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Anyone you know who works at OHSU may be doing terrible things to monkeys right now and you will never know about it. 6 The desks of administrators at César Chávez School are squeaky clean thanks to pint-sized janitors. 7 The cheapest place to rent an Airbnb in Portland is Lents. Also, someone in Lents is operating an Airbnb. 11

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There’s an entire herd of elk walking around Portland. 12 Soon, you may be able to eat raw kangaroo meat for brunch on Southeast Clinton Street. 20 Wackness has an age. 27

The State Department is really slow to issue visas to pretend Pakistani terrorists. 41 One tiny Washington city couldn’t pay its bills until it decided to get into the weed business. 51

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MAN SUES OREGON LOTTERY I hate lotteries. They are designed (as WW’s graphics show) as taxes on the working class and poor—no matter the education [“Man vs. Machine,” WW, March 4, 2015]. Everyone thinks they can outguess/outsmart the lottery. That being said, Justin Curzi has a right to pursue this: Using the auto-hold feature in video poker is deceptive—even in the context of playing a lottery game—and players do have a right to a fair shot. —“Edith Spencer” All Oregonians are partially to blame here, if only because voters allowed the lottery to function in lieu of citizens actually paying taxes to pay for the government we demand. Shifting those costs to games of “chance” was a model for rigging the system. Congrats to Curzi for exposing the ruse the lottery puts over on the poor and ill-informed, but really, Oregon, what did you expect when we decided that gambling was a good way to fund state services? —“OregonBoy” The lottery commission has a duty to inform, and the odds should be explicitly clear to anyone who sits down at a video poker terminal. If they weren’t readily apparent to a smart, attentive guy like Curzi, the commission has failed in its duty to inform. —“Seems2Me”

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do perching pigeons have motion detectors? Every time i walk under one, its bowels promptly explode on my bald spot or exquisitely manufactured hat. the west side of the Broadway Bridge is like a gauntlet of milky fecal rain. Fuck these pigeons. —Not Your Statue “Fuck these pigeons” is not, strictly speaking, a question, Statue, but I’ll let it slide in deference to your obvious emotional distress. If it’s any consolation, the pigeons are not exactly defecating on your head. Pigeons make no distinction between Nos. 1 and 2—their digestive and urinary tracts disgorge their products into a single chamber, called the cloaca (Latin for “cesspool”). Pigeons carry this slurry of already-excreted urine and feces around for a while because everything birds do, except flying, is completely disgusting. The addition of urine to the mix helps explain how birds can drop so many bombs in a day.

Moreover, they’ll drop the vast majority of those bombs from the stationary, roosting position you’ve noted. Unlike seagulls, who seem to delight in dive-bombing freshly waxed Miatas, pigeons don’t like to crap while flying—apparently, it’s difficult for them to do without soiling their own feet. There’s an urban legend that it’s literally impossible for a pigeon to drop a midair deuce, but cooler heads suggest the truth is more nuanced. After all, when push comes to shove, you or I could take a shit while driving (don’t ask me how I know this)—but it’s definitely something we’d try to avoid if at all possible. Given the difficulty of shedding payload in flight, it makes sense for birds to clear the decks anytime they might have to make a quick getaway—like, say, when a large and terrifying human is passing directly below. In short, the pigeons shit on anyone they feel threatened by. In this respect, if no other, they are indeed true Americans. QuEstions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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SCHOOLS: Why one Portland school is turning students into janitors. 7 MARIJUANA: Should outside money bankroll Oregon’s legal pot? 10 BUSINESS: Look what we scraped up about Airbnb. 11 COVER STORY: How the rich get timber tax breaks—inside the city. 12

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News reached us at deadline that former Oregon Attorney General and University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer died March 9 at the age of 74 of complications from prostate cancer. Frohnmayer, considered one of the state’s most enduring public figures and sharpest legal minds, ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for governor in 1990, losing to Democrat Barbara Roberts after a conservative independent candidate drained away otherwise reliable GOP voters. Frohnmayer was one of the last prominent Republican moderates in Oregon and as attorney general was a champion of the state’s public records laws. After leaving elected office, Frohnmayer served as dean of the UO law school and then as the university’s president from 1994 to 2009, when he helped lift the school’s academic reputation and turn it into a fundraising powerhouse. For more on his life and career, go to wweek.com. Oregon Health and Science University lawyers just can’t keep their paws off the state’s public records law. In 2003, the hospital got the Legislature to pass a special, temporary exemption to the law that keeps secret the identities of OHSU researchers who conduct medical experiments on animals (other than rodents), as well as the identities of companies supplying the equipment. Back then, WW named OHSU lawyers Rogues of the Week for their effort. The exemption has since been renewed and is now due to expire in 2016. OHSU has returned this session with a bill to make the exemption permanent. (Rat testers, you’re still out of luck.) The ACLU of Oregon has criticized the exemption as a way of withholding information from the public and of blunting critics of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, which conducts tests on rhesus macaques. “For more than a decade,” says OHSU spokeswoman Ariane Holm Le Chevallier, “this law has worked to protect researcher safety without jeopardizing transparency.” This year, without opposition from the ACLU, the bill has passed the Senate, and gets a final vote in the House this week. “We’re still not crazy about it,” says ACLU of Oregon executive director Dave Fidanque. “But it appears they’re being more responsive to the watchdogs.” The decision last week by the Multnomah Education Service District’s board to boot its superintendent was no fluke. As first reported at wweek.com, the leaders of eight Portlandarea school districts that pool resources to buy services from MESD demanded Superintendent Barbara Jorgensen be replaced, citing poor leadership during her three-year tenure in the job. Jorgensen didn’t respond to a request for comment from WW. MESD board members tell WW the agency is working on a settlement package for Jorgensen, who earned $147,000 a year. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6

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LITTLE JANITORS PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEFENDS STUDENT DISCIPLINE ONE OFFICIAL COMPARES TO AN INMATE WORK CREW. By BETH SLOVIC

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Domingo Martin spent three days in November and December at North Portland’s César Chávez K-8 School cleaning the gym and collecting trash in the school’s foul-smelling restrooms. It wasn’t his job—it was punishment. School officials say Domingo argued with another boy and threw a piece of kiwi fruit in the cafeteria. He was sentenced to this janitorial duty while other kids played at recess. Domingo, a second-grader, is 7. Parents at César Chávez say they only recently discovered many students have been forced to pick up trash on school grounds; scrub f loors, walls and desks; and clean doorknobs. The kids’ offenses have included goofing off in class,

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RUBBISH: Fernando Aguilar, 9, says he had to clean César Chávez K-8 School in North Portland after he got in trouble for playing four square too aggressively. A Portland Public Schools official says the play amounted to bullying.

rolling their eyes at a teacher, and playing four square too aggressively. Domingo was so humiliated he didn’t tell his mother what the school was making him do. “I was sad and angry,” says Domingo’s mother, Juana Diego. “It’s not right to punish kids in this way.” César Chávez Principal Lavert Robertson defends the punishment, calling it “community service.” Experts on school discipline—including an assistant superintendent for the Portland Public Schools—call it completely inappropriate. “If they throw food, they should clean it up,” says Alicia Roberts Frank, an assistant professor of teacher education at Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling. “Cleaning beyond that, or for a behavior that is completely unrelated, like eye-rolling, is illogical.” Five mothers have approached WW with stories of what their children told them after César Chávez imposed cleaning duties on them during recess and lunchtime. All of the mothers, speaking in Spanish, say they learned about the punishments after the fact, even though some of them say they learned about their children’s misbehavior immediately from school officials. PPS’s more established system of suspending or expelling students requires parental notification. PPS Superintendent Carole Smith has put increasing pressure on schools to lower their discipline rates and end disparities in punishment between white and minority students. Principals now face performance evaluations that demand reductions in the number of students suspended or expelled from school. But principals are largely on their own to determine how to fulfill Smith’s mandate. That’s in keeping with Smith’s general approach of giving principals large discretion over their schools’ operations.

A spokeswoman for PPS, Christine Miles, and a representative of the district’s equity office in charge of school discipline, Rick Kirschmann, defended the program on behalf of Smith. Asked why kids should clean their school as punishment for disruptive or disrespectful behavior, Kirschmann responded with a question: “Why do we see inmates picking up trash on the side of the freeway as the result of the crimes that they’ve done, which have nothing to do with littering?” The parents’ stories suggest César Chávez—where 57 percent of students are Latino—has embarked on a discipline strategy that goes way beyond anything in the district’s Student Responsibilities, Rights and Discipline Handbook. The handbook recommends timeouts and afterschool detention as consequences for minor misbehavior; nowhere does it outline janitorial work as an acceptable form of punishment. Miles and Kirschmann say the cleaning falls under “restitution,” which is allowed under PPS discipline policy. But restitution is defined in the discipline handbook as a response only to misbehavior that results in “damage, destruction or loss of property.” It requires students and parents to pay to repair the damage—not clean schools. César Chávez’s three-page discipline plan—which it is required to keep on file at district headquarters—lists “restitution” as an option but doesn’t define the term. The plan lists “school community service” as an option and defines that as either “behind-the-scenes lunch job” or “help custodian.” (Principals aren’t required to get PPS approval for their plans.) César Chávez’s alternative approach to discipline risks ruining kids’ relationship with school, says Marta Guembes, a longtime education activist in Portland. “They should be happy going to school, not frightened,” cont. on page 9 Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

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SCHOOLS Guembes says. “I’m appalled.” Lavert Robertson took over as principal at César Chávez school in 2012, one year after the district named the K-8 a “beacon” school for its work to combat racial biases that undermine student achievement. PPS statistics show César Chávez under Robertson’s leadership has dramatically reduced its rate of suspensions and expulsions. Three years ago, 12.6 percent of its students received such discipline, one of the highest rates in the district. Last year, only 4.1 percent of students were expelled or suspended. The so-called “community service” program was launched this fall, for the 2014-15 school year, parents say. Robertson defends the practice. “I’m very confident with what we’re doing at César Chavez,” he tells WW. He calls the newspaper’s questions about the practice “misguided.” Angel Humphrey is a former full-time physical education teacher at César Chávez who runs the community service program. She also defended community service, saying parents who criticized the program had never seen it in action. “I’m the only person who’s ever seen it firsthand,” she says. Except for the children. Laura Sosa Ortega’s son Fernando is a 9-year-old fourth-grader at César Chávez. He was made to pick up paper off restroom floors, clean Humphrey’s office, and scrub desks for one week. His actions that led to the punishment? He says he got in trouble for forming an alliance with other skilled four-square players so they could win. “You’re not supposed to team up,” Fernando explains, “because it’s a game for everybody to play, not just people who are good.” It’s harder for him to explain how cleaning the school helped repair relationships with students whose feelings he may have hurt on the four-square court. “I had to clean other people’s garbage instead of other people cleaning it themselves,” he says. Adds Fernando’s mother, “What he did wasn’t severe

“SHE’S STILL SO LITTLE. DISCIPLINE THE KIDS, BUT NOT THIS STRONGLY.” —CATARINA SEBASTÍAN, PARENT

enough for them to do this.” Mark Freimark, who spent 25 years as a PPS custodian, called César Chávez’s program “totally out of bounds.” Freimark says having students clean up messes they’ve made or repair damage they’ve done—cleaning walls they’ve written on, for example—makes sense. But forced work for other infractions sends the wrong message. “That means cleanup is a punishment,” Freimark says, “and cleanup isn’t a punishment.” César Chávez’s custodian declined through a union representative to comment for this story. School officials told parents that children are kept out of view of other students when they’re cleaning. But parents tell WW that’s not the case. They say the punishments are humiliating for students, who have had to perform tasks in front of other kids. Cecilia Ortega Martinez says her 6-year-old daughter burst into tears after fi nding her 9-year-old brother picking up trash at school. He’d been accused of making crude gestures with a banana. (The boy says he was laughing at others, not making the gestures himself.) Ortega Martinez says the punishment only served to shame her son and make him feel unsettled in school. “He doesn’t want to go,” she says. “He’s afraid.” It’s not clear what precautions the school is taking to keep kids safe from health hazards such as germ-infested restroom surfaces and industrial cleaning products.

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Miles, the district spokeswoman, says children are supervised and given gloves and only soapy water as a cleaner. She also says parents are informed of punishments through phone calls or letters. Viridiana Aguilar says her son told her school officials gave him a cleaner that smelled like chemicals, even though he has asthma. He had been suspended for hitting two girls and was ordered to pick up trash in restrooms and clean Humphrey’s office even after he returned to the school, she says. Catarina Sebastían’s daughter, 8-year-old Patricia, covers her face and looks down at the ground when she describes how Humphrey made her wipe down doorknobs with a spray-on cleanser one day during recess. Her infraction? The second-grader rolled her eyes at a teacher who had asked her to move away from another girl, she says. “She’s still so little,” her mother says. “Discipline the kids, but not this strongly.” Roberts Frank, the Lewis & Clark professor, says inappropriate punishment could backfire. “The idea is to foster empathy and mutual understanding rather than resentment and revenge-seeking behavior,” she says. Aside from defending the program, Principal Robertson did not respond to an emailed request for an interview. At least one administrator for the district, however, has said the César Chávez program is wrong. Antonio Lopez, a former César Chávez principal and curerent assistant superintendent for the district, tells WW that the school’s community service program is not OK. Lopez says he was contacted by a concerned César Chávez parent last week and that he has told Robertson, the school’s principal, to end the program. “If it is happening, then it needs to stop,” he says. “Consequences like that are not appropriate.”

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Meghan and Matt Walstatter often argue about who should cash in on legal weed in Oregon. The Walstatters run Pure Green Gardens, a Portland medical-marijuana grow with a dispensary in the Hollywood neighborhood. The couple wants to start growing and selling recreational dope when sales become legal next year. Matt thinks out-of-state investors should be allowed to come in and grab a share of the business. Meghan thinks they should be kept out. “Right now,” she says, “there is this sweet little window in time where it can be from Oregon, for Oregon, by Oregon.” The debate over who gets to sell pot in Oregon is about to heat up—with millions of dollars at stake and well-funded lobbyists seeking to protect the edge outside investors now have. Measure 91, approved by voters in November, put no restrictions on outsiders getting into the legal marijuana business. Two other states that passed similar measures, Colorado and Washington, both set residency requirements for people to grow, sell or invest in dope. That makes Oregon alluring for companies hoping to build multistate marijuana empires. Local growers fear large, out-of-state weed companies could open factory farms and chain stores, pulling a Walmart by scaling their businesses so large that small growers can’t compete. Some lawmakers are drafting legislation to put a four-year residency requirement on people entering Oregon’s legal marijuana business. (Washington’s is one year.) “Why would we cater to outside influence and money trying to horn in on what Oregonians are already doing?” says Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene). Backers of the law as approved by voters say restrictions could cripple local growers’ ability to find capital. “It would starve the market,” says Matt Goldberg, a Lake Oswego lawyer advising marijuana businesses. “I don’t see how we can be a model for recreational cannabis if the marketplace is going to be restrained in that way.” 10

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Last week, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission—which is preparing to regulate recreational pot—called residency requirements “a policy issue with implications for public safety and economic security.” Anthony Johnson, the chief petitioner on Measure 91, has told legal pot’s backers to expect some residency restrictions. That’s not stopping deep-pocketed investors from shopping in Oregon. On March 9, a commercial real-estate investment broker with the Portland firm Melvin Mark sent an email to multiple growers on behalf of “a handful of large global investment funds” seeking to buy weed properties. “My clients are very well-funded,” broker Greg Martin wrote, “and are willing to pay a premium for dispensary and cultivation sites all over the state.” The biggest potential investor in Oregon weed is Privateer Holdings, a Seattle equity firm that has raised $82 million—much of it from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The company runs the dispensary review website Leafly, and last year announced the launch of Marley Natural, a brand of Bob Marley-themed Jamaican pot. Privateer has hired the Portland lobbying firm Gallatin Public Affairs (whose clients have included tech companies Uber and Oracle) and the law firm Tonkon Torp. Privateer is hoping lawmakers will craft rules that allow it “to help Oregon establish a legitimate, professional industry that eliminates the illicit market,” says spokesman Zack Hutson. “We believe that a residency requirement would actually be counterproductive to achieving those goals.” Matt Walstatter says blocking out-of-state investment would leave Oregon growers less able to compete when weed sales become legal in other states. “If we don’t allow ourselves the ability to scale up,” he says, “we’re just delaying the nightmare scenario—a big boom and bust.” Meghan Walstatter—whose Pure Green dispensary currently has nine employees—would like some investment. But she says it’s more important to protect local majority ownership of weed businesses. “We don’t need people coming in from other states,” she says, “thinking they can do this better than us.”

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NEWLY AVAILABLE DATA ON AIRBNB SHOWS THE COMPANY’S IMPACT ON PORTLAND. BY AN N A WA LT E R S

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Airbnb is all for sharing—except, of course, when it comes to its own data. The vacation-rental site has been under scrutiny in Portland and other U.S. cities for its effect on neighborhoods, its impact on local housing markets and the fairness of offering de facto hotels that don’t follow the same rules as the traditional lodging industry. Airbnb is under pressure from the city of Portland to make sure its hosts are following city rules, which include getting a license to operate and submitting to fire and safety inspections. About 94 percent are not (Murmurs, WW, Feb. 25, 2015). As WW has also reported, many Airbnb rentals appear to violate city rules requiring hosts to live in the units that they rent out (“Hotel California,” WW, Feb. 18, 2015). With more than 1 million listings worldwide, Airbnb’s vast database provides a window into its markets, its customers and the people renting out their homes. Yet the company has been loath to cough up information on hosts who aren’t following the rules. In Brooklyn, technologist Murray Cox decided to meet Airbnb’s reticence in his own city with a wily hack. He had wondered about the impact of Airbnb on his neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant, but couldn’t get the answers he wanted from the company’s website. Cox wrote a script to “scrape” thousands of Airbnb’s New York City listings from the company’s website. With designer John Morris, Cox built an interactive site showing every Airbnb rental in the city. The result was a sea of dots representing Airbnb rentals—and according to Cox, more than half might be in violation of New York’s rules. “Airbnb is not truly acknowledging how people are using their service or the negative impact on housing and the community,” Cox says. WW asked Cox to adapt his project for Portland. Cox scraped Portland’s 1,959 listings as of March 1 and has published the results at insideairbnb.com/portland. The site produces maps to show where rentals are in each neighborhood, what type they are (complete homes, single rooms, etc.), general availability and average rates. Users can click on the dots to learn about individual hosts and their properties. Cox’s research confirms what WW has already reported: Airbnb appears to be rife with rule breakers. Using the site’s data, Cox found that 46 percent of hosts make their entire homes or apartments available for at least half the year. That appears to violate the city rule requiring hosts live in the homes they offer for rent at least nine months out of the year. Airbnb wouldn’t answer questions about Cox’s findings. “We don’t comment on public scrapes of our information, because, like here, they use inaccurate information to make misleading assumptions about our community,” says company spokesman Christopher Nulty. Portland officials still won’t commit to a full-on enforcement of its rental rules. Dana Haynes, spokesman for Mayor Charlie Hales, says the city has issued warning letters but has yet to levy fines. “We don’t really micromanage the bureaus to the degree people think,” Haynes says. Cox says he had been approached by housing advocates around the world and is considering expanding Inside Airbnb to other cities. “I hope I can contribute to the debate,” he says, “by providing some facts and invite Airbnb to be open and provide more.”

Northwest Portland is the neighborhood with the most Airbnb listings—114, according to an analysis by Murray Cox of Inside Airbnb.

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YOU CALL THIS A FARM? URBAN FARMERS AND FORESTERS ARE BENEFITING FROM A GAPING PROPERTY TAX LOOPHOLE. BY N IGEL JAQU ISS

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oe Angel is a real-estate developer and investor best known for once owning 28 Portland-area Burger Kings. Angel also helped develop three downtown hotels—the Westin, the deLuxe and the Lucia. Today, he splits his time between his West Hills home, an Arch Cape beach house and Sisters, while managing his investments. He’s a civic-minded Portlander who served on the Planning and Sustainability Commission and recently decorated a building he owns at the corner of Northeast Grand Avenue and Lloyd Boulevard with a wall-sized mural of the late street musician “Working” Kirk Reeves. Angel, 71, also owns one of the largest private properties in Portland city limits, a stunning 46-acre, hilltop spread at the pinnacle of the West Hills on Northwest Skyline Boulevard. It’s one-anda-half times the size of Laurelhurst Park, and a lot

less crowded. He bought the property in 1977 but has not lived there since 1980. You might think Angel’s estate incurs hefty property tax bills. In fact, he pays about $9,000 a year for the 2,600-square-foot house on the property and the parklike grounds surrounding it. Angel benefits from a property tax break originally designed to promote farming and commercial timber harvests. Early last century, state lawmakers carved out property tax deferrals for forests and farmland to keep Oregon treed and fed. The tax deferrals reduce property taxes by up to 90 percent as long as land is in farm or forest use. Both programs defer taxes unless the use of the property changes, at which point the owner owes five years of back taxes. The tax break was intended for timber companies, farmers and ranchers. But Angel, merely by claiming that someday he will cut his trees, gets an enormous discount on his property tax bill.

In a 2014 court case, Angel said that in nearly 40 years of owning the property, he’d “engaged in little active management of the timbered area of the subject property.” Critics such as Jody Wiser of Tax Fairness Oregon say the standards for the tax deferrals for forests and small farms are too lax and that urbanites are gaming the system. “It’s beyond a tax break,” says Wiser, who has testified in Salem against expanding such deferrals. “Homeowners are getting subsidized so they can enjoy their own land.” Les Blaize, a Northwest Portland resident who grows tomatoes and sword ferns to qualify for a farm deferral on his 12 acres, disagrees. Blaize says forest and farm deferrals preserve green spaces that protect Forest Park and benefit the community. “I’m sitting on six buildable lots here,” Blaize says. “I could cut all my trees and sell my land for $1 million. That’s not good for anyone.” cont. on page 15

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TRUCK FARM: Anthony Fazio used to grow cucumbers on his Northeast Portland land. Now he harvests gravel from truckloads of rubble.

industrial landfill and rockcrushing operation. In fact, records show Anthony Fazio established Fazio Landfill & Recycling on the property in October 2002, so the cancelation of the farmland tax deferral could have come much earlier. For Fazio, though, the cancellation was a triple whammy: It meant an immediate property tax increase of about $80,000 per year and it gave the county authority to collect five years of deferred taxes, totaling about $400,000. The county also levied personal property tax on the rock crushers, elevators and other equipment used in the landfill operation, which would cost Fazio another $17,000 a year. Media reports were sympathetic. WW joined the chorus of Fazio advocates in 2008, naming the Multnomah County assessor’s office “Rogue of the Week” for squeezing one of Portland’s last farms. Kotek sponsored a 2009 bill that would allow properties in “remediation” to hold onto their tax deferral until the land was again ready to support crops. The bill zipped through both chambers unanimously. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Brian Clem (D-Salem) called its passage “a real David and Goliath story.” Randy Walruff, the Multnomah County tax assessor, opposed Kotek’s bill, and he doesn’t like it any better today.

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He says he is not aware of any other landowners who benefited from Kotek’s bill, and notes the legislation placed no time limit on how long farmland in “remediation” could lie fallow. “Anyone else running a landfill on their property has to pay taxes on land in industrial use and pay personal property tax on the equipment,” Walruff says. “Anyone except the Fazios.” Today, the Fazio property still gets a farm deferral, but it doesn’t look much like a farm. Mounds of crushed rock 30 feet high tower over the fallow soil, and well-used rock-crushing machinery and earthmovers sit amid hulking piles of scrapped pavement and concrete waiting to be processed. Walruff’s staff calculates Kotek’s bill has saved the Fazios $722,000 in taxes deferred since 2007, and another $100,000 on the otherwise taxable machinery used for “remediation.” Kotek says she usually opposes bills of narrow benefit, but she found the Fazios persuasive. “They were salt-ofthe-earth guys,” she says. Kotek never received a campaign contribution from Fazio. She says restoring Fazio’s farm deferral was legitimate but adds that all tax breaks should be reviewed regularly. Anthony Fazio says he got into the landfill business to acquire cheap dirt to raise the

level of his land and cover up fungus-ridden soil. He’d like to close his landfill. “It’s a horrible business,” Fazio says. “I hate it. I don’t want to be in it.” He says the county initially approved his plan to remediate his soil, then canceled his deferral. He says that was unfair. “They let me go down a path and then fattened me up like a turkey until they needed me for Thanksgiving,” he says.

Fazio admits that fixing the soil has taken far longer than he ever imagined. “At first I thought it was going to be a year,” he says. “That’s what I told them.” It’s been 16 years, and trucks full of rubble are still arriving at a property that enjoys a vast tax break. “That’s very valuable industrial land being kept in farm use,” Walruff says. “For them, that’s a very good deal.” NIGEL JAQUISS.

ADAM WICKHAM

Tucked between the Columbia Slough and a new FedEx terminal in Northeast Portland’s industrial heartland lies a valuable piece of real estate owned by the Fazio family, Portland farmers for nearly a century. For years, the Fazios grew cucumbers on the land, but today there is a mat of green fuzz, the leavings of transient geese—and a rock-crushing operation that produces gravel piled to the sky. How valuable is the Fazio land? An adjacent property, now a 47-acre FedEx shipping facility, provides a useful comparison. The FedEx land—not the improvements on it—has an assessed value of $12.6 million. The Fazio property, which at 36 acres is a little smaller, is assessed at tiny fraction of that amount—$67,000. What accounts for the extraordinary difference in valuation? Two things: a tax deferral for farm use on the Fazio land and, more important, a friendly and powerful lawmaker. Six years ago, state Rep. Tina Kotek (D-Northeast Portland) was in her second term as a legislator but already destined for big things. On March 26, 2009, Kotek testified in front of the House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Communities. “It’s not often that an urban legislator like myself comes and talks to you about farming,” she said. Kotek was the chief sponsor of the bill she came to present—a bill she introduced at the request of Anthony Fazio of Fazio Farms. Fazio had a problem, Kotek told the committee: His land near the slough was riddled with fungus. That made the ground unusable. The Fazios had stopped farming the land in 1999 and began filling it with clean dirt. In 2007, the Multnomah County tax assessor’s office canceled the Fazio’s farm tax deferral after learning the property was operating as an

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BIG HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE : Dick and Mary Jaffe’s farmhouse on Northwest Saltzman Road.

Last year, more than 2,700 property owners in Multnomah County took advantage of those deferrals, pocketing nearly $5 million in deferred property taxes. Multnomah County tax assessor Randy Walruff says he does not think the way property owners are benefiting from tax deferrals on high-value properties in the metro area meets the original legislative intent. “We’re talking about a law that was created to help Oregon’s forest industry,” Walruff says. “Now, the same exemption is being used for estate sites. I just don’t see how the public benefits from that.” Walruff says forest and farm deferrals make even less fair a property tax system that already disproportionately rewards high-value property owners. “They are taking breakfast out of low-income children’s mouths,” Walruff says. Property tax breaks reduce funding for schools and the police and fire bureaus. Yet it seems nobody in Salem wants to examine these loopholes. Even the tax-friendly Democrats who control the Legislature have shown no appetite for examining the farm and forest tax breaks. “In my four sessions on the House Agriculture Committee, I don’t recall there ever being a review of these programs,” says state Rep. Brian Clem (D-Salem). “I think they are serving their purpose.” In fact, powerful lawmakers have pushed to make a generous program even more lucrative. In 2011, state Rep. Peter Buckley (D-Ashland), co-chairman of the budgetwriting Joint Ways and Means Committee, pushed unsuccessfully to lower the already minuscule minimum income requirement for a small farm tax deferral. And House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Northeast Portland) was the chief sponsor of a 2009 bill that provided a multimillion-dollar property tax bailout to just one constituent—a farmer who’d seen his tax deferral canceled (see sidebar, page 14). Currently, lawmakers led by state Sen. Betsy Johnson (D-Scappoose) are seeking an expansion of such loopholes, pushing legislation that would generate retroactive new tax deferrals for wildlife habitat. “If we are not going to make sure that people with

LOCATIONS OF PROPERTIES MENTIONED IN THIS STORY FRIEDRICH HODEL BLAIZE

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TAX BREAK: The Jaffes have separate farm deferrals for a 20-acre wood lot and 11 acres of rangeland.

existing tax deferrals are actually doing something that benefits the public,” Wiser says, “we shouldn’t be passing new laws that help more people avoid paying taxes.”

nyone who has driven through the Cascades knows what a forest looks like. But forests look different to legislators, who allow property owners with only 2 acres of trees to qualify for a tax deferral. Originally, lawmakers created forest and farm deferrals to promote the timber industry and food production. As a result, farmers and foresters pay greatly reduced property taxes—in the range of 10 or 20 percent of what they’d otherwise pay. That costs local tax authorities across Oregon nearly $250 million a year, according to state figures. The tax deferrals may make sense for large farm and timber operations. It’s less clear what they do for the hobby farms and small forests that dot the metro area. A good example is the home owned by Loran and Erena Friedrich, who live on 4 acres in Northwest Portland. The Friedrichs have a forest deferral for 3 of their 4 acres. The Friedrichs are not timber people. Erena Friedrich says she and her husband moved from Hillsboro to rural Portland in 2005 seeking more green space. She says the

“THEY ARE TAKING BREAKFAST OUT OF LOW-INCOME CHILDREN’S MOUTHS.” —RANDY WALRUFF, MULTNOMAH COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR forest deferral on the Portland property they purchased was not a big consideration. “Our taxes would be higher,” she says. “It’s handy to have the deferral.” One indication that property owners are serious about forestry is having a forest-management plan with a schedule for harvest, removal of invasive species, etc. Erena Friedrich says she and her husband have no forest-management plan, nor have they given any thought to harvesting trees. “It’s just woods,” she says. “There is a game trail through it. We’ve seen coyotes come through. One morning I woke up and the entire yard was covered with elk.” CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

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Park. Robert Hodel, who lives on a heavily wooded 10.15acre parcel next to Forest Park, received one of those cancellation notices. You’d need a helicopter to find Hodel’s 2,885-square-foot home. When the county canceled Hodel’s forest deferral, he immediately applied for a farm deferral. A representative of the county assessor’s office visited Hodel’s property and “found no evidence of commercial farming activity.” The county rejected Hodel’s application and asked him for five years of back taxes. Hodel took the county to Oregon Tax Court in 2012, however, and won—because the judge ruled that under Oregon law, he has five years to establish himself as a farmer. (Hodel declined to comment.) The tax court ruling saved Hodel nearly $18,000 over five years. Walruff says the court’s decision was hard to accept. “I wasn’t very happy,” he says. “I just don’t believe those types of uses meet the intent of the law.”

TAX COP: Multnomah County tax assessor Randy Walruff (with aides Sally Brown (middle) and Karla Hartenberger) says the rules surrounding farm and forest tax breaks are too hazy. “We need a clear, bright line from the Legislature,” he says, “that tells us how land should be taxed.”

Calculations done by the county assessor’s office show the Friedrichs have saved over $7,000 on their property taxes in the past five years.

ritics of the farm and forest deferrals say the tax breaks often provide a cushion for wealthy Oregonians who like to surround themselves with big pieces of property. “There’s absolutely no doubt there are people who are doing minimal farming or planting the minimum amount of trees to lower their tax bill,” says Tom Linhares, former supervisor of the Multnomah County Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission and the current Wasco County assessor. There are few better examples than the nearly 40-acre property on Northwest Saltzman Road that belongs to Dick and Mary Jaffe. Their farmhouse, an 11,000-square-foot Victorian built in 1996, sits next to a 4,000-square-foot barn and a 1,200-square-foot garage. The Jaffes paid $3.5 million for their property in 2008. They have no recorded mortgage.

SOME HOMEOWNERS IN EFFECT GET FARMING TAX BREAKS FOR HAVING A GARDEN.

Of their property, 31 acres get a farmland tax deferral, some for trees and some for rangeland for alpacas that Mary Jaffe raises. Her company, Skyline Alpacas, breeds and sells the woolly animals. A website offers financing for buyers and volume discounts on pregnant females. “Brighten up your January with some NEW alpacas,” Mary Jaffe’s website says. “Due to our commitment to quality care, and the fact that we have run out of room, we have reduced our prices on most animals.” Part of the reason she can afford to be generous may be the property tax savings she and her husband enjoy— more than $30,000 over the past five years.

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tax deferral is remarkably easy to obtain for small farmers. State law requires that for farmers to qualify, they have to gross $100 an acre. If they farm less than 6.5 acres, they must earn $650 in gross—not net—income in three out of every five years. That threshold has not changed in decades and would be more than $3,500 today if adjusted for inflation. The $650 threshold doesn’t require that small farmers actually sell that much product. Under state law, they can consume 49 percent of the food or other products they grow or raise to meet the requirement. That means people who grow tomatoes, herbs or flowers in effect get a tax break to have a garden. Tax Fairness Oregon’s Wiser pointed out to lawmakers at a 2011 hearing on farm deferrals that she could obtain a farm deferral by harvesting the trillium that grows wild on her land and selling it at farmers markets. Wiser also says the farm deferral’s cost is even greater because it also allows hobby farmers to write off their vehicles and other equipment. “We’re subsidizing people having trucks who don’t need trucks,” she says.

alruff, the Multnomah County tax assessor, is an intense fellow who speaks in staccato bursts. After more than 30 years working for the county, he looks like he could still compete with the Clackamas High School cross-country runners he coaches in his spare time. In 2011, Walruff got an increase in staff and a better computer system. One of the first things he did was start cracking down on deferrals he considered questionable. Walruff noticed there was a conflict between city conservation zoning overlays and forest deferrals. In June 2011, he canceled the deferrals on more than 50 properties in environmental zones, reasoning that the zoning made it virtually impossible to cut trees and therefore illogical to grant forest deferrals. “When we look at exemptions or deferrals, we ask, ‘Do they meet the intent of the law?’” Walruff says. “If you’re in doubt, you cancel. That’s the advice we’ve gotten from our lawyers.” Most of the 2011 cancellation notices went to property owners in Northwest Portland adjacent to or near Forest

oe Angel fared even better than Hodel. Walruff also canceled Angel’s forest tax deferral in June 2011, and Angel also went to tax court. In Angel’s initial case, the magistrate judge upheld the county’s cancellation, noting that Angel had twice filed documents indicating interest in developing his land. The judge also bought the county’s argument that Angel was unable to harvest his timber because of the city’s conservation overlay. “Plaintiff’s overt actions reveal an intention to hold and use the property in the manner that generates the greatest financial gain,” Magistrate Dan Robinson ruled Aug. 20, 2012. “Coupled with the conservation overlay, plaintiff’s actions suggest that the subject property was not being held or used for the predominant purpose of growing and harvesting trees.” But in 2014, Angel appealed his initial loss to the higher level of the Oregon Tax Court—and won. Angel acknowledged he had done little in the way of

FOREST SAVERS: Loran and Erena Friedrich get a tax break on 3 their 4 acres on Northwest Elliott Road.

planting or harvesting trees or eliminating invasive species. Nor had he filed a forest-management plan. Instead, he told the court, he’d “informally sought management advice from social acquaintances involved in the timber industry.” And the judge rejected the county’s claim that the conservation easement blocked Angel from someday cutting trees. “Taxpayer’s ‘predominant purpose’ for holding the subject property is a question of the taxpayer’s state of mind,” wrote Tax Court Judge Henry Breithaupt on July 24, 2014. In other words, if Angel thought he deserved a tax deferral, he deserved a tax deferral. Angel declined to answer questions about the specifics of his case. He does acknowledge it might be time for the Legislature to review the deferral program. “The question on the forest and farm tax deferral programs is, ‘Have the public policies worked?’” Angel says. “If they’ve gotten out of whack, let’s have a debate about that.”

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FOOD: Vietnamese-Cajun fusion. SNOW REPORT: Snow lacking. MUSIC: Warren G on “Regulate.” WEED: A new government-run weed shop.

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SCOOP If you’re at least 12 years old and suffer with asthma, local doctors at Allergy Associates Research Center need your help with a research study.

chopsticks around: Fervidly popular karaoke spot Chopsticks II will move, but it won’t die, says owner David Chow. As WW reported in November, the East Burnside Street bar’s lease will not be renewed by landlords in August. But Chow says he’s signed papers on a new location—the former site of Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club at Northeast 33rd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. Pending Oregon Liquor Control Commission and city approval, Chow plans on a June or July moving date. “Everybody wants to know when’s the day,” he says, chow “so we can have a party.”

Qualified participants must be non-smokers who currently use stable controller medication to treat their asthma. Compensation for time and travel may be available. Call to find out if you qualify to take part in this research study.

D A N I L E L L E S T. L A u R E N T

Brunch nEMEsis: Season 3 Top Chef contestant and Miami celebuchef Micah Edelstein is opening a restaurant in Portland called the Feisty Lamb in the former Sok Sab Bai space at Southeast 21st Avenue and Clinton Street. And in true Portland style, it will be a brunch spot. At her Miami restaurant Nemesis Urban Bistro, which closed in December, Edelstein was famous for a fast-rotating menu, with dishes such as kangaroo carpaccio with rooibos tea-smoked tomato oil, and an upscale take on South African boerewors (sausage). She says to expect a similarly “world-eclectic” approach here, promising dishes that are nothing like what’s currently being served in Portland. thE BluE riBBon alBuM: Wrap your heart of glass in a sweater: Blondie and Weezer are headlining Project Pabst. The second annual three-day music festival, put on by the brewer of Portland’s favorite cheap beer, has announced the lineup for its outdoor portion, again taking place at Zidell Yards under the Ross Island Bridge, on July 17-19. Saturday is topped by the first-wave punk icons, while the ’90s alt-rock nerd-gods close out Sunday. (Lineups for the Friday night club shows are still forthcoming.) TV on the Radio, Run the Jewels, Against Me!, Passion Pit and Blondie’s contempoBlondiE British raries, the Buzzcocks, are also among the 16 acts confirmed for the weekend. Local representatives on the bill include Wild Ones, Hustle and Drone, Wampire, Priory, and Terry Six and “King” Louie Bankston, who’ll be playing both new songs and selections from Six’s former band, Portland punk legends Exploding Hearts. BlaME thE naME gaME: An online petition targets Portland stoner-rock band Black Pussy, calling for the group to change its name and for a boycott of any venue that books it. The petition, started by a woman in San Francisco, accuses the band of being “racist and sexist,” and demands it write a letter apologizing for the offensive moniker. In February, frontman Dustin Hill told WW he chose the name because he thought it sounded “sexy and ’70s” (“Almost Famous,” WW, Feb. 25, 2015). “Misogyny and racism is not fun nor sexy,” reads the petition. As of press time, the cause had 323 supporters on the website change.org. Black Pussy, currently on tour, canceled a March 5 date at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill, though the official cause was van trouble. 20

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N ATA L I E B E H R I N g . C O M

OPEN LETTER TO REPUBLICAN SENATORS: STFU.

HEADOUT

Get drunk and pretend you’re part Irish. March 17, all day, everywhere.

JENNA LECHNER

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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE

THURSDAY MARCH 12 JULIANA HATFIELD THREE [INDIE POP] It’s been a couple of decades since the Juliana Hatfi eld Three’s highly infl uential Become What You Are became a lodestar for a generation of indie-poppers, but long-delayed follow-up Whatever, My Love manages to capture the same raw ennui of that epoch-defi ning debut. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $15. 21+. PORTLAND OREGON WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL [FILM] Female fi lmmakers take over the Hollywood with zombie cartoons, a “POWGirls” student showcase, and the tragedy of a long-lost Indian crocodile. The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. Through March 16. $40 festival pass.

FRIDAY MARCH 13 JUST BLAZE [HIP-HOP PLUS] Though he’s produced tracks for everyone from Kendrick to Jay Z to Kanye, Justin Smith’s increasingly frequent DJ sets are full of fouron-the-ﬂ oor dance beats absent from his most recognizable hits, venturing into subgenres ranging from Baltimore club to hardcore trance. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show, $30 VIP. 21+.

LEPRECAN’T

FAMOUS IRISH PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LEPRECHAUNS. Picture an Irishman. Who are you picturing? The Notre Dame mascot? The Lucky Charms leprechaun? The leprechaun from Leprechaun? But did you know that less than 10 percent of all Irish people self-identify as leprechauns? We looked at Wikipedia’s “ list of Irish people” and cross-referenced it with a list of leprechauns. We discovered that very few famous Irish people are also leprechauns. Here is a list of Irish people who are not leprechauns.

SINÉAD O’CONNOR

Very short. Thought to have magical qualities. Nowhere near our plane of consciousness. But, technically, not a leprechaun.

BONO

Has the pot of gold. Owns the rainbow. Is Irish. Not a leprechaun.

SAMUEL BECKETT

Ever tried. Ever failed to be a leprechaun. No matter. Tried again. Failed again. Failed better. Still, never a leprechaun.

SAOIRSE RONAN Had the leprechaun bleached out of her.

EVANNA LYNCH

Played Luna Lovegood. Not a wizard. Not a leprechaun. Just sort of weird.

RUDY RUETTIGER

Traded his eternal reward to a leprechaun for the chance to play football. Not a leprechaun.

TILDA SWINTON

Part Irish. Part leprechaun.

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Lived as a leprechaun for eight months among the faery folk in preparation for a stage role. Married a leprechaun. Not a leprechaun.

COLIN FARRELL

Was a leprechaun, but lost his powers during the ﬁlming of the Miami Vice remake.

LIAM NEESON

Has a very particular set of skills. None of them make him a leprechaun. Killed a leprechaun.

ENYA

Famous for passing oﬀ ancient leprechaun cant as “New Age music.” Has extensive business dealings with Jiminy “Nucks” O’Tolley’s leprechaun crime family but is not herself considered a “pure blood” leprechaun.

COLM J. MEANEY

Not a leprechaun but maintains a colony of enslaved leprechaun jewel miners at his country house near Ballymena.

KENNETH BRANAGH

Like all dull men, he claims to have a leprechaun inside him trying to get out. Not a leprechaun.

PATTON OSWALT

SATURDAY MARCH 14 3/14/15 AT 9:26:53.58… [MATH] It’s Pi Day of 2015, very probably the only time in your life you will complete the circle. Celebrate at 9:26 am and pm. More precisely at 9:26 plus 53.58 97932384626433832795028841 971 seconds. KELLS SMOKER [IRISH CUSTOM] This is where a small percentage of Portland— the short ones with rosy, rosy cheeks—will utterly ruin their lives for four days. These are the East Coast Irish who’ve somehow washed up in sleepy Portland, ready to party. They will ﬁ nd each other at the Kells Smoker boxing match, and take improvised Guinness showers, and they will look sunburnt even ’neath the tents. Kells, 112 SW 2nd Ave. 227-4057, kellsirishportland.com. Through March 17.

TUESDAY MARCH 17 KORREA’S “SPEEDSDATESCOOL” [THEATER] An experimental, audiovisual boy-meets-girl production. Baroque guitarist Pancho and Greek-inspired hip-hop group Eurhapsodoi open. Rialto’s Corner Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

Not Irish, but is a leprechaun.

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FOOD & DRINK EAT MOBILE KYLE KEY

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek. com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 Local Catch with Paul Greenberg

This is a talk with author and sustainability expert Paul Greenberg about how we’re screwing up everything with the way we fish, especially in local fishing communities. Also, fish will be served, but only by play-nice folk like Bamboo Sushi and Port Orford Sustainable Seafood. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200, 227-6225. 5:30-8:30 pm. $15.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Kells Irish St. Paddy’s Fest

This is where a small percentage of Portland, the short ones with rosy, rosy cheeks, will utterly ruin their lives for ﬁve days amid boxing matches (the Kells Smoker, which is awesome) and improvised Guinness showers, and they will look sunburnt even ’neath the tents. Through March 17. Kells, 112 SW 2nd Ave., 227-4057.

Thirst Fest

Thirst is a wine, beer and liquor event for the LGBTQ crew, with lots of cocktails and libations available for the sampling, all meant to raise funds for the Cascade AIDS Project. More than 40 craft distilleries, breweries and wineries will oﬀer their wares. Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder St., 232-2759. 5-10 pm Friday, 4-10 pm Saturday. $20-$25 per day includes seven tasting tokens.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Paley’s Place 20th Anniversary

For $75, Vitaly Paley will make his favorite ﬁve dishes he’s ever served into a tasting menu, which you can then eat. As always with birthday parties, it’s best to RSVP. Paley’s Place, 1204 NW 21st Ave., 243-2403. $75.

Where to eat this week. 1. Canteen

2816 SE Stark St., 922-1858, canteenpdx.com. In a taste test, we found Canteen’s vegan bowls to be the best in the city, especially the barbecue soy curled Southern bowl. $.

2. Fire and Stone

3707 NE Fremont St., 719-7195, ﬁreandstonepdx.com. Fire and Stone is coming beautifully into focus with Toscano salami pie and a moist leg of lamb resting on a bed of bulbs. $$.

3. Farina Bakery

1852 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 971-340-9734, farinabakery.com. Farina’s macarons are the best in town, sure, but have you tried the brownie? The bird’s nest cookie? You have much to do. $.

4. Boke Bowl West

1200 NW 18th Ave., 719-5698, bokebowl.com/dimsum. Boke Bowl does dim sum, with some dishes a bit like soul food. Skip the chicken and waﬄes, and get the fried chicken. $$.

5. Kabob House

11795 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Beaverton, 672-9229. Every time Obama and Bibi get in a ﬁght about Iran, my stomach growls. Kabob House is comfort food straight from the Persian soul. $-$$.

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MUY BRASA: Polli-Tico cooks its birds over charcoal to get a rich, crispy skin.

POLLI-TICO Pssssst. Yo, over here. Hey, dawg, you want some rotisserie chicken? Naw, man, you don’t need to wait in line for Pollo Norte just cuz everyone’s all up on them pollos Mehicanas right now. I got the hookup. Just be cool and keep quiet. Here’s what’s up: I got a little place downtown. It’s better than the joint all the West Hills ladies are flippin’ on. The chicken, at least. The Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken birds at my spot get roasted long enough to develop the dark and crusty spiced skin you want, not like the lightly roasted birds. These are the real deal, off a charcoal rotisserie imported from Lima. Up Norte, they’re cooking on gas Order this: Family platter with a like chumps. Peel these plump whole bird and triple fries ($20). breasts apart ($8 for a half with a wing) and it’s wet and steamy like a leaky sauna. Here’s how you know good pollo a la brasa: It’s been on the fire so long you can bite off the crispy bones at the tips of the wings like chicharrones. My spot has only one dipping sauce, an aji amarillo with mayonnaise, sour cream and earthy yellow peppers. Get the wide fried papas on the side, and dip ’em in it, too. The catch? All right, I feel you. So the tortillas look store-bought, the black beans are boring, and there’s this dried-out fried grilled cheese sandwich mounted on a doughnut base ($4.50) that should not exist. This spot is open from breakfast on, and they’re doing all sorts of stuff no one needs, like veggie bowls and egg sandwiches. They don’t know the gringos are losing their damned minds over rotisserie chicken, or else they’d drop that shit and put all their efforts into letting people know you can order a to-go bird online. Order by 2:30, pick up by 6 pm. It’s $20 with three sides. Yo, I like Pollo Norte, but that shit burnt up already. Chicken alone, my spot wins. You wanted chicken, right? Or just an Instagram selfie standing in line? MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Polli-Tico, Southwest 3rd Avenue and Oak Street, 971-2582845, polli-tico.com. 8 am-6 pm Monday-Thursday, 8 am-3 am Friday-Saturday.

DRANK

PEANUT BUTTER PORTER AND MARIONBERRY RED ALE (SCOUT) Peanut butter beer’s time has come. Actually, this is one brewing trend where Portland is slightly behind— while we have Rogue’s gross Voodoo Doughnut-themed banana-and-peanut butter ale, there has yet to be a serious local peanut butter brew. Well, the owner of the Scout beer carts is now trying it with the help of Portland U-Brew. Scout ups the ante with a marionberry-flavored red ale that can be blended in to create a liquid PB&J sandwich. Unfortunately, it’s not quit there yet. Unlike the best peanut butter beer I’ve had, Nutcase Peanut Butter Porter from Cincinnati, it’s lacking the big, chunky nut flavor. Actually, while Scout boss Joe St. Martin’s recipe uses powdered peanut butter essence, the beer tastes almost like it was done with specialty malts alone. The marionberry red is closer, but not exactly ripe and jammy. Together, it’s a tastier brew, but I’d rather pour a framboise over peanut butter ice cream. Here’s hoping Scout follows this trail a little further. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

FOOD & DRINK CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT

DOWN-HOME DUET TAPALAYA’S VIET-CAJUN MASH-UP BRINGS THE REAL FLAVOR OF MODERN NEW ORLEANS. BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE

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Vietnamese and Cajun are like the main characters in every movie starring Jennifer Aniston: You wouldn’t think they belong together, but OMG. Both are French Creole cuisines, both river cultures, both addicted to spice. So consider it kismet that one of the largest migrations of Vietnamese families hit in 1970s New Orleans, where the banh mi got dubbed the Vietnamese po’boy and the Vietnamese, in turn, threw a crawdaddy in every pot. Since last fall at Tapalaya—the 6-year-old, small-plates Cajun spot on Northeast 28th Avenue—those muddled-up flavors have been getting a steamed, fried, spicy, sweaty workout under new Vietnamese-Louisianan chef Anh Luu, who grew up at the intersection of both food cultures. It’s terrific—my favorite new menu I’ve tried this year. Luu had been sous-chef for years at Tapalaya before leaving to work at inventive pan-Asian bar Tanuki. But she returned at the request of Tapalaya’s owners and began putting her stamp on the dishes as head chef. Some of the makeover has been subtle, a matter of using tried-and-true Vietnamese techniques to deepen the flavors of Cajun favorites the same way Luu’s own mother did. Luu’s extra-spicy crawfish étouffée now has shrimp paste and lime and lemon- salad with hoisin, and some terrifically fiery lemongrass grass, amid the classic bell peppers and celery and bay leaves, mussels that felt like they could cure illness. Soon, Luu will a slight sweet-bitter tinge at the edge of the palate. The inaugurate an unorthodox, hybrid five-spice recipe she oh-so-buttery crawfish has star anise in the boil. There’s a grinds herself and already uses to cook at home—a mix of tender pork belly banh mi ($6) snuggled up with the po’boys, anise, coriander, fennel, cayenne and nutmeg. touched up with the fatty kick of chicken-liver mayo. One of the highlights of a late-year specials menu—a Get the blackened catfish ($7) some evening, and it wildly flavorful coconut pork with pickled mustard greens smacks you right in the mouth. Turns out you throw in a ($9) that approximate Vietnamese bitter greens—has bath of ginger, cilantro, lemongrass and sambal chili along popped up in a slightly different, tamer form in Tapawith New Orleans’ famous paprika-cayenne blackening laya’s new brunch menu, as a positively juicy rice bowl seasoning, and it blooms like a latewith a fried egg ($9). But the familiar winter rose: fragrant and an utter Order this: Wings ($10) or whatever else homestyle Vietnamese dish got a bit surprise. It’s like it was always meant is on special, blackened catﬁsh ($7), of a backwoods twist: Luu now mixes to be there, with the light notes of the coconut pork at brunch ($9). in Coca-Cola with coconut milk on Vietnamese spicing bringing out the I’ll pass: Salad with lemongrass dressing, the braise rather than use the tradifried okra. earthier Cajun seasonings, broadening tional coconut water and sugar—a and deepening the flavor at once. tenderizing trick known to every old The most interesting or off-track stuff often finds its Southern boy since Coke invented Santa Claus. The pork way only onto the specials menu, which rotates out every is gorgeously tender, the coconut equally gentle in its week or so. Late last fall, Luu threw down Vietnamese accents—it’s a beautiful dish for the early-morning soft chicken wings ($10) with fish sauce, cilantro and mint that at heart—although I did miss the pungency of the greenslayered in an herbal subtlety often missing from a bar plate forward first iteration. that’s usually a sticky-sweet garlic cluster bomb. I have not Next to cheesy grits and steak Diane, adventurous eatseen the wings return, and I would desperately like them ers at brunch can also go for mien ga ($8), Vietnamese to. In subsequent weeks, I got some pleasant but not earth- chicken noodle soup that’s gussied up with the American shaking honey-chili Brussels sprouts, a pungent rare-beef brunch staple of poached egg. The soup is mild in terms of

BREAKIN’ EGGS: Mien ga (left), coconut pork and chicory coﬀee cocktail.

spice, but not herb. The soup is deeply floral, and loaded with anise that’s all the more prominent in a light chicken broth, with a boatload of slippery glass noodles and chicken chunks. For the chicken stock of the mien ga, Luu uses the bay leaf-and-Worcestershire braise from last evening’s faithfully Southern-style fried chicken, with the addition of charred onions, ginger, lime juice, star anise and fish sauce. And about that chicken. It’s light and flaky, with breading just on the right side of crisp and colored, with an unexpected hit of spice from the house “Tap’s Mix” seasoning—some of my favorite fried chicken in town, period—although the beignets that came with it at brunch were a little dense, in a Portland-wide syndrome I can only attribute to water, elevation and lack of humidity. That terrific fried chicken, along with the equally flavorful, mostly orthodox shrimp étouffée and jambalaya, point to what’s going very right at Tapalaya. The baseline Southern food remains solid-to-excellent fare for the older comfortfood crowd likely to haunt any place with New Orleans in the DNA. But at the menu’s edges and under its surface, Luu makes it clear she considers Creole a living and vital food tradition, not something to stick in the museum next to the piano blues and zydeco. EAT: Tapalaya, 28 NE 28th Ave., 232-6652, tapalaya.com. 4-9:30 pm Monday-Thursday, 4-10:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 4-9 pm Sunday. Brunch 9 am-3 pm Friday-Sunday.

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CULTURE

Martin CizMar

snow report

the last weekend: skibowl closed soon after this rainy sunday night in January.

THE LOST SEASON MOST OREGON SKI RESORTS ARE REELING FROM TERRIBLE WEATHER. SHOULD WE WORRY? By m a rt i n c i z m a r

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Back in January, I was itching to get past the slow start of the Oregon ski season. On the first Sunday of the new year, I ended up driving out to Mount Hood Skibowl for a cheap night on the mountain. We left after sunset, stopped at Arby’s in Gresham, and drove through the rain to the little ski area in the foothills of Hood. It was raining on the slopes, too. For two hours, I rode the old two-man lifts through sprinkles and skied through slush with about 10 other hardy souls. The mountain was all but empty when I finally retired to the old warming hut for a plastic cup of Pilsner Urquell and a few minutes by a crackling fireplace. Rough start to the season, I remember thinking, but it’ll get better. Well, damn if it ain’t March. That night was one of only 11 days that Skibowl has been open this season. Three days later, it suspended lift service until more snow fell. We’re still waiting. Skibowl’s upper bowl has yet to open this season, the only time that’s happened in at least the past 27 years. “We have not given up yet. We are still hoping for snow to be able to reopen,” says Skibowl spokesman Hans Wipper. “Everybody thinks winter is over—it’s not yet, hopefully.” He’s not necessarily being Pollyanna-ish. As Wipper points out, the Cascadian snowpack typically doesn’t peak and start receding until mid-April. “One big storm can drop two feet, and that’s all it would take. We’d be back operating.” But, until that miracle storm—skiers and snowboarders are the only people I know envious of Bostonians—the season will be totally lost. The current 10-day forecast shows temperatures in the 50s and rain in Government Camp. Either way, it’ll have been a brutal ski season for most of the Northwest. Not for everyone, of course. Timberline,

Meadows and Mount Bachelor have all kept their higher terrain open. Mount Ashland, which lost last season entirely, has been had a nice run this year. Anthony Lakes, a tiny resort near Baker City that has only 900 feet of vertical drop but sits at a lofty base elevation of 7,100 feet, tells me they’ve had an “epic” season. Below 5,000 feet, the body count includes last weekend’s annual venture down the glade trail from Timberline to Govy, a benefit for Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum, which was moved up to the resort for lack of snow. Hoodoo, in the Santiam Pass east of Eugene, was open for only 11 days this year after a short season last year. The resort ignored several requests for comment, but has written a series of hopeful blog posts, the last coming in mid-February. “While we’re bummed that we had to temporarily shut down operations until more snow falls, don’t think for one second that we’re sitting around sobbing with sullen faces. That’s not the Hoodoo way! We know that Mother Nature is preparing some truly awesome powder for us in the near future, and we can’t wait until all of that delightful, white, fluffy winter candy starts dropping from the sky.” For Portland skiers and boarders, the main concern is Skibowl, a small resort which has some of the best terrain in Oregon. Owner Kirk Hanna—in 2005, Forbes profiled him as “the most audacious” resort owner in Oregon— bought it out of bankruptcy back in 1987. Rather than add high-speed quad lifts, he invested in summer activities, tubing and night skiing. Now, 27 years later, that diversification seems especially wise. The tube hill has opened every week since Thanksgiving thanks to an investment in snowmaking equipment that piles up powder on clear, cold nights. They’re doing more guided hikes for people who booked cabins early. And they’re already getting ready for summer. “Summer is increasing every year,” Wipper says. “Skiing is still the flagship, but this year summer will be more profitable than winter was. We plan for these times. It’s like farming— we’re farming snow. It’s all about the winds and the weather.” Maybe he’s snowing me, but when Wipper says, “You gotta roll with the punches,” it’s calming. Still, I’m glad I made that Sunday night drive back in January. Even in rain and slush, it was a fleeting treat. Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

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MUSIC

MARCH 11–17

RAPPERS AGE, BUT WARREN G’S 21-YEAR-OLD GANGSTA CLASSIC IS TIMELESS. BY M AT T HE W SI N G E R

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In most situations, jumping into a back-alley dice game with a bunch of strangers is a spectacularly bad idea. But for Warren G, it turned out to be the best decision of his career. For a generation of rap fans, “Regulate,” the Long Beach, Calif., rapper-producer born Warren Griffin III’s 1994 megahit, is stored in the part of the brain that also contains “Nuthin’ but a G Thang,” “It Was a Good Day,” the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme, and several childhood nursery rhymes. No matter how long it’s been, the moment you hear that whistled melody and Young Guns snippet, every word comes flooding back to memory. Over a smooth Michael McDonald sample, Griffin recounts a night of skirt-chasing gone awry, in which a foolish detour into street-corner gambling gets him robbed and nearly killed—until his best friend, the late singer Nate Dogg, appears from the shadows as a gat-toting guardian angel. Not a lot of rappers would play the victim on their own track, and allow the guest star to be the hero, but that’s part of the reason why the song endures: It might end with a pile of cold bodies and an impromptu orgy at the Eastside Motel, but at its core, “Regulate” is about brotherhood. Griffin has had other successes, and he continues to make records, but “Regulate,” and the multiplatinum album of the same name, secured his place among the West Coast gangsta elite. And if it looms so large that it eclipses his other accomplishments, he’s mostly fine with that.

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THE REGULATOR “I didn’t know it’d still be playing 21 years later now,” says Griffin, 44. “That’s a good thing, man. It just lets me know what I did was timeless. I’m seeing artists these days in for like five, six months, and the next thing you know, they’re gone. You don’t hear nothing from them. A lot of them, I see them and I’m like, ‘Let’s work together.’ And a lot of them be kind of turning their nose up and shit, like, ‘He’s old.’ I ain’t old! I’ll still eat your ass up! And I still make better music than a lot of you motherfuckers. Good music don’t have an age. Wackness has an age.” WW: What are the origins of “Regulate”? Warren G: I went record shopping and got the record [Michael McDonald’s “I Keep Forgettin’”], and I was like, “Dang, this is a record I used to listen to as a kid. My parents used to play this, so this would be dope to put some lyrics over.” We had this phrase we were using at the time, whenever we wanted to get something done. If we were doing a new track, we’d be like, “We need to regulate that.” And this is before I had even put the Young Guns shit on there. I saw Young Guns, and the one cat said, “Regulators—we regulate any stealing of property, and we damn good, too.” And I said, “Oh my God, we’ve got to sample this and put it on the beginning of our record.” And the whole concept of the song turned out to be on point. Was the story in “Regulate” based on a specific incident? All that shit is real-life shit. All of it. It was just how things went in our neighborhood. It was Compton, Long Beach, Watts, South Central L.A., Carson—all that was the Maad Circle. It was kind of like how Chicago is

now, but 10 times worse. It’s interesting that you let Nate Dogg be the hero, while you’re the victim. Because that’s my homeboy. It’s really about two best friends having each other’s backs—no matter if it’s music, no matter if it’s women or if it’s street shit. No matter what it is in life, we were having each other’s backs in those times. Is it hard performing that song without Nate around? I look at it like, my homeboy will always live through me. Me doing our song is keeping his spirit alive. I’m gonna always do that, until I stop doing music, which I don’t plan on doing. You recently performed “Regulate” with Kenny G on Jimmy Kimmel Live. How did that come about? I got a call that Jimmy Kimmel wanted to do a mash-up of “Regulate.” At first, they said, “Who can you have come do Nate’s

parts for you?” I was like, “Shit, Cee Lo? I also like Miguel.” But Cee Lo was out of town, and Miguel just didn’t do it. So I said, “You know what, I’m gonna make this into something.” I told Kenny, “We’re gonna try something different here. I want you to play your saxophone up under Nate’s parts, as if you’re Nate Dogg.” And this was last minute. I structured it right when it was time to rehearse, because from what I understand they wanted him to come in after “Regulate” to do a solo. I gave him the track, he took it and listened to it, and we did the show maybe an hour and a half later. When it was time to get busy, he was on point. It turned out to be better than having someone try to sing Nate’s parts. Hopefully, Jimmy Kimmel will hire me as their music supervisor. I’ll make sure they have some tight shit. SEE IT: Warren G plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Young Eastlin, on Wednesday, March 11. 9 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

CHARTING “REGULATE” BY MOOD “Warren G was on the streets, trying to consume/Some skirts for the eve…”

“Some brothers shootin’ dice so I said ‘Let’s do this…’”

:30

HORNY

1:00

IMPULSIVE

“Since these girls peepin’ me I’ma glide and swerve…”

“I’m gettin’ jacked/I’m breakin’ myself/I can’t believe they takin’ Warren’s wealth…”

“Back up, back up/’Cause it’s on…”

“If I had wings I would fly/Let me contemplate...”

1:30

FEARFUL

2:00

DESPERATE

“Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold…”

2:30

MURDEROUS

“Now I’m switching my mind back into freak mode…”

“I’m tweaking/Into a whole new era…”.

3:00

3:30

POSSIBLY HIGH

4:00

DEFINITELY HIGH

“If you smoke like I smoke/Then you’re high like every day...”

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Music Millennium’s 46th Anniversary and Giant Tent Sale! 3 DAYS, FRIDAY–SUNDAY, MARCH 13th 14th & 15th, 10am–8pm Daily 50,000 USED CDS, $2 Each or 6 for $10! Half Off Used DVDs! Vinyl, Books + Oddities From The Archive! Join Us For Cake & Refreshments Sunday At 3PM! Featuring A Live Performance From Annalisa Tornfelt!

DAN DEACON

MATTHEW WHITE

Gliss Riffer

Fresh Blood

Gliss Riffer marks new territory for Baltimore-based Dan Deacon who, following up on the release of his large ensemblebased recordings - 2009’s Bromst and 2012’s America - has returned to a simpler way of writing and recording. What Gliss Riffer exudes as a musical experience is an aesthetic directness and ecstatic energy.

Simultaneously recognizing the trouble and delight that life can bring, these 10 original new songs of Fresh Blood are guides for times of joy, agony and the middle distance where we most often linger.

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JOHN HIATT

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Playing The Roseland Theater 3/27 Last summer, the band and Producer T Bone Burnett spent a month at Hollywood’s Ocean Way Recording laying down the songs they had written during several writing “retreats” last winter and spring.

Terms Of My Surrender

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES

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A one-night-only concert was held at New York City’s Town Hall last fall, to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis. The evening was filmed for a documentary that was broadcast by Showtime last winter, and now Nonesuch Records releases a live recording of the concert.

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GIBSON BROTHERS

BLACKBERRY SMOKE

FALL OUT BOY

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Holding All the Roses compellingly captures the energy, attitude, and honesty that have already helped to make Blackberry Smoke one of America’s hottest live rock ‘n’ roll outfits, a truly grass-roots phenomenon with a large and fiercely loyal fan base.

JD MCPHERSON

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DIE ANTWOORD Donker Mag

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American Beauty / American Psycho Playing Amphitheater Northwest 8/1 Chicago’s Fall Out Boy, are back with their sixth full length studio album, “American Beauty / American Psycho”. The all new collection of songs follows in the footsteps of their previous works (which include 2012’s “Save Rock And Roll” and 2007’s “Infinity On High”), and includes the certified platinum single, “Centuries”.

FOY VANCE

Live At Bangor Abbey

Terraplane

Let The Good Times Roll

This is Earle’s 16th studio album since the release of his highly influential 1986 debut Guitar Town. It is very much a blues record, a third of which was written while Earle toured Europe alone for five weeks with just a guitar, a mandolin and a backpack.

You could mistake JD McPherson for a revivalist, given how few other contemporary artists are likely to assert, as he boldly does, that ‘Keep a Knockin’ by Little Richard is the best record ever made. However, McPherson is much more a pioneer than roots resuscitator.

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Since the release of Joy Of Nothing, Foy has had an incredible year -- bringing home the inaugural Northern Irish Music Prize for Best Album, sharing the stage with artists as Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Raitt on tour, and now, returning to his hometown to record 2-sold out shows at the legendary Bangor Abbey, which makes up this gorgeous record.

JOE SAMPLE & NDR BIGBAND Children Of The Sun

THE COOL WHIPS

ANNALISA TORNFELT

GEORGE CLINTON

Sale Priced At $13.99 In the 17th century, St. Croix was a vital part of what is referred to as the ‘middle passage’ for slavery. The juxtaposition of the beauty of the island, the brutality of slavery, and the helplessness the slaves must have felt, being the backdrop to Sample’s compositions.

JONATHA BROOKE My Mother Has Four Noses

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Chasing Yesterday

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Don’t Lose This

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS

Brotherhood

Brandi Carlile’s fifth studio album is her first album on ATO Records. The 12-song album explodes with energy, urgency and pristine harmonies and represents the start of a fresh chapter for Carlile.

POP STAPLES Before his death in 2000, Roebuck “Pops” Staples gave the world nearly five decades’ worth of gospel and soul as the leader of the Staples Singers. His daughter Mavis teamed up with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy to complete his final recordings.

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BRANDI CARLILE

The Firewatcher’s Daughter

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Playing Aladdin Theater 5/19 Rhiannon Giddens, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, makes her solo recording debut with Tomorrow Is My Turn, reinterpreting pieces from Dolly Pardon, Nina Simone and others.

I’ll Be Me Soundtrack

Honored in 2012 with the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award, Country Music Hall of Fame member Glen Campbell has recorded his last song. GLEN CAMPBELL: I’LL BE ME is an epic human drama that intimately showcases the man and his music throughout Campbell s struggle with Alzheimer’s.

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GLEN CAMPBELL

Playing Revolution Hall 5/22 While in the studio , the band realized that their songs required a different approach. They wanted to create an album that shines through its songwriting and instrumentation in a singular mindset without relying on stereo tricks of modern recording—so the idea of recording in mono was born.

Holding All The Roses

Hiatt, a master lyricist and satirical storyteller, weaves hidden plot twists into fictional tales ranging in topics including redemption, relationships, growing older and surrendering, on his terms.

V/A - ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER TIME Celebrating The Music Of Inside Llewyn Davis

Mono

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PUNCH BROTHERS The Phosphorescent Blues

THE MAVERICKS

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The foursome plays a retro 60s style that’s still up to date. What else could it be? It’s being played today so it must be modern. It’s the Now Sound!

Besides being a member of acclaimed Americana outfit, Black Prairie, Annalisa is herself a veteran of the bluegrass & folk scenes, hailing from Alaska and making her home in Portland. Her brand new solo album is titled, ‘The Number 8’.

With a recently released 3 disc album (Funkadelic’s “First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate”) and memoir (“Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?”), George Clinton appears at Music Millennium to meet fans and sign autographs.

Companion release to Jonatha Brooke s new musical play, written and performed by Jonatha herself and opening on Broadway at The Duke Theater on February 14, 2014. Her new project is an autobiographical journey that explores her mother s health challenges as well as the impact on Brooke as an artist and a daughter.

CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The Music Of John Barry

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Silva Screen has long been an archive for the genius of John Barry, hunting down missing cues and scores from his 100-plus film compositions that have never previously appeared on CD. This 6-CD set greatly expands that repertoire with 119 tracks from 68 film and TV productions ranging from Juke Box Jury in 1959 to his swansong Enigma in 2001.

LONDON MUSIC WORKS & THE CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The Music Of Hans Zimmer

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A 6 CD, 77 track compilation of the very best music from one of the most accomplished and prolific composers in film music history. Hans Zimmer’s 30 year career is simply breath-taking, writing music for over 100 films that have grossed over $22 billion, eight Academy Award nominations including one win, two Golden Globes, three Grammys, an American Music Award and a Tony. Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

MUSIC

WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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Blaze tracks like Cam’ron’s “Oh Boy,” but Smith grew up with equal parts techno and soul. His increasingly frequent DJ sets venture into Baltimore club, hardcore trance, reggaeton and, of course, that most loved and hated of crossover genres, trap. MITCH LILLIE. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show, $30 VIP. 21+.

The Dodos, Springtime Carnivore

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

ing Whatever, My Love picks up precisely where the trio left oﬀ, so anyone who identiﬁed with her homeless, troubled-teen character from My So-Called Life is about to get their wings. CRIS LANKENAU. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

Wolf Alice, Divers

Natasha Kmeto, Grandparents, Swahili

[HALLUCINOGENIC] Part of a two-day sendoff party for local bands making the trek to SXSW, Portland sextet Grandparents is poised for a breakout. A kind of garage-rock Allman Brothers, Grandparents offer basementborn D.I.Y. with thoughtful, psychedelic highs and lows. Fumes, the band’s 2012 EP, is the perfect drug, easygoing while imaginative, with jolts of classic rock ’n’ roll that calmly fade into lengthy, medicinal jams. The songs—including new material making up its forthcoming record—often feel like a timeless saga, fitted with multiple parts, tidal shifts and galloping guitars. The Lonesome Billies, Us Lights and Melville play the following night. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Flamin’ Groovies, the Pynnacles, Ape Machine, Witchburn, Pseudoboss

[REVISIONIST HISTORY] San Francisco’s Flamin’ Groovies touring on the 40th anniversary of their Shake Some Action disc is a bit of revisionist history. Not because the album—and the perfectly crafted power pop of its title track— isn’t notable among the detritus of American rock. But obsessive garage collectors most frequently associate the troupe with a Roy Loney-helmed band that oﬀered up crazed tracks like “The Slide.” Cyril Jordan, though, has been at the helm for the majority of the band’s existence. There’s nothing wrong with copping a Brit attitude, but these Groovies sound removed from the S.F. garage that birthed the ensemble. DAVE CANTOR. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 7 pm. $18. 21+.

The Juliana Hatfield Three, Holiday Friends

[SEMINAL INDIE POP] It’s been a couple of decades since the Juliana Hatfield Three helped kick-start the contemporary indie-pop genre by releasing their highly influential debut, Become What You Are. In the meantime, Hatfield has kept up a prolific solo career releasing several albums on her Ye Olde label, though none of those outings managed to recapture the raw, decade-defining ennui of that debut. New offer-

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FRIDAY, MARCH 13 Just Blaze, DJ Nature, #Partygirl, Danny Merkury

[NOT JUST HIP-HOP] Justin Smith, the Grammy Award-winning producer of everyone from Kendrick to Jay Z to Kanye, better known as Just Blaze, has apparently been working late nights for 15 years at Roc-A-Fella’s studios, secretly dreaming of making a techno record. Four-on-the-ﬂoor rhythms may be hard to come by on classic

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[INDULGENT ROCK] When “Giant Peach,” the ﬁrst single oﬀ Wolf Alice’s debut full-length, My Love Is Cool, was released last month, the music press declared the U.K. band was bound to take over American airwaves. Critics praised its previous EPs, referenced its Best Breakthrough Artist win at the U.K. Festival Awards and described its hybrid of moody folk and hard rock with breathless hyperbole. Hype is overhyped, but it can’t be denied that “Giant Peach” is fucking rocking, with growling guitars building toward vocalist Ellie Roswell’s total freak-out. The band’s own description of the single, though, sums it up better than any critic: It’s “a song to lose your shit to.” SHANNON GORMLEY. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

[UNAMPLIFIED INTENSITY] Chemistry is an underrated aspect of any band, and long-running Bay Area duo the Dodos are basically the San Antonio Spurs of indie rock. After a few records spent tinkering with their identity (hiring Phil Ek to Shins-ify their sound, adding vibraphone to most of 2011’s No Color), singer-guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber are back to basics on Individ, relying on the untouchable interplay between Long’s ﬁngerpicked guitar and Kroeber’s insane percussion. Lead track “Precipitation” is the best thing the Dodos have done since 2008’s Visiter—it’s a welcome return to simplicity that shows that sometimes all you need is two friends playing together in a room. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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INTRODUCING DOGHEART Who: Matt Jenkins (guitar, vocals), Gray Hildreth (bass), Cameron Hering (drums). Sounds like: The Black Lips and Real Estate on a Miller High Life-fueled rafting trip. For fans of: Garage pop, GoPro adventure-sports soundtracks, montages of pretty people doing quirky things.

The key to churning out good pop music is to write a lot of it. So when Portland’s Dogheart entered the studio last year, the band had 40 songs to choose from. The list of what ended up on the record was determined through beer-soaked house parties in Yakima and the band’s first official shows at smaller venues like Old Town’s Valentines. “When we have a lot [of songs] to choose from,” says bassist Gray Hildreth, “we try to play them out a bit and feel which ones are the best live.” Within a year, Dogheart had risen to playing its brand of energetic indie rock at bigger rooms such as Holocene and Mississippi Studios and opening for touring acts such as San Francisco’s Cool Ghouls. The trio’s new album, What Burns the Best, is an all-killer, no-filler effort, lending itself to repeated listens—an uncommon achievement for such a new band. Dogheart came together in February 2014, after vocalist Matt Jenkins, formerly of the group Pheasant, had grown tired of “putting up with a bunch of shit from other bands.” The trio became familiar with each other as members of the Portland rock scene. “We all knew each other from different projects,” Hildreth says. “It just happened that at the time we were all free agents and wanted to start something from the ground up.” The reception to What Burns the Best has been positive, but the band ranks songwriting as its No. 1 priority, putting off dreams of fame in favor of touring behind good, catchy music. Dogheart is still a young band, and that’s fine with the members. “We’re trying to figure out our touring situation right now,” Hildreth says. “We want to get into Seattle, and then, as time permits, make our way down the West Coast. But we want to sprout from the Northwest, starting small. “I know our parents are kind of our biggest fans right now.” PARKER HALL. SEE IT: Dogheart plays Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., with the Hugs, on Saturday, March 14. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.

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ANNALISA TORNFELT SATURDAY, MARCH 14 “Well, to answer your first question: Yes, I do want to be a star!” It wasn’t actually the first question I asked Annalisa Tornfelt during our chat in the sunny Southeast Portland studio she uses to teach violin and fiddle, but it was part of a string of queries about her approach to releasing her brand-new solo album, The Number 8. After a couple years touring the world and logging major media appearances with Black Prairie—the Decemberists offshoot that evolved from informal instrumental jamming to a full-fledged outfit that’s performed on The Tonight Show, with Tornfelt on lead vocals—her initial scheme for sharing her new collection was to rent a P.O. box and take orders exclusively via the good old-fashioned U.S. mail. Asked whether the idea was a conscious withdrawal from the spotlight, Tornfelt says it was rooted more in the romance of correspondence and country music’s past, sparked by a souvenir glossy photo of Patsy Cline she bought while visiting the Country Music Hall of Fame. “I love writing letters,” she says, “and I love waiting for snail mail, and I love getting packages. I thought, if I could write to Patsy Cline and order a CD, I’d be really excited.” But when she shared her modest release strategy with her friend, Weinland’s Adam Shearer, he asked whether she wanted anyone to actually, y’know, hear the thing. “He asked, ‘Are you taking a stand against the Internet? Is it going to be a cult thing, like only people in the know?’ That was not at all my intent.” Shearer and others persuaded Tornfelt to initiate a PledgeMusic campaign, letting customers order more conveniently while still allowing for Tornfelt’s personal touch in distribution—including the option of her very own glossy black-and-white photo. When Tornfelt moved to Portland from her native Anchorage in 2000, it didn’t take long to make the connection that opened the doors to the local music scene. Putting up fliers for violin lessons at area stores, she met guitarist Lewi Longmire, who “invited me to go to the Laurelthirst, but I wasn’t 21.” Playing as a duo with Longmire, Tornfelt started performing around town, eventually being invited by guitarist Chris Funk to a jam at Decemberists bassist Nate Query’s house, which organically evolved into Black Prairie. Now that her bandmates are busy again with Decemberists duties, Tornfelt says she’s glad she took up producer Mike Coykendall on his open call last year to record area musicians informally on 8-track. Recording on that machine, over an eighthour period, inspired the title of the new album, a collection of 15 lilting but often somber acoustic numbers featuring Tornfelt on guitar—and, on one track, the exotic nyckelharpa. Like Tornfelt herself, that instrument has Swedish roots, though she came by hers though Portland connections, as a gift from Peter Buck. And like the new album’s release, with its mix of snail-mail orders and Internet crowdfunding, her approach to the traditional instrument is informed by modern technology: When she brought the complex, 15-string instrument home, she figured out how to tune it by looking it up on YouTube. JEFF ROSENBERG. Staying classic in a digital world.

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Marco Benevento, Superhuman Happiness

[PIANO POP] Pianist-vocalist Marco Benevento puts some guitar pedals on his piano, right where the sheet music should be. Then he plays synth pop as seen through a spinning jazz kaleidoscope. It’s melodic, it’s groovy, it’s made young again. The 36-year-old veteran’s latest album, Swift—named for its production assistance from famed producer Richard Swift—was released on his Royal Potato Family label last fall. It’s the second album in a row showcasing Benevento’s catchier side, a theme he overlays with jazzlike sonic exploration, where a piano might not sound like a piano, but it does sound awesome and new. PARKER HALL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Trash Talk, Ratking, Lee Bannon

[THROWBACK HARDCORE] Aggressive music for skaters that doesn’t give a fuck is making a comeback, though from unlikely sources. With help from producers as diverse as Steve Albini and the Alchemist, Trash Talk’s neo-powerviolence is fast and brutal on record, and even more so live. Frontman Lee Spielman uses his mic as a weapon and treats his fans like Henry Rollins at his nihilistic peak. Trash Talk’s most recent release, accurately titled No Peace, has riot-level energy that reclaims the sheer aggression of hardcore’s past. LUCAS CHEMOTTI. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8 pm. $13. All ages.

Pat Travers Band

[PROTO-METAL] Pat Travers was a minor Canadian rock star on a major British label in the late ’70s and early ’80s. His hit, “Snortin’ Whiskey, Drinkin’ Cocaine,” made the top 20 in 1980, but beyond that, he’s mostly remembered for having played with drummers such as pre-Iron Maiden Nicko McBrain, pre-Ozzy Tommy Aldridge and post-everyone Carmine Appice. It’s a bit tragic to see a guy who was so willing to play the game get kicked to the curb by the industry. But while Travers’ career may have slowed down, it never stopped. His latest album, 2013’s Can Do, is groovy melodic metal that is both catchy and legitimately heavy. When it comes to the borderlines between hard rock, heavy blues and heavy metal, Travers is a demigod, ripping solos through the cobwebs. NATHAN CARSON. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 8 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Tweedy, the Minus 5

[JEFF THE FATHERHOOD] Take it from someone who’s seen Wilco 20-some times in six states over two decades: Jeff Tweedy’s side projects have never been especially great. Best-case scenario, it’s Jeff with an acoustic guitar, playing ancient B-sides like “Student Loan Stereo” and “Blasting Fonda.” Otherwise, it’s a demo-quality, drum-and-drone chant like “Laminated Cat,” which will eventually be polished into “Not for the Season,” with help from the band…and still get left off the next Wilco record so there’s enough tape to give “Reservations” some breathing room. Sukierae, Jeff’s record with his son, Spencer, on drums to form the “band” Tweedy, is soft, sparse and meditative. It’s also rather boring, at least compared to what the maestro has done with Nels Cline over the past decade. I’m not going, but if you are, have a few beers, savor the solo on “New Moon,” and try to imagine what the next Wilco record will sound like. MARTIN CIZMAR. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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Cambrian Explosion, Foxy Lemon, Moon By You, Spirit Lake

[TIME SHARE] One’s a little bit space-rock, the other’s a little boogie blues, but now, Cambrian Explosion and Foxy Lemon are united on the same record. Each gets a side on the simply titled Joint EP, serving as a “two-birds, onestone” sampler for two of Portland’s rising young bands. Catch both at tonight’s release show. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Spellcaster, Spell, Skelator

[RETRO METAL] Spell is a young trio from Vancouver, B.C., that emulates the heyday of ’80s metal with panache. Formed from the ashes of the slightly greener Stryker, Spell has so far spread its metal message with The Full Moon Sessions (now available on cassette), and is hitting Twilight Cafe as part of its maiden U.S. voyage. Spell does for Mercyful Fate what Uncle Acid does to Black Sabbath—that is to say, this is infectious, not overproduced, and delivers a true metal experience. In company tonight are local thrash heroes Spellcaster, and the inimitable Skelator. There will be no heads left unbanged at this one. NATHAN CARSON. Twilight Cafe and Bar, 1420 SE Powell Blvd., 232-3576. 8 pm. $8. 21+.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Cracker Unplugged

[COUNTRY GARAGE] Cracker has always shown inklings of less-rocking ambitions, even when songs like “Low” and “Euro-Trash Girl” were all the rage on the grunge-dominated charts of the early ’90s. The band’s debut showcased bits of the country trappings that are more prominent on the group’s recent double LP, Berkeley to Bakersfield, splicing revved-up garage anthems with the kind of steely honky-tonk you’d find in, well, Bakersfield. Whereas one side is filled with political unrest set to driving alt-rock guitars, the other fumbles with twanged acoustics that serve as an ode to California’s forgotten farmland. But given that this tour features only founding members David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, expect a reworked mix of songs new and old. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 7 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 Jake Shimabukuro

[ARE UKE KIDDING?] The ukulele is the underdog of all instruments. Small and made for tourists, it is a bastardized Hawaiian version of the miniature four-stringed guitar that arrived there from Portugal a couple centuries ago. But in Jake Shimabukuro’s hands, Koa wood sings like Stradivarian spruce. The four-string wonder, who first gained fame in 2006 with a version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (currently with over 13 million views on YouTube), weaves his way from mellow original compositions like those on his most recent record, 2012’s Grand Ukelele, to classic-rock standards, showcasing his virtuosity, which is all the more impressive given the instrument. PARKER HALL. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9:30 pm. $25. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17 Widespread Panic

[SOUTHERN FRIED] It’s been about five years since Widespread Panic headed into a studio, but that’s not what this band’s for. Ideally, the Georgia-bred ensemble perpetually has a few fan favorites in its pocket and finds space within each of those compositions to explore the midpaced Southern rock it’s been

jamming over the past four decades. So, when the curious listener wades back through Panic’s studio staples, the moments the troupe appropriates country shuffle for its rockier intentions come off particularly well. “Blue Indian,” from 1999’s ’Til the Medicine Takes, isn’t necessarily indicative of its sound, but properly sets Panic’s heritage alongside a penchant for contempo rock. DAVE CANTOR. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $52.50-$70. All ages.

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Jenny Don’t & the Spurs, Lewi Longmire

[CHESTNUT-HEADED STRANGER] Call it the Jakob Dylan paradox. On the one hand, favored sons of living legends begin their careers virtually assured of unending encouragement from fathers’ fantasies. But while interbreeding with supermodels and makeup artists inevitably lends the appearance of evolutionary upgrades, songwriting seems to be a recessive trait. More to the point, although Lukas Nelson has inherited Willie’s reedy vocals, scions of privilege to the arena born don’t always develop much patience for quality control, and the reggae-tinged roots rock of his sophomore album, Wasted, suggests a fondness for that devil weed may have been the only lesson learned at home. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

A Place to Bury Strangers, Vexx, Daydream Machine

[KINETIC NOISE] Given their frontman’s day job, the beginnings of Brooklyn’s A Place to Bury Strangers may have been as dubious as it was auspicious. The disco-noise trio was founded by Oliver Ackermann, known foremost as the pedal fetishist behind Death by Audio, which made the throbbing, mechanized post-punk of its debut suspect for being a detached yet danceable commercial for Ackermann’s work behind the circuit boards. Like 2012’s Worship, the recent Transfixation leaves the trademark clang of blown-out guitars and pulsing industrial beats intact while nudging the overall groove more in the direction of New Order or latter-day Nine Inch Nails rather than esoteric amplifier worship. PETE COTTELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Charlemagne Palestine

[PERFORMANCE ART PIONEER] His longtime residence in Belgium may have left Charlemagne Palestine less familiar to Americans than some of his fellow late-1960s, early -’70s minimalist music scenesters. But unlike Philip Glass and Steve Reich, Palestine gravitated toward improvisation, happenings, installations, body art and video, along with his often repetitive, gradually evolving compositions. Friday’s show features his voice and piano, Saturday his video creations and, on Sunday, he’ll play the organ at the lovely Flanagan Chapel. BRETT CAMPBELL. 9 pm Friday and 8 pm Saturday, March 13 and 14. Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Ave., 239-7996. 6 pm Sunday, March 15. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 768-7461. Free. All ages.

FearNoMusic

[DUTCH THREAT] Secondgeneration minimalist pioneer Louis Andriessen is not only the Netherlands’ greatest living composer, he’s been a mentor and inspiration for many younger composers around the world, including those in New York’s renowned Bang on a Can collective. His wide-ranging music encompasses rock, politics, jazz and more, sometimes simultaneously, but always with originality and integrity. This tribute concert, which features music from the 1970s

CLASSICAL, ETC. through the ’90s, includes several Oregon premieres, including his Symphony for Open Strings, other works for percussion, cello, piano, and violin plus piano, and one of the century’s most notorious creations: Workers Union, which channels a political riot into highintensity music, here arranged for rock band with dueling percussionists. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Friday, March 13. $10-$30. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Thomas Lauderdale with the Oregon Symphony

[PINK PIANIST] Pink Martini pianist and founder Thomas Lauderdale, an Oregon Symphony board member and supporter who’s performed as a soloist with the orchestra in the past, again crosses the mythical divide between pop and classical, taking the solo role in 19th-century American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s ﬂamboyant Grand Tarantelle and Beethoven’s oddball Choral Fantasy, an intriguing quasi-study for the composer’s much more successful Symphony No. 9. The band also plays a couple of rarely performed 20th-century works, American composer Randall Thompson’s second symphony and music from Paul Hindemith’s ballet based on the life of St. Francis, Nobilissima visione. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday and 8 pm Monday, March 14-16. $22-$125. All ages.

Sounds of Brazil: Dia do Choro

[DANCE BRAZILIAN] Brazilians are pretty great on their feet, and choro music is the reason. The genre epitomizes old-school South American folk pop at its

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peak—upbeat rhythms, lots of Life Aquatic guitar tambour and a jazz-inﬂuenced mandolin playing smiling melodies over the top. The Dia do Choro, Portland’s celebration of the music, features four Brazilian-style ensembles in conﬁgurations ranging from guitar duo to full-on six-piece samba ensemble, and will chart the traditional style from inception to America’s mid-20th-century Brazilian invasion and beyond. PARKER HALL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 6:30 pm Saturday, March 14. $17 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Friends of Chamber Music: Hermitage Piano Trio

[RUSSIAN EMOTION] Two Russians and a Russian-American play violin, cello and piano, performing 19thand early-20th-century European classical compositions by five motherland composers and one from the fatherland—seemingly because Germany’s Mendelssohn wrote so beautifully for this configuration that they couldn’t ignore him. The trio’s music, which tends toward thoughtful, soaring melancholy, is perfectly interpreted, allowing the composers’ notes to expand and contract organically, like a pulsing ink-black orb floating in a bright white room. It’s an exhibit worth seeing, where each member contributes his virtuosity to a passionate musical whole. PARKER HALL. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Monday, March 16. $30-$47 general admission, $16-$21 students. All ages.

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THE MINUS 5 DUNGEON GOLDS (YEP ROC) [PSYCH ADJACENT] If the Minus 5 wants to count this as its 10th album, fine. But the dozen tracks on Dungeon Golds originate from Scott the Hoople in the Dungeon of Horror, a 2014 Record Store Day behemoth that included 55 tracks spread over five LPs. Sure, that release was a collector’s relic when it was issued, so reviving some of these tunes—half of which were supposedly jerked around in post-production again—seems reasonable. What’s most engaging about the whole ordeal, even after that reworking, is Scott McCaughey’s fecundity. Apart from the avalanche of songs he’s released with the Minus 5 over two decades, the guitarist was also part of Seattle’s Young Fresh Fellows, beginning with their 1984 debut, and that stuff has been a model for every band that looks like Weezer. Being so prolific, though, wouldn’t really matter if McCaughey didn’t write choruses with lines like, “I’ll be there to clean the guillotine.” That isn’t the only stab at wry wit during the course of the cobbled-together Dungeon Golds, either. “Zero Clowns” angles for the same mood, and achieves it in the face of all its “la la las.” A handful of songs hue toward country rock, but it’s split almost evenly with the R.E.M. jangle that’s an irrefutable part of the ensemble’s DNA. With McCaughey largely directing the revolving-door project, it’s his interplay with whoever happens to be around—and sometimes it’s Peter Buck, the late Ian McLagan, or Ken Stringfellow—that really makes this an exciting project, instead of something that a bunch of famous dudes just happen to be doing for kicks. The knotted-up guitar solo about halfway through the keyboard-inflected “Chinese Saucer Magnolia” should clue listeners in to how incendiary the seemingly random combination of players can actually be. DAVE CANTOR. SEE IT: The Minus 5 plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Tweedy, on Saturday, March 14. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages. Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

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LAST WEEK LIVE

[MARCH 11-17] clyde’s Prime rib restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi and Bradley

dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Flamin’ Groovies, Ape Machine, Witchburn and Pseudoboss

doug Fir Lounge

M AT T H E W S C H O N f E L D

830 E Burnside St. The Juliana Hatfield Three, Holiday Friends

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Sonny Hess

hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. From The Eyes Of Cain, Icarus The Owl, We The Wild

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

LaurelThirst Public house

2958 NE Glisan St. Giraffe Dodgers (9 pm); Lewi & the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Magnolia’s corner

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Todd Bayles

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Chervona Bambino, The Dolomites, Mr. Ben

Mississippi Studios

BIGGER THAN HIP-HOP: For many artists, a Sunday night show is a death sentence. But for DJ Premier, arguably hip-hop’s most influential producer, selling out a venue on a school night is an effortless feat. On March 8, the Hawthorne Theatre filled with hip-hop heads—not Twitter-versed teens in bucket hats and joggers, but real heads, who chattered about Mystikal in between acts and chanted “R.I.P. Guru” in tribute to Premier’s fallen Gang Starr partner. Before PRhyme—the legendary DJ’s new project featuring Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9”—took the stage, Your Old Droog, a tall, baby-faced New Yorker with a big mouth and a lot of hype behind him, warmed up the hardcore crowd with appropriately rugged verses delivered through a permanent smirk. It was the ideal set up for Royce (pictured), who also carries a forceful stage presence and wields the mic with a veteran’s ease. Nevertheless, he remained humbled by the man standing behind him. “I’ve been working a long time to say DJ Premier is my fucking DJ,” he proclaimed. Between scratches and sample loops, Primo returned the sentiment, taking on the role of proud mentor and hyping his cohort with the confidence that he’s once again backing one of the toughest MCs in the game. MATTHEW SCHONFELD. Read the full review at wweek.com/lastweeklive. Wed. March 11 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Adam Levy

alberta rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Martyn Joseph, Kris Delmhorst

alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Set It Off, Against The Current, As It Is, Roam

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Wolf Alice, Divers

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Warren G

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Wanderlust Social

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Taylor John Williams, Old Wave

duke’s Bar & Grill

SE 146th & Division St. James Otto

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Ian Christensen Trio

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Caleb Klauder and Reeb Williams

Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Firkin Full of Eye Candy

hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Machine Head

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. The Famous Haydell Sisters

Jimmy Mak’s

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

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Blues Jam

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LaurelThirst Public house

2958 NE Glisan St. Love and Light, Cats Under the Stars, Lewi Longmire, Little Sue (9 pm); Love Gigantic (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Natasha Kmeto, Grandparents, Swahili

rock creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Billy D

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Aniana w/ The Brett McConnell Lovetet

The heathman restaurant & Bar

1001 SW Broadway Just People

The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Neon Culpa, Wingnut Commander, Waffle Taco

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Pete RG, The Cabin Project, Alex Salcido, Reverb Brothers

Wilf’s restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band

Thu. March 12 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Adam Levy

alberta rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ignite TAO! v6

analog cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Scofflaw Soiree with Pink Lady & John Bennett Jazz Band

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends

chapel Pub

430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Lonesome Billies, Us Lights

roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Coal Chamber, Filter, Combichrist, American Head Charge

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Eliot Lipp, Late Night Radio, Stelouse

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Ape Machine, Witchburn, Pseudoboss

The Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Tigerface, DRGN KING, 6 Pack City

The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. pigWar w/ Elektrapod

The heathman restaurant & Bar

1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Cocks Arquette

The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio

The Muddy rudder Public house

8105 SE 7th Ave. Jack Dwyer & Friends

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. The Oregon Valley Boys, The Swingtown Vipers

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St. Malachi Graham, Benny Gilbert & Seth King

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Alchymeia and Darka Dusty

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Wingnut Commander, Hair Fire, Jackson Boone

Wineup On Williams

3037 N Williams Ave Thursday Night Jazz Jam

Fri. March 13 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Adam Levy

The Muddy rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Mark Shark

The Secret Society

aladdin Theater

116 NE Russell St. Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

alberta rose Theatre

The Secret Society

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. We Banjo 3 3000 NE Alberta St. Mr. Oong-Kah at 75

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Suburban Slim & Jim Wallace

cadigan’s corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Live Music

clyde’s Prime rib restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Muthaship

community Music center

3350 SE Francis Street Mousai Remix

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Hell’s Belles

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Dodos, Springtime Carnivore

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Mark Alan

hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Coma Boys, Zeroh(CA), Vinnie Dewayne + more!

hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Ron Rogers & the Wailing Wind

116 NE Russell St. Redray Frazier, Condition White, The Get Ahead

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Pat Travers Band, The Von Howlers

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St. Roselit Bone, That Coyote, Cult Choir

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Sister Mercy

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Fernando

Yale union (Yu)

800 SE 10th Ave. Charlemagne Palestine

SaT. March 14 al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Adam Levy

alberta rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Annalisa Tornfelt Album Release, The Sound Outside, Michael Hurley

alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Poor Man’s Whiskey

arlene Schnitzer concert hall

Jimmy Mak’s

1037 SW Broadway Thomas Lauderdale with the Oregon Symphony

Kells Brewpub

arrivederci Wine & Gifts

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination 210 NW 21st Ave. Flight of the Earls, Kells Pipers, Cul an Ti

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

LaurelThirst Public house

17023 SE McLoughlin Blvd Gold Dust: Fleetwood Mac Tribute Night

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jim Mesi

Bunk Bar

2958 NE Glisan St. The Foothills (9:30 pm); Joe McMurrian and Woodbrain (6 pm)

1028 SE Water Ave. Dogheart

Magnolia’s corner

1820 NE 21st Ave. Flower Power: Music from 1965-1975

4075 NE Sandy Blvd Byron & Johny

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Pura Vida Band, Fez Patale

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Marco Benevento, Superhuman Happiness

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Brewers Grade

rock creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Anita Margarita & The RattleSnakes

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Trash Talk, Ratking, Lee Bannon

Starday Tavern

6517 SE Foster Road The Quags and Pale Blue Sky

The heathman restaurant & Bar

1001 SW Broadway Barbara Lusch

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Nasalrod, Fools Rush

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Jacob Westfall

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live, Flight of the Earls, Kells Pipers, Grafton Street

LaurelThirst Public house

2958 NE Glisan St. Wayward Vessel, Dark Madrona (9:30 pm); Cedar Teeth (6 pm)

Mazza’s restaurant and Bar

3728 NE Sandy Boulevard Late Night Piano Bar, with Mont Chris Hubbard, Under The Lake

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave POPgoji, Three for Silver

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Late Night Action with Alex Falcone

Moda center

#150, 1 N Center Court St. The Rock & Worship Roadshow

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Carrie Cunningham

revolution hall

1300 SE Stark St, #110 Live Wire: Peter Mehlman, Sara Seager, and More

rock creek Tavern

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Garcia Birthday Band

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Split Infinities, Katya

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Shafty (Phish Tribute)

The heathman restaurant & Bar

1001 SW Broadway Shannon Day

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Gutters

central Lutheran church

The Muddy rudder Public house

club 21

The Old church

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lauren Sheehan and Tillamook Burn

2035 NE Glisan St. No Good Lovers, Thee Four Teens, The Reverberations

1422 SW 11th Ave. Sounds of Brazil: Dia do Choro PDX 2015

clyde’s Prime rib restaurant & Bar

116 NE Russell St. Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite

crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison St. Saturday Sessions. ABC DJs

crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside Street Tweedy, The Minus 5

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Shanghai Woolies with Orchestra L’Pow, Like A Rocket

doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. That 1 Guy, DJ Feels

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Mark Lemhouse and his Sublimities CD Release Show with Don & The Quixotes, Don & The Quixotes

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. RAF, The Cool Whips, DJ Hippie Joe

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Folding Space: Ardalan, the Perfect Cyn, Centrikal, Andy Warren, Simon Howlett, El Residente

Tony Starlight Showroom

1125 SE Madison Frank Sinatra Tribute

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St. Ray Talley Dancers, with Larry Yess & Mall Walker

Twilight cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Spellcaster, Spell, Skelator

march 11–17 Winona Grange No. 271 8340 SW Seneca St. Katie McNally, With Shauncey Ali & Neil Pearlman

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Common Kings

Zion Lutheran Church 1015 SW 18th Ave Ain’t That News, Portland Symphonic Girlchoir Spring Gala Concert

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Implore, Dissidence, The Siege Fire

The Muddy rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Jam

The ranger Station PDX

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd Hot Club Time Machine & Guests

Zion Lutheran Church

The rialto Corner Bar, Portland, Or

SuN. MarCh 15

Turn! Turn! Turn!

1015 SW 18th Ave Spring Gala Concert

al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Ghost to Falco

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. 2 Cellos

alberta rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Southern Troubadours In The Round, Joe Ely, Ruthie Foster and Paul Thorn

Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes Jam Session

Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Portland Casual Jam

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St. Hippie Love Slave’ CD Release Party

Clyde’s Prime rib restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Corkscrew

1665 SE Bybee Ave. Live Music

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Sinferno Cabaret

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Grace & Tony, Krista Herring, Ben Larson, Camerado

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave The Rhythm Renegades

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Billy D

hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. TASCAM Presents: The Portland Battle of The Bands

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. The Fourth Wall, Balto, Fur Coats

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Flight of the Earls, Kells Pipers, Grafton Street

LaurelThirst Public house 2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers, Open Mic

Lincoln Performance hall-Portland State 1620 SW Park Ave. Body Sung Electric

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Nolan Ford, Barley Draught

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cracker Unplugged, David Lowery & Johnny Hickman

MUSIC CALENDAR

529 SW 4th Ave. The Famous Haydell Sisters 8 NE Killingsworth St. Coppice, Joda Clment & Mathieu Ruhlmann, Seth Nehil & Kelly Rauer, Ingenting Kollektiva, Joda Clement and Mathieu Ruhlmann, Coppice and more!

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston, Bordertown

World Forestry Center

4033 S.W. Canyon Road Portland Youth Philharmonic Cushion Concerts

MON. MarCh 16 al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Ghost to Falco

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jake Shimabukuro

Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Groovy Wallpaper with Kathryn Claire

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet

TuE. MarCh 17 al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Ghost to Falco

analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. People’s Ink Weekly

analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Sidekicks, Cayetana & Gues

arlene Schnitzer Concert hall

1037 SW Broadway Widespread Panic

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St Grafton Street, Stomptowners, Cul an Ti, Sprig, Bob Soper Duo, Stringtown Ambassadors, FireFingers Duo

Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and Special Guests, Blue Tuesday

Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. St. Patrick’s Day

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Portland Woodshed Jazz Orchestra

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Flight of the Earls, Kells Pipers, Thick as Thieves

Lincoln hall at PSu

1620 SW Park Ave Hermitage Piano Trio, presented by Friends of Chamber Music

Mississippi Studios

Kells Brewpub

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, Jenny Don’t & The Spurs, Lewi Longmire

Kelly’s Olympian

rotture

Lake Theater & Cafe

Star Theater

210 NW 21st Ave. Flight of the Earls 426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy 106 N State St. Julie Amici @ Music Mondays

Lincoln hall at PSu 1620 SW Park Ave Hermitage Piano Trio

Lincoln Performance hall-Portland State

1620 SW Park Ave. Friends of Chamber Music: Hermitage Piano Trio

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Mr. Ben

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

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Torches to Triggers, Ninjas with Syringes, Faithless Saints

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Skweee Night

The Muddy rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

315 SE 3rd Ave. Heavy Tuesdays 13 NW 6th Ave. A Place to Bury Strangers, Vexx, Daydream Machine

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Bobby Peru, Clarke & The Himselfs, Sh*tty Weekend, Cult Choir

The Muddy rudder Public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

The rialto Corner

Bar 529 SW 4th Ave. Korrea The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tanked, St. Patrick’s Day Show

The Waypost Coffeehouse & Tavern

3120 N Williams Ave. WHIM, Candy Lee

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Blues Jam with Travers Kiley

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Bayside, Senses Fail, Seaway

rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Irish Sundays

rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Crater

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WALTERS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 2015 CONCERT SERIES BODYVOX-2 3/13 CHRIS SMITHER 4/10 PORTLAND CENTER STAGE 4/18 OREGON MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA 5/1 ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS 5/15 Purchase tickets at brownpapertickets.com or at the Walters box office 527 E Main St. Hillsboro, OR 503-615-3485 For a full concert listing visit us online at www.Hillsboro-oregon.gov/Walters

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BAR REVIEW

Where to drink this week. 1. Lompoc Tavern

1620 NW 23rd Ave., 894-9374, lompocbrewing.com. Everybody’s eerily quiet about this, but Lompoc Brewing makes a new IPA— like, a whole new kind of IPA—pretty much every week. And some of them are pretty damn good. And on Monday, it’s only $2.50.

2. Lake Theater & Cafe 106 N State St., Lake Oswego, 387-3236, laketheatercafe.com. Huh. There’s now a nice place to hang out in Lake Oswego. Amazing. They’ve got Pfriem Belgian strong blonde, Weihenstephaner hefe, and a movie screen that they use to watch Blazers games.

3. The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St., 421-4483, theliquorstorepdx.com. With old papers, old records, a basement dance club, a seamless horseshoe of a bar and housemade Blue Curacao memorializing its predecessor, the Blue Monk, this bar is off to a hell of a good start.

4. Sasquatch Brewing

6440 SW Capitol Highway, 402-1999, sasquatchbrewery.com. Put “brewing” in the name, and maybe you forget a place has eight cider taps. But in Southwest Portland, where cider runs rare, Sasquatch hosts mini tap takeovers and a mess of local cider.

5. Upright Brewing

240 N Broadway, Suite 2, 735-5337, uprightbrewing.com. This basement-brewing landmark in the Leftbank building is the one place in Portland you are always guaranteed to find our crisp, clean beer of the year, Engelberg Pilsner. Just make sure to bring some cash. Or a check. Pay on the barrelhead.

HAIL SEITAN: Vegan punk spots in Portland are like the Hydra. Cut the head off, and more will grow to take its place. Fast on the heels of Slabtown’s closure, punk-metal Black Water (835 NE Broadway, 5461682) is already worshipping at the altar of seitan, throwing together a sold-out Divers show with lines around the block before it was even running full hours. And the place even looks like Slabtown, right down to the scuffed-wood stage painted black, and spartan rumpus-room décor. The food is pretty good, in the old-school vegan way—lots of sauce and animal-free protein on the $8 vegan cheesesteak. But for now, Black Water is a little like a vacant clubhouse when shows aren’t in session, and a madhouse when they are. On an off Friday—with Tarantino’s entire film oeuvre projecting onto an above-stage screen in reverse chronological order—the bartender told everybody drinking at the bar they should go to the show at Habesha next door. So they did. But there’s metal on Mondays, and if you’ve got fucking Appendix in town from fucking Finland, nobody’s going to Habesha except on their knees. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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

SAT. MARCH 14 WED. MARCH 11 Bar XV

15 SW 2nd AVE Deep House Wednesdays

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. The Diamond stylus with King Tim 33 1/3

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave Ganz

THU. MARCH 12 Dixie Tavern

NS 3rd & Couch St. Throwback Thursdays

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St.

Body Party, Holla N Oates, Barisone

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Strictly Vinyl

FRI. MARCH 13 Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Just Blaze, DJ Nature, #Partygirl, Danny Merkury

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. DJ Bad Wizard

Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse 118 NE 28th Ave. DJ Roane

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Spring Space Attack: A Glam Extravaganza

Cruzroom

2338 NE Alberta St. Vinylogy

EastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. DJ Kenny 80’s Night

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean

1001 SE Morrison St. Verified: Uniiqu3, Suspect, Commune, 187 Moochie, Gangsigns

Moloko Plus

Mississippi Studios

Holocene

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hans Fricking Lindauers 21st Century Rhythm & Soul Review

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. Dance Party, DJ Beyonda

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Cuica

The GoodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Tropitaal Desi-Latino Soundclash, DJ Anjali, The Incredible Kid, Daniela Karina

SUN. MARCH 15 The GoodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. MOM (Motown on Mondays) on Sunday

MON. MARCH 16 Berbati

19 SW 2nd Ave. Future Bass

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

TUE. MARCH 17 Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Boombox

The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: ENID SPITZ. Theater: ENID SPITZ (espitz@wweek.com). Dance: KAITIE TODD (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: espitz@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce follows a busload of souls in hell on its field trip to heaven, navigating theological and philosophical quandaries along the way. The 1945 play combines the voyage of Dante’s The Divine Comedy with The Pilgrim’s Progress, all housed in an Alice in Wonderland-esque fantasy landscape. New York-based company Fellowship for Performing Arts tours their production at the Newmark Theater with this threeshow run. Newmark Theater, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm Friday, 4 pm and 8 pm Saturday, March 13-14. $29-$89.

Irish Women, Irish Men

Readers Theatre Repertory celebrates its annual Irish month with“Irish Women, Irish Men,” a two-show night directed by Mary McDonald-Lewis including Irish playwright Teresa Deevy’s Going Beyond Alma’s Glory, a radio play about an embezzling journalist and his egotistical actress wife. Lady Gregory’s Ingredients, a half-hour piece by L.A. dramatist Kelly Younger, follows. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 971-266-3787. 8 pm FridaySaturday, March 13-14. $8.

Jewtopia

Jewish Adam and gentile Chris both go to a single’s mixer in search of a good Jewish girl. Instead they find each other. The two 30-year-old singles form a pact: Adam will help degoi-ify Chris so he can win over a balebuste (excellent wife) and Chris will be Adam’s wingman. Triangle Productions stages the chaotic cultural comedy by Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson (Jennifer Love Hewitt starred in a 2012 film version) just in time for Passover. Mazel tov! Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday, March 12-April 4. $15-$35.

Pilot Season: From Beyond

Pick one: a “cosmic horror period comedy,” 30-something gamers attempting socialization, improvised horror a la H.P. Lovecraft, improvised comedy a la Mean Girls. Audiences choose their favorite from four staged pilots over four weeks and the winner gets a full run in Action/Adventure’s next season. This first installment, Brian Kuwabara’s From Beyond, promises physical comedy, improv and puppets in 1920s style. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 8 pm Thursday-Sunday, March 12-15. $12.

ALSO PLAYING Durang Durang

Post5 Theatre collection of six one-act plays by absurdist playwright Christopher Durang, touches on grave issues but doesn’t go deep. Instead, Durang glosses over anything too serious with a heavy dose of black humor. Buckle up; things get weird. Ridiculous lines fly fast, and the play’s physical movements are extreme. But the ensemble cast handles absurd theater without missing a beat. Entire lines were drowned out by audience laughter at an opening-weekend performance when Pat Janowski lisped perfectly through a fallen face-lift and Phillip J. Berns awkwardly clawed across the floor toward his character’s beloved collection of cocktail stirrers. One solemn moment resurfaces throughout, however: Unconnected characters softly repeat the line, “Now, if only I was happy.” But you’re not supposed to think about the sadness,

plus there’s hardly time for philosophizing between laughs. KAITIE TODD. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm FridaysSundays through March 28. $15-$20.

Hairspray

Portland Community College Theater directors Julianne Johnson-Weiss and Dan Hays stage this overly alliterative Broadway musical in which Tracy Turnblad belts ballads and strives for stardom on Corny Collins’ popular TV program. Heidi Dyer choreographs, and music direction is by Owen Hofmann-Smith. JAMES HELMSWORTH. PCC Sylvania Little Theatre, 12000 SW 49th Ave., 7224323. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, March 6-15; 11 am Thursday, March 12; 2 pm Sunday, March 15. $10, cash or check only.

Mary Stuart

Northwest Classical Theater and Cygnet Productions pair award-winning “favorites” Luisa Sermol and Lorraine Bahr for the classic catfight between cousins. Mary Stuart faces death after threatening the crown of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. Expect love and codpieces in this seventime Tony Award-nominated play by Peter Oswald, directed by Elizabeth Huffman. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday through March 29. $22.

NT Live: Treasure Island

A family-friendly adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of pirates and adventure, broadcast in high-def from London’s West End. Best for kids ages 10 and up. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. 2 and 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 1 and 2 and 7 pm Saturday, March 14. $15-$20.

Other Desert Cities

Portland Center Stage’s production of Jon Robin Baitz’s political dramedy about a rich white family in the aftermath of 9/11 begins as a a white-washed and washed-out everyfamily drama. Brooke Wyeth (D’arcy Dersham) is a travel writer who returns home for Christmas, bringing her unpublished novel about her late brother Henry’s terrorist associations and suicide. Publishing it could stain the family reputation and even endanger Polly the overbearing mom (Barbara Broughton), polo-clad dad Lyman (Ned Schmidtke), black sheep aunt Silda (Susan Cella) and a showstealing Joel Reuben Ganz as brother Trip. Only after intermission, when these caricatures finally become characters through telling details, does the play take off. All two hours of the show stays in the Wyeths’ cream-carpeted living room, but when Baitz’s plot gets bolder, the veteran actors— most with Broadway credits—are able to follow suit. Stage lighting assumes a noteworthy role itself: A wavy, bluelight projection is more noticeable after intermission and spotlights dim and blaze strategically, creating a fishbowl effect. When the monologues go long, these tricks steal our attention back. An eventual plot twist adds complexity, but the production mostly stays its narrow course through the well-trodden territory of the troubled rich. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays and noon Thursdays through March 22. $39-$69.

Precious Little

Defunkt Theatre presents Madeleine George’s play about a gay linguist in her early 40s who decides to have a child on her own. When she learns her child might have a genetic abnormality, she’s launched down a path that introduces her to—among others—the last speaker of a dying lan-

guage and a gorilla at the zoo. JAMES HELMSWORTH. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 4812960. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays through March 21 (no shows Feb. 15 and 22). $15-$25 Fridays-Saturdays, “pay what you can” Thursdays and Sundays.

The Night Alive

“Sad and poor Irish people sitting in a room” is practically a theatrical genre unto itself these days. The Night Alive, by famed Irish playwright Conor McPherson, hardly reinvents it. But in this production by director Scott Yarbrough, Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s players do hit all the right notes. Protagonist Tommy (Damon Kupper) goes out for a bag of chips, finds bruised Aimee (Christina Holtom) and takes her in. Most of the action comes from McPherson’s writing, which goes for laughs in the dark places. “Which way was your nose crooked before?” Tommy asks Aimee when he first picks her up. The deepest plunge, however, is using signs of poverty—savings kept in a box, feeding a meter for electricity, sleeping in cars—for laughs. Aimee’s assailant Kenneth (Rolland Walsh) is terrifying, but the leading couple is less memorable. The play is less about their lives and more about the stuff at life’s periphery. JAMES HELMSWORTH. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 235-1101. 7:30 pm WednesdaysSaturdays and 2 pm Sundays through March 14. $22-$29.

random caller a regular on his public access, call-in variety show and once travelled from L.A. to Tennessee purely by crowd-sourcing help. His first comedy album came out just a year ago but back in 2010 Variety named him a top comic to watch. Since then he’s been on Comedy Central... and more importantly, Hope & Faith. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, March 12-14. $15-$32.

Control Yourself

Bri Pruett headlines this month’s stand-up night featuring Bridgetown Comedy Festival pick Paul Jay, Barbara Holm, Nick Walker and stand-up regular Robbie Pankow. Try to control yourself. Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 9 pm Sunday, March 15.

Control Yourself: A Showcase of Funny

JoAnn Schinderle—a Midwest transplant with a high-energy, engaging style—hosts a free, twice-monthly standup showcase, followed by an open mic at 10 pm. Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta St., 284-7665. 9 pm every first and third Sunday. Free. 21+.

Curious Comedy Showdown

Curious Comedy’s improvisers duke it out, in hopes of winning audience votes and advancing to the next round of competition. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:30 pm every Friday and Saturday. $12-$15.

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PERFORMANCE

Three Men on a Horse

Greeting card writer Erwin is lucky when it comes to picking horses. The catch is he can’t personally bet, hence a comedic collaboration with small-time gambler Patsy in this 1930s comedy by John Cecil Holm and Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright George Abbott. WOW (wine on Wednesdays) night is March 18, $25 for ages 35 and younger. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm and 7 pm some Sundays through April 12. $32.

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

In addition to writing and illustrating the comic strip Pearls Before Swine, Stephan Pastis has started penning kids’ chapter books. Now, the protagonist of that series—a wannabe detective with a giant polar bear for a business partner—makes it onstage, courtesy of a world-premiere play at Oregon Children’s Theatre. Best for ages 8 and up. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays and 2 pm Sundays through March 22. $15-$28.

COMEDY & VARIETY (Still) Surrounded By Idiots

Last year Brody Theater’s founder Tom Johnson was surrounded by idiots. Hasn’t changed, hence this self-produced follow-up that’ll try to match 2014’s sold-out success. This season Brody comics Kerry Leek and Mike Karras join the show. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays, March 7, 14, 21 and 28. $12.

A Game of Horse

Your favorite childhood game turned comedy show. Local comedians pass jokes and take shots at one another as the first picks a topic, second has to one-up the first and so on. H-O-RS-E. Kickstand Comedy Space, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 937-219-1334. 9:30 pm Thursday, March 12. $5.

Am I Right, Ladies?

Once a month you can enjoy a spasminducing, estrogen-loaded feminist experience. Jen Tam and Portland Mercury blogger Barbara Holm host “Portland’s finest feminists” for a comedy night sticking it to the man. Ford Food and Drink, 2505 SE 11th Ave., 236-3023. 8 pm every second Saturday. $5.

Chris Gethard

Be warned: Chris Gethard likes to pull people from his audience. The New York author and comedian made a

HoSTagE SITuaTIon: (From left) John San nicolas, Connor Toms, William ontiveros and Imran Sheikh.

THE INVISIBLE HAND Politics play at artists rep.

Apparently it’s easier to stage Driving Miss Daisy in Bangladesh than an off-Broadway political thriller in Portland. At least when the U.S. State Department gets involved. Local director Allen Nause has been trying, and failing, to stage Ayad Akhbar’s The Invisible Hand in Portland for four years. He insists the production deserves genuine Pakistani talent to play two Islamic militants who kidnap American investment banker Nick Bright (Connor Toms) and demand $10 million in ransom. As Bright and his captor, Bashir, grow close, the play turns personal. “We really get an intimate look at Bashir,” Nause says, “so the actor has to live the culture, the religion, the language even.” Luckily, Nause knew just the man for the job. The director worked internationally with Arts America and, directing a Pakistani Odd Couple, he met his ideal Bashir. Enter Uncle Sam. The State Department wasn’t jumping to import Pakistani men to play terrorists. At first, “paperwork delays” on work visas pushed The Invisible Hand out of its spring 2013 slot at Artists Rep. The Gin Game took over, and Nause’s dream was deferred until fall. Still, no visas. In the meantime, Akhtar’s Disgraced won the Pulitzer Prize and Akhtar pulled The Invisible Hand to rework it before any more stagings. That’s when State officials spoke up. They denied the work visas because: “Here’s their quote: There ‘wasn’t sufficient need for Pakistani actors,’” Nause reads. “I decided it was just time to go for it,” he says. Ayad finished rewriting, and Seattle’s ACT company asked Nause to direct its production, which won a Critics’ Choice Award. With enough clout from the award and ACT’s backing, Nause can finally produce The Invisible Hand on Artists Rep’s stage. The Portland premiere will feature two actors from Seattle, one from New York, and an Artists Rep resident (John San Nicolas). The Pakistani Oscar from Nause’s Odd Couple production did make it to Portland on a travel visa and he coached the cast in Punjabi pronunciation. “Maybe it’s part of his culture or faith,” Nause speculated, “but his view is that it was all meant to be.” ENID SPITZ.

SEE IT: The Invisible Hand is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St. 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays and 2 pm Sundays through April 5. $25-$49. Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

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Earthquake Hurricane

An army of impressive Portland comedians—Curtis Cook, Alex Falcone, Bri Pruett and Anthony Lopez—host a weekly standup showcase with some of the funniest people you’ll ever see in the basement of a bike shop. Kickstand Comedy Space, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 937-219-1334. 8:30 pm every Wednesday. $5 suggested.

Flair: An Office Space Parody

Use all your willpower not to quote along with local director Trenton Shine’s staging of that movie everyone has seen. Wear your flair. We’re lazy, but we just might care. Yeaaaaah, so we’ll see you on Saturday. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday through March 28. $12.

Funny Humans vs. the Wheel

If you go to enough shows around town, you start to memorize comedians’ sets. Think of this weekly show, hosted by silly duo Adam Pasi and David Mascorro, as an antidote to all that repetition: Comedians start out with a planned set, but halfway through, they have to spin a wheel to determine what comes next—crowd work, one-liners, maybe even a heckle battle. Bar of the Gods, 4801 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2322037. 9 pm every Sunday. Free. 21+.

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Phil Schallberger and Christian Ricketts host a Friday night of comics playing video games. But they promise to make it interesting with a “tournament of champions,” pitting comedians against one another with colorful live commentary. Kickstand Comedy Space, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 937-219-1334. 7:30 pm Thursday, March 12.

Garbage People

A Grinch-style story time for grownups where local comics tell dark tales of their own villainy. Brodie Kelly hosts a lineup including 2015 Bridgetown Comedy Festival pick David Mascorro. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 9 pm Friday, March 13. $5. 18+.

It’s Gonna Be Okay

Hosted by the ever-chipper Barbara Holm, this twice-monthly showcase is a prime spot to catch Portland’s top comics, as well as the occasional out-of-towner. The cozy basement room is almost always packed (especially impressive for a Monday night), and Holm often tosses out prizes—plastic dinosaur figurines, comic books— to audience members. Also: free skeeball afterward. EastBurn, 1800 E Burnside St., 236-2876. 8:30 pm every first and third Monday. Free. 21+.

Late Night Action

Rep. Earl Blumenauer and 105.1 The Buzz host Daria are featured in March’s installment of this hyperlocal Tonight Show hosted by comedians Bri Pruett and Alex Falcone plus Christian Ricketts, Lucia Fasano and Anthony Lopez. We hope Blumenauer busts a move to the soundtrack of the night’s musical act, Chervona. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 7 pm Saturday, March 14. $15.

Naked Comedy Open Mic

The Brody hosts a thrice-weekly open-mic night. Comics get fourminute standup slots and can sign up online. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Free with one-item minimum purchase.

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PUPPY LOVE: Bag & Baggage’s The Six Gentlepersons of Verona swaps cock for feminine wit in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s weakest play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. B&B is known for unusual interpretations and doesn’t disappoint here. The all-female cast—not counting aww-inducing pug Crab—is transplanted to a 1970s Verona, fringe-edged suede and all. Proteus (Cassie Greer) falls for a reciprocating flower child, Julia (Arianne Jacques), and his adrenaline junkie chum, Valentine (Clara-Liis Hillier), pines after lovely Silvia (Jessi Walters). But when Proteus spots Silvia, his love for Julia wanes and Shakespearean entanglements ensue. Hillier’s bona fide enthusiasm as Valentine could win anyone’s heart, but the other lovers lack a spark. Instead, eloquent “fools,” Speed (Kaia Hillier) and Launce (Jessi Walters), steal the show with tongue-in-cheek love advice: “If you love her, you cannot see her. Because love is blind.” It must be true. B&B won us over, mullets and pugs included. KATHRYN PEIFER. SEE IT: The Six Gentlepersons of Verona is at the Venetian Theater, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 693-3953. 7:30 pm Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 22. $26-$30. 42

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Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 7:30 pm every Thursday. $5.

The Comedy Bull

Portland comics are generally very loving and supportive. The churlishly avuncular Anatoli Brant brings some heat to the scene with this competitive show, which requires standups to respond to surprise topics and improv challenges. The funnier they are, the longer they remain onstage. Brant recently expanded the show to Helium: Every three months, the six strongest comedians will duke it out. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm every second Friday. $8.

DANCE (Un)Made Solo Relay

Most dance performances last one, maybe two weeks. Performance Works Northwest’s latest dance experiment, the (Un)Made Series, ambitiously spans years. Like a game of telephone, dancers in each monthly performance will try to remember the solo from the previous month. The series kicks oﬀ this week with artistic director Linda Austin’s own piece, a solo of awkward movements and still poses intended to make the audience notice otherwise mundane moments. Future shows will feature local dancers keyon gaskin and Nancy Ellis, choreographer Tahni Holt and Linda K. Johnson, co-founder of Conduit Dance. The plan is for a two to three-year series culminating in a fully staged dance performance...but that’s a ways down the road. KAITIE TODD. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, March 13-14. $10 per performance or $35 for the series.

Body Sung Electric

The Agnieszka Laska Dancers have consistently paired modern dance with live classical music since forming in 2003, until now. Last December they celebrated the 75th birthday of Tomas Svoboda, one of Portland’s most prominent composers, with an original work set to his classical scores. In Body Sung Electric the company will try a completely diﬀerent style, swapping strings for synthesizers and live orchestras for canned tracks. Seven Agnieszka Laska dancers collaborated with local composers to create scores from electronic beats and manipulated everyday sounds. The resulting dances show a ride range, some darkly humorous, some modelled after orbiting planets, and some set to sparse sounds without any rhythm at all. KAITIE TODD. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 715-1866. 8 pm Sunday, March 15. $10-$20. Free for PSU students.

Pepper and Bones Presents: Freaky Friday the 13th

Local burlesque producers Dee Dee Pepper and Wanda Bones team up (again) to celebrate Friday the 13th with a mix of sultry and superstitious performances. The show trades Freddy and Jason for Bones and Rummy Rose, whose new “double assles” routine is exactly what it sounds like. In Pepper and Bones’ “Freaky Friday,” the two swap places and get jealous, and Pepper gives us a mythology lesson of sorts in an act about St. Patrick and those pesky snakes. KAITIE TODD. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 10 pm Friday, March 13. $10 . 21+.

Salon Skid Row: KORREA, Eurhapsodoi, Haley McCurdy, Pancho & Cinema Obscura

Produced by local experimental artist Jeremy Catterton (aka KORREA), this new monthly show is a fusion of live music, theatre, video artistry and dance, including a technique that Catterton calls

“Celda.” In Spanish, celda means “cell” and is slang for “prison.” The style follows its namesake, trapping dancers inside repetitive movements inspired by lines from the script. This month’s show features dancers Ithica Tell and Mathew Bostrom in a boy meets girl story centered around a ﬂip phone. Preshow performances include freestyler Eurhapsodoi, who fuses hip-hop and Greek myth, new songs from Hayley McCurdy and classical guitarist Pancho in front of psychedelic video projections. KAITIE TODD. Rialto Corner Bar, 401 SW Alder St., 228-7605. 8 pm Tuesday, March 17. Free. 21+.

The Dance Cartel

Ever “fluffed the haters off ” or “torched it” while dancing in the club? The Dance Cartel is here to show you how. The glitter-obsessed New York City collective’s tag line is

“dance that you can dance to.” Their YouTube videos teach you how to “Clap Slap Pat” or do a “Squishing Bugs and Shooting Lasers” dance move, which might come in handy at the show. Live, the 10-person dance group encourages crowd participation between their alternately slick and goofy dance moves. If you didn’t rehearse beforehand just go oﬀ live instruction during the show; The Dance Cartel’s stop at the Holocene to be a giant dance party—just slightly more coordinated. Local marching band Lovebomb Go-Go and DJ Bobby D will be the night’s music. KAITIE TODD. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm Wednesday, March 11. $7.

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BR’ER ROSE (SPECULATIVE DRAMA) Southern charms with a Grimm twist.

Local director Megan Skye Hale’s Br’er Rose is a formidable re-creation of the earliest versions of Sleeping Beauty. The story, a princess cursed to sleep for 100 years, remains intact. Hale turns the Brothers Grimm classic into a mix of fine art and goth/punk aesthetics set in the Southern bayou. Marisol Ceballos plays the princess-turned-swamp girl, and Hale pares the rest of the cast down from the Grimms’ 13 faeries to seven. But nothing is lost in that translation. Each fairy, costumed like a sheet ghost, bears a gift to the princess: a looking glass, a gavel, and finally the uninvited drops a sinister red skull into the crib. Dark touches of Southern lore creep in throughout the play, like black tar on the hands of the uninvited and the spinning wheel where Br’er Rose pricks her finger. These symbols are handled with a spartan elegance fitting the minimalist show. Ceballos’ smiling narration is the play’s sole voice. The soundtrack is a smorgasbord of original compositions, early jazz and what must have been Warren Ellis brimstone guitar from the soundtrack of The Proposition. But every other character is silent. Their physical acting, though more interpretive, is strong; the king and queen march regally about, and facial expressions (when not masked) do the rest of the talking. Standout performances come from Lauren Mitchell as the kitchen boy (et al.) as she crawls across the stage, and Nathan H.G. flittering on finger wings as the Whooping Crane. Cuddling up to her own show, Hale clearly relishes her scenes as the lone faerie in black. Considering the blips that come with budget limitations, this premiere production of Br’er Rose makes the best of things. Audio sometimes skipped abruptly, there weren’t quite enough lights to illuminate performers cavorting through the audience, and neighboring train sounds repeatedly threatened the play. But overall the scene was warm and never underlit, and a crib and spindle were really the only props needed. When the silent prince finally finds his way through those fantasy bayou brambles to rouse his sleeping beauty, prepare for a surprise too pleasant to give away here. NATHAN CARSON.

SEE IT: Br’er Rose is at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, 1464 SE 2nd Ave. facebook.com/steepandthorny. 8 pm FridaySaturday, March 13-14. $18. Willamette Week MARCH 11, 2015 wweek.com

VISUAL ARTS

MARCH 11–17

Cynthia Lahti: Battle

out in Kevin Kadar’s show, Portals and Puzzles, is the acrylic painting Firewall. With its flame-licked, scorched-earth landscape, it looks like the unholy love child of James Lavadour, Alex Lilly and Hieronymus Bosch. In the back galleries hang Takahiko Hayashi’s impossibly intricate etchings and drawings on paper. The astonishing series of 12 pen drawings, collectively entitled In a Swirl of Many, Many Small Circles, shows a geometric cyclone of circles floating like snowflakes or fairy-dust. Through March 14. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

On the heels of winning the 24th annual Bonnie Bronson Fellowship Award, Cynthia Lahti exhibits a suite of enigmatic and satisfying sculptural and photographic objects at PDX. In the past, Lahti’s idiosyncracies have occasionally veered into preciousness, but not in these works, which are at once witty and accessible. The top two-thirds of the digital print Bank, for example, shows a woman’s belly, pantyhose-clad groin and legs; the print’s bottom third shows a woman’s lips, chin and hair, but not her eyes. Like the eyeless female nudes painted by the late Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Lahti’s image is denied the advantage of a window into the soul. Unlike Wesselmann’s objectifying paintings, Lahti’s work is neither smug nor salacious, but very, very smart. Through March 28. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries by Rosemarie Beck

If you were an “important” New York painter in the late 1940s and 1950s, you dutifully pledged allegiance to Abstract Expressionism and trafﬁcked in dollops, drizzles, smears and drips. Not so for Rosemarie Beck (1923-2003), subject of a rigorous exhibition at PSU organized by art historian Sue Taylor. In her mature work, Beck eschewed abstract statements, preferring to portray ﬂeshand-blood human beings. Sometimes, as in the oil painting Two with Horse, her depictions were frankly sensual and erotic. She also drew inspiration from the myths of Classical antiquity, a predilection that was not exactly considered forward-thinking by her contemporaries. Still, she persevered not only in the medium of painting but also in drawing and embroidery. More information at rosemariebeckexhibit2015.blogspot.com. Through May 3. Broadway Lobby Gallery at Portland State, Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave.

Dark Ecologies

The ﬁrst thing you see when you walk into Bullseye’s three-artist show, Dark Ecologies, is Carolyn Hopkins’ beautiful and disturbing sculpture, Cascade. It depicts a strung-up dog with stylized entrails spilling out of its belly and looping over a tree limb. Glass beads link the dog to an eviscerated bird underneath it, which appears to leak blood into a red pool on the ﬂoor. This violent, virtuosic piece is left wide open to each viewer’s interpretation. Emily Nachison’s Diver is equally allusive, with its succession of oysters opening up to reveal crystals and geodes inside. Finally, Susan Harlan’s kiln-formed glass panels are diminutive masterpieces of exquisitely nuanced textures and wave forms in blue, beige, black and orange. Through March 28. Bullseye Projects, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Nicholas Nixon: Hospice Patients

Hedonic Reversal

By now, the fetishization of urban decay (so-called “ruin porn”) has reached the point of ubiquity, if not outright obnoxiousness. In an intriguing twist, artist Rodrigo Valenzuela has kicked the genre up into a “meta-” plane. In his suite of photographs entitled Hedonic Reversal, he’s created fake ruins in his studio, then taken pictures of them. So he’s not fetishizing authentically derelict buildings; he’s critiquing the fetishization of derelict buildings, and he’s doing so as an artist buttressed by the platform and aesthetic credibility aﬀorded by a gallery show. It’s a brain twister that Valenzuela leaves it to us as viewers to parse. Through April 4. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

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Nicholas Nixon is best known for his series The Brown Sisters, for which he’s photographed his wife and her three sisters every year since 1975. He’s showing a diﬀerent body of work at Blue Sky this month, but one that also deals with the passage of time. In Hospice Patients, he trains his lens on people who are dying and their caregivers, friends and family. The patients are gaunt and careworn, but it’s their loved ones who seem to be having the roughest time. In the tender Maryann, Marianne, Madelon, and Elen Brinker, Wellesley, Massachusetts, an elderly woman lies in her bed at home, eyes closed, surrounded by onlookers. There is tacky wallpaper and kitschy furniture all around. There is a poinsettia. Three black dogs lie at the foot of the bed. It’s a scene of such comfortably mundane Americana, it seems almost incidental that a human being is living out her ﬁnal moments. It’s to Nixon’s credit that he brings us such intimate moments with such a deeply humane sense of restraint and respect. Through March 29. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.

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Rebecca Johnson: Barns

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

Rebecca Johnson’s acrylic paintings of barns exude a quiet elegance. In the pieces Spring Ranch, Gable Roof Barn and Barn on a Hill Clarke Road, she renders the structures with a cipher-like lack of affect. The barns look forlorn, sandwiched between flat, green grass and an even flatter blue sky. They don’t look so much like actual barns as they do Platonic ideals, filtered through some eerie Andrew Wyeth time warp. Heightening this ethereality is the fact that Johnson braces her paintings with wood salvaged from barns and other structures. These aren’t panels you pick up from Blick Art Materials; they’re relics with unique histories, which seem to bubble up into the paint above them. Through March 28. PDX Window Project, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

To Feel What I Am

Have social media affected our body language? That’s a big question, and in the exhibition To Feel What I Am, curators Eileen Isagon Skyers and Iris Williamson answer it obliquely and incompletely. Mostly that’s because Hap is a small space, and there are a whopping eight artists in the show. As a consequence, it feels too crowded with objects and ideas. The most successful piece visually is a short film called Aquarium by Chicago-based artist Tobias Zehntner. It was shot underwater in a swimming pool, with the camera upside-down. The bathers, therefore, appear to be swimming upside-down, with their legs where we expect their heads to be. This is an extremely odd effect that you have to see to really appreciate. Does it have anything to do with social media? Damned if I know, but it’s certainly cool to look at. Through March 28. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101.

Words, Words, Words: An Exhibition of Text-based Artwork

The relationships between text and image have given artists fodder for exploration for a long, long time. That’s what hieroglyphics were about, as well as illuminated manuscripts, petroglyphs and the traditions of Chinese, Japanese and Islamic calligraphy. It’s also what inspires the artists displaying their work in February and March at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Jenny Holzer’s scrolling electronic messages have made her an international art star. Ditto for Ed Ruscha’s enigmatic words painted in typeset fonts across mountain and desert vistas. And then there are the text-and-map sculptures of U.K.born, Ashland-based artist Matthew Picton. Picton, who used to show at Mark Woolley Gallery and Pulliam Deﬀenbaugh, joins Elizabeth Leach’s roster with this exhibition. Through March 28. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

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PNCA’S NEW DIGS Look closely for the schooner…

First Thursday’s must-see destination for March was the brand-flippin’-new campus of Pacific Northwest College of Art, which crowns the North Park Blocks at 511 NW Broadway. Although the building’s name is an unwieldy 15 syllables—the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design—the structure itself is anything but. Portland architecture star Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works has invigorated a century-old building with an ingenious redesign. Originally a post office, then a federal building, the structure had been tackily retrofitted over passing decades with cumbersome low ceilings and floor coverings, a labyrinthine layout and the kind of fluorescent-bulbed, government-meets-corporate aesthetic that calcifies souls. Renovated and revivified by Allied Works, the building centers on a 2.5-story atrium ringed by thick metal cables, which drape diagonally like ropes tying a tall ship’s sails. In fact, the space as a whole feels like a cross between a schooner and a circus tent. Fitting given that anything as impractical as a fine-arts education may as well be a floating theater of the absurd sailing toward Atlantis. Beneath the atrium and surrounding the expansive commons, artworks stand, hang and hold forth, including a handsome debut exhibition, Gathering Autonomy: Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, in the newly inaugurated 511 Gallery. On opening night, visitors’ chatter echoed into the skylights, mingling with ambient soundscapes from video installations. Those skylights are one of Cloepfil’s most bracing touches; by day they flood the newly unearthed hardwoods and marble tiles in a luminous honey bath. The overall gestalt is quite grand, if a touch drab, with a color palette tending toward Calvin Klein ecru and eggshell. Chromatically, the space would benefit from, say, a juicy stripe painting by Tim Bavington or a sculpture of Jeff Koons shinymetal variety, although such acquisitions would have shot the project’s already-spendy $34 million budget through those fortunate skylights. Lastly, let’s face it, PNCA’s new home needs a catchy nickname for its cumbersome formal moniker, something more imaginative than its address. Some are calling it the “511 Building.” Hmm…nautical meets circus. How about the Commodore Ringling? RICHARD SPEER.

GO: The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design is at 511 NW Broadway, pnca.edu.

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Jeff Chang

Bare the Blarney

Examining comic strips and contemporary art alongside academic essays, historic speeches, campus protests and even corporate marketing campaigns, Jeﬀ Chang assembles a picture of race relations and racial progress in his new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

According to legend, those who kiss the Blarney Stone (built into the battlements of Blarney Castle in Ireland) will be granted the gift of gab. Testing the power of persuasiveness, Jacobsen’s Books will host four contributing authors from Windtree Press’ new anthology, Gifts from the Heart. Jacobsen’s Books, 211 E Main St., 681-8243. 6:30 pm. Free.

David Axelrod and Amy MacLennan

In his new collection of poems, Folly, David Axelrod introduces us to Dostoyevsky while Nordic skiing, we get a haircut, we consider— and play—the ﬁ gure of the fool on our shared road of error and ignorance. Axelrod will read from his new collection along with fellow poet Amy MacLennan (The Fragile Day, Weathering). Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7-9 pm. Free.

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Portland Story Theater

Infamous amateur hour, St. Patrick’s Day is about more than college kids puking green in the gutters. Portland Story Theater is highlighting the culture’s legacy of storytelling with its performance Kiss Me, I’m Irish, featuring storytellers Maura Conlon, Lawrence Howard and Lynne Duddy and hosted by Penny Walter. But don’t worry, they still promise “colorful language, sexual escapades of a questionable nature and numerous examples of extremely poor judgment.” Sláinte! Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., 897-7037. 8 pm. $15-$18.

Memoir Group Reading

Few literary forms can match the memoir in terms of unﬂinching honesty, dark humor, heartbreak and cringe-inducing discomfort. Local authors Marnie Freeman, Melissa Gittelman, Fredrick Swan, Marjorie Belson and Veronica Esagui will share from their books and widely diﬀering life experiences. Another Read Through Books, 3932 N Mississippi, 208-2729. 1:30 pm. Free.

Cat Warren

Although Fido might not seem like a genius when he gets his head stuck in the trashcan, working dogs have been trained to not only sniﬀ out bombs and drugs but to help locate drowning victims or even ﬁnd the unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers. English professor and cadaver-dog handler Cat Warren will talk about her new book, What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World. Vintage Books, 6613 E Mill Plain Blvd., 360-694-9519. 4-5:30 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Robert Scheer

If you’ve ever shopped for a product online then had that same product follow you to every subsequent website, it’s hard not to get the feeling that you’re being watched. And of course we are, as Robert Scheer points out in his new book, They Know Everything About You. Scheer argues that the information revolution will lead to the downfall of freedom as we convert to an ever more pervasive surveillance state. Although step one might be rethinking all those bong photos you posted to Instagram. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 Smallpressapalooza

While they don’t have the budget of big publishing houses for fancy graphic design or to send three review copies all to the same oﬃce, small presses can introduce us to some of the most groundbreaking work by new or established writers. So to celebrate the little guys, the eighth annual Smallpressapalooza will host a reading by small-press authors. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 6 pm. Free.

MARK ADAMS, MEET ME IN ATLANTIS Every clue to the final resting place of the lost city of Atlantis comes from a single, ancient source: the Greek philosopher Plato. And even he heard the story eighth-hand, passed down from a distant ancestor who heard it from an Egyptian priest some 9,000 years after the legendary city purportedly sank beneath the waves. Moreover, much of Plato’s Somewhere, beneath the sea… description of Atlantis sounds patently impossible: a Bronze Age city before there were Bronze Age cities, crisscrossed by manmade waterways more than 80 times the volume of the Panama Canal. So was Atlantis real, or just a literary device invented by Plato to illustrate the fragility of civilization and other political ideas laid down in The Republic? Author Mark Adams spans the globe to answer that question in Meet Me in Atlantis (Dutton, 320 pages, $27.95). The search for Atlantis is a task shunned by most academics, so Adams grounds his quest by enlisting the aid of Tony O’Connell, a retired working-class Irishman who has compiled perhaps the world’s largest online encyclopedia of scientific theories about Atlantis, atlantipedia.ie. O’Connell writes in an evenhanded tone, skeptical but openminded, favoring no particular theory or location for the lost city. Next, Adams travels to Minnesota, where a congressman from the Gilded Age did more than anyone since Plato to shape popular conceptions (and misconceptions) about Atlantis. Ignatius Donnelly promulgated the geologically improbable belief that Atlantis sank into the Atlantic. He also credited the lost city with inventing the pyramids, mummification of the dead, and even male circumcision. With his trademark wit, Adams likens Donnelly’s theories to a book he once bought at a yard sale that sought “to prove that Paul McCartney had died at the height of the Beatles’ fame and had been secretly replaced by an exact double.” From there, Adams leads his readers on a world tour of plausible sites for the lost city: Tartessos, a trade city now believed buried beneath a swamp in southwestern Spain; the island nation of Malta; Knossos on Crete; Santorini, Greece, a city built around a lake formed by a volcanic eruption; and, perhaps most intriguingly, a circular geological depression near Agadir on the west coast of Morocco. All of these locations roughly fit most of Plato’s criteria for the lost city of Atlantis, Adams reasons, but so do dozens of “lost cities” around the Mediterranean, a region scourged throughout history by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. Ultimately, Adams hedges his bets, concluding that the story of Atlantis is not entirely fact or fiction. Instead, it’s a blend of oral tradition, Pythagorean mathematics and documented history in which Plato demonstrated for his readers that “everything else in the universe was worth guessing at, even the universe itself.” MATT BUCKINGHAM. GO: Mark Adams speaks at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, on Thursday, March 12. 7:30 pm. Free.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Cinderella

D+ Disney’s Cinderella is an animated classic beyond question. But what do you get when you replace the iconic singing fairy godmother with Helena Bonham Carter and a loud, repetitive score? You get Kenneth Branagh’s tiresome live-action retcon of Cinderella. In Branagh’s Cinderella, we meet not only Lily James’ Ella—yes, that is her new name—but also her perfect, happy parents, albeit briefly. Her mother’s final words: “Have courage and be kind.” (Get used to that advice— you’ll hear it often.) Her father gets remarried to her late mother’s polar opposite, the cruel, ambitious Lady Tremaine (Cate Blanchett, having a ball as the ice queen in green). While villains do tend to be more interesting than heroes, the difference is pronounced here. Blanchett plays the only character with any, well, character, while Bonham Carter channels her inner Johnny Depp, and Prince Charming (Richard Madden) gets swept off his feet by the profundity of “Have courage and be kind.” The story is changed so the prince falls for Ella before the ball. “Cinderella” is a pejorative concocted by Ella’s boorish stepsisters. So of course Ella introduces herself to the prince as Cinderella. This is one of several alterations that make little sense, but Cinderella has the courage to assume you weren’t paying attention anyway. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

Run All Night

Liam Neeson pits his very specific set of skills against Ed Harris as the Neesonaissance continues unabated. r. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Wild Canaries

B Bickering Brooklyn couple Barri and Noah (played by real-life couple Sophia Takal and director Lawrence Michael Levine) become bumbling detectives when their 84-year-old neighbor, Sylvia, mysteriously dies. Suspecting her down-and-out son (Kevin Corrigan), they begin a breaking-and-entering spree and blatantly stalk their neighbors while disguised in wide-brimmed hats and wider-rimmed sunglasses. The couple’s lesbian roommate (Alia Shawkat) obnoxiously titters with Barri over imagined murder plots, befuddling this fast-paced whodunit even further. The two women seem more of a couple than Barri and Noah. Eventually, suspicion turns to the couple’s abusive, poker-playing, pot-smoking landlord, who apparently has a fetish for creating models of his closest friends’ severed heads. All in the name of art. From the opening scene—in which a man in gloves and the iconic taupe trench coat stalks in to a film noir soundtrack—to the finish, Wild Canaries is self-mocking. It mashes twee Brooklyn navel-gazing with relationship dramedy and Pink Panther-style sleuthing. Boring it’s not, but it’s not groundbreaking, either.. ENID SPITZ. Laurelhurst Theater.

The Wrecking Crew

A music documentary about the Wrecking Crew in L.A., which you’ve undoubtedly heard already, whether you know it or not. These studio musicians played on tracks for Frank Sinatra, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and and Papas, and the Monkees, among others. Hollywood Theatre.

STILL SHOWING American Sniper

D Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) shoots

people. r. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

Annie

C+ Annie, revisited. PG. Mt. Hood, Vancouver.

Ballet 422

A backstage look at up-and-coming choreographer Justin Peck as he puts together a new work for the New York City Ballet. PG. Living Room Theaters.

Bears

A nature documentary about an Alaskan family of the titular large fuzzy creatures. G. Empirical Theater.

Big Eyes

B- For Margaret Keane, “eyes are the window to the soul.” At least, that’s the drivel the artist (a blondwigged Amy Adams) has to deliver in Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, a biopic that winds up wanting for both vision and soul. Art critics lambasted the work as sentimental kitsch, but the public adored it. And Margaret got none of the credit. Her husband, Walter (Christoph Waltz)—a charming huckster and self-deluded egotist—presented himself as the artist. Big Eyes is often tiresome, and Burton skims over thorny questions—the populist craze for kitsch, gendered expectations in art, the line between highbrow and lowbrow. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst Theater.

Big Hero 6

A Shelving wordy cleverness for its

own sake, ignoring parental intrusion, and allowing moral lessons to develop organically through a simplified storyline, Big Hero 6 is that rarest thing: an animated children’s adventure designed purely to delight its target audience. Substantial swaths of the picture are devoted to nothing loftier than portraying just how unstoppably cool soaring on the back of your own robot would feel. PG. JAY HORTON. Avalon, Kennedy School, Milwaukie, Vancouver, Valley.

Birdman

B- If Birdman’s message is that the theater, specifically Broadway, is the home of high art and Hollywood a place of debased, greed-driven entertainment, Alejandro González Iñárritu doesn’t make a convincing—or even amusingly satirical— argument. r. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, CineMagic, Hollywood, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, St. Johns.

Chappie

B- Anyone expecting Chappie to match the brilliant political allegories of director Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 should know that Chappie is essentially a mashup of Short Circuit, Robocop and assorted direct-to-video action films from the ’80s. It’s all to say that Chappie is pretty fucking stupid. But if you can erase the expectation that Neill Blomkamp movies are groundbreaking, highbrow sci-fi, it’s also kind of a blast. It’s not as clumsily self-important as Elysium, a film that took ham-fisted to Honey Baked levels. But it still underwhelms—Blomkamp thinks he’s telling a much more engaging story than he is, touching on humanity, gender identity and totalitarianism without going deep. But just when you think it’s going to get too mushy, Chappie starts chucking throwing stars and calling people “fuckermother” while blasting Die Antwoord. In those moments, accidental or not, Chappie becomes a weird, disastrous thing of beauty. r. AP KRYZA. Showing most Portland-area theaters.

Citizenfour

B History happens in real time in

Citizenfour, a behind-closed-doors account of Edward Snowden’s decision to reveal the dizzying extent of U.S. government surveillance programs. Much of Laura Poitras’ docu-

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FINaL CuT: POWGirls look over their work.

GIRLS IN FILM

POWGIRLS OFFERS GIRLS A SEAT IN THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR. BY r iha n n a weiss

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The statistics for women filmmakers are dismal: In 2013, only 6 percent of the 250 top-grossing domestic films had female directors. Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival took aim at that discrepancy. POWFest executive director Tara JohnsonMedinger is trying to boost Oregon’s role in the growing industry of media camps and classes for West Coast girls. San Francisco has Camp Reel Stories, and Seattle has Reel Grrls. Now Portland has POWGirls. “My daughter participates in Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls,” she says, “a really thriving organization that is international at this point. It’s all about getting girls in gear, getting them into the leadership position that sometimes girls can shy away from.” Johnson-Medinger tried the idea at the 2014 POWFest. During festival weekend, six girls had 30 hours to create their films, from concept to screen. It was an aggressive schedule. “I gave a crash course on [camera operation], videography and lighting,” says Barb Myers, education and operations manager for the festival. “They learned how to use an audiokit recorder, then threepoint lighting—basically, everything I used to teach in an entire semester we did in one night.” The program was only open to girls aged 15 to 18 because, Johnson-Medinger says, “I think there’s more opportunity for them to be heard, and less hesitation that’s presented in terms of getting their hands dirty.” Enrollment more than doubled this year. With tuition set at $200 and scholarship opportunities, 14 participants studied under a new, improved format. “We took their feedback to heart,” says JohnsonMedinger of last year’s group. “They wanted more time. And being in the same time frame as the festival, they felt like they didn’t get a chance to really participate.” Participant Lucy Sagoo, a sophomore at St. Mary’s Academy, agreed with a paradoxical suggestion made by much of 2014’s class: more time,

shorter days. Sagoo says 12-hour days, though true to the reality of the film industry, were a bit much, though ultimately it was worth the work. “My favorite moment was when we’d finished all the editing, we had the end of the last day, where we all got to watch our videos in front of the whole group,” Sagoo recalls. “And I got to just sit in the glory of watching our video.” Girls this year took last year’s themes and kept rolling with them. “Both years came up with the idea of exploring how technology affects our relationships with each other,” Myers says. From there, the only real guidelines were practical. The POWGirls were well-equipped for the challenge, with guidance from media educator Jodi Darby and education coordinator Nili Yosha, and equipment and space from by MetroEast Community Media. “We reminded them we only had a whole day to film,” Myers explains, “so no major action scenes, or scenes that require elephants or skydiving or anything like that. But they’re the ones who processed it, scripted it, everything.” “I never really knew how much time and work and processing and changes had to be made to come up with the final project,” says Lincoln High sophomore Leah Steindorf, in awe. The final product is two meditative, quiet pieces, Save for voice-over, dialogue is either absent or only hinted at. In Great Expectations, a bookish young woman sees a world of opportunity when Wi-Fi goes down at local cafe (Gresham’s Twisted Carrot). In Words of Wisdom, a girl at a crossroads treasures handwritten encouragement from her grandmother and pays it forward. Both films are sweet and whimsical, without being alienatingly so. Both use film to explore the protagonist’s inner world, an endless resource for any teenage girl. Johnson-Medinger admits that a condensed high-school course might be a small step. But maybe some day it will give a POWGirl alum the confidence to speak up when she’s the only woman at the table in a pitch meeting. “Little moments like this in life are so valuable to guide that voice of a young woman,” she says. SEE IT: POWFest runs March 12-15 at the Hollywood Theatre. See powfest.com for a list of films and showtimes.

MARCH 11–17 mentary consists of long interviews with Snowden in the Hong Kong hotel room where he was holed up in June 2013, divulging everything he knew to Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald. The result is a portrait of the whistle-blower as neither hero nor traitor. Citizenfour’s ground-level vibe and Poitras’ necessary cloakand-dagger tactics make the documentary like a ’70s paranoia thriller with real-world consequences. Yet there are also instances of near-levity. In one scene, we see Snowden fuss with his hair in the bathroom mirror while a story about him is broadcast on CNN in the background. He’s reached a point of no return, and watching him jump willingly into the unknown is as terrifying as it is thrilling. Those familiar with Snowden’s story may complain at the paucity of new details, but what Citizenfour lacks in revelatory information it makes up for with insight into its subject’s motivations. Snowden is meek and articulate, touching on everything from worries about his loved ones’ safety to how he’s more willing to risk imprisonment or “any other negative outcome” than surrender his intellectual freedom. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst Theater.

The DUFF

DUFF (“designated ugly fat friend”) is apparently a thing kids say these days. PG-13 . Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Fifty Shades of Grey

D Fifty Shades turns what was supposed to be a torrid aﬀ air into an overly serious episode of Beverly Hills 90210 with some timid softcore erotica thrown in. The source material might have made a decent porno. Unfortunately, Universal sued the porn studio that intended to do this movie justice. That’s a shame . R . JOHN LOCANTHI . Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Focus

Foxcatcher

B Steve Carrell has a funny nose.

R. Academy Theater, Laurelhurst Theater..

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

A- Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is an eclectic cinematic mishmash: an Iranian noirspaghetti Western-love story…with vampires. And yet, somehow, it all works. The score—including music from Portland’s own Federale—feels like it wandered in from a Sergio Leone movie. The stark black-andwhite photography, smoke, prostitution and drug use paint it as the noirest of noirs. The sparing use of vampire antics—just three necks are bitten—makes the vampire character more human than many leads in conventional romance movies. Arash, a handsome 20-something in a white T-shirt and jeans, is the son of a junkie in Bad City. His father is in a significant hole to his dealer. A vampiric girl prowls the shadows—following, waiting and judging. For all its spaghetti Western flourishes, this is a quiet film about loneliness at heart. Amirpour the writer knows when to get out of the way of Amirpour the director. What could have been a trite love story or a generic vampire movie is instead a sombre, moody, beautiful piece of filmmaking. From the scratchy, hypnotic electronica when the girl follows the dealer to his cocaine-filled apartment to Morriconean chantings, the score keys the offbeat dream that is A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. The minimal dialogue and an understated romance leave the viewer with something rare: a movie quiet enough you can soak in the imagery and be bowled over by the propulsive score. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cinema 21.

Hot Tub Time Machine 2

C- If you thought the ﬁ rst installment of Hot Tub Time Machine was stupid, that’s because, well, it was. But, as is the case with movies where a good chunk of the joke is also the movie’s central conceit and title, it was a carefully constructed stupid. It was a stupid that induced joy as it revealed new implications of this stupid

conceit. It was really funny. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 isn’t brilliantly stupid. Just the regular kind. R . JAMES HELMSWORTH . Eastport, Clackamas, Movies on TV.

Ida

A In this black-and-white beauty

from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, novitiate nun Anna is a week away from taking her vows when the mother superior tells her she must pay a long-overdue visit to her aunt Wanda, her sole surviving relative. Wanda, a chain-smoking, hard-drinking communist, informs Anna that her real name is Ida and that her Jewish parents were killed during the Nazi occupation. This is just the first of the surprises in store for naive Ida, who soon sets off with Wanda on a journey to find out where their family was buried. Ida is a sweet road-trip buddy pic and a tender coming-of-age tale, while avoiding the clichéd trappings of such genres. It’s also flat-out gorgeous. PG-13. DEBORAH KENNEDY. Lake Theater

The Imitation Game

B Full of childhood fl ashbacks, handsome sets, sharp zingers and a careful dash of devastation, the Imitation Game takes a prickly prodigy—Turing pioneered the fi eld of computer science and helped crack Nazi codes—and places him in an eminently (and sometimes overly) palatable picture . PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Edgefield, Lake Theater, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.

Interstellar

C+ Mathew McConnaughey goes into outer space because humans just gotta keep livin’, man. L-I-V-I-N. PG-13. Academy Theater, Laurelhurst Theater, Vancouver.

Into the Woods

SCOOP PG. 20

B+ Stephen Sondheim’s much-

loved musical has fi nally made it to the big screen. The fi lm is divided into halves: the fi rst full of payoff s and the second full of inescapable relationship truths and romantic boredom. Though timid—it waters down forest sex to an agonized make-out scene in the pines—Disney’s long-shelved adaptation is still a beautiful compromise. And hell, the mash-up of cautionary fairy tales is fun, with the Witch (Meryl Streep) pushing a young couple (James Corden and Emily Blunt) to undo a family curse they inherited. . PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Academy Theater, Empirical Theater, Kennedy School, Vancouver, Joy, Valley.

Jupiter Ascending

B There’s not a recognizable idea to be found in the whole of Jupiter Ascending’s grand space opera/ cartoon. A plotline does exist,

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C O U R T E S Y O F WA LT D I S N E Y P I C T U R E S

B- Great con-man movies—a subgenre old as cinema itself—strike a diﬃ cult balance between breezy capers and deeper examinations of character motives. It’s a dance between glamorizing the life of crime and facing the inevitable emptiness it begets. In this scenario, Focus hits most of the right notes. It’s a slick, funny and sometimes suspenseful yarn, a picture that’s light on its feet and mostly forgettable, but it still manages moments of intrigue. Making a welcome return to his charismatic side after a decade of self-serious drudgery, Will Smith stars as Nicky, a globetrotting crook who reimagines the con game as an industry. That means employing an army of pickpockets, identity thieves and hackers to descend on unsuspecting crowds, including a rollicking job at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. As older cons are

wont to do, Nicky takes a protégée (The Wolf of Wall Street ’s Margot Robbie) and inevitably falls in love. What follows is a requisite series of double crosses, twists and dangerous ﬂ irtations that, sadly, take all the spark out of the story. Focus, directed by I Love You Phillip Morris’ Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, explodes out of the gate with an hourlong series of slick, fast-paced sequences so good the rest of the movie can’t keep up. It’s a ﬁ lm that shows its cards far too early. R . AP KRYZA . Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

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though the movie dispenses with the important bits as swiftly as possible. We’re scarcely introduced to Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), plucky cleaning woman with a penchant for stargazing, before floating wraiths, bluehaired bounty hunters, and dashingly feral disgraced soldier Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) appear on her trail. A wholly illogical fairy-tale denouement that leaves little expectation of sequels. Mad they may be, but the Wachowskis aren’t stupid. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Division Street, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

A- In the grand tradition of early

James Bond, Derek Flint and, to a lesser extent, Austin Powers, Kingsman just wants to have some fucking fun.The independent spy agency Kingsman is headquartered in a tailor shop on Savile Row, headed by Arthur (Michael Caine, because of course he’s in this movie) Every Kingsman is named after an Arthurian knight. After Lancelot is quite literally cut in twain by Valentine’s sword-legged right-hand woman, The agency is in desperate need of a new agent. Kingsman isn’t a send-up of the genre; it’s a rebuke of the relentlessly grim, faux-realistic modern Bond, Bourne and Batman, and the latter half of Liam Neeson’s career. The body count is high. The violence is cartoonishly over-the-top. But when you’re watching an immaculately dressed gentleman spy fight a woman with swords for prosthetic legs in a secret mountain lair while the countdown clock ticks away and KC and the Sunshine Band play in the background, you’ll feel something you haven’t felt in quite some time: fun. r. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Leviathan

A Leviathan is a genre-defying take

on guilt and fate that rewards both the eye and heart. Much praised after premiering at Cannes, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. Director Andrey Zvyagintsev centers on Kolya, a hapless but tenacious handyman who lives with his wife and son in the far northwest of Russia. When the government wants to bulldoze their home for development, Kolya calls on old friend Dmitri to appeal the case and eventually blackmail the corrupt mayor. Yes, there’s a portrait of Putin above the mayor’s desk. And yes, every adult character drinks copious amounts of vodka. But this isn’t heavy-handed commentary. Zvyagintsev—far more Oliver Stone than Michael Moore anyway—is no demagogue seeking to incite revolt. The dialogue is as (mis)calculated as any drunken dinner-table chat, while quieter scenes swell with wonderful detail. Though bitter in tone at times, Leviathan exists on such a grand scale—it juggles elements of thriller, drama and beautiful nature doc— that its political jeering and cautious pacing get a free pass. r. MITCH LILLIE. Fox Tower.

The Lazarus Effect

Like Lazarus, Olivia Wilde is brought back from the dead, except Mark Duplass performs the miracle instead of Jesus this time. PG-13. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Maps to the Stars

B- It comes as little surprise that

David Cronenberg would eventually make a warts-and-all send-up of celebrity culture. Cronenberg’s roving ensemble in Maps to the Stars includes a Justin Bieber-like child star who calmly meets with obsessed Make-AWish kids and an aging actress whose glory days have faded along with her youth. This is Hollywood at its most uncensored, and there’s rarely a voice of reason or moral compass to bring things back to earth. Cronenberg doesn’t pull any punches in his excoriation of this world, but he doesn’t provide much revelatory insight either. r. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

A Most Violent Year

B The film takes place in 1981 New

York, one of the most crime-ridden years in the city’s history. From the long takes and fluid camera movements to the color palette—icy blue nights, washed-out industrial zones and the yellow glow of dark restaurants full of sinister men—the film could easily be mistaken for a vintage production. The story’s brooding, heavy heart is an ambitious Colombian immigrant named Abel— played by rising star Oscar Isaac with the looks and ferocity of a young Al Pacino—who seeks to expand his sketchy heating-oil business despite near-constant hijackings of his trucks. This is a slow, methodical character study whose title belies a relatively bloodless story. r. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower.

Mr. Turner

B+ Known as “the painter of light,” J.M.W. Turner created some of the world’s most awe-inspiring artwork. His landscapes are by turns frightful and beautiful, and the same goes for Mr. Turner. It’s a warts-and-all view of a frequently unpleasant man, as mired in the muck and disease of 19th-century England as in the arresting scenery that inspired Turner’s art. There’s little Turner wouldn’t give to his art, including his own saliva. Rather than looking down his nose at these philistines, director Mike Leigh is more interested in how this criticism affected Turner. He becomes an object of derision near the end of his career, a punch line for vulgar stage acts. r. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb

Ben Stiller spends more time sprinting through a museum. PG. Avalon, Milwaukie, Vancouver.

Obvious Child

A- Obvious Child is a revolutionary film disguised as a rom-com. But that rom-com costume is a genuine one, both in its rom half and its com half, and that’s what makes Obvious Child such a winning—and important—film. It revolves around Donna Stern, a fumbling Brooklyn standup comic, and as played by real-life comedian Jenny Slate, she’s free of airs and full of loopy charm. 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 writer-director Gillian 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. Clinton Street Theater.

Paddington

The cuddly, floppy hat-wearing bear gets his own live-action feature. PG. Academy Theater, Avalon, Empirical Theater. Kennedy School, Milwaukie, Mission, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV.

Penguins of Madagascar

The besuited birds are back, trying to prevent an evil octopus from taking over the world. Sorry, WW was too hung over to make the Saturdaymorning screening. PG. Vancouver.

Project Almanac

Teenagers build a time machine. Things don’t go as planned. Not screened for Portland critics. PG-13. Clackamas, Vancouver, Valley.

Red Army

A This documentary follows the

Soviet Wayne Gretzky, Viacheslav “Slava” Fetisov (in Soviet Russia, Gretzky was the Canadian Slava!) and the players and coaches that surrounded him. The story filmmaker Gabe Polsky shares in Red Army is comedic, engaging and compelling. What begins as a story about national sport bred in a harsh Cold War machine turns out to be an account of

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friendship, patriotism and the crisis of identity that came with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fetisov, formerly Putin’s secretary of sport, is just as interesting for the questions he doesn’t answer as those he does. As a former KGB agent in charge of preventing players from defecting is interviewed, the agent’s ice cream-craving granddaughter (who has no idea what the KGB was) interrupts with a light, poignant ease. Polsky provides a master class in realworld storytelling. PARKER HALL. Cinema 21.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

B The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was an unexpected hit in the States. The film, about retirees waiting out the clock in colorful Jaipur, India, featured a veritable who’s who of British actors that Americans can recognize, and won hearts through its mature portrayal of aging, love and regret. Oh, and it was funny. The sequel pulls off the rare feat of hitting the same chords, but with even more deftness, clarity and humanity. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opens with the long-winded, excitable Sonny (Dev Patel) and the weary Mrs. Donnelly (Maggie Smith) meeting with a company in San Diego: Their goal: turn the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly & Beautiful into a franchise. Director John Madden knows exactly why many viewers are here: The credits are filled with shots of bustling streets, speeding took-tooks and bright colors. Viewers need not have seen the first film. It knocked all the low-hanging fruit off the branches— old people and technology, old people and racism, old people bickering, etc.—making the sequel aim higher for fresher, more mature jokes. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

film is somewhat hampered by an overly dramatic score and a few lackluster performances, though Kristen Stewart’s work as Alice’s free-spirited daughter is a refreshing turn for the usually stoic actress. But when you hold up such faults against Moore’s masterful work, they all fall away; she doesn’t so much elevate the film as she is the film. If you’re looking for an antidote to the middling, testosterone-heavy nominees this awards season, Still Alice is it. PG-13. BLAIR STENVICK. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lake Theater, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

Taken 3

The prequel to T4ken. PG-13. Vancouver.

The Theory of Everything

B- A brief history of Stephen Hawking’s 30-year marriage to Jane Wilde, The Theory of Everything fits

a tad too snugly into the biopic tradition. Here, Hawking’s contributions to the fields of physics and cosmology take a backseat to the story of his and Wilde’s courtship, marriage and eventual divorce. PG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Fox Tower, Tigard.

Timbuktu

A The first movie from a West African country to be nominated for an Oscar studies the relationship between the peoples of Timbuktu and a neighboring Tuareg encampment and the jihadis who have taken over. They are grim, cloaked specters walking through the streets with rifles slung over their shoulders. There’s a lingering sense that violence could break out at any moment, like when a fishmonger waves a knife at jihadis for demanding that she wear gloves. Or when a group of kids get arrested for playing soccer with an imaginary ball. Or when a woman gets 40 lashes for being caught singing about

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Selma

A- Selma, Ava DuVernay’s drama

about three 1965 civil rights marches in Alabama, is not perfect, but it arrives at a historic moment that will leave only the most blinkered viewer feeling chuffed about the superiority of the present to the past. Violence here is never aestheticized for its own sake, but brought to life so that we might understand its escalation and impact. The film is transfixing, but not easy to watch. And it should not be easy to watch. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport.

Seventh Son

A fantasy that reunites Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. We rewatched The Big Lebowski instead. PG-13. Clackamas, Division, Movies on TV.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

B Maybe it’s the titular character’s manic—nay, demented—laugh. Or maybe it’s the cavalier way the writers sneak in references to Mad Max and The Shining amid the wholesomeness. Let’s just say there’s a reason The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water will still be showing after your kids’ bedtime. The quest to recover the lost Krabby Patty Secret Formula by SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Plankton spans time and space in what feels somewhere between an extended episode and a half-baked animated feature. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Still Alice

A- Julianne Moore started her screen

career in the world of soap operas, starring in As the World Turns for much of the early 1980s. Still Alice, which charts a linguistics professor’s descent into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, is hardly a return to that universe. But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s film does have an element of carefully balanced melodrama, thanks to a tightly written script and Moore’s transformative performance. Moore’s Alice begins the film as a put-together Columbia professor who beats herself up for forgetting a single word in a lecture. As Alice’s memory worsens, Moore loosens her performance in a gradual, almost imperceptible manner. The

road ragE: one rude comment can go a long way.

WILD TALES revenge served piping hot.

A model walks onto a plane. A music critic seated across the aisle starts talking to her. It turns out he wrote a scathing review of music written by her ex-boyfriend. It turns out her ex-boyfriend’s hated former teacher is on the plane. And so is one of his former friends. And also a different friend, who the model cheated on him with. The plane is not going to land peacefully. Guess who is flying the plane? So begins Wild Tales, Argentina’s nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars. It is a series of vignettes about revenge, ranging from run-of-the-mill homicide to cheating on your wedding day. If revenge is a dish best served cold, Wild Tales presents it as a terrible dish served hot out of the oven. Don’t let the dark subject matter fool you: Director Damián Szifron mines the humor out of all six stories. He captures the Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner vibe of a road-raging douchebag and a crude redneck locked in an increasingly violent bout on a lonely highway. He finds the smirk in a chef nonchalantly suggesting a waitress slip rat poison into a patron’s food. Szifron even squeezes a few laughs out a millionaire’s attempts to buy his drunk-driving son’s way out of prison after he kills a pregnant woman. Wild Tales’ mix of humor and darkness works because every situation escalates too quickly for the gravity to register. In “El más fuerte,” Diego, frustrated at a slow motorist, calls him a “fucking redneck.” Diego blows out a tire. The redneck stops by and takes a literal shit on Diego’s car. Diego runs the redneck’s truck off the road. Before long the redneck chokes Diego with a seatbelt while Diego bashes the redneck’s head with a fire extinguisher. With six stories with different characters, set in six different places, unified by violence and black comedy, it feels like a series of live-action cartoons. Wild Tales even has an Aesopian moral: Sometimes it’s better to just let things go. Maybe fighting an unjust parking ticket isn’t worth missing your daughter’s birthday party, you know? Maybe throwing your husband’s mistress into a mirror isn’t the best thing to do at your wedding reception. JOHN LOCANTHI. B+

SEE it: Wild Tales is rated R. It opens at Friday at Cinema 21.

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the glory of God. “Where’s leniency?” a priest asks the leader of the jihadis. “Where’s forgiveness? Where’s piety? Where’s God in all of this?” PG-13 . JOHN LOCANTHI . Living Room Theaters.

MOVIES

Unbroken

B Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence meets Chariots of Fire in Angelina Jolie’s “meh” directorial debut. PG-13. Academy Theater, Vancouver.

Unfinished Business

The latest Vince Vaughnedy. R. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

What We Do in the Shadows

B+ The last thing pop culture

needs is another vampire flick. The second-to-last is more reality TV. Leave it to a pack of Kiwis— including Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame—to give us both and somehow make vampires and reality TV feel fresh. What We Do in the Shadows follows four vampires as they prepare for the annual Unholy Masquerade. Viago (Taika Waititi, who shares writing and directing credits with Clement) explains his nighttime ritual to the camera and then leaves to wake his flatmates. Deacon (Jonathan Brugh) is the youngest and lives in the closet. Viago awkwardly interrupts the severe-looking Vladislav (Clement) in the middle of a Coppola-esque threesome. Peter, a hairless 2,000-year-old vampire, lies in a stone coffin in the basement. They then sit down for a meeting to confront Deacon about his unwillingness to do the dishes. These are not oversexed, unholy demigods; these are petty, childish people who just happen to be vampires. They want blood, preferably virginal. “Think of it this way: If you were going to eat a sandwich, you would enjoy it more if you knew nobody had fucked it,” Vladislav explains. While other monster films often get bogged down explaining their mythology and origin stories, What We Do in the Shadows trusts you already know this shit. “It’s this big, homoerotic dick-biting club.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a more biting and accurate critique of vampiredom. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cinema 21.

Whiplash

B+ Whiplash clefts music from dance, love and spirituality. What’s left is muscle, red and raw, beating faster and faster against a drum. Damien Chazelle’s beautiful but troubling ﬁ lm centers on a battle of egos and tempos, as Andrew (Miles Teller) must decide how much of himself and his sanity he’s willing to give to music. Teller gives a close-to-the-chest performance. J.K. Simmons is certainly horrifying as his instructor. And here’s where Whiplash is most troubling: It views the abusive instructor as a necessary evil for creating great art. This ﬂ ies in the face not just of morality but of history. R. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

Wild

A- Reese Witherspoon trudges north in Wild, the ﬁ lm adaptation of Portlander Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling memoir about hiking 1,100 miles from scorched California to soggy Oregon. Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport.

PERFECT MURDER Of all the classics in Alfred Hitchcock’s repertoire, 1951’s Strangers on a Train (Academy Theater; March 13-19) might be the most enduring. When you look at Hitchcock’s filmography, it’s difficult to find a relatable character. Can you put yourself in the shoes of a crossdressing psychopath, a rich man mistaken for a secret agent or a woman trapped in a gothic mansion? But it’s pretty easy to identify with Guy Haynes (Farley Granger), an ordinary man with a cheating wife who refuses to grant him a divorce. On a late-night train ride, he meets the eerily charming Bruno (Robert Walker), and the two begin a morbid conversation in which Bruno casually lays out his “perfect murder”: a swap in which motiveless strangers handle each other’s problems. Guy laughs it off and forgets—until his wife is murdered and Bruno reappears, demanding Guy uphold their deal by murdering Bruno’s father. Propelled by Raymond Chandler’s dynamite script (adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel), shadow-drenched cinematography and one of the golden age of cinema’s most arresting murder scenes, Strangers is ageless. It masterfully prompts readers to ponder what they’d do in the same situation. “Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way,” Bruno observes—that’s truer than most of us admit. Even in the company of Hitchcockian legends, Strangers on a Train isn’t just a masterpiece; it’s that rare film that only gets better with time. AP KRYZA. Strangers on a Train may be Hitchcock’s most prescient work.

ALSO SHOWING: Toby Froud—aka the baby from Labyrinth—visits OMSI’s Reel Science series to host the Jim Henson classic, talk about his puppet-fabrication work at Laika and endure repressed memories of David Bowie’s bulge. OMSI Empirical Theater. 6:30 pm Wednesday, March 11. The Oregon Historical Society presents Far From Home, a series of short films that have nothing to do with Oregon, but somehow ended up in its archives. 7 pm Wednesday, March 11. In 1973’s Werewolf of Washington, a White House press secretary moonlights as a reporter-eviscerating lycan. So, basically, Josh Earnest’s Fox News fantasy. Joy Cinema. 9 pm Wednesday, March 11. Church of Film returns with The Pumpkin Eater, a stylish 1964 drama deconstructing the marriage of a bourgeois couple. North Star Ballroom. 8 pm Wednesday, March 11. In the 1963 psychedelic Czech film When the Cat Comes, a feline dons magical sunglasses that can reveal people’s true character. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7:30 pm Friday, March 13. The Laurelhurst is making it possible to watch a Back to the Future marathon by showing all three movies, but at different times throughout the week. The space-time continuum may never recover. Laurelhurst Theater. March 13-19. The Portland Geek Council takes the inevitable step of presenting Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Clinton Street Theater. 2 pm Sunday, March 15.

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Continuing a banner week for Portland theaters and Czech surrealism, the Hollywood presents The Scarlet Flower, a baroque retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Monday, March 16.

Cinderella (2015) XD (PG) 11:45AM 2:30PM 5:15PM 8:00PM 10:45PM Run All Night (R) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Project Almanac (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:10PM 5:00PM 7:35PM 10:20PM Unfinished Business (R) 12:30PM 3:00PM 5:30PM 7:55PM 10:30PM McFarland, USA (PG) 10:45AM 1:45PM 4:45PM 7:45PM 10:45PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 7:00PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 11:05AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 9:30PM The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:15PM 3:35PM 5:55PM 8:15PM 10:35PM

Still Alice (PG-13) 11:10AM 1:50PM 4:30PM 7:10PM 9:50PM The Duff (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:50PM 7:30PM 10:05PM Chappie (R) 10:50AM 12:20PM 1:50PM 3:20PM 4:50PM 6:20PM 7:50PM 9:20PM 10:40PM Cinderella (2015) (PG) 10:45AM 12:35PM 1:30PM 3:20PM 4:15PM 6:05PM 7:00PM 8:50PM 9:45PM American Sniper (R) 12:40PM 3:50PM 7:05PM 10:10PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:00PM 4:10PM 7:20PM 10:25PM A La Mala (PG-13) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:35PM 7:15PM 9:55PM Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13) 1:45PM 7:45PM Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 10:45AM 4:45PM 10:45PM Focus (R) 12:00PM 2:40PM 5:20PM 8:00PM 10:40PM Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:40PM 7:40PM 10:35PM

Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:00AM 12:25PM 1:55PM 3:20PM 4:50PM 6:15PM 7:45PM 9:10PM 10:35PM Run All Night (R) 11:30AM 2:15PM 5:00PM 7:45PM 10:30PM Unfinished Business (R) 1:00PM 3:25PM 5:50PM 8:15PM 10:35PM The Duff (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:15PM 4:50PM 7:25PM 10:00PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 11:20AM 4:10PM 6:35PM 9:00PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 1:45PM

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Run All Night (R) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Unfinished Business (R) 11:20AM 1:45PM 4:20PM 6:55PM 9:45PM McFarland, USA (PG) 12:30PM 3:45PM 7:05PM 10:05PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 2:10PM 9:40PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 11:35AM 4:35PM 7:10PM The Duff (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:15PM 4:55PM 7:45PM 10:25PM The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) 11:15AM 4:35PM 10:10PM

Chappie (R) 11:10AM 12:35PM 2:00PM 3:25PM 4:50PM 6:15PM 7:40PM 9:05PM 10:30PM Cinderella (2015) (PG) 11:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 12:45PM 3:55PM 7:15PM 10:25PM American Sniper (R) 1:30PM 6:50PM Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13) 1:10PM Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 12:50PM 4:05PM 7:20PM 10:25PM Focus (R) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:45PM 7:25PM 10:15PM

Chappie (R) 11:00AM 12:25PM 1:50PM 3:15PM 4:40PM 6:05PM 7:30PM 8:55PM 10:20PM American Sniper (R) 12:45PM 3:50PM 7:00PM 10:05PM McFarland, USA (PG) 1:00PM 4:00PM 7:00PM 10:00PM Cinderella (2015) (PG) 11:00AM 12:10PM 1:05PM 1:50PM 2:55PM 3:50PM 4:40PM 5:40PM 6:35PM 7:30PM 8:25PM 9:20PM 10:20PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:10PM 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM Focus (R) 11:50AM 2:25PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 10:20PM Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 1:15PM 4:10PM 7:05PM

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END ROLL This time last year, North Bonneville, Wash., couldn’t pay its bills. The tiny city of 1,010 people, which sits across the Columbia River from Cascade Locks, has never been especially well-off, but between cuts in state funding and the Gorge’s struggling economy, things were grim. “I sat on $30,000 worth of bills for six weeks,” says Steve Hasson, the city’s administrator, clerk and treasurer. “I gotta tell you, I was embarrassed. A government agency, of all things, not being able to pay its bills.” Hasson and the city’s mayor, Don Stevens, came up with a plan. Legal marijuana is bringing a boom to Washington. How could the city get a piece? Why not open the nation’s first government-owned marijuana dispensary. So North Bonneville used some of its dwindling cash reserves to form a public development authority that could apply for one of Skamania County’s two state-issued licenses. They spent a little more to erect a no-frills dispensary on the edge of town. On March 7, the city-owned Cannabis Corner (484 Evergreen Drive, North Bonneville, Wash., 509-4274393) finally opened. The occasion was marked by a “grand opening” banner hung between two concrete pylons off the Evergreen Highway and visits from NPR, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg News. Inside the shop—it’s a blue metal shack in a gravel parking lot with a green velvet rope at the entrance—things were going well. “I went in to talk to the manager, Robin, and she says, ‘We’ve already banked $5,000.’ Wow!” Hasson says. “Just psychologically, it’s so uplifting.” To hear Hasson tell it, the city faces big challenges. The sewers “are going to hell,” and there’s no dog catcher other than the mayor. “Yesterday, we had a pit bull running loose, and the sheriff’s department called and wanted to know what we were going to do about it. If it’s a dangerous animal, well, we look to the sheriff’s department to take care of it,” Hasson says. “Otherwise, we call the mayor. For a while we had four dogs here at City Hall. We were feeding them and watering them.”

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SMOKIN’ TO SURVIVE

WEED MONEY: This shack houses North Bonneville’s hopes and dreams.

North Bonneville does have a few things going for it. The Pacific Crest Trail is nearby, there’s a stunning view from the top of an 848-foot monolith known as Beacon Rock, and there’s a resort with mineral pools where you can float for $15 to $25. “It’s a little bit bohemian here anyway, and then you add the pot store, and it makes it even more bohemian,” Hasson says. “We want people to come and play disc golf, go to the hot springs and just enjoy the ambience of the community.” The pot shop will help, especially since it offers $15 gram bags from three Washington producers, below what most recreation shops charge. “We’re government, so we don’t have to pay income tax, which helps defray the cost of the product,” Hasson says. Even though it’s competing with private enterprise, it’s hard to see anyone getting upset. Especially considering the reaction of other rural Washington communities, like Yakima, which banned all marijuana sales then stuck out its greasy little paw for a share of the state’s proceeds. Rather than goldbricking, as so many red-hued and green-starved rural communities have done in recent years, North Bonneville is embracing creative solutions to its problems. “I see these other cities going to the state Legislature with hat in hand, asking for money,” Hasson says. “If we’re going to help ourselves, we’d better do for ourselves. It’s better that you have a survival strategy.” MAJOR E. SKINNER.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: If Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own longrunning riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow. CANCER (June 21-July 22): As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an advisor, teacher, or role model. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but

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Although never officially baptized as one of Jehovah’s witnesses, she was successfully ‘stoned to death’ by her relatives and never recovered. She tried off and on to raise five children and now lives as a homeless person. Another niece was put out of her home at age 17 with a suitcase full of clothes and nothing else. She was told to leave because she offended the church elders by participating in a small way at a Christmas promotional event at a local shopping mall. In my family, shunning is and has been epidemic. My older half-brother was shunned by my late mother for 55 years and by my Jehovah ’s witness brothers because he resigned his membership in that church. My next oldest full brother is expected to shun two daughters and a son. My third brother is expected to shun his daughter and in the past has shunned his son. Since that son has been reinstated into the church, my brother can now resume contact with him. The brother who is younger than me was disfellowshipped from the church. He can associate with his children because they themselves have left the church and are being shunned by their uncles. Because the disfellowshipped brother was being officially shunned by Jehovah’s witnesses, he was required by my father to hide in one of their bedrooms when church elders visited my parent’s home. I resigned from the Jehovah’s witness religion, so I can fellowship with my own children, but they continue to be shunned by my witness relatives, even though neither of them was baptized. This situation also exists in my wife’s family. Her daughter told my wife that she would be shunning her because my wife does not “serve Jehovah God.” That was in the fall of 1989. Since then her daughter hasn’t wavered in her position. Nor has my wife’s only sibling -- her sister -- who has refused any contact with my wife since 1986. 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