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our beautiful Oregon Coast will compound the damage by sparing Longview. 4 Some people strongly oppose putting a 7-year-old kid in shackles for his perp walk . 7 Given the cost of watering the vegetable garden his teenage daughter planted to feed the homeless, real-estate heir Jordan Schnitzer said he “should just take them all out to dinner.” 21

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INBOX DISCRIMINATION OR EXERCISING RIGHTS? The Kleins chose to open a business in Oregon, where discrimination against gays is forbidden by law [“Bittersweet Cake,” WW, July 22, 2015]. They could have chosen to bake only for members of their church, but they chose to open a public business. Sometimes people break laws for good reasons, and we call that civil disobedience. But the people who do so face consequences. If the Kleins feel so strongly about this, let them be martyrs for their beliefs. After all, it’s only a monetary fine, and Jesus said repeatedly that money should not be important to Christians. —“Tired of Nonsense” We have freedom of religion, and people are trying to extend a law that takes that away. If we can take the First Amendment rights away from Christians because we don’t like their beliefs, then there is nothing that prevents your constitutional rights from being taken away from you. —Rebecca Spellmeyer

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Portland police officer Jeromie Palaoro was trusted in a moment where a victim called for help and wanted to speak up [“The Naked Gun,” WW, July 22, 2015]. He only traumatized her again. If anyone else had done this, they would be in jail right now. How is it this police officer is on paid leave? He should be fired, charged and in jail. —Ashley Nichole Evans

In last week’s story on PDX Airport bars (“Terminally Intoxicated”), we incorrectly cited South Carolina liquor laws and misidentified the site of Oregon’s International Pinot Noir Celebration. Standard-sized liquor bottles have been allowed in South Carolina bars since 2006. The pinot noir festival is held in McMinnville. WW regrets the errors.

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In the weeks following the July 12 publication in The New Yorker of Kathryn Schulz’s “The Really Big One,” I got several letters asking this question. You’ll be pleased to learn that the coming tsunami will not wipe Portland’s godless ass off the map. A recent Oregon State University study predicts the 13-foot wave will dissipate to nothing by the time it reaches Longview’s slightly more godly ass, about 50 miles inland. This is cold comfort if you (or your parents or grandparents) live on the coast, which by all accounts will evoke memories of Banda Aceh after it’s all over. Even so, Schulz lays it on pretty thick, with plenty of “as much as” and “up to” to punch up the body count. When she has to drop in the official Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

Everyone should have the right to refuse business. A Jewish baker should not have to make a cake for ISIS. A black baker should not have to make a cake for the KKK. A baker should not have to make a cake that is pornographic. There are many instances that can come up where it should be left to the discretion of the business. —“coconuts911”

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The recent New Yorker article made me wonder: When the cataclysmic earthquake hits, how far up the Columbia River will the tsunami go, assuming it’s as big as predicted? —Not Buying a Beach House

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estimated death toll—a measly 13,000 souls!—she hastens to add that if conditions are right, that figure “could be off by a horrifying margin.” This is typical of the ongoing media conversation about the quake: brief bursts of hair-on-fire hysteria followed by long interludes of wondering whether Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj are going to kiss and make up. Make no mistake: When the quake comes, we’re screwed. But Schulz tries to make it sound like we’re asteroid-impact-level screwed, when it seems more likely we’ll be Fukushima-level screwed. (At least there’s no nuclear power plant in Seaside.) It’s amazing how imminent the disaster seemed right after that article came out. For a moment, I even considered buying some canned goods and bottled water. But already, through the soothing chatter of my Twitter feed, I can feel the danger receding, like an elderly person’s house borne away on the tide. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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WHEN WILL THE POPE ENDORSE CHARLIE? Ted Wheeler is preparing his run for Portland mayor. Last week, the state treasurer told The Oregonian he was still making up his mind whether to challenge Mayor Charlie Hales in 2016 or take a run at Gov. Kate Brown. But two sources tell WW that Wheeler told them after the interview that he has ruled out a gubernatorial bid and will likely run WHEELER against Hales. Polling results from April reviewed by WW show Wheeler would have faced an uphill battle against Brown, a popular incumbent: Only 24 percent of voters statewide know who he is. Wheeler tells WW he has not made a decision. “When I decide,” he says, “I will be very public about it.” The Pacific Northwest’s evangelical Quakers met for their annual gathering last week at George Fox University in Newberg. Among decisions made by the group’s elders: banning a Portland church for allowing gay and lesbian members. West Hills Friends Church, located in the Maplewood neighborhood, has officially welcomed LGTBQ members since 2008. The church was informed via letter July 24 that the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends—a consortium of more than 60 Quaker congregations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho—had decided to remove it. “I feel most saddened for the teenagers and young people, both closeted and uncloseted, who basically received another message from a Christian institution that they’re not welcome,” says Mark Pratt-Russum, a pastor at West Hills Friends. “The last thing they need is to be told ‘no’ again.” Families representing undocumented Mexican inmates in Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem say the Mexican Consulate in Portland is neglecting the prisoners by failing to issue them Mexican ID cards. Without them, the men can’t get tax identification numbers from the Internal Revenue Service that would allow them to get jobs in prison—and to support their families in Oregon, including many children who are U.S. citizens. “Here’s a group of men who want to do the right thing, and the Mexican government won’t let them,” says Francisco Lopez, a volunteer with Voz Hispana Cambio Comunitario, the Woodburn group organizing a July 31 protest at the consulate. “They want to pay taxes and help their families.” Calls to the Mexican Consulate were not returned.

Nearly 200,000 eligible Portlanders still haven’t paid their $35-a-year arts tax almost three years after voters approved the measure, according to a July 28 city audit. Who are these scoﬄaws? Hard to say. But we can tell you who they’re not. Through a public records request, Portland resident Andrew Nisbet obtained a list of everyone who paid the tax in 2013. He then shared it with WW. We’re publishing a searchable list of the names on wweek.com. So go ahead, snoop. Did your neighbors pay? What about your boss? (There’s one caveat. Some people with limited or nontaxable income are exempt.) Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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Cory Mashburn made national news at age 13 when a teacher caught him slapping girls’ bottoms at his McMinnville middle school—and prosecutors charged him with multiple counts of felony sex abuse. On his fifth day in detention, a gangly Mashburn padded into court with his hands and feet bound in shackles. A belly chain secured his wrists to his waist. Another boy, his friend, also faced charges while wearing the same restraints. “I was being treated like I murdered someone,” Mashburn, now 21, recalls. Paula Lawrence, Mashburn’s attorney, says an audible gasp rose in the courtroom that day in 2007. “You see these little boys, who look like little boys,” she says, “and they come shuffling into the courtroom like they’re in a chain gang.” Yamhill County prosecutors reduced Mashburn’s charges, then dropped them altogether, amid huge public outcry and protest from the girls’ families. Four years later, the county restricted the use of metal shackles. Yet across Oregon—including in Portland—law enforcement officials routinely shackle juveniles accused of offenses, even misdemeanors, without first proving the need. It’s a practice barred for adults, because it could prejudice juries to see defendants as guilty. But bringing kids to court in chains persists in parts of Oregon despite the complaints of children’s advocates, defense lawyers, some judges and the American Bar Association. These groups want Oregon to join several other states, including Washington, in barring the blanket use of shackles or other restraints when young people in detention appear in court. Advocates say shackles do tremendous harm to a child’s sense of self-worth and could prove counterproductive. “It’s very humiliating,” says Tom Crabtree, head public defender in Deschutes County, who once represented a shackled 7-year-old. “Kids who aren’t treated with respect tend not to respect others.” The practice of shackling young offenders appears to have crept into juvenile courts for practical reasons. Youth detention facilities are sometimes connected to courtrooms through secure hallways. Where they’re not, kids in custody sometimes have to walk through public corridors. Law enforcement officials, worried a kid would either hurt people in the halls or bolt, cuffed them. Lt. Steve Alexander, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, says the restraints protect the public and allow the county to assign fewer deputies to supervise proceedings. “It’s a safety thing,” he says. And since kids don’t sit in front of juries, the shackles often stayed on. The idea was, the shackles were harmless. “That mindset,” says Marion County Circuit Judge Lindsay Partridge, “is obviously counterproductive to

what we’re trying to do with kids.” The U.S. court system doesn’t allow law enforcement officials to indiscriminately shackle adults in court if they’re not dangerous or liable to escape. Restraints would impede a defendant’s constitutional right to a fair trial. And since it would be easier for a jury to imagine a shackled defendant’s guilt, it would be prejudicial, too. Juvenile defendants don’t face jury trials. But advocates say the practice is unjust anyway. “Children are treated worse than adults charged with the same offenses,” says Mark McKechnie, executive director of the Portland nonprofit Youth, Rights and Justice. A patchwork of policies governs the use of restraints for kids in Oregon. Some of those policies are beginning to change. In April, Deschutes County ended the practice of automatically restraining kids in custody who are accused of juvenile offenses. Chuck Puch, manager of Deschutes County’s juvenile detention center, says law enforcement officials were fearful at first. They worried that unshackling the children would create chaos in courtrooms. “Well, guess what?” Puch says. “It didn’t happen.” This month, Marion County also changed its routine. Now instead of restraining juvenile offenders in custody, the court makes a determination on an individual basis about whether restraints are needed. “We’ve flipped the presumption,” says Partridge. “We’re not going to restrain kids, unless we have a specific reason.” Multnomah County has mixed practices. Young people

who are brought to court at the facility next to the juvenile detention center are sometimes shackled, depending on which courtroom they’re going to. If for some reason they have a hearing at the downtown courthouse, they’re also shackled. That’s up to the sheriff. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Maureen McKnight, who often oversees juvenile cases, says there’s no blanket policy about what happens once the child is inside a courtroom. “Depending on the youth, the practice is going to vary,” she says. Yamhill County restricted the use of shackles in the wake of the Mashburn “spanking” case. But officials use so-called “soft restraints” that resemble seat belts tied around juveniles’ wrists when they walk to court. Officials remove the restraints in court. Tracie Mashburn, Cory’s mother, says her son’s experience in detention steered him down a bad path. He had just turned 13 when he was arrested, but he looked as if he were 11. Teachers, she says, described him as a funny, easygoing kid. But that changed after his release from detention, where he was shackled and routinely strip-searched. “He was very quiet, very afraid,” she says. “He became very bitter and angry with adults and teachers, anyone having any kind of control over him.” At 17, he sought treatment for drug and alcohol abuse and started addressing his unresolved feelings about imprisonment. “We have our son back,” his mom says now. “But we lost him for a good three or four years.” Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner-Hayward (D-Portland) says Zoom+ came to her in 2013, when it was seeking to require insurance companies to cover more expansive telemedicine treatment. Steiner-Hayward says before the changes, “insurance only had to reimburse telemedicine services if it was not possible for the person to receive care otherwise” and if the services were administered at a medical facility. “They’re trying to set up a different model, which always takes work,” she says. The use of telemedicine will help Zoom+ keep its costs down, says Susan King of the Oregon Nurses Association. “It breaks down barriers,” she says, “and those barriers have a cost attached.”

“THEY’RE NOT NONPROFITS. THEY’RE THE HIGHEST-PAID PEOPLE IN THE GAME.” —DAVE SANDERS Zoom+ also lobbied for the passage of a bill to allow nurse practitioners to dispense limited doses of medication to patients. The use of nurse practitioners is another way that Zoom+ says it can reduce costs for customers. Sanders (who will be speaking at TechfestNW in August) recently sat down with WW to discuss Zoom+. WW: Can you give us the origin story of ZoomCare? Dave Sanders: Dr. DiPiero and I met the first year of college, at Michigan. But we both were the same kind of people, who had always wanted to be physicians. We went all the way through our training and we get out into the world and we find, “Oh my gosh, health care can’t be this dysfunctional, can it?” It can’t really work this way, between the providers and doctors and insurers with the battling going on. So we thought we could create enterprises that could help solve that problem. So we spent about 10 years after our training founding two companies here in Portland, and ultimately sold those companies, and felt dissatisfied by that.

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“Cellular immortality coaching?” asks a large billboard on the east side of the Willamette River. That’s all the blue and white sign says, other than the name of the company that purchased it, Zoom+ Performance Health Insurance. It’s a cryptic ad for a company that state regulators still find inexplicable. ZoomCare started in 2006 by putting on-demand neighborhood health clinics throughout Portland. Today, it has 21 clinics in the Portland metropolitan area and Salem and six in Seattle. Appointments start on time—in fact, if patients are more than five minutes late, they have to reschedule. Exam rooms have flat-screen TVs on the wall showing patients their medical history, diagnosis

and treatment plan. But don’t expect to see a doctor: Most examinations are conducted by a nurse practitioner. In 2014, ZoomCare announced that it would be getting into the insurance business. Last May, it rebranded itself as Zoom+, and announced plans for surgery, mental health services, fitness coaching, parenting specialists, “brain training” and dental cleaning. The company was soon engaged in a lengthy pricing dispute with the Oregon Insurance Division. But not for the reasons you might think. In a dispute that has few precedents in Oregon, the state insurance division argued that Zoom+’s proposed rates were too low and forced the company to increase them. Dave Sanders, the youthful, energetic physician-turned-entrepreneur who cofounded Zoom+ with Dr. Albert DiPiero, says that this

is because the state really doesn’t understand the innovation of his business model, one that uses fewer physicians and more nurses, expands the use of telemedicine and relies on a health care protocol called “Right Care” that decreases the use of unnecessary and expensive tests. In a letter of support, advocacy group OSPIRG encouraged the competition: “Zoom Health Plan, a new market entrant, is proposing a new model of health care delivery specifically intended to manage utilization and contain costs.” But the Insurance Division suggests those rates may be too low to cover patients’ costs. “We have proposed increased rates,” says Insurance Commissioner Laura Cali, “in order for consumers to continue counting on the coverage they have purchased.” The agency declined further comment for this story. Sanders successfully fought to change state rules—especially so its insurance can cover off-site doctors treating patients via computer and phone.

Go back to 2006, when you first began ZoomCare. How do you persuade a physician to come work for you? It was very hard. At one point, no one would work for us. And then one day, a young physician walked into our doors, and he was able to translate the concepts we had and make it a reality. People began saying, “Have you seen what they’re doing?” Doctors became interested in it. But even then, we had this saying: performance not pedigree. I was raised in the pedigree-based world, where my title, my degree, my university was what mattered. And we began to find that team-based care, and systems of care, really drives the results. A well-trained physician’s assistant or nurse practitioner can do an equal or better level of care. How are you able to offer health care at substantially lower prices? When you come into Zoom, you will be entering a system of care. You will typically CONT. on page 11 Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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Dave Sanders’ enthusiastic style is marked by his fondness for slogans and phrases that try to capture his health care model. Here are a few buzzwords he dropped during our interview:

CRUNCHING NUMBERS: “Overall, they priced us at a higher price point that has no connection to our model,” Sanders says. “The price is higher than it needs to be.”

be seeing a physician’s assistant or a nurse practitioner. They’re practicing in neighborhood clinics that are a thousand or so square feet. We take those savings and we pass that along. We have been the radical pushers of telemedicine. When you use PAs and NPs for your front line, radically use telemedicine, have your own ER that’s not rewarded for admissions, we have changed the entire cost structure. We focus on reducing excess utilization, excess unit pricing and excess [insurer-provider] friction.

some of those things by working off one shared platform. So that’s where we’re similar. Where we’re different, though, is different people, different processes, different methods of payment. We are practicing in neighborhood clinics that are a thousand or so square feet, that are not made from marble and waterfalls, so it’s a lower-cost physical plan we’re working off of. Kaiser may be working at the same price point, but frankly, we’re breathing a lot less heavy.

What do you specifically do to reduce excess utilization? We have a concept called Right Care. And Right Care asks, what does the science say about this? And the Right Care is no more, and no less. So structurally, we have built into our own home-built software systems guidelines that say, if you want to work up this headache, here’s how you work it up. And it’s a menu. Here’s how you work it up. And here is when and only when you get to the level of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging, an expensive diagnostic test that some critics say is overused). And if you order an MRI prematurely, it will flag, and we have an internal system for authorization.

So you want your insurance prices to be as low as possible in a competitive marketplace. Well, no, not actually as low as possible. What we would like is for the price not to be a barrier for purchasing. The product has trade-offs for the public. The trade-off you’re making as a consumer is, you’re not getting a choice of 5,000 providers and hospitals. You’re going to pick Zoom. It’s branded care versus generic care. And it should be a beautiful, designed experience for you. We’re going to control that experience, and we can control the costs better.

In Oregon, there are network insurers and delivery-system insurers. Kaiser is the only other delivery-system insurer. How does its model compare to yours? Well, Kaiser is a phenomenal company. They do a great job at what they do. What we share is that by having our own provider organization, our own people, we have a team-based care model. And I think team-based care companies are better able to organize their standards, what we agree upon, and reward internally for that. And we can reduce extra testing and hospitalizations. We can reduce

Is it a disadvantage that you’re a for-profit company working in an industry that is mostly nonprofits? Because they’re not paying taxes, because they have access to capital, that kind of stuff? It is. I was giving a talk, and someone said to me, “Dr. Sanders, it concerns me that you’re not a nonprofit.” And I said, the CEO and president of Providence made $4.5 million last year. They’re not nonprofits. They’re the highest-paid people in the game. That’s why you’ve got to have different people, you’ve got to build different types of places and build your own technologies. We’ve got to fundamentally change dynamics so we can have a spot in the marketplace and in the world.

cloud care The use of telemedicine through smartphones and computers. Patients access care “in the cloud.” the four P’s The things Zoom+ approaches diﬀerently from other health care providers— people, places, processes, payment. the full stack Used by Sanders in a variety of contexts, it means a complete health care delivery system. performance not pedigree The motto behind Zoom+’s belief that licensed physicians are often overused in traditional health care systems. Sarah The name for Zoom+’s imagined composite customer. the Sarah Seven The needs Zoom+ has determined are important to its target customers but are not met by other health care providers.

twice-half-10 Zoom+’s mantra, meaning twice the health, half the price, 10 times the customer delight. 10 by 10/1 Zoom+’s goal to do 10 big things by Oct. 1 of this year. urgent emergent “Complete, get-you-back-inthe-game care”; the Zoom+ neighborhood clinics currently in existence.

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Portland’s 16 biggest water users keep guzzling— no drought about it. MANY OREGONIANS ARE RUNNING OUT OF WATER. Others show no restraint. The state is experiencing its worst drought in two decades. Another mild winter left a small snowpack, which has all but disappeared in a scorcher of a summer—thanks to a mass of unusually warm Pacific Ocean water called “the Blob.” Gov. Kate Brown has declared a drought emergency in 23 of 36 counties. This month, state wildlife officials took the unheard-of step of banning fishing in most Oregon rivers—including the Willamette. The parched landscape summons memories of 1992, when drought prompted city officials to issue warnings against watering lawns and washing cars. Yet Portland’s biggest residential water users are guzzling more gallons than ever. In 2001, WW launched Hydro Hogs, a roundup of the city’s most eye-popping water bills and users who racked up the highest costs with sprinklers, hoses and hot tubs. That year, just one person on our list used more than a million gallons a year. This year? With heat and drought on everyone’s minds, four homes topped the 1 milliongallon mark. The rest of our top 16 hogs weren’t far behind. Each household on this list used more water in 12 months than it takes to fill an entire Olympic-sized swimming pool. To be sure, Portland water gluttony isn’t straining the Bull Run Watershed or causing statewide drought. If every one of these hogs used the same amount as an average Portland home—44,880 gallons—their thrift would have little effect on Oregon’s water shortage. Instead, this list matters as a symbol. Such overabundant use of our natural resources stands out as unusually tacky in a year when the state is parched. In California, where the shortage is even more dire, celebrities who use more than their fair share of water—like Kim Kardashian, Sean Penn and Oprah Winfrey—are being exposed on social media with photos of their lush yards and the hashtag #droughtshaming. That sense of inequity is part of why we looked beyond Portland’s borders into the neighboring community of Dunthorpe—where eight of the area’s 16 biggest water users reside. The citizens of Dunthorpe enjoy an unincorporated suburb south of Portland city limits, but they do use water from Bull Run. The Palatine Hill Water District pays a higher rate for Portland water, reflected in the water bills you’ll see on the following pages. WW compiled this list by asking the Portland Water Bureau and the Palatine Hill Water District for the top residential water users from June 1, 2014, to May 31, 2015. We removed some properties that had reported water leaks to officials. (Former Trail Blazers star Rasheed Wallace, who still owns a house in Dunthorpe, would have finished second on this list, but we reversed the foul call when we learned he had reported a massive leak.) We tried to understand what could cause someone to make such a splash. It wasn’t easy. We made calls, knocked on doors and peered into courtyards hidden by hedges. We even launched a drone to shoot video of private gardens and gated pools. Here’s what we found. —Reported by Emily Volpert, Anthony Macuk, Hart Hornor and Claire Holley. CONT. on page 14

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HOMEOWNER:

Chris and Tyanne Dussin WATER USED:

683,672 gallons WATER BILL:

$4,297

CHRIS DUSSIN IS PRESIDENT OF THE DUSSIN GROUP, which owns the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant chain, founded by his parents, Guss and Sally. (Oregon Business magazine in 2010 put the company’s annual revenues between $50 million and $75 million.) The Dussin Group also presided over one of the biggest Portland restaurant fiascoes in recent history—Lucier, a South Waterfront spectacular that closed seven months after it opened in May 2008. Dussin and his wife, Tyanne, tore down an existing Dunthorpe house along Southwest Iron Mountain Boulevard, and in 2009 built a $2.7 million, 6,800-square-foot mansion that resembles a National Park lodge, complete with hydrangea beds and a pool. Chris Dussin emailed WW to say the family suffered a leak last year. His land manager, Sean Snodgrass, also sent an email: “The Dussins had a major break in their irrigation system which we repaired.” Palatine Hill Water District could not find records of a reported leak. How much water did they use? Enough to boil 273 tons of pasta. HART HORNOR.

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ROGER DAILEY THINKS HIS LAWN LOOKS AWFUL. Dailey, a plastic surgeon at Oregon Health & Science University, says he was surprised to find that he and his wife, Betsy, were among the city’s top water users. “We have a lot of trees and foliage,” Dailey says of their 2.3-acre property on Southwest Hilltop Lane. “We just try to keep them alive during August and September.” Their $1.8 million, 5,893-square-foot Southwest Hills house, with a sweeping southern view, has a high hedge in the back and woodsy feel in the front, with plenty of rhododendron. “We’ve planted a lot more foliage than we’ve taken down,” Dailey says, “so we think that’s a good thing.” After WW’s call, Dailey says, he checked with his gardening crew and discovered the sprinklers had been running too high. “These automatic watering things, you can adjust how much they go so the plants don’t die, and somehow it got turned up to 150 percent,” he says. “That’s been rectified.” —ROGER DAILEY Despite that, he says, his lawn is too brown and they lost a couple of trees recently. “By the looks of things, we aren’t overwatering the plants,” Dailey says. He also says he is otherwise very conscious of their water use. “I take short showers,” he says. How much water did they use? With a low-flow shower head, you could take a continuous shower that lasts 240 days. HART HORNOR.

“I TAKE SHORT SHOWERS.”

HOMEOWNER:

Larry and Joyce Mendelsohn WATER USED:

724,064 gallons WATER BILL:

$4,574

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BUSINESSMAN LARRY MENDELSOHN SERVES AS THE CEO OF A RECENTLY FOUNDED COMPANY CALLED GREAT AJAX, which manages home mortgage loans. But he’s probably known best for his entanglement with Andrew Wiederhorn, the former wunderkind who went to prison after the feds exposed a pension-theft scandal involving Portland-based Capital Consultants in 2000. In 2003, Mendelsohn pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, as did Wiederhorn. Unlike his former partner, Mendelsohn avoided prison time and instead did six months of home detention at his $2.4 million Dunthorpe home. Mendelsohn and his wife, Joyce, are longtime veterans of our Hydro Hogs list—they were also cited in 2004, 2006 and 2007. In the past, he has blamed a broken pipe. (His exact words: “A leak in the grass.”) This time, neither Mendelsohn nor his wife responded to WW’s requests to discuss their water use. Their house’s wedge-shaped lot at Southwest Military Road and Riverside Drive covers 1.8 acres, but unlike other hogs, the Mendelsohns seem to lack a pool (at least none shows up in aerial photos). How much water did they use? If you were somehow a prisoner in your own house, it’s enough drinking water for 3,950 years. ANTHONY MACUK.

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HOMEOWNER:

Roger A. and Betsy W. Dailey WATER USED:

691,900 gallons WATER BILL:

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Hector and Viviana Marquez WATER USED:

744,260 gallons WATER BILL:

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$3,763

HOMEOWNER:

Brian Anderson WATER USED:

765,952 gallons WATER BILL:

$3,087

HOMEOWNER:

THE COLLINS FAMILY MOVED TO DUNTHORPE IN 2010 after Josh Collins, a former equity fund manager and captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, was named president and later CEO of Milwaukie-based Blount International, the world’s largest maker of saw chains. Kristine Collins is a former lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. They paid $2.8 million for a 6,770-square-foot house on 1.6 acres that is tucked away on a winding private lane off Southwest Military Road. Kristine Collins says the property suffered a water leak last summer, which they fixed—but it increased their quarterly bill 30 times. “You can imagine the heart attack I had when it came in,” she says.”I’m just a really average user of water, with one exception.” Shortly before press deadlines, the Palatine Hill Water District confirmed the Collins family reported a leak last November, and paid the full bill. So take their water use with a grain of salt. How much water did they use? Enough to fill 3,176 water beds. HART HORNOR.

BRIAN ANDERSON’S RED BRICK HOME IN NORTH PORTLAND’S OVERLOOK NEIGHBORHOOD IS UP FOR GRABS—$1.65 million will get you the only water-hogging home east of the Willamette River. The 4,823 square-foot house on the busy corner of North Willamette Boulevard and Fowler Avenue, perched above Swan Island, has a sweeping view of the West Hills and Forest Park. But it’s the backyard that’s special. Anderson’s real-estate agent recently held an open house, allowing for a tour of the private yard. Bubbling fountains and a waterfall feature behind the pool help muffle some of the traffic noise. The property—nearly one-third of an acre—is lush, and none of the plants looks thirsty even in the July heat. “I KNOW Anderson is the chief marketing officer EXACTLY of Command Management Services, a logistics company owned by his mother, Monica WHAT IT Anderson. He tells WW he thinks the heavy WAS. IT water use is due to a faulty pool lining. He’s had to drain and refill the pool twice in the WAS THE past year. “And it’s a good-sized pool,” he POOL.” says. —Brian He also believes his effort to keep his grass green might be part of the issue—but Anderson he says his water features are innocent. “I have a well-manicured lawn,” he says. “I have fountains, I have waterfalls. But those are all circulatory. I know exactly what it was. It was the pool.” How much water did he use? Enough to fill nearly 25 semitrailers. EMILY VOLPERT.

HOMEOWNER:

Joshua and Kristine Collins WATER USED:

746,504 gallons WATER BILL:

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THE MARQUEZ FAMILY LIVES HIGH IN THE NORTHWEST PORTLAND HILLS. How high? Drive up Skyline Boulevard, past the Pittock Mansion, past countless gated communities and winding driveways. Keep driving. When your ears pop from the altitude, you’re halfway through the 9-mile drive from Hector Marquez’s tile showroom in the central eastside. Marquez’s 11,000-square-foot home isn’t visible from its steel electronic gate on Northwest Wind Ridge Drive. It sits on 9.74 acres of towering evergreens and sculpted hedges—with a water tower next door. (It’s not theirs.) Hector Marquez is president of the flooringstore chain Oregon Tile & Marble. He and his wife, Viviana, own at least six property-management companies in three states. They finished sixth in WW’s 2007 list of top water users. Back then, they blamed it on the pool. This time, they declined to comment. How much water did they use? Enough to fill a standard-sized bathtub 31,010 times. CLAIRE HOLLEY.

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HOMEOWNER:

Bill and Gail McCormick WATER USED:

816,816 gallons WATER BILL:

$5,207

FOR MORE THAN THREE DECADES, Bill McCormick was the boisterous fishmonger at the helm of McCormick & Schmick’s, the Portland-based seafood chain serving surf ’n’ turf in 23 states. He served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, made unsuccessful bids for the Portland City Council and the Oregon House, and ran the fundraising machine for socially moderate Republicans like former U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith. He sold McCormick & Schmick’s to a Texas casino tycoon in 2011, after the chain went public and sank on the stock market. His $1.4 million house sits on the west bank of the Willamette River, 2 miles upstream from the Sellwood Bridge. It has cedar-plank siding, a multitiered yard, and mounted carvings featuring Northwest tribal drawings of fish. Gail McCormick declined to comment to WW, saying she and Bill were ill. No one answered the door. How much water did he use? Enough to boil 612,612 lobsters. CLAIRE HOLLEY.

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PAUL BRENNEKE MAKES NO APOLOGIES. “Are you suggesting I should have a brown yard?” the real-estate developer asks. “It’s a 2-acre lot with landscaping. I don’t think that makes me a bad guy.” Brenneke is used to controversy. In 2001, he opened the $23 million Avalon Hotel & Spa in Johns Landing. Within two years, he was battling investors for control of the struggling resort, which is now closed. He returned to an executive role at Guardian Real Estate Services, the propertymanagement company founded by his father, Barry. Brenneke’s Dunthorpe home on Southwest Summerville Avenue is behind a brick wall. Brenneke says the grass requires care. “We water our yard so it looks decent,” he says. “If you don’t water, it will kill it, and then you have to replant it, which uses more water. You’re vilifying people with big houses.” How much water did he use? Enough to provide drinking water to 45 elephants for a year. ANTHONY MACUK.

HOMEOWNER:

Paul Brenneke WATER USED:

863,940 gallons WATER BILL:

$5,376

HOMEOWNER:

Lewis Scott WATER USED:

899,844 gallons WATER BILL:

$4,515

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LEWIS SCOTT, A RETIRED LAWYER FROM THE LANE POWELL FIRM, doesn’t live in the water-sucking house on Southwest Humphrey Boulevard that puts him on this year’s list—he lives in a different home in Dunthorpe. But he owns the Southwest Hills home and the woody 6.9 acres around it, and the water bill goes to him. Scott also made the Hydro Hogs list in 2001 and 2006. Records show he’s still a consistently high water user—on average, 711,348 gallons a year since 2012. He owns four houses in a row along Humphrey, but only one is the sinkhole for all that water. The yard and relatively modest house—2,760 square feet—sit behind a 6-foot hedge that was once the source of a bitter dispute between Scott and his neighbors, who complained it violated city code. When the city tried to get him to cut it down, according to a 1989 Oregonian story, he went to the Oregon Supreme Court to fight back. He also retaliated by submitting complaints about 316 other West Hills homes with high hedges. As he has in past reports, Scott declined to talk to WW. How much water did he use? It would flood the ground floor of the Multnomah County Courthouse with 3 feet of water. EMILY VOLPERT.

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HOMEOWNER:

Thomas and Barbara Rosenbaum WATER USED:

922,284 gallons WATER BILL:

IN 2013, WHEN LAST WE CHECKED IN WITH THE ROSENBAUMS, they had just installed terraced gardens behind their $2.6 million, Spanish-style mansion along Northwest Cumberland Road. Their water use had nearly quadrupled as a result. Thomas Rosenbaum, a neurosurgeon at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, told WW then that the recently planted gardens on the half-acre lot were thirsty and needed lots of irrigation. This year, Rosenbaum declined to be interviewed, but records show the Rosenbaums have consistently put a heavy demand on the city’s water. No other home in Portland has used more water in the past three years than the Rosenbaums’—2.5 million gallons. What little front lawn the Rosenbaums have encompasses a strip of healthy grass that includes a TriMet stop for the 18 bus. During our visit to the house, a reporter leaned his bicycle against the bus-stop sign. A woman driving a Land Rover exited the driveway, rolled down her window and yelled, “Mind taking your bike off our lawn?” How much water did he use? Enough to cover a half-acre with 5½ feet of water. HART HORNOR.

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$4,871

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HOMEOWNER:

“THERE MUST BE A LEAK SOMEWHERE.” —Ralph R. Shaw

Ralph R. Shaw WATER USED:

926,024 gallons WATER BILL:

$4,593

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RALPH SHAW’S 6,000-SQUARE-FOOT HOUSE LOOKS LIKE A MINIATURE TIMBERLINE LODGE. Two blocks from Council Crest Park, on Southwest Brentwood Drive, his $2.4 million property features flower beds, a swimming pool and more than a halfacre of lawn. Shaw is one of Oregon’s original venture capitalists, investing early in Costco, Integra Telecom and Will Vinton Studios. He was a longtime Schnitzer Steel board member, and in 2001, then-Gov. John Kitzhaber put Shaw on a committee to pump up the state economy and attract tourists. That same year, Shaw was included in WW’s first list of Hydro Hogs. He finished 12th by using 712,844 gallons. He says he had “no idea” his water use had gone up since then. “There must be a leak somewhere,” he says. How much water did he use? Enough to fill the Knott’s Berry Farm log flume 38 times. CLAIRE HOLLEY.

HOMEOWNER:

Stephen and Jean Roth WATER USED:

969,408 gallons WATER BILL:

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$6,162

STEPHEN ROTH DEALS IN BIG PROPERTIES. The Dunthorpe native founded and runs real-estate investment funds in Paris, Tokyo and China—where his assets include sprawling Shanghai office parks and Beijing towers that look like the Titanic jutting out of the North Atlantic. That company— Kailong REI Project Investment Consultancy Ltd. Shanghai—finished raising $238 million in May. Roth advises Harvard’s real-estate program and, closer to home, squabbled with business partners for years over unsuccessful efforts to revamp a luxury ranch in Sun Valley, Idaho. His $2.1 million Dunthorpe home sits behind thick foliage on 1.3 acres along Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard. In the backyard, aerial photos show, a pathway winds from the swimmingpool deck through a large garden. Roth says the grounds had a buried leak. “It took a long time to diagnose and fix,” he says. “I don’t have anything else to add.” How much water did they use? Enough to properly hydrate more than 1.9 million people for a day. EMILY VOLPERT.

HOMEOWNER:

Barbara Beale WATER USED:

1,004,564 gallons WATER BILL:

$6,386

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“I ATTEMPT TO BE CONSERVATIVE IN ALL THINGS, SO I CERTAINLY DON’T WASTE WATER.”

—Barbara Beale

BARBARA BEALE SAYS HER 30-YEAR-OLD SPRINKLER SYSTEM IS FALLING APART. “It’s infuriating,” she says, “but it’s nothing I can do anything about.” Beale’s home, worth $2.7 million, sits on 2.6 acres that border Lewis & Clark College. She says she needs the sprinkler system to prevent forest fires. “Kids are coming through the property all the time, looking for a quiet place to look into each other’s eyes,” she says. She’s worried one of their cigarettes will set a fire. Beale is the daughter of Robert Stevens Miller, who headed what became Lewis & Clark Law School, and widow of William Beale, who worked in the timber industry. She has produced several off-Broadway and London theater shows. She says she’ll occasionally see a wet spot on her property from her balcony, or hear about a leak from a neighbor. But more often, she realizes she has a leak when she reads her water bill. (Palatine Hill Water District says it is aware of multiple leaks on Beale’s property.) It’s hard to monitor her sprinklers, she says, because her land is on a steep slope. “I attempt to be conservative in all things, so I certainly don’t waste water,” she says. But she isn’t worried about Portland’s water drying up. “I’ve lived long enough to see the cycles of hot and cold repeat on and on,” she says. “We may be in a bit of warm weather, but it’s not going to kill us all.” How much water did she use? Enough to fill 64,810 beer kegs. HART HORNOR. Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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HOMEOWNER:

WATER USED:

Jordan Schnitzer 1,153,416 gallons WATER BILL:

$5,679

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HOMEOWNER:

John R. Campbell WATER USED:

1,189,320 gallons WATER BILL:

$7,350

JOHN CAMPBELL WAS THE FIRST PEDIATRIC SURGEON IN OREGON. He trained with former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and arrived in 1967 at the medical school now known as Oregon Health & Science University. He campaigned to add a new building at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU, and was the first surgeon-in-chief when it opened in 1998. Campbell retired from OHSU in 2000, telling a university interviewer he would spend time hunting and fishing with his son. His home on Southwest Military Lane in Dunthorpe is obscured by a tall hedge. Aerial photos show a swimming pool and a grassy lawn stretching across a large portion of the halfacre property. Campbell did not respond to repeated requests for comment from WW. When a reporter knocked on the door, a woman answered through a nearby window. She said she didn’t know anything about the water use. Then she shut and locked the window. How much water did he use? In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Scotty beams up 300 tons of water to fill the tank for the two humpback whales that Kirk needs to rescue in order to save the future. With Campbell’s water supply, Scotty could save those whales—plus 29 more. ANTHONY MACUK.

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THE HEIR TO THE SCHNITZER REAL-ESTATE FORTUNE returns to the Hydro Hogs list after a long absence. He made the list four times between 2001 and 2007—including a 2 million-gallon drink in 2003. All of those appearances took place when he lived on Southwest Hessler Drive, just below Southwest Fairmount Boulevard. That home, on 1.4 acres, now belongs to his ex-wife. This year, Schnitzer made the list with his $4.2 million home on Southwest Humphrey Boulevard, 1.4 miles west of where his street connects with Southwest Vista Avenue. The 11,000-square-foot Georgian Colonial house, sitting on 5.9 acres behind a security gate, has six full and three half bathrooms, a pool and a tennis court. Known as “I HAVEN’T Blueberry Hill, the property is on the National GOTTEN Register of Historic Places and previously belonged to Jordan Schnitzer’s uncle, steel company executive THE BILL Leonard Schnitzer. YET.” As he has in past Hydro Hog stories, Jordan —Jordan Schnitzer Schnitzer says his property recently suffered a leak. “Probably 40 percent of the sprinkler lines in Portland leak,” Schnitzer says. “There is a huge amount of loss that you don’t know about because it’s underground. I haven’t gotten the bill yet. Usually what happens is that you get the bill and there’s a bar graph that shows that it’s really high in a certain month. Whenever I get this bill, I’ll send you the next bill. And the bill after that. And it should be going down.” Schnitzer varies between complaining about WW’s reporting on his water use and being a good sport about it. He griped that he wouldn’t look so bad if WW checked all of Multnomah County, not just the city. “WW always tries to embarrass me for how much water I use,” he says. “All of the people in the county who have bigger properties, you don’t get their bills. So that’s always a fascinating situation.” Yet he also proudly pointed to another enterprise that could have added to his water use. Schnitzer says his 16-year-old daughter asked to put in a “very big vegetable garden” to grow healthy foods to give to the homeless. He says it might be a reason that they used so much water. “Those are some pretty expensive vegetables,” Schnitzer says. “I told my daughter, ‘I should just take them all out to dinner.’” How much water did he use? You could flush a low-flow toilet 720,885 times. EMILY VOLPERT.

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HOMEOWNER:

Henry Hillman Jr. WATER USED:

1,557,336 gallons WATER BILL:

$9,832

HILLMAN, WHO MAKES HIS HYDRO HOGS PREMIERE AT THE NO. 1 SPOT, may have the most fascinating backstory of any of this year’s big gulpers. He owns a robotics company and once owned Avia, a shoe company he later sold to Reebok. The Henry Lea Hillman Jr. Foundation, dedicated to philanthropy in the Portland area, gives annually to scores of local organizations and doled out $513,000 last year. He’s also a prominent arts patron and a well-established artist himself, a painter better known for his cast glass sculptures. Hillman’s money is inherited from a Pittsburgh family of industrialists. His father, Henry Sr., whose fortune Forbes magazine says is worth $2.5 billion, later diversified into real estate and investment banking. Henry Jr. never went for the corporate life, moving to Portland in 1975, and learning how to blow glass before opening his own studio. Hillman’s Dunthorpe home is on a secluded driveway off Southwest Military Road. He paid $6.5 million for the 6,700-square-foot house in 2009. The 4.2-acre lot includes a pool, tennis court, English garden and lots and lots of lawn. Hillman doesn’t have any concerns about his water usage, saying you need to consider the acreage of his property, not just the amount of gallons he consumed. “My using water doesn’t impact the drought,” Hillman says. “It’s like eating everything on your plate. It doesn’t help the starving children in Africa to not finish what is on your plate.” How much water did he use? You could run a dishwasher 311,467 times. EMILY VOLPERT.

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“MY USING WATER DOESN’T IMPACT THE DROUGHT.”

—Henry Hillman Jr.

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LOTS OF MOXIE: A feud between Moxie Contemporary Ballet and former director Corinne Patel is spilling into the public thanks to an email auto-reply. Patel left her position with Moxie earlier this month after the company canceled MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET a series of summer classes without promptly refunding students their $2,100 tuition. She says she resigned when Moxie management didn’t communicate with her or students about the cancellations or how refunds would be given. According to KOIN, teachers, parents and students arrived at the Tualatin studio in early July to ﬁnd locked doors, and phone numbers posted on the studio’s door were disconnected. After Patel resigned, Moxie responded by setting up an auto-reply on Patel’s company email account, which read, in part: “We deeply apologize for any unprofessional interaction, direct or indirect, that you may have had with Ms. Patel and MCB does not condone her actions or conduct. We genuinely appreciate your compassion and understanding as we recover from the irrepreable [sic] damage that this former employee has done.” Patel declined to elaborate beyond saying she plans to sue her former employer. Moxie is staying quiet, and urging Patel to do the same: “Due to the legal nature of this matter, MCB cannot comment any further, at this time, on the inner workings of such actions. Further, Ms. Patel’s contract with MCB prohibits any communication…regarding The School at Moxie Contemporary Ballet...indeﬁnitely and forever.”

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YOGA WORLD: Portland ﬁnally has its own multistory building devoted exclusively to yoga and yoga-related things. The eco-friendly Breathe Building, at 2305 SE 50th Ave., has been in the works for three years after being “inspired by building owner Chris Calarco’s personal yoga practice at Yoga Union.” It will open Aug. 28, when Yoga Union moves into its new space with a huge yoga room and a supervised kids’ gym that doubles as day care. Yoga Union owner Todd Vogt’s mother, Julie, will open a gluten-free, paleo brunch and lunch restaurant called Fern Kitchen, while upstairs will house a wellness center with acupuncture, counseling, yoga therapy, naturopathy, massage, colonics, estheticians, and a “medicinary.” Eventually, they plan to have a rooftop garden with seating for diners.

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GOT HIM: In 2015, serial killers don’t always get away with murdering sex workers. Take, for example, the case of Oregon’s Neal Falls, who was shot and killed last week in West Virginia by a woman he was in the process of attacking, whom he’d found on backpage. FALLS com. Now, not only is he dead, but that woman is the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on GiveForward.com. Nostra-Thomas Koning, who started the campaign, told us by phone that his group chose an $800,000 goal because that was the amount raised for a pizza joint in Indiana that refused to serve gays. He thinks if a “bigoted pizza joint” can raise that kind of money, why not a down-on-her-luck sex worker who probably saved a lot of lives. “We’re taking pity on this prostitute who just now killed a Ted Bundy,” he says. “We should be thanking her!”

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Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival is July 31-Aug. 2 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 300 N Winning Way, sanrio.com/hkfestival. $20-$185. WILLAMETTE WEEK

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This weekend, Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival comes to Veterans Memorial Coliseum. What does one do at the live stage adaptation of a Japanese school supply brand featuring an anthropomorphic cat girl? On Facebook Chat—this is how I imagine Hello Kitty communicates with her friends Chococat and Tuxedosam—I asked my friend Andrea Kneeland about Sanrio Co. Ltd.’s tour, which she attended last week. Kneeland is the Oakland author of How to Pose for Hustler and mother of two daughters, ages 1 and 3. They loved it. LIZZY ACKER. Lizzy, 1:50 pm OK! So, what is the Hello Kitty Supercute Friendship Festival? Andrea, 1:54 pm The Hello Kitty Supercute Friendship Festival is 80 percent waiting in line, 10 percent photo op and 10 percent frenetic musical performances by overheated dancers in Sanrio costumes who must be wondering about their life choices. Lizzy, 1:56 pm Do you have an idea what species Hello Kitty is after seeing her dance? Andrea, 1:58 pm I know there was a controversy recently where Sanrio said Hello Kitty isn’t really a cat, and I thought it was BS at the time, but now that I’ve seen her live, I can say that they were telling the truth. She is definitely not a cat. She’s definitely a person in a cat costume.

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Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival comes to Portland. What is Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival?

FREMONT FEST [STREET FAIR] Celebrate the old, pre-development days of Northeast with a nostalgic parade—vintage cars, marching bands, kids with candy, dogs in costumes and a fire truck— and pub crawl along the Alameda Brewing stretch. Or use the excuse for chicken lollipops at Smallwares. Northeast Fremont Street from 42nd to 52nd avenues. 10 am-5 pm. Free. beaumontvillagepdx.com. FLUGTAG [TAURINE IN FLIGHT] Amateur aeronauts in things like taco suits with wheels launch themselves from a 28-foot-high flight deck to celebrate the Viennese “flying day” Red Bull started there in 1992. The fearless dipshits are judged on distance, creativity and showmanship. Our criteria are a little different. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway. 11 am. redbullflugtag.com.

Andrea, 2:00 pm Most of the attendees were surprisingly normal. Even the cosplayers kept it all kind of toned down, which was really surprising. There was one parent I noticed who just kept letting her kid cut in line and photobomb people. That was pretty unsettling. Lizzy, 2:02 pm So was it all parents and kids or were there any adults by themselves?

TUESDAY AUG. 4 PIE HARD [PIE] At long last, the two great pie traditions come together. Pie Hard will offer up the goods from some of Portland’s best pizza makers—including Ken’s Artisan Pizza and P.R.E.A.M.— paired with dessert pies from Random Order, Pacific Pie Co., and Petunia’s. Ice cream from Ruby Jewel will accompany each slice of fruit pie. Ecliptic Brewing, 825 N Cook St., 265-8002. 5-9 pm. $22, includes samples of every pie. More info at at wweek.com/piehard.

Andrea, 2:03 pm There were a lot of adults! I’d say it was probably 50/50. Many, many women in their mid-20s wearing Hello Kitty gear. I would say the people attending without kids looked like they were having a way better time than the people attending with kids. But that’s the case pretty much anywhere you go. Lizzy, 2:06 pm What would you suggest drinking before you go, either as an adult on your own or as a parent with kids?

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Andrea, 2:07 pm Definitely tailgate in the parking lot. Adults on their own can probably get more creative and drink cute little pink fizzy drinks out of Hello Kitty glassware. If you are a parent, just do a couple of shots of whiskey before you go in. It’s loud, it’s crowded, and there will be overstimulation and tears.

Andrea, 2:10 pm Yes! I just want to say that the musical performances really were great. Next time Katy Perry needs a shark dancer, she should hire from the Hello Kitty crew. My daughter reported that the Hello Kitty festival was the second-greatest experience of her life (Disneyland being No. 1, obviously). We’d go again.

BENFEST A bunch of Bens in Portland brew fine, fine beers—so many, there’s a five-year-running festival devoted to the beers Bens brew. Bens Parsons, Edmunds, Kehs, Love, Flerchinger, Engler and Dobler—brewers at Baerlic, Breakside, Deschutes, Gigantic, Lucky Lab, Occidental, and Widmer, respectively— will showcase their Ben Beers. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 232-8538. 6-9 pm.

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Lizzy, 1:59 pm Who was the most disturbing person you saw there?

Lizzy, 2:09 pm Awesome. You are perfect in every way. Anything else we should know?

PICKATHON [FESTIVAL] Last year, the li’l not-quiteroots music festival had a tippingpoint moment, getting covered in The New York Times, but it didn’t let it go to its head. This year’s edition lacks an obvious headliner but is loaded with great bookings, from hyped retro-soul prodigy Leon Bridges to the psychedelic desert blues of Mali’s Tinariwen. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley. See pickathon.com for tickets and complete schedule. Through Aug. 2.

RE-BIRTHING THE COOL [JAZZ] In a rare, classical-style performance, local vocalist David “The Doctor of Bebop” Watson assembles nine Portland post-bop heroes to pay homage to the layered, melodic sound of Miles Davis’ landmark Birth of the Cool in unadulterated form, playing the album note for note from the original score. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $10. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.

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THURSDAY, JULY 30 Korean Meat and Three Dinner

Han Ly Hwang of Kim Jong Grillin’ will team up with chef Andrew Gregory for a meat and three Korean barbecue with kimchis, rice cake mac ‘n’ cheese and a special brew from Coalition. Tickets at eventbrite.com. Roman Candle, 3377 SE Division St., 971-302-6605. 5:30, 7:30 and 9:30 pm seatings. $54.

FRIDAY, JULY 31 Place Invaders

A traveling pair invades “unique” local homes—when the owners aren’t even there—to serve up barbecued oysters, wild-caught salmon and local duck, plus lots of booze. Get tickets at eventbrite.com, then ﬁnd out where you’ll dine. x.placeinvaders.co. Dinners FridaySunday, brunch Saturday-Sunday. $80-$100 dinner, $60 brunch.

BenFest

Portland brewer Bens Parsons, Edmunds, Kehs, Love, Flerchinger, Engler and Dobler—of Baerlic, Breakside, Deschutes, Gigantic, Lucky Lab, Occidental, and Widmer—will showcase their Ben Beers. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 232-8538. 6-9 pm.

James Beard Salt Dinner

In a fundraiser for the ever-pending James Beard Public Market, the Meadow’s Mark Bitterman will act as “selmelier” for a ﬁve-course dinner with salt-cured sturgeon and smokedsalt nettle risotto. Reserve tickets at 790-7752. Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, 241-4100. 7 pm. $140.

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 Bubbles by the Glass

Southeast Wine Collective will oﬀer bubbly by the glass to fete its supple, rich, slightly farmy Cremant de Portland ($7 half-glass, $12 full), with cheeses from Chizu at a mere $4 a serving. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Place, 2082061, sewinecollective.com. 6-9 pm.

Where to eat this week. 1. Burrasca 2032 SE Clinton St., 236-7791, burrascapdx.com. Our 2014 Cart of the Year is in Block’s old spot, serving Florentine homestyle heaven—including nearperfect tagliatelle. $$. 2. Kotori Southeast 9th Ave. and Pine St. Biwa is grilling yakitori outside with specials like “pope’s nose,” the tail end of the bird. $. 3. Renata 626 SE Main St., 954-2708, renatapdx.com. The menu changes, but here’s a guide: Stick to cocktails, appetizers, salads and especially pasta. $$$-$$$$. 4. Acadia 1303 NE Fremont St., 249-5001, creolapdx.com. Chef Adam Higgs is leaving Friday— say your goodbyes as new chefowner Seamus Foran takes over. $$.

5. The Gantry food-cart pod 3121 SW Moody Ave. Holy crap. Aﬀordable food in the South Waterfront. $.

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SUPER SUB: The Italian, with Negroni.

MARMO The best thing I’ve eaten at the West End’s Marmo is also by far the simplest. The humble Italian sub ($11) is light, classic and almost perfect—a balance of fatty mortadella, spicy coppa and salty finocchiona meats, with pepperoncinis and red onions and romaine lettuce providing crisp bitterness. It’s the sort of thing you’d get at a sub shop in Southside Chicago, elevated to cosmopolitan luxury. Marmo is also one of the few places in Portland you’d ever get that American-Italian hoagie served up with a grappa flight ($14), Negroni ($11) or a housemade limoncello ($10). Kevin Chambers’ new deli and bar is a white-marbled space as bright, airy and clean-lined as any Milan runway or Greek tomb—a vision of upscale urbanity much more endemic to the San Franciscos and Manhattans of the world, with espresso and pastries in the morning giving way to Bakeshop’s fine focaccia and perhaps a tart lambrusco ($10) in the afternoon. Chambers has said Marmo was inspired, in part, by birthday cannoli from his Italian grandmother—although the menu was developed in consultation with former Bluehour chef Thomas Boyce, Order this: Italian sub ($11) and limoncello ($10). who presided over that restaurant’s I’ll pass: Italian hot beef ($11). most recent heyday. The food on offer is simple: cold basil-flecked farfalle with a wealth of pine nuts and only the slightest hint of Calabrian chili ($8), or a lovely array of gelato for dessert ($2.50 a scoop), which we chose over that birthday cannoli on a hot day. Still, at the prices on offer, this will be a regular hangout for only the few, and an $11 Italian hot beef had nothing on the cheap-anddirty Chicago classic; Marmo’s was a sopping mess in a bun that couldn’t contain it, and its giardiniere consisted of a mealy wreath of pink cauliflower. In the evening, the place will probably struggle to compete with the ambitious drink program and sumptuous $8 bruschettas of Shift Drinks, a similarly minimalist-luxe bar that just opened around the corner. But for members of the leisure class, it seems a fine place to celebrate the discreet charms of 2 in the afternoon. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Marmo, 1037 SW Morrison St., 224-0654, marmopdx.com. 7 am-3 pm Monday, 7 am-8 pm Tuesday-Thursday, 7 am-9 pm Friday, 8 am-9 pm Saturday, 8 am-3 pm Sunday.

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SWEET TEA LIQUEUR (TOWNSHEND’S) Why bother mixing tea with liquor like some Southern plantationer, when you can just make liquor directly from tea? Townshend’s has been kicking out a fastexpanding array of local liquors distilled from tea—a smoky lapsang souchong likely good as a whiskey mixer, a somewhat abrasive spice tea thick with orange and ginger, a rose hips vodka that runs viciously hot. But the best so far has been their basic sweet tea, distilled from black Ceylon leaf and cane sugar. At 70 proof, it’s nonetheless disarmingly sweet, an easy sipper with ice and a spot of lemon or a dastardly mate to bourbon. Although we haven’t yet tried it, the obvious addition is a muddled bit of mint. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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with slivers of fennel, young salad greens, quartered black olives and a vinegar-free citrus dressing that brightens everything else on the plate. The juicy, acidic orange and the fatty olives play off each other wonderfully, making for an unusually satisfying summer salad. If available, continue with the outstanding Busiati alla Trapanese ($15), rustic, gently spun corkscrews of pasta imported from Italy and cooked to be perfectly al dente in a BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com rich sauce of almonds, sun-dried tomatoes, garlic and basil. They call that sauce “Sicilian pesto” and In the first century of Italian-American cuisine, it has a deep, reddish-brown color from the blendnothing north of Naples mattered. The vast ing of nuts and tomatoes, and a layered flavor to majority of the Italian immigrants who migrated match. With a Negroni or a glass of Sicilian wine to this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s ($8-$10), you have a very nice meal. I was also intrigued by the fritto misto ($14), a came from their motherland’s hot and impoverished south, a land of red sauce made from heat- quartet of deep-fried Sicilian street foods, includloving San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella ing arancini, another type of rice ball, a potato from the milk of indigenous water buffaloes. So croquette and a fried meatball. The crisp-shelled, America came to love pizza, capicola, calzones, juice-dripping meatball was the standout—I’d limoncello and rich, creamy desserts. Only in happily get a whole plate of them if I could. A meat-and-cheese plate ($18) comes with Alex P. Keaton’s America did the more restrained fare of the north start coming into vogue—risotto, three of each, plus little bowls of Sicilian Castelvetrano olives and dried oranges—grab for prosciutto, panna cotta, fontina, Asiago. the Parma ham and the buttery So there’s something novel pecorino. The plate’s major drawabout Portland—which lost its Order this: Insalata Umberto, busiati alla trapanese. back is the lack of contrasting texown Little Italy to an EisenhowI’ll pass: Anelletti al forno, tures and flavors in what’s a very er-era urban renewal project, mackarel, swordﬁsh. dry and salty lineup. leaving it a Stromboli desert ever since—getting a new high-end Southern Meanwhile, the anelletti al forno ($16) featured Italian restaurant. When we think fine dining, we little O-shaped noodles in a muted Bolognese tend to think of Genoa or Florence. sauce. Between the little O’s, the flat, red sauce and Bellino Trattoria Siciliana chef and owner the ground beef and pork, it recalls SpaghettiOs to Francesco Inguaggiato spent 18 years as a pro an uncomfortable degree. A plate of breaded and basketballer in Italy—a shooting guard in the fried mackerel ($25) was starchy and soggy. Sicmold of Manu Ginobili—and runs two spots in ily’s favorite seafood, swordfish ($26), came out Texas. This new Pearl District restaurant is a pol- like rare tuna steak spritzed with citrus, but the ished space: the tables and bar are white quartz, flesh didn’t have the same pleasant tautness. banquettes are century-old church pews from a But then there’s dessert. Even at the height of Catholic church in Northeast, and decorations the Asiago boom, Southern Italian desserts have make liberal use of Sicily’s flag. always held special sway. Bellino’s selection— Bellino isn’t the best, or even the second- each listed with a suggested wine pairing, but a best, new Italian restaurant to open in town this shot of Caffe Umbria espresso is recommended— year. But it has some very nice dishes, and for is short but well-executed. We especially liked those amateur culinary anthologists among us, the torta di cioccolato e menta, a wedge of short, it’s interesting to see authentic Southern Italian brownie-like chocolate cake with a dusting of fare and wonder what Grandma Pollifrone was powdered sugar and a drizzle of rich cocoa sauce. thinking as she tinkered with the old country’s Mostly it made me yearn for a real Italian bakwedding soup recipe. ery in Portland—a place where you can get cakes The best dishes are simple and use citrus and with 10 layers and a big box of ricciarelli. tree nuts inherited from the island’s extended Arab occupation. Start with the Insalata Umberto EAT: Bellino Trattoria Siciliana, 1230 NW Hoyt St., 208-2992, bellinoportland.com. 11 am-2 pm ($10)—created by Inguaggiato’s mother for his and 4-9 pm Tuesday-Thursday, 11 am-2 pm and father—which combines rough-cut orange slices 4-10 pm Friday-Saturday.

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JULY 29–AUG. 4 PROFILE

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

Coliseum, Arctic Flower, Old City

[ANGULAR AGGRESSION] The bloodline of burly post-hardcore runs deep in the Bluegrass State, and Louisville’s Coliseum is poised to keep it alive and well for years with its punishing new LP, Anxiety’s Kiss. The trio made the right choice hiring J. Robbins (Jawbox) to man the boards: On “Wrong/Goodbye” and “Course Correction” you can practically feel frontman Ryan Patterson’s sweat dripping oﬀ the razor-sharp guitar lines and thundering low-end Robbins is known for building his mixes around. PETE COTTELL. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E Chávez Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $11 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Ratatat, Despot

[ROCKTRONICA] After the somewhat misguided, faux-exotica detours on its previous two records, Brooklyn dance-rock duo Ratatat returned this July with Magniﬁ que, a backto-basics album that vividly recalls the group’s most successful release, 2006’s Classics. Give or take a few

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temporary stylistic shifts, the duo’s formula has always been disarmingly simple: midtempo funk grooves, layers of skronky synth leads and wads of Frippy, prog-rock guitars. The uninitiated would probably be forgiven for assuming they were listening to a collection of Daft Punk outtakes, but you get the feeling that, after a decade of doing more or less the same thing, Ratatat really doesn’t give a shit what you think at this point. In the hands of more selfconscious artists, this would usually be a recipe for disaster, but Ratatat’s unabashed desire to please its crowd and complete lack of pretense are downright admirable these days. Magniﬁ que, like most of its work, isn’t always interesting, and has a tendency to drift into the background, but if you’re not at least slightly charmed by the Brian May-via-Sega Genesis guitar theatrics of tracks like “Pricks of Brightness,” you might be some kind of monster. MARK STOCK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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TINARIWEN

FIVE MUST-SEE ACTS AT PICKATHON Leon Bridges Retro soul is played out, but this kid’s brand—more Sam Cooke than Motown—is so authentic it’s like he stowed away in Doc Brown’s DeLorean after the Enchantment Under the Sea dance and got deposited in our present day. Tinariwen Among the Tuareg people of North Africa, there are no bigger rock stars than Tinariwen, a group of literal rebels who, after taking up arms against the Malian government in the ’80s, brought the region’s entrancingly funky, psychedelic assouf music to the global stage. Ex Hex Throughout Ex Hex’s 2014 album, Rips, you can practically hear the bubblegum smacking in Mary Timony’s mouth as she sings. Picking up where she left off with Wild Flag, this is leather-tough power pop, delivered with Slurpee-sweet cool. You’ll want to hook it straight to your veins. Sinkane Genre? Who needs genre when you have a voice this sweet? The London-born singer of Sudanese descent laces his heart-piercing falsetto through anything he pleases, whether it’s Afro-pop, bossa nova, digi-reggae or even pedal-steel-accented country ballads. Ryley Walker A student of the English folk school, the Chicago-bred Walker combines jazzy mysticism with six-string skills to put the “pick” back in the ’Thon. If you watch one guy play acoustic guitar this weekend, make it this dude. And at this festival, that’s high praise. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Pickathon is at Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley, on Friday-Sunday, July 31-Aug. 2. See pickathon.com for full schedule and ticket information. All ages.

THE EPIC RISE OF KAMASI WASHINGTON. BY PA R KER HA LL

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The common link between some of the past year’s most acclaimed albums is a bearded, tunic-wearing saxophonist from Inglewood, Calif. If you’ve heard recent records from Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, then you’ve heard Kamasi Washington and his passionately screaming tenor. And if you’ve seen Snoop Dogg or Lauryn Hill live in the last decade, you may even recognize his face from their backing bands. But until recently, chances are you never knew his name. “It’s not like we were quiet,” says Washington, 34, chuckling. “It’s not like we were hiding in some garage.” That has started to change, and all it took was a 173-minute, three-disc jazz opus. On the appropriately titled The Epic, his fourth album as bandleader, Washington approaches massively arranged compositions with a sensitive, razorsharp sound, inviting honest-to- God comparisons to A Love Supreme-era John Coltrane. His solos paint layered portraits of lighter-shaded resonance before bringing out the bright, harshertoned big guns to fill in the gaps. It’s a record that balances chaos and calm, a brilliant journey that travels deep into a beat-jazz universe and resists normal genre descriptors or musical adjectives. It doesn’t seem like the kind of an album that would find a broad audience in 2015. But over the last few years, Washington and his crew of L.A. jazzers, the West Coast Get Down, have been gradually acclimating listeners to more complex sounds via contributions to other artists’ projects, including the electronic free jazz of You’re Dead! by Flying Lotus and The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam by singer-bassist and fellow WCGD member Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner. The biggest breakthrough, though, was Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. The Compton rapper allowed the musi-

cians to stretch out, and the result was not only one of the most lauded albums of 2015, but a major commercial success as well—leading to a lot of new exposure for Washington and his friends. “All the regular, average people that said you couldn’t hear my album because the chords had five notes in it instead of three,” he says, “all of a sudden there is this album that has these amazing harmonies, these crazy rhythms, these unbelievably complex lyrics, and it’s successful.” It was a moment of vindication for Washington. A talented young horn player whose father performed with Diana Ross and the Temptations, Washington started touring with the likes of Snoop, Hill and Raphael Saadiq long before he graduated from a full-ride scholarship to UCLA’s ethnomusicology department. Back then, Washington was mostly known in session-musician circles only. But after To Pimp a Butterfly, the press could no longer deny what he and the rest of the Get Down collective were doing: engineering a full-scale sonic revolution. Of the last four major releases Washington has been part of, including The Epic, all have earned the coveted Best New Music tag from that most influential of tastemakers, Pitchfork. For Washington, the recognition has been a long time coming. But he had no doubt it would come eventually. “Since the early 2000s, we have had this understanding that people like what we do, they just don’t know it yet,” he says. “So when the doors started opening for us, it was pure joy.” Washington and his band play Pickathon on the second of a string of 42 international tour dates through December. Although he’s played saxophone around the world for years, this is the first time he has performed his own music on an extended tour. When he talks about it, you can practically hear the big, bearded smile through the phone. “I get to take the whole iceberg out of the water for a minute and walk it around,” he says. “There is so much music that has been missed, I am just happy to be able to play more.” SEE IT: Kamasi Washington plays Pickathon on Friday, July 31, at 6:20 pm (Mountain Stage) and 11:20 pm (Galaxy Barn). See pickathon.com for complete schedule and tickets. Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

Blue Moon

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Blue Moon 9pm · July 31 · WASHINGTON HIGH

LIVE MUSIC AND ART UNDER THE BLUE MOON ON PORTLAND’S BEST ROOFTOP PATIO! Rooftop Patio—$15 rooftop access Complimentary Beer from Blue Moon Brewing Co. Two Community Created Murals | 9PM & 10:30PM Marthas—Free Entry Live Music

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THURSDAY–FRIDAY

LET’S GET PHYSICAL: My Body plays Mississippi Studios on Sunday, Aug. 2.

LVL UP, Upset, Blowout, Snowroller

[LOAFER ROCK] We are running out of band names. The proof is in the all-caps, underscores and intentional misspellings. But what’s bad for grammar is good for music: LVL UP is a Brooklyn quartet known for playing bummedout, ’90s-gazing guitar rock. The group’s newest eﬀ ort, Three Songs , is an EP of titular length, stressing brushy guitar, fuzzy swells and an inviting indie-pop demeanor. The tracks vacillate between putout, couch-bum rock and the busybee noodling of Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr. MARK STOCK. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 432-8079. 6:15 pm. $10. All ages.

Nurses, Us Lights, Dust Covered Carpet

[FREAK POP] The strength of Nurses’ 2011 record Dracula was in its margins. Nestled between the ratty synthesizers and agitated crooning of Aaron Chapman was a wealth of fearless hooks that would soar no matter how much gauze and grime it was buried under. It’s high time we heard some new material from the duo, which is exactly what it’s promised to play, in addition to the oddities that make its back catalog such a unique and appealing entry in Portland’s freak-noise canon. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, JULY 31 Possessed by Paul James

[ONE-MAN WONDER] Austin’s Konrad Wert, aka Possessed by Paul James, really is a jack of all trades when it comes to musicianship. He swaps old-timey instruments like golf clubs, and he’s just as adept at fi ddle as acoustic guitar or banjo, as evidenced by his latest studio eff ort, There Will Be Nights When I’m Lonely. Live, he delivers fi re-and-brimstone folk—his father was a preacher, after all—from the base of a fi rmly planted chair, the intimate aff airs also lending themselves perfectly to more poignant songs while supplying room for his stomp box to echo off the walls. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Seapony, Tender Age, Tape Waves

[SURF SHOEGAZE] It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything new from Seattle’s Seapony— three years, to be exact. The band released its second full-length, Falling, in 2012, then decided it needed an indefinite break from the grind of touring. Thankfully, it re-emerged with a new album due out this month and two teaser singles filled with plenty more of Jen Weidl’s coo sitting just behind the clean guitar riff s. Combined with the thick haze of Portland’s Tender Age, and the sleepy, beachy song of Tape Waves, there’ll be a big enough wall of sound at this show to sate you even if Seapony takes another extended vacation. SHANNON GORMLEY. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 6:30 pm. $7. 21+.

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THURSDAY, JULY 30

Scott Holt

[BLUES] His name may remind you of something repeatedly shouted on Arrested Development, but 10 years of touring with Buddy Guy as a younger man shaped Scott Holt’s approach to the blues—loud and distorted, revealing his childhood love of Jimi Hendrix—and he’s quite a capable shredder. He’s a fi ne blues singer as well, though his songwriting doesn’t quite keep up with his fi ngers and vocal chords. Then again, nobody goes to blues shows for subtle lyricism. Holt’s Mellencamp-esque blues storytelling will suffi ce, so long as he solos long and often. CASEY JARMAN. Duff ’s Garage, 2530 NE 82nd Ave., 234-2337. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Meat Puppets, Soul Asylum

[ALT-PRIME] As two bands, each with 30-year histories, embark on a co-headlining tour, it’s easy to wonder what the ensembles still have to oﬀer. New work by Meat Puppets and Soul Asylum—each group swept up in the ’90s alt-frenzy—bear similarities to their respective hits and classics. On 2013’s Rat Farm, the Puppets continue to work in a dab of country and some odd rhythms amid the torpor of its rock stuﬀ. But perhaps more important than what any new composition can do for these groups’ legacies is the example the “past their commercial viability” players set just by grinding it out on the road. DAVE CANTOR. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., Suite 110, 2883895. 7 pm. $26 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

Holly Herndon, Visible Cloaks [LIMINAL OPERA] Holly Herndon is Laurie Anderson for the YouTube generation. The San Francisco-based artist makes the sort of experimental dance music that yearns for deeper communication via technology. Platform, her new album and first for the venerable 4AD label, sounds like what you’d expect to hear at some kind of ethereal nightclub, augmented by the intimate sounds of field recordings—the whirs and hums of the personal studio, her own voice modulated through synth patches. It rings of computer dreams, where dark and dissonant elements reflect a wariness of the omniscient surveillance of contemporary culture. But Herndon, who’s currently working on a Ph.D. for electroacoustic composition at Stanford, is a club kid at heart, having spent her formative years in Berlin. Despite their weighty themes, Herndon’s compositions maintain a sense of play, which she brings to the stage in creating an interactive performance with her audience. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm Thursday, July 30. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Michael Dean Damron

[PARANORMAL COUNTRY] Jello Biafra referred to Slim Cessna’s Auto Club as “the country band that plays the bar at the end of the world.” It’s a pretty ﬁ tting description of a group known for its supercharged live shows and ﬁ ery Americana. Initiated in Denver in 1992, Cessna and company weld together rockabilly, punk, country, pulpit sermons and the ghosts of Johnny Cash and Elvis into a haunting and enchanting spectacle one must witness live. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Noah Gundersen

KIM SMITH MILLER

[COUNTRY] After more than 35 years on the road, Emmylou Harris and her longtime friend and songwriting partner, Rodney Crowell, are no strangers to travel. You can hear it in their most recent release, The Traveling Kind, an album that meanders across familiar infl uences and genres. Where their 2013 album, Old Yellow Moon, consisted mainly of covers, this one is almost entirely original work, made up primarily of heartaching ballads and roaming, upbeat choruses steeped in Americana slide guitar and bright piano infl ections. Expertly trading off

between Crowell’s unique Texas twang with Harris’ clear, distinctive speech-singing, The Traveling Kind is a self-assured album that serves to further entrench their partnership in music history. KAITIE TODD. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 220-2789. 7 pm. $39.50-$99.50. All ages.

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa

[GENERIC PRODUCTION] In the early days of its career, at least, Fall Out Boy had a sound. Whether or not you found that sound compelling, it had its hallmarks: stop-start riﬀ age, tweener-smooth vocals over tumultuous percussion and some legitimately catchy (if derivative) hooks. Now Fall Out Boy sounds like a volcanic mountain of industry-approved gloss-slop, like 15 forgettable radio hits played at the same time. Its half-assed collaboration with Wiz Khalifa, a remix of Fall Out Boy’s awfulto-begin-with “Uma Thurman,” sounds like Google’s Deep Dream software shitting out what it thinks is a pop song. Wiz Khalifa’s opening set could be fun for the committed stoners out there, but in a cash-grab amphitheater setting with bored Fall Out Boy fans all around you? Sounds like a real bummer to me. CASEY

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INTRODUCING SNOWBLIND TRAVELER Who: Matt Dorrien. Sounds like: Walking into a whiskeysoaked saloon after a long day on the road, and the piano player has a sad story for you. For fans of: The Tallest Man on Earth, Father John Misty, Ozarks.

Matt Dorrien has been everywhere. Well, almost. Originally from Brookhaven, N.Y., Dorrien, who performs under the name Snowblind Traveler, spent his childhood bouncing back and forth, from coast to coast. But, curiously, he never visited the South, a place whose dark past inspired many songs on his most recent album, Confederate Burial. After reading books like The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax and researching history and literature from the Civil War, Dorrien became fascinated by original blues, jazz and rock musicians. “Because of slavery and persecution…you hear it in the music,” Dorrien says. “There’s a lot of pain in that. You can hear it, in early blues and in jazz, of course. It’s a lot more powerful.” As a child, Dorrien always dreamed of playing guitar, but was redirected by his parents and instead studied classical piano at age 11. “I just started learning the basics with classical,” he says, “but I always leaned towards Scotch opera and slide music, and recently I just became infatuated with early blues and old-time music—like the piano player in the saloon.” You can hear those influences throughout Confederate Burial, his second album as Snowblind Traveler (which he’s reissuing on vinyl this week), from “Lobster,” a song carried by a loose acoustic melody, whistles and colorful jaunts of piano, to “Osprey,” a dark, murmuring track led by eerie, echoing tremolos of mandolin. The carefully crafted hooks and song arrangements nod to his biggest inspirations, the Beatles and the Beach Boys. But the lyrics are haunted by the ghosts of the Civil War. “Coyotes howl at the blood red moon/Heard you whistling a Confederate tune,” he sings on “Dead Men.” “Three men coming, gonna lay you down/Better hide like a snake in the ground.” “There’s a lot of pain and suffering that comes from there,” Dorrien says. “I think from pain comes beautiful art.” KAITIE TODD. SEE IT: Snowblind Traveler plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Future Historians and Supercrow, on Monday, Aug. 3. 8 pm. $5. 21+. 32

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Jeff Witscher

[ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRONIC] You may not know Jeﬀ Witscher, but if the names Marble Sky, Abelar Scout, Secret Abuse or Rene Hell ring a bell, you know at least some aspects of his multifarious music. Shifting identities as often as locations (the Long Beach, Calif., native currently lives in a Portland basement but has recently called L.A., Europe and Massachusetts home), Witscher’s electronic identities scuttle from noise-inﬂ uenced to black metal-scarred to ambient. With so many alter egos now amalgamated under a single moniker, it’s hard to know exactly what his new quadraphonic composition, Cuban Heels—which premieres at the simultaneous opening of YU’s latest exhibition, Theory of Achievement—will actually sound like. But don’t be surprised if it’s dark, atmospheric, textured and involves digital transformations of acoustic sound sources, not all immediately recognizable as music in the conventional sense. BRETT CAMPBELL. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 9:30 pm. Free. All ages.

SUNDAY, AUG. 2 Mujahedeen, Native Eloquence, Akasha System, the Wave Collector

[COMPUTER PSYCH] Ali Muhareb has been mastering an experimental form of self-described “anxietyladen bedroom pop” since 2013. With new and pleasantly unorthodox sounds, Muhareb’s solo project was a big leap from his surf-rock roots as the former bassist of Talkative. Now, Muhareb is shedding his musical skin once more and starting a new project under the name Mujahedeen, which promises to be just as catchy and even more exploratory. ASHLEY JOCZ. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 754-7782. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

My Body, the Fourth Wall, Doubleplusgood

[SEXY STUFF] My Body’s Six Wives EP is one of the fi nest slices of minimalist electronic R&B ever to grace my speakers. The Brooklynvia-Portland duo is composed of two of the most understated people you’re likely to meet, producer Darren Bridenbeck and frontwoman Jordan Bagnall, but when they take the stage, things get intimate and transcendent. Bagnall’s vocals seem as infl uenced by ancient Chinese folk songs as they do by modern R&B bangers, and Bridenbeck’s beats are a modern take on Depeche Mode darkness. So much neo-R&B and future-soul sounds like slightly repackaged old stuff ; My Body sounds entirely new. New single “Manjacked” underscores that point and adds a few exclamation points to it, for good measure. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 3 High on Fire, Pallbearer, Lucifer, Venomous Maximus

[MODERN DOOM] Two of the biggest names in underground metal on one devastating tour— High on Fire will draw the knuckledraggers and Pallbearer will serenade the more sensitive toedippers. Both bands are absolutely on top of their game, delivering some of the most acclaimed metal of 2015, so it’s a sure bet that even on a Monday, this will be a packed and sweaty aﬀ air. High on Fire is promoting its new album Luminiferous, a nine-song outing that only compounds the trio’s ability to cram pulverizing riﬀ s into relentless, blackened grooves. Pallbearer’s pace is more

leaden and glorious, if signiﬁ cantly more tear-jerking. The secret surprise on this bill is U.K.’s Lucifer, the new vehicle for Johanna Sadonis, who recently folded the Oath to strike out on her own. NATHAN CARSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E Chávez Blvd., 233-7100. 7 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 4 Jackson Browne

[THE PRETENDER TO THE THRONE] Enduring the decades with vocals and hairline undimmed—and blessedly free of the embarrassments and excesses haunting his Eagles-mates reputations—Jackson Browne might be the most fondly remembered survivor of the ‘70s Laurel Canyon set, though recent years have found him increasingly preoccupied by political concerns even as the fan base dwindles to the sort of well-heeled devotees ﬂ ooding the Schnitz at threeﬁ gure ticket prices. Standing In The Breach arrived in 2014 as a perfectly pleasant condemnation of societal ills, whose sole secular ballad borrows lyrics from Depression-era protest singer Woody Guthrie. After all, if Guthrie’s guitar could kill fascists, the 23 pre-tuned models Browne brought onstage last tour should surely wound a few plutocrats. JAY

HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $56-104.50. All ages.

Tei Shi, Natasha Kmeto

[ALT-R&B] Tei Shi is the stage name of Valerie Teicher, a gifted musician and producer based in Brooklyn. Originally from Argentina, Teicher is a one-woman wrecking crew of gracefully looped lyrics and harmonies. Her newest EP, Verde, is more robust and dance-friendly, an enriched extension of her ﬁ rst release, Saudade. The intricate vocal layering shows signs of her Central American upbringing, percussive and ﬂ ickering. Atop it all is a true crooner, turning would-be bedroom pop into something complicated and sexy. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Steve Miller Band

[THE JOKER] Steve Miller was a hit-making machine in the mid’70s—anyone with Greatest Hits 1974-78 tucked in their glove box can attest to that. The years since haven’t been so kind to the 71-year-old artist and San Francisco stalwart, though, even if recent stints touring with Journey and string of archival releases have kept him aﬂ oat in lieu of new studio albums. But you can still

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BEAT CONNECTION For Reed Juenger, music has always been an interdisciplinary pursuit. Though Beat Connection began in earnest as a party-starting DJ duo at the UniverPREVIE W sity of Washington, his dorm-bound project has since blossomed into a four-piece that’s all but left the house-party scene behind. It still brings the beats, obviously, but the orchestration of its incandescent, sample-heavy tropicalia has quickly evolved from laptops churning out four-on-the-floor grooves to a rock fan’s fantasy of exactly what a live electronic show should be. Namely, dudes with instruments sweating it out in real time. It helps that Juenger—who grew up in Vancouver, Wash.—daylights as a graphic designer, a skill that has catapulted Beat Connection’s live set from modest collegiate beginnings to a mesmerizing multimedia experience. Seeing sounds and hearing colors is considered a malady in most medical circles, but the world Juenger and company have created on their forthcoming record, Product 3, would be nowhere near as lovely without it. PETE COTTELL. WW: What can you tell me about the new record? Reed Juenger: The next record is a pop record with a lot of songs about the intersection of art and artifice, hidden behind love songs, because those are universal themes we think almost anyone can identify with and get stuck in their head. The whole idea of the record is about accepting commercialism and consumer culture as a necessary evil in creating pop music. It’s also about not being all that pleased with that. We’ve been focused on how, a lot of times, our music has been a fitting soundtrack for a commercial for something we can’t afford as artists. There are a lot of things changing in Seattle right now. I’m sure you’ve noticed it in Portland. I remember the Pearl District going through a lot of changes in the last couple of years. It’s still growing and changing. It’s sort of like, “Damn, this condo replaced this shitty dive bar I used to go to. I didn’t really like that dive bar that much, but I don’t really like this condo that much either.” Which one is better? Are they both bad or good? It’s sort of questioning how we accept this and account for the potential destruction of culture through consumerism. Is there some way to embrace consumerism and sort of subvert it? SEE IT: Beat Connection plays MusicfestNW at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Sunday, Aug. 23. Go to musicfestnw.com for tickets. See wweek.com for an extended Q&A.

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TUESDAY/CLASSICAL, ETC. expect to hear “Rock’n Me” and “Fly Like an Eagle” here, as the sun sets beneath the shadow of a colossal pegasus, and while Miller’s voice might not have aged like the ﬁ nest pinot noir, his trademarked guitar has only gotten better. BRANDON WIDDER. Ed geﬁ eld , 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. $53 general admission, $89-$93 reserved seating. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Bach Festival: Gail Archer

[BACH IT UP] Before he was known for his sprawling Brandenburg Concertos, Bach was most famed as a performer on the layered church keyboard. Mount Angel Abbey celebrates this fact during the fi rst night of its 44th annual Bach Festival, with a performance by Grammy-winning New York organist Gail Archer. Archer’s most recent recordings, Bach: The Transcendent Genius , showcase the composer’s powerful melodies in a perfectly nonrobotic manner, off ering an opportunity to hear Bach anew, through a sensitive lens powered by beautifully fl owing fi ngertips. PARKER HALL. Mount Angel Abbey, 1 Abbey Drive, St. Benedict, 845-3066. 6 pm Wednesday, July 29. $55-$135. All ages.

Rasputina

[CELLO ROCK] Before Portland Cello Project, there was Rasputina, nine (soon whittled to three) women cellists gathered by New York singer-songwriter and fellow cellist Melora Creager in 1891—or so the group’s website, and Creager’s vintage, steampunky stage attire proclaim. Since its 1996 CD debut, the ever-shifting lineup has sometimes included drums, guitar, keyboards and/or bass, along with cellos, including, for a while, Zoe Keating, and has released a variety of live discs, singles, EPs and studio albums, including this year’s Unknown. The constant is Creager’s cello, voice and songs, often featuring stories about historical events and women. After a twoyear layoﬀ following a devastating identity-theft incident, Creager is back in a new trio featuring keyboardist and beatboxer Luis Mojica and fellow Rasputina co-founder Carpella Parvo, who returns with her cello and a new ﬁ rst name two decades after leaving the band (and for years, the cello) because of carpal tunnel problems. BRETT CAMPBELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm Monday, Aug. 3. $15. 21+.

Re-Birthing the Cool

[OLD’S COOL] When Birth of the Cool was ﬁ rst released in the mid1950s, Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ brilliantly arranged work for a nine-piece band starkly contrasted itself against the rip-roaring, small ensemble bebop of the decade before. In a rare, classical-style performance of the original jazz work, local vocalist David “The Doctor of Bebop” Watson assembles nine Portland post-bop heroes to pay homage to the layered, melodic sound in unadulterated form, playing the album note for note from the original score. PARKER HALL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Tuesday, Aug. 4. $10. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.

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GAYTHEIST AND RABBITS GAY*BITS (GOOD TO DIE) [BRUTAL BROMANCE] As musical couplings go, Gaytheist and Rabbits are a match made in a center for tinnitus research. Beyond sheer volume, the Portland punk-metal agitators also share a common distaste for humanity and a sneering sense of humor. But on this split LP, it’s their differences that stand out most. Gaytheist goes first, opening with a pair of typically careening originals before taking on two songs from Rabbits’ Bites Rites, bringing the latter band’s murky ballast into high definition and as close to “pop” as it’ll ever get. Once Rabbits takes over, the fidelity gets pulled into the sludge, taking the melodic sensibilities of the Gaytheist songs it covers down with it. The centerpiece is “Soap Scum,” which the groups wrote together and recorded separately, and it’s barely recognizable as the same song. A better collaboration is “I Quit,” a re-recording of a 2011 Gaytheist track, with Josh Hughes’ aggravated growl voicing a fed-up office drone who flexes like Henry Rollins but whose actions are closer to George Costanza in that Seinfeld episode where he storms out on his job only to come back like nothing happened. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Gaytheist and Rabbits play the World Famous Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., with Left Blank and Bobby Peru, on Friday, July 31. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

STILL CAVES GNARLY FOR DAYS (BROKEN PRESS) [GARAGE PSYCH] It’s been almost three years since Still Caves released its promising debut EP, Static Lips, and while the group’s first full-length is just as raw and raucous as its predecessor, the songs on Gnarly for Days yield more pleasing views of psychedelia’s nether world. The band’s exploration of distorted euphoria brings to mind California’s twin towers of garage rock, Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer, but Still Caves seems to have sipped a considerable amount of primordial ooze from sources closer to home. The savage, tempestuous songs on Gnarly play like hung-over remembrances of the fairly recent past, a time when Portland bands like Meth Teeth and Eat Skull were staging dark invasions of the rock-’n’-roll form. It’s not merely mannered recapitulation, though. The quartet has the stoned wherewithal to pound at a midtempo groove until every bit of gristle has been smashed out of it. The 11-minute finale, “Buzzin’,” might test the fortitude of any listener not stuck in a K-hole, but it’s easy to forgive Still Caves’ indulgence. Why not chase a great high until it dies? CHRIS STAMM. SEE IT: Still Caves plays the Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729, with Dracula & the Cruisers and Hooded Hags, on Saturday, Aug. 1. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

THE FOURTH WALL LOVELY VIOLENCE (BUG HUNT) [SHOEGAZE] For a band that’s been around only five years, Portland-via-Hawaii noise-pop group the Fourth Wall has its craft surprisingly well-honed. Its second album, Lovely Violence, is impressively uniform in its spiraling webs of spiky guitar feedback juxtaposed with wistful folk-pop passages, a combination that falls somewhere between the volcanic chaos of David Baker-era Mercury Rev and the casual melancholy of Grandaddy. The moments of sonic bombardment aren’t always immediately engaging or cohesive, but when it works, it’s highly effective. Frontman Stephen Agustin displays a keen ear for knowing just how much earsplitting, fuzz-laden pyrotechnics to apply before easing back into a hooky folk-rock chorus. It’s by no means groundbreaking, but when you have the discipline to leave enough room for thrashing sonic freak-outs while keeping the record’s strong melodies sharply in focus, you’re doing something right. CASEY HARDMEYER. SEE IT: The Fourth Wall plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with My Body and Doubleplusgood, on Sunday, Aug. 2. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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[JULY 29-AUG. 4] Hawthorne Theatre lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. The Shift, Analog Mistress, Strictly Platonic

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

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LAST WEEK LIVE

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Fat Mannequins

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Three for Silver

lan Su Chinese Garden

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Holly Herndon

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol HWy True North

Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Paul Thorn

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

Blue Room Bar

8145 SE 82nd Ave. Open Mic

Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Danny Hay Davis & The Rat Pack

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Popa Chubby, Arthur Moore

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Coliseum, Arctic Flowers, Old City

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Kool John, P-Lo

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Coliseum, Arctic Flowers

Jimmy Mak’s

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

lan Su Chinese Garden

239 NW Everett St. Music in the Teahouse

landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday

laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Drymill Road, The Battlefield (9 pm); The Quick & Easy Boys (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sticky Fingers

Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary 1 Abbey Drive Organist Gail Archer Performs at Bach Festival

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd Pepe and the Bottle Blondes

Ponderosa lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way Michael Ray, Brewer’s Grade

Pub at the end of the universe

Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Wil Kinky

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

The Muddy Rudder Public House

White eagle Saloon

1108 Broadway St. N.E., David Friesen’s Circle 3 Trio

836 N Russell St. Heavy Gone Acoustic, Monica Nelson & the Highgates

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Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

830 East Burnside Street Nurses, US Lights, Dust Covered Carpet

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band

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303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter

Analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. LVL UP: Upset, Blowout, Snowroller

Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones and Friends

350 West Burnside Jen Stills Band

doug Fir lounge

Beulahland Coffee & Alehouse 118 NE 28th Ave. Rough Cut

Crush Bar

Crystal Ballroom

Curious Comedy Theater

5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 6 Guitars

doug Fir lounge

830 East Burnside Street Possessed by Paul James

dublin Pub

6821 Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy Ska Night: Smash Bandits

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Jumptown Aces, Suburban Slim

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Erotic City Prince Tribute

Fly Awake Tea Garden 3514 NE 13th Ave Raga In The Garden

421 SE Grand Ave. Symbion Project

8105 SE 7th Ave. Missi and Mister Baker

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. The Midnight Serenaders, 12th Avenue Hot Club

Trail’s end Saloon

1320 Main Street American Roots Jam

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Hip Stew

1507 SE 39th Ave. Kehlani

1001 SE Morrison St. Seapony, Tender Age, Tape Waves

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Yachtsmen

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover & Gravel (9 pm); The Yellers (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

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White eagle Saloon

2530 NE 82nd Ave Scott Holt

836 N Russell St. JT Wise Band

3939 N Mississippi Ave Slim Cessnas Auto Club, Michael Dean Damron

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Oregon Zoo

1800 E Burnside St. Eat Off Your Banjo: Dinner and Live Music

836 N Russell St. DoveDriver, The Neil Darling Band

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Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

1800 E Burnside St. Castletown

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. The Shift, Analog Mistress, Strictly Platonic

800 NW 6th Ave. Heather Keizur & Friends

4001 SW Canyon Road Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Noah Gundersen

Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Arachnid, Prove, Chronological Injustice

426 SW Washington St. Mic Capes and Lang, Michael Fountaine and Rasheed Jamal

710 SW 2nd Ave Where’s Danny Band

The Firkin Tavern

Panic Room

The Know

Rogue distillery & Public House

1937 SE 11th Ave. Tribe Mars, Helena Cinema and Th-Thunder! 2026 NE Alberta St. Andy Human & The Reptoids, Andy Place & the Coolheads, Mope Grooves

The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Larry Wilder

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Jenny Finn Orchestra

The Tea Zone and Camellia lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Bamberger, Engel, Hines, Eave

The White eagle 836 N. Russell St. DoveDriver

Torta-landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Live Music

Trail’s end Saloon

800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

SAT. AuG. 1 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter

Alberta Rose Theatre

Amphitheater Northwest

239 NW Everett St. Storm Large, Benefit for Lan Su

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

Saithong Thai Fusion

lair Hill Bistro

lan Su Chinese Garden

Kells Brewpub

2958 NE Glisan St. Life During Wartime: A Talking Heads Tribute (9:30 pm); Amanda Richards & The Good Long Whiles (6 pm)

1 NE Rooster Rock Rd Song Circle

3000 NE Alberta St. Justin Klump, Steve Moakler

2823 SW 1st Ave Lorna B Quartet

210 NW 21st Ave. Irish Step Dancers

laurel Thirst Public House

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. PDX Leo Party

Kells Brewpub

Rooster Rock State Park

Wilf’s Restaurant & Bar

Chapel Pub

Christos Pizzeria

3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

221 NW 10th Ave. The Bobby Torres Ensemble, Alex Acuna

Kelly’s Olympian

10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Rich Layton and the Troublemakers

Holocene

1300 SE Stark St, #110 Meat Puppets, Soul Asylum

The lodge Bar & Grill

1530 SE 7th Ave. Gypsy Jazz Jam

Artichoke Music

Jimmy Mak’s

Rock Creek Tavern

Revolution Hall

5501 SE 72nd Ave. Thursday Night Jam

Vie de Boheme

3000 NE Alberta St. Korby Lenker, Jesse Terry, Tyler Fortier

1320 Main Street Jim Mesi & Steve Bradley

8 NW 6th Ave. Ratatat

430 N Killingworth St. Steve Kerin

Alberta Rose Theatre

SW Salmon Street And SW Naito Friday Early Escape Summer Concert Series

Hawthorne Theatre

The lovecraft

6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band Jam

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Kasey Chambers

4107 SE 28th Ave. Thursday Night Community Jam

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

Roseland Theater

Portland Spirit Salmon Street dock

1332 W. Burnside Floater

Mississippi Studios

Hawthorne Theatre lounge

Aladdin Theater

303 SW 12th Ave. Leon Cotter

laurel Thirst Public House

3552 N. Misssissippi Ave Chervona

Wed. July 29

Al’s den

239 NW Everett St. Storm Large, Benefit for Lan Su

Mississippi Pizza Pub.

Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Last Friday Experimental Music Series

1400 SE Morrison St. A People’s Choir

2958 NE Glisan St. The Hilldogs, Lowlight (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire & The Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

THE TAO OF NOW: There are plenty of reasons to be cynical about Nu-Portland, but as long as PDX Pop Now exists, we’ll always have a one-up on other cities. Where else is the music scene strong enough to sustain an annual, volunteer-run, all-ages festival, featuring all-local bands, for more than a decade? Attendance might have dipped in recent years, but as always, the 2015 edition—held under the Hawthorne Bridge, which was crucial for avoiding the weekend’s sporadic downpours—proved just how good we’ve still got it, among other truths. To name a few more: Bearded folk is out, psych pop is in. Portland loves deconstructionist cover songs, whether it’s Coco Columbia’s skittering jazz take on Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” or Hot Victory transforming ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down” into a pagan ritual. The kids mostly want to dance (see: Chanti Darling and Dylan Stark). All rappers should have a live band like Vinnie Dewayne’s, especially if the drummer is Tony Ozier. Nurses have always been weirdly awesome, but now they’re really weird, and maybe more awesome. And, as sets from still-developing feminist punk trio Golden Hour and art-rapper the Last Artful Dodgr exemplified, Portland music exists in a constant state of evolution. “Now” is the festival’s operative word, but its best moments always involve catching a glimpse of the future. MATTHEW SINGER. See our full PDX Pop Now report at wweek.com/lastweeklive.

FRi. July 31

17200 NE Delfel Rd. Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa, Hoodie Allen

Bella Organic

16205 NW Gillihan Rd Renegade String Band

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St Happy Hour, Ronnie Carrier, Jen Young, & Jeff Jones

Boon’s Treasury

888 Liberty St. NE Bill Hughes Jazz Jam

doug Fir lounge

830 East Burnside Street Chappo, Kool Stuff Katie

duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Jim Mesi

Hawthorne Theatre lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Phases

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Decora

1339 NW Flanders St. Bones & Brew

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Ana Popovic

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Dad Works Hard, Atlas and the Astronaut & The Lovely Lost

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Still Caves, Hooded Hags and Dracula & the Cruisers

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Wanna B-52’s, Hifipriestess

Three Mugs Brewing Taproom 2020 NW Aloclek Dr Ste 108 Ryan Whyte Maloney

Tryon Creek State Natural Area

11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd Connie Bieberach and Armonia Latina, Forest Music Series

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Anthony Raneri, Laura Stevenson and Alison Weiss

Winona Grange No. 271 8340 SW Seneca St. MnM’s Square Dance

yale union (yu)

800 SE 10th Ave. Jeff Witscher

yoshida Gardenview estate 29330 SE Stark Street Soulful Giving Blanket Concert

SuN. AuG. 2 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Shramana, Drunk Dad and Ape Cave

Blue diamond

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

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

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

director Park

815 SW Park Ave Portland Wind Symphony

Jade lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Audio Tatoo

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Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Traditional Irish Music

Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Open Mic (9 pm); Jack Dwyer Band (6 pm)

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Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Rachel Mann Band (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Snowblind Traveler, Future Historians

Plews Brews

Mississippi Studios

8409 N. Lombard St. Med Monday

Plews Brews

4107 SE 28th Ave. Open Mic

3939 N Mississippi Ave My Body, the Fourth Wall, Doubleplusgood 8409 N. Lombard St. Open Mic

Rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Daylight Robbery, The Stops

The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Whiskey Darlings, Josh Nielsen

Mon. Aug. 3 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

Pub at the End of the universe

Sellwood Riverfront Park

SE Oaks Park Way Catarina New Brazilian Touch, Presented by Sellwood Westmoreland Business Alliance

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Rasputina

The goodFoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Psychomagic, The Rubs, Cigarette Bums, and Love Cop

The Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Moth Storyslam

TuES. Aug. 4

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Al’s Den

1037 SW Broadway Ave Move Live on Tour

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

Blue Diamond

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold

Corkscrew

1665 SE Bybee Ave. Open Mic

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave Monday Soundscapes

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. High on Fire, Pallbearer, Lucifer, Venomous Maximus, Phases

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Trio

Kelly’s olympian

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Chamber Band & Friends

Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and Special Guests

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

2530 NE 82nd Ave Dennis Jones

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Steve Miller Band

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Soul Ipsum, Gardener, Ant’lrd, Don Gero & Pick Pocket

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Re-Birthing the Cool

Kelly’s olympian

426 SW Washington St. Late Tunage with KPSU DJ’s

Laurel Thirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St. Worth (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Aoife O’Donovan Solo, Annalisa Tornfelt

northwest Portland Hostel & guesthouse 425 NW 18th Avenue Summer Music in the Secret Garden

Rock Creek Tavern 10000 NW Old Cornelius Pass Rd. Open Bluegrass Jam

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Havania Whaal, Consumer, Love and Caring

The Lehrer

8775 SW Canyon Ln. Hot Jam Night with Tracey Fordice & The 8-Balls

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St. Gloomsday, Funeral Gold, Strange Wool

Trail’s End Saloon

1320 Main Street Acoustic Session with Scotty Bouck

Venti’s Cafe And Tap House 2840 Commercial Street Lounge Night

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Out of Dodge, Egg Plant, Strange Language

5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Casey Donahew Band

Doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Tei Shi, Natasha Kmeto

asger carlsen

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy, Bunker Sessions Open Mic

1037 SW Broadway Ave Jackson Browne

Duff’s garage

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BAR REVIEW

Where to drink this week. 1. The Upper Lip

720 SW Ankeny St., theupperlip.net. Don’t miss the rare chance to get food served within Bailey’s Taproom, at the Oyster Social pop-up in Bailey’s upstairs semisecret room, from 5-8 pm on Saturday, Aug. 1.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd, 238-0543, panicroomportland.com. For its Bar Rescue viewing, the bar was packed with cheering regulars watching the “reality” drama unfold. No one was drinking the sponsored Bar Rescue cocktails. The happy-hour $6 burger, on the other hand? Damn ﬁne. But the bartender only answers the phone as “Penis Room” these days.

5. 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.

BACK IN BLUE: Kurt Huffman’s 99-Oregon-tap beer hall had quite an opening week. Loyal Legion (705 SE 6th Ave, 235-8272, loyallegionpdx. com) had a line down the block when it first cracked the doors of the old Portland Police Athletic Association space, which had long been off-limits to noncops. Inside, they found a rectangular room, with an ass atop every steel drafting stool at the long, blond wood bar and people spilling out of the blue-hued booths on the back walls and out onto the scuffed red floor. Then, the City of Portland stepped in with a veto on a liquor license, because crime rates in the immediate vicinity were too high. Then, after the bar closed, the OLCC said Huffman could have a license after all. Hmm. Well, OK. After being shuttered just a few days, the Legion is back slinging super-cold beers from a tap that pours just above freezing and grilling up sausages from the meatmaker formerly known as Olympic Provisions. That handful of super-cold beers has some locals pissed—purists insist fine lagers and ales be served warmer so the flavors can bloom—but it’s damned pleasant on a 99-Oregon-degree day. The sausages need a better assortment of mustards and the pretzels have a nice, sturdy crumb structure but would benefit from a heavier sprinkle of salt. The bar accepts only cash, but there’s an ATM on site. Sausages and all beers cost $6, with pours varying in size based on the cost of the keg. Tipping is, technically, not required as Huffman gives bartenders and servers $15 an hour (the bartender informs me that many customers are leaving a few bucks, anyway). Big things are planned for the upstairs banquet hall, which will be open for special beer events on Sundays. Pending timely approval by the OLCC, of course. MARTIN CIZMAR. The Whiskey Bar Portland 31 NW 1st Ave Pegboard Nerds

SAT. AUG. 1 WED. JULY 29 Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Valentino Khan

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. TRONix

Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Wiggle Room

THURS. JULY 30 Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Reggae Roots and Dub Night

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Shadowplay

FRI. JULY 31 Holocene

Pub at the End of the Universe

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap! ‘90s Dance Party

The Whiskey Bar Portland

1332 W Burnside 80s Video Dance Attack

4107 SE 28th Ave. Wicked Wednesdays 31 NW 1st Ave Eptic

Lola’s Room

The Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down

MON. AUG. 3 Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Fight Church TV, Jessie

Holocene

Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade

Moloko Plus

The Lovecraft

1001 SE Morrison St. 50: A Possible History of Dance Music 3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Roane

Portland Spirit Salmon Street Dock

SW Salmon Street And SW Naito Radical 80’s Dance Cruise

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Misprid presents Expressway to Yr Skull

511 NW Couch St. Metal Mondays, Metal Kyle and DJ Shreddy Krueger 421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

TUES. AUG. 4 The Lodge Bar & Grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Easy Finger

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Bones with DJ Aurora

SUN. AUG. 2 Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade 511 NW Couch St. Killer Queen

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MARTIN WELLER with guest author Robert Wright WEDNESDAY, JULY 29TH AT 6PM

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.

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Citizen Min

In 1942, Minoru Yasui broke curfew. Defying the military order imposed on Portland’s Japanese-Americans during World War II, he was convicted of allegiance to Japan and got a yearlong jail sentence after a nonjury trial. His case, the first to argue the constitutionality of curfews for minorities, provides a harsh history lesson in this theatrical reading from Theatre Diaspora. Jade/APANO Multicultural Space, 8114 SE Division St., 971-340-4861. 6 pm Wednesday, July 29. Free.

How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying

Boasting seven Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, this Broadway blowout, based on a satirical self-help book by the same name, certainly knows how to take its own advice. With lyrics by Frank Loesser—who wrote Guys and Dolls and the Christmas radio classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”— the show has an impressive history. Robert Morse won the Tony for Best Performance as J. Pierrepont Finch, the window-washer who becomes a board chairman; How to Succeed ran 1,417 performances after opening on Broadway in 1961; and the 50th anniversary Broadway revival starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe as the young ambition hound. Now franchised out to Oregon City, Clackamas Repertory associate artistic director Doren Elias will direct Jameson Tabor, who runs his own acting school, as Finch. Clackamas Repertory Theatre, 19600 Molalla Ave., Oregon City, 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday through Aug. 23. $35.

Nature Walk

Moving away from improv that’s big, loud and brash, Brody mainstays Domeka Parker and Matt Lask perform “sound improv” acts focused on everyday experiences and audience innteraction. Their mission of “giving improv back to theater” means less slapstick, more subtlety and sketches that watch like one-act plays. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, July 31. $10.

Richard III

Bag & Baggage’s outdoor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III takes the play’s black humor to the next level with elements of slapstick and a fresh perspective that shows the audience the world through Richard’s eyes. In the original, Richard is a hunchback who plots to steal his brother’s crown, no matter how many murders and lies that takes. In this version, which was previously produced in Glasgow in 2004, Richard is still a bad guy, but he’s ridiculous—a bit of a clown—and a villain you love to hate. The comic crook is played by resident actor Peter Schuyler, who has been blogging about his character: “What would you want to do to the people in power who have used you like a tool for years, telling you ‘Good job!’ to your face and then calling you a toad, a hedgehog or a dog behind your back? Well, wouldn’t you want to kill everyone?” Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E Main St., Hillsboro. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday. $20.

Shakespeare in the Park: The Taming of the Shrew

According to director Patrick Walsh, Shakespeare’s rom-com has long been misconstrued as a misogynist caper laden with sexual innuendo. Actually, he says, it’s about two people who must find a way to care for each other by rejecting the mores of society.

Veteran Shakespeare actor Melissa Whitney from Northwest Classical Theater plays Kate the headstrong shrew and Sam Levi, who was seen as Octavius Caesar in the Portland Actors Ensemble’s 2014 production of Antony and Cleopatra, plays her suitor, Petruchio. The romantic quest travels around town to 11 different outdoor locations throughout the summer, including three greater-Portland-area wineries. Stoller Family Estate, 16161 NE McDougal Road, Dayton, 864-3404. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, 6 pm Sunday, July 31-Aug. 2. Show continues at different locations through Sept. 6. Free, donations encouraged.

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 Thursday-Saturday through August 29. $16-$20.

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.

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph’s comic-tragic romance, performed off Broadway in 2011, follows the three decade relationship of two madefor-each-other masochists, played by

Portland Actors Conservatory graduate Tabitha Trosen and Jim Valeda, who made a cameo appearance in Portlandia last year. 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.

Much Ado About Nothing

Post5 Theatre has a blueprint for staging Shakespeare and this production is proof that it works. Even directed by Seattle’s Darragh Kennan, it bears every mark of the theater’s Bard branding. Trading Shakespeare’s

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PERFORMANCE

NEW REVIEWS Play

Portland playwright D.C. Copeland brings academic questions about art, absurdity and breaking the fourth wall to the stage in this production of her popular Fertile Ground 2015 play…called Play. It’s titled that because the plotline is a thinly-veiled exploration of what theater is all about. An enthusiastic playwright named Flannery (Vonessa Martin) carries a table to the stage and starts writing vigorously. As she writes, her script comes to life: a woman gives birth, suffers her husband’s infidelity, and watches her daughter grow into a teenaged drug addict who dies of an overdose. John San Nicolas, a resident actor with Artists Rep, narrates the entire play, announcing things like, “Flannery makes an important character decision.” This is modern theater overloaded with navel-gazing—a play within a play about plays. The actors manage it well, especially San Nicolas. But despite confident and convincing acting, the constant philosophical pondering may be too close to academia for a fun night at the theater. Copeland’s Flannery is constantly musing “how about this or that,” making the script feel like a stressful déjà vu of babysitting gigs where the kids have been playing make-believe for hours. ALLIE DONAHUE. Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant St., 235-0635. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 8. $10.

ALSO PLAYING Cymbeline

Four hundred years 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 dance 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 genderswapping too—this time it’s a lesbian marriage that causes so much strife. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursday–Sunday, through Aug. 8. $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 3D advantage, Funhouse Artistic Director Trenton Shine added songs, dancing

sWeet Hereafter: (from left) Julie Hammond, Jason rouse and Jean-Luc Boucherot.

PORTLAND USED TO BE DIRTIER HAND2MOUTH’S TIME, A FAIR HUSTLER IMAGINES MIKE AND SCOTT’S LIVES AFTER MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. In Gus Van Sant’s iconic 1991 Portland film My Own Private Idaho, tribes of homeless kids camped out in boarded-up downtown buildings, and Chinatown’s sidewalks gleamed with broken glass. Now, 25 years later, New Seasons holds empire and doughnuts cost $4. Jonathan Walters, founder of Portland’s Hand2Mouth Theatre company and the director of the first-ever stage production of Van Sant’s Idaho, wonders: “Have we lost our underground? Have people lost their souls?” Time, A Fair Hustler is more of a sequel than a adaptation. It takes place in a cleaner, Portlandiastyle present. An eclectic group of five has been called to give testimony of their 1990s memories of Mike and Scott, the two beautiful, young street hustlers from Idaho. As the characters take turns reminiscing, Hand2Mouth pays homage to Van Sant’s original with flashbacks that re-enact scenes from the movie. In Hand2Mouth’s production, Scott is Portland’s mayor and Mike has disappeared. Although Mike shows up only in flashback scenes, his presence hangs over the entire production. His absence mimics the death of the character’s original actor, River Phoenix, who died two years after his highly praised performance in Idaho. In addition to time jumps, gender switches also set the stage show apart from its inspiration. Hand2Mouth company member Julie Hammond will play

Mike, and New York actress Erika Latta takes on the role of Scott. “We’re competing with the film,” says Walters. “We have to make a strange theater piece that makes the audience stop referencing the film.” Walters thinks that casting women as the two leads will help quell constant comparisons. Time has been over a year in the making. Hand2Mouth interviewed Portlanders who were a part of downtown grunge in the ’90s. Andrea Stolowitz—winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award in drama— joined to write the courtroom scenes, and the company ran multiple work-in-progress readings where local writers, performers and the general public provided feedback. Dramaturge Jess Drake, who helped write the script with material from the interviews and Idaho’s screenplay, sat through the many rehearsals to make edits to the dialogue. But when words aren’t enough to express the decay of youth and the pangs of lost friendship, the actors start singing. The play uses music from Peter Holmström of the Dandy Warhols and Al James of Dolorean, along with new pieces that Portland musician Jack Gibson composed for the show. In a memory scene, as Mike and Scott’s friend Gary (Jason Rouse) watches the boys walk away from him and into a convenience store, he’s overcome by the memory of Scott refusing his kiss. He sings: “What’s gone is gone/What’s here is now.” “It’s a play about growing up,” says Walters. “The city is in parallel.” ALLIE DONAHUE. see it: Time, A Fair Hustler is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., hand2mouththeatre. org. 7:30 Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 16. Additional show 7:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 2. $25-$30. Willamette Week JULY 29, 2015 wweek.com

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quaint Italian town for a Pacific Northwest vibe, the set could be any Willamette Valley winery (WillaKenzie Estate is a top sponsor) and its victorious regiment pops beer cans like so many Timbers fans on Northwest 21st Avenue. This contemporary staging is the refreshing cocktail that makes a tired play go down easy. There are the inevitable bumps, though, here in the shape of flimsier 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 Wagnerian delivery make Stan Brown’s sleazy Don John more tedious than evil. Moving the audience into Post5’s garden for the wedding scene completely interrupts the play’s momentum. 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. Still, Post5’s mold for modernized, bellylaughing comedy holds its own and makes for a lovely midsummer’s eve. As Shakespeare himself wrote: To thine own self be true. ENID SPITZ. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 8 pm Friday-Sunday, through Aug. 16. $20.

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 16th-century pantalooned troupe: limited rehearsals, an onstage prompter and catcalls to the peanut gallery. This weekend concludes the group’s fourth-annual festival at Laurelhurst Park with six Shakespeare staples. Henry IV, Part I delves into Dark Age history like Hotspur’s battle at Homildon Hill in late in 1402. Much Adoe About Nothing and Comedie of Errors are classic Shakespeare confusion comedies. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, two married women receive identical love letters from the same suitor and join forces to embarrass him in front of the whole town. A Midsommer Night’s Dreame wanders through a magical forest, inhabited by fairies who manipulate a group of lovers and actors. And then there’s Romeo and Juliet, in which theater’s most famous virgin learns that love hurts. This rendition gets pretty steamy—don’t bring your kids. These are just six of the 12 shows that OPS is staging this summer in parks around Portland. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Street. 7 pm Friday-Sunday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, 10 pm Saturday through Aug. 2. Free.

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. ENID SPITZ. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Wednesday–Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Aug. 2. $35.

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 FridaysSundays through Aug. 9. Free.

COMEDY & VARIETY Earthquake Hurricane

Alex Falcone and WW’s Funniest 5 queen Bri Pruett—both ﬁnalists at Helium’s recent Funniest Person awards—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 29. $5 suggested donation.

Joe Mande

You’ve got to be some sort of funny to help write something as successful as Parks and Recreation. Based out of New York City, Mande also has credits on Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Half Hour on Comedy Central. Worst case scenario is you enjoying fries and a tallboy on one of Portland’s best patios after the show. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 10 pm Saturday, Aug. 1. $14 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Lez Stand Up

Honorable mention in our recent Best of Portland reader poll, Kirsten Kuppenbender’s sketch comedy returns for its ﬁrst show since legalization on July 1. The showcase features queer humor from Katie Rose Leon—who has her degree in cartooning from a swanky Manhattan arts school but prefers the stage— Manny Hall, and Dinah Theater. Last time at Curious Comedy, the show sold out, and after months of performing to pizza-breath patrons at Mississippi Pizza, the Lez crew is primed for a real stage. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 30. $10.

Night on the Town

The quaint Defunkt plays host to a new sketch-comedy show brought to you by Lori Ferraro and Brooke Totman, who are used to acting out about 20 diﬀerent side-splitting personas and crazy scenarios within 90 minutes. Their Bath Night show is like a weirdly hilarious mash-up of Milk and The Dark Knight Rises with its wild characters. This installment is directed by Shelley McLendon of Portland’s witty sketch duo the Aces. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 22. Opens Friday, July 31. $15-$20.

Something Kind of Musical

The crowd selects a title for this show and from there anything goes as Brody directors Domeka Parker and Aden Kirschner attempt to build a show around a few words. 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, Aug. 1. $12.

Tom Segura

Ohio-born Segura has performed on Conan and Comedy Central and is a regular attendee of comedy festivals around the world, but his comedy is purposefully juvenile. The avid podcaster most recently came out with his debut album, Thrilled, full of his token seventh-grade humor poking fun at people in his life. Remember recess? It’s like that, but with more testosterone and money. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, July 30-Aug. 1. $17-$32. 21+.

DANCE Move Live on Tour

Mormon dance superstars and brother-and-sister duo Julianne and Derek Hough are trying to make a dance show that feels like a rock concert. They just received an Emmy nomination for their choreography to Sia’s “Elastic Heart” on Dancing With the Stars. In 2014, their ﬁrst tour sold out in many of the 40 cities on the route. Thus, the ﬂash and glam continue for another year. A week before they bare their abs and pearly whites in Portland, the Houghs hit up the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 3. $59-$91.

Oregon Burlesque Festival

Ogle circus ecdysiasts, get in on the manlesque scene and even learn how to to peel off your own pantyhose with exotic flare at the second annual Oregon Burlesque Festival, headlined this year by Southern California superstar Kitten de Ville, who won Miss Exotic World in 2002 and who runs her own burlesque school. Teases from new and local performers kick off the festival on Thursday at Funhouse Lounge. Friday and Saturday’s shows move to the hot and dirty rock ‘n’ roll bar Dante’s, where neo, classic and circus burlesque performers will compete for royal titles. Classes at All That Glitters Burlesque Academy throughout the weekend let you in on the tantalizing secrets. Details at oregonburlesquefestival.com. Multiple venues. Thursday-Saturday, July 30-Aug. 1. $15 per day.

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This group exhibition both celebrates and challenges our notions of what is beautiful, and what role beauty plays in a contemporary society obsessed and distracted by new technologies which have obliterated old ways of doing, and seeing, things. These disruptive patterns of behavior and our ability to constantly need to upgrade and adapt to them have taken us away from traditional appreciation of how important beauty is in our lives. Through Sept. 12. Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art, 2219 NW Raleigh Ave., 544-3449.

Gray Minstrel

New York artist Derek Franklin’s show at Carl and 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., 360-608-9746.

Habitat: A Video Mandala

Habitat is an impressive installation in a small space. Three walls of video display elaborate imagery, the focus of which is 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. It was too hot to sit at the opening to look and listen to for too long, but it’s definitely worth a second or third trip. Bring a friend to brush help off the moss dust. 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 creates 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., 953-0515.

Incision

Multidisciplinary artist Nathanael Thayer Moss’s 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, videogame landscapes and electronic music, Moss’s 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.

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. Agroup of sculptures composed of concrete bags and customized labels is displayed in conjunction to 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.

The 5th Basement Media Festival

The Basement Media Festival is an annual traveling screening event, showcasing contemporary low-fidelity moving image works. Featuring Felipe Steinberg, Henning Frederik Malz, Hannah Piper Burns, Jared Hutchinson, Paul Turano, Eric Stewart, Amelia Johannes, John Wilson, Jarrett Hayman and Yates. Compliance Division, 625 NW Everett St, Suite 101. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 30. $5 suggested donation.

The Great Debate About Art

Recently deceased Oxford University linguist Roy Harris attempted to address the “historical residue of empty questions that contemporary society can no longer answer” that was left in the wake when modernist art as a cohesive category imploded. Works by Ben Buswell, Srijon Chowdhury, Max Cleary, Anne Doran, Zack Dougherty, Erika Keck and Rodrigo Valenzuela fill this exhibition, curated in collaboration with New York’s Envoy Enterprises. The artists were asked to translate ideas from Harris’ The Great Debate About Art into visual form. Through Aug. 29. Upfor Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 227-5111.

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.

Theory of Achievement

This summer, Portland’s Yale Union and the Parisian art collective Castillo/Corrales will swap houses, share people and exchange money. On Aug. 1, Castillo/Corrales will open its group exhibition Theory of Achievement—which includes work by Richard Hawkins, Jason Simon, Lily van der Stokker, Leidy Churchman and Clément Rodzielski—in Yale’s Southeast 10th Avenue space. Electronic musician Jeff Witscher will debut “Cuban Heels,” a quadraphonic composition during the opening reception. Through Sept. 6. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 2367996. Opening 7–9 pm Saturday, Aug. 1.

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BOOKS

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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 29

THE ORIGINAL DINERANT AND WILLAMETTE WEEK PRESENT

James Neff

Drawing from a wealth of recently released, previously secret documents, James Neff ’s new book delves into the tempestuous relationship between Sen. Robert Kennedy and union leader Jimmy Hoffa. Neff explores everything from underhanded tactics to the “Get Hoffa” squad in Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

OMSI After Dark

Ever since that brief moment as a child when you took your feet oﬀ the pedals to bomb a hill (but before the epic wipeout), you realized that going fast is awesome. OMSI After Dark will explore “Science in the Fast Lane” with water rockets, liquid nitrogen and lightning-fast chemical reactions, best enjoyed while drinking. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 797-4000. 7-11 pm. $13. 21+.

Jessica Jackley

If you feel like you’ve never really contributed anything to mankind, prepare to feel worse after hearing Jessica Jackley speak about her new book, Clay Water Brick. Jackley cofounded the microlending organization Kiva, which allows people to ﬁnance entrepreneurs from all over the world, particularly in developing countries where even small loans make a big diﬀerence. You might just feel inspired to take action rather than wallow in guilt. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, JULY 30 Think & Drink

The rate of Oregon families claiming nonmedical exemptions to one or more vaccines is one of the highest in the United States. When author Eula Biss was pregnant with her ﬁrst child, she was inspired by conversations with other mothers to investigate the fears about vaccination. The result is her new book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, which she will discuss with Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis for the next Think & Drink conversation series, focused on public health and personal freedom. Expect a thoughtful discussion free from ﬁnger pointing, hysteria and Jenny McCarthyism. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm. $10.

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 Rhea Wolf

In her new chapbook, Children of Medusa, Rhea Wolf explores the struggles of parenting and their relation to the intersection of cultural and personal violence. Joining her for the reading and release party will be Amanda Englund, with whom Wolf publishes the Portland zine Which is Witch. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUG. 3 Gwendolyn Knapp

Some people grow up with family dinners and summers at the cape, while others grow up in hoarder houses with bipolar men dating their mother. According to author Gwendolyn Knapp, it just takes some getting used to. In her tragicomic, brutally honest new memoir, After a While You Just Get Used to It: A Tale of Family Clutter, Knapp delves into her family history from the swamplands of Florida to the streets of New Orleans. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 4 Science on Tap

Tackling the science of sex (or at least the less fun consequence— pregnancy), Science on Tap will host Jon Hennebold, associate scientist in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences at OHSU. Hennebold will discuss booming population growth, particularly in the developing world, and his research toward creating safe and eﬀective contraception. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm. $10.

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CONDIMENTS

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REVIEW

RINKER BUCK, THE OREGON TRAIL Rinker Buck is no stranger to flying by the seat of his pants—literally. In the summer of 1966, at age 15, Buck and his older brother Kern, 17, flew their father’s restored Piper Cub from New Jersey to California, making them the youngest aviators to cross the continent. In 2011, Buck, now in his 60s, enlisted his younger brother Nick to Go West, old man… help him make another trip, this time on land. The two brothers rode the Oregon Trail from St. Joseph, Mo., to Baker City, Ore., in the first mule-drawn covered wagon to traverse the route in more than a century. Rinker Buck recounts the alternately harrowing and exhilarating trek in The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (Simon & Schuster, 464 pages, $28). The book is an unremitting delight, interweaving three overarching narratives like the crisscrossing wheel ruts of the trail itself. Troubled memories of Buck’s father—a onetime stunt pilot and flight instructor who became publisher of Look magazine and a prominent anti-Vietnam War activist—are interrupted by presentday crises on the trail: mules frightened to cross a modern bridge, an overturned supply cart, a shattered wagon wheel 40 miles from help. Once overcome, these crises lead to digressions on the history of the Great Migration in the 19th century. Buck writes, for example, that despite their reputation for stubbornness, mules were perfect for drawing wagons along the trail and helped enable the great economic booms of the period. And rather than posing a threat, Native Americans were friendly allies of the pioneers until after the Civil War, when whites decimated the buffalo, spread disease and reneged on treaties—the devastating Sioux Wars of the late 1800s were in part triggered by a dispute over a single dead cow. The history of the Mormon church is also ineluctably tied up in the trail, and the Bucks’ encounter with the Latter-day Saints, who have bought huge tracts on the route to turn into a sectarian Disneyland, is a laugh-out-loud masterpiece. Rinker and Nick—polar opposites who casually trade f-bombs every other sentence, and every other word when they’re arguing—enjoyed several advantages 19th-century pioneers did not: government-subsidized corrals and campgrounds in the most anti-government states in the Union, ranchers to haul wagon parts for repairs and shelter the brothers in stormy weather, fast-food franchises and Walmart. But they didn’t have the company of the thousands of westering families who once routinely jammed the trail, helping each other ford rivers, push or pull wagons over or around obstacles and, most of all, keep from getting lost. Once a community enterprise, the Oregon Trail has become open country for old men. MATT BUCKINGHAM.

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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 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets

B+ The overwhelming emotion in 3½

Minutes, Ten Bullets, isn’t anger—as one might expect from the family and friends of Jordan Davis, a black Florida teen who was killed by a 45-yearold white man for playing music too loud in 2012, just nine months after Trayvon Martin’s death—it’s heartache with a dash of disbelief. Marc Silver’s documentary touches on the larger context of national debate, outrage and protest over the epidemic of racist violence in this country, but mostly it’s a portrait of one shattered family. Davis’ parents offer Silver intimate access to their daily lives as they try to balance their personal grief with their quest for justice, and they are incredibly generous sharing both. (“It really has nothing to do with your Second Amendment right,” his exhausted mother says toward the end of the film. “It has to do with being human.”) In putting humanity and compassion before legal talking points, Silver does something sort of revolutionary— but it’s hard not to dream of a world where young black men who are still alive and breathing are given wonderful, empathetic documentary films like this one. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Kiggins Theatre, Living Room Theaters.

Bite Size

C- Given the glut of lipo-centric pro-

gramming in America, body-shaming has become a national pastime. The new Portland documentary Bite Size downplays TLC’s morbid sensationalism while completely ignoring the political and economic issues of HBO’s Weight of the Nation. Instead, we follow four middle-schoolers from across the country and watch closely their varying efforts to lose weight before serious health problems develop. The storylines lazily play to dominant cultural stereotypes—African-American youths are led to football and dance; suburban parents drain their 401k to fund their daughter’s extended retreat; a Hispanic boy endures constant familial barbs. And the childlike perspective of first-time director Corbin Billings evades broader topics like size acceptance or discrepancies in medical opinions for a blunt message: Fat kids are less popular, less-popular kids are sad, fat kids must devote their lives to losing weight or embrace sadness. This may be unhealthy. Blaming victims of societal dysfunction for their tacit compliance doesn’t make much sense, but the easiest solutions often seem the most addictive. NR. JAY HORTON. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday, July 29.

I Am Chris Farley

C About as subtle in presentation as an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music— director Derik Murray is also the force behind such films as I Am Evil Knievel and I Am Steve McQueen—I Am Chris Farley wears its Spike TV production origins firmly on its sleeve. An overreliance on footage from Farley’s SNL skits and scenes from Tommy Boy make it feel more like a welcome stroll down memory lane than a particularly revealing portrait, and while it may be the only film ever produced to leave viewers with warm feelings toward Tom Arnold, David Spade and Bob Saget (all of whom offer misty-eyed character references), not one celebrity interviewee owns up to ever snorting blow with the guy—in fact, the word “cocaine” is never uttered. Farley may indeed have been too sensitive and self-critical for this world, but this feels like a video application for sainthood. I call bullshit. NR. CASEY JARMAN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, Aug. 3.

Brickumentary sets ablaze whatever cultural cachet The Lego Movie won by focusing on only the Scandinavian toybox staple’s most drearily obsessive proponents. It confirms that lifelong Lego-ists are the people you’d least like to learn more about—hyperactive eterna-tweeners drunk on their own folly, smarmily sexist convention-goers and Dwight Howard. We meet characters like the grim hobbyist molding era-appropriate weaponry for figurines (firearms are officially available only for Old West and sci-fi sets). Though brief profiles of an architect and conceptual artist at least hint at the blocks’ creative potential, the self-styled Adult Fans of Legos are all too resonant of the autistic patients shown communicating by bricks alone. This film’s scattershot approach was probably the only way to satisfy the divergent expectations of AFOL lifers, Lego Movie buffs and film-festival fans attracted by the Academy Awardwinning documentarians Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge. The successive stories come from such wide-ranging sources that mentally interlocking them feels oddly like building a structure from plastic blocks. G. JAY HORTON. Living Room Theaters.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

C+ Though the phrase is often misused by movieland PR flacks, the events re-created by The Stanford Prison Experiment were truly psychologically harrowing. Volunteers (an ace ensemble led by Ezra Miller and Miles Heizer) are either isolated in cells or put in the role of guards, while researchers silently observe the whole thing, watching the undergrads almost immediately revert to the worst stereotypes of their new roles— swaggering Strother Martin imitators tormenting the prisoners with sadistic glee. While director Kyle Patrick Alvarez captures the brutality with style and occasional wit, he eliminates the subjects’ backstories, which makes witnessing the unrelenting torment feel like paging through reams of statistical evidence. The only vaguely developed characters are study leader Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) and his horrified girlfriend, Christina (Olivia Thirlby), who pleads for an immediate end to the madness. Although most participants initially preferred to be behind bars, nobody escaped without psychic scars, and the only lesson we learn isn’t new: In failed exercises of academia or cinema, it’s always better to direct. R. JAY HORTON. Cinema 21.

Vacation

D+ You can look forward to the same opening tune of Lindsey Buckingham’s “Holiday Road,” but this spin on 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation replaces the original’s irreverent, campy charm with puke scenes and punch lines that rely on the comedic value of a child saying “vagina.” Rusty Griswold (Ed Helms) is all grown up and wants to refresh his relationship with his wife (Christina Applegate) and kids by re-creating his family’s road trip to Walley World. The drive from Chicago to California is a bumpy ride for middle-class Rusty, forced to defend his adequacy in the face of his wealthy sister, Audrey (Leslie Mann), and her well-endowed husband, Stone (Chris Hemsworth). Director John Francis Daley focuses more on Rusty’s emotional voyage than consistent laughs, but strategic cameos help to keep things light (including two of the Always Sunny in Philadelphia crew). Ultimately, Helms’ character is just too sad of a clown to ever make it out of Chevy Chase’s shadow, as is surely the fate of this sort-of remake. R. LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place.

A Lego Brickumentary

C Snapping together disconnected vignettes and self-promoting corporate infomercials, A Lego

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UN-EXPENDABLE: Tom Cruise.

CRUISING ALONG ROGUE NATION PLAYS IT SAFE. AND THAT’S WHAT SAVES THIS SHIP.

You’ve got lots of choices when it comes to actiony spy movies these days. You’ve got your Jameses Bond, your Jasons Bourne, your Kingsmen, and and and. So why come back to Mission: Impossible, the never-ending series that is kinda-sorta related to a ’60s TV show? What does the fifth installment, Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation, have that’s different, besides an extra colon? A few things. None of its merits is unique to the Tom Cruiseled series, but they add up to something that’s top-of-class for the genre.

prised to see the camera pull back to show director Christopher McQuarrie looking the audience in the eye and saying, “James Bond is better.” 4. Tom. Fucking. Cruise: Look, it’s hard to love him unabashedly, because he’s crazy and he mindcontrolled Katie Holmes and all that. But even aging, he still looks amazing in the shirtless-torture scene. I kinda wanted to see him tortured at least one more time—that’s how good the Cruise Missile looks. And Tom’s aging actually plays well in the movie without becoming a huge deal. Instead of discussing his age and whether it’s a problem at every punch or fall or crash (like that garbage fire of a movie The Expendables does ad nauseam), he just requires a bit of recovery time. He sighs as if he’s about to say, “I’m getting too old for this shit.” Then he jumps right back up and into the shit—it’s a great choice.

The only thing missing (besides a few more colons to make it look like an SAT question) is the mushy, romancy stuff. Cruising Altitude’s main enemy (or friend? or frenemy? or enemend?) is the Bond girlesque Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson). The two clearly have sexual chemistry, but because of this weird thing where Tom got married in the third movie but his wife is never around, the most they ever ALEX FALCONE @alex_falcone do is hug. Sure, it’s a great hug, but people who like their action movies to feature somebody getting some action won’t be satisfied. 2. Gadgets: Sure, James Bond had his Walther P99 And while the Cruise Ship barely gets to 0th pistol-equipped surfboard. But Mission: Impossible base with his love interest, his bromances don’t really uses cool spy gadgets to perfection. They’re blossom either. The godlike hacker on the team critical to the action, but the movie never makes a (Ving Rhames) and Cruise’s comic-relief buddy huge deal out of them, the way your coolest friends Simon Pegg (who can take the gravitas away just by never realize they’re being cool. Like the disc you standing there with his goatee) say they’re acting put over a combination dial that cracks the lock out of friendship. But they really act more like automatically. Or the oxygen monitor that displays Cruise is their remotely interesting co-worker, like readings on your sleeve so you can watch your air maybe they chat for a few minutes at work parties. running out while you’re drowning. Or the sniper But that’s another appeal of the Mission: rifle built into a bassoon for all your opera-hall Impossible franchise. It’s not sappy. It’s a tight assassination needs. action movie focused on talented people working together for the good (or harm? You have no idea!) 3. Questionable loyalty: Lots of spy stories make of the world. you second-guess the characters’ allegiance, but A- SEE IT: Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation is rated this is so integral to every M:I I wouldn’t be sur- PG-13. It opens Friday at most Portland-area theaters. 1. Masks: One of the most identifiable moments in any M:I movie is when a character pulls at the side of his face and you realize he is actually a completely different character wearing an incredibly convincing rubber mask. Even though you know it’s going to happen, Rogue Nation still got me every time. Plus, this time we get a brief glimpse of the mask-making process—a kind of 3-D printer that BY involves lasers shooting at a vat of facelike goo. That’s awesome.

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MOVIES

JULY 29–AUG. 4

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.

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. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, St. Johns Theater.

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. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Avalon, Eastport, Hollywood, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Fox Tower, Vancouver, Valley.

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. 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. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Eastport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Movies on TV.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

B This Sundance darling stands out for its excellent soundtrack, heavy on ’90s hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest, a shout-out to local punk darlings the Thermals and a cheap jab at Macklemore. R. ALEX FALCONE. Fox Tower.

Ex Machina

Minions

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, Laurelhurst.

Infinitely Polar Bear

B- Mark Ruffalo stars as a bipolar 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.

Inside Out

A Pretty much everybody in the

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Mad Max: Fury Road

A This is a batshit, dirt-punk

A- It’s so rare, in the post-Disney Channel age, to find a young adult movie with a believable emotional center, 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. 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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theater was sobbing at some point during Inside Out. It’s sad. Crushingly, relentlessly sad. And absolutely brilliant from writerdirector Pete Docter, (Up). 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. PG. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard.

A Like the nose-tickling carbonation of a freshly cracked soda, Minions is light and makes you giggle. The little yellow creatures are 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. PG. AMY WOLFE. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Cinemas.

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. Without Ian McKellen, 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. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Movies on TV.

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3½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS

The Overnight

A “The best sex comedy at

Sundance,” according to Rolling Stone, is more than slightly uncomfortable to watch. A Seattle couple moves with their young kid to L.A. and is invited to dinner by a hot neighbor couple. It’s obvious to us from the beginning, if not to them, that something else is up. R. ALEX FALCONE. Laurelhurst.

Paper Towns

B- This is the classic manic-pixiedream-girl story of a bunch of high-schoolers figuring out who to go to prom with. A doofy guy played by Nat Wolff (Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band) is the straight-and-narrow high-school senior headed for the Ivy League. But when his mysterious, beautiful neighbor drags him into her YA drama, he really experiences life for the first time. The most interesting thing about this problematic and trite plot is the casting of Cara Delevingne, that British model with the notable eyebrows. She does a fine job of being mysterious and beautiful, but she’s barely in the movie. Most of the heavy lifting is done by the idea of her. It’s based on the novel by John Green (author of The Fault in Our Stars), but don’t expect to do any crying. This is just a light road-trip movie for teens who don’t want to feel much. PG13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center.

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 rainbowcolored LED rubble. Visuals aside, though, you’d be hard-pressed to ﬁnd a memorable line of dialogue or a running gag that didn’t feel entirely played-out here. The allwhite 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 closingcredits 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, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, 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, Hollywood, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV.

Tangerine

B+ Shot on an iPhone and featur-

ing 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. Tangerine is constantly threatening to jump off the screen and get in your face. R . MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.

Ted 2

C The foulmouthed Ted is back with more celebrities, low-hanging fruit and product placement. Ted 2 seems like something written by a mean-spirited 13-year-old. 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. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Movies on TV, Valley.

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, Empirical, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV.

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, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place.

Unexpected

B- There’s no shock factor to Kris

Swanberg’s breakout ﬁlm. A voyeuristic realism follows the surprise pregnancy of Chicago schoolteacher Sam (Cobie Smulders of How I Met Your Mother) and her pregnant pupil, Jasmine (newcomer Gail Bean), who bond—mainly by eating sandwiches—while working on Jasmine’s college applications. The script is refreshingly unworked but the ﬁlm’s thematic contractions aren’t dramatic enough to deliver. R. ENID SPITZ. Laurelhurst.

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J.K. Rowling ’s cash cow, Harry Potter, turns 35 this week, sparking a series of celebrations around the world in which fans use the fictional birthday of a fictional wizard as a very real excuse to slug butter beer. The Kiggins Theatre in Vancouver is going all out, showing all eight Harry Potter movies in what promises to be an orgy of costumes, bacon sandwiches and weirdly sexualized conversations about how hot Neville Longbottom got: Sorceror’s Stone (4:15 pm Friday, July 31), Chamber of Secrets (7:15 pm Friday, July 31), Prisoner of Azkaban (1 pm Saturday, Aug. 1), Goblet of Fire (4 pm Saturday, Aug. 1), Order of the Phoenix (7:15 pm Saturday, Aug. 1), Half Blood Prince (2 pm Sunday, Aug. 2), Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 (5 pm Sunday, Aug. 2), Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 ( 7:45 pm Sunday, Aug. 2). We got a glimpse of Harry in his mid-30s at the end of Deathly Hollows,, leading his bowlcutted kid to the Hogwarts Express. He looked happy. He looked content. He looked like a young actor with a shitload of makeup on. But not all characters in kid movies get their denouement. It got me wondering where some of my favorite kids’ movie characters would be at age 35. It got grim.

Kevin McCallister, Home Alone Then: A little scamp with a love of cheese pizza, Kevin squared off against seasoned burglars during two occasions of parental abandonment, setting up a series of elaborate traps that resulted in their maiming and eventual arrest. Age 35: Following his parents’ incarceration on felony child-endangerment charges, Kevin bounced between foster homes and jail cells due to the bloodlust he developed after his experiences with the wet bandits, eventually becoming a serial killer and the basis for the Saw franchise.

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Then: After breaking his arm, Henry developed the ability to throw a baseball with the speed and accuracy of a pro and was enlisted as the Chicago Cubs’ first 12-year-old star pitcher. Age 35: Henry faded into obscurity after a juicing scandal at age 15. He recently appeared on Dancing With the Stars.

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Then: Spunky, pig-tailed Pippi—along with her monkey—used her magic and strength to see the world, bringing joy to all the children she met. Age 35: Tired of the constant peril that comes with globe-trotting, Pippi changed her name and became a businesswoman. Today, she’s the CEO of Wendy’s. Morbid obesity hasn’t stopped her from the occasional equestrian adventure.

Veruca Salt, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Then: The spoiled Veruca was one of the lucky children to enter Wonka’s magical chocolate factory, but her greed got her ceremoniously ejected from the tour before its completion. Age 35: Veruca hasn’t been seen since her fateful trip down the furnace chute. If you know the whereabouts of Veruca, Augustus Gloop or Mike Teevee, you are urged to call the authorities.

Ramona Quimby, Ramona and Beezus Then Cute, precocious Ramona grows Then: upin idyllic Portland, a place that allows her imagination to run wild…sometimes too wild. Age 35: Bowing to the pressure of local development efforts, the Quimbys sold their family home on Klickitat Street and moved to Tigard. Ramona remained, renting a house in North Portland and enrolling in art school. She currently works at Powell’s Books and dances at Union Jacks under the name of Blazin’ Beezus on Tuesday afternoons. ALSO SHOWING:

See wweek.com for a complete list of what’s Also Showing. Re-Run Theater ditches its socks for its annual Miami Vice celebration with an airing of the season 2 premiere “The Prodigal Son,” complete with wine coolers and an appearance by love interest star Susan Hess. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 29. The Lego Movie was basically made for Flicks on the Bricks. Pioneer Courthouse Square. Dusk Friday, July 31. The 1965 hunting-humans-as-sport comedy The 10th Victim was going all Hunger Games way before Katniss, and with a sense of humor to boot. Hotel deLuxe. 8 pm Thursday, July 30. In about a year, when a young generation thinks of Ghostbusters, they’ll think of Melissa McCarthy. We can change that. Take them to the original. Bill Murray demands it. Academy Theater. July 31-Aug. 6.

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TALKING STICKS FIVE STANDOUT SPEAKERS AT THE CANNABIS CREATIVE CONFERENCE. When one hears of a “cannabis creative conference,” it’s normal to picture tie-dyed booths filled with glass pieces and graphic designers boasting the freshest interpretation of a green cross. But marijuana businesses have much more than eyecatching, law-abiding branding to worry about. Surviving the fluid legal landscape and seeing a profit requires one to get creative in every sense of the word. This week’s conference features 50-plus speakers from every limb of the industry, from leading growers and venture capitalists to experts in business management software and electronic payment processing. Steven Marks from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission will attend, as will representatives from Leafly and the National Cannabis Industry Association. If you’re going, here are a few other guest speakers to look for. LAUREN TERRY. STEPHEN KEEN Vice president of research and development at Surna Wednesday, July 29, 11:45 am in the Hall D breezeway.

Surna is a Colorado company packed with engineers and technicians who construct efficient indoor grows that offer high yields with low environmental impact. But Keen’s experience spans more than his time at Surna. He started with his own construction company in 2003. In 2007, he co-founded Hydro Innovations, which improved methods of growing anything in controlled environments. Now he’s chief cultivation expert for one of Colorado’s largest operations. His presentation will review important elements of climate control in a commercial indoor garden, including temperature, humidity, cooling systems and carbon dioxide supplementation. KARA BRADFORD Chief talent oﬃcer at Viridian Staﬃng Wednesday, July 29, 3:15 pm in Room D201.

The employees this industry desperately needs are the ones it scares away: professionally trained individuals accustomed to formal environments where compliance is vital. The right team can make or break you, and that’s why Bradford co-founded Viridian Staffing. A full-service middleman, VS has experience sourcing and placing qualified candidates in entry- to executive-level positions in everything from marketing, finance, legal and agricultural to sales, IT, manufacturing and administration. Bradford appears on a panel that will go over business plan development for an unstable industry, helping attendees analyze where they want their business to be in five years by building a team that will grow and change in the direction their business is headed. MEGHAN WALSTATTER Portland grower and activist, coowner of Pure Green dispensary Wednesday, July 29, 3:15 pm in Room D202. 52

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city’s best and most well-rounded dispensaries.” Meghan and Matt Walstatter possess a combination of experience and professionalism that makes their dispensary a leading example of marijuana enterprise. With a master’s degree in urban and regional planning, it’s no surprise Meghan was recently appointed to the retail subcommittee for Oregon’s rec program. As a founding member of the Oregon Cannabis PAC and the Oregon Cannabis Association, she is constantly reaching out to help others find success, including speaking up about misogyny and double standards within the industry. She’ll be presenting with Matt, discussing the transition from medical marijuana dispensary to recreational shop. LANCE OTT Founder, CEO of Guardian Data Systems Thursday, July 30, 9 am in the Hall D keynote space and 11:45 am in the Hall D breezeway.

Ott is sure to be the go-to guy for marijuana banking questions. His Vancouver, Wash., company has worked since 2008 to give the cannabis industry access to financial, management and technological resources. A former VP of merchant services for the National Bank of California, he is motivated to help fight the discrimination and unfair fees that marijuana businesses tend to face. He will serve on a panel discussing market trends and emerging markets, then give a presentation on the cash-only complications of the marijuana business and how to get around them. He’ll go over strategy, red flags and peculiar trends in the current climate. LAURA HARRIS Owner of Laura Harris Consulting Thursday, July 30, 9 am in the Hall D keynote space and 10:45 am in Room D201.

During her time as division director of Colorado Medical Marijuana Enforcement, Harris administered statewide licensing and an enforcement program while managing a budget of $5.7 million. She has held numerous high-profile positions in finance, from tax auditing to criminal financial investigations, providing a 360-degree perspective for her clients. Along with Portland lawyer Amy Margolis and Frank Marino, CEO of the Marijuana Investment Co., she’ll talk about projections of cannabis demand in Oregon and offer tax policy recommendations. Later, Harris will sit on a panel with two other consultants to discuss when a consultant is right for a business and what to expect. GO: The Cannabis Creative Conference is July 28-30 at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N Marine Drive, cannabiscreativeconference.com. $295.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am very much in love with no one in particular,” says actor Ezra Miller. His statement would make sense coming out of your mouth right about now. So would this one: “I am very much in love with almost everyone I encounter.” Or this one: “I am very much in love with the wind and moon and hills and rain and rivers.” Is this going to be a problem? How will you deal with your overwhelming urge to overflow? Will you break people’s hearts and provoke uproars everywhere you go, or will you rouse delight and bestow blessings? As long as you take yourself lightly, I foresee delight and blessings. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In her io9.com article on untranslatable words, Esther Inglis-Arkell defines the Chinese term wei-wu-wei as “conscious non-action . . . a deliberate, and principled, decision to do nothing whatsoever, and to do it for a particular reason.” In my astrological opinion, the coming days would be a favorable time to explore and experiment with this approach. I think you will reap wondrous benefits if you slow down and rest in the embrace of a pregnant pause. The mysteries of silence and emptiness will be rich resources. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road -- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.” The character named Dmitri Karamazov makes that statement in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. And now I’m thinking that you might like to claim his attitude as your own. Just for a while, you understand. Not forever. The magic of the side paths and back-alleys may last for no more than a few weeks, and then gradually fade. But in the meantime, the experiences you uncover there could be fun and educational. I do have one question for you, though: What do you think Dmitri meant by “precious metal in the dirt”? Money? Gold? Jewelry? Was he speaking metaphorically? I’m sure you’ll find out. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason,” says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. His implication is that rejecting traditional strategies and conventional wisdom doesn’t always lead to success. As a professional rebel myself, I find it painful to agree even a little bit with that idea. But I do think it’s applicable to your life right now. For the foreseeable future, compulsive nonconformity is likely to yield mediocrity. Putting too much emphasis on being unique rather than on being right might distract you from the truth. My advice: Stick to the road more traveled. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I expect you to be in a state of constant birth for the next three weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about it. (P.S. This upsurge is a healthy response to the dissolution that preceded it.) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Expiration dates loom. Fond adieus and last laughs and final hurrahs are on tap. Unfinished business is begging you to give it your smartest attention while there’s still time to finish it with elegance and grace. So here’s my advice for you, my on-the-verge friend: Don’t save any of your tricks, ingenuity, or enthusiasm for later. This is the later you’ve been saving them for. You are more ready than you realize to try what has always seemed improbable or inconceivable before now. Here’s my promise: If you handle these endings with righteous decisiveness, you will ensure bright beginnings in the weeks after your birthday. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A company called Evil Supply sells a satirical poster that contains the following quote: “Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself.” The text in the advertisement for this product adds, “Follow your nightmares . . . Plot your own nefarious path.” Although this counsel is slightly funny to me, I’m too moral and upright to recommend it to you -- even now, when I think there would be value in you being less nice and polite and agreeable than you

usually are. So I’ll tinker with Evil Supply’s message to create more suitable advice: “For the greater good, follow your naughty bliss. Be a leader with a wild imagination. Nudge everyone out of their numbing routines. Sow benevolent mischief that energizes your team.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Every time you resist acting on your anger and instead restore yourself to calm, it gets easier,” writes psychologist Laura Markham in Psychology Today. In fact, neurologists claim that by using your willpower in this way, “you’re actually rewiring your brain.” And so the more you practice, the less likely it is that you will be addled by rage in the future. I see the coming weeks as an especially favorable time for you to do this work, Scorpio. Keeping a part of your anger alive is good, of course -- sometimes you need its energy to motivate constructive change. But you would benefit from culling the excess. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Much of the action in the world’s novels takes place inside buildings, according to author Robert Bringhurst. But characters in older Russian literature are an exception, he says. They are always out in the forests, traveling and rambling. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest that you draw inspiration from the Russians’ example in the coming days. As often and as long as you can, put yourself in locations where the sky is overhead. Nature is the preferred setting, but even urban spots are good. Your luck, wisdom, and courage are likely to increase in direct proportion to how much time you spend outdoors. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Has a beloved teacher disappointed you? Are there inspirational figures about whom you feel conflicted because they don’t live up to all of your high standards? Have you become alienated from a person who gave you a blessing but later expressed a flaw you find hard to overlook? Now would be an excellent time to seek healing for rifts like these. Outright forgiveness is one option. You could also work on deepening your appreciation for how complicated and paradoxical everyone is. One more suggestion: Meditate on how your longing for what’s perfect might be an enemy of your ability to benefit from what’s merely good. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): French and Italian readers may have no problem with this horoscope. But Americans, Canadians, Brits, and Aussies might be offended, even grossed out. Why? Because my analysis of the astrological omens compels me to conclude that “moist” is a central theme for you right now. And research has shown that many speakers of the English language find the sound of the word “moist” equivalent to hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard. If you are one of those people, I apologize. But the fact is, you will go astray unless you stay metaphorically moist. You need to cultivate an attitude that is damp but not sodden; dewy but not soggy; sensitive and responsive and lyrical, but not overwrought or weepy or histrionic.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Which signs of the zodiac are the most expert sleepers? Who best appreciates the healing power of slumber and feels the least shame about taking naps? Which of the twelve astrological tribes are most inclined to study the art of snoozing and use their knowledge to get the highest quality renewal from their time in bed? My usual answer to these questions would be Taurus and Cancer, but I’m hoping you Pisceans will vie for the top spot in the coming weeks. It’s a very favorable time for you to increase your mastery of this supreme form of self-care.

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