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In one nice quiet beachfront community, you can legally walk down the street swigging from a bottle of Jack. 4 Of course a WW reporter has to offer a disclosure about where she takes yoga classes. 7 There are a lot of liberals who don’t think it’s smart to hike the minimum wage to $13. 10 Tualatin is home to the area’s best state legislator. 12
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INBOX BEST HOT DOGS AREN’T CHEAP I really do love Olympia Provisions products, but $8 for a haute dog is still hard to swallow [“Sausage Festival,” WW, June 17, 2015]. —Mike Skrzynski
ADDRESSING RACE IN SCHOOLS It’s fantastic that students are making the effort and getting the conversation started about race [“School Colors,” WW, June 17, 2015]. According to the Portland Public Schools’ Racial Educational Equity Policy, all students should be getting access to further conversation and understanding about race: “All staff and students shall be given the opportunity to understand racial identity, and the impact of their own racial identity on themselves and others.” What can we do to make this happen sooner in schools? —Barb Macon I applaud and support all attempts to continue the discussion about race. High school can establish a basis for understanding that lasts a lifetime. Kudos to all students involved in this dialogue. —Peter Slansky
SETTING DAM RECORD STRAIGHT
On June 17, 2015, Willamette Week published the article “Dam Laws,” and I was quoted in it. Although I was quoted accurately and on the record, the information I provided is misleading, and I’d like to offer this correction. House Bill 3217 is pending legislation that, if signed into law, would authorize a pilot program for
Recently I saw a standard, nonpersonalized Oregon license plate that featured the three letters “FUG.” I was amused, but it made me think: There must be combinations of letters the DMV skips (“FAG,” “DIK,” etc.). Is there an official list? —Joshua G. Before I answer your question, Joshua, I’d like to take a moment to commemorate the fact that this is, by my count, the 300th iteration of this column. Let’s hear it for Stockholm syndrome! Please send Scotch. To be clear, this isn’t the well-trodden “rejected vanity plates” story where we yuk it up over “DIKLIKR” and “LV2FART.” We’re talking about the three letters that, along with three numbers, form the standard “123 ABC” Oregon plate format. Some combos do get spiked. However, the DMV doesn’t maintain a complete list. Instead, each combination is reviewed as it comes up (we’re currently up to the J’s) by an eight-member review board. 4
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My goodness. For what some of these hot dogs cost, you might as well get a burrito. —“Vladamir Muhammud” voluntary stream restoration using artificial beaver dams in the Malheur Lake drainage. Silvies Valley Ranch is located in Grant and Harney counties and has been the subject of several WW articles. The quote I supplied to WW implies that HB 3217 will legally exonerate Silvies Valley Ranch from unpermitted in-stream work that was performed in the past, but this is incorrect, according to an opinion from the Oregon Legislative Counsel. It is my understanding that Silvies Valley Ranch is currently operating under a consent agreement with Oregon regulators that addresses the unpermitted work performed in the past. I regret my error and its potential implications for all parties involved. Jon Pampush, executive director Western Invasive Plant Alliance
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In last week’s Summer Guide issue, it was incorrectly reported that Hood River is the only city in Oregon where you can drink alcohol in all public places. Cannon Beach also allows open consumption of alcohol. WW regrets the error. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
I obtained a partial list of all possible combinations so far, along with the number of “no” votes each got. One no vote is enough to censor any given combo. The clear winner was “ASS,” with all eight reviewers giving it a thumbs-down. (Before you ask, the portion of the computer file where “FUK” should be was corrupted—thanks, NSA— so we’ll never know how it fared.) Close behind, though, was “FCK,” with seven nays. In third, with six, was “DAM,” beating out— bizarrely—“CUM,” “FKR,” “GUN,” “JAP,” and “BRA,” all of which tied for fourth with five each. I sympathize with the DMV’s desire to avoid complaints from bitchy church ladies, but some of the bans seem like overkill. What’s so heinous about “DEW,” “BAT” or “CAN?” Luckily, the combination “FUR” didn’t get flagged, so whoever has “FUR 314” is still just one easily added decimal point away from sticking it to The Man. Think about it. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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No, Portland’s proposed “density bonus” is not a cash handout to you for tolerating an increasingly crowded city. It’s a series of new incentives City Commissioner Dan Saltzman wants to give developers to encourage more affordable housing in the central city. Officials predict Portland will need 24,000 new affordable housing units by 2035. The bonus in Saltzman’s proposal, which got an airing before the City Council on June 23, would allow developers to construct bigger or taller buildings if they include affordable units onsite or pay to help build or preserve affordable units elsewhere. The proposal would also end incentives for eco-roofs and bike storage—add-ons that Saltzman says the market now demands anyway. Portland Public Schools principals are finally getting significant pay raises. The principals have gone wanting even as Superintendent Carole Smith got a 30 percent pay increase over the past two years, and made sure her top advisers got big increases as well (“Help for Her Friends,” WW, April 1, 2015). Since 2011-12, high-school principals’ wages went up only 3.5 percent. The new proposal calls for raises of about 5 percent for principals, 5 to 6 percent for vice principals and 9 percent for assistant principals, whose work year is increasing. All Gov. Kate Brown had to do was keep her head down, and her pathway to holding on to the governorship looked clear. That proved impossible. Brown— elevated to office in February after Gov. John Kitzhaber resigned—hoped to avoid serious competition in the 2016 Democratic primary to fill out Kitzhaber’s term. Her brown chief rival, State Treasurer Ted Wheeler, looked as if he had little hope of challenging Brown, but her reversal on the low-carbon fuel standard has angered enviros. She signed the carbon-reduction bill in March, but is now saying she’ll repeal it if lawmakers approve a higher gas tax from the Legislature. Brown’s supporters worry her zigzag has opened an avenue for Wheeler. Wheeler spokesman Michael Cox says the state treasurer is now focused on legislative issues. “He’s going to sit down after the legislative session,” Cox says, “and figure out how best he can continue to serve.”
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Meanwhile, no state official has raised as much campaign money this year as Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian. The $44,000 he’s collected since winning re-election in 2014 has set off speculation he’s angling for secretary of state in 2016. “Brad is focused on protecting workers and building a stronger workforce,” says Avakian spokesman Jef Green. “He has not made any decision about the secretary of state race.” If Avakian runs, he may face two legislators in the Democratic primary—Sen. Richard Devlin (D-Tualatin) and House Majority Leader Val Hoyle (D-Eugene), both of whom are considering joining the race. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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When Michele Loew opened her yoga studio on Southeast Stark Street in 2007, she recruited the best instructors available and paid them for each student they brought in. That’s how many Portland studios hired their teachers, and how Loew did it for years at the Yoga Space—until state investigators came calling. It turns out one of her instructors was collecting unemployment after losing her regular job. Oregon Employment Department officials noted that the instructor had disclosed on various forms that she taught classes at Loew’s studio. Before Loew knew it, state officials had swooped in, audited her books and declared that she had been improperly treating instructors like independent contractors when they were actually employees. That meant Loew had to start paying wages, benefits and unemployment insurance—not to mention five years of back payroll taxes the state said she owed.
Loew reached that settlement last year. She says she has been forced to pass some higher costs on to customers, but she can only raise prices so far. She’s losing money each month. And she says it’s now tougher to afford experienced instructors, many of whom don’t want to be employees and instead enjoy being their own bosses. Loew says she would understand if all yoga studios had to follow the same rules. They don’t. “The bottom line is, it’s more expensive to do business,” she says. “And it is harder or us to compete with yoga studios that are still using independent contractors.” According to owners of other studios, state officials hit yoga businesses unevenly and haphazardly. Some studios got hammered in a rush of audits by the state, as Loew’s did. One owner sold her studio, Yoga Pearl, after an audit. But many studios have escaped notice entirely, and they continue to operate as they did before. That allows them to keep costs down and attract popular instructors, many of whom enjoy the freedom that comes with working at several studios. Sweethome Teacup, an instructor who has worked as both an employee and a contractor, says working independently is more in line with the spirit of yoga. “I don’t want the business aspect of any studio to interfere in my teaching,” she says. The chill caused by those audits is still felt at many stu-
dios, leaving many in the yoga business fearful of speaking out. Owners who continue treating instructors as contractors don’t want to draw attention to themselves. And those who have been audited say they don’t want reprisals from state officials. Some studios that use independent contractors continue to believe they’re in the right, and that they can pull it off with better results for instructors if they’re careful. “We want people to make a living wage as a yoga teacher,” says Todd Williamson, owner of OmBase in Southwest Portland. “But it requires everyone to be in the game in a more aware way, and I think that’s what yoga is about.” Nationwide, yoga is a $10 billion-a-year business, with revenue from yoga classes alone exceeding $3.4 billion in 2013, according to the Yoga Alliance, a Virginia-based nonprofit that promotes yoga internationally. Portlanders are more yoga-crazy than most of their counterparts in the rest of the nation. Forbes magazine in 2013 rated Portland one of the top 10 cities for yoga in the U.S., writing that Portlanders were 23 percent more likely to practice yoga than the typical American. In some parts of Portland, yoga studios seem to pop up on neighborhood streets as frequently as coffee shops. The cont. on page 8 Willamette Week JUNE 24, 2015 wweek.com
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studios may share the same scent of burning incense and identical sculptures of Shiva and Ganesh, but beyond the clever names on their windows is a world of difference in the way studios operate. What’s happened to yoga studios isn’t unique to the industry. Nail salons, music venues and the taxi industry have also faced scrutiny. Earlier this month, California labor officials in an employment case ruled an Uber driver should be treated as an employee of the ride-sharing giant, a decision that has the potential to bleed into Oregon, where Uber drivers are still considered independent contractors. Andrea Fogue, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Employment Department, says the agency wants to make sure workers get the protections they’re entitled to as employees. She says independent contractors aren’t eligible for workers’ compensation for injuries on the job and they’re not shielded from discrimination and retaliation, as employees are. Fogue says the state also wants to make sure it’s collecting the maximum in unemployment insurance payroll taxes. Fogue says it’s not possible to audit every business in Oregon. Even if the state did, there would be variations in the kinds of business models yoga studios used. “The legal test for whether someone is an employee, for purposes of the unemployment insurance system, is very dependent on the specific facts,” she says. The Employment Department has performed payroll tax audits on about 7,000 business since 2010, but Fogue says the agency doesn’t have statistics on the number of yoga studios it has audited in recent years. Loew, who still runs the Yoga Space, at 2857 SE Stark St., was in the middle of opening a second location, the Yoga Space Northwest, at 210 NW 17th Ave., when the state launched its payroll tax audit of her business. (Disclosure: This reporter has taken classes at the Yoga Space.) Early on, Loew paid teachers $5 per class for every student who came to their classes—a rate then considered good.
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TO THE MATS: Scott Lennartz, owner of Yoga Bhoga, took over a studio that had fought the state—and won—over how it treated its instructors.
Loew’s dispute with the state turned on her relationship with her teachers. Loew argued she simply provided the space, and instructors chose their own times and offered classes they wanted to teach. But she says state officials claimed she maintained too much control over instructors. The state argued, for example, that Loew controlled when instructors worked (even if the teachers picked the times) in order to build a client base. In 2014, Loew settled her audit with the state for an undisclosed sum. (Settlement figures aren’t public record,
and Loew declined to disclose the amount of her penalty.) Now she’s paying more for employee benefits, and she’s lost experienced teachers who can earn more as independent contractors, she says. Legal fees alone could have exceeded the cost of the settlement. But Loew remains convinced she did nothing wrong. “If I had deep pockets, I would have fought and won,” she says. Some yoga studios have fought back. Scott Lennartz, owner of Yoga Bhoga in the Central Eastside Industrial District, still uses independent contractors. The state audited the previous owner of Yoga Bhoga, but that owner fought and won her 2008 case in tax court. “It’s a very rare and unusual thing,” Lennartz says. “This is the kind of thing people don’t want to have to do, because it’s scary.” Lennartz pays instructors by the number of students their classes bring in. He says they can earn between $70 and $100 per class. Yoga studios that have escaped audits are still reeling from the repercussions. One popular studio (the owner didn’t want its name used) worried it could be the state’s next target, so it switched from treating instructors as contractors to employees in 2012. The additional costs proved too burdensome. “We made the decision out of fear, without a lot of education on the law,” says the owner, who also asked not to be identified. “Financially it just really took a toll on us.” The studio switched back to using independent contractors last year. Now, though, the owner wants to switch yet again, as more yoga teachers see the benefit of being treated as employees and not having to maintain their own business as contractors. She still doesn’t know if the arrangement will work out financially for her studio. Money isn’t the primary goal for a lot of owners. “It’s really the love of yoga that keeps me doing it,” Loew says. “Any sensible business person would close.”
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WAGE WARS EVEN BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE WORRY ABOUT A RUSH TO RAISE IT TO $13 AN HOUR. By E M ILy VO L P E RT
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Laurelhurst Cafe has become a popular hangout in the heart of Portland’s bleeding heart. The café—with its corrugated metal and orange trim façade—sits at East Burnside Street and Northeast 47th Avenue, in one of the most politically liberal neighborhoods in the state. The owner, Ken Bareilles, welcomes dogs, caters to gluten-free customers and keeps a bicycle pump at the ready. Regulars include state Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer (D-Portland). Bareilles likes the progressive nature of his cafe and says he supports efforts to improve the lives of working-class Oregonians. Yet he worries about the recent proposal by House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) to boost the minimum wage in Oregon to $13 an hour. He fears that such a wage hike will fall hard on small-business owners like him. “Some kind of safeguard needs to be in place where it works for all parties involved,” Bareilles says, “or there will be a lot of unintended consequences.” Kotek’s proposal has support among Democrats who want to do more in Salem to address economic inequality. But if she faces a struggle convincing even progressive businesspeople like Bareilles, her plan could be a tough sell. Kotek issued her plan June 15, late in the current session, dimming its chances of sparking serious debate before legislators adjourn, probably within the next two weeks. Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) has said he’s opposed to a vote on the minimum wage in that chamber this session. According to the Medford Mail Tribune, Courtney has said the earlier proposal of a $15 minimum is too high. “The Senate president continues to be a strong supporter of the minimum wage,” Courtney spokesman Robin Maxey said in a statement to WW. “He does not, however, favor raising the minimum wage this session.” But Kotek’s proposal is a sign that the push for a higher minimum wage will extend into 2016, when she can push for it during the shorter legislative session. Meanwhile, supporters threaten to send the question to the November ballot. “They’re just trying to keep the issue alive,” says Bill Perry, a lobbyist for the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, which opposes the wage increase. “They’re going to continue to push it. I don’t see them backing off.” It’s also a sign Oregon Democrats are playing catchup on the minimum wage issue. Cities such as Seattle have pushed the minimum wage to $15, while Multnomah County and the city of Portland have voted to pay a $15-an-hour minimum to their employees. In 2002, Oregon voters approved a ballot measure raising the wage floor from $6.50 to $6.90. The measure’s real innovation was an annual increase based on inflation. Since then, Oregon has regularly had one of the nation’s highest minimums. The state’s current wage of $9.25 ranks second behind Washington’s $9.47. Both are a full two bucks above the federal minimum. Supporters of a higher wage say Oregon needs to do more to bring low-income workers above the poverty level. Yet economists warn there’s only so much money at any given time that employers can afford to spend on payroll, and a sharp, government-mandated increase in wages for some industries could drive costs higher than some businesses can sustain. The exact tipping point at which a minimum wage does more harm than good is unknown, and that’s at the center 10
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COUNTER OFFER: “We would absolutely have to raise prices, and would seriously consider reducing our staff hours and number of employees,” Ken Bareilles, owner of Laurelhurst Cafe in Northeast Portland, says of a $13-an-hour minimum wage. Bareilles’ employees (from left) Kate Wright, Nathan Shostek and Natasha Swanson.
of the political debate. A January analysis, done for the Oregon Neighborhood Store Association, which represents convenience stores, says raising the minimum wage to just $12 could cost 52,000 jobs statewide. Anne Weaver, CEO of Elephants Delicatessen, thinks Oregon should take this raise slow, sitting back to see how other states fare in raising their minimum wages. “It’s not that we are against the minimum wage going up at all,” Weaver says, “but it shouldn’t be some mammoth hike all at once.” Weaver says Elephants is a progressive business paying above the current minimum wage and providing benefits for employees who work 25 hours a week or more. (Weaver says that’s about half of Elephant’s 380 employees.)
“DO yOu ThInk PEOPLE wILL BE aBLE TO sPEnD $10 On a sanDwIch fOR Lunch?” —Anne WeAver, CeO Of elephAnts DeliCAtessen
“The good things we are doing are going to have to be curtailed if this isn’t taken slowly,” she adds. “Even a dollar a year is too much too fast.” Kotek’s plan calls for raising the minimum wage to $11 an hour in 2016, and then a dollar a year until it hits $13. After that, the wage would go up with inflation, as it does now. Weaver says Elephants would have to cut jobs to pay the higher minimum, or raise prices beyond a level she thinks consumers will pay. “Do you think people will be able to spend $10 on a sandwich for lunch?” she asks. Kotek’s proposal may reflect some political realities in Salem. Her target of $13 an hour may sit better with voters than the bigger increases proposed by others. Lawmakers looked at a $15 minimum when a Senate committee held hearings in April. Democrats then put the issue aside to tackle two other pieces of their economic agenda: requiring employers to offer paid sick leave, and promoting private sector retirement plans.
When Kotek rolled out her new proposal, she trotted out several business owners who said they’d be happy to pay the higher wages. Rosalind McCallard and her husband, Clayton, own Snackrilege, a vegan comfort-food cart on Northeast Killingsworth Street. They pay their seven employees $10 an hour and will pay above $13 if the state raises the minimum wage. McCallard says Snackrilege would have to raise its sandwich prices by $1 or $2, but that it would be worth it. “We value our employees,” says McCallard, who has spoken out in favor of Kotek’s proposal. “If you pay them the minimum, you’re saying that you’d pay them less than the minimum if you could.” Mike Riley runs a polling and research company in Southwest Portland, where he employs a full-time staff of four and hires temps to conduct telephone surveys. He says permanent staffers at Riley Research already earn more than $13 an hour, but that Kotek’s proposal would raise the cost of hiring temps, who earn about $10 an hour, by 30 percent. Riley says he would have three ways to maintain profitability: raise his rates by at least 15 percent, encourage clients to use more efficient methods like online polling, or hire out-of-state research firms to conduct surveys. “That’s the last thing I want to do,” Riley says. “I like having local people working on our projects, but it might be my only option.” At the Laurelhurst Cafe, Bareilles says he believes he contributes to his employees’ welfare by giving work to people with no food-service experience. It takes a long time for a new employee to return value to the business— something he can afford now. “I’d have to think twice about spending any time training inexperienced workers at $13 an hour,” says Bareilles, who’s owned the restaurant for four years. “I wouldn’t be able to take a chance on anyone.” With a higher wage, he might have to reduce staff hours, cut some employees and raise prices—all of which hits customers. He says he now has excellent employees, who get tips and a free meal every shift. But he says the work itself is reflected in what he and other restaurant owners pay. “This is minimum wage work,” Bareilles says. “It’s a leap of faith that the worker making $13 an hour is going to be worthy of the $13-an-hour wage. If professionalism, effort, worth ethic and personality are included in the deal, sign me up.” WW staff writer Nigel Jaquiss contributed to this story.
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SEN. RICHARD DEVLIN
REP. JENNIFER WILLIAMSON
SENATE D-Tualatin
HOUSE D-Portland
OVERALL RATING The retired legal investigator with a snowy Abe
Lincoln beard is Salem’s acknowledged numbers man. He’s co-chairman of the Joint Ways and Means Committee, widely respected and has been rated “excellent” in our survey for the past four sessions. This year marks the second survey in a row he’s logged the highest rating. “Smart, savvy and a great guy,” says one business lobbyist. “No one knows budgets better,” says another lobbyist. Devlin, 62, a lawmaker since 1996, pushed through the earliest K-12 budget in decades. His rating reflects his studiousness, his Lilliputian ego, and his willingness to do the hard but vital work on Ways and Means. Devlin will probably run for secretary of state next year. Whether the humility that makes him Salem’s top team player works in an individual race remains to be seen.
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“No one knows budgets better.”
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Williamson, 41, is a former lobbyist and recovering lawyer who has become a star in her second term. She scored a big victory early in the session when she provided much of the energy behind a bill to distribute the unclaimed proceeds of class action lawsuits. Until now, the malefactor got to keep damages that didn’t get paid out. She also sponsored a bill that will put body cameras on cops, but was less successful with another bill to make grand jury transcripts public. Lobbyists think she’s destined for bigger things. “Bright, hard-working, cheerful, diplomatic, dogged and effective,” says one respondent. “She works circles around her colleagues.”
8.06
“She works circles around her colleagues.” INTEGRITY: 7.50 BRAINS: 8.44 EFFECTIVENESS: 8.24
INTEGRITY: 8.13 BRAINS: 8.97 EFFECTIVENESS: 8.90
REP. TINA KOTEK
REP. JEFF BARKER
HOUSE D-Portland
HOUSE D-Aloha
Kotek, 48, is in her second term as House Speaker, and she’s learned to rein in her habit of overpromising—as in 2013, when she pledged to her public employee union allies she would limit PERS cuts to $800 million, and then watched then-Gov. John Kitzhaber ram through cuts worth $5 billion. “She learned a great deal last session and is far more effective this time around,” says an observer. Kotek impressed observers with the way she cajoled her fractious caucus into line on tough sells such as the low-carbon fuel standard and the expansion of gun background checks. “Wicked smart and intensely strategic,” says another lobbyist. “I wouldn’t want to play Risk with her.”
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“Wicked smart and intensely strategic.”
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INTEGRITY: 7.13 BRAINS: 8.37 EFFECTIVENESS: 8.41
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A flinty retired Portland police detective serving in his seventh session, Barker, 72, is the quiet leader of his caucus’ moderate wing. “One of the only legislators who actually understands the word compromise,” says a lobbyist. Barker nearly retired after the 2011 session, when the House was evenly split 30-30. But he hung in and, with House Democrats holding a wide majority, Barker spends much of his energy playing traffic cop as the leader of the House Judiciary Committee. “Wise, kind and tough,” says one lobbyist.
7.67
“Wise, kind and tough.”
INTEGRITY: 8.27 BRAINS: 7.15 EFFECTIVENESS: 7.58
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SEN. MICHAEL DEMBROW
REP. JOHN DAVIS
D-Portland
R-Wilsonville
OVERALL RATING The Legislature’s youngest
OVERALL RATING Dembrow, 63, is a toothy film
studies instructor at Portland Community College who is serving his rookie year in the Senate after three terms in the House. He’s not flashy but has continued to move up in the rankings. He chairs the Senate Workforce Committee and was a leader in the push for statewide sick leave. “The nicest and maybe the smartest man in the building,” says one admirer. “Giving his calming influence, he must be a darn good teacher.” “Might be the gentlest soul in the legislature,” says one lobbyist. “He’s incredibly effective.”
member, Davis, 32, a business lawyer from Wilsonville, leaped into the No. 2 spot in his caucus in only his second session when Republicans dumped Rep. Julie Parrish (R-West Linn). Davis earns high marks for collegiality. He voted with Democrats, for instance, to ban conversion therapy. Like most Republicans, Davis had little luck passing his own legislation. He is low-key, though not to everyone’s taste. “Smartest dude in the room, just ask him,” says one skeptic. “A very bright, straight arrow who hasn’t a clue how to lead his caucus of unherdable cats,” says an observer. “Clone this guy and bring back the Republican Party,” says a business lobbyist.
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7.45
INTEGRITY: 7.94 BRAINS: 7.63 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.78
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Outside the Capitol, Nosse, 47, a former nurse’s union lobbyist, is known for wearing a lot of hats—mostly fedoras. As a new legislator, he showed an equal ability to wear a lot of metaphorical hats. Observers found him likable and a quick study. Nosse worked to pass a bill to ban “conversion therapy” that advocates claim turn gays straight. He showed a veteran’s understanding of how to work bills and communicate effectively. ”Very strong first term,” says one lobbyist. Adds another, who’s been around many years: “Writes a handwritten note to everyone and I mean everyone he meets with.”
INTEGRITY: 7.46 BRAINS: 8.27 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.50
Integrity:8.40 Brains: 7.15 Effectiveness: 6.73 SEN. ELIZABETH STEINER HAYWARD
SEN. MARK HASS
D-Portland
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Nobody doubts this family doctor’s smarts or passion. “She’s willing to take on hard fights,” says one lobbyist. Co-chairwoman of the Joint Ways and Means subcommittee on general government, Steiner Hayward, 52, pushed hard but unsuccessfully for mandatory vaccinations. She did pass a bill that will give women access to a year’s worth of contraception. Several commenters noted Steiner Hayward’s smartest-person-in-the-room persona and her need to keep reminding people of her medical credentials. “Yeah, yeah, you’re a family physician. We know,” says one lobbyist. Says another: “Please quit talking and listen.”
7.07
INTEGRITY: 7.18 BRAINS: 7.96 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.07
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Thanks to robust tax revenues, lawmakers finally funded a crucial K-12 mandate: fullday kindergarten. Hass, 58, now in his fourth Senate session after serving three in the House, has for years been that issue’s champion. Now the former TV newsman-turned-PR consultant can devote his full energy to his other passion: tax reform. So far he is tinkering around the edges: passing a complex bill revising the way computer server farms are taxed and pushing for tuition-free community college. Hass’ steady demeanor wears well in Salem. “Closest thing we have to a statesman in the Senate,” says one GOP lobbyist. Adds another: “Good lawmaker who picks excellent issues, though this dive into tax reform will test his considerable skill set.”
7.06
INTEGRITY: 6.93 BRAINS: 7.46 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.79
REP. JESSICA VEGA PEDERSON D-East Portland
OVERALL RATING
The low-key Vega Pederson, 40, is one of the few Hispanic lawmakers in Salem. In her second session, she’s shown an ability to punch above her weight. She’s energized Democrats’ successful push for expanding sick leave statewide and increasing the minimum wage to $13 an hour. “Predictably left, 100 percent of the time,” says one lobbyist. An East Portland resident, she’s rumored to be looking at the Multnomah County Commission seat Judy Shiprack must give up next year because of term limits. “Underrated,” says one respondent. “Very smart, and her star is shining this session.” Another observer calls her “thoughtful and a political realist.”
7.41
INTEGRITY: 7.65 BRAINS: 7.54 EFFECTIVENESS: 7.04
REP. ALISSA KENY-GUYER D-Portland
OVERALL RATING For three sessions now, Keny-Guyer, 56, one of the most liberal members of her caucus, has patiently pushed legislation that would require the labeling of toxic compounds. “A bit of a rarity in Salem,” says one lobbyist. “Someone who will determinedly dig into an issue and really let the information gathered through good questions drive her to conclusions.” The toxics bill remains one of the Democratic priority bills whose passage is up in the air, despite KenyGuyer’s party holding solid majorities. She moved up strongly in this year’s ratings. “More focused,” says one lobbyist. “Knows how the sausage is made.”
7.19
INTEGRITY: 8.12 BRAINS: 7.08 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.36 REP. KEN HELM D-Beaverton
OVERALL RATING Helm is a rookie whose experience as a land-use lawyer pre-
7.10
pared him well for the fractious atmosphere of the Capitol. “Knows his issues,” says one lobbyist. Helm, 50, helped pass a bill aimed at moving road-hog drivers out of the left lane. He struggled to find support for a proposed fracking ban dear to the hearts of the enviros who recruited him for office. His precise manner also rubbed some people the wrong way. “He knows more than you do about what’s good for your client,” wrote one lobbyist. The Legislature’s oldest member is a
INTEGRITY: 7.48 BRAINS: 7.78 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.05
REP. MITCH GREENLICK D-Portland
OVERALL RATING medical marvel: Greenlick powered through two hip replacements and a battle with a rare and pernicious cancer. He brings a mixture of toughness and 30 years as a medical researcher to his chairmanship of the House Health Care Committee, which is continuing to wrestle with the implications of the massive expansion of the Oregon Health Plan, the creation of coordinated care organizations and cleanup after the collapse of Cover Oregon. “At the age of 80, the sharpest, most insightful mind on the whole committee,” says one lobbyist. “How refreshing to see political courage to vote one’s true beliefs without concern for political reprisal.” Greenlick is often irascible but never in doubt. “One of the most ferocious chairmen,” says one observer. “Does not suffer fools.”
7.09
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popular. Really. Which is why he has been either unwilling or unable to lead on any significant issue,” says one lobbyist. Adds another, “Zzz.”
SEN. GINNY BURDICK D-Portland
In her 18 years in the Senate, Burdick, 67, OVERALL RATING a public relations consultant, has been ranked “bad” for the past two sessions and “awful” before that. Her dramatic improvement this session is almost certainly because her careerlong campaign for gun control finally delivered. She pushed through a bill that expands background checks for private gun transactions. Burdick also scored the highprofile assignment of co-chairing the House-Senate committee on marijuana. “Been fun watching her corral the pot crazies,” says an observer. “Occasional flashes of courage,” says another.
6.77
INTEGRITY: 7.07 BRAINS: 6.60 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.66 SEN. CHUCK THOMSEN R-Hood River
This laconic pear grower in his third session plays the part of the country hayseed well, but many in Salem think he’s playing possum. “Folksy but actually smart,” says one. Thomsen, 68, worked hard (and unsuccessfully) to block the low carbon fuel standard and paid sick leave, always with a smile on his face. “He’s either Zen or on Quaaludes,” says one close watcher. “Or knows that being in the minority isn’t worth being all stressed out.”
OVERALL RATING
6.22
INTEGRITY: 7.58 BRAINS: 5.85 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.23
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The former high-school teacher and Oregon Education Association staffer is now in her fourth term, and this session Doherty, 64, won a victory for low-income students, getting the state to cover the full cost of their reduced-price meals. Doherty will never surprise anybody with her position on any issue: It’s always unions first. She made sure the OEA won one of its top priorities, a bill that stops school districts from using standardized test results to assess teachers. “Too ideological for her own good,” says a business lobbyist. A left-leaning advocate disagrees: “It’s nice to have someone not ashamed to be a labor goon.”
6.62
Still baby-faced at 35, this Harvard-educated lawyer crossed caucus leadership in 2014, voting against a bill Democrats supported to help undocumented immigrants get driver’s licenses. That cost him a committee chairmanship and the clout that goes with it. But his work this year has earned him the biggest improvement among all the legislators in this survey. He’s worked to secure funding for the redevelopment of a bankrupt paper mill at Willamette Falls and insurance reform that provides greater coverage for injured motorists. “Seems to like being in the Legislature more this session,” says one lobbyist. “Unbelievably bright, a bit of a wasted talent,” says another.
INTEGRITY: 7.05 BRAINS: 6.32 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.48
REP. CARLA PILUSO D-Gresham
OVERALL RATING REP. SHEMIA FAGAN D-Clackamas
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Fagan, 33, a business lawyer with big political ambitions, is a polarizing and sometimes fierce figure. “Wouldn’t surprise me if she’s a cage fighter on the side,” says one female lobbyist. “She’s just downright intense and scary.” Fagan now chairs the Consumer Protection and Government Effectiveness Committee. She’s worked hard to fund sidewalks in East Multnomah County and passed a bill that allows people to block robocalls. Many have expected more from her. “Crafty, smart and politically skilled,” says one lobbyist. “Has taken a hard left in second term,” says another.
6.92
The former Gresham police chief, 59, traded one combat zone for another when she replaced former Rep. Greg Matthews. Respondents’ comments suggest Salem expects her to play a bigger role in the future. “Refreshing and honest approach,” says one lobbyist. “Big improvement for Gresham.” Piluso used her law enforcement know-how to help pass a bill to take guns away from domestic abusers. “Her career experience is showing well,” says one lobbyist. “She is open to input and quietly exerts her influence rather than pounding podiums.”
6.57
INTEGRITY: 7.75 BRAINS: 6.60 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.35
INTEGRITY: 6.71 BRAINS: 7.62 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.43
REP. SUSAN MCLAIN D-Hillsboro
OVERALL RATING A longtime political insider, Smith Warner,
INTEGRITY: 7.33 BRAINS: 7.08 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.48
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6.97
D-Portland
6.96
D-Tigard
5.67
HOUSE REP. BARBARA SMITH WARNER 48, hit the ground running in Salem after being appointed to fill a vacancy in 2013 and elected in her own right last fall. She sponsored House Bill 2600, which continues insurance coverage when a worker takes family leave. “Smart, energetic and relatable,” says one observer. “Knows the tricks, where the dead bodies are buried and generally who buried them,” says a lobbyist. “Hard to get much past her.”
REP. MARGARET DOHERTY
OVERALL RATING
REP. TOBIAS READ D-Beaverton
OVERALL RATING
6.76
Read, 39, is tall, ambitious and wonky. This session, he co-sponsored a successful class action lawsuit reform bill and helped push through a retirement security bill. Read’s known for tilting at windmills—and this session, he aggressively advocated keeping the tax “kicker” payments to be credited back to taxpayers. He never had a prayer. He’s spent this session gearing up to run for state treasurer. “He really wants to be
INTEGRITY: 6.43 BRAINS: 7.33 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.53
OVERALL RATING McLain, 66, a former teacher, also served four terms on the Metro Council before effectively being handed her House seat by former Rep. Ben Unger, so she ought to know how politics works. But this rookie went all but unnoticed. “Doesn’t seem to have a single creative idea in her head,” says one observer. Adds another, “Hillsboro is a thriving successful community with Ph.D.s and entrepreneurs. And they send us McLain?”
6.35
INTEGRITY: 7.09 BRAINS: 6.43 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.52
REP. MARK JOHNSON R-Hood River
A residential contractor and Hood River School Board member, whose mustache and jeans remind some people of a certain former governor, Johnson, 58, brings a useful set of tools to a building short of effective Republicans. “One of a sadly very few bright, genuinely moderate legislators,” says one lobbyist. Johnson worked across the aisle to help pass a couple of bills: one that beefs up charter school standards, and another aimed at providing lower cost college degrees. “Being in the minority sucks,” says one respondent, “and he doesn’t hide that.
OVERALL RATING
6.34
INTEGRITY: 6.05 BRAINS: 6.61 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.35
tee charged with implementing marijuana legalization. The consensus is, she’s greener than expected. “Could use a little more polish if she wants to be taken seriously,” says one observer. “Claimed to be a moderate pragmatist prior to session,” says a business lobbyist, “but she is easily one of the two or three most liberal members of her caucus.” Adds another observer, “In a hurry to be somebody.”
REP. LEW FREDERICK D-Portland
OVERALL RATING As the only African-American
in the House, Frederick, 63, a former Portland Public Schools spokesman and TV reporter, carries a heavy burden, and insiders say he’s doing better than in past years. “Starting to wake up,” says a lobbyist. In his fourth session, he’s pushed for an anti-profiling bill and legislation to expunge marijuana convictions, which disproportionately affect African-Americans. “Would accomplish more if he wasn’t obsessed with self-promotion,” says one observer.
6.13
REP. BILL KENNEMER R-Oregon City
INTEGRITY: 7.22 BRAINS: 6.22 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.96
OVERALL RATING Kennemer, 68, is serving his
fourth term after a dozen years on the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners and time in the Senate before that. He was the only Republican chief sponsor of a new law that prohibits the sale of vaping devices to minors. The retired psychologist also co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to straighten out the mess around the annexation of Damascus. “The most moderate Republican,” says one lobbyist. “Absolutely ineffective now,” says another.
6.25
INTEGRITY: 6.46 BRAINS: 6.54 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.75
REP. ANN LININGER
REP. JOE GALLEGOS D-Hillsboro
OVERALL RATING
If the Legislature put up missing persons posters, Gallegos’ face would be everywhere. As it is, this grandfatherly retired college professor is coasting through his second term and is all but invisible. He moved legislation on English language learners that prevents ELL funds from being spent on unrelated programs. “Other than having a pulse and a D by his name, how on earth did this guy become a legislator?” asks one lobbyist. “I’ve met more engaging, and engaged, potted plants.”
6.10
D-Lake Oswego
OVERALL RATING Lininger, 47, a lawyer and former
6.20
Clackamas County commissioner, came to Salem as a bright prospect and a got a big assignment for a rookie—she co-chairs the joint commit-
INTEGRITY: 7.45 BRAINS: 6.10 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.74
INTEGRITY: 6.22 BRAINS: 6.93 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.46
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SENATE SEN. LAURIE MONNES ANDERSON
REP. KATHLEEN TAYLOR
D-Southeast Portland/Milwaukie
D-Gresham
OVERALL RATING A rookie lawmaker, Taylor, 48, looked
OVERALL RATING Monnes Anderson, 69, is a pleasant, if often puzzled, former nurse who long ago hit the low ceiling of her legislative abilities. She’s serving her sixth session in the Senate after two in the House. “Nice lady, an embarrassment as a senator,” one observer writes. Although Monnes Anderson is the longtime chair of the Senate Committee on Health Care, she hasn’t gained respect for her grasp of the topic. “Totally clueless even on the issues she champions,” one respondent says. “East County needs a strong voice,” another says, “and she ain’t it.”
5.80
promising on paper: She’s a former government auditor and court-appointed special advocate. As an elected official, however, she seemed lost and focused on a narrow agenda—keeping e-cigs out of the hands of children. Many respondents didn’t bother commenting on her at all. Those who did were dismissive. “What a disappointment,” says one observer. “Batshit,” says another.
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5.67
INTEGRITY: 6.63 BRAINS: 5.84 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.21
INTEGRITY: 6.74 BRAINS: 5.00 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.67
REP. CHRIS GORSEK
SEN. CHIP SHIELDS D-Portland
OVERALL RATING A veteran of three House sessions and
now in his fourth as a senator, Shields, 47, is known for a couple of pet issues— advocating for prison inmates and against insurance companies. His session, however, was marked by his loss of the chairmanship of the Senate general government committee that he held in 2014. Shields was further marred by the exposure of an ethical oil slick. After taking a job with his family’s lubricant-manufacturing business, Shields had state Rep. Lew Frederick (D-Portland) introduce a bill that would require the state to use products such as those sold by the Shields family company. Although the Senate Special Committee on Conduct cleared Shields of ethical wrongdoing, it will take a while to sop up the mess to his reputation. “Should bring his dog to work,” says one observer, “so he has a friend in the building.”
5.73
INTEGRITY: 5.16 BRAINS: 6.65 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.39
D-Troutdale
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5.56
OVERALL RATING Gorsek, a second-termer, teaches geogra-
5.98
Rosenbaum, 65, a retired communications workers union official in her fourth Senate session after five in the House, has struggled to make herself heard in a caucus led by voluble Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem). “Courtney smothers her,” one respondent says. She’s hurt by an inability to lead on issues that are squarely in her wheelhouse, such as statewide sick leave and raising the minimum wage. “Even the unions are embarrassed by her leadership,” a business lobbyist says. Rosenbaum is one of several legislators eyeing a run at secretary of state in 2016 and worked hard to pass the “motor voter” bill, a longtime priority of Gov. Kate Brown that could add 300,000 voters to the rolls. Not many are impressed. “So much to get done and so little energy to do it,” says a lobbyist. Another calls her a “lettuce sandwich.”
phy at Mt. Hood Community College but couldn’t find relevance in Salem with a map. “There’s no there there,” says one lobbyist. The stocky former Portland cop passed a bill that will shift economic development subsidies more toward east Multnomah County and rural areas, but survey respondents say he’s mostly taking up space. Says one lobbyist, “Squirrels on water skis have more of an impact on the state of Oregon than this guy.”
5.47
INTEGRITY: 6.41 BRAINS: 5.32 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.68
REP. JULIE PARRISH OVERALL RATING
SEN. ROD MONROE D-East Portland
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Monroe, 72, first won elected office in 1976, when there were more beavers than people in Oregon. The former teacher has served a total of 16 years in the Legislature in addition to time on the David Douglas School Board, the Mt. Hood Community College board and three terms on the Metro Council. For at least a decade, observers have commented that Monroe was way past his sell-by date. This session, Monroe worked on legislation to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of minors, but many observers wish Monroe, a fitness buff and lay minister, had not run for re-election in 2014. “Past his prime,” a typical commenter says. “Time to retire.”
5.71
INTEGRITY: 6.96 BRAINS: 5.38 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.79
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OVERALL RATING
5.67
In his second term, this 68-year-old retired shop teacher struggled to distinguish himself from a piece of lumber like those on which his students used to hammer. “Kind and goodhearted,” says one business lobbyist. “Not loud enough for anyone to hear.”
INTEGRITY: 6.79 BRAINS: 5.54 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.67
R-West Linn
There are few more polarizing or consistently misunderstood figures in Salem than Parrish. A third-termer, Parrish, 41, is a pro-choice Republican who wins in a Democratic majority district. She in effect runs a printing press in her office: Parrish was the chief sponsor on 80 bills this session, which her caucus says is the most in the building. Many addressed ethics and campaign finance and promptly got recycled. Parrish got kicked out of caucus leadership because of her independence and her attention-getting efforts. “Her endless quest for self-promotion limits her ability to be effective,” writes a lobbyist. “Always accessible,” adds another, “because no one wants to talk to her.”
5.35
INTEGRITY: 5.26 BRAINS: 6.15 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.65
SEN. ALAN OLSEN SENATE R-Canby
A genial contractor, Olsen is a consistent laggard in this survey—but he gives a consistent floor speech. “His Tuesday jobs spiel is just legendary at this point,” says one lobbyist. Notably, Olsen, 62, cast the key vote against a bill that would have allowed development of the Langdon Farms Golf Club in Aurora into a massive warehousing and distribution facility. That project, on the drawing board for more than a decade, enjoys hefty financial support and backing from Olsen’s fellow Republicans. It turns out Olsen opposed the bill because he says he wants to stop industrial development from creeping south of the Willamette. “Not well-suited for the minority,” says one observer. “I worry this session has taken a toll on his blood pressure.” Observers appreciate Olsen’s diligence, which outstrips his effectiveness. Says one GOP observer: “Certainly reads every word of every report he gets—and is still clueless.”
OVERALL RATING
4.63
INTEGRITY: 5.57 BRAINS: 4.43 EFFECTIVENESS: 3.89
SEN. KIM THATCHER SENATE R-Keizer
OVERALL RATING
4.20
The retirement of Larry George, a savvy Republican hazelnut processor from Newberg, created an opening for Thatcher, 50, the co-owner of a road contracting company who served five terms in the House. This session, she pushed for less regulation for business and reciprocity for concealed handgun licensees from other states. But as she did as a representative, Thatcher focused mostly on transportation minutiae. “If it doesn’t involve traffic cones and flags, she’s probably not interested,” says an observer. “Moving her up to the Senate was a sage way for the House to get rid of an incompetent train wreck,” says another respondent.
INTEGRITY: 5.80 BRAINS: 3.53 EFFECTIVENESS: 3.27
SEN. CHUCK RILEY SENATE D-Hillsboro
OVERALL RATING
4.08
Last year, the Democratic Party machine convinced Washington County voters they should throw out respected incumbent Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro) in favor of Riley. “I think he is even a little shocked he won,” says one Democratic lobbyist. A retired IT consultant, Riley, 76, previously served three terms in the House and routinely finished in the basement of this survey. He’s back, and in his first Senate session earned notice only for the recall attempt against him launched by gun owners because he voted for background checks for private gun purchases. “How do you light up Riley’s eyes?” asks one veteran lobbyist. “Shine a flashlight in his ear.”
INTEGRITY: 5.46 BRAINS: 3.75 EFFECTIVENESS: 3.04
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WORLD FAMOUS FOR A REASON: In 2009, Portland’s World Famous Cannabis Cafe became the first cafe in the United States for state-authorized medical marijuana cardholders to socialize and safely medicate. The cafe quickly became legendary—it really was world famous—but after an upgrade to its Montavilla location, it closed in June 2014 after the city requested costly seismic improvements, and new laws eliminated the ability for patients to medicate onsite. Now that Measure 91 has passed, and anyone 21 and older will be allowed to consume marijuana on private property, the World Famous Cannabis Cafe is reopening. The new building will be on Southeast Foster Road, and founder Madeline Martinez, former executive director of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ Oregon chapter, hopes to make it the best version yet. “Third time’s a charm,” she says. FRY GUYS: Portland will soon have its first sit-down restaurant dedicated to frybread, the deep-fried Navajo dish with a painful origin in 19th-century reservation rations. The 2,500-square-foot Bonanza, at 135 SW Taylor St., will be opened by the owners of Barlow and Picnic House as a fast-casual restaurant with a loose Old West theme. Planned menu items include chipotle chicken- and beef brisket-topped frybread and Southwestern scones. “Arizona has a James Beard restaurant serving frybread,” says co-owner Aaron Grimmer. “Portland has nothing like that.”
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BRUNG LOW: Bungalo Bar, the North Mississippi Avenue party house known for its strange backyard full of clean-room plastic sheeting and crocheted Xenomorph pods, may soon be no more. If city applications go through, it’ll make way for a new Southwestern-themed bar called the Rambler, with chili, Frito pie, burgers and a bocce court in the backyard. The Bungalo has had a checkered history with state officials, drawing Oregon Liquor Control Commission citations for selling alcohol to minors, serving while intoxicated, and allowing disorderly conduct. It was also the site of Gossip singer Beth Ditto’s 2013 disorderly conduct arrest after the bar cut her off. WHO’S GOING CHICKEN HUNTIN’?: As the burning of Confederate flags becomes a popular form of protest following the mass murder at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., our news partner KATU reports there is still a Confederate flag flying high in the Portland metro area. It’s at Jefferson Davis “Park” in exurban Ridgefield, Wash. The “park” is on private property, owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a group that invited an American who fought for the cause of Rhodesia—the racist former nation whose flag adorned the jacket of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof—to speak to their group at Milwaukie’s Bomber Wings of Freedom restaurant in 2013. The group also plans to lobby for Confederate license plates in Oregon.
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GO: Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride is Saturday, June 27. Riders gather at Colonel Summers Park, Southeast 17th Avenue and Taylor Street, at 8 pm; ride starts at 9 pm. Free (donations requested). See pdxwnbr.org for more details. WILLAMETTE WEEK
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
P H OTO S C O U R T E S Y J O N AT H A N M A U S B I K E P O R TA L N D . O R G
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Portland likes to think it’s especially weird for hosting a naked bike ride. Such rides, which began in either Canada or Spain, depending on whom you believe, have become popular everywhere from Brazil to New Hampshire—and yes, the Brazilian ride is much better for observers. With Portland’s own pasty-ass ride clogging traffic this weekend, let’s look at happenings from World Naked Bike Rides around the world. MARTIN CIZMAR.
UNITED KINGDOM
Riders must be quite careful to avoid arousal while riding in Jolly Olde England. World Naked Bike Ride officials in Canterbury told a man with an erection to put his pantaloons on. “We do not accept this behaviour,” said the organizer. There was, predictably, a backlash, but as of now the Brits maintain a total boner ban in their rides. Also, riders should be of age—a recent naked ride in Brighton became controversial when an 8-year-old girl rode nude, scandalizing locals.
WASHINGTON STATE
In the college town of Bellingham, organizers make every possible effort to make the gathering of naked people a “safe space.” “We set up really good parameters and appropriate interaction with one another,” said an organizer. “It’s a really fun, inspiring and nonsexual event. It’s really important to have clothes-free time that’s not sexualized.” (Despite this, the Bellingham ride was marred by the citation of one Christopher Ian O’Dell, 33, who had his young daughter on a trailer behind him.)
MONTANA
Rural folks in Montana have the distinction of mounting the only organized opposition to the event anywhere in the entire world. In
2014, opponents of a clothing-optional bike ride “packed” a city council meeting and spent 90 minutes complaining about the fact that the city issued a permit. “Our children will be scarred for life if they see anything like this,” the Missoulian newspaper quoted a yokel as saying. “Anybody who rides without clothing in our city should be arrested, put in handcuffs and taken to jail,” said another yokel. Yes, in Montana there is actually something edgy about a large group of people riding bicycles in body paint. (The permit was allowed.)
CANADA
Our northern neighbors spend the weeks before the ride nannying participants. In Edmonton, organizers put together warnings about the need for sunscreen, bottled water, bike bags and a soft cushion for seats. “Your butt can get sweaty on a plastic seat, so it’s nice to cover it with some material,” said the planner.
BUFFALO
In western New York state, which staged its first naked bike ride a few weeks ago, riders should definitely pack some clothes. The after-party was scheduled for a bar called Handlebar, where shoes and underwear were required.
LOS ANGELES
In car-loving L.A., riders should expect to engage in violent confrontations with irritated locals. In 2011, riders were “punched by angry motorists, called anti-gay slurs and injured in unprovoked attacks on the route in Echo Park,” according to the LAist blog. In 2013, one rider on a bike path was punched and another had a glass bottle thrown at him. In L.A., this shit ain’t cute. Be glad you live in Portland, where a naked bike ride barely counts as weird anymore.
BOOTSY’S RUBBER BAND [FUNK] “The Jimi Hendrix of bass” is the second-most prominent Parliament-Funkadelic alum, but the three late-’70s albums he made with his Rubber Band—in which he proved to be a master of the funk ballad, in particular—are nearly as essential as anything he did alongside George Clinton. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 8 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY JUNE 25 SAKE FEST PDX [BOOZE] Sake makers will descend on the Sentinel Hotel for a festival pairing 130 sakes, plum wines and beers with food from local and sushi bars like Biwa, Hokusei, American Local and Chizu. Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400, sakefestpdx. com. 5:30-9 pm. $55-$75. LITHOP [BOOKS] The third installation of the literary reading pub crawl heads downtown with readings from more than 50 Portland writers, slinking among drunken Old Town haunts like Dante’s, Ash Street Saloon and Shanghai Tunnel. The schedule is at lithoppdx.com if you want to plan carefully, but after 8:30 pm you can also just hang at the Mercy Corps building for a solid lineup from Rene Denfeld to Arthur Bradford. Drink up early at the Ash Street. Various downtown locations, lithoppdx.com. 7-10 pm. Free.
SATURDAY JUNE 27 THE WE SHARED MILK [DISSOLVE INTO FUZZ] FUZZ This is both a reunion and funeral for local psych-pop outfit the We Shared Milk, whose tenure of scuzz, fuzz and lo-fi goodness is coming to an official end. It’s leaving us with one final gig, and a gift: a Banana Stand live album. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. DAY OF THE BAER [BEER] For its first anniversary, Baerlic Brewing Co. will pour more than 30 beers, from a Doug E Fresh Douglas fir aged IPA to a bourbon and cocoa nib oatmeal stout called Grandpa’s Breakfast. Tickets at eventbrite.com. Baerlic Brewing, 2235 SE 11th Ave., 477-9418, baerlicbrewing.com. Noon-8 pm. $20 for glass and 10 drink tickets. 21+.
TUESDAY JUNE 30 GARY WILSON [AVANT LOUNGE] After emerging from the New York underground in the late ’70s with a never-beforeheard fusion of lounge-singer bravado and lite jazz funk, Wilson faded into obscurity while remaining a lodestar for future weirdos like Ariel Pink and Beck. In 2004, tastemakers rediscovered his seminal bedroom opus You Think You Really Know Me, winning him new fans and a revived career. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 24, 2015 wweek.com
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VERY HILL. MUCH SPEED. THE GREATEST GRAVITY FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD IS RIGHT IN PORTLAND’S BACKYARD.
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On June 24, about 230 of the best downhill skateboarders and street lugers in the world will descend on the Maryhill Festival of Speed. It’ll be the largest gravity sports festival in North America, the second event in this year’s International Downhill Federation World Cup championships, one of the premier downhill events of the year on one of the best courses in the nation. Over five days, about 3,000 spectators will walk up the two-minute hike from the festival grounds to line the course and watch competitors like Salem longboarder Brandon DesJarlais and 2014 International Downhill Federation champion Kevin Reimer speed by in racing leathers and that signature downhill crouch, like heavyhelmeted members of the Foot Clan. The best part? This will all happen in Portland’s backyard—in Goldendale, Wash., just up the river. Portland’s long, passionate relationship with the bicycle has been well documented. But our region’s equally long love affair with the skateboard is sometimes overlooked. Sure, there’s Burnside Skatepark and Gus Van Sant immortalizing dreamy teenagers in Paranoid Park. Tom Miller, former chief of staff to ex-Mayor Sam Adams, was photographed in The Wall Street Journal proudly holding up his beater board. But to many, the “skate route” signs serve as mere symbols of Portland’s perma-’90s alternaculture, much like the 45-year-old brah who took my skateboard from me, executed three perfect kickflips, then handed it back. Shell art is so over, man. As always, the truth is simpler, and less cynical. We live in a place where board sports run rampant. Once you snowboard on Mount Hood and paddleboard around Ross Island and surf at Indian Beach and maybe even take a scary turn on your friend’s trainer kiteboard in Hood River, picking up a skateboard instead of a bike is a nobrainer. Even a high-end longboard like the Moonshine Hooch is cheaper than a new bike at REI. A new generation is catching on. “Daddies’ sales of longboards, and longboard sales in general, are up significantly over the past five years,” says Daron Horwitz, president of Daddies Board Shop in Northeast Portland. “Our growth locally has been our strongest.” And as the Zoobombers and kids in the West Hills already know, Portland is, topographically speaking, ideally suited to longboarding. Our gently sloped urban cinder cones and abundance of long, paved, scenic roads are perfect for cruising or bombing. But once you’ve honed your abilities and scraped up your bum on Mount Tabor, it’s time for the big leagues. It’s time to head out to Maryhill Loops Road in south central Washington, one of the premier longboarding courses in the world.
DANGEROUS CURVES: Portland pro downhiller Gordon Miller on a Moonshine Rum Runner.
The Maryhill course is smooth and outrageously scenic, a ribbon of asphalt snaking its way through the rounded, golden hills. “It’s almost made for downhill skateboarding or street luging,” says John Ozman, founder of the Festival of Speed. “It has a magical feeling to it.” It’s also a historic landmark, the first paved asphalt road in Washington. In the early 1900s, businessman Samuel Hill made his fortune building roads throughout the Pacific Northwest. He purchased 5,000 acres in south central Washington, named it Maryhill after his wife and daughter (who never actually lived there), and spent his own money to experiment with different paving techniques. Today, the land is owned by the Maryhill Museum of Art, which leases 2.2 miles and 22 perfectly banked turns of that road to the festival every year. Maryhill is just a short drive from the Distillery, Moonshine Mfg.’s longboard factory in North Bonneville, Wash. Seen from one perspective, it only makes sense to start making longboards if you’re less than an hour from
one of the best courses in the world. But from another, this kind of cross-pollination between board sports is what owners Jeff and Tony Logosz have been doing for their entire careers. The Logosz brothers were snowboard designers who moved to Hood River in the mid-1980s to take up windsurfing. When kiteboarding first began to emerge as a sport, they discovered the popular models did little better than skid around the surface of the Columbia River like a plywood door. They realized that the budding industry could benefit from the new technology then being used for snow gear. They named their company Slingshot Sports. Their kiteboards (and eventually wakeboards and stand-up paddleboards) had features like vibration-dampening systems and flex characteristics that made them lighter, stronger and more agile. At Maryhill, on that perfect testing ground, Slingshot’s engineers began adapting those same techniques to their longboard division, which became known as Moonshine. Instead of pressed maple plies, they used vertically laminated Pacific Albus, a sustainable and locally grown poplar hardwood that is more commonly used in snowboards. Carbon fiber is sandwiched between the plies for greater strength. Urethane truck mounts give the board vibrationdampening qualities. And in homage to the soggy Pacific Northwest, the urethane rails make the board effectively waterproof so you can ride all year-round. In Moonshine’s nondescript warehouse a few miles outside of Cascade Locks, as employees in hoodies and work boots bend over boards of all kinds in a brightly lit, buzzing hive of a factory that smells warmly of wood chips, sales and marketing director Greg Kish hands me a longboard. The Hooch’s design is elegant, understated, the Moonshine Mfg. decal in stark black contrast against the pale wood grain of the deck’s underside. Nothing betrays the amount of engineering that went into making it—more a snowboard on wheels, really, than a long skateboard—or that it was handcrafted with care and precision, cut and pressed by hand. The Hooch, and Moonshine, will join venerable Portland longboard manufacturers like Eastside and Subsonic at this year’s Maryhill Festival of Speed. But on a sunny Sunday, at a much more modest pace than anyone will see at Maryhill, I take out Moonshine’s Rum Runner board. It’s light and responsive, a Lambo among skateboards, rolling smoothly on enormous, white 70-millimeter wheels. Maybe this summer would be the perfect time to take it to Maryhill, I wonder. Or maybe not. But even if I spend the summer just cruising around town, surely I can manage to pass a 45-year-old brah or two. GO: The Maryhill Festival of Speed is at Maryhill Loops Road, Goldendale, Wash., on June 24-28. Free. See maryhillfestivalofspeed.com for more details. Willamette Week JUNE 24, 2015 wweek.com
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Filipino Dinner at Clyde Common Walk up window 11:30am–3pm
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Shandong www.shandongportland.com
Clyde Common chef Carlo Lamagna will be cooking his native Filipino food in a six-course dinner for Portland Food Adventures. The menu is not advertised in advance, but Lamagna’s “Twisted Filipino” pop-up dinners in Chicago have included lumpia (pork egg rolls with jicama and papaya) and ginataan na isda (a seafood dish with Meyer lemon and coconut). Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. Clyde Common, 1014 SW Stark St., 2283333. 6 pm. $125, includes drink pairings and tip.
Shandong Sake Fest PDX
More than 40 chefs and sake makers—including Oregon’s SakeOne— will be at the Sentinel Hotel for www.shandongportland.com a festival featuring 130 different sakes, plum wines and beers. To pair with sake, local restaurants and sushi bars like Biwa, Hokusei, the American Local and Chizu will provide appetizers, mini-entrees and assorted chocolates and cheeses. Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 5:30-9 pm. $55-$75.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Day of the Baer
In honor of its anniversary, Baerlic Brewing Co. will pour more than 30 beers rotated across 22 taps—seasonal, barrel-aged, infused, forever, whatever—from a Belgian golden strong aged in a fresh pinot noir barrel to a Doug E Fresh Douglas fir aged IPA. Tickets at eventbrite.com. Baerlic Brewing, 2235 SE 11th Ave. Noon-8 pm. $20 for glass and 10 drink tickets. 21+.
Where to eat this week. Traditional Exotic Fare All you-Can-Eat Buffets & Menu Orders Vegetarian, Vegan & Gluten-Free Options Locally Owned & Operated by the Chand Family from India
1. Olympia Provisions
1632 NW Thurman St., 894-8136; 107 SE Washington St., 954-3663, olympiaprovisions.com. The flavor of Olympia Provisions’ lunchtime hot dog wells up from the impossibly smoky, lightly charred meat itself. It is like a European sandwich: simple and pure, meat and bread perfected. $-$$$.
2. P.R.E.A.M.
2131 SE 11th Ave., 231-2809, preampizza.com. P.R.E.A.M.’s pies are on point—classic Italian Neapolitan crust made with double zero flour, proofed for 72 hours and baked at 900 degrees in an Acunto Gianni oven. $$.
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1235 SE Division St., 230-8340, doubledragonpdx.com. The toppings on the Kobe beef dog are maybe unimprovable, with a beautiful point-counterpoint of fat and acid from light aioli and kimchi, brightened by cucumber and the herbal lilt of cilantro. $.
4. El Gato Tuerto
Southeast Foster Road and 72nd Avenue, portlandmercado.com. This Cuban-Argentine cart makes one of the most distinctive Cubanos in the city, wildly citric and piled ridiculously high with pulled pork. $.
5. 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. $.
DEVOUR
SALT & STRAW STREET FOOD SERIES On paper, it looks wonderful. Ice-cream collaborations from some of our favorite food carts—Nong’s Khao Man Gai, Wolf and Bear’s, Viking Soul Food—available all June as seasonal flavors. Things we love, made sweet by Portland’s busiest makers of God-knows-whatflavored novelty ice cream. But now I feel wronged and a little queasy, like an OkCupid user out to dinner with a toothless first date. We have eaten atrocities at $9 a pint. Well, with one exception. Nong’s Khao Man Gai is a phenom in Portland based on one wonderful item, a chicken and rice dish with ginger-garlic-soy sauce that melts hearts and includes liver. The melty ice cream, it turns out, is also great: The Nong’s flavor was all rich peanut butter and a hint of surprising spice, mixed in with chocolate and coconut vegan ice cream. It distilled Thai essence into ice cream and squared it off beautifully with chocolate. Wolf and Bear’s tahini cardamom also fared well at first—hell, cardamom ice cream might as well be a Swedish cookie made smooth. Until, that is, you hit the textural nightmare of the frozen halva candy: bitter, uncomfortable to chew, and ill-served by Salt & Straw’s refusal to actually blend its flavors rather than distribOrder this: Nong’s Khao Man Gai peanut butter ice cream. ute them in uneven chunks. I’ll pass: All else. Likewise, the lingonberry ice cream from Norwegian lefse cart Viking Soul Food had simple promise: goat’s milk and lingonberry, beachfront ice cream on vacation in the North. But the lingonberries were delivered in literal tablespoons of jam seemingly injected as pockets within the ice cream rather than swirled. Those sticky-sweet globs somehow felt 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the ice cream. The edible ended there. I am a fan of all things fermented, especially kimchi, but the kimchi-rice ice cream from bulgogi taco empire Koi Fusion captured none of pickling’s brightness. The ice cream’s huge soft-chocolate clusters contained the low, sickening taint of rotten vegetation—the fetid stench of a Singapore summer. It was like a mean-spirited prank played by Spencer’s at the mall: corpse-flavored chocolate. And old-school fry cart Potato Champion’s poutine flavor, which I love in poutine form, forgot something essential, which is that no one actually wants cheese gelatin or salty potato in ice cream, let alone the terrifying psychological suggestion imparted by gravy facsimile. Get the Nong’s flavor—in pint form, thus avoiding the lines. It’s a great flavor. But we’re canceling our subscription to the $65-a-month seasonal ice-cream club. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. K AT H Y
BRUNCH
EAT: Salt & Straw’s Street Food Series is available during June at Salt & Straw, multiple locations, saltandstraw.com.
DRANK
ABSINTHE MINDED STOUT GRUIT ALE (FIRE CIRKL) After a few summer beer festivals, you start to think you’ve seen it all. How many blackberry sours are gonna come out this year, anyway? So it’s exciting to spot something as crazy as this absinthe-herbed, hopless beer from a brewery that spells like it’s been to a few Oregon Country Fairs. Fire Cirkl is located in White City, north of Medford, and I regret to inform you that my bottle from Fred Meyer on Hawthorne was one of the most wretched beers I’ve yet encountered. Like, can mouthwash spoil? What if you added simple syrup and the juice of two fennel bushes? Why would anyone want something so sickeningly sweet to also be so very thick? Well, give Cirkl this: You can go to every beer festival in the city this year, and you won’t find another brew like it. The green fairy has long been thought a muse; hopefully someone else will find inspiration and make Oregon’s first tasty absinthe beer. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
FOOD & DRINK COURTNEY THEIM
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RED WEDDING: The two-pepper Kung Pow beef.
POW TO THE PEOPLE KUNG POW DRESSES UP AND GETS DOWN WITH AMERICAN CHINESE.
Other signatures come from Shandong, in particular the 2-foot-long Judy’s and gwai wer noodles that are still hearty and glutenous feasts. Lamentably, they’ve also imported those soup dumplings, whose dough gorges itself on the BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE mkorfhage@wweek.com soup until none remains within, leaving a sad and When you see the dragon on that takeout menu, hollow wilt of a shell. (Where is that Aviary soup you know what you’re in for. Not to mention the dumpling spot we were promised?) But the Szechuan-style classics—the titular exclamatory name (KUNG POW!, a typography our copy editors won’t allow in our paper out- Kung Pow dishes ($10-$12), as well as ma po tofu side of these parentheses), that telegraphed pun ($10)and zhen bang chicken ($11)—are comfort right out of jokey chopsocky, and the back-page classics with a sting, but not a burn, of red chili “classics” menu full of Shanghai surprises and and tingling Sichuan pepper. All offer that familSino-American stepchildren such as chow mein, iar oil-salt-garlic rush of the corner Chinese spot, lemon chicken and sweet and sour pork. but with greater brightness, lightness and deftNob Hill’s Kung Pow—sister restaurant to ness. All are available in smaller portions at lunch subdued Chinese noodle house Shandong—is not for about $8.50. And as for that staid, old lemon Szechuan food, no matter how much ma po tofu chicken? It’s some of the best I’ve had—certainly or zhen bang you see on the menu. You won’t find the best in Portland—a light, flour-crusted dish confrontational Chongqing pepper baths here, no in goopy lemon sauce that tastes, redolently, of actual lemon. Maybe it’s shui zhu yu soup stained red screwy 1950s food, but it’s as blood with the oil of chilies. Order this: Lamb bao bing, fish balls, great screwy 1950s food. The W h a t S a n Fr a n c i s c o - zhen bang chicken, and a cocktail. wheel has not been reinventraised chef Henry Liu made Best deal: The $8.50 lunch menu. ed, merely greased for speed. instead is an amped-up I’ll pass: Soup dumplings. However, let’s be clear: Most celebration of the old-school American Chinese family restaurant—winked, of the wheeled lubrication will be provided by the nudged and elevated past irony into blissful com- copious, Chinese-zodiac-spoked cocktail menu, fort, with oil and heat and spice brought into a from a Bulleit grenadine called Strong Ox ($9) to concert that’s way more Van Halen than Mozart. its astrological opposite, a “Sheepish” Champagne The tender, delectable fish balls ($8.50) lychee cocktail ($8)—not to mention a Pigs & Prosshould become a hallmark here, especially the perity coffee cocktail ($9) so hot with rum, Vinn ginger-garlic version in “sweet spicy sauce.” baijiu and Bailey’s it might as well steam instead Whitefish is a beautifully receptive ground for of froth. Although the smartest part of the drinks heavy sauces—a prime drinking snack even more menu may be the wine list, with a healthy represenso than the spicy chicken wings that have become tation of spice-compatible riesling and especially part of every nouveau-Portland Asian spot since local favorite Teutonic, not to mention a refreshwe all liked Ike’s at Pok Pok. Although, of course, ingly straightforward announcement of call-liquor there are also wings at Kung Pow. Because you availability and prices ($7 for Aria, $8 for Woodford want wings—just like David Lee Roth knows you Reserve). So fuck it. Treat the place like it’s a higherwant “Hot for Teacher” and a high kick. end Chin Yen (RIP) or Republic Cafe. Show up to The lamb bao bing appetizer ($9) should also start your night and end up accidentally finishing it be ordered every time—it’s a loud, amiable take here instead, numb with Sichuan and buried at the on the too-often dull mu shu wrap, with a red bell bottom of an alcoholic oolong tea. pepper salsa on sweet-spicy lamb gussied up with mah lah berry and chilies, packed into a crepe- EAT: Kung Pow, 500 NW 21st Ave., 208-2173, kungpowpdx.com. 11 am-10 pm Sundaythin pancake. It is a burst of buoyant flavor that Wednesday, 11 am-midnight Thursday-Saturday. seems to disappear far too swiftly.
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Red Ride Tour: OCnotes, Silver Jackson, Kristi Lane Sinclair
[NATIVE TONGUES] For five years, Kristi Lane Sinclair—a musician from Vancouver, B.C., and member of the Haida and Cree nations—has organized the Red Ride Tour, taking other artists of aboriginal heritage out on the road across North America. This year’s lineup includes avant-folk singersongwriter Silver Jackson, eclectic DJ OCnotes and Sinclair herself, who performs a fairly straightforward brand of power-chord rock that should play pretty well here. Dante’s, 360 W Burnside St., 345-7892. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
A Tribe Called Red
[POWWOW-STEP] In a world where festival-happy, white-boy bros dance beneath indigenous headdresses in truly astounding feats of arrogance and ignorance, one might cast a leery eye at electronic beats spliced with traditional powwow vocals and drums. But ever since they emerged from a “powwow”-themed club night in 2008, the Native-identified musicians of Ontario’s A Tribe Called Red have made music as an act of reclamation and pride, hoisting its members’ heritage into artistic relevance without sacrificing politically charged aboriginal advocacy. TED JAMISON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12-$14. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Motopony, Tristen, Big Harp
[EMERALD CITY INDIE FOLK] Motopony may be from Seattle, but rarely does the band make the trek down I-5 to Portland. The folk-infused outfit—which this week released its sophomore outing, Welcome You—still manages to captivate when it does come to town, subtly blending roaming
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’70s psychedelia with soulful indie rock in the Cold War Kids vein. Frontman and fashionista Daniel Blue’s vocals resemble the latter’s Nathan Willett, especially when flanked by an intricate web of electric guitars, glitzy synths and exotic percussion probably picked up from the band’s recent gigs in India. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Natasha Kmeto, Hosannas, IBQT
[FUTURE R&B] If you’ve paid any attention to the Portland music scene the last two years, then you should be familiar with Natasha Kmeto. The singer-producer is among the city’s most alluring talents, blending sultry electronic beats with vocals and songwriting derived from modern R&B. At this point, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the country knows her name, which should happen as soon as her long-teased new album, Inevitable, finally drops. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
SIMMER DOWN: Golden Retriever’s Jonathan Sielaff at the Quiet Music Festival in 2014.
TURN DOWN FOR ONCE
Hemingway, Our First Brains, Mr. Bones, Caregiver
THE QUIET MUSIC FESTIVAL DARES ARTISTS TO ENJOY THE NEAR-SILENCE.
[LO-FI HIGHS] If Robert Pollard got drunk and lonesome enough to stumble into an intense emo phase, the resulting racket would probably sound a lot like Mr. Bones. The Portland band’s first cassette for Good Cheer Records is a magpie’s nest of lo-fi hooks plucked from the expanding canon of post-Pinkerton pop punk. Like the aforementioned godfather of profligate songwriting, Mr. Bones will pursue a perfect melody just long enough to let it sink in before chasing down another bright and enticing sound. The faceted sum evokes a sweet state of manic melancholy, that in-between zone where getting older is still fun because youth is still nearby.
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FIVE LESSONS PLAYING WITH BOOTSY COLLINS HAS TAUGHT ME 1. Everything is on the one. 2. It’s all about the groove. Never sacrifice the groove for anything else. 3. Funk is making something out of nothing. That’s how funk got started— from Larry Graham experimenting with a percussive feel on the bass and inventing slap bass to Bootsy getting a guitar as a kid and putting bass strings on it to join in with his brother on guitar, Phelps “Catfish” Collins. 4. Bootsy gives 110 percent every night and truly loves his fans. He makes sure to connect with them all, either though the music, band interaction or literally going into the audience and touching everyone he sees. 5. Just to be surrounded by the original Bootsy’s Rubber Band members is such an honor. I have heard so many stories about life, music, love and the funk. I’m glad I can represent Portland in the funk, alongside Portland trombonist Kyle Molitor of the Rose City Horns. SEE IT: Bootsy’s Rubber Band plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Wednesday, June 24. 8 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. 21+.
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A little over a decade ago, Chris Johanson’s ears turned against him. A visual artist and musician, the 46-year-old has long suffered from tinnitus. Until about 2003, it had been manageable. Shortly after moving to Portland from San Francisco, for reasons still unclear, it became unbearable. He’d made friends with members of the local rock scene, like Quasi and Jackie- O Motherfucker, and suddenly, he couldn’t even make it through their shows. It was as if his body were rejecting his own taste. “I had to regroup my brain around sound,” he says. Eventually, that process of realignment led Johanson to a conclusion: If he couldn’t go see loud bands anymore, he’d just ask those bands to turn down. Now in its fifth year, the Quiet Music Festival has seen dozens of artists—including Stephen Malkmus, Mark Eitzel and TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone—take on the challenge of dialing back the volume, with Sonny and the Sunsets’ Sonny Smith, Rebecca Gates, Secret Drum Band and, in a return engagement, Malkmus and his Jicks, among the acts stepping up this year. We spoke to Johanson about curating the only festival in Portland where napping through a set is considered a compliment. WW: Was it a big deal for you to shift toward listening to and making quieter music? Chris Johanson: What I found was, it’s really bold and seriously hard work to make music that is low volume. That’s why I started that band Sun Foot. That was my first step into this kind of thing. We play through the smallest amps, set on the lowest possible amplification. It’s really interesting to see how people approach being up there, in a strippeddown situation like that. It’s really vulnerable and really revealing to me. So you see the festival as a kind of challenge to the artists. That is a big part of it. That’s when you can see how
truly thoughtful and gifted a performer can be, when they deal with the parameters. Do you give the artists rules for playing? If you play through an amp, it needs to be a really small amp and barely amplified. If you play with a drum kit, they’ve got to be muffled, or they need to use brushes. But people are just thoughtful. They know I do it for people who have serious difficulties around volume. Most people who’ve been playing music for a long time, they have issues with it themselves that they’re dealing with, or they know people who’ve paid the price for the lifestyle. So I think the musicians find it refreshing. How do you approach the curation? I’ve met so many people through the years. What I’ll do is I’ll just pick a person, and then I bounce it off that, and it just organically creates itself. I make the event based on what interests me more than what’s going to be super-popular. If 100 people show up, or even less, it’s a successful night. Who’s surprised you the most with how they’ve adapted? Money Mark’s performance was really amazing. He made it more like storytelling, about how he was introduced to music, starting with the first instrument his parents bought him up through the Beastie Boys and beyond. That was really cool, because it was more of a performative situation, and it’s not really what he does at all. You actually encourage the crowd to sleep. We make it really comfortable. It looks very ’70s, ’80s, early-’90s interior design, all different types of rugs and blankets and pillows and lamps, with different colored light bulbs. The music is so quiet, it’s like a lullaby, and people really do fall asleep. At any given time there’ll be like 15 people asleep. SEE IT: The Quiet Music Festival is at Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., on Friday-Saturday, June 26-27. $10 per night, $16 for two-night pass in advance; $12 per night, $18 for two-night pass day of show. All ages. See disjecta.org for complete schedule.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Derrick Carter, Mercedes, Rose City Underground
[HOUSE RULES] In 1995, Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon released the house-music compilation Seasons on their newfound (and now definitively classic) Classic Music Company label. Starting at catalog number CMC100, the label counted backwards until it reached CMC00 in 2005 and then shuttered, as promised—for a couple of weeks, anyway. Making and breaking rules is just how Carter does business, whether it’s his biweekly sets at Chicago’s Smart Bar billed with virtual unknowns or his relentlessly springy and sexual Fabric 56, released in 2011. In true Carter fashion, the finale of that record abruptly shifts, not to a soothing ambient outro but to a wailing, hyperspeed jazz track. MITCH LILLIE. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 9 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Fred Thomas, Skin Lies
[OFF-KILTER CONFESSIONALS] Assuming you’re not familiar with the noise scene of Ann Arbor, Mich., Fred Thomas’ name is probably new to you. But it doesn’t really matter whether you’ve already heard of Thomas, because his music is somehow as familiar as it is strange. This year’s All Are Saved mixes gentle acoustic guitars with tense layers of swirling electronics, over which Thomas alternates between soft singing and anxiously rapping his poignant, witty lyrics. It’s all at once warm, lulling, dark and tense. Thomas has called All Are Saved his coming-out record, so he probably doesn’t care if you’ve never heard of him before, either—as long as you listen now. SHANNON GORMLEY. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 9:30 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
NorthernDraw, Montgomery Word, Studenets, Diogenes
[MAGNETIC BEATS] The Ewe of Now label has been home to Northwest beat heads and sample collagists offering bedroom-quality, lo-fi recordings for a few years now. Run by producer Montgomery Word, the imprint’s Family Album release made serious waves across the Bandcamp realm, showcasing local artists such as Tough Fuzz, Rap Class and NorthernDraw in a national focus with an hour-anda-half-long tape compilation. This all-ages event welcomes Seattle’s Diogenes to the fold to celebrate his sampledelic Death & Acid cassette release. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Control Voltage, 3742 N Mississippi Ave., 265-8494. 7 pm. Free. All ages.
Jacco Gardner, Calvin Love, Ozarks
[EURO PSYCH] When the fawning subsided after Dutch psych export Jacco Gardner’s 2013 release, Cabinet of Curiosities, the 20-something put out Hypnophobia, an album just as intricately plotted and well-executed as its predecessor. It lacks a bit of the earlier album’s grandeur, but it’d be hard to match tracks like “Help Me Out,” a song ready-made for the Mod Era, all gentle but shot through with a few nervy surprises. Really, the greatest shock here is just getting used to the idea that Gardner racked up “Before the Dawn” and its strident, poppy climax so quickly after that impressive debut. DAVE CANTOR. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas [GRAY-HEADED STRANGER] The sheer length (new album Django & Jimmie is his sixth with Merle Haggard alone) and breadth (the
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title track name-checks yodeling country pioneer Jimmie Rodgers and gypsy-jazz stylist Django Reinhardt as signal influences) of Willie Nelson’s discography seems all the more astonishing given how late in life it began in earnest. Only embarking upon the stretch of albums that made his legend at the tender age of 40, Nelson, an absurdly spry 82-yearold, wasted his 20s amid no-hope jobs across the country—including, notably, an extended stint as a Vancouver DJ while living with his wife and his mom near her work tending bar at Oregon’s Goble Tavern—though it’s hard to argue the wanderings did much harm to that priceless songbook. Mothers no longer let their babies grow up to take the cowboy career path, and the world’s a poorer place. JAY HORTON. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 6:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Infinite Vision: Bot, Drexler, Joshua Burson
[ELECTRO CLUB] After leaving popular Italian electro-house duo Crookers in 2012, Bot founded Main Course, an L.A. collective, with Astronomar and Neoteric. They’re odd bedfellows: Bot brings outdated electro to a table filled out with Astronomar and Neoteric’s contemporary hard club jams. Oddly enough, it works. “See U Bounce,” a 2015 Bot-Astronomar collaboration, softens the downbeat with Bot’s buzzing electro, slowly building before a huge drop. The track, and increasingly more of Main Course’s catalog, is a takeoff on big-room festival bangers. Bot, along with Main Course, has his eyes set back on the prize. MITCH LILLIE. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 10 pm. $10. 21+.
Hot Mass: Pearles, Rio Grands, Doubleplusgood, DJ Jeremy Petersen, DJ Dirty Red
[HEAT WAVE ] Is there anything better than a proper Portland summertime parking-lot party? Kicking off what looks like the hottest weekend of the year so far, XRAY. fm, Ninaski Brewing and nightlife hotspot Church are teaming together for a pretty rad outdoor show. Headliner Pearles is the new project of former Comettes singer-organist Timmy Sunshine, joined here by Cameron Spies, Lizzy Ellison and Patti King of Radiation City, Colin Jenkins of Rio Grands and Tiana Garoogian. Pearles hasn’t released any music but has a full album in the can, filled with the type of ’60s indebted pop (think both Roy Orbison and Nancy Sinatra) that should sound perfect on a sweaty, sticky, summer evening. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Church, 2600 NE Sandy Blvd., 206-8962. 5 pm. $5. 21+.
Sannhet, King Woman, Planning for Burial, DJ Nate C
[POST-DEAFHEAVEN] Sunbather, the 2013 album from San Francisco’s Deafheaven, inspired much pearlclutching among metal purists for daring to combine crushing riffage, blast-beats and wailing banshee vocals with elements of postrock and shoegaze. The sound of Brooklyn’s Sannhet isn’t quite as fluorescent as its West Coast counterpart, but its bound to confuse puritans all the same, with its complex arrangements, instrumental bluster and glints of melody that escape from its dense attack. It’s allegedly got a crazy light show, too. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 7 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Andy Stokes Sings Marvin Gaye
[LET’S GET IT ON] If my karaoke days taught me anything, it’s that Marvin Gaye remains one of the
most difficult to cover artists of all time: His powerful R&B takes a special something to perform and not make it sound like you’re creepily begging a whole club to have sex with you. For local vocalist Andy Stokes, who possesses a hugely emotive and powerful voice of his own, and his smooth, punchy backing band, this has never been a problem. Stokes, who performs back-to-back sets of Gaye’s classics tonight, is anything but timid— just the kind of guy you can trust to bring vintage soul to life the way it deserves. PARKER HALL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7:30 and 10 pm. $12 general admission, $15 reserved. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.
The We Shared Milk, And And And, the Tamed West
[IS THIS GOODBYE?] Three cheers for death rattles! That’s a feeble attempt to make light of the fact that this is both a reunion and funeral for the We Shared Milk, whose tenure of scuzz, fuzz and lo-fi goodness is officially coming to an end. The band will be releasing its final record, a Banana Stand live album, as well, and after sharing drunken gigs and 10-inch records with Portland basement buds And And And, it’s only fitting that the the two bands share the night’s bill. Perhaps tissues are in order? TED JAMISON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Drunk On Pines, Shoeshine Blue, Screens, Small Souls
[ROCK] Portland trio Drunk on Pines just released its self-titled debut via Bandcamp. Blake Goud’s bass and Matt Pracht’s drums combine with Doug Loghry’s reverbdrenched guitar to build a sturdy, three-legged stool for Loghry’s ornery vocals and oblique lyrics. His adenoidal singing blends classicrock swagger with new-wave idiosyncrasy. The band, meanwhile, has moments recalling Built to Spill’s quirky grandeur, but is often more down-to-earth—though never ordinary. A yearning emotional tone suggests those eponymous “Pines” may not be the arboreal but the wistfully romantic kind. JEFF ROSENBERG. Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Fat Sushi, the Perfect Cyn, Nathan Detroit, Laura Lynn
[DEEP-WATER HOUSE] There’s nothing immediately remarkable about Swiss duo Fat Sushi. Like a low-end Japanese restaurant, its simple yet calculated tech house seems par for the course on up-and-coming labels like OFF Recordings and Suara. But like an oversized piece of nigiri, Fat Sushi’s sound eventually overwhelms the palate with sheer force. The oscillations and twinkling samples in “Love Matters” and the bass synth in “Warehouse” overwhelm when the needle reaches the midpoint of the track, and by the end, you’re in a blissful sort of food coma. MITCH LILLIE. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 421-4483. 9 pm. Free before 10 pm, $10 after. 21+.
The Slow Poisoner
[BIZARRO ROCK] Andrew Goldfarb is a strange man. From San Francisco, he has wrought his surrealist vision into a sort of outsiderrock theater closely aligned with the Bizarro fiction movement. Andrew writes as well, but tonight he will be performing with his one-man act as the Slow Poisoner. Musically, it’s rock ’n’ roll in its earliest and twangiest form—fans of Hasil Adkins and the Cramps should dig his caveman stomp. Onstage, there’s a lot more to the show than music. Goldfarb paints his own props, which look like a mash-up of Pee Wee’s Playhouse sets and Garbage Pail Kids cards. If They Might Be Giants on acid or Quintron and Miss Pussycat on a stack of Roald Dahl books sounds up your alley, this is one third-eye-opening free show
saturday–sunday not to miss. cASEY HARDMEYER. The Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., 971-270-7760. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 Elvis Depressedly, Mitski, Eskimeaux, the Sweater I Gave You
[BEDRooM PoP] Eskimeaux is the stage name of Gabrielle Smith, the Brooklyn musician who has been crafting bedroom sounds since 2007. newest effort O.K. is surprisingly boisterous for a solo creation, fleshed out live with the help of a full band. Smith’s satin vocals capture the spotlight, backed by echoing beats and ambient synths. While tidal and soothing, Eskimeaux’s sound is more contemplative than sleepy and gently uplifting. north carolina’s Elvis Depressedly, the indie-rock outfit captained by coma cinema’s Mat cothran, caps the evening. MARK StocK. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 432-8079. 6 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. All ages.
Son Lux, Olga Bell
[ELEctRonIc cHAMBER PoP] Like the sequel to a Hollywood blockbuster, Ryan Lott—better known by his stage moniker, Son Lux— has taken his established base of soaring chamber arrangements and electronic pop and expanded on it for his third fulllength album, Bones, creating something that’s bigger, flashier and more warbly. Setting an eerie atmosphere, the album flickers and staggers along, led by flutters of strings and horns, dark mechanical tremors and a willingness to experiment. Maybe it’s the addition of guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian chang—both of whom add
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Blade Runner Ball: Swahili, Talkative, House of Aquarius, Noah Bernstein Group, DJ Ingmar
[RUn tHE BLADES] Eighties dystopian fantasies are so hot in 2015. We’re still a few years off from seeing how Blade Runner 2 matches up to Fury Road, but Holocene is getting ahead of the game, partnering with the Hollywood theater to create an entire immersive night based around Ridley Scott’s classic original. Presentations include a dance performance from House of Aquarius, projections from Four Eeels and a two-act play adapted from the film featuring live music from local psych-pop outfit talkative and space-disco cosmonauts Swahili. naturally, costumes are encouraged. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.
The Family Crest
[oRcHEStRAL PoP] consider the Family crest as typhoon’s brother-in-arms, only with seven core players instead of a revolving cast of 12 or so. Still, more than 80 individuals are credited on the San Francisco ensemble’s thunderous full-length, Beneath the Brine, which contains arrangements as
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Gary Wilson, Nurses, Fog Father, Wampire DJs [AVANT LOUNGE] Gary Wilson emerged from the New York underground scene in the late ’70s with the seminal album You Think You Really Know Me, mining a never-before-heard fusion of lounge-singer bravado and lite jazz funk for the No Wave set. He recorded the album upstate in his parents’ basement. Wilson’s shtick started somewhere in the spectrum of Andy Kaufman’s alter ego Tony Clifton but with girl-crazed lyrics, Lynchian props and wicked synth solos. From there, he chased the spotlight in Los Angeles, only to fade into relative obscurity plying a sound far ahead of its time. Twenty-five years later, artists such as Ariel Pink and Beck are imprinted with Wilson’s derelict personality, and credit him for pushing boundaries and breaking the fourth wall onstage and on camera. In 2004, Wilson was rediscovered by the iconic Stones Throw label, and he’s been back on the radar since, winning new fans like Odd Future. Kudos to Holocene for booking a long-overdue Portland showcase of a true outsiderpop master with superlative weird local indie acts. The VIP ticket is well worth it. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm Tuesday, June 30. $12 advance, $14 day of show, $25 for VIP meet and greet. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 24, 2015 wweek.com
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DARK SHADOWS: Sannhet plays Holocene on Saturday, June 27. complex as they are joyous. Under the leadership of frontman Liam McCormick, trombones drown beneath the weight of jazzy percussion and McCormick’s operatic delivery, on songs that alternate between swinging and darkly romantic, only to resurface later in expansive pieces that recall the sprawling work of the band’s aforementioned labelmates. Sometimes bigger is better. . BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
The Moondoggies, Evening Bell
[ROADHOUSE ROOTS] The Moondoggies have never been full of surprises, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The Seattle folkies have issued three solid albums of New Age Americana over the past seven years, each showcasing a sublime ability to weave haunting, harmony-laden melodies with ramshackle rock tunes that typically push the six-minute mark. Adiós I’m a Ghost, the band’s latest LP, does the same while examining the cycle of death and rebirth. Singer Kevin Murphy is the album’s emotional linchpin, questioning his pride and the universe with a slight drawl akin to Jim James circa early My Morning Jacket. BRANDON WIDDER. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 2826810. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY, JUNE 29 The Gooch Palms
[TAZ ROCK] Aussie duo the Gooch Palms is the Tasmanian Devil of garage rock: loony, racing and capable of gobbling up everything in its path. It’s the classic punk rock one-two punch of punishing drums and searing guitars, hardened still by the two musicians trying to outsing each other. If Jack White amplified his love for the Stooges on the White Stripes’ early records, it might just be the Gooch Palms. The band’s 2013 release, Novo’s, is an immediately pleasurable album of simple, scrappy, beer-slugging rock ’n’ roll that’s certainly not new, but addictive nonetheless. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 9:30 pm. $8. 21+.
The Slackers, the Sentiments
[SKA] After a mid-’90s “third wave” carried some toxic sludge to the American airwaves, ska became a four-letter word for a lot of people. But New York City’s Slackers, active for about a quarter-century now, remain one of the best party bands in the country. The group—which fluctuates in size but generally tours as a sextet with a pint-sized horn section—keeps one foot in traditional Jamaican music and the other in midcentury American soul, plus some sticky fingers in punk, bebop and dub. Frontman Vic Ruggerio (who moonlights as the unofficial fifth member of Rancid when they’re feeling rootsy) writes love songs with sly political agendas and protest songs packed with love. It’s always a good time, and with the Doug Fir sound system behind them tonight, the Slackers should be unstoppable. CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Head Wound City, Grave Babies, Vice Device
[POST-SPAZZCORE] A collaboration between the Locust, the Blood Brothers and Yeah Yeah Yeahs would’ve been a real attention-getter about 13 years back, when the screamo revolution was still on its glorious upswing. Recent reunions of the former two groups in Head Wound City’s unholy trinity of relentlessly belligerent mathcore are a solid indicator that despite the genre having descended to the dregs of the Hot Topic dollar bin and back again, the visceral freakouts of the supergroup’s recently reissued self-titled 2005 EP are as relevant as ever—despite most members of the group having aged out of studded white belts and onto white picket fences and belt sanders. PETE COTTELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 Rob Thomas, Plain White Ts
[ALT-SCHLOCK] Rob Thomas and Santana’s 1999 hit single “Smooth” and its subsequent reign of terror atop the pop charts was akin to a hostage crisis in which the recordbuying public was forced to listen to what was essentially background music for a Chili’s commercial on repeat until finally giving in and driving to a Sam Goody to purchase a copy of the album it came from. The music biz has changed a lot since then, but paying $75 for a ticket to see Thomas at the Schnitz in 2015— without Matchbox 20, mind you—is a quaint reminder that some things never change. CASEY HARDMEYER. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $53-$74. All ages.
Active Child, Low Roar
[BEDROOM CHOIR] The music made by Pat Grossi, who records under the name Active Child, is full of contradictions. Mixing otherworldly harp playing and delicate acoustic plucking with soft-touch beats and U.K. bass rumble? Come on, dude. Yet somehow his new record, Mercy, also seems very of the times—a downcast set of distant pop jams and anti-jams made specifically for both coitus and postcoitus. Grossi’s main strength is his airy falsetto, which falls somewhere between James Blake via “Retrograde” and a college choir instructor. If How To Dress Well offers an emo take on modern R&B, then Active Child is the choral-pop stepchild, melding modern sounds with the hymns of the past. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Iceage, Cairo Pythian
[POST-PUNK RE-REVIVAL] The records by Danish punk group Iceage are like greatest-hits compilations of ’70s post-punk. The group manages to effortlessly fuse together the angular guitars of early Public Image Ltd., the swashbuckling dissonance of the Birthday Party and the fuzzy gloom of Joy Division, often in the space of just one song. Though the members’
almost academic devotion to their idols can result in some very “art rock by numbers” moments, Iceage’s prowess at taking dark, intimate lyrical themes and pairing them with propulsive guitar-and-drum workouts further justifies the substantial and continuing influence postpunk has had on rock music in the 21st century. CASEY HARDMEYER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
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Orgone, Nth Power
[DEEP FUNK] Only the raw hype of Los Angeles funk mainstays Orgone could turn an office administrator into a slaying soul singer. In 2014, Adryon de León traded her desk job at an engineering firm for vocal duties in the eight-piece funk outfit, slamming an EpiPen of adrenaline into the band’s aging, often instrumental discography. Together on its seventh album, Beyond the Sun, Orgone and De Leon explore the deepest reaches of soul, funk and Afro-disco. TED JAMISON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm. $15. 21+.
Kristeen Young, FEA
[STILL ILL, ALLEGEDLY] During an otherwise weird, overly dramatic set of shriek rock opening for Morrissey in 2007, Kristeen Young told the crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York that “Morrissey gives great head…er, I mean, cunnilingus.” The comment made headlines and got her booted off the tour. She later made nice with Moz and toured with him again in 2014 but then got sick and passed her flu on to him, which caused a few show cancellations and made more headlines when she denied being ill in the first place. The moral? It’s hard to draw one from this sordid affair. Don’t sneeze where you eat? Don’t mess with Moz? Anyway, she has a new record out next year, and if Steven Patrick is into it, what else do you need to know? CRIS LANKENAU. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 421-4483. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD
FAILURE LISTENING PARTY! WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH AT 6PM Hear their first album in almost 20 years a week before the official release!
Lots of bands have been mining the fertile landscape of ‘90s music for inspiration lately, and Hemingway is no exception. Think Silver Scooter, Superdrag, and Knapsack, yet filtered through nearly two decades of collected dust and bargin bin obscurity. Some might call the music Hemingway creates “emo” but to do so relegates their heartfelt creations to something less than genuine, and authenticity is something this band has unmistakably.
HEMINGWAY | THURSDAY, JUNE 25TH AT 6PM
Makrokosmos Project
[CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CLASSICAL] In this new one-day, five-hour contemporary music festival, New York duo pianists Stephanie and Saar, frequent visitors to Portland, join top local musicians in a program that includes the first two parts of 85-year-old American composer George Crumb’s epic 1970s masterpiece, Makrokosmos for Amplified Piano. The menu also features music by Portland’s own Kenji Bunch, two-piano works including a world premiere by Crumb’s former student Gerald Levinson and music by George’s son, David Crumb. BRETT CAMPBELL. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210. 5 pm Thursday, June 25. $15 advance, $20 day of show, $10 students and seniors.
Archie Patterson began Eurock in 1971 as an FM radio program on KFIG-FM in Central California. In 1973, he expanded his work to include a magazine of the same name. His audience had grown, as had an alternative culture centered on the independent music scene, which began developing all around the world during the late 1960s. By the mid 80’s, the new music emerging out of Europe and the rest of the world was blossoming into a full-fledged cultural movement in opposition to the mainstream music industry.
ARCHIE PATTERSON | SATURDAY, JUNE 27TH AT 3PM FOUNDER OF EUROCK MAGAZINE (READING
&
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Piano! Push Play!
[PIANO PROFUSION] For the past couple years, Portland musician Megan McGeorge has devoted considerable effort to bringing
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classical, etc. pianos to Portland people and places that need them. From schools to community centers to street corners, McGeorge’s Piano! Push Play! project puts the keys under the hands of kids, homeless Portlanders and anyone else who’d like to play them. During the summer, 10 pianos will be posted in various outdoor locations around town, including the Portland Art Museum. For this kickoff concert, featuring local bands, instrumentalists and opera singers, all ivories will be touched by various performers—including a new piece for five pianos composed and conducted by Portland State University composer Richie Greene. BRETT CAMPBELL. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. 7 pm Friday, June 26. Free.
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[PORCH MUSIC] For the past two summers, one of the most enjoyable mixes of new music and alfresco Oregon beauty has been Third Angle New Music’s preview of its upcoming season, with listeners strolling between venues in several groups to hear music performed outdoors at five homes in Irvington. This summer’s menu includes music by Michel van der Aa, Pulitzer Prize-winning American composers Steve Reich and David Lang (which the group has worked with in the past), young Portland composer Jay Derderian and even some medieval polyphony. BRETT CAMPBELL. Begins at 3215 NE 16th Ave. 3 pm Sunday, June 27. $35.
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EYELIDS EYELIDS (JEALOUS BUTCHER) [PRETTY IN PAISLEY] The members of Eyelids have never played coy about what they are: Five rock-’n’-roll lifers paying homage to their record collections. 854, the band’s 2014 debut, made plain its devotion to the janglier factions of ’80s underground pop. In case you missed it, the group spells it out on its new self-titled EP, pairing two originals with two covers and bringing in Peter Buck to produce—the arpeggios have never sounded so luminous. But there’s more than just pretty guitars and wounded melodies in Eyelids’ DNA. While the midsection of the EP—the light and lovely “Broken Continue” and “Only Time Will Tell,” a trembling John Cale ballad—is an extension of 854’s gentle sadness, the band lets its rougher edges show in the bookends. Opener “Bound to Let You Down” matches bummer lyrics to the brightest chorus and most exuberant arrangement it’s managed yet. And on the concluding “Halloween,” a five-minute firewall of white-heat fuzz from the first album by psychedelic stalwart the Dream Syndicate, it stomps the distortion pedal harder than ever before, drawing out the original’s Velvet Underground worship and cranking it into the red. A purchase of the record on vinyl also begets a download card featuring three bonus live videos, including a performance of “Hey Joe” with guest star Stephen Malkmus—proof that, while Eyelids prefers exalting its idols, it’s not against killing them on occasion. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Eyelids plays the Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., with Phantom Ships and Wimps, on Friday, June 26. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
EZRA BELL WE CAME BY CANOE (SECRET SOCIETY) [NEW HOEDOWN] Benjamin Wuamett sings with the nasally scratch one might associate with a rusty Victrola. It’s a fitting accoutrement for Ezra Bell, a band that seems to go instrument shopping at rummage sales. But while the music Wuamett and co. make together is built on traditional folk elements such as banjo, cello and mandolin, the band has a punchy, parlorborn gusto about it, as the bright and boisterous We Came By Canoe EP proudly declares. Ezra Bell certainly draws from indie-Americana stalwarts like Run On Sentence and the Cave Singers, but its saloon-style piano, triumphantly jazzy brass and shuffling percussion push the Portland septet away from the backwoods and straight into a Western watering hole. We Came By Canoe is a walloping batch of big-band folk that moves and shakes with might and dexterity. “Japper Dudas” bounces from jumpy barnyard ditty to heaving alt-rock anthem. “Dear Old Dad (Again)” begins with a dusty piano before bursting into a brazen, countrified waltz. Even “Rope Swing,” the most restrained track on the EP, has a fullness about it, walking quietly but leaving big tracks. Filing We Came By Canoe under “Folk Revival” seems unfair, as Ezra Bell flirts with a broader palette of country, jazz, rock ’n’ roll and swing, and does so admirably, with an outlaw’s shamelessness of an outlaw. MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Ezra Bell plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Fanno Creek and Bevelers, on Wednesday, June 24. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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ECM: Musi� For Your Ear� CD� ANOUAR BRAHEM
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TIM BERNE’S SNAKEOIL
GARY PEACOCK TRIO
Souvenance
Made In Chicago
You’ve Been Watching Me
Now This
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“ The music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 – six years after oudmaster Anouar Brahem’s last ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita. “It took a long time to write this music,” he acknowledges, noting that his emotional world had been usurped by the unfolding story of political upheaval sweeping first through Tunisia then through the neighboring countries. Extraordinary waves of change, accompanied by great hopes and fears. “I don’t claim a direct link between my compositions and the events taking place in Tunisia,” says Anouar, “but I have been deeply affected by them.”
“ With Made In Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Chicago’s Wilson Junior College. Jack then joined Muhal Richard Abrams’ Experimental Band, and Roscoe and Henry soon followed him. When Abrams cofounded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1965, DeJohnette, Mitchell and Threadgill were all deeply involved from the outset. Jack brought them together again for a very special concert at Chicago’s Millennium Park in August 2013, completing the group with the addition of bassist/cellist Larry Gray.”
Tim Berne’s third ECM album, You’ve Been Watching Me, sees the saxophonist-composer again leading his dynamic New York band Snakeoil, but now a quintet with the arrival of guitarist Ryan Ferreira, whose sound adds textural allure. If Berne has hit a new peak with his writing on You’ve Been Watching Me, his band has reached a heightened state of collective interaction. Snakeoil can still be bracingly kinetic. But there is new space in these compositions and more lyrical focus to the improvisations, leading to a dramatic, even cinematic experience in such tracks as ‘Embraceable Me’. Berne’s music has never been richer or more arresting.
In the realm of the piano trio the bar is set high, and creative bassist Gary Peacock has helped raise it in the groups of Bill Evans, Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett. Now This is an album with the bassist’s current trio, recorded last summer in Oslo. Powerful new versions of some Peacock classics – such as “Moor”, “Vignette”, “Requiem” and “Gaya” – are interspersed with recent compositions. In this band, roles are very evenly shared, and this is an optimum context in which to appreciate the melodic invention of Peacock’s bass playing.
ANDRAS SCHIFF
ANDY SHEPPARD QUARTET
KEITH JARRETT
KEITH JARRETT
Franz Schubert
Surround By Sea
Barber / Bartok
Creation
This project is the latest chapter in Pete Townshend’s lifelong mission to break the three-minute mold of the traditional pop song and take rock music to a higher artistic level. In the 1960s he defined the concept of the rock opera with Tommy, taking it a stage further with Quadrophenia. SALE PRICED DOUBLE CD $29.99 SALE András Schiff’s reputation as one of the great interpreters of the work of Franz Schubert is long-established. He has always maintained that Schubert’s music is amongst the most moving ever written. Schiff underlined the point on his ECM New Series album with the C Major fantasies at the end of the 1990s, and he does so again on this remarkable recording, on which two Schubert sonatas, the “Musical Moments”, four Impromptus (D 935), the “Hungarian Melody” and an Allegretto are addressed on a period instrument, the fortepiano.
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Extending the range of his widely-praised Trio Libero project with Michel Benita and Seb Rochford, Andy Sheppard adds Eivind Aarset (who made significant contributions to 2008’sMovements In Colour) to the band. With Aarset’s ambient drones and electronic textures as a backdrop, Sheppard and co seem to have even more space to explore. The music embraced includes new compositions, open improvisations, an Elvis Costello tune, and the Gaelic traditional ballad “Aoidh, Na Dean Cadal Idir” which appears in three variations, a thematic thread through the album.
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For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto op. 38 and Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and rising to the challenges of these major works. The New York Times praised Jarrett’s playing of the Barber with Dennis Russell Davies in this period (“a sinewy, vigorously lyrical performance … both sensitive and strong”), and the Bartók with Kazuyoshi Akiyama was most enthusiastically received in Japan.
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JAKOB BRO TRIO
VIJAY IYER TRIO
Gefion
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Gefion is Danish guitarist Jakob Bro’s first ECM album as leader, following recordings for the label as sideman with Paul Motian and Tomasz Stanko. Like the work of those masters Bro’s balladeering distils a sense of jazz history in its specific and highly personal atmospheres. The open forms of Bro’s compositions leave plenty of space for his companions – drum legend Jon Christensen and creative bassist-of-the-moment Thomas Morgan - to make their statements, interactively and in parallel.
MATHIAS EICK Midwest
“Break Stuff” is what happens after formal elements have been addressed. Vijay Iyer calls the break “a span of time in which to act. It’s the basis for breakdowns, breakbeats, and break dancing... it can be the moment when everything comes to life.” A number of the pieces here are breakdowns of other Iyer constructions. Some are from a suite premiered at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, some derive from Open City, a collaboration with novelist Teju Cole and large ensemble. The trio energetically recasts everything it touches.
CHRIS POTTER UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA Imaginary Cities
SALE PRICED VINYL LP $20.99 Mathias Eick reflects on distances travelled in this intensely melodic set of original compositions, which makes an imaginative journey from Hem, the tiny Norwegian village where the trumpeter grew up, to the vast plains of Dakota in the American Midwest. It was to the Midwest that hundreds of thousands of Norwegians travelled by sea in the 19th and early 20th centuries – and naturally they took their music with them. In similar spirit Eick, a Norwegian improviser-composer strongly influenced by North American jazz, here reintegrates some of the colours and textures of his native folk music in these newly-created pieces.
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SALE PRICED VINYL DOUBLE LP $29.99 Imaginary Cities is the recording premiere of saxophonist Chris Potter’s new Underground Orchestra. At the core of this larger ensemble is the personnel of his long-established Underground quartet – with Adam Rogers, Craig Taborn and Nate Smith – now joined by two bassists, a string quartet, and Potter’s old comrade from Dave Holland Quintet days, vibes and marimba man Steve Nelson. References are multi-idiomatic and multicultural, and Potter, who counts Charlie Parker with Strings amongst his formative enthusiasms, had Arabic and Indian string sections in mind, as well as contemporary composition, when shaping this material.
Pete began work on the project as part of his plan to leave a legacy of all his work arranged for orchestra as sheet music, for future generations to enjoy. Pete hopes the new work will go on to become a regular part of the orchestral repertoire and boost attendance at classical concerts.
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MUSIC CALENDAR
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Mitch Lillie. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents. 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: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.
LAST WEEK LIVE
2126 SW Halsey St. The Resolectrics
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Maudlin Strangers, LANY
Holocene
W W S TA f f
1001 SE Morrison St. Natasha Kmeto, Hosannas, IBQT
Bunk Bar
Kennedy School
Club 21
17100 NW Sauvie Island Road Farm Tunes
Laurel Thirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band, Malachi Graham & the All Hallows
Lola’s Room
Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. David Poe
Alberta St. Pub
1036 NE Alberta St. Bert Sperling Album Release
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Dorado
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Danny Hay Davis & The Rat Pack
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside Bootsy’s Rubber Band
dante’s
350 West Burnside Red Ride Tour, Aboriginal Music Showcase
doug Fir Lounge
830 East Burnside Street A Tribe Called Red
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Blues Jam, Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Henry Hill Kammerer
1507 SE 39th Ave. Between Chaos And Creation, Lavoe, In Retrospect
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Jonny Ampersand, Benny Gilbert, Joseph Waya, He Howls
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday
Laurel Thirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Jack Dwyer, The Junebugs, BigE and The Stomp
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Fanno Creek, Ezra Bell, Bevelers
Raven and Rose
1331 SW Broadway The High Water Jazz Band
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Tango for Musicians
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Billy D
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Voodoo Ladyboys: A Tribute to Ween, Lesser Bangs
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Dikki Du & The Zydeco Krewe
1111 SW Broadway The Assad Brothers, Romero Lubambo, Samba Exotico
THuRS. June 25 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. David Poe
Artichoke Music
The Lodge Bar & Grill
3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village
The Ranch Tavern
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends
6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band Jam
18601 SE McLoughlin Blvd Bakersfield Rejects, Honky Tonk Wednesday
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Gypsy Jazz Jam
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Heavy Gone Acoustic, Monica Nelson and The Highgates
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band
Blue diamond
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave. Makrokosmos Project
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Piss Test, Katterwaul, Headlock, Patsy’s Rats
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Tough Love Pyle
eastBurn
1800 E Burnside St. Eat Off Your Banjo!, Dinner and Live Music
118 NE 28th Ave. Rough Cut
Kells Brewpub
Kruger’s Farm
Winningstad Theatre
Ash Street Saloon
Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Matthew Zeltzer’s Portland Indie Folk Revue
Rock Creek Tavern
303 SW 12th Ave. David Poe
Jimmy Mak’s
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
Hawthorne Theatre
FRi. June 26 Al’s den
225 SW Ash St. Fayuca, True Press, Ease Up, Chris Carpenter & The Collective
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Wed. June 24
836 N Russell St. The Reverie Machine, Ian Uponen and Olivia Awbrey
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Pacific Oceans with Host Colin Fisher
GETTING DEEP IN DUFUR: It must be a good sign that What the Festival booked fewer big names than ever but sold out for the first time this year. On the unseasonably temperate weekend of June 19-22 at Wolf Run Ranch in Dufur, Ore., some 6,000 festies bought into the festival-as-experience rather than headliners-as-festival—and I was one of them. Disappointing performances from some large-type names on the bill (I’m looking at you, Big Gigantic and Keys N Krates) did nothing to stifle the posi vibes, as lesserknown performers on smaller stages amazed. Though not nearly enough women found their way into the lineup, those who did, namely Tokimonsta and Anna Lunoe, brought the hardest hip-hop and house sets, respectively. Despite temperatures in the low-80s, the daytime pool party was still the hottest place to be, where bros in board shorts and burners wielding giant forks splashed and squirted to everything from Mac Dre to a deephouse remix of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” WTF is not yet Burning Man, but it doesn’t necessarily want to be. At half the cost, a fifth the distance from Portland and a tenth the size, WTF truly is a festival for the rest of us. MITCH LILLIE. See our list of WTF superlatives at wweek.com.
White eagle Saloon
1028 SE Water Ave. Fred Thomas, Skin Lies 2035 NE Glisan St. The Lucky Boys, Rotties, Monica Nelson & The Highgates
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. A People’s Choir
doug Fir Lounge
830 East Burnside Street Jacco Gardner, Calvin Love, Ozarks
1332 W. Burnside St. Battle of the Doctor Bands
dublin Pub
Mississippi Studios
Counterfeit Hits
Mock Crest Tavern
2530 NE 82nd Ave Cee Cee James
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Motopony 3435 N Lombart St. Laney Jones and The Spirits
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Tango for Musicians at Reed College Concert Series
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Wil Kinky
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Talon Bronson, Joel Swensen, Eliot Chamberlain & Guests
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Brad Parsons, Jellyfish Brigade
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. The Soul Commanders
The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Gabrielle Macrae & Friends
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Boy & Bean, Portland Lindy Society Thursday Night Swing, Doug & Dee’s Hot Lovin Jazz Babies
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Jesse Lge & Joel Savoy’s Cajun Country Revival
Bar
Twilight Cafe and
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Hemingway, Our First Brains, Mr. Bones, Caregiver
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Rebirth of the Cool, Singer’s Showcase
6821 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy.
duff’s Garage
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Willie Nelson, Allison Krauss & Union Station, Jerry Dougla, Sloan Martin
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE 39th Ave. RAR, Factor V, Valhalla
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Sonny Hess & NW Women in R&B
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
Laurel Thirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash, Old Flames
Magnolia’s Corner
4075 NE Sandy Blvd Bees In a Bottle
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Genders
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Confederats, Virtual Zero, Mr. Plow
Ponderosa Lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Britnee Kellogg
Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave. Piano! Push Play!
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Tango for Musicians
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Catherine Loyer & Strawberry Roan
Saithong Thai Fusion 710 SW 2nd Ave Where’s Danny Band
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Mtn Tamer, Big Feelings
The Headwaters Theater
55 NE Farragut St. #9 SubRosa
The Horse Radish 211 W Main St. Isaac Turner
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Lunch, VHS, Steel Chains
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Pin & The Hornits
The Muddy Rudder Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Eyelids, Phantom Ships and Wimps, Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys
Tony Starlight Showroom
1125 SE Madison Tony Starlight Music & Comedy Show
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Chris Newman Deluxe Combo
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Avenue The Djangophiles at Vie de Boheme
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Mexican Gunfight
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio
SAT. June 27 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. David Poe
American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St Not Druids
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. This Fair City, RILLA, Ken Riffey Jr., Black Magdalene
Base Camp Brewing Company 930 SE Oak Street Summer Solstice PDX 2015
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Infinite Vision: Bot, Drexler, & Joshua Burson
Cask n’ Keg Taproom 19335 Willamette Dr. Justin Sheehy
Classic Piano
3003 SE Milwaukie Ave Ola Sol PDX 2015 Concert
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. A Family Affair
dante’s
350 W Burnside St Sumerween 7: Dogs & Cats Living Together
dublin Pub
6821 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy. Dope Kine Band, Red Shoes Band
Hawthorne Theater 1507 SE 39th St Amerakin Overdose, Agnozia, Mechanism, Earth To Ashes
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Kings and Vagabonds, Demure, Yearly Sunset
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Sannhet, King Woman, Planning for Burial, DJ Nate C
Hotel Oregon
310 NE Evans St. Mark Alan
irvington neighborhood
NE 16th & Klickitat Porch Music
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Laura Cooper, Ronnie Carrier, Cody Weathers, JD Dawson’s Songwriters Showcase
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Andy Stokes Sings Marvin Gaye
Kaul Auditorium
SE 28th Ave. & Botsford Dr. Piazzolla and AfterArgentine Tango Tod ay
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pipes & Drums
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Young Elk, Fellow Wolf, Yet
Laurel Thirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Country Trash, Hank IV, The Moonshine
Magnolia’s Corner
4075 NE Sandy Blvd Austin Quattlebaum, Free Range Folkd
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The We Shared Milk, And And And, The Tamed West
Ponderosa Lounge
10350 N Vancouver Way Breaking Midnight
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Tango for Musicians
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Irish Sundays
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. La Rivera
Skamania County Fairgrounds
650 SW Rock Creek Drive Gorge Blues & Brews Festival
The GoodFoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. McTuff
duff’s Garage
The Headwaters Theater
2530 NE 82nd Ave Pin & the Horn-its
55 NE Farragut St. #9 SubRosa
edgefield
The Know
2126 SW Halsey St. Moody Little Sister
Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. The Cool Whips and Challenger 70
2026 NE Alberta St. Drouth, Worse, Dakhma, Ddlge
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Bart Ferguson & The Edward Stanley Band
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MUSIC CALENDAR The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. The Slow Poisoner
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Jenny Finn Orchestra
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. Drunk on Pines, Shoeshine Blue, Small Souls, Screens
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Larry & Teri
The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven
1464 SE 2nd Ave. Berto Boyd & Grant Ruiz
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Bamberger - Engel Hines - Eave
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 147 NW 19th Ave Berkshire Choral International
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Dartgun and the Vignettes ‘CD Release’, The Lovesores, Fuzzy Dice, The Decliners
Vie De Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Smut City Jelly Roll Society
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Moondoggies, Reverb Brothers
Wond er Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Elle King
SUN. JUNE 28 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Metropolitan Youth Symphony & Portland School of Rock perform ELO!
Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Elvis Depressedly, Mitski, Eskimeaux, the Sweater I Gave You
2958 NE Glisan St. Pagan Jug Band Blugrass Lunch
Laurel Thirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Family Crest
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Singer Songwriter Cabaret Open Mic
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The Ting Tings, Kane Holler 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic
The Headwaters Theater
55 NE Farragut St. #9 SubRosa
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Ubu Roi, Mope Grooves
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Jam
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killiingsworth St Chris Brokaw, Cynthia Nelson, Geoff Soule
836 N Russell St. The Moondoggies, Rob Johnston
MON. JUNE 29 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Underground Resistance
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The Gooch Palms
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. ThirstyCity 1 Year Anniversary
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
TUES. JUNE 30 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Ryan Sollee
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Ave Rob Thomas, Plain White T’s
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and Special Guests
Cadigan’s Corner Bar
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Chris Carlson Experience
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gary Wilson, Nurses, Fog Father, Wampire DJs
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet, United by Music
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Iceage, Cairo Pythian
Panic Room
Rock Creek Tavern
Doug Fir Lounge
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Groovy Wallpaper 221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy
Holocene
2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night
Director Park
426 SW Washington St. Bunker Sessions Open Mic
1001 SE Morrison St. Blade Runner Ball
The GoodFoot Lounge
1665 SE Bybee Ave. Open Mic
Kelly’s Olympian
2126 SW Halsey St. Billy D
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Bob Shoemaker
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Aux.78, The Vardaman Ensemble, 8 Bit Zero, and Stochastic Mettle
Corkscrew
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
Edgefield
Rock Creek Tavern
White Eagle Saloon
Jimmy Mak’s
2530 NE 82nd Ave Phil Friendly
4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic
830 East Burnside Street Active Child, Low Roar
6635 N. Baltimore Cathedral Park Jazz Festival Kickoff
830 East Burnside Street Son Lux, Olga Bell
Pub at the End of the Universe
5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T
1530 SE 7th Ave. Twilight Jazz: Paula Byrne
Ash Street Saloon
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
8409 N. Lombard St. Med Monday
Vie De Boheme
830 East Burnside Street The Slackers, the Sentiments
Cathedral Park Place
Plews Brews
The Firkin Tavern
815 SW Park Ave Monday Soundscapes: Jack Buddeke
225 SW Ash St. Billions And Billions, Sacri Monti, & Moondrake
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Analog Cafe & Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Human Circuit
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Kelly’s Olympian
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Head Wound City, Grave Babies, Vice Device
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Jungle Rot, Damage Overdose, Godenied, Grim Ritual
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Open Bluegrass Jam
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Heavy Tuesday
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Orgone, Nth Power
The GoodFoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Boys II Gentlemen
The Lehrer
8775 SW Canyon Ln. Hot Jam Night with Tracey Fordice & The 8-Balls
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St. Kristeen Young & Fea in Portland, OR on June 30
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Anthemtown Artist Showcase
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Where to drink this week. 1. Culmination Brewing
2117 NE Oregon St., 353-6368, culminationbrewing.com. after its official grand opening last weekend, culmination 21’s cozy front-ofbrewery bar is up to 10 taps of its own beer, alongside 14 others. highlights were a sour citrus that deeply lived up to its name, and its saison I farmhouse that strongly recalls another better-known portland urban farmhouse.
2. Portland Cider House
3638 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 206-6283, portlandcider.com. the cider house’s 24 rotating taps make it the best spot for cider tastings in town, and it has been backing it up with a series of takeovers during cider week, which continues with Dragon’s head on thursday, northwest cider Brokers on Friday and schilling on saturday.
3. Sandy Hut
1430 NE Sandy Blvd., 235-7972. club 21’s owners have done less a full-scale remodel of the decades-old handy slut 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.
4. Momo’s
725 SW 10th Ave., 478-9600. we have arrived at peak patio. and in downtown or the west end, a patio seat on the tucked-away, backporch area of Momo’s—still quaintly domestic even with the ivy cleaned up—is one of the most coveted pieces of real estate.
5. 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, an $8 negroni, a picklopolis pickle plate with beets, or especially the $8.50 house martini.
QUITTIN’ TIME: The West End’s Shift Drinks (1200 SW Morrison St., 922-3933, shiftdrinkspdx.com) is a dog whistle, named after the free booze that service staffers get after they punch out. Because, yes, Portland can now devote an entire bar to serving the off-shift waiters of the West End and Pearl—the sort who favor Fernet-Branca as a pick-me-up and might go for an intense vermouth described simply as “drinking tobacco” on the menu. It was begun, indeed, by two defectors from Multnomah Whiskey Library, although its style couldn’t be more different than the Library’s stab at a drawing room for cloistered old money. Shift Drinks’ monochromatic, airy space is an exercise in minimalism and knowing ironies, down to the giant black-and-white photo of drunken Batman, or another of a beautiful woman having a drink thrown in her face. If the room looks more modern art gallery than bar, its drinks come in as science, poured tableside from carefully measured Erlenmeyer flasks. Depending on who you are, it represents either the simplicity afforded by good taste or a sterile echo chamber—because, my God, the place does echo. The wine-heavy drink menu also offers Köstritzer Schwarzbier, otherwise on tap only at Stammtisch and Prost, obscure Basque and Norman ciders, and cocktails that are all booze, including a Psychedelic Quinceañera ($12) made with Agwa, a Bolivian coca-leaf liqueur. But get that drinking tobacco, or a heartbreakingly good Palermo Viejo #2 ($10) with gin, Cynar, grapefruit liqueur and mint, plus one of their richly adorned bruschettas ($8) thick as garlic bread. Show up at 7, and you’ll find office moms and contemporary-conformist design hounds taking their own shift drinks in a half-empty bar. Show up at midnight, and you’re maybe mobbed with as many bartenders and servers as you’ve ever seen in one place, all of them drinking on your side of the bar. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Killingsworth dynasty
The Liquor store
The GoodFoot Lounge
The Lovecraft
832 N Killingsworth St. Swayed: Nickbynickjacobs, Michèl St. Michèl
Wed. June 24 Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. FAK Wednesdays
Thurs. June 25 dixie Tavern
NS 3rd & Couch St. Throwback Thursdays
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Natural Magic
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Reggae Roots and Dub Night
Fri. June 26 Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Derrick Carter, Mercedes, Rose City Underground
dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Cooky Parker
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap! ‘90s Dance Party
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew: DJ Aquaman
The spare room
4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down
sAT. June 27 dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Freaky Outty
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Lamar LeRoy
Analog Cafe
720 se Hawthorne Blvd Andaz: DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Main Squeeze
3341 SE Belmont St. Fat Sushi, the Perfect Cyn, Nathan Detroit, Laura Lynn 421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave Wax Motif
Mon. June 29 The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends
Tues. June 30 The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger
club CLUB bass BASS house HOU trap TRAP you YOU wanna WAN
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Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm every fourth Friday. $7.
Two Houses
An improvised romance culminates in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, June 27. $12.
Random Acts of Comedy
OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience
If you have too many adult things on your plate to read all 4,000-plus pages of J.K. Rowling’s seven-book series about child wizards who can fly but still have to wear glasses, British comedians Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner’s 70-minute summary will help you finally understand references to horcruxes, muggles and dementors. Back in 2005, Potted Potter began as a street show to entertain book-buyers as they waited in line for the sixth Harry Potter book. A 2012 nominee for London theater’s Olivier Award in Best Entertainment, the show has graced stages from Mexico to Ireland. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, 2 pm and 8 pm Saturday, 1 pm and 4 pm Sunday. $36 and up.
JAWZ : The Musical—In 3D!
Only Portland dares to spoof a spoof. Not to be mistaken for Jaws: The Musical, this is J.A.W.Z. The Musical—In 3D! The sing-along romp by local folkie performance troupe the Saloon Ensemble celebrates the 40th anniversary of the most famous shark movie ever. This’ll be the last show, after performances in San Francisco and Hollywood. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm Thursday-Sunday, June 25-28 and Thursday-Friday, July 2-3. $20 advance, $25 day of event.
Off the Rails
Third Rail Repertory Theatre veers off its traditional rails of mentorship in theater arts for a two-weekend festival to celebrate the work of artists completing one-year residencies with the company. The festival includes three short plays and culminates in a staged reading of a new work based off the featured plays. Action/ Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday. $15 single series (two plays), $5 staged reading.
LOON
Wonderheads, a Portland physical-theater company headed by husband-and-wife duo Kate and Andrew Phoenix, brings the silent story of a old man who falls in love with the moon. The winner of three 2013 Critics Choice awards at the Orlando Fringe Festival, including Best Show, LOON mixes puppetry, mime, soundscape and oversized masks to create a living cartoon that raises themes of loneliness and love with an air of playfulness. The show is part of CoHo’s five-weekend summer festival of innovative, smallcast performances. Summerfest runs through July 12 and passes are $55. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday. $15.
ALSO PLAYING Rose Colored Glass
In 1938 Chicago, Catholic idealist Lady O’Riley and Jewish realist Rose Fleishman, two delicatessen owners who couldn’t be more different, join forces to get Rose’s nephew out of Europe before the Nazis set in for good. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday. $15.
Comedy of Errors
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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.
Jen Kirkman
A regular roundtable guest on Chelsea Lately, L.A.’s sharp-tongued and self-analytical Kirkman jokes about her fascinating life, which includes aging from 39 to 40 years
Eddie Izzard
The ecstatic, occasionally crossdressing man of many voices, English comedy legend Eddie Izzard, will be at the Keller as part of his Force Majeure world tour. After a stint as a traveling con artist on FX’s The Riches and a much weirder campaign to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom to avoid “a crippling sense of loss for the English,” Izzard ’s back on the road with a tour with more ADHD than early Robin Williams. Expect plenty of in-jokes about
English royalty you’ve never heard of. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 8 pm SaturdaySunday, June 27-28. $56.50-$76.
Curious Comedy Open Mic
Curious hosts a weekly open-mic night. Sign-ups begin at 7:15, and comics get three minutes of stage time apiece. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 8 pm every Sunday. Free.
Hell or Highwater
Curtis Cook hosts a monthly standup showcase featuring a consistently good lineup of comedians. The High Water Mark, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 286-6513. 9 pm every last Monday. Free. 21+.
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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 starcrossed 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 ThursdaySaturday. $20.
old and finalizing divorce paperwork. The titles of her Netflix show, New York Times best-seller and podcast pretty much sum it up: I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself and I Seem Fun, respectively. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm Saturday, June 27. $15.
COMEDY & VARIETY Naked Comedy Open Mic
The Brody hosts a thrice-weekly open-mic night. Comics get fourminute standup slots and can sign up online. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Free with one-item minimum purchase.
Open Court
Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 7:30 pm every Thursday. $5.
Hella Feller!
Hosted by Trevor Thorpe, Hella Feller! returns once again to the Doug Fir’s iconic, cabin-like interior. Featuring Last Comic Standing finalist James Adomian, Out & In queer standup showcase producer Nick Sahoyah and 2014 WW Funniest 5 comic Bri Pruett. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm Thursday, June 25. $12. 21+.
Ryan Hamilton
The Idaho native and New York City resident was tapped in 2012 by Rolling Stone as one of five comics to watch. He now brings his clean standup to Portland. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-6438669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 25-27. $15-$30.
Hive Five
Brody’s Friday-night showcase has the expert ensemble tackling two different approaches to group improvisation. The kicker: The cast is rotating and so is the format, guaranteeing no two shows are alike. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Friday, June 26. $12.
Seven on 7
Standup meets improv for a special night at Brody. Comics perform their best sets and a cast of improvisers open their scenes with a theme from the standup. You could call it a comedic smorgasbord. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, June 26. $8.
Curious Comedy Showdown
Curious Comedy’s improvisers duke it out, in hopes of winning audience votes and advancing to the next round of competition. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:30 pm every Friday and Saturday. $12-$15.
Minority Retort
A standup show produced by Jeremy Eli and Jason Lamb that gives the spotlight to comedians of color. Tonight’s lineup includes Nathan Brannon, Katie Nguyen, Crystal Davis, Anthony Lopez and David Mascorro. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin
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MACBETH (PORTLAND ACTORS ENSEMBLE) DON’T RISK YOUR LILY-WHITES FOR THIS SCOTTISH PLAY. Portland’s outdoor theater has shriveled in the sun. It’s a good thing you can strip and cycle with thousands of naked Portlanders, or gorge on Potato Champion’s poutine while watching Ferris Bueller at Cartopia this weekend. Because you won’t be at Trek in the Park. There is the promise of Richard III or the wide-lapeled variety performer Tony Starlight come mid-July, but until then Macbeth at Lone Fir Cemetery is your lone option. Perhaps it’s best that Portland’s stagephiles—a polarized group of coifed Portland Center Stage peacocks, blue-haired philanthropists or academics, and pay-what-you-will improv fans—avoid sunburn. I did witness an SPFed few lounging among the tombstones of Lone Fir on checkered blankets and lawn chairs. They drank pink wine and wove the grass into tiny braids. If I’d been inside a stuffy, indoor theater, I might have left disgruntled, but the hakuna matata spirit of summer sopped up most of my disappointment in the lengthy two hours of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy. Most notably mediocre was Michael Godsey
as Macbeth. Godsey is the artistic director of Portland Actors Ensemble, but playing the eponymous—albeit deranged—thane, he acted more like he was at his day job as a Concordia University chemistry professor than like a Shakespearean noble. Mostly, he just seemed uncomfortable onstage. And on opening night, Godsey wasn’t the only one who faltered on a few lines. The female characters saved the play. When Lady Macbeth cried, “Out, out damn spot!” the crowd leaned in to study her soiled hands. The witches were the best—three young actresses at once sultry, weird and frightening. When they danced around a cauldron of fenny snake and frog toes, I wasn’t alone in ogling their moving lips and the wide, graceful sweeps of their arms. But when the witches disappeared, so did my interest in the play. After all, the grass is green and the sun’s up late. In the case of Portland’s outdoor theater scene, the park—not the play—is the thing. ALLIE DONAHUE. see it: Macbeth is at Lone Fir Cemetery, Southeast 26th Avenue and Stark Street, 224-9200, portlandactors.com. 7 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through July 25. No performance July 4; 6 pm July 11 at Marylhurst University, 17600 Pacific Highway, Marylhurst. Free (donations encouraged).
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Helium Open Mic
Generally regarded as the best open-mic night in town, Helium’s sign-ups fi ll quickly. Show up between 6 and 7 pm to snag some stage time. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm every Tuesday. Free with a twoitem minimum. 21+.
DANCE Glitter Tribe Performer Showcase
Star Theater celebrates the Portland performers soon to be seen on the silver screen in Glitter Tribe, a burlesque documentary exposé. Locals like Zora Von Pavonine, Angelique DeVil and Babs Jamboree add comedy and bling to their acts, arguing that sometimes you have to expose yourself dressed up as someone else to fi nd your true self. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700. 9 pm Friday, June 26. $15. 21+.
Summer Splendors
Northwest Dance Project partners with Chamber Music Northwest for a light and airy celebration of summer. Four acclaimed choreographers, including Northwest Dance Project’s artistic director, Sarah Slipper, introduce the world premiere of pieces set to Chopin’s Preludes, played by award-winning pianist Yekwon Sunwoo. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 4 pm Sunday, June 26-28. $30-$60.
Icons
Rejoice: Diaspora Dance Theater prefers its idolatry in the form of dance. Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, musician Nina Simone and Oshún, the deity of fresh water and sensuality, inspired this slew of iconographic performances from local choreographers Oluyinka Akinjiola, Uriah Boyd and Jamie Minkus. Mainly modern and African-infl uenced,
the dances go for this defi nition of icon: “widely known and extremely talked about.” Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th Ave. 7771907. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, June 26-28. $12-$15.
SubRosa Dance Collective
“What Is the Sound of One A$$ Cheek Clapping?” That’s the query of guest choreographer Kate Rafter’s piece that she created with the seven women of contemporary company SubRosa for this showcase about getting comfy with your salty inner self. We’re excited for the salty Parmesan popcorn promised at the concession stand. Very limited seating. Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 7:30 pm Sunday, June 28. $15.
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= 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.
liquor cans with visceral studies of processed deli meats, Portland-based photographer Todd Johnson’s Malt Liquor and Cold Cuts explores abject design and nihilistic function. Through July 12. False Front Studio, 4518 NE 32nd Ave., 781-4609.
No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting
Portland is one of the stops for a traveling exhibition of Aboriginal Australian painting, which will bring this work into conversation with the various abstraction traditions within our own borders. Neither a Western invention nor a stage of development in the telos of art to be fashioned into something higher, abstraction exists whole wherever it’s found as a language for exploring the nature of materials and process, and personal and cross-cultural expression. Through Aug. 16. Mason Ehrman Building Annex, 467 NW Davis St.
PICA: Celebrating 20 Years, Reflecting on the First Decade
spill (detail) by laura vandenburgH, Part of Urban growth boUndary
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.
Disgruntled Baristas
Baristas. We all know one or two with aspirations to be artists, actors and real estate agents. Local artist/barista Alexey Moore explores the dynamic of working for tips and for your big break in a new series of ink drawings. When all that caffeine wears off, baristas get disgruntled. Through June 30. Miss Zumstein Bakery, 5027 NE 42nd Ave., 971-279-2746.
Everything We Ever Wanted
Katie Batten, Jonathan Casella and Sarah Mikenis rebel against painting’s high formalism to express the generational struggle between expectations set by social media and unfiltered reality. This tension, referred to as the uniquely millennial belief in the fallacy of potential, sets the stage for a contemporary re-invigoration of how art
history and pop culture appropriation can inform contemporary art practice. Friction between artifice and authenticity transpires into explosions of color and pattern appropriated not from magazine pages, but the Internet’s undulating stream of imagery. Through July 6. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., 477-9786.
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 Ave., 503 544 3449.
Hold That Thought
The highlight of Jiseon Lee Isbara’s new work is Flash Cards, a collection of stitched 4x6 pieces of fabric that take up the entire west facing wall of the gallery. The spare little boxes are lettered with buzz words often heard at conferences. Words like structure, culminate, discourse, and environment, and many more, that anyone not familiar with academic English might spend time wondering how these
words’ meanings are being stretched from their vernacular meanings. The attention to detail to take so many notes, and notice the repetitions, and use them to engage in the repetitive process of embroidery, and to make enough to fill a wall that stand higher than the viewer so that we have to look up, is enough to make you a bit in awe of the awareness of knowing what you don’t know it takes to make work like this, and the effort it must take to get through interactions we take for granted. 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.
Malt Liquor and Cold Cuts
Exhibiting seven large-scale, archival, ink-jet prints pairing antiquated malt-
How long has PICA been an artistic mainstay? Twenty years, according to the curated retrospective of the first 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 fictional 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 down, seeming to be killed and resurrected in succession by the same electrical current. Ongoing. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.
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 work in happiness and positive psychology towards disruptive emotions and intuition. Yap utilizes mirrors, colored vinyl, Mylar, plastic bags and asphaltbased 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
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Contemporary Art’s Window Project. Through July 18. Portland ‘Pataphysical Society, 625 NW Everett St., #104.
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 July 12. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., 3rd floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
Trawling
Yoonhee Choi’s collection of bread tags and obsolete drafting supplies are transformed to evoke maps and circuitry in quiet and thoughtful work at Blackfish. Choi’s background in architecture and city planning is present not just in the materials but her detailed approach to line and its deconstruction. Using bread tags pinned to the wall as points, Choi draws on a scale we can’t quite step far enough back to see how the lines coalesce into shapes, while at the same time we can’t ever seem to get close enough to see the details of her line tape collages. Through June 27. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
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, offering 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., 227-5111.
Willem Oorebeek
The first 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 figure, 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 Ave., 236-7996.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 Books for Beer
The concept is simple: Bring in a book to donate, get a free beer. The limit is one per person, so don’t bring your entire set of encyclopedias expecting to get ripped. A portion of the day’s sales will also benefit the library, and the event is happening at both Laurelwood locations. Laurelwood Public House and Brewery, 6716 SE Milwaukie Ave.; 5115 NE Sandy Blvd., 282-0622. 5-8 pm. Free. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25 Lithop
The third installation of the literary reading pub crawl heads downtown with readings from more than 50 Portland writers, slinking among drunken Old Town haunts like Dante’s, Ash Street Saloon and Shanghai Tunnel. The schedule is at lithoppdx. com if you want to plan carefully, but after 8:30 pm you can also just hang at the Mercy Corps building for a solid lineup, from Rene Denfeld to Arthur Bradford. Drink up early at Ash Street. Various downtown locations, lithoppdx. com. 7-10 pm. Free.
Tell It Slant Reading Series
The ever-inspired Tell it Slant Reading Series will partner this month with the recently formed Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) Arts & Media Collective to present multigenre readings from writers in the Jade and Midway districts. Tying in themes from these often overlooked communities, readings will cover topics like displacement, gentrification, identity and sense of place. Jade/APANO Multicultural Space, 8114 SE Division St., 971-3404861. 7:30 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Lit Slam
Touring up from its home base in San Francisco to partner with Portland Poetry Slam for the night, Lit Slam hosts both established and emerging voices. The twist is this: Five randomly selected audience members will become “editors” for the evening and the poems they select will be published in Lit Slam’s annual anthology, Tandem. So, no pressure or anything. Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap
As any serious comic collector knows, the true satisfaction comes in swapping with other collectors for that one issue you just couldn’t find any-
where else. Frankenstein’s Comicbook Swap will host a slew of tables with comic books, cards, graphic novels, buttons, toys and more. Eagles Lodge, Southeast, 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 284-4828. Noon-6 pm. $1 entry, $5 early bird (11 am-noon); kids and seniors free.
second, the more I was reading about ecology, the more it didn’t fit together with the way that nature appears to be working. If you take the conventional view in ecology that ecosystems are highly evolved and every species has its niche, then, obviously, any species coming in is really bad news. If they move in and find a place, they’re pushing out another species. But the new ecology says nature isn’t really like that. Nature is constantly changing on its own account. It’s doing Darwin’s stuff. And if you take that view of nature, then aliens are no longer intrinsically bad.
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Serving Georgia’s 5th Congressional District since 1987, John Lewis is also a key figure of the civil rights movement. His award-winning, graphic-novel trilogy illustrates his experiences and the lessons of history—lessons which remain all too relevant today. March: Book Two, co-written by Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, continues the story. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 2 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JUNE 29 David Grimm
How did it happen, over the course of about 100 years, that family pets have gone from a status below legal property to having more rights and protections than any other animal? Journalist (and pet lover) David Grimm explores the concept in his new book, Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
Science Pub
Giant pandas have proved notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, but maybe we were just bad matchmakers. Conservation biologist Meghan Martin will tackle the topic with her recent research on mate preference for her Science Pub lecture “Do Opposites Attract? Using Personality to Help Giant Panda Conservation through Captive Breeding.” Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 693-3953. 7-9 pm. $5 suggested donation.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30 Max Blumenthal
Last summer, during the 51 days of conflict that began when Israel launched air strikes on Hamascontrolled Gaza, journalist Max Blumenthal was embedded on the ground. In his new book, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, Blumenthal explores the conditions and deceptions that led to the “entirely avoidable catastrophe” of war. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Will invasive species have a greater role as the climate changes? Nature has much greater powers of regeneration than we often give it credit for. But nature is going to have to move to keep up with changing climate zones. If we have this idea of alien species as moving into places they weren’t before as things that should be exterminated, then we are doing pretty much the worst thing possible in order to help nature survive.
FRED PEARCE, THE NEW WILD AN ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST SAYS WE SHOULDN’T HATE INVASIVE SPECIES. You might sit up late these hot summer nights, sweating over the influx of Californians on your block. But according to environmental journalist Fred Pearce’s latest book, The New Wild (Beacon Press, 272 pages $26.95), you can rest easy when it comes to alien plants and animals—those hordes of imported nutria, starlings and ragweed. In his sharp translation of earth science into engaging vernacular, Pearce argues that our obsession with keeping wildlife native is counterproductive in a world that has already been irreversibly altered by human activity, and if we let species roam where they survive best, nature will usher in an era of eco-prosperity—the new wild. WW called him up to learn more. ALLIE DONAHUE.
WW: Most environmentalists hate invasive species. Why don’t you? Fred Pearce: Over the years, I’ve written plenty of stories about killer algae in the Mediterranean and ruddy ducks that were terrorizing European bird life. And they’re quite scary stories, some of them. But the more I looked at it, the more I felt like something was off. First, I became uncomfortable with the idea that we should be going around killing stuff as a way of doing conservation. And
I’m intrigued by the similarities between antialien species and anti-immigration rhetoric. We like the native and the familiar, and we tend to fear the unusual and the unexpected. That’s part of human nature. But in an exaggerated form, it’s destructive. It’s perfectly natural to like your neighbors, but I think it’s less helpful if that turns into hating the people on the other side of town. Similarly, to demonize alien species in the way that many conservationists have is destructive of nature. When you get into situations when you’re going around shooting birds because you think they shouldn’t be there, that’s a strange form of conservation. So we should we always let invasive species do what they want? I think there are perfectly legitimate reasons why we may find some alien species disruptive. They may bring disease, or overwhelm ecosystems— though this usually happens when we have already messed things up, giving them space to do so. Sometimes our aesthetic sensibilities may be offended by what they are doing. We have a perfect right to act. But what I don’t think we should imagine is that we are benefiting nature by doing this. We are benefiting ourselves. GO: Fred Pearce reads from The New Wild at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800- 878-7323, on Wednesday June 24. 7:30 pm. Free.
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OPENING THIS WEEK The Farewell Party
B+ This is a darkly comedic Marigold Hotel from Ophir-nominated Israeli directors Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon. The film voyeuristically follows a clan of elderlies (think Ocean’s Eleven, but all Sauls) as they sneak into hospital rooms, connect their waning loved ones to a homemade contraption of bicycle gears and a lethal IV, and sneak out as the monitors flatline. Levana (Aliza Rosen) challenges the decision of her husband (Ze’ev Revach) to engineer such a well-intentioned killing machine, even if it does free their friends from the misery of bedsores, cancer and dementia. This all sounds so serious, and it is, but Granit and Maymon find humor in mortality: Late one night, the tightass retirement home director catches Levana and her friends hotboxing the greenhouse—au naturel. But this somber film mostly chugs along at the slow, contented pace of Tuesday afternoon bingo. NR. ALLIE DONAHUE. Living Room Theaters.
Fresh Dressed
B CNN Films brings us this new documentary about hip-hop’s influence on fashion and vice versa, because if there’s one thing you think of when you think CNN, it’s hip-hop culture. The production feels oddly cheap, and the big interviews (Kanye, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Pharrell) are meted out with smaller ones, stock footage, and a weird CG effect on old photos to make it look as if just the hands are moving. Coverage of the ’70s and ’80s is pretty light, but the film has a lot to offer about the ’90s, with some interesting stories about brands like Ecko Unltd., Cross Colours, Karl Kani and FUBU, and a guy who owns a half million dollars’ worth of sneakers in plastic tubs. The film is not particularly hardhitting or introspective, but a nice entry-level history course on trends in street fashion. NR. ALEX FALCONE. Living Room Theaters.
A Little Chaos
A There is very little chaos in Alan Rickman’s Versailles period piece, which he directed and stars in as King Louis XIV. Vying for the coveted role of le Roi-Soleil’s landscape designer, commoner Kate Winslet beats male contenders with her “chaotic designs.” Ever the stout heroine, Winslet impresses the royal court with her genius for engineering and slowly but surely becomes the wholesome paramour Louis’ gardener-in-chief. Rickman gives us pristine gold leaf, the drama of a carriage flip and Stanley Tucci in a feathered cap. But the expected is done quite well. Winslet makes a convincing green-thumbed creative and an even more convincing lover. When her masterpiece is finished and Rickman stands majestically at its center, not a stone is out of place. A little tousling might do well here, but perfection does look lovely. R. ALLIE DONAHUE. Living Room Theaters.
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Revenge of the Mekons
C Inspired by the Sex Pistols, the Mekons enjoyed a history that spanned four decades, from the band’s leftwing U.K. art-school origins to the present day. It’s a history worth retelling, but maybe not worth watching. The Mekons formed by playing on Gang of Four’s instruments while that band was away on lunch break and charged forward into the ’80s with a bastardized English version of folk and American roots country music. But the group has never been able to surpass its 1980s American cult status. The Mekons’ members are a unique set of socialist rockers that tour the world and record albums while still working low-paying day jobs out of necessity. It’s a bit inspiring, a bit sad and ultimately very respectable. This low-budget film about a low-budget band is obviously short on resources. Unfortunately, it’s short on drama too. While the film ably captures the Mekons’ spirit, it’s realistic to the point of dullness, and Joe Angio’s subjects end up outshining his cinematic efforts. NR. NATHAN CARSON. Hollywood Theatre. June 26-27. Director attending Friday at 7 pm.
Ted 2
Director and unlovable bear Seth MacFarlane keeps the fluff going with bachelor bud John (Mark Wahlberg). His stuffed self tries to adopt a child with his new wife (Jessica Barth), but it turns out that’s harder than you’d expect for an animated inanimate object. See wweek.com for a review. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division Street, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, St. Johns Cinemas.
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-YearOld-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 Lebowskiish 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. R. CASEY JARMAN. Cinema 21.
Director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans) gives us Max—“Best friend. Hero. Marine.”—the German shepherd endearingly adopted by his former handler’s family, mainly Lauren Graham. See wweek.com for a review. PG. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
About Elly
It seems self-explanatory: Greg (Thomas Mann) is pressured by his mom into befriending the eponymous dying girl. And there’s some kid named Earl. And they eat those red, white and blue rocket lollipops. Naturally, Sundance loved it. Screened after deadline. See wweek.com for a review. PG-13. Fox Tower, Cedar Hills.
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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
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UNCOMFORTABLE COUPLING: Taylor Schilling and Adam Scott.
SWINGIN’ FOR THE FENCES THE OVERNIGHT IS 98 PERCENT AWKWARD, 2 PERCENT SEXY.
enjoyed the feeling. The acting is charming and perfect. Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) are just on the edge of oblivious, but understandably so. And Let me try a phrase on you: “The best sex comedy their chemistry as a couple is terrific. I immediately at Sundance.” That’s what Rolling Stone said of The wanted to invite them to dinner with me and my wife. Overnight, and that single plaudit gives you a lot of Not to seduce them, just to be friends with them. Just reasons not to see this movie. Here are even more, for the conversation. They’re that charming. And then we’d fuck them! plus maybe a few reasons you actually should see it. Or not. It’s cool either way. Do you like feeling slightly uncomfortable? Not The whole movie dances that line, though. At any like stepped-on-a-nail uncomfortable, but like moment it feels like it could tumble into the-elastic-in-your-socks-is-worn-outcliché, or just cheesy sex jokes, or just and-they’re-bunching-in-your-shoes awkwardness for its own sake. But it uncomfortable. That’s how you’ll doesn’t. Even Jason Schwartzman, feel for 83 of the 86 minutes you’re watching The Overnight. For the who plays a sexy version of Michael Scott from The Office, is other 3 minutes you’ll be slightly turned on. It’s awkward. I found more endearing than annoying. myself studying the ceiling tiles, There is one troubling side note that I really need to mencrossing and uncrossing my arms, tion. The Overnight counts itself and cleaning my glasses for the among a myriad of recent movies third and fourth time. I did anythat include a scene with hyperthing to lessen the cringing. In case you’re not trolling the BY ALEX FALCONE @alex_falcone realistic vomiting. I don’t know blogs about Sundance sex comwhen all of Hollywood’s production edies, The Overnight follows a Seattle couple with companies got together and swore a blood oath that a young kid that moves to L.A., where the child has they would never cut away and just play a vomiting trouble making friends. When the parents are invited sound, but they did. I’ve seen three movies in eight to dinner by a hot couple from the neighborhood that days, and all three featured a graphic upchuck scene. also has a young kid, they jump at the chance. And it’s This is where slightly uncomfortable crosses over obvious to us from the beginning, if not to them, that the metaphorical bunching-sock line. Please, please, something else is up. The following innuendo and please, movies. Let’s cut the cinéma vérité bullshit buildup accounts for the bulk of the movie. and just use our own chunky imaginations. I’m not big into awkward comedy, but The IT: The Overnight is rated R. It opens Friday at Overnight is so deft and surprising that I almost SEE Cinema 21.
THE GREATEST FAKE PENISES IN FILM HISTORY The Overnight features two impressively different prosthetic packages. They look good, I guess, but fake. Still, that got me thinking about my top five fake junks in movie history. 5. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
You know the classic tongue-on-aflagpole scene in A Christmas Story? Well, Harold & Kumar did it with a prosthetic penis. And they showed it. It’s gross but did display how impressively flexible a prosthetic can be.
4. Watchmen Not a prosthetic, but a CGI rendering of Dr. Manhattan in all his blue, glowy glory. Full points to the animator who had to spend a month drawing every single frame of that full frontal.
2. The Wolf of Wall Street Jonah Hill has masturbates a prosthetic peen in front of 40-plus party guests in a scene that’s almost hard to remember because everything in that movie is so over the top.
3. There’s Something About Mary The beans are above the frank. It’s a horrifying prosthetic, with the zipper mixed in throughout. Another day I’m glad I’m not a sculptor.
1. Boogie Nights (with a bullet) This is the first one most people think of, probably because of its spectacular size. According to one prop designer, the original was even bigger, but they decided 12 inches was simply too big.
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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. Mt. Hood Theatre, Vancouver, Valley.
Aloha
D+ Even before its release,
Cameron 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. Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Movies on TV, Tigard.
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, Eastport,
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Cinderella
D+ Kenneth Branagh’s tiresome live-action retcon of Cinderella. PG. JOHN LOCANTHI . Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Kennedy School, Vancouver, Valley.
The Connection
C+ You know that turn-of-thescrew moment in superhero movies when the villain details his evil plot to the tied-up hero? Director Cédric Jimenez starts The Connection with that. This francophile version of 1971’s Oscarwinning The French Connection follows the infamous heroin circuit from Turkey to North America via Marseilles. Within the first 10 minutes, magistrate Pierre Michel (The Artist’s Jean Dujardin) is reassigned to an empty-handed drug investigations unit, his boss outlines the eponymous connection in a Wikipedia schpiel, and the hunt for heroin kingpin “Tany” Zampa (Gilles Lellouche) is underway. Michel lights a fire under Zampa, cigarette smoke hangs overhead, and poor bastards get fished out of the sea. It might’ve been an intriguing two-plus hours, if it’s 1971 predecessor, Argo and Donnie Brasco hadn’t already dominated the genre with more craft and precision. The Connection verges on Godfather-ly length, a sin we cannot forgive, because each minute ticks by with excruciating lethargy as Jimenez replays familiar montages of chemical labs making drugs, investigators making arrests, chemical labs packing drugs in shrimp cans, investigators canning small-time mobsters, and around and around the rote connections go. R. ENID SPITZ. Kiggins, Fox Tower.
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B This Sundance darling stands out for its excellent soundtrack, heavy on ’90s hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest, a shout-out to local punk darlings the Thermals and a cheap jab at Macklemore. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Our Family Wedding), Dope follows three geeky high-schoolers in a dangerous part of Inglewood, Calif., called the Bottoms. The geeks focus on their band, getting into Harvard and losing their virginity, which throws them into the hard-hitting world of L.A. drug dealers. The film has a lot of heart: more than you’d expect from a comedy and less than you’d expect from a drama. That genre-switching is its main failing, though. The swings from serious to lighthearted are jarring, and it’s so focused on being cutting-edge that it feels outdated, like one big Throwback Thursday eight months ago (when people did #TBT). But the youthful cast and cameos from rappers like A$AP Rocky as the neighborhood kingpin are charming. R. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Monies on TV.
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B- You know who had a good Monday night? The bros who sat behind me at the Entourage screening. They had the time of their bro-y lives! Every time a pair of breasts appeared on screen, one of the bros audibly muttered, “Oh shit.” There are maybe 20 sets of breasts, and he “oh shit”ed all of them. The audience bros loved that the flimsy plot consisted entirely of the movie bros attempting to sleep with women, sleeping with women or talking about their attempts to sleep with women. There is something about the movie bros trying to make their own movie or having
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the first-ever Iranian feature to win Best Foreign Language Film, but Farhadi’s masterful dramatization wanes in this film. Elly, a kindergarten teacher whom 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.
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june 24–30 enjoy it. The main story, about an 11-year-old girl being bummed all the time, seems aimed more at parents and, to a lesser extent, older kids. There’s a talking elephant made of cotton candy to help occupy the littles, but you will love it, because it’s great. And since you’re paying for it, screw them. PG. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastoport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, St. Johns Theater.
Insurgent
C- A dumb action movie, except with the traditional gender roles reversed. The second film in this series picks up where the first left off: Our hero, Tris (Shailene Woodley), is still reeling from the death of her mother (Ashley Judd), the destruction of her mother’s faction and the near annihilation of her own faction at the hands of Jeanine (Kate Winslet). Tris has an aptitude for multiple factions and is therefore “divergent,” which is bad. It’s best not to think about any of this too hard. The film is essentially one long fight with occasional changes of scenery. PG-13. JOHN LOCANTHI.. Avalon, Vancouver, Valley.
Interstellar
C+ McConaughey and robots kicking it in space. Why so serious?. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Empirical.
Iris
A Famed documentarian Albert Maysles’ penul-
timate 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 shuffles 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.
Jurassic World
B No more baby teeth. The Jurassic Park franchise has grown up, along with its audience. Unlike the three prior installments, Jurassic World takes place after the concept of “de-extinction” has long lost its cachet: The park is already a Disney-esque conglomerate, and the resurrection of dinosaurs has become passé. The park’s
already made a movie or something, but it couldn’t matter less compared to the sleepingwith-women part. As far as I can tell, it’s all terrible. It’s a terrible group of humans being terrible and kinda making a movie with other terrible people. Maybe it’s all a comedy and I completely missed the point, but it’s so hard to tell if it’s funny on purpose or funny like a dog with its snout stuck in an ice-cream carton, where it’s definitely amusing in parts but it’s also sad because he’s trying his hardest. R. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard.
Ex Machina
B- Frankenstein’s monster is easy on the eyes in Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s sexualized sciencefiction tale of a coder named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) whisked away by his genius boss (Oscar Isaac) for a top-secret project. The story’s familiar. But we’re enticed enough to follow along anyway. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Fox Tower.
Far From the Madding Crowd
B+ Carey Mulligan’s unsmiteable 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. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. City Center, Fox Tower.
Furious 7
A- Furious 7’s action and ridiculousness make it
perhaps the best yet. Its tribute to Paul Walker, who tragically died (in a high-speed car wreck) before the film wrapped makes it one of the most affecting movies about things exploding ever made. The central chase scene is frantic and ludicrous and Dwayne “The Rock” Robinson flexes his sinewy biceps so hard that he breaks a goddamned plaster cast. This time, the team takes on terrorists and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). PG-13. AP KRYZA. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurt, Mission, Joy, Valley.
Get Hard
C+ Get Hard is a movie about a rich white guy hiring a poor black guy to get him ready for a stint in prison. R. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Vancouver.
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Heaven Knows What
A Although based on Arielle Holmes’ unpublished memoir, Mad Love in New York City, don’t expect to see any romantic strolls through Central Park in its film adaptation. Heaven Knows What follows the moment-to-moment struggles of Harley (played by Holmes herself, in a nuanced onscreen debut), a homeless heroin addict still in the throes of her destructive first love, Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones). Directors Josh and Benny Safdie engage the audience by executing realistic grit with contemporary style, using a backdrop of disorienting electro beats to enrich scenes like Harley attempting to thread a needle while too high to even focus her eyes. The cameras follow the characters as they race through the streets, keeping up with their tempers when the tension comes to blows on the sidewalk. Conversations are obstructed by passing trucks and cyclists, and the stream of uncaring passersby maintain the feeling of being so exposed yet invisible to the rest of the world. Heaven Knows What grabs attention and focuses it on the people we ignore every day, making for a visceral viewing experience in a city that relies on rose-colored glasses. R. LAUREN TERRY. Cinema 21.
Home
A technicolor extraterrestrial descends to Earth. Children learn acceptance of all critters, no matter their gummy-bear hue. It’s basically Up, with more tech specs and less soul. PG. Clackamas, Empirical, Vancouver, Movies on TV.
Inside Out
A Pretty much everybody in the theater was sobbing at some point during Inside Out. It’s sad. Crushingly, relentlessly sad. And absolutely brilliant from writer-director Pete Docter, (Up) It’s not about depression per se. It’s about young Riley, who has to move across the country for her dad’s job, and the tiny people in her head who represent her emotions. It’s a fantasy most kids have had at some point—that there are tiny workers looking out their eyes and driving their bodies, and it’s a great metaphor even though there are deep metaphysical problems with this construction of self. Maybe it’s because of the contrasting sadness, but Inside Out is one of Pixar’s funniest movies. It’s helped along by especially excellent voice work from its leads. Amy Poehler as Joy, Lewis Black as Anger (obviously) and Phyllis Smith (from The Office) as Sadness. Sadness steals the show, which is fitting. I’m just not sure how much little kids will
only recourse is to hybridize bigger and badder dinos, and—surprise!—one gets loose. Raptor wrangler Chris Pratt remains forever the gruff yet accessible hero, an archetype he truly excels at (though not as goofily this time). There are plenty of allusions and self-effacing moments to entertain the fanboys, and plenty of classic “Does it see me? Does it smell me?” shots, providing welcome glimpses into the truly gruesome maws of the best-rendered dinos to date. More unexpectedly, the film opens the floor to more nuanced storytelling. Anti-military and anti-corporate themes and even Blackfish-style commentary on animal captivity abound. But the overall magic of a park full of dinosaurs is somehow muted, as the film focuses primarily on one big baddie that must be stopped. Sorry, kiddos. PG-13. TED JAMISON. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Cinemas.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
A- Remember when spy movies were fun? Kingsman: The Secret Service does. R. Laurelhurst, Vancouver.
Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter
B+ A lost soul in Tokyo who takes her fascina-
tion 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. nR. 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.
Love & Mercy
B+ Brian Wilson’s mental breakdown in the mid1960s is as essential to the Beach Boys mythos as the band’s Pendleton shirts and woodies. 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 psycholo-
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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 flash flood 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 fine bourbon—both will get you drunk, robbed and left outside in your underpants. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Academy.
Spy
A- Serious actors playing funny roles seriously, a la Airplane, is one of my favorite things, and Paul Feig’s new movie, Spy, delivers that in spades. Jason Statham is hilarious as a parody of every real role he’s played; Allison Janney is a funny version of her humorless self on West Wing; and 50 Cent, well, he can’t act to save his life. Every sentence he says sounds like an alien in 50 Cent’s body discovering his vocal chords for the first time. But really, that’s a minor complaint. Spy is super-funny, and it’s a much smarter comedy than the trailer may lead you to believe. There are nut kicks, sure, and plenty of gross moments, but the smart jokes made me laugh—and made me feel good about laughing. R. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Cinemas.
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
gist who lost his license for exploiting Wilson. Two phases of Wilson’s life crisscross throughout the film. Young, brilliant, falling-apart-at-theseams Brian is played persuasively by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), but John Cusack is largely miscast as the middle-aged Wilson. The film plays out like intertwined memories. 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. PG-13. NATHAN CARSON. Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
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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-do-wells 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 fighting over gasoline, the action is a nonstop fight scene between soupedup cars with flame 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, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Hollywood, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Monkey Kingdom
Baby monkeys actually look like a fetal Bruce Jenner, but we still love letting these critters to swing from our heartstrings. PG. Academy, Empirical.
The Nightmare
B+ Conveying the surreal power of dreams is nearly impossible, whether onscreen or in conversation. They have their own logic, of course, plus
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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. 99 West, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
What We Do in the Shadows
B+ You’d be hard-pressed to find a more biting
and accurate critique of vampiredom. R. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cinema 21.
While We’re Young
A- This Gen-X midlife-crisis movie is a careerbest comedy for both Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach. Filmmaker Josh (Stiller) and producer wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are stalled in careers and marriage. More than a generational clash, this is a satire of an entire class of narcissists (the director included). R. BRIAN MILLER. Academy, Laurelhurst.
Wild Tales
B+ Don’t let the dark subject matter fool you: Director Damián Szifron mines the humor out of all six stories in Wild Tales. He finds the smirk in a chef suggesting rat poison and even squeezes a few laughs out of a millionaire’s attempts to buy his drunken-driving son’s way out of prison after he kills a pregnant woman. The film even has an Aesopian moral: Sometimes it’s better to just let things go. R. JOHN LOCANTHI. Laurelhurst.
Woman in Gold
C+ Holocaust escapee Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) and her lawyer nephew Randol (Ryan Reynolds) take the Austrian government to court to reclaim a painting that was stolen by Nazi art thieves (Nazis are the worst!). R. KELLY MCCRILLIS. Academy, Laurelhurst.
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inexplicable time and hazy details that are difficult to recall, let alone relay. Rodney Ascher confronts this challenge in The Nightmare, his new documentary about sleep paralysis. Several interviewees recount their experiences with the condition, which is hard to diagnose and harder to treat. As in Room 237, Ascher’s film about wild interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, the filmmaker displays a talent for inventive visualizations. He shows shadowy figures drifting into bedrooms as half-awake dreamers sit paralyzed, unable to stop or comprehend what’s happening to them. More experiential than insightful, the film at its worst feels like a series of poorly staged re-enactments. Ascher never succeeds in creating a fully immersive experience. Too often he cuts to footage of his subjects talking instead of committing to said re-enactments. His approach is too literal, and there’s something lost in the telling. nR. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Kevin James takes his daughter to Vegas and saves the world on a Segway. PG. Avalon.
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, Oscar-nominated Gil Kenan (Monster House) and Sami Raimi (The Grudge) tell the supernatural kidnapping tale. PG-13. Movies on TV, Vancouver.
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 flat. 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 film is an exaggerated worst-case scenario in itself. To director Brad Peyton’s credit, the CGI is inarguably exceptional, and wide shots of the entire Bay Area rippling like water have a somber, chilling effect. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Stadium 11, Bridgeport, City Center,
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It happens every Wednesday. Movie geeks, fueled by beer and pizza, flock by the dozens for a barrage of weirdness: grindhouse films so obscure even Tarantino might scratch his head. Schlocky horror. Unerotic erotica. Giant monster movies. It’s one of the best experiences you’ll have in a local theater—and it’s not in Portland. You’d be forgiven for not knowing the Joy Cinema. It’s tucked in one of Tigard’s strip malls on Highway 99W, hidden among discount stores and pho joints. To most of us, the 76-year-old cinema is just that old movie theater you drive past on the way to the beach. But three years ago, self-proclaimed movie geek Jeff Martin took over, began programming second-run movies, trafficking in pizza and beer and offering the area a much-needed alternative to wallet-robbing megaplexes. There are a couple of things that make Weird Wednesday so great, beginning with the price tag: $0. Joy’s under-the-radar approach includes films even the Hollywood doesn’t show. This week’s feature is Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, a 1922 silent oddity (Joy Cinema; 9:15 pm Wednesday, June 24; free; 21+). “You can’t be afraid of putting people off,” says Martin. “I welcome the freaks, geeks, misfits and dipshits. I love them because I’m one of them.” I know, I’m getting a little uncharacteristically Frank Capra about old movie houses. But consider how fortunate Portland is in its wealth of funky theaters. In smaller, Tigard-like towns across the country, the one-screen movie house is dying. I bring this all up because the Joy is now in the midst of an Indiegogo campaign. A few years back, 35 mm became obsolete, forcing theaters to convert to digital. Martin didn’t ask for donations initially, but now, with rents rising, the debt from the conversion could catch up with his weird little theater. It’s not doomsday. But if you’re a fan of old-school movies about gigantic monsters, or 50
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of catching the latest 3-D blockbuster for $2, or just keeping a movie house alive in a city becoming known more for its sprawl than its character, helping the Joy is critical. The Joy is a goddamned treasure, but without a little assist, it could revert to an intermittently open curiosity you drive past every day wondering. “We’re not going to close imminently if we don’t reach the goal. I just signed the lease for five years,” says Martin. “We would have to run on a much more limited schedule, not do as many special films and really play it safe.” That can’t happen. Tigard needs its weirdness, and the Joy’s gigantic man-eating lizards need your help. ALSO SHOWING:
When screening a film like Cool Hand Luke, Pix definitely has its advantages, chief among them excellent champagne and egg pairings. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, June 24. The sublimely weird 1977 Blazers documentary Fast Break makes a welcome return to the Clinton, the best place to see a basketball documentary with no basketball, but plenty of Bill Walton bike rides. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday, June 26. Bike Smut’s back for a ninth year of bicycle erotica. Clinton Street Theater. 9:30 pm Friday, June 26. The Oregon Historical Society dusts off 1990’s Shredder Orpheus, a Seattle-set odyssey about a skater who travels to hell to shut down a brainwashing TV show. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Friday, June 26. How do you make a Beethoven film more interesting? Follow Immortal Beloved’s lead and cast Gary Oldman and make it all sexy. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Saturday, June 27. 5th Avenue Cinema returns with Paul Verhoeven’s largely misunderstood, goop-soaked fascism satire Starship Troopers. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, June 26-28. The Hollywood pays tribute to legendary actor Christopher Lee with a double feature of the horror icon’s best and most defining films: Horror of Dracula and the director’s cut of The Wicker Man. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm (Horror of Dracula) and 9 pm (The Wicker Man) Tuesday, June 30. In celebration of Pride, the Democratic LGBT Caucus presents Stonewall Uprising, a documentary on the gay rights movement. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Tuesday, June 30.
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REVIEW: ZEUS ARSENAL SMITE The Canadian dollar is weak right now. Currently, one Loonie will buy only three American quarters, plus a nickel and a penny. This is information you should know if you’re in the market for a looseleaf vaporizer. Canada’s largest retailer of vaporizers has a new house brand, Zeus Smite, which retails for only $129… Canadian! As of press time, that works out to just $104.53 American, with free shipping to boot. If you’re looking for your first loose-leaf vaporizer, you won’t find a better deal than the Smite. Like its pricier competitors, it gently bakes the oils out of ground flower instead of heating special concentrate sold primarily through medical dispensaries. The Zeus Smite is a big-boy vape, about the size of a pack of cigarettes. There are slide-open compartments on top and bottom. The top one holds ground-up flower—it’s a narrow, deep compartment, and you’ll need the little metal tool to
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I looked at her and thought: American Gothic. She had just finished her first year at Kansas State in Manhattan and was a Kansas City girl. Thin, straight brown hair hanging loose, she was cheerier than the lady in American Gothic, but she had an ineffably puritanical cast to her. She was off to camp with a group called Young Life. She didn’t elaborate other than saying it gave kids an outdoor experience and that they had camps all over the world. She’d worked at ones in Europe and Minnesota. Asked what she did, she said that, as an older volunteer, she did the more fun things, such as work in the camp store, whereas before it was cleaning and working the mess kitchen. The back of my mind was saying, “Boy, this sure sounds like a Christian organization, but she’s giving no hint.” We talked about Calvin Trillin and his contributions to raising awareness of Kansas City cuisine, not to mention its barbecue, which she
manage it. The bottom one holds a rubber mouthpiece that screws on to the top. With the mouthpiece on, the vape looks like a little walkie-talkie. There’s only one button, which adjusts between three temperatures. On the highest setting, you can feel some heat radiating off the anodized aluminum case. It’s not quite as discreet as the uber-sleek Pax 2, but it is less than half the price. The big advantage of the Smite, beyond price, is the super-smooth draw. The oven is medium in size and probably enough to handle most users’ needs without forcing them to repack on the fly. The battery is slow to charge through an old-fashioned AC adapter but has a long life, up to three hours in our experience. If you don’t have a loose-leaf vaporizer yet, you’re missing out. And if you don’t have $200, but you do have $100, say a prayer of thanks to Zeus and Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose failed economic policies are a boon to American cannabis users. MARTIN CIZMAR. BUY IT: Go to torontovaporizer.ca to buy the Zeus Smite at Canadian prices.
considered the country’s finest. I suggested my Tejana wife might disagree. She sympathized. She had no idea who Calvin Trillin was. Her suitcase was so large and heavy that I couldn’t lift it into the back of my Forester without her help. Great, a 74-year-old guy being helped by a little girl. I observed that I knew where she kept the bodies. I took her to the airport, where she was meeting other camp volunteers, and they were all boarding a shuttle bus to the camp. In Antelope, Oregon. Antelope, Oregon. Antelope, Oregon. I get there now and again. I photographed its cemetery back in the day. Camp in Antelope, Oregon, eh? Yup. Camp for kids, Middle school and high school. Kids. Camp for kids. She never did mention Christ or American Gothic. Probably doesn’t know who Grant Wood was, either. Neither of us mentioned Rajneeshpuram. But yup, Young Life are the folks who bought Big Muddy. The place merely changed gods. Hopefully, the Young Lifers aren’t into assassination. It’s too bad we were both silent—I’d like to know what she knew. JOHAN MATHIESEN. Read more tales from Night Uber at wweek. com/nightuber.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): During my regular hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately. It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names. They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger. They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.” But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In its early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Come to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered eleven other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-all-Alone’s. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well. Give them a potent start. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One summer afternoon when I was seven years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your symbolic object of the week is a magic wand. I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary
power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and midSeptember. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline. Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement. And if you’re serious about capitalizing on Saturn’s demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” twenty times -- whichever motivates you most. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy, or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn’t be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready. Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody. Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself. You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy. Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “An obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. “A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.” I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “She is hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena. But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.
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