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The Hawthorne District still has some folks who need to move out to Beaverton already. 4

Perhaps the city of Portland has a few too many deputy city attorneys on the payroll. 9

Patricia McCaig’s model for

Pretty much everyone involved in getting Shell’s arctic icebreaker back to sea is a Democrat. 10

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continues thanks to Mark Wiener, Uber and Charlie Hales. 6 The state of Oregon employs the dude who duped Seattle Weekly into publishing a defense of his convicted killer fiancee. 7

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At long last, Portland’s own unipiper has won the approval of the Scottish. 22 Barnacle bros are a thing now. 29

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Me on the river, you in midair, by Clare Carpenter, tigerfoodpress. com.

rich people use a lot of water.

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FOOD UPSCALE SICILIAN IN THE PEARL. NEWS KIDS IN CHAINS.

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SHACKLING CHILD DEFENDANTS A school-to-prison pipeline—what else can you call this madness? [“Chain Reaction,” WW, July 29, 2015.] Prosecutors and cops want monsters, so they simply create them, one little kid at a time. —Vladamir Muhammud

A CITY ON THE ROPES

That’s funny, Portland makes the news two weeks in a row, and both for the same thing, freaking dildos hanging from a rope! —Lora Jane Deckert

I live near Hawthorne, and am plagued by people living in their cars two doors down from me. They put sheets all around the windows. Can I put a warning on their car that the police will come soon? Me and my neighbors don’t want them there. —Not a Campground The fact that you think I’m going to take your side in the ongoing battle between the bourgeoisie and the unsightly homeless, Campground, suggests to me that you’re not a regular reader of this column. Soliciting my advice in this situation is a bit like asking Bill O’Reilly to give you a ride to the Rainbow Gathering. That said, I’m not entirely unsympathetic. When I lived on Hawthorne (before I was priced out, probably by you), we had a homeless guy living on our porch. We’d call the cops, and they’d make him leave. When they were gone, he’d come back. Eventually, the cops started hinting that we should stop bothering them. And that guy was 4

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Portland’s 16 biggest water users keep guzzling—no drought about it.

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Thank you for your latest catalog of Portland’s “Hydro Hogs” [WW, July 29, 2015]. Extravagant municipal water use is, in fact, more than just symbolic. Cities seek to meet the demands of their customers by taking water from rivers and streams that are important to ﬁsh and wildlife. The Bull Run Watershed that supplies most of Portland’s water is part of the Sandy River system, which is home to numerous species of ﬁsh and wildlife, including salmon and steelhead listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Your article might be even more to the point if you expanded into surrounding suburbs. Lake Oswego and other water providers are taking large amounts of water from the Clackamas River, no doubt to supply demands like those described in your

“WE’RE TAKING PITY ON THIS PROSTITUTE.”

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article, even while the ﬁsh there are literally dying from high temperatures and low ﬂows. —John DeVoe, executive director WaterWatch of Oregon WWEEK.COM

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It’s pretty wonderful that in our fair city, the very wealthy are spending real bucks to grow and maintain trees and shrubs, which provide significant roles in stormwater retention, production of shade and other means that encourage infiltration and combat climate change. It could be interesting, instead, for WW to do some investigative reporting on high-water-use businesses and industries and showcase ways that water can be more efficiently used by them. —Marty Mitchell

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Due to an editor’s error, last week’s story on Portland’s biggest water users (“Hydro Hogs”) incorrectly stated that Paul Brenneke is an executive at his father’s company, Guardian Real Estate Services. In fact, he founded another Portland real-estate company, also named Guardian. The Avalon Hotel & Spa, which Brenneke built, was sold and operates as River’s Edge Hotel & Spa. WW regrets the error. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for veriﬁcation. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.

actually committing trespass—your people are only violating the ordinance against parking in one spot for more than 24 hours. You can call the Bureau of Transportation and have them issue a parking ticket, but that’ll just be one more thing to go to collections. You may be able to get the vehicle impounded, but that will just turn the occupants from homeless people living in a car to homeless people living on the street, eyeing your porch. What’s your specific beef with these folks? Are they cooking meth? Screaming at all hours? Breaking into houses? If they are, call the cops! Those things are actually breaches of public order. If not, you’ve lucked out. Your homeless people are quiet, they’re courteous—they’ve even put up curtains to shield you from second-hand guilt. If it were me, I’d be plastering the butt cheeks of class resentment against that window every chance I got. No justice, no peace. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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COURTS: Ann Rule’s posthumous legal battle. CITY HALL: Portland goes shopping on Etsy. COVER STORY: What really happened on the St. Johns Bridge.

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Three weeks ago, Portland real-estate developer and Democratic Party fundraiser Terry Bean tried to avert a trial on criminal sex-abuse charges by paying cash to the 17-year-old alleged victim (“Bean Counting,” WW, July 15, 2015). A judge rejected the proposed d eal. But Bean’s Aug. 11 trial still may not happen—because the teenaged boy has now gone missing. Prosecutors told a BEAN Lane County judge July 31 they can’t ﬁnd the alleged victim, whom Bean and his then-boyfriend, Kiah Lawson, allegedly had sex with when he was 15. “The state doesn’t believe we can proceed without the victim as a witness in this case,” says Clackamas County deputy district attorney Scott Healy. “It’s my understanding that the victim doesn’t want to testify. We’re putting all available law-enforcement eﬀorts toward getting him served.” Bean’s attorney, Derek Ashton, says the court should not allow a delay of the trial. “Enough is enough,” he says. “Terry is innocent, and we will prove that at trial.” The latest city of Portland lobbying reports contain an interesting disclosure: Mark Wiener, political consultant to Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioners Dan Saltzman and Steve Novick, also has been acting as a paid lobbyist for Uber, the ride-hailing app that crashed into Portland last year after initially hitting road bumps at City Hall. The arrangement sugWIENER gests Wiener—who aided a deal between Hales and Uber in his dining room in December—has represented both buyer and seller as Uber has worked with the city to craft rules allowing ride-hailing companies to operate long-term in Portland. Len Bergstein, a lobbyist who represents EcoCab, says the setup is unusual. “I think it’s profoundly disturbing,” he says, “that the public business was done in secret by someone who was getting paid by two adverse parties.” Wiener says he did nothing wrong, because he wasn’t being simultaneously paid by the parties. Oregon’s legal-weed overlords are trying to move forward with a disputed $1.7 million state pot contract. In May, Florida software company BioTrackTHC sued the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, claiming state regulators might have rigged the awarding of the contract for a computer system to track marijuana from farm to joint. Now the OLCC has asked a Marion County judge to let it immediately sign a contract it awarded to BioTrackTHC’s competitor, Florida-based Franwell. “This has dragged on long enough,” says OLCC spokesman Tom Towslee. “The best way to diminish the illegal market is if you can track all the marijuana within the legal program. It can’t work without tracking.” Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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FAMILY VALUES: In 2011, Rick Swart (right, in frame) wrote about Ann Rule writing about Liysa Northon (also in frame). Two months later, he married Northon.

ANN RULE’S LAST CASE THE DEATH OF THE TRUE-CRIME AUTHOR LEAVES A WASHINGTON DEFAMATION SUIT IN LIMBO. BY E M ILY VO L P E RT

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Ann Rule was unwell. The 83-year-old true-crime author was confined to a wheelchair, feeling dizzy, suffering from a bladder infection, and having heart problems. But another thing also bothered her. An article published four years ago in Seattle Weekly claimed Rule had fabricated much of her 2003 book about a killing in an Oregon campground. Freelance journalist Rick Swart wrote the takedown on Rule without telling editors or readers he was engaged to marry the woman convicted of manslaughter in the killing. In May, Rule had won a new chance to pursue a defamation case against Swart. She planned to testify in court. “My ability to tell the truth is very, very important to me,” Rule told WW on July 17. “And he destroyed that. My readers stuck by me, but I was very, very emotional about it. It was not fair. I haven’t been able to write since it happened.” Rule died July 26. Her death from congestive heart and respiratory failure ushered a new wave of appreciation for the Pacific Northwest’s premier author of macabre reallife detective stories.

It also threw into limbo the Washington state court case over whether Swart had defamed her. According to Washington law, you cannot libel the dead. But since Swart’s alleged defamation of Rule occurred before she died, her claim survives her death, and her family can pursue damages. Her daughters haven’t told her lawyer what they plan to do. Swart says he will defend himself if the case continues. “If we see injustice or corruption,” he tells WW now, “we need to stand up and be candid, even if it means you’ve got to tangle with an 800-pound gorilla. And there’s no question, Ann Rule is an 800-pound gorilla.” Rule wrote more than 30 New York Times best-selling books investigating gruesome murders, covering highprofile trials and profiling manipulative serial killers from Ted Bundy to Diane Downs. In 2003, she wrote about Liysa Northon. A family camping trip in Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in 2000 went terribly wrong when Liysa Northon shot and killed her then-husband, Chris Northon, an airline pilot. Prosecutors accused her of trying to drown her husband, drugging him with a lethal dose of sleeping pills, and then fatally shooting him in the head while he was unconscious, zipped inside a sleeping bag. Liysa Northon never denied shooting Chris. She claimed that she was a victim of spousal abuse and was

defending herself and her children from a husband who beat her. Northon pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the FBI recovered a computer that Northon had reported stolen, and found that she had been researching “poisons,” “ballistics,” “forensics” and “drugs,” and had written an email saying she needed to acquire a silencer. Lies Rule’s 2003 book, depicted Northon Heart Full of Lies, not as a victim but a cold-blooded killer, motivated by a $300,000 life insurance policy and properties in Hawaii and Bend, Ore. “A lifetime of sociopathic manipulations and lies,” Rule wrote, “had been expertly hidden behind her façade of perfection—as was her rage to destroy any obstacle to her ultimate happiness, even if it was the man she vowed to love forever.” Swart published a very different story in Seattle Weekly’s July 20, 2011, issue. In “Murderer, She Wrote: How Seattle’s Queen of True Crime Turned a Battered Woman Into a Killer Sociopath,” Swart accused Rule of interviewing sources from only one side of the story and portraying Northon as a “storybook villain.” Swart did not mention that he was engaged to marry Northon, who was imprisoned in Oregon’s Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. WW reported that information the following week. Seattle Weekly editors said they were unaware Swart was engaged to his subject. Swart is unapologetic. “I did not come out to all of them on bended knee and say, ‘I am in love with this woman, and I think you should run the story because I am in love with her,’” Swart says. “Some people think that I should have done that. But I had an obligation to get her story out there.” Two months after the article was published, Swart and Northon married in the waiting room of the women’s prison. (After the wedding, Northon took Swart’s last name.) She was released from prison in October 2012. The two are still married and live in Eagle Creek, Ore. Rick Swart is now a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Liysa Swart has championed legislation to toughen Oregon’s domestic violence laws. She also runs a website, almost entirely dedicated to proving Rule a “fraud and predator.” In 2013, Rule sued Rick Swart for defamation in King County Superior Court. A judge threw out the case, saying Rick Swart’s story was protected free speech. But this May, the Washington Court of Appeals ruled that the state’s free-speech laws allow Rule’s lawsuit to go to a jury. (Full disclosure: This reporter’s father, a lawyer, advised Swart’s legal team on this case.) Speaking to WW last month, Rule said Rick Swart acted as a mouthpiece for Liysa. “She was, in my opinion, a manipulator,” Rule said. “She got people to do what she wanted, especially men. When I saw the article I thought, ‘Oh boy.’” Among the people filing in support of Rule’s petition to reopen the case: Pat Birmingham, the lawyer who defended Liysa Swart in her manslaughter case. “ I have not found a single assertion in Ann Rule’s book Heart Full of Lies to be anything other than true and accurate,” Birmingham wrote. He added that Liysa Swart had written at least five explicit screenplays about killing her then-husband. Rick Swart says his article was both true and protected speech. “It’s factually accurate,” he says, “and my opinions are my opinions—not capable of being proven or disproven. I was kind of looking forward to meeting Ann Rule in a courtroom and debating this very thing.” Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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CITY HALL

THREE ETSY PIECES CITY HALL WANTED $100 FROM THESE ONLINE ARTISTS TO USE THE “PORTLAND OREGON” SIGN. HERE’S WHAT THEY SAID. BY BETH SLOVIC

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The city of Portland’s shopping spree on Etsy was short-lived. Three months ago, city attorneys were convinced they had the right to demand payments from artists who use the “Portland Oregon” sign in their work. They were so certain, they trolled Etsy looking for crafts with the iconic sign’s twinkling lights and leaping white stag. They then demanded that the crafters remove the items from Etsy or pay an annual license fee that starts at $100. Deputy city attorney Kalei Taylor even created a tool of public shaming—a “PDX sign violations” list on Etsy. Outraged crafters shot back. “If you have nothing better to do with your time than to surf Etsy,” wrote Teresa Chipperfield, a photographer, on May 14, “then perhaps the city of Portland has a few too many deputy city attorneys on their payroll.” Now, after one of the Etsy vendors, Jeff Kunkle, brought a June 25 lawsuit against the city, alleging the sign’s trademark is invalid, Portland is rethin k ing its sta nce. Jen Clodius, a spokeswoman for the Portland Office of Management and Finance, says the city is reevaluating its licensing policy after learning from outside counsel it may not be able to enforce the sign’s trademark against people who create artistic renderings of the sign. Through a public records request, WW obtained copies of the city’s correspondence with Etsy artists—painters, silk screeners and Christmas ornament makers. We then asked the artists what they made of the city’s attempts to collect on their crafts.

Samantha Barsky, maker of handmade note cards, gift tags and Christmas ornaments with city themes Barsky, who sells tote bags, dish towels, cards and ornaments with an image of the Burnside Bridge and the “Portland Oregon” sign, also was willing to pay the

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fee. But after she approached the city with questions about how to comply, officials mysteriously stopped responding to her. She applauds Kunkle for pursuing a lawsuit but questioned the city’s legal strategy. “They’ve obviously set a precedent,” she says, “and it’s not in their favor.”

Amanda Siska, owner and artist at Bread and Badger Siska also never heard back from the city after Portland officials asked her to seek a license for selling shot glasses with an image of the sign’s white stag sandblasted on them. “I respect other people’s claims of ownership for their creative work, but it does seem like a historic public landmark may not fit into a neat category in regards to copyright,” she writes in an email to WW. “When I first created my version of the stag design for sandblasting, I asked my lawyer if it was a protected symbol. He thought t h at my a r t w a s d i f ferent enoug h f r om t he or ig i n a l ‘Portland Oregon’ sign, that it wasn’t considered a problem anyway, so I wasn’t expecting to ever need a license.” WW intern Mackenzie Broderick contributed reporting to this story.

James Dunbar, painter

Dunbar, co-owner of Dunbar’s Fine Art & Design, calls himself a “painter of colorful memories.” His collection includes one 16-by-20-inch landscape of the Portland skyline from the east bank of the Willamette River that includes a small rendering of the “Portland Oregon” sign. That’s what caught city officials’ eyes. Dunbar, who sells on Etsy and at Portland Saturday Market, says he was willing to pay a licensing fee, though he opposed the idea on principle. “Van Gogh and Monet,” he says, “when they painted Paris, did they have to pay money?” He adds: “The people who own the sign should be proud because we basically promote Portland.”

HEAVENS TO ETSY: A Portland deputy city attorney contacted about two dozen Etsy crafters in May as the city pursued people selling items with the image of the “Portland Oregon” sign. Now the city is reconsidering its pursuit. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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uddy Turnstone never found out who called the cops. It was a quarter past 2 in the morning on July 29, and the 30-year-old Greenpeace organizer from South Florida stood 205 feet above the Willamette River, aside the emerald-painted steel trusses

could claim victory. Shell got the boat to the Arctic, a mere 12 hours after its scheduled departure. Greenpeace and its local allies gained national attention for their cause. And local officials ended the protest quickly, without a significant injury and with just two arrests. The resolution was so pacific that some observers wondered if it had been orchestrated from the start. In fact, the players barely talked to each other. Shell and Greenpeace took their grievances to a federal court in Alaska. Neither side had a single phone conversation with Oregon’s elected officials. Brown and Hales were somewhat confused who was in charge, and ultimately deferred to the U.S. Coast Guard for an endgame. Greenpeace never even coordinated its movements with hometown activists, and left quickly: The organization removed most of its aerial team from Portland within 24 hours of leaving the bridge. Despite the TV helicopters, drone cameras and realtime tweets, few of the people who took part in the bridge battle knew the full scope of its strategy. It took days for them to piece together the full story of what everyone saw in open air.

of the St. Johns Bridge. Turnstone and 12 others, Greenpeace volunteers from San Francisco and Olympia and Denver, were busy fastening themselves to the 84-year-old bridge with ropes fed through autolock devices that allowed them to control how fast they would rappel off the side. “It was a little disorienting,” Turnstone says. “I couldn’t see the water, and it was so dark out.” Two weeks earlier, Greenpeace was presented with a unique opportunity in its five-year battle to interfere with Shell Oil’s drilling in the Arctic Ocean. That opportunity: A Finnish icebreaking boat, the MSV Fennica, had torn a he Fennica wasn’t a hole in its hull, and a Portland shipstranger to Portland repair company was going to fix it. when it arrived July 25 The Fennica had arrived July 25 with a 3-foot gash in its hull. at the dry dock of Portland’s Vigor The ship—with a gym, sauna, saloon Industrial. When it was ready to and room for a 26-member crew—came leave, the 381-foot icebreaker would to Portland twice before to undergo head north on the Willamette River, repairs at Vigor Industrial’s Swan passing under three bridges to get Island shipyard. to the Pacific Ocean and back to the Ships like the Fennica work in the Chukchi Sea. If Greenpeace could harshest conditions on the planet, block one of those bridges, it could are built to perform the most lunchbucket of duties, and thus are often in keep Shell’s contracted ship out of need of work. the Arctic. The designation of the Fennica as an According to conversations with “icebreaker” is actually a nautical class: three Greenpeace organizers, the It means the boat has “no limitations world’s most visible environmental for repeated ramming.” It is, in the litorganization summoned a team of eral sense, a reamer. 26 activists—including 13 who volVigor is a $400-million-a-year shipunteered to rappel off the bridge and building and repair company based in hang there as long as they could. Portland that occupies a shipyard that But now, with minutes to go opened in 1941 to supply Allied troops before the activists began their during World War II. More than 70 years descent from the deck of Portland’s later, it continues to play a big but often most beautiful bridge, Turnstone unnoticed role in Portland’s economy, could see police cars arriving at the providing family-wage jobs and benefits east end of the St. Johns Bridge. to 1,000 employees at Swan Island, plus Too late. an additional 1,600 elsewhere. Turnstone and the others were Vigor offered the Fennica the closest already over the railing. available dry dock, a sort of hydraulic Above Turnstone, a cloudless night —Ruddy lift used to work on boats larger than a twinkled with stars. Below, the lights football field. The repair itself was relaof kayaks in the water looked like a tuRnstone tively straightforward, akin to patching reflection of the Milky Way. Police a hole in your jeans. In this case, though, flashlights shone along the bridge. the patch was a 1-ton sheet of steel. She took a breath, and plunged Portlander Frank Foti, CEO of into darkness. Vigor, managed to stay out of the media She dropped 100 feet. For the next fray. While he gets a good amount of 39 hours, Turnstone and the others business from defense and resourcedangled in midair—and Portland was extraction industries, he is also a healthy contributor to held in suspense. The rest of the world watched as well. It was audacious, Democratic politicians, including Hales. Contacted by WW, Foti says he agrees with Greenpeace simple and a photo op of optimal proportions. Unfurling red and yellow banners, the activists looked like an art that the U.S. needs more alternative fuels. “It would be a shame if, as we do that, we close the door installation. By refusing to budge from the sky, they made to being able to do work on conventional energy,” Foti it impossible for the Finnish icebreaker to leave. The protest also stretched taut the contradictions within says. “It’s still how most of us get around.” The Fennica had tore its hull en route to the Chukchi Portland. This remains an industrial river city, one where thousands of jobs depend on the marine commerce that Sea, an icebound sea off the coast of Alaska, where it was hums up and down the Willamette. It is also a place with a carrying drilling equipment for Shell Oil Company. Arctic drilling has been contentious for decades. The pulsing environmental conscience, and hundreds of activinfamous Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 consisted of crude ists eager to take a local stand to save a warming planet. The standoff at the St. Johns Bridge pressed those two from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The incident identities face to face—and forced Gov. Kate Brown and became a national symbol of environmental ruin. But melting ice has recently revealed oil fields off Mayor Charlie Hales to pick a side. Within two days, the impasse was over, and all sides Alaska’s northwest coast, areas once thought impossible to

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reach. And no company has been more aggressive in drilling in this remote part of the world than Shell. President Barack Obama gave Shell permits to drill there in 2012. It was a disaster. A rig, called Kulluk, crashed into the coast during a winter storm. Shell again received permission this spring from the Obama administration to drill six more wells, as long as it used an important piece of equipment: a capping stack, used to stop oil flowing from a blown well. That stack was on board the Fennica. When Shell sets out to drill oil, Greenpeace activists are often close behind. The international organization is known for its highly visible, nonviolent and sometimes illegal tactics, with targets like nuclear weapons, global warming and general ecological scarring. Rainbow warriors, as they are sometimes called, have broken into government buildings, strung banners from the sides of ships—and hung themselves from bridges. In 2011, eight people were suspended from Chicago’s Pulaski Bridge to stop a coal barge from passing. But Greenpeace has a particular passion for battling Shell’s Arctic oil endeavors. In April, activists actually boarded a ship, Blue Marlin, while it was sailing from Malaysia to Seattle. Shell went to federal court: Greenpeace was ordered to stay at least 300 feet away from its boats. In June, Greenpeace joined a flotilla of “kayaktivists” in Seattle who shook their oars at Shell’s oil rig, the Polar Pioneer. The kayakers, led by Seattle activist group Backbone Campaign, tried to block its exit from the Port of Seattle on June 15. They lasted two hours. Jessica Moskovitz, communications director for the Oregon Environmental Council, says many environmental groups want to thwart drilling in the Arctic, but Greenpeace has the training and audacity to make people take notice. “I’m sure our theory of change is much more incremental and collaborative, but you need galvanizing moments, too,” Moskovitz says. “You need moments that focus everybody’s attention, and that’s what Greenpeace does.”

ortland officials had no idea Greenpeace’s protest was coming. Also clueless: local activists. That’s not to say Portland greenies were going to let the Fennica come and go without difficulty—they, too, had a plan. On July 27, Connor DeVane read on Facebook that Portland kayakers were going to try to repeat the Seattle flotilla in the Willamette. The 23-year-old avid hiker immediately decided to join. Biking from his home in North Portland, he arrived at Cathedral Park in St. Johns at noon Tuesday, July 28. A local environmental group called 350 PDX had organized the effort with Backbone Campaign and Portland Rising Tide, and they believed the icebreaker was scheduled to depart the next morning. So DeVane and many others stayed in the park all night, intending to get their boats in the water before dawn. “I drank a disgusting amount of coffee,” he says with a smile. As 3 am approached, DeVane and the other kayakers began to launch. Suddenly, everyone’s attention was drawn upward to the St Johns Bridge looming over the park. At the eastern edge of the central span, a new light had joined the row of streetlamps on the deck. “What is that?” kayakers yelled. Then a dozen more lights appeared, stretching across the span of the bridge. It was a total surprise. “The kayaktivist group had no idea that Greenpeace was going to drop from this bridge up until that moment,” says Maya Jarrad, an organizer for 350 PDX. “It was just astonishment.” Local activists were delighted. “We paddled out there and were yelling up to them, showing our support, and they were yelling support back at us,” DeVane says. More than 100 feet in the air, Elizabeth Mount couldn’t see anything beyond the glow of her lamp. Mount didn’t know she was going to be dangling from the bridge until five days before it happened. Born and raised in Denver, she worked with Greenpeace in Colorado, training climbers and participating in directaction protests. When Mount got the call about the Fennica on July 24, she didn’t hesitate. Five days later, she arrived at the St. Johns Bridge in a van. For the next 39 hours, Mount lived in the sky under the bridge. She relied on a team of another 13 people on the bridge—known as “anchor supports”—to lower her water, supplies and food. (One of them, Steve Nichols, was from Portland.) At one point, they lowered her a burrito. She otherwise subsisted on vegan jerky, Clif Bars, apples and oranges. She could move around in her perch enough that when she needed to relieve herself, she did so into a bag, and sent it up a rope to her anchor support.

KAYAK LOCALLY: Portland activists organized by 350 PDX and other environmental groups already planned to block the Fennica’s trip. They were surprised by Greenpeace’s arrival.

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“YOU NEED MOMENTS THAT FOCUS EVERYBODY’S ATTENTION, AND THAT’S WHAT GREENPEACE DOES.” —JESSICA MOSKOVITZ

SHELL FREEZES OVER: Greenpeace activists received trail mix and burritos lowered from the St. Johns Bridge. “Kayakers would yell up to us and ask if we needed anything,” Ruddy Turnstone recalls.

Mount kept busy with safety checks, talking to her anchor support and the other climbers on radios, and taking short naps. She never got around to releasing her flag. Rachael Thompson of Tallahassee, Fla., was one of the anchor supports on the bridge. She expected to be arrested for trespassing within the first hour. Instead, Portland police backed off, and Thompson used ropes to lower trail mix, sunscreen and water to the climbers below. “Everyone needed different things at different times,” Thompson says. “I slept a lot.” Meanwhile, a fascinated crowd began gathering in Cathedral Park. By sunset July 29, the park felt like a street fair, with 350 PDX recruiting new kayakers in the parking lot, and parents bringing their children to witness civil disobedience from the floating dock. Shortly after dawn on July 30—more than 24 hours into the blockade—the Fennica emerged from Vigor’s shipyard and approached the bridge, stopping about 2,000 feet away. “We were in battle,” Turnstone recalls. As the ship edged toward the line of dangling activists, she said she knew it couldn’t go through because they were hanging so low. Regardless, she held her breath. Then the ship turned. As it headed back to port, she threw both arms up, reveling in their victory. “It was one of the happiest moments of my life,” Turnstone says. “It was surreal.”

n fact, the Fennica hadn’t seriously tried to leave. When the Fennica headed down the Willamette at dawn July 30, it was a feint—a brief trip chiefly made to collect ammunition for Shell’s federal court fight with Greenpeace, according to several government officials monitoring the standoff. Less than an hour after the Fennica turned around, Shell’s lawyers filed motions in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, declaring Greenpeace had violated an April court order not to interfere with Shell’s drilling fleet. At 10:48 am, U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason ruled Greenpeace in contempt of court, and ordered the activists to pay Shell $2,500 for

every hour they hung from the bridge. Those fines—which Gleason said would spike to $10,000 an hour by the morning of Aug. 2—were big enough to make Greenpeace shiver. Perhaps more importantly, the judge’s ruling signaled to state and local officials that the Greenpeace activists were on the wrong side of the law. “The court order did confirm for us there’s a responsibility to free up the bridge,” says Brian Shipley, Gov. Brown’s chief of staff. “It put a finer point on the fact we needed to do something.” At that moment, Brown and Hales had already supported the removal of the Greenpeace activists from the bridge. The two leaders talked by phone the night of July 29. People familiar with the call tell WW that Brown and Hales mostly tried to figure out who was in charge. They concluded it was the Coast Guard. Brown and Hales were both stuck in an awkward position. They both face re-election next year, and crave the support of environmentalists. Brown’s honeymoon with the environmental lobby hit the skids in June, when she unsuccessfully tried to bargain away a low-carbon fuel standard in exchange for a statewide hike in the gas tax. Both the mayor and the governor also needed to demonstrate that Portland was open for business. Hales especially felt pressure after his May about-face to block the propane pipeline proposed by Canadian company Pembina. Yet staffers in Brown’s and Hales’ offices say they never seriously considered letting the protesters stay in the air indefinitely. “Despite our own personal feelings, the ship had legally done nothing wrong, and was someone else’s private property,” says Josh Alpert, Hales’ chief of staff. “Because the protesters had done a tremendous job of getting their message out, the next step was to return the property to its owner. Using the law as our guide was the only option.” Hales had another worry: The longer the Greenpeace activists stayed in the sky, the greater the chance that protesters gathering in Cathedral Park would put down roots and attract new allies. Sources tell WW the mayor wanted to avoid a repeat of Occupy Portland, which took over two downtown parks for 39 days in 2011. As Greenpeace’s and Shell’s lawyers argued over the phone with the federal judge in Anchorage on July 30, Hales arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard “Station Portland” on Swan Island—a building that became the war room for lawenforcement efforts to get the activists down. Hales was met by Brown’s top staffers. (The governor had just boarded a plane to travel to Washington, D.C., for a previously scheduled visit with Oregon’s congressional delegation.) Inside the station, Coast Guard brass walked state and city officials through a plan to lower the dangling activists to the water. Local officials were dubious. They worried aloud about worst-case scenarios. What if the

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: The MSV Fennica passed the St. Johns Bridge— and protesters—at 5:55 pm July 30, and headed for the Arctic Ocean.

activists refused to come down? What if they fought with police in midair? What if that struggle caused a protester to plunge out of the sky? What if the crowd on the shore started to riot? The mayor’s and the governor’s staffs left the station a few minutes before noon having signed off on a plan: A Portland Police Bureau “rope rescue team” would first ask the Greenpeace activists to voluntarily come down to boats waiting below. If the protesters refused, the cops would transfer them to ropes held by law enforcement, and lower them against their will. They would remove enough activists to let the Fennica through that day. At 1:32 pm, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Daniel Travers set the plan into motion with an email to the governor’s office. “As discussed,” Travers wrote, “I request Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon State Police cooperation and support to close the St. Johns Bridge and assist with enforcement of federal and state law violations by the rappellers and potential non-compliant kayaktivists/other protesters. Please advise if you need anything else from me. Thanks greatly for your support!” Thirteen minutes later, Shipley gave the go-ahead.

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pants yelling down at me,” she says. Then two Portland police officers descended on harnesses, supported by Portland Fire & Rescue. “Good afternoon,” they said. “It’s time for you to come down now. If you don’t do it voluntarily, I’ll do it for you.” Once Mount realized that law enforcement was planning to attach her to ropes they controlled and cut her lines, she made a deal with them. “For my own safety, I negotiated with them,” she says. “I was able to descend on my own.”

moving toward the bridge. The atmosphere in the park changed immediately. Kayakers began launching in rapid succession, desperately paddling out toward the main channel. “We had plans for formations, but we didn’t have time,” DeVane says. One man inflated a pool toy shaped like a shark, then rode it into the current. Another rolled a giant log down the beach and began pushing it out into the river. The ends of two park docks began to sink below the waterline, pushed down by the weight of

“tHE coURt oRDER DID conFIRM FoR US tHERE’S A RESPonSIBILItY to FREE UP tHE BRIDGE.” —BRIAN SHIPLEY, GOV. KATE BROWN’S CHIEF OF STAFF

She dropped onto a Multnomah County sheriff’s boat and was detained by the U.S. Coast Guard. Mount and two other climbers were handcuffed, returned to land, and placed in police custody. “We were cited and released, which was not our expectation, actually,” Mount says, laughing. “We were prepped for much worse.” Meanwhile, the Coast Guard herded kayakers toward the east bank of the river, away from the shipping channel. Then at 5:15 pm, the Fennica began

the crowd trying to get closer to the scene. As the Fennica approached the bridge, a dozen sheriff ’s patrol and Coast Guard boats maneuvered through the flotilla, snatching at kayakers with poles. Several kayakers found themselves capsized—including DeVane. He had only moments to react before a private security boat bumped his kayak, tipping it sideways and allowing water to rush in. A few seconds later, he was in the river. A police boat picked him up after a few minutes, and he watched from there as the

Fennica passed under the bridge amid a chorus of boos from the crowd on the shore. “I was disappointed,” DeVane says. “I felt like I’d been rendered useless.” The Fennica cleared the St. Johns Bridge at 5:55 pm. Five minutes later, Shell began its oil-drilling operations at its site in the Chukchi Sea. Within days, the 39 hours at the St. Johns Bridge had already begun to recede into memory. In Portland, the Willamette River became the site of another conflict: The Coast Guard shut down a Red Bull-sponsored homemade flying machine contest called the Flugtag after complaints by cruise boat the Portland Spirit. In London, Greenpeace moved on to its next action. On Aug. 2, it sent a string orchestra to play a “Requiem for the Arctic” outside Shell offices. “Rappelling from the bridge is a walk in the park,” Greenpeace USA director Annie Leonard told The Guardian, “compared to the risks we’ll face if we continue the climate-change trajectory we’re on now.” Hales traveled to the White House, where both he and a kayaktivist asked Obama to halt Arctic drilling. And the aerial protesters described their brief stay in Portland as a memorable trip. “We had overwhelming support from the crowd,” Turnstone recalls. “People were yelling up to us, calling us heroes. It was wonderful for us.” This story was reported by Claire Holley, Anthony Macuk, Hart Hornor, Aaron Mesh and Beth Slovic.

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Vancouver is a suburb of Portland. Pointing this out makes some people very angry. “Vancouver isn’t a suburb of Portland, you asshats!” they scream in our online comments. (“They,” in this case, is a guy named Steve.) “Vancouver was around when Portland was just a place to ship lumber. Henry Weinhard began brewing in Vancouver.” We get it. It’s hard to be the small, uncool brother who always has a terrible haircut and a snotty nose. But 100 years ago this July, Portland annexed St. Johns, growing its city limits all the way to the Columbia, bringing us to the very edge of Vancouver. Were it not in a separate state, Vancouver itself might have been annexed. But as you cannot annex across state lines, it remains independent of our government, though inextricably drawn into our comparatively vast cultural and economic orbit. It’s our Hoboken, you might say. Facts are facts. Every day, tens of thousands of people get in their cars in the 360 area code, drive over the river and park near their places of employment in the 503. Are we “asshats” for pointing this out? Maybe. But are we indisputably correct asshats? We are. And are we thorough asshats? Of course we are. This is journalism. It is our contention that everyone knows the ’Couv is a suburb and deniers are just being willfully ignorant. To make sure we weren’t completely off base, we spoke with Ethan Seltzer, a professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University, who walked us through the basics of the Portland metropolitan area. “The U.S. census defines suburbs using commuting relationships,” he said over the phone. The Portland metropolitan area is defined as Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Columbia and Yamhill counties in Oregon and Clark and Skamania counties in Washington. Seltzer was full of knowledge that should not be surprising to anyone who knows how numbers work or has ever set foot inside the Portland metro area: “Within the metropolitan area, they identify a primary city, and that is Portland. That makes the other cities, by

default, suburbs of Portland.” “It’s unquestionable that Portland is the major city in this broad area,” he adds. “It has 600,000 people, and the next biggest is Vancouver, which has 170,000. Suburbs are a subset; they are smaller. Whether they are in Oregon or Washington is kind of immaterial.” Since Seltzer lives in Portland, we thought it would be only fair to ask someone official from Vancouver for her perspective. Carol M. Bua is communications manager for the city of Vancouver, and as such, her declarations of Vancouver’s suburbhood are a bit tempered. “Whether or not one would say that Vancouver is a ‘suburb’ of Portland would depend on the individual opinion or perspective of the person you are asking,” she told us by email. That said, she does agree with Seltzer that “they are in the same Metropolitan Statistical Area,” which is why they “are often linked so closely.” For Bua, it seems a matter of semantics, reasonable since she’s a spokeswoman for a city that feels a bit overshadowed by its smart, funny big sister across the river. And it’s true, when the word “suburb” gets mentioned, people get squirrelly. Even the U.S. Census Bureau, when asked for a comment on whether Vancouver was a suburb of Portland, said, “We do not define suburbs.” But even though the word “suburb” has fallen out of favor, Seltzer doesn’t think it has to be associated with boring bedroom communities and white flight. “It would be incorrect to assume that the definition of suburb here represents some sort of subservient role to Portland,” he says, “because that’s just not how they developed.” However, he adds: “It would probably be harmful to Vancouver’s prospects to not embrace its relationship to [the Portland metro area], because frankly it’s fate is directly tied to Portland.” When we asked him point blank if Vancouver was a suburb of Portland, he said, “Absolutely.” This man is an expert, ladies and gentlemen: a tenured professor with 20-plus years of service at the metro area’s pre-eminent public university. And his position is in no way new. In 1894, in his book, The Oregonian’s Handbook of the Pacific Northwest, Edward Gardner Jones wrote: “In Vancouver, which is really a suburb of Portland...” That means Vancouver has been generally considered a suburb of Portland for, at the very least, 121 years. Before, even, we’d annexed up to its shores. If that makes you uneasy, if the word sounds funny coming out of your mouth, feel free not to say it. But you know—we all know—even Steve the commenter knows—that Vancouver is definitely a suburb of Portland. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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GIMME SOME: There’s no law against giving away free weed in a bar. That was made clear last week, when an Oregon Liquor Control Commission inspector backed down from what Analog Cafe & Theater owner Donnie Rife says was a push to stop its weekly Marijuana Mondays (page 39). “She said, ‘You can’t do that, that’s against the law— against policy,’” Rife says. Under Oregon law, it is legal to give away weed, and to grow it—but not to sell it or consume it in public. Rife says the cafe told the inspector it didn’t allow people to smoke cannabis on the premises, and it wasn’t distributing the weed. “She said, ‘Nope, you can’t do it,’” and handed him a letter, Rife alleges. “The letter only said we can’t allow anybody to consume,” Rife says. “We’re going ahead and doing it. She got complaints. I think she personally didn’t want us to do it.” Despite Rife’s account, OLCC spokesman Tom Towslee says the agency never expressly forbade the club from holding Marijuana Monday. “The owner believes we did,” Towslee says. “We have a bit of a he-said, she-said situation.” PACKING BAGS: Portland’s own Unipiper will return as an honored guest in the land of his forefathers, performing at the world’s biggest arts festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Brian Kidd didn’t expect to hear back when he sent an application, including YouTube videos and the clip of him on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Presumably, breaking onto the scene as a bagpiper in the land that birthed the instrument is tough, but he did it. “They told me that they accept a very limited number of bagpipers each year,” Kidd says. After winning a coveted half-hour spot on the main stage of Fringe’s carnivalesque Royal Mile, he’s now compiling his best bits for the Aug. 30 show. At least a dozen Scottish groupies have already reached out. “They’ve Facebooked me and volunteered to be my personal tour guide,” Kidd says. “No matter what, I’m going to ﬁnd a pub and throw a party there to meet fans.” IT’S NOT BEERVERTON: A steampunkthemed brewpub and pizzeria proved a tough sell in Beaverton. Brannon’s, downtown Beaverton’s only brewery, closed Aug. 1 “until further notice” after less than a year in business. WW was unable to speak with owner Kevin Brannon or his staﬀ before deadline, but Brannon’s had a tough go from the start. Last December, Brannon told The Oregonian he was surprised by the “slow start” of his business. “I hope we were right that slightly upscale food and good homemade beer works in Beaverton,” Brannon told The O. “In eastside Portland, you can’t throw a rock without hitting a brew pub. Right here in Beaverton proper, there really isn’t anything like it.” And so it is again. Uptown Market, the Garden Home neighborhood pub which is literally feet inside Beaverton city limits, is now the only brewery in the ’Tron.

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OK, Isla, Daddy needs to talk to you. You’re just 3 months old, so Daddy doesn’t know how much of this you’ll understand, but it’s important to try. OK? OK! Yaaaay! On Sunday, we’re going to see Daddy’s favorite band, Wilco. Can you say, “Wil-co”? This is a big event for both of us, Isla. You get to see Wilco for the first of what will surely be many times. And Daddy finally gets to experience dad rock as it was meant to be: as a dad. Yaaaay! If you’ve been listening along to the band’s new record, Star Wars, or paying attention to Daddy’s bootleg of the Red Rocks show from July, you know how interesting this concert is going to be. Did you notice that new, organ-tinged arrangement of “Jesus, Etc.”? And Nels is truly killing the “Impossible Germany” solos. Oh, man. Daddy wishes we could go to the Bend show on Saturday and the Seattle show on Tuesday, but Mommy is not into it. Next time! Daddy has seen a lot of Wilco shows. He first saw them waaaay back on the Being There tour, when they were a basic alt-country band. He’s ended up liking every iteration of the band a little more than the last. Back in 2007, Pitchfork dubbed them “dad rock” and they’ll never, ever escape that label, even though Pitchfork used to be really funny and snarky but now just writes a bunch of overwrought think pieces about

crappy electro-smooth jazz made by dudes in tank tops. Maybe Daddy is getting old, but he doesn’t like Thundercat! Anyway, Daddy wanted your first concert to be Wilco, so you can brag to all of your friends once you can talk. But when we were in Salt Lake City, they offered us free tickets to see Death Cab for Cutie. In Utah, your entertainment options are pretty limited. We showed up late and left early, so if you later want to tell your little friends Wilco was your first real concert, that wouldn’t be a lie! And don’t worry, Daddy will buy you a Wilco onesie. Sorry about your outfit for this one, options are very limited in the 0-3 size. Mommy said you couldn’t have the Peter Tosh onesie with a giant weed leaf on it, and Daddy worries you wouldn’t yet appreciate the irony of the little Metallica shirt and someday end up on the back of some dirtbag’s Harley. Sorry, Isla! Now, you’re probably wondering about the most convenient times for Daddy to attend to your basic biological needs. The encore break, obviously, would be ideal. Just behind that would be “Laminated Cat (Not for the Season),” which is a poopy song Daddy doesn’t want to hear anymore. If you could please, please try to stay calm through the Sky Blue Sky-era stuff, and Daddy would extra super-appreciate it if you were quiet through any of the Star Wars stuff, especially “More...” and “Taste the Ceiling.” That solo break on “Taste the Ceiling” is really gonna be epic. You must be so excited, little Isla! Yaaaay! Dad rock! MARTIN CIZMAR.

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SATURDAY AUG. 8 ALLEY 33 FASHION EVENT [READY-TO-WEAR [READY-TO-WEAR] Boutique designers here believe clothes should be made for real humans, the kind who eat carbs. Twenty top local shops—including Mink, Wolf Child, Laurs Kemp and Folly—display their street-ready looks in this fifth annual show sponsored by Portland Monthly and spun by DJ Gregarious. Alley 33, 3279 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7 pm. $12 advance, $15 at door.

SUNDAY AUG. 9 THE DO-OVER [BLOCK PARTY] Portland joins 10 other cities around the world in celebrating the 10th anniversary of the roving daytime hip-hop party, cofounded in L.A. by soul singer Aloe Blacc. The slate of DJs is being kept under wraps, but considering past guests have included Questlove, Jazzy Jeff and Biz Markie, the potential for awesomeness is high. AudioCinema, 226 SE Madison St. 2 pm. Free with RSVP at thedoover. net. 21+.

HAPPY GILMORE [MOVIES IN THE PARK] Harness the good energy, block out the bad. Hardly anything could make Adam Sandler’s hockey-reject golfer classier than quoting “pieces of shit for breakfast” on the ninth hole. Bring a brown-bagged beverage and enjoy POPgoji’s pre-show. Colwood Golf Center, 7313 NE Columbia Blvd., 254-5515 6:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY AUG. 11 BURNSIDE VICE [TAWDRINESS] Burnside Street has always been a place of sex work, transients and drugs. Kick Ass Oregon History will host Portland on the Take co-author JB Fisher for a talk and slide show on Burnside’s early days of illegal card rooms, whorehouses and seedy hotels. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Free. 21+. ROYAL HEADACHE [SOUL PUNK] Imagine prime Rod Stewart fronting the Undertones and you’ll get the formula that made this Australian quartet’s self-titled 2012 debut a front-to-back classic and the upcoming High a magnificent and moving successor. There’s been noise about a breakup, so this might be Portland’s last chance to experience one the world’s greatest rock’n’-roll bands. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

FOOD & DRINK = WW Pick. Highly recommended. By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 Broth Bar Opening

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Free soup, but for rich people. Broth Bar—from the folks behind Salt, Fire and Time—will stage a grand opening of what they call “Portland’s ﬁ rst dedicated bone broth cafe.” Let’s leave aside that most soup stock is made with bones—theirs is steeped for like three days—and just say, “Hey! Free soup!” Made with, like, bison bones. And lamb bones. Then they’ll ﬁ ll up your growlette with kombucha. Broth Bar, 115 NE 6th Ave., 555-4321, brothbarsft.com. 8 am.

Uptown Market Crawfish Boil

In the brand-new Portland summer tradition of crawﬁ sh boils at beer bars, this is a crawﬁ sh boil at a beer bar. Hooray for tradition. Uptown Market, 6620 SW Scholls Ferry Road, Beaverton, 336-4783, uptownmarketpdx.com. 6-8 pm. $20-$25.

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 and gnudi made with spinach and ricotta. But one of the best features? A $20 bottle of house wine. $$. 2. Mediterranean Exploration Comapny 333 NW 13th Ave, 222-0906, mediterraneanexplorationcompany.com. It took a while, but John Gorham’s Mediterranean restaurant in the Pearl is now ﬁring on all cylinders. Even the basics, like pita and hummus, are extraordinary. $$$.

THURSDAY, AUG. 6 Summer Vegetable Dinner

BRUNCH Sunday

11AM – 3PM

As part of its vegetarian dinner series, Aviary will rep the vegetables of summer with a sevencourse meal accompanied by Sungold tomato cocktails, made with tomatoes from chef Sarah Pliner’s own garden. Expect also chilled beet and lemongrass soup, eggplant terrine with ﬁ gs and maitake tempura with pine nuts and lychees. Oh, and for dessert? Sorbet made with lemon cucumber. Which is a culinary vegetable, but actually a fruit. Aviary, 1733 NE Alberta St., 287-2400, aviarypdx.com. 5-10 pm. $45.

FRIDAY, AUG. 7 Bite of Oregon

Beaverton’s favorite Portland food event returns this year with food from PDX Sliders, Doug Fir and the Fields sports bar, among others. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway and Harrison Street, biteofportland.com. 11 am-10 pm FridaySaturday, 10 am-8 pm Sunday. $6 admission.

3. Eb & Bean 1425 NE Broadway, 281-6081, ebandbean.com. A lot more people have ﬁnally discovered Eb & Bean frogurt this year. But it’s still worth the wait for its bourbon sauce—the best topping for frozen dessert in town—and a look at its daily specials. $. 4. Pure Spice 2446 SE 87th Ave., 772-1808, purespicerestaurant.com. Pure Spice’s new wings are among the best Asian wings in town, with a crisp rice batter that is beautifully sweet and light; alongside its transcendent, hand-pulled rice noodles with almond and sesame, it seems there’s nothing rice at Pure Spice that isn’t brilliant. $. 5. 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. $$$$$$$.

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I’ve spent a lot of money—a couple hundred bucks, at least—on Crux Fermentation Project beer. Until recently, it all was in vain. The Bend upstart from former Deschutes brewmaster Larry Sidor has fancy wax-dipped bottles and an impressive pedigree, but I’ve found their barrel-aged brews to be crushing walls of funk and their pale ales to be catty. Well, I’ve finally found a Crux beer to love, and it’s a Pilsner. Sidor has been brewing Pilsners for 35-plus years, and it shows in this squeaky-clean beer made with true Pilsner malt and whole cone hops. The hops he chose give it a noble air—imported Czech Saaz and one of its descendants, Sterling, grown in the Willamette Valley. The beer is refreshing, a little bready with light herbal notes, and has a touch of lemon. It’s simple and perfect. Now, it just needs some fancy packaging. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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POPPIN' KEEP IT POPPIN’ Pop-ups just keep popping up. With rare exception, each is an impecunious young chef’s road test for grander ambitions that may or may not pan out. The irregular hours and changeable locations can be a pain, but Portland’s pop-ups, more so now than food carts, are the crucible from which tomorrow’s restaurant rock stars are forged. Here are a few of our newer favorites. MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN.

Nomad.PDX BEYOND CUON: Sarah Bui (right) and Anna Vocaturo working the kitchen.

JUST DUA IT THE DOI DUA POP-UP IS PORTLAND’S NEW BEST VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT. BY M IC H A E L C . Z U SM AN

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Portland’s first Vietnamese restaurants began popping up in the 1970s, just as America’s war in Southeast Asia was winding down. Though many Vietnamese refugees who landed here moved on to the Gulf Coast, plenty put down roots in Portland, settling in the Brooklyn neighborhood and opening restaurants to feed their friends, families and gawkers like me who’d sampled Southeast Asian cuisine in California while in college. Although the memories are vague, I know that at least a few went beyond Westernized dishes and Thaifood knockoffs by featuring cuon—pliable rice-paper rolls filled with meats, herbs and noodles that are rarely seen outside the back pages of menus at a few serious pho shops. Vietnamese standards aside from soup have been no match for Thai food. As early as 1984, then-WW food editor Karen Brooks lamented the closure of a slew of Vietnamese places that had been open only a few years. Predictably, the new Vietnamese restaurant she was reviewing, Vietnam’s Pearl downtown, has long since closed, as has its predecessor on Southeast Powell Boulevard, Thanh Truc. Well, Portland now has its best and most ambitious Vietnamese restaurant ever. Doi Dua, Vietnamese for “chopsticks,” is ready to break through thanks to chef Sarah Bui and partner-server Anna Vocaturo. I’ve made several visits to this Monday-only pop-up, and each time the set-price processional served in the pocket-sized Langbaan space has achieved an awe-inspiring diversity and balance of flavors, textures and colors. If this sounds like hyperbole, be assured it is not. Bui is a rare kitchen talent: just 23 years old without any professional kitchen experience until Vocaturo, a veteran from D.C.’s Rose’s Luxury (Bon Appétit’s best new U.S. restaurant of 2014), persuaded her to give it a shot. Bui maintains a calm, efficient focus in the small kitchen that’s so open diners might be tempted to jump in and lend a hand. But it’s the consistent quality of the food, each dish an updated twist on Bui’s Southern Vietnamese culinary heritage, that makes Doi Dua a must-visit. The lotus salad that opens each seven-course meal

rockets skyward like a multisensory starburst, beginning with paper-thin slices of kaleidoscope-patterned fresh lotus root and pickled stem. The composition includes shards of hot red chili, matchsticks of crunchy carrot, jicama and apple, succulent tiger shrimp and chunks of smoked honey-roasted pork, all topped with a flurry of caramelized shallot and bound with a tight, light fish sauce and lime juice dressing. Too often, salads are boring-as-hell filler for the prim. This one is a dramatic primer for the courses to follow. Next is a triumphal trinity of Vietnamese snacks. First up, a modest salad roll in which baby anchovy—a little fishy, a little salty, a tad crunchy from twice-cooking—is the star. Also on the plate, a thick, half-dollar-sized disk of bean curd-based cha lua chay, or what Vocaturo introduces as “vegetarian bologna,” its taste and texture ranging somewhere between heart of palm and artichoke bottom, topped with a thin slice of pickled jalapeño, carrot sticks and marinated maitake mushrooms. Rounding out the trio is a butter lettuce wrap, the flawless leaf piled with a square netting of rice noodles, cucumber and twists of crispy pig ear that have been brushed with rich, caramel fish sauce. The high orbit of compelling plates continues with agreeably chewy squid or (most recently) conch paired with not-too-crunchy gnarls of black sesame seed-flecked brown rice crackers; a rice-flour pancake stuffed to a plump puck shape with garlic chives and bits of scallop, then griddled to golden; and a small bowl of faux pho, a wry presentation of soft-cooked daikon strands, bits of oxtail, browned pearl onions and a toss of nasturtium leaves, basil and jalapeño. Get it? The meal concludes with an innovative intermezzo of herb-sprinkled soft tofu immersed in a pool of tart-juicy chopped tomato followed by dessert: fermented sweet rice cake (think al dente angel food), fresh fruit, coconut mousse and honey candy. These final courses, repeated over several trials, cemented the notion that I was witness to a rising star among Portland’s densely packed galaxy of aspiring chefs. While the food and service at Doi Dua are beyond reproach save for a nit here and there, two major challenges for Bui and Vocaturo remain. One is to make themselves heard above the din, especially as a once-aweek offering in borrowed space. The tougher nut still is solving the Portland paradox: even in a food-crazy town, finding a sufficiently large, appreciative audience for their distinctive culinary vision. EAT: Doi Dua, 6 SE 28th Ave (inside PaaDee), 352-239-1586, doidua-popup.com. 5:30-10 pm Monday only. $55, seven courses.

1200 SW Morrison St., 459-1986, nomadpdx.com. Dinner seatings Friday-Sunday. $95 per person. Forgive me if I think of Nomad, the love child of cochefs Ryan Fox and Ali Matteis, as Holdfast: Next Generation, but that’s a compliment. It followed that much-lauded project into and away from the KitchenCru commissary space and offers a strikingly similar, if slightly less evolved, focus. Nomad has drifted to the small but comfortable mezzanine above new downtown bar Shift Drinks. A typical Nomad meal will include 15 to 20 bite-sized courses, with an emphasis on local ingredients, strong technique and gorgeous presentations. Dishes can be as out there as “cucumber, trout roe, buttermilk, nasturtium” served on a footlong piece of slate or as homey as a tiny loaf of white bread with a canelé of blackberry butter. MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN.

Hatos Bar Barbecue One-off at White Owl Social Club. Tokyo’s Hatos Bar is known for an impossible thing: perfect, American-style barbecue made in Japan. And somehow White Owl Social Club managed to bring in Hatos chef Sou “Blunt” Leki for a four-night stand on its epic patio. Just $18 netted a massive plate featuring half the pig: beautiful dry-rubbed St. Louis-cut spare ribs, pork butt that melted into heaven, a dainty square of just-so pork belly, and a big ol’ pile of pulled pork on Wonder Bread. Oh, and then there was that hunk of beef brisket with its gorgeous spiced husk of char. Oh, and Ndamukong Suh apparently showed up. For four days in July, it was the best barbecue in Portland. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Mae 5027 NE 42nd Ave., maepdx.com. Approximately every other Tuesday. $60 per person “suggested donation” (cash only). BYOB. The confirmation email arrived a few days before the dinner and ended with the prophetic words, “Come hungry.” Fair warning. Maya Lovelace is a Southern girl who is clearly in command of the dining space around back from Old Salt Marketplace that she named in honor of her grandmother. Lovelace definitely likes to serve the dishes she grew up on, with a Willamette Valley tweak. On arrival one July night, 20 or so diners packed in densely to be served family-style. The chalkboard menu began with sassafras sweet tea and ended with Sundrop CONT. on page 27 Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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pound cake, served with whipped lemon verbena-infused buttermilk and local blackberries. The whirl of nine or so courses reached a crescendo with crunchy fried chicken accompanied by bottles of Crystal hot sauce, though the yeast-risen angel biscuits topped with Duke’s mayo and a tomato slice were heavenly indeed. MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN.

PlaceInvaders

Travels city to city. Check placeinvaders.co for updates on future events. Portland native Katie Smith-Adair and cook/coder Hagan Blount drive from city to city with a little trailer, setting up meals in other people’s houses while they’re not there. The owners are forbidden from attending dinners. They set up booze sponsorships on the fly, and figure out food sourcing the same way. At a recent edition in Laurelhurst, we sucked down seemingly limitless wine and bright cocktails, with Sriracha-broiled local oysters, dumplings with duck from a farm near Eugene, and salmon caught in the wild by Smith-Adair’s cousin. It is less fine dining than the upscale home cooking of the food obsessive—while the salmon was beautifully tender in beurre blanc, the pequin-pepper panna cotta was a bit awkward—but much of the fun was walking around drunk with strangers and peering into the lives of others. We were encouraged to wander free in the apartment. “Look at these fixtures,” said Blount, upstairs after dinner. “Brass. This hasn’t been updated since the ’80s.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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South Broke Da Mouth A one-off at Le Pigeon during the restaurant’s summer vacation. Hawaiian fare ain’t fancy. There’s lots of Spam, mayonnaise, rice and coleslaw. Southern picnic foods are an obvious affinity group. And, thus, South Broke Da Mouth, a one-off mash-up from Le Pigeon pastry chef Jaclyn Nakashima and Little Bird sous chef Andrew Gordon. It was a simple menu: house-baked Hawaiian buns were topped with pulled pork in a sticky sweet ’cue sauce and sweet-tea-brined, batter-fried chicken thighs. The chicken was tops. The sides—mac salad and macaroni and cheese—weren’t anything exciting, but the cocktails were killer, especially the Hawaiian Punch with Okolehao (Hawaiian moonshine), rum, brandy, bitters and pineapple. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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Kotori Southeast 9th Avenue and Pine Street, 239-8830, biwarestaurant.com. 4 pm-sunset Thursday-Sunday. Kotori (“little chicken”) is just a grill and two guys under a Japanese awning outside Biwa izakaya. They make saltkissed chicken parts, skewered and grilled over Japanese binchotan charcoal. When drippings hit the embers, they’re incinerated into pure flavor that wafts up to coat the meat. Yakitori, they say, is not so much a meal as a ritualized snack, meant to be enjoyed with friends on the way home from work. Stand at the thin rail of a bar and share a full liter of Asahi Super Dry for $8. Fair warning: The chicken usually disappears before sunset. ENID SPITZ.

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Thali Supper Club Din Din Supper Club, 920 NE Glisan St., 754-6456, thalisupperclub.com. Next meal Aug. 15. Assam-born Leena Ezekiel’s monthly supper club hops from region to region in India. The dinner’s name, “Thali,” refers to the big plate on which Ezekiel places an array of metal bowls filled with flavor. Most recently, the food came from the Maharashtra region—home to Mumbai. There was more flavor per inch than at any meal in town, from an earthy fish-tamarind dish of pigeon peas sweetened with jaggery, to a mustardy goat dish, to especially a bharli vangi

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MUSIC

ON THE I L L U S T R AT I O N S B Y L E V I G R E E N A C R E S

BY PETE COTTELL

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PLAYLIST

OH, THE PEOPLE YOU’LL MEET AT THE ANNUAL PUNK ROCK ROAD SHOW. HERE ARE SIX OF THEM.

THE CERTIFIED PIT STARTERS OF WARPED TOUR 2015 KNUCKLE PUCK, “Swing”

No Warped list is complete without at least one cut from a band on Beaverton’s Rise Records. The sizzling power chords and shout-along vocals of Knuckle Puck’s debut LP, Copacetic, are a staple of Warped rosters for decades.

LEE COREY OSWALD, “SNOWGLOBE”

Weezer’s best days are behind it, but Portland’s own Lee Corey Oswald refuses to believe the power of massive riffs and a few well-timed “oohs” are ever past their prime.

SELFIE SUICIDE GIRL

IDENTIFY HER BY: High-fashion softgrunge-cum-goth attire, a look of utter boredom, no less than two Monroe piercings, and a pair of heels because, let’s face it, in under an hour she’ll be backstage sipping Patron with some eager guitar techs who follow her on Instagram. BANDS SHE’S EXCITED TO SEE: Pierce the Veil, Metro Station, Riff Raff.

BEWILDERED TWEEN

IDENTIFY HIM BY: The parental unit lurking 20 feet behind him and his crew. He’s desperately trying to find the moment to break away and start some shit in the pit, only to get spit out two minutes later with a Vans footprint and sweat all over his sunburnt face and his Tony Hawk T-shirt torn in half. BANDS HE’S EXCITED TO SEE: Silverstein, Family Force 5.

SCHMOOZY SCENE VETERAN IDENTIFY HIM BY: Entry-level gauges and leg tats, though if it wasn’t for those, you’d mistake him for a frat guy. Rather than moshing, he’s spent most of his time either on his phone outside the gates wrangling nonexistent press credentials or near the merch booths trying to impress girls with his intimate knowledge of hot, new unsigned bands from some obscure town’s metalcore scene. Hit him up, bro. BANDS HE’S EXCITED TO SEE: Blessthefall, August Burns Red, any band that’s been on the cover of Alternative Press at least twice.

FOUR YEAR STRONG, “HEROES GET REMEMBERED, LEGENDS NEVER DIE”

This blitzkrieg of doublekick drums, chugging guitars and hardcore breakdowns is the calling card of this Massachusetts “beardcore” group. It’s big, dumb fun that’s impossible to not sing along to.

MATCHBOOK ROMANCE,“SURRENDER”

Pierce the Veil and Memphis May Fire might be carrying the torch for hardcore shredding with a Castlevaniatinged flare for the gothic, but this 2006 stalker anthem bangs like no other since.

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, “WHEN YOU’RE AROUND”

Why this quintet of frizzyhaired Minnesotans is still plugging away at the Warped Tour is beyond comprehension, but its spastic synthpop and wry lyrical attack is always welcome.

AUGUST BURNS RED, “WRECKING BALL”

Perhaps the foremost metalcore cover of a Miley Cyrus track currently in Internet circulation? You betcha! Do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with the “wall of death” before getting anywhere near this one.

SENSES FAIL, “CAN’T BE SAVED”

DIVORCED SKATER DAD

IDENTIFY HIM BY: The SoCal rockabilly look—the only one you can tastefully age into while retaining some degree of edge. He persuaded his ex-wife to give him custody of the kids on a weekday so he’d have an excuse to work out some aggression on total strangers in a hot parking lot. BANDS HE’S EXCITED TO SEE: H20, Man Overboard.

EARNEST POSI COUPLE

IDENTIFY THEM BY: His beard and cargo shorts; her pink hair and matching socks. This gregarious twosome are catalysts for pogo pits all day long. They’ll make sure no one goes without water or a hand to pull them out of the pile. The Warped Tour is all about unity, dudes! BANDS THEY’RE EXCITED TO SEE: Four Year Strong, Motion City Soundtrack, the Wonder Years.

BARNACLE BROS

IDENTIFY THEM BY: Tank tops, beer guts, sleeves of tats and receding, flat-ironed comb-overs. These depreciating scene-lifers will jump out of an old van with Idaho plates and accost you with a boombox blasting their band’s demo. They say they’re “going on the Warped Tour,” but all they’re really doing is following it around and getting drunk in the parking lot until security tells them to scram. BANDS THEY’RE EXCITED TO SEE: On the off chance a free ticket gets thrown their way, the Bros will watch Memphis May Fire, Senses Fail and We Came as Romans. But their band is obviously better.

A lot of the headlining bands sound like Senses Fail— and vice versa—so you may as well stick with the New Jersey screamo band that has enough bankable tracks to merit a greatest-hits record, right?

SEE IT: The Vans Warped Tour is at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 N Marine Drive, on Friday, Aug. 7. Doors at 11 am. $37. All ages. See vanswarpedtour. com for complete list of bands.

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Live bands:

paper ToWNs

MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE saLe priced cd $14.99

The soundtrack from the hit summer film ‘paper Towns’ arrives with tracks from mainstays like santigold, vampire Weekend & mountain goats as well as newer acts like Twin shadow, vance Joy and The War on drugs.

emmYLou harris & rodNeY croWeLL THE TRAVELING KIND saLe priced cd $14.99

The Traveling Kind follows the longtime friends’ first duet album, 2013’s old Yellow moon, which won best americana album at the 56th annual grammy awards.

NATE RUESS

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grand romantic is the debut solo album from Nate ruess of fuN, featuring the single “Nothing Without Love.

11AM—JT WISE NooN—The earNesT Lovers 1 PM—PURUSA 2 pm—The cooL Whips 3 pm—The dischords 4 pm—The hiLL dogs 5 pm—mcfaddeN pLaNeT

$5 Meat Plates from

La Luz

good oLd War

DEAF WISH

When it came time to record their second album, the goal for La Luz was to capture the band’s restless live energy and commit it to tape. in January they adjourned to a surf shop in california where, with the help of producer/engineer Ty segall, they realized this vision.

good old War has earned the loyalty of an everexpanding fan base thanks to their captivating live shows touring along side a diverse group of artists including alison Krauss, guster, brandi carlile and dr. dog.

melbourne, australia’s deaf Wish have amassed one of rock’s most exhilarating bodies of work, a concise run of wooly seven-inches and whiteknuckle Lps whose legendary live translation has been most accurately described as “unhinged.

WEIRDO SHRINE saLe priced cd $10.99

BROKEN INTO BETTER SHAPE saLe priced cd $10.99

gaLacTic

The desLoNdes

hailing from New orleans, Louisiana – galactic has been exploring their seemingly limitless musical possibilities for more than 20 years, approaching their music with open ears and drawing inspiration as much from the sounds bubbling up from their city’s streets as they do from each other.

hailed by Npr as “deft assemblers of a sound that traverses decades and styles with humble grace,” New orleans band The deslondes mine from the rich history of american music to craft their compelling and wholly unique eponymous debut album.

THE DESLONDES saLe priced cd $10.99

INTO THE DEEP saLe priced cd $12.99

LeoN bridges

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Leon bridges is the ‘out of almost nowhere’ story that only comes along once in a while. awareness of his unique craft continues to grow authentically and consistently, leading to his breakout performances at sXsW 2015.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 Metz, Big Ups, Dilly Dally

[COBAINCORE] Having its debut full-length issued through Sub Pop made Toronto’s Metz a target of envy and derision. Ascending to indie heights as quickly as the three-piece did seemed almost as improbable as its first album’s backward-gazing ’90s noise-rock being just a fluke. But with the release of Metz II, any distrust of the band’s bonafides has been assuaged: Spit You Out” bounces; “Wait in Line” could have been cribbed from Nirvana demosl and “The Swimmer” alternates punk atrocities and unrepentant tumult. Ways to recombine influence isn’t a problem Metz has had to deal with, and likely won’t be in the foreseeable future. DAVE CANTOR. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

Father, Slug Christ

[ALIEN RAP] Around the same time Atlanta’s underground was making the club go up on a Tuesday, another oﬀ-beat rapper and producer from the scene was making shadowy, net-based moves with his Awful Records crew. Father, with the album Hot Young Ebony, rose out of online obscurity with the booming 808 anthem “Wrist,” a deadpan and surrealist track about taking stunting to the comically absurd. Lyrics like, “Never had to whip a brick/But I get the gist” simultaneously distance Father from the trap while paying homage to its imagery. Other songs like “Nokia” are closer to the throwback minimal style of early Bay Area production, but most of Father’s catalog edges towards the darker side of frontin’, bringing the party to the rawest common denominator. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Peter’s Room, 8 NW 6th Ave., 219-9929. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

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THE FIVE GREATEST PORTLAND DO-OVERS OF ALL-TIME The roving hip-hop day party the Do-Over is celebrating its 10th anniversary with events in 10 of its host cities, including Portland. We asked co-founders Jamie Strong and Christopher Haycock about the best parties they’ve ever thrown in Stumptown. DJ Jazzy Jeﬀ & Mick Boogie @ Produce Row, 2012 Every year Jeff and Mick do a summertime mixtape together that is given away online, but we were lucky enough to have them live in person. The intimacy of Produce Row combined with these guys was a really special vibe. Dam-Funk @ Produce Row, 2011 A Dam-Funk DJ set or live performance is never to be missed, but here he did a hybrid DJ set alongside a few of his own songs, where he went into the crowd with his shoulder synth, and the place went nuts. The Gaslamp Killer @ Produce Row, 2010 GLK has been apart of the Do-Over family since 2005, so it’s always an honor to include him wherever we can. This was one of the first ever Do-Overs in Portland, and it really set the tone of the overall vibe to come. Biz Markie @ White Owl Social Club, 2013 The Diabolical Biz is the ultimate entertainer. Such a class act and history lesson anytime Biz DJs. Pete Rock @ White Owl Social Club, 2014 Much like the Biz, Pete Rock has that old-school, party-rock style as a DJ and host on the mic. A living legend. SEE IT: The Do-Over is at AudioCinema, 226 SE Madison St., on Sunday, Aug. 9. 2 pm. Free with RSVP at thedoover.net/10. DJs to be announced. 21+. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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THURSDAY, AUG. 6 Teklife Showcase: DJ Earl, DJ Taye, Taso

[THA NEXT LIFE] Few underground dance movements of the past decade have had a global impact of Chicago’s Teklife footwork crew. Founded by the late DJ Rashad along with DJ Spinn, Teklife’s music takes the foundation of ghettohouse and juke—styles based in uptempo, minimal and rhythmically combustive electronic beats—and accelerates it as a contemporary hybrid of drum ’n’ bass, trap music and drill, with syncopated hi-hat patterns guiding dancers’ frenetic, yes, footwork. DJ Earl steps into the massive void left by Rashad’s untimely departure as worldwide ambassador of the sound, leading this next generation of producers, with Taso and DJ Taye supporting tonight’s high energy showcase of Teklife’s new blood. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 7 SMMR BMMR

[FEST] PDX Pop Now too “corporate” for your taste? Enjoy going to music festivals held under bridges but wish more of the bands sounded like they live under one? The partially local SMMR BMMR draws its lineup from the lo-fi underground, amassing three days of scuzzy punk and garage pop that’s sincerely ironic and ironically sincere. After a year off, the BMMR is back, taking place in a warehouse in industrial Southeast and headlined by Personal and

the Pizzas, a band that writes songs exclusively about pizza and thankfully doesn’t involve Macaulay Culkin. MATTHEW SINGER. BMMR Warehouse, 66 SE Madison St. 4 pm. $14 per day. 21+. See smmrbmmr.com for complete schedule. Through Aug. 9.

Alabama Shakes, Blake Mills

[SPACEY SOUL] Alabama Shakes never intended to be the retro revivalist its career-catapulting debut, Boys & Girls, made it out to be. It was an album brimming with Southern charm and vintage riffs, one that swelled with every shout and squeal frontwoman Brittany Howard could muster, but it ultimately fell short of the band’s aspirations. Its successor, Sound & Color, is different. It’s laced with warped rhythms and fractured harmonies, indebted as much to Erykah Badu as Otis Redding and driven by a lyrical abstraction. You can still hear the heartbreak in Howard’s hurricane of a voice. But this time, no one will mistake it for a ’60s-inspired imposter. BRANDON WIDDER. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 6698610. 6:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Screaming Females, Vacation, Divers

[DIY SHREDDERS] Fusing the fuzzed-out shredding of Dinosaur Jr. and the feminist bawling of Bikini Kill is a tall order for a band born in the basements of New Jersey, but Screaming Females is up to the task on its latest album, Rose Mountain. Frontwoman Marissa Paternoster’s guitars are still burly and loud and her vocals are angrier than ever, but subtle touches of surf and post-punk have seeped into

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D’Angelo and the Vanguard

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[BLACK LIVES MATTER] We’ve never needed D’Angelo more than we do now. The legendarily enigmatic R&B singer spent most of this century in relative hiding—from stardom, from lofty expectations, from eager critics, from his status as a sex symbol. He made few public appearances, occasionally emerging on a collaboration with J Dilla or Common, but mostly popping up in the public consciousness with news about legal troubles or another album delay. But after years of speculation and false starts, D’Angelo returned last December with Black Messiah, the follow-up to 2000’s landmark neo-soul masterpiece Voodoo. Black Messiah is an album for all times. Topical and forward-thinking, it addresses America’s continued struggle with race and its creator’s battle to love himself and the world at large. Led by the driving rhythmic core of Questlove on percussion and bassist Pino Palladino, Black Messiah is a slinky and charged-up amalgam of gospel, soul, funk and even hard rock, recalling not just Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On but also Hendrix, Erykah Badu (especially New Amerykah) and Miles Davis. His voice, constantly surrounded by backing harmonies, horns and, on standout track “The Charade,” thrashing guitars, is still a thing of pure beauty, a withered falsetto that can stop time in its tracks. D’Angelo doesn’t need a hashtag to stay relevant—Black Messiah will live on, forever. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8:30 pm, Sunday, Aug. 9. Sold out. 21+.

FRIDAY the mix for an even richer, more dynamic presentation of a sound that was already way too big for the East Coast DIY scene to hold in its clutches. PETE COTTELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

The Vaccines, Holiday Friends

[LASCIVIOUS LAD ROCK] If recipients of NME’s weekly “shit-hot sound of the future” tag have taught us anything about the shelf life of boozy louts with nice clothes and shitty attitudes, it’s not to expect much after their 18-month germination period. That the Vaccines have survived the hype machine and fol-

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lowed up a record with a piss-take of a title like What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? is a miracle in itself. But the fact that their latest, English Graffiti, manages to hang its hat on the quartet’s finest qualities—slinky, quasi-disco ditties that juxtapose frontman Justin Hayward-Young’s effortless preening with subtly groovy textures that would feel right at home on an early Strokes record—is an encouraging sign that this gang of four may be around longer than KNRK could possibly need it to be. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

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The songs on Keep The Good Ones Close are steeped in classic, honest country, but they sound like today. These are straightforward, matter-of-fact tales of learning to live in the space between love and loss, and finding out that the only way to navigate that space is by learning who to trust. Anyone who’s been deserted or lived in fear of being left will be drawn in and find something to relate to in the music.

Red Light Challenge is made up of brothers Sean and Kyle Luster, who are both valedictorians, athletes, and multiinstrumentalists. Although the band consists of only two members, they continue to create huge-sounding songs using their high energy attitude and skills on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, trumpet, trombone, and more. The brothers have developed a unique sound coming from Hawaii, incorporating British Invasion songwriting, multi-part harmonies, R&B danceability, guitar-driven electricity, as well as popular sounds of today.

Ragon Linde is a multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, and audio visionary based in Portland. Ragon has played in a wide range of musical groups over the last 35 years who’s styles included big band, psychedelic jazz, heavy metal, acoustic folk, classical, western swing, marching band, and percussion ensemble.

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WHO: Soﬁa Acosta. SOUNDS LIKE: If the duty-free shop was a small, bangin’ club and also was corporate-, violenceand prejudice-free. FOR FANS OF: Mexican music of all stripes, plus international genre-benders like Selena, M.I.A., Uproot Andy, Chicha Libre and the ZZK Sound compilations. Like many professional sports careers, Sofia Acosta’s life in music started on the bench. More specifically, it started as a lategame substitution for a missing DJ while working for Mexico City promotions company Sicario in 2008. “I said, ‘OK, fine, I have music,’” Acosta says. After that show, she was hooked. “People were like, ‘You are a really bad DJ, but you play awesome music.’” That first part is, happily, no longer true. Wait for Acosta’s needle to drop and you’ll be greeted with an awesome sound— maybe an obscure sample from a fictional Pancho Villa, maybe a cumbia beat retouched with Drake vocals, maybe a driving disco bassline. Since those styles and beats normally don’t mesh well, she’s learned to fold in all manner of psychedelic effects in her transitions. The result is a Mexican-focused, multigenre explosion beaming with Acosta’s ambassadorial pride. After moving to Portland with her husband in 2012, though, setting up her embassy was hard. “Portland is not as obvious [about] where the good music is,” she says. Acosta eventually found a musical partner, Michael Bruce, and two candidates in Old Town. “I like the Rose Bar and Valentines. I like the vibe of these dark corners, where no light can go. It’s just a place to dance.” She and Bruce eventually established the roaming, Latinthemed dance night Gran Ritmos, which is about to celebrate its first anniversary. Through that monthly party, Acosta’s self-diagnosed “identity crisis”—between local and global, city and country—has long since resolved itself. But she’s still looking to do more. “I want to play for eight hours,” she says. “Really! I want to showcase not only cumbia but influences from all over, and that takes time. Here, you have one hour. I bring my Latin American friends and they’re like, ‘This is techno, I don’t like it.’ And vice versa.’” MITCH LILLIE. SEE IT: Gran Ritmos One Year Anniversary, with Coast2C, Chancha Via Circuito, Verano Peligroso, Sameros and DJ Michael Bruce, is at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., on Friday, Aug. 7. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Son Lux, founded by New York’s Ryan Lott, began as a solo exploration of the jagged, icy line between the strange and the familiar, in which sonic structures supplant the conventions of pop form. Over the last eight years, though, the name has taken on myriad meanings, just as the work has subsumed sounds and collaborators. Now, Son Lux is a band. A trio, to be exact; one that has meticulously woven together dizzying percussion, fraying guitar, symphonic bluster, and haunting vocals into a quaking and vivid post-pop (post-everything) burst called Bones. The fourth Son Lux LP combines all of the architectural precision and aural inventiveness we’ve come to expect, with more immediacy and melody than ever.

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Alchemy NW House Showcase: RP Boo, Ghost Feet, Natural Rhythm

[FINGERS, BASS, PAD] The godfather of footwork, RP Boo, returns to Portland for the Northwest House Conference’s top-billed show. Fresh off his second release for the U.K. bass label Planet Mu, titled Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints, Boo’s music helped kick off an innercity movement within Chicago that brought people in off the streets to impromptu clubs, where crews would square off in high-paced battles to bring strangers together in the name of rhythm. Living in relative obscurity and happy to let others take the shine until recently, Boo returns to the stage with an allvinyl set, soundtracking the footwork legacy from the past to the present. With local support from downtempo guitar and synthdriven duo Ghost Feet, this showcase unites generations of house artists to show the many permutations of the classic beat. WYATT SCHAFFNER. Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 432-8079. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

Jason Isbell

[AMERICANA] With 2013’s Southeastern, Jason Isbell perched himself on the stool labeled “Best Roots Songwriter Currently Working” as if it’d been custombuilt for his butt, and new release Something More Than Free shows he’s not getting up soon. Witness the depth and economy of this imagistic verse from “Children from Children”: “I was riding my mother’s hip/She was shorter than the corn/ And all the years I took from her/ Just by being born.” There’s something on Something for fans of both Brad Paisley and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. The world in which this is the best-selling country album it deserves to be is a better one than ours. JEFF ROSENBERG. Arlene Schnitzner Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $27.50$37.50. All ages.

Benjamin Booker

[THE NEW BLUES] “I would listen to the radio/If I liked songs produced by 40-year-olds in high-tech studios,” spouts Benjamin Booker midway through his tumultuous, self-titled debut, a voice that sounds like it’s coated in battery acid. It’s a telling statement given the kind of music the 26-year-old has been cranking out, combining the frenzied guitar of Chuck Berry with the kind of garage rock the White Stripes first dished out during the early aughts. His nimble backing band gives it dance-floor boogie, while his quick-hit solos and ace lyricism—see “Slow Coming” and lead single “Violent Shiver”—place him at the forefront of modern-day guitarslingers. BRANDON WIDDER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Verified: Astronomar, Gang$ign$, Ben Tactic, SPF666, Quarry

[CATCHALL ELECTRONICA] Main Course founder Astronomar continues to push the envelope and claw at the walls of genre. In his freshly released Magic Potion EP, Astronomar feeds the festival-trap fire he’s known for with “How We Live”; goes on a space exploration worthy of an experimental German release on “Earth Tones”; makes “Silver” quack in the club; and wraps with an industrial-tinged “Starekase.” It’s the sort of music that’s easy for writers to throw an EDM label on and call it a day, but also the kind that deserves description worthy of the music. MITCH LILLIE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

The Kills, Baby in Vain

[METAL MACHINE MUSIC] Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart’s side projects each have celebrity status to garner attention, but the Kills has always been the rawest, most

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CHICANO BATMAN THURSDAY, AUG. 6 Earlier this year, fans arriving early to dates on Jack White’s Lazaretto tour were met with a sight few were prepared for—four brown dudes in ruffled tuxedo shirts, jamming out a psychedelic melange of Latin rhythms and, most outlandishly, singing in Spanish. To make things stranger, the band called itself Chicano Batman. It was too much for some to process. The Austin Chronicle snickered at the musicians’ “laughable haircuts” and dismissed their set as something out of a “bad high school dance.” Others just couldn’t get past the language barrier. “Their musical talent was decent, but the fact that the majority of their songs are Spanish really turned me off,” wrote one blogger. Bassist Eduardo Arenas didn’t register the confused faces in White’s audience—he doesn’t wear his glasses onstage—and says the reaction, overall, was positive. But if a portion of the crowd was rankled by the presence of him and his bandmates, he thinks he knows why. “In any society, it’s hard to see the inferior class come up on a level where white people are dominating,” he says. “If people have a bad reaction to it or anything, it’s nothing to do with the music at all. It’s everything to do with the way we look, the language we speak, our drummer’s mullet. These are very shallow things, and they reflect the state of a certain class and a certain people—the abrasiveness of accepting.” Arenas, though, acknowledges an alternative theory: Perhaps the band is just too idiosyncratic for its own good. Formed in Los Angeles in 2008, the music of Chicano Batman is an unabashed reflection of the city that raised it. Playing Afro-Colombian grooves with a soulful smoothness absorbed via L.A. legend Art Laboe’s classic oldies radio show and dosing it with the surreal culture-jamming of the Brazilian Tropicália movement of the 1960s, it’s a band that could have only happened in L.A.—and it’s possible that L.A. is the only place where it’ll be fully understood. But then, infiltrating spaces where it wouldn’t normally be invited is the crux of the Chicano Batman concept. Singer Bardo Martinez came up with the idea while going to high school near Orange County, where he was one of a few Latinos in a mostly white, middle-class area. Though not explicitly political, the band understands that it’s playing for people much like Martinez, who are growing up feeling powerless. While the ’70s prom outfits it wears onstage are an homage to Latin American pop groups of the era, the logo it splashes across its shirts—giving the United Farm Workers’ iconic Aztec eagle symbol the Dark Knight treatment—is worthy of a superhero’s chest. “It’s a mechanism for empowerment,” Arenas says. That sense of empowerment has followed the band to the stage, and it’s starting to pay off: In addition to the Jack White gigs, the band played Coachella in April, and is opening shows for Alabama Shakes this month. But Arenas doesn’t need those career markers to know things are going well. For him, the proof is in the performance. And a few negative reviews aren’t going to rattle his confidence. “I don’t need anyone to tell me I had fun,” he says. MATTHEW SINGER. they’ll save the world—and then they’ll take you to the prom.

SEE IT: Chicano Batman plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with DoveDriver and Trujillo, on Thursday, Aug. 6. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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La Luz, Will Sprott

[SURF NOIR] Imagine Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino holed up with a pile of Dick Dale records in lieu of Fleetwood Mac before writing The Only Place and you’d be in the ballpark of what makes Seattle’s La Luz such a ridiculously fun band to watch. Between its serene girlgroup harmonies and its absolutely sincere appreciation for the surfrock greats, you’d have a tough time ﬁnding a more exciting approximation of the baby-boomer generation’s two most perennially hip contributions to every youngster with a Fender Jazzmaster’s rock-’n’roll canon. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

out, crooning Brubeck’s lovely cowritten melodies with a cool, ﬂoating wisp, where her words touch ground with just enough time to leap back up again. PARKER HALL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 6. $18 general admission, $20 reserved seating. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm.

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[ELECTRO-CLASSICAL] ARCOPDX deploys rock-’n’-roll ampliﬁcation, lighting eﬀects and a visceral, dramatic approach to bring the excitement of a rock show to classical music. This time, the electrifying chamber ensemble—featuring violins, cello, keyboard, viola and bass, all played by veterans of local chamber groups and orchestras—plays 20th- and 21st-cen-

tury music by longtime Oregonian Ernest Bloch, West Coast ultramodernist and world-music pioneer Henry Cowell, contemporary Estonian master Arvo Pärt, Dmitri Shostakovich and Polish composer Henryk Gorecki. The show also features a U.S. premiere by Russian composer Andrei Eshpai and opening “robo-trumpeter” John Berendzen. BRETT CAMPBELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm Sunday, Aug. 9. Suggested donation is your hourly wage. 21+.

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menacing work that either produces. It’s been four years since Blood Pressures saw the duo expand its drum-machine backbeat and Stooges-like abrasiveness to something a little easier to swallow. With the Dead Weather, Mosshart’s other endeavor, releasing a new album soon, these live dates hopefully are a sign of forthcoming action from the Kills compound. CRIS LANKENAU. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. $25. All ages.

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MONDAY, AUG. 10 Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix

[POP] There’s a comforting sameness among successful American Idol alumni: They go by their full names, smile and make direct eye contact on their album covers, and are inviting but not overly libidinal, and their music samples freely from the safest instincts of every genre. Kelly Clarkson’s 2003 debut, Thankful, is the prototypical American Idol record, and listening back, it’s a nice vocal showcase, featuring mostly gospel-informed pop tunes with no particular urgency or direction. As the Idol era comes to a close, though, midcareer Clarkson has struck a curious balance of Songbird Next Door and Global Superstar Bad-Bitch. Seems like a great time to see her live. CASEY JARMAN. Moda Center, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 7 pm. $28.50-$114. All ages.

TUESDAY, AUG. 11 Royal Headache, Western Plaza, Fireballs of Freedom

[PUNK SOUL] Royal Headache frontman Shogun has been making noise about a breakup for over a year now, so this might be Portland’s last chance to experience one the world’s greatest rock-’n’-roll bands. The Australian quartet’s new album, High, doesn’t quite match the frontto-back majesty of its self-titled predecessor, but Royal Headache’s winning formula—imagine the Undertones and Rod Stewart joining forces at their respective peaks— still yields magniﬁcent and deeply moving results. Shogun’s ragged croon is a tough and tender wonder that could quicken hearts with a rendition of the phone book, which means at least one member of this band will do just ﬁne on his own. But still: Please say it ain’t so, guys. CHRIS STAMM. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $12. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Karla Harris

[LOCAL VOCALS] The stage at Portland’s best jazz club is not a foreign place for pillowy-soft vocalist Karla Harris, but tonight’s the ﬁrst time she gets her own name up in lights. The longtime member of local legend Bobby Torres’ live ensemble celebrates her own musical release and ﬁrst headlining gig. The record, Karla Harris Sings the Dave and Iola Brubeck Songbook, is a set of songs that allows Harris to stretch

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While most kids in Middle America grew up being shuttled between sports practices and shopping malls and back again, McCoy Kirgo had a radically different experience. The product of musician parents in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, Kirgo, 22, was essentially born into the kind of bubble most 20-somethings with artistic aspirations could only dream of. Rather than being reared on pop radio and football, Kirgo spent his youth at alternative schools with the quintessential California heavyweights of the early ’70s soundtracking his formative years. How else would he have landed on the slinky, swirling sounds that make the retro psych of his group, Talk in Tongues, so readily accessible? The flashes of brilliance that make the band’s debut LP, Alone With a Friend, such a worthy addition to the playlists of anyone with a taste for flower-powered alt-rock are far bigger than current fads—they’re the product of talented kids whose very idea of “alternative” is what us normies consider “everyday life.” PETE COTTELL. WW: What was the first thing you recall listening to that made you think, “Wow, this is really different,” or that it was something you would add to your repertoire? McCoy Kirgo: For some time, maybe the age of 17 to 20, I was in this phase where I didn’t think any good modern music was being made. I think we all go through that rebellious, “this is what I like and everything else is bullshit” phase. I would listen to a lot of Buffalo Springfield and the Dead and all these late-’60s, early-’70s bands that put out their best albums right around then. Crosby Stills & Nash was another big one because I really liked three-part harmonies. The first time I heard them and the way they could harmonize with one another, I was like, “Ooh, that’s nice, I want to do that for sure.” But then I grew out of that and started wanting to make more experimental music that younger and older people of today would appreciate. I really fell in love with synthesizers and wanted to use those in my music. I wanted to be able to play with bands that I looked up to that are putting out new albums today. I don’t really know what it was, but one day it was a switch where I realized it was a fantasy thinking nothing good was happening today. There’s a lot of great music coming out. SEE IT: Talk in Tongues plays MusicfestNW at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Saturday, Aug. 22. Go to musicfestnw.com for tickets. See wweek.com for an extended Q&A. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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LAST WEEK LIVE

[AUG. 5-11] Hand-eye Supply

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

Holocene

Crystal Ballroom

Jimmy Mak’s

dante’s

427 NW Broadway Hand-Eye Birthday Bash 1001 SE Morrison St. Bike Thief, Foxy Lemon, Melville

W W S TA f f

221 NW 10th Ave. Karla Harris

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

Kruger’s Farm

17100 NW Sauvie Island Road Farm Tunes Summer Concerts

Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Rusty Cleavers, Country Trash (9 pm); Lewi Longmire & The Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons

Oregon Convention Center 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd Liz Vice

Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Northwest House Music Conference 2015

Pub at the end of the universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Thursday Night Community Jam

DUST HAPPENS: In many ways, Pickathon shouldn’t be called a “music festival.” Its ambitions are too humble, the setting too serene, the aftermath too clean for it to deserve that kind of slander. That said, leaving the woods surrounding Pendarvis Farm this year, it certainly felt like I’d been at a music festival. As with Project Pabst last month, the uncharacteristic heat intensified the exhaustion of spending three straight days outdoors, watching bands until the wee hours of the morning. The organizers did their best to mitigate such discomfort—again, more than most festivals—but, as I overheard one very zen camper say, “Dust happens.” It’s enough to make a veteran attendee wonder if it’s still worth the hassle. But then you see saxophonist Kamasi Washington rule the main stage with a set of funky, cosmic jazz. You trudge into the forest and see Ty Segall and King Tuff kick out fun, furious garage rock among the trees. You limp to the muggy Galaxy Barn, whose A/C is either ineffective or not working, and sweat as boyishly charismatic soul singer Leon Bridges blossoms into a full-fledged star. Then, after crawling to your car, you look at your sun-scorched, dust-caked limbs, knowing you’ll be back. The rare pleasures of Pickathon do not come easy. But true moments of musical transcendence never do. MATTHEW SINGER. See our full Pickathon report at wweek.com/lastweeklive. Wed. Aug. 5 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

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

Crown Park

NE 15th Ave and Everett St. Portland Soul All-Stars

Crystal Ballroom 1332 W. Burnside James Bay

doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Metz, Big Ups, Dilly Dally

duff’s garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Blues Jam, Arthur Moore

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Toadies, Fuel, Vendetta Red

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Haunted Summer, Foxtails Brigade, Adventure Galley, Charts

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. Los Dos

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Tony Pacini Band

Kelly’s Olympian

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

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Whiskey Wednesday

Laurel Thirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St. Castletown, Jennifer Smeja (9 pm); Wilkinson Blades, Monica Nelson & The Highgates (6 pm)

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave Father, Slug Christ

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. The Brothers Gow

The Lodge Bar & grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Pete Ford Band Jam

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. Emmet Cahill

Trail’s end Saloon 1320 Main Street Big Monti

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Anthem International Music Festival

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

World Forestry Center 4033 S.W. Canyon Road Days for Girls Benefit

THuRS. Aug. 6 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Raina Rose & Hunter Paye

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Amanda X, the Spirit of the Beehive, Is/Is

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

Classic Pianos

3003 SE Milwaukie Ave Cadence Festival of the Unknown

Coolidge-McClaine City Park 300 Coolidge St. Lloyd Jones

Corkscrew

1665 SE Bybee Ave. Live Jazz

Crown Park

NE 15th Ave and Everett St. 234th Army Band

dante’s

350 W Burnside St Mariachi El Bronx, Sean & Zander, El Diablitos, Don & the Quixotes

doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Chicano Batman, Dovedriver, Trujillo

duff’s garage

Raleigh Park

3500 SW 78th Ave. Petty Fever, Concert & Theater in the Park Series

Solae’s Lounge

1801 NE Alberta St David Friesen Quintet

The Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. The Wherewithals, Oaks, Solipsis

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Zig Zags

The Lodge Bar & grill 6605 SE Powell Blvd. Ben Rice B3 Trio

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Jacob Miller & The Bridge City Crooners, Baby & The Pearl Blowers

The Tea Zone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. InTown Jazz

Trail’s end Saloon

1320 Main Street American Roots Jam

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Cornmeal, Water Tower

FRi. Aug. 7 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

Aladdin Theater

doug Fir Lounge

830 East Burnside Street Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long

duff’s garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Michele D’Amour, Ventilators

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Ave. Portland Psych Fest: SummerDaze, The Reverberations, Julia Dream, Jackson Boone, The Verner Pattons, Shy Seasons

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Portland Psych Fest 2015

Jade Lounge

2342 SE Ankeny St. The Great American Songbook Celebration

Billy Bob’s Sports Bar

3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse 333 N Main Ave A Thousand Horses, Levi Hummon

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Flamingay

Kells Brewpub

Wonder Ballroom

Kelly’s Olympian

836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band 128 NE Russell St. The Vaccines

SAT. Aug. 8 Al’s den

303 SW 12th Ave. Rob Johnston

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jason Isbell

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Astro Tan, LiquidLight, King Friday

Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Wednesday 13, Holy Grail, Death Division

Analog Cafe & Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Alchemy NW House Showcase: RP Boo, Ghost Feet, Natural Rhythm

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Ave Jason Isbell, Damien Jurado

Ash Street Saloon

Jimmy Mak’s

Kells Brewpub

Bella Organic

221 NW 10th Ave. Groove Theory Mixshow 210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Breaker Breaker, The Exacerbators

McMenamins edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St. Alabama Shakes, Blake Mills

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Screaming Females, Vacation, Divers

Portland expo Center 2060 N Marine Dr. Vans Warped Tour 2015

Portland Spirit Salmon Street dock SW Salmon Street And SW Naito Friday Early Escape Summer Concert Series

Saithong Thai Fusion 710 SW 2nd Ave Where’s Danny Band

Slim’s

8635 N Lombard St The Wherewithals w/ PS-AX and The Charlie Darwins

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. A Stand Against Trafficking

The Buffalo gap

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Plastic Shadow

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Cunning Wolves, CITYPOOLS

The Know

The Secret Society

3000 NE Alberta St. Renee Madsen Terrill

White eagle Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Fogatron Benefit: Acoustic Minds, Mic Crenshaw, Eminent, DJ Spark

Alberta Rose Theatre

eastBurn

721 NW 9th Ave Sundown Concert

350 West Burnside Dookie Jam: Tony Ozier and the Doo Doo Funk Allstars

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. David Bromberg Quintet

Artichoke Music

ecotrust

1332 W. Burnside Shawn Mendes, Jacquie Lee

2026 NE Alberta St. Woolworm, Northern Youth, Neighbor Wave

2530 NE 82nd Ave Honey Bee Jackson, Tough Love Pyle 1800 E Burnside St. Eat Off Your Banjo!, Dinner and Live Music

5501 SE 72nd Ave. Live Music

16205 NW Gillihan Rd Kathy Boyd & Phoenix Rising

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Infinite Vision: Friend Within, Ben Pearce, Drexler, Mikey Mars

Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Live Music

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite

Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church

2828 SE Stephens Street Alternate Destination

Crystal Ballroom 1332 W. Burnside George Ezra

dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Delta Saints

2958 NE Glisan St. Ben Larsen (9:30 pm); Kris Deelane & The Hurt (6 pm)

Milo Mciver State Park 24101 S. Entrance Rd. Exploring Vortex I: Music in the Park

Ne Alberta Street

Between NE 11th and 30th Avenues The Alberta Street Fair

Oregon Zoo Amphitheater

4001 SW Canyon Rd Ziggy Marley

Panic Room

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Georgetown Orbits, Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, DJ Sole

Portland Community Music Center 3350 SE Francis St Eric Skye And Mark Goldenberg Album Release Show

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. The Kills, Baby in Vain

Scappoose Airpark Skyway Drive Wings & Wheels

St Joseph Winery

28836 South Barlow Road Scrub Run

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Avenue Portland Psych Fest: The Upsidedown, HiHazel, Dorotheo, Paradise

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Anita Margarita and The Here and There Band

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. Drunken Prayer, Fernando, Mcdougall

Torta-Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Live Music

Trail’s end Saloon

1320 Main Street Yellow Taxi, One Year Anniversary Party

Wonder Ballroom

doug Fir Lounge

Al’s den

duff’s garage

Blue diamond

8371 N Interstate Ave. Back Fence PDX: Russian Roulette 830 East Burnside Street Benjamin Booker 2530 NE 82nd Ave Ken Derouchie Band

Hawthorne Theatre

SuN. Aug. 9 303 SW 12th Ave. Lucas Hicks 2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Kevin Selfe and the Tornadoes Jam Session

1507 SE 39th Ave. Strictly Platonic, Over Alders

Cadigan’s Corner Bar

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

1503 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd. Strictly Platonic, Over Alders

Jade Lounge

Torta-Landia

221 NW 10th Ave. Mike Phillips

1320 Main Street The Stevens Hess Band

Laurel Thirst Public House

128 NE Russell St. La Luz, Will Sprott

2342 SE Ankeny St. Joseph Waya, Benny Gilberts, Will St John, Jack Maybe, Farrie

Trail’s end Saloon

426 SW Washington St. Cody Raymond, The Fix

disjecta-Contemporary Art Center

116 NE Russell St. Alejandro and Maria Laura, Luzelena Mendoza, Del Phoena, Pink Lady & John Bennett Jazz Band 4144 SE 60th Ave. Live Music

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Live

5501 SE 72nd Ave. Blues Jam

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Community Music Center

3350 SE Francis St. Summer Nights: Musical Cabaret

Corkscrew

Jimmy Mak’s

1665 SE Bybee Ave. Live Music

Kells

1332 W. Burnside D’Angelo and the Vanguard

112 SW 2nd Ave. Pipes & Drums

Crystal Ballroom

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MUSIC CALENDAR Doug Fir Lounge 830 East Burnside Street Eagle Rock Gospel Singers

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. ARCO-PDX

aug. 5–11

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Smokes

MOn. Aug. 10 Al’s Den

Jade Lounge

303 SW 12th Ave. Lucas Hicks

Kells

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Hot Tea Cold

Kelly’s Olympian

1665 SE Bybee Ave. Open Mic

2342 SE Ankeny St. Buddy Jay Kiefer 112 SW 2nd Ave. Traditional Irish Music

Blue Diamond

Corkscrew

426 SW Washington St. Jackson Boone, Red Francis, Arlo Indigo

Director Park

Laurel Thirst Public House

Hawthorne Theatre

2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers (9 pm); Pagan Jug Band (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St. Wilco, Speedy Ortiz

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Soak

Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Open Mic

Rontoms

600 E. Burnside St. Sunday Sessions

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Rise Against & Killswitch Engage, Letlive

St. Josef’s Winery 18836 S Barlow Rd Syrah & Salsa

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Portland Psych Fest: Daydream Machine, Still Caves, Slow White

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Open Mic

The Muddy Rudder Public House

815 SW Park Ave Monday Soundscapes 1507 SE 39th Ave. Phora

Jimmy Mak’s

TuES. Aug. 11 Al’s Den

303 SW 12th Ave. Lucas Hicks

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Leon Russell

Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room, Jeff Rosenstock, Spraynard, Pet Symmetry

Blue Diamond

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

Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Soul Provider, Naomi T

Crystal Ballroom

221 NW 10th Ave. Steve Turre

1332 W. Burnside Milky Chance, X Ambassadors

Kelly’s Olympian

Duff’s garage

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

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lust For Youth, Soft Metals

Mittleman Jewish Community Center

6651 SW Capitol Hwy Musical Learning and Lunch

Moda Center

1 N. Center Ct. Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave Days N Daze, Night Gaunts, Ether Circus, Rachel Miles

Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Med Monday

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St, #110 Witches’ Night Off’

2530 NE 82nd Ave Chris Carlson Experience

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE 39th Ave. Wolf Alice

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Royal Headache, Western Plaza, Fireballs of Freedom

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

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave KC Roberts & The Live Revolution

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

The goodFoot Lounge

The Lehrer

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

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

8 NE Killiingsworth St Bone & Bell, Dr. Something and Shoeshine Blue

The Know

White Eagle Saloon

The Muddy Rudder Public House

8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

Turn! Turn! Turn!

836 N Russell St. Three for Silver, One Zero Street, Delta Halos

8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

co u r t e sy o f pa n ac h e b o o k i n g

836 N Russell St. Rob Johnston

2026 NE Alberta St. Ice Cream, The Zags and Mr. Bones

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BAR REVIEW

Where to drink this week. 1. Bit House Saloon

727 SE Grand Ave., 729-9929. The new Bit House boasts an all-star cast of Portland cocktail artists, a full card of tap cocktails, barrelaged beer, Black Butte Porter on nitro and a sturdy collection of sherries, including a house blend that tastes like toﬀee. If that all sounds too classy, there are also Rocky Mountain oysters. Order carefully.

2. Shift Drinks

1200 SW Morrison St., 922-3933, shiftdrinkspdx.com. Get 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. Lightning Will

305 NW 21st Ave., 327-8203, lightningwill.com. The atmosphere at the former Blitz 21 is nothing to speak of—the alwaysopen foosball and shuﬄeboard table in the rear game room notwithstanding—but at happy hour you can wander in for one hell of a $7 burger, not to mention a duck pho soup called, tastefully, “ph*ck.”

5. Montavilla Brew Works

7805 SE Stark St., 954-3440, montavillabrew.com. Montavilla’s sole brewpub—in an otherwise beerheavy neighborhood—has been ages in the making. But as of two weeks ago, it’s ﬁnally here, serving up a range of accessible styles in a concrete bunker with a patio and tables: a blonde, an IPA, a red, a Pilsner.

CHRONIC CASE OF THE MONDAYS: Analog Cafe & Theater (720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 206-7439, analogpdx.com) has long been an afterthought in lower Hawthorne’s utilitarian zone. But for a certain scene—it’s owned and operated by members of the band Smoochknob, which sounds like a band called Smoochknob should—the downstairs lounge and upstairs performance venue nonetheless foster a dark-lit, leather-strewn malleability appropriate for a wide range of entertainments. One night, an alt-circus sideshow. The next, garage bands. This has seeded a very particular demographic, which you might call “models-to-hesher.” There is therefore no better place to give away free marijuana on Monday night in our new era of legalization. So the Analog now hosts Marijuana Monday—a weekly night devoted to burlesque, political theater with Fight Church Television, and handing out free weed. Judging from the hordes pushing endlessly to the front of Medible Edibles’ display booth, you could never say pot dulls motivation. The crowds had a single-minded purpose that outdid any young brides flooding a white sale. Much of the wait came from the availability of options on hand: Lucky clubgoers could take their choice of chocolate-chip cookies, a pumpkin spice muffin, or just under a gram of smokable weed. Starting Aug. 3, the Analog had planned to hand out tickets to prevent the shoves and double-dipping. Meanwhile, raffle winners could score flower listed at a whopping 31.38 percent THC. As curious shoppers ignored the pressure of elbows against spinal cords, the performers of burlesque showcase Gothique Blend did their best to distract onlookers toward the stage. Just around the corner from the entrance, near the smokers outside— tobacco only because smoking greenery is prohibited on the premises— ancillary merch tables hawked trippy posters, and a small kiosk set up by Vancouver’s the Herbery offered whiffs of its strains. But interest seemed scant once potential patrons realized that only the smells were free. At this particular event, there was little need to whet the appetite. JAY HORTON.

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Death Trip with DJ Tobias

SAT. AUG. 8 WED. AUG. 5 Plews Brews

8409 N. Lombard St. Wiggle Room

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Event Horizon, Industrial Dance Night

THURS. AUG. 6 Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Teklife Showcase: DJ Earl, DJ Taye, Taso

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Shadowplay

FRI. AUG. 7 Holocene

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison St. ABC DJs

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Verified: Astronomar, Gang$ign$, Ben Tactic, SPF666, Quarry

1001 SE Morrison St. Gran Ritmos 1 Year Anniversary: Chancha via Circuito, Verano Peligroso, Coast2C

Mississippi Studios

Moloko Plus

3967 N Mississippi Ave. DJ Cuica

3967 N Mississippi Ave. HEW Francisco

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. Presents Queen, DJ Beyonda, Ill Camino

Portland Spirit Salmon Street Dock

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

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Volt Divers Synth Party

MON. AUG. 10 Cadigan’s Corner Bar 5501 SE 72nd Ave. Fight Church TV, Jessie

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Departures, DJ Waisted and Friends

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Revised

Like SparkNotes on Adderall, this Complete Works consolidates all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays into 97 minutes. This is Post5’s fourth-annual production of the three-actor Bard overdose from Shakespeare shorthand specialists Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. First performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987 and then at London’s Criterion Theatre, Post5’s courtyard performance features returning stars from previous runs, including Post5 star Ty Boice. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm TuesdayThursday and 10:30 pm Saturday, Aug. 11-13 and 15. Pay what you can.

Dear Galileo

Three women from three different eras ponder science, space and daddy issues in this premiere of Playwrights West writer Claire Willett’s 2012 Fertile Ground feature. In modern day Texas, the 10-year-old daughter of a creationist TV pundit finds a passion for science and pens diary entries to Galileo. In 1990s Arizona, a New York sculptor copes with the absence of her astrophysicist father. And in Renaissance Italy, Celeste Galilei cares for her elderly father Galileo, who lives under house arrest for defying the Catholic Inquisition. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, through Aug. 29. $15-$25.

The Mystery Box Show

Brave souls tell tales of their sexual escapades with The Moth-style radio panache. The lineup runs the gamut from strange fetishes to titillating fantasies to just plain awkward. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm Saturday. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

No, No, No, Pinocchio

The Olde World Puppet Theatre has decorated shop windows at Tiffany & Co. in San Francisco with its marionettes and has designed puppets for Disney World’s stage production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Now the company performs its own version of Pinocchio, with jeweled marionettes and music by 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Poke around after the show—it’s unlikely you’ve ever seen more bedazzled puppet memorabilia in one place. Ping Pong’s Pint Size Puppet Museum, 906 SE Umatilla St., 233-7723. 2 pm Saturday, 4 pm Sunday through Aug. 16. No show Saturday, Aug. 15. $8.

Oklahoma!

When Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943, it didn’t shut down for 15 years and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances. The musical takes place in Oklahoma territory in 1906 and tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. The Pulitzer Prize hit was the first collaboration by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, the pair behind The Sound of Music and The King and I. For Broadway Rose’s production, founder Sharon Maroney directs Jared Q. Miller and Dru Rutledge as the leading lovers in roles they’ve each played before. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, through Aug. 23. $20-$46.

Wicked

Yet again, the “untold” story of Oz blows into the Keller. Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Tony

Award-winning musical sings the tale of a jealous rivalry between two witch frenemies who dominated Oz long before a little weather dumped Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road. Southern California actress Emma Hunton plays Elphaba, the greenskinned Wicked Witch of the West, and Chandra Lee Schwartz—who’s been touring with High School Musical and Hairspray—plays Glinda, the blonde Good Witch. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 1 pm Sunday, through Aug. 23. $41.

Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 841-6734. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 29. $16-$20.

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 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.,

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REVIEW ANNA CAMPBELL

PERFORMANCE

NEW REVIEWS How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Clackamas Repertory makes it look easy. Following the seven-time Tony Award- and Pulitzer-winning musical’s titular advice, this Oregon City production sticks to Broadway’s formula for success—showy song-and-dance acts and toothy grins. It shouldn’t be any other way. Handsome and brighteyed, local acting and voice teacher Jameson Tabor fits perfectly in the role of ambitious mailroom staffer J. Pierrepont Finch, who works his way up to becoming chairman of the board. Ex-Disney cruise-ship performer Cassi Q. Kohl plays Finch’s love interest, the secretary Rosemary, who dreams of wearing a “wifely uniform” someday. Both play their parts with giant smiles and the absurd amounts of vigor that Broadway, and Clackamas, demands. YouTube vlogger Teresa Renee stands out in the role of Hedy, the sassy and busty pin-up mistress to the company president, and the entire cast holds its own vocally even with live orchestra accompaniment. While the doeeyed secretaries will make feminists gag and the toothy grins are bound to deter edgy artists, Clackamas’ How to succeeds in the business of Broadway musicals. ALLIE DONAHUE. Clackamas Repertory Theatre, 19600 Molalla Ave., Oregon City, 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday through Aug. 23. $35.

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 gender-swapping 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 and a gender swap to the serial blog. On Aug. 13-15 the leads playing Dr. Horrible and Penny switch roles.

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TIME, A FAIR HUSTLER HAND2MOUTH’S REIMAGINING IS A RARE CINE-STAGE WONDER. You’d be forgiven for gagging at the mention of “Van Sant” given Portland’s recent binge on the director’s work. The Essential Gus Van Sant series ran at the Northwest Film Center from April to June, when the Clinton Street Theater picked up the baton with a 30-year retrospective that’s still rolling along. Pretend you’re a Van Sant virgin and go see Time, a Fair Hustler. It’ll wake you up like the first time you watched River Phoenix hallucinate a house falling from the sky while he cums for a few bucks in the opening minutes of My Own Private Idaho. After a seemingly endless road to the Artists Repertory stage, Jonathan Walters’ Hand2Mouth production achieves something rare on any stage: a genre-hybrid performance where the characters writhe together in jazzy choreography, the original score undulates appropriately like in a well-edited film, and lighting tricks like an illuminating Pepsi machine make the set resemble a live art installation. Walters put in hundreds of hours transcribing the film, reminiscing with longtime Portlanders and interviewing the “real” Mike and Scott to make this a memorable funeral for old Portland, as Hand2Mouth executive director Jen Mitas dubs it. Time fast-forwards 25 years from Idaho to imagine a Portland where the hustler Gary (Jason Rouse) works at New Seasons on Division Street and gets excited about his new weed whacker, Bob (Jean-Luc Boucherot) still dumpster-dives for bread, and the prodigal son Mike (Hand2Mouth’s Julie Hammond)

is now the mayor. It’s “a memorial to a lost city,” said Mitas, and a conversation with the audience about Portland then and now. The house lights stay on as the first act starts and Hans (Anne Sorce) peacocks onto the set of a present-day Portland courtroom. He wears a white suit and black turtleneck, takes a seat downstage to testify, and starts eye-fucking the audience and explaining in a voice like Schwarzenegger that performance is “a relationship, ja.” Like this sleazy German and the gay prostitution ring of 1990s Portland that Van Sant mined in Idaho, Hand2Mouth’s reinterpretation is dirty, intimate and splendid. Though the play is mostly scenes from the movie re-enacted as flashbacks, this is no stage version of the film. Rather, Hand2Mouth riffs on Idaho like a live-action revival screening where the main character is sitting next to you, whispering production secrets in your ear. Tired scenes get a second life. New York actress Erika Latta beautifully saunters onto the set as Scott, wearing the iconic leather jacket with an ease to rival Keanu Reeves, and Hammond captures all the sniffling vulnerability of River Phoenix’s Mike. As each modern character begins testifying about the “beautiful boys,” Mike and Scott replay their entrances. “We’re friends right? Good friends. And that’s good,” they banter again and again. Replaying lines and scenes straight from the film makes it seem like the stagehands are holding a real-life remote, and pressing “rewind.” It’s like rewatching your favorite film. Portland does this often. Hand2Mouth does it well. ENID SPITZ. See IT: Time, a Fair Hustler is at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., hand2mouththeatre. org. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Aug. 16. $25-$30. Willamette Week AUGUST 5, 2015 wweek.com

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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, see The Merry Wives of Windsor, where two married women receive identical love letters from the same suitor and join forces to embarrass him in front of the whole town. The show is one of 12 that OPS is staging this summer in parks in and around Portland. Multiple venues. Marylhurst University: 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 8. Lents Park: 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 9. Free.

next round of competition. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:30 pm every Friday and Saturday. $12-$15.

Earthquake Hurricane

You’ll be rolling in laughter for this megaquake of a performance. Featuring the 2014 champion of the Seattle International Comedy Competition Nathan Brannon, Helium’s Funniest Person Contest competitor Milan Patel, and weekly co-host of one of the city of Austin’s most popular standup events, A Sure Thing, Brendan K. O’Grady. Prepare for the aftershocks because this showcase will have you thankful you brought your preparedness kit. Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 922-2012. 9 pm Wednesday, Aug. 5. $5 suggested donation.

Fly Ass Jokes

Five comics from Portland and beyond perform at this twicemonthly standup showcase, one of the more consistent comedy nights in town. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 10 pm Friday, Aug. 7. $8.

Free Verse

Forget any stodginess you might associate with poetry readings. For this collaborative show, local poets bring new material to read aloud, which the Brody’s performers than transform into improvised sketches. In the second half of the evening, the poets craft new work based on improv scenes. Bam! Art. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturday, Aug. 8. $12.

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Play time isn’t just for kids any more—look no farther than the Google oﬃces for proof. Taking a nostalgic romp back to playground days, Artists Rep mainstay John San Nicolas directs Fertile Ground veteran D.C. Copeland’s world premiere about the magic of imagination. The absurdist comedy is a play within a play, populated by a large cast and narrated throughout by the God-like voice of Nicolas. Much like recess, Copeland seems to throw everything in and give it a good shake: unexpected pregnancies, stagehands on stage and imaginary friends. Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant Ave., 235-0635. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday through Aug. 8. $10.

Ten Minute Play Festival

Ten local playwrights debut 10-minute plays—this time with the theme of “Taboo”—in this recurring festival from Portland community theater company Monkey with a Hat On. Last time, founder Ollie Collins curated a circus-themed lineup of conjoined-twin love stories and bearded ladies. The rules this time are the same: 10 minutes, anything goes. Clinton Street Theater , 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 pm Friday-Sunday. $5.

The Venetian Twins

Identity confusion with twins is nothing new, it’s circa 1747, in fact, in Carlo Goldoni’s Italian comedy. Local outdoor commedia dell’arte group Masque Alfresco gives it a modern spin and some fresh air. George Rogers Park becomes Verona, where separated twin brothers Zanetto and Tonino both take a trip to Verona and accidentally swap girlfriends. Servants—as usual—set things straight, with plenty of smart-aleck quips along the way. George Rogers Park, 611 State St. 7 pm FridaysSundays through Aug. 9. Free.

COMEDY & VARIETY Arsenio Hall

Known for his popular late-night talk show in the ‘90s, The Arsenio Hall Show, Hall is gracing the Helium stage with his sharp-tongue and provocative jokes. Though his talk show’s revival hit a bump and ran only one year, Hall staked his claim in ﬁlms, including Coming to America and Harlem Nights. We know he’s smart enough to win NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, but we’ll let him stick to comedy for the night. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm, FridaySaturday, Aug. 6-8. $27-$35. 21+.

Curious Comedy Open Mic

Curious hosts a weekly open-mic night. Sign-ups begin at 7:15, and comics get three minutes of stage time apiece. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every Sunday. Free.

Curious Comedy Showdown

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OTHER-WORLDLY: Bollywood dancers at Galaxy Festival.

GALAXY FESTIVAL AIMS HIGH Robert Guitron is the first to admit that he started Galaxy Dance Festival for selfish reasons. “I find myself so stuck in my own little fishbowl while working with my people,” says Guitron, artistic director and co-founder of Polaris Dance Company, with a laugh. “I hardly have time to get out and see what my friends are doing and what else is happening. There’s a lot.” To get out of that “fishbowl,” Guitron co-founded Galaxy Dance Festival in 2011. Originally a two-day event with dance groups and instructors offering free performances and classes, this year’s festival has grown to three days in Director Park and a week of classes at Polaris’s temporary space on Southeast 9th Avenue and Ankeny Street. “When people ask Portlanders to name dance companies, they mention the ballet,” Guitron says. “And I’m like, wow, there’s so much more.” Deeming it a “petri dish” of Portland’s dance world, he sources companies like Polaris, Pendulum Aerial Arts, PDX Dance Collective, and the Circus Project for all different dance styles, levels and techniques. Beyond the performances, Galaxy Festival’s mini-classes are an outlet for dancers and choreographers, says Polaris co-founder Sara Anderson, since many companies disband during the summer season. “Classes for a lot of dancers are just as important as performances,” Anderson says. “A lot of those instructors make their living by teaching.” They’ll offer the public contemporary, tap, hiphop and Bollywood, as well as yoga and Zumba classes for cross training and an Introduction to Aerial session. “I’m a really strong advocate of collaboration,” Guitron says. “Elitism or ‘I’m better than whoever’ really needs to get shushed.” KAITIE TODD.

Polaris tries to pack Portland’s dance world into Director Park.

SEE IT: Galaxy Festival is at Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave., on Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 6-8. Free. Visit polarisdance.org for a full schedule.

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Friday Night Fights

Competitive improv, with two teams battling for stage time. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 9:30 pm every first and third Friday. $5; free with the purchase of a ticket to the 7:30 pm show.

trayed Captain Hook in Northwest Children’s Theater’s Peter Pan, directs a pink poodle on a tightrope, a deranged clown on a cloud swing and a music-box ballerina on a floating hoop. Mary S. Young Park, 19900 Willamette Drive, West Linn. Starts at dark, around 8:30 pm FridaySunday through Aug. 16. $12-$36.

Helium Open Mic

JamBallah Northwest

Far from wicked, the cast of Broadway’s touring show performs its favorite non-Oz song-and-dance numbers at this charity cabaret show to benefit the Cascade AIDS Project and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Live and silent auctions will raffle off a chance to meet the witches backstage at the Keller. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., Suite 110, 288-3895. 7:30 pm Monday, Aug. 10. $35.

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Witness comics cracking under pressure or leaving the audience in shambles with just 15 minutes to finish a set. The difficulty is competitors are given freedom to voice their judgments and opinions before the bell rings and the set is over. Eric Cash is host of the fight that features producer of storytelling show The Awkward Phase David Mascorro, regular local competitor in comedy showdowns Kyle Harbert, Analog’s Down to Funny and Helium performer Adam Pasi and talent of Eastburn’s It’s Gonna Be Okay recurring showcase and the popular Lez Stand Up installment Katie Rose Leon. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8:30 pm Sunday, Aug. 9. $10. 21+.

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Professional belly and fusion dancers, like Seattle’s Rachel Brice, do the dancing at this three-day celebration of all things bellydancing. But you can jiggle too, after stocking up at the vendors selling shiny bra tops, getting decorated by the henna artists and taking a crashcourse in belly rolling. Jamballahnw. com has the details. Artists

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Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. Noon Friday, 11 am Saturday-Sunday. $5.

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Generally regarded as the best open-mic night in town, Helium’s sign-ups fill quickly. Show up between 6 and 7 pm to snag some stage time. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm every Tuesday. Free with a twoitem minimum. 21+.

PERFORMANCE

Naked Comedy Open Mic

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

Open Court

Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 7:30 pm every Thursday. $5.

Random Acts of Comedy

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

The Memory Palace

Nate DiMeo, a writer for Parks and Recreation, hosts his creation, The Memory Palace, and brings audiences a night of short stories that tie together American history set to music. The stories range from hilarious to depressing, but you’ll find a little bit of both in each one. The production is part of the Radiotopia collective. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 7 pm Saturday, Aug. 8. $20. 21+.

The Spotlight

Who could turn down free admission to a showcase at the Curious Comedy stage that introduces the rising stars in the comedy scene? Hosted by Louis Gee, the shebang is headlined by Philly native and producer of the All Jokes Aside college tour Clint Coley. The installment also features one of WW’s 2014 Funniest 5, Nariko Ott, and avid YouTube comedian Samuel “Seeznin” Thompson. You be the judge of whether their futures are as bright as the bulb they’re standing under. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Wednesday, Aug. 5. Free.

DANCE Art in the Dark: Drop of a Hat

Aerial artists from local dance company A-WOL weave circus magic through the nighttime trees of West Linn’s Mary S. Young Park. An egotistical ring master, played by John Ellingson, who has por-

Will the real inspector hound please stand up?

ACTORS, ANONYMOUS anonymous Theatre’s one-night mystery at PCS is under wraps.

A black SUV pulls up to a tiny, beige house in far Southeast. A woman in dark clothing gets out and enters the house. I count to 10, then follow. “This is my friend’s house,” she tells me when she opens the door. “She’s letting us use it.” This may be the oddest rehearsal for a Portland Center Stage production that we’ve seen. In Anonymous Theatre, nobody—not even the actors—knows the show’s cast list until opening night. Actors rehearse oneon-one with the director in undisclosed locations, and they are allowed to tell only one trustworthy buddy about their involvement, so they have someone to run lines with. On the night of the show, the performers arrive through the main theater entrance and sit among the audience. When it’s time for their entrance, they stand and deliver their first lines from their seats. “It’s every actor’s nightmare,” says Anonymous Theatre veteran Todd Van Voris (Grimm, The Librarians). “It’s like jumping out of an airplane.” But performers are thrill-seekers, he says. “We’re gluttons for that kind of challenge.” Anonymous Theatre was born 13 years ago at Brown University when four seniors, including PCS regular Darius Pierce, wanted to blur the lines between the audience and the performance. “We had many experiments,” says Pierce, “but this one was really successful.” Seattle, Philadelphia and even Sydney, Australia, have staged Anonymous, and there’s been a performance every year in Portland since Pierce and his college friends moved here in 2003. Tom Stoppard’s Agatha Christie-like murder mystery The Real Inspector Hound and a pre-show about a mom and kid trying to kill each other are on the playbill this year. Otherwise, it’s pretty blank. At the rehearsal, Pierce and the anonymous actress run lines while his 3-year-old son wanders around the living room with a fat, gray cat. The atmosphere will not be so mellow on opening night. “Ten minutes before is going to be petrifying,” says the actress. “My stomach gets clammy just thinking about it.” But the stress fades fast, according to Anonymous veterans. “The support that you feel from the audience is palpable,” says Van Voris. “It’s like going to a tent revival.” ALLIE DONAHUE.

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AUG. 5–11

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

and spiritual ideas of place. Amy Ruedinger’s repoussé technique transforms copper from a hard, ﬂat material into an inviting, touchable 3-D form. Margaret Van Patten is a printmaker who combines various intaglio techniques to create uniquely personal work. Through Aug. 25. Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta St., 281-9048.

Listen, Baxter

The video Baxter’s Eyes starts from compelling found footage from aboard the Oseberg Alpha oil rig off the coast of Norway. The pounding bass notes thrum alongside the churning water, as we follow a worker in bright yellow make his way through the labyrinthine machine. Audio reading of emails sent between administration and worker are an opportunity to consider how industry is affected by digital communication, but add-ins like typing sound effects and cuts to a tablet with googly eyes clash with the original footage. It’s not the best of it’s genre, but also not the worst, and S1 is in a basement, so it’s worth going just to get out of the heat. Through Aug. 13. S1, 4148 NE Hancock St., s1portland.com.

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Stay on the Edge of the Pearl.

Daniel Long’s work appropriates common painting techniques and visual symbols into an openended rumination on representation and narrative. The ensuing world—populated by scenes of largely ancient Egyptian and GrecoRoman pottery ﬂoating amid textured backdrops and hieroglyphic serpents, disguised as MS Paint squiggles, attempting to pop oﬀ the surface plane—is a rabbit hole wherein visual references constantly collide and combust. Through Sept. 19. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., 477-9786. Opening reception 2-5 pm Sunday, Aug. 9.

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Black Creative Collective: Brownhall is comprised of black artists and creatives who produce interdisciplinary art programming to address the dearth of black art and creative spaces in Portland. They seek to engage diverse audiences to honor the intersectionality of interests and histories within our own communities. The ﬁrst evening of four weeks of programming will feature performances by Andre Middleton, Analise Smith, Brian W. Parker, Bre Gipson, Carolyn Anderson, Elija Hasan, Jamondria Hayes and Jom Greenidge. Compliance Division, 625 NW Everett St., No. 101, compliancedivision.org. Opening night 6-9 pm Thursday, Aug. 6. Performances at 7 pm every subsequent Thursday in August.

Beauty in the Age of Indifference

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 that 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 St., 544-3449.

Boredom Is the Ultimate Weapon

Boredom Is the Ultimate Weapon is a series of improvised structures constructed from material at hand inside and outside of HQHQ Project Space by Los Angeles artist Don Edler. Each of the abstract sculptures is made of materials and objects clamped, strapped and otherwise mechanically attached to one another without adhesives or fasteners. These works are formal exercises that play with shape, color, material, compression and tension. Through Aug. 23. HQHQ Project Space, 232 SE Oak St.

Chromatic Intercession

Isaac Tin Wei Lin draws on sources such as Gorky, Gottlieb and grafﬁti to make drawings and paintings that are strongly graphic and formally captivating. Lin’s bold and colorful mark-making with logographic and alphabetic elements is reminiscent of hieroglyphs, as well as musical scores, Chinese characters and calligraphy. His newest body of work will explore putting individual images into groups so that statements become conversations. Through Aug. 15. Adams and Ollman, 209 SW 9th Ave., 724-0684.

Danielle Wyckoff: Emerging Dissolving

Loving and losing love, an action and state of being that is as much a part of being human as is the need to drink water, are the themes of the inaugural site/sight speciﬁc installation at Portland’s newest Northwest gallery. With hand-scribed mulberry paper, salt and water, Danielle Wyckoﬀ uses nature’s material transformations as metaphor for common human experiences. Through Sept. 19. Soltesz Fine Art, 1825 NW 23rd Ave., 971276-9097. Opening reception 5-8 pm Thursday, Aug. 6.

Group Show at Guardino Gallery

Michelle Gallagher’s ﬁgurative clay sculptures are rooted in her interest in the peoples and cultures of Asia and the Paciﬁc Islands. Diane Archer’s mixed-media mapmaking explores physical, emotional

Portland is one of the stops for a traveling exhibition of Aboriginal Australian painting, which will bring this work into conversation with the various abstraction traditions within our own borders. Neither a Western invention nor a stage of development in the telos of art to be fashioned into something higher, abstraction exists whole wherever it’s found as a language for exploring the nature of materials and process, and personal and crosscultural expression. Through Aug. 16. Mason Ehrman Building Annex, 467 NW Davis St., 242-1419.

Prehensilities With Olivia Knapp

Prehensility: the quality of a limb or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding. Olivia Knapp’s intricate, hand-drawn pen-and-ink style is influenced by European line engravings of decorative relief and scientific specimens from the 16th to 18th centuries. Her current collection uses body organs as contrasting characters in an ongoing story. By subtly anthropomorphizing these organs, she hopes the viewer can separate their “sense of self” from their own mind and yearnings and empathize with these vital, fleshy vessels. Through Aug. 29. Hellion Gallery, 19 NW 5th Ave., No. 208, 774-7327. Opening reception 6-9 pm Thursday, Aug. 6.

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. Opening reception 6-8 pm Thursday, Aug. 6.

Theory of Achievement

This summer, Portland’s Yale Union and the Parisian art collective Castillo/Corrales will swap houses, share people and exchange money. The exhibit includes work by Richard Hawkins, Jason Simon, Lily van der Stokker, Leidy Churchman and Clément Rodzielski. Through Sept. 6. Yale Union (YU), 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5 Kevin Palau with Sam Adams

In 2007, Kevin Palau and a handful of other pastors asked Portland they could help the city with no strings attached. The city identiﬁed ﬁve key areas of need—hunger, homelessness, health care, the environment and public schools—and the CityServe program was created. In his new book, Unlikely, Palau will discuss the creation of the program with former Mayor Sam Adams. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, AUG. 6 Noah Van Sciver and Kevin Hooyman

Fante Bukowski is a young writer aspiring toward fame and fortune but with no real talent for writing, instead spending his days drinking and consorting with lowlifes. He is also the titular character in Noah Van Sciver’s newest character-driven graphic novella, Fante Bukowski. Joining Van Sciver in a doublerelease party, Kevin Hooyman will present his 360-page, hardcover retrospective, Conditions on the Ground. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 241-0227. 6-10 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, AUG. 7 Willamette Writers Conference

Dust oﬀ the unpublished novels in your drawer—or your most harrowing personal anecdotes. The Willamette Writers Conference, running till Sunday, is packed three days of book pitch advice, hot tips about publishers and self-publishing workshops. The hefty price of admission also buys you 8 minutes in a room with a Hollywood agent or publishing house book buyer. Lloyd center DoubleTree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah St., 305-6729, willamettewriters.com/wwcon Comics. $230-$455.

SATURDAY, AUG. 8 Back Fence PDX: Russian Roulette

Seasoned and novice storytellers will step up to spin the wheel of story prompts and then have ﬁve minutes to craft a totally true story. They will include returning champ Caitlin Weierhauser, L.A.-based entertainment writers Jessica Lee Williamson and Joey Slamon, and 105.1 The Buzz’s Daria Eliuk, among others. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 at door. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 9 The Studio Series

University of Virginia English professor, poet and editor Stephen Cushman’s newest collection, The Red List, is really just one poem—a meditation on the near-extinction of the bald eagle and an exploration of the inevitability of change. Cushman will read with poet Joseph Green. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7-9 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUG. 10 Val Brelinski

When young and strongly religious Grace returns pregnant from a missionary trip to Mexico, she believes she is carrying the child of God, with the revelation upending her family’s life in 1970s Idaho. Val Brelinski’s

debut novel, The Girl Who Slept With God, examines the concepts of truth and redemption. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, AUG. 11 Polly Dugan and Scott Nadelson

Having released the local beach read of the summer with The Sweetheart Deal, Polly Dugan (So Much a Part of You) proves her chops at mass literary appeal. Dugan will be joined in a reading

by fellow Portland author Scott Nadelson (Aftermath), whose new book, Between You and Me, will be released in the fall. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Burnside Vice

The city’s major thoroughfare has mostly cleaned up its act since the early days of illegal card rooms, whorehouses and seedy hotels. Kick Ass Oregon History’s resident historian Doug Kenck-Crispin will join JB Fisher, co-author of Portland on the Take, for an evening discussing “Burnside Vice.” Expect tawdry tales and some equally incriminating archival photos. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 7 pm. Free. 21+.

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KATY SIMPSON SMITH, THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA Any novelist hailed as “an heir apparent to Michael Ondaatje” by author Paul Yoon and lauded as writing “a luminous debut” by Oprah’s magazine is probably doomed. Nothing can reach a bar set so high by the archangel of book/wine clubs. Vogue seals the deal: She’s “2014’s most buzzed-about debut author… Oh, the vapors! with enormous lake-blue eyes that don’t miss a thing.” Given that sentencing, Katy Simpson Smith’s debut novel impressively holds its own. But it’s far from faultless. An unendingly dismal tale of three generations of fathers and daughters in Beaufort, N.C., after the American Revolution, The Story of Land and Sea (Harper, 256 pages, $26.99) begins with Tabitha’s 10th birthday and works backward until it reaches her grandfather Asa, a turpentine plantation owner and Anglican zealot bent on spawning his patriarchal legacy. “What if God didn’t put us here to accept, but to struggle?” is the novel’s recurring query. When the friendless, motherless ingénue Tab spouts black bile and blood from yellow fever, her reformed pirate father, John, packs her on a rum-runner. “I’ve saved half the men I haven’t killed,” brags her doctor. Traveling backward, we reach the time when John takes Tab’s mother, Helen, out to sea, stealing the Southern belle from her father, Asa, and bringing her back “with the seed of a child in her belly.” Of the novel’s many pairings—Asa and John; Tab and her missing mother; the eponymous land and sea—the most interesting is Helen and her plantation slave Mall, whose onionlike layers of determination, motherly instinct, deference and defiance squash the stereotype of the Southern slave. But Mall stands out too late to save The Story. In a novel riddled with death, the characters are often lifeless from the outset. The author is a historian first, building settings with meticulously researched details—a parlor of inherited couches, swindled rugs, and “paintings with flat faces.” Aside from Mall, Smith’s human subjects go equally flat. Meanwhile, Smith’s prose often ends up sounding like a dewyeyed Jonathan Edwards channeling The Sound and the Fury. “Regret only exists once the opportunity for change is gone,” she writes. Smith’s South is a dark world where “death only comes to mothers” and the widowers divide their time between mourning their daughters and wives, and pondering the God who would run such an operation. Drowning in book-club melodrama and poetic aspirations, The Story of Land and Sea is a painless undertaking, but also unrewarding. ENID SPITZ. GO: Katy Simpson Smith joins author Pauls Toutonghi in conversation at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323, on Tuesday, Aug. 11. 7:30 pm. Free.

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MOVIES

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OPENING THIS WEEK

Mothering Inside

Marvel’s newest reboot of the superquartet has already been swamped with production drama. Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell bring it to the big screen as four supers booted into an alternate universe. Screened after deadline. See wweek.com for Casey Jarman’s review. Pg-13. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport Plaza, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville.

B+ Portland documentarian Brian Lindstrom’s all-too-brief document of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility’s recently defunded Family Preservation Project is touching and devastating. Touching because it shows us that when imprisoned mothers are allowed to have constructive and lengthy visits from their children, they benefit and their children are granted some semblance of a normal life. Devastating because prison officials say they can’t afford to extend the $300,000-ayear program in the wake of statewide budget cuts, and it has already been killed. It’s baffling that, even as our sitting president and presidential hopefuls finally open a dialogue about the true costs of America’s prison-industrial complex, a successful program like this one—proven to reduce recidivism and rehabilitate inmates—would get the ax in liberal Oregon. Even tough-on-crime types should find value in strengthening the family unit, and see the folly in taking a parent’s mistakes out on her children. NR. CASEY JARMAN. Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 11. $9.

The Gift

Ricki and the Flash

Dark Places

Twenty-five years after witnessing the massacre of her family and helping to put her brother away for the crime, Libby Day (Charlize Theron) is drawn into a fresh investigation of the triple murder. Dark Places is based on the 2009 novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, so things are almost certainly not as they seem. Screened after deadline, see wweek.com for Chris Stamm’s review. R. Kiggins Theatre.

Fantastic Four

Unwelcome gifts from a shady character in his past haunt Simon (Jason Bateman) and his wife, Robyn (Rebecca Hall). Zero Dark Thirty actor Joel Edgerton tries his hand at directing with this slow-reveal drama that takes the thrill of Christmas and gives it a terrifying twist. Screened after deadline. See wweek.com for Jay Horton’s review. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Movies on TV, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Jimmy’s Hall

B+ It seems funny for a film that takes place in remote southern Ireland to open with vintage shots of trolleys and striking workers in New York City, but so much of Jimmy’s Hall is about the characters we don’t see onscreen— dead relatives, emigrants and deportees. The locals we do meet (including the titular Jimmy Gralton) are focused on resurrecting a community center in the ugly shadow of the Irish civil war, but the Catholic church is convinced that the hall is more communist- than community-minded, and a Footloose-esque battle ensues. The film (based on a true story) is gorgeous and warm—even as its dialogue tends toward the over-expository— and there’s a stirring reminder here of how empowering even modest public spaces can be. All of which feels uniquely relevant in a city with a nightlife devoid of all-ages entertainment, largely thanks to an organization just as antiquated as the Catholic church. Pg-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cinema 21.

Listen to Me Marlon

A The title comes from Brando himself, directly from hundreds of hours of self-hypnosis tapes that documentarian Stevan Riley sifted through when Brando’s estate commissioned this film. Riley delves deep into the notorious star’s life and gives us is an intimate discussion with Marlon the man. There are no talking heads, no interviews—the film is all clips from Brando’s films and interviews, and eerily empty shots of the actor’s estate. It’s narrated in his own words, from TV spots and the self-hypnosis tapes. Riley leaves little untouched, from Brando’s childhood—defined by abuse and an alcoholic mother—to the unwelcome paparazzi that plagued him. It begins and ends with a digitized model of the actor’s head reciting lines. Brando commissioned the ghostlike computer version of himself in an attempt to achieve immortality. It does the trick, as does Riley’s film. NR. ENID SPITZ. Fox Tower.

Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep) abandoned her family to pursue the dream of becoming a rock-’n’-roll queen. Now she’s burned out and back home in Indiana looking for redemption in this musical dram-com written by Diablo Cody. The pressing question: Can Meryl Streep shred on guitar? Screened after deadline. See wweek. com for Lauren Terry’s review. Pg-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen.

Shaun the Sheep Movie

A- In a vibrant return to traditional clay animation, Shaun the Sheep Movie tells a fresh story with the familiar painstaking imagery that makes Aardman Studios the “English Pixar.” A strong-willed sheep named Shaun has grown tired of his predictable life on a happy, picturesque farm in the country. His plan to distract the farmer for a play day goes awry, and the farmer is sent to the Big City with a nasty concussion. Out to find the confused farmer, Shaun befriends a stray dog and makes an enemy of the local animal control. While there is no actual dialogue, the expressive characters move the story along with inflection and swiftly punctuated visual jokes, as when Shaun and the sheep disguise themselves as humans and mimic the patrons in a posh restaurant. Steeped in the tongue-in-cheek charm of the original Wallace & Gromit, parents will find as much in store for them as their children. PG. LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Eastport Plaza, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard.

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.

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PeneloPe SPHeerIS

THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILMMAKER PENELOPE SPHEERIS SAYS HER L.A. ROCK TRILOGY IS HER LIFE’S WORK. BY CHR IS STaMM

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Wayne’s World director Penelope Spheeris earned a choice spot in the punk-rock pantheon by documenting the rowdy Los Angeles scene that spat Black Flag and the Germs into the world in her The Decline of Western Civilization series. To celebrate the long-awaited DVD and Bluray release of her trilogy, Spheeris, 69, will be on hand for Friday’s and Saturday’s screenings at Hollywood Theatre. WW: These films aren’t exactly underground secrets. Why did it take so long to get a DVD release? Penelope Spheeris: I was afraid I wasn’t gonna do it right. Having been in the Hollywood film business for a long time, I was so skeptical. This is my life’s work. I’ve only got one shot. It never would have happened without my daughter [Anna Fox]. Five years ago, we discovered that she had a drug problem. She totaled a car with one of her kids in it, and she tried to get her shit together for a year or so after that. I said, “You need to come to work for me.” And she said, “OK, but only if we do the Decline movies first.” Punk singer Alice Bag said she “didn’t immediately trust” you and called you “an outsider to the scene.” Did you encounter a lot of pushback? There wasn’t everybody filming like there is now. Everybody’s got their iPhone. It’s not like anybody could say, “I would rather have so and so film it,” because nobody else was doing it. Decline II is hilarious, albeit in a tragic way. Did you want to make a comedy? No, I didn’t. The only reason it’s funny is because I wasn’t paying for it. I didn’t have any money back then. I was totally fucking broke until I was 45 years old, when I did Wayne’s World. I had to depend on someone else to pay for it. I probably would have edged more toward the thrash or hardcore scene at that point, but [producers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris] really wanted it to be hair bands.

All three films are dominated by men—horny, drunk young men who have ugly opinions about women. Did you ever feel uncomfortable with all the misogyny? Pat Smear in the first Decline says, “I don’t like girls,” but I think he says it as a joke. The time of that first Decline, I think, was very liberating for women. It was the first time I saw women dressing in combat boots and cutting their hair down to one inch and not giving a shit about their makeup. Decline II stands out as just being downright disgustingly misogynistic, and that’s the way that time was. The groupies subscribed to it, and the guys went along with it. That’s just what you did. While you were making Wayne’s World and Black Sheep, did you know you’d return to the Decline series? I did know instinctively that doing the documentaries was more gratifying. But you get caught up in all that Hollywood crap. I’m actually really glad I had a movie [1998’s Senseless] that didn’t do so well. As a woman, once you have a movie that doesn’t do well, that’s it. But that was fine with me. I went, “You know what, why don’t I just use this money I made to make my own documentary,” which was Decline III. Then I couldn’t get it distributed. What happened? I couldn’t get any distribution. I was only offered deals where I would have to give up the rights to the first two movies. And I wasn’t gonna do that. So I said, “OK, fine, it doesn’t get distribution.” I felt terrible. That’s the movie of my whole career that I love the most, and I wasn’t able to get it seen. There’s sadness and so much substance abuse through all three films. Was it hard filming people who were clearly bent on self-annihilation? Even though I’m not traditionally religious, I always say, “God’s in charge of life and death.” Yes, sometimes—as a mother—I wanted to say, “Don’t do that, you’re gonna hurt yourself.” But I never thought, “This guy’s gonna die.” I don’t know who the hell’s gonna die and who’s gonna live. I can’t believe I’m still alive. See IT: The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy screens at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org, at 7:30 pm Friday (Part II) and Saturday (Parts I and III), Aug. 7-8. $8.

aug. 5–11

B+ Ant-Man is a largely self-con-

tained, breezy, hilarious and gorgeous heist film that manages a feat few recent superhero films do: It stands up well on its own. Ex-con Scott Lang (a beefed-up Paul Rudd) invades the home of Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and finds a weird-looking suit that can shrink its wearer to insect size while granting super strength and the ability to control ants telepathically. He’s nobody’s favorite superhero, but director Peyton Reed is fully aware of this dopiness, and just runs with it. He deftly balances its awestruck visuals— from an ant’s-eye view of a shower drain to a battle in a briefcase—with a sly humor. Ant-Man might be the most disposable superhero movie, but that makes it all the more enjoyable. If it were a comic book, it wouldn’t be the kind you put in a Mylar bag. It’d be one that you read with greasy fingers and childlike relish. Pg-13. ANDY KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cinemagic, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, St. Johns Theater.

Dope

B This Sundance darling stands out for its excellent soundtrack, heavy on ’90s hip-hop with A Tribe Called Quest, a shout-out to local punk darlings the Thermals and a cheap jab at Macklemore. Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (Our Family Wedding), Dope follows three geeky high-schoolers in a dangerous part of Inglewood, Calif., called the Bottoms. The geeks focus on their band, getting into Harvard and losing their virginity, which throws them into the hard-hitting world of L.A. drug dealers. The film has a lot of heart: more than you’d expect from a comedy and less than you’d expect from a drama. R. ALEX FALCONE. Fox Tower.

Entourage

B- This flimsy plot consists entirely of movie bros attempting to sleep with women, sleeping with women or talking about their attempts to sleep with women. There is something about the movie’s bros trying to make their own movie or having already made a movie or something, but it couldn’t matter less compared to the sleeping-with-women part.It’s so hard to tell if it’s funny on purpose or funny like a dog with its snout stuck in an ice-cream carton, where it’s definitely amusing in parts but it’s also sad because he’s trying his hardest. R. ALEX FALCONE. Valley.

Ex Machina

B- Frankenstein’s monster is easy

on the eyes in Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s sexualized science-fiction tale of a coder named Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) whisked away by his genius boss (Oscar Isaac) for a top-secret project. The story’s familiar. But we’re enticed enough to follow along anyway. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Far From the Madding Crowd

B+ Carey Mulligan’s unsmitable Bathsheba Everdene has little patience for society’s expectations in this stunning adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 19th-century romance. The question is whether the captivating cinematography and Mulligan’s standout performance are enough to refresh what doesn’t amount to much more than another Victorian love story. Pg-13. LAUREN TERRY. Laurelhurst.

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. Hollywood.

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Ant-Man

MOVIES

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. Hollywood, City Center, Fox Tower.

Inside Out

A Pretty much everybody in the theater was sobbing at some point during Inside Out. It’s sad. Crushingly, relentlessly sad. And absolutely brilliant from writer-director Pete Docter, (Up). It’s not about depression per se. It’s about young Riley, who has to move across the country for her dad’s job, and the tiny people in her head who represent her emotions. The main story seems aimed more at parents and, to a lesser extent, older kids. There’s a talking elephant made of cotton candy to help occupy the littles, but you will love it, because it’s great. And since you’re paying for it, screw them. Pg. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard. F

Irrational Man

Of all Woody Allen’s films in recent memory, this has the worst icky-tointeresting ratio. The moment Joaquin Phoenix is introduced as the controversial new professor at an elite liberal arts school, you know this is a movie about a professor preying on a student, in this case the supremely likable Emma Stone. There’s this murder plot thing in the middle, and it’s fine, but the best thing I can say is that for 20 minutes I forgot about Dylan Farrow’s letter to young actors asking why they still work with the man who molested her. Maybe you’re better at separating art from artists than I am, but when I watch Woody Allen movies I think about Woody Allen, and it’s not pleasant. Irrational Man makes it impossible to forget the charges against him. When Emma says to her professor, “You’re blocked, I’m going to unblock you,” it made me gag. If you wanted to forget the fucked-up power dynamic between the two, you couldn’t because he orders for her at restaurants, and if you know anything about Woody, that’s all you can see. R. ALEX FALCONE. Vancouver.

Jurassic World

B No more baby teeth. The Jurassic Park franchise has grown up, along with its audience. Anti-military and anti-corporate themes and even Blackfish-style commentary on animal captivity abound. But the overall magic of a park full of dinosaurs is somehow muted, as the film focuses primarily on one big baddie that must be stopped. PG-13. TED JAMISON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Wilsonville.

A Lego Brickumentary

C Snapping together disconnected vignettes and self-promoting corporate infomercials, A Lego Brickumentary sets ablaze whatever cultural cachet The Lego Movie won by focusing on

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SUNDAY 7:08 PM, NUMB: Christoff Molesworth celebrates success.

THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT 3 TEAMS, 2 DAYS, 1 LOST CAT AND $31.50 IN BURRITOS. by aLLIE DON a HuE, Jay HORTON a n d aMy WOLFE 243-2122

The 48 Hour Film Project gives amateurs and veteran filmmakers an equal shot at showing their work at the Portland International Film Festival—provided they can make a film in just two days. We followed three of the 43 teams as they endured car trouble, a run-in with police, and a dream-crushing typo. The finished films screen Wednesday and Thursday night at Hollywood Theatre, and audience favorites will be shown at PIFF. Here’s the story of Charlie the rescued cat, and other things you won’t see onscreen.

THE TEAMS

TEAM WOLF: Erin Lyon and 20 service-industry workers and art-school dropouts who agreed to work for beer. LOVELY NUMB: Christoff Molesworth and 13 eclectics, minus team co-founder J.R. Molesworth. MAN VS. FILM: Erich Demerath, an eight-time project veteran, and a mix of old hands and novices, some from Hood River for the weekend.

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Noon: TEAM WOLF stocks up on fake eyelashes at Fred Meyer. 3:21 pm: LOVELY NUMB rushes to Gresham for a boom pole, and the car breaks down. “We’re good on coolant,” Molesworth says. “That’s the extent of my mechanical knowledge. Fuck.” 6:30 pm: Teams draw a prop, character, line of dialogue and genre out of a hat at kickoff. TEAM WOLF selects thriller, LOVELY NUMB draws sci-fi, MAN VS. FILM gets “fish out of water.” Having missed last year’s deadline, MAN VS. FILM suffers taunts. 7:20 pm: TEAM WOLF’s writers start an all-nighter at Beulahland. MAN VS. FILM scouts out Alberta Abbey for use as its headquarters.

SATURDAY

1:08 am: Beulahland is still open. TEAM WOLF is still drafting. 9:08 am: LOVELY NUMB’s lighting designer tracks dog shit onto the assistant director’s bed during setup.

His wife requests they film at an alternate location. 11:54 am: Portland police arrive on the TEAM WOLF set. “They thought people were trying to break into the building [an abandoned market on Northeast Glisan Street],” says Lyon. 4:20 pm: Though running behind schedule, MAN VS. FILM enjoys a gift from festival sponsor Shango dispensary. 4:32 pm: Also running late, actor China Starshine lights a blunt on the LOVELY NUMB set. 6:14 pm: LOVELY NUMB divides a bounty of burritos and tacos from La Sirenita costing $31.50. 10:03 pm: TEAM WOLF finds Charlie, a stray cat wandering in the basement and returns him safely home by 11:20 pm.

SUNDAY

1:42 am: MAN VS. FILM’s director instructs the leads, a pair of Hood River teens, through dramatic choreography. “I like directing,” he says. “It’s my chance to play God.” Meanwhile, TEAM WOLF’s editor has been working for 12 hours. 9:48 am: TEAM WOLF’s leader updates WW via text: “sooo pooped and dirty.” 6:10 am: MAN VS. FILM’s Demerath notices the opening title misspells the name of the team’s movie. 6:33 pm: TEAM WOLF is fifth to turn in its film, Corner Stop. MAN VS. FILM has fixed the typo in the title, only to find another. With less than a half hour left, Demerath ruefully decides the film is better off late (and ineligible for judging) than so grievously wrong. 7:12 pm: LOVELY NUMB’s film is submitted, “with one of those exploding ink packs when they open the envelope,” so Molesworth enjoys a celebratory Jell-O shot at the American Legion post on Northeast Alberta Street and heads for bed. “I have work in the morning.” 11:58 pm: Heartsick about missing the deadline but pleased with its work, MAN VS. FILM hands in its corrected film. SEE IT: The 48 Hour Film Project submissions screen at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., at 7 pm Wednesday and 7 and 9:15 pm Thursday, Aug. 5-6. $9.

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MOVIES

Mr. Holmes (PG) 11:40AM 2:25PM 5:10PM 7:50PM 10:30PM Pixels (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 7:00PM 9:45PM Vacation (R) 10:40AM 11:55AM 1:15PM 2:40PM 3:50PM 5:20PM 6:35PM 7:55PM 9:20PM 10:35PM Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (PG-13) 10:30AM 11:30AM 12:30PM 1:30PM 2:35PM 3:40PM 4:30PM 5:45PM 6:45PM 7:35PM 8:50PM 9:55PM 10:40PM Southpaw (R) 10:15AM 1:10PM 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:15PM Trainwreck (R) 10:20AM 1:20PM 4:25PM 7:25PM 10:25PM Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:30PM 10:10PM Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) 10:20AM 12:45PM 3:10PM 5:35PM 8:00PM 10:25PM

Minions (PG) 10:15AM 12:40PM 3:10PM 5:40PM 8:10PM 10:30PM Fantastic Four (2015) (PG-13) 10:50AM 12:35PM 1:35PM 3:25PM 4:20PM 6:10PM 7:05PM 8:55PM 9:50PM Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (PG-13) 10:30AM ® 11:30AM ® 1:30PM ® 2:35PM ® 4:30PM ® 5:45PM ® 7:35PM ® 8:50PM ® 10:40PM ® Ant-Man (PG-13) 10:45AM 1:45PM 4:45PM 7:40PM 10:40PM Irrational Man (R) 12:15PM 2:45PM 5:15PM 7:45PM 10:20PM Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:25AM 1:25PM 4:30PM 7:30PM 10:35PM Gift, The (2015) (R) 11:05AM 1:50PM 4:35PM 7:20PM 10:05PM Inside Out (PG) 11:10AM 1:55PM 4:35PM 7:15PM 10:00PM

Ricki and the Flash (PG-13) 11:45AM 2:20PM 4:55PM

Fantastic Four (2015) (PG-13) 10:45AM 11:30AM 1:15PM

7:30PM 10:05PM

2:10PM 3:45PM 4:50PM 6:15PM 7:30PM 8:45PM 10:10PM

Pixels (PG-13) 11:15AM 1:55PM 4:35PM 7:15PM

Ant-Man (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM

Vacation (R) 11:30AM 2:00PM 4:30PM 7:00PM 9:30PM

10:20PM

Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) 10:50AM 1:10PM 3:30PM

Pixels (3D) (PG-13) 10:00PM

5:50PM 8:10PM 10:30PM

Gift, The (2015) (R) 11:45AM 2:25PM 5:05PM 7:45PM

Trainwreck (R) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:30PM

10:25PM

Srimanthudu (Classics) (NR) 11:00AM 2:30PM 6:00PM

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (PG-13) 10:40AM

9:30PM

12:10PM 1:40PM 3:10PM 4:40PM 6:10PM 7:40PM 9:10PM

Southpaw (R) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:30PM

10:40PM

Mr. Holmes (PG) 11:40AM 2:15PM 4:50PM 7:25PM

Minions (PG) 11:45AM 2:15PM 4:45PM 7:15PM 9:45PM

10:00PM

Inside Out (PG) 11:15AM 1:50PM 4:25PM 7:00PM 9:35PM

Pixels (3D) (PG-13) 4:35PM 10:10PM Pixels (PG-13) 11:10AM 1:50PM 7:25PM Vacation (R) 11:15AM 2:05PM 4:45PM 7:30PM 10:05PM Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (PG-13) 11:00AM 12:30PM 2:15PM 3:40PM 5:30PM 7:00PM 8:45PM 10:15PM Spy (R) 1:50PM 7:35PM Trainwreck (R) 10:50AM 1:45PM 4:40PM 7:35PM 10:30PM Shaun the Sheep Movie (PG) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:35PM 7:00PM 9:45PM Southpaw (R) 12:45PM 3:45PM 7:05PM 10:05PM Assassination (Well Go USA) (NR) 12:45PM 4:00PM 7:15PM 10:20PM

Fantastic Four (2015) (PG-13) 11:30AM 1:00PM 2:15PM

Fantastic Four (2015) XD (PG-13) 11:45AM 2:30PM 5:15PM 8:00PM 10:40PM

3:45PM 5:00PM 6:30PM 7:45PM 9:15PM 10:30PM Minions (PG) 11:40AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:20PM 9:50PM Ant-Man (PG-13) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:30PM 7:25PM 10:20PM Irrational Man (R) 11:45AM 2:20PM 5:00PM 7:50PM 10:25PM Jurassic World (PG-13) 10:55AM 4:40PM 10:30PM Gift, The (2015) (R) 11:25AM 2:10PM 4:55PM 7:40PM 10:20PM Inside Out (PG) 11:05AM 1:40PM 4:25PM 7:10PM 9:55PM

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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. 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 Award-winning 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. Kiggins, Living Room Theaters.

Love & Mercy

B+ Love & Mercy is Bill Pohlad’s attempt to sort through the mess of Wilson’s collapse and treatment by Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), the psychologist who lost his license for exploiting Wilson. Two phases of Wilson’s life crisscross throughout the ﬁlm. Young, brilliant, fallingapart-at-the-seams Brian is played persuasively by Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), but John Cusack is largely miscast as the middle-aged Wilson. PG-13. NATHAN CARSON. Kiggins, Fox Tower.

Mad Max: Fury Road

A I left the theater feeling like

I should take a shower. This is a batshit, dirt-punk world, where the lack of resources has somehow convinced roving bands of ne’erdo-wells there is only one way to survive: make everything look awesome. And they do. It’s as if a world war erupted at Burning Man. This is not to say Fury Road makes any sense. What’s so amazing is that this nonsensical explodey fuckpile can get away with almost anything. If you loved any part of the original Mad Max trilogy, you won’t be disappointed by it restarting with such vigor. If you don’t know anything about it, you’ll be thrilled to discover a new series. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Avalon, Eastport, Clackamas, Hollywood, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Mission, Fox Tower, Vancouver, Joy Cinema, 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 grindworthy “Pony” comes on the radio one night while Mike works, he’s reminded of how much he loves to dance and he gyrates around a table saw. Magic Mike writer Reid Carolin reunites the crew for one last show before they hang up their G-strings for good. This chapter has more partying and fewer moments that test our perceptions of entertainers. With one exception: a fascinating scene in which the guys shoot the shit with a gorgeous divorcee (Andie McDowell) and her middle-aged friends, surprising each other with their sexual confessions. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Living Room Theaters.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

A- It’s so rare, in the post-Disney Channel age, to find a young adult movie with a believable emotional center. In most films, teens are hormonal train wrecks or micro-adults, but the teenage protagonists of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl are dignified, complex and legitimately funny. 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. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Minions

A Like the nose-tickling carbonation of a freshly cracked soda, Minions is light and makes you giggle. The little yellow creatures’ evolution parallels the history of

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mankind. They’re leaderless after a run of fearless rulers like T-Rex, Napoleon and Count Dracula, so Kevin, Bob and Stuart set-out to find their next villainous king...or queen. At a villain comic-con in Orlando they fall for red-dressed vixen Scarlett (Sandra Bullock). The three henchmen, Scarlett and her mad scientist husband, Herb (Jon Hamm), jet to England to steal the Queen of England’s crown. What steals the show is the Minions’ cutesy, goofball dialect—a mixture of what sounds like Spanish and gibberish, with English phrases tossed into the steady, Italian-like flow. A nasally chorus and “monkey see monkey do” act topped off the enchanting hour and 30 minutes. Both adults and their little minions can giggle at the silly fart jokes, but there’re also ’70s Beatles and hippie references for the ’rents. By the end I was crying for more with the rest of the squealing audience, though they probably just needed a diaper change. PG. AMY WOLFE. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

A None of this film’s merits is unique to the Tom Cruise-led series, but they add up to something that’s top-of-class for the genre. 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. Sure, James Bond had his Walther P99 pistol-equipped surfboard, but Rogue Nation uses cool spy gadgets to perfection, like the sniper rifle built into a bassoon for all your opera-hall assassination needs. 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. The only thing missing is the mushy, romancy stuff. But that’s another appeal of the franchise. It’s not sappy. It’s a tight action movie focused on talented people working together for the good (or harm? You have no idea!) of the world. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Cinemas, St. Johns Theater,

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. Meanwhile, Condon’s ﬁlm skips all over the place. 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. ANDY KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Movies on TV.

The Overnight

A “The best sex comedy at Sundance,” according to Rolling Stone, is more than slightly uncomfortable to watch. Like the-elastic-in-your-socks-is-wornout-and-they’re-bunching-in-yourshoes uncomfortable. The ﬁlm follows a Seattle couple that moves with their young kid to L.A., where the child has trouble making friends. When the parents are invited to dinner by a hot neighbor couple that also has a young kid, they jump at the chance. It’s obvious to us from the beginning, if not to them, that something else is up. R. ALEX FALCONE. Laurelhurst.

Paper Towns

B- This is the classic manic-pixiedream-girl story of a bunch of highschoolers figuring out who to go to prom with. A doofy guy played by Nat Wolff (Nickelodeon’s The Naked Brothers Band) is the straight-andnarrow 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. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Tigard, Willsonville.

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

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SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE monuments can at least rejoice in a watching them reduced to rainbowcolored LED rubble. he all-white cast is dull and unconvincing: Adam Sandler is utter cardboard, Peter Dinklage has an accent that doesn’t make any sense, and Kevin James as the president is a little too Chris Christie for comfort. Once the thrill of the leetle cubes wears oﬀ—and the plot-recapping closing-credits song, by Waka Flocka Flame and Good Charlotte, begins—one realizes a trip to Ground Kontrol would have been cheaper and more satisfying. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, 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, Movies on TV.

Spy

A- Serious actors playing funny roles seriously, a la Airplane, is one of my favorite things, and Paul Feig’s new movie, Spy, delivers that in spades. Jason Statham is hilarious as a parody of every serious role he’s played; Allison Janney is a funny version of her humorless self on The West Wing; and every sentence 50 Cent says sounds like an alien in 50 Cent’s body discovering his vocal chords for the ﬁrst time. But really, that’s a minor complaint. R. ALEX FALCONE. Eastport, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.

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 iso-

lated 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, Laurelhurst.

Tangerine

B+ Shot on an iPhone and featuring two first-timers in the leading roles, Sean Baker’s fifth feature resembles a debut film. Taking place one sunny Christmas Eve, the film is led by two transgender prostitutes whom we first 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 find her unfaithful pimp boyfriend’s lover. The quest narrative that follows is often hilarious, giving a more ground-level view of Los Angeles than in any other movie in recent years. In its unrestrained verve and verite approach, Tangerine is constantly threatening to jump off the screen and get in your face. Laughs abound, but so do moments of silent understanding in what’s ultimately an exploration of friendships that form between people with no one else to care about. That may not sound like much, but when everything else unravels, it’s more than enough. R . MICHAEL NORDINE. Cinema 21.

Ted 2

C The foulmouthed Ted is back with more celebrities, low-hanging fruit and product placement. It’s not the movie the moviegoing public needs, but it is the fi lm we deserve. Between lines bordering on homophobic and the fi lm’s obsession with dick jokes, Ted 2 seems like something written by a mean-spirited 13-year-old. 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, Valley, Edgefi eld.

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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, Clackamas, Edgefi eld, Movies on TV.

Trainwreck

C 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. Save your time, save your money, and most importantly, save your little heart from breaking over what this ﬁ lm could ’ve been. R . ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, St. Johns Cinemas, St. Johns Theater.

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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, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place.

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Satan walks among us, and he has a big, red erection. Normally, the image of the Prince of Darkness casually strolling around full-mast would give a moviegoer pause. But at the Druid Underground Film Fest, Beelzebub and his boner are right at home among the aliens, road warriors, hipsters, impalers, mutants, cannibals, bug-eaters and meat massagers that call the program home. The traveling freak show stops at the Clinton Street Theater (8 8 pm Thursday, Aug. 6; $10), ), bringing with it a two-part assault on the senses. Part one is all found-footage weirdness, from satanic panic-inspired police instructional videos to Christian scare films and amateur monster flicks. Part two features 14 short films selected from more than 1,000 submitted to curator Billy Burgess since he started the fest eight years ago in an L.A. punk club. The original shorts run a gonzo gamut that includes surrealist animated films and liveaction assaults on the cerebrum, as if David Lynch, Nicholas Winding Refn, Will Vinton, David Cronenberg, Salvador Dalí, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Gaspar Noé decided to mix LSD and DMT, then film the interior of their brains. It’s cinema as fever dream, and it’s fucking insane. Among the films are Teemong ’s Psycle, a neon-lit nightmare in which the filmmaker interacts with—and masturbates to—footage from old horror films. Camilla Romero’s Lenny’s First Time in a Sex Shop is a simple trip into a porn store with a dog, while Cecilia Condit’s 1983 Possibly in Michigan is a lucid voyage through a department store populated by masked and tuxedoed apparitions, cannibals and feathered hair. Conspicuously absent are actual druids. Except in spirit. “The tradition of druidic magic is that it was never written down. You had to be in the know, or know somebody to open the gates to this

secret knowledge,” says Burgess, via telephone from a NorCal stop on his 20-state tour. “Basically, when you entered the sacred circle, you received a knowledge. To me, any time I had a really good time in a movie theater, I sat back in that seat and felt like something really sacred was happening. Sacred information was being broadcast through magic.” DUFF should be right at home in the Clinton, whose knack for taking a shotgun approach to programming has made it Portland’s most delightfully unpredictable theater. And while the batshit content of DUFF might seem as if it were mined from the memories of a particularly imaginative serial killer, it’s drawn the attention of artists like Rodney Ascher, who rose to indie fame with his Stanley Kubrick documentary Room 237 and contributed to a past fest. Which is to say, Burgess isn’t just reaching into the ether to find the most bugfuck stuff he can. He’s carefully curating the madness to put a spotlight on true talents whose bizarro worldviews actually moved him. That’s why he started the whole thing in the first place. “I’m looking for hybrid moments. I’m looking for in-between things that people don’t see normally, that somehow people picked up a camera and caught,” he says. “Anyone can be inspired to take a look around and see that art is everywhere in the fabric of existence.” Sometimes, the fabric of existence is a big, red demon who’s DTF. ALSO SHOWING:

Pix hosts (horrifying!) Christmas in August with Gremlins. Pix Patisserie. Dusk Wednesday, Aug. 5. Weird Wednesday lives up to its name with 1973’s Hunchback of the Morgue, hailed by critics (well, this one) as the feel-good corpse-mutilation romance of the year! Joy Cinema. 9:30 pm Wednesday, Aug. 5. Flicks on the Bricks presents an outdoor singalong to Grease in Pioneer Square, marking yet another terrorist action in Portland’s Living Room. Pioneer Courthouse Square. Dusk Friday, Aug. 7. Shane Black’s overlooked kids vs. classic Universal ghouls romp The Monster Squad returns to undo the damage of Twilight by proving wolf men do, in fact, have nards. Laurelhurst Theater. Aug. 7-13. 1988’s Coming to America features Eddie Murphy at his ﬁlthy, sweet best, before his inevitable decline into Pluto Nash-ville. Century Clackamas Town Center. 2 pm Sunday, Aug 9.

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OUT OF AFRICA: Coming to America plays at Century Clackamas Town Center at 2 pm Sunday, Aug. 9.

Fri-Sat-Sun 04:00 MYSTERIES OF THE UNSEEN WORLD Fri 03:00

Hollywood Theatre Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX 1510 NE Multnomah St. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun 11:30, 02:10, 04:55, 07:35, 10:15 DRAGON BALL Z: RESURRECTION F Sat 11:00

Regal Division Street Stadium 13 16603 SE Division St. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri 11:45, 02:15, 04:45, 07:15, 10:00 THE GIFT Fri 11:30, 02:10, 04:50, 07:30, 10:15

Regal Movies On TV Stadium 16

2929 SW 234th Ave. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun 11:30, 12:10, 02:00, 02:40, 04:30, 05:10, 07:00, 07:40, 09:40, 10:20 THE GIFT Fri-Sat-Sun 11:30, 02:10, 04:50, 07:30, 10:15

Bagdad Theater

3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 03:45, 07:00, 10:15

Cinema 21

616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 AMY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 03:45, 07:00, 09:35 JIMMY’S HALL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:00, 06:45, 09:00 TANGERINE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 06:45 KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45

Clinton Street Theater

2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 TABOO TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Fri-Sat-Sun 07:00 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00 GHOSTBUSTERS Sun 02:00 WODEHOUSE IN EXILE Mon 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Tue-Wed

Joy Cinema & Pub

11959 SW Paciﬁc Highway, 971-245-6467 SAN ANDREAS 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 09:30 TOMORROWLAND Sat-SunMon 05:00 THE DEVIL’S HAND Wed 09:30

Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub

2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:00, 09:30 THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:30 THE

MONSTER SQUAD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 06:45 EX MACHINA Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:10 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15, 09:45 FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD SatSun 01:00

Mission Theater and Pub

1624 NW Glisan St. MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO Fri 05:30 PORTLAND TIMBERS VS CHICAGO FIRE Fri 08:00 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 08:30

CineMagic Theatre

2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 ANT-MAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:35, 07:00, 09:25

Kiggins Theatre

1011 Main St., 360-816-0352 DRAGON BALL Z: RESURRECTION F Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 07:00 A LEGO BRICKUMENTARY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue 05:00 DARK PLACES Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue 09:15

Regal City Center Stadium 12

801 C St. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-Sat 11:00, 01:35, 04:10, 06:45, 09:20 THE GIFT Fri-Sat 01:00, 03:40, 06:20, 09:00

Century 16 Eastport Plaza

4040 SE 82nd Ave. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun 11:30, 02:15, 05:00, 07:45, 10:30 DRAGON BALL Z: RESURRECTION F Sat-Tue 07:00 THE INTERNATIONAL DOTA 2 CHAMPIONSHIP Sat 02:00 UNITY Wed 07:00 RIO 2

Kennedy School Theater

5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 THE MUPPET MOVIE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:15 PITCH PERFECT 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue 02:30 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Wed 07:45

Empirical Theatre at OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 11:00, 02:00 SECRET OCEAN Fri-Sat-Sun 10:00, 01:00 JOURNEY TO SPACE Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 03:00 MONKEY KINGDOM

4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 INFINITELY POLAR BEAR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 AMY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45, 09:15 THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS Fri 07:30 THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Sat 07:30 THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III Sat OMA & BELLA Sat 02:30 I AM CHRIS FARLEY Sun-Mon 07:30 DRAGON PRINCESS Tue 07:30 CASINO Wed 07:30 LUCHA LIBRE DOUBLE FEATURE STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 MAGNOLIA Fri-Sat 03:00 STRAY DOG Sat 06:00 SHORT CUTS Sun 06:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon MOTHERING INSIDE Tue 07:00 SITTING ON THE EDGE OF MARLENE Wed 07:00

Regal Pioneer Place Stadium 6 340 S.W. Morrison St. FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:00, 07:00, 10:00

St. Johns Theater

8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474-6 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:30, 10:20 TRAINWRECK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:15, 07:00, 09:45

Regal Cinemas Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX

7329 SW Bridgeport Road FANTASTIC FOUR Fri-SatSun 11:10, 01:50, 04:30, 07:10, 09:50 THE GIFT FriSat-Sun 11:15, 01:55, 04:35, 07:15, 09:55

Academy Theater

7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:25, 07:30 SAN ANDREAS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 06:45 TOMORROWLAND Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 04:50 MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:00, 07:00 EX MACHINA Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 09:15 HOME Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:45 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:40, 09:45 E.T. Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:35, 04:30, 09:30

Valley Theater

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