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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 42, ISSUE 5.

Yes, the Christmas tree in Pioneer Courthouse Square has had some work done. 4

Jersey native Roger Porter found early-’90s Portland to be “kind of a backwater in terms of

Akron, Ohio, is the font of so

sophistication.” Porter is currently a professor at Reed College. 45

much of Portland’s present-day glory. 11 One in five Portlanders don’t speak English at home. 13 Choco Milk is a popular Mexican “milk modifier.” 27

If you want to see Lou Reed’s widow’s dog play a piano, there is a place. 48 There are movies that make modern torture porn like Saw look like Goosebumps. 50

If you want to get your album out quickly, don’t sign with a dude from TV On the Radio. 31

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NEIGHBORS VS. SPORTS CLUB

Those with power and money, as well as the bullying that goes with those attributes, get their way. In this case, Terry Emmert has got the city where he wants it—afraid of lawsuits [“Contempt of Courts,” WW, Nov. 25, 2015]. So, it’s cheaper for Portland not to enforce zoning rules or even enforce the requirement that Emmert apply to change a nonconforming land use in a residential area. Add in the other concerns— a liquor license in a residential neighborhood and safety for pedestrians and all the vehicles that pile into the Eastmoreland neighborhood for one of Emmert’s profit-generating events—and you have a community nightmare. So, the only option is for citizens to spend their money suing the city to do its job. That’s pathetic for “The City That Works”…for whom? —“p walla”

All I see is someone who wants to stay an elected official, which is the best gig there is. You don’t need to know anything, people kowtow to you, and you get a fat salary and free food and travel. Screw that. Vote for Ted Wheeler. —“Hairball”

COMEDIAN POLL WINNER

Kudos to Susan Rice—this honor is long overdue [“This Is Portland’s Funniest Person,” WW, Nov. 25, 2015]. I do wonder, though, if the author of the article has ever been to a comedy show at Harvey’s? Some of the comedians (myself included) work clean; however, many work “blue.” I have never heard of a “ban on blue comedians” in the 10 years I’ve been performing at Harvey’s Comedy Club. —Sharon Lacey

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It would be very ignorant to buy a home in a neighborhood where a 7-plus-acre sports facility has existed since the mid-’70s and think, “OK, that place will never grow and get more popular.” And considering “The Courts” have evolved, grown, improved and received several land-use update approvals over the years, you might have to be an idiot to expect the city to perpetually tie the hands of a successful business indefinitely. —“i5guy”

TWO VIEWS OF BAILEY

I’m excited Jules Bailey is going to run for mayor; we need a real competitive race in this city [“Bailey’s In,” WW, Nov. 25, 2015]. I think Bailey is plenty qualified, and I think it’s good to get a more youthful voice in the race. —“Josh O.”

Every year in Pioneer Courthouse square, a beautiful fir tree (chosen from the millions in oregon’s lush forests) has all of its branches cut off, then bolted back on with metal braces. What’s going on? do the trees fail to meet official Portland symmetry standards? —Wesley M. If you’re that squeamish about what happens to just one tree once a year, Wesley, remind me never to tell you how we make newsprint. Part of the reason for this Frankentree process is that it’s tough to ship a tree with all its branches intact. But you’re correct in surmising that the main problem is that natural trees don’t live up to society’s shallow standards for arboreal beauty. We’ve gotten used to 5- or 6-foot trees from the Christmas tree farm. Those trees are just babies, and were planted well-spaced from each other, so they could spread out into the verdant, 4

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As someone who has lived in Portland for about 45 years, I don’t really get your “insights” about those who go to Lloyd Center [“Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Outspoken,” WW, Nov. 25, 2015]. I am a member of Stop Demolishing Portland. Your remark about our members being soft racists who would block the development of highdensity apartments was pretty snarky. But then that’s the type of writer WW likes to hire. —Susan Stelljes

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conical shape we’ve come to associate with giftgiving, good cheer and being drunk with your mom before noon. Unfortunately, just like you, me and Gary Coleman, trees that started life all cute and adorable can start to look pretty gnarly and busted when they get older. The trees in those lush forests you’re so geeked on are wedged in tight, and they’re all competing for sunlight at the top of the canopy. In the shade below, there’s not much use for lower branches, and a natural 75-foot fir is quite skinny and top-heavy. Society loves that look in porn stars, but we can’t hang with it in Christmas trees. So, in a sort of Yuletide reverse boob job, we plump up the bottom half of the tree by bolting on extra branches from other trees. It’s sort of like if your tweaker uncle went around the trailer park stealing the few remaining teeth from each of his neighbors so he could have a complete smile at Christmas dinner. Happy holidays! QuEstions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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The fallout continues from Portland Fire & Rescue’s handling of the now-defunct swingers hangout Club Sesso (“Hot Tip,” WW, Aug. 20, 2014). On Nov. 23, Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill ruled the city must turn over transcripts from its investigation into Assistant Fire Marshal Doug Jones, who told Club Sesso owner Paul Smith to proceed with a June 28, 2014, party the city had previously forbidden. Although the city turned over the results of its investigation to WW and The Oregonian in February, it inexplicably refused to give the documents to ﬁre inspector Rob Cruser, who blew the whistle on Jones. Last week, Underhill ruled in favor of Cruser’s appeal, saying the city’s argument for withholding documents it had already made public was “completely contrary to the situation at hand.” Cruser says the city’s attempt to stonewall him sends a message that whistleblowers should expect “a long, uphill battle.” Read all the news too hot to print.

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Every time Amiree Moore uses the microwave in her twobedroom apartment on Northeast Broadway, she says, it trips a breaker in the fuse box. For the past two months, that’s been an urgent problem for Moore, a former clothing boutique manager who quit her job in September to care for her ailing father. Each power outage shut off his oxygen machine. (He died of lung disease and prostate cancer two weeks ago.) In her jog to the fuse box, Moore gets a reminder of the other problems in her Lloyd District fourplex: leaking pipes next to exposed wires and rotting wooden beams. Windows that topple out of their frames. Overflowing garbage kept in a basement that floods. In October, Moore received a letter from her landlord: Starting Dec. 1, the monthly rent for her apartment would rise to $1,800, a 29 percent hike. Moore’s neighbor in the fourplex, Alicia Aispuro, had her rent hiked 34.5 percent. “This place is not worth $1,800 a month,” Moore says. “I figured $1,400 a month for two bedrooms in this neighborhood was worth it. But [the landlord] has done absolutely nothing to fix anything. So why the rent increase?” Moore’s landlord, RareBird Property Management in Lake Oswego, which bought the property in early October, says it has responded to all tenant complaints and will soon start fixing the basement. (When Moore provided proof of her father’s medical condition, the company delayed her rent hike until February.) “The [rent] increase is large from their standpoint, but it’s still below market,” says RareBird co-founder Tyler Combs. “When people are getting below-market rent year after year, when the building sells, you gotta increase the rent.” In a normal rental market, Moore and her neighbors would have an obvious recourse when their landlord hiked rents before doing basic upkeep on their building: They could find new apartments. But this is no normal market. Portland faces a serious rental crunch: one of the lowest vacancy rates in the country at 2.6 percent, soaring rents, and development that is struggling to catch up to the thousands of new residents pouring into the city annually. Average rent in Portland rose a whopping 16.8 percent this year, according to brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap. Cristina Palacios, who oversees the Safe Housing Project for the Community Alliance of Tenants, says rent hikes in deteriorating buildings are becoming more common. “Usually it’s because the landlord chooses to disinvest,” she says, “so they can evict everyone and either sell it or bring in new tenants at a higher price.” However common the abuse, City Hall is largely failing to protect tenants from landlords who jack up prices in neglected properties. In recent months, the Portland City Council has rushed to provide renters with new protections—including a requirement that landlords give three months’ notice before any rent increase of 5 percent or more. Those new restrictions, approved in October, are being

ON BROADWAY: Amiree Moore received notice in October that her rent in this Lloyd Center fourplex would jump by 29 percent.

“they are not getting repairs, and their rent is rising.” —Cristina Palacios, Community Alliance of Tenants challenged in court. A Nov. 18 lawsuit argues the protections violate state law. The city already possesses a tool to protect renters from landlords who raise the rent without doing basic upkeep: apartment inspections. Yet the city’s enforcement relies on renters to complain. Moore’s building is rife with violations of Title 29, the city’s property maintenance code—everything from overflowing garbage in enclosed areas to a lack of guardrails on stairs. If a city inspector had seen the building and decided RareBird Property Management was violating Title 29, that inspector could have mandated that the landlord fix the problems. However, tenants say they didn’t know they could complain to the Bureau of Development Services—the arm of the city that enforces building codes. Rental inspections are conducted only in response to complaints, says Mike Liefeld, enforcement program manager for the bureau. When a complaint is filed, inspectors are required in most cases to inspect only the unit in question. Without landlord permission, inspectors cannot enter any other units on the property. That restriction makes it that much harder to pin down bad landlords. Palacios says the problem with a complaint-based system is a lack of education: Most people don’t know how or where to complain. “It’s a shame,” she says, “because when

a housing inspector comes, the landlord is more likely to make the repairs.” This isn’t the first case of the Bureau of Development Services failing to crack down on scofflaws during the housing crunch. In February, WW reported that the bureau did little while dozens of apartment owners—including several living out of state—were breaking city rules by renting out multiple units on Airbnb and other short-term rental websites (“Hotel California,” WW, Feb. 17, 2015). Liefeld says the bureau is already overwhelmed with complaints: 815 in the past two months alone. Each inspector currently has a backlog of 17.5 cases. Liefeld says his bureau doesn’t have the money to look for more abuses. “I can’t even begin to imagine what it would take—budget, staff, vehicles—to do more than just verify violations,” he tells WW. “Right now, the complaint-based system is what we have the resources for.” There is a way for city inspectors to actively track whether Portland landlords are maintaining their properties. In 2008, in an attempt to hold landlords more accountable, the city enacted the Enhanced Rental Inspections Program, a program targeting East Portland and recently cont. on page 8 Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

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NEWS expanded to North Portland that allows inspectors to look at other units in buildings where complaints have been filed. Matt Grumm, a policy aide to Commissioner Dan Saltzman, says the program is not enough. “It was a compromise,” Grumm says. “Originally what advocates wanted was a charge per apartment that would pay for inspectors to go into apartments at random, without complaints.” Portland is more lenient with landlords than a neighboring city. In 2008, the city of Gresham implemented an inspection program that assesses a fee on rental properties to pay for mandatory random inspections throughout the year. Grumm says Portland’s 2015-16 adopted budget requires the Bureau of Development Services and public-housing agency Home Forward to present, by January 2016, ways in which the city could adopt a rental-fee model. “There is concern that complaining to [the bureau] could be dangerous for renters, in a sense,” he says. “Word might get around that they [had complained], and they might get kicked out, so this model would protect them from that.” When people do complain, city inspectors find cases astonishing in their shamelessness. Maria lives with her children, boyfriend and father-in-law in

a two-bedroom apartment in St. Johns. One day in September, Maria says, she was removing mold from the kitchen wall while her 1-year-old son sat on the floor. She turned around for a moment, and when she looked back, her son was lifting his hand to her, a mouse attached by its teeth to his finger. Maria, whose name has been changed for this story, lives in one of five units at Clarendon Terrace that received a city inspection in October. Clarendon Terrace falls within the boundaries of the Enhanced Rental Inspections Program, so the city inspector responding to a complaint in another unit there had authority to check all five units. The inspector documented 60 code violations—everything from fire safety violations to black mold, pests, broken appliances, and holes in walls and ceilings—to the building’s owner, Pacific Coast Capital Investors, a company based in California. Earlier this year, Pacific Coast raised Maria’s rent from $525 to $725, a 38 percent increase. A city document dated Oct. 22 states that Pacific Coast has 30 days from the date of the inspection to correct the violations before incurring fees—$643 per unit per month. Kyle Fuller, who manages the property for Pacific Coast, says he had no idea about the code violations. “I am blindsided,” he tells WW. “We will definitely address it. There is no reason I would want those code violations to sit.” Palacios, the tenants’ advocate, says the violations at Clarendon Terrace show that renters want the city to crack down on landlords abusing a lax inspection system. “They are not getting repairs, and their rent is rising,” Palacios says. “But they’re ready to do something about it.” 8

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CUP RUNNETH OVER: A collage of Timbers joy, with Darlington Nagbe at the center.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A precocious, talented 20-something Ohio kid moves to Portland in 2011 after college in Akron to follow his long-shot professional dreams. He settles in with a small startup. He’s slow to register the expected success. The transplant hears the doubts but doubles down on Portland, proposing to his girlfriend on Council Crest, posting adorable photos of his family on Instagram, and persuading friends and mentors to move to town to join him. He still faces whispers that he’s just too passive-aggressive to make it anywhere other than the sleepy Pacific Northwest. And then, mere weeks from another disappointing year, the adopted Portlander’s dedication to rainy winters and practice is rewarded with national acclaim. Timbers midfielder Darlington Nagbe is the ur-Portlander circa 2015, and it’s fitting that his late-season breakout has sparked Portland’s improbable run to the Major League Soccer Cup final Sunday. As recently as early October, the Timbers were perilously close to missing the playoffs, probably ensuring coach Caleb Porter and his players would be stripped from the club to new destinations, like spare parts on a wrecked Subaru. Even when playing well, the team couldn’t find the back of the net any easier than a Portlander could find cheap rent on Southeast Division Street. Not unlike Portland landlords, the Timbers front office announced the price of a Timbers Army ticket would be hiked by up to 30 percent in 2016. In a particularly boneheaded move, the club apparently hadn’t considered the optics of cutting the TriMet discount for season-ticket holders at the same time it rolled out a gimmicky partnership with Uber. Many fans asked themselves what values the badge on the jersey actually stood for if owner Merritt Paulson didn’t seem to share them.

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It was, in short, a little too much like rooting for a professional sports franchise. Two years ago, I wrote an essay about growing up with the Timbers (“Rip City vs. No Pity,” WW, Oct. 9, 2013). It discussed how the rise of Timbers fandom from anomalous minor-league Portland freak sideshow to internationally recognized and commodified lumberjack chic echoed the uneasy surge of Portland from the backwater home of Katherine Dunn’s “fugitives and refugees” to a shiny, gentrified Northwest technopoly. The narrative still holds. The spectacle of attending a Timbers match in the past 15 years has kept pace with the sprouting of condos along either direction of the No. 4 bus line. But there’s another side to those growing pains. They brought us Darlington Nagbe. Nagbe was born in war-torn Liberia, and obtained American citizenship this year. On the ball, he glides past defenders like he’s wearing speed skates. The first cracks are showing in his humility: He’s got an ever-grateful grin of self-awareness that he’s realizing his potential, and there’s not a damn thing defenders can do to stop him short of fouling him (and they do). Nagbe logged his first minutes with the U.S. national team last month. He serves as a rejoinder to our nation’s current vitriolic xenophobia. And while Nagbe is easy to root for, each of the players suited up in Timbers green are clearly as excited to be in the final as the fans, all with their own stories of making sacrifices to end up in Portland. Jorge Villafaña got his professional start by starring in a reality television show. Fanendo Adi was the one Nigerian kid out of 400 who caught the attention of international scouts. Dairon Asprilla rode the bench without speaking much English for an entire year a continent away from his Colombia home, only to score arguably the greatest goal in Timbers history—a deviously curling strike past the FC Dallas keeper. Naturally, the biggest match of Nagbe’s career this week sends him back to his old stomping grounds in Ohio. But as we cheer for a championship Sunday, we’re not just cheering for the home team. We’re supporting the idea that Portland is still a place where transplants can find fertile ground. We’re cheering for fugitives and refugees. SEE IT: The Portland Timbers play the Columbus Crew SC in the MLS Cup ﬁnal at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, at 1 pm Sunday, Dec. 6. TV on ESPN. Local viewing parties include Beulahland, 118 NE 28th Ave., 235-2794, beulahlandpdx.com. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

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TAKING REFUGE: Hamada and Saman Haaji, 17 and 15, came to the United States from Egypt and settled in Portland less than a year ago. They were born in Somalia, but ﬂed amid war. “The refugees aren’t the people hurting people,” Saman says. “They are running from the people who are hurting the people.”

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ast month, teenage brothers Saman and Hamada Haaji were glued to the television set in their Southeast Portland home, watching France play Germany in an exhibition soccer game in Paris. Then they heard the noise: a dull “kaboom.” Like the soccer players they were watching, Saman and Hamada didn’t immediately realize the explosion was the work of terrorists. Within minutes, however, the Portland teens could flip the channel and learn about the terror that was unfolding. Gunmen and bombers murdered what would eventually climb to 130 civilians enjoying a night in Paris. Saman and Hamada are refugees from Somalia who spent most of their youth in Egypt. They had grown up amid war, nearly numb to violence. Yet the Paris massacre left the brothers, who are Muslim, feeling distressed. “It was so sad,” says Hamada, a junior at David Douglas High School. “It was a beautiful day. There was a soccer game. And some stupid people did something bad.” In the wake of last month’s terror attacks in Paris, many American politicians— including most of the Republican frontrunners for president—are demanding much stronger restric-

tions on immigrants and refugees entering the United States, especially Syrians fleeing the war that has sundered their nation. That backlash strikes some Oregonians as hateful and ignorant. (Syrian refugees already undergo a grueling, two-year screening process to enter the U.S.; see page 17.) It’s also far too late. More than 1,000 refugees come to Oregon each year. One in five people in Portland don’t speak English at home. The real question is no longer how to keep people out of this country. It’s how to make them part of it. No place in Portland tackles the job of assimilation better than the David Douglas School District. Nearly three years ago, WW visited David Douglas High School in outer Southeast Portland, where district officials said students spoke 55 languages (“Miracle on 135th Avenue,” WW, Feb. 13, 2013). That year, David Douglas earned statewide recognition—few other school districts achieved such high test scores and graduation rates with such a diverse student body. Oregon school administrators picked their superintendent of the year (Don Grotting), elementary principal of the year (Ericka Guynes) and

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“When people hear ‘refugee,’ they think they’re all the same. They’re not. They’re real people.” middle-school principal of the year (James Johnston) all from the David Douglas School District. Johnston’s Alice Ott Middle School also earned recognition as a “model school” by the state Department of Education for its superior test scores. And now the spotlight on the district is national. A recent report from the New America foundation in Washington, D.C., says David Douglas has an exceptionally good track record when it comes to teaching young children English. Starting three years ago, David Douglas totally revamped its English-language instruction by getting rid of elementary classes that segregated students who spoke a foreign language. Now, all children from kindergarten to fifth grade—no matter their native language—spend blocks of time in English-language instruction grouped by ability. For 30 minutes a day, students of all levels practice their language skills by talking, listening, reading and writing. Grotting, the superintendent, says teachers also weave language instruction into academic courses such as math and that all children benefit from the focus on communication. “It’s not rocket science,” he says. “It just made sense.” The results, while encouraging, haven’t completely transformed the district. For one thing, the oldest students to benefit from the program have reached only the eighth grade. At the high-school level, English-language instruction still looks like it used to, with non-English-speaking students pulled into special classes in a high-speed effort to teach them proficiency before they leave or graduate. “When people hear ‘refugee,’ they think they’re all the same,” says Anne Downing, an English-language teacher at David Douglas High School. “They’re not. They’re real people.” As the wave of people fleeing war zones continues (“The Newest Portlanders,” WW, Sept. 30, 2015), innovative programs like those at David Douglas will become even more necessary. And no one can testify to that need like the kids who learned at David Douglas what it means to be American. At a time when this nation’s values are under assault from people who would lock its doors, we sat down with five David Douglas High School students and talked about what coming here means to them. They talked about how they got here, the hardest parts of adjusting, and what they would say to Donald Trump.

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THE STUDENTS IN THIS CONVERSATION YuYan Luo, 18, emigrated from taishan, china, in December 2013 with her parents, who wanted their only daughter to master English. A senior at David Douglas High School, she says one of the best things about the U.S. is that her family can afford to travel and own a car.

Saman and Hamada Haaji, 15- and 17-year-old brothers, escaped violence in Somalia, where they were born, and lived for nine years in cairo, where they waited for a chance to move to the U.S. they witnessed history when the Arab Spring of 2011 pushed Egypt into revolution. “It was like a war,” Saman, a sophomore, says. “It was not safe there.” the brothers, who are Muslim, moved to Portland in January 2015.

Sun Ye, 16, moved from china like Yuyan. Unlike Yuyan, Sun was actually born in the United States on the island of Saipan in the western Pacific ocean. She lived in Jiangmen, china, from the time she was about 2 months old until she was 13. “Here I would get a better future,” the high-school junior says.

RicHaRd Seco, 17, emigrated from Pinar del Río, cuba, in May 2013. “there weren’t a lot of opportunities for us,” he says, explaining the move. He spoke no English when he arrived. “now I speak two languages,” the junior says. “I want to be a police officer.”

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WHAT WAS THE PROCESS LIKE FOR COMING TO THE U.S.?

SAMAN: It was the best moment. A lot of things were going to change in our lives.

YUYAN: It’s not so difficult. We waited for about

12 years.

HOW DID YOU END UP IN PORTLAND?

SAMAN: We waited

YUYAN: We picked Portland

because my aunt is here.

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nine years.

WAS THAT WAIT UNBEARABLY LONG? YUYAN: We almost

SAMAN: We had a brother

here.

SUN: I have family here—an uncle and an aunt.

didn’t have any hope about this, but suddenly it comes.

RICHARD: My stepdad was here already.

HAMADA: We were just

WHAT DID AMERICA MEAN TO YOU WHEN YOU FOUND OUT YOU’D BE MOVING HERE?

living life. Then we had a chance to move to the United States, and we accepted.

TELL ME ABOUT THE MOMENT WHEN YOU LEARNED YOU WOULD MOVE TO THE U.S.

YUYAN: My second chance. HAMADA: A good school, a

good house, good food.

Richard Seco, 17, moved from Cuba without knowing English in 2013.

YUYAN: My feelings? When I knew, the first

time, I was so excited. “I can go America! U.S.A.!” Then I was nervous. A new environment. A new language. And money.

SAMAN: Safety. A bright

future.

RICHARD: America for me is the whole continent of North America and South America. The thing about the U.S. is that it’s really fun. If you say you’re from the U.S., people say, “Wow, good.” CONT. on page 19

COMING (SLOWLY) TO AMERICA THE ROAD TO REFUGE FOR SYRIANS IS LONG. Politicians nationwide—including most Republican presidential candidates—are demanding stricter screening for Syrian refugees in the wake of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris. But as many reporters have noted, the current process for vetting refugees often takes two years. Here are the steps the White House requires before Syrian refugees are allowed to enter the United States. COBY HUTZLER.

1. Refugees apply to the United Nations. The U.N.’s refugee agency, the High Commissioner for Refugees, collects identifying documents, conducts eye scans, and verifies the applicants are actually refugees. Less than 1 percent of the global refugee population makes the cut.

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2. Applicants who are referred to the U.S. are received by a federally funded Resettlement Support Center, which collects the identifying documents, creates an applicant file and preps information for “biographic security checks.” 3. These checks start with security screenings by U.S. agencies, including the FBI, National Counterterrorism Center, Department of Homeland Security and State Department. The agencies look for possible connections to known bad actors, outstanding arrest warrants and immigration or criminal violations.

4. All applicants are interviewed, but Homeland Security conducts enhanced reviews of Syrian refugees, using the information to prepare interview questions. Applicants’ fingerprints are collected, and if fingerprint results or new information raise questions, applicants may be reinterviewed. 5. Fingerprints are taken—again—and screened against databases and watch lists at the FBI, Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. These databases contain applicants’ previous immigration encounters around the world, as well as fingerprints obtained in Iraq and elsewhere. If there is any question applicants pose a security risk, they will not be admitted. 6. The need for a medical screening is determined. Refugees may be provided treatment for communicable diseases. Cases may be denied if applicants have a disease or illness that is communicable (tuberculosis), quarantinable (cholera, yellow fever), or part of a declared public health emergency (polio, SARS, smallpox). 7. Applicants take cultural-orientation classes. U.S.-based nonprofits determine the best resettlement location for applicants. 8. Travel is booked by the International Organization for Migration. Applicants are then screened by the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Some applicants don’t make it past this step. Those who don’t get flagged may travel to the U.S. 9. All refugees are required to apply for a green card within one year of their arrival in the U.S. This triggers another set of security procedures.

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THE MIRACLE CONTINUES REFUGEE STUDENT HAE NAY PAW GRADUATES FROM DAVID DOUGLAS.

SAFE PASSAGE: Yuyan Luo, 18, has grown closer to her parents after immigrating to Portland from China. ‘We are here together,” she says. “We face the same problems, and we fix them together.”

NOW THAT YOU’RE HERE, WHAT’S THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE U.S.? RICHARD: How many different cultures there are. It’s

like, wow, amazing. In Cuba, it’s just Cubans.

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SAMAN: I don’t see English as hard. It’s just time. It takes time. Everything has steps. RICHARD: Some people don’t try to understand you. You need their help, and they’re like, “You don’t speak English.” HOW HAS LEARNING ENGLISH CHANGED YOUR LIFE? YUYAN: My parents don’t speak English. So now I can

translate for them. It’s hard for me. But it’s hard for them, the hardest part for them. HAS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR PARENTS CHANGED BECAUSE THEY DEPEND ON YOU?

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Islam.

RICHARD: I wouldn’t talk to him. I wouldn’t look at him. I would go home. If I had to skip school because I had to look at him, I would. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SOME PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES’ IDEA THAT WE SHOULD RESTRICT THE FLOW OF REFUGEES? YUYAN: We should not stop. I remember Obama said,

“We accept refugees,” right? If they worry about the dangers, I think we can do good protection in the U.S.

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SECULAR HUMANIST DAY OF GIVING Christmas Valley is the only town in Oregon that does not allow Christians to buy or rent homes there. As such, the residents of this small and peaceful borough give handmade gifts to their friends every year on Dec. 25 and then spend the rest of the day respectfully allowing their neighbors to do whatever they want so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.

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SUNDAY DEC. 6 David Wax Museum

ELFOLK LABOR DAY It’s a little-known fact that Santa’s toy-making operation has an auxiliary workshop in lightly populated Central Oregon. While many people celebrate Boxing Day on Dec. 26, Santa’s indentured-servant elves in La Pine get their only day off of the year. They spend the day napping, gazing into their children’s eyes and trying to memorize their faces (elves are not allowed to own pictures of their children because it is considered “distracting” by their boss). At 11:59 pm on Dec. 26, Santa faxes in his order for the following year, and the elves of La Pine commence the unending and ultimately insufficient work of building Christmas toys for the children of the world.

[MEXO-AMERICANA] David Wax, frontman and namesake of this Boston-based group, spent time studying in Mexico, and upon returning to the U.S. integrated some of the country’s regional sounds into his original songs. On the band’s latest LP, Guesthouse, DWM has expanded its palette, range and expectations to emerge with its most experimental record to date. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

TUESDAY DEC. 8 Holiday Marketplace

[SHOPPING] Do your holiday shopping feeling all toasty on samples from local distilleries in a marketplace with products made exclusively by local vendors. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., No. 110, 288-3895. 5 pm. Free.

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 20th Annual Holiday Ale Festival

Something like 14,000 office fieldtrippers and people in reindeer hats will be downing beer after one-off craft beer in an annual impromptu tent city in the middle of Pioneer Courthouse Square, next to a big-ass Christmas tree. It is a hallowed holiday shitshow with cheese pairings, root beer and 50 weirdballs winter beers you haven’t seen before. Show up during the workday if you know what’s good for you. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., holidayale.com. 11 am. $35-$100.

Talkin’ Abraxas Draft Release No Cover Charge

3390 NE Sandy Blvd | 535 NE Columbia Blvd www.chopstickskaraoke.com

Shandong www.shandongportland.com

St. Louis’ best brewery, Perennial, tests its mettle in Beervana this evening, bringing its most-acclaimed beer to N.W.I.P.A. An imperial stout with ancho chili pepper, cacao nibs and cinnamon sticks added, Abraxas is a massive oily brew that ﬂows thickly over the tongue—a well-brewed marvel every bit as round as the Gateway Arch. N.W.I.P.A., 6530 SE Foster Road, 805-7342. 6 pm. Free entry.

1. Teo Bun Bo Hue

8220 SE Harrison St., No. 230, 208-3532. There’s no menu at this pretty little Vietnamese soup shop, and no need www.shandongportland.com for one. You’ll be asked just one question: Chicken or beef? There is no wrong answer. The chicken pho contains beautifully pure stock, and the beef-pork bun bo Hue is the most complex version of the soup anywhere in town.

Shandong 2. Coquine

6839 SE Belmont St., 384-2483, coquinepdx.com. Just a few months ago, this tidy mountainside cottage felt like our own little secret. The city’s gotten wise, but French-trained chef Katy Millard is earning all the praise she’s received.

3. Next Level Burger

4121 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 719-7058, nextlevelburger.com. The Pita Pit next to the city’s preeminent bong retailer is no more. In its place is a bustling vegan burger bar with superb sweetpotato fries.

4. The Maple Parlor

3538 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 206-4757, themapleparlor.com. After you get your bloodless patty at Next Level, you come here for dessert. This Hawthorne shop caters to even our most modern of dietary restrictions, with cold, creamy substances that are Paleo-friendly, vegan and gluten-free.

5. Old Salt Marketplace

5027 NE 42nd Ave., 971-255-0167, oldsaltpdx.com. You can settle in for a meal— they’ve been making fresh-fried weekend doughnuts lately—or you can get some meat to go. Old Salt’s tasso recently won our blind tasting of local hams.

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FRIDAY, DEC. 4 Sage Hen Dessert Pop-Up

The ﬁrst weekend of every month at the Trifecta bakery, the Sage Hen pop-up revives seriously old-school sweets and serves them up with punch. This month, among other possible desserts and snacks, they’ll be serving up “plum pudding with frothy vanilla sauce,” following a recipe from Delmonico’s Restaurant from the 19th century, and “Christmas cookeys” from the ﬁrst American cookbook, published in 1798. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. Trifecta, 726 SE 6th Ave., 841-6675. 8:30 pm. $35.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8 Holiday Marketplace

Do your holiday shopping slightly toasty on House Spirits, New Deal

and Thomas & Sons liquor samples in a marketplace with all-local vendors, including Woodblock Chocolate, Olympia Provisions meat and Green Front Farms weed. Along with consumables, there will be more than 20 local clothing, accessory and beauty-goods makers, including Sticks + Stones jewelry and Black Star bags. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., No. 110. 5 pm. Free entry.

Pasta Festa

Pastaworks will throw a food party at its Hawthorne store (set to close in January 2016), with free ravioli and focaccia, plus a visit from Olympia Provisions’ Elias Cairo, who’ll be oﬀering snacks and signing his new cookbook. Pok Pok Som drinking-vinegar cocktails will also be on hand, as will J. Christopher’s Bon Naso pinot noir. Pastaworks, 3735 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-1010. 5 pm.

DRANK

2011 Black Brut (ARGYLE WINERY)

Most Champagne includes some pinot noir. We tend to ignore this since French bubbles are a blend, and the red grapes are pressed directly after harvest, before the black skin can ferment and impart its pigment. Which is what makes this lemonade-from-lemons project so interesting. Dundee’s Argyle is best known for bubbles, but actually makes a lot of still wine, too. However, in 2011, which, if current trends hold, might go down as the last truly chilly growing season the Willamette Valley sees in a generation, the upper elevation pinot noir grapes from Knudsen Vineyards didn’t have the big body people want from a pinot noir. So they turned the red wine to bubbles, making a unique dark sparkler, which you won’t find at stores but can buy at their tasting room. The bubbles give the acid extra bite, but as they dissipate you find it’s mostly a thin, cherry-centric pinot noir with a little pepper. It does make a very nice pairing for holiday meals—middle ground if you’re only going to have one bottle, and a conversation piece besides. MARTIN CIZMAR.

Buona Mattina Coffee Porter (STICKMEN BREWING)

Since 2012, the biggest advertisement for Stickmen Brewing has been the chance to sit on a patio overlooking Lake Oswego—a motorboaters’ pond whose shores are jealously guarded by a consortium of property owners so secretive they once hired a younger version of me as minimumwage security to keep journalists away from their meeting. But as of November, bottles of Stickmen’s F-Bomb IPA and Buona Mattina coffee porter have begun to show up in area New Seasons. For refreshment, we’d advise you stick with the breeze on that Lake Oswego patio. The java in the porter is Illy, a mass-market Italian brand. It’s a weird choice for a cold-brew coffee beer made in Portland: All lack of caffeine patriotism aside, Illy is not particularly known for fresh or intense coffee flavor, and imparts very little to the beer. The resulting brew is a sickly combination of roasty malts and stale-bean bitterness that tastes less like bright cold brew than the cigarette you might smoke after the cup, on a deeply hung-over morning still vaporous from the night before. Not recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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Marg Madness SEARCHING FOR PORTLAND’S BEST FAMILY MEXICAN RESTAURANT. By Martin CizMar mcizmar@wweek.com

About a month ago, I reviewed a new Mexican joint on Southeast Gladstone Street. In the review, I bemoaned the lack of really good sit-down family Mexican places, those decidedly outmoded eateries with comfy booths, free chips and frozen margaritas in oversized glassware. As it turns out, I’m not alone. Midrange family-style Mexican spots are something a lot of Portlanders think about. I received lots of emails and Facebook messages from readers who thought I might like their favorite spot. So I went to them. All of them. Understand: I wasn’t looking for fine dining, let alone authenticity. I was looking for a place where the server calls me “amigo” and warns me to be careful because the plates are hot. A place where the big pool of purplish brown refried beans was somewhat appealing, and where the soda refills come before the glass is empty. A place where there’s a hamburger for Uncle Dale who claims to be allergic to Mexican food. The bad news: I did not find my platonic ideal, a place as perfect as Xochimilco in Detroit, Rita’s in Phoenix or Mariachi Loco’s in Akron, Ohio, before some asshat from ICE ordered a raid. On the other, I did discover a few places better than La Bamba, Tapatio and the Original Taco House.

La Carreta

BIENVENIDOS: La Carreta has something for the whole family.

waiting area is decorated with a few knickknacks, while the cramped dining room is all business. Bebidas: It’s open for breakfast, so there is an extensive selection of fruit juices, plus horchata and Choco Milk, the popular and vitamin-rich Mexican “milk modifier.” After that, it’s your usual selection of Tecates and Modelos, plus margaritas in flavors from cranberry to sour apple. The frozen strawberry marg had a neon pink glow and slushy consistency, and tasted like a Starburst. Comida: Dark brownish-red salsa and small, thick tortilla chips stood out from the pack. However, the pollo ranchero ($10.50) was absurdly bad, a mix of stir-fry vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots) and rubbery chicken covered in a ketchupy glaze.

Catalina’s 4534 SE McLoughlin Blvd., 236-8089, 517 NE Killingsworth St., 288-5911, lacarretaportland.com. Best overall: catalinasmexicanrestaurant.com. Atmosphere: This mazelike Mexila Carreta Atmosphere: Catalina’s is a dim cave with can roadhouse on McLoughlin is Best drinks: gray tile floors and rickety wooden chairs. fully immersive, with murals of la Carreta There is no music, just the echo of a TV caballeros and prickly pears paintBest enchiladas: showing the Blazers game in a distant nook. ed on the stucco walls, and tiny acapulco’s southwest Gold The menu is one laminated page. Mexican and American flags on Best chips and salsa: Bebidas: You can get a pitcher of a housewood sticks have been tucked into raul’s made agua fresca for $7, a bottle of Corona the hanging plants. The tables are Best chile Colorado: for $3.50 or a sugary marg made with tiled and the chairs are upholstered iron Horse sweet-and-sour drink mix for $4. Stick with with traditional blankets—don’t worry, the regular marg, as the dark purple strawberry you don’t actually have to sit in a chair, as version tasted like cough syrup. slouch-friendly booths are plentiful. Comida: Nothing had much flavor, starting with the Bebidas: We were left wanting for refills, and there are no tap beers. On the plus side, the frozen strawberry sugary-sweet salsa (a hotter salsa available on request margarita tasted like it actually included juice, and there’s a tasted like burnt sod) and continuing with volcano-hot huge selection of alcoholic coffee cocktails, including a very beans and rice next to limp enchiladas. nice La Carreta coffee that blends the beans with Frangelico, Bailey’s and Kahlúa, then tops them with whipped cream Iron Horse and a cherry. If you sit at the bar, you can get $1.99 margs and 6034 SE Milwaukie Ave., 232-1826, portlandironhorse.com. 99-cent beers until 6 pm on weekdays. Also, La Carreta is Atmosphere: This taverny Tex-Mex spot is one of the most welcoming restaurants in the dining desert of Sellwood. It open until midnight on weekdays and 2 am on weekends. Comida: The salsa is way too watery—spilling right off the plays classic rock, and there’s not much in the way of decoration chips—and not very spicy. However, the beef enchilada was beyond a few strings of Christmas lights and some sombreros. excellent. Chile Colorado came as big hunks of pot-roasty Bebidas: It’s more like a dive bar than a Mexican restaurant, beef, but the server forgot the tortillas. The rice and beans with Coors Light and classic craft beers on tap (Widmer Hefe, are nothing to get excited about. However, every meal does Deschutes Mirror Pond), plus pint classic margs ($7.95). The come with a free scoop of ice cream with whipped cream strawberry version ($8.50) was softly sweet and quite tasty. Comida: The encyclopedic, cheese-heavy menu includes and chocolate sauce. everything from Dungeness crab enchiladas to a pesto chicken quesadilla. There are three salsas, and servers Mi Pueblo will bring you little containers of each, but good luck with 10543 SE Fuller Road, 653-5094, mipueblorestaurant.net. Atmosphere: Expect a wait, as the tiny Mi Pueblo sits refills. Chile Colorado was made with sirloin and came in a neighborhood where other options include Outback inside a cheese-smothered burrito ($13.95) on a plate and the ’Bee’s. It does a brisk takeout business, and the with Spanish rice and plump black beans.

Acapulco’s Southwest Gold

7800 SW Capitol Highway, 244-0771. Atmosphere: This homey storefront in sleepy Multnomah Village has a cute little bar lined with hot sauces and an exposed-wood beam hung with piñatas. On our visit, it played a Fleetwood Mac supermix and flipped the sign to close a half-hour before the posted time. Bebidas: Everything from pineapple juice to milkshakes. I drank one of the finest pints of Boneyard RPM I’ve had all year. Comida: The chips, oddly, tasted like Saltine crackers, but you can’t beat the enchiladas. A plate with two burrito-sized rolls of deeply spicy ground beef and stewy shredded chicken ($10.95) in a rich red sauce hit all the right notes.

La Cocina

3939 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 278-5414, lacocinaportland.com. Atmosphere: The newest spot here, La Cocina opened last year in a concrete-floored modern space on MLK. Discordant lighting fixtures appear to have been salvaged from the set of Cheers. It was recommended not by a reader or friend, but by Yelp: La Cocina is currently ranked only behind Nuestra Cocina, the high-end Mexican joint on Southeast Division Street that also tops my personal list of the city’s best. Bebidas: It’s the kind of place that serves Ninkasi IPA and mojitos. It didn’t have strawberry syrup for margaritas, so we got raspberry. Comida: The only spot here that charged for chips and salsa ($3.50), La Cocina has papery chips that nearly dissolve when dipped in pico de gallo. An enchilada plate came with a pyramid of rice and a dollop of guac. Sadly, the chicken was dry and stringy. A San Francisco-style chile Colorado burrito ($7.25) was rice-heavy but had a nice complement of warming spices.

Raul’s Family Mexican Restaurant

4820 SW 76th Ave., 203-2999, raulsrestaurant.com. Atmosphere: The most upscale of the restaurants reviewed here, Raul’s sits in a plaza behind the Raccoon Lodge brewery and across from Fred Meyer. It’s got high ceilings with skylights, tasteful tile accents and carved wood booths. Bebidas: Very classic, from a full line of Jarritos to ice-cold Negra Modelo on tap to margaritas with a slice of orange and a maraschino cherry skewered on a wee plastic sword. Comida: This spot was recommended by a pescatarian couple, and you can see why—the large menu includes not only menudo and fancy bacon- and avocado-topped burgers for Uncle Dale, but shrimp chimichangas. The chips are thin and ultra-crispy and come with an impressively spicy dark red salsa (with a little carafe for refills) and a little bowl of refried beans. But the enchiladas and chile verde lacked punch. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

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MUSIC HOTSEAT

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

PAT T I M I L L E R

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

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Holiday Friends

[FAMILIAR AND ANONYMOUS] Andrew McMahon is that guy who sings “Cecilia and the Satellite.” You know, the one in a commercial for a car or Kindles or some shit? The one that has the video featuring him and his infant daughter, and it’s all cute or whatever? It has a feel-good, sing-along chorus? You’d deﬁnitely know it if you heard it. Anyway, he’s that guy. If you’re into that kind of trendy indie pop, he’s got a whole album with songs that aren’t “Cecilia and the Satellite,” but might as well be. SHANNON GORMLEY. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $21.50. All ages.

!!!, Stereolad, the Lower 48

[DANCE-PUNK] Critical favor may have moved on from Sacramento’s !!!—once again, most commonly pronounced “Chk Chk Chk,” though any three repeated syllables will do—but almost 20 years in, the band just keeps on keeping on, sharpening its brand of post-punk disco with each album. Its latest is the slightly more electro-ﬁed As If, and while it doesn’t necessarily represent a great leap forward, it continues to prove these guys have always understood the funk better than many of their peers. Come early for Stereolad, featuring !!! frontman Nic Oﬀer in a dress doing Stereolab songs. Why? Because why not? MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

Hed PE, Murder FM, Unusual Subjects, LovecraftMusic, Dsynigr8d

[G-PUNK] Have you ever wondered what band was playing inside the head of the methamphetamine addict who broke into your apartment and stole your Macbook and pit-bull puppy? Do you desire the knowledge imbued within the fabric of every pair of Jnco jeans? From the terrifying corner of Southern California that spawned such grotesqueries as Kottonmouth Kings and your cousin who’s addicted to OxyContin and weird, racist Facebook posts comes Hed PE. It calls its music “G-punk.” I have been the Last Punk on Earth for all my life, and I was born in 1989, so I can assure you this is a real, true thing that I invented and love. If you’ve ever listened to grating numetal and thought, “Golly, I wish that old singer would ‘spit’ a couple of ‘bars’ over this excruciating noise,” then you’re in for the night of your fucking life. BRACE BELDEN. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

Ezra Furman, Guy Blakeskee

[TWEE POP] Whether he’s backed by Tufts University cronies the Harpoons or his other band the Boy-Friends, Ezra Furman has kept up steady proliﬁc output. With an emotive shriek akin to early Daniel Johnston leading Violent Femmes and the rollicking instrumentation of Ryan Adams’ ﬁrst few records, Furman is adamant about retaining his juvenile naiveté. This year’s Perpetual Motion People adds more luscious pop songs to his infectious songbook. CRIS LANKENAU. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

THURSDAY, DEC. 3 Elle King

[COUNTRY BADASS] Let’s start by talking about Elle King’s voice, because she sings like she’s swallowed a desert full of dirt—that’s supposed to be a compliment. The former model, who is the daughter of alleged comedian Rob Schneider, sings with such excessive gravel in her voice that it can get cartoony, but it makes perfect sense paired

with her apocalyptic, kitschy country sound. Even at its most over the top, it’s still way better than the jingoistic, boozeand-boobs-and-Jesus kind of country that has monopolized the genre’s mainstream for way too long. SHANNON GORMLEY. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Jazz Cartier, G4shi, Dior Worthy

[JACUZZI LA FLEUR] Described by Pitchfork as “Toronto’s first post-Drake rapper,” Jazz Cartier owes significantly more to Auto-Tuned croon rappers Future and Travis Scott for his style of darkly cosmopolitan rap than he does to his fellow Canadian. That isn’t to say he doesn’t channel some of the “6 God” singer’s newfound rich-guy badassery. This year’s Marauding in Paradise has its fair share of Drake-isms among its debts to Atlanta. Cartier needs a few years to develop a voice of his own—he still sounds like an amalgam of his influences—but this show is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of someone who clearly has his eyes on the stars. WALKER MACMURDO. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

Odesza, Hayden James, Big Wild

[GLOBAL ELECTRONICA] By now, we’ve all cried along to Ben Moon’s touching video about the passing of his beloved dog, Denali. A secret weapon in that video is the emotive electronica playing in the background as we get one last look at the adorable pup. Seattle duo Odesza is responsible for that track (“It’s Only”), and many other hits on its fantastic sophomore release, In Return. The record is a delightful quilt of samples from all over the globe, stitched cleanly together and often backed by big beats and captivating special guests such as Jenni Potts and Shy Girls’ Dan Vidmar. MARK STOCK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. Through Dec. 4. Sold out.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4 Pass, Rod, Sabonis, Alien Boy

[THE NEW NOSTALGIA] On its new EP, Ways Out, Portland’s Pass bullies ’90s revivalism back into the noisy epoch ruled by the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. The band is deﬁnitely up to the task of matching its ancient masters, with bleary and tangled anthems that demonstrate a wicked knack for lacing waves of distortion with fetching and aﬀecting melodies. Like Pass, Rod evokes the fruitful period that peaked in 1991, but on its recently released debut EP, Where I Had Gone, the Portland quartet imagines a slightly sweeter alternate history, one in which Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque dug as deep into the popular consciousness as Nevermind. Here’s to nostalgia trips with sneaky detours. CHRIS STAMM. Anarres Infoshop & Community Space, 7101 N Lombard St. 7 pm. $5. All ages.

Cold War Kids, Dogheart

[BOUNCING SOUL] For their ﬁfth LP, Hold My Home, Cold War Kids enlisted some local talent from the Modest Mouse camp. Dann Gallucci joined as guitaristproducer while Shins percussionist Joe Plummer took backbeat duties after the departure of founding member Matt Aveiro. The amalgamated roster is a stark evolution from the upstarts behind “Hang Me Out to Dry.” The vocals especially have adopted a more overtly soulful tinge that previous albums only hinted at, so it seems Detroit may have had a major inﬂuence on the Long Beach quintet. CRIS LANKENAU. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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Q&A: Natasha Kmeto THE FUTURE-R&B ARTIST ON RECORD LABEL FRUSTRATION, DUMB QUESTIONS AND FINALLY FIGURING OUT WHAT SHE WANTS. BY MATTHEW SINGER msinger@wweek.com

Natasha Kmeto had a big year. Maybe it could’ve been bigger. At the end of 2014, it certainly seemed like the Portland electronic R&B singer-producer was heading toward a breakthrough. She was playing her biggest shows ever, opening for TV On the Radio and prepping to drop a new album, Inevitable, through TVOTR guitarist Dave Sitek’s label, Federal Prism. By summer, though, the record had yet to surface. Caught in release-schedule limbo, Kmeto took back the masters and, in September, finally put it out via her longtime label, Dropping Gems. Still, Inevitable was an artistic triumph, a bold declaration of identity set to some of her most vivid production work yet. Even without Sitek’s imprimatur of cool, the album found its way to the national press, and earned Kmeto the best reviews of her career. And while 2015 may have begun with frustration, as Kmeto told us, she’s coming out of the year with a sharpened vision of what she wants, and where she’s going next. WW: What was the highlight of 2015 for you? Natasha Kmeto: Getting the record out and the reception it’s gotten with national press and bigger press and getting attention even though we put it out on a small indie. It was awesome to get some recognition for that. The album was supposed to come out on Dave Sitek’s label. What happened? It was mainly a timing thing. Without getting into too much detail, it just wasn’t going to come out in the time frame I wanted it to, and we were able to work something out where I was able to just get my masters and release it with Dropping Gems, because I didn’t want to wait to put it out. I had already waited a while.

Was it frustrating? Um, yes. [Laughs.] I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus, because there’s no bad blood or anything, but I think in any position where an artist wants to get their music out there and can’t, it’s frustrating. What did you take away from that whole experience? I do think reception to music rests largely on the content of the music, which I think a lot of people on the business side of the industry sometimes forget. They’re really busy chasing hype and statistics and YouTube plays and all this kind of stuff, but I think in the end the content is obviously still what drives it. I learned a lot and got exposure to a lot of different sides of the industry, and I was able to home in on what I actually want. Which hasn’t changed, but I’m more solid in the fact that I want to release my music the way I want to do it. What did it feel like to finally get Inevitable out? It always feels good to let people know where you’re at creatively after you’ve been sitting on it. Obviously, a lot more people are discussing my sexuality. I get asked a lot if being a woman and being queer affects how I make music, and that’s the silliest question. It’s like asking me if having brown hair affects how I make music. It’s been nice, though, to open the dialogue to even pointing that out to people. I’m trying to navigate the space between just being treated like an artist, but also speaking to a different narrative and having that be addressed. You said you’ve started writing again. Is there going to be another record soon? I hope so. I’m not sure if we’re going to play the record-label game again. I’m looking to get as much new writing done as possible and then see how it feels from there. I’d like to get something new out within the year, but knowing what I know now about the system and how a lot of this stuff works, I’m not going to set any expectations for timelines. This is the first in a series of year-end interviews with Portland musicians. MORE: Read an extended Q&A at wweek.com. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

MUSIC SATURDAY, DEC. 5 Jay Farrar, Holy Sons

[THE OTHER GUY] It seems strange now, but there was a brief moment when Jay Farrar was the most important ex-member of Uncle Tupelo. When the critically beloved alt-country troupe split, there were many who bet the band’s mop-topped frontman would go on to do great things after escaping the egomaniacal guitarist who would not heed his simple instructions to avoid speaking directly to the audience through the provided microphone. And for a moment, it seemed like maybe they were right. Son Volt’s Trace marks that moment. Depending on whom you talk to (read: not me), the Son Volt debut that Farrar is playing in its entirety on his current tour

is maybe even better than Wilco’s ﬁrst record, A.M. It certainly makes great use of Farrar’s honey-dipped Upper Mississippi twang. But then Wilco released Being There, and Jeﬀ Tweedy hasn’t looked back since. Farrar, however, is looking back, with one of those whole-1995-album tours we’ve seen from Korn and Everclear. Godspeed, Jay. May the wind take your troubles away. MARTIN CIZMAR. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Modest Mouse

[KEEP ON BROCKIN’] Calling all human turds! If you missed Modest Mouse’s ﬁery headlining set at MusicfestNW back in August…well, hopefully you acted fast enough to

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DEVIN TOLMAN

INTRODUCING

The Last Artful Dodgr SOUNDS LIKE: A parallel-thought version of Chance the Rapper’s “acid rap,” with lyrics inspired by Sufjan Stevens. FOR FANS OF: Prince, Shabazz Palaces, Missy Elliott. When Alana Chenevert says she’s “dodged every bullet that’s been shot at me,” she’s not speaking metaphorically. Growing up in midcity Los Angeles, evading violence was an everyday reality. One day, when she was about 3 years old, she was playing in front of her house when her mom called her inside. Seconds later, gunshots rang out. She ran downstairs to find her brother bleeding on the porch. “That could’ve been me,” she says. Her brother survived, and Chenevert eventually got out of L.A. But she hasn’t forgotten where she came from, nor her experiences. Like her kaleidoscopic brand of hip-hop, Chenevert’s nom de rap, the Last Artful Dodgr, is a woven basket of meaning. In four words, there’s a reference to the city that raised her, her childhood nickname (Lala), Charles Dickens and her penchant for narrowly avoiding perilous situations—not to mention the obvious baseball pun. Clearly, Chenevert has a hyperactive mind. As as kid, she sang, danced, rapped and dreamed of being a choreographer. It wasn’t until after college, when she moved into a shared artist house in Arcata, Calif., that her drive to perform overcame her anxiety about actually doing it. “I was able to tap into that side of me that I’d been holding back all those years,” she says. In 2013, Chenevert came to Portland with 199NVRLND, an album she recorded in her bedroom back in California. Lacing soulfully psychedelic beats with her otherworldly sing-song flow, it’s unlike anything that’s come out of the local hip-hop scene, yet it ended up flying under most everyone’s radar. But those who did catch wind of it—namely Kenny Fresh, who signed her to his Fresh Selects label—are making sure she gets heard now. She recently released a three-song EP, Fractures, with producer Neill Von Tally, and says she’s got several new ideas just waiting to be born. “I’m always in my head, regardless of the situation,” she says. “I can seem like I’m super-present, but there’s something in the back, always working.” MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: The Last Arftul Dodgr plays Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with SiR, Andre Power and Neijah Lanae, on Thursday, Dec. 3. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. 32

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DATES HERE

Scott Kelly of Neurosis, Muscle and Marrow, Disemballerina

[NOT THE ASTRONAUT] Scott Kelly, main “old guy with beard” behind legendary drum-circle metal band Neurosis, has a solo career that strongly resembles the acoustic parts of post-2000 Neurosis albums. Kelly’s solo material is characterized by plaintive acoustic Americana guitar work tastefully set oﬀ by a fair shake of desert-rock twang, with lyrical content borrowing heavily from the New Age “deserts and planets” playbook. Neurosis is idolized by men with unkempt beards who love having pissing contests about craft beer, so prepare yourself for an unbroken sea of dudes in Baroness T-shirts who smell like stale weed. WALKER MACMURDO. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

Polyrhythmics, Pigwar

[NORTHWEST AFROBEAT] Every pair of pink, fuzzy car-mirror dice should come with a copy of Seattle Afrobeat ensemble Polyrhythmics’ latest release, Octagon. A deep-grooving 10-track collection the band released on 45, the record has punchy horn lines spread smoothly over the top of wah-wah pedals and ghost-noted snare drums. The eight-piece instrumental group has spent the past several years touring the West Coast to much acclaim, and will use its perfectly executed stage presence to have even the most uptight of New Portlanders shuﬄing in their Bean boots. PARKER HALL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Quiet Riot, Bullet Boys, Jack Russell

[HEAVY METAL] I’ll be real fucking clear with you right now: Quiet Riot is a great band, and you’re a piece of shit if you don’t like them. They embody the smiling hedonism of heroes like Van Halen combined with a sound that’s pretty much like the Dictators if you squint. They’re the soundtrack to the bad punk-type characters in those ’80 movies that nerds like to watch. If listening to “Party All Night” or “Metal Health” doesn’t get you hard for a Bushmills, then brother, you’re dead. BRACE BELDEN. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $17$100. All ages.

Fred and Toody Cole

[PORTLAND PUNK] Nothing can stop Fred and Toody Cole—and the universe sure seems to be trying lately. But that doesn’t mean Portland should take them for granted. Every time they do one of these acoustic sets—which often span from Dead Moon to Pierced Arrows to the pit-stops before and in between—it’s a must-see…and especially when it’s held in the glory of the Old Church. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

SUNDAY, DEC. 6 Del McCoury Band

[FAMILY BAND] At 76, Del McCoury doesn’t need to prove anything. He became the gold standard in bluegrass well before its revival, and despite the occasional fumble, each subsequent album has shown his lasting ability to tackle traditional music both inside and out of his Americana wheelhouse. The Streets of Baltimore, his 2013 effort alongside his family-backed ensemble, is the perfect case in point. The fivepart harmonies and rambling banjo tip the proverbial hat to the early work of Jerry Lee Lewis and the great Bobby Bare, introducing honky-tonk and classic country to the high-lonesome sound McCoury has helped forge since he first stepped foot on the Grand Ole Opry stage way back when. BRANDON WIDDER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.,

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Mike Krol FRIDAY, DEC. 4 Around the time he self-released his debut album, I Hate Jazz, in 2011, Mike Krol hatched an ambitious plan: He would record and release one 10-inch record every year for the rest of his life. But Krol did not put a record out in 2012. “It’s really hard,” he deadpans. “It’s just really hard to do.” Work on his second album stalled as Krol burned out because of his day job. “I was just sitting on this record that only needed a month of me working on it with full concentration,” he adds, “and I would have finished it.” Krol did what any perfectly unreasonable but immensely passionate person would: He quit his job to focus on music. And a decision seemingly destined for a humbling—if not downright calamitous—end actually paid off. “That’s when everything started to turn around for me,” he says. “I finished the record. I went on my first tour. I started sending records out to people, trying to make something happen.” Like its predecessor, 2013’s Trust Fund was a short, sweet blast of fuzzy power pop that flew under pretty much everyone’s radar. But by the time of its release, Krol had a small but influential following. Among his supporters were Ottawa pop-punk mainstay Steve Adamyk Band, which encouraged Krol to play 2013’s Ottawa Explosion Weekend, and comedian Tom Scharpling of The Best Show, who offered to help Krol find a label for his next record. “I took that as an opportunity to go and record something quickly and get it to him,” Krol says. “That being said, I didn’t really expect this.” “This” was Scharpling coming through. “This” was a deal with Merge Records, which released Krol’s third album, Turkey, in August. “This” was an opening spot on Mac McCaughan of Superchunk’s recent solo tour. “This” was a headlining tour that brings Krol to Portland on Dec. 4. And “this” was kind of weird for Krol. “I’m still just kind of blown away that this actually happened and that this is my life,” he says. Krol felt he was making records no one cared about, he says of his pre-Merge years. “And when I would listen to the records that were popular in the scene or genre that I felt like my music fell into,” he adds, “I would be like, ‘My record’s better than this.’” His confidence is not misplaced. Turkey is an addictive jolt of raw, poppy punk, one of the finest albums of its kind since Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions, and while it shares sonic territory with the likes of such contemporaries as King Tuff and Ty Segall, Krol’s work is imbued with a disarming sincerity and almost childlike sense of wounded wonder. These winning qualities set Krol apart, but they also make him nervous now that more people are paying attention. “I feel kind of exposed,” he says. “Sometimes I feel like, oh, I wish I didn’t write songs that were just like, ‘These are my feelings.’” It’s a small price to pay for living the dream. CHRIS STAMM. The dream life of Mike Krol.

SEE IT: Mike Krol plays Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., with Rupert Angeleyes and Landlines, on Friday, Dec. 4. 9:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

PHOTO BY BRIAN GUIDO

get tickets for the band’s December to Remember gigs, because they’re long gone. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. Sold out. Through Dec. 6. All ages.

DATES HERE

COURTESY OF GEORGE COLLIGAN

PROFILE

George Colligan MONDAY, DEC. 7

Winters are so cold in Winnipeg, they drove George Colligan to sing. It was late 2009, and the then-40-year-old pianist found himself, a newly hired professor at the University of Manitoba, bored and stuck inside due to midwestern Canada’s frigid winter. A constant musical tinkerer, Colligan decided to attempt something he hadn’t done since he wrote his high school’s fight song decades before. “I tried to sing into a microphone, and it was terrible,” he says with a chuckle. “But I started to write some lyrics, and it just kind of snowballed from there—no pun intended.” Colligan eventually found a warmer-climate career as a jazz professor at Portland State University, and continued to mess around with vocals, eventually developing his skills into something he felt was publicly presentable. The results of that effort, a nine-track record called Write Them Down—his 27th album, and one on which he played every instrument—will be performed for the first time before an audience at Jimmy Mak’s on Dec. 7. With layered harmonies, background vocals and gorgeous keyboard and trumpet work, Write Them Down straddles the line between a straight-ahead contemporary jazz album and an homage to Stevie Wonder. It’s impressive in many ways, not the least of which is that Colligan did all of the recording in his office, bedroom and garage during small breaks from watching his kids over the past three years. But that’s the kind of thing Colligan does best. He tinkers his way into excellence. “I still have a lot of aspirations as a musician,” Colligan says. “I really never want to stop growing. Sometimes it’s the only thing that makes sense to me.” For those shockingly few locals who recognize his name from the more than 100 recordings he took part in as a sideman during the 15 years he lived in New York—before his first teaching gig in Winnipeg—it isn’t surprising to see him trying something new. Colligan spent most of his formative musical years studying classical trumpet, only beginning his foray into jazz piano as a result of growing frustration with the instrument. He spent a few years after college mastering it, eventually getting gigs touring the world with jazz legends like Gary Bartz, Cassandra Wilson and Jack DeJohnette. In the intervening years, he has learned the bass and drums, and adapted his classical trumpet to play jazz. Despite the fact that Colligan has received well-deserved praise for his past releases, he has yet to become a name brand outside of small jazz circles. But that fact won’t stop him. “A lot of people around here don’t know what I do, but whatever,” Colligan says. “An artist sees things the way they are and is unsatisfied. And they have to tell the world their view of it. They’ll write a song or paint a picture, and hopefully people will see it. That’s where it gets a little fuzzy.” PARKER HALL. Why does the caged jazz pianist sing? Out of boredom, mostly.

SEE IT: George Colligan plays Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., on Monday, Dec. 7. 8 pm. $12. Under 21 permitted until 9:30 pm. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

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MUSIC David Wax Museum, Marty O’Reilly

[MEXO-AMERICANA] Don’t be fooled by that tag; “Mexo-Americana” is a term that’s been used to describe David Wax Museum since the band started playing music around Boston back in 2007. Frontman and namesake David Wax spent time studying in Mexico and, upon returning to the U.S., integrated some of the country’s regional sounds, stories and instruments into his original songs. He and Suz Slezak—who started the band together as friends but are now husband and wife—would integrate polyrhythms beat out on donkey jawbones into folk-pop tunes with singalong choruses. On David Wax Museum’s latest LP, Guesthouse, those south of the border inﬂuences are still audible but no longer the focus. The band has expanded its palette, range and expectations to emerge with its most experimental record to date. HILARY SAUNDERS. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Dumblonde, Catey Shaw

[DUMB + BLONDE] When I must approach a type of music I neither understand nor enjoy, I must remember to view it strictly through the red lenses of my Marxist eyes. Speaking in strict dialectical terms, Dumblonde was a historical inevitability. The group’s two members, Aubrey O’Day and Shannon Bex, first rose to a sort of prominence when they were created by P. Diddy during the 2006 season of Making the Band, a thoroughly Hegelian effort that echoed the French Revolution in style and substance alike. But, as with the workers and peasants of France, the true proletarian members of Danity Kane revolted once more, birthing, amid fury and blood, Dumblonde. They are the vanguard of the rather processed-sounding dancepop party, and you must accept them or find yourself ashes in the dustbin of history. BRACE BELDEN. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St, 239-7639. 9 pm. $18 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, the Lavender Flu, Great Lake Islands

[INDICA ROCK] The Real Estate dudes certainly stay busy. Though their main gig is an optimal soundtrack to fill a den or beat-up sedan with indica smoke, their solo outings are classifiably more sativa. Alex Bleeker’s selffronted effort is a cushy little spot between a spacier Grateful Dead and a sedate Neil Young. Bleeker shines and maintains his reputation, even with his own outfit, as a contemporary master of the melancholic mellow groove. CRIS LANKENAU. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Laura Palmer’s Death Parade, Oh Rose

CLASSICAL, WORLD & JAZZ

SHANE MCCAULEY

234-9694. 8 pm. $35 advance, $38 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

[PSYCHEDELIC FOLK] The centerpiece of Laura Palmer’s Death Parade is not the fictional Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks fame, but rather guitarist Laura Hopkins and the Domestics’ Michael Finn on drums. The band has merely a few shows under its belt and string of singles to its name, much of which is reliant on Hopkins’ airy croon and gentle constellation of sounds that make use of her delicate fingerpicking and the occasional crunch of an outside guitar. “I was feeling like a dog in heat,” quips Hopkins on the recent “Dawgslut,” before launching into a tasteful solo filled with bubbly notes and percussion. Elsewhere, mellower tracks like “Tulum” and “Summer Letters” are equally as effective. BRANDON WIDDER. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.

The Jacqui Naylor Band

Elle King plays Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, Dec. 3.

MONDAY, DEC. 7 Alabama Shakes, the Weather Machine

[SPACEY SOUL] The Alabama Shakes never intended to be the retro revivalists their career-catapulting debut, Boys & Girls, made them out to be. It was an LP 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 band’s aspirations. Its successor, Sound & Color, is diﬀerent. It’s laced with warped rhythms and fractured harmonies, owing as much to Erykah Badu as Otis Redding. 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 impostor. BRANDON WIDDER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Mike Coykendall

[RUSTIC TROUBADOUR] Mike Coykendall is a fixture in these parts—a standout producer, collaborator and singer-songwriter who has worked with the esteemed likes of Bright Eyes, Blitzen Trapper and M. Ward. His own sound is the product of a diverse array of influences, from country to alt-rock to traditional folk to blues. His latest, Half Past, Present Pending, is a fine example of slightly agitated Americana, the kind with a little extra grit and gristle. If I had it my way, he’d be playing the Landmark Saloon nightly—it’s the perfect whiskey-drenched establishment for veteran, rootsy homegrown rock. MARK STOCK. Landmark Saloon, 4847 SE Division St., 8948132. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

TUESDAY, DEC. 8 Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans, Denver

[TWO-TONED COUNTRY] It’s tough to incorporate bouts of amusement into serious storytelling, though not impossible. Canadian Corb Lund, the son of a rancher and now an accomplished musician, knows this. His ninth studio album, Things That Can’t Be Undone, showcases his skill at weaving threads of humor in which poignancy should lie, lending variety to an otherwise tepid collection of country-rockers. The refreshed approach and sound— with its subtle Motown vibes, bluesy swagger and chicken-pickin’ fretwork—further set an example, a likely result of ace producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton) and his watershed year. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8:30 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

[JAZZ CLUB CLASSICS] San Francisco singer Jacqui Naylor and her band play cleanly interpreted renditions of American classics, harking back to the days of jazz clubs past. At the time, local allstars would pack houses and perform their renditions of pop hits to dancing crowds. The modern club scene may prefer Calvin Harris to Barry Harris, but Naylor and her band haven’t changed their tune, continuing to bring shimmery versions of songs like “Skylark”—which appears on her latest record, Dead Divas Society—to modern ears all the same. PARKER HALL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2. $13 general admission, $15 reserved seating. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Pause

[IMAGISTIC CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Edward Steichen’s 1955 The Family of Man is one of the most famous photography exhibitions ever mounted. Dedicated to showing the commonalities among people around the world, it opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, toured the world, produced a popular book and is now permanently archived in Luxembourg. Pause—a subset of New York’s new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound—commissioned ﬁve rising composers from around the world (including new Portlander Texu Kim, who is composer in residence with the Korean Symphony Orchestra) to write new music inspired by it and that is relevant to today. BRETT CAMPBELL. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 478-1236. 7 pm Friday, Dec. 4. $20-$50.

The Mousai

[THEATRICAL CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Portland’s Mousai ensemble violates most of the antiquated “rules” that exclude so many music lovers from classical chamber music. The quartet actually engage with audiences rather than expect them to worship at the temple of classical music, and they don’t charge a fortune for the privilege. In this concert of music all written in the past ﬁve years—including commissions by PSU student Thomas DeNicola and last year’s Chamber Music Northwest composer Daniel Schlosberg—they’ll up the entertainment quotient by adding brief theatrical touches related to the music, and some comedy. BRETT CAMPBELL. Lincoln Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave. 7:30 pm Friday, Dec. 4. All ages.

Handel’s Messiah

[HOLIDAY CLASSIC] The best holiday “classics” earn that title for a reason. Handel’s Messiah is one of those rare works. Composed by the German-born Brit in 1741, his work includes scriptural texts from the King James Bible and Psalms. Handel originally wrote the piece using minimal instrumentation and for midrange vocalists. As it grew in popularity, many other composers and arrangers—including Mozart— worked to adapt the piece for their times. For these two weekend performances, Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar leads the 40-member Portland State University Chamber Choir in the soaring, spiritual work. HILARY SAUNDERS. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 6. $23-$105. All ages.

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Editor: matthew Singer. TO haVE YOUR EVENT LiSTEd, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/ submitevents. Press kits, cds and especially vinyl can be sent to music desk, ww, 2220 Nw Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com. For more listings, check out wweek.com.

LAST WEEK LIVE adam wickham

Gary Bennett (Formerly of BR549) and The Coat-tail Riders

Lincoln Hall at Portland State University 1620 SW Park Ave. The Mousai

8 NW 6th Ave. Quiet Riot, Bullet Boys, Jack Russell

2016 NE Sandy Blvd Bottleneck Blues Band

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Piefight + Teleporter 4 + Rocket 3

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St HOWLER

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Pink Lady Presents The Cat’s Meow

WED. DEC. 2 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway A Christmas Invitation

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Holiday Friends

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St !!! (Chk Chk Chk)

Duffs Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Arthur Moore; Blues Jam

Edgefield

2126 S. W. Halsey ST. The Old Yellers

Goodfoot Pub & Lounge 2845 SE Stark St JOYTRIBE

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. (hed) p.e., Murder FM, Unusual Subects, LovecraftMusic, Dsynigr8d

Jade Lounge

2348 SE Ankeny Los Dos

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Jacqui Naylor Band

Justa Pasta

1336 NW 19th Ave Anson Wright Duo

Edgefield

Landmark Saloon

Goodfoot Pub & Lounge

426 SW Washington St Hideous Racket with DJ Flight Risk 4847 SE Division St Jake Ray and the Cowdogs; Miller and Sasser’s Twelve Dollar Band

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ezra Furman, Guy Blakeskee

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave The Chainsmokers with Dallask

2126 S. W. Halsey ST. Jacob Westfall

2845 SE Stark St VOODOO LADYBOYS

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th Forever Growing and Bazil Rathbone

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Jazz Cartier, G4shi, Dior Worthy

Holocene

2026 NE Alberta St AERIAL RUIN (tour kickoff), STRANGEWEATHER

1001 SE Morrison St Thanks For The Invite: SiR, Andre Power, Neijah Lenae, the Last Artful Dodgr

The White Eagle

Jade Lounge

The Know

836 N Russell St Caitlin Jemma & the Goodness and The American West

THURS. DEC. 3 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Ethos Battle of the Bands

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Elle King

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St The Jackalope Saints

Duffs Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Dusty Boots

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2348 SE Ankeny Andy Frost

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St XRAY FM and We Out Here Magazine present: EPP, Dodgr, Neill Von Tally, Mic Capes, Elton Cray, Verbz

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St Zach Bryson

McMenamins Al’s Den 303 SW 12th Ave Saul Conrad

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Marv Ellis & We Tribe

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave.

The White Eagle

836 N Russell St Mexican Gunfight and Lael Alderman

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 147 NW 19th Ave. Pause

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Lights, The Mowglis

SAT. DEC. 5 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Jay Farrar Performs Songs of Son Volt’s “Trace” at Aladdin Theater

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Handel’s Messiah

Artichoke Music Backgate Stage Odesza, Hayden James, Big Wild

Spare Room

Anarres Infoshop & Community Space

4830 NE 42nd Ave Karaoke From Hell

7101 N Lombard St. Pass, Rod, Sabonis, Alien Boy

The Firkin Tavern

Biddy McGraw’s

1937 SE 11th Ave My Siamese Twin (80s Alt/New Wave tribute) + Little Furry Things (Dinosaur Jr tribute)

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St SLEEPTALKER

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing! Featuring Jacob Miller & The Bridge City Crooners

The White Eagle

836 N Russell St Bearcoon and Machine

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell The Toads/Sequoia and the Rose City Ramblers/ Leroy Jerome and the Professionals

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Family of the Year

FRI. DEC. 4 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Cripple Hop

Analog Cafe & Theater 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Diego’s Umbrella

6000 NE Glisan St Smash Bandits

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Mike Krol

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd Q Band

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Cold War Kids, Dogheart

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St ALO

Duffs Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Atomic Gumbo; JT Wise Band; New Iberians

Edgefield

2126 S. W. Halsey ST. Anita Margarita & The RattleSnakes; Dickens Carolers

Goodfoot Pub & Lounge

2845 SE Stark St FIRST FRIDAY SUPERJAM w/DJ MAGNETO & FRIENDS

Jade Lounge

2348 SE Ankeny Slide, Jade Private

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Polyrhythmics, Pigwar

Revolution Hall

The Blue Diamond

Kelly’s Olympian

Mississippi Studios

Panic Room

1300 SE Stark St #110 Portland Cello Project - An Americana Winter with special guests Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, and Jon Neufeld

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

421 SE Grand Ave Antecessor; Kirt Debique

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Zepparella: All Female Tribute to the Greatest Band in the World

BACK IN THE SADDLE: People know what to expect at a homecoming. To that point, it wasn’t particularly surprising to see a conglomerate of friends, family and colleagues of Blitzen Trapper taking their seats at Revolution Hall on Nov. 28. They were there to celebrate the release of All Across This Land, the local outfit’s latest release and one that serves—for better or worse—as a fist-pumping testament to the enduring strength of classic rock. Album track “Rock and Roll (Was Made for You)” set the tone for the remainder of the night, however conventional and direct it might have been. Red, white and blue lighting draped the band as it began a nearly two-hour set, lending songs like “Nights Were Made for Love” an even bigger Springsteen vibe than the lyrics’ barrage of small-town tropes and Eric Earley’s leather jacket initially let on. Harmonica-laden tracks from the group’s seminal album, Furr, quickly reminded some audience members why they started listening to the band in the first place. Blitzen Trapper’s poignant narratives—of football games, wolf packs, mill towns and the vastness of the open road—also gave the band plenty to draw from when it wasn’t rehashing the work of Townes Van Zandt and classic Beatles cuts such as “Come Together” with a bigger, harder rock edge than Lennon ever intended. The encore saw the band members crowded around a microphone and singing in unison, Earley’s weathered vocals and acoustic fingerpicking anchoring more traditionally styled folk songs. “I’ve never done anything like that before,” Earley chimed in amid the handclaps and hometown applause following the closing numbers. “Just for Portland.” BRANDON WIDDER.

Lovecraft Bar

3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd Wassail Night with The Stomptowners

3100 NE Sandy Blvd MATT LANDE CD RELEASE PARTY!!!

Roseland Theater

The Firkin Tavern

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St School of Rock Portland Fall Preview Show; That 1 Guy

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Laura Palmer’s Death Parade, Oh Rose

The White Eagle 836 N Russell St. Redwood Son

MON. DEC. 7

Crystal Ballroom

1422 SW 11th Ave Fred & Toody Cole of Dead Moon Unplugged

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St JENNY DON’T & THE SPURS // THE SNAKEBITES (WA) // BIG FEELINGS

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Minus 5, The Tripwires, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats

The White Eagle 836 N Russell St Radio Giants

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Latter Day Skanks(Release)/BreakerBreaker/Minoton

Twilight Theater Company

7515 N. Brandon Ave. A Fab Four Christmas

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St COLLIE BUDDZ

SUN. DEC. 6 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Del McCoury Band

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash Virtual Zero

Crystal Ballroom

350 West Burnside Nashville Pussy, In the Whale

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Bell Witch, Wrekmeister Harmonies, & Guests

The Historic Old Church

830 E Burnside St. David Wax Museum, Marty O’Reilly

Dante’s

Panic Room

Aladdin Theater

1332 W Burnside St Modest Mouse

98.7 The Bull Santa Jam featuring the Hunter Hayes “21 Tour”

1937 SE 11th Ave Stiff Other Lip (Oly) + Dark Mystic Woods(Seattle) + TBA

Clyde’s Prime Rib Restaurant & Bar

5474 NE Sandy Blvd Cool Breeze

[DEC. 2-8]

Doug Fir Lounge

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Olate Dogs 1332 W Burnside St Alabama Shakes, The Weather Machine

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell

Edgefield

2126 S. W. Halsey ST. Skip vonKueske’s Cellotronik

Jade Lounge

2348 SE Ankeny Fourth Tuesdays with Edward Cohen & Friends

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave George Colligan

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Mike Coykendall

The Blue Room Bar 8145 Se 82nd Ave Earl and The Healers

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St TONOPAH (CA)

The Old Church Concert Hall

1422 SW 11th Avenue at Clay Let Us Sing! Select Portland Public Schools perform Songs of the Season

TUES. DEC. 8 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Johnny Mathis Holiday Special

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash Jennie Vee

Edgefield

Crystal Ballroom

First United Methodist Church

Duffs Garage

2126 S. W. Halsey ST. Michele Van Kleef

5830 NE Alameda St. Oregon Repertory Singers

Hawthorne Theatre

1332 W Burnside St Saint Motel 2530 NE 82nd Ave HiFi MoJo

Goodfoot Pub & Lounge

2845 SE Stark St BOYS II GENTLEMEN

Duffs Garage

1507 SE 39th The Faceless , After The Burial , Rings of Saturn , Sisyphean Conscience , Against The Raging Tide

Edgefield

Holocene

LaurelThirst

Goodfoot Pub & Lounge

Jade Lounge

2530 NE 82nd Ave Deke Dickerson 2126 S. W. Halsey ST. Jack McMahon

1001 SE Morrison St Dumblonde, Catey Shaw 2348 SE Ankeny Joe Suskin and Friends

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave The Woodshed Jazz Band 2958 NE Glisan St Jackstraw

Mississippi Studios

Landmark Saloon

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans, Denver

1507 SE 39th Scott Kelly (of Neurosis) And The Road Home

McMenamins Al’s Den

1716 NW Davis St Chanticleer

Jimmy Mak’s

Mississippi Studios

836 N Russell St Small Million

2845 SE Stark St THE GOODFOOT ALLSTARS

Hawthorne Theatre

221 NW 10th Ave Errick Lewis Band, Earth Wind & Fire Tribute

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St Anita Margarita and The Rattlesnakes

4847 SE Division St Ian Miller and Friends! 303 SW 12th Ave Cyber Camel

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, The Lavender Flu, Great Lake Islands

Moda Center

1 N Center Court St

St. Mary’s Cathedral

The White Eagle

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. DEC15MBER 002: Eaton Flowers (cassette release), Neglect, The Exploding Couch, & C McLaughlin

MUSIC 1. Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd., 286-4788, skytav.com. The 90-year-old Skyline Tavern looks like a bar that would be featured in a movie starring Burt Reynolds, plays hip-hop on the speakers, and has a clientele that goes like this, according to its bartender: “Millionaire, millionaire, poor person, construction worker, millionaire, all of them just hanging out together.”

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2. Chopsticks

3390 NE Sandy Blvd., 234-6171, chopstickskaraoke.com. Old friends in Portland don’t disappear. They just move farther from the river. The new Chopsticks location just needs a little time to get lived in.

3. Zoiglhaus

716 SE 92nd Ave., 971-339-2374, zoiglhaus.com. In Bavaria, the Zoiglhaus is a community brewery where members gather to brew together. At his new brewery, Pints’ Alan Taylor isn’t going to invite the people of Lents to monkey with his kettles. That…seems wise to us.

4. Hawthorne Strip

3532 SE Powell Blvd., 232-9516, hawthornestrip.com. Joining the illustrious ranks of Apizza Scholls and Belmont Station, this strip club has an old name and new digs on Powell. It’s pretty classy, as far as strip clubs on busy roads go.

5. La Moule

2500 SE Clinton St., 971-339-2822, lamoulepdx.com. St. Jack’s cross-river companion bar is a ﬁne place to drink and eat mussels beneath a portrait of black-eyed Serge Gainsbourg, while Television plays in a bar without a television.

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AND LIQUOR: Sometimes you just have to hand it to McMenamins. Ubiquity breeds contempt, but those passport-toting groupies exist because of the boozy wonderland that is Edgefield and the soaking pool at the Kennedy School, where for only $5 you can sit in hot water on a rainy day, sipping a housebrewed beer. McMenamins’ new retail outlet and bar at the edge of Slabtown, 23rd Avenue Bottle Shop (2290 NW Thurman St., 971-202-7256), has similarly undeniable charms. It is well-stocked, with wine, cider, beer and even, in a surprise twist, liquor. And though the liquor is all McMenamins’, the beer and cider include well-curated guests from around the globe, like Traquair Jacobite Ale from Scotland, currently ranked the 20th-best beer in the U.K., and Bitburger Pilsner in a can. If you’re looking for McMenamins alcohol, this is the place to go: Almost everything it makes is available here. Seating is limited, and food has to be ordered from McMenamins Tavern & Pool next door. But during happy hour, which runs from 3 to 6 pm daily, a house beer is $4 and a taster tray is $6.75, which ends up being dangerous for those of us who work in the neighborhood. There’s also a selection of McMenamins-branded gifts, from leather beer coozies to laser-cut wooden necklaces, and a choice of British chocolate bars—get yourself a smooth caramel Galaxy—that make it more likely our family members will receive birthday presents. Before McMenamins took over the shop, it was called 23rd Avenue Market and run by Homer Medica for more than 50 years. Medica died in 2014, which means the new bottle shop is enhancing the neighborhood without turning into another sad gentrification buyout story. LIZZY ACKER.

Death Trip (garage, psych, post-punk, goth, death rock)

Moloko

3967 N Mississippi Ave HEW Francisco

Holocene

WED. DEC. 2 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave El Dorado (early rock’n’roll, R&B)

Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (industrial, EBM electro)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Hideous Racket with DJ Flight Risk

THURS. DEC. 3 Moloko

3967 N Mississippi Ave DJ Sappho

Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (industrial, darkwave)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Strange Babes (post-punk, soul, dance) Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St DJ Whippoorwill

FRI. DEC. 4 Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave

1001 SE Morrison St Verified: Kittens, CHROME WOLVES, Gang$ign$, Danny Merkury, quarry Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St Flamingay “Babewatch”

SAT. DEC. 5 Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave DJ Roane

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Maxamillion (soul)

Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave MISPRID presents Expressway to Yr Skull (shoegaze, goth, electro)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Yes Please!: Nark, Orographic, Sappho (queer dance night)

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Theater for All Ages with Song, Dance & Story

Portland Revels Presents

CELTIC CROSSING An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice

Featuring F Sean-nós dancer Maldon Meehan F Kevin Carr F The Christmas Revels Band F Portland Brass Quintet December 17-22, 2015 — Matinees & Evenings St. Mary’s Academy, 1615 SW 5th Ave., Ptld Tickets: www.portlandrevels.org or 503-274-4654

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Holiday Marketplace December 8th 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark ST Free 30 Portland makers

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PERFORMANCE = 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). Comedy: MIKE ACKER (macker@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.

OPENINGS & PREVIEWS A Christmas Carol

Portland Playhouse’s renovated church in Northeast is giving us rare, classic Christmas fodder. With a retro parody Carol onstage in Hillsboro, The Miracle Worker slated for Artists Rep and Santaland taking over Portland Center Stage (again), the endearing Playhouse is going refreshingly traditional. Drew Harper reprises his role as Scrooge, singing the original Victorian carols by one of the top traditional composers off-Broadway, Rick Lombardo. This will be the show’s third year, meaning it’s had time to work out any kinks. Not that there were many. Lauded as endearing and whimsical, the production won three Drammys for it’s decidedly untwisted Dickens. No 5 pm show Sunday, Dec. 5, extra shows 7 pm Tuesday, Dec. 15, and 4 pm Saturday, Dec. 19. Shows at 1, 4 and 7 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Dec. 22-23, and 11 am and 2 pm Thursday, Dec. 24. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7 pm WednesdaySaturday and 2 pm and 5 pm Sunday, through Dec. 24, with no 5 pm show Sunday, Dec. 5. $20-$36.

A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff

Local musician Alicia Jo Rabins is also a poet, artist and Torah scholar, and she uses that multi-hyphenated résumé fully in this experimental song cycle backed by Portland artist Zak Margolis’ fulllength animation. Boom Arts is sponsoring the return of this 2014 show that meditates on two gods of American culture, religion and wealth. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9499. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, Dec. 4-6. $20-$50.

The Dissenter’s Handbook

Dario Fo’s irreverent redos of Italian folklore make for a show that’s more comedy than pure theater. It’s like bawdy story time and traditional clowning with a side of slapstick. Matthew Kerrigan stars again, following up this summer’s staging at CoHo. Shaking the Tree’s main name, director Samantha Van Der Merwe (who just finished staging Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play all around town), is adding an extra Fo kicker to this show: The Tale of a Tiger. It’s a short story about a tiger nursing a Chinese revolutionary back to health after he gets gangrene. It’s rare to hear a show promise to be subversive, hilarious and spiritual...and actually believe it. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., 235-0635. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday and 5 pm Sunday. $25.

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Live!

Date night for mom and dad is the Winningstad this weekend. Peter Story’s one-man show meditated on the best-selling wisdom of John Gray’s relationship (read: self-help) guide and throws awkward squabbles, miscommunication, outright fights and infuriating habits right in your face. What better date than an evening where one middle-aged man who does comedy professionally shares his thoughts on sex, inspired by an older middleaged man with a Ph.D. who has more thoughts on sex? Winningstad Theater, 1111 SW Broadway, 800-273-1530. 8 pm Friday-Saturday,

ALSO PLAYING Bite Me a Little

Sometimes a show needs a few years in the cellar fermenting to bring out the pungent qualities that make it an

acquired taste, loved all the more for its quirks. That’s almost the case for the self-aware vampire musical Bite Me a Little. First introduced as a staged reading at the Fertile Ground Festival in 2012, Arlie Conner’s Bite Me is now enjoying a fully produced theatrical run at Post 5 Theatre. This time, it’s a little dirtier, a lot louder and still appreciably rough around the edges. Looking for a venue to host his high-school reunion, the lovable dweeb Ben Davies (Brian Burger) books Dr. Hurt’s Palace of Fun, unaware that it’s actually a vampire night club and sex dungeon. Initially keen to win back his high-school sweetheart, Jenny (Chrissy Kelly-Pettit), Davies immediately becomes enamored with the club’s sultry singer Raven (Sydney Weir, the only original cast member), and renounces Jenny as a tease in the show’s catchiest musical number, “Fuck Jenny.” Meanwhile, a parallel plot line follows detective Joe Brookhyser (Jim Vadala) on the case of a serial killer, leading him to the Palace of Fun, too. There’s plenty going on, but the runtime ends up feeling about 20 minutes too long. In fact, Bite Me a Little might even benefit from eschewing the little decorum that it maintains. All it needs is some gratuitous nudity and a little financial backing for a few hundred gallons of spewing blood, and it could be the next cult classic. PENELOPE BASS. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert St., 971-258-8584. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, through Dec 12. Shows on Friday Dec. 4 and 11 are at 10 pm. $20.

The Book of Mermen

Kicking off it’s 26th season, Triangle asks: What happens when two doorto-door Mormons go knocking and find the musical comedy queen Ethel Merman? A few titles come to mind— ”Anything Goes”, “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Some People”. Or maybe “Turn it Off ” and “I Am Here for You”. The notoriously flamboyant and bedazzled Triangle Productions! stages playwright Leo Schwartz’s parody of a parody, which played for four months in Chicago. If this seems like an odd holiday offering, all religion aside, Triangle promises that it’s heartwarming to see salvation-peddlers go headto-head with the songstress. It’s all about acceptance—amen? Triangle Productions!, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 2395919. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, through Dec. 19. $15-$35.

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Broadway, in Portland’s newest tour, brings dancing teacups and promiscuous feather dusters in Beauty and the Beast. True, it’s nothing new, but watching grown men high-kicking while wearing fork costumes can’t be too dull. To their merit, the U.S. Bank performances always deliver sparkle, And for a children’s spectacle, this isn’t a bad bet to start the holiday season. By the end of caroling trees and too many Tiny Tim’s, an angry band of villagers battling spoons might seem refreshing. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 241-1802. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Friday, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 2-6. $35-$155. Dec. 4-5 and 4 pm Saturday, Dec. 5. $55.

COMEDY & VARIETY The 3rd Floor XXXIII: The Final Chapter

Thirty-three shows and 20 years after it started as a group of recent college grads who thought that they were

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FAMILY MATTERS: Viva Las Vegas.

PREVIEW

Santa’s Lap Dance

WHEN A STRIPPER GOES HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. A pastor’s daughter from Minnesota who moved west to build a music career, Viva Las Vegas is probably Portland’s most famous stripper. She’s also an internationally touring advocate for strippers’ rights and the inspiration for local composer Christopher Corbell’s Christmas-themed opera, Viva’s Holiday, debuting tonight at the Star Theater. “I wanted to be a stereotypical stripper...just kidding!” she says about balancing being a single mom, releasing a new album with her band Bergerette, speaking at a writers conference in Los Angeles and writing a follow-up to her 2009 book, Magic Gardens: The Memiors of Viva Las Vegas. But her biggest concern is finding a babysitter for her 4-month-old the next three nights. Viva’s family— disapproving pastor father and all—is flying in to see the staging of their fateful 1996 Christmas, when 22-year-old Viva visited home and “shit hit the fan.” “I’m really glad that there’s a bar at the Star,” she says. ENID SPITZ. WW: How did this Holiday-themed opera about stripping start? Viva Las Vegas: I was dancing onstage at Mary’s about three years ago, and this dude [director Christopher Corbell] comes in off the street holding my book and says, “Can I make an opera about you?” And I was like, “Sure, you big nerd!” How do you feel about this touchy moment being staged? The story makes a great opera—I went home for Christmas when I was 22, just out of college and try-

ing to become a musician in Portland. My dad didn’t know I was a stripper, and I hoped he wouldn’t find out. But he did, and shit hit the fan. Not everyone can relate to stripping, but everyone can relate to that. Everyone has a mom, dad and brother—parents that don’t approve of their job. You’re college-educated. Why strip? I joke that I’m the best-paid cultural anthropologist. That’s my degree—I got a top-notch education and studied in places like Bali and East Africa. At the time, my peers in women’s’ studies were making damning claims about stripping, sight unseen. I believe you have to inhabit a culture and see it from the inside. If I hadn’t found the stripping stage so seductive, maybe my musical career would’ve taken off. I used to make lots of money writing, and now that’s more or less dried up. Ironically, this is the more-viable career, and I can be my own boss in this industry. Sex work can be a godsend for entrepreneurial women. You’re usually your own boss unless you’re in a big club with management that’s douchey. What do you think of Portland’s strip scene? I love Portland’s mom-and-pop clubs. It’s about sincerity rather than just flesh here. When I went to New York City in 2001, [all the dancers] looked the same. In Portland, people would leave if that happened. Here, people go back to see the same dancers for years. It’s not unusual for a dancer to work for 10 to 15 years, and the clubs are like family. After 19 years, has your dad come to terms with your stripping? It’s still a bitter pill for him. My dad just wants to see me do anything with health insurance and retirement now. But I still maintain that I’m following in his footsteps as a preacher. I preach, onstage and off, that everyone is welcome here, no matter their weird fetishes or criminal pasts or hideous politics. I can reach people who would never see my dad on his stage. Growing up, I saw how much hope he could give to people who had really screwed up their lives. I like to think I’m doing the same thing. How do you manage everything? I never have a boyfriend. That’s how. SEE IT: Viva’s Holiday is at Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700. 9 pm Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 2-4. $20. 21+. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

PERFORMANCE

Black Laughs Matter: A Comedy Show Fundraiser

Black lives matter; black spaces matter; black laughs matter. The historically African-American Lodge of Freemasons on the corner of North Mississippi and Fremont has served the community since the 1960s, and is danger of closing its doors. In an eﬀort to bring awareness to the lodge, and the raise money to keep it running, one of Portland’s funniest comics, Nathan Brannon is hosting a special comedy event. The night’s lineup includes comics Curtis Cook, Jeremy Eli, Alyssa Yeoman, Ed Black and the Real Hyjinx, along with music from Brannon Rockwell-Charland and the funk/soul duo Free! Mason Jar. St. Joseph Grand Lodge, 3505 N Mississippi Ave., 282-4468. 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 6. $15.

Comedy In Space!

One of Portland’s newest comedy showcases is back for its December installment. Conceived by Whitney Streed and hosted by Streed, Jenna Zine and Hutch Harris, Comedy In Space treats audience members to pictures in an alien photo booth, swag from local sponsors and sets from some of the best local comedic talent. This month’s comics include Lucia Fasano, Jeremy Eli, Dan Weber, Barbara Holm and headliner Bri Pruett. And, as always, Christian Ricketts will be checking in from space in character as Carl Sagan. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2. $6-$8. 21+.

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The only thing High Times Stoner of the Year Doug Benson loves as much as (or more than) weed is movies, his long-running podcast, Doug Loves Movies, is a testament to that. Coming back to Portland for a one-night taping, Doug is bringing along some fancy guests to play a host of movie games and chat about cinema. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888643-8669. 8 pm Sunday, Dec. 6. $20, online purchase only. 21+.

Four forces of Portland comedy have invited some LA comics take over the bike shop. Curtis Cook, newlyminted Funniest Five member Alex Falcone, Anthony Lopez and Bri Pruett welcome visiting comedians Simon Gibson, Jonathan Rowell and Pat Regan, all from TV town. Velo Cult Bike Shop, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., 9222012. 9 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2. Free ($5 suggested donation). 21+.

ALWAYS HIRING ENTERTAINERS

Jake Johannsen is one of the ﬁercest and most cerebral comics working today. A veteran of more than 20 appearances on The Tonight Show, Johannsen comes to Portland for a six-show, four-night engagement, performing the type of comedy that won him an Ace Award for best writing in an entertainment special. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 2-3, 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Dec. 4-5. $15-$31. 21+.

DANCE Alice Gosti’s Protecting the Herd

Protecting the Herd is one of those impossible-to-deﬁne, genre-defying performances that “focuses on questions of identity...and where art belongs.” Following up spring’s How to Become a Partisan in Seattle, Italian-American choreographer Alice Gosti and composer Benjamin Marx from Seattle created this hourlong dance-music hybrid to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Fascism. Marx remixed the ﬁve hour soundtrack for Partisan—a mix of WWII radio ads, 1943 political songs and organ music played in Saint Mark’s Cathedral—to score a “herd” of performers. They’ll move interpretatively amid Amiya

Brown’s light sculptures and spotlight eﬀects for what sounds like a nostalgic fever-dream. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 7771907. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 3-6. $12-$15.

Empire

Touring circus, burlesque, comedy and acrobatics company Spiegelword is coming to Portland for the ﬁrst time, taking over a parking lot at the Rose Quarter with a tent full of Cirque du Soleil-style entertainment. Billed as an adult extravaganza, it’ll have contortionists, a woman who goes by Miss in a Bubble suspended in a Perspex orb, a trio called Gorilla Girls who palace in pyramids on each other, spitting tops and something billed as 3D graﬃti. Spiegel means mirror in German—we’re thinking this world leans funhouse. Rose Quarter Benton Lot, 542 N Broadway, 800-745-3000. 7 pm Tuesday-Sunday and 9 pm Friday-Saturday, through Dec. 27. $25-$99.

Noche Flamenca

It’s been four years since Portland’s unparalleled production company White Bird brought Soledad Barrio and her Noche Flamenca dancers here for a show. This dance, Sombras Sagradas, features four dancers, two singers and one guitarist who tour internationally doing traditional ﬂamenco. On opening night,

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pretty funny, one of Portland’s oldest comedy troupes is retiring. Boasting over 50 company members and alumni, the group promises even more for their farewell sketch comedy show at Milagro, notably beef ghosts (hamburgers?) and Tony Marcellino from Portland improv troupe the Liberators. Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, through Dec. 19. $16-$19.

Garbage People: Yule Story Bro

Garbage People has some Yuletide stories for you. Coming along to share their holiday stories will be JoAnn Schinderle, Kristine Levine and local storytelling superstar Jay Flewelling. Also sharing stories on the Waypost stage will be Daniel Martin Austin, Kyle George, Jim Stewart Allen and Sam Miller. The Waypost, 3120 N Williams Ave., 367-3182. 8 pm Saturday, Dec. 5. $6.66-$10. 21+.

Jake And Amir: If I Were You Live Podcast

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld are best friends. They live together, work together and make hilarious videos and podcasts together. The CollegeHumor duo are dropping into the Rose City to provide humorous advice to interested Portlanders while they record an episode of their podcast If I Were You. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm Friday, Dec. 4. $20-$25. All ages.

DEATH TO RADIO: Bag & Baggage cast.

Nipple-Twist Your Dickens A KBNB Kristmas Karol has eight stooges.

Slapstick antics and pratfalls are second only to boob grabs in Bag & Baggage’s holiday offering. It’s a theater show about radio actors and their studio’s final night before it’s destroyed to make way for a greedy media tycoon’s new TV sound stage. As the cast struggles to produce a passable adaptation of what they call “Dickles Charleston,” using a single microphone in a near-empty studio, they are forced to contend with the agenda of the zealous television producer, his austere German sound designer and two bickering show-biz sisters. Juxtaposition is the name of the game here. The twilight of radio faces the rise of visual broadcasting in the story’s background, the set design casts a pall of sparse dereliction over a zany holiday comedy, and 1940s character archetypes riff on everything from Citizen Kane and Knute Rockne to Scooby-Doo and Jon-Erik Hexum. And it works, as the Hillsboro cast of eight tempers the verbose, extremely fast-paced farce with nonstop visual interplay and innuendo. They constantly collide (usually hand-to-breast) and fill the stage with raunchy sight gags in a Karol that boasts dropped pants aplenty, a three-girl nipple-twisting routine and at least six pelvic thrusts in the first act. They manage to sing a few Christmas songs, too! MIKE GALLUCCI.

SEE IT: A KBNB Kristmas Karol is at the Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsboro, 693-3953. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Sunday (also 7:30 pm shows Dec. 21-23). Through Dec. 23. $27-$32.

Portland’s Pepe Raphael and the La Peña Flamenca de Portland group will put on a special preview performance in the Newmark Lobby at 7:10 pm. The ArtBar even promises to attempt tapas. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 1-800-380-3516. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 3-5. $26-$64.

Other Names for Home

Locally-born and internationally-touring, Do Jump! acrobatic company takes everyday ideas and turns them upside down or throws them in the air. Playing with the idea of home, Robin Lane’s company will interpret what it means to have a sense of place

through aerial arts, dance and stunts set to live music in their own home—the silent-movie house turned theater on Hawthorne. Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th St., 231-1232. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday and 1 pm Sunday, Dec. 4-6. $25.

The Spin

Bodyvox might be the most wellbalanced Portland company right now, with a crew of experienced dancers but enough quirkiness to keep it interesting. Artistic directors Ashley Roland and Jamey Hampton aren’t new to this game, but every year their holiday show is completely diﬀerent and unpredictable. With a game show-style

premise, they prepare 20 dances for this one program, but what actually gets staged is up to the audience. Their first performance of the season—the company is finally back after losing its space and then touring places like Orcas Island— has a lot of potential. It’s a bit like Wheel of Fortune, fingers crossed that the reward will live up to the risk. No 2 pm show Saturday, Dec 5. Bodyvox, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 2290627. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Saturday, through Dec. 19. $25-$64.

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“Cool Dance, Co.” This ﬂedgling group wants to stir things up.

Say what you will about 11:Dance Co.’s new show—just don’t call it cool. “I’m so terrified that somebody’s going to be like ‘oh that was cool,’” says artistic director Bb DeLano of the newest show from one of Portland’s most diverse dance groups. The pre-professional company’s second-ever show debuts this week with choreography from big local names like Northwest Dance Project’s Ching Ching Wong. “Sparking conversation— that’s the goal,” DeLano says. Set in a post-apocalyptic library where each dance opens a different chapter of social commentary, the hourlong show of nine dances covers serious topics like the male gaze and privilege, says DeLano, who co-produced with local breaker Huy Pham. But there will be whimsical topics, too—like dinosaurs and burgers and fries. 11:Dance Co. is too young to have much of a reputation, but it’s already promising to stir up Portland’s dance scene. The group’s debut last winter was a show that DeLano described as an “emotional roller coaster.” The interactive performance, originally planned as a one-off passion project, established 11:Dance Co.’s signature as a blend of styles—ballet, contemporary and krumping in one show. Over the past year, DeLano decided to grow 11:Dance Co. into a full-fledged company, from 11 to 23 dancers, all with different training and dance backgrounds. “The group has the most incredible heart and spirit, but the stories get lost if the bodies are all over the place,” DeLano says. “If you

train the bodies to be blank pages, the choreographers can really dig into the story.” This time, the dancers trained five nights a week for six months, even practicing on a concrete floor for three weeks while their new East Burnside studio was refurbished. The resulting works cover everything from parenting struggles, as told by local hip-hop dancer Isiah Munoz, to contemporary choreographer Toogie Barcelo’s reinterpretation of dinosaur extinction. “Super dance” is what DeLano jokingly named to 11:Dance Co.’s style, a fusion of different influences that nods to contemporary, hip-hop, jazz and breaking. “If a story we are telling is more relatable with waacking movement, we want our dancers to be able to convey that,” DeLano says. “If a story can be told better with hip-hop, we want to be able to do that.” She says it’s a way to break down boundaries in the dance world, where you typically only see styles like vogue in a ballroom or the disco-inspired street style of waacking in a club. “We don’t want to limit ourselves,” she says. The audience shouldn’t hold back either, says DeLano. “I hope people are going to go home and be like, ‘Ugh! What was that? I can’t believe they did that!’” she says about the controversial topics in the show. “They’re going to talk about it and be mad about it, and it’s going to be awesome.” KAITIE TODD. SEE IT: Library at the End of the World is at CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7 pm Thursday and Saturday and 1 pm Sunday, Dec. 5-20. Extended director’s cut on Sundays. $25-$55.

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VISUAL ARTS = WW Pick. Highly recommended. By ENID SPITZ. 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: espitz@wweek.com.

Tracing the multi-faceted career of Kartz Ucci, this retrospective exhibition delivers a fitting tribute to the late artist and her work. A professor at the University of Oregon, Ucci taught while creating her own digital, text, sound and installation art. The works at the Art Gym are a diverse mix of color and light, sound and text, that form poignant statements about the convergence of everyday life and the digital realm. The titular video work, “An Opera For One,” is on display in a quiet viewing room. It’s best experienced on a slow day when you can lose yourself in the gentle pulse of color without being interrupted. GRAHAM W. BELL. Through Dec. 5. The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 17600 Pacific Highway, 699-6243.

fare, the Haul Road. Built as a supply route for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the road extends 414 miles and is traversed primarily by truckers transporting supplies to and from the oil fields. Huff is sharing his visual journey, inspired by the captivating Alaskan landscape and the individuals and machines who navigate it. His photographs capture the paradoxes of the Haul Road—beautiful, snowy mountains in the wilderness, juxtaposed with miles of snaking pipeline and abandoned, rusty oil barrels. KYLA FOSTER. Through Jan. 2. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 963-1935.

Everything Is Water

Using vintage and contemporary imagery inspired by fairytales and fables, artist Melody Owen’s pieces are collages of prints that look stolen from Gray’s Anatomy (the book), vintage aeronautical reports and diagrams of sea creatures. She says the point of her minimalist, abstract cutaways and collages, is that every action is like a ripple in a pond. These are her visual interpretations of the wildly different results each action creates. “We are all connected,” her tree-clock-eggeyeball mash up seems to say. KYLA FOSTER. Through Jan. 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

In the City

Screenprints on glass tiles of everyday objects like dumpsters, mopeds and storefront mannequins by Portland artist Stacey Lynn Smith, Nathan Sandberg’s glass and concrete tiles that are dot printed to mimic the unnoticed textures of asphalt and Scottish artist Karlyn Sutherland’s kilnformed glass rectangles combine at Bullseye Project’s In the City collective show. Using urban landscapes as inspiration, the show ranges from Sandberg’s “Paver 6”—a small square of concrete lined with cracks—to Smith’s screenprints reminiscent of fliers and ads that collage street corners, including things like a canary yellow food truck. Juxtaposed with the detail in Sandberg and Smith’s work, Sutherland’s clean, 17-inch tall glass rectangles on the wall are a minimalist tribute to the skylines of her home country. KYLA FOSTER. Through Dec. 23. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Internalized Forms

The Sockeye ad agency studio may seem like an odd venue for a solo show, but its first collaboration with Worksound International makes us hope there’s more to come. Jason Vance Dickason’s acrylic paintings are abstract with a cool, muted palette that hints at the sobriety of an internal office space. But imaginative shapes and swoops keep the work from appearing too clinical. Most visitors are drawn to the large-scale piece at the front entrance, but the real star is an untitled triptych that’s strategically placed on a blank wall and features dark, abstracted window blinds with just a touch of luminous sky peeking through. It’s ingenious how these architectural paintings hint at the space around them. HILARY TSAI. Through Feb. 28. Sockeye, 240 N Broadway, Suite 301, 226-3843.

The Last Road North

For five years, Alaska-based photographer Ben Huff traveled along America’s northernmost thorough-

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The only reason these works from Paul G. Allen Family Foundation aren’t in the art history books is because they haven’t been in a public collection. Some might be disappointed that none of the pieces are recognizable masterworks, but that’s precisely what makes this show so important. Viewing a private collection is like unlocking a hidden room of art history—these are gems secreted away from the rest of the world that are now brought to light. We see Cézanne’s Mont SainteVictoire, Monet’s water lilies and the explosive power of Volaire’s Vesuvius, but also the fleshy flora of O’Keeffe and the blurry photo paintings of Richter. GRAHAM W. BELL. Through Jan. 10. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. ENID SPITZ

An Opera for One

exhibit, which centers on Bikini Kill. Molly 16 grew up in group homes in Portland in the ’90s, singing in an allgirl band and critiquing society in her Rock n Roll Fantasy zine. She did the cover art for Bikini Kill’s debut album, but later took her own life. This exhibit of archival videos, animations and music—curated by Molly’s best friend, filmmaker Amber Dawn—is an homage to Molly and her Fantasy. ENID SPITZ. Through Jan. 29. Collection Studies Lab, 511 NW Broadway, 917-324-3179.

Shifting Migrations

This series of new etchings and woodcuts by Oregonbased printmaker Tallmadge Doyle exists at the crux between science and nature. Bold, luminous silhouettes of Pacific Northwest flora draw the eye in, then lead it out to where patterns of delicate line work hint at the unseen energy that connects all living things. Some etchings are heavily abstracted, while others have the true-tolife, drawn quality of a botanist’s illustration. Each piece speaks as much for Doyle’s thoughtful and meditative Bull Man Remnant #2 by Rick Bartow process as it does for the finat Froelick Gallery ished product. HILARY TSAI. Through Dec. 30. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056.

The Liminalists

The simple-looking works, full of bright geometric shapes or sinuous graphite blobs, belie artists Amy Bernstein and Patrick Kelly’s strict attention to process and composition. Kelly’s graphite forms look like metallic rain clouds, undulating with a shiny sheen, and Bernstein abstract strokes and shapes pop vibrantly off their white backgrounds. Both artists’ works stay firmly anchored in two dimensions on their surfaces, but the hues and forms are striking enough they threaten to break through into physical space and hit you in the face. GRAHAM BELL. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., 477-9786. Through Dec. 4. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., Free.

Material Evolution: Urban Coyotes, Past and Present

What do a coyote, a metal gate and a Moroccan bird have in common? That’s what Mary C. Hinckley investigates in this collection of eye-popping glass and enamel works, now on display at Augen through end of December. Inspired by mosaic traditions and stained glass techniques, these mesmerizing portraits blur the line between collage and sculpture, while the intricate patterns and wild colors hinge on optical illusion. Hinckley’s process of fusing bits of glass together into a cohesive image mirrors her attempt at reconciling seemingly disparate objects—a gate and a bird, for example—in order to forge new relationships. HILARY TSAI. Through Dec. 30. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056.

Molly 16’s Rock n Roll Fantasy

Honoring a local youth’s mark on the rise of punk rock in Portland circa 1990, Molly 16’s Rock n Roll Fantasy is a multimedia sidecar to the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Alien She

Throw Me the Idol I Throw You the Whip In between ribbons of explosive color, we glimpse the painting’s surface. Introducing a new dose of illusionism into his paintings, the works in Throw Me The Idol I Throw You The Whip are all about layers. Each swath of color roils over the other in a frenetic dance, but the real prize is that bit of mottled surface peeks through the composition. Once seen, that bit acts as a keyhole to unlock the illusionary space created by Hottle and give the works a whole new depth. Pieces like “Once So High Now Below,” one of the largest in the show, exhibit clean patches of red and white that seem to hover over a scumbled, stained background. Others, like “Stolen Kiss” and “Bury Me In Black,” strip away the swirl of shapes and make that underlayer the focal point, while drawing allusions to the frottage of Max Ernst and the smoky seduction of the Northwest School. GRAHAM W. BELL. Through Dec. 13. Carl & Sloan Contemporary, 8371 N Interstate Ave., No. 1, 360-608-9746.

Winter Group

Charles A. Hartman presents a small group of pigment prints, paintings and mixed-media collage from four artists covering a range of subjects like domestic life, outdoor recreation and racial commentary. Each artist is a veteran, with at least one solo exhibition at Charles A. Hartman in recent years. Together, their eclectic interests make a show that’s remarkably diverse. HILARY TSAI. Through Jan. 30. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

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Chainmail Bikini Release Party and Art Exhibit

If you’ve ever done anything remotely nerdy in your life—played Dungeons and Dragons, binged World of Warcraft, gone to a Rush concert— you get the title of this collection of comics by women gamers about gaming, a reference to the impractically sexy outfits donned by pretty much every female character in comics and video games ever. The collection, compiled by Hazel Newlevant (No Ivy League), features work by more than 40 women, including Kinoko Evans (The Epic of Gilgamesh) and MK Reed (Americus). Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 241-0227. 6 pm. Free.

Eliot Treichel

Emma’s dad is constantly dragging her on trips down various rivers in an attempt to teach her life lessons. But when he dies during one of these trips, his lessons become a source of strength for Emma. A Series of Small Maneuvers is the debut YA novel from Eliot Treichel, who lives in Eugene. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

The Refugee Experience: A Reading and Panel Discussion

You can’t turn on the TV without hearing a fascist (I thought grandpa beat those guys in the war) who can’t recognize the humanity of people with a different religion or skin color. Largely absent from TV are the voices of the refugees themselves. Literary nonprofit Late Night Library and reading series Tell It Slant host a night of reading authors who were refugees themselves: Olivia Olivia, whose work has appeared in Salon and The Rumpus; musician and author Dao Strom, author of Grass Roof, Tin Roof and The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys; and Vu Tran, whose critically acclaimed novel, Dragonfish, tells the story of Vietnamese refugees in the Southwest. Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, DEC. 4 The Comic Book Story of Beer

Like a loyal dog, beer has been with humans since the very start: It began as a way for us to store grains between harvests. Crafted by a triumvirate of author Jonathan Hennessey, brewer Mike Smith and artist Aaron McConnell, The Comic Book Story of Beer traces our frothy friend from its earlier agrarian genesis to modern consumption. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, DEC. 5 Holiday Storytime with Dr. Seuss’s The Grinch

Look, The Grinch is funny and cute and everything, but I say let’s take this thing full bore: have a guy dress up as Krampus, that demonic, German anti-Santa, and hire my black metal band to back him up. That’ll teach those dang kids to stop whining about getting Yu-Gi-Oh! or whatever. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4651. 11 am. Free.

MONDAY, DEC. 7 Barney Blalock

Back in 1884, when East Portland and Albina were separate cities, frontier doctor J.A. Chapman was serving his last of three non-consecutive terms as mayor and Portland’s local sports craze was beating the crap out of other people with ones’ bare hands.

Yes, the hard-up seaport was home to guys with names like “Mysterious” Billy Smith, who went from being one of the most famous fighters in the world to a state-funded burial at the corner of 82nd and Holgate. Historian Barney Blalock’s newest, Oregon Prizefighters, is about these bare-knuckle legends. He published a book last year about another charming bit of Portland history, that thing where guys on the waterfront were abducted and forced into labor. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Graham Hancock

Many thousands of years ago, an advanced species thrived on Earth. But then, a comet hit it, destroyed almost everyone and plunged the planet into a new dark age. Except a few people remembered the old society and were designated “magicians” and “shamans” and stuff. It’s not Mel Gibson’s latest piece of garbage, it’s the working thesis behind Graham Hancock’s latest book, Magicians of the Gods. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

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Roger Porter is one of the grand old names of Portland food writing. For decades, the James Beard Award-nominated Porter has documented Portland’s transition from culinary backwater to farm-to-table pioneer at WW and other publications. This year, the Reed College professor was tapped to co-edit a compendious Norton anthology of food writing, Eating Words, alongside literary critic Sandra Gilbert. We talked to Porter about Portland’s evolution, and why we bother to write about eating. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WW: This year, we named chef Vitaly Paley’s Imperial as Restaurant of the Year. Twenty years ago, you gave his restaurant Paley’s Place the same honor. What does Paley mean to Portland? Roger Porter: I come from the New York metropolitan area. I thought of Portland as a kind of a backwater in terms of sophistication. What Paley’s did, along with Higgins that preceded it by a year or two, is made what we now call the farm-to-table movement a reality. I thought it was James Beard’s vision come true. It launched a sense of Portland as a place that could develop its own cuisine, play with it and experiment with it and never be unfaithful to the ingredients they’re so good with. What makes the Norton food anthology different from others? What we thought was lacking was a broad-ranging anthology with wonderful food from all over, that will showcase food writers, and people not thought of as food writers. Given the culture of TV, of the Food Channel and of food films, we thought the time was right for this kind of book. The three great topics at the dinner table are sex, religion and politics. I’d add food to that now. There’s nonetheless a lot of politics in the book. We start with a section of Leviticus on food taboos. It’s echoed in all kinds of things—vegans talking about meat as taboo, people talking about health. We came upon writers you’d never think of: Chekhov on oysters, Barthes on chopsticks, Walter Benjamin on borscht. Who would have thought? Why do you think people like to read about food instead of just eating it? We thought a lot about that. It, itself, can satisfy a craving. Women in a concentration camp, in the Holocaust, they spoke about meals they’d had. Not to amuse themselves, but to nourish themselves on sharing recipes and food they were completely deprived of. We’re encouraging people to think about what it means to write about eating. GO: Roger Porter will read at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 8. Free. Willamette Week DECEMBER 2, 2015 wweek.com

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: ENID SPITZ. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: espitz@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

OPENING THIS WEEK Chi-Raq

Spike Lee’s newest mantra? “No peace, no piece.” In this satire based on Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata, the women of Chicago are sick of their city’s violent unrest, so they decide to withhold sex until the ﬁghting stops. Spike Lee’s ﬁrst feature since his dive into Kickstarter with last year’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, Chi-Raq stars Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson, and Wesley Snipes. Screened too late for review. See wweek.com for Lauren Terry’s review. R. Cinema 21.

Japanese Currents

Backed by Portland sister city Sapporo and the Japanese Consulate, the NW Film Center’s annual showcase of Japanese features and shorts includes a wide range, from a road-trip romance starring a former pop idol from the group AKB48 (7 pm Friday, Dec. 4) to a compilation of shorts including an office lady and a prostitute on the mafia’s payroll (2 pm Saturday, Dec. 5). Plus, the much-loved samurai cat is back (4:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 5). Japanese Currents runs through Dec. 13. See nwfilm.org for the full schedule. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

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B+ If it were a comic book, it wouldn’t be the kind you put in a Mylar bag. It’d be one that you read with greasy ﬁngers and childlike relish. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Vancouver, Valley.

Black Mass

A- Much like the city’s other exports, Boston’s gangster ﬂicks vary in quality from genre-shattering genius (The Departed, most ’90s bands, the people who invented America) to mind-numbing pantomimes of misogyny (The Boondock Saints, Boston sports fans, Mark Wahlberg). Scott Cooper’s Black Mass is the latest cinematic try. It tells the story of Boston’s most notorious criminal, James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) and the deal he made with the FBI’s John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) that ensured he could do whatever he wanted for decades. R. JAMES HELMSWORTH. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Bridge of Spies

B- Steven Spielberg was born to convey viewers through weird and wonderful alternate realities. Even though history is nearly as illusory as a dinosaur theme park, the director’s gift just doesn’t shine as brightly when he contends with humanity’s past. Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks as an insurance lawyer recruited by the U.S. government to negotiate a spy-for-spy trade with the Soviet Union, beneﬁts from a caustic screenplay by the Coen brothers. While Spielberg is pretty good even when he’s on auto-pilot, there is little here that doesn’t feel perfunctory. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, Movies on TV, Tigard.

A Brilliant Young Mind

C+ The formula for genius moviemaking is “underdog - loving parent + conﬂicted mentor = successful public performance.” Exhibit A: Step Up. The math in A Brilliant Young Mind may be more cerebral, but the movie isn’t. Autistic

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Entertainment for Nihilists

struggling mightily with excess phlegm. But it’s Turkington’s more recent—and far more charming—recurring role alongside comedian Tim Heidecker on the toothless movie-review show On Cinema that hints at the actor’s range. In On Cinema, Turkington is deadpan and unshakable as an obsessive amateur film critic who champions Hollywood’s most unlovable vehicles. He views The Hobbit trilogy as a high-water mark of modern filmmaking and explains the finer points of cataloging his massive VHS collection. BY CASEY JARMAN @caseyjarman But in the beautiful, difficult and wholly draining Entertainment, the quirky fanboy Turkington from On Cinema is replaced Entertainment is a blur. I don’t mean it’s too quick. I mean by a much darker and more fragile incarnation, and his every part of it—the in-and-out-of-focus cinematograperformance is understated and unnerving, filled phy, the bilingual conversations characters may or with long stares and small physical tics. But it’s may not understand, the fights and accidents we’re “Turkington often spoiled by overbearing ambient music like dropped into with little explanation—is blurry. It’s pensive string, creepy wind chimes and a didgerigives everything a gut-sick road-trip film that only goes around in doo or chanting or whatever. Then there’s the circles, and a comedy (much like director Rick in pursuit of an meandering anti-plot that keeps picking up new Alverson’s last stunning film, The Comedy) that strings without ever tying any knots. eccentric dream that only a nihilist could mine for laughs. In The Comedy, director Alverson gave us an The film follows Gregg Turkington in cosno one seems to uncomfortably intimate portrait of a character tume as his sleazy nightclub comedian alter ego who held nothing sacred with the story of a guy understand.” Neil Hamburger, touring dive bars in a seemingly from Williamsburg in Brooklyn who couldn’t care endless desert wasteland. He is utterly uninterested less about the wealthy inheritance he’s about to get. In in the film’s supporting players, the even darker Entertainment, Turkington gives everything including his would-be protégé (deftly in pursuit of an eccentric dream that no one seems to understand. played by Tye Sheridan, the kid from Both films make half-assed attempts to address the roots of their Mud). Instead, Turkington spends most protagonists’ monumental character flaws (a dying father in The of his between-gig time taking extremely Comedy, a distant daughter in Entertainment), as if to taunt our dull sightseeing tours. tendency toward forgiveness. The real-life Turkington has toured The Frankenstein-esque final scenes of Entertainment make it comedy and rock clubs for decades as painfully clear: As much as we want to read them as social critique, Hamburger, who dubs himself “America’s Rick Alverson makes monster movies. Funnyman,” takes the stage cradling two or three drinks and tells tasteless jokes B SEE IT: Entertainment is rated R. It opens Friday at the about dead or washed-up celebrities while Hollywood Theatre.

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Brooklyn

A- Based on the novel by Irish

author Colm Tóibín and adapted by Nick Hornby (High Fidelty, About a Boy), Brooklyn is just the sweetest thing. Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) makes an adorable couple with Emory Cohen (Smash), and Portlanders will especially love the more subtle message: Untold wonders await you if you leave your shitty small town and move to New York’s coolest borough. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, CineMagic, Cinema 21, Bridgeport, Movies on TV, St. Johns Cinemas.

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D The latest film from the pen and camera of Angelina Jolie-Pitt is a painfully slow drama about the dark subtleties of married life, but it’s also a two-hour reminder that watching beautiful people be beautifully bored in beautiful southern France does not equal a real story. Set in the 1970s, Roland (Brad Pitt) is a writer who has run out of words, and his glamorous wife, Vanessa (Jolie), is a pill-popping parade of chiffon nightgowns and silent tears that rarely affect her makeup. Their dysfunctional relationship becomes slightly more interesting when they make a habit of peeping on the neighboring honeymooners through a hole in the wall, but that minor plot progression is eclipsed by the numerous scenes of Vanessa’s trembling hands attempting to steady her cigarette. Jolie ultimately fails to create tension, relying on the breathtaking cinematography of Christian Berger to legitimize this artistic presentation of upper-class woes. R. LAUREN TERRY. Clackamas, Fox Tower.

Creed

movie. Most of the sequels are mostly good, while some of them are almost not bad. Creed—the seventh movie in the Rocky franchise—is more like the original Rocky than its sequels because it’s mostly good, but also because it’s almost entirely the same movie as Rocky. It feels more like an apology for the mediocre Rocky movies we’ve endured, more like a series reboot than a sequel, featuring a stronger young actor in Michael B. Jordan. And it does all this while still paying respect to its predecessors, even the bad ones. Sylvester Stallone’s aging Rocky holds his own, returning the character to his charming, steak-faced mumblecore roots that went missing for a couple of decades. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Crimson Peak

B+ There are all manner of ghosts in

this gorgeous, tragic tale, but to call it a horror ﬁlm is to completely mislabel Guillermo del Toro’s meticulously crafted, old-fashioned tale of twisted souls and timeless longing. R. AP KRYZA. Eastport.

Everest

B+ In 1996, a stranded group of climbers, including New Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and writer Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), met a massive storm at the top of the world. Today’s CGI and 3-D technology puts the viewer

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The Good Dinosaur

B- Set among the breathtaking landscapes of the American frontier, The Good Dinosaur is a Little House on the Prairie-esque rendering of pioneer life, except, of course, all the characters are talking dinosaurs living in an alternate reality where a certain fateful asteroid never made impact. It’s a movie we’ve all seen before, particularly from Disney, though its predictability doesn’t hamper its charm. The runt among his siblings, Arlo is a young apatosaurus fearful of everything. When his father tries to teach him a lesson in bravery, things go foreseeably tragic in a scene ripped straight from The Lion King. Arlo ﬁnds himself far from

home and all alone when he befriends a young Neanderthal boy named Spot who becomes both his pet and protector. Hijinks ensue, life lessons are learned, and a gonzo acid trip is thrown in for laughs (of which there are many). The reason to see this movie whether or not you have kids in tow (and to spring the extra cash for 3-D) is the truly stunning visuals, with landscapes so realistically rendered by Pixar’s wizard technology that you could just as easily be watching a Planet Earth documentary, with dinosaurs. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Edgeﬁeld, Lake Theater, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy, St. Johns Theater.

REVIEW

By the Sea

A- Rocky is almost entirely a good

on the mountain in a visceral way. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Academy, Empirical, Laurelhurst, Mt. Hood, Vancouver, Valley.

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genius Nathan (Asa Butterfield) struggles with expressing emotions. After losing his father, Nathan pairs up with his pot-smoking tutor, Mr. Humphreys (Rafe Spall), who’s experiencing setbacks of his own—especially sexual— from living with multiple sclerosis. Witnessing Nathan’s “special powers,” as his dad called them, may give the film its spectacle, but its soul is in the relationships Nathan struggles to build. When Mind drops the whiz act and focuses on Nathan’s fear of holding his mother’s hand—that’s when the figures check. AMY WOLFE. Living Room Theaters.

TOUCHING: Anderson’s rat terrier, Lolobelle.

Strange Angels With Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson wears her heart on her sleeve.

Her late husband, Lou Reed, and a rat terrier named Lolobelle are at the heart of artist Laurie Anderson’s new fever-dream film, her first feature to hit the big screen since Home of the Brave nearly 30 years ago. Heart of a Dog is a meditation on death and memory, told through home movies Anderson shot and narrates. Yes, it gets weird, but with an artistic elegance. The electronic music pioneer talks us through footage from her mountain hikes with Lolobelle, shots of the dog playing piano and eerie winter scenes of rain on windshields or stark treetops. She gives us politics—how security cameras popped up all over after 9/11. We follow her through obscure dreams—when she imagined that she gave birth to her dog. There are touching memories, too—her final moments with her mother and Reed. In one horrifying scene, Anderson remembers recovering from a broken back in the children’s ward of a hospital, listening to the screams of burn victims. But for a film that’s all over the place, it’s surprisingly calming. Anderson’s clear, guiding voice and ethereal electronic soundtrack (mainly her own music, with some from Reed) make the 75 minutes about love and loss altogether enjoyable. That’s largely thanks to the Buddhist beliefs that Anderson carries throughout her film. Pondering how we mourn when her beloved Lolobelle is dying in her home, Anderson explains how a Buddhist priest advised her to do something kind every time she thinks of Lolobelle’s death. That makes sadness a celebration of the dog’s life rather than selfpitying melancholy. Referencing Tibetan scripture, her belief that Lolobelle lived in between life and death—in “bardo”—for 49 days, shows an attachment that’s relatable to any loving pet owner. Borrowing David Foster Wallace’s line, “Every love story is a ghost story,” the final credits tackle Anderson’s big questions: How do we remember and how do we cope? She’s made a movie for the open-minded and perpetually curious, scrambling conflict, sadness and hope together into a mind trip with the perfect amount of weird for Portland. AMY WOLFE. A- SEE IT: Heart of a Dog opens Friday at Cinema 21.

A- It’s easy to be skep-

tical about a 2015 Goosebumps ﬁlm in 3-D. Jack Black plays R.L. Stine, who joins forces with a couple of cute kids to ﬁght every monster he’s ever written about and save the town. PG. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Avalon, Forest Theatre, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Division, Movies on TV.

that she served shitty wine and old pasta to Picasso at her art parties. But the ﬁlm captures her insanity with sympathy (and a bigger budget than most arthouse biopics). Even the most casual art users could easily be hooked by the story of this enfant terrible. NR. ENID SPITZ. Living Room Theaters.

PA R R I S H L E W I S

Goosebumps

The Peanuts Movie

A bald child named Charlie battles questionable fashion choices, impossible odds and burgeoning hormones. G. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Grandma

C+ Like a feminist com-

panion piece to last year’s Bill Murray feature St. Vincent, Paul Weitz’s Grandma tells the tale of Elle (Lily Tomlin), who takes her neglected granddaughter (Julia Garner) under her wing when the teenager comes asking for money for an abortion. R. AP KRYZA. Academy, Laurelhurst.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2

B Mockingjay Part 2, the conclusion of the Hunger Games series, looks spectacular. The burned-out shells of future megacity the Capitol set a perfect mood, the costumes are inventive and cool, and the acting is almost too good since it results in many great actors having only a couple lines. And yet all that solid artistic work almost, but not entirely, distracts from the fact that MJP2 is a supremely goofy movie. Set during the conclusion of the revolution started in Catching Fire, Katniss Everdeen leads a group of rebels against the Capitol, which has been booby-trapped with hot oil, lasers and an army of lizard people. It’s…silly. If you’re on the fence about seeing Mockingjay 2, you’ll just need to decide if you like great acting more than you hate lizard people. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Cinemas.

Inside Out

A- Pretty much everybody in the theater will sob. PG. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Avalon, Empirical, Laurelhurst, Vancouver, Valley.

The Intern

B+ Nancy Meyers’ latest ﬁlm successfully tells a funny, intergenerational story without relying on health scare or a youthful makeover for Ben (Robert De Niro), an active widower and retiree in need of something to keep himself busy. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Lake Theater, Living Room Theaters.

The Last Witch Hunter

D- The Last Witch Hunter attempts a lot of twists and turns, and it all ends up rating lower than Vin Diesel’s voice. PG-13. AMY WOLFE. Movies on TV.

Legend

B- They used to say a cup of tea could fix anything in England back in the 1960s, which is when racketeering brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray (both played by Tom Hardy, who is hard not to enjoy) started ruling London’s criminal underworld. Unfortunately, Earl Grey can’t fix the scattered scenes and haphazard plot of the new feature written and directed by Academy Award-winner Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, A Knight’s Tale). Hardy is its saving grace, valiantly dual acting in the roles of the very different twin brothers. He’s perfectly conflicted as Ronnie and charming as Reggie. Helgeland might be known for building suspense, sure, but the two-hour wait for something climactic turns this movie into a ramble of thick East End accents and too many unrealized plotlines. We get Reggie’s wife,

CHI-RAQ

Room

B+ In this riveting adapta-

Frances (Emily Browning), pushing him to drop the gangster act, the drama of Ronnie Kray being gay, the twins fighting to rule the London underworld while struggling to run multiple booze-filled nightclubs—it all offers some vibrant action, like when Reggie stabs a gangster repeatedly with a butter knife. But it’s mainly loose ends the movie tries to tie up with some good old gangster violence. Sorry, Hardy. R. AMY WOLFE. Fox Tower.

The Martian

B- Take the buzz surrounding The Martian with a boulder of salt. It’s just a pretty good sci-ﬁ yarn based on Andy Weir’s book that stumbles on its own ambition. When a massive storm hits the Martian exploration project and Watney’s team leaves him for dead, the skilled botanist realizes that the only way to escape starvation and space madness is to “science the shit” out of his situation. As always, Scott’s direction is spot-on. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Forest Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood

Mission: Impossible: Rogue Nation

A The newest installment in the Tom Cruise-led series is top-of-class for the genre. 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. 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. Vancouver.

tion of Emma Donoghue’s novel, an abducted woman must raise her son in a conﬁned space, To maintain a stimulating setting, Ma (Brie Larson) creates a social environment with anthropomorphized characters named Bed and Lamp. R. LAUREN TERRY. Fox Tower.

Rosenwald

B- Director Aviva Kempner dives right into the humanitarian work of Julius Rosenwald, who became known for creating Rosenwald schools. You can’t help wishing this documentary was in Drunk History format for its East Coast accents and lively, detailed storytellers. It’s jam-packed with all the philanthropy that the Jewish entrepreneur did for the African-American race he felt so much in common with. NR. AMY WOLFE. Cinema 21.

Secret in Their Eyes

C Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an earnest

FBI investigator determined to convict the man who murdered the daughter of his colleague Jess (Julia Roberts). After initially failing to arrest the killer, Ray has spent the past 13 years poring through hundreds of mug shots in hopes of building a case, and he may have just found the killer. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

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.” Steeped in the tongue-incheek charm of the original Wallace & Gromit, parents will ﬁnd as much in store for them as their children. PG. LAUREN TERRY. Laurelhurst.

Sicario

Pan

Director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) remakes the iconic children’s story as a modern-day action ﬂick with Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara. Screened after deadline. PG. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Mt. Hood, Vancouver, Valley.

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

A In the tradition of Grey Gardens, ﬁlmmaker and fashion addict Lisa Immordino Vreeland throws viewers into the closeted, batshit world of the woman who imagined London’s ﬁrst modern art museum, slept with Samuel Beckett, commissioned Jackson Pollock’s largest-ever work for her front entry, and once had an original Dalí delivered to her in bed. A black sheep of the world’s most famous family of curators, Peggy Guggenheim was an oddball—she shaved her eyebrows at school just for the hell of it, chats nonchalantly in interviews about her dozens of abortions and was so notoriously cheap

EZRA FURMAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND AT 6PM Furman’s new album ‘Perpetual Motion People’ kicks off with ‘Restless Year’, about which Consequence Of Sound described as, “a ball of energy, bouncing around genre borders with glee. There’s the rebellion of ’90s indie rock, a string of sunshine-y ’80s pop, and the snarl of ’70s punk.”

LIGHTS

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH AT 5:30PM

Canadian electro-pop artist LIGHTS is on a North American tour behind her highest selling album, ‘Little Machines’, which TIME calls the singer’s “most broadly appealing record to date, offering a mixture of starry-eyed sentiments, propulsive beats and razor-sharp hooks.

POLYRHYTHMICS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH AT 5PM The palette for the hard-driving modern afro-psycho-beat sound is built around relentless rhythm, heart thumping bass lines, intricate guitar phrasings, a searing avalanche of keyboard colors and the melodic hooks and soaring solos from the horn section.

VOODOO CATBOX POSTER SHOW

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 10AM–6PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13TH, 11AM–6PM Gary Houston is one of the great American poster artists. Under the name Voodoo Catbox, he is best known for making silkscreen posters for live music performances, varying in musical styles from alternative to country. Each poster commemorates a show, special event, or tour of the different artists, and each poster is a limited edition hand pulled screen print.

THE COLOR OF NOISE $15.99 DVD/BluRay Combo

Eric Robel’s COLOR OF NOISE is an exceptional look at the integrity of the American music underground starting in the late 80’s through the mid 90’s. The film focuses on the artist Haze XXL and Amphetamine Reptile Records, forerunners of the grunge movement, the collision of punk rock and printmaking, and beyond.

CONSTANCE HAUMAN Falling Into Now $13.99 CD

Discovered by legendary composer/conductor, Leonard Bernstein, Constance Hauman is renowned as one of the most theatrically and musically gifted lyric coloratura sopranos of her generation. ‘Falling Into Now’ presents a cycle of songs that are conceptually and affectively linked, recounting Ms. Hauman’s odyssey from the edge of darkness to a land of new beginnings and illumination.

CAITRIONA O’LEARY The Wexford Carols $14.99 CD

Starring the celebrated Irish singer Caitríona O’Leary and featuring Grammy winners Sir Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash and Rhiannon Giddens, The Wexford Carols presents Ireland’s greatest Christmas music (much of it for the first time) in a recording that magically blends a diversity of folk styles including traditional Irish, Americana, Blues and Gospel.

A Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears

Prada) is a talented FBI agent specially recruited into a task force ﬁghting a brutal war against Mexican drug cartels. She spends the whole movie confused and on edge while taking orders from the mysterious Benicio Del Toro (Snatch), who manages to act without ever fully opening his eyes or mouth. As the real mission of the task force slowly takes shape, so do beautiful sweeping helicopter shots of the border zone and heartbreaking vignettes of all the people aﬀected by drug war. R. ALEX FALCONE. Academy, Hollywood, Laurelhurst, Fox Tower.

JACO

$15.99 DVD \ $19.99 BluRay There are few musicians who fundamentally change their instrument, and even fewer still who transcend their instrument altogether. Jaco Pastorius did both. Produced by Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, JACO includes insights from artists including Flea, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Herbie Hancock, Geddy Lee, Bootsy Collins, Carlos Santana and others. It unveils the story of his music, his life, his demise, and ultimately the fragility of great artistic genius.

Spectre

C+ How do you like your James Bond? Brooding and brutal, or breezily throwing out quips? Should he drink craft cocktails or Heineken?

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MOVIES

Spotlight

A- Spotlight inverts the usual comparison: It’s a movie that feels like prestige television. Specifically, it feels like The Wire. (Director Tom McCarthy played the fabricating reporter Scott Templeton in season 5 of the HBO series.) An Oscar favorite recounting how a Boston Globe investigative team uncovered an epidemic of pederast priests abetted by the Archdiocese, Spotlight borrows the rhythms of a propulsive TV procedural. It resists the temptation for self-congratulation. Instead, there’s a pall of communal guilt (much of it Catholic), an acknowledgement that a Pulitzer Prize won’t erase decades of conniving at rape. Spotlight is endurable because the actors, a White Guys in Khakis hall of fame including Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo, decline to grandstand. They convey through small gestures—a twitch, a sigh, a pause in scribbling notes—how each revelation presents both a horror and another puzzle to solve. The highest compliment I can pay Spotlight: I would watch this on TV. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Evergreen, Fox Tower.

Steve Jobs

B This is the more high-profile and undoubtedly better of the two movies, with Danny Boyle at the helm and Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) in the lead role instead of Ashton Kutcher (Dude, Where’s My Car?). Never seeming quite human, Fassbender’s Jobs oscillates between enthusiasm for his own ideas and outrage that the world can’t keep up with him, in exactly the way that people close to the genius described him. R. ALEX FALCONE. Fox Tower.

Straight Outta Compton

C Telling the greatest story in the history of popular music—full of actual violence and sex and death and betrayal and redemption and brotherhood—wasn’t going to be easy. R. MARTIN CIZMAR. Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

Suffragette

A- Working tirelessly in a laundry since the age of 7, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) finally puts her iron down and takes up political activism in Suffragette. The history flick hits silver screens this Friday, strategically timed to drill voters with its female-powered manifesto. PG-13. AMY WOLFE. Fox Tower.

Theeb

A- In the desert of the Ottoman Empire circa 1916, the young Theeb lives in a man’s world—shooting guns, gambling and watching for enemy attacks. When a British guest comes to his village searching for a local guide and decides on Theeb’s brother, the tiny, sad-eyed waif follows their perilous journey. The plot may be unsurprising—the travelers’ lives are endangered,

and Theeb fearlessly acts with wisdom beyond his years and saves the day—but this Bedouin Western is anything but boring beige, for all its sanddune scenery. The desert is a stunning backdrop for the cast of unknowns, including Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat as Theeb. And with one look from his bottomless eyes, we believe that greatness can come in all shapes and sizes. NR. Living Room Theaters.

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Spectre—the 26th Bond film—has it all, and more. The one thing it doesn’t have is the ability to leave a lasting impression. We walk out of the theater neither shaken nor stirred. Following the impressive Skyfall, director Sam Mendes returns to the director’s chair. Buildings crumble, helicopters do barrel rolls, and Daniel Craig nonchalantly causes millions in property damage. But from the minute Sam Smith’s grating theme music starts, the movie slides downhill. Most disappointing is Christoph Waltz—so perfect in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained—who just sneers, cackles and hunches. Sure, there’s fun to be had—Bond drives a tricked-out ride through Rome’s narrow streets and engages in an Alpine plane chase before the anticlimactic conclusion (extremely uncommon for the series) lands with a dull thud. Considering everybody who’s involved in Spectre, the very last reaction anybody expected was “meh.” PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Trainwreck

C Amy Schumer stars as Amy, a version of herself as a magazine writer instead of a comedy writer. R. ALEX FALCONE. Laurelhurst.

Trumbo

C+ Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) is cooking up something other than meth in Trumbo. Cranston delivers a stellar performance as Dalton Trumbo, a rebellious screenwriter who despite being the highest-paid in the business in 1947, can’t stay out of trouble. He and nine other artists are blacklisted and jailed for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee while conniving gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) fuels the media fire. With the glowing Diane Lane looking better than ever as Trumbo’s wife, Cleo, and John Goodman adding comedy to the role of a questionable film producer, the pronounced cast tries their best through the sometimes vague, sometimes triumphant events that played out in big-screen history. The majority of the movie is spent wanting to like the film, the acting far surpassing the storyline that fails to deliver a memorable message. This may just be all the right ingredients, but a bad batch. R. AMY WOLFE. Clackamas, Hollywood Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

Victor Frankensein

C- Any time you watch a “reimagin-

ing” of a story in the public domain, you do so at your own peril. This retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein answers the question, what if the main character was Igor, but with a straightened back, pretty hair and a girlfriend, and played by Daniel Radcliff? Harry Potter does a herculean job of making Igor interesting, and the steampunk world is fun to look at, but neither of these can overcome the absolutely bonkers plot. There are too many villains and conflicting themes, and the finale takes place over a five-story fire pit, for no apparent reason. It’s almost as if (I’m sorry, I can’t help it) the movie were a bunch of bad ideas sewn together so it can walk and talk but is never truly alive. Just remember, Frankenstein isn’t the monster; 20th Century Fox making another movie about Frankenstein is the monster. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

The Visit

B- This entry into cheap-shaky horror movies doesn’t add much to the genre. The Visit is told from the points of view of an unbelievably precocious 15-year-old who’s making a documentary about her first trip to meet her estranged grandparents, and her 12-year-old brother, whose rapping is so bad it makes me want bad things to happen to him much faster than they do. The movie is packed full of jump scares and gross-outs (vomit, poop, old people naked) and a cast of people you’ve probably never heard of. The film’s got some tense scenes, but the humor, even though it’s unintentional, makes it hard to stay in the moment. “Little kid, will you climb into the oven please?” We’ll give it to M. Night, he does make us feel trapped in an uncomfortable spot. PG-13. ALEX FALCONE. Vancouver.

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Blood Lust IS PDXTREME FEST FINALLY THE HORROR PORTLAND DESERVES? BY A P kRYzA

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When local filmmaker Jeremy Jantz’s short film Heels was deemed too excessive to screen at his alma mater, the Art Institute of Portland, because of its rampant sex and violence, he decided to create an entire showcase for extreme horror. With The Walking Dead consistently setting ratings records, repertory screenings regularly dripping blood in Portland’s indie theaters and ghouls haunting the multiplex, it’s hard to remember that horror fans are still on the fringes of fandom. That goes double for fans of extreme horror, those ultraviolent movies that folks watch, almost out of a dare. The kind of films so drenched in depravity, viscera, deviant sexuality and psychosis that you feel like taking a shower afterward. Steeped in the grindhouse tradition, they can make mainstream torture porn like the Saw series seem like Goosebumps. If you’re a fan, even the most ardent zombie disciple might look at you as if you were about to take a bite out of him. That’s the very genre of hard-hitting fringe movies that Jantz is putting on full display this weekend in hopes that fans will find a new event to rally around. “Portland hasn’t had the chance yet to mobilize [around extreme horror],” says Jantz. “We need to change that.” So he’s doing something about it, turning the Academy Theater into a showcase of the nastiest of nasties for the PDXtreme Fest. The three-day festival features a slaughterhouse of features and shorts that often cross over from horror to crime and comedy. Among them are the slasher deconstruction Last Girl Standing, vigilante priest throwback Holy Hell, abduction freakout Rows and a post-apocalyptic Western from Amanda Milius, daughter of legendarily subversive director John Milius. Many of the directors will be in attendance for the barrage of blood, guts, sexual violence, ghosts and all manner of disturbed souls, marking yet another instance of frustrated horror aficionados transform-

ing Portland’s cinematic landscape into one where horror doesn’t simply live in designated blocks at film fests or in late-night revivals. It’ll live in full view of those who fear it most, daring them to come join those who fully embrace it. Niche horror fests, of course, have existed in Portland for a long time, with events like the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival filling a void for fans of often-overlooked weirdness. PDXtreme adds yet another neglected group—the ones who seemingly have no gag reflex—to the roster, bolstering a horror scene that just last month welcomed our firstever Living Dead Con, another event organized by frustrated fans tired of other cities topping Portland in terms of macabre spectacle. Does that mean Portland is slowly becoming a horror town? “There is room for indie horror in Portland, and it’ll keep coming back whether you like it or not. It’s like a bad rash,” Jantz says. “I’ll be back next year. It doesn’t matter. You might as well give into it.” SEE IT: The PDXtreme Fest is at the Academy Theater, pdxtremefest. com. Dec. 4-6. $30. alSo ShowIng:

In the craptacular Spanish exploitation flick Vengeance of the Zombies, genre legend Paul Naschy commands a horde of super-sexy, recently resurrected zombie women…and that’s the most logical thing that happens in the entire film. Joy Cinema. 9:15 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2. 21+. And lo, as it had every year after the last Thanksgiving leftovers were consumed, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation made its first appearance of the holiday season in Portland theaters. And it was good. But not as good as you remember. Laurelhurst Theater. Dec. 4-10. OMSI’s Music + Film Series continues to kick all the ass, this week focusing on concert films like Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense and the Jack White/The Edge/Jimmy Page love-down It Might Get Loud, and documentaries like the splendid 20 Feet From Stardom. See OMSI.edu for showtimes. Laurel and Hardy go all Babes in Toyland in 1934’s March of the Wooden Soldiers, shown with one of the crispest prints in circulation. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm Sunday, Dec. 6. In the U.S., Sammo Hung is best known as the dude from the horrible ’90s cop show Martial Law. In Hong Kong, though, he’s a fucking kung fu legend, never better than in the 1981 opus Prodigal Son, in which he does double duty as fight coordinator and “kung fu hermit.” Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 8.

Regal Lloyd Center 10 & IMAX

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Martian, The (PG-13) 12:30PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:15PM Brooklyn (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:00PM Krampus (PG-13) 11:35AM 2:10PM 4:50PM 7:30PM 10:10PM Love The Coopers (PG-13) 11:50AM 6:35PM Good Dinosaur, The (PG) 11:30AM 2:45PM 4:00PM 5:15PM 7:45PM 9:00PM 10:15PM Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, The (PG-13) 11:10AM 1:10PM 2:20PM 3:20PM 4:25PM 5:35PM 7:40PM 8:45PM 9:50PM

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to make at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here are some of the possibilities. 1. If you’re brave enough to change your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired dream from limbo. 2. By stirring up a bit more chutzpah that you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even restore a forsaken promise. 3. Through an act of grace, it’s possible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) To the other eleven signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini sometimes seems rife with paradox and contradiction. Many non-Geminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst of so much hubbub. But when you are at your best, you thrive in the web of riddles. In fact, your willingness to abide there is often what generates your special magic. Your breakthroughs are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision but then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon. CANCER (June 21-July 22) In September of 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry. But the scheme failed before it began. The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose. The rebels retreated in disarray. Please make sure you’re not like them in the coming weeks, Cancerian. If you want to engage in a strenuous action, an innovative experiment, or a bold stroke, be meticulous in your preparations. Don’t scrimp on your props, accouterments, and resources. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If you give children the option of choosing between food that’s mushy and food that’s crunchy, a majority will choose the crunchy stuff. It’s more exciting to their mouths, a more lively texture for their teeth and tongues to play with. This has nothing to do with nutritional value, of course. Soggy oatmeal may foster a kid’s well-being better than crispy potato chips. Let’s apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks. Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that’s both crunchy and healthy. In other words, make sure that what’s wholesome is also fun, and vice versa. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia. It’s called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it’s planted and the land around it are also its sole possession. With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months. What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly? How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It’s prime time to expedite this effort. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a ten-mile span of freeway. Drivers in three unmarked cars raced along as fast as they could while remaining in the same lane. The driver of the fourth car not only moved at top speed, but also changed lanes and jockeyed for position. Can you guess the results? The car

that weaved in and out of the traffic flow arrived just slightly ahead of the other three. Apply this lesson to your activities in the coming week, please. There will be virtually no advantage to indulging in frenetic, erratic, breakneck exertion. Be steady and smooth and straightforward. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom, and work smarter rather than harder. On the other hand, you’ll drum up wearisome weirdness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose yourself in far-off fantasies, and act as if you have all the time in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you laugh and loosen your iron grip. It’s a favorable time to polish off a lot of practical details with a light touch. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I’m telling you. According to my divinations, a new frontier is calling to you. An unprecedented question has awakened. The urge to leave your familiar circle is increasingly tempting. I don’t know if you should you surrender to this brewing fascination. I don’t know if you will be able to gather the resources you would require to carry out your quest. What do you think? Will you be able to summon the necessary audacity? Maybe the better inquiry is this: Do you vow to use all your soulful ingenuity to summon the necessary audacity? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot,” Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack, and Honey. “The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground.” I think that’s a paradox you’d be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, what’s most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what’s massive and fixed. Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness. They will make you as smart as you need to be. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage. He rarely drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla, and annatto. Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac, and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like. What’s your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets, and harem?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘yes’ without having asked any clear question,” wrote French author Albert Camus. I have rarely seen you better poised than you are now to embody and capitalize on this definition of “charm,” Aries. That’s good news, right? Well, mostly. But there are two caveats. First, wield your mojo as responsibly as you can. Infuse your bewitching allure with integrity. Second, be precise about what it is you want to achieve -- even if you don’t come right out and tell everyone what it is. Resist the temptation to throw your charm around haphazardly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20 “Unfortunately, I’m pretty lucky,” my friend Rico said to me recently. He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition. How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings? He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won’t fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you’re likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and serendipity. Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: “Fortunately, I’m pretty lucky.”

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