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This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in months [“Brides Denied,” WW, Aug. 28, 2013]. A gay bar bans a newlywed gay couple from celebrating equality, freedom and love? CC Slaughters, you owe this couple and their entire wedding party a round of drinks and a public apology. —“Michael Romano”

A PERS deal could deflate anti-union sentiments and avert the class warfare that accompanied the passage of 2010 tax increases [“Grand Bargain Basement,” WW, Aug. 28, 2013]. Yeah, right. As if the rich fat cats would ever stop bashing public employees. The rich and their corporate-media toadies will continue union-bashing as long as we have unions, regardless of whether there is PERS or any health/ retirement benefits left at all. It is absurd to suggest there’s anything we could do to get the rich to happily pay their fair share and stop trying to keep all working people’s wages as low as possible. Get real! —“Mikenathan”

I work at a straight bar downtown, and we have never discriminated against gay couples, guys or girls. So why would a gay club have rules against straight couples? That’s the very definition of hypocrisy. I would assume the bar is in business to make money, so why deny possible patrons because they are wearing wedding dresses? If it’s a drunken bachelor or bachelorette party, and they are being unruly, sure, tell them they are too intoxicated. But if they are just looking to have fun, what the hell? It’s just CC Slaughters being stupid. This is gonna cost ’em. —“Fibinator” I’m having trouble seeing discrimination through the thick haze of inconsiderateness and lack of planning that seem to surround the issue. This seems like it would have been sorted out easily if the brides had contacted the venue ahead of time, let them know they intended to have a marriage-related event and discussed the bachelorette-party policy with owners. If a venue owner has implemented a policy, the staff often does not have the power to interpret, ignore or violate the policy. —“Spudger”

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It’s funny you should bring this up, Carl. As it turns out, you can ride your horse on a city street all you want. Take your car for a few laps around the horse track during a race at Portland Meadows, though, and suddenly everybody acts like it’s the fucking apocalypse. The legality-of-horse-riding issue took on added visibility Aug. 30, when a dude dressed up like a cowboy rode one horse and led two others down U.S. Route 26 west of town (Google “Doc Mishler” if you missed it). This caravan was accompanied by a flurry of press releases and Oregon Department of Transportation emergency vehicles ( just like in the Old West!) and brought new meaning to the phrase “riding into the Sunset.” (Get it? “Sun-

set?” Wacka-wacka!) Given this actual news hook, I took a break from hiding under the couch trying to figure out how to get out of jury duty and called both ODOT and the Portland Bureau of Transportation. You and your horse can rest easy: As far as the state is concerned, it doesn’t matter if it’s a bike, horse, tauntaun, or one of those stuffed costumes from The Benny Hill Show where it looks like an old woman is carrying you on her back. If it’s a non-motorized vehicle, it’s permitted on the shoulder of any roadway where non-motorized vehicles aren’t prohibited (as they are on the Banfield Expressway, say). PBOT says “as far as [they] know,” it’s legal to ride your horse on a city street. However, they don’t encourage it, because the sort of person who’d try is probably too dumb to keep their horse under control (I’m paraphrasing slightly, but you get the idea). QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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POLITICS: Ted Wheeler wants to bet on higher ed. CITY HALL: A local union says jail inmates are stealing jobs. OLCC: Mayor Charlie Hales says liquor cops are slacking. COVER STORY: Skyjacking’s heyday connects with Coos Bay.

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As first reported on wweek.com, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the Gresham bakery that made headlines in February by refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, closed its storefront Saturday, Aug. 31. Owners Melissa and Aaron Klein announced the move to a home bakery Aug. 30 on their Facebook page. They then posted a sign in the shop window: “Your religious freedom is becoming not free anymore. This is ridiculous that we cannot practice our faith.” The closure follows a state discrimination complaint filed in August by the couple who was denied service. The bakery’s Facebook page was taken down Monday, after hundreds of comments arguing for or against the shop’s closure. More than two dozen Oregon elected officials paid their respects Sept. 2 at the Northwest Oregon Labor Council’s annual Oaks Park picnic. But one pol up for re-election in 2014 was conspicuously absent: Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen. As he awaits the result of an Oregon Department of Justice criminal investigation into his affair with a county employee, Cogen is the forgotten man in local politics. Last COGEN week, commissioners in Washington and Multnomah counties completed a rare boundary land swap. Commissioner Deborah Kafoury, not Cogen, spoke for the state’s most-populous county. Neither Cogen nor Kafoury appeared at the Labor Day picnic—a must for politicians seeking union dollars. Instead, Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith declared her re-election bid. (The only candidate who has actually filed for county chair is perennial also-ran Wes Soderback.)

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At the Labor Day picnic, Metro President Tom Hughes kicked off his re-election campaign by tying himself firmly to trade-union and business interests in building a 600-room headquarters hotel adjacent to the Oregon Convention Center, accusing opponents of the project of “class warfare.” One potential challenger mulling whether Hughes is vulnerable is three-term state Rep. Jules Bailey (D-Portland), chairman of the House Energy and Environment Committee. Bailey says he will decide within a month whether to run. “Right now, I’m running for re-election,” he adds, “but that could change.” CC Slaughters has rejected another newlywed gay couple. Roger Givens and Daniel Lawton of Salem stopped by the venerable gay bar and nightclub on Aug. 30, after getting married in Vancouver, Wash. They wore matching shirts that read “Groom” and rainbow-colored bow ties. Givens says a bouncer barred them because gay marriage is illegal in Oregon. “It was a bit shocking,” Givens says. “Part of me was just kind of flabbergasted that they would do that at a gay bar.” Slaughters also barred two female newlyweds Aug. 10 (“Brides Denied,” WW, Aug. 28, 2013). Bar manager Kevin Hutman says wedding attire is verboten at the club, regardless of sexual orientation. “We have a dress code,” Hutman says. “It would be discrimination if we allow some couples in and not others.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6

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RISK-TAKER: Treasurer Ted Wheeler wants to fix Oregon’s college-funding crisis. “Only two of 10 students who qualify for state aid can get it,” he says.

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As Multnomah County chairman, Ted Wheeler killed a risky proposal for an Oregon Convention Center headquarters hotel. As state treasurer, he’s been a voice of caution on excessive borrowing and the Columbia River Crossing project. But now Wheeler is staking his credibility on a first-of-its-kind college scholarship program that frightens investment and risk-management professionals. “This is one of the worst ideas in public finance I’ve ever heard of,” says Jeremy Gold, a New York actuary and economist. Here’s what Wheeler is proposing in a 2014 ballot measure called the Opportunity Initiative: He’d have the state borrow $500 million and invest the proceeds in stocks and private equity. W heeler would then distribute the profits in the form of need-based grants to Oregon college students. Wheeler’s concept is a response to Oregon students’ growing struggle to afford college. Costs are rising far faster than incomes, and so he’d like to use the state’s borrowing capacity, traditionally used for roads and buildings, to reverse Oregon’s disinvestment in higher education. 8

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“I’m asking the state to make a longterm investment in human capital, just as we do with bricks and mortar,” Wheeler says. “It’s absolutely an appropriate use of the state’s debt capacity.” The scheme looks good on paper—the state’s borrowing costs are significantly lower than the returns its pension investments have historically generated. If that relationship were to continue for the long term, Wheeler would generate many millions annually for scholarships. “It’s not that risky,” Wheeler says. “The bigger risk is doing nothing.” In the illustration Wheeler uses, the state borrows at 4.5 percent interest and earns 7 percent on its investments. But experts say betting future investment returns will match past returns is a dangerous gamble. “I have the utmost respect for Ted Wheeler,” says Steven Holwerda, chief operating officer of Ferguson Wellman, a Portland investment firm that manages $3.4 billion in client funds. “But you can go a decade or more when what he’s proposing doesn’t work.” Holwerda says look ing at average returns prov ides fa lse securit y. For instance, the stock market declined three

consecutive years in the early part of the past decade and plummeted more than 35 percent in 2008. “It’s like the old story—how did a man drown in a river that is on average 6 inches deep?” Holwerda says. “It’s because one part of the river is 12 feet deep.” Gold is blunter. “Most people don’t buy stocks with borrowed money because they understand it’s too risky,” he says. If borrowing money to invest in stocks were prudent, governments could use the same approach to pay for everything from public safety to sanitation. “Nobody would ever have to pay taxes for public services again,” Gold says. As an example of what can go wrong, Gold offers one word: “Japan.” In 1989, the Nikkei index of Japanese stocks soared to nearly 40,000. Since then, the Nikkei has lost two-thirds of its value. Investors using borrowed money were wiped out. Wheeler says that even with the sharp market drops in 2008 and earlier in the decade, Oregon’s investments have yielded returns well above the state’s current borrowing costs. He says it is wrong to fixate on short-term market fluctuations when discussing a long-term asset. He also notes that two aspects of the Opportunity Initiative reduce the potential pain of market dips: First, the state’s general fund would guarantee the $500 million in loans and pay interest on the debt. Second, the program isn’t obligated to make grants every year. Joh n Tap og n a , a n ec onom i st at

ECONorthwest, thinks Wheeler is on the right track. Tapogna has studied Oregon’s Public Employee Retirement System, whose obligations mirror some of the risks of the Opportunity Initiative. He says Wheeler’s proposal represents a recognition that rather than investing in physical infrastructure, governments will increasingly need to invest in knowledge. “The economy has changed, and this is a fantastic investment in Oregon’s future,” Tapogna says. Wheeler earned an economics degree from Stanford and an MBA from Columbia, and worked in the financial-services industry, so he is no neophyte. But he’s also a leading contender to succeed Gov. John Kitzhaber and looking for a big achievement to call his own. Wheeler has already spent $49,500 from his campaign kitty on the Opportunity Initiative. He hired Fulcrum Political, a new firm run by two of Oregon’s top political consultants, Mark Wiener and Kevin Looper, to build a website and launch a social media campaign. The investment horizon for Wheeler’s Opportunity Initiative is 30 years, far longer than Wheeler’s likely political career. “The risk-reward tradeoff for Mr. Wheeler might be politically very attractive,” Gold says, “but the risk-reward tradeoff for the citizens of Oregon may turn out to be very costly.” Wheeler hopes voters will help him prove skeptics wrong. “We are creating an endowment,” he says. “It’s a long-term economic benefit to the state.”

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Union leaders say the city of Portland’s contracts with the county jail and state prisons to perform general jobs amounts to “slave labor” and are stealing union work. “How can you have people who would be happy to do that work for a living wage sit there and watch people work for free?” asks Richard “Buz” Beetle, business manager for the union Laborers’ Local 483, which represents about 650 city of Portland employees, including street-cleaning teams, parks groundskeepers and technicians. “There’s not a job these prisoners do that people wouldn’t line up to do for a living wage.” Inmate crews are common in the metro area, but they drew an unusual level of attention during a recent high-profile incident. When Portland officials evicted dozens of homeless campers and protesters from in front of City Hall last month, they first sent in a cadre of cops. On their heels was a Multnomah County Sheriff’s transport truck carrying five inmates, who collected the cardboard, trash and other items left behind after the sweep. The homeless looking on called the inmates traitors. Not that the prisoners had a choice. Later, Mayor Charlie Hales’ spokesman, Dana Haynes, acknowledged that having prisoners assist in the eviction of the homeless was “not the best visual.” It also reignited Local 483’s long-simmering anger. Beetle says his union will ask a state arbitrator to intervene in its grievances against the Portland Bureau of Transportation for using inmate labor. Laborers’ jobs have been hit hard by city budget cuts—street-maintenance positions, for example, were cut from 36 to 30 this year.

Beetle says all inmate jobs should go to union workers earning fair wages. But the allure of using inmates is strong: PBOT pays Multnomah County $565 a day for a 10-inmate crew, a deputy to supervise it and all transportation and equipment. The inmates are paid $1 a day. Union workers start at $20 an hour, plus benefits. PBOT spokesman Dylan Rivera says his department has been using inmate crews for more than 25 years. As a result of budget cuts, Rivera says the Transportation Bureau has made street cleaning “not the lowest but one of the lowest priorities,” making cheap labor even more attractive. Other agencies also use inmate labor. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office contracts with 12 local governments—including Portland, Metro, TriMet and the Oregon Department of Transportation. Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Steve Alexander says the work is mutually beneficial. “We’re providing a service for the community, while [the inmates] gain valuable landscaping skills and a general work ethic,” Alexander says. “It gives those guys marketable skills so they can find jobs when they reintegrate into the community.” Beetle’s not buying that. “What kind of job skills is using a rake?” he asks. “That’s not job skills, that’s exploiting them.” He notes the city won’t hire most ex-cons with felony convictions. While the Local 483 grievances—a total of three filed in 2011 and 2012—focus on PBOT, Beetle says inmate labor shouldn’t be used anywhere in the city. Other departments, such as Portland Parks & Recreation, have contracts with the Oregon Department of Corrections, and also use courtordered people performing community service. Beetle says the inmates are also dangerous. “All those prisoners running loose, with children in the park, women with baby carriages,” Beetle says. “What happens if someone had a bad day at the prison and decides to take someone hostage?” That hasn’t happened, Alexander says. Workcrew prisoners are low-level offenders and are well-supervised by deputies. Still, Lon Holston, a field representative for Local 483, says no amount of cost-saving is worth using inmate labor. “This is wrong,” Holston says. “It shouldn’t be happening, and by God, if we don’t stand up and say something, it’s only going to get worse.”

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As Mayor Charlie Hales continues to target neighborhood livability, city officials say he’s not getting cooperation from a crucial partner: the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, the state agency that regulates alcohol. Hales promised this spring, for instance, to rein in the boisterous Last Thursday festival. The OLCC said it would send inspectors to keep an eye on open containers coming from overcrowded bars. But as summer ends, Last Thursday’s chaos hasn’t. “You’d be hard-pressed to find an action the OLCC is taking at Last Thursday,” says Paul Van Orden, the city’s noise control officer. “I see them walking around. It’s like, ‘Well, great. You’re out there. Not sure what that does for us.’” On Aug. 29, during Last Thursday, two men attacked a Northeast 18th Avenue homeowner who had their BMW towed when it blocked his driveway—he fought back with a cordless drill. The incident is just the latest example of Last Thursday excess. Over three months, city volunteers counted 265 people visibly drunk, and 25 people urinating in the street. Yet at the Aug. 29 Last Thursday, OLCC inspectors issued only three citations—two for minors in possession, and one for an open container at a party bus. They also offered oral instructions to two bars. Agency officials were unable to locate citations at previous Last Thursdays by press time. It’s not unusual for Portland leaders to be miffed at the OLCC for not cracking down on problem bars as often or as quickly as they’d like. But they say they’re increasingly bewildered by how little control the liquor regulators are willing to use to quash problems like overserving. “Neighbors say their complaints go into a black hole,” says Theresa Marchetti, the city’s 12

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liquor licensing specialist. “We’re kind of left in the land of limbo.” OLCC spokeswoman Christie Scott says inspectors are actively trying to solve city woes. “Our folks are out there looking for violations,” Scott says. “And the fact that they’re not finding very many is a sign of what a great job the businesses are doing on their end.” Portland Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says commanders are “nothing but pleased” with the OLCC’s effort at Last Thursday. But criticism from city officials places more pressure on an already beleaguered agency. Last October, Gov. John Kitzhaber forced OLCC director Steve Pharo to retire. Portlandarea lawmakers have submitted bills in the past three legislative sessions to give cities more power to shut down bars. And grocers are mulling a 2014 ballot measure that would privatize liquor sales statewide—a coup they’ve been eying since Washington voters ended that state’s booze monopoly in 2011. Van Orden, a 17-year city employee, says he’s seen the OLCC become more cautious since watching Washington’s fate. “I just don’t see the same level of cooperation,” he says. “If I ever were to stop working in law enforcement, opening a bar seems like a wonderful idea, because the rules are so loose.” Scott says the privatization battle isn’t hampering inspectors. “Absolutely not,” she says. “There’s a big myth that we close businesses down. We don’t do that. We do have an interest in businesses that are up and running responsibly.” Hales has wanted the OLCC to set stricter bar rules since his term as a city commissioner a decade ago. He resumed the fight soon after entering the mayor’s office this year, asking the OLCC to set a 10 pm curfew for bar patios within city limits (“Take It Inside,” WW, March 27, 2013). The agency refused. “We are struggling to work in partnership with the OLCC to make sure reasonable laws are enforced, and businesses comply,” Hales says. “We’re not there yet.” Scott says the OLCC is trying to help Hales at Last Thursday and in the Old Town Entertainment District. But she says most violations are r hard to prove or outside the agency’s control. “It sounds like the biggest problem that’s happening at Last Thursday,” Scott says, “is people bringing their own beer and walking around with it.” She says the OLCC can’t cite bars for that. “You’re trying to give an apple a ticket,” Scott says, “for something the orange did.”

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etal detectors. Long lines at security. Grouchy guards. Bag searches. Most travelers think these airport customs have their roots in Sept. 11, 2001. Actually, the conventions reach back more than 40 years, when it was not jihadists threatening the skies but another sort of air pirate. These skyjackers, according to Brendan Koerner, author of the newly published book The Skies Belong to Us (Crown, 336 pages, $26), were “frazzled veterans, chronic fabulists, compulsive gamblers, bankrupt businessmen, thwarted academics, career felons, and even lovesick teens. Each had an intensely personal, if sadly deluded, rationale for believing they could skyjack their way to better lives.” It was the heyday of skyjacking, from 1968 to 1972, a period when 130 planes were hijacked in the United States. In that era, flying was luxury travel: free booze, gourmet food and a swift walk to your jet. You could board a plane without a ticket. The only downside? The possibility that somebody with a gun would demand that the pilot fly to Cuba. The 1971 hijacking of a plane by D.B. Cooper—who boarded a 727 in Portland, extorted $200,000 and parachuted into a hailstorm somewhere above the Columbia River—is perhaps the most infamous of the period. But the most important, if lesser known, skyjacking of that time was by a young couple, a white party girl and a black Army veteran. From Coos Bay, Oregon. Cathy Kerkow and Roger Holder have been mostly forgotten in Coos Bay, 223 miles southwest of Portland. The coastal town’s historical

society contains no tribute to the duo, who managed to control stolen planes for more miles than anyone before or since—and got away with it. Kerkow was a high-school track star and classmate of Steve Prefontaine before she drifted down to San Diego to work in a massage parlor. Holder was a troubled veteran of four tours of duty in Vietnam, who wanted retribution for being pushed out of the Army for smoking dope. “Operation Sisyphus” was his credulous plan to hijack an airplane, land it in San Francisco, rescue radical UCLA professor Angela Davis from her murder trial and whisk her away to North Vietnam. Holder persuaded Kerkow to join him. She asked him what she should wear. The crime did not go according to plan. It grew to include the Black Panthers, a trip to Algeria and Jean-Paul Sartre. Kerkow and Holder became two of a mere handful of hijackers not to end up dead or in prison. Holder died two years ago in San Diego. Kerkow is still at large. But their feat was the last gasp of the skyjacking craze. Within months, the Federal Aviation Administration jump-started the security measures we now trudge through before each flight. In this excerpt from The Skies Belong to Us, Koerner shows how the gears for Holder and Kerkow’s skyjacking were set into motion years before, in a timber town four hours from Portland. —Aaron Mesh

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“FOUR OF THEM ARE ON THIS PLANE RIGHT NOW, BACK THERE WITH A BOMB. AND ONE’S ON LSD.” —ROGER HOLDER

COOS BAY PIRATES: Roger Holder (above) went AWOL from the Army after being thrown in the brig for smoking marijuana. In San Diego, he met Cathy Kerkow (right), shown here in her 1969 Marshfield High School yearbook photo.

he knock on the door came at an inopportune moment for Cathy Kerkow, right as she was working a gob of shampoo through her long brown hair. Though she wasn’t expecting any visitors that January afternoon in 1972, she was far too genial a soul to ignore the caller. She wrapped a kimono-style bathrobe around her slender body and hurried from the shower, leaving a trail of soapy water in her wake. Kerkow opened the door to discover an exceptionally tall, rail-thin black man with close-cropped hair and manicured sideburns. A pair of tortoiseshell sunglasses shielded his sleepy eyes from San Diego’s midday glare. He grinned at the lovely sight before him, a scantily clad twenty-year-old girl with rivulets of water sluicing down her cleavage. Kerkow flashed back a coy smile, pleased to know that her abundant charms were working their standard magic. The man asked if he had the right apartment for an acquaintance of his, a young lady by the name of Beth Newhouse. Kerkow replied that Beth was her roommate, and that he could probably find her shopping at the local drugstore. The man promptly left without saying goodbye; Kerkow stood in the doorway and watched him speed off in a yellow Pontiac Firebird. As the car vanished around the Murray Street bend, she thought, I know him from somewhere. Twenty minutes later the man and Newhouse returned to the apartment together. Apologizing for his prior rudeness, the man now introduced himself to Kerkow as Roger Holder. He explained that he had once been Newhouse’s downstairs neighbor, back when she lived near Ocean Beach. Newhouse was less than thrilled to see Holder again. She had always considered him something of a creep—not least of all because he had used a different name, Linton Charles White, when they had first met the year before. But Kerkow didn’t want Holder to leave just yet—not

while she was still trying to piece together why he looked so darn familiar. To delay his departure, she suggested they all share a quick joint; the girls were small-time marijuana dealers who never lacked for pungent grass. Holder readily accepted the offer. As the joint circulated around the trio, Kerkow and Holder kept making eyes at each other, lobbing signals back and forth. Before he left, Holder asked the two women if he could repay their kindness by treating them to breakfast that coming Saturday. Newhouse declined, but Kerkow said yes to the morning date. Two days later Holder picked her up in his Firebird and took her to a diner on University Avenue. As they spooned sugar into their coffees, Holder made a confession: he had been driving himself crazy trying to figure out where he and Kerkow had met before. He had the strangest sense this wasn’t the first time their paths had crossed. But try as he might, the memory of their previous encounter was eluding him. Kerkow admitted that she, too, had felt a powerful twinge of recognition upon seeing Holder at her apartment door. But how could that be? She had been in San Diego for only five months, scarcely enough time to forget such a memorable face. Prior to that she had spent virtually her whole life in Coos Bay, a logging town on Oregon’s southern coast. Surely there was no way Holder had ever passed through such an isolated place. Holder set down his coffee and leaned back in the booth. He rubbed his chin and mouth in thought, then filled his lungs with soothing Pall Mall smoke. Coos Bay. Yes, he said, he knew Coos Bay. He knew it very well.

hen Catherine Marie Kerkow was born in October 1951, Coos Bay was in the midst of a splendid postwar boom. Located on a thickly forested peninsula dotted with scenic lakes, the town was blessed with a harbor deep enough to accommodate the world’s largest timber ships, which hauled off Oregon’s precious firs and cedars by the millions. A never-ending stream of logging trucks jammed the coastal roads, rumbling past

the enormous waterfront sawmill that draped the town in the scent of fresh-cut wood. Newlyweds Bruce and Patricia Kerkow seemed to be on track for a pleasant future when Cathy became their firstborn child. The couple wasted little time rounding out their family: by the time she was six, Cathy had been joined by three younger brothers. Though he loved his children dearly, Bruce was also frustrated by fatherhood’s demands. At the Kiwanis Club meetings and church potlucks that were the linchpins of Coos Bay’s social life, rumors swirled that the Kerkows’ marriage might be on the rocks. In the summer of 1959, however, the town’s gossipmongers began to chatter about news far more salacious than the Kerkows’ marital woes. A year earlier the Navy had opened a sonar station on Coos Head, a bluff overlooking the bay, in order to track Soviet submarine activity in the Pacific Ocean. Now the installation had taken on a new chief cook, a fifteen-year Navy veteran who had recently returned from duty in the Taiwan Strait. To the horror of Coos Bay’s more provincial inhabitants, this cook was also black. His name was Seavenes Holder. In August 1959 the Holders piled into the family’s Ford Crown Victoria and headed north up Highway 101, thrilled to be starting life anew in southwestern Oregon. Seavenes was in a jolly mood during the ride, talking up all the hunting and fishing trips he had planned for the kids. Ten-yearold Roger was most excited about the fact that his father had rented a four-bedroom house, a major upgrade over their cramped Alameda, Calif., bungalow. He would finally have a room all to himself. But when Seavenes showed up at the real estate office to collect the house keys, he was told that the property was no longer available and that his mailed deposit would be refunded. Seavenes knew exactly what that meant: the agent with whom he had arranged the lease over the phone hadn’t realized that the Holders were black. The family camped out in a hotel room while Seavenes scrambled to find more permanent accommodations. He was rejected by several landlords who made little effort CONT. on page 18 Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 wweek.com

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to conceal their bias: Coos Bay had just a single black family at the time, headed by the proprietor of a downtown shoeshine stand, and many residents were dead set against darkening the town’s collective pigmentation any further. The Holders eventually settled into a house in the bluecollar Empire neighborhood, on the peninsula’s western side. The landlord, an eccentric older woman who drove a tractor and smoked cigars, provided Seavenes with a shotgun, advising him that he might need it to fend off intruders. Her warning quickly proved correct: two nights after the Holders moved in, a pickup truck full of rowdy men pulled into the family’s driveway at two a.m. “Niggers go home!” the trespassers yelled as they waved flashlights through the Holders’ windows and pelted the door with rocks. From that point on, such menacing late night visits became routine. The family’s tormenters operated in the daytime, too. When Marie Holder went shopping for groceries on Newmark Avenue, housewives would spit in her face as she walked the aisles, or hiss that she’d better not touch the vegetables with her unclean hands. The children were taunted whenever they dared play in the local park; the oldest child, eleven-year-old Seavenes Jr., started carrying a small hatchet in order to protect himself. The elder Seavenes pleaded with his family to turn the other cheek, assuring them that the bigots would soon tire of their bullying. And so on September 9, Roger and his younger brother, Danny, were packed off to Madison Elementary School to begin the fall semester. The very next day several older boys cornered seven-year-old Danny on the school’s playground. The leader of the pack knocked him to the ground, then kicked his prone body at least a dozen times. The beating was severe enough to land Danny in the hospital, where doctors briefly feared that the boy might lose a testicle. The petrified Danny initially refused to identify his 18

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attacker. The police eventually coaxed him into fingering the culprit, but the boy was never arrested. When news of the assault started to make the rounds, Coos Bay’s progressive residents declared themselves aghast at their racist neighbors’ campaign of terror. An emergency meeting of the Madison Parent Teacher Association was called to discuss the matter, and a local weekly paper chimed in with a soul-searching editorial on its front page. But the spirit of reconciliation did not last. Embittered by Danny’s beating, Seavenes filed suit against the State of Oregon for failing to protect his family’s civil rights. When his superiors caught wind of the case, they ordered him to drop the matter and report back to Alameda at once. The Navy did not want to risk antagonizing Coos Bay any further. As their distraught parents packed up the house, Seavenes Jr. and Roger spent an unseasonably warm October day exploring the woods around Empire Lakes, a popular recreation area. They came to a secluded stretch of shoreline, where they spotted a boy and girl dipping jars into the water. Fuming over his family’s humiliation, Seavenes Jr. whispered to Roger that they should avenge poor Danny by beating up the two kids. But Roger nixed that plan—he just wanted to see what the kids were doing with their jars. The Holder boys approached the water’s edge. Roger saw that the girl was around eight years old; the boy appeared to be her little brother. She was pale and slight, with prominent ears and oversize glasses. Roger asked what she and her brother were doing. “Catching salamanders,” the girl replied. Roger peered at the muddy water inside the girl’s jar and laughed. “Those ain’t salamanders,” he said. “Those are tadpoles, see? Tadpoles—baby frogs.” The girl reached into her jar and pulled out one of the minuscule creatures by its tail. She dangled it right in front of Roger’s face, so he could inspect its frilly gills and

KEEP SMILING: Roger Holder showed these two notes to flight attendants on Western Airlines Flight 701. The plane he hijacked was a Boeing 727, like the one shown at bottom right.

nascent limbs. “I know a baby salamander when I see one,” she snapped. When Roger could say nothing in reply, the girl broke into a wide grin; she was obviously pleased to have won the argument. The girl’s brother tugged at her sleeve—he wanted to head back to the picnic area, where Mom and Dad were waiting. “Well, next time I see you, I hope you’ve learned more about salamanders,” the grinning girl said to Roger while screwing a brass lid onto her jar. “Bye-bye.” “Good luck with them salamanders!” Roger Holder shouted after Cathy Kerkow as she and her brother disappeared into the woods. He was certain that she heard him, though she never did look back. Four days later the Holders’ Crown Victoria headed south down Highway 101. The family had been run out of Oregon after less than three months. Thirteen years later, Holder and Kerkow launched their hijacking plan out of San Diego, buying their tickets with a bad check. On June 2, 1972, they took off on Western Airlines Flight 701 to Seattle, carrying no weapons but a Samsonite briefcase—which Holder claimed contained a bomb.

older was aching for a taste of marijuana, just a few quick tokes to soothe his nerves. He had a cigarette pack full of joints in his breast pocket, but there was no way he could sneak a puff in the plane’s lavatory without attracting unwanted attention. He settled instead for a second round of bourbon, brought to him by a shapely blond stewardess who said her name was Gina. A bump of turbulence caused her to splash some liquor on Holder’s jacket, an accident for which she profusely apologized. Still, Gina Cutcher promised to bring him a dry cleaning voucher. Holder turned his head to watch her walk back to the aft galley, her comely figure sheathed in Western Airlines’ flattering peach uniform. He briefly thought

CONT. of asking this gorgeous lady to join him and Cathy on their illicit journey. But he knew that it would be foolish to deviate from the plan. When Holder ran out of cigarettes, he bummed a smoke off the man sitting in 18E, an auto-sales executive from suburban Seattle. The man used this exchange as an excuse to make small talk. He started the conversation by asking Holder how long he had been in the Army. “Oh, since before I was born,” Holder responded with a laugh, before explaining that his father had spent his entire career in the military. That was the last true thing that Holder told his seatmate. He proceeded to weave a fantastic tale of derring-do. Four rows behind Holder, Kerkow was telling less outrageous lies to her seatmate, a middle-aged homemaker from Los Angeles. As the plane passed over Oregon’s Mount Hood, Holder felt an acute pang of self-doubt. He worried that he had already waited too long to execute the takeover, a concern that sparked misgivings about the thoroughness of his preparations. He began to compose a new note for the captain, scribbling furiously on a sheet of yellow legal paper. But he stopped writing after five garbled paragraphs, unable to string together a coherent message. His thoughts were slipping away from him. Holder asked his seatmate for another cigarette and tried to read a Life feature about Alabama governor and Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace, who had survived an assassin’s bullet on May 15. Though he maintained a veneer of cool, he was desperately trying to muster the courage to go through with his plan. At around 2:25 p.m., the captain’s voice blared over the public address system. He directed the passengers’ attention to snow-capped Mount Rainier, which was coming up on the left side of the aircraft. All was running smoothly, he added, and they would be on the ground in Seattle in twenty-five minutes.

Holder closed his magazine and stubbed out his cigarette. Now or never, he thought. Now or never. He removed his Samsonite briefcase from beneath the seat in front of him and replaced it with his small black valise. He opened the briefcase a crack and removed a travel-size alarm clock. He wound it up and then placed it back inside the briefcase. “Could you watch my seat?” Holder asked the autosales executive in 18E. With that, he rose and walked down the aisle toward the rear of the plane. Kerkow watched him pass by. This was it. Holder pulled back the aft galley’s red curtain to find three stewardesses shoveling beef and broccoli into their mouths. The lovely Gina Cutcher stood closest to him. Oh no, thought Cutcher. The voucher. I forgot about his voucher. “I need to show you something,” Holder said to her, placing two sheets of three-by-five notepaper on the galley’s countertop. “Read these.” Cutcher did as she was told. The first note began: Success through Death…

older ducked through the open cockpit door and stood over the three-person flight crew. He took a moment to savor the feeling of accomplishment; for the first time in ages, he felt wholly in tune with the universe’s intentions for his life. But after that surge of satisfaction ebbed, he struggled to remember what, exactly, he was supposed to do next. At the very moment of his greatest triumph, all of Roger Holder’s convoluted plans began to mash together in his head. Holder held up his Samsonite briefcase and wiggled his left index finger, the one with the metal ring around it. The crew could see that the ring was connected to a piece of copper wire that led into the briefcase. “This controls the detonator,” explained Holder. “There is a concussion grenade in here, and eight slabs of C-4. Now, Captain, what

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is your name?” “Jerry Juergens.” Holder gave the captain a firm handshake, then did likewise with the other two members of the crew. Tom Crawford, the flight engineer, noticed that the hijacker’s hand was clammy and that sweat was trickling down his brow. “I’m here to tell you that I was visited at my home by the Weathermen,” said Holder. He was referring to a notorious radical group, an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society, that had orchestrated a series of bombings aimed at ending America’s involvement in Vietnam. Two weeks earlier the Weathermen had managed to bomb a women’s bathroom at the Pentagon. “They told me they’d taken my children from my wife— kidnapped them,” Holder continued. “That’s how they’re forcing me to do this—they have my girls. My family. Four of them are on this plane right now, back there with a bomb. One’s a girl—she’s the leader. And one’s on LSD. I saw them in Los Angeles, at the airport, waiting. But I don’t know where they’re sitting at now.” Holder removed his spiral-bound notebook from a jacket pocket and flipped to page one. “San Francisco,” he said. “They want us to go to San Francisco.” “Not enough fuel for that,” said the co-pilot, Ed Richardson. “We need to land in Seattle first.” Holder objected, saying there was no time for any stops along the way. But Richardson countered that they didn’t have a choice—they could barely make it back to the Washington-Oregon border on the fuel they had left. Then a spur-of-the-moment idea occurred to Holder—a way to turn the hijacking into an even more elaborate and personal demonstration. “I want us to land in Coos Bay,” he said. READ MORE: The Skies Belong to Us sells at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. Find out more at theskiesbelongto.us and microkhan.com.

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Every parent knows child-rearing is about failing yet hoping against hope your kid stays clear of brothels, regardless of his or her sex. Fortunately, the Harmonious Foodie is starting a weekly series of Mindful Eating workshops, so you can improve your progeny’s eating habits. Dads don’t seem to be invited, so my daughter and I will be headed to McDonald’s yet again. Alma Education and Movement Space, 1233 SE Stark St., 867-3920. 11 am-12:30 pm. $15-$24 per workshop, $87-$150 for the entire series.

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THRIVE PACIFIC NW Thrive catered my wedding. That’s not so much a disclosure— we’re not friends with the owners and we paid the going rate—as it is an endorsement. Because if Thrive, which just opened its fi rst stationary cart on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, is good enough to serve everyone I love on a very special day, yeah, I probably think it’s good enough to fuel your trip to Freddy’s Order this: Argentinian bowl with to replace the 9-volt battery steak and a mean chimichurri ($10). in the smoke detector that’s I’ll pass: The Japanese bowl is boring. been beeping and beeping and beeping. As wedding food, Thrive’s rice bowls are admittedly kind of weird: the flower girl deemed it “gross” and one bridesmaid stopped after a forkful. But it proved a popular and affordable choice with those exceptions—oh, and also the vegetarian standup bass player of Lost Creek Bluegrass band, subject of a profile in next week’s paper, who was left hungry after one of my omnivorous co-workers devoured his Kashmir tempeh bowl. Thrive makes light but satisfying fare that’s loud in flavor and widely customizable. It starts with a base of plump brown rice in 12-ounce ($7) or 16-ounce ($7) bowls. You then upgrade to either tempeh ($1), chicken ($2) or steak ($3). Each of those proteins does what’s asked of it—the tempeh has the pleasant consistency of an underbaked brownie, the chicken is lean and eager for sauce, and steak speaks louder than everything around it. Bowls come in a World Market-esque assortment of popular, vaguely ethnic flavors. The Kashmir bowl has a yogurt-curry sauce with a generous pile of fresh basil and cashews. The Thai bowl has cilantro sprigs, peanuts and a coconut sauce. The Japanese bowl has sesame seeds, seaweed and tamari sauce. Argentinian has piquant chimichurri, leafy greens and sliced zucchini. The Mexican bowl has tomatillo, black beans, avocado and a creamy lime sauce. The Argentinian bowl with steak is my favorite; my wife prefers the Kashmir bowl with tempeh. And for you: beef, chicken or vegetarian? Check one, please. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Thrive, Southeast 32nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, thrivepacificnw.com. 11 am-3 pm Wednesday-Sunday. $.

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BRINGING SEXY (AND CASSETTES) BACK: Erik Gage reclines near a heap of Gnar Tapes’ recent releases.

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Gnarnia isn’t hard to find. Just head south on Southeast 11th Avenue, until the smell of grease radiating from the Burgerville on Hawthorne Boulevard gives way to bong smoke. It’s home to a universe of enthralling characters, but upon entering, “magical” isn’t exactly the first word that comes to mind. The only negotiable path to the basement—filled with broken drums and half-strung guitars—is choked with busted microphone cables. The kitchen is covered in graffiti. The living room serves as a shambolic testament of defiance or laziness, the kind of pit you’d expect a stoned teenager to leave booby-trapped with trash to ward off parental units. “I don’t walk barefoot in this house,” says resident Erik Gage, a heavyset dude in a thrift-store button-down shirt and wispy mustache, his beer gut folded over cut-off jean shorts. “That’s a fact.” If it weren’t for the stack of mismatched tape decks towering over the rubble and filth in the living room, this would be just another flophouse for wayward 20-somethings. And while it definitely is that, it is also, more crucially, home to Gnar Tapes and Shit. As its name implies, the label, which Gage started with a small group of friends in 2008, releases music almost exclusively on cassette tape, a recording medium that seemingly went extinct in the early ’90s. In recent years, however, the indie-music world at-large has rediscovered cassettes in ever-increasing numbers—to the point that the movement now has its own national holiday, dubbed Cassette Store Day. While the world was questing for an alternative to iTunes, the tape scene grew from a nostal26

gic niche market to a boundless universe of pop-loving weirdos. And in Portland, the center of that universe is Gnarnia. “Tapes are cheap, easy and fast,” Gage says. “I’ve been doing this since 2007, and since then there’s been an evolution where a lot of artists will approach the tape and will make an album just for tape and try things, because it costs so much less to make than a vinyl record.”

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Next to the mountain of thrift-store production implements stands a cache of recent releases, arranged in cardboard boxes with tags like “Weedsmokers” and “Love Cop” scrawled on the sides in permanent marker. The labels have been crossed out and scribbled over several times. When you produce an average of five tapes per week, organization takes a backseat. But Gnar Tapes isn’t just prolific: It’s also remarkably consistent. Beneath the tape hiss, the label’s banner acts—Unkle Funkle, the Memories and White Fang— display a ramshackle charm and erratic sense of melody. They’re all still weird as shit, but their warped lo-fi aesthetic is less a shield to hide shoddy songcraft

than it is a byproduct of the crew’s spastic work ethic. The label’s makeshift production technique allows them to literally do everything from the comfort of their own squat: put it on tape, sell it on the Web, move on to the next one. “We’re not really so much about sound quality,” Gage says. “We don’t really choose between lo-fi and hi-fi. It’s about songs. A song can be played a million different ways. Whole bands start from goofing around on tape, and they end up developing this voice they feel, this character.” “Addled punker” is Gage’s character when he’s fronting White Fang, arguably the most noteworthy branch of the Gnar Tapes family tree. Pitchfork gave the group’s 2011 album, Grateful to Shred, a positive review and dubbed the group “the boisterous beating heart of the Portland DIY punk scene.” In addition to getting the attention of the national blogosphere, White Fang also roped in Casey Gordon and Dan Stump, a pair of 21-year-old students from Brown University. After hearing a White Fang tape last summer, the duo was taken aback by the dissonance between the collective’s stoner aesthetic (including a cheap-looking website decorated with pot leaves and neon alien skulls) and its dedicated work ethic. Gordon and Stump pitched the idea of following the Gnar Tapes crew around for two months this summer, with the intent of filming a documentary about how the label pairs a once-abandoned analog recording format with modern digital networking techniques to spread ideas on the cheap. Brown, an Ivy League school, took the bait and awarded them

each a $4,000 Royce Fellowship to live in the Gnaria basement for two months. While other Royce fellows were conducting research to cure osteoarthritis and studying the art of female expatriates from World War II in Mexico, Gordon and Stump were sleeping on air mattresses in the bands’ basement practice space. To escape mold and two inches of standing water, the duo eventually abandoned their basement post and moved to a tent in the backyard. In the first month Gordon and Stump were there, Gnar released 20 tapes. “It’s an important thing they’re doing,” Gordon says. “I think it’s really admirable that it’s taken on as a community project or even a civic duty than a business plan. Someone has to carry the torch and be the mainstay of art in these places where labels aren’t going to do that most of the time. I think the blanket of encouragement you get from this scene is something you don’t get from a lot of other places.” Other labels are starting to take note of Gnar as well. “We love everything they do and how they do it,” said Sean Bohrman, co-founder of Orange County’s Burger Records, which has put out albums by the likes of Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and King Tuff. Burger and Gnar frequently share bands, personnel and tour routes, and have released more than 250 cassettes together since meeting through mutual friends in the Portland punk group Mean Jeans a few years back. “It’s very cool how they do everything in-house,” Bohrman says. “That’s a dream of ours that we haven’t achieved yet. They record it, dub it and sell it from Gnarnia. It never leaves the house.” Back at Gnarnia, the living room gradually fills with the rest of the crew, all dressed in what is best described as “ Sa lv at ion A r my ch ic ”: hec t a gon a l librarian glasses complete with beaded strap, a T-shirt with Super Mario World characters printed on it, a pair of red spandex shorts that likely have not seen a gym since the previous owner donated them in 1991. I ask if they hold down day jobs to keep their empire af loat. “No, man,” Gage replies, gesturing toward the stack of cardboard boxes. “We live meagerly and don’t ask for much, and we make enough money to pay for our weed and rent. We do what we need to do and put our money in the pot, and nobody is wanting. There’s always weed, always food, always electricity. We’ve all made promises to each other and we never lie, and it ’s never about the money. We never fight about girls, we never fight about any of that stuff. All the distractions and the things along the way—nothing is blocking our path. I guess it’s worth rolling the dice, because you can always go back to McDonald’s.” As I prepare to leave, a few more groggy band members trickle in, cereal bowls in hand. Gage asks me if I’d like to stick around and smoke a bowl, to which I decline. It’s 3:45, and I have to go to work. Then again, so do they. GO: Cassette Store Day is Saturday, Sept. 7. See wweek.com for a list of local events and a visual tour of Gnarnia.

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TOP FIVE MUST-SEE ACTS AT MUSICFESTNW Ryan White is the former music editor of The Oregonian. Titus Andronicus (9:30 pm Friday, Crystal Ballroom) In an alternate reality, Portlandia stars New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus, and the show’s title is taken from the title of a song on the band’s last album, “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus.” And every episode is a loud, sweaty, primal dance with fatalism. Superchunk (10:30 pm Friday, Crystal Ballroom) Because they put out a record called I Hate Music the same year the Replacements, who put out a song called “I Hate Music” in 1981, got back together. Because it’s Superchunk. And most of all, because seeing Superchunk means you get to watch Jon Wurster play drums. Unknown Mortal Orchestra (11 pm Friday, Branx) As evidenced by its Aladdin Theater show in April, Ruban Nielson’s onetime basement project is all grown up, and not just because he’s got a fog machine. Nielson and his band pack in festival-tested, big-stage chops. The prospect of that show in a smaller room is enticing. Cody Chesnutt (Midnight Friday, Doug Fir Lounge) Talking about “What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next),” from last year’s Landing on a Hundred, Chesnutt says, “We can sometimes become preoccupied with what’s cool and what’s trendy, and sometimes that can be a crutch.” Easy for him to say: He’s cool, and so is that record, packed full of horns, soul and strut. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (6:30 p.m. Saturday, Pioneer Courthouse Square) After recording and touring with Mirah, Thao Nguyen is back with her band, and a record, We the Common, filled with thoughts on the concept of community. The title track was written for a prisoner Nguyen met as a volunteer for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. If that sounds heavy, it is. But you can still dance to it. SEE IT: MusicfestNW continues through Sunday, Sept. 8. See musicfestnw.com for a complete schedule and ticket information.

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Portland hip-hop has always had a tough time getting respect. At one point in the 1990s, hip-hop acts were even banned from performing in downtown venues. This is a shame, because over the years, the local scene has produced a number of quality records, reflective of the beauty, pain and spirituality of life in the Rose City. Many of these albums now sit at the bottom of dusty bins at record stores around town. As the third annual Northwest Hip-Hop Festival kicks off this week, here is a short list of five lost Portland rap gems that deserve rediscovery. Grassrootz, Uncharted Regions (1995) In the ’90s, while the Jus’ Family crew represented Portland’s answer to California G-funk, local duo Grassrootz decided to go down a more conscious path. D-Wyze, the group’s producer, used dusty samples, distorted jazz loops and MPC drums to create beats more reminiscent of East Coast-style boom-bap, over which rapper L Pro displayed his verbal dexterity while dissecting larger social issues. They were the Pete Rock and CL Smooth of Stumptown, creating intellectually stimulating music with style. G -Ism and Cool Nutz, On a Mission (1998) There would be no Po r t l a n d h i p - h o p scene without Jus Fa m i l y R e c o r d s . Founded by veteran rapper Cool Nutz and producer Bosko— who has gone on to have a hand in a bevy of big hits, including Big Boi’s “Shutterbug”—the label put out a number of quality records in the ’90s mimicking the G-funk synths and fat basslines blowing up in the Bay Area at the time. On a Mission is perhaps the best example of the Jus Family sound. While technically the project of street-hop duo G-Ism, it was really Cool Nutz’s coming-out party. Rapping with a fiery aggression, he bodied every verse, spitting a mixture of gritty lyricism and personal storytelling. And the beats are absolute thumpers. Sadly, G-Ism’s Young Randall took his life shortly after the album’s release. Five Fingers of Funk, About Time (1998) For its final shows in the early 2000s, live rap band Five Fingers of Funk sold out two straight nights at the Crystal Ballroom. That gives you an idea of the following the group had. With its funk-derived grooves, big

horns, wobbly basslines and the rapping of lead MC Pete Miser, Five Fingers drew comparisons to the Roots, but these guys were putting out music before Questlove et al. were even signed. About Time, the band’s sophomore effort, was their opus: a funky slab of brass, DJ Chill’s turntablism and cool retrospection. Miser focused on the concept of the effect of time on relationships, no doubt a reference to the members moving in different directions.

Proz & Conz, Posanegavybe (1999) I still have no idea what this album’s title means—an acronym for women, weed and booze, perhaps. But I do know that Posangavybe was special for its summation of the simultaneous feelings of angst and joviality that come with growing up in Portland. Proz and Conz were a seven-member collective of students from Grant and Central Catholic high schools. Some MCs were more polished than others, but together they reflected a singular message that a lot of teens living in Portland can relate to: Despite its lovely attributes, living here is not always pretty, especially if you’re a kid from a low-income family. The group rapped about being black in a predominantly white town, adjusting to life on the streets and dealing with the pressures of growing older. They also rapped about weed—a lot. M a d g e s d i q, T h e Rebirth (2002) Antoine Stoudamire, cousin of former Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire, created a record perfectly suited for the quiet spirituality of Portland. Its songs, built on lush, sample-based production and Stoudamire’s gently gruff voice, formed a soundtrack attuned to the surrounding nature of the city—tunes to bump on a crisp fall day in Forest Park or a breezy summer afternoon on Sauvie Island. The album’s lyrics were uplifting without sounding too preachy, touching without sounding too corny.

SEE IT: Northwest Hip-Hop Fest 3, featuring Oldominion, Cool Nutz, Josh Martinez, Cassow and more, is at Ash Street Saloon (225 SW Ash St.) and Kelly’s Olympian (426 SW Washington St.) ThursdaySaturday, Sept. 5-7. 8 pm. 21+. See nwhiphopfest.com for ticket information. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 wweek.com

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY baroque pop act at midnight, you’ll be so drained you’ll feel as though you’ve just eaten a vomit-flavored jelly bean. But it will be so worth it. BRIAN PALMER. Multiple venues. See musicfestnw.com for schedule and information on how to purchase a wristband.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 6 OneRepublic, Sara Bareilles, Serena Ryder, Mark Alan

[SOFT COVERS] Just why did Ryan Tedder invite Sara Bareilles along as co-headliner on this tour? The OneRepublic frontman and ghostwriter to the stars surely knew the former “Love Song” chanteuse had another hit gestating in “Brave,” a power-piano-pop bumper sticker of anthemic treacle co-written by Fun-meister Jack Antonoff. But did he have enough industry nous to know Katy Perry’s summer jam “Roar” would be accused of aping Bareilles’ spring fling? More to the point, could he have presumed Taylor Swift would use a “Brave” duet as an excuse to troll Perry and inflame the interwebs? Did Tedder hope the ensuing controversy would dissuade critical appraisal of his middling stage presence, limited vocal range and remarkably dull body of work? Sara Bareilles, gone tomorrow, but OneRepublic might be a dangerous place to live. JAY HORTON. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6 pm. $39$68. All ages.

Underscore Orkestra

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[GYPSY JAZZ] Portland’s gypsymusic underworld has proven surprisingly fruitful and enduring, producing the acclaimed Three Leg Torso, among various other groups. But gypsy army Underscore Orkestra is an entirely different beast, mainly because the troupe

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manages an interesting compromise between caravan music and old-school Cab Calloway-style jazz. As belly dancers undulate, piccolo and accordions blare over decidedly Copacabana-inspired vocalization. It’s an immersive experience that opens the door into this mostly obscure genre, allowing you to become entranced before being inevitably pulled in. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 6 pm. Free. All ages.

MusicfestNW: Friday

[MFNW] Already bummed about missing MFNW bands due to schedule conflicts? Time to break out your Transverse Temporal Gyrus. That’s the name of the Animal Collective installation at the Guggenheim in 2010. Pick one up at the Pioneer Courthouse Square merch booth, and wave your temporal worries goodbye! (Author’s note: The TTG is neither tangible nor TSA-certified for time travel.) The device will really come in handy later in the evening, with post-rock pioneers Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Roseland, Superchunk at the Crystal, and Bonnie Prince Billy at the Aladdin, all playing their sets right around 10 pm. The indie-music gods have not completely frowned upon you, though: Washed Out, the South Carolina-based bliss-waver, is playing Mississippi Studios without much competition. Now, what to do with that Gyrus late in the evening, when shaking your drunken, carefree bottoms to Flume or Cody Chesnutt? Two words: beer bong. MITCH LILLIE. Multiple venues. See musicfest.com for schedule and information on how to purchase a wristband.

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MIC CHECK

BY MATTHEW SINGER

ANDREW W.K. ON PARTY FOULS Andrew W.K. is a head-banging philosopher, a paragon of positivity and a raging, sweaty, sometimes-bloody ball of light. He’s also a musician, though that’s the least interesting part of his personality. His glittery thrash-pop is just an outlet through which to bring his manifestos on the power of perpetual partying to vivid, raging life. (Which is probably the reason he hasn’t released a proper album since his 2009 collection of J-pop covers.) In an increasingly cynical world, the man is a beacon of unrelenting optimism. So we tried to get him to go negative for a moment. We asked W.K. about what he considers the worst party fouls one could commit. He gave us several responses, which you can read in full online, but ultimately, he decided just posing that question was the biggest faux pas of all. “Party foul No. 1 is just the idea of party fouls in general. If you’re truly in a party state-of-mind and enjoying yourself, you’re sort of invincible to the idea of fouls or insults or anyone taking away that party attitude you’ve developed. Certainly, fistfights, violence and just bad vibes can shut down a party. But if you’re really partying hard, I feel like you’re removed from the very idea of critical thought, in a good way. It’s a chance to be free of that kind of black-or-white thinking in general. Maybe what we thought of as a party foul could lead to something great. Who knows? Or maybe you’re just so out of your head with delight and joy no one can ever upset you, and at that moment, you’re invincible.” SEE IT: Andrew W.K. plays Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., with Sons of Huns and Black Snake, on Tuesday, Sept. 10. 7 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages. See wweek.com for more of Andrew W.K.’s ultimate party fouls.

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SATURDAY-TUESDAY/CLASSICAL, ETC.

CALL HIM THE LIBRARIAN: Lonnie Holley plays Crystal Ballroom on Wednesday, Sept. 4, as part of MusicfestNW.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 PDX Rockfest: Avenged Sevenfold, Device, Heaven’s Basement, Hell or Highwater, Mindset Evolution, Gemini Syndrome

[ENTER SOUNDSCAN] It’s been two years since KUFO’s annual metalpalooza relaunched itself under mission statement “Save the Rock,” an oddly desperate plea, given the target audience. Organizers couldn’t halt the format change of their former sponsor station, PDX Rockfest endures— just a bit north of what current branding suggests. If any act could galvanize a once-proud hesher nation, though, headliner Avenged Sevenfold seems the best bet in ages to dust off Metallica’s abandoned badge and clean up a stratified genre. The Huntington Beach boys’ just-released sixth album, Hail to the King, layers production gloss and infernal grandiosity atop the Hetfield blueprint for widescreen effect patently meant to raise the undead. There might be life in the old devil yet. JAY HORTON. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360816-7000. 4 pm. $43.35-$86.60. All ages.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 MusicfestNW: Sunday

[MFNW] This is the comedown day—the point in the festival when you either feel bone-tired and ready to curl up into a ball for 12 hours of sleep, or are so hooked on modern sounds you need just one…more… hit. Well, MFNW has both camps covered. You can finish off the weekend with a salve to the system: Neko Case, who brings her soaring, stirring voice to Pioneer Courthouse Square. Or you can rave against the dying of the light at the Crystal Ballroom with the spine-straightening bass drops and the Zappstyle synth breaks of Big Gigantic. ROBERT HAM. Multiple venues. See musicfesnw.com for schedule and information on how to purchase a wristband.

Adam Ant, Prima Donna

[NEW OLD ROMANCE] Adam Ant is the dandy highwayman your punk history’s too scared to mention. As with Billy Idol—another 100 Club survivor whose early ’80s ubiquity owes much to a strong profile, stronger lead guitarist and implicit understanding of the tongue buried in pierced cheeks—all awkward stabs at ’90s relevance have been removed from the permanent record. To ridicule his past few decades’ output or the now overly familiar outfits ignores all that was daft and glorious about Kings of the Wild Frontier, Prince Charming and Friend Or Foe. He’s hardly burnished that legacy, but after singularly hoisting a flag of towering élan above the silliness of political creeds or personal revelations only to see the battle won by the po-faced and puerile, what would you do? ’Tis Antmusic, after all. There needn’t

be someone inside. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25 general admission, $40 reserved balcony, $340 VIP balcony. 21+.

The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Festival: Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed and Cambria

[ALT-RAWK] No one is going to confuse something called the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival for an early ’90s Lollapalooza bill—no matter how many alt-era relics are actually on the bill. But in comparison to the “rock festival” happening a day earlier at the Sleep Country Amphitheater (see Saturday listings), this gathering of the mooks is a downright freak show. Sure, Alice in Chains lost its signature instrument when its original singer made good on all those heroin dirges and OD’d in 2002, and Perry Farrell hasn’t written a truly good song in over 20 years. But the former is still good for a dinosaur-blooz riff here and there, and the latter’s swinging, arty funk rock still rules, no matter how antiquated it gets or how much its members secretly hate one another. MATTHEW SINGER. Sleep Country Amphitheater, 17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash., 360816-7000. 2 pm. $19-199. All ages.

MONDAY, SEPT. 9 Shinyribs

[ROOTS] The tale of Kevin “Shinyribs” Russell isn’t particularly riveting or astonishing. It’s just a whimsical journey, featuring a guy who, quite frankly, just wanted to do something else. A founding member of the Gourds, the prominent Texasbred roots outfit, Russell eventually began performing solo under the moniker bestowed upon him by a transient woman. The singersongwriter’s rootsy sophomore LP, Gulf Coast Museum, gleans its inspiration from the states of the titular region. Songs like the saccharine “Sweet Potato” ring with Russell’s keen poetry, while others dabble in bayou country yodeling and ukulele-shaded ragtime. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Jimmy Cliff, Ethan Tucker

[REGGAE LION] In terms of bringing the sound of reggae to an international audience, nobody had a bigger impact than Bob Marley— but that was only after Jimmy Cliff helped pave the inroads. His starring role in the 1972 cult classic The Harder They Come, along with his stirring songs on the film’s magnificent soundtrack, presented to outsiders the image of an impoverished, gritty but nonetheless eminently soulful Jamaica, which opened the door for the acceptance of Marley’s righteous, hopeful vision of his home country. Tonight, as part of his Many Rivers Crossed tour, Cliff performs with a stripped-down backing band in a Storytellerslike format, discussing the history behind some of his greatest

songs—including, one assumes, “Many Rivers to Cross.” MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $39 advance, $40 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 10 Beth Orton

[FOLK] Before electro-folk existed, there was Beth Orton. Her work in the ’90s, a spirited blend of folk rock and electronic textures, paved the way for experimentation in the singer-songwriter genre. But after resurfacing last year with Sugaring Season, her first album in six years (recorded here in Portland), Orton has returned to her earthy, unplugged roots. While her visit falls within the same week as MFNW— whose lineup includes several artists who could have taken a page from Orton’s early songbook—expect this show to be a crowded celebration of mellow, classic folk. GRACE STAINBACK. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $30. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Aaron Meyer and Friends

[ROCK VIOLIN] Trained in classical music, Aaron Meyer still plays it as well as crossover pop in occasional guest gigs with the Oregon Symphony and other really big bands. But he’s better known for his sextet’s ’70s-style prog rock and guest appearances with Pink Martini, Everclear and other bigname pop bands. In this fundraiser for the innovative Portland Chamber Orchestra, Meyer will be joined by colleagues including guitarist-songwriter-producer Tim Ellis. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6:30 pm Monday, Sept. 9. $35. 21+.

Barra Brown, Vikesh Kapoor

[FOLKY JAZZ] Not content with his roles in the jazz ensemble the Wishermen and indie-folk band Alameda, the busy young drummercomposer, who also plays flute and guitar, has just issued one of the year’s most impressive Portland jazz releases, Songs for a Young Heart. It features recent New York transplant Tom Barber on trumpet, saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Jon Lakey and guitarist Adam Brock. While jazzheads will appreciate their improvisatory acumen, the Lewis & Clark alum and Alan Jones protégé’s folk background is reflected in the album’s memorable original melodies. But he’s also capable of surprises: a vocal coda here, a Debussy-inspired ballad there. Like those other Portland-bred jazzers Blue Cranes and Esperanza Spalding, Brown stands a real chance of breaking out of the jazz bubble and reaching much broader audiences. BRETT CAMPBELL. Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St. 8 pm Tuesday Sept. 10. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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THE NOTED

FREE LIVE PERFORMANCE SUNDAY 9/8 @ 3 PM The Noted is a soft-rock original band based out of Portland. Their music is most often compared to Collective Soul, Colin Hay, Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and many other amazing artists.

SHINYRIBS

FREE LIVE PERFORMANCE MONDAY, 9/9 @ 5:30 PM Shinyribs is the musical wanderings of Kevin Russell from The Gourds. A noticeable progression in quality has been evident in his recordings and shows with this group since he began it back in 2008.

AMANDA SHIRES

WEDNESDAY 9/11 @ 6 PM Just in case the title alone wasn’t a dead give away, Amanda Shires’ Down Fell the Doves is not a record for the faint of heart, faith or spirit. “I always hate giving things away, because I like it when people can hear a song and make their own stories,” says Shires about her latest album.

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2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Paul Basile

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Lynn Conover, Gravel

Alhambra Theatre

3939 N Mississippi Ave. MFNW: Ra Ra Riot, Hands, Sun Angle, HOTT MT

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

Pioneer Courthouse Square

701 SW 6th Ave. MFNW: Young the Giant, Youth Lagoon, Pacific Air

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: The Joy Formidable, On An On, Lost Lander

Secret Society Ballroom

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Heliogoats

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MFNW: Justin Townes Earle, Hiss Golden Messenger

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Downfall of Gaia, Black Table, Chasma

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. MFNW: Deerhunter, Lonnie Holley

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. MFNW: Murder By Death, Larry and His Flask, the 4onthefloor

Doug Fir Lounge

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Tim Hammer, Katie Rose Leon, Stephanie Purtle, Dan Weber, Philip Schallberger

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Northern Draw, Valvoline, Deaed Language, Studenets

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Mandi Rae, the Barkers

Lents Commons

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Radical Revolution

830 E Burnside St. MFNW: The Baseball Project, Fred and Toody Cole, Richmond Fontaine, Eyelids

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings East

Mississippi Studios

1706 E Burnside St. Brad Parsons

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Dark Matter Transfer, the Real

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. MFNW: Grieves, TxE, Chill Crew, G_Force

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. The Albertans, the Cabin Project, Tiburon, Catherine Feeny

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D 3939 N Mississippi Ave. MFNW: Gold Fields, Rush Midnight, Honeymoon, Mackintosh Braun

Revival Drum Shop 1465 NE Prescott St. Alyssa Reed-Stuewe, Amenta Abioto

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: Chvrches, XXYYXX

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Richard Smith, Everything’s Jake

Shaker and Vine

1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore and Dave Frishberg

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Karen Overton

Jack London Bar

1033 NW 16th Ave. Greedy Mouth, I Have No Friends

529 SW 4th Ave. Proper Movement Drums and Bass

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet

Slabtown

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

The Conga Club

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 Curley Taylor

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Condition, Hoax, KL’ubb

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Brass Confidential

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Erotic City

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Quiet!, Brad Creel and the Reel Deel

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: K. Flay, Sirah

Thurs. Sept 5 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MFNW: Bonnie Prince Billy, Mt. Eerie

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Liz Longley, Craig Carothers

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rising Buffalo Tribe, Arden Park Roots, Roots Renewal System

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. NW Hip Hop Fest: Scratch DJs, Soopah Eype, Kinetic Emcees, Big Bang, Lucas Dix, Gepetto, Masta X-Kid, Saint Warhead, cray, Diction, Cali Ca$h, oso negro, Woodgrain, DMLH, Abadawn

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. MFNW: !!!, Royal Canoe, Minden

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. MFNW: The Love Language, Houndstooth, Prism Tats

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St.

MFNW: Fred Armisen, Ian Rubbish

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. MFNW: The Men, Bleached, Hausu, Broncho

Din Din Supper Club 920 NE Glisan St. The Late Now

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. MFNW: Bob Mould, John Vanderslice, Kris Orlowski

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Tough Lovepyle

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Heavy Metal Nights: DJ Haggard, DJ Chainsaw

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Beat Salad: Olde Toby

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. MFNW: Baroness, Royal Thunder

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. MFNW: Tobacco, Magic Fades, Portia, Bruxa

Jack London Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Affable Gentlemen

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Elie Charpentier

Jimmy Mak’s

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

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pat Buckley

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. NW Hip Hop Fest

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Lindseys, Polst, MuhammadAli, Lee Corey Oswald

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. The Breaking, Felicia and the Dinosaur, Jon Ransom, Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Alberta Street Public House

Mission Theater and Pub

Mississippi Studios

Kells

3000 NE Alberta St. Mycle Wastman, Matt Brown & the Connection, Sara Jackson Holman

1036 NE Alberta St. Eric John Kaiser, Hold For Django, Billy D and the Hoodoo

1624 NW Glisan St. Opus Orange

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Alberta Rose Theatre

McMenamins’ Kennedy School 5736 NE 33rd Ave. Brownish Black

clap your hands say yeah: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down at Jackpot Records in February. The band plays Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday, Sept. 7, as part of MusicfestNW.

MFNW: Bonnie Prince Billy, Mt. Eerie

116 NE Russell St. Soulshake with the Soultans, the Supraphonics

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Whitfield Fahrenheit and the Doomsday Trio, EverSo-Android, the Marvins

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler Trio

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway ABBA

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. NW Hip Hop Fest: Josh Martinez, Evil Ebenezer, Th3rdZ, Mosley Wotta

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. MFNW: Fidlar, Mean Jeans, Youthbitch

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Jonathan Trawick, Aarun Carter, Abram Rosenthal

Biddy McGraw’s

Sellwood Public House

6000 NE Glisan St. Manimalhouse, Lynn Conover

Slabtown

7901 SE Stark St. David Friesen

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

320 SE 2nd Ave. MFNW: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, the We Shared Milk

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

1033 NW 16th Ave. Queer Aggression Night: Screaming Queens, Lunch Lady, Labryse, DJ Crybaby 8635 N Lombard St. The High Crest

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: Austra, Diana, Vice Device

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Toyboat toyboat toyboat, Nathan Junior, Brother Elf

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. MFNW: Typhoon, Like a Villain

Bipartisan Cafe

Branx

Buffalo Gap Eatery and Saloon 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Josh Damigo, Megan Wade

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. MFNW: Frank Fairfield, Hurray For The Riff Raff, the Lonesome Billies

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Andre St. James, Stu Cook

Tiger Bar

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Tin Shed Garden Cafe

Crystal Ballroom

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell 1438 NE Alberta St. Padam Padam

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Arden Park Roots, Rising Buffalo Tribe, Roots Renewal System, Chris Couch

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change

West Cafe

1201 SW Jefferson St. Alan Jones Academy Jazz Jam

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Leftover Cuties, Will West

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: Diplo, RL Grime

Fri. Sept. 6 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Heliogoats

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Starr 1332 W Burnside St. MFNW: Superchunk, Titus Andronicus, Naomi Punk

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. MFNW: Ty Segall, Mike Donovan, Old Light, La Luz

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. MFNW: Cody ChesnuTT, Crushed Out, Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas, Bear Mountain

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Southern Hospitality, the Hamdogs

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Matt Boney Band, Ancient Eden, Walkfast, Supercrow, Very Little Daylight

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Amber Harlan Granmo

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. MFNW: Saves The Day, Into It. Over It., Hostage Calm

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. MFNW: FRESH.: Prefuse 73, Natasha Kmeto, The Great Mundane, Braxton Palmer

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Valdez/Iago Jazz Quintet

Jade Lounge

MFNW: Surfer Blood, AgesandAges, Wild Ones, Holiday Friends

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne This Fair City, SLOWtheIMPACT

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Erotic City (Prince tribute), Sugar Tits

2346 SE Ankeny St. The Ink-Noise Review, Curtis B. Whitecarroll, Alison Wesley and Helen Chaya

The Old Church

Katie O’Briens

71 SW 2nd Ave. Sugarcookie

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Boats!, the Bloodtypes

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. NW Hip Hop Fest

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Hey Lover, Lost Boy, The Gutters

Landmark Saloon

1422 SW 11th Ave. MFNW: Typhoon, Neal Morgan

Thirsty Lion

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Folsom, Jokers Red Lipstick, Ian and the Crushers

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. MFNW: Brian Posehn, Sons of Huns

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: Flume, Shlohmo

Sat. Sept. 7

4847 SE Division St. Get Rhythm, Ron Rodgers and the Wailing Wind

Aladdin Theater

LaurelThirst

Alberta Rose Theatre

2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps, Tree Frogs

3000 NE Alberta St. Live Wire! Radio

McMenamins Edgefield

Alhambra Theatre

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale OneRepublic, Sara Bareilles, Serena Ryder, Mark Alan

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Krista Herring

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Underscore Orkestra

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. MFNW: Washed Out, LE1F, Shy Girls, LARRY G(EE)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Spodee-Os

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Oregon Zoo

4001 SW Canyon Road The Doobie Brothers

Original Halibut’s II

2527 NE Alberta St. Alan Hager, Katy Angel

Pioneer Courthouse Square

701 SW 6th Ave. MFNW: Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, HAERTS

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. A Happy Death, (((boing)))

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gate

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Red Jacket Mine, Star Anna, Shane Tutmarc, Dominic Castillo

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Camping in a Cadillac

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Whiskey’s Lament, the Knuckles, the Chancers

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. MFNW: The Helio Sequence, 1939 Ensemble

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jet Life

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. NW Hip Hop Fest: Oldominion, Bad Habitat, Rafael Vigilantics, the Resistance, Chill Crew

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. MFNW: Team Dresch, the Pynnacles, Sad Horse

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. MFNW: Beat Connection, Odesza, Most Custom

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. MFNW: Sonny and the Sunsets, Love as Laughter, Lonnie Winn

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. MFNW: Charles Bradley, Shuggie Otis, Morning Ritual

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. MFNW: The Bronx, White Lung, Bison Bison, Gaytheist

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. MFNW: Radiation City, Chet Faker, Onuinu, Phone Call

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Barbara Healey and Groove Too

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Thundering Asteroids, the Tanked (9 pm); Drunk Dad, Rabbits, Big Black Cloud, Towers (3 pm)

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Full Funkal Nerdity

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Tezeta Band

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. MFNW: P.O.S., Shad, the Chicarones

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave.

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Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Desu Mali, Karyn Anne, Becca Schultz

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. MFNW: The Thermals, Tree, the Woolen Men, Los Colognes (9 pm); Radiation City, Magic Mouth, aan, The Parson Red Heads, Tiburon (12 pm)

Muddy Rudder Public House

8105 SE 7th Ave. Dan McCoy

Pioneer Courthouse Square

PARALLEL DIMENSION: “A sober club? Is that when they cut you off at two drinks?” It’s a question that was repeated in various forms by several bystanders outside 4th Dimension Sober Club (2410 N Mississippi Ave., 4thdimensionsoberclub.org) as they walked past the crowd of 100-plus on a recent Friday night. Just to clarify: Alcohol is not served at 4th Dimension. The hangout spot fills a gaping hole within Portland’s recovery community. I found myself asking the obvious: What is there to do if you don’t spend Friday nights drinking craft beers at bars? Well, the Sober Club has some answers. For starters, grape slushies and Red Bull. The club has a concession stand that serves everything you might expect to find at a high-school volleyball match. Bob Marley’s “One Love” blasted from two speakers, and a teenager shot pool with his mother. Men in jeans and button-downs played three-on-three basketball, and other men played pinball or pingpong. Yes, there are lots of men. “That’s mainly who attends these things,” said a 20year-old who preferred not to be named. Indeed, the founders of 4th Dimension Sober Club have created a place reminiscent of a teenage basement hangout. The sober club is located across the street from Widmer Brothers Brewery and shares a parking lot with Oregon’s Finest, a medical marijuana dispensary. Multiple patrons see the location, within smelling distance of intoxicating substances, as essential to their recovery. “It’s symbolic of our struggle,” says one regular. “I find it’s good to form our community in these places. Just so we know what we can deal with.” The 4th Dimension believes that everyone wants—and needs— a night out with friends. Grape slushies certainly help. But you’ll have to get the attention of the cashier first. He’s flirting with a girl next to the basketball court. JOE DONOVAN. Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Progodich Quartet

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Atomic Junkyard, Symptoms

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Grafton Street

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St.

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Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Pirate Radio, The Triple Sixes, Stumblebum, Darlin Brothers

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale

The Fashion Nuggets, the Student Loan

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. MFNW: Dirtclodfight, Yob

Wilshire Tavern

4052 NE 42nd Ave. Shirefest II: Almost Dark, LPS, William Ingrid, Dramady, Zouaves, RLLRBLL

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: Glass Candy, Chromatics

SUN. SEPT. 8

701 SW 6th Ave. MFNW: The Head and the Heart, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Deep Sea Diver

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Roseland Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Vader, Vital Remains, Sacrificial Slaughter, Execration, Extremely Rotten, Omnihilty, Truculence

8 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Earth

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Shelter Red, Bearcubbin’, Gldwng

SE Wine Collective 2425 SE 35th Place Sanju

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Ever So Android, the West, the Vandies

Sleep Country Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. PDX Rockfest: Avenged Sevenfold, Device, Heaven’s Basement, Hell or Highwater, Mindset Evolution, Gemini Syndrome

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. MFNW: The Dodos, Bleeding Rainbow, Queen Kwon

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Brazilian Independence Day Party: Bloco Alegria, DJ Digo

The Know

303 SW 12th Ave. Dylan Johnson

Alhambra Theatre

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Vandies, Amy Bleu, the Want Ads

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Roots Sunday: Jack DeVille

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. MFNW: Big Gigantic, Ill-esha

Fontaine Bleau

237 NE Broadway Pa’lante

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Nemesis, Betrayed By Weakness, Element A440, Black Hare, Bloodoath, Between Chaos And Creation, Ghost Town Grey, Ocean of Mirrors, Drainage X, Simon Says Die

2026 NE Alberta St. Wimps, Fine Pets, Therapists

Kells

The Old Church

LaurelThirst

1422 SW 11th Ave. MFNW: Horse Feathers, Angel Olsen

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. MFNW: Eidolons, Animal Eyes

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.

112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross 2958 NE Glisan St. Harold’s IGA, Freak Mountain Ramblers

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Tai Shan

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Irish Sundays

Mississippi Pizza

Vocalist’s Jazz and Blues Jam: Joe Millward

White Eagle Saloon

Dante’s

Wonder Ballroom

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Rabid Wombat, Malachi Graham

Doug Fir Lounge

Mississippi Studios

Duff’s Garage

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Billions And Billions, Palo Verde, Lunch

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. The Noted

Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. MFNW: Neko Case, Pickwick, the Moondoggies

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Adam Ant, Prima Donna

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Rakehell, Go Pills, Grand Style Orchestra

Sleep Country Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Festival: Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Coheed and Cambria

The Conga Club

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

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Shelley Segal, Dave Edwards

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Jim Creek, Dryland Farmers

MON. SEPT. 9 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Dylan Johnson

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Karma, Chris Baron

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Preservation, Tiburona, Spirit Lake

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave.

830 E Burnside St. Shinyribs

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie and the Sidecars

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Metal Monday: DJ Shreddy Krueger

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Salon De Musique: Jaime Leopold

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Dave Ross

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Groovy Wallpaper, the Adequates

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Steve Poltz

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Shinyribs

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Desecrator

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto Project

The Elixir Lab

2738 NE Alberta St. Moonshine Monday: Michael the Blind

The Know

836 N Russell St. Josh Cole

128 NE Russell St. Jimmy Cliff, Ethan Tucker

TUES. SEPT. 10 Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Beth Orton

Alhambra Theatre 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Here Come Dots, Books on Fate

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Souvenir Driver, Psychomagic

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Hurry Up!, Hornet Leg

Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings East 1706 E Burnside St. Kellen Asebroek

Habesha

801 NE Broadway Experimental Portland Presents: Son Fish, Ethereal and the Queer Show, Eyes Wings and Many Other Things, Lily Taylor

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Andrew WK, Sons of Huns, Black Snake

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Dani and Deborah Gurgel Quartet

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Northstar Session

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

2026 NE Alberta St. Honduran, Hoopsnake, Die Like Gentlemen

The Elixir Lab

Valentine’s

The Know

232 SW Ankeny St. Unicorn Domination, Argon Cowboy, Scorpion Warrior

2738 NE Alberta St. Skidmore Bluffs 2026 NE Alberta St. Cumstain, Pookie and the Poodles, Memories

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Sat & Sun, Sept 7 & 8 Noon-5 p.m., Mark Building portlandartmuseum.org

WELL-SUITED: Diplo spins at Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, Sept. 5, as part of MusicfestNW. Sugar Town Queer Soul Shindig: DJ Action Slacks, DJ Freaky Outty

The Analog

720 SE Hawthorne Jai-Ho

The Conga Club

WED. SEPT. 4

FRI. SEPT. 6

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club

Beech St. Parlor

832 SE Grand Ave. Salsa: DJ Alberton

Beech St. Parlor

412 NE Beech St. Pattern and Shape

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Champagne Jam

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Sex Life DJs, Ms. Wriff

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto and Friends

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Epor

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

Star Bar

Rotture

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Boom

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

The Lovecraft

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

THURS. SEPT. 5 Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Hans Lauder

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Studyhall: DJ Suga Shane

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Marti

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Community Library DJs: DJ Brokenwindow, Strategy

1332 W Burnside St. 80s Video Dance Attack 315 SE 3rd Ave. Shutup&dance

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Uncontrollable Urge: DJ Paultimore

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion: DJ Curatrix, DJ Wednesday

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. L-Vis 1990, Massacooramaan, Ben Tactic B2B Lincolnup, SPF666 B2B Commune

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: Flume, Shlohmo

SAT. SEPT. 7 Beech St. Parlor

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid

The Rose

111 SW Ash St. Blackout: Michael Gabriel, Justin Monroe, Clay Watkins, KingFader

SUN. SEPT. 8 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. The Man in Black Pajamas

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St. The Pearly Gates: DJ Freaky Outty

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. The Bobcat

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Ol’Sippy

MON. SEPT. 9 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. DJ Tim Parasitic

Beech St. Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ PRGMTC

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Henry Dark

Dig a Pony

412 NE Beech St. DJ Survival Sklz

736 SE Grand Ave. Oliver

Berbati’s

The Lovecraft

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Mellow Cee

Club 21

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

Dig a Pony

Beech St. Parlor

421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJ Kenny, John and Skip

Ground Kontrol

Berbati’s

The Rose

Holocene

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Barrett

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag: DJ Bruce LaBruiser

The Lovecraft

111 SW Ash St. Folding | Space: Mark E. Quark, Jacaranda, David Solmes, Simon Howlett, Micah McNelly

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Gareth Emery, Eddie Pitzul, Tourmaline

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. MFNW: Diplo, RL Grime

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Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz

412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Suite 102 Tropical Saturday Salsa

2035 NE Glisan St. Bicephonics: DJ Rema, DJ Anna 736 SE Grand Ave. Maxamillion 511 NW Couch St. DJ Etbonz 1001 SE Morrison St. MFNW: Booty Bassment: Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit, Ryan & Dimitri

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

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave.

TUES. SEPT. 10 412 NE Beech St. Jason Urick

231 SW Ankeny St. Soundstation Tuesdays: DJ Instigatah, Snackmaster DJ

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Tango Tuesday

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Sweet Jimmy T

Eagle Portland

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Scary Jerry

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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 Big Meal

Though he made his local directorial debut last spring, Dámaso Rodriguez has now officially taken the reins as artistic director of Artists Rep, and he helms this production of Dan LeFranc’s multi-generational saga of love, partnership, child-rearing and lots and lots of family meals. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through Oct. 6. $25-$55.

Chicago

The touring Broadway production of the long-running show makes a weeklong stop in Portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm WednesdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 4-8. $36.35-$83.90.

Cinnamon and Cigarettes

[NEW REVIEW] A one-woman show performed by Jenny Newbry and codirected by Asae Dean and Cassie Greer, Cinnamon and Cigarettes is a tribute to Jeremy, Newbry’s childhood friend-cum-truckstop sweetheart. After reading aloud a newspaper story telling of a cryptic death, Newbry is on her knees playing two 8-yearolds. Jeremy explains, excitedly and with unbridled energy, how to eat the gooseberries that grow in his backyard. It’s the Hallmark card preface to their first kiss of three. Later, as a teenager, Jeremy’s lips taste like cinnamon and cigarettes, and gradually the play’s focus emerges not as romance but as Jeremy’s decline from wild child to too-cool teen punk to homeless wastoid. Newbry jumps, judges, shouts and mumbles in manic, uncanny form as she takes on the identities of Jeremy, herself, their mothers and a host of other characters. Her vocal abilities—Newbry sings a few Nine Inch Nails songs and does a lovely Midwestern mom—perfectly complement her steadfast, heartfelt portrayal of the numerous characters. But Newbry also knows when to step aside, and she does so gracefully, letting the story of a boy gone astray take center stage. MITCH LILLIE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Sept. 7 and 3 pm Sunday, Sept. 7. $10.

Comedie of Errors

The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival sets its shows outside, with minimal rehearsal, plentiful audience interaction and actors who switch roles for each performance. Shakespeare’s tale of mistaken identities is a perfect fit for OPS Fest, and this adaptation flourishes as the actors improvise their way through bawdy humor and mixups. JOE DONOVAN. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Various Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 29; see opsfest. org for exact times and dates. Free.

The Fantasticks

Hillsboro’s HART Theatre opens its season with one of Broadway’s longest-running musicals, about two fathers who pretend to feud in order to convince their kids to fall in love. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., 693-7815. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Sept. 22. $17.

Julius Caesar

Post Five Theatre’s production of Julius Caesar ditches the togas for hoodies and spray paint, and the heavily graffitied setting feels more like Bosnia circa 1993 than it does ancient Rome. Slimmed down to about 90 minutes, director Ty Boice has taken heavy liberties with the original material. As fake blood flies, the kids in the audience seem to enjoy learning that it’s all right to murder poli-

ticians you don’t agree with, just as long as you say it’s for the good of the country. RICHARD GRUNERT. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Sept. 29. “Pay what you can.”

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Triangle Productions presents the 1992 musical about two South American cellmates—a Marxist revolutionary and a gay window dresser who spends his time fantasizing about his favorite vampy movie star. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays (no show Sept. 8) through Sept. 29. $15-$35.

The Mountaintop

The 32-year-old playwright Katori Hall has been hailed as a luminary, but her work has also been the subject of sharp criticism. The Mountaintop, her 2009 two-hander, made Londoners drool and won the Olivier Award for best new play, but when it hopped the pond and opened on Broadway, some American critics likened it to a cross between a Tony Kushner play and a Tyler Perry movie. Set in Memphis’ Lorraine Motel the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the surrealistic one-act play imagines a conversation between King and a young hotel maid. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm alternating Saturdays and Sundays, and noon Thursdays through Oct. 27. $40-$55.

NT Live: The Audience

After a successful run earlier this year, the NT Live series—which brings highdef broadcasts from London’s National Theatre to screens across the country—brings back Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth in Peter Morgan’s supersmash hit. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 7-8. $15-$20.

Nighthawks

Push Leg’s first production was Camille Cettina’s solo show Mr. Darcy Dreamboat, a delightful and emotionally rich celebration of literary crushes. Now comes the company’s second performance, an original ensemble work inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper that merges physical theater, clowning and dance. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays and 2 pm Sunday, Sept. 15. Through Sept. 21. $15-$18.

Spamalot

The popular musical comedy, which riffs on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, makes its Portland premiere at Lakewood. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and some Sundays; 2 pm Sundays through Oct. 13. $36.

COMEDY Anon & On & On...

Shakespeare-inspired improv from a capable cast. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 7. $10-$12.

Big Brother League

[NEW REVIEW] Like devotees of bass fishing or string-band music, improv aficionados apply their own peculiar set of standards rather counterintuitive to traditional theatrical criticism, and the sheer professionalism of the Unscriptables’ newest pop-culture pastiche, Big Brother League, arouses more than a few murmured grumblings from the faithful. Performances begin with costumed cast members explaining the central conceit (an odd assemblage of comic-book icons picked to

live in a house and have their lives fauxtaped for TV), re-enacting previous moments, and begging the crowds to yell out types of awful roommates (the pothead, the clean freak, the compulsive masturbator). Yet, even as the troupe takes audience suggestions to flesh out a vaguely episodic structure, the production hardly feels like proper improv. Jokes crackle with brevity and precision. The staging, particularly the Real World-style “confessional” monologues, preserves a delicate illusion of scattershot editing with measured grace. The nuanced characterizations relish subtlety. Not all dramatic choices are wholly successful—interpreting Supergirl as a semi-retarded Minnesotan, say—but there is a bravura rendition of Hulk-asLouis C.K. that recalls John Belushi’s green-skinned lout. Even if the thoughtfulness of approach and ease of execution argue against strict spontaneity, improv comedy demands the same suspension of disbelief as reality programming or caped crusaders. Stop worrying about just when the jokes were first conceived, and for a blissful hour, you’ll believe that dialogue can fly. JAY HORTON. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7:30 pm Saturdays through Sept. 28. $10; Aug. 24 and 31 “pay what you want.”

front of its light gray granite before the suits move in. Heidi Duckler, a Portlandborn choreographer who’s been living in Los Angeles, is big on site-specific dance; she previously did shows at the Reed College Performing Arts Building and on the roof of the Twelve West Building. The U.S. Custom House was built in 1901 as a place to do the paperwork for imports and exports. Most recently, it was the set of the police station for Grimm. In this performance, which Duckler calls Something to Declare, she wants to “awaken the site’s long-standing structural, cultural and historical memory.” Custom House, 220 NW 8th Ave. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 6-7. $25.

Spy vs. Spy: Belly Dance and Burlesque Showcase

In this world, someone who is a belly dancer and a burlesque per-

former is apparently a double agent. Performers of both crafts do their thing. Lineup includes the Infamous Nina Nightshade, Endymienne, Jasmine Rain, Erika Ryn, Fleur De Sel and Gypsy. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 7. $10. 21+.

Turn Back Time: A Burlesque Cher Tribute

Oo-oo-ooh, it’s a Cher-themed burlesque show! Zora Phoenix is giving her monthly variety show a strong dose of the Dark Lady. Ten performers will take the stage to the diva’s signature tracks. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 8. $10. 21+.

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PERFORMANCE

Camp Spectravagasm

Sketch comedy from Post5 Theatre that promises to lampoon local theater. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Sept. 7. “Pay what you can.”

Chris Fairbanks

The comic, who’s appeared on Last Comic Standing and serves as Fuel TV’s action sports correspondent, takes the Helium stage. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Sept. 5-7. $15-$25.

A NEW LEAF: Lindsey Matheis hopes to strike gold.

Curious Comedy Cover Show

Curious Comedy sets out to challenge Christopher Hitchens’ claim that women aren’t funny with a sketch revue paying tribute to female comics of the past and present. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Oct. 12. $12-$15.

The Late Now

Part variety show and part talk show— its organizers call it “inclusive ludic subversion”—The Late Now is a tough beast to categorize. Tonight’s event, timed to catch First Thursday gadflies after Pearl District galleries close, features photographer Holly Andres, opera singer Caitlin Mathes, banjoplaying balladeers Three for Silver and choreographer Linda Austin. They’ll talk, they’ll perform, there will be booze. Din Din Supper Club, 920 NE Glisan St., 544-1350. 8:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 5. $5-$15 sliding scale.

Lily Tomlin

The comedic legend, whose career has taken her across heaps of stages and screens, spends an evening at the Schnitz. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Sept. 7. $53-$100.

DANCE BodyVox Free Dance Day

BodyVox’s annual day of free dance classes includes lessons in ballet and modern dance for kids and adults. Space is limited. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 8:30 am Saturday, Sept. 7. Free.

Boyeurism

Portland’s man stripper duo Esequiel and Isaiah Tillman top the bill in this monthly male revue. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 10 pm Wednesday, Sept. 4. $10-$15. 21+.

Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre

When the historic U.S. Custom House was successfully auctioned off last year to become office space, dreams of the building becoming anything cool or exciting were essentially squashed. But the building has a last hurrah in it, as dancers are going to leap and twirl in

ALCHEMY (LINDSEY MATHEIS) Lindsey Matheis is trying to reinvent the way Portland does dance—at least this weekend. That she’s attempting it at all is surprising, considering her quiet, agreeable manner. “It’s not really like me to do this kind of show,” Matheis acknowledges. In Alchemy, the second show the 24-year-old Northwest Dance Project member has independently produced, Matheis is doing away with some dance-show trademarks. No more Muzak as you sit quietly, waiting for the performance to begin. Instead, Matheis has a pre-show, in which dancers are already performing in the middle of the studio as you arrive. And no sitting in neat, straight lines—the audience is arranged in a circle surrounding the dance floor. This is part of Matheis’ strategy of breaking dance’s fourth wall. She thinks Portlanders just aren’t that interested in dance—not to the degree they’re into music, anyway—because dance is missing something concerts have: connection. At a concert, you can bum-rush the stage, touch a performer, maybe snag a guitar pick. At a dance concert, that doesn’t happen. Maybe it’s an age thing. Portland is a young city, and perhaps young people don’t like dance. In an attempt to change that, Matheis has instructed five Portlandarea choreographers—all in their 20s—to interact with the audience. In Matheis’ piece, for example, audience members will help dancers find a lost item (she won’t divulge what, but I bet it has something to do with a briefcase). Another choreographer, Chris Peddecord (who is Matheis’ boyfriend), has told one of his dancers to hand someone a party hat. It all sounds great, especially given that some contemporary dance can get snoozy. But it’s debatable whether Matheis is shaking it up enough. Goodness knows she’s trying: She chose young, risk-friendly choreographers whom she’s pushing to the creative brink, but will a couple of props and a bit of flirting with the audience create droves of new dance fans? Moreover, can Matheis reinvent dance without dumbing it down? The dancers in this show are some of the best in the city; she says she won’t let them “come on stage, eat an ice cream cone and then leave.” If the experiment works, Matheis will do it again. If it doesn’t, wait 30 years and check back. AARON SPENCER.

Dance dance revolution.

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

Alfred Harris: Hope and Glory

German-born, Seattle-based artist Alfred Harris makes his sixth solo outing at Froelick with Hope and Glory, a suite of mixed-media paintings that pivot between structure and chaos. These enigmatic paintings are abstract but suggestive, with an undergirding of geometry beneath snaking curves in acid hues and turquoise. Harris selectively distresses the surfaces, evoking scraped house paint or the sides of derelict buildings. Through Sept. 28. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

Clifford Rainey: In the Beginning Was Black

After a year of harrowing personal losses, Clifford Rainey transmuted grief into a suite of mournful but gorgeous glass and mixed-media sculptures. The show’s iconic work, Mourner, is a 2-foot-high stylization of the Grim Reaper. The sculpture depicts only the figure’s black robe; there is nothing inside except empty space and shadow. It’s a powerful piece, impeccably executed, deeply unsettling. Through Nov. 2. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Frances Stark: My Best Thing

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emerging artists across a wide array of media, including video, installation, and performance art. The gallery-inaugurating show is by Los Angeles-based artist Frances Stark. Watch this space in future issues for our take on how effectively the gallery meets its ambitious goals. Sept. 5-28. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

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.

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 promises to number among the most memorable Portland installations of the year. Through Sept. 12. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996.

Matt Cosby: Immaculate Confection

To call Matt Cosby’s new paintings “eye candy” would be redundant. Their subject matter is candy: looping ribbons of bubble gum, circus peanuts lined up side by side and round bonbons that look like scattered flower petals. Cosby takes the confectionary conceit further by layering his acrylic paint atop shiny aluminum, then topping the whole thing off with a glossy resin finish, like a glaze atop a German torte. The M.C. Escher-like illusionism of these repeated candy forms are a feast for the eyes—and for the mind’s mouth. Through Sept. 28. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

PDX Rocks

For the group show PDX Rocks, 30 local artists created artworks the size of a vinyl LP. Each piece references some aspect of Portland life. The connection in some paintings is tenuous, others more obvious: goats, indie bands, ironic 1970s haircuts and such. On the whole it’s an invigorating exhibition at this Northeast Alberta Street gallery and gift shop, which features work by self-taught, Outsider and lowbrow artists. Through Sept. 22. Screaming Sky Gallery, 2025 NE Alberta St., 922-1500.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4 Radical Mycology Workshop

The mighty mushroom is more than just a tasty food or Burning Man party favor. Fungi could actually teach us how to live in balance with the ecosystem, especially in a changing climate. Peter McCoy, cofounder of the Radical Mycology project and author of the Radical Mycology zine, will discuss the lessons to be learned from the fungal kingdom. Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10th Ave., 236-2893. 6 pm. $5.

Brian Michael Bendis

For more than a decade, Brian Michael Bendis has been one of Marvel’s most popular writers, creating titles like House of M and Secret Invasion, and winning multiple Eisner Awards. Now releasing X-Men: Battle of the Atom No. 1, Bendis will make his only appearance this year for a Q&A and signing. Joining him will be fellow writer Michael Avon Oeming and noted artist David Marquez. Things From Another World, 2916 NE Broadway St., 284-4693. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 5 Atheneum Faculty Reading

Each year the Attic Institute hosts the Atheneum Master Writing Program to offer personal teaching and public readings to a select group of fellows to help seed the literary community in Portland. Members of the astoundingly talented faculty will gather for a reading of their work to give an inside look at the program. Included in the lineup are David Biespiel, Karen Karbo, Lee Montgomery, Wendy Willis, Merridawn Duckler and Greg Robillard. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 6 John Trudell

Native American poet, musician and activist John Trudell, who cofounded Hempstead Project Heart with Willie Nelson to raise awareness about the benefits of legalizing industrial hemp, will give a talk on the subject and read a selection of his poetry. Because industrial hemp could change the world…but first let’s have a snack. Knacka, 7824 SW 35th Ave., 267-3224. 8 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 7 The Dancer Diaries

Local author and filmmaker Andy Norris’ new novel, The Dancer Diaries, is about four strippers and a bouncer who all work in the same Portland club. So it only makes sense to celebrate the release of the book by having local strippers read selections from it, and then strip. It’s meta-stripping. Famed local performer Viva Las Vegas will also read from her memoir, Magic Gardens, and the short film Do You Want Me to Stay? about lap dancing will be screened. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 8 pm. $20. 21+.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 8 Indigenous Poetry

Chicano educator and poet Michael Berton (Man! You Script the Mic) will join Native American poets Luke Warm Water from Oakland and local musician and poet Trevino Brings Plenty. The trio will share selections of their work in a round-robin poetry exchange. Afru Gallery, 534 SE Oak St., 915-7301. 4-6 pm. Free.

Davy Rothbart

Co-creator of Found magazine, Davy Rothbart has found many interesting and bizarre things, except love. In a series of essays in the vein of David Sedaris and Sloane Crosley, Rothbart details his humorous misfortune in a string of endlessly unrequited loves with his new book, My Heart Is an Idiot. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, SEPT. 9 Authors in Pubs

Two years ago this month, the Authors in Pubs reading series began coaxing local writers onstage with the promise of alcohol to share their work, often for the first time, with a jovial, non-judgmental crowd. The proud tradition continues with a dozen writers each month sharing their original writing. This month’s

featured author is John Labovitz. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7-9:30 pm. Free. 21+.

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Portland’s Slabtown

You can’t call yourself a true Portlander until you know the origin story of at least one of the city’s numerous neighborhoods. The northwest part of town was once dense forest populated by Native Americans and Chinese farmers. But it became Slabtown in the 1870s when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. Authors Mike Ryerson and Norm Gholston will talk about the transformation of the unique neighborhood, described in their new book, Portland’s Slabtown. Multnomah County Library—Northwest Branch, 2300 NW Thurman St., 988-5560. 6:30 pm. Free.

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DANNY BLAND, IN CASE WE DIE Pool. Sports. Beer. Pizza. Pinball. If you were to ask Danny Bland what being a junkie musician in early ’90s Seattle was all about, you’d probably get an earful. Having logged time as the bassist of Cat Butt and the Dwarves, as well as countless miles road-managing the likes of Dave Alvin, Greg Dulli, and Mark Lanegan, one can assume Bland has more than a few perChokin’ on the ashes of sonal accounts of rock-’n’-roll her enemy… neurosis to share. So when I finished perusing the jacket notes and figured out his literary debut was a novel, In Case We Die (Fantagraphics, 240 pages, $26.99), I was deeply curious and slightly annoyed. Fiction? Why? Bland tells the story of Charlie, an endearing 28-year-old with a leather jacket and a heroin problem. As far as vicarious retellings of lives once lived, Charlie’s profession as third-shift manager of the Champ Arcade—an all-hours jack shack serving as the nucleus of Seattle’s lascivious underbelly—dovetails nicely with Bland’s real-life résumé. Genuinely hilarious stories of smut and shame set in the aisles and viewing booths of Charlie’s place of employment punch up a plot line that would otherwise be doomed for destitution. Fiction or not, this is a story about a junkie in pre-grunge boom Seattle. It will not end well. The format gives Bland some wiggle room when it comes to piling on characters we can only imagine he wishes he met when he, not Charlie, was trolling the streets of Seattle in a stupor some two decades ago. There’s Carrie, the scenester girlfriend whose flippant attitude toward her inevitable suicide (“Not today,” Charlie tells her every morning) serves more as a melodramatic foil than a legitimate concern for the reader. There’s Kelly, Charlie’s plan B, who shoehorns our protagonist into the hysteria of a crime spree even he knows is bad news. Throw in Otis the Magical Negro with a secret who diligently mops the spunk-crusted floors of the Champ Arcade every morning, and you’ve got a recipe for bad news. Bland has walked the walk, shot the smack and peeled his heart off the floor more times than we’ll ever learn from his character’s two-dimensional tribulations. Truth can be stranger than fiction, but this book seems to exist because it’s just not as sad. PETE COTTELL.

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20 Feet From Stardom

A- Life is unfair, and the music indus-

try is worse. If there were a rubric to figure out what makes one performer a household name and the other just another name in the liner notes, the history of pop would read much differently. Turning the spotlight on several career backup singers, Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom shows, with great warmth and color, what it might sound like. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

C+ Ain’t Them Bodies Saints wants to be murky and oblique. I wanted to rewind it. Not for its dusky visuals or folksy dialogue—I wanted to re-see scenes so shrouded in darkness that I could barely make out the characters’ faces. With Ain’t Them Bodies, writer-director David Lowery has made a mahogany-tinged, neo-noir Western set in an arid Texas of the 1970s. But in striving for moody melodrama, he’s forgotten to keep his actors’ faces (and their dialogue) discernible. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.

Best of the NW Animation Festival

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Twelve animated shorts from around the world, as selected by attendees of last spring’s NW Animation Festival. Subject matter includes, but is not limited to: a thief who eats paintings, a trigonometryloving dinosaur and a bus driver who is aroused by traffic and fantasizes about her passengers. Hollywood. 7 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

Bike-In Movie

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] For the 10th year running, the Hawthorne Hostel screens a movie celebrating cycling and bike travel. Up tonight is Riding North, centering on an arduous one-month trek from the Yukon to the Northwest Territories. The free event also includes a barbecue dinner and entertainment by a gypsy swing band. Hawthorne Hostel, 3031 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 6 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

Blackfish

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 billiondollar 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. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters.

Blue Jasmine

B Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine cannot

reconcile its broad comedy and pathos into coherence, but all the more impressive, then, that Sally Hawkins’ and Cate Blanchett’s twinned performances still manage to pick up most of the pieces. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Eastport, Clackamas.

The Breakfast Club

[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] They just don’t make Saturday detention like they used to. R. Academy.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

A [TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters is the movie that imagines Americans as we want to imagine ourselves, then allows that idealized version of us to meet something like the romantic

sublime. Big words, sure, but not for nothing did Spielberg cast François Truffaut as the scientist who introduces the Other to the everyman. PG. AARON MESH. Hollywood. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 7-8.

Closed Circuit

C+ British thriller Closed Circuit opens with a frightening image that’s become all too familiar: A grid of security camera footage fills the screen, allowing us glimpses of people going about their lives in a London marketplace. Then, suddenly, there’s an explosion, turning all screens gray with dust. Director John Crowley’s paranoid thriller seems ripped from recent headlines. Except Crowley’s film doesn’t address anything particularly new or relevant. Sure, Closed Circuit seems like it’s responding to the National Security Agency scandal and the Boston Marathon bombings, but—unless it’s the most rapidly completed studio film in history—what we have here is a standard conspiracy film released at just the right time. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas.

Despicable Me 2

C 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 superspy league for the flimsiest of reasons, arrives packed with exposition and shorn of coherency. PG. JAY HORTON. Eastport, Clackamas.

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STALKING A STALKER A CRUMMY 12 HOURS SPENT IN FRONT OF SOME PHONY’S HOUSE. BY PETE COTTELL

Elysium

B+ Neill Blomkamp’s sophomore film 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. Below, on Earth, the abandoned residents of Los Angeles languish in a dreamily intricate slum. Blomkamp’s cinematic vision may be stunning, but Elysium’s plot and characters are pure Hollywood camp. But goddamn if it isn’t good, solid, hardworking Hollywood camp. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove.

The General

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL, LIVE ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT] Before Grimm and Leverage—hell, well before The Goonies—this 1926 flick was filmed in Oregon, apparently with the most expensive scene ever shot in a silent movie (a train diving into a river). As that locomotive was plunging underwater, the Hollywood Theatre was being built. Tonight, to celebrate that movie house’s new marquee, it’ll screen The General with live organ accompaniment by Portland native Dean Lemire. Hollywood. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 5.

Getaway

D Welcome to Bulgaria, where

NASCAR drivers gone bad hire out their services to criminals, anonymous super-criminals rob investment banks, Justin Bieber’s ex-girlfriend carjacks Mustangs and a police car flips over dramatically every three minutes. Little more than a 90-minute chase scene, Getaway is targeted directly at the Fast & Furious crowd, but it has only one expensive car to smash up instead of many dozen. When former racecar driver Brent Magna’s (Ethan Hawke) wife is kidnapped (on Christmas!), Magna has to drive a nameless villain’s car on a rampage through the Bulgarian capital, following orders if he ever wants to see his wife again. Along the way, Magna is joined by a teenage girl known only as “The Kid” (Selena Gomez), a tech genius who waves guns around and routinely hacks into government computer networks from her iPad. Hawke spends the entire movie sitting in a car and screaming at

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Around my fourth hour of staring at a nondescript ranch house in the foothills of Mount Tabor, my mind begins to wander. My laptop picks up an errant Wi-Fi signal from one of the neighborhood’s many modest homes, so I do some Googling. I type in “Michael McDermott,” the name of the guy who lives in the house where I’ve been parked, in my creepy gray van, since 7 am. A page of results about a Chicago-based folkrocker floods my screen. I’m not here for a musician’s autograph, so I tack “jd salinger” on the end of my query. I’m led to the website for Salinger, the forthcoming film about the later years of the notoriously reclusive author. The trailer opens with McDermott—the photographer, not the folk singer—re-enacting a 1979 assignment from Newsweek that led him to a post office in Windsor, Vt. That’s where he’d learned that Salinger, an old man who just wanted to be left alone and write without having to publish, picked up his mail. McDermott persisted for two days, eventually snapping one of the last known photos of the literary great. This is my guy. Michael McDermott, the stalker. McDermott moved to Portland 15 years ago and now makes videos for Oregon Health and Science University and the University of Oregon. Maybe you’ve seen his viral video “Call Me a Duck.” Now I am following him, with the intent of taking his picture—hopefully grimacing and swinging his fist. With Salinger back in the news, and rumors swirling about the impending publication of several posthumous novels, there’s been renewed interest in McDermott’s photo. He figures prominently in the trailer and recently got full feature treatment in The Oregonian. And he’s still trying to turn a profit from a picture of an old man with his mail. “After three decades, the release of the documentary inspired me to make this historic photograph available to the public,” reads a post on the Facebook page McDermott erected to promote limited-edition prints of the photograph he’s selling. “It has been painstakingly reproduced using a process that is worthy of this extraordinary image.”

I am being paid considerably less to take McDermott’s photo. The afternoon sun bakes my van like a convection oven. I take off my shirt and pop open the windows to create some airflow. I try to act normal as a young couple walks by with a pair of poodles, only to realize this may be impossible when you’re sitting shirtless and sweaty in a van. With two used Hondas in what my research suggests is his driveway, I wonder just how busy McDermott has kept. Is this a sign he’s home? Each time a neighbor jogs by or slams a car door, I poke my head through the blinds like a nervous groundhog. My senses are heightened to the point of paranoia. I begin to admire McDermott’s resilience as I wonder if there’s a better way of going about this. McDermott must have brought snacks: It’s close to 7 pm and I’m famished. Can I get pizza delivered to a van in the street? Wait a second…

MY SENSES ARE HEIGHTENED ²TO THE POINT OF PARANOIA. My new plan: smoke him out by sending a pizza guy to his house. I dial Domino’s, give them McDermott’s address and ponder the two outcomes of this brilliant idea. Either he answers the door and I get the photo, or I intercept a pizza when the driver realizes no one is home. I focus my camera as the driver, a standardissue fat guy with acne and a shitty car from the ’90s, bangs on the front door. After three minutes he gives up and looks around in a daze. I swing open the van door, which leaves him rightfully dumbfounded. Here’s a sweaty, shirtless guy pouncing out of a van with a camera in one hand and a credit card in the other, claiming he picked this house, at random, to get a pizza sent to the van he lives in. He hands me the pizza with a sidelong glance. The sun creeps behind the McDermott residence and I realize my window of opportunity is about to close. While eating my pizza I find the eBay page McDermott created to sell prints of the infamous photograph. The price? $7,500. I hope he sells a ton, because his lawn looks like shit. SEE IT: Salinger is rated PG-13. It opens Friday, Sept. 13. See Michael Nordine’s capsule review on page 49, and a full version at wweek.com. Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 wweek.com

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the dashboard phone, yet he’s surprisingly effective. Gomez, on the other hand, radiates boredom and angst as she delivers semi-memorable lines like “I’ve got a lot of money, you know.” As the villain, Jon Voight spends the majority of the film as a mysterious voice, and fittingly we see nothing but an extreme close-up of his lips as he eats olives and sips vodka. For the undiscriminating car buff, this film could be a dripping, sugary fix. For everyone else, it’s a long and vapid advertisement for iPads and expensive cars. PG-13. RICHARD GRUNERT. Eastport, Clackamas.

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The Grandmaster

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imbue mundane events with as much majesty and grace as Wong Kar-wai, so when news broke about his long-awaited story of Ip Man—still best remembered as the martial-arts expert who trained Bruce Lee—it appeared as though we were in for a rare treat. But The Grandmaster takes too little time to cover too many events. Wong is a master of small, melancholy moments that appear to contain all the beauty and sadness of the world, a strength The Grandmaster plays to only rarely. MICHAEL NORDINE. Eastport, Clackamas.

The Harder They Come

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Seriously, we’d go to this movie blindfolded just to listen to its phenomenal soundtrack. But then we’d miss Jimmy Cliff’s impeccable style, which wouldn’t be sweet and dandy at all. R. Hollywood. 7:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 8.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Archival video footage and photography of gospel, blues and folk musicians (including the Carter Family, Abner Jay and the Georgia Sea Island Singers), drawn from Mississippi Records and the Alan Lomax Archive. Hollywood. 7:30 pm Monday, Sept. 9.

In a World...

B+ Lake Bell is on a crusade

against “sexy baby voice.” For those unfamiliar with this obnoxious tic, imagine if Betty Boop incorporated some of Ke$ha’s vocal fry—that low, guttural vibration—and ended every sentence as if it were a question. That’s Bell’s pet peeve, and she lampoons it to pitch-perfect effect in In a World…, which she wrote, directed, produced and stars in. But as funny as that sendup is, it’s still far from the best thing in the film, which takes us into the idiosyncratic and competitive realm of voice-over artists. Bell plays Carol, an aspiring voice-over artist who ends up vying for work on the trailers for an action “quadrilogy,” a hilarious Hunger Games-style spoof. The movie is overstuffed, but its unassuming tone, its generosity of spirit, and Bell’s skillful performance redeem the uneven pacing and bumpy storytelling. But most of all, In a World… succeeds for the way it calls bullshit on Hollywood’s gender dynamics and the dreck that passes for feminist cinema. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Kick-Ass 2

C- Despite all the limbs snapped in Kick-Ass 2, it’s ultimately the shoddy filmmaking that leaves you wincing. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Eastport.

The Kings of Summer

B+ Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’

playful debut feature follows three boys who ditch their parents, unannounced, to build a house. It’s an impressive but whimsical palace of pilfered planks, an indoor slide and a Porta-Potty front door. The premise may be absurd, but everything else in The Kings of Summer is unapologetically genuine. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Kung Fu Theater: Return of the Chinese Boxer

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The rest of the film’s synopsis is pretty much unintelligible, but there are some kung fu zombies. Hollywood. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Sept. 10.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

D It isn’t hard to see why Lee Daniels wanted to tell this story, which is based (very) loosely on truth. It’s kind of irresistible: A black White House butler, Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), serves closely with every U.S. president during the civil rights era and lives to be invited back to the White House by Barack Obama. The film’s full title is Lee Daniels’ The Butler, and the subject of the movie doesn’t matter, because Lee Daniels has decided that Lee Daniels is going to make you cry, and he’s going to hit you over the head until you do. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove.

The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

B [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Growing up anywhere is difficult, yet it’s nearly impossible to watch The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear and not feel a heightened sense of pity for the young people of the nation of Georgia. But that reaction, however instinctual, feels unfair and unjustified. It’s also beside the point of Tinatin Gurchiani’s simple yet robust documentary, in which a handful of Georgian citizens ranging in age from 13 to 25 are interviewed about their lives, with the director often following her subjects home. From a 13-year-old who splits his time between going to school, working in a potato field and caring for his ailing father to a young girl who wades deep into the marshes to fish while contemplating her abandonment by her mother, the film paints what initially appears a dire picture. The camera lingers on seemingly ancient buildings, dank farmland and decimated postwar villages that still feel the reverberations of the Soviet era. But this isn’t a film designed to make viewers feel pity. It’s a portrait of life that most don’t understand, a look at a changing country punctuated with moments of elation and hope. To an outsider, many of the stories seem harsh. A closer look reveals they’re really stories about perseverance and making the most of what you’ve got. AP KRYZA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm FridaySunday, Sept. 6-8.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The final installment of Brew Masterpiece Theater, a collaboration between the Hollywood Theatre and Burnside Brewing, brings the Aussie road warrior onto a 16-foot screen in the brewery’s parking lot. PG-13. Burnside Brewing, 701 E Burnside St. 8 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

Monsters University

B Monsters University takes us back to Mike and Sulley’s college years—it’s an old formula, but the film somehow captures the giddy ups and miserable downs of entering your first year of college. G. KAITIE TODD. Bagdad, Cornelius, Kennedy School.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

D+ Cassandra Clare’s bestselling series of young-adult novels, The Mortal Instruments, cribs liberally from Harry Potter in telling the story of a nonmagical girl who discovers she really is magical. But the books are decidedly original compared to Harald Zwart’s adaptation of the first novel, City of Bones, which steals elements of Potter and throws in some Buffy,

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Museum Hours

A- Museum Hours might be Jem Cohen’s first narrative feature, but it nonetheless carries shades of his career as documentarian: Cohen set up his cameras unobtrusively in an art museum in Vienna, so his fictional characters must interact with a living world. Non-actor Bobby Sommer plays a museum security guard who befriends a Canadian woman (musician Mary Margaret O’Hara) stranded in Vienna by a friend’s illness; Cohen uses the protagonists’ unusual bond to explore our intense relationship with art and its role as balm, company and incitement. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

the one holding the shovel—than in providing any genuine insight. Instead of investigating the disparity between our deified image of Salinger and the reality presented by the unearthed material, Salinger is a voyeuristic assemblage of anecdotes and previously unseen photos. The fact that Salinger fervently rejected the claim that he was a “seer” who could solve his readers’ problems, for instance, is relegated to an afterthought. Had Salerno wrestled with this idea directly, it

might have helped make sense of his years-long endeavor. The prospect of being made privy to all this is tantalizing—and the reveal that five new books are on the way is certainly a dramatic one—but absorbing it proves disenchanting. PG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Opens Friday, Sept. 13.

Spark: A Burning Man Story

C Casual observers might think

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Blade II and Twilight for the hell of it. Yet fun is one thing Zwart forgot to steal from all of those superior works. Say what you will about 50 Shades of Grey, perhaps the most famous fan-fic of all. At least it knew how to titillate, and its whips weren’t even electric. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove.

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One Direction: This Is Us

B+ Victory laps in big-screen form are becoming the norm for the popmusic world, with superstars like Katy Perry and Justin Bieber blazing multimillion-dollar trails. So, it should come as little surprise that U.K. sensation One Direction was next in line for a glitzy combination of concert film and tour documentary. Instead, the surprise is how ridiculously enjoyable this whole publicity stunt manages to be. ROBERT HAM. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius.

Out of Sight

[ONE WEEK ONLY] Not every filmmaker could bring the work of recently departed crime novelist Elmore Leonard to the screen, but Steven Soderbergh pulled it off in this oh-so-slick 1998 movie starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. R. Laurelhurst.

Pacific Rim

A- Pacific Rim is like getting

punched in the face with a fist full of bombastic, childish, escapist bliss. PG-13. AP KRYZA. St. Johns.

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

C- Percy Jackson’s opening installment strolled onscreen in 2010, presuming itself the rightful heir to Harry Potter’s throne. Returning duly humbled and considerably scaleddown, this second chapter has a mechanical bull seemingly ripped from Guillermo del Toro’s sketchbook and a cheeky Nathan Fillion cameo. But such glimmers of life are snuffed out by leaden storytelling and insipid humor. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Eastport, Clackamas, Forest.

Planes

B+ Planes is a straightforward lark

about a plucky crop-duster afraid of heights who manages to qualify for a round-the-world race. PG. JAY HORTON. Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove.

Riddick

Vin Diesel battles aliens. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Michael Nordine’s review at wweek.com. R. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Salinger

C+ It probably goes without saying

that J.D. Salinger, who spent the last four decades of his life avoiding the public eye, would be appalled at the very idea of Shane Salerno’s new documentary about him. Fans of the media-averse author of The Catcher in the Rye will be even more conflicted: The film is exhaustively researched in a way that’s not only revealing but invasive, as Salerno is often more interested in digging up dirt—and gaining credit for being

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As far as cougars go, Naomi Watts and Robin Wright are pretty choice. Both radiant blondes, they’re as tanned and toned as West Hills moms who spend their days taking spin classes at the Multnomah Athletic Club and shopping for organic grapefruit at Strohecker’s. Their characters in Adore, a willfully ludicrous yet ultimately unsatisfying film, live in palatial seafront properties on an Edenic stretch of Australia’s east coast. One’s a widow; the other is essentially single, with her husband off teaching in Sydney. Their much younger lovers aren’t bad either—they’re surfers, also tanned and toned and evidently averse to the feel of fabric against their perfect chests. One has brooding eyes and a mop of dark hair, the other angsty eyes and a mop of blond hair. Watts’ and Wright’s characters are lifelong best friends, as are their Adonis-like lovers. There’s just one hitch: This ménage à quatre is made up of two sets of mothers and sons in pseudo-incestuous pairs. The arrangement is both deeply icky and thoroughly implausible, and Anne Fontaine’s Adore (based on a short story by Doris Lessing, written when the author was in her 80s) unfolds in an eerily detached, foreordained manner. Watts and Wright play women so close to each other, both in terms of appearance and disposition, that others mistake them for a lesbian couple. They’ve raised their sons—who both have threeletter names and are easily confused—together. But when one son makes a move on the other’s mom, the opposing son retaliates with his own cougar revenge sex. Yet no friction arises. “I don’t want to stop,” Watts says to Wright, in a sterling example of the screenplay’s consistently on-the-nose dialogue. “I don’t see why we have to.” The boys have a meaningless scuffle in the surf, proof that they’ve still got some neurological development to go before they catch up with their mums. So the relationships don’t stop, in large part because both must continue in order for the greater dynamic to be sustained. But when some more age-appropriate lasses get tossed into the mix, Adore sloughs off the opportunity to say anything about intergenerational relationships, opting instead for very pretty scenes of very pretty people in very pretty settings. It also doesn’t bother to examine the psychological impact of each relationship’s end. It can’t, in fact, because it never considered what each woman got out of the romance in the first place (regular orgasms and male attention aside). Watts’ and Wright’s skillfully nuanced performances prevent the whole affair from plunging into absurdist farce, but their characters are too narcissistic and detached to actually be interesting. There are times when behaving badly is the right thing to do. Adore is not one of those times. REBECCA JACOBSON. C SEE IT: Adore is rated R. It opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.

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THE MACHINE Photo caption WHICH tk MAKES EVERYTHING DISAPPEAR of Burning Man as an anti-corporate freedom fest. Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter’s documentary quashes that perspective, showing how a loosely organized bohemian gathering where people fired guns from the beds of pickup trucks has morphed into a $300-per-ticket rave for investment bankers on acid. It seems even anarchic conventions have become bureaucratic. But Brown and Deeter lose hold of this compelling thread, opting instead for pretty, PR-minded imagery. The first half of Spark follows the planning of the 2012 event, tracing three artists struggling to finish their works before the event begins. A Gulf War veteran, for example, races to finish a giant wooden replica of Wall Street he will ceremonially burn at the end of the festival. Yet Spark doesn’t ask how the current festival seems to pander to the precise people the original event was protesting. It doesn’t help, moreover, that detractors such as co-founder John Law—who resigned in protest when the planning committee went corporate—are presented like crazy kooks. RICHARD GRUNERT. Cinema 21.

The Spectacular Now

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a male voice-over lamenting a recent breakup. That’s the same way (500) Days of Summer—the previous film from screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber—began, but here the narration comes courtesy of high-school senior Sutter (Miles Teller). This hard-drinking bro just wants to have fun, and he’s down about losing his ex. You half expect a manic pixie dream girl to come along and school Sutter on being real. So that Sutter befriends and then falls for off-the-radar Aimee (Shailene Woodley) feels all the more refreshing. R. KRISTI MITSUDA. Living Room Theaters.

Specticast Concert Series: Led Zeppelin

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A recording of a 2007 Led Zeppelin concert played in high-def and with surround sound. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 5.

Summer of Chris Freeman

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] For the last three months, local filmmaker Chris Freeman made a daily video of himself doing something social. (There’s also a clip of a passport being eaten by a dog, which doesn’t strike us as particularly cordial.) Today, he’ll screen as many of those videos as the six-hour time slot will allow. Clinton Street Theater. 11 am-5 pm Saturday, Sept. 7.

Swing Time

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers escape their own weddings to be with each other. Rescheduled from last week as part of the NW Film Center’s Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series. Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. 8 pm Thursday, Sept. 5.

Touchy Feely

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the rom-com vibe of its title lets on. Rosemarie DeWitt plays Abby, a masseuse who becomes inexplicably averse to physical contact of any kind, throwing her personal and professional endeavors into upheaval. Lynn Shelton’s film is fascinated by the healing power of touch, showing itself in extreme close-ups on Abby’s hands, which apparently are the crux of her deep-seated ennui, and a subplot in which her uptight brother (Josh Pais) gets into reiki. There’s never any doubt that Abby and those closest to her are having a rough go of things, but neither does Shelton ever investigate, much less explain, the source of this communal woe. Instead, our attachment to Shelton’s characters comes from the cast’s ability to silently express what her underwritten script can’t be bothered to convey. There’s a lot to admire on the surface of Touchy Feely—the performances are exceptional all around, and Shelton’s direction and aesthetic are both pleasantly free-wheeling—but its minimal resolution feels rushed and unearned. This is a heartfelt affair that cares a great deal about its characters, but there’s no reason so many strong components should add up to so little. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago

C+ Watching Walking the Camino, I was reminded of George Carlin expressing his frustration about the existence of a magazine called Walking: “What are the articles about? Putting one foot in front of the other?” Now we get a documentary about walking, covering the journeys of six strangers from around the world embarking on a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain. Local director Lydia Smith objectively examines their treks with a tone that’s intensely spiritual but not preachy, and the countryside backdrop is gorgeous. There are some surprises along the way, like a Danish woman who starts the journey strictly to be alone, but ends up in a romantic relationship with a Canadian man 10 years her junior. But Smith has selected subjects whose motivations are mostly mystical, and their New Age lingo— “finding oneself” and “bringing God along for the ride”—becomes wearisome. Some viewers might find that appealing. Others, meanwhile, will be counting down how many kilometers are left to Santiago whenever the Indiana Jones-style maps show up. OKTAY EGE KOZAK. Hollywood.

We’re the Millers

B- Up until now, I only tolerated Jennifer Aniston. She’s the vanilla ice cream of the cinematic world. 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 squeakyclean 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. R. EMILY JENSEN. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove.

The Wolverine

B For fans, this is the Wolverine

movie they’ve been waiting for: It’s basically a high-budget take on an old-school samurai flick, with Wolverine as the ronin. And it’s as awesome as it sounds. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas.

Women’s Edge Film Series: Tomboys! Feisty Girls and Spirited Women

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The monthly series continues with a 2004 documentary about tomboys who’ve resisted being tamed into docile women. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, Sept. 10.

The World’s End

B+ Hyperkinetic director Edgar

Wright’s previous collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost— Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz— share the same DNA, and not just in the surface-value genre-mashing that makes the films both disarmingly hysterical and unexpectedly touching. The team explores the fears of men who were once the boys weaned on these very genres: abandonment, uncertainty of the future, the inability to grow up, and, chiefly, the increasing inability to deal with hangovers. Wright, Pegg and Frost have rounded out what is the trilogy with The World’s End, a film that dives deep into the fractured friendship of a group of small-town pals drawn back home to re-attempt the Golden Mile, a 12-stop pub crawl that bested them two decades before. Tempers flare, painful memories resurface, regrets are aired and friendships are laid bare. It’s kind of like The Big Chill, but without the heavy-handedness. And with a legion of murderous, body-snatching robots disguised as the townfolk and bent on taking over the universe. Yet The World’s End is the most straightforward, accessible and morose of the three. It’s a strange approach for a movie about a robot invasion, but a perfect way to cap such a wonderful series: As soon as the credits roll, fans have to face the fact that this tremendous series is over. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius.

You’re Next

B- For every surprisingly decent horror film there are a dozen disappointments, and the former are so rare that they become cause for celebration. Adam Wingard’s You’re Next seeks to be such a film. Centering on a family reunion gone horribly awry, the film believes that the only thing more terrifying than a home invasion is a home invasion carried out by people wearing spooky masks. But its promising (and, at times, even enthralling) first half gives way to a second act that’s ultimately more interested in showcasing increasingly ghoulish methods of dispatching unsuspecting victims than it is in maintaining suspense. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove.

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QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS: People have been trying to figure out 20-somethings 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. In one of the loveliest moments, David Bowie’s “Modern Love” plays as Frances spins through the streets. Backpack bouncing, floral-print dress cutting a contrast with the crosswalk striping, she’s every bit the emerging adult: aimless yet hopeful, self-absorbed yet in wide-eyed awe at the big, beautiful world. REBECCA JACOBSON. Playing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: 10 Barrel Swill. Also playing: The Breakfast Club (Academy), Pacific Rim (Hollywood). Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:45, 04:30, 07:15, 10:00 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 INSIDIOUS DOUBLE FEATURE

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his most renowned poem, “Spiritual Canticle.” Does that provide you with any inspiration, Libra? I’ll make a wild guess and speculate that maybe you’re in a tough situation yourself right now. It’s not even one percent as tough as St. John’s, though. If he could squeeze some brilliance out of his predicament, you can, too. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The American naturalist John Burroughs (1837-1921) traveled widely and wrote 23 books. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,” he testified, “all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” Let’s make that longing for abundance serve as your rallying cry during the next two weeks, Scorpio. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have a cosmic mandate to push to the limits -- and sometimes beyond -- as you satisfy your quest to be, see, and do everything you love to be, see, and do. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Punk icon Henry Rollins did an interview with Marilyn Manson, rock and roll’s master of the grotesque. It’s on Youtube. The comments section beneath the video are rife with spite and bile directed toward Manson, driving one fan to defend her hero. “I love Marilyn Manson so much that I could puke rainbows,” she testified. I think you will need to tap into that kind of love in the coming days, Sagittarius: fierce, intense, and devotional, and yet also playful, funny, and exhilarating. You don’t necessarily have to puke rainbows, however. Maybe you could merely spit them. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you want to know a secret, I talk less crazy to you Capricorns than I do to the other signs. I tone down my wild-eyed, goddessdrunk shape-shifting a bit. I rarely exhort you to don an animal costume and dance with the fairy folk in the woods, and I think the last time I suggested that you fall in love with an alien, angel, or deity was . . . never. So what’s my problem? Don’t you feel taboo urges and illicit impulses now and then? Isn’t it true that like everyone else, you periodically need to slip away from your habitual grooves and tamper with the conventional wisdom? Of course you do. Which is why I hereby repeal my excessive caution. Get out there, Capricorn, and be as uninhibited as you dare. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany’s Ostwall Museum displayed a conceptual installation by the artist Martin Kippenberger. Valued at $1.1 million, it was called “When It Starts Dripping from the Ceiling.” Part of it was composed of a rubber tub that was painted to appear as if it had once held dirty rainwater. One night while the museum was closed, a new janitor came in to tidy up the premises. While performing her tasks, she scrubbed the rubber tub until it was “clean,” thereby damaging the art. Let this be a cautionary tale, Aquarius. It’s important for you to appreciate and learn from the messy stuff in your life -- even admire its artistry -- and not just assume it all needs to be scoured and disinfected. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel White Oleander, Janet Fitch suggests that beauty is something to be used, “like a hammer or a key.” That’s your assignment, Pisces. Find practical ways to make your beauty work for you. For example, invoke it to help you win friends and influence people. Put it into action to drum up new opportunities and hunt down provocative invitations. And don’t tell me you possess insufficient beauty to accomplish these things. I guarantee you that you have more than enough. To understand why I’m so sure, you may have to shed some ugly definitions of beauty you’ve unconsciously absorbed from our warped culture.

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