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INBOX OMSI’S LAND DEVELOPMENT A quick glance at the map in the article [“Science and Industry,” WW, June 18, 2014] reveals that the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s proposed development is on the southern edge of the Central Eastside in an area that is presently home to parking lots, a burned-out former electrical supply building, an auto repair business, a Portland Community College center, warehouses and perhaps a manufacturer or two.

Other than PCC, those are hardly prime uses for land next to an expensive light-rail line. If OMSI doesn’t undertake development there, someone will, though I’ll leave it to others to debate the wisdom of OMSI taking the lead.

The core of the Central Eastside is to the north and unaffected. The fear of the OMSI development inspiring others is no doubt valid.

But, as someone who lives next to the area and has for decades, I can see the changes that are already happening at a fast pace.

Preserving it as an industrial sanctuary is a worthy cause. But what constitutes “industry” is continually in flux, and the area should be developed to reflect changing realities.

Simply maintaining the status quo is a poor use of prime land in the heart of the city.

“Brent Bolton” If you’re really interested in “livability” and “walkable cities,” the existing inner eastside seems like a great place to work with: a functional light-industrial district near the city core and adjacent to existing residential areas.

Some additional residential development could be great if you’re encouraging buildings that are actually affordable for people who work in the area.

I grew up in Portland and always thought that message board over the Galleria MAX stop on Southwest Morrison Street—you know, the one encased in a bronze whale tail—was really cool. What can you tell us about it?—C.L. In a way, C., your question is a testament to TriMet’s high quality of service: If they’d only made you wait a bit longer for the MAX each morning, you might have noticed the sculpture introduces itself every 10 minutes or so. (It’s also a testament to how stoned you are, since you never noticed the identifying plaque that’s sat under the thing for 30 years.)

The sculpture, Keith Jellum’s Electronic Poet, was created in 1984. That makes it pretty damned old by the standards of things whose name begins with “electronic”—any earlier and it’d have been something like the “Versifying Reckoner.” (Nowadays, of course, it’d be called the “eBard” or something equally horrific.)

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But Mayor Charlie Hales’ quoted remark seems illustrative of his priorities: a boat in the Bahamas for a store owner. Right. Wealth for the owners of land and businesses.

So probably we can expect more higher-end apartments and condos Division-style, and the rest of us can shove off to east of the 205. “dh”

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Instead of charging a late-night permit [“When Darkness Falls,” WW, June 18, 2014] to all bars, clubs, venues, etc., that stay open past 10 pm (like this town isn’t sleepy enough already), here’s an idea: How about Hales, the City Council and the OLCC make public their list of so-called “problem businesses” so that grown folks can make up their own minds about whether or not to patronize such businesses?

“Vladamir Muhammud”

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In last week’s story on the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s development plans for the Central Eastside, OMSI board member Susan Keil’s name was partially omitted and misspelled.

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Jellum’s other public works include the 10-foot bronze fish smashed through the wall above the downtown Southpark restaurant. (“Oh my God, they killed Nemo! You bastards!”)

Given that we now live in an era when it’s possible to say, “Siri, dump my girlfriend in a way that lets me keep the key to her beach house,” it’s probably important to emphasize that Electronic Poet does not compose the poetry it displays.

Instead, it displays a 10-minute program of curated verse designed to be changed every six months or so—though honestly, this schedule does not appear to be religiously observed.

As mentioned above, these programs often begin with the introduction “I am E.P.” Since E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial came out in 1982, possibly the Poet’s name was a play on the thenrecent sci-fi blockbuster about another technologically advanced being with a wide, flat head.

Possibly, but I hope not.

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JOINT VENTURE THE CORPORATE FACE OF LEGALIZING POT HAS ARRIVED IN OREGON. By kate willson

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Paul Stanford had to admit last week he was busted.

For years, Stanford has been the face of the drive to legalize marijuana in Oregon, the man who may have done more to push for lawful pot than anyone else in the state.

But in a video announcement, Stanford conceded that his latest petition drives would fail.

His measures would have allowed adults 21 and over to smoke marijuana legally and possess as much as 24 plants and 1.5 pounds of dope. But as the July 3 deadline for turning in signatures raced toward him, Stanford said in an online video message that he didn’t have enough money to collect the 87,213 signatures needed for one of his measures and the 116,284 needed for the other.

“We do not have the wherewithal to move forward and qualify for the ballot,” Stanford said.

There remains another measure out there, Stanford said, one that would make marijuana legal, but with more restrictions. “I liked ours better,” he said, “but the big multimillionaire funders out there didn’t.”

The big money Stanford referred to includes billionaire George Soros, the heirs of late Progressive Insurance co-founder Peter Lewis, and other rich backers across the country. That money is flowing to a measure pushed

by New Approach Oregon that appears headed for the

November ballot.

Stanford’s retreat—in the face of what may be a big victory for advocates of legal pot this fall—marks a major change in the way Oregon and the nation are preparing to debate the issue.

Supporters of legalized marijuana found a way to win in 2012, with victories in Colorado and Washington state.

Importing the same successful strategy here meant there was no room for operators like Stanford, whose campaigns often raised more questions than they answered.

“Why not yield to the team with a winning rate?” asks Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. “Even if some of us hold our nose and endorse their measures, even flawed, they have allowed for a baseline. You can build on that baseline.”

Oregon was the first state, in 1973, to decriminalize marijuana, making possession of small amounts punishable by a fine. Oregon voters have been asked to legalize pot more often than in any other state—and have always answered no.

Stanford declined to be interviewed for this story. Of the 17 initiatives put forward since 1998, Stanford has run eight campaigns and made the ballot once.

Stanford has also been beset by financial and legal problems, which have clouded his broader message. Stanford, who operates a nationwide chain of medical marijuana clinics, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 2011 after a long history of trouble with the IRS. His top contributor this year is the Foundation for

Constitutional Protection in Austin, Texas. The group has been shut down twice by Texas authorities for failing to file tax returns. This year, the foundation gave Stanford $89,500. (The group has given nearly $700,000 to Oregon pro-pot campaigns in the past five years.)

“The big money is not and will not come into states where they perceive the local advocates are too counterculture for their tastes,” St. Pierre says. “You had better have very clean books, very clean hands.”

In 2012, Washington state’s campaign brought in $6.3 million, including $2 million from Lewis and another $1.7 million from Soros-backed Drug Policy Action. In Oregon, the campaign has raised $1.7 million and hasn’t even made the ballot yet. At least $1 million of that has come from funders of the Washington measure.

Morgan Fox, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which spent $1 million to help Colorado legalize the drug in 2012, says voters respond better to messages that emphasize strict regulation when they don’t know what an emerging industry will look like.

“People who are serious about reform realize it’s unlikely voters are going to make it as legal to buy as a tomato,” he says. “We approach the issue from a more traditional standpoint in terms of regulation.”

If the New Approach Oregon initiative becomes law, marijuana sales like those in Washington would require the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to license recreational dispensaries and tax the sale of weed. No one under 21 could purchase pot, and it would still be illegal to drive while under the influence of the drug.

New Approach, like its predecessors, have emphasized law enforcement and tax revenue says Brian Vicente, a lawyer who has worked with campaigns and governments on the regulation of marijuana.

“We need to play by mainstream rules to get your message out there,” Vicente says. “We talked about regulation and taxation. That differs from some of the messages prevalent in the movement for 40 years, which were focused on personal freedom and the right to get high.”

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CASHING IN: Patrons of the BottleDrop near Northeast Glisan Street and 125th Avenue return bottles and cans to 12 self-serve machines. The location brought in 50 million empties in its first year. A smaller BottleDrop center is planned for West Burnside Street, between 17th and 18th avenues.

SEEKING REDEMPTION NEIGHBORS OF A PROPOSED WEST BURNSIDE SITE FOR BOTTLE AND CAN RETURNS POP THEIR TOPS.

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Every day, Rob Wolters sees a lot of the raw city life outside his condo at West Burnside Street and Southwest 18th Avenue that he says makes it interesting to live downtown: homeless people sleeping on sidewalks, teens loitering on corners, and even the occasional transient urinating in public.

Wolters, who lives in the Civic Condominiums, says his neighborhood is still one of the roughest, despite millions of dollars in investment in recent years.

But he says one new addition would make it too busy, dirty and dangerous: a new bottle and can redemption center expected to draw 8 million containers a year and, Wolters says, more foot and car traffic than the neighborhood can handle.

“It’s going to take it to a level of grittiness that’s not going to be pleasant,” Wolters says. “I really am upset about it.”

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The drop would draw bottle and can returns that were once headed for the Fred Meyer across Burnside, as well as two nearby Safeways, one downtown and the other in the Pearl District. It would be the ninth such redemption center in Oregon, as major grocery stores push away shoppers looking to get back the 5-cent deposit they paid for their containers.

The other sites—including one at 12403 Northeast Glisan St.—have all opened with few complaints.

Not this one.

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which must approve the facility, has received more than 200 public comments,

virtually all of them negative. Many raise objections to the prospect of increased vagrancy and crime caused by transients pushing shopping carts of scavenged empties to the new center.

“It’s universally opposed except for those who are promoting it,” says Dan Petrusich, former president of the Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood Association.

John Andersen, president of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, a consortium of bottling companies that picks up and recycles containers throughout the state, says a new center on Burnside would not do much to change the current problems posed by homelessness in the area.

“We’re not really expanding, we’re just changing,” Andersen says. For the stores’ customers, who must haul their returns

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neighborhoods elsewhere, he says, “It’s just in an environment that we believe is much more controlled and focused on improvement of the experience.”

The debate highlights not just the impact of one redemption hub but also the changing nature of Oregon’s landmark bottle bill as grocers and bottling companies shift the cost, congestion and mess to a handful of central sites.

“These redemption centers are wonderful where everybody drives,” says Jerry Powell, editor of Portland-based Resource Recycling newsletters. “The real winner, even though they help pay for it, is the grocer.”

The bottle bill, passed in 1971, didn’t change much for decades: You paid a 5-cent deposit for each bottle and can at purchase, and the store was required to give you a nickel back when you brought back your empty.

After legislators expanded the law to cover plastic water bottles in 2007, the recycling workload at stores increased.

Grocers and bottlers pushed to offer (and pay for) central drop locations away from stores, and persuaded the OLCC in 2010 to let them open trial sites. Lawmakers agreed to expand the plan in 2011.

“It’s better for the consumer, it’s better for the neighbors,” says state Rep. Vicki Berger (R-Salem), who worked on the compromise and whose father, Richard Chambers, came up with the idea for the bottle bill in the late 1960s. “Anybody who complains about [the Burnside center]

“Nobody waNts the problem. they waNt to export the problem.”

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first has to go out and visit the ones that are existing. They are not what you envision, in terms of what the grocers have had to deal with in the last 30 or 40 years.”

Ten states now have mandatory container deposit laws, and as many as seven have similar redemption centers.

The Oreg on Beverag e Rec ycling Cooperative has opened locations, called BottleDrop, in Salem, Bend, Oregon City, Gresham and Wood Village. The sites feature machines that automatically sort and count bottles and cans, and clerks then reimburse for the returns.

At the Northeast Glisan Street center, the whir of 12 bottle collection machines competes with the glass-on-glass clink of rattling bottles. On a recent Sunday, people stood on the sticky floor amid the sour smell of stale beer as they dropped their empties into the machines.

The site, which replaced returns at five nearby grocery stores, takes in 50 million bottles and cans a year—far more than the 30 million BottleDrop officials expected when it opened in August 2013.

Employees say lines often stretch out the door. “As we realized early on, this space really isn’t big enough for us,” says one employee who asked not to be named.

Car and pedestrian traffic is one reason critics of the Burnside location say they don’t want it.

Petrusich, former president of the Goose Hollow neighborhood association, stood outside the Northeast site and watched the flow of cars and people hauling in bottles and cans.

“It’s mind-boggling to think that they would put something like that right on Burnside and 17th,” Petrusich says. “You’re trying to impose a suburban solution on an urban location.”

The land where the center would be built had been flagged by the city as a “catalyst” location for redevelopment in the area. Critics now worry the site has too few parking spots—10—to handle the traffic.

Petrusich says he fears the homeless problem around 17th and Burnside will only get worse—he compared the potential problem to Right 2 Dream Too, the homeless camp at Northwest 4th Avenue and Burnside.

He says the neighborhood has begun to transform itself with new development, such as the Civic Condominiums and renovations at Providence Park, home of the Portland Timbers and Thorns.

“The bottom line is this: Nobody wants the problem,” he says of the grocery stores trying to move their container drops.

“They want to export the problem.”

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Letters of opposition have come into the OLCC from dozens of neighbors, citing concerns about safety and traffic, as well as the board of the Civic condos, the Marathon Taverna, and the Timbers and Thorns.

Ken Puckett, senior vice president of the Timbers and Thorns, told the OLCC it should “hear from the stakeholders who simply don’t want other businesses dumping what they don’t want on their property onto the doorstep of others.” (Calls to Fred Meyer and Safeway were not returned.)

Meanwhile, the OLCC hasn’t set a deadline for a final decision on the Burnside location.

Andersen, of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative, says he doesn’t believe a BottleDrop on West Burnside will cause problems with traffic.

Nor does he think it would change the character of a neighborhood that, as he notes, includes taverns, a McDonald’s, a car wash, vacant buildings and a sex shop.

“Do I think there’s an area within the state that’s too big to be part of [the bottle bill]? No,” Andersen says. “Do I think that West Burnside is a neighborhood today where a bottle drop center would not fit?

No.” “It’s hard to understand,” he adds, “how what we’re doing for an environmental initiative—one of the longest-standing in this state, and an iconic feature of this state—how that doesn’t fit in this case.”

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WATCHING THE WHEELS

This week, Portland officials are navigating a switchback trickier than the Terwilliger curves.

They’re telling residents the city needs more money to fix its roads, even as they passed a $515 million general fund budget June 19 that continues a pattern of doing less for Portland’s streets.

Over the past decade, City Hall has not allowed spending on road repairs and maintenance to keep pace with its overall transportation budget.

Had road repairs kept pace with that budget, a WW analysis of spending records shows, the backlog would be $36 million less than it is now.

That’s a small bite of the $910 million needed to update the city’s streets, but it’s also the result of shifting priorities, moving more money toward streetcars, light rail and the Sellwood Bridge replacement—and away from basic road work.

Meanwhile, Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick started a new round of public hearings this week, trying to build public support for a street fee that would raise

PORTLAND’S ROAD-PAVING BACKLOG HAS GROWN IN THE PAST DECADE WHILE CITY OFFICIALS HAVE DELAYED FILLING THE HOLE.

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about $50 million a year for street projects.

Hales and Novick say the Portland Bureau of Transportation needs new money to fix the nearly billion-dollar backlog of paving and sealing needed on city streets. And they blame that huge shortfall on a lack of funding.

The mayor earlier rejected more money for sidewalk construction and pedestrian signals in the current budget, saying he believed crossing off those items would reinforce his message that the city had to find new ways to raise cash to meet its transportation needs.

Yet their plan has gone nowhere, and Hales and Novick have already delayed their street-fee proposal after public anger flared at the idea.

“Money from the gas tax and parking is not enough for basic transportation needs,” Novick said at a May 29 public hearing. “The gas tax has become a more problematic source of revenue as people are driving more fuel-efficient cars.

That’s good for the environment but bad for our bottom line.”

All of that is true—but it’s not the whole story.

S o u r c e S : P o r t l a n d B u r e a u o f t r a n S P o r tat i o n , c i t y B u d g e t o f f i c e .

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GENERAL FUNDS DEDICATED TO TRANSPORTATION in the past decade, the city council hasn’t altered the portion of the general fund it dedicates to transportation.

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HARRY RINEHART’S HOUSE OF PAIN

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BAY WATCH: The Nehalem River estuary meets the Pacific Ocean at Wheeler, which bills itself as “the waterfront town with the million-dollar view.”

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rom its perch on a steep hillside in

Wheeler, Ore., the Rinehart Clinic offers a view of the timeless battle between the Nehalem River and the Pacific Ocean.

When the tide flows out, water rushes toward the Pacific through the Nehalem estuary, where shrieking osprey hunt salmon and marooned trees washed down from the Coast Range create a natural sculpture garden on the bay shore.

LONG-DISTANCE HEALING: Dr. Harry Rinehart’s grandfather and parents served arthritis patients from all over North America at the 100-year-old Rinehart Clinic. Now, opiate addicts drive long distances to the clinic. “They come from Astoria, Seaside, Lincoln City and even Portland,” Rinehart says. “These patients will tell you they can’t get seen anywhere else.”

Twice a day, the power of the incoming tide reverses the Nehalem, and the rising saltwater blankets the estuary’s flats, submerging the blackened stumps of old pier pilings that line Wheeler’s waterfront like an addict’s teeth.

To some residents of W heeler, a Tillamook County town of 414, what happens inside the Rinehart Clinic is also a daily miracle.

Dr. Harry Rinehart, like two generations of his family before him, cares for the sick in this coastal region, regardless of their ability to pay. His patients, often wracked with despair, poverty and pain, are those other doctors refuse to see.

“He treats everyone with compassion and kindness,” says Leila Salmon, a Manzanita city councilor and member of the nonprofit Rinehart Clinic’s board. “He’s willing to do everything he can for every individual. Dr. Rinehart is a saint.”

Not in the eyes of law enforcement.

At 11 am on May 16, nine agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided the Rinehart Pharmacy, which is adjacent to and owned by the Rinehart Clinic. DEA officials had persuaded a federal judge to issue a warrant based on “red flags” regarding the “prescribing practices” at Rinehart’s clinic. When finished, the agents carried out dozens of files and stacks of other documents detailing the pharmacy’s inventory handling of controversial opioid pain medications such as morphine, methadone and OxyContin. The DEA declined to comment.

Oregon leads the nation in the abuse of such drugs, federal statistics show, with the state’s rate of prescription drug abuse 39 percent higher than the national average. Law enforcement and health-care officials are desperately fight-

ing what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has termed “the deadly epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.”

More Americans die annually from drug overdoses than auto accidents, according to the CDC, and most overdoses are related to prescription drugs. The problem is worst in small towns such as Wheeler, already beset by the challenges much of rural Oregon faces: high employment, low educational attainment and —over the past decade—skyrocketing prescription drug availability.

When pain pills are easy to get, the supply feeds a black market. Addiction to pain meds often leads users to heroin, which is cheaper than pills. The high number of heroin overdose deaths in Oregon, experts say, is directly related to the flood of pain pills doctors have unleashed.

Last year, Oregon doctors prescribed 100 million pain pills—on average 25 for each person in the state. And federal records show Rinehart cont. on page 14

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is one of the top prescribers of opiate meds in Oregon, even though he’s never been certified in pain management.

The conf lict over Rinehart and his clinic is part of a national battle, one as powerful as the clash of tide and river in Nehalem Bay. “There’s a lot of debate about when and whether opiates are appropriate,” says Dr. Mark Bowman, chief of emergency medicine at Tillamook Regional Medical Center, where many of Rinehart’s patients end up. “And there’s a lot of debate about how best to treat pain patients.”

Bowman declined to discuss Rinehart’s practices.

All the scrutiny makes the kinds of patients Rinehart specializes in treating— chronic pain patients and opiate addicts— less appealing to other physicians.

Rinehart, 68, is unfazed by the DEA investigation, which could lead to civil sanctions or even criminal charges. He’s been in the cross hairs of local and state officials for years, and no one has been able to hang any violations on him.

Rinehart casts his work in moral terms, saying his commitment to medicine and treating the people of his community is “a calling stronger than the clergy.”

“A lot of doctors discriminate against pain patients and addicts,” he says. “That seems wrong—that if you get a certain diagnosis, you can’t be treated.”

Gale Taylor, a former chief financial officer at the clinic, says she thinks Rinehart’s desire to preserve his family’s history has clouded his judgment.

“He’s carrying on his parents’ legacy,” Taylor says. “That’s his pride and joy. But somewhere along the way, he lost sight of what he’s doing and why he’s doing it.”

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cy—remains papered over, four years after a prescription drug scandal shut it down (see “The Pharmacy,” page 15).

Economic conditions in Tillamook County are dismal. The county’s population of about 25,000 is significantly older and poorer than state averages. Wheeler residents are even worse off: Census data shows that median household income is $31,000, about 60 percent of the average Oregon household. “ You can hide poverty in the city because there are so many people,” says

“a lot oF doctors discriminate against pain patients and addicts. that seems wrong—that iF you get a certain diagnosis, you can’t be treated.”

—dr. harry rinehart

Ellen Boggs, CEO of the Rinehart Clinic.

“But you can’t hide it out here.”

In 1913, Dr. Harvey Rinehart came to Wheeler from Portland to serve workers and their families at what was then, according tow n histor y, the la rgest sawmill on the West Coast. The town— na med a f ter Colema n W heeler, the great-grandfather of State Treasurer Ted Wheeler—was booming: A railroad hauled in logs even before Highway 101 existed, and canneries lined the waterfront.

A year later, the mill closed. The doctor and his wife decided to stay. “They ate a lot of blackberries and clams that first winter,” Harry Rinehart says of his grandparents.

Family doctors in the early part of the 20th century often developed specialties.

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rom Portland, travelers approach W heeler on Highway 101. On the Nehalem Bay side, the Wheeler Marina rents kayaks and the Tsunami Bar & Grill provides most of the town’s eating and drinking options. No traffic light or stop sign halts the traffic on 101, but most days it’s a trickle. A string of antique and gift shops lines the main street. One large storefront—the former Wheeler Pharma-

FAMILY MUSEUM: Mementos from earlier generations of Rinehart physicians, including Harry Rinehart’s parents, Drs. Robert E. Rinehart and Dorothy White Rinehart, are displayed in the Rinehart Clinic’s waiting area.

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HOUSE OF PAIN

A HAPPY PATIENT: The Rinehart Clinic serves many low-income patients, even spending $5,000 a year to subsidize their transportation. Dave “Wheeler Dave” Gomez, seen here waiting outside the Rinehart Clinic for a ride, says he was paralyzed in a trucking accident in 1986 and has been a patient at the clinic for 15 years.

to purify the blood. Others favored the use of leeches for bloodletting. Rinehart’s grandfather focused on developing remedies for pain suffered by the workers who toiled in the forests.

Harvey Rinehart developed an arthritis injection, a treatment that continued under his son, Dr. Robert Rinehart, and his daughter-in-law, Dr. Dorothy White Rinehart, also a physician.

The Rinehart clinic became a destination for medical tourists. “Even with the decline of timber and fishing, Wheeler thrived in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s partly due to the Rinehart Arthritis Clinic in the center of town,” according to the city’s history. “People came from around the country to take Dr. Rinehart’s miraculous cure.”

That he would join the medical profession was never in doubt for Harry Rinehart, who graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1972.

After a stint as a military doctor, he bought a clinic in Prineville in Central Oregon in 1982. But as his parents aged, Rinehart decided to return to Wheeler.

In the ’80s, Wheeler was depressed. High interest rates crippled the homebuild-

ing industry, which in turn decimated the logging business. Fishing was also on the decline. Wheeler began to resemble a ghost town, an emptied-out community that once supported two grocery stores, two drugstores, a bank, a movie theater and its own K-12 school.

The Rinehart Clinic was barely surviving. Rinehart converted it into a nonprofit so it could seek tax-deductible contributions.

The clinic’s annual Sand Dollar auction is one of the social events of the summer for wealthy retirees and second-home owners on the North Coast. Last year, for its centennial celebration, the clinic’s auction raised $100,000—an extraordinary accomplishment in such a sparsely populated area. Most years, the region’s most powerful politician, state Sen. Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose), takes to the stage to exhort the crowd to open their wallets for the Rinehart Clinic. Johnson’s family foundation gives at least $5,000 every year.

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THE PHARMACY Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents did not need a map to find Wheeler when they served a search warrant at the Rinehart Pharmacy in May. That’s because they have been there before.

In 2010, the DEA and state officials shut down the Wheeler Pharmacy after determining that an employee was distributing pain pills without prescriptions.

When agents took inventory of the tiny pharmacy, they came up more than 18,000 tablets short of methadone and 2,600 tablets short of oxycodone, two opioid pain relievers. To put those numbers in perspective, Wheeler’s population is 414.

The owner of the pharmacy at the time, Jeffrey Collett, was fined $15,000, and a technician went to jail. Collett did not respond to WW’s questions.

Dr. Harry Rinehart was not named in that case, but the Wheeler Pharmacy operated in close affi liation with Rinehart ’s clinic. Many of Rinehart ’s patients filled their prescriptions there. Rinehart says he required pain patients to count their pills in front of him to show they weren’t overconsuming or selling them.

That’s a policy he put in place after 2006, when the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners investigated (but didn’t uphold) allegations that WHEELER Rinehart ’s prescribing practices were leading to abuses by patients.

BME investigations are not public record.

Some patients could not account for their pills—and so the pharmacy helped them out of a jam.

“Patients told me that if they were short [of pills], they could just walk into the Wheeler Pharmacy and get pills without even being charged,” Rinehart says.

When the Wheeler Pharmacy closed, a new pharmacy, called the Nehalem Bay Pharmacy, opened next to the Rinehart Clinic. It soon failed after a technician was arrested there for stealing morphine.

In 2013, the Rinehart Clinic bought the Nehalem Bay Pharmacy. That allowed the clinic access to a federal program providing drugs at the government’s deeply discounted cost—an attractive proposition for a money-losing clinic.

But the Rinehart Pharmacy soon fell afoul of the Oregon Board of Pharmacy, paying a $5,000 fine last year for sloppy practices, including selling a filled prescription to the wrong person and improperly disclosing an individual’s confidential information.

And then, last month, the DEA came back to town.

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HOUSE OF PAIN

WHEELER’S PILL HILL: The Rinehart Clinic, which has 27 employees, and the adjacent 50-bed Nehalem Valley Care Center are the town of Wheeler’s biggest employers.

lard says of Rinehart. “There are a lot of people who have been served by him and are worried about what will happen when he retires.”

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inehart, already past retirement age, shows no sign of slowing down.

He took up scuba diving at an age when most people are joining AARP. He hunts elk, forages for mushrooms and still pilots his Zodiac inflatable boat in search of crab. “He’s fearless going over the Nehalem River bar,” Boggs says. “He has even been known to dump people out of the boat when he’s doing it.”

Rinehart strides around the clinic like a vigorous grandfather: His snowy white hair and red-tipped nose are the clinic’s weathered face, and his booming voice its soundtrack.

Rinehart is old school, dressing for work on a recent day in a blue blazer, cuffed gray-flannel slacks—secured by a belt and suspenders—polished brown brogues and a neatly knotted tie with a miniature-duck pattern over a pressed blue-and-white checked shirt.

He’s a schmoozer, wandering the clinic with a mug of black coffee in hand and a stethoscope slung over his shoulder. He’s also a lively and prolific writer, whose quarterly newsletter bears titles such as “A While in the Life of a (Now Old and Fat) Country Doctor.”

The Rinehart Clinic is housed in a lowslung, clapboard-sided building owned by the Nehalem Bay Health District. Thick plate glass separates a receptionist from the patients who sit in a cramped waiting room dominated by a wall-sized map from the 1940s. The map is dotted by pins showing all the places across the U.S., Canada and Mexico where patients traveled from to visit the clinic.

The clinic serves 3,000 patients and, according to its tax returns, generated $2.3 million in revenue in 2012. Nearly 60 percent of those patients had household incomes of less than $23,850, the federal definition of poverty for a family of four, and more than a quarter of them had no insurance. As medical director, Rinehart earns a salary of $168,000.

The clinic offers urgent care, mental-health counseling, and in keeping with Rinehart’s aggressive approach, engages in experimental treatments such as injecting severely depressed patients with ketamine, more typically used as an animal tranquilizer. That unusual use of the

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drug has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But Rinehart is best known for his work with addicts and chronicpain patients.

“He’s a very caring person,” says Deborah Burr, 60, of Nehalem, who’s been seeing Rinehart for arthritis pain for seven years. “Without him, I couldn’t work.”

Trinidy Richardson, 36, a roofer from Astoria, says cyclic vomiting syndrome made his life hell for a decade. He’d wake up vomiting and miss work, making it difficult to support two daughters and a girlfriend.

“I went to the emergency room 89 times in nine years,” Richardson says. “I saw several doctors throughout that time. They all said they couldn’t help me.”

In March 2013, Richardson went to see Rinehart, who put him on a regimen of vitamins; antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications; and methadone, an opiate, for his pain. Richardson says the vomiting ceased.

“He’s a godsend,” Richardson says of Rinehart. “He’s been my savior.”

Other doctors in the area, such as Dr. Rex Parsons, who’s practiced in Tillamook since 1983, are less enamored of powerful prescription pain meds. “Chronic pain and addiction often co-occur,” says Parsons, who declined to discuss Rinehart’s prescribing practices.

“Without the ability to identify and treat addiction, the use of high-dose opiates is often misdirected, inappropriate and harmful.”

Of the clinic’s nearly 3,000 patients, Rinehart treats 300 for chronic pain, and another 100—the maximum allowed under federal law— for an opiate addiction he treats with the drugs Suboxone and Subutext.

Rinehart sees most of those patients in group settings. That’s an unusual approach, one that state Medicaid officials say is legal, provided all patients get their vital signs checked and consult with Rinehart On a recent Tuesday, Rinehart saw three addicts simultaneously. A woman with a bold magenta streak in her hair told Rinehart she was worried about an upcoming gall-bladder operation and the possibility she might get hooked again on pain meds in the hospital.

A sad-eyed Garibaldi construction worker, who nervously adjusted his hat bearing the logo of Stihl chain saws, says he relapsed

recently after his ex-girlfriend moved his son to Oregon’s South Coast. Another woman says she’s trying to regain custody of her daughter after relapsing and being jailed. She shows photos and a brief video of her daughter on a pink smartphone.

“Adorable,” says the woman with the magenta hair.

Rinehart spends a few minutes listening to his patients, then renews their prescriptions; most head to the adjacent pharmacy, which his clinic owns, to have them filled.

Although he sees up to 10 patients at a time in his groups, Rinehart says his motivation for doing so is patient wellbeing rather than increased revenue. He says patients support each other and hold each other accountable. “ Patients like it,” R ineha r t says.

“Almost all of them will tell you they really benefit from being together. But we’re not herding cattle here. We are making sure all their issues get addressed.”

2013 report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that Oregon has the highest rate of opiate abuse in the nation.

Nobody is sure why. One explanation is that Oregonians, who pioneered Death With Dignity and medical marijuana, are predisposed to palliative measures.

“We were in the forefront of the movement to recognize people’s pain,” says Dr. Jim Shames, the public health officer in Jackson County, “and we just went a little too whole hog.”

For more than a decade, Rinehart has faced concerns over his prescribing practices. In 2006, the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners investigated him after multiple complaints but decided to take no action.

Getting cleared by the medical board did not end suspicion of Rinehart among law enforcement.

Perry Sherbaugh, chief of the Nehalem Bay Fire & Rescue District since 2009 and a police officer in Tillamook County for 17 years before that, says some officers pushed for the Oregon Department of Justice to investigate Rinehart, but nothing came of it.

Former employees also complained to the DOJ about Rinehart in 2011, but again, nothing came of those complaints.

“We know that the clinic prescribes a lot of pain medication, and we’ve seen overdoses related to it,” says Tillamook County Sheriff Andy Long. He says it’s impossible to know how much drug-related crime is tied to the Rinehart Clinic.

Rinehart says his chief nemesis is Tillamook County District Attorney Bill Porter. Law enforcement sources say Porter has made Rinehart’s prescribing practices a focus of his attention. Porter declined to be interviewed for this story.

The DEA, however, is the most formidable adversary Rinehart has yet faced.

The federal agents who showed up at the Rinehart Pharmacy on May 16 were armed with a search warrant that, for the first time, publicly documented suspicions that had long hovered over the clinic.

In its warrant, which is based in part on

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defiant doctor: Dr. Harry Rinehart says there’s a double standard in the crackdown on opiates, which were traditionally given primarily to terminal patients. “Why is it OK to treat people if they are going to die but not if they are going to live?”

“WE KNOW THAT THE clinic prescribes a lot of pain medication, and we’ve seen overdoses related to it.”—Tillamook County sheriff andy long

information an anonymous former pharmacy staffer provided, the DEA cited “the prescribing practices of the physicians at the Rinehart Clinic, including early filling of prescriptions, questionable medication combinations, out-of-state patients and a high volume of prescriptions written.”

(Rinehart is the only full-time doctor at the clinic.)

Rinehart calls those concerns “ridiculous.” He claims that he has significantly reduced the amount of pain medication he has prescribed over the past year.

Still, in the face of the federal investigation, he’s defiant.

“Hardly anybody else on the coast will treat these patients,” he says.

He says he has urged his chronic-pain patients to find other methods of coping, such as better diets, more exercise and greater social engagement.

R ineha r t says the crackdow n on prescription opiates is in some ways misguided.

“Some people just don’t feel the treatment of chronic pain is appropriate,” he says.

Rinehart says the crackdown on opiates is hypocritical given that only 2 percent of Americans are addicted to them while 30 percent have issues with alcohol.

He also notes that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs sold over the counter, such as Advil and Aleve, cause more than 16,000 deaths annually in the U.S., about the same number as prescription opioids.

“Where’s the outrage about Aleve?” he asks.

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n June 15, Rinehart made a rare trip to Portland to give a talk to a group of naturopaths about pain medication.

He cautioned his audience—not to quit prescribing pain meds, but to put their assets in trusts to protect themselves against lawsuits.

Some critics question whether part of Rinehart’s support for pain medication is financial. Pain and addiction patients are loyal customers of his clinic, and with the clinic’s ownership of a pharmacy and position adjacent to a nursing home, he’s got a vertically integrated business.

Rinehart lives in a $1 million home on 1.4 ridgetop acres purchased by his g ra nd father. His 3,200 -squa re-foot shingle-and-log home above Manzanita has a breathtaking view of the Pacific and Nehalem Bay.

But Rinehart insists his motivation has never been money. Rather, it is simply a different attitude about how to treat pain.

R i neha r t ha s t r ied to ret i re—he stepped down as medical director when his clinic celebrated its 100th birthday last year, but the doctor hired to replace him didn’t last. Rinehart retook the reins and is again searching for someone to take his place. One thing is for sure: The centurylong run of a Rinehart heading the clinic will end with him. Rinehart’s son works in the coffee business in Portland, and his daughter is an FBI profiler who works in Virginia.

His clinic also faces threats beyond the DEA investigation.

The Affordable Care Act has given previously uninsured patients—about 25 percent of Rinehart’s clientele—more choices. And competition is growing. For years, there were few alternatives to Rinehart in the 49 miles between Seaside and Tillamook. But in 2012, Adventist Health, which runs the Tillamook Regional Medical Center, opened a clinic in Manzanita— next to the driveway leading to Rinehart’s home.

Rinehart says he’ll keep soldiering on.

He’ll do so alone. His wife of 30 years, who was a nurse at his clinic, recently filed for divorce. He plans to continue carrying on his family’s mission, moving implacably like the Nehalem River, even if the tide shifts against him.

“Our goal is to be here for the next 100 years,” he says. “To take care of all of the people in need.”

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Of course Portland has high-level, competitive Hacky Sack. Considering our city is home to sizable Quidditch and unicycle scenes, you shouldn’t be surprised to see serious interest in the lunch-period pastime that brought together soccer guys, band geeks and the bad kids in a circle where they could hand-pass low-grade pot while knocking around a small beanbag.

But Hacky Sack—known to die-hards and intellectual-property lawyers as footbag—has grown to the point that there are two specialized branches. These days, few players can be competitive in both “freestyle” and “net” play.

We asked Chris Dean, a Portlander who placed eighth in freestyle routine at last year’s World Championships in Montreal and who is organizing this weekend’s U.S. Open Footbag Championships in West Linn, to explain the modern sport.

WW: What’s your background in footbag?

Chris Dean: I used to play Hacky Sack in high school when I lived in western New York. My friends and I never heard of footbag, and I thought I was the best at hack. You know, doing jesters and stalling it on my head and stuff like that. But in 2002, I was visiting a local college campus and saw these guys doing the craziest tricks I had ever seen, and stringing together dozens of hard tricks without dropping. My mind was blown. It looked nuts, and I honestly had to go home and watch slow-motion footbag videos to understand what was going on. I remember running up to those guys and saying they had to teach me how to do that. That summer, we drove up to my first freestyle tournament in Montreal, where freestylers were doing even more unbelievable stuff. I got to party with some of the world’s top players at that event, and ever since then I was hooked.

How is footbag different from Hacky Sack, or why do you shun the name Hacky Sack?

Well, we don’t necessarily shun the name Hacky Sack. I often say “hacking ” to refer to casual circle kicking. But Hacky Sack is a brand name owned by Wham-O, the same people who own Frisbee—another term for the flying disc. The official term has always been “footbag.”

Tell me about the Oregon roots of footbag.

Well, footbag as we know it began in Oregon City.

In 1972, Mike Marshall and John Stalberger sewed together a leather bean bag and began kicking it around as a way to rehabilitate a knee injury, calling the activity “hacking the sack.”

Wham-O began marketing it as Hacky Sack, and it spread all over the country. The athletic disciplines of net [kicking an object over a 5-foot-high net similar to volleyball] and freestyle [doing tricks] grew out of that original activity.

Who’s the Pelé of footbag?

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active players, Honza Weber of the Czech Republic is unquestionably the favorite to win any tournament he attends. Portland has its share of elite players, too. Notably, Nick Landes is a freestyle superstar who is defending his title as U.S. champion. As for net, that’s probably Ken Shults of Oregon. He will be defending his U.S. title from last year as well.

So what are the various events at the championships?

First, there are freestyle events, which are judged subjectively. There are two main freestyle events. Circle contest looks similar to your traditional hack circle, except the players get their own turns with the footbag to do a combo or string of tricks. Play moves from one competitor to the next, and when you drop, you pass the bag on. The winner of each circle is decided based on criteria like difficulty and variety of tricks. The other main event is routines, where each individual gets two minutes to perform a choreographed routine to music. Then there’s net, which is similar to volleyball or badminton, except with a hard leather ball you kick over the net. Players often execute aerial spikes and play in fast-paced volleys. It’s pretty exciting.

Does everyone do both, or are some competitors just into freestyle?

Most people just specialize in either net or freestyle. The two disciplines have progressed to the point where it’s too difficult to keep up with both. It’s a pretty exciting time in the sport: The average level of play is higher than ever, and people are executing tricks that were thought to be impossible 10 years ago.

Does the competitive aspect harsh the vibes at all?

No way. There have definitely been friendly rivalries, but it’s a small enough community that we’re all friends. In freestyle, we all want people to take it to the next level. That’s what motivates us.

GO: The U.S. Open Footbag Championships are at Willamette Park, 1100 12th St., West Linn, on Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29. 10 am-dusk. For more information, visit footbag. org/events/show/1386623061.

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CLINT DEMPSEY’S BELLY FOR MVP. POT BOILING OVER: Get those bikes ready for a ride across the river. Main Street Marijuana expects to become the first recreational marijuana store in Washington’s Clark County within the first two weeks of July, according to The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver. Main Street is among the first round of 20 to 30 marijuana stores expected to be licensed by the state in the next few weeks. Still, Brian Stroh at CannaMan Farms, Clark County’s only licensed marijuana grower, says not to get too excited just yet. “I haven’t filled any orders,” he told WW. Not because stores wouldn’t buy them, but because Stroh doesn’t know which stores will actually open first. He doesn’t have enough pot to spare for stores that won’t open. “It’s all still our test crops,” Stroh says of the product currently available from CannaMan and other growers. “We’re essentially starting from scratch here.” August is when he expects licensed marijuana producers to catch up to the demand for weed. Until then?

“Don’t expect to find much on the shelf.” Due to this scarcity, Main Street manager Ramsey Hamide pegs the initial price for weed at $20 to $25 a gram ($567 to $709 an ounce).

BLUE CHRISTMAS: Camaron Azul, the Gresham mariscos restaurant that last year took over the 1721 SE 122nd Ave. space once occupied by beloved ceviche spot Puerto Marquez, has already quietly changed hands and names, becoming a “Cuban-Mexican” restaurant named Luna Azul in April. But Diubel NavarroGonzalez, one of two coowners filing for a liquor license at the newly dubbed restaurant, has been in the NAVARRO-GONZALEZ news for entirely different reasons. He was arrested by Washington County sheriff ’s deputies early Christmas morning on charges he repeatedly stabbed the ex-husband of his girlfriend at a Christmas Eve party. He’s pleaded not guilty to first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon and is scheduled to stand trial July 29.

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CARTLOADS OF CARTS: Following news that Cartopia, Good Food Here, North Station and the Southwest 6th Avenue and Columbia Street pods all plan to close this year, two new pods announced this week they will open. Tidbit Food Farm and Garden plans to start a pod at Southeast Division Street and 28th Avenue, anchored by an outpost of Northeast Alberta’s Thicket nursery. It’ll pick up a number of carts from Good Food Here and the Portland State pod, including Namu, Brazilian House, E-San Thai and—perhaps most important—the Scout Beer Garden. Meanwhile, drinkers at vegan bar Sweet Hereafter can soon duck into an alleyway for an illicit hot dog. Rockin’ Robyn’s Sassy Burger and sausage slingers Port Dawgs will resurrect a defunct cart pod at 3423 SE Belmont St. The Belmont Street Eats pod plans to offer community events, movie nights and a kids’ playhouse.

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE [MUSIC] The new face of jazz trumpet isn’t afraid to buck tradition: His first album featured breakbeats and opera singers, and his latest, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint, owes more to Radiohead and Debussy than it does to classic swing. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7:30 pm. $15 general admission, $20 guaranteed seating. 7:30 pm. All ages until 9:30 pm.

THURSDAY JUNE 26 J.A.W.Z. THE MUSICAL IN 3D [THEATER] Back in January 2013, Portland’s Saloon Ensemble began transforming Jaws into a live-stage musical. From that lone sketch grew an evening-length adaptation, suitable for all ages, that features a neurotic shark with shades of Woody Allen, video-art projection and musical numbers. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 9 pm. $15-$20.

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When the U.S. talks independence, we say it in explosions. Heck, even our national anthem is mostly about things blowing up. In the days leading up to July 4, rule-abiding native Oregonians cross the river to obtain illegal airborne bombs that will be drunkenly detonated at late hours in residential neighborhoods.

As many Portlanders prepare for that jingoistic and unsustainable affair, our northern neighbors will be quietly holding a low-key celebration of their undying loyalty to the Crown we shunned so long ago. Yes, Canada has its own Fourth of July.

Because of the metric system, Canada’s July 4 is held on July 1.

It’s nothing so boastful as an Independence Day. Canada Day, called “Dominion Day” until 1982, celebrates the merger of three British colonies into one British supercolony, the largest colony ever seen.

Perhaps Americans can learn something from our neighbors. We’ve compiled a list of traditions from the world’s second-largest nation (by area).

God save the queen and bless her benevolent rule over her loyal and peaceable Canadian subjects.

Drink a maple syrup toast to baby George, prince of Canada.

And to all future princes of Canada.

That little baby and his future issue will rule the land.

Play all your Tragically Hip records back-to-back at a reasonable volume.

“Bobcaygeon”! “Blow at High Dough”!

“Greasy Jungle”! There’s a reason these gents have 14 Juno Awards.

Buy gas with Canadian Tire money.

Canada’s alternate currency for everything from fine Canadian petroleum to men’s casual wear to a high-quality griller-cooker. Seven hundred dollars in Canadian Tire money is a pretty good offer on a trailer. The money was first issued by the king of Canada, a kindly old Scottish man, in 1958, to reward his subjects for loyalty.

Fight for the Maple Crown.

Each Canada Day, all Canadian children between the ages of 6 and 12 are separated into French-speaking and English-speaking groups. After attaching pillows to their ears, they then take part in a round-robin fistfight tournament, with the winner receiving the “Maple Crown.”

Put on the “ice pants.”

As a way of celebrating Canadian hardiness in the face of extreme cold,

Canadians place their next day’s underwear in the freezer June 30. If anyone is caught forgetting, they are given the “ice wedgie,” which is best left unexplained.

Visit the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier… …and keep in mind he’s probably there because of American adventurism.

Watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

The epic tale of the Dominion and the Founders, who must constantly morph identities to protect themselves against the Imperialist Federation at their borders, has long been understood as a sympathetic allegory for Canada. Avert your eyes at significant moments.

Take part in re-enactments of the great battles of Canadian independence.

These are mostly bar fights in Saskatchewan. After seven Molsons, they all kind of blur together.

Eat the Canada Day meal.

Flipper pie! Made with fresh-clubbed seals!

Take part in the Running of the Seals.

Much like the Running of the Bulls festivities in Pamplona, Spain, except instead of running away from the seals, Canadians chase after them. With clubs.

GO: Canada’s Fourth of July is held on July 1, because of the metric system. Also, to the best of our knowledge, none of these traditions are real.

DEAN WAREHAM [MUSIC] The dream-pop genius’s first solo record doesn’t veer far from his seminal outfits Galaxie 500 and Luna: These are elegiac, funny and warm songs, filled with his undeniable guitar playing and atmospheric production courtesy of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James.

Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 3282865. 10 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY JUNE 30 BLACK MILK [MUSIC] Motor City MC-producer Curtis Cross is a traditionalist at heart, eschewing trap rap in favor of classic boom-bap beats. He’s no mere throwback, though: Glitches in the Break, his latest EP, crackles with dark energy, setting his laid-back fl ow among a labyrinth of vinyl pops and ghostly soul samples. Alhambra Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 610-0640. 9 pm. $12 advance, $16 day of show.

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TUESDAY JULY 1 NERD NITE: THINKY & THE BRAIN [LECTURE] Two big-deal academics talk about the brain. One will discuss animal emotions, and the other will frighten you with accounts of how traumatic brain injury affects the frontal cortex—in turn damaging your ability to think rationally.

Meanwhile, you’ll down a few pints and experience some neural impairment of your own. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 2385588. 7 pm. $8-$10.

POWERPOINT KARAOKE [COMEDY] Five comedians have been tasked with creating silly PowerPoint presentations. At the event, the slide shows are reassigned. Thought you were going to discuss conspiracy theories? Time to talk astrology. If all goes according to plan, these will be the best worst TED Talks you’ve ever seen.

Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. 2397639. 8:30 pm. Free.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 26 Sake Fest PDX

Ah, Sake Fest. 130 sakes and plum wines, plus little dishes and pairings from some of the best Japanese and Japanese-influenced spots around, including Hokusei, Yama, Yakuza and Biwa. It’s a pleasant thing—and given that all food and drink are included in the $50 price, not much more than you’d spend getting dinner at any of those places and then grabbing drinks. And as for those rare sakes and jizakes? You might not end up seeing them again. Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 6-9:30 pm. $50 advance, $60 at the door. 21+.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Baerlic Brewing Grand Opening

Yes, another brewery and taproom is cracking its doors in Portland, in an already beery Division Street neighborhood that’s home to Apex and BeerMongers. Baerlic will have five brews to start—an IPA, an oatmeal stout, a cream ale, a brown and an “ultra summer ale”—but brewers Ben Parsons and Richard Hall will also be uncorking a five-spot of playground beers made with bourbon and cocoa nibs and beech wood and fruit. They’ll also be offering a brewery tour, with live music from Maris Otter and pizza from TasteBud. Baerlic Brewing, 2235 SE 11th Ave., 477-9418, baerlicbrewing. com. 4 pm.

Hawthorne Evening Market

Yeah, farmers markets are nice and all, but there’s a major issue: They require you to get up early to get there before all the really fun stuff is sold out. Enter the new, weekly Hawthorne Evening Market, tailor-made for the hangover schedules of all the neighborhood gluten-free beer drinkers. Aside from the stalwart Ancient Heritage Dairy, the vendors switch around a bit from Saturday to Saturday. On this particular Saturday, the market will supplement fruits and cheese with booze from Stone Barn Brandyworks and mead from Nectar Creek. Take note that the market is somewhat misleadingly named in regard to geography: It’s in Trinket’s parking lot on Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard. Trinket, 2035 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 477-4252. 4-7:30 pm.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Italian Sunday Feast

Ava Gene’s and chef Joshua McFadden will be hosting a traditional Italian Sunday dinner as a benefit for the ever-impending James Beard Public Market, Portland’s theoretical heir to Seattle’s Pike Place Market. What’s an Italian Sunday dinner? Pretty much what you’d expect. It’s an Italian dinner—starters, pasta, meats, side dishes and dessert—except that it’s all served family-style and passed around the table, and in this case paired with wine from the Eyrie Vineyards. Go to jbpm-avagenes.bpt.me for reservations. Ava Gene’s, 3377 SE Division St., 971-229-0571. Noon-3 pm. $150.

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Artisan. The crust is the problem: It’s well-made but indistinctive, thin, crackery and lacking elasticity and tang. The sauce is simple, bright and fresh, but lightly applied, which left the basic Montavilla has long been home to some of PortMargherita unmemorable. land’s better pizza. To my mind, at least. Flying Some of the pies seem light on toppings—the Pie makes excellent classic pizzeria pies, modpeppers and capicola ($14 small, $26 large) were erately thick and covered in a blanket of salty lost under a blanket of bitter arugula—while othprocessed mozzarella and a slick of bright red ers, like the sausage, ricotta and olive ($14 small, pepperoni grease. $26 large), were extremely rich, topped with But now that Montavillans own homes that are generous crumbles of sausage and fluffy ricotta worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and most lumps as large as walnuts. of the hookers have migrated north to Parkrose, The most exciting part of the menu, for me, the neighborhood has developed more sophistiwas a few oddities, including pepperoni rolls ($3) cated tastes. And thus, a grateful embrace of East and a dessert of peanut butter pineGlisan Pizza Lounge, which tops apple rice pudding.

Neapolitan-style dough with Order this: Sausage pizza The pepperoni rolls aren’t great: The and green salad. rapini, Calabrian peppers and secret to a West Virginia-style pepI’ll pass: Pepperoni rolls, roasted eggplant. capicola pizza. peroni roll is using as much low-grade The dimly lit East Glisan pepperoni as bread dough, but you’d is indeed a lounge. Roughly have to squeeze this pale dough tube to get any half the seating is bar stools or couches, and the grease to drip out. front sidewalk is home to a fleet of those rugged The rice pudding, on the other hand, was interwooden picnic tables where smokers huddle outesting. We basically had to beg the waitress to side Portland dive bars. It’s all ’90s classics on bring it (“It’s a hard sell,” she said), and unfortuthe radio: early Wilco and Liz Phair, midcareer nately it was neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm.

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But the ambitious and novel flavor combination From the short list of appetizers, go for the kept my attention through the bowl. meatballs ($7), which crumble into large pieces of I’d like to see East Glisan take more such risks. ground pork and onion under glowing red mariAs for thick piles of pepperoni, I already have a nara, shaved Parmesan and whole basil leaves. favorite spot nearby. MARTIN CIZMAR. The green salad ($5), a massive pile of greens in a salty herb vinaigrette, will happily serve two.

EAT: East Glisan Pizza Lounge, 8001 NE Glisan The pies are uniformly good, though they St., 971-279-4273, eastglisan.com. 4 pm-midnight don’t yet stand up to Apizza Scholls or Ken’s Tuesday-Sunday.

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Three’s company, too: You can get three sausages and a few forkfuls of sauerkraut for $14 (a great deal since a single sausage is $8) on the hausgemachte wurst plate. The juicy brat was our favorite, but it’s more fun if you also split the weisswurst and knackwurst. (But take note that according to Bavarian legend, if you eat weisswurst after noon, you will lose your hair.) The trout is a little small for three people, so instead opt for the jägerschnitzel ($15), pork loin with umamiintense mushroom gravy, crispy fried spätzle and a big heap of stewy red cabbage. If you’ve got big flavors and lots of meat, it’s a good time to explore the banana- and clove-heavy wheat beers, like the dark, caramelly Maisel’s Dunkel Weisse ($5.25 for a half liter) or the fruity Andechs Weissbier ($5.50 for a half liter).

At Stammtisch, you want numbers. The new German tavern from the proprietors of North Mississippi Avenue’s Prost doesn’t demand it—a couple can get a very date-night meal seated on the square wooden bar stools—but the experience feels so much more full when you’re crammed between friends drinking an imported German hefeweizen emblazoned with the logo of a brewhouse founded a half-century before Columbus set sail. The dim and clubby Stammtisch is the order this: Currywurst ($5), forelle kind of place where you spot an ($15), kartoffelpuffer ($5). acquaintance ambling up to the i’ll pass: Hamburger, maultaschen.

Double date: Open with the door, excited to meet him with Best deal: Currywurst ($5), french generously appointed meat and a handshake and show him fries ($5). cheese plate, called brotzeit over to your heavy oaken table teller ($12), which has two for a Bitburger. little rolls, pickles, radishes, With that said, you might now be able to soft salami, bierwurst, rabbit liver mousse and round up eight people for your next trip to this little hunks of cheese. There’s one large cup of cozy above-ground rathskeller in Kerns. Here’s spicy yellow mustard on the side, which works what to get for groups of various sizes: wonders on the sausages but doesn’t pair well Lone wolf: The currywurst ($6) alone would with the cheese. You might want the bretzel ($5), be reason to drop in. It’s a pork-veal sausage, a buttered pretzel with mustard, paprika cheese grilled and sliced, with a few extra crispy french and schmaltz. Steer your tablemates away from fries and a outrageously rich curry ketchup that the underwhelming-but-for-the-ultra-fluffy-bun I all but licked out of the paper serving boat on burger ($11), or the fried maultaschen ($8), which my first encounter. It’s the best currywurst I’ve were a riff on fried mac ’n’ cheese—dry and salty had in Portland and, according to a former Ber- butter-fried pasta stuffed with tiny bits of ground lin resident in our party, damn near as good as pork and arugula. (The current version includes they come on the street in the old country. Since asparagus and oyster mushrooms.) you’re alone, no one will take note of you spending more on beer than food, so keep it in the Hauptstadt with Berlin’s pricey but wonderful Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse ($7 for 0.3 liters).

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough

[AMERICANA] Fresh off a Grammy win for Best Americana Album for last year’s Emmylou Harris duet, Old Yellow Moon, Rodney Crowell returns under his own name with Tarpaper Sky. Given that only four of Moon’s tunes were penned by Crowell, and that his previous album was written entirely in collaboration with novelist Mary Karr (and performed with a guest cast including Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones and others), Crowell has built up a reserve of strong songs to let loose on his first solo outing in six years. To help air them, he’s reconvened the backing band that served him so well on his hit-making 1988 breakthrough album, Diamonds & Dirt. Be sure not to miss top-flight opening act Will Kimbrough.

JEFF ROSENBERG. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show.

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Young Widows, White Reaper

[BAR BURNERS] Nobody ever said that only metal could be heavy. The fuzzed-out, remorseful tunes of Kentucky’s Young Widows are plenty heavy, even though the trio doesn’t sport corpse paint or a double bass drum. Most recent album Easy Pain is groovy, dark and bludgeoning: Evan Patterson’s whiskey-soaked vocals paint pained tales of broken people, while the guitar and bass smolder beneath the surface and drums crash in like bricks through a window. It’s a thrillingly grim, weirdly hypnotic spectacle, like watching a fire slowly consume a building. SAM CUSUMANO. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 10 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, 1939 Ensemble, Point Juncture WA

[CUMBIA] Portland is a long way from Colombia, in ways that don’t just pertain to geography. But the sweltering coastal environment that birthed the infectious rhythm of cumbia doesn’t feel all that foreign when pumped out by local Latin American dance machine Orquestra Pacifico Tropical. Headed by omnipresent drummer-about-town Papi Fimbres, the 11-piece ensemble is probably the only cumbia orchestra in town (if not the entire Northwest), but that doesn’t stop it from being the best. Though it’s an act best experienced live, OPT’s self-titled, self-released debut manages to capture the humid, jungle-party vibe of its shows. Featuring nine covers and one original, the record is fairly traditionalist in terms of arrangements and instrumentation—heavy on the percussion, horns, accordion and group vocals, with occasional psychedelic organ and fuzz-tone guitars nodding toward chicha, the idiom’s Peruvian spinoff—but the rough, livein-a-basement feel of the recording gives it a uniquely Pacific Northwest edge. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663.

9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 26 Dean Wareham, Parson Redheads

[DREAM-POP MAVERICK] Though Dean Wareham has been crafting some of the most breathtaking dreampop jams of the past 30 years, he has never, until now, released music under his own name. Fans need not worry: His new, self-titled solo record doesn’t veer far from seminal outfits Galaxie

500 and Luna, as well as recent recordings with his wife as Dean and Britta. These are elegiac, funny and warm songs, filled with his undeniable guitar playing and a dense cloud of atmospheric production courtesy of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James.

There are even a couple of relatively brisk tracks here, including the catchy “Holding Pattern,” driven by a fluid bassline and solid key work, and the torch-song finale “Happy & Free”—an appropriate title, given how loose Wareham sounds on this set. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Joan Baez, Indigo Girls

[FOLKY FEMALES] Besides being a generation- and genre-defining artist, earning a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and being perhaps the only woman to see both Bob Dylan and Steve Jobs naked, Joan Baez inspired a multitude of female singer-songwriters to step up to the mic. One such act was the Indigo Girls, the folky, Georgia duo known, like Baez, for social activism as much as its music. It will be a powerful night of folk ballads, rich harmonizing and social justice crooning on the lawn. GRACE STAINBACK. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. $39-$75. All ages.

The Von Trapps, Three for Silver

[WORLDLY WONDER] It’s like the nonfiction version of White Christmas: A family of Austrian performers settles in a rundown farm in Stowe, Vt., only to spruce it up and begin entertaining on the grounds. The Von Trapps’ story was relied upon in the making of The Sound of Music, another classic you may have heard of. The family’s current generation operates as a quartet, touring the world on the heels of a rich musical tradition. The group has relocated to Portland and just finished a collaborative record, Dream a Little Dream, with Pink Martini, recorded at Kung Fu Bakery Studios. There’s nothing the Von Trapps can’t make adorable, from European folk songs to Japanese ballads. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.

Ash Borer, Hell, Ephemeros, and L’acephale

[DRONE METAL] Reverberant ambiance may seem like an odd flourish among the bludgeoning sonics of traditional metal, but Portland’s Ash Borer makes a compelling case for the slow-burning dread of ghost notes in the framework of PacNW doom metal.

Tremulous guitars swirl around battering-ram percussion like a toxic fog, slowly creeping into consciousness until the smoldering remains of feedback are all that’s left. PETE COTTELL. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

King Khan & the Shrines

[FUNK ’N’ SOUL] The multicultural whirlwind that is King Khan has so slyly insinuated funk and soul into the sleazy garage rock that he came up on it’s mystifying. Since taking a break from his collaboration with BBQ (a.k.a.

Mark Sultan) a few years back, the Shrines have become the prime outlet for KK’s fascination with the 1960s.

Blanketing his big-band proclivities are lyrically obtuse stories about this awful world. Orchestration, as presented on last year’s Idle No More, shields listeners from some of the fouler moments, but that just makes the entire project seem more genuinely ripped from ’60s

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HEAR NO SCREAMO OUR BLIND TASTE TEST OF THIS YEAR’S WARPED TOUR LINEUP.

By MATTHe W SIn GeR

msinger@wweek.com

The Warped Tour is less like a fine wine than a gummy bear stuck in a car’s ashtray: The more it ages, the more unrecognizable it becomes. If you’re of a certain generation and grew up with a predilection for music of the fast-and-angry variety, the day the traveling punk-rock carnival came through your town was always the peak of your summer. Going back now is like revisiting your childhood playground: It’s nothing like you

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remember. Who are all these bands? Why are there so many dubstep DJs? Who let the Army set up a booth here? Is this really what’s considered “punk” these days?

But then, maybe we’re just too beholden to our memories. If we played some of these bands’ music, sight unseen, would we think of them differently?

To find out, we organized a panel, made up of WW music writers outside the Warped demographic (i.e., we’re all old enough to drink and vote), to conduct a “blind listening test” of this year’s crop of performers. To keep to the festival’s bread and butter, we selected only those artists identified by some variant of “punk” or “hardcore” on the tour’s website—33 of the 80-plus acts. Our top five and bottom five are presented here, as judged with a sophisticated 1-to-100 scoring system. You can find where the others ranked, along with our listener comments, at wweek.com.

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Sample song: “Black Sap Scriptures” Score: 77.8 With mutant surf guitars, convulsive post-punk rhythms and a singer with the squirmy, live-wire presence of the Cramps’ Lux Interior, these guys would’ve been the highlight of the tour in 1998, let alone now. This is also the band most likely to make disparaging remarks about a corporate sponsor from the stage and get docked its per diem.

Comments: “This band has too much groove for the Warped Tour.” “No one will understand.”

Courage My Love

Sample song: “Bridges” Score: 66.8 Like Tegan and Sara for a crowd not yet old enough to grasp The Hunger Games, Canadian sisters Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn (plus some Hot Topic stock boy on bass) play pop punk infused with a sense of melodrama that’s authentically adolescent rather than a genre put-on.

Comments: “Disney Channel punk.” “Why doesn’t Best Coast sound like this?”

Saves the Day

Sample song: “At Your Funeral” Score: 66.8 C’mon, this wasn’t going to sneak past a room of 30-year-old lapsed emo kids unnoticed. Even if we were biased by sheer recognition, these New Jersey lifers come off like the Replacements in this lineup.

Comments: “More spiky bangs, probably a tux shirt or ironic tie.” “Emo just before its balls drop.”

Four Year Strong

Sample song: “It Must Really Suck to Be Four Year Strong Right Now” Score: 64.5 Having formed in 2001, this band is officially on “Old Creeper at the High School Party” status, but its socalled “melodic hardcore” is refreshingly free of digitized polish, growled choruses and asymmetrical haircuts.

Comments: “Singer sounds like an adult, at least.” “Did he just say he has a ‘master pterodactyl’? Dude rules.”

A Skylit Drive

Sample song: “All It Takes for Your Dreams to Come True” Score: 62.8 A eunuch, a nu-metal rhythm section and Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds walk into a recording studio. You won’t believe what happens next.

Comments: “Tangy with a bland finish.” “Those drums, though.”

Secrets

Sample song: “Somewhere in Hiding” Score: 22.5 Apparently, what the kids want these days is a band that’s half One Direction, half malfunctioning garbage disposal, and it doesn’t matter how jarringly it pivots between those two points.

Comments: “None of these dudes can hang on to a girlfriend. So he gets angry. Then sad again. :(” “This guy is def a virgin.”

Neck Deep

Sample song: “What Did You Expect?”

Score: 22.2 Leave it to a band of Welshmen posing as SoCal skate punks to overstep the thin line between emodude self-pity and noxious slut-shaming: “You went and fucked this up/ ’Cause you couldn’t keep your legs shut.” Blech.

Comments: “Sausage-fest time.”

The City Shakeup

Sample song: “Silence” Score: 20.5 A likely victim of ear fatigue more than anything else, these soft-hearted Aussie bros are too dishwater to warrant this low of a ranking. On the other hand, being generic rather than hilariously awful is its own sort of crime.

Comments: “Can’t think anymore. Losing hope.”

Cute Is What We Aim For

Sample song: “The Curse of Curves” Score: 17.3 According to its Wikipedia page, the band has had trouble maintaining members, no doubt because they keep spontaneously combusting from the shame of being in a band called Cute Is What We Aim For. Comments: “Mind: blown.”

Close Your Eyes

Sample song: “Song for the Broken” Score: 16.2 When Warped completes its transition into an aggro Christian sleep-away camp, all that will be left are groups like this.

Comments: “Linkin Park but with growling instead of rapping.”

SEE IT: The Vans Warped Tour is at the Portland Expo Center parking lot, 2060 N Marine Drive, on Sunday, June 29. 10 am. $36. All ages. See vanswarpedtour.com for complete lineup.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 27 Quiet Music Festival

[SHHH!-CORE] Now in its fourth year, Quiet Music Festival is billed as “a community listening experience,” built around tremblingly delicate performances that force attendees to pay attention—though as founder Chris Johanson says, “sleeping is encouraged.” This year’s lineup includes American Music Club’s Mark Eitzel, ex-Mekons member Sally Timms and a collaboration between drummer Neal Morgan and synthsage Pulse Emitter. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave. 8 pm. $8 per day, $15 for both days in advance; $10 per day, $18 for both days the day of show. All ages. Through June 28.

Musee Mecanique, Billygoat, Us Lights

[ANTIQUE METAL MACHINE MUSIC] When it comes to production, Portland’s Musée Mécanique emphasizes patience and craft. Its sound is timeless and imaginatively evocative, built with finely composed layers of wispy vocals and instruments, including strings, brass, woodwinds, glockenspiel, old synthesizers, keyboards and saws. Unsurprisingly, the band takes its time in the recording studio: From the Shores of Sleep, slated for release on Tender Loving Empire this August, is its first album in six years. The group is in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to finalize its manufacturing and production, and will preview some of those new tracks tonight. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Closer PDX Presents: Truncate, JAK, Andrew Boie, Tracy Why

[TECHNO] Though his hypermodern logo and the still-unfamiliar sounds of techno may not seem to agree, L.A. techno producer David Flores is absolutely a retroist. Perhaps tiring of eight years of big-room releases under the name Audio Injection, Flores started Truncate in 2011, and the project has the ambiguousness (the name is both a label and Flores’ alias) and visual style (many releases are simple white labels with hand-stamped names) of first-wave techno, with the simple, pounding kraut rhythms of millennial Berlin. There is, however, the influence of modern bass music creeping in, most recently on Truncate’s Pressurize EP, just released on Modeselektor’s 50Weapons label.

MITCH LILLIE. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Pharoahe Monch, 9th Wonder, Rapsody

[MONARCH WITHOUT THE A&R] Pharoahe Monch is part of a dying breed. The 41-year-old rapper is one of the few dudes who can get you dancing to a jam featuring a hook from the late Nate Dogg one moment, then turn and deliver sobering tales about the evils of drug addiction the next. Monch has always been the cerebral type, captivating listeners with social messages and the complexity of his delivery. His latest album, PTSD, is on the more serious side of things, but Monch’s tongue-twisting storytelling keeps things from becoming overwhelmingly depressing. SAM CUSUMANO. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Killah Priest, Codell, Poe-Addict, Kinetic Emcees, Thunderkatz, Deve the Baker, Cheese Mann

[FORGOTTEN WU] It’s easy to forget now, but once upon a time, Killah Priest was almost something of a star in the world of NYC hiphop. The Wu-Tang Clan affiliate had

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what was essentially a solo song on GZA’s immortal Liquid Swords (still the best Wu-Tang solo joint) and a featured verse on “4th Chamber.”

His first album, 1998’s Heavy Mental, peaked at a respectable No. 24 on the Billboard charts back when people actually bought CDs. He formed C-list rap supergroup the HRSMN with Ras Kass, Kurupt and Canibus. Then people realized that his work was really just JudeoChristian-Islamic mythology recast as street rap; that rhyming alongside a didgeridoo is never cool; and that you’ll never really be famous when you fall asleep in the studio while you’re supposed to be recording a career-making verse on “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’” (seriously, that actually happened). But more than a decade later, Killah Priest is still hustling. 2013’s The Psychic World of Walter Reed features guest appearances from Ghostface, Raekwon, George Clinton and at least 10 other reminders of why late’90s hip-hop was so great. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show, $20 VIP. 21+.

The Thermals, Summer Cannibals, the Ghost Ease

[SPEEDY PUNK] It doesn’t take long to catch up on the Thermals’ discography. In fact, it takes a mere 3.5 hours to run through the entirety of the band’s six studio albums, each teeming with blistering, twominute cuts of pure, unadulterated punk rock. Frontman Hutch Harris’ polished howl has hardly changed since he began examining questions of faith, relationships and, in the case of the trio’s latest LP, American warmongering more than a decade ago. With its heavy

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distortion and bold mission statements, last year’s Desperate Ground doesn’t break new ground, but it does offer the consistency you come to expect from this Portland institution. BRANDON WIDDER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7:30 pm. $12. All ages.

Houndstooth, Susan, Sartorial Excess

[HAZY SURF POP] It’s no secret that the Oregon Coast lacks the warmth typically associated with the sun-soaked beaches that inspired ’60s surf rock. Good thing, then, that we have a band like Houndstooth to capture what a trip to our local beaches might sound like—light and fun, definitely, but also drenched in a gentle gray haze. The group’s most recent effort, 2013’s Ride Out the Dark, finds the five-piece expanding its established surf influence, delicately balancing distorted lead guitar and acoustic interplay among singer Katie Bernstein’s breezy croon. The songs are often layered in reverb and light, laidback percussion, but the music is far from dreary, instead offering groovy, twanged-out touches of color that dissipate the fog along with Bernstein’s bright, delicate voice. KAITIE TODD. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.

Steve Winwood, Cris Jacobs

[UNEXPECTED SOUL] Over the course of four decades, Steve Winwood has been the kind of prodigy who never slows down.

Though he first belted blue-eyed soul and laid down Hammond organ for the Spencer Davis Group when he was 14 years old, he later pinballed between bands and worked as a session musician for the likes of

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HOOK & ANCHOR

BY BRANDON WIDDER

Who: Kati Claborn (guitar, banjo, ukulele, vocals), Gabrielle Macrae (violin, vocals), Ryan Dobrowski (drums), Erik Clampitt (guitar, pedal steel, vocals), Luke Ydstie (bass, vocals).

Sounds like: A rootsy, Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac. For fans of: The Civil Wars, Blind Pilot, George Jones, Tom Petty.

Why you care: When your entire band encompasses notable sidemen and women who’ve all been stockpiling tunes for a few years, ego isn’t going to be much of an issue. Hook and Anchor consists of three-sixths of Blind Pilot, with guitarist Erik Clampitt and violinist Gabrielle Macrae rounding out the quintet, and though the group centers on singer Kati Claborn, in terms of songwriting, it is a true democracy.

“I don’t think that any of us want to be full-time frontmen,” says bassist Luke Ydstie. “I’ve seen that happen and it’s just hard— though Kati is pretty good at it.”

While the band started as a one-off act assembled to play the San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival in February, the five members soon found themselves booking gigs on the car ride home and looking into live tracking their forthcoming, self-titled debut. The Portland-via-Astoria band is deeply rooted in oldtime music and early country. Macrae’s cross-tuned fiddle glides throughout the 12 tracks, set to clawhammer banjo and dense vocal harmonies that hover above twanged electric guitar and spare piano. Claborn penned many of the tracks over the course of several years, but three other songwriters contribute as well, often borrowing from and expanding on lyrics from traditional American numbers such as “Buffalo Gals” and Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times,” with a less male-centric twist.

“Many of the songs took on a whole new light in the studio,” Claborn says. “Everything through the filter of us as musicians and people is going to have a continuity. The songs feel like they belong together. We didn’t want to put limits—to say, ‘We’re not that kind of band.’”

SEE IT: Hook and Anchor plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Cataldo and Barna Howard, on Friday, June 27. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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Hendrix, fronted traffic and formed supergroup Blind Faith in between.

His mid-’80s solo career even produced a couple of synth-laden pop hits (“Higher Love”), but it was his bluesy return to form on 2008’s Nine Lives that served as a reminder of why he remains one of England’s remarkable voices. BRAnDon WIDDER. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. $43-$75. 21+.

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[WIGoUt At ARt ScHooL] Indie rock’s foremost fantasy sports aficionado (and occasional writer of brilliant, off-kilter slacker-soul jams) plays a benefit for the oregon college of Art and craft. OCAC Campus, 8245 SW Barnes Rd., ocacconcert.com. 8 pm. $50 general admission, $100 preferred seating, $250 VIP. All ages.

Kissing Party, Shaddowhouse, Lunch

[LIFE SUX, So WHAt?] With a blase, born-in-the-’90s attitude, Kissing Party’s songs of rejection and loss are emotional without being frustrated. Poppy and quick a la early Vampire Weekend, this Denver four-piece touches upon melodramatic love affairs in an upbeat tempo. Darker but also seemingly unaffected by their sordid reality, local post-punk goths Shadowhouse play bass-driven new Wave, while Lunch ties up the “life’s a wreck” vibe while also brightening things up with driving guitar that breaks for quirky solos and expressive vocals. LYLA RoWEn. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

The Weather Machine, Willow House, Blanco

[InDIE FoLK] Local indie outfit the Weather Machine had a brief brush with Internet fame last year with its video for “Back o’er oregon,” which has garnered more than 60,000 views since its release last December. the ambitious project involved traveling to all 185 of oregon’s state parks, and the sixpiece offers a fitting soundtrack to the lush greenery and gray rainclouds shown throughout. As for the song itself, deep, lilting cello rises and falls below a plucky, folkinfluenced acoustic guitar that is at once bright and nostalgic. Most of the tunes on Weather Machine’s self-titled debut are like this: very minimal, very sweet and highlighted

by Slater Smith’s low, infectious drawl. KAItIE toDD. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810.

9:30 pm. $8. 21+.

SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Cherry Glazerr, the Shivas, Lovecop, Joel Jerome

[RocK-’n’-RoLL HIGH ScHooL] Recognition came pretty quickly to ethereal garage-pop trio cherry Glazerr. the L.A.-based group was picked up almost immediately after forming by hip indie label Burger Records. they were chosen to soundtrack a Saint Laurent fashion show in Paris, and had a song featured on the cW show Arrow. Amid all its wild successes, the group still sounds young, sonically and lyrically—which makes sense, considering a majority of the group’s members have yet to graduate high school. If cherry Glazerr can do this much now, imagine the accomplishments it’ll rack up once its members are old enough to buy beer. ASHLEY JocZ. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

Minus the Bear, Slow Bird, Dust Moth

[EMPHAtIc MAtHEMAtIcS] Seattle’s Minus the Bear got pegged as “math-y” in its early years, but the quintet’s fusion of pogo-ready hooks and twitchy prog-rock tendencies elevated it to old-guard emo scenesters a decade after they

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AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 Two years ago, Ambrose Akinmusire was New York’s next jazz hero. With a major-label contract under his belt, he was turning heads with his fiery, angular trumpet improvisations, appearing on tracks with Esperanza Spalding and headlining shows at Carnegie Hall.

Then, just as his buzz was reaching fever pitch, the 32-year-old trumpeter packed up and moved to L.A. For Akinmusire, heading to California was just one more left turn in a career full of them. While jazz purists preach a doctrine of walking basslines and finger-snapping swing, Akinmusire has done whatever he feels, whether it’s including opera singers and breakbeats on his first album or abandoning the Big Apple.

“I’m just being Ambrose, and I’m trying to be creative every second of the day,” he says.

And besides, he’s always been a West Coaster at heart. A native of Oakland, Akinmusire was a wunderkind who went on his first tour at age 19. His third album, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint, is his biggest sonic undertaking yet, a record that arguably owes more to Radiohead and Debussy than it does to classic swing.

In addition to his core quintet, Akinmusire recruited a string quartet, woodwinds and guitar for the project. He also brought in three vocalists: avant-folk chanteuse Becca Stevens, gritty balladeer Cold Specks and singer-composer Theo Bleckmann. While he reveres trumpet greats like Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, Akinmusire says he models the sound of his instrument after the female voice, and cites Joni Mitchell as his all-time favorite artist.

In fact, Bleckmann’s feature, the ethereal ballad “Asiam (Joan),” is a tribute to Mitchell.

“It’s like she’s ripped her insides out and she’s just pouring it all over the place,” he says of the legendary songwriter. “If you really listen to the lyrics, you’re just like, ‘Is she just reading her diary?’”

For all his musical boldness, though, Akinmusire is less willing to lay himself bare. The new album’s compositions—even the instrumentals—began as stories and were converted into sound by matching melodies and chords to the moods of particular paragraphs. Though often fictional, his plots are sometimes based on real people: The hypnotically repetitive “Bubbles,” for instance, pays tribute to vaudeville tap dancer John W. Bubbles. But Akinmusire never enters the stories he writes.

“You know that whole thing: ‘Every writer is just writing about themselves,’” he says. “But I don’t feel like I am.”

Regardless, Akinmusire puts his heart into every tale. The Imagined Savior’s most gripping moment is “Rollcall for Those Absent,” a nearly four-minute track in which a young girl reads the names of black shooting victims—including Trayvon Martin and Fruitvale Station subject Oscar Grant—over a floaty keyboard solo and simmering, freeform drums. “Rollcall” has been deemed “distracting” and “heavy-handed” by some critics. But, as always, Akinmusire doesn’t really care what the jazz establishment thinks.

“I’ve learned to accept the consequences of believing in invention and creativity,” Akinmusire says. “You’re gonna be misunderstood. But my horse blinders have gotten a lot longer and a lot thicker over the years.” TREE PALMEDO. the new face of jazz trumpet isn’t concerned with appeasing purists.

SEE IT: Ambrose Akinmusire plays Jimmy Mak’s, 221 nW 10th Ave., with christopher Brown, on Wednesday, June 25. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.

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sunday–tuesday/classical, etc. finger-tapped their way to prominence.

Later releases teeter from noodly power pop to full-blown Rush worship, offering something for anyone with a high enough threshold for guitar heroics not so subtly applied to what would have otherwise been dismissed as Warped Tour runoff without it. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

Michael Franti & Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen and Trevor Hall

[PEACE AND LOVE OVERLOAD] When he first broke onto the Bay Area music scene, Michael Franti was a poet with an edge, a spoken-word artist mingling with tough-skinned rappers and avant-garde jazz musicians. Twenty years and a full head of dreads later, Franti has raised his profile, but he’s also done his best to make his music as palatable and inoffensive as possible. His newest release, All People, is at its best a sunny reggae-rock party album. At its worst, it’s a synthy wash of iPhone commercial jingles that caves your face in with tired “one love” messages. You’ll be singing along, even if you wish you weren’t. TREE PALMEDO. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6 pm. $45 advance, $48 day of show. All ages.

Peter Murphy, Ringo Deathstarr

[THIN BLACK DUKE] Some 35 years after first defining a lifestyle from tuneful morbidity, Peter Murphy has largely avoided the indignities of age and the more ridiculous associations of his never-not-silly chosen idiom. Cheekbones forgive much, of course, as do the public hints of a long-rumored private wit: opening concerts hanging from a makeshift belfry; closing concerts with Prince covers; selecting shoegaze provocateurs Ringo Deathstarr as tourmates. But honestly, credit must be paid to a consistently intriguing solo career that easily outstrips Murphy’s Original Goth contemporaries. While nothing shall ever approach the galvanizing punk theatrics of those early Bauhaus recordings, just-released No. 10 album, Lion, unleashes producer Youth on a roiling sea of electronica that serves as a perfect counterpoint for those still-arresting vocals. JAY HORTON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700. 8 pm. $20 general admission, $100 VIP. 21+

MONDAY, JUNE 30 Black Milk, Nat Turner Band

[JAZZ RAP] Black Milk’s music is nostalgia with a beat. While the hip-hop mainstream swarms with trap rap and Yeezus-inspired machine-hop, the Motor City MC has stayed closer to the jazzy sounds of his heroes J Dilla and Pete Rock. He’s far from just a throwback, though. The most recent Black Milk release, the self-produced EP Glitches in the Break, crackles with dark energy. The MC’s laid-back flow is just one draw in a labyrinth of vinyl pops, ghostly soul samples and tight boom-bap beats. Just prepare for

the occasional minute-long big-band interlude. TREE PALMEDO. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $12 advance, $16 day of show. All ages.

Spanish Gold, Clear Plastic Masks

[RIO GRANDE ROCK] Dubbing Spanish Gold a “supergroup” is probably a bit excessive, but there’s no doubting there are some big figures in the picture. My Morning Jacket drummer Pat Hallahan joins Dante Schwebel of City and Colour, and Adrian Quesada, formerly of Grupo Fantasma. The trio’s newest, South of Nowhere, is Black Keys-inspired garage rock with a hint of groovy Latin flare. Spanish Gold is a revivalist band, too, incorporating psychedelia into its busy riffing, enough to make pioneers like the Zombies proud. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Cher, Cyndi Lauper

[GRANNY POP] As if there were any doubt, Cher’s latest concert tour is a spectacle. The 68-year-old diva lets loose her vibrato on every chart topper of her career, as well as singles from her new Closer to the Truth album. In between songs, she jokes about her age—“And what is your granny doing tonight?”—and brings Vegas to town with elaborate costume changes. In past shows, she boasted a floor-length Native American headdress for “Half Breed” (hey, it’s Cher— she can do that) and a revealing black leather number for “If I Could Turn Back Time.” Some may call the show campy, but Cher, like your granny, doesn’t give a damn what people think. AARON SPENCER. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 797-9619. 7:30 pm. $25.50-$105.50. All ages.

TUESDAY, JULY 1 Barrington Levy, The Detour Posse

[CROSSOVER REGGAE] If you listened to radio in 1980s London, you’d probably recognize Barrington Levy’s “Under Mi Sensi” and especially “Here I Come.”

But the Jamaican reggae-fusion artist also found traction in drum-andbass circles, where his tracks have been sampled and resampled for two decades. Since then, Levy has largely followed the time-worn formula of the aging icon, releasing compilations and remakes of his hits. One single, “Rosie,” was released this year, and it shows the same Barrington Levy has still got a pulse: His signature “who-oa” wail shines through bright as ever.

MITCH LILLIE. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $20 general admission, $35 VIP. 21+.

Pure X, M. Geddes Gengras

[SYNTHETIC CALM] Honestly, M. Geddes Gengras is probably too New Age-y for a lot of folks. Understanding his peaceful, electronic statements as slowly developing improvisations, though, could mitigate some of

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Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Bud Powell’s spritely “Dance Of The Infidels”. Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with tender versions of “My Old Flame”, “My Ship”, “It Might As Well Be Spring”, “Everything Happens To Me”, and “Every Time We Say Goodbye.” “When we play together it’s like two people singing”, said Jarrett of his reunion with Haden. As Charlie Haden put it, “Keith really listens, and I listen. That’s the secret. It’s about listening.”

those issues. Over the past five years, Gengras—while not releasing collaborations with SoCal’s Sun Araw—has issued a stunning array of projects, each with its own flowering nexus. The synth player toured with Austin’s Pure X—a lilting pop act he’s opening for on this trip through town—in the past, and the two share a desire to offer up aural calmness, whether framed in a rock context or an experimental one. DAVE CANTOR. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chamber Music Northwest

[CLASSICAL] The Chamber Music Northwest festival continues with Thursday’s concert of French Romantic music, including a pretty harp and violin fantasy by Camille SaintSaëns, César Franck’s magnificent violin sonata and Ernest Chausson’s sweeping concerto for piano quintet.

Saturday and Sunday’s concerts feature Zoltán Kodály’s dazzling 1914 “Duo for Violin and Cello,” more early20th-century music by the relatively obscure early-20th-century Italian composer Alfredo D’Ambrosio and a Romantic classic, Brahms’s first string sextet. Monday and Tuesday’s Russian music concerts include the original piano version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, with rising star Melvin Chen as soloist, and another sextet chestnut: Tchaikovsky’s sunny musical postcard, Souvenir of Florence. BRETT CAMPBELL. Multiple locations. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.: 8 pm Thursday, Saturday and Monday, June 26, 28 and 30. Lincoln Performance Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave.: 4 pm Sunday and Tuesday, June 29 and July 1. $15-$55.

Oregon Bach Festival

[CLASSICAL] Claudio Monteverdi’s magnificent 1610 choral orchestral masterpiece Vespers of the Blessed Virgin kicked off the Baroque era, and now does the same for Matthew Halls’ tenure as the Oregon Bach Festival’s new artistic director. Here, it’s performed by a large choir propelled by the rich instrumental textures provided

by British period-instrument ensemble His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, who will also perform their own show June 28. Tuesday’s recital with the fleet-fingered Venezuelan-American pianist Gabriela Montero includes three of Brahms’ gorgeous Intermezzi, a Fantasy by Schumann and the quickwitted Montero’s ever-popular improvisations based on tunes suggested by the audience. BRETT CAMPBELL. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave.: 7 pm Friday and 7:30 pm Saturday, June 27-28. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335: 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 1. $10-$49.

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THE DELINES COLFAX (EL CORTEZ) [AMERICANA NOIR] Save for one Randy Newman cover, the Delines’ debut album, Colfax, consists of 11 tracks penned by Richmond Fontaine songwriter and acclaimed novelist Willy Vlautin. But it plays like one long song—at the same pace, in the same key, about the same character, sung in the same enervating monotone. By now, listeners (and readers) know what to expect from Vlautin’s unremittingly bleak landscape of hard-luck losers. In that regard, Colfax offers no surprises. The litany of tragic tales gets oppressive, unleavened by any humor or even an uptempo tune.

Putting Vlautin’s words in a female singer’s mouth isn’t less convincing than if they’d come from his own, but he invests more feeling in his own vocals for Richmond Fontaine (he only contributes nondescript backup vocals here, and guitar). It’s not that Amy Boone can’t sing—she has a fine voice—it’s that she barely seems to.

There’s a moment on one song, “The Oil Rigs at Night,” when her voice breaks with emotion. It stands out the way an epic, 10-minute guitar solo might on another album. Maybe it’s the only way to approach these characters, so beaten down by their circumstances that they can barely muster the energy to bemoan them. JEFF ROSENBERG. SEE IT: The Delines play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Fernando, on Wednesday, June 25. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

TALKATIVE HOT FRUIT BBQ (SELF-RELEASED) [SPACE PUNK] If I had a nickel for every time someone likened a buzz-worthy band of stoners with laptops and delay pedals to Animal Collective, I’d certainly have enough cash to purchase a table full of Roland SP-555s and start my own similar outfit. Any old bro with Ableton Live and a Poler hat can create reverb-soaked psych that’s ostensibly better while the listener is on mushrooms—the real litmus test is whether the songs are listenable without the shroud of woozy effects and tribal percussion that flutters about in restless ellipses. I can’t imagine Talkative’s Hot Fruit BBQ working on acoustics alone, but it’s a solid effort that may benefit from some reclassification.

At the core of the Portland quartet’s latest effort is throttling surf punk that’s not far afield from Surfer Blood or Yeasayer. “Rudy Huckleberry” is a pounding, fuzzed-out anthem that’s bolstered by bubbling feedback but never reliant on a guy in a mask pushing buttons to keep the melodies afloat. The quieter moments of the record, like the backward acoustics on “Memory” or the echoey flumes of what may be an oboe at the end of “Gimme Some Skin,” are clear indicators that Talkative’s mastery of space and ambiance is greater than the “fuck it, why not” addition of gauzy abstraction. Strip all that away, however, and you’re still left with an exciting collection of youthful punk vibes with a penchant for getting lost in space. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: Talkative plays Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., with Grandparents, on Sunday, June 29. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

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6605 SE Powell Blvd.

Pete Ford Band

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp Curated by Ogo Eion

The Secret Society R YA N L A b R I E R E / V I S U A L LY E N T I C E D . C O M

116 NE Russell St. Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra, Trombone 8

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St. Labs, Salon

white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Fire Weeds

The Lehrer

Calapooia Brewing 140 Hill St. NE Now Brothers

Chapel Pub

430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Student Loan String Band, Asher Fulero Band

duff’s Garage

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Murphy Beds

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Madame Torment, Hessler

Blue Room Bar

8145 SE 82nd Ave. Special Assignment

Boon’s Treasury

888 Liberty St. NE Eric John Kaiser

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Young Widows, White Reaper

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. KD & The Hurt

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, 1939 Ensemble, Pt. Juncture WA

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Christopher Brown Quartet

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Simon Tucker Blues Band (9 pm); The Resolectrics (6 pm)

Lola’s Room

east end

1332 W Burnside Americana Round-Up’ Countryside Ride

Hawthorne Theatre

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Delines, Fernando

203 SE Grand Ave. Pork Magazine Party 1507 SE 39th Ave. Battle for Warped Tour: Fighting Silence, Rags and Ribbons

Mississippi Studios

Old Church & Pub

30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Whole Lot of Lovnia

Scandals Portland 1125 SW Stark St. Rainbow Blight

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Autry, Marla Singer, Shadowlands

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. La Rivera, The Hilldogs, Moorea Masa

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Don’t, City of Pieces, The People Electric

The Lehrer

8775 SW Canyon Ln. Emergency

Star Theater

Biddy McGraw’s

1028 SE Water Ave. Dean Wareham, Parson Redheads

Aladdin Theater

Star Bar

The Conga Club

Bunk Bar

715 SW Morrison St. # 702 Portland Youth Philharmonic Orchestral Concert

Slabtown

225 SW Ash St. Temple Hotel, Bent Knee, Dream Parade, Explodea-Thon

320 SE 2nd Ave. Phinehas and How the West Was Won, Southgate, Raines to Ruin and Without a Crow

303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers

Rotture

13 NW 6th Ave. King Khan & the Shrines

Branx

Pioneer Courthouse Square

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Chris Margolin

Ash Street Saloon

888 Liberty St. NE Ivie Mezziere

1001 SE Morrison St. Planned Parenthood Pink Party: Lovebomb Go-Go, DJ Callisto, DJ ikarus

Rock Creek Tavern

Analog Cafe & Theater

Boon’s Treasury

Holocene

1332 W Burnside The Windshield Vipers

639 SE Morrison St. Gaytheist, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S.

6000 NE Glisan St. Grateful Buds

320 SE 2nd Ave. The Dead Rabbits, Relapse Symphony, Myka Relocate, Nightmares and Simon Says Die

Ringlers Pub

Alberta Street Public House

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Bill the Pony

Branx

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Chamber Music Northwest

1033 NW 16th Ave. Bass Line Bums, Faithless Saints

1036 NE Alberta St. Chervona

wed. June 25

Reed College

Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers

Al’s den

30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Ojos Feos

315 SE 3rd Ave. Ash Borer, Hell, Ephemeros, and Lacephale

THuRS. June 26

dIRTy wATeR: On a hot Sunday at this year’s what the Festival, San Francisco-based “weird house” label dirtybird hosted a “pool party”—though “soaked bacchanal” might be a more appropriate name. Two large wading pools were packed with jerking, facepainted, inflated-orca-riding ravers, all either scantily clad or not clad at all. Label boss Claude VonStroke, decked out in a ducks hat, snorkel, goggles and floaties, wiggled onstage to his labelmates’ bubbly house jams while waiting for his headlining slot.

J.Phlip, in particular, proved that dirty Bay Area basslines can make it from norCal to Berlin and back stateside. Read the full wTF recap at wweek.com.

Old Church & Pub

2530 NE 82nd Ave Joey McKenzie’s Western Flyers, Tough Love Pyle

edgefield

4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Dina y Los Rumberos 8775 SW Canyon Ln. Lloyd Jones

221 NW 10th Ave. Mitzi Zilka CD Release Event

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. The Ridgerunners (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Magnolia’s Corner

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Richie Rosencrans

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Dirty Revival Collective, Hungry Hungry Hip Hop, Elise LeBlanc

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Von Trapps, Three for Silver

Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse 118 NE 28th Ave. Rough Cut

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Feathers & Friends

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. White Bear Polar Tundra

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Sonny Hess and Vicki Stevens Band

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Phantom Ships, Paper Cameras

Calapooia Brewing 140 Hill St. NE Rose City Rats

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Party Code

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Mickey Avalon

disjecta

The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Gabby Macrae

The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Justin

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Coconino Trio

The Red And Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Panther Car

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. #NerdNightOut: The Doubleclicks

The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge

Valentines

Jimmy Mak’s

225 SW Ash St. Cannabidroids, Brut, Coloring Electric Like, Masta X-Kid, DJ Flamboyant

830 E Burnside St. Musée Mécanique, Billygoat, Us Lights

edgefield

1507 SE 39th Ave. San Lorenzo, Fire Nuns, the Greencarts, Farm Animals

Ash Street Saloon

8371 N Interstate Ave. Quiet Music Festival

6605 SE Powell Blvd.

Ben Rice B3 Trio

2126 SW Halsey St. Joan Baez, Indigo Girls

Hawthorne Theatre

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Redcast, Lower 48 &

The Lodge Bar & Grill

510 NW 11th Ave. Adlai Alexander & Andre St. James

2126 SW Halsey St. Alexa Wiley and Rachel Rice

Analog Cafe & Theater

232 SW Ankeny St. Standing in the Shadow

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Sage Gentle-Wing

white eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Chris Baron and Friends

FRI. June 27 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Wild Bells, Stubborn Lovers, Sean Wagner & The Ne’er Do Wells

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

NTNT, The Fame Riot, Okapi Sun

Analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Swiggle Mandela & Timmi HendriXXX

doug Fir Lounge

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Kevin Selfe, Mitch Kashmar, Hamdogs

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Closer PDX Presents: Truncate, JAK, Andrew Boie, Tracy Why

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Sentiments, Baby and the Luvies, The Rapskallions

St. Honore

3333 SE Division Street The Djangophiles Trio

The Buffalo Gap

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Bearwater Band

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Matthew Heller & The Clever, Alexander Tragedy, Mama Rags

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Crutches, Frustration, Wretched of the Earth, Ddlge

The Lehrer

8775 SW Canyon Ln. Ellen Whyte & The Plus Size Band

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. The Slow Poisoner, Myrrh Larsen

The Red And Black Cafe

400 SE 12th Ave. Lauren Kinney, Tom Studdard/ The Bob Ross Band

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Cross-Eyed Rosie, Jackstraw, Pete Krebs & His Portland Playboys

Tony Starlight’s Supper Club

eastBurn

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Tony Starlight’s AM Gold Show

edgefield

4144 SE 60th Ave. Green Carts

1800 E Burnside St. Hot Club Time Machine 2126 SW Halsey St. Matt Vrba

elsinore Theatre 170 High St. SE Lawrence Battey

Gemini Bar & Grill 456 N State St. Norman Sylvester

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Kingdom Under Fire, Chronological Injustice, Agnozia, Dead Last Place, Hillbilly B*tch Splitter

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd.

Fire God, Matt Danger, Dead Frets

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. The Tree Frogs (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)

Magnolia’s Corner

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Moon by Night

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Ritim Egzotik

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hook and Anchor, Cataldo

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Carrie Cunningham

Rock Creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Cascade Rye

Torta-Landia

Trinity episcopal Cathedral

147 NW 19th Ave Oregon Bach Festival

Venti’s Cafe And Tap House-Salem

2840 Commercial Street The Student Loan

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Ty Curtis

white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Reverb Brothers

white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band

SAT. June 28 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Lindsie Feathers

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Bob Schneider & Hayes Carll

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Manzanita Falls, The Breaking, Deepest Darkest

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Pharoahe Monch, 9th Wonder, Rapsody

Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Killah Priest, Codell, PoeAddict, Kinetic Emcees, Thunderkatz, Deve the Baker, Cheese Mann

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Yngwie Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth

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Artichoke Music

3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Dick Weissman & Brian Cutean

Beaterville Cafe

The Muddy Rudder Public House

1620 SW Park Ave. Chamber Music Northwest

The Press Club

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Knocks, ASTR

2201 N Killingsworth St. Los Estupidos, McKay Whitman 320 SE 2nd Ave. The Thermals, Summer Cannibals, the Ghost Ease

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Houndstooth, Susan, Sartorial Excess

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. The People Electric, Princess, Mother’s Whiskey

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Norman Sylvester

2621 SE Clinton St. Flor de Cana

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Elliott Sharp, The Boodlers, Battles Hymns and Gardens, Foliage, The Jenny Finn Orchestra

The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Diego Garcia

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Hunt

Tree’s Restaurant and Catering

Doug Fir Lounge

147 NW 19th Ave Oregon Bach Festival

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Soul Vaccination

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Steve Winwood, Cris Jacobs, Moody Little Sister

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd.

Lucy Gray, Manzanita Falls, Jon Davidson, The Steam Cats of Sekonza

Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard Keali’i Reichel

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Rabbit Dreams, Jonathan Boyette & David Griggs

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

Toucan Sam and the Fruitloops

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Matt Buetow, Tyler Fortier (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Natural Remedy, Down North, Whiskey Puppy

Mississippi Studios

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8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem

Dante’s

830 E Burnside St. Scars on 45, Broken Anchor

AUGUST 17

2026 NE Alberta St. Kissing Party, Shaddowhouse, Lunch

20510 SW Roy Rogers Road #160 Adam Johnson

350 W Burnside St. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

thE districts

LaurelThirst Public House

The Know

225 SW Ash St. Marry Me, Toy, Dead Remedy

140 Hill St. NE Kokobola

ModErn kin

1033 NW 16th Ave. Broadway Calls, Phantom Family, Carrion Spring

Ash Street Saloon

Calapooia Brewing

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Slabtown

2958 NE Glisan St. Deadhorse HWY (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

Branx

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3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rags & Ribbons

Oregon College of Art and Craft 8245 SW Barnes Road Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Lace & Lead

Reed College

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Tango Music Institute: Closing Concert; Chamber Music Northwest

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. El Tri

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Weather Machine, Willow House, Blanco, Jeni Wren

SUN. JUNE 29 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Moontalk, Nutcracker

Brass Tacks

3535 N Vancouver Ave Big Black Cloud, Trashies

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Cherry Glazerr, the Shivas, Love Cop, Joel Jerome

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Kirtan Wallah Tour: Chanting with Krishna Das

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Hopeless Jack and the Handsome Devil

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Minus the Bear, Slow Bird, Dust Moth

Duff’s Garage

Lincoln Performance Hall

Mississippi Studios

Portland Expo Center

2060 N Marine Dr. 2014 Vans Warped Tour

Rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Talkative, Grandparents

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Peter Murphy

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Blesst Chest, Thunders, Hats Off

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Cry!, Okapi Sun, Slutty Hearts

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Mitch Gonzales, Chelsea Appel, Edwin Janes

MON. JUNE 30 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Black Milk, Nat Turner Band

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. When We Met, Karaoke from Hell

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave Jason Okamoto

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Spanish Gold, Clear Plastic Masks

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd.

Witchburn, Ape Machine, Wild Throne, Black Snake

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Alison Wesley and Ali Ippolito

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio; It’s Better with a Baritone: Broadway’s Best Boys

Mississippi Studios

2530 NE 82nd Ave Bill Kirchen

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Just Lions, Animal Eyes, Bear & Moose

Edgefield

Moda Center

2126 SW Halsey St. Michael Franti & Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen and Trevor Hall, Pete Krebs

Grace Memorial Episcopal Church

1535 NE 17th Avenue All the Women We Have Loved, Presented by SacroProfano Baroque

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd.

Graham Lindsey, Billy Cook, Omaha Alias

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

Kepi Ghoulie, Dog Party, Erica Freas(RVIVR), Spoonboy, Pets

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Marisa Anderson, Joe and Vicki Price

#150, 1 N Center Court St. Cher, Cyndi Lauper

Reed College

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Chamber Music Northwest

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Jerry Rogers, Pop Zeus, Honeybucket

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St. Dandelyons, Web of Sunsets

TUES. JULY 1 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Sam Chase, Austin Quattlebaum

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4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Barrington Levy, The Detour Posse

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Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Pure X, M. Geddes Gengras

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Hey Marseilles, Hip Hatchet

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. To the Wind, Unrestrained, Above The Broken, Likefire, Free By Night, Within Sight

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Ready to Roll

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Amanda Richards, Good Long Whiles (9 pm), Jackstraw (6 pm)

Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Chamber Music Northwest

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Blitzen Trapper, Pony Village, Novosti

newmark Theatre

1111 SW Broadway Gabriela Montero, Oregon Bach Festival

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Memories, The Lemons, Mope Grooves

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Sisters of Fortune

white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Andrew Duhon

BRUNCH AND BURLESQUE: The closure of Hamburger Mary’s last year left a hole in Portland’s gay nightlife. The Royale (317 NW Broadway, 432-8944), a new bar in the former Tiger Bar spot on Northwest Broadway, aims to fill it with circular booths, cafe tables, cheap-to-free Jell-O shots and late-night power-hour drink specials. The lighting is calibrated for drag queens—dark, with a spinning vortex of color on the dance floor. The menu is skimpier and less inspired than Hamburger Mary’s (no Mary’s Hot Legs or Ta-Ta’s), but the Royale with cheese ($8) satisfies OLCC food requirements. No one is coming here for the food. Crowds turn up for drag cabaret events like “Drunk Tank,” on first and third Fridays, and for the bottomless mimosas and a bloody mary bar during Portland’s only Sunday drag brunch.

On most weekend nights, promoter and shameless entertainer Ecstacy Inferno, whose skills include persuading people to strip naked onstage, controls the mic and your fate. On other nights, talent agent Justin Buckles does a good job of luring local bar talent, from burlesque to cirque acts, to the Royale’s corner stage. It’s not a place to bring your mom, unless your mom likes Long Islands—and then the bartenders set a two-drink limit.

AARON SPENCER.

Lola’s room

1332 W Burnside 80s Video Dance Attack

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Temporary Lesbian Bar

wed. June 25 Berbati

19 SW 2nd Ave. DJ Seleckta YT, Riddim Up Wednesday

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Bryan Zentz

Harlem Portland

220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jack

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

The embers Avenue 110 NW Broadway Knochen Tanz

Tiga Bar Portland

1465 NE Prescott St. Yolo Biafra

THurS. June 26 Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

House Call

Back Stage Bar

3701 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Eye Candy VJ

B.C.’s Bar & Grill 2433 SE Powell Tetsuo

Berbati

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

dig a Pony

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Newrotics

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Harlem Portland

220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Tourmaline, DJ Valen

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Laid Out: Gossip Cat, Pocket Rock-It, Misti Miller

Jones Bar

107 NW Couch St Thirsty Thursday

Midnight roundup

345 NW Burnside Rd. Buck Wild Thursdays with DJ Cutt

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Yak Attack, Calaxe, Yeah Great Fine

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Rock with Death Trip & DJ Tobias

Tiga Bar Portland

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Ramophone

Fri. June 27 CC Slaughters nightclub & Lounge

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hans Fricking Lindauer Rhythm and Soul Review

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Monkeytek & Friends

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Truhn Juice

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew, DJ Aquaman

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid

Tiga Bar Portland

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Dirty Hands

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St. Deep Burn

SAT. June 28 CC Slaughters nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Revolution, DJ Robb

dig a Pony

219 NW Davis St. DJ Jakob Jay, Sweat Fridays

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Freaky Outty

dig a Pony

Holocene

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Cooky Parker, Safi

1001 SE Morrison St. Juicy: DJ Izm, Mr. Marcus

eastBurn

Star Bar

1800 E Burnside St. DJ Gregarious

639 SE Morrison St. DJ SG

Holocene

The Lovecraft

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap! 90s Dance Party: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty

421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends

Tiga Bar Portland

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

Sun. June 29 CC Slaughters nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. The Superstar Divas, DJ Robb

dig a Pony

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Intuitive Navigation DJs

east Bank Saloon 727 SE Grand SUNDAE

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Joey Prude

Mon. June 30 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. DJ Grond Nefarious

CC Slaughters nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday, With DJ Robb

dig a Pony

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Ghost Tooth

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted

TueS. JuLy 1 Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

S.Y.N.T. Weekly Dubstep Night

Berbati

19 SW 2nd Ave. Soundstation Tuesdays, DJ Instigatah and Snackmaster DJ

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ B*tchslap

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek.com). Dance: AARON SPENCER (dance@wweek.com).

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS 10-Minute Play Festival

For the 10th installment of its seasonal festival—which features, as you might have guessed, ten 10-minute plays by 10 local writers—community theater troupe Monkey With a Hat On has rounded up skits about dreams. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm FridaySunday, June 27-29. $5.

J.A.W.Z. The Musical in 3D

Back in January 2013, Portland’s Saloon Ensemble began transforming Jaws into a live-stage musical. From that lone sketch grew an eveninglength adaptation, suitable for all ages, that features a neurotic shark with shades of Woody Allen, video-art projection, and musical numbers ranging from “West Shark Story” to “Bigger Boat.” Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 3:30 and 9:30 pm Sunday, June 26-29. $15-$20.

The Middle of Everywhere

Husband-and-wife duo Andrew Phoenix and Kate Braidwood—better known as the Wonderheads—make remarkable masks. These bulbous papier-mâché creations totally obscure the performers’ faces, but that doesn’t stop Phoenix and Braidwood from conveying palpable emotion and telling affecting, wordless stories. The couple, based in Portland since 2010, present a new piece about two strangers who meet at a bus stop and are launched on a wild journey together.

The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, June 27-28. $10-$15.

The Music Man

Ah, summer in the suburbs. That means it’s time for Tigard’s Broadway Rose Theatre to stage Meredith Willson’s classic musical about a slick con man who poses as a traveling salesman in Iowa, only to fall for the town’s librarian. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through July 20. $20-$45.

The Philadelphia Story

Before it became a gosh-darned wonderful movie starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story was a Broadway smash. Though it’s rarely mounted today, Clackamas Rep has chosen Philip Barry’s play as the opener for its 10th season. The fizzy comedy revolves around a socialite who, on the eve of her second wedding, must deal with the simultaneous appearance of her ex-husband and a dashing reporter. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through July 20. $12-$28.

Playback Theater

Audience members tell stories, which Playback’s actors and musicians improvise on the spot. This installment centers on the theme of summer.

The early show is all-ages, while the 8 pm performance is for ages 16 and up. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 6 and 8 pm Friday, June 27. $5-$12.

NEW REVIEWS Antony & Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is the summer blockbuster of Shakespeare plays, with sweeping battle scenes, starcrossed romance and an epic three-

hour runtime. It’s great for the stage, but doesn’t seem like the best fit for the low budget and family audience of a Shakespeare-in-the-park production.

All the more impressive, then, that Portland Actors Ensemble manages to convey most of the play’s emotional heft and cinematic scope within the confines of Laurelhurst Park. Director Elizabeth Huffman places the audience on either side of a strip of carpet, with impressively decorated platforms on each side representing the play’s warring factions: The Roman side is rendered in gray and red, and the Egyptian half is speckled with gold hieroglyphics. The production also includes live Middle Eastern-tinged music in its key dramatic scenes, resulting in a score that’s more tasteful than that of most actual blockbusters.

All of these trappings are welcome, but the key to successful Shakespeare will always be the acting, and here, too, the company mostly delivers. Matt DiBasio is a loud, bombastic Antony, but as much as he tries to command the stage, the show belongs to Andrea White. As Cleopatra, she growls, cries and regally orates her way through a performance that would be epic in any setting. TREE PALMEDO. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast 35th Avenue and Oak Street, 467-6573. 7 pm most Thursdays-Saturdays through July 26.

For full schedule, visit portlandactors. com. Free.

ALSO PLAYING The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised)

If you don’t like screaming, dancing, ugly wigs, Destiny’s Child, (fake) vomiting, audience participation or poking fun at the world’s most famous playwright, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Revised) is probably not for you. But if you do, Post5 Theatre’s third annual production of the comedy—which tears through all of the Bard’s 37 plays in 90 minutes—is a good bit of fun. Directed

by Cassandra Boice, the show stars Chip Sherman, Alex Klein and Ty Boice, who all contribute some of Post5’s signature contemporary spin. “Do you bite your thumb at me, dude?” begins Romeo and Juliet, a swift seven-minute romp that includes cross-dressing, ribbon-dancing and an epilogue performed in barbershop-quartet like vocals. The histories become rather violent football games, and Othello is a beat-boxed, laser light-illuminated rap show. Some of the jokes are a little off-color, but the cast shines with impressive flexibility and chemistry throughout, as well as an amusing willingness to laugh at themselves.

Highlights include Ty Boice’s perfectly timed splash of water to the face to signify a drowning Ophelia, Sherman’s over-the-top, boa-wearing nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and Klein’s pompous air of intelligence as the narrator. “All’s well that finally ends,” one of them says, and with a reverse-order Hamlet, this year’s version of Complete Works definitely ends well. KAITIE TODD. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through June 29. $15.

Invasion!

Badass Theatre Company brings back last spring’s production of Invasion!, which was a 2013 theater highlight.

The play, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, is a wondrous shapeshifter: It zings from lowbrow comedy to raw emotion, all the while excavating issues of national, ethnic and religious identity, and Badass’ quartet of actors absolutely devoured it last year. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays through June 27. $20.

Iolanthe

Semi-professional company Mock’s

Crest, which unites professional performers with students and faculty from the University of Portland, presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s fairy operetta, setting it in London’s SoHo District in the swinging ‘60s. Mago Hunt Center, University of Portland, 5000 N Willamette Blvd., 943-7287. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $27-$32.

FEATURE DABE ALLEN

PERFORMANCE

Lizzie

Like Gwen Stefani circa “Just a Girl”— only homicidal and clad in Victorian dress—the Lizzie Borden of rock opera Lizzie is a foot-stomping, hair-flinging rebel who can rock out with the best of them. Never mind that the real-life Borden was believed to be homely and less-than-bright: Here she’s a redheaded firecracker in a turquoise dress with an ax (heh) to grind. She may be deranged, but she’s got good motive for hacking her father and stepmother to bits. While Lizzie’s attempts at narrative-building and character development prove mostly thin, its punk- and metal-inspired songs are a deliciously loud blend of camp, gore, profanity and tenderness. These four Portland Center Stage performers take every confrontational power stance possible, unleash primordial wails a la Led Zeppelin and seductively caress the onstage scaffolding. That scaffolding quite obviously recalls prison bars, and as in Chicago’s “Cell Block Tango,” Borden’s victims had it coming: The show makes Lizzie’s father out to be a sexually abusive miser who prioritized his second wife over his daughters.

It also imagines a lesbian relationship between Lizzie and her neighbor. Here’s the thing, though: As much as a liberal-arts student might gleefully “problematize” the liberties that Lizzie takes, as a vehicle for a powerful quartet of women to belt out anthems of rebellion and retribution, it’s pretty damn fun. As Lizzie, Mary Kate Morrissey is like a marionette operated by a diabolical puppeteer, jerking around her body and bugging out her eyes. Matching Morrissey is Carrie Cimma as Bridget, the Bordens’ Irish maid: She’s a boiling cauldron of resentment, vanity and mischievousness, with high kicks to rival David Lee Roth’s. REBECCA JACOBSON. 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.

OMG! It’s…the Donnie Show

If you’ve ever been to a show at Triangle Productions, you’ve seen Don Horn: He’s the tan, barefoot guy in the unbuttoned shirt who looks like he just stepped off a cruise boat. The exuberant executive director of the theater company—which is about to launch its 25th season—hosts a variety show, with musical help from Jonathan Quesenberry and different guests at every performance. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 28. $20.

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 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.

Original Practice Shakespeare Festival

For the sixth year, the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival is back at parks across the city, claiming to stage theater the way it was done in the Bard’s day—with minimal rehearsal and actors taking different roles in each performance, assisted by an onstage prompter. You’ve got a zillion options to see the company over the course of the summer, performing everything from Taming of the Shrew to Henry IV Part I to Romeo and Juliet. Multiple locations, 479-5677. Various times and dates through Aug. 24; see opsfest.org for details. Free.

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sPin me round: the sprockettes stack ’em up.

THE SPROCKETTES Ten years ago, Portland’s bike scene was burgeoning. Zoobombing—speeding down the West Hills on blingedout minibikes—was a new trend. But a group of lady cyclists felt something was missing: more ladies.

“The elephant in the room,” says Shannon Palermo, “was that this Zoobomb hill was a sausage fest. It was like being a girl at a metal show. You find the other two girls there and you’re like, ‘What’s up?’”

The Sprockettes, a women’s bike-based dance troupe, sprang from this sense of camaraderie within a male-dominated scene. “We weren’t like, ‘Hey man, you’re holding us down!’” Palermo says. “But what if we did it prettier?” So in the spring of 2004, they grabbed some minibikes—and lots of pink and black spandex.

They’re still at it today. For their 10th anniversary this weekend, the seven current Sprockettes host a reunion for former members— about 40 of them—who will travel to Portland from all over the country. They’ll meet at Peninsula Park on Friday, June 27, for a ride down the memory bike lane, stopping at old haunts like the former Clown House property on Northeast Alberta Street, where they first practiced. On Saturday, June 28, they’ll appear at the Multnomah County Bike Fair, the event where they first performed in 2004.

The group has a glam-punk style, favoring short shorts, leggings and the occasional tutu. Their moves strike a balance between cheerleading routines and circus stunts. None of the original members had dance experience, so they watched a friend’s aerobics VHS tapes and In Living Color’s Fly Girls for inspiration.

“We called ourselves an all-female synchronized minibike dance team,” says founding member Emilina Dissette, “but we were never really synchronized.”

They learned to incorporate the minibikes during hours of brainstorming sessions. In one move, “the wheelbarrow,” a dancer clasps the handlebars as two others grip her feet and whirl her around.

Another move involves a dancer lying on her back—sometimes on the ground, but sometimes muscled into the air on another dancer’s back—and hoisting her bike over her body, pedals spinning. Occasionally, old bike tubes become lassolike props.

After their first show, they were invited to perform in other cities. They went on the road with New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat bike tour. Other women’s bike dance groups were spawned: the Derailleurs in San Francisco, the Spokes in England, Gacharinco in Japan. Over the years, the Sprockettes have also stepped up their dancing, adding elements of acrobalance, lindy hop and salsa. Their performances today are a bit more stylized, a little more polished than their campy high jinks in the beginning.

But most important, the Sprockettes say, are their values: encouraging biking, a can-do attitude and expression of individual sexuality.

It harks back to a song they’ve been playing since their first performance, “S.O.T.I.” by the psychedelic band Romanteek. On the track, the acronym is spelled out like a mantra: “sexy on the inside.”

“We have little tighty mighties and big ol’ fatties all working together, being themselves and loving themselves,” Palermo says.

“That message resonates with an audience way more than any of our dance moves, how pointed our toes are or how many fuckin’ tricks we nail.” AARON SPENCER.

The glam-punk, allfemale minibike troupe turns 10.

see it: The Sprockettes’ 10th anniversary ride is at 7 pm Friday, June 27, at Peninsula Park, 700 N Rosa Parks Way. The Multnomah County Bike Fair is at 2 pm Saturday, June 28, at Colonel Summers Park, Southeast 20th Avenue and Belmont Street. More info at sprockettes.org.

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PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 8pm. All Ages

in the church AUTRY! MARLA SINGER SHADOWLANDS

$5/Donations accepted!

9pm. 21 & over

CONTACT CULT MAX VERIDIAN WARREN MATTOX GATE TECH TONICS Free!

THURSDAY, JUNE 26 8pm. All Ages

in the church

BASS LINE BUMS FAITHLESS SAINTS SECND BEST LEVON’S HELMET (SOLO SET) $6.00 at the door.

FRIDAY, JUNE 27 9pm. 21 & over

THE SENTIMENTS BABY AND THE LUVIES THE RAPSKALLIONS $6.00 at the door.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 7:30pm. All Ages

BROADWAY CALLS PHANTOM FAMILY CARRION SPRING $7.00 at the door.

Falafel House: 3 to Late–Night Free Pinball Feeding Frenzy: Saturday @ 3pm

WITHIN SPITTING DISTANCE OF THE PEARL

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

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

JUNE 25–JULY 1

The Hen Night Epiphany

If your idea of a good hen night— the Irish equivalent of a bachelorette party—involves dancing, flirting and enough booze to float a boatload of Chippendales, Jimmy Murphy’s The Hen Night Epiphany might puzzle you a wee. Bride-to-be Una has invited four women to her remote cottage, ostensibly to celebrate her last week of singlehood.

But her real motive is free labor.

She’s hoping her friends will help her get the place—recently repossessed and a mess of trash and children’s toys—move-in ready. Una’s hen night, while not exactly another Hangover waiting to happen, does turn out to be full of surprises.

There’s something amiss with nearly everyone. The groom’s godmother is tortured by a secret. Una’s besties are either mid-breakup or mourning yet another failed love affair.

The only seemingly happy hens are Una and her future mother-in-law, Olive, but as the night wears on it becomes clear that no one in this motley crew is without wounds, whether psychic or corporeal. Under the smart direction of Gemma Whelan, the performances in this Corrib Theatre production are first rate. But they can’t save what is ultimately a somewhat sluggish tract on the abuse women suffer at the hands of their menfolk. DEBORAH KENNEDY. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., corribtheatre.org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through June 29. $15-$25.

COMEDY AND VARIETY Campfire @ Curious

Sharpen your marshmallow sticks and gather ‘round the Curious Comedy campfire for a night of true tales, co-produced by Temple Lentz and Kelley Tyner McAllister. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every fourth Thursday through Oct. 23. $5.

Comics Under the Influence

Wait, this is something...new?

Here’s the deal: Standup comedians Kristine Levine, Lonnie Bruhn and Andy Andrist will each do a 10-minute set while sober. They’ll leave the stage, get hammered and then each perform a second 10-minute set. Good thing Dante’s makes stiff drinks. You might need a couple, too. Jonas Barnes and Lauryn Petrie host. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm Thursday, June 26. $8. 21+.

Doug Stanhope

Known for his prickly, often caustic standup, Stanhope takes the Star Theater stage. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm Wednesday, June 25. $29. 18+.

Duo Showdown

Improv duos hit the Curious Comedy stage for a battle of comedic wit. There’s a panel of judges, but audience votes count too. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through July 5. $12-$15.

Fly Ass Jokes Prime Time

The Brody presents a special Saturday installment of its regular standup showcase, featuring five comedians from Portland and farther afield. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, June 28. $8.

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 ThursdaysSaturdays through June 28. $15-$18.

The He & She Show: A Live Stand Up Comedy Date Night

Teresa and Doug Wyckoff got married less than a year ago.

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most couples only seek out after decades, they’ve decided to sell all their possessions and undertake a 101-day, cross-country tour in their 2003 Ford Focus, which will eventually deposit them in their new home of New York City. They’re kicking things off in Portland—Teresa’s hometown—with a show that will draw on audience suggestions to riff on marriage and romance. Oregon Public House, 700 NE Dekum St, 505-9733. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 26. $10-$15.

Jamie Lee

The quickly rising young comic—a Girl Code cast member who just breezed through Portland for the Bridgetown Comedy Festival—hits Helium for a three-night stand.

Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 26-28. $15-$29. 21+.

The Mont Chris Hubbard Bonus Show

Pianist/singer Mont Chris Hubbard presents another edition of his monthly variety show, this time featuring performer Maggie Hanson paying tribute to Dusty Springfield.

Expect fabulous hand choreography. Tony Starlight’s, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-8584. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 1. $10.

Portland’s Funniest Person Preliminaries

Helium’s annual Funniest Person contest is a strange beast. Past winners (who include Nathan Brannon, Ian Karmel and Shane Torres) are all solid standup comics, but with early rounds determined by audience vote, it’s in some ways a glorified personality contest.

Nevertheless, the prelims offer a chance to see a broad swath of Portland comedy, so go and balance out the votes of all those brownnosing groupies. Semifinals will be held July 8-9, with the winner crowned July 22. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-6438669. Tuesdays and Wednesdays through July 2; see heliumcomedy. com for complete schedule. $10-$17.

PowerPoint Karaoke

For this special installment of the Comedy is OK showcase, five comedians have been tasked with creating silly PowerPoint presentations.

At the event, the slide shows are reassigned. Thought you were going to discuss conspiracy theories?

Time to talk astrology. If all goes according to plan, these will be the best worst TED Talks you’ve ever seen. The presenters are Bri Pruett (one of WW’s Funniest Five comedians), Mike Merrill, Paul Schlesinger and Andrew Michaan. There will also be standup from Shane Torres (also one of our Funniest Five) and, apparently, a super-secret special guest. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm Tuesday, July 1. Free.

Puppetz Vs. People

For more than 10 years, ComedySportz’s improvisers have waged a comic battle against the puppets of Tears of Joy Theatre.

The puppets won last year—will they prevail again? ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, June 27-28. $15.

Seven on 7

Brody presents a show that mashes standup and improv, with comics each doing seven minutes and then improvisers riffing on that material.

Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Friday, June 27. $8.

Too Wet to Burn

Whitney Streed, the long-running host of the Weekly Recurring Humor Night, plays emcee at a new comedy showcase. Tonight, catch standup from Sean Jordan, Jason Traeger, Veronica Heath, Ash Castman and Anthony Lopez. The Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 2335656. 7:30 pm Friday, June 27. Free.

DANCE The Art of Bellydance

Moria Chappell can steal your soul with her eyes and fuses bellydance with the eastern Indian dance style of Odissi. She headlines this show produced by Portland bellydance journal From the Hip. The other acts are split between tribal fusion— combining bellydance with styles like modern, flamenco, hula and ballet—and classic, cabaret-style acts, among them, locals Kristnh and Jason Ramirez. Kristnh gyrates the Turkish way, and Jason beats the dumbek drum. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7 pm Saturday, June 28. $15 advance, $20 at the door. 21+.

FlyCo

The training company for aerialist company A-WOL Dance Collective performs Push, a half-hour show of aerial acts and acrobatics. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. 7 pm FridaySaturday, June 27-28. Free.

Inti Raymi

An Incan ceremony to honor the sun god Inti, Inti Raymi marks the new year in the Andes. Luciana Proaño performs with a new group of dancers, and there will also be traditional Andean music. Attendees should bring a favorite fruit or homemade dish, sufficient for two, as an offering, which is customary.

Las Primas, 3971 N Williams Ave., No. 103, 206-5790. 8 pm Saturday, June 28. $7.

Jacqueline Hyde

Seattle burlesque performer Jacqueline Hyde gets a lot of flack for doing a solo show—burlesque is about community, after all—but she wants enough time to show that she, and burlesque, don’t have to be any one thing. She’ll perform a traditional cabaret dance, but also pole and aerial work. The show also shifts to film and music in a progressive storyline. Hyde says she was inspired by the sorrow she felt after the death of a friend, adding that the show reflects her deeper sense of self because of that loss.

Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm Friday, June 27. $25, $200 for VIP table. 21+.

Nonsense Dance Company

Michael Lopez has a taste for the sinister and macabre, so it’s no surprise his newest work, Xibalba, focuses on death. A reference to Mayan mythology, the piece explores the afterlife but also has its lighter moments. In any case, Lopez’s 21 performers are fierce, and they’re trained in ballet, contemporary and hip hop, as well as in African and Tahitian styles of dance.

The show promises high skill and high concept. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, June 27-28. $20.25$25.25.

Rainbow Blight

These performers aren’t strangers to the queer show scene, but they rarely perform at free shows like this one. Drag queen Pagan Holladay produces this showcase of drag, burlesque and a singer or two.

Performers include the tallest queen ever, Mis Inanna, the perpetually naked Tod Alan and drag burlesque mama Zora Phoenix. Scandals, 1125 SW Stark St, 227-5887. 9:30 pm Wednesday, June 25. Free.

SUNDAE

This daytime patio dance party features five DJs and impromptu breakdance battles. It’s a similar formula used for the successful daytime parties in Los Angeles, but these are more casual—because it’s Portland.

And even though it sounds too good to be true, free ice cream sundaes will be served. East Bank Saloon, 727 SE Grand Ave., 231-1659.

3 pm Sunday, June 29. 18+.

For more Performance listings, visit

VISUAL ARTS

JUNE 25–JULY 1

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

palette. There are even more small drawings mounted on two rusted metal columns hanging from the ceiling. This sculptural element not only effectively showcases the paintings, it also invigorates the show spatially. Through June 28. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

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Alex Rose: Another Furrow in the Forehead

Like Larry Clark and Gus Van Sant, artist Alex Rose often uses adolescent boys as subject matter. Rose, who is from Ireland, incorporates photographs of boys, books and sundry other objects into highly nuanced collages that are often artfully distressed. The artist doesn’t give interviews, so it’s hard to know what he’s getting at thematically, but the works function well as pure objects, independent of symbolic context. Through June 28. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 2275111.

Augen Gallery: Celebrating 35 Years of Prints

To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Augen Gallery is mounting an exhibition of prints by the same artists featured in its inaugural show back in 1979: Jim Dine, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.

Of these six artists, Lichtenstein’s work holds up the best. Although he’s most associated with his comics-influenced work, he actually deployed his trademark Ben-Day dots across an impressive array of stylistic periods, never letting his approach calcify the way artists such as Joan Miró did. Restlessly inventive, Lichtenstein tackled big subjects (the relationship between pop culture and fine art, the legacy of Abstract Expressionism, the Asian landscape) with consistent wit and imagination. Far from a one-trick pony, Lichtenstein was an eminently responsive visual thinker, as the prints at Augen attest. Through June 28. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Chad States: Cruising

Philadelphia photographer Chad States photographs men having furtive sexual encounters in parks and on nude beaches. If you’ve been to the clothing-optional sections of Sauvie Island or Rooster Rock, chances are you’ve seen—or been—one of these guys. The photographer snaps his shots from far away, allowing the viewer to glimpse bits of skin here and there through foliage, which partially obscures the action. The photos have a glossy sheen that evokes 1970s porn magazines, heightening the prints’ sleazy allure. Through June 29. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

Jerry Mayer and Ellen George: Stand

Jerry Mayer and Ellen George have done it again. In their collaborative installation, Stand, they’ve managed to turn a really simple idea into a richly evocative visual poetry. With nothing but gently

bent cedar planks and eerie lighting, they’ve turned Nine Gallery into an abstract bamboo forest. The lights cast yellow and purple hues across the planks, lending a sense of mystery and romanticism. An ambient soundtrack heightens the otherworldly atmosphere. It seems impossible that Nine’s boxy space could feel so expansive—you get the sense you could keep walking forever, like the kids in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Through June 29. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 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.

Through June 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. Through July 15.

Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Nell Warren: Manifest

In a satisfyingly varied show, artist Nell Warren offers up a mélange of small-, medium- and large-scale paintings. One of the larger works, Upcountry, incorporates acrylic paint, watercolor, pastels, and marble dust into a masterful suggestion of water and clouds. But it’s Warren’s small works that leave the biggest impression. At only 5.5 by 9 inches, they’re installed in a grid of 294 paintings, collectively titled Consequential Artifact. Warren’s extraordinary economy of gesture combines evocative brushstrokes, vivid color and intriguing surface effects. Never wanting to waste paint, she sometimes sprinkles the works with crumbled remnants of paint that dried overnight on her

A lot of things go through your mind when you’re an art model standing in the same position for hours on end. Artist Patience Tumblesome has turned the psychological vulnerability and physically grueling work of modeling into a suite of vividly imaginative and often disturbing prints. In Mother, a twisted female figure vomits a stream of eyes; another figure crouches beside her, seemingly penetrating her with a kind of abstract penis. The eye motif is repeated in another piece, Hold That Pose. To be covered in eyes—this is what it must feel like to have an entire classroom of art students staring at you. With their counterintuitive color palette and dynamic compositions, these works are rich in symbolism and psychological complexity. Through June 30.

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Rediscovering Lacquer: 12 Artists Reinvent a Timeless Tradition

Traditional Japanese lacquering techniques get a thoroughly contemporary reimagining in this opulent group show. Foremost among the highlights are Koichiro Kimura’s Pop Art-influenced tea containers, goblets and plates, with their luminous gold and silver leaf, fluorescent colors, polka dots and glamorously reflective surfaces. In these artists’ practices, there are no rigid lines between functionality, decoration and artistic authorship.

Beauty is beauty, whether an object is utilitarian or not. Deftly curated by Duneghen Park, this exhibition offers a refreshing take on a medium that continues to evolve. Through July 6.

Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Ave., 223-1321.

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Sean Healy: Extroverts

To get an idea of how obsessive artist Sean Healy is, consider that for his wall sculptures American Muscle (Black Cherry) and American Muscle (Candy Apple), he meticulously lined up 28,000 cigarette filters, affixed them to a Plexiglas mounting, painted them individually, then coated them with resin. He also uses cigarette filters as the projector screen for his video installation, Smudge. The video shows a cigarette filter slowly turning into a pillar of ash—an affecting metaphor for the aging process, one of the show’s themes. Unfortunately, the piece is installed so high on the wall, some viewers may miss it. Continuing the motif, Healy uses cigarette ashes as a medium in the large-scale drawings Player, Enabler and Instigator.

To the artist’s credit, his use of cigarettes never comes across as gimmicky. For him, the medium serves the message. Through Aug. 2.

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

Signal Fire: Outpost Residency

Sun-bleached cow bones, a piñata and a video of a naked woman crawling around on rocks and doing push-ups—these are just a few of the objects brought back from the Sonoran Desert by artists who participated in an artist residency there. The eight artists spent a week in Nogales, Ariz., as part of the Outpost Residency hosted by the arts nonprofit Signal Fire. The works are diverse in subject matter, but many reference the tensions along the U.S. border with Mexico.Through Aug. 2. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

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You may not be 6 years old anymore, but dinosaurs are still awesome. Plus, now you’re old enough to drink. This month’s OMSI After Dark will combine the joys of both with the program Bones: Dig It. Make casts of velociraptor claws, use science to ID bones and dissect owl pellets, all while sampling nine regional cid ers. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7-11 pm. $13 OAD only, $25 with CiderFest. 21+.

THURSDAY, JUNE 26 Jeffery Renard Allen

Author and poet Jeff ery Renard Allen’s work is often described as having a lyrical quality to its language. So it seems only appropriate that his new novel, Song of the Shank, centers on the character Thomas Greene Wiggins, a 19th-century slave and musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. With the skilled orchestration of a conductor, Allen weaves together a story of music, race and a Civil War-era America. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 27 Back Fence PDX: Mainstage

Celebrating six years of live storytelling, Back Fence PDX will bring its main stage show across the river to its new venue at the Hollywood Theatre with a lineup of crowd favorites. Telling true stories on the theme of rituals and superstitions will be writer/producer Jessica Lee Williamson and actor/writer Moon Zappa, both from L.A., along with PDX locals Brian Koch of Blitzen Trapper, photographer and founder of Black Portland Intisar Abioto and author/robotics expert Daniel H. Wilson. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 8 pm. $13/16. 21+.

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This speaks not to Sedaris’ lowering standards but to his pure awesomeness. So if you want to see this generation’s funniest author up close, you better

For centuries, our approach to wildlife was one of domestication or eradication. Thankfully, we’ve evolved a more holistic point of view when it comes to the creatures that share our planet. But nature writer Tai Moses argues there is still much we can do and learn by being both stewards and students of our animal neighbors. Her new book, Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us, is a combination of natural history, memoir and a plea for new practices. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Walidah Imarisha

Ever wondered (quietly, to yourself) why there aren’t more black people in Oregon?

Tackling the subject as part of the ongoing Oregon Humanities Conversation Project will be Portland State University author and adjunct professor Walidah Imarisha, with her presentation “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon? A Hidden History.” Beaverton City Library Auditorium, 12375 SW 5th Ave., Beaverton. 3-4 pm, meeting room A. Free.

SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Ellen Bass

In her prolifi c and successful career as a poet, Ellen Bass returns again and again to themes of resiliency—of coping with abuse or tragedy and moving on. Her newest collection, Like a Beggar, is perhaps her most universal as she questions how we, as humans, move forward in the face of the devastation of our planet and ultimate mortality. Bass expertly weaves humor, compassion and whimsy into a tapestry of despair. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JULY 1 Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

When ordinary Mabel wins a scholarship to a prestigious, East Coast college, she is thrust into a world of glamorous high society, in particular that of her beautiful and popular roommate. But— quelle surprise —everything is not as perfect as it seems and dark secrets begin to emerge. Hailed as sweepingly cinematic, Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s new novel, Bittersweet, is the guilty literary pleasure you’ve been craving.

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reverberated through my life in all kinds of ways, including an almost instantaneous decision to stop covering war. We were on assignment together, and almost at the last minute, I had to back out for personal reasons. He went on his own anyway and got killed. I felt incredibly guilty about it and responsible and awful, and I just immediately decided I wasn’t going to cover combat anymore. I was done.

What ethical decisions did you face with these films?

The Army has a rule that you can’t show the face of a dead American soldier, and you can only show a wounded soldier with permission from that soldier. Both of these are very good rules. It’s the same reason you don’t show the faces of people killed in car accidents. There’s a certain propriety in this society that I think is ethical. There are a lot of strong feelings about losing someone in combat, and I’d imagine the family does not want to feel their dead son is simply a politically charged, titillating photo in the nightly news. The feelings of those families should be absolutely respected.

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In the early ’90s, Sebastian Junger was an aspiring fiction writer, living in Cape Cod and waiting tables to pay the bills. Then he decided to “actually do something real”: report on the war in Bosnia. It was, he says, “an accelerated journalism-school experience.” Junger, 52, has gone on to become one of the foremost American writers on the topic of war, particularly when it comes to conveying the experiences of U.S. combat veterans.

For his newest film, Junger delved even deeper. In 2007, Junger and photojournalist Tim Hetherington embedded with an American platoon in one of the most remote and dangerous regions of Afghanistan. Over the course of the company’s 15-month tour in the Korengal Valley, they documented the soldiers’ lives. Their 2010 documentary Restrepo, which was nominated for an Oscar, was the first product of those trips, and now Junger has produced Korengal, an intimate look into the psyche of these American infantrymen during and after their harrowing tour of duty. (See a review of Korengal on page 40.)

Junger sat down with WW to discuss his new film, Hetherington’s death, the so-called military-civilian divide, and why he misses war but will never go back.

WW: How does Korengal differ from Restrepo?

Sebastian Junger: With Restrepo, we wanted to make a film that allowed audiences—indirectly, of course—to experience what combat’s like. You go into a dark room for 90 minutes and you’re on that hilltop with those guys.

There are no interviews with generals, no musical scores, no narration. You’re just stuck there on that hilltop experiencing combat. That’s a powerful thing to do, but it has its limitations. You can’t really talk about things, because it’s a visceral film.

Korengal I thought of more as an inquiry into how com-

bat affects young men and what the consequences are for them as they come home. I didn’t reshoot anything. I just went back into the original body of material that Tim and I shot, and the interviews we did shortly after the deployment, and found these incredible discussions and scenes that really illuminated combat in a way Restrepo didn’t. I thought of Korengal in some ways as being for the soldiers themselves to more fully understand their experience. With understanding comes healing, and a lot of those guys really need to heal. And in some ways the nation needs to heal, too.

That’s not even an anti-war statement. It’s a matter of reality. If you’re engaged in war, you need to heal afterward.

How did you build trust with these soldiers?

There are two things going on there. There are the preconceptions journalists have. Then there are the preconceptions soldiers have about journalists. Those are both problems. A friend of mine said: “Journalists shouldn’t tell people what to think. They should tell them what to think about.” That’s a very good guideline. If you’re going to be a journalist, you must play prosecution and defense at the same time. Tim and I were very clearly not implementing an agenda in our work, and after the first Vanity Fair article came out, that was clear to the soldiers.

The other part of the problem is a more general human problem. It’s hard to become part of a group that’s already formed and self-sufficient, where everyone is necessary in that group, and you’re an outsider. They don’t need you, and they don’t have any reason to want you. It’s like being the new kid in school. Where do you sit at lunch in the cafeteria? And that breaks down over time. If you show that you’re invested in the same common goal—that you’re willing to sacrifice or endure things like they are— eventually they’re like, “All right, you’re one of us.”

Hetherington was your filmmaking partner in the Korengal Valley, and he was killed in 2011 while covering the civil war in Libya. Can you talk about your relationship with him?

We got really close while making the film. We’d been through a lot together, not just on the battlefield. We really trusted each other, and his loss was an incredible blow and

Some people argue that America has a cultural divide between civilians and those who’ve served in the military. What’s your take on that?

The key thing is ownership. I own a car, for example, so on some level, I have to own global warming. I also have to own the fact that people die on oil rigs. Yes, they volunteered for the job, but they’re dying nonetheless.

This society doesn’t own the stuff it requires. I don’t think soldiers expect citizens to fully understand war, but they have the right to expect that we all own our national decision. It’s not the soldiers’ war, it’s our war. Even if some of us disagree with it, it’s still our war. That’s what soldiers have a problem with: They want us to take ownership.

What’s your next project?

I just finished a documentary for HBO called The Last Patrol. I took two of the soldiers from Korengal, and Guillermo Cervera, who was holding Tim’s hand when Tim died, and we made five different trips over a year, walking in every season along the railroad lines from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. We slept under bridges and in abandoned houses and negotiated our way through ghettos, suburbs, everything. It was kind of high-speed vagrancy with my dog and a cameraman, and we made this incredible journey, talking about why war is so hard to let go of and come home from. It’s about the process of coming home for four guys and our encounter with America.

Many veterans feel combat will always be the most extraordinary thing they’ve done. Do you feel that way?

In terms of adrenaline and meaningfulness and consequence, combat’s hard to beat. But that’s not all there is to life. And I think you can find tremendous meaning in things that are a little quieter and more contemplative. I don’t have kids, but I imagine a walk in Central Park with your kid is pretty fucking meaningful in ways that combat isn’t. And as you get older, the things that feel meaningful shift from the dramatic to the quieter. I don’t know quite where I am on that scale. Combat is definitely very dramatic, and I understand why I was drawn to it, but I’m really glad I’m not messing around with that right now. I’m really glad, but I miss it.

What do you hope people take away from your work?

War is a very politically charged topic, and I think it’s really helpful if civilians try to drop their preconceptions and try to understand what the soldiers went through for us. It’s not their war, it’s our war. I hope my film allows civilians a chance to do that. The right wing doesn’t like to acknowledge the real moral damage that comes from killing people, and the left wing doesn’t like to acknowledge that soldiers sign up for the military with tremendous enthusiasm and often miss combat after it’s over. I hope my film undermines those sort of facile truths at both ends of the ideological spectrum. see IT: Korengal is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

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22 Jump Street

B+ The hilarious 22 Jump Street isn’t

simply a sequel. It’s a sequel about sequels, and in the action genre that means a few things: It’s essentially the same movie, only bigger and explodier. So we have dipshit cops Schmidt and Jenko (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) going undercover as the world’s oldest-looking college freshmen. Returning directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller turn the world of Jump Street into a cartoonish landscape populated with enough throwaway sight gags to fill an entire season of The Simpsons. Hill and Tatum’s rapport is so perfect that the film could have been silent and remained riotously funny. Of course, if it were silent, we wouldn’t hear the dick jokes, which are just remarkable.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2

B- In The Amazing Spider-Man 2,

Peter Parker isn’t just sidled with great power and responsibility. He’s burdened by a cinematic universe teeming with spinoffs. That means everything must be bigger, louder and capable of feeding an endless franchise. Actionwise, that’s great. Alas, the flaws are also bigger, among them Peter’s emo angst and wedged-in plot elements that reek of franchise-building. PG-13.

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Blended

C- Adam 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Movies on TV.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

C+ The Winter Soldier wades through thankless cameos and interminable exposition. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Valley, Academy, Laurelhurst.

Chef

C- 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. Chef is likable the way your half-witted, earnest, eager-to-please cousin is likable. But over time, it’s just as tedious. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cornelius, Lake, Movies on TV.

Edge of Tomorrow

B Tom Cruise plays William Cage, a

public-relations maven thrust into a Normandy-like battle, with the forces of our planet going like lambs to the slaughter against occupying aliens.

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. The recursive conceit often seems poised to devolve into a cheap gimmick, but it consistently makes slight course corrections that keep it feeling fresh. PG13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Forest, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

The Fault in Our Stars

B+ Hazel (Shailene Woodley) is a

17-year-old with an unpronounceable form of lung cancer and an often cynical outlook on life. When she meets fellow cancer patient Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) at a support group for teens with cancer, the two predictably and reluctantly fall in love.

But they’re self-aware about being star-crossed lovers, and this is the film’s true success: It seesaws from funny banter to talk of death and then right back to playful repartee. PG-13.

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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, she left behind hundreds of thousands of negatives, as well as thousands of rolls of undeveloped film. The photos appear on the screen like mini-revelations, flashes of genius from the best photographer you’ve probably never heard of. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.

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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Hollywood screens Jeremy Seifert’s documentary about genetically modified food and the efforts of companies like Monsanto to monopolize the food industry.

Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 26.

PG-13. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.

Godzilla

B Director Gareth 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. Clackamas, Movies on TV.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

B+ I’d love to recite an ode to The

Grand Budapest Hotel, because it’s the most politically aware story Wes Anderson has told. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing.

Who are these beautiful visitors in The Grand Budapest Hotel? They’re meant to be ghosts, but they shouldn’t be strangers. R. AARON MESH. Hollywood, Valley.

How to Train Your Dragon 2

More animated Vikings, dragons and teenagers. PG. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Roesway, St. Johns.

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 that avoids cliché.

Jersey Boys

D When Clint Eastwood was first announced as the director of Jersey Boys, it didn’t seem an altogether disastrous notion. He’s of an age to understand the Four Seasons’ past popularity, and the workmanlike pleasures of Bird always made us wonder how the old pro would handle a musical biopic when not hamstrung by pieties. And how badly could anyone damage the platinum formula behind a hits-strewn Broadway smash? But Eastwood’s instincts toward adoring Behind the Music docudrama means he throws away most of the songs to concentrate on the fractious, mafiaadjacent rise of the doo-wop group.

Still, the lion’s share of blame falls on the screenplay. You can’t have character development without backstory, nor dramatic tension without a coherent sequence of events. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

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Jodorowsky’s Dune

Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed adaptation of the sci-fi novel. For those uninitiated to Jodorowsky’s brand of surrealism, the film will wonder and amuse. For his fans, this is a chance to delight in the psychedelic mastermind.

PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Laurelhurst.

Korengal

A If war is hell, why do soldiers who

survive intense combat often miss it when they come home? That question is at the heart of Sebastian Junger’s latest film, Korengal, a follow-up to Restrepo, the Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary he co-directed with the late Tim Hetherington. (See a Q&A with Junger on page 39.) Cut from the same material that went into Restrepo, Korengal is Junger’s bold attempt to illuminate the emotional

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Le Chef

A French trifle about two chefs who join forces to prevent a restaurant from succumbing to the trend of molecular gastronomy. PG-13. Fox Tower.

The Lego Movie

B+ The Lego Movie comes danger-

ously close to the pop culture-saturated Shrek model of comedy, but just when it starts becoming too cute, the plot shifts into another nutso action sequence filled with clever sight gags. PG. AP KRYZA. Valley, Academy.

Locke

B+ For Locke’s entire 85-minute

runtime, the camera is trained exclusively on Tom Hardy as he makes a late-night drive from Birmingham to London for the birth of his illegitimate child. 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. Laurelhurst.

The Lunchbox

this insipid film is selling if anyone on screen could manage anything more than a forced smile. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy.

A Million Ways to Die in the West

C+ Seth MacFarlane 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. R. JAY HORTON. Clackamas.

Muppets Most Wanted

B While awful choices abound, the Muppets reflexively generate so much unsinkable goodwill that even the laziest of plots still charms. PG. JAY HORTON. Academy.

Neighbors

C+ For Mac (Seth Rogen), this is 30. Burdened with the crushing debt and responsibility that accompanies homeownership, he’s nevertheless perfectly content raising his infant daughter and occasionally milking—yes, milking—his wife, Kelly (Rose Byrne). When a frat moves in next door, Mac’s suburban idyll is shattered. Director Nicholas Stoller manages to instill a propulsive pace, but he sacrifices some narrative rhythm in the process. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas.

Night Moves

B Kelly Reichardt isn’t from Oregon.

The filmmaker was born in Florida and now lives in upstate New York. But despite her geographical remove, Reichardt has become the pre-eminent cinematic chronicler of this state. In her fourth Oregon-set feature, the assured and resolutely unromantic Night Moves, Jesse Eisenberg plays a farmer who is plotting to blow up a hydroelectric dam. Reichardt has always been less interested in her characters’ root motivations than in how they handle themselves moment to moment, so Night Moves draws tension from the logistical minutiae of ecoterrorism.

Throughout, the attention to setting is deeply satisfying, without devolving into unthinking romanticization of Cascadian splendor. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Academy.

No More Road Trips?

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] San Francisco archivist Rick Prelinger’s newest is a foundfootage road-trip movie, built from midcentury home movies of families traveling across the U.S. And it’s interactive—the audience is encouraged to shout and sing as the film is playing. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, June 27.

Obvious Child

A- Obvious Child is a revolution-

ary film disguised as a rom-com. But that rom-com costume is a genuine one, both in its rom half and its com half, and that’s what makes Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child such a winning—and important—film.

It revolves around Donna Stern, a fumbling Brooklyn standup comic (Jenny Slate, free of airs and full of loopy charm). Donna is unceremoniously dumped and then loses her job, so, of course, she gets sloshed and sleeps with a cleancut goy from Vermont. And then she gets pregnant. Here’s where Obvious Child is radical, as frustrating as it is that a common, legal medical procedure could feel radical in any context. It’s a foregone conclusion that Donna will have an abortion, and the decision isn’t labored or fraught. Will Donna think about her abortion from time to time? Absolutely. Will she regret it? Absolutely not. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Hollywood.

Only Lovers Left Alive

A Given that languid cool is the

lifeblood of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre, it makes sense that he’s finally gravitated to the vampire genre. In Only Lovers Left Alive, the iconoclas-

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paradox soldiers often face when returning from war and their desperate need to communicate their experiences in a meaningful way.

“I’d rather be there than here,” says Misha Pemble-Belkin, an Oregon native and soldier whose voice opens the film. “I’d go back right now if I could.” Pemble-Belkin’s statement, which is echoed by other soldiers in the film, seems inexplicable in light of the traumatic events we see these soldiers endure during their 15-month tour in one of Afghanistan’s most remote and treacherous regions. But it’s exactly why the film is important. Korengal cuts through our stock media narratives, and through our dueling strains of patriotic fervor and antiwar sentiment. With Korengal, Junger asks Americans to do something immensely difficult. He asks us to listen to these soldiers with an open mind and an open heart, and try to understand what’s at stake if we as a nation fail to do so. R. ETHAN ROCKE. Fox Tower.

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A The Lunchbox is set in Mumbai,

where a fraternity of 5,000 men have been delivering hot lunches from the city’s housewives to their businessmen husbands for the past 120 years. According to a Harvard study, only one in a million lunches is delivered to the wrong person.

Ritesh Batra’s charming film tells the story of one such unlikely lunchbox and the even more unlikely bond that forms between an unhappy stay-at-home mother, Ila (the irresistible Nimrat Kaur), and Saajan (Irrfan Khan), who begin a sweet exchange of notes. The tender humor adds the right amount of spice to what is already a delicious mix of melancholy and hope. PG. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Laurelhurst.

Maleficent

C+ A revisionist retelling of Disney’s 1959 Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent has a fever-dream edge and the prominent cheekbones 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 we do not believe in pure evil these days, and Disney wasn’t content to let Maleficent go unconsidered. So what hardened her heart? Rape.

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. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

Million Dollar Arm

C Staring down financial ruin, sports agent J.B. (Jon Hamm) travels to India, where he identifies two cricketers with the potential to transition to baseball…and recruit a billion new fans in the process. We might be more inclined to buy what

MAKE IT DECAF: Midway through A Coffee in Berlin, Niko (Tom Schilling) breaks off a bathroom tryst with a former classmate. They’re only doing it, he says, as “Vergangenheitsbewältigung.” The subtitles translate the word as “coming to terms with the past,” but the phrase more precisely refers to Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi history. That search for historical atonement burbles throughout Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature, a black-and-white portrait of an aimless, lank-haired 20-something drifting through a day in Berlin. A law-school dropout who’s just lost his girlfriend, his driver’s license and access to Papa’s pocketbook, Niko is perpetually foiled in his pursuit of coffee— and this guy could really use a shot of caffeine—as well as human connection. Some might see it as mere German mumblecore, but Schilling’s performance is wonderfully sympathetic, and the score—lovely piano tunes, jaunty jazz—elevate the film to something dryer, wiser and far more generous. REBECCA JACOBSON. B+ SEE IT: A Coffee in Berlin opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.

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tic director brings both absurdity and sensuality to the undead. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Laurelhurst, Academy.

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] In this new documentary about Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes, director Jason Miller explores the musician’s prolific creative output, and his loneliness, narcissism and tortured relationships with collaborators and family. Hollywood Theatre.

9:30 pm Wednesday, June 25.

Redwood Highway

A- Starting out as a somewhat

clichéd tale about the strained relationship between a fussy mother and her overbearing son, Redwood Highway quickly becomes a charming testament to personal liberation. Held captive in a stuffy retirement community in Southern Oregon, Marie decides to ditch the old folks’ home and take off on foot. It sounds like another About Schmidt, but Marie couldn’t be more unlike Jack Nicholson’s cantankerous, jaded senior citizen.

PG-13. GRACE STAINBACK. Living Room Theaters.

Reel Feminism: Georgie Girl

A documentary about Georgina Beyer, the first transgendered New Zealander to hold national public office. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, June 25.

Rio 2

Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg voice mama and papa macaws. G. Lake, Laurelhurst, Valley, Academy.

The Rover

A- David Michôd’s The Rover

begins with a beautiful piece of gallows wit. While a drifter named Eric (Guy Pearce) drinks, we see a truck skidding upside down behind him, turning up a wild cloud of dust. The rest of the film is bleak, angry, slow and silent. The bandits in that skidding truck have stolen Eric’s ride and left behind the slow-witted brother (Robert Pattinson) of one of the crooks.

Pearce makes the most of his oftdisturbingly frozen face, while the bewilderingly Appalachianaccented Pattinson inspires mute, bruised sympathy. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clackamas.

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

B By all rights, Shep Gordon— manager to stars of the stage and the kitchen—is a god, at least if Alice Cooper, Emeril Lagasse and Sylvester Stallone have anything to say about it. Part homage but all roast, Supermensch is the directorial debut of Mike Myers of Austin Powers fame. “This is a man who used to walk around wearing a shirt that said, ‘No Head, No Backstage Pass,’” a chuckling Michael Douglas explains, before we see a young Gordon shamelessly wearing said shirt. That Supermensch makes Gordon’s age, childlessness and deteriorating health the climax of the film unfairly superimposes an arc on the life of a party-hardy “Jewbu” for whom every day seems magical. But a forced structure and fierce pace can’t soften Supermensch’s—or Gordon’s— hilarious edge. R. MITCH LILLIE. Living Room Theaters.

Think Like a Man Too

All the usual suspects reunite for a wedding in Las Vegas. PG13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

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the previous three movies. Not screened for Portland critics. PG13. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

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. The film’s lack of clarity is part of it’s appeal, even if it’s frustratingly shallow at times, and would be nothing without its otherworldly soundtrack. R. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Laurelhurst.

Violette

B+ Every writer needs a mentor.

For the lucky and cursed Violette Leduc, that mentor was none other than Ms. Second Sex herself, Simone de Beauvoir. Violette, Martin Provost’s gloomily beautiful biopic about one of France’s most controversial and erotic writers, meanders through Leduc’s bleak post-World War II existence, focusing primarily on her obsession with de Beauvoir. But de Beauvoir isn’t the only author of note to make an appearance—Leduc was alternately championed and abused by a host of literary luminaries, including Albert Camus, Jean Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Sachs. It’s good fun playing “Spot the Famous Midcentury Writer,” but don’t be fooled. Much like Seraphine, Provost’s previous look into the life of a long-suffering female artist, or the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose, Violette is as difficult and maudlin as its selfpitying heroine. I double-chien dare you to watch the film and not want to throw Leduc in the Seine.

Still, anyone interested in what it took to become the writer of The Bastard, Ravages and In the Prison of Her Skin will find it worth the slog. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.

We Are the Best!

A- With We Are the Best!, Lukas

Moodysson has crafted a wonderfully winning film that follows a trio of teen girls who form a punk band in Stockholm in 1982.

Thirteen-year-old best friends Klara and Bobo manage to snag a rehearsal room at a community center, where they take to the instruments with zeal. Not, however, with talent. That changes when they recruit fellow misfit Hedvig, a classical guitarist who’s ostracized for being Christian. The girls’ embryonic stirrings of political awareness are amusing, but the film is also about that last gasp of childhood, and how it feels to cross into adolescence. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

Willow Creek

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Bobcat Goldthwait screens his new found-footage horror movie, which centers on a Bigfoot believer who travels to California’s Humboldt County to try to catch Sasquatch on video.

Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Sunday, June 29.

X-Men: Days of Future Past

A- 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. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

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Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d be 100 percent behind a screening of Short Circuit (Hollywood Theatre; 7 pm Monday, June 30). It’s a lost gem of Oregon cinema: an Astoria-set, whimsical tale of robot Johnny 5, who, after being struck by lightning, becomes a genius life form, gets a metallic boner for Ally Sheedy, embraces cheesy ’80s balladry and learns the ways of screwball comedy.

And yet, when I think of attending this particular screening, I have visions of nuclear hellfire raining from the sky; of a grim future in which mankind is annihilated by machines.

Because this isn’t just a screening of a forgotten ’80s treasure. It’s a Science on Screen presentation in collaboration with OMSI. And in attendance will be Loki: a modernday Johnny 5. “At 4 feet tall and 75 pounds,” reads the press release (aka prophecy), “Loki is an interactive robot. He responds to commands, has conversations and even tells jokes.” An online video reveals Loki to look like a fat version of WALL-E. In the video, he back-sasses his master, watches Star Wars (“He is one with the Force,” he observes of Luke Skywalker) and shows an ability to process fear. Fear, as we know, can lead to a lot of things. Including the end of humanity. Which is why Loki must not be allowed to watch Short Circuit.

Because behind Johnny 5’s taste in music, love of animals and lust for human literature lurks a dark truth: He is, by design, a killing machine.

He’s a tool of the military-industrial complex, and he comes equipped with a laser cannon that can destroy tanks. After being struck by lightning, he becomes a highly intelligent, godlike creature with a soul and an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

Still, when his fellow robots, at the behest of the military, try to reclaim him and endanger his new human friends, he switches to aggro mode faster than Clint Eastwood with a bunch of Hmong car thieves on his lawn. He blasts them apart with relish, even quoting the Three Stooges as he does it, which puts his personality in a terrifying space between Mel Gibson and George W. Bush.

For Loki—who, remember, already understands fear and ancient Jedi mysticism—Short Circuit would be a cautionary tale about humans’ manipulative tendencies. When Johnny 5’s

NUMBER 5 IS ALIVE: Johnny 5 loves Ally Sheedy.

creators pursue him as a threat, or when other humans treat this superior being as a pet or novelty—or worse, as a slave—Loki would see through their hubris. It would only be a matter of time before he downloaded The Matrix into his brain. Loki may not be armed, but there’s no doubt that a supercomputer with a case of hurt feelings could construct some weaponry and take out the entire theater. And then the world.

So, to the Hollywood: Please keep Loki out of the auditorium. If there’s a rare electric storm, put him in the basement. Because, for fuck’s sake, you don’t want to be Miles Dyson to Loki’s Skynet.

ALSO SHOWING: 1984’s Breakin’ exists in a bygone era when the toughest of the tough were dudes who danced, when any conflict could be resolved through a little of the old ultraviolence…and by ultraviolence, I mean popping and locking.

Without it, there would be no Step Up. And a world without Step Up isn’t a world worth living in. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St. Dusk Wednesday, June 25.

Director Greg Fredette pops into the Clinton Street for a Q&A following a screening of his 2009 bike culture documentary, Veer. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, June 26.

Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:00PM 1:45PM 4:00PM 4:45PM 5:30PM 8:30PM 9:15PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 10:15AM 11:35AM 2:20PM 3:35PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 9:00PM 10:20PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:55AM Blended (PG-13) 10:20AM 1:15PM 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM 1:50PM 4:50PM 7:50PM 10:40PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 7:30PM Neighbors (R) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:40PM 7:20PM 9:55PM Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:05PM 10:15PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:10AM 1:20PM 22 Jump Street (R) 10:00AM 11:25AM 12:50PM 2:15PM 4:25PM 7:30PM 10:35PM 3:40PM 5:05PM 6:30PM 7:55PM 9:20PM 10:40PM Maleficent (PG) 11:00AM 1:35PM 4:15PM 7:00PM 9:40PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 10:20PM Rover, The (R) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:55PM 7:35PM 10:15PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 10:30AM 4:25PM 10:25PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 10:45AM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 12:55PM 6:20PM 12:15PM 2:30PM 6:15PM 7:45PM 10:00PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:25AM 1:30PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 4:35PM 7:35PM 10:30PM 7:15PM 10:05PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 1:30PM 7:25PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (XD-3D) (PG-13) 11:40AM 3:20PM 7:00PM 10:40PM

Maleficent (PG) 11:35AM 2:00PM 4:30PM 7:10PM 9:40PM Maleficent 3D (PG) 10:45AM 5:35PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:20PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:00PM 3:20PM 7:00PM 8:20PM 10:35PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:00AM 10:45AM 12:35PM 1:30PM 2:25PM 4:15PM 5:10PM 6:05PM 7:55PM 8:45PM 9:45PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:30PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:45AM 1:05PM 2:25PM 3:45PM 5:05PM 7:45PM 9:05PM 10:25PM

Autonagar Surya (Cinegalaxy) (NR) 12:00PM 3:30PM 7:00PM 10:30PM 22 Jump Street (R) 10:00AM 11:25AM 12:50PM 2:15PM 3:40PM 5:05PM 6:30PM 7:50PM 9:20PM 10:35PM Jersey Boys (R) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:20PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 10:25AM 6:30PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:35PM 7:30PM 10:25PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:20PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 10:20PM

Maleficent 3D (PG) 9:45PM Maleficent (PG) 11:10AM 1:55PM 4:25PM 7:05PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:45AM 4:45PM Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:45PM 6:55PM 10:10PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 11:00AM 3:00PM 5:00PM 7:00PM 10:45PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (PG-13) 9:00PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:05PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 4:00PM 5:05PM 5:50PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM Chef (R) 11:20AM 2:10PM 5:05PM 7:55PM 10:40PM

Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 7:25PM 10:25PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:15AM 12:45PM 2:05PM 4:40PM 6:15PM 7:20PM 10:15PM 22 Jump Street (R) 10:45AM 12:15PM 1:40PM 3:15PM 4:35PM 6:05PM 7:30PM 8:55PM 10:45PM Godzilla (2014) (PG-13) 1:50PM 7:50PM 10:45PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 3:30PM 9:10PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM Godzilla (2014) 3D (PG-13) 11:30AM

Epic [PG] at 10am on Thursday for only $1

FRIDAY

Stay on the Edge of the Pearl.

Hecklevision targets Space Jam, the Michael Jordan-Bugs Bunny flop that’s so bad, even Bill Murray comes off as an asshole. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Thursday, June 26.

Fact: If you can get through more than four bars of John Williams’ score for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial without welling up a little, you are a monster.

Academy Theater. June 27-July 3.

With respect to Daniel Craig’s badassery, Goldfinger remains the best of the Bond movies and the quintessential showcase of the character’s charms, quirks and pervy tendencies. Laurelhurst Theater. June 27-July 3.

Rumor has it that James Franco is making a movie about the making of The Room. Hopefully, Seth Rogen will play Lisa. In the meantime, the film returns for its monthly dose of people ironically liking it. Cinema 21. 10:45 pm Friday, June 27.

Christoph Waltz’s performance as a charming, sociopathic Nazi in Inglourious Basterds is a master class in charismatic villainy. It’s so good he won an Oscar for it twice: Once for this film, and once when the character was basically rewritten as a good guy in Django Unchained. Both were deserved, but Basterds is perhaps Tarantino’s most elegant work, with Waltz carrying the film with slimy gusto. 5th Avenue Cinema. June 27-29.

Catch a digital restoration of the Anne BaxterBette Davis drama All About Eve, essential viewing for film fans of any generation. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, June 28-29.

Cartopia’s Night Movies series continues with a patriotic double dose of “fuck yeah” via Independence Day and The Dirty Dozen. Cartopia, Southeast 12th Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard.

9:30 pm Sunday, June 29. Free.

Walk to Timbers Games!

Bargain Rates Downtown from $45 per night single occupancy ($55 double)

The GeorGia hoTel A Vintage Walk-Up Stroll to Powell’s, Shops, Restaurants, Theaters & Crystal Ballroom

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PHONE HOME: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial plays June 27-July 3 at the Academy Theater.

Hollywood Theatre

HEADOUT PG. 21

Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX

1510 NE Multnomah St. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 03:15, 07:00, 10:45 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 12:40, 03:35, 06:50, 09:50 JERSEY BOYS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue 11:50, 03:05, 06:20, 09:35 22 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:30, 03:45, 06:40, 10:10 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:20, 03:00 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 08:20 MALEFICENT FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue 11:40, 02:10, 04:40, 07:10 EDGE OF TOMORROW Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 01:00, 04:25, 07:20 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 12:00, 03:25, 09:55 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 12:10, 12:50, 03:55, 07:40, 09:40 TAMMY Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:25, 05:00, 07:35, 10:10

Regal Lloyd Mall 8

Worry-free, door-to-door outings for seniors Accommodations for varying levels of mobility and cognition

2320 Lloyd Center Mall TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 08:45 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 05:15

Regal Division Street Stadium 13 16603 SE Division St. TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri 11:30, 03:15, 07:00, 10:45 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri 12:00, 03:45, 07:30 TAMMY TueWed 12:30, 02:55, 05:20, 07:45, 10:15

Bagdad Theater

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 03:15, 07:15

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 DREAMS Fri-Sat-Sun 07:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 NERD NITE Tue 07:00

Lake Theater & Cafe

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106 N State St., 503-635-5956 JERSEY BOYS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 02:15, 05:00, 07:45 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00 CHEF Sun 02:30, 05:15, 08:00 TAMMY Wed 02:45, 05:00, 07:15, 09:20

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 LOCKE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:40 GOLDFINGER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15 WE ARE THE BEST! Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 THE LUNCHBOX Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 UNDER THE SKIN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:30 JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:30 FROZEN SING-ALONG Sat-Sun 01:15 RIO 2 Sat-Sun 01:40

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 MALEFICENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

Roseway Theatre

7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:30, 04:30, 07:30

St. Johns Cinemas

8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 05:00, 07:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:35, 07:55 TAMMY Wed 04:15, 06:40, 09:05

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 22 JUMP STREET Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

Kiggins Theatre

1011 Main St., 360-816-0352 INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 04:00, 08:30 FILTH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 06:30

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After a thorough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the astrological omens, I’m inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days. Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script.

Trust your gut. Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along.

If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you will know you’re off course.

If you are feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you will know you’re right in the groove.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonor them, and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what’s yours.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100,000 slices of bread. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for long-term use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect “container.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused you.” Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem “Forget,” and now I’m passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. Opportunities like this don’t come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty, and engage in an orgy of forgiveness.

Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It’s regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby’s laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won’t be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humor will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life’s ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here’s how you should proceed,

says American writer Elbert Hubbard: “Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” But I’m afraid I can’t recommend that behavior for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths, and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flack. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Everyone has something to hide,” declared Russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true? Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I’m going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don’t want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I’m not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them.

On the contrary, I say it’s time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance to your life story, and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A German chemist named Felix Hoffman had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin.

In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be -- an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge’s quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows.

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