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Molly Rankin of Alvvays, page 37.
WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 41, ISSUE 38.
The earthquake-panic economy is starting to boom in Portland. 6 Isaac Brock’s friends still have a place in the weed economy. 7 Some West Hills residents are refusing to leave money to Metro when they die. 11
The lesbian couple denied a wedding cake by a Gresham bakery got trolled at home by Lars Larson. 12
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Passengers at Portland International Airport once went through 14 gallons of bloody mary mix in a single day. 25 If you like jokes about census figures, there’s a comedian for you. 41 Your literary hero is a racist mansplainer. 46
Project Runway’s Tim Gunn is still delightful. 48
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NEWS ARTS & CULTURE FOOD & DRINK EVENTS MUSIC MOVIES CONTESTS GIVEAWAYS
MARTIN WELLER with guest author Robert Wright WEDNESDAY, JULY 29TH AT 6PM
INBOX EXPOSURE TO TOXIC CHEMICALS To coin a phrase, “The dose makes the poison.” [“My Airborne Toxic Event,” WW, July 15, 2015]. The mere presence of some of these chemicals means nothing. Exposure to small amounts of these chemicals may or may not lead to effects, which is why risk assessments are performed to ascertain the risks associated with exposure at different levels. I have three children, and worry about very little of this because it doesn’t come close to the daily risks of letting them ride their bikes or Rollerblades, ride in the car, or even play in the sprinkler or pool. Our society (in general) gets overly obsessed with the wrong risks while conveniently ignoring the real risks staring us in the face. —“scoobedoo”
The dose makes the poison, but each product is risk-assessed as if it lives in a vacuum. So the same phthalates may be in the ball, the wheels of the skateboard, and the binky, and each product is “safe” on its own, but not together. The point is that we don’t risk-assess looking at life as a whole—just at a product in a lab. —“Rangehunter” Awareness of toxic compounds in the environment is a good thing. This article also illustrates we have a long way to go with regard to science education. —“Dizzy”
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C-MINUS, MY DEAR WATSON
“There is already financial aid for low-income people, but they aren’t showing up,” says Sara Goldrick-Rab, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin, who worked on the bill. “This is dangling a carrot.” [“Tuition: Impossible,” WW, July 15, 2015.] Young people who are truly motivated to go to college will find a way to do that and, as Goldrick-Rab notes, there is already financial help for those who need assistance. I’m all in favor of education—as much of it as possible for those who want to seriously pursue it—but I also know that people tend to value things much more when they have worked for them. Just how many more “carrots” do the taxpayers have to provide? —“J E Nielsen”
I saw Mr. Holmes and loved it [Movie review, WW, July 15, 2015]. It had very good storytelling and was compelling. Since WW gave Mad Max: Fury Road an A, I’m thinking you guys might be a little off the mark here. —“PortlandM”
Now that weed is legal, can we finally abandon the charade where we all pretend that none of the things sold in the head shop will be used for smoking marijuana? Can we, at long last, call a bong a bong? —Cathleen A.
seller possibly know that you intend to use his glass pipes, chillums, grinders, vaporizers and one-hitters for weed? It’s not a head shop, it’s just a tobacco store that happens to have a shitload of tie-dye and framed covers from High Times magazine! Now that recreational weed is legal, though, does any of that matter anymore? Yes and no. Measure 91 doesn’t strike the anti-paraphernalia provisions from the books; it merely carves out an exemption for those who are selling “marijuana paraphernalia” to individuals 21 or over. Currently, tobacco and tobacco-related goods are legal to sell to anyone over age 18. Thus, your local Jerry Garcia-loving tobacconists have a decision to make: They can go 21-and-over and say “bong” until their lips fall off, or they can continue to sell four-chambered water pipes decorated with pot leaves—for use with tobacco only!—to any 18-to20-year-old who comes down the pike. Results may vary, check your local listings.
CORRECTION
In the Headout story July 1 (“First!”), the first beer brewed by Upright Brewing, in 2009, was misidentified. It was Billy the Mountain. 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.
Singer, Guitarist and Songwriter, Martin Weller returns to Music Millennium for his seventh visit since first hauling into Oregon from London, England in 1999. Burnside DC distributed Martin and Clive Frampton’s classic 1997 album, ‘Frampton Weller’. The first trip over to Portland was with his ‘Power Pop’ band Crush, invited by then Horse Brass owner and beer leader Don Younger. Sixteen years on, Martin is back in Stumptown and will be playing an acoustic set of British Rock/Punk influenced songs from his latest record, ‘Like’.
DOM FLEMONS MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD AT 6PM
Dom Flemons is the “American Songster,” pulling from traditions of old-time folk music to create new sounds. As part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, which he co-founded with Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, he has played at a variety of festivals spanning from the Newport Folk Festival to Bonnaroo, in addition to renowned venues such as the Grand Ole Opry. His new album, ‘Prospect Hill’ finds Flemons digging deeply into ragtime, Piedmont blues, spirituals, southern folk music, string band music, jug band music, fife and drum music, and ballads idioms with showmanship and humor, reinterpreting the music to suit 21st century audiences.
The head shop in my neighborhood has for years featured a sign that reads, “Please do not use the ‘B’ word when talking about our water pipes.” (Really? Part of me has always fantasized about breaking this rule by strolling up to the counter and saying, “Yo, let me see that water pipe, bitch.”) What you describe, not unreasonably, as a charade is based on a provision of Oregon law that makes it illegal to sell paraphernalia “knowing that it will be used to unlawfully plant, propagate, cultivate…ingest, inhale or otherwise introduce into the human body a controlled substance.” “Knowing” is the key word here. If you don’t say “bong,” the theory goes, how on earth could the 4
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We need an intern! A few Best Of Portland winners and finalists we missed in last week’s issue.
LocaL Businesses and services Best camera shop Winner
Pro Photo SuPPly
1112 NW 19th Ave. / 503.241.1112 prophotosupply.com Pro Photo Supply is more than a camera shop with a knowledgeable staff and photo lab. Their active blog—featuring news, reviews and select galleries from their photo lab—has turned into a hub for Portland’s photo community. Runner-up
Blue Moon Camera 8417 N Lombard St. / 503.978.0333 bluemooncamera.com
Runner-up
Harvey’s 436 NW 6th Ave. / 503.241.0338 harveyscomedyclub.com Honorable mention
Curious Comedy 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. / 503.477.9477 curiouscomedy.org
Best non-profit Winner
SiSterS oF the roAd
133 NW 6th Ave. / 503.222.5694 sistersoftheroad.org
Honorable mention
Sisters of the Road, which takes it logo from the old hobo symbol for good food and hospitality, has been feeding, employing and empowering down-ontheir-luck Portlanders in Old Town/Chinatown since 1979.
Best car deaLership
Runner-up
Camera World 400 SW 6th Ave. / 503.205.5900 ritzcameraandimage.com/store/1248.php
Winner
ron tonkin
Multiple locations. tonkin.com
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comedy club. For most Portlanders, it’s the only game in town.
Can you blame WW readers for picking the dealership that runs commercials featuring Ron Tonkin saving the world from a Bondian supervillain by of7/9/15 12:21 PM fering great deals on a Honda CRV? Tonkin isn’t just a fine new and used car dealership, it embodies the zany spirit that keeps Portland weird. Runner-up
Wentworth Multiple Locations Multiple websites. Honorable mention
Broadway Toyota 55 NE Broadway St. / 503.284.1105 broadwaytoyota.com
Mercy Corps 45 SW Ankeny St. / 503.896.5000 mercycorpsnw.org Honorable mention
Impact NW Multiple locations. impactnw.org
Best LocaL Band Winner
the decemberiStS decemberists.com
Colin Meloy and company more or less locked this honor up when Castaways and Cutouts dropped over a decade ago. Portland’s erudite indie pop ensemble has continued churning out killer records since, including What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World earlier this year. Runner-up
Best comic Book store
Pink Martini pinkmartini.com
Winner
Honorable mention
thingS From Another World Multiple locations. tfaw.com
Whether you’re looking for a copy of The Long Halloween or you just want to see Archie get murdered by Predator, Things From Another World is WW readers’ go-to, where DC and Marvel releases sit alongside a treasure trove of Dark Horse and indie comics. Runner-up
Excalibur 2444 SE Hawthorne Blvd. / 503.231.7351 excaliburcomics.net Honorable mention
Bridge City 3725 N Mississippi Ave. / 503.282.5484 bridgecitycomics.com
Summer Cannibals summercannibals.com
heaLth and Body Best naiL saLon Winne
Vogue nAilS Multiple locations.
With three locations east of the river, Vogue is WW readers’ go to place for mani/pedis. So go ahead and make a day of it. Treat yoself. You know you’ve earned it. Runner-up
Oasis Nail & Day Spa 305 NW 21st Ave. / 503.248.0888 Honorable mention
arts and cuLture Best comedy cLuB
Blooming Moon Wellness Spa 1920 N Killingsworth St. / 971.279.2757 bloomingmoonspa.com
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helium
1510 SE 9th Ave. / 888.643.8669 heliumcomedy.com/portland A healthy mix of big names and local stars—combined with the Best Open Mic in Portland—keeps WW readers coming back for more at this beloved
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PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL STOP THE MEGAQUAKE. Does the city lawfully own the trademark to the neon “Portland Oregon” sign? Legal observers will have to wait for an answer now that city officials have employed a creative maneuver to quash a lawsuit on that question. Jeff Kunkle, owner of Vintage Roadside memorabilia in Woodstock, sued the city in June, arguing its trademark of the beloved sign was invalid. He brought the suit after a deputy city attorney claimed Kunkle, who sold images of the sign on Etsy, needed to pay the city a commercial licensing fee. But now the city has told Kunkle’s attorney, Robert Swider, that it won’t enforce its trademark rights against Kunkle—a move that basically eliminates Kunkle’s standing to bring his lawsuit. “The city, in its infinite wisdom,” says Swider, “has found the out.”
Commissioner Steve Novick may be the most vulnerable member of Portland City Council in a long time, but he’s yet to see a major candidate willing to challenge him for re-election next year (“The Portland Thorn,” WW, May 20, 2015). Concordia University instructor Nick Caleb dropped his brief campaign against Novick on July 14. The next day, real-estate broker Fred Stewart, 50, filed registration papers with the state Elections Division to run against Novick in the May 2016 primary. Stewart previously ran to fill then-Commissioner Erik Sten’s vacated council seat in 2008. (Nick Fish won—Stewart finished STEWART fourth out of five candidates.) “I thought Steve would be our best city commissioner ever—that turned out to be really wrong,” Stewart says. “I’m bitterly disappointed in him. I feel our city needs a positive choice.” Portland real-estate developer and Democratic Party activist Terry Bean will face trial next month on criminal charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy two years ago. On July 16, Lane County Circuit Judge Charles M. Zennache rejected Bean’s attempt to settle the case with a cash payment to the alleged victim (“Bean Counting,” WW, July 15, 2015). “It sounds like kids are for purchase,” Zennache said. “If you have enough money, you can buy sex with a minor. That’s a line we can’t cross.” Bean’s attorney, Derek Ashton, says: “Terry looks forward to proving his innocence at trial.” Still shaking in your boots from last week’s New Yorker article on the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake that’s going to topple Portland? Cheer up—it was great news for local house retrofitters. Steve Gemmell, owner of Portland company Earthquake Tech, says this is the most calls he’s received in at least five years. “Man, we’ve sold some jobs fast,” Gemmell says. He’s added a new crew in the past week to keep up with demand, and he said it’s booked through September. “I haven’t even read that article,” he says. “I haven’t had time.”
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“THESE KIDS CAN’T GO TO THE STORE AND BUY IT. THEY HAVE TO CALL ME.”
DELIVERY ROUTE: Austin, a pot dealer, rides his bicycle around Northeast and Southeast Portland to meet up with his young customers, few of whom have their own cars. “It’s good exercise,” he says.
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Austin has been out of weed for four days. It’s Sunday evening, and today he’s gotten 14 calls from customers looking for bud. “You got tree, bro?” they ask. The drought ends with a call from his “plug,” one of the people who sells him marijuana in large quantities. Austin catches a ride from a friend. They drive from Northeast Alberta Street down to the Mount Scott neighborhood, where he disappears into a one-story house. He emerges with 7 ounces of weed—worth $980. The stash fills a plastic turkey-basting bag like a pillow. For the next two days, Austin, age 18, will sell the pot to high-school and college students across Portland. Austin was 8 years old the first time he smoked weed. He picked up a pipe in his grandparents’ basement, loaded a bowl, and lit the greens. At 16, he began dealing. Two years later, he makes upward of $800 cash every week riding his bicycle around Northeast and Southeast Portland selling weed strains like Golden Pineapple. His price per gram can be as low as $5, about half the typical price at a medical dispensary. Austin’s phone lights up five to 10 times an hour with texts or calls asking for bud. His customers come to his house, or he meets them in city parks.
“But at the end of the day, they want the weed, so they come to me,” Austin says. “And I have so many customers. They need me more than I need them.” Austin is the worst nightmare of Oregon’s new overseers of legal weed. When state lawmakers set the rules for recreational marijuana this spring, their top priorities were eliminating the black market and ensuring that teenagers don’t use drugs. “I believe that we need to protect kids,” says Rep. Ann Lininger (D-Lake Oswego), who co-chaired the HouseSenate committee on marijuana this spring. “And we protect them by shrinking the black market, talking candidly to young people about why marijuana use is a bad choice for people under the age of 21, and making policies that allow young people who have made a mistake to move on with their lives.” Austin defies these aims. He has a huge advantage over the legal system. Recreational marijuana shops won’t open until next year. Medical dispensaries will likely be allowed to sell to anyone over 21 starting Oct. 1. Austin’s open for business now. And he has no plans of stopping. During the past month, WW spoke to four black-market weed dealers. (They agreed to speak to us if we didn’t identify them, so the names of dealers in this story are aliases.) All of them say they will keep selling. Their sales are the single biggest threat to Oregon’s new legal marijuana marketplace, which officially began July 1. They threaten to undercut the prices of regulated and taxed marijuana, and they could trigger crackdowns from
the federal government. Austin says legalization will only increase his business, because most of his customers are under 21. “These kids can’t go to the store and buy it,” he says. “They have to call me.” Oregon’s marijuana black market is large. Oregon State University sociology professor Seth Crawford estimated that 316,336 Oregonians bought pot illegally in 2013—nearly 8 percent of the state’s population. A study last year by Portland economic consulting firm ECONorthwest estimated that only 40 percent of those people would move to the legal market by 2017—and that more people would still be buying from the black market than either recreational or medical outlets. The line between the black market and the existing legal market is often hazy. Sarah has been selling to both for years. Originally from Colorado, Sarah, in her mid-30s, has 24 pot plants growing legally in her home that she supplies to medical marijuana dispensaries, and she sells to friends and family on the side. Sarah graduated from Portland State University with a degree in public health. Shortly after graduation, she was convicted on drug charges. (She says friends of her roommates brought psychedelics to Thanksgiving dinner.) Sarah credits the arrest with changing her life path. “I couldn’t get a job in my field as a felon, so they pushed me into a life of crime,” she says. Sarah makes $800 a week—and estimates she pays income tax on just 35 percent of that income. “I make pretty good money not doing nearly as much work as an average Joe in the workplace,” she says. “I work two hours a day instead of 10.” She considers herself a gardener, and says growing weed, like growing vegetables, is spiritual for her. Sarah says her customers will be loyal, even with new CONT. on page 8 Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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SCALING UP: Austin measures his product. Like other young dealers in Portland, he expects his illicit business will grow because voters legalized pot last November.
competition, because of the care she puts into her plants. She expects that “corporate weed” production will incentivize quantity over quality. “It’s like artisan food versus fast food,” she says. But Sarah is worried that the new legal market will lead to new government regulation—and make it a hassle for her to grow marijuana. If regulators can search her house and require her to keep her plants recorded and accounted for, Sarah says she’ll quit. “If I have to sign a waiver that says they can enter my house at any time, I’ll stop growing,” she says. “It’s a plant. It’s a natural thing. Anyone should be able to grow.” The risks for people selling pot on the black market remain steep, even in the new era of legal marijuana. Penalties for illegal sales range from a $2,000 fine for selling more than 16 ounces, to a $125,000 fine and five years in prison for selling to a minor. State lawmakers want to stop black-market dealers so they don’t undercut the prices at retail stores or draw the ire of the U.S. Department of Justice—which warned in 2013 that leakage into the black market and teenage use could trigger a federal crackdown in states that legalized pot. “It’s just basic economics,” Lininger says. “Shrinking the illegal demand means shrinking the illegal supply.” But people have been getting away with selling marijuana for years—decades, even. Christopher moved to Portland in 1977 and sold his first bag of marijuana. His girlfriend at the time would send him bags of shake (small buds and cuttings) from Hawaii via the U.S. Postal Service. As long as marijuana is outlawed by the federal government, Christopher expects his customers, who are mostly older Portland professionals, will keep coming. “Doctors, lawyers, judges—they appreciate the discretion I can offer,” Christopher says. “People come by, visit, chitchat, smoke some pot. It is social, safe.” Christopher, now 59, has never gotten caught selling weed. He usually buys enough weed to last him months of selling, so he doesn’t have to interact with his growers in Southern Oregon very often. “I never thought I was breaking laws,” he says. “Now everybody else realizes what I realized a long time ago.” Max, 19, has been caught. And he’s gone to jail. But he doesn’t care. “I am just living in the moment,” he says. “I am 8
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“EVERYONE IN HIGH SCHOOL SMOKES WEED... EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT SMOKING, WANTS TO SMOKE, AND THERE’S NO WAY THEY CAN X OUT THAT ENTIRE POPULATION. IT’S JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.” just doing what I can to make quick money. Making marijuana legal wouldn’t make me want to stop.” Max graduated from Grant High School, where he started selling marijuana his freshman year. He says police have driven by during his deals and he’s been searched. But he says that comes with the territory of dealing drugs, and the $1,200 he makes every couple of weeks overshadows the risk. Max buys large quantities from Austin, and then sells to high-school and college students, parents of high-school kids, and strangers. He doesn’t fear a police crackdown. “Everyone in high school smokes weed,” Max says. “Everyone knows about smoking, wants to smoke, and there’s no way they can X out that entire population. It’s just not going to happen.” Austin sets up shop at 9:30 Sunday night at a wooden picnic table in a Northeast Portland park. His first customers bring a jar of coins. “Y’all really brought some quarters?” Austin asks. But he accepts the deal: “I’m gonna go to the nickel arcade.” The next group, three teenagers who arrive on skateboards, ogles Austin’s 7-ounce bag of pot sitting on the table. “Damn, Austin, you’ve got so much tree right now,” one of them says. “Can I hold this in my hand?” Austin agrees. “You can take a picture of it and pretend it’s yours.” The three boys pass the bag around. They look awed. “I sell at least a quarter pound a day,” Austin says. “I probably won’t even have it tomorrow.”
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A Portland Police Bureau officer is under investigation after a woman visiting from Las Vegas said he arrived at her Pearl District hotel room to follow up on her domestic assault complaint, stripped naked and ordered her to give him a massage. Officer Jeromie Palaoro is the subject of a bureau criminal and internal affairs investigation into his alleged actions at the Marriott Residence Inn on Northwest 9th Avenue on July 5. The woman, Roni Reid-James, tells WW that Palaoro showed her his service revolver before taking off his clothes, groped her and asked for sexual favors, then warned her not to tell anyone because he was writing the report on her assault complaint. She says he stayed in her hotel room for seven hours. “It was terrifying,” Reid-James says. “I didn’t feel like I could leave. I didn’t know who I was supposed to call: I’m with a police officer.” Palaoro, 43, is a seven-year veteran of the Portland police. He did not return WW’s calls seeking comment. Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Peter Simpson says Palaoro is on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation, and was transferred July 9 from the East Precinct to the personnel division. Reid-James’ attorneys filed a notice July 9 with the city of her intent to sue over Palaoro’s alleged actions. A July 14 response from the city’s risk-management office says the city is “conducting an investigation of the incident.” Reid-James, 45, works in Las Vegas as a couples relationship and sex coach, offering classes in tantric massage under the business name “The Sex Geek.” On July 1, she traveled to Portland to visit her boyfriend, Nikkolas Lewis, and his mother. On July 4, Reid-James tells WW, she and Lewis got in a fight over his 2-year-old son playing with cigarettes at his mother’s
home on Southeast 86th Avenue. She says Lewis grabbed her by the throat and repeatedly slammed her to the ground. She dialed 911, and three Portland police officers responded to the call, including Palaoro, Reid-James says. She says they made no arrests. (Lewis has not been charged with a crime, and declined to comment to WW.) Reid-James says after she returned to the Residence Inn, Palaoro called her. She texted back. Records obtained by WW show Reid-James was texted repeatedly that night from a phone number she says is Palaoro’s. “Wish I could have given you a hug,” says a text sent to her at 11:43 pm. “Didn’t like seeing you that upset.” At 1:30 am on July 5, Reid-James received another text from the same number. “Probably not appropriate for me to say,” it read, “but I could come see you, or
room around 11 am. She says she complained to the Portland Police Bureau on July 6, after Palaoro continued to call and text her. Reid-James’ attorneys, Randall Vogt and Barbara Long, filed a July 9 notice of her intent to sue the city “after completion of the sex crimes investigation.” Police spokesman Simpson says the bureau began investigating Palaoro’s actions before Reid-James’ attorneys filed their notice. “The Portland Police Bureau takes allegations of misconduct seriously,” Simpson says, “and cannot comment any further as this remains an ongoing investigation.” Last year, Palaoro and the city were sued by a Southeast Portland man who said the officer entered his home without a warrant during a dispute with a tenant. Clint Guttman sued the city for $10,000, and the city of Portland settled for $1,501 last June, plus $5,133 in costs and attorney fees. Reid-James returned to Las Vegas on July 11. She tells WW she remains uneasy and frightened of police. “I don’t know how to explain how it feels to call somebody who you think is going to help you, and have that kind of betrayal,” she says. “I feel like I would have been better off not calling 911.”
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call if you would like. I’m a good listener.” Reid-James says Palaoro arrived at the Residence Inn at 3:33 am, wearing street clothes. She says she invited him to her room expecting him to talk with her and photograph bruises from her alleged assault. Within 15 minutes of his arrival, ReidJames says, Palaoro pulled his service revolver out of his backpack and asked her if the gun made her uncomfortable. “He set it down on a table by the TV,” she says. “And that’s when I knew how big a mistake I had made.” Reid-James says Palaoro said he had looked her up online and learned she did tantric massage. “He took all of his clothes off,” she says, “and told me I was giving him a massage.” She says Palaoro had an erection, and lay down on the hotel-room bed on his back. Reid-James says she asked him to turn over, and gave him a back massage. “After that,” she says, “it was a long time of him grabbing me, kissing me, taking my hand and trying to have me touch him. It was probably an hour of him telling me not to tell anybody. That he was a police officer, that he was a Navy SEAL, that he was writing my side of what happened.” Reid-James says Palaoro left her hotel
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On Christmas Eve, three days after she and her family moved to their home in the hills northwest of Portland, Lindsey Laughlin saw the elk herd. It’s become a ritual. She wakes up at about 6:30 every morning and peeks out the window. “You start to see these lumps, darker spots,” Laughlin says. “And sure enough, when the sun starts coming up, you see them sleeping.” By about 9 am the elk begin to graze, then drift toward the tree line, on land recently bought by the regional planning agency Metro. But Metro plans to open that land to mountain bikers by 2018, and Laughlin fears the elk won’t stay. Any sudden movement in her window is enough to send them darting away. “How can people go barreling through the woods and not affect the wildlife?” she asks. That question has confronted Portland mountain bikers wherever they’ve put down roots—and pedaled over them. Twice in the past five years, they thought they’d found a place to ride, until park neighbors and city officials kicked them out. Third time’s the charm? Not if Laughlin and her neighbors have the last word. Mountain bikers say the 1,303 acres of the North Tualatin Mountains Natural Area are some of the last rugged terrain close to Portland where they could ride. The land is northwest of Forest Park, running along Highway 30 near the Linnton neighborhood. Metro plans to develop this land with funds from a 2013 property tax levy, and cyclists pressured Metro planners to dedicate 9 miles of biking trails. “Our safety valves have all disappeared,” says Andy Jansky, a biking advocate who sat on Metro’s planning committee. “That’s why Tualatin is so important.” But residents living near the natural area, 1.7 miles outside Portland city limits, want Metro instead to spend all the money
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on clean streams and native plants. They say the restored timberland is for wildlife—not hikers, dogs or, least of all, mountain bikers. Maps unveiled by Metro planners in May showed up to 9 miles of trails exclusively for bikes. The Tualatin Mountains Wildlife Committee responded by circulating a petition, handing out fliers and sending letters to the Metro Council to oppose the plan. “Everybody up here is furious,” Laughlin says. The debate mirrors two previous fights over mountain bike trails on forest land— battles bikers lost. In 2009, Portland mountain biker Frank Selker started pushing for more trails in Forest Park. Selker sat on a citizens committee that debated the matter, surveyed park users and consulted ecologists about the trails. The committee endorsed more trails despite resistance from neighbors. But City Commissioner Nick Fish vetoed the bike trails in 2010. “People don’t want to share the park,” Selker says. “I wish I’d quit because it was so pointless.”
BUMPY RIDE: Andy Jansky and his daughters Molly (left) and Jenna climb a hill at Powell Butte Nature Park, near Gresham. Jansky hopes they will soon be able to ride mountain bikes at North Tualatin Mountains natural area (see map).
from voters for the 2013 levy. “We heard loud and clear that people wanted to get out and experience the land,” says Dan Moeller, a Metro land manager. Nearly 200 cyclists showed up at a public hearing in December and submitted more than 100 comment cards with requests like “More mountain bike trails please!” and “Let’s make PDX a destination for off-road cyclists!” North Tualatin consists of four plots of
“HOW CAN PEOPLE GO BARRELING THROUGH THE WOODS AND NOT AFFECT THE WILDLIFE?” —LINDSEY LAUGHLIN Mountain bikers looked to 146 acres south of Forest Park, an area along the Willamette River called the River View Natural Area, where they cleared and rode bike trails. But in March, Fish and City Commissioner Amanda Fritz banned mountain biking in the natural area, saying it damaged streams, harmed plants and frightened wildlife. Metro officials took an approach different from Portland’s: They embraced mountain biking, seeing it as a mandate
land. Metro proposals show that one will be mostly off limits to people. The other three will allow mountain biking, with trails designed to protect wildlife. Neighbors are skeptical. In YouTube videos they’ve circulated, bikers power down steep hills while techno music pumps in the background. Mary Folberg, principal at Northwest Academy, says she’s so upset, she’s dropping Metro from her will. She had planned
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to donate some of her 33 acres. “I just don’t think you can trust them,” she says. “People voted for wildlife.” Moeller says he does not know when Metro will make a final decision. But he says the agency will stand by cyclists. “Not everyone experiences nature in the same way,” he says. “Some enjoy nature with field guides and binoculars. Others enjoy nature on a bike.” Jansky, the bike activist, says available cycling land is scarce. He has to drive one hour northwest on Highway 30 for a forest ride on Scappoose Mountain. “The secret is to pedal really fast,” he hollers, inching up a steep incline on his Salsa Beargrease mountain bike. At a clearing, Jansky stops and listens to a chain saw hum. These trails, a last refuge for mountain bikers, are on Weyerhaeuser land. The timber company has agreed to host bikers, if they don’t mind occasionally finding their trails blocked. Jansky says chances to experience nature are shrinking. He says young people won’t care about nature—or vote for it—if they can’t get their tires out on the trails. “I’m worried the iPod generation is going to have a camping app to go camping on their phones,” he says. “They won’t know the importance of clean water, trees and animals.”
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BITTERSWEET CAKE A GRESHAM BAKERY REFUSED TO SELL THIS LESBIAN COUPLE A WEDDING CAKE. NOW, RACHEL AND LAUREL BOWMAN-CRYER BREAK THEIR SILENCE. BY N I G E L JAQUI SS
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Rachel Cryer loved Sweet Cakes by Melissa. She had discovered the Gresham bakery online in 2011 when she went looking for a wedding cake to celebrate her mother’s remarriage. The $250 raspberry fantasy cake baked by the store’s namesake co-owner, Melissa Klein, was, as Cryer put it, “to die for.” Cryer was in a lesbian relationship with her longtime partner, Laurel Bowman, and she says Klein was aware of that fact. Nonetheless, as Cryer would later recall, Klein encouraged Cryer and Bowman to return to her bakery if they ever decided to get married. Sweet Cakes by Melissa, they recall Klein telling them, would be happy to bake their wedding cake. In November 2012, Cryer and Bowman decided to hold a civil commitment ceremony, and they took Melissa Klein up on her offer. What happened next set off a national debate about same-sex marriage, civil rights and discrimination based on sexual orientation. When Cryer and her mother arrived at the bakery in January 2013, Aaron Klein, Melissa’s husband and the bakery’s co-owner, refused to sell Cryer a wedding cake because she and her partner were lesbian. Earlier this month, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), the state’s civil rights watchdog, concluded that the Kleins’ actions were discriminatory and violated Oregon law. State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered the Kleins to pay $135,000 in damages because of emotional and physical suffering they caused Bowman and Cryer by denying them service. It seems as if everyone has had their turn weighing in on the debate. Gay rights groups protested
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outside Sweet Cakes and have used Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer (as they are now known) as symbols to promote the cause of same-sex marriage. The Kleins closed their bakery in the face of boycotts and became darlings of conservative media, with more than $400,000 raised on their behalf from donors, according to fundraising websites. After the July 2 final order, The Oregonian called BOLI officials “cake crusaders,” and conservative magazine The Weekly Standard labeled the fine “excessive” and its logic “specious.” The only people involved who had not granted an interview to the news media about the controversy were Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. Until now. After the state’s ruling, Rachel, 32, and Laurel, 31, sat down with WW for their first news media interview. Their story includes cameo appearances by Portland singer Storm Large and conservative radio host Lars Larson. It also includes accounts of the humiliation the couple experienced, neighbors who turned their backs and strangers who heaped abuse on them after Aaron Klein posted their names, address and phone number on his Facebook page. The vilification the two endured, however, paled in comparison to the threat that their entanglement with the Kleins might cause them to lose the foster daughters they were in the process of adopting. The couple may never see the money the state awarded them, but they say their decision to challenge the Kleins was never about money. Their story begins when they met in 2002 at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, where they were part of the school’s speech and debate team. cont. on page 14
“Your own neighbors are against you, and they’ve known you for years.”
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LOOKING BACK: Rachel Bowman-Cryer (left) and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, in their first news media interview, talk about how they first blamed themselves after the refusal of Sweet Cakes by Melissa co-owner Aaron Klein in January 2013 to sell them a wedding cake because they were lesbians. “I can’t stop Rachel from crying. I can’t take this back,” Laurel recalls feeling. “This is all my fault. If I hadn’t asked Rachel to marry me, we wouldn’t have been in this situation. Because we wouldn’t be looking for a cake.” Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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RELUCTANT SYMBOLS: Laurel Bowman-Cryer (right) says she filed what she thought was an angry Web post about Sweet Cakes by Melissa, not knowing that she was filing a formal complaint with the Oregon Department of Justice.
“‘I know we talked about how we would never get married, but Laurel and I finally decided that we’re going to get married, and we don’t want anybody else to make our cake except you.’ Melissa didn’t seem put off by it at all.” —Rachel Bowman-Cryer
RACHEL BOWMAN-CRYER: When we were in college, Laurel and I were both on the forensics team, and we traveled to New York for a competition. She took everybody up to the roof of our hotel, the Hotel 17 in Manhattan, and proposed to me in front of everybody. LAUREL BOWMAN-CRYER: I just knew that if I spent the rest of my life with somebody, it was going to be her. RACHEL: We were really young. I’d said yes, but then as soon as we walked out and we were away from people, I was like, “You know I really didn’t mean yes, right?” I hadn’t really seen a marriage in my life that had worked. My mom had been in and out of marriages that all failed, and I just always felt like it did more harm than good. I felt like our relationship was so great, why ruin it with marriage? LAUREL: When Rachel and I first met, I didn’t understand the politics behind LGBT, and I didn’t understand that you couldn’t just marry a person that you loved. After college, Laurel worked in construction and Rachel performed as a musician and poet. They wanted to move somewhere else, and considered Portland. RACHEL: When my dad was alive, we used to watch this show on TV called Rock Star, and there was a contestant on the show, Storm Large. She was our favorite contestant. She 14
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always talked about Portland like it was this utopia. So when my dad passed, I wanted to go someplace where we could be more accepted, and Portland just seemed like that place. In Texas, we definitely faced discrimination—general discrimination and specific acts like people throwing bottles at us when we were walking down the street, screaming, “You dyke!” LAUREL: Having the hospital ban me from seeing her. RACHEL: After my father passed away, I became sick with typhus. I went to the hospital, and they admitted me, and while I was in the hospital, they wouldn’t allow Laurel to come and see me. LAUREL: Because we were gay. RACHEL: And then the doctors suggested that I would not be able to heal around her, and I should separate myself from her. LAUREL: From the gay lifestyle. The couple moved to Portland in 2009, and soon members of Rachel’s family followed. RACHEL: My mother and my brother moved out here after we moved. We told them this was going to be more accepting for my brother, who’s also gay and at the time was in high school and was having problems with being bullied in Texas.
Mom met a man, and they decided to get married. I did all of their wedding planning. Part of that was finding a place to purchase a cake for their wedding. I found Sweet Cakes by Melissa online, set up an appointment, and the three of us—my mom, Laurel and I—went to a cake-tasting and eventually purchased a cake from them. It was beautiful, it tasted fabulous. It was the most impressive thing about my mom’s wedding. Rachel and Laurel say Melissa Klein knew they were a lesbian couple, but nonetheless invited them back to her bakery. LAUREL: Actually [Melissa Klein] said, “Have you thought about getting married?” and Rachel said, “Oh no, I’m never getting married.” And we just made the joke about it, and she said, “Well, if you decide to, come back.” And that was the last thing we really said about it. (Melissa Klein, through her attorney, disputes the claim that she invited Rachel and Laurel back as customers for their own wedding: “There was never any discussion of my designing a cake for Rachel and Laurel’s future wedding. I simply did not say what they claim I said.”) A close friend of Laurel’s died in 2011, leaving two small children, both of whom have special needs. That fall, Rachel and Laurel became the children’s foster parents and soon decided to adopt them. The decision prompted Rachel in 2012 to reconsider her view on marriage. RACHEL: I never wanted to have children, but when the children were placed with us, we had the option to help these kids that I already loved so much. And they needed us so much, and they’d been through so much, I felt like they needed the stability of knowing that we were committed both to each other and to them. Laurel had repeatedly asked me, it was sort of like a joke every year. She would go, “Oh, we’re going to get married this year?” I came home from work one night, and Laurel was in bed, and I just kind of got in the bed and I said, “Hey,
CONT. I think we need to do that thing that you’ve been talking about.” She jumps up out of the bed and starts jumping around the room. She’s so excited, and she’s like, “We’re going to Mount St. Helens! I’m so excited!” And I was like, “No, that was not exactly the thing we talked about.” LAUREL: I thought we were going to go see the volcano. RACHEL: When I came out to my mom, she mourned for a long time that she would never be able to plan a wedding with me, see me get married and have kids. So it was very bonding for us to plan our wedding together, and we really bonded over that cake. So when Laurel and I told my mother we were going to get married, the first thing we all said was, “I know where we’re going for the cake.” Same-sex marriage was illegal in Oregon at the time—the ban wasn’t struck down until May 19, 2014. Rachel and Laurel instead chose a civil commitment ceremony. LAUREL: Rachel and her mother went to a bridal expo and had run into Melissa. RACHEL: When we saw her at the bridal expo, I already knew that I was going to go to her for our cake. So I just walked up to her: “Hey, do you remember? You made my mother’s wedding cake. I know we talked about how we would never get married, but Laurel and I finally decided that we’re going to get married, and we don’t want anybody else to make our cake except you.” Melissa didn’t seem put off by it at all. LAUREL: They came home just so happy. I’ve never seen Rachel and her mom that exuberant. Rachel and Laurel made an appointment to meet with Melissa Klein for a tasting at Sweet Cakes by Melissa on Jan. 17, 2013. (Klein says she saw Rachel and her mother at the bridal show but did not remember them.) Laurel couldn’t go to the cake-tasting appointment, so Rachel and her mother went.
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“Are you kidding?” I really thought he was joking with me, like just trying to give me a jab or something, and he was like, “No, we don’t do same-sex weddings.” And I just sat there kind of stunned. My mom immediately stood up and grabbed her purse and started kind of going at him with, “Why didn’t you tell us this before?” And, “If you had told us this before we bought our cake from you previously, we would have never purchased from you.” She just kind of looked at me and said: “Get up, Rachel, let’s go. We will find someone who will make you a cake.” And we got up and walked out. I was crying already. I was just in tears as I’m just sitting there stunned. I was just humiliated that this happened in front of my mom, whom I spent all these years trying to convince that we deserved equal accommodation, and we deserve rights, and we deserve to be able to get married. I was crying and she was trying to console me and say, “Don’t worry, we will find somebody that will make you a beautiful cake.” We pulled out of the parking lot, and we got to the light, and as we’re sitting there, she looks over at me and she’s like: “I can’t do it, Rachel. I have to go back.” My mom went back inside and she told him, “You know I used to believe just like you believe, but then God blessed me with not one but two gay children and it changed my truth.” He supposedly quoted Leviticus to her, and in her mind what she heard from that was, “My children are an abomination.” My mom being the God-fearing Southern Baptist Christian that she is, it was a very hurtful and hateful thing to hear someone say about your children. The passage Aaron Klein quoted was Leviticus 18:22: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
LAUREL: They got home and Rachel immediately went up the stairs, and I could tell something was wrong. Rachel was just in a ball crying, and her mom told me what happened. I just got angry. I RACHEL: We get there and see Mr. Klein behind decided I was going to write a review. I was going the counter. We had never met him before and to warn other gay people: “Don’t go to this estabnever had any interaction with lishment.” So I pulled out my him. We were a little put off little phone with this tiny little that it was him and not her, just screen and I typed in something because we had such a rapport to Google. I thought I was leavwith Melissa. ing a comment for the Better The first thing he says is, “To Business Bureau, and I didn’t get started, we need to get the think much of it. It turned out bride and groom’s name.” And I to be an Oregon Department of just kind of giggled a little, and Justice complaint. I didn’t know I think maybe she didn’t tell you could do something like that him and he didn’t know. I was on a phone. I just thought it was like, “Oh, it’s two brides.” And a comment. he put his clipboard down and RACHEL: I didn’t even know he just said, “Well, I’m sorry, about that happening. but we don’t do same-sex wedLAUREL: I didn’t tell her. I dings here.” thought I was just leaving a —Aaron Klein I kind of laughed and said, comment.
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FROSTED: Aaron and Melissa Klein (far left) told the Family Research Council Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., in September 2014 they closed their bakery after they faced boycotts following Aaron Klein’s refusal to serve Rachel Cryer. “[My wife] has a God-given talent to create a work of art to celebrate a union between two people,” Klein said. “And to use that in a manner, that would be in the face of what the Bible says it should be, I just couldn’t in good conscience agree to do it.”
Laurel’s filing went to the state DOJ’s office that handles consumer complaints. On Jan. 28, 2013, the DOJ forwarded a copy of the complaint to the Kleins. RACHEL: We didn’t know anything about the complaint until I received a phone call at home from Lars Larson, and he was calling me to see if I had any comment. He had Mr. Klein on his radio show. LAUREL: I don’t know how he got our phone numbers. RACHEL: He said, “I had Mr. Klein on the show today and wanted to know if you had any comment about your complaint against them?” And I was immediately dumbfounded. I was like, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” LAUREL: When Lars Larson called, I said, “I think we need a lawyer.” We called the Oregon [State] Bar looking for help. Aaron Klein had posted a copy of Laurel’s complaint on his Facebook page. The complaint included Rachel and Laurel’s home address and phone number. Rachel and Laurel received hundreds of angry and threatening messages in response to Klein’s post, including death threats. Klein later testified he was unaware that the women’s personal information was on the complaint when he posted it. The BOLI decision found his denial was not credible. LAUREL: Our neighbors had dropped off notes on our doorstep saying they don’t agree with what we are doing to this good, decent Christian family. RACHEL: You couldn’t possibly feel less safe in that situation. LAUREL: Your own neighbors are against you, and they’ve known you for years. RACHEL: At the same time, I find out from people on the Internet sending me messages that our address and phone number were published on Mr. Klein’s —Laurel Facebook page. LAUREL: Even our Bowman-Cryer email addresses— everything. RACHEL: And to know that there’s this other element that somebody actually wanted to kill us. They didn’t know where to find us, but when he put our information out there, suddenly this person knew how to find us.
“We had the FBI at our house at one point.”
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UNFRIENDED Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer received hundreds of letters, calls and emails that attacked them after Sweet Cakes by Melissa co-owner Aaron Klein put their address and phone number on his Facebook page. Here’s a small sampling of the comments they received on their Facebook accounts. AMY WOLFE and ALLIE DONAHUE.
Roger Leckington March 7
So are you the fuzz bumpers that out the bakery out of business ... good for you. I can’t stand people with morals , I would rather my children an grandchildren grow up knowing that perverts should be in charge , an that believing in God Almighty is something that should not be aloud , and fudge packers an fuzz bumpers should rule the sick nation we one live in .. my hope for you both is that your heads draw up in your assets an you take to drizzlings SHITS.
Leckington, who lives in Eugene, tells WW he has second thoughts now about the comment. “I was a little distraught,” he says. “It’s something I rather regret.”
Salvador, from Pittsburgh, didn’t respond to WW’s requests for comment.
Christina Logan Salvador July 5
I hope your wedding cake tasted like shit you Dyke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Asked about her comment, Gibson, who lives in Wytheville, Va., tells WW in part: “People living according to their desires and sinful nature and in their rebellion to God say this: ‘I can’t help myself, I was born this way.’ The truth is: Yes, you were! The Scripture says that we are conceived in sin and born in sin, natural enemies to God, but through his mercy and the giving of His Son, Jesus Christ, He paid our sin debt in full by taking on the full wrath of God upon Himself to save those whom God call to salvation.” To WW, Gibson then added as a PS: “Additionally, please convey my sincere apologies for previously typing in all caps.”
Anita McGlothlin Gibson July 3
YOU AND YOUR LESBIAN FRIEND SHOULD STOP YOUR ANTICS AND LEAVE THE KLEINS ALONE!!! YOU ARE SELF-CONDEMNED TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY. DO NOT DECEIVE YOURSELVES...GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED. YOU ARE ONLY BEHAVING AND LIVING ACCORDING TO YOUR NATURAL SINFUL DESIRES. YOU ARE NOT GODLY BECAUSE YOU ARE IN TOTAL AND COMPLETE REBELLION AGAINST GOD. I WILL PRAY FOR YOU.
Ralph Landi March 7
You and your girlfriend are just like every other libotard Democrat retard in the country. Bullies. Just like it is your right to be married it is a Christian’s right to follow their faith so f*** you about being mentally raped. don’t worry about it sweetheart cause you’re going to get yours
Landi lists himself as a chef from Bluffton, S.C. Asked by WW for a comment, Landi responded: “Go fuck yourself.”
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TAKING UP THE FIGHT: Rachel Bowman-Cryer (second from right) says she and Laurel finally decided to challenge the Kleins’ actions to “show our children that you’re going to face a lot of adversity in life, but you have to stand up for yourself and you have to stand up for what you believe in. Our kids are going to face a lot of pushback because they have disabilities. I wouldn’t want anybody to deny my child anything because they have a disability. In the same way that I wouldn’t allow someone to deny me.”
It took nearly two years of BOLI hearings, testimony and deliberations before the state issued its final order against the Kleins.
“For us, the marriage and the wedding in particular was about bringing together our families—being able to bring together these four families to commit to raising these kids, the children, together as one family.” —Rachel Bowman-Cryer
LAUREL: We had the FBI at our house at one point. Rachel and Laurel left their home with the children to stay with Rachel’s mother in Washington. They feared the publicity about their case would hurt their efforts to adopt their foster children. LAUREL: We just thought: “Let’s lay low. We’re going to protect our daughters, and eventually this is going to blow over. It’s gotta blow over.” RACHEL: But it didn’t blow over. They just kept talking about it. LAUREL: The detractors, the Kleins’ supporters, the Kleins themselves—they kept saying that we were going to sue them, that we were targeting them. We are sitting at home going, “We haven’t done anything to you, just leave us alone.”
After a few weeks, the state DOJ dropped the consumer complaint. The couple held their commitment ceremony in June 2013, and the state soon affirmed their right to adopt the children. On Aug. 8, 2013, after Aaron Klein denied them service, Rachel filed a formal complaint with the BOLI. RACHEL: We talked about it. We went back and forth. We talked to our family and our friends. We just ultimately came to the decision that it wasn’t just going to go away and that we needed to… LAUREL: Defend ourselves and stop being bullied. RACHEL: And show our children that you’re going to face a lot of adversity in life, but you have to stand up for yourself and you have to stand up for what you believe in. It is our desire that nobody in Oregon ever has to go through what we went through. LAUREL: Or the country.
RACHEL: We didn’t have a choice in how this was prosecuted. We didn’t have a choice in the fine. If we had been given the option, we probably would have said: “Just apologize. Just say you’re sorry and go away.” LAUREL: Why would they not tell us in one of the emails, before ever allowing us to come into the shop and be humiliated like that? RACHEL: That was initially the thing we were kind of taken aback by: “You had opportunities to tell us. Why not?” LAUREL: People don’t realize that we never wanted this to happen—that we’re not asking for anything. We’ve never asked for a penny from anybody. The Kleins have been out there begging for money to pay the fine. And they still continue to ask for money, and say that they’re not going to pay the fine because they don’t want the money to go to us. RACHEL: The money doesn’t have anything to do with anything as far as we’re concerned. People might feel more sympathy for us if somebody hit me rather than just denying me a cake. But the hurt, whether it’s physical or emotional, is the same. We are treated like second-class citizens. That’s whether you want to deny me something or walk up and hit me just because I was born gay. People say, “Oh, it’s just a cake, it’s just a wedding.” That’s the part that they’re not seeing, that this was not just a wedding to us. It was more than that. For us, the marriage and the wedding in particular was about bringing together our families—being able to bring together these families, to commit to raising these kids, the children, together as one family. Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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SCOOP A SHUT-AND-OPEN CASE: Kurt Huffman’s 99-tap, all-Oregon, notippin’, $15-minimumwage-payin’ beer bar Loyal Legion (705 SE 6th Ave.) closed down July 14, after only four official days in business. The initial word was LOYAL LEGION that the bar’s liquor license had been held up by a negative recommendation from the city—triggered by high crime near the bar—which meant it would need to wait six weeks for a hearing before the Oregon Liquor Control Commission board. But on Friday, July 17, Loyal Legion was back open. The OLCC board’s policies had apparently changed in February to allow staffers to grant a liquor license immediately without a full hearing. “Over the years, it’s relaxed little by little,” says OLCC spokeswoman Christie Scott. “This board is business-friendly.” UNEASY LIKE SUNDAY: Rontoms Sunday Sessions is undergoing a “change in direction,” according to bar owner Ron Toms. Beginning in October, Theo Craig, who has booked the popular weekly local-music showcase since 2012, will be replaced by the venue’s sound engineer, Boone Howard. Craig says the move caught him off guard. “It would be an understatement to say I’m disappointed,” he says, “and an overstatement to say I’m crushed.” The night will still be free, and still take place every Sunday. But Toms says he’s hoping occasionally to bring in bigger-name national touring acts. “Theo is fantastic at recognizing talent and bands, and he made [Sunday Sessions] a launching pad,” Toms says. “We still want it to remain that. But we want some feathers in the cap as well.” THE LONGEST BAR: Ankeny Alley, look out. Patrons at Northeast Glisan THE OCEAN Street’s The Ocean and the new Zipper development on Sandy Boulevard may soon roam freely among the various small restaurants with alcohol in hand—landlord Guerrilla Development has filed for liquor licenses covering both complexes. “We’ve done that before,” says the OLCC’s Christie Scott of the shared liquor license. “A business down in Southern Oregon had a similar plan. It’s not impossible to do, but the challenge is to make sure you have really good alcohol monitors.” WINNING: Willamette Week won seven prizes at the 2015 AltWeekly Awards in competition with 71 newspapers across the country. Rebecca Jacobson placed first in the arts feature category for her story “80 Million Paige Views,” about YouTube star Paige McKenzie of The Haunting of Sunshine Girl. WW’s culture staff won best special section for our 2014 Summer Guide, which featured local swimming holes and lots of ribs. Other prizes: second place in beat reporting for articles on the sharing economy by Aaron Mesh; second place in feature story for “The Hole Story,” by Pete Cottell, about Voodoo Doughnut; second place in music criticism for Matthew Singer; second place in photos for James Rexroad in “Stoked & Broke”; and honorable mention in public service reporting for Nigel Jaquiss’ “First Lady Inc.” about Cylvia Hayes, former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s fiancee.
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WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
WEDNESDAY JULY 22 OREGON BREWERS FESTIVAL [BEER] The biggest outdoor craftbeer fest in North America returns with an estimated 80,000 attendees, 90 beers on tap from across the country, plus 15 beers from New Zealand and the Netherlands. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway and Harrison Street, oregonbrewfest.com. Noon-9 pm. Through July 26. $7 for a cup, $1 for each token.
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THURSDAY JULY 23
Real Shave Ice
How is shave ice different from a regular snow cone? It’s shaved—like latter-day Howie Mandel. Hawaiians carve their ice straight off the block, rather than crunch it up in a machine. The shave ice at Ohana (6320 NE Sandy Blvd., 335-5800, ohanahawaiiancafe.com) proves why this matters. It’s light and fluffy and mixes perfectly with, say, grape and watermelon syrup.
Luau
Every spring, Portland State’s Pacific Islanders Club puts on an epic luau celebrating the Polynesian islands of Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga, with a traditional dinner, a dance performance and about a thousand drunken revelers.
Tiki
Tiki is less Polynesian than Polynesian-obsessed. If you can’t actually make it to an island, Hale Pele (2733 NE Broadway, 662-8454, halepele.com) is the next best thing, with an indoor creek, fake thunderstorms, carved tiki gods and bric-a-brac that looks like it was gathered in the wake of a tsunami, not to mention some of the best cocktails in town.
Island Beats
The all-Tongan music group 3RP’s name stands for the three R’s—rap, reggae and R&B—combined with Polynesian beats into a new genre they call “urban island,” which plays the occasional club but sounds more than anything like a beach bonfire.
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PDX POP NOW [LOCAL CUTS] Twelve years in, the all-ages, all-Portland music festival is an automatic pick, but this year’s lineup is especially diverse, ranging from the wigged-out rap of the Last Artful Dodgr to the acid-pop of Nurses to the ’80s-gazing funk of newly christened supergroup Chanti Darling. AudioCinema, 226 SE Madison St., pdxpopnow.com. 6 pm. Free. All ages. Through July 26.
Portland tattoo artist Billy Vea (593-0266, billyvea@yahoo.com)— two-time winner of his home island’s Samoan Tattoo Festival— makes intricate black Maori, Hawaiian, Samoan and Tongan designs.
Plate Lunches
Somewhere between a Southern meat-and-three and Japanese bento, the plate lunch is Hawaii’s fattening answer to basically everything: meat, rice and mac salad. L&L (4328 SE 82nd Ave., Suite 1500, 200-5599, hawaiianbarbecue.com), pretty much the In-N-Out of Hawaii—has no frills, but for some, it’s the taste of home. For a delicious kalua pork plate lunch—not to mention a poke of the day and some authentic P.O.G. juice—try Ate-Oh-Ate (2454 E Burnside St., 445-6101, ate-oh-ate.com). For another spin on the Hawaii area code, 808 Grinds (10100 SW Park Way, 713-8008, 808grinds.com) serves up tasty garlic furikake fries, kalbi ribs and its trademark fried chicken. Another option is to create an excuse for a party (King Kamehameha Day?) and get it catered by Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe (2525 SE Clinton St., 233-5301; 4627 NE Fremont St., 445-6646; nohos.com).
Every Football Victory in Oregon That Matters Just about everything good that Oregon does in football owes something to our colleges’ long relationship with the Pacific islands. The Ducks’ two national championship berths? Thank Marcus Mariota, the quarterback of Samoan descent who became the first Oregon player born in Hawaii to win the Heisman Trophy. As for the 59-year “streak” by McMinnville’s Linfield College—the longest run of winning seasons in college football history—know this: Through many of those years, Linfield had as many as 24 Hawaiian players on its team at once, with six islander recruits in last year’s class alone. Thanks to Pacific Islander artist Robin Fifita for her help compiling this list.
SUNDAY JULY 26
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John Donne said no man is an island, while Simon & Garfunkel said they were. But weren’t they all missing the point? Islands might be OK metaphors, sure, but they are much better as actual things. Take, for example, the islands of the Pacific, lovely dots of land in the ocean that you aren’t rich enough to visit. Vancouver will be hosting a three-day Hawaiian festival this weekend—with craft workshops, hula competitions and themed runs—but if you’re hungry for more island culture, here’s where to find it in town. LIZZY ACKER.
DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG [THEATER] Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris’ online superhero musical crashed drhorrible.com with too many views. Even without Harris, there’s plenty of panache when wannabe superhero Billy sings and dances his way into the Evil League of Evil and woos his laundromat crush. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm. $16-$20.
LENTS STREET FAIR [BLOCK PARTY] Lentils and the relocated Belmont goats celebrate their neighborhood’s fresh start with a parade, chicken beauty contest, and family fun east of 82nd Avenue. Southeast 91st Avenue from Foster Road to Reedway Street, lentsstreetfair.com. Noon-5 pm (parade at 11:15 am). Free. THE BIG FLOAT V [GET WET] Mayor Charlie Hales leads an inner-tube parade to kick off the 2,500-person Willamette River float, this year boasting two 75-foot water slides, three bands on a barge and free chair massages. Launch is under the Marquam Bridge, but as usual, the party’s at Hawthorne. Tom McCall Bowl beach under the Hawthorne Bridge, thebigfloat.com. 12:30 pm. Free. CHARLI XCX [PERFECT POP] Pop stars should be obnoxious, coordinate their zebraprint outfits with their backing band, have little shame and write crazy catchy songs. By those qualifications, Charli XCX does everything right, with enviable stamina and charisma. She co-headlines with Bleachers, the admirably earnest side project of Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 6:30 pm. $35 advance, $38 day of show. All ages.
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Doug Adams is inviting Top Chef: Boston winner Mei Lin to cook alongside him at Imperial in a fourcourse meal, including the congee Mei Lin cooked to win the competition. Imperial, 410 SW Broadway, 228-7222. 6:30 pm. $150 including drink pairings and tip.
Oregon Brewers Festival
This is the biggest outdoor craftbeer fest in North America. Which is to say, it’s kind of a shitshow, with an estimated 80,000 people, but it’ll also have 90 beers on tap from all over the country, and 15 from New Zealand and the Netherlands. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway and Harrison Street, www.shandongportland.com oregonbrewfest.com. Noon-9 pm Wednesday-Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday, July 22-26. $7 for a cup, $1 for each token.
Shandong SATURDAY, JULY 25
Shandong www.shandongportland.com
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Thali Supper Club
Chef Leena Ezekiel continues her pop-up trek through Indian cuisines almost never seen in Portland, with a many-course tour of the foods of Maharashtra, including much pungent tamarind and a kolhapuri tambda rassa made with mustard and goat. Call 754-6456 or email thalisupperclub@gmail.com for reservations. Din Din Supper Club, 920 NE Glisan St. 7 pm. $70. BYOB.
SUNDAY, JULY 26 Crawfish Boil
In Interurban’s classy backyard, they’ll be fillin’ pots with mud bugs, plus throwing extra fuel on the fire with a Breakside brewing takeover. The crawfish will also sidle up against oysters on the half shell, blackened catfish po’ boys and bourbon-pecan moon pies. Interurban, 4057 N Mississippi Ave., 284-6669. 3-9 pm.
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1. The Gantry food-cart pod 3121 SW Moody Ave. Holy crap. Good, affordable food in the South Waterfront. Get Neue Southern and Ash Wood Fired Pizza, and drink in the nearby gravel lot at Scout. $. 2. Lil’ Wares 537 NE Fremont St., 971-229-0995, smallwarespdx.com/lil. Lil’ Wares’ signature item is a possibly perfect thing, a General Tso chicken sandwich that’s essentially a Chinese po’boy. $-$$. 3. Renata 626 SE Main St., 954-2708, renatapdx.com. The menu changes, but here’s a guide: Stick to cocktails, appetizers, salads and especially pasta. $$$-$$$$. 4. Kung Pow 500 NW 21st Ave., 208-2173, kungpowpdx.com. Get the spicy lamb bao bing mu shu wrap with every meal, then augment with fish balls and anything spicy. $-$$. 5. Conquistador Lounge 2045 SE Belmont St., 232-3227. Home to some of the finest bar food in town, Conquistador has quietly added Sunday brunch to the repertoire until 2 pm. $-$$.
BYTE BITES: Various “advanced” doughnuts.
DONUT BYTE LABS We have met our new mini-doughnut robot overlord, and its name is Donut Byte Labs. Look, I love me some Pip’s robot-made mini-doughnuts straight off the boiler—luscious cake rings still hot from the cooking, preferably drizzled with sea salt and honey, served up by perfectly charming people who seem to like good music. But the mini-doughnut has always had an inherent weakness: The urge to serve the doughnuts piping hot limits the flavor possibilities, even though many don’t eat the doughnuts till they arrive at their office, school or sticky-fingered front car seat. I visit Pip’s like I do a taffy maker at the coast, reveling in the freshness. Donut Byte Labs has given that notion a giant middle fi nger. In a gritty 4th-and-Burnside Order this: The $6 basic assorted parking lot that seems to dozen. swallow food-cart businesses Best deal: The $2.50 plain-doughnut like hungry Cthulhu, Byte dozen or $4 powdered dozen. Labs is taking the mini cake doughnut and turning it into some seriously next-level shit by adding a single ingredient: time. Byte Labs’ little cart offers complicated arrays of doughnut fi llings and toppings in tiny tastes—layered chocolate creams made fresh in the cart, milk and honey or peanut-butter cup flavors, goat-cheese doughnuts and cotton-candy experiments. Each is a three-bite adventure. But it isn’t merely a novelty act. Case in point: the maple bacon. As a doughnut, this was never so much a good doughnut idea as it was a can’t-lose gimmick. But Donut Byte tops the maple frosting and hickory-smoked bacon crumbles with…actual maple syrup. This is a promise finally redeemed. It is heaven. The sea salt and caramel flavor, likewise, is sticky with actual caramel layered across the top of the doughnut, and crunchy with salt flakes big as a baby’s fingernail. But the best flavor, by far, is a creme brulee that actually mirrors that dessert’s texture, ever so slightly torched on top so you can feel the satisfying crack of the caramelized surface beneath your teeth. While the creme brulee at Blue Star is a custard filling (with charming Cointreau injection, sure), here it is like receiving a teaspoon of the actual dessert— texture included—atop a little fried cake. But note that the time it takes to make those dozens means you’re much better off ordering ahead than showing up and asking for one, which may take 10 to 15 minutes—the cart can’t keep overstock, like your average doughnut shop. But for a $6 basic mixed assortment—from plain to many-layered to whimsical test doughnuts—or a $10 “advanced” dozen that includes only the goof ball monstrosities, it is well worth the wait. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Donut Byte Labs, 12 SW 4th Ave., 801-7321, donutbytelabs.com. 8 am-1 pm Thursday, 8 am-1 am Friday, 10 am-1 am Saturday, 11 am-6 pm Sunday.
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TERMINALLY INTOXICATED A BAR CRAWL OF PDX AIRPORT PUBS. If you’re flying into Salt Lake City, get a drink first. It’s tough to get a decent cocktail given the tyrannical pouring contraptions affixed to every bottle of liquor in Utah, where, by law, no draft beer may top 4 percent ABV. And Portland International Airport can take you to places even more hostile to drinkers: South Carolina, where every bottle of booze in the state is sized for a hotel mini-bar, or Boston, where happy hour is banned by law. Since Henry’s just opened an offshoot inside the airport, and with a third of our editorial staff flying to the Mormon Holy Land for a conference last week, we decided to bar crawl around the terminal. We focused on eight that have space to sit and sip while your phone charges. It was good times. And thanks to PDX’s stringent price controls, it cost exactly as much as it would on the streets of Portland—which is much, much cheaper than Utah. MARTIN CIZMAR and LIZZY ACKER.
sTAnford’s Oregon Market, before the TSA security checkpoint on the side of concourses A, B and C, 493-4056, stanfords.com. Stanford’s is a dimly lit, classed-up, airport bar experience for those who may want to get a little tipsy before wading into the security line. The bartender recommended a Raspberry Lemon Drop—with Absolut Citron, fresh lemon, raspberry liqueur and a citrus-sugared rim—that reminded me why they were once my go-to cocktail when someone else was buying. Sweet, but not too sweet, and mixed professionally (my other airport cocktails were sort of thrown together from alreadymade ingredients). This is where Don Draper would get tastefully hammered before fucking a stewardess. LAureLwood Concourse A, between gates A3 and A4, 493-9427; Concourse E, between gates E2 and E3, 281-6753, laurelwoodbrewpub.com. Laurelwood’s Concourse A pub services enough commuter flights to have regulars. It’s basically a miniaturized version of the family-friendly local spots—minus their absurdly generous happy hours. The staff is friendly and the Workhorse IPA is fresh and available in a growler for $15. Unfortunately, the Laurelwood at Concourse A closes
daily at 9:30 pm. For those with a later flight, Laurelwood has a Concourse E location that is open until midnight (11:30 pm Saturdays).
There also is a full bar and tons of outlets so you can get properly sloshed and charged, respectively, while waiting for your flight.
sAndoVAL’s TequiLA GriLL Concourse C, between gates C16 and C18, 280-7707, sandovalspdx.com. If you want family-style Mexican food inside the airport, any of 325 tequilas or a margarita served in a triangular trough of a glass, you come here. Or if you want Widmer beers—it has five on tap next to Negro Modelo, Pacifico and Bud Light. The $8 salt-rimmed marg was a little watery (not Utah watery!) but they’ll do a double for $3 more.
THe CounTry CAT North lobby right after the TSA checkpoint, 314-0727, thecountrycat.net. In PDX’s airy dome lobby, the Country Cat is the classy post-security place to bring your in-laws, even if what you really want is Burgerville. It’s also a place to get actual healthy, fresh food to eat while you drink a glass of wine or an original cocktail like the Rose City Punch, which contains rhubarb bitters, kombucha and a mysterious bourbon punch. It may be a little too sweet with not quite enough whiskey but it pairs well with kale and spinach salad with feta, apples, dried cherries and candied walnuts and leaves you sober enough that you won’t make a fool of yourself by yelling out fake bomb threats.
CApers CAfe Across from the TSA checkpoint between concourses B and C, 280-1010, caperscafe.com. PDX will be swamped with pinotphiles this weekend as the International Pinot Noir Celebration hits Newberg. Look for them at Capers Cafe et Le Bar, essentially a couple of stools set up in front of a bottle rack where its business-casual customers can get 50 wines by the glass, including a sweet Amity Crannell ($12) with lots of sugary cherry. But compare bottle and glass prices: “I told them if they were having three glasses between them it’s much cheaper to get the bottle,” said one server. “Don’t ever tell them that,” said another. roGue ALes pubLiC House Concourse D, between gates D5 and D7, 282-2630, rogue.com. Rogue is the place to go for beers you won’t drink yourself. Rachel Ray loved her gift Voodoo Doughnut bottle on TV, and your father-in-law will love beer made with beard yeast. The exclusive PDX Carpet Ale is actually the Brutal Bitter labeled with the classic airport carpet pattern.
beACHes Oregon Market, before the TSA security checkpoint on the side of concourses D and E, 335-8385, beachesrestaurantandbar.com. Beaches is an old-timey Tiki bar with no real desire for subtlety. The cocktail options almost all include rum, though they do have a full bar, and fruity-juicy things. I ordered the Maui Punch, with vodka, triple sec, blood orange purée, mango purée and cranberry juice. Unsurprisingly, it is super sweet and tastes like Hi-C, so maybe that makes it authentic? It comes in a glass with an angry Tiki face that when filled with bright, red punch looks sorta like Kool-Aid Man. Unless you are on your way to Disneyland and/or enjoy headaches, you should probably steer clear of this place. w w s ta f f
Henry’s TAVern Concourse C, between gates C11 and C13, 924-7909, henrystavern.com. Henry Weinhard’s beer isn’t brewed in Portland anymore— SABMiller, which owns the 160-year-old beer label, won’t disclose where it’s made these days—and yet, thanks to Henry’s pub, a symbolic piece of the local legend lives on as an embassy for Beervana. It’s brought the weathered red brick and the ice rail to PDX—not that you’d necessarily want to chill craft ales by using strip of ice as a coaster—with a few Oregon handles little-seen in Portland, like Sunriver Brewing’s Vicious Mosquito IPA. It does taster trays, with growler fills planned for the near future. Bar manager Jake Shafer is also a big advocate of blending beers, giving us a taster tray including a “Snickers” made with Rogue’s hazelnut and chocolate brews—the tastiest Rogue product I’ve had in some time. Grab some waffle fries topped with a double shot of Gorgonzola (crumbles and a creamy, brown Gorgonzola gravy) and settle in. You’ll have company: The airport Henry’s rivaled the main bar in sales over the first month, including an opening week during which they crushed 50 kegs and an opening day when they went through 14 gallons of bloody mary mix. In terms of atmosphere, price and selection, our airport Henry’s Tavern is literally better than any beer bar in Utah.
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CLASS CLOWNS: White Glove
Not so much the hammy, starved-for-attention kind of clowns, the members of White Glove are more like the sarcastic kids in the back of the class with their feet up on the desk, aiming hummable, ultra lo-fi spitballs at the poseurs, trust-fund brats and, most memorably, the city of Portland itself. On “Division Street,” the band laments the condos and fancy restaurants replacing the neighborhood’s meth houses and weed dealers, and plead for the survival of the Oregon Theater. Sometimes, jokesters are the ultimate truth-tellers. 4:50 pm Saturday.
MOST LIKELY TO GET CAUGHT SMOKING A DOOB IN THE BATHROOM: Holy Grove
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Rapper Myke Bogan lit up PDX Pop Now’s first-ever onstage joint last year, but it wouldn’t be surprising if a blanket of pungent haze settled over the audience the moment Holy Grove rips into its first song. Playing faithfully sludgy stoner rock—highlighted by the bluesy bellowing of singer Andrea Vidal—the band sounds like how the interior of a ’70s conversion van smells. Who needs a fog machine when you’ve got riffs this smoky? 10:50 pm Saturday.
BIG MEN ON CAMPUS: Cool Nutz and Mic Crenshaw
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BEST HAIR: Coco Columbia
Even when posing in pasties, the first thing you notice about Coco Columbia is the eruption of light-pink waves flowing from her head. (She looks a bit like Daryl Hannah in Splash, which, given the mermaid theme of her press shots, probably isn’t a coincidence.) It gives her a vaguely mystical appearance, as if she just walked out of the forest or rose up from the bottom of a lake, and the look fits the music—a starry mix of jazz, soul, hip-hop and pop that’s familiar but at the same time of another world entirely. 9:30 pm Sunday.
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THE 2015 PDX POP NOW! YEARBOOK A LOOK AT EIGHT OF THE SUPERLATIVE ACTS PLAYING THE ANNUAL LOCAL MUSIC FESTIVAL. BY M AT T H E W SI N G E R
Every young rapper in the city owes a debt of gratitude to Cool Nutz and Mic Crenshaw. Doing hip-hop in Portland is not easy, and these dudes have stuck it out since the ’90s, fighting the battles that have allowed the culture to gain ground. But neither MC has simply retired into the cozy life of cultural ambassadorship. Both are still making music, much of it as vital as that from back in the day. Give up your lunch money in tribute. Or, at least, pencil their sets into your schedule, and throw them hands up. Cool Nutz plays 12:10 am Sunday. Mic Crenshaw plays 8:50 pm Sunday.
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: The Last Artful Dodgr
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VALEDICTORIAN: Vinnie Dewayne
They don’t call him the St. Johns Scholar for nothing. His rhymes aren’t brainy in the Wu Tang-y, thesaurus-exploding sense, but his gift for raw, honest storytelling puts the 24-year-old at the head of his class. Last year, Dewayne was the festival’s most valuable guest star, popping up in every hip-hop set and damn near swiping the show out from under the main performer each time. With his longawaited The St. Johns Scholar mixtape finally on the verge of dropping, he now has the podium all to himself. Expect him to make the most of it. 11:20 pm Friday.
Though singer Josh McCaslin wrote much of Roselit Bone’s debut album while living in the isolated woods outside Coos Bay, the imagery on Blacken & Curl is the stuff of a dystopian Western: dust blankets the landscape, the ravens are the size of dogs, and death comes slow and hot. The music, played by a 10-piece band augmented by trumpets, flute and pedal steel, enhances the dry, desiccated feeling, blending the cinematic sweep of Ennio Morricone with the twang of classic country and a sense of creeping malice that would make Nick Cave giddy. Bring water. You’re going to feel parched. 7:20 pm Friday.
BEST POWER COUPLE: Chanti Darling
As if they didn’t have enough going on individually—he fronts the ecstatic soul-punk outfit Magic Mouth, she’s prepping another album of futuristic electro-R&B—Chanticleer Tru and Natasha Kmeto decided to team up and kill the game even further. In Chanti Darling, Tru lays his gospel-fired pipes over Kmeto’s bubbling synth production, kicking out smooth, moonlit dance jams every bit as undeniable as the music they make separately. There’s never been a better reason to hang out under a bridge past midnight. Midnight Friday.
Or should we say Most Likely to Surprise? In 2013, the Last Artful Dodgr dropped 199NVRLND, a lush, kaleidoscopic mixtape that exists on the same trippy spectrum as Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap; she even rhymes in a similarly pinched, sing-song flow. It was criminally slept on locally. Well, consider this your wake-up call. New music has been slow coming from her, so take the opportunity to catch up and act like you were down from the jump when the next release blows her up for good. 6:10 pm Sunday. SEE IT: PDX Pop Now is at AudioCinema, 226 SE Madison St., on Friday-Sunday, July 24-26. Free. All ages. See pdxpopnow.com for complete schedule. Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 Rickie Lee Jones
[ICON] The problem with hitting it big right out of the gate, as Rickie Lee Jones did with her selftitled jazz-pop debut in 1979, is that no one ever fully accepts that your ambitions are more artistic than commercial. Even when Jones’ albums got conceptual (see the largely airy and minimal 1984 effort, The Magazine), there was always a healthy dose of beatnik-funk hard candy or timestamped ’80s production sprinkled into her collections. That sometimes eclipsed the really adventurous nature of the work Jones was doing, even if her fearlessness as a vocalist has never been in doubt. But those same factors have made her resurgence in the past decade—from the beautifully raw, Rob Schnaps-produced The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard to the star-studded Balm in Gilead—all the more fascinating. Tonight, Jones is supporting her New Orleans-inspired new record, The Other Side of Desire. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $43 advance, $45.50 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Built to Spill, Genders, Honey Bucket [DUDE ROCK] Even after Built to Spill’s breakout in the ’90s, few could have predicted the group’s music would endure for more than two decades. Doug Martsch, indie rock’s wisened guitar sage, has displayed an impressive ability to generate longevity out of his seemingly simple brand of shaggy guitar pop, proof positive that there are few things that will endear you to an audience more than a complete lack of pretension. The band released its eighth album, Untethered Moon, earlier this year, and it served as a welcome reminder: In a rock-’n’-roll landscape increasingly populated by angsty Brooklyn art punks and pseudo-ironic “goofball slackers,” sometimes it’s just nice listening to dudes playing guitars. CASEY HARDMEYER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Thursday, July 22-23. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
THURSDAY, JULY 23 Morrissey
[500 DAYS OF BUMMER] In the U.K., he’s an icon on par with Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger. Here in Portland, he’s the guy Colin Meloy is always aping. Regardless of rep-
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Jamie XX, Mattis [INVENTED NOSTALGIA] In the lead-up to the release of U.K. polite-house producer Jamie XX’s brilliant debut solo record, In Colour, a clear narrative emerged from the banks of samples, sirens and pop moves: Jamie wasn’t there. Although Jamie has an obvious affection for U.K. dance music and rave culture (see the samples on 2014 single “All Under One Roof Raving,” which come from Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, a 1999 art video constructed of footage of ’90s raves), much of the music he invokes on In Colour comes from an era he was too young to actually experience. In Colour isn’t really club music, per se. It’s too mild-mannered and taut, with songs built for headphones that still manage to knock in a tight space. You get moody, introspective blip-pop like “Stranger in a Room” alongside a song like “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” a shot at rap-radio glory featuring Young Thug and dancehall jokester Popcaan that really should be the song of the summer. This is the rare record that could play at both a Holocene dance night or a Nu-Portland restaurant and make everyone in the room happy. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm Saturday, July 25. Sold out. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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Stiff Little Fingers, Rum Rebellion, the Brass
[PUnK LEGEnDS] Stiff Little Fingers is one of the greatest punk bands of all time. As the link between the clash and Green Day, modern punk wouldn’t be the same without it. For that reason, don’t go to this show. As of last year, it has released 10 albums, most of which date from after its breakup in 1982, and has only one member left from the original lineup. It seems fair to say the Belfast band is not what it used to be. Unless you already love it unconditionally, don’t tarnish your respect for it. Instead, just sit at home and blast the band’s ’79 debut, Inflammable Material. that’ll be all you need to appreciate its prime. SHAnnon GoRMLEY. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 233-7100. 7 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Lower Dens, Young Ejecta
[SYntHS, Etc.] Lower Dens bandleader and guitarist Jana Hunter has long fiddled with the poppier side of synth rock, but she’s never quite welcomed it like she does on the Baltimore band’s latest release, Escape From Evil. It’s an album that prides itself more on mood and lyrical ambiguity than anything else, awash with cloudy synthesizers and guitar fit for the Drive soundtrack. It owes part of its brilliance to the delicate touch of producer chris coady—who’s helmed the likes of Beach House and Future Islands—as well as Hunter, whose steely vibrato billows above the minimalism to create a melancholic sound that looks as much to the past as the future. BRAnDon WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Say Anything, Modern Baseball, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hard Girls
[MoPEY MEtA-FIctIon] Max Bemis has been airing his internal grievances for more than a decade under the guise of Say Anything, but it hasn’t been until very recently that he’s come to realize the heavyhanded, one-man rock opera is the most appropriate format to communicate his angst and self-deprecation. on 2014’s Hebrews, Bemis juxtaposes trad-rock orchestration—which he’ll have in tow for this performance—with his trademark navel-gazing to create an emphatic statement of self-flagellation that only he and a few of his closest emo standard bearers—Saves the Day’s chris conley and the Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor, to name two—could pull off with such hopeless abandon and ingratiating sincerity. PEtE cottELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $16.50. All ages.
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utation, Morrissey has managed to gain clout only since the end of the legendary Smiths, the northern England rock band whose shimmery, inventive guitar and witty, acerbic lyrics attracted not just fans but disciples. Who else makes grown, heterosexual men don pompadours and scream like prepubescent girls? Who else draws masses of devotees from Mexican street toughs, pro skateboarders and European football hooligans? Who else can successfully ban meat of any kind from being sold during a performance in Madison Square Garden? Last year’s World Peace Is None of Your Business was solid but not nearly as discussed as the man behind it. If you don’t know, find a depressed, erudite-looking hipster to pester, and don’t mention Robert Smith. cRIS LAnKEnAU. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 669-8610. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s (from left) Ruban Nielson, Jacob Portrait and Riley Geare.
A glance at Riley Geare’s wrist will tell you he hasn’t been home for a few weeks. He was, until recently, on the road, playing drums with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and his forearm is a rainbow of plastic wristbands, collected from the various clubs and festivals the group passed through. In May, the band released Multi-Love, its third and best-received album yet, taking it across the country, up to Canada and over to Europe, and taking the 29-year-old Geare away from his children—that is, the equipment filling his Northeast Portland basement recording space. “I don’t have any desire to buy a car. I don’t need any fancy clothes. I just want more gear,” he says, waxing ecstatic about the compressors and preamps he and his roommate, Radiation City’s Randy Bemrose, have lining the walls of their home studio. “If it wasn’t for this stuff, I’d probably just check out of capitalism entirely.” While UMO on record is entirely the project of singer-guitarist Ruban Nielson, Geare—who, with his long brown hair and chestlength beard, could score the lead role in either a Passion play or a Rob Zombie biopic—was the missing link in the band’s live iteration. After going through two drummers in three years, Geare joined shortly after 2013’s II, and his looseness behind the kit opened up the trio’s distinctively funky psychedelic pop. Between tours, though, Geare lives increasingly in his basement. Though he’s still in the early stages of establishing himself as a producer in Portland, the native of Ketchikan, Alaska, is a longtime studio rat, cutting his teeth as an engineer in L.A., then working a jury-rigged setup out of his father’s instrument shop in St. Johns. About two years ago, after he and Bemrose built out their studio, Geare put an ad on Craiglist, looking for artists to work with, which brought him into contact with songwriter Jackson Boone. “I wasn’t expecting to be impressed in any way,” Geare says. But the record they ended up making together, Starlit, turned out to be a sleeper gem of 2014, due in no small part to the immersive production. It showcased Geare’s ability to conjure a billowing cosmos of sound by layering guitars, vintage synths and strings into a levitating, stargazing brand of psychedelia. It’s a sound he’s also imbued to the upcoming debut EP by singer Cat Hoch, which should be one of the local standouts of this year. According to Geare, though, he is not beholden to any particular approach. He just does what’s best for the material. “I want to take somebody’s songs,” he says, “and see them through to the best I could possibly make them.” Geare has a full slate ahead of him, with projects from Seance Crasher, Bike Thief and Sinless—not to mention, eventually, his own solo album. (He also just completed work on Boone’s second album, Natural Changes, which is slated for release in September.) And there is more touring yet to do with UMO: After its homecoming gig this week, the band—now a four-piece with the addition of keyboardist Quincy McCrary, an acquaintance of Geare’s from their days backing soul singer Mayer Hawthorne— will be gone, with fleeting breaks, through early November. It’s a tiring schedule. But for Geare, it’s worth all the exhaustion. “The response has been good,” he says, “so that far overshadows sleep.” MATTHEW SINGER. drummer riley Geare is uMO’s backbone, but he’s also one of Portland’s rising studio wizards.
SEE IT: Unknown Mortal orchestra plays Aladdin theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., with Vinyl Williams, on thursday, July 23. 9 pm. Sold out. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
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Cool Nutz, Mic Capes, Chris Lee, Champagne James, DJ Fatboy
[#BRUHTHERS] If you’re a rapper in Portland, or just someone who cares about local rap, then you know Cool Nutz, who will forever be known as the Mayor of Portland Hip-Hop. But he isn’t a mere civil servant: His latest disc, #BRUH, is another heater in a discography full of them. He’ll be joined at this homecoming from his recent tour supporting E-40 by Mic Capes, the razor-tongued St. Johns MC, who just dropped a teaser EP for his anticipated full-length, Concrete Dreams. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 9:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Mavis Staples, Patty Griffin, Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers
[SOUL] If you thought Mavis Staples’ late-career comeback—ushered in by a hit song penned and produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy— was a one-shot affair, you were wrong. She has released two fine albums (both of them with Tweedy) in the past five years, has a great label behind her, and just dropped an EP (which is cool in itself—how many septuagenarians even know what an EP is?) produced by Antilabelmate Son Little. That EP, Your Good Fortune, is a past-meetsfuture affair that finds Staples getting spiritual over hip-hop-influenced tracks that also nod to her Staples Singers’ legacy. It is a funky, soulful, eminently cool release—just like Staples herself. CASEY JARMAN. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $35-$70. All ages.
The Ditch and the Delta
[SLUDGECORE] Musicians often get shuffled like a deck of cards until the right hand comes up aces. Case in point: Salt Lake City sludge trio the Ditch and the Delta. Guitarist Elliot Secrist and drummer Charles Bogus have been honing their steel for years in various outfits. Enter bassist-vocalist Kory Quist of Making Fuck and here is a lineup to be reckoned with. Musically, it’s a refreshingly original take on territory that has otherwise been tread into the ground. It’s heavy as hell (a la Neurosis), rhythmically twisted (a la Melvins), and keeps things hooky and melodic without ever going soft (a la Lost Goat). This is a metal band to watch, and here’s your first chance, Portland. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
SUNDAY, JULY 26 Charli XCX, Bleachers, Borns
[PERFECT POP] Pop stars should be obnoxious. They should coordinate their zebra-print outfits with those of their backing band. They should have the kind of rehearsed stage antics that require a backing track, like gyrating around the stage in high heels while pretending to play a giant, blow-up guitar. They should have little shame and very, very catchy songs. By those qualifications, Charli XCX does everything right, and she does it all with enviable stamina and charisma. She’s got two albums (including last year’s masterful Sucker) and multiple collaborative singles in her prolific popmachine catalog. Anyone who pens a transatlantic top-10 single before her 20th birthday deserves respect. Charli co-headlines with Bleachers, the side project of Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff. SHANNON GORMLEY. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 6:30 pm. $35 advance, $38 day of show. All ages.
Wye Oak, Lake
[A CHANGE WILL DO YOU GOOD] Much was made of Baltimore duo Wye Oak’s decision to (mostly) ditch the guitar and focus on fluid basslines and pingponging synths on last year’s wonderful fourth record, Shriek. But despite the varied
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HEEMS WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 Himanshu Suri has stories. Stories that, for years, he never told. His formative years were spent in post-9/11 New York. Xenophobia was high, and for an Indian-American teenager living in a South Asian community, racism was an everyday occurrence. Instead of talking honestly about those experiences, Suri for a long time preferred to joke, crafting tracks with his rap trio, Das Racist, that poked fun at the arbitrary inequalities of American life. “I made a playful song about drones and racism against brown people on a global level,” says Suri, who raps under the moniker Heems, referring to a track from his solo 2012 mixtape, Wild Water Kingdom, “and it was seen as just that: a playful song. It didn’t really raise a conversation.” In the three years since that mixtape, and the breakup of Das Racist, Heems moved from Brooklyn to suburban Long Island. He lives modestly with his parents, siblings and nieces. He’s acting, writing, campaigning for a friend’s city council bid in Queens and lecturing at Ivy League universities. Suri’s life is different now. And so is his music: Eat Pray Thug, his debut studio album, is undoubtedly his most raw, vulnerable work yet, a confessional screed against substance abuse, racism and depression that earned enough attention to land him on NPR and the cover of The Village Voice. Consider the conversation raised. “I’m almost 30,” Suri says, “so for me, now, it’s about giving back.” For four years, Das Racist bent rap boundaries and threw stones at white American ideals in matchless smart-ass fashion. As hip-hop outliers, the trio rapped about their lives through pointed quips and self-deprecating punch lines. Irony was their art. But as Suri got older, he found ironic distance wasn’t keeping the pain away. “For me to progress as an artist, I felt like I had to let people see who I really am without the façade, without the humor,” he says. “I tried to joke about it so it wouldn’t hurt. But, you know, it was still hurting.” Despite its title, Eat Pray Thug is, in essence, a protest album collected from Suri’s experiences as a South Asian, who as a 16-year-old living in Queens watched the twin towers fall in 2001. The song titles almost speak for themselves: “Al Q8a,” “Suicide by Cop,” “Patriot Act.” “We’re going flag shopping for American flags/ They’re staring at our turbans/ They’re calling them rags,” he raps on “Flag Shopping,” a harrowing depiction of life for the South Asian community across America after 9/11. Heems is reaching beyond the beat, too. Last February, he curated an art exhibit at New York’s Aicon Gallery, also titled Eat Pray Thug, largely consisting of South Asian artists. “I get notes from kids in the middle of the country who are growing up South Asian and confused—kids whose parents don’t want them to pursue creative endeavors,” Suri says. He’s dabbling in multiple mediums with the purpose of offering those young, creative kids, whose backgrounds mirror his own, a voice and a face. “There are so few shots that South Asian people get. So the gauge for me isn’t really record sales as much as it is whether my audience felt like they had a voice in pop culture, in Western media.” Does he feel successful so far? “I feel like, yes, that was done.” MATTHEW SCHONFELD. In his old group, irony ruled. Now he’s finally getting real.
SEE IT: Heems plays Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., with Spank Rock, on Wednesday, July 22. 9 pm. $13. All ages.
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TUESDAY, JULY 28 Aerosmith, Living Colour
[ROCK LEGENDS] Aerosmith gets a bad rap these days, and honestly, it kind of asked for it. But no matter how many songs like “Crazy” or “Pink” it’s pumped out in its extremely lucrative later years, the Bad Boys from Boston wrote a staggering number of killer classic cuts in the ’70s. Don’t
believe me? Just listen to “Kings and Queens” off Draw the Line. It doesn’t get FM play, but remains every bit as good as “Dream On.” Aerosmith is the best-selling American rock band of all time and still retains all its original members. Let’s just all try to pretend that Steven Tyler didn’t just announce he’s working on a country album. NATHAN CARSON. Amphitheater Northwest, 17200 NE Delfel Road, 360-816-7000. 8 pm. $35-$250. All ages.
Stooges Brass Band, the Satin Chaps
[HEAVY BRASS] Developing within a New Orleans music scene that ostensibly fashioned its own version of funk and soul music after developing jazz in the early 20th century, Stooges Brass Band swings from genre to genre, despite being tethered to such a specific place. Having issued a scant few albums during its 20-year career, the troupe still found space to include a somewhat augmented version of the O’Jays’ “Family Reunion,” renamed “Stooges Reunion” for 2013’s Street Music. That Stooges Brass Band adheres to a perspective on music that champions inclusiveness further ties the ensem-
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template, the dynamic stayed the same—Jenn Wasner will always have the most gorgeous, smokyrich voice in the world and Andy Stack is still her perfect foil, fleshing out these earthbound songs with interlocking rhythms and keyboard color. Anyone who misses Wasner’s noisy guitar freakouts should listen to Shriek’s “Logic of Color” again. A bouncy, propulsive pop song, it’s the best thing she’s ever written, a permanent set closer that doubles as a showcase for her powerful voice. It’ll be interesting to see what they do next—Wasner is working on a full-length for her solo project, Flock of Dimes—but until then let’s just cherish the opportunity to see one of our best bands hit its stride. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
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The idea of a math-rock outfit having enough cachet to be considered a “supergroup” may be a tad silly to the uninitiated, but it may be time to finally humor your barista with the one-man loopPREVIE W ing project and give Battles a listen. Little understanding of this esoteric curio of a subgenre needs to be in place to enjoy its forthcoming record, La Di Da Di, though some explanation of how a humble trio of dudes from bands you may remember from college (namely Helmet and Don Cabellero) makes such a melodically dense racket with only six hands on deck. Any pedal fetishist can mosey down to Guitar Center, buy a looper and pretend what he’s doing is groundbreaking, but the finesse with which Battles builds layers upon layers of glitched-out ear candy is truly a sight to see in person. While guitarist Ian Williams was a bit cagey about what makes their tightly woven hive-mind tick (spoiler alert: it’s not a click track), he was more than happy to tell us about the new toys he used to concoct the most satisfying, accessible Battles release yet. You may see a laptop tucked away onstage at this year’s MFNW, but don’t expect Williams and Co. to be checking their email onstage anytime soon. PETE COTTELL. WW: When you create these tracks from scratch, do you try to make it so they’re easier to re-create live—like, do you hold yourself back from adding too much on top of it to make sure you can pull it off live? Ian Williams: Well, the thing about electronic music is that more things are going on than you can do at one time, right? It’s like a loop you just set, but it is about this augmentation, so if it’s done well, it’s a cool way to multiply yourself. The whole “liveness” is important. The drawback to electronic music is it’s a bunch of dudes and girls pressing buttons. The sounds can be incredible, but the performance just looks like some people on a computer or whatever. It’s weird thinking about this stuff live, because the genuine, honest way I may have played something—which may be feeding a melodic line into various kinds of tools that will grab sound and glitch it in one way or another—to actually re-create it is a guy turning a knob or something. So is that the live version? Is that the live performance, a guy turning a knob? Or is it the guy re-sampling the sound he made and remapping it to a keyboard as if he would play a piano or something? Which is more of a performance? Which is more musical? It’s this thing I’m sort of grappling with. SEE IT: Battles plays MusicfestNW at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Saturday, Aug. 22. Go to musicfestnw.com for tickets. See wweek.com for an extended Q&A. Willamette Week JULY 22, 2015 wweek.com
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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chamber Music Northwest
[CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] The venerable summer music festival has presented more new music this year than at any time in memory, and its closing week ups the ante. Wednesday’s Club Concerts with BodyVox include three pieces written in the past two years, including a world premiere by John Steinmetz. Another world premiere, a new nonet by David Schiff— the Reed College prof whose music CMNW has long championed—highlights Thursday’s concert at Reed. The festival concludes Saturday and Sunday with oldies by Bach and Mozart. BRETT CAMPBELL. Multiple venues. Wednesday-Sunday, July 22-26. See cmnw.org for complete schedule.
Catherine Russell
[20 FEET, THEN STARDOM] Grammy-winning vocalist Catherine Russell may have spent her earlier decades performing with Jackson Browne, David Bowie and various other pop-world idols, but with perfect vibrato and vintage Fitzgeraldesque tone, by the time she set her sights on conquering the jazz world in 2006, it was an easy war to win. Her latest record, Bring It Back, garnered a five-star review from DownBeat magazine, and she tours with a soulfully swinging backing band. As classic vocal jazz gets rarer and rarer, Russell remains a shining pillar of history, exuding all the star power of her former bandleaders. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 23. $20 general admission, $25 reserved seating. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.
Esperanza Spalding presents Emily’s D Evolution
[CONCEPT JAZZ] Things have been rather quiet for Esperanza Spalding since the release of Chamber Music Society and Radio Music Society, a pair of acclaimed albums that solidified the Portland native as a major figure in the jazz world and beyond. That said, Emily’s D Evolution isn’t going to be a typical show, either. It promises a broader style of performance art, one influenced by the bassist’s love of surrealist poetry and experimental theater. The show builds upon her childhood curiosity with new music, encompassing everything from Brazilian pop to contemporary jazz and soul, with a swath of spoken word and theatrical balladry. Her new look is only the beginning. BRANDON WIDDER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm Tuesday, July 28. $39 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.
Ryan Meagher
[INDIE JAZZ] Jazz musicians and cartographers are the two demographics most acutely aware of Portland’s distance from New York. Guitarist Ryan Meagher (pronounced “mar”), who lived in the Big Apple while studying with many of the city’s modern jazz legends—like fellow six-stringers Kurt Rosenwinkel and Peter Bernstein—is a 30-something musician with a fleshy tone and emotional, rhythmically twisting compositions. He is a small but important part of Portland’s jazz underground, a steadily growing group whose time in the musical mecca will shape all Northwest jazz to come. PARKER HALL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6:30 pm Tuesday, July 28. $6. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.
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SONS OF HUNS WHILE SLEEPING STAY AWAKE (RIDING EASY) [GATEWAY METAL] Sons of Huns’ sophomore album has significantly upped the ante from their 2013 debut, Banishment Ritual. In nine songs, the trio kicks down the garage door and blasts out onto a highway of riff-fueled good times. New bassist Aaron Powell jells with the group, and drummer Ryan Northrop deserves MVP status for his pulverizing “Keith Moon on a sober day” performance. And though he’s no golden throat, singer-guitarist Peter Hughes’ rock gurgle recalls Slayer’s Tom Araya. But resemblances to pure-strain metal end there. The band is never as heavy as Sleep, as confectionary as Uncle Acid or as visionary as Queens of the Stone Age. Still, there is a growing audience of younger folks who are learning to embrace the riffs that may take off on a joyride of boogie rock, heavy beats, guitar worship and hokey occult lyrics, which Hughes claims are influenced by the meditation he employs to combat Lyme disease. Cameos by the likes of Melvins drummer Dale Crover and iconic doom guitarist Wino only serve to put higher-octane gas in the tank of While Sleeping Stay Awake. NATHAN CARSON. SEE IT: Sons of Huns play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Diesto and Old Kingdom, on Thursday, July 23. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
HURRY UP HURRY UP (ARMY OF BAD LUCK) [PUNK] Hurry Up’s self-titled debut album opens with “Pick You Up,” a sleazy, Nation of Ulysses-sounding burst of driving throwback fuzz that would sound indistinguishable from the bro-punk anthems of yore were it not for the bubblegum vocals hollering in the background. The song is fair enough warning that what happens in the next 30 minutes will be fun and chaotic, and not some weird mutation of the Thermals, the lauded Portland band in which singer-guitarist Westin Glass and drummer Kathy Foster form the rhythm section. There are, however, ghosts of Northwest past haunting the record, in part due to the presence of bassist-singer Maggie Vail, who co-founded Olympia’s Bangs in the late ’90s. The Vail-fronted tracks, in particular, retain the scuzz and fury of a bygone era, and a little of its mathy tendencies. There is a lot to be said for a trio of 30-somethings being totally obstinate and just plain loud in a city that likes to think it has grown up and settled down. I’ll type this with my middle finger: Amen. CASEY JARMAN.
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SEE IT: Hurry Up plays the Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., with Summer Cannibals and Sex Crime, on Friday, July 24. 8 pm. Call venue (473-8729) for ticket information. 21+.
VACILANDO WHILE THEY WERE DANCING (FLUFF & GRAVY) [STONED ROOTS] It should maybe fall under the full-disclosure category that I’m a huge fan of sleepy, atmospheric, low-tempo, vaguely Midwestern pop tunes that feature the pedal steel guitar. The more aimless and pensive things get, the more enrapt I become. Vacilando’s While They Were Dancing presses all my moody sad-sack buttons, then adds Fluff & Gravy label head John Shepski’s pure-hearted vocal delivery to the mix. He’s somewhere between John Roderick and Michael Stipe, lingering and trembling as if he’s a little drunk, but remains matter-of-fact in spewing evocative-if-indirect lyrics. So I’m fully in, especially for the first half, which recalls Big Star’s psychedelic side and Nada Surf’s heyday with relationship songs that feel grounded more in teenage angst than sloppy sentiment. (The album begins with the sound of a bowl being lit and smoked, which you can choose to take as a disclaimer or a brief set of audio instructions.) This pristine, drugged-and-blighted Americana stuff is pretty potent. I recommend it in small doses. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Vacilando plays Alberta Street Pub, 1036 NE Alberta St., with Jeffrey Martin and Esmé Patterson, on Saturday, July 25. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.
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[JULY 22-28] Kelly’s Olympian
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
dante’s
SAT. July 25
350 West Burnside Elton Cray and the Pariahs, Rasheed Jamal, Amorous
Al’s den
Kennedy School
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5736 NE 33rd Ave. McDougall
doug Fir lounge
LAST WEEK LIVE
laurel Thirst Public House
duff’s Garage
3000 NE Alberta St. Portland Soundcheck IV, Moorea Masa, Brant Colella
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.
426 SW Washington St. Virgin Of The Birds, Annalisa Tornfelt, Carlos Foster, Mike Coykendall
COURTNEY THEIM
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band, Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters
Mississippi Pizza Pub.
3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Helens
Jimmy Mak’s
Rock Creek Tavern
Kelly’s Olympian
2026 NE Alberta St. Evil Speakers, Where My Bones Rest Easy and Beach Party
The lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio
Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Second Cousins
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Rickie Lee Jones
Blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Danny Hay Davis & The Rat Pack
dante’s
350 W Burnside St Panzergod, Zorakarer, Xoth and Uada
doug Fir lounge
830 East Burnside Street The New Division, Ghost Feet, Philip Grass
duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave Too Slim, Arthur Moore
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Christopher Brown Quartet, Mel Brown Quartet
2958 NE Glisan St. Ethan Perry and the Remedy & An American Forest, Jack Dwyer & The Quick and Easy Boys
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Lowest Pair
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Noise Complaint & Daisy Deaths, DRC3, Nails Hide Metal
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave Alex WIley, Johnny Polygon, DJ Rockwell, Aviel Ben Yamin
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Emily Herring
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Heems, Spank Rock
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Growwing Pains
The lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band Jam
8 NE Killingsworth St. Fountainsun, The Tenses, Fletcher Tucker (Big Sur), Skin Lies
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Falcon Heart, American West, Cotton
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Built to Spill, Genders, Honey Bucket
THuRS. July 23 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Second Cousins
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vinyl Williams
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Naomi LaViolette, Ara Lee, Kathryn Claire, and The Wild Reeds
3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village
Blue diamond
2530 NE 82nd Ave Doug MacLeod CD Release Party
edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St. Morrissey
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. Pacific Oceans with Host Colin Fisher
Mississippi Pizza Pub.
New Copper Penny
The Secret Society
Panic Room
116 NE Russell St. Doug & Dee’s Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Bad Album Night IV: Who’s Laughing Now?
Trail’s end Saloon
1320 Main Street American Roots Jam
Turn! Turn! Turn!
5932 SE 92nd Ave. Still Water Vibes
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Sabateur
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Sonny Hess
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Say Anything, Modern Baseball, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Hard Girls
8 NE Killiingsworth St Resolectrics, Dedric Clark and the Social Animals
Saithong Thai Fusion
White eagle Saloon
Slim’s
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar
The Know
836 N Russell St. A Cedar Suede, PopGoji
128 NE Russell St. Built to Spill, Genders, Honey Bucket
710 SW 2nd Ave Where’s Danny Band 8635 N Lombard St Maremoto & LaGoon Squad
2026 NE Alberta St. Hurry Up, Summer Cannibals, Sex Crime
The Muddy Rudder Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
The Old Church
FRi. July 24 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Second Cousins
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Pat Donohue
Artichoke Music
3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Awakenings Wellness Center 1016 SE 12th Ave. John Two-Hawks Horse Spirit
Kells Brewpub
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
laurel Thirst Public House
1422 SW 11th Ave Portland Summer Ensembles
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Catherine Russell
2823 SW 1st Ave Lorna B Quartet
The Old Church
Wonder Ballroom
duff’s Garage
lair Hill Bistro
3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Two Planets
8105 SE 7th Ave. Gabrielle Macrae & Friends
Chapel Pub
350 West Burnside MC Frontalot, the Doubleclicks
426 SW Washington St. Toyboat Toyboat Toyboat, Atlas and the Astronaut, Bleach Blonde Dudes
The Muddy Rudder Public House
800 NW 6th Ave. John Gilmore Sings Sinatra
dante’s
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
2958 NE Glisan St. The Low Bones, Max’s Midnight Kitchen, Old Flames
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends 430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin
221 NW 10th Ave. The Quadraphonnes, Honeybutter
Kells Brewpub
The Know
Artichoke Music
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. The Colin Trio
Panic Room
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Matthew Zeltzer & Friends
Turn! Turn! Turn!
1507 SE 39th Ave. Stiff Little Fingers, Dayglo Abortions
NoHo’s Hawaiian Cafe
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Rezet, Warhead, Jahai
laurel Thirst Public House
Hawthorne Theatre
Hawthorne Theatre lounge
4627 Fremont David Friesen’s Circle 3 Trio
Wed. July 22
2530 NE 82nd Ave JP Soars & The Red Hots
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sons of Huns, Buffalo Tooth
THE HEAT OF THE MOMENTS: More like Project Pass Out From Heat Stroke, right? For both days of Project Pabst, the weather—the brutal, unrelenting and nighon inescapable near-100-degree weather, to be specific—was the festival’s top trending topic, onstage and off. “I wish I could throw some shade at you,” said Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace during one of the weekend’s early highlight sets. On Sunday, the members of Alvvays prayed for the gods to open the sky and rain PBR on the scorched masses. “It’s basically water!” quipped singer Molly Rankin, about as harsh a sponsor dis as one could expect from a group of pleasant Canadians. (Burning in the sun at the mostly shadeless Zidell Yards, though, proved preferable to the torturous humidity of Saturday’s night show at the Crystal Ballroom, a situation made worse by the fact that rapper Ghostface Killah never showed up.) But not even sun-baked delirium could drag the audience away from Weezer, who closed the festival with a confident, affable greatest-hits set even the deeply cynical factions of its fan base couldn’t resist—including Alvvays’ Rankin, who at one point, while standing directly behind me, unleashed the sort of piercing, elongated “Woo!” only someone who sings for a living could muster. There was no beer shower, but it certainly seemed like at least one of her prayers had been answered. MATTHEW SINGER. See our full Project Pabst report at wweek.com/lastweeklive.
830 East Burnside Street Good Old War, Flagship, The Hunts
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
1422 SW 11th Ave The Rough Riders, Henry Kapono, John Cruz, and Brother Noland
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St. The Supraphonics, Lloyd Jones, Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Pagan Jug Band
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killiingsworth St The Reverberations, The Furies, Sharks From Mars
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Eric Lovre Band, Brian Berg
303 SW 12th Ave. Second Cousins
Alberta Rose Theatre
Bella Organic
16205 NW Gillihan Rd Bridge City Blues Band
Central Hotel in St Johns
8608 N Lombard Street JT Wise Band
Cheryl’s on 12th
1135 SW Washington St Live Music
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. A Family Affair
doug Fir lounge
Rejuvenation
1100 SE Grand Avenue Renegade Craft Fair Portland
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Irish Sundays
Rock Creek Tavern
10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Fernando
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Taj Mahal, Charlie Musselwhite
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Ditch at The Delta, Sol, Megaton Leviathan
The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. James Clem
830 East Burnside Street BowieVision (David Bowie Tribute), This Is Not My Beautiful Band (Talking Heads Tribute)
The Ranger Station PdX
duff’s Garage
4805 SW 229th Ave Ten Grands On The Green
2530 NE 82nd Ave Big Monti
edgefield-Troutdale
2126 SW Halsey St. Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes and Colin Hay
Hawthorne Theatre lounge
1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Coastlands, Another Neighbor Disappeared, Small Leaks Sinks Ships
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Yumi Zouma, Hosannas
Jade lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St. JD Dawson’s Songwriters Showcase
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Andy Stokes
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pipes & Drums
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Pipes & Drums
Kells Brewpub
210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Wave Action, Wild Call, Rentz Leinbach
lan Su Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett St. Music in the Teahouse
laurel Thirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Mike Coykendall, James Low, Carlos Foster (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Meier Farms Vineyard 22997 NW Meier Rd. Meier Farms Lavender, Wine & Blues Festival
Mississippi Pizza Pub.
3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Melao de Cuba
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Breathe Owl Breathe
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Mavis Staples, Patty Griffin, Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Particle Son & Ghost Motor, Reaktion
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Particle Son & Ghost Motor, Reaktion
4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd Bakersfield Rejects
The Reserve Golf Club
The Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Lewi Longmire & The Left Coast Roasters
Trail’s end Saloon 1320 Main Street Whiskey Hill
Trio Club
909 E Burnside Portland INFERNO
Tryon Creek State Natural Area
11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd Forest Music Series: Sarah DiMuzio is Whim
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St. Sad Horse, Death Cat (LA), Kingdom of Smoth
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Tattered Patches, Nick Foltz
White eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. No More Parachutes, Jake Powell and the Young Lovers, The Nervous, Reverb Brothers
Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Devin Phillips Band
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Jamie xx, Mattis
SuN. July 26 Al’s den
303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter
Analog Cafe
720 se Hawthorne Blvd The ‘Robotic Stimulus’ Tour, CannabiDroids, KELU
Black Water
835 NE Broadway Divers, Piss Test, Steel Chains
Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Corkscrew
1665 SE Bybee Ave. Live Music
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside Charli XCX, Bleachers and Borns
dante’s
350 West Burnside Charlie Overbey and the Broken Arrows
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MUSIC CALENDAR Doug Fir Lounge
JULY 22–28
Wonder Ballroom
830 East Burnside Street Wye Oak, LAKE, Lost Dog Street Band, Intuitive Compass
128 NE Russell St. The Big Float
Kelly’s Olympian
Al’s Den
426 SW Washington St. Funeral Gold, Love Cop, Motor Inn, Strange Wool
Laurel Thirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St. Open Mic (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Marylhurst University 17600 Pacific HWY Portland Wind Symphony
MON. JULY 27 303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold
TUES. JULY 28 Al’s Den
303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter
Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Brick + Mortar
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and Special Guests
Director Park
Cadigan’s Corner Bar
Hawthorne Theatre
Crystal Ballroom
815 SW Park Ave Monday Soundscapes 1507 SE 39th Ave. Valadares, Jet Force Gemini, Mosby, Scar After Scar, Cellar Door
5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T 1332 W. Burnside Esperanza Spalding
Dante’s
Jade Lounge
350 W Burnside St Lincoln Durham
Mississippi Studios
Jimmy Mak’s
2530 N 82nd Ave Chris Carlson Experience
Panic Room
Kelly’s Olympian
2342 SE Ankeny St. Lorna Miller
Mississippi Pizza Pub.
3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Hungry Hungry Hip Hop Showcase 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Morgan James 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Gooo, Chrome Mole Monocle, Antonius Bloc, Eaton Flowers
Plews Brews
8409 N. Lombard St. Singer Songwriter Cabaret Open Mic
Rejuvenation
1100 SE Grand Avenue Renegade Craft Fair Portland
Rontoms
600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions
2342 SE Ankeny St. The Global Folk Club 221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio 426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Singley Fimbres Orkestra, Sama Dams
Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Bob Shoemaker
Sellwood Riverfront Park SE Oaks Park Way Roseland Hunters
The Know
The Muddy Rudder Public House
2026 NE Alberta St. ThirstyCity
The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
510 NW 11th Ave. Lorna Bracken Baxter Trio
The Waypost Coffeehouse & Tavern 3120 N Williams Ave. Jake McNeillie & Co., Shane Brown, Orion
White Eagle Saloon
The Muddy Rudder Public House
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Alpha Rev Unplugged, Jared and the Mill
Duff’s Garage
Jade Lounge
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet, Ryan Meagher
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave Stooges Brass Band, the Satin Chaps
Northwest Portland Hostel & Guesthouse 425 NW 18th Avenue Summer Music in the Secret Garden
Panic Room
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Thistle Stalk & Scarlet Canary, Ill Eqipped
Sleep Country Amphitheater
17200 NE Delfel Rd. Aerosmith, Living Colour
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. An Atomic Whirl, Bombay Beach, Akira
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Anthemtown Artist Showcase
H O L LY A N D R E S
836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston
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BAR REVIEW
Where to drink this week. 1. loyal legion
705 SE 6th St., 235-8272, loyallegionpdx.com. Kurt Huffman’s 99-tap, oregon-only beer bar is open again after its brief closure. There are few rarities on tap despite the large selection— just a whole hell of a lot of solid beer from around the state, with an experimental $6-for-every-beer, no-tip policy.
2. Culmination Brewing
2117 NE Oregon St., 353-6368, culminationbrewing.com. after a slow start, Culmination actually has its own brew in nearly half of its 21 tap handles, but the real show for summer is its patio seating in a funny little neighborhood that’s somehow half-trucking, half-condo. Get a saison or the zesty citrus sour.
3. Shift Drinks
1200 SW Morrison St., 922-3933, shiftdrinkspdx.com. order the “drinking tobacco”—actually a richly flavorful vermouth—or a heartbreakingly good Palermo Viejo #2 ($10) with gin, Cynar, grapefruit liqueur, mint and bitters, plus one of the richly adorned bruschettas ($8), thick as garlic bread.
4. Altabira
1021 NE Grand Ave., 963-3600, altabira.com. atop the tasteful midcentury-modern Hotel eastlund, altabira is a beery rooftop pub with an incredible view of downtown and a pretty decent bistro burger, which we recommend you eat only at happy hour (4-6 pm), when it’s $7 instead of $14.
5. Dusk Til Dawn: Casa Diablo II
8445 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 222-6610, dusktildawn.club. The third entry in Johnny Diablo’s meatless stripclub empire (nonetheless titled as the second) is a tiny box tightly arranged around a central stage so that pretty much everybody ends up on close terms with everybody.
MUSICAL CHAIRS: First there was Ping, and it was good. But after the Pok Pok spinoff closed to “expand” at the end of 2012, it instead went dark for good, finally reviving in April 2014 as Easy Company, a cocktail bar far too swanky for Old Town that lasted about six months. Big Trouble—a charming hole in the wall themed for Little China, with Chinese small bites—lasted the same. And so now, there is Fortune Bar (329 NW Couch St., 229-7468, facebook.com/fortunepdx), co-owned by ChefStable and the people who bought nearby Tube a year back. All the knickknacks and themes and pretense are gone; the food menu is a handwritten scrawl on half-torn paper, with cold-case food from the next-door ChefStable commissary. Fortune is now one thing and one thing only: a white-walled Old Town canvas for DJs, a listening lounge with tight floor space that leads to close quarters if you’re dancing. Night to night, the canvas sometimes remains blank aside from Tube overflow, a victim perhaps of the demilitarized zone of Southwest 4th Avenue, where foot traffic has ebbed to near-nothing after all the other bars closed, from Couture to the Crown Room to Magic Garden. But the busy night is Wednesday, according to the bartender, when Danny Merkury spins “future hip-hop” and R&B. Other nights, it’s beats from house on Fridays to throwback rap on Tuesdays, and tap cocktails (margarita, old fashioned, Moscow Mule) keep the drinks flowing if the bar stacks up late in the night, which barely even gets rolling till after 11 pm. Take note: The craft beers are $6 a pint and the tap margarita is $10. This is Chinatown, which means tourist prices. You can take those Asian carp on the wall art as a metaphor: It’s mostly invasive species here. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Monkeytek & Friends
sAT. July 25 Wed. July 22 Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix
The Whiskey Bar Portland 31 NW 1st Ave Hunter Siegel
Thurs. July 23 Fifth Avenue lounge
125 NW 5th Ave Raw Q, Ben Soundscape, Flaco
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Glass Danse, DJ Gregarious, DJ Pan Am
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Natural Magic
The liquor store
3341 SE Belmont St. Wet Tech: Magic Fades, SPF 666, Coast2C, C Plus Plus
Fri. July 24 dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Cooky Parker
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Verified: Prince Club, Danny Merkury, Drexler, GANG$IGN$
dig a Pony
736 Southeast Grand Ave. Freaky Outty
holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Main Squeeze
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave. Lamar LeRoy
The lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends: DJ Maxamillion
The Whiskey Bar Portland 31 NW 1st Ave AC Slater
sun. July 26 euphoria nightclub
315 SE 3rd Ave Squeeze: Opening Weekend
The lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Softcore Mutations: DJ Acid Rick
Mon. July 27 The lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Departures: DJ Waisted
Tues. July 28 The lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger
The lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Bones with DJ Aurora
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Portland, 1990: Gus Van Sant films ‘My Own Private Idaho’. Portland, 2015: Hand2Mouth revisits the film to uncover where the characters are today, who they have become and what they remember.
TIME, A FAIR HUSTLER Hand2Mouth are great experimenters with theatrical form and I look forward to seeing what they do with ‘My Own Private Idaho’. I am sure it will be fantastic. - Gus Van Sant PORTLAND: THEN AND NOW
Free public events following Sunday matinees at 3:30 pm
AUG 2 Young, Queer, and Homeless: a panel discussion AUG 9 Before the Pearl: Portland’s past a walking tour of Portland AUG 16 A Funeral for Old Portland: a participatory event Sponsored by Oregon Humanities and Multnomah County Cultural Council
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Artists Repertory Theatre 1515 SW Morrison Street
Tickets & Info: hand2mouththeatre.org
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Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: ENID SPITZ. Theater: ENID SPITZ (espitz@wweek.com). Dance: ENID SPITZ (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: espitz@wweek.com.
THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Between the Lines
Gentrification is taking over school stages too. In Between the Lines, young Zara Smith is caught in the middle of a changing neighborhood and, like most kids, doesn’t know where she fits in. Navigating her confusion between black and white, this Maverick Main Stage Productions original gives school kids a chance to act beyond their public school stages. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., 897-7037. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, July 24-25. $15.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
In 2008, the debut of Joss Whedon’s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) online superhero musical starring Neil Patrick Harris got so many views that it crashed the drhorrible.com site. Lacking Harris, Funhouse’s Isaac Frank stars as Billy, aka Dr. Horrible, whose sole aspirations are getting accepted into the Evil League of Evil and finding the balls to speak to his crush at the laundromat. But Dr. Horrible’s superhero archnemesis, the dashing Captain Hammer, is making both corruption and love difficult. Fully utilizing his 3-D advantage, Funhouse artistic director Trenton Shine added extra songs and dance numbers and a gender swap to the serial blog. On Aug. 13-15, the leads playing Dr. Horrible and Penny switch roles. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm ThursdaysSaturdays through Aug. 29. $16-$20.
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s comic-tragic romance, performed off Broadway in 2011, follows the threedecade relationship of two masochistic lovers. The killer match is played by Portland Actors Conservatory graduate Tabitha Trosen and Jim Valeda, who last year had a cameo appearance in Portlandia. Kayleen and Doug meet as wounded children in the infirmary at their parochial school and are reunited throughout the next 30 years in a mental institution, a funeral parlor and in various hospital rooms. Third Rail Repertory’s artistic director Scott Yarbrough directs the painful love affair. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St., 7:30 pm Fridays through Aug. 14. $10-$20.
JAW: a Playwrights Festival
Four chosen playwrights have been laboring—or Just Adding Water, as the festival’s acronym claims —with a host of drama professionals for the past two weeks to revise their brand-new scripts. This weekend, the 17th annual festival brings the plays off the page for the first time. We get the town of Colchester, full of broken dreams and a standup hardware store. Wink the cat takes vengeance on its dysfunctional married owners. A family spirals downward as racial progress pushes upward in Civil Rights Era Mississippi. And the .0001% is demolished in a disaster comedy called Long Division. Between staged readings, a mother-daughter cabaret, traditional Irish dance a-longs, clowns and an American-Brazilian mash-up band will perform in the lobby. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 4 and 8 pm FridaySaturday, July 24-25. Free.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
Expect a lot of audience participation at these Original Practice Shakespeare Festival performances, which follow in the footsteps of the Bard’s 16thcentury pantalooned troupe: limited rehearsals, an onstage prompter and catcalls to the peanut gallery. This week opens the group’s fourth annual festival at Laurelhurst Park with six
Shakespeare staples. In the comedy Twelfth Night, two twins separated by a shipwreck don absurd disguises and find themselves trapped in a love triangle on the magical island of Illyria. Richard III is a nice nap, unless 15th-century Brits get you hot. In As You Like It, Rosalind flees persecution in her uncle’s court to find safety and love in the woods. Macbeth gets bloody. The Taming of the Shrew pits an unwilling lover against a headstrong shrew. Finally, Romeo and Juliet is a magical romance that includes vital lessons about nonviolence and abstinence. These shows are just six of the 12 that OPS is staging this summer in parks around Portland. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street. 7 pm Thursday-Friday, 2 pm and 7 pm Saturday-Sunday. Schedule at opsfest.org. Free.
Play
Play time isn’t just for kids anymore— look no further than the Google offices for proof. Taking a nostalgic romp back to playground days, Artists Rep mainstay John San Nicolas directs Fertile Ground veteran D.C. Copeland’s world premiere about the magic of imagination. The absurdist comedy is a play within a play, populated by a large cast and narrated throughout by the Godlike voice of Nicolas. Much like recess, Copeland seems to throw everything in and give it a good shake: unexpected pregnancies, stage hands on stage, and imaginary friends. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., 8 pm Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 8. $10.
Pure Surface Anniversary Party
A year ago, the creative curators behind the Pure Surface performance series decided to bring together dance, text and video into one original, collaborative event. Now they’re celebrating that wise choice with a full-on mixed-media extravaganza, including performances and work by Coldgoldchain and Los Datos (half of Acid Farm), and a Pure Surface performance by Cat Egan, Lindsay Allison Ruoff and Hannah Piper Burns. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm Wednesday, July 22. $5-$10.
Storytelling at Twilight
If Cthulhu Con PDX, Tarantino and Ray Bradbury have taught us anything, it’s that pulp fiction is best when it’s not confined to the page. Portland’s Pulp Stage acts on that, turning paperback thrillers into quick and quippy plays. Virtual reality, aliens and time travel are the themes for this Thursday’s five tales. Free nonvirtual beer and soda follow. Ledding Library, 10660 SE 21st Ave., Milwaukie, 786-7580. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 23. Free.
The Venetian Twins
Identity confusion with twins is nothing new, it’s circa 1747, in fact, in Carlo Goldoni’s Italian comedy. Local outdoor commedia dell’arte group Masque Alfresco gives it a modern spin and some fresh air. George Rogers Park becomes Verona, where separated twin brothers Zanetto and Tonino both take a trip to Verona and accidentally swap girlfriends. Servants—as usual—set things straight, with plenty of smart-aleck quips along the way. George Rogers Park, 611 State St. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 9. Free.
NEW REVIEWS Looking for Olivia
Steve Coker’s Looking For Olivia wrings laughs from highbrow concepts, to be sure, but it’s less like a sitcom than Twilight Theater’s TV-themed staging suggests. Hapless writer Henry
“Don’T Worry, WHITe PeoPle”: Hari Kondabolu.
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Appearing on Late Night With David Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, comedian Hari Kondabolu has parlayed a master’s degree in human rights into a successful career in comedy. The New York comic’s debut record, Waiting for 2042, is out now, and in late July, Kondabolu returns to Portland, debuting new material in a three-night stand at Helium Comedy Club. Kondabolu sat down with Willamette Week to discuss political comedy, The Daily Show and President John Adams. WW: Your brand of left-leaning political comedy is ideal for The Daily Show. Hypothetically, if you’d been offered the job of replacing Jon Stewart, would you have taken it? Hari Kondabolu: Since we’re in hypotheticals, and Trevor Noah already got it, I would say yes because it’s the job. So many people turned down that job. It’s a hard gig: Every day you’re grinding it out. It’s a gig that requires so much personality and experience, and it has such a following, people are obsessed with it. It’s so good, it competes with itself. In a sense, it’s almost like being John Adams: “George got us the thing, he was like—the big general.” “Yeah, but I’m John Adams!” “Yeah, I know—you’re a diplomat, you’re a politician. But did you fight?” Who wants to be John Adams? In your 2014 comedy record, Waiting for 2042, you point out inherent racism in how ethnic demographics are tallied in the U.S.: “2042 is the year that, according to census figures, white people will be the minority in this country. Don’t worry, white people, you were the minority when you came to this country…
here’s the bigger point: 49 percent white doesn’t make you the minority. That’s not how math works. Forty-nine percent is only the minority if you think the other 51 percent is exactly the same!” Why do you feel it is important to laugh about issues of social justice? I don’t know why it’s important to laugh about it. I know why I do it. I do it because I feel terrible about these things. It’s like when I was a kid being bullied, I used comedy as a way to survive. It’s a defense mechanism that somehow turned into a career. Definitely, the people who come to see my stuff are struggling with these thoughts—and for me to talk about racism or sexism or homophobia or whatever, it’s stuff they’ve thought about a great deal and they feel less alone. For other people, it’s probably unexpected. They come to a comedy club: “Let’s go to the club and hear some dick jokes and go home!” I’m not that guy. You pay for baby-sitters, and you take the night off, and you go to a club, and you’re drunk, and this man is up there talking about colonialism. It’s very disappointing. You’ll be debuting new material in Portland. Without giving away any punch lines, can you give us a sneak preview? I want to be more honest and personal with family stuff and relationships. Sometimes I feel like I lose people who aren’t onboard. If they just got to know me on a deeper level, they would be. I want to know, if I gave you more of my heart, would you understand my perspective a bit clearer? I appreciate that my divisiveness is an indication that I’m doing something interesting and good. If everybody liked it, I’d know I’m not saying anything with teeth. See IT: Hari Kondabolu performs at Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 643-8669, heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm Thursday and 7:30 and 10 pm Friday and Saturday, July 23-25. $16–$30. 21+.
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(an adorably bright-eyed Tristan David Luciotti) is trying to salvage a sinking career (and right a floundering engagement) by hacking out a screwball premise for a prime-time pilot when his writer’s block is interrupted by the titular heroine’s latenight distress. Newly single and locked out from her apartment across the hall, Olivia is desperate to find someone willing to pose as her husband during an imminent parental visit. As we’re reminded, “Looking For Olivia is staged before a live studio audience,” but the play actually hearkens back to a loftier tradition. Madcap farces, after all, were born for the stage. During a live performance, characters are slowly fleshed out through stuttered glances and withering asides, and the pratfalls resonate. Honestly, for sheer love of language and contrarian whimsy, Coker’s dialogue feels far more Wodehouse than Full House. Perhaps even more impressive, JJ Harris’ direction finds a genuine warmth beneath the bristling wit. JAY HORTON. Twilight Theater, 7515 N Brandon Ave., 847-9838. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, through July 26. $15.
ALSO PLAYING Agatha on the Rise
Back in October at HART Theatre’s Page to Stage event of new-work readings, the audience liked local playwright Sally Stember’s death comedy best. In honor of their choice, HART is bringing back the tale of Agatha’s endeavors to be buried next to her exhusband, and his extreme attempts to dodge her eternal presence. Turns out murder, burial feuds and failed relationships are really funny. HART Theatre, 185 SE Washington St., Hillsboro, 693-7815. 7:30 pm Fridays, 2 pm Sundays through July 26; 7:30 pm Saturday, July 18. $15.
Cymbeline
Four hundred years from now, in an alternate future where Rome never fell, the princess Imogen marries a pauper named Posthumus, throwing her kingdom into a downward spiral of old-fashioned slut-shaming and family feuds. Local performance company Anon it Moves swaps its dancing shoes for combat boots in this reimagination of Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s little-known love story. Drawing on its experience in dance, the company uses big movement, especially extended fight scenes choreographed by Portland fighting master Kristen Mun. Expect gender-swapping too—this time it’s a lesbian marriage that causes so much strife. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 686-0294, anonitmoves.org. 7:30 pm Thursday–Sunday through Aug. 8. $15.
Shakespeare in the Park: Macbeth
Set among the tombstones on Lone Fir Cemetery, director Matt Pavik’s rendition of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy takes on an eerie verisimilitude. Pull yourself back to the pleasant reality of outdoor theater with a handmade picnic of local spreads, breads,
sweets and pickles served by new picnic company Peacock Picnics from a bright yellow vintage bus. Twenty percent of the proceeds support Portland Actors Ensemble, which has been performing Shakespeare in the Park every summer for 44 years. Lone Fir Cemetery, Southeast 26th Avenue and Stark Street, 224-9200. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday through July 25. No performance on July 4; 6 pm July 11 at Marylhurst University. Free, donations encouraged.
The Elixir of Love
If you’re Portland Opera, how do you follow Igor Stravinsky’s prickly, unnerving morality tale, The Rake’s Progress? You veer to the other extreme and close the season with a beloved comedy, Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore. The elixir of the opera’s title is a bogus love potion, sold by a snake-oil salesman to a country boy named Nemorino, hoping to win the heart of the girl he pines for, Adina. In reality, the potion is just cheap Bordeaux, but Nemorino’s emboldened to act more brashly. After a serpentine maze of plot twists, Adina finds herself smitten. This production is transplanted from late-18th-century Basque country to the Wild West, a staging created two years ago for Opera Memphis by Ned Canty, who adapted it for the Portland Opera. The pivotal role of Nemorino will be played by tenor Matthew Grills, who you may remember as the standout from Portland Opera’s 2012-2013 season The songs are gorgeous, but is this 1832 opera still relevant to contemporary theatergoers? Love is certainly still around, and so are snake-oil salesmen. Canty says: “This isn’t an opera for people who wear top hats and monocles and eat Grey Poupon.” Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, July 17. Additional dates through Aug. 1. $60-$95.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Millie left her little hometown of Salina, Kan., for life in the big city, determined to find a job—as long as that job has a wealthy, single boss whom she can persuade to marry her. According to Millie, a modern woman eschews romance in favor of financial support. Because feminism. Madcap is the only way to describe this plot as Millie (played with equally endearing naiveté and ballsiness by Claire Avakian) checks into the Hotel Priscilla, where young actresses with no family keep disappearing. Turns out the proprietress Mrs. Meers (Emily Sahler) kidnaps young women and ships them off to Hong Kong for the white-slave trade. But this is musical comedy, so Sahler puts on a terrible, over-thetop Chinese accent, and every allusion to sexual slavery is bookended by high-stepping musical numbers. Miss Flannery (Lisamarie Harrison) steals the show as the matronly lead stenographer. Yes the plot is ridiculous, the Chinese characterizations are offensive, and the idea of marrying for money is anything but modern. But the beauty of musical theater is that it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes when
you’re alone in a new city and you get mugged like Millie—or you’re caught in a Shanghai operation—all you can do is kick up your heels and dance. PENELOPE BASS. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sundays through July 26. $20-$44.
Twelfth Night
This Night looks like a PBS cartoon of Shakespeare’s gayest comedy— pristine velvet breeches, blue moonlight, chirping sparrows. Perhaps that’s the upstanding Brit in guest director Lisa Harrow, who hails from London with Royal Shakespeare Company credits. Fortunately, the acting is far from cold. This story of two separated twins is usually overproduced and slapstick. Instead, Crystal Muñoz (Olivia) eschews gags for an endearing ingénue mannerism, and Dave Bodin as the clueless manservant looks enough like Sean Connery to make him lovably pathetic instead of plain stupid. Upstaging the headlining twins and usual favorite Sir Toby Belch is Allen Nause as the fool. When singing a tale of unrequited love to two drunkards, Nause’s significant pauses could break the audience’s heart, even if his own audience is too tipsy to notice. But then, there’s something delightfully unnerving about Shakespeare’s dirty lines delivered through this production’s clean lips. It’s like the Berenstain Bears running a crack house. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesday–Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Aug. 2. $35.
The crowd selects a title for this show and from there anything goes. Brody directors Domeka Parker and Aden Kirschner attempt to build an entire act from a few words. Every week, a local musician plays the show’s live soundtrack, so it’s improv upon improv upon improv. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, July 25. $12.
Earthquake Hurricane
Alex Falcone and WW’s Funniest 5 queen Bri Pruett pair up with Portland mainstays Anthony Lopez and Curtis Cook for a night so full of rumbling laughs you’ll think the megaquake hit. Have your earthquake preparedness kits ready in case of aftershocks. Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 922-2012. 9 pm Wednesday, July 22. $5 suggested donation.
Helium Open Mic
Generally regarded as the best openmic night in town, Helium’s signups fill 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 two-item minimum. 21+.
Minority Retort
CAMERON RIDENHOUR
This giant comedy cluster of standup and improv gives comedians the chance to throw any theme they want at Brody’s top improvisers. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, July 24. $8.
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What started as a weekly podcast recorded in Seth Romatelli’s apartment grew into a live show at the Aladdin Theater with a loyal Portland following. It’s basically Romatelli and his friend Jonathan Larroquette shooting the shit about current events and culture. But they’re way more hilarious than your friends and ‘Murica keeps feeding them fodder for jokes. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm Saturday, July 25. $25 advance, $27 day of show. 21+.
Club BodyVox
BodyVox adds movement to new and classical chamber pieces as part of Chamber Music Northwest’s Club concert series. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7 and 9 pm Wednesday, July 22. $25.
Pendulum Aerial Arts
Portland’5 Noontime Showcases run the gamut of performance styles. This week, Portland’s Pendulum Aerial Arts spins a lofty mix of storytelling, circus dance and theater. Southwest Main Street and Park Avenue. Noon Wednesday, July 22 . Free.
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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 Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm every fourth Friday. $7.
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Central’s Live at Gotham. We’re impressed Mauss got over the childhood anxiety that kept him from performing standup. Also featuring Gabe Dinger, Dinah Foley, Randy Mendez and Trevor Thorpe. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm Thursday, July 23. $14-15. 21+.
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SIGH NO MORE: (From left) Olivia Weiss, Cassandra Boice and Sean Kelly.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (POST5) Tired Shakespeare, turned inside out.
Love him or hate him, Shakespeare had one damn good formula for a hit. The same premise and plot barrel through practically all his comedies: Factions clash, mistaken identities cause a tailspin, and one “hey nonny” later, it’s happily ever after. Channeling Shakespeare’s consistency even as it transmogrifies his originals onstage, Post5 Theatre has its own blueprint. Much Ado About Nothing is proof that it works. Even directed by Seattle’s Darragh Kennan, this production bears every mark of the theater’s Bard branding. Post5 routinely trades Shakespeare’s magical islands and quaint Italian towns for locales with a Pacific Northwest vibe. The purple house, wooden porch and flowering vines in its spring production of Twelfth Night came straight from Alberta Street, and Much Ado’s set could be any Willamette Valley winery (WillaKenzie Estate is a top sponsor). Chip Sherman playing Olivia in drag channeled Saturdays at C.C. Slaughter’s in Twelfth Night. And in Much Ado, the victorious regiment pops beer cans like so many Timbers fans on Northwest 21st Avenue. Post5’s contemporary staging is the refreshing cocktail that makes overproduced plays go down easy, when Ty Boice as buff Benedick asks a balding patron in the front row, “Dost thou work out?” Shakespeare’s words are hilarious as bro-speak. There are the inevitable bumps, though, here in the shape of flimsy minor characters and directing decisions that draw out the second act. Real-life couple Cassandra and Ty Boice dish Beatrice and Benedick’s scathing banter with delightful spice, and Sherman’s Claudio is faultless, but fumbled lines and Wagnerian delivery make Stan Brown’s sleazy Don John more tedious than evil. Without the grit of a true villain, the show’s polka-dot costumes and choreographed dance numbers wax too twee by the end of two-plus hours. Moving the audience into Post5’s garden for the wedding scene completely interrupts the play’s momentum. Yes, twinkle lights below starry skies make for a picturesque chapel, but filing in and out of the cramped garden took longer than the actual scene. Shakespeare himself shifted from outdoor theaters to indoor spaces midway through his career, cueing his transition from comedies to more serious works. Post5 doesn’t mount hard-hitting theater, and that’s for the best. Its mold for modernized, belly-laughing comedy makes for a lovely midsummer’s eve. As Shakespeare himself wrote: To thine own self be true. ENID SPITZ. SEE IT: Much Ado About Nothing is at Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 8 pm Fridays-Sundays through Aug. 16. $20.
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Boredom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Boredom Is the Ultimate Weapon will be a series of improvised structures constructed from material at hand inside and outside of HQHQ Project Space by Los Angeles artist Don Edler. Each of the abstract sculptures is made of materials and objects clamped, strapped and otherwise mechanically attached to one another without adhesives or fasteners. These works are formal exercises that play with shape, color, material, compression and tension. Through Aug. 23. HQHQ Project Space, 232 SE Oak St., Suite 108.
Gray Minstrel
New York artist Derek Franklin’s show at Carl & Sloan includes new paintings and sculptures that appear to be in response to a bit of poetry. One line: “And blow a communal wind that unites a germ traveling to communion.” Communal Wind, a box of 30 recorders filled with spit, sits humbly next to the door. Like the sculptures, the paintings are inoffensive, barely conceptual and full of hot air. Through Aug. 2. Carl & Sloan Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave., No. 1, 360-6089746.
Habitat: A Video Mandala
Habitat is an impressive installation in a small space. Three walls of video projection of elaborate imagery focus on the artist, Kello Goeller, dancing and moving through altered landscapes. The video opposite the door is the most mandala-like, with little figures moving throughout its labyrinthine design. Perpendicular to that are moving images that cycle through close ups of those figures in their niches. With actual moss to sit and lie down on the different perspectives of the three walls become hard to deal with. Putting the labyrinthine video up on the ceiling would have alleviated some of that, and would have made room to add a third projection in its place to unite the sense of moving through the mandala-scape. A DJ was there designing a score at the opening, but it was too hot to sit and look and listen for too long, but it’s definitely worth a second or third trip. Bring a friend to brush help off the moss d ust. Through July 31. Duplex, 219 NW Couch St., 206-5089.
Idea of a Door
Liz Harris is a musician and visual artist based in Astoria. She create intricate black-ink drawings on paper which she adapts into prints and wall paintings. Expressing the precarious tension between cohesion and dissolution, these compositions are formed from pattern fields that break apart and mutate, only to reincorporate themselves back into the larger whole. Through July 31. Portland Museum of
Modern Art, 5202 N Albina Ave., 9530515.
In//Appropriate
What do we talk about when we talk about cultural appropriation? In the barrage of news and analysis about figures like Rachel Dolezal and Iggy Azalea, it seems like a subject about which almost everyone has an opinion. Examining those opinions brings to light unexpected ways of understanding society and culture. This show is a visual and auditory exploration of appropriation in U.S. culture, featuring the voices and opinions of Portland residents. The show consists of visual work by Portland artist Roger Peet, with contributions from artists Sara Siestreem, Sharita Towne and Gabe Flores. Through July 29. Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Smith Center, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway.
Incision
Multidisciplinary artist Nathanael Thayer Moss’ new paintings explore ideas of perfection and simplicity through carefully controlled design and repetition. Drawing on influences ranging from futurist design, sci-fi film architecture, video-game landscapes and electronic music, Moss’ complex structures mutate within carefully defined constraints. With his controlled palette of black and white, Moss’ paintings become objects for meditation. Through Aug. 1. Hap Gallery, 916 NW Flanders St., 444-7101.
The Institute for New Feeling: The Felt Book
False Front hosts a one-night exhibition and screening from the Institute for New Feeling, which will display works from The Felt Book, a collection of home remedies, treatments and instructions from more than 70 artists around the globe. Borrowing the structure of Fluxus scores, YouTube tutorials and eHow articles, this online publication asks artists to consider the Institute for New Feeling’s core interest: “New ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new.” A 60-minute screening of short video pieces will screen at 9 pm. False Front Studio, 4518 NE 32nd Ave., 781-4609. 8-10 pm Sunday, July 26. $5-$10 suggested donation.
Jukebox in the Market Hall
A jukebox full of stories and sounds from working Portlanders will begin its tour of the city at Portland Mercado. The bits and pieces of workers’ lives— collected participants in a Wage/ Working oral history workshop—are edited down to the length of time it takes each worker to earn $1. So the workers that earn the least end up getting the longest stories. The newish Portland Mercado food mecca will host it for a month before it moves on. The
July 23 opening includes a community discussion on income inequality. Through Aug. 14. Portland Mercado, 7238 SE Foster Road. Opening reception 6:30-8:30 pm Thursday, July 23.
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Listen, Baxter
Wyatt Niehaus continues his work on the intersection of technology and labor with an exhibition of sculpture and film. Baxter’s Eyes brings together found footage from aboard the Oseberg Alpha oil rig off the coast of Norway and video of workers’ interactions with technological production and shipping of oil byproducts. A group of sculptures composed of concrete bags and customized labels is displayed in conjunction with the video, acting as both an audience and an extension of the labor theory at play in Niehaus’ work. Through Aug. 13. S1, 4148 NE Hancock St., s1portland. com. Opening reception 7-9 pm Friday, July 24. $1.
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., 242-1419.
The PDX Project
The Portland International Airport carpet: We’ve all walked on and we’ll all miss it. In collaboration with the PDX Project, one of four awardees of the precious Portland airport carpet, One Grand Gallery put out a call to artists for a PDX carpet-themed exhibit. The works on display have been created in response to the carpet itself, airport culture, the death of the carpet: If this carpet could talk, what would it say? Come view the finer points of Portland nostalgia. Through July 31. One Grand Gallery, 1000 E Burnside St., 212-365-4945.
Waiting for the Ice Cream to Melt
Impasto, a highly textural painting technique, peaks to near-facetious extremes in Matthew Clifford Green’s new series of oil paintings, but his imagery remains mostly figurative. In one instance, Green gives us a mere eyeball among dabs of paint. Bright colors, simple lines and cartoonish figures revel in the medium’s viscous materiality, becoming so visually tactile they’re almost grotesques. These paintings won’t melt in the heat, so there’s time to enjoy them. Through Aug. 23. Fourteen30 Contemporary, 1501 SW Market St., 236-1430.
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A NEW YEAR BY ISAAC TIN WEI LIN
ISAAC TIN WEI LIN, CHROMATIC INTERCESSION Isaac Tin Wei Lin’s new work at Adams and Ollman might be too bright to handle on a sunny day. Chromatic Intercession juxtaposes vibrant acrylic paintings with pen-and-ink drawings on paper. The tension between two different styles creates a push-pull between the flashy, graphic paintings and the quiet, doodled drawings. The former push you back so you can take in the rainbow of colors and pulsing lines that look like calligraphic flourishes. The latter pull you back in so you can notice the biomorphic forms and graffiti lettering. Each work comprises multiple smaller works. The titular piece is three paintings stacked one on top of the other, each smaller than the last, evoking a stepped pyramid. On the bottom register, green chevrons, flags and pipes cover a background that fades from white to blue to black. The next step up has a dark purple background that lightens toward the top, and the irregular lines are combinations of green, red and lavender. At the pinnacle, the purple that faded to white starts to get some color back and the pinks and orange combine like a sunrise. There is some excellent color theory at play in these works. The doodled pieces tend to be in larger groupings, but they look unfinished and don’t stand up to cohesive compositions like A New Year, where bright colors span a white background across canvases of different sizes. This piece, like all the others, is asymmetrical. And it’s where you start to see the artist exploring modularity and conformity. As the song goes, all the little houses are “made out of ticky-tacky/ And they all look just the same.” Except none of these works looks like the others. It’s only because they’re grouped together that the eye merges the individual pieces into a whole. Along the same lines, none of the pieces used to build these tiny houses is actually the same as any other. It’s just a trick—we think that because they look similar, they are the same. Questions about originality, reproduction and authenticity have been around since the printing press, but Lin’s approach is interesting enough to seem new. His latest work might leave you reeling, but your scorched eyes will thank you. MEGAN HARNED.
Graphic groupings are a bright idea.
SEE IT: Chromatic Intercession is at Adams and Ollman, 209 SW 9th Ave., 724-0684, adamsandollman.com. Through Aug. 15.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 David Walker
Having the powers of a cyborg would be great for crushing your foes or doing your taxes. But what happens when your robotic half starts evolving? David Walker (Super Justice Force) will sign copies of his new release for DC Comics, Cyborg #1. Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-9050. 3-5 pm. Free.
Robert Brockway
Cracked.com senior editor and Portlander Robert Brockway (Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody) makes a fictional foray into the realm of cyberpunks and no-good angels. The Unnoticeables is a comedic, urban, horror fantasy with street punks disappearing at the hands of strange kids with unnoticeable faces. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, JULY 23 In Translation
The In Translation series focuses on translated literature—in this case Susan Bernofsky, who has translated pieces by Franz Kafka, Jenny Erpenbeck, Yoko Tawada and others. Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison St., 236-2665. 7 pm. Free.
Jeff Koehler
The Darjeeling crop planted in the heart of the Himalayas started the largest tea industry on the globe under imperial British rule. Jeff Koehler will discuss the influential beverage with his new book, Darjeeling. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JULY 25 NW Book Festival
With more than 100 authors and publishers representing every genre from fantasy to self-help to “comics/ cats,” the seventh annual NW Book Festival has something to offer for every insecure, cosplaying cat lover. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 11 am-5 pm. Free.
MONDAY, JULY 27 President Jimmy Carter
Who doesn’t love Jimmy? The 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner remains an outspoken advocate for women’s rights across the globe, along with humanitarian causes throughout the developing world. His new book, A Full Life, looks back on Carter’s accomplishments and disappointments. Carter will be signing books only. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 4 pm. Free.
Trevino L. Brings Plenty
In illustrating the experience of specific racial or cultural groups, it’s easy to fall upon tropes and stereotypes. But Portland poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty has lived the story of a Lakota Indian born on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, and his books reflect the American Indian identity in urban life. He will read from his new release, Wakpá Wanági, Ghost River. Sound Grounds, 3711 SE Belmont St., 234-0915. 7 pm. Free.
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HARPER LEE, GO SET A WATCHMAN I first saw the movie To Kill a Mockingbird when I was 6 and have loved Scout Finch ever since. As a willful tomboy, she spoke to me like no other character ever had. When I was older and read Harper Free Harper Lee. Lee’s book, the rest of it spoke to me, too: the frustration at injustice, the brutality perpetrated by powerful men that seems impossible to stop. Mockingbird is one of the classics of American literature for a reason: It offers up a hard look at our country while giving us characters to love unabashedly. When the news broke that Harper Lee’s fi rst, rejected novel, Go Set a Watchman, was being published, I was worried. I read a lot that indicated Lee, a very private 88-year-old, was probably suffering from dementia, and that her sister, who had been her main advocate, had recently died. A lawyer had persuaded her to publish this work that she’d never wanted shared. It felt unethical at best—at worst, it felt like elder abuse. Unfortunately, my fears were founded. Watchman is set years after Mockingbird, with that book’s characters either older or gone. Scout, or Jean Louise, is back from New York visiting Maycomb when she discovers her potential future husband, Henry Clinton, and her dad, Atticus, have joined almost all of Maycomb’s white men in the fight to “uphold the Southern Way of Life” against the “Negroes” (often worse). The editor who originally saw the Watchman manuscript, Tay Hohoff, saw potential in the book, but didn’t think it was publishable as it was. It’s easy to see how Lee and Hohoff shaped Watchman into Mockingbird out of compelling parts of Watchman: Scout’s memories of her alternately idyllic and terrifying childhood. What didn’t make it into Mockingbird are the parts of Watchman that make a modern reader deeply uncomfortable—the long sections when an adult Jean Louise is condescendingly taught Racist Theory 101 by any of the three main male characters. A Mockingbird lover’s stomach tightens when Atticus speaks: “‘Have you considered that you can’t have a set of backward people living among people advanced in one kind of civilization and have a social Arcadia?’” Publishing this book as a separate novel does a disservice to Lee—taken on its own, it’s basically a rationalization of why Southern white supremacists aren’t all bad. In Watchman, even Jean Louise believes black people are “backwards” and that civil rights are being pushed through too quickly. While this might be an interesting point of academic discussion about a book written in the 1950s, it’s embarrassing as the thesis of a book published today. But a shitty first draft shouldn’t take away from the legacy of Mockingbird, which is at its heart a story about a headstrong young girl discovering racism and misogyny in America. In an ideal world, someone would have instead used Watchman as a source text for a book about Lee’s life. To get an idea of what this could look like, see the South Dakota Historical Society Press’ annotated version of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s unpublished autobiography, Pioneer Girl. There, an editor was able to contextualize the work while acknowledging the source material was an unpublished draft. It was respectful, well-done and, most importantly, didn’t seem like a money grab by a shady lawyer taking advantage of one of America’s literary heroes in her final days. LIZZY ACKER. READ IT: Go Set a Watchman was published July 14.
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MOVIES
Editor: ENID SPITZ. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: espitz@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
OPENING THIS WEEK Paper Towns
From the pages of the third young adult best-seller by John Green, a pubescent boy and the girl next door undergo a roller coaster of teen adventures bound for love and true friendship. We expect The Fault in Our Stars meets Gone Girl, as co-written by Nicholas Sparks and Disney. Screened after deadline. See wweek.com for Alex Falcone’s review. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.
Pixels
C I’ve got to hand it to Pixels: It’s refreshingly colorful for a summer blockbuster. Those who are bored by the sight of exploding national monuments can at least rejoice in a watching them reduced to rainbow-colored LED rubble. (Though I was reminded of cartoonist Michael Kupperman’s Pablo Picasso, who goes around yelling at people and inanimate objects that he will crush them “into leetle cubes.”) Visuals aside, though, you’d be hard-pressed to find a memorable line of dialogue or a running gag that didn’t feel entirely playedout here. The all-white cast is dull and unconvincing: Adam Sandler is utter cardboard, Peter Dinklage has an accent that doesn’t make any sense, and Kevin James as the president is a little too Chris Christie for comfort. Once the thrill of the leetle cubes wears off—and the plot-recapping closing-credits song, by Waka Flocka Flame and Good Charlotte, begins— one realizes a trip to Ground Kontrol would have been cheaper and more satisfying. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place.
Southpaw
B- There’s no way to describe Southpaw without making it sound like a list of boxing movie clichés, because that’s exactly what it is. It’s also effective in precisely the way it means to be. Director Antoine Fuqua borrows liberally from the pugilistic playbook here, putting Jake Gyllenhaal’s lightheavyweight champion through the ringer in a familiar tale of redemption. Undefeated Billy Hope loses everything in short order: his wife (Rachel McAdams), riches, entourage and daughter. Life goes from idyllic to catastrophic for the champ faster than he can yell, “Adrian!” Even a rookie could see Forest Whitaker’s no-nonsense trainer and Eminem’s hype song coming from a mile away. That probably won’t stop you from jumping out of your seat in bloodthirsty joy when Gyllenhaal punches the other guy in the head. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Hollywood, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Movies on TV.
Unexpected
B- There’s no shock factor to Kris
Swanberg’s breakout film. A voyeuristic realism attends the surprise pregnancy of Chicago schoolteacher Sam (Cobie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother) and the personal growth that follows. The film’s biggest bumps are the twin bellies of Sam and her pregnant pupil, Jasmine (newcomer Gail Bean), who bond— mainly by eating sandwiches—while working on Jasmine’s college applications. While Unexpected would have you believe that the hardest parts of pregnancy are minor squabbles over frozen yogurt with your unbelievably devoted husband (Anders Holm) or a nauseating craving for pickles and Cheetos, but the film does breathe a fresh realism into overblown birth flicks like Knocked Up. Sam’s frustration at having to forgo her dream job
because it starts a week after her due date is believably sympathetic. But the film’s subtlety is its downfall, too—she has time to stop, midpush. to compliment a nurse’s kindness; then the baby slides out as if lubed by Swanberg’s good intentions. The script is refreshingly unworked and the casting impressively believable—we want these two moms at our next barbecue—but the film’s thematic contractions aren’t dramatic enough to deliver. R. ENID SPITZ. Laurelhurst.
STILL SHOWING Amy
A Even if you followed Amy
Winehouse’s career, it’s hard to keep from crossing your fingers for a different ending while watching Amy. Filmmaker Asif Kapadia approaches this exposé of “the girl behind Amy Winehouse” with his usual, unconventional eye, using sound clips from the star, her friends and colleagues to narrate Amy’s home videos and live performances. Getting familiar with pre-famous Amy makes watching the tabloids tear her from public grace more unnerving than ever. The drugs get harder and the footage gets more graphic. But like the loyal accompanists that played with her to the end, you feel compelled to believe she’s going to turn everything around. R. LAUREN TERRY. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Bridgeport, City Center.
Ant-Man
B+ Ant-Man is a largely self-contained, breezy, hilarious and gorgeous heist film that manages a feat few recent superhero films do: It stands up well on its own. Ex-con Scott Lang (a beefed-up Paul Rudd) invades the home of Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and finds a weird-looking suit that can shrink its wearer to insect size while granting super strength and the ability to control ants telepathically. He’s nobody’s favorite superhero, but director Peyton Reed is fully aware of this dopiness, and just runs with it. He deftly balances its awestruck visuals— from an ant’s-eye view of a shower drain to a battle in a briefcase—with a sly humor. Ant-Man might be the most disposable superhero movie, but that makes it all the more enjoyable. If it were a comic book, it wouldn’t be the kind you put in a Mylar bag. It’d be one that you read with greasy fingers and childlike relish. PG-13. ANDY KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, St. Johns Theater.
Cartel Land
A A hypnotic, cautionary tale that could just as well be titled Things Fall Apart, Cartel Land is a brutal, uncomfortably intimate documentary of two heavily armed militias. The first, based in the Southern United States, is made up of ex-military men and racist rednecks who patrol the U.S. border with Mexico. The other militia, based in southern Mexico, is a shockingly effective citizen army formed to fight cartels that Mexican law enforcement won’t touch. Both groups justify themselves in the same way: When governments can’t ensure the basic security of their people, they will. As the leader of the Mexican group Autodefensas puts it, “We can take up arms in defense of our lives, our families, our properties.” Director Matthew Heineman lets the leaders of both groups ramble on, especially Autodefensas’, as the militia slowly starts resembling a cartel itself. But Heineman is deeply embedded enough in the groups to reveal their hypocrisies and ulterior motives in spectacular, haunting fashion. R. CASEY JARMAN. Fox Tower.
“you’re noT THe boSS of me, jack”: mark Wahlberg.
BOOGIE KNIGHTS OUR PICKS FOR BEST DRINKING BUDDIES IN THE PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON RETROSPECTIVE. By jay hoRton 243-2122
Paul Thomas Anderson’s best films, from his 1997 porn elegy Boogie Nights to last year’s psychedelic adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, rank among the most important major releases of the past 20 years. Even relative misfires like the chaos of Magnolia and the Adam Sandler-ness of Punch-Drunk Love maintain passionate defenders. His seven features intermingle with 14 influences ranging from the obvious (Altman’s SoCal mosaic Short Cuts) to truly deep cuts (Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope) for NW Film Center’s six-week Anderson retrospective. Even though he’s confessed outright to borrowing the “money shot” of I Am Cuba for Boogie Nights’ pool party, Anderson’s movies always feel intensely individual. The closest his works come to a unifying thread is their richly textured protagonists, instantly recognizable yet utterly new. His six-ish gems follow a succession of off-kilter aspirants burdened by familial baggage and always chasing tomorrow’s dream. Here are our suggestions for the best character pairings in the lineup. Some seem cut from the same cloth. Some are disparate souls consumed by similar passions. Some just feel like the sorta guys who’d share a bottle. Anderson’s most compelling characters are men who soldier onward through manly bluster and regret. There will be brooding. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) in Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) in Strangers on a Train: Technically, they’re polar opposites. Barry, emotionally crippled by his seven sisters’ overbearing intervention, has collapsed inside himself as a quaking bruise of rage. Robert Walker’s dandy, Bruno, on the other hand, seems overly feminine to compensate for the damage wrought by his hated father. Well before Barry unleashes his psychotic bouts of violence or Bruno begins his murder spree, both their performances suggest the Hulk and the Joker are more frightening without makeup.
Larry Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) in Inherent Vice and Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) in The Big Sleep: How to adapt a beloved novel faithfully with gorgeous surroundings, clever asides and a hero committed to his pose of withdrawn cool? Paul Thomas Anderson may care less for love than any major director since Kubrick, but effortlessly capturing both egotists’ shock at discovering another person’s allure, he knows old movie romance. Eddie “Dirk Diggler” Adams (Mark Wahlberg) in Boogie Nights and Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat) in Melvin and Howard: While The Master directly apes Melvin and Howard’s opening scene of Howard Hughes speeding on a motorcycle through Nevada salt flats, Anderson’s signature character best resembles Hughes’ road-trip companion, Melvin. Based on an actual ’70s demi-icon, Melvin presaged Dirk Diggler’s wide-eyed swagger, wretched songcraft and knack for impressing rich old men in the passenger seat. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in There Will Be Blood and Jett Rink (James Dean) in Giant: A badly dated prestige that forced James Dean to act middle-aged, Giant lent more than just its Marfa, Texas, setting to There Will Be Blood. Both films revolve around roustabouts whose reckless charm corrodes as their inner toxicity seeps through their outward successes. A specific personality type is required to extract flammable gunk profitably through invasive drilling, but good oil men make lousy cocktail party guests. Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise) in Magnolia and Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in Goodfellas: Both Mackey and Hill orphaned themselves at early ages out of disgust at their fathers’ weaknesses and then constructed highly stylized personae with destructive urges (head-smashing and mindfucking, respectively) and totemic catchphrases (“keep your mouth shut” and “respect the cock”). If Ray Liotta seemed more heroic, that’s because the movie catered to his point of view (and because Tom Cruise is so deeply strange), but both were crushed by the same desperate fears. See IT: “The Art of Reinvention: Paul Thomas Anderson & His Influences” is at the NW Film Center on July 24-Sept. 6. $11. See nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
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Dope
Infinitely Polar Bear
for its excellent soundtrack, heavy on ’90s hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest, a shout-out to local punk darlings the Thermals and a cheap jab at Macklemore. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Our Family Wedding), Dope follows three geeky high-schoolers in a dangerous part of Inglewood, Calif., called the Bottoms. The geeks focus on their band, getting into Harvard and losing their virginity, which throws them into the hardhitting world of L.A. drug dealers. The film has a lot of heart: more than you’d expect from a comedy and less than you’d expect from a drama. That genre-switching is its main failing, though. The swings from serious to lighthearted are jarring, and it’s so focused on being cutting-edge that it feels outdated, like one big Throwback Thursday eight months ago (when people did #TBT). But the youthful cast and cameos from rappers like A$AP Rocky as the neighborhood kingpin are charming. R. ALEX FALCONE. Cinema 21.
dad forced to care for his two daughters alone when his wife (Zoe Saldana) moves to New York to pursue her career. As you’d expect, sometimes things are terribly awful and other times they’re wonderful. Ruffalo is great throughout, though he does speak weirdly, which makes it seem like bipolar disorder turns you British. And it took me 20 minutes to stop worrying he would hulk out when he got angry. As is the way in these Sundance movies, there are moments of beauty, nothing much happens, and at one point somebody runs through the woods. You definitely won’t enjoy it if (like me) you agreed to go because you assumed it was a Disney documentary about how polar bears mate for life. R. ALEX FALCONE. Fox Tower.
B This Sundance darling stands out
Entourage
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 already made a movie or something, but it couldn’t matter less compared to the sleeping-with-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. Avalon, Vancouver, Valley.
Ex Machina
B- Frankenstein’s monster is easy on the eyes in Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s sexualized science-fiction tale of a coder named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) whisked away by his genius boss (Oscar Isaac) for a top-secret project. The story’s familiar. But we’re enticed enough to follow along anyway. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Academy, Laurelhhurst
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. Academy, Laurelhurst.
The Gallows
D How many found footage-fueled horror vehicles still lay undiscovered? In the past 15 years, Jason Blum has built a production empire (Purge, Insidious, Paranormal Activity) by slavishly exploiting our dread fascination with grainy video shot in low light at odd angles. While this new release employs the trademark Blum technique, the actual storyline seems more suited to a Halloween episode of Glee. It follows a group of teenagers who mark the 20th anniversary of a student’s gruesome death on their high school’s stage by putting on a revival of the same play. When loosing a forgotten though eerily familiar evil upon the world, why not cast Kathie Lee’s daughter? R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.
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B- Mark Ruffalo stars as a bipolar
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. The main story 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, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard.
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. Raptor wrangler Chris Pratt remains forever the gruff yet accessible hero. 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.PG-13. TED JAMISON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Lila & Eve
D There’s no saving a high-voltage revenge drama that relies on selfies for its big reveal. Even Viola Davis (The Help) couldn’t fix it. Even with a gun and J-Lo as a mentor who becomes her sidekick. Even with the all-consuming rage of a mother whose son was senselessly murdered in a driveby shooting as her fuel. It might’ve achieved the mediocrity of a guiltypleasure chick flick rolling in the black Escalade of a ’hood drama, if director Charles Stone III had refined his focus on the support group that holds Lila & Eve’s only ounce of human emotion. Instead, he gives us Step-Up 2, without any washboard abs, and Rent, without any heart. This amputated revenge flick is a cold case from the first shot. Why didn’t the mastermind behind Nick Cannon as a Harlem drummer boy (Drumline) realize that a remake of J-Lo’s mother-bear vendetta film Enough shouldn’t be touched? Not with a 10-foot selfie stick. PG-13. ENID SPITZ. 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
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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.
Love & Mercy
B+ Brian Wilson’s mental breakdown in the mid-1960s is as essential to the Beach Boys mythos as the band’s Pendleton shirts and woodies. Love & Mercy is Bill Pohlad’s attempt to sort through the mess of Wilson’s collapse and treatment by Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), the psychologist who lost his license for exploiting Wilson. Two phases of Wilson’s life crisscross throughout the film. Young, brilliant, falling-apart-at-the-seams Brian is played 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. Kiggins, Fox Tower.
with their sexual confessions. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
A- It’s so rare, in the post-Disney Channel age, to find a young adult movie with a believable emotional center. In most films, teens are hormonal train wrecks or micro-adults, but the teenage protagonists of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl are dignified, complex and legitimately funny. They have layered relationships with the adults in their lives, none of whom is painted as a monster or clueless authority figure. They curse and look at porn and smoke cigarettes, but they also watch Herzog films and savor Vietnamese fare. It’s a deeply humanist dark comedy, alluring in presenta-
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magic Mike XXL
C If I base my critique on the room temperature when I left the theater, XXL gets the job done. Channing Tatum returns as the toned and thrusting Mike Lane, who left the stage to start a furniture business. But when Ginuwine’s grind-worthy “Pony” comes on the radio one night while Mike works, he’s reminded of how much he loves to dance and he gyrates around a table saw. Magic Mike writer Reid Carolin reunites the crew for one last show before they hang up their G-strings for good. Steven Soderbergh’s familiar cinematography gives the audience a chance to breathe between lap dances, adding quiet pans of the Florida coastline. But Gregory Jacobs’ festive direction fails to achieve the ambiguous tension between characters that made Soderbergh’s work in the first film so unexpectedly fascinating, This chapter has more partying and fewer moments that test our perceptions of entertainers. With one exception: a fascinating scene in which the guys shoot the shit with a gorgeous divorcee (Andie McDowell) and her middle-aged friends, surprising each other
Minions
A Like the nose-tickling carbonation of a freshly cracked soda, Minions is light and makes you giggle. The little yellow creatures’ evolution parallels the history of mankind. They’re leaderless after a run of fearless rulers like T-Rex, Napoleon and Count Dracula, so Kevin, Bob and Stuart set-out to find their next villainous king...or queen. At a villain comic-con in Orlando they fall for red-dressed vixen Scarlett (Sandra Bullock). The three henchmen, Scarlett and her mad scientist husband, Herb (Jon Hamm), jet to England to steal
PREVIEW
strangers on the bus: the first installment in el gato negro’s triMet trilogy.
A 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 souped-up 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. Academy, Eastport, Clackamas, Hollywood, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Fox Tower, Valley.
tion—with all the winking film literacy of a Wes Anderson flick, and a Brian Eno soundtrack to boot—and mostly devoid of the sappy coming-of-age trope. This film will make some teens feel less alone, which is about the best thing a movie like this can do. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Fox Tower.
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THE TRIMET TRILOGY Howard Mitchell is old school. The Portland filmmaker behind the TriMet Trilogy showing at Mission Theater this Sunday cites such deadly earnest (and just plain dead) heavyweights as John Cassavetes, Jimi Hendrix, Sylvia Plath and the Clash as influences. But Mitchell, who works under the pseudonym El Gato Negro, is chasing a vibe that was born long before Shadows and Are You Experienced blew viewers’ minds. If Mitchell belongs to any place and time that is not here and now, it is Moscow in the 1920s, when Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov were bringing their heady theories to life with films that aimed to alter vision and change the course of history. But Mitchell would probably chide Eisenstein and Vertov for the coldness of their revolutionary zeal. Sure, El Gato Negro has written a manifesto outlining the aims of his “New Pure Cinema,” but his mission is messier and more abstract. El Gato Negro just wants people to feel. “I’m working on combining the unique abstract form of music and sound...to unlock our unconscious connection to an earlier and ‘freer’ form of ourselves,” Mitchell explains. “When we weren’t entangled by various forms of media messages.” Every firebrand needs a nemesis, and Mitchell’s New Pure Cinema aims to fight the nastiest of hydras: ironic detachment. “People crave truth, and irony is just a form of dishonesty,” he says. “However, most people don’t really know what they want or feel.” The latest salvo in Mitchell’s war against irony is the jazzy, noir TriMet Trilogy. The third film, Le Tram, will have its world premiere at Mission Theater, following previous installments The Bus and Saudade. Filmed on Portland’s buses and trains over the past couple of years, Mitchell’s trilogy excavates the buzzes and hums of public space for the fractional moments that brush up against the ineffable. “The theme that connects all three stories is what I feel all of humanity craves,” says El Gato Negro. “That we have a hunger for something real, and desire for ‘magic’ in our lives, at least if we’re open to it.” It’s an ambitious agenda, to say the least. Toppling irony is as quixotic as missions get, but anyone who loves humanity enough to go looking for transcendence on MAX might be worth keeping an eye on. CHRIS STAMM.
Portland filmmaker El Gato Negro wants hipsters to have a heart.
see it: The TriMet Trilogy plays at Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm Sunday, July 26. $10 suggested donation.
JULY 22–28
Mr. Holmes
C- There’s a reason we don’t often
follow our heroes into the sunset: Retirement is pretty boring and aging is depressing. In Mr. Holmes, the great Sherlock (Ian McKellen), a celebrity thanks to Dr. Watson’s embellished accounts, spends his days at a rustic estate struggling to remember his last case, allowing his health to deteriorate and tending to his beehives. Anyone looking for some enthralling beekeeping action will be enamored with director Bill Condon’s endless shots of hives. This being a British prestige film, Holmes is reinvigorated with the help of a precocious little boy named Roger, who takes a liking to both Sherlock and beekeeping. Because everything here has bees. McKellen is fine in the role—he’s Ian McKellen, with a top hat. Meanwhile, Condon’s film skips all over the place. Without its famous name, this would be the story of a boring old man doing boring, old-man things. With Holmes in the title, it’s even worse: a film that robs one of our greatest heroes of his sunset, thrusting him instead into a prolonged, dull twilight. PG. ANDY KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center.
The Overnight
A “The best sex comedy at Sundance,” according to Rolling Stone, is more than slightly uncomfortable to watch. Like the-elastic-in-your-socks-is-wornout-and-they’re-bunching-in-yourshoes uncomfortable. The film follows a Seattle couple that moves with their young kid to L.A., where the child has trouble making friends. When the parents are invited to dinner by a hot neighbor couple that also has a young kid, they jump at the chance. It’s obvious to us from the beginning, if not to them, that something else is up. The following innuendo and buildup accounts for the bulk of the movie. Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black) and Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) act perfectly on the edge of oblivious and have terrific chemistry, and the film deftly avoids tumbling into cliché, cheesy sex jokes or awkwardness for its own sake. Even Jason Schwartzman as a sexy version of Michael Scott from The Office is more endearing than annoying. R. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Laurelhurst.
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. Eastport, Clackamas, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Self/Less
C+ Self/Less starts with a great concept and gets bungled, like Cookie Crisp—how could you make cookies and breakfast taste bad? Ben Kingsley is a rich asshole who’s dying of cancer, and he gets an opportunity that only insanely rich assholes get—a secretive medical group will put his consciousness into a younger/hotter body. There’s probably a metaphor in here about body-swapping, but like Ryan Reynolds, I’m just not willing to put in the effort to make this great. PG13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, City Center, Division,
Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.
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 serious role he’s played; Allison Janney is a funny version of her humorless self on The West Wing; and every sentence 50 Cent 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. R. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center.
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REVIEW
SPEAKING OUT: David Thorpe (center) in a scene from his film.
DO I SOUND GAY? A documentarian tries to straighten his speech.
There is only one thing I look for in a successful documentary: Does it make me feel guilty about an issue I didn’t previously feel guilty about? Blackfish did, obviously, and Hoop Dreams, and all the ones about food. Even Jiro Dreams of Sushi made me feel bad for not working harder. Writer-director David Thorpe got me right out of the gate. He opens his documentary by asking a bunch of strangers on the street the titular question, “Do I sound gay?” I don’t want to judge him. I don’t think I’m judging him. But when he asks, it’s exquisitely obvious to me that I’ve been making subconscious judgments this whole time. And now I’ve been blackfished into assuming somebody’s sexual orientation because of the way they talk. Do I Sound Gay? is a Kickstarter-funded, semi-autobiographical documentary Thorpe started working on after being dumped in his 40s and worrying that his voice was one of the reasons he can’t find love. Thorpe is gay. But he worries that his voice sounds annoying and too feminine, so he embarks on an experiment to speech-pathology his way out of sounding gay. The strongest part of Thorpe’s film is how he blends his personal story with the larger issue. It’s funny—and a little sad— watching him practice his “straight” vowel sounds at home, as prescribed by the voice coach who specializes in making actors sound less gay. Yes, he is more sing-songy, ends his sentences up instead of down and puts S sounds in the front of his mouth. But the real issue is that society labels people based on those sounds. In the film’s most poignant moments, Thorpe interviews teens who have been bullied mostly because of how their voices sound. I just want Thorpe to love himself. And he gets there in the film, kinda. His friends (who all seem like the coolest) mostly advise him to be himself. His panoply of celebrity interviews (Earth’s most delightful human Tim Gunn, David Sedaris, Dan Savage, et al.) mostly advise him to be himself. But while the lovefest helps Thorpe on his path to self-acceptance, he takes a few parting shots at the rest of us. Playing clips from various comedy skits, he reminds us of how often we laugh at characters just because they have effeminate voices. These aren’t from the ’80s, they’re recent comedies that should know better: Louie, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. The clips he plays aren’t even good jokes, but they seemed harmless when I saw them the first time. Now, thanks to the guilt-inducing power of a well-made documentary, I can’t help cringing. ALEX FALCONE. A
San Andreas (PG-13) 1:45PM 7:25PM Pixels (PG-13) 10:50AM 12:40PM 1:35PM 4:20PM 6:10PM 7:05PM 9:50PM Vatican Tapes, The (PG-13) 10:30AM 12:55PM 3:20PM 5:45PM 8:10PM 10:35PM Pixels (3D) (PG-13) 10:00AM 10:00AM ® 3:25PM 3:25PM ® 9:05PM 9:05PM ® Terminator Genisys (PG-13) 10:40AM 1:35PM 4:35PM 7:40PM 10:40PM Trainwreck (R) 10:15AM 1:20PM 4:25PM 7:25PM 10:25PM Ted 2 (R) 10:55AM 4:35PM 10:15PM Self/less (PG-13) 10:20AM 4:05PM 10:05PM Southpaw (R) 10:10AM 1:10PM 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM Paper Towns (PG-13) 11:00AM 12:25PM 1:50PM 3:15PM 4:40PM 6:05PM 7:30PM 8:55PM 10:20PM Inside Out (PG) 11:35AM 2:15PM 4:55PM 7:35PM 10:15PM
Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:30AM 1:30PM 4:30PM 7:35PM 10:35PM Ant-Man (PG-13) 10:05AM 1:00PM 1:45PM 3:55PM 7:00PM 7:45PM 9:55PM Pixels (PG-13) 12:40PM ® 6:10PM ® Ant-Man (3D) (PG-13) 10:45AM 11:55AM 11:55AM ® 2:55PM 2:55PM ® 4:45PM 6:00PM 6:00PM ® 9:00PM 9:00PM ® 10:40PM Minions (PG) 10:00AM 11:10AM 12:30PM 1:40PM 3:00PM 4:15PM 5:30PM 6:45PM 9:15PM 10:30PM Mr. Holmes (PG) 11:40AM 2:25PM 5:10PM 7:50PM 10:30PM Minions (3D) (PG) 8:00PM Magic Mike XXL (R) 10:25AM 1:25PM 4:20PM 7:20PM 10:20PM Max (2015) (PG) 1:15PM 7:15PM
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Ant-Man (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 7:05PM 9:50PM
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Trainwreck (R) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:30PM
Minions (PG) 10:45AM 12:00PM 1:15PM 2:30PM 3:45PM
Pixels (3D) (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:25PM 4:05PM 6:45PM
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Baahubali (Telugu- Primo Medical) (NR) 11:20AM
Terminator Genisys (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:35PM
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Southpaw (R) 11:00AM 1:55PM 4:50PM 7:45PM 10:40PM
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Inside Out (PG) 11:15AM 1:50PM 4:25PM 7:00PM 9:35PM
Minions (3D) (PG) 5:00PM
Bajranji Bhaijaan (Eros International) (NR) 9:00PM
Paper Towns (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:00PM Pixels (3D) (PG-13) 12:25PM 3:15PM 6:05PM 8:55PM Trainwreck (R) 10:40AM 1:35PM 4:35PM 7:35PM 10:35PM Minions (PG) 11:30AM 12:35PM 2:00PM 4:30PM 5:45PM 7:00PM 9:30PM 10:40PM Spy (R) 10:55AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:25PM Terminator Genisys (PG-13) 12:40PM 3:50PM 7:10PM 10:10PM Pixels (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM Southpaw (R) 12:45PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:15PM Ant-Man (PG-13) 1:30PM 4:30PM 7:25PM 10:30PM
Gallows (R) 11:10AM 1:25PM 3:40PM 6:05PM 8:20PM
Pixels (XD-3D) (PG-13) 11:45AM 2:30PM 5:15PM 8:00PM 10:40PM
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the Queen of England’s crown. What steals the show is the Minions’ cutesy, goofball dialect—a mixture of what sounds like Spanish and gibberish, with English phrases tossed into the steady, Italian-like flow. A nasally chorus and “monkey see monkey do” act topped off the enchanting hour and 30 minutes. Both adults and their little minions can giggle at the silly fart jokes, but there’re also ’70s Beatles and hippie references for the ’rents. By the end I was crying for more with the rest of the squealing audience, though they probably just needed a diaper change. PG. AMY WOLFE. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Cinemas.
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10:40PM Minions (3D) (PG) 3:10PM 8:15PM Ant-Man (3D) (PG-13) 10:40AM 12:00PM 3:00PM 6:10PM 9:00PM Mad Max: Fury Road (R) 10:50AM 1:55PM 4:55PM 7:45PM 10:35PM Magic Mike XXL (R) 10:45AM 1:30PM 4:20PM 7:20PM 10:05PM Inside Out (PG) 11:05AM 1:40PM 4:25PM 7:15PM 9:55PM Jurassic World (PG-13) 12:50PM 4:05PM 7:20PM 10:25PM
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Tangerine
Testament of Youth
two fi rst-timers in the leading roles, Sean Baker’s fi fth feature resembles a debut fi lm. Taking place one sunny Christmas Eve, the fi lm is led by two transgender prostitutes whom we fi rst meet as they commune in the window seat of a Hollywood doughnut shop. Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is fresh out of jail after a 28-day stint and looking to fi nd her unfaithful pimp boyfriend’s lover. The quest narrative that follows is often hilarious, giving a more ground-level view of Los Angeles than in any other movie in recent years. In its unrestrained verve and verite approach, Tangerine is constantly threatening to jump off the screen and get in your face. Laughs abound, but so do moments of silent understanding in what’s ultimately an exploration of friendships that form between people with no one else to care about. That may not sound like much, but when everything else unravels, it’s more than enough. R . MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.
breaking 1933 memoir of the same name, Testament of Youth is full of beautiful, well-dressed people making their way through physical muck for recreation and for country. You can’t call it a naturalist fi lm, because like any period piece its locales are carefully curated and scrubbed of any trace of modernity, but it is certainly a fi lm in love with the idea of nature. Many characters are introduced and killed off over the course of the movie’s 2½-hour running time, but director James Kent stops to shoot the roses, the ocean and the trembling cheekbones of his star, Alicia Vikander (whom you may remember as the sexy robot from Ex Machina). Kent’s patience is the spiritual center of this decidedly unracy biopic, though Brittain endures so much tragedy that it can’t help feeling like the prequel (Brittain Begins!) to a fi lm in which she goes out and conquers the world…with pacifi sm, of course. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cinema 21.
B+ Shot on an iPhone and featuring
Ted 2
C From the instant Seth
MacFarlane’s Ted grossed over $200 million in 2012, the sequel was inevitable. The foulmouthed Ted is back with more celebrities, low-hanging fruit and product placement. It’s not the movie the moviegoing public needs, but it is the fi lm we deserve. It opens with the titular bear marrying Tami-Lynn, but when the two decide to adopt a child, they fi nd out that Ted is not a person in the eyes of the government. Oh, and Ted also goes to a sperm bank with his best friend, John (Mark Wahlberg), because lol semen. There are plenty of awkward allusions to civil rights as Ted goes to court to prove his personhood, but these fall fl at. Between lines bordering on homophobic and the fi lm’s obsession with dick jokes, Ted 2 seems like something written by a mean-spirited 13-year-old. The most striking thing about this execrable sequel is its star power: Morgan Freeman, Mad Men’s John Slattery, and a deadly serious Liam Neeson join Patrick Warburton from The Tick. If you think “black cocks” coming up on every Google search or Marky Mark being covered in spooge is hilarious, Ted 2 is the movie for you. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Division, Movies on TV.
Terminator Genisys
C Yes, Schwarzwhatever says, “I’ll be back.” The rest of Genisys makes no goddamn sense. It’s part sequel, part reboot, selectively using other parts of the series, which it can do because of two magic words: alternate timelines. But at least Arnold is still fun; the other characters, not so much. New Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones) is unbelievable as a badass ninja about to become pregnant with the savior. The thing that made the fi rst Terminator work was its simplicity—one idea, relentlessly pursued to incredibly good eff ect, but Genisys goes to unfortunate lengths to explain the why and how of time travel. Instead, why not explain why the fuck the robots have human teeth? Worse is that Skynet isn’t a DARPA program in this timeline. Now it’s a stupid app that everybody inexplicably wants. It’s harder to believe that you could sell a billion copies of that app than to accept that a super-genius robot could invent time travel and yet never think to send two fucking terminators at the same time and be done with it. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard.
B Based on Vera Brittain’s ground-
Trainwreck
B Amy Schumer is the absolute tops. She’s right about way more things than she’s wrong about, and she’s absolutely killing it on your Facebook friends’ walls with sketches from her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer, but Trainwreck isn’t worth the ticket price. Amy Schumer stars as Amy, a version of herself as a magazine writer instead of a comedy writer. She inexplicably falls in love with a boring guy (Bill Hader from Saturday Night Live) who loves her back unconditionally but for no apparent reason. It goes well for a while, then it doesn’t for a couple days, then it does again. That’s the entire plot, composed pretty much entirely of jokes, and many are straight from her standup. Not only does Amy Schumer sound like she’s just quoting her standup, all the characters sound like they’re quoting Amy Schumer’s standup. It’s as if a race of intergalactic Schumers invaded New York and decided to inhabit several human bodies: Amy Schumer stars in Invasion of the Sense-of-Humor Snatchers. Schumer’s acting itself is a monotone smirk: Things are going well? Smirk. At a funeral? Smirk. Having sex? Smirk smirk smirk. Save your time, save your money, and most importantly, save your little heart from breaking over what this fi lm could’ve been. R . ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, St. Johns Cinemas.
What We Do in the Shadows
B+ The last thing pop culture needs is another vampire fl ick. The second-to-last is more reality TV. Leave it to a pack of kiwis—including Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame—to give us both and somehow make vampires and reality TV feel fresh. What We Do in the Shadows follows four vampires as they prepare for the annual Unholy Masquerade. “It’s this big, homoerotic dick-biting club.” You’d be hard-pressed to fi nd a more biting and accurate critique of vampiredom. R. JOHN LOCANTHI . Academy, Laurelhurst.
While We’re Young
A- This Gen-X midlife-crisis movie is a career-best comedy for both Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach. Filmmaker Josh (Stiller) and producer wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are stalled in careers and marriage. More than a generational clash, this is a satire of an entire class of narcissists (the director included). R. BRIAN MILLER . Laurelhurst.
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NW NOIR GETS DARK AND DIVEY. BY A P KRYZA
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It’s no surprise that Portland loves film noir. This is a city where throwback clothing is always in style. Rain and gloom drench our streets and seedy alleys. Shady developers— such a staple villain of the genre— lurk in the neighborhoods. Our independent theaters get a constant stream of hard-boiled gumshoes and femmes fatales. But now, a new film society is taking noir out of the theaters and transporting its shifty characters to a place where they might feel at home: a dingy dive bar. On Sunday, NW Noir hits Cully’s notorious Spare Room—home of live-sax karaoke, mystery shots and a rogue’s gallery of Portland characters ranging from grizzled old men to meek hipster patsies—for a double feature of films featuring noir icon Richard Widmark: the hardboiled 1947 classic Kiss of Death and the con-man thriller from 1950, Night and the City (4830 NE 42nd Ave., 287-5800; 7:30 pm Sunday, July 26) . Despite the classic status of these films, non-fans might be wondering, “Who the hell is Richard Widmark?” That’s part of the reason super-fans Brian Young, Ben Plont and Mark Snow started NW Noir late last year: While Portland cinemas tend to screen a lot of noir, they fall back on perennials like Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man and The Killing. That leaves hundreds of noir titles unexplored. “So many times, when they run noir films, you always see the same things. We’re trying to run our events where we pay tribute to a noir icon,” says Young. “Some of the titles are prominent ones, but we’ll also expose audiences to some great noir films that don’t get shown.” The series, which Young hopes will become a quarterly event recognized by the national Film Noir Foundation, is an interesting experiment. Let’s face it, it’s tough to drag the uninitiated to a cinema for an old movie full of chain-smoking dudes in high-waisted pants. Everybody loves film noir—they just don’t know it. The genre has permeated everything from family movies (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) to sci-fi (Blade Runner, Looper) comic-book flicks (Constantine), and stoner capers (The Big Lebowski, Inherent Vice). One glance at a film like Kiss of Death, with its stark shadows and lowlife characters, and even the most casual movie fan will recognize something they know and love. Beyond being aesthetically perfect for the screenings, it might prove easier for fans to lure their unsuspecting friends into the noir world at the Spare Room, with the films showing on
MYSTERY SHOT: Ben Plont, Laura Welsh and Mark Snow.
every TV. Given the universal appeal of noir, it’s hard to imagine anyone with a few stiff drinks in them being able to resist the genre’s seductive allure. “I think we all have a little bit of a dark side that we don’t let our family and friends know about,” says Young. “These movies allow you to not only appreciate the dark side of cinema, but maybe to appreciate the dark side of yourself.” ALSO SHOWING:
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Latin motto “Carpe diem” shouldn’t be translated as “Seize the day!”, says author Nicholson Baker. It’s not a battle cry exhorting you to “freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.” The proper translation, according to Baker, is “Pluck the day.” In other words, “you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were a wildflower, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things -- so that the day’s stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, and the flower is released in your hand.” Keep that in mind, Aries. I understand you are often tempted to seize rather than pluck, but these days plucking is the preferable approach. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When I talk about “The Greatest Story Never Told,” I’m not referring to the documentary film about singer Lana Del Rey or the debut album of the rap artist Saigon or any other cultural artifact. I am, instead, referring to a part of your past that you have never owned and understood . . . a phase from the old days that you have partially suppressed . . . an intense set of memories you have not fully integrated. I say it’s time for you to deal with this shadow. You’re finally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as a crucial thread in the drama of your hero’s journey. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. Funny story: Once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. Oops! He didn’t watch where he was going, and fell down into a well. He was OK, but embarrassed. Let’s make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated, and inspired -- but only if you watch where you’re going. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Charles Darwin is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. But while he was still alive, his best-seller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The painstaking result of over forty years’ worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature’s crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwin’s central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time can have monumental effects. This also happens to be one of your key themes in the coming months. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The results suggest that she is 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your probably mix for the coming days: 16 percent relieved, 18 percent innocent, 12 percent confused, 22 percent liberated, 23 percent ambitious, and 9 percent impatient. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “What makes you heroic?” asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s how he answered himself: “simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope.” This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo. Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain. Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Actress and musician Carrie Brownstein was born with five planets in Libra. Those who aren’t conversant with astrology’s mysteries may conclude that she is a connoisseur of elegance
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