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If you’re merging too soon, you’re actually a terrible person. 4 Remember when you waited an hour for a Portland taxi? Thanks to Uber, the taxi drivers now wait for you! 8 Sea lions are terrified of beach

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Kids with tubas will walk right by sleazy old guys with greasy cum rags in hand. 27 A new Portland pizza joint is serving its garlic knots with “prostitute sauce.” 29 Dolly Parton’s husband got her a sparkly driveway. 37 If you weigh 125 pounds, you’re too heavy to dance ballet. 42

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Your headline reads “…Here’s Why He Did It.” When I read that, I hoped Michael Rodgers had contacted WW for exactly the same reason I would have, and I hope most Oregonians would have, and the story revealed that was the case [“The Whistle-Blower,” WW, May 27, 2015]. Thank you, Michael Rodgers. The B.S. you are enduring now for making public the dealings of our “public servants” is proof that your actions were right and necessary. Also disturbing is the reaction from the Oregon Department of Justice: “Mike, you need to understand that my job is to defend the state.” Clearly, even the DOJ believes that “the state” is the government and its bureaucrats, and not the citizens of Oregon. Out. Of. Control. Brad Filbert Northeast Portland I find it interesting that Michael Rodgers had such great faith in the ethics and integrity of John Kitzhaber’s general counsel. This article is definitely not flattering for her. Even without a law degree, Rodgers had an understanding that officials attempting to delete emails that are subject to a federal investigation is… ummm…bad. I hope Gov. Kate Brown reinstates Rodgers and Marshall Wells. They cared enough about the people of Oregon to stand up for us. So we know what was going on behind closed doors in Salem. —“JW” Rodgers is not a hero in my eyes. He is clearly a thief who committed a cyber crime that he admits to, and he lied to federal investigators. These are precisely the kind of people you

On the freeway, when you see a sign that says, “Left Lane Ends, 1 Mile,” when should you merge right? I say “in 1 mile,” but most people change lanes immediately, and think I’m a cheater for waiting. Why do Portlanders like waiting in line so much? —Lydia

Explaining this city’s seemingly limitless appetite for line-standing is a philosophical imponderable beyond the scope of this column. Ask the crowd clamoring for another Soylent Green fix at Salt & Straw. God knows they have plenty of time to help you figure it out. The issue you’re talking about—early merging vs. late merging—is the Israel vs. Palestine of the open road, pitting brother against brother in a never-ending cascade of rage. Put yourself in those other drivers’ position, Lydia. There they are, trying to do the right thing, slowing to a crawl as they lumber into the anointed lane, while you speed, unimpeded, to the merge point like the line-cutter that you are. 4

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We’ve been taking our kids to WeVillage since it opened, and it has been a great addition to our neighborhood [“Kiddie Trouble,” WW, May 27, 2015]. Owner Karen Beninati has been very generous with local charity and community involvement. I hope any problems can be worked out, and lessons learned. I’d hate to lose this asset to our community. —“KimS”

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Portland Fire & Rescue Chief Erin Janssens is trying to put out a blaze in her own office. The city Bureau of Human Resources last month completed an investigation into an allegation that Janssens grabbed a senior civilian fire bureau employee during a tense meeting in late 2013. Sources tell WW the complaint was substantiated. City Commissioner Dan Saltzman JANSSENS and the city attorney’s office have refused WW’s request to release public records related to the investigation. Former fire bureau senior facilities supervisor Brian Alcid tells WW that Janssens grabbed him by the neck during a meeting about construction cost issues at Fire Station 21, located on the east bank of the Willamette River. “She put her hands around my neck and shook my head,” Alcid tells WW. “It was the strangest thing that ever happened to me.” Alcid says he wasn’t injured, but there was a witness. Alcid says he avoided Janssens after the incident and retired in October 2014. Janssens tells WW she remembers the incident differently. She says she was reacting to Alcid, who she says had misspoken about cost overruns. “I wasn’t angry. I was bewildered,” Janssens says. “I was like, ‘What were you thinking?’” She recalls touching Alcid’s shoulders, not his neck, but says putting her hands on him at all was inappropriate. “I regret it,” Janssens says. “And I apologize.” Maybe you’ve heard: Recreational weed is legal in Oregon starting July 1. But state officials are spending $350,000—the cost of four pounds of pot in the Portland market—to make sure you don’t screw it up. That’s what the Oregon Liquor Control Commission is spending to hire Portland public-relations firm Metropolitan Group to launch a media campaign explaining the new rules. The campaign poster Metropolitan Group designed asks, “What’s Legal? Educate Before You Recreate.” The campaign warns Oregonians not to drive under the influence of pot or take weed across state lines. “You can make edible products at home or receive them as a gift,” the ads also say, “and can only use them in private places.” OLCC spokesman Tom Towslee says the agency wants only to explain the law itself. “We made the decision early on not to be judgmental,” Towslee says, “not to talk about marijuana’s benefits, nor its evils.” President Barack Obama came to Portland last month hoping to supercharge the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the free-trade agreement the U.S. is negotiating with 11 other nations. The president’s long gone, but now the bills are coming due—$109,243 in overtime for Portland police officers who worked extra duty during Obama’s visit May 7 and 8, according to Portland Police Bureau records. After President George W. Bush’s protest-marred visit in 2003, then-Portland Mayor Vera Katz later sent the Bush re-election campaign a $116,756 bill for police overtime. That bill remains unpaid. There’s a lot more news at wweek.com.

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DRIVeN: Robel Berhan, who immigrated from ethiopia nearly two decades ago, has been driving a cab in Portland since 2009. He says business is off since Uber and lyft entered the city. Berhan starts his cab’s meter (below).

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FARE FIGHT TAXI DRIVERS HAVE BEEN HIT BY THE ARRIVAL OF UBER AND LYFT—INCLUDING MANY WHO ARE ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS. By ANNA WALTERS

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Robel Berhan steers his blue and orange Union Cab with its empty backseat to Hotel Lucia on Southwest Broadway. Nothing. He heads to the Marriott. A line of other cabs blocks his way. He knows a guy at the Nines who sometimes helps him out. It’s nearly 7 pm on a Wednesday, and Berhan needs a customer. Cars jam the Nines’ loading zone on Southwest Morrison Street, so Berhan double parks his Prius. “What’s up?” a doorman calls out as Berhan rolls down the window. “You have any customer?” Berhan asks. “No,” the doorman says. He smacks his gum, impatient. “Uber and Lyft?” “Oh yeah,” the doorman says. “Big time.” He says eight people in the past few hours have jumped into Uber cars. “Eight taxi could have had a fare,” Berhan says as he pulls away. “I bet they were all going to the airport.” That’s the fare every cab driver wants— about $35, plus tip.

Berhan, 41, came from Ethiopia nearly two decades ago and has driven a cab in Portland since 2009. For years he got by driving five days a week in 12-hour shifts. Now he’s thinking he might have to work seven days a week if he’s to have any hope of covering his costs. “I don’t think I can rob people,” Berhan says, “so I have to do something.” The arrival of ride-hailing monolith Uber and its competitor Lyft have been met with celebration in Portland, as a triumph of new technology over an outdated taxi industry. The city’s taxi companies report a drop in business since Uber and Lyft rolled in, and that’s hit Portland’s Ethiopian community like no other. Immigrants from Ethiopia make up about one-third of taxi drivers in the city, based on interviews with cab drivers and company managers. Ethiopians run two of the city’s six major taxi companies, Green Transportation and Union Cab. At driver-owned Union Cab, four of every five drivers come from Ethiopia, and managers say revenues are off by as much as 30 percent. Berhan owns his taxi and likes being his own boss. Quitting would be a last resort. “I’m here to fight,” Berhan says. “I’m here to stay. I don’t care if I make a dollar a day, I’m not going to stop. This is my baby. This is my company.” cont. on page 8

sweet fleet: Green transportation is one of two Portland companies run by ethiopian immigrants.

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Berhan circles the block, and when he pulls up at the Nines again, he sees a place to park. Eventually, two businessmen from Ventura, Calif., hop in, headed for the Ringside Steakhouse. The two didn’t know Uber was available in Portland—one of them, whose company sells shoes, says he would have hailed a taxi anyway. “It’s downtown and it’s local,” he says. “It’s the right thing to do.” The fare is $7.10, and the businessmen give Berhan an extra $2—generous as tips go. He heads to the Hilton, where a month earlier he could land a fare in 10 minutes. He waits an hour and half for his next customer. Before April, Berhan says he brought in $900 a week before expenses. He says he now brings in between $400 and $500 a week. It’s barely enough to cover his $350 “kitty”—the weekly charge to drive for Union Cab. That doesn’t include gas and maintenance. Other Union Cab drivers say their wait for fares has gotten longer—as much as three hours—compared to 20 minutes before Uber and Lyft arrived in April. The impact of Uber and Lyft across all taxi companies isn’t yet known—and it’s far too early to know the long-term effects. The city has a task force that is supposed to see how Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services have affected the cab industry. The task force hasn’t yet requested any financial data from taxi companies. “Fares, profits and incomes—those are sensitive pieces of information,” says Bryan Hockaday, policy adviser to City Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversees the city’s Transportation Bureau. “We’re going to have to come up with a more creative way of understanding the working conditions of drivers.” Radio Cab says dispatch calls are down only 3 percent overall, while Broadway Cab, the other big taxi company, says its calls are down by 12 percent. But calls are only part of the business that drivers get. Drivers and company managers tell WW that—after taking into account hotel stops and airport rides, for example— fares and tips are down by 20 percent to 50 percent. Berhan thinks he may no longer be able to afford the $482-a-month car payment on his cab. Despite his determination to stay in the taxi business, he says: “I may have to stop helping my family until I make it again. Start life from square one, just like 17 years ago, when I arrived here in the U.S.A. Except I wouldn’t do 7-Eleven again.” He could also join Uber or Lyft, where many drivers have been able to earn a living. Berhan says drivers he knows who work for ride-hailing companies work longer and make less money than he does—something he cannot risk. “At the end of the day,” he says of his friends, “they’re leaving with nothing.” ABOUT 1,400 ETHIOPIAN IMMIGRANTS LIVE IN THE Portland metro area, according to 2013 U.S. Census Bureau numbers, as reported by the Population Research Center at Portland State University. The Ethiopian community itself numbers 4,000 to 5,000, says Djimet Dogo, director of Africa House, a center in Southeast Portland that serves recent refugees. Dogo estimates Ethiopians make up the city’s second-largest African-born population, after Somalis. Dogo says many immigrants, despite their professional backgrounds, gravitate here to jobs as home care workers, parking lot attendants and taxi drivers. “The [taxi] industry is very important to the community,” Dogo says. “Even professionals here who get laid off and cannot work, they can always go back to cab driving.” Berhan usually drinks his coffee at Starbucks, but he also meets other Ethiopian drivers at Enat Kitchen on North Killingsworth Street, known for its buna, Ethiopian coffee prepared in a ceremony, heavily sweetened and poured from a clay pot. The drivers have formed their own community, based on their nationality and shared profession. “Think about it—you know nobody,” says Teddy Ayele, a Sassy’s Cab Co. driver who immigrated in 2007. “You’re new to the country, the culture, everything. That’s just you. It’s an ocean. You’re in the middle of an ocean just by yourself. How would you feel?” BERHAN FIRST CAME TO THE U.S. FROM ETHIOPIA IN 1996 TO Work temporarily as a translator. Four days after he 8

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SOLIDARITY: Kedir Wako (above) fought to establish Union Cab in 2012 after he drove for Broadway Cab. Berhan (left) typically drives weekdays from 4 am to 4 pm. A city taxi permit on the back of a Union Cab Prius (top left). Portland tightly controlled the number of permits for years.

“i just want to prepare myself for how to exist.” —union cab general manager kedir wako

returned home, Berhan was robbed and beaten at a club in Addis Ababa. Berhan says he’s superstitious, and he took the attack as a sign he needed to leave. He immigrated to Seattle and worked not only at a 7-Eleven but also at Dunkin Donuts, as a mailman, and in a chicken processing plant where he loaded frozen birds on a production line. (Berhan says he earned $6.66 an hour and quit the job because his wage was “the devil’s number.”) He moved to Portland in 2008 to help out at his brother’s restaurant and started driving for Broadway Cab. He liked the work but came to resent the $450 kitty. “They keep oppressing you,” Berhan says. “That’s why we started to create Union Cab.” Berhan fell in behind Kedir Wako, another Broadway driver who sought to start his own cab company. Another Ethiopian immigrant, Tesfaye Aleme, had won approval for Green Transportation in 1998, but there had been no new permits issued since then. Wako spent four years trying to get City Hall to OK his new company. Radio and Broadway cabbies jammed the streets around City Hall in protest, but then-Mayor Sam Adams backed Union Cab, which had support from the Oregon AFL-CIO.

The City Council approved Union Cab in 2012 and awarded it 50 taxi permits. Wako says he lost taxi-driver friends over Union Cab, and many blame him for the ease with which the city welcomed Uber and Lyft. “They think Uber comes because of me,” he says. “Because I opened that door.” UNION CAB AND GREEN TRANSPORTATION ARE considering reducing the kitty they charge drivers. Radio Cab general manager Steve Entler says his company is considering limiting the number of drivers on the streets at one time so that those who are working earn a living wage. Broadway Cab is rethinking how it schedules its drivers. “We need some cabs that aren’t full-time cabs, to be honest,” says Raye Miles, Broadway Cab president. Wako says Union Cab has no plans to cut back on drivers. He wants to get Union Cab on Curb and Flywheel, apps for summoning traditional taxis. (Broadway and Radio are already on Curb.) Wako also wants to do more marketing of Union Cab and sign more contracts with hotels, hospitals and nursing homes to guarantee steady business. “Instead of fighting with Uber and the city, I just want to prepare myself for how to exist,” he says. “I don’t want to whine every day at the City Council. It doesn’t help. It cost us too much already.” Despite his determination to fight through the financial challenge Uber and Lyft have posed, Berhan says it’s coming at an emotional cost for him. For years, Berhan supported his mother, his sister and her three children. He says he’s been relying on a niece—who he helped put through college—for help, which is difficult for him to accept. “I used to do all the support,” he says. “Now I’m needing support.”

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POLE POSITION CANDIDATE CHARLIE HALES PROMISED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT CELLPHONE TOWERS. AS MAYOR, IT’S BEEN A DIFFERENT STORY. By BE TH SLOV I C

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When Darrell Yuen and Beth Collins moved to Portland from New York City in 2010, they thought they had found a dream home. Their 1929 Cape Cod-style house sits about a block from Mt. Tabor Park, nestled among mature trees and quaint bungalows. In March, a letter from T-Mobile shattered their idyll. The letter looked so much like junk mail many of their neighbors tossed it in their recycling bins unopened. But Yuen opened it to learn of T-Mobile’s plans to replace the 43-foot wooden utility pole in front of his home on Southeast 71st Avenue with a 61-foot cellphone tower. Yuen, a fundraiser for nonprofits who has two small children, flipped out. His thoughts turned to potential harm from the tower’s radio frequency waves—even though the health risk from ground-level exposure is unproven and such exposure is typically thousands of times below federal safety limits. His second thoughts concerned aesthetics. “It’s going

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to look very industrial,” he says. The expansion of wireless technology devices is nothing new. Neither is neighborhood uproar. Already, 70 towers loom over the city’s public rights of way, about half on residential streets. No towers have gone up since Mayor Charlie Hales took office, but in the past year, carriers have proposed seven additional towers in Portland’s rights of way, including the one in Mount Tabor. What’s different now is that neighbors thought they had a champion in Hales, who as a candidate in 2012 pledged to fight the proliferation of unsightly cellphone towers on residential streets. “I’ll continue to advance our rich tradition of neighborhood involvement and fight to ensure that cell towers are not forced upon those neighborhoods that don’t want them,” Hales the candidate told the Alameda Neighborhood Association in May 2012. Mount Tabor residents say he hasn’t lived up to his campaign promise, and that Hales’ office has instead responded to their concerns about the proposed cell tower with stock emails from low-level aides. “I’m appalled,” says Shelly Lufkin, who lives two doors down from Yuen. “[Hales] won’t be getting my vote.” The mayor declined to be interviewed for this story. Hales spokesman Dana Haynes sent WW an email describing the city’s continued displeasure with 1996 federal limits on local governments’ authority to regulate the location of wireless towers. In 2009, the Portland City Council unanimously passed a resolution urging the feds to “update studies on potential health effects of radio frequency wireless emissions in light of significant increases in wireless use.” Also in 2009, the city started requiring companies to hold informational meetings with neighbors if they wanted to install new facilities on residential streets. Nothing in the rules, however, requires companies to heed residents’ objections.

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Two weeks ago, Yuen started a petition to persuade T-Mobile to back off its plans for Mount Tabor. Rod De La Rosa, a spokesman for T-Mobile, says the company is aware of neighbors’ concerns but that T-Mobile believes the site is necessary. “We’re going to continue to move forward to provide the needed coverage,” he says. It’s unclear to Yuen and his neighbors what, if anything, Hales has done—or could do—to back up his campaign rhetoric about cell towers. “This is an issue they’re not interested in engaging in,” Yuen says. “He’s washing his hands of it.”

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GOV. KATE BROWN SAYS THE KITZHABER EMAIL LEAKER SHOULDN’T FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES. BY NIGEL JAQUISS

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Since going public with his story last week, Michael Rodgers has heard a lot of opinions about his decision to leak 6,000 of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails to WW. Last week’s cover story detailed how Rodgers, head of the Oregon state government data center, prevented Kitzhaber’s office from deleting the emails while the governor and first lady Cylvia Hayes faced a criminal investigation into alleged influence peddling. Rodgers then made a copy of the emails and gave them to WW, believing someone in state government could still find a way to delete the records at the behest of Kitzhaber’s office (“The Whistle-Blower,” WW, May 27, 2015). Today, Rodgers is on paid leave and faces an Oregon State Police investigation. Kitzhaber’s attorney has urged Rodgers be prosecuted. Some people have said Rodgers should be fired. Far more—judging from the volume of supportive online comments on WW’s story—have called him a hero for risking his $143,000-a-year job to protect the Kitzhaber emails. The Salem Statesman Journal and The Register-Guard in Eugene printed editorials in support of Rodgers’ actions. Now Rodgers’ ultimate boss, Gov. Kate Brown, has weighed in. In an interview with WW, Brown said Rodgers shouldn’t face criminal charges. “I think it’s fair to say this decision was an extraordinary act made in an extraordinary situation,” Brown said, in comments first reported on wweek.com. “It was something he did based on the lack of trust in the system around him. His intentions were good.”

“Instead of wasting public resources and time in pursuing criminal charges in this case,” she added, “we need to focus our resources on building trust and accountability in state government.” Brown’s comments alone won’t stop police and prosecutors should they choose to charge Rodgers with a crime. BEFORE KITZHABER RESIGNED FEB. 18, his staff claimed the emails his office sought to delete were personal and had ended up on state computers accidentally. But there were two big problems with that explanation. First, Rodgers could see Kitzhaber was using his personal email account to conduct government business. The emails showed the governor dealing with the state budget, school finance, environmental issues and the failed, $300 million Cover Oregon website. Chuck French, a retired Multnomah County deputy district attorney who reviewed public records requests for years, says Rodgers simply provided information that belonged to everyone. “These are public records,” French says. “There’s no question about that because they were stored on public computers.” Second, Kitzhaber’s aides claimed they had no idea his personal emails were stored on state computers. But records obtained by WW show that wasn’t true. On Feb. 14, 2011, records show, Kitzhaber assistant Jan Murdock asked a state computer technician to “set up governors personal laptop for Gmail.” The next day, that technician, Tracy Osburn, noted in an email he had “connected [Microsoft] Outlook to [Kitzhaber’s] personal Gmail account.” On Aug. 5, 2011, another Kitzhaber staffer, Leslie Roth, sent a second request to Osburn. The work order asked techs to “set up archiving for the GOV’s personal gmail account…. We need to set up Gmail to be able to send all correspondence to a state email for archiving.”

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DEFENDING THE WHISTLE-BLOWER

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TAKING CHARGE: Gov. Kate Brown is taking the side of Michael Rodgers (left), who remains on leave from his job at the state data center.

“Archiving is working OK,” Osburn responded three days later. PROSECUTORS HAVE THREATENED TO charge Rodgers with official misconduct, a misdemeanor. It’s the criminal charge most often brought against public officials caught exploiting their position for personal gain. But Rodgers neither sought nor received any personal gain from leaking the emails. Oregon Criminal Justice Commission records show that in the past five years, prosecutors have charged only two people with official misconduct in which there was no allegation of personal gain. “It’s extremely unusual,” says Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis says. “Because of the resources involved, it just doesn’t happen very often.” In both cases, prosecutors failed to win a conviction. IT’S NOT CLEAR WHAT DIFFERENCE Brown’s statement questioning the value of pursuing a criminal case against Rodgers might make. She says she won’t interfere with the investigation, and by law the governor has no authority over prosecutors. Still, her comments themselves were extraordinary—a governor weighing in on an open criminal case involving the unauthorized release of another governor’s emails. But the Rodgers case is unique. Brown took office when Kitzhaber resigned, the first Oregon governor to do so amid scandal in modern state history. And he did so the day after WW reported Kitzhaber’s office

had sought to delete the emails. Upon taking office, Brown immediately called for stronger ethics laws and more government accountability. In a March 24 letter to state workers, Brown praised the employees who prevented the deletion of Kitzhaber’s emails. “I appreciate the good judgment these individuals demonstrated,” she wrote. Brown—and everyone else—now knows the employee’s name, and with her comments she’s navigating a difficult path. Rodgers is under pressure to resign for his actions. And Brown doesn’t want to be seen as encouraging the state’s 40,000 employees to leak records to the media. “State government has an obligation to safeguard data,” Brown tells WW. “It doesn’t matter what the data is, it’s still a data breach. A breach is a breach.” Still, Brown says she regrets that Rodgers felt he had no other choice. “I’m sorry that he was operating in a state agency and in a state government where he couldn’t trust his supervisors,” she adds. “I’m hoping that under my leadership, that has changed.” Rodgers and his lawyers believe Oregon’s whistle-blower law offers him protection, but he was pleased with the governor’s stance. “I am grateful to the governor, members of the Legislature and citizens of Oregon who have publicly supported me,” Rodgers said in a statement. “My hope is that this promotes transparency in government, and does not have a chilling effect on future whistle-blowers.”

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SINCE 1985, EVERY KID IN OREGON HAS ALWAYS KNOWN THIS—AND NOT JUST BECAUSE THE FILM WAS SHOT IN ASTORIA. Sure, The Goonies is one of the most loved kids’ movies of all time, a tale of young Chunk and Data and Mikey “Rudy” Walsh hunting for One-Eyed Willie’s pirate treasure while being chased by the nefarious Fratelli gang. As The Goonies turns 30 on Sunday, June 7—soon to be celebrated by thousands in tiny Astoria with bowling-alley parties with Chunk, and sailing trips with Sloth (see page 23)—it still hovers among the top 25 DVDs sold around the world each week. And yearround, tourists from as far away as Niger and Saudia Arabia and Tibet visit Astoria to see the Goondocks house and the bowling alley where Chunk smeared a milkshake on the window (see page 16). But the movie belongs to Oregonians, because it is Oregon. When the film was being shot in Astoria and Cannon Beach in the ’80s (see page 14 for an oral history), Oregon was a state full of misfits who stopped at the ocean. Except back then, nobody in New York or L.A.

really cared that we were weird. We were just that place from The Oregon Trail game where everybody had dysentery. And heck, just look at the movie’s plot: It’s a pack of nerds who band together to stop their house from being sold by greedy developers– and to stop themselves from being forced to move to Detroit—by riding their bikes to a dive bar and indulging their obsessions with pirates. In Portland today, you could almost film it as a documentary. But for a generation, The Goonies made being an outsider something to be proud of. As long as you have a heart of gold and a Baby Ruth and the help a gargantuan child-man dressed like a comic-book character, you’re good enough, just as Cyndi Lauper very reluctantly sang (see page 19). In the immortal words of Trail Blazers center Robin Lopez, “The Goonies are a closeknit group. They believe in themselves, even though there are doubters throwing darts at them outside. I posted that catch phrase a couple times, ‘Goonies never say die.’” Never say die, Portland.

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AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GOONIES IN ASTORIA tom of the street for crowd control. There was nobody there, really. John Astin came walking up and introduced himself. He was a super-nice guy. We stood there and chitchatted. School let out, and a whole crowd of kids came out. There was over 100 there in a matter of a minute or two. One girl stood in front of us and said, ‘Damn, not one movie star anywhere.’ I looked at Mr. Astin, and he said, ‘Don’t ever get old.’” —Dave Johnson, officer (retired), Astoria Police Department

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In November of 1984, Hollywood descended on the tiny fishing town of Astoria to shoot a mysterious movie about pirate treasure and something called a Goonie. Thirty years after its release, the movie is one of the most enduring cult films of all time, and people from all over the world travel to the Oregon Coast for a glimpse at their childhood. But what really happened when a film crew took over the small town for a few weeks? We talked with a handful of Astorians, plus folks who worked on the film, and discovered that everything from fake apes to real guns factored into making the classic. These are their stories. (Find a full interview with Jeff “Chunk” Cohen online at wweek. com/chunk).

“We’d be hanging out on the dock, and John Astin would walk by, and we’d go, “Doodle-dee-doo, snap snap.” He didn’t think that was very funny. Honestly, I would have rather seen [Astin’s then-wife] Patty Duke.” —Jim Furnish

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THE GOONIES TAKE ASTORIA While the stars of The Goonies were unknown, producer Steven Spielberg and director Richard Donner weren’t the only famous folks on set—star Sean Astin’s stepfather, John Astin—aka Gomez Addams—and bona fide movie star James Brolin were there to take care of their kids, who set up camp at the Thunderbird Hotel, which eventually became the now-closed Red Lion Inn. “All the local guys would be down at the [Thunderbird] and drink coffee. It was the only good hotel in town, so the important people were staying there. I remember the kids were real bratty. They were spoiled knotheads. They’d act up like kids and spill things. There was one old waitress there, and they exasperated the hell out of her. Nobody gave a shit about those kids

because they weren’t famous. They were busy looking at James Brolin and John Astin and the famous people. Now that’s all changed.” —Jim Furnish, fisherman “John [Matuszak, who played Sloth] and I flew up, but were only there for a few days because there were some major problems with the makeup for Sloth. So there was nothing we could really do in front of the camera. I don’t drink, so I would escort John to all the bars so I could get him home. I was the John wrangler. I’d drink CocaCola and make sure he didn’t beat up the whole place.” —Randell Widner, Sloth stunt double “One day they were up filming at the Goonie house; I was at the bot-

“I was recovering from the chickenpox. We kind of kept that to ourselves. I didn’t want to get kicked out of the movie. One of the earlier scenes I shot was the Truffle Shuffle. If you look, all my belly, I have chickenpox, and they had to put makeup on it.” —Jeff Cohen, actor, Chunk “[Matuszak] was a big kid with very few limitations about how he conducted himself, but he was a little too big to play rough with people. I have a black belt in five different forms of martial arts. When we first started working out, he tried some stuff and I smacked him in the big chest. From that point on, if I told him it was time to go, he’d go. He was taking painkillers, and when you put a gallon of wine on top of that, you have trouble controlling yourself at times. He was like a lost child in a lot of ways.” —Randell Widner

ASTORIA LIFE VS. HOLLYWOOD LIFE Hollywood may have slowed traffic in town but it didn’t slow down Astorian life, often resulting in hilarious culture clashes. “I was in the restaurant in the Thunderbird. There was a commotion, people looking out the window. The L.A. people were freaking out. It was a hunter who had come back, and had a deer he had shot strapped to his car. He was proud of it. It was a good deer. And all the L.A. people were like, ‘What the fuck? Get that out of there.’ Dick Donner is such an animal lover. It was interesting to see these cultures clash. It’s like, ‘I’m proud, I shot this 10-point buck,’ and all the L.A. people are like, ‘Get that fucking car out of here. What’s wrong with you, you murderer?’” —Jeff Cohen “One morning, we had a shooter. There was somebody shooting out of the window of a house. We had people calling in on 911 that car windows were blowing out, and they realized they had a shooter up near the Goonie house. They put Spielberg in a patrol car and put him down in the backseat and got him out of there. It was two young children, 8 or 9 or 10 years old. Mom and dad had left to go to the hospital because she was pregnant. [The kids] got dad’s .22 rifle, and were up shooting out the bedroom window. Just shooting randomly. They could not understand why we were so upset. They shot out two or three car windows, and there was a little, old man mowing the lawn, and they kept shooting at him and making the dirt come up from behind him, but couldn’t hit him. The [police] chief was so angry, trying to explain that it wasn’t a BB gun, that you could get killed by a .22. ‘No, it’s just a BB gun.’ That was the big stand-the-hair-up-on-the-back-ofyour-neck moment.” —Dave Johnson

“I remember the kids were real bratty. They were spoiled knotheads. They’d act up like kids and spill things.” —Jim Furnish, fisherman

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VISION THING: A scruffy Steven Spielberg (right) Joe Pantoliano.

“The famous breakout scene from the jail, Steven Spielberg directed that. One of the ladies who worked at the courthouse gave us her memory of that scene being filmed. She said, ‘My only memory of Steven Spielberg was this scruffy-haired kid in a ball cap who kept coming into the courthouse with a pocketful of quarters to use the pay phone to check the weather.” —McAndrew Burns, Clatsop County Historical Society director

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“Before they started filming [in Cannon Beach’s Ecola State Park], they set up a job shack—a small trailer with desks and phones and stuff—and they put it on the northwest edge of the parking lot facing east and west. I said, ‘You guys think you might want to turn that so it’s north to south, or get some wires to hold it down? About the time you’re filming, the wind’s going to be coming up that bluff.’ ‘Well, why would we do that?’ ‘Well, the wind’s going to blow over your trailer.’ ‘That’ll never happen.’ Well, I came to work one day, and the trailer was flopped over on its side.” —Phillip Lines, former ranger, Ecola State Park

THE BIG CHASE

The film’s chaotic opening—featuring a jailbreak and a chase through Astoria and Cannon Beach—was initially way crazier than what made it to the screen. “During the chase, early on, a circus wagon gets tipped over, and some apes escape. Their shtick is to drive little red cars. So they end up trying to steal my golf cart in a

scene that went on the floor. And they steal my kid’s Mustang. The apes were really well done. I feel sorry for the stunt guys who had to live in those suits, they were really good.” —Curtis Hansen, actor, Mr. Perkins “There were two gorillas in a Mustang convertible. They wrecked a brand-new car, but it was never part of the movie. And there was a part on the dock. During the big car chase, they were supposed to come flying down the dock. One police car was supposed to go through the railing and land in a boat. Somebody screwed up, and the jeep they were driving—a rental they’d gotten in Portland that they weren’t supposed to mess up—somebody mistimed and the police car hit the back of it. The police car landed on the boat, where it was supposed to. Donner goes, ‘Somebody get me a car, I gotta go fire somebody.’” —Dave Johnson

ASTORIA ON FILM

Astoria wasn’t just a location. The production put the city to work. Police officers pulled traffic duty and even appeared in the film. Local lumberyards and body shops became prop shops. And aspiring filmmakers got a chance to excel behind the camera. “I was 19 and a college student studying film and television production. At that point,

I had been making short films for about five of the paint shops in town to paint them. years, but had never spent any significant They tried to spend money in town.” time on a professional movie set. I was also —Dave Johnson a huge admirer of Steven Spielberg’s films and longed for the opportunity to watch him “When they came to town, they scouted work. I approached location manager Tony locations, and a certain amount of time Amatullo about the possibility of becoming went by. When they came back, the McDoninvolved somehow. It was from him that I ald’s was built. They were going to scrap the learned that Richard Donner was directing, scene [with Chunk watching the chase from not Spielberg. But that was good, too. My the bowling alley] because the McDonald’s most treasured memory on the set of The was there in the window. Donner was upset because it was throwing things Goonies was Richard Donner introoff, and somebody said, ‘Have ducing me to Steven Spielberg as a Chunk put a slice of pizza up “fellow director.” To this day, that SEE there, and we won’t see the remains one of the highlights of my GOONIES sign.’ And that’s why there’s a life as a filmmaker and storyteller.” EVENTS slice of pizza up there.” —Mick Alderman, filmmaker and —McAndrew Burns author of Three Weeks With The Goo- ON nies: On Location in Astoria, Oregon PAGE 23. “When they’re breaking out of the jail, before they leave they “The famous breakout scene from pour gasoline around the jail the jail, Steven Spielberg directed and set a fire so people can’t that. One of the ladies who worked follow them. That was actuat the courthouse gave us her memory of that scene being filmed. She ally contact cement that we sold them. said, ‘My only memory of Steven Spiel- It’s pretty flammable. We never knew berg was this scruffy-haired kid in a ball what they were doing. They’d buy fence cap who kept coming into the courthouse posts and stuff for the inside of the house, with a pocketful of quarters to use the pay including a staircase. It was pretty obvious they were from the production. They phone to check the weather.” —McAndrew Burns, Clatsop County His- opened a store charge account for Amblin [Entertainment]. We knew who they were, torical Society director but we didn’t know in detail what they “The police cars came in the middle of the were doing. The film business is great businight on a car carrier. It was hysterical: ness. It’s great for guys like us.” They were all Hazzard County Sheriff cars —Jeff Newenhof, co-owner, from The Dukes of Hazzard. They hired one City Lumber Company Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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1114 Marine Drive, Astoria, 3252233, columbianvoodoo.com.

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Some of the Goonies’ most iconic images— Brand’s girlie-bike ride down the forested hills of Ecola State Park, the rough-and-tumble Lighthouse Lounge gang hideout, and the mighty Haystack Rock—all come from Cannon Beach, an hour south of Astoria. The Lighthouse Lounge was constructed only for the movie, and torn down thereafter; a picnic shelter stands on the grass near its former site, as a pale echo. At Haystack Rock, meanwhile, tragedy is striking. The starﬁsh in its famed tide pools have been dying of a mysterious disease, dissolving to white mush. Almost 90 percent are gone since last year, giving Haystack the faint aspect of a gravestone. But it is still beautiful at twilight, and tourist shops nearby sell Goonies-themed medallions whose holes you can line up at sunset with the “needles,” the name given to the many smaller rocks that stutter along Haystack’s edge.

826 Marine Drive, Astoria, 325-3321, lcbowl.com.

The midcentury Lower Columbia Bowl, which now offers free soda refills to Oregon Lottery players, is the bowling alley where Chunk witnessed “the most amazing thing I ever saw,” out the window—the prison-break car chase by the Fratelli brothers that begins the movie. The window view contains a McDonald’s sign not visible onscreen: This was covered up by the pizza slice Chunk smeared against the window. “It took six or seven tries for him to get it right,” says one of the bowling alley’s longtime employees, Cindy McEwan. “By the end, he was crying. He couldn’t get the pizza in the right spot to block the sign.” The alley now has a little shrine where Chunk once stood—although they’ve actually raised the floor three feet—with a thick guest book signed by hundreds from around the country and world, from England to Australia to Niger. “The farthest away anybody ever came from was Tibet,” says McEwan. “He came in with an interpreter.” On The Goonies’ 25th anniversary in 2010, the manager decided to make strawberry milkshakes, just like the one Chunk crushed against the window next to the piece of pizza. “I told him that’d be a mistake,” McEwan says. “They’ll try to re-enact it. And what do you know? The first people that order a milkshake, that’s what they wanted to do.” The bowling alley will not offer strawberry milkshakes on the upcoming 30th anniversary.

BARS OF THE WORKERS

Labor Temple, 934 Duane St., Astoria, 325-0801, labortemple.com; Mary Todd’s Workers Bar & Grill, 281 W Marine Drive, 338-7291.

Forever on the Goondocks, Astoria’s oldest bars are dedicated wholeheartedly to the workers, from ﬁsherman’s bar the Portway—densely hung with life preservers signed in Sharpie by all the old regulars—to Mary Todd’s Workers Bar & Grill, where on our last visit a man loudly insisted into his phone that he “wasn’t going to haul my ass all the way out there for 38 salmon.” Mary Todd’s has cheap prime rib on Fridays, bras hanging from ceiling fans, and a $9 drink called the Yucca that locals will either recommend or warn you to avoid for exactly the same reason: The drink

contains about a ﬁfth of a bottle of HRD vodka. By the time you leave, you’ll know everyone in the bar. Labor Temple, a bar and diner located in an old union hall, is no longer a union shop as of four years ago—although it is apparently a popular target of local labor organizers. The diner recently stopped its tradition of midnight breakfast (served till 2 pm) because 1 it attracted town drunks to the bar. “I had a little squirt gun,” says longtime bartender Rhonda, “and I’d squirt people if they were getting out of line. I probably 86’d half the people in town.”

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The field where Andy leads a cheerleading squad in the opening credits—thus establishing her 1980s top-of-the-peckingorder status—had been home to the Astoria High Fishermen since 1928, ground for the Fishermen’s epic rivalry against the cross-town Knappa Loggers. But as of September 2014, the Warren grounds are fallow, future home of an Oregon Health & Science University hospital expansion. As part of a deal that Astoria football coach Howard Rub hailed as a “tremendous partnership,” the city built the Fishermen a new artificial-turf field as a cap for an old landfill.

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Astoria was a home to the Goonies even before the movie was filmed. Oregon’s greatest achievement in beach towns is—as the locals will tell you—a “quaint drinking village with a fishing problem,” full of working-class seafarers, thirdgeneration shopkeepers and Portland runaways. It ain’t just the Goonies house and the old Clatsop County jail. It is a forever-home for misfits with heart, a town of dive bars and breweries, ramshackle 1920s mansions with boarded-up siding, and a standalone J.C. Penney that resolutely refuses to say die. Here is a guide to the places in Astoria where The Goonies was filmed—and the places where the Goonie spirit lives on. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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The worst thing Chunk ever did: “I mixed a pot 2 of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa! And then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.” This could have only happened here, in this 90-year-old balconied theater with an adjunct live-music lounge called the Voodoo. Musical guests of the past two months included Corrina Repp, Stephen Malkmus, and the Minders. For $17, the building’s brunch-happy Columbian Cafe will cure the hangover Voodoo caused with the breakfast-hash equivalent of omakase at a sushi bar—chef’s choice, no substitutions. Mine involved mushrooms, sausage, bok choy, walnut pesto, much egg, much spice and no carbs whatsoever.

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The Stop-n-Snack mini-mart, featured brieﬂy in The Goonies’ bike-ride and car-chase scenes (and in a much longer outtake involving a brawl), is now a coffee roastery with medium roasts, biscotti, and a side business in ceramic ware. “From the 1890s to the 1990s, this was a little grocery store,” says co-owner and roaster Rick Murray, who has the sun-tightened skin and rough chin beard of a ﬁsherman. “And then the big grocery stores came and did what big grocery stores do to little grocery stores. Good for me, I guess. Now I live upstairs and roast downstairs.” Before starting his roastery, Murray worked at Starbucks for 10 years. “But they forgot everything I taught them,” he says.

The docks. This is where the Fratelli brothers conclude the Astoria portion of their car chase (which continues, magically, on Cannon Beach), and it is where Stef dunked herself into a crab barrel. But this year, most of the fishing at these docks is conducted by a horde of 2,300 sea lions and harbor seals—10 times as many as there were five years ago—a layer of braying cellulite coating every available dock surface. Their maddening racket can be heard all the way up the cliffs at the Goonies house. Around Astoria, rumors abound of sea lion attacks. One guy will tell you they ate the fish right off his friend’s hook. The next says they ate a shih tzu off a leash. Astorians have tested electric mats to piss off the sea lions, and local police brought in a 16-foot fiberglass orca, which they towed around by boat in futile hopes of scaring them. Lately, they’ve been scaring sea lions with beach balls. On a more sinister note, at least ten sea lions have been shot or killed. “No one’s happy,” says James, a bartender at Rogue ale house along the waterfront. “The fisherman aren’t happy. The cruise ships aren’t happy. The Native Americans aren’t happy. They’re eating all the fish.”

Sandi Preston, from her home in California, prayed for the Goonies house. She loved The Goonies so much she prayed for four years after visiting Astoria the first time, until the house inhabited by One-Eyed-Willie true-believer Mikey Walsh finally came up for sale. “I asked God if he would give me the Goonie house,” Preston told The Washington Post in 2010, “and he did.” It is still a site of pilgrimage for thousands each year. To get there, you follow the Goonies parking arrows away from the house to the mildly disheveled John Jacob Astor Elementary on 38th Street—everything in Goonieville is disheveled, because the beach air does grim work—and then walk three blocks uphill to a sign that says “Private Drive: Goonies on Foot Welcomed.” It is the second such sign: The first was stolen almost immediately after being planted, and so the current version is plunged into heavy concrete. On warm days, the sidewalks up and down 38th Street fill with the faithful, gawking at a wealth of no-trespassing signs, and signs asking visitors that they please, dear Lord, not block the driveway. An older man walks out to fetch his newspaper and eyes a family of six pushing a stroller uphill. “Goonies, Goonies, Goonies, Goonies!” he exclaims, and shuts his front door tight. Atop the private drive, the Preston-Walsh house sports two flags—one American, one Israeli—and a bright yellow Porsche Boxster tagged with a “NOBAMA” sticker. On our visit, Preston’s handlebar-mustached husband, John, was replacing the front steps. “For the upcoming 30th anniversary tours?” we asked. “I’m building steps,” he said gruffly, “because we need steps.” The Goondocks house, including the attic, will be open for public tours on The Goonies 30th anniversary weekend, June 5-7. You will be welcomed on foot, but not with your shoes on.

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Rogue Ales Public House, 100 39th St. (Pier 39), 325-5964, rogue.com; Buoy Beer, 1 8th St., 325-4540, buoybeer.com; Fort George Brewery, 1483 Duane St., 325-7468, fortgeorgebrewery.com.

When filming began on The Goonies in 1984, Astoria’s fishing economy was in crisis—and houses were indeed getting sold back to the banks. The old canneries, including the 1899-founded Bumble Bee cannery, were closing, and food stamps had become such a currency they were reportedly accepted as beer money at Astoria’s Portway Tavern on West Marine Drive. Once home to the American Can Company, Astoria Warehousing now hauls in canned salmon from Alaska by truck. The last tuna cannery in Astoria is Josephson’s Smokehouse, which smokes and cans albacore as a craft product, in the back of their storefront. But the biggest industry in Astoria now is not fishing but tourism, and so alongside a seemingly abandoned cannery museum, the Bumble Bee cannery has found new life as a huge, bustling Rogue Ales Public House serving up Astoria-exclusive sour and barrelaged beers. The cannery at Cannery Pier is now home to Buoy Beer, which already hosts a tap at seemingly every bar in Astoria. But by far the biggest cannery in Astoria is Fort George Brewery, now the 12thlargest craft brewer in Oregon. Pro tip: If you don’t plan to eat, skip the spacious brewpub in favor of the much more capacious beer list at Fort George’s tiny brewery tasting room.

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Data’s ﬁlmic home is owned by the same family, the Fullers, who once also owned Mikey’s house next door. Data’s massive house is still blue as a Windows homescreen, still technically within zipline distance of Mikey’s, and still owned by the Fuller family—split now between heirs Lloyd and Catherine.

OREGON FILM MUSEUM AT THE CLATSOP COUNTY JAIL

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Every now and then, somebody shows up at the Oregon Film Museum and sadly asks to bail out his cousin. It used to be the jail, and people who’ve been locked up have very long memories. (“I’ve been in there,” says Rhonda, the bartender from Labor Temple bar down the street. “I’m not proud of it.”) It was also the jail the Fratelli brothers broke out of, in the whiz-bang car-chase action sequence that kicks off The Goonies. The real jail is now across the street. As a museum, it’s only 5 years old—created just in time for Astoria’s 25th anniversary Goonies celebration. Within, there are jail cells, a video about Kindergarten Cop, and a series of scenes you can re-create while ﬁlming yourself with digital cameras— the car scene from The Goonies, somethingsomething Free Willy, and something-something from Cthulhu. It is a museum based less on artifacts, and more on nostalgia itself.

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In the film, Mikey’s dad is assistant curator at an unnamed museum. This, as it turns out, is the actual Flavel House Museum, named after heroic sandbar pilot Capt. George Flavel, who was hailed by newspapers in the late 19th century as a “grave, saturnine, sphinx; sour, dour, cold and crabbed, turning to gold all he touched without a friend and suspicious of all.” He was also one of Astoria’s first millionaires. He married his 14-year-old sweetheart at the age of 30—which was considered normal—but scandalized the township by installing the region’s first indoor toilet. Today, the home is beautiful but oddly haunted, arranged as if the family had only just now escaped in a hurry, leaving children’s books strewn about the bed, the closet door ajar, and a bird carefully preserved under glass. Meanwhile, the family’s descendants all moved into a different Flavel house that was finally auctioned off last December. Derelict and in ruin, it had stood vacant for the 24 years since owner “Hatchet” Harry Flavel stabbed a man in the abdomen and fled the state. He was finally arrested, months later in Pennsylvania, after stealing towels from a motel. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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The Goonies weren’t good enough for Cyndi Lauper. Oh, sure, she’s on record stating the opposite. But for the better part of 30 years, the iconic, baby-voiced singer of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” has all but disavowed “The Goonies ’R’ Good Enough,” the movie’s theme song, which she wrote and performed. She’s called the song “terrible” in interviews, and for a long time refused to include it on any of her greatest-hits compilations, or play it live. That’s pretty harsh treatment for a top-10 single, one whose Technicolor pop sound fits comfortably among Lauper’s other megahits of the era. Nonetheless, “Good Enough,” as it was originally titled, remains a significant appendage of The Goonies’ legacy. It plays at various points throughout the film, including the end credits. It’s been covered several times, and digitized for video games. The twopart video—a truly wackadoo 12-minute epic bringing together a cadre of pro wrestlers, much of The Goonies’ cast, a then-unknown band called the Bangles and, in a fourth-wallshattering cameo, Steven Spielberg—functions essentially as a Bizarro World sequel. But the song’s lasting associations are with The Goonies and not Lauper herself, which might explain why she’s largely forsaken it. At the time, it must

have seemed like she was doing Warner Bros. a favor. Yeah, the movie had Spielberg producing and Richard Donner, the director of Superman, at the helm. But Lauper was coming off one of the most successful debut albums of all-time, 1983’s She’s So Unusual, a 16-times-platinum smash whose four major singles still get airplay in the world’s collective unconscious. She didn’t need the exposure. But what the producers thought the film needed was a real-life star who could embody The Goonies in the flesh. “It was an important music project for us in the sense that there were kids involved,” says Joel Sill, the film’s music supervisor. “We started to figure out, who would be the best candidate that reflected The Goonies? Or at least the word ‘Goonies.’” With her rainbow-colored hair and selfconsciously kooky image, Lauper emerged as the ideal choice to sing an anthem for a group of misfit heroes. But “Good Enough” was not written for the movie. At the time Warner Bros. came calling, Lauper and her producer, Lennie Petze, were in the early stages of gathering material for the follow-up to She’s So Unusual. One of the first songs they received came from songwriters Arthur Stead and Stephen Broughton Lunt. With its synthesized marimba riff

(which, according to Stead, was extracted from an unused song he intended for Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley) and fluttering flutes, the music conveyed a vague sense of adventure. And while the song might not reference any plot points—it’s really more about clinging to a fraying relationship— the general sentiment fit the film’s premise: The Goonies aren’t perfect. They’re not superheroes. But they’re good enough. When Petze played the demo for executives, “they went crazy for it,” he says. The title, though, needed work. Spielberg wanted the song to tie back to the movie in some way, and if Lauper wasn’t going to alter the lyrics, the best way he saw to do that was to cram “The Goonies” into the name. “I think she felt it was an infringement on her creativity, which I agreed with,” Sill says. “But all of us had a bigger responsibility to the movie. It was a big investment we all had in utilizing the music to sell the film, and the film would then sell the music.” Lauper relented, though not without a fight. “I wasn’t in that meeting,” Petze says, “but I think she may have said, ‘You’re out of line, Steven.’” It wasn’t her only clash with Spielberg. When it came time to do the video, he and Lauper met for a brainstorming session. It was an ambitious project, to be divided into two parts, so it made sense to have the guy behind Indiana Jones in the director’s chair. Spielberg presented his ideas, and according to Sill, Lauper “just dismissed them, in a way that was not really considerate of Steven’s creativity.”

Donner ended up directing. The video’s plot, as best can be surmised, involves Lauper attempting to save her family’s gas station (and her, uh, vegetable stand) from creditors who want to turn it into a Benihana. In the first half, Lauper, who was then in a partnership with the World Wrestling Federation, is pursued through a familiar-looking cave by a gaggle of WWF heels—simultaneously playing the creditors and a crew of pirates—and finds herself cornered on a bridge. She calls out for Spielberg’s help, who’s shown sitting in an editing bay and, perhaps as a wink toward their earlier disagreements, admits to being out of ideas. Eventually, the action returns to the gas station, where Andre the Giant appears from a cloud of smoke and chases “Rowdy” Roddy Piper into the street. Then everybody dances. Maybe it was the contentious video shoot, or the creative concessions she was forced into, but by the end of the ’80s, Lauper, who also declined an interview for this piece, was content to pretend “Good Enough” never existed. In the last decade, though, her stance has softened a bit. In 2003, the song finally appeared on an album bearing her name, The Essential Cyndi Lauper. Giving in to fan demand, it’s also popped up in her live sets again. And in 2012, she recorded a parody of the song, titled “Taffy Butt,” for an episode of Fox’s Bob’s Burgers paying homage to The Goonies. For Lauper, that version is more than good enough. “Oh, it’s a classic too,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Very funny and in poor taste. My son finally thinks I am funny!” Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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GOONIE ENOUGH? 30 YEARS LATER, ARE THE GOONIES STILL GOONIES? BY AP KRYZA

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The Goonies always had to grow up—especially after 30 years. But have the movie’s young stars retained their Goonieness, that essential mix of heart, underdog drive and inherent weirdness? Here’s how the seven stars rank in Goonieness these days.

ANDY

GOONIENESS: B-FLAT, AT BEST.

DATA

GOONIENESS: NO MORE FORTUNE AND GLORY.

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7. KERRI GREEN (ANDY)

THEN: The cheerleader who twitterpated the Walsh brothers’ emotions was the go-to crush of nerdy adolescent boys throughout the ’80s in films such as Lucas and Summer Rental. It must have been the poofy hair. NOW: Post-pubescence, Green has disappeared a bit, with small roles on oldpeople shows such as Murder, She Wrote, ER and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and a star turn in 2012’s obscure Lifetime-esque drama Complacent.

6. KE HUY QUAN (DATA)

THEN: As Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and pintsized inventor Data, Quan pretty much got to live out every kid’s fantasy before his Adam’s apple even surfaced. NOW: Cuteness firmly behind him, Quan spent a little time using his tae kwon do skills as stunt and fight coordinator on films such as X-Men and The One. That was 15 years ago. Now, he’s likely to be seen wandering unnoticed at conventions.

GOONIENESS: HALF AND HALF.

BRAND

GOONIENESS: ONE IN THE BUSH.

MOUTH

GOONIENESS: KIND OF NICE, WHEN HIS MOUTH ISN’T SCREWING IT UP.

5. JEFF COHEN (CHUNK)

THEN: Token fat kid. Truffle shuffler. Keeper of the Baby Ruth. NOW: Now svelte, Cohen is a hotshot entertainment lawyer with a Beverly Hills firm and a book called The Dealmaker’s Ten Commandments. But despite sounding like a member of Mr. Perkins’ country club, Cohen still maintains relationships with locals he met while filming in Astoria, and backs up his Goonieness by asserting he keeps a Donkey Kong machine in his office.

4. JOSH BROLIN (BRAND)

THEN: Hollywood prince. Also enjoyed drug-fueled adventures as a member of a teenage surf gang that stole car radios for dope. NOW: He’s basically a household name for his roles in No Country for Old Men and Men in Black 3. But he’s still got some blundering Goonie heart, as evidenced by a filmed 2013 bar fight that ended in a seemingly endless hug with the bouncer.

3. COREY FELDMAN (MOUTH)

THEN: Tiger Beat centerfold. The most emotionally stable Corey. NOW: Were it not for the revelations in Feldman’s awesomely titled memoir, Coreyography, that his drug addiction was exacerbated by sexual abuse, it might be easier to laugh at his wellpublicized, stripper-fueled birthday party, reality shows and social-media meltdowns. But we can still laugh at his horrible band, Truth Movement. He’s exactly the adult that wise-cracking, amoral Mouth would want to be. Except for the crippling sadness.

MARTHA

THEN: She beat most of Portland to the punch by dressing like your grandma long before it was cool, romanced River Phoenix and braved The Mosquito Coast. NOW: Plimpton’s fame may have fizzled, but she’s now a respected TV and stage actress, and stage actresses get mad geek cred. She’s also a singer and an abortion rights activist, continuing Stef’s quest to end unpaid babysitting. That’s heart, and heart is a Goonie’s most important trait.

1. SEAN ASTIN (MIKEY)

MIKEY

THEN: Son of Patty Duke and Gomez Addams. Weezer of juice in Encino Man.

GOONIENESS: NEVER SAID DIE. GOONIE FOREVER.

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GOONIENESS: DRAMA QUEEN.

2. MARTHA PLIMPTON (STEF)

NOW: Astin tried to be a badass in Toy Soldiers and Memphis Belle and (sort of ) in 50 First Dates. But he only really stood out in roles with Mikey in their DNA. In The Lord of the Rings, Samwise was the heart of the franchise, though he sought to destroy treasure rather than claim it. In Rudy, Astin taught a generation of kids that it’s OK to be a loser who is terrible at his intended sport as long as you’re Catholic. He’s widely reported to come off like Mikey all grown up. And he’s still committed to his friends, so much so that he even had a cameo in Feldman’s atrocious, auto-tuned EDM music video “Ascension Millennium” in 2013—while reading One-Eyed Willie’s map.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOVIES IN SHORT CIRCUIT

Astoria ain’t just The Goonies. The little coastal town has a bizarrely huge footprint in popcorn moviedom; There are more big-name films shot in Astoria than in Portland. “The town burned down in 1922,” says McAndrew Burns, director of the Clatsop County Historical Society. “So we look like this perfectly preserved 1920s town. We can do river, we can do ocean. We can look like anything. Plus we’re willing to inconvenience ourselves to get movies shot here.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “Number five…is alive!” “No disassemble!”

the neighbors would prefer you park if you’re walking up to the Goonies house.

Benji the Hunted (1987)

CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “It’s not a tumor!” “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina!”

PLOT: Benji gets lost at sea, and then scuba dives, and then adopts four cougar babies and tries to get them to a cougar mommy. Benji is a dog. ASTORIA ON FILM: Mostly it’s the woods around Astoria, which inexplicably are full of grizzlies and wolves.

ASTORIA FILM HIGHLIGHTS

CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “Ruff ruff!” “Arf!”

Short Circuit (1986)

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

PLOT: A military robot gets all sentient and ends up in Astoria with Ally Sheedy, who loves animals and sentient robots. ASTORIA ON FILM: Sheedy’s house is at 197 Hume Ave. The windmill is gone.

ASTORIA

PLOT: Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to Bumfuck, Nowhere, to find a kid in witness protection, who is just so cute, and then save him from his grandmother. ASTORIA ON FILM: The school is John Jacob Astor Elementary, which is where

ASTORIA ON FILM: They played a West Coast sunset backward to get a fake East Coast sunrise. The bastards. Also, the spot where Willy goes free is the Hammond Boat Basin in Warrenton, across the harbor from Astoria.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)

CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “God, I hate that whale!” “Please, he’s gonna die!”

ASTORIA ON FILM: The city acts as a stand-in for ancient Japan. Don’t ask questions, it will only confuse you.

The Ring Two (2005)

PLOT: Turtles. Are ninjas. OMG.

CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “Help! I’m a turtle and I can’t get up!” “Schwing!”

Free Willy (1993)

PLOT: Willy the orca—a vicious sea predator with a cute face—needs to get free. A little boy agrees.

THE PLOT: Naomi Watts moves somewhere creepy that turns out to be Astoria, and then a girl from a TV screen possesses her son and tries to kill her. ASTORIA ON FILM: Watts works at The Daily Astorian, which is an actual newspaper. But the part of The Daily Astorian is played by Pacific Coast Medical Supply. CHARACTERISTIC EXCLAMATIONS: “Mommy!” “I’m not your fucking mommy!”

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GOONIES TRIVIA NIGHT Baked Alaska is the obligatory “nice place” in town,

SHOT IN ASTORIA BUS TOURS This will be what most people who came down to

Astoria for Goonies are actually excited about doing: touring the spots where The Goonies (and other movies—see page 21) happened, with a Goonies superfan (or employee of the city) actually telling them what happened there. Mouth’s house, the bowling alley, the car chase and the docks. You can do this on your own with our tour on page 16, or ride one of these buses for $35 so you can be tipsy the whole time and not have to park. But for this one weekend, the actual Goondocks house, Mikey Walsh’s, will actually be open to the public. So you can go up into the attic and such and pretend. Tours June 5-7. $35. Tickets at ticketswest.com.

GOONIES BLOCK PARTY The city of Astoria is shutting down 9th Street downtown

for the sake of The Goonies’ decade, with a DeLorean on display for some reason. Eighties, man! After 8 pm, the party moves inside to the event center, with a dance and a DJ and such, and a band called 1984 that plays things from approximately 1984. There will be prizes for the people who played dress-up, and a Truffle Shuffle contest, whose winner will lead a group truffle shuffle at Warren Field on June 6. Astoria Event Center, 255 9th St., 791-5843, astoriaeventcenter.com. Noon-2 am Friday, June 5. $15 tickets at ticketswest.com.

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE GOONIES A presentation by various loosely associated, Goonies-

related people: Goonies “kid wrangler” Mark Marshall, Sloth stunt double Randell Widner, Goonies book author Mick Alderman, and retired Astoria policeman Paul Gillum. Tickets are $20 at ticketswest.com, with multiple presentations throughout the weekend. Astoria Event Center, 255 9th St., 791-5843, astoriaeventcenter.com. $20 tickets at ticketswest.com.

FORT GEORGE TRUFFLE SHUFFLE Fort George will tap Truffle Shuffle Stout. Stout because

Chunk. Get it? Fort George Brewery, 1483 Duane St., 3257468, fortgeorgebrewery.com. Friday, June 5. 11 am-midnight.

ECOLA STATE PARK TOUR Patrick Lines, retired Oregon parks ranger, was on the

set during the filming of The Goonies at Ecola State Park and Haystack Rock way back during the heady days of ’84. He’ll share stories about Hollywood people not knowing much about Oregon weather, at various times throughout the weekend. Ecola State Park, 84318 Ecola State Park Road, Cannon Beach. 6-8 pm Thursday, June 4; 2-4 pm Friday-Saturday, June 5-6; 9:30 am-1:30 pm Sunday, June 7. Free; day-use parking fee applies.

FAREWELL TO WARREN FIELD Because of a funny agreement with the next-door hos-

pital (see page 16), John Warren Field, the site of Andy’s cheerleading practice in The Goonies, will no longer be the home of the fighting Fishermen. It will be the home of people fighting liver disease and such. So to commemorate the end of all cheerleading in Astoria that matters, there will be Cyndi Lauper covers, and bluegrass (which is how America celebrates sadness), and an XRAY.FM DJ set featuring from former Willamette Week music editor Casey Jarman, and also what organizers claim to be the largest HD screening of The Goonies, like, ever. Ever! John Warren Field, Exchange Street between 18th and 20th streets. Saturday, June 6. 6 pm. $10. All ages.

with the ribs and the steaks and the crab cakes. The bar attached to the restaurant has Goonies trivia. Baked Alaska, 1 12th St., 325-7414, bakedak.com. Friday, June 5. 7 pm. Free.

PIRATE BASH Um, pirates! And boats! At a museum devoted to boats!

There will be a “drunk tank” themed after One-Eyed Willy, a pirate costume contest and “grog” at a cash bar, but don’t get too riled up: The Coast Guard hangs out here. And they’re sort of surly. Columbia River Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, 325-2323, crmm.org. Friday, June 5. 7-9 pm. Free.

GROWING UP GOONIE WITH JEFF COHEN Jeff Cohen, aka Chunk, will talk about his days as a

Goonie. Now thin and a successful entertainment lawyer (see page 20), he won’t sign autographs, but will likely tell stories about a Hawaiian shirt being crappy for Astoria weather, and how hard it was to get the pizza slice in the right spot. We know, because we talked to him, too. See our oral history on page 14, or a full Q&A with Jeff Cohen at wweek.com/chunk. Liberty Theater, 1203 Commercial St., 325-5922, liberty-theater.org. 10:30 am Friday-Saturday, June 5-6. $23.

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find a ticket scalper online, but just in case you get lucky: Some people will be riding on an old boat with Sloth, or at least Sloth’s stunt double—alongside the actor who played evil golf-course developer Elgin Perkins—telling stories and such while the mighty sea turns your stomach. But the boat, the Lady Washington, is not the boat from The Goonies—that boat’s been scrapped. It’s from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Oh well. Just know that if you see a pirate ship Friday evening, Sloth might be there. Friday, June 6. 6 pm.

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GOONIES SCAVENGER HUNT A geocaching crew has put together a treasure hunt for the weekend, for geeks with the smartphones. Go to www.goonies.guide to get your invite.

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out of Lego—from Mikey’s house to the hideout to parts of the caves. They’ll be on display all weekend. The jail’s in the wrong spot on the set they made, sure, but when you have a Lego Data ziplining to a Lego Goonies house, and a Lego pirate ship sailing out of a sea cave, the little things cease to matter. This will be on display at the Astoria Armory, which doubles as the event center for all things Goonies in town. Astoria Armory, 1636 Exchange St., 791-6064, astoriaarmory.com. Free.

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POLLO Y CERVEZA: The Cully food renaissance is now in full party mode. Mexican rotisserie chicken restaurant Pollo Norte plans to expand and open a parkinglot beer patio out of a walk-in cooler—which will not only expand the storage space to keep the restaurant from running out of chicken, but will probably serve as the linchpin for a planned eight-cart food pod on Northeast 42nd Avenue run by realtor Rambo Halpern. The first new cart? A second location for Kim Jong Grillin’, the bibimbap and kimchee hot-dog cart. “We’ve already got the walk-in cooler built,” says Pollo Norte’s Kelly Shelton. “The patio is there, we’ll put some furniture in there. It should be rockin’.”

DRUNKEN DELIPOCALYPSE: Martinottis’ Cafe & Deli, a three-generation downtown institution known for its lovely selection of rare wines and port, will close June 30. “We got notice a couple of weeks ago,” says Martina Martinotti, granddaughter of the original owners, who says it was the landlord’s decision. “We’re selling off our stock, and we have to close the doors. We’re sad for a lot of reasons.” The new occupant will be a retail clothing store, she says, and the Martinotti family will try to find a new location on the eastside. >> Meanwhile, The Oregonian reports that contributor Ken Gordon’s boozy outpost Deli Bar, on North Williams Avenue, has closed. After Biloxi Deli Lounge, it’s the second such spot to close in the short-lived Deli Bar District in the past two years. Deli Bar will become Crisp, a salad bar. FADING REPUTATION: While local community radio thrives, college radio continues to shrink. Last week, KPSU, Portland State University’s campus radio station, had its budget for the upcoming academic year slashed by 40 percent, according to station manager Shay Davis. The station’s budget has gradually decreased, from $196,000 in 2010 to $64,000 next year, despite meeting revenue goals and growing listenership. “These cuts are definitely forcing students to work longer for no pay, and making it almost impossible to continue our marked growth,” Davis says. Currently, the station is only available online—in April, it was denied a low-power FM license by the Federal Communications Commission—but has maintained a presence in the music community by holding concerts and other events. The new budget will severely restrict those events, as well as in-studio performances, says promotions director Blake Hickman. “Obviously, it’s been a slow slide into irrelevancy for KPSU since losing a terrestrial signal,” Hickman says, “but this is definitely a further step in that direction.” KIDS AND KINK: Northwest Children’s Theater’s Mary Poppins scooped up the most nominations—10—for the 37th annual Drammy Awards, to be held June 29 at the Newmark Theatre. Live on Stage’s The Rocky Horror Show picked up eight nominations. The Special Achievement Award goes to Hispanic theater Milagro. 26

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GO: The Grand Floral Parade is Saturday, June 6, from 10 am to 2 pm. The route goes from Veterans Memorial Coliseum, south on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and across the Burnside Bridge to downtown Portland, ending at Lincoln High School. rosefestival.org.

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THURSDAY JUNE 4 IMPROVISATION SUMMIT [SPONTANEOUS SOUNDS] One of the city’s most compelling multimedia flash points, the fourth annual installment of the Creative Music Guild’s meeting of improv-minded artists brings together a host of choreographers, jazzers and other uncategorizable musicians. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. $15 one-day pass, $40 three-day pass. 8:15 pm. All ages. Through June 6.

À LA MODE [NON-BALLET] Nonconformist ballet company Moxie does breakdancing en pointe in an athletic “fuck you” to the antiquated assumption that you have to weigh 110 pounds to stand on your toes. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $42.40-$47.25.

FRIDAY JUNE 5

SEX, DRUGS, MURDER, TUBAS

VISITING RURAL OREGONIANS BEWARE: THE ROSE FESTIVAL GRAND FLORAL PARADE RUNS THROUGH PLENTY OF SCARY BIG-CITY STUFF. HERE’S THE ROUTE, FROM MEMORIAL COLISEUM TO LINCOLN HIGH.

PANHANDLERS LINED UP BY OFF-RAMP Interstate 5, Exit 302A

Don’t let the humorous signs fool you, every single houseless person is scary. Best to empty your pockets of cash immediately upon request.

HOOPER DETOX CENTER 1535 N Williams Ave.

Big-city drunk tank full of desperate people with serious substance-abuse problems.

WEIDLER BIKEWAY

North and Northeast Weidler Street, between North Benton Avenue and Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Major bicycle thoroughfare. Beware of angry cyclists who will let you hit them with your car door so they can sue you blind.

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DAY-LABORER PICKUP AT THE I-84 OVERPASS

Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Everett Street.

Day laborers, including many undocumented immigrants, hop in the back of pickup trucks here.

SKATE PUNKS

Under the east end of the Burnside Bridge.

A bunch of kids with skateboards lurk under the bridge.

SMALL-TOWN MAN DIES

Burnside Bridge, above Northwest 1st Avenue.

Portland cops initially said Cougar Burleigh was a homeless man who fell off his bike across from the Portland Rescue Mission. He wasn’t homeless and didn’t have a bike. He was, however, missing his pants, cellphone and ID. It could happen to you.

PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION 111 W Burnside St.

Homeless people line up here for food and shelter every afternoon.

PARIS THEATRE 6 SW 3rd Ave.

Adult movie theater. As WW reported in 2007, it “hosts a bunch of winos, users and sleazy old guys the same age as your dad (or granddad), with their pants around their ankles and greasy cum rags in hand.”

RIGHT 2 DREAM TOO Northwest 4th Avenue and West Burnside Street.

An organized homeless camp, complete with its own T-shirt stand.

GOLDEN DRAGON EXOTIC CLUB 324 SW 3rd Ave.

A strip club open to 18-year-olds, meaning senior boys from the marching band can put down their tubas and give their allowances to fully-nude women.

PORTLAND OUTDOOR STORE 304 SW 3rd Ave.

Right here, a 70-year-old man asked some street kids to move off the sidewalk. One of the kids, who later said he’d been using drugs and hadn’t slept for a few days, beat the man severely with a skateboard. The kid even refused to apologize in court.

SILVERADO 318 SW 3rd Ave.

Famous gay bar.

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Southwest Park Avenue and Washington Street.

Better known as “Paranoid Park.” Probably the most dangerous patch of asphalt in the state. “[N]ear-exclusive frequenting by street kids, users of illicit drugs, sex workers, and homeless people…” MARTIN CIZMAR.

SEINABO SEY [SOUL POP] As the daughter of West African superstar Maudo Sey, Seinabo Sey carries Afro pop in her genes. But what one primarily hears are soulful vocals of Erykah Badu proportions, spiked with icy asymmetry akin to fellow Swede poppers Robyn and Tove Lo. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. DUCK, DUCK BEER [KETCHUP] Apparently it’s National Ketchup Day. Coalition Brewing will celebrate by tapping a spicy ketchup beer and a curry ketchup ale. The first 50 to show up get a ketchup beer for free, while the first 100 get an Olympia Provisions frank. Also? Ketchup ice cream. Coalition Brewing, 2705 SE Ankeny St., 894-8080. 5-8 pm.

SATURDAY JUNE 6 ELYSIA CRAMPTON [ANGELWAVE] Elysia Crampton is a transgressive Nu Romantic, using ambient soundscapes to explore notions of displacement, belonging, ethnicity and gender identity. Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996. 9 pm. $12. All ages.

SUNDAY JUNE 7 BEST OF THE NW FILMMAKERS’ FESTIVAL [FILM] Top picks include Portlandmade films about an inhabited bear costume and two violent taco-eaters, plus a homeless rap flick from Seattle and an anxious Canadian seeking fantastical treatment.

Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 221-1156. 4:30 pm. $9.

TUESDAY JUNE 9 AMEN DUNES, RYLEY WALKER [CELESTIAL FOLK] Damon McMahon and Ryley Walker both offer an expansive, progressive take on spiritual folk indebted to the meditative wanderings of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, making this a perfect pairing of two artists at the pinnacle of their careers. Doug Fir Lounge, 803 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Asian Pickles by Karen Solomon

Karen Solomon will appear at Pastaworks with her DIY guide to making the pickles of Japan and Korea, along with lesser-known brines of Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia, from kimchee to umeboshi to coconut-mint chutney and Chinese spicy ginger cucumbers. Hot damn. Pastaworks, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-1010. 2 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Maurice Oyster Social

Jaret Foster’s Oyster social pop-up will team up with Maurice for a social hour with sparkling wine and a “pick your six” deal on a raw tapas bar, including freshly shucked oysters, chilled marinated mussels and kimchee-pickled shrimp. Tickets at eventbrite.com. Maurice, 921 SW Oak St., 224-9921. 5 and 7:30 pm seatings. $26.

MONDAY, JUNE 8 Vegan Gluten-Free Cider Dinner

The problem with all those fashionable pop-ups and prix ﬁxes? Those with specialty diets often take a bath, watching sadly with a gutted plate while others feast on beef cheeks and sweet cakes. Well, here’s one for y’all. Eatin’ Alive oﬀers up a raw, vegan, gluten-free, fourcourse dinner in which every plate is infused with cider, then paired with cider from Salem’s estimable Wandering Aengus. Portobello, 1125 SE Division St., 754-5993. 7 pm. $45, with $20 optional cider pairings.

Where to eat this week. 1. The Original Pancake House

8601 SW 24th Ave, 246-9007. It’s like going on a small-town vacation, but within Portland, and eating breakfast with your grandparents without actually talking to them. Perfect. $.

2. The 9

520 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 415-335-8475. The chicken biryani ($8.50) is in short supply, but it is heaven in a cardboard box, moist and deeply layered with ﬂavor. $.

3. The Portland Mercado

7238 SE Foster Road, portlandmercado.com. This is a tour of Latin America in eight food carts, from Argentina to Oaxaca to El Salvador, not to mention a chorizo shop and carniceria. Which is to say, it’s terriﬁc. Go to the Mixteca cart especially for its assortment of Oaxacan tamales and moles. $.

4. Batter Griddle & Drinkery

4425 NE Fremont St., 971-271-8784, batterpdx.com. Batter’s waﬄes and pancakes are served up in an absolutely dizzying array of options, whether fruited or baked with bacon within. But whatever you get, get it with that spicy fried chicken. $$.

5. Noraneko

1430 SE Water Ave., 238-6356, noranekoramen.com. You really, really want the mushroom ramen with two-way chasyu and egg. $.

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FRESH OFF THE BOAT: Bowpicker’s ﬁsh and chips in Astoria.

BOWPICKER FISH & CHIPS Follow the old men, and you’ll find it. Starting at 11 am, across Marine Drive from Astoria’s Columbia River Maritime Museum, you’ll see them waiting in a single-file line stretching down the steps and into the gravel. What they want is the same thing they had last time, the same thing they have every damn time, the only thing on the menu: The most famous fish and chips in Astoria. They are served in three-piece half orders and five-piece full orders out of a 28-foot-long, 1932-christened, converted Order this: Full-order ﬁsh and chips ($10), plus a soda ($1) from a cooler. gillnet boat called Bowpicker Fish & Chips, which for 15 years has been dishing out fish instead of hauling it in, from a parking-lot dry dock. In an old cannery town on the Oregon Coast, this is what passes for a food cart. (Across the street, the gas station has a falafel cart of the more traditional sort, but the line’s at Bowpicker.) But don’t ask for halibut or cod or something. Astoria has no use for halibut. The breaded fish at Bowpicker is 100 percent Pacific Coast albacore tuna, the steak of the sea, caught by local fishermen and fried lightly in a golden batter. And for a mere $10, you get five chunks of breaded albacore that add up to something like a half-pound. It is tender, and it is moist, and you do not need the lemon wedge. Heck, you barely need the tartar sauce— although you’ll use it. And you probably won’t finish the steak fries, which aren’t that great anyway. But damn: that tuna. There are no fine seafood restaurants in Astoria—none survive the tourist-free winter, said the man serving salmon chowder one morning. There is just this one amazing chip shack. And I submit: It’s good enough for you, for me. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Bowpicker Fish & Chips, 1634 Duane St., Astoria, 791-2942, bowpicker.com. 11 am-6 pm Wednesday-Sunday.

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DOG DAY IPA (HONDO’S) Hondo’s Brew and Cork is an odd institution in Astoria, a delightfully cranky little bottle shop, homebrew supply shop and nanobrewery, with beers that can be as up and down as a ride at Six Flags. Dog Day is an odd beer, billed as a “session IPA” at 5.2 percent ABV. Some might argue it’s better classified as a pale ale. But where a lot of hop-heavy pales can taste both hollow and needling, this blend of Simco, Mosaic and Centennial is brightened considerably by dry-hopping with Amarillo, while that Mosaic keeps the flavor round and sweet and fruity beneath. As the name implies, it’s a fine summer sipper that won’t leave you under the table. Too bad it’s available at Hondo’s and Hondo’s only. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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juxtaposes bitter greens from Sauvie Island with spears of candy-sweet, early-season strawberry. The cocktail list is ambitious, starting with an olive oil Gibson ($10), a super-savory oniony elixir with a dollop of yellow oil floating around the stick. Many of the other house cocktails show a predilection for anise and sassafras flavors, including a root beer float with bourbon and cream ($10), BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com the Bruce Bana with absinthe, gin and maraschino cherry ($10), and the Lord’s Will ($10), which uses The sad-bastard music had to go. A few years ago, two herbal Italian liqueurs and two types of rum most upscale Portland restaurants—places where and orange bitters. The Bruce Bana was the only people went for some nice cooked food in their dud, with enough licorice and chemical cherry to nice clean drawers—played Black Keys Pandora or recall a vodka and diet Red Bull. The pies are on point—classic Italian Neapolitan forced you to listen to miserable beardos like Will Oldham or Sam Beam bitch ’bout life while strum- crust made with double zero flour, proofed for 72 hours and baked at about 900 degrees in an Acunto ming an acoustic guitar. The gnarled claw of weepy Old Portland was Gianni. The crust has a paper-thin sheet of crispness finally pried off the dials at places like Smoke- below a soft, stretchy foundation that tears like tishouse Tavern and Smallwares, where B.I.G. sue paper. Each pie is served with a saucer bearing boasts of his awareness of financial indepen- the tricolor of crushed red pepper, salty Parmesan and dried oregano, served on the stem, which you dence, romance and well-made apparel. P.R.E.A.M.—Pizza Rules Everything Around smash up with your fingers, unless you happen to Me, and its excellent Neapolitan-crust pies and have your Wiz Khalifa Crown Grinder handy. Topping-wise, P.R.E.A.M. ambitious cocktails are surthis: Caesar salad ($11), fennel is complex and nuanced, rounded by less-talented Order sausage pie ($17), olive oil Gibson ($10). more A Tribe Called Quest homies—makes classic hip-hop I’ll pass: Intros, potato pie. than Eazy-E. There’s a basic a core part of the experience. P.R.E.A.M. began as a Monday pizza night at margherita ($14), but you want the fennel sausage Ned Ludd, but they’ve taken extraordinary care pie ($17) with fine ground meat made in-house, a in the design of their shop in Southeast, down to creamy, orange house-roasted tomato with bechathe back wall sprayed graffiti-style by co-owner mel, spicy mustard greens, fresh spring onion and Brandon Gomez. Sit on red velvet bar stools fried shallots. A vegetarian zucchini pie ($17) is or slide into a banquette covered in faux black close behind, with crunch-kissed toasted garlic ostrich leather that wouldn’t look out of place in scapes and basil. When you add oregano, you have a baller Oldsmobile, and prop your elbows up on a refreshingly herbal pie. They do outsmart thempolished concrete and epoxy tables as the Fugees selves, as with a potato pie ($15) with untraceable boom from the gold-painted speakers. truffle oil, pickled onion, mild turnip greens and The menu is coursed out into intros, outros, big dollops of boring potato bechamel. verses, choruses and hooks. But those same creative impulses pay off with You need those intros about as much as you need an outro of olive oil cake ($10) with flaky green any intro—if there’s a few minutes of room on the granita of parsley and spinach juiced, to play master, sure, why not? But if you’ve filled the tape, off the sweet strawberry. I’d get it just to have you won’t be missing out on a $5 bowl of olives or a an excuse to hang out for another 20 minutes, few soft-bellied black garlic knots ($6) over a bed of listening to “Boyz In The Hood” on a nice stereo salty red puttanesca sauce. (Worth noting: spaghetti and drinking the house’s budget beer, a $2 Bud. puttanesca translates to “prostitute sauce.”) Yeah, sorry, no PBR here—a conscious decision, Every verse we had from the salad course was the waiter tells me. Well, Bud is a better budget beer. excellent, especially a Caesar ($11) that essentially Let’s leave Blue Ribbon back in the era of trucker puts the umami through a good Alpine amp by hats and The Portland Mercury. getting black and white sesame seeds stuck to the kale leaves with anchovy-heavy dressing. We were EAT: P.R.E.A.M., 2131 SE 11th Ave., 231-2809, preampizza.com. 5-10 pm Sunday and Tuesdayalso impressed with the spring salad ($10), which Thursday, 5 pm-midnight Friday-Saturday.

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JUNE 3–9

THE GRIEVER STATE A GUIDE TO SUFJAN STEVENS’ OREGON. BY MATTHEW SINGER DOUG KENCK-CRISPIN

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Sufjan Stevens’ new record might be his “Oregon album,” but don’t expect to see him in ads for the tourism bureau any time soon. “I forgive you, mother, I can hear you/ And I long to be near you,” he sings on the hushed opening track, “Death With Dignity,” whose title alludes to the state’s assisted suicide law. “But every road leads to a dead end.” Welcome to the Beaver State: Everything here dies eventually! Indeed, Carrie & Lowell is not a travelogue. It’s an ordeal. Stevens’ associations with Oregon are tied to the fleeting memories of vacationing with his estranged mother, who abandoned the family when Stevens was a child. Her death in 2012 triggered a deep, peculiar grief in the 39-year-old songwriter, mourning a woman he hardly knew. On Carrie & Lowell, Stevens processes that pain in part by returning to those places within the state he visited with his mother and stepfather, the album’s respective namesakes. It’s a beautifully wounded, wrenching record, abandoning the sprawling fantasias of his past few albums and returning to the understated folk of his earlier work, and ranks up with Elliott Smith’s rawest recordings for sheer emotional heft. Still, that surely won’t stop some dedicated fans from treating the album as a literal road map. So we enlisted Doug Kenck-Crispin, host of the Kick Ass Oregon History podcast, for a brief guide to the sites referenced in the lyrics.

“Found myself on Spencer’s Butte/ Traced your shadow with my shoe/ Empty outline changed my view/ Now all of me thinks less of you.” —“All of Me Wants All of You” Many of Eugene’s citizens voted in 1938 to purchase Spencer Butte and preserve the wee mount at the edge of town as a park for enjoyment and recreation. The point of view from the summit is surely stunning—on a clear Saturday morning, you can almost see the sea of crushed red plastic cups and smoldering roaches that many of the current residents recreate with. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Hiking, trail running, look for closure in the splendor of God’s creation, mountain biking.

“Emerald Park/ Wonders never cease/ The man who taught me to swim/ He couldn’t quite say my first name.” —“Eugene” In 1978, Bob Marley and the Wailers released “Kaya”—a name forever attached to the dreaded children at swim lessons in the Emerald Park pool and the parvo-infested dogs shitting on the grass outside. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Swimming, water aerobics, chlorine baptism.

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“Tell me, what did you learn about the Tillamook burn?/ Or the Fourth of July?/ We’re all going to die.” —“Fourth of July” Over two weeks in August 1933, more than 300,000 acres of beautiful forest burned, an event known as the Tillamook Burn. Today, the resulting dead forest is remembered as an ecological disaster. It was indeed a tragedy for the state of Oregon, but in that era, the biggest tragedy was mainly the loss of all the trees the loggers were going to cut down and turn into lumber, anyway. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Camping, fishing, target shooting, contemplating the inevitability of death.

Sea Lion Caves ( Florence)

“Signs and wonders/ Sea lion caves in the dark/ Blind faith, God’s grace/ Nothing left to impart.” —“The Only Thing” The only thing you have to know about Sea Lion Caves is that it is the largest sea cave in America, and also happens to contain the largest, most horrific sea lion shit smell you could possibly imagine. Your nose will hate you for visiting. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Observe sea lions in their natural habitat, sob at the miracle of their existence.

“Under the pear tree/ Shadows and light conspiring/ Covered bridge, I scream/ Cottage Grove shade invite me.” —“Carrie & Lowell” In the 1870s, the citizens of Cottage Grove began a bitter debate about where to locate the post office, a conflict that raged for the next two decades. This was the most exciting happening in Cottage Grove’s dull but picturesque history—until being mentioned in a Sufjan Stevens song, at least. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Visit the town’s many covered bridges, stand inside them and scream to exorcise your anguish.

“I’m painting the hills blue and red/ They said beware/ Lord, hear my prayer/ I’ve wasted my throes on your head.” —“John My Beloved” Like the oils on an artist’s palette, the Painted Hills shift in colors, tones and hues depending on the season, the weather or even the time of day. Various volcanic eruptions have contributed to the geological majesty. Thirty-five million years have helped add to the mix as well. It’s fucking beautiful, and natural. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Dig for fossils, pray for salvation.

“Drag me to hell in the valley of The Dalles/ Like my mother/ Give wings to a stone/ It’s only the shadow of a cross.” —“No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross” The Army Corps of Engineers laid a concrete tourniquet across the majestic Columbia River at this storied location. In March 1957, they flooded the native people’s traditional fishing ground, and to add to the injury, then-Vice President Richard Nixon in 1959 officiated the dam’s dedication. RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Tour Oregon’s oldest museum, find an NA meeting.

“My blue bucket of gold/ Friend, why don’t you love me?/ Once the myth has been told/ The lens deforms it as lightning.” —“Blue Bucket of Gold” The story goes that in the fall of 1845, somewhere east of The Dalles, a multitude of shiny gold rocks was found and placed in a pioneer’s blue-colored bucket. The bucket was supposedly lost, as was the location of the mythical “mine.” RECOMMENDED ACTIVITIES: Search for hidden treasure, search for meaning, search for something to fill the void, stop in at the Sagebrush Saloon in Vale for a SouthWest Chile Cheese Burger. SEE IT: Sufjan Stevens plays Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, with Helado Negro, on Monday, June 8. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY–FRIDAY = WW Pick. Highly recommended. Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek. com/submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 PDX Pop Now! Compilation Release Party: Psychomagic, Rasheed Jamal, Robin Bacior

[SHAKE YR DISCS] The annual local music festival celebrates its annual compilation with its annual release show, featuring garage-rock nut-balls Psychomagic, Resistance rapper Rasheed Jamal and ethereal folkie Robin Bacior. Come for the comp, stay for the festival lineup reveal! Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 7:30 pm. $8 for digital download with entry, $10 for doubledisc CD. All ages.

Weeed, All Them Witches, LKN

[HEAVY PSYCH] Weeed hails from some bucolic island you can take a boat to from Seattle, then head off toward outrageous beauty in Olympic National Park. Maybe the opportunity to commune with nature enabled the trio to work up its bastardized Northwest version of Blue Cheer, all caterwauling solos and rolling low end. That riffing’s culmination, Our Guru Brings Us to the Black Master Sabbath, will soon be released. And the clutch of extended cuts the trio issued earlier, touching on everything from “Motorcycles” to “Falling Into the Earth,” doesn’t indicate anything other than a dedication to pummeling prime blues into the ground. DAVE CANTOR. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Imagine Dragons, Metric, Halsey

[MARVEL & SONS] A Mormonled troupe that cut its teeth in Vegas casinos, Imagine Dragons appears ideally suited to this age of mock-epic franchise spectaculars. Sophomore release Smoke Mirrors, soaring above mere widescreen riffs and technicolor choruses, may well be the first collection of IMAX Rock. As with the best modern blockbusters, hyper-personalized flourishes of daft whimsy and the playful assemblage of disparate touchstones—a little Arabian-flavored rap metal here, a little synth-fueled arena folk there—momentarily enrich an ultimately humorless, woefully familiar product. But the staggering scope can’t quite compensate for warmed-over lyrical platitudes absent the faintest trace of a recognizable humanity. JAY HORTON. Moda Center, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7:30 pm. $29.50-$59.50. All ages.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 Dead Meadow, Daydream Machine

[FLOWER-POWER METAL] There hasn’t been much news from the Dead Meadow camp since the band released its sixth album, Warble Womb, back in 2013. Original drummer Mark Laughlin has been back since 2010, and the band is self-releasing its music after a healthy stint on Matador. What’s also unchanged is Dead Meadow’s commitment to stony psychedelic riff rock, perfect for summer evenings. Like Mazzy Star covering the Melvins, the formula has remained quite static over the years, with the main variable being the sobriety of the band. Let’s hope we catch them on a good night. NATHAN CARSON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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placed on boats. His music isn’t upper-echelon, out-of-club hip-hop by any means, but Yelawolf raps cleanly and fast, and is a unique member of the hip-hop community. PARKER HALL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $21.50. All ages.

FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Best Coast, Bully

Holocene Turns 12: Psychemagik, Chanti Darling, Natural Magic, Cerise, Shy Girls (DJ set)

[BIRTHDAY PAR-TAY] Holocene celebrates a dozen years as Southeast Portland’s hippest club with U.K. remix magicians Psychemagik and Chanti Darling, a true-blue local supergroup featuring Natasha Kmeto and members of Magic Mouth and the Gossip playing smooth, ‘80s-gazing R&B. Also: Check out the venue’s rad new stage backdrop, which makes the bands look like they’re playing inside a geode. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

Neka & Kahlo, Rasheed Jamal, Ripley Snell, Verbz

[HIP-HOP SOUL] Neka and Kahlo blend the sensual and the political with a smoothness few other hip-hop tandems in town even attempt. After slowly leaking out new cuts weekly over the past month, the singer-rapper duo releases its new EP, Fridays in May, tonight. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Yelawolf, Hillbilly Casino, DJ Klever

[COUNTRY RAP] Yelawolf is hiphop’s Kid Rock, with more tattoos. In fact, the Alabama-born Eminem protegé, who comes to Portland in support of his recent studio release, Love Story, did a music video with Rock in 2011, in which—aside from the hair—they were nearly indistinguishable. It’s not just looks. Yelawolf also loves speech-song and the South, and prefers anthemic summertime beats that seem well-

[LIVE THROUGH THIS] I can’t say for certain that Nashville quartet Bully—led by singer, guitarist and engineer Alicia Bognanno—will be huge, but holy shit are they about to release one hell of a debut record. Alternating between monstrously catchy blasts of power pop and throat-shredding punk, Feels Like sees Bognanno oversharing details about ex-lovers and dirty bedsheets over fuzzy power chords and ringing bass that calls to mind altrock greats like Pixies and Veruca Salt. Stick around for Best Coast, too—though Bethany Cosentino is not the media darling she was a few years ago, her band is still pretty great at making us nostalgic about driving up the 101, this time with some added shoegazer oomph on new record California Nights. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Alhambra Theatre, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 610-0640. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Birdstriking, Møtrik, Coma Serfs

[CHINESE INDIE ROCK] They say the world is getting smaller, and seeing as how Birdstriking is the second rad Beijing band to hit the Foggy Notion in as many weeks, maybe they’re right. This isn’t Birdstriking’s first jaunt around the world—it’s been out alone and with the Brian Jonestown Massacre, which has championed the band—but it’s probably going to be your best-ever chance to see the trio in an intimate space. Noisy and unbridled at times, with melodic and shoegazey elements strewn throughout, the band has a rarefied inventive energy that will feel vaguely familiar to long-

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TOP FIVE FIVE LOCAL MUSIC PODCASTS 1. Party Boyz (soundcloud.com/ party-boyz-pdx) Rachel Milbauer and Elizabeth Elder—Portland’s Abbi and Ilana— shoot the shit with various local bands over brunch, often with hilariously digressive results. 2. Crate Diggers (cratediggers.net) DJs Verbz and Steez deep-dive into the art of vinyl excavation with local producers, primarily of the hip-hop variety—and sometimes talk about robots. 3. Faces on the Radio (facesontheradio.com) Full disclosure: I’ve been on the show twice. But there’s good reason for that. Imagine sports-talk radio, if all the shouting was about music. 4. Rose City Round (rosecityround.com) Songwriters of various persuasions unplug and discuss their muse in a rotating format. Recorded live at Kelly’s Olympian. 5. The Gritty Birds (soundcloud.com/grittybirds) A new podcast hosted by singer Jeni Wren, offering an in-depth look at the industry via the region’s “insider elite.” See below for information on the Episode 1 release show. MATTHEW SINGER. GO: The Gritty Birds podcast day party release show, featuring Alameda, Mikey Fountaine and Krist Krueger, is at Tender Loving Empire, 3541 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Saturday, June 6. 3 pm. Free. All ages. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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FRIDAY–SATURDAY time Northwest rock fans CASEY JARMAN. Foggy Notion, 3416 N Lombard St., 240-0249. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

Kinski, Sam Coomes, WL

[NOT COLDPLAY] No, not that Chris Martin—I’m talking about Kinski! Though the band’s frontman may share names with Coldplay’s ringmaster of the MOR, one listen to the grungy single “Flight Risk” inhibits all musical parallel. Over the course of 15 years and seven (or has it been eight?) albums, Kinski has gradually steered its space-rock sound earthward, excavating the muddy, distorted relics of Seattle and wearing them plain and proud. TED JAMISON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

Smmr Bmmr Fundraiser: Mope Grooves, Psychomagic, Mall Caste, Ladywolf, Lo-Fi Eyed

[FNDRSR] SMMR BMMR—sort of the “underground” PDX Pop Now—is returning this year, and to help get it off the ground, the organizers are doing what they do best: putting on a show, featuring some of Portland’s best emerging acts. Twilight Bar and Cafe, 1420 SE Powell Blvd., 232-3576. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

Seinabo Sey

[SOUL POP] For a former hypewoman, NPR’s latest love, Swedish-born Seinabo Sey, dons dulcet like a garment stitched specifically for her. Daughter of West African superstar Maudo Sey, Seinabo carries Afro-pop in her genes, but what one primarily hears are soulful vocals of Badu proportions, spiked with icy asymmetry akin to fellow Swedepoppers Robyn and Tove Lo. In performance, Sey often takes the stage with grace and vulnerability, confiding in the audience both in the context of her lyrics and her real-talk banter. TED JAMISON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Ari Hest

[TROUBADOURABLE] Tonight’s show has been advertised as “An Evening With Ari Hest,” which neatly fits both his dinner-partysoundtrack repertoire and storyteller approach to recent concerts. Not that yarns about legendary fans (Judy Collins, Suzanne Vega) or current collaborators (side projects include folk duo the Open Sea and Bluebirds of Paradise’s Brazilian pop act) need necessarily inform hummably introspective albums like last year’s Shouts and Whispers, a clutch of tunes built around those well-lit self-reflections invariably described as comforting. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 7 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

Hamilton Leithauser, Jack & Eliza

[LEITHAUSER, WITH LOVE] It’s been just over a year since Brooklyn croon-rock band the Walkmen decided to hang up its guitars and Oxford shirts and drift into that murky realm known as “extreme hiatus.” While the band will probably get back together in the next few years (everyone does these days), Bows + Arrows stans can still rely on a series of solo projects from their favorite band members, including singer Hamilton Leithauser. Released last June, Leithauser’s debut, Black Hours, is basically Walkmen Does Sinatra, a collection of stringand-marimba orchestral ballads and a few uptempo numbers that firmly positions him as a permanent Cool Dad singer. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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Great Lake Swimmers, the Weather Station [THE FOLK INTERNAL] The Weather Station is the elegant and enigmatic work of Tamara Lindeman, a singer-songwriter out of Toronto. Her fluttering lyrics and sensitive folk sounds are reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, especially on her third and latest full-length, Loyalty. The Canadian multi-instrumentalist grew up singing in a choir, going on to captain her own projects as well as carve out a decent acting career. As the Weather Station, Lindeman is the ultimate narrator, crafting eccentric Americana and filling it with unique characters and imaginative lyrics. Musical help for Loyalty came from a respectable cast, including Robbie Lackritz of Feist’s band and Afie Jurvanen of Bahamas, and it’s an LP that could have been released during the heyday of talkative acoustic folk in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Fellow Canadian indie-rockers Great Lake Swimmers headline. MARK STOCK. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm Sunday, June 7. $18 advance, $20 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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[ANGELWAVE] Formally recognized as E+E, Elysia Crampton is a transgressive (and transgender) artist from rural Virginia who uses notions of personal displacement, national belonging, ethnicity and gender identity as sonic palettes for sample-based collages. A true Nu-Romantic, her ambient soundscapes are templates for ethereal dance operas, similar to that of Arca, but more narrative in composition. Crampton’s latest work, Shenandoah, is an homage to her adoptive home in southern Appalachia as an indigenous origin story, and is the focus of a lecture delivered by the artist to accompany this performance. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 9 pm. $12. All ages.

name from a girlfriend’s younger brother in the ‘80s. Stones Throw— now the world’s most important independent hip-hop label—comes from a joke on Wolf’s mom, courtesy of San Jose rapper Charizma. It was Charizma’s untimely death in 1993 that pushed Wolf to found the label in the first place, and in late May he dropped a four-LP album of his and Charizma’s music. Circa 1990-1993 is easily Wolf’s largest since 1998’s My Vinyl Weighs a Ton, and is packed with classics and unreleased tracks alike: Stones Throw in a nutshell. He DJs here as part Alchemy’s Sunday matinee block party underneath the Hawthorne Bridge. MITCH LILLIE. Under the Hawthorne Bridge at Southeast Water Avenue, Southeast Madison Street between Water and the railroad tracks. 2 pm. $15. 21+.

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James McMurtry, Max Gomez

Bob Log III, Fireballs of Freedom

Elysia Crampton

[TWANGY FOLK] James McMurtry has carved out some cozy stylistic territory between the safe side of Loudon Wainwright and the smooth edge of Lyle Lovett. The 53-year-old songwriter, son of novelist Larry McMurtry, embodies a disenchanted brand of Americana that’s still a little irked about being too young for the Summer of Love—which means he’s big in Portland. His latest album, Complicated Game, is a hit-and-miss collection of everyman songs that talk about dead dogs, the dying fishing industry and a handful of old flames. It’s dad-rock cheesy from time to time, but when McMurtry channels the common folk, as he does on the moving eulogy “Deaver’s Crossing” and disgruntled work song “Carlisle’s Haul,” his appeal is crystal clear. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

The Warlocks, Hollow Sidewalks, Cambrian Explosion

[SHAKE THE DOPE OUT] It’s famously been said that not many people bought the Velvet Underground’s debut but everyone who did started a band. If that’s true, L.A. psych-rockers the Warlocks are probably the only ones who managed to embrace the narcotic-laden ethos of the VU and still crank out great records, not to mention stay alive. Their most recent LP, Skull Worship, was another tactfully stoned, slightly droned tribute to the darker sides of a foregone era’s panache. The band is heading back into the studio in the coming months, presumably once it finds a decent doctor to supply buprenorphine. CRIS LANKENAU. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9:30 pm. $12. 21+.

Wrekmeister Harmonies, Daniel Menche, Brumes

[MUSEUM-CORE] If heavy drones are your bag, you’ll not want to miss Wrekmeister Harmonies. Leader J.R. Robinsson has managed to sculpt metal-oriented atmospheres with enough high-concept elements to attract attention from galleries and arts foundations. Latest album Then It All Came Down features collaborations with a host of Chicago metal scenesters, including Wrest of Leviathan, who now resides in Portland. This piece debuted in a graveyard under a full moon. Now you can witness it in the sonic cavern of Mississippi. NATHAN CARSON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Alchemy: Peanut Butter Wolf, Gulls Rhythm Force, Natural Magic

[CHARIZMATIC BEATS] Peanut Butter Wolf bears the nomenclature of another era: He got his

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[EX-PAT BLUES] Raised in Tucson, Bob Log enjoys a fan base that stretches across the Pacific, where they find his kind to be more than just novelty. For nearly 20 years, Log has brought audiences the sight of not just a one-man band, but a folk hero fused through the sensibilities of a Mad Max costume designer. Log is more than a vocodered, motorcycle helmet-wearing, slide-guitar wailing, cheap-bar bantering son of a gun. He’s a modern bluesman on some astral truckstop circuit. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. $12. $12. 21+.

Blackbird Blackbird, Philip Grass

[ELECTRONIC DREAM POP] San Francisco musician Mikey Maramag—better known by the moniker Blackbird Blackbird—is an artist of many layers, and like uncovering the different strata of life on the forest floor, the more you pick at the his 2014 album, Tangerine Sky, the more bright and curious growth you’ll find. Built on a solid foundation of swarming, skittering electronic beats, Maramag’s mostly instrumental songs expertly blend the crisp and the mechanical with swirling moments of untethered atmosphere. Billowing with heavy beats that are then thoughtfully lightened by hollow blips of xylophone sounds, hazily circling guitar or M83-esque vocals, the music might be full of computerized starts and stops, but its warm sense of optimism lingers long after the snares fade. KAITIE TODD. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $12. 21+.

Halestorm, Rival Songs, Royal Thunder

[ONE STEP FORWARD…] Halestorm is a commercial hardrock band led by frontwoman Lzzy Hale. She started the band when she was 14 and has enjoyed remarkable success in a climate in which hard rock is often swept under the rug. Some would say that Hale sets a great example for young women. Others might suggest she’s a stone sellout— groomed by managers and stylists and jumping through mainstream hoops. Either way, her heavy riffs are getting radio play, garnering Grammys and album sales in the hundreds of thousands. I just wish Hale didn’t allow herself to be styled like a heavy-metal Britney Spears in order to get the job done. NATHAN CARSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Ron Sexsmith, Alice Phoebe Lou, Chris Margolin

[CROONER] Americans are skeptical of white soul singers, and when you drill down to it, Ron Sexsmith—whose voice is acrobatic but tempered by a nerdy tightness—is a soul singer. That and his lack of traditional sex appeal

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may explain why he’s never won over mainstream U.S. audiences. It’s a shame. The Canadian songwriter has an incredibly rewarding and deep discography, and he’s the kind of sonic savant that comes around only a few times per generation. Carousel One is another solid outing of sweet, perfectly executed Bacharach-analia that’s nearly as moody as Morrissey and almost as cool as Roy Orbison. CASEY JARMAN. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Amen Dunes, Ryley Walker, Xander Duell

[CELESTIAL FOLK] Damon McMahon (aka Amen Dunes) and Ryley Walker are perfect co-headliners. Both musicians offer an expansive, progressive take on spiritual folk. McMahon strips the music down to its elements, with little more than an echoing guitar. Walker draws it out with an ace backing band of Chicago jazz musicians. For better or worse, their recent albums— Love and Primrose Green, respectively—are indebted to the meditative wanderings of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, anchored by sprawling self-reflection and stoned melodies, both showcasing prodigious talents standing atop the pinnacle of their catalogs thus far. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Sebastian Bach

[HAIRSPRAY MEMORIES] He used to sing for B-level ‘80s meatless Skid Row. Either you’re going to be ironic, or you earnestly miss your youth. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 345-7892. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Improvisation Summit of Portland 2015

[SPONTANEOUS SOUND] The Creative Music Guild’s annual Improvisation Summit has become a multimedia flash point, sparking the creation of thrilling combinations of music and motion. This fourth annual edition brings Art Ensemble of Chicago co-founder Roscoe Mitchell, who will play, lecture, conduct and supervise performances of two major compositions. A promising new combo, Either Neither, pairs a string quartet with Portland cornetist Douglas Detrick and violinist Casey Bozell in music by Seattle composer-pianist Wayne Horvitz. The summit also features some of Portland’s top choreographers, jazzers and musicians, plus poetry, visual art and an hourlong series of improvised duets. BRETT CAMPBELL. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, 11:30 am Saturday, June 4-6. $15 one-day pass, $40 three-day pass. All ages.

Malgorzata Kellis

[POLISH SOPRANO] For the past few years, the Polish Music at Polish Hall series has brought Portland a series of classical and jazz performers and composers otherwise little known in the U.S. The latest, Polish-American soprano Malgorzata Kellis, has performed with major Polish and European orchestras. Her program, accompanied by Portland pianist Janet Coleman, includes the best-known Polish classical composers (Chopin, Paderewski, Lutoslawski) but also names like Kilar, Lorenc, Stachowicz, Niewiadomski, Moniuszko, Karlowicz and Kurpinski, whose music ranges from the Baroque era to the 21st century. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Stanislaus Parish, 3916 N Interstate Ave., 799-0387. 7:30 pm Friday, June 5. $15. All ages.

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AMY MILLER ON DOLLY PARTON Organizers of the Dolly Parton Hoot Night maintain that the evening is, in a refreshingly un-Portland turn, an event without an agenda—political, social or otherwise. It is quite simply a celebration of a person who is worthy of our praise. For those of you who stopped paying attention to Dolly during Bush Sr.’s administration, here are the reasons you messed up, and why Dolly Parton, 69, is not just relevant but probably deserving of some kind of sainthood. Why Dolly is an icon to believe in.

Supporting Dolly supports literacy. In four countries, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library will mail your child one book per month from birth to age 5. Parton founded the organization as a tribute to her illiterate father. That’s 60 free books per kid, plus the free and special gift of raising a child in 2015 who knows what it’s like to receive physical mail. Carl Dean is amazing and true love is real. Parton has been married to her asphalt-paving husband, Carl Dean, for nearly 50 years, after meeting at the Wishy Washy laundromat in Nashville in 1964. If you drive by Parton’s home in Brentwood, Tenn.—as I have done in an extremely non-threatening way—you’ll see that Dean laid a sparkly driveway for Dolly. I repeat: a sparkly driveway. Who doesn’t want a man who’s handy but also understands a flair for drama? Dolly is capable of artistic miracles. For creative types, long periods of artistic stagnation can leave us questioning our life choices. Next time you feel like there’s no “big hit” left in you, remember that Parton wrote “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” in the same damn night. Of the thousands of songs she has written, two of her biggest hits came out of one writing session in 1973, when she was apparently really feelin’ herself. So, you know, keep trying! Dolly is cooler than you think. Although Parton’s current “everybody’s grandmother” persona has dominated her cultural character for some time now, she has a complicated history. Footage of old Letterman interviews has Parton describing nights of drunken cavorting and streaking, and long-time rumors of her breast tattoos were confirmed last year. Though I cringe somewhat at ever focusing on Parton’s physical assets, the tattoos somehow lend her an air of bad-girlness I can really get behind. Dolly “leaned in” first. Long before Sheryl Sandberg, Parton worked from within the maledominated country music industry to get what she wanted, using her “dumb blonde” image to, in her words, trick men into thinking she was stupid long enough to walk away with their money. When singing partner Porter Wagoner tried to keep her from going out on her own, she walked. When Elvis wanted to record “I Will Always Love You” and keep half the proceeds, she flipped him the bird. Dolly’s advice? Know your worth. If you believe in your own talent, you’ll be paid what you deserve. AMY MILLER. SEE IT: The 10th annual Dolly Parton Hoot Night, featuring Amy Miller and Emily Overstreet, Catherine Feeny, Kathryn Claire and more, is at Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055, on Saturday, June 6. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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[JUNE 3-9] Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Tara Novellas, Pretty Gritty (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Crow and the Canyon, Allie Kral

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Music Millennium

3158 E. Burnside St. The Weather Machine

Roseland Theater

232 SW Ankeny St DonCat

White Eagle Saloon

3000 NE Alberta St. Noam Pikelny & Stuart Duncan

Analog Cafe

720 se Hawthorne Blvd The Starship Renegade, Least Of These, Hearts Like Lions, Of Confidence, Eternal Covenenant

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Buttermilk Biscuits, Old Outfits

Crystal Ballroom 1332 W. Burnside Tori Kelly

Duff’s Garage

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

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Battle For Warped Tour

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. PDX Pop Now! Compilation Release Party

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Rose City Round, Songs, Stories, and a Lil’ Twang

Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Rainbow Electric (9 pm); Little Sue’s Shine Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. All Them Witches, Weeed

Moda Center

1 N Center Court St. Imagine Dragons

Music Millennium

3158 E. Burnside St. Haley Johnsen

Old Church & Pub

30340 SW Boones Ferry Rd. Rich Layton and the Troublemakers

Peter’s Room 8 NW 6th Ave Jon Bellion

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Avenue Cosmonauts, La Witch, Jjuujjuu, Charts

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Carrion Spring, Aviator

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Nico & Vinz, Jason French, Siren XX

THURS. JUNE 4 Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Gepetto

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. White Wail, Burst Suppression

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Mystic Braves, Mr. Elevator, The Brain Hotel

350 West Burnside Tony Ozier’s Dookie Jam, Portland’s Original Funk Jam, David Dondero, Hod Hulphers, and Michael Dean Damron

Doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Dead Meadow, Daydream Machine

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Tough Love Pyle

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Psychemagik & Chanti Darling, Natural Magic, Cerise, Shy Girls, House of Aquarius

836 N Russell St. Folded Forest, The Banner Days

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Anuhea and Etana, Queens of the Islands Tour

FRI. JUNE 5 Alhambra Theatre

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Best Coast, Bully

Analog Cafe

720 se Hawthorne Blvd Teenage Bottlerocket, The Copyrights, Broadway Calls, & Toxic Kid

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. The Cryptics

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Souvenir Driver, Bed., Cat Hoch

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W. Burnside The Polish Ambassador, The Liminus Visual Experience, Desert Dwellers, Dirtwire

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Cupcake, with Stella Mooney

Doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Joseph Arthur, Jill Sobule

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Vicki Stevens Sonny Hess Band, Lady Kat, Reverb Bros

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Pumps, Speaker Thief, ManX

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group 426 SW Washington St. Nehla and Khalo, Rasheed Jamal, Ripley Snell, Verbz

The Secret Society

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Valentine’s

Dante’s

2026 NE Alberta St. Kinski, WL, Sam Coomes

The Know

8 NE Killiingsworth St Faxes, Fashionclub, Darkwraith Covenant

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Human Shaped Earth, Lord Alba, Scorpion Warrior

The Foggy Notion

2845 SE Stark St. Takimba

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Panic Room

10350 N Vancouver Way Brian James, Matt W Band

116 NE Russell St. Scott McCaughey & Wesley Stace

116 NE Russell St. Baby & The Pearl Blowers, Melissa Roane

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

Ponderosa Lounge

The Know

The Secret Society

Jimmy Mak’s

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Commonly Courteous & Marca Luna, The Shelter, Born Cosmic

The Foggy Notion

2026 NE Alberta St. Los Crips, Fungi Girls, Honey Bucket, Love Cop

WED. JUNE 3

Panic Room

3416 N Lombard St. Birdstriking, Mtrik, Coma Serfs

The GoodFoot Lounge

Alberta Rose Theatre

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Federale, Joel Gion, Elephant Stone

8 NW 6th Ave. Yelawolf

3416 N Lombard St. Scourge of Ians, PS-AX and Bobby Peru

THE REST IS NOISE: There’s really only one barometer for a band’s success in live performance: “Did the crowd go apeshit?” At Doug Fir Lounge on May 29, they did. They went apeshit from the moment Refused took the stage, even though the band opened with a single (“Elektra”) from its new album. These motherfuckers knew the words and they started the pit in earnest. And because just about everyone there was in their 30s, it was a caring, gentle pit. Refused’s live show was always purported to be the real shit back in the ’90s, mostly because singer Dennis Lyxzén had zero interest in being a traditional hardcore frontman. His dance moves were part Jarvis Cocker, part James Brown. He did elaborate microphone tricks like a big-band crooner. His band wore nice suits. And all of that shit still worked. Twenty-odd years after this band started playing, and with lineup changes I can’t be bothered to Google, the live show is still really something to behold. There wasn’t an elaborate light show or stage setup, there was just this electrifying frontman who’s still willing to throw himself into the crowd as a 42-year-old. He gets to be 25 again, and we get to be 18 again, and everything is fucking urgent for an hour and change. That’s my review. All the other shit about politics and ticket prices is stupid. Bands are bands, they don’t run for office and they don’t pass legislation. CASEY JARMAN. See the full review at wweek.com/lastweeklive.

Mississippi Studios

Kelly’s Olympian

Laurel Thirst Public House

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

8 NE Killiingsworth St Autopilot is for Lovers, Deer Souls, Mikah Sykes

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd. Smmr Bmmr: Mope Grooves and Psychomagic, Mall Castle, Lady Wolf, and LO-FI Eyed

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Seinabo Sey

SAT. JUNE 6 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Haley Johnsen, My Brothers and I

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. 10th Annual Dolly Parton Hoot Night

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Battleaxe Massacre, American Roulette, Fallen Theory, 30 Pound Test

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Blackbear

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Neon Culpa, The English Language, Rilla and Mask & Marrow

Doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Howie Day

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Hip Stew, DK Stewart Sextet

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Thistle Stalk, Path To Ruin, Bones For Crows, Trojan Swamp Monster

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Spirit Lake, Hungry Skinny, Nathan Trueb (Tango Alpha Tango)

Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. James Dean Kindle, Future Historians (9:30 pm); Amanda Richards (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ari Hest

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hamilton Leithauser, Jack & Eliza

Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Devils of Loudun, Entering Oblivion Tour

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Audioglobe Showcase, Ellington Willoughby & the Andrew Jacksons, Surf Stoned & The Sun Drunks

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Gin & Tillyana, Buffalo Buffalo, Laugh At Linus

The GoodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Asher Fulero Band, Devin Phillips Band

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. The Century, Joel Magid & The Hyenas, Ah God

The White Eagle

836 N. Russell St. DoveDriver, Joytribe

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killiingsworth St Dramady, Lord Master, DJ Transition Disorder

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Year of the Dragon, The Ransom, Vegetable Revival, Project 86

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Reverb Brothers, Soul Saturdays with DoveDriver, Hearts of Oak

Yale Union (YU)

800 SE 10th Ave. Elysia Crampton

SUN. JUNE 7 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. James McMurtry, Max Gomez

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Great Lake Swimmers, The Weather Station

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Virtual Zero, Amadon, Castles

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. The Warlocks, Hollow Sidewalks, Cambrian Explosion

Couch Park

NW Glisan and Path Marimbapalooza

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Jet Black Pearl

Hawthorne Theatre

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Autograf, Danny Merkury, Chrome Wolves, Danny Corn

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Neon Trees, Alex Winston, Yes You Are

MON. JUNE 8 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Sufjan Stevens

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Cut Cut Paste, The Lovely Lost, Brown Erbe, Land of the Living

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Bob Log II, Fireballs Of Freedom

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Crowbar, Battlecross, Lord Dying, Proven

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Blackbird Blackbird

Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DIVIDES & City of the Weak, Black Sky, Earth Anchor

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Halestorm, Rival Sons, Royal Thunder

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Ron Sexsmith, Alice Phoebe Lou, Chris Margolin

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Drowse

TUES. JUNE 9 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jonathan Richman and Tommy Larkins

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Gateway Drugs (LA), Love Cop, MELT

Doug Fir Lounge

1507 SE 39th Ave. Veil of Maya and Revocation, Oceano, Gift Giver, and Entheos

830 East Burnside Street Amen Dunes, Ryley Walker, Xander Duell

Laurel Thirst Public House

2530 NE 82nd Ave Hi Fi Mojo

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

Lincoln Performance Hall

1620 SW Park Ave. Portland Wind Symphony

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Wrekmeister Harmonies, Daniel Menche, Brumes

Rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killiingsworth St Coconino, Client

Under the Hawthorne Bridge

SE Madison St., between Water Ave. and the railroad tracks Alchemy: Peanut Butter Wolf, Gulls Rhythm Force, Natural Magic

Duff’s Garage

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Kottonmouth Kings, (hed) PE, The Family Ruin, Scare Don’t Fear

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Jacob Grimm Hosts

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet, Mt. View High School Jazz Band

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Sebastian Bach

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. 3rdegree + Thad Wenatchee, Hash Adams, OK, Northern Draw

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Earth Anchor, Amos Val and Madam Officer

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Where to drink this week. 1. Solae’s Lounge

1801 NE Alberta St., 206-8338, solaeslounge.com. In the spot where punk dive the nest burned down in 2012, Solae’s is now a standing party on Alberta, a jazz-blues freefor-all where legendary lloyd Allen Sr. plays Saturday, the day after Mel Brown’s son Christopher pounds the skins behind his quartet.

2. no Fun

1711 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-8067, devilsdill.com. you can now get your favorite tasty-ass, fivespice pulled-pork Devil’s Dill sandwich in an amiable, sunny bar, with one of five craft taps, a reasonably priced $8 negroni, a Pickleopolis pickle plate with beets, or especially the $8.50 house martini—gin and vermouth dirtied up not with olives but with pickle juice.

3. Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St., 234-5683, killingsworthdynasty.com. like a north Portland Holocene from the guy who made rotture and the Tube, the deeply queerfriendly Dynasty is a much-needed dance-party venue for the art kids who’d rather not bike over the Alameda ridge to get home.

4. Portland Cider House

3638 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 206-6283, portlandcider.com. Finally, a cider bar in the central city, with 24 rotating taps of almost all local cider (with a little english thrown in), and six-cider flights for a mere $7. The best recently? A hopped Apple outlaw, just released to the world.

5. McMenamins Tavern & Pool

1716 NW 23rd Ave., 227-0929, mcmenamins.com. Quietly, the restaurant-side bar of this least-acknowledged intracity McMenamins has become the most voluminously stocked cider bar in northwest Portland, with six taps of the stuff, and a hilariously jumbled but terrifically wellstocked whiskey bar behind the taps.

BAR RESCUE: “Whooooooooa!” A dozen heads turn toward the potbellied man in the white NASCAR hat and Jimmy Buffett tour T-shirt standing in the doorway. “I like the light in here!” At last, they’ve let the sunshine in at Sandy Hut (1430 NE Sandy Blvd., 235-7972), and even the blue-collar regulars can’t complain. In March, when the owners of Club 21 took over the 92-year-old purple box a half-mile west, Portland pre-emptively grumbled—never mind that there’s little that could’ve been done to ruin “Handy Slut” that it hadn’t already done to itself. It was a dark, charmless place, earning landmark status only because it managed to go almost a century without getting bulldozed. A bougie makeover, in this case, might’ve been an improvement. But what Marcus Archambeault and Warren Boothby have done is less a full-scale remodel than the sort of rearrangement a mother might give her son’s bedroom after he finally moves out: scrub the stink out of the carpets, move some furniture around, and open a damn window. The integrity of Sandy Hut, such as it was, has been maintained, except now that the paint has been cleaned off the glass bricks at the rear end of the building, you can actually see it: the vintage beer schwag; the Playboy pinball machine; the pool table with lion heads carved into the corners; the awesome Al Hirschfeld mural, now prominently displayed. Once the sort of dive where Don Draper would go to drink himself to death, it could now be his rec room. Not everything survived the changeover. Shuffleboard is gone, and live music—which briefly re-energized the bar toward the end of its previous iteration—doesn’t appear to be in the cards. Change isn’t always seamless. But sometimes, it’s necessary. Whoa, indeed. MATTHEW SINGER.

80s Video Dance Attack

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. Hew Francisco

The Liquor store

Wed. June 3 Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night

Thurs. June 4 Panic room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Alexander East

The Liquor store

3341 SE Belmont St. Beat Lab Radio

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Shadowplay

Fri. June 5 holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Total Freedom, DJ Rafael, Massacooramaan, Princess Dimebag

Lola’s room

1332 W Burnside

3341 SE Belmont St. Natural Magic, The Journeymen

sAT. June 6 holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment, Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Roane

The spare room

4830 NE 42nd Ave Sugar Town

sun. June 7 Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. Killer Queen

Mon. June 8 Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Fight Church TV, Jessie

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

511 NW Couch St. Metal Mondays, Metal Kyle and DJ Shreddy Krueger

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Bicycle Men

American cyclist Steve’s tour through the French countryside takes a turn when his bike breaks down near a tiny village in this musical comedy co-written by Chicago comedians Joe Liss and John Rubano. While waiting for mechanical help, Steve bursts into song, accompanied by his new horde of ridiculous French peasants. Think Tour de France a la Rodgers and Hammerstein, starring the Monty Python clan. Oui, s’il vous plait. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm FridaySunday. $30-$35.

Radio Theater: Trick Soldier

L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986), was a man of diverse talents: He founded the Church of Scientology and also wrote pulp fiction. In his honor, Portland’s Church of Scientology is bringing in Martin Kove (The Karate Kid) for this staging of Hubbard’s 1936 pulp-fiction story “Fifty Fifty O’Brien.” performed with retro panache in the style of the golden age of radio theater. Hubbard’s heroic Winchester Smith is tired of shooting fake ducks at the carnival, so he heads to war in the jungles of Central America. Church of Scientology , 309 SW 3rd Ave., 228-0116. 4 pm and 7 pm Saturday, June 6. $15.

Slant: Live Queer Storytelling

Seven LGBTQXYZ storytellers perform seven-minute stories on the theme “Hot Dish.” Emceed by the fabulous queen-faggot-bastard-rule-breaker Pepper Pepper. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm Tuesday, June 9. $14. 21+.

confused Romeo and a whole folio of comic edits in this directorial first from NWCTC actress Brenan Dwyer, who also created the online sketch-comedy show Potty Talk. Northwest Classical Theatre Company, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, May 22-June 21. $22.

Mame

Depression-era eccentric Mame Dennis introduces her nephew to a free-wheeling lifestyle of parties with washed-up actresses and unfortunate Southern gents like Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. We’re supposed to find that “life’s a banquet” in this encouraging musical from the Lake Oswego theater, which will pelt you with famous jingles like “We Need a Little Christmas” and “Bosom Buddies.” Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm and 7 pm Sunday, through June 14. $37.

From the comedy crew that brought you Flair: An Office Space Parody comes Buffy: A Parody Musical, Funhouse’s newest illogical repurposing of something you really loved in the ’90s. The original is still enticing, do we need more? Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday through June 6. $16-$20.

Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare gets a plaid button-up, fixie and a man-bun for this update to his classic, mistaken-identity comedy from Post 5’s founding artistic director Ty Boice. The long-lost Antipholus of Elizabetha (originally Syracuse in Shakespeare’s day) and his manservant stumble upon the new realm of Portland’a, which is ironically the hometown of Antipholus’ twin. And of course Antopholus’ manservant also has a twin, who also happens to be the manservant to Antipholus’ twin. Fill in the blanks with star-crossed lover jokes, wrongful accusations and gags. As usual, Post 5 is sure to give things a shake; in Twelfth Night Chip Sherman was the female lead in drag. Now he’s a ginger’s twin. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday, through June 27, and 7:30 pm Thursday, June 25. $20.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Northwest Classical Theatre Company is going out with an extravagant bang. The company will be dissolving after this last production, a comic re-imagination of its usual Shakespearian source material. Bard scholar Constance Ledbelly falls headfirst into her trash can, only to find it a rabbit hole into Shakespeare’s plays. She encounters morbid Juliet, sexually-

Three Days of Rain

If you describe your mother as “sort of like Zelda Fitzgerald’s less stable sister,” chances are your childhood wasn’t rosy. Walker and Nan, the brother and sister at the center of Richard Greenberg’s engrossing play, Three Days of Rain, live in a chronic state of post-traumatic stress. In middle age, they’re still licking the psychological wounds inflicted by their parents, an emotionally withholding architect named Ned and an alcoholic Southern belle named Lina. As the play begins, Walker and Nan are about hear their father’s will. They get a gutpunching surprise when it turns out the old man didn’t leave his awardwinning home to them. Instead, it goes to a soap-opera actor named Pip, the

son of Ned’s architectural collaborator, Theo. This sets in motion a complex plot as the children learn more about their parents’ lives. And the more they learn, the less they understand. RICHARD SPEER. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays and noon Thursdays through June 21. $34-$74.

The Undiscovered Country

This play is all explicit, drug-tripping episodes and provocative sex scenes on a minimalist stage at Back Door Theater. The flamboyant narrator and drug-dealer Terry (Matthew Kern) leads a four-person cast and provides for its characters’ plentiful narcotic needs. It’s an unglamorous portrait of drugged-out relationships, reminiscent of a bad thriller where the group dwindles down to one forsaken victim, The Undiscovered Country is a dark, opiate-filled, waiting game. It would be a dreary, tiresome tale if not for the tiny cast’s strong performances. After all,

it’s just a matter of time until the next character overdoses. AMY WOLFE. Back Door Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSundays through June 20. Pay-whatyou-can Thursdays and Sundays, $15-$25 Friday-Saturday.

The Winter’s Tale

Director Caitlin Fisher-Draeger crafts a sparse world dominated by Leontes (Glen McCumber), who alternates between attacking his wife for imagined infidelity and showing tender affection for his son. Leontes’ raw emotion hits hard thanks to the bleak setting and an eerily beautiful live soundtrack. The second half flips, transforming the drama into a comedy bursting with song and vibrant colors. You can’t avoid cringing when Leontes screams at his wife during her trial in the first half, and it’s impossible not to laugh when Polixenes (Brian Demar

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PREVIEW

Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play

When the apocalypse comes, only The Simpsons will remain. That’s completely possible in Portland, where Simpsons creator Matt Groening and playwright Anne Washburn both used to live. Catastrophe survivors in Portland Playhouse’s newest comedy reminisce about Homer and his Technicolor world while they wait for who-knows-what in their own ruined universe. Local actor Brian Adrian Koch (Portlandia, Grimm) stars with Isaac Lamb, who’s notorious for his elaborate YouTube proposal in 2012. But the big question is: Did the doughnuts make it? Thirty-five-minute Act I is staged outside, rain or shine, or apocalypse. Ponchos provided. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 8:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday through June 7. $20-$36.

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brutal objectivity, that takes…courage. JAY HORTON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, noon Thursdays, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday through June 14. $25-$50.

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no cHIcken: company dancer savannah Quinn with artistic director Gina candland.

She Is King

Billie Jean King, the tennis star known for smashing the sports glass ceiling in the 1970s and the 2001 battle-ofthe-sexes docudrama When Billie Beat Bobby, put her seal of approval on this multimedia show from Boom Arts. The production recreates King’s TV interviews from the ’70s with live acting, retro video replays and some potted plants that Boom is perplexingly excited about. Post-show talks throughout the run will host local Title IX educators, Portland State professors, Lindsay Schnell from Sports Illustrated and Sarah Mirk of Bitch Media. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Sundays, through June 7. $25-$35.

The Lion

Benjamin Scheuer’s one-man show is billed as a play, but The Lion doesn’t feel like one. Trade the six guitars balanced on the Ellyn Bye Studio’s minimalist stage for a baby grand, costume our protagonist in a brocaded gown, offer the crowds cocktail service, and the tuneful tell-all would seamlessly become cabaret. But his songs fade from memory mid-chorus. and the autobiographical tales he sings about his deceased father and fight with cancer would crush the dullest dinner party. But he is an engaging performer. The adept instrumentalist comes off as an effervescent Danny Kaye filtered through a gimlet-eyed Steve Zahn as he cranks out hook-challenged ballads with by-the-numbers rhyme schemes in place of proper lyrics. The sinking fault is Scheuer’s blinkered self-regard. Even his songs about recovering from a rare form of cancer serve more to confirm his sense of self-importance than to elicit emotion. Scheuer has brains aplenty and a heart as big as all outdoors, But forging public entertainment from private pain with

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À LA MODE (MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET) A BALLET WHERE WEIGHT DOESN’T MATTER. At 5-foot-10, Briley Neugebauer was too tall. At 125 pounds, Amanda Coleman was too heavy. The strict physical requirements for female ballerinas are tighter than their pointe shoes. Which is why it’s a big deal to see the nonconformist Moxie Contemporary Ballet land at Newmark Theatre, one of Portland’s most refined stages, to perform À La Mode on Thursday, June 4. “Our dancers are athletes, not clothes hangers,” says artistic director Gina Candland, a former San Francisco Ballet dancer, who co-founded Moxie three years ago. It is the only ballet company in the nation that doesn’t weigh its dancers, she says, unlike other companies that write weight requirements into their dancers’ contracts. “They operate on that old-fashioned aesthetic that says dancers have to be 110 pounds,” said Coleman, the petite principal dancer. She was the youngest-ever resident dancer at Eugene Ballet Company until she turned 17 and was given a month to lose 10 pounds or be kicked out. She’s now dancing with Moxie. Moxie’s vision is decidedly unconventional; Candland trains her dancers with unusual crosstraining workouts that mix hand weights, lunges, fitness balls and regular handstand practice. “If you

don’t fit in, come audition here,” she says. The result is a fledgling company made up of a dozen very different body types, which turns out to be its crowning virtue. That diversity gets dancers off the scale and out of the box, says Candland, who relishes choreographing pieces that rail-thin ballerinas couldn’t pull off. Matchstick arms wouldn’t hold up through the athletic choreography of À La Mode’s three worldpremiere pieces. “It’s breakdancing, en pointe,” said Neugebauer, describing a dream-sequence dance, where the ballerinas regularly balance on their hands and float like hovercraft, inches above the ground. The “baby company,” as Candland dubs her family of ballet misfits, is dancing for social change. Hot off the Rose Festival stage, Moxie will advocate body acceptance in summer kids classes and at the Bite of Oregon, all the while preparing for a bigger next season. But not everyone is happy to see this form of ballet grow. On a recent tour, another company’s director confronted Candland about the Moxie dancers’ lunch of salmon salads and chicken sandwiches. “She claimed they were setting a bad example for her company.” ENID SPITZ. see IT: À La Mode is at Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335, on Thursday, June 4. 7:30 pm. $42.40-$47.25.

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CONDEMNED: Ken Doud and Debbie Larsen.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE (TWILIGHT THEATER COMPANY) George Washington Slept Here is one fixer-upper of a play, one of the lesser comedies from legendary playwriting duo George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart (You Can’t Take It With You, The Man Who Came To Dinner). Faithful adaptations must possess either technical wizardry or outsized charm to overcome the play’s weak foundation, poor construction and plentiful structural flaws. Both redeeming qualities are sorely lacking in Twilight Theater Company’s current production. To be fair, the play’s central plot simply doesn’t make for a pleasant two hours. Without issuing the slightest word of warning to his teenage daughter or urbanite wife, Newton Fuller relinquishes their New York City apartment, signs on a mortgage for a crumbling relic in the middle of nowhere and blows the family savings on increasingly desperate renovations. Any actor in the role of Newton Fuller has to walk a tightrope between unbelievable naiveté and irredeemable arrogance. Disastrously, Twilight Theater’s Ken Doud chooses instead to belly-flop into hammy psychosis. He telegraphs each joke and announces each epiphany with an overexaggerated flourish, and the effect approximates a panicky Richard Dreyfuss as stroke victim. There are moments when Debbie Larsen’s Mrs. Fuller gets the spotlight to coolly threaten a conniving young relation or trade wry quips about faithless men with another actress, and her oddball elegance builds comic momentum. But time and again Doud arrives on the scene and sucks all the air from the theater, slowing what should be a farcical comedy into a plodding study of marital dysfunction. Perhaps miscasting or suspension of disbelief are to blame. Doud and Larsen come across as too old for their roles. An early monologue in which Mr. Fuller imagines himself a codger decades hence seems nonsensical given his already graying hair. And the family’s climactic brush with foreclosure feels less like a frustrating comeuppance of a youthful mistake and more like a grave tragedy. And if the Fuller couple is past middle age, this puts Newton’s Uncle Stanley practically on the threshold of death. Stanley was originally conceived as a pompous gasbag tolerated because of his supposed wealth, but we can’t help but sympathize with Tony Smith’s enfeebled portrayal—long naps, sudden chills, and misremembered stories retold seem acceptable sins of the elderly. Even the play’s house seems poorly cast. Since so many lines are spent detailing the extent of the house’s disrepair, an inventive set design might have compensated for the underwhelming performances. Recently, for example, a well-regarded revival at David Douglas High School managed to replicate a leaking roof. But this production does not even include sound effects for the continual intrusion of an outdoor drill vainly digging for water. It’s a lapse in production especially notable when the only background noise came from fans to cool the audience on an unseasonably warm opening night. Theater should be judged on more than stagecraft, of course, but barring some groundbreaking technique to illustrate the building’s rise and fall, why bother exhuming the play in the first place? If there’s any lesson George Washington teaches us, it’s that some fixer-uppers are better just left alone. JAY HORTON.

This old house might just fall down.

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Jones) and Camillo (Paul Susi) disguise themselves as old men and attend a riotous party. IAN CLARK. Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant Ave., 686-0294. 7:30 pm Friday, May 15, Thursday-Sunday through June 13. Additional performance June 8. $15.

COMEDY & VARIETY The Aces: For Your Pleasure

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“A disturbed state of mind” made corporeal, this is a horror ﬁlm reimagined as contemporary dance. Kristina Santos-Lindquist, director of the local Lyric modern dance company, dances the part of an innocent girl, Gracie, who enters a state of mental pandemonium while lounging in her minimalist bedroom. Joined by a shadowy chorus that’s backlit and garbed in dark street clothes like Doc Martens, Grace alternately crawls, krumps and pirouettes around the haunted

Adventures in Dating

REVIEW

It sounds like a Sunset magazine feature on OkCupid, but Playback Theater’s monthly awkward-ﬁrstdate show takes audience members’ dating horror shows and gives them to improv comics for fodder. Because what better way to forget that blind date at the old Sandy Hut than to see all its PBR-scented glory re-enacted on stage in front of a crowd. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 6. $15.

Jon Lovitz

Lovitz (Rat Race, Seinfeld, Friends) boasts a 1985 to 1990 run as a cast member of Saturday Night Live for his claim to fame, but he switched to mocking fame when his selfnamed comedy club played host to the MMA Roast. Watching Lovitz and his Gumby-like facial expressions is a character study in itself. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm Friday and 7:30 and 10 pm Saturday. $30-$38. 21+.

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

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Random Acts of Comedy

Curious Comedy puts on a freewheeling show that brings together sketch, standup and improv. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm every Saturday. $7-$10.

Stars of That Metal Show

The hard-rock-obsessed, VH1 Classic talk show jumps from TV to stage. The regular-guy-crew hosts: Jim Florentine (The Howard Stern Show), Don Jamieson and Eddie Trunk. Trunk will be stumped with trivia questions, top-5 debates will rage, and riﬀs will wail. Prepare your Tiger Balm for morning-after headbanging relief. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 9 pm Thursday, June 4. $25.

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Pastie Pageant

A nine-week-long competition, the Pastie Pageant promises a mix of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Survivor, with burlesque and boylesque dancers competing weekly for the winning prize. Designed to hone the skills of up-and-comers, the pageant picks a musical theme and a random skill each week that must be incorporated into the following week’s acts. Produced by Zane Phoenix, expect a rotating panel of judges each week with some of Portland’s best in burlesque. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 9:30 pm Thursdays through June 11. $7-$10. 21+.

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Hella Feller!

Hosted by Trevor Thorpe, Hella Feller’s standup production returns to its iconic timber home with Portland favorite Sean Patton, master of pouring salt on humanity’s gaping ﬂaws and making it funny. Seattle refugee Bryan Cook joins for a cynical comedy pairing about life’s funny misfortunes. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm Sunday. $12. 21+.

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Del-ir-ium

The Aces, Chicago-Portland comedy duo Michael Fetters and Shelley McLendon, mash standup, dance and theater into their all-in, multisensory performance for your pleasure. Fetters once made a cameo appearance in a Grimm episode; McLendon got one line in Portlandia. With the stage all their own, the pair mock everyday monotony and sing in a style that draws comparisons to the Who and R&B greats Peaches & Herb. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, through June 13. $20.

bedroom set. May not be suitable for kids. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm SaturdaySunday. $24.21.

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acoustic versions of Elliott Smith and Samuel Barber. This multimedia showcase is a world premiere from partners and co-artistic directors Ashley Roland and Jamey Hampton, whose unique shows reveal their past choreographing for operas and ﬁlms. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday; 2 pm Saturday; through June 6. $25-$64.

Cosmosis

BodyVox brings in Carnegie Hall alums, the Amphion String Quartet, to soundtrack a contemporary dance and ﬁlm performance with

I SPY: Amy Newman (background, left) and Chris Murray.

THE LIAR (ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE) Ives’ web of lies ﬂies.

The Liar is flouncing in on the coattails of Portland’s 17th-century comedy binge. Theater Vertigo’s The School for Lies, Portland State University’s The Misanthrope and Portland Center Stage’s Cyrano opened the door, and now Artists Repertory Theatre artistic director Dámaso Rodriguez brings the real feast. The year is 1643. Having just arrived in Paris, our liar Dorante (Chris Murray) hires a new servant and right-hand man, Cliton (Artist Rep resident John San Nicolas). Dorante immediately falls for brash Clarice (Amy Newman) in an intimate moment that’s magnified by the minimalism of Artists Rep’s simple staging, and then he attempts to seduce her over an elaborate, 15-course meal. But Dorante spins himself into a tangled web when he mistakes Clarice’s shy confidant Lucrece (Chantal DeGroat) for the object of his affection and pursues her instead. Meanwhile, his best buddy Cliton is chasing the ladies’ maids, Sabine and Isabelle (both played convincingly by Val Landrum). The eponymous liar is on point when he says, “Our lives can out-fick the finest fictions.” When Dorante’s father (Allen Nause) and Clarice’s fiance (Gilberto Martin del Campo) join the action, eight becomes a crowd, and Dorante’s cast of lies only further complicates everything. The production is indebted to David Ives’ adaptation of Corneille’s original script. Ives offers cleverly executed social banter, entirely in verse but with a decidedly 21st-century tone. And the play’s exaggerated costuming, all accentuated bustles and coquettish wigs, matches its cheerful theme and rhyming banter. But it’s San Nicolas’ and Murray’s warp-speed elocution and fraternal chemistry that carry the play. When Dorante explains to Cliton that lying is like adding spice to a bland fish dish, their saucy banter is a perfect example of that liar’s wit. There’s plenty of intrigue, but this is no Dostoyevsky: We can hear the wedding bells chime when the house lights dim. But with the stage so neatly set, Artists Rep’s The Liar lets us sit back and relish the witty wordplay with a smooth finish of fine acting. AMY WOLFE.

SEE IT: The Liar is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays, through June 21. Additional matinee 2 pm Saturday, June 20. $25-$49.

VISUAL ARTS

JUNE 3–9

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

Mothmeister’s Wounderland: Surreal World of Imagination, Nightmares and Taxidermy

Mothmeister is an artistic, taxidermy-loving duo based in Antwerp, Belgium. They anthropomorphize their bestial preserves with outfi ts and masks as a reaction against the dominant exhibitionism of selfi e culture and beauty standards marketed by mass media. Is it a lot of contemporary aff ect to justify playing with dead animals, or is there real critique of our ever present narcissism and surveillance state? Both! Seeing so many of the Wounderland populace together creates a fuller image the way that putting pieces of a puzzle together do. It’s not long before you imagine these faceless but unforgettable fi gures looking back at you, and you can’t help but wonder what you seem to them. I went and bought the pack of 7 postcards that I want to get laminated and use as coasters. Through June 9. Paxton Gate, 4204 N Mississippi Ave., 719-4508.

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Camino del Diablo

I expect a lot from landscapes for many of the same reasons I expect a lot from paintings of grain elevators, because art history. I wasn’t all that impressed with last month’s ﬂat, golden silos, but I’ll reserve judgment of this crop of desert landscapes featuring mountainous panoramas, cacti and shifting light by Mark Klett. If they live up to the title of the show they’re sure to take us somewhere interesting. Through July 18. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Dazed and Glazed

Greenberg might have called it kitsch, but back in the heyday of the ’50s and ’60s everyone had a boldly designed smoking dish on their coﬀee table. In light of marijuana’s upcoming legalization, Thurman Street Collective is bringing us decorative ashtrays by local artist Brett Stern, which combine his industrial-design training and ceramic skills. With a variety of glazes and shapes that are fun to stare at while stoned, Dazed and Glazed embraces the rituals inherent to the smoking-for-pleasure process. Through June 5. Thurman Street Collective, 2384 NW Thurman St., 971-803-7970.

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Entwined: A Sound Installation

Can sound be expressed through nonmusical mediums? This question is the crux of Ethan Rose’s newest body of work, though you may be familiar with him from TBA Festivals of yore. Strings taut between speakers vibrate from the multichannel audio output, and drawings record the eﬀect on paper when the strings are inked. Together the experiential installation and archival work investigates the materiality of acoustic vibration. Pay attention to how you hear; is it just with your ears, or does the show create a more complex sensory experience? Through June 27. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Gardens of Delight

Mary Henry is a Northwest Modernist icon who’s work has long reﬂected her interest in the ideas of Bauhaus champion László Moholy-Nagy. Henry has spent the past half-century perfecting a spare yet expressive visual language out of geometric shapes and bold graphic colors. Unlike Piet Mondrian’s dispassionate geometry, Henry’s abstract compositions are emotionally charged experiences. Through July 11. Jeﬀrey Thomas Fine Art, 2219 NW Raleigh St., 544-3449.

Hold That Thought

Jiseon Lee Isbara uses text and textiles to reflect on her experiences as an immigrant wrangling with communication. Textual illegibility represents her sense of displacement, while obsessive attention to detail compensates and orders. Applying the time-consuming process of embroidery to markers of modern efficiency such as flashcards, paper receipt rolls, and study tabs, Hold that Thought promises to be an exhibition that will make you pause and look. Through June 27. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101.

Horizon With Crow

An exhibition of new work by Rick Bartow, a prolific Native artist from Newport, coincides with his retrospective Things You Know but Cannot Explain, on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon. Bartow creates expressive and mystical drawings paintings and sculptures influenced by his Wiyot heritage and his service during the Vietnam War. With a linear, abstract style, Bartow creates anthropomorphic figures that feature in cultural stories or serve as personal catharsis. Through July 18. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

How long has PICA been an artistic mainstay? Twenty years, according to the curated retrospective of the ﬁ rst decade, from 1995 to 2005. Those early years were lead by founder Kristy Edmunds, whose unique vision included emerging and established regional, national and international artists. Her legacy lives on in the annual Time-Based Art Festival that includes visual, sound, dance and performing arts. At 5 pm Wednesday, May 6, Elizabeth Leach Gallery will host a conversation with Edmunds and Kristan Kennedy, PICA’s visual art curator. Through June 27. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Ryan Woodring: Jaws Returns to the Water

A looped animation of the ﬁ ctional shark (from the now-extinct, eponymous ride at Universal Orlando) is projected onto the surface of a painting on panel. Covered layer by layer in cast and painted acrylic, the painting was used to create the animation, drawing from amateur video footage taken by a rider. The loop continuously replays the part of the ride in which the animatronic shark fatally bites into, seeming to be killed and resurrected in succession by the same electrical current. Woodring’s work is appearing as part of ApresUpfor, an after-hours program of moving-image art playing from 6 pm to midnight in Upfor Gallery’s storefront. Ongoing. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

work in happiness and positive psychology towards disruptive emotions and intuition. Yap utilizes mirrors, colored vinyl, Mylar, plastic bags and asphalt-based paint to create scenes of light and darkness. Inspired by the decisive moment after setbacks and before actions, the project explores the disassembled self on the eve of re-organization. An example of the work in this series will also be on view in PDX Contemporary Art’s Window Project. Through July 18 . Portland ‘Pataphysical Society, 625 NW Everett St., No. 104, 479-5552.

Tight Rope: New Paintings by Arvie Smith

Tight Rope is a collection of vivid, powerful works linking our troubled past to our equally troubled present. About his work, local artist and educator Arvie Smith says “By critiquing atrocities and oppression, by creating images that foment dialogue, I hope my work makes the repeat of those atrocities and injustices less likely.” If reading about other experiences doesn’t always create empathy between people divided by race, class, religion, and sexuality, it’s my and many artists’ hope that art will reach across those divides more directly to help us experience our shared humanity. Through June 12. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd ﬂ oor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.

Urban Growth Boundary

Upfor presents recent works by three artists who adapt unorthodox mediums to challenge the traditions of landscape and artistic depiction of nature. Mixed media works by Gregory Euclide, Alex Lukas and Laura Vandenburgh build on and play with the tensions between pastoral and urban stereotypes, oﬀ ering an indirect but provocative critique in which human’s dominance of our environment is growing without boundary. Through July 18. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 2275111.

Willem Oorebeek

The ﬁ rst institutional solo exhibition in the United States by Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek is billed as an “idiosyncratic and deviant crossover between pop and conceptual art.” Oorebeek is a printmaker interested in the representation of the human ﬁ gure, media personalities and publicity. His artistic approach features the distortion of print media through lithography in order to re-present the images to us so that we look at familiar pictures in new ways. Through July 19. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Avenue, 236-7996.

The Eve Of…

Christine Wong Yap’s new body of work is a new installation of sculptures and video examining uncertain psychological states. It marks a shift in direction from the artist’s recent

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JUNE 3–9

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 Orpheus: A Night of Stories

Zach Dundas’ new book, The Great Detective, blends history and ﬁction in exploring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s created world. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4

Willamette University professor Emily Drew leads a discussion about

Like a gayer, hairier, illustrated interpretation of Sex and the City, Ed Luce’s debut graphic novel, Wuvable Oaf, finds titular character Oaf (an ex-wrestler living with his cats in San Francisco) on the hunt for romance. Will Oaf find love with the lead singer of metal-queercore band Ejaculoid? Only one way to find out. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 241-0227. 6-8 pm. Free.

My Day Opening Reception

In 2005, Portland printmaker Nate Orton set out to chronicle life in Portland and the greater Northwest seen through the lens of one day. The result is his ongoing, self-published chapbook series My Day. A decade later, Orton will present a collection of the work with friends and frequent collaborators, poet and essayist Chris Ashby and poet and publisher James Yeary, for the exhibit My Day: The First Ten Years. Glyph Cafe & Arts Space, 804 NW Couch St., 719-5481. 5-8 pm. Free.

Edith Mirante

A longtime investigator and advocate for racial issues and human rights in Asia, Edith Mirante (Burmese Looking Glass) will present a slide show for her new book, The Wind in the Bamboo. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison St., 236-2665. 7 pm. Free.

Amy Butcher

A couple of hours after Kevin Schaeﬀer walked his friend Amy Butcher home, he fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend. Butcher’s new book, Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder, explores her obsession with explaining the situation. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Playback Theater’s Adventures in Dating

Everyone has that friend who’s been on an OkCupid date with a guy who had no teeth (true story). Playback Theater will oﬀer its particular brand of entertaining catharsis with its next performance, Adventures in Dating: From Nirvana to Nightmare and Every Crazy Encounter in Between. You tell the juicy stories, trained professionals act them out. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 7:30 pm. $15.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Albert Goldbarth

Known for his conversational style and eclectic choice of topics, awardwinning poet Albert Goldbarth’s newest collection explores all things related to “self,” from the search for ancestry and concepts of identity to the neurology of self-awareness. Goldbarth will read from Selﬁsh. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 4 pm. Free.

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Zach Dundas

Six professional writers—Brian Doyle, Tabitha Blankenbiller, Kevin Sampsell, Courtenay Hameister, Nick Mattos and Jay Ponteri—will read their work alongside Fort Vancouver High School students who have written original essays for the event “Orpheus: A Night of Stories.” Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St., Vancouver, Wash. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free.

Wuvable Oaf Release Party

MONDAY, JUNE 8

TUESDAY, JUNE 9 Racial Diversity in Oregon

creating diverse, inclusive communities in “White Out? The Future of Racial Diversity in Oregon.” Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. 6-7:30 pm. Free.

Brian Komei Dempster and Janice P. Nimura

Poet Brian Komei Dempster’s debut poetry collection, Topaz, follows a Japanese-American family that is split up among internment camps during WWII. Janice P. Nimura’s Daughters of the Samurai tells the true account of ﬁve Japanese girls sent to San Francisco in the 1870s to learn American customs. Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7-9 pm. Free.

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REVIEW

JON FINE, YOUR BAND SUCKS It’s time to admit that punk rock failed. In terms of widespread cultural revolution, punk and its offspring now sit at the losers’ table with the hippies, watching as hip-hop and electronic music take over the world. Of course, that hasn’t stopped boomers from prattling on about the ’60s, nor has it stopped aging indie rockers from rhapsodizing Our band could ruin your life. about “the last time rock truly mattered.” Jon Fine’s Your Band Sucks (Viking Press, 302 pages, $27.95) is another memoir of those years when “indie” really meant independent, waxing romantic about the dingy clubs, the staticky collegeradio transmissions, the records that acted as “secret handshakes” among fans, and, especially, life in the van—the same stuff you already read about in Our Band Could Be Your Life, basically. But Fine’s recollection of the era is still worth the investment, even if, like 99 percent of the population, you’ve never heard Bitch Magnet, the band he formed in 1986 at Oberlin College in Ohio. One reason is precisely that obscurity: Fine is about as far out on the fringes of history as a musician can get without falling into total irrelevance, which gives him a particularly clear-eyed view of what all that touring and self-funded recording added up to, which wasn’t much. Another is, he’s kind of a dick. As the title suggests, Fine—a self-aware loudmouth who got kicked out of his own band—is not one for twee passive-aggressivism (nor twee pop, for that matter). He takes shots at sacred cows from Joe Strummer to “the fucking Pixies” on down to footnotes like Small Factory, which, to him, embodied the moment indie rock became a giant cuddle party. Much of Your Band Sucks is about Fine’s struggle to achieve a level of success he deems “just enough.” He didn’t need fame, but he did want to go on the road forever. When he achieved neither, Fine washed up on the shores of his 30s, broke and with no idea how to be anything other than a guy in a band. It’s those “wilderness years,” spent at dance parties and in coke dens, that give the book a pathos you wouldn’t get from a more well-known figure. In the end, Fine’s grand reward for being a rock-’n’-roll true believer was a brief reunion tour with Bitch Magnet in 2011. That portion of the book goes on for about 80 more pages than it should, devolving into a monotonous travelogue. But it’s where Fine, now making a decent living as a media critic, reconciles youthful idealism with his adult reality. He knows he and his peers lost the war. With age, he’s found contentment winning a few small battles. To the victors go the big-label contracts and festival paychecks. Everyone else ends up as a secret handshake. “Sometimes,” Fine writes, “that’s enough, too.” MATTHEW SINGER. GO: Jon Fine will join in conversation with Douglas Wolk on Sunday, June 7, at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

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MOVIES

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OPENING THIS WEEK About Elly

C+ It’s not surprising that the prequel to a film titled A Separation is bleak. A group of Iranian classmates’ vacation to the Caspian Sea goes tragically awry in About Elly, the “new” Asghar Farhadi film that was actually made five years ago, well before his 2012 Oscar winner. A Separation was the first-ever Iranian feature to win Best Foreign Language Film, but Farhadi’s masterful dramatization wanes in this film. Elly, a kindergarten teacher who the vacationers brought along, disappears, and the child she was watching washes up half-drowned. As Farhadi unwinds his psychological drama, we learn the vacation was a tangled web of taboo relationships all along. Elly lied about a new love in a phone call to her mother, and one vacationing couple concocted a cover-up to hide Elly’s burgeoning romance from their stalwart Iranian host. About Elly poses the question, did Elly drown or did she disappear to avoid drama? But Farhadi’s melodramatic treatment of the story doesn’t pull viewers in. It makes its characters seem like confused specimens observed from afar, but perhaps the film was destined to be a sinker. NR. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

Rebels of the Neon God

B+ This isn’t a new movie, but it is new to this part of the world. Tsai Ming-liang’s breakout feature first traveled the festival circuit 23 years ago, when it made a name for the Taiwanese auteur and hinted at the greatness to come in his later works Vive L’Amour, What Time Is It There? and Stray Dogs. The rebels here are a small group of disenchanted adolescents who while away rainy days in glowing arcades and run-down apartments. The young Nazha is said to be a reincarnation of the deity he’s named for, but he hardly acts the part. Instead, Nazha’s affinity for Street Fighter, ambivalence about school and poor taste in friends put him on a trajectory for trouble. More petty criminals than city gods, few of these rebels know what they truly want, and fewer still get it. Luckily, Ming-liang’s film has a clear enough vision to guide us all. NR. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

Results

B “I will pay you $200 to come over right now and turn my TV on,” Danny (Kevin Corrigan) writes on Craigslist at the beginning of Results. The recently divorced middle-aged schlub has just come into an unexpected inheritance, some of which he spends on private lessons from a gorgeous personal trainer named Kat (Cobie Smulders) in his unfurnished McMansion. Danny is strangely likable even when he’s borderline repellent—he wails away on his Les Paul to an audience of none, texts Kat selfies of himself eating pizza as a brutally honest food log, and eventually falls in love with her. Kat’s boss (Guy Pearce) also carries a torch for her, and while the ensuing love triangle is nothing we haven’t seen before, writer-director Andrew Bujalski (the innovator of mumblecore) has as much fun making sense of his characters as we do. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.

Saint Laurent

B- More than 50 years after its inception, Yves Saint Laurent remains one of the most recognizable luxury fashion houses in the world. It was no small controversy when the house chose to drop the Yves and become Saint Laurent Paris in 2012, just four years after the death of the designer, who was notoriously hesitant to relinquish creative control. Bertrand Bonello’s new dramatic biopic returns the focus to Saint Laurent’s peak years, from 1967 to 1976. The

film manages to be both beautifully detailed and irritatingly vague. We are treated to extended scenes of disco debauchery, mind-boggling drug use, pensive chain smoking and orgies in the hedge maze, but there’s little in the way of context or backstory. As the titular designer, Gaspard Ulliel nails the tormented-genius role, but his charm can carry this lengthy picture only so far. Just like the dazzling haute couture that parades through the film, Saint Laurent is beautiful to look at but ultimately not worth the investment. PENELOPE BASS. R. Cinema 21.

Spy

Melissa McCarthy, entrenched in her trope as a vulgar slapstick anti-heroine, is Susan Cooper this time, a cubicle-bound CIA agent who sets out to save Jude Law’s pert ass. Jason Statham needs rescuing too. See wweek.com for Alex Falcone’s review. R. Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division.

STILL SHOWING The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

C- Cinema is a peerless cultural ambassador. It cracks open entire worlds, and sometimes, as with this film based on Swedish author Jonas Jonasson’s novel, it reassures us that people worldwide love to turn their brains off and watch a dumb comedy, just like us Americans. The 100-Year-Old-Man follows its titular character from his Swedish nursing home to the shores of Bali, as he’s pursued by a disgruntled biker gang. The affected comedy has been called a new Forrest Gump. But whereas Tom Hanks played Gump as touched, Robert Gustafsson’s centenarian lead has his wits intact (if somewhat dulled by a Lebowski-ish drinking problem). Unfortunately, the film often feels brainless: Constant flashbacks deflate any escalating comic tension. They feel like toothless Saturday Night Live sketches that drag on a bit too long: All the while, Gustafsson is there at the edge of the frame, deadpan and a little buzzed. But while The 100-Year-Old-Man makes pit stops all over the world, it already feels a little too Hollywood. CASEY JARMAN. R. Cinema 21.

5 Flights Up

C+ This AARP-oriented dramedy strikes all the familiar chords. Retired teacher Ruth (Diane Keaton) and painter Alex (Morgan Freeman), with a niece (Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the City) as their broker, put their New York apartment on the market. PG-13. BRIAN MILLER. Living Room Theaters.

The Age of Adaline

B Though the wisp of a plot could never achieve the epic romance trailers promise, this is the nearest chick flicks have come to the superhero blueprint. Adaline doesn’t fight her way out of trouble but dominates through unerring good taste and a particular set of skills (like conversational Portuguese). Her foes, beyond the government agents following her, are all overeager suitors until Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman) wins her over. Their love is pleasant, if pointless, until a weekend trip to meet Ellis’ parents brings Adaline face to face with an old beau (Harrison Ford) who happens to be her new beau’s father. This is typical 20th-century cinema, and the character of Adaline isn’t especially rewarding either. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Division.

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TIIIGHT: The Entourage movie bros.

BRO SAY CAN YOU SEE FOUR DOUCHEBAGS MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT FOUR DOUCHEBAGS MAKING A MOVIE.

characters in the movie, which they happily offered without being asked. When one character hands his cellphone to his girlfriend to show her a picture of a baby, the audience bros immediately knew there were dirty pictures on the phone. Kindly, BY A LEX FA LCON E @alex_falcone they helped the girlfriend out: “Don’t scroll, baby, don’t scroll!” Did the audience bros enjoy these attempts by You know who had a good Monday night? The bros the movie bros to sleep with women? You know who sat behind me at the Entourage screening. Oh boy, they had the time of their bro-y lives! they did, friend. One movie bro is hitting on a model, and he Likes pigs in shit, those bros. says: “I loved your Hawaii photo shoot. You I did not enjoy it. Or more accurately, I looked cold. But it was still hot.” And the don’t think I enjoyed it. I kept wonderaudience bro behind me said to his ing: “Am I hating this? Or do they bro friend, “That’s a good line.” know that I’m hating them, so Which it is not. It is a terrible they’re doing it on purpose and line. actually I’m liking it?” As far as I can tell, it’s all terriBut the bros, they were ble. It’s a terrible group of humans unconflicted. The bros loved being terrible and kinda making a Entourage. And they expressed movie with other terrible people. their love directly to the screen Maybe they know they’re teralmost constantly. Every time a rible, so that makes it OK, or maybe pair of breasts appeared on screen, it doesn’t. Maybe it’s making fun of one of the bros audibly muttered, “Every time a the terrible people in Hollywood “Oh shit.” pair of breasts but in a way that just glorifies Not just the first time breasts appeared on them anyway. Maybe it’s OK that it appear, which is maybe two seconds makes so many homophobic jokes, into the film and for no apparent screen, one of because it has a token gay charreason. But then again a minute acter who the movie bros are nice later. “Oh shit.” And again 20 min- the bros audibly to, but maybe it’s still just a bunch utes later. “Oh shit!” Do bros not muttered, “Oh of homophobic jokes. And maybe have the Internet yet? Because it shit.” it’s all a comedy and I completely would blow this guy’s mind. missed the point, but it’s so hard There are maybe 20 sets of to tell if it’s funny on purpose or breasts, and he “oh shit”-ed all of them. Except one time when he said, “Tiiight.” I did funny like a dog with its snout stuck in an icenot notice anything different about the breasts that cream carton, where it’s definitely amusing in parts made them tiiight instead of oh shit, but maybe I’m but it’s also sad because he’s trying his hardest. But the bros, they didn’t think it was terrible. the weirdo. The audience bros loved that the flimsy plot They thought it was a movie about a group of consisted entirely of the movie bros attempting to heroes being heroic and doing the Lord’s work, sleep with women, sleeping with women or talking exposing breasts for us. So if you’re up for bro-ing about their attempts to sleep with women. There down, have I got a movie for you. is something about the movie bros trying to make B- (I really thought it deserved a C, but because their own movie or having already made a movie or it’s by and for bros, it needs a B grade.) SEE IT: something, but it couldn’t matter less compared to Entourage is rated R. It opens Wednesday, June 3, at Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, City Center, Division, the sleeping-with-women part. The audience bros also had a lot of advice for the Clackamas, Bridgeport and Vancouver. Willamette Week JUNE 3, 2015 wweek.com

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JUNE 3–9

Aloha

Far From the Madding Crowd

Crowe’s Aloha was taking flak for appropriation and whitewashing, but what’s most uncomfortable about this mess of a rom-com is that Crowe tries his awkward best to elevate Hawaiian culture and ends up stereotyping and patronizing native Hawaiians in the process. The film’s first half is a veritable parade of white characters “speaking in Hawaiian,” then immediately translating themselves into English for no one in particular. One native Hawaiian character gets a substantial role. Real-life activist Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele makes the most of it, out-acting Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. Humor might have salvaged the film, but Aloha is neither funny nor believable. It elicits thin performances from some of the better actors in Hollywood; even Bill Murray’s dance number is lifeless. Aloha flounders as another clunky Hollywood relic in which the bad-boy bro finds himself stuck choosing between two gorgeous, driven younger women who inanely believe he’s a better man, deep down. Aloha. That’s Hawaiian for “goodbye.” PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center.

able Bathsheba Everdene has little patience for society’s expectations in this stunning adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century romance. The question is whether the captivating cinematography and Mulligan’s standout performance are enough to refresh what doesn’t amount to much more than another Victorian love story. PG13 . LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Hollywood, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.

B+ Carey Mulligan’s unsmite-

Furious 7

A- Furious 7’s action and ridicu-

lousness 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 mad e. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport.

Heaven Adores You

A- The title is wrong. It sounds like a soft-focus TV movie about an angel who dreams of being a runway model. But this ﬁlm is the most complete attempt to date to tell the story of late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. We get meditative, straightforward accounts of what it was like to be Smith’s friend, his contemporary, or his bandmate. NR. CASEY JARMAN. Living Room Theaters.

Hot Pursuit

D Reese Witherspoon applies her blondness to a bumbling Barney

REVIEW C O U R T E S Y O F R O A D S I D E AT T R A C T I O N S

D+ Even before its release, Cameron

Avengers: Age of Ultron

A- If you loved The Avengers: You’ll squee all over yourself because, man, everything looks so cool! You’ll love the portrayal of Ultron from the ramshackle first appearance to the smooth and witty version with even more personality than in the comics. But if you got dragged to the movie: Buckle up, it’s gonna be a long ride. Between giant, smashy fights, each of the 2,000 characters gets a dark past, a love story, a moment of self doubt, and a separate resolution. In between, there’s lots of fighting, too often just two indestructible characters bashing each other into stuff. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Cinemas.

Cinderella

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Pitch Perfect 2 (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:25PM Poltergeist (2015) (3D ) (PG-13) 11:45AM 5:10PM Tomorrowland (PG) 11:20AM 12:50PM 2:25PM 4:00PM 5:30PM 7:10PM 8:40PM 10:10PM Mad Max: Fury Road (R) 11:00AM 12:30PM 1:55PM 3:25PM 4:50PM 7:45PM 9:15PM 10:40PM San Andreas (PG-13) 11:10AM 2:00PM 4:50PM 7:40PM 10:30PM Spy (R) 11:00AM 12:30PM 1:50PM 3:20PM 4:40PM 6:10PM 7:30PM 9:00PM 10:20PM Poltergeist (2015) (PG-13) 2:30PM 7:40PM 10:05PM

San Andreas (3D) (PG-13) 12:45PM 3:35PM 6:25PM 9:20PM Avengers: Age Of Ultron (PG-13) 12:15PM 3:30PM 6:50PM 10:10PM Entourage (R) 11:15AM 2:00PM 4:45PM 7:30PM 10:15PM Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) (R) 6:20PM Aloha (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:15PM 5:00PM 7:45PM 10:20PM Home (PG) 11:35AM 2:10PM 4:35PM 7:20PM Insidious: Chapter 3 (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:00PM Ex Machina (R) 11:15AM 1:55PM 4:45PM 7:25PM 10:15PM Furious 7 (PG-13) 10:00PM

Spy (XD) (R) 10:40AM 1:40PM 4:40PM 7:40PM 10:40PM

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D+ Kenneth Branagh’s tiresome live-action retcon of Cinderella, PG. JOHN LOCANTHI . Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Empirical, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission.

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. R. KELLY MCCRILLIS. Laurelhurst, Academy, Living Room 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. Pacino makes even the shortest moment of banter feel genuine. R. SEAN AXMAKER. Academy, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

Ex Machina

B- Frankenstein’s monster is easy on the eyes in Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s sexualized science-ﬁction 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. Hollywood, Fox Tower.

HELP ME, MELINDA: Paul Dano.

LOVE & MERCY Brian Wilson’s mental breakdown in the mid-1960s is as essential to the Beach Boys mythos as the band’s Pendleton shirts and woodies. Two TV movies and a Barenaked Ladies song told the story of the mercurial genius sitting in a sandbox, listening to Sgt. Pepper over and over, driving his family and band mad. A blink of an eye later, he was hanging out with the Tanner girls on Full House. What happened? Love & Mercy is Bill Pohlad’s attempt to sort through the mess of Wilson’s collapse and treatment by Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), the psychologist who lost his license for exploiting Wilson. Two phases of Wilson’s life crisscross throughout the film. Young, brilliant, falling-apart-at-the-seams Brian is played by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood). He looks the part and persuades us to believe in Brian’s Pet Sounds and Smile. John Cusack is cast as the middle-aged Wilson, and the success of his scenes depends on your ability to suspend your disbelief. Cusack looks nothing like Wilson, though he can certainly act like him. After a while, you sort of get used to the idea that this is supposed to be someone other than Cusack. But it’s a difficult leap. The narrative of Wilson’s life was far from linear. On film, it plays out like intertwined memories. Some scenes are vivid, grainy Technicolor saturated with blue skies, bright red cars and white cat-eye sunglasses. Others blur into distortion and madness, as when Wilson submerges himself in his swimming pool, a crystal metaphor for his drowning spirit. Pohlad turns biography into art, but that may be where he fails viewers less familiar with Wilson’s saga or those who would rather cling to a CliffsNotes version of his life. Fans will delight in the picture-perfect re-creations of Wilson’s parties, photo shoots and recording sessions. Members of the Wrecking Crew, the session musicians who helped Wilson realize his titanic visions, practically step out of the screen. When drummer Hal Blaine gives Wilson a pep talk, telling him he’s better than Phil Spector, I shed a tear. But the film’s, and Wilson’s, true liberator is his second wife, Melinda. Played captivatingly by Elizabeth Banks, she’s a character much easier to relate to than either incarnation of Wilson. There’s something implicitly unbelievable about an independent, gorgeous woman diverting her life path to save a dysfunctional man-child. But Banks not only sells it, she, not a psychologist, becomes the savior he needed in the sandbox. NATHAN CARSON. God only knows what happened to Brian Wilson.

B+

SEE IT: Love & Mercy is rated PG-13. It opens Friday at Bridgeport.

JUNE 3–9

MOVIES

COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES

VAN SANT SERIES

MILK Why it’s Portlandy: Van Sant used Portlanders David, John, Paul and Peter Parson, of the Parson Berry Farm on Sauvie Island, as extras and stuntmen-in-training. In 2008, thenmayor-elect Sam Adams joined Van Sant for the premiere in San Francisco’s Castro District. NW Film Center professor Mario Falsetto’s notes: “Of all the films Gus Van Sant has made, Milk is not his best film, and it is certainly not his most radical attack on narrative form, nor his most poetic. But it may be his most important. It also contains a hugely entertaining, passionate performance by Sean Penn.” Van Sant said: “The interesting thing to me was re-creating the street itself, the Castro. I think they probably assumed [at the first screening in the Castro] that we would get it wrong. It feels good that they don’t hate it.” Best line from the film: “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.” SEE IT: Milk plays at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., on Friday, June 5. 7 pm. $9.

Fife-type police offi cer who’s improbably bad at human interactions. She’s paired with Modern Family’s Sofi a Vergara, and the pair goes on a wacky road trip, trying to avoid being shot by a murderous drug cartel. It’s like Chief Wiggum and Jessica Rabbit running from Hans Gruber. There’s also a delightful cameo from Jim Gaffi gan, which just made me wonder why it wasn’t a Jim Gaffi gan movie with a Reese Witherspoon cameo. That would have been great. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Pioneer Place.

I Am Big Bird

B This documentary about the man awkwardly hiding in the bodies of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch exposes the largely unknown actor as a talented loner within the Sesame Street crew. Luckily, Spinney’s lack of charisma isn’t crippling to the documentary, which has plenty of interesting anecdotes from his 40-plus-year career. NR . ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Insurgent

C- A dumb action movie, except with the traditional gender roles reversed . PG-13 . JOHN LOCANTHI . Academy, Avalon, Empirical, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley.

The Imitation Game

B As geniuses often are, British mathematician Alan Turing was an odd duck. Turing pioneered the ﬁeld of computer science and helped crack Nazi codes. And there’s something to be said for a drama as sturdy and watch-

able as The Imitation Game. With a story this compelling and a cast this good, it’s diﬃcult not to play along. PG-13. Laurelhurst.

Iris

A Famed documentarian Albert Maysles’ penultimate film disrobes the avant-garde world of a 93-year-old interior designer who’s notorious for her gargantuan eyeglasses, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit dedicated to her, and for designing White House interiors under nine presidents. She shuffl es through crowds with Karl Lagerfeld types, wearing enough magenta beads to hold her wrinkled neck up straight, as the film mindfully tours viewers through Apfel’s life. As with Maysles’ Grey Gardens and Salesman, it’s hard to look away. NR. ENID SPITZ. Living Room Theaters.

It Follows

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 ﬁ rst 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. 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. Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

A- Remember when spy movies were

fun? Kingsman: The Secret Service does. R . Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Vancouver, Valley.

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. Laurelhurst.

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. Vancouver.

Mad Max: Fury Road

I left the theater feeling like I should take a shower. This is a batshit, dirt-punk world, where the lack of resources has somehow convinced roving bands of ne’er-dowells there is only one way to survive: make everything look awesome. And they do. It’s as if a world war erupted at Burning Man. This is not to say Fury Road makes any sense. In a world fi ghting over gasoline, the action is a nonstop fi ght scene between souped-up cars with fl ame throwers and a tanker truck full of breast milk. First, a group of people needs to drive one way and try not to die, then they need to drive another way and try not to die. That’s it. Suddenly, Furious 7 seems densely plotted. What’s so amazing is that this nonsensical explodey fuckpile can get away with almost anything. If you loved any part of the original Mad Max trilogy, you won’t be disappointed by it restarting with such vigor. If you don’t know anything about it, you’ll be thrilled to discover a new series. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE . Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, St. Johns Cinemas.

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. Valley, Vancouver.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Kevin James takes his daughter to Vegas and saves the world on a Segway. PG. Avalon, Clackamas, Division.

Poltergeist

Yet another remake of Steven Spielberg’s 1982 haunted-house ﬂick in which the Bowen family (parented by Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt) ﬁnd their new suburban home occupied by evil forces. This time, Oscarnominated Gil Kenan (Monster House) and Sami Raimi (The Grudge) tell the supernatural kidnapping tale. PG13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place.

San Andreas

D Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson saves the day as rescue helicopter pilot Ray Gaines. But he can’t save the movie. There’s genuine parental tension between him and his ex-wife, Emma (Carla Gugino), but the screenplay is ironically sparse and ﬂ at. When a character advises, “Just get yourself next to something sturdy,” it’s both a survival tip and a metaphor for Emma’s love of the Rock’s Gaines. When tremors hit, the characters are either at the top of a high-rise or the bottom of a parking garage. San Andreas the ﬁ lm is an exaggerated worst-case scenario in itself. To director Brad Peyton’s credit, the CGI is inarguably excep-

tional, and wide shots of the entire Bay Area rippling like water have a somber, chilling eﬀ ect. Peyton solves the mystery: When the inevitable apocalyptic quake does come, what would the Rock do? PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Clackamas, City Center, Division, Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, St. Johns Cinemas.

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MOVIES

Slow West

A- Slow West feels like propaganda made to discourage time travel back to the Old West. And that’s precisely what’s so refreshing about this movie: It doesn’t romanticize gunslinging. Instead, it focuses on the day-to-day indignities of living on a horse, constantly in danger of being robbed, murdered or caught in a fl ash fl ood and forced to ride the next day in your underwear while your only clothes dry out. It makes a dusty genre feel distinctly modern. It’s not surprising that this version of the American legend is so unromanticized, since its creator is Scottish folktronica keyboardist John Maclean. Consider it the equivalent of a peaty Scotch instead of a fi ne bourbon—both will get you drunk, robbed and left outside in your underpants. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cinema 21.

Song of the Sea

MADE IN OREGON

Sunshine Superman

CELEBRATING OREGON MOVIES THAT AREN’T THE GOONIES.

Saoirse, the last Selkie seal-child of Ireland, frees lovable creatures from a Celtic curse in this mystical fable from Academy Award-nominated Tomm Moore (The Secret of Kells). PG . Academy. C+ This remarkably uncritical documentary follows Carl Boenish, pioneer of the insanely dangerous sport and YouTube sensation BASE jumping. It’s an evolution of skydiving named for the fixed structures from which people jump: Buildings, Antennas, bridge Spans, and Earthy cliff s. It’s amazing to watch, and one in 60 people who try it are killed doing it. Archival footage of early jumps is dizzying on the big screen, and the jumping patriarch’s enthusiasm for these initial forays is contagious. But that excitement feels increasingly ominous as the movie progresses and everybody involved gets interviewed, except him. It’s a strange thing: a documentary about a guy who died doing the thing he invented, but which makes almost no mention of the dangers of his sport. Less than a week before the film’s release, two people died BASE jumping in Yosemite, not far from where Boenish first experimented. While the movie feels designed to celebrate Boenish’s life, it comes off as oddly disconnected from the reality of his creation. NR. ALEX FALCONE. Fox Tower.

Tomorrowland

C Of course, a movie based on a section of a theme park isn’t going to be good. It can’t be. Everything is shiny and white, and there’s lots of product placement, so it’s just how Disney would imagine the Future. During the 1964 World’s Fair, a tiny British girl persuades a plucky young boy to wear a pin that magically transports him to a distant future, but then the future goes to shit and needs to be saved, by George Clooney. The plot is exactly the same as Atlas Shrugged, but with more child actors and awkward sexual tension between a child robot and Clooney. Oh, and somewhere back there they ﬂy a steampunk rocket ship out of the Eiﬀel Tower. Also Hugh Laurie’s in it, and we like him. PG. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Theater.

What We Do in the Shadows

B+ The last thing pop culture needs

is another vampire ﬂ ick. The secondto-last is more reality TV. Leave it to a pack of Kiwis—including Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame—to give us both and somehow make vampires and reality TV feel fresh. R. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cinema 21.

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Eugene’s Animal House Celebration Once a year, non-students are invited to randomly walk or ride horses into fraternities and throw food at strangers. Actually, this just kind of sounds like Friday.

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Whenever conversation turns to Oregon film, it invariably goes in two directions: either to Gus Van Sant or The Goonies. Just flip through this very newspaper. Hell, this weekend, Astoria has a goddamned holiday celebrating The Goonies, which is a great and all, but sort of makes you feel bad for other Oregon films that have made their mark on the state. And not just Astorian flicks like Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop and the incomparable Free Willy 2. Take, for example, Stand by Me (Acad( emy Theater, June 5-11). ). Shot in Cottage Grove, it plays out like a more selfserious version of The Goonies, complete with profane young kids, a quest that involves dead bodies, and even the requisite fat kid/Corey Feldman quotient. So where’s Stand by Me Day? Why don’t the people of Cottage Grove dedicate a weekend to pie-eating contests and a USPSsanctioned mailbox baseball tourney? It got me to thinking of all the missed opportunities for Oregon holidays based on the state’s greatest cinematic forays. Cannon Beach’s Point Break-down It’s easy to forget that Ecola State Park doubled as Australia in the greatest movie ever made, but the sands still whisper Swayze on certain nights. To celebrate, Hemlock Street businesses could participate in a meatball cook-off while the little rubber people who don’t shave yet compete in a surf contest at the site of the 50-year storm. The Gorge’s Cormac McCarthy Daze Relive the feel-good spirit of The Road with a waterfall tour that includes shopping-cart races and awkward punctuation and staring off listlessly into the distance while not eating and being generally miserable while speaking in run-on sentences.

Medford’s My Name Is Bruce Cleansing Every year, the citizens of Medford descend on local Best Buys to purchase and burn every copy of Bruce Campbell’s directorial debut. Groovy. Cuckoo’s Nesting Day at Depoe Bay Celebrate Milos Forman’s classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with discount boat chartering and a communitywide medication swap! ALSO SHOWING:

Pix pairs Casablanca with a cocktail called the French 75, which we’re assuming is probably the age when Elsa realized Laszlo was a better catch than Rick. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, June 3. Nearly a century later, the protozombie German horror flick The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari remains the stuff of nightmares, modernist or otherwise. Joy Cinema. 9:15 pm Wednesday, June 3. In Planet of the Apes—the original, not the Marky Mark or Andy Serkis versions—Charlton Heston proved that makeup can convince you a man is an ape, but nothing can convince you Heston is a master thespian. Laurelhurst Theater. June 5-11. OK, kids, here’s a freebie for a future ACT: Penelope Cruz is to Pedro Almodóvar as Grace Kelly is to Alfred Hitchcock. Here’s another: All About My Mother is to Almodóvar as The Birds is to Hitchcock. Which is to say, All About My Mother is good. But kind of overrated. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, June 5-7. While it’s true that Goldfinger is the best Bond movie, it’s also marred by a really uncomfortable “seduction” scene. Connery’s still the greatest Bond, but at least the other 007s just let their romantic counterparts die instead of sexually assaulting them. Clackamas. 2 pm Sunday, June 7. Kung Fu Theatre presents Eastern Condors, a hectic martial arts movie harking back to a time when Sammo Hung was a total badass, and not Don Johnson’s sidekick. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, June 9.

JUNE 5-11

MOVIES

COURTESY OF MGM

LEGEND OF STARLITE Fri 09:00 TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL Sat 01:00 THE ROYAL ROAD Sat 03:30 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP Sat 06:00 THE CULT OF JT LEROY Sat 08:30 THE YEAR WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOVE Sun 12:30 EL HOMBRE NUEVO Sun 02:30 FEELINGS ARE FACTS: THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER Sun 04:30 LARRY KRAMER IN LOVE AND ANGER Sun 07:00 A DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE Tue 07:30

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STONE GOLD: Goldﬁnger plays at Clackamas Town Center at 2 pm Sunday, June 7.

Regal City Center Stadium 12 Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX 1510 NE Multnomah St. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON -- AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Wed 11:45, 03:15, 07:00, 10:25 BACKSTREET BOYS: SHOW ‘EM WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF Wed 07:00 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Wed 12:15, 02:45, 03:45, 07:30, 09:55 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D Wed 11:15, 01:00, 04:30, 06:30, 08:15, 10:55 FURIOUS 7 Wed 12:00, 03:25, 06:50, 10:05 HOME Wed 12:05, 02:30, 04:55, 09:45 THE D TRAIN Wed 11:50, 02:25, 05:05, 07:40, 10:15 HOT PURSUIT Wed 11:35, 02:10, 04:35, 07:20, 10:00 THE AGE OF ADALINE Wed 12:30, 03:35, 06:40, 09:35 EX MACHINA Wed 12:50, 03:55, 07:10, 09:50 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri-Sat-Sun 12:50, 03:50, 06:50 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 01:30, 04:30, 07:30, 09:50, 10:30 PITCH PERFECT 2 Fri-Sat-Sun 01:00, 03:55, 07:00, 09:50 DRIVING MISS DAISY: ON STAGE CLASSIC MUSIC SERIES: R.E.M. BY MTV Tue 07:30

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16603 SE Division St. HOT PURSUIT Wed 12:10, 02:40, 05:00, 07:15, 09:45 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Wed 12:30, 03:00, 04:30, 06:30, 08:00, 10:00 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D Wed 11:30, 12:00, 01:00, 02:30, 03:30, 06:00, 07:00, 09:30, 10:30 THE AGE OF ADALINE Wed 11:55, 03:15, 06:50, 09:55 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Wed 11:45, 02:15, 04:45, 07:10, 09:40 UNFRIENDED Wed 12:05, 02:20, 04:35, 07:25, 10:20 EX MACHINA Wed 12:15, 03:10, 07:20, 10:15 THE LONGEST RIDE Wed 12:25, 03:25 FURIOUS 7 Wed 11:40, 02:45, 06:45, 09:45 WOMAN IN GOLD Wed 11:35, 04:40, 07:10, 09:50 GET HARD Wed 07:35, 10:05 HOME Wed 11:50, 02:25, 04:50, 07:05, 09:35 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri 12:00, 03:00, 07:00 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D Fri 12:30, 03:30, 07:30, 10:00, 10:30 PITCH PERFECT 2 Fri 11:45, 02:25, 05:05, 07:45, 10:30

Bagdad Theater

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-

Tue-Wed 11:40, 03:00, 07:00, 10:35

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 WELCOME TO ME Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:00 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:00, 06:30 THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT Wed 07:00 BEST OF HUMP FriSat 06:30, 08:30, 10:45

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 TO LIFE! Wed 07:00 SYMPHONY OF THE SOUL NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Fri-Sun THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 BEETLEJUICE Mon 07:00 GEORGIE GIRL Tue 07:00

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Wed 06:40 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00, 09:20 ‘71 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 WILD Fri-Sat-SunWed 06:30 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Wed 09:45 THE IMITATION GAME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:10 TRUE STORY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:35 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 06:15 KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 07:00 IT FOLLOWS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 09:40

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St. MCFARLAND, USA Fri-SatSun-Tue-Wed 05:30 FOCUS Wed 08:30 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Fri-Sat-Sun-Tue 08:30 MAD MEN Sun 10:00 THE BREACH Mon 06:30

St. Johns Cinemas

8704 N. Lombard St., 503-286-1768 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:00, 05:30, 07:00, 08:30 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 05:00, 07:45

801 C St. HOT PURSUIT Wed 11:15, 02:05, 04:25, 06:45 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Wed 11:00, 01:45, 02:25, 05:10, 05:50, 08:35, 09:15 AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON 3D Wed 10:45, 11:30, 12:00, 01:15, 03:20, 06:15, 06:40, 07:15, 09:40, 10:00 THE AGE OF ADALINE Wed 11:45, 02:35, 05:25, 08:15 PAUL BLART: MALL COP 2 Wed 11:05, 01:30, 04:55, 07:20, 09:55 EX MACHINA Wed 10:45, 02:50, 04:40, 09:35 FURIOUS 7 Wed 11:35, 02:45, 06:00, 09:10 THE SALT OF THE EARTH Wed 12:10, 03:00, 05:40, 08:50 WOMAN IN GOLD Wed 11:20, 02:00, 04:35, 07:10, 09:45 HOME Wed 10:50, 01:20, 03:45, 06:10 THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT Wed 08:40 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD PITCH PERFECT 2

Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 MCFARLAND, USA Fri-SatSun-Wed 02:45 FOCUS Wed 06:00 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Wed 08:20 SHARK TALE Fri-Sat-SunTue 05:30 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Fri-SatSun-Tue 02:30, 07:45 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon

Empirical Theatre at OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Wed 01:00 SECRET OCEAN Fri-SatSun-Wed 11:00, 02:00 JOURNEY TO SPACE FriSat-Sun-Wed 12:00, 03:00 MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD Wed 05:00 JAMES CAMERON’S DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D Wed 04:00 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Wed 06:30 ADRENALINE RUSH: THE SCIENCE OF RISK FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES SatSun 10:00 LEWIS & CLARK: GREAT JOURNEY WEST Fri 12:00 GREAT WHITE SHARK Fri 10:00

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 EX MACHINA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 07:15, 09:30 MAGGIE Wed 09:45 BUCK ROGERS Wed 07:30 QDOC WOMAN IN GOLD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 06:45, 09:00 PACKED IN A TRUNK: THE LOST ART OF EDITH LAKE WILKINSON Fri 06:45 WE CAME TO SWEAT: THE

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