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INBOX IT’S ALL HAPPENING AT THE ZOO
The exotic animals held at the zoo are alarmingly unwell, and I can’t help but think they should not be there at all [“12 Mammals That Matter to the Oregon Zoo,” WW, May 28, 2014]. I personally cannot go to the zoo because of the distress and depression so many of the animals display. It’s disturbing to consider what this caged misery is teaching our kids about animals, and about how we humans treat animals. It’s even worse to think what the daily lives of these animals are like. Why can’t they be kindly re-homed in good sanctuaries? Making them wait for years for small (and expensive) habitat improvements does not seem like good care. —“Anne” Only weeks after the election, I am telling people “I told you so” again. How dare Tom Hughes take a hands-off approach to dealing with any question of animal abuse or a major arm of Metro like the zoo? This is not the leadership people deserve. I am so tired of elected officials not taking personal responsibility over their duties. Hughes is as bad as the City Council and the mayor in dealing with the aftermath of the water-boil debacle. —“Jeremiah Johnson” We have a long way to go as a species when, in this day and age, we are still keeping highly intelligent animals in tiny enclosures so that we can gawk at them. It’s really pathetic. —“jn”
did Portland really invent the Naked Bike ride, or is it one of those things like “Keep Portland Weird” that we stole from some other city and now try to take credit for? —Hypocritical Mass It’s easy to imagine that the World Naked Bike Ride (coming to Northeast Portland’s Normandale Park this Saturday, June 7) might be a Portland product. What, after all, could be more Portland than a flamboyant mantle of enforced quirkiness wrapped around a smug core of ill-defined antiestablishment sentiment? (If that sounds harsh, you definitely don’t want to hear what I think of the Rose Parade.) But no, Hypo; the World Naked Bike Ride (unlike the World Series) is actually a worldwide event. Portland got in on the ground floor—we participated, along with 27 other cities, in the first WNBR in 2004. The credit for inventing it belongs to Conrad Schmidt, a Vancouver activist and filmmaker 4
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If you move into an area where there are vacant blocks, one might just expect some construction noise when buildings get built on those blocks [“Piling On,” WW, May 28, 2014]. Pile driving only takes place for a few weeks. Stop whining and get on with life. Portland has way bigger issues than this. —“babcock123” What we want is a different version of the pile driving currently used in Portland. We don’t want to stop development. We are not against development, but we do want to be treated as if we matter. Portland officials exclaim far and wide that Portland is the “livable city.” Seriously? Well, not for us at the Sitka Apartments for the next six months. —“Candis Condo”
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I know this flow chart is in jest, but is it just me or does there seem to exist in this town a disproportionate fixation with people on bicycles breaking traffic laws as opposed to someone in a 2-ton vehicle doing the exact same thing? [“Stop! Don’t Stop!, WW, May 28, 2014.] I see just as many cars running stop signs, dodging pedestrians, blowing through occupied crosswalks, etc., as I do people on bikes, only the incidents are far more dangerous, obviously. —“disastronaut” LEttErs to thE Editor must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
who’s also famous as the founder of the anti-consumerist Work Less Party. (I need hardly mention we’re talking about Vancouver, B.C., not Vancouver, Wash.) Activist groups in various cities (including Seattle) had staged naked rides before 2004, but never as an internationally coordinated festival of butt rash. Today, the event spans 70 cities in 20 nations. WNBR’s stated purpose is to “deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world,” but saying that’s why people do it is like saying people go to Burning Man to model new concepts in pharmaceutically enhanced, clothing-optional municipal governance. (Also, it’s the same people.) Folks pretty clearly do it for the lulz; any world-saving that may transpire is incidental. And that’s fine—my objections aren’t to cycling or nudity, but to organized events in general. That’s why I also want to ban Providence Bridge Pedal, the Hood to Coast Relay, and, if possible, Christmas. And puppies. Vote for me! QuEstioNs? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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ENVIRONMENT: Gov. Kitzhaber is raking coal over the coals. CITY HALL: Steve Novick’s street fee takes a U-turn. COVER STORY: Turmoil for gay-rights pioneer Terry Bean.
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It’s been another rough week for primates at the Oregon Zoo. Last month, WW examined the zoo’s controversies in the wake of the death of Sumatran orangutan Kutai and the firing of the zoo director and chief veterinarian (“12 Mammals That Matter to the Oregon Zoo,” WW, May 28, 2014). The day after our story ran, regional government Metro announced that six cotton-top tamarins—a species of monkey—had died in quarantine at the zoo’s $8.8 million veterinary medical facility. Metro pledged reforms June 2, announcing it will hire a new hospital manager to oversee medical care, and asked the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to evaluate its procedures. But Metro still hasn’t released reports explaining why the monkeys died. “It’s capacity,” says Metro spokesman Jim Middaugh. “We are slammed.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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COAL-LINE STAND GOV. KITZHABER’S GROWING OPPOSITION TO COAL DOVETAILS WITH FEDERAL POLICY AND DIVESTMENT ACTIVISM. By NIG E L JAQ UI SS
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For Gov. John Kitzhaber right now, coal is king. The debate over coal is heating up just as Kitzhaber needs an issue to energize his so-far lackluster campaign for an unprecedented fourth term as Oregon governor. Polls show Kitzhaber holds a 13-point lead over his GOP challenger in the fall, state Rep. Dennis Richardson (R-Central Point). But they also reveal a weakened support for Kitzhaber, even a weariness, perhaps stemming from the $248 million health-care fiasco called Cover Oregon. Kitzhaber is also having trouble with his political base. Public-employee unions, which poured millions into his race against Republican Chris Dudley in 2010, did not appreciate Kitzhaber leading the charge to cut their pension benefits last year. The unions will never support Richardson, but neither are they likely to expend much effort on the incumbent’s behalf. Enter coal. The debate about shipping coal through the Pacific Northwest, on its way from Wyoming to China and South Korea, has been plodding along for more than two years.
But Kitzhaber has recently grabbed on to this issue, denouncing a proposed Columbia River coal terminal after years of more measured rhetoric. In doing so, he could re-engage a constituency he disappointed over the past three years with his strong support for the Columbia River Crossing project: environmentalists. Enviros have made reducing coal consumption a top priority in their campaign to address climate change. Their attention to coal coincides with a growing movement on college campuses to pressure university endowments to divest from fossil-fuel producers, as Stanford University did May 6. “His base is fractured,” says John Horvick of the polling firm Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall. “If he’s looking for something to bring a fractured coalition together in Oregon, coal is an issue that could do it.” Kitzhaber’s spokeswoman, Rachel Wray, says the governor has not moved on coal and that his recent comments “are consistent with what he’s been saying for a while.” But a review of documents shows Kitzhaber’s pronouncements have grown far bolder about coal as the fall election approaches. In an April 2012 letter to federal regulators, for example, Kitzhaber merely requested a comprehensive review of the environmental impacts of several planned Northwest coal terminals. He ratcheted up his rhetoric only slightly at a Novem-
ber 2013 Climate Solutions dinner in Portland. “I will do all that I can within the context of Oregon law to ensure that we do not commit ourselves to a coal-dependent future,” he said. Then in April at the annual dinner of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, a leading environmental group, Kitzhaber slammed on the brakes. “It is time once and for all to say no to coal exports from the Pacific Northwest,” he said. “My perception is his language has gotten a lot stronger,” says OLCV executive director Doug Moore. “I think there’s an opportunity to get out in front on this issue.” Kitzhaber’s evolving stance on coal mirrors that of President Barack Obama. On June 2, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced dramatic new guidelines for power plants, calling for a 30-percent reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions by 2030. The new EPA rule will hit hardest the nation’s 600 coal plants, which generate the largest share of the nation’s electricity and a disproportionate share of carbon emissions. For Oregon, the direct impact will be minimal because the state’s only remaining coal-fired plant, Portland General Electric’s Boardman facility, is scheduled to be shut down long before 2030. Oregon is fortunate when it comes to coal. Although we have only one coal plant, one-third of our electricity comes from coal-fired plants, mostly elsewhere. So we get the benefit of cheap fuel without the air pollution, freight congestion and coal dust. And as for exports, the U.S. already sends more than 100 million tons of coal a year overseas through East Coast and Southern ports—just none through Oregon. If anything, the EPA’s announcement will increase the pressure to export coal. “It will decrease the price of U.S. coal even further,” says Portland energy economist Robert McCullough. “We feel good because we are closing coal plants here, but the same coal may end up in a Third World country where the Willamette Week JUNE 4, 2014 wweek.com
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plants are inefficient and poorly run.” Like Obama, Kitzhaber is responding to demands from environmentalists. Since re-entering the governor’s office (which he previously held from 1995 to 2003), Kitzhaber has focused on health care, education reform and budget issues. An ardent rafter and fisherman, he long ago established strong environmental credentials. But during this term as governor, Kitzhaber has demonstrated a more business-friendly approach. His new rhetoric on coal seems to follow the contour of public-opinion polls. Two years ago, when the economy was still colored by the devastating 2007 recession, the polling firm Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall found that a majority of those polled favored exporting coal from the Northwest by a margin of 2-to-1. More recent polling from last year showed that support is shrinking rapidly. In fact, young voters, whom DHM’s 2012 polling found were apathetic about coal, have become more engaged. The best example of that engagement is when trustees of Stanford’s $18.7 billion endowment last month announced they would no longer invest in coal stocks. That decision followed pressure from a student group called Fossil Free Stanford to dump all fossil-fuel producers, which would have included oil and gas producers as well as coal miners. Divestment is not a new approach. Activists have pushed in recent years for investors to steer clear of companies that invest in the Sudan, tobacco companies and arms producers, to name a few. The example many divestment advocates cite as a demonstration of its effectiveness is South Africa. In the 1980s, apartheid opponents pressured companies operating in South Africa by selling their stock. Divestment became a leading cause on U.S. college campuses, spreading from endowments to public pension funds. When apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, some people credited divestment with spurring tectonic social change. Ivo Welch, a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, says divestment’s impact is overstated. “If you are a student in a university, it’s part of life for you to demonstrate against the man,” Welch says. “You are supposed to do that. But in terms of making a difference, divestment is futile.” With two colleagues, Welch studied the financial impact of investors selling stock in companies doing business with South Africa. Their conclusion: Divestment “had no discernable affect” on South Africa’s economy or the value of companies that activists targeted. Welch says he’s sympathetic to the hopes of the divestment movement, but he thinks the only way to effect real change is to alter the economic incentives that now favor fossil fuels over renewables. “I am the first in line to want less coal burned in the world,” Welch says. “But in terms of impact, divestment is
“IN TERMS OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE, DIVESTMENT IS FUTILE.” —UCLA PROFESSOR IVO WELCH
ineffective and perhaps naive.” In Oregon, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler says he’s skeptical of divestment. He says there’s been some informal discussion of divesting the state’s $89 billion in pension funds of fossil-fuel investments, but he’s not in favor of such a move until alternative-energy stocks are a viable replacement. “When you sell your coal shares, what happens to them?” Wheeler asks. “And how did you reduce carbon emissions through that activity?” Richard Clinton, a professor emeritus of political science at Oregon State University, is a leader in the state’s divestment movement. He understands the arguments of divestment critics. “We know it’s largely symbolic, but the issue will get coverage and it will be more talked about,” Clinton says. He says the goal of the students and faculty members who are part of OSU Divest is to bring attention to what they say is the danger of fossil fuels. “It’s incredible that the general public is so ignorant of the magnitude of what’s happening to the earth’s climate,” Clinton says. Last December, the OSU Faculty Senate passed a resolution calling for the university’s foundation to divest itself of fossil-fuel stocks. Clinton says there was little opposition to the premise that climate change is real, but some faculty members expressed concern that the approach might threaten corporate support for research. The OSU Foundation board was far less receptive, Clinton says, when divestment proponents met with it last month. He says the call for divestment met with a stony reception. “It was really shocking,” Clinton says. “We went into the meeting in good faith, hoping once they saw how seri-
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ous the issue is, the trustees would agree with us. Now we are really pissed.” It’s amid this growing debate over coal that Kitzhaber has chosen to take a louder, more decisive stand. Doing so will only help whip up passion on college campuses, including the University of Oregon, Portland State University and Reed College. Oregon’s public universities serve more than 100,000 students, and community colleges and private institutions serve more than that. Mobilizing students is a critical election strategy—in 2012, for example, the Oregon Student Association registered more than 50,000 new voters. Kitzhaber’s new jihad against coal has a specific target: a coal terminal proposed on the Columbia River. On May 30, the Department of State Lands delayed yet again a decision that would permit Australia-based Ambre Energy to build a coal dock in Boardman. The dock would allow the annual export of 8.8 million tons of coal from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to Asia. The coal would be offloaded from trains in Boardman at the Port of Morrow, then barged down the Columbia River to Port Westward in Columbia County, where it would be loaded onto oceangoing ships bound for Asia. Kitzhaber used last week’s permitting delay to strengthen his opposition to coal. “I cannot express how disappointed I am that the Department [of State Lands] has again delayed its decision on the Ambre Energy permit at the Port of Morrow,” Kitzhaber said through a representative after the nondecision. “Delay and indecision do nothing to help us address the very real consequences of climate change or to move toward a low-carbon, clean-energy economy.” Kitzhaber is bucking some longtime allies. Two Portland companies, Vigor Industrial and Gunderson Marine, are slated to build $75 million worth of barges for Ambre Energy’s coal project, should it be approved. Since 2010, Vigor Industrial CEO Frank Foti has contributed $31,000 to Kitzhaber’s campaigns, according to campaign finance records. Bill Furman, CEO of the company that owns Gunderson Marine, and his corporation have been even more generous, giving Kitzhaber $40,000 over the same period. But those powerful figures cannot turn out voters like environmental groups and student organizations. So between now and November, voters should expect to hear more of the rhetoric the governor produced last week. “I remain firmly opposed to exporting coal from the West Coast,” Kitzhaber said. “I will continue to do everything within my statutory authority to ensure that here in Oregon, we do not tie ourselves to a coal-dependent future.” That kind of statement pleases advocates who see it as evidence that Kitzhaber is returning to his environmentalist roots. “It’s frankly refreshing to see the governor take such a strong stance on coal,” says Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper. “It’s a politically smart move.”
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FEE FOR ALL THE WRONG TURNS THAT STEVE NOVICK TOOK TO RAISE MORE MONEY FOR PORTLAND’S ROADS. es, By aar o n m e s h amesh@wweek.com
City Commissioner Steve Novick has led the parade for new road funding into a blind alley. He’s the architect of a plan to raise at least $40 million a year for transportation projects by creating a street fee that would charge households $144 a year, and could hit businesses for even more. His plan unleashed a flood of opposition and vitriol—hundreds of comments to the City Council by everyone from business owners to social-service providers, running better than 20-to-1 against. The backlash has been so great that Novick and Mayor Charlie Hales have postponed a June 5 council vote on the fee until November, pledging to rethink the plan. It’s unfamiliar territory for Novick, who has enjoyed citywide popularity as a social liberal with a clever solution to any policy puzzle. Novick and Hales insist the fee is the only way to solve a $1.3 billion backlog of road maintenance—a problem that has festered for decades. Previous attempts to create a street fee cratered in 2001 and 2008. “I think this is a big enough issue, it’s worth losing the next election over,” Novick says. “Most of us don’t confront issues in general unless they’re in front of our faces. Posting a deadline brought people out.” But Novick has made a hard job even more difficult, in part by appearing to disregard growing opposition to the street fee. Despite his best efforts avoid it, Novick may still have to face down voters to win approval of the plan. If he wants his street fee to succeed, here are some missteps Novick will have to correct.
1. Seeks new money before deciding how to spend it. Novick made fiscal responsibility a major theme when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2008. But last fall, he convened a task force
to look for new ways to raise street funding, without attacking a root cause of the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s cash crunch: the failure to prioritize spending. City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade scolded the City Council in March 2013 for not ranking projects by importance. Under Novick’s oversight, PBOT still hasn’t created that list. Novick’s chief of staff, Chris Warner, says prioritizing spending “doesn’t even come close to solving the problem.”
2. Taxes the poor. In 2012, Novick denounced the $35-a-person Portland Arts Tax as “beyond regressive” because it hit people without regard to their income level. But his residential street fee is also regressive—by 2017, it would charge up to $144 a year per household, including renters. Even low-income housing residents would pay at least $59 a year. “When you say it’s regressive and you vote it through anyway,” says Ann Sanderson, a Woodstock hair salon owner who has led an online campaign against the fee, “you’re hurting the people who can’t fight back.”
3. Thwarts a public vote. City surveys this spring showed voters probably wouldn’t approve any new taxes or fees. So Novick and Hales decided to have the City Council pass the fee without taking it to voters. Their proposal would allow voters to
decide whether half the street fee should be reserved for maintenance and safety—but it still denies the public an up-or-down vote on the fee itself. “People want us to solve the problem, but none of the ways to solve the problem would pass,” Novick said at a May 29 hearing. “And the problem would get worse and worse and worse.”
4. Rushes to pass a plan even he doesn’t like. Novick and Hales debuted the fee while admitting the plan wasn’t one they preferred. They also unveiled the plan before PBOT had finished calculating how much many businesses would pay. “Things don’t work out well in Portland,” says Rich Rodgers, a former City Hall staffer, “when you try to jam it like that.”
5. Puts the financial burden on small businesses, schools and churches. Portland Public Schools, for example, was blindsided by the news it would owe up to $400,000 next year. Churches would have to pay up, too—all because it’s a “fee,” not a tax from which they would be exempt. The sticker shock of the fee for businesses gets worse, because it’s structured in such a way that mom-and-pop stores would pay a larger relative share than corporations. “This is a town that loves small businesses,” says Sanderson. “You will cripple them.”
6. Writes the plan in fear of powerful interests. Novick built his reputation as a politician who wouldn’t cater to special interests. But he admits he chose a flat fee over options like an income tax because it was less likely to inflame the powerful, who could refer it to a public vote. “The income tax would affect rich people more,” he said May 29. “All it would take is a few disgruntled rich people to raise money and defeat it.” When the business lobby howled about the fees, Novick and Hales delayed the vote on charging businesses. Novick now says he was taking too defensive an approach, and will reconsider income and sales taxes. “We’ve been playing not to lose,” he says. “That’s always a mistake. From here on out, I play to win.”
7. Challenges voters to a duel. Novick announced the fee with a challenge to the public: “If the voters are really mad at us, [Hales and I are] both up for re-election in 2016, and they can throw us out.” That looked to some observers like conviction—and to others like arrogance. “He’s telling the voters, ‘Come at me, bro,’” says Eric Fruits, chairman of the Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association. Novick says he didn’t mean to sound combative. “I don’t matter,” he says. “It doesn’t matter if I’m a political idiot sometimes. What matters is we get to the end goal.” Willamette Week JUNE 4, 2014 wweek.com
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terry bean’s problem A prominent Portlander fights for his reputation after a love affair goes wrong. By k at e w i l l s o n
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ew people have worked harder for last month’s historic decision to allow same-sex couples to marry in Oregon
than Portland real-estate developer Terry Bean.
Bean, 65, is one of the founders of the Human Rights
Campaign, the nation’s leading gay-rights organization. He’s donated more than $1 million to the group and serves on its board. His name is prominently displayed on a glass wall at the organization’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
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ON THE MOVE: (Clockwise from upper left) Kiah Lawson chats with President Obama in Washington, D.C., last November; Lawson and Terry Bean (left) mingle with Carol Channing; Lawson and Bean in the White House Library; Lawson and Bean’s 2013 holiday card; Bean with former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts.
His influence extends beyond gay rights. No Oregonian has raised more money for President Barack Obama. At a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, Obama called Bean a “great friend and supporter.” The president in 2012 hosted Bean on Air Force One, and when Obama visits Oregon, Bean has had the honor of greeting him as the president gets off his plane. CONT. on page 12
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Kate Brown’s campaigns, and $2,100 to elect Sam Adams mayor of Portland in 2008. Bean has also given nearly $300,000 in federal races since 2000, according to disclosure reports. In a 2007 video tribute to Bean— played at a Basic Rights Oregon event in his honor—former Vice President Al Gore, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and former Gov. Roberts all paid tribute to him. Roberts talked about his tenacious battle for gay rights. “He’s been willing to get in people’s faces about this issue for decades,” she said. “He’s stood toe to toe, eye to eye with presidents of the United States.” In 2008, then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski named Aug. 23 “Terry Bean Equality Day,” in recognition of Bean’s tireless work on gay rights. He was co-best man at the 2012 wedding of former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Bean’s fundraising prowess reached its peak in 2012, when he helped Obama win a second term. According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, Bean raised $500,000 for Obama’s re-election. Obama thanked him publicly at an event in Portland that year. When Obama left Portland after a fundraiser, Bean flew to Seattle with him on Air Force One.
But today, when he’d rather be celebrating the same-sex marriage victory, Bean is instead fighting to protect his reputation. Bean’s attorney has told the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office that Bean is the victim of an extortion plot carried out against him by a former boyfriend, 24-year-old Kiah Lawson, a onetime cellphone salesman with a drug problem and a criminal record. Bean says that last year he fell in love w ith Lawson. Bea n pa id him a $400-a-week allowance, put Lawson up in one of his homes and took him on international trips. Last fall, Bean brought Lawson to the W hite House and also introduced him to Obama. Bean’s attorney, Kristen Winemiller, says Bean always acted in Lawson’s best interest. “Our client did nothing improper in his considerable attempts to support Lawson in making a better life for himself,” Winemiller says. In January, Lawson says, he discovered that Bean had a hidden camera in the smoke detector above Bean’s bed in his West Hills home. Lawson used this information to seek money from Bean, alleging that the camera captured videos “of at least a half dozen individuals in a state of nudity engaged in intimate acts with you.” Lawson claims he is in more than one video. Records reviewed by WW show Bean recently attempted to settle the matter for $40,000 in exchange for Lawson turning over the images and refraining from disclosing Bean’s “alleged illicit sexual activities.” That deal appears to be off, and last week Bean’s attorney went to the DA, alleging Lawson was guilty of theft and extortion, in addition to being involved in a wider range of criminal activities. The case is under investigation by Portland police. 12
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B IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL: Lawson at a Democratic Party event with the president; Lawson and Bean at a Human Rights Campaign event.
WW fi rst contacted Bean a month ago about this story, and he has repeatedly declined to comment. Bean’s attorney has also hired a former Multnomah County prosecutor to represent six young men who know Bean. And Bean has engaged a veteran Washington, D.C., communications specialist from a firm with ties to Obama to manage the story. Many of the facts are in dispute, and it’s unclear how often guests in Bean’s bedroom might have been caught on camera, or if Lawson’s efforts to extract money from him constitutes extortion. But this much is sure: Bean has negotiated complex real estate deals, made himself indispensable to players at the highest level of politics, and played a role in the biggest civil-rights fight of our generation. Yet his legacy is on the line because of his association with a troubled young man he met on the dating app called Jack’d. “Terry made the mistake of falling for the wrong man,” Winemiller says. “Since that mistake, Terry has been the victim of a ring of men who have broken into his homes, stolen money and personal property and tried to extort money from him by threatening his sterling public reputation.”
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ean grew up the scion of a powerful Portland family. His great-grandfather was an Oregon Supreme Court justice and later a federal judge. His grandfather, Ormond Bean, served 23 years as a Portland city commissioner. His accomplish-
ments included the development of Delta Park. His father, Ormond Jr., ran a successful real-estate company. Bea n himself was ra ised in La ke Oswego. He attended the University of Oregon on a golf scholarship, and returned to Portland and went to work at his father’s firm, Bean Investment Real Estate. He invested in apartments and converted rentals, such as the 561-unit Portland Center Apartments and the Envoy at Southwest Vista Avenue and West Burnside Street, into condominiums. His investors included San Francisco meat-packing heir James Hormel and wealthy Portlanders, including stockbroker Jerry Bidwell; Frank Dulcich, the CEO of Pacific Seafood; and Robert Philip, former CEO of Schnitzer Steel. Bean hit hard times when a multimillion-dollar Las Vegas condo conversion deal went bust as the national real-estate market plummeted in 2008. His company is still operating, but with a lower profile. He has been even more prominent in politics. In 1978, the city of Eugene passed an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation, and Bean helped lead the unsuccessful fight against repeal of the ordinance. He’s been a major player at fundraisers and political events, often escorting former Gov. Barbara Roberts, who considers Bean one of her closest friends. He’s given $24,000 to candidates seeking state and local office since 2006, including $4,500 to Secretary of State
ean’s current troubles began when he started dating Kiah Lawson. Lawson grew up in Junction City, where he graduated from high school in 2007, and soon found himself in trouble. A co-worker of his at the Hollister store in Eugene’s Valley River Center obtained an anti-stalking order against Lawson in 2007, after telling a judge Lawson had threatened him and tried to run him down with a car. In 2008, Lawson’s boyfriend at the time went to court and won a protective order, saying Lawson had a history of “criminal behavior and being vengeful,” according to court records. Four years later, in November 2012, Lawson was accused of breaking down an apartment door and beating another boyfriend, spattering blood on the walls. Lawson later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. In Januar y 2013, Lawson pleaded guilty to theft after stealing headphones and a PlayStation 3 console from the Hillsboro Best Buy. In August 2013, a Washington County judge issued a warrant for Lawson’s arrest after he failed to appear at an arraignment for driving with a suspended license. That same month, court records show, Lawson and Bean began dating. Lawson told WW the two met through Jack’d, and that Bean offered to help him with court fines stemming from his criminal convictions, and encouraged him to stay off drugs and stop smoking. “I was impressed,” Lawson says of Bean. “There was a sense of hope around him. You know, the bling. I liked that he tried to help me, to encourage me.” Bean, who drives a 2007 Bentley convertible and lives in a $1 million West Hills home, soon moved Lawson into a Hayden CONT. on page 14
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Island condo he also owns, court records show. Lawson says Bean took him to a birthday party for former Mayor Adams and lunches with Barbara Roberts, and Christmas caroling with Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini. The two traveled widely, to Bean’s home in Palm Springs, Calif., to the Dominican Republic and to Europe, according to Lawson’s Facebook page and documents reviewed by WW. They went to Washington, D.C., where in November 2013 Bean took Lawson on a private tour of the White House. They also attended a Democratic Party fundraiser that featured President Obama. It ’s unclear whether Lawson’s criminal record was an issue in connection with a Secret Ser vice background check people meeting the president often undergo. Bean declined to answer questions about the security clearance. Winemiller, Bean’s attorney, says Bean believes the “Secret Service process for determining who can and cannot participate in events with the president is unassailable, and Mr. Bean has never questioned that process, nor would he.” Lawson was allowed into the Obama event and afterward shook hands with the president as Bean snapped a photo. Lawson says meeting the president was exciting, but that’s not his best memory. “The White House library was awesome,” Lawson says. “All those old books.”
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awson and Bean’s romance had many of the trappings of a domestic relationship. Bean visited Lawson’s family in Junction City and took Lawson’s mother to a University of Oregon Ducks football game. Bean hosted Lawson’s family at his home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. “I really liked the guy,” says Lawson’s mother, Nouanemany Privatsky, 49. “I thought he was nice, caring, considerate.” The traditional trappings only went so far. Lawson claims that, as part of their relationship, Bean asked him to bring younger men to the West Hills house. He also says their relationship allowed them to have sex with other men, so long as the other approved. On Jan. 3, Lawson says, he became suspicious that Bean had entertained a man whom they had met on a different dating site, Adam4Adam. He knew Bean had an extensive video surveillance system throughout the house; there were security cameras visible in places such as the kitchen, the foyer and hallways.
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Lawson says he accessed the security system and thumbed through video images to see if he could spot the other man. There, he says, he discovered videos taken in Bean’s bedroom. They included Lawson and Bean having sex, as well as video of at least six other men engaged in sex acts at various times. He made screenshots and later confronted Bean about the recordings, some of which appeared to date back months. It’s a misdemeanor in Oregon to knowingly video-record another person who is naked without his or her consent if the person being recorded has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Winemiller, Bean’s attorney, said the security system in Bean’s home was never used for any improper or illegal purpose. “No footage from that system is archived by Mr. Bean or used beyond the intended purpose of a security system,” she said. According to Lawson, however, Bean denied at first that there was a video camera in the bedroom. Bean then acknowledged he had installed a camera to protect himself against thefts, but that it hadn’t worked for years and that he didn’t know how to activate it. Lawson says they argued. The two tried to reconcile and traveled to Europe. In February, they broke up. On Feb. 15, Bean went to his Hayden Island condo and demanded that Lawson move out. The two men argued and police were called. An officer noticed a mark on Bean’s forehead, and Bean denied that Lawson caused it. But in a restraining-order petition he filed subsequently, Bean claimed Lawson had hit him. (Bean and Lawson both sought restraining orders against each other in March. Lawson has withdrawn his; Bean’s is still in effect.) Lawson found a lawyer and, brandishing the video images, asked Bean for money.
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he lawyer that Lawson found, Jeff Dickey, says he has known Bean for 20 years. Dickey got his law license in 2009 and had worked briefly for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. The DA later refused to employ him full time, and Dickey won a settlement after claiming his civil rights had been violated. He has struggled—two judges have removed him from cases recently after he failed to appear at hearings. (Dickey tells WW his practice has suffered because of recent health issues.) CONT. on page 16
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On Feb. 20, Dickey sent Bean a letter quoting Lawson saying Bean was “his lover, companion and best friend.” But Lawson, according to the letter obtained by W W, claimed his discovery of the video recordings had caused “emotional trauma, psychological damage and breach of trust.” “After learning of the presence of cameras that took video of our most intimate moments—and captured images of other individuals in a state of nudity—I have had a difficult time trusting him,” Lawson is quoted in the letter. In the letter, Dickey said Lawson possessed screenshots from some of the videos and was considering filing a civil lawsuit against Bean. Dickey also said Lawson was considering calling police, suggesting that the video recordings violated an Oregon law against invasion of personal privacy. His client, Dickey said, “has agreed to first try to reach a compromise and settlement to resolve his complaints.” It’s unclear whether Lawson’s demand for money would qualify as extortion. In certain circumstances, under Oregon law, extortion can include demanding money from someone in exchange for not accusing a person of a crime, or exposing an embarrassing or damaging secret. It may not be extortion, according to state law, if the person making the demand did so to “make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.” “Lawyers can’t say things like, ‘I’m going to ruin you,’” says John Mansfield, a Portland lawyer who specializes in privacy issues. “But it’s permissible to ask for a settlement based on the evidence.” On March 17, Winemiller wrote back to Dickey, accusing Lawson of stealing a Rolex watch, golf clubs and clothing from Bean. Winemiller also accused Lawson and a friend, Michael Lytle, of using Bean’s bank card to run up a bill of $18,000. (Lytle’s criminal record includes burglary, drug sales and identity theft.) Winemiller wrote that Lawson and his friends “are in league to extract a payout” from Bean. Both Lawson and Lytle deny Winemiller’s allegations.
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ast month, Lawson’s a nd Bea n’s attorneys entered into mediation and emerged with an agreement. Under the deal, reviewed by WW, Lawson would get $40,000, including $12,500 for Dickey, Lawson’s attorney, and $9,500 toward drug treatment for Lawson. (Lawson was arrested April 20 at Sea-Tac Airport for possession of meth on the way back from a trip to Hawaii to visit friends. The King County, Wash., district attorney’s office says the case is under review.) In exchange for the money, Lawson agreed to turn over all images he had from the videos. The agreement also said Lawson would be paid only if by May 8 there had been no media reports concerning the claims made by Lawson concerning “alleged illicit sexual acts” by Bean. The agreement also required that an ex-boyfriend of Lawson’s, Denis Sieben, settle with Bean. Sieben, 19, tells WW he had sex with Lawson in Bean’s bed often during September. Sieben says Lawson 16
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DEDICATION: Bean’s contribution to the Human Rights Campaign has earned him a place of distinction at the gay-rights organization’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.
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has told him he appears in at least one video, but says he never saw any of the images. He also says he never consented to being recorded. Bean and his attorney declined to discuss the settlement agreement. Two weeks ago, Lawson turned his iPhone conta ining images from the videos over to Charles Faulk, a former electronic forensics expert with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who has been hired by Bean’s attorney. According to a recording of a conversation between them, Faulk told Lawson he had wiped the images off the iPhone so they could never be recovered. Faulk declined to comment for this story. Nevertheless, Lawson says he has yet to receive any money from the settlement. Attorneys for Lawson and Bean accuse the other side of failing to hold up their end of the settlement agreement.
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ver t he pa st mont h , B e a n h a s launched a three-part strategy to combat Lawson’s claims. First, Bean hired Washington, D.C., public relations strategist Hilary Rosen. Rosen works for SKDKnickerbocker, a firm that includes Anita Dunn, Obama’s former communications director. Rosen is also a longtime friend of Bean’s and a former board member of the Human Rights Foundation. Second, Bean’s legal team enlisted Jim McIntyre, a former Multnomah County deputy district attorney, to represent six young men who know Bean. McIntyre declined to comment. One of the men represented by McIntyre tells WW he had sexual contact with Bean in the bedroom of Bean’s West Hills home, and has told Bean’s attorney he
was unaware of a video recording system. Bean’s attorney, Winemiller, has since offered to advise the man on a domesticviolence charge and to help him find an apartment. Winemiller says the man was in need of social services, and she offered to refer him to Central City Concern. Finally, Bean started building a criminal case against Lawson and his friends. One man represented by McIntyre says Bean called him recently to see what he knew about Lawson. Another man, Matt Steel, who also spent time at Bean’s house, says he told Bean he once heard Lawson and Lytle plotting to get money from Bean. Bean then asked him for “any videos, evidence, messages, any photos of them doing anything illegal,” Steel tells WW. On May 21, Bean’s representatives visited the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. The DA’s office confirms that it has received a complaint from Bean’s attorney. The office has cited a confl ict of interest because the investigation involves Dickey, who once worked there. As a result, the case has been turned over to the Clackamas County District Attorney’s office. “We are in the process of doing a full investigation in conjunction with the Portland Police Bureau,” Scott Healy, Clackamas County senior deputy district attorney, tells WW. “Our investigation has started relatively recently. All complaints will be fully investigated, but I cannot comment further than that.” Bean’s attorney, Winemiller, declined to discuss the evidence she presented to prosecutors. “We are confident that investigators will uncover the full depth of what has been done to Mr. Bean,” she says.
Dickey, Lawson’s attorney, says talk of a criminal investigation is simply a smokescreen. “Terry is creating a distraction over here so we don’t pay attention to the fact that there were victims who were surreptitiously videotaped,” Dickey says. “This is a tactic by Terry to create an alterative narrative.”
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or Bean, it’s not certain what happens next. People close to him say he’s distraught about the case and the potential damage to his reputation. “I have know n Terr y Bean for 30 years,” Barbara Roberts, the former Oregon governor, tells WW. “There is no finer or more trustworthy man in Oregon. He has helped so many people. “I am hopeful that law enforcement acts swiftly to put an end to this hateful charade and I feel terrible for Terry that this unfortunate incident has become public.” On May 31, nearly 1,000 revelers turned up at Montgomery Park for a raucous victory celebration marking a federal judge’s overturning of Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage. Gay-rights pioneers, such as former Mayor Adams, raised their glasses to dozens of newly married gay couples. In between music by the LoveBomb Go-Go Marching Band and DJ Zimmie, Gov. John Kitzhaber, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and other leaders who have fought for decades for gay rights recognized the groups and individuals who’d made equality possible in Oregon. Amid all the names called out, one was missing. Terry Bean wasn’t there.
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Packing for a music festival is always a huge pain in the ass. As Sasquatch 2014 drew near, I anticipated the day before my departure would be an endless panic attack triggered by fear I was forgetting my tent and sleeping bag. But when you live in a van, everything you need is already packed—just turn the key and go. After a quick stop for groceries at the Irvington Safeway, I was ready to roll. The night before leaving, I parked in front of a friend’s house. I woke up with the sunlight peaking through the retractable skylight I installed the previous week. I French-pressed some coffee while my friends nervously double-checked the piles of supplies they hoped would keep them comfortable through a long weekend in the high desert of central Washington. This, I thought, is just one more reason I’m happy I’ve lived in a van for a year now—minus a couple of months. We’ll get to that later. My original plan was to use “vandwelling” as an inexpensive means to get a foothold in Portland until I found a job and moved in to an apartment. To that end, I was successful: Within a week, I had a job (“The Hole Story,” WW, Jan. 15, 2014) and was living rentfree in a shitty old van that cost me the equivalent of two months’ rent in the apartment building I parked in front of. A few months later, I found a barista job that paid twice the money for half the hours and began socking away cash. I took advantage of my surplus of money and free time by exploring the Columbia River Gorge, the coast and Mount Hood. Being “homeless” in Portland was turning into the best year of my life. The nomadic life of leisure was not without its downside, however. Showering at the gym was a nuisance, afternoon naps were out of the question, and the idea of anyone wanting to date a 30-year-old hobo was laughable. Waking up next to the ocean was great, but the lack of a “living room” was becoming a problem. Instead of loitering in my van, I became a regular at a neighborhood bar amenable to me camping out for hours on end. The difficulty in working from a bar is obvious: You’re the guy plugging away at a laptop while everyone else is getting drunk. I sought a more suitable place to burn the midnight oil and found Southeast Grind, a 24-hour coffee shop on Southeast Powell Boulevard that looked like a good fallback for tight deadlines. The coffee is drinkable and the place never closes, but the regulars at an all-night cafe in the dregs of Southeast’s Brass Pole District turned out to be even worse than drunks watching a Blazers game at Beulahland. “If I see Jasmine usin’ my lip gloss one more time, I’m gonna smack that bitch!” shrieked a girl in fishnet stockings and an orange pencil skirt as the front door swung open. “Teddy, you best tell that skank to learn her fucking role—I ain’t tellin’ her twice!” A f labby guy in faux-designer jeans and a leather jacket grabbed the door from behind her. He looked like a cross between Vanilla Ice and a fat Elvis impersonator. A girl in white sweatpants and a see-through halter top charged in behind them, shoved Vanilla Elvis out of the way and collapsed in a heap on a sagging velvet couch. “ My job a i n’t t a baby sit y ’a l l!” Va n i l la E lv is 20
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screamed. Even with Deafheaven’s Sunbather cranked up on my headphones, I still overheard the juicy bits. “I told Jasmine to stop showing up to work high, but I can’t tell her to stop talking shit about your girlfriend. She’s a bitch—just deal with it!” Between the barista’s dubstep playlist and the scene on the couch, I decided the work I had put off for weeks would have to wait another night. I went back to my van and slept fully clothed in a 20-degree chill and wondered if a 60-square-foot efficiency with no amenities was still practical. I decided it wasn’t. The cold was tolerable, but the paranoia of being found out was also getting to me. While driving home from Canada the previous week, my van’s engine went kaput somewhere south of Olympia. I asked the A A A driver to deposit my defunct home on a side street a few blocks from work, and spent a week weighing my options. I thought about getting another van, but
“IF I SEE JASMINE USIN’ MY LIP GLOSS ONE MORE TIME, I’M GONNA SMACK THAT BITCH! TEDDY, YOU BEST TELL THAT SKANK TO LEARN HER FUCKING ROLE—I AIN’T TELLIN’ HER TWICE.” wasn’t excited to roll the dice on another $1,000 beater from a sketchy dealership in Gresham. I tried to land an apartment with some strangers from Facebook, but the application process was derailed when I was unable to provide the landlord with any housing references. A two-month sublease at a friend’s apartment in Hollywood looked like the best option to reintegrate myself into the real world, so I forked over $900. I moved my paltry possessions into the closet of my new room and wondered if I had sold out. What would I do with all this space? Who pays the electric bill? Is the ability to lay in bed and watch Netflix for hours a hazard? I walked down Northeast Halsey Street—past the gym I belonged to for shower access—and bought some groceries. I went home, brewed a pot of coffee
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and decided it was time to take advantage of having an actual desk for the first time in six months. Instead of getting anything done, however, I fucked around for an hour and kicked the can further down the road. I can do this tomorrow, I told myself. The novelty of having electricity and water subsided, and I quickly reverted back to the lazy guy I’d left behind in Ohio. I spent days binging on peanut butter-filled pretzels and Bob’s Burgers. I was near my gym, but easy access to my own shower rendered the ancillary perks of a membership useless to me. Unless I was working, I was either asleep or engaged in a Netflix bender. After hitting the snooze button on my alarm clock a dozen times, the incessant howling of my roommates’ blind wiener dog finally got me moving for the day. It was 12:30 pm, and he was lost in my closet again. I stepped out of bed and found my foot in a warm pile of dog shit. I stumbled to the shower and hosed off my foot while the dog bumbled around the bathroom like a sad Roomba with a bowel problem. I went to the kitchen to make breakfast, but everything I needed to cook eggs was covered in grease. My coffee stash was empty, and the French press had soggy grounds floating in it. I stood there in my underwear and came to an abrupt realization: Living alone in a van was way better than this. Outside of work one day, I ran into a regular who knew my story. He asked about my plans after the sublease ended. I shrugged. “Well dude, there’s a room opening up at my place if you’re interested. It’s $500 a month. It’s me and three other dudes, all late 20s. Just around the corner from here. It’s super chill.” I told him I was interested, but I wasn’t sure. I was early for my shift, so I opened my laptop and checked Craigslist. I found a metalhead selling a busted Dodge for $1,000. Besides a Black Sabbath sticker on the dash, the interior was completely bare. I bought it on the spot and spent the next few months rebuilding my new home from the ground up. Now, I’m back to showering with strangers at the gym, but I’ll take that over waking up to a pile of dog shit any day. I did forget to bring a tent to Sasquatch, but I didn’t even need one. W hen your home is on wheels, nothing gets left behind.
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FOOD: Taqueria Nueve’s trimphant return. MUSIC: Guided by Voices drinking game. BAR REVIEW: The West End’s new hotel watering hole. MOVIES: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves.
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Drone spent four hours on the court inside the former Rose Garden, shooting a video for the lead single from its upcoming full-length debut. Keyboardist Ryan Neighbors (a former member of Portugal the Man) tells Scoop he had an idea for a “Smells Like Teen Spirit”-esque performance clip set in a gymnasium. After playing a Red Bull Sound Select concert, he brought it up to a representative at the energy-drink company, who offered to pull some strings and get the band and a small group of extras to film inside the arena. “We were shooting hoops on an NBA court during the playoffs,” Neighbors says. “It was kind of a childhood dream.” He declined to offer details of the video, but did share the corresponding still photo. The video, for a song titled “The Glow,” will premiere a month before the release of the corresponding album, Holyland, this summer.
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UN-AWFUL: Undateable, the long-delayed NBC sitcom co-starring former Portland comic Ron Funches, finally had its premiere with back-to-back episodes May 29, and its ratings were, to quote The Hollywood Reporter, “un-awful.” The show, helmed by Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, garnered a 1.3 rating in the vaunted 18-to-49 age demographic—the highest summer debut for a major-network comedy in five years. (It still got beat by reruns of The Big Bang Theory on CBS.) As for its critical reception, reviews are mixed: Rotten Tomatoes’ consensus opinion says the show is “largely bereft of originality or humor.” But Alan Sepinwall, the dean of TV critics, wrote that, under the right circumstances, Undateable could grow “into something quite good.” He had kind words for Funches in particular, praising his “strange energy” and “soft-spoken, almost Southern delivery.” SUM GRUB: Fong Chong, which for decades was the best dim sum restaurant in Chinatown, closed at the end of May, leaving only House of Louie serving dim sum in the neighborhood. Chinatown was long ago replaced by 82nd Avenue as Portand’s center of Asian culture and food. As of May 28, Fong Chong had been cleared of furniture. >> A few blocks away, the space at 610 NW Couch St. once occupied by Casey’s—which hopped West Burnside Street to 412 SW 4th Ave.—might become a karaoke bar called Jolly Green Pirate. Bryan Hogan, president of the Northwest Pointing Dog Association, has applied for a liquor license. RUGBY CHAMPS: Oregon is home to the best women’s rugby club team in the nation. The Oregon Sports Union’s Jesters, based in West Linn, demolished Chicago North Shore 48-10 on May 31 in Madison, Wisc., to win the USA Rugby Division I club national title. This followed blowout playoff victories of 46-6 over the Austin Valkyries and 56-0 over the Denver Black Ice.
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ON-COURT HUSTLE: You may have been too caught up in the Blazers’ playoff run to notice, but back in April a Portland band played the Moda Center—without having ever released an album. In between the second and third games of the Blazers’ first-round series against Houston, electro-pop duo Hustle and
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 4 FLEET WEEK [SAILORS] Good news: The Americans are back, which means that unlike last year, you don’t have to seduce Canadian sailors with talk of Newfies or Rob Ford or maple trees or whatever those Northern seamen talk about. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Northwest Naito Parkway between the Burnside and Steel bridges. Through Sunday, June 8. Heartbreak is free.
SATURDAY JUNE 7 PANCAKE ART [PANCAKES] Internet-famous Nathan Shields will make weirdly complicated pancakes that look like squid, beetles and Tusken Raiders. And he will teach you how to do the same, but way worse. Slappy Cakes, 4246 SE Belmont St., 477-4805, slappycakes.com. Noon. Free, but you gotta buy your own pancakes. MICHAEL IAN BLACK [COMEDY] A former member of generation-defining ’90s sketchcomedy troupe the Slate, Black has since become a strangely ubiquitous figure in pop culture, popping up as a talking head on VH1, hosting podcasts, hawking sodas and ice cream bars in TV ads, fighting with Marc Maron on Twitter, even writing children’s books. Through it all, he maintains an air of self-deprecating smarminess that’s at once infuriating and hilarious. Hawthorne Theater, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 2337100. 7 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
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DRINK It’s going to be a long week of beards, bikes and beer at both Pedalpalooza and Beer Week. Start slow, clean and crisp with Masters of Lager at Imperial Bottle Shop & Taproom (3090 SE Division St., 971-302-6899, imperialbottleshop. com). Look for Heater Allen’s Helles Bock and Full Sail’s Vienna lager alongside offerings from Upright, the Commons and Breakside. 6 pm. Free admission, buy beer.
DRINK The marquee event of Portland beer week, the Portland Fruit Beer Festival (portlandfruitbeerfest.com) begins at 11 am at Burnside Brewing (701 E Burnside St., 946-8151, burnsidebrewco. com). Get warm and toasty with a few glasses of Elysian D’Mango Unchained and the Commons Citrus Royale, because it’s almost time to peel your clothes off. Admission is $20.
RIDE From Imperial, you can roll right down Division to the Independent Publishing Resource Center (1001 SE Division St., portlandzinesymposium.org), which is hosting a bike-in movie. They’ll be showing BMX Bandits—which is sorta like Tootie Fruities cereal to the Froot Loops of Hal Needham’s classic Rad. Reagan-era attire is encouraged. 7 pm. Free admission, bring cash for refreshments.
FRIDAY JUNE 6 RIDE Get an early start on a busy weekend with the Burnt Bridge ride, which leaves from the Cascades MAX Station at 1 pm and follows the 8.5-mile Burnt Bridge Creek Trail in Vancouver and the Marine Drive path to make a 30.5-mile loop over both Columbia River bridges. DRINK After a long, early ride you’ll want to get the nearest pizza and beer, which is at East Glisan Pizza Lounge (8001 NE Glisan St., 971-2794273, eastglisan.com). Springfield’s Hop Valley Brewing takes over the taps, with happy-hour prices between 4 and 6 pm.
RIDE The biggest event of Pedalpalooza, the World Naked Bike Ride, isn’t totally naked—helmets and shoes are strongly encouraged—but it’s otherwise everything you’d expect and more. People begin gathering at Normandale Park (Northeast 55th Avenue and Wasco Street) at 8 pm. Ride starts at 9 pm.
SUNDAY JUNE 8 RIDE The Zoobomb Century combines two of the more extreme styles of group rides into a single “death ride” (their words!) down the West Hills. Then back up. Then down again. Until you’ve ridden 100 miles on a 16-inch kid’s bike. Take the MAX to Washington Park, and go right until you get to the logs. Ride starts at 10 am. DRINK If you actually rode 100 miles on a 16-inch bike, you deserve to go all out with one of the day’s two big brewers’ dinners on the west side. Pfriem, makers of our Beer of the Year, will be at Irving Street Kitchen (701 NW 13th Ave., 343-9440, irvingstreetkitchen.com) pouring alongside four courses and canapes (5:30 pm. $85 including gratuity). Down at Raven & Rose (1331 SW Broadway, 222-7673, ravenandrosepdx.com),
five brews from Samuel Smith will be paired with British foods like Yorkshire pudding and roasted meats (6:30 pm. $60).
MONDAY JUNE 9 RIDE As the weekend warriors put their clothes back on and recover from fruit beer-induced hangovers, hardcore bikers will gather to discuss stoplights on the 12-mile Traffic Signal Wonkery ride. Meet under the Portlandia statue (1120 SW 5th Ave.) at 5:30 pm and prepare to be awestruck by “some of the city’s best intersections.” DRINK The geekout continues as the New School beer blog brings together 10 of Oregon’s newest breweries (Chetco, Buoy, Baerlic, Plank Town, Sam Bond’s Garage, Thunder Island and more) for a tasting at Bailey’s Taproom (213 SW Broadway, 295-1004). Starts at 2 pm.
TUESDAY JUNE 10 RIDE Put on your Get Up Kids T-shirt and head over to Colonel Summers Park (Southeast 20th Avenue and Belmont Street) for an Emo Ride full of salt, sweat and sugar on the asphalt. Starts at 6:30 pm. DRINK After the ride, head east on Belmont (and then north to Stark, because Belmont Station isn’t on Belmont) for Infusions Illusions, where San Diego’s Monkey Paw Brewing makes its Portland debut with the help of a Randall, an “organoleptic hop transducer module” that infuses extra flavor into tap beer. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 232-8538, belmont-station.com. Starts at 5 pm.
GUIDED BY VOICES [MUSIC] Robert Pollard never wrote a tune he didn’t think was worth the world hearing. His beloved indierock band’s initial two-decade run produced approximately 8 zillion songs, and since reuniting the “classic” GBV lineup in 2010, he’s generated six more albums’ worth of material. What’s more astounding than the sheer volume of his output is the quality: He’s batting over .500 for his career, and doing so while mostly being drunk off his ass. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $35. 21+.
SUNDAY JUNE 8 M.A.S.S. VII [MUSIC, ETC.] For the seventh installment of this ongoing series of serene music, art and writing, Benoit Pioulard makes the trip down from Seattle to perform his delicately minimal soundscapes, accompanied by projections from Portland-based visual artist Colin Manning. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., 897-7037. 9 pm. Free.
MONDAY JUNE 9 PCS IMPROV ALL-STARS [IMPROV] Inspired by the life of the hatchet-happy Lizzie Borden (who’s also at the center of Portland Center Stage’s current production of Lizzie), four of the city’s top improvisers will ad-lib their own scenes of murder and mania. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 8 pm. $5-$10. Willamette Week JUNE 4, 2014 wweek.com
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doing just that. The frontage is small and dark, the glass panes uninterrupted except for a sign up high and a paper menu down low. Throughout the evening, we saw multiple patrons look up and down before taking hold of the door handle to come inside. Inside the narrow bar, you can sit on a pew next to a wall of exposed brick, at one of several small tables, or at the bar. Bechard is the barBY ADR I E N N E SO 243-2122 tender and server, opening bottles from a wideranging beer list (Mikkeller and Duchesse de Eric Bechard is from Quebec, a fourth-gener- Bourgogne, next to Logsdon, Fort George and ation Montréalais. This explains a lot—about Iron City) or mixing pre-Prohibition cocktails, the chef, his now-shuttered Southeast Portland which were accurately described as “whiskey, restaurant Kingdom of Roosevelt, and his pref- with some whiskey.” The menu is bar-style, with a selection of erence for Astoria over the Rose City. A s w ith Bechard’s lauded McMinnv ille sandwiches and small plates. Although you restaurant Thistle, Roosevelt drew upon that might expect overloaded plates, slick with time-honored French-Canadian tradition of grease, the food is characterized by a remarkable sense of restra int . It using foraged produce and game, with dishes like deer Order this: The Anchor ($9) is one of seems weird to descr ibe a burger as “ light a nd a ir y,” heart tartare. It was ambi- the best burgers I’ve ever had. but the Anchor ($9) is exactly tious, but perhaps not eco- I’ll pass: The simple greens ($5) cut the buzz from that cockt h at . W it h e ac h bit e, t he nomically viable here in the won’t tail, my friend. entire constr uction—juicy mac-’n’-cheese capital of the p a t t y, s o f t b u n , c h e d d a r world. “I don’t think Roosevelt was too progressive, and I know it would have sauce, caramelized and fried onions—melts in been successful,” Bechard says. “It just came your mouth. A local recommended the sloppy fries ($9), down to the fact that I wanted to live in Astoria more than I wanted to run Roosevelt and live in which were similarly not sloppy, but served Portland. A historic building that I’ve wanted with perfect proportions of cheddar sauce, pork came up for sale, and I put an offer in and it was bits, onions and hot peppers. The only item that accepted. At that point, I had to figure out what went overboard was the Ol’ Ironsides ($10), a Reuben variant that piles pork on pork to go to do next.” It’s no surprise that he felt at home in Asto- with your whiskey on whiskey. Bacon, braised ria. Starting with John Jacob Astor’s Pacific pork shoulder, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Fur Company in 1811, Québécois trappers “1001 island” dressing might be a little much were instrumental in turning the outpost into for anyone not used to rejoicing in the slaughter a major port city. And unlike Cannon Beach, of six or seven Wilburs with every meal, but the Astoria is still a working town. Instead of taffy sandwich itself could give anything from Lardo stands, the downtown has markets and banks. a run for its money. The fact that sandwiches don’t come with a The sardine canneries are still running, and you can still watch bar pilots climbing off ships side makes the price tag seem a little steep. But with plans to expand next door—along with talk from the pier. Any incoming business, then, has to walk a of live music and an oyster bar—plenty are happy fi ne line between feeding tourists carrying vac- to pay it. Hopefully by the end of June, tourists uum growlers of Fort George beer back to their and locals alike can clink whiskey glasses. I’ll be rooms in the stylish Commodore or Norblad on a stool next to them. hotels, and longshoremen getting a drink before Meat Bingo at Mary Todd’s. And Bechard’s new EAT: Albatross & Co., 225 14th Street, Astoria, 741-3091. 5 pm-late night Tuesday-Sunday. spot, Albatross & Co., stands a good chance of
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Salt & Straw Dinner at Lincoln
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A now-annual affair, Lincoln chef Jenn Louis teams up with Tyler Malek from Salt & Straw for an ice cream dinner collaboration featuring chilled clam-mussel cocktails paired with cilantro and lime sherbet, osso bucco paired against carrot-flavored soft-serve ice cream, or vinegar-lardo-mint strawberries paired up against avocado “dip and dots.” Which is to say, food as a form of wit. Lincoln, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-6200. 6:30 pm. $65 optional beverage pairing.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Portland Beer Week
A perfect argument for a June vacation. The Fruit Beer Festival might be the biggest individual draw, but Beer Week, which predictably actually lasts 11 freaking days, is a cold mess of festivals and beer dinners and tap takeovers and beer lunches and little classes and beer brunches and meet-and-greets and marketing tie-ins from local breweries and from restaurants who like breweries. Something like 90 events round out the “week.” Take suggestions in this week’s Headout for bike-and-brew pairings (because, holy crap, don’t drive), or check out the whole ungodly list of events at pdxbeerweek.com. The kickoff party is at Ecliptic Brewing, 825 N Cook St. 6 pm. Visit pdxbeerweek.com/calendar for complete list of events.
A bit early for oyster season, but never really too early for oysters. Portland Farmers Market operations manager Jaret Foster will be popping up with mobile raw-bar oyster socials at different spots around town this month. The condiments range from lemon wedge to ginger-shallot mignonette and local hot sauces from Marshall’s Haute Sauce and Picklopolis. The first Social of the year is at Gigantic Brewing, with oysters available at $2 a pop to go with Champagne or Gigantic taster flights. The raw bar is cash-only. Stay tuned for the next one at Bailey’s Taproom’s upstairs Upper Lip on Wednesday, June 11. Gigantic Brewing, 5224 SE 26th Ave., 208-3416. 5-8 pm.
D-Day Normandy Feast
At Multnomah Athletic Club, which has over the years been home to many a World War II vet made good (and possibly still a few), two chefs from Normandy—the MAC’s own acclaimed chef Philippe Boulot and St. Honore baker Dominique Geulin—will cook up a three-course dinner in honor of the bloody D-Day landing. The meal is much less bloody, favoring the more delicate treats of the Normandy region from pâté crostini to tartes flambées to ciderbraised pork cheeks and a saffron-spiced mussel-chanterelle salad. Multnomah Arts Center , 7688 SW Capitol Highway, 823-2787. 6 pm. $55.
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FRUIT BEER FEST: HOW TO USE YOUR TICKETS Ticket one: Peach Slap, from the Portland Deschutes brewpub, is a mild but deeply complex sour made with peach puree, habanero peppers, juniper and pink peppercorn. It was the consensus standout among a dozen fruit beers at last week’s media preview. It’s super sessionable (3.2 percent ABV), which is good, because every sip reveals a new note of earthy pepper, ginny juniper or subtle chili heat. Ticket two: Mayme B, from Alameda Brewing, might well be the only beer ever made with tropical mamey fruit, which is found in Central America, the Caribbean and a few farms in Florida. It tastes a little like a baked sweet potato topped with candied almonds. Ticket three: Gigantic Brewing’s Boysen the Hood debuted at last weekend’s Cheers to Belgian Beers. It was soured in the kettle—a difficult feat unless you specialize in traditional sours—and gets a balanced sweet-tartness from the boysenberries. MARTIN CIZMAR. GO: The Portland Fruit Beer Festival is at Burnside Brewing Co., 701 E Burnside St., portlandfruitbeerfest.com, on Friday (4-9 pm), Saturday (11 am-9 pm) and Sunday (11 am-6 pm), June 6-8. $20 ($30 Friday VIP) for 12 tickets and a glass.
DO-GOODER IPA VS. BRITISH INVASION IPA (OREGON PUBLIC HOUSE & PINTS VS. HOPWORKS & KBOO)
Lately, everyone is chasing charity with beer. Portland will soon have its first nonprofit brewery, Ex Novo, not far from its first nonprofit pub, Oregon Public House. And at that nonprofit pub, you’ll now find a nonprofit beer, Do-Gooder IPA. Brewed at Old Town’s Pints with a little help from the staff there, but using OPH’s own recipe plus hops and malt donated for the cause, Do-Gooder is a coppery IPA with a little toffee and a lingering bitterness. You’ll feel hot green hops in your nasal cavity after you’ve sipped. Meanwhile, Hopworks recently released a milder, English-style IPA called British Invasion to benefit KBOO community radio, which gets 50 cents from every pint sold. British Invasion is a little lighter in color, with a round and rosy sweetness, a little passionfruit and just enough bitterness to balance things out. I strongly prefer it—and I’m relieved someone in Portland is willing to keep a little something for themselves. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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garlic and, on our visit, delicately marinated and fleshy white lingcod. The fish changes frequently— sometimes in the middle of dinner service. Oh, and the only tortilla chips in the house, which I gratefully repurposed for dipping in the red salsa made with nutty chile de árbol. As appetizers go, the pancho ($4.50) and asparagus a la parrilla ($5.25) are also excellent. The former is a fluffy house tortilla, fried and topped BY MA RTIN CIZMA R mcizmar@wweek.com with delicate hon-shimeji and maitake mushrooms, pickled onion, black beans and a tangy Portlanders are sentimental. When a food-cart goat’s milk cheese. The latter is four spears, fried, pod closes, they cry. When a bowling alley is with sweet grilled onions and a squirt of a lime. You’ll a lso do well to go in ha rd on the replaced by a hardware store, they moan. When a goat pack is forced from a vacant lot to make tacos. Sure, they ’re pricey: $3.25 for chicken room for apartments, they weep. (The goats did or vegetarian roasted poblano, $4 for lengua not become goat steaks—they just moved to a less or wild-boar carnitas, with asada, brisket and cochinita pibil priced in between. But these desirable neighborhood.) Despite nativist fondness for unevolved relics tacos are worth the price, especially the smoky from the Golden Age of Belmont Street Heroin asada and extra-juicy carnitas. Not everything was as good. Dens, my encounters with them The “enchiladas” ($10.75) come have been, let’s say, Tacoma-esque. Order this: Margarita ($8), cardeconstr ucted, a s is com mon So I g reeted the ret urn of nitas tacos ($4 each), vegetal ($3.25) and tres leches in Oaxaca, with the meat above Taqueria Nueve with more than tacos cake ($7). folded tortillas. The form was a mild trepidation. Por tla nders Best deal: Tecate with lime ($2) sure do get excited for ultimately and cochinita pibil tacos ($3.25). minor problem compared to the grilled chicken, which was dry unsuccessful restaurant reboots. i’ll pass: Enchiladas ($10.75), and stringy. Flattened and gutRemember Yaw ’s Top Notch? tamales ($13). ted tamales ($13) have a smoky The New Notch closed after eight months. Macheezmo Mouse’s Boss Sauce? The lat- black mole that almost makes the masa seem est plan for resurrection seems to involve a food burnt—the masa itself is gooey—and the gamey cart. The return of an upscale Mexican joint from duck was all but lost in the mix. The desserts offered a similar mix of the merely the no-chips-here-es-muy-autentico glory days of serviceable and extraordinary. On my second visit, gringo-chefed nuevo Mexicano? Ay ay ay. And yet I’d count Taqueria Nueve Dos as one I found the limey dressing on the flan ($6) a little of my favorite new restaurants in town. Already, confusing. But I may also have been bitter about the 4-month-old eatery—previously in business not getting tres leches ($7) numero dos. T9’s tres for Dubya’s presidency, minus a few months—sits leches is the best version of the dairy-intense Mexiat No. 3 on my informal Power Poll of Portland can cake I’ve ever had—spongy layers infused with Poblano, right behind Nuestra Cocina and Tienda sweet milk and covered in an eggy meringue frosting with sugared dwarf strawberries. Santa Cruz. If Taqueria Nueve’s reboot doesn’t last, I’d Yes, there’s a $8 margarita involved. Taqueria Nueve—“T9,” the kids call it—was known for mak- pine for that cake. Until then, look for me with a ing the best in town. Es verdad: El Jimador blanco, margarita and a plate of $4 tacos, looking out the lime, raw-sugar simple syrup and triple sec blend- windows of the former Beaker & Flask toward ed into an alchemy that’s sweet, tart, salty and as where those happy little Belmont goats once thick as a barrel-aged stout. The sangria ($7) is frolicked, just blocks from the late-night cart pod similarly balanced and crisp, though please avoid that’s soon to be apartments. the salt lick of a michelada, which hasn’t scaled up GO: Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., as gracefully as its compadres. 954-1987, taquerianueve.com. 5-10 pm TuesdayFrom there you’ll want the Caesar salad con Saturday, 5-9 pm Sunday. ceviche ($10.25), topped with Cotija, anchovy,
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 Victor Wooten
[BASSISM] For about 30 years, bassist Victor Wooten has been contributing his low-end skills to work by everyone from Béla Fleck to Buckshot LeFonque. Some of that’s been overly academic in nature, as Wooten showcases a talent that has to be forcibly set within the constraints of newgrass, jazz and funk. If that’s a heavy-handed criticism, the title of Wooten’s 2013 release, The Music Lesson, bears it out. And while that newest long-player factors in a wash of avant settings for the bassist to use, quoting “Amazing Grace” on a track called “Fresh Scent” exhibits both a ridiculously broad knowledge of music, as well as a misunderstanding of audience. At least Futureman’s gonna be there. DAVE CANTOR. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 7 pm. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Star Anna, Heather Reid, Widower
[ALT-COUNTRY] There’s a bite to Star Anna’s sound, like she’s actually weathered the storms she sings about. The Seattle alt-country singer just released The Sky Is Falling, an album of gentle twang and stirring vocals reminiscent of Sheryl Crow. The record feels like the musical equivalent of your last hangover, the one that says, “Enough is enough, it’s time to clean up your act.” Like many before her, Star Anna was a punk drummer before picking up the acoustic guitar and slowing the pace. Rest assured, there’s still plenty of edge. It’s just served with softer, grayer, Americana-gloved blows to the gut. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Detroit Cobras, Pujol, Panther Power
[GARAGE ROCK] “We’re gonna use the powers of rock ’n’ roll for good tonight!” Daniel Pujol shouts on sophomore album Kludge. The Nashville musician known simply as Pujol is part of an esteemed Saddle Creek Records cast (Bright Eyes, Cursive, the Thermals) hashing out roughly cut post-punk numbers about vampires and playing with butterfly knives on the Fourth of July. For an album recorded in a suicide prevention center, Kludge is a surprisingly carefree, Mikal Cronin-like batch of summery garage rock. Vintage garagerockers Detroit Cobras headline an uproarious evening. MARK STOCK. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $13. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5 SNFU, the Meatmen, My New Vice, Mr. Plow, Nihilist Cunt
[DINOSAURS] If there was a “classic” pop-punk sound, SNFU would be one of its figureheads. The much maligned subgenre, though, is experiencing something of a renaissance, as this onetime Epitaph band issued a new disc last year, Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You. All its hallmarks are still in place: ridiculously fast tempos, vaguely metallic guitar and lyrics that fall just short of profundity. Tesco Vee’s Meatmen also recently returned to the studio for its first new album in almost two decades, Savage Sagas. In almost two decades. Luckily, neither group displays signs of significant maturation. DAVE CANTOR. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Two Cow Garage, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
[HEARTLAND PUNK] Even cowpunks from the Midwest get the blues. Two Cow Garage exists in the same realm as Lucero or earlier Old 97s material— supercharged alt-country that’s equal parts Sex Pistols and Springsteen— but a Warped Tour appearance is also within reason when you consider the ragged energy of 2013’s The Death of the Self-Preservation Society. You can’t replace the Replacements, but it’s a lot of fun watching a threesome of snotty Midwestern men-children give it a try. PETE COTTELL. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $20. All ages.
GOLDSCHLÄGER FOR ROBOT BOY: Robert Pollard circa 2004.
Judith Owen
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Welsh-born, New Orleans-based chanteuse Judith Owen recruited the original Mellow Mafia for her newest album, Ebb & Flow—namely, Russ Kunkel, Lee Sklar and Waddy Wachtel, session players for the likes of Carole King, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, et al. While their trademark adult-contemporary vibe provides a suitable setting for Owen’s somewhat mannered singing, her attempt here to reimagine Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime” as a Joni Mitchell-esque jazzbo groove is an unforced error. I mean, when listening to the silly original, you can laugh off the crass sexism and classism of the lyric, “If her daddy’s rich, take her out for a meal/If her daddy’s poor, just do what you feel” as a ridiculous relic, but set amid these self-serious soft-pop trappings, it sticks out as an unfortunate howler. That doesn’t mean you should skip tonight’s free show, featuring legendary bassist Sklar backing Owen—your potential date’s patrimony notwithstanding. JEFF ROSENBERG. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
Holocene Turns 11: TheeSatisfaction, Minden, Sex Life, DJ Nathan Detroit, Beat Electric DJs
[DANCEIVERSARY] Portland’s preeminent venue for cutting-edge dance music, among other things (like, say, inspiring a Bon Iver song), celebrates its 11th birthday with sets from Seattle’s soulful funk-rap sirens thee Satisfaction, Portland synth-pop groovers Minden and the live return of the party-starting Sex Life crew. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.
Alameda, Balto, Bevelers
[CHAMBER FOLK] Gorgeously lilting Portland chamber-folk ensemble Alameda celebrates the release of its live Banana Stand session. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
[BONES-A-CREAKIN’] I’m pretty skeptical that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony can sell out the Roseland in 2014, but I could be underestimating the army of teens and early 20-somethings who really want to experience “Notorious Thugs,” “Tha Crossroads” and “First of the Month” live. Krayzie, Layzie, Wish and Flesh-N have all been very bizzy Bones since those now-immortal songs were released, having put out a multitude of group and solo recordings. While the Thugs remain competent rappers, none of those releases has achieved anywhere near the same success as their ’90s albums. Still, it is impressive to be touring on new material 20 years into your career. Maybe these old Bones have some new tricks up their sleeves. SAM CUSUMANO. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. All ages.
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DRINKING GAME OF PRICKS A GUIDE TO GETTING DRUNK WITH GUIDED BY VOICES. BY MICHA EL MA N N HEIMER
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Few bands in indie rock inspire as much drunken devotion as Guided by Voices. Led by former schoolteacher and Beatles devotee Robert Pollard, the band’s expert mix of off-kilter whimsy, fistpumping bravado and psychedelic weirdness has made it the most unlikely survivor of the ’90s altrock boom. The Dayton, Ohio, legends have spent over two generations living out a great rock-’n’-roll fantasy, recording hundreds of songs in basements, garages, studios and dingy bars that sound great in your living room but approximately 10 times better in concert—especially after you’ve thrown back a few cold ones. Since reuniting the “classic” GBV lineup in 2010, the hyperproductive Pollard has continued to write and release songs at an insane clip. In honor of the band’s twin 2014 records, Cool Planet and Motivational Jumpsuit, and its upcoming swing through Portland, we’ve outlined rules for the definitive Guided by Voices drinking game. Grab some PBRs—or, if you want to drink like Pollard does onstage, whatever bottom-shelf liquor is available behind the bar—and get ready for the best hangover of your life. Drink every time… …Pollard does a high leg kick. Pollard’s signature move deserves its spot in the rock pantheon alongside the Pete Townshend windmill and the Jagger rooster strut. It’s amazing the 56-year-old Pollard can pull off such an impressive athletic feat without falling on his face. But then, he’s probably already so wasted that eating dirt wouldn’t faze him one bit. …guitarist Mitch Mitchell tries to smoke a cigarette onstage. When Guided by Voices last played Portland at Crystal Ballroom in 2011, Mitchell spent a majority of the show making like Keith Richards, playfully posing for the crowd, windmilling his guitar and repeatedly lighting a cigarette,
even though security would promptly make him put it out each time. …there’s a reference to an elf, wizard, robot, demon or UFO. No songwriter of the past 30 years has mixed the whimsical with the absurd quite like Pollard, whose lyrics often read like discarded Game of Thrones episode titles. Take two sips any time he introduces a song with a swear word. …you recognize a track from one of the six GBV records released since 2012. Sweet relief! There’s no way even the most diehard Guided by Voices nerd could recognize every song in the band’s mammoth set list (recent shows have exceeded 40 songs). Though the new material doesn’t quite stack up with the band’s classic output, this being Pollard, there’s always a few hidden gems in the mix. Recent highlights include “Vote for Me Dummy,” the awesomely titled “Males of Wormwood Mars” and the bouncy, hand-clap ready “Class Clown Spots a UFO.” Pour one out for… …former drummer Kevin Fennell. Fennell was fired from the band in October 2013 for trying to sell the drum kit used to record 1994’s Bee Thousand for $55,000 on eBay. Pollard took offense at Fennell’s use of the GBV name, which he owns. But the absurdity of the situation is even funnier: Bee Thousand, regarded as the best lo-fi record of all time, couldn’t have cost more than $1,000 to make. Finish your drink, either by pouring it down your throat or over your head... …when GBV plays “Motor Away,” “Game of Pricks,” “Exit Flagger” or “Smothered in Hugs.” Recent set lists have been split about 50-50 between new songs and old classics from the band’s mid-’90s heyday, when it was briefly courted by major labels. But let’s be honest: We’re all here to shout along to the same jams. If you have enough room to safely execute your own leg kick, this would be the appropriate time. SEE IT: Guided by Voices plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., with Bobby Bare Jr., on Saturday, June 7. 8 pm. $35. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 4, 2014 wweek.com
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FRIDAY, JUNE 6 Battleme, Rare Monk, Empire
[SLACKER ROCK] Battleme isn’t strictly for biker dramas anymore. Frontman Matt Drenik has expanded his once-solo project since penning a couple of tunes for the second season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, issuing two albums of pensive retro rock teaming with brawny guitars and Drenik’s husky croon. Future Runs Magnetic, the band’s last LP, arrived with a more cohesive sound. Tracks like “Nights on the Stand” sit in a bed of stripped beats and sinewy guitar, before imploding in a brief cacophony of rattling distortion and drums. Opener “Just Weight” hits the ground running, with a punk-rock touch and lyrics ruminating on the unsung fragility of time. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Zak Waters
[NU-FUNK] I’m not surprised more people don’t follow in Zak Waters’ footsteps. The L.A. singer, songwriter and producer hasn’t let basking in the limelight back in 2012 deter him from being a one-man electro-pop band. His sunny, funky songs enthrall before they eventually grate, but his freshly released cover of Ginuwine’s grinding classic “Pony” proves he’s got late-night chops to boot. A recent collaboration with Codi Caraco, though, shows Waters is also adept at dance floor-ready pop house. I’m not sure where he’s headed, but watch your collective back, Jamiroquai. MITCH LILLIE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, JUNE 7 Paul Collins Beat, Mean Jeans, the Cry, Defect Defect
Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Mic Crenshaw, Jana Losey, DJ Radical Klavical
[HEAVY HIP-HOP] Like fellow Portland hip-hop vet Cool Nutz, Mic Crenshaw has earned such a rep as an activist and musical ambassador (earlier this year, he was hired as a station manager at KBOO) that it’s easy to overlook his artistic merits. As an MC, Crenshaw is rugged and commanding, with a presence akin to the frontman of a hardcore punk band—so it makes total sense that he’d headline a place like the Know. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
SUNDAY, JUNE 8 Eels, Chelsea Wolfe
[NON-ARENA ROCK] More people have heard of the Eels today than had a couple of weeks ago, thanks to the band’s incongruous brush with rock history, accompanying long-dormant Journey frontman Steve Perry’s seemingly random return to live performance during the Eels’ encore in St. Paul, Minn., last month. Despite Perry’s professed admiration for Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett’s song “It’s a Motherfucker”—conjuring a bizarre alternate universe where Journey songs feature mordantly witty lyrics about disease and death— one doubts that droves of Perry’s faithful will declare newfound Eels fandom as a result. The uncompromising Everett—accompanied once again on this tour by Portland musicians Chet Lyster and Allen Hunter—doesn’t have an arena-rock bone in his body, having recently
filled another album, The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett, with artfully self-pitying ballads decidedly not of the “power” variety. JEFF ROSENBERG. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $32.50 advance, $35 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
M.A.S.S. VII: Benoit Pioulard, Like a Villain
[THE MOST TALENTED SHOW] For the seventh installment of M.A.S.S., an ongoing, bimonthly series of serene music, art and writing, Benoit Pioulard makes the trip down from Seattle to perform his compositions of odd sounds in relatable arrangements. Amid scratchy and distant recordings of who knows what, folk melodies and instrumentation comfort the majority of us who like a familiar note to rest on. The man behind these saddened, Ariel Pink-esque recordings, Thomas Meluch, can also produce delicately minimal soundscapes evocative of new beginnings. Portland’s own Like a Villain is also sure to stun with her larger-than-life voice and array of musical talents. LYLA ROWEN. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St. 8 pm. Free. All ages.
Current Swell, Those Willows
[FOLK-ROCKERS’ WAKE] To the degree that a title (and Joycean cover design) can reflect a statement of purpose, Current Swell evidently consider fifth release Ulysses—its first since taking top honors and a six-figure award from Vancouver’s 2011 Peak Performance Project—something of a magnum opus. Lord knows, there’s nothing remotely modernist about the slowburning rootsy jangle of assembled tunes, but with Neko Case/Giant Sand producer Nathan Sabatino quelling jammier instincts, the
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[POWER POP] Helming the Nerves and the Beat has left Paul Collins toting around such a colossal bag of sunshiny L.A. pop songs that writing new ditties can’t be a tremendous concern. His last batch for Bomp! Records, 2010’s King of Power Pop, didn’t do much to change that accrued legacy, but turning in stunners like “Hanging on the Telephone” (no, Cat Power didn’t write it, nor did Debbie Harry, dufus) and “Walking Out on Love” during the 1970s means high-tension pop won’t be in short supply, regardless of what portion of his career Collins pulls from on this current tour. DAVE CANTOR. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Noble Firs, Hands In, Psychomagic, Cambrian Explosion
[SURF POP] Ecstatic surf-pop foursome Noble Firs drops its newest EP, Floating Fortress, on which it makes tremendous use of twanged guitars, sunshine-y hooks and a certain, infectious joie de vivre missing from a lot of modern groups combing a similar beach. Firkin Tavern, 1937 SE 11th Ave., 206-7552. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Timber Timbre, Tasseomancy
[SPOOKY INDIE] You thought summer was here? Not if Timber Timbre can help it. Latest release Hot Dreams finds the Canadian five-piece destroying all traces of sunshine and blue skies with its haunting take on indie rock. The first track on its fifth album is the aptly titled “Beat the Drum Slowly,” a weird, dark march complete with a one-two snare, fluttering violin and nonsensical distortion that ascends to a stressful crescendo before dropping into nothing. Much of the album is like this—playing like a creepy, melancholy record spinning on an underwater gramophone. Trumpets wail, organ billows, electric guitar drones, and most everything is tinted with a shaky wobble held together only by Taylor Kirk’s solid baritone. KAITIE TODD. Mississippi
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Joseph Arthur, Carly Ritter [SINGER-SONGWRITER] Joseph Arthur found himself back in New York late last year in the wake of touring just after Lou Reed’s death. It was an unusually harsh winter, and soon the tireless musician was at work on a proper tribute record. He vowed not to incorporate drums or go electric, as those tools belonged to Mr. Reed. The result is Lou, a quiet, subtly chilling tip of the hat to the Velvet Underground frontman that trembles in his spiritual presence. Arthur, who was discovered by Peter Gabriel in the mid-’90s and was the first American to work under Gabriel’s Real World Records, has steadily pushed along, building an impressive résumé without really going mainstream. His biggest hit, “In the Sun,” came from 2000’s Come to Where I’m From, a record co-produced by T-Bone Burnett that captured the shy neo-folk that Beck and Wilco were making popular in the early aughts. Arthur tried going bigger, later forming short-lived group the Lonely Astronauts, and he even incorporated brass and soul singers with last year’s The Ballad of Boogie Christ. With Lou, Arthur is back performing by himself again, which is where this multifaceted indie icon is most effective. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 328-2865. 10 pm Friday, June 6. 21+.
SUNDAY Victoria, B.C., quartet appears set upon widening its big-in-Alberta audience through burnished focus on salable charms: hummable sentiment and practiced earnestness, beer-commercial harmonica trill and dull throb of choruses begging the festival handclap. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
PDX Pop Now! Compilation Release Party: Illmaculate, Bearcubbin’, Sara Jackson Holman, Hosannas, New Move, Blak Neon, Natasha Kmeto (DJ set)
[ALL-AGES TRADITION] The PDX Pop Now compilation release show is an annual tradition nearly rivaling the yearly all-ages local music
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Los Daddys, featuring Chucho Ponce, Doble Sentido
[CUMBIA] “The more the merrier” is pretty much the slogan of any party in the Latin American com-
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Pacific Mean Time’s (from left) Hamilton Sims, Edwin Paroissien and John Hulcher.
PACIFIC MEAN TIME FRIDAY, JUNE 6 After Edwin Paroissien was laid off from his job as a specialty-food distributor, he lived in his basement for two months. This may sound like the beginning of a downward spiral (or a Judd Apatow movie), but the guitarist did not spend his days in his underwear watching cartoons. In the depths of that moldy room, rock-’n’-roll magic was being made. “I started recording all sorts of things in my basement without any particular focus or goal,” he says. “But after a couple of months, it became apparent there was a new record in this.” Paroissien credits his period of joblessness to the creative spark that helped turn his band, then called Little Beirut, into Pacific Mean Time. As Paroissien dealt with his personal existential crisis, the group—rounded out by singer-guitarist Hamilton Sims and bassist John Hulcher—found its songs drifting from the guitar-driven pop that initially inspired them and heading in a spacier direction. “We made a plan for the type of record we wanted to make— something subtle and textured, dreamy and good for spacing out to,” Paroissien says. “Not more power pop. That gave us the sense that it was essentially a new band.” He says Pacific Mean Time is “mellower and sexier” than Little Beirut, “with a more subtle approach.” Inspired by the somber freak pop of Sparklehorse and the sound of ’90s college radio, the band’s self-titled debut teeters between folksy church hymns and bass-heavy jams. From the haunting sing-along of “Straight Shot (Towards the Sun)” to the banjo-laden dance number “Minutes to Midnight,” Pacific Mean Time is a diverse, sonically tight record, intensely versatile and vibrant enough to restore faith in the waning indie-pop genre. But the band hasn’t completely severed its roots: The songs are still catchy enough for the CMJ charts, which Little Beirut was no stranger to. Now, with the album out, Pacific Mean Time is finally emerging from the basement, and looking to play as many shows as possible. “We’ve remained excited about our record throughout the process of getting it out,” Paroissien says, “so, time to perform it!” ASHLEY JOCZ. Who needs a job when you’ve got a basement and some instruments?
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Janice Scroggins: 1955-2014. A tribute concert for the late pianist is at Alberta Rose Theatre on Monday, June 9. munity. Along those same lines, it’s hard to say how many daddies there are in Los Daddys, the selfprofessed “jefes de cumber.” There’s not much to be found about the Mexican group online, other than a variety of promotional posters, but hey, the more the merrier, right? There are, however, a few things you can definitely count on from this show: great cumbia, great dancing and tacky matching outfits. GRACE STAINBACK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 6 pm. $35. All ages.
MONDAY, JUNE 9 For the Love of Janice: A Musical Celebration of Janice Scroggins
[TRIBUTE] On May 27, Portland lost a legend in pianist Janice Scroggins, who passed away from a heart attack at age 58. A Grammy nominee for 1987’s Janice Plays Scott Joplin and 2013 inductee into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, Scroggins the connective tissue of nearly all the gospel, blues and R&B produce produced in Portland since the 1970s. This tribute concert—featuring Tony Ozier, Curtis Salgado, Norman Sylvester and a host of other local luminaries—certainly won’t be the last to honor her legacy. Proceeds from ticket sales go toward the Scroggins family. MATTHEW SINGER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 7 pm. $26-$150. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Mount Eerie, Tom Blood
[THE WIND RISES] Few musicians—especially ones coming from the Northwest DIY scene of the late ’90s—have adapted to the Social Media Age better than Phil Elverum. This might come as a surprise: Elverum, best known for his wonderful, earthy records as the Microphones and then Mount Eerie, is often associated with images of nature, community and a strict adherence to analog recording techniques. But Elverum sure has his Twitter game down pat, offering funny asides, observations and dry humor about, among other things, summer blockbusters. Common tweet: “Here I am again in the multiplex parking lot feeling super weird. What is life?” Tonight should be a fascinating look into his his weird on/offline world, one which hopefully includes new music after last year’s Pre-Human Ideas, which gave a modern MIDI sheen to old Mount Eerie songs. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Neon Trees, Smallpools, Nightmare and the Cat
[NEW WAVE POP] It’s no surprise that each song on this year’s Pop Psychology is every bit as shiny as the lighting Neon Trees was named after. Which is why it’s interesting to learn of a darker side to the music of these four-piece pop-rockers. Singer Tyler Glenn, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came out as gay in a recent issue of Rolling Stone, admitting he
has been closeted since he was 6 years old, and much of the subject matter of Neon Trees’ most recent album reflects some of the pain and frustration of those early years. Still, each of Pop Psychology’s tracks keeps up a bright, upbeat appearance, all snappy synths, quirky guitar flourishes, occasional guy-girl vocal sparring and handclap drums. But Glenn’s heartfelt delivery has developed a sharper edge. Despite the simplicity of his lyrics, his voice aches with longing, adding a deeper emotional resonance to Neon Trees’ polished dance beats. KAITIE TODD. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $21.50. All ages.
TUESDAY, JUNE 10 Justin Hayward, Mike Dawes
[UNEASY LISTENING] “Nights in White Satin,” the symphonic ballad closing 1967 concept album Days of Future Passed (no connection, alas, to the recent X-Men movie), neatly explains the Moody Blues’ 60-million-units-sold appeal. Rather more literally, it also explains their output of the past few decades—a satin weave, Wikipedia reminds us, has a glossy finish and dull back. Patient Zero for all subsequent rock-band orchestral flirtations, it’s still a marvelous song, though the enduring beauty owes rather more to a dreamily lush proto-prog production and melodic grace than the laconic charms of longtime frontman Justin Hayward. Last year’s Spirits of the Western Sky, his seventh solo album and first in nearly two decades, finds Hayward’s pipes undimmed and mood unruffled amid a thoroughly inessential collection of country-tinged folk-pop musings. This could serve as an effective sedative save for the inexplicable addition of hamfisted club remixes at album’s end, which creepily limn the terrors of awakening to the 21st century. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $49.50 advance, $52 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Portland Piano International Summer Festival
[CLASSICAL PIANO] After a yearlong hiatus, the annual pianophiliac gathering returns to a new location and reboots under new Portland Piano International director Arnaldo Cohen. Along with lectures, master classes and films, the 10 concerts include Friday’s recital of contemporary music by Third Angle pianist Susan Smith, featuring FearNoMusic cellist and violinist Nancy Ives and Inés Voglar performing music of top Portland composers Tomas Svoboda and Michael Johanson. Acclaimed guest pianist Alexandre Dossin plays 20th-century music by Leonard Bernstein, Heitor Villa-Lobos and George Gershwin on Saturday, while Cohen himself takes the keyboard Sunday for music by Manuel de Falla and Felix Mendelssohn. BRETT CAMPBELL. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Road, 768-7000. Various times Thursday-Sunday, June 5-8. $30 per recital.
[MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO] Featuring something like three dozen of the city’s finest improvising musicians—from jazzers (Rich Halley, Farnell Newton, Reed Wallsmith, Dan Duval) to avant-garde explorers (Doug Theriault, Matt Carlson) to Indian musicians (Michael Stirling, Josh Feinberg) to dancers (Mike Barber, Gregg Bielemeier, Kaj-anne Pepper, Tere Mathern)—this Creative Music Guild extravaganza has to be one of the city’s most impressive multidisciplinary arts gatherings. The great New York saxophone adventurer Tim Berne, a former Portlander who’s played with everyone from Bill Frisell to John Zorn to Chris Speed and more, is the star guest, and Seattle avant-jazz duo Bad Luck also joins the improv action. The summit also includes workshops and a new film at Whitsell Auditorium, The Reach of Resonance, starring composers John Luther Adams (this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music winner), Miya Masaoka (who uses everything from koto to bees in her work) and Bob Ostertag. BRETT CAMPBELL. Sandbox Studio, 420 NE 9th Ave., 784-7331. 7 pm Thursday, 5:30 pm Friday, 4:30 pm Saturday, June 5-7. $12-$20 sliding scale for one night, $20-$35 for two nights, $25-$50 for all nights.
Ernie Watts with the Marc Seales Trio
[JAZZ] A top call in L.A. studio sessions when he’s not touring the world with his own band, tenor sax master Ernie Watts works the melodic jazz mainstream so proficiently he just garnered another major career achievement prize (in Germany) to add to his collection. A veteran of groups led by Charlie Haden (Quartet West), Pat Metheny, Kurt Elling and others, Watts just released a stylish, straight-ahead new CD, A Simple Truth, whose title track was co-written by longtime friend and pianist Marc Seales. They’ll be joined by Portland jazz stalwarts Dave Captein on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Saturday, June 7. $17 general admission, $22 guaranteed seating. Under 21 permitted until 9 pm.
Quadraphonnes Saxophone Quartet
[CLASSICAL SAX] The Quadraphonnes feature some of Portland’s finest female sax players (Michelle Medler, Mieke BruggemanSmith, Mary-Sue Tobin, Chelsea Luker) and excel at jazz, but they’ve also long explored the lesser known and less abundant classical saxophone repertoire stretching from Philip Glass on back, including arrangements of older music (some of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier) and original compositions by Alexander Glazunov, 20th-century nuevo tango master Astor Piazzolla and more. BRETT CAMPBELL. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 228-7331. 2 pm Sunday, June 8. $10-$15.
In Mulieribus
[BYRD SONGS] Portland’s annual William Byrd Festival doesn’t start until August, but anyone who just can’t wait to hear the sublime music of England’s greatest Renaissance composer can enjoy more intimately scaled a cappella performances by the city’s top small female vocal ensemble. Along with a rare smallgroup performance of Byrd’s great “Mass for Three Voices” (usually heard in performances by big choirs), the group will sing motets and sacred songs that would have been sung by women in their homes during the 16th century. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Philip Neri Church, 2408 SE 16th Ave., 764-7525. 7 pm Sunday, June 8. $15-$25.
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DRAGGING AN OX THROUGH WATER PANIC SENTRY (PARTY DAMAGE) [DRONE AMERICANA] Above being a musician, Portland’s Brian Mumford is a mad scientist. Though he does his songwriting on a junky acoustic guitar in desperate need of fresh strings, his passion is homemade electronics: jury-rigged oscillators and effects pedals—including a contraption wired to emit noise at the whims of a lit candle—that serve as the only accompaniment to his low, mumbling voice and simple, entrancing chord progressions. As such, each album he releases as Dragging an Ox Through Water is a “project” in the science-fair sense of the term, with Mumford running an electrical current through the American folk tradition and making it flicker like a potato-powered light bulb. It’s hardly high-tech stuff. Panic Sentry—released digitally and on vinyl in March, and now being issued on CD by former WW music editor Casey Jarman’s Party Damage imprint—is lo-fi enough to come off like a back-porch field recording from the Deep South, the hissing and buzzing of Mumford’s self-built gizmos standing in for the sound of far-off cicadas and bullfrogs. But Mumford writes as if he really is on the verge of taking his gadgets and moving into the woods for good, and the crudity adds to the sense that what you’re listening to is the manifesto of an artist in retreat from the modern world. “I am turning into scum/ I am tangled up in someone else’s profitable dream,” he sings on “I Don’t Understand What You Like About It,” as tuneless violin creaks in the background. Elsewhere, Mumford imagines being reincarnated as a mole (“Mole Song”), forming an alliance with “the rats and the weeds” (“Sparrow Command”) and, on “Wire Haunts,” turning himself into one of his instruments. “A cord plays in my blood/ A switch would turn it on,” he murmurs over what sounds like the death gurgles of an Atari 2600. He just might do it, too. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Dragging an Ox Through Water plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Jamondria Harris and Solar Throat, Saints of the Knife, Sean Pierce Sumler and DJ Mixed Messages, on Wednesday, June 4. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
ED & THE RED REDS THE LIAR’S DREAM (SELF-RELEASED) [INDIE FOLK] Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon certainly isn’t the only musician to ever hole up in a secluded hunting cabin in the middle of the woods to write an album. Portland’s Ed Thanhouser, the “Ed” of Ed & the Red Reds, embarked on a similar path two years ago, spending a marathon week in a house in the Deschutes National Forest amid a snowstorm to craft his latest six-song EP, The Liar’s Dream. In essence, it’s a loose concept album dealing with the loss of identity and follies of innocence that’s embellished with subtle acoustic picking and an atmospheric undercurrent of brass and strings. It opens with warm electric guitar, brushed drums and ebbing violin, and finishes with slide and loose piano. A familiar, folksy palette of songs punctuate the time in between, most of which finely showcase Thanhouser’s plainspoken existential crisis. Both movements of the title track recall his previous work, with the eerie instrumental “The Liar’s Dream (Part II)” wavering amid hushed conversations and rolling acoustic guitar reminiscent of Kaki King’s earlier work (sans the whole flamenco thing). “Hellp” is the album’s cornerstone, with Thanhouser singing “And all of us, what are we?/ Are we evil, are we free?” above light strumming and the clamor of handclaps. The song transitions into an almost ragtime breakdown, providing one of the more unexpected and gratifying moments on the album. It’s not particularly groundbreaking. It’s captivating enough to leave you yearning for more. BRANDON WIDDER. SEE IT: Ed & the Red Reds play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with the Desert Kind and Hip Hatchet, on Wednesday, June 4. 9 pm. $5. 21+. 34
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2026 NE Alberta St. Warthog, Wild Mohicans, Mongoloid
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Squabble
For more listings, check out wweek.com. THOMAS TEAL
The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Perola, Justin
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Travis Ehrenstrom Band, Urban Wildlife, Robin Bacior, Cara
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Kenny Brooks and David Valdez Quintet
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Primer 55, Ditch Digger
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
dAnSe MeH-CABRe: The Faint performs at Roseland Theater on May 31. “How does a band occupy its time in the decade following the release of a synth-rock milestone? In the case of Omaha’s the Faint, the answer involves mediocrity and laser beams. Shitloads of laser beams.” Read the full review at wweek.com.
wed. June 4 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Edna Vazquez
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Victor Wooten
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Chuck Mead and the Grassy Knoll Boys
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Ian and The Crushers, Bud Bronson and the Good Timers, Urban Sex Legends
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. Star Anna, Heather Reid, Widower
duff’s Garage
2530 SE 82nd Ave Suburban Slim’s Blues, Woodlander
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Helms Alee, Kowloon Walled City
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Cameron Quick
Gemini Bar & Grill
456 N State St. Jacob Merlin and Sarah Billings
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Dragging an Ox Through Water, Jamondria Harris + Solar Throat, Saints of the Knife, Sean Pierce Sumler
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet
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The Secret Society
Landmark Saloon
116 NE Russell St. Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra
LaurelThirst Public House
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Hwy. High Boltage
4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday: Jake Ray & the Cowdogs
Tillicum Restaurant & Bar
2958 NE Glisan St. Sawmill Joe (9 pm); The Resolectrics (6 pm)
white eagle Saloon
Lola’s Room
wilf’s Restaurant & Bar
1332 W Burnside Jamestown Revival, The Wind and The Wave
836 N Russell St. Wadhams & Huston
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ed and The Red Reds, The Desert Kind, Hip Hatchet
Old Church & Pub
THuRS. June 5 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Edna Vazquez
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Joshua English
Alhambra Theatre
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Ash Street Saloon
715 SW Morrison St. #702 East Sylvan Middle School Band
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Night Nurse, Chest Pain, Disenthrone
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Detroit Cobras, Pujol, Panther Power
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Luciano, IKronik 225 SW Ash St. Stepper, Scar After Scar
Back Stage Bar
3701 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eye Candy VJ
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends
doug Fir Lounge
Mississippi Studios
duff’s Garage
Music Millennium
east end
new Renaissance Bookshop
830 E Burnside St. Judith Owen
2530 SE 82nd Ave Cee Cee James, Tough Love Pyle 203 SE Grand Ave. Ransoms, The Pity Fucks
edgefield
Hawthorne Theatre
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road The Brothers Jam
2126 SW Halsey St. Little Red Shed Concerts: Vandella 1507 SE 39th Ave. Common Kings
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Giasone and the Argonauts
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Holocene Turns 11: TheeSatisfaction, Minden, Sex Life, DJ Nathan Detroit, Beat Electric DJs
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Jamie Leopold’s ‘Salon de Musique’
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
LaurelThirst Public House
2845 SE Stark St. Steveland Swatkins, Chance Hayden, Nicole Berke
888 Liberty St. NE Skip vonKuske’s Cellotronik
The Lodge Bar & Grill
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. SNFU, The Meatmen, My New Vice, Mr. Plow, Nihilist Cunt
Lewis & Clark College
6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. World Mandolin Concert
The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Will Morgan Acoustic Debut of ‘Built Some’
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Chapel Pub
430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Two Cow Garage, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
3158 E. Burnside St. Judith Owen
1338 NW 23rd Ave. Drop-in Kirtan, John Gladen
2958 NE Glisan St. The Free Peoples, the Rivera (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)
The GoodFoot Lounge
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Alameda, Balto, Bevelers
0615 SW Palatine Road Portland Piano International Summer Festival
Lola’s Room
1332 W Burnside Nice Peter
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 N. Mississippi Ave Fish & Bird, Alex Taimanao & Travis Stine
Old Church & Pub
Pioneer Courthouse Square
715 SW Morrison St. #702 Montavilla Guitar Studio
Portland Community College
17705 NW Springville Rd Living Voices
Ringlers Pub
1332 W Burnside The Windshield Vipers
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Sandbox Studio
420 NE 9th Ave. Improvisation Summit of Portland 2014
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Fruit of the Legion of Loom, Brooding Herd, Heavy Baang Staang
St. Honore
3333 SE Division Street Hot Club of Hawthorne, French Gypsy Jazz
Starday Tavern
6517 SE Foster Road JT Wise Band
The Buffalo Gap
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Midnight Moonshine, Out of Me
The Conga Club
4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Dina y Los Rumberos
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Bureau of Standards Big Band
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change
white eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Chris Baron and Friends
FRI. June 6 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Edna Vazquez
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Dar Williams, Anne Weiss
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Pacific Mean Time, The My Oh Mys, Young Vienna
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. The Panic
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. La Belle Noir, Bright and Shiny, Stein, and The Panic with live performance painter Cheylan Edison
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Derock Tucker
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Manimalhouse, Lynn Conover and Jim Boyer
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Michael Osborn and the Drivers
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE Oh My Mys
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Joseph Arthur
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Starr
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Goddamn Gallows, Old Man Markley & Water Tower
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Battleme, Rare Monk, Empire
duff’s Garage
The whiskey Bar
east end
Tigardville Station
edgefield
Tillicum Restaurant & Bar
2530 SE 82nd Ave DK Stewart, Hamdogs 203 SE Grand Ave. Grave Babies, Deathcharge 2126 SW Halsey St. Peter Pants
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Michelle Van Kleef and Brian Copeland, Michele Van Kleef
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Baby Gramps (9:30 pm); The Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza Pub 3552 N. Mississippi Ave The Wishermen , Jenny Sizzler
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Minus 5
Music Millennium
3158 E. Burnside St. Devlan James
Ponderosa Lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Brian Brazier
Rogue Public Ale House
100 38th St. 5th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering
Sandbox Studio
420 NE 9th Ave. Improvisation Summit of Portland 2014
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Icarus the Owl, Chin Up Rocky, We The Wild, She Preaches Mayhem
St. Honore
3333 SE Division Street Tracy Kim and Doug Bundy
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Zak Waters
31 NW 1st Ave. Kennedy Jones
12370 SW Main Street Kevin Selfe and The Tornadoes
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Hwy. Bar Pilots
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Tribute
white eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. The Stubborn Lovers, The Hillwilliams, Reverb Brothers
wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. This Charming Band, For the Masses, Love Vigilantes
SAT. June 7 AdX
SE 11th Ave ADX Turns 3
Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Edna Vazquez
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Diego’s Umbrella
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Splintered Throne, Agnozia, Halo Haven
Artichoke Music
3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Kate Power and Steve Einhorn
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Bass Mints, Bad Habbit, Thunder Carriage
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Toucan Sam & The Fruitloops, Amy Bleu
Starday Tavern
Biddy McGraw’s
The Buffalo Gap
Blue diamond
The Firkin Tavern
Calapooia Brewing
6517 SE Foster Road Devlan James Vinyl Release 6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dismal Niche Orchestra 1937 SE 11th Ave. Fox & The Law, The Hoons, Failure Machine
The Living Room Theater 341 SW 10th Ave. Groovetramps
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Cafe Cowboys
The nest
241 State St. Get Money Stop Hatin’ Tour
The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Lisa Mann
The Press Club
6000 NE Glisan St. Bottleneck Blues Band, Stephen’s Answer 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Matt Schiff Trio 140 Hill St. NE Ras Jammie
Central Lutheran Church
1820 NE 21st St Common World with Confluence: Willamette Valley LGBT Chorus
Cloud and Kelly’s 126 SW 1st St Schroeder Bomb, Arcweld and ManX
Columbia Center for the Arts
215 Cascade Street, PO Box 1543 Project Oregon United for Marriage Support Concert, Groove Project
dante’s
2621 SE Clinton St. The Cary Miga Trio
350 W Burnside St. Errata, Moon By You, Foxy Lemon, Spirit Lake
The Secret Society
doug Fir Lounge
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
203 SE Grand Ave. Paul Collins Beat, Mean Jeans, The Cry and Defect Defect
116 NE Russell St. Coldwater, Alexa Wiley & The Wilderness, Never Strangers, Dominic Castillo
510 NW 11th Ave. The 3 Trumpet Band and Dick Titterington
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Primer 55
830 E Burnside St. Ants in the Kitchen Rock ‘n’ Soul Revue
east end
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. The Columbians
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Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Citizen Patrol, Cheaper Than Speed, Oaks of Ald
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Opera Theater Oregon presents Giasone and the Argonauts
Hotel Oregon
310 NE Evans St. Mark MacMinn
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Ernie Watts with the Marc Seales Trio
Keller Auditorium
The GoodFoot Lounge
East End
2845 SE Stark St. Polyrhythmics
203 SE Grand Ave. Jollapin Jasper, Glacier Palace
The Horse Radish
Edgefield
The Know
First Presbyterian Church
211 W Main St. Analisa Band
2026 NE Alberta St. Mic Crenshaw
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. CBA’s Journey to Memphis
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Junebugs
The Original Halibut’s II
2525 NE Alberta St. Bill Rhoades
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Jenna Ellefson
222 SW Clay St. Brit Floyd, The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show
The Red And Black Cafe
Kenton Club
The Scoreboard
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Miss Massive Snowflake, Shotgun Shogun, Class M Planets, Slumlord
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); The Yellers (6 pm)
M & M Restaurant & Lounge 137 N Main Ave. Hot Lynx
Midnight Roundup
345 NW Burnside Rd. Hang ‘em High
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 N. Mississippi Ave Kool Stuff Katie, Count Kellam, Kelly Brightwell, Pilar French, Red Yarn
Mississippi Studios
400 SE 12th Ave. Decoro
4822 SE Division St. Lodi, Nick Hardy
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. The Caleb Klauder Country Band, Copper & Coal, The Libertine Belles
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Robert Moore & The Wildcats
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Dean Martin Birthday Tribute
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Ransom, Palo Verde, Doctor Amazon
Vie De Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Afro-Caribbean Night
White Eagle
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Timber Timbre, Tasseomancy
836 N Russell St. Mufassa, the Crash Engine, Iron Works, DoveDriver
Mock Crest Tavern
Wonder Ballroom
3435 N Lombart St. Adequates
Music Millennium
3158 E. Burnside St. Joseph Arthur
Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Con Brio
Plum Hill Vineyards
6505 SW Old Hwy 47 Taresa Ketcherside
Ponderosa Lounge 10350 N Vancouver Way Muddy Creek
Ringlers Pub
1332 W Burnside Floating Pointe
Rogue Public Ale House
#IAmRich
JUNE 4–10
100 38th St. 5th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering
Sandbox Studio
420 NE 9th Ave. Improvisation Summit of Portland 2014
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Alex G, Special Explosion, Creech, Lee Corey Oswald
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. School of Rock: Saturday Night Fever
The Buffalo Gap
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Tender Deluxe
128 NE Russell St. Guided by Voices
SUN. JUNE 8 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matt Meighan
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Eels, Chelsea Wolfe
Alberta Abbey
126 NE Alberta Street M.A.S.S. VII: Benoit Pioulard, Like a Villain
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Born Cosmic, Panshot
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Bluegrass Slow Jam
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes Jam Session
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Spafford, Saloon Ensemble
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Current Swell, Those Willows
Duff’s Garage
2530 SE 82nd Ave Kung Pao Chickens
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2126 SW Halsey St. Billy D
1200 SW Alder St. Quadraphonnes Saxophone Quartet
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Promise the Moon, Sloe Loris
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Djo Fortunato
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Robert Richter, James Faretheewell, Land of the Living (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Lincoln Performance HallPortland State 1620 SW Park Ave. Portland Wind Symphony
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 N. Mississippi Ave Coupe Duet
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. PDX Pop Now Compilation Release Party: Illmaculate, Bearcubbin, Sara Jackson Holman, Hosannas
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Open Mic
Plum Hill Vineyards
6505 SW Old Hwy 47 Ron Sabin
Rogue Public Ale House 100 38th St. 5th Annual Tenor Guitar Gathering
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Los Daddys, featuring Chucho Ponce, Doble Sentido
Slabtown
Vie De Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Tristan Weitcamp
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Old Man Canyon
Yale Union (YU) 800 SE 10th Ave. Graham Lambkin
MON. JUNE 9 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matt Meighan
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. For the Love of Janice: LaRhonda Steele, Lloyd Jones, Curtis Salgado, Duffy Bishop, Terry Robb
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. TheGoodSons, Prophets of Addiction
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Cousin Curtiss
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. 42 Ford Prefect, The Symptoms
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Skip vonKuske’s Groovy Wallpaper
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Joe Baker’s ‘Jelly Roll Jamboree’,The Joe New Trio, Joe Baker, Alligator Fete, James Clem and Ken West
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio, Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Well Swung
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Peter Pants (6 pm)
1033 NW 16th Ave. Rocker Chixx Choir Spring Showcase
Lola’s Room
Slabtown
Mississippi Studios
1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra
St. Philip Neri Church
2408 SE 16th Ave. In Mulieribus
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. School of Rock Lake Oswego Presents: Led Zeppelin
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Sunday Jazz Series
The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Bellow Bridge
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Ethos Music Center Rock Band Showcase
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Aethetic Perfection and Surgyn, Panic Lift
1332 W Burnside Punk Rock Mondays
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mount Eerie
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Neon Trees, Smallpools, Nightmare and the Cat
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Aegaeon, The Zenith Passage, A World Without, Pantheon, Silent Shores
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Teeph, The Siege Fire, Sol
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Jazzshack
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Red And Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Lam Lam! with At Your Cervix
TUES. JUNE 10 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Matt Meighan
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Justin Hayward, Mike Dawes
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Dimidium, Pandion, The Hunt
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gretchen Mitchell Band
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Tuesday Blues
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Sworn Enemy and Silence the Messenger
Cadigan’s Corner Bar
5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Ensemble De Organographia, Classical Tuesdays
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Meiko
Duff’s Garage
2530 SE 82nd Ave Dover Weinberg Quartet, Sharkskin Revue
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. The Bloodhounds, The Dandylyons
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Hanz Araki
Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Outline in Color, Miss Fortune, The Animal In Me, We Rise The Tides, Elenora, Like Vultures
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. The Line, the Cross and the Curve, Allie Hankins, Jin Camou, Dawn Stoppiello
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Audio Tattoo
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet, Mt. View High School Jazz Band
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Amanda Richards, Good Long Whiles (9 pm), Jackstraw (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza Pub
3552 N. Mississippi Ave Josh Rouse
Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Joe Purdy, Brian Wright
Portland Abbey Arts
7600 N. Hereford Avenue The Round
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. The Pagan Jug Band
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Hot Jam Night, Tracey Fordice and The 8-Balls
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Exotype and Eyes Set to Kill
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Ancient Eden, Sell the Farm
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REVERSE TOURIST BAR: “This isn’t L.A.” declaims a svelte, moneyed silver fox at the bar. “Nobody’s gonna give you Portland in L.A.” His date, who is of surgically indeterminate age and culturally indeterminate name, orders dry arugula and cauliflower off-menu. Amid the West End’s new cluster of boutiques and boutique hotels, the retro-luxe stylings of Jackknife (614 SW 11th Ave., 384-2347, jackknifepdx.com), the Sentinel’s new hotel bar by the owners of Dig a Pony and Bye and Bye, seem patently designed for the city-hopping cool chasers of Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. On weekends the bar brims with the tunnel people of Beaverton, but on a recent Sunday the bar offered an odd opportunity to view tourists as if they were animals in a zoo. Behold the Angeleno with the orange beanie, tortoise-shell glasses, Die Antwoord haircut and walrus mustache, his pressed plaid shirt buttoned up to his Adam’s apple. See, in her unnatural environment, the SoCal metalhead with Enemy Mine side-face ink to complement her eyebrow tattoos. Look out behind her for a man in full London club camo gear and a backward red baseball cap. There is never a dull moment. And the seats are quite comfortable at the cosmopolitan shitshow, with a fireplace hearth, a lovely marble bar that extends for miles, an ornate intra-building skylight and a party lounge in the back. The well drinks are a reasonable $5, while anyone ambitious with mid-to-upper-shelf calls will pay handsomely for their ambition. The snack menu is a polite pleasantry. And the Bonnie Parker cocktail ($10), meanwhile, is one of the best I’ve had in town, a balanced, comfortingly sweet, copper-cupped blend of bourbon, pecan and maple that actually made me gasp audibly on the first sip. As the night brings more out-of-towners, a group of hometown Portlanders steps up to the bar to pay. “Be careful,” one of them tells us upon leaving. “It’s getting squirrelly in here.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT. JUNE 7
Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz
Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Wicked Wednesdays
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night
THURS. JUNE 5
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJ Kenny, John and Skip
FRI. JUNE 6 Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. P*ssyfest PDX: DJ GlobalRuckus, DJ Chubby Chaser
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Robert Armani, DJ Rafael, Tom Mitchell, Ryan Scott
Analog Cafe & Theater
Rotture
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Muevete Jueves
315 SE 3rd Ave. Doshy, Tyler Tastemaker, Graintable
Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse
The GoodFoot Lounge
118 NE 28th Ave. DJ Maxx Bass
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Sahelsounds
2845 SE Stark St. First Friday Super Jam, DJ Magento & Friends
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. DirtBag
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SUN. JUNE 8 The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Rapture: DJ Finger Bang & Dungeon Master
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Arty
TUES. JUNE 10 Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. S.Y.N.T. Weekly Dubstep Night
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. Bi Bar
7/2 A Few of My Favorite Things: curated by Eric D. Johnson
$6.00 at the door.
Holocene
The Lovecraft
very fun beat-the-rush Thus dance party w/ Holla n Oates
Hawthorne Theatre - @mikethrasherpresents
Crush Bar
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit, Ryan & Dimitri
6/12 Body Party - a new,
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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The 3rd Annual Festival of Stories
Portland Storytellers Guild closes its season with two nights of tales. On Friday, hear true stories about the aggravations, mishaps and joys of life. Saturday features six tales from the Brothers Grimm. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 8 pm FridaySaturday, June 6-7. $12-$15.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)—REVISED
Post5 Theatre once again tackles this zippy, three-man romp through all of the Bard’s 37 plays. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7:30 pm FridaysSundays and some Thursdays through June 28. $15.
The Hen Night Epiphany
Last June, Corrib Theatre, a company that devotes itself to Irish drama, staged a reading of Jimmy Murphy’s five-woman play. This year, it brings it back for a full production. The play centers on a hen night party (basically the Irish equivalent of a bachelorette party) that turns from rowdy celebration to more somber reflection, and this production stars a quintet of talented local actresses. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., corribtheatre.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$25.
OUTwright Theatre Festival
Back in 2011, Fuse Theatre Ensemble launched a reading series devoted to LGBTQ plays, and two years later, it was relaunched as a full-blown theater festival. This year’s monthlong fest includes fully mounted productions happening around town (including Learn to be Latina and Golden Girls Live), numerous staged readings and a few panel discussions. Multiple venues. Multiple times and dates through June 29; visit outwrightfest.com for full schedule. Prices vary.
NEW REVIEWS Robinson Crusoe
The power of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe comes from Crusoe’s brutal confrontation with his mortality, the chilling first-person perspective and, of course, the pirates and cannibals. Action/Adventure Theatre is known for its semi-scripted serial comedies, and now the company applies that approach to the world of classic literature. Unfortunately, the first installment of Robinson Crusoe—it continues for three more weekends—was not a dramatic initial chapter but a one-man show in a sandbox. Ian Armstrong plays the titular marooned man, at times becoming so passionately deranged—writhing and pacing in the sand or emitting full-bodied screams that ring through the small space— that audiences leaned back to get as far away as possible. But at only 45 minutes, things wrapped up before Crusoe had really begun his adventure or encountered either pirates or cannibals. That’s not to say it was without merit: The sound designer surrounded the audience in the rhythmic crashing of waves, and there’s an intricate goat puppet, reminiscent of the marionettes in The Sound of Music, created by Signal Light Puppet Theatre. But having additional characters onstage will hopefully get more comedic juices flowing, because for every one of Armstrong’s clever one-liners opening weekend (while speaking to God about the Bible: “Did you strand me here so I’d read your book?”), he tossed in a lukewarm, lewd joke—a hip thrust or a song about fucking a sleeping sailor’s mother—that seemed only to land with friends of the troupe sitting in the
audience. LAURA HANSON. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 22. $10-$15; $35 for four-week pass. Thursdays “pay what you will.”
ALSO PLAYING Giasone and The Argonauts
In a brilliant pairing, Opera Theater Oregon yokes a live performance of Francesco Cavalli’s rarely staged 1649 opera Giasone with a screening of the late, great Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts, complete with stop-motion skeletons and harpies. The singers, clad in baroque costumes, will perform in Italian (with English subtitles, of course), joined by a chamber ensemble and onstage foley artists. If all goes well, it should be the perfect union of class and camp. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, May 30-31 and 7 pm ThursdaySaturday, June 5-7. $12.
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 mistaken: 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.
Lizzie
Portland Center Stage closes its season with a bang...er, a whack. Or 40. This rock musical recounts the tale of the infamous Lizzie Borden, with song lyrics that draw on actual dialogue from the trials, plenty of fake blood, and very saucy language. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays; 2 pm Saturday-Sundays; and noon Thursdays through June 29. $38-$72.
Macbeth
Shakespeare’s darkest trip of butchery and regret gets haphazard treatment in this Northwest Classical Theatre Company production, which successfully plays up the spookiness of Macbeth but falls down in its tangled, seemingly tossed-together details. Credit director Butch Flowers for his attempts to add some flair to an oftproduced tragedy, but that doesn’t mean the mess of costumes—cargo
vests and combat boots one minute, newsboy caps or zip-up hoodies the next—or the inexplicable appearance of a Star Wars comic adds any depth. Still, the supernatural scenes prompt occasional goose bumps, thanks to sinister makeup and lighting, and the close quarters of the tiny Shoebox Theater make for some exhilarating fight scenes. As Macbeth, Jason Maniccia wears his insecurity on his sleeve as his ambitious wife urges him to kill the king and take the crown, fearfully wringing his hands as he descends into paranoia. Melissa Whitney is an intense Lady Macbeth, and she gives the audience chills when she calls on the gods to fill her with hate. “Make thick my blood,” she says, kneeling under a red spotlight and clenching her fists until they turn white. But even Maniccia’s and Whitney’s sincere performances can’t make up for the production’s lack of focus—including jazzy music that plays between scenes—and other actors’ slipshod delivery of Shakespeare’s language. What should be a delicious horror story becomes a confusing parade of slaughters and screams. LAUREN TERRY. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $20.
The Playboy of the Western World
“There’s a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.” So says the sharp-tongued Pegeen Mike in J.M. Synge’sThe Playboy of the Western World. There’s also a great gap between Synge’s dense, Shakespearemeets-County Mayo dialogue and our modern ears, but somehow, in this rare revival at Artists Repertory Theatre, nothing gets lost in translation. Synge’s satirical masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man who earns the admiration of a tiny Irish hamlet when he announces that he has just murdered his father. It’s a decidedly odd premise, and when Playboy debuted in Dublin in 1907, it gave rise to riots in the streets. Irish Catholics took umbrage at what they saw as Synge’s disrespectful depiction of their countrymen, and it’s true that many of the characters do not come off as the brightest kerosene in the lamp. But Synge’s point wasn’t to ridicule rural Micks; it was to skewer humankind’s ridiculous obsession with celebrity culture. Though Christy is initially revered, he discovers the pitfalls of sudden fame when his father unexpectedly shows up, spoiling for revenge. Realizing they’ve been duped, the town turns on Christy and satire gives way first to slapstick and, finally, to poignant tragedy. Thanks to a talented cast and Dámaso Rodriguez’s inspired direction, this production hits all the right notes. Amy Newman is perfect as Pegeen, whose rough edges are briefly softened by love. Chris Murray, meanwhile, is a revelation as the playboy, inhabiting that winning space between cunning and vulnerability. Synge wrote Playboy partially as an antidote to shallow musical comedy, which he saw as the enemy to the true joy that live theater should provide. He was sure that, by sticking close to reality, he could create something “superb and wild.” This production is both of those things. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $25-$55.
Relatively Speaking
The North End Players, based in St. Johns, presents Alan Ayckbourn’s 1967 play, a comedy that gave the British playwright his first West End smash. It’s a story of mistaken identities and romantic strife, set against the backdrop of the swinging ‘60s. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 7600 N Hereford St., 705-2088. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays (and Thursday, June 5) through June 14. $12.
Show Boat
Considering it was first brought to the stage in 1927, Show Boat addresses some controversial questions, including interracial marriage,
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REVIEW
D Av I D K I N D E R
PERFORMANCE
all in tHe family: (from left) tobias andersen, Jane fellows and Garland lyons.
BURIED CHILD (PROFILE THEATRE) In the 1960s, Sam Shepard was making his name in Greenwich Village’s experimental scene with fractured, restless one-acts. In a 1965 Village Voice review of one of these works, playwright Edward Albee wrote that the hallmark of Shepard’s work was “unencumbered spontaneity—the impression Shepard gives of inventing drama as a form each time he writes a play.” (Unfortunately for Shepard, that particular play gave “the impression of being a mess.”) Buried Child, the 1978 work that catapulted Shepard to fame and earned him a Pulitzer, definitely did not give such an impression: The play had a clear setting and a mostly lucid (if grim) storyline of family dysfunction, incest, adultery and infanticide. Yet it wasn’t a clean shift to realism either. Buried Child has a surrealistic, rootless quality, as if its characters exist on another metaphysical plane. This makes it a difficult work to stage, and as much as this Profile production plays up the drama’s strange volatility, the cast is uneven. After opening its Shepard season with the little-produced Eyes for Consuela (Profile devotes an entire season to a single playwright), Buried Child is a smart choice by director Adriana Baer. The play is both a sweeping family drama and a claustrophobic study of what unfolds over the course of 24 hours in a living room in rural Illinois. On his drive across the country with his girlfriend Shelly, prodigal son Vince stops by to visit family he hasn’t seen in six years. But everything is wrong. His surly grandfather Dodge claims not to recognize him, and his father behaves as if lobotomized. Bradley, his one-legged bully of an uncle, isn’t particularly welcoming either: In an indelible moment, Bradley demands Shelly open her mouth so he can stick his fingers clear to her uvula. Over the course of the next day, the family’s secrets—namely the one that lends the play its title—are cruelly aired. Nothing, though, is so straightforward in Shepard’s world, so the play is shot through with macabre humor, lyrical imagery and magical realism. What, for example, explains the sudden appearance of corn in the family’s long-fallow field? The set is wonderful: a mustard-yellow couch hulks in the center of the stage, looking ready to pick a fight with anyone who dares try to move it, and the house is represented by skeletal beams and windows, with a backdrop of a jagged-edged sky. Where this production starts to lose hold is in its performances. Shepard’s characters are shape-shifters, matter-of-fact one moment and melodramatic the next, a challenge some cast members handle ably. As Dodge, Tobias Andersen is marvelous. All hacking cough and pinched eyes, he shimmies his jaw from side to side and stashes his whiskey between the couch cushions—and when that bottle disappears, his frenzied search for it is uproarious and heartbreaking. Humor and tragedy also intersect in Dodge’s interactions with Shelly, played by Foss Curtis with just the right stew of bewilderment, humanity and moxie. Their rapport has a sharp bite, but it’s also suffused with a sense of longing. And as Dodge’s adulterous wife, Halie, Jane Fellows swings weirdly—but effectively—from venomous to falsely cheerful. But as Vince, the stiff Ty Hewitt lacks the same grasp on his role. With his unvaried vocal register and purposeless hand flailing, he moves from odd petulance in the first act to unfocused rage in the second. Vince should be the stone that knocks the family’s wheel off course, but when Hewitt is onstage the action threatens to unravel. Buried Child should feel off-kilter—just not this unsteady. REBECCA JACOBSON.
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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 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.
States of Emergency
Whether it’s because they’ve horrified or enthralled, some plays have a way of lingering long after the actors take their bows. Often that’s welcome—it’s one of the things that makes theater so vital. Other times, though, these unforgettable scenes stick around too long for comfort. Director Jon Kretzu spans this spectrum with Fewer Emergencies and Betty’s Summer Vacation, a pair of plays now running in repertory at Defunkt Theatre under the name “States of Emergency.” Both works tackle modern-day violence, exploring how it can be shrouded in fake optimism or sensationalized by entertainment junkies hungry for the next headline. Told in three loosely connected acts, Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies examines suffering, mental illness and domestic gloom among the affluent. The standout in the cast is Steve Vanderzee, who captures the calm menace and instability of a suburban father who becomes a school shooter. Still, the play also has some plot points cloaked in a cheerful sheen, which leaves audiences with an appealing, if unsettling, ambiguity. There is no subtlety, however, to Betty’s Summer Vacation. Christopher Durang has called his 1999 play a commentary on the “tabloidization” of U.S. culture and the media’s focus on violence and gossip, particularly the highly publicized celebrity trials of the late ’90s. The story includes rape, castration and a beheading. This is black comedy at its most pointed, which is effective in making an argument about sensationalism, but it overwhelms more than it enlightens: It’s just as likely to incite frozen terror among audience members as they hear a rape happening offstage as it is to prompt dark laughter, as when Betty finds a castrated penis on ice in the fridge. If Betty’s Summer Vacation is a swift blow to the belly—it’s all pain, no gain— Fewer Emergencies is like an emerging bruise that slowly expands and changes hues. KAITIE TODD. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 14; Betty’s Summer Vacation plays through June 21; see defunktheatre.com for complete schedule. $15-$25 sliding scale Fridays-Saturdays; “pay what you can” Thursdays and Sundays.
COMEDY & VARIETY Christina Pazsitzky
The Chelsea Lately regular and co-host of the podcast Your Mom’s House hits Funhouse for a night of standup. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 9:30 pm Friday, June 6. $18.
ComedySportz
Family-friendly competitive improv comedy. ComedySportz, 1963 NW
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Diabolical Experiments
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.
Entertainment For People: New Shit Show
For the next installment of her monthly variety show, mastermind producer B. Frayn Masters tosses together another salad of comedy, music, film, storytelling and whatever other wacky shit her cadre of performers brings to the stage. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm Monday, June 9. $8. 21+.
Fly-Ass Jokes
Jen Allen and Anatoli Brant produce this twice-monthly standup showcase, one of the more consistent comedy nights in town. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm every first and third Friday. $8.
Friday Night Fights
Two improv teams battle for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every first and third Friday. $5.
Funnier Than You
Richie Stratton returns to host another installment of his monthly standup showcase. Sky Club at Ankeny’s Well, 50 SW 3rd Ave., 223-1375. 10 pm Friday, June 6. Free. 21+.
Golden Girls Live
An all-male cast puts on some pastel cardigans for a gender-bending live stage adaptation of two episodes of the venerable television show. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 28. $15-$18.
Jon Dore
An oddball master of the bait-andswitch, the Canadian-born Dore has some of the most inventive standup around. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, June 5-7. $17-$30.
Kiggins Comedy Sampler
Five Portland comics—Nathan Brannon, Sean Jordan, Todd Armstrong, Dax Jordan and Randy Mendez—cross the Columbia for a night of standup in Vancouver. Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main St., 360-816-0352. 7 pm Thursday, June 5. $5.
Michael Ian Black
A former member of generationdefining ‘90s sketch comedy troupe The State, Black has since become a strangely ubiquitous figure in pop-culture, popping up as a talking head on VH1, hosting podcasts, hawking sodas and ice cream bars in TV ads, fighting with Marc Maron on Twitter, even writing children’s books. Through it all, he maintains an air of self-deprecating smarminess that’s at once infuriating and hilarious. Opening for Black is hometown hero Shane Torres. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 7 pm Saturday, June 7. $20-$25. 21+.
Mustard Man Roast
Known by many as the Mustard Man—he infamously drank a bottle of mustard on The Tonight Show in 2005—Mark Kikel has hosted open-mic nights and standup shows in Portland for 30 years. Now the tables are turning on him. The very funny Kristine Levine, known for her blue-collar jokes about jack shacks and her “three fat kids,” plays roastmaster, while comedians such as Whitney Streed, Christian Ricketts and Lonnie Bruhn take turns razzing Kikel. Copper Rooster, 5827 E Burnside St., 234-4190. 9 pm Thursday, June 5.
Nice Peter
Also known as Peter Shukoff, Nice Peter is the beats-dropping comedian behind the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History, in which he stages rhyming hip-hop competitions between, say, Adolf Hitler and
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Darth Vader, or Chuck Norris and Abraham Lincoln. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm Thursday, June 5. $18. 21+.
PCS Improv All-Stars
Portland Center Stage’s current production of Lizzie draws on the life of the infamous Lizzie Borden, and tonight, four of the city’s top improv artists—Shelley McClendon, Nicholas Kessler, Marilyn Divine and Brad Fortier—will craft their own scenes of murder and mania. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 8 pm Monday, June 9. $5-$10.
Pipes: An Improvised Musical
Comedic improv, set to song. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 7. $12-$15.
aerial performers hanging an arm’s length from your table. The circus group’s monthly performances have been going on for nearly a year, and this month’s show includes the group’s regulars doing aerial acts and LED spinning. The Analog, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 432-8079. 9:30 Thursday, June 5. $5. 21+.
energy You Are In My Waltz. Carla Mann, a Portland choreographic staple, premieres her fifth work for the company. Northwest Dance Project Studio & Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, June 6-7 and WednesdaySaturday, June 11-14; 4 pm Sundays, June 8 and 15. $32.
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Don’t even put your clothes back on. After the Naked Bike Ride, kiki with drag queen Artemis Chase and an army of gender boundary pushers: Johnny Nuriel, DieAna Dae, Pepper Pepper (the artist formerly known as Kaj-Anne Pepper) and Caitlin Popp. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 11 pm Saturday, June 7. $5. 21+.
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Young dancers with BodyVox’s training program Junior Artist Generator perform works by BodyVox choreographers. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 4 pm and 7 pm Saturday, June 7. $20.
Two Houses
An improvised romance culminating in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through June 14. $9-$12.
Portland’s standout contemporary chamber company puts on its annual Summer Splendors show. The company resurrects two pieces from 2012, Tracey Durbin’s Atash and Gregory Dolbashian’s This is Embracing, and premieres two new works. Yin Yue, who started her own New York company in 2010 and won Northwest Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives competition last year, debuts her high-
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Potty Talk, an online sketch-comedy series, puts on a standup showcase with sets from JoAnn Schinderle, Whitney Streed, Andie Main, Rebecca Waits and headliner Kristine Levine. Katie Brien hosts. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 236-9672. 8 pm Tuesday, June 10. $3. 21+.
Northwest Dance Project
The Vancouver, Wash.-based, Tahitian dance group performs Hina and The Eel, Tahiti’s version of Beauty and The Beast. It’s a dark legend of how the islands of French Polynesia got coconut trees. Tahitian dancing looks a lot like hula, but the hip movements are quicker, and the dancers tell more of a story. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St., Vancouver. 6 pm Saturday, June 7. $10, $20 VIP.
Polaris Dance Theatre
Choreographers with the young contemporary company worked with a range of local musicians and writers— classical composers, a DJ, a playwright, a folk singer— to create new pieces for its show Homegrown. Among the choreographers are artistic director Robert Guitron, dancer Kiera Brinkley and former Oregon Ballet Theatre artistic director Anne Mueller. Polaris Contemporary Dance Center, 1501 SW Taylor St., 380-5472. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, June 6-7 and 13-14; 2 pm Sundays June 8 and 15. $17.50-$25.
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Choreographer #DuranteLambert debuts his latest combination of hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance for a 13-member crew. #chairs #hairography #beyonce. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm Saturday, June 7 and 4 pm Sunday, June 8. $20-$30.
Alicia Mullikin and Stephanie Gilliland
Two works from out-of-town choreographers play with the idea of memories in contemporary movement. Seattleite Alicia Mullikin’s company Entropy performs Iron Daisies, which combines improvisation and technique to float somewhere between a concert and jam session. Stephanie Gilliland and her company TONGUE, based in Southern California, premiere Invisible Skin, inspired by a strange idea: memories that are inherited rather than formed during our lifetime. Conduit Dance, 918 SW Yamhill St., Ste. 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Saturday, June 7. $10-$13.
Bisexual Circus
Cloud City Circus is among the local bar acts rushing the doors of new gay bar the Royale. Its black lightdrenched Bisexual Circus show features dance, acrobatics and flow performances—and hedonism. The Royale, 317 NW Broadway. 9:30 pm Saturday, June 7. $5. 21+.
Boyeurism
It’s an all-male revue, but this regular boylesque show bends gender so hard it’s ready to break. Produced by Isaiah Esquire—Portland’s version of the glam Kevin Aviance—the show has striptease, stylized circus stunts and probably a joke-telling juggler. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 10 pm Thursday, June 5. $10, $15 VIP. 21+.
Burlesque S’il Vous Plait
Established burlesque locals tease with playful and creative numbers for a fun crowd. Hosted by burlesque personality Zora Phoenix. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 235-8150. 9 pm Friday, June 6. $10. 21+.
Burlynomicon
Goth, gore and the generally macabre define this monthly burlesque show from the creators of the popular Geeklesque. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Tuesday, June 10. $5. 21+.
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FECKIN’ FAMILY: The Irish have invaded Portland. Between Artists Rep’s The Playboy of the Western World, Corrib’s forthcoming The Hen Night Epiphany and this Third Rail production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, you could spend an entire weekend fooling yourself you’re on the Emerald Isle. Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen takes us to a small stone cottage in County Galway, where we meet Mag (Jayne Taini), an old crone who lurks like Jabba the Hutt in her rocking chair and delights in pouring the contents of her chamber pot down the kitchen sink. She shares the home with her 40-year-old daughter Maureen (Maureen Porter), and the two keep each other trapped in an endless spin cycle of mutual torment. Mothers and daughters the world over have tumultuous relationships, but most don’t gleefully gab about decapitating the other. It’s scabrous and tragic and hilarious, and Taini and Porter imbue their rapport with a malevolence that’s born of desperate loneliness—and a touch of outright looniness. When a local man (played by Damon Kupper with warmth and humor) strikes up a romance with Maureen, it tips things with Mag into the danger zone. With Beauty Queen, Third Rail completes McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy, and that familiarity shows in Scott Yarbrough’s confident direction. The performers, too, are at ease with the distinctive, Gaelic-influenced syntactical patter, and their characters feel lived-in. Taini brings just enough sorrow and fear to the role of Mag, while Porter manifests those emotions more subtly: She keeps her hands in loose fists, curled awkwardly toward her waist, and her eyes shift from weariness to menace to confusion. “I’ll never die!” hollers Mag at one point, and you almost—almost—wish that could be the truth. REBECCA JACOBSON. SEE IT: The Beauty Queen of Leenane is at the Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 22. $20-$43.
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Three gifted artists contribute to a slam-dunk show at Guardino. With their inspired commingling of human, plant and animal imagery, carolyn Garcia’s acrylic and colored-pencil paintings have insouciant charm to burn. in Return to Me, she renders a starlit blue sky with a power that borders on the incantational, placing the work squarely within the tradition of magical realism. painter paula Blackwell excels in landscapes that seem to float in misty sfumato, lending these encaustic works a seepy, neo-impressionist allure. Finally, esteban hermida-espada’s ceramic sculptures may actually make you blush. in one multipart piece, he creates a progression of forms that suggest a clit hood being slowly peeled back. Time for a cigarette. Through June 24. Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta St., 281-9048.
Celebrating 35 Years
augen Gallery opened its doors in april 1979 with a show of prints by six artists: Jim dine, david hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella and andy Warhol. Now, 35 years later, the gallery celebrates the milestone anniversary with prints by those same artists. except that a few things have changed in 35 years. For instance, in 1979, you could buy an andy Warhol print for about $500. That same print today would set you back between $100,000 and $200,000. Which is a helluva lot higher than the rate of inflation. June
5-28. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Jerry Mayer and Ellen George: STAND
When Jerry Mayer and ellen George collaborate, unexpected things happen. anyone who saw their gigantic ball of crumpled paper last summer at Nine Gallery, will likely not forget its disconcertingly sinister impact. Now they’re back at it with a new installation called STAND. Working only with cedar planks, lights and an ambient soundtrack of electrical hums and clicks, they aim to create an immersive experience in the minimalist tradition. Through June 29. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-227-7114.
Kristina Lewis: Artifact
hap Gallery has had an unbroken run of captivating sculpture shows this year, and it continues with the work of Kristina Lewis. The california-based sculptor uses quotidian materials like egg cartons, coat hangers, zippers and a pair of crutches to create artworks that are incongruously beautiful, given the humility of their components. June 5-28. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101.
Lorenzo Triburgo: Transportraits
For this series, entitled Transportraits, Lorenzo Triburgo photographed transgendered men in front of painted backdrops. each backdrop was created in response to the technique of Bob Ross, host of the infamous public-television show The Joy of Painting. in his artist statement,
Triburgo curiously invokes the romanticized portraiture of John Singer Sargent and the heroic landscapes of alfred Jacob Miller. What those masters have to do with a schlockmeister like Bob Ross is anybody’s guess. There’s a disconnect between the seriousness with which Triburgo sets out to depict trans-man identity and the ironic cheesiness of the backdrops, undercutting the impact of what could have been a much more powerful body of work. June 6-July 15. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.
Sean Healy: Extroverts
Mixed-media artist Sean healy’s shows almost always deal with autobiographical subjects: the enduring power of high-school cliques; a trip he took back to his childhood home in upstate New York. This time around, in Extroverts, he tackles what it feels like to be a man at the cusp of middle age. Notably, his medium of choice is the cigarette, with its long history of grizzled, Marlboro Man machismo. a perfectionist with materials and a thoughtful visual thinker, healy can be counted on to create artwork that stays with you long after his exhibitions are over. June 5-Aug. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
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In telling the story of a kidnapping, many authors might choose to focus on the crime itself. But in her debut novel, An Untamed State, Roxane Gay instead follows the tale of a woman kidnapped for ransom as she struggles to reconcile events after the fact and regain a sense of herself. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Local anthology reading
Though its characters, from cheating boyfriends to inept fathers, could exist anywhere, the collection of 22 short stories in The Night, and the Rain, and the River is truly a local endeavor, with authors from across the state contributing their work. Editor Liz Prato will introduce a reading with contributors Jan Baross, Gail Bartley, Steve Denniston and Jackie Shannon Hollis. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 246-0053. 7 pm. Free.
Chris Taylor
In his new collection of freeform, stream-of-consciousness sketches, Chris Taylor aims to create “spontaneous lyrical forms for their own sake.” Taylor will present the artistic experiment Les Belles with a book-release party and exhibition of selected work. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 241-0227. 6-10 pm. Free.
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While watching a wildlife documentary, do you root for the hungry cheetah or the injured gazelle? It may be hard not to feel sympathy for the prey, but every creature has to eat, right? But what if our land was devoid of predators? In her new book, The Carnivore Way, Cristina Eisenberg explores the crucial role of top predators and the necessity for continental-long corridors of undisturbed land, a literal carnivore way. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Science is so hot right now. Don’t end up being the one person at the party who doesn’t know about Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Luckily, Christine McKinley, host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel, is here to explain all the mustknow concepts in physics. Her new book, Physics for Rock Stars, is a humorous and inspiring (and illustrated) exploration of the universe. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
The Studio Series
We all deal with grief in our own way, from turning to faith to subsisting on a diet of food solely from jars. But the expansive new anthology The Widow’s Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival, amasses the writings of more than 80 contemporary widows from all over the country, each coping with loss one word at a time. Monthly poetry reading the Studio Series will host a local reading with contributors Ann Sinclair, Kristine Shorey Forbes, Nancy Womack, Natasha Saje and “M.” Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7-9 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JUNE 9 Nathan Deuel
In a new collection of essays, Nathan Deuel, former editor at Rolling Stone and The Village Voice, recounts the years that he and his wife—an NPR foreign correspondent—spent living in the deeply Islamic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The result in Friday Was the Bomb is both a firsthand account of historical events and a moving, personal memoir. Deuel will be joined in conversation by Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JUNE 10 Smith Henderson
Following the story of social worker Pete Snow as he attempts to help a nearly feral 11-year-old boy and his disturbed father in rural Montana, Smith Henderson’s debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, explores themes of community, suspicion and freedom. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JUNE 6 James Fearnley
Transforming Irish music from sissy jigs and fiddles to head banging and fiddles, Irish punk band the Pogues revolutionized the genre. Now in his new memoir,
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On Thursday June 5th at 6 PM, Singer/Songwriter Judith Owen will give an in-store performance here at Music Millennium promoting her newest album “Ebb & Flow”. This is an event not to be missed! Judith Owen’s new album Ebb & Flow evokes the spirit of the halcyon days of the great 1970s troubadours. Released on May 6th 2014 from Twanky Records, Ebb & Flow features the great Russ Kunkel (drummer), Leland Sklar (bassist) and Waddy Wachtel (guitarist). Judith remains an unflinching singer-songwriter, bearing her soul as the core of her creativity.
Mint Condition is the latest release from the Devlan James Band, and he’ll be performing several songs from that album, live in-store on Friday June 6th at 6 pm. This latest release includes nine new songs by Devlan James and features “The Chosen One” as the album’s first single. “The Chosen One” is the story of a war veteran struggling with his past. He seeks redemption through faith only to find himself questioning his true motives and being tempted by the trappings of idolatry.
Join us on Saturday June 7th at 2pm as we welcome Jospeph Arthur! He will be performing songs from his latest release “LOU” – a tribute to his friend Lou Reed which was just released on May 13th. This is one performance you wont want to miss! Arthur’s lastest album marks his debut on Vanguard Records. The album, which is Arthur’s interpretations of his favorite Lou Reed songs, was performed, recorded, and produced by Joseph Arthur in his home studio. Lou has already earned Arthur a memorable performance on Letterman and early praise from USA Today, AV Club, No Depression and many others.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A medieval tale starring Mads Mikkelsen, Mads Mikkelsen’s cheekbones and hundreds of horses. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, June 5.
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] In this followup to his 2009 documentary about Ai Weiwei, director Andreas Johnsen follows the famous artist and vocal critic of the Chinese state as he fights the government’s lawsuit—the titular “fake case”—against him. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, June 6-7.
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camping, to the tropics and beyond. The dude’s on permanent vacation, popping out crappy movies between naps. In Blended, Sandler hits Africa— well, a high-end resort/spa in Africa, but that’s Africa enough to allow him to pet a baby elephant and dress up a monkey as a Hooters waitress. The film re-teams Sandler and Drew Barrymore as single parents. After a disastrous first date, they end up at the same isolated resort, where a vaguely racist parody of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and humping rhinos stoke the flames of love. All the familiar Sandler beats are here, from overwrought sentimentality (his daughter talks to her dead mom) to a cast of weirdo, scenestealing supporting characters (good to see you again, Kevin Nealon). The rom-com suits Sandler’s sensibilities better than recent flops like That’s My Boy and Bedtime Stories. Perhaps that’s because Sandler’s a bit more relaxed here. Of course he is: He’s on vacation. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy.
B- When Spider-Man first swung into cinemas in 2002, his was a simpler world. But in a post-Avengers landscape, gee-whiz goofball Peter Parker has been deemed outdated, which means that in The Amazing SpiderMan 2, he’s 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. Actionwise, that’s great. Andrew Garfield, all spindly limbs and corny one-liners, brings joy to the eye-popping action. Matching him is Emma Stone, whose Gwen Stacy is less a damsel in distress than a Watson to Garfield’s web-slinging Holmes. Alas, the flaws are also bigger, among them Peter’s emo angst and wedged-in plot elements that reek of franchise-building. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Eastport, Movies on TV, Sandy.
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. Once again, star Chris Evans’ unaffected certitude and boyish self-regard suggest why a mortal might one day command the Marvel gods and monsters. But now his appealing mix of officer and gentleman has been reduced to frathouse moralizing. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Eastport, Empirical Theater at OMSI, Mission.
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The Best Bar in America
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in America is without a doubt the best micro-budget movie about writers on motorcycles you’ll see this year. The narrative debut of documentarian brothers Eric and Damon Ristau follows Sanders (Andrew Rizzo), a world-weary writer scouring the Southwest for the prototypical pub. Armed with a pistol, a chopper, and a shaggy beard, Sanders spends his mornings gargling with whiskey and his evenings perched on a barstool, writing up each roadside watering hole on his laptop. After ditching his high-maintenance wife on the edge of the highway, Sanders finds a new sidecar passenger in Northway (David Ackroyd), a grizzled drifter who is equal parts wise and loony. The pair’s escapades constitute a series of clever and surreal vignettes, from encounters with a Christian trucker whose favorite insult is “a-hole” to a mesmerizing sequence involving fluorescent blue cocktails and bewitching mermaids. Even with some shoddy sound design and a few forced performances, it’s clear the Ristaus are going for something big here, peppering the film with sweeping shots of the sundappled desert landscape and a few choice quotes from Hemingway. Alas, a great American road movie this is not; its “live life to the fullest” and “it’s what’s inside that counts” messages are somewhat heavy-handed. Like the whiskey and sodas that Sanders downs religiously, The Best Bar in America is best consumed on simple terms, so relax and enjoy this modest treat. TREE PALMEDO. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, June 6.
Blended
C- Adam Sandler might be the smartest person in Hollywood. Adopting the Ernest P. Worrell prototype, the “Adam Sandler goes to” model has taken the comedian and his buddies
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C- Imagine a movie written entirely by focus groups in Portland, Brooklyn and Silver Lake. In Chef, Jon Favreau plays an all-star cuisinier who’s stymied by his corporately conservative, Dustin Hoffman-owned restaurant and has a meltdown that gets posted on TMZ—but not before he gets to sleep with Scarlett Johansson! He then discovers his love for authentic cooking and his love for his own cute son by running a Cuban food cart and traveling across the country with said son and John Leguizamo, whom you didn’t even know you missed until you saw him. And everything feels so good all the time it’s like eating a cronut forever, except the cronut is a beignet because beignets are totally authentic. You know what’s also authentic? A weird product placement proclaiming Ketel One the classiest liquor ever, tweets that chirp and fly onscreen, a food blogger who sells his blog to AOL (ha!) for $10 million (double ha!), and prominent food critics announcing their visits a week in advance and then writing only about the weight gain of the chef. Also, sleeping with Sofia Vergara is obviously way more authentic than sleeping with Scarlett Johansson. Chef is likable the way your half-witted, earnest, eager-toplease cousin is likable. But over time, it’s just as tedious. If you like Cubanos, don’t watch this movie. Eat a Cubano. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clackamas, Eastport, Movies on TV.
Chinese Puzzle
B Chinese Puzzle is neither a puzzle nor particularly Chinese—but apparently American Quilt was already taken. The third in Cédric Klapisch’s ebullient trilogy of beautiful French people in beautiful places, falling in and out of love—the first two were L’Auberge Espagnole (2002) and Russian Dolls (2005)—Chinese Puzzle is a somewhat more grizzled and interesting affair, if still ridiculously sunny. The character ensemble is now approaching 40 and still acting like lovesick puppies, but they are lovesick puppies with tween children and artificial inseminations and immigration problems (solved, of course, by sham
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REBELS WITH a CauSE: Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg.
WORTH A DAM IN NIGHT MOVES, HER FOURTH FILM SET IN OREGON, DIRECTOR KELLY REICHARDT TRAVELS SOUTH FOR SOME ECOTERRORISM. BY ReB ecca jacoB son
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Kelly Reichardt isn’t from Oregon. The filmmaker was born in Florida and now lives in upstate New York, where she teaches at Bard College. But despite her geographical remove, Reichardt has become the pre-eminent cinematic chronicler of this state. Unlike Gus Van Sant, who has mostly stayed in Portland, Reichardt’s work has traveled: 2006’s Old Joy soaked in the thermal baths at Bagby, 2008’s Wendy and Lucy found Michelle Williams at a woebegone Walgreens in North Portland, and in 2011’s pioneer drama Meek’s Cutoff, a wagon train wandered through the desiccated high desert near Burns. In her new film, Night Moves, another assured drama that’s unapologetically Reichardtian—which means it’s deliberate, unobtrusive, formally careful and resolutely unromantic—we travel the farthest south yet, to the old-growth forests by Roseburg and the Siskiyou Mountains near the California border, which Reichardt makes sure to capture dappled with the soft red light of the magic hour. Jesse Eisenberg, looking only slightly awkward in Carhartts and baseball cap, plays Josh, who lives in the foothills of those mountains, sleeping in a yurt and working on a collective farm. (It’s a working farm owned by friends of author Jon Raymond, Reichardt’s perennial screenwriting partner and flesh-and-blood Oregonian.) But selling organic cabbage at the Ashland farmers market isn’t enough for Josh, so he’s plotting to blow up a hydroelectric dam—to send a message, he fumes, to people who are “killing all the salmon just so you can run your fucking iPod every second of your life.” That’s about as explanatory as Josh gets. Reichardt has always been less interested in her characters’ root motivations than in how they handle themselves moment to moment, and so Night Moves guides the viewer through the extensive planning of Josh and his accomplices. They are Dena (Dakota Fanning), a wealthy college dropout, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), a hardened
ex-Marine with a criminal past. The first half of the film plays out as a procedural drama. But unlike last year’s lesser eco-thriller The East, which leaned too heavily on impassioned ideological outbursts, Night Moves draws tension from the logistical minutiae of ecoterrorism. We observe the trio buy a boat (it’s that vessel, not the Bob Seger song, that gives the movie its title) from a Medford man whose backyard is a veritable water park, persuade the manager of a farm-supply store to sell them an ungodly amount of ammonium-nitrate fertilizer, and mix that fertilizer with diesel fuel before loading it into the boat. Reichardt, with her patient camera pans and sparse, naturalistic dialogue, quietly lures in the viewer. We may not know exactly what has made this trio turn to destructive tactics, but sympathizing with them feels besides the point—like the characters in Reichardt’s other movies, they’re outsiders, and we’re on the fringes with them. It helps that Reichardt has a talented cast, particularly Fanning and Eisenberg. Fanning brings a scrappy defensiveness to her role, while Eisenberg plays not one of his live-wire chatterboxes but a reticent loner who still harbors hints of childishness— we catch him doodling a mustache onto a man’s face in a brochure. Rather than relying on his vocal gifts, Eisenberg makes small shifts with his eyes and in the clench of his jaw. After blowing up the dam, his face melts into relieved triumph that’s quickly supplanted by an expression of nagging paranoia. That’s a shift the film takes overall, moving from a logistical study in its first half to a psychological one in the second. Though it loses some focus in doing so, it remains firmly rooted in the present moment. Even as it tugs at big questions—how do we live with the ramifications of our violence? Where is the line between mere political theater and meaningful statement?—the moral framework is neither obvious nor oppressively muddy. And throughout, the attention to setting is deeply satisfying, without devolving into unthinking romanticization of Cascadian splendor. There are fertile farms and majestic mountains, but also clear-cuts and rivers filled with dead trees. The most pointed jab might be a line from Josh about a new golf course in Bend that he decries as the latest outpost of the Portland empire, what with its $8 cups of gourmet coffee and taxidermy-lined walls. His words reflect what Reichardt herself has said about Oregon, especially Portland, being overrun and expensive. She sounds almost like a native. B Night Moves is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.
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Cold in July
B+ The actor Michael C. Hall knows
death. He had his breakout role in Six Feet Under as the closeted son David and then went on to play the titular serial killer in Dexter. In his newest role, in Jim Mickle’s pulpy, twisty neo-noir thriller Cold in July, Hall plays a timid, mullet-sporting man so rudely introduced to death that he becomes a menacing gunslinger out for blood. Set in a sweltering East Texas town in 1989, Cold in July establishes its moody tone right from the beginning: Richard Dane (Hall) has shot and killed an intruder, which sets into action an increasingly violent chain of events. The story, based on a book by Joe R. Lansdale, packs in corrupt cops, confused identities, a so-called “Dixie mafia” that makes gory snuff movies with teenage girls, and, this being the Wild West, plenty of thunder and lightning and shotgun blasts. Sam Shepard shows up as the dead man’s lean, lowering father, and Don Johnson has a gleeful turn as an unhinged pig farmer. None of it’s particularly plausible, but Mickle still makes it unpredictable, and it’s a treat to see Hall transform from a bumbling wet blanket in dad jeans— he’d be at the height of normcore fashion today—to a rifle-toting vigilante in a leather vest. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21.
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 as a government-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. 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.
Divergent
B At first glance, Divergent would seem to be riding on the coattails of The Hunger Games. Here’s another dystopian YA novel-turnedwannabe blockbuster, with another rising star—Shailene Woodley, in for Jennifer Lawrence—at the center. But with Divergent, director Neil Burger proves there’s more than one way to ride this wave. Veronica Roth wrote Divergent while still in college, and she brings together the overthrow of an oppressive government and a freshman-year identity crisis. Conceptually, the film employs elements from Harry Potter, G.I. Jane and Gattaca, and visually, it offers a memorable take on the post-apocalyptic landscape without overdosing on CGI. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Academy, Empirical Theater at OMSI,
Indoor Twin, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, Valley.
Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost)
B [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Bobby Bare
Jr. couldn’t sell out if he tried. As the second-generation songwriter admits in Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost), that’s less a comment on his integrity than on the reality of the marketplace. “I would give anything to sell out. It’s just, what are you going to sell out to?” asks Bare, the son of Nashville legend Bobby Bare. He’s being slightly modest: Through five albums, his wry brand of country rock has earned enough of a following to elevate him a notch above total obscurity. But William Miller’s documentary, filmed in 2010,
catches Bare at the moment when cult fandom has ceased paying the bills. He’s 40 and divorced, and has just become a father for the third time. When he hits the road, backed by now-defunct Portland band Blue Giant, it’s all he can do to keep his head above water. Miller’s flyin-the-van approach captures the grinding repetition of touring life with cramped, unwashed intimacy, each venue blurring into the next to the point that even the Crystal Ballroom looks like just another dingy bar. Should we admire Bare or pity his career choices? Don’t Follow Me doesn’t ask aloud, nor does it judge. Meanwhile, the
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marriages to beautiful ChineseAmerican women). Audrey Tautou’s character has shed her elfin naivete for the weary romance of the familiar, while the trilogy’s oh-so-emo writer hero (Romain Duris) now sees his life show up on his face in crinkles, a wan grimace, and a crisp set of divorce papers. It is a brazenly unrepentant fable of multiculti dreaminess, a bawdy sitcom whose credits will roll only when everyone’s laughing on the same side of the table. When you’re happy, says Duris’ character, that’s when the story ends. And so it does. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
MOVIES
RISKY BUSINESS: Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise.
EDGE OF TOMORROW Groundhog Day goes to war with aliens.
Watching a Tom Cruise movie comes with the implicit understanding that the three-time Oscar nominee is most likely to play the hero and, should his character perish, he’ll receive a glorious sendoff at the end. The surprisingly absorbing Edge of Tomorrow upturns that assumption within 20 minutes. Cruise plays William Cage, a public-relations maven thrust into a Normandy-like battle, with the forces of our embattled planet going like lambs to the slaughter against occupying aliens. He isn’t at all prepared for war—in truth, he’s only here at the unexplained whim of a bullish general, played by Brendan Gleeson—and watching his balletic descent from a Space Age drop ship is dizzying and horrific. A few minutes after landing on the alien-infested beach, he’s dead. Then he wakes up. For convoluted reasons, Cage finds himself reliving the same 24-hour period—always ending in his own demise—ad nauseam. Think of it as Groundhog Day set in a futuristic war. They say it takes 10,000 hours to truly master something, and Cage slowly becomes a master of death. He learns to be untroubled by the jarring experience, to treat it like a momentary setback before trying again. Though the film’s wry sense of humor somewhat undercuts the psychological toll of his Sisyphean endeavor, you can still see him waffle between hope and despair from one scene to the next. Edge of Tomorrow’s recursive conceit often seems poised to devolve into a cheap gimmick, but, much like Cage, it consistently makes slight course corrections that keep it feeling fresh. Director Doug Liman’s film also ends up a fascinating application of video-game logic, more so than most movies actually based on video games. As Cage slowly improves, it’s akin to a character accruing experience points, leveling up and making incremental progress via trial and error. It also makes his eventual supersoldier status feel earned and credible, emphasizing the fragility of even this most world-weary of fighters. Still, the most striking presence here is Emily Blunt as a lionized soldier. Nicknamed the Angel of Verdun, she once bore the very burden that Cage is trying to understand. Constantly reliving the same day made her a battle hero—and led to her sobriquet—but it also forced her to witness the death of a loved one hundreds of times. That sort of trauma doesn’t disappear when you hit the reset button. MICHAEL NORDINE.
B SEE IT: Edge of Tomorrow is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at most major Portland-area theaters.
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THE FAULT IN OUR STARS talking heads—including Justin Townes Earle, members of My Morning Jacket, and Bare’s former manager, MusicfestNW director Trevor Solomon—ponder the universal question of any doc about an underappreciated artist: Why isn’t this prodigious talent more successful? That is, of course, an unsolvable mystery, though Bare offers an answer that’s as close as anyone will get: “I can’t make people like my music.” MATTHEW SINGER. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, June 9.
The Double
Edge Of Tomorrow XD-3D (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:45PM 10:40PM Million Dollar Arm (PG) 12:50PM 7:10PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:55AM 12:10PM 1:50PM 3:15PM 4:50PM 6:15PM 7:45PM 9:15PM 10:35PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 12:10PM 3:20PM 6:30PM 9:40PM Maleficent (PG) 11:00AM 12:20PM 1:35PM 4:10PM 5:30PM 6:45PM 8:05PM 9:20PM Mom’s Night Out (PG) 10:45AM 1:20PM Rio 2 (G) 11:05AM 1:45PM 4:25PM 7:05PM 9:50PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (PG-13) 4:05PM 7:15PM 10:30PM Neighbors (R) 11:50AM 2:30PM 5:15PM 7:55PM 10:25PM
Other Woman, The (PG-13) 11:15AM 2:00PM 4:45PM 7:30PM 10:15PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 12:55PM 4:00PM 10:05PM Blended (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:35PM 4:35PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Chef (R) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:30PM 7:20PM 10:10PM Maleficent 3D (PG) 11:40AM 2:15PM 3:00PM 4:50PM 7:25PM 10:00PM 10:40PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) 3:50PM 10:15PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 2:45PM 5:45PM 8:45PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:55AM 11:30AM 12:25PM 1:50PM 2:35PM 3:30PM 4:45PM 5:40PM 6:40PM 7:40PM 8:50PM 9:55PM 10:40PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 7:00PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 11:45AM 12:45PM 3:45PM 6:45PM 9:45PM
Million Dollar Arm (PG) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 7:30PM 10:25PM Maleficent (PG) 10:10AM 11:50AM 2:20PM 3:10PM 4:50PM 5:40PM 7:20PM 9:50PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:20PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (PG-13) 11:35AM 2:45PM 5:55PM 9:05PM Neighbors (R) 10:00AM 12:30PM 3:00PM 5:30PM 7:55PM 10:25PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:00AM 11:00AM 12:50PM 1:50PM 3:40PM 4:40PM 6:30PM 7:30PM 9:20PM 10:20PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 1:35PM 7:35PM 10:30PM
Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:40PM 4:25PM 7:10PM 9:55PM Blended (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:45PM 4:35PM 7:25PM 10:15PM Maleficent 3D (PG) 11:00AM 12:40PM 1:30PM 4:00PM 6:30PM 8:10PM 9:00PM 10:40PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 10:35AM 4:35PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:30AM 11:30AM 12:30PM 1:30PM 2:30PM 3:30PM 4:30PM 5:30PM 6:30PM 7:30PM 8:30PM 9:30PM 10:30PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 11:50AM 2:35PM 5:20PM 8:05PM 10:45PM
Maleficent 3D (PG) 10:45AM 12:15PM 3:00PM 5:45PM 8:30PM 9:30PM Maleficent (PG) 11:15AM 1:15PM 2:00PM 4:00PM 4:45PM 6:45PM 7:25PM 10:15PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:15PM 10:30PM Grand Budapest Hotel, The (R) 11:20AM 5:20PM 7:50PM Neighbors (R) 11:00AM 1:30PM 4:25PM 7:10PM 10:00PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (PG-13) 11:05AM 2:15PM 5:30PM 9:00PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:40AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 7:40PM 10:40PM Mom’s Night Out (PG) 11:10AM 1:55PM 4:30PM
Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 10:50AM 10:45PM Blended (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:35PM 4:30PM 7:30PM 10:35PM Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13) 2:05PM 10:35PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 1:45PM 4:50PM 7:45PM Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13) 7:05PM 10:20PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:40AM 1:40PM 4:40PM 7:40PM 10:40PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 11:25AM 1:00PM 2:35PM 4:10PM 5:45PM 7:20PM 8:55PM 10:30PM Chef (R) 10:55AM 1:50PM 4:45PM 7:35PM 10:25PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 12:10PM 3:10PM 6:10PM 9:10PM
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B It’s only right that a film about doppelgängers should feel eerily familiar. While loosely adapted from Dostoevsky’s novella of the same name, The Double’s attitude and aesthetics are strongly indebted to Aki Kaurismäki and Terry Gilliam, lifting the former’s deadpan absurdism and the latter’s withering view of pencil-pushers trapped in bureaucratic hamster wheels. Granted, if ever confronted by a pencil, lowly clerk Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) would probably just apologize for getting in its way. He’s a nonentity at his dystopian office and an object of condescending pity for co-worker Hannah (Mia Wasikowska, who wears darkness well)—until his daily routine of indignations and faint hopes is interrupted by the arrival of James Simon (Eisenberg again). Despite being physically identical to our meek protagonist, this charismatic interloper is also everything he’s not, effortlessly working a cruel system that spat out Simon like an unwanted chew toy. Director Richard Ayoade’s characters are thinly sketched, with their few defining traits closer to affectations. But Eisenberg wisely takes this opportunity to forgo naturalism for exaggerated physicality. Simon clumsily navigates the world as if it were a hostile obstacle course, while the opportunistic James conducts himself in the manner of a cartoon villain with a gargantuan appetite. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Living Room Theaters.
The Fault in Our Stars
In this movie based on the wildly popular YA novel by John Green, two teens fall in love at a cancer support group. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Kaitie Todd’s review at wweek.com. PG13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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. The photos, particularly the self-portraits, appear on the screen like mini-revelations, flashes of genius from the best photographer you’ve probably never heard of. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Cinema 21.
The Ghosts in Our Machine
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Food Fight Grocery screens an animal-rights documentary that relies (if other reviews are to be trusted) not on invective but on tear-jerking footage of caged animals. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Sunday, June 8.
Godzilla
B Godzilla has risen from a 16-year slumber, and the big green badass is pissed. You would be too, if your more recent Hollywood incarnation had robbed you of your atomic breath or made you listen to Puff Daddy. Happily, Gareth Edwards’ new take contains no Diddy ditties or Matthew Brodericks. In fact, it pretty much ignores the existence of Roland Emmerich’s disaster, serving instead as a sequel of sorts to the original 1954 classic. Those seeking a nonstop slugfest akin to Pacific Rim should temper their expectations. The film builds steadily, with Godzilla spending much of the first 90 minutes racing to fight a pair of city-destroying insectoids while humans scramble and scream. This surprising focus on the human element is perhaps the film’s only misstep. Otherwise, Edwards nails the most important aspect of any Godzilla movie: the giant lizard’s scale. For the film’s first half, we see the massive battles from the limited viewpoints of those running through the streets. Only when Godzilla’s road trip finally ends in San Francisco do we get a full-on view of the monsters trading blows—for 40 straight minutes of city-leveling bliss. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99W Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
B+ The old, snide rejoinder to an
over-decorated show is that “you leave humming the sets,” but Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel may be the first movie where you come out tasting them. The titular Alpine resort is the most edible-looking lodge in cinema: a multitiered, pink-frosted castle designed to endure as an ambrosial memory. Our hero, M. Gustave, is the dapper concierge running the Grand Budapest front desk and back halls. He’s played by Ralph Fiennes with such flowery cosmopolitanism that you can almost see the cloud of cologne drifting behind him as he scurries to his next boudoir appointment with a rich dowager. I’d love to recite an ode to The Grand Budapest Hotel, because it’s the most politically aware story Anderson has told. It’s set in an imaginary Middle European country in the 1930s, at the edge of war. Its story, a silly caper, brushes against
the deepest horrors of the 20th century, and ends by acknowledging irrevocable damage. 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. We stick out our tongues to catch the shimmering snowflakes, and taste only air. R. AARON MESH. Eastport, Cinema 21, Hollywood.
Heaven Is for Real
A based-on-truth drama, starring Greg Kinnear as a father whose son attests that he visited heaven after a near-death experience. PG. Indoor Twin, Oak Grove.
Her
B+ And so there’s this computer.
It’s an artificially hyperintelligent operating system that’s half personal secretary, half therapist. It seems to be thinking. It seems to know you. You fall in love with her. She falls in love with you. Then she develops the capacity for jealousy. Eventually, you’re arguing about sex. She starts saying things like, “I’m becoming much more than they programmed.” Twenty years ago, this scenario would’ve played as a dystopian nightmare. But 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 honestto-goodness relationship drama. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Laurelhurst.
Ida
A In this black-and-white beauty
from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, novitiate nun Anna is a week away from taking her vows when the mother superior tells her she must pay a long-overdue visit to her aunt Wanda, her sole surviving relative. Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking communist, informs Anna that her real name is Ida and that her Jewish parents were killed during the Nazi occupation. This is just the first of the surprises in store for naive Ida, who soon sets off with Wanda on a journey to find out where their family was buried. Ida is a sweet road-trip buddy pic and a tender coming-of-age tale, while avoiding the clichéd trappings of such genres. It’s also flat-out gorgeous. PG-13. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
A David Lynch’s 1984 adapta-
tion of revered sci-fi novel Dune was not his finest hour. But those B-movie explosions could have been replaced by something both surreal and visceral had midnight-movie maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky directed the story a decade earlier. Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of the failed production, which gained serious traction in the mid-’70s on the heels of Jodorowsky’s seminal Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky’s vision was stunning but bloated, which comes out in interviews with the spiritual director and his cast. Excitement gives way to fiasco as H.R. Giger, Pink Floyd, Orson Welles and Salvador Dalí are all recruited to the project, while the demands
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Just a Sigh
C- Just a Sigh is about a woman
whose life is so difficult she repeatedly makes love to a corpse. Well, technically he’s not dead, but he’s Gabriel Byrne. The first time he and Emmanuelle Devos’ character kiss after their encounter on a train, you get the feeling that when the camera pans around the shot will end up like the bathroom scene in The Shining. Devos is otherwise fascinating as a woman at the end of multiple tethers, a middle-aged, insolvent actress flirting not just with divorce but with being anyone but herself. She is condescended to by her husband, her uptight sister, a bitchy bartender—heck, even by a lamppost—and her sometimes childish volatility ranges interestingly from slapstick to genuine pathos. But while the film’s one-day love story might aim at Before Sunrise, it’s a lot more like Weekend at Bernie’s. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Korengal
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] The NW Film Center hosts director Sebastian Junger for a screening of his new documentary, a follow-up to 2010’s Restrepo. While that Oscar-nominated film chronicled a year on the ground with a U.S. Army platoon in Afghanistan, this new doc is more of a psychological study of the soldiers. R. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, June 4.
The Lego Movie
B+ With The Lego Movie, direc-
tors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have imagined a world of chaotic bliss. Using a combination of computer and stop-motion animation that keeps the herky-jerky laws of Lego physics in mind, The Lego Movie follows milquetoast construction worker Emmet (Chris Pratt) on a hero’s journey. Just when the film starts becoming too cute, the plot shifts into another nutso action sequence filled with clever sight gags. PG. AP KRYZA. Academy, Empirical Theater at OMSI, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, Valley.
Locke
B+ The average cinemagoer will
know Tom Hardy as the handsome Brit from Inception, or as Batman’s ultra-ripped, marble-mouthed nemesis in The Dark Knight Rises. That Tom Hardy does not appear in Locke. Arthouse buffs will best remember Hardy as the gargantuan titular sociopath in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson or as the slack-jawed redneck bootlegger in the under-seen Prohibition drama
Lawless. That Tom Hardy is also absent in Locke. For Locke’s entire 85-minute runtime, the camera is trained exclusively on Hardy as he makes a late-night drive from Birmingham to London for the birth of his illegitimate child. So he drives, fielding call after life-changing call on his Bluetooth. He tries to calm his wife. He comforts the stranger carrying the living symbol of his infidelity. A respected construction foreman, he walks a nerve-rattled underling through preparations for the project. That’s it. Just one car, one phone, one man. Yet this is a perfect vehicle for Hardy’s staggering talents, and writer-director Steven Knight manages a strange level of tension. R. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters
Maleficent
C+ A revisionist retelling of Disney’s 1959 Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent has a fever-dream edge and the prominent cheekbones—and intimidating beauty, and sense of physical imposition—of Angelina Jolie. In case your grasp of the source material is rusty, evil fairy Maleficent was left off the invite list to Princess Aurora’s christening, so she dooms the girl to death. But Disney wasn’t content to let such a single-minded villain go unconsidered. So what hardened Maleficent’s heart? Rape. The man who would be Sleeping Beauty’s father begins as Maleficent’s childhood chum and first kiss, but he drugs her and removes her wings to get a little geopolitical advantage and, ultimately, the throne. The implications are mindboggling, but Jolie only gets the chance to play a jilted lover who exacts her revenge on the most helpless of the kingdom. Abuse begets abuse. Maleficent lost her edge when she lost her wings. Unfortunately, by the time she regains her wings, her trajectory and the movie’s message have all become so muddled that, at what passes for the climax, we get a battle scene reminiscent of Catwoman—Jolie loses her skirt, gets pants, and slings chains at her erstwhile lover. It doesn’t feel like victory, though: After tiptoeing through the computer-animated tulips, it just feels forced. More charmingly, Jolie stalks the doomed Aurora throughout her childhood, and something like maternal love stirs in Maleficent’s cold, desiccated heart. But this rewrite makes no sense. When Maleficent is robbed of her wings, she becomes a delectably evil force of vengeance. When Disney attempts to flip its own script, it all comes off as apologism. Sexy apologism, but pointless apologism nonetheless. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Roseway, Sandy.
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A Million Ways to Die in the
C+ As writer, director, producer and star of A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane is all shit, no cattle. Though there is some track record of animators using the drawing board as a springboard to
grander ventures, the South Park creators and Walt Disney knew their limitations. With A Million Ways, Family Guy creator MacFarlane has assembled a vanity project on par with Uncle Walt playing lead in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. He simply hasn’t the chops to carry the movie—a Western in which he’s cast himself as the romantic lead—and only drops the smarmy posturing when diving into boyish flirtation. He’s a continual embarrassment leading a production of this scope, and he’s hardly helped by his own direction. In a tone-deaf flourish of egotism, Macfarlane’s sheep farmer is always the smartest guy in the room and, save the women who love him (Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron), the most attractive. More awkwardly, he seems the toughest as well, a significant flaw for a film determined to treat its rejiggered plot with grave seriousness. Thankfully, the Western setting proves as amenable as any other for the hallmarks of MacFarlane’s wit— split-second visual bits (unsheared sheep-turned-balls of fluff walking into walls), open-mic routines (have you ever noticed the inherent stupidity of people born to the 19th century?), and troubling stereotypes extended to illogical conclusions. But there aren’t enough jokes, and they require an especially strong stomach, because the feces overflows, and overlong and misguided forays into action and romance sap any anarchic momentum. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy.
The Monuments Men
C+ What could have been a weird cross between Inglourious Basterds and Ocean’s Eleven turns out to be a bit of a slog. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Laurelhurst.
Muppets Most Wanted
B While technically the eighth Muppet movie, Muppets Most Wanted probably won’t be judged against the grosses of Muppet Treasure Island. For better or worse, the overwhelming success of 2011’s The Muppets provided Disney a reboot blueprint: Stay with what works and remember who we’re here to see. So, of course, Kermit is replaced by a Russian doppelgänger, we visit the grand concert halls of Europe, and Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais are given extended solo dance routines. While awful choices abound, the Muppets reflexively generate so much unsinkable goodwill that even the laziest of plots still charms—and might even be welcome, given the ’70s-meets-art deco visual aesthetic and escalating cameo bombs. PG. JAY HORTON. Academy, Laurelhurst, Mission, Valley.
The M Word
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and the budget climb. The film is as much about the man as it is the film, portraying Jodorowsky as a relentless, Leary-esque visionary. For those uninitiated to Jodorowsky’s brand of surrealism, Jodorowsky’s Dune will wonder and amuse. For his fans, this a chance to delight in the psychedelic mastermind and what could have been his masterpiece. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Academy, Laurelhurst.
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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. And while Neighbors occasionally resorts to measures every bit as desperate as Mac’s, the cast rises to the lowbrow occasion. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns.
Noah
Maybe you’ve heard this story about a giant flood and some animals on a boat. Russell Crowe apparently got the pope’s blessing for the movie, but the studio doesn’t seem to have the same level of faith—Noah didn’t screen for Portland critics. PG-13. Laurelhurst, Valley.
Only Lovers Left Alive
A Given that languid cool is the life-
blood 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. For these two immortal creatures, unending life causes complacency—after centuries of existence, it seems there’s nothing new on earth. While the film is laced with mordant wit—the blood popsicles have already become legendary—there’s also an affecting subtext: Jarmusch seems to be using genre tropes to explore his own concerns about maintaining his creative drive as he enters his 60s. Just as Adam learns that the world contains undiscovered wonders, one of cinema’s most idiosyncratic voices confirms, with droll eloquence, that he still has much to say. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Hollywood.
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, helpfully self-identified as “the lawyer, the wife and the boobs”) about how best to revenge themselves on the investment-banker snake (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) who’s done them wrong. This is the comedic debut of director Nick Cassavetes, heretofore known for maybe-too-precious emotive celebrations like She’s So Lovely and The Notebook. Whether simply tone-deaf to the usual beats of the genre or possessed of a truly deadpan wit, he neatly undersells the farcical brutality. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Clackamas.
Palo Alto
B Given James Franco’s obnoxious ubiquity, it’s tough not to see Palo Alto—a big-screen adaptation of the multihyphenate’s short-story collection—as art imitating life. But this is also the impressive directorial debut of Gia Coppola, child of the equally everywhere Coppola family. Upping the legacy ante are actors Emma Roberts (niece of Julia, daughter of Eric) and Jack Kilmer (the spitting image of his folks, Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley), both remarkably natural in a barely there narrative that’s more an assemblage of teenage wasteland vignettes than a coming-of-
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age story. That’s not an altogether bad thing. Roberts, Kilmer and Nat Wolff, as a budding sociopath with shades of Franco, meander through a boozeand weed-induced haze of parties, reckless pranks and awkward encounters with their parents. As good girl Roberts juggles her feelings for sensitive artist Kilmer and creeper soccer coach Mr. B (yep, Franco), Coppola shows a deft command of detail and mood. For all the suburban white privilege and ennui here, Coppola’s compassion for her teens is striking, and her almost aggressively laid-back approach bucks any sense of judgment. R. AMANDA SCHURR. Cinema 21.
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Two by Michael Snow
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] In conjunction with Yale Union’s Yuji Agematsu exhibit, the NW Film Center screens Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film and A Casing Shelved, two rare, experimental films by Canadian artist Michael Snow. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, June 10.
Under the Skin
B Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi/horror hybrid stars Scarlett Johansson as a gorgeous, man-eating alien who lures dudes home with the unspoken promise of sex—only to deliver an exceptionally elegant drowning. Why ScarJo, decked out in skintight, acidwashed jeans and a Karen Carpenter wig, is compelled to take men home to one her many mirror-floored apartments is never explained beyond a creepy, 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque montage of images that includes a bloody meat conveyor belt and an exploding star. The lack of clarity is part of the film’s appeal. But it’s also frustratingly shallow at times, and would be nothing without its soundtrack. Part otherworldly bee-buzzing, part feedback and all straight-up spook, Mica Levi’s score sets a terrifying tone. Prepare to be scared shitless, even as you shake your head over the story’s many twists, particularly its turn toward tenderness at the end. R. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Laurelhurst, Academy.
Words and Pictures
A prep-school English teacher (Clive Owen) and an abstract painter (Juliette Binoche) fall in love. Gasp! Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Lauren Terry’s review at wweek.com. PG-13. Fox Tower.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
A- X-Men: Days of Future Past is kind
of like a Muppet movie, only instead of putting on a show and celebrating weirdness, its characters spend their time beating the shit out of each other and making things explode. Still, at the core are a bunch of weirdos—a couple blue people, a metal dude, a toadman, a gigantic metal guy, a soldier with hedgehog spikes and two grumpy old men among them—traveling the globe and getting into adventures. In the 14 years and 7 movies since the X-Men first hit the screen, the adventures of the students and faculty of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters have been a mixed bag, and even the best films had a difficult time balancing the over-seriousness of the subject matter with, you know, the fun that is inherent in comic books. Days of Future Past finally strikes that balance, and that’s what makes it the best of the bunch. Make no mistake, this is an adult comic-book movie: It’s violent, heady and full of historical references, creating an alternate history interwoven with real-life events. But it’s also goofy as all hell, and the first hour lets loose a barrage of playful set pieces and winking in-jokes that makes it pretty damn delightful. PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99W Drive-In, Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns.
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NEVER SAY DIE
THE GOONIES ‘R’ GOOD ENOUGH.
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Until the machines rise and hail him as a pioneer in the field of sentient military robotics, Short Circuit’s Johnny Five will never get a statue in downtown Astoria. And despite his teaching children how to differentiate between headaches and tumors, the city will never name a library after Detective John Kimble. Never mind that he was the best damned cop Astoria’s kindergartners ever met. No matter what other classics might be set in the seaside town, the people of Astoria will be Goonies until the day they die. And since Goonies never say die, it looks like Johnny Five is screwed. In 2010, Astoria—home of the Oregon Film Museum and maybe the ghost of Anne Ramsey— declared June 7 Goonies Day to celebrate the cult classic’s 25th anniversary. It’s now an annual nerdfest, with screenings, tours of the Goonies house, specialty beers by Fort George, treasure hunts and mass truffle shuffles. The museum may have memorabilia from Free Willy and Kindergarten Cop, but only The Goonies—that ageless tribute to mischief, outsiders and imagination—gets a holiday. The inaugural event in 2010 also offered a brief glimpse of what the longthreatened Goonies sequel might look like, with director Richard Donner and much of the cast in attendance. If that event was any indication, a new movie would be…well, sad. Do we really want to see what a grown-up and puffy Mikey is doing with his life, or revisit Corey Feldman’s Mouth as a dickhead grownup who insists that his stupid band gets to play in the movie (oh, wait, that was the real Feldman)? And how do you replace the glory of John “Sloth” Matuszak’s grotesque makeup? You don’t. He would be motion-captured. So would Chunk, since actor Jeff Cohen is now, you know, thin. I understand the desire to pass the Goonies torch to a new generation. But that’s exactly what happens every time a fully grown fan deems the kids old enough (people forget how scary and crude the movie is) and pops in that well-worn DVD. In the film, One-Eyed Willy’s treasure saved the Goonies’ house. In real life, fans preserved it as a monument. These folks, the ones who flock to look at Haystack Rock and imagine seeing One-
Eyed Willy’s ship emerging onto the ocean, are the keepers of the flame. Not wrinkly old Corey Feldman. ALSO SHOWING: Pix Patisserie kicks off its weekly Movies at Dusk series with—yup—Chocolat. Don’t worry. The series goes all summer, and The Goonies is playing in September. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St. Dusk Wednesday, June 4. There are a lot of ambiguities in Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi opus Total Recall. Is the entire film a figment of Quaid’s imagination? More importantly, does Arnold Schwarzenegger remember the scene with the three-breasted prostitute? An Arnold DVD commentary—that’s the version screening for free tonight—is a true thing of beauty, a garbled odyssey in which Arnold just explains exactly what’s onscreen. Drink every time he says, “I remember that.” 5th Avenue Cinema. 7:30 pm Friday, June 6. North by Northwest isn’t Hitchcock’s best film, but it’s the master’s most purely enjoyable. It’s a great spoof of spy films, one of Cary Grant’s goofiest cinematic gifts and an innuendo-strewn middle finger to old-school censorship. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, June 6-8. Laurelhurst’s Western train just keeps on achuggin’, and now the Duke himself has finally boarded with The Comancheros. John Wayne, who also co-directed, plays a Texas Ranger taking on a renegade gang using his guns and his insults. Laurelhurst Theater. June 6-12. 24 Hour Party People, a film about the rise of British New Wave and, you know, sex and drugs and other fun stuff, screens all week. The Friday screening, a fundraiser for 91.1 XRAY.FM, is followed by an after-party that hopefully doesn’t feature a lot of sex and drugs and other fun stuff, mainly because that would be gross in a movie theater. Academy Theater. June 6-12. The Oregon Historical Society unearths In the Land of the Head Hunters, a silent 1914 pseudodocumentary that predated the infamous Nanook of the North by eight years in the revolutionary technique of making a vaguely racist fake documentary using indigenous people. The film, long thought lost, has been painstakingly restored with its original score. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 2 pm Sunday, June 8. The Clinton Street Theater is turning 100, and it kicks off its yearlong celebration with Charlie Chaplin on Clinton Street, featuring Chaplin clips (The Little Tramp also turns 100 this year) with live musical accompaniment, and Chaplin-inspired physical comedian Dan Kamin. Clinton Street Theater. 2 pm Sunday, June 8. The Mystery of Chess Boxing is not the Wu-Tang song of the same name, but rather a martial arts classic in which the Ghostface Killer—who is not the Wu-Tang member of the same name either— cruises around the countryside killing his enemies and pretty much being a dick. His only undoing could be a special fighting technique based on chess. It’s weird. And wonderful. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 10.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us,” writes novelist Robert R. McCammon. “We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow path and told to be responsible.” That’s the bad news, Aries. But now here’s the good news: The next 12 months will offer you a series of excellent opportunities to re-magic yourself. If you have not yet caught wind of the first invitation, I bet you will soon. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “When given a choice between owning an object and having an experience,” says art critic Holland Cotter, “I always choose the experience.” He prefers to spend his money on adventures that transform his sense of self and his understanding of the world. I recommend that approach to you in the coming weeks, Taurus. The most valuable “possessions” you can acquire will be the lessons you learn, the skills you hone, and the relationships you ripen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way, the narrator speaks of how profoundly he is inspired by an older writer named Bergotte: “Each time he talked about something whose beauty had until then been hidden from me, about pine forests, about hail, about Notre-Dame Cathedral . . . with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.” I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because in the coming days I suspect a great deal of beauty will explode into you. Why? I think it’s because you’re more receptive than usual to being delighted and enchanted. The triggers could be anything: exciting people, eavesdropped conversations, good books, surprising music, and who knows what else? CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Little horses cannot carry great riders.” So says a Haitian proverb. Now, in accordance with the astrological omens, I’m urging you to meditate on its meaning for your life. Here are four possible interpretations: 1. Are you a “little horse” trying to carry a “great rider” who’s too much for you? 2. Are you a little horse that could grow into a bigger, stronger horse worthy of a great rider? 3. Are you a “great rider” who is in need of a horse that is big and strong enough to serve your big, strong ambitions? 4. Would you like to be a “great rider,” but you can’t be one as long as you have a horse that is too small and weak? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Declare victory, Leo. Even if victory is not quite won yet. Even if your success is imperfect and still a bit messy around the edges. Raise your arms up in elated triumph and shout, “I am the purified champion! I am the righteous conqueror! I have outsmarted my adversaries and outmaneuvered my obstacles, and now I am ready to claim my rightful rewards!” Do this even if you’re not 100-percent confident, even if there is still some scraping or clawing ahead of you. Celebrate your growing mastery. Congratulate yourself for how far you’ve come. In this way, you will summon what’s needed to complete your mission and achieve final, total victory.
in the coming weeks you make it your lucky charm, your magical symbol. Why? Because the next chapter of your life story requires you to make a major crossing. You will traverse a great divide. Having your favorite bridge as a shining beacon in your imagination will inspire your strength and courage as you travel. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): U2’s Bono has called Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” “the most perfect song in the world.” It is mournful and triumphant, despairing and uplifting. It’s a riddle that improbably offers cathartic release. Over 300 recording artists have done cover versions of it, and it has even been the subject of books. And yet it was a challenge for Cohen to compose. He wrote more than 80 verses before choosing the few he would actually include in the final version, and in one famous session he resorted to banging his head on the floor to stimulate his creative flow. “To find that urgent song,” he said, took “a lot of work and a lot of sweat.” I nominate “Hallelujah” to be one of your sacred symbols for the next 12 months, Scorpio. From your strenuous effort, I predict, will come masterful creations. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Let me outline the breakthroughs I hope to see for you in the coming months. First, what is pretty good about you will not interfere with what is potentially great about you, but will instead cooperate with it and boost it. Second, your past accomplishments won’t hold back your progress; you will not be tempted to rely on them at the expense of your future accomplishments. And third, the brave ideas that have motivated you so well won’t devolve into staid old dogmas; you will either renew and reinvigorate them or else move on to a new set of brave ideas. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you are in even moderate alignment with cosmic rhythms during the next 12 months, you will be a connoisseur and master of recycling. I’m speaking metaphorically here. What I hope is that you will reanimate worn-out inspirations and convert faded dreams into shiny new fantasies. You will find ways to revive alliances that went off track. A once-vibrant shtick or trick that lost its cool could be retrieved from the ash heap of history and turned into a fresh, hot asset. Gear yourself up for some entertaining resurrections. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I wish I could tell you that your power animal this month is the eagle or dolphin or panther. Having a glamorous creature like that as your ally might boost your confidence and charisma. To be paired with one of them might even activate dormant reserves of your animal intelligence. But I can’t in good conscience authorize such an honor. That’s not what the astrological omens are suggesting. In fact, your power animal this June is the bunny rabbit. Please understand that there is no shame in this. On the contrary. You should be charmed and appreciative. It signifies that you will be fertile, fast, a bit tricky, and very cute. (To read an essay on the mythology of the rabbit as trickster, go here: http://tinyurl.com/rabbittrickster.)
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Give special attention to what will last the longest. That’s my main recommendation for you in the coming weeks. Devote less of your energy to transitory pleasures and short-term hopes. Turn away from the small obsessions that demand far too much of your energy. Withdraw from the seemingly pressing concerns that will soon start to fade because they really aren’t that important. Instead, Virgo, devote your love and intelligence to the joys and dilemmas that will animate your life well into the future. Express reverence and care for the mysteries that will teach you and teach you and teach you for years to come.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Buddhist meditation teacher Chogyam Trungpa said that one of the best ways to become fearless is to cultivate tenderness. As you expand your heart’s capacity to feel compassionate affection for the world, you have less and less to be afraid of. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom, which says you become brave by toughening up, by reinforcing your psychic armor. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you Pisceans are best set up to benefit from Trungpa’s method -- now even more than usual.
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