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I’m writing on behalf of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry regarding the article “Science and Industry” [WW, June 18, 2014]. Thank you for covering this important effort to shape the future of the Central Eastside. OMSI has been part of the community for 70 years, and during that time we have been a valued “science” resource for families with children. Some of this has been at our museum on Southeast Water Avenue. Much more has been delivered across Oregon and six other states through the country’s largest museum-based residential camp and educational outreach program. As our name indicates, we have also had a long history of “industry.” For more than 50 years, OMSI has designed and manufactured exhibitions that have been shipped to 1,240 clients in 23 countries. These exhibitions have been seen by millions of people and have sustained jobs at OMSI and for a variety of subconsultants in Portland and elsewhere. We are more than a museum. We share a common history in industry with our neighbors. We are also a major employer in Portland’s eastside, with a staff of 200 employees and 600 volunteers. We are experimenting with new approaches to “industry” that support 21st-century skill building, job creation and long-term economic growth. We are now home to Oregon Story Board, a nonprofit business accelerator and co-work space dedicated to support and mentor the next generation of digital storytellers in fields such as game design, app development and filmmaking. For the past two years, we have been an active participant in the city of Portland’s 2035 planning process as well as Station Area Planning
I’ve noticed that posted hours for some parks are expressed as “Open until 12:01 am.” What’s wrong with “Open until 12 am” or even “Open until midnight”? Is this because of limited sign space, tradition or some secret code? —Curious Park User Before I answer your question (if, indeed, I get around to answering it at all), I’d like to address a menace that’s been undermining the foundations of Western civilization for too long. I’m talking, of course, about ranch dressing. There was a time, not so long ago, when ranch confined itself to salads, or perhaps the odd crudités platter. These days, it’s established itself as a side dish in its own right, with obvious designs on full entree status. Is it coincidence that ranch’s steady march toward acceptability has closely paralleled the decline in our civility as a nation? I think not: Anecdotal evidence suggests that your ranch 4
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sessions while making many presentations to neighborhood and civic organizations. At dozens of public meetings, we have shared our hopes and plans with city planners, neighbors, architects and others. There is no secret—our belief is that a mixed-use designation will allow for the most sustainable development. This applies to 22 acres owned by OMSI as well as the larger district between 99E and the Willamette River. Owners representing 70 percent of the land in our immediate neighborhood have come out publicly in support of this. Together, we want to create an iconic destination district for the city that celebrates all that is Portland. This includes some appropriately scaled residential uses as well as a variety of industrial uses. We also envision greater access to the river and green spaces for the public to enjoy. Why the need for residential? We believe that to keep an area vibrant at all hours, you need people living there. It is simply a part of a bigger ecosystem that we hope to create, certainly not the defining feature, as your article suggests. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, OMSI is not a developer. We are involved in the public process precisely because we want development in this area to be the result of a careful, considered and integrated approach that leverages sizable public investments in transport infrastructure and supports both our mission and the community in which we live. Mark Patel, OMSI vice president for marketing LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
consumption is directly proportional to how much of a boorish hillbilly you are. If you put it on fries, you’re merely a Republican. Need it for chicken wings, too? Your NRA card is in the mail. And if you can’t eat a slice of pizza without a bowl of ranch on the side—well, you may as well resign yourself to a life of bad tipping, tooth decay and forcing yourself sexually on poultry, because you’re basically Larry the Cable Guy. As to those park signs, Curious, the reason they don’t say 12 am is because there is persistent confusion as to what 12 am means: is it noon or midnight? Even the National Institute of Standards and Technology—the folks who run the atomic clock that is the final arbiter of time for the entire planet—say “12 am and 12 pm are ambiguous and should not be used.” If they don’t know, what hope do you and I have?
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Since 2009, Club Rouge has served as Portland’s “only truly upscale gentlemen’s club.” But the Portland Police Bureau is targeting the liquor license for the strip club, located at 403 SW Stark St. A June 2 letter to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission from Capt. Mark Kruger of the bureau’s drugs and vice division says police may give an “unfavorable recommendation” against license renewal because the applicant “is not of good repute and moral character.” OLCC records show the licensee is Rouge PDX LLC, run by Zombie Holdings LLC, which is managed by Milwaukie lawyer Jeremy Swanlund. Police declined to discuss their objections to Club Rouge’s owners. Swanlund says he’s aware the city may oppose the license renewal but doesn’t know why. “I think it will be resolved through the process,” he adds. “I don’t think it’s very serious.” The OLCC has to conduct its own investigation if police make a negative recommendation, but in the end it may choose to renew the license, which expired June 30. The liquor agency has granted the club an extension while police complete their review. A Multnomah Athletic Club employee says he was sexually harassed by his supervisor but that the exclusive club didn’t take action after he reported the problem. In his complaint, filed with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries on June 19, Brian McMorris says he hired on at MAC as a caterer in 2012. He says his male supervisor grabbed McMorris’ buttocks and “didn’t remove [his hand] after I asked multiple times. I had to remove it myself.” The complaint says the supervisor called McMorris “sweetie” and “baby” and then cut his hours after McMorris told management. McMorris, who still works at MAC, didn’t respond to WW’s request for comment. A club official also declined to comment on the allegations. “We take any claims of harassment very seriously,” says Alison Beppler, the club’s human resources director, “and address those promptly.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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BOTTLE BILL: City officials say Portland Bottling Co. illegally drained 21 million gallons of water over three years at its plant. “We work very hard to comply with all city rules and regulations,” says company president Tom Keenan.
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No corporation had more at stake in the May ballot measure over control of the city’s water than Portland Bottling Co. The soft-drink bottler contributed $100,000—more than any other donor—to the failed measure, which would have wrested control of Portland’s water and sewer utilities away from City Hall. The company claimed it wanted to rein in rising water bills and stop the misspending of ratepayer funds. “The mayor has called us political terrorists,” Portland Bottling president Tom Keenan said last July. “I say we are political liberators.” Records obtained by WW show the company may have had another motive for getting the utilities out from under city control: Portland Bottling has been under investigation by the city for illegally dumping millions of gallons of wastewater. Bureau of Environmental Services investigators last November discovered evidence that Portland Bottling had, over a three-year period, illegally diverted 21 million gallons of water—enough to fill 32 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The diversion meant wastewater wasn’t run through a meter that calculates Portland Bottling’s sewer bills. Records show the city alleges the practice may have
been going on for five years, despite the company’s claims it had fixed the problem. On June 19, the bureau sent the company a $307,616 bill for “illicit sewer use” and levied a $142,300 penalty for violating city code. City Commissioner Nick Fish, who oversees BES, says the violations and fine are the biggest in the 25 years the bureau has overseen a pre-treatment program for corporate wastewater. “We caught them effectively stealing from other ratepayers,” Fish says. “This is the most egregious violation we’ve ever documented.” City sewer officials have sent the case to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which could pursue criminal charges. Portland Bottling says it will challenge the city’s penalties. “We 100 percent dispute it,” Keenan says. “We think it’s politically motivated.” Portland Bottling has long been one of the city’s largest industrial water customers, using about 47 million gallons a year to mix and bottle soda pop and energy drinks. A giant 7-Up bottle, since repainted, has stood for more than 70 years as an icon among the blue-collar businesses along Northeast Sandy Boulevard. Portland Bottling, like most industrial sites, pays for water piped into its plant and is billed for sewer services based on how much it discharges down the drain. Documents obtained by WW under Oregon public records law show sewer inspectors in 2007 discovered Portland Bottling was bypassing its wastewater meter by diverting water used to clean bottles down a floor drain.
The city levied a penalty and told Portland Bottling to fix the problem. The company claimed in 2008 it had done so but couldn’t prove it “without requiring a production stop for a significant period of time,” according to city records. Portland Bottling has been among the leading critics of the city’s water and sewer rates and spending. In July 2013, that frustration turned into a political revolt after Mayor Charlie Hales called Keenan and other company executives “political terrorists” for even suggesting a ballot measure to create an independent water and sewer utility board. In August, Portland Bottling gave $25,000 to signature gathering for the ballot measure. The company had the means to finance a campaign: Its largest shareholder is Harry Merlo, former CEO of timber giant Louisiana-Pacific (“Mystery Man Revealed,” WW, Oct. 2, 2013). In November, the city opened a new investigation into Portland Bottling. Records say city officials became suspicious when they saw a disparity between how much water was going in to Portland Bottling and how much wastewater they expected the company to send out. The bureau sent a robotic camera into the city pipes beneath Portland Bottling and discovered evidence that wastewater was still being diverted around the meter. A bureau inspector told Portland Bottling on Dec. 11 it was violating city code with “illicit connections that bypass the permitted treatment system.” Two days later, the company reported a $10,000 donation to the water district ballot measure. Keenan says Portland Bottling had plugged the drain in 2008, and didn’t know the plug had dislodged until city inspectors said so last December. “They have been in our plant inspecting us every year, and all of a sudden, something’s not right,” Keenan says. “I find that hard to believe.” The bill and penalty sent to Portland Bottling cover only violations that occurred in the past three years. Fish insists the investigation was not politically motivated. “That’s a red herring,” says Fish. “While they were funding this campaign, they were in egregious violation of their permits. So there is a deep irony.” Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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HOUSE OF CARDS DOCUMENTS SUGGEST SAIF CORP. FIRED ITS CEO BASED ON “FALSE AND INACCURATE” INFORMATION. By NIG E L JAQ UI SS
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SAIF Corp. is in the insurance business, an industry defined by the word “caution.” Yet thousands of pages of records from inside the state-owned workers’ compensation insurer suggest that SAIF’s board of directors failed to use any caution when it abruptly fired CEO John Plotkin two months ago. Plotkin was dismissed by the board after only three months at his $320,000-a-year job for allegedly making inappropriate comments in front of employees. Plotkin fought to keep his job, and scores of SAIF employees came to his defense. But the board fired him anyway May 9. Now, records obtained by WW show that SAIF officials failed to adequately vet the allegations against Plotkin. The records make clear that at least four officials, including three of the agency’s top managers, said allegations against Plotkin were untrue. “I’m now hearing that statements in [the human resources department’s] notes attributed to others are also false or inaccurate,” SAIF general counsel Shannon Rickard wrote in a May 22 email. “The common theme appears to be disbelief and anger that no one from HR bothered to pick up the phone to ask people whether the statements were true before taking them forward.” In other words, a company that specializes in investigating on-the-job injury claims had tossed aside its leader without substantiating the information used against him. It gets worse. Other documents, examined by WW, illustrate a parochial, insular culture at SAIF that Plotkin, a newcomer to Oregon, threatened to change. Employees credited Plotkin with a more open and welcoming management style than that of his predecessor, Brenda Rocklin. And many SAIF workers, including top officials, suspected executives still loyal to Rocklin helped engineer Plotkin’s firing. Internal phone records show Rocklin spoke frequently with one SAIF executive who played a key role in ousting Plotkin. Despite calls for an independent investigation, SAIF’s board blocked such an inquiry, ignoring evidence one top executive may have lied about his role in pushing Plotkin out. That executive, Chris Davie, has since resigned. The drama inside the agency is important for several reasons. SAIF is supposed to provide solid, reliable workers’ compensation insurance to thousands of Oregon businesses. A failure to handle its own affairs in a competent manner could undermine its credibility. It could also cost the state a lot of money if Plotkin sues for wrongful termination, as he is threatening to do. SAIF—which stands for State Accident Insurance Fund— is one of Oregon’s most important, if least known, state agencies. Oregon law requires employers to carry workers’ compensation insurance, and SAIF covers more than 50,000 Oregon companies and 600,000 workers. SAIF is a public corporation, but it gets no taxpayer money: Its revenues come from insurance premiums paid by employers. Lawmakers created the agency a century ago to help provide employers affordable coverage for their workers. 8
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unsaif for work: “By opting to shoot first and ask questions later, saif’s board completely disregarded its obligations to act in the best interest of employees and policyholders,” fired saif Corp. CEo John Plotkin says.
Plotkin, 58, came to Salem from Denver, where he’d served as interim CEO of Pinnacol, Colorado’s version of SAIF. In an April speech, SAIF board chairwoman Catherine Travis, a Portland lawyer, said the agency had selected Plotkin from a field of 250 applicants. “We chose well when we chose John Plotkin to lead SAIF forward to begin our next 100 years,” Travis said. Plotkin took over an agency whose history includes periodic crises and long periods of calm. In 1990, then- Gov. Neil Goldschmidt rescued SAIF from financial ruin, brokering a contentious agreement between business and labor called “the Mahonia Hall accords.” Then in 2003, Goldschmidt, out of office, landed a $20,000-a-month lobbying contract with the state-owned insurer. Its revelation and the subsequent investigation cost then-SAIF CEO Kathy Keene her job. Gov. John Kitzhaber appointed Rocklin, now 58, to SAIF’s top job in August 2004. Kitzhaber had previously called on Rocklin, then a lawyer working for the Oregon Department of Justice, to clean up the scandal-plagued Oregon Lottery. For nine years under Rocklin’s management, governors got what they wanted from SAIF: steady financial results and no drama. She retired in February. Plotkin, with a background as a trial lawyer, arrived at SAIF on Feb. 3 and set about to make what seemed minor changes to the agency’s culture. For starters, Plotkin asked that SAIF establish a bringyour-child-to-work day, something the agency had never done before. Records show such changes made some officials uncomfortable. One of those who opposed the suggestion was Ryan Fleming, SAIF’s vice president of human resources, who would later play a key role in Plotkin’s ouster. “I have coordinated these events at my previous employer, and they are a ton of work,” Fleming wrote in a March 26 email responding to Plotkin’s suggestion. “I prefer that we continue the approach SAIF has taken in the past.” Plotkin also wanted to relax SAIF’s formal dress code.
“I want to get [management] out of the clothing business,” he wrote in an April email. Davie—a 41-year SAIF veteran and the agency’s vice president of government affairs—disagreed. “I agree that there is no evidence that the quality of work has deteriorated when we adopt occasional casual days,” Davie wrote in an April 24 email. “I would still vote not to do this because I think everyday casual dress will diminish professionalism.” Both changes went into effect. Numerous emails and posts on SAIF’s internal blog show that many employees responded positively to such changes, and to being invited to meet with Plotkin in meetings intended to make the CEO more accessible. “I got a lot of positive feedback from employees,” Plotkin tells WW. “And as far as I could tell, my interactions with board members went well.” Yet, on Saturday, May 3, Travis, the SAIF board chairwoman, called Plotkin and requested that he resign. Plotkin says he was “stunned.” In his three months at SAIF, he says, there had been no warning that anyone on the board was dissatisfied with his performance. Nor had anyone suggested financial impropriety or potentially criminal behavior on his part—nothing that seemed to require precipitous action. Rather, Plotkin says, Travis told him he’d made comments that could threaten “a protected class,” but she provided no details. Plotkin pushed for an explanation. The next day, Travis called back, this time with what she said was evidence. She said Plotkin had used the phrase “checking jockstraps,” to describe SAIF’s attention to its dress code. In another incident, Plotkin had brought his English bulldog, Peligrosso, to work at the invitation of employees. Plotkin supposedly told a female employee walking her dog, a black Lab, to stay away from Peligrosso because he “liked to hump black dogs.” And that was the evidence. Plotkin says Travis presented him nothing in writing and gave him no chance to respond to the accusations, which he says were either false or taken out of context. Oregon Department of Justice lawyers representing SAIF later told Plotkin’s lawyer of two other issues: At a
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meeting, Plotkin told a SAIF employee to “speak English, not actuary.” The employee was Asian and another employee allegedly took offense. And Plotkin allegedly made a comment to a female employee about “shaking” her body while working out and used the word “tits” in conversation with Rocklin. Plotkin asked for additional time and asked to address the SAIF board on the morning of May 9. Nearly 200 employees used vacation time to attend the meeting, where Plotkin was fired. “I have never been more embarrassed to work for this company than I am today,” wrote one anonymous employee on the SAIF blog May 14. “Due to the actions of two vice presidents (being controlled by our prior CEO), the board of directors has terminated a great leader.”
be really wise for us to engage an independent party to verify the entire investigation. If there are inaccuracies, it’s better for us to figure it out ourselves as soon as possible.” But Gilkey and the board stonewalled Hanson and other top executives’ requests for an independent investigation. At a June 4 meeting of SAIF’s top managers, Hanson continued to push for transparency. “Rick said,” according to notes from the meeting, “that nothing the board did was defensible.” Records show that Rickard and other top managers thought Davie had lied to them about his role in Plotkin’s departure. Rickard, who also attended the June 4 meeting, wrote in her notes, “I, too, was upset that [Davie] had been untruthful with all of us.”
That former CEO, Rocklin, worked her last day at SAIF on Feb. 28. But in some ways she never left. (Rocklin, Davie and Travis all declined to comment for this story, citing potential litigation.) Records show Rocklin remained in regular telephone contact with two SAIF executives, effectively going around Plotkin. The executives she often communicated with were later suspected of helping engineer Plotkin’s firing: Davie, the government affairs director, and Fleming, the HR director. Rocklin was regularly discussing SAIF business with them. On March 5, for instance, Rocklin emailed Davie
Plotkin’s firing raises two other troubling issues. When she was CEO, Rocklin faced complaints about her forceful management style. The SAIF board hired an outside law firm to investigate. She was cleared. But in the case of Plotkin, the board accepted the HR department’s representations without seeking independent advice. In fact, records show, there was no documentation in Plotkin’s personnel file of any criticism of his performance from subordinates or board members. Other documents show Travis approached Rocklin in the days before Plotkin’s firing, asking her if she’d be willing to take her old job back. Notes from the conversation show Rocklin said yes. If Rocklin indeed exerted influence at SAIF after her retirement, that could create a legal problem for her. Oregon ethics law prohibits former state directors from interfering with their old agencies: “A public official who as part of the official’s duties invested public funds shall not within two years after the official ceases to hold the position…influence or try to influence the agency.” Meanwhile, Kitzhaber has been an absentee landlord at SAIF. Plotkin says Kitzhaber played no role in his hiring, never made an effort to meet him, and ignored Plotkin’s request for a meeting when the board threatened his termination. Kitzhaber has been neglectful of the board, too: Two of the board members who fired Plotkin—chairwoman Travis and vice chairman Robb Van Cleave—saw their terms expire in May 2013, and Kitzhaber has yet to name their replacements. The governor has left another spot on the board vacant for five months. A spokeswoman for Kitzhaber, Melissa Navas, denies the governor has ignored SAIF. She says the board members stayed beyond their terms to help with the CEO transition and that the governor will replace them and fill the board vacancy in coming months. On June 24, Davie, suspected of lying about his role in undermining Plotkin, announced he was retiring, six months earlier than planned. And July 1, the day SAIF officially celebrated its 100th birthday, Portland employment lawyer Dana Sullivan notified the state of Plotkin’s intention to sue for wrongful termination. “This situation has all the makings of a Shakespearean drama—deceit, betrayal and John Plotkin, the inspiring new leader, with a knife in his back,” Sullivan told WW. “The last act, however, has yet to be played. It’s not too late for SAIF to do the right thing and give John his job back.”
“This siTuaTion has all The makings of a shakespearean drama.” —Dana Sullivan and Fleming, suggesting two Southern Oregon bankers for an open spot on SAIF’s board. Documents obtained by WW show Rocklin and Davie spent an extraordinary amount of time on the phone together after Plotkin took over as CEO. Between Feb. 3, when Plotkin started work, and early June, records for Davie’s landline and cellphone show that he and Rocklin spoke on the phone at least 95 times for a total of more than 1,530 minutes, or 25½ hours. Numerous emails between Davie and Fleming show that they worked feverishly to prepare for Plotkin’s firing while he was in Washington, D.C., during the last week of April. They game-planned different scenarios, planned talking points and even prepared an email to John Gilkey, vice president of policyholder services, to take over as interim CEO. When Plotkin was fired, Gilkey got the job. Records show the process used to fire Plotkin troubled senior executives. Within two weeks, Rickard, SAIF’s general counsel, had compiled evidence that allegations against Plotkin had been, at best, unverified. On May 22, she told SAIF interim CEO Gilkey in an email about the “false or inaccurate” information about Plotkin sent to the board by SAIF’s HR department, and that employees with firsthand knowledge of the allegations had never been asked to verify what they heard or saw. Others raised questions as well. “I think we might have a problem with the veracity of the investigation that [HR] conducted,” SAIF chief information officer Rick Hanson wrote to Gilkey, also on May 22. “I think it would
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THE FIGHT OVER “CURING” HOMOSEXUALITY IS THE FRONT LINES OF UPCOMING GAY-RIGHTS BATTLES. BY KATE W I L L S O N
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Dean Greer says he doesn’t have sex with men anymore. He is married, has a son and is devout in his faith in Jesus. But Greer says he is not cured from an affliction he calls “same-sex attraction” that he has suffered from for more than two decades. Greer is telling his story to about 250 people gathered in the fellowship hall of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church in Happy Valley, where his audience has gathered to talk about ways people with homosexual drives can overcome their urges. Greer tells the audience he changed his ways when he was diagnosed with HIV, and he now relies on a support of men who consider themselves to be formerly homosexual to keep him accountable and straight. “My wife has taken comfort in my accountability relationships,” Greer says. “We avoid the details of my confessions.” Many in the audience nod in approval. They have come to the national conference of Restored Hope Network, a Milwaukiebased group that ministers to people “broken by sexual and relational sin, especially those impacted by homosexuality.” The audience gathered at the June 27 event includes clergy, counselors and family members wounded by the discovery that a loved one is gay. With same-sex marriage in line to become a civil right, all sides in the gay-
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rights debate are considering their next political fights. Gay-rights advocates have targeted “conversion therapy,” a controversial approach that believes people can be treated for homosexuality and issues of gender identity. Every major medical association in the United States and the World Health Organization has come out against conversion therapy. Mainstream health experts consider the therapy harmful. The Supreme Court on June 30 upheld a California law banning use of the therapy on children, and last week the National Center for Lesbian Rights launched a campaign to take the ban nationwide. But at the conference, where WW was the only news-media outlet allowed to attend, the focus was as much on curing homosexuality as helping people who are conflicted about their attraction to people of the same sex. Andrew Comiskey, board chairman of Restored Hope Network, says he’s aware of widespread opposition to approaching homosexuality as both a disorder and a sin. “The brightest lights step forth out of the darkest nights, and we are in dark nights in terms of sexuality and gender,” Comiskey says. “I welcome being a minority voice.” The conference opens with audience members raising their arms and joining with gospel singer Georgene Rice, who performs between speakers and workshops. “Everyone needs compassion,” Rice sings at one point, “everyone needs forgiveness, the kindness of a savior.” Treasure Fennell follows the song. Fennell has interned for Desert Streams,
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Living Waters, a ministry and support network for the “sexually and relationally broken.” She introduces herself as a “recovering lesbian” who sought sexual relationships with women because she had been abused by men as a child. “It was easy to embrace the lesbian lifestyle,” Fennell says. “I was physically and emotionally attracted to women, and I had a murderous hatred for men.” “I wasn’t blindly led in there,” she adds. “My DNA didn’t make me do it, nor did I
blame my past. I went from one person to another trying to find the love only God could provide.” T he aud ience issues a col lective “Amen.” The nation’s leaders in socially conservative Christian policy say they haven’t given up the fight against same-sex marriage. But Jeff Johnston, gender issues and marriage analyst at Focus on the Family, says many organizations are increasingly
CIVIL RIGHTS focused on gender identity. “We recognize there’s a shift in the culture,” Johnston says. “We’re working to explain the reality of male and female and why that’s a good thing.” Most mainstream exper ts believe there’s virtually no evidence that childhood experiences lead people toward homosexuality. But conservative groups rely in large part on the belief that childhood traumas can lead directly to a person’s confusion about sexual identity. “ We don’t believe in ‘pray the gay away,’” says Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International. “But a lot can be done to help people who have been abused. The big problem is, homosexuals embrace it as if that’s who you are forever. That’s ridiculous.” At the conference, Fennell credits a Christian ministry for healing her and says she has been “freed from homosexuality” for 13 years. “It was not easy,” Fennell says. “But with hard work and the support of the ministry, I do not desire women. I do not hate men. And I fully embrace my femininity.” The audience gave her a standing ovation. Restored Hope Network emerged after the leading group advocating conversion therapy, Exodus International, folded after 40 years. Two of its leaders have since acknowl-
edged the approach of counseling people to change or control their same-sex desires was wrong. Among them: Exodus board chairman-turned-Portland chef John Paulk. “I do not believe that reparative therapy changes sexual orientation,” Paulk has said. “In fact, it does great harm to many people.” The Happy Valley conference attracts parents troubled by their children’s sexuality and seeking a way to help them. During the conference’s lunch break, several parents—mostly mothers—speak about their feelings, making it clear all are forgiving of their children’s sexuality while hoping faith in God might change their behavior. As the parents introduce themselves, one mother sits quietly with red, tearfilled eyes. When it’s her turn, she can barely choke out the words: Her son says he is really a girl. “You’re in the right place,” someone tells her. Next to her, another mother says her daughter told her she is transgender. “Satan put these thoughts in her head,” she says. “That’s what’s really behind the transgender thing.” Therapists who believe a person’s sexual orientation can be treated say nothing can be done unless the person seeks to change. “If I had a mother or father come in to see me, we explain up front if the child is not conflicted, we will not refer that
child,” says Dr. Michelle Cretella, a Rhode Island physician and vice president of the American College of Pediatricians, a small conservative association. “You cannot force anyone into any kind of therapy for something they do not see as a problem.” Many parents at the conference say their sons and daughters have not yet discovered the need to change their ways. “At first it was really devastating,” says a woman from Redmond, Wash. “We brought our son up in a Christian home. But our door will never be closed.” An industry of conferences, books and lecture tours has sprung up around the “ex-gay” movement. Between sessions, conference attendees flip through DVDs, autobiographies and how-to books available for purchase in the hall, with titles such as When Homosexuality Hits Home, Victory Over Lesbianism and Dangerous Affirmations. The author of that last book, Denise Shick, speaks at a workshop called “Transgender Confusion.” She tells her audience about her father, who wished he had been born a woman. Growing up, Shick says, her father’s belief robbed her of her femininity. “My dad on my wedding day said, ‘I wish I was wearing that gown,’” Shick says. Gay-rights support groups are increasing their emphasis on transgender youth, a nd conser vative orga nizations a re
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responding by advocating for the continued use of therapy to treat people who are gay or transgender. “ It ’s p r i m a r i l y, u n f o r t u n a t e l y, political,” says Cretella, the pediatrician. “There’s no evidence anyone is born with gender confusion. There’s no transgender gene.” Many at the conference believe homosexuality and gender identity are driven by exterior forces. Shick, founder of a Kentucky-based counseling service called Help 4 Families, explains homosexuality as “a deep-seated envy of men” and transgender identification as “a deep-seated envy of women.” She lists transgender risk factors: a distant father and “smothering” mother. Perfectionist tendencies. A history of sexual abuse or watching pornography. Masturbating while dressed in women’s clothes. Shick says men who identify as women should stop cross-dressing, refrain from fantasizing about dressing as women, and avoid television shows that parade women in revealing clothes and commercials for women’s underwear. “Restoration is possible,” she says. “It’s a message we’re losing now. And my hurt is for the young people.” The woman from lunch who spoke about her transgender son approaches Shick after her presentation. The woman is crying, and Shick pulls her in for a comforting embrace.
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CITY HALL
STEVE NOVICK
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THE CITY COMMISSIONER TALKS ABOUT HIS (SO FAR) UNSUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO RAISE $50 MILLION A YEAR FOR STREETS. K E N T O N WA LT Z
WW: In the past six years, local voters have passed an arts tax, a library tax, a tax to fund the historical society, at least two school taxes and a zoo bond. This city will tax itself for everything—except transportation. Why? Steve Novick: I think people are a little burned out. Also, transportation is something people think of as already being paid for. People know that they pay gas taxes, and they think those address their transportation needs. City Hall has tried to climb the street-fee hill three times and died each time. It’s a setback, but it doesn’t feel like a defeat yet, because we’re not giving up. What I’m hoping for in the next few months are people that are hoping to engage in a solution. I don’t feel discouraged about it.
ROAD WARRIOR: “I’m confronted with situations,” says City Commissioner Steve Novick (right), with Mayor Charlie Hales, “where compromising my values that I’ve always held dear seems more necessary than I would have hoped.” BY WW STAFF
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Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick’s road forward is uphill. The freshman councilor has begun a goodwill tour to heal the rancor from his attempt this spring to cram a citywide “street fee” through the City Council without voters’ approval. Last month, Novick and Mayor Charlie Hales hit the pause button on a plan to raise $50 million for road paving and sidewalk construction by charging households and businesses a monthly fee. It’s an unprecedented moment for Novick, who enjoyed widespread popularity throughout the city before leading the charge for transportation funding. Now the policy wonk, known for voicing a dozen ideas before breakfast, needs just one that voters will support. Hours after attending a press conference to show off the city’s repaving success this year, Novick stopped by WW’s offices to talk about why his plans went so wrong so quickly. Novick said throughout the debate he has remained unchanged. He also talked about why he is thinking about raising other taxes on all Portland businesses to pay for road upkeep, and why he may soon get sick of having to pay for the streetcar, and his secret plan to win over Portlanders.
Have you changed since you took office? I don’t feel that I have, except I’m confronted with problems that seem desperately important to solve really quickly. With the street fee, for me to support something that’s regressive is kind of astonishing. I object to this idea with 96 percent of the fibers of my being. But I object to letting the streets continue to deteriorate—and continue to have inequality in terms of pedestrian safety within the city—with 100 percent of my being. What shouldn’t the city’s Transportation Bureau be spending money on? I made a pitch to my colleagues last year that the general fund should pick up a chunk of the cost of operating the streetcar. I didn’t get very far. Would you want the power to be able to shut the streetcar down? I haven’t said this to anybody yet, including the mayor, but I will say it. If we get to the point where we think that we cannot have an additional source of revenue to fund basic maintenance: Yes, I will wish we were in a position to shut down the streetcar.
When you delayed a council vote, you told us, “We’ve been playing not to lose. From here on out, I play to win.” What’s your plan? I’m not going to give you a complete answer. Part of the answer is something that I’m not ready to talk about yet. Do you have a secret plan to win the war? I do. Just like my idol, Richard Nixon. The fee is one mechanism of raising money. But there are other mechanisms of raising the same money on the business side. We could simply raise the business profits tax. What kind of percentage increase would it take to raise $50 million? Raising half of that, $26.5 million, it’d have to go from 2.2 percent to 3.06 percent. It sounds like you’re still trying to find ways to avoid putting it to a public vote. What I think we’re going to end up with is something that a fair number of people might say, “That wouldn’t have been the way I would have done it. And if I had a chance, I might have waited and voted for something that I liked better. But I can understand why they’re doing it. I can grudgingly accept it.” So you are going to the ballot? No. I’m not telling you. Over the next couple of weeks, there will be some things that I’m ready to say that I’m not ready to say now. It sounds a little bit like magical thinking— wouldn’t it be great if people say, “We’ll learn to live with a street fee. Thank God that the City Council made us get used to it.” Why not just walk right up to voters and say, “This is what we think is best”? Well, that is what happened in 28 other Oregon cities. We had the mayor of Oregon City come to our event last month and he said, “Look, people were upset about this when it passed.” But apparently no special-interest group took it to the ballot. People saw how they were spending the money, and people came to accept it. So that does happen.
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FROM OREGON TO FLORIDA AND FROM CALIFORNIA TO NEW YORK, AN INDEPENDENCE DAY LOOK AT THE BOTTOM FEEDERS OF PUBLIC OFFICE.
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ing George III was “a tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence exactly 238 years ago this week. Tommy had it right. Ever since then, Americans have been calling out their leaders. “Tyrant” was just the start. We’ve moved on to “crook” (Nixon), “liar” (Clinton) and “moron” (Dubya). Whether or not you agree with the peanut gallery, there’s no denying that such written assaults on public honchos are as American as baseball, apple pie and the iPhone. So on this Independence Day, those closest to American politics—50 writers and editors of the nation’s alternative press, including WW—have combined their collective genius. They’ve named 53 of the nation’s worst elected leaders from 23 of the largest states and the District of Columbia, then separated them into five categories: hatemongers, sleazeballs, blowhards, users and boozers, and horn dogs.
And there’s more than just the usual stodgy losers. Try Colorado sheriff Terry Maketa, who allegedly had sex with not one, not two, but three underlings and then lied about it. Or check out Idaho Senate GOP leader John McGee, who stole and crashed an SUV, admitted to drinking too much, and went to jail. Upon returning to the statehouse, he was accused of groping a female staffer. Then there’s Washington, D.C., Council member Michael A. Brown, who once accepted $200,000 to stay out of an election and was later indicted after grabbing at a cash-stuffed duffel bag offered by an undercover FBI agent. What follows is a mere excerpt of our report. WW is publishing 19 of the profiles in its print edition, including two from Oregon. You can fi nd the complete accounting at wweek.com. So before you head out for the fireworks or swig some American brew, consider this hall of shame. —Chuck Strouse, Miami New Times
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RAHM EMANUEL
JERRY O’NEIL
PAM ROACH
JOEL KLEEFISCH
CHICAGO MAYOR
cial someone hasn’t jumped into the race. —Mick Dumke, Chicago Reader
Even toward the end of his 22-year mayoral reign, when he started selling off pieces of the city to hide its escalating financial woes, Richard M. Daley had broad support in Chicago. Sure, he was a tyrannical, thin-skinned jerk who doled out jobs and contracts to his friends, but he was the people’s tyrannical, thin-skinned jerk who doled out jobs and contracts to his friends. His successor, Rahm Emanuel, is simply a jerk. At least that’s how he’s seen by lots of Chicagoans after his first three years in office. In a recent poll commissioned by the Chicago SunTimes, Emanuel had the support of a meager 29 percent of city voters. The mayor (a former Democratic congressman and chief of staff to President Obama) and his allies stress he’s made “tough choices” to get the city back on track, starting with restoring fiscal discipline. It’s certainly true he has shuttered mental-health clinics, raised water fees, privatized city jobs, laid off teachers, and closed schools—four dozen of them at once. At the same time, he’s poured millions of additional dollars into nonunionized, privately run charter schools. But it’s not only what he’s done; it’s also how he’s done it. Emanuel is widely seen as an outsider who uses Chicago as a backdrop for his broader political ambitions. Though he appears regularly in city neighborhoods for news conferences, his daily meeting schedule is filled with millionaire corporate leaders and investors, earning him the nickname “Mayor 1%” (and inspiring a book of that name by journalist Kari Lydersen). He jets regularly to Washington to maintain his national image—yet he also has a knack for avoiding the spotlight at home when it’s especially hot, such as the time he was on a ski vacation when the school-closings list was released. Still, Emanuel remains a formidable politician. He already has more than $7 million in his campaign coffers and is prepared to raise millions more before he’s up for election next February. Emanuel may not be loved, but he’s unlikely to go down unless some high-profile candidate runs against him, and so far, that spe-
MONTANA STATE REPRESENTATIVE
RAHM EMANUEL
JERRY O’NEIL In fall 2012, a Republican from Columbia Falls drew national media attention when he requested that the state pay his legislative wage in gold and silver. His letter to Montana Legislative Services was largely laughed off. The response was in keeping with public reaction to much of Jerry O’Neil’s 12-year legislative record. During the 2013 legislative session alone, he introduced bills to eliminate the minimum wage for high-school dropouts and limit the federal government’s ability to regulate firearm restrictions. He also proposed criminals could opt out of jail time by submitting themselves to corporal punishment. “Ten years in prison or you could take 20 lashes,” he told the Associated Press in 2013, “perhaps two lashes a year?” —Alex Sakariassen, Missoula Independent
WASHINGTON STATE SENATOR
PAM ROACH Pam Roach has the temperament of a thundercloud, with a penchant for screaming and berating staff members and fellow lawmakers that once got her banned from Republican caucus meetings. Roach, who has represented a conservative suburban district southeast of Seattle for 24 years, cemented her Rottweilerian reputation in 2006 when she threw a tantrum after someone removed a bouquet of roses from her senate floor desk. She’s been reprimanded repeatedly for her tirades and was told on one occasion to seek professional help after staffers accused her of illegally obtaining employees’ email messages and brandishing a handgun at one of them. One Olympia aide said her verbal attacks were commonplace: “We call it being ‘Roached.’” —Ellis E. Conklin, Seattle Weekly CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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JOEL KLEEFISCH An avid hunter, Joel Kleefisch, an Oconomowoc Republican, proposed a hunting season for sandhill cranes, a federally protected migratory bird, in early 2012. Anticipating the post-kill feast, he noted that many people describe the majestic bird as “the rib-eye of the sky.” Kleefisch was also caught plagiarizing in an email to members of the state senate and assembly regarding his proposal of the Flexibility for
Working Families Bill. The email included unattributed quotes from three congressmen sponsoring the federal measure on which Kleefisch had based his own proposal. Kleefisch made his biggest splash, however, with his proposal to cap the amount of child support that wealthy parents would be required to pay. People cried foul when it was reported a wealthy Kleefisch donor had helped draft the bill after he tried unsuccessfully in court to reduce his support payments. Kleefisch eventually withdrew the bill and blamed its demise on “misinformation.” —Judith Davidoff, Isthmus
HATEMONGERS ARIZONA GOVERNOR
JAN BREWER
In 2010, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer affixed her signature to the infamous, immigrant-bashing legislation called Senate Bill 1070 and rode a wave of xenophobia to electoral triumph, a book deal, conservative accolades and liberal opprobrium. She did this despite massive goofs such as claiming headless bodies were routinely found in the Arizona desert, blanking for several seconds during a TV debate with her gubernatorial rivals, and claiming her dad died fighting the Nazis when he actually worked in a munitions depot during World War II and died 10 years after the war ended. Brewer spent millions in donations on appeals to a U.S. district court’s injunction against most of Senate Bill 1070. Then, in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court overthrew a large part of the statute as unconstitutional. Still, it had its intended effect. More than 200,000 Latinos fled the state because of Senate Bill 1070 and other anti-immigrant laws, according to one estimate. They took their purchasing power with them to other states, making Arizona’s recession even worse. —Stephen Lemons, Phoenix New Times
ARIZONA STATE REPRESENTATIVE
JOHN KAVANAGH
John Kavanagh, chairman of the state’s House Appropriations Committee, is a smart, funny, shameless guy. How shameless? He can introduce legislation that would help cops crack down on panhandling and still rationalize taking free trips to China and Azerbaijan, gifted to him because he’s a legislator. He tried giving the private prison company GEO Group $1 16
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DAN CLEVENGER
JAN BREWER
million of state money during a time of scarce resources and great need among state agencies. Why? Kavanagh claimed GEO had given the state a sweet deal in the past and needed the dough—you know, more than schools and sick people and roads and all of that unnecessary stuff. Then there’s his pandering to the far right, like his transgender-phobic “bathroom bill,” which, in its initial form, would have made it a felony for a transgender person to use the “wrong” bathroom. That’s right — show your ID before you pee. The bathroom bill died, after universal outrage cowed Kavanagh. He has termed out in the state House and is trying to move to the state Senate. But he has a primary challenger and a general-election challenger to overcome before he can menace the halls of the Arizona Capitol again. — Stephen Lemons, Phoenix New Times
MARIONVILLE (MISSOURI) MAYOR
DAN CLEVENGER
On April 13, former Ku Klux Klan member Frazier Glenn Cross fatally shot three people outside a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement home in a Kansas City suburb.
After his arrest, a handcuffed Cross yelled, “Heil Hitler!” from the back of a police car. Why anyone, much less a public figure, would subsequently speak in support of a racist, homicidal maniac is beyond comprehension, but Marionville Mayor Dan Clevenger did just that. He told a local ABC affiliate reporter that, though he believed Cross should be executed, he also “kind of agreed” with, well, you know, anti-Semitism. “There are some things that are going on in this country that are destroying us,” Clevenger said. “We’ve got a false economy, and it’s—some of those corporations are run by Jews, because the names are there. The people that run the Federal Reserve, they’re Jewish.” The reporter also discovered a letter to a local newspaper written by Clevenger in 2004 calling Cross a “friend” and warning readers that the “Jew-run medical industry… made a few Jews rich by killin’ us off.” After the story aired, residents of the southwest Missouri town demanded Clevenger resign. He initially refused but then relented after citizens aired their grievances at a packed and raucous city meeting. Afterward, Clevenger told reporters he was hurt by the town’s rejection. —Chad Garrison, Riverfront Times
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TERRY MAKETA
SCOTT DESJARLAIS
JIM GOOCH
PAUL BABEU
AARON REARDON
HORN DOGS EL PASO COUNTY (COLORADO) SHERIFF
TERRY MAKETA
Terry Maketa chases bad guys—when he isn’t chasing skirts, that is. The married politician was accused of having sexual relationships with several women on his staff—including one he promoted despite the fact her major credential was being a nude model. The county commissioners unanimously passed a vote of no confidence. The term-limited Maketa decided he wanted to award the office’s One Hundred Club prize—essentially an employee-of-the-year honor, complete with gold watch—to himself. And he doesn’t plan to write any resignation letter, maybe because he’s too busy writing messages like this one, sent to one of his female colleagues: “I think often about touching, kissing and licking every inch of your amazing body.” When three of his commanders filed a complaint against Maketa in May that included reports of sexual harassment and accused him of running a hostile workplace, they were put on administrative leave. And Maketa initially denied the allegations, but a week later he apologized to employees and admitted he had “engaged in inappropriate behavior in the past.” —Patricia Calhoun, Westword
KENTUCKY STATE REPRESENTATIVE
JIM GOOCH While serving in the Kentucky General Assembly for the past two decades, Jim
Gooch has made a name for himself as the state’s No. 1 climate-change denier. He’s even suggested Kentucky (a major coal state) should secede from the union to avoid Environmental Protection Agency rules. Two female legislative staffers accused Gooch of inappropriate behavior, including throwing a pair of pink panties onto their table at a conference and saying, “I’m looking for the lady who lost th ese.” Gooch claimed a woman had slipped the panties into his pocket moments earlier. “Actually they weren’t pink,” Gooch said in explaining the situation. “They may have been beige.” —Joe Sonka, LEO Weekly
ened to have him kicked out of the country. Here was a right-wing politician who blustered about keeping Mexicans on their side of the border who had dated his constituents’ enemy. Oh, he had posted halfnaked photos of himself on a hookup site for gay men (and included the length of his penis). Babeu had to drop out of the congressional race. —Monica Alonzo, Phoenix New Times
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In 2010, the then-unknown Dr. Scott DesJarlais, a Republican, challenged incumbent Democratic Congressman Lincoln Davis in Tennessee’s 4th District. Things got ugly when papers from DesJarlais’ divorce nearly 10 years earlier were made public. The doctor’s ex-wife claimed his behavior had become “violent and threatening.” She accused him of dry-firing a gun outside her bedroom and putting a gun in his mouth for three hours. Two years later, DesJarlais, who by then had become an incumbent, found himself in trouble again when it was revealed that the “pro-life, pro-family values” Republican had pressured a mistress—who was also his patient—to get an abortion. He would later explain that, actually, he had pushed for her to get an abortion as part of a ruse to expose the fact that her pregnancy was a lie. Brilliant! There was more: dalliances with six women—two patients, three coworkers and a drug rep—and a confession that he had supported his ex-wife’s deci-
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Paul Babeu, a Massachusetts transplant, became a rising star in the national Republican Party after capitalizing on—and exaggerating—violence along the Mexican border in Arizona. He also blasted President Obama and his administration, which got him plenty of airtime on Fox. The juice was enough to encourage Babeu in 2012 to leap from sheriff and make a bid for a seat in Arizona’s familyvalues-centric 4th Congressional District, whose denizens were unlikely to take kindly to a gay politician. Except Babeu, at the time, wasn’t openly gay. This changed when his former boyfriend, Jose Orozco, a Mexican national, sent the Tea Party sheriff reeling with concern that Orozco would expose his sexual orientation. If the undocumented Orozco said a word, the ex claimed, Babeu threat-
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sion to get two abortions before they were married. —Steven Hale, Nashville Scene
SNOHOMISH COUNTY (WASHINGTON) EXECUTIVE
AARON REARDON
Aaron Reardon was once the golden boy, the rising star of the Democratic Party in Washington state. Brash and cocky as a rooster, sure, but someday, most political observers agreed, he would sit in the governor’s mansion. When he was sworn into office in 2004, Reardon, then 33, was the youngest county executive in the nation. His fall from grace began a couple of years ago when a very tan bodybuilder named Tamara—also a county social worker—came forward to reveal her long affair with Reardon, who was married with two young children. There were junkets, most of them paid for with the county’s credit card, and even an intimacy kit containing condoms and lubricants purchased during one of their trysts at a boutique hotel in Washington, D.C. Reardon weathered scandal after scandal, including allegations of using county resources for his campaign and a Washington State Patrol investigation into his travel. Then came the final straw, which smacked of Nixonian politics: One of his staffers concocted a phony name and made public-records requests of county employees who had spoken to police about Reardon’s involvement with Tamara. Reardon resigned last year. He is said to be living in exile somewhere in Arizona. —Ellis E. Conklin, Seattle Weekly CONT. on page 19 Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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ART ROBINSON
OREGON REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN
ART ROBINSON
Give the Oregon GOP credit for thinking outside the box. They could have chosen just any old Tea Partying climate-change denier as a leader. Instead, they found Art Robinson. A chemist and newsletter publisher who bases his operations in Cave Junction, Robinson has been spreading the gospel of nuclear power and Christian homeschooling since the 1980s. He ran two losing challenges to U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio—campaigns that brought fewer votes than headlines about Robinson’s views on public schools (they’re child abuse) and nuclear waste (a little exposure is good for us). He has advocated sprinkling radioactive waste over the ocean from airplanes to strengthen our immune systems. Robinson might just be your run-of-the-mill country kook—Grizzly Adams meets Dr. Strangelove—except his views have tapped a lucrative vein in the paranoid style of American politics. (He raised about $1.2 million in each of his congressional races.) That fundraising power was too much for the cash-strapped state GOP to resist—it elected him chairman last fall, deciding extremism in the pursuit of money is no vice. Robinson immediately proved he isn’t shy about asking for contributions. Weeks after his appointment, he mailed every household in Josephine County requesting a urine sample. He explained the fluids would be used in tests that would “improve our health, our happiness, and prosperity.” AARON MESH.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY CHAIRMAN
JOHN LUDLOW
Portland may be known in the national consciousness as a frivolous paradise of banjos, naked bike rides and fair-trade coffee. But its suburban commuter communities have nourished a resentful conservative movement that’s dead serious about stopping what
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they call “Portland creep.” The face of this antiPortland movement is John Ludlow, a brawny real-estate broker with a shaved head that suggests Lex Luthor as a high-school sports coach. His bid for Clackamas County chair was funded by a timber magnate and propelled by a populist revolt against light rail. Once elected, he set about trying to break contracts the county had signed years earlier to extend rail lines south from Portland. But it’s his demeanor in Clackamas—a largely rural county of 380,000 that’s becoming more Stepford all the time—that’s been the most embarrassing. In a planning meeting last summer, he yelled, “Do you want a piece of me?” at a fellow commissioner. You can’t say voters weren’t warned. When he ran for county chair in 2012, lawn signs went up that declared, “John Ludlow is a bully.” Ludlow had previously been removed from the planning commission in Wilsonville, where he served as mayor, for what one city councilor called “rude, combative, argumentative and disrespectful” behavior toward the public. Ludlow sued, and in 2003 a judge restored him to his position, ruling his objectionable ways were actually protected speech. A personnel complaint filed by the county’s lobbyist in April claims that, when news broke about the Boston Marathon bombing, Ludlow declared it was probably the work of “a damn A-rab.” Speculating about suspects in a local shooting, he allegedly said, “I bet they were Mexicans.” And when former county board member Ann Lininger won appointment to an open state legislative seat this year, Ludlow said she succeeded because “she does a good job of sticking out her perky titties in people’s faces.” Ludlow apologized for his statements while denying making the comments about the state legislator’s breasts. An investigator cleared Ludlow of violating any county rules—but added that, when it came to the “perky titties” comment, Ludlow’s denial was probably a lie. AARON MESH. CONT. on page 20 Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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LELAND YEE
TOM HORNE
RAY JOHNSON
LEANNA WASHINGTON
SLEAZEBALLS CALIFORNIA STATE SENATOR
LELAND YEE
Where to begin with Leland Yee? The longtime San Francisco-area pol, a Democrat, was indicted in March for trading an official proclamation for $6,800 in cash from an undercover FBI agent, as well as brokering a meeting between a prospective donor and his fellow legislators in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in “donations” well in excess of federal campaign limits. But that’s not even the good stuff, which involves international arms dealing and a co-defendant named Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow. Chow, we learned from court documents, is a convicted felon once involved in everything from dealing heroin to pimping underage girls. But even while being held up as a model of rehabilitation by no less than U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chow led an international crime syndicate involved with murder for hire, money laundering, and drug and gun trafficking, prosecutors allege. When an FBI agent pretending to be part of Chow’s gang approached Yee for help with obtaining missiles and other weapons, the state senator didn’t just agree to help. Prosecutors allege he also walked the agent through the steps to acquire them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines. There’s much more to the story, but here’s probably a good place to end when it comes to Yee: When this onetime rising star in the California Democratic Party failed to resign his seat, fellow senators voted to suspend him with pay. And though 20
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those pesky criminal charges forced Yee to abandon his run for California secretary of state, it was too late to change the ballots, and the flood of bad publicity around his name didn’t seem to matter much to voters—more than a half-million Californians still backed him. The would-be arms dealer who allegedly exchanged political favors for money beat out five other candidates. —Sarah Fenske, LA Weekly
ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL
TOM HORNE
Tom Horne, the highest-ranking law-enforcement official in Arizona, has been dogged by allegations of impropriety ever since he was banned for life from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1973. In other words, Arizonans should have seen this one coming like triple-digit heat in July. But the Canadian-born Democratturned-Republican successfully cheated his way into office during a close 2010 general election. He allegedly coordinated illegally with an independent expenditure committee run by his political operative, current AG outreach director Kathleen Winn. No one would have known of this campaign hanky-panky were it not for Horne’s own bumbling in office. First, he hired his mistress for a six-figure job she was unqualified for. Then, when Phoenix New Times published a piece about this impropriety, he assigned a veteran AG investigator to find the “leak” in his
administration. Instead, the investigator uncovered evidence of lawbreaking by the AG and his staff, including the aforementioned campaign-finance violations, which the investigator dutifully turned over to the FBI. Horne avoided an indictment but was hit with a $400,000 civil fine, which he’s been dodging in court. Meanwhile, an ex-staffer has accused him of running his re-election campaign out of his public office (that’s illegal) and has backed up the allegations with 146 pages of emails and documents, including the metadata to show who did what and when. —Stephen Lemons, Phoenix New Times
CAMPO (COLORADO) MAYOR
RAY JOHNSON
Being the mayor of tiny Campo isn’t a fulltime job, so Ray Johnson has plenty of time to run his barbecue joint, Ray’s Smokehouse, sell cars, work on his cattle ranch, DJ dances, and get more tattoos—he’s been billed as the most tattooed mayor in the nation. In February, Johnson and his twin sons, Kevin and Kasey, were arrested and charged with theft and embezzlement. According to Campo’s police chief, the trio had stolen more than 230 gallons of the town’s gas, worth up to $1,000, in six weeks—all documented in a video that showed the Johnsons using a locked pump to fill their personal cars and gas cans. Kevin, a sergeant with the Campo Police Department, had a key to the pump for
his patrol car. Kasey is also a public servant: He’s with the volunteer Campo Fire Department, where busy Ray Johnson is the assistant fire chief. The case is pending. —Patricia Calhoun, Westword
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LEANNA WASHINGTON LeAnna Washington, 68, was not one to let her July birthday go by without a big bash that doubled as a campaign fundraiser. Problem is, she used her state office staff to plan and promote her elaborate gala, according to a grand jury report released in March. Those who objected say they saw their salaries cut or were shown the door. When a former aide told Washington it was illegal to use her state office staff this way, she allegedly blew up at him: “I am the f---ing senator,” she told him, according to the grand jury report. “I do what the f--- I want, and ain’t nobody going to change me.” The Democratic senator is accused of spending between $30,000 and $100,000 in state taxpayer funds on her gala and faces felony charges of conflict of interest and theft of services. Voters in the Democratic primary in May told Washington she could no longer have her cake and eat it too: She lost her bid for nomination to another term of the senate seat she has held since 2005. —Lil Swanson, Philadelphia City Paper
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DAVE ALLEN THE FORMER GANG OF FOUR BASSIST TALKS ENTERTAINMENT!, HIS NEW JOB AT BEATS MUSIC AND WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT STREAMING. By m ATT H E W s i N G E R
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Dave Allen was the fourth and final member to join Gang of Four. Twice, he was the first to leave the pioneering English post-punk group. When he quit after 1981’s Solid Gold, it was due to drug-addled exhaustion. The second time, in 2008, it was over disagreements on how to distribute the reformed band’s first album of new material in more than a decade. Arguing over the dissemination of music is something of a pastime for Allen, a Portland resident since the early ’90s. At a TechfestNW panel discussion in 2012, he grilled a representative from Spotify over its shoddy royalty payouts. A year later, in a piece for The Guardian, Allen “reappraised” his stance on digital-music streaming, rebuffing artists like David Byrne and Thom Yorke, whose criticisms once mirrored his own. In February, he took a job with emerging Spotify competitor Beats Music, as director of artist and music industry advocate—essentially, an ambassador for the company and, in general, the idea of streaming. Next week, Allen appears at Powell’s City of Books for a conversation with Kevin J.H. Dettmar, author of a new book in the 33 1/3 series on Gang of Four’s landmark 1979 debut, Entertainment!. WW spoke to Allen about the legacy of his old group, and what changed his mind about streaming music. WW: Are you comfortable with the idea of a booklength deconstruction of Entertainment!? Dave Allen: I think there’s a place in the world for deconstructing things like that. With Gang of Four, what [Kevin] has done, he starts out with a mondegreen, which is that term for when you mishear lyrics. It’s hilarious because how he interpreted the lyrics makes no sense at all. And the lyrics are pretty crucial to the album. Was this book his attempt to understand the record better? It’s a very personal book. I think the context here is that he’s a professor in the Pomona [College] English department, and so focusing on the lyrics would be natural for him. When he interviewed us, he learned along the way that everything he thought he knew was wrong, lyrically. He also expressed his delight at being in college and seeing us perform at UC Davis. You either loved it or hated it, and he was one of the lovers. I can imagine that, with all his degrees, it’s in his DNA to think, “These guys actually have something to say beyond ‘verse, chorus, verse chorus.’” The sound Gang of Four established on Entertainment! was hugely influential, but it seems like most of the bands that picked up on what you were doing musically ignored the political aspect. Is that disappointing? It’s certainly disappointing when we’re compared to outfits as if they’re the same as us. That came to the biggest head when we reformed in 2005 to do that three-year touring season. People were comparing Franz Ferdinand and Bloc 22
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Party to us. They helped us get back into the limelight with a whole new generation of music fans, who came along thinking they were going hear Bloc Party or Franz Ferdinand and then got their tiny minds shattered. There’s all sorts of content in every song, and then people will come out and say, “Rage Against the Machine is just like Gang of Four.” I respect those guys, but no. We weren’t revolutionaries. We were dissecting everyday life. You left the band again in 2008. What was the issue? My only question was, “Why are we making a new album?” Because Jon [King] and Andy [Gill] had set their sights on a new record, which became Content, and me and Hugo [Burnham] went, “Hmm, I don’t think the world needs a new Gang of Four album.” What I’d wanted to do instead was set up cameras in our rehearsal room in London and do what Radiohead did. This would have been a perfect Gang of Four moment: You can check in on our working methods, you can check in on the arguments that take place. You’d get the chemistry of the band, and then I just felt like, let the crowd decide: What do you think is worth following up on? We’d still never make an album, just complete these songs and leave them up on YouTube so millions of people could stream them forever, and you don’t have to pay a thing. Meanwhile, our cachet goes up in the world for touring, and we can go out again. That’s what the Web’s for. In music, I think the Web gives you this massive distribution system out of the hands of radio, out of the hands of distributors, out of the hands of record labels. What could be better for rock ’n’ roll than that? In 2012 at TechfestNW, you interrogated representatives from Spotify and Shazam about how little they pay artists. Now you’re an ambassador for Beats. What changed? I apologized to those two guys belatedly for grilling them like that. I was looking at it from a musician’s point of view without taking into account how music fans want to access their music. Your biggest issue with Spotify was the lack of transparency, that artists didn’t know what they were supposed to be getting paid. Is Beats any different? I mean, it’s an impossibility. I can’t even fathom how many artists in the world there are with [record] contracts, and
they’re all different. I’d love to be giving artists that information, but it’s going to take time. Right now, it’s not a big part of our immediate business model, but it’s certainly in the road map. Do you envision the streaming system ever working better for artists? In a role like the one I have, you have to remain optimistic that some of these hurdles can be dealt with. It won’t happen overnight, and that’s where patience is required from everyone. But it can only be based on what music fans want to do. All we’ve learned in the last five years at least, is they really want to access it via mobile devices. The illegal downloading of music is, I think, being offset by the availability of all of this music for free, if you want to put up with the ads in the stream. So it’s not hyperbole to say that we could solve some of the downloading issues where artists are truly getting ripped off. “I’m just not getting paid properly” is not a real question or a problem. The city workers filling potholes aren’t getting paid properly, either. What we’re talking about here is the world of creative arts. It’s very difficult to earn a living. I’m not saying that one has to accept that. I’m just saying, be aware of it, and learn how to make it happen. You’ve talked about the philosophical shift in the younger generation of music fans who’d rather “rent” music than own it. How do see that affecting music artistically? I don’t see why that should affect the creation of music. That’s because, as a musician, I can only look inward and say, “What would I do even if I didn’t get paid?” Guess what? I’d make music. This correlation between pay and art is another delta that needs to be somehow resolved in the rhetoric. What I’m saying is that the access to a vast global audience through Internet distribution is an investment in your future. But if you want cash up front, that ain’t gonna come. That’s going to be harder to achieve than building an audience by giving them what they want. Don’t say to yourself every time you go to bed, “Goddamn it, they ripped me off again today.” GO: Dave Allen in conversation with Kevin J.H. Dettmar is at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Monday, July 7. 7:30 pm. Free.
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KATHERINE “We came out to find some food.”
JORDAN “I made some chocolate-covered pretzels and cookies to sell tonight, and I’m sharing a booth with a friend who’s selling shoes and bags.”
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ADOPT A TEAM: Winning teams press every advantage. And so it’s no surprise that the Oregon Humane Society— which arranges adoptions for 96 percent of the pets it receives, several times the national average—is looking to capitalize on World Cup fever. The OHS recently took to naming incoming pets after members of the U.S. national soccer team. And so dangerous out-of-zone offensive threat Graham Zusi is, perhaps appropriately, a miniature pinscher. Kyle Beckerman is a beagle-dachshund mix. And shaggy-bearded DaMarcus Beasley is an even shaggier terrier. All are up for adoption. “Our staff here in admissions names all the pets that don’t already have names,” says OHS spokesman David Lytle. “Having a fun name gives them more personality. With the World Cup going KYLE BECKERMAN on, it made perfect sense.” WAR IN WHITELANDIA: In May, local filmmakers Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald quickly met a Kickstarter goal to fund a documentary about Oregon’s history of discrimination against black people called Whitelandia. But now the husband-and-wife duo—both white—are facing criticism from Walidah Imarisha, a local black educator and activist known for her public programs about blacks in Oregon. In a lengthy blog post, Imarisha details frustration with a Whitelandia trailer that used footage from her program without permission, saying it “reeks of intellectual colonialism.” She goes on: “This means the making of Whitelandia replicates the same oppressive dynamics they are seeking to explore in their film.” In an email to WW, Imarisha said her goal “is not to get involved in a back and forth with the producers, but rather just to state my experiences…in an organized fashion.” On Facebook, Zodrow and MacDonald responded to Imarisha’s blog post by describing their respect for her work while also noting—but not elaborating on—“other aspects of Walidah’s blog post which are problematic in their inaccuracy.” They later added: “We should make a film about making a film about race. It is notable that we did not even start shooting until this week. This film has yet to be made. The proof will be in the pudding.” Zodrow and MacDonald declined to comment to WW. COMMUTER COMMUTING: Sellwood’s Bike Commuter bicycle shop is planning to move so it can join shops like Velo Cult in selling beer to cyclists. The shop had applied for a tavern license at its shop at 8301 SE 13th Ave., and had already begun installing beer taps. However, that plan ran afoul of neighbors, says owner Eric Deady. “They thought we would be having wild parties every night,” he tells WW. Bike Commuter has applied for a tavern license at nearby 8524 SE 17th Ave., but Deady says he doesn’t know where the shop will end up except for one detail: “We’ll be in Sellwood.” FUTURE DRINKING: You can now enjoy the air-cond itioned comfort of three more Portland movie theaters with a frosty pint in hand. Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard’s CineMagic Theatre and the Regal outposts at Pioneer Place and Lloyd Center now sell beer and wine, which means Portland cinemas with booze offi cially outnumber those without.
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WEDNESDAY JULY 2 AIRPLANE! [MOVIES] With its rampant popculture barbs, incessant silliness and casual racism, Airplane! laid the groundwork for the modernday spoof. The difference between it and those that came after is that Airplane! is actually funny. You’re on the Pix patio, so you should probably order Big Cheryl’s “Ghetto” Cake, a name that also sounds vaguely offensive. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St., 271-7166. Dusk. Free with $5 minimum purchase. FUTURE [MUSIC] While his hotly anticipated second album, Honest, rarely lives up to the awesome promise of robo-tripping lead single “Move That Dope,” there’s no denying the Auto-Tuned Prince of Hip-Hop is one of the freshest voices in music right now. Don’t be surprised to see him headline a much bigger venue next time through. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 8 pm. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
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ell, it’s here. This week, America will celebrate its birth for the 238th time. In Portland, the Fourth of July is traditionally marked by honoring Article I of the Constitution, which provides for unfettered interstate commerce. That is, by driving over the Columbia River to purchase things that fly up in the air and go boom, which are outlawed here. But what if we were to instead honor the day by obeying Oregon law? Though most fireworks you’ll hear and see at 3 am come from across the Columbia, there is a large selection of Oregon-legal, “safe and sane” fireworks available at your local Safeway parking lot. And a few of them are actually—er, not totally lame. We went to one such parking lot, bought a bunch of legal TNT fireworks, set them off on a street corner, and ranked them from best to worst (see below). We guarantee if you take our advice, you’ll be the envy of your cul-de-sac, at least until the bad kids come back from across the river. TREE PALMEDO.
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Mother Nature
What it does: Lets off sporadic bursts that get more intense as they go. How lame is it? Worth paying for at a fi reworks show—if it were 20 feet in the air and there were four of them. Biggest thrill: With its noxious, sulfur-smelling black fumes, you could also use it as a smoke bomb.
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What it does: You know what it does.
How lame is it? Relatively speaking, it’s a lot more fun than most legal fi reworks. Biggest thrill: You can wave it in people’s faces, so it’s actually pretty dangerous.
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Blazing Rebel
What it does: Sends up white bursts for almost a minute. How lame is it? The longevity only emphasizes its mediocrity. Biggest thrill: It scared a dog, if not any humans.
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Precious Stones
What it does: Sends green and gold sparks flying haphazardly. Doesn’t get too far off the ground, but has a wide blast radius. How lame is it? While the green is a nice touch, it kind of fizzles out pathetically at the end. Biggest thrill: It would maybe take a toddler’s eye out.
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Golden Shower
What it does: Flames up like a little campfire in a box, then sends bright bursts about a foot into the air for 30 seconds. How lame is it? Lame and obscene. Biggest thrill: It seems more pathetic at fi rst than it ultimately is.
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Wasp Attack
What it does: It crackles for a few seconds, then screams for one. The grand fi nale is a little green fl ame that looks like troll hair sticking out of the box. How lame is it? Points for ambition, but pathetic execution. Biggest thrill: The scream is surprising, at least, and patriotic—it sounds like an eagle swooping down from a 2-foot tree.
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Rose Blossom
What it does: It’s a tiny red fl ame for five seconds. Then it shoots red sparks 10 feet into the air before petering out miserably. How lame is it? Mostly awful. Biggest thrill: That initial burst is only borderline legal.
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Rain Dance
What it does: Flames up like a colored birthday candle. How lame is it? Not as fun as blowing out birthday candles. Biggest thrill: It’s small but hot, melting its plastic base.
What it does: The requisite dud in the group. It would seem that rain is not the best theme for a fi rework. How lame is it? At least it’s not the snake. Biggest thrill: That moment when you fi nally muster the courage to pick it up.
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Snake
What it does: Burns and flops around on the ground like a charred wet noodle. How lame is it? The worst. Biggest thrill: N/A. GO: The Fourth of July is Friday, July 4, from sea to shining sea.
LUST & MARRIAGE [THEATER] Yes, this is a solo show about coming to terms with polyamory. But it’s miraculously neither preachy nor squirm-inducing, thanks to performer Eleanor O’Brien. She’s vivacious and engaging, and she recounts memories— of acting out sex scenes as a child, of ill-fated college entanglements, of fi nding love on the Burning Man playa—with verve, zip and humor. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm. $15.
SATURDAY JULY 5 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS [MUSIC] Rock ’n’ roll’s poet laureate of death, violence and moral degradation makes a rare Portland appearance, sleazing up the city’s classiest concert hall. The Schnitz is going to need a good power washing after this. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $37-$76. All ages.
MONDAY JULY 7 BEVERLY CLEARY’S NEIGHBORHOOD [LECTURE] If you were a child at any time in the past several decades, odds are you read at least a few books by Beverly Cleary. But if you didn’t know that Cleary was from Portland and that her beloved characters—Henry Higgins, Beezus, Ramona Quimby—all grew up on Northeast Klickitat Street, it’s about time you learned. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 7 pm. Free. NOSTALGIA FOR SKATEBOARDING [MUSEUM] Slide up to the Central Library’s third fl oor for a sweet display of antique skateboards and other ephemera. Collins Gallery, Multnomah County Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123, multcolib.org. 10 am-8 pm. Free. Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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In Portland, scrapple is a refugee food. One day you’ll find it at Veritable Quandary, Grain & Gristle or Tails & Trotters. The next, it’s available only on outdated menus. But Laurelhurst Market’s butcher case often has a peppery version at $9.95 a pound. (By comparison, you could ship a cat-foody loaf from Delaware’s Rapa brand at $4 a pound). And we tracked down scrapples at two local restaurants:
Scrapple is made of things you don’t talk about in polite company. It is a loaf of slurried pig— snout, eyeball, liver and heart—made mealy with corn and served fried. It is a comfort both wonderful and terrible, like a Sicilian mother or a trip to the zoo. The Woodsman Tavern It is also a true American pioneer food, a relic 4537 SE Division St., 971-373-8264, of difficult times when the frugal Mennonites or woodsmantavern.com. Pennsylvania Dutch of the mid-Atlantic could For a food that is essentially hard-luck German not afford to waste a single scrap of meat. And Spam, the brunchtime scrapple at the Woodsman long after its necessity has passed, scrapple has is a remarkably civilized experience. Available been preserved, like a bug in amber, in the cul- only on weekends, the scrapple ($5) is served a ture of those states. la carte with traditional maple-syrup glaze. The Nowhere loves scrapple more fried slab is about three-quarters of than Delaware. Every October, an inch thick, with a crisp crust dota beauty queen is named at the ted with the oh-so-familiar crystals Apple Scrapple Festival in Bridof Jacobsen salt. Within, one could geville, where festivalgoers can see large bits of corn and green, also eat scrapple-oyster sandand the spice hewed more herbal P L ATE S wiches, carve scrapple sculptures than peppery. It tasted like pâté on and compete in the great scrapple cornbread, except the texture was chunkin’ contest—essentially a distinctly tuna fish on toast. With shot put for meat. a side of bitter salad greens and a All over America, you’ll find distinctive foods lovely seasonal strawberry jam on biscuits, the that were created and preserved, many of which overall experience was a bit like the house breakseem strange to other parts of the country. The fast at a fine New England B&B (though the chef’s revered Maine lobster was once a creature of from Kansas City). Meanwhile, Division Street necessity—shore bugs boiled for the state’s pris- traffic roared by like waves hitting shore. on population. Then there are the green chiles of New Mexico, which don’t taste the same when J&M Cafe grown anywhere else. 537 SE Ash St., 230-0463, jandmcafepdx.com. Well, summer is road-trip season, so we fig- J&M’s scrapple ($9 with eggs, potatoes and toast; ured we’d take a culinary tour to all of America’s $4.95 a la carte) is less refined, more down-home. 50 states. But here’s the catch: We’re not going It’s also a bit more like the stuff I hear described to leave Portland to do it. Portland is a city of by cantankerous old men on Delaware blogs: a immigrants…from other parts of the U.S. So quarter-inch thick, crispy, salty and maple-sweet. we’re trying one distinctive state food each day at The J&M scrapple is mystery meat’s answer to Portland restaurants, in the order that each state kettle corn, with a subtle, lingering aftertaste entered the union—starting here with Delaware, that is impossible to identify or even assess. It which became the first state when it ratified the is, as they say in basketball, what it is. The ironU.S. Constitution on Dec. 7, 1787. tinged flavor is addictive, but also a little odd. It’s Follow the rest of our Fifty Plates tour of essentially the gas-station whip-it of breakfast American food on wweek.com beginning July 2. foods: When it’s gone, I don’t miss it, but I know that I would totally try it again.
THURSDAY, JULY 3 Beer Made by Walking
Hosted by the Forest Park Conservancy, this is the second in a series of walks with brewers through the old-growth woods of Forest Park. In part designed to inspire beers by brewers, the walk is also an informational tour on edible and medicinal plants found throughout the woods, and on how plants and other growing things can be used to make beer, sweet beer—including wild yeast. This time around, Matt Wagoner from Hopworks will be along for the hike. The hike is free, but it fills up. RSVP at beersmadebywalking. com. 1-4 pm.
FRIDAY, JULY 4 Brewvana Behind the Scenes Tour
Get buzzed the right way on the holiday afternoon by tripping through the back ends of four different breweries, from the mighty tanks of Widmer, to craft house Laurelwood to the nano-productions of Upright and Buckman Botanical. This is very much a beer-geek tour, with plenty of beer samples, look-sees at fermentation, and plenty of talking to brewers about the general wonkiness of brewing. Closed-toe shoes only, because you’ll be going into production areas, and OSHA wields a mighty hammer. Reserve a spot at experiencebrewvana.com. 1-5 pm. $85. 21+.
TOP FIVE Hot Dogs for the Holiday Weekend 1. Otto’s Sausage Kitchen 4138 SE Woodstock Blvd., 771-6714, ottossausage.com. Get their super-thick, super-good, old-school beef-and-pork wiener. With mustard. And nothin’ else. 2. Zach’s Shack 4611 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-4616, zachsshack.com. Zach’s Favorite dog offers sport peppers, onions, mustard, celery salt, red relish and a row of crenelated pickle slices. It’s like a Polish salad with pain attached. 3. Bro-Dogs 340 SW 5th Ave, 277-0870. Their Dude dog is a naturalcased Sabrett, and seems to have unloaded the contents of a Denver omelette on top, minus the eggs. 4. Double Dragon 1235 SE Division St., 230-8340, doubledragonpdx.com. Pick up a Kobe beef Green’s Papaya dog, which has peanuts, Thai basil, Sriracha and a whole helping of green papaya salad. It’s like the best version of the immigrant experience. 5. Interurban 4057 N Mississippi Ave., 284-6669, interurbanpdx.com. A $9 hand-dipped, gourmet corn dog, you say? Yes. A $9 handdipped, gourmet corn dog. Go on ahead, America. You deserve it.
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In what amounts to sort of a tradition, Salty’s on the Columbia will let Oregonians parasitically feed off the always more impressive fireworks on the Washington side of the river, staged at Fort Vancouver, without actually having to cross the bridge. Portland jazz legend Mel Brown will play in the upstairs lounge, while out on the patio the staff will give you fleece blankets if you’re faint of blood circulation. A grill-heavy menu will be served, because America. Reservations recommended. Salty’s on the Columbia, 3839 NE Marine Drive, 505-9986.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 Steely Dan
[REELIN’ IN THE YEARS] Has any band been simultaneously so revered yet left so little legacy as Steely Dan? Other rockers have used jazz harmonies, for better or worse, but none has really picked up on the masterful combination of jazz, funk, rock and smarts displayed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker at their mid-’70s apex. So even though you can’t buy a thrill, any major dude will tell you that the best way to feel the Dan vibe is to catch the originals. Despite famously shunning live performances during their peak years, Fagen and Becker have turned into a regular touring machine since their early-’90s reunion. Thanks to top-notch backing musicians (including a vocal trio and sax section), their concerts have packed enough vitality to transcend mere nostalgia (and their latter-day ironic funk lite) as they survey their hits and deep cuts, plus tunes from their two early-’00s post-comeback albums. Since this is the first stop on a 50-pluscity national tour, who knows what surprises may be in store? BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $70.50-$136.50. All ages.
Sunset Valley, Paradise, Dead Teeth
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[TWILIGHT OF THE POP GODS] Back when fin de millennium local indie veered between critically acclaimed projects of chin-scratching difficulty and the grimy excesses of 24-hour garage-party people, nobody quite split the difference like Sunset Valley. The trio exploded onto late-’90s Portland on the backs of a raw, irrepressible, casually brilliant debut overstuffed with spiky, hook-driven guitar
stabs and lyrical thickets demanding the goofy swagger of backseat singalongs. Thumbing through career retrospective Tropic of Candycorn, newly compiled and digitally released by Barsuk, one can understand how the bristling confidence of all four late’90s, early-aughts albums could still stop traffic. If they never quite accomplished the global dominion long presumed their birthright, that feels less an injustice than a cosmic misfiling. The musicians of Sunset Valley were always the coolest guys in the room. It’s our shame the room never got big enough. JAY HORTON. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Cloud Nothings, Metz, The Wytches
[SCUZZ POP] There’s a line in Cloud Nothings’ breakthrough 2012 record, Attack on Memory, in which frontman Dylan Baldi declares, “I need time to stay useless.” A catch-all sentiment for bored 20-somethings in Cleveland, sure, but Baldi is anything but lazy. Trading one indie megaproducer (Steve Albini) for another (John Congleton of St. Vincent and Explosions in the Sky fame) sounds like a lateral move on paper, but the grating urgency of 2014’s Here and Nowhere Else feels like a triumph through and through. Poppy melodies are wound tightly around barbed power chords and galloping percussion born in a basement but primed for the big leagues. PETE COTTELL. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 7 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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NICK CAVE’S TOP FIVE ACTS OF VIOLENCE “Deep in the Woods” Even back in ’83, Cave was already obsessed with drenching his Southern gothic tales in blood. The finale of the Birthday Party’s Bad Seed EP is a first-person account of a man who knifes his lover. And the Ass Saw the Angel Cave’s first novel tosses main character Euchrid Eucrow into an unforgiving world of violent sleaze. As a child, he witnesses his only benefactor, the prostitute Cosey Mo, butchered by the people of his village. Things get worse from there. “Stagger Lee” Cave’s take on the traditional folk song “Stagger Lee” is raw beyond precedent, and dripping with menace. Neither the barkeep, nor local boy Billy Dilly, manage to avoid Lee’s threats, or his bullets. “Red Right Hand” In this case, the murder is only implied. The tall, handsome man in the dusty black cloak offers salvation, but at a terrible price. The Proposition Cave wrote the screenplay for this gothic Western set in the Australian outback. Guy Pearce plays Charlie Burns, an outlaw who finally ends the reign of the Burns gang by shooting his older brother. The two sit side by side while Arthur bleeds to death before a setting sun. SEE IT: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, with Mark Lanegan, on Saturday, July 5. 8 pm. $37-$76. All ages.
ARE WE THERE YET? SHARON VAN ETTEN’S LIFE IS A HIGHWAY. SHE WANTS TO PULL OVER. By MICHA El MA N N HEIMER
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When Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten returned from a grueling yearlong stint touring behind her 2012 album, Tramp, she was physically and emotionally spent. She promised her boyfriend she would be home for a while. Instead, she left a few weeks later to open shows for Nick Cave. “Being away for that long is really hard to do,” Van Etten says. “I love touring and I love my band, but at the same time I know that I need to find a way to be home more often, be more present in my real life. This is real too—I’m sitting in the back of a van right now—but it doesn’t feel like reality sometimes. You know that feeling where you come back from a trip and it takes you a minute to acclimate? Imagine if you’re gone most of the time, how long that takes.” You can hear that pain—the longing, frustration and unease that comes from being away from home—all over Van Etten’s stunning new record, Are We There. Written in pieces on the road and recorded once she finally settled in New York, the record documents life in transition: As Van Etten’s career and profile have grown, so have the demands of an industry that can wreak havoc on one’s psyche—and relationships. Van Etten, 33, has always had a startling voice, but Are We There is the first time her songs feel, well, grounded. It’s a record about distance, sure, but also about the body—how it loves, how it moves, and how it breaks down when we least expect it. There’s a distinct R&B groove, with an increased emphasis on rhythm and bass instead of guitar. Van Etten says many of these songs, including the bouncy first single, “Taking Chances,” and the slowboiling “You Know Me Well,” started in the back of her tour van, written on an omnichord, with the drum patterns often coming before the melody. After working with the National’s Aaron Dessner on Tramp, Van Etten decided to make Are We There herself, with studio assistance from noted
producer Stewart Lerman. “This time I wanted to be the one steering the ship. I wanted to own it,” Van Etten says, pausing for a second to collect her thoughts. “I was really nervous but also excited to hang out with my band and learn how to do this, learn how to communicate better, and just get in there and play around with stuff without anyone looking out for me.” Are We There sounds like the work of a proper band, and that’s not a coincidence. To help flesh out the record, Van Etten brought in guitarist Doug Keith, who she’s been playing with for the past few years, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (and former Portlander) Heather Woods Broderick, and a cast of other friends, including Adam Granduciel and Dave Hartley of the War on Drugs and Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater. While some tracks, like the layered and folky “Afraid of Nothing,” are adorned with strings, others are simpler, relying on just piano and the violent power of Van Etten’s vibrato. And it’s that voice—raw, passionate and confessional—that drives “Your Love Is Killing Me,” Are We There’s cathartic, devastating centerpiece. Van Etten jokes that the band calls the song “the beast,” and mentions how she almost broke down the first few times it was played live. “Your Love Is Killing Me” is relentless. Though it starts slowly, with a waterlogged rhythm and organ, it gradually builds and tears itself down, stacking post-rock guitars and sparse percussion as Van Etten sings about an unhealthy relationship slowly unraveling: “Break my legs so I won’t walk to you/ Cut my tongue so I can’t talk to you/ Burn my skin so I can’t feel you/ Stab my eyes so I can’t see you.” This is not the sound of silence: It’s a coping mechanism disguised as epic torch song, re-enacted every night in dark lounges and ballrooms across the country. “Touring is a mixed bag—the songs are heavy and very personal, and I’m still going through a lot of emotions onstage every night,” Van Etten says. “But it’s grounding to have my friends around me as I go through it. We only have one flat tire and one broken string so far. That’s not too bad, right?” SEE IT: Sharon Van Etten plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Jana Hunter, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 2-3. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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[LIVE PLAYLIST] Eric D. Johnson, the celebrated neo-folk songwriter, formerly of Fruit Bats, curated this evening of local music and art, which includes performances by Corrina Repp (late of Tu Fawning), Rebecca Gates and a collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Ryan Francesconi and violinist Mirabai Peart, and DJ sets from Vetiver’s Andy Cabic and Pure Bathing Culture. Proceeds benefit XRAY.fm. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $7. 21+.
S. Carey, the Pines
[AMBIENT FOLK] To describe Bon Iver percussionist Sean Carey’s latest LP, Range of Light, as “basic” is both true and false. It’s an elemental and natural album, heavily inspired by the Wisconsinite’s childhood romps in the Sierra Nevadas and arid deserts of Arizona. You can hear it in the lush atmospheric textures forming the short LP, many peppered with creaking bass, the sounds of spoons brushing thighs and beats created from the sound of crushing snow. But “basic” should not imply simple. Carey’s delivery remains as whispered as ever, but in its gentle interweaving with harps, guitar, classical piano and, occasionally, Justin Vernon’s wellknown falsetto, it creates soundscapes as densely composed as the Oregon wilds. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Fuck Buttons, Total Life, Bombs Into You
[SEX NOISE] Fuck Buttons’ Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power seemingly titled their 2013 effort as a means of pre-empting critics’ complaints over the band’s four-year break from the studio after 2009’s acclaimed Tarot Sport. But Slow Focus would also describe the duo’s sound. It’s still noise, but with more drum breaks and hip-hop structures to keep the deep drones in check. Perhaps due to their songs being used in odd places—like the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics—Fuck Buttons have become more accessible, which is a good thing for an act whose albums are few and far between. MITCH LILLIE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700. 9 pm. $15. All ages.
start—and might lead you to forget why you have the day off tomorrow. GRACE STAINBACK. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 2337100. 7 pm. $12. 21+.
Gold & Youth, Adventure Galley
[’80s REVIVALISTS] Canadian quartet Gold & Youth channels secondary British invasion acts like Duran Duran and Culture Club, with glassy synth textures, almost animatronic melodies and plenty of vocal embellishment taking the listener straight back to the mid’80s. With its debut record, Beyond Wilderness, the band, while mechanical, offers a fullness and resonance not normally attached to the synthpop tag. There’s enough guitar noodling, at times, to draw comparisons to other acts of era, specifically Dire Straits. We’ll call it “robot rock.” MARK STOCK. Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Waterfront Blues Festival
[BLUES-PLUS] No Robert Plant this year, but with Gregg Allman occupying the top spot, the Waterfront Blues Festival is still one of the few festivals you can take the parents to without having to explain why everyone is sucking on pacifiers and giving each other deep head massages. Just prepare yourself for the moment when someone passes pop a doob, which’ll likely happen around minute 17 of “Whipping Post.” Other major names include the perpetually underrated Los Lobos, the sort of underrated Boz Scaggs and James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker, who’s as awesome as advertised. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, SW Naito Parkway, 823-2223. $50-$1,250. See waterfrontbluesfest.com for complete
schedule. Through July 6.
The Notwist, Jel
[BEATS] The Notwist, a four-piece group out of Germany, emerged in 1989 as a metal band but has since morphed into an interesting mix of Postal Service-esque sensitivity that’s occasionally punctuated by deep and dark electronic beats. The group released its ninth full-length album, Close to the Glass, earlier this year, and it moves from catchy, synthesized blips to sparse, mellow indie rock, all led by Markus Acher’s disconnected but oddly comforting vocals. The album opener, “Signals,” is a cerebral glitch, fluctuating with mechanical keyboard pulses and an uncomfortable, foreboding repetitiveness. But then there’s “Kong,” a track so immersed in bright strums of guitar, a one-two skip beat and fluttery chimes it could be right out of your favorite high-school film soundtrack. The formula is hard to predict, and while sometimes its experiments are downright dissonant, most of the time the Notwist is just straight-up cool. KAITIE TODD. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, JULY 4 Bunk Beach Freedom Fest featuring Old Light, XDS, Bearcubbin’, Talkative [ROCKETS RED GLARE] And boom goes the dynamite, as well as the psychedelic garage rock, warped space punk, instrumental math-prog and noisy avant-boogie. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 328-2865. 5 pm. Free. All ages.
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THURSDAY, JULY 3 Painted Palms, Imperial Mammoth
[PSYCH WAVE] If the concept of shuffling auxiliary percussion and elongated, reverb-soaked vowel sounds gets you hot and bothered, don’t go running for your beloved copy of Panda Bear’s Person Pitch just yet: There’s plenty of room for Painted Palms’ dance-floor-friendly take on everyone’s favorite brand of sun-soaked psych pop. This year’s Forever finds the San Francisco act adapting wide-screen panoramas to the insular sway of beach rock and cranking the bass up to booty-shaking levels. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a Technicolor dance party and the moonlit ride down the Embarcadero on the way home. PETE COTTELL. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Whitebear, Kll Smth, Mumukshu, Guda
[TRIBAL GLITCH] An artist who cites his primary influence as “that raging internal monologue,” Whitebear’s tribal, futuristic basslines will make you feel like you’re huddled in an Amazonian rainforest in the crux of an ayahuasca trip, wondering who you are and what you are and swearing that you just walked into the back room of the Hawthorne Theatre. Stacked with a lineup of other psychedelic electronic acts, this show will get Independence Day celebrations off to a decidedly other-dimensional
Future [BACK TO THE…] Earlier this year, Auto-Tune aficionado and new father Future released “Move That Dope,” the first single on his then-highly anticipated second studio album, Honest—and it was awesome. The guest-laden tracks find the Atlanta native kicking things off on a grimy, robotic beat by super producer Mike WiLL Made It, before a snarling Pusha T and a Gandalf-hat-rockin’ Pharrell promptly steal the show. “Move That Dope” definitely pushed the already substantial Future hype train further into motion, but when the album was released in April, Honest honestly didn’t hit as hard as promised. Maybe it was overshadowed by YG’s surprise hit a month earlier, or maybe it was because second single “I Won,” featuring Kanye West, makes you throw up in the mouth a little bit. The album does have its highlights—like the unexpected “Benz Friendz (Whatchutola),” a summer-ready, automobile-denouncing jam with a verse from the resurgent André 3000. Either way, a lackluster release didn’t seem to hurt Future’s popularity among mainstream hip-hop fans. Don’t be surprised to see him headline a much bigger Portland venue next time. SAM CUSUMANO. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm Wednesday, July 2. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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[BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR] For East End’s Fourth of July holiday, promoters drew up a list of dream targets least likely to headline the daylong festival, which fences off Southeast Ash Street from Grand to MLK for a succession of hardest-rawk bands. But, in what we can only assume to be an Independence Day miracle, pioneering African-American metal act Black Death agreed to a temporary resurrection for the band’s first performance since the ’80s and only appearance outside the city limits of frontman Siki Spacek’s Cleveland hometown. Orange County’s own multiracial, thrash-crossover legends Hirax are also making the trip. Members of Wehrmacht will join survivors of Cryptic Slaughter on the makeshift stage, and a halfdozen other local combos are scheduled alongside this hotly anticipated event. Meatless hot dogs grilled by vegan collective Snackrilege? A hardcore craft fair’s worth of merch tables stretching past the horizon? Celebrants succumbing to heat prostration inside the makeshift cage before ever removing their head-to-toe black leather ensemble? Oh, but ain’t that America? JAY HORTON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 3 pm. $10. 21+.
SATURDAY, JULY 5 Phox, Trails and Ways, Joseph
[SOULFUL INDIE] Sometimes, it’s hard not to miss Feist when she doesn’t have an album out. Finally, a salve for our aching hearts hath arrived with Phox, a six-piece out Wisconsin. The band doesn’t quite have the famous songstress’s grown-up pop sensibilities, but Monica Martin’s confident and amazingly flexible croon makes up for it. On the surface, Phox plays cute and happy and banjo-filled. But there’s a sadness lurking below, an ache of painful heartbreak lending a subtly dark tinge to the jaunty piano and airy whistles. Take “Evil,” for instance: unsettlingly adorable, with its light piano, group “whoas” and fluttery trumpet solo, it is punctuated with lyrics about finding your partner cheating on you with your best friend. Still, the album strolls sweetly along, offering tunes that drip with loss and charm, brightness and pain. KAITIE TODD. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, JULY 6 Asleep at the Wheel
[RETURN OF THE QUEEN] Prison changes a person. Just ask Lauryn Hill: Her latest single, “Consumerism,” completed while doing time for tax evasion, is the most urgent thing she’s released in years. The former Fugee dishes out social critique at a blistering pace, taking on every “ism” she can think of, over tribal flutes and drums that skitter frantically like a tweakedout Fela Kuti. It’s preachy, and far from the laid-back strumming and spartan beats of Hill’s classic era. But it’s a welcome dose of energy from an artist who’s been dormant too long. Fingers crossed for a revved-up live rendition of “Lost Ones.” TREE PALMEDO. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $55 advance, $60 day of show. 21+.
Bearcubbin’, Gallons, Yeah Great Fine
[LOOP DIGGERS] With the help of a looping mothership known as the Gibson Echoplex, Portland’s Bearcubbin’ builds towering math-rock monuments via off-tempo rhythms, percussive guitar, effects-pedal tinkering and ferocious drum work. Save a few vocal bursts and samples, it’s all instrumental. The bands share the jazz-minded abstraction of Battles, but Bearcubbin’ feels less rigid and more animated. Guitarist-keyboardist Chris Scott masterminded the band in 2009, after stepping in to play with drummer Mike Byrne’s previous outfit, Moses, Smell the Roses. (Byrne briefly manned the kit for the Smashing Pumpkins the same year.) Unsurprisingly, Bearcubbin’s meter is crisp and its sound highly percussive. Girls With Fun Haircuts, the band’s second full-length, is rich with stopstart pacing, layered guitars and zany effects. While there’s plenty of noise, there’s always a core progression the listener can grasp when shit gets weird. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $6. 21+.
Hanz Araki
[IRISH JIGFEST] Is there anything that sounds more delightfully summery than prancing around to traditional Celtic flute music, adorned with a flower crown, as the Sunday sun sets over the porch at Hillsboro’s Rock Creek Tavern? We think not. Portlandbased Hanz Araki spent decades as his father’s apprentice to the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute, before following the calling of his mother’s Irish roots to become a world-renowned flute player of the Celtic variety. The show is free, but you’ll have to come up with your own flower crown. GRACE STAINBACK. McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern, 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd, Hillsboro, 645-3822. 6 pm. Free. 21+.
Typhoon, St. Even (early show), Sama Dams (late show)
[ORCHESTRAL POP] Well, Portland, hopefully you didn’t expect Typhoon to stay yours forever. With its third album, the group signals it has left the house shows behind for good, setting out for pastures perhaps not greener
but definitely wide enough to accommodate its expanding sense of grandeur. The title is ironic: Nothing about White Lighter is pocket-sized. Only a few songs exceed five minutes, but each goes through a symphony’s worth of movements, with peaks and valleys carved from booming cannonades of guitars and drums and strings and horns and choirs and keyboards and other sedimentary layers of sound. In any epic drama, though, an emotional anchor is crucial, and Kyle Morton is White Lighter’s—the voice whispering in your ear, keeping you from being overwhelmed by the sheer scope of it all. (All tickets purchased from Typhoon’s postponed appearance in early May will be honored.) MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 5 pm and 9 pm. $20. 21+.
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Resurrection Records Showcase: Lunch, Verner Pantons, Mister Tang
[POST-PUNK] What would punk be without suburban wastelands? The members of Lunch grew up outside Sacramento in Rocklin, Calif., a town whose topography, by their description, is entirely strip malls and SUVs. When the group fled to Portland in 2009, Lunch played what it thought was heavy noise-rock, but in retrospect it may have been “a bad version of a sludge band.” Shifting in a less torpid, more combustible direction, the songs on Lunch’s debut cassette, Quinn Touched the Sun, explode in tight, melodic bursts. It’s pop-punk with post-punk edges: The bright power chords of “Johnny Pineapple” are serrated by Wolf’s throaty holler, and the eruptive “Slug Bones” is streaked with atonal guitar scrapes. “Monochrome Lust,” meanwhile, is overlaid with oddly alluring saxophone, courtesy of a dude they met after a show. The band performs this week’s Sunday Session with fellow Resurrection Records alumni, garage rockers the Verner Pantons and psyched-out bizarros Mister Tang. MATTHEW SINGER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Necronomicon, Devour
[THEM’S GRAMPA’S GUITARS] If Michael Bay had any balls, he’d recruit Fleshgod Apocalypse to do the soundtrack for his next movie. The gloriously over-the-top, extreme operatic metal of Fleshgod Apocalypse and tourmates Septic Flesh would be the perfect soundscape for blockbuster movie carnage and super-slow-mo close-ups on Shia LaBeouf. Visiting us from overseas (Apocalypse is from Italy, Septic Flesh from Greece), both bands are partial to classical strings that shred as hard as their electric counterparts, and bellowing opera-house vocals that soar over the death howls. Air violinists, answer your calling. SAM CUSUMANO. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 8 pm. $25. 21+.
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[COUNTRY CLASSICISTS] The Grammy-collecting Western Swing institution swings out west. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show, $50 premium seating. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
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Wehrmacht, Cryptic Slaughter, Witchhaven, Spellcaster, Cemetary Lust, Dead Conspiracy, Long Knife, Deathblow, DJ Dennis Dread
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clipping’s (from left) Jonathan Snipes, Daveed Diggs and William Hutson.
CLIPPING SATURDAY, JULY 5 Some records are considered “challenging.” Others issue challenges. CLPPNG, the almost self-titled new album by L.A. noise-rap crew Clipping, begins by practically daring the listener to continue. For its first minute and six seconds, the only “music” is a piercingly highpitched ringing sound—like amplified tinnitus, or a hearing test designed by Josef Mengele—over which rapper Daveed Diggs sprays rhymes like shrapnel from a nail bomb. For fans of last year’s Midcity mixtape, extreme rapping and noise delivered with alienating harshness is what they were hoping to get from the group’s Sub Pop debut. But Clipping’s got a challenge for them, too. Coming five songs after the ear-punishing “Intro,” “Tonight”—with its Future-istic synth horns, nods to Ludacris and Auto-Tuned chorus about prowling for a hookup at last call—almost wouldn’t seem out of place on mainstream radio. It’s the trio’s most polarizing song yet. And considering they also have a track constructed entirely from a beeping alarm clock, that’s saying something. “[‘Tonight’ is] the song people have pointed to as like, ‘Oh my God, they have betrayed us,’” says co-producer William Hutson. “We were really pushing Sub Pop to make that the single,” adds Diggs. “For us, this was the biggest hit we’ve ever made. And so, when people started coming out so vehemently opposed to it, we were just like, ‘Wow, we don’t understand anything.’” If fans feel “betrayed,” though, it’s not Clipping misunderstanding its audience. It’s the audience misreading what the group is about. Despite its abrasiveness, Diggs, Hutson and fellow noisenik Jonathan Snipes are adamant that the project is not a “critique” or “deconstruction” of hip-hop. It is simply their way of doing it. Besides, back in the day, hip-hop was noise music: loud, cacophonous, often atonal. Hutson and Snipes might draw on power electronics and musique concrète, but at their core, the beats are descendents of the Bomb Squad’s dense squall, with just a few extra layers of corrosion. “I got sent to the office in fourth grade for wearing a Public Enemy shirt,” Hutson says. “So this has been part of our lives and our upbringing for a long time.” Make no mistake, though: As hip-hop goes, CLPPNG is almost unprecedented in its viciousness. “Body & Blood” follows “Intro” and offers little reprieve, riding a persistent, industrial thud through a storm of static and whirring power tools. Tracks like “Or Die” and “Ends” don’t bump as much as they glitch and scrape. “Get Up” is the most audacious experiment, pairing the sound of a buzzing alarm clock with an R&B hook straight off a Drake record. In the context of the rest of the album, perhaps it’s understandable that “Tonight” would seem like satire. But the group insists the song is a sincere attempt at the commercial rap it admires. It was even made with a utilitarian purpose in mind: for DJs to play at last call. With the strange noises gurgling underneath, its chances of becoming the next “Get Low” are slim. A band can dream, though. “Part of Clipping’s whole process is the bold-faced credulity that anyone would ever use our song for that—like this weird-ass shit would ever make it into the club,” Hutson says. “Really, we should’ve written this song for Rihanna and made it really normal. But that’s not our style.” MATTHEW SINGER.
Call it “noise,” call it “avantgarde”—just make sure you also call it “hip-hop.”
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Reigning Sound, the Tripwires, Thee Headliners, Audios Amigos
[GARAGE SoUL] Shattered, the upcoming Merge Records debut from Memphis garage-rock kingpin Greg cartwright’s Reigning Sound, promises a more soulful sound than past records—and considering the former oblivian has never lacked really in the soul department, that’s something to anticipate. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $14. 21+.
Alejandro Escovedo, Peter Buck, Fernando
[BoRDER FoLK] A favorite of the outsider-folk set, Alejandro Escovedo comes from a long line of percussionists—two of his brothers and his niece, Sheila E—but his career trajectory is closer to that of his hero Joe Strummer than tito Puente, playing in snotty ‘70s punk bands and the classic alt-country outfit Rank and File before evolving into a rootsy singer-songwriter capable of aching autobiography and affecting character sketches. With Peter Buck, late of R.E.M., and Portland’s own folk genius, Fernando Viciconte. MAttHEW SInGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Ceremony, Young Turks, Sloths
on the corner: Your Friend plays Valentines on Sunday, July 6.
Your Friend
[DREAMInG ALonE] With round librarian glasses and perpetually tousled hair, taryn Blake Miller cuts an unassuming presence: If you ran into her on the street, you’d imagine she works behind the counter of a used bookstore, not playing intensely personal shows in basements and hole-in-the-wall clubs. But as the songs she writes under the moniker Your Friend slowly unfurl, they reveal an artist of uniquely restrained power. Her voice contains shades of Sharon Van Etten’s, seemingly blurring into dreamy strums of guitar and sparse instrumentation. Jekyll/ Hyde, the Kansas-based songwriter’s Domino Records debut, manages to achieve a stunning level of intimacy while remaining wholly enigmatic. MAttHEW SInGER. Valentines, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. Call venue for ticket information.
MONDAY, JULY 7 Souvenir Driver, Be Calm Honcho, The Century
[BLISS PoP] Portland dream-rock outfit Souvenir Driver pines for thickness of sound. Hence a successful Kickstarter campaign for the band’s first vinyl release, Living Water. It’s the quartet’s strongest work to date, delivering 10 tracks governed by ’90s rock, shoegaze and dreamy, downright subconscious pop. the plan was to create 10 songs reflecting 10 different moods and colors. there’s “All the Patterns,” a reverb-ridden power anthem that could pass for early Interpol. there’s the hazy and lethargic “Yearning Possibilities,” a lucid ambient-rock dream further sedated by singer nate Wey’s whispered vocals. there’s noticeable texture on the record, with homage paid to past slow-diving acts like Monster Movie and the Radio Department. the record teems with melancholic waves of guitar but avoids coming off as despondent. It’s shoegaze with grungy jolts that uppercut your chin now and again. MARK StocK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 3282865. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Wretched, Path To Ruin, A World Without
[GoRE VItAL] For death metal fans, cannibal corpse is in the genre’s Hall of Fame (which we’re assuming is housed inside either a crematorium or a haunted meat locker). For others, the band is a name on a t-shirt that got the mangy hesher kid in your high school psychics class sent to the office twice a week. Either way, the group has managed to push the bounds of sonic and graphic decency while remaining culturally omnipresent—quite an accomplishment for a band whose first album is called Eaten Back to Life. Hawthorne Theater, 1507 SE Cesar Chavez Ave., 233-7100. 7 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Cooper & the Jam, Redwood Son & the Revelry
[GInGER SoUL] In 2011, burlesque performer cooper—just cooper—got into a VW bus and left her native oregon for nashville to live her dream of becoming a soul singer. normally, that kind of story only pans out in the movies. But the flame-haired songstress fell in with the right people, landing opening gigs for the likes of Wanda Jackson and impressing producer David norris. Motown Suite, her debut, is a collection of surprisingly competent, Dusty in Memphis-style Southern soul heartbreakers, marked by tight arrangements and cooper’s honeyed, sultry voice. MAttHEW SInGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
TUESDAY, JULY 8 Mascaras, Couches, The Tamed West
[KRAUt-PUnK] Yet another Papi Fimbres joint, Mascaras features the omnipresent Portland drummer, Rontoms Sunday Sessions booker theo craig and carlos Segovia of Deer or the Doe (and Fimbres’ cumbia project, orquestra Pacifico tropical) playing instrumental progpunk self-described as “can played by Motorhead.” Bunk Bar, 1028 SE
[HARDcoRE] Active in the hardcore scene since 2005, ceremony has released a lot of aggression into the world in the last nine years. Its most recent full-length, Zoo, lightens up on the harsh, guttural vocals and bleak noise explorations, leaning toward softer rhythms and tones. While the new work may not come across as “abrasive,” vocalist Ross Farrar’s lyrics still seethe with angst and a distaste for conformity. With a new album in the works, this evolving powerhouse has the potential to truly stir up the punk community. LYLA RoWEn. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 7:30 pm. $10. All ages.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Oregon Bach Festival
[cLASSIcAL] J.S. Bach’s two surviving Passions (based on the gospels of St. John and St. Mark) are the pinnacles of choral-orchestral music—but he probably wrote three more, now lost. the libretto for Bach’s St. Mark Passion has survived, sparking several attempts to reconstruct it using some of the composer’s other music (as Bach himself did in other works), the latest being Wednesday’s world premiere by oBF music director Matthew Halls and Swiss musicologist Dominik Sackmann. Scored for a chamber-sized period instrument ensemble, chorus and vocal soloists, their new version includes some Halls-composed passages in Bach’s style as well as other Bach music that seems to fit. Sunday’s concert teams the great VenezuelanAmerican pianist Gabriela Montero with the Eugene Ballet in music by Bach, the fiery French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel and jazz-influenced 20th-century French composer Darius Milhaud. on Monday, the 84 young singers of the oBF’s Stangeland Family Youth choral Academy sing music by Mozart and the world premiere of a new Magnificat by new Zealand-born composer David childs. tuesday’s recital with music by Mozart, Mendelssohn and more features one of the great living organists, Paul Jacobs. BREtt cAMPBELL. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave.: 7:30 pm Wednesday and Tuesday, July 2 and 8; 5:30 pm Monday, July 7. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335: 3 pm Sunday, July 6. $10-$49.
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[CLASSICAL] Edgar Meyer has a strong claim to being the world’s greatest acoustic bassist, or at least the most in demand in studios in Nashville and beyond. He can also write an appealing “classical” Americana piece that draws on his folk and bluegrass background. On July 3, he returns to the annual Chamber Music Northwest festival with fellow acoustic wizard Mike Marshall, who excels on mandolin and guitar. On Friday and Sunday, the pair join Meyer’s violinist son George, festival regulars Peter Wiley and Paul Neubauer, and CMNW’s young Dover Quartet in the festival’s third annual dancefilm-music collaboration with BodyVox dance company. The program includes music from Meyer, Samuel Barber, Portland composer eminence David Schiff and two short premieres by young composer Daniel Schlosberg. Monday and Tuesday’s concerts feature this summer’s major world premiere, a four-hand piano sonata for the husband-and-wife team of CMNW regulars Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss, commissioned from California composer (and 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner) Stephen Hartke. The program also features late-career music by two of music’s most celebrated prodigies, Mendelssohn’s 1837 String Quartet Op. 44 No. 2 and Camille Saint-Saëns’ everpopular “zoological fantasy,” Carnival of the Animals. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.: Thursday and Monday, July 3 and 8. Lincoln Hall at Portland State University, 725-3307: FridaySunday, July 4-6, and Tuesday, July 8. 8 pm. $15-$60.
and saccharine soprano sax hooks. But Portland drummer-composer Barra Brown’s music is the right kind of accessible—it’s no wonder the band has earned a spot at this year’s PDX Pop Now Festival. Marrying folk melodies with a symphonic scope, Brown’s compositions are sweeping sonic journeys with ample room to feature his ace quintet. And his bandmates are accomplished in their own right: horn virtuosi Thomas Barber and Nicole Glover, indiepop whiz Adam Brock and versatile bassman Arcellus Sykes. This is one of Portland’s most promising bands, in any genre. TREE PALMEDO. Camellia Lounge, 510 NW 11th Ave., 221-2130. 8 pm Thursday, July 3. $6.
An Evening with Dick Hyman
[JAZZ] For those of you looking to experience the great jazz eras of old in towns like New York, Kansas City or Chicago, stop by Jimmy Mak’s tonight. The storied Portland club always feels frozen in a glorious past, and that’s especially true when high-caliber talent like Dick Hyman is on the bill. The lauded jazz pianist will be onstage with a few special guests as part of PCO Mondays, which benefit the Portland Chamber Orchestra. Hyman is in his 80s and still at it, referred to by many in the know as an “encyclopedia” of jazz. Dude’s got countless records, arrangements and collaborations to his name, and rumor has it he’ll be reimagining some Jelly Roll Morton tonight. MARK STOCK. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6:30 pm Monday, July 7. $25. 21+.
Barra Brown Quintet
[FOLK JAZZ] In jazz circles, “accessibility” can be a dirty word, often signaling repetitive grooves
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SAPIENT EATERS VOLUME TWO: LIGHT TIGER (SELF-RELEASED) [BRUTAL BEATS] For a good visual representation of what local rapper-beatmaker Sapient’s music sounds like, look no further than the cover of his latest album, Eaters Volume Two: Light Tiger. It features a snarling Bengal tiger decapitating unsuspecting victims with laser beams shot from its head. It’s gruesome, awesome and ridiculous, just like the earth-trembling slappers Sapient has been creating for years in his home studio. Eaters Volume Two is no different. It’s made up of monstrous instrumentals, built on Zeus-sized synths and basslines created from samples of roaring animals. When it gets going—when the heavy claps kick in on “Forels,” or when the heart-stabbing flutes come out of nowhere on “Mansion”—it comes off like a beat tape cut out of steel, forcing you to nod and scrunch up your nose in pleasurable disgust. Whatever the term for the opposite of easy listening is, this would be it. It’s music covered in a blob of ooze and armed to the teeth. But those hard-hitting beats also present a problem, and it isn’t a new one: Sapient’s light and unassuming voice has never really fit his production. It’s a tough dilemma for a talented MC. Even in the ever-so-brief moment on Eaters Volume Two when someone else raps—the vocal sample of Harlem rapper Cam’ron on “Hurricane Hands”—the listener experiences an endorphin rush from the realization of how good these beats would sound with a more compatible voice over them. Alas, Sapient doesn’t seem interested in collaboration, and he wants to pulverize your brain to mush so you won’t care, either. REED JACKSON. SEE IT: Sapient plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Illmaculate, Goldini Bagwell, Load B and Slick Devious, on Tuesday, July 8. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. 36
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[JULY 2-8] laurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Max’s Midnight Kitchen (9:30 pm); Dept. of Gold (6 pm)
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Body Vox
Mock Crest Tavern
Boon’s Treasury
Biddy McGraw’s
Bunk Bar
Blue diamond
THOMAS TEAL
1338 NW 23rd Ave. Astromusik: The Harmony of the Spheres, Ezra Sandzer-Bell
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Chervona
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Steely Dan
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE Mark Alan
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Swing DJ
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Sunset Valley, Paradise, Dead Teeth
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside Street Future
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Woodlander
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Paul Basile of Great Elk
Gemini Bar & Grill
456 N State St. Jacob Merlin and Sarah Billings
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Cloud Nothings, Metz, The Wytches
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Fez Fatale
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221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet
Jo Rotisserie & Bar 715 NW 23rd Ave George Colligan Trio
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O’Hanlon
landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray & the Cowdogs
laurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Santino Cadiz (9 pm); The Quick and Easy Boys (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. S. Carey, the Pines
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Fret Drifters
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Billy D
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Castle, Sons of Huns
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Fuck Buttons, Total Life & Bombs Into You
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Mugen Hoso, Thee Four Teens, Sharks From Mars
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Hwy. High Boltage
Trail’s end Saloon 1320 Main Street Big Monti
white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Johanna Warren
wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band
THuRS. July 3 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Zvuloon Dub System
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hank Green, Driftless Pony Club, Paul DeGeorge
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. John Ross
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE Skip vonKuske’s Cellotronik
Bunk Bar
The lodge Bar & Grill
1028 SE Water Ave. Painted Palms, Imperial Mammoth
Tiga Bar Portland
510 NW 11th Ave. Barra Brown Quintet
6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
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Camellia lounge
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingworth St. Chris Phillips
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside Street Gold & Youth, Adventure Galley
director Park
815 SW Park Ave Portland Gay Symphonic Band
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Sharon Van Etten, Jana Hunter
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Kara Grainger, Tough Love Pyle
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Kris Deelane and The Sharp Little Things
Forum Cafe
2815 SE Holgate Show and Tell Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Whitebear, Kll Smth, Mumukshu, Guda
Hawthorne Theatre lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Watson, DCAN, Bad Habitat, Ice Water Records, Triolife, Kinetic Emcees
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Jamie Leopold’s ‘Salon de Musique’
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O’Hanlon
6000 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover 1201 NW 17th Ave. In Motion with CMNW 888 Liberty St. NE Oh My Mys 1028 SE Water Ave. Bunk Beach Freedom Fest: Old Light, XDS, Beacubbin, Talkative
dante’s
edgefield
Hollywood’s Hot Rod Bar & Grill
St. Honore
Kells
421 SE Grand Ave. Mercurys Antennae
The Original Halibut’s II 2525 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
The Tea Zone and Camellia lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Barra Brown Quintet
Tigardville Station
12370 SW Main Street The Fabulous Lisa Fraser
Tom McCall waterfront Park
SW Naito Parkway Waterfront Blues Festival
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sing for Your Supperclub
Trail’s end Saloon
1320 Main Street American Roots Jam
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change
white eagle
836 N Russell St. Johnny and the Bells, Ghost Town
white eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Chris Baron and Friends
wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Notwist, Jel
FRI. July 4 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Bok Bok, Danny Corn, Ben Tactic, Graintable
Slabtown
The Horse Radish
Hotel Oregon
The lovecraft
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. The Fire Weeds
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
east end
1033 NW 16th Ave. B Fifty-thousand, Satan Spelled Backwards, Mercury Tremors
6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio
Rock Creek Tavern
The Buffalo Gap
Slabtown
The lodge Bar & Grill
1201 NW 17th Ave. In Motion with CMNW
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Calapooia Brewing
2530 NE 82nd Ave Richard Allen’s Louisina Experience, the Hamdogs
10810 NE Sandy Blvd. Mind Field
4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Dina y Los Rumberos
Body Vox
Reed College
duff’s Garage
Rock Creek Tavern
The Conga Club
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jim Mesi
3435 N Lombart St. The Keys, Adequates
1033 NW 16th Ave. Tsepesch, Old Lie, Cascadian, Silence the Father
2126 SW Halsey St. Billy D
3333 SE Division Street Music by Hot Club of Hawthorne, French Gypsy Jazz
6000 NE Glisan St. The Golden Country
Mock Crest Tavern
Boon’s Treasury
Ringlers Pub
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Lynn Conover and Gravel
2201 N Killingsworth St. Over Alders
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Phox, Trails and Ways, Joseph
350 W Burnside St. Dear Drummer, Acoustic Minds and DJ Jopamine
203 SE Grand Ave. East End 4th of July Block Party
1332 W Burnside The Windshield Vipers
Tillicum Restaurant & Bar
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Mississippi Studios
New Renaissance Bookshop
Jimmy Mak’s
2201 N Killingsworth St. Ben Cosgrove
303 SW 12th Ave. Slater Smith
Beaterville Cafe
3435 N Lombart St. Open Mic Jam with Johnnie Ward
wed. July 2
Beaterville Cafe
SAT. July 5 Al’s den
Biddy McGraw’s
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Meatbodies, Calvin Love
HORN OF PLENTY: He might be the most in-demand trumpeter in jazz right now, but Ambrose Akinmusire doesn’t act like a big deal. Standing onstage inside a jam-packed Jimmy Mak’s on June 25, he rarely spoke, often stepping out of the spotlight to let the rest of his quintet shine. When he moved to the front, though, hugging the mic with his trumpet bell, there was no doubt whose show this was. Read the rest of the review at wweek.com. TREE PALMEDO.
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Keys & Guests
1037 SW Broadway Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Santino Cadiz, How Long Jug Band
LAST WEEK LIVE
Analog Cafe & Theater
310 NE Evans St. About Paul Basile of Great Elk 112 SW 2nd Ave. Full Schilling
lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St. Music in the Teahouse
laurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. James Low Smash Band
lincoln Performance Hall-Portland State 1620 SW Park Ave. BodyVox
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Robert Francis & The Night Tide, Vikesh Kapoor
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombart St. Suburban Slim
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK Jr Blvd Los Inquietos del Norte
Ponderosa lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Panther Creek, Ryan Oetken
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Jon Koonce
Salty’s on the Columbia
3839 NE Marine Drive Fireworks at Salty’s
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Undergang, Trepanation, Astreas Pestis
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Space Shark, The Trees, Coloring Electric Like
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Cary Miga Trio
white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Reverb Brothers, Sour Alley brings Salem’s Likeable Band to Portlandia
888 Liberty St. NE Natural Remedy 140 Hill St. NE Rob Tobias
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Cool Breeze
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. This Is Not My Beautiful Band!, Elbow Coulee
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Clipping, Copy
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Lil’ Queene
eastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Alden Harris McCoy Trio
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. The Columbians
Fifth Avenue lounge 125 NW 5th Ave Suit & Tie Saturdays
Hawthorne Theatre lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. King Ghidora, The Decliners, Toy
Haydn On Tap
5829 SE Milwaukie Ave Grand Opening: Haydn on Tap
Hollywood’s Hot Rod Bar & Grill 10810 NE Sandy Blvd. Mind Field
Hotel Oregon
310 NE Evans St. Billy D
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Three For Silver
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Portland Woodshed Jazz Orchestra, Picante
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Full Schilling
laurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. The Rugs, Stable Ladies, Biv and the Mnemonics (9:30 pm); The Old Flames (6 pm)
lincoln Performance Hall-Portland State 1620 SW Park Ave. BodyVox
Metropolitan Bistro and Bar
16755 SW Baseline Rd Jay Purvis
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Those Willows, Samsel & the Skirt, Rich Lander Trio
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hot Tea Cold 211 W Main St. Robbie Laws
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Bastard Feast, The Siege Fire, Rolling Through the Universe
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Johnnie Ward
The Red And Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. The Retro Frames
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Tyrone Hendrix, Arietta Ward, Jarrod Lawson, DJ O.G. One
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. Survival Sklz
Tigardville Station
12370 SW Main Street China Watch
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Neil Diamond Independence Day Tribute
Tree’s Restaurant and Catering 20510 SW Roy Rogers Road #160 Robert Tackett
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Afro-Caribbean Night
white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Kinked
SuN. July 6 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Asleep At The Wheel
Body Vox
1201 NW 17th Ave. In Motion with CMNW
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE The Rainbow Sign
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside Street Ms. Lauryn Hill
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. The Vandies
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AuRA you KiDDinG ME?: Fuck Buttons play Star Theater on Wednesday, July 2. Duff’s Garage
232 SW Ankeny St. Your Friend
Edgefield
White Eagle Saloon
2126 SW Halsey St. Lewi Longmire, Anita Lee Eliott
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Bearcubbin’, Yeah Great Fine, Gallons
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Pre-Fair Jam Band (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Lincoln Performance HallPortland State 1620 SW Park Ave. BodyVox
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Typhoon, St. Even, Sama Dams (5:30 and 9 pm)
Music Millenium
3158 E Burnside St Alexandra & The Starlight Band (Acoustic)
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Open Mic
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Hanz Araki
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Resurrection Records Showcase
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Chevelle
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra
The Muddy Rudder Public House
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8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish
The Red And Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Bristol to Memory
The Station
2703 NE Alberta Gerle Haggard Band
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Necronomicon, Devour
The Waypost Coffeehouse & Tavern 3120 N Williams Ave. Classical Revolution
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main Street Sundays at the Trails
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Valentine’s
2530 NE 82nd Ave Kung Pao Chickens
836 N Russell St. The Lucky Ones
Mon. JuLy 7 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gothique Blend
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Souvenir Driver and Be Calm Honcho, The Century
Corkscrew
1665 SE Bybee Ave. Open Mic
Bob Shoemaker
Wingtips
Roseland Theater
Edgefield
Slabtown
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
8 NW 6th Ave. Mushroomhead, Ill Nino 1033 NW 16th Ave. Fissure, Vigil Wolves, URRAS
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday
The GoodFoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Vocal Jazz & Blues Jam
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Singer Songwriter Showcase, Eric John Kaiser
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Monday Soundscapes
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Wretched, Path To Ruin, A World Without
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Cover Songs Spectacular with Elie Charpentier
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer and Jay Collins, An Evening with Dick Hyman
TuES. JuLy 8 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Happy Otherwise, Ghost Towns
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. People’s Ink Weekly
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gretchen Mitchell Band
Bossanova Ballroom
Kells
722 E Burnside St. Tuesday Blues
Kelly’s olympian
8560 SE Division St. Blues Jam
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi 426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Lola’s Room
1332 W Burnside Punk Rock Mondays
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cooper and the Jam, Redwood Son and the Revelry
Paddy’s Bar and Grill 65 SW Yamhill St. Traditional Monday’s
Pub at the End of the universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic
Bravo Lounge
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Mascaras and Couches, The Tamed West
2126 SW Halsey St. Hanz Araki
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Mr. P Chill, Cleen, Mr. Hooper
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Audio Tattoo
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet, Alex Koehlers Jazz Crusaders Tribute
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Amanda Richards, Good Long Whiles (9 pm), Jackstraw (6 pm)
Lincoln Performance HallPortland State 1620 SW Park Ave. Chamber Music Northwest
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Chuck Cheesman
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sapient, Illmaculate, Goldini Bagwell, Load B, Slick Devious
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombart St. Brumby
o’Connor’s Vault
7850 SW Capitol HWy Raina Rose in Concert, Andrew Pressman, Mateo Bevington
Portland Abbey Arts
7600 N. Hereford Avenue The Round
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Behexen, Ceremonial Castings, Panzer God
Slabtown
Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T
1033 NW 16th Ave. Ceremony, Young Turks, Sloths
Columbia Annex Park
The Know
N Woolsey and N Willamette Jujuba
Dante’s
2026 NE Alberta St. Bestfriend Grrlfriend, Wizard Apprentice
Doug Fir Lounge
8105 SE 7th Ave. Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton
350 W Burnside St. Reigning Sound, The Tripwires
The Muddy Rudder Public House
Tiga Bar Portland
Reed College
830 E Burnside St. Alejandro Escovedo, Peter Buck
Duff’s Garage
White Eagle
Rock Creek Tavern
2530 NE 82nd Ave Sharskin Revue
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd.
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blue Note 836 N Russell St. Cut Cut Paste, Holy Tentacles, Jesus Miranda
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in Willamette Week’s SUMMER OF LIVE MUSIC CONTEST FIRST AND 130: Even in beer-buzzed Portland, a new bar with 130 taps gets attention. A big selection of suds isn’t necessarily enough to ensure prosperity for a chain—witness the quick crash of the successful-everywhere-else Mellow Mushroom, which lasted only a year in the Pearl District—but it gives downtown’s new Yard House (888 SW 5th Ave., 222-0147, yardhouse.com) a good start. Situated in the ground floor and basement of the Pioneer Place outbuilding that formerly housed Saks Fifth Avenue and now sports a blocklong Apple store, Yard House is massive. For perspective, it has 50 Oregon beers on tap—as many as the total—domestic and foreign—at Apex. That’s Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster) catering to Cascadians whom they know love all things local. The bar is a big square covered in televisions and tap handles, and though the beer list could use another page of one-offs and seasonals, there’s no chance even the geekiest of geeks wouldn’t be stoked to discover something like a Base Camp Weissbier or a rare Belgian. The fluffy pizza isn’t half-bad, either—at least not when it’s half-price (about $8) during happy hour—and the room is lively though not deafening. Considering how busy Bailey’s Taproom is after work, it’s a smart place for beer drinkers to start a long night on the west side. And if you’re eager to sip from those 50 taps at Apex afterward, the No. 4 bus is right across the street. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Holocene - @holocene 7/6 Bearcubbin’ 7/11 WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 8pm. 21 & Over
The Embers Avenue 110 NW Broadway 4th of July Dance and Bust
The GoodFoot Lounge
WED. JULY 2 Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jack
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. A Few of My Favorite Things: Eric D. Johnson, Andy Cabic, Pure Bathing Culture, Corrina Repp
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon: Industrial Dance Night
THURS. JULY 3 Back Stage Bar
3701 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eye Candy VJ
B.C.’s Bar & Grill 2433 SE Powell Tetsuo
Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse 118 NE 28th Ave. DJ Maxx Bass
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Tourmaline, DJ Valen
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. #Testify Dance Party, DJ E*Rock, DJ Shinhwa, New Dadz DJs
Midnight Roundup
345 NW Burnside Rd. Buck Wild Thursdays: DJ Cutt
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Strictly Vinyl: DJ Strategy
The Know
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew, DJ Aquaman
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid
SAT. JULY 5 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Revolution, DJ Robb
The Lovecraft
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Jesse Espinoza
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Sweet Relish
FRI. JULY 4 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Jakob Jay, Sweat Fridays
EastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Ujjayi Sound System
Holocene
East Burn
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Rd. DJ Encrypted
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment, Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Drew Groove
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
SUN. JULY 6
1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Kingdom, Massacooramaan, DJ Rafael, Gossip Cat
Star Bar
Lola’s Room
The Lovecraft
1332 W Burnside 80s Video Dance Attack
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Weiss Cube
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DJ Cooky Parker DJ Gregarious
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639 SE Morrison St. DJ Baby Lemonade 421 SE Grand Ave. NecroNancy
Body Party Holla n Oates Computer Fam PRSN
7/16 Ladi6 Laura Ivancie Sex Life DJs
Hawthorne Theatre - @mikethrasherpresents
THURSDAY, JULY 3
7/18 Opio (of Souls of
7/16 Filter/Helmet
Mischief & Hieroglyphics)
7/20 Ok Go
7/23 Tantric
$6.00 at the door.
2026 NE Alberta St. Dirt Bag, DJ Bruce LaBruiser and Guests 421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion
CASTLE SONS OF HUNS BILLIONS AND BILLIONS
50: A possible history of dance music, 1964-2014
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Free The Robots
FRIDAY, JULY 4 9pm. 21 & Over
UNDERGANG TREPANATION ASTREAS PESTIS $5.00 at the door.
SATURDAY, JULY 5 9pm. 21 & Over
TSEPESCH OLD LIE CASCADIAN SILENCE THE FATHER $5.00 at the door.
TUESDAY, JULY 8
Doug Fir - @dougfirlounge 7/5 CLIPPING. COPY
7/8 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO PETER BUCK FERNANDO
7/15 RICH ROBINSON (of The Black Crowes) PROPHET OMEGA TANGO ALPHA TANGO
7/19 WEINLAND HOOK & ANCHOR PETER RAINBEAU
7:30pm. All Ages
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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. Multiple locations, 467-6573. 7 pm most Thursdays-Saturdays through July 26. For full schedule, visit portlandactors. com. Free.
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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Book of Mormon
Broadway’s hottest show about men who wear sacred underwear returns to Portland. You don’t need us to tell you this, but the show is wildly fun, gleefully raunchy and surprisingly touching—it manages to be simultaneously obscene and earnest, from its potty humor (“I’ve got maggots in my scrotum”) to its religious riffs (“In 1978, God changed his mind about black people”). Tempering sacrilegiousness and profanity with bouncy choreography and fresh-faced eagerness, The Book of Mormon may make believers out of even the most averse. Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park, with Robert Lopez (composer of puppet musical Avenue Q), it’s been a phenomenon since it opened on Broadway in March 2011, and securing tickets has become more difficult than bringing Jews into the fold. This two-week run is (surprise!) sold out, but there’s a good chance they’ll open up a lottery for $25 tickets before each performance. And if not? Hasa diga eebowai! Check portland.broadway.com for details. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm TuesdaysFridays; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays; and 1 and 6:30 pm Sundays through July 20. Sold out.
Lust & Marriage
Once again, CoHo Productions puts on four weeks of solo shows, kicking off the series with Eleanor O’Brien’s autobiographical one-woman piece about coming to terms with polyamory. O’Brien, a vivacious and engaging performer, workshopped a version of the show during Fertile Ground in January, and it was one of the highlights of the fest. In the show, she recounts memories—of acting out sex scenes as a child, of ill-fated college entanglements, of experimentation and casual coitus in her 20s, of finding love on the Burning Man playa—with verve, zip and generous heaps of humor. Most impressively, O’Brien’s refreshing lack of preachiness means she’s able to pose questions that transcend her own experiences. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, July 3-6. $15; $50 for festival pass.
NEW REVIEWS The Music Man
Even if you didn’t spend your childhood rewinding and rewatching the 1962 film version of The Music Man, your perception of Meredith Willson’s classic musical is probably tainted by sloppy high-school productions
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and the Matthew Broderick movie that’s probably best to forget. But as the curtain rises on Broadway Rose’s production and a massive steam engine chugs out of the darkness, hurtling toward the audience, the message is clear: Take us seriously. In addition to the train, which opens to reveal the traveling salesmen of the first number, it’s a wonder there’s room backstage for so many houses, gazebos and carefully painted backdrops. As the story unfolds—a slick con man, posing as a salesman, falls in love with a small-town librarian—director Peggy Taphorn orchestrates dazzling large numbers. “Iowa Stubborn,” for one, features tightly synchronized hand waving and several sight gags that recall the film’s original choreography. The cast boasts lots of vocal talent, making the ensemble songs pop and offering several smaller moments that captivate. Chrissy Kelly-Pettit, as Marian the librarian, has a pretty soprano with just enough vibrato to turn slower numbers like “Goodnight My Someone” into standout songs. Yet while the first half rushes by, the show loses steam later on. As the titular con man Harold Hill, Joe Theissen lights up the first act but has trouble shifting tone when it comes time to fall in love and be redeemed. The once-propulsive sense of energy trickles out of the production, with the closing moments reduced to a quick group hug. If Robert Preston is your Harold Hill, this show won’t change that, but it’s a solid entry point for newbies. TREE PALMEDO. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 6205262. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through July 20. $20-$45.
ALSO PLAYING Antony & Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is the summer blockbuster of Shakespeare plays, with sweeping battle scenes, starcrossed romance and an epic threehour 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 (the shows this Thursday and Saturday are at Laurelhurst, while Sunday’s performance is at Meinig Memorial Park in Sandy). 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
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sketch and standup. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every Saturday. $5.
My Country ‘Tis of Me
For the eighth year running, the Brody improv gang presents a special Independence Day-themed show (on the day after the Fourth, but who’s counting?). This time around, four performers have been tasked with writing an eighth-grade-style essay on the theme of “What America Means to Me.” After reading their essays aloud, improv artists will craft sketches based on their words. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, July 5. $12.
Naked Comedy Open Mic
The Brody hosts a twice-weekly open-mic night. Comics get fourminute standup slots and can sign up online. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm every Wednesday and Thursday. Free with one-item minimum purchase.
Open Court
Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every first and third Thursday. $5.
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PERFORMANCE
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.
COMEDY & VARIETY Comedy Night at the Kiggins
You were already planning on crossing the Columbia River to make some special Fourth of July purchases, right? Tristian Spillman hosts this conveniently timed standup showcase, featuring sets from Curtis Cook, Amanda Arnold, Adam Pasi, Andie Main and Nariko Ott. Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main St., 360-816-0352. 8 pm Thursday, July 3. $5.
ComedySportz
Family-friendly competitive improv comedy. ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney St., 236-8888. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays. $15.
Curious Comedy Open Mic
Gabe Dinger hosts a weekly openmic night. Sign-ups begin at 7:15, and comics get three minutes of stage time apiece. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm every Sunday. Free.
Diabolical Experiments
Improv jam show featuring Brody performers and other local improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7 pm every Sunday. $5.
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., 477-9477. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through July 5. $12-$15.
Fly Ass Jokes
Pre-game your Fourth of July fireworks with an installment of Brody’s regular standup showcase, with sets from five comics. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, July 4. $8.
Ian Karmel
Back during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in May, Ian Karmel gave WW shit for pointing out that he was from Beaverton. He wrote to clarify that hewas born in Sellwood, raised in Beaverton (though he did spend a lot of time at his dad’s in Portland after his parents divorced when was 10), spent one year in Ashland, moved to Portland at age 19 and decamped to Los Angeles at age 28. Anyway, the Chelsea Lately writer is back in town for a three-night stand. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday; 7:15 pm Friday; and 7:30 and 10 pm Saturday, July 3-5. $15-$29.
Mixology
Late-night comedy show with improv,
i can’t even: Kyle Mizono.
A COMEDY DANCE PARTY WITH KYLE MIZONO Comedian Kyle Mizono wants to dance with you. And she wants to do it in the dim, clown art-filled environs of Funhouse Lounge, with the looming threat of being drenched in booze by comedians wielding alcohol-filled Super Soakers. “I want to dance with people, like in a platonic way,” Mizono says. “Like, with some distance between us. I’d love to do that kind of dancing.” In other words, Saturday’s event—billed as a “comedy dance party”—won’t be your average standup show. Co-hosted by local comedians Carson Creecy and Dylan Reiff (who will double as DJ), it’s a go-with-the-flow, giant question mark of an evening. Creecy says anything might happen. “The response to Kyle Mizono tends to be, ‘What the fuck just happened?’” Creecy says. “That’s how this show is. Is this a dance party? Is this a comedy show? Is it music? Is it theater? I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but I’m having a great time doing it, and it’s making me laugh and feel good.” Creecy hatched the idea during the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in May, when he saw Mizono at an afterparty having, in his words, “a weirdo dance battle” with a friend. She struck him as the ideal headliner for an out-of-the-box comedy show. Here that means a DJ’d standup showcase that incorporates music, dancing and unscripted sketches. Mizono will be joined by several local comics, who’ve each handpicked music to accompany their sets. Mizono, an L.A. comic who sprinkles her offbeat musings about everyday life with Disney references, dinosaur imitations, songs about being a modern-day princess, and the occasional angry shout, welcomes a show with such a freewheeling premise. “I love to dance and I love physical stuff,” she says. “I like the idea of not just talking to a microphone the whole time, and adding a little bit of extra flavor.” In addition to a post-show dance party, the audience can also expect a surprise mystery guest. Creecy refuses to reveal the guest’s identity, only noting that this comedian will be armed with an alcohol-loaded Super Soaker. (Take comfort: Only those who volunteer will be sprayed.) “What I’ve learned from other comedians is just to produce the show you want to see,” Creecy says. “I’m a weird dude, so there’s a lot of weird components to the show. But that’s what I want to see, and I’m going to see who else is on board.” KAITIE TODD.
jokes, jigs and boozy squirt guns.
see it: Kyle Mizono is at Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734, on Saturday, July 5. 9:30 pm. “Pay what you will” general admission; $10-$40 VIP. 21+.
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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 brown-nosing groupies. Semifinals will be held July 8-9, with the winner crowned July 22. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. Tuesdays and Wednesdays through July 2; see heliumcomedy.com for complete schedule. $10-$17.
Two for the Show
Improv from two different duos: Scott Engdahl will pair up with Danika Louise, while Mike Farras and Aspen Farer form the other team. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Saturday, July 5. $8.
Weekly Recurring Humor Night
One of the longest-running standup showcases in town, hosted almost always by Whitney Streed. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9 pm every Wednesday. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested.
You Are Here
The Brody ensemble puts on a weekly improv showcase. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 8 pm every Friday. $9-$12.
Caravan of Glam, who tour smaller cities in and around Oregon, perform on their home turf. Watch for Doc Tetanus, a performer who breathes fire, eats light bulbs and acts as a human dart board. Opening the show are performers from Cloud City Circus, who bring aerial acts, pole dancing and belly dancing. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 10 pm Thursday, July 3. $10, $15 VIP. 21+.
Cloud City Circus
Adherence to quantum theory paid off for the bar cirque troupe—the performers have danced, flipped and hung every First Thursday for a year now. This anniversary show is extra highenergy, with new music and choreography for the aerial, juggling, belly dancing and other acts. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9:30 pm Thursday, July 7. $5. 21+.
Eugene Ballet Company and Oregon Bach Festival
In a one-night show, Eugene Ballet Company collaborates with Oregon Bach Festival in two ballets, adapted by Bach, on a theme of creation. The Baroque opera-ballet Les élémens opens the program with a chaotic scene of ancient Rome and follows through four entrées named after the elements. Darius Milhaud’s La création du monde, which premiered in Paris in 1923, is
a depiction of the world’s creation based on African mythology set to a score of swinging rhythms and bluesy harmonies. Pianist Gabriela Montero provides the music. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 3 pm Sunday, July 6. $21-$56.
Night of Kink
Do America proud with a fetish dance night. Strippers, burlesquers and cirque performers play with fire and various bondage apparatuses, while go-go dancers dot the sinful landscape. For the extra adventurous, there’s a dungeon. Kinky patriotic attire is encouraged. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 9 pm Saturday, July 5. $12 ($7 before 10 pm), $25 VIP, $200 VIP tables. 21+.
Wanderlust Circus
Jon Dutch and Anngela Burt, the impressive duo from the RoseCity Acro Devils, perform in this Wanderlust Social show with swing band Wanderlust Orchestra. Dutch is big, smiley and somehow self-effacing as he flips and throws the bubbly Burt. They’re some of the best physical stunts in Portland. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm Wednesday, July 2. 21+.
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PERFORMANCE
DANCE BodyVox
Pairing contemporary dance with live classical music from Chamber Music Northwest, BodyVox’s annual In Motion show enriches the company’s familiar numbers with engaging sound. But the favorite parts of this popular show are often the musicians—especially when they tote their instruments through the audience, as they did last year, making movement theater of their own. This year, BodyVox co-artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland debut a new work, one that’s accompanied by virtuoso string instrumentalists Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall. The company also performs Leave the Light On, last performed in full in 2005, but performed in an excerpt last year. Its bluegrassy score, composed by Meyer, backs several dancers through courtly, ruffly romance. By the time you read this, the show is probably sold out. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, July 4-5; 4 pm Sunday, July 6. $30-$55.
Burlesque S’il Vous Plait
Burlesque performer Wanda Bones has a picnic with her boyfriend— a mustachioed blow-up doll in a leather harness—and then things get weird. Ruby Rounds peels off red, white and blue in a classic act set to Nancy Sinatra. Drag burlesque mama Zora Phoenix hosts the monthly show. Crush, 1400 SE Morrison St, 235-8150. 9 pm Friday, July 4. $10. 21+.
Burlynomicon
The typically dark monthly burlesque show horses around with Americana, featuring “American Woman,” mac and cheese and corn dogs. The Bridgetown Revue—a group of burlesque cirque performers—will also spin hoops, belly dance and swing to “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9:30 pm Saturday, July 8. $8. 21+.
Caravan of Glam
Drag queens and dancers with the
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CLASS ACT: If you thought your love life was complicated, take a look at Tracy Lord’s: On the eve of her wedding, the bride-to-be finds herself in a love triangle (or is it a square?) of the stickiest sort. Should she marry her safe, boring fiance? Pursue the poetic, judgmental reporter? Remarry her charming yet arrogant ex-husband? Such is the trouble at the heart of The Philadelphia Story, a tale of love, class, gender and the aphrodisiacal powers of Champagne. If the 1940 Oscar-winning film—which starred Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant—is an intimidating act to follow, this Clackamas Rep production of Philip Barry’s original play doesn’t let on. Within minutes, we’re in the late 1930s, with the lavish red and gold hues of the set, shimmering dresses and classic tuxedos conjuring an air of aristocracy. Things start quietly (quite literally so), but the performers soon prove dynamic, and the dialogue is often laugh-out-loud funny. As Tracy’s uncle Willie, Ernie Casciato stands out with his self-deprecating humor: “The consolation for being old is, however you live, you’ll never die young.” And though her voice is sometimes too faint, Hillarie Putnam’s Tracy blends strength, vulnerability and neuroticism. Most enjoyable is how the production rouses difficult questions: What does it mean to be a part of the upper class? When does our obsession with celebrity become harmful? What does it mean to be a strong and independent woman in a society uneasy with such a role? If nothing else, we learn this from The Philadelphia Story: When it comes to life and love, we still don’t have the answers. But it sure is fun debating them. KATHERINE MARRONE. SEE IT: The Philadelphia Story is at Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., Oregon City, 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through July 20. $12-$28.
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Stephanie Coontz Historian Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were and Marriage, a History History, discusses government regulation of marriage, parenthood, and family life with Adam Davis. Mission Theater / 1624 NW Glisan St., Portland 6:30–8:00 p.m. / doors at 5:00 p.m. Minors with parent or guardian oregonhumanities.org Willamette Week JULY 2, 2014 wweek.com
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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.
Rediscovering Lacquer: 12 Artists Reinvent a Timeless Tradition
STILL LIFE WITH MY LITTLE PONY BY KATIE TORN
Betty Merken: Gravity and Whispers
Seattle-based painter and printmaker Betty Merken has a gift for abstract compositions that counterpose geometric and organic forms. The perfection of her geometries serves as a potent foil for the intuitive drips, stains and washes that appear throughout her oil paintings and works on paper. In this body of work, Merken’s color palette tends toward saturated hues, as in the monotype Structure, Pink, and the deep blues of Notte and Lapis . July 3-Aug. 2. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.
Choice Cuts: Selected Works from the Woolley Collection
For decades, gallery owner Mark Woolley has been a passionate collector of Northwest art. Dozens of pieces from his personal collection are on view in the exhibition Choice Cuts . You’ll fi nd lots of familiar names in the lineup: Stuart Cornell, Tom Cramer, Wesley Younie, Gregory Grenon, Eva Lake, and Woolley’s wife, the talented fi gurative painter Angelina Woolley. A live auction of the artworks will be held at the gallery at 7 pm Saturday, July 12. Through July 12. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third fl oor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
David Pace: Sur La Route
Since 2007, Bay Area photographer David Pace has spent two months each year living in the village of Bereba in Burkina Faso, Africa. For his new series, Sur La Route, he photographed villagers at the beginning and end of the day as they traveled to and from work via bicycle, motorcycle, or carts pulled by mules or oxen. The lighting in these photos is dramatic. Because Pace shot the images early in the day or late in the evening, the sky behind his subjects is often tinged with the intense colors of dawn or dusk. And instead of using fl attering three-point lighting, Pace uses a crude fl ash, heightening the contrast between foreground and
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background. As a result, these vignettes seem to exist neither in the past nor present, but in a bubble outside of time. July 2-Aug. 3. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
Joel Shapiro: Maquettes and Multiples
Internationally renowned artist Joel Shapiro uses simple geometric forms to create complex and exuberant compositions. In the sculptural studies and prints in this exhibition, he deploys a bold color palette—pinks, yellows, reds and blues—and irregular squares, rhombuses and triangles in confi gurations that have the child-like naiveté of Henri Matisse’s gouache cut-outs. July 3-Aug. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
Katie Torn: The End of Flutter Valley
Upfor continues its impressive run of digital art and new media with Katie Torn’s The End of Flutter Valley. The New York City-based artist uses computers to generate surreal images and fi lms. In much the way video-game programmers and Hollywood special-eff ects teams create three-dimensional characters and environments, Torn conjures scenes that can be viewed “in the round.” In the piece Still Life With My Little Pony, a woman’s head seemingly fl oats atop a garden hose. The hose’s two ends spew water into the air like fountains, water droplets suspended midair. It’s reminiscent of Philippe Halsman’s famous photograph of Salvador Dalí, in which the artist appears to fl oat alongside water and a gravity-defying cat. Despite the technology involved in Torn’s work, the images have a refreshingly low-fi sensibility. July 3-Aug. 2. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.
Lorenzo Triburgo: Transportraits
For this series, entitled Transportraits , Lorenzo Triburgo photographed transgendered men in front of painted backdrops. Each backdrop was created
Traditional Japanese lacquering techniques get a thoroughly contemporary reimagining in this opulent group show. Foremost among the highlights are Koichiro Kimura’s Pop Art-infl uenced tea containers, goblets and plates, with their luminous gold and silver leaf, fl uorescent colors, polka dots and glamorously refl ective 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 off ers a refreshing take on a medium that continues to evolve with the times. Through July 6. Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Ave., 223-1321.
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 fi lters, affi xed them to a Plexiglas mounting, painted them individually, then coated them with resin. He also uses cigarette fi lters as the projector screen for his video installation, Smudge. The video shows a cigarette fi lter slowly turning into a pillar of ash—an aff ecting 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 largescale 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., 2240521.
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 nonprofi t 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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original bassist, Portland resident Dave Allen. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Kristin Ohlson
As the child of farmers and gardeners, Portland author and journalist Kristin Ohlson has long held an appreciation for the often-overlooked soil. But with modern agricultural practices releasing tons of carbon from the soil into our atmosphere, Ohlson argues that we should return our focus to the dirt in her new book, The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Zachary Schomburg
With his fourth book of poetry, Oregon Book Award-winning poet Zachary Schomburg takes a different approach. Each prose poem represents one year in the life of the anonymous main character, creating a singular narrative throughout the course of a lifelong search for an imaginary love named Joshua, appropriately titled The Book of Joshua. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JULY 7 Oregon Encyclopedia History Night
Josh Weil
In an alternate reality of a dystopian Russia, twins Yarik and Dima work at the Oranzheria, an immense glass structure erected over cropland and lit by mirrors from space creating perpetual daylight. The brothers, close since birth, soon find themselves on opposite sides of an ideological war. Josh Weil’s ambitious new novel, The Great Glass Sea, explores love, loss and all those other epic emotions. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JULY 8 Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, co-editor of Boing Boing and sci-fi author (Little Brother, Rapture of the Nerds), wants to share his thoughts about how technology and politics impact us as readers and citizens. He’ll be doing just that with his presentation and Q&A. Beaverton City Library Auditorium, 12375 SW 5th Ave., Beaverton. 7 pm. Free.
Barbara J. Scot
If you were a child at any time during the last several decades, odds are you read at least one (if not all) of the Beverly Cleary books. And if you didn’t realize it at the time, the beloved characters from her numerous novels like Henry Higgins and Beezus and Ramona Quimby all reside not in a fictional town but right here in Portland, inspired by Cleary’s own childhood. Oregon children’s book author Eric A. Kimmel and Sybilla Cook, author of Walking Portland, will team up for the History Night presentation “Beverly Cleary’s Neighborhood,” complete with photographs of the places important in her life and career. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm. Free.
Kevin J.H. Dettmar and Dave Allen
A punk band with a political message is not exactly revolutionary. But when Gang of Four released its debut album, Entertainment!, in 1979, notice was taken. Kevin J.H. Dettmar examines the albums mixture of Marxist theory and situationism with his new book, Gang of Four’s Entertainment! for the 33 1/3 series of books about notable albums. Dettmar will be joined in conversation with Gang of Four’s
Because it’s hard to clear your head when you’re fully clothed (right?), Barbara J. Scot began taking long walks on Sauvie Island ’s “clothing optional” beach in order to sort through a reconciliation with her brother. She also ponders family responsibility and faith as she recounts the wildlife and other, um, scenery of the area in her new memoir, The Nude Beach Notebook. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Michael Deibert
More than 70,000 people have been killed in the drug wars along the Mexican border since 2006. Journalist Michael Deibert turns his focus on the Gulf Cartel and its deadly, ongoing battle with former ally Los Zetas. Through interviews and secondary source material, Deibert explores what the continued violence means for Mexico and America in his new book, In the Shadow of Saint Death. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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DIANA GABALDON Like any good drug offering a temporary escape from the banality of life, serial fiction can quickly become addictive. I speak from the experience of a user. I’ll be clean for months, dutifully reading beautifully depressing lit fiction or contemplative memoirs. But then I’ll slip up with a binge on a young adult trilogy, and damn it feels good. I first picked up the book Outlander in advance of interviewing the author, Diana Gabaldon, for a magazine article in Arizona. This was in 2009, and Gabaldon was about to publish the seventh book in her bestselling series. But I figured I should start at the beginning to see what I was getting into. I swiftly tumbled down a serial-fiction rabbit hole that made the subsequent months pass in a blur of kilted Scotsmen, time travel and ripped bodices. For 7,923 pages, I have faithfully followed the lives of time-traveler Claire and her strapping Scottish husband. Gabaldon’s novels def y easy categorization, with strong elements of historical fiction, scifi, adventure and romance. Yes, there is plenty
of sex, and it’s quite satisfying. The books are told from the perspective of Claire Randall, an ex-combat nurse on vacation with her husband in the Scottish Highlands in 1946. While exploring a circle of standing stones, she accidentally travels back in time to 1743 and a Scotland on the brink of the second Jacobite rising. Here she meets 20-something Scotsman Jamie Fraser, and through a series of perfectly logical events ends up marrying him. The next six books chart their lives together and (despite a few leaps back and forth in time) bring us mostly chronologically up to the Revolutionary War, where Jamie and Claire, now in America, currently find themselves. Gabaldon’s eighth installation in the series, Written in My Own Heart ’s Blood (Delacorte Press, 814 pages, $35), just debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list, both in hardback fiction and e-book sales. In fact, every book in the series has enjoyed a slot on the list, as well as several of her spinoff books that follow secondary character Lord John Grey, and the graphic novel interpretation of Outlander, The Exile. Her books have been published in 24 languages across 27 countries. And in place of the long-pined-for movie adaptation, Starz will debut Outlander the series in August. Fans, begin your frothing. And while I still eagerly awaited my review copy, it was with less enthusiasm than for previous installments. After five years, I am no longer feeling the drug’s euphoria, merely its dull craving. I have forgotten certain plot points amid the endless battles and political upheavals, and with so many characters and familial ties to keep track of, it makes Game of Thrones look like The Brady Bunch. In fact, Gabaldon even includes a helpful— and sprawling—family tree on the inside cover for assistance. T he eig ht h b o ok w a s s up posed to be the final in the series. Gabaldon told me as much when I inter v iewed her, say ing she already knew how it was going to end. I was ready for closure. But her publisher informed me that there would be “at least one more.” After all, any experienced dealer knows when she has a good product. It would be foolish to discontinue it now. PENELOPE BASS. GO: Diana Gabaldon appears at the Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335, on Wednesday, July 2. 7:30 pm. Sold out.
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22 Jump Street
B+ In addition to being one of the
best comedies in recent memory, 2012’s 21 Jump Street was one of the most self-aware movies to come along in some time, openly mocking the fact that it was a retread of a longforgotten, cornball ’80s cop show. So it only makes sense that 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), this time going undercover as the world’s oldest-looking college freshmen. Once again, they’re trying to track a syndicate selling a weird designer drug that is making the rounds among the student body. And once again, one of the cops falls in with the cool kids, while the other feels neglected. 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, meanwhile, prove to possess a comic chemistry on par with James Franco and Seth Rogen’s. Tatum’s Jenko is a geek in the body of a Chippendale dancer, and Hill instills Schmidt with a neediness that adds satisfying layers to the bromance that unfolds. The rapport between the leads is pitchperfect, and the direction is so vibrant 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. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Milwaukie, Mission, Mt. Hood, Valley, The Joy.
Begin Again
A A few days ago, I very pompously
and somewhat drunkenly declared that the romantic comedy was dead. Deader than Bruno Kirby (who appeared in what is the single greatest rom-com of all time, When Harry Met Sally). Deader than Alice from The Brady Bunch. (Too soon?) Dead, dead, dead. Then I watched Begin Again, a new bit of bittersweetness starring Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley as a down-and-out music producer and a broken-hearted singer-songwriter, respectively, and I’m feeling a little Gary Oldman-esque. In other words: my bad. Under the direction of John Carney (of Once fame), romantic comedies are alive and well. They can begin again. Eek, that title. So cheesy. I guess you can’t have everything. But you can have this movie, which will leave you wondering if perhaps the demise of the record label and the rise of the DIY musician isn’t so bad after all. At least not when Ruffalo (still a dreamboat) and Knightley (I forgive you for trying—and failing—to be Lizzie Bennet) and CeeLo Green are involved. What’s great about Begin Again is that it subverts your expectations. Again and again. Just when you cynically say to yourself, “Ah, what we have here is another Jerry McGuire,” Mos Def, who plays Ruffalo’s disgruntled business partner, says, “This isn’t Jerry Maguire.” No, it’s not. It’s much, much better. R. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Fox Tower.
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C- Adam Sandler might be the smartest person in Hollywood. Adopting the Ernest P. Worrell prototype, the “Adam Sandler goes to” model has taken the comedian and his buddies camping, to the tropics and beyond. The dude’s on permanent vacation, popping out crappy movies between naps. In Blended, Sandler hits Africa— well, a high-end resort/spa in Africa, but that’s Africa enough to allow him to pet a baby elephant and dress up a monkey as a Hooters waitress. The film re-teams Sandler and Drew Barrymore as single parents. After a disastrous first date, they end up at the same isolated resort, where a vaguely racist parody of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and humping rhinos stoke the flames of love. The two bond as Sandler teaches Barrymore’s sons to man up with the help of sports, and Barrymore shows Sandler’s tomboy girls how to shimmy like ladies. All the familiar Sandler beats are here, from overwrought sentimentality to a cast of weirdo, scene-stealing supporting characters (good to see you again, Kevin Nealon). The rom-com suits Sandler’s sensibilities better than recent flops like That’s My Boy and Bedtime Stories. Perhaps that’s because Sandler’s a bit more relaxed here. Of course he is: He’s on vacation. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Movies on TV.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
C+ While 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger found a dreamily compelling momentum somewhere between magical realism and newsreel propaganda, The Winter Soldier wades through thankless cameos and interminable exposition. Once again, star Chris Evans’ unaffected certitude and boyish self-regard suggest why a mortal might one day command the Marvel gods and monsters. But now his appealing mix of officer and gentleman has been reduced to frathouse moralizing. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Academy, Avalon, Empirical Theater at OMSI, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mt. Hood, Valley, The Joy.
Cardboard
B [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR
ATTENDING] You’ve seen them, standing on a street corner or the freeway onramp, holding signs with “Anything Helps” scrawled in Sharpie. And if there’s one thing made clear in Matt Longmire’s documentary Cardboard, it’s that they’ve seen you, too. The Seattle director doesn’t try to hide his intentions, or pawn off his film as anything more ambitious than what it is. Through simple talkinghead interviews with Seattle panhandlers, Longmire simply wants to give a voice to the folks on the street. His scope is astounding: Over the film’s 90-minute runtime, we meet a former five-star chef, a 60-year-old onetime crack addict, and a young man who would be in high school if he had a home. In addition to scores of other panhandlers, he also interviews prominent Seattle activists and even Mayor Mike McGinn. Cardboard is far from unbiased, and Longmire can’t help but slightly vilify the anti-panhandling advocates he interviews. It also feels overlong and lacks a clear ending point. But it grabs your sympathy with the sheer variety of stories it tells, fleshing out its colorful cast of characters and reminding you how easy it is to end up in their shoes—and just how hard life is once you’re there. TREE PALMEDO. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, July 3.
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
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In the past 15 years, South Korea has experienced the most staggering cinematic renaissance since Easy Rider and Midnight Cowboy ushered in independent American filmmaking. The current wave riffs on the country’s rapid technological growth, the disconnect between generations, police incompetence and the North-South divide. With visually hyperkinetic storytelling heaped with unexpected dollops of humor, Korean directors have embraced genre filmmaking while forging new ground. Yet even the country’s most revered filmmakers have had trouble transitioning to English-language cinema. Park Chan-wook—of Oldboy, Thirst and Lady Vengeance—flopped with Stoker, an elegant but ultimately cold thriller. With The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Kim Jee-woon made one of the craziest action films in recent history, only to turn the Schwarzenegger comeback vehicle The Last Stand into a merely serviceable action yarn. Expectations for Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer were astronomical. This is, after all, the most expensive Korean movie yet made, helmed by the director of The Host, a tender meditation on family disguised as a monster flick that was the country’s most successful film ever. His follow-up, Mother, was a heart-wrenching master class in suspense and mystery. The two films established Bong as a genre-hopping wunderkind of immense vision. With memories of the disappointing Elysium still fresh, Snowpiercer sounds suspect. The film, loosely based on a 1982 graphic novel, is built around a similar class-warfare metaphor: It’s a dystopian parable set during a human-induced ice age in which the remnants of the human race populate a self-sustaining train endlessly circling the globe. The rich live in the front of the train, where they’re treated to steaks and pedicures. The poor are relegated to the back, where they’re beaten by guards and subsist on mysterious protein bars. That sounds like a simple enough premise for a ham-fisted sci-fi tale. Yet Snowpiercer is so much more. It is grim, violent, hilarious, strange and
smart. It’s the most inventive science-fiction picture in years, the most original action film in a decade and perhaps the most all-around entertaining movie so far this year. The story centers on a revolution led by Curtis (Chris Evans, breaking free of Captain America’s tights) and sidekick Edgar (Jamie Bell), who take a mob from the train’s caboose to its engine. The front of the train holds many promises, among them windows and hard-boiled eggs. It also offers a reckoning with Wilford (Ed Harris), the train’s designer and the man whose vision of a perfect society includes segregation, as well as vengeance against Mason (Tilda Swinton, stealing the movie), a toothily Thatcherian overseer who uses creative torture to control the masses. She provides the film’s most chilling and hilarious moments, including a propaganda-filled tirade precisely timed to match the seven minutes it takes a dissenter’s arm to freeze solid when forced outside the speeding train. It’s at once terrifying and ridiculous, hammered home by Swinton’s over-the-top menace.
DIRECTOR BONG JOON-HO IS A GENRE-HOPPING WUNDERKIND OF IMMENSE vISION. Snowpiercer follows its dirt-smeared heroes as they move from car to car, assisted by a security expert (The Host’s great Song Kang-ho) with a secret agenda. Each car is a new environment: Sometimes it houses a horde of masked, ax-wielding thugs ready to quash the revolution. Sometimes it contains a classroom full of propaganda-addled children. Sometimes there’s a sushi bar. Never is it expected. Some might fault the way scenes jackknife from hallucinogenic serenity to a close-quarters gunfight, all the while piling on enough surrealist, dystopian imagery to fuel the rest of Terry Gilliam’s career (hell, they even name-check the 12 Monkeys director). Some might consider its political allegories too on-the-nose. But a little heavy-handedness can be forgiven when the result is this bracing. Snowpiercer plows forward with gleeful abandon, confirming that Bong—with a style of storytelling that is visceral and an imagination that is endless—is one of the best directors of his generation. A Snowpiercer is rated R. It opens Wednesday at Cinema 21 and the Hollywood Theatre.
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A Coffee in Berlin
B+ 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. Living Room Theaters.
Deliver Us From Evil
While preparing for this horror movie about a cop-turned-demonologist, Eric Bana watched footage of an allegedly legit exorcism. “It will be forever etched in my brain,” he told the New York Daily News. Deliver Us From Evil, meanwhile, wasn’t screened for Portland critics, which gives little confidence the studio produced something worth etching into anyone else’s brain. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
and Cage slowly becomes a master of death. The recursive conceit often seems poised to devolve into a cheap gimmick, but, much like Cage, it consistently makes slight course corrections that keep it feeling fresh. The most striking presence here is Emily Blunt as a lionized soldier who once bore the very burden that Cage is trying to understand. Constantly reliving the same day made her a battle hero, but it also forced her to witness the death of a loved one hundreds of times. That sort of trauma doesn’t disappear when you hit the reset button. PG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Forest, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.
The Fault in Our Stars
B+ “I believe we have a choice in
this world about how to tell sad stories,” says Hazel Grace Lancaster at the beginning of the film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars. Author John Green—who wrote the novel of the same name— approaches sad stories with wisdom, wit and a heartbreaking blow. In voice-over narrative, we are introduced to Hazel (Shailene Woodley), a 17-year-old with an unpronounceable form of lung cancer and an often cynical—she would probably call it realistic—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. Typical rom-com moments ensue. 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. Woodley’s performance is unsurprisingly absorbing, but the real fun comes with Elgort’s Augustus. He exudes a wicked wit and a magnetic confidence that works with Woodley’s world-weary intelligence. You’ll probably hear people call The Fault in Our Stars “that romance movie about kids with cancer,” but really it’s a story about love and dealing with loss—and not about cancer. PG-13. KAITIE TODD. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Wilsonville.
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.
Godzilla
B Godzilla has risen from a 16-year
slumber, and the big green badass is pissed. You would be too, if your more recent Hollywood incarnation had robbed you of your atomic breath or made you listen to Puff Daddy. Happily, Gareth Edwards’
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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. Eastport, CineMagic, Cornelius, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
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Divergent
B At first glance, Divergent would seem to be riding on the coattails of The Hunger Games. Here’s another dystopian YA novel-turnedwannabe blockbuster, with another rising star—Shailene Woodley, in for Jennifer Lawrence—at the center. But with Divergent, director Neil Burger proves there’s more than one way to ride this wave. Veronica Roth wrote Divergent while still in college, and she brings together the overthrow of an oppressive government and a freshman-year identity crisis. Conceptually, Divergent employs elements from Harry Potter, G.I. Jane and Gattaca, and visually, it offers a memorable take on the post-apocalyptic landscape without overdosing on CGI. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Avalon, Milwaukie.
Earth to Echo
A kids’ movie about a trio of friends who try to help a stranded alien get back home. Do your children a favor and introduce them to E.T. instead. PG. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Edge of Tomorrow
B In the surprisingly absorbing
Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise plays William Cage, a public-relations maven thrust into a Normandy-like battle, with the forces of our embattled planet going like lambs to the slaughter against occupying aliens. He isn’t at all prepared for war, and watching his balletic descent from a Space Age drop ship is dizzying and horrific. A few minutes after landing on the alien-infested beach, he’s dead. Then he wakes up. For convoluted reasons, Cage finds himself reliving the same 24-hour period— always ending in his own demise—ad nauseam. They say it takes 10,000 hours to truly master something,
EBERT HIMSELF: Film critic Pauline Kael commanded admiration. David Thomson compels a distanced respect. But Roger Ebert was loved. Life Itself, the new Ebert documentary from Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Prefontaine), is an oddly diffuse portrait. It attempts to capture the famed film reviewer’s boyhood and young career, his contentious history with TV co-host Gene Siskel, his late-life marriage and the cancer that took away his jaw and made his mouth into a dangling price tag. But what emerges is Ebert’s overflowing cup of humanity: his seemingly endless capacity for joy, as well as his often petulant narcissism and need to be liked. One saw, in his reviews, a man deeply interested in life. One sees much the same in James’ film, even from a man who could not speak without the aid of a computer. It is not merely his surgically frozen smile that gave Ebert such grace in his final years. Amid setbacks that would have sent many into self-pitying reclusiveness— there is a brutal scene in which Ebert attempts to achieve suction in the gaping hole in his neck—he remained more engaged than ever. Much of the film is a motley array of talking heads, whether young filmmakers Ebert helped, Siskel’s widow or a genuinely choked-up Martin Scorsese (talking about himself, of course). But it’s in the scenes between Ebert and his wife, Chaz, where the film finds its center. Life Itself is, more than anything, a very loving document of a man who was loved. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. B+ SEE IT: Life Itself is rated R. It opens Friday at Living Room Theaters.
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new take contains no Diddy ditties or Matthew Brodericks. In fact, it pretty much ignores the existence of Roland Emmerich’s disaster, serving instead as a sequel of sorts to the original 1954 classic. Those seeking a nonstop slugfest akin to Pacific Rim should temper their expectations. The film builds steadily, with Godzilla spending much of the first 90 minutes racing to fight a pair of city-destroying insectoids while humans scramble and scream. This surprising focus on the human element is perhaps the film’s only misstep. Otherwise, Edwards nails the most important aspect of any Godzilla movie: the giant lizard’s scale. For the film’s first half, we see the massive battles from the limited viewpoints of those running through the streets. Only when Godzilla’s road trip finally ends in San Francisco do we get a full-on view of the monsters trading blows—for 40 straight minutes of city-leveling bliss. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Mall.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
B+ The old, snide rejoinder to an
over-decorated show is that “you leave humming the sets,” but Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel may be the first movie where you come out tasting them. The titular Alpine resort is the most edible-looking lodge in cinema: a multitiered, pink-frosted castle designed to endure as an ambrosial memory. Our hero, M. Gustave, is the dapper concierge running the Grand Budapest front desk and back halls. He’s played by Ralph Fiennes with such flowery cosmopolitanism that you can almost see the cloud of cologne drifting behind him as he scurries to his next boudoir appointment with a rich dowager. I’d love to recite an ode to The Grand Budapest Hotel, because it’s the most politically aware story Anderson has told. It’s set in an imaginary Middle European country in the 1930s, at the edge of war. Its story, a silly caper, brushes against the deepest horrors of the 20th century, and ends by acknowledging irrevocable damage. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing. Who are these beautiful visitors in The Grand Budapest Hotel? They’re meant to be ghosts, but they shouldn’t be strangers. R. AARON MESH. Academy, Hollywood, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Valley.
Horses of God
C [ONE NIGHT ONLY] In creating
How to Train Your Dragon 2
More animated Vikings, dragons and, scariest of all, teenagers. PG. Eastport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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. More to the point, 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, mafia-adjacent rise of the doo-wop group. Eastwood’s greatest asset as a director has always been the ability to bestow mythic stature to deserving leads. It’s a nifty talent requiring only absolute seriousness of tone, but here it veers toward the horrific: Though John Lloyd Young won a Tony for wrangling Frankie Valli’s falsetto, his talents don’t extend to silent emoting. Yet the lion’s share of blame falls on screenwriters Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Within a jukebox musical, where the libretto is only expected to tease momentary diversion from the succession of familiar hits, stylized staging can wring depth from one-sided dialogue or encourage the audience to flesh out shadowy figures, but these tricks fall flat on the big screen. You can’t have character development without backstory, nor dramatic tension without a coherent sequence of events. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cinema 21, Mill Plain, Forest, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
A David Lynch’s 1984 adapta-
tion of revered sci-fi novel Dune was not his finest hour. But those B-movie explosions could have been replaced by something both surreal and visceral had midnight-movie maestro Alejandro Jodorowsky directed the story a decade earlier. Jodorowsky’s Dune tells the story of the failed production, which gained serious traction in the mid-’70s on the heels of Jodorowsky’s seminal Holy Mountain. Jodorowsky’s vision was stunning but bloated, which comes out in interviews with the spiritual director and his cast. Excitement gives way to fiasco as H.R. Giger, Pink Floyd, Orson Welles
and Salvador Dalí are all recruited to the project, while the demands and the budget climb. The film is as much about the man as it is the film, portraying Jodorowsky as a relentless, Leary-esque visionary. For those uninitiated to Jodorowsky’s brand of surrealism, Jodorowsky’s Dune will wonder and amuse. For his fans, this a chance to delight in the psychedelic mastermind and what could have been his masterpiece. PG-13. MITCH LILLIE. 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. Cut from the same material that went into Restrepo, Korengal is Junger’s bold attempt to illuminate the emotional 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.
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 fi rst of the surprises in store for naive Ida, who soon sets off with Wanda on a journey to fi nd out where their family was buried. Ida is a sweet road-trip buddy pic and a tender coming-of-age tale that avoids cliché. PG-13 . DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.
The Lego Movie
B+ The Lego Movie comes danger-
ously close to the pop culture-saturated Shrek model of comedy, but just when the film starts becoming too cute, the plot shifts into another nutso action sequence filled with
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a fictionalized look at the lives of the men who perpetrated a mass suicide bombing in Morocco in 2003, director Nabil Ayouch takes on the difficult task of humanizing terrorists. Yet Horses of God shifts its tone so quickly that it feels like two films stapled together. For the electric first half, it focuses on adolescent boys in the slums of Casablanca who make their living scavenging in landfills and selling drugs while wrestling with their identities. It plays out like a more tranquil version of City of God. Then, suddenly, the boys are coaxed into a mosque by a charismatic rel-
ative, and immediately their personalities go blank. That might be the point, but for a film examining the seductive power of jihadism, it offers no insight into how seemingly atheistic youth could be duped into violence without reason. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, July 2.
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Transformers: Age Of Extinction XD-3D (PG-13) 11:40AM 3:20PM 7:00PM 10:35PM Maleficent (PG) 11:00AM 1:35PM 4:15PM 7:00PM 9:40PM Million Ways To Die In The West, A (R) 10:20AM 4:10PM 10:05PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 10:10AM 1:20PM 4:25PM 7:30PM 10:35PM Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:50PM 7:05PM 10:15PM Neighbors (R) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:25PM 9:55PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 10:45AM 12:15PM 2:30PM 4:00PM 6:15PM 7:45PM 10:00PM Tammy (R) 10:00AM 11:15AM 12:30PM 1:45PM 3:00PM 4:15PM 5:30PM 6:45PM 8:00PM 9:25PM 10:30PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:00AM 1:00PM 1:45PM 4:45PM 5:30PM 8:30PM 9:15PM
TAMMY clever sight gags. PG. AP KRYZA. Valley, Milwaukie.
Lucky Them
C- In Lucky Them, a self-loathing
music critic, tormented by the ghost of relationships past, embarks on an assignment designed to save her career. Her goal: track down her ex-sweetheart, Seattle music legend Matthew Smith, who disappeared from the scene and her life 10 years ago. Unfortunately, Megan Griffiths’ film suffers as much of an existential crisis as its oft-drunken protagonist. Is it a drama about the self-destructive Ellie (Toni Collette) trying to face her past? A romance chronicling her courtship with a puppy-faced street musician (Ryan Eggold)? A buddy comedy about Ellie and her boorish road companion Charlie (Thomas Haden Church) as they hunt down her Kurt Cobain-esque ex? Church stands out in an otherwise dull cast, mustering some sporadic laughs as a wealthy pseudo-intellectual with too much time and money on his hands, though the script clumsily misuses him. When the unfocused dramedy reaches its rushed, halfbaked conclusion, even a surprise cameo serves as another distraction in an already convoluted story—and never mind that the climax to Ellie’s quest gets as much screen time as a tragically short-lived bushbaby. R. MIGUEL ACUNA. Living Room Theaters, Kiggins Theatre.
The Lunchbox
A The Lunchbox is set in Mumbai,
where a fraternity of 5,000 men, the dabbawallas, have been delivering hot lunches from the city’s housewives to their businessman husbands for the past 120 years. According to a Harvard study, only one in a million Mumbai lunches is delivered to the wrong person. The Lunchbox 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 Sajaan, a widower accountant on the verge of retirement. Sajaan, played by veteran Bollywood star Irrfan Khan, receives the lunchbox intended for Ila’s husband, and a sweet and thoughtful exchange of notes begins. Batra allows Ila and Sajaan’s relationship to develop slowly and subtly, like a Polaroid photograph, and the tender humor adds exactly 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—and intimidating beauty, and sense of physical imposition—of Angelina Jolie. In case your grasp of the source material is rusty, evil fairy Maleficent was left off the invite list to Princess Aurora’s christening, so she dooms the girl to death. But we do not believe in pure evil these days, and Disney wasn’t content to let such a single-minded villain go
unconsidered. So what hardened Maleficent’s heart? Rape. The man who would be Sleeping Beauty’s father begins as Maleficent’s childhood chum and first kiss, but he drugs her and removes her wings to get a little geopolitical advantage and, ultimately, the throne. The implications are mindboggling, but Jolie only gets the chance to play a jilted lover who exacts her revenge on the most helpless of the kingdom. Unfortunately, by the time she regains her wings, her trajectory and the movie’s message have all become so muddled that, at what passes for the climax, we get a battle scene reminiscent of Catwoman—Jolie loses her skirt, gets pants, and slings chains at her erstwhile lover. It doesn’t feel like victory, though: After tiptoeing through the computer-animated tulips, it just feels forced. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. 99W Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Corenlius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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 this insipid film is selling if anyone on screen could manage anything more than a forced smile. PG. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy, Mt. Hood, Valley.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
C+ With A Million Ways, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has assembled a vanity project on par with Uncle Walt playing lead in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. He simply hasn’t the chops to carry the movie—a Western in which he’s cast himself as the romantic lead—and only drops the smarmy posturing when diving into boyish flirtation. He’s a continual embarrassment leading a production of this scope, and he’s hardly helped by his own direction. In a tone-deaf flourish of egotism, MacFarlane’s sheep farmer is always the smartest guy in the room and, save the women who love him, the most attractive. More awkwardly, he seems the toughest as well, a significant flaw for a film determined to treat its rejiggered plot with grave seriousness. Thankfully, the Western setting proves as amenable as any other for the hallmarks of MacFarlane’s wit— split-second visual bits, open-mic routines, and troubling stereotypes extended to illogical conclusions. But there aren’t enough jokes, and they require an especially strong stomach, because the feces overflows, and overlong and misguided forays into action and romance sap any anarchic momentum. R. JAY HORTON. 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), in a puerile sequence that confirms screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien as Apatow acolytes without the bother of IMDb searches. However, when a frat moves in next door, Mac’s suburban idyll is shattered and he’s thrust into an escalating turf war. Director Nicholas Stoller manages to instill a propulsive pace to the brinksmanship, but he sacrifices some narrative rhythm in the process. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Clackamas.
Night Moves
B Kelly Reichardt isn’t from Oregon.
America (PG-13) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:40PM 7:20PM 10:00PM Blended (PG-13) 1:15PM 7:10PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:35AM 2:20PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 10:20PM 22 Jump Street (R) 11:25AM 2:15PM 5:05PM 7:55PM 10:40PM Deliver Us From Evil (2014) (R) 10:40AM 12:10PM 1:40PM 3:10PM 4:40PM 6:10PM 7:40PM 9:10PM 10:40PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 10:20PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:25AM 1:30PM 4:35PM 7:35PM 10:30PM Earth To Echo (PG) 10:05AM 12:25PM 2:50PM 5:15PM 7:45PM 10:10PM Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (PG-13) 7:30PM
Maleficent (PG) 11:35AM 2:00PM 4:30PM 7:10PM 9:40PM Jersey Boys (R) 10:00AM 1:05PM 4:10PM 7:15PM 10:20PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 1:40PM 7:35PM Tammy (R) 10:05AM 11:30AM 12:35PM 2:00PM 3:05PM 4:30PM 5:35PM 7:00PM 8:05PM 9:30PM 10:35PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 11:40AM 1:30PM 3:20PM 7:00PM 8:45PM 10:35PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:00AM 10:45AM 12:35PM 2:25PM 4:15PM 5:10PM 6:05PM 7:55PM 9:45PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:15PM
America (PG-13) 11:35AM 2:10PM 4:45PM 7:20PM 9:55PM 22 Jump Street (R) 11:25AM 2:10PM 5:05PM 7:50PM 10:35PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:45AM 2:25PM 5:05PM 7:45PM 10:25PM Deliver Us From Evil (2014) (R) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 10:45AM 4:45PM 10:35PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:20PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 10:20PM Earth To Echo (PG) 10:05AM 12:25PM 2:50PM 5:15PM 7:40PM 10:05PM
Maleficent (PG) 11:10AM 1:55PM 4:25PM 7:05PM 9:50PM Jersey Boys (R) 12:30PM 3:45PM 6:55PM 10:10PM X-Men: Days Of Future Past (PG-13) 4:10PM 10:20PM Tammy (R) 11:40AM 1:00PM 2:20PM 3:40PM 5:00PM 6:20PM 7:40PM 9:00PM 10:20PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction (PG-13) 11:35AM 3:20PM 5:10PM 7:00PM 8:50PM 10:40PM Transformers: Age Of Extinction 3D (PG-13) 10:45AM 12:35PM 1:30PM 2:25PM 4:15PM 6:05PM 7:55PM 9:45PM Think Like A Man Too (PG-13) 11:10AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:05PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) 2:05PM 10:15PM
Chef (R) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:35PM 22 Jump Street (R) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:30PM 7:20PM 10:15PM How To Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 11:15AM 4:40PM 7:20PM Deliver Us From Evil (2014) (R) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 7:30PM 10:30PM Fault In Our Stars, The (PG-13) 1:05PM 7:20PM Edge Of Tomorrow (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 7:25PM 10:25PM Earth To Echo (PG) 11:30AM 2:00PM 4:40PM 7:10PM 9:40PM
FRIDAY
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. Laurelhurst.
Obvious Child
A- Obvious Child is a revolutionary
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 Obvious Child such a winning—and important—film. It revolves around Donna Stern, a fumbling Brooklyn standup comic, and as played by real-life comedian Jenny Slate, she’s free of airs and full of loopy charm. Early on, Donna is dumped by her schlubby boyfriend and loses her job. So, as any distraught 28-yearold would do, she gets sloshed and proceeds to sleep with a cleancut, boat shoe-wearing 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. But writer-director Gillian Robespierre isn’t pushing an agenda: She’s telling the specific story of one young woman who had a reckless evening and isn’t ready to be a mother. Some viewers are likely to have conniption fits over the matter-of-fact way Obvious Child treats abortion, or even allege that Donna
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deserves this unwanted pregnancy because she got drunk and forgot how condoms worked. But Robespierre is too levelheaded to engage with such unjustified claims. Will Donna think about her abortion from time to time? Absolutely. Will she regret it? Absolutely not. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cinema 21, Hollywood.
Only Lovers Left Alive
A Given that languid cool is the life-
blood of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre, it makes sense that he’s finally gravitated to the vampire genre. In Only Lovers Left Alive, the iconoclastic director brings both absurdity and sensuality to the undead, using Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston’s otherworldliness to tap into a rich vein of sardonic humor. As the film opens, Hiddleston’s despondent Adam is holed up in the husk of Detroit, amassing vintage guitars and recording hypnotic tracks. When Swinton’s magisterial yet matronly Eve jets in from Morocco, Adam shows her the tragic sights of the Motor City’s ruins, including the Michigan Building’s once-glorious theater that’s now a parking garage. While the film is laced with mordant wit—the blood popsicles have already become legendary—there’s also an affecting subtext: Jarmusch seems to be using genre tropes to explore his own concerns about maintaining his creative drive as he enters his 60s. Just as Adam learns that the world contains undiscovered wonders, one of cinema’s most idiosyncratic voices confirms, with droll eloquence, that he still has much to say. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy, Laurelhurst.
Paper Circus: Animations by Luca Dipierro
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Italian-born animator, who now makes his home in Portland, showcases more than a dozen of his short films, in which trees sprout from furniture and women give birth to fish. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, July 3.
The Price of Sex
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] The Sex Workers Film Series screens an undercover documentary about human trafficking in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Saturday, July 5.
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.
Refuge
C+ [ONE WEEK ONLY] Toward the
end of Rebecca Goldberg’s middling Refuge, protagonist Amy (Krysten Ritter) argues with her boyfriend about their future. “Do you ever think about it?” she screams. “Who I’d be if I didn’t have all this shit?” It’s a question Amy can’t get out of her mind, and for good reason. Her parents abandoned the family years before—the details are never filled in—forcing her to give up a college scholarship and care for her two younger siblings (Logan Huffman and a spunky Madeleine Martin) in their nowhere town. The dialogue can be clunky: “See, I was reading this book, and there’s this woman, and she gets lost,” Amy says as a way of describing her predicament. But some of the best moments come when Ritter’s face wordlessly shows Amy’s struggle to pick a side: comfortable mediocrity with her boyfriend (Brian Geraghty), or holding out for something better that might never come. But the film itself teeters along the same line, with moments of profundity strung in among the contrived drama. Refuge is based on Goldberg’s own play, but watching the film you might wonder how, without the lush cinematography and gloomy soundtrack by the Milk Carton Kids, the story
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C O U R T E S Y O F WA LT D I S N E Y S T U D I O S
MOVIES
Rio 2
It’s back to the Brazilian tropics, with Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg voicing mama and papa macaws raising a feathered brood. WW was too hungover from spring break to make the screening. G. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Milwaukie, The Joy, Valley.
D+
Tammy
If you’ve seen one Melissa McCarthy movie, you’ve seen them all. What was fresh, hilarious and worthy of an Oscar nod in Bridesmaids was already old hat by the time Identity Thief came around last year. It’s now a distant memory thanks to Tammy. Fired from her job at a fast-food joint and rendered a fool by her adulterous husband, the film’s namesake embarks on an outlaw road trip with her alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon, who’s only 24 years McCarthy’s senior). The plot meanders lackadaisically from there—radio sing-alongs and physical comedy abound—and McCarthy is careful not to tweak the boisterous onscreen avatar that’s made her famous. The script, by McCarthy and her husband/director, Ben Falcone, was clearly written with this low-effort approach in mind. Tammy’s crass exterior is a defense mechanism meant to mask her insecurity, as it tends to be in movies like this, and the sob story explaining her tense relationship with her grandma is such an afterthought that it might as well have been excised. But hey, female-led comedies remain anomalies, and at least there’s no baitand-switch: For better and (much more often) for worse, Tammy is exactly what you expect. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Cinemas, St. Johns Theater.
Think Like a Man Too
In this sequel to the 2012 movie, all the usual suspects reunite for a wedding in Las Vegas. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lloyd Mall.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Another year, another chapter in Michael Bay’s massively profitable film series about toy action figures. This fourth installment is 165 minutes long, even longer than the previous three movies. Not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. 99W Drive-In, Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Cinemas, St. Johns Theater.
Under the Skin
YOU KNOW I FEEL ALRIGHT: The Fab Four in A Hard Day’s Night.
STAGE TO SCREEN
THE RESURRECTION OF THE BAND MOVIE. BY A P KRYZA a pkryza @wweek.com
When they were young and their hearts were open books, the besuited Beatles made the band movie to which all other band movies would forever be compared. That was A Hard Day’s Night (Kiggins Theatre, opens July 4; Hollywood Theatre, July 6-7), which turns 50 this week. Alas, they don’t make movies like that anymore. Sure, you get the occasional concert movie, but actual narrative films starring bands are few and far between—at least since From Justin to Kelly. Here are a few script treatments to get the revival going. A Hard Night’s Day Starring: One Direction. Paying homage to the original boy band, One Direction stars in a loose remake of A Hard Day’s Night. The film— cut with montages of 12-year-old girls fainting—chronicles the band’s U.S. tour. The boys’ delightfully British shenanigans are interrupted when, like Ringo in the original, Harry Styles goes missing. Unlike in the original, things take a dark turn when it’s revealed Styles has been abducted by a deranged fan obsessed with re-creating Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired fan fiction. Directed by Lars von Trier.
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.
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. Make no mistake, this is an adult comic-book movie: It’s violent, heady and full of historical references, creating an alternate history interwoven with real-life events. But it’s also goofy as all hell, and the first hour lets loose a barrage of playful set pieces and winking in-jokes that makes it pretty damn delightful. PG13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man Starring: The Traveling Wilburys. The surviving Wilburys reunite for a film version of the group’s hit song about drugs, violence and sexuality. It centers on the cross-country adventures of two drug dealers: the Monkey Man (Jeff Lynne) and Tweeter, who undergoes a sex change halfway through (Cate Blanchett and Bob Dylan share the role). Tom Petty is the undercover cop hot on their trail, while Andy Serkis transforms into Roy Orbison via motion-capture. The narration is cobbled together from archival interviews with George Harrison. In true Wilbury form, the movie is not nearly as good as it should be. Sharpetown: Up From Below Starring: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. The year: 2017. Investigators descend on a grim scene: Bodies lay motionless amid wildflowers, clutching bottles of tainted kombucha. This is the story of Alex Ebert, who assumes the persona of Edward Sharpe and becomes a prophet of peace, love and dirty feet. The film traces the band’s rise and Sharpe’s eventual descent into mania as he
closes off his Zeros from reality, marries all the females (to the chagrin of second-in-command Jade Castrinos) and retreats to a doomed compound in Arkansas. It wins the Oscar for Best Documentary. Girl Talk: The Movie Starring: Girl Talk. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) becomes enamored with the gangster lifestyle in this riveting crime drama, which follows Hill as he coordinates the infamous Lufthansa heist, becomes an old-timey baseball player, fights Mothra, gets in a steamy threesome and marries Julia Roberts. It eventually becomes clear this is just Goodfellas with scenes from Field of Dreams, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, Wild Things and My Best Friend’s Wedding spliced throughout. The film is wildly successful. Henga’s Butte Starring: Federale. After a decade writing soundtracks to nonexistent spaghetti Westerns, Portland band Federale finally gets its own film after a successful Kickstarter campaign. The funds are immediately spent on ponchos. The film—shot on iPhones—premieres at the Clinton Street Theater, where audiences are captivated by the tale of an outlaw who wanders a barren wasteland that looks suspiciously like a park in Gresham, looking for the men who stole his hawk. Federale performs the soundtrack live, mainly because the film’s budget didn’t allow for a sound mix. The ponchos look incredible. ALSO SHOWING: With its rampant pop-culture barbs, incessant silliness and casual racism, Airplane! laid the groundwork for the modern-day spoof. But unlike those that came after it, Airplane! is actually funny. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, July 2. Back to the Future will forever be a classic for the way it speaks to our universal fear of the aggressive sexual advances of our super-hot teenage moms. Academy Theater. July 5-10. We all have our heroes. In 1979’s Breaking Away, the main character’s idols are the members of the Italian cycling team. Much spandex-wearing ensues. Laurelhurst Theater. July 5-10. The Japanese animated epic Akira, released in 1988, is so explosive and brilliant that Hollywood has been trying to adapt it for decades. With white people. Sigh. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday-Sunday, July 5-6. 1988 was a landmark year for Japanese animation: It also included the staggering Grave of the Fireflies, which follows two children trying to survive in the countryside during the final months of World War II. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4:30 pm Sunday, July 6. I once had a friend who told me he hated The Godfather. No idea what he’s up to now. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, July 5.
MOVIES C O U R T E S Y O F T M S E N T E R TA I N M E N T
JULY 4–10
NEO-TOKYO IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE: Akira plays Saturday and Sunday, July 5-6, at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.
Regal Lloyd Mall 8
2320 Lloyd Center Mall TAMMY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:45, 05:10, 09:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 05:15 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:45, 08:15 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:45, 02:25, 06:25, 09:05 JERSEY BOYS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 02:20, 05:45, 08:30 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:15, 06:15, 08:55 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:20, 02:30, 05:40, 08:45 GODZILLA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 02:35, 05:35, 08:35 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:40, 05:30, 09:10
Avalon Theatre & Wunderland
3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:00, 07:10 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:20, 02:25, 07:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:35, 09:45 DIVERGENT Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:25, 09:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 03:15, 07:15
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 OBVIOUS CHILD FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 06:45, 08:45 SNOWPIERCER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 07:00, 09:35 JERSEY BOYS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:00, 07:00, 09:40
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 REFUGE Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:00 THE PRICE OF SEX Sat 07:00 PANTANI: THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A CYCLIST Wed 07:00
Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub 2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE GRAND BUDAPEST
HOTEL Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:20, 09:30 NIGHT MOVES Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:40 BREAKING AWAY Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:00 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 THE LUNCHBOX Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 UNDER THE SKIN Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 JODOROWSKY’S DUNE Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:30 FROZEN SING-ALONG Sat-Sun 01:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Sat-Sun 01:00
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-TueWed 02:00, 07:45 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Tue-Wed 04:30
Moreland Theatre
6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503236-5257 MALEFICENT Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
St. Johns Cinemas
8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:35, 07:55 TAMMY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:15, 06:40, 09:05
CineMagic Theatre 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
Century 16 Eastport Plaza
4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:00, 01:50, 04:50, 07:35, 10:35 XMEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:10, 10:20 MALEFICENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 01:55, 04:25, 07:05, 09:50 EDGE OF TOMORROW Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:50, 01:35, 04:20, 07:25, 10:25 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:05, 07:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:15, 04:40, 07:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:05, 10:15 22 JUMP STREET Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:40, 04:30, 07:20, 10:15 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed
11:10, 01:45, 04:30, 07:15, 10:05 JERSEY BOYS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:45, 06:55, 10:10 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 03:20, 05:10, 07:00, 08:50, 10:40 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 12:35, 01:30, 02:25, 04:15, 06:05, 07:55, 09:45 DELIVER US FROM EVIL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:40, 04:35, 07:30, 10:30 TAMMY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 01:00, 02:20, 03:40, 05:00, 06:20, 07:40, 09:00, 10:20 EARTH TO ECHO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:00, 04:40, 07:10, 09:40
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474-4 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Wed 05:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Tue-Wed 02:30
Empirical Theatre at OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000 BEARS Fri 11:00, 03:30 GREAT WHITE SHARK Fri 01:30, 06:00 DINOSAURS ALIVE! 3D Fri 12:30, 02:30, 05:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Fri 07:00
Hollywood Theatre
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Would you like your savings account to grow? Then deposit money into in it on a consistent basis. Would you like to feel good and have a lot of physical energy? Eat healthy food, sleep as much as you need to, and exercise regularly. Do you want people to see the best in you and give you the benefit of the doubt? See the best in them and give them the benefit of the doubt. Would you love to accomplish your most important goal? Decide what you want more than anything else and focus on it with relaxed intensity. Yes, Aries, life really is that simple -- or at least it is right now. If you want to attain interesting success, be a master of the obvious. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your urge to merge is heating up. Your curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it’s time to conduct jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here’s what I propose: Let your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don’t be attached to the outcomes. Some of your research may lead to permanent arrangements, and some won’t. Either result is fine. Your task is to enjoy the amusing bustle, and learn all you can from it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The American painter Ivan Albright (1897-1983) was a meticulous creator. He spent as much time as necessary to get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect one square inch of a painting, and some of his pieces took years to finish. When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush composed of a single hair. That’s the kind of attention to minutia I recommend for you -- not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be careful and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you maximum freedom of movement later this year. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue that’s over 2,100 years old. Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess of love, beauty, and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost -- buried underground on the Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will uncover a source of beauty, love, or pleasure -- or perhaps all three -- that has been missing or forgotten for a long time. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just before he reaches the top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started and makes another effort to roll it up again -- only to fail again. The myth says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I’m happy to report, Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a certain uphill task, you will not be forever frustrated. In fact, I believe a breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be due to your gutsy determination or your neurotic compulsion or both? It doesn’t matter. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of America’s founding fathers believed slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t invent hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In comparison, the hypocrisy that you express is mild. Nevertheless, working to minimize it is a worthy task. And here’s the good news: You are now in a position to become the zodiac’s leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ideals into practical action. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the last two decades, seven Academy Award winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Oscars. By contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio executive Harvey Weinstein. Who would you acknowl-
edge as essential to your success, Libra? What generous souls, loving animals, departed helpers, and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive? Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your appreciation. For mysterious reasons, doing so will enhance your luck and increase your chances for future success. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have permission to compose an all-purpose excuse note for yourself. If you’d like, you may also forge my signature on it so you can tell everyone that your astrologer sanctified it. This document will be ironclad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, escape smallminded influences, and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-strength excuse note will free you to seek out adventures you have been denying yourself for no good reason. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the Inuktitut language spoken in northern Canada, the term iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga means “I should try not to become an alcoholic.” I encourage you to have fun saying that a lot in the coming days. Why? Now is an excellent time to be playful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive tendencies you might have. Whether it’s booze or gambling or abusive relationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive self-saboteur, you have more power than usual to break its hold on you -- especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here’s one: Gazing at Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a central hub on the planet’s surface. But we now know that Venus is shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no surface features are visible. So what did Lowell see? Due to an anomaly in his apparatus, the telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of Venus. The “spokes” were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let this example serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Don’t confuse what’s within you with what’s outside you. If you can clearly discern the difference, your closest relationships will experience healing breakthroughs. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” So said British writer G. K. Chesterton. Now I’m passing his advice on to you just in time for the Purge and Purify Phase of your astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will generate good fortune for yourself whenever you wash your own brain and absolve your own heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sexual feelings. As you proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious choice to undergo a trial by fire. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I awake in a land where the lovers have seized power,” writes Danish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful poem “The Lovers.” “They have introduced laws decreeing that orgasms need never come to an end. Roses function as currency. . . The words ‘you’ and ‘I’ are now synonymous.” A world like the one he describes is a fantasy, of course. It’s impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial romance. Dare to put love at the top of your priority list. And be inventive!
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Field Manager CAMPAIGN: $17.00/Hour 600,000 Oregonians lack access to sick days. APPLY NOW FIGHT WITH US: 503.224.1004 Pass a Paid Sick Day law for all of OR workers! PORTLAND@WORKINGAMERICA.ORG
Opiate Treatment Program CASH FOR INSTRUMENTS Evening outpatient treatment program with suboxone. CRCHealth/Dr. Jim Thayer, Addiction Medicine http://belmont.crchealth.com 1-800-797-6237
Dekum Street Doorway A Linnton Feed & Seed Garden Store
Tradeupmusic.com 503-236-8800 503-335-8800
HAVE A SAFE 4TH OF JULY!
Medical Marijuana
card Services clinic
DekumStreetDoorway.com
New Downtown Location! 1501 SW Broadway www.mellowmood.com
4119 SE Hawthorne, Portland ph: 503-235-PIPE (7473)
503 235 1035
• Gardening tools • Chicken feed • Soil & Mulch • Plant starts • and more!
Historic Woodlawn Triangle at NE 8th & Deekum
503-310-4578
503-384-Weed (9333) www.mmcsclinic.com 4911 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland • open 7 days
Pizza Delivery
Until 4AM!
www.hammyspizza.com
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