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INBOX OUR ENDORSEMENTS

Thank you, WW, for your unbiased endorsement of Jason Conger in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. He did beat a Democratic incumbent in Bend for state representative, which says something. The interview you wrote about shows that Dr. Monica Wehby is better suited for neurosurgery than politics.

—“MiHarp”

I always rely on reading WW and then making the right decision by voting exactly the opposite of their endorsements. Looks like that’s a good strategy yet again.

—“James Hedman”

Vote “yes” for the water district [Measure 26-156]. There has to be some sort of accountability for gross mismanagement. “They’ll do better next time” hasn’t worked for decades now.

They never get it.

WW, see your own article on the Bureau of Environmental Services’ new Taj Mahal [“Space of Waste,” WW, April 30, 2014]. If you don’t have the courage to back up your convictions, you are just talkers.

—“Phinny”

I wanted to say thanks for the thorough endorsements and explanations [“Don’t Piss It Away,” WW, April 30, 2014]. I’m relatively new to Portland (three years) and appreciate that you discussed all the candidates and gave some political history for background.

—“Melinda Hasting”

It sounds like you guys weren’t at the rally where City Commissioner Dan Saltzman called for removing the state’s minimum-wage preemption, after Nicholas Caleb pointed out that the City Council could direct the city’s lobbyists to push for that.

Maybe you should’ve checked Saltzman’s website instead of pretending that didn’t happen so you could make a weak argument for endorsing him.

—“Paul Cone” Sorry, WW, but I’m voting Caleb for the City Council. Portland’s had enough of that corporate-owned politician, Saltzman.

—“Tommy Murray” If you and your paper are endorsing those who only agree with your liberal, anti-American agenda, and anyone with a brain gives any credence to it, we will have even more idiots like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and President Obama running this country into the ground.

—“msfaye56”

My Voters’ Pamphlet lists only one Democratic candidate for governor.

However, my primary ballot has two candidates listed. For U.S. senator, the pamphlet has one candidate and the ballot has three. Is this a conspiracy?

—Vexed Voter Le sigh. I’ll explain, but I’d much rather be thinking about my latest invention. It’s a piñata shaped like Jesus, except when you hit it, communion wafers come out. Easter will never be the same!

(And if you think that’s the most sacrilegious thing you’ve ever heard, you’ve clearly never listened to the Elton John song, “Don’t Let the Son Go Down on Me.”) Soon the Jesus Piñata™ (“A festive twist on the Eucharist!”) will make me so rich the only questions I’ll have to answer will be along the lines of “Where do you want this pallet of cocaine-infused White Castle burgers?” But for now, I’m still on the hook.

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Good job, WW! I will be voting “no” on Measure 26-156. The backers of this measure want to cover up the facts by getting folks emotional and angry. A typical Republican strategy.

—“Itsybitsyme” I tried to read your articles, but all I saw was “blah, blah, blah, blah.”

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There’s no conspiracy (not that we’d tell you if there were). It’s just that getting on the primary ballot doesn’t automatically get you a statement in the Voters’ Pamphlet.

Getting on the ballot is easy—just file your candidacy and pay a $100 fee. Getting in the Voters’ Pamphlet is harder, since you not only have to pay a (separate) fee, you also have to write up the statement.

Serious candidates don’t usually try to unseat an incumbent governor or U.S. senator from their own party, which means in these cases we’re dealing with the sort of unknown candidate generically known as Some Guy. Some Guy is erratic. He doesn’t always get around to placing a statement in the Voters’ Pamphlet. Maybe he can’t think of a reason why you should vote for him; maybe he’s busy on his roof with a frying pan, defending his home from invisible bats. Either way, if he doesn’t submit a statement, it won’t appear.

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ADDITION BY DIVISION: This intersection, where Southeast Division Street meets 122nd Avenue, had 175 car crashes between 2007 and 2010, according to city figures. Portland transportation officials say they would dedicate money raised from a street fee to improving safety on “high-crash corridors” like outer Division.

ROAD WORRIERS CITY OFFICIALS ARE PITCHING A NEW STREET FEE BY CLAIMING PORTLAND’S ROADS ARE GETTING MORE DANGEROUS. NUMBERS SHOW OTHERWISE.

By AARON MESH

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To hear Mayor Charlie Hales and other city officials tell it, the streets of Portland are getting deadlier every day.

Driving is more dangerous. Pedestrians face bigger risks. Bicyclists have to summon courage to start pedaling. Kids heading to school are better off walking through the woods than braving the patchy sidewalks.

Hales has gone so far as to describe the safety of Portland’s roads as a “crisis.”

Transportation Bureau director Leah Treat has gone further, calling Portland’s streets “a growing health crisis. This public health crisis is called ‘traffic.’ Last year, twice as many people died in traffic than in murders in our city.”

Hales and City Commissioner Steve Novick are trying to drum up public support for a new “street fee” that would raise as much as $53 million a year to fund city

transportation projects.

“Our concern about safety reflects the concern of the community as a whole,” Novick says. “We’re responding to public demand. We’re not whipping people into a frenzy by exaggerating the problem.”

But records tell a more complicated story.

There’s no clear evidence that driving, walking or bicycling in Portland is growing more dangerous. State numbers show traffic deaths in the city haven’t changed dramatically over the past decade. In fact, Portland is rated as one of the nation’s safest cities for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Without question, the city has miles of streets without sidewalks and scores of intersections without adequate crosswalks—many in East Portland, where some neighborhoods have gone decades without basic pedestrian improvements.

The Transportation Bureau is set to spend $316 million next year. City officials tell WW if they get a new street fee, $23 million a year will go to safety improvements.

Records show the Transportation Bureau last year only spent $18 million—6.7 percent of its $265 million budget—on projects that Hales and Novick say will save lives. City officials increased that number

this year to $45.6 million, or 14 percent of its proposed budget.

“We are funding safety improvements now,” Novick says. “Just not enough of them.”

Jim Moore, a political science professor at Pacific University, says he’s seen city officials shift their message from road repairs to public safety.

“They’re not asking people to support some vague program,” Moore says. “They’re asking people to support a tax. So they have to ratchet the rhetoric up. Safety sells.”

Meanwhile, Hales has shortchanged traffic safety in his current budget.

One of the best and cheapest ways to reduce fatalities is not new construction but simply lowering speed limits and enforcing drunken-driving laws. Records kept by the Oregon Department of Transportation show that alcohol was a factor in nearly half of the city’s traffic fatalities in 2012—and speeding played a role in one-quarter of deaths.

But Hales in his proposed 2014-15 budget released last week rejected a request from the Portland Police Bureau to restore four traffic enforcement officers to its night shift, at a cost of $287,000.

And Hales also rejected a request for $1 million sought by Novick to build flashing beacons at 15 crosswalks at intersections already identified as some of the most dangerous for pedestrians.

The mayor’s reasoning: He wants to create urgency for the street fee by holding out on projects Hales acknowledges will save lives.

“If we spent a few hundred thousand dollars,” Hales said at a May 1 press conference, “it would give people false hope. We’re saying to our citizens: ‘Don’t kid yourself.’”

The city of Portland says it has a backlog of needed repairs and updates to its streets and sidewalks that totals $1.5 billion. The Transportation Bureau says it’s in a cash crunch—thanks to its big spending on capital projects like Portland-Milwaukie light rail, and declining proceeds from state and federal gas taxes. Transportation officials say the city can no longer keep up with its needs.

“We have a dwindling transportation infrastructure,” Treat says, “and we’re not going to be saved by the federal government. We have got to start making a dent.”

Hales and Novick began crafting the street fee last fall as a solution.

The current proposal: Charge every household a monthly fee—either $8 or $12.

Businesses would be charged based on how much traffic they generate. According to a proposed fee scale, a nursing home, for example, would pay up to $77 a month, while a large brewpub would pay up to $604 a month.

Polls show voters are far more likely to support a new fee if it goes to sidewalks and crosswalks. The deaths of six pedestrians in five months this winter sparked renewed outrage over swaths of the city that don’t have safe places to walk—especially in East Portland. cont. on page 8 Willamette Week MAY 7, 2014 wweek.com

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In crafting the street-fee idea, city officials have hewed closely to the results of recent polling. A January survey of 800 registered voters conducted by Davis Hibbitts & Midghall showed eight of 10 Portlanders want the city to dedicate money to “sidewalks and safety features in places where children need them to get to school and seniors need them to get to transit.”

In a March poll, DHM Research tested the idea of a street fee. The $8- and $12-perhome-per-month options both crested at 51 percent support after respondents were told the money could go to safety and maintenance.

The polling—paid for by the city at a combined cost of $56,000—has helped Hales, Novick and other officials shape a plan they think Portlanders will accept.

Novick and Hales have held town halls across the city to ask what people want.

“They want exactly what you want in this discussion,” Novick says. “They want to know that their streets are going to be safer.”

The political emphasis on safety— revealed in the polling data—has been showing up in the rhetoric around the fee proposal.

“The longer we wait, the more it costs,” Hales said of transportation maintenance in his March 14 State of the City speech.

“And it costs in lives. We lost 16 people to homicidal violence last year. We lost 35 to cars. This is a crisis. And we need to attend to it.”

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The comparison of traffic fatalities to the city’s homicides sounds ominous, as if the deaths of drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists are on the rise.

The city’s homicide rate has taken a deep dip since the late 1980s, while trafficrelated deaths have not changed much at all in the past decade.

Oregon Department of Transportation figures show that the 36 people killed in Portland’s 2013 traffic accidents is nearly

the same number as the 37 killed in 2004.

PBOT director Treat defends her claim that the problem is growing, by saying deaths have gone up in the past three years. “The fact that they have increased is a really bad sign to me,” she says. “They need to be going down.”

The numbers have fluctuated during the decade, but the figures show no statistically significant change, even as the city’s population has grown (see chart, at left).

Pedestrian deaths haven’t changed much, either. Portland saw 11 in 2013, and 10 a decade before.

This year, the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking named Portland as the 12th-lowest for pedestrian fatalities among the nation’s 52 biggest cities. Portland ranks even better for bicyclists: the fourth-safest in the country.

Novick says Portland’s ranking at the top of pedestrian-safe cities doesn’t change the need for more sidewalk and crosswalk funding. “We’re not holding ourselves up against other cities,” Novick says. “We’re competing against ourselves and against who we want to be.”

Novick says a street fee could send $23 million a year for safety projects, including additional or improved crosswalks at as many as 115 intersections and 400 blocks of new sidewalks over five years.

The bureau says it will first allocate money to “high-crash corridors”—heavytraffic arterials that account for 66 percent of the city’s pedestrian fatalities, such as outer Southeast Division Street and Powell

Boulevard.

Yet many of these hot spots have gone without adequate city attention for years, as transportation officials have spent far more on other projects.

In February 2013, City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade slammed the City Council and the bureau for spending on capital projects, such as light rail and the Sellwood Bridge replacement project, without having the money to pay for road maintenance.

Griffin-Valade released a follow-up audit last month that says the Portland Bureau of Transportation still hasn’t ranked the priorities of its projects citywide, despite an audit calling for that basic step last year.

Noted Griffin-Valade, “PBOT has yet to create a written strategic plan.”

Treat promises that plan is coming this fall. “I can tell you No. 1 is always going to be safety,” she says. “We will be monitoring and sharing that progress on our website.”

But that could be after the City Council approves the street fee this summer. Hales and Novick are looking for ways to get the fee approved without going to voters. Commissioners Nick Fish and Dan Saltzman say they oppose going around voters.

Hales says he’s undeterred.

“I’m not interested in mincing words about this issue,” he says, “and I’m not interested in token solutions that make people feel better. It’s easy to avoid the subject of revenue. I hope to keep running straight at it, and hope it’s success and not a brick wall I’m running toward.”

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GOV. JOHN KITZHABER

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THE THREE-TERM GOVERNOR IS SEEKING RE-ELECTION. WILL OREGON COVER FOR HIM? 243-2122

The state of Oregon and John Kitzhaber could really use a hard-fought governor’s race.

The third-term governor appears headed for re-election to a historic fourth stretch in office. He’s been comfortably ahead in political polls, faces only token opposition in the primary and enjoys a strong edge in statewide Democratic Party registration.

His probable opponent in the fall, Rep. Dennis Richardson (R-Central Point), has yet to show he can muster the money and momentum to take on Kitzhaber.

And that’s too bad. The governor has a lot to explain and answer for this year.

Kitzhaber, 67, served as governor from 1995 to 2003, sat out seven years, and ran again in 2010, winning a narrow victory over Republican Chris Dudley. He has had one major accomplishment: a restructuring of the PERS system that will save billions of dollars. He also muscled through what looked like major reforms of the state’s education and health-care systems.

It’s too soon to know if his health-care changes—primarily, the creation of community-care organizations to manage health-care money and services on a local basis—will pay off. The same is true with the creation of the Oregon Education Investment Board to oversee the state school system from kindergarten through college.

In the last part of this term, much of his agenda has frayed—and in some ways cratered. The $248 million spent on software development for the health-care exchange known as Cover Oregon? It’s a fiasco on a historic scale. The system is in ruins, the state is switching over to use the feds’ website, and (according to reports by KATU and The Oregonian) the FBI is investigating the mess.

Yet Kitzhaber, who sat down with us for an interview last week, appears almost in denial about the past 12 months.

While he acknowledges the screwup at Cover Oregon, he says that money was not wasted He says the hiring of Rudy Crew to oversee Oregon’s education reform was not a mistake, even though Crew (pulling down $280,000 a year) barely worked, washed out after 11 months and used his Oregon position as a jumping-off point for paid speeches and his next lucrative job.

The Columbia River Crossing? The $2.8 billion bridge project—Kitzhaber’s baby—collapsed after Washington state refused to help finance it and Kitzhaber’s plan to have Oregon go it alone in building it failed to win his party’s support. Kitzhaber says he’d back it again if Washington came up with the money.

A tough primary opponent might hold Kitzhaber accountable for problems the governor seems hardly to think are problems at all.

What follows is our interview with Kitzhaber, edited for clarity and brevity.

See video excerpts at wweek.com.

pretty uncertain future.

We were able to build up what I would call an operational political center. We erased the deficit. We were able to make some changes in education, health care, public safety, workforce—and all of those have local delivery mechanisms. They are pretty fragile. I’m interested in making sure we keep those going long enough to take root and really deliver on their promise.

WW: Why do you want a fourth term? What remains unfinished?

Kitzhaber: I think the answer to that question is, we need to remember where we were three years ago. We were totally polarized, we had double-digit unemployment across the state, a divided Legislature, high unemployment and a

You also talked in the middle of this term about Oregon’s tax structure.

Yep, that is front and center. We had a business labor coalition that we built from the ashes

FOUR MORE YEARS, FOR A FOURTH TIME?: Gov. John Kitzhaber says he understands controversies such as Cover Oregon will dog him during his re-election campaign. “I believe that if you look at my overall performance over the last three years,” he says, “we have been able to do some pretty remarkable things.”

of [Measures] 66 and 67 [that raised taxes on business and the wealthy in 2010]. They have done some polling—a much deeper dive than we’ve ever done in the past. A target date would be no later than general election 2016.

Do you think Cover Oregon has pushed back your ability to take on tax reform?

I don’t think so.

No? What is then the significance of Cover Oregon Cover Oregon reflected two things. It reflected a project management failure, which I have cont. on page 10

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to be accountable for. It happened on my watch.

I think we had some subpar technology, but I would not accept that this was a policy failure.

We have—notwithstanding the problems with technology and management—enrolled 240,000 people through the exchange and a total of 370,000 people, which is, on a per-capita basis, as well as any state.

You may get re-elected, but to what degree do you think this $248 million mess has hurt your credibility?

It’s a fair question. To question the premise that we have wasted $240 million: We have enrolled a quarter of a million people, and some of those resources went to do that. The Medicaid enrollment engine is working, and that part of the technology is going to be salvageable.

Obviously, I am running for re-election and I intend to take on tax reform. Credibility is going to be very important.

I believe that if you look at my overall performance over the last three years, we have been able to do some pretty remarkable things, and I think we have delivered on almost all of the promises we made on the front end.

So you say the premise of the question was wrong that $248 million was wasted?

Yes, the balance sheet doesn’t look that bad and the outcome looks really good.

You spent a lot of time on K-12 education in your first legislative session and the setup of the Oregon Education Investment Board. If you were talking to parents, how would you say students are better off because of the things you’ve done?

I would say it’s an iterative process. We are going to have a metric for kindergarten readiness and third-grade reading, which are the two most important places that move the dial. We haven’t quite seen those investments yet, but I think in the next two to three years you are going to be able to see tangible outcomes of those investments.

We did add over $1 billion to increase the K-12 budget by 16 percent, which is having tangible effects right now in terms of class size and hiring of teachers.

We just had a teacher strike in Medford and almost had one in Portland. When you ran in 2010, you talked about statewide bargaining for teachers. Where do you stand now?

I am in the same place. I mentioned it at the [Oregon Education Association] convention, and it didn’t have a happy outcome.

They booed you, didn’t they?

There was a little booing going on. I didn’t see any ropes, but it felt like I was back home here in Douglas County.

With the state basically paying 70 percent of the [school] cost, you get 197 bargaining units that are bargained in a vacuum with no relationship to what the size of the state school [budget] is going to be. I understand why there is opposition to that. There are other ways to do it.

But I can tell you, if we don’t address that, we will never be able to fund the quality-education model. Personnel costs are determined by local bargaining, which is as it should be, but there ought to be some relationship between what [teachers] are bargaining for and the money that is actually available.

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We saw the Columbia River Crossing come to a halt in February. The underlying problems of congestion and safety are still there. Do you have any plans to attack those parts of the problem piecemeal?

The short answer is no. The problem remains, which is why I supported the CRC for all of those reasons you mentioned. I’m not going to re-engage in a conversation about the CRC until the state of Washington shows up with a check in their hand.

When you ran for governor in 2010, you said success as governor, No. 1 or 2 on the list, was completion of the Columbia River Crossing.

If we revisit that, is your term less than a complete success?

Absolutely not. We did our part. We delivered on our side of the handshake. It was a bi-state project. We don’t have control over the state of Washington, but we delivered and kept the money in the queue. We delivered the bridge permit. We did the litigation and all of the legal issues, and we had the money, so no. It’s unfortunate that Washington didn’t step up, but there is absolutely nothing else we could have done. We brought it right up to the edge, and we didn’t find another hand.

“THERE WAS A LITTLE BOOING GOING ON. I DIDN’T SEE ANY ROPES.” —GOV. JOHN KITZHABER The criticism of your first eight years as governor was that you were great at coming up with ideas and not as good at implementing them. Was that a fair criticism?

It was absolutely fair. In my first two terms, I think the single biggest mistake I made was, I approached it as a sort of super legislator. But the role of the executive branch is to set the agenda and to essentially build support inside and outside the building for that agenda. That was a hard lesson learned.

So do you think that could happen again?

I don’t worry about it. It is certainly a possibility, but you’ve got to walk before you can run. And we had an utterly siloed system of education with really no clear system of accountability, and a health-care system designed on rewarding volume regardless of whether there were outcomes.

That is one of the reasons I want to run this last time, because I think you’re absolutely right, the proof is going to be in the pudding.

Rudy Crew—was that a mistake?

I don’t think it was a mistake. It would have been a mistake if we let the problems with Rudy Crew derail our policy agenda. He brought a lot to the table. It became clear that this guy, while he was brilliant and a motivator, he was not a very good implementer, so we sent him on his way. In retrospect, it would have been better to hire someone else, but I wouldn’t say it was a mistake.

We’ve asked every candidate who’s come through here this question: If you could be one person—dead or alive, other than yourself—who would it be?

I’m actually happy with being myself. I’ve got work, I’ve got problems, but I’ve had a blessed life and I wouldn’t change my shoes for anybody.

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MULTNOMAH COUNTY’S FARMER TENDS THE FIELDS AS HIS JOB IS TARGETED FOR CROPPING.

BY CAMBRIA ROTH

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Jerry Hunter wants to get rid of the rabbits.

They come in waves at the Multnomah County CROPS Farm, across from McMenamins Edgefield, to gnaw the tops of the broccoli, carrots and cabbage.

“Those rabbits got me for four flats last week,” he says.

He’s thought about setting live traps, but Hunter doesn’t have the budget for them. The previous farmer put in a rabbit-proof fence but didn’t install it right. Hunter keeps hoping the coyotes will kill more rabbits, but there are just too many. Killing them himself, he says, wouldn’t be humane.

Hunter works for Multnomah County, and his official title is “urban food production specialist.” But most people refer to him simply as the county farmer.

That the state’s most urban county still has a farmer on the payroll, at $56,334 a year, is a surprise. Hunter is in charge, primarily, of growing crops on two acres of county land so the food can be donated to local social services agencies.

Deborah Kafoury, currently running for Multnomah County chair, raised Hunter’s profile when she said the farmer’s job is the fi rst thing she’d cut from the budget if she were elected. There are better ways to deliver the same services, she says.

“No comment on that, I don’t get into politics,” Hunter, 57, says. “I heard the comment, and everyone has their own opinion, but I’ve seen fi rsthand, frontline what this garden has done, produced and the impact it has had on people’s lives.”

The county CROPS program (the acronym stands for “Community Reaps Our Produce and Shares”) began in 2009 under then-Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, whose chief of staff, Marissa Madrigal, came up with the idea. Madrigal, who now serves as interim county chairwoman, proposed turning two acres of unused land in Troutdale into a vegetable farm, with the crops going to local charities.

Hunter started working for the county in 2002 as a youth and adult crew leader for the Department of Community Justice. As a crew leader, he was in charge of bringing juve-

DOWN ON THE FARM: “I’ve had a lot of meaningful likes, but I love that garden,” Jerry Hunter says in defense of his job as Multnomah County’s farmer. “This garden does have an impact on people’s lives.”

niles and adults doing court-ordered community service to work sites throughout the county. In 2009, he began bringing his first crews to CROPS, where they cleared blackberry vines, tilled the fields and harvested the vegetables. He got the county farmer job three months ago.

“He was absolutely the right person,” says Kim Powe, director of Multnomah County’s Office of Sustainability.

“A lot of people can work at a farm, but not a lot of people can work with others like Jerry does.”

Hunter moved to Oregon from Arkansas when he was 4 years old. He attended Franklin High School in Portland and worked as a production foreman before joining the county.

In addition to running the Troutdale farm, Hunter coordinates education projects (like the Beginning Urban Farmers Apprenticeship, a program co-sponsored by the Oregon State University Extension Service) and a garden at the county headquarters building.

“Farmers work 24/7, and that is something I’m learning right now,” Hunter says. “I go home and I’m still planning for this farm. I sleep and I have dreams about farming.”

In 2013, the county sent 12,000 pounds of produce from the Troutdale farm to local nonprofits.

“This program provides fruits and vegetables for lowincome people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to fresh organic produce,” says Judy Alley, director of SnowCap Community Charities, a food pantry in east Multnomah County. “If kids don’t develop a taste for vegetables when

they are young, they will never want to eat them.”

Much of the costs of the program are carried by other agencies—county corrections’ budget pays for jail or community-service crews working at the farm.

But the program is a leftover from Cogen’s time, and Kafoury says there are far more cost-efficient ways for the county to help nonprofits.

“It probably costs more money for us to pay for the salary of the farmer and grow the food ourselves rather than just give that money to charities directly,” she says.

Hunter’s office is in a metal shed at the Troutdale farm, where he answers emails on his phone while sitting on a blue rototiller.

On a recent day, a van rolled up to the farm and unloaded seven men and women on a court-ordered work detail.

Hunter had several of them load rocks to build a driveway so vehicles entering the farm wouldn’t sink into the mud.

Others began mowing the grass around the fields.

Hunter and one worker measured black PVC pipe for a new drip-line system Hunter is convinced will increase the farm’s yield. Hunter hacked at the pipe with a knife to cut it to the proper lengths.

One of the workers heard about Hunter’s rabbit problem and offered a suggestion.

“In pot fields in Eastern Oregon,” he told Hunter, “we would put blood meal in burlap sacks on the edge of fields, and the rabbits won’t come near.”

Hunter tells the worker he’ll give it a try.

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SPARE THE JAIL, SPOIL THE CHILD? FOR YEARS OREGON HAS BELIEVED LESS PRISON TIME FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS IS THE IDEAL. A NEW REPORT SUGGESTS THAT MAY BE WRONG.

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onald Anthony Beckwith stole his first car when he was 15. The next year, in August 2005, he mugged a couple near the downtown Hilton.

Just short of his 17th birthday, Beckwith and a buddy, high on meth, tried to shoplift cigarettes and beer from a Plaid Pantry.

Three convictions in three years, and each time Beckwith got probation. He lucked out, because Multnomah County is one of the hardest places in the United States for a juvenile offender to get locked up.

Beckwith’s good fortune ended in 2007, when he and another man got shot while breaking into a Clackamas grow house to steal drugs and cash. The break-in got him sent to MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn to serve out his suspended sentence for the Plaid Pantry robbery. He remains there today, serving time for breaking into the drug house.

Beckwith is a rarity in Oregon—someone who is actually doing hard time for crimes committed as a juvenile.

His criminal history, contained in a February clemency application he filed with Gov. John Kitzhaber, illustrates an essential conundrum of juvenile justice: When is it appropriate to put a kid behind bars?

In Multnomah County and across Oregon, keeping juvenile offenders out of jail whenever possible has become the ideal. Over the past two decades, the number of juveniles held in detention in Multnomah County has plummeted by more than 80 percent—far more even than in other counties that have embraced reform.

Fewer kids are arrested here and fewer are charged.

That’s had a direct impact on state juvenile correctional facilities, which incarcerate convicts. The number of Oregonians held in state juvenile correctional facilities has dropped by nearly 60 percent since 1997, even as the number of adult prisoners is higher than ever.

The force behind this policy shift is the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a Baltimore-based, $2.7 billion nonprofit.

Casey’s strategy, pioneered in Multnomah County and now embraced in 39 states, is aimed at keeping kids with their families, in school and free from the stigma of jail.

“Their approach has been one of the most successful reform efforts we’ve seen in juvenile justice,” says professor Barry Feld of the University of Minnesota Law School.

“They’ve addressed the most significant shortcomings of the juvenile system, including the disproportionate confinement of minorities and the overuse of detention.”

The Casey philosophy has rarely been questioned in Oregon—until now.

Chuck French, a number-crunching former prosecutor, spent three months looking at Oregon’s juvenile justice system, often using data compiled by Casey.

His findings: Oregon ranks second among the most expensive juvenile justice systems in the nation. Yet the state’s rates of nonviolent juvenile crime—thefts, robberies and drug offenses—are among the nation’s highest.

“I looked at the stats and said, ‘This can’t be right,’” French recalls. “Because I’ve heard for so many years what a great system we had.”

French’s report pulled back the curtain on one of the least transparent parts of the state’s justice system, and could start a statewide debate about how Oregon holds young offenders accountable.

So far, French has been welcomed like a skunk in church for daring to challenge what has become an article of faith. Scott Taylor, director of Multnomah County’s Department of Community Justice, his normally smiling face reddening, calls French’s conclusions “bullshit.”

But Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis says close scrutiny of Oregon’s juvenile justice system is overdue.

“I don’t believe Chuck French is trying to pick a fight,” Marquis says. “I think he’s just trying to start a conversation. But some juvenile directors, apparently led by Multnomah County, seem to want to go to war over his report.”

“I looked at the stats and said, ‘This can’t be right.’

Because I’ve heard for so many years what a great system we had.”

—CHUCK FRENCH

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he Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home is part jail, part courthouse—and one of the citadels of juvenile justice reform in the U.S.

Tucked between I-84 and Northeast 68th Avenue, Long is a low-slung, tan cinderblock edifice rebuilt in 1995. It’s where juveniles are booked after arrests, appear in front a judge, and are sometimes held in locked cells.

The building’s spotless linoleum floors and vibrant inmate-painted murals could make you forget it’s a jail.

Inmates choose meals from rolling carts, receive five hours of schooling a day, and have access to outdoor basketball hoops, a full-sized gym and a variety of behavioral training.

“We’ve heard from some kids that they’d rather be here than home,” says Craig Bachman, Long’s manager.

Beyond the cleanliness of the facility, one feeling is unavoidable for a visitor—Long feels a little lonely.

“A lot of people remark how quiet it is here,” Bachman says.

That’s because the cells are mostly empty. In 1995, its 191 beds were regularly full.

Today, more than two-thirds of those beds are unused.

Last year, an average of 48 beds per night were occupied— about half of them rented out to Clackamas and Washington counties to house their juvenile offenders.

The shift toward empty cells is a direct result of the Casey Foundation, which was started in 1948 by one of the founders of United Parcel Service.

Almost 25 years ago, Casey began the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, seeking to reverse a “get tough on crime” approach that swept the nation in the 1980s.

Casey’s philosophy is that dragging kids into court and putting them behind bars makes things worse, not better.

“Juvenile detention facilities are often dangerous and abusive,” says Bart Lubow, director of Casey’s Juvenile Justice Strategy Group and the chief architect of the foundation’s alternatives initiative. “They are ineffective, ridiculously expensive and often unnecessary—only about one-quarter of the kids who are locked up are violent offenders.”

Casey’s interest in juvenile justice coincided with a crisis in Multnomah County. Public interest lawyers sued the county in federal court, alleging the county’s juvenile detention center was overcrowded and inhumane.

Lubow led the team that selected Multnomah County as the site of one of Casey’s “model” sites, which would come to serve as labs for the rest of the nation.

In 1994, Casey provided a $2.25 million startup grant and began applying what Lubow says is a more rigorous approach to detention. Before Casey, Lubow says, juvenile authorities had little rationale for who got thrown into a cell. But with Casey’s help, they developed a riskassessment tool aimed at making sure only the highestrisk juvenile offenders were locked up.

“In Portland, they developed a matrix that made detention relatively obsolete,” Lubow says.

Multnomah County became one of Casey’s four “model” counties and today, on the second floor of the Long center, two Casey-funded employees spend much of their time explaining the Casey approach to visitors from other states.

Last year, records show, Casey paid Multnomah County $169,891 to support the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. Over the past decade, Casey has paid Multnomah County $1.8 million, and its program officers make regular visits. Lubow says he’s been to Portland at least 30 times since establishing the program here.

“People come to Oregon to see how we do business,” says Multnomah County’s Taylor. “They wouldn’t do that if we weren’t a national leader.”

Casey’s influence on the justice system is clear. First, relatively few arrests actually result in charges being filed against Oregon juveniles. Among states reporting, Oregon has the fourth-lowest rate of charging juveniles— it happens in just 32 percent of cases, compared to a national average of 55 percent.

Second, of those juveniles who get arrested in Oregon, federal statistics show that only 10 percent are held in pretrial detention facilities such as the Long center. That rate is less than half the national average.

On its website, Casey extols Multnomah County’s success: Arrests are way down, and so are the number of juveniles who are charged. The average number who stay in Long’s cells each night is down nearly 90 percent since 1992. (See chart, page 16.)

Today, the initiative that began in Multnomah County and three other places across the U.S. has spread to more than 200 counties in 39 states. (Several other Oregon counties have also embraced Casey’s reforms.)

“Casey’s approach has become the accepted way of doing things,” says Marc Schindler of the Washington, D.C.-based Justice Policy Institute. “They are the leading proponent of what are considered the best practices in the field.”

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The report went off like a bomb.

The juvenile directors saw French’s report as an attack on their beliefs and their turf.

“We know what works and what doesn’t,” Multnomah County’s Taylor says. “The claim that we’re not doing as well as other states—I just don’t believe that.”

The Casey Foundation’s Lubow also read the report. He doesn’t think much of it.

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rench is no stranger to upsetting people.

In 32 years in the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, French, 61, became known for taking on special projects. When the county commission wanted an investigation of then-Sheriff Bernie Giusto, French got the call.

When then-District Attorney Mike Schrunk wanted someone to look at runaway jail costs, he chose French, a soft-spoken, sandy-haired Ohio native.

French retired in 2012 and now works part-time doing research for Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote. “He’s just a straight shooter,” Foote says of French.

“It’s all about the facts with Chuck.”

Last year, the Legislature created a task force charged with tracking how new adult sentencing guidelines are working, and with examining issues in the juvenile system. Foote noticed a sharp decline in the number of juvenile offenders the Oregon Youth Authority was moving into community facilities. Puzzled, he asked French to find out why.

French says he initially assumed juveniles were simply serving shorter sentences.

But when he looked at data, he realized fewer juveniles were coming out of the system because fewer were entering.

“That was a function of a declining number of arrests and a decline in the number of juveniles being charged,” French says.

French then asked the obvious question: What effect was Casey’s anti-incarceration philosophy having on crime rates?

The answer is complicated. For the past 20 years, crime is down across the U.S. For the past decade, Oregon’s adult crimes have fallen faster than the rest of the nation’s. But French found that Oregon’s juvenile crime rate, as measured by FBI statistics, remained stubbornly high.

There are two kinds of juvenile crime: violent and property.

Juvenile violent crime rates in Oregon rank well below the national average. That would seem to indicate the juvenile system is working.

That’s not the case, and here’s why: 15-to-17-year-olds who commit violent crimes in Oregon are prosecuted as adults. That means most of the decline in juvenile violent crime cannot be attributed to the juvenile system.

So French concentrated on crime rates that are affected by the juvenile system, such as property crimes.

A decade ago, Oregon had the third-highest overall property crime rate in the nation. But adult and juvenile crime rates diverged. Property crimes committed by adults have since declined, and Oregon now ranks 21st in the nation.

Juvenile property crime rates, however, remain high compared to most states, and Oregon ranked fifth in the U.S. in 2010, the last year in which the FBI published complete statistics.

French’s conclusion: Oregon’s adult justice system is doing a good job in reducing crime; the juvenile system, despite its high spending (see “The High Costs of Incarceration,” page 17), is not.

“When I looked at crime stats,” French tells WW, “I said, ‘Wow.’”

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THE REFORMER: Scott Taylor, director of Multnomah County’s Department of Criminal Justice, says Chuck French’s use of FBI crime statistics for juvenile cases is misleading.

“Crime rates are affected by all sorts of things,” Taylor says.

“It’s a pretty superficial analysis,” Lubow says. “The author seemed to be searching for a problem that isn’t here. He’s trying to say Oregon has a terrible juvenile crime problem. I don’t think citizens or people in the system would agree.”

On April 17, the Oregon Juvenile Department Directors Association produced a 12-page rebuttal to French’s report. The rebuttal argues that the counties use “best practices,” and cited significant declines in juvenile crime in Oregon—a 60 percent decrease since 2000.

But what the rebuttal didn’t do is compare Oregon’s juvenile crime rates to other states’, as French’s report did.

The juvenile directors object to French’s use of FBI uniform crime statistics, because not all states report, and those that do may use different standards. “There’s not been, to my mind, a good way to compare states to states,” says Ellen Crawford, director of the Clackamas County Juvenile Department.

French acknowledges the FBI numbers are imperfect but says there’s nothing better. “You’ll never be able to compare one state against another if you don’t use the FBI stats,” French says. “The juvenile directors honestly believe they should not be judged on crime rates. That’s a little disturbing to me.”

The county juvenile directors also point to the progress they’ve made in reducing recidivism—falling from

34.8 percent to 27.1 percent since 2000. That sounds impressive, but again, they fail to compare Oregon to other states.

The disagreement between French and juvenile justice officials is partly philosophical.

“DAs believe incarceration is an accountability moment that needs to happen,” Taylor says. “There’s a whole other group of us who are more interested investing in the community and reducing incarceration.”

French says juvenile directors are unaccustomed to anyone challenging the status quo.

“If you could show me that not holding a kid accountable is actually better than holding him accountable, I’d be open to that,” French says. “If it lowered the crime rate here, I would accept that. But that hasn’t worked.”

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onald Anthony Beckwith, known to friends and family as Doni, will turn 25 in June. He declined to be interviewed for this story.

Information about his life comes from court records and his clemency application.

At MacLaren, Beckwith has earned his GED, begun college classes and trained as a welder and carpenter.

He’s also earned a barber’s license and has the promise of a job cutting hair if he receives clemency. Dozens of pages of letters from prison officials, community members and

teachers suggest Beckwith has come a long way from the night he nearly died at the wrong end of a shotgun.

On Oct. 4, 2007, at 3 am, he and his crew sledgehammered their way into a BECKWITH Clackamas drug house.

As Beckwith and an accomplice beat one resident, another resident fi red on the intruders with a pistol-grip shotgun, hitting Beckwith twice. Police found Beckwith bleeding on the floor, a chunk of his intestines “the size of a softball” lying next to him.

The break-in got Beckwith a conviction for burglary. When he reaches his next birthday, by state law he’ll be transferred to an adult prison for the remaining 26 months of his sentence.

Beckwith’s imprisonment has cost the state a lot of money. It also kept him from committing more crimes.

“Since being incarcerated, I’ve had time to prioritize my life and get a handle on my anger,” Beckwith wrote to Kitzhaber. “The time I have spent in the Oregon Youth Authority correctional facilities probably saved my life.”

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Beckwith is just one man. Generalizing from his experience would be a mistake. Juvenile justice reformers make compelling arguments about the benefits of keeping kids out of jail, citing hosts of studies supporting their approach.

But locally, those officials have operated largely without independent scrutiny—Multnomah County’s juvenile system has not been audited for a decade. And officials ignored a scathing 2009 review of Multnomah County’s juvenile system produced by Crime Victims United, a law-and-order advocacy group that has few allies in Portland.

In virtually every other government endeavor—education, taxation, public health—comparing Oregon to what’s happening in other states is fundamental.

The juvenile department directors’ reluctance to address French’s critique suggests it’s time for a full-blown public debate.

Taylor says he wishes French had consulted him and other reformers before attacking their work.

“We would love to have a transparent, open discussion,” Taylor says.

French and Foote say that’s exactly what needs to occur.

“I don’t know if their philosophy is wrong or the implementation is wrong, but it hasn’t worked,” French says. “Looking forward, we need to engage all sides of this issue in a discussion. That’s what hasn’t happened here.”

THE HIGH COSTS OF INCARCERATION When Chuck French worked as a prosecutor for Multnomah County, one of his assignments was to convene a grand jury every year to assess the costs of operating the Multnomah County Jail.

So when Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote asked French to examine the juvenile system, one of the first things French FRENCH looked into was cost.

Using numbers collected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, French found Oregon and its counties spent $245 million on juvenile corrections in 2008, the last year figures were published. On a per-capita basis, that spending ranked Oregon second in the nation, behind only Wyoming.

It’s unclear why Oregon’s system is so expensive compared to other states. One reason might be overhead costs: At the state level, the Oregon Youth Authority employs about 1.5 staffers for every inmate held in custody and operates 10 facilities to house just 622 inmates.

In Multnomah County, it’s staffing that drives up costs at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home. Budget figures show that just the cost of detaining and providing education and health care last year cost $548 per night per inmate. That’s more than five times the cost of keeping an inmate in Oregon’s adult prisons, which are among the nation’s most expensive.

To French, there’s a paradox.

“What surprised me was the results of that spending,” he says. “I really felt that if we spent that much money, we’d have lower crime rates. But it doesn’t seem to have worked out that way.”

The Casey Foundation’s Bart Lubow says juvenile justice is inherently expensive. But Lubow also says reducing the number of juveniles behind bars saves a lot of money.

That’s because non-incarcerated kids do better in school and in the workforce than kids who’ve been behind bars. And because fewer inmates means fewer cells and less staffing and services.

“Multnomah County mothballed three pods in its juvenile facility,” Lubow says. “Each one saves $800,000 in staffing costs.”

Scott Taylor, director of Multnomah County’s Department of Community Justice, says as the number of juveniles detained shrinks, per-capita costs naturally grow.

“It’s very expensive.” Taylor says. “Nobody could argue that.” NIGEL JAQUISS.

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COMEDY: Bridgetown picks from the Funniest 5.

FOOD: New New Mexican in Portland.

MUSIC: Portland’s most progressive dance night.

MOVIES: Clint Eastwood is an old softie.

think it’s just trivia? think again.

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Thursdays @ 8pm ing Bar & Grill Redw Tuesday 4012 30th St • North Park

The Dugout (Hillsboro) — 7PM Biddy McGraw's — 7PM Shanahan's (Vancouver) — 7PM Ship Tavern — 8PM (Starts March 25) Laurelwood Public House (SE Portland) — 8PM The Ram Restaurant & Brewery (Wilsonville)— 8PM

Mondays @ 9pm Bourbon Street Bar & Grill 4612 Park Blvd - University Heights

Punch Bowl Social — 8PM 8pm s@ ayHouse turdAle Sa Concordia — 8PM Space Room — 7PM Pub lly’s Ke Tonic Lounge — 7PM

2222 San Diego Ave • Old Town

Buffalo Gap — 7:30PM

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(starts August 14th)

M&M Lounge (Gresham)—8PM

South Park Abbey

1946 Fern Street • South Park www.geekswhodrink.com @geekswhodrink

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EL MUNDO DIABLO: Johnny “Diablo” Zukle looks to be building a naked vegan empire in Portland. Not only is he planning to fi nally open the controversial second location of vegan strip club Casa Diablo this summer on Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard—the venture was the target of neighborhood protests in 2011 and 2012—but he’s also filed liquor-license applications for two more vegan strip clubs, Sinners Club at 3532 SE Powell Blvd., in the former Glimmers location, and a tobe-named club at the former Crown Room space in Old Town. Zukle doesn’t want to leave out the kids, however.

At the old location of the Hutch on Holgate at 4515 SE 41st Ave., he plans to open an “all-ages, familyfriendly vegan restaurant, lounge and production facility featuring delicious vegan ZUKLE d ining, d rinks & d esserts.” >> In related news, the owners of Roscoe’s beer bar have filed for a liquor license to take back their old bar Agenda at 2366 SE 82nd Ave. The bar had briefly been turned into a strip club, Assets, by Dustin Berkholtz, who also owned the Glimmers strip club now being taken over by Zukle. Roscoe’s owners Jeremy Lewis and Quyen Ly will again name the bar Agenda, but according to the application it looks like the strippers will stay.

SCENE SURVIVOR: A new sign has gone up at the site of Dean’s Scene, the long-running Northeast Fremont Street speakeasy and home brewery run by Dean Pottle. The speakeasy was shut down in February after a visit by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The new sign at Dean’s says that while only friends are allowed into Pottle’s home-basement bar, he’ll be opening to the public “soon.” Reached for comment, Pottle says he’s shopping around for a new location for a public Dean’s Scene but hasn’t found the right spot yet.

POTTLE EX-WIVES: The 34-year-old inner-eastside institution Old Wives’ Tales closed May 4. Since opening in 1980, the multiethnic restaurant at 1300 E Burnside St. became known for its support of progressive causes, its early accommodation of dietary restrictions, its children’s play area, and its Hungarian mushroom soup. Via Facebook, owner Holly Hart says she will retire and put out a cookbook.

DING DING: Jackpot Records has announced it will close its downtown location June 30. According to a statement from owner Isaac Slusarenko, the decision to shutter the long-standing Portland record store, which opened in 1997, is less about economics than it is “a move that will help us focus more energy and resources on other pursuits,” including the store’s in-house record label. Jackpot’s Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard location will remain open.

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It’s a rainy night. You’re trying to turn left off Burnside and find that you cannot. You’re forced to ascend into the West Hills, where you’re finally able to turn around, in the driveway of a creepy old mansion.

Your car breaks down and you’re taken in from the storm by a weird family.

They give you dry clothes and a place to stay for the night. Then, for dinner, they taunt you with a pizza that is not gluten-free. You run screaming into the highway and are hit by a Car2Go. There are no survivors.

You buy a six-pack of Ninkasi seasonal beer to bring to a party. You arrive at the party to discover that everyone else has brought the exact same Ninkasi seasonal beer.

You begin to question your status as a cutting-edge beer monger. You begin to calculate the hours you’ve wasted trading rare small-batch saisons via online message boards. You spiral into an existential crisis. Then you are ax murdered.

You grab one of the free weekly papers in a bar, but discover it’s actually just a fanzine filled with reality TV recaps and Game of Thrones jokes. If you’d grabbed the right paper, you may have known about a ravenous horde of the undead who’ve

Eight chilling tales to sha re as ge n re a uthors desce n d on Por tla n d for th e World H orror Conve ntion . overtaken the city. Instead, you’re distracted by a 4,000-word cover story about a local artist who inserts Star Wars characters into Renaissance paintings as a zombie rips a chunk out of your neck from behind.

You’re waiting for a very attractive Tinder date to show up at Tom’s on Southeast Division.

After ordering the most expensive thing on the menu, your date goes the restroom and never comes back. All of your other Tinder dates mysteriously cancel. You discover that you’ve been erroneously listed on the sex offender registry. You’re fired from your job.

Your mother won’t take your phone calls. Then you are ax murdered.

You’re very hungry but the only food cart keeping its posted hours is cash-only. The pod has an ATM but it’s not working. You have

to walk several blocks to find another ATM…and the fee is three-friggin’fifty. Ugh! Then you are eaten by a Sasquatch.

The forecast said it was going to be sunny, so you rode a bike without fenders to work not wearing rain pants. On the way home, it begins to hail. You take cover under a bridge. A police officer mistakes you for a street kid and begins to shoo you away. You try to tell him you’re just waiting for the storm to pass so you can get home in time for the re-airing of Think Out Loud.

He tells you to stop resisting. You say you’re not. He ax murders you in “selfdefense.”

You agree to meet a friend for tacos at ¿Por Qué No? You arrive at the Mississippi location and wait in line for 20 minutes, making it to the front just as your friend calls to say they’re at the one on Hawthorne.

You’re so hungry by that point you decide to just go through the Muchas Gracias drive-thru. You die of shame.

You arrive at a bar to watch Euro League soccer only to find it full of Timbers fans. You ax murder yourself. MATTHEW SINGER and MARTIN CIZMAR.

GO: The World Horror Convention is Thursday-Sunday, May 8-11, at multiple locations in Portland. $175-$200. worldhorror2014.org.

THURSDAY MAY 8 BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL [COMEDY] The city’s biggest comedy event of the year.

National up-and-comers try to tell Portlanders beard jokes we haven’t heard (see page 22) as locals actualize plots toward sitcomdom.

Runs through Sunday at various locations, mostly along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard; bridgetowncomedy.com. Wristband is $99, showcase prices vary.

FRIDAY MAY 9 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE [THEATER] When Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Bill Rauch staged this fizzy musical in Ashland in 2011, the show earned massive praise for its comic precision and freewheeling sense of fun.

Now, fresh from Broadway—he just directed Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way—Rauch has reworked it for Portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2411802. 7:30 pm. $48.45-$174.70.

BUBBLIN’ FOUR-YEAR ANNIVERSARY [MUSIC] Though the sudden death of headliner DJ Rashad certainly casts a pall, this anniversary party for Portland’s most progressive dance night continues on in the memory of the Chicago footwork legend. In the words of co-founder Ben Fuller, each set will be “a celebration of life, which is really what dance music is all about.” Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $10 before 10 pm, $15 after. 21+.

SATURDAY MAY 10 ST. JOHNS BIZARRE [STREET FAIR] May showers and impending Junuary be damned— street-fair season is here. This fest in St. Johns, that underrated and not-so-far-away North Portland neighborhood, includes a parade, Occidental beer and a sweet music lineup featuring soul group Ural Thomas & the Pain, rapper Illmaculate and the mariachi-tinged Edna Vázquez Quartet. St. Johns Business District, stjohnsbizarre.com.

10 am-7 pm. Free.

CIDER RIOT PARADE [DRINK] Cider Riot cidery’s first anniversary party kicks off with a 6 pm parade starting at Cheese Bar on Southeast 61st Avenue and Belmont Street, led by a fireman with a pipe. The procession ends at a riotously cider-filled Irish bar, and goes till the OLCC makes them stop.

Biddy McGraw’s, 6000 NE Glisan St., 233-1178, biddymcgraws.com.

SUNDAY MAY 11 DANNY BROWN [MUSIC] If Drake is, as New York Times critic Jon Caramanica wrote last year, “all the emoji,” then Danny Brown is the drunken smiley face and the mushroom—a permastoned, violently hilarious, and dexterous rapper remaking hip-hop, one zany voice at a time. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-8499.

8 pm. $17. All ages.

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BRIDGETOWN PICKS FROM THE FUNNIEST 5 LAST NOVEMBER, WW POLLED THE LOCAL COMEDY COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE THIS CITY’S TOP FIVE COMEDIANS. HERE ARE THEIR WEEKEND RECOMMENDATIONS.

DON’T TELL THIS JOKE ON THE EVE OF THE BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL, HERE ARE HACKY LINES THAT SHOULD BE BANNED. Have you heard the one about the beards?

In the seven years since it was established, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival has swelled into one of Portland’s best annual events. It’s a boozy fourday marathon that takes over a dense stretch of Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and several eastside venues, with showcases stacked with comedic brilliance. Top bets for this year’s festival, which runs May 8-11, include Emo Philips, Reggie Watts, W. Kamau Bell, Aparna Nancherla, Hari Kondabolu, Janine Brito, Sean Cullen and Matt Kirshen. (Visit wweek.com/bridgetown for a curated “I went to Voodoo Doughnut today and had a maple bar with bacon on top, which is kind of like putting heart disease on top of diabetes.”

—Scott Losse “Portland is so white it makes Salt Lake City look like Atlanta.”

—Shane Torres “Portland is really good at recycling.

We took all these houses that people of color were living in and turned them into boutique ice cream parlors!”

—Bri Pruett “Portland is where white people move to get robbed by other white people.”

—Gabe Dinger “Those aren’t meth addicts, those are vegans. Which can look the same as a methhead. Same slow, shambling gait; malnourished; protein-deficient; semi-stoned on gluten-free muffins.

Just give them a handful of organic popcorn, say ‘Namaste’ and move along.” —Dwight Slade “Why do you have such a big bookstore? You guys have heard of movies, right?” —Sean Jordan “This entire town is dependent on a brunch-based economy.”

—Shane Torres

schedule with our picks.)

This weekend nearly 200 performers descend on Portland. Many of these comics have never performed here. And many of them will make the same mistake, trying to endear themselves to local audiences by riffing cutely about bikes. Maybe about bacon. Or about beer. Or about brunch or birds or beards. Some may even crack jokes about white people.

These lines draw laughs at the first few shows of the weekend, but by the third hour, we’re weary.

By the fifth, we’re ready to throw free-range eggs and organic tomatoes.

In an effort to curb these hacky Portland gags, we asked some of our favorite performers to submit jokes that should be banned at Bridgetown.

Comedians, consider this your warning.

“It rains all the time in Portland.

Good! The sun can’t be trusted. The sun brings chores, picnics, hiking, unnerving pale skin, graduations. All things that create anxiety. Rain brings depression, for which there are prescription medications. There are no pills for sun.” —Dwight Slade “Portland is so weird I saw a guy with a sign by Burnside that said ‘I need a kidney donor.’ Oh come on, I’m not going to give you a kidney. You’re just going to use it for drugs.” —Alex Falcone “Portland has too many strip clubs.

As my friend Dax says, it is causing a deficit in stripper names. There are nearly 30 Cinnamons listed in the Portland Stripper Directory.”

—Dwight Slade “Portland is so liberal, their strip clubs are inside abortion clinics.”

—Molly Fite “You people still like folk music here?

There are so many wannabe folk musicians in this town it looks like a steamboat ran aground on Mississippi Avenue.” —Nariko Ott “Living in Portland is like living in Never-Never Land. There are pirates, lost boys and tons of girls that dress like Rufio.” —Gabe Dinger

“People find out I’m from Portland and they say, ‘Portland? Is it really like that Portlandia?’ Yes, it is mediocre.”

—Alex Falcone “You guys do know that if you ride your bike to a bar and get shitfaced it cancels out the bike ride, right?

Especially when a doughnut is the healthiest thing you’ve had all day.”

—Sean Jordan “There are so many cyclists in this city, it seems like everyone on the Tour de France had to grow a shitty beard and wear a flannel shirt.” —Shane Torres “There are so many beards in Portland, it’s become Tom Cruise’s personal dating pool.” —Molly Fite “I feel like there are only two kinds of people in Portland: weird people and weird people with beards.”

—Sean Jordan “You think everyone has a beard? Not everyone. Go to Gresham. You will see three or four women who are cleanshaven.” —Dwight Slade “Can you believe that’s former Portland Mayor Bud Clark exposing himself to a statue on that ‘Expose Yourself to Art’ poster? This is the same guy who offered to get a suntan

to better understand local black leaders. Hey Bud, how about exposing yourself to some racial sensitivity training?” —Matt Braunger “I like being here because I feel more attractive. I’m not saying I’m hot; I’m like a 6 in Portland. Maybe a 6.5. Or a 9 in Vancouver.” —Alex Falcone “There are so many hipsters in Portland, they had to build a reservoir just for PBR.” —Molly Fite “Men with real jobs are hard to find in Portland. I was seeing a great guy who worked at a bank, but I broke up with him because he couldn’t take off work to go huckleberry picking with me. Now I’m with a magician. Who can juggle huckleberries. Life is good.”

—Kristine Levine “I would be super happy to participate but I think comedy is an art form, and everyone’s perspectives and opinions in our community are equally valuable and should not be criticized. Except for straight white men.” —Amy Miller “Really, at this point I am sick of hearing anything about Portland. It is the most frequent topic of conversation in this city.” —Christian Ricketts “So I’m white, but, like, I just totally hate white privilege. White privilege totally sucks, am I right, folks?”

[White comedian holds for applause.

Predominantly white audience claps enthusiastically with all the vigor a sea of self-righteous quasi-liberals has to offer. The approximately six to 12 people of color in the audience look around at each other and shrug, having lost that much more faith in humanity. After the show, both the white comedian and the white audience members return to their homes in gentrified areas, thus, despite their “beliefs,” continuing to perpetuate the oppressive system they just publicly ridiculed.

Note that both the white comedian and the white audience members have Tibetan flags and Christmas lights decorating everything they own. Both the white comedian and the white audience members go to bed, wake up in the morning, put on skinny jeans, a V-neck T-shirt, a pair of Converse shoes and a skull cap that cost $20 more than it should have, before biking to a trendy coffee shop in what probably used to be a local black business and/or heading to brunch at an ethnic restaurant entirely run by white people (save for the one dude in the back doing dishes).] —Curtis Cook

AMY MILLER: See Jesse Elias! Not that Jesse needs my help to convince people he’s a genius, but I think Jesse’s a genius. We started around the same time in San Francisco, and he was one of the people who constantly made me feel like I should just give up because I would never be as smart as he is. He makes cereal funny.

Eagles Lodge, 10 pm Thursday.

Alhambra Theatre Lounge, 8 pm Friday. Alhambra Theatre, 10 pm Saturday. Eagles Lodge, 8 pm Sunday.

SHANE TORRES: The CrabFeast is the funniest podcast you may not have heard of. Ryan Sickler and Jay Larson have comedians come in and tell some of the funniest stories you have ever heard in your life. It’s the thing I look forward to every Toozedee (Tuesday) morning.

Doug Fir Lounge, 1 pm Saturday.

NATHAN BRANNON:

I’m looking forward to James Adomian. His creativity is very entertaining, and even more inspiring to me as a comedian. You can always expect him to do something unexpected, onstage and off. White Owl Social Club, 8 pm Friday.

Alhambra Theatre Lounge, 10 pm Friday. Hawthorne Theatre, 11 pm Friday. Alhambra Theatre, 8 pm Saturday. Analog Theater, 11 pm Saturday. Alhambra Theatre, midnight Saturday. Doug Fir Lounge, 10 pm Sunday.

KRISTINE LEVINE: I just discovered Mary Mack and fell in love. She has an evil innocence that is completely disarming. You just don’t see her coming, and then bam!

Punched in the gut with funny.

Hawthorne Theatre, 8 and 9 pm Thursday. Hawthorne Theatre, 7 pm Friday. Bossanova, midnight Friday. Jupiter Hotel tent, 9 pm Saturday. Hawthorne Theatre, 8 pm Sunday.

BRI PRuETT: Kyle Mizono is

an L.A.-based super-silly joke magician. Yes, she’s an AsianAmerican female (which is so hot right now), but she’s also a creature from another universe who will build absurd castles of comedy before your eyes.

I’m confident she could make an audience of babies laugh as hard as an audience of doctor and lawyers. It’s smart comedy, because it’s instinctual. Bar of the Gods, 9 pm Thursday.

Hawthorne Theatre, 9 pm Friday.

White Owl Social Club, midnight Saturday. Hawthorne Theatre, 7 pm Sunday.

GO: The Bridgetown Comedy Festival runs Thursday-Sunday, May 8-11, at multiple venues. See bridgetowncomedy.com for full schedule and ticket information. Visit wweek.com/ bridgetown for WW picks.

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A TASTE TO A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT JOHNSON SATURDAY MAY 10TH @ 3 PM On Saturday May 10th there will be a free, live in-store performance hosted by Joey Scruggs, celebrating the life and music of Robert Johnson. Included in this performance will be an amazing line-up of some of the Portland area’s finest blues and roots artists including Mary Flower, Joe McMurrian, & Tevis Hodge Jr.

LISTENING EVENT & RACE a man walks intO a van: Comedian Dave stone chills in his former home.

FOOT ON THE GAS DAVE STONE MOVED TO L.A. AND LIVED IN A VAN TO MAKE HIS COMEDY CAREER HAPPEN. By pe t e cot t e l l

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Editor’s note: WW contributor Pete Cottell lives in a van. For two years, Dave Stone, an L.A.-based comedian performing at this weekend’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, also lived in a van. We asked them to discuss pee jugs.

Tell polite people that you live in a van, and it’s obvious they’re withholding questions about what went so horribly wrong in your life to necessitate such a choice. But for some starving artists, the thought of vandwelling doesn’t seem so far removed from their already slummy ways. That’s something comedian Dave Stone noticed a few years ago.

“I was living with another comedian in Atlanta,” Stone says. “It was a regular-sized room, but I started to notice I was spending all my time in a 30-squarefoot area. I had a mattress on the floor, a little upholstered chair that was flush against the mattress and a miniature coffee table to set my laptop on. A light bulb went off in my head. I said, ‘Man, this little area where I spend all my time could fit inside a van.’”

Stone pauses. “Hey man, can I put you on hold for a second?” he asks. “Sorry about that,” he says 15 seconds later. “I put you on hold so you didn’t have to listen to me pee in this jug.”

Stone actually moved out of his van last month after living in it for more than two years, but he still keeps a jug handy. “Once you get used to it,” he says, “having a jug around to pee is just something that stays with you, I guess.”

Stone, 36, says he was always drawn to comedy but had trouble getting up the nerve to tell jokes in front of an audience. It wasn’t until he spent all of his 20s “in a kitchen or on a lawn mower” that he decided to sell his landscaping business and go all in on the jokes. “I guess that might be what you’d call the ‘quarter-life crisis,’” he says.

Stone spent two years working in the kitchen of a barbecue restaurant in Atlanta while trying to move to L.A., but was never able to save enough money to make it happen. The vandwelling epiphany proved to be the turning point: After moving into a van in January 2012, he made it to L.A. within three months. Predictably, friends and family didn’t know what to make of it.

“At first they thought I was joking,” Stone says.

“Then they thought I was crazy, but I knew I could do it. I got a lot of patronizing pats on the back from people, like, ‘All right then, Dave, you go get ’em, buddy!’”

With some help from comedian buddies Rory Scovel and Kyle Kinane, Stone got a foothold on the West Coast without being slowed by the burden of rent. It’s something he’s frequently been asked about, including on the YouTube series Modern Comedian.

“Even if I had the money, which I don’t…it’s hard for me to justify paying the expense of Los Angeles rent when I’m rarely in town or at home,” he said on an episode of that show. “It’s where the brilliant idea of living in a van came from. Until I get to where I want to be in my career—and I don’t necessarily know where that is—I don’t want to be too comfortable. I feel like if you’re too comfortable, you take your foot off the gas, and I don’t want to do that. The van is definitely a constant reminder of how I’m not where I want to be yet.”

Stone’s act is a careful application of Southern charm, though he prefers to be known as a “comedian from the South” rather than a “Southern comedian,” a la the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. His carefully applied self-deprecation makes his kinship with Kinane, who gained fame by targeting tweets at Pace salsa, seem obvious.

It’s also an extension of his philosophy.

“It definitely makes you change your perspective,” Stone says. “To give you a comedy analogy, in joke writing they say you always want to trim the fat. What part of this joke is unnecessary?

Just get to the core necessity of this joke and why it’s funny. Vandwelling taught me the same exact thing in my life. I realized I didn’t need certain things—I didn’t need nice clothes, cable TV, or even an apartment. I just needed a way to sustain myself and be in this town. That’s where the van came in. At first it was a little depressing, like, ‘Oh, I’m so abnormal, here I am in this town where vanity and materialism are so prevalent on every corner.’ But I know I don’t need any of that shit. I’m not living in a van because I’m a heroin addict. I’m living in a van because I’m executing a plan.”

His advice, then, is simple: “Don’t let anything stand in your way. Figure out a way to make it happen. And keep a pee jug nearby.”

LITTLE DRAGON FRIDAY MAY 16TH @ 6PM Little Dragon has steadily grown from being the biggest underground secret to international acclaim after three successful albums and touring all over the world. Their energetic live set and unique recording process has made fans out of some of the biggest names in music including Pharrell Williams, Questlove, and OutKast. Gaining popularity among such tastemakers led to collaborations with artists like Big Boi, The Gorillaz, and SBTRKT. The release of Little Dragon’s fourth album, Nabuma Rubberband, is the culminating moment in their career after years of building a grassroots fanbase.

RECORD RELEASE PARTY DUFFY BISHOP SATURDAY, MAY 17TH @ 3 PM The Duffy Bishop Band is without a doubt one of Portland’s greatest treasures, and they’ll be debuting their newest album “Find Your Way Home”. With scores of awards and four of the finest CD’s ever to come out of the Rose City, Duffy Bishop and her guitarist/songwriter husband Chris Carlson, have become one of the most popular Northwest acts at festivals and nightclubs around the nation. Wrenching and raw, gentle and tender, Duffy’s blues takes you on an intensely personal journey home.

3158 E. Burnside / 503-231-8923 / musicmillennium.com

GO: The Bridgetown Comedy Festival runs Thursday-Sunday, May 8-11. Dave Stone appears four times: White Owl Social Club, 10 pm Thursday; Bossanova, midnight Friday; Alhambra Theatre Lounge, 9 pm Saturday; Hawthorne Theatre Lounge, 9 pm Sunday. For more information, visit bridgetowncomedy.com.

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Shandong www.shandongportland.com

Shandong = WW Pick. Highly

recommended.

By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Editor: www.shandongportland.com

MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek. com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 Argyle Library Tasting

There are plenty of swanky events during PDX Bubbles Week (essentially just one big Argyle fest), including an $80 multiwine dinner at Wilf’s, but this event offers a lowadmission entree both to the week and to swanky Ambonnay. The sparkling-wine bar is offering two different Argyle sparklers of decent vintage at $5 for two 1-ounce pours: Argyle 2006 Blanc de Blancs and 2006 Knudsen Vineyard. The 2009 Knudsen will then be available by the glass throughout the week.

Ambonnay, 107 SE Washington St., 575-4861. 5-7 pm. $5.

Migration Beermaker Dinner

Migration beers get the fancy mealpairing treatment. Simpatica chefs will match five of Migration’s supercomplex grain bills against courses of geoduck ceviche, duck confit salad, gnocchi, cherry mesquite pork loin and bacon-pecan sticky buns. Simpatica, 828 SE Ash St., 235-1600. 7:30 pm. $60.

“Best $10 Red” Blind Wine Tasting

You pay $10, you get $10 wines.

A little of a lot of them. As a cheap-wine gimmick on overdrive, Woodstock Deli asks its favored wine suppliers and its sales force to find the best wines that retail for under $10. Anyone who wanders into the wine shop gets to judge the various low-cost wines, which will be “blinded” with a paper bag. Tasters will then vote for the best $10 wine.

Presumably, you can buy the winner at the end of the tasting. Woodstock Wine & Deli, 4030 SE Woodstock Ave., 777-2208. 6-9 pm. $10.

SATURDAY, MAY 10 Cider Riot March

Cider Riot celebrates its one-year anniversary with a drunken march down Main—er, Belmont Street. The event starts at Steve Jones’ venerable Cheese Bar at Southeast 61st Avenue and Belmont, where Cider Riot first announced its existence, and commences with a parade down Belmont led by Tim Birr of the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Pipes and Drums. It continues past the cidery to Biddy McGraw’s Irish Pub, where Burncider, Everybody Pogo and Plastic Paddy ciders will pour all night starting at 7 pm, to the sound of live Canadian Irish punk rock. Biddy McGraw’s Irish Pub, 6000 NE Glisan St., 233-1178. 7 pm.

SUNDAY, MAY 11 Mother’s Day Bag ’o Brunch

Your mom deserves a nice brunch.

Portland restaurants know this, which is why they’re queuing up to cash in this Sunday. There are so many good options, we figured we might as well highlight the most ridiculous one—well, ever. For $99, Bowery Bagels is offering a “Bag O’ Brunch” with a dozen bagels, four 12-ounce bottles of juice, two kinds of creamed cheese and housemade gravlax. Oh, and napkins, knives and plates. For 99 American dollars.

Want coffee, sugar and cream?

That’s another $24. Yes, $123 dollars for Bowery Bagels with fixings and coffee. I don’t know about your mom, but my mom would point out that the bagels normally cost $16 a dozen, and that pre-ordering the bagels, juice and schmear from Bowery would run $40 on a normal weekend. She would then cry.

Bowery Bagels, 310 NW Broadway.

Order at crumarket.com by 2 pm Friday. $99 per bag.

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NEW SHOW: Former Sideshow cartmaster Jason Myers at Rua.

RUA In Vietnam, pistachios are a rare imported luxury. At Jason Myers’ new Vietnamese cart, Rua, they’re a baseline. His green papaya salad subs in pistachios for the customary peanuts, and the result is a richer, denser-flavored salad, though with less contrast and sharpness. And this is a pattern with the food at Rua: It is a richer, low-spice version of Vietnamese street fare that lets the French still have their say.

My e r s i s t h e o n e t i m e ringmaster at the Sideshow Order this: Fried chicken ($7). cart—which served poutine I’ll pass: Rice bowls, pork belly. and a fancy hamburger—but switched gears after a culinary excursion to Vietnam.

So duck fat and ground beef have given way to fried chicken and pork meatballs. The cart’s Saigon fried chicken is a tenderly balanced sweet-spicy-sour version with fairly little crisp on the skin, served up solo ($5) or boneless in a banh mi ($7).

Fried chicken is Portland’s new bacon, all fat and salty comfort, and Myers’ version goes down lovely and easy: The sweet fish-sauced chicken is the Thai equivalent of applewood-smoking. The banh mi uses a Pearl Bakery baguette that is, again, a bit richer and chewier than customary on a Vietnamese sandwich, and is gentle in both the pickling of its accompaniments and in pepper heat. The pork belly ($8) doubles up on the fatty umami, but at the expense of interesting contrast—it’s under-crisped.

Stick with the chicken or the meatballs ($7), which are satisfying and sticky with sweetness.

Ginger-garlic rice bowls ($7) are too mild-mannered—you’re better off getting your brown rice as a side to fried chicken, and spending $2 on a hilariously strong Vietnamese coffee whose bitterness cries out for sweet condensed milk that will do nothing to blunt the amped caffeine. An hour after your meal, you’ll be chattering like an idiot about fried chicken, looking like you’ll pop a blood vessel. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Rua, 902 SW Washington St., 971-258-2975, ruapdx.com.

11:30 am-6 pm Monday-Saturday, 11:30 am-4 pm Sunday.

DRANK

2009 KNUDSEN VINEYARD BRUT (ARGYLE) Last December, we held a blind tasting of Oregon sparkling wine, fi nding Argyle’s 2010 Vintage brut the best on the shelves of local grocers, and Argyle’s 2009 brut rosé the runner-up. The second annual Portland Bubbles Week (visit pdxbubbles.com for a calendar of events) is presently popping, which gave a good excuse to accept delivery of Argyle’s 2009 Knudsen Vineyard brut, otherwise only available for $50 a bottle at the winery’s tasting room in Dundee. It’s not quite as dry as the 2010 brut, with denser sweetness and bigger bubbles. But there’s impressive balance between the pinot noir (75 percent) and chardonnay (25 percent), plus a candied spiciness that takes a few sips to figure out. You’ve got through Sunday. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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CHILE BURGER: Not chili burger, at La Panza Cafe off Southeast Division Street.

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chunks of tomato, a few bits of chopped green chilies and a generous sprinkle of pine nuts in a thin lemon vinaigrette.

The red chile ($7.25), a stew of pinto beans, simmered peppers, shredded cheese and a big plop of sour cream, needs a little more heat for my taste—owner Andy Razatos is related to the owners of Santa Fe’s oldest restaurant and fl ies in frozen chilies, so batches vary in heat and

BY M A R T I N C I Z M A R m c i z m a r @ w w e e k . c o m flavor—but it’s tasty, especially when scooped into the sopaipilla.

Like other fried breads, sopaipillas tend to New Mexico is a state of many enchanting perils, with meth and frybread at the top of be touchy. I’ve now had four at La Panza, findthe list. The state’s cuisine—cowboy meets ing them to be consistent but a little thicker and Chicano in a smoky haze of fresh-roasted local gummier than preferable.

Then again, you need a hardy shell if you’re chilies—doesn’t draw a lot of water in this town compared to, say, Tex-Mex. But, if you’ve going to stuff a 12-ounce chopped steak in it, spent any time in the Southwest, you start to which pretty much seems to be the recipe for the carne asada-stuffed sopaipilla ($12). That dish is crave the stuff.

Which brings us to Southeast Portland’s La a one-plate welcome center. The puffy frybread Panza Cafe, a new New Mexican joint that’s square is filled with pinto beans and cheese under far from perfect, but should still expect some a bath of chili sauce—red, green or a combination of the two—and topped with a of my money. Now, it ’s true layer of cheddar and Monterey that I’m a sucker for New Jack cheese. On the side, you Mexican cuisine, though it’s Order this: Carne asada-stuffed sopaipilla ($12.20) and a frozen get a ladle-full of stewy pintos also true that I’ve eaten one prickly pear margarita ($8). and a small heap of the house mea l at S out hea st ’s ot her I’ll pass: Ceviche, chips and salsa. pozole, swollen kernels of New Mexican restaurant and hominy with tender chunks of don’t anticipate a second. But once you’ve developed an itch for a green chile pork in a mild chili sauce. For some reason, they cheeseburger, it needs to be scratched. And La give you a flour tortilla, too. The burrito ($8.25, Panza, a tiny six-table restaurant tucked next add $2.95 for chicken, steak or squash) is a flour to a Plaid Pantry where employees take their tortilla that’s similarly outfitted.

The green chile burger is a New Mexican smoke breaks on the front sidewalk—sincerely, staple, and it’s nice to have a proper one with a a perfect touch—has it cornered.

To drink, you’ll want (seriously, folks) the char-grilled chile pepper on top, even though my purple prickly pear frozen margarita. La Panza “medium” came out rare and lacking the seared does a michelada ($5) that’s a little heavy on shell I look for, and with floppy fries. Still, it tomato, a gold margarita that needs more of a shows promise.

For dessert? More sopaipilla. No, not with citrus bite, and a few Mexican beers. But the frozen margarita ($8), which comes out of a slushy honey. La Panza—now seems like the right time machine, channels the gritty sweetness of cactus to mention its name means “the belly”—turns flesh and is, despite its iciness, not to mention its the frybread into a fluffy receptacle for vanilla ice cream, fresh whipped cream, Mexican purpleness, of heartening strength.

The chips and salsa ($5.95) includes three ganache and decadent pine nuts. It’s vaguely salsas, though I wish I could just get a big bowl obscene, and a must order, though it ’s an of the nutty arbol. The ceviche is seasonal, pres- unhealthy habit to take up. Better than meth, ently a cocktail glass fi lled with a simple prepa- anyway. ration of lime-soaked cod and chopped cilantro that will set you back $11.95. I’d skip both in EAT: La Panza Cafe, 2425 SE 26th Ave., 2365005, lapanzacafe.com. 9 am-2 pm, 5-10 pm favor of either a salad or a bowl of chile. The NM Tuesday-Sunday. chopped salad ($9.50) has ribbons of lettuce,

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Tuesday, May 13 6-9pm at THE ABBEY BAR Talk beer with Head Brewer Sean and Beer Personality Josh.

Oh, and drink some fantastic beer.

716 NW 21st Avenue theabbeybar.com 503-222-1593

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 Ty Dolla $ign, Joe Moses, Mila J

[R&B UP&COMER] After spending the past few years releasing mixtapes and appearing on other artists’ releases, L.A.’s Ty Dolla $ign scored a hit of his own in early 2014 with “Paranoid,” the first single off of his debut Beach House EP. His vocals glide over a lush, club-ready DJ Mustard beat that oozes mainstream appeal. Now all we can hope for is that the singer’s debut album, Free TC, drops before the summer is gone. SAM CUSUMANO. Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 2199929. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Jo Mersa, Wayne Marshall

[ROOTS REGGAE] Stephen Marley, the second-oldest scion of Bob, has kept a lower profile than the majority of his 8,000 siblings, mostly because his greatest successes have come from behind the scenes—he won a Grammy for his production work on brother Damian’s Halfway Tree—but also because, as an artist, he’s taken it upon himself to hold down the fort for roots reggae as the rest of the clan branches off into other genres. Though apparently, that might be changing soon: Revelation Part 2 is supposed to drop later this year, and is alleged to be more eclectic than its traditionalist 2011 predecessor. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $24. All ages.

THURSDAY, MAY 8 Taarka, the Student Loan String Band

early ’00s, world-folk combo Taarka has called Lyons, Colo., home since 2006. While Portland fans may recall an instrumental ensemble favoring gypsy jazz, the current incarnation of Taarka also features harmonized vocals and Americana songwriting that still foregrounds the Pelta-Tillers’ redoubtable stringed-instrument savvy, especially Enion’s scene-stealing violin work. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Kadavar, the Shrine

[TEUTONIC BUZZ] Ever since Bobby Liebling staggered back on stage in the late aughts, bands from around the world have rushed to capitalize on Pentagram’s missing-link, proto-metal sound. Down in Germany, a power trio called Kadavar is leading the pack, based on the strength of its live show and stylish presentation. These guys are not reinventing the wheel by any means, but their chops and style are more than enough to carry that weight. NATHAN CARSON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686.

7:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show.

All ages.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 Acid Mothers Temple, Perhaps

[GOOD BAD TRIP] A single tab of LSD in Japan gets you a year or more in prison. That hasn’t stopped Kawabata Makoto, leader of the massive and amoebalike Acid Mothers Temple collective, from making music specifically designed for tripping balls.

[FOLK] Though born in Portland in the

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PORTLAND’S OTHER BEST MONTHLY DANCE NIGHTS Sublimate (The Rose) Like many local crews, Sublimate is the total package: a label, promotion company, and DJ and artist collective. Bass is the name of their game, with regulars No Cents, Sonis and Severe keeping it dark and wobbly.

Ecstasy (Holocene) Helmed by the Miracles Club’s Honey Owens and Rafael Fauria, Ecstasy is perhaps the only rival to Bubblin’ in its scope and diversity.

It’s no surprise that 2014 has seen a slew of collaborations between the two nightlife giants, bringing DJ Deeon, Traxman and Jammin’ Gerald to town.

Odyssey (various venues) Formerly called Movement, Odyssey is leading the charge in live analog dance sets from some of Portland’s finest, including Jonas Rake and Tanuki House.

PDneXt (Holocene) Though just a little over 2 years old, PDneXt is already meeting its promise of showing Portland what’s next in dance music. Residents Danny Corn, Graintable and Plumblyne spin a wide mix of Chicago house, bass and hip-hop and host touring artists from Egyptrixx to Mike Q. Club Chemtrail (Holocene) Those streaks in the sky you’ve been seeing? Probably from the global bass and future club music resident DJs Commune and SPF666 have been flying into town. They’ve just moved to a much larger room at Holocene, so watch the vibes fill it out.

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OuR CuP BuBBLETH OvER: Ben Fuller (left) and Lincoln Heath.

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Somewhere in Portland, there’s an aggressive Old Town bro unaware he helped bring together two of the most influential electronic music promoters in the city. It was 2009, at a show at the Crown Room

by Chicago juke master Gant-Man. “It was kind of a disaster,” says Ben Fuller, who helped promote the gig. “It was packed in there, but a lot of people didn’t get the music.”

“Gant-Man let a record run out because this dude was in his face like, ‘Put on some rap!’” says Lincoln Heath. “I told him, ‘This guy came all the way from Chicago to play his music! He’s royalty!’”

“When Lincoln and I fully bonded is when we almost had to throw this dude out of the club,” Fuller says.

This week marks the fourth anniversary of Bubblin’, Fuller and Heath’s recurring dance night, and if anything has changed in the interim, it’s been Portland’s receptiveness to the forward-thinking styles—bass, house, dubstep, techno, garage—that they bring to town every month. The anniversary will be celebrated in kind, albeit with a heavy pall cast over it: DJ Rashad, the 35-year-old footwork pioneer set to spin at the anniversary party, died suddenly April 26. For many promoters, the loss of a legendary headliner means a lot of refunds. But while Fuller and Heath join the worldwide dance community in mourning, their show will go on.

Even without Rashad, the lineup dazzles, with sets from Baltimore club pioneer DJ Technics, dark club duo Nguzunguzu, and DJ Spinn, a member of Rashad’s Teklife crew.

“Everyone’s sets will be a celebration of life,” Fuller says, “which is really what dance music is all about.”

The unyielding anniversary speaks not only to how embedded Fuller and Heath are within the electronic scene in Portland and beyond, but also to the duo’s 30 combined years of experience DJ’ing and promoting. Proselytizing for electronic

music in Portland wasn’t always easy, though.

“For the first two years, Bubblin’ was an expensive hobby,” Heath says. The low turnouts in the night’s early days came as a bit of a shock to Fuller, who came up in the ’90s rave scene in St. Louis, throwing parties that would draw up to 3,000 people. Given its initial location at the now-shuttered Crown Room, Bubblin’s first audiences were mostly Old Town runoff and bachelorette parties. “We’d have to get the crowd going with some sure-shot stuff, and then we could trick them,” Heath says. “Once we’ve earned their trust, we get to slip in a U.K. funky record or some techno and see how it goes.”

Without even being aware of it, Portland has allowed Bubblin’ to shape its nightlife into a more sophisticated beast. Now, audiences are more willing to indulge genres previously too foreign for their ears. While Bubblin’ may lack the free-for-all nature of the raves of Heath and Fuller’s youth, it has the diversity of music and, more importantly, the weird, positive vibes of rave culture.

The duo says they noticed a shift in the crowd’s reception when Bubblin’ relocated into another now-defunct Old Town club, Groove Suite. “When we moved there, that’s when things really started to take off,” Fuller says. “When we had Todd Edwards, that was the biggest night they’d probably ever had.” The house producer and vocalist asked for a microphone midset and began singing his vocal part from Daft Punk’s “Face to Face.” “He told us afterwards that it was the first time he’d ever done that live,” Heath says. It was a completely organic decision, Fuller says: “He said he just felt so much love from Portland and he wanted to give back.”

There’s a laundry list of venues, promoters and producers that Fuller and Heath attribute their success to, including Dropping Gems, Ryan Organ, Evan Hancock and the staffs at Groove Suite and Crown Room. But if they had more of Edwards’ forthrightness, they’d admit the truth: They’ve felt Portland’s love, too, and given us one of the country’s best and most diverse nights in return.

“We have been irrationally tenacious about doing these events with sometimes only 10 or 15 people showing up,” Heath says. “We’ve just been that hard headed and said, ‘We love this music and we love throwing these parties and people need to hear this music.’”

SEE IT: Bubblin’s Four-Year Anniversary is at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Friday, May 9.

9 pm. $10 before 10 pm, $15 after. 21+.

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Devin the Dude, Berner, Potluck

[WEED RAP] The stoniest of stoner rappers, Devin the Dude has never seen much point in shaking up his perpetually chill, West Coastin’ style, and that’s to his credit. One for the Road, his eighth album, doesn’t mess with the formula that’s made him a hip-hop cult hero—song titles include “I’m Just Getting Blowed,” “Herb the Nation” and “I Hope We Don’t Get Too High”—but you know what they say: If the bowl ain’t cashed, why stop puffing? Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-8499. 8 pm. $17. All ages.

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Hong Kong Banana, Tom Heinl, Roselit Bone

[DIVE-BAR DANCIN’] Collaborations with Jack White, 13 records on independent labels, and songs on the Broken Flowers soundtrack should make Holly Golightly a household name in the indie world. She grew up in the U.K., developing an ear for the roots of American blues from a distance before moving to rural Georgia. Tonight, she plays with Lawyer Dave as Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, and their foot-stomping, Southern-spiced folk reflects her relocation. LYLA ROWEN. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood

[THE LITTLE SIDE PROJECT THAT COULD] Cover songs are never as good as the original. Well, almost never: Consider Chris Robinson and the Black Crowes’ wailing version of Otis Redding’s “Hard to Handle,” which gave way to several decades of roots-rock success. While the Crowes are on an indefinite hiatus, Robinson’s slightly more bluesy Brotherhood is alive and well with their self-proclaimed version of a “folk-blues pie with psychedelic filling.” GRACE STAINBACK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $18. 21+.

time Brian Eno. BRANDON WIDDER. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7 pm. $25. 21+.

SUNDAY, MAY 11 Robert Johnson’s 103rd Birthday Bash

[SEE YOU AT THE CROSSROADS] Had he thought to sell his soul for immunity to strychnine rather than phenomenal blues guitar skills, Robert Johnson might’ve turned 103 this year. Alas, he died at age 27, possibly from poisoning, though that’s never been confirmed.

Nonetheless, the handful of songs he managed to record in his lifetime have granted him a kind of immortality, so score one for devil worship!

A murderer’s row of Portland rootsmusic luminaries—including Terry Robb, Joe McMurrian, Tevis Hodge and the duo of Lewi Longmire and Anita Lee Elliott—gather tonight to pay their respects to the man, the myth and his legend, though not necessarily in that order. MATTHEW SINGER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $20 general admission, $30 preferred seating. 21+.

George Clinton, Ural Thomas & the Pain

[FOUNDING FATHER OF FUNK] James Brown might be the Godfather of Soul, but when it comes to funk, George Clinton fills the role in the Vito Corleone sense of the word. He’s the patriarch of a musical family whose branches intersect with a wide swath of artists, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Clinton produced

their second album) to Talking Heads (they borrowed ParliamentFunkadelic synth-wizard Bernie Worrell for a spell) and the entirety of ’90s West Coast gangsta rap, a genre built from samples of his elastic bounce. If you want to get funked up, there’s still only one man for the job, and he’s the one with rainbow dreads. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $25 advance, $27 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, MAY 12 Damien Jurado, Jerome Holloway

[THE LONESOME WEST] Eleven records into his career, Damien Jurado has dabbled in every flavor of Americana available. On this year’s Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, the Seattle singersongwriter spins quasi-biblical tales of redemption and cosmic longing with a production style that’s uniquely his own: faraway-sounding in production, but cathartic and up-close in impact. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Jacco Gardner, WL, AU Dunes

[ANALOGORRHEA] A multi-instrumentalist prodigy from Zwaag, Netherlands, Jacco Gardner’s immersion within a preciselyappointed Edwardian/Aquarian aesthetic earned tastemaker nods following the remarkable craftsmanship on display throughout 2013

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Astrorgasm From the Inner Space, dropping next month, features tabla-tinged drone that’s eventually sharpened with rock drums just before the aforementioned cosmic orgasm. Enjoy your, um, beer. MITCH LILLIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

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SATURDAY, MAY 10 Satyress, Monica Nelson & the Highgates, Viscious Pleasures, DJ Wes [IN THE MOOD FOR DOOM] Rising Portland doom-metal occultist band Satyress celebrates the formal release of its debut album, Dark Fortunes, which is as hook-filled as it is heavy. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

St. Johns Bizarre

[STREET FAIR] May showers and impending Junuary be damned— street-fair season is here. This fest in St. Johns, that underrated and not-so-far-away North Portland neighborhood, includes a parade, Occidental beer, heaps of vendors, and a sweet music lineup featuring soul group Ural Thomas & the Pain, rapper Illmaculate, and the mariachitinged Edna Vázquez Quartet. St. Johns Business District, stjohnsbizarre.com. 10 am-7 pm. Free.

Helio Sequence

[EPIC TWO-PIECE] It’s been said before that the Helio Sequence’s Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel sound far bigger than a mere duo. Saturated with glimmering analog synths and bright, sinewy guitar riffs, their music becomes more grandiose and operatic with every album. Negotiations, the band’s ace 2012 effort, delivers a flurry of spaciously orchestrated movements covering solitude and atonement, flanked by descending arpeggios and the atmospheric nuances surely indebted to prime-

Danny Brown [DETROIT RAP CITY] If Drake is, as New York Times critic Jon Caramanica wrote last year, “all the emoji: prayer hands, dancing girls, diamond ring, blown kiss, laughing through tears,” then Detroit’s Danny Brown is the drunk smiley face, the mushroom and the smiling cat with heart-shaped eyes—a perma-stoned, violently hilarious and dexterous rapper remaking hip-hop one zany voice at a time. Though his biography might sound familiar—member of a failed early-2000s group called Rese’vor Dogs, brief stint in jail, former drug dealer—the music he makes is of a much weirder ilk. Since dropping free mixtape The Hybrid in 2010, Brown’s been pushing his own blend of sonically adventurous hip-hop, somehow combining J Dilla soul, EDM bombast and twinkling synthscapes with a flow that can go from relaxed and mature to manic in less than the time it takes to switch to the next track. Last year’s Old is his fi rst masterpiece. Split into two distinct sides, it ranges from molly-ravaged club bangers like “Red 2 Go” and the Rustie-assisted “Side B (Dope Song)” to more experimental fare like the mesmerizing “Lonely,” which references Radiohead and opens with the line, “Hipster by heart/ But I can tell you how the streets feel.” Sometimes you have to be a little crazy to make great art. Other times, a lot crazy is even better.

MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-8499. 8 pm Sunday, May 11. $17. All ages.

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debut, Cabinet Of Curiosities. But even the most sincere commitment to affectations won’t make them any less contrived. As music, Gardner’s bouquet of transplanted nuggets, like all hothouse flowers, carry the strain of artifice and lingering whiff of morbidity. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, MAY 13 Karla Bonoff and Jimmy Webb

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] I’ve been holding my breath hoping to see legendary composer Jimmy Webb perform in Portland one of these days. But Webb, whose killer 1996 piano-and-voice collection Ten Easy Pieces is perhaps the best showcase for his epochal repertoire—“Galveston,” “Wichita Lineman,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “MacArthur Park,” “Highwayman,” etc.—shouldn’t have to share the stage with anyone, let alone be second-billed to the talented and cult-beloved but hardly hall-of-fame-worthy Karla Bonoff, who’s known for penning material for the likes of Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt. JEFF ROSENBERG. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $37.50 advance, $40 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Pharmakon, Litanic Mask, Vice Device

[IMPENDING DOOM] Pharmakon, the work of New York native Margaret Chardiet, is a digital nightmare. 2013’s Abandon is a churning maelstrom of noise, bass and synthesizers, creating an abyss for Chardiet’s shrieks to try and claw their way out of. Much like the Haxan Cloak or the Body, the sense of bleakness and dread is almost overwhelming. The effect is captivating: It’s like watching a bloody, desperate victim crawling to escape the killer in a horror movie.

You know exactly how it’s going to end, but you just can’t look away. SAM CUSUMANO. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Mount Salem, Holy Grove, Tsepesch

[DOOMED DAMSELS] Doom metal bands no longer have to search for fallen choirboys and elfish dissidents to front their groups.

There is a natural timbre to many ladies’ pipes that springs like a rainbow from the dark. Case in point: Chicago’s Mount Salem, a quartet recently signed to Metal Blade on the strength of its 2014 release, Endless. The eight tracks are a grooving set of gloom metal, with blues foundations and tuneful melodies that split the difference between Dead Meadow psych and Candlemass monumentality.

NATHAN CARSON. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 9 pm. $6. 21+.

Old 97’s, Nikki Lane

[TEXAS HEAT] By the time Old 97’s released their first record, the word “alternative” had lost all meaning as it pertains to rock music. Relative to country, however, the “alt-country” tag still feels real when this Texas quartet is at the wheel. All the benchmarks that made the punkers a true alternative to Garth Brooks are in order on the forthcoming Most Messed Up: rollicking percussion, ramshackle cocktails of torched emotion and dueling Telecasters that make Brad Paisley sound like Kenny G. No Texan in their right mind would cop to this fact, but this is likely what Jimmy Eat World would sound like if it had come out of the Lone Star State. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Portland Baroque Orchestra

[CONCERTI BIZZARRI] In mostly sunny music ideally suited for spring, the historically informed Portland Baroque Orchestra plays rarely heard concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi and the less famous but still fab German composer Johann Friedrich Fasch, arranged for unusual combos of instruments. But with internationally renowned PBO stars Gonzalo Ruiz on oboes and Monica Huggett on violin, the quality remains as strong as the repertoire is strange. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, May 9-10. First Baptist Church, SW Taylor at 12th Ave. 3 pm Sunday, May 11. $19-$64.

Amy Cervini, the Julians

[JAZZ-CLASSICAL VOX] That other Canadian-born jazz chanteuse isn’t Kralling the Schnitz stage, but in this intimate setting, Amy Cervini offers her own rewards: stylish vocals descended from Blossom Dearie, delivered in both her native land’s main languages no less. Now based in New York, the Downbeat Awardwinning, Toronto-born singer brings guitarist Jesse Lewis and bassist Matt Aronoff and songs from her new album, Jazz Country.

On a few songs there’s a stellar backup vocal quartet in Portland’s own Julians, top-level classical singers who open the show with their venturesome excursions in and beyond contemporary classical composers into Björk, Britney, Gillian Welch, the Shirelles and more. BRETT CAMPBELL. Shaker and Vine, 2929 SE Powell Blvd., 231-8466. 8 pm Friday, May 9. $10.

Mahler’s Song of the Earth

[SONG 0SYMPHONY] Gustav Mahler’s life and career straddled the cusp of classical music being wrested from baroque tradition and given new forms of expression, and “Das Lied von der Erde” is one of his final great works. This piece, composed in 1908 to 1909, was the first to integrate song cycle and symphony. Positioned between his eighth and ninth symphonies, “Das Lied von der Erde” is a large-scale work featuring two voices, with text based on translations of ancient Chinese verse.

Mahler’s inspiration came from a series of tragedies: his ousting from the Vienna Court Opera (due to anti-Semitism), the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of a heart defect. It’s little wonder the six poems he interpreted are based on themes of misery, loneliness, youth, beauty, spring and farewells. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 10, 8 pm Monday, May 12. $22-$98. All ages.

Piano! Push Play!

[PARTICIPATORY PIANO] Last summer, you might have noticed an invasion of pianos in various public spaces. Blame Piano Push Play, an organization founded by irrepressible Portland musician Megan McGeorge and dedicated to making it easier for anyone to play and hear piano music. This concert celebrates the release of Please Play Me!, an album featuring 10 young Portland pianists and some guest artists from the jazz, pop and classical worlds who all participated in last summer’s public events. Even audience members (pianists and composers) can participate. BRETT CAMPBELL. Portland State University, Lincoln Hall, Room 121, 1620 SW Park Ave. 4 pm Saturday, May 10. Free.

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oh darlIng: (From left) daven hall, Jasmine ash, J. Marie, Jake Endicott.

OH DARLING SATURDAY, MAY 10 Almost any write-up you can find on Oh Darling describes the Portland band with a few choice synonyms: “Cute.” “Adorable.”

“Cheerios in chocolate milk.” It’s like reading reviews for the Frozen soundtrack.

Good thing the band basks in its reputation for sugarcoated indie pop. For the quartet, the music is just a reflection of the feelings the band members get when making music together—which are, unsurprisingly, joyful.

“I guess it’s just built into us,” says guitarist Daven Hall.

“We’re all pretty easygoing, happy people. When we play, it’s like a family get-together. We just try to keep it upbeat.”

When it comes to Beauty in Commotion, Oh Darling’s latest exercise in cheeriness, “upbeat” is an understatement. Even Hall admits that no matter how bold he and the rest of the group tried to be in the studio, vocalist Jasmine Ash always brought them back to Candy Land with her soft, enchanting swoons.

Her voice is reminiscent of Lauren Mayberry’s of Chvrches, just five octaves higher. If things don’t work out for Oh Darling, Ash could have a second career recording lullabies.

“I think the catchiest part of the songs are Jasmine’s melodies,” Hall says. “Her voice is key. That’s our sound.”

Modest as Hall is, the group’s appeal extends beyond one voice and into a much more powerful resource: relationships.

Hall is married to bassist J. Marie, who has been good friends with Ash since before the group formed in 2006. They’ve been one big, happy family ever since, packing their bags and moving to Los Angeles in 2010. Naturally, sunshine and palm trees only ripened their jubilance, making way for media crossovers via placements on a litany of TV shows, including Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and Grey’s Anatomy.

“We didn’t have to change our sound; these people just got what we did,” Hall says. “It made it a lot easier for us, because we could still do the stuff that we wanted to.”

But the allure of endless sunbaths and post-show tours of wine country—not an easy task in a tour van, Hall says—still couldn’t shake the group from its Northwest roots. After making several trips back to Portland to record at the studio inside the Secret Society, the group decided it was time to come home permanently.

“In L.A., it feels like the people are just there to study you when they’re watching you play. There’s just so much going on,” Hall says. “Portland is just a supportive place. When we play here, it feels especially good.”

But the feel-good family’s latest studio effort still owes a great deal to the Golden State. When preparing Beauty in Commotion, the members of Oh Darling shared an apartment where they could write and test new songs at any given moment. With endless opportunities to experiment, the group wound up with more songs than it knew what to do with.

“It’s been an interesting process for us to pick the best songs,” Hall says, “but there’s some that always get left behind.”

There will most likely be an Oh Darling EP released in the near future, but why settle for that? There are already rumors of Frozen 2, after all. ANDREW STEINBEISER. Not even L.A. could bum out Portland’s shiniest, happiest band.

SEE IT: Oh Darling plays the Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., with Sean Flinn & the Royal We and DJ Cooky Parker, on Saturday, May 10. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

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[MAY 7-13] Star Theater

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13 NW 6th Ave. Orgone vs. Monophonics, DJ Knutz

Bunk Bar

The Conga Club

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

3341 SE Belmont St. Pictorals, Navaronne Bandit, Sioux Falls

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Ian Christensen Trio, The Wishermen, The Crenshaw

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Mimi Naja Trois, Jay Cobb Anderson Band, Asher Fulero Band

The Grand Cafe & andrea’s Cha Cha Club

al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Victor

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Michael Nesmith

alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Jerry Joseph Benefit for Rock School Kabul

alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Dead Gurus, Million Brazilians, Hollow Sidewalks, Mona Lisa Overdrive

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Fenix Project

Boon’s Treasury

888 Liberty St. NE Mark Alan

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Lo Fang, Kate Berlant

duff’s Garage

2530 SE 82nd Ave Suburban Slim’s Blues, Woodlander

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Ed and the Red Red’s, Aaron Mark Brown

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Michael Berly and Friends

Gemini Bar & Grill

456 N State St. Jacob Merlin and Sarah Billings

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Battle For Warped Tour: From The Eyes Of Cain, Walter & The Conqueror, Fighting Silence, Without AC

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Fez Fatale

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet

715 NW 23rd Ave George Colligan Trio

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday, with Jake Ray & the Cowdogs

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Pete Kartsounes (9 pm); Andrea and the Enablers (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Catherine Feeny & Chris Johnedis

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave Ty Dolla $ign, Joe Moses, Mila J

Rock Creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Billy D

Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza

1785 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Jim Pepper Project

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Jeremiah Clark, Billy Mixer & Carmen Cooper

Slabtown

dante’s

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band

350 W Burnside St. Counterfeit Cash, Ripe Red Apples

wonder Ballroom

duff’s Garage

128 NE Russell St. Stephen ‘Ragga’ Marley, Jo Mersa and Wayne Marshall

THuRS. May 8 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Victor

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Wishbone Ash

alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Taarka

alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. East Forest: Ethernet and Strangeweather

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Vandies, Kings and Vagabonds

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Jack Dwyer, Ellie Hakanson and Sam Weiss

1033 NW 16th Ave. Erik Anarchy, Fluid Spill, Chronicles of Bad Butch, Godbless America

Blue diamond

The GoodFoot Lounge

320 SE 2nd Ave. Bermuda, Aenimus, Aechoes, The Odious and Hail the Artilect

2845 SE Stark St. Dusu Mali

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Thee Nodes, Crime Zone

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Whim Grace

Tillicum Restaurant & Bar 8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Hwy. High Boltage

white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Anna Spackman, Matt French

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Ben Jones and Friends

Branx

Broadway Rose New Stage auditorium 12850 SW Grant Ave. The Bikinis

Chapel Pub

430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Mesi & Bradley

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Lo-Fang

2530 SE 82nd Ave Joe McMurrian, Tough Love Pyle

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Sonny Hess

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Christopher John Mead and Friends

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame Induction Concert, Honoring Gordon Lee, Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Honky Tonk Union

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. A Happy Death, Monk Warrior, Belda Beast

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. A Mile To Go, Katelyn Convery (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Magnolia’s Corner

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Doug Shafer

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Chris Kokesh & Lincoln Crockett, Mo Phillips

Mississippi Studios

904 NW Couch Jordan Harris & Christie Bradley

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. We Miss the Earth, Black is Bright, Appendixes

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Calico the Band

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Michael Allen Harrison, Piano

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. The Druthers

The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. The Leni Stern Trio, Aliounne Faye and Mamadou Ba

2126 SW Halsey St. Mark Alan

Gemini Bar & Grill

456 N State St. Andrew Paul Woodworth

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Blessthefall, Silverstein, The Amity Affliction, Secrets, Heartist

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Moog, Solovox

Hotel Oregon

310 NE Evans St. Billy D

Tony Starlight’s Supper Club

Jimmy Mak’s

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Hot Club of Hawthorne

The Red and Black Cafe

400 SE 12th Ave. Wandering

The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Women With Standards

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Greg Kihn

white eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Mission Spotlight, Medallion, Sarah Gwen Band

wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Kadavar, the Shrine

FRi. May 9 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Victor

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Sarah Jarosz

alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Eilen Jewell, Zoe Muth

alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. The Ghost Ease, Tummy, Hers

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Good Sons, The Hoons,Bear Planet

Ballad Town Billards 2036 Pacific Ave. Mick Schafer

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Matthew Lindley

Blue diamond

Splash Bar Hawaiian Grill

2530 SE 82nd Ave Tana & the Tarrantulas

8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

edgefield

Jade Lounge

Ringlers Pub

1033 NW 16th Ave. Stovokor, Venkman, Jedi Scum, Under 15 Seconds

duff’s Garage

The Muddy Rudder Public House

1800 E Burnside St. White Bear Polar Tundra

The Know

Biddy McGraw’s

Slabtown

350 W Burnside St. Night Beats

eastBurn

8775 SW Canyon Ln. Franco Paletta & The Stingrays

Jade Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Dusty 45s, Sioux City Kid, the Lonesome Billies 1332 W Burnside The Windshield Vipers

dante’s

The Lehrer

203 SE Grand Ave. Satyress, Monica Nelson and The Highgates

Tigardville Station

8775 SW Canyon Ln. Angela Davise CD Release Party

wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Muthaship

east end

2026 NE Alberta St. Tyvek, Fireballs of Freedom, Hooded Hags

Hotel Oregon

The Lehrer

Jo Rotisserie & Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Pony Village, Doe Eye

The Know

832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band 2026 NE Alberta St. San Onofre Lizards, Pill Wonder, Landlines

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12850 SW Grant Ave. The Bikinis

The Blue Monk

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Dina y Los Rumberos

CeLeBuCHeFS: Macaulay Culkin, “david Toby” and deenah Volmer (from left) of the Pizza underground at Mississippi Studios on april 29. “it wouldn’t be accurate to call the Pizza underground a ‘vanity project.’ it’s more of an art-school prank, perpetrated by a bored rich kid who has little else to do.” Read the full review at wweek.com.

Broadway Rose New Stage auditorium

6000 NE Glisan St. Fire Weeds 2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Melanie Roy Band

Boon’s Treasury

888 Liberty St. NE The King Dot Otis Heat

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Chiodos, Emarosa, Hands Like Houses, Our Last Night and 68

310 NE Evans St. Anna Tivel, Jeffery Martin 2342 SE Ankeny St. Chris Juhlin

Jantzen Beach Bar & Grill

909 N. Hayden Island Dr. 5 Guys Named Moe

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. 80s Prom with Radical Revolution

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Bitterroot, the Moonshine (9:30 pm); Joe McMurrian and Woodbrain (6 pm)

Magnolia’s Corner

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Wendy Biscuit

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Pura Vida Band

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Acid Mothers Temple, Perhaps

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombart St. Sam Klass

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave Devin The Dude, Berner, Potluck

Rock Creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Richard Cranium & The Phoreheads

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Tritional and Paris Blohm, Seven Lions

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Jeni Wren, 1000 Fuego, Frizz

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Amy Cervini, The Julians

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Hong Kong Banana, Tom Heinl, Roselit Bone

12370 SW Main Street Hot Tea Cold

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Shanghai Woolies Prohibition Party

Trail’s end Saloon 1320 Main Street JR Sims

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Toque Libre

white eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Giant Bug Village, Stan McMahon Band, Herman Jolly

wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Jean Ronne Jazz Trio

wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Chris Robinson Brotherhood

SaT. May 10 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Drew Victor

arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Mahler’s Song of the Earth, Oregon Symphony

ash Street Saloon

2342 SE Ankeny St. Amanda Richards, Gena Perala 221 NW 10th Ave. The Paul Creighton Project

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Souvenir Driver

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Boys Club, Lord Master, The Of

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Saucytown, Land of the Living (9:30 pm); the Yellers (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. POPgoji and Passion Fruit, Samsel & the Skirt

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Modern Kin, MRS

Mock Crest Tavern

3435 N Lombart St. Claes Almroth & Friends

Portland Metro arts 9003 SE Stark St. The Skylark Tappers present Music & Sole

Portland State university Lincoln Hall

1620 SW Park Ave. Piano! Push Play!

225 SW Ash St. Dark Country, Dinner for Wolves, Old Kingdom

Ringlers Pub

Blue diamond

Rock Creek Tavern

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Head Hunters

Boon’s Treasury

888 Liberty St. NE Blue Skies for Black Hearts

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Alive Like Me and Nightmares, Pvris, Divides and The Fireside Story

Broadway Rose New Stage auditorium 12850 SW Grant Ave. The Bikinis

Calapooia Brewing

1332 W Burnside Floating Pointe 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Strawberry Roan

Secret Society Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Oh Darling, Sean Flinn and The Royal We, DJ Agent Meow

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Zero Boys, Mean Jeans, Chemicals, Rotties

St. Johns Business district

St. Johns Bizarre

Star Theater

Star Theater

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Elite

13 NW 6th Ave. Epiphany: An Expression of West Coast Female Talent, Natasha Kmeto, Laura Ivancie, Linda Brown and Selectress Intigatah

dante’s

The Blue Monk

Starday Tavern

350 W Burnside St. Who’s Bad

St. Stephen’s Catholic Church 1112 SE 41st Avenue Cantores in Ecclesia 13 NW 6th Ave. Break of Reality 6517 SE Foster Road Dave Stoops & The Quags

140 Hill St. NE Scott Dalton

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

duff’s Garage

2530 SE 82nd Ave Soul Vaccination

3341 SE Belmont St. All the Apparatus, The Horde and the Harem, Justin Stark

The Horse Radish 211 W. Main St. Chris Lay

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1937 SE 11th Ave. Coronation, Blesst Chest, Rllbll

The GoodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Garcia Birthday Band

The Horse Radish 211 W. Main St. Rainbirds

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. And And And, Old Light, XDS

The Lehrer

8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Jim Mesi Band

The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Joe McMurrian

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. The Helio Sequence

The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Big Monti

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. MacMinn and Bare

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

2 SW Naito Pkwy.

Carley Baer and Friends

Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet

$5.00 at the door.

9pm. 21 & Over

STOVOKOR VENKMAN JEDI SCUM UNDER 15 SECONDS $6.00 at the door.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 9pm. 21 & Over

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKEOFFS HONG KONG BANANA TOM HEINL ROSELIT BONE

$10.00 advance tickets. $12.00 at the door.

SATURDAY, MAY 10 9pm. 21 & Over

ZERO BOYS MEAN JEANS CHEMICALS ROTTIES

Advance tix: http://holdmyticket.com/ event/170112 $10.00 advance tickets. $12.00 at the door.

TUESDAY, MAY 13 9pm. 21 & Over

MOUNT SALEM HOLY GROVE TSEPESCH

$6.00 at the door.

Falafel House: 3 to Late–Night All Ages Shows: Every Sunday 8–11pm Free Pinball Feeding Frenzy: Saturday @ 3pm

WITHIN SPITTING DISTANCE OF THE PEARL

1033 NW 16TH AVE. (971) 229-1455 OPEN: 3–2:30AM EVERY DAY

HAPPY HOUR: MON–FRI NOON–7PM PoP-A-Shot • PinbAll • Skee-bAll Air hockey • Free Wi-Fi

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SUN. MAY 11 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Steelhead)

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Stephen Stills

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Robert Johnson’s 103rd Birthday Bash

Andina Restaurant

1314 NW Glisan Jenny Finn Orchestra

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Virtual Zero, Satan Spelled Backwards

Broadway Rose New Stage Auditorium 12850 SW Grant Ave. The Bikinis

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Lewi Longmire & Anita Lee Eliott

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Rd. The Barefoot Band

Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Bob Shoemaker

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Broods, Meg Myers, Holiday Friends

Star Bar

Reed College

The Lehrer

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Portland Baroque Orchestra Concert: Concerti Bizzarri

Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Hanz Araki

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Danny Brown

Rotture

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday 8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Jazzshack

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

TUES. MAY 13 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Steelhead)

315 SE 3rd Ave. Trapdoor Social, Alan Park & the Nineteenth Floor, Slow Children

Aladdin Theater

Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza

Alberta Street Public House

1785 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Jim Pepper Project

Secret Society Ballroom

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Karla Bonoff & Jimmy Webb

1036 NE Alberta St. Shoeshine Blue, Denim Wedding, Barry Brusseau

116 NE Russell St. Rattletrap Ruckus, Three for Silver, Poor Old Shine

Ash Street Saloon

Slabtown

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

836 N Russell St. Crown the Eagle Festival: Chervona, DoveDriver, Eric Stern

THURSDAY, MAY 8

Mississippi Studios

Trail’s End Saloon

White Eagle Saloon

8pm. All Ages

3552 N. Mississippi Ave Steve Kerrin

The Know

1320 Main Street JR Sims

BACK ROOM DIY SHOW! ERIK ANARCHY FLUID SPILL CHRONICLES OF BAD BUTCH GODBLESS AMERICA FERAL DROLLERY

Mississippi Pizza Pub

Tony Starlight’s Supper Club

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Midnight Senenaders

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7

MAY 7–13

2026 NE Alberta St. Neighbor Wave, Lady Wolf

2 SW Naito Pkwy.

Cardboard Songsters

Vie De Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Eddie Parente, Owen James Quartet

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston

MON. MAY 12 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Sloan Martin (of Steelhead)

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Howe Gelb, Grant-Lee Phillips

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Mahler’s Song of the Earth, Oregon Symphony

Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Hot Tea Cold

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Damien Jurado, Jerome Holloway

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Primal Fear, Earth To Ashes, Splintered Throne

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Joe Baker’s Jelly Roll Jamboree, Jacob Miller and The Bridge City Crooners, How Long Jug Band and Zach Bryson

225 SW Ash St. Ian and The Crushers 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Frances Cone, NTN

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Connan Mockasin, Kirin J Callinan

Duff’s Garage

2530 SE 82nd Ave Sharskin Revue

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Pete Krebs

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Wayne Static, Otep, Dope, Smile Empty Soul, Thira

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Audio Tattoo

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Benny Golson Quartet, Mel Brown Septet

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. What About Us, Houswife

Lola’s Room

1332 W Burnside The Roseland Hunters

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Pharmakon, Litanic Mask, Vice Device

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Mount Salem, Holy Grove, Tsepesch

Starday Tavern

6517 SE Foster Road Joe Baker & Bakersfield Rejects

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Pagan Jug Band,

The GoodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. The Family Funktion

Jade Lounge

Jimmy Mak’s

LaurelThirst Public House

Landmark Saloon

2026 NE Alberta St. Arctic Flowers, Mea Culpa, Piss Test, Old City

LaurelThirst Public House

White Eagle Saloon

Mississippi Studios

128 NE Russell St. Old 97’s

2342 SE Ankeny St. Djo Fortunato

2958 NE Glisan St. Smooth Hound Smith (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Lewis & Clark College, Agnes Flanagan Chapel 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd Pictures at an Exhibtion, Portland Chamber Orchestra

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio 4847 SE Division St. Well Swung

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Peter Pants (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jacco Gardner, WL/ Au Dunes

The Know

836 N Russell St. Sneaky Bones, Nature Thief, Less Cash

Wonder Ballroom

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THREE’S A CROWD: “Are you guys with Nike?” Nope. “Oh, OK, because there’s a group of like 40 Nike people coming in soon.” It’s 8:30 on a Wednesday night, and when the corporate retreat arrives, there will be approximately 42 patrons inside Chinatown’s Easy Company (329 NW Couch St., 229-7468, facebook.com/oldtowneasycompany). The narrow bar was carved from the back of the old Ping space, which is now a commissary kitchen for the Lardo sandwich empire, which provides its pork-belly sandwiches fresher here than anywhere. The bar has been well-appointed with gorgeous wood floors, walls and stools, plus on-trend wooden folding chairs, candles and two long, comfy banquettes. The cocktail menu aspires toward upward mobility with a long slate of original cocktails (avoid the Pilsner Vs. Aperol) listed on a menu that doubles as a recipe book (“Fennel Fantasy: 1.5 ounces of Aviation gin, 1/4 ounce of Pernod absinthe, 1/2 ounce of fresh lime juice, 3 ounces of fresh extracted fennel juice, 1/2 ounce of simple syrup”). It feels like a place Beavertrons go for happy hour before taking the train home, or a chic corporate events space designed to make visiting Nike clients feel like they got the Portland experience without actually bothering any Portlanders. MARTIN CIZMAR.

• BREAKING NEWS • GEO-LOCATING BAR AND RESTAURANT REVIEWS • CITY GUIDES

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Verified: 2DEEP, Gang$ign$, Benny Rox, Token, Danny Merkury

Moloko Plus

WED. MAY 7 Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave. Grae Bae: nickbynickjacobs, Michèl St. Michèl

CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Robb, Trick

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz

Harlem Portland

220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jack

Harlem Portland

3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Cuica

Holocene

421 SE Grand Ave. Musick for Mannequins

220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Tourmaline, DJ Valen 1001 SE Morrison St. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul: DJ Beyondadoubt

The Lovecraft

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. DJ Icey

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Strictly Vinyl, DJ Strategy

FRI. MAY 9 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge

SUN. MAY 11 The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Rapture, DJ Finger Bang & Dungeon Master

MON. MAY 12

Holocene

219 NW Davis St. DJ Jakob Jay, Sweat Fridays

Moloko Plus

1001 SE Morrison St. Bubblin’: DJ Spinn & Taso, DJ Technics, Nguzunguzu, Ben Tactic, Lincolnup

The Know

Moloko Plus

The Lovecraft

1001 SE Morrison St. PDneXt: Rabit, Nom Sayin, Danny Corn, Graintable, Plumblyne 3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Douggie Grime

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon

THURS. MAY 8 Berbati

19 SW 2nd Ave. Study Hall: DJ Suga Shane

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Rd. Flex Logic

Holocene

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hans Fricking Lindauer Rhythm and Soul Review, King Tim 33 1/3

SAT. MAY 10 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Revolution, DJ Robb

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Rd. DJ Ashby Scaggs, DJ Cee White and DJ Brian Tod d

CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday, With DJ Robb 2026 NE Alberta St. Magnetic 421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

TUES. MAY 13 Analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

S.Y.N.T. Weekly Dubstep Night

The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd.

DJ Easy Finger

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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 OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Ain’t Misbehavin

Stumptown Stages ends its season with the ever-popular music revue celebrating Fats Waller and other musicians of the Harlem Renaissance. Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-2731530. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 25. $28.65-$49.75.

Fancy Nancy

Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a musical, best for kids 4 and up, about a girl who dreams of playing a mermaid in the school recital—and is then cast as a tree instead. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571.

2 and 5 pm Saturdays and 11 am and 2 pm Sundays through June 1. $15-$30.

The Jim Pepper Project

Jim Pepper was a Native American saxophonist who grew up in Oregon, producing music that fused jazz, pop and traditional Native music. Some of his songs found mainstream success— 1969’s “Witchi Tai To” is the only song in the history of the Billboard charts to feature a Native chant—but Pepper died from cancer in 1992 at the age of 40. This original Triangle Productions show, conceived and directed by Don Horn, explores how Pepper managed to meld musical styles, and it features a Native American cast, local stomp dancers and, of course, plenty of Pepper’s songs. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919.

7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays (no show Sunday, May 11) through May 31. $15-$35.

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff

Multitalented performer Alicia Jo Rabins—she’s a poet, singer and violinist, and a Torah scholar to boot— presents an encore performance of her experimental song cycle that examines the crimes of Bernie Madoff in unconventional ways. In this work—which Rabins calls a “detective story” of economic collapse—she explores the intersection of finance and spirituality, setting Buddhist texts and Jewish prayers to original music and drawing on interviews with those affected by the Madoff scandal. Combining spoken word and live violin with electronic effects such as a loop pedal, Rabins creates an entrancing, enlightening performance. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday and 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, May 8-11. $20-$35.

The Pirates of Penzance

When Oregon Shakespeare Festival artistic director Bill Rauch staged this fizzy Gilbert&Sullivan musical in Ashland in 2011, he scored a major hit that earned praise for its comic precision and freewheeling sense of fun. Now, fresh off Broadway—he just directed Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way—he’s reworked the production for Portland Opera. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Friday, May 9; 2 pm Sunday, May 11; 7:30 pm Thursday, May 15; and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 17. $48.45-$174.70.

Private Lives

The final production of Bag&Baggage’s indoor season is Noel Coward’s classic comedy about a divorced couple that winds up in adjacent rooms on their respective honeymoons. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 30. $26-$30.

Sex, Death & Springsteen

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aspiring writer named Jack tries to win over the girl of his dreams, but only after stealing back his soul from some diabolical restaurateurs. He also meets a hip-hop ghost and finds a spirit guide. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm FridaySunday, May 9-11. $5.

States of Emergency

Last season, Defunkt presented two plays in repertory that explored themes of homosexuality. Director Jon Kretzu returns for two more thematically linked shows, this time centering on our reactions to violence and barbarity: Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies, a triptych of grim tales about failed relationships and schoolyard massacres; and Betty’s Summer VacationbyChristopher Durang, a black comedy about a group of guests— including a gay serial killer, a flasher and a horny cad—at a beach house.

Both plays are Portland premieres. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 14 (no show May 11 or June 6); see defunktheatre.com for complete schedule. $15-$25 sliding scale Fridays-Saturdays; “pay what you can” Thursdays and Sundays.

Tales Worth Telling: Once Upon the Human Experience

Graduates of Domeka Parker’s storytelling course present their final solo performances, which might range from a straightforward narrative to a wacky piece of theater art. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm Saturday, May 10. $5.

NEW REVIEWS After the Revolution

The junction of the personal and the political grows knotty in Amy Herzog’s finely observed if not altogether satisfying family drama After the Revolution. It’s the cynical late ’90s in Boston, and Emma (Jennifer Rowe), the daughter of lifelong Marxists and a recent law-school grad, has just learned her grandfather wasn’t the incorruptible hero she’d thought.

An activist who was blacklisted for refusing to name names during the Red-baiting era, Joe Joseph, it turns out, was feeding information to the Soviets. This revelation throws Emma, who’s just established a legal fund in Joe’s name to fight social injustice, into a tizzy. But considering that her grandfather was a Jewish intellectual in Greenwich Village, is his espionage really that alarming? Emma’s explosive reaction feels implausible, resulting in stakes that are never more than anemic. It also undercuts the play’s worthwhile questions: What do we do when our childhood understandings are fundamentally flipped? How do we balance idealism and pragmatism?

The structure doesn’t help, either. The play has 17 short scenes, separated by overlong blackouts and music so twee you half expect a romper-clad Zooey Deschanel to spring out of the wings and into the tastefully appointed living room. Still, the the performances in this Portland Playhouse production, directed by Tamara Fisch, are absorbing, even if they felt over-rehearsed on opening night. The undisputed standout is the great Vana O’Brien, who plays Joe’s widow, Vera—a character based on Herzog’s own grandmother— as both moral compass and fount of wry humor. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 1. $25-$36.

The Last Five Years

The Last Five Years begins at the end of a love story—but also at the beginning. That might sound like a sappy rom-com tag line, but don’t be mis-

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taken: This two-character musical, presented by Portland Center Stage and directed by Nancy Keystone, features separate timelines, one going forward and the other backward, as our couple falls in and out of love (or out of and into love). Written by Jason Robert Brown in 2002, the musical travels forward with Jamie, a successful writer who has just fallen in love with Cathy, and in reverse with Cathy, a struggling actress shattered by the end of her marriage to Jamie. The music easily interlaces moody jazz, upbeat pop and wrenching ballads, leading the audience through snapshots of interactions and emotions. One moment, we ache at Cathy’s hope-tinged sadness as she sits with Jamie and tries to fix their problems. At another, we see a widearmed Jamie dancing on the table as he confesses he’s going to ask Cathy to move in with him. It’s an interesting parallel to witness such tonally varied scenes one after the other, and it allows the audience to understand both of the characters’ stories without choosing sides. Though it’s occasionally disappointing that the characters don’t really interact with each other—their timelines intersect only once—Merideth Kaye Clark and Drew Harper give wonderfully natural performances, and The Last Five Years allows for a simultaneously bright and heartbreaking look into the development and failure of a relationship between two everyday people. KAITIE TODD. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays and noon Thursdays through June 22. $30-$60.

Maple and Vine

Maple and Vine is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of what might happen if you could abandon your iPhone, daily latte and personal vibrator and retreat to a gated community where everyone lives as if it’s 1955. That’s just what happens in Jordan Harrison’s 2011 play, presented by CoHo in an uneven but provocative production directed by Megan Kate Ward. New York City power couple Katha, a publishing executive, and Ryu, a plastic surgeon, find themselves overwhelmed by a late-term miscarriage and the anonymity that comes with life in the big city, so they give it up for a world where she becomes a kitchenbound housewife and he can’t be anything more than a box maker thanks to his race. But why? Harrison fails to investigate why the couple would make such an extreme choice, and this jarring decision is aggravated by Heath Hyun Houghton and Melissa Schenter’s selfconscious and stagy portrayal of their characters’ depression, with Houghton at one point confusing angry, full-body shaking for the paralyzing grief his lines suggest. Interestingly, though, the actors’ self-conscious staginess works in the second act: Once they acknowledge the ridiculousness of the decision to live in an artificially halted world, they’re freer to connect with the audience. There’s plenty else here to redeem the production, including the charming period-appropriate dialogue (“Oh, Dean, sometimes you just razz my berries”), Spencer Conway’s captivating turn as a man who becomes heartbreakingly aware of how living in the gated community has changed him, and the overarching examination of how to live purposefully. LAURA HANSON. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 24. $15-$25.

Show Boat

Considering it was first brought to the stage in 1927, Show Boat addresses some controversial questions, including interracial marriage, gambling addiction and race relations in the South. But like any good musical comedy, it manages to tie up the messy loose ends in a colorful bow, and with a high-stepping musical number. The Jerome KernOscar Hammerstein show also contributed some beloved songs to the musical theater catalog, including “Ol’ Man River” and “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” which this Lakewood Theatre Company cast performs capably enough. A few voices stand

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PREVIEW PETER GIORDANO

PERFORMANCE

Paint it WHite: Butoh artist Diego Piñón.

PUENTE (DIEGO PIÑÓN) On an August afternoon in the high desert of central Mexico more than a decade ago, Portland butoh performer Mizu Desierto found herself blindfolded and tied together with 14 other people. Running after Mexican butoh artist Diego Piñón, listening for the sound of his bell over the squawking chickens and mariachi music in the distance, the group was led toward a cave.

There, still blindfolded, they crawled their way over the damp, cool rocks to the point of exhaustion. Then Piñón told them to scream for their mothers.

“I remember vividly knowing I was inside the earth, squatting on the ground like a primordial human,” Desierto says. “This work creates something beyond any hallucinogenic experience. I don’t know what the hell it is.”

Piñón, 57, has been doing whatever the hell this is for 30 years, creating butoh pieces influenced by northern Mexican shamanic traditions.

His work is marked by shaking and anguished contortions—he incorporates similar pressure points to qigong and acupuncture—but also pops of humor. He was Desierto’s first butoh teacher and has worked with her both in the U.S. and his native Mexico for the past 17 years. On Sunday, May 11, he’ll perform a solo piece called Puente, or “bridge,” that aims to reflect his various senses of identity: his Mexican and Spanish heritage, his affinity for Jewish traditions, how he feels differently while in the U.S. or Europe or Japan. In the piece, he rides a toy horse, a reference to his childhood. He wears a clump of seaweed as a wig, an allusion to trips to the beach with his mother. But more important to Piñón than such props are the obscure spaces between our identities—those zones that are like decompression chambers between two environments, or airplanes between two cities.

“Literally what happens to the body when you go into the plane,” Piñón says. “In a very short time, reality changes abruptly. During the transit, the bridge, my body experiences many, many, many things.” He waves his arms as if in a whirlwind. “Whooooooshhh.”

Piñón studied with Kazuo Ohno, one of the founders of butoh, but he’s still a bit of an anomaly for the form, which was pioneered in Japan during the ’60s. Typically characterized by agonizingly slow movement, near nudity and white body paint, it is austere improvisation seemingly detached from anything human, though its goal is to dredge up feelings that are often hidden—kind of like conjuring dreams.

While the Japanese do this by focusing on paintings or drawings, Piñón, who grew up dancing mambo and cha-cha in the streets of his central Mexican hometown of Tlalpujahua, takes a more unorthodox approach and concentrates on emotions. That’s why Desierto thinks he connects better with American audiences.

“In the West, we’ve cultivated our emotion,” says Desierto, who’s studied butoh in Japan with Kazuo Ohno’s son Yoshito. “We work with our passion, our lamentation.”

Piñón interjects: “But as well to get to the other side of it.” One of the goals of butoh is for the performer to feel empty, as if drained of everyday thoughts and emotions.

Piñón says he approaches this goal counterintuitively by focusing on becoming so full of emotion he feels ready to explode. “We need to learn to do it organically,” he says. “Otherwise we only imitate the Japanese people. I am interested in really connecting, to create the bridge between our emotions and our emptiness.” AARON SPENCER. Bridging the gap, with shamanism and seaweed.

see it: Diego Piñón performs Puente at the Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 404-2350. 7 pm Sunday, May 11. $15-$30.

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ALSO PLAYING The Bikinis

A musical called The Bikinis about a ‘60s girl group reuniting as middleaged women might fill your mind with images of sagging bodies squeezed into skimpy two-pieces. But that isn’t what you’ll get in this Broadway Rose production. The musical centers on four bandmates as they reconvene at a benefit concert for their childhood beach resort, which a real-estate mogul is threatening to buy up. Though occasionally interrupted by the women’s chatter about adolescence on the Jersey shore, the plot is little more than a flimsy clothesline on which to hang peppy oldies. Still, the four stars turn in strong performances as they bring the audience up to speed on their lives post-girl group, from the Vietnam War to the disco era, marking each period with a song—think ”I’m Every Woman,” “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” and “It’s Raining Men.” LAURA HANSON. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through May 18. $20-$38.

Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo

In Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, which premiered in 1959, audiences were introduced to Peter and Jerry, two opposites living in New York who share in a dramatic—though not altogether unexpected—tragedy. In an effort to give more context to Peter, a shy textbook editor, Albee penned a follow-up in 2004 that would act as something of a prologue to the original play. Gorilla Bomb’s production of this combined play develops Peter’s story by exploring his uneasy relationship with his wife, Ann, as they try (and frequently fail) to communicate. Ann (a wonderfully animated Sara Fay Goldman, who also directs) is aching for a little madness in their lives, but this desire is often curbed by her tentative and inattentive partner, who likes things the way they are. The two connect and then clash, and Ann’s gentle prodding of Peter helps to illuminate what happens next. In the second act, Peter meets Jerry (an absorbing Edward Lyons Jr.), a frenetic transient who speaks with Aaron Sorkin-like speed and pokes Peter with challenging questions until he explodes. Contained in a small set with minimalist scenery, the production offers an intimate exploration of love, cruelty, complacency and the animal side of all of us. KAITIE TODD. Shout House, 210 SE Madison St., Ste. 11. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday, April 25-27; Thursday-Monday, May 1-5; and Thursday-Saturday, May 8-10. $10.

The Giver

Oregon Children’s Theatre premiered this adaptation of Lois Lowry’s seminal young-adult novel about a dystopian society back in 2006, and now the company brings it back for another run. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 18. $10-$28.

Jump at the Sun

For its newest show, Well Arts collected oral histories from three generations of African-American women

in Portland. Those stories will be performed by a quartet of professional actors. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 459-4500.

7:30 pm Fridays and 2 pm Saturdays through May 10. $5-$10.

Little Red “Riding Hood”

In this doo-wop-inflected production at Northwest Children’s Theater, Little Red has been reimagined as a girl who dreams of racing cars. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturdays-Sundays and 7 pm some Fridays through May 26. $13-$22.

Othello

Othello can be a bit of a tough sell.

Not only is it one of Shakespeare’s most racially insensitive plays (and that’s saying something), but even the most credulous audience member might wonder why the title character, a warrior with a reputation for bravery and a Moor known for his passion can be so easily persuaded to think the worst of his great love. The key to our willingness to suspend disbelief is Iago, whose cunning not only dissolves Othello and Desdemona’s devotion but nearly succeeds in toppling an entire kingdom. This performance can make or break the show, and fortunately for this Portland Center Stage production, Gavin Hoffman’s nuanced portrayal has the stroke of genius about it. The same can be said of Dana Green’s turn as Iago’s wife, Emilia. It’s a small role but an essential one, and in Green’s hands, the scene in which Emilia and Desdemona lament a woman’s lot is both poignant and edifying. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700.

7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays; 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays; noon Thursdays through May 11. $38-$72.

pool (no water)

Say a man dies of AIDS. Now say a friend collects his blood and bandages and condoms and catheters and makes them into art. Has this artist crossed the line between creation and exploitation? In friendship, there’s a similarly delicate line between amity and antagonism. And when these lines intersect in Mark Ravenhill’s pool (no water), it’s downright combustible. Ravenhill’s 2006 play, presented by Theatre Vertigo in a striking if occasionally shaky production, is written as a collective monologue, and these seven actors deliver some lines singly and others in unison in a propulsive, pitter-patter style that’s like slam poetry with a malevolent bite. All bohemian artists, they’ve gathered at the posh digs of a friend who’s made it big— thanks to that aforementioned AIDS art. But then a freak accident lands the successful artist in a coma, her body a mangled canvas of ghastly bruises, and the others begin photographing her wounds. As if armed with an automatic rifle, Ravenhill takes aim at the modern urge to document everything and our instinct to pervert tragedy for our own creative ends. It’s a lot for a 70-minute one-act, but these actors throw themselves at it. Sometimes literally—it’s a highly physical production punctuated by spasms of abstract movement. As for the performers, a few—such as Stephanie Cordell as a fiery-eyed hellion oozing dangerous sexual energy—commit fully, while others waver. But in the moments when this group comes together, like a diabolical Greek chorus, this is a satisfying deep-end dive into a stew of adrenaline, narcissism and shame. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 306-0870. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 10. $20.

Portland Storytellers Guild

A quartet of performers from Portland Storytellers Guild spin tales of surprises and split-second changes.

Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 7:30 pm Friday, May 9. $10.

The Quality of Life

On the surface, Jane Anderson’s play sounds simple: Two married couples deal with different stages of grief and vastly different spiritual beliefs over the course of a day together.

Dinah and Bill, an Ohio couple with a strained relationship, are mourning the murder of their only child by knitting, crafting and going to work and to church—anything to keep moving.

They’re visiting Jeannette and Neil, free-spirited soulmates living in a yurt in California, who are more apt to say “Namaste, baby” than to dwell on the fact that Neil has terminal cancer and their house burned down in a wildfire.

Predictably, these styles of grieving clash, spurring very real and poignant conversations about life and death and what might come afterward.

Despite the weighty themes, this Artists Rep production is sprinkled with lighthearted moments, mostly thanks to the wonderful cast. KAITIE TODD. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays and 2 pm Sundays through May 11. $25-$55.

426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 8 pm Sunday, May 11. $10. 21+.

Rue Royale

The ripped Chicago boylesque trio the Stagedoor Johnnies headline this quarterly show. The group does dance numbers and acrobatics while dressed as such characters as Lion-O and Speed Racer—but it all ends in decked-out cock socks. They’ll close the show with help from a mythical beast. Before that, locals Sugar Kane

and Angelique DeVil perform, the latter to an ear-worm Top 40 hit, and Seattle stripteasers Violet Tendencies and Persephone Illyri bring acts new to the Portland stage. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 6:30 pm Friday, May 9. $15 advance, $18 at the door, $50 for two spots at a VIP table. 21+.

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out, namely Jennifer Davies’ crystalline soprano as Magnolia Hawks and Geoffery Simmons’ soulful bass as Joe. Spanning four decades, the show’s ebullient choreography serves as a social timeline as the characters cakewalk, fox trot and chicken scratch their way through failed marriages and racial tensions. The production value is high, too, especially the elaborate costumes with top hats, ruffled bloomers and bustles aplenty. It all may seem a little ridiculous and antiquated in presentation, but the underlying, universal metaphor of being swept through life on a current we cannot control is what keeps Show Boat afloat after all these years—well, that and all those high kicks. PENELOPE BASS. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901.

7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm some Sundays and 7 pm some Sundays through June 8. $36.

PERFORMANCE

COMEDY & VARIETY Carly Aquilino and Andrew Schulz

In just about the only non-Bridgetown standup event this weekend, two upand-comers share the Helium mic.

Andrew Schulz is a cast member on MTV’s Guy Code and Carly Aquilino, easily recognizable by her fire-truck red hair, hails from sister programGirl Code. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, May 8-10. $15-$30. 21+.

crowning glory: nicole Accuardi (center).

Electric Dreams

StageWorks Ink, the company behind such raucous, irreverent fare as Varsity Cheerleader Werewolves LIVE From Outer Space and Flash Ah-Ahhh!!, presents a stage adaptation of a little-seen cult film about a computer that comes to life—and then competes with its owner for the affections of the dreamy cellist next door. It’s a fantastical musical comedy dense with ‘80s tunes, which will be performed with a live band. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm ThursdaysSaturdays (and 2 pm Sunday, May 18) through May 24. $12-$18.

DANCE Bull in a China Shop

Allie Hankins assembles her experimental dancer pals to raise money for her Nijinsky-inspired piece Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth, which in previews had Hankins painting herself with gold glitter. She won’t perform here, but other dancers will give glimpses of works in progress. Linda Austin performs some of a piece she’ll debut at the NW New Works Festival in Seattle, while Taka Yamamoto experiments with patterns of movement. Luke Gutgsell shows part of a piece he’s working on in his Performance Works Northwest residency. Finally, Danielle Ross shows an excerpt of her piece Togetherness, which she’ll premiere in October. Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont St. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 10. $10-$100, sliding scale.

Burlynomicon

Burlesque with a dark twist, this monthly show from the creators of the popular Geeklesque series mixes striptease with gore, goth and the generally macabre. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, May 13. $8. 21+.

Northwest Dance Project

In between boozing and schmoozing with patrons at this fundraiser, the full company will perform a series of small solos and duets the dancers created on each other. The dancers’ individual work tends to be fun and creative, so it should be a satisfying reward for the ticket price. Northwest Dance Project Studio &Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. 5:30 pm Saturday, May 10. $150.

Phoenix Variety Revue

Drag queen and burlesque producer Zora Phoenix hosts her monthly breadand-butter show, mixing classic and neo- burlesque with song, dance, jokes and other variety bits. Kelly’s Olympian,

LEARN TO BE LATINA (MILAGRO THEATRE) Learn to Be Latina has a little something for everyone. A Missy Elliott dance routine featuring a backflip that transitions into twerking. A muff-eating puppet. AIDS jokes. The Macarena. A tender lesbian love story. A Twin Towers pantomime.

Subtle this is not. But it’s precisely this balls-to-the-wall (including some literal balls, to the walls of a restroom stall) offensiveness that makes Enrique Urueta’s comedy work. Brassy and boisterous with plenty of bombass dance sequences, Learn to be Latina follows an aspiring young pop star named Hanan (Nicole Accuardi) who’s told by the record label that she’s “the wrong kind of brown.” She might be sexy, but in a “shawarma-eating, suicide-bomber kind of way.” So the LebaneseAmerican Hanan enters identity boot camp to refashion herself as a booty-swiveling, leopard print-wearing, “arriba!”-whooping Latina diva.

Urueta, who gained national attention for this play, is a brilliantly snappy writer of button-pushing dialogue and killer one-liners: “Identity is as negligible and negotiable as a back-end hooker,” quips “ethnic consultant” Mary O’Malley (Olga Sanchez, who also has a great turn as a tittering talk-show host). Still, Urueta trades in a few worn stereotypes, and his stabs at poignancy miss the mark. That means Hanan’s budding lesbian relationship proves neither steamy nor stirring, and the play ends with an all-too-tidy, overly earnest redemption monologue.

But these Milagro performers, under Antonio Sonera’s confident direction, are so fully committed, so completely switched-on, that the play becomes a showcase for their myriad talents. This is especially true for the trio of record-company functionaries, played with alternately militaristic precision and loose-limbed abandon by Kelly Godell, who pinches her malleable face to hilarious effect; Orion Bradshaw, who styles himself a very sassy Justin Timberlake in a “Dirty Pop” dance routine; and Matthew Kerrigan, responsible for the aforementioned backflip and a fierce “Single Ladies” solo in black leotard and stripper heels.

Within all the silliness, Urueta asks provocative questions about how we revise and edit our identities. It’s perhaps most interesting to see his play as a litmus test for what sorts of jokes still have the capacity to shock—and nevertheless prompt laughter. While some of Urueta’s lines, such as how all lesbians look like either Roseanne or Lyle Lovett, landed with a thud on opening weekend, his most transgressive jabs elicited guffaws as well as gasps, a kind of collective “Did he really go there?” By turning one of the play’s consistent questions— who’s the arbiter of appropriate behavior?—on the audience, Urueta makes his play that much more diabolical, that much more delicious.

REBECCA JACOBSON.

Is being the wrong kind of brown keeping you down?

see it: Learn to Be Latina is at Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 2367253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through May 31. $17-$26.

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

ME AND CHRIS

BY ANNA VON MERTENS

Anna Von Mertens: Above, Between and In

Anna Von Mertens’ works look like paintings, but they’re actually made of hand-dyed cotton. She takes her inspiration for these gorgeous, saturated compositions from three different sources: juices (as in the piece Kale, Carrot, Apple), psychic “aura readings” (Me and Chris), and the aurora borealis. With their loose, intuitive shapes and patterns, the works recall the prints and paintings of the late Helen Frankenthaler. The aura-reading pieces are presented in a split-screen format, with amorphous blobs sitting side by side. It’s a striking presentation, made even more seductive by the bold color palette. This artwork looks good enough to eat. Through May 31.

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Johannes Girardoni: Redacted

There’s a disarming simplicity to Johannes Girardoni’s sculptures. His Peak Light Extractor—Yellow/Pink is a long block of resin attached to a long wood-and-metal shelf. There’s an LED light inside it. And that’s basically it—yet it’s one of the most refi ned sculptures you’re likely to see in Portland this year. Likewise, his Diptych-Carbon Black is half wood, half beeswax. It looks like it should be the door to a beekeeper’s apiary.

The elegance of these sculptures stands in contrast to the artist’s fussy, process-intensive photo prints, which are digitally manipulated to remove visual information and text, thereby vexing the viewer’s attempts to comprehend them. Unlike the sculptures, the prints come across as precious, overthought and arid.

Through May 31. PDX Contemporary Art , 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Jordan Rathus: Fernweh (Farsickness)

Brooklyn, N.Y., artist Jordan Rathus is a multimedia dynamo. Her invigorating show consists of two short fi lms, each displayed in its own installation, plus photographs and a souvenir calendar. All the works have themes of travel and the tourism industries, and while the artist’s

perspective is satirical, it’s never snide. Rathus is laughing with clueless tourists, not at them, and some of her humor is self-directed. In the aforementioned calendar, she poses provocatively on a fur-blanketed bed in Finland, alternately seducing the camera with come-hither glances and mocking herself with dorky expressions. Even though we realize the shots are self-consciously cheesy, we can’t help but fi nd them alluring. In a triumph of post-ironic self-deprecation, the artist shows that the joke is not only on her, but on the rest of us as well. Through May 31. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

Julia Mangold: Works on Paper

Viewers familiar with Julia Mangold ’s rectilinear sculptures will see echoes of those pristine geometries in this exhibition, which concentrates on her works on paper. Implacable rectangles, sometimes overlapping slightly, fl oat amid pools of negative space. Mangold renders the shapes in slate blues and gunmetal tones.

Refreshingly simple in their compositions, the works exude quiet serenity. Through May 31. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Margot Voorhies Thompson: The Theater of Language: Conversations & Metaphors

Letters and words play a big part in Margot Voorhies Thompson’s mixedmedia works on paper. In the past, she overlapped words and calligraphy to create dense screens of linguistically incomprehensible but compositionally evocative text. In her new show, she ties words in with architecture, alluding to the similarities between the structure of sentences and the structure of buildings.

Through May 31. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

Oregon Art Beat Exhibition: Celebrating 15 Years of Creativity on OPB

At a time when reality TV reigns and viewers are deserting television in droves for the Internet, you have to give props to a TV show devoted to the old-fashioned mission of profi ling local and regional artists. That being said, Oregon Art Beat is a cringeinducing show that manages to make even the most inspired artists come across as corny, pabulum-spouting wankers. With its outdated set and production values, Art Beat homogenizes artists by reducing their unique practices into pat featurettes, heavy on clueless voice-overs by the show’s correspondents and an intrusively saccharine soundtrack heavy on synths and faux-Native fl ute. Now the show is sponsoring an exhibition

at Mark Woolley and People’s Art of Portland, showcasing work by hundreds of artists subjected to the program’s icky formula over the past 15 years. Much of the artwork itself is sublime. Too bad the show’s producers can’t fi nd a way to translate the creative impulse into anything other than patronizing New-Age drivel.

Through June 15. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third fl oor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.

Sarah Knobel: Icescapes

Montana artist Sarah Knobel cobbles together wigs, feathers and other disparate objects, submerges them in colored water, then sticks the whole shebang in the freezer. Once they’re frozen solid, she takes the bizarre contraptions out and photographs them as they melt. The resulting prints are whimsical, perversely fascinating and sorta gross. Through June 1. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Stephan Soihl: Motorized and Solar-Powered: Art in Motion

If you have kids, you’ve gotta take them to Stephan Soihl’s show, which has turned Blackfi sh into a hybrid of a science museum and an art museum. Soihl’s sculptures have motors, gears, levers and other moving parts, some hidden, most visible. Some pieces hang like mobiles from the ceiling, rotating when their tiny electric fans are activated by microchips. They have miniature speakers attached, and at random intervals they make chirping noises that sound like robotic birds or R2-D2. Some sculptures contain colored oils, which slowly fi ll and empty clear plastic containers as the pieces tilt up and down. In our increasingly didactic visual-arts culture, there aren’t a lot of art exhibitions that are just plain unadulterated fun, but goshdarn-it, this is one of them. Through May 31. Blackfi sh Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.

Works in Clay

PDX’s Window Project is all about clay this month. You really want to hate Saya Moriyasu’s diminutive ceramic dogs, with their buggedout eyes and exaggerated contours, but they’re just too damned cute not to love. Meanwhile, Anthony Sonnenberg’s ceramic candelabrum, encrusted with a metallic fi nish, has an odd blend of polish and crudity, recalling Nicholas Nyland’s similarly bizarre candelabra at last year’s Contemporary Northwest Art Awards . Through May 31. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

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HAYLEY BARKER, APPARITION HILL In southern Herzegovina, t her e ’s a v i l l a ge c a l le d Medjugorje where religious pilgrims flock. Since 1981, p e ople h ave cl a i me d t o see the Virgin Mary there, on top of Mount Podbrdo (“Apparition Hill”). Mary is said to appear in late evening, manifesting as brilliantly hued pulses of light encircling the setting sun.

Former Catholic Hayley Ba rker was intrig ued by Beautification, all I ever wanted. these stories, so she travele d t o Me djugor je l a st September. Although she wasn’t expecting to have any mystical experiences, she says she had them on three separate occasions.

“The sun pulsed for seven or eight minutes,” she tells WW. “It filled my vision completely with color and was utterly bizarre and beautiful. My forehead felt like it was burning.” As the experiences unfurled, she sketched what she was seeing. Back in Portland, those sketches became the jumping-off point for the paintings in the current show, her strongest to date.

Small in scale but powerful in visual impact, the paintings are layered with oil paint and spray paint on wooden panels. They capture the pulsing, multicolored light Barker says enveloped her on Apparition Hill. In It is not our kind of beauty, she deploys short, staccato brushstrokes in a palette of brilliant yellows, reds and blues, while in She is gone. Look! The light!, she juxtaposes vivid teal against a panoply of greens. Very hard to return to this world depicts the sun eclipsed in black and gold, luscious gestures piling up underneath like pick-up sticks.

Rounding out the exhibition, a suite of pastel drawings lacks the chromatic panache of the paintings but shows off Barker’s gift for conjuring invigorating rhythms through line. Finally, she has lightly painted on, and framed, a selection of pamphlets and trinkets from the village. These tacky objects are incongruous with the elegant drawings and paintings, but somehow Barker turns the incongruity to her advantage. Improbably, the cheap mementos wind up effectively counterbalancing the other pieces’ reverential mood.

Together, the artworks turn the gallery into a shrinelike re-creation of the pilgrimage site. The paintings are de facto reliquaries, encasing the memory of Barker’s mystical experience. Looking at them, we get a kind of woo-woo contact high, as if we’ve shared in the essence of an ecstatic vision. RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: Apparition Hill is at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886. Through May 31.

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THURSDAY, MAY 8 Think & Drink

Although we’re partly to blame for our own lack of privacy (hang on, gotta go Instagram...), the government’s level of surveillance is treading on dangerous territory when it comes to civil liberties. Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild and author of Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance, will lead a discussion on this very topic for Oregon Humanities’ continued Think & Drink series. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 6:30-8 pm. $10.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 Kimberly Dark and Christopher Ryan

Like the after-party of your sorority’s initiation night, Mt. Hood Community College will host a weekend exploring the body through readings and workshops.

New York Times best-selling author Christopher Ryan (Sex at Dawn) and award-winning author of performance scripts and educational programs Kimberly Dark will each share their work for the presentation “Writing the Body.” Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham, 491-6422. 11:30 am-1 pm. Free.

Jason Padgett

Just like superheroes acquiring their powers after a near-death run-in with some radiation, Jason Padgett found himself with the first documented case of acquired savant syndrome with mathematical synesthesia, after a violent assault forever changed his brain. Now Padgett sees the world in geometric patterns and mathematical designs, as he describes in his new book, Struck

by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, MAY 10 All’s Fair in Love and Shakespeare

Shakespeare has taught us a lot about love; perhaps most importantly not to jump to conclusions in the event of a misunderstanding. Explore six famous scenes from some of the Bard’s most famous lovers, from Romeo and Juliet to Benedick and Beatrice, as Portland Center Stage presents “All’s Fair in Love & Shakespeare.” Collins Gallery, Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., third floor, 988-6287. 2 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, MAY 11 The Studio Series

Sharing from her third full-length collection of poetry, Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them or a Sonnet, Emily Carr will take the stage at the monthly Studio Series poetry reading and open mic. Joining her will be Portlandbased artist and poet Zachary Schomberg. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640.

7-9 pm. Free.

MONDAY, MAY 12 Heather Ross

Being raised within an eccentric family of artists in rural 1970s Vermont, Heather Ross had a lessthan-typical childhood. It did, however, provide her with a wealth of stories to share, and share them she does, along with illustrations

and step-by-step instructions in her new book, How to Catch a Frog: And Other Stories of Family, Love, Dysfunction, Survival, and DIY. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

ratives that tell the story of one Jewish family, Willa Schneberg’s new poetry collection, Rending the Garment, includes persona and prose poems, flash fiction, diary entries, biographical essays and even imagined meetings with historical figures. The result is a touching portrait of family crafted by one of Oregon’s most prolific modern poets. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, MAY 13 Willa Schneberg

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PETER McGRAW & JOEL WARNER, THE HUMOR CODE A Ve nn dia g ra m ha l fway through The Humor Code (Simon & Schuster, 212 pages, $26) merges a circle labeled “Time” and another labeled “$1,272.96 Bar Tab” with the label “Funny.” This diagram summarizes the authors’ experience with ad executives Spoiler alert: Comedy is funnier in New York City, but also the when you’re drunk! method Joel Warner and Peter McGraw use as they travel the world developing a scientific formula for humor.

Warner is a journalist and the voice of the book. McGraw is a professor at the University of Colorado, where he directs the Humor Research Lab. The men got together when Warner sought a break from the “gangland shootings and fire bombings” he writes about for Denver alternative weekly Westword. A literary agent in New York suggested the trip around the globe to research the universality of humor.

While the premise sounds like a good excuse for an all-expenses-paid trip to Africa and Japan, the book becomes a bromance between two men who guide each other through Louis C.K.’s dressing room and a safari in Tanzania. Trips to Los Angeles, New York, Scandinavia, Palestine, the Amazon and Montreal frame questions like “Who is funny?” “Why do we laugh?” and “Is laughter the best medicine?” Ultimately, the answers lead to an eight-minute comedy set in which McGraw performs on the main stage of the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. This manufactured conflict can feel hokey at times, but it does offer a satisfying conclusion to the bro-venture.

Sure, you could flip to the last chapter and read about the festival and the authors’ definitive findings without reading the rest of the book. But you’d miss Warner’s enjoyable prose and musings: He describes how to improve your life through a better understanding of comedy and why laughter appears to be a universal trait among mammals.

At journey’s end, and after his daunting set at Just for Laughs, McGraw lends some advice, which you probably figured was coming: “I understand humor better now. Most people could stand to laugh more. Life gets serious. Our world is full of mortgages and careers and retirement funds and horrible headlines on the nightly news. And when you live in a world that’s really serious, it’s hard to be playful about things.”

The Humor Code doesn’t offer a solution to all of the ailments of being human, but it does lend some perspective. And, it turns out, according to science, things are much funnier when you’re drunk.

LAURA HANSON.

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

B- In a post-Avengers landscape, gee-

whiz goofball Peter Parker is not just sidled with great power and responsibility. He’s burdened by a cinematic universe teeming with spinoffs.

Coupled with sequel-itis, that means everything must be bigger, louder and capable of feeding an endless franchise. Andrew Garfield, all spindly limbs and corny one-liners, brings joy to the eye-popping action. Alas, the flaws are also bigger, among them Peter’s emo angst and wedged-in plot elements that reek of franchisebuilding. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, St. Johns, Roseway.

App

A Danish thriller that asks you to download an app to your phone and use it while you watch. Do moviegoers really need that extra encouragement?

Kiggins Theatre.

ernment-touted feat of engineering.

This gives way to an exploration of their effect on the environment. Knight and Rummel focus mostly on salmon, whose migratory cycles are disrupted by dams, but also argue that cultural and spiritual degradation occurs when humans attempt to thwart Mother Nature. Portland’s backyard gets its share of attention: Bonneville Dam is called out for its ethically questionable salmon hatchery, as is The Dalles Dam for its premeditated flooding of Celilo Falls, a historic Native American settlement. DamNation’s remarkable footage captures the natural power of rivers and makes it easy to imagine dams as clogged arteries in an otherwise functioning circulatory system.

But while the cinematography is provocative, the real scene-stealer is Knight’s candid first-person narration, as when he tells us that salmon hatcheries “basically suck at life” for how they promote inbreeding and beat fish to death to extract their eggs. GRACE STAINBACK. Hollywood Theatre.

Bad Words

B- Jason Bateman plays a 40-year-old who exploits a loophole in the rules that allows him to enter a prestigious spelling bee. Not only a preternaturally good speller but also an unabashed prick, Guy spends his downtime begrudgingly befriending a precocious boy. The interactions between the two are the film’s highlight. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst.

Bears

A documentary about an Alaskan family of the titular large fuzzy creatures. G. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Lloyd Center.

Blue Ruin

C+ An arthouse revenge thriller in the key of Southern gothic, Blue Ruin follows Dwight (Macon Blair), a Virginian living on the fringes who hesitantly re-enters society to track down his father’s murderer after the killer is released from prison. Blue Ruin is moody and tense, but it falls short of its deeper, seemingly selfappointed task of showing how Dwight’s repressed rage irrevocably alters anyone unlucky enough to be standing nearby—especially himself. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.

Brick Mansions

B- It’s fitting that for what would turn out to be one of his final roles, the late Paul Walker portrayed his most recognizable character: the empathetic undercover cop who switches sides after some rough-around-the edges criminals teach him a thing or two about honor, justice and stickin’ it to the man. In a dystopian Detroit, cop Damien Collier (Walker) sets out to avenge his father’s death and thwart a drug kingpin. Take it for what it is, and enjoy Paul Walker at Paul Walker’s best, which is flattening bad guys with ninja chops and steely blue eyes.

PG-13. GRACE STAINBACK. Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

C+ Where 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger found a dreamily compelling momentum somewhere between magical realism and newsreel propaganda, The Winter Soldier wades through thankless cameos and interminable exposition. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

DamNation

A Like a naturalist’s war cry,

DamNation calls for the destruction of America’s dams, which co-directors Ben Knight and Travis Rummel assert have wreaked havoc on this nation’s natural resources. The documentary opens with a history lesson that charts the rise of dams—more than 75,000 built in less than a century—as a gov-

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Dancing in Jaffa

B+ Like Mad Hot Ballroom trans-

planted to Israel, this charming documentary centers on efforts to bring together Palestinian and Jewish children through the magic of rumba and merengue. The film follows ballroom classes at five schools in Jaffa and the drama that unfolds when these 10and 11-year-olds must, as instructor Pierre Dulaine says, “dance with the enemy.” Violence and intolerance lurk in the background, but director Hilla Medalia treats it all with a light touch, and—somewhat miraculously for a film about cute kids wiggling their hips— without any sugarcoating. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

Draft Day

C- Pressured to “make a splash” while strolling through a water park with the team’s owner, new Cleveland Browns GM Sonny Weaver (played by Kevin Costner as a wooden plank with eyes) has a choice: Does he trade up to nab the sure-thing quarterback…or go with his gut? PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Movies on TV, Academy.

Ernest & Celestine

This charming Belgian children’s film didn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. But with its storybook illustrations and wholesome, heartwarming story line, it was a refreshing inclusion. No oh-so-clever pop-culture references, no 3-D, no Happy Meal tie-ins, just a sweet story about an orphaned little mouse who befriends a bear. PG. RUTH BROWN. Laurelhurst, Academy.

Fed Up

A Two white powders are poured onto

a desk. One is sugar, the other cocaine.

Which one is more likely to get you hooked? As noted in Stephanie Soechtig’s balanced documentary Fed Up, sugar is in fact eight times more addictive than cocaine, and yet the food industry and our government still fill food with tons of it, in order to keep their pockets full and Americans fat. Executive producer Katie Couric narrates this 90-minute documentary, which unwraps how powerful food companies have colluded with the government to produce widespread obesity. Arguing that “solutions” to the weight problem only further feed the epidemic, the film follows four overweight adolescents and shows their families’ struggles to remain healthy in a nation that keeps feeding us lies.

“If a foreign nation were doing that to our kids, we would go to war,” says one of the film’s interviewees. Fed Up relies less on heartstring-tugging than on damning statistics: By 2050, one in every three people will have diabetes.

Currently, 75 percent of medical-care costs go to treat metabolic disease. At the end of the film, though, we revisit the kids to check on their current state of health after much effort to lose

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HEY GIRL: Clint Eastwood can read your soul.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE CORNY CLINT EASTWOOD IS CINEMA’S SOFTEST BADASS.

BY A P KRYZA

apkryza@wweek.com

Next month, Clint Eastwood—he who helmed such hard-hitting meditations on masculinity as Unforgiven and Mystic River and became the grizzled face of Hollywood manliness—hits theaters again.

With…Jersey Boys?

Yes, a film adaptation of the musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The least manly story ever, told in the least-manly way ever,

by Dirty Harry.

Your mom is super pumped.

In Clint’s best film—Sergio Leone’s brutal The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (playing Friday through Sunday at the Hollywood Theatre)—he turned in arguably the greatest performance in a Western ever, and certainly the most badass. His nameless character was tough to the core, and he lived on in all of his testosterone-spewing characters, from Dirty Harry to Josie Wales to Gran Torino’s gnarled Walt Kowalski. How could this man want to tell the story of the high-pitched asswipe who crooned “Sherry Baby”? Is Clint going soft?

Here’s the thing: People who worship at the dusty, blood-soaked altar of Clint tend to forget that we often see tough guys through a lens that’s blind to cheese and schmaltz. Robert Mitchum had a side career as a calypso singer, fake accent and all. John Wayne began his career as a croonin’ cowboy. Yul Brynner sang and danced through The King and I. Stallone starred with Dolly Parton in Rhinestone and directed Stayin’ Alive.

And Clint…well, Clint might be the one who has most openly embraced his soft, corny side.

It was, after all, Clint who used his image as a badass outlaw to sell the horrific oater musical Paint Your Wagon alongside fellow tough guy Lee Marvin. He teamed up with an alcoholic orangutan twice, in Every Which Way But Loose and its sequel; cruised around in a Pink Cadillac; and wept through The Bridges of Madison County.

So is it really such a surprise that the 84-yearold—a man carved from wood who probably sweats gravy and craps lead—is directing what might be the cheesiest and most cloying film of the year?

Not really.

It takes balls of steel for a man of Clint’s rawhide stature to go against the grain and embrace his sensitive side. In fact, I’d say Clint making

romantic crapfests is ballsier than anything his contemporaries would pull.

Well, either that or he’s gone senile. He did, after all, scold a chair at the Republican National Convention. But at least he’s giving your mom something to look forward to. And real men take care of the ladies they love.

ALSO SHOWING: Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? is a documentary about the disappearance of bees around the world that, sadly, has nothing to do with Wu-Tang. Those Killa Beez would just tell us to get high and go to Kung Fu Theater on Tuesday (more on that later). Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, May 8.

The NW Film Center resurrects India’s seminal Apu Trilogy, a series of Bengali films spanning 1955 to ’59 and focused on a young man’s coming of age in the early 20th century. Ravi Shankar wrote the score. His daughter, Norah Jones, later wrote music with Seth MacFarlane and talked about fucking a teddy bear. Sigh. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. May 7-11. See nwfilm.org for schedule.

Based on the success of The Deer Hunter—a long, slow, intentionally boring look at the life of Philly roughnecks before and after Vietnam—director Michael Cimino was given free rein with Heaven’s Gate, a long, slow, intentionally boring Western. It was one of the biggest bombs of all time.

Cimino’s career was ruined, and his last major release remains a beautiful, misunderstood opus. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7:30 pm Friday, May 9.

Marlon Brando also played a bunch of tough dudes, most famously in the 1953 motorcycle classic The Wild One. Brando also later went soft. With butter.

And it was gross. Laurelhurst Theater. May 9-15.

Portland synth guru Solovox performs live during a screening of Moog, a documentary about the creator of the greatest music synthesizer of all time.

Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, May 10.

Denzel Washington finally won an Oscar in 2002 for Training Day, which wasn’t a good movie. Some say it was a consolation prize for his loss in 1993 for Malcolm X, his bar-none best performance. He lost that year to Al Pacino as a blind, walking hard-on in Scent of a Woman. Hoo-ah. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, May 9-11.

The NW Film Center follows its retrospective of shorts by revolutionary animators John and Faith Hubley with Faith’s feature debut, The Cosmic Eye, a nutty ’toon from 1986 about aliens observing the strange habits of humans, with Dizzy Gillespie providing music and voicing Father Time. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, May 11.

So here’s what the Beez would really tell you: Shaolin Invincibles is batshit even by 1970s kung fu standards, and includes wizard battles, fighting gorillas and other things best appreciated while cripplingly stoned. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Tuesday, May 13.

MAY 7–13

Finding Vivian Maier

A- In our era of unparalleled self-

aggrandizement, it’s difficult for us to comprehend why anyone, let alone a talented artist, might choose to keep her achievements to herself.

But Vivian Maier, street photographer and Chicago nanny, did just that. When she died in 2009, penniless and alone, she left behind hundreds of thousands of negatives, as well as thousands of rolls of undeveloped film. The interviews with her former employers and child charges, while fascinating and at times disturbing, can’t hold a candle to her work, which is the real star of this documentary. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Cinema 21.

The Galapagos Affair

A- It’s a story worthy of Agatha

Christie: A heap of Europeans alight on a remote, rocky island in the Galapagos, all with their own harebrained notions of escaping the decadence of modern society and creating paradise in an exotic locale. Sexual intrigue, jealousy and betrayal flourish. Within a few years, several have disappeared under shady circumstances and others are dead, with at least one the victim of an apparent murder. This documentary recounts the deliciously pulpy events of 1934, drawing on homemovie footage from the time and an excellent voice-over cast that reads the letters and diaries of those involved, who include a Nietzscheobsessed egomaniac and a horsetoothed, revolver-wielding baroness with a “pair of servile gigolos.”

REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.

The German Doctor

Her

B+ In the era of Catfish, where

“dating” is an increasingly abstract concept, the premise of Spike Jonze’s Her can serve as the basis for an honest-to-goodness relationship drama. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Laurelhurst.

Home, James

C [ONE WEEK ONLY] If only

terrible clichés made great movies. Home, James is about an Oklahoman named James (Jonathan Rossetti, who also wrote and directed), who has a day job as a photographer and then spends his nights as a sober driver—as in, drunken people call him and he gives them a lift. The opening scenes are hilarious: In one, a man violently pukes in the backseat of his own car and then apologizes to James for the mess. “You’ll get the smell out,” James replies. It’s not until the man is dropped at his doorstep and sees James ride away on his moped that he realizes it’s his own car that’s been ruined. “Shit!” he hollers. But these early promises of humor quickly fade once Home, James tries to become Before Sunrise. James falls in love with Cooper, a “socialite” (read: alcoholic) convinced her life will improve if she moves to New York City and drinks there instead.

The dialogue shifts from snappy to trite, with meaningless musings that might have come out of the mouth of a stoned teenager. “I need to be somewhere that’s not here,” says Cooper (Kerry Knuppe). “Why?” James asks. “Because it’s not here.”

All too quickly, these thinly written characters are exchanging professions of love and mistaking brief

sexual attraction for a reason to make a lifelong commitment to one another. The only redeeming aspects, save the first scene, are Rosetti’s and Knuppe’s convincing performances. Too bad they’re so convincing at being obnoxious.

LAURA HANSON. Clinton Street Theater. Friday-Thursday, May 9-15.

Joe

A- With Joe, David Gordon Green

returns to where he started, with a long and low evocation of the fucked-up American South. Nicolas Cage plays the titular Joe, a sadeyed, imperfect screw-up of a man.

Joe’s main role is as mentor to vagrant teen Gary (Tye Sheridan, in a beautiful performance), who is terrorized by his father, one of the most frightening men I’ve seen in film. Non-actor Gary Poulter was discovered by Green at a bus stop (he died before the film was released), and his dead-eyed alcoholic stare could not be faked.

Nothing, in fact, seems faked. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Laurelhurst, Academy.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

In this animated musical, Dorothy returns to Oz, where an evil jester is wreaking havoc. PG. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Groe, Movies on TV.

The Lego Movie

B+ Just when The Lego Movie starts

becoming too cute, the plot shifts into another nutso action sequence filled with clever sight gags. PG. AP

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weight. Though they all continue to exercise and try to eat healthy, not one has been able to keep their weight down. PG. KATHRYN PEIFER. Fox Tower.

MOVIES

A Based on a true story, Lucía Puenzo’s The German Doctor follows an Argentine family that unwittingly plays host to Josef Mengele— one of the Nazis’ most heinous war criminals—during his postwar exile in South America. Twelve-yearold Lilith becomes very taken with Mengele and, unfortunately, the feeling is mutual: The doctor directs his medical curiosity toward her, to devastating effect. As Mengele, Àlex Brendemühl is thoroughly icy, and the ever-present tension between him and Lilith’s father—one man who strives for uniformity and perfection, the other who accepts human flaws—brings rich symbolism to the film. PG-13. GRACE STAINBACK. Living Room Theaters.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

B+ The Grand Budapest Hotel, set

in an imaginary Middle European country in the 1930s, is the most politically aware story Wes Anderson has told. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing. Who are these beautiful visitors in The Grand Budapest Hotel? They’re meant to be ghosts, but they shouldn’t be strangers. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, CineMagic, Forest, Hollywood, Lake Twin, Lloyd Center, St. Johns, Cinema 21.

Growing Cities

B- [ONE NIGHT ONLY] A cross-

country tour of urban farms, rooftop gardens and backyard beekeeping, Growing Cities is the feature-length debut of two 20-somethings, Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette.

These childhood friends from Omaha bring to their endeavor an aw-shucks Nebraskan earnestness that’s alternately appealing and eye roll-inducing. The documentary introduces us to beekeepers in Los Angeles, ex-cons in Chicago, and even kids at Portland’s Zenger Farms. But in trying to cover so much ground, some interviewees get short shrift, namely activist Malik Yakini in Detroit, who asks provocative questions about race and economic viability. REBECCA JACOBSON. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, May 7.

BIG PIMPIN’: Here’s the punch line: Woody Allen sells old men to young women. Now where’s the joke? Fading Gigolo casts Allen as a retired bookseller and unlikely pimp, enlisted by his dermatologist (Sharon Stone) to find a man so she can have a threesome with her beautiful mistress (Sofía Vergara). He’s got the perfect guy, of course: John Turturro, who plays a part-time florist named Fioravante. Turturro is, not coincidentally, also the film’s writer and director. Fioravante is reluctant and sweet, either silent or stammering and possibly a little addled in the head—a somewhat physically compelling 57-year-old scarecrow in a suit. Just the stuff to drive beautiful women wild. They pay money, of course, to sleep with the type of guy they’d marry only for money. But luckily for a comedy without a recognizable sense of humor, it drifts into cheese-clothed, jazz-scored character study—where it fares, sadly, worse. Allen sends a lonely, unknowing Hasidic widow (Vanessa Paradis) to Turturro, which leads her promptly to cry. It’s handled so gently, with such lunkheaded charm by Turturro, you hardly notice how offensive it is. Think of the movie as a rambling walk with a decrepit old man whose politics are suspect. It leaves you right where you started when you’re done, unhurt but bewildered, and struck by sudden and piercing sadness for the human condition. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. D

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Amazing Spider-Man 2 XD-3D (PG-13) 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:10PM 10:25PM Mom’s Night Out (PG) 11:45AM 2:25PM 5:05PM 7:45PM 10:25PM Neighbors (R) 12:00PM 1:30PM 2:40PM 4:10PM 5:20PM 6:50PM 8:00PM 9:30PM 10:40PM Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) 12:10PM 5:10PM 10:00PM Transcendence (PG-13) 10:55AM 4:30PM 7:45PM Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (PG) 2:45PM 7:35PM Noah (PG-13) 1:00PM 7:00PM Rio 2 3D (G) 7:05PM Rio 2 (G) 11:00AM 1:40PM 4:25PM 9:50PM Quiet Ones, The (PG-13) 1:50PM 10:40PM Oculus (R) 4:15PM 10:10PM Other Woman, The (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:55PM 4:40PM 6:10PM 7:25PM 9:00PM 10:15PM

Bears (G) 11:00AM 1:15PM 3:45PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:55PM 4:45PM 6:20PM 9:45PM Heaven Is For Real (PG) 11:25AM 2:00PM 4:35PM 7:20PM 9:55PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:20PM 2:10PM 5:30PM 8:10PM 8:55PM Brick Mansions (PG-13) 12:35PM 3:00PM 5:25PM 7:55PM 10:20PM Draft Day (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:20PM 5:05PM 7:50PM 10:35PM God’s Not Dead (PG) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Divergent (PG-13) 12:20PM 3:40PM 7:00PM 10:10PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG-13) 12:50PM 4:00PM 7:15PM 10:25PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) 11:15AM 2:30PM 5:45PM 9:05PM

Mom’s Night Out (PG) 11:30AM 2:00PM 4:30PM 7:00PM 9:30PM Neighbors (R) 11:00AM 12:15PM 1:30PM 2:45PM 4:00PM 5:15PM 6:30PM 7:45PM 9:00PM 10:15PM Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) 11:45AM 2:15PM 7:15PM Vikramasimha (Telugu) (NR) 12:40PM Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (PG) 4:45PM 9:35PM Transcendence (PG-13) 7:40PM 10:30PM Vikramasimha (Telugu) 3D (NR) 3:40PM 7:30PM 10:25PM Rio 2 (G) 11:15AM 1:50PM 7:05PM 9:40PM Other Woman, The (PG-13) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:40PM 7:20PM 10:00PM Rio 2 3D (G) 4:25PM

Bears (G) 11:00AM 1:10PM 3:20PM 5:30PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG-13) 3:45PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) 10:50AM 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:10PM 8:50PM 10:30PM Kochadaiiyaan (Tamil) (NR) 12:30PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG-13) 11:40AM 1:20PM 2:10PM 3:00PM 4:40PM 5:30PM 6:20PM 8:00PM 9:40PM Heaven Is For Real (PG) 11:30AM 2:00PM 4:30PM 7:10PM 9:40PM Kochadaiiyaan (Tamil) 3D (NR) 3:30PM 7:00PM 10:00PM Grand Budapest Hotel, The (R) 2:05PM 7:25PM 9:55PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) 12:15PM 7:00PM 10:15PM Draft Day (PG-13) 11:20AM 4:40PM

Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (PG) 12:15PM 5:15PM 7:45PM Neighbors (R) 11:00AM 12:30PM 1:45PM 3:15PM 4:30PM 6:05PM 7:15PM 8:45PM 10:00PM Rio 2 (G) 11:05AM 1:40PM 7:25PM 10:05PM Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (PG) 2:45PM 10:15PM Other Woman, The (PG-13) 11:10AM 12:20PM 1:50PM 3:05PM 4:30PM 5:50PM 7:20PM 8:40PM 10:10PM Rio 2 3D (G) 4:35PM Noah (PG-13) 12:05PM 6:10PM Oculus (R) 3:30PM 9:30PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) 11:40AM 3:20PM

4:15PM 7:00PM 8:50PM 10:30PM Bears (G) 12:10PM 2:30PM 4:45PM Heaven Is For Real (PG) 11:25AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:20PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG-13) 11:00AM 12:35PM 1:30PM 2:25PM 5:10PM 6:05PM 7:55PM 9:45PM Divergent (PG-13) 7:10PM 10:25PM Grand Budapest Hotel, The (R) 11:55AM 2:35PM 5:05PM 7:40PM 10:15PM Brick Mansions (PG-13) 12:00PM 2:20PM 5:00PM 7:30PM 9:55PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) 12:40PM 3:55PM 7:05PM 10:30PM

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MAY 7–13

BEN KNIGHT

MOVIES

DAMNATION KRYZA. Lake Twin, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, Valley, Academy.

Nymphomaniac: Volume I

The Monuments Men

arrives with a firestorm of press about sex, sex and more sex. But as in most von Trier movies, the real subject isn’t so much sex as the endless suffering of women.

MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Laurelhurst.

C+ What could have been a weird

cross between Inglourious Basterds and Ocean’s Eleven turns out to be a slog. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst, Academy.

Neighbors

C+ For Mac (Seth Rogen), this is

30. Burdened with the crushing debt and responsibility that accompanies homeownership, he’s nevertheless perfectly content raising his infant daughter and occasionally milking—yes, milking—his wife, Kelly (Rose Byrne), in a puerile sequence that confirms screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien as Apatow acolytes without the bother of IMDb searches.

However, when a frat, ruled by hedonistic brohams Zac Efron and David Franco, moves in next door, Mac’s suburban idyll is shattered and he’s thrust into an escalating turf war. Director Nicholas Stoller manages to instill a propulsive pace to the brinksmanship, but he sacrifices some narrative rhythm in the process. (One lapse in concentration and you’ll miss Mac and Kelly’s whirlwind separation.) And while Neighbors occasionally resorts to measures every bit as desperate as Mac’s (see the aforementioned milking), the cast rises to the lowbrow occasion. Given the recurring onscreen debates about who’s the best Batman, it’s rather fitting that Mac, a former baller, should ultimately have to wrestle with The Dark Knight’s assertion that, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Though a number of the flick’s jokes land, the sincere endorsement of embracing adulthood provides its telling blow. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedadr Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Noah

Maybe you’ve heard this story about a giant flood and some animals on a boat. PG-13. Eastport, Clackamas, Movies on TV.

NW Animation Fest

[ONE WEEK ONLY] This weeklong animation festival is the largest of its kind in the U.S., with more than 200 short films from around the world. There’s a showcase of Oregon animation as well as talks by such local bigshots as Mark Gustafson, who served as the animation director on Fantastic Mr. Fox, and a presentation by LAIKA about feature film The Boxtrolls, set to be released later this year.

Add to that showcases that spotlight such niches as computer animation and abstract imagery, and you have a dizzying buffet of work.

Hollywood Theatre. May 12-18. Visit nwanimationfest.com for schedule and ticket info.

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B- Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac

Oculus

B However dispiriting the prospect

of home-office décor as modernday bogeyman, a great director (Mike Flanagan), and an ideal cast (Karen “Amy Pond” Gillan and Katee “Starbuck” Sackhoff ) can still wring genuine terror from a daft premise. R. JAY HORTON. Eastport, Clackamas.

Only Lovers Left Alive

A Given that languid cool is the

lifeblood of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre, it makes sense that he’s finally gravitated to the vampire genre. In Only Lovers Left Alive, the iconoclastic director brings both absurdity and sensuality to the undead, using Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston’s otherworldliness to tap into a rich vein of sardonic humor. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Fox Tower.

The Other Woman

C To pass the Bechdel test a film must present a scene featuring two women talking about something other than a man. The Other Woman would almost certainly flunk that exam. The majority of screen time is given over to a rambling conversation between our jilted protagonists (Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton) about how best to revenge themselves on the investment-banker snake who’s done them wrong. Whether simply tone-deaf to the usual beats of the genre or possessed of a truly deadpan wit, director Nick Cassavetes neatly undersells the farcical brutality. PG-13. JAY HORTON. 99W Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

The Quiet Ones

A 1970s-set paranormal horror film about a team of Oxford researchers who undertake experiments on a possessed girl. PG-13. Clackamas, Movies on TV.

Stage Fright

D- [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] A strange

combination of Glee, Wet Hot American Summer, Rocky Horror and every direct-to-video slasher flick from 1980 to 1987, freshman director Jerome Sable’s Stage Fright is begging to become a midnight movie. It’s got blood. It’s got campy songs. Hell, it’s got fucking Meat Loaf. This sucker’s just waiting to play weekly at a place like the Clinton Street. Unfortunately, it’s also an insufferable mess. The film starts off well enough, with the gruesome slaughter of a stage siren (Minnie Driver) on opening night of The Haunting Opera, a play whose squealing arias are repeated ad nauseam. Ten years later, Driver’s buxom daughter (Allie MacDonald) lands a role in the revival, which

is taking place at a summer camp where all manner of dweeb—chubby lisping tween, closeted pretty gay boy, creepy stagehand—breaks into song. The homophobic stereotypes are so on-the-nose that when a killer starts kacking the kids, you expect a rainbow-clad Liberace impersonator to be the culprit. Instead, it’s a musical-hating, kabuki-masked goon who croaks out Schwarzeneggerian one-liners (“Time for a warm-up,” he says while boiling a chorus member) and rips post-murder guitar solos.

Seriously. And through all of MacDonald’s jiggling and ScoobyDooing, the singing persists, sounding just like a bag of drowning cats put through Auto-Tune. The songs, like the film, aren’t just flat. They’re torture. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. 9:45 pm Friday-Saturday, May 9-10.

Transcendence

C+ This cautionary tale centers on Drs. Will and Evelyn Caster (Johnny Depp and Rebecca Hall), whose lives are torn apart when Will is mortally wounded by terrorists attempting to halt his revolutionary artificial-intelligence program.

Distraught, Evelyn and a colleague manage to record Will’s brain patterns and incorporate them into the supercomputer’s operating system, effectively resurrecting him.

But wait…is it Will? Director Wally Pfister makes things look gorgeous, feel creepy and move relatively briskly. But the film also jackknifes jarringly, with characters inexplicably switching allegiances halfway through. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Movies on TV.

Under the Skin

B Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi/horror

hybrid stars Scarlett Johansson as a gorgeous, man-eating alien who lures dudes home—only to deliver an exceptionally elegant drowning.

Prepare to be scared shitless, even as you shake your head over the story’s many twists. R. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Hollywood.

Watermark

As any Portland voter knows, humans have a complex relationship with water. Traveling from Bangladesh to California to Greenland, this new documentary explores how we’re drawn to water—whether as a religious rite in the Ganges or as a supreme method of relaxation in Iceland’s geothermal springs—and how we fight over and pollute it. PG. Living Room Theaters.

The Wind Rises

B- Early in Hayao Miyazaki’s latest—and probably final—film, an earthquake strikes Tokyo. It’s a remarkably moving scene, both for its raw kinetic energy and for the clear sense of physical and human destruction. Alas, the rest of The Wind Rises, even as it showcases Miyazaki’s painterly hand-drawn animation, isn’t nearly so dynamic.

PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst, Academy.

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

MAY 9–15

SPEAK IT LOUD: Malcolm X plays May 9-11 at 5th Avenue Cinema.

Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St. THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:10, 05:00, 10:15 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 01:20, 02:40, 03:55, 05:15, 07:10, 07:50, 09:50, 10:25 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:25, 06:50, 09:00 THE OTHER WOMAN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 04:20, 07:20, 10:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:30, 06:55, 10:05 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:45, 06:30, 09:30 DIVERGENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 03:15, 06:40, 09:55 BEARS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 02:45, 04:50 BRICK MANSIONS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 10:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA Sat 09:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA - ENCORE Wed 06:30

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:15, 09:30 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:45, 07:00, 09:00 BLUE RUIN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:15, 06:45, 08:45

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 SEX, DEATH & SPRINGSTEEN Fri-SatSun 07:00 HOME, JAMES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 DOULA! THE ULTIMATE BIRTH COMPANION Sun 02:00

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE WILD ONE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 JOE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:30 THE LEGO MOVIE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:10 THE MONUMENTS MEN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 BAD WORDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:40 HER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 THE WIND RISES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 FROZEN SING-ALONG Sat-Sun 01:15 ERNEST &

CELESTINE Sat-Sun 02:00

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 08:20

Oak Grove 8 Cinemas

16100 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 503-653-9999 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 02:45, 05:05, 07:25, 09:45 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:00, 02:00, 04:00, 05:00, 07:00, 08:00, 10:00 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:30, 04:40, 06:50, 09:00 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:40, 04:10, 06:40, 09:10 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 04:50, 07:10, 09:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:20, 04:45, 07:15, 09:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:35, 06:30, 09:25

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00 GODZILLA 3D

St. Johns Cinemas

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:20 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:55

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 07:40

Century 16 Eastport Plaza

4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 DIVERGENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:10, 10:25 BEARS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:30, 04:45 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:35, 05:05, 07:40, 10:15 NOAH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 06:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:55, 07:05, 10:30 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 01:40, 07:25, 10:05 RIO 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:35 OCULUS

Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:30, 09:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 12:20, 01:50, 03:05, 04:30, 05:50, 07:20, 08:40, 10:10 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:40, 03:20, 04:15, 07:00, 08:50, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:00, 12:35, 01:30, 02:25, 05:10, 06:05, 07:55, 09:45 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:25, 02:10, 04:50, 07:35, 10:20 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 12:30, 01:45, 03:15, 04:30, 06:05, 07:15, 08:45, 10:00 BRICK MANSIONS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 02:20, 05:00, 07:30, 09:55 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 05:15, 07:45 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:45, 10:15

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 DAMNATION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:15 UNDER THE SKIN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Wed 09:30 STAGE FRIGHT Fri-Sat 09:45 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY Fri-Sat-Sun 03:15 MOOG Sat 07:00 INTERSTELLA 5555 Sun 07:00 NW ANIMATION FESTIVAL MonTue-Wed

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 PATHER PANCHALI Sat 02:00 APUR SANSAR SatSun 04:45 APARAJITO Sat 04:30 THE COSMIC EYE Sun 07:00

Century 16 Cedar Hills

3200 SW Hocken Ave., 800-326-3264-984 BEARS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:00, 01:10, 03:20, 05:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:05, 07:25, 09:55 DRAFT DAY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:20, 04:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 03:45 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:15, 01:50, 09:40 RIO 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 04:25 TRANSCENDENCE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:40, 10:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:20, 02:00, 04:40, 07:20, 10:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:50, 12:30, 03:50, 07:10, 08:50, 10:30 THE

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JOBS ACTIVISM

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fireworks displays excite the eyes and lift the spirit. But the smoke and dust they produce can harm the lungs with residues of heavy metals. The toxic chemicals they release may pollute streams and lakes and even groundwater. So is there any alternative? Not yet. No one has come up with a more benign variety of fireworks. But if it happens soon, I bet it will be due to the efforts of an enterprising Aries researcher. Your tribe is entering a phase when you will have good ideas about how to make risky fun safer, how to ensure vigorous adventures are healthy, and how to maintain constructive relationships with exciting influences.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable. A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation -- riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus -- which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz -- you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future Internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time. But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves.

Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a future success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an English-language proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up. The Albanian version of the adage is “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet. “ Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom. You will, in effect, be able to eat you cake and still have it. You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip. You will figure out a way to ride two horses with your one butt.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I know this might come as a shock, Leo, but . . . are you ready? . . . you are God! Or at least godlike. An influx of crazy yet useful magic from the Divine Wow is boosting your personal power way beyond normal levels. There’s so much primal mojo flowing through you that it will be hard if not impossible for you to make mistakes. Don’t fret, though. Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In your imagination, take a trip many years into the future. See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then.

The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets?

Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Over a hundred years ago, the cattle industry pressured the U.S. government to kill off wolves in Yellowstone National Park. By 1926 the wolves had all but vanished. In the following decades, elk herds grew unnaturally big, no longer hunted by their natural predator. The elk decimated the berry bushes of Yellowstone, eating the wild fruit with such

voracity that grizzly bears and many other species went hungry. In 1995, environmentalists and conservationists got clearance to re-introduce wolves to the area.

Now the berry bushes are flourishing again. Grizzlies are thriving, as are other mammals that had been deprived. I regard this vignette as an allegory for your life in the coming months, Libra. It’s time to do the equivalent of replenishing the wolf population. Correct the imbalance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have no problem with you listening closely to the voices in your head. Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the vicinity of your reproductive organs: I’m not opposed to you hearing them out, either. But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Kangaroo rats live in the desert. They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So well-adapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake.

I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Your passions will definitely not be weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus. You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Would you please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations? Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous. Two or three nice long naps. Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in epsom salts as you binge-watch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf.

They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing. Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education. OK? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.”

If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic.

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Across 1 Words before Congress or contrition 6 Language spoken in “Airplane!”

10 Capital by a fjord 14 Food at cookoffs 15 Coloratura’s performance 16 Red-bearded god 17 *Wrestler, at times 19 “Animal House” chant

20 Ending for mountain or musket 21 Tattoo parlor supply 22 Cement smoother 24 Pinter products 26 Check a melon, say 27 Oscar the Grouch’s pet worm 30 Replied sheepishly?

33 “Nerd Do Well” author Simon 36 Soft powder 37 Non-protruding

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28 Selleck sleuth 29 Actor Cary of “Saw” 31 Dublin’s country, to residents 32 Monopoly card 33 ___ Sci 34 Got (by) 35 *Nintendo’s yearly concern 39 Spray brand 40 Like the “21 Jump Street” movie 43 Andy Griffith series 45 Comedian Barinholtz 48 Surefooted 50 Judicial garb 52 “In ___” (Nirvana album) 53 Engage in a recent fad (not owling) 54 “___ alive!”

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May 10 • 6pm-10pm The Wine Valet 16550 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Portland

$15

$15

including tasting

including a tasting flight

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Oregon Medical Marijuana Patient Resource Center *971-255-1456* 1310 SE 7TH AVE Open 7 Days www.ommpResourceCenter.com

AA HYDROPONICS

9966 SW Arctic Drive, Beaverton 9220 SE Stark Street, Portland American Agriculture ï americanag.com PDX 503-256-2400 BVT 503-641-3500

Eskrima Classes

Personal weapon & street defense www.nwfighting.com or 503-740-2666

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Medical Marijuana

card Services clinic

OMMP CARDHOLDERS GET 25% DISCOUNT!

Quick fix synthetic urine now available.

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Dekum Street Doorway A Linnton Feed & Seed Garden Store

DekumStreetDoorway.com

503-384-Weed (9333) www.mmcsclinic.com 4911 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland • open 7 days

503 235 1035

• Gardening tools • Chicken feed • Soil & Mulch • Plant starts • and more!

Historic Woodlawn Triangle at NE 8th & Deekum

503-310-4578

New Downtown Location!

1501 SW Broadway www.mellowmood.com

4119 SE Hawthorne, Portland ph: 503-235-PIPE (7473)

Pizza Delivery

Until 4AM!

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