

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Train, the Script, Gavin DeGraw

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Now’s Ours

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The San Onofre Lizards, Ruby Fray, Landlines, DJ Lieutenant Drew

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Niveau Zero, Amphetamine Virus, Abrasion Equation, Dj Adamnation, DJ Penpointred

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Lillies, Adam Brock, Those Willows

TWILIGHT SINGERS: Geographer plays Aladdin Theater on Thursday, Aug. 8. Willamette Week AUGUST 7, 2013 wweek.com

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

THEATER The Adventures of Dex Dixon: Paranormal Dick

Anonymous Theatre

Every year, a director casts and rehearses a show individually and in secrecy, with actors arriving at the performance in street clothes and only learning each other’s identities once the first line is uttered from the house. This year’s selection is Thornton Wilder’s allegorical The Skin of Our Teeth, which takes mankind through the Ice Age, visits from Moses and Homer, Noah’s flood and a crushing war. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 306-0870. 7 pm Monday, Aug. 12. $25.

Comedie of Errors

The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival takes a unique approach. Claiming to stage Shakespeare’s plays the way they were done in the Bard’s day, the company 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 mix-ups. A recent Saturday 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. But take note: Unless you want to be dragged into the action, don’t sit in front. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest. org for exact times and dates. Free.

A fledgling company that emphasizes movement in its approach to Shakespeare, Anon It Moves presents its inaugural production, which it calls a deconstruction of Henry V and an investigation of heroes, history and mythmaking. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 25. $10.

Greater Tuna

The best thing about Lakewood Theatre Company’s production of Greater Tuna isn’t the fact that just two actors successfully play a combined 21 different characters (22 if you count an invisible dog). Nor is the best thing the script’s biting wit, every intentionally mispronounced word delivered perfectly by both men. What’s really amazing is how an improvised scene with audience involvement manages to fit seamlessly into the overall production, a credit to the actors’ skill: They turn the audience into the congregation of the local Baptist church, commenting on the crowd’s clothing in a very funny, very hokey way. Directed by Steve Knox and starring Gary Brickner-Schulz and Jay Randell Horenstein, Greater Tuna takes audiences into the world of 1980s Tuna, the “third-smallest town in Texas,” a place where the local Klan leader makes PSAs over the radio and the “Smut Snatchers” want to ban Shakespeare for corrupting youth. A series of satirical vignettes loosely connected by the town radio station OKKK, the play has a huge cast of characters, requiring the actors to change into radically different costumes quickly, something Brickner-Schulz and Horenstein do with seemingly inhuman speed (in as little as five to eight seconds in some cases). If you’re looking to spend your evening watching two expert actors perform a hilarious little piece of theater, look no further. RICHARD GRUNERT. 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.

Kiss Me, Kate

[NEW REVIEW] In its second production of the summer, Clackamas Repertory Theatre remains in the past. The company opened its season with Harvey, a 1944 trifle about a man whose best friend is an imaginary rabbit, and now David Smith-English directs Cole Porter’s 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate. The comedy follows the fiery relationship—onstage and off—of a recently divorced couple starring in a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of a Shrew. This rendition is lighthearted and enjoyable, though campy at times. It teeters toward exaggerated schmaltz, but playfully raunchy humor and strong lead singing voices give some vitality. Merideth Kaye Clark, who plays Kate, has a soprano voice as clear and angelic as a Disney movie princess’s. Standout supporting actors Doren Elias and Michael Mitchell play devious, Godfather-style mobsters, chomping on cigars and affecting convincing Brooklyn accents. The first act lags, but the entertaining dance number “Too Darn Hot” livens things up for the second act. Clackamas Rep caters to the traditional tastes of its suburban, gray-haired audience, and on that front, this production delivers. Those looking for less hammy fare, though, might want to go elsewhere. HALEY MARTIN. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through Aug. 25. $15-$30.

Licking Batteries

Playwrights West, a youngish company that comprises several local writers, teams with CoHo Productions to

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Lovers’ Quarrels

Masque Alfresco, which produces commedia dell’arte reworkings of Moliere, updates the playwright’s domestic comedy with modern-day political references and plenty of slapstick. The family-friendly show tours to parks in Lake Oswego, Beaverton and Hillsboro. See masquelafresco.com for performance locations. Multiple venues. 7 pm Saturdays-Sundays, Aug. 10-18. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays, Aug. 23-25. Free.

My Fair Lady

[NEW REVIEW] Producing what has been called the perfect musical—as My Fair Lady has been lauded—is no small feat. But Tigard’s Broadway Rose Theatre sets out to meet the challenge with its lively staging of the 1956 production. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor Cockney flower girl taught to speak like an aristocrat by wealthy phonetician Henry Higgins. Along the way student and teacher develop an unlikely attachment to each other, arguing their way through their differences. In the lead roles, Jazmin Gorsline and Kevin Connell deliver practiced and precise performances— from Connell’s careful shuffle away from Eliza’s space-invading father to the palpable joy on Gorsline’s face as she dances around the study. Darius Pierce also shines as Higgins’ alternately awkward and endearing friend, Colonel Pickering, and his welcome kindness and beautifully timed comic relief counterbalance Higgins’ insensitivity and self-importance. Director Sharon Maroney delivers both humor and big-scale dance numbers (like the enthusiastic “Get Me to the Church on Time”) to the stage with ease. With a talented ensemble and grand set and costumes, this My Fair Lady might not be perfect, but it’s a fun and engaging rendition of the classic musical. KAITIE TODD. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sundays and some Saturdays through Aug. 18. $20-$37.

Romeo and Juliet

The tale of ill-fated teenage lovers goes down easier with a glass of Pinot, so Willamette Shakespeare heads to wine country for its production of the Bard’s tragedy. Performances take place at vineyards throughout the Willamette Valley, with closing-weekend shows at Southeast Portland’s TaborSpace. Multiple locations. 7 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 6 pm Sundays through Aug. 24. Free.

The Tale of Cymbeline

Portland Actors Ensemble continues its season with Shakespeare’s phenomenally convoluted romance. Performances take place in parks across the city. Multiple venues. Times and dates vary; see portlandactors.com for details. Free.

Trek in the Park

[NEW REVIEW] In its fifth and final season, this year’s Trek in the Park is a fun, creative and family-friendly way to spend an afternoon. It’s everything you’d expect from a live-action adaptation of classic Star Trek, and Allied Arts couldn’t have picked a better episode to perform. The 45-minute “The Trouble With Tribbles” presents Kirk and crew protecting a shipment of grain destined for a colony on a newly settled planet. While on shore leave at a local space station, the Enterprise becomes infested with thousands of rapidly reproducing, hamsterlike balls of fuzz called Tribbles, which, while adorable, threaten to eat everything in sight. Director Adam Rosko and his team obviously put a lot of love into this production: Live-action technical limitations are handled as well as anyone could hope (a sound man

plays dopey effects on a keyboard), and a fight scene with Klingons is performed with all the faux grace of the original series. Any nerds who haven’t yet crossed Trek in the Park off their bucket lists should see it before its five-year mission ends forever. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through Aug. 25. Free.

True West

To Austin, fresh toast smells like salvation. “I love the smell of toast,” says the fussy, Ivy League-pedigreed, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. “And the sun’s coming up. It makes me feel like anything’s possible. Ya know?” Playwright Sam Shepard doesn’t. As redemptive as Austin finds the aroma—and the toast, prepared onstage in eight gleaming toasters,

certainly smells like hot, buttery comfort—True West is true Shepard, which means there’s no easy deliverance at hand. The 1980 play is a simultaneously claustrophobic and sprawling character study of two brothers, Austin (Kenneth Baldino) and his older brother, Lee (Matthew DiBiasio), a Busch-swigging, sticky-fingered vagabond in a sweat-stained T-shirt and cowboy boots. The action takes place in suburban L.A., where Austin is living at their mother’s house and laboring on the Great American Screenplay. When Lee shows up unannounced— and with a movie idea of his own—the brothers lurch from fruitful cooperation to jealous squabbling, from painful reminiscence to corrosive cruelty. In this production by Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab, director Devon Allen plays up True West’s dark undercurrents. For Shepard, as

REVIEW C R A I G M I TC H E L L DY E R

With all the nuance, technical sophistication and unvarnished authenticity we’ve come to expect from the auteur behind Varsity Cheerleader Werewolves Live From Outer Space, Steve Coker returns to the Funhouse stage as writer, director and star of this scattershot satire. However fond of easy jokes, the Orson Welles of overblown, underproduced comic meta-spectacles evidently enjoys a challenge. Though detective stories might be the only genre less ripe for parody than the ’80s teen horror of his previous project, the Grimm vet’s repurposed screenplay manages to wring fresh laughs from well-worn tropes. Employing the rhythms of hard-boiled gumshoe narration to hurtle through the expository fine print about a mirror dimension inhabited by vampires and zombies—who seem, worryingly, more familiar than men wearing hats and defending reputations—Coker’s garrulous baritone punches up the gag-laden voice-overs. It also proves a charismatic foil for the swing-era tunes crooned throughout by an assemblage of richly talented, naturally funny, youngish performers. Continuing through intermission as surprisingly effective entr’acte entertainment from actresses already dolled up to play lounge singers, the hit parade of Greatest Generation standards bleeds a seriousness of intent otherwise absent in the proceedings. It reveals a creative vision, forged by immersion in the excesses of schlock culture, that honors the workaday artists who fueled show business well before the monsters took over. JAY HORTON. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through Aug. 17. $12.

The Fifth

present a world premiere by Ellen Margolis. The play, which blurs realism and fantasy, follows a woman whose mother has undergone some sort of treatment that’s left her unrecognizable. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 31. $25; Thursdays “pay what you will.”

ROMAN RUINS: Cyndi Rhoads (left) as Caesar, and Cassie Greer as Marc Antony.

JULIUS CAESAR (BAG&BAGGAGE) Julius Caesar screams from a tower, asking who has just warned of the Ides of March. But instead of a man in the general’s garb, as Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has been performed for centuries, it’s a woman. In fact, women play all the characters—their regal pompadours stuck with flashy feathers, their leather and cotton clothing effeminate and almost steampunk. During such bombastic scenes, as Caesar’s cries echo off the Hillsboro Civic Center’s glass and stone, the outdoor setting of Bag&Baggage’s all-female production couldn’t be better. The acting and direction, on the other hand, overlook the feminine perspective. The tragedy charts the conspiracy against Caesar (Cyndi Rhoads), his assassination and his supporters’ eventual defeat of the murderous traitors. Despite the title, the true protagonist is Brutus (Rebecca Ridenour, in her biggest Portland role yet). Convinced by the conspirators that Caesar must die for the good of the republic but then wracked with guilt after killing his best friend, Brutus is a singular character, which requires an actor both commanding and careful to not overwhelm the play’s subplots. Though the breezy open-air plaza requires Ridenour to trade nuance for volume, she makes a convincing if traditional Brutus. Brutus’ counterpoint is Caesar’s friend Marc Antony (Cassie Greer). When on the periphery, Greer is unremarkable. But in the play’s most critical and challenging moment—Marc Antony’s oft-quoted funeral speech— Greer unleashes gall and rhetorical power with each ironic utterance. Other moments underwhelm. The onstage assassination of Caesar presents great creative opportunity, but here the conspirators wave black flags around Caesar’s slowly falling body. The scene feels like a football sideline show after the visiting team has scored, the Caesar mascot dying comically amid victorious and calculated dancing. Caesar’s political intrigue and Brutus’ moral wavering could arguably gain a great deal from a female perspective. Borrowing from a few esoteric, centuries-old plays, B&B artistic director Scott Palmer’s adaptation makes some well-needed refinements and tightens later acts around the more central characters. But Palmer’s reworking seems unaware it’s played by an all-female cast. Absent, for instance, are any ironic sideways glances when the characters delineate the virtues and the vices of women. Though the cast delivers well-informed performances, I’m still waiting for a more radically reimagined Caesar. MITCH LILLIE.

Shakespeare goes drag.

SEE IT: Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Aug. 17. $18.

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for Frederick Jackson Turner nearly a century before him, the West is closed, the myth of ever-unfolding grandeur and endless opportunity gone. Lee talks of running off to the Mojave, but instead the brothers sit in the kitchen, getting drunk on Jack Daniel’s and lunging at one another. At times, you can see the actors acting, and they telegraph the play’s more volatile moments. But there are moments when the performance seizes you, as when Austin tenderly and funnily recalls how their father lost all his teeth, and then his dentures. Or, of course, when the theater fills with the smell of warm toast. REBECCA JACOBSON. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Aug. 18. $10-$15.

COCKTAILS • DINNER • AUCTION • FASHION SHOW

COMEDY & VARIETY

TICKETS

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.

Diabolical Experiments

Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.

Dom-Prov

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

Friday Night Fights

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

How to Age Disgracefully

While it bills itself as “a 90-minute joyride through the passage of time,” this sketch-comedy show has very little to do with aging at all—or at least that’s the sense I got from it. There’s a loose central story line about an aging family, but that narrative is interrupted by unrelated sequences featuring zombies, vampires and love potions. It’s easy to get confused, and it doesn’t help that some scenes are as short as 15 seconds, with little to latch onto. That said, the sketches themselves are at times very funny, and the actors deserve credit for maintaining energy and speed throughout a tiring performance. Directed by Caitlin Kunkel and penned by a host of writers, not all the skits work well, but those that do—one in which a real-life elf goes to a screening of The Hobbit had my inner nerd in hysterics—are well worth the $10 ticket price. Grab a pitcher; this is a fitting performance for a barroom theater. RICHARD GRUNERT. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through Aug. 10. $8-$10.

Instant Comedy

With a list of audience-suggested topics, five comics compete for the title of comedic champ. The Curious Comedy Playas also perform improv sets. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Aug. 17. $12-$15.

The Invite: Eight Ball

The second installment of the monthly showcase brings together improv groups from around town, including performers from Curious Comedy, ComedySportz and Administration, as well as writer

MY FAIR LADY Laura Allcorn. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 8. $5.

Micetro

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

Mixology

Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.

Rhys Darby

The Kiwi comedian—who played band manager Murray Hewitt in Flight of the Conchords and is known for his onstage miming and physical comedy—brings his standup act to Portland. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 8-10. $20-$30. 21+.

Shane Torres

Since having been crowned Portland’s Funniest Person back in June, Shane Torres has said he plans to move to New York City by year’s end. Catch the self-proclaimed “Native American Meatloaf impersonator” before he leaves, as well as local funny people Gabe Dinger, Nathan Brannon, Whitney Streed and Christian Ricketts. Jason Traeger hosts. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 9. $8. 21+.

Weekly Recurring Humor Night

Whitney Streed hosts a weekly comedy showcase, featuring local comics and out-of-towners. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.

DANCE Black Lodge Burlesque

Cult-film director David Lynch (the guy who created Twin Peaks) is the inspiration for this bizarre burlesque cabaret. It usually involves a lot of call-and-response line quoting, and it’s hosted by the Log Lady with acts featuring the Lady in the Radiator, Laura Palmer and Frank Booth. If you don’t get any of those references, you should probably skip it. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, Aug. 8-9. $12-$20. 21+.

Burlynomicon

You the hottest dick in this place? Maybe you’ve seen the genderswapped YouTube parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” in which suited-up women do the singing while guys strut around in

white thongs. Those guys are the Majestic Men of Mod Carousel, a boylesque group from Seattle, and they’re performing at this month’s Burlynomicon. They’re joined by Portland staples Sandria Doré, Holly Dai and the Infamous Nina Nightshade. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 13. $8. 21+.

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The Collision Series

Front is a Portland-based, annually printed newspaper on contemporary dance, and this is its fundraiser. It’s a picnic setting with an experimental performance that will likely be pretty strange. Accompanied by the Decemberists’ current bassist, Nate Query, and others, trained contemporary dancers join genderfuck performance artist Kaj-Anne Pepper for a performance that is largely improvisational. Further breaking convention, the audience is encouraged to participate. The people at Front say they don’t know what will happen, so it could be awesome, or it could be nothing. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 5-9 pm Sunday, Aug. 11. $10-$50, sliding scale.

A Fundraiser for DoveLewis – the Northwest’s Nonprofit ER & ICU Animal Hospital

Galaxy Dance Festival

Probably the best opportunity to get a taste of everything in Portland’s dance scene, the festival produced by Polaris Dance Theatre has a healthy and varied lineup. Performers include aerial groups like AWOL and Pendulum, modern companies like Bridge City Dance Project and Indian-style groups like Anjali and Jai Ho Bollywood Dance Party. The lineup also includes a smattering of local dance academies for those looking for somewhere to enroll your kids—or, possibly, get adult tap lessons. Also, it’s free. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. 10 am-7 pm Thursday-Friday, Aug. 8-9; 10 am-8 pm Saturday, Aug. 10. Free.

Hump Day Happy Hour

Portland just can’t stop birthing burlesque shows. This new one from Critical Hit Burlesque (the Geeklesque people) is every Wednesday during happy hour. The inaugural show features Claire Voltaire and Angelique DeVil, as well as a new girl, Ruby Redwood. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 6:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 7. $5. 21+.

Savannah Fuentes

Seattle-born bailaora Savannah Fuentes stops by Portland on her latest flamenco tour. She’s joined by singer Jesus Montoya of Seville, Spain and Bulgarian guitarist Roberto de Sofia. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm Thursday, Aug. 8. $12-$30.

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VISUAL ARTS

AUG. 7–13

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.

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Michael Alago: Rough Gods

There are a lot of muscles and tattoos in Michael Alago’s beefcake portraits, titled Rough Gods. A former record producer, Alago started taking portraits when he left the music industry. The works in this show were all taken with an iPhone appointed with the “hipstamatic” app. The artist carries on the muscle-worshipping tradition of Tom of Finland and Roy Dean in works such as the hunk-alicious Vinny and the red-bearded James Jamesson, whose subject, a gay porn star, sports an erection of fright-inducing proportions. Through Aug. 31. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

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Art of Music

The highlight of this group show, Art of Music, is Joel Colley’s inventive piece Makaveli. It’s made out of painted and gilded bullet casings, arranged in the shape of late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur’s face. Elsewhere in the show, Ryan Airhart’s digital prints of well-known singers strategically leave out the subjects’ faces but include their hairstyles. That visual information alone is enough to identify the iconic stars in the pieces Bowie, Marley and Lennon. Less successful are Christopher DeGaetano’s multilayered acrylic portraits of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. While they may be layered in their materiality, they are gimmicky and simplistic in concept. Through Aug. 31. Compound Gallery, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733.

Hayley Barker: My Dark House Is Full of Comets

Following her recent sunshinethemed show at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, talented painter Hayley Barker exhibits a suite of nine works that originated during a recent residency at Caldera in Central Oregon. While there, Barker made outdoor drawings at dawn and dusk, later using those drawings as the basis for paintings, which she created afterward in her studio in Portland. The works explore the neither-herenor-there feeling inherent in these transitional times of day, when light and dark commingle and diametric worlds seem to merge. Through Aug. 30. Gallery 214, 1241 NW Johnson St., 821-8969.

Henry Horenstein: Animalia

Miracle Theatre • 525 SE Stark, Portland, Oregon • (503) 236-7253

Lucy Skaer

Scotland-based artist Lucy Skaer traveled to Iowa to pick out large chunks of limestone for her installation at YU. The rocks were so heavy, she had to have them shipped to Portland in an 18-wheeler. The stones are strategically placed in YU’s spectacular, light-bathed exhibition hall, complemented by a myriad of brick-sized terra-cotta sculptures. Skaer is well known internationally, having represented Scotland in the prestigious Venice Biennale in 2007, and she works across a wide range of media, not only sculpture but also film, drawing and video. The YU show is among the most memorable Portland installations of the year. Through Sept. 12. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996.

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insouciant. For artworks so quiet to pack such an aggregate punch is a small miracle. Through Aug. 31. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

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If you’re not an animal-rights advocate, you might be by the time you’re finished walking through Henry Horenstein’s show, Animalia. The Boston-based photographer’s images of animals capture such individuality and intelligence, it’s hard not to anthropomorphize them and empathize. Whether dog, pig, fish or hippo, the animals we see through Horenstein’s lens are so endearing, you can hardly imagine killing

and eating them. Through Sept. 1. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Isaac Layman: Funeral

Large in scale, fastidious in execution, Isaac Layman’s photographic prints glorify the banal. In the past, his images of ice trays, clothes dryers, ovens and hot-dog wrappers have made mountains out of molehills, elevating quotidian objects to objects of veneration. Although a cool minimalism suffuses his work, it is more Pop Art than minimalist. Like Warhol with his soup cans, Layman believes that anything, no matter how humble its station, can become the stuff of glamor and import, if only it is presented as such. Through Sept. 21. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Joseph Harrington: Landscape Portraits

What do New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and the southwest of England have in common? They’re all inspirations for artist Joseph Harrington’s new sculptures, titled Landscape Portraits. Harrington uses a novel technique to evoke the landscapes in those locales. He begins with a block of ice, then rubs salt on certain parts, selectively hastening the melting process and imbuing the surface with nubby textures. He then casts the block into a mold, from which a kiln-formed glass sculpture ultimately emerges. The sculptures alternate between smooth and gritty surfaces, transparency and opacity, leading to startling formal and thematic juxtapositions. Through Aug. 31. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Kristen Miller: Passing Through

Kristen Miller is nothing less than a mixed-media poet. Using fabric, thread, beads and paper, she creates magnificently simple works that breathe in light and exhale visual harmony. Adjectives are inadequate to describe these pieces: immaculate, impeccable, perfected,

Rachel Davis’ ink drawings and watercolors contextualize cityscapes and pagoda structures in relation to other buildings. While there are a few strong compositions, such as Cloak, most of the works are precious and diminutive both in scale and visual impact. Through Aug. 31. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Sherrie Levine

Art superstar Sherrie Levine made a name for herself in the 1970s and ’80s as part of the “Pictures Generation” and appropriationist movements. Essentially, she has based her career on reproducing and recontextualizing the work of other artists, and the Portland Art Museum’s exhibition of her work illustrates this tactic well. On display are two vintage Levine pieces and three that were made during the past two years. But the pièce de résistance is a series of 16 paintings riffing on Claude Monet’s famous and ubiquitous Water Lilies. Viewers unfamiliar with Levine will benefit from this thoughtfully conceived introduction. Through Oct. 13. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

Zach Johnsen: House of Uncommons

Zach Johnsen’s House of Uncommons takes for its theme a fictionalized version of the British House of Commons. Mostly the show consists of poorly executed paintings of grotesque faces, skulls and figures in Chinese masks. The only works of any merit whatsoever—which is not saying much— are the wall sculptures Lord Spiritual and Lord Temporal. They’re monochromatic images of a face, with cutouts where the eyes and mouths would be. The pieces have a sense of humor lacking elsewhere in the show. With its overblown, fantasyinspired concept and lowbrow execution, the show would be more appropriate at Burning Man than in a Portland gallery (and I write that as a proud Burner myself). Through Aug. 30. Hellion Gallery, 19 NW 5th Ave., No. 208, 774-7327.

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BOOKS

AUG. 7–13

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

THURSDAY, AUG. 8 Comics Underground

Comic books are awesome, but it can be difficult to enjoy them out at the bar while still maintaining a certain level of cool. Luckily, Comics Underground brings new and noted comic creators to the stage to bring their comics to life using a projector and microphone. This month will be novelist and Eisner-winning comics writer Greg Rucka (Whiteout, Stumptown), artist and Web-comic creator Kory Bing (Skin Deep) and podcast host and Web-comic creator Terry Blas (Briar Hollow). Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm. $3-$5. 21+.

book, Up: How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging, explains why we should all think happy thoughts, especially Marcus in accounting, that jerk. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

The Studio Series

Taking the Stonehenge stage for their monthly poetry reading and open mic will be Toni Hanner (All Things in Their Shining Forth) and Willa Schneberg (In the Margins of the World, Storytelling in Cambodia). Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7-9 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 13 Chelsea Cain

A master of the mystery thriller, Chelsea Cain has a new novel, Let Me Go, that follows detective Archie Sheridan once again on the hunt for his nemesis (and sometimes lover), serial killer Gretchen Lowell. Go ahead, mock the genre. But just try putting down 368 pages of sex, murder and black humor. Yeah, we thought so. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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David Gilbert

When the reclusive but acclaimed author A.N. Dyer makes an appearance at his best friend’s funeral and subsequently suffers a breakdown over the life he has led and the book that will be his legacy, he decides to gather together his three sons for the first time in years. David Gilbert’s new novel, And Sons, explores how family defines us. He will be joined in conversation with Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 Portland Zine Symposium

Celebrating Portland’s passionate DIY publishers, independent artists and witty observers, the 13th annual Portland Zine Symposium will feature more than 150 exhibitors and dozens of hands-on workshops. Discover zines you never knew existed, learn how to perfect the anatomically correct stick figure or finally get the inspiration you need to finish your own zine, Breakfast Meats of the World. Ambridge Event Center, 1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 239-9921. 10 am-6 pm Saturday and 10 am-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 10-11. Free.

Pool Party Reading

Celebrating her coming-of-age novel-in-progress about a queer swimmer, musician and writer, Sara Jaffe will host a pool party with a lineup of local authors to give short readings or performances with a swimming theme. Hopping in the pool and sharing their fiction, memoirs, humor writing and songs will be Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water), Kevin Sampsell (This Is Between Us), Nicole J. Georges (Calling Dr. Laura), Miranda Mellis (The Quarry), musician Rebecca Gates and filmmaker Donal Mosher. Peninsula Park Community Center & Pool, 700 N Rosa Parks Way, 823-3620. 6-8 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, AUG. 11 Jennifer Firestone and Lisa Fink

Eugene-based poet Jennifer Firestone (Flashes, Holiday, Waves) will be reading a selection of her work along with Portland poet, translator and eco-flâneur Lisa Fink, who just released her poetry chapbook, Her Disco, earlier this year. Check it out to hear some inspiring poetry and maybe even learn what an ecoflâneur actually is. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634. 7:30 pm. Free.

Hilary Tindle

Having a positive attitude is beneficial for more than just pissing off your grouchy co-workers. According to physician and National Institutes of Health researcher Hilary Tindle, having a positive outlook will improve how you age. Her new

REVIEW

CURTIS WHITE, THE SCIENCE DELUSION If his new book, The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers (Melville House, 224 pages, $24), is any guide, Curtis White has the same nightmare every night: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and Christopher Hitchens are sitting in a room, kicking back with cigars and expensive wine, toasting science’s final triumph Keep away from Curtis over the last realms of human White’s brain! endeavor. Art, the humanities, philosophy—all conquered! As neuroscience maps the parts of the brain where creativity and consciousness originate, it becomes tempting for scientists to take over the province of literature and art. Curtis White, an English professor at Illinois State University, is fiercely guarding his turf, mocking the past decade’s very successful pop-science books, such as Dawkins’ The God Delusion. White, an atheist like the scientists whose arguments he critiques, is worried that science, triumphant over its old enemy religion, has turned its soulless eye to the humanities—reducing thoughts and emotions to a series of chemical reactions in the crisscrossing wires of brain tissue. White likes to refer to the “genius” in an artist or scientist, and makes frequent reference to muses. But for White, the problem isn’t just that science is tone-deaf to what makes us human. He spends a large chunk of the book discussing how science is all too comfortable cozying up to the forces of “social regimentation, economic exploitation, environmental destruction and industrial militarism.” Science, he says, has been usurped by “oligarchs” wanting to use it to make weapons and cling to power. These same corporate forces are codifying what “good art” is, and how it can be used to make them more money. White’s prose is fluid and often enjoyable. He mixes in references to Bob Dylan smoking pot, Kafka and James Joyce while refuting (or ranting about) scientific claims. White clearly knows his stuff when it comes to classic literature, and offers an interesting sidebar on the development of Romanticism. But White’s overall case remains unconvincing. He does effectively point out flaws in the reasonings of the scientists he critiques, but ends up resorting to the same kinds of polemic attacks he decries, issuing mostly unsubstantiated doom and gloom about how science and money are killing the arts. And besides, if we’re to believe every depressed (and terribly misunderstood) teenager, since maybe ever, isn’t apocalyptic gloom the stuff of the greatest art? RICHARD GRUNERT.

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MOVIES

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

2 Guns

C Mark Wahlberg seems to be losing

his criminal edge. As a reluctant smuggler in last year’s Contraband, he excelled at sneaking illegal goods into the Port of New Orleans right under the authorities’ noses. Reteaming here with director Baltasar Kormákur, he now lacks any sense of intuition, instead playing one of two moles who can’t smell a rat to save their lives. The rather implausible setup is that Stig (Wahlberg), an undercover officer for Naval Intelligence, has teamed with undercover DEA agent Bobby (Denzel Washington) in a bid to ingratiate themselves with a Mexican cartel boss. Despite having worked together for a year, each fully believes the other to be a hardened criminal. After his strung-out turn in Flight, Washington seems content sunning himself and checking out the scenery (including Paula Patton in a demeaning role). Meanwhile, Wahlberg is poorly served by such a lackadaisical approach. Aggravatingly, Kormákur’s film hasn’t much patience with its own high-concept premise, opting to have Stig and Bobby abandon their ruses at the first available opportunity. At that point, the plot depends increasingly on the machinations of an uninspired rogues’ gallery, who clutter the stage for a climax that unfolds with all the subtlety of a herd of bulls storming through a Mexican standoff. And please don’t mistake that for an analogy. As its title suggests, 2 Guns doesn’t go for such fanciful things. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division.

20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music industry 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, Hollywood.

Ashley

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] An America’s Next Top Model winner inflicts selfharm in this new drama about the suburbs and sex. Based on the trailer, viewers may also wish for sharp blades. Clinton Street Theater. 9 pm Friday-Sunday, Aug. 9-11.

Blackfish

A Living in a modestly sized city

like Portland can have its drawbacks for culture vultures. Art exhibits, live theater, indie films—sometimes it’s

months, even years, between reading about these things and seeing them in person. But occasionally this period of purgatory has its advantages, and Blackfish is such an occasion. Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, the 6-ton bull orca that killed veteran SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite paints a story of a whale torn from its family as a 3-year-old, but she also tells the story of a traumatized whale that killed two other people before Brancheau, and the story of a billion-dollar corporation that systematically sought to keep its staff and customers ignorant of the evidence that these highly intelligent, emotionally sensitive mammals don’t so much like living in swimming pools, being taken from their families or having people surf on their backs—and sometimes they express that violently. It’s a brilliant advocacy film—nail-biting, upsetting, maddening and at times even uplifting. You will walk out thinking, “Seriously: Fuck SeaWorld,” and go home to do some angry Googling. But you will also walk out wondering just how much was accurate and balanced. And that’s when you can really appreciate that Blackfish debuted at Sundance in January and has been screening in New York and L.A. for a month. SeaWorld has already issued a critique, the filmmakers have issued a critique of that critique, and plenty of others have weighed in. And even with all the lawyers and PR people that 50 years of selling orca plush toys can buy, SeaWorld’s rebuttal looks weak, and frankly, the company still comes off looking like a bunch of assholes. Blackfish may push an agenda, but after a month of debate, it still seems an agenda worth pushing. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Cinema 21.

The Bling Ring

C+ 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. Sofia 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. Bagdad, Kennedy School.

The Conjuring

B- Few people, I’m guessing, have been to Harrisville, R.I., site of the alleged true-life incident that inspired The Conjuring. But everyone will find it familiar: an isolated nowhere town where movie families go to get tormented by malevolent spirits. What else could the Perrons have expected when they bought that rotting lakeside farmhouse at an auction in 1971? Haven’t they seen, oh, every horror flick ever made? Director James Wan sure has. Though The Conjuring wears its “based on a true story” tag proudly, the universe it inhabits is purely, unabashedly cinematic. Wan, who kicked off the torture-porn era with the original Saw but has gradually wound back to more traditional forms of horror, reaches into a bag of scare tactics now so elemental the audience titters in nervous anticipation every time the music drops out and the camera holds on a single frame for a tad too long. It feels like a waste of word count to recite the entire plot when a disorganized list of its elements will do: a boarded-up cellar. Mysterious bruises. A clairvoyant dog. Kamikaze birds. A creepy old jack-in-the-box. Haunted linens. That’s basically how the movie progresses, running through a hodgepodge of decently executed tropes that add up to an entertaining YouTube montage. At points, Wan goes into straight homage, referencing everything from The Changeling to Paranormal Activity to The Amityville Horror. By the climax,

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MAX ATTACKS: Matt Damon wants to be an astronaut.

CITY IN THE SKY IN NEILL BLOMKAMP’S ELYSIUM, MATT DAMON HEALS THE WORLD. BY MATTHEW KO R FHAGE

mkorfhage@wweek.com

In the year 2154, we’re told, the rich don’t care about the poor. Nothing new so far. Neill Blomkamp, whose debut film was the alien-apartheid fantasy District 9, pretty much takes this for granted. His sophomore film, Elysium, is essentially a political metaphor gone fiercely rogue in the physical world. Not only do the rich not give two flying figs about the poor, but they live in a utopian space station in the sky, constantly bathed in heavenly light. Would-be “illegal” visitors—usually Hispanic—are shot down before they reach it, women and children first. Below, on Earth, the abandoned residents of Los Angeles languish in a dreamily intricate slum that has fallen into apocalyptic steampunk, a world of shit and piss and dirt amid technological marvels. It is as if the trash-sculpture Watts Towers have expanded to encompass the entire city. Blomkamp’s vision, no matter how dystopian, is stubbornly beautiful, just like the most grotesque creations of director Guillermo del Toro. Somewhere in the middle of this dung heap is Matt Damon as a blond-haired, blue-eyed chulo who’s gone straight after years as a car thief. Cheekily, he’s named Max—a road warrior for a new generation of apocalypse. Max is very, very special, which we know because a nun told him so way back when he was an orphan, and also because he’s played by Matt Damon. It betrays nothing to tell you Max eventually thumbs a trip to Elysium to upset this hilariously unfair social order, in which the people in the sky can cure every illness imaginable using special machines, but they choose not to share even one of these machines with the rampantly leukemic planet Earth. (What’s the harm, one wonders.) Damon travels up in cyborg form, armed to the teeth with the data that could bring down that whole society of Winklevoss clones. He’s pursued by a sociopathic villain right out of the 1980s B-movie playbook, a nihilistic

sociopath with fire in his heart, crazy-big guns and incredible difficulty forming an American “r.” And, of course, Damon makes this trip not just for vengeance or personal gain, but for the love of a woman, and also to satisfy a flashback sequence in which a pubescent boy and a girl declare themselves BFFs using a ballpoint pen. Blomkamp’s cinematic vision may be stunning—a place of wonder that is nonetheless grounded in the sweat stains of actual human beings—but Elysium’s plot and characters are pure Hollywood camp. But goddamn if it isn’t good, solid, hardworking Hollywood camp—with absolutely brutal, inventive action sequences that include swords, hovercraft, force fields, exploding bullets and acrobatic killer robots.

IT IS WHAT A SCI-FI EPIC SHOULD BE: A FANTASTICAL MACHINE FUELED BY OUR OWN DREAMS AND FEARS. You’re unlikely to care deeply about the characters in this movie, unless you’re a sucker for sick little girls who speak in moral parables. And beyond a beautifully satirical scene in which Damon’s character gets a little bit sarcastic with a robotic parole officer, you’re probably not going to be in it for the laughs, either. But the film is suffused with wonder and terrible dread, and no matter how infantile the plot, the dirty world itself is constructed for grown-ups, a recognizable extension of concerns we discover to be our own. It is what a sci-fi epic should be: a fantastical machine fueled by our own dreams and fears, made believable by its absolute devotion to these dreams. So damn the plot’s torpedoes: Some dude gets his face ripped off and has it healed in a tube. Matt Damon is an unstoppable force for whatever. Everything that is unfair must become fair, the dirty must overcome the clean, and we will have justice the only way we know how to get it: by spending millions of dollars on CGI. B+ Elysium is rated R. It opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, St. Johns Twin.

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BARBARA KINNEY

a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, selfabsorbed yet in wide-eyed awe at the big, beautiful world. And as the audience, we’re lucky to run alongside her. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Fruitvale Station

B+ At 2:15 am on New Year’s Day

EDEN The Conjuring has evolved into a full-tilt tribute to The Exorcist, and through the performances of its three leads—Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and especially Lili Taylor— achieves visceral, armrest-clutching fright nirvana. But then it just sort of ends, and you walk out thinking not about Catholic guilt or the power of Christ but about how you should probably go to the beach soon. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Division.

Dealin’ With Idiots

A largely improvised film—featuring Christopher Guest, Bob Odenkirk, Fred Willard and Nia Vardalos, among others—that satirizes youth baseball leagues and has received far flatter reviews than you’d expect from a cast of this caliber. Hollywood Theatre.

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 fartjoke triggers or inanely reference past cartoons—allusions to Carmen Miranda’s fruit-topped 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, Indoor Twin, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Eden

B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR

ATTENDING] Eden, a new film from Seattle director and co-writer Megan Griffiths, is not Taken. A Liam Neeson type with a very particular set of skills will not come to the rescue of Hyun Jae (Jamie Chung),

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a smart Korean-American girl who’s kidnapped from her hometown in New Mexico and sold into human trafficking in 1994. Hyun, now named Eden by her captors (Beau Bridges and a terrific Matt O’Leary), uses her math and business know-how to grow within the business, eventually becoming an accomplice in order to stay alive. With a story based on true events, Griffiths shows formidable restraint avoiding the preachy and melodramatic pitfalls that could have accompanied such grim subject matter. She constructs a straightforward thriller mixed with a dry crime procedural, yet therein lies the film’s power. By not presenting the traffickers as comic-book villains and by focusing on the day-to-day operations of the organization—at one point, Bridges’ character describes Hyun’s sexslave duties as matter-of-factly as if she’s starting her first shift as a cashier at Wendy’s—Griffiths lets viewers’ disgust develop organically. As Eden devises her escape plan, the third act doesn’t devolve into a Kill Bill-style revengeexploitation flick and instead asks important, adult questions about innocence lost. R. OKTAY EGE KOZAK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Aug. 7.

Explorers

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] A young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix go to outer space and make friends with an alien. PG. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm SaturdaySunday, Aug. 10-11.

Frances Ha

A- People have been trying to

figure out twentysomethings at least since Dustin Hoffman unzipped Anne Bancroft’s dress. In 2010, The New York Times Magazine ran a late-to-the-game 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. Gerwig strips her performance of affect or cutesiness; unlike those manic pixie dream girls, she’s not being quirky just to snag a guy. This non-romantic bent lends Frances Ha freshness, amplified by the rhythmic, sprightly screenplay, co-written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. “I’m not messy, I’m busy,” says Frances. Later, after a squabble, she sputters at Sophie: “Don’t treat me like a three-hour brunch friend!” It’s fluid yet fizzy, specific yet eminently relatable. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floral-print dress cutting

2009, Oscar Grant III, a 22-yearold African-American man from Hayward, Calif., was pulled off a BART train by transit police, handcuffed and forced to the ground, then shot in the back. He died in a hospital hours later. That’s the reality of Fruitvale Station, a dramatization of Grant’s last day alive, and freshman writer-director Ryan Coogler doesn’t want his film detached from it: He replays the grainy cellphone footage of the actual murder right up front. It’s a powerful framing device, lending the weight of the inevitable to a movie that moves through its scenes with restrained poignancy, but there’s a tradeoff: In flirting with the language of documentary, Coogler submits his creative license for extra scrutiny. Some critics have accused Fruitvale of “sanctifying” Grant, picking at the details of his final hours. Did he actually comfort a stray pit bull after it was struck by a car? How often did he text his mother, really? Those questions, though, are smoke screens that detract from the conversation the film should be spurring, especially in light of recent events (and that’s not to mention its cinematic value). As in his previous roles on The Wire and Friday Night Lights, Michael B. Jordan plays Grant as a man quietly fighting against himself. True to life or not, he never feels less than real. But the ultimate question isn’t about the film’s accuracy. It’s about whether an unarmed black man, saint or sinner or otherwise, deserved to die facedown on a subway platform. Coogler starts the discussion with understated eloquence, but 87 minutes isn’t nearly enough to finish it. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Clackamas, Moreland, Lloyd Mall.

Gates of Heaven

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Errol Morris’ now-classic 1978 documentary about pet cemeteries launched the director’s career—and prompted Werner Herzog to eat his shoe. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Aug. 9-10.

The Great Gatsby

C Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby is a high-drama, high-saturation emotional spectacle. And though it’s often effective in roping the viewer in, it has all the subtlety of a young drunk who’s just been left by his girlfriend. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Academy, Avalon, Laurelhurst, Valley.

Gremlins

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Worst Christmas ever. PG. Academy Theater.

Grown Ups 2

Adam Sandler and Chris Rock return with more juvenile clowning. In an additionally unpromising move, not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Eastport, Clackamas, Division.

Iron Man 3

A- Going dark, as superhero

movies are wont to do in the third round, without losing its charm, Iron Man 3 emerges as a top-tier superhero yarn that emphasizes something too often forgotten by its brethren: Comic-book movies are supposed to be fun. Here, our hero (the great Robert Downey Jr.) squares off against an Osama bin Laden-type villain known as the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), a deranged scientist (Guy Pearce) and an army of super soldiers. In reuniting Downey with Kiss Kiss

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PRINCE AVALANCHE Bang Bang director Shane Black, Marvel has managed yet another home run in a series of blockbuster gambits. In Black—the man who invented the banter-driven buddy-cop genre with Lethal Weapon—Marvel has finally found a writer who can convey Stark’s gift for fast talk and self-deprecating barbs. He’s populated his film with loquacious henchmen, slapstick sight gags and enough putdowns to fuel 1,000 celebrity roasts. In keeping Stark out of his armor for much of the film, Black has crafted a superhero film that harks back to the golden years of summer action. Iron Man 3 isn’t just a fine superhero film. It isn’t just a fine action flick, either. It’s a film that embraces a mold before completely breaking it with out-of-left-field twists and turns that keep the viewer engaged and chuckling with alarming frequency. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Valley.

KBOO at the Clinton: Michael Jackson Tribute

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] An evening devoted to the King of Pop, featuring interviews, rehearsals and performances. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Aug. 8.

Kon-Tiki

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

Kung Fu Theater: Forced to Fight

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] According to its original tagline, the 1971 flick—which, unsurprisingly, presents a martial-arts master seeking revenge—was “the most Kung Fu-uu-rocious of them all!”. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 13.

The Lone Ranger

C- Updating olden-day heroes is a dif-

ficult 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 mega-budget 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 hat for nuance), like dogshit. 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. 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. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Kennedy School, Mt. Hood, Movies on TV.

Man of Steel

C Seventy-five years ago, as the Greatest Generation geared up to save the planet from tyranny, a figure of Christ-like perfection standing up for Earth’s right to exist was precisely what pop culture needed. In 1938, an alien savior in red underwear appeared in newsprint. Seven years later, the threat of global fascism lay dismantled. For Superman, it was all downhill from there. Original archetypes don’t adapt well (see: the Sex Pistols, Hulk Hogan, Cheerios), and as the world changed, old Supes stayed the same, fighting for truth, justice and the American Way, even as those definitions blurred, warped and finally lost meaning. There’s a reason the Superman mythos has been revisited on film only one other time since 1987, and it’s the same reason people fall asleep in church: Flawlessness is boring. Approaching Superman in the post-Dark Knight era means either altering fundamental aspects of the character or embracing full-blown camp. Or, y’know, doing what Zack Snyder does in Man of Steel: recycling the origin story with stonefaced seriousness, and blowing shit up. Is it possible for Superman, in 2013, to grip the zeitgeist like Batman and the Avengers? He doesn’t have to be a scowly, growly antihero or a wisecracking frat boy. He just has to be more than what he is right now. In Snyder’s hands, he’s the same thing he’s always been: just a god in spandex. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

Monsters University

B Mike and Sully may have been inseparable pals in 2001’s Monsters, Inc., but that’s not how it started for these BFFs. Monsters University takes us back to their college years, when Sulley (John Goodman) was the cocky bro who didn’t bring a pencil to class and Mike (Billy Crystal) was the Hermione-esque know-it-all who studied rather than partied. As Dan Scanlon’s film opens, the two don’t get along. Monsters University somehow captures the giddy ups and miserable downs of entering your first year of college. Although not the best of Pixar’s lineup, there’s enough slapstick comedy for the kids and fast-paced banter for the adults to make it at least good for a laugh. G. KAITIE TODD. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, Movies on TV.

Much Ado About Nothing

A Much Ado About Nothing is all

about trickery. The comedy—one of Shakespeare’s best—centers on two strong-minded singles, Beatrice and Benedick, each determined never to

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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-andwhite, often with a handheld camera, but it’s set in the present day. Yet the text is still Shakespeare’s, even if the actors’ cadence and mannerisms feel modern. It’s a dizzying, and initially jarring, mix of styles. But don’t doubt puppeteer Whedon: Just like the film’s characters, he knows when to loosen hold of the strings and let his capable players take over. Simply put, Whedon’s take on the Bard is one of the loveliest films I’ve seen this year. While it has an off-the-cuff nonchalance, it’s grounded by precise performances, careful camera work and a sharp understanding of the gender politics at play. And wisely, the cast plays it more like a Shakespearethemed dinner party than a selfserious affair. Amy Acker makes her Beatrice a fierce-minded feminist hero. Alexis Denisof, meanwhile, brings an endearing daftness and goofball sense of vanity to his Benedick, striking farcically dramatic poses and dropping for push-ups when he sees Beatrice. Most surprising is how bold this Much Ado feels. Shakespeare often gets outlandish updates in live theater, and brash film adaptations are hardly new. Whedon’s Much Ado, though, strikes an especially impressive balance of loyalty and audacity, embracing its source text while still having some serious fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

the colors, the Ryan Gosling—and boils them down to a potent bouillon cube of a film, and the result is at once a visceral, purely cinematic experience and a numbing exercise in existential filmmaking. Gosling plays Julian, an American expat in Thailand who runs a boxing club as a front for his Jerseytrash gangster mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). When Julian’s older brother is killed after committing a particularly heinous crime, Thomas demands not only that the murderer be slain, but also the police who allowed the retribution. This sets her up against Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), an unassuming, karaoke-loving, sweater vest-wearing police lieutenant, which then sets the stage for a pretty standard revenge thriller. Refn, though, isn’t interested in simplicity—or coherence, for that matter. But damned if it isn’t gorgeous to look at. Eyes Wide Shut cinematographer Larry Smith bathes the set in

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Now You See Me

C In an early scene in the magicheist movie Now You See Me, Jesse Eisenberg’s character gives an audience a piece of advice. “The more you think you see,” he says, “the easier it will be to fool you.” That’s apparently a tip director Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) tried to follow, pulling from his bag of tricks plenty of glitz, a throbbing techno soundtrack and a camera that swirls as if on a merry-go-round and makes viewers just as dizzy. Unfortunately, being fooled by this flashy flick is no fun. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Only God Forgives

C+ There is no confusing a Nicholas Winding Refn film with that of any other director. Only God Forgives takes all his trademarks—the violence, the synth score, the stoicism,

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

C- Given its M.O. of recycling Greek

mythology, you’d think the fledgling Percy Jackson franchise would’ve guarded itself better against hubris. However, its opening installment (adapted from Rick Riordan’s youngadult fantasy novels) strolled onscreen

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GLASS HALF EMPTY: Blanchett as DuBois.

B As with many stories about

coming of age under harsh circumstances, a mighty river runs through the center of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, a Southern-fried fable about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose childhoods are wrested from them. Yet unlike last year’s excellent Beasts of the Southern Wild, this is a fable more grounded in reality. Rampaging prehistoric monsters are replaced by unfaithful women and gangsters. But, much like Beasts, Mud is at heart the story of mighty forces encroaching on children’s innocence. The film centers on buddies Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Neckbone (Jacob Lofland), who encounter Mud (Matthew McConaughey), a disheveled fugitive hiding out on an isolated island and waiting for his love to join him so they can flee. Drawn to his charisma, Ellis plays Pip to Mud’s Magwitch, delivering food and supplies in hopes of proving that true love conquers all. Meanwhile, vigilantes and crooked cops home in on the island. It’s a remarkably simple set-up, but what seems like a cut-and-dry tale of a mythical bum is instead a rich story of adolescent confusion. Mud is far from perfect, but it’s almost impossible not to get swept away by it. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Laurelhurst.

crimson, allowing the camera to slowly track down glowing hallways draped in gaudy floral wallpaper, posing each character with an almost obsessive attention to symmetry. The violence is stark yet gorgeously choreographed. Yet, despite its dreamlike nature and frequent jolts, Only God Forgives rings hollow. Gosling, who proved in Drive that he can work miracles with minimal lines, is nothing but a statue posed in various vignettes here. The style’s amazing. The substance, though, may cause drowsiness. R. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

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BLUE JASMINE Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine isn’t so much a fish-out-of-water movie; it’s a horse-witha-broken-leg-in-water movie. You know how this thing’s going to end. Cate Blanchett’s Jasmine is a rarefied, half-delusional socialite tossed roughly down the slopes of her husband’s financial pyramid scheme after he is arrested. She lands in a strangely Bronx Guido version of San Francisco inhabited by her low-rent sister Ginger (played with wonderful sympathy by Sally Hawkins). Blanchett’s performance is fascinating. She’s an Ingmar Bergman figure yanked straight out of Tennessee Williams: brittle, high-bred, well-guarded against reality but wretchedly vulnerable, snapping back and forth between high-class snob and raving drunk. Blanchett can, in the span of seconds, transform her face from well-composed regality into a grim slur. Her mouth droops on one side, and the skin under her eyes loses its elasticity. Jasmine adapts to the poor life, needless to say, badly. Blanchett’s often-harrowing portrait bumps heads with a loose screwball comedy of no-manners. She is groped by a bumbling dentist and trades insults with Ginger’s goombah fiance Chili (Bobby Canavale), who pulls phones out of walls when he’s mad and thinks Jasmine is a phony. Andrew Dice Clay, as Ginger’s angry ex-husband, is granted a righteous moral conscience: He’s the 99 percent, angry at the 1 percent who (quite literally) stole his money. In an effective side plot, Louis C.K. plays a seemingly self-effacing stereo technician who briefly steals Ginger away from Chili. C.K., it should be noticed, also picked up Allen’s old film editor, the incomparable Susan E. Morse, for his show Louie. Maybe Allen should steal her back. Because while Louie drifts beautifully between absurdity and sentimentality, Blue Jasmine is unable to reconcile its broad comedy and pathos into coherence. The schematic editing often makes the film as brittle as its main character. All the more impressive, then, that Hawkins’ and Blanchett’s twinned performances still manage to pick up most of the pieces. And all the stranger for Allen that he managed to create two fully formed female characters in a world of one-dimensional men, rather than the reverse. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cate on a hot tin roof.

SEE IT: Blue Jasmine is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

AUG. 7-13 Americans in southeast Alaska from clearcutting their own forest: lobbying. Musicwood is the tale of the failed campaign of the same name. In 2009, Greenpeace partnered with three of America’s largest guitar manufacturers in an attempt to save an endangered spruce tree, one of the last sources of a special kind of wood used to make high-end guitar soundboards. Told from the perspective of Greenpeace, Maxine Trump’s documentary is mostly shots of guitar-company executives chatting on boats and in boardrooms, where they meet with Native American loggers far too avaricious to listen to a bunch of guitarmakers and hippies. Interspersed throughout are meaningless interviews with musicians who have no hand in the actual campaign. The most interesting part of this story, which could have been its own film, is the way

in which the Native American corporation Sealaska is destroying its shareholders’ ancestral homeland, making the board members millions while the majority of the tribe lives in poverty. In the end, Musicwood becomes the depressingly futile tale of a bunch of white men trying to save Native Americans from themselves, and failing. RICHARD GRUNERT. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, Aug. 9.

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B Alvin and Lance react differ-

ently to the great outdoors. For the prickly Alvin (Paul Rudd), the wilderness provides a cleansing experience. Party-animal Lance (a Jack Black-esque Emile Hirsch) is not so placid. “I get so horny out here in nature,” he says. “Don’t you?” It’s 1988, the year after a wildfire has swept through central Texas,

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in 2010, presuming itself the rightful heir to Harry Potter’s throne. Instead, it learned that it takes more than a serviceable premise—the Greek gods’ half-human kids scuffle with their extended family—to capture the public’s imagination. Returning duly humbled, considerably scaleddown (demigods train on a cutrate Wipeout circuit; centaurs are primarily shot from the waist up) and blandly directed by Hotel for Dogs’ Thor Freudenthal, this second chapter hinges on a vague prophecy and a voyage to the astonishingly underpopulated Sea of Monsters. A mechanical bull seemingly ripped from Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook and a cheeky Nathan Fillion cameo are highlights. However, such glimmers of life are snuffed out by leaden storytelling, insipid humor and a performance by the already charisma-challenged Logan Lerman that can best be described as “contractually obligated.” Unsurprisingly, the mandatory setup for a third film also lacks any conviction. There’s very little fun to be had watching a kids’ flick so aware of its own mortality. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

MOVIES

Pina

A+ [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] [THREE

NIGHTS ONLY] German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina, an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch, was the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. Wenders’ film about his longtime friend was begun before her death and so was not originally meant as an elegy, but in retrospect the film has now become much the same thing: a wake that succeeds in bringing the dead around for one last dance.. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, Aug. 9-11.

Planes

B+ The latest, ahem, vehicle from a Disney factory evidently bereft of ideas yet borne aloft by an inexhaustible supply of good will, Planes doesn’t so much expand the mechanized universe of Pixar’s Cars as streamline the storytelling. This is a straightforward lark about a plucky crop-duster afraid of heights who manages to qualify for a round-theworld race. The global stereotypes lend themselves to humor at turns racist (the Mexican plane wears a wrestling mask), anti-racist (the gleaming, unaccented Mexican air force saves the American champ), and meta-racist (the Mexican plane harbors romantic stirrings for a sleek French-Canadian craft) while also enabling the studio’s trademark nuggets of scattershot whimsy: Shouldn’t JFK air-traffic controllers all sound like JFK? It’s all wholly predictable, of course, and the rather pedestrian voice actors—Dane Cook, Stacy Keach—dearly lack the audible charms of Cars’ Owen Wilson. Still, the target audience, thrilling to a 3-D format invoked for maximum impact, couldn’t care less, and there’s enough Pixar magic to mollify parental concerns about the two-dimensional characters. Does our hero defy the odds (and all logic)? Will the seemingly daft flirtations between a goodnatured rube and an Indian temptress lead to something more? Do Hindi jets sanctify steam-powered locomotives? Buckle up, it’s gonna be a smooth ride. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Portland EcoFilm Festival: Musicwood

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] After chaining themselves to trees failed, Greenpeace activists decided to try something else to stop a tribe of Native

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POWER OF THE ’STACHE: Peter Sarsgaard and Amanda Seyfried.

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LOVELACE

There are many ways a biopic about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace could have gone: lurid exploitation, polyester odyssey through a world of leisure suits and bell-bottoms, bleeding-heart redemption narrative, graphic examination of the porn industry or awarenessraising manifesto about domestic violence. Unfortunately, in attempting to hit all the targets but refusing to commit to a single approach, Lovelace directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman emerge with a film simultaneously stifling and empty, its structure inane and its content as lifeless as a blow-up doll. Lovelace begins in 1970, with 21-year-old Linda (Amanda Seyfried) living in South Florida with her ultra-religious parents (including an alternately stiff and histrionic Sharon Stone). She’s modest but impressionable, a girl who blushes when her friend mimes oral sex but is easily roped into go-go dancing at the roller rink. There, her shimmies catch the eye of Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard, with some sweet ’70s facial hair), who runs a titty bar and quickly seduces Linda by going down on her in her parents’ kitchen. Pretty soon, the dark-haired, freckle-faced Linda— described by a sleazy producer as “a sexy Raggedy Ann”—has become an unlikely porn star in an unlikely crossover hit. Tada! But then—though not before James Franco makes a distracting cameo as an eyebrow-waggling Hugh Hefner—we double back and see it all again, this time with Chuck’s physical and sexual violence laid bare. He’d seemed dodgy before, but now ominous music plays whenever the camera pans across his seething face. It’s as if the directors play the first act for titillating shits and giggles, after which they attempt to plunge viewers into remorse for condoning such smut. Problem is, the first act is no fun, the second feels like a choppy outtake reel, and neither half offers much insight about Deep Throat or its players. Seyfried does an admirable job eliciting our sympathy, playing a young woman afraid to disappoint yet inherently resilient, but she’s not served by the clunky, boring material. There’s another Lovelace biopic in the works, and even a musical version coming to New York this fall. I hope those projects go deeper than this one, which is that rarest of things: a film about porn that penetrates nothing at all. REBECCA JACOBSON. More like Shallow Throat.

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and these two are dressed like Mario and Luigi, painting yellow divider lines along rural roads. David Gordon Green’s remake of the 2011 Icelandic film Either Way represents a move away from his more recent work— namely stoner comedy Pineapple Express—and back to his more minorkey, character-driven films. With an unhurried pace and quietly observing camera, Green charts the evolution of Alvin and Lance’s relationship as they move from adversarial workmates who bicker about “the equal time boombox agreement” to partners in loss who chug moonshine, paint muddy stripes on their faces and hurl traffic cones through the forest. It’s a gentle character study of two rudderless men, with flatulence jokes that would be at home in a bromance movie and undercurrents of a ghost story. Rudd and Hirsch have an easy, believable chemistry, but the best moments are those without dialogue: lovely shots of rain spattering on a pond thick with algae, a hawk flying over a stand of scorched trees, and a caterpillar creeping along a mossy branch, itself cutting a yellow line down an unfamiliar path. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Rebecca

A- [THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL]

Despite my name, it took me quite a while to make it to Rebecca. I dismissed the Daphne du Maurier novel for its oft-lurid cover, and once I discovered Hitchcock in high school, I stuck to his better-known films. But it’s a shame it took me so long, because Rebecca—Hitch’s only Best Picture winner—is a thing of haunting beauty. A gothic melodrama set in a spooky Downton Abbey-style manse, it’s less a thriller than a morally complex tale of power, manipulation and vulnerability. Laurence Olivier, broody as ever, stars as Maxim de Winter, an aristocrat who marries the young and innocent Joan Fontaine (her character is not named) after his first wife, Rebecca, drowns. But at their Manderley estate, the clumsy and naive Fontaine provokes intense hatred from the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (a menacingly creepy Judith Anderson). All thick fog, swirling mist and driving rain (Fontaine first sees Manderley through the car’s windshield, as the wipers cut a semicircle on the glass), the film could survive on ghostly atmosphere alone. But the characters give Rebecca its real juice— the controlling but unhappy Maxim, the malicious and lonely Mrs. Danvers and, most of all, Fontaine’s transition from girlish naif to desperate co-conspirator. The claustrophobia and hysteria of Manderley seem to suffocate Fontaine, whose posture droops under its pressure. Word is that a remake of du Maurier’s novel is in the works, but see this one first. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Aug. 9-11.

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D+ At the end of The Smurfs 2, a 9-year-old viewer told me he felt too old for the movie. I would push back the recommended viewing age even further. From the beginning, Smurfs 2, directed by Raja Gosnell, reeks of a cash-in (the first and equally dumb movie did gangbusters at the box office). It opens with dopey wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria), who has used real magic to become the world’s most popular stage magician. The source of his magic, though—so-called “Smurf essence”—is running out, and he kidnaps Smurfette (Katy Perry) because she knows the recipe for a magic formula that will allow him to continue his show. While Azaria delivers a fine villain, Neil Patrick Harris, as the main human character, clearly phoned this one in, and you get the feeling he cares about this movie just about as much as the parents in the audience likely will. With tacked-on morals and jokes for adults that feel very forced and prove utterly unmemorable, Smurfs 2 has too much slapstick, far too many characters and, inexplicably, a duck with an Irish accent. Take your kids only if you have a lot of patience and a tolerance for insufferable blue gnomes making fart jokes. PG. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Southwest

D [ONE NIGHT ONLY] I’ve got nothing

against avant-garde cinema, but the Brazilian film Southwest is just asking to be mocked. This film is long, confusing and dull. Worst of all, it uses the “I don’t have to explain shit because it’s magic” excuse to introduce characters and plot points and then forget about them entirely. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Eduardo Nunes and shot in black-and-white, Southwest follows a girl who experiences the entire span of her life in just 24 hours, aging from a newborn to a decrepit old woman in her first day on Earth. After her mother dies during a witchassisted childbirth, the girl visits her mother’s village, where she finds her grandparents in mourning. She proceeds to spend most of her time wandering aimlessly and running around in circles in a field with her uncle (when

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B- Something of a surprise smash two years back, Red initially appeared nothing more than a particularly cynical marketing strategy aimed at shoehorning a few surviving lions of the silver screen (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich) into a retired-

spy revenge vehicle sufficiently explosive to raise eyebrows of the kids actually keeping theaters afloat. Miraculously, the film itself, utterly au courant hyperviolent snark intercut with the droll sentimentality of another era, managed taut pacing, wry observation and a towering likability. Charm alone fuels Red 2—a rangy, luxuriant bonhomie that incorporates Mirren’s bloodlust as readily as franchise newcomer Anthony Hopkins’ malevolent twinkle—but that doesn’t quite excuse the script’s senior moments or the fundamental sloppiness of Dean Parisot’s direction. Shorn of the breakneck pace and moments of genuine menace that strung tension throughout the original (however outlandish the plot or scenechewing the Malkovich), this isn’t much of a film, and we doubt the franchise will age well. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Forest, Division, Lloyd Mall.

she later returns, now older than him, they continue frolicking). There’s probably a moral or message intended, but I sure didn’t see it. The subtitles are seemingly spat from Google Translate: “If your child exist, you will find out,” the main character says to her grandmother. ”Girl, you look even ‘more woman,’” says a villager at another point. You won’t understand what is going on until about an hour in; I was so bored by the end I watched the last 20 minutes at triple speed and missed nothing. RICHARD GRUNERT. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, Aug. 11.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Kirk faces off against his genetically engineered nemesis in the film that pretty much saved the franchise. PG. Laurelhurst Theater.

B When J.J. Abrams took over the Star Trek universe in 2009, he managed the impossible by taking decades of mythology and boiling it down to something accessible to everyone. Abrams’ Trek was a hyperkinetic, rowdy, ass-whomping blast of smartass banter. In his second outing in the captain’s chair, Abrams hammers down on the throttle right in the opening. As with much of founder Gene Roddenberry’s work, there are echoes of current political sentiments spattered throughout Into Darkness, and the film slows down considerably when characters unleash cookie-cutter debates on duty and morality. Still, the cast elevates the proceedings. It’s Benedict Cumberbatch who, unsurprisingly, steals the show. The actor, a superstar across the pond for his charismatic role in Sherlock, slips into the skin of a snake with ease, wrapping his tongue around each snarled threat with calculated menace. Into Darkness can’t match the verve of Abrams’ first outing, but it eclipses it in terms of character development and humor. Missteps aside, Abrams boldly goes where no Trekkie would dare by beaming in a wider audience to the cult of Trek—luring viewers in with the spectacle but keeping them salivating by pulling back preconceptions to reveal real humanity. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Bagdad, Edgefield, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, St. Johns, Valley.

Still Mine

B Based on a true story, Canadian

director Michael McGowan’s romantic drama tells the touching tale of 87-year-old farmer Craig Morrison (James Cromwell) and his wife of 61 years, Irene (Genevieve Bujold). It’s a refreshing break from glamorized Hollywood cinema, with relatable characters and an honest and moving story. “You’ll have to shoot me before you find me in a retirement home,” says Irene, who has begun to show signs of dementia. “The only view there is of the slow shuffle into the ground.” When Craig sets out to build a smaller house for her, his old-school carpentry skills and stubborn dignity disagree with modern-day building codes, making his fight to care for his ailing wife even more arduous. Like their simple, old-fashioned farm life, the plot line is predictable and moves at a slow and steady pace, but it’s charming nonetheless. The actors look too young for their roles but still deliver heartfelt performances. Irene looks up at Craig with puppy eyes, and he protects her as if she actually were one. At one point, before getting into bed, she turns to him. “Take off your clothes, old man,” she says. “I want to see you.” They then simply admire one another’s bare bodies, disregarding age and imperfections. As he builds a home— and a love—that are made to last, Craig reminds his wife that “age is just an abstraction, not a straitjacket.” PG-13. HALEY MARTIN. Living Room Theaters.

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its own drama, secrets and perspective. Stories We Tell is Sarah Polley’s layered, thoughtful exploration of this idea, in which she turns the lens on her own family. Polley (who has directed features like Take This Waltz and helms

her first documentary here) goes on a journey to investigate secrets about her mother, Diane, who died of cancer when Polley was 11. Polley gathers her four siblings, her father and others who knew her mother to “start from the beginning.” As more than one secret unfolds, Stories We Tell wisely allows the family’s humorous and emotional moments to peek through. PG13. KAITIE TODD. Laurelhurst.

Twilight Zone

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Three classic episodes on 16 mm. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 12.

The Way, Way Back

B The Way, Way Back is a movie

about a boy—awkward and introverted 14-year-old Duncan, all hunchback slouch and downcast eyes—who learns to become a man. But it’s also a film about two men stuck in boyhood. They’re men-children of entirely different species: Trent (Steve Carell, playing against type to mixed results) is a philandering meanie and the boyfriend of Duncan’s divorced mom. 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 sneak off to the dunes to smoke weed. Wanting to escape Trent, Duncan (admirably underplayed by Liam James) 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 blossoms. 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. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, CineMagic, Lloyd Center, St. Johns Twin.

We’re the Millers

B- Up until now, I only tolerated

Jennifer Aniston. She’s the vanilla ice cream of the cinematic world—the safe choice for any money-grubbing flick designed to appeal to the broadest audience possible. But her performance as a caustic stripper in We’re the Millers is a sort of remedy for all those years of good-girl typecasting (save her role as a rapey dentist in Horrible Bosses). Is the novelty of a squeaky-clean Aniston working the pole yet another cheap Hollywood ploy to sell movie tickets? Absolutely. But it turns out she has the range to pull it off with surprising depth and feeling. Admittedly, her performance is tangled up in a very silly premise, in which she essentially plays house with a drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and a freckle-plagued virgin (Will Poulter) as a front for smuggling an RV full of weed across the Mexican border. But the characters are engaging enough, and the situ-

ational comedy generally entertaining enough, to make for some decent brain candy. And when it’s less than decent, Aniston’s rather spectacular strip tease in an auto body shop is there to distract you. R. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Wolverine

B Wolverine’s story is seemingly the

most cinematic and easily translatable of all the mutants in his universe. The dude has been alive for hundreds of years. He’s pissed. He has gigantic metal talons that, when experiencing the aforementioned pissed-offedness, he plunges into people. Or into robots. Or into people operating robots. Sometimes into himself. That’s the rudimentary overview of this character, and yet the poor guy has been stuck in a cycle of increasingly crappy movies, including an origin story that told the same origin story that X2 managed as a subplot, but nonetheless came out like a cross between Commando and a B-list X-Men spinoff with extra will.i.am. But The Wolverine—star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold’s simultaneous love letter to the character and apology to fans still spurned by X-Men Origins—is a completely different beast. This becomes apparent in the film’s staggering opening, set in the moments directly preceding the bombing of Nagasaki. Later thrust into modern-day Japan, Wolverine is stripped of his powers and plunged into a family war. Which is to say he fights a lot of yakuza and ninjas in various settings, including snowy mountainsides and atop a speeding bullet train. For fans, this is the Wolverine movie they’ve been waiting for: a funny, fast and ballistic actioner based on a Frank Miller story that relies on the story at hand, rather than references to other films or tie-ins. The gloves come off early, and from there it’s a fairly nonstop ride that only derails in its final minutes. It’s basically a high-budget take on an oldschool samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Division.

Women’s Edge Film Series: Fat or Thin

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Two films about body image: the short 2009 documentary Arresting Ana, about pro-anorexia websites, and the 2011 America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments, which details this country’s obsession with dieting. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 13.

Zelig

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Blending new footage with doctored newsreels from the 1920s and ’30s, Woody Allen’s 1983 film follows a character who becomes known as “the human chameleon” for his tendency to change his facial and vocal characteristics around different groups of people. Part of the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series. PG. Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. Dusk Thursday, Aug. 8.

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THE BLUES ACCORDIN’ TO LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS

MUSIC THAT MOVES: In 1964’s Dizzie Gillespie, filmmaker Les Blank’s first music-based documentary, the titular giant of jazz trumpet speaks into the camera, attempting to describe his playing style. He has a hard time. He says something about mixing typed notes with slurred ones, and admits, “I’m not conscious of this, because that’s the way I think.” Then he just plays, those iconic bullfrog cheeks puffed near to bursting, and you understand everything. Many of the music films Blank would go on to make—six of which will screen this weekend—follow this same basic tack: He lets the musicians talk, then watches them create. It’s a simple but astoundingly effective formula. Blank, who died earlier this year, was fascinated with the cultures that birth the songs. In The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (1968) and A Well Spent Life (1971), he follows blues musicians Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb through the rural landscapes that raised them. 1973’s Hot Pepper, about zydeco king Clifton Chenier, travels inside the muggy juke joints of southern Louisiana. Sprout Wings and Fly (1983) goes into Appalachia, and Chulas Fronteras (1976) to the Tex-Mex border. In all of them, Blank forgoes scholarly talking heads and linear biography, capturing his subjects as they live, which is directly linked to how they perform. Most importantly, he stays out of the way. That’s something many of today’s documentarians could learn from. MATTHEW SINGER. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre. 6:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 10-11. Best paired with: Laurelwood Free Range Red. Also showing: Gremlins (Academy), Frances Ha (Laurelhurst).

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings,” says author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, Aries. Just for a week, see what happens if you devote yourself to making yourself feel really good. I mean risk going to extremes as you pursue happiness with focused zeal. Try this: Draw up a list of experiences that you know will give you intense pleasure, and indulge in them all without apology. And please don’t fret about the possible consequences of getting crazed with joy. Be assured that the cosmos is providing you with more slack than usual.

Are there any ways you have dwindled or drooped? The next few weeks will be an excellent time to take inventory of these things. Your own evaluations will be most important, of course. You’ve got to be the ultimate judge of your own character. But you should also solicit the feedback of people you trust. They may be able to help you see clues you’ve missed. If, after weighing all the evidence, you decide you’re pleased with how your life has unfolded these past ten to eleven months, I suggest you celebrate your success. Throw yourself a party or buy yourself a reward or climb to the top of a mountain and unleash a victory cry.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits,” writes Taurus author Annie Dillard, “but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air.” I recommend you try on her perspective for size. For now, just forget about scrambling after perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you might have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and breezy. Feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty you’re embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all of its paradoxes and mysteries.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Monmouth Park in New Jersey hosts regular horse races from May through November. During one such event in 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything finished first, just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow. I suspect that there’ll be a comparable outcome in your life sometime soon. Revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and expresses the truth. I advise you to bet on the option that’s forthcoming and communicative, not the one that’s furtive and withholding.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Studies show that when you’re driving a car, your safest speed is five miles per hour higher than the average rate of traffic. Faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. Traveling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, I’d like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through life’s challenges in the coming week. Don’t dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but don’t race along at a breakneck pace. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The key theme this week is relaxed intensification. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to you -- but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. To accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. You do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities you’d actually like to cultivate in the future. I’m thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): African-American jazz singer Billie Holiday was the great-granddaughter of a slave. By the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American South were no longer “owned” by white “masters,” but their predicament was still extreme. Racism was acute and debilitating. Here’s what Billie wrote in her autobiography: “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” Nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what Billie experienced, Virgo. But I’m wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, now’s the time to push for more freedom. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What resounding triumphs and subtle transformations have you accomplished since your last birthday? How have you grown and changed?

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