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Portland International Airport is not the state’s busiest . Somehow, Troutdale has the state’s thirdbusiest airport. 7

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INBOX MIXED SEXUAL MESSAGES It was disturbing to read Mary Romano’s anti-Dab Girls article [“Down With Dab Girls,” WW, April 15, 2015] on page 27, and then come upon the “Poppin’ Tops” list for beer and boobs on page 43, and then on page 47 see that the Craft Brewers Conference survival guide ends with “Naked Women.” Now that weed and same-sex marriage are taken care of in Oregon, perhaps it’s time for the WW staﬀ to engage in some real discussion about the state of our sex work-saturated city and support these women by speaking of them as performing artists and entrepreneurs who help our local economy. Highlight those who are leaders, educate about those who are exploitative, and let more of the actual women’s voices and experiences dictate your journalism rather than personal opinions. (Romano had no quotes from the Dab Girls themselves.) Just please stop the mixed messages within one issue. Erica Jayasuriya, Southeast Portland

PROTESTERS AND CITY HALL

Fighting for reasonable cop reform in this city is going to be a long battle and will transcend mayors and City Council members. I hope Don’t Shoot Portland knows this reality [“Déjà Blue,” WW, April 15, 2015]. Meanwhile, even basic no-brainers such as mandatory drug testing for cops and liquidating the antiquated and money-wasting mounted patrol seem to not even be on the table. Pathetic. —“Vladamir Muhammud”

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I commend the stance that Chris Borland is taking; it is also great that his decision is making news and bringing insight into chronic traumatic encephalopathy [“Hotseat: Chris Borland & Todd Trigsted,” WW, April 15, 2015]. I played four years in the Canadian Football League and had about six full concussions. The money I made back then in the ’80s is miniscule compared to

I can have pot for my own consumption starting July 1, but the stores to sell it to me won’t open for another year. How am I supposed to get my hands on the green stuﬀ ? —Inquiring Minds I sympathize, Inquiring. You must be so excited to try your very first puff of marijuana—a substance which, as we all know, has hitherto been completely and utterly unavailable in Portland. Given the fanfare surrounding the July 1 legalization date for marijuana, one might be forgiven for assuming that on this date something is actually going to, you know, happen. As matters stand, that seems unlikely. A March 30 press release reveals the current state of play: “The OLCC has signed an agreement to build the online application necessary to handle requests for commercial recreational marijuana business licenses.” Yes, the OLCC has rushed willy-nilly into an agreement to build a website to take applications 4

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my life of pain and mental inabilities now. I was once very intelligent as a university grad, but now I have self-doubts because of head trauma that makes me unemployable. Heed my advice, for what it is worth. Phil Colwell Isle of Arran, Scotland

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I knew one day marijuana legalization would happen, but never really thought I’d live to see it [“The 420 Issue,” WW, April 15, 2015]. This 4/20 is especially festive for me, after waiting more than 40 years. —“Ron dez Vous” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for veriﬁcation. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com.

to consider candidates to be approved to think about starting to plan pot-based businesses. Candidates can begin applying Jan. 4, 2016—a scant 14 months after voters approved Measure 91. Assuming they live that long. However, help may be on the way from an unlikely source. As reported in WW on April 7, Oregon Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli—a Republican not generally known as the fifth member of Cypress Hill—has proposed letting existing medical marijuana dispensaries sell cannabis without a prescription starting July 1. (A similar provision eased Colorado’s successful weed rollout.) In a seemingly unrelated but similarly unlikely development, another Republican, state Rep. Knute Buehler, has proposed making birth control available without a prescription. Could these two youth-friendly measures be part of a coordinated plan to peel Oregon millennials away from a Democratic Party reeling from scandal? Or am I just paranoid? And is it too late to order a pizza? QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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THE STATE POLICE, SEEING GREEN. Legal weed, schmegal weed: Oregon cops still want more money to go after marijuana crimes. The Oregon State Police have recently asked state lawmakers for a $3.9 million budget increase for 2015-17 to pay for 11 full-time troopers and detectives. That’s in addition to the $1.3 million the state police requested for a legal-pot enforcement budget earlier this year. The state police declined comment. The request follows a proposal by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to create “peace officers” to patrol legal pot, investigate the black market, enforce taxes on weed purchases and stop sales to minors. (“Ganja Police,” WW, April 8, 2015). Rep. Peter Buckley (D-Ashland), co-chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a longtime champion of marijuana legalization, hasn’t yet discussed the request with the state police. Voters will decide May 19 who gets to serve on the Portland Public Schools board. Maybe it’s a good thing for PPS Superintendent Carole Smith (who answers to the seven-member board) that she’s not on the ballot. A poll conducted in early April asked 400 probable Portland voters their opinion of Smith’s job performance. The result: 33 percent said the job she was doing was “good” or “excellent,” while 41 percent gave Smith a “just fair” or “poor” rating. More than one in four respondents said they didn’t know how to rate her or declined to do so. A PPS spokesman declined to comment.

In her State of the State speech April 17, Gov. Kate Brown made a bold promise: The Legislature will approve a sweeping transportation package that includes higher gas taxes—a top priority for ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber. Republicans often go along with big transportation deals that include projects for their home districts. Despite controlling the House, Kate Brown: Democrats need one RepubliBridge builder? can vote to reach the required supermajority for increasing taxes. House GOP members say Democrats have already pushed through a hidden gas tax—the low-carbon fuels standard, which critics say will raise gas prices. “Our caucus made clear we would not support raising the cost of fuel twice on Oregonians,” House GOP spokeswoman Kara Walker tells WW. “The transportation package is off the table.” There’s plenty more news at wweek.com. 6

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Another top education official is also in the news: Two years after coming to town, Jeremy Brown, president of Portland Community College, is an applicant for a chancellor job in Arkansas. Brown is among 54 candidates seeking the position at Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, Ark., according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In 2013, Brown replaced PCC president Preston Pulliams, who served for nine years. Brown declined to talk to WW about whether he’s being pushed out at PCC or if there’s another reason he is looking for a new job.

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HOT AIR PILOTS SAY THE PORT OF PORTLAND’S PLANS TO SELL LAND FOR A POWER PLANT NEXT TO THE TROUTDALE AIRPORT INCLUDE A FATAL FLAW. By nig e l jaq ui ss

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Mike Rhodes fell in love with flying nearly 50 years ago at the Troutdale Airport while on a school field trip, and from his first flight, he knew he wanted to be a pilot. Today, Rhodes, 61, a nuclear engineer who lives in Gresham, keeps a two-seater plane he built himself at the Troutdale Airport, 10 miles east of Portland along I-84. He’s logged more than 2,000 hours flying—always conscientious about safety for himself and his passengers. But Rhodes says he and hundreds of other pilots who regularly use Troutdale, the state’s third-busiest airport, now fear for their safety. “What they want to do,” Rhodes says, “will make flying

FLYING SCARED: Mike Rhodes spent four years building his RV-9A plane from a kit. He says a proposed natural gas-fired power plant near the Troutdale Airport presents a “clear and present danger” to aviation.

in an out of Troutdale dramatically more dangerous.” The “they” posing the threat, Rhodes says, is the airport’s owner, the Port of Portland. The port wants to sell 38 acres directly north of the Troutdale Airport to the developer of a natural gas-fired power plant. The proposed plant, called the Troutdale Energy Center, would create a powerful heat updraft that experts say could endanger small planes flying in and out of the airport. That development is currently the subject of a permitting dispute pitting the state’s Energy Facility Siting Council, which issues permits for new electrical generating plants, against a coalition of environmentalists and aviation groups, including the Oregon State Aviation Board and groups representing airplane owners and pilots. “I understand the port wants to maximize revenue from the real estate it owns,” says Rhodes, “but developing this power plant is detrimental to another part of the port—and to pilots.” Port spokeswoman Kama Simonds says the developers of the Troutdale Energy Center conducted extensive safety modeling that assured the port of the project’s safety. “The port believes that the Troutdale Energy Center and the Troutdale Airport can successfully coexist,” Simonds says. There’s some irony in the port finding itself at loggerheads with pilots and the aviation board. Airports are the cash cow for a port with grim financial challenges elsewhere. Labor disputes have cost the port its marine container business. That has left the port even more focused on Portland International Airport, whose landing fees and

parking revenues are the agency’s lifeblood. The port is also in the real estate and economic development business. It bought the contaminated site of a shuttered Troutdale aluminum plant in 2007. Selling part of it to the Troutdale Energy Center (for an undisclosed price) would allow the development without paying for costly environmental cleanup. The Troutdale Airport, with its 5,400-foot runway, typically handles small planes, although private jets also land and take off there. Flight instructors have moved operations to Troutdale from Hillsboro, the state’s busiest airport. The two airports will generate about $3.5 million in revenue for the port this year, most of that from Hillsboro. Although the smaller airports generate only a tiny fraction of PDX’s revenue, they play a vital role in the port’s system. The port depends on the Hillsboro and Troutdale airports to handle small aircraft that would otherwise need to use PDX. The smaller airports handle 50 percent more takeoffs and landings than PDX while providing training grounds for domestic and international pilots. Initially, pilots worried that a power plant at Troutdale would hamper visibility. Gas-fired generating plants work by boiling water to produce steam that drives turbines. When the water is cooled, the steam roiling out of the plant’s cooling towers could fog pilots’ flight paths and create a hazard. But the bigger concern now is heat. Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration cont. on page 8 Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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directed Troutdale users to an independent consulting firm to analyze the potential impact of the invisible plume of hot air that the combustion of gas by the plant would produce. “You’re putting a known but invisible hazard right into the path that pilots using Troutdale must fly,” says Mary Rosenblum, a Canby resident and president of the Oregon Pilots Association. Rosenblum says modeling shows the plume could suddenly lift one wing and flip a plane upside down. “This would happen when the plane is 1,000 feet or less off the ground,” Rosenblum says. “At that altitude, you cannot recover.” The FAA consultant’s initial analysis in March found that the invisible plumes could cause as many as a dozen planes to lose control and crash annually—with fatal consequences. A second run of the same model earlier this month found it could happen even more often. Risk modeling done for the Troutdale Energy Center in 2013 found no such danger. Rhodes scoffs at that earlier analysis. The nuclear engineer— who spends his days calculating the proper dosages of radiation for cancer patients—has reviewed the modeling and says the proposed power plant represents “a clear and present danger” to pilots. “Engineers and mathematicians work hard to ‘average out’ calculated risk for their clients,” Rhodes said in written testimony. “I’m an engineer. I know how the system works. Don’t kid yourself, cherry-picking data to support a client’s position happens all the time.” The FAA regulates only physical structures, such as towers or smokestacks that exceed 500 feet, not plumes. But in January, the federal regulator issued guidance on hot air plumes.

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“The FAA has determined that thermal exhaust plumes in the vicinity of airports may pose a unique hazard to aircraft in critical phases of flight (particularly takeoff, landing and within the pattern),” says an FAA memo to airport managers dated Jan. 21, 2015, “and therefore are incompatible with airport operations.” That warning would seem to give pause to the Port of Portland, which owns the land where the generating plant would be built, and to the state energy siting council, which in 2013 gave tentative approval to the plant’s location next to the Troutdale Airport. Todd Cornett, an assistant director for the Oregon Department of Energy responsible for staffing the siting council, says his agency’s staff recommended proceeding with the project after concluding it met all the criteria for locating a power plant. The group financing the Troutdale Energy Center, Energy Investors Funds, builds plants all over the country—not without incident. In 2010, a plant in Middletown, Conn., similar to the one proposed for Troutdale, blew up during early testing, killing six people and resulting in a $16.6 million fine by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration—the third-largest in OSHA history. A spokesman for TEC didn’t return WW’s calls. The pilots’ safety concerns about the Troutdale plant come on top of environmental worries about the pollution the plant would emit. The conservation group Friends of the Gorge opposes the plant. And the U.S. Forest Service, which enforces the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act, says locating a power plant at the western gateway to the gorge is a bad idea. Agency officials say pollutants emitted from the plant would block views in the gorge and endanger sensitive plant species. The new safety study and the environmental concerns are part of an ongoing contested-case hearing over the permitting of the power plant. Opponents to the site forced the hearing, in which both sides will make their best case for or against the safety and environmental effects of the plant. Rhodes says he’ll be “stunned” if the state siting council proceeds with approval of the plant after the new risk study. Even if someone raises additional information affirming the plant’s safety, he adds, the burden of proof still rests on the applicant. “State agencies are supposed to work on behalf of the people of Oregon, not an applicant,” Rhodes says. “In this case, they are working in the licensees’ interest. That’s a direct conflict of interest.”

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TOUGH TIMES FOR TED STATE TREASURER WHEELER FINDS HIS AGENDA STYMIED AND HIS FUTURE AT A CROSSROADS. By nigel jaquiss

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Until recently, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler’s political future looked bright. He had risen quickly from being a reformminded chairman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners to overseeing billions in state investments. But today, Wheeler, a Democrat, finds himself being whisked out of office sooner than he planned. His legislative agenda is stuck in limbo. And his chief political rival, Kate Brown, now holds the Oregon governorship he covets, after ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned Feb. 18. “Wheeler has been talked about for a long time as the logical successor to Kitzhaber,” says Pacific University political science professor Jim Moore. “Now, Kate Brown has the power of incumbency.” Wheeler is nearing a decision point on his political future. Does he take on Brown next year in what would be a bruising 2016 Democratic primary? Or does he accept a business community invitation to challenge Portland Mayor Charlie Hales instead? Wheeler, 52, must soon decide his path. He says he hears

groups are planning polls for the governor’s and mayor’s races and acknowledges he is considering both races. “I don’t have any timeline for making a decision,” he says. Wheeler left a career in finance to enter politics in 2006. He won a landslide victory over Multnomah County Chairwoman Diane Linn. In 2010, then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski appointed him state treasurer after incumbent Ben Westlund died. The treasurer’s post offered Wheeler, a triathlete and heir to a timber fortune, the platform for what seemed an inevitable run for governor. Things started to go sideways for him last August, when Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum ruled the state’s term limits made him ineligible to seek re-election in 2016. (Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to WW publisher Richard Meeker.) During the fall, Wheeler campaigned tepidly for a ballot measure he had proposed to generate millions for college scholarships. Voters nixed the plan. Wheeler has struggled to move legislation in Salem. As the state’s de facto banker, Wheeler manages the state’s credit, and as a member of the Oregon Investment Council, he helps oversee nearly $90 billion in public funds. He has pushed legislation that would revamp the treasury. Currently, the treasury contracts extensively for investment services. “It’s a very inefficient approach,” he says. Wheeler wants to bring that work in house, make the treasury more autonomous and keep its budget out of the hands of lawmakers. The Democratic-controlled Legislature rejected that idea last year, and his Senate Bill 134 this year hasn’t even received a hearing. Wheeler says that without reform, the treasury will struggle to oversee an increasingly complex investment portfolio. He says returns could suffer, forcing school districts and local governments to increase their public pension contributions. That warning isn’t getting traction. Last month, Senate President Peter Courtney rejected Wheeler’s plan. “I cannot

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support the governance change at the core of this proposal,” Courtney wrote to Wheeler on March 11. “SB 134 would eliminate much of the oversight relationship between the Legislative Assembly and the Investment Division of the State Treasurer’s office.” Wheeler says he’s frustrated: “It’s disappointing that one legislator can block changes that have bipartisan support and are in alignment with best practices in other states.” Meanwhile, he says his political choices for a future campaign could also include none of the above. “The question is whether I can add real value through further elected leadership,” he says. “I didn’t enter politics with the intention of becoming a career politician.”

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Brendan Kennedy has $82 million to spend on weed. He wants to make sure he can blow some cash in Oregon. Kennedy is a Silicon Valley veteran who launched a tech firm and ran a company to acquire other startups, both before he turned 35. In 2011, he founded Privateer Holdings, a Seattle private equity firm that invests in legal marijuana operations. The company has already sunk millions of dollars into three investments: weed-review website Leafly, Canadian medical-marijuana producer Tilray, and a Bob Marleythemed strain of Jamaican pot called Marley Natural. This month, Privateer announced it had completed a $75 million round of funding, including backing from Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal. But money can’t buy happiness—and it may not be able to secure Privateer legal entry into the Oregon market. Many Oregon growers fear “Big Weed” companies like Privateer could drive them out of business. State lawmakers are backing legislation to block out-of-state investors (“Dope Without Borders,” WW, March 11, 2015). Kennedy, whose hesitating speech patterns recall angel investor Peter Gregory on the HBO comedy Silicon Valley, is trying to talk the Oregon Legislature down. He stopped by WW’s offices to try his powers of persuasion on us—and proceeded to explain what legal weed has in common with goat cheese, bootlegging and organic raspberries.

TALK LIKE A PRIVATEER: Brendan Kennedy just closed a $75 million funding round for Privateer Holdings to invest in marijuana companies. “Our investors come from the far right and the far left,” he says. “This is the only issue that they agree on.”

WW: What’s the analog to post-prohibition marijuana? Is it post-Prohibition alcohol? Brendan Kennedy: This is a mainstream product consumed by mainstream Americans. They’re just looking for brands that don’t insult or offend them, and most of the brands in this industry still do. In Silicon Valley, generally, there was a technology risk—you know, could this team build this thing? And if they build it, will people buy it? This industry doesn’t have that risk. People were already consuming this product. What will happen is, it will transition from a state of prohibition to legalization. The Seattle media refer to you guys as potentially becoming the Starbucks of weed. Is that an idea you embrace? Starbucks is really focused on one brand and one experience. The Starbucks of pot is a whole bunch of dispensaries; that’s not really what appeals to us. A variety of brands can be built in this [marijuana] industry that can help facilitate the end of prohibition around the world. With alcohol regulation in Oregon, we have this three-tiered system that separates production from retail sale. Looks like in this industry, you’re going to be able to do all three. On the other hand, there aren’t many industries that are vertically integrated, and that’s not ideal. Ideally, this industry wouldn’t be vertically integrated. The only reason a company in this industry would be vertically integrated

is because there’s not a supply of consistent product. I’ve met “the world’s greatest cannabis grower” 500 times. I grew up in California, and I know a lot of people who grow strawberries and a lot of people who grow artichokes and a lot of people who grow grapes, and none of them have ever told me they grow the greatest strawberries, grapes or artichokes. But I always hear someone who grows the best cannabis. So where do you see the most opportunity? We can move the needle the most at the wholesale level. We certainly know how to produce the product well— know how to produce the product in a way that is free of mold and mildew and fungus and heavy metals and pesticides. And that’s an important part of the process, but we don’t have a huge desire to replicate those facilities across the world. You’re talking about a premium agricultural product, like raspberries and goat cheese. If you go to Whole Foods, you’re paying a lot for the product. In the long term, doesn’t marijuana become a commodity? Yes and no. In some cases, the product will be a commodity, that’s inevitable. And we’re seeing that today. We’re seeing that in falling prices in Colorado and falling prices in Canada. So, raspberries—there’s a raspberry example, [where] we have to go to a farmers market somewhere and cont. on page 13

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buy local, organic, specific strains of cannabis. There will be local brands and regional brands and market brands as well. With Marley Natural, is the idea you’ll have a standard brand with standard specs, so people will know the THC content and it’ll look the same wherever it’s sold? That’s exactly right. There will be three different product lines. The first will be cannabis accessories: vaporizers and containers and grinders and pipes, things like that. All these products will launch around November. The second line is cannabis- and hemp-infused products, things like lotions and creams and shampoos. Not edible products. And then the third product is actual cannabis.

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“MeMbers of the state legislature are protecting bootleggers and criMinals.” —Brendan Kennedy You’ve raised $82 million. Is it totally invested? No. We raised $7 million four years ago—as hard as any round in the world that year. Raising $75 million was a lot easier. We weren’t sure how we were going to deploy that $7 million. Today, we could easily deploy $200 million and could deploy it over the next two years. What would Privateer like to do in Oregon? One option is not to do anything. One is to license brands. There’s an opportunity for Oregon to get this right. There’s an opportunity for Oregon to serve as a model for future retail states. Oregon approved legal weed without a residency requirement. The Legislature is considering adding one. What’s your analysis of that idea? It’s a problem for Oregon. You have similar regulations in Colorado and in Washington state. I’m not sure it’s legal. I think that it results in adverse selection. The less scrupulous out-of-state investors [will] invest anyway. They just hide the investment; that’s what we see in Washington and Colorado. People bury the money, but they still make the investment. And it grants an oligopoly to in-state investors. What would you point to and say, “Gee, Oregon could really screw this up”? The residency [requirement] is more important than people think. It’s really strange. I can’t think of another industry that is in Oregon that requires in-state residency, or in-state residency for investors. I can’t think of another industry in Oregon that discouraged out-of-state investors. Who is pushing that residency requirement? Bootleggers and criminals. You’re referring to people feeding the black market now. They’re not usually obvious in the state Capitol. That’s what’s really interesting, right? You’re at a stage where members of the state Legislature are protecting bootleggers and criminals, to the detriment of the best legitimate players in the industry. That could harm the program, and that could prevent legitimate companies and legitimate entrepreneurs from succeeding. What else could go wrong, other than shitty regulation and stupid bureaucrats? Those are the two. The team working on this doesn’t have an easy job—certainly not one that I would envy. It’s all complicated. And there’s no really great model, because every time you say, “Oh, it looks like raspberries,” it doesn’t quite. It’s hard.

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he two worlds couldn’t be more different. The young men of Xalisco toil in the sugarcane fields outside of town, nestled in the hills of southwestern Mexico. They dream of making enough money to pay a band to play all night in the town square, and buy new pairs of dark blue Levi’s 501 jeans. Russia’s devout Pentecostal Christians believe in the ecstatic language called “speaking in tongues,” while outlawing dancing, makeup and television. They fled their homeland after decades of hiding their churches from Soviet crackdowns. Both groups came to Portland—and their worlds collided in an epidemic of black tar heroin, addiction and death. Over the past 15 years, law-enforcement and public-health officials nationwide have watched a catastrophic surge of Americans—many of them affluent, white teenagers—become hooked on opiates. The rate of people dying from heroin overdoses in the United States nearly quadrupled from 2000 to 2013—becoming the nation’s top cause of accidental death. Those deaths have followed the spike in doctors doling out prescriptions to the painkiller OxyContin. That drug has the same psychoactive chemical as heroin: the morphine molecule, which produces rapturous highs and is highly addictive. Addicts often turn to heroin—cheaper and easy to find.

The deadly intersection of prescription painkillers and heroin in Oregon has been reported before. WW has charted the epidemic, and The Oregonian investigated Mexican drug cartels in a 2013 series. But for the first time, a writer has woven these stories together. Sam Quinones began tracking the rise in heroin deaths as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He traces the source to the town of Xalisco in his new book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury Press, 384 pages, $28). Dealers known as the “Xalisco Boys,” all hailing from the same county in the Mexican state of Nayarit, didn’t operate as a cartel. Their innovation was a system to retail heroin, setting up low-profile franchises in 25 U.S. states with drivers delivering heroin directly to their junkie customers. The Xalisco Boys found vulnerable customers among the 25,000 Russian-speaking immigrants and their families living in the bedroom communities of East Portland. The result? Heroin deaths in Oregon, already higher than the national average, tripled over the past decade (see chart on page 19). Quinones reads from Dreamland at 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 28, at Powell’s City of Books. The following excerpt is just a glimpse of what he reveals about Portland. —Aaron Mesh

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HOW MEXICAN HEROIN DEALERS AND RUSSIAN ADDICTS COLLIDED IN PORTLAND: AN EXCERPT FROM SAM QUINONES’ NEW HEROIN SAGA, DREAMLAND.

Sam Quinones worked as reporter at the Los Angeles Times for 10 years. For a decade before that, he lived in Mexico and wrote two nonﬁction books: True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx and Antonio’s Gun and Delﬁno’s Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration.

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DR. GARY OXMAN RECOGNIZED A HEROIN EPIDEMIC NO ONE HAD SPOTTED. yayevs’ oldest children hid their lives from their parents. Elina applied makeup on the school bus each morning, and exchanged her long skirts for pants. After school, she donned Pentecostal clothes, removed her makeup, and arrived home looking as plain as she had when she left. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy frothed. Russian Pentecostals opened auto shops and trucking and welding businesses. After years of Soviet penury, they were suddenly doing quite well, and some grew rich. Pentecostal kids were steeped in consumerist America at school and old-world Russia at home. They endured church but valued wealth. They eschewed college, worked to buy what they wanted, and quietly rebelled against their parents’ old ways. Then OxyContin appeared. In 1999, Multnomah County medical director Dr. Gary Oxman recognized a heroin epidemic no one had spotted. His investigation revealed dozens of heroin overdoses had been overlooked, and the mortality rate of drug deaths was higher than anyone had imagined, climbing 1,000 percent over eight years. He led a marketing campaign telling junkies to call 911 if a friend overdosed—and the deaths fell. But five years later, in 2004, Oxman saw the numbers start to rise again.

xman watched OxyContin arrive from his offices at the Multnomah County Health Department in downtown Portland, and saw overdose deaths again begin to rise. Portland never had many pill mills. Instead, thousands of legitimate doctors began prescribing opiates like OxyContin for chronic pain. “What we had here is a medical community that’s gone along with the idea that pain

is the fifth vital sign,” Oxman said when we met one day years later at a cafe in Northeast Portland. “It’s not this wild abuse. It’s that we have a whole medical community prescribing moderately too much.” Gary Oxman had seen this story a decade before, of course. Unstinting supplies of Xalisco black tar heroin lashed Portland addiction and death rates ever higher through the 1990s. Oxman, the group of recovering addicts known as RAP, and others toiled to bring down those numbers, and the numbers did drop. But by 2004, OxyContin was undermining that work. “People are getting recruited into opiate addiction through pills,” he said. “Then, because of the cost of the pills, they transfer to heroin.” Oxman plotted the data on a graph, as he had for a heroin overdose study in December 1999. The same steady rise in opiate overdose deaths began again in 2004. Mostly, opiates consumed young people in Portland who had never used them, virtually all of them white. As a group, it appears none fell to it harder than the children of Russian Pentecostals who came fleeing persecution and found U.S. pop culture a greater challenge than anything a Soviet apparatchik could invent.

lina Sinyayev tried heroin the first time with a friend from work, who told her it would relax her. Her sister started with OxyContin. So did Toviy, her brother. Elina lost her job and, desperate for her dope, began dating a Russian Pentecostal heroin dealer, who also got his tar from the Mexicans delivering it like pizza. Elina believed she was the only one in her family using heroin. But one night at home she looked at her sister and brother and watched them nod off and knew the truth. Two decades after Anatoly and Nina left the Soviet Union for the freedoms of

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ussian Pentecostals leaned on the severe God of the Old Testament to shepherd them through Soviet oppression. By the time the Soviet experiment ended, seven hundred thousand people, most of them in the Ukraine and Belarus, were fervent Pentecostals. Then, a dream come true. The United States opened to them. Tens of thousands emigrated, settling mostly in Sacramento, Seattle and Portland. Among them was a young couple, Anatoly and Nina Sinyayev, who arrived from the city of Baksan around 1992. Anatoly was a welder. Nina’s father was an evangelist, touring Germany and Israel to preach the gospel. When the Soviet walls tumbled, the Sinyayevs took their two toddler daughters and fled to Portland. Nina’s first baby in America was also their first son, Toviy, born in 1994. From then on, she was always pregnant. The couple had ten more children. Anatoly was always working. They moved eight times, mostly in the Portland suburbs of Gresham and Milwaukie where Russian Pentecostals concentrated. They attended a conservative Russian Pentecostal church, and raised their children in their faith. But their American dreamland contained hazards they hadn’t imagined. Remaining Christian in America, where everything was permitted, was harder than maintaining the faith in the Soviet Union where nothing was allowed. Churches were everywhere. But so were distractions and sin: television, sexualized and permissive pop culture, and wealth. Leaders turned to the prohibitions that had sustained the faith during the dark decades back home. Girls couldn’t dye their hair, pierce their ears, or wear makeup. Young men and women could not talk, or date. If a man wanted to marry, he went to his pastor, who asked the young woman if the suitor interested her. Russian Pentecostals didn’t associate much with American society, which they viewed as a threat. Families with televisions were deemed less holy, and they hid the machines from visitors. Pastors called TV the devil with one eye. The Sinyayevs’ daughters were not allowed to wear nail polish or mingle with Americans. But Anatoly kept a television in the basement and turned it on when he thought his children weren’t listening. They watched it when he wasn’t home. The Sinyayevs’ second child, Elina, was their most stubborn. A pretty girl with an aquiline nose, Elina raised her siblings while her mother was pregnant and railed at the church teachings that ruled her home. “All they preached was that women should wear long skirts, head coverings, no makeup,” she said. “They never teach you about love. They didn’t want us to know God forgives.” As they moved into adolescence, the Sin-

THE DEATH OF TOVIY SINYAYEV BECAME A TEST CASE FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY

America, each of their three oldest children was quietly addicted to black tar heroin from Xalisco, Nayarit. Police arrested Elina’s sister for petty theft and Toviy for shoplifting. Anatoly and Nina frantically began checking their children’s arms. Elina, meanwhile, shot up in other parts of her body. One afternoon in March 2011, Toviy told his mother he had the flu. He went out with Elina and they returned hours later. He seemed different but Nina had too many kids to pay close attention. The next morning, she found her eldest boy in bed, unconscious and gasping for breath. Paramedics couldn’t revive him. He lasted for three days on life support. The Portland suburb of Milwaukie is so small and quiet that its police department has only two detectives. That morning, one of the two, Tom Garrett, was on call. He found balloons of heroin and a syringe in Toviy’s bedroom. Over the next eighteen months, the death of Toviy Sinyayev became a test case for Clackamas County. Meanwhile, at home, Nina checked the arms of her daughter, Elina, which were always under the long-sleeved blouses of Pentecostal piety. There she found bruises and fierce little scratches. Dealers from Xalisco, Mexico, started selling drugs in Portland around 1991. But few police realized the dealers came from the same part of Mexico or understood how they operated. Toviy Sinyayev’s overdose in 2011 helped Oregon cops discover how Xalisco heroin cells worked, and taught them a new strategy to fight back.

dozen harried days had passed since Toviy’s mother found him comatose in his bedroom. Under pressure, his sister Elina told police that their dealer was a Russian Pentecostal heroin addict named Aleksey Dzyuba. They put a wire on Elina. She called Dzyuba. Going through withdrawals and with her brother on life support, Elina met the dealer in a Safeway parking lot, surveilled by a dozen undercover officers. She bought heroin from him, and passed him some marked cash. As he drove from the parking lot, officers descended and arrested him. With that, a strategy that Portland had adopted to combat the Xalisco Boys was set in motion, named for a college basketball player who died in 1986 after using cocaine a friend had given him. A so-called Len Bias case is based in federal law. Under that law, a person who supplies drugs that cause a fatal overdose may be charged with a conspiracy that results in death—a charge that carries a twentyyear prison sentence. Cops have to prove the person died from the suspect’s drugs; a chain of custody has to be established.

But if they can do that, they have a powerful prosecutorial tool and one that was getting a closer look in many parts of the country as the opiate epidemic and fatal drug overdoses spread across the nation. One place that refined the strategy was Portland. The benefit prosecutors see in Len Bias is that it allows investigators to work up a chain of drug distribution. To save himself from a Len Bias prosecution, a dealer needs to flip, and quickly, burning the dealer one link above him in the chain, hoping for leniency at sentencing time. The last man detectives can trace the drugs to faces the twenty years if convicted—a fateful game of musical chairs. Thus, a heart-to-heart takes place in an interrogation room. Investigators can’t threaten a suspect, but they do tell him what he faces under federal law. “The tone in the room definitely changes,” Garrett said. “You’re not joking with them. It’s a very powerful conversation.” Speaking through a Russian interpreter, Dzyuba bridled at this idea. People die every day for their addictions, he told his interrogators. He wasn’t to blame for their choices. Finally, though, a defense attorney explained the situation. Dzyuba gave up the name of the junkie dealer he bought from. With that, Garrett and his colleagues began working up the chain. Dzyuba’s dealer gave them the name of his supplier, who in turn gave them his dealer. This dealer, three levels up from Toviy, said he bought daily from a Mexican he knew only as Doriro. This is how, on April 12, 2011, Garrett and his colleagues began calling the number of a man from Nayarit they would later learn went by the name Joaquin Segura-Cordero. They received no answer. They called through the afternoon. Nothing.

nbeknownst to them, SeguraCordero was at that moment being arrested by another department. Portland police had their own Len Bias death case against him. This one originated three hours away, in Bend, Oregon, where a kid named Jedediah Elliott had overdosed and died a couple months before. Both heroin chains led to SeguraCordero, who, as it turned out, was a kind of regional sales manager for a Xalisco heroin cell. Normally, as a Xalisco regional manager, Segura-Cordero would have been insulated from the kind of day-to-day heroin sales that would expose him to arrest. But Segura-Cordero had faced a classic small-business problem: a labor shortage. “He had several runners arrested, so he’d run out of runners,” said Steve Mygrant, one of the prosecutors in the case. “He was having to expose himself. He was taking calls and making deliveries himself.” Mygrant is a Clackamas County prosecutor deputized to try federal cases. SeguraCordero was his first Xalisco Boys case. By the time I spoke with him, a couple years after Toviy’s death, Mygrant sounded both harried and amazed by the Xalisco system. “It used to be you go into the ghettos to buy heroin from street corners,” he said.

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JOAQUIN SEGURACORDERO WAS A KIND OF REGIONAL SALES MANAGER FOR A XALISCO HEROIN CELL. “Now these organizations are coming to the neighborhoods, to suburbia. They come to you. That’s unique to this organizational model. They’re all coming out of Nayarit and all operating off of this dispatch style. Like the fishermen in Alaska; they work seven days a week and go back home and play.” The Segura-Cordero case showed that Xalisco heroin spread for 150 miles around Portland. It went out to the quietest rural counties, where kids, addicted to pills, learned to drive to Portland, buy cheap black tar, and triple their money back home while feeding their own habit. In classic Xalisco style, every junkie became a salesman. I thought back to the conversation with that fellow in prison from whom I first heard the name of the town of Xalisco so long ago now. He had lived in Portland, working legally as a mechanic as he watched the Xalisco system expand. “In Portland,” he said, “I’d see [the police] grab people with twenty or thirty balloons and they’d let them go. That’s why people began to come to Portland, because they weren’t afraid. They saw there were no consequences. ‘We get caught with this and they let us go.’” Word spread back in Xalisco that cells did well in Portland, and, furthermore, arrested drivers were only deported. More cells crowded into town, he said. This reminded me so much of smalltown Mexican business culture. I once visited a village in central Mexico—Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán. Tzintzuntzan had at least two-dozen vendors all selling the same kind of pottery on its main street. Once one person did well selling pottery, everyone started doing it. No one thought to vary the offering. The stores stretched for five or six blocks—with each selling identical pots and bowls, eager to undercut the others. Mexican small-business culture, born of crisis and peso devaluations, was risk averse and imitative. That described the Xalisco cells. They came and imitated those who’d come before. In so doing, they dropped prices CONT. on page 19 Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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agencies had to cooperate completely. The state medical examiner had to be willing to quickly perform an autopsy; the local DA had to give up the case if it appeared the feds had more leverage. Joaquin Segura-Cordero was one example. He was sentenced to fourteen years in prison for selling dope that killed Toviy Sinyayev in a suburb of Portland and Jedediah Elliott out in the Oregon countryside 150 miles away. I walked a few Portland blocks to the office of a public defender to speak to an attorney who had agreed to talk to me as long as I left his name out of it. He had convinced many Xalisco Boys that their cooperation was the only way to avoid twenty years in prison under Len Bias. The attorney had a standing order to detectives to call him immediately when a Len Bias case began. He supported quick cooperation with investigators—a controversial idea among defense attorneys. “The value of your information is at its maximum the closer you are to the time of your arrest,” he said. “If you’re in really quick you can derive great benefit for your client.” Still, he didn’t see much effect from prosecutors’ new strategy. The pills were so widespread; new kids were getting addicted every day. They were switching to heroin all the time. Against that backdrop, he figured, prosecutors were only temporarily disrupting the market. “My dental hygienist came to talk to me,” he said. “Her son was involved with heroin to the point where he was stealing stuff out of stores. This is a middle-class person you’d think would never be touched by something like this. But it’s so prevalent. It’s almost like you were trying to stop drinking coffee [with] a Starbucks on every corner.” EXCERPT FROM DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones. Copyright © 2015 by Sam Quinones. Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Press. All rights reserved.

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ortland’s catch-and-deport policy was an important reason why. The policy was designed for the smalltime street addict/dealer who city officials didn’t want taking jail space from more serious felons. The Xalisco Boys’ drivers worked hard to look small-time. In reality, they were the only visible strands of large webs that sold hundreds of kilos of black tar a year across America, by the tenth of a gram. So for many years, when they were caught they were deported and faced little jail time, and no prison time. As farm boys on the make, they drew a very different message from leniency than what these Portland officials intended. To them, catch and release looked more like an invitation. By the time OxyContin came to Portland in the mid2000s, the city was famous back in Xalisco, Nayarit. The Boys crowded into the Rose City. What’s more, the arrival of OxyContin meant they no longer had to rely on the old street clients. There were now many hundreds more to help jump-start a heroin cell. The addicts were younger and wealthier. Seizures of a few ounces of heroin were big news a decade ago. Now cops routinely found pounds of the stuff. Len Bias became Portland’s new strategy to combat the Xalisco Boys. In Portland, and for presumably the first time in the history of heroin in America, police began responding energetically—two or three detectives at a time—to a dead junkie in a gas station bathroom. The deceased’s cellphone was mined for contacts that could lead them up the Xalisco ladder. Runners were no longer automatically deported. They were told they faced twenty years in federal prison. For Len Bias to work, federal, state and local government

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They call the dark spots “cancer.” “That’s the industry term, because once you have that dark spot, it’ll collect heat and spread,” says Dave Tragethon, PR director for Mount Hood Meadows. “Snow’s white and it reflects the sun, but once it gets dark it collects the heat and it starts warming up the ground around it.” We’re standing in the lift line last Sunday, the 118th and final day of operations at Meadows. I’m standing on a 30-inch base, but just a few feet away you can see bare grass that will soon sprout wildflowers. It’s been a rough winter all along the West Coast. At Meadows, the end of the season has a bittersweet note. On one hand, it was a short season. On the other hand, it could have been a lot worse—just look at Skibowl. And it would have been worse had the resort not developed new techniques for harvesting and storing snowpack to build enough of a base at the bottom of the hill. “We’re standing on November snow,” says Tragethon. “We harvested this from our parking lot and saved every inch of it, and it’s what got us through.” Skiing on snow that was scraped off a parking lot isn’t especially sexy. And to a certain class of Portland powder hounds there’s likely something off-putting about it. But given our warming Earth’s new weather patterns, I think it’s important to adjust your paradigms if you want to continue enjoying snow sports. Oregon’s resorts were built for an era when the white line that separates winter from spring sat much lower on the hill. Meadows slopes got just 100 inches of snow this season, and much of the snow that fell was higher on the mountain than in the past. Compare that to a typical year, when it’s more like 450 inches. In a very heavy year the snowfall has topped 800. “We’re lucky in that we do have good snow up top,” says Tom Scully, director of mountain operations. “The issue is connecting the base area to that, which is where the snow harvesting came in. It used to be that we were looking for a place

to put all the snow that fell. Now, we’re trying to conserve it and use it to fill the gaps.” That’s a new mindset on Hood, where snow had long fallen in dumps of heavy, damp powder. But it may well be our new reality. And it could be much worse. Spring skiing came a month earlier than I’d like, but I still enjoy the vibe—warm cans of Miller Lite on the sink in the men’s room, a big line for a squirt from an industrial-size jug of sunblock, a beer patio full of people decked out in vintage jackets. And then there was the guy in a Viking suit, who actually stopped midrun to thank Scully for the efforts to extend the season, which involved buying new equipment to haul and store snow and long hours for Sam Cordell, who is in charge of slope maintenance. “I grew up on a farm, so I know how it is,” says the Viking. “They did an amazing job with what they had. “ Not everyone was happy, of course. I also rode with a guy in a tie-dyed shirt who complained that they should have done more to keep snow on the Stadium trail, a wide, grassy run better handled at this point with a mountain bike instead of skis. Then again, this guy did rack up more than a million vertical feet over the course of the season, and rode the lift some 800 times. “I live for this, so this winter sucked” he said. “But it could’ve been worse.” For the resorts, obviously, it’s bad for a bunch of reasons. Including the cost of managing their precious-little natural snow. Operating a snowcat for three hours costs about $500, the price of one season ticket, and they had as many as 12 of them running at once when the skies opened up. But that’s what it takes to adjust. The resorts seem to be figuring this out faster than the customers. When the best snowfall of the year came last week, most skiers and boarders I know were already done. That’s Portland: The season begins after Christmas, not with the first snowfall around Thanksgiving. The season starts winding down in early March, a full month before the Cascadian snowpack reaches its peak. So it is for people who have always been blessed with abundance. Well, unless you’re a climate-change denier, you need to reschedule your ski season. Because, Sunday was a great day to be out on the slopes. “Traditionally resorts don’t close because they run out of snow, but because they run out of people,” says Tragethon. “I don’t know if it’s just seeing that white line or if it’s the weather in town or what, but people just stop coming even when there’s still good snow.”

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SCOOP NO SUSHI STRIP: Last month, Safari Showclub in Southeast Portland lost all of its exotic dancers (“It’s summer,” said the bar manager on duty. “I can’t make them come in.”) and renamed itself Sushi Bar PDX, installing fish tanks and a sushi case near the stages, which still had their poles. Sushi Bar PDX closed April 19, and Safari’s owners will move their sushi bar to Camas, Wash. “We are setting out to make our own destiny,” read the bar’s Facebook page. “After countless years making others rich we have decided to part ways.” Safari will again be a strip club, under different owners. No word on those fish tanks…or the strippers. >> Meanwhile, we’ve confirmed that downtown’s Brasserie Montmartre is closing. The French pub (“a nice place for dinner and drinks with co-workers,” our reviewer called it) opened in 1978 and has made several trips to the grave and back. NO’S DEF: The headliner at this year’s Soul’d Out Music Festival ended up getting canceled just as the doors were supposed to open, and no one is sure why. On April 17, Yasiin Bey—the rapper formerly known as Mos Def—was scheduled to headline the Roseland Theater along with punk legends Bad Brains, but neither act made it to the venue. “It was a real bummer,” says festival co-founder Haytham Abdulhadi, who declined to go into detail, adding that even he is unclear what exactly happened. <<< Rising newwave R&B artist Twin Shadow postponed an April 25 appearance at Doug Fir Lounge following a Denver tour bus accident that left a dozen people injured and singer George Lewis Jr. requiring reconstructive hand surgery. No makeup date has been scheduled, but Twin Shadow is set to appear at YASIIN BEY MusicfestNW on Aug. 22.

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CHANGING ROLES: Spring brings fresh faces to Portland’s theater scene, and this week three prominent companies announced what’s next. Curious Comedy Theater managing director Beth Lewis will replace Anne Mueller at Hillsboro theater company Bag & Baggage when Mueller returns to her dancing roots as artistic co-director at the Portland Ballet. Meanwhile, Artists Repertory Theatre is making good on its $125,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation by creating a new play development program and hiring Foster & Dobbs cheese shop owner and local dramatist Luan Schooler as director. Schooler will commission four plays by writers of color, four by women and one for a young audience. And Portland Center Stage announced last week that it will get $770,000 from the Wallace Foundation to commission plays about Northwest culture. PCS’s most recent production was Lauren Weedman’s The People’s Republic of Portland, essentially a stage adaptation of Portlandia created by someone who has never lived here. JUST BLAZED: The Trail Blazers began the NBA playoﬀs April 19 with a 100-86 trouncing at the claws of the Memphis Grizzlies, in a game that saw the team thoroughly outplayed by a guy named Beno and a point guard with one good foot. It surely can’t get worse, but if it does, Corbin Smith of Blazers blog Portland Roundball Society will help talk you oﬀ the ledge. Read his game recaps at wweek.com, for however long the campaign lasts.

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THURSDAY APRIL 23 WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE [LIVE PODCAST] This ﬁctional radio show podcast broadcasts the supernatural happenings in a podunk Texas town. It’s A Prairie Home Companion, but haunted, with indie music and Cecil Baldwin instead of Garrison Keillor. Revolution Hall, 1330 SE Stark St., 288-3895, 8 pm, $30. All ages.

FRIDAY APRIL 24 CHEATIN’ [FILM] Bill Plympton’s hand-drawn ﬁlms are like a drunken free fall through Jungian therapy sessions. The Oscar-nominated Portlander will introduce his latest silent feature and draw at the theater. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. 7 and 9 pm, $9.50.

SATURDAY APRIL 25 IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, the new year isn’t celebrated until the last rice paddy is harvested sometime in mid-April. After that comes three days of celebration, from cleansing Buddha statues in flower water to Romvong circle-dancing and sitar jams. The festivities are in honor of a Hindu god who lost his head gambling—his severed head was put atop a mountain peak and bathed in holy water once a year. For children in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, it’s also an occasion for young men and women to engage in “mixed play,” which can lead to romance. The competition is fierce there, too, as teams of boys and girls play the field in traditional holiday games. For the first time, Portlanders from three Southeast Asian countries will come together for a New Year’s festival at Glenhaven Park. Street food will be provided by Mekong Bistro and Khun Jo’s Thai Chicken House in Vancouver. In addition to the rainbow-hued New Year fishing dance, the event will also feature traditional games involving seed pods and scarf tossing. ENID SPITZ.

BOS ONGKUNH

Ongkunh is a large-seeded plant native to Cambodia. This game is a Southeast Asian version of bocce, played with the plant’s seeds. Two teams line up the 3-inch seeds on opposite sides of a playing field. They then throw seeds to knock down the other team’s seeds. Novices chuck the ongkunh with their hands, the ambitious flick seeds off their knees, but truly adroit players toss the seeds from between their toes. No matter how they hit it, once the standing seeds are toppled, winners get to knock the knees of the losers with the hard seed pods.

TEAGN PROT

This tug-of-war stems from a battle between angels and giants in Khmer folklore. To prove their superior strength, the two sides tugged on the ends of a serpent, but the angels tricked their foes to get ahead. Calling dibs on the snake’s nose, the angels tickled its throat to make the reptile’s tail flail and throw the giants off. Stone carvings at Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple still show the play-by-play.

DONDERM SLUK CHAU CHHOUNG JREANG

This is like musical dodge ball for lovers. Two teams stand 30 feet apart, and members take turns throwing a cloth ball at their chosen mates in the opposing crowd. If the receiving team catches the ball—actually a scarf rolled into a ball the size of a coconut—the throwers have to sing a love song.

“Capture the flag ” gets a rustic and unwieldy twist when the trophy is a tree branch. Two teams number their players from 1 to whatever, and amass around a branch at midfield. When the referee calls a number, the respective players from each team try to grab the branch and retreat without being tagged. The penalty for failure is giving your opponent a piggyback ride. There are no bases, but this could get physical.

CTHULHUCON PDX [CULT FILM AND ART] Cult icon H.P. Lovecraft died unknown and penniless. Had he lived to age 125, he could’ve seen a horde of artists and authors obsessed with him. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1441 NE 2nd Ave., universe.com/cthulhuconpdx2015. 10 am-11 pm. $30. GERMANFEST [BEER] GermanFest is back at Bailey’s for the ﬁfth straight year, with a Schweinerei of Deutschestyle beers made by Oregon breweries, from Gose to Rauchbier to ice beer. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 295-1004. 2 pm.

SUNDAY APRIL 26 SHLOHMO [ACE ELECTRONIC] Dark Red, the third album from the L.A. producer, is a step away from the IDM of his previous albums. But while his compositions now aim more squarely at the dance ﬂoor, there remains a pervasive darkness to the work, tonight rendered by a three-piece touring band. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 9 pm. $17. 21+

MONDAY APRIL 27 LADY LAMB [INDIE CHRONICLER] Like Courtney Barnett, Aly Spaltro blends poetic lyrics about the seemingly mundane with sweeping guitar hooks. Her latest record, After, is a triumph in modern songwriting. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $12-$14. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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CULTURE

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SO YOU’RE IN... THIS WEEK’S BAR GUIDE CELEBRATES OUR FAVORITE 170+ PORTLAND BARS. HERE’S WHERE TO DRINK IN THE ’BURBS. VANCOUVER: LOOWIT BREWING COMPANY 507 Columbia St., Vancouver, Wash., 360566-2323, loowitbrewing.com. Where the party at, Vantown? Oh, yeah, Loowit Brewing, This 2-year-old brewery just might be the best and busiest bar in downtown Vancouver, with crowds that look like either recent divorcees or bewildered townies exploring their city’s nightlife while the students are away on winter break, from a 20-something in a tiedyed shirt to a middle-aged woman who confesses her parents were homophobes until they met some gay people. The whole place smells like fresh hops, possibly from a batch of the pretty, copper-colored and ultra-hoppy Shadow Ninja IPA. You can just get one of those, or you can do the taster tray. Everything at Loowit is cocked, locked and ready to rock, as the locals may or may not say. MARTIN CIZMAR. SCAPPOOSE: WIGWAM TAVERN 52499 Columbia River Highway, 543-8362. Scappoose is a stretch of U.S. 30 mostly known to Portlanders for the Fred Meyer where you can stock up on the way to Astoria. Fittingly, its best bar is made for the open road. The Wigwam is a ramshackle Harley haunt that takes only cash, mostly serves Miller High Life and looks at you funny if you’re new—although if you talk about fishing for catfish, you’ll bond in no time. The bar’s only real decoration is a long row of video poker machines whose spectacle is rivaled only by the vast array of choppers parked in front and the patches on the jackets of the dudes in the bar. When somebody tells a story out on the bar’s concrete patio, it always somehow starts with someone dying—whether a second wife or an old riding buddy—and then reaches back to a hard-bitten sentimentality that can only be bought off with love and then heartbreak. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. GRESHAM: SPUD MONKEY’S BAR AND GRILL 17312 NE Halsey St., spudmonkeys.net. Spud Monkey’s stands almost exactly on the border between Portland and Gresham, but the bar proudly claims only Gresham as its home. Buried in a strip mall mostly devoted to the care of your nails, hair, tan and—eerily—prosthetics, the bar’s staid and boxy exterior belies an absolute explosion of resort-style kitsch within. It’s the sort of place that declares its own fun with bottomless french fries and Buffalo-wing variations on the good ol’ baked potato. Swings hang from the ceiling by the bar, and the musicians onstage might actually and unironically describe themselves as a “party band”—by which they mean the good-time bar blues that Bruce cut his teeth on before he was ever the Boss. But

by God, there’s a nitro tap pouring espresso stout, and the karaoke that gets sung here Wednesdays will break your heart with its wailing sincerity, even when it’s a 22-yearold dude with wraparound shades singing Journey. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. TUALATIN: COUNTRY INN BAR AND GRILL 18786 SW Boones Ferry Road, Tualatin, 692-2765. Even as Tualatin city leaders hawk every last remnant of small-town aesthetic for supermall acreage and mastodon statuary, the Country Inn remains a bustling preserve of blues bands and bingo nights hidden just beyond the creeping tide of prefab exurban renewal. Middle-aged dads and overgrown sons wade into tablestraining breakfasts while ribbing each other’s waistlines. Three generations of loved ones cheered on what appeared to be a matriarch’s traditional postchurch/ pregame liqueur tipple. If newcomers aren’t entirely made to feel welcome during weekend rush, the barstaff affects the truculent cheer familiar to hosts of any extended gathering whenever a few extra cousins crash dinner. JAY HORTON. DAMASCUS/CLACKAMAS: CARVER HANGAR 16196 Market Road 39, Damascus, 658-2576. The Damascus bar scene is weirdly awesome, once you’ve made your peace with the double-length parking spots filled to the paint with tricked-out Hemis and F-350s and whatever comes after F-350. Out front there’s a food cart lackadaisically serving barbecue to a line of people who swear it’s the best on the West Coast, and a little growlery kicking out 30 taps. But if you’re too late for the parking-lot barbecue, wander into the aluminum-sided Hangar and get a pitcher of Fearless Scottish Ale ($13 at happy hour) and its hand-tossed bar pizza, which tastes like the best version of Pietro’s you could ever hope for, laden so heavily with cheese it’s like eating nachos (which are also huge here). After dinner hours, the back bar turns into a bustling pickup bar for the pickup-truck set, assisted by the odd soundtrack of feet crunching on the peanut shells everybody throws on the floor. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. MILWAUKIE: WINE:30 10835 SE Main St., Milwaukie, 654-4595, wine30bar.com. The most controversial bar in Milwaukie is not the stealin’-drinkin’-fuckin’-fightin’ Wichita Town Pub. It is, instead, this totally harmless wine bar with cheap wine on Mondays and Tuesdays. Wine:30’s cozy elbow-bar space, with its neutral tones and urban-eclectic furniture, looks a little

The O.C.: Oregon City’s highland Stillhouse.

like a starter apartment for Frasier Crane; it might as well be the emblem of the new Orange Line dreams pinned to Milwaukie’s ghost of a downtown. So why does the bar cause such uproar? The “parklet.” They built a little patio on top of a few parking spaces, and their neighbors—Curves gym—raised a ruckus until the city made Wine:30 tear it down. But you know what? Screw ’em. The parklet’s back up and fully permitted, which means downtown Milwaukie again has a patio worth sitting on. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. OR EG ON CITY: THE HIGHLAND STILLHOUSE 201 S 2nd St., Oregon City, 723-6789, highlandstillhouse.com. Deep in bar-happy Oregon City, the Highland Stillhouse reigns supreme over Willamette Falls with the most extensive Scotch selection that you’re likely to get anywhere, including Scotland. The bourbon and Irish list would likewise shame any bar in Portland short of the Multnomah Whiskey Library, except that in this two-story beauty of a bar, you get absolutely none of the snoot. Take the 33 or 35 bus down there some weekend, and notch off the whiskeys like strikes on your bedpost. There’ll soon be nothing left of the bed. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. BEAVERTON: WATSON HALL 12655 SW 1st St., Beaverton, 616-2416, watsonhallbar.com. This gin joint lies in the heart of downtown Beaverton, on the same block as a midcentury modern consignment store and its sister restaurant, Decarli. The cocktail menu is respectable and the happy-hour snacks delightful (especially the $3 grilled-cheese Gruyère). Figure out which drink is $6 at happy hour, and order that. Amid tattooed servers, the haute bar foods and aging yuppie patron-

age, Watson Hall would be out of place in the Pearl or downtown. But in Beaverton, it’s remarkable. JOHN LOCANTHI. TIGARD: MAX’S FANNO CREEK BREW PUB 12562 SW Main St., Tigard, 624-9400, maxsfannocreek.com. Max’s proves that being the best brewery in Tigard can actually mean something outside of, well, Tigard. The pub is large, has a patio, and is soccer-mom-friendly. Beer selection is vast and quaff-worthy, and it is delivered tank-to-tap from 10 tanks behind the bar—a rarity even in the beer-soaked Portland city center. Belgians such as the Reverend’s Daughter taste ester-y and vibrant, and hoppy ales such as the IPA balance their bitterness with a well-calculated malt backbone. Max’s is still one of the best places to drink beer in the suburbs, and is wholeheartedly deserving of as much time you have to spend in, well, Tigard. PARKER HALL. HILLSBORO: SYUN IZAKAYA 209 NE Lincoln St., Hillsboro, 640-3131, syun-izakaya.com. The most singular drinking experience in Hillsboro is tucked into the basement of the old downtown library. Syun was the first izakaya in the Portland area, and still boasts its biggest collection of shochu, not to mention a boggling variety of sake available in flights for $12 to $18, with a customer base that’s almost entirely Japanese, who spill out from the burnished pine of the izakaya onto its two-level front porch. Ask your server about her favorite sake among the rotating selection, and you may get steered down the oft untrodden path of fruit infusions. Always complement the sake’s sweet riciness with the bracing brine of grilled mackerel. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 25 GermanFest

What, you didn’t get enough of Bailey’s Taproom at the used-carlot parties with Bell’s and Surly and whatever? Well, good for you. GermanFest is back for a fifth year, hosting a Schweinerei of Deutsche beers brewed by Oregon breweries. The tap list is slow to arrive, but last year’s included an ice beer from Breakside, a Rauchbier from the Commons, a Gose from Upright, and, obviously, stuff from Pints and Heater Allen. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 295-1004. 2 pm.

PDX to Ponzi

Finally, a Ponzi scheme you can get behind. Mediterranean Exploration Company chef Kasey Mills will cart his butt off to the luxe hills of Sherwood to prepare a four-course Mediterranean dinner paired with four wines from the Ponzi cellars. If you’re going to be eating grape leaves and hummus, you might as well be somewhere that looks the part. Tickets at ponziwines.com. Ponzi Vineyards, 19500 SW Mountain Home Road, 628-1227. 6 pm.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26 Olympia/Hama Hama Oyster Class

Pearls about oysters. The people from the Olympia Oyster Bar pop-up and Hama Hama Oyster Co. will teach you all about how to shuck some oysters and pair them up appropriately. By way of example, they’ll be serving oysters with pickled ham and hot sauce, oysters with ham jam, oysters with strawberry rhubarb, grilled oysters with fennel, and smoked oysters with yogurt. Also, you get a knife for knifing oysters. Elder Hall, 3929 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-4725. Noon-4 pm. $80.

Where to eat this week. 1. Noraneko

1430 SE Water Ave., 238-6356, noranekoramen.com. Biwa’s new ramen-ya expands its Sun Noodle offerings to include shio, miso and veggie broths, but for now the best item is the tender, lovely pork-belly chasyu. $.

2. Apizza Scholls

4741 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-1286, apizzascholls.com. Portland’s best pizza is now available for lunch or brunch on weekends, with personal pies topped with freaking eggs and bacon. And spinach and chilies and such. $$.

3. Batter

4425 NE Fremont St., 971-271-8784, batterpdx.com. In the Old World, pancakes are dinner—and that’s what they are at Batter, too, with a baffling array of pancake and waffle concoctions, from Jamaican jerk pancakes to matzo waffles. $.

4. Bang Bang PDX

4727 NE Fremont St., 287-3846, bangbangpdx.com. Genoa alum Adam Kaplan serves up quirky Thai drinking food, from pungent curries to tendon puffs that are like pork rinds but better. $$.

5. Dog Town

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2880 SE Division St., 971-232-1232, dogtownfoodcart.com. This little hot-dog cart is knocking its wieners out of the ballpark, with house-baked buns, lamb sausage, and a Sonoran with real heat. $.

jiAn bing mE: The delicious Chinese crepes.

BING MI Most tourists come back from China with just a T-shirt, or a cheap, stolen iPhone from a Shenzhen back alley. But Alisa Grandy returned with a deep hankering for jian bing—Chinese breakfast crepes she ate constantly while she was there. “When she got back from China, that’s all she would talk about,” says her husband, Neal, at the couple’s Bing Mi food cart, while spreading mung-bean batter across a hot plate. “Six months later, we’ve got a food cart.” Jian bing is the quintessential Chinese street food, found on every Northern roadside—but until now, nowhere in Portland. They’re mung-bean-and-millet crepes folded around a riot of ferment and sweet heat: Black bean and chili pastes mingle with herbs, pickled bamboo and mushroom, and an optional sweet plum sauce that I heartily recommend. The real piece of genius, though, is that big brick of wonton cracker and its deeply rewarding crunch. Order this: Jian bing ($6). Jian bing ($6) is the only thing on the menu, and even the option of mild, medium and hot is an illusion: They’re all pretty mild. It is a heartening specialization, and the gamble has been borne out by the business and the quality. They’re already so busy they’ve got two crepemakers on back order. It’s not a surprise. The jian bing is flat-out fantastic, whether with or without the sweet Chinese sausage you can tack on for a buck. Indeed, the meat texture is a bit of a fifth wheel amid the already bustling party of flavors. After returning from China, Grandy spent months perfecting the right mix of ingredients, and it shows. Her husband says Chinese customers nostalgic for the dish have offered compliments. Now the real question is, where’s our soup dumpling cart? MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Bing Mi, Southwest 9th Avenue and Alder Street, bingmiportland. com. 7:30 am-3 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-4 pm Saturday.

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BELGIAN-STYLE DARK ALE (PFRIEM FAMILY BREWERS) It took a year longer than expected, but Pfriem’s bottles are pfinally here. The Hood River brewery, whose Belgian Strong Dark became our 2014 Beer of the Year, has been draft-only since opening in 2012. That’s not usually something we complain about—most hop-forward Oregon beers are better on draft. But Pfriem’s marquee beers are Belgianstyle, designed to be bottle-conditioned and only rounding into form under cork. Pfriem’s first reinforced 375-milliliter bottles hit Portland last week, retailing for a reasonable $6 each—compare that to Bend’s Crux Fermentation Project, which puts some of the state’s most disappointing beer in very pretty $15 bottles. This is the same recipe formerly known as Belgian Strong Dark, renamed to comply with federal regulations prohibiting the word “strong.” Fresh from the fridge, the cork slips out with a loud pop and pours with a Champagne-y body packed with tight microbubbles. Until it warms up, the dark ale tastes of medicated sawdust. Let it sit for a bit—this beer is 10 percent ABV, so you want to sip slowly—and your glass fills with cotton candy and sourdough. It’s good now, but after a few months in the cellar it should be even better. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

FOOD & DRINK THOMAS TEAL

CUED UP PEOPLE’S PIG AND SMOKEHOUSE TAVERN UP PORTLAND’S PIT POTENTIAL. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R

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Portland’s food scene is plenty dynamic, but the standard bearers tend to stay the same. After 10 years, Apizza Scholls is still the consensus choice for best pizza. Pok Pok was universally regarded as the top Thai spot in town until Langbaan opened. And no one has seriously challenged Podnah’s Pit barbecue boss Rodney Muirhead since he grew his humble Texas-style ’cue cart into our Restaurant of the Year back in two-aught-eleven. Now, finally, we’ve got a good oldfashioned rib burn-off brewing thanks to strong openings from the People’s Pig and Smokehouse Tavern. So far, most of the chatter has been about the People’s Pig—partly because of the story behind this dim, smoky little hole, and partly because of its incredible pork shoulder. Like Muirhead, pitmaster Cliff Allen started in a food cart, which he operated downtown for five years before the owner of the Tropicana soul-food joint on North Williams Avenue retired. Rather than sell the space—a shotgun shack in the shadow of a sparkly new New Seasons, it’s gotta be worth more dead than alive—they turned the pits over to a new tenant. Allen got a budget version of the rustic build-out so many restaurateurs pay designers and pickers to re-create: old booths with attached coat racks, wood paneling with an exposed fuse box and green vinyl stools that could’ve come out of a Mississippi lunch counter. It’s refreshingly uncalculated—on one visit, the soundtrack came from ’90s trip-hoppers Morcheeba. People’s menu is limited to three meats—ribs, pork shoulder and smoked fried chicken—and you only need one. That’s not the ribs, which are unremarkable, mainly because the house sauce is flat and sugary. And it’s not the smoked fried chicken, an idea that seems stupidly brilliant until you try it. After so much prep, the meat ends

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up dry, dark and leathery, the breading so fragile it falls off on the first nibble. It’s like eating a sawdust-covered baseball glove. But that pork shoulder is a revelation. Call it pig brisket: These thick slabs of shoulder have a beautiful crust of charred fat to lock in the juices and are cut with the grain to give the muscle a pleasantly fibrous texture. It’s reason enough to go. Most of People’s sides and drinks need some work. The jojos lack the snap of wellfried potato, the coleslaw is too sweet, with an off-putting herbal note, and a mint julep is served with a huge mound of pebbly crushed ice that makes it tough to suck out the booze. The greens are nice and stewy, and keep that last little snap, but we have only Crystal to season them. (If it ain’t Frank’s RedHot, then, well, why ain’t it?) After two visits to each, I’m a lot more excited about Smokehouse Tavern, the new restaurant from Smokehouse 21 owner BJ Smith that sits in the weirdly suburbanized Buckman plaza that also houses Nostrana. If “tavern” makes it sound small, it’s actually huge compared to its sibling, with a wall of mirrors and fancy taxidermy, and a long bar with purse hooks mounted by the stools. The music is all club rap, from House of Pain to Fiddy to stunna shade-era Kanye. The cocktail program is large and serious, starting with an Old Fashioned that gets a smoky sweetness from maple syrup and housemade barbecue bitters. If you’d rather your drink contrast with the meaty flavors, the “Love Is the Drug” is a little like a piña colada with fresh pineapple, Amontillado

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sherry and celery bitters. Deviled eggs with a piece of smoked sausage on top make for an ideal amusebouche. The ribs are still the best in town— what we found when we tried pretty much all of them last year. The pulled pork is finely shredded and impossibly rich, perfect in the sandwich when slathered in the house’s mustard sauce. Here the brisket is actual brisket, and it’s impressive: smoky and well-trimmed, soft enough to tear with a fork while keeping its snap. (Don’t bother with the burnt ends: The bits are cut into 2-inch cubes and do not have a favorable barque-to-meat ratio.) I’d be happy with the brisket plate paired with

any of the sides—all hew close to the familiar recipes, and none disappointed—especially the mustardy fingerling potato salad and a little bowl of pork-heavy greens. Well, unless you want something lighter, in which case you should opt for the smoked steelhead, a slab of flaky trout that separates into tender layers of light and salty flesh with a nudge of the fork. Yeah, Podnah’s makes a smoked trout, too. No, it ain’t better than this. Right now, there might not be anything better than this.

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EAT: Smokehouse Tavern, 1401 SE Morrison St., Suite 117, 971-279-4850, smokehouse21. com. The People’s Pig, 3217 N Williams Ave., 282-2800, facebook.com/PeoplesPig.

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Foster the People Admit it: “Pumped Up Kicks” has been in your head since 2010. Seeing these pop pretty-boys play live might finally expel the parasite. Twin Shadow George Lewis Jr. is the next (or current?) M83, mining romantic ’80s nostalgia with panache. He is this year’s Future Islands—the act everyone will be talking about afterward.

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Beirut Zach Condon’s worldly folk crew has been teasing new music since last year, so expect to hear some fresh bouzouki jams under the stars.

Danny Brown He’s as punk as rappers come, equally adept at introspection as hedonism and raps in the voice of a particularly aggrieved Pokémon character. Muscle your way to the front if you can. Battles Instrumental prog rock isn’t supposed to be fun, but in the hands of this experimental supergroup—featuring members of Helmet and Don Caballero—it’s damn near bubblegum. Lady Lamb Splitting the difference between St. Vincent and Courtney Barnett, Aly Spaltro writes wry songs that shift in unpredictable directions but always detonate at the right time. Strand Of Oaks Imagine if My Morning Jacket never became a jam band, still wrote emotionally devastating songs and was spearheaded by a dude who looks like a Sons of Anarchy extra. Divers Divers has been Portland’s best band for four years, but only now is the city at-large finding out. Need a reason to believe in rock ’n’ roll again? Then plan on getting to the waterfront early. MORE: See wweek.com for a full MusicfestNW playlist. Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Mac DeMarco, Dinner

[SLACKER SAGE] Mac DeMarco’s woozy pop is nearly as sapless as his party-dog persona is odious, but there are a few moments on last year’s Salad Days when the 24-year-old singersongwriter drifts into lovely lilting melodies that perfectly complement his terse summaries of melancholic burnout. Although DeMarco’s shtick as the pied piper of the mildly indifferent is already wearing thin, he has demonstrated an ability to capture the sort of wistfulness that made Ray Davies such a likeable and listenable champion of ordinary defeat. Here’s hoping he works out the kinks. CHRIS STAMM. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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[R&B] Sure, we know musicians who’ve bled for their art—but by playing tambourine? At a March gig at Dante’s leading now-too-aptly-named R&B band the Hurt, Kris Deelane smacked that thang hard enough to bust an artery in her palm, which bled into her arm in a condition known as Davy Jones’ disease—just kidding, acute compartment syndrome. To make up for income lost while the arm is out of

whack, this month’s Dante’s appearance features guests Jeremy Wilson, Fernando, Michael Dean Damron, Brownish Black’s Mz. V, and more than a dozen others, in support of the beloved Deelane. JEFF ROSENBERG. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Cormorant, Wild Hunt, Burials

[PROGRESSIVE METAL] Cormorant came blasting out of the Bay Area on the wings of a killer sophomore album, 2011’s Dwellings, and a geyser of praise from NPR. Accolades and paid downloads poised the band for great success, considering the growth that similar artists such as Opeth and Enslaved were experiencing at that time. Then vocalist Arthur von Nagel (who also played bass and wrote songs) retired from the band. There was a little down time, but Cormorant continued, brought in Marcus Luscombe to fill out the ranks, and released 2014’s Earth Diver. Live, the group delivers furious American black metal with technicality and precision. This rare Northwest appearance is part of a West Coast tour with Bay

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TOP FIVE FIVE MOST TEAR-JERKING MOMENTS JOSE GONZALEZ HAS SOUNDTRACKED The O.C., “The Dearly Beloved” Song: “Crosses” Scene: Seth tells Summer he’s worried about his mother’s drinking. Weepiest lyric: “Crosses all over, heavy on your shoulders/The sirens inside you waiting to step forward.” Parenthood, “We Made It Through the Night” Song: “Every Age” Scene: Egg from Arrested Development gives birth to Coach from Coach’s great-grandchild. Weepiest lyric: “Take this seed, take this spade/Take this dream of a better day.” Friday Night Lights, “A Sort of Homecoming” Song: “Teardrop” (Massive Attack cover) Scene: Matt Seracen learns his father died in Iraq. Weepiest lyric: “Love, love is a verb/Love is a doing word.” One Tree Hill, “Some You Give Away” Song: “Heartbeats” (The Knife cover) Scene: The Tree Hill High Ravens win their first state basketball championship. Lucas confesses his love for Peyton. Rick Fox looks sad. Weepiest lyric: “One night of magic rush/The start, a simple touch/ One night to push and scream/And then relief.” Jose Gonzalez, “Stay Alive” video Song: “Stay Alive” Scene: Work makes Jose Gonzalez sad, so he looks at photos of Sean Penn and Ben Stiller. Weepiest lyric: “There is a truth, and it’s on our side/Dawn is coming/ Open your eyes.” MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Jose Gonzalez plays Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., on Friday, April 24. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages. 38

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and THE PETE! aH, THE PETE: Mark Mulcahy (center) and Polaris.

ADVENTURE TIME TWO DECADES LATER, THE BAND BEHIND THE MUSIC OF PETE & PETE GETS REAL. BY pETE COTTEll

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Like many acclaimed cultural artifacts of the ’90s, Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete ended right as it hit its stride. Besides lasting only three seasons, then being decommissioned before it had the opportunity to suck, the beloved sitcom endeared itself to Gen Xers and ’90s kids alike by functioning as a wellspring of offbeat slacker sensibilities in which alternative rock touched every aspect of the show. Musicians such as Michael Stipe and Kate Pierson acted in bit parts alongside the Wrigley Brothers (both named Pete), while the soundtrack was a treasure trove of jangly indie rock courtesy of the Apples in Stereo, the Magnetic Fields—and a weird, one-off side project called Polaris, led by musician Mark Mulcahy. Pete & Pete co-creator Will McRobb approached Mulcahy about writing songs for the show at a time when Mulcahy’s main band, Miracle Legion, was hung up in the kind of major-label legal morass that crippled countless bands in the postgrunge boom. Rather than score the show in postproduction, McRobb asked Mulcahy for songs that matched the whimsical, youthful tones of the show to be worked in later. “The whole show is like a mixtape,” Mulcahy says. “It’s a story wrapped around a lot of music, and Polaris was just part of it. Will would say he wanted something painfully sad, or maybe a really good driving song, and we’d work on the instrumentation of what sounds we wanted. If you watched the show a lot, the songs got burned in your head in a weird kind of way.” With suburban characters serving as the antagonists—vigilante bus drivers, evil lunch ladies and neighborhood bullies galore—Pete & Pete was a comedy of sorts. But the music of Polaris—a driving blend of power-pop guitars and melodic minor key turns—was essential in shaping the tone of each episode in ways that other preteen sitcoms lacked at the time. While Little Pete schemed to defeat the kid down the block in an epic game of rock-paper-scissors, Big Pete would be reckoning with the bittersweet lessons of teenagehood. The song “Everywhere” manages to wallop these feelings like a sack of bricks.

“Even if it’s not episodic, there’s definitely a theme about what’s on kids’ minds, whether it’s a girl or relationships or youthful insecurities,” Mulcahy says. “[‘Everywhere’] is about someone who’s always on your mind who you can’t escape, but in a beautiful way, whether it’s their perfume or a vision of them. The idea is to write about something that’s in the wheelhouse of the show. If I turned in some song about war, that wouldn’t work. But I got away with ‘Waiting For October’ because [McRobb] thought it was about riding around in your car on a fall day. Perception is 99 percent of the truth.” With later hits like The O.C. or Garden State acting as vehicles for their creators’ curatorial spirit, it’s clear why the tie-in soundtrack Music From the Adventures of Pete & Pete was an important moment for television and film. The biggest standout was “Hey Sandy,” which became the show’s theme song. The lyrics are barely intelligible, but it’s nonetheless earned its keep as one of modern television’s most iconic theme songs.

“THE WHOLE SHOW IS LIKE A MIxTAPE.”—POLARIS’ MARK MULCAHY. Polaris’ catalog of songs written for the show was released on Mulcahy’s Mezzotint Records in 1999, three years after the show ended. Aside from managing his label, Mulcahy spent the postPete & Pete era maintaining a modestly successful solo career, opening for acts like Oasis and Jeff Buckley, while the group’s rhythm section became members of Frank Black and the Catholics. But it wasn’t until two years ago that Polaris even bothered existing as an actual band. As with most curios from decades past, it was nostalgia—probably fueled by the recent Petesfest tour that’s brought the gestalt of the show back to the fore—that shook the group from its slumber. “Up until now, we just billed ourselves as the band that existed for Pete & Pete because we never even did anything,” Mulcahy says. “We put our record out in 1999 and never played, never toured, never did a thing. I’ve been in a lot of bands, and you always struggle to succeed. But this band succeeded by just sitting there doing nothing.” SEE IT: Polaris plays Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., on Thursday, April 23. 8 pm. $20. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

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METTS RYAN COLLINS Sunday, April 26th at 3PM If your idea of a real rock band for the 21st century is one that blends the swagger and bluesy elements of classic bands like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC, alongside more recent bands like The White Stripes, Black Keys and Rival Sons, then let us introduce you to a power trio from Portland Oregon- Metts Ryan And Collins.

CEDAR TEETH Saturday, May 2nd at 5PM Cedar Teeth is a five-piece band hailing from the Cascade foothills of Colton, Oregon. Crafting a sound that blends rough and rusty folk rock with lyrical American roots, the music of Cedar Teeth is drawn from their experiences and sentiments of living on the frontier dividing the wilderness and the city. Their debut album Hoot explores the tensions of a generation: love, materialism and destruction in a morally ambivalent landscape.

DEAD MEN WALKING Wednesday, May 6th Live performance at 6

Autograph Session (must purchase new album) to follow Members of The Damned, The Stray Cats, The Living End and The Alarm come together as DEAD MAN WALKING, a super-group unlike any other, for one-of-a-kind collaborative performances. The core line-up of Dead Man Walking features Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Captain Sensible of The Damned, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats from the USA, Welshman Mike Peters of The Alarm and Australian Chris Cheney from The Living End, and who knows, maybe a few surprise guests will show up along the way.

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thursday–sunday Area brethren Wild Hunt. Bringing Burials on board just makes this bill all the more feral and essential. NATHAN CARSON. Black Water, 835 NE Broadway, 546-1682. 7:30 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

Southerly, Team Evil, Ritchie Young, Ryan Barber

[CHAMBER ROCK] If Krist Krueger, aka Southerly, knew he was being summarized in blurb form, he’d probably have an aneurysm. Integral to Krueger’s art are the distinct phases leading to where he is today. Growing up in a small town devoid of a youth-music scene, Krueger adhered to the DIY approach by necessity—now he does it by choice at Self Group, the record label and artist collective that handles every aspect of music-making from recording to distributing, to booking tours. Come for his compelling, orchestral indie rock; leave inspired by his movement. TED JAMISON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $6. 21+.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Mikal Cronin, Old Light

[RAMBLING POP] Mikal Cronin makes road trip music: laid back, with catchy choruses that are easy to sing along with and the kind of sentimental sunniness that makes you want to get the hell out of wherever you’re stuck for the moment. Maybe it gets a little repetitive, but in a way that’s never boring, just reliable. His recently released single, “Made Up My Mind,” from his upcoming album, MCIII, is full of his signature elements: jangling background layers of tambourines, acoustic guitar and piano, foregrounded by an electric guitar hook and easygoing vocals. There’s not really a need for Cronin to mix it up, because if this is your kind of stuff, this is really your kind of stuff. SHANNON GORMLEY. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Sam Coomes, Mascaras, Mall Caste

[POWER POP] As the front end of duo Quasi (with ex-wife Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney), Coomes orchestrated exuberant, fuzzed-out pop tunes that could have been the biggest thing on Elephant 6 were he from Georgia instead of Portland. His solo outing had him reinterpreting some classic blues standards under the moniker Blues Goblins. This rare solo performance—part of the one-year anniversary celebration for instrument shop Mothership Music—is a chance to see one of Portland music’s elder statesmen in a quieter setting. If we ever need a running mate for indie mayor, I nominate Coomes to hitch onto the Malkmus wagon. CRIS LANKENAU. Mothership Music, 3611 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 287-0311. 8 pm. Free. All ages.

Saul Williams, Sons of an Illustrious Father

[LOUDNESS] If he had been born 25 years earlier, it’s easy to imagine Saul Williams as the voice of a generation. Revolutionary, though, is kind of a niche genre these days—and besides, we need the dude right now. Williams clawed his way onto the national stage 17 years ago as a slam poet, but began his music career with a metaphorically explosive hiphop-centric album—his furious, noshits-given debut, Amethyst Rock Star—that found release just a few months before the literal explosions of 9/11. The impossible-topigeonhole artist has also penned multiple books of poetry, released an elaborate concept album (The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, co-produced by Trent Reznor) and appeared on Broadway. He was recently selected by Amtrak to be an artist-

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in-residence, and he says his next project— Martyr Loser King, which will take form as a concept album, a graphic novel and a play—has something to do with revolutionary hackers from Africa. There’s just never a dull moment with this guy. CASEY JARMAN. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 Mastodon, Clutch, Big Business

[PROG POP] For most Mastodon fans, the steely, prog-rock riffage and ambitious zeal of Georgia’s biggest metal titans peaked long before the release of 2014’s Once More ’Round the Sun. The group’s conceptual epics have recently given way to personal vulnerabilities more suited for mainstream radio than a classic ’Don record. Nonetheless, people tend to forget the band has always pushed the boundaries of sludge. Guitarist Brent Hinds’ high-pressured soloing still wails at the front, while drummer Brann Dailor clamors further behind—now, they’re just buoyed by cheesy codas like “Hey-ho/Let’s fucking rock ’n’ roll!” BRANDON WIDDER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

We Got This Showcase: Tiger Fresh, Chase Manhattan, Chrome Wolves, Exodub, Doc Riz, Prism Lab

[CREW LOVE] Mixtapes, live painting, a weekly mix series, traditional releases and a coast to call their own: The We Got This Crew has earned its name. At times it can feel as if the group of producers—six of which are performing here—is too loosely knit to stay together, but from co-founder Tiger Fresh’s bass remixes to Chase Manhattan’s leftfield hip-hop to Chrome Wolves mashup skills, We Got This is a crew as diverse as it is unified. MITCH LILLIE. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 421-4483. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SUNDAY, APRIL 26 Maria Muldaur, Joy Pearson

[FROCK FOLK] Maria Muldaur served the ‘60s as equal parts Dust Bowl archivist (a mainstay of Dylan’s Village scene) and hippie Earth mother (touring with the Grateful Dead as backup singer). Meanwhile, she quietly built a longer discography than either following the surprise chart ascent of “Midnight at the Oasis” from her 1973 self-titled debut. If her wearying succession of niche curios and rec-center revivalism has turned almost arrogantly irrelevant—40th solo release First Came Memphis Minnie calls upon a murderers’ row of sidemen and guest vocalists for a typically well-curated, ultimately pointless tribute to the titular blues pioneer—Muldaur’s late-career output may be best understood when taken at once as a sprawling symposium on the origins of popular music. JAY HORTON. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 610-0640, alhambrapdx.com. 7 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Shlohmo, Purple, Nick Melon

[ELECTRONIC SUPERLATIVES] Back in the day, folks lamented the end of hip-hop’s golden age, then the D.A.I.S.Y. Age, and so on. Whatever beatsmithing has become, for a bit, producers such as Prefuse 73 and Flying Lotus were the gold standard, and maybe they still are. But L.A.’s Shlohmo is making a case for his significance. His third long-player, Dark Red, is a dramatic step away from the concerted IDM of his previous discs. And while his compositions now hedge closer to fetid dance-floor antics, there’s a per-

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Clark, Nosaj Thing, D Tiberio

[tHRoBBInG DYStoPIA] It’s rare in the modern tangle of the deep Web for electronic artists to stand alone without name-checks appropriating their singularity for some larger cause. Although chris clark is currently signed to the venerable IDM label Warp, the U.K. producer’s chilly visions of the future are part of a movement entirely their own on his excellent new EP, Flame Rave. clark seamlessly transitions from vexing waves of foreboding synths to four-on-the-floor beats that pulse in time with whatever treadmill you may find yourself on with this record jostling about in your headphones. PEtE cottELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

The Soft Moon, Girl Tears, Mattress

[DARK WAVE] coming off like the soundtrack to some dystopian underworld, the Soft Moon is nothing if not dark and brooding. combining elements of post-punk, shoegaze and industrial noise rock, Luis Vasquez and company make music that is futuristic, ambient and shadowy. Vasquez is actively converting the antsy garage-rock scene of his native Bay Area into a delightfully shady goth party. the Soft Moon’s wonderful 2010 selftitled debut, especially, reminds of Gotham city, all heavy clouds and cinematic shadings. But it’s the live show that really stands out, typically fit with corresponding media for a supersensory affair. MARK StocK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, APRIL 27 Kathryn Calder, Kelly Bosworth

[UnDERRAtED cAnADIAn PoP] though canadian singer-songwriter Kathryn calder is best known for her exemplary work with the new Pornographers—where she plays keyboards, provides backing vocals and occasionally takes the lead on power-pop highlights such as “Sweet talk, Sweet talk”—her own solo albums deserve a look from anyone who enjoys a catchy pop song. Her selftitled third solo record, released this month, expands her palette to include dreamy ’80s synth pop and krautrock, but the melodies are still sweet as a kiss, especially on the jaunty dance song (!) “take a Little time” and the pretty, minimal ballad “Pride by Design.” MIcHAEL MAnnHEIMER. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

Lady Lamb, Rathborne

[InDIE-RocK cHRonIcLES] A lot of accolades are piling up around courtney Barnett, the deadpan Australian upstart some have described as the voice of the millennial generation. Meanwhile, a young musician named Aly Spaltro has been plugging away in a similar fashion, blending poetic lyrics about the seemingly mundane with sweeping guitar hooks and gritty, punklike forays. the Maine-born musician has a tremendous voice, deep and ever so worn, making her thoughtful lyrics all the more sincere. Lady Lamb’s latest record, After, is a triumph in modern songwriting, beautifully written and supported by indie rock that ebbs and flows like a gentle tide. MARK StocK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

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STUMPFEST THURSDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 23-25 As Andy Warhol said, “Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame—and, in the future, their own music festival.” But when Rynne Stump persuaded Mississippi Studios to let her book a night of her favorite metal and psych bands there four years ago, she didn’t intend for it to become an annual thing. It was just an excuse for the 37-year-old, who had promoted shows in Portland before moving to L.A. with her boyfriend, Tool drummer Danny Carey, to hang out with old friends. Now, Stumpfest has expanded to three nights, and is always one of the heaviest stretches on Mississippi Studios’ yearly calendar. So the first question for Stump—now eight months pregnant—is obvious: How did this happen? MATTHEW SINGER. Who is Rynne stump, and how the hell did she get her own music festival?

WW: So how did you get your own music festival? Rynne Stump: I used to do some booking work and production work in Portland in the early 2000s. Years later, Tool had been interested in taking out YOB, a band that were friends of me, and it occurred to me, “Wait a minute, I should just throw my own show.” I did two nights the second year, and then it was like, “I’m going to keep doing this until no one wants to do it anymore.” The booking leans toward the heavy and psychedelic. Where did that interest start for you? I don’t know. I grew up singing bluegrass, and the music I make has a lot of country roots. I guess when I started experimenting with hallucinogenics, when I was probably 14, it was a natural evolution for me. And then I moved to Portland [from Northern Michigan], which was this mecca where I could go see a band every night that fit that bill. Who are your dream headliners? I’d really love to see my friends in Mastodon play a smaller venue. It’s funny this year because I kept bothering them and they’re playing a show [in Portland] the night of our show. I’d really love Volto, Danny’s band, to come up and play. I think Portland would really enjoy a dose of jazz fusion. I have to ask about Black Pussy and the controversy surrounding their name. They’re playing the festival this year and have played in the past. Nothing has come out of those guys that isn’t love, compassion and rock ’n’ roll. I think it’s kind of startling because of their character, and what they do has nothing to do with the things that they’ve been hounded for. Is there any chance of the festival getting bigger than it is now? We thought about it this year, with Revolution Hall opening, but we didn’t want to change the format too much this year, just because I knew I was going to be eight months pregnant going into running the live portion of the show. Year five, next year, we definitely plan on doing something bigger. I’m not sure exactly what that’s going to be yet. SEE IT: Stumpfest IV, featuring Danava, Lord Dying, YoB, Big Business and others, is at Mississippi Studios, 3939 n Mississippi Ave., on thursday-Saturday, April 23-25. $15 advance, $17 day of show. three-day passes sold out. See mississippistudios.com for complete lineup. Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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Drive-By Truckers

[DRAWL ROCK] For your average band from rural Alabama, the departure of a key figure like guitarist Jason Isbell would be a momentous blow. But the Drive-By Truckers have always reveled in constant change, allowing Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley to shift their Southern-fried catalog with each new vacancy. The group’s last effort, 2014’s English Oceans, is loaded with mythological stories of alienated drug dealers and distrustful politicians, but the walloping drums and gritty guitars now gleam brightest when tethered to themes of parenthood and the fading memories of close friends. Both frontmen plainly address their mortality after three decades on the road together, and their songwriting is better for it. BRANDON WIDDER. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., Suite 110, 288-3895. 8 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chanticleer

[CHORAL KINGS] Just about every year, Friends of Chamber Music brings San Francisco’s Grammy Award-winning Chanticleer to town, and just about every year, the auditorium is packed with fans who want to hear the world’s pre-eminent male choir beautifully sing music that ranges across the centuries. This year’s wide-ranging, loosely Gypsy/Romani-themed show includes Renaissance madrigals, folk tunes and spirituals from around the world, and a selection of 20th-century music that might include tunes by Villa-Lobos, Ligeti, Bartók, Ellington, Gershwin, Weill, Rautavaara, Jobim, Peter Gabriel and Poulenc. But Chanticleer isn’t mired in the past. It has commissioned music from more than 80 of today’s composers, and they’ll sing some new works, too. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7:30 pm Friday, April 24. $30$47. All ages.

Camerata PYP

[FORWARD-LOOKING MUSIC] One of Portland Youth Philharmonic’s biggest contributions to music in general and Portland in particular is that it trains its top-notch young players not just in museum classics but also in today’s sounds. That’s especially true in its chamber orchestra concerts featuring the subset Camerata PYP. This show features not just 20th- and 21st-century sounds from Venezuelan composer Efraín Amaya and Romanian Georges Enescu, but also Oregon connections: the famous Concerto Grosso by longtime Agate Beach resident Ernest Bloch; and Tree, a dreamy 2003 piece for strings by contemporary Portland composer Jonathan Newman. BRETT CAMPBELL. Wieden+Kennedy Building, 224 NW 13th Ave. 4 pm Sunday, April 26. $15 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Evergreen High School Jazz Band, Dan Balmer Trio

[YOUNG LIONS, OLD TIGER] Here are four words that typically make eyes glaze over: high-school jazz band. Not so tonight—Vancouver’s Evergreen Jazz Band, an auditiononly jazz ensemble led by director Brent Johnson, showcases some of the finest young jazz talent in the region, who fly cleanly in the face of your 15-year-old brother’s screeching tenor-sax rendition of the Pink Panther theme. This is passionate, acrobatic, large-ensemble swing. Stick around to catch local guitar hero Dan Balmer and his trio—Balmer’s 10, soul-searching fingers are among the finest melody makers in town. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6:30 pm Monday, April 27. Free. All ages.

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1939 ENSEMBLE BLACK DIAMOND PEARL (JEALOUS BUTCHER) [SOUNDTRACK SANS FILM] Like Talkdemonic before it, 1939 Ensemble is a minimal instrumental outfit that is slowly loosening its internal set of rules. The former drums-andvibes duo of Jose Medeles and David Coniglio broadened to a trio for Black Diamond Pearl, adding multi-instrumentalist Josh Thomas, who plays a lot of Moog where one might expect bass. Thomas (and occasional guest musicians, including M. Ward and Tortoise’s John McEntire) successfully broadens the Ensemble’s toolkit and keeps songs from running together, which they occasionally did on 2012 debut Howl & Bite. Black Diamond Pearl’s tracks feel like displaced clusters of like-minded material. “Circles” and “BDP” feature restrained, driving, groove-oriented rhythms that recall early Kraftwerk or cool West Coast jazz until each song begins to unfurl and swing, and the steady drum signatures transform into tricky fills, while “Ryder” and “Earth” are breathless and upbeat post-rock numbers. This music probably isn’t solo-focused enough to pull in jazz cats, sticky enough for pop addicts or outlandish enough for noise nerds, but listeners looking to be transported should find plenty to revisit. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: 1939 Ensemble plays the Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., with Clawfoot Slumber and DJ Survival Skills, on Saturday, April 25. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SWAHILI AMOVREVX (TRANSLINGUISTIC OTHER) [FLOATING FUNK] When they first emerged a few years ago, the members of Swahili were psychedelic sound-painters whose work implied rhythm more often than actually providing any. With second album Amovrevx, the band has found its groove—in a crate of dusty ’70s dance records, apparently. Drawing on spacey funk, throbbing Giorgio Moroder synths and slinky dub production, the group has fashioned itself into a cosmic cousin of local mutant-disco army Ancient Heat, but with more art-project pretensions. Though it travels through a range of moods and tempos, Amovrevx plays out under a constellation of perpetually burbling basslines, lasergun keyboards and percolating percussion, bookended by a pair of extended four-on-the-floor workouts stretching into double-digits. The standout is “Vestal,” a dreamy bliss-pop vision that recalls Pure Bathing Culture gone to heaven. But even with singer Van Pham taking on a more pronounced role, the music of Swahili is still primarily a wash of texture, and the band sometimes loses itself in its own soundcloud. Then again, getting lost might be the whole point. Just close your eyes, and keep moving. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Swahili plays White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., with Acid Farm, Lamar LeRoy and DJ Gigs, on Thursday, April 23. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

CATHERINE FEENY & CHRIS JOHNEDIS CATHERINE FEENY & CHRIS JOHNEDIS (FLUFF & GRAVY) [FOLK SOUL] Early in her career, Catherine Feeny had what seemed like a pretty straight shot at a life of recording safe, folky pop tunes tailor-made for licensing success. But she chose growth over security, and a decade of strange bedfellows and Occupy protests later, she’s a much better songwriter for it. This collaboration with jazz drummer Chris Johnedis opens with three fantastic songs: The minimal, Fiona Apple-ish “Against You”; a coffee-shop R&B cut about privilege and the prison-industrial complex called “Girl’s Got Pockets”; and the absolutely haunting, almost-whispered “Afraid.” Not every risk pans out. “White Flight” is over-churched and bites off more than it can chew, while “Harm” is a bit cute and predictable. Overall, though, it’s a fantastic outing—not to mention an excellent pairing—from a songwriter who continues to push herself and build a discography that should make both Feeny and her adopted home of Portland real proud. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Catherine Feeny & Chris Johnedis play the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., with Sama Dams and Like a Villain, on Saturday, April 25. 7:30 pm. $12. All ages.

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2026 NE Alberta St. Hollow Earth, Unrestrained, Wellwalker, Black Communion

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

LAST WEEK LIVE MARk STOCk

The Muddy rudder public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Gabrielle Macrae & Friends

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Doug & Dee’s Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. The Shanghai Woolies

The World Famous Kenton Club

Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Justin Farren

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Garcia Birthday Band

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway The Moody Blues

303 SW 12th Ave. Justin Farren

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Mac DeMarco, Dinner

dante’s

350 W Burnside St KD & The Hurt

doug Fir lounge 830 E Burnside St. Coasts

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Blues Jam, Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party

edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Jimmy Bivens

Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Firkin Full of Eye Candy

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Big Data, The Moth & The Flame

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Modern Kin, Tangerine, Rilla

Jimmy Mak’s

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

laurel Thirst public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Bear Fruit: Brad Parsons, Mimi Naja, T-Tom, Danny Boy Lee (9 pm); Annalisa Tornfelt (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Reptar

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

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Gypsy Jazz Jam

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Reverb Brothers

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Class M Planets, Envelope Peasant, Jonny Ampersand

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

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THurS. April 23 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Justin Farren

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Polaris

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Sindicate, Rise N Shine, Chris Carpenter & The Collective

Black Water

835 NE Broadway Cormorant, Wild Hunt, Burials

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends

Chapel pub

430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street The Led Zeppelin Experience

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Mister Tang, saac Rother & The Phantoms, Ladywolf and Bath Party

doug Fir lounge 830 E Burnside St. Southerly

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Tough Love Pyle

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Sammy Adams, Yung Mil

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Kodak to Graph, Big Wild, Obeson

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

laurel Thirst public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Jamie Leopold and the Short Stories (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Danava, Lecherous Gaze, Black Pussy, Sons of Huns, Prizehog

roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Tech N9ne, Chris Webby, Krizz Kaliko, Murs

Slim’s

8635 N Lombard St Shed Incorporated w/ The Hand That Bleeds and The Toads

2026 NE Alberta St. Summer Cannibals, Death Valley Girls, Gooch Palms

The Muddy rudder public House

8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

The Secret Society

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Prophets of Addiction, Madame Torment, Toxic Zombie

Tony Starlight Showroom

1125 SE Madison Tony Starlight Show

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. The Djangophiles

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Lewi Longmire Band, The Whiskey Achievers

SAT. April 25

Crystal Ballroom

dante’s

Aladdin Theater

1332 W Burnside Street Sylvan Esso 350 W Burnside St Agent Orange, In The Whale

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Mikal Cronin, Old Light

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Bill Rhoades

Hawthorne Theater

1507 SE 39th St Tribute to Iron Maiden and The Scorpions 1507 SE 39th Ave. Maiden NW (A Tribute to Iron Maiden), Lovedrive, Tyranny Of Hours

303 SW 12th Ave. Justin Farren 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. World’s Finest

Alberta rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Heart Like a Wheel:Linda Ronstadt Tribute Concert

Alberta St. pub

1036 NE Alberta St Sister Mercy

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms, Mendelssohn, Haydn

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. The Grizzled Mighty

Jimmy Mak’s

Clyde’s prime rib restaurant & Bar

Kaul Auditorium

Crystal Ballroom

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination SE 28th Ave. & Botsford Dr. Chanticleer

laurel Thirst public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackalope Saints, Hearts of Oak, Taylor Kingman (9:30 pm); The Crackpots (6 pm)

lincoln performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stumpfest IV: Yob, Intronaut, Author & Punisher, Graves at Sea

Mothership Music

3611 NE MLK Sam Coomes, Mascaras, Mall Caste

ponderosa lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Corey Daniels and Humptulips

Marmoset Music

2105 SE 7th Ave Nativity Music Night with EDJ

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stumpfeset IV: Big Business, Sandrider, Norska, Rajas

ponderosa lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Little Rock

portland State university

1825 SW Broadway KPSU and PSPS Presents: The Flavr Blue, Acoustic Minds, Ancient Heat

roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Mastodon

Saint david of Wales episcopal Church 2800 SE Harrison St. The Glory Days of Musical Theater

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Mr. Gnome

The Bitter end

1981 W Burnside Wil Kinky

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Shana Falana, Souvenir Driver, Appendixes

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. 1939 Ensemble & Clawfoot Slumber, Stumptown Swing

White eagle Saloon Al’s den

Hawthorne Theatre 2620 SE Powell Blvd. Fred Van Vactor Show

The Know

The Tonic lounge

Fri. April 24

Homebase Coffee

1981 W Burnside Lisa James with Special Guests

White eagle Saloon

128 NE Russell St. Clean Bandit

Wed. April 22

The Bitter end

2025 N Kilpatrick Dark Oz, We Are Brothers, Kings And Vagabonds

Wonder Ballroom

Al’s den

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Saul Williams, Sons of an Illustrious Father

116 NE Russell St. The Ganges River Band, The Earnest Lovers, Evening Bell, Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

836 N Russell St. Jokers & Jacks, Big Fellas

HELIO’S CREED: Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of The Helio Sequence have been at it for 16 years now, turning out textured electro-rock that sounds much more like the work of a quartet than a duo. On April 14 at Doug Fir Lounge, the Helio Sequence again proved its ability to multitask, delivering a dense set injected with the band’s signature pairing of raw guitar-and-drums rock and digital loops. The pride of Beaverton played a lot of new material from its forthcoming self-titled record, due out in May. The new material is the result of what Summers describes as “the 20-song game,” a monthlong recent stretch wherein the band created a lot of sound in a small amount of time. The best tracks, as voted by friends and family, will make up the forthcoming record. Based on a few newbies they debuted—“Seven Hours” and “Stoic Resemblance,” especially—the duo’s songwriting, which draws equally from the Beatles and Brian Eno, is still firing on all cylinders, but has gotten even more anthemic. Meanwhile, standbys like “Harmonica Song” showcased Weikel’s razor-sharp drumming. Summers joked that Weikel never makes a mistake, almost inviting a dropped stick or missed beat—to no avail. MARK STOCK. See the full review at wweek.com/lastweeklive.

roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Jose Gonzalez

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Party Code 1332 W Burnside Street Infected Mushroom Live

dante’s

836 N Russell St. Crown the Eagle Festival: A Polish Heritage Celebration

Sun. April 26 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Beach Fire

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Maria Muldaur, Joy Pearson

Ambridge event Center

1333 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Girls World Expo

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway The Music of Led Zeppelin

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside Street Nightwish, Delain, Sabaton

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Clark, Nosaj Thing, D Tiberio

350 W Burnside St The Shrike CD Release, The Adarna, and Tuesday’s Project

edgefield

duff’s Garage

1001 SE Morrison St. The Soft Moon, Girl Tears, Mattress

2530 NE 82nd Ave Lloyd Jones Birthday Bash

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. The Portland Battle Of The Bands Finals, Secret Sauce, The Sideshow

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

laurel Thirst public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Stubborn Lovers, Dust & Thirst (9:30 pm); The Yellers (6 pm)

2126 SW Halsey St. Michele Van Kleef

Holocene

laurel Thirst public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Open Mic (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

lewis & Clark College

0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd Spring Swing: An All American Music Concert

lincoln performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave. Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Martha Scanlan

rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions

roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. DigiTour

The Tonic lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Val Bauer & Lesser Sins, Laryssa Birdseye, Drop-D

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston

Wieden + Kennedy

224 NW 13th Ave. Camerata PYP

Mon. April 27 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Beach Fire

Alberta rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Kathryn Calder, Kelly Bosworth

Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Filibusta

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms, Mendelssohn, Haydn

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. The Woolen Men, Roses, Moaning Lithics

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Crown Larks

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio, Evergreen High School Jazz Band, Dan Balmer Trio

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St, #110 Drive-By Truckers

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St Neo G Yo, Das Leune, Soopah Eype, Skelli Skel

TueS. April 28 Alberta Street public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Los Estupidos

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Swansea, Us Lights, LiquidLight

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Mia Dyson

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Reed College Jazz Band

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Turbo Fruits, Eternal Summers

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Bloodtypes, Don’t

The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven Southeast 2nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard Como el Viento, Flamenco en Vivo

april 22–28

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BAR REVIEW

Where to drink this week. 1. Chizu

1126 SW Alder St., 7196889, chizubar.com. Sushi-themed cheese bar chizu places cheesemonger Steve Jones in the role of master chef Jiro ono, presiding humbly at the center of his tastefully appointed, burnished-wood elbow of a bar serving up cider, beer, sake and wine. choose what you want to spend and get the omakase.

2. Hillbilly’s

7631 NE Glisan St., 719-6383, hillbillysherbsandglass.com. hillbilly’s probably makes too much sense to seem real: a beer-growler bar and head shop separated only by a little door next to the tap handles. the shared patio offers the promise of a fine Saturday of back-porch Portland living.

3. Black Water

835 NE Broadway, 546-1682. Punk-metal black Water is already worshipping at the altar of seitan on broadway, throwing together sold-out rock shows, saucy vegan cheesesteaks and occasional tarantino.

4. Charlie Horse Saloon

627 SE Morrison St. Portland’s weirdest and most makeshift bar—Sway bar—has just become a fine facsimile of an old West saloon, with your bachelor dad’s floor-toceiling paneling, cheap drinks and more taxidermy than the bates motel.

5. Donnie Vegas

1203 NE Alberta St. For every fictional character, a cocktail on tap: the Flanders is a wine spritzer embittered by aperol and drinking vinegar. the Dude is—duh—a classy take on a white russian. because the Dude is pure class.

SOCK PARTY: If you’re a member of the muffin-top set, you’ve no doubt read the headlines about PlayDate PDX (1434 NW 17th Ave., 227-7529, playdatepdx.com), the popular indoor playground and drinkery with a three-story slide in Northwest Portland. “Girl reports sex abuse at indoor play space,” KGW reported in November 2013, followed by KATU’s December 2013 headline, “Lawsuit claims slide at Playdate PDX ‘dangerously defective.’” The worry is enough to drive a parent to drink. Which is why it’s appropriate that you can: Along with a kid-friendly menu of pizza, quesadillas and apple slices, the PlayDate PDX cafe offers wine and five beer taps. This must also be why moments after you pay your kiddo’s $4 to $12 admission (parents and babysitters are free), you have to sign a waiver: “I, on behalf of my heirs, assigns, personal representatives and next of kin, herby [sic] hold harmless PlayDate employees, owners and officials with respect to any and all injury.” Sheesh! Your wee one can make do with a $4.50 mixed berry smoothie, while you can soothe your worries with a $5 Ninkasi at 10 am, as your child wanders aimlessly through a giant pretend castle stocked with ball launchers, enormous slides and an interactive dance floor (a cross between the ’80s electronic game Simon and the toetap piano from the movie Big). Hey, it’s all legal. Just don’t expect to be able to supervise your frolicking child while knocking back a beer. There’s a strict policy forbidding food, drinks and shoes inside the pretend castle, which probably makes it the only bar in Portland that requires patrons to wear socks. BETH SLOVIC.

The rose Bar

111 SW Ash St Fantastic Voyage Dance Party

The Whiskey Bar

Wed. April 22 Bar XV

15 SW 2nd AVE Deep House Wednesday’s

Moloko plus

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Hurricane Sandy

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave Kayzo

ThurS. April 23 duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave DJ Cutthroat

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Big Ben

31 NW 1st Ave Bass Cube

SAT. April 25 Crush Bar

Fri. April 24 dig a pony

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Cooky Parker

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. SNAP: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones, Freaky Outty

Moloko plus

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

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Truhn Juice

The liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St. We Got This Showcase: Tiger Fresh, Chase Manhattan, Chrome Wolves, Exodub

The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave Andrew Bayer

Mon. April 27

1400 SE Morrison St. A Family Affair:Aquarian Bash & 2 Yr Anniversary

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

dig a pony

The Know

736 Southeast Grand Ave. Freaky Outty

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Main Squeeze: DJs Kiffo & Rymes, Portia, Jamie Burton, Michel St Michel

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Blow Pony, The Artist & Rica Shay

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Greg M (of Danava)

5501 SE 72nd Ave. Fight Church TV, Jessie 2026 NE Alberta St. Thirsty City

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

TueS. April 28 Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Ol’ Sippy

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Bones with DJ Aurora

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein

This sidewalk stroll ends in a pessimistic social analysis of misogyny and daddy issues. Shel Silverstein’s maturethemed vignettes are as stark, shaky and oddly unnerving as the doodles in your grade-school books. Imagine 1974 poem “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too” grew up amid sexual abuse and domestic violence. Performers range from theatrical first-timer James Tolliver to 20-year Portland stage veteran Kevin Sutherland Martin. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 10 pm ThursdaySaturday through May 2. $16. 18+.

Le Nozze di Figaro

If you’re not enticed by an Italian comedic opera from Mozart or music history expert Bob Kingston’s optional lecture in Room 225 beforehand, then I hate to tell you Portland State is probably eliminating the Act IV aria about Don Basilio using the skin of an ass as camouflage. Those enticed anyway will see lovers Figaro and Susanna scheming to reunite the Count and Countess and clear up their own path to matrimony in this 1786 classic. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Friday, 3 pm Sunday, April 24 and 26. $26.

The Little Mermaid

Northwest Children’s Theater stages a vaudeville-themed version of Ariel’s quest for solid ground, given legs by Portland’s A-WOL Dance Collective. Northwest Children’s Theater and School, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-2190. noon and 4 pm Saturday-Sunday and 7 pm some Fridays through May 22. $17-$23.

Our New Girl

Corrib Theatre, the local labor of love from Gemma Whelan, only occasionally stages shows. But when its Irish-themed works take the stage, they’re worth taking in. This reading of a Dublin playwright’s psychological drama follows the stressed and pregnant Hazel through parental drama. With a doctor husband doing good in Haiti and a strange new nanny taking over at home, Hazel’s plight has all the marks of dark Irish wallowing. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Monday, April 27 and May 4 and 11. $10.

Palindrome

Incredible Incredible puts on classic physical theater in the vein of Charlie Chaplin (in fact, creative duo Matthew “Poki” McCorkle and Justin Therrien dress like him). The premise of two suspender-wearing characters, each the other’s imaginary friend, is made weirder by plot twists centered around silverware and the live accordion soundtrack. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Friday, April 24. $18.

School for Scandal

Portland playwright William Wilson deleted the anti-Semitism and misogyny, and added some action scenes, to Sheridan’s 1777 classic scandal play involving lovers, letters and all the nosy drama you’d expect from characters such as Mr. Crabtree and Mrs. Candour. Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., zoomtopia.com. 7:30 pm FridaySunday through May 3. $15-25.

Terrifying Shrubbery

Clowns could be the one thing to bring the fear factor back to the Brothers Grimm’s overworked fantasies. But Nomadic Theater Company and CoHo Theater director Philip Cuomo are going for sincerely funny. Their slap-

stick take on the dark forests and fairy godmothers is goofy, red noses and all. Sounds like a terrifying experience, truly. Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday through May 10. $8-$12.

A View From the Bridge

For Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday year Third Rail brings A View From the Bridge, the American-Dream-goneawry story of a Sicilian longshoreman in Brooklyn. Miller’s is a dark look at how family entanglements can damper political freedom. Mark Strong, of The Imitation Game and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, applies his pensive gaze to the lead role of Eddie Carbone in this HD screening of the London West End production. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. 2 pm and 7 pm Sunday, April 26. $20.

NEW REVIEWS Grease

As over the top and ostentatious as you’d expected from Broadway Rose Theater, this production maintains all the Pink Ladies and T-Birds drama, plus bursts from its tiny stage with athletic dance routines. From its beginning ode to the play’s fictional alma mater, Grease gives the audience pure and simple entertainment. Stars Peter Liptak (Danny Zuko) and Claire Rigsby (Betty Rizzo) ham it up with deafending musical numbers but are also convincing in their angsty teenage vulnerability. Despite its campy tone and dated subject material, Grease can still convince you to take a joyride back to the ‘50s greasers, proms and pom-poms, soda fountains and burger joints. Like an irresponsible spin in a flashy car, it’s pretty innocent, overlyoptimistic, and really just fun. IAN CLARK. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 pm and 7:30 Saturday, 2 pm Sunday through May 24. $30-$42.

Twelfth Night

Post5 is known for putting Shakespeare’s lusty ladies in jeggings, but this performance goes all out with slapstick skits like drunkard Sir Belch exorcising Artistic Director Ty Boice, who’s sports canary yellow tights. Viola disguises herself as a boy under the alias Sebastian and promptly falls in love with the Duke, who loves Olivia, who falls in love with Sebastian...and around in the Shakespearian rat race of twins, slapstick comedy and ukelele sing-a-longs we go. Director Cassandra Boice goes even further, casting Chip Sherman in drag as the idyllic Olivia. While lesser characters feel canned, Sherman convinces us his role was meant for drag. Post5 mainstay Jessica Tidd as the disguised Viola switches sexes seamlessly; Portland veteran Jeff Gorham is a deliciously disgusting drunkard; and Boice, the pathetically lithping Malvolio, steals the show. If Post5’s mission is Shakespeare for the masses, this is Bard 101, little brain required. ENID SPITZ. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday through May 16. $20.

ALSO PLAYING Cyrano

Cyrano’s 1897 premier introduced “panache,” meaning flamboyant, and there’s no better term for PCS’s largerthan-life staging. The talented wordsmith and swordsman, played with too much gusto by Seattleite Andrew McGinn, can’t woo anyone with his massive nose, especially muse-like Roxanne (Jen Taylor).Roxanne lounges on a rose-laden balcony as her lovers serenade from below; fighting scenes stage raucous swordplay; almost

everything is overplayed to schnaz-like proportions. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaySunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursdays, through May 3. $36-63.

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PERFORMANCE

Is He Dead?

What’s more pricey than original art? A dead artist’s original art. So, struggling artist Jean-Francois Millet kills himself. Or more accurately, he fakes his own death to boost the worth of his works. Disguised as his own sister, Millet’s attempts to cash in and wed his sweetheart end up in a Shakespearian tangle of misunderstandings and marriage proposals. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm April 18 and 25, through April 25. $15-$18.

Really Really

Elite collegiate youth emerge from a vodka-clouded night to see their futures teetering on the brink. Really opens on the lingering wreckage of an epic party, strewn with mixed messages and school politics. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 23-26. $5-$25.

School House Rock Live!

Oregon Children’s Theater takes audiences back to those simpler days. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 11 am and 2 pm Sundays through April 26. $15-$28.

Soul Harmony

In the late 1940’s, America’s music profile was shifting from Ellington and Sinatra to a little something called R&B. The movement largely rode on the soul-wrenching ballads of a black Baltimore group, the Orioles. But the Orioles and their legacy might’ve been just a blip if their leader, Sonny Til, hadn’t sung for songwriter Deborah Chessler through a phone when his group was still the fledgeling Vibranaires. Soul Harmony, Stumptown Stage’s musical based on critic Greil Marcus’ The Deborah Chessler Story, follows the partnership through fatal car crashes and race riots to the top of national charts. Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday through May 3. $29.65-$43.95.

Suddenly Last Summer

True to Tennessee Williams, Shaking the Tree Theater stages a hot and bothered Southern drama of familial secrets as juicy as its tropical New Orleans setting. The oppressive 1950s clash with “unmentionables” when Mrs. Holly and her niece debate the merits of her late son Sebastian, a prolific poet. Surprise, Mom’s glasses are a little rose-colored. The impressive cast and crew includes Julliard graduate and Drammy Award-winner Luisa Sermol, and 2015 RACC Project Grant-winner Katie Watkins. Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant Ave., 235-0635. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 5 pm Sundays, through May 2. $5-$25.

The Price

Arthur Miller’s last major work visits the dark corners of family dynamics and death as two brothers literally clear the cobwebs from their late father’s estate to sell his legacy to a mysterious buyer. It may be a lesserknown Miller work, but still got two Tony Award nominations, four Emmy nods for its TV adaptation and three Broadway revivals. Artists Rep and Profile Theatre’s Artistic Director Adriana Baer revive it again to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Miller’s birth. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays through May 3. $25-$46.

The School for Lies

Theatergoers sit in the social parlor of sharp-tongued widow Celimene (Stephanie Cordell) for Theater Vertigo’s update of Molière’s The Misanthrope. a comic exposé of forced,

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twelfth night: (From left) tom Walton, Chip sherman, sean Kelly and Jessica tidd.

POST-MILEPOST5 post5 is switching things up in Sellwood.

Post5 Theatre Company is on the move. It started in 2011 with a summer program of Shakespeare plays in the courtyard of Milepost5, a Montavilla artists collective. Every show was free, and the founding trio were all young actors in their 20s with sincere dreams of bringing Shakespeare to the people. But it seems their dreams have changed. For the first time in the company’s history, Post5 won’t be staging Shakespeare this summer. “There are so many companies doing Shakespeare in the summer,” says artistic director and company founder Ty Boice. “We can let them have that.” Instead, Post5 will stage Rashomon, a work made famous by Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film. Since its first courtyard production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the company has grown into a respectable midsize theater, and moved out of the arts collective into its own space in Sellwood in October 2014. This was largely thanks to the power couple of Boice and his wife, Cassandra, whose relationship was born and bred on Post5 time. Cassandra Schwanke had grown tired of the acting game in New York City, so she traveled to 29 countries in two years and then settled down in Portland to open the Big Dipper, a Southern comfort food cart. When the Big Dipper failed, Schwanke turned to the famously lucrative realm of midlevel, regional theater. There she met Ty. Six months later, they acted together in Post5’s inaugural performance of Macbeth in Milepost5’s black-box basement. She wore a scarlet halter dress, and Ty’s Macbeth channeled Marlon Brando, fistfighting in a tight wife-beater and jeans. In my 2013 review of the show, I noted their onstage sexual chemistry, writing that “the action verges on voyeurism when the two meet.” Three months later they were married, and last year the couple had their first child, Keaton. And what do artists in Portland do when they grow up and get married? They buy real estate in Sellwood, of course. After all, Post5’s new “forever home” has great equity potential, a walk score of 88 and close proximity to schools, according to a theater press release last fall. This is Post5’s first season in the Sellwood house-turned-theater, which sits camouflaged between a newly constructed line of condos and a community church. Posters from the company’s past line the new theater’s halls. Prominently placed by the dining-room bar, where you can order burritos at intermission and drinks are by donation, is a 2013 poster from Macbeth. The entire cast signed in silver Sharpie around the image of Ty and Cassandra’s interlaced hands, dripping with blood. The tagline reads, “What’s done, cannot be undone.” And, for now, Ty is still center stage, acting under his wife’s direction in the current production of Twelfth Night (see review, page 49). But that may change soon, too. “I don’t have any plans to be onstage in 2016,” says Ty. “I might be moving beyond Post5 and even Portland. Our mission is in flux currently.” ENID SPITZ.

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17th-century frilly civility. Frank—a magnetic and constantly irked Nathan Dunkin—rails against superﬁciality and this intersection of parlor society and 21st-century staging becomes a show of anachronisms. The script is dense with heady wordplay, but then comes Celimene freestyle rapping. The modern additions already seem outdated, but the play is more successful as a whimsical show. Flying pastries and rogue glasses of wine break the fourth wall to let us in on the joke. RIHANNA WEISS. Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 10 through May 9. $20.

COMEDY & VARIETY All Fines Forgiven

Late Night Library sounds like Night at the Museum’s next sequel, and with a grab-bag panel including New York Times best-selling author Chelsea Cain, who writes thrillers set in Portland, and local rap lyricist Rasheed Jamal, it might be as diverse. Portland ﬁlmmaker and author Arthur Bradford will host the literary variety show and promo his new Turtleface book, about an unfortunate character named Otto who belly ﬂops onto a river turtle. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 22. $11.

Impact

With Impact, Oregon’s premier ballet company embraces the contemporary with a world premiere by Princess Grace Fellowship winner— and occasional Beyoncé choreographer—Darrell Grand Moultrie, as well as work by OBT’s ﬁrst-ever resident choreographer, Dennis Spaight, in his vibrant 1993 ballet Crayola. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 222-5538. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, April 23-25. $25-$160. All ages.

Reinvention

The world of Pendulum’s aerial artists is starkly monotone until a singular, heroic dancer reintroduces hues, one at a time. With each encounter, dancers perform an out-

pouring of emotion until their zombie-like world has a pulse again. French American International School, 8500 NW Johnson St. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. $20.

Seasons

Vitality Dance Collective, is dancing out the four seasons, each one as an allegory for a stage in human life. The dancers each choreographed a piece in a diﬀerent style, contemporary, modern, tap, and gymnastics for good measure. Polaris Dance Theatre, 1501 SW Taylor St., 3805472. 3 pm Saturday. $10-$20.

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PERFORMANCE

Iliza Shlesinger

Last Comic Standing’s top Season 6 comic, the only female to win the show, now has a Netﬂix special with Freezing Hot and a top spot on iTunes’ charts with her hour-long War Paint show. But we mainly love her for blogging key-chain sriracha. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, April 23-25. $23-$31. 21+.

Permanent Comedy

Bridgetown Comedy Festival alum Todd Armstrong’s Web show splices his standup clips—all tattoos, O’Neill tees and bro baseball caps— with his curated comedy favorites like Seattleites Adam Norwest and Jubal Flagg. At this live ﬁlming some poor person will be tattooed inside Helium by an Aardvark Tattoo artist. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday, April 22. $5-$12.

Portland Secrets

Director Devin Harkness crowdsources secrets anonymously online for a group of improv comics to spin into a night of catharsis. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays though April 25. $12.

Welcome to Night Vale

In the podunk Texas outpost of Night Vale, strange and supernatural things occur, chronicled by Joseph Fink and Jeﬀrey Cranor’s ﬁctional radio show podcast. It’s Prairie Home Companion, but haunted, with more indie music and Cecil Baldwin instead of Garrison Keillor. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., Suite 110, 288-3895. 8 pm ThursdayFriday, April 23-24. Sold out.

DANCE Como el Viento, Flamenco en Vivo

Savannah Fuentes, a Puerto RicanIrish flamenco dancer from Seattle who can quick-stomp in stilettos, mixes dance and traditional song in her cante flamenco performances. Spanish Romani cantaor Jesus Montoya and guitarist Bobby de Sofia will play the soundtrack for her Como el Viento, from a song with the lyrics, “she goes and comes like the wind/she just enjoys the moment.” The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Southeast 2nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard. 8 pm Tuesday, April 28. $23-$35.

MULTNOMAH FALLS (FUNHOUSE LOUNGE) Yo u’d t h i n k a n i m p r ov- f u e l e d , Portland-centric parody of glitzy Reagan-era melodramas was inspired by Portland’s original version—Pillars of Portland, the ’80s PDX soap by former WW columnist Larry Colton. Paige Colton, the lead character in Funhouse Lounge’s live-action soap opera Multnomah Falls (played by lacquered-up and bewigged Funhouse mainstay Trenton Shine), must’ve been meant at least as an oblique nod. But the character’s boozy histrionics seem an odd tribute. And you wouldn’t call Multnomah Falls inspired, really. Onstage improv series Multnomah Falls is now entering its fourth and final weekend of “episodes,” but it’s still stuck relying on dimly outrageous crowd-aided reveals (surprise parentage, romantic entanglements, suspicious disfigurements) that are built into the ongoing storyline and summarized through opening narration. Inane banter withers on the vine. Funhouse’s previous series, by the Unscriptables, a mash-up of MTV’s The Real World with superheroes, compensated for bad gags by skillfully re-jiggering the reality-show format to keep scenes humming, and lent a real foundation to eventual flights of fancy. Multnomah Falls is not funny because it is not true. All participants appear to be entirely unaware of the supposed ’80s setting, and unfamiliar with Portland. One lead must surely have been new to (and fundamentally unsuited for) improvisational sketch comedy. And, given the staggering imprecision of lampooned targets and the minimal tropes worked to death, the smart money would guess no one involved with the production had ever seen the first minute of a soap opera. Imagine a dozen men and women kept entirely sheltered from the surrounding culture and then, somewhat late in life, forced to craft an extended narrative satire based solely on blurry mid-’80s head shots of Joan Collins. Maybe this technique is some sort of upper-echelon improv theater bloodsport, but in practice, Multnomah Falls was just an unending succession of bad actors pretending to act badly, ongoing approximations of tearful rage and drunken sorrow as imagined by sitcom robots, and indistinguishable characters forced through successive plot twists so dull and incoherent they make the original soap operas seem like comparative founts of storytelling brilliance. Comedy is hard, but Dynasty should be easy. JAY HORTON.

The Falls falls, hard.

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ing ideas of holy light. The show also includes experimental photographic work incorporating laser etching on paper, which burns away the surface layers to reveal a hidden image below. Traditional black-and-white photographs round out the show, which asks us to consider how medium structures the message. Through May 17. Melanie Flood Projects, 420 SW Washington St., No. 301, 862-7912.

Kim Osgood: Persephone’s Tale

Historically, landscapes were the domain of celebrating the creator’s domain and still lifes were designed to inspire the viewer to reflect on mortality and the necessity to live morally despite, or because of, the brevity of life. Today’s artists often deal with these issues in a much more superficial light, so I’m interested in Kim Osgood’s monotypes which place flower vases, lamps, books and other signs of domestic life in the foreground of mountain valleys whose far-off peaks are just barely visible and recognizable. Perhaps the reference to the Greek goddess of the underworld and springtime offers some insight into the artist’s thinking. Through May 2. Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754.

Untitled by James Castle, Part of the World is not the earth

Ben Bushwell: No One Above or Below

This is Ben Bushwell’s third show in Portland in as many months, having exhibited at the Art Gym in March and been included in The Sum of Its Parts at Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art since February. I enjoy the near hallucinatory effect of his mark-making on photographic prints for how it restores the three-dimensionality that photography flattens, and because it looks cool. If you’re a fan of art that “blurs the line” between this and that, No One Above and Below promises to deliver a sculptural approach to image making that not everyone can pull off. Through May 7. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

Carolyn Cole: New Paintings

Carolyn Cole uses rich hues to create atmospheric abstractions on fairly large-sized canvases, titled after their dominant color. Two of her works are unique for being smaller in size than the rest, and I like them both slightly better than the others on display. Perhaps it’s because the smaller scale of both Red and Taupe give the colors more intensity, or that it draws the viewer in closer into the work. Most likely it’s a combination of these: Because the colors don’t have to compete with the vastness of the larger canvases, they more powerfully catch the viewer’s attention. I’m always disinclined to tell women to go smaller, and the larger canvases do fill out the space more effectively than a collection of smaller ones would. But right now, most of the compositional action is centered, making the rest of the canvas feel like superfluous negative space. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 248-9378. Through May 2.

Intisar Abioto: Contents

Contents, Intisar Abioto’s show up at Duplex, is full of incomplete narratives. This is the point, because between the images, mostly portraits, and the story of how she took those pictures, Abioto asks us to imagine the details. She tells us how her subjects make her feel: comfort from the woman who works in the convenience store, pride for the young man who cares for the children, etc. She doesn’t know them all completely, and doesn’t try to present them completely to us. This means we have to work harder to know them, to know our friends, neighbors and community, but Abioto inspires us to rise to the challenge with beautiful people and evocative language. Through April 30. Duplex, 219 NW Couch St.

Jim Neidhardt: Nuts & Bolts, 15 Clues to Life

Jim Neidhardt, who’s previously been known for photographing museumgoers photographing art, has a new batch of work at Augen Gallery. Nuts & Bolts, 15 Clues to Life is a series of digital prints that started as instruction manuals, made impenetrable with painterly additions and edits, that bring us in as viewers through the use of mannequin hands holding down the pages. These deconstructions of the picture plane as entryway into another, legible, world mirror the uselessness of trying to implement good advice. I’m not sure if we’ll find the answers to life, the universe and everything among these clues, but we surely can build something worth living in the meantime. Bound art books of the prints are on display in addition to others in the series, which actually manage to fit even my budget. Through May 2.

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Julia Oldham: Farewell Brave Voyager

Farewell Brave Voyager is an installation of video, animation, music and drawing that memorialize two doomed space explorers, one fictional and one historical. While two screens playing different narratives could easily have distracted from both and overwhelmed the viewers in the small space, their differing scales and angles complimented each other instead. The animated piece, Laika’s Lullaby, was projected against the wall and told the story of an early Soviet space dog. Laika, man’s best cosmonaut, pants, sniffs, and looks out on Earth from the solitude of her grand voyage and coffin, set to a haunting composition by Lindsay Keast. Farewell Brave Voyager played on a smallish screen set perpendicular to the projection against the wall facing the door, and just about everyone could see both while they sat or stood. There were moments when the actors of the film seemed to be looking at the great emptiness of space alongside our canine hero. Through such moments the separate works coalesced into a single installation. Through May 23. Portland ’Pataphysical Society, 625 NW Everett St., No. 104.

Justin James Reed: Shining Bodies

In Shining Bodies, Justin James Reed starts with medieval reliquaries—originally used to house spiritually significant bones, shrouds and other relics—but divests them of content to draw our attention to the ideas they represent, as framing devices that endow objects with mystical powers. The works are made of glass, referenc-

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 flesh-and-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. This is the first time any of this artwork has been exhibited in Oregon. Through May 3. Broadway Lobby Gallery at Portland State, Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave.

Nancy Lorenz: Polished Ground

When an artist describes their work as an exploration of the “Joy of Painting,” you might expect happy landscapes and smooth narration, but Nancy Lorenz’s abstract compositions juxtapose earthly burlap and heavenly metallics. The material contrasts balance a decorative taste for preciousness with a pragmatic craftsman sensibility that speaks to Portland’s taste for high-end DIY. Meanwhile, the emphasis on coarse surfaces and slick pigments transcend the starting point of “painting on canvas” to become intimate icons referencing historical precedents of spiritual and expressionistic painting. Through May 2. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

New York Salon

After a recent trip to New York City, Mark Woolley rounded up five New York artists who work in photography and curated them into an invigorating group show at his Pioneer Place gallery. In addition to Kyle Rudd, David Hanlon and Patrick Arias, the show features two artists more familiar to Portland art lovers. Noah and Nathan Rice, formerly known as the Christopher Twins, were longtime staples at Woolley’s gallery before they moved from Portland to New York five years ago. Working as a team, the twin brothers blend elements of photography, painting and collage. In works such as This City Is a Dagger, they overlay images drawn from film, cartoons and cityscapes, resulting in an enigmatic, Pop-flavored mélange. Through May 10. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.

Paul Nudd: Nudd-Mutts & Mushups

Organic is the first word that I’d use to describe Paul Nudd’s larger than life paintings, and oozing is the second word. Nudd-Mutts & Mushups is full of amoebic alien creatures with humanoid features, and like things that go bump in the night, they have no coherent form. Instead, their flagella coalesce in response to the viewer like sci-fi Rorschach tests. Hap often commissions a limited-edition series of work from the artists that show there, and I’m very interested in seeing what the Hap edition will be this month. Through May 2. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101. Through May 2.

Susan Seubert: The Fallacy of Hindsight

Hindsight is not always 20/20. That’s the crux of photographer Susan Seubert’s The Fallacy of Hindsight at Froelick. In three separate photo series, she explores a phenomenon that psychologists call “hindsight bias.” This refers to the often mistaken belief that one always knew without a doubt how a given situation would turn out. Seubert illustrates this idea—sometimes effectively, sometimes less than convincingly—through depictions of a figure bound in twine, images of an Arctic ice field and a set of Polaroidsized images representing memories. Through May 2. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

The World Is Not the Earth

A group show including James Castle, Austin Eddy, John O’Reilly, Blair Saxon-Hill, and Timmy Straw. The works all develop a highly personal, complex narrative using collage and appropriation. Blair Saxon-Hill was included in last year’s Portland Biennial at Disjecta, and also has a concurrent solo exhibition this month at Fourteen30 Contemporary. Through May 30. Adams and Ollman, 209 SW 9th Ave., 724-0684.

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BOOKS

APRIL 22–29

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Late Night Library

Local nonproﬁt lit organization Late Night Library will host its primary fundraiser with the book-themed variety show All Fines Forgiven. Readers and performers will include Benjamin Percy (Red Moon, The Dead Lands) Chelsea Cain (Let Me Go, One Kick), writer and ﬁlmmaker Arthur Bradford. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 7:30 pm. $11.

Mary Norris

For more than three decades, Mary Norris has worked in the copy department of The New Yorker editing the work of some of the country’s greatest writers. In her new book, Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, Norris reveals with a wise sense of humor the most common errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Maggie Messitt and Rene Denfeld

For the last decade, Maggie Messitt reported from underserved communities in both South Africa and middle America, focusing on issues of social justice. Her ﬁrst book, The Rainy Season, compiles the stories of three generations of Africans in a remote community. Author, journalist and death-penalty investigator Rene Denfeld’s debut novel, The Enchanted, is about a man locked inside an ancient prison. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Dancing Girl Press Reading

Publishing emerging women’s voices in poetry, Dancing Girl Press will host a lineup of writers from the Paciﬁc Northwest, including Trina Burke, Susan Denning, Laura Christina Dunn, Ally Harris, Amber Nelson and Jane Wong. In Other Words, 14 NE Killingsworth St., 232-6003. 7 pm. Free.

Rewild Portland Lecture

Gaining notoriety a decade ago as “Urban Scout,” Peter Michael Bauer was known for roaming downtown Portland in a loincloth, lighting cigarettes by rubbing sticks together. In 2010 he founded Rewild Portland, a nonproﬁt devoted to going back to nature. Bauer will give a lecture about the concept of rewilding. Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Highway, 823-2787. 6-9:30 pm. $10.

SATURDAY, APRIL 25 The Pander Brothers

After a stint making films, the Pander Brothers (Exquisite Corpse, Triple X) are returning to comics with their first major work since 2004’s Batman: City of Light. The vampire horror comic Girlfiend is a full-length graphic novel and brings the brothers back to Dark Horse Comics. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-9 pm. Free.

Artist’s Talk and Poetry Reading

Identifying barriers both physical and emotional, Eugene photographer Terri Warpinski and Portland poet Laura Winter collaborated on the project Liminal Matter: Fences. The exhibit features Warpinski’s photographs of the U.S.-Mexico border fence accompanied by

Winter’s response through poetry. Passages Bookshop, 17 SE 3rd Ave., 233-4562. 5-7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, APRIL 27 Weed the People

In his new book, Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America, Bruce Barcott explores the cultural realignments that can be expected after weed is legal. The future is bright for online food delivery. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723

SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Kathleen Hanna

Unoﬃcial leader of the original riot grrrl movement, musician and activist Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) continues to prove her innate badassery. Her stop in Portland will be a lecture, and even though it’s already sold out, would a riot grrrl take no for an answer? Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., Suite 110, 288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out.

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SAM QUINONES, DREAMLAND In March of 2013, WW ran a cover story titled “Who Wants to Save a Junkie?” It described a drug, Narcan, that could snap users out of heroin overdoses. By then, American OD deaths from opiates had quadrupled in 13 years to one every half hour. An equally germane question might have been, “Who Wants to Hook a Junkie?” In Dreamland: A nation nods oﬀ. The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury Press, 384 pages, $28), veteran reporter Sam Quinones answers with an eye-popping lineup of pushers. Purdue Pharma kicked off the plague in the 1990s with drug salesmen triumphantly hawking a cure for chronic pain: OxyContin. Doctors launched pill mills across the heartland, prescribing medication that was effectively heroin in a time-release capsule. The kids of Kentucky coal miners turned their unemployment checks into an Oxy racket, and by 2003 were dealing painkillers to rich, white teenagers in suburbia. And the villages surrounding Xalisco, a town in southwestern Mexico, were filled with their own adventurous teens. The “Xalisco Boys” spread through 25 states, selling black tar heroin, founding dope franchises with an emphasis on nonviolence, carhop delivery and customer service. Quinones tells a horror story of supply creating demand. “OxyContin first, introduced by reps from Purdue Pharma over steak and dessert and in air-conditioned doctors’ offices,” he writes. “Within a few years, black tar heroin followed in tiny, uninflated balloons held in the mouths of sugarcane farm boys from Xalisco driving old Nissan Sentras to meet-ups in McDonald’s parking lots.” (Portland remains one of the top markets—read an excerpt from Dreamland, starting on page 15.) The best chapters in Dreamland are ghastly farce, like the Coen brothers directing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Cops learn to distinguish a pill mill from a legit medical clinic by looking for people waiting in their pajamas or ordering pizzas in the parking lot. Junkie shoplifters pillage Walmarts to create a shadow economy where an 80 mg pill is the standard currency to buy stolen power saws and baby shoes. But Quinones also manages a quality rare in drug sagas: empathy. He spends equal time on each side of the Rio Grande, drawing full motivations from the Mexican heroin entrepreneurs and their victims. The title Dreamland, taken from a shuttered community swimming pool in Portsmouth, Ohio, mutates to encompass several troubling meanings. It’s the lure of quick riches for the Xalisco Boys, the narcotic nightmare hidden behind a suburban kid’s bedroom door, and the medical industry’s delusion of a miracle cure. Most of all, it’s the condition of a nation dulled by comfort into believing it deserves a special exemption to pain. AARON MESH. GO: Sam Quinones will read at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Tuesday, April 28. 7:30 pm. Free.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Adult Beginners

A hipster enterepreneur (Nick Kroll) learns that hipster entrepreneur is not a real career. Screened after deadline, see wweek.com for review. PG-13. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

The Age of Adaline

Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) is a spin on Benjamin Button, an ageless beauty trapped in the prime of life at 29 years old. She hasn’t age in eight decades, which makes for a lot of long-suppressed passion when she meets the suave Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman). Screened after deadline, check week.com for review. PG-13. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Child 44

Gary Oldman as Gen. Mikhail Nesterov shakes up Soviet Russia and a serial killer with a penchant for young boys, backed by dissenting secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) and his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace). Not screened for critics. R. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

The Clouds of Sils Maria

B- Directed by Olivier Assayas (Paris,

je t’aime), this meta-narrative about an immensely talented, and uncomfortably aging, actress named Maria is as foggy as its titular clouds. Juliet Binoche as Maria and the ineffably relaxed Kristen Stewart as her savvy assistant, Valentine, wax philosophical and run lines for Maria’s next role, a new part in a revival of a lesbian relationship drama that once made her famous. With a modern Hollywood starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz) shining in Maria’s original role, Maria grapples with her waning fame. The film gets lost in laborious self-study at times. You can only watch two women talk about lesbian undertones in a romantic chalet, oblivious to the ones in their own lives, for so long. But it’s saved by the refreshingly tantalizing experience of watching these three women play the film’s key roles as bizarro versions of themselves. R. KELLY MCCRILLIS. Living Room Theaters.

Desert Dancer

In the volatile political and social climate of 2009 Tehran, Afshin Ghaffarian (Reece Ritchie) and a group of dancers start a secret dance company in the Iranian desert, far from the prying eyes of the government police. Along with a woman named Elaheh (Freida Pinto) who helps them refine their skills, Afshin and his company use what little Internet they can access to learn moves from banned videos starring legends like Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Living Room Theaters.

Little Boy

Uplifting familial love and American nationalism star in the story of 8-yearold Pepper (Jakob Salvati), whose bond with his father is strong enough to resist World War II so they can be reunited. Oops, spoiler? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Mala Noche

Gus Van Sant’s debut feature was a tale of lust and unrequited desire that served as a gritty love letter to the city of Portland. Twenty-six years later, the lust and unrequited desire—courtesy of Walt Curtis’ novel—are still evident in heartbreaking spades; but the affectionate glimpse at Portland has now become a time capsule for the city that was. Very little in the urban backdrop that would become a signature character in Van Sant’s early work is still around, which makes films like Mala Noche all the more important. Not only does it serve as a wonder-

ful marker for the growth of the city’s most cherished filmmaker, it also helps chart the metamorphosis of the city itself. Shot in glorious black and white, Mala Noche stars Tim Streeter as Walt, a writer who longs to be with Johnny (Doug Cooeyate), an illegal immigrant who does not feel the same way. Later works like Elephant and Last Days have solidified Van Sant’s reputation as a minimalist filmmaker; Mala Noche shows that he was an expert with this aesthetic from the start. NR. DAVID WALKER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday.

Man From Reno

B Dave Boyle’s bilingual neo-noir, completed with Kickstarter assistance, burns so slowly in its first act that it threatens to go out altogether, but Man From Reno rewards patience with its subtly skewed take on familiar narrative conventions. Depressed mystery writer Aki Akahori (Ayako Fujitani) bails on her career to nurse her sadness in San Francisco, where a dalliance with a handsome stranger implicates her in a missing-person case being investigated by local sheriff Paul Del Moral (veteran character actor Pepe Serna). Boyle doles out the ensuing feints and revelations with a sure hand, and even though the surprises aren’t all that surprising, it’s fun being guided through them by a pro. NR. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.

The Road Within

B This road-trip bildungsroman is just

as cliché as its title implies. Vincent (Alex Sheehan), a young man struggling with debilitating Tourette’s and the death of his mother, is tucked away in an experimental treatment facility so his politician father (Robert Patrick of Sons of Anarchy) can finish a clean campaign. Vincent gets bunked with Alex (Dev Patel), whose OCD outburst when Vincent enters in unwashed sneakers sets the tone for their volatile relationship, and he immediately falls for the purplehaired, anorexic resident Marie (Zoë Kravitz). When the two steal their doctor’s car to spread Vincent’s mother’s ashes by the ocean, Alex gets dragged along and a slew of mischievous antics follow right on cue. Solid performances from the young leads and a few truly poignant moments, like Vincent tracing Marie’s ribs after managing sex without a Tourette’s tic, are redeeming, but it’s still a long ride. R. ALEX DICKENSON. R. Clinton Street Theater.

The Water Diviner

D+ Actor-musician Russell Crowe adds another tragic hyphen to the CV with his feature directorial debut, a dumb and overwrought mess that aims for the heart with a sledgehammer. And misses. Repeatedly. For two long hours. Crowe stars (of course) as Joshua Connor, a recently widowed water diviner (not just a poetic title!) who treks to Turkey to retrieve the remains of his three dead (or are they?) sons from the World War I battleground of Gallipoli. This gives Crowe the rare Acting Opportunity to look sad while courting the most beautiful hotelier in Istanbul. He gets the girl. We get nothing. R. CHRIS STAMM. Vancouver.

The Wisdom Tree

D From the opening quotations from the Upanishads and theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Wisdom Tree promises to ruminate on the fundamental laws governing humanity’s existence. It follows the quest of idealistic, sitar-strumming Dr. Tisha Rao (Sheetal Sheth) to revive brain-dead Steve (Patrick Alparone) and elevate the world’s collective consciousness. Unfortunately, this involves actors staring glassy-eyed toward distant horizons, gesturing at whiteboards strewn with incomprehensible scribbles, and embarking on strangely

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Bill Plympton has a bone to pick with the Happiest Place on Earth. You’d expect nothing less from the man finalizing Hitler’s Folly, a mockumentary about Hitler’s secret life as the premier animator of Europe, a Deutschland Disney. The 69-year-old animator is a legendary alternative cartoonist. He’s also a local who graduated from Portland State and headed off to Rolling Stone and National Lampoon before receiving an Oscar nod in 2005, the same year he illustrated Kanye West’s “Heard ’Em Say” video. Plympton credits The Simpsons and South Park with popularizing adult animation. “For some reason, movie theaters and distributors still have that closedmindedness that animation is not suitable for adults,” Plympton said. “Now, I don’t get rich, but I make the films I want to make, and since I’m my own producer, I don’t have to change anything for anybody.” On Friday, Cinema 21 will debut Plympton’s most recent feature, Cheatin’, a silent, hand-drawn drama about fatal sexual appetites and wedding vows. He’s slated to draw live at the theater, a spectacle that’s been compared to watching a house on fire. So, Willamette Week caught up with him early to dish the dirt on sex, Disney and drawing by hand. WW: Cheatin’ has a unique, choreographed vibe. What inspired you? Bill Plympton: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce [three noir crime thrillers from the 1940s]. They’re all about passion. These people love each other so much that it turns into murder. With Cheatin’, their love is so intense that they decide to kill each other. And it’s a comedy! It’s a happy ending. Did you draw from your personal life? It’s inspired by a relationship I had about 20 years ago. I thought she would be the love of my life. So we moved in together, and after about a month we wanted to strangle each other—yet I still wanted to have sex with her.

People are calling this your most mature film— and not just because of the sex. I’ve always had sexy people and crazy, surreal violence in my films. I don’t think I will change that. I will continue to be outrageous. Here in the U.S., there’s still a stereotype that animation should only be for children. And I think America is ready to change. There’s no dialogue in the movie. Why not? I don’t like writing dialogue. I like the poetry of telling the story with just visuals. I want it to be a trip to a faraway land that’s very magical. And there’s a lot of mistakes in the film, and I like the mistakes because it feels like it was made by a human rather than a computer. And your monochrome pencil-sketch style? It’s much faster and it’s cheaper. I do every drawing myself, and it’s about 40,000 drawings. I can do about 100 drawings a day. Why do people think animation is for kids? I think it’s ’cause of Disney. Disney is so powerful, and everyone in America grew up watching Disney. I have a lot of friends at Pixar. They have affairs, they have divorces, they have adult issues, and yet they’re not allowed to talk about any of that there. They’re forever to just tell fairy tales. If you’re an artist, you have to create what’s in your life. I don’t get why Tarantino or the Coen brothers can have sexy characters in their films, but you can’t do that in cartoons. And I’m just hoping that this film, Cheatin’, will break that stereotype. You stay away from digital animation but are on Kickstarter and iTunes? I’m just starting to get involved with the Internet. People who saw my work 15 to 20 years ago on MTV can now view my films on iTunes. There seems to be a lot more money online and so many fans out there who want to see animation that tells different stories, something unique. You’re 69 years old. What is it that compels you to keep creating? It’s just the pleasure of making films and the pleasure of showing the films. I mean, I love to draw. See IT: Cheatin’ premieres at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. 7 and 9 pm Friday, April 24. $8.50. Willamette Week APRIL 22, 2015 wweek.com

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expressionless conversations filled with cheesy dialogue: “I’ve been doing this for 30 years, and I’ve seen a lot of brains!” boasts one of the film’s neuroscientists. The film may strain for metaphysical revelations, but it is ultimately as brain-dead as its protagonist. NR. IAN CLARK. Fox Tower.

STILL SHOWING 5 to 7

C- In France, 5 to 7 pm is the time for an affair. At 5 on a Friday, Brian Bloom (Anton Yelchin), a wide-eyed aspiring writer, is magnetized to Arielle (Beréniece Marlohe). Their idyllic love blooms in two-hour spurts, and those two hours seem flawless; but 5 to 7’s perpetual honeymooning is its downfall. “They say love can’t be perfect, but they haven’t met you,” is one nauseating voice-over as the screen pans across silken sheets and lavender roses in this over-done, ilyllic romance.. Nicholas Sparks groupies will swoon. r. Living Room Theaters.

American Sniper

D Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) shoots people. r. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Valley.

The Book of Life

B- Overstuffed with artisanal delights,

including the world’s grandest piñata. pG. JAY HORTON. Mt. Hood.

Bears

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

Birdman

B- If Birdman’s message is that

Hollywood a place of debased, greed-driven entertainment, Alejandro González Iñárritu doesn’t make a convincing—or even amusingly satirical—argument. r. REBECCA JACOBSON. Academy, Laurelhurst,

Black or White

Kevin Costner plays an alcoholic lawyer who suddenly gets custody of his biracial granddaughter, and then winds up battling the child’s paternal grandmother (Octavia Spencer) to keep it. Grantland’s Wesley Morris called it “tiresome” and “preposterous,” deeming it Tyler Perry’s Crash. Not screened for Portland critics. pG13. Vancouver.

Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police

B “Surviving the Police,” is a misno-

mer for Can’t Stand Losing You, a rockumentary based on Police guitarist Andy Summer’s memoir. The moments Summer did survive—being jailed, dodging raining phlegm on stage, the Police’s early punk incarnation, an an emotional divorce—are brief mentions. What’s offered is a thoughtful account of the rise and demise of a calculated band whose individual ambitions overstepped its collective good. The film profiles Summer mainly as a photographer, his photo montages offering an intimate, noteworthy window into the band’s history. NR. TED JAMISON. Fox Tower

Chappie

B- Essentially a mashup of Short Circuit, Robocop and assorted directto-video action films from the ’80s. It’s all to say that Chappie is pretty fucking stupid. But if you lower your expectations, it’s also kind of a blast. r. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Vancouver, Valley.

Cinderella

D+ Kenneth Branagh’s tiresome live-action retcon of Cinderella, pG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Danny Collins

B This simultaneously hackneyed and likable rock-’n’-roll redemption tale follows Al Pacino as Danny, a music celebrity who, 40 years after the fact, discovers John Lennon wrote him a letter telling him to stay true to his

art. Danny is living high on his own legacy, performing greatest hits for the AARP demo, when the belated arrival of Lennon’s letter sends him to a sleepy New Jersey Hilton where he hopes finally to connect with his neglected son Tom (Bobby Cannavale). Pacino has verged on self-parody in recent decades, but he turns Danny’s showmanship into a character trait, a reflexive instinct to connect with and charm everyone he meets, from entire concert halls to gobsmacked parking valets. Pacino makes even the shortest moment of banter feel genuine, true to his art. R. SEAN AXMAKER. r. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport Village, City Center, Fox Tower.

Ex Machina

B- Frankenstein’s monster is easy on the eyes in Ex Machina, a sexualized science-fiction movie that comes right out and addresses what many of its forebears merely danced around: that robots will eventually be hot, and attraction is inevitable. Alex Garland’s tale of a coder named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), whisked away by his genius boss (Oscar Isaac) for a top-secret project, is familiar. But we’re enticed enough to follow along anyway. r. MICHAEL NORDINE. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

B+ Yes, Precious. pG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Vancouver.

Home

A technicolor extraterrestrial descends to Earth. Children learn acceptance of all critters, no matter their gummy-bear hue. It’s basically Up, with more tech specs and less soul. pG. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

The Hunt: Gold Rush

computer science and helped crack Nazi codes. And there’s something to be said for a drama as sturdy and watchable as The Imitation Game. With a story this compelling and a cast this good, it’s difficult not to play along. pG-13. Academy, Laurelhurst, Mission, Vancouver, Valley.

C+ McConaughey and robots kicking it in space. Why so serious?. pG-13. AP KRYZA. Empirical.

from the death of her mother (Ashley Judd), the destruction of her mother’s faction and the near annihilation of her own faction at the hands of Jeanine (Kate Winslet). Tris has an aptitude for multiple factions and is therefore “divergent,” which is bad. It’s best not to think about any of this too hard. The film is essentially one long fight with occasional changes of scenery. pG-13. JOHN LOCANTHI. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Into the Woods

It Follows

Interstellar

B+ Stephen Sondheim’s much-loved

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Excerpts from an annual BMX video contest. Lots of dudes bouncing around on kiddie bikes. Clinton Street Theater.

The Imitation Game

B As geniuses often are, British math-

ematician Alan Turing was an odd duck. Turing pioneered the field of

musical has finally made it to the big screen. pG. RIHANNA WEISS. Empirical,

Insurgent

C- Adumb action movie, except with the traditional gender roles reversed. The second film in this series picks up where the first left off: Our hero, Tris (Shailene Woodley), is still reeling

A- When your guard is lowered, something truly terrifying like It Follows can burrow into your psyche. We meet Jay (Maika Monroe), a normal 19-year-old girl falling for dreamboat Hugh (Jake Weary). Following their first sexual encounter, Jay awakens in an abandoned warehouse, bound to a wheelchair. That’s when Hugh lays it all out: When they had sex, he passed along a curse.

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Fifty Shades of Grey

D Fifty Shades turns what was supposed to be a torrid affair into an overly serious episode of Beverly Hills 90210 with some timid softcore erotica thrown in. r. JOHN LOCANTHI. Eastport Plaza,

Focus

B- Great con-man movies—a subgenre old as cinema itself—strike a difficult balance between breezy capers and deeper examinations of character motives. 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. r. AP KRYZA. Avalon, Living Room Theaters, Vancouver.

Furious 7

A- Furious 7’s action and ridiculous-

ness make it perhaps the best yet. Its tribute to Paul Walker, who tragically died (in a high-speed car wreck) before the film wrapped makes it one of the most affecting movies about things exploding ever made. The central chase scene is frantic and ludicrous and Dwayne “The Rock” Robinson flexes his sinewy biceps so hard that he breaks a goddamned plaster cast. This time, the team takes on terrorists and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), AP KRYZA. pG-13. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Get Hard

C+ Get Hard is a movie about a rich white guy hiring a poor black guy to get him ready for a stint in prison. r. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

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 noir-spaghetti Westernlove story…with vampires. And yet, somehow, it all works. 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. 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. Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters.

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Between his “Portland trilogy” and mainstream fame from films like Milk, Gus Van Sant helped put this city on the map. With the director debuting a new film at Cannes this year, the Northwest Film Center is hosting a retrospective series with 30 years’ worth of films. Believe it or not, it’s the first such retrospective of the Oscar-nominated local’s work. “I was surprised this city hadn’t done anything like this before,” says Mario Falsetto, author of Conversations With Gus Van Sant and professor emeritus of film studies at Concordia University in Montreal. “Portland is more than a setting in his films. It’s a character, too.” “Essential Gus Van Sant (& His Influences)” kicks off with the first film of Van Sant’s “Portland trilogy,” 1985’s Mala Noche. Shot in black-and-white on grainy 16 mm, with angled shots literally set in Portland’s gutters, it has a smoky, grungy, hangout vibe that set the tone for Van Sant’s early independent period. “He paid for it with his own money and really poured a lot of himself into it,” says Falsetto, who is

teaching a course at Northwest Film Center in conjunction with the series. “It was based on [poet Walt Curtis’ autobiographical novel of the same name], but Van Sant wrote the screenplay.” Falsetto first met Van Sant in 2002 when he was researching another book. They talked for five hours. “He’s such a collector,” Falsetto says. “Maybe that’s why people think he’s quiet. He’s taking everything in, even when you’re in a conversation.” Van Sant exists outside the Hollywood machine, to paraphrase Falsetto. His early independent work, marked by abstract imagery and monologues from society’s fringe players, is set regionally but famous nationally. “He proved that you could make movies—the kind that he wanted to make—both outside of Hollywood and within it,” Falsetto says. “After making Finding Forrester, his most conventional film, he decided he wanted to try something different.” So he made Elephant, a dark film based in part on the Columbine school shooting. “Van Sant’s films tackle complicated and controversial subjects from a place of honesty and understanding,” Falsetto says. “A place of authenticity.” see it: Mala Noche is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156, on Thursday, April 23. 7 pm. $9. For full schedule, see nwfilm.org.

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Jupiter Ascending

B A wholly illogical fairy-tale denouement that leaves little expectation of sequels. pG-13. JAY HORTON. Avalon, Vancouver, Valley.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

A- Remember when spy movies were fun? Kingsman: The Secret Service does. r. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter

B+ A lost soul in Tokyo who takes her fascination with Fargo to dangerous extremes. She sets off to unearth Fargo’s fictional buried treasure. In a lesser film, Kimiko’s innocence and her bunny, Bunzo, could easily devolve into the precious but hollow quirks typical of indie features. But the trajectory of Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is too tragic for precociousness or to inspire much laughter. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

The Longest Ride

D+ Bullriding champ Luke (Scott Eastwood) and budding art gallery intern Sophia (Britt Robertson) take handheld strolls across North Carolina resortland. This is not Mr. Sparks’ first rodeo. PG-13 JAY HORTON. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

McFarland

Having previously assisted underdog baseball and football teams, Kevin Costner now coaches an underdog 1980s track team. There are ethical epiphanies about race relations and being true to oneself. PG. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

Monkey Kingdom

Baby monkeys actually look like a fetal Bruce Jenner, but we still love letting these critters to swing from our heartstrings. pG. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

riage and eventual divorce. pG-13. MICHAEL NORDINE. Laurelhurst.

Total Recall

C- Give Len Wiseman credit: At least he recognized that remaking Total Recall with the same hammy humor and satirical underpinnings of the 1990 original would’ve been the wrong move. Thanks for ruining my childhood, Wiseman. r. MATTHEW SINGER. Laurelhurst.

True Story

B- Disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill) gets a shot at redemption in this true story based on his 2005 book. Jobless after fabricating the subject of a cover story for newspaper’s Sunday magazine, Mike keeps insisting on getting his “second chance,” making you wish the movie weren’t so aligned with that dubious goal. r. BRIAN MILLER. Showing at most Portlandarea theaters.

Unfriended

B Unfriended ingeniously reboots

the tired, teen horror genre, employing a daunting menu of low-fi horror strategies to mimic common computer effects and make fear incarnate in an uncloseable browser window. A group of frenemies virtually hanging out gets an uninvited guest using the screen name of a deceased classmate, Laura, who committed suicide after an anonymously posted video exposed her drunken misadventures. The new visitor is back for revenge. Is this an elaborate prank? Or is there a ghost in the machine? The plot line is nothing new, but a stock story and characters—the usual Bitch, Jock, Slut, Gamer—give director Leo Gabriadze and screenwriter Nelson Greaves more room to pile on the horrifying trickery and play on our digital anxieties. The film takes place almost entirely on the laptop screen of a high-schooler named Blaire, focusing on her cursor as she types, deletes and hovers nervously, agonizing over what she truly means,

giving us a glimpse into her hidden thoughts. It’s a damn effective way of hacking depth, so maybe you can teach an old medium new tricks. R. JAY HORTON. r. Showing at most Portland-area theaters.

While We’re Young

A- This Gen-X midlife-crisis movie is a career-best comedy for both Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach. Filmmaker Josh (Stiller) and producer wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are stalled in careers and marriage. More than a generational clash, this is a satire of an entire class of narcissists (the director included). R. BRIAN MILLER. r. Cedar Hills, Hollywood, Bridgeport, City Center, Lloyd Center 10.

Whiplash

B+ 19-year-old Andrew (Miles

Teller) is practicing jazz drumming in a dark room of a New York conservatory. Conductor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) happens upon him and invites him to join the school’s top band. A battle of egos and tempos ensues, but taking it as anything more than a portrait of a single student-teacher relationship would be a mistake. r. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Laurelhurst.

White God

C The revolution is televised in Kornél Mundruczó’s White God. And it’s adorable. The film is an immigration allegory in the guise of a story about a girl and her dog. All the mutts and strays confined to the pound liberate themselves and descend upon the city like vengeful locusts. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. r. Living Room Theaters.

Wild

A- Reese Witherspoon takes a walk.

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Until she sleeps with somebody else, she will be followed by a malicious force. For most of the movie, you’ll be too nervous to think about allegories—and too busy looking over your shoulder. r. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cinema 21, Hollywood Theatre, Bridgeport Village.

MOVIES

Paddington

The cuddly, floppy hat-wearing bear gets his own live-action feature. pG. Avalon, Vancouver.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Kevin James takes his daughter to Vegas and saves the world on a Segway. Not screened for critics. pG. Opens Thursday 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. Vancouver.

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

B Old people. pG. JOHN LOCANTHI. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission.

Still Alice

A- Still Alice charts a linguistics professor’s descent into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. As Alice’s memory worsens, MoThe film is somewhat hampered by an overly dramatic score and a few lackluster performances, though Kristen Stewart’s work as Alice’s freespirited daughter is a refreshing turn for the usually stoic Julianne Moore. pG-13. BLAIR STENVICK. Academy, Laurelhurst, 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, mar-

sweet dReams: doug Cooeyate (foreground) and tim streeter.

MALA NOCHE Why it’s Portlandy: It’s based on essential Portland poet Walt Curtis’s autobiography. In Oregon Is Rhapsody, the conflicted gay poet and store clerk wrote: “Matisse would go mad over the way cowshit and rainwater grow Oregon pasture like living emeralds, dipped in the dye of orgonic energy.” Film professor Mario Falsetto’s notes: “It is a prime example of low-budget, guerrilla filmmaking that contains genuinely poetic, strikingly beautiful black-and-white cinematography.” Best quote: “He quickens my blood just to look at him. I want to die when I see him.” see it: Mala Noche is playing at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., on Thursday, April 23. 7 pm. $9.

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Furious 7 XD (PG-13) 12:40PM 4:00PM 7:20PM 10:30PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 12:35PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:05PM Little Boy (PG-13) 11:15AM 1:55PM 4:35PM 7:15PM 9:55PM It Follows (R) 11:50AM 2:35PM 5:15PM 7:50PM 10:20PM Woman In Gold (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:50PM 4:35PM 7:25PM 10:10PM Home (PG) 11:25AM 1:55PM 4:25PM 7:00PM 9:35PM True Story (R) 11:55AM 2:30PM 5:05PM 7:40PM 10:15PM Unfriended (R) 11:00AM 1:20PM 3:40PM 6:00PM 8:20PM 10:40PM Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) 11:10AM 12:20PM 1:40PM 2:55PM 4:10PM 5:25PM 6:40PM 7:55PM 9:15PM 10:30PM Longest Ride, The (PG-13) 10:40AM 1:40PM 4:40PM 7:40PM 10:40PM

Monkey Kingdom (G) 12:30PM 2:50PM 5:10PM 7:30PM 9:50PM Cinderella (2015) (PG) 10:40AM 1:30PM 4:20PM 7:10PM 10:00PM Danny Collins (R) 11:20AM 2:05PM 4:50PM 7:35PM 10:25PM Child 44 (R) 12:25PM 3:50PM 7:05PM 10:25PM Get Hard (R) 12:00PM 2:45PM 5:20PM 8:00PM 10:35PM Age Of Adaline, The (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:25PM 10:20PM Furious 7 (PG-13) 11:00AM ® 2:20PM ® 5:40PM ® 9:00PM ® Furious 7 (PG-13) 11:00AM 2:20PM 5:40PM 9:00PM Ex Machina (R) 11:15AM 2:00PM 4:45PM 7:30PM 10:15PM Divergent Series: Insurgent, The 3D (PG-13) 7:45PM Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:45PM 10:40PM

Monkey Kingdom (G) 10:55AM 1:10PM 3:25PM 5:40PM 7:55PM 10:10PM OK Kanmani (Primetech) (NR) 12:30PM 3:45PM 6:45PM 9:50PM Woman In Gold (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:00PM Longest Ride, The (PG-13) 12:40PM 3:50PM 7:00PM 10:10PM Unfriended (R) 11:00AM 1:15PM 3:30PM 5:45PM 8:00PM 10:15PM While We’re Young (R) 12:05PM 2:30PM 5:00PM 7:25PM 10:00PM Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) 12:00PM 2:25PM 4:50PM 7:15PM 9:40PM True Story (R) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Get Hard (R) 11:00AM 4:40PM 10:20PM

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10:05PM Home (PG) 11:10AM 12:25PM 1:40PM 3:00PM 4:20PM 5:35PM 7:05PM 8:05PM 9:40PM 10:30PM Unfriended (R) 11:15AM 1:30PM 3:45PM 6:00PM 8:15PM 10:30PM True Story (R) 11:30AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:25PM 10:00PM Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (PG) 11:45AM 2:20PM 4:55PM 7:20PM 9:50PM Monkey Kingdom (G) 12:30PM 3:05PM 5:20PM 7:40PM 9:55PM

Cinderella (2015) (PG) 11:05AM 1:50PM 4:35PM 7:20PM 10:05PM Home (PG) 12:05PM 2:35PM 5:05PM 7:35PM 10:05PM Age Of Adaline, The (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:00PM

5:25PM 7:05PM 10:15PM Divergent Series: Insurgent, The (PG-13) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Dohchay (Madhoos Inc) (NR) 9:00PM

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You like H.P. Lovecraft. Odds are, you just don’t know it. He is the father of cosmic horror is and one of the most influential artists in science fiction. His stamp is on everything from The Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror” episodes to blockbusters and plush toys. Yet most humans are hardpressed to name a book by the man. “It’s like coriander. There’s coriander in all these things you like. Once you identify it, the flavor is in everything,” says Gwen Callahan, co-organizer of this weekend’s CthuluCon, which is named for the author’s famous, tentacle-sporting demigod. An offshoot of Portland’s long-running H.P. Lovecraft Film Fest, CthulhuCon hits Crowne Plaza this weekend with a live edition of the Ask Lovecraft radio show, cosmic art, and more tentacles than a Japanese businessman’s porn stash (Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1441 NE 2nd Ave., cthulhucon.com; April 24-26; weekend pass $40). We sat down in the dark of the Space Room with Callahan for a quick crash course in Lovecraftian lore.

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True Detective, the gothic horrors of Guillermo del Toro and Batman’s Arkham Asylum, he’s discreetly imbedded in many things we love. “Lovecraft has permeated almost every aspect of our culture,” says Callahan. “You can get Cthulhu tiki mugs. There’s a whole game industry based on Lovecraftian gaming.”

Lovecraft’s influences The Rhode Island writer, like many of his pulp brethren, wore his influences on his sleeve— primarily Robert Chambers, Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley. “You can see specific influences acted on his experimental brain,” says Callahan. “He has a foundation of the gothic novel. People followed him because it was something new rooted in the foundation of something familiar.” Lovecraft’s influence on pop culture Lovecraft died in poverty, since his work—like Poe’s—didn’t become popular until much later. Re-Animator is the most obvious example, but he’s everywhere. From the cosmic mystique of the Alien films to the metaphysical ponderings of

Cosmic horror Lovecraft’s works include blood and guts, but the real terror is the way his stories force introspection. “It’s not just violence for the sake of violence. It’s a much more psychological horror, more personal,” says Callahan. “Ask somebody when their childhood ended. When they were told there is no Easter Bunny. When you know something that you can’t unknow. All of a sudden your worldview is shattered.” ALSO SHOWING: Weird Wednesday claims 1973’s Godmonster of Indian Flats features “the worst monster ever committed to film.” Joy Cinema. 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 22. It’s Christmas in April, thanks to Re-Run Theater, which is running the 1978 space oddity that is the Battlestar Galactica HoliSpecial Hollywood Theatre. day Special. 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 22. Mississippi Records returns to the Hollywood with The Secret Life of Plants, timelapse images of flora and a soundtrack by Stevie Wonder. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, April 23. The very best of Van Damme’s extensive oeuvre, Bloodsport deserves to be respected as a pecflexing, splits-kicking masterpiece. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, April 24. Conan the Barbarian, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger sucker-punches a camel. Laurelhurst Theater. April 24-30. Frenetic Films takes over the Clinton for a triple feature of grindhouse-era films, including its own All Hell Breaks Loose. Clinton Street Theater. 6 pm Saturday, April 25. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg showed us the wonders of extraterrestrials and child abandonment. Academy Theater. April 24-30. For those who thought The Godfather was lacking in the nonstop-violence department, director Duke Mitchell’s homemade 1978 spectacular, Massacre Mafia Style, should satisfy your soul. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 28.

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MOBILE GO AHEAD, AX ME A QUESTION: Conan the Barbarian plays at Laurelhurst Theater on April 24-30.

Bagdad Theater

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 FURIOUS 7 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:30, 07:00, 10:20 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:15 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:15, 06:30, 08:45 IT FOLLOWS CHEATIN’ Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:00, 09:00

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE IMITATION GAME FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 AMERICAN SNIPER WHIPLASH Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:30 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:45 BIRDMAN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:20 CONAN THE BARBARIAN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:05 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 MCFARLAND, USA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:40 STILL ALICE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:00 SONG OF THE SEA Sat-Sun 01:40

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St. THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Sat-Sun 03:00 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Fri-SatMon-Tue-Wed 05:30 THE IMITATION GAME Fri-SatMon-Tue-Wed 08:30

Moreland Theatre

6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 WOMAN IN GOLD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:00

Mt. Hood Theatre

401 E Powell Blvd., 503-665-0604 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30 MCFARLAND, USA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00 AMERICAN SNIPER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:20

St. Johns Cinemas

8704 N Lombard St., 503286-1768 FURIOUS 7 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 07:00 WOMAN IN GOLD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:20, 07:40

TO SPACE Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 03:00 FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES Fri-SatSun 10:00 MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD INTERSTELLAR Sat-Sun 06:00 MUMMIES: SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS Fri 11:00 INTO THE WOODS Fri 05:00 SERENITY Fri-Sat 09:00 THE MATRIX Fri 09:30 SONG OF THE SEA Sat 04:00 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Sun 04:00

CineMagic Theatre

Hollywood Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00

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801 C St. PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:15, 01:40, 04:05, 06:35, 09:05 THE AGE OF ADALINE Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:30, 05:20, 08:10 TRUE STORY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 01:35, 04:10, 06:40, 09:10 UNFRIENDED FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:05, 04:20, 06:30, 08:50 THE LONGEST RIDE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:05, 06:10, 09:15 FURIOUS 7 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:45, 06:00, 09:10 WOMAN IN GOLD Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:00, 02:00, 04:40, 08:00 GET HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:30, 03:10, 05:40, 08:15 HOME Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:10, 01:30, 03:55, 06:20, 08:45 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 03:20, 05:50, 08:20 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 03:40, 06:25, 09:15 MERCHANTS OF DOUBT Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:20, 01:45, 04:15, 06:45, 09:00

Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER AMERICAN SNIPER FriSat-Sun-Mon 02:45 MCFARLAND, USA FriSat-Sun-Wed 05:30 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Fri-SatSun-Tue-Wed 02:45

Empirical Theatre at OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 01:00 SECRET OCEAN Fri-SatSun 11:00, 02:00 JOURNEY

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:30 IT FOLLOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS EX MACHINA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00, 09:15 MAD MAX Fri-Sat-Sun 09:40 BLOODSPORT Fri 09:30 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS Sat 02:00 AKIRA Sat 07:00 THE MOVIE QUIZ Mon 07:30 MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE Tue 07:30

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 MALA NOCHE NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY FriMon-Tue-Wed HEART OF GLASS Sat 02:00 THEY LIVE BY NIGHT Sat-Sun 01:00 KNOCK ON ANY DOOR Sat 07:00 AND WE WERE YOUNG Sun 03:30 A WOMAN’S SECRET Sun 07:00

St. Johns Theater

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Academy Theater

7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Sat-Sun 11:45 AMERICAN SNIPER SONG OF THE SEA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:40, 09:40 THE IMITATION GAME Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 09:20 S THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:00, 06:45 MCFARLAND, USA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:50, 07:00 STILL ALICE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:10, 07:15 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:20, 09:30

Valley Theater

9360 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, 503-296-6843 AMERICAN SNIPER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30, 09:10 JUPITER ASCENDING Fri-Sat-Wed 05:20 CHAPPIE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:15 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER Fri-Sat-Wed 06:15 THE IMITATION GAME Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:50

Century Clackamas Town Center and XD

12000 SE 82nd Ave. KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:35, 03:45, 07:00, 10:05 MONKEY KINGDOM Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 02:50, 05:10, 07:30, 09:50 CINDERELLA FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:40, 01:30, 04:20, 07:10, 10:00 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:50, 01:45, 04:45, 10:40 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:45 HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:25, 01:55, 04:25, 07:00, 09:35 HOME 3D GET HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 02:45, 05:20, 08:00, 10:35 FURIOUS 7 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 02:20, 05:40, 09:00 DANNY COLLINS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:20, 02:05 WOMAN IN GOLD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:05, 01:50, 04:35, 07:25, 10:10 THE LONGEST RIDE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:40, 01:40, 04:40, 07:40, 10:40 UNFRIENDED Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:00, 01:20, 03:40, 06:00, 08:20, 10:40 CHILD 44 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:45, 10:25 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:10, 12:20, 01:40, 02:55, 04:10, 05:25, 06:40, 07:55, 09:15, 10:30 THE AGE OF ADALINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:55, 01:45, 04:30, 07:25, 10:20 EX MACHINA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:15, 02:00, 04:45, 07:30, 10:15 IT FOLLOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:50, 02:35, 05:15, 07:50, 10:20 TRUE STORY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:30, 05:05, 07:40, 10:15 LITTLE BOY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:15,

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