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I see that Neal Karlen is not a local journalist and, admittedly, have little awareness of Mark Dayton or his politics [“America’s Worst Politicians,” WW, July 2, 2014]. Whether I agree with Dayton’s positions or not, I was astounded to read this piece. The language is antiquated and exactly what perpetuates a stigma against psychiatric/neurologic illness. To refer to someone as cementing his place “in Washington’s cuckoo’s nest,” as a “lifelong depressive,” or as taking “enough psychotropic drugs to fill a Walgreens warehouse” only implies that one can assume psychiatric illness will be accompanied by a lack of responsibility, intelligence and/or integrity. That is inaccurate and unacceptable. Referring to individuals as individuals with depression, for instance, (versus “lifelong depressive”) confirms that they are not defined by a single aspect of their identity or medical history. I believe that WW would be strengthened by prioritizing respect and person-first language over incendiary and judgmental writing such as what was reflected in Mr. Karlen’s piece. S.J. Northwest Portland The two Oregon politicians on this list say a lot more about WW’s political biases than they do about the people in question: a couple of old Republican nobodies whose worst offenses are being rude and making a couple of politically incorrect comments in private (John Ludlow), and being slightly eccentric but completely harmless (Art Robinson). “Someone has to say it”
I commute from downtown to Tigard via I-5. In the morning, it takes me 20 minutes or less. However, on my way home, traffic is often a parking lot. Where do all these commuters come from in the afternoon? And where were they in the morning? —Ecubed Obviously, Ecubed, your fellow wage slaves have been multiplying over the course of the workday. Sorry you weren’t invited, but at least now you know what’s been going on behind that locked copy-room door. But seriously, folks: My own experience with rush hour may shed some light on your question. It will surprise approximately no one to learn that I don’t work a conventional 9-to-5 schedule. I file my stories when I feel like it, and I can cook up a batch of meth any old time, so I’ve basically never even seen the morning rush hour. (Once I drove a friend to the airport at 8:30 am, and we 4
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Thank you for this coverage [“House of Cards,” WW, July 2, 2014]. I have been at SAIF Corp. for 25 years, and there have been political situations and management shake-ups, but this has been so frustrating to watch. There are many employees who are nervous to take any sort of stand, but right is right and wrong is wrong. It is practically our prime directive to do the right thing. I hope this is going to be fully investigated, and there are many employees who would be surprised if John Plotkin would even want to come back. But if he did, he would probably have the most loyal employee base ever. “Vintage Adjuster”
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Why oh why is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission in charge of recycling centers? [“Seeking Redemption,” WW, June 25, 2014.] Is it because there is a drop of beer in an empty can or bottle? The grocers want this monkey off their backs. Let them and the distributors of these products provide oversight, not a bloated, revenue-sucking bureaucracy. Does government have to have their finger in everything? Kyler Culp Southwest Portland 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.
were so confused by all the traffic at that ungodly hour we thought the authorities were evacuating the city.) That said, I—and all those with similar degenerate lifestyles—manage to get caught in afternoon rush-hour traffic all the time. See, the only people on the road at 7:30 am are the ones who have to be at work at 8. At 5:30 p.m., however, it’s not just everybody who got off work at 5—it’s also me and all the other bums who couldn’t manage to unstick our tongues from the carpet and find our pants until around 4:30 or so. Supposedly there’s also stuff like picking kids up from school, grocery shopping and yoga class, though it’s hard to imagine that anyone really lives like that. Add it up, though, and you can see how the pm commute outstrips its am counterpart in terms of miles driven.
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CITY HALL: Mayor Charlie Hales pursues Airbnb. HOTSEAT: Marijuana entrepreneur Brian Budz. COVER STORY: Portland Maverick Frank Peters.
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Last week, Airbnb threw a house party in Portland City Hall. The San Francisco-based online startup laid out two tables lined with trays of bagels, brownies and blueberry muffins. It invited its clients—the thousands of Portlanders who use Airbnb to rent their homes or apartments to tourists—to have snacks and testify in front of the mayor and city commissioners about why their rentals should be legal. It’s unusual for a company with business before the City Council to put on a buffet in the building. But Airbnb is hungry. The “sharing economy� company is poised to be a breakout success, with venture capitalists’ investment valuing the firm at nearly $10 billion. But the past few months have been
unkind to Airbnb. It faces backlash in its hometown of San Francisco. In New York, the state attorney general has subpoenaed the company’s database of clients. Earlier this week in Spain, the Catalan government fined Airbnb for breaking rental laws. In Portland, officials have instead been welcoming—none more so than Mayor Charlie Hales. On July 23, the city will consider a rule change that will permit Portland to do something no other city in America is yet willing to do: collect taxes from Airbnb’s room rentals, legalizing the company’s operations. In most cities around the world, Airbnb’s clients are renting their property in violation of local hotel regulations—though officials often look the other way. The plan to legalize Airbnb’s rental of rooms in single-family homes in Portland has the full backing of the City Council. But Hales wants to go further—and give Airbnb’s clients permission to rent apartments and condos. To supporters, Hales’ proposal would place Portland on the cutting edge of a
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democratic new economy where people make money by renting their property on the Internet. Critics say it would give the Silicon Valley company the kind of legitimacy it has nowhere else. “Portland legalizing short-term rentals in a city ordinance would be a major win for Airbnb and Portland’s tax revenues,� says Matt Turlip, a senior analyst at PrivCo, a New York agency that evaluates privately held companies, “but would only be one small step of a puzzle that needs to be pieced together for Airbnb to legitimize its questionable business model.� Meanwhile, Airbnb is bringing to Old Town 160 call-center jobs, paying up to $18 an hour. Hales says he wants to put Portland at the forefront of the “sharing economy�—the Web marketplaces that allow peer-to-peer rental of property and goods. Hales’ courtship of Airbnb may reflect his need to show tangible accomplishments. It could also be costly. The mayor’s willingness to give Airbnb what it wants has irked his political base: real-estate developers and property owners who have forbidden their tenants to sublet their apartments. Real-estate interests, who were among the biggest donors to Hales’ mayoral campaign, worry his plan will create risks for other tenants and liability for them. “This is going to be a three-ring circus,� says Maureen MacNabb, president of Capital Property Management Services, which
operates 145 apartment buildings in Portland. “They’re putting people in jeopardy for a few bucks in the city’s pocket.â€? Almost everywhere you look, Airbnb is under fire. Housing activists and landlords in Airbnb’s hometown of San Francisco have accused the company of forcing longtime residents out of their apartments. In New York, a state senator called Airbnb a “scofflaw company,â€? charging it is openly violating the city’s ban on shortterm rentals. Tabloid headlines scream horror stories of rentals gone wrong: “Hookers turning Airbnb apartments into brothels,â€? declared the New York Post in April. And New York’s attorney general this spring subpoenaed a year’s worth of data about Airbnb clients, trying to find the names and addresses of people who regularly and illegally rent out their apartments. Airbnb responded in New York by pledging to set up a feedback hotline for neighbors and landlords. It also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying and advertising. A company employee cofounded a nonprofit called the Peers Foundation, which has rallied New York City clients to petition their elected officials for the right to make money from their residences. This spring, looking for a friendlier Ä‹Ĺ?+*Ĺ?, #!Ĺ?ĉ %(( )!00!Ĺ? !!' JULY 9, 2014 33!!'Ä‹ +)
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spending $4,500 to meet with city officials in the first quarter of 2014. Two months later, Hales highlighted Airbnb’s selection of an Old Town office building for its “operational headquarters� in his annual State of the City speech. Five days later, Airbnb dubbed Portland its first “Shared City,� meaning it would begin collecting an 11.5 percent hotel tax from its clients. (It started collecting that tax July 1.) Airbnb officials say Portland is the first city in the U.S. where they are collecting local taxes. The company hopes to strike a similar deal with San Francisco officials this summer. “We are excited to see local leaders embracing the sharing economy,� says Owen, “and this legislation is a great step forward.� Email correspondence obtained through a public records request shows Airbnb communicated repeatedly with Hales about the “Shared City � announcement. The communication included a phone call between the mayor and company CEO Brian Chesky. “Brian would very much like to give the Mayor a call,� an Airbnb employee wrote a Hales staffer March 20, “to discuss it briefly mano a mano before the launch.� Hales has another close connection to Airbnb: His daughter, Katelyn, is dating the company’s chief mapmaker. Last week, Airbnb urged users via email to testify at the City Council hearing on short-term rentals. “This is it...� the mass email read, “the final chance to show your support for clear legislation that allows you to share your home!� The company asked its clients to meet a half-hour before the 2 pm hearing for coffee and bagels. Next to the cream cheese and almond butter, the company placed round stickers with its rallying hashtags. “#FairToSharePDX,� read the green stickers. “#AptsAndCondosTOO,� blared the purple ones.
More than two dozen clients testified, including Overlook neighborhood homeowner Gary Cash, who said he started paying his mortgage with Airbnb rentals after his partner died and his father developed dementia. “All the legalities, I don’t know about,� Cash said, choking up. “But I’m living in my house today, and I’m getting to keep it because of Airbnb.� Hales says such testimony was persuasive and came as a relief after the torrent of criticism that greeted another of his top priorities, instituting a new transportation fee. “You couldn’t help but be moved,� he tells WW. “I’m having to do some things that are pretty unpopular right now. It’s nice to do something that some people think is a good idea. I’m not sure you can say that about the street fee.� At the July 2 hearing, Hales offered Airbnb welcome news: He proposed further rule changes that would expand the legalization of short-term rentals to include apartments and condos, not just single-family houses. That would be a powerful precedent for cities across the country, because so many city dwellers live in multifamily housing. It would legalize the apartment rentals that have drawn ire in other cities—and do so in the middle of Portland’s building boom. Hales’ suggestion marks the latest step in the mayor’s growing relationship with Airbnb. The mayor says Airbnb has asked for more than he’s willing to give. But he says the potential of attracting more investment from Silicon Valley peer-to-peer rental companies justifies changing some rules for Airbnb. “I’d rather try something and see if it works,� Hales says, “than wait while the Internet runs away from us.� But Hales’ suggestion divided the City Council, which is united in support of legalizing shortterm rentals in single-family homes. Local critics of Airbnb warn that legalizing short-term rentals in apartments could jack up rents in a city with a notorious housing shortage. At the July 2 hearing, City Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Nick Fish panned the idea, and Hales delayed a vote until October. “There are clearly going to be winners, and some very compelling stories,� says Fish. “My concern is, the losers could be people who are unable to afford an apartment.� The biggest critics of allowing apartment dwellers to rent their units through Airbnb come from the group traditionally aligned with Hales— real-estate developers and landlords. Greg Goodman, whose family owns the Indigo, a 23-story apartment building at 430 SW 13th Ave., doesn’t like the idea of Airbnb brokering short-term rentals in his building. “It’s not a hotel,� Goodman says. “We want to know who our tenants are.� Bob Ball, whose 177-unit Pearl District rental, the Parker, will be completed next month, says landlords bear additional risk for no additional gain. “The deposit you get from regular tenants isn’t enough to cover the cost of damages shortterm renters might do,� he says. Hales says he understands the concerns, especially about crowding out affordable housing. But he still plans to move forward against his own political base. “I was a little puzzled that they want us to go slower on this issue,� Hales says. “I don’t think putting our head in the sand and hoping shortterm rentals disappear is a good strategy.� WW news interns Erin Carey and Rebecca Turley contributed to this story.
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spending $4,500 to meet with city officials in the first quarter of 2014. Two months later, Hales highlighted Airbnb’s selection of an Old Town office building for its “operational headquarters” in his annual State of the City speech. Five days later, Airbnb dubbed Portland its first “Shared City,” meaning it would begin collecting an 11.5 percent hotel tax from its clients. (It started collecting that tax July 1.) Airbnb officials say Portland is the first city in the U.S. where they are collecting local taxes. The company hopes to strike a similar deal with San Francisco officials this summer. “We are excited to see local leaders embracing the sharing economy,” says Owen, “and this legislation is a great step forward.” Email correspondence obtained through a public records request shows Airbnb communicated repeatedly with Hales about the “Shared City ” announcement. The communication included a phone call between the mayor and company CEO Brian Chesky. “Brian would very much like to give the Mayor a call,” an Airbnb employee wrote a Hales staffer March 20, “to discuss it briefly mano a mano before the launch.” Hales has another close connection to Airbnb: His daughter, Katelyn, is dating the company’s chief mapmaker. Last week, Airbnb urged users via email to testify at the City Council hearing on short-term rentals. “This is it...” the mass email read, “the final chance to show your support for clear legislation that allows you to share your home!” The company asked its clients to meet a half-hour before the 2 pm hearing for coffee and bagels. Next to the cream cheese and almond butter, the company placed round stickers with its rallying hashtags. “#FairToSharePDX,” read the green stickers. “#AptsAndCondosTOO,” blared the purple ones.
More than two dozen clients testified, including Overlook neighborhood homeowner Gary Cash, who said he started paying his mortgage with Airbnb rentals after his partner died and his father developed dementia. “All the legalities, I don’t know about,” Cash said, choking up. “But I’m living in my house today, and I’m getting to keep it because of Airbnb.” Hales says such testimony was persuasive and came as a relief after the torrent of criticism that greeted another of his top priorities, instituting a new transportation fee. “You couldn’t help but be moved,” he tells WW. “I’m having to do some things that are pretty unpopular right now. It’s nice to do something that some people think is a good idea. I’m not sure you can say that about the street fee.” At the July 2 hearing, Hales offered Airbnb welcome news: He proposed further rule changes that would expand the legalization of short-term rentals to include apartments and condos, not just single-family houses. That would be a powerful precedent for cities across the country, because so many city dwellers live in multifamily housing. It would legalize the apartment rentals that have drawn ire in other cities—and do so in the middle of Portland’s building boom. Hales’ suggestion marks the latest step in the mayor’s growing relationship with Airbnb. The mayor says Airbnb has asked for more than he’s willing to give. But he says the potential of attracting more investment from Silicon Valley peer-to-peer rental companies justifies changing some rules for Airbnb. “I’d rather try something and see if it works,” Hales says, “than wait while the Internet runs away from us.” But Hales’ suggestion divided the City Council, which is united in support of legalizing shortterm rentals in single-family homes. Local critics of Airbnb warn that legalizing short-term rentals in apartments could jack up rents in a city with a notorious housing shortage. At the July 2 hearing, City Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Nick Fish panned the idea, and Hales delayed a vote until October. “There are clearly going to be winners, and some very compelling stories,” says Fish. “My concern is, the losers could be people who are unable to afford an apartment.” The biggest critics of allowing apartment dwellers to rent their units through Airbnb come from the group traditionally aligned with Hales— real-estate developers and landlords. Greg Goodman, whose family owns the Indigo, a 23-story apartment building at 430 SW 13th Ave., doesn’t like the idea of Airbnb brokering short-term rentals in his building. “It’s not a hotel,” Goodman says. “We want to know who our tenants are.” Bob Ball, whose 177-unit Pearl District rental, the Parker, will be completed next month, says landlords bear additional risk for no additional gain. “The deposit you get from regular tenants isn’t enough to cover the cost of damages shortterm renters might do,” he says. Hales says he understands the concerns, especially about crowding out affordable housing. But he still plans to move forward against his own political base. “I was a little puzzled that they want us to go slower on this issue,” Hales says. “I don’t think putting our head in the sand and hoping shortterm rentals disappear is a good strategy.” WW news interns Erin Carey and Rebecca Turley contributed to this story.
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WASHINGTON’S LEGAL WEED STARTS MOVING THROUGH STORES THIS WEEK. THE OWNER OF NEW VANSTERDAM TALKS PRICE, SUPPLY AND AMBIANCE. That was part of the Washington state law. How did you and the other investors get involved? I smoked pot through college. I’d sit around and talk about how I was going to move to Amsterdam and open a coffee shop. Then you’re presented with this, which is such an amazing opportunity to start a business and fulfill that ridiculous pipe dream that you joked about as a kid. That’s the biggest home run ever. How did you settle on a location? We just got lucky that the city of Vancouver doesn’t have the moratorium that Camas, Washougal and Ridgefield do. So we have a bubble of space that happens to be right on the Oregon border, surrounded by areas with bans. It’s not like Seattle, which will have a couple of [retail shops] every block. Have you heard from law enforcement about the cross-border traffic? We’re going to allow anyone 21 or older in the store. There will be signs posted that say, “Anything purchased at the store is intended for ingestion within the state of Washington.” It’s nothing more than making sure people know. We are not babysitters.
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Brian Budz got teased about his name as a kid. This week it finally pays off. On July 11, Budz, 40, and his business partners will open New Vansterdam, one of the first retail marijuana shops in Washington state—and one of the closest to the Oregon border. The Washington State Liquor Control Board on July 7 began issuing retail marijuana licenses to 334 businesses selected from more than 2,000 applicants. The state has issued 15 licenses in Clark County, and Vancouver is the county’s only city to allow pot vendors to operate. New Vansterdam’s proximity to the Oregon border means its owners expect a rush of business from across the Columbia River. Budz and his business partners have taken over an abandoned payday loan building. Shabby outside, the storefront inside will feature lounge furniture, big-screen TVs and a 70-foot fir counter. Washington law prohibits customers from consuming marijuana products onsite, and visitors should be prepared for prices 2½ times that of medical marijuana in Oregon, largely because of taxes. Budz talked to WW about red tape, the silver lining and greenbacks. WW: There are a lot of cameras in here. Brian Budz: There’s not a place you can sit, squat or hide that you won’t be on camera.
In Oregon, the average cost for an ounce of marijuana at a medical dispensary is about $220. What do you expect in Washington? It will not be that low. When we get the flower from the producer, we are charged a 25 percent tax. When we sell it to the consumer, there’s another 25 percent tax as well as the 8 percent sales tax. Because we’re not federally recognized, we cannot write off business expenses that a retailer could. It is a lot of overhead. What’s the ballpark figure? We’re going to be about $20 a gram after taxes [equivalent to $572 per ounce]. We have been lucky enough to forge relationships with four growers that we respect for their business model: Monkey Grass Farms in Wenatchee, Nine Point [Growth Industries] in Bremerton, CannaMan [Farms] in Vancouver, and Peninsula Cannabis in Port Angeles. What will the atmosphere in your shop be like? We want people to have the space to feel comfortable, to feel private, feel open to asking questions. We’re calling it a farm-to-market. The goal is to get people to stop feeling intimidated or illegitimate. We’ve talked about tours: bringing in a limo, a plane, combining a wine tour with the retail store—jump in the limo, cruise up State Route 14, enjoy the views of the gorge and do some wineries up in the White Salmon area. How did you go about hiring? We didn’t hire any weed crackpots. Our Craigslist ad got 250 responses. We hired authors, proofreaders, someone just out of college with an accounting degree. Did they have to know about marijuana? No. I did an interview recently with The Wall Street Journal. He asked me how many joints can you roll out of a gram. I was like, “I have no idea.” GO: New Vansterdam, 6515 E Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, 360-597-4739, newvansterdam.com. 8 am-11 pm daily starting Friday, July 11.
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PACKING HEAT: Frank Peters in a promotional photo for his 1978 campaign for Oregon governor.
Frank Peters managed Portland’s original outlaw gang, the Mavericks. A new film documents how they mingled baseball with booze and burning brooms. BY MARK CHRISTE NS E N
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dugout days: Frank Peters, now 71, was player-manager of the Portland Mavericks Class a baseball team in 1974 and ’75. He played 10 seasons in the minor leagues.
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hose who believe there are no second, third, fourth or fifth acts to American lives probably don’t know Frank Peters, who plays a supporting role in a film to be released July 11 on Netflix. The Battered Bastards of Baseball, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, is purportedly about the Portland Mavericks, a minor-league baseball team that thrived in the 1970s, a time when it was the only professional club in the nation not owned by a Major League Baseball franchise. But it’s really about a bunch of mavericks—hasbeens and never-weres whose love of baseball was exceeded only by a passion for inverting it. While the star of the film is Mavericks owner Bing Russell, an actor who was the father of actor Kurt Russell (who played for the team), the leading light is Peters, a blondhaired, blue-eyed Oregon boy who managed the team, lived by basic idioms—“Make sure the people who hate your guts are separated from those who haven’t made up their minds”—and once had to hire a bodyguard to protect him from his own players. Today, a more meditative Peters lives in an apartment in Southeast Portland, sitting on his laurels, having recently closed the Grand Cafe and Andrea’s Cha Cha Club, a bar/ dancehall at the east end of the Morrison Bridge that Peters was affiliated with for more than 20 years, and where he served everything from reindeer to rodent while presiding over events such as strip karaoke and lesbian dance party. 12
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And he lives with the memory of his 1989 convictions for statutory rape and drug offenses, crimes that sent him to prison for 2½ years. “At the time, I was treated fairly,” he says. “I did my time and I obeyed all the laws. It was a big wake-up call. I made a big change after that, so I view it as something to learn from and work through. “If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t. But I did.” Explaining further, Peters says: “If it wasn’t for the drugs involved, there never would have been the actions with the underage girls. They all kind of go hand in hand.” Before that, Peters had been the all-American golden boy, albeit with a psychedelic twist. He bounced around minor-league baseball, dated gorgeous women, drove Cadillacs, and dabbled in politics. He has had so many lives—and close calls—that, at a reflective age 71, even he has a hard time assessing it beyond “full-speed, 24/7 all the time, forever.” The New Yorker once described Peters as “a platonic ideal of a baseball player… tall and rangy with a horsey handsome face and light blue eyes under blond eyebrows.” What they didn’t mention was he had the schizophrenic bleeding heart of a junior Joe DiMaggio, a conservative John F. Kennedy and an idealistic Viking Willy the Pimp all packed into the same rib cage.
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eters was born in Corvallis, where his father, Norman, played right end and kicker on the Oregon State football team that beat Duke, 20-16, in the 1942 Rose Bowl. The game was moved from Pasadena, Calif., to Durham, N.C., because of fears
about a possible attack by the Japanese on the West Coast shortly after Pearl Harbor. His uncle, George, was the team’s quarterback. Frank Peters also attended Oregon State, playing on the 1962-63 Beavers basketball team that reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament and included future NBA player Mel Counts; Terry Baker, the football star who won the 1962 Heisman Trophy; and Steve Pauly, a multisport athlete who is a member of the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Peters dropped out of college his junior year to sign with the Baltimore Orioles. He played 10 seasons in the minor leagues, five of them in triple-A ball. Peters got into the bar business in 1972, explaining: “In the offseason while playing in the minors, I’d bartend at Pudgy Hunt’s the Bottle Shop, over by the Lloyd Center, where all the local hockey players hung out. I got $2.85 an hour, and I was wildly overpaid. So my thought was: This is the life.” His first venture was Peters Inn. Located on Southwest 4th Avenue and Taylor Street, Peters’ office was like a lady-killer Scrooge McDuck’s bar—cash and ingenues everywhere. Peters’ girlfriends included fiery punkrocker Kate Fate, lead singer of Kate Fate and the Fingers of Doom. Frank recalls the day Fate showed up at his Portland Center penthouse apartment and knocked on the door. Peters, just out of the shower, inquired, “Who’s there?” She replied, “Marry me or die.” When Peters said that marriage was a very important step and they should talk
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ing Russell’s Mavericks came to Portland in 1973, and he needed a manager. As a baseball town, Portland was notorious wet wood—the city’s ballpark was Multnomah Stadium, a dismal concrete citadel that recalled an open-air tomb. For years, the triple-A Portland Beavers could barely get spectators in the seats for free. When the Beavers moved to Spokane, Russell—a Hollywood actor who by his own estimation had been shot at least 123 times in movies and TV shows starring everybody from John Wayne to Steve McQueen, and whose biggest part was as Deputy Clem Foster on Bonanza—stepped in. While Russell made his living as an actor, he was also a baseball groupie who was friends with DiMaggio and, for $500, bought the franchise rights to the Mavericks, a new team in the Class A Northwest League. Russell had a different vision for his team than most baseball owners, one where entertainment was as important as athleticism. “Bing Russell was like the guy in The Music Man,” Peters says. “A great showman, he believed Portland was the greatest baseball town ever. He dressed us in ‘streetwalker’ red uniforms—better to put the ‘balls’ back in baseball.” After Russell fired his first manager, Hank Robinson, for punching an umpire, he approached Peters. “Basically, I got the job through Peters Inn, where all the local sports writers hung out, ” Peters says. “One, Ken Wheeler of The Oregon Journal, knew Bing Russell, which helped. And then I pitched in a Mavs’ exhibition game where we blew out a Eugene team 23-4, and drew 4,000 fans. Though when Bing offered me the job, Wheeler said don’t take it because the Mavericks were bound to fail.” Peters served as player-manager of the Mavericks in 1974 and ’75. As manager, his motto was “No rules, no signs.” He proved it, however briefly, by having his 79-yearold high-school coach play third base. Peters was a disciplinarian—“dope smokers to the back of the bus”—and his methods were unique. He once rotated the
ComebaCk kid: Pitcher Jim bouton (left), who came out of retirement to play for the Portland mavericks in 1975, sits with team owner bing Russell.
squad over nine innings so every player got to play every position, and he guided the Mavericks despite obstacles. To quote Inside Sports magazine (March 1985): “Peters, in an effort to shake the Mavericks out of a tremendous slump, decided to pick his starting lineup out of a hat. When Reggie Thomas was not chosen, the hardhitting outfielder responded by producing a .44 Magnum and chasing Peters to his office. Barely beating Thomas to the door, Peters scribbled a hastily revised lineup: Not only was Thomas included—he was leading off!”
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he Battered Bastards of Baseball is a family affair, made by 20-something brothers Chapman and Maclain Way. Their grandfather was Bing Russell, who died in 2003 at 76, and Kurt Russell, 63, is their uncle. The Way brothers got the idea to produce the film after seeing a team photo of the Mavericks, some wearing their jerseys backward, others drinking beer, with a dog running around. The documentary has received excellent opening reviews. Variety: “A fast-paced valentine to…underdog victors and hairpin twists of fortune that, if it weren’t all true, no one would believe it.” The Hollywood Reporter: “The Battered Bastards of Baseball is not just about baseball, it transcends the game.” The Mavericks were a perfect symbol for the ’70s. Baseball was the most sacred and formal of mid-20th-century American sports institutions. And in the pre-AIDS, pre-power lunch, post-1960s, the Mavericks—the original Bad News Bears—were an ideal antidote. The Mavericks had a left-handed catcher, and set brooms on fire after sweeping an
opponent in a series. After arguing with an umpire, Peters was ejected from the game, and on the way off the field grabbed first base and locked himself in the locker room. The umps called the cops, who banged on the door. But Peters refused to surrender, and the umpires had to call the game. Peters, if by default, favored brains over brawn. Among the Mavericks’ players was former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton, who wrote the groundbreaking insider’s look at baseball, Ball Four, and Portland’s Larry “Looper” Colton, who later wrote for Willamette Week as well as The New York Times, Esquire and Sports Illustrated and authored the best-selling Goat Brothers and Counting Coup along with founding the local literary festival Wordstock. “I’d played in the majors, but blew out my arm in a bar brawl in 1968,” Colton says. “I was teaching English at Adams High— making $8,000 a year, painting houses on the side. My look had gone from all-American boy to Charlie Manson—clean-cut for the Mavericks. My reputation as a pitcher was so bad I tried out under a false name, Lucas Tanner. I pitched three innings and struck out eight guys. “Frank gave me top dollar: four hundred bucks a month. I played two weeks, blew my arm out again and gave up the league record for triples. So Frank made me a designated hitter, and right away I got a standup double off the center-field wall. Then the pitcher wheels around and picks me off—you never get picked off [losing] 10-0. I slunk off to the end of the bench, and Ralph Coleman—the Oregon State head baseball coach for a million cont. on page 14 Willamette Week JULY 9, 2014 wweek.com
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get on the ballot. Why else did he run? “To help the poor—and get this: The Oregon Air National Guard had six F-4 Phantom jets. Imagine what you could do with those.” He never got enough signatures to get on the ballot.
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n 1975, still managing the Mavericks, Peters opened Peters Habit (soon to be Satan’s Disco) on West Burnside Street and 3rd Avenue, where he employed cashstarved Mavericks as bartenders. It was wino wonderland. Across 3rd was Darcelle IV, where stripper boys-turned-girls performed Liza Minnelli standards onstage. Across Burnside was the American Museum, a dancehall and fistfight factory owned by future state representative and former light heavyweight boxer Ron McCarty. Original Jefferson Airplane vocalist Signe Anderson sang with the house band. Like many great anarchists, Peters was very well-disciplined, a playboy who was rarely not working. During the day, he drove a screaming red Cadillac convertible and a Harley-Davidson chopper sporting leather saddlebacks hand-stitched to hold exactly two blocks of giveaway government cheese. If you came into Peters’ Satan’s Disco (a red-walled nightspot hosting the ghosts of the devil and Donna Summer that mimicked, well, hell) at noon, you would discover he’d already put in eight hours scrubbing the kitchen, and he could be drill-sergeant direct. As a Maverick, Peters is said to have choreographed after-game tavern brawls all over the Northwest, his players stomping the team they had just stomped on the field. But Peters’ mid-1970s long suit 14
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was reasoning with the unreasonable. A cue-waving, musclebound Martian could promise a bases-loaded homer off the side of Peters’ head, but instead of decking him or worse, Peters would fix the interplanetary dirtbag with a calm, steely gaze, and say something philosophical like, “The wizzwort lies down with the packaloomer,” and Mr. DB would be sitting not with his face concave in the back of a squad car but peaceful as Cupid at the bar, wallet wide open, downing Satan’s Disco vodka zombies as if they were mother’s milk.
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wo trains running, Peters was trying to run his bars and his baseball team. It couldn’t and didn’t last. “I got fired the same way I got hired, by Ken Wheeler,” Peters said. “He delivered the bad news. Bing and Kurt [Russell] had starred in an Elvis movie, with Kurt as E and Bing as Vernon Presley, and Elvis wanted to invest in the team. So Bing wanted a major-league manager, and I wasn’t that guy.” The Mavericks got bought out by the majors the next year for $300,000, and Peters moved on. In 1979, he decided to run for Oregon governor in 1982. He had a Mercedes and a map, showing the toughest biker shit-kicker bars in the state. The plan was simple: Peters, who had been going to “karate correspondence school” and turned himself into “a lethal weapon,” would stop by, barking, “Listen up, assholes,” then wax poetic regarding dismantling government, running a 24/7 Miss Oregon pageant in the state rotunda “sort of like a Denny’s,” and handing out “goodies for all” before firing himself. Peters raised about $100,000—this after sponsoring a Tom McCall-supported motion, “the assembly of the electors,” which allowed independent candidates to
“he had a love nest in the portland towers, where i guess his bed was on a pedestal under a plaque reading ‘stairway to heaven.’” —Larry coLton, on frank peters
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years—came down and said, ‘You stupid motherfucker goddamn fucking idiot,’ me thinking, “Sir, do you know you’re talking to a public-school teacher?” Colton recalls Peters as, “Over the top, even for me. He had a love nest in the Portland Towers, where I guess his bed was on a pedestal under a plaque reading ‘Stairway to Heaven.’”
eters’ next move was the life of banana daiquiris. Denied the F-4s, he returned to the unreal world, opening another Peters Inn in Seattle and the Korova Milk Bar in Portland, Peters’ take on A Clockwork Orange where you and your droogs could drop in for a Milako shake and a Special Mission to Mars. “Merry Christmas to me,” Peters says. “I had it made.” Then came a $60,000 tax bill. To come up with what Peters calls “a sea of green,” he reinvented himself as an “urban marijuana rancher.” And a pot evangelist. Pedaling his 10-speed to Veritable Quandary, a den of young lawyers, Peters arrived bearing gifts: voluptuous little marijuana plants in a paper bag, to sit at a table and deliver an X-rated rendition of plant sex. Forget about getting high, Peters’ new passion was the future of plant replication. By the 21st century, dirt would be obsolete. Peters had set up “pot ranches” in the attics of friends’ houses all over Portland. He rode around on his racing bike with $100 bills tucked in his sock, talking hydroponics to anybody who’d listen, not a care in the world until he got one girlfriend too many. “The most gorgeous girl in the world, but one day she said, ‘Frank, I have terrible news, I’m in love with another woman,’” he recalled. “I met the other girl. She was even more beautiful, so I said, ‘Girls, we have the makings of a tragedy. But let’s go back to my place and…’” The love triangle got too hot, even for Peters. “One got really pissed and went to the police,” he says. In January 1989, Peters got busted for possession of 800 marijuana plants worth a reported $1 million. He eventually pleaded guilty to four counts of third-degree rape involving a 15-year-old girl, one count of contributing to the delinquency of a 16-year-old girl, and several counts of manufacturing and delivering a controlled substance. Judge Steven Gallagher sen-
seniors circuit: Frank Peters (far left) was a player-coach on the east Bank saloon AAu basketball team, which won several national titles in its age group.
tenced him to 10 years in prison. Years later, Gallagher served as a guest karaoke judge at the Grand Cafe, where Peters worked. Peters says going to prison “simplified” things, “sort of like going on vacation in a concrete box.” He was in a cell that he says was “in a better neighborhood with more space and a better view than my last three apartments.” Joking aside, Peters also came to confront his situation. “You really learn about things when you go to prison,” he says. “You have to pay attention, because if you don’t, you can get hurt. At the time, I don’t think I was aware of the consequences.” Pe t e r s g o t h i s t i m e “YOu rEALLY LEArN reduced to 30 months, and after prison he performed ABOuT THINGS 1,000 hours of community WHEN YOu GO TO service at the Portland Zoo. “Doing community PrISON.” service was almost its own —frank peTers sentence,” he says. “They don’t welcome you with open arms. You have to prove yourself all over again. Anyone can go to prison and sit in a cell, but to do 1,000 hours of community service was a real trip. A positive trip.” But sports, not the big house or the elephant house, provided him his true north.
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or more than 10 years, Peters was a player-coach on the East Bank Saloon Amateur Athletic Union basketball team, a league of old men—cancer victims, booze hounds, surgeons and a Native American chief among them—who practiced at Portland State University’s gym and won several national championships in their age division. Peters started working at the Grand Cafe in the early 1990s. The dancehall/bar is on the east side of the Willamette, on a busy Southeast Grand Avenue. Outside at noon, Peters would often march up and down the sidewalk wearing a sandwich board that read, “Free advice with lunch.” Inside, he served whole roasted beaver, kangaroo steak, the aforementioned reindeer at Christmas, ostrich hors d’oeuvres and fillet of alligator, and held a “testicle festival.” Peters says walking with the sandwich board was his way of reintroducing himself to the public after prison. “Some people would drive by and give me the finger, and some would smile and wave,” he says. “Over time, they all waved. “The most difficult thing to win back after you’ve been to prison is your reputation. You have to earn it back, and it takes time.” Excellent sports violence was shown on TV monitors above the bar, beaming moonlike fluorescence over a forest of booze. In the kitchen, you might find a boar with a bullet through its head that looked more murdered than dead, and in the office a Miss May doing the books. All those women. Although Peters has often been called a sexist pig or worse, he often put women in management positions. The Mavericks had a female general manager, and the team employed a female umpire. One of his side ventures—a 20-cart hot-dog empire called Judy’s Hot Dogs—was run by Judy “until she ran off with a rich guy.” The Battered Bastards of Baseball will again shine a light on Peters, who says he is contemplating a new career in “public speaking.” And there is talk that Todd Field, an actor-director who grew up in Portland and was once a bat boy for the Mavericks, is angling to produce the Mavericks’ story as a feature film. If so, Peters may be portrayed as a villainous, manipulative Machiavelli. Peters, who thinks the Mavericks’ tale “will be the biggest thing since Bozo the Clown,” doesn’t seem worried. “I wouldn’t have it any other way,” he says. Mark Christensen is a former columnist for Willamette Week. His latest book is Acid Christ: Ken Kesey, LSD and the Politics of Ecstasy.
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dog Pound: This photo of the Portland Mavericks inspired brothers Chapman and Maclain Way to begin work on their documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball.
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When brothers Chapman, 27, and Maclain Way, 23, discovered an old baseball team photo at their late grandfather Bing Russell’s house, it sparked a multiyear effort of poring over microfilm and newsreels to uncover the long-buried adventures of the Portland Mavericks. The result is The Battered Bastards of Baseball, the brothers’ debut film and a fast-paced documentary that received high praise at its Sundance Film Festival premiere. The film hits Netflix July 11, the same day as its Portland premiere at the NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. WW caught up with the Way brothers via phone to talk about the documentary, the legacy of the Mavericks and what got left on the cutting-room floor. TREE PALMEDO. WW: Battered Bastards hasn’t seen wide release yet, but it’s already received an overwhelmingly positive response. Were you expecting so many rave reviews? chapman Way: You never know how a sports documentary is going to be received within the film community, but we really tried to make a documentary that would transcend the sports genre and appeal to people who aren’t sports fans. We got a standing ovation at our premiere screening, which told us right away how the themes were resonating with people. Why has it taken so long for this story to be told? chapman: When Maclain and I went up there to start doing research about four years ago, we’d tell people in Portland that we were doing a baseball documentary. They’d say, “Oh, it’s on the Beavers?” And we’d say, “No, the Portland Mavericks,” and they’d say, “Who?” It was really interesting to us how many people have forgotten about the story and forgotten about this team. One of the neat things about being a documentary filmmaker is that you get to shine a light on subjects that have been forgotten. It’s a difficult story to tell, in that it requires a lot of archival research. It’s not like you can just Google “Portland Mavericks” and all your research is done. What was it like digging for resources in Portland? chapman: Portland became a home away from home for us. Every couple months, we would find a new excuse to go up there, hang out and do research. Had this team happened in another city, the documentary probably wouldn’t have been possible. We got so much support from the Oregon Historical Society and from the news stations in Portland. The people who did remember the story remember the team very fondly and had great memories of Portland in the 1970s. I think that’s intrinsic in the city itself. It has a very community-driven spirit, and an independence-driven spirit. Maclain Way: I think the Mavericks couldn’t really have existed in a different city. I don’t think there are many other cities where this team could’ve resonated with the fans so much, and been so adopted by the city.
The story is obviously closely tied to your family. How did you reconcile that family connection with making a film for a general audience? Maclain: One of the key early decisions we made was that Chapman and I were not going to be in the film at all. The story was so perfect as it was: It was a three-act structure, and we weren’t going to do anything that messed with that. This was not going to be a journey for the filmmakers discovering something about their grandfather. That was the exact opposite of what we wanted to do. The final cut of the film is an 80-minute, streamlined story. Were there any interesting anecdotes that got left on the cutting-room floor? chapman: We held ourselves to a very strict archival standard: If someone was telling a story, we really wanted either archival footage, archival photographs or archival newspapers to supplement whatever the talking head was talking about. So there were a lot of great and funny stories that didn’t make the film because there just wasn’t enough archive to support them. There’s specifically a lot of really funny traveling stories. They traveled in this old, beaten-down bus where they took the seats out and put mattresses in the back, and the players would sleep back there and smoke pot and gamble. Maclain: But it’s kind of nice: Civic Stadium becomes a character in the documentary because you only see them play there. It’s really localized, and you really get the Portland feel. Would something like the Mavericks be possible today? chapman: We’re from Los Angeles, and we’ve thought it would be so cool to have a local baseball team, to go see a game, to have a beer and some nachos and hang out with friends. Hopefully, this documentary shows that it doesn’t just have to be this multibillion-dollar corporate sport, and that there is a way to have things that are more community-driven, more independent-spirited, more colorful. SEE IT: The Battered Bastards of Baseball will screen at Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org, on Friday, July 11. 8 pm. Co-directors Chapman and Maclain Way will be in attendance. Willamette Week JULY 9, 2014 wweek.com
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DOWN BY THE WATER: There’s a new beach in Portland. Or at least, there’s a newly accessible path to the beach, and a whole bunch of poetry. The Human Access Project—an organization devoted to getting people to swim in the Willamette River—scheduled the dedication of a South Waterfront beach it has nicknamed “Poet’s Beach” for Tuesday, July 8. The westside beach, located under the Marquam Bridge, features a newly improved access ramp lined with rocks engraved with child-penned river poetry, as well as Chinook jargon words provided by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. The beach will serve as the launching point for HAP’s annual Big Float event on Sunday, July 27, an annual flotilla and beach party that last year attracted more than 1,500 life-vested riders of floaties. RECORD SCRATCH: A week after Jackpot Records shuttered its original location, another long-standing downtown Portland record store is going out of business. After 16 years, 360 Vinyl will shut its doors permanently Aug. 2. Like Jackpot, the reasons for the closure are not financial: According to an announcement on the store’s Facebook page, owner Aaron Marquez recently took another music industry job, and splitting his time between the two became untenable. For local DJs, 360 Vinyl, which specialized in underground hip-hop and electronic records, was both a major vinyl resource and a training ground. “My career as a DJ literally started the moment I walked into this shop back in 1999,” wrote Nathan Rede, who spins as Nathan Detroit. As it prepares to sell off its remaining inventory, all CDs, used vinyl and select new vinyl are currently 10 percent off, with bigger discounts expected as the closing date approaches. PUNCH LINE: After 3½ years and more than 150 shows, the Weekly Recurring Humor Night will come to an end in late August. The standup showcase, held every Wednesday at Tonic Lounge, has been a sturdy fixture of the local comedy scene, but producer Whitney Streed told WW it was time to move on. “The show has had a great run, but I’ve decided I need to focus more on other projects, namely myself and my own act,” she says. “Tonic is also starting to shift its focus to bigger acts, so it’s a very natural transition on both sides.” The final installment will be Wednesday, Aug. 27.
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THURSDAY JULY 10 think and drink [lecture] Want the gummint outta your personal bizness? Historian Stephanie coontz and Adam Davis of Oregon Humanities discuss the effects of state intervention in our private lives, including in sex, parenthood and marriage. See our Hotseat with coontz on page 37. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 6:30 pm. $10 suggested.
SATURDAY JULY 12 bastille day celebration [FreNcH Fete] For whatever reason, Portland plays home to the largest Bastille Day celebration on the West coast. commemorate the stormy kickoff of the French revolution with lillet cocktails, buttery pastries from St. Honoré and a very refined race among tray-carrying waiters. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave., afportland.org. Noon-6 pm. Free. Mississippi street Fair the Mississippi Street Fair is one of Portland’s quintessential neighborhood parties for 13 years running and draws about 30,000 people. expect ribs and beer and music. Wear deodorant. North Mississippi Avenue between North Fremont and Skidmore streets, mississippiave. com. 10 am-9 pm. Free.
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THE PÜRPLË RÎTË HOW YOU MAY PARTAKE OF A RITUAL HONORING AN ANCIENT AND POWERFUL LAVENDULA. By kat h e r i n e M a rro ne
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n the middle of every year, in what the ancients knew as the month of Quintilis, the reapers of Oregon hold a ritualistic harvest of the demon weed Lavendula. Known as the Øregên Lävendêr Fĕsłiväl, this massive cuttings ceremony happens on remote homesteads as the sun beats the hardest on the oft misty lands of this valley. In addition to the cutting ceremony, the weeklong orgy of herb includes many rituals requiring the mysterious “lavender oil,” a tincture reputed to imbue users with special powers, and the purchase of handcrafted birdhouses suitable for crows or ravens. To sate themselves after the arduous cuttings, worshippers of the Purple Goddess drink of potions made from her leaves and feast on a salad made of dead chickens. To withstand Lävendêrfĕsł, you must respect Lavendula. You must beware its power. You must honor it without becoming dangerously enchanted by its spell. Begin the Rite of Lävendêrfĕsł by consuming a powerful elixir known as “lavender lemonade” at Sundance Lavender Farm (3247 Orchard Heights Road, 585-7023, sundancelavenderfarm.com) in Salem, an Oregon village named in tribute to a town where members of a hoary New England coven were pressed to death under stones for practicing their dark art.
Next, trudge northward, climbing a steep hill to Westwind Farm Studio (13000 NW Old Germantown Road, 286-4810, westwindfarmstudio.com), a remote and archaic dwelling where you will mingle with practitioners of an ancient Oriental custom known as “yoga.” Those most dedicated to Lavendula will congregate at Helvetia Farms (12814 NW Bishop Road, Hillsboro, 647-5858, helvetialavenderfarm.com). There, you will meet people who distill the potent lavender oils, who fuse glass and sell it and who cull hairs from fierce alpacas, which they sell to visitors to wear as trophies. At the creatively named Oregon Lavender Farm (20949 S Harris Road, Oregon City), listen to the dark and mystical sounds of the Mo Phillips Band. The bandleader claims to have landed on earth from “the back of a ginormous intergalactic leatherback turtle.” Local artists will adorn the faces of children with war paint in a tradition adopted from Celtic tribesmen. Are you seeking more private solace? Travel to the Kush Hill Farm (24282 S Central Point Road, Canby, 750-0544, kushhillfarm.com), where more of the powerful and hairy Andean beasts roam unchained. This is the time of the year when the beasts birth their young—you are wise to keep your distance, but for offering tribute in fresh-cut Lavendula. go Forth: the Øregên lävendêr Fĕsłiväl tour is Saturday and Sunday, July 12-13. For more ritual details, including cutting sites, visit oregonlavenderdestinations.com.
pure surFace [PerFOrMANce] this new multimedia performance series offers dance, text and film. It also leaves you alone if you’re not into it. Veteran performance artist linda Austin shows a new work (expect funny props), Michael Harper reads poetry and roland Dahwen Wu screens a film. tell the guy next to you that you prefer Austin’s old stuff: ”You know, like in the ’80s when people weren’t afraid to crawl across a dining room table and get food all over themselves.” Valentines, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 7 pm. Free. 21+. a sunny day in glasgow [MuSIc] For latest album, Sea When Absent, the band turned its amps up to the max, burying the twin angel voices of Annie Fredrickson and Jen Goma under a blanket of swirling synths and roaring guitar, but its blindingly bright melodies shine through the fuzz. It’s the pop album My Bloody Valentine will never make. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
TUESDAY JULY 15 wolVes in the throne rooM [MuSIc] If the paths of black metal and Pure Moods New Age were ever to intersect, you can bet your stack of Sunn amps that the Olympiabased band will be there to light the sage and get the “astral metal” party started. Its last record was hailed as “American black metal’s idiosyncratic defining record of 2011” by Pitchfork. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 345-7892. 8 pm. $14. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 9, 2014 wweek.com
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FRIDAY, JULY 11 Breakside Tap Takeover with Ben Edmunds
New spot the Growler Guys will be hosting a big-time Breakside tap takeover in the center of Portland. Which means you can actually have more than two Breakside beers without cabbing it from Woodlawn or—gulp—Milwaukie. Kölsch, Passionfruit Sour, Woodlawn Pale, Just the Tip (that’s spruce tips, by the way), Transatlantic Sour, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie and good ol’ fashioned IPA. Good deal. Breakside lead brewer Ben Edmunds will be hanging out, probably daring you to guess whatever obscure ingredients he put in his beer. You’ll probably lose, but it’s fun to play. The Growler Guys, 816 SE 8th Ave., Suite 109, 701-7260. 5-8 pm.
SATURDAY, JULY 12 Protohop Festival
Hops of the future! Which, more excitingly, means beers of the future. Remember when suddenly everybody was clamoring for Mosaic? Well, Indie Hops and OSU’s hop-breeding program will share some of the next wave of hops that are still years from actually being commercially available. But! Base Camp has been given the chance to brew very limited quantities of these proto-hops, and will be sharing them with a limited number of people. Thirteen experimental hops, 13 experimental beers. To the future! Base Camp, 930 SE Oak St., 764-9152. 12-6 pm. $20-25.
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Here’s the deal. The Tiki Kon weekend and day passes and Sunday basement tiki-lounge tour sold out in March. March! So a lot of this fest, devoted to all things rum and tiki torch and ticky-tacky, is just fl at off-limits to those who did not plan far, far ahead. But there are still a group of free and door-only tiki parties at the Red Lion in Vancouver—plan those cab rides early, because that hotel’s probably booked. At 7 pm, $15 door admission will get you in to see a mermaid fi re dancer, which sounds like an impossible thing! Oh, and there will be a B-52s tribute band in the afternoon around 4 pm, for free, which doesn’t sound very impossible, but certainly unlikely. Check tikikon. com for details. Red Lion at the Quay, 100 Columbia St., Vancouver, 360-694-8341.
MONDAY, JULY 14 Andina Rosé Wine Dinners
Early summer, for a certain sort of sophisticate, always means a crisp glass of rosé and a little wind on the cheeks. Preferably on a yacht or a portico. At Andina, it means the same thing: They’re holding their annual pair of rosé wine dinners with 25 diff erent rosés and a wide range of grape varietals, paired with family-style tapas in the Tupai space upstairs from the restaurant. “Family style” means fend for yourself, man, it’s rosé season. Tapas include 12-month Serrano ham, sashimi-style yuzu salmon, pork-belly kebabs and sea bass baked in salt. Call ahead for reservations. Andina, 1314 NW Glisan St., 228-9535. 6:30 pm. $65, including tip.
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SALMON IN THE COCONUT: (Clockwise from left) Mook pha, Lao beef jerky and mango rice.
LUANG PRABANG Laos’ porous borders—from both directions along the Mekong River—have left its cuisine’s borders equally nebulous. The sticky rice, larb and green papaya salad that originated in Laos have become known here as Thai foods, just as Ukrainian borscht is thought to be Russian or Ashkenazi. And so much at new Sellwood Lao food cart Luang Prabang will look familiar to eaters of the Isan and Chiang Mai Thai cuisines that have become Portland currency. But a few dishes at this husband-and-wife operation are rare on local menus, in particular a Xin beef dish ($9) made with Lao beef jerky, a caramelized, marinated, flash-fried coriander beef that can serve as a meat spoon for other flavors. At Luang Prabang, it’s ground for rice and pickled carrots, and it’s a lovely, chewy snack that the cart recommends with its mega-plate of spicy, somewhat soupy green papaya salad ($7) marinated in crab sauce—a flavor that’s distinct from more familiar fish sauce. The mook pha ($9.50) is giftwrapped comfort fare, a coconutOrder this: Dream salmon (mook pha), Xin beef, mango milk salmon dish steamed inside a black rice. banana leaf with basil, green onion, bell pepper, lemongrass and dill that have been, according to the menu, “smushed to a pulp.” It’s herbal but not spicy, thick with vegetable flavor and, in the words of my dining companion, “like something my Jewish grandma would make.” The chef said she prefers to eat the chicken version of the dish atop rice, with a pile of chili sauce—but by itself the salmon dish was a bit like a blanket and a sucked thumb. Always finish with the colorful mango dessert over black rice ($4). Even in desserts, the Thai and Lao temper sweetness with bitterness, just as they temper heat with sour acidity, not-sogently blurring the lines between moderation and excess. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Luang Prabang, Southeast 13th Avenue and Lexington Street. 11 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-8 pm Saturday, noon-5:30 pm Sunday.
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BLONDE IPA (ARLINGTON CLUB) The Arlington Club was founded way back in 1867, with the purpose of giving men with names you’d recognize from street signs a little quietude in which to smoke cigars, cut skyline-shaping business deals and choose leaders for the citizens to democratically elect. As old-money social clubs go, the Arlington seems pretty chill. Racial and gender barriers have been down for several decades. Jeans are banned, but jackets are not required. Members are asked to neither reprimand nor tip the help. As you’d expect, the club is known to maintain a deep wine list and plenty of old Scotch. More surprisingly, the Arlington Club brews its own beer. Even in Portland, it’s odd to find the town’s most prominent businessmen interested in suds. We found a member kind enough to share a growler of the most exclusive beer in town, a Blonde IPA. With a deep copper hue and robust body, it would be on the hefty side for an IPA, let alone a blonde. Big malts are paired with a little funk and a lasting pine-resin bitterness that’ll all but stick your tongue to your teeth. The rich man’s beer is drinkable, certainly, but nothing you need to bother yourself begging an invitation to try. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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STORRS SMOKEHOUSE Breakfast is a reassuring sign at a barbecue joint. Even if you’re not in the mood for early-morning biscuits and gravy, it’s always good to see the pitmaster hanging around the kitchen just after dawn. Loal Stahlnecker, the pitmaster at Newberg’s new Storrs Smokehouse, says it’s no sweat for his crew: “We’re here anyway.” That’s what I like to hear. And after Storrs’ sampler plate ($19), which offers a taste of all the meats at this super-casual side project from the owners of the nearby Painted Order this: Gran’ Daddy sampler Lady rest au ra nt , I’m plate ($19). appreciative of his predawn Best deal: Pulled-pork sandwich ($7). I’ll pass: Brisket sandwich, wings. efforts. If you’re headed down to wine country this summer, Storrs is one of your better options for a low-key post-pinot meal. The Gran’ Daddy “plate” is actually a red plastic cafeteria tray lined with white butcher paper and heaped with four meats. It’ll easily serve two. The ribs were best, a trimmeddown St. Louis cut that was tender but pleasantly ropey below a crust of peppery dry-rub. The brisket was also on the fi rm side, and improved by the sweet heat of the Spicy Cowboy sauce, among four sauces on the table. The cut was better on the plate ($12 with coleslaw, pickle and a slice of bread) than as a sandwich made with Pearl Bakery’s familiar ciabatta and a layer of gooey white cheese. I’m not usually a fan of smoked wings, given that small pieces of chicken tend to get mushy in a smoker. But Storrs does one of the better versions, the white meat darkened with smoke and coated in a sweet maple sauce. Still, I wouldn’t buy them outside the sampler plate; six are priced at $1 each otherwise. We tried pulled pork both on a stand-alone sandwich ($7) and from Gran’ Daddy’s lap. The plate version wasn’t properly shredded: We had to pull big pieces of black bark apart with our forks to get the right mix of meat. The sandwich’s pork, happily, didn’t suffer the same problem. The sides, as is common with new ’cue restaurants, need a little work. Rich baked beans ($3.50 small, $6 large) with bacon bits in a thick sauce were delicious, as were the pickles and pickled green tomato slices, but the orange-tinted pasta salad ($3.50 small, $6 large) was watery rather than creamy, and the three-bean salad with chickpeas, kidney beans and sliced green beans ($2.50 small) was useful only as an acidic palate cleanser. Those problems are easy enough to iron out, though. I wasn’t around to try the biscuits and gravy, which are available starting at 7 am. But it seems like a smart stop if you can withstand hunger long enough to get past that 99W traffic. It’s best to get an early start in the valley—after all, winemakers, unlike pitmasters, mostly keep banker’s hours. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Storrs Smokehouse, 310 E 1st St., Newberg, 538-8080, storrssmokehouse.com. 7 am-7 pm Thursday-Monday.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 Mount Joy, Echo Ravine, The Camera and Film
[HARMONIES FOR DAYS] In the age of synthesizers, distortion and drum machines, vocals can often get lost in the mix. Not with Mount Joy, a fourpiece of girls originally out of Canby, whose music consists mainly of full, soulful vocals wrapped around each other in spirals of tight, dynamic harmonies. A lot of different influences come to mind throughout its debut self-titled LP, from the calm doo-wop swing of “Centerpiece” to the catchy rounds of pop harmonies and quirky, hollow-sounding guitars on “Settle Down.” The songs are simple, the instrumentation is sparse and a fluttery, jazzy flugelhorn provides texture and lightness to complement the melodies throughout. But Mount Joy’s music leaves the vocals front and center—right where they should be. KAITIE TODD. Alberta Street Public House, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. $5. 21+.
Masta Ace & Emc, Speaker Minds, XP, Afrok, DJ Iceman
[CLASSIC N.Y. HIP-HOP] The opportunities are few and far between to see a classic rapper like Masta Ace here in Portland. One of the many influential MCs that emerged from New York in the late ’80s, Masta Ace helped establish the now-distinct sound of early East Coast hip-hop. His most recent release came in 2012, with the MF Doom-sampling Ma_Doom: Son of Yvonne—a tribute album to his late mother. And while the dude may have been born in 1966, I wouldn’t doubt his ability to own the stage as good as any of these young guns. He’s got the rap equivalent of dad strength. SAM CUSUMANO. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Young & Sick, Bent Denim, Exroyale
[DUTCH DOUBLE-THREAT] You may not be familiar with the music Nick Van Hofwegen creates as Young & Sick, but you know him by his visuals: Perhaps you’ve seen his album art for Maroon 5’s Overexposed, Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines or any of Foster the People’s records. This April saw the Dutch artist step off the sidelines musically, with the release of a self-titled debut of playful electro-R&B, led by his falsetto coo. GRACE STAINBACK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Usnea, Lycus, Hungers, Satyress
[DOOM METAL] It’s fitting to pair Usnea and Lycus. Both bands are young, championing a fresh, thoroughly West Coast approach to doom metal. Both have also recently signed to the Relapse label. The differences are slight. Usnea hails from Portland and infuses its doom with a psychedelia that manages to rather brilliantly avoid devolving into post-rock territory. Lycus is from the East Bay, and keeps things blackened, occasionally blasting into feral, wintry musical landscapes. Opening the show is the far more traditional, swinging blues-doom act Satyress, whose vocalist, Jamie LaRose, is prepping a move to Virginia. See them while you can. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. 21+.
Civil Union, Broken Water, Arctic Flowers [GRUNGE] Broken Water sticks to its Northwest roots, playing emotionally charged, grungy punk laced with anti-conformist sentiments. The band’s songs are heavy and slow with large
drum patterns that are eventually hypnotized by their own shoegazing soundscapes. Since 2009, the group has released four albums that explore what it means and sounds like to be punk and queer in the Northwest. This year the band recorded songs with cellist Lori Goldston, who accompanied Nirvana on Unplugged. Those tracks will most likely be featured on the as yet unreleased new album. Tonight, Civil Union joins Broken Water with downtempo, Sonic Youth-esque indie rock all the way from New Zealand. LYLA ROWEN. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
THURSDAY, JULY 10 Cynic, Lesser Key, We Are The City, When They Invade, Wayfarer
[PROG-METAL WIZARDRY] We’re only halfway through 2014, and the amount of quality metal already released this year is staggering. There are a ton of albums destined to pepper end-ofyear lists, and Cynic’s Kindly Bent to Free Us will be among them. Kindly Bent to Free Us is like peering through a musical kaleidoscope. It’s a jazzedout 41-minute journey into the progmetal nebula. The songs are intricate and engaging, yet not overwhelmingly dense or oppressive. It’s an extremely satisfying record, one that is technical enough for those versed in the subject, and accessible to those who aren’t. SAM CUSUMANO. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 233-7100. 6:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
The Fresh & Onlys, the Shilohs, Old Light
[PSYCH-POP] San Francisco’s the Fresh and Onlys return to Portland in support of fifth long-player House of Spirits, another collection of mature psych-pop proving that it is possible for Bay Area garage rockers to age gracefully. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Rodney Atkins, Jackson Michelson
[CUMBERLAND GAP OUTLET] Is there anything more American than extravagant success won through songs about America: brawny, sweeping anthems with all the nutritional value of cheesefilled hot dogs and the emotional resonance of a fireworks barrage? Hailed as the newiest of New Country superstars, Rodney Atkins’ tunes least resemble the old country pleasures, however rigorously namechecked the down-home tropes. Hit-strewn albums like 2011’s Take A Back Road arrive steeped in the bedazzled listenability of 21st century Nashville while compilations continue to sell big via Cracker Barrel distribution. If Atkins seems little more than a machine meant to move product, though, consider his origins. Born an Eastern Tennessee orphan (and returned twice by prospective parents), isn’t it at least possible to read Atkins’ outsized patriotism as genuine? Must there always be such a thin line separating unaffected hopefulness and desperate cynicism? JAY HORTON. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd., 226-1561. 7 pm. $27-$47. All ages.
FRIDAY, JULY 11 Dwarves, Queers, Masked Intruder, Atom Age
[TASTELESS] Touring and recording so consistently since the early 1980s hasn’t mellowed the Queers, a New Hampshire punk act equally beholden
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FORMER LIVES THE CRISES OF KEVIN ROBINSON—BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED. By MATTHEW SIN GER
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A year ago, the word on Kevin Robinson was that he had lost it. His bands, Viva Voce and Blue Giant, had dissolved. In their place, he started Electric Ill, playing pastel-colored electro-funk worlds removed from the psychedelic pop and country rock he made his name on. He cut his hair and dyed it blond and insisted on being called “Kaylee Rob.” People knew Robinson and his wife and bandmate, Anita Elliott, were getting divorced, and the assumption was that losing both his marriage and artistic partner had sent him flying off the rails. Robinson swears he wasn’t having a breakdown. But he heard the mutterings. And if the audience wanted a crazy person, he was going to give it to them. “I felt like owning it,” he says from a picnic table outside his Hawthorne neighborhood apartment. “If people are saying I lost my mind, I’ll hang a neon sign around my neck that says ‘Midlife Crisis’ with an arrow up to my face.” That doesn’t mean Robinson wasn’t actually in crisis, though. He and Elliott were together his entire adult life. When they came to Portland in 2003, it was as an indie-rock power couple with two well-regarded albums on their résumé. He’d never made music without her, at least not seriously. If Robinson’s public meltdown was a put-on, it helped disguise the real freak-out happening in private: He spent last summer sleeping in a tent in his backyard, because he could hardly bear to be in the house they used to share. At age 39, Robinson is starting over from scratch. He’s divested himself completely from his past projects, including Electric Ill, and is performing solo for the first time. For someone whose career, not to mention identity, was so closely intertwined with another person, the transition is much more complicated than simply taking the stage alone. “Re-creating yourself—professionally, personally, emotionally—in complete public view,” he says, “is kind of a mindfuck.” Robinson met Elliott in Muscle Shoals, Ala. In 1998, they formed Viva Voce, a band blending indie-
pop jangle with psychedelia and classic Southern rock. He played drums, she sang and played guitar. After a stint in Nashville, the couple got pulled to Portland by Menomena’s Danny Seim. Viva Voce played the inaugural PDX Pop Now, and in 2004 released its third album, The Heat Can Melt Your Brain, which broadened its fan base enough to tour Europe. Robinson claims that’s the last year he held a straight job. By 2009, however, the strain of being in a band with only each other was beginning exact a toll. Viva Voce expanded to a four-piece that year, to lighten their load musically. But the reception for 2011’s prophetically titled The Future Will Destroy You was tepid, and band problems began bleeding over into the relationship. Issues they once shrugged off exploded into arguments. Robinson says the group’s last tour “was like going from one beheading to the next.” Elliott left early and flew home to Alabama. “Everything just started to slowly disintegrate,” Robinson says. “When the shit really started to get thick, I was like, ‘I didn’t marry a guitar player. I married you. I’d rather have a love in my life than a musician in my life.’ I never heard that back to me.” In the initial aftermath of the divorce, Robinson admits he was in a sort of daze. As he came out of it, he entered what he calls the most prolific period of his life, filling hard drives with new songs. Robinson describes his life now as “rad.” But in a lot of ways, he’s still struggling to find his footing. Having given up on the idea of ever making money from music again, he is basically unemployable, he says; the day of our interview, his phone got shut off. A few weeks ago, he and his new girlfriend fled their shared house after a confrontation with one of their roommates. “Won’t Let Me Sleep,” a song Robinson posted to Bandcamp in January, addresses the past year with unambiguous regret. “I’m fighting off the dark,” he sings over drums and acoustic guitar. “Somehow I missed that mark.” But Robinson is sure of one thing going forward: He doesn’t want to be another sad-sack songwriter, crying over a past he can’t change. “Woe is fucking relative, dude,” he says. “You think your shit’s tough? Shut your mouth and listen to someone else talk for a while. Then you’ll realize if you could put all your problems in a giant pile to swap with people, you’d pick yours right the fuck back up.” SEE IT: Kevin Robinson plays Cymaspace, 4634 NE Garfield Ave., Suite B, on Saturday, July 12. 8 pm. $5. Willamette Week JULY 9, 2014 wweek.com
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Portland Cello Project’s Extreme Dance Party
[36 CHAMBERS MUSIC] Eight years since first debuting on the Doug Fir stage, Portland Cello Project has become a beloved emblem of Puddletown’s dearest imaginings—a highbrow-casual celebration of guilty pleasures trailing unfussy ambitions and no small amount of craft—and this annual soirée, expanded to an instantly sold-out weekend, plus next Wednesday’s free all-ages Ecotrust Building shindig, now stands as one of our signal joys of summer. While we’ve all grown accustomed to the ensemble’s seemingly limitless songbook of top-40 floor-fillers past and present, the dance party ups the ante with a star-studded roster of vocalists (last year’s guests included Corin Tucker, Janet Weiss, and John “Baby Ketten Karaoke” Brophy) to lead the hit parade. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+. Through July 12.
Le Castle Vania, Party Favor
[ELECTRO BACKLASH] Though he calls ATL his hometown, there is not an ounce of Atlanta in Dylan Eiland’s sound: no crunk, no trap, not even the Miami bass that’s been getting a lot of traction in both hip-hop and electro-house. Le Castle Vania, though, is not an attempt to hop on Zedd and Kaskade’s glossy festival bandwagon. Eiland’s style—especially on the freshly
dropped EP Feels Like Fire—is something like the chain saws in Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction” paired with whirring surgical saws. Portland’s vibe may not qualify us to be Dylan’s adoptive home, but there’s always a place for him in Rotterdam. DAVE CANTOR. Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th Ave., 2217262. 9 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Tiki Kon Kickoff Party: Satan’s Pilgrims, Lushy, DJ Drew Groove
[SURFING SAFARI] Portland’s annual celebration of tropical kitsch begins with an evening of surf-rock courtesy of Satan’s Pilgrims, plus burlesque dancers and, we’re assuming, a lot of rum drinks. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 245-7892. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Sad Horse, The Woolen Men, The Gutters
[KINDA PUNK] Sad Horse is a lo-fi two piece that doesn’t really make sense, in a traditional genre terms. Sonically, they play tightly driven riffs with a simultaneous out-of-tune swing—yells mixed with croons, and an aesthetic that ranges from bubbly to deathly. But making sense really doesn’t have to be a priority for Sad Horse, because not only does their confusing, upbeat sound work, it’s fucking great. Channeling sugary girl-boy storytelling a la Sonny and the Sunsets and a Pavement-esque lyrical demeanor, Sad Horse manages to be both beautiful and brash, tough and soft, and create a compelling sound that’s pretty much their own. ASHLEY JOCZ. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. $5. 21+
Xavier Rudd
[AUSSIE SOUL] Xavier Rudd plays more than a dozen instruments throughout his seven studio albums, but none as striking as the didgeridoo, the guttural wooden instrument from his native Australia. Rudd’s live performances often find him seated among a half-dozen percussive instru-
ments, two different didgeridoos and a harmonica, all of which will be touched on among a cacophony of bird calls and tribal wails. He has plans to expand his repertoire, with the release of a reggae album featuring an eight-piece band next year, but for now enjoy the soulful one-man show in his tried and true element. GRACE STAINBACK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
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to the Ramones as to adolescent jokes. The Bay Area’s Dwarves, by contrast, started with a stream of records donning covers as horrific as the music inside was troubling. But something’s snapped. “Trailer Trash,” a track on the forthcoming Dwarves Invented Rock ’n’ Roll, is still utterly tasteless, but the music’s gotten a bit soft. Blag Dahlia even sings, as opposed to croaking out couplets. Rest assured, though: Someone’s almost definitely getting naked onstage tonight. DAVE CANTOR. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
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SATURDAY, JULY 12 Peter Matthew Bauer
[WALKMAN] The Walkmen are no more, but it seems the founding members are staying busy, especially Peter Matthew Bauer, who just released his fittingly titled Liberation! solo record. Bauer’s material is at once dreamy and low slung like the Dandy Warhols and lo-fi experimental like Lou Reed. There’s no doubting Bauer’s chops, especially now that he’s riding his own horse these days, and doing so quite expertly. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $10. 21+.
Verified: STYLSS Takeover: Cestladore, Eastghost, Gang$ign$, Bruxa, Quarry, Choongum, Photon, Modeling, Sadgirl
[BASS COAST] Back in January, I declared Quarry—aka Cory Haynes, founder of Internet label STYLSS—an “artist to watch.” Now he’s calling all the haters to task with a massive nine-act takeover of Verified. The headliners speak to the label’s local geography, with Eugene’s Cestladore, Portland’s Gang$ign$ and transcontinental producer Eastghost all uniting in their appreciation of the amorphous genre known as West Coast bass. It’s a little like hip-hop on opiates and a dope pu-erh, which fits with the meaning of the label’s acronym: Stop
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Wye Oak, Pattern Is Movement [ALBUM-ORIENTED SYNTH FOLK] The blog-rock boom of the late aughts was a great time to be twee as fuck. Alongside Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and the Boy Least Likely To, members of Baltimore’s Wye Oak—named after the state tree of Maryland, obvs—made a sterling effort to look up from their navels briefly and record 2007’s If Children. Despite the precocious title, duo Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack assembled a highly listenable magpie’s nest of rootsy dream folk—a remarkable feat considering they weren’t even old enough to drink at the time. The trio of records that followed failed to impress the indie-rock illuminati, and this year’s Shriek finds Wassner and Stack abandoning the driving, open-strummed Americana altogether. Out of the context of their earlier work, the best tracks on the record (“Glory,” “Schools of Eyes”) sound like discount Beach House cuts with a brighter palette of colors, but the omnipresence of synths and drum machines is worrisome for OG fans that would rather hear something with an electric guitar for once. Here’s to hoping they remember what being a kid who just wants to rock out was like. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm Monday, July 14. $18. 21+.
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SATURDAY–TUESDAY Taking Your Life So Seriously. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 10 pm. $5. 21+.
Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd., 226-1561. 7 pm. $25-$45. All ages.
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Sheer Terror, Poison Idea, Longknife, Bigfoot Accelerator, Fought Alone
[PORTLAND FUNK] If you’ve checked out any iteration of the “Portland Soul All-Stars” over the years, you’ve probably heard the rich voice of Andy Stokes. With a vocal style splitting the difference between Isaac Hayes and Marvin Gaye, Stokes helped guide Portland band Cool’R into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame and was a mainstay of the Candlelight Bar for 12 years. He now brings hard-hitting funk to Portland venues on a weekly basis, and last April, one such hard-hitting set was captured on tape. Now, it’s being released. Go for a raucous live experience—and then take it home with you. TREE PALMEDO. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $10. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sallie Ford
[LIVING HISTORY LESSON] Although its most famous song is an old-timey makeover of Blu Cantrell’s 2001 R&B smash, “Hit ’Em Up Style (Oops!),” when the Carolina Chocolate Drops got together almost a decade ago, it took on the role of a de facto historical preservation society. Instead of culling from the already well-surveyed Appalachian songbook, the all-black string band drew the bulk of their repertoire from the music of North Carolina’s Piedmont region, where communities of freed slaves developed a style placing the banjo— an instrument of African origin—at the forefront. Illuminating the black roots of those forgotten songs, the band presents a living education on a piece of America’s musical heritage it hardly knew existed. Though the only member left of the original trio is singer Rhiannon Giddens, the Chocolate Drops’ mission remains in place: bringing a forgotten American idiom back to life. MATTHEW SINGER.
[GNARLY CROSSOVER] Sheer Terror, an ’80s NYC crossover act, opens Just Can’t Hate Enough with a pissed-off declamation against skinhead culture, with lyrics lamenting being a working-class mope. Disconnect aside, the band throws down a metallic gambit akin to Cro-Mags. A lack of consistent recording, though, accounts for the ensemble’s relative anonymity. Just Can’t, Sheer Terror’s first long-player after a few self-released tapes, didn’t show up until 1990, about a halfdecade into its career. The troupe’s latest, 2013’s Kaos for Kristin, serves as a benefit for a friend’s family, offering a handful of Sham 69 covers. It’s an admirable move from a band of tough guys. DAVE CANTOR. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
SUNDAY, JULY 13 Shelby Earl
[EMERALD CITY SIREN] One of Seattle’s best-kept secrets, Shelby Earl is gradually entering the national conversation via the soulful songwriting of last year’s Swift Arrows, which was produced by Damien Jurado. She travels down the I-5 and settles into a weeklong Portland residency here, where she will be joined on different nights by Jason Dodson of the Maldives, Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger and members of Portugal the Man, among others. Al’s Den, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+. Through July 19.
Pickin’ On Sundays: St. Even, Barry Brosseau
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Steve Hefter came to Portland in 2009 from Baltimore, and two years later, under the name St. Even, released a quietly
stunning album of lyrical chamber-pop called Spirit Animal. His latest selftitled collection—released on former WW Music Editor Casey Jarman’s Party Damage Records imprint—is again a delicate, warmly arranged set. His songs seem to drift downward, the gently plucked acoustic guitars, wilting horns, strings and occasional barroom piano appearing to fall around Hefter’s congested, heavy-lidded murmur like leaves in winter. It is, perhaps, too unassuming to make St. Even the next big thing in Portland music, but that’s OK. For those in the know, the music doesn’t need hype to prop it up. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 3 pm. Free. 21+.
and main man Peter Hughes has just been announced as a new recruit to Danava. While you ponder that serpent swallowing its own tail, check out the latest LP from Lecherous Gaze, Zeta Reticuli Blues. It’s yet another installment in the group’s face-melting psych-punk-metal catalog. Imagine Chuck Berry leading the Stooges through a set of early Iron Maiden tracks and, yeah. See you there. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. $6. 21+.
A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Golden Retriever, Tender Age
[SYNTH POP] Having a single peak at No. 33 on the Alternative charts is a feat on its own, especially when the rest of your album has the potential to follow suit. Magic Man’s debut, Before the Waves, starts with the distant plucking of electric guitar, but before long, a barrage of Passion Pitlike synths soon follow. Though the opening track sets the pop-friendly tone for the entirety of what follows, it never shies away from the core sound established with the aforementioned chart hit, “Paris.” It’s an album teeming with top-40 familiarity, from the gauzy synths and jangly guitars to stadiumsized choruses highlighted by founding member Alex Caplow’s breathy tenor. It’s lovelorn and twee—but the catchiest songs often are. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $12. 21+.
[SUMMER SHOEGAZE] The members of A Sunny Day in Glasgow spend most of their time apart, split between Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Australia. Maybe that’s why, when they do make music together, they sound so brutally, unrelentingly happy. For its latest album, Sea When Absent, the band turned its amps up to the max, burying the twin angel voices of Annie Fredrickson and Jen Goma under a blanket of swirling synths and roaring guitar. But remarkably, the band’s blindingly bright melodies always shine through the fuzz. Lifting hearts as it bruises eardrums, Sea When Absent is the pop album My Bloody Valentine will never make. TREE PALMEDO. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Lecherous Gaze, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Sons of Huns
[ROCK MELTDOWN] Former Danava bassist Zach Dellorto recently flew south to join up with Oakland garage gurus Lecherous Gaze. This was probably a really good move, since the band absolutely slays live. Strangely enough, Sons of Huns opens the show,
MONDAY, JULY 14 Magic Man, Night Terrors of 1927, Prides
TUESDAY, JULY 15 Rich Robinson, Prophet Omega, Tango Alpha Tango
[THE LONELY CROWE] Though he largely plays second-fiddle (or, more literally, guitar) to his brother in the Black Crowes, Rich Robinson’s solo
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work hews closer to his main band’s aesthetic than the hippie-dippie stargazing of Chris Robinson’s non-Crowes discography. The Ceaseless Sight, his latest, is all grungy, bluesy Southern rock, with a focus on songwriting as opposed to crafting a soundtrack for dancing barefoot in a meadow. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
DJ Krush
[TRIP-HOP ICON] No offense to Massive Attack and Portishead, but the finest trip-hop album comes not from Bristol but Japan. DJ Krush’s 1996 collaboration with avant-garde trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, Ki-Oku, coolly carves its way through Krush’s moonlit beats and Kondo’s fluttery-eyed solos. In 2012, Krush began exploring more uptempo breaks with a monthly single series, culminating in the cinematic “Yushin: Brave Heart.” Since then he’s maintained a tour schedule apropos of a 51-year-old icon. Pay your respects. MITCH LILLIE. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $17. 21+.
Wolves in the Throne Room, Nommo Ogo, Druden
[PURE MOODS METAL] If the paths of black metal and Pure Moods New Age were ever to intersect, you can bet your stack of Sunn amps Olympia’s Wolves in the Throne Room will be there to light the sage and get the “astral metal” party started. Celestial Lineage was hailed by Pitchfork as “American black metal’s idiosyncratic defining record of 2011,” and we can expect plenty more where that came from on the forthcoming Celestite. Teaser “Initiation at Neudeg Alm” is an atmospheric dirge built off a lattice of synth arpeggios that brings to mind the smoldering loam of a post-cataclysmic wasteland, likely to be followed by an onslaught of crusty vocals and diabolic tremolo picking. Please check your aggression, corpse paint
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AMEN DUNES FRIDAY, JULY 11 The first few moments of Amen Dunes’ latest record, Love, may well sum up the band. There’s a gentle, pacesetting guitar rhythm being chased by another lumbering guitar that can’t quite find its footing. And just as those two worlds mingle—one timeless and efficient, very much in the vein of classic folk, the other a product of human creativity and adaptation—frontman Damon McMahon sings. And when McMahon sings, not much else in the room matters. He’s got one of those voices, a bewitching blend of Jim James, Father John Misty and even David Gray. Perhaps that’s why the Brooklyn musician has mostly kept to himself and a few trusted bandmates over the years: He is in custody of a voice so big it might crush anybody else in the studio. McMahon, who dreamed up Amen Dunes in an upstate New York trailer in 2006, brought the idea to life with guitarist-pianist Jordi Wheeler and drummer Parker Kindred a few years later in the city. Love is the trio’s third full-length, the fullest and least insular to date. McMahon has grown tremendously since the self-described “fucked-up” days heading the band Inouk. Now 33, McMahon has learned the strength of restraint. Whereas previous records took just weeks from writing to recording, Love consumed more than a year. “It was definitely very thought-out,” McMahon says. “It was not off-the-cuff in any way.” It required four studios and a lot of scrapping. Yet it comes across as one of the most nonchalant, comfortable, selfconfident new-Americana albums in recent memory. “Although I was a perfectionist with the record, the core music was all first gigs, pretty much,” McMahon says. “The labor was after the fact.” He says he was thinking about “spiritual jazz” throughout post-production, garnishing tracks with strings, vibraphones and percussion. Then it got too big. So he pulled out the scissors. “It was a real whittling down to the core elements.” The beauty of Love lies in subtlety. Like Mount Eerie, Amen Dunes offers a soft volatility seemingly plucked from nature itself. There’s repetition and simplicity chased by flashes of brilliance. Take “Lonely Richard,” with its slow-boil guitar riff, marching drums and rolling twang. The music lulls while McMahon’s vocals haunt. It’s a one-two punch of pure and polished— the same dualism that kicks off the album—that most musicians attempt but never achieve. “It’s music from a remote space, but this particular record is also very much a New York record,” McMahon says. “It’s organic and also urban.” Which is funny to hear from someone who admits it’s virtually impossible to write a song in the Big Apple. But in tracks like “I Know Myself” and “Lilac in Hand,” it clicks: neo-folk on the surface, dipped in the musical melting pot of New York, from jazz to soul to Latin music. The best caption of Amen Dunes may be the cover art itself. Love features a grainy photo of a half-naked girl glancing over her shoulder somewhere in rural Pennsylvania. It’s twilight and she appears to be putting her clothes back on and returning to civilization. She seems torn between the mesmerizing sky and the need to push on. It’s a powerful shot that defines Amen Dunes’ own alluring position, wedged somewhere between coming of age and the age-old. MARK STOCK. Damon McMahon’s pastoral urbanism.
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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chamber Music Northwest
[CLASSICAL] Wednesday’s first Club Concert brings the Chamber Music Northwest festival some muchneeded young blood (violinist Bella Hristova, pianist Dan Schlosberg, clarinetist Ashley William Smith, bassist Samuel Suggs) to play music by Suggs, 2012 Pulitzer winner David Lang, and Ravel and covers of Regina Spektor, Sinatra and others. On Thursday, CMNW veterans, led by the superb singer Sasha Cooke, perform music by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schubert and the distinguished American composer John Harbison, before playing Schubert’s famous (and fabulous) quintet based on his song about a fish. On Saturday, one of the world’s most celebrated chamber champs, the Emerson Quartet, brings its new cellist for another Schubert masterpiece, his piercing “Death and the Maiden” Quartet, plus Shostakovich’s final, death-obsessed final string quartet. Sunday’s Emerson show featuring music by Beethoven and Mozart is sold out, but tickets remain for Monday’s concert of larger scale music by Wagner, Schoenberg and Hindemith, plus Prokofiev’s sonata for two violins. Tuesday’s annual free concert, featuring the award-winning young Dover Quartet, includes French music (to coincide with the museum’s exhibit), including Debussy’s sublime quartet. BRETT CAMPBELL. Multiple venues. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Saturday and Monday, July 9-10, 12, 14. $10-$50. Event at Portland Art Museum free.
Oregon Bach Festival
[BAROQUE] With its dynamic director, violinist Monica Huggett, leading its annual Oregon Bach Festival program, the local, historically informed performance ensemble Portland Baroque this time departs from the usual suspects to perform 18th-century music from three traditions: German, by C.P.E. Bach (one of J.S.’s sons and an excellent, innovative composer in his own right); Italian, by composer Pietro Locatelli; and French, in Huggett’s arrangement of a suite drawn from the colorful operas of Jean-Philippe Rameau. The festival closes its Portland run with a jazz show: Art Abrams Swing Machine playing Duke Ellington classics, narrated by Jamie Bernstein, who will try to enlighten audiences the way her dad, Lennie, did for all those years. BRETT CAMPBELL. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave.: 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 9. $15-$49. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335: 7:30 pm Saturday, July 12. $15-$54.
Occidental Gypsy
[GYPSY SWING] With members’ experience ranging from opera to film scores to Nashville sessions to Wynton Marsalis’ band, the energetic Occidental Gypsy starts with the classic Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli guitar-violin combustion and adds original tunes with and without vocals, some world-music influences and covers—including, most goofily, Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Mandolin wizard Brian Oberlin, who knows a thing about swing and more, opens. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 8 pm Friday, July 11. $18-$20.
Javier Nero
[JAZZ TROMBONE] You’ve probably never heard a trombone sound like this before. Vancouver-born and Juilliard-trained, Javier Nero has won several international trombone contests with impeccable technique and a buttery high range. But for all Nero’s virtuosity, his compositions are both singable and soulful, influenced by classic bop as well as
fusion. In addition to his own tunes, the trombonist fills his sets with the music of jazz heroes like Chick Corea and J.J. Johnson. Expect an evening of high-caliber, no-nonsense jazz, rooted in tradition and full of youthful exuberance. TREE PALMEDO. Bijou Cafe, 32 SW 3rd Ave., 222-3187. 7 pm Saturday, July 12. Free.
Joe Manis and Siri Vik
[SEXY CLASSIC JAZZ] Joined by veteran Portland pianist Randy Porter and drummer Charlie Doggett and Eugene bassist Tyler Abbott, two of Eugene’s top musicians, saxophonist Joe Manis and versatile, opera-trained cabaret singer Siri Vik, cover what may
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be the most beautiful combination of voice and instruments ever recorded: the 1963 John ColtraneJohnny Hartman album that’s so sultry it no doubt contributed to the conception of some in the audience. They’ll also play tunes music from another Coltrane jazz classic from that year, Ballads. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Tuesday, July 15. $8. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.
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SARA JACKSON-HOLMAN RIVER QUEEN (EXPUNGED RECORDS) [PUSHING POP] It seems like a River Styx reference is right there. Portland-based Sara Jackson-Holman opens her latest EP, River Queen, with the line, “Take me with you when you go to the depths of your despair.” She’s the conveyance on a river, but doesn’t quite make it to the literary nod. Instead, the piano-dominated track gets swamped with drum programming and a chorus that could again land the singer’s work on network television. But toting around a voice like hers should enable the Central Oregon native to ditch the lesser trappings of pop music. By the time River Queen reaches “Keep Score,” Jackson-Holman has drifted through enough pop offerings to sate teenage mallrats and finally hits on a uniquely composed piece, with her piano-playing largely unadorned by additional accompaniment. As her voice flits across the song, a special sort of unforced grandeur emerges, something noticeably absent from the more radio-ready work dashed across the rest of the EP. Crafting an entire album of compositions in the same mode as “Keep Score” while keeping listeners’ attention would be difficult. And it’s pretty clear the singer understands that, despite getting all tangled up in studio shenanigans. The moments when she sheds pretense and ignores the potential for swelled production flourishes, Jackson-Holman moves beyond the plateau of dime-a-dozen crooners and hints at the possibilities of a substantive, nationwide career. DAVE CANTOR. SEE IT: Sara Jackson-Holman plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Holiday Friends and Swansea, on Friday, July 11. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
BLUE SKIES FOR BLACK HEARTS BLUE SKIES FOR BLACK HEARTS (VELVATONIC) [THROWBACK POP] After more than a decade together, Blue Skies for Black Hearts is nothing if not consistent. The band’s newest effort follows closely in the footsteps of its last full-length, Embracing the Modern Age, sticking to the simple, hook-laden throwback pop frontman Pat Kearns first established with the project in 2002. A heavy nod to power pop circa the British Invasion, the 12 tracks on Blue Skies for Black Hearts are heavy on easy melodies and undemanding lyrics, but the five-piece manages to toss in a few surprises, too. “Love Scenes” throws a fun doo-wop swing into the mix, flecked with dreamy group “oohs” and a classic, repetitive guitar hook that makes up for the puppy-love lyrics. “You Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dog” moves the album into heavier rock territory, big on kick drum, fuzzy keys, guitar arpeggios and a sharper edge to Kearn’s normally clean, restrained vocals. Blue Skies for Black Hearts does what it was made to do, offering clean, friendly tunes that don’t give off the vibe of trying too hard. The clean sound can perhaps be attributed to Kearns’ gig as a producer—his résumé includes Exploding Hearts and Son of Huns—but most likely it has more to do with the musicians and their ability to dress up basic, catchy pop hooks ever so slightly, allowing them to remain, well, simply catchy. KAITIE TODD. SEE IT: Blue Skies for Black Hearts plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Spirit Lake and Young Vienna, on Wednesday, July 9. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 9, 2014 wweek.com
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wilf’s Restaurant & Bar
800 NW 6th Ave. Ellen Whyte, Gene and Jean
FRi. July 11
LAST WEEK LIVE EMMA bROWNE
Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Time Sawyer, Timberbound
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Matthew Lindley
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. The Payback
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Melanie Roy Band
Blue Room Bar
8145 SE 82nd Ave. Matt Heller & The Clever, Ice Hotel, The Want Ads
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Amen Dunes, AXXA/ ABRAXAS
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St. Brasslands
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Dwarves, Queers, Masked Intruder, Atom Age
CROWD PARTICIPATION: Pale-faced and savage, Nick Cave tore through a set at the Schnitz on July 5 that leaned on recent material and finished with the requisite hits. Despite the refined setting, Cave spat on the stage and stormed into the crowd, walking the tops of seats until he was in the center of the audience, surrounded by adoring and supplicating hands. When the grasping horde tried to pull him down, he gracefully found his footing. And when an enthusiastic party groped him inappropriately, he claimed “harassment in the workplace” over the mic and moved onward. NATHAN CARSON. Read the full review at wweek.com. wed. July 9 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Playing for Change
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Mount Joy, Echo Ravine, The Camera and Film
Alhambra Theatre
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Masta Ace & Emc, Speaker Minds, XP, Afrok, DJ Iceman, Ryan Farish, Blackburner
Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Peep Show
Andina Restaurant 1314 NW Glisan Toshi Onizuka Trio
Boon’s Treasury
888 Liberty St. NE The Folly
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Spirit Lake, Blue Skies for Black Hearts
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Usnea
eastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Eric John Kaiser
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Sonny Hess
Gemini Bar & Grill
456 N State St. Jacob Merlin and Sarah Billings
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Chamber Music Northwest Presentation
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi
white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Hill Dogs
wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band
landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday: Jake Ray & the Cowdogs
laurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Feathers & Friends
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Young & Sick, Bent Denim, Exroyale
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Oregon Bach Festival
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Switchgrass
PCC Cascade Moriarty Auditorium 705 N. Killingsworth St. Summer Sings 2014: Carmina Burana
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Lycus, Usnea, Hungers, Satyress
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Angel Dust, Forced Order, Cast Out, Singled Out, Lawrence
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Usnea, Lycus, Hungers, Satyress
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Sammi
Mississippi Pizza
THuRS. July 10 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Copper & Coal, Oregon Trails
Andina Restaurant 1314 NW Glisan Jason Okamoto
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingworth St. Chris Phillips
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi and Bradley
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Small Skies, Foreign Orange, Amenta Abioto
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Polly O’Keary & the Rhythm Method, Tough Love Pyle
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Cynic, Lesser Key, We Are The City, When They Invade, Wayfarer
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Promise the Moon, Morrea Masa & Anna Spackman
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Fresh and Onlys, the Shilohs, Old Light
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombart St. Claes of The Blueprints & Friends
Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Road Otis Heat
Sandy Centennial Plaza
39295 Pioneer Blvd Sandy Music Fair and Feast
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Chin Up Rocky, Toxic Kid, We the Wild, Calmosa, Guts, Caregiver
The Conga Club
4923 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Dina y Los Rumberos
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Astro Tan, Sam Desmore
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Latenightsleep TV, Ermine, Quackhammer, Same Self
The Muddy Rudder Public House
Oregon Convention Center
8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
Oregon Zoo
2621 SE Clinton St. Hot Club of Hawthorne, Justin
777 NE MLK Jr Blvd Plaza Palooza: Curtis Salgado
The Press Club
4001 SW Canyon Rd. Rodney Atkins, Jackson Michelson
The Tonic lounge
Reed College
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Ringlers Pub
1332 W Burnside The Windshield Vipers
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Pagan Jug Band
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Sarcalogos
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Cabaret Chanteuse
white eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Rugs, Evan Way, Barna Howard, Chris Baron and Friends
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project’s Extreme Dance Party
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Andy T & Nick Nixon Band, the Hamdogs
east Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Jameson Wandeling
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Jack McMahon
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. State of Jefferson, the Rodeo Clowns, Dead Remedy, Nekked Bonz, Comanche Joy
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Elise LeBlanc, The Oh My Mys
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Bart Ferguson & The Edward Stanley Band, Here Comes Everybody
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cul an Ti
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Spirit Lake, Glacier Palace, Nick Foltz
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman, Holiday Friends, Swansea
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombart St. Freak Flag Fly with Ron Stephens
Music Millennium
3158 E. Burnside St. Tim Otto and Chris Charles
Ponderosa lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Sweetwater
RingSide Fish House 838 SW Park Ave. Sounds of Brazil: Alma Brasileira
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Geraldine Murray & the Retired Popes
Sandy Centennial Plaza
39295 Pioneer Blvd Sandy Music Fair and Feast
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Sioux, Sol, Mursa, A Collective Subconscious, Kitten Crisis, Amy Bruce Spaceshow, The Bricks
St. Honore
3333 SE Division Street Eric John Kaiser
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Tiki Kon Kickoff
The Buffalo Gap
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Funk Town PDX
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Neurosound Booking Showcase
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Gutters, The Woolen Men, Sad Horse
The lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Franco Paletta & The Stingrays
The Muddy Rudder Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Robbie Laws
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Within the Ruins and Lorna Shore
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Peter Matthew Bauer
Calapooia Brewing 140 Hill St. NE Dead Kingmaker
Cymaspace
4634 NE Garfield Ave., Suite B Kevin Robinson
doug Fir lounge
830 E Burnside St. Portland Cello Project’s Extreme Dance Party
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Rae Gordon, Big Monti
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Soopah Eype
Hollywood’s Hot Rod Bar & Grill 10810 NE Sandy Blvd. Stevens-Hess Band
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Kira Lesley, Rose Gerber
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Andy Stokes
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cul an Ti
The Old Church
Kelly’s Olympian
The Red And Black Cafe
Kenton Club
1422 SW 11th Ave. Occidental Gypsy
426 SW Washington St. Sama Dams, Adam Brock 4, Boys Beach
400 SE 12th Ave. Denise Dill
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Black Ginger, Lana Rebel
The Secret Society
lincoln Performance Hall
116 NE Russell St. Electric Pony, Redray Frazier, the Fuzz (9 pm); Peter Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. John Vincent
white eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Otis Heat, Foxy Lemon, Reverb Brothers
wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tom Grant & Shelly Rudolph
wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Xavier Rudd
SAT. July 12 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
1620 SW Park Ave. MasterPieces
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mo Phillips, Johnny and Jason, Melao de Cuba, Lorna Miller Little Kid’s Jamboree
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Run on Sentence, Star Anna, Mrs. Queer Dance Party: DJ Beyonda
Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway Oregon Bach Festival
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Rd. Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sallie Ford
Ponderosa lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Rock N’ Roll Cowboys
Reed College
Andina Restaurant
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Artichoke Music
Rock Creek Tavern
Ash Street Saloon
Rotture
1314 NW Glisan Toshi Onizuka Trio
3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Chris Harris & Willie Carmichael 225 SW Ash St. Commonly Courteous, This Fair City
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Vanessa Rogers, Sami Cole
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Tender Deluxe, Redray Frazier and Ezra Holbrook
Bijou Cafe
32 SW 3rd Ave. Javier Nero
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. 23window 315 SE 3rd Ave. Josh Martinez, Bad Habitat, Big Mo, Theory Hazit
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Cyanic, Apocryphon, Witch Vomit
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Sheer Terror, Poison Idea, Longknife, Bigfoot Accelerator, Fought Alone
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6835 SW Macadam Ave. Elise Leblanc, Jacob Westfall & Malachi Graham
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Gentlemen Prefer Blood, Pageripper, 48 Thrills
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Soul Vaccination
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. BassMandolin
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Flotsam and Jetsam, Exmortus
Torta-Landia
KaraoKe from Hell July 14 Dante’s 10pm DiscounteD WristbanDs Drink specials best anD Worst performers of the night Win a pair of musicfestnW WristbanDs
4144 SE 60th Ave. Ann Krueger
Vie De Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Bastille Day: Eric John Kaiser
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Lincoln’s Beard, River Twain, Garett Brennan & the EBGBs
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. The Xplodingboys, Erotic City, Candy-O
SUN. JULY 13 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Shelby Earl
Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Slow the Impact, Raise The Bridges, This Fair City, Virtual Zero
830 E Burnside St. Pickin’ On Sundays: St. Even
Ash Street Saloon
The Lehrer
Blue Diamond
2026 NE Alberta St. Lecherous Gaze, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Sons of Huns 8775 SW Canyon Ln. Ty Curtis
The Tonic Lounge
White Eagle
1028 SE Water Ave. Globelamp, the Ocean Floor
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Evisceration, Among the Torrent, Echoic, Boudica 836 N Russell St. Kelly Anne Masigat, Ethan Samuel Browne, Elise Leblanc
MON. JULY 14 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Shelby Earl
Andina Restaurant 1314 NW Glisan Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. King Ghidora, Daikaiju
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St. Brasslands
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
203 SE Grand Ave. Tiny Matters, Healthy Dose 221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O’Hanlon
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Magic Man, Night Terrors of 1927, Prides
Edgefield
Reed College
2126 SW Halsey St. Michele Van Kleef 2342 SE Ankeny St. Djo Fortunato
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O’Hanlon
2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers
Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Chamber Music Northwest
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hurqalya, Jellyroll Ramblers
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Golden Retriever, Tender Age
Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Hanz Araki
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Animal Eyes & Mothertapes
225 SW Ash St. David Paige, Trapdor Social, New Social Outcasts 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Gretchen Mitchell Band
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Landlines, Hooded Hags
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
The Know
Jimmy Mak’s
Doug Fir Lounge
1314 NW Glisan JB Butler
1037 SW Broadway Michael Jackson History Show: Thriller
Director Park
815 SW Park Ave Portland Wind Symphony
Andina Restaurant
1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra
East End
225 SW Ash St. Osima, Phobos & Deimos
LaurelThirst Public House
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Ash Street Saloon
112 SW 2nd Ave. Irish Sessions
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830 E Burnside St. Wye Oak, Pattern is Movement
1314 NW Glisan Ryan Walsh
Kells
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Sandy Centennial Plaza
Andina Restaurant
Jade Lounge
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3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Bob Shoemaker
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Hail, Wayfarer, Dreadnought, Barrowlands
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Mufassa, Couches, Lubec
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Jazzshack
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Singer Songwriter Showcase, Eric John Kaiser
TUES. JULY 15 Al’s Den
Bunk Bar
Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St. Brasslands
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Rich Robinson (of The Black Crowes)
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Wingtips
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Head Rest
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Colleen Raney
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. Andy Grammer, Andrew Ripp, Brendan James
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Catch & Release
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Joe Manis and Siri Vik
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Danny O’Hanlon
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Charlie Darwins, Bliiss, Obscured By The Sun, Old Hand
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Ready to Roll
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Amanda Richards, Good Long Whiles (9 pm), Jackstraw (6 pm)
Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Chamber Music Northwest
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lost Creek Bluegrass
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Blackwitch Pudding, Stoneburner, Burials
Pioneer Courthouse Square 715 SW Morrison St. # 702 Jeremy Wilson
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Wolves in the Throne Room, Nommo Ogo, Druden
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Hot Jam Night, Tracey Fordice and The 8-Balls
Tony Starlight’s Supper Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Oregon Music Hall of Fame (OMHOF), 2014 Inductees
303 SW 12th Ave. Shelby Earl
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Justin Klump
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JULY 9–15 SAT. JULY 12 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Robb: Revolution
East Burn
WED. JULY 9 Berbati
19 SW 2nd Ave. DJ Seleckta YT, Riddim Up Wednesday
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. DJ Robb: Trick
Dixie Tavern
NS 3rd & Couch St. Hump Night
Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix, Bryan Zentz
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jack
Holocene
Jinx
232 NW 12th Ave DJ Ujjayi
Lola’s Room
1332 W Burnside 80s Video Dance Attack
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hans Fricking Lindauer Rhythm and Soul Review
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3
The Embers Avenue 110 NW Broadway Top 40 Request
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew, DJ Aquaman
The Jack London Bar
1001 SE Morrison St. Max Ulis, Graintable, Danny Corn
529 SW 4th Ave. Decadent 80s
Moloko Plus
421 SE Grand Ave. Dance Party with DJ Horrid
3967 N Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Full Spectrum
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Austin Cook
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. Tyler Little
The Lovecraft
The Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Spintroll, Kitty Kisser, Minesweepa, Submission Tribe, Word, Dvnger, Aaron Jackson, Strive
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. TWRK
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killiingsworth St Cascadia Soul Alliance Dance Party
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Easter Egg
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Rd. DJ Ashby Scaggs, DJ Cee White and DJ Brian Todd
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Rd. DJs Ashby Scaggs, Cee White & Brian Todd
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Verified Stylss Takeover: Cestladore, Eastghost, Gang$ign$, Bruxa, Quarry, Choongum, Photon
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Cuica
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Volt Divers
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Musick for Mannequins
SUN. JULY 13 Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sensory, Bittersweet Productions and PAN-ZEN
Berbati
19 SW 2nd Ave. Sunday Syndrome
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Dzeko and Torres
MON. JULY 14 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday, With DJ Robb
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. Musique Plastique
TUES. JULY 15 Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. S.Y.N.T. Weekly Dubstep Night
Berbati
19 SW 2nd Ave. Soundstation Tuesdays, DJ Instigatah and Snackmaster DJ
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. DJ Krush
The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL: DJ Rhienna
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blind Bartamaeus
219 NW Davis St. The Superstar Divas, DJ Robb
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Rapture, DJ Finger Bang & Dungeon Master
THURS. JULY 10 B.C.’s Bar & Grill 2433 SE Powell Tetsuo
19 SW 2nd Ave. Study Hall With DJ Suga Shane
BAR SPOTLIGHT N ATA L I E B E H R I N G
Berbati
CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge 219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven, With DJ George
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Rd. DJ Flex Logic
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. DJ Tourmaline, DJ Valen
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Body Party: Holla n Oats
Midnight Roundup
345 NW Burnside Rd. Buck Wild Thursdays with DJ Cutt
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jake Cheeto
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Miss Prid
Tiga Bar Portland
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Bill Portland
FRI. JULY 11 CC Slaughters Nightclub & Lounge
219 NW Davis St. DJ Jakob Jay: Sweat Fridays
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Rhienna
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Le Castle Vania, Party Favor
Harlem Portland
220 SW Ankeny St. Lionsden
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. 50: A Possible History of Dance Music, 1964-2014: DJ Cooky Parker, DJ Gregarious
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CRITICAL PASS: There’s a definitive moment in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas when Hunter S. Thompson sums up the end of the ’60s era profoundly, making note of a “high-water mark” that can be seen from where the wave of hippie platitudes rolled back into the gutter. If you set your gaze north, you may be able to make out The High Water Mark (6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 286-6513), a signal post of one of Portland’s newest frontiers of gentrification. Brought to you by the owners of Alleyway, this is a fledgling dive bar at its core—a dimly lit cavern that remains a few broken couches and Olympia signs short of being that place you outright ignore until a friend recommends a pit stop as an almost-joke. A recent visit found a tap list with kegs delivered to Portland bars by default: Rainier, Full Sail, Double Mountain and Good Life on tap. The back room is outfitted with a stage similar to those at punk-rock clubs like Slabtown and the Know, but a chalkboard listing weekend events simply read “drink, drank, drunk” for each night. A DJ spinning Godflesh and Black Sabbath provided a sludgy backdrop for the handful of local punk kids who weren’t outside chainsmoking. The High Water Mark may one day be the nucleus of punk-rock critical mass Woodlawn needs to assert itself as “the next thing” in NoPo, but it may require the decidedly un-punk initiative of trying hard to get them in the door. PETE COTTELL.
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Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek.com). Dance: AARON SPENCER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: rjacobson@wweek.com.
Portland Actors Ensemble manages to convey most of the play’s emotional heft and cinematic scope. 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 production also includes live Middle Eastern-tinged music in its key dramatic scenes, resulting in a score that’s more tasteful than that of most actual blockbusters. 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 ThursdaysSaturdays through July 26. For full schedule, visit portlandactors.com. Free.
The Music Man
fishing for my father
THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The 39 Steps
Lakewood stages an adaptation of the classic Hitchcock spy movie, in which four actors play more than 100 characters. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 and 7 pm some Sundays through Aug. 17. $32.
Fishing For My Father
For the second installment in CoHo’s series of solo performances, Chris Harder reprises his show about a family fishing trip and a man’s attempts to understand fatherhood. The piece draws together clowning, original music, monologues and recorded interviews. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, July 10-13. $15; $50 for festival pass.
A Lie of the Mind
Profile Theatre continues its season of Sam Shepard with a staged reading of the playwright’s 1985 drama about two dysfunctional families in the West. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Saturday, July 12. Free.
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Post5 Theatre takes it to the courtyard with this al fresco production of Shakespeare’s early comedy about four lads who promise to swear off the company of the ladies. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 3. $15.
The Moth Portland Story Slam
Holocene hosts an installment of the monthly storytelling event, this time around the theme of “Altered.” Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8 pm Tuesday, July 15. $8-$16.
NT Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The National Theatre Live series, which brings HD recordings from London to screens worldwide, presents Simon Stephens’ adaptation of Mark Haddon’s poignant novel about an intelligent but socially awkward boy who must solve
the mystery of a murdered dog. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm Sunday, July 13. $20.
A Story of O’s
In a decade of working as a professional phone sex operator, Tonya Jone Miller has collected more than her share of stories about fetishes, dirty talk, twisted fantasies and, uh, robot hypnosis. In this new, semi-improvised solo show, Miller—whose previous work includes Threads, a one-woman piece about her mother’s experience in Vietnam during the war—will recount these tales of desire, love and loneliness. In Miller’s own words: “It’s about discovering the little bit of pervert in all of us.” Catalyst Art & Culture Space, 4810 NE Garfield Ave., 888-367-1117. 7:30 pm Fridays, July 11, 18 and 25; 10 pm Saturday, July 12; and 8 pm Saturday, July 19. $12. 18+.
The Tempest
As everyone else takes the Bard to the park, Portland Shakespeare Project keeps things indoors. This production of Shakespeare’s stormiest, most magical play is slightly gender-bent: Prospero has become Prospera, played by the wonderful Linda Alper. Even more promising: The acrobatic, everdynamic Matthew Kerrigan as the brute Caliban. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 3. $20-$30.
ALSO PLAYING The Book of Mormon
Broadway’s hottest show about men who wear sacred underwear returns to Portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays; and 1 and 6:30 pm Sundays through July 20. Sold out.
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
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 highschool productions 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. Director Peggy Taphorn orchestrates dazzling large numbers, such as “Iowa Stubborn,” which features tightly synchronized hand waving and sight gags that recall the film’s original choreography. Chrissy Kelly-Pettit, as Marian the librarian, has a pretty soprano with just enough vibrato to turn slower numbers into standout songs. Yet while the first half rushes by, the show loses steam later on. As the titular con man, 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. TREE PALMEDO. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through July 20. $20-$45.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
For the sixth year, the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival is back at parks across the city, claiming to stage theater the way it was done in the Bard’s day—with minimal rehearsal and actors taking different roles in each performance, assisted by an onstage prompter. Multiple locations, 479-5677. Various times and dates through Aug. 24; see opsfest.org for details. Free.
The Philadelphia Story
If you thought your love life was complicated, take a look at Tracy Lord’s: On the eve of her wedding, the brideto-be finds herself in a love triangle (or square?) of the stickiest sort. Should she marry her safe, boring fiance? Pursue the poetic, judgmental reporter? Remarry her charming yet arrogant exhusband? 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 is an intimidating act to follow, this Clackamas Rep production doesn’t let on. Things start quietly, but the performers soon prove dynamic, and the dialogue is often laugh-out-loud funny. 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: When it comes to life and love, we still don’t have the answers. But it sure is fun debating them. KATHERINE MARRONE. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 2:30 pm Sundays through July 20. $12-$28.
COMEDY & VARIETY All Jane No Dick Showcase
Standup from an all-female slate of comedians. Curious Comedy Theater,
5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every second Thursday. $10-$12.
David Huntsberger
Funny Over Everything, the next-tounimpeachable comedy showcase produced by Sean Jordan and Shane Torres, presents an evening of standup from David Huntsberger, perhaps best known for appearing on Professor Blastoff, the podcast with Tig Notaro and Kyle Dunnigan. In addition to sets from Jordan and Torres, expect standup from Whitney Streed and Andie Main. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm Friday, July 11. $10-$12.
Picture This!
This monthly show is kind of like standup meets Pictionary: Comics perform their sets will being drawn live by artists. This installment features special guest David Huntsberger. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm Saturday, July 12. $10.
Summer in Brodavia
Three weeks of sketch comedy from groups across Portland. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 26. $12.
The Threezus Tour
Nick Malis, T.K. Kelly and Ricky Carmona, all writers and performers from Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, stop by Portland on their eight-city standup tour. Friday’s show is at Action/ Adventure Theatre (1050 SE Clinton St.), while Saturday’s is at the Alberta Street Pub (1036 NE Alberta St.). Multiple venues. 9 pm Friday and 8:30 pm Saturday, July 11-12. $5-$12.
Tom Rhodes
Since being signed as the first comedian spokesperson with Comedy Central in the early ’90s, Rhodes has remained a tireless presence on the standup circuit. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, July 10-12. $15-$29. 21+.
DANCE Carla Rossi’s Purity Ball
Drag queen Courtney Act (say it like you’re Australian...there you go) won Australian Idol, not to mention the heart of Chaz Bono on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Now she’s showing Portland some real gender illusion—let’s face it, Carla Rossi’s chest hair gives her away. Among the openers is bearded drag queen Bulimianne Rhapsody of Austin, whom fans of drag troupe Sissyboy might remember performed at Sissyboy’s first drag show in 2004. She went on to start Austin’s own drag troupe, Poo Poo Platter. Expect Bulimianne to insult Mormons and Courtney to fail at using a straw. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7 pm Sunday, July 13. $7, $20 VIP. 21+.
Dance+
Experimental dance seems fringey, but it’s one of the most prolific movement forms in Portland. So much so that Conduit’s Dance+ program, now in its third year, hardly needs the “plus” anymore. Audiences should expect a little something extra from Portland’s independent performers, whether it’s multimedia, odd props or nutty theatrics. Usually, though, the movement is saturated with thought. Or maybe void of it—sometimes it’s hard to tell. In the first of two weekend programs, Seattle dancer Anna Conner and her company perform what she calls “a dark and delicately violent work” about roles in society. Roland Toledo and Paul Clay have each created works with multimedia: Toledo with digitized sound and Clay with a video tour of consumer culture. Jen Hackwork, typically a fan of props, presents a piece with Meghann Gilligan. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 10-12. $17-$20.
Grotesque Gorelesque
Graphic, violent and epically disgusting, Grotesque Gorelesque has
changed venues repeatedly since its debut last year. Now as a monthly event at Ash Street Saloon, some seats have been marked within a “gore zone,” where the audience is at risk of being sprayed with fake blood and vomit. A signature act of performer Aids Benedict involves dressing as a fat lady who surgically removes her own flesh. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9 pm Friday, July 11. $8. 21+.
Improvlesque
What constitutes an earworm is probably up for interpretation, but psychologists say the tune has to be short, repetitive and somehow connected to your childhood. Burlesque performers’ earworms might be somewhat skewed from the general populace (“Pour Some Sugar on Me”?), but the stripteasers stick to the audience’s terms at this latest round of Improvlesque. Performers compete against each other knowing only the theme: earworms. The audience chooses the song. Ideas: “It’s a Small World,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” “Funky Chicken.” The Analog, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 432-8079. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 15. $10. 21+.
Peep Show
Tana the Tattooed Lady is a sweetheart, and she prefers sweetness in her sexual partners—at Peep Show a few months ago, she made love to a pie. She’s part of the lineup again this month in the variety show that aims for sex and shock value. Acts include two singers, a drag queen, a bearded drag queen, a hula hooper and naked lyrical dancer Tod Alan, who is guaranteed to knock off your socks (he needs them to cover his junk). Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9:30 pm Wednesday, July 9. $5. 21+.
Pure Surface
This new series of multimedia performance offers a little of everything— text, dance and film. It also happily leaves you alone if you’re not into it; admission is free, and the audience is non-captive. The effect at similar events, to borrow a word from the masses, has been “chill”—what everyone, everywhere, doing anything aspires to be. For the inaugural program, veteran performance artist Linda Austin performs a yet-unannounced work (expect funny props), Michael Harper reads poetry and Roland Dahwen Wu shows a film. Tell the guy sipping neat bourbon next to you that you prefer Austin’s old stuff: “You know, like in the ’80s when people weren’t afraid to crawl across a dining room table and get food all over themselves.” Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 7 pm Sunday, July 13. Free. 21+.
Ten Tiny Dances
What happens when some of Portland’s most influential dancers are confined to a 4-foot by 4-foot platform? That’s the experiment Mike Barber has been doing with the Ten Tiny Dances series since 2002 in parks, restaurants and even the Time-Based Art Festival. This time, the free event features five stages with two of the ten performances going on simultaneously, one after another. What sets the event apart, aside from the playful idea, is the range of movement on display. In addition to modern movement of the Portland experimental scene (Allie Hankins and Luke Gutgsell), the lineup includes hip hop (Def Con 5), belly dance (Sundari Dance Arts), African (Oluyinka Akinjiola), Bharata Natyam Indian classical (Ramya Raman), butoh (Meshi Chavez) and Japanese folk dance (Michelle Fujii/Portland Taiko). Another performing group, POV Dance, is used to doing site-specific pieces—and you can’t get much more specific than 16 square feet. Farmers Market at Beaverton City Park (across from the Beaverton City Library), 12375 SW 5th St., Beaverton. 10 am Saturday, July 12. Free.
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Recent Graduates
For the 19th consecutive year, Blackfish is showcasing work by recent BFa and MFa graduates from 15 Oregon colleges. With 30 artists working in a plethora of media and practices—installation, ceramics, sculpture, video, digitally modified photography—it’s remarkable and perhaps reassuring that some of the best artwork here is good, old-fashioned painting. portland State graduate Kaila Farrell-Smith’s oil painting, It’s an Old NDN Trick, sophisticatedly finesses polar effects and sensibilities: chalky surfaces versus luscious impasto; bold gestures versus tentative scrawls; organic brushstrokes versus precise geometry. it’s like seeing the history of post-World War ii painting in one tall panel. Somehow the work coheres, never sinking into that desperate, “i’m trying to please everyone” stylistic eclecticism so rampant in academic painting today. Through Aug. 2. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
Sean Healy: Extroverts
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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. Through 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 find lots of familiar names in the lineup: Stuart cornell, Tom cramer, Wesley Younie, Gregory Grenon, eva Lake, and Woolley’s wife, the talented figurative 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 floor, 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 flattering three-point lighting, pace uses a crude flash, heightening the contrast between foreground and background. Through Aug. 3. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
Joel Shapiro: Maquettes and Multiple
One of the most exuberant shows in portland this year, Joel Shapiro’s boldly colorful prints and sculptures
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fill Liz Leach’s small back gallery with verve. although the prints are made of elemental forms, a closer inspection reveals many nuances. in Up Down Around (e), splatters of red surround the shapes like flecks of clotting blood. The works on paper are dynamically complemented by the sculptural works, which look like stick figures climbing and dancing on the walls a la Fred astaire in Royal Wedding. Through Aug. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
Lorenzo Triburgo: Transportraits
For this series, Lorenzo Triburgo photographed transgendered men in front of painted backdrops. each backdrop was created in response to the technique of Bob Ross, host of the infamous public-television show, The Joy of Painting. in his artist statement, Triburgo curiously invokes the romanticized portraiture of John Singer Sargent and the heroic landscapes of alfred Jacob Miller. What those masters have to do with a schlockmeister like Bob Ross is anybody’s guess. There’s a disconnect between the seriousness with which Triburgo sets out to depict trans-man identity and the ironic cheesiness of the backdrops, undercutting the impact of the body of work. Through July 15. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.
Mountain
The splendor of the mountains is at the heart of this well-considered group show. From adam Sorensen’s Nauk, a mountainscape reflected in a purple-and-peach-colored lake, to Barbara Stafford’s Monument, a paean to subtle gesture, the show pays homage to the way mountains uplift both our neck muscles and spirits. The two most beautiful works are among the smallest pieces. Small-scale photographs by molecular geneticist-cum-Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard show a monk sitting on a rock, contemplating an enormous glacier nestled between mountain peaks. The photo, entitled The Jango Thang Plain and the Jomolhari Glacier, Bhutan, would not look out of place in National Geographic, but it’s much more than “travel photography.” a tableau of a man contemplating something far more vast and eternal than himself, it’s a mini-masterpiece of high symbolic power. Through Aug. 2. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
To get an idea of how obsessive artist Sean healy is, consider that for his wall sculptures American Muscle (Black Cherry) and American Muscle (Candy Apple), he meticulously lined up 28,000 cigarette filters, affixed them to a plexiglas mounting, painted them individually, then coated them with resin. he also uses cigarette filters as the projector screen for his video installation, Smudge. The video shows a cigarette filter slowly turning into a pillar of ash—an affecting metaphor for the aging process, one of the show’s themes. Unfortunately, the piece is installed so high on the wall, some viewers may miss it. continuing the motif, healy uses cigarette ashes as a medium in the large-scale drawings Player, Enabler and Instigator. Through Aug. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
Seven
it seems hardly possible that charles a. hartman Fine art has been around for seven years. To celebrate the milestone, hartman is featuring seven artists per week for seven weeks in a row. his first batch is highlighted by perhaps the single most jaw-dropping art object exhibited in portland in the last six years: a wall sculpture called Award by eva Speer. it looks like a bed covered in a grid of soft pillows, but it’s actually hardwood, glamorously gilded with 24-karat gold. The contrasts between quotidian object and opulent material, and the illusionism of softness contradicted by the reality of hardwood, make for a glorious mind-twister of a piece. it’s a miracle this work isn’t in the permanent collection of the portland art Museum or in the showplace home of a savvy collector. Other highlights are an insouciant photograph of a raccoon by corey arnold, an artist from whom we normally get images of fish; and Space Ships, which depicts an armada of floating ships. The latter work is by artist Blakely dadson, who will make his hartman solo-show debut in September. Through Aug. 23. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886. 287-3886.
Signal Fire: Outpost Residency
Sun-bleached cow bones, a piñata and a video of a naked woman crawling around on rocks and doing push-ups—these are just a few of the objects brought back from the Sonoran desert by artists who participated in an artist residency there. The eight artists spent a week in Nogales, ariz., as part of the Outpost Residency hosted by the arts nonprofit Signal Fire. The works are diverse in subject matter, but many reference the tensions along the U.S. border with Mexico. Through Aug. 2. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
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JULY 9–15 HOTSEAT
Robert Michael Pyle
To truly understand the mechanics of nature and science, we must have art. This is where Robert Michael Pyle comes in. Author, naturalist and lepidopterist (a person who studies moths and butterflies), Pyle has long shared research on the natural world through beautifully written books (Chasing Monarchs, The Thunder Tree). His first, full-length collection of poems, Evolution of the Genus Iris, turns an artistic eye on the science of the natural world. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Yoram Bauman
Climate change may be a critical issue, but it sure is a bummer. To make the topic easier to grapple with, self-described “standup” economist Yoram Bauman has created The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change. Laugh your way through critical concepts, scientific predictions and environmental policy. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the devastation go down. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
will host more than 150 tablers from across the world for two days of free lectures, panel discussions and general creativity-sharing on this year’s theme: Zines in Space. Better take that copy of People magazine out of your bag. Ambridge Event Center, 1333 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 239-9921. 11 am-5 pm Saturday and Sunday, June 12-13. Free.
Ian Doescher
Fiction writer Ian Doescher skyrocketed to fame with his parodic Shakespearean retellings of the Star Wars trilogy, so far including Verily, a New Hope and The Empire Striketh Back, bridging the gap between classicists and sci-fi nerds (i.e., the rest of us). Doescher will read from his newest, The Jedi Doth Return, so don thy flowing robes and pack thy mighty saber. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 2 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, JULY 13 Tin House Writer’s Workshop
FRIDAY, JULY 11
Whether you’re risking financial ruin and your own sanity to finally publish that book, or you’re just dabbling in a little supernatural erotica, the Tin House Writer’s Workshop has a slew of lectures, all open to the public, that will pack your brain with valuable information. Explore humor in fiction with Sarah Shunlien Bynum, talk artistic collaboration with Matthew Dickman, and gain insight into effective emotions with Nick Flynn. Readings and book signings will be happening as well. Check out Tin House’s website for the full calendar. Reed College, Vollum Lecture Hall, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 7711112. Lecture and reading times vary. $15 per talk.
Patricia Lockwood and Emily Kendal Frey
TUESDAY, JULY 15
Adam Sawyer
Majestic mountain views are great and all, but everyone knows the best hiking destination is a badass waterfall. Portland writer, photographer and hiking aficionado Adam Sawyer’s new book, Hiking Waterfalls in Oregon: A Guide to the State’s Best Waterfall Hikes, offers pretty much exactly what it says. St. Johns Booksellers , 8622 N Lombard St., 283-0032. 7:30 pm. Free.
Well-known for her trans-genre style of poetry, such as her series of Twitter sexts and her prose poem “Rape Joke,” Patricia Lockwood’s new collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, poses deep, philosophical questions like, “Is America going down on Canada?” Joining her will be Portland poet Emily Kendal Frey reading from her own new collection, Sorrow Arrow. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JULY 12
Jacqueline Winspear
When Jacqueline Winspear released the first novel in her historical mystery series starring private investigator Maisie Dobbs, it heaped on awards and acclaim, and each of the following nine books have all become bestsellers. Her newest book follows new characters, coinciding with the centennial of World War I. The Care and Management of Lies is a historical novel about the strains on friendship in the chaos of war. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. $26.99, includes copy of book.
Portland Zine Symposium
Celebrating the independently created work of writers, artists and DIY-ers, the 14th annual Portland Zine Symposium
was this period of very tight involvement in marriage by the government. From the 1920s on, we see increasing acceptance that individuals should be allowed to marry. The Supreme Court refers to it as a right. In the 1940s, states begin to voluntarily shed their antimiscegenation laws. At the same time, the United States begins to attach their welfare provisions to marriage. That’s an interesting combination: letting consenting adults choose marriage, but more concern by the state to say we need to know if you’re legally married to give you these rights. You can see how both of these [developments] led to the demand for same-sex marriage.
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THURSDAY, JULY 10
BOOKS
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STEPHANIE COONTZ ON UNCLE SAM’S MARRIAGE FETISH. BY MATTHEW KOR FHAGE
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For more than 20 years, social historian Stephanie Coontz has been trying to get everyone to reconsider marriage. In five books, starting with 1992’s The Way We Never Were, the Evergreen State College professor has debunked myths surrounding the American family by looking at the ways it has changed over the years—for example, by documenting romances between Victorian women or showing the “traditional” 1950s nuclear family as a very recent invention. At the Oregon Humanities Think and Drink at the Mission Theater on Thursday, July 10, she’ll be talking about the different ways the government sticks its nose into how you get hitched. WW phoned Coontz to ask when the government got into the marriage game, and whether it should get out. WW: Has the U.S. government gotten more or less involved in marriage over the years? Stephanie Coontz: It goes both ways. A judge [in the Civil War era] said that if you inquired too closely, the majority of marriages were probably bigamist or illegitimate. The United States would just take your word for it that you were married. In the second half of the 19th century, state after state passed miscegenation laws—[against marriage between] not just blacks and whites, but white and Filipino, people with tuberculosis, people with mental defects. There
In a New York Times editorial, you questioned whether states should get out of the marriage business. I’m up in the air. On the one hand, the state has an interest in people who say, “I’m going to help take responsibility for a partner. I’ll take care of them if they’re disabled.” That saves a whole lot of welfare payments. It’s perfectly reasonable for the government to give benefits to people who do this, and also enforce obligations. On the other hand, there are a growing number of married couples who have no children. Forty-five percent of cohabiting couples have children. Do we really want to make marriage the dividing line as to whether we have obligations to care for people? Isn’t marriage the clean and easy way to do that? It used to be, when you could count on most kids being born into marriage, and few marriages ended in divorce. Today it’s not such a clean and easy way. You have two 30-year-olds who don’t have parents to take care of and are childless. And they’re married. Meanwhile, you have a cohabiting couple where one person has given up a job for a long time to take care of the other, or they’re taking care of kids. Then is marriage becoming outdated? For most Americans, it remains the highest expression of commitment they can imagine. But it’s no longer an essential institution you have to enter—if you’re a woman, to get taken care of by a man, or for a man to get his shirts ironed. For these reasons, it may become a more selective institution. So it’s a luxury good? That’s what [sociologist] Frank Furstenberg calls it. He coined that phrase: “Marriage has become a luxury good.” GO: Stephanie Coontz speaks at the Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527, mcmenamins.com, on Thursday, July 10. 6:30 pm. $10 suggested donation. All ages.
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MOVIES
Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rjacobson@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
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 pitch-perfect, 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, Movies on TV, Sandy.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
B- When Spider-Man first swung into cinemas in 2002, his was a simpler world. But in a post-Avengers landscape, gee-whiz goofball Peter Parker has been deemed outdated, which means that in The Amazing SpiderMan 2, he’s not just sidled with great power and responsibility. He’s burdened by a cinematic universe teeming with spinoffs. Coupled with sequel-itis, that means everything must be bigger, louder and capable of feeding an endless franchise. Actionwise, that’s great. Andrew Garfield, all spindly limbs and corny one-liners, brings joy to the eye-popping action. Matching him is Emma Stone, whose Gwen Stacy is less a damsel in distress than a Watson to Garfield’s web-slinging Holmes. Alas, the flaws are also bigger, among them Peter’s emo angst and wedged-in plot elements that reek of franchise-building. Yet even with all the spinoff egg-laying and a tone that jackknifes between Joel Schumacher camp and Christopher Nolan grit, there’s a great bag of popcorn here. Were the fat trimmed and the villains allowed to hold their own, the effects and imaginative action would carry the film. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Mt. Hood, Valley, Milwaukie, The Joy.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTORS ATTENDING] Brothers Chapman and Maclain Way screen their new documentary about the Portland Mavericks, a Class A baseball team that operated outside of Major League Baseball’s farm system in the 1970s. It was a ragtag but surprisingly successful group of players, and they made sure to mix their baseball with plenty of booze and burning brooms. The team was owned by Bing Russell, father of Kurt (who is an uncle of the Way brothers). On the same day as this screening, the film will also become available on Netflix. See this week’s cover story (page 11) for more about the team’s inimitable player-manager, Frank Peters. NW Film Center’s
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Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Friday, July 11.
Bears
A nature documentary about an Alaskan family of the titular large fuzzy creatures. G. Empirical Theater at OMSI.
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. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas.
Blended
C- Adam Sandler might be the smartest person in Hollywood. Adopting the Ernest P. Worrell prototype, the “Adam Sandler goes to” model has taken the comedian and his buddies 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. Milwaukie, Movies on TV, Valley.
Call Me Kuchu
A [ONE NIGHT ONLY] This year,
Oregonians got marriage equality. Half a world away, Uganda got the Anti-Homosexuality Act, a piece of legislation passed in February that criminalized same-sex relations (the bill originally imposed the death penalty but was scaled back to life imprisonment). Call Me Kuchu provides intimate access to the plight of the LGBT community in Uganda, focusing on the fight against the legislation waged by gay-rights activists such as David Kato, who was murdered in 2011. The documentary also explores the impact of radical American
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THE OBSTACLE IS THE PATH: Keanu Reeves (left) learns the way of the master.
SWAYZE SAYS
THE TAO OF POINT BREAK AND ROAD HOUSE. BY A P KRYZA a pkryza @wweek.com
Patrick Swayze may have gone to that big bar fight in the sky, but his wisdom remains. For he, friends, is like the wind. This weekend, Cartopia—another legendary entity soon to depart this world—continues its Night Movies series with “Crazy for Swayze,” featuring Swayze’s two greatest contributions to cinema: Point Break and Road House (Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard and 12th Avenue; 9:30 pm Sunday, July 13). The movies are vastly different. One charts the tender romance between a young FBI agent and the mysterious, sky-diving, bankrobbing, footballing, dog-throwing surf guru who captures his heart. The other is the story of a legendary bar bouncer who fights to end bar fights by fighting in bars. Despite their dissimilarities, Point Break’s Bodhi and Road House bouncer Dalton are like yin and yang—two men on different ends of the moral spectrum who nonetheless live by deep philosophical codes. They are men for whom violence is a way of life, yet whose Zen-like understandings of the universe easily captivate their followers. They also have sweet haircuts. Bodhi is like Sun Tzu in a Ronald Reagan mask. And Dalton is like Socrates, if Socrates knew how to rip a dude’s throat out. To deepen our study of Swayzean philosophy, we present wisdom from Bodhi and Dalton, with an everyman’s interpretation of each saying ’s true meaning. “It’s basic dog psychology: If you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. But if you project weakness, that promotes violence, and that’s how people get hurt.” —Bodhi The lesson: It is more important for a person to menace a foe psychologically than to harm him physically. Mainly because if you come in contact with him, you will get urine on you. “Nobody ever wins a fight.” —Dalton The lesson: Even the most dominant warrior leaves the arena a lesser man, and the toll of violence can be felt in the weakening of the mind and the body alike. Just look at Mike Tyson.
“If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.” —Bodhi The lesson: Fleeting endorphin release is worth an eternal afterlife burning in hell because you murdered several innocents in your pursuit of fleeting endorphin release. “Pain don’t hurt.” —Dalton The lesson: A man who spends his life getting punched in the face and roundhouse-kicked by drunken rednecks eventually reaches a higher state in which his soul transcends the body’s weaknesses. Or he just suffers severe nerve damage. “Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.” —Bodhi The lesson: Stop being a pussy and jump out of the fucking plane…the plane of life. ALSO SHOWING: People often mistake Saturday Night Fever for a celebration of disco, rather than a condemnation of the lifestyle surrounding it. Those Bee Gees songs tend to make you forget about gang rape and suicide, which are kinda the point of the film. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, July 9. The Breakfast Club remains John Hughes’ most enduring classic. It refuses to age, Judd Nelson’s feathered tips be damned. Kiggins Theatre. Opens July 11. With High Anxiety, Mel Brooks made perhaps the nerdiest parody ever, lampooning all things Hitchcock. Hitch apparently loved it. Laurelhurst Theater. July 11-17. When the Kraken is unleashed in 1981’s Clash of the Titans, it involves zero CGI beasts or Liam Neesons, making it vastly superior to the recent half-assed remake. Academy Theater. July 11-17. In 2011, Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul made the mind-blowingly surreal Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. It’s a meditation on life and death that doesn’t skimp on the ghost monkeys. 5th Avenue Cinema. July 11-13. Hal Ashby’s great Harold and Maude opens the NW Film Center’s Wes Anderson retrospective, probably because of all those Cat Stevens songs and twee jackets. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4:45 pm Saturday, July 12. I guess you’ve just gotta find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life. For Wes Anderson fans, it’s watching Rushmore. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday and 4:45 pm Sunday, July 12-13. There’s a reason Raiders of the Lost Ark plays over and over in Portland theaters all summer: It’s the greatest action film ever made. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, July 11-13. Considering all the films that worship at its viscerasplattered feet, it’s easy to forget that what makes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre so effective is its reliance on atmosphere over extreme gore. Hollywood Theatre. July 11-16.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier C+ Of all the four-color icons,
Captain America should be the least open to interpretation. Ol’ Winghead seemed a charming anachronism from the time Stan Lee assembled the uncanny freaks and amazing geeks of the Marvel Universe 50-some years ago, and the sheer strangeness of past generations’ uncomplicated ideals fueled the unexpected delights of Captain America: The First Avenger. Alas, where the 2011 film found a dreamily compelling momentum somewhere between magical realism and newsreel propaganda, Captain America: 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 frat-house moralizing. There’s more setup for the surrounding saga: Sam “The Falcon” Wilson is deftly introduced, ScarJo’s Black Widow finally has some backstory, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury is no longer just a framing device. For all the failings on display, the mighty Marvel machine rolls along. The Winter Soldier might not be much of a movie in and of itself, but maybe there are no second acts in Captain America’s life. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Academy, Valley, The Joy.
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.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Andy Serkis plays the world’s most impressive motion-capture ape ever. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for AP Kryza’s review at wweek.com. PG-13. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns.
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,
Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy.
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.
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, Movies on TV, Sandy.
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
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B Watching a Tom Cruise movie
comes with the implicit understanding that the three-time Oscar nominee is most likely to play the hero and, should his character perish, he’ll receive a glorious sendoff at the end. The surprisingly absorbing Edge of Tomorrow upturns that assumption within the first 20 minutes. Cruise plays William Cage, a public-relations maven thrust into a Normandy-
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Chef
C- In Chef, Jon Favreau plays an all-star cuisinier who’s stymied by his corporately conservative, Dustin Hoffman-owned restaurant and has a meltdown that gets posted on TMZ—but not before he gets to sleep with Scarlett Johansson! He then discovers his love for authentic cooking and his love for his own cute son by running a Cuban food cart and traveling across the country with said son and John Leguizamo, whom you didn’t even know you missed until you saw him. And everything feels so good all the time it’s like eating a cronut forever, except the cronut is a beignet because beignets are totally authentic. You know what’s also authentic? A weird product placement proclaiming Ketel One the classiest liquor ever, tweets that chirp and fly onscreen, a food blogger who sells his blog to AOL (ha!) for $10 million (double ha!), and prominent food critics announcing their visits a week in advance and then writing only about the weight gain of the chef. Also, sleeping with Sofia Vergara is obviously way more authentic than sleeping with Scarlett Johansson. Chef is likable the way your half-witted, earnest, eager-to-please cousin is likable. But over time, it’s just as tedious. If you like Cubanos, don’t watch this movie. Eat a Cubano. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Eastport, Clackamas, Movies on TV.
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Christians—among them former Portlander Scott Lively—on Ugandan attitudes toward homosexuality. The spread of fundamentalism is particularly apparent in disturbing footage of Kato’s memorial service, during which his own community pastor began condemning gay Ugandans for their sins. With the legalization of gay marriage so fresh in Oregon, Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright’s emotionally and politically charged film couldn’t arrive at a more poignant time. Major bonus: Two Ugandan activists featured in Call Me Kuchu, Bishop Christopher Senyonjo and John “Long Jones” Abdallah Wambere, will participate in a Q&A session after tonight’s screening. GRACE STAINBACK. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, July 10.
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COMET AND GET IT: Nothing that happens in Coherence should be allowed to happen. The film begins with a comet that may or may not be infused with reality-altering powers screaming across the sky during a dinner party, causing a temporary blackout and potentially upending natural law. It would be a fool’s errand to further summarize what happens in James Ward Byrkit’s heady chamber drama, but imagine if My Dinner With Andre featured eight friends wondering if there are other versions of themselves in another house and, if so, which incarnations will still be there when this supposedly mystical comet disintegrates. Byrkit invokes everything from Schrödinger’s cat to Gwyneth Paltrow, making Coherence feel like a puzzle whose pieces are constantly changing shape. The blurry, handheld cinematography is so up close and personal, and the house so small, that you feel the walls closing in just as surely as the characters do. The questions Byrkit raises about the intermingling of previously separate realities may be more inspired than some of the answers that his out-of-theirdepth characters stumble upon, but the implications are quietly terrifying nonetheless: Every house is their house, and no house is their house. They have always been there, but they might never be able to return. MICHAEL NORDINE. B
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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, 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, Cornelius, Movies on TV.
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. For author John Green, he approaches sad stories with wisdom, wit and a heartbreaking blow. In voice-over narrative, we are introduced to Hazel (Shailene Woodley), a 17-yearold with an unpronounceable form of lung cancer and an often cynical outlook on life that’s best expressed in a line from her favorite book: “Pain demands to be felt.” 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 the two are self-aware about being star-crossed lovers. 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 worldweary 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. Clackamas, Forest, Living Room Theaters, Movies on TV.
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, Laurelhurst.
Godzilla
B Godzilla has risen from a 16-year
slumber, and the big green badass is pissed. You would be too, if your more recent Hollywood incarnation had robbed you of your atomic breath or made you listen to Puff Daddy. Happily, Gareth Edwards’ new take contains no Diddy ditties or Matthew Brodericks. In fact, it pretty much ignores the existence of Roland Emmerich’s disaster, serving instead as a sequel of sorts to the original 1954 classic.
Those seeking a nonstop slugfest akin to Pacific Rim should temper their expectations. The film builds steadily, with Godzilla spending much of the first 90 minutes racing to fight a pair of city-destroying insectoids while humans scramble and scream. This surprising focus on the human element is perhaps the film’s only misstep. Otherwise, Edwards nails the most important aspect of any Godzilla movie: the giant lizard’s scale. For the film’s first half, we see the massive battles from the limited viewpoints of those running through the streets. Only when Godzilla’s road trip finally ends in San Francisco do we get a full-on view of the monsters trading blows—for 40 straight minutes of city-leveling bliss. Godzilla is an expertly made blockbuster designed to make us realize how small we really are compared to the forces of nature, with the added bonus of a gigantic atomic lizard who barfs fire without being soundtracked by Diddy. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Empirical Theater at OMSI, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, Valley.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
B+ The old, snide rejoinder to an
over-decorated show is that “you leave humming the sets,” but Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel may be the first movie where you come out tasting them. The titular Alpine resort is the most edible-looking lodge in cinema: a multitiered, pink-frosted castle designed to endure as an ambrosial memory. Our hero, M. Gustave, is the dapper concierge running the Grand Budapest front desk and back halls. He’s played by Ralph Fiennes with such flowery cosmopolitanism that you can almost see the cloud of cologne drifting behind him as he scurries to his next boudoir appointment with a rich dowager. I’d love to recite an ode to The Grand Budapest Hotel, because it’s the most politically aware story Anderson has told. It’s set in an imaginary Middle European country in the 1930s, at the edge of war. Its story, a silly caper, brushes against the deepest horrors of the 20th century, and ends by acknowledging irrevocable damage. Yet I can’t shake the feeling that something’s missing. Who are these beautiful visitors in The Grand Budapest Hotel? They’re meant to be ghosts, but they shouldn’t be strangers. We stick out our tongues to catch the shimmering snowflakes, and taste only air. R. AARON MESH. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Valley.
How to Train Your Dragon 2
More animated Vikings, dragons and, scariest of all, teenagers. PG. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy.
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 longoverdue visit to her aunt Wanda, her sole surviving relative. Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking communist, informs Anna that her real name is Ida and that her Jewish parents were killed during the Nazi occupation. This is just the first of the surprises in store for naive Ida, who soon sets off with Wanda on a journey to find out where their family was buried. Ida is a sweet road-trip buddy pic and a tender comingof-age tale that avoids cliché. PG13. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Living Room Theaters.
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
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The Last Sentence
D With this biopic, 81-year-old
director Jan Troell works overtime to set up Torgny Segerstedt, editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper in Sweden during World War II, as a kind of antihero. From behind his desk, he spins out uncompromising missives against the actions of Hitler, finding himself at odds with the political leadership in his home country. While at home, he ignores his long-suffering wife in favor of his prized dogs and his mistress. But the stern tone of the film and the pinched performances by the leads (particularly Jesper Christensen as Segerstedt) make it hard to empathize with anyone or anything onscreen. ROBERT HAM. Living Room Theaters.
ering 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. Food, of course, plays an important role. At the beginning of the film, Ila is learning to cook in order to spark her husband’s dampened interest, but because of the mixup with the lunchbox, her food ends up providing Sajaan with what he needs most at this point in his life: something to look forward to. Batra allows Ila and Sajaan’s relationship to develop slowly and subtly, like a Polaroid photograph, and the tender humor (much of it courtesy of Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Shaikh, Sajaan’s orphaned protégé) 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 mate-
rial 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. Abuse begets abuse. Maleficent lost her edge when she lost her wings. Unfortunately, by the time she regains her wings, her trajectory and the movie’s message have all become so muddled that, at what passes for the climax, we get a battle scene reminiscent of Catwoman—Jolie loses her skirt, gets pants, and slings chains at her erstwhile lover. It doesn’t feel like victory, though: After tiptoeing through the computer-animated tulips, it just feels forced. PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. 99W Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Movies on TV, Sandy.
Million Dollar Arm
C Staring down financial ruin, sports agent J.B. (Mad Men’s Jon Hamm, getting off lightly with only Disney-caliber issues to deal with
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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. You can’t have character development without backstory, nor dramatic tension without a coherent sequence of events. Since most of the musical numbers have already been shorn, we’re left with interminable scenes of careerist minutiae, sudden flare-ups never explained or resolved, and self-serving monologues delivered to the camera by thickly accented, quasi-celeb braggarts we’re learning to despise. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cinema 21, Lake, Moreland, Movies on TV.
MOVIES
Life Itself
Stay on the Edge of the Pearl.
B+ Film critic Pauline Kael com-
manded 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. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
The Lunchbox
A The Lunchbox is set in Mumbai,
where a fraternity of 5,000 men, the dabbawallas, have been deliv-
BALKAN BLOWOUT: Like the beer-soaked jamboree it depicts, Brasslands is a loud and colorful experience. Produced by the communal filmmaking society Meerkat Media Collective, the documentary follows hundreds of bands and thousands of fans into the hills of Serbia for the 50th anniversary of the world’s largest trumpet festival, a high-stakes music contest that attracts listeners of all ages to soak in the guttural horn blasts and frantic tango-esque rhythms of Balkan folk music. In particular, the filmmakers follow two bands: The defending Serbian champs, who train all year for these musical Olympics, and a ragtag group of New Yorkers who are just happy to be there. The documentary also briefly checks in with a band of Roma up-and-comers. The filmmakers hint throughout at the complicated politics that underscore the entire event: The 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, in particular, is a haunting presence, occasionally coming to the fore in a conversation or a newsreel. Given less prominent attention are Serbia’s internal politics, with tensions between races hinted at yet frustratingly underdeveloped. But as at the festival itself, the music is the film’s true focus, and Brasslands works best as a catalog of fluttering trumpet solos and screaming fans. Indeed, many of the handheld camera shots look eerily like archival footage from Coachella—except all those teenagers in tank tops are waving Serbian flags and gyrating to hundreds of oompahing tubas. TREE PALMEDO. B
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slaughter nick for president here) travels to India, where he identifies two cricketers with the potential to transition to baseball…and recruit a billion new fans in the process. Returning to L.A. with his prize guinea pigs, J.B. quickly realizes he’s facing a wicked learning curve of his own. Could it be that, as a father figure, he makes Don Draper look like Dad of the Year? That his tenant (Lake Bell) isn’t that bad-looking if he lowers his standards? That “having fun” is all that matters? 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. Valley.
lowbrow occasion. Given the recurring onscreen debates about who’s the best Batman, it’s rather fitting that Mac, a former baller, should ultimately have to wrestle with The Dark Knight’s assertion that, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Though a number of the flick’s jokes land, the sincere endorsement of embracing adulthood provides its telling blow. R. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Milwaukie, Mission.
Muppets Most Wanted
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 unceremoniously dumped by her schlubby boyfriend and loses her job. So, as any distraught 28-year-old would do, she gets sloshed and proceeds to sleep with a clean-cut, 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. It’s Knocked Up with a shmashmortion that actually happens. 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. There’s no hand-wringing, no moral posturing, no political soapboxing. What becomes the real driver of the narrative is if—and if so, how—Donna will tell the man who inseminated that egg. His name is Max (Jake Lacy), and he turns out to be kind and smart and quick-witted, even if he looks like he probably played intramural lacrosse at Dartmouth. Some viewers are likely to have conniption fits over the matter-of-fact way Obvious Child treats abortion, or even allege that Donna 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.
B For better or worse, the overwhelm-
ing success of 2011’s The Muppets provided Disney a reboot blueprint: Stay with what works and remember who we’re here to see. So, of course, Kermit is replaced by a Russian doppelgänger, we visit the grand concert halls of Europe, and Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais are given extended solo dance routines. While awful choices abound, the Muppets reflexively generate so much unsinkable goodwill that even the laziest of plots still charms— and might even be welcome, given the ’70s-meets-art deco visual aesthetic and escalating cameo bombs. Whatever the failings of the human leads, every gulag needs Ray Liotta, Danny Trejo and Josh Groban. Every wedding needs “the” Usher. Every Miss Piggy-Celine Dion duet needs an Academy Award. Fey and Gervais are not, however, singers, and neither are they actors in any traditional sense. Rather than embodying a role, they organize their most relevant tics, telegraph their amateur efforts to the audience and presumably depend upon natural presence and timing to carry a scene, which tends to fail disastrously when the co-star cannot wink. It actually is easy being greenscreened. Comedy with puppets is hard. PG. JAY HORTON. Kiggins.
Neighbors
C+ For Mac (Seth Rogen), this is 30. Burdened with the crushing debt and responsibility that accompanies homeownership, he’s nevertheless perfectly content raising his infant daughter and occasionally milking—yes, milking—his wife, Kelly (Rose Byrne), in a puerile sequence that confirms screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien as Apatow acolytes without the bother of IMDb searches. However, when a frat, ruled by hedonistic brohams Zac Efron and David Franco, moves in next door, Mac’s suburban idyll is shattered and he’s thrust into an escalating turf war. Director Nicholas Stoller manages to instill a propulsive pace to the brinksmanship, but he sacrifices some narrative rhythm in the process. (One lapse in concentration and you’ll miss Mac and Kelly’s whirlwind separation.) And while Neighbors occasionally resorts to measures every bit as desperate as Mac’s (see the aforementioned milking), the cast rises to the
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Only Lovers Left Alive
A Given that languid cool is the life-
blood of Jim Jarmusch’s oeuvre, it makes sense that he’s finally gravitated to the vampire genre. In Only Lovers Left Alive, the iconoclastic director brings both absurdity and sensuality to the undead, using Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston’s otherworldliness to tap into a rich vein of sardonic humor. For these two immortal creatures,
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unending life causes complacency— after centuries of existence, it seems there’s nothing new on earth. 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. He has no appetite, though, for the anarchy her troublemaking sister (Mia Wasikowska) visits on their dingy Eden, drawing attention by treating unwitting humans like delectable pieces of meat. 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. Laurelhurst.
Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] After winning both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998, hugely popular Italian cyclist Marco Pantani was the target of doping allegations. He fell into cocaine addiction and died of an overdose six years later. James Erskine’s documentary explores his fall from grace. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, July 9.
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. PG13. GRACE STAINBACK. Living Room Theaters.
Rio 2
It’s back to the Brazilian tropics, with Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg voicing mama and papa macaws raising a feathered brood. G. Academy, Avalon, Lake, Milwaukie, The Joy, Valley.
Slaughter Nick for President
B Canadian actor Rob Stewart didn’t
make much of a splash when his TV series, Baywatch-wannabe Tropical Heat, aired between 1991 and ’93. The goofy detective series, starring Stewart as the impossibly bronzed, impressively ponytailed Nick Slaughter, disappeared almost instantly from the
public consciousness, while Stewart himself disappeared into his parents’ suburban home…until he discovered, two decades later, that the country of Serbia basically considered him its version of David Hasselhoff. Since it first aired, Tropical Heat has been a cult hit in the Balkan republic, with fans considering Slaughter a hero. Slaughter Nick for President follows the charming and humble Stewart as he visits Serbia, where he’s greeted by mobs of adoring fans, appears on a game show, plays guitar with a punk band and is generally worshiped as royalty. Like the singer Rodriguez, who was profiled in the recent Oscarwinning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, Stewart also came to represent political struggle (in the uprising against Slobodan Miloševic, his character even became a symbol of the opposition). Stories of B-list actors or artists who discover fame can showcase the worst in people—just look at the way the cast and crew of Troll 2 behaved in Best Worst Movie— but Slaughter Nick offers a loving portrait of a man suddenly confronted by immense fame and reverence. Stewart spends what he calls the best two weeks of his life humbly thanking fans with a giant smile on his face, which makes watching his journey a joy. Archival clips of the ponytailed and orange-skinned Stewart doing somersaults while holding a gun don’t hurt, either. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, July 11-13.
Snowpiercer
A 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. With visually hyperkinetic storytelling heaped with unexpected dollops of humor, Korean directors have embraced genre filmmaking while forging new ground. 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. His followup, Mother, was a heart-wrenching master class in suspense and mystery. Snowpiercer is 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 tale. Yet Snowpiercer is 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) and sidekick Edgar (Jamie Bell), who take a mob from the train’s caboose to its engine. The front of the train offers a reckoning with Wilford (Ed Harris), the train’s designer, as well as vengeance against Mason (Tilda Swinton, stealing the movie), a toothily Thatcherian overseer who uses creative torture to control the masses. 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. Some might consider the political allegories too on-thenose. But a little heavy-handedness can be forgiven when the result is this bracing. R. AP KRYZA. Cinema 21, Cornelius, Hollywood.
Tammy
D+ 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 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 bait-and-switch: For better and (much more often) for worse, Tammy is exactly what you expect it to be. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Sandy, St. Johns.
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. Eastport.
Third Person
C Third Person starts as if from
scratch: A writer sits hopelessly at his desk, deleting his words while cigarette smoke swirls in the air. In voice-over, a child hauntingly whispers, “Watch me.” So begins the story of Michael (Liam Neeson), a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer holed up in a Paris hotel room. He’s working on his next book while sparring tumultuously with Anna (Olivia Wilde), a young and troubled entertainment writer. As the couple fights and makes up, the story also bounces between Scott (Adrien Brody), a sketchy businessman visiting Italy who may or may not be getting scammed by a lust-at-firstsight femme fatale (the captivating Moran Atias); and Julia (Mila Kunis), a New York City mom who allegedly tried to kill her son and is now fighting to retain her visiting rights. It’s within these stories that director Paul Haggis begins to drop overlapping details—like a pen missing from a desk found on another character’s desk, or strikingly similar deaths in different families. The stacked cast gives solid performances, especially Wilde, who brings the highest highs and lowest lows to the film: Take her gleeful, naked run through a hotel, or her look of self-loathing when she moves on to her next affair. But the story itself isn’t compelling enough to justify the pain that its grim and uncomfortable events induce. As relationships flounder, and oddly pretty, hopeful music accompanies stressful scenes, there’s no reason to care about the characters. By the time the author types the last pages of his book, we wish he would have tossed the manuscript in the trash. R. KAITIE TODD. Fox Tower.
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, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sandy.
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. Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Movies on TV.
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JULY 11–17
RUB-A-DUB-DUB: High Anxiety plays July 11-17 at the Laurelhurst Theater.
Avalon Theatre & Wunderland
3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 GODZILLA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:15, 07:15 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:05, 09:35 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:30, 07:00 RIO 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:05 DIVERGENT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:40, 09:30
Bagdad Theater
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:30, 07:00, 10:15
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 JERSEY BOYS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 07:00, 09:40 OBVIOUS CHILD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:30, 06:45, 08:45 SNOWPIERCER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 07:00, 09:35
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 SLAUGHTER NICK FOR PRESIDENT Fri-Sat-Sun 07:00 BRASSLANDS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 11:59
Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 GODZILLA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:30 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:20 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00, 09:15 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE LUNCHBOX Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 HIGH ANXIETY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:45 FROZEN SING-ALONG Sat-Sun 01:30
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:30 NEIGHBORS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:00, 07:15
Roseway Theatre 7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D Fri-Sat-TueWed 01:30, 04:45, 08:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Sun-Mon 01:30, 04:45, 08:00
St. Johns Cinemas
8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 TAMMY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:15, 06:40, 09:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:10, 07:00, 09:40
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00
Century 16 Eastport Plaza
4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 CHEF Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 10:40, 04:00, 09:40 MALEFICENT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:20, 01:55, 04:25, 07:05, 09:50 EDGE OF TOMORROW Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 10:50, 01:35, 04:20, 07:25, 10:25 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:25, 04:40, 07:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:05, 10:05 22 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 01:40, 04:30, 07:20, 10:10 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:50, 04:35, 10:20 JERSEY BOYS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 07:15 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 02:40, 06:20, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 08:05 DELIVER US FROM EVIL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:45, 01:45, 04:35, 07:30, 10:30 TAMMY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 01:30, 02:20, 05:00, 06:55, 07:40, 10:10 EARTH TO ECHO Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:10, 04:40, 07:10, 09:40 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 10:40, 12:20, 02:00, 03:40, 05:20, 07:00, 08:40, 10:20 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:30, 01:10, 02:50, 04:30, 06:10, 07:40, 09:30 BEGIN AGAIN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:15, 02:00, 04:45, 07:30, 10:15
Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave.,
503-249-7474-4 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 05:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon 02:30 NEIGHBORS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 08:30, 10:30
Empirical Theatre at OMSI
1945 S.E. Water Ave., 503-797-4000 BEARS Fri-Sat-Sun 10:30, 04:00 GREAT WHITE SHARK Fri-Sat 01:00, 04:30 DINOSAURS ALIVE! 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00, 05:30 GODZILLA Fri-Sat 06:30, 08:45 E.T. Fri-Sun 06:30 FLYING MONSTERS 3D Fri 11:00 MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD Fri 03:00
5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Fri-Sat 07:00, 09:30 Sun 03:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 SNOWPIERCER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:20 OBVIOUS CHILD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:15 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Fri-SatSun 02:00 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:40 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT Sat-Sun 07:00 GETTING TO KNOW YOUTUBE Mon 07:30 REPRESSED CINEMA: LOW BUDGET FILM NOIR NIGHT Tue 07:30
NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): What are the sources that heal and nourish you? Where do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Why do birds fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food. Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat. Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: Birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 percent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 percent of the time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): While in Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?” Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked. As amusing as his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should NOT proceed in the coming week. If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there an important resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool? I’m not talking about a luxury it would be pleasant to have or a status symbol that would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day. Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived for to become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In one of her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Since 1981, Chinese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favorable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate long-term growth. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The weeks preceding your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demon-banishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently, and even if it was cast by yourself. Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas, or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know what it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown. And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone. Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics. They’re doing well. The Avengers
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This would be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expect nothing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo? Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders -- with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.
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