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County and municipal judges don’t even have to be members of the Oregon State Bar. 4
Deschutes once brewed a small batch of Hair of the Dog’s flagship beer. 36
Ammon Bundy’s resounding victory now endangers “Oregon’s Grand Canyon.” 9
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THE BUNDY ACQUITTAL
made by the government in this case are all The not-guilty verdict by the tampered jury aided blamed on Williams, but every single decision by the incompetent prosecution and Judge Anna made in this case, good or bad, was made not in Brown is a travesty and miscarriage of justice, a Portland but at the Department of Justice in failure by our public servants to protect Ameri- Washington, D.C., by Obama appointees. cans from the seditious Bundys and their violent —Pat Callahan militia supporters [“The Prosecution Flops,” WW, Nov. 2, 2016]. Blaming this verdict strictly on Billy Williams The defendants were clearly guilty (they doc- and the U.S. Attorney’s Office ignores the context of the times we’re living in. This umented it themselves!). The damverdict is what progressive justice age caused to the refuge (repairs to looks like. be paid by taxpayers) and the trauma inflicted on Harney County are the If you read the news regularly result of this illegal armed occupaor listen to NPR, you can’t go more than a day without still another tion of public property, which the story about the evils of “mass perpetrators now walk away from incarceration” and all the money scot-free, emboldened to take over other public facilities at gunpoint we could save if we stopped sending and endanger federal employees. people to prison. —Pamela Fitzsimmons The Bundys do not represent “The Bundys rural residents of Oregon or any state. are a criminal WYDEN’S PROPOSED They are a criminal gang similar to a drug cartel or the Mafia: using threats gang similar HOUSING TAX CREDIT of violence and intimidation to steal to a drug I am disappointed in Sen. Ron Wyden from the public for personal profit. cartel or the (D-Ore.) [“Home Front,” WW, Nov. 2, Like O.J., they will hopefully see Mafia.” 2016]. I can see dispersing the money, justice served in Nevada. If not, their but tax dollars should be provided penchant for violence will ultimately be their from the bottom up. I can accept a range of housundoing, hopefully not in the cost of law enforce- ing levels, but that range must be focused on lowincome housing, not middle-class housing. ment’s or innocents’ lives. The middle class will be helped by reduced —“Katherine” homelessness and the reduced financial burden Whatever one’s feelings about the cases and their that homelessness places on services. The exisoutcomes, WW’s hatchet job on U.S. Attorney tence of low-income housing will pull rental prices for Oregon Billy Williams cannot go without a down, thus helping middle-class renters as well. response. I was a trial lawyer for over 30 years, —“Swimnbud” and I have known Billy as a friend and colleague LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s for more than 20. street address and phone number for verification. Laying the sins of his predecessor, Amanda Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Marshall, at his door is inexcusable. The choices Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
Why do we even bother voting for judges? As far as I can tell, when positions are vacated, they’re filled by appointment, and the judges run unopposed forever after. Chaps my hide every election. —Disgruntled Defendant
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I’m writing this before Election Day, so I have no idea whether you’re reading this newspaper in the rational universe we’ve always known, or huddling under it for warmth in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of abominations in which the living envy the dead. But by the time you read these words, the die will have been cast one way or the other. All I can do is pray that the crucible of suffering that is Multnomah County Measure 26-184, “Charter Review Committee Reform,” did not come to pass. But I know that’s not why you wrote me, Disgruntled. Read on, and I’ll do my best to gruntle you. Your criticism of judicial elections as shams of democracy is not far wrong—vacancies come up midterm, the governor taps a replacement, and that judge faces the next election with the benefit of incumbency. Why? Some say it would be awkward for an attorney to run against a judge who he might later see in court. Others note that successful
lawyers make more money than judges. But let’s get real—the main reason we try to keep judgeships out of voters’ hands is because voters are shitheads who make no effort to learn about down-ticket races, usually voting for whomever has the cooler-sounding name. The polite fiction that judges are democratically elected, as retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Hans Linde once observed, allows lawmakers to “defend their 19th-century populist principles at little cost in actual practice.” But you can make them pay that cost! County and municipal judges are not required to be members of the Oregon State Bar, meaning small-time meth cooks like you can totally run. Just change your name to something like “Daniel T. Justice,” find a sitting judge with a name like “Myron Finkelstein,” and get measured for that robe. See you in court! QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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As the 2016 election headed into its final day Nov. 8, turnout—in Oregon, that means the percentage of ballots returned—stood at 60.7 percent statewide. That’s slightly lower than in the 2012 presidential election (61.3 percent) and sharply lower than in 2008, when Barack Obama’s historic candidacy boosted turnout to 67 percent heading into the final day. (The comparatively lagging turnout is unsurprising, because Oregon’s voter rolls increased by 10 percent this year via the Motor Voter program.) Read WW’s full coverage of the results— including whether Democrats continued their 14-year winning streak in statewide races; how Measure 97, the $3 billion corporate tax increase, fared; and how badly Donald Trump lost—at wweek.com.
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Portland PAC Sends Pizza to Poll Lines
The Portland pranksters known as Americans Against Insecure Billionaires With Tiny Hands PAC delivered one last gift to this election cycle: sending pizza to people waiting in line to vote across the nation. The PAC was created last spring by Portland political organizers to tweak the ego of Donald Trump with ads mocking his hand size. “We really didn’t have a great endgame, but we had a good number of donations and people would still buy our shirts
occasionally,” says Scott Duncombe, treasurer of the PAC. “We were seeing the media reports about lines, and we were like, ‘This would be a good place to put some of the funds.’” Duncombe began ordering pizzas Nov. 6. At press time, the PAC had raised $40,076 and sent 2,016 pizzas to voters.
Tenants’ Advocate Justin Buri Dies
Justin Buri, who led the charge to protect Portland tenants’ rights as housing prices skyrocketed, died Nov. 1. He was 36. He died by suicide after a long struggle with depression, said his wife, Juliet Maya Buri, 34, a visual and performing artist. As executive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, Buri declared a “renters state of emergency” last year, C O u R T e S y O F T H e B u R I F A M I Ly
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helping push through a round of changes to city and state tenants’ protections. Advocates mourned him as a devoted and caring champion for renters. ”He checked me whenever I screwed up, and always checked in when he knew that I was struggling,” says Andrew Riley, an organizer with 1000 Friends of Oregon. “He had the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever met, and never failed to live his principles.” People struggling with suicidal thoughts can call the Multnomah County Crisis Line at 503988-4888.
NEWS Still Standing WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
1. TESORO SAVAGE VANCOUVER ENERGY OIL TERMINAL Vancouver, Wash. Potentially the Northwest’s largest oil terminal, it’s projected to handle 360,000 barrels of crude oil a day and could double the number of oil-carrying railcars through the Gorge—to 3,360. Resistance: The Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Warm Springs tribes—all part of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission—have testified to the increases in oil train traffic along the Gorge and the risk of derailments.
IT’S NOT JUST STANDING ROCK. NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES ARE FIGHTING ENVIRONMENTAL BATTLES ALL ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER. BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N
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For two months, the Dakota plains of Standing Rock Reservation have become a national flashpoint over the rights of Native Americans to protect their land. The Sioux tribes of Standing Rock object to a nearly 1,200-mile pipeline designed to transport Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. They say the pipeline, which runs near their reservation, could leak into their water supplies, endanger their ancestral lands, and violate a treaty the tribes made with the U.S. government in 1851. As many as 7,000 people have joined the protest, aimed at blocking construction of the pipeline. Law enforcement has responded with rubber bullets and mass arrests.
The protest has gathered support from across the country, ranging from empty Facebook gestures to Portland activists turning a school bus into a mobile medical refuge and clinic. But Standing Rock isn’t the only place where tribes are defending their lands from environmental threats. Treaty rights dating from the 1850s grant tribes in Oregon and Washington the right to their customary fishing and hunting grounds and have been used in some cases to challenge industrial and environmental projects across the Northwest. Along the Columbia River, Native tribes are also engaged in multiple fights over land and water.
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2. PORTLAND HARBOR SUPERFUND SITE Portland Harbor was designated a Superfund site 16 years ago, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled its plan to clean up the site in June. Resistance: The Yakama Nation, which pushed for the original Superfund designation as early as 1998, has advocated for a broader cleanup of the site, citing concerns over fishing rights. It’s funded scientific studies, withdrawn from the group that serves as trustees of the site, and lobbied the head of the EPA, administrator Gina McCarthy.
3. NESTLÉ WATER BOTTLING PLANT Cascade Locks Hood River County voted in May to ban water-bottling plants, but the town of Cascade Locks still wants the business, and is working to overrule voters in the courts. Resistance: A member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde went on a hunger strike for five days outside the state Capitol in September to highlight the tribes’ objections to the impact on their fishing rights.
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Driving distance in miles from Portland to Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. The Portland Climate Action Coalition, an alliance of local social and environmental justice groups, is working to retrofit an old school bus into a makeshift refuge and medical care unit to be driven to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock. Activists hope to start driving the bus east the week of Nov. 13. PIPER MCDANIEL.
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Few people play as key a role in the future of Oregon’s tribes as Paul Lumley. Last month, Lumley took over as executive director of Portland’s Native American Youth and Family Center. Lumley is a member of the Yakama Nation and arrives after five years of running the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, where he was at the front lines of environmental and fishing-rights battles. Here are five things to know about him. PIPER MCDANIEL.
4. UNION PACIFIC TRAIN TRACK EXPANSION Mosier Union Pacific wants to build a 4-mile stretch of track that would allows slow trains to pull off the main track to let faster trains pass. Resistance: The Yakama Nation hired a legal team that successfully persuaded rural Wasco County’s board of commissioners to vote against the plan last week, partly because it would interfere with the tribe’s access to its fishing grounds.
5. LOST VALLEY RANCH/WILLOW CREEK DAIRY Boardman This project proposed by California dairyman Greg te Velde could become the state’s second-largest dairy. Plans include 30,000 cows and 7,288 acres that would produce 13 million cubic feet of manure per year and more than 10 million gallons of wastewater, according to the application for the project on the state’s website, as first reported by The Oregonian. Resistance: The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation say they’re concerned about drinking water. They’ve submitted technical comments to the state.
1. He has fished for a living. Lumley learned how to fish from his father along the Columbia River. He returned to commercial fishing when he was too broke for grad school and had to drop out. 2. He went to college for math. Lumley earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a focus on statistics at Western Washington University in 1986. “I was painfully shy and I couldn’t write,” he says, “and now all I do is write and give speeches.” 3. He used to work at the Pentagon. Lumley worked as senior tribal liaison for the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations
and Environment. “It’s like a fashion show every day there,” he says. “People dress up really nice.” 4. An internship shaped his life. Lumley took an internship at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, where he would go on to become executive director. “To see an organization totally devoted to protecting my fishing rights,” he says, “I thought that was so amazing.” 5. He painted watercolors. A former watercolorist, charcoal artist and photographer, Lumley collects the artwork of Jeffrey Veregge, who blends Native American art with iconic superhero and comicbook influences.
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Bundy National Monument FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR “OREGON’S GRAND CANYON” BECOMES COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF THE MALHEUR OCCUPATION.
“Prior to the occupation, I felt pretty confident that the Owyhee would be protected,” says John Sterling, executive director of the Conservation Alliance. “After the occupation, the path forward became a lot trickier.”
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A broad coalition of conservation and recreation groups pushed for Obama to permanently protect the vast patchwork of federally owned property known as the Owyhee Canyonlands. (Most of the land is in Malheur County, but it doesn’t include the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.) “Timber companies, ranchers and other private property owners are closing off access to their lands,” says Bob Rees, executive director of Northwest Steelheaders. “Public lands are becoming the real endangered species, so to speak. Preserving and protecting them is paramount.” Last year, a coalition led by the Oregon Natural Desert Association and Portland-based Keen Footwear launched a campaign to put pressure on the White House to declare the Owyhee a national monument. ONDA worked with local officials and retained Josh Kardon, former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). Keen launched a national campaign called “Live Monumental,” highlighting the Owyhee and four other proposed monuments. The timing was good because a Democratic president would soon be leaving office. Federal law allows presidents to establish national monuments without congressional approval. Such designations are usually controversial, so presidents traditionally leave them until the end of their terms. There are 162 national monuments, but of the past five Republican presidents, only George W. Bush declared even one new monument. As early as 2010, according to an op-ed that former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt wrote in The Oregonian, the Owyhee was shortlisted for monument status. There was plenty of opposition, including local residents, ranchers concerned about preserving grazing rights, and companies interested in exploiting the region’s mineral wealth. In 2015, a bill sponsored by state Rep. Cliff Bentz
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The cliffs along the Owyhee River in this state’s southeastern corner have been called “Oregon’s Grand Canyon.” The area is home to one the largest bands of California bighorn sheep in the country, herds of antelope, and 200 other species. Located 450 miles from Portland, it’s the mythical deserted West, free from fast-food joints, strip malls and, in most places, cellphone service. And thanks to the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by anti-government militants led by Ammon Bundy, the Owyhee Canyonlands is a long way from the federal protection environmentalists hoped President Barack Obama would grant as part of his legacy. Environmentalists pushed for Obama to declare 2.5 million acres in the Owhyee Canyonlands as Oregon’s fifth national monument. “The Owyhee was on the short list a year ago,” says Steve Pedery, conservation director of Oregon Wild. “There were no good, credible arguments as to why it wouldn’t happen.” Now people familiar with the process say the proposed Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument is all but dead—a victim of the Malheur occupation, which changed the political climate, spooking federal bureaucrats and Oregon’s congressional delegation. “It definitely had an impact,” says Doug Moore, executive director of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters. “How could it not? It’s in the same region you had a hostile takeover of federal lands.” The federal Department of the Interior, the agency coordinating the monument process, didn’t respond to a request for comment. But those involved in the monument process say the feds lost their nerve for further conflict in Oregon.
(R-Ontario), who represents Malheur County, ordered the state to assess what lay beneath the region’s surface. The answer came this September: commercial deposits of gold, silver, uranium and other less-coveted minerals. What was nonetheless shaping up as a major victory for conservation forces turned into a blowout loss when Ammon Bundy and his followers moved into the Malheur refuge on Jan. 2, staying through Feb. 11. While the Bundys seized federal property, opponents of federal protection for the land also took action. On Jan. 29, they incorporated the Owyhee Basin Stewardship Coalition and, a week later, hired Gallatin Public Affairs in Portland to mount a counteroffensive against the monument designation. (It is unclear where the stewardship’s money came from.) Gallatin built a slick website, lined Interstate 5 with campaign signs, and began a media blitz declaring there should be no monument without a vote of Congress. Gallatin’s Ryan Frank, a spokesman for the coalition, says the group had no association with or sympathy for the Malheur occupiers, whom he calls “out-of-town extremists.” But Frank acknowledges the occupation achieved the result opponents of the monument wanted. “It was a miserable, gut-wrenching event for the region,” Frank says of the occupation, “but in an odd way, yes, our client benefits from it.” Most people involved in the monument process say that by the time David Fry, the last occupier, left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Feb. 11, opponents of the monument had won. And the Oregon congressional delegation, despite comprising six Democrats and just one Republican, has accepted the result the Bundys thrust upon them. Of those who’ve taken an active interest, Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) sides with monument opponents, while Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is the strongest supporter. Sens. Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats, introduced a halfhearted bill this summer, aimed at preventing mineral extraction in the Owyhee basin. Protective legislation is the first step in the monument process. When it fails, the president steps in. But the Wyden-Merkley bill was far less than advocates hoped for before the Malheur occupation—and stood in marked contrast to the scorched-earth tactics of another Westerner, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). In 2013, Reid proposed far stronger legislation aimed at protecting Gold Butte, a piece of land a rifle shot away from Cliven Bundy’s ranch near Bunkerville, Nev. When the legislation went nowhere, Reid promised this August that Gold Butte would be declared a national monument before year’s end, adding that the only reason it hadn’t happened already is that “Republicans hate public lands.” “Having Reid say, ‘Goddamn it, I support declaring a new monument,’ makes a big difference,” says Pedery. Of course, Reid is the Senate’s senior-most Democrat, and he’s retiring this year, so he can afford to be bold. Merkley spokeswoman Martina McLennan says her boss wants to see future protections for the Owyhee “through collaborative efforts that consider local input.” Hank Stern, a Wyden spokesman, says Wyden did his part by introducing legislation. “Monuments are created by the executive branch,” Stern says, “and Sen. Wyden has communicated clearly to this administration the views of Oregonians supporting and opposing the idea.” Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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Portland Mayor Charlie Hales won election in 2012 by promising to force real estate developers to include onsite parking when they build large apartment buildings. But four years later, Hales is reversing that decision for buildings near bus and MAX lines. And his successor, Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler, agrees it’s time to end the ban on apartments without parking near transit. Wheeler’s reasoning: As rents continue to rise, cutting the cost of building new apartments is more important than making sure residents have access to parking. “Given our current housing situation, these are not good trade-offs,” says Wheeler spokesman Michael Cox. “There are more sophisticated tools available to achieve our transit and parking management goals.” Hales last week proposed reversing the parking requirements he shepherded through the City Council in 2013. A vote could come as soon as Nov. 17. Portland’s current rules require developers in most areas of the city to build onsite parking if the building has more than 30 units. (Hales’ proposed change would exempt buildings close to transit lines.) The shift at City Hall signals that tenant advocates, transportation activists and urban planners have joined forces against a common enemy: cars. “Since 2012, we have a more apparent housing crisis and good reason to believe that parking minimums make
things worse,” says Tony Jordan of Portlanders for Parking Reform, formed last year. “The short-term effect has been to suppress the supply of new housing.” Hales’ reversal in the final months of his administration is a return to his roots as an advocate of dense commercial corridors. As a city commissioner in 2000, Hales helped author city zoning rules allowing developers to build apartments without including onsite parking (“Block Busters,” WW, Sept. 18, 2012). But Hales changed his mind during a tight race for Portland mayor. Richard Melo, who championed the case for more parking in the Richmond neighborhood as part of now-defunct Richmond Neighbors for Responsible Growth, noted there were no guarantees that limiting parking would solve the problem of high rents. “You can look at all the apartments that have gone up on Division,” he says. “They’re among the most expensive in Portland. They aren’t providing affordable housing by getting rid of parking.” The change comes as the city is pushing a plan for inclusionary zoning, which would require developers to build affordable housing at any large apartment building. Parking is one more cost that could dissuade developers from accepting those new terms, a draft study from EcoNorthwest finds. Earlier this year, in a sign that a shift was underway, the City Council declined to institute parking requirements in Northwest Portland, despite neighborhood concern over parking woes. It’s not certain that a parking-minimum reversal will pass City Hall before Wheeler arrives. All but one city commissioner declined to say how they’re voting.
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Commissioner Amanda Fritz says she’s against repealing the minimums. “What she has been hearing across the city in the neighborhoods is that people want more parking, not less,” says Tim Crail, Fritz’s chief of staff. Commissioner Steve Novick, who has championed density along transit corridors, says he wants to ensure the Portland Bureau of Transportation is “on track” to manage parking in other ways before deciding. “Parking minimums run counter to two of our primary policy goals: promoting housing affordability and reducing carbon emissions,” he says. But housing advocates see a changed political landscape. “It’s an encouraging sign,” says Ben Schonberger, a board member of Housing Land Advocates. “That argument [for parking] is harder to make when rents are rising and people are having a trouble finding housing.”
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4. eDucAtionAl equity mArAtHon scHolArs
It isn’t everyone who starts thinking about college in fourth grade. But that’s when the students enrolled in the Marathon Scholars college program start heading that way. The program focuses on low-income and minority children who show early academic aptitude—and mentors them all the way to college. The students, who’ll be the first in their family to go to college, stay in the program for 12 years. And once students get into college, Marathon Scholars awards them $12,000 scholarships paid by sponsors. “We say we’re small, but we’re mighty,” says Stephen Wasserberger, the organization’s executive director. “The need is huge. We’ve got 117 kids spread across the program right now, we’re going to recruit 20 this coming school year—and we don’t even scratch the surface.”
5. criminAl justice reform
PArtnersHiP for sAfety AnD justice HelPing HAnD: Daisha tate is office coordinator at north by northeast community Health center, the only medical clinic in oregon focused on African-Americans. she’s among this year’s winners of the skidmore Prize, which recognizes people doing outstanding work at nonprofits.
Make Portland Generous Again FEELING SICKENED BY THE ELECTION? GIVING IS THE BEST MEDICINE. BY CO BY H UTZ L E R
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We don’t blame you for wanting to erase thoughts of a presidential race in which one candidate did more than any other in living memory to make citizens who didn’t look like him feel despised and unsafe. But now isn’t the time to forget. It’s time to act. During these past 18 months of Donald Trump’s towering toxicity, local and important work hasn’t stopped—and neither has the need. And now that the election’s over, it’s time to get back to it. W i l l a m e t t e W e e k ’s a n n u a l Give!Guide is live and now accepting donations at giveguide.org. Giving has already surpassed $100,000 and is nearing 1,000 donors. There are 141 nonprofits in this year’s Give!Guide that merit your consideration. Here are seven of them—groups that work locally to fight back against social ills that wracked the national news. Be the remedy.
1. Housing crisis
community AlliAnce of tenAnts Nobody could miss the blistering rise in rents across Portland—a 10 percent spike in the past year. But the Community Alliance of Tenants was fighting for tenant protections long before city officials declared a housing emergency. CAT has spent 20 years advocating for renters and marginalized tenants in the Portland area by informing them of their rights through workshops and outreach. Now it’s taking the fight to Salem. “We’re asking the state to make no-cause evictions illegal,” says Katrina Holland, the organization’s interim director, “and to lift the ban on rent stabilization so that local jurisdictions can decide what’s best for them.” Portland’s rising rents have “had a really devastating effect on people of color, seniors, and people with disabilities, and they’re getting pushed out,” Holland says. “People should be welcome to come here, and people should be welcome to stay here if they’d like to stay here.”
2. climAte cHAnge 350PDX
For some, global climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to weaken the trading posture of the United States. For 350PDX, it’s something that needs to be stopped in its tracks, principally by reducing fossil fuel emissions to zero by the middle of this century. The group runs advocacy campaigns to keep fossil fuels in the ground, promote divestment from fossil fuel resources, and speed the transition to renewable energy sources like wind and solar power without taking advantage of minority groups. “A big challenge is to maintain hope and to maintain our determination in the face of already living in a climate-changed world,” says Mia Reback, 350PDX’s staff organizer and development coordinator. “The work gets harder every week because every week we learn that we have to do more and we have to do it sooner.”
3. seXuAl AssAult AnD Domestic violence cAll to sAfety
When the Portland Women’s Crisis Line became Call to Safety in May, it was for one reason. “The simple answer is that no part of our name was correct,” executive director Rebecca Peatow Nickels tells WW. Call to Safety runs, among other services, a 24/7 crisis line that can be used by anyone of any gender. It’s available to anyone who’s experiencing sexual or domestic violence now or in the past. Callers reach an advocate on the other end of the line. “Typically, one of the first questions an advocate will ask is whether the person is safe,” Nickels says. “An advocate will invite the caller to explain what they’re calling about and follow their lead on the conversation,” which can include emotional support and referrals to other services. “The average call is about eight minutes long.” This work isn’t easy. “The kind of work that we do, there isn’t a lot of acknowledgement from society that it’s a problem in the first place,” Nickels says. “We have to celebrate all of the successes that come our way.”
The Partnership for Safety and Justice, founded in 1999, works for criminal justice reform by working with everyone who’s directly affected by it: “survivors of crime, people convicted of crime, and the families of both.” PSJ’s four main programs focus on sentencing reform, improving crime-survivor services, keeping teens in trouble out of the adult criminal justice system, and diverting public safety money away from prisons and toward “victim services, addiction treatment, mental health services and re-entry programs.” “The criminal justice system doesn’t just impact that one person,” who gets jailed or imprisoned, says Cleo Tung, PSJ’s development director. “It’s impacting their families and their communities.”
6. immigrAtion
immigrAnt AnD refugee community orgAnizAtion
Perhaps no group of people has been as vilified in this election as the refugees who arrive in Portland from wartorn places around the globe. “Our communities face biases, for sure,” says Jenny Bremner, director of development and communications for the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization. “It makes the work all the more important.” IRCO offers language, education, microfinance, case management and other services to refugees from nearly 40 countries around the world. The biggest challenge IRCO now faces isn’t racism: It’s rising rents. Bremner says IRCO is expanding its services to the west in Washington County and to the south in Salem, where housing for large refugee families is cheaper than it is in Portland. “The community need is greater and our programs are expanding in response to that need,” she says. “Success is when one of our kids is learning how to read in English and still speaks their native language, when one of our kids graduates high school and gets a full ride to a four-year college or university.”
7. lgBtq rigHts PDX q center
Coming out is difficult—especially when parts of the nation refuse to acknowledge your right to a public restroom. Since 2003, Portland’s Q Center has been making life a little easier for Portland’s LGBTQ people. “What we really want to do is economic empowerment,” said Justin Pabalate, the Q Center’s executive co-director for development and community relations. “We have so many people who are relocating or houseless and need that training”—or who were part of the center’s programs for LGBTQ kids, and need help finding footing in the adult world. Pabalate says he’s hoping to make a political impact, too. “My dream would be a candidacy school for LGBT folks” to train them how to run for political office, he says. “We don’t have enough of those.” Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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We weren’t planning to end up at Anna Bannanas. The power was out at our office because Portland Bagelworks had exploded. A sickly plume of smoke was still visible in the distance. So we held our weekly culture meeting in our favorite cafe on nearby Northwest 21st Avenue, where a Halloween skeleton was so well hidden behind a pillar it actually frightened you as you turned the corner. And it was the best meeting we had all year— more productive, more convivial, more full of coffee refills and banana bread and mildly pornographic local art. Our baristas filled us in on news about the explosion that our own paper had reported. Hell, we liked it so much at Anna Bannanas, we had our next meeting there, too. It was a reminder that Portland coffee culture isn’t just about austere minimalism and brand-new trends in half-crack, ultra-light roasting. Old-guard cafes like Anna Bannanas (see our favorite old spots on page 20) are places
where the San Fran life-disruptor programming a righteous dogsitting app (see page 23) has to recognize she’s part of the same community as that guy who makes his own pants (see page 29). Just be good to your barista while you’re there. That “hipster service” you’re always complaining about might be your fault. See page 19 for tips. And if you’re in need of some chill to figure that out, there are coffee-andweed pairings on page 25.
A coffee town with Heart and Coava and Water Avenue has nothing left to prove—the coffee wars are over, and we won. In readers’ polls, Seattle’s favorite coffee is Stumptown. So now maybe all cafes don’t have to be third-wave churches anymore. If you secretly need daily affirmations from Dutch Bros. (see page 27), indulge your obsession. If you want to get whipped cream on your Americano, life’s your huckleberry. So while we were impressed to discover just how good Five Points coffee roasting has gotten in the six years it’s been at it (page 18), we’re just as revved up about places devoted to providing a good place to hang, like a new sneakerhead cafe serving a LeBronald Palmer coffee drink, a coffee shop run by an ad firm that has crazy Thai-chile syrups, and, yes, a brick-and-mortar from stokedon-life Oregon chain Dutch Bros. (all page 16). Go ahead. Do it. Order your direct-trade, shade-grown, single-source espresso with whip. It’ll be good for your soul.
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The Klatch OUR FAVORITE 11 NEW CAFES AND ROASTERS IN PORTLAND.
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LLOYD DUTCH BROS. CAFE 430 NE Lloyd Blvd., 541-955-4700, dutchbros.com. Open always and (God willing) forever.
4243 SE Belmont St., 541-223-3580, nevercoffeelab.com. 6 am-7 pm daily.
Part branding project, part coffee shop, this cozy spot came into existence when an ad agency had to figure out what to do with the storefront of its new digs on Belmont. Assuming that “partnering with our clients to create brave ideas” would involve lots of coffee, management decided to create the sort of highly Instagrammable nook you’d expect to see in an episode of High Maintenance. This both fulfilled the firm’s need for a blank canvas and offered unmitigated access to high-grade caffeine. Zach Harrison, formerly of Albina Press, touched up a menu of lattes infused with housemade syrups—served in 12-ounce pours at $6 each—that act as the colorful centerpiece. Try the Phuket, which features a sweet-hot Thai chili spice with cinnamon, or the Oregon, an in-house favorite featuring Jacobsen sea salt caramel rounded out with Oregon hops. PETE COTTELL. DEADSTOCK COFFEE 408 NW Couch St., 971-506-5903, deadstockcoffee.com. 7:30 am-4 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am-6 pm Saturday.
When you enter Deadstock Coffee’s storefront, you may not notice its mantra, “Squad Goals: To make the coffee snob and the sneaker nerd become friends over the love of all things premium.” Old Town’s Deadstock is, to our knowledge, the only cafe in the world dedicated entirely to sneaker culture—
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run by a former janitor-turned-Nike shoe designer named Ian Williams. Lined with one-of-a-kind sneakers and vintage B-ball posters, Deadstock is a place where you can get your rare kicks professionally cleaned while enjoying a LeBronald Palmer—a singular take on the Arnold Palmer, the iced tea-and-lemonade refresher favored by the late legendary golfer. The LeBronald tastes something like a liquid Tootsie Roll, or maybe a craft Brisk iced tea. On a given afternoon, you might find yourself drinking one alongside St. Johns rapper Mic Capes, four tourists from Vancouver, the Air Jordan-wearing crew that hangs out at nearby sneaker boutique IndexPDX, a senior Portland city employee, and venture capitalist Stephen Green. WALKER MACMURDO.
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Who among us is sufficiently stoked to enter the new walk-in location of the cult of Dutch Bros.? You can hear the house music blasting from a block away, beckoning you to the Home Goodsstyle generic spray-paint art of DJs spinning records and holding up peace signs. You can enjoy both while lounging on a black pleather couch with someone who’s most likely homeless. Or you can sit at a tall, steel table with a pristinely dressed young transplant in the party-lit room, which is about the size of a Wendy’s. This Bros. has the normal complement of Double Torture®, Kicker® and Annihilator®, along with Blue Rebel, the signature house Red Bull energy concoction that will give you an amphetaminelike head buzz. Straw lore says that the color of drinking straw you get indicates what the employee thought of you. Pink means you’re cute, blue means you’re cool, orange means you’re fun and green means you’re ugly. Still, there’s nowhere in the world I feel more welcome—unless you’re ordering a regular coffee, which I made the mistake of doing once. The barista, who like all Bros. baristas channels Alpha Phi sorority sister, declared it “Boring!!!” She was right. Why get a coffee when I could get the six-shot 911®?! That’s certainly what the employees are jacked up on—which is proved more than ever at the walk-in location, which has a plasma screen that plays a video loop of employees laughing, doing handstands and going to EDM shows, donating to charity and extreme mountain biking. SOPHIA JUNE.
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1033 SE Main St., 503-956-9072, elevatorpdx.com. 8 am-6 pm Monday-Friday, 8 am-1 pm Saturday.
3290 N Vancouver Ave., compasscoffeeroasting.com. 6 am-6 pm Monday-Friday, 7 am-7 pm Saturday-Sunday.
2030 N Willis Blvd., princecoffeepdx.com. 7 am-4 pm daily.
Situated at the core of the former Boyd’s coffeeroasting facility, Elevator functions as a cafeteria for the startups housed in the building (Caviar and Energy350, to name a couple) that also happens to be open to the public. The trio of communal tables offer laptop power, while Adirondack chairs offer a place to sip your cup of Coava or Roseline ($3) with a view of the crane forest that’s sprouted up from the onetime Belmont “goat block.” A free-play arcade machine loaded with Chopper I is a great distraction from actual work, as are the breakfast options, like a housemade sweet potato biscuit ($3) or a breakfast sandwich with two poached eggs, herb aioli, white cheddar and bacon served inside the aforementioned biscuit ($8.50). Throw in three taps for beer and cider ($5) and you’ve got a coffice-in-an-office experience that makes you think the management might actually want you using their many resources to run your chicken-sexing app startup. PETE COTTELL.
The barista is busy telling me the legend of Mike McGinnis. “Literally only one man has ever touched the roaster,” says the barista, gesturing to a wall of Compass Coffee bags. There are 15 roasts here, from almost as many farms all over the world, whether in Malawi or Colombia or Kenya. “Every bean is touched only by him,” the barista says. “He’s kind of a badass.” Compass has been roasting for nine years just north of the Columbia River in Vancouver—and it has expanded to New Portland ground zero, North Williams Avenue, with Dutch-modern globe lights, a massive horseshoe coffee bar, Bee Local hot honey and Topo Chico mineral water available to go with your ham croissant, plus a series of vacuum brewers that look like the injection tubes to release the core of a nuclear bomb. When I ask the barista about the benefits of using the vacuum tubes, he offers five minutes of enthusiastic and sincere response, and a lot of excitement about all the other drinks and extracts Compass is going to push through those retro-futurist tubes. Spend enough time at this new coffee shop, and you end up convinced that in 10 years, Compass will own Stumptown. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
When Kenton’s Prince Coffee quietly opened this April in the front of a vintage upholstery shop, it immediately became the third-waviest coffee spot ever to touch down in deep North Portland. White and wood-grained walls, an analog stereo system, a few viney houseplants, and the occasional set of mounted antlers washed in natural light from the big front windows make for a Scandinavianminimalist aesthetic that also translates to the menu. Owner Katie Prinsen offers a tightly focused espresso menu with only a few extremely highquality additions (sauce for mochas comes from high-end chocolatier Cocanu); the coffee comes from local darlings Roseline, Coava and Heart. Prince is also one of the few local places to offer made-daily stroopwafels, a Dutch treat that sandwiches cinnamon-caramel sauce between two wafflelike cookie wafers. For protein, there’s also a tray of hard-boiled eggs next to the register. You might want to get them to go, as the aromatic punch of a peeled ovum seems weirdly conspicuous in such a clean, well-lit place. ZACH MIDDLETON. CONT. on page 18 Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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Precious few places offer quality dark-roast coffee in this city. So few, in fact, that the people behind Caffe Umbria recruited AJ Akram, a 15-year veteran of the local coffee industry, to serve its Italian-style long-baked beans at his cart in Sellwood. Well, it works. Moto makes a mean latte on its humble Nuova Simonelli espresso machine— just the right amount of fluff over a deep, roasty coffee that’s heavy on cocoa notes. Pair it with Akram’s own creation, the falafel waffle. It is— well, it’s a waffle, but made of falafel. Two months ago, Akram and a buddy had the idea of making a chickpea batter that would cook in a Belgian waffle iron. It works surprisingly well—especially when topped with hummus, cucumbers, sliced cherry tomatoes and a sprinkle of sumac. As far as I’m concerned, this is pretty much the perfect brunch. MARTIN CIZMAR. O LD SCHO O L CO FFEE 8101 SE Division St., 503-841-6906, oldschoolcoffeepdx.com. 7 am-8 pm Monday-Friday, 8 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday.
The “old” in Old School Coffee’s name is somewhat of a misnomer. It’s a brand-spanking-new cafe attached to Portland Community College’s library, and it’s excellent when held to the standards most students have long ago taken for granted. A lengthy communal table adorned with succulents serves as the focal point of the bright and open space, while the barista counter runs almost the entire length of the shop. The usual college offerings of blended coffee drinks and Bowery bagels are also present, while a pretty decent tuna melt or turkey swiss sandwich (each $6.95) pair well with a fresh cup courtesy of Caffe Umbria. Now that Southeast 82nd Avenue and Division Street is a hot corner for coffee, Old School Coffee is worth a look before you hit the books. PETE COTTELL. WATER AVEN U E CO FFEE D OW N TOW N 811 SW 6th Ave., wateravenuecoffee.com. 7 am-3 pm Monday-Friday.
The gleamingly new downtown Water Avenue is the wood-cased iPhone 7 Slim of coffee shops. The blond-on-white store—so blank it feels less painted than erased—is so dialed into the twee-minimalist hive mind that its coffee counter seems to have spontaneously tiled itself into honeycombs. Water Avenue has always been so broadly experimental—think pinot-aged wine, mixology-ready cold-brew extracts—and so Portland-ubiquitous it sorta seems impossible that this tiny downtown cube is merely its second cafe. If it weren’t for the vaguely World War IIpatriotic WAC logo facing the door, you’d hardly know that this sleekly Kinfolk-ian adjunct—open only since Nov. 2—belongs to the same people responsible for the Rube Goldbergian vent systems, Dadaist neon and mismatched wood grain at the original open-roastered cafe, toastery, roastery and coffee school in the Central Eastside. The chalkboard menu contains 10 options and 10 options only, from mocha to espresso to 18
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drip. But luckily, your only real decision here is whether you’re adding any water to your espresso: Even the standard-issue El Toro remains both fruity and deep, like those chocolate-covered cherries you used to steal from your mom. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. F I V E P O I N T S C O F F E E R OA S T E R S (JOH N’S L ANDI NG ) 614 SW Dakota St., 503-473-3530, fivepointscoffeeroasters.com. 6:30 am-5 pm Monday-Friday, 7:30 am-2:30 pm Saturday-Sunday.
Well, holy shit. This is very good coffee. Five Points has been flying deep under the radar despite roasting since 2010—hiding behind the Coffee Division moniker out in the heart of the heart of New Portland. Five Points has since rebranded its first cafe after its roastery—but hell, it might have always been the best coffee in the neighborhood. Five Points is sourcing directly with the producers of most coffee it roasts, and judging from the delicacy of those chocolate and vanilla notes in the Peruvian La Flor del Sapote, it’s doing something very, very right. The second location in John’s Landing is tiny and bare bones, but there’s a certain charisma to the mismatched-wood-slat wall and the old images of local loggers, not to mention the case full of Bakeshop cookies and pastries. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
KAINOS
KAINOS COFFEE 6633 NE Sandy Blvd., kainoscoffeepdx.com. 7 am-midnight Sunday-Thursday, 7 am-6 pm Friday-Saturday.
The coffee roaster at Northeast Sandy’s brandnew Kainos looks like a bicycle strapped to a furnace. In part, that’s because that’s what it is. Kainos’ roasting process, which it claims to be completely carbon-neutral, involves both wood flames and a specially built 8-kilogram steel drum turned “by a hipster on a fixed-speed bicycle.” Meanwhile, at the cafe it’s just opened inside a former dry cleaner, 21 percent of the profits from each purchase will be donated to an orphanage in the Philippines. A Kainos coffee cart is parked out front and doubles as exterior signage. The Honduran, Guatemalan and Ethiopian house coffee blend is a little bit wood-smoky and a lot chocolaty; it tastes like what might happen if Italian coffee went camping, and comes in bespoke mugs by Portland ceramicist Mary Carroll, and is accompanied on the menu by artisanal pop tarts from local bakeshop VilleVelo. Consider the cafe a sort of factory for feel-good vibes. Sure, the briskly pastel-painted interior doesn’t exactly feel cozy, but apparently the warmth is meant to come from within. JAY HORTON.
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You’re always on your phone.
We get it: Your boutique ad agency is way behind deadline on deliverables, and your client can’t sell fair-trade Bluetooth accessories to dogs without that sick deck making full use of all those slow-fade grafix skills you learned in marketing school. Please put down your phone for 10 seconds while you order, and while you’re at it, stop calling PowerPoint presentations “decks.”
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You ask for decaf after your barista starts making your drink.
Throwing away $4 drinks left and right because customers were too busy playing Candy Crush to order correctly adds up. Don’t worry, if you keep it up, you’ll get decaf every time whether you ask for it or not.
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Congratulations! You and your crew of midlife-crisis, humanSUV buddies have successfully pedaled your Cannondales all the way from Hillsdale to the bohemian enclave of Portland’s eastside. Now lock up the things outside like normal people.
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You keep asking for dark roast.
Few coffee shops in Portland carry dark roast, partly because it tastes like the floor of a bowling alley, but mostly because it’s hard to justify keeping a pot around when only one haggard, old construction worker will ask for it during any given afternoon. Order coffee with espresso in it if you’re looking for a bolder, more-caffeinated beverage that pairs well with Pall Malls at 7 am.
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You cut the line to ask for “one thing, real quick.”
If you sidestep the line and flag down the barista in hopes of getting assistance with anything more complicated than the Wi-Fi password or a to-go cup for your drink, you need to get back in line and wait like everyone else. Waiting in line is fun! That’s why you moved here, right?
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Your drink ticket looks like a novella.
Ordering a grande half-decaf Americano with half-soy, half-breve steamed to 152 degrees, four ice cubes and 2 ounces of maple syrup is a surefire way to get your name permanently changed to “mouth-breather” among the folks behind the counter. If your barista has to throw away and rewrite your ticket in frustration at least twice before getting it right, your order is probably a nightmare. Go to Starbucks.
You let your kid run wild and free.
Portland is basically what happens when civilized adults turn a city into a Montessori school, but coffee shops are still places with rules and order. Hot liquid is everywhere, so be sure to keep little Sage or Aidan within arm’s reach unless you want him to suffer third-degree burns when he wobbles somebody’s Americano off the table onto his face.
You don’t bus your own table.
We get it—counter service is confusing. The “no tip” button on the Square register is tiny, you have to sign with your finger, and there’s no way to get a commemorative printed copy of the receipt for your $2 coffee. No only that, but the barista yells your name instead of walking 10 feet to personally hand your drink to you. As confusing as all that is, bussing your own table is easy. Just throw away the napkins you balled up and crammed in your mug, drop everything else in the tub, and pat yourself on the back for not acting like a confused European tourist.
You bring your dog inside.
Contrary to popular belief, a very popular subset of businesses in Portland are not dog-friendly. They’re loosely categorized as “food and beverage” establishments by the Multnomah County Health Department, and your coffee shop is one of them. Please leave your dog outside unless it’s a service animal, or you’ll be subjecting your cafe to potential fines. And if you think carrying Fido mitigates the damage he can do while inside, think again. You’re putting his filth—and spewing orifices—even closer to surfaces where food and drinks go.
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Speaking of Europeans, chances are your local coffee shop has only one container of sugar to be shared among everyone. It lives at the condiment station—conveniently located right next to where you pick up your drink—not your table. If the barista avoids eye contact while sullenly snatching it back from the table where you’re hoarding it, it’s probably because she’s afraid you’re going to ask her where to find “all the cute shops” in the neighborhood. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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Portland coffee contains multitudes— from modern, progressive coffee bars that can go toe to toe with anything you’ll find in New York and L.A., to funky, deeply provincial Pacific Northwest expressions of cafe culture. The old coffee bars are still allowed to live and breathe their history in this town; they haven’t all been torn down for new condos and Nordic-inspired minimalism. Ask Seattle how that feels (spoiler alert: it sucks). Here are five old-school spots spinning in their own peculiar orbits. SP ELLA CA FFE 520 SW 5th Ave., 503-752-0264, spellacafe.com.
There’s a wormhole in downtown Portland, stretching between Southwest 5th Avenue and Alder Street and the cafes of Italy— Milan, perhaps, in the cafe-saturated area around the Duomo, or maybe Rome, where standing at the bar gets you a shot for one euro (or a float of grappa for two). Andrea Spella’s love letter to the Italian espresso tradition is still as relevant and qualityfocused as ever, celebrating 10 years at his postage-stamp-sized cafe (Spella started as a cart some years before). The place is intentionally unbeholden to the whims of fashion, instead aiming for a consistent daily offering focused on its Rancilio lever espresso machine. Your Northern Italianstyle, medium-dark roasted shot will be served with a little sugar—and as in Italy, it’s not impolite to use it. You might also try the shakerato here—espresso, ice, simple syrup, sometimes milk, shaken like a martini and served cold and foamy. It is the city’s best. HU BER’S 411 SW 3rd Ave., 503-228-5686, hubers.com.
Huber’s is on this list for its Spanish coffee, a fiery theatrical concoction made with high-proof rum, Kahlúa, triple sec and coffee, and because it is Portland’s oldest restaurant, opened in 1879. But here is a piping-hot take: Fuck Huber’s Spanish coffee. It’s all show and no reward—you can find better coffee cocktails elsewhere in this town (at Americano on East Burnside Street, for starters). But you should still go to Huber’s, because it makes the best turkey sandwich in this or any Port-
landian century and the restaurant’s Chinese-style barbecued turkey breast should get more play as an iconic Portland dish. And fine, OK, get the Spanish coffee—the show is really fun, because, ooh, fire, and look at how high they’re pouring from! Just understand that the coffee-cocktail tradition does not begin or end here. R IMSKY-KOR SAKOFFEE H OUSE 707 SE 12th Ave., 503-232-2640.
(Lights a clove cigarette.) Ah, yes, Rimsky’s…a fine place, equal parts hot fudge and heartbreak, an angsty teenager’s Trapper Keeper drawing of a cafe come to life, open from 7 pm till late, of course, because those are the only hours where this world makes sense. From the novelty restroom to the live music to the cash- and checks-only policy to the armada of nightly desserts to the enormous latte bowls a la Chandler from Friends, this is Portland’s premier “alternative” coffee house, in all of that term’s Gen X connotative glory. The mustget here is the orange cappuccino, a drink that was previously thought to be extinct before researchers discovered it on the Rimsky menu. Take a drag of your Djarum, give a longing look to that young poet across the room, and revel in a cafe that’s more like a 20th-century set piece than a working business in 2016. And I mean that as a goddamned compliment.
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sleeping, farting dog beneath the table adjacent to mine. Generation X is alive and well here. The cafe is largely unchanged through the decades, and God bless ’em for it.
1214 NW 21st Ave., 503-274-2559, annabannanasnw.com.
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Founded in 1989, Anna Bannanas claims the title of Portland’s oldest coffee house. New owners took over the brand in 2015, and it is by all accounts a vast improvement: the food looks fresh and appetizing, the space is getting vacuumed regularly, and the espresso machine—a vintage 1989 Nuova Simonelli Program VIP—looks clean and cared for astride the counter. The cafe’s interior oozes lived-in maximalism, from the strewn newspapers on the coffee table to the wheezing ’80s-era carpeting. Every square inch of this place is covered in... something, or some form of original art, or tchotchke, or retail bags of Caffe D’arte dark-as-fuck roast. Places like this seem like they should be on death watch, but Anna Bannanas was packed at 1:45 pm on a Monday, from the rolly-smokin’ hippies out front (there’s an ashtray, natch) to the older laptop nerds in the back to the
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P I ED COW CO FFEEHO U SE 3244 SE Belmont St., 503-230-4866.
This is probably the least coffee-forward of these “coffee legends,” and, yes, that includes Huber’s, where the focus is very much on turkey. Like a Primitive Radio Gods song come to life, Pied Cow oozes 1990s alterna-sensibility, with a vintage through line that dates to the space’s genuinely creepy origin story. Housed inside a Victorian manse built in 1893, this coffeehouse keeps goth-friendly hours (4 pm-late) and features a darkly spooky interior, replete with a tableside pantheistic worship altar, ceiling silks like a sultan’s tent, and a restroom with burning incense. Teenage me would have just about died, and indeed, for those too young for the bar scene, spots like Pied Cow remain the pinnacle of underage nightlife in Portland. Upon entry you will be given a dingyass set of old menus. There is hookah service, kava by the bowl, coffee from Italy’s Illycaffe (my server had to double check), fondue and lentil dip, and herbal teas with names like “Yogi Spice” and “Aphrodite’s Love Potion.” The place vibrates with the spent psychic energy of countless Tinder dates, and OkCupid dates before that, and personal-ad dates from the back pages of papers like this one before that. Perhaps you’ll sit inside, on one of the house’s musty banquettes, or instead decide to enjoy the surprisingly vast patio, haunted day and night with the smell of cigarettes past. The printed menu sports a Nietzsche quote across the back page, and inside intones us to “Indulge the mind, body and spirit with substances and conversation to ease the bracing realities of 21st century life.” The overall aesthetic is like a sloppy Wes Anderson movie—quirky-askew—or perhaps a regional theater production of Interview With the Vampire. May it live forever.
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DEATH OF THE COFFEE PEOPLE
Long before there was Stumptown, there was Coffee People. The Portland cafe, founded by Jim and Patty Roberts, expanded from a Northwest Portland home to more than 40 locations in town, going public in 1996 with the goal of being No. 2 to Starbucks. But the business crumbled instead, they were forced to sell, and by 2007 all Coffee Peoples in the country except five were gone, all of them in Portland International Airport. On June 30, 2016, the final five Coffee Peoples closed, ending an era in Portland coffee. In their place, PDX received cafes from Peet’s, Stumptown and Portland Roasting. All were open by mid-July.
CALIFORNICATION
California coffee is going on a bit of a buying spree, it would seem. Last year, it was the big fish: Peet’s bought Stumptown. This year it’s a medium fish: Los Angeles organic roastery Groundwork Coffee, home to housemade cashew-milk chai latte, bought Portland’s oldest roaster, 42-year-old Kobos Coffee, in March. The same month, a pair of Portland brothers started two locations of Tin Man Coffee, and by July, Groundwork had bought those, too. The beans from the former Kobos roastery will supply the former Tin Man cafes, and Groundwork will also open a roastery cafe on Northwest Vaughn Street. The company
has announced plans to open still more locations after these three. The coffee chain currently operates 11 locations in Greater Los Angeles.
MELBOURNIFICATION
Northeast Alberta Street will be getting a coffee shop from Australia—possibly before the year is through. It’ll move in next to the space where 10-year-old punk-rock venue the Know will close later this month. But in a true Portland welcome, the owner of Proud Mary has already had to issue an apology to Portland—before the shop even opened its doors. In May, when coffee blog Sprudge broke the news that the Melbourne-based cafe chain would be coming to Portland, Proud Mary owner Nolan Hirte was quoted in Oz food blog Broadsheet as saying, essentially, he’d decided to come to the forlorn coffee desert of Portland because our service was so awful. This didn’t sit overly well with stateside commenters. In a follow-up interview with Sprudge, Hirte apologized “to anyone who read the article.”
STRANGE BREW
At the end of July, Portland got its first kink-positive cafe—but you can’t get coffee there yet unless you’re already coming in for a sex workshop. The Moonfyre Cafe, on Southeast Foster Road near Powell Boulevard, is dedicated to being a spot where coffee enthusiasts and members of the kink, BDSM and sex-positive communities can
meet, learn and have sex. The 18-and-over cafe is planned as having three sections—the coffee shop, an educational space and a dungeon for “play”—and shares a building with Catalyst, a sex-positive resource and event center. The cafe’s founder, Pixie Fyre, has been a professional dominatrix, kink educator and victims’ advocate for years. If you’d like to see how coffee and sex will eventually come together, the cafe is hosting a Coffee and Kink meetup on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 1 pm. Admission is free, and guests are invited to “enjoy coffee, tea and a perfectly kinky environment!”
PEARL COFFICE
Three months after Remedy Wine Bar announced it was leaving the Pearl District, citing issues with the homeless, Nossa Familia coffee roasters helped open a coffee window in the Pearl—staffed by homeless or at-risk youth. For three years, Nossa had already been conducting barista training at P:ear, a homeless youth mentoring program. The coffee window, which opened in September, was the next step. “So far it’s been really successful,” says P:ear staffer Nathan Engkjer. “We currently have hired two youths who have gone through [the Nossa Familia training]. Our goal is to make as high end a coffee as we can. The two guys are doing a pretty good job.” Should you want to pick up a coffee from the P:ear window, it’s open 8 am to 1 pm weekdays at 338 NW 6th Ave.
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meal cookie is simple, familiar and delicious—packing 15 milligrams of THC into its very last crumb. This is an edible you will feel. After picking one up from Green Oasis Cannabis (1035 SE Tacoma St., 503-206-7266, greenoasiscannabis.org), you’re just a short walk from Either/Or (8235 SE 13th Ave., 503- 235-3474, facebook.com/EitherOrCafe), a Sellwood cafe serving roasters like Heart, RoseLine, and Bespoken. Either/ Or owner Ro Tam’s signature drinks and Tanglewood chai are the best in town, and each fall she rolls out a seasonal special like Hot Buttered Yam, made from Tam’s drink base of garnet yams, black tea, bourbon and maple, steamed up with milk. The yummy, warm but not-too-sweet beverage will hook up with that edible in your belly. You’ll feel all nice and tingly, and the flavor combo is totes fall.
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Pachecos filtered pre-rolls from Serra & Spella espresso
Although the espresso at Heart Coffee Roasters (2211 E Burnside St., 503-206-6602, heartroasters.com) is delicious— you can drink it as a single-origin, bigger-volume shot or a more classically proportioned two-bean blend—the best drink on Heart’s menu is whatever’s on the batch brewer that day. The daily rotating filter coffee is a clinic on how good coffee can taste in 2016, a rainbow of flavors from origins around the world, as distinct from one cup to the next as any beer or wine tasting. Your cup of filter will get better over the course of a half-hour, as it cools and mellows. So too goes Frank’s Gift, available a few blocks away in Buckman at Botanica PDX (128 SE 12th Ave., 503-462-7220, botanicapdx.com). The deeply chill strain clocks in just shy of 15 percent CBD for a calm, cerebral high that has just enough uplift from its 7.8 percent THC. It’s the perfect progressive coffee-bar weed. Like the La Croix and poke bowl combo at Poke Mon, the pairing is peak Portland 2016.
Andrea Spella has been digging deep into the Italian espresso tradition for a decade at his downtown cafe, and even longer before that at the original Spella cart. But here’s the thing: Italian espresso is just one small part of the wider palate in Italy. When I traveled there in my 20s, I was a half-packa-day smoker, in a country where that rate of consumption made me a casual dabbler. Like WW contributor Wm. Willard Greene before me, I quit smoking tobacco at the onset of fatherhood, so the best I have now are ciggie substitutes like Pachecos, made by Eco Farma Farms in Canby and sold at both Serra dispensaries in Portland (2519 SE Belmont St., 971-544-7055; 220 SW 1st Ave., 971-279-5613; shopserra.com). It looks like a cigarette and lights up like a cigarette—but brother, that’s no cigarette. The brand offers four styles of filtered pre-rolls, from the high-THC Hammerhead to the mellow, CBD-forward Keen blend. Pachecos even come in a cool little pack; the whole thing gives me feelings I’m not entirely comfortable discussing here. But pair it with an espresso shot from Spella Caffe (520 SW 5th Ave., 503-752-0264 spellacaffe.com), maybe with a little stirred in sugar, and you’re in some weed-smokin’ version of Milan. The connection between the two, the smoke and the espresso, is oddly primal and works on some deeper level. I’m not saying you have to smoke cigarettes to dig this espresso, but goddamn if that familiar tug of smoke through the filter doesn’t magnify the sprezzatura.
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THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF WEED-AND-CAFFEINE PAIRINGS.
BY JO R DA N M I C H E L M AN
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Coffee and weed: they rule. It’s a pairing that goes back to the early days of coffeehouse culture in this country, from the beatniks in the ’50s to the Berkeley hippies hanging out at the original Peet’s Coffee in the late ’60s. Today it’s not uncommon for baristas to receive a sweet nug or pre-roll in the tip jar, and they’re more than happy to return the favor with delicious drinks that play nicely with various buds and extracts. Portland is one of the few places in the world where you can legally do this, with coffee bars and dispensaries chilling out in just about every neighborhood. Here are four ways to pair coffee and weed across the city without having to get in your car. PA IRING 1 :
Orange Cookies pre-roll from TreeHouse Collective & Alma Chocolate mocha A chill little Kerns pairing starts at Alma Chocolate (140 NE 28th Ave., 503-517-0262, almachocolate.com), which sells the most chocolate-forward mocha in Portland. It combines Alma’s dark drinking chocolate with a deep, limbic-system hit from the Spella espresso base. It is a real treat. Then wander your happy ass a few blocks to TreeHouse Collective (2419 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-894-8774, pdxtreehouse.com), which is probably my favorite shop on Sandy’s Wacky Tobacky Road stretching eastward to the Grotto. As recommended by the shop folks, pick up a halfgram pre-roll of Orange Cookies. This hybrid of Orange Juice and Girl Scout Cookies makes for a subtly obvious pairing choice, with citrus flavors in the terpenes that play nicely with that velvety chocolate mocha. The result
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THE PLACES WHERE WW STAFFERS LIKE TO GET COFFEE THAT WE KNOW PROBABLY AREN’T “GOOD.”
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I like to walk and I like to drink coffee. From my office in Northwest Portland, it’s a pleasant stroll to plenty of good coffee places: Barista, Vivace, Jim & Patty’s, Dragonfly Coffee House and St. Honoré Bakery, to name just a few. So, why, every day, do I end up at Kenny & Zuke’s Bagelworks at 2376 NW Thurman St., waiting for an Americano? There’s no laboratory-quality glassware, no obscure beans picked by the toes of a ballerina and roasted in a ceremony by monks, and no pretension. There’s just the smell of baking dough and a consistent cup built on Boyd’s old-school espresso blend, as dark and strong as a pumpernickel bagel.
IKEA coffee ($1.49, free if you’re an IKEA Family member) is best appreciated as more of a condiment for one of the super-sweet dessert treats that the furniture giant serves in its cafeterias than as a standalone beverage. The burly cup of git-r-done is bracing, smoky like an old cigar and— with enough cream and sugar—a nice little throwback to every cup of hotel coffee you ever quaffed at a catered wedding reception, though technically it may be the only truly Scandinavian brew you can get in town. Either way, it’s a potent tonic, one sorely needed when navigating IKEA’s labyrinthine showrooms or making sense of its hieroglyphic assembly instructions.
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MCDONALD’S
You can get a 21-ounce McDonald’s coffee for a dollar—the best-tasting coffee you can get at that price without having to slurp it for free at a third-wave cupping. This is just three fewer ounces than a Starbucks “Venti,” a size I’ve never heard a sane person order. While some coffee places list notes like they’re tasting high-end wines (stonefruit, toffee, tobacco), there are no notes to speak of in McDonald’s coffee, other than one: coffee. It’s the smoothest brew I’ve ever tried, and while McDonald’s consistency is usually eerie, it’s exactly what you want in coffee, which is served hotter here than anywhere else—so hot, it’s practically illegal! Amazon user “deb,” who gave McDonald’s coffee a five-star rating, agrees with me: “I like good coffee,” she writes. “I’ve had all the common brands and roasts of coffee: Starbucks, Gevalia, Folgers, Maxwell House, etc. McCafe has them beat in my book.”
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Pete Cottell, calendar editor 7 - E L E V E N 7-Eleven coffee is the best worst coffee in Portland. You can always count on a 7-Eleven to be just a few blocks away, always open, awaiting your arrival with a probably fresh pot of hot liquid that tastes enough like coffee to qualify as such. I opt for the “Exclusive Blend,” which has subtle notes of nuts, tree bark and nitrates from the adjacent roller-grill hot dogs. It’s fine on its own, but the real treat is adding as many mini-packets of International Delight flavored creamer as your heart desires. My go-to mix is two vanilla, one Irish cream, and one white chocolate macadamia if it’s a fancier location. Add some hot chocolate from the nearby “cappuccino” for a real Frankenstein treat, or at least heat up an old brew that’s been left to die in the nether hours of the evening. Matthew Korfhage, projects editor
SHARI’S
Shari’s coffee—if you’re a kid in the Portland suburbs who can’t drink but can drive—is what freedom tastes like. It tastes like dirty water and distant heat. It is also the flavor of boredom, and your first taste of eternity: Every cup is bottomless, and it’s $2.49. You can stay there
forever if you don’t stack the napkin dispensers, fall asleep, or stop drinking coffee, because your constant interest in that cup of coffee is the only thing that makes you a customer. For the longest time it seemed as if every meaningful conversation I ever had was inside a Shari’s hexagon, and staff at every location knew how to make the coffee just watery enough my heart didn’t stop after the 12th refill. The coffee’s not the same as it was then. It’s better—which is sad. Shari’s saw the third-wave writing on the wall and started ordering its own “premium” coffee brand, Arosta, from Alabama. It’s taken at least 10 years, but I’m finally nostalgic about that stuff, too. Martin Cizmar, arts & culture editor
DUTCH BROS.
For a long time, I didn’t understand why the sales guys at WW were so loyal to Dutch Bros. The Bro-branded drive-thru coffee kiosks have pretty decent coffee, sure. But is it better than, like, Starbucks? That misses the whole point of the company, which was founded by the scions of a failing dairy farm back in the WILL CORWIN
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early ’90s. The Dutch recipe isn’t the sugar-happy bevs: it’s the feeling of broship. “We are in the relationship business,” the company proudly declares. I can attest to the sincerity of that sentiment, because I once witnessed a bro-rista attend a birthday party for one of those sales dudes. Like, at night. At a bar. If you’re in a business that requires politely enduring numerous rejections, the warm smiles and boundless enthusiasm you get from the city’s stoked-est service-industry employees are like oxygen. Tell them a boring story about your day and receive immediate and sincere affirmation in the form of a “Bruh, that sounds sick.” Everyone needs that sometimes. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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“We’re from here. It’s been a busy week, so we’re just catching up. She’s the actor; she knows what to do. I’m going to need your help. Do I look at the camera? Vanilla latte. Just a latte for me; no sugar, no cream or anything like that.”
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PARTY BARS: Bartenders in Oregon can legally drink on the job now—but only nip. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission is allowing bartenders minimal tastes of beer, wine or cider to make sure it’s not flawed or deteriorated, or for educational reasons. The tastes are limited to a maximum of 1 ounce per serving and a maximum of 6 ounces total (half a beer) between 7 am and 2:30 am for employees 21 and over. The big advantage: Your servers and bartenders may finally tell you what something tastes like, even if it was just tapped. “It’s something the industry has been asking for for a while, and we’ve been trying to look for solutions,” says OLCC spokeswoman Christie Scott. “Before, it was easier to enforce it. It was easier to say, ‘You’re drinking or you’re not.’ But this way, it is not as black and white—but that’s the point: to carve out some exceptions that make sense.”
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PLEADED OUT: Defunkt Theatre’s case against former executive director Lori Sue Hoffman was settled Nov. 4, when she pleaded no contest to two charges of theft from the allvolunteer theater. In May, Hoffman was indicted on 10 counts of theft, including eight felonies, to which she initially pleaded not guilty. The theater’s board members removed Hoffman from her position because of the thefts, which occurred between 2010 and 2015. According to Defunkt co-artistic director Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, Hoffman allegedly stole about $50,000 for personal rent, massages, vacations and dinners. “This was a friend who took advantage of us in a very predatory way,” Klaus-Vineyard says. “We’re just really glad this is all over and that she can’t do this to anyone else.”
CITY OF GRESHAM
CART BURGLARS: A burglary spree at Northeast Killingsworth Street’s Piedmont Station Food Carts late Nov. 3 marked the sixth food-cart pod to be hit by thieves in the past two weeks. The Tidbit Food Farm and Garden pod at Southeast 28th Avenue and Division Street was burglarized twice, including a string of break-ins late Nov. 2. Portland Mercado, Carts on Foster, Cartlandia and NE 42nd Avenue Food Carts have all recently been robbed. Portland police have not been able to verify any connections among the overnight burglaries, according to Police Bureau spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson. Police announced that detectives are investigating the burglaries, and reported that mostly minor valuables were stolen from many of the carts, notwithstanding lost business and damage.
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WALL OF HOPE: On Aug. 10, 19-year-old Larnell Bruce was run over and killed in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at East Burnside Street and 187th Avenue, allegedly by Russell Courtier, a member of a white supremacist gang who is now awaiting trial for the murder of the African-American man. People in the community have since written messages of sympathy on the store’s outside wall. Now, a group of Gresham high school students, along with local artists, will replace those messages with something more permanent: a mural that will celebrate diversity, unity and inclusion in the form of a tree.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Oh Joy Sex Toy 3 Release Party Locals Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan make weirdly hilarious and informative sex-toy and sex-ed comics telling you why ballsacks look different sometimes. This is the third volume they’ve released. As at all sex-oriented parties, there will be plenty of snacks. Books With Pictures, 1100 SE Division St., 503-206-4369. 6-9 pm.
Phantom Carriage Meet the Brewer California’s Phantom Carriage is known for brewery decor straight out of a 1920s Swedish horror movie and crazy-good sour beers you can’t get anywhere. Anywhere except Tin Bucket, where the brewer will bring his peach, raspberry, strawberry and barrel-aged cherry cinnamon sours. Tin Bucket, 3520 N Williams Ave., 503- 477-7689. 5-10 pm.
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Ms. Lauryn Hill’s Caravan She’s probably going to show up late, play songs you don’t recognize and remix the ones you do. But this tour isn’t necessarily about Ms. Hill herself—it’s a celebration of the wider African musical diaspora. To that end, get there early for Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, whose scorching polyrhythmic funk runs as hot as his legendary father’s. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335. 8 pm. $57-$202. All ages.
Hussy Tales and Whorer Stories Promising bawd, sex, indecency and “the opposite of sexy,” Mother Foucault’s bookstore will play host to a live sex-worker storytelling night with “strippers, dommes, hookers, and more.” As always, tips are more than welcome. Beer will be served. Mother Foucault's, 523 SE Morrison St., 503236-2665. 6:30 pm.
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FK A Genre Tour Curated by rising producer and Skrillex protégé Mija, this package tour showcases the bleeding edge of the electronic beat scene, with different lineups in each city. Portland gets L.A. hip-hop futurist Tokimonsta and Atlanta house figurehead Treasure Fingers, but the highlight is Mija herself, whose stylistic approach purposely evades classification—“fuck a genre” indeed. The Evergreen, 618 SE Alder St., fkagenre. com. 9 pm. $27.50. 21+.
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Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten Iran’s greatest director liked to do weird shit sometimes—like, stick 10 amateur actors in the back seat of a car with a female driver, and film them with a dashboard cam while rolling all over Tehran. If you want to take the pulse of Iran, it doesn’t get much better than this 2002 flick by the late Abbas Kiarostami. 5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall St., 503-725–3551. 7 pm. $4.
SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Urban Thanksgiving at SE Wine Collective Skip the trip to wine country—and the DD or very expensive Uber that comes with it—and head to Southeast Wine Collective for a night of 20 fall wine releases. There will also be turkey fricassee tater tot poutine, which sounds (a) dope and (b) kind of like turkey tachos. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Place, 503-208-2016. 3-6 pm. $25.
Sherry Educational Obstacle Course Bring three friends to form a team, then make your way through six stations for a lesson and quiz about sherry at each. At the final station, you'll taste through a food spread and create pairings for a panel of judges. Even if you lose, at least you'll drink sherry and eat tapas. Bar Vivant, 2225 E Burnside St., 971-271-7166. 2-6 pm. $15.
SUNDAY, NOV. 13 Drag Bingo Blackout on Sunday afternoon—on the bingo board! Drag queens Svetlana and Summer Seasons will pull bingo balls and announce prize winners at this Bingo night that's way more fun than any senior home. All the money goes to Cascade AIDS Project's new LGBTQ health clinic. Treasury Ballroom, 326 SW Broadway, 503-226-1240. 3-5 pm. $10 includes two game boards and one drink.
On the Ground Sisters of the Road produced a documentary called On the Ground about the realities and causes of homelessness in Portland. Filmmakers and people featured in the film will speak. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128. 2 pm. Free.
MONDAY, NOV. 14 Jenny Hval The Norwegian avant-pop artist may have drawn on vampires and menstruation as inspiration for her new album, Blood Bitch, but the result isn’t as severe as that may imply. It’s akin to Grimes going through a goth phase, full of striking pieces as apropos for goofy dancing as serious thought. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Thermals It’s the end of the Know as we know it, but the much-loved punk dive has filled its final month on Alberta with a fine slate of shows, none bigger than Portland power-punk mainstays the Thermals, who probably haven’t played a venue this tiny in at least a decade. You best queue up now. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.
TUESDAY, NOV. 15 A Tribe Called Red As activists protest the construction of an oil pipeline near native land in North Dakota, A Tribe Called Red could hardly be more relevant. The indigenous Canadian DJ collective combines elements of hip-hop and various electronic dance styles with traditional powwow drums and vocal samples, forging a unique urban-aboriginal club vibe where the thrill comes from just letting loose. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 7:30 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. All ages.
Back Stage Pass to Whiskey Yamazaki 12-year can set you back almost $20 a shot. At a bar tucked behind the Bagdad Theater's movie screen, $30 will get you that and nine other whiskey tastes, including Balvenie Doublewood 12-year, Bernheim wheat, Dickel 12-year single barrel and, like, 50 others. Backstage Bar, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474. 5-8 pm. $30. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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The Bump BY P ETE COTTELL
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Early post-hardcore (1987-94) Considered the forefathers of emotionally charged punk rock, D.C.’s Fugazi had a raw, straightforward sound and no-nonsense fashion to match. The band members’ neutral aesthetic, which consisted mostly of plain T-shirts, jeans and Chuck Taylors, was a direct manifestation of the group’s vehemently anticorporate stance.
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(1999-2004) As internet file sharing decentralized tastemaking, the math-y, off-kilter sound of bands like the Anniversary, Braid and American Football put college towns like Lawrence, Kan., and Champaign, Ill., on the map. The scene’s preference for vintage Western shirts and striped sweaters was due mostly to the wide availability of these items in Midwestern thrift stores, but it wouldn’t be long until the tousled, shaggy haircuts and slim-fit jeans that rounded out this preppy look would be taken to the extreme, bastardized by the mainstream.
Alt-earnest Like it or not, Seattle’s Sunny Day Real Estate was an early purveyor of grunge’s flannel-clad fashion sense that was already having a moment when the band’s debut record, Diary, landed in 1994. Bundled into grunge at the time, perhaps because it was released on Sub Pop. Diary has since become an emo touchstone given its raw emotion channeled through woolly guitars and crashing dynamics.
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(2004-13) Seemingly innocuous to mildmannered kids with a taste for screaming, post-hardcore groups like Glassjaw and Thursday ended up doing irreparable harm to emo’s legacy in pop culture. Fueled by Hot Topic and Myspace, straightened hair, girls’ jeans from Hollister, and deep V- n e c k s f r o m A m e r i c a n Apparel became the new norm for fans of “screamo,” as it’s now pejoratively known.
As the Warped Tour was overtaken by the preening jock culture that punk music has rebelled against for decades, sensitive kids turned to the jazzy twinkling of American Football’s 1999 self-titled record as their Rosetta stone. And thus, Tiny Moving Parts, which plays the Analog Cafe on Saturday. The plaid-andLevi’s look of the Midwest is once again the new norm, while East Coast bands with deeper hardcore roots often accessorize with Gerber multi-tools and regionally appropriate NHL jerseys.
SEE IT: Tiny Moving Parts plays the Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., with My Iron Lung and Glacier Veins, on Saturday, Nov. 12. 6 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
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California’s Phantom Carriage is known for brewery decor straight out of a 1920s Swedish horror movie and crazy-good sour beers you can’t get anywhere. Anywhere except today at Tin Bucket (and BeerMongers on Thursday), where the brewer will also creep up the place alongside his peach, raspberry, strawberry and barrelaged cherry cinnamon sours, among others. Tin Bucket, 3520 N Williams Ave., 503-477-7689. 5-10 pm.
Shandong THURSDAY, NOV. 10 www.shandongportland.com
The Dissident 2016 Release
Deschutes—the only old-oldguard Portland brewery with annual beer releases worth showing up for, whether Black Butte, Abyss or this one: the Dissident Flanders-style brown. Git sum. Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House, 210 NW 11th Ave., 503-296-4906. 11 am11 pm.
SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Cider Riot Grand Opening
The Cider Riot pub has been open quietly for a while, but it’s decided it’s time to be open loudly. It’ll throw down a threeyear vertical of the so-good-itmakes-life-seem-sad-somehow 1763 West Country-style cider, plus a potent cocktail of drinking cultures: tequila-barrel-aged Irish cider and six drafts. Cider Riot, 807 NE Couch St., ciderriot.com. All day.
Sherry Obstacle Course
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Bring three of your friends to make a team, and then make your way through six stations for a lesson and quiz about sherry. At the final station, you’ll taste through a food spread and create pairings based on your newfound sherry knowledge for a panel of judges. Even if you lose, at least you’ll drink sherry and eat tapas. Pix Patisserie/Bar Vivant, 2225 E Burnside St., 971271-7166. 2-6 pm. $15. 21+.
Urban Thanksgiving
Skip the trip to wine country— and the DD or very expensive Uber that comes with it—and head to Southeast Wine Collective for a night of 20 fall wine releases. There will also be turkey fricassee tater tot poutine—which sounds (a) dope and (b) kind of like turkey totchos. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Place, 503-208-2061. 3 pm. $25.
TUESDAY, NOV. 15 Back Stage Pass to Whiskey
Yamazaki 12-year can set you back almost $20 a shot. At perhaps McMenamins’ leastknown bar, tucked behind the Bagdad Theater movie screen, $30 will get you that and nine other whiskey tastes, with options on Balvenie DoubleWood 12-year, Bernheim wheat, Dickel 12-year single barrel and, like, 50 others. Backstage Bar, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474. 5-9 pm. $30.
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Collage 2 (DESCHUTES AND HAIR OF THE DOG) Did you know Deschutes Brewery once made batches of Doggie Claws and Fred? Well, it did, replicating Hair of the Dog’s beers on its own larger system. You won’t find Deschutes beers based on recipes that have earned Hair of the Dog’s Alan Sprints a global following for his tiny Southeast Portland brewery on their own, though. Rather, they’re half the blend for the just-released smallbatch bottling of Collage 2. Blending is the secret to most of the best barrel-aged beers, providing depth and nuance you don’t get from a typical oak bomb. Blending is common with barrel-aged beers that have the same base, according to Deschutes assistant brewmaster Ryan Schmiege. “Less common is the blending of completely different components to create one beautiful offering,” he says. “That was, I think it’s safe to say, what [Deschutes’] Gary Fish and Alan Sprints wanted to accomplish.” The result is extraordinary and something like a really good fruitcake—grape and apricot and vanilla and warm maltiness. The final blend was approved by Sprints and Fish, who picked it from a few variants presented to them. It goes without saying they have great taste. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Nocino Pimp My Sleigh (FAT HEAD’S) Mike Hunsaker likes the weird barrels. Last week, the brewmaster at Fat Head’s celebrated the two-year anniversary of his Pearl District pub, the first spinoff of the original Fat Head’s brewery in suburban Cleveland, by releasing a huge array of barrel-aged beers. While most breweries buy big lots of oak from Kentucky bourbon houses, Hunsaker tracked down the odd lots, making connections with hyped craft distilleries like Utah’s High West. Fat Head’s was already making Portland’s best West Coast IPAs—we had a panel of experts blind-test all 67 IPAs made within city limits, and Fat Head’s placed first and second. Now, Fat Head’s also has the city’s most distinctive barrel program, with a dozen-plus one-offs aged in Mellow Corn, Madeira and cognac barrels. My pick was a Belgian strong dark aged in barrels used to make Nocino, an Italian liqueur flavored with green walnuts. The bitter green nuts and smoky sweet caramel notes paired perfectly, creating a beer with an absurd depth of flavor. Pimp My Sleigh is a silly name for a beer, Fat Head’s is a silly name for a brewery, and the brewery’s branding ain’t doing it any favors. But damn if this Ohio transplant isn’t crushing Portland at its own game. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.
1. Paiche
4237 SW Corbett Ave., 503-403-6186, paichepdx.com. Humble Peruvian spot Paiche has grown up into the finest Peruvian spot in Portland—a hall not only of insanely good ceviche but thunderingly deep saltado, innovative causas and rich corn-pudding pastelos. $$$-$$$$.
2. Hat Yai
1605 NE Killingsworth St., 503-764-9701, hatyaipdx.com. Our pop-in restaurant of the year is devoted to the searing heat and deep-spiced fried chicken of southern Thailand—and it’s damn near perfect. $$.
3. Poke Mon
1485 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-894-9743, pokemonpdx.com. Our pop-in restaurant runner-up
is both peak Portland and peak poke, serving delicious, sauced-up, sashimi-style albacore or octopus at an affordable price, with a side of sake or La Croix. $$.
4. Afuri Ramen
921 SE 7th Ave, 503-468-5001, afuri.us. The new Afuri space is ridiculously impressive—and so is the ramen, with a shio broth with flavors that are the purest distillation of fish stock, and a shiitake broth as deep as most meat broths could muster. Pair it with a sake from a very deep list. $$-$$$.
5. N.W.I.P.A.
6350 SE Foster Road, 503-805-7342, nwipa.beer. Why don’t breweries make great food? We don’t know. But one of the hottest food tickets in Portland every single Monday—which almost always sells out—is the burgers grilled up by food-obsessed N.W.I.P.A. owner Jackson Wyatt, and usually some cool-kid beers on tap. $.
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Dame’s Got Game I’M AT THE RESTAURANT. I’M AT THE WINE BAR. I’M AT THE COMBINATION RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR. BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE mkorfhage@wweek.com
As a wine bar, new Northeast Killingsworth spot Dame is a pretty good restaurant. And as a restaurant, it’s one hell of a bar. There seems to be some public disagreement about which one it is—the owners say it’s a restaurant with a bar, while a recent newspaper review cheerily informed them it’s a bar with food. But the real surprise is that anybody cared enough about a new Portland wine spot to debate its precise definition. Dame is easily the most heatedly anticipated wine locale to roll into Portland in years. Some of this is cultural cachet, sure: Last year, Dame co-owner Dana Frank was named one of the best sommeliers in the country by two national food magazines. Since Frank and business partner Jane Smith opened Dame in September, their 100-plus-bottle stock of natural wines has been unrivaled for hundreds of miles in any direction. You can drink orange wines that have been fermented with grape skins, wines that taste like mushrooms, bottlefermented peasant bubbly, or Croatian and Georgian wines whose traditions long predate the vineyards of France. It’s also not a bad hang. Dame’s location, the former home of French bistro Cocotte, has retained a lot of the previous spot’s charm. The warmtoned, hardwood-floored front room is split just about evenly between bar and tables— decorated with bright white-and-blue trim, Old World tchotchkes on the wall and lush, patterned wallpaper on one side that’s the approximate color of midnight. In terms of decor, it’s a cross between the nostalgic midcentury France of Amélie and a north-
FOOD, WINE: Halibut (left) and peppers.
side cousin to Clinton Street mussel spot La Moule. Oysters aside, Dame’s food menu avoids most of the typical wine-bar trappings of meat-and-cheese boards; it’s also not messing around with wine pairings. Chef Eli Dahlin—who ran the kitchen at Seattle’s revered Walrus and the Carpenter—is instead treating the wine as the main show and opting to stay out of its way by constructing dishes of subdued, balanced flavors pinging with bright notes of pickle, roe or pepper. From mahogany clams ($1) to oysters ($3.75) to a pungent snack of cured smelt
($7) and a balanced fig-coconut-turmeric halibut entree ($19), the flavors across much of the menu tend toward a triad of brine, acidity and earthiness that reads, roughly, as “wine food.” Each bite of grilled fontinastuffed pepper carried a faint premonition of the wine that seemed meant to follow it. In dishes like an airy plate of salt cod dumplings ($16) grounded by Brussels sprouts and shiitakes, Dahlin ended up somewhere much more interesting, layering the pumpkin flavor in chicken broth by using pumpkin parts from seed to rind. Whether within the same dish or across the menu, Dahlin tends to use every pos-
sible part of a veggie or animal. That halibut plate ($19) featured not only the fruit of the fig but its leaf, to play up an affinity between fig leaf and coconut, which served to balance the clarified turmeric-spiced broth. Meanwhile, the skin off that tenderpoached halibut was served on a different plate altogether—fried up as a pleasantly trashy appetizer with roe. There’s such a thing as too much delicacy, however, a line that was crossed by the time an anchovy-celeriac beef tartare was completely overwhelmed by the grain of a cracker. A cheese-plate dessert suffered the same fate at the hands of a thick cracker made with rye and buckwheat. On the other hand, the drinks at Dame have all been in the range between interesting and excellent—which can make the place trouble if you drive there. Currently, there are no orange wines among the glass pours ($10-$18)—something Frank says she’s changing—but those new to natural wines can get a fine introduction with a nutty, floral, but still very accessible Domaine Belluard “Les Perles du Mont Blanc” sparkling white ($12). Frank herself is also often accessible and willing to help recommend bottles in your price range. Even the beer and cider and aperitif menus are stocked with relative rarities like a beautifully balanced La Brasserie des Voirons Lug Blanche beer, an E.Z. Orchards seasonal, and lesser-carried vermouths like the tobaccoey Atxa Tinto. But the very best item I had at Dame also underscores a danger of the place. While my attention wandered, my dining companion got caught up in ordering a Paolo Bea Arboreus—a trebbiano whose 80-year-old vines have been trained to grow like trees, and which sometimes produce so few grapes that cases end up vanishingly rare. It was bright-flavored and rounded across the palate, somehow singing with both honey and orange sweetness and tealike notes. It was one of the best wines I’ve had all year. But I’d also been thrown on the hook for a $67 bottle. “That’s a bargain!” my friend said. “In New York, it would have been three times that!” I looked it up. It was more like two and a half. EAT: Dame, 2930 NE Killingsworth St., 503227-2669, damerestaurant.com. 5-10 pm Wednesday-Sunday.
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Kiiara, Cruel Youth, Lil Aaron
[FUTURE POP SOUNDS] Twenty-oneyear-old singer Kiiara has only released a single and an EP so far, but the amount of attention that small output has garnered her is not proportionate to the fact that she has, like, only six songs. The Illinois-raised singer’s breathy, echoey electronic pop has been described as futuristic and “slightly left of center,” with trap-style rap inflections. The trippy, addictive, intercutting beats on last year’s breakthrough hit “Gold,” and lyrics full of a youthful vernacular like “way too many feels,” might explain her mass appeal. MAYA MCOMIE. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10 Nina Diaz, Berahmand
[DARK ELECTRO-ROCK] A few months after a life-changing experience on Jan. 9, 2013, Nina Diaz stopped doing
drugs. At the time, she was fronting Girl in a Coma and operating under a perpetual cocktail of substances. That night, she felt the presence of her deceased grandmother, then wrote a song about it. The resulting single “January 9th,” and subsequent solo album, The Beat Is Dead, are infused with all the emotions of that moment—spooky, sentimental, virtuous— and Diaz’s scary-expressive vocals rip through it all. From sweet indie electro to industrial plodding, the album chronicles Diaz’s recovery from addiction and her discovery of self. Recommended for fans of exorcisms, checkered Vans and rock ’n’ roll. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503-2067630. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Pansy Division, Macho Boys, Cockeye, Wasi [QUEERCORE EVOLUTION] Pansy Division’s most famous songs are joyous odes to unbridled lust, but San Francisco’s queercore pioneers have always been just as good at capturing
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FIVE CLASSIC PUNK SONGS YOU COULDN’T GET AWAY WITH TODAY Descendents, “I’m Not a Loser” (1982)
Pop punk’s original angsty nerd bros are coming through town this week, grayer and assuredly wiser than when they wrote this 90-second rant against the rich pricks at their high school that swerves, out of nowhere, into virulent gay-bashing. It’s been stricken from their set list, but don’t worry—their many songs about being nice guys who never get the sex they think they deserve remain.
2 Minor Threat, “Guilty of Being White” (1981) White privilege is a difficult concept for many Americans to grasp, so perhaps we shouldn’t drag teenage Ian MacKaye too hard for not understanding why he must shoulder the weight of atrocities committed “a hundred years before I was born.” But a white kid with a shaved head shouting, “You blame me for slavery!” still doesn’t scan well three decades later. 3 Sex Pistols, “Bodies” (1977) In which John Lydon punksplains the horrors of abortion via the gruesome story of a mental patient named Pauline. It’s not explicitly pro-life—the guy who declared “I am an Antichrist” couldn’t possibly believe life begins at conception, right?—but it’s not terribly empathetic, either. 4 The Misfits, “Last Caress” (1980) Granted, the Misfits’ depictions of violence were always too cartoonish to truly scandalize anyone other than Midwestern church ladies, but such a gleeful celebration of rape and baby-killing would certainly get them banned from college campuses were it released today. 5 Patti Smith, “Rock N Roll Nigger” (1978) To be fair, Smith was trying to reclaim the epithet for all nonconformists living outside society’s bounds. But nah, Patti. Nah. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Descendents play Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., with Bully and Broadway Calls, on Saturday, Nov. 12. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Cosmic Chameleon
by-ear fluency in about five instruments. Instead, he’s quick to compliment those he works with— most notably jazz duo the Mattson 2, which plays on Toro y Moi’s new concert album, Live From Trona, and is collaborating with Bundick on an upcoming studio release called Star Stuff. “I don’t even know BY ISA B EL ZACHA R IAS 503- 243-2122 where to start with them,” Bundick says. “First of Chaz Bundick is keenly aware that Portland all, they’re twins, so they have crazy powers. On top of that, they’re virtuoso prodigy jazz kids.” doesn’t always take kindly to transplants. “Yeah, sure, there’s a rivalry,” says the Toro He says the Mattson 2 was an obvious fit for y Moi frontman, who moved to Oregon from Live From Trona because the project is hardwired California last year. “But it seems kind of ridicu- to emphasize musicianship above everything. The lous.” He’s been angrily yelled at more than once album and accompanying concert video deliver. because of his former state of residence, but he’s Hours of recording under the Mojave Desert’s stunmanaged to laugh it off. “You know, that’s just how ning Trona Pinnacles at sunset—with no audience— societies grow,” he says. revealed a Toro y Moi with new priorities. The People like Bundick—ones with band may have gained traction mostly arty bands, a functional friendship because of Bundick’s crazy electronic with Tyler the Creator and a wife production chops, but “I don’t think who, based on Google’s autofill people really understand that I results, gets searched almost like to go all the way to the other as much as he does—could get side of the spectrum, too,” he by just fine acting like defensays. Live From Trona presents sive assholes. But that’s not spacious ’70s rock versions of Bundick’s style. Since movfamiliar songs, with Bundick giving to Portland and singleing them a whole second life. handedly infecting us with He says the filming took the clear-plastic-glasses-frames place on “a very cosmic day, —Chaz Bundick virus, he says he’s mostly “been almost a dream—we were the only laying low-key.” Oh yeah, and making ones out there. I knew I wanted it to a live album. And a mixtape. And another be in the desert because it’s the setting that album, too. really isolates you. Every time I’m in the desert, I Bundick has a chameleonic personality. He realize a lot of things about who I am.” The strangdresses playfully, in colors and patterns and jewelry, est part, he says, was that “if you had to go to the but he maintains a mellow enough disposition to bathroom, it was a 15-minute trek, or you had to blend into his surroundings. Also, his music changes wait for the bathroom car.” hue effortlessly. Toro y Moi rode the inaugural chillThis is at the heart of Bundick’s artistic gift, as well wave over to indie pop, through hip-hop beats and as what makes him feel like a real person. All that cosnow a bit of jazz, but there’s always been something mic talk is never divorced from lighthearted takes on intangibly “Toro y Moi” about it all. I underestimat- good old reality. With two feet firmly on the ground, ed the scope of Bundick’s musical influences, until I Bundick is a master juggler, in life as in music. asked if he’s caught any Portland acts he liked and he “My music is just this bouncing spectrum,” he immediately brought up local twangy country band says. “I just haven’t made any country music. One Denver. “Seeing them live was something pretty day, that would be nice.” impressive,” he says. “I love country music.” Bundick doesn’t veer into self-congratulation, SEE IT: Toro y Moi and the Mattson 2 play Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., on Wednesday, Nov. 9. despite his remarkable genre versatility and play- 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
TORO Y MOI’S CHAZ BUNDICK SURVIVED CHILLWAVE, BUT WHAT HE REALLY WANTS TO DO IS PLAY COUNTRY.
“EVERY TIME I’M IN THE DESERT, I REALIZE A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT WHO I AM.”
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the melancholic longing and dejection waiting on the other side of a sweat-slicked encounter. There’s more sadness than sex on the band’s new album, Quite Contrary, but for the most part, chief songwriters Jon Ginoli and Chris Freeman are committed to exploring the emotional realm in the middle, where resignation gives way to contentment and screwing ends with a sleepy cuddle. It’s a gorgeous document of getting older without getting bitter. Let’s hope Pansy Division sticks around to sing us into our golden years. CHRIS STAMM. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-226-6630. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Ms. Lauryn Hill, Seun Kuti
[MISEDUCATOR] See Get Busy, page 31. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 503-248-4335. 7 pm. $57$202. All ages.
FRIDAY, NOV. 11 Iris DeMent
[COUNTRY FOLK] Given she was raised in an Arkansas farm town as the youngest daughter of 14 children, Iris DeMent’s American-ness is staggering. If you’ve wondered whether the deep twang of the female vocals on John Prine’s “In Spite of Ourselves” was an affectation, well, it’s not. A series of waitressing and typing jobs landed DeMent in an unfulfilled slump at age 25—and instead of whining, she wrote her first song. Less than a decade later, 1994’s My Life was nominated for a Grammy, and Merle Haggard heralded her as “the best singer I’ve ever heard.” I don’t disagree. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. $32.50 advance, $35 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Daughters, the Body, Loma Prieta
[EXPERI-METAL] Thrash and screamo collide on this tour, where experimental elements and mathy guitar lines meet syncopated drum beats and wretched vocals. Some probably remember Daughters and Loma Prieta as the next step up out of their “Fall of Troy” phase, but the Body’s localized fame warrants national attention. Their latest, No One Deserves Happiness, combines their signature reverberated heaviness with ’80s electro-dance qualities for an experiment all in its own. With themes of despair and isolation, the album does a lot to convey undeserved happiness, but rest assured—experiencing the duo live is something everyone deserves. CERVANTE POPE. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 503-2260430. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
FK A Genre: Mija, Tokimonsta, Treasure Fingers, Electric Mantis
[ECLECTIC ELECTRONIC] See Get Busy, page 31. The Evergreen, 618 SE Alder St., 503-476-1811. 9 pm. $27.50. 21+.
Guyve, Dwarf Giant, Stars’ Blood
[IMPROV METAL] Hell just froze over, so Guyve booked a show. The trio formed in Montana in 1993 and continues to jam, mostly in its living room. Disgusted by a city that never really sank its teeth into the band’s improvised, metallic space explorations, Guyve turned inward for years, continuing to record and evolve in its own cocoon. The former Foggy Notion provides the gate for Guyve to spread its wings over a new city full of legally stoned transplants who just might “get it.” Bludgeoning metal minimalist Dwarf Giant supports while Jake Rose’s new group, Stars’ Blood, kicks things off with its second local show this week. There are some interesting twists to Stars’ Blood’s progressive metal, but the band would do well to burn its Tool albums and invest in the new Psalm Zero. NATHAN CARSON. Lombard Pub, 3416 N Lombard St., 503-2067751. 8 pm. Free. 21+.
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Sumalienz
WHO: Bryson the Alien, Mai Mae, SHK THT. SOUNDS LIKE: Amy Winehouse joined your favorite hip-hop group. FOR FANS OF: A Tribe Called Quest, MF Doom, Banks. 2016 will be remembered as the year hip-hop broke in Portland. There are greater opportunities to see rap shows today without fear of a police crackdown, but there is still little crossover between the local hip-hop scene and the city’s music scene— which makes a group like Sumalienz something of an anomaly. “The name ‘Sumalienz’ came about partly because we all feel a little separated or alien from the scenes we’re part of individually,” says rapper Bryson the Alien, who formed the trio in early 2016 with singer Mai Mae of synth-pop outfit Fringe Class and electronic producer SHK THT. The trio met not long after Bryson moved to Portland from Ohio in the summer of 2015. “When I moved to Portland, I sort of landed right in the DIY scene,” Bryson says. He met Maddie Goldstein, aka Mai Mae, at a house show later that fall, and the two began working on material shortly after. They then met electronic producer SHK THT through mutual acquaintances, like-minded local genre-benders Tribe Mars. Sumalienz have ambitious plans, including two EPs titled Fried and Flooded respectively that will be released jointly on cassette later this winter. Fried will center on Bryson the Alien’s material and features production by Portland producer Johnny Cool. “New York,” the first single, offers a breezy take on classic hip-hop, with Bryson using his methodical yet carefree delivery to weave a tight, structured narrative about a meaningful missed connection over a laid-back, jazzy beat. Flooded, meanwhile, will showcase Goldstein, long one of the most powerful pop vocalists in the city. Within Sumalienz, her vocals become more contemplative and understated. The group’s dynamic is captured perfectly on the track “4 AM,” which was written essentially as an improv with Goldstein ad-libbing verses over a beat SHK THT was composing in real time—a standout moment during the group’s live performances. “These memories burn like the summer sun,” Goldstein croons, surrounded by warm synth washes. In contrast to the other Sumalienz members, SHK THT has been active within the Portland hip-hop community for a few years, and he’s hopeful about the future—not just for the group, but for the scene itself. “With guys like Amine and Mic Capes growing, things seem like they’re about to go to the next level,” he says. “It’s something we want to be a part of—to grow with everyone else.” BLAKE HICKMAN.
NW METALWORX COMPILATION RELEASE PARTY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH AT 2PM Album signing and release party for local label NW Metalworx Music featuring the debut LP from 70s Astoria Oregon band Whizkey Stik and a compilation LP featuring Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands from the 70s and 80s including: Assault & Battery, Cruella, Glacier, Heir Apparent, High Voltage, Outrage, Overlord, Whikzey Stik and others.
LOGGER’S DAUGHTER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH AT 5PM
Logger’s Daughter is a roots blues-folk ensemble based in Portland Oregon that taps into the history of Americana music combining soulful blues, moany traditionals and foot-stomping, hand clapping front porch fun.
MIKE DOUGHTY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH AT 7PM By his ninth solo album, The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns, you’d figure Mike Doughty would have slipped into a comfortable pattern, but he’s just not that kind of artist. The former frontman of Soul Coughing is obsessively, constantly driven to sound new.
ADAM TORRES
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH AT 6PM Pearls To Swine maps Torres’ complicated history as a songwriter and musician: it’s the sound of someone who discovered the value in his own devotion to music, and how writing and songs are extensions of his own journey. He embeds his own folklore within his high-lonesome sounding, deeply felt and moving brand of folk music.
SEE IT: Sumalienz play Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Deafmind, Mic Mar, Sean P B2B Approaching Sanity, Pennyweight, and Sling, on Thursday, Nov. 10. 8 pm. $6 with student ID, $8 advance, $10 day of show. 18+. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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[SKA-FUNK-METAL PUNKS] April 17, 1997, Ventura, Calif.: Fishbone singer Angelo Moore ascends to the top speaker of the Majestic Ventura Theater, then somersaults from 300 feet high (approximately) into an ocean of waiting hands. High school freshman Matthew Singer’s temporal lobe explodes out the back of his skull. In the rock-crit canon, Fishbone is little more than a footnote. Born from the same L.A. gene pool that produced Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band never got close to the same level of mainstream acceptance, possibly because the industry simply didn’t know what to do with an all-black rock act perpetually shifting between punk, ska, funk and metal. But take it from someone who saw them a lot growing up in California: At one point, there was no better live band in the world, and they will always hold a special place in this writer’s heart. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Fluff & Gravy Five-Year Anniversary: Richmond Fontaine, Vacilando, Nick Jaina, Jeffrey Martin
[ALT-COUNTRY] Local alt-country favorites Richmond Fontaine released what was said to be their final record earlier this year, You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To, an album that feels like a love letter to a grittier, more rugged past. Leader Willie Vlautin has had a busy stretch of late, penning painfully honest literature and even scoring accompanying soundtracks. But there’s nothing quite like getting the band back together, and Richmond Fontaine ought to sound extra sharp after a lengthy fall tour in Europe. This show is part of Fluff and Gravy Records’ five-year anniversary weekend at venues around town. MARK STOCK. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-226-6630. 9 pm. $15-$35. 21+.
Purling Hiss, the Lavender Flu, the Woolen Men
[EAST COAST GARAGE] Purling Hiss is an appropriate name for a
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Rae Sremmurd, Lil Yachty, Eearz, Bobo Swae, Impxct
[BUBBLEGUM SWAG] Atlanta’s Rae Sremmurd are poprap boy wonders who exist mostly as an extension of their producer’s brand. If that makes them sound like the trap generation’s answer to Kriss Kross, well, the comparison has been made before, often by detractors trying to undermine their overnight success. Originally from Tupelo, Miss., brothers Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi came under the tutelage of beatsmith-ofthe-moment Mike Will Made It—their weirdly Scandinavianlooking moniker is the name of his label, Ear Drummers, spelled backward—and bombarded the charts in 2014 with a flair for turning nonsense catchphrases into crazy-catchy hooks and then turning those hooks into entire songs. SremmLife, the pair’s debut, luxuriated in being young, dumb and full of cash, and the worst thing you could say is that they seemed oblivious to anything happening outside their limited worldview. But in such anxious times, a little escapism goes a long way, and there are few safe havens more worth escaping into than Rae Sremmurd’s strip-club bounce houses. Released in August, SremmLife2 is murkier, noisier and more narcotized than its predecessor, but it’s no less fun, and possibly funnier. On “By Chance,” the duo raps about seeking “a Ziploc full of kush” in faux-aristocratic accents, like they’re trying to score weed after getting sucked into an episode of Downton Abbey. And in the video for the excellent “Black Beatles,” they—along with Gucci Mane—hilariously shred guitars, despite clearly never having held one before. It’s a bit of cultural reappropriation that serves as a message to anyone dismissing them as frivolous fluff: “We are your new rock stars. Fucking deal with it.” MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9. Sold out. All ages. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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LAID-BACK: Nina Diaz plays Bossanova Ballroom on Thursday, Nov. 10. group of Philadelphians who distort their guitars to a point where they’re almost unrecognizable. The group has done so for going on seven years, and on this year’s High Bias, their most solid record to date, they show no signs of stopping. Grungy, three-chord arrangements and explosive solos come in spades, courtesy of songwriter Mike Polizze, all baked with notes of classic rock and vintage punk. The album’s aging tropes and political commentary aren’t anything new, but the colossal riffs are more than enough. BRANDON WIDDER. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-2866514. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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writer elite seemingly preordained from her approachably arty, early’80s folk-pop beginnings. Though pantheon-worthy eccentricities lurk beneath her barbed coo of hyper-literate detachment, Vega’s never been particularly literary, which hardly helps the posturing found on latest collection Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers. While the swing-era jazz and Southern Gothic Americana-dappled tunes (mostly co-written with Duncan Sheik) bristle with craft, her empathetic, incisive gifts aren’t quite glib enough for biographical musical theater. JAY HORTON. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503719-6055. 8 pm. $33 advance, $40 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Dream. Do. Dazzle: A Celebration of Lisa Lepine (Nov. 13)
Thor & Friends, Adam Torres, Joshua Charles McCaslin
[TRIBUTE] In July, Portland lost Lisa Lepine, aka “the Promotion Queen”—a longtime booking agent, concert promoter and all-around local music advocate—to cancerrelated complications. Tonight, a whole host of musicians—including Dharma Bums’ Jeremy Wilson, Portland Cello Project alum Skip vonKuske and many others—gather to pay tribute to her legacy and raise money for the Jeremy Wilson Foundation’s Lisa Lepine Musician’s Relief Fund. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 6 pm. $15. 21+.
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[AVANT-POP] See Get Busy, page 31. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Know End In Sight: The Thermals, Lithics, Woolen Men
[ARTICULATE PUNK] See Get Busy, page 31. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.
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Låpsley, Aquilo
[COLD SOUL] British bedroom wunderkind Låpsley combines an impressionistic palette of clicks and hisses with variations of her own luscious voice—thinned or thickened by speed manipulation—to create a frigid and futuristic interpretation of R&B. It’s easy to imagine her hailing from the same dreary landscape as James Blake, even though he’s from London and she hails from York, north of Manchester. Her debut, Long Way Home, is the culmination of countless hours of homeworkshirking at the MacBook and MIDI, constructing micro-symphonic electro-pop. CRIS LANKENAU. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 8 pm. $20. All ages.
TUESDAY, NOV. 15 Suzanne Vega, Teddy Thompson
[COFFEEHOUSE CABARET] Beloved, yet something less than iconic, Suzanne Vega never quite reached the shortlist of singer-song-
[THE AETHER] The legend of Austin’s percussive demigod Thor Harris has spread from the furthest reaches of indie-rock snobbery through the metal realms. He’s still best-known as the rhythmic engine behind Swans, and as the noise rockers’ fated Ragnarök approaches, Harris assembled a rotating cadre of trusted instrumentalists alongside core members Peggy Ghorbani (marimba) and Sarah Gautier (xylophone). Sure, whomever wields a hammer in the service of Thor will be found worthy, but the New Age experimentalism of debut Thor & Friends bring an altogether more challenging set of sonic adventures. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Yelawolf, Bubba Sparxxx, Jelly Roll, Struggle Jennings
[SLUMERICAN HIP-HOP] Since signing to Eminem’s Shady Records, Yelawolf has redefined what it means to be a Slumerican—a representative of America’s underbelly who can enjoy Three 6 Mafia and Hank Williams in equal measure. The Alabama-born rapper has become a voice for blue-collar workers as well as hardcore hip-hop fans, dropping ferocious displays of lyricism in his “Box Chevy” series and songs like his bluegrass-inspired anthem “Till It’s Gone.” Lately, Yela has peeled back the layers of his complex personality to produce songs native to his Alabama roots: the whiskey-focused “Daylight” and the childhood nostalgia of “Shadows” are signs that his third studio album, Trial by Fire, will be a deeply personal effort. Backed by Southern artists Bubba Sparxxx, outlaw rapper Struggle Jennings— grandson of country legend Waylon Jennings—and Nashville’s own Jelly Roll, Yelawolf is aiming for our hearts with no remorse. Get ready to get bucked. ERIC DIEP. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $23 general admission, $52.50 VIP early entry, $90 VIP meet and greet. All ages.
A Tribe Called Red
[POWWOW-STEP] See Get Busy, page 31. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. All ages.
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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD DJ Spooky’s Heart of a Forest
[TREE TUNES] Plenty of composers have tried to evoke Oregon’s natural beauty in music. Inspired by Thoreau, polymath composer-author Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky—best known for his Rebirth of a Nation multimedia project and his work with everyone from Yoko Ono to Chuck D—took his turn during four seasonal artist residencies at Oregon’s H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Cascades, writing a classically influenced electronic-music score that evokes “how seasons can change one’s relationship with time, space and place.” His performance, titled Heart of a Forest, remixes live, recorded and electronic music with aerial video of Oregon forests, and includes an onstage conversation with a forest ecologist. BRETT CAMPBELL. Cheatham Hall at World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road, 503-228-1367. 7 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9. $10. All ages.
Calidore String Quartet
[CLASSICAL] This young New York quartet has already racked up major awards, residencies and fellowships and recorded an album. Now, they get to premiere a new piece by one of America’s hottest young composers. Calidore cellist Estelle Choi was a classmate of 2013 Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning Caroline Shaw, who’s written several fascinating pieces for the group, including her new First Essay. The quartet delivers its Northwest premiere here along with classic quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn. BRETT CAMPBELL. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503-228-9571. 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 10. $32.50. All ages.
Friends of Chamber Music presents Collectif9
[AMPED-UP CLASSICAL] A few years ago, both Portland’s own ARCO-PDX and the Montreal music students who came together as Collectif9 decided to present classical and contemporary classical music in ways that today’s music lovers expect from any other musicians today—using concert lighting effects, amplification and stage movement—instead of defaulting to the usual archaic 19th-century formalities. The result? Diverse audiences ranging from classical-music veterans to younger rock fans. Thus enhanced, the band’s Volksmobiles program presents music by Bartók, Brahms, Piazzolla, contemporary Argentine American composer Osvaldo Golijov (whose nonet Last Round inspired the group’s formation) and new pieces written especially for the string ensemble. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503-719-6055 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 10. $30-$52. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
The Clearing: A Contemporary Piano Festival
[CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL] Probably 80 percent of people— musicians included—are of the defensible opinion that classical music is for snobs and tightwads. This isn’t lost on Portland Piano International, which presents this festival as a complement to its highly regarded Summer Festival. Like its more traditional counterpart, the Clearing features recitals, master classes, lectures and films, but with a refreshing focus on the present and future of the genre. In a show of proof that classical music isn’t just reverent but creative, the Clearing features workshops for composition students as well as performances celebrating modern piano masters and composers like Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, 503-725-3000. 8 pm Thursday, Nov. 10. $25 individual recitals, $55 day pass, $150 all access pass. All ages.
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WL LIGHT YEARS
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[LIGHT-AND-DARK DREAM POP] WL’s new record, Light Years, is a bit of a g r o w e r. N o t o n l y does it improve with repeated listens, but it actually evolves from start to finish and blossoms with ever-increasing comp l e x i t y. C o u p l i n g s himme ry g uita rs and thick, synthetic keys with a dreamy feminine moan earned WL a Best New Band nod in 2014, when it was tagged as a shoegaze act. But the group has since shed some of that genre’s tropes of volume and distortion to focus on technique and composition. “Pink Cloud” sets the slow-build tone with multiple looping melodies and tap-shoe percussion that slowly expand and overlap to create a textured, kaleidoscopic haze. Contrary to its title, “Feeling Down” shakes the somber tone with a busy, math rock-gone-disco drum pattern, framing the dense synth notes in a breezier light. By penultimate track “Mercury,” WL has incorporated an almost smooth-jazz horn section into its foggy landscape. The brighter mode suits WL substantially better than its ponderous, melancholic default, but that’s not to say the band’s indoor, gloomy side doesn’t have merit. The charm is how it moves with a slow fluidity between the two polarities. CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: WL plays the Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., with Brysoncone666, Dubais and Vexations, on Friday, Nov. 11. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Pat Kearns SO LONG CITY
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[SO LOW ] For his solo debut, bornand-bred Portlander Pat Kearns offers up what seems to be an album-length lamentation of a forgone hometown. But on closer inspection, it’s actually a low-key love letter to the unspectacular elements of a middle-aged man’s life. Although Kearns is most associated with his power-pop act Blue Skies for Black Hearts, So Long City takes a subtler sonic approach that pays homage to familiar comfort. The undistorted steel-string acoustic guitars and wheeze of harmonica melodies on the title track don’t sound as funereal as the lyrics might imply, but it’s this light-hearted approach at misfortune that makes So Long City so inviting. “Hit the Highway” coaxes an improvised road trip in an effort to create a worthwhile memory, coolly set to midtempo strums that never aim for anything bigger than the steady, casual range they started in. “Sweet Lorraine” takes a bluesier approach at sporting a previously outspoken black heart on a well-displayed sleeve and utilizes the same Southern barroom soundboard to reveal what’s perhaps the most album’s sincere turn. It’s presumably why Kearns chose to release this unpretentious batch of songs under his own name. He’s not posing or aiming for anything unrealistic on So Long City, but rather showcasing both sides of what’s earned after your zenith is in the rearview—dexterous skill and constant trepidation. CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: Pat Kearns plays Turn Turn Turn, 8 NE Killingsworth St., with Rambush and Maia Dooney, on Thursday, Nov. 10. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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1028 SE Water Ave. Girl Tears
Crystal Ballroom
MON. NOV. 14 Alberta Rose
3000 NE Alberta St Andy McKee
225 SW Ash St Speed Control
1332 W Burnside St Bass and Flow: Sumalienz, Deafmind, Mic Mar, Sean P B2B Approaching Sanity, Pennyweight, Sling (Lola’s Room)
Bunk Bar
Dante’s
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Step Rockets, Fictionist, Gold Casio
350 West Burnside Pansy Division, Macho Boys, Cockeye, Wasi
Cheatham Hall at World Forestry Center
Doug Fir Lounge
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
Hawthorne Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St Glen Phillips
Ash Street Saloon
4033 SW Canyon Rd. DJ Spooky’s Heart of a Forest
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Rae Sremmurd and Lil Yachty
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Kiiara, Cruel Youth, Lil Aaron
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. For Today
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE MLK Ave Norska, Fister, Un, Usnea
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Natasha Kmeto, Crater
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Quartet
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St The Brothers Jam; Michael Musika, Eric + Erica w/ Idea the Artist.
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Wild Reeds, Valley Queen
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. AYRIA, INERTIA with The Secret Light
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St La Rivera, Quadrapphones, Bamboozle
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St ThirstyCity: The Finale
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Jacob Miller & The Bridge City Crooners, The Lonesome Billies
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St When The Future Was Now, Episode 2
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Jake Powell and the Young Lovers
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Toro Y Moi
THURS. NOV. 10 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Leo Kottke
Alberta Rose
3000 NE Alberta St Friends of Chamber Music presents collectif9
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony plays Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St The Tortured, Dorado
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St. Nina Diaz, Berahmand
225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, C.O.F.F.I.N., 42 Ford Prefect 1028 SE Water Ave. The Gotobeds with Private Room 830 E Burnside St. Max Frost
830 E Burnside St. William Fitzsimmons
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Animals as Leaders, Intervals, Plini
2530 NE 82nd Ave PhilPhobia
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Chris Webby
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Jenny Hval, Mattress
Holocene
Jimmy Mak’s
1001 SE Morrison St. 1939 Ensemble, Mothertapes, Blesst Chest
221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer Trio
LaurelThirst Public House
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
2958 NE Glisan St Portland Country Underground; Kung Pao Chickens
Keller Auditorium
222 SW Clay St Ms. Lauryn Hill and The MLH Caravan: A Diaspora Calling! Concert Series
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St The Lovely Lost; Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters
Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University
1620 SW Park Avenue The Clearing: A Contemporary Piano Festival
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Red Yarn & Mo Phillips
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Paper Bird and The Ballroom Thieves
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. The Lil’ Smokies & Head for the Hills w/ Brad Parsons
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Pieces of What, The Shifts, Open For Discussion
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Tezeta Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St Captain vs. Crew, Rally Boy, Slower Than
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing! Featuring The Jenny Finn Orchestra, Birch Pereira & the Gin Joints
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Pat Kearns, Rambush, Maia Dooney
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St BERMUDA LOVE TRIANGLE with Maurice and the Stiff Sisters
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St CodyRay, Yarn
Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Calidore String Quartet
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Goldroom + Autograf
Ash Street Saloon
PUNK GUYS: “Punk in Drublic is so 1994,” Fat Mike lamented as the 30-something crowd at the sold-out NOFX show Nov. 2 at Crystal Ballroom chanted for more minute-long classics from the band’s seminal fifth album. Dressed in a leather kilt and sporting a dyed-red Mohawk, Mike pranced around the stage as the band launched into punk anthems spanning its discography, including “Six Years on Dope” and the instantly memorable “I Don’t Like Me Anymore” from its latest release, First Ditch Effort. It’s been 20 years since I first saw NOFX play in the intimate setting of Club Babyhead, a tiny hole in the wall in Providence, R.I., and I’m happy to report that while the band members have gotten older and fatter, they are quite notably not balder, and can still rile up a bunch of punk rockers, now in a much bigger venue. Although the band took the stage a few minutes late because Game 7 of the World Series went into extra innings, it still managed to pack 24 songs into its set list and delight the crowd. NOFX eventually played a few selections from Punk in Drublic—including “Linoleum,” in which the volume of the crowd’s singing often surpassed that of the band’s, and the apropos “Perfect Government”—while mocking Donald Trump and drummer Erik Sandin between songs. “He’s the best drummer in the band, though,” Mike said. BROOKE GEERY. FRI. NOV. 11 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Iris Dement
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Il Divo
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St Daughters, the Body, Loma Prieta
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Rising Appalachia
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Night Beats, the Mystery Lights, the Shivas, MELT
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Sassparilla
Duff’s Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave the Newport Nightinggales
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. The Word Alive
Jimmy Mak’s
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Coastal Cascade
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Suffers, Jakubi, the Bandulus
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave pdx or 97218 WL, Brysoncone666, Dubais, Vexations
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. HILLSTOMP with Cedar Teeth and Mike Coykendall
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dune Rats, DZ Deathrays, On Drugs
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St Marriage + Cancer // Numbered // Stress Position // Panzer Beat
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys; Pink Lady presents The Cat’s Meow
Valentines
221 NW 10th Ave. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra
232 SW Ankeny St LIT
LaurelThirst Public House
836 N Russell St Dryland Farmers Band; Folkslinger
2958 NE Glisan St Woodbrain; Portland Country Underground / Meridian / Wanderlodge
Lombard Pub
3416 N Lombard St Guyve, Stars’ Blood, Dwarfgiant
White Eagle Saloon
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Fishbone + Larry & His Flask
SAT. NOV. 12 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Tyrone Wells
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Portland Youth Philharmonic
Ash Street Saloon
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St City Pines / Wooden Sleepers; Billy Kennedy (all ages!); Kris Deelane & the Hurt
Lombard Pub
3416 N Lombard St The Variants, Penalty Kick, Butterfly, Soccer Moms
225 SW Ash St Troll, The Wilder, Rotten Monolith
Mississippi Pizza
Bunk Bar
Mississippi Studios
1028 SE Water Ave. Boone Howard Single Release w/ Bryson Cone(solo)
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Richmond Fontaine, Vacilando, Nick Jaina, Jeffrey Martin
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Grand Royale
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE MLK Ave Purling Hiss, the Lavender Flu, the Woolen Men
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Farnell Newton and Tony Ozier
Keller Auditorium
222 SW Clay St Sturgill Simpson, the London Souls
3552 N Mississippi Ave Toledo Kesh ; Teri Unitain 3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Jezabels, Cave Clove
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Descendents, Bully, Broadway Calls
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tiny Moving Parts Movements, My Iron Lung
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Dream. Do. Dazzle - A Celebration of Lisa Lepine
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Monarchy
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Roger Clyne
Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St The Beach Boys
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St The Hollerbodies
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Nora Burkhartsmeir
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Amanda Shires, Colter Wall
The Know
Rontoms
White Eagle Saloon
Star Theater
2026 NE Alberta St Fashionism, the Suicide Notes, Piss Test, Virgil 836 N Russell St King Columbia Happy Hour; Radio Giants
SUN. NOV. 13 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Metropolitan Youth Symphony Fall Concert
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St The Gyrating Hips, Granite Face
600 E Burnside St Wine and Coffee // Maze Koroma // Neill Von Talley 13 NW 6th Ave. Fernando Viciconte, Hill Dogs, Dan Stuart, Kevin Lee Florence
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St Máscaras, Campo-Formio, Prettiest Eyes, Bitch’n
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St DIM WIT with Cocordion, I2M1, Prison Dress
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Air Traffic Controller
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. LITE / Mouse on the Keys
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Darkenside / Haster / Death Comes Hungry / Break The Maker
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St The Thermals, Lithics, Woolen Men
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Låpsley, Aquilo
TUES. NOV. 15 Alberta Rose
3000 NE Alberta St Suzanne Vega
Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Breakout Tuesdays
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Thor & Friends,
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Jackstraw; Farrago
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band, Pinegrove / Petal
Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Leslie Odom Jr.
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Yelawolf, Bubba Sparxxx, Jelly Roll, Struggle Jennings
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. WAX, The Palmer Squares
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Andy Coe Band
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St Loch Lomond // The Minders // The Minus 5
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. A Tribe Called Red
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Colin Jones
Years DJing: 15 years on radio, 10 years in clubs. Genre: ’90s dance, ’80s hip-hop, electro and pop, retro alternative. Where you can catch me regularly: Snap! ’90s Dance Party last Fridays at Holocene, third Saturdays at Lo-Fi in Seattle, Blasted! every second Saturday at Ground Kontrol, and on Can You Feel It? 4 am Sundays on XRAY.fm. Craziest gig: For a company’s employee party, I played several mini-sets on a double-decker bus. The bus was an antique and kind of a rough ride, so I put pillows under the decks to keep the records from skipping. The music indicated what region of the world the food at the next restaurant stop would be. All food and drink was on the company, and I think there were at least five stops. My go-to records: 4 Non Blondes, “What’s Up”; 2 Unlimited, “Get Ready for This”; Quad City DJ’s, “Space Jam”; NKRU, “Seis Nueve.” Don’t ever ask me to play…: Anything totally out of touch with the set. I only play records, so if I have it I’m happy to play it. Also—dance, then ask. NEXT GIG: Colin Jones spins at Ground Kontrol, 511 NW Couch St., on Saturday, Nov. 12. 9 pm. 21+.
FRI. NOV. 11
$5 Entry
45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Arius
Black Book
WED. NOV. 9 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals
Sandy Hut
Moloko
832 N Killingsworth St Deep Disco
The Lovecraft Bar
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. NorthernDraw (funk, hiphop, soul)
The Raven
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial)
Tube
3100 NE Sandy Blvd House Call w/ Richie Staxx & Tetsuo
421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial, synth) 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Wicked Wednesdays (hip hop, soul, funk) 18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg
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736 SE Grand Ave. A Train and Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)
Killingsworth Dynasty
1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Montel Spinozza
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Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Get Turnt! (hip-hop)
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The Lovecraft Bar
The Raven
20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Maxx Bass (funk, boogie, rap/r&b)
Gold Dust Meridian
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Tiger Stripes
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Mechlo (chiptune, retrowave)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Cake Party
Where to drink this week. 1.
Saraveza
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1004 N Killingsworth St., 503-206-4252, saraveza.com. After a remodel, Saraveza has a great food menu to match its great beer list, including—wonder of wonders!—squeaky Wisconsin-style fried cheese curds for game day.
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Patton Maryland
5101 N Interstate Ave., 503-841-6176, pattonmaryland.com. The cocktails will get a Jersey girl drunk on milk and Coke— plus bourbon and coffee liqueur—while the great-timesthree grandson of Queen Victoria will make you smoked brisket you can eat on a big ol’ patio.
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Breakside Brewery
5821 SE International Way, Milwaukie, 503-342-6309, breakside.com. Oregon got 21 medals at the Great American Beer Festival—and three of those went to Breakside brews, including a gold medal-winning rye. What better excuse to hop the expressway down to Milwaukie?
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Dame
2930 NE Killingsworth St., 503-227-2669, damerestaurant.com. The wine list at Dame already makes it Portland’s most interesting wine destination, home to the finest natural-wine list within 500 miles.
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Backyard Social
1914 N Killingsworth St., 503-719-4316, backyardsocialpdx.com. Former staff of the Hop & Vine reopened the onetime eccentric back-patio beer bar as an eccentric backpatio beer bar.
Moloko
MUCH FOR THE AFTERGLOW: Clyde Common’s Nate Tilden partied at Bar Casa Vale (215 SE 9th Ave., 503-477-9081, barcasavale.com) a long time before you did. Way back when the new sherry-happy, brick-walled Spanish bar was the green room for old-guard music venue La Luna, Tilden was apparently there knocking back Peeber from a tub with Everclear’s Art Alexakis. But as idyllic as that sounds, Casa Vale is a whole lot better. In the backside of the Biwa building, Tilden and a whole mess of partners have made an intimate, upscale tapas spot tinted with firelight, where chef Louis Martinez (Imperial, Clyde Common) is already making some of the finest wood-fired grill meats in town. Piri piri wings ($9) and a thick tendril of octopus ($12) both come spicerubbed and charred on the outside with juicy, tender meatiness within and a light whiff of smoke. There are sit-down tables, sure—little third-date tables by the wall-to-wall windows. But the spirit of the place is at the two long bars. One is an elbow wrap of hardwood with a slab of jamón ibérico de bellota perched atop one end, the other a Spanish-style standing bar that Portlanders may or may not figure out how to use. The wine and sherry list is deep, but so’s the cocktail list, which includes a $10 Bourbon Reign deepened with both fig and red wine, and a light sherry “cobbler” ($9) mixing medium-dry amontillado with a bit of lemon and sugar. The taps kick out Basque Sarasola Sagardoa sidra and Spanish and Belgian beers alongside a rotating Pfriem of the month ( just the wrong side of pricey at $6). Really, Casa Vale is the kind of dim, drunky, comfortably hip tapas and cocktail bar the town’s been missing since the day Collosso sank to the bottom of Northeast Broadway. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3 (aqua boogie & underwater rhymes)
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback
Saucebox
214 N Broadway St Joey Beach (hip hop, trap)
The Goodfoot
Eastburn
1800 E Burnside St, ¡Soulsa! (latin dance)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Colin Jones (r&b, hip-hop)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Verified (trap, hip-hop)
Killingsworth Dynasty
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions (disco, soul, funk)
The Liquor Store
Mississippi Studios
The Lovecraft Bar
Moloko
3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me 421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy
SAT. NOV. 12 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Ephwurd
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St. Death of Glitter
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jump Jack Sound Machine 3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (modern soul, heavy breaks, hip-hop)
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Tropitaal Desi Latino Soundclash e/ DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Saints of Bass (techno)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Musick For Mannequins w/ DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier & DJ Acid Rick (fog dance)
MON. NOV. 14 Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Smooth Hopperator
Ground Kontrol
Valentines
511 NW Couch St. Reagan-o-mix (80s hits, hair metal, soundtracks)
Whiskey Bar
Star Bar
232 SW Ankeny St Devil’s Pie (hip hop, r&b) 31 NW 1st Ave Victor Dinaire, Tim Clang, Bobby Wagoner, DJ.ZOXY
SUN. NOV. 13 Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Matt Stanger
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. El Chingon (synth, new wave, 70s-80s)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Psychopomp “Aural Abyss Chvrch” (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)
TUES. NOV. 15 Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Over Cöl
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Mood Ring (electronic, dance)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesdays
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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: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.
THEATER NEW LISTINGS King Lear
As if King Lear isn’t already dark enough, this production is set in a cage and features puppets. There are only two performers in the show: Lear and The Fool. The rest of Shakespeare’s characters are all in Lear’s mind and represented by puppets. The play is the brainchild of duo Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, who have created puppet adaptations of the likes of Frankenstein and The Tempest. They’ve been touring their puppet version of King Lear since early 2015. It’s a visually impressive setup with interesting interpretive potential: King Lear definitely seems madder when he’s just talking to puppets. The Shout House, 210 SE Madison St., 503-235-5284. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 11-12. $15
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Like one of those murder mystery dinners, The Mystery of Edwin Drood lets the audience pick the ending. The play is based on a Charles Dickens book about a murder in a small English town. Dickens never finished the book, though—hence the idea of the audience filling in the details. Along with being an interactive murder mystery, the play is also a comedic musical. Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, portland5.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, Nov. 11-20. $21.
Ten Minute Play Festival
The Ten Minute Play Festival is a mixed bag by design. But that’s also part of its excitement: you don’t totally know what you’re in for. Monkey With a Hat On (the festival’s organizers) pick a topic that local playwrights can do whatever they want with. For the past three iterations, Monkey With a Hat On has strayed away from more concrete themes like “sci-fi” and “circus,” and tasked their playwrights with coming up with plays based on a color. This time around the color is blue, and while some of the plays will be based on associations that aren’t that hard to understand (Picasso, water companies), most of the topics seem (ahem) out of the blue: Matrix characters as office employees, a baby shower, a dark take on Sesame Street, and ghost stories. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., monkeywithahaton.com. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Nov. 11-19. $5.
ALSO PLAYING Coyote on a Fence
It’s notable when the Shakespeare devotees at over at Post5 decide to put on a play that the Bard didn’t write. It’s even more notable when that deviation is the second debatestyle play in Portland this month, asking its audience to sympathize with figures usually deemed unsympathetic. Coyote on a Fence comes on the heels of Third Rail’s production of The Nether, a play about virtualreality pedophiles. Coyote on a Fence deals with someone way harder to find sympathetic than a pedophile: a mass murdering racist. It profiles two men on death row: one who publishes a newsletter in which he praises his fellow inmates positive attributes and mentions none of their crimes, and one who burned down a church full of people in the name of white supremacy. Post5 Theatre, 1666 SE Lambert
St., post5theatre.org. 7:30 pm FridaySunday through Nov. 19. Additional show 7:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 17. $20 Friday-Saturday, pay what you will Sunday and Thursday.
Bright Half Life
With its ambitious blend of romance, politics and time-hopping, Bright Half Life is a compelling end to Profile’s Tanya Barfield season. The play charts the course of a relationship between Vicky (Maureen Porter) and Erica (Chantal DeGroat) from 1985 to 2031. Like much of Barfield’s work, the play has a political dimension—during the 1980s, Erica is involved with the gay rights movement in New York—and is written in intensely personal and arguably autobiographical terms. There are no props and hardly any sets, but with a narrative that journeys through marriage, parenthood and ultimately divorce, Bright Half Life promises to pack an emotional punch. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Profile Theatre, 1507 SW Morrison St., profiletheatre.org. 7:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Nov. 13. $20-$36.
From the Envelope of Suicide
When storyteller Ben Moorad’s grandfather died, he left behind a envelope full of newspaper clippings about suicide. Unbeknownst to Moorad’s family, his grandfather had begun to study suicide in 1940s Connecticut. This discovery sparked Moorad’s one man show From the Envelope of Suicide. Each week is a different episode in which Moorad explores questions prompted by his grandfather’s research. He does this with the help of newspaper clippings, a projector and live music. Moorad hopes to turn his material into a book, so it’s perhaps for exploratory reasons that his shows aren’t afraid to ramble. But it’s clearly a creatively interesting format, and since each show is a new performance, who knows what you’re gonna get. Shout House, 210 SE Madison St., envelopeofsuicides.com. 7 pm Thursday, through Nov. 17. $10.
Hir
Perhaps a dysfunctional family doesn’t seem like particularly fresh subject matter for a play. But Taylor Mac’s Hir takes the well worn subject matter to a new level of absurdity. The play, which first premiered less than a year ago, centers around a family with a formerly abusive dad incapacitated by a stroke, a mother who uses her husband’s disability to take revenge in the form of constant humiliation, a son who’s just returned from being dishonorably discharged from the military, and a daughter in the process of becoming a man. It might not sound that funny, but it is. Still, amid all the madcap, black humor, there’s also plenty of genuine compassion. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunktheater.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 10-12. $10-$25.
Hold These Truths
As a Quaker pacifist and Japanese American during World War II, Gordon Hirabayashi had a lot of good reasons to question his patriotism. Instead, his belief in the constitution inspired his civil disobedience against Japanese internment camps. Hold These Truths is based on the true story of Hirabayashi’s protests against a part of FDR’s legacy that most public school history classes would rather pretend didn’t happen. The one man show requires the actor to play not
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TALES OF TWO JANES: Then Jane (Alex Leigh Ramirez, left) and Now Jane (Sarah Baskin).
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THE OREGON TRAIL’S VIEWS ON DEPRESSION ARE OLD WORLD. BY ISA B EL ZACHA R IAS
Portland Center Stage’s attempt to appeal to millennials isn’t exactly sly. The plot of the new comedy, The Oregon Trail, relies on nostalgic association with the floppy-disc computer game of the same name that was a staple of middle-school computer labs. Not only does The Oregon Trail feature an HBO-style lack of censorship (including a barevagina, bare-butt doggy style sex scene), but there’s also a photo booth outside the theater that suggests the play’s title for your hashtag. Given the title of local playwright Bekah Brunstetter’s work, it could be easily mistaken for a period drama. And in the loosest sense possible, half of it is. Oscillating between 1848 and 2009, it’s a tale of two Janes: one a hopelessly depressed modern-day Oregonian (Sarah Baskin) and Jane’s great-great grandmother (Alex Leigh Ramirez), forced to follow the grueling Oregon Trail. Propelled through time by a narrator (Leif Norby), Now Jane is a broke college grad kicked out of her parents’ house, unable to find a job and paralyzed with fear at even having to choose one. In a depressive stupor on the couch of her well-adjusted sister (Emily Yetter), Now Jane sits at her laptop and plays The Oregon Trail, craving distraction but instead gaining insights into her family’s history of depression. But it’s never exactly called that. Now Jane is seen on the couch at all hours, promising to clean her space and never doing it, lying to her sister about spending the day searching for jobs, chugging whiskey from a bottle, sleeping all day, watching
loud TV all night, neglecting personal hygiene, and talking to herself: “Get up. Get up right now. Now.” When Now Jane meets up for an ill-advised drink with her middle-school crush Billy (Chris Murray) and mentions she’s been “sort of depressed,” he says, “Like, clinically?” She denies it, panicked and embarrassed. Other than this brief mention, Now Jane’s depression is only referred to as “sadness,” “melancholy” or an unnameable “weight” on her chest. Never is there mention of therapy or medication, despite several casual mentions of suicide. The play’s fundamental concern with sadness makes its two central characters less dimensional. Then Jane’s rebellious negativity can be easily explained by the deaths of those she’s close to; Now Jane’s shoulder-slumped helplessness is the defining characteristic of her life. This feeling of flatness was in no way the fault of the actors, though: Baskin brings remarkable complexity to Now Jane’s character. The Oregon Trail’s premise is fresh, and some parts are quite funny, but it misses the greatest opportunity it carves out for itself: a chance to really talk about depression. The play’s “somebody else had it worse” philosophy does not actually help depressed people— and neither does making light of hopelessness and poor life decisions, which The Oregon Trail does constantly. The play leaves its audience with the vague, unhelpful advice to just “continue on the trail.” SEE IT: The Oregon Trail plays at Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 20. No 7:30 show Sunday, Nov. 13. $25-$70. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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PERFORMANCE
The How and the Why
The How and the Why devotes a whole play to two things that don’t get that much cultural attention: women scientists and menstrual cycles. The play is based on a real scientist who wanted to know why women menstruate when most mammals don’t—a seriously interesting and complicated question that the patriarchy probably wouldn’t be too keen to investigate. It’s not short on science-y details, but even so, The How and the Why is not health class, and hopes to do more than just regurgitate history. The bigger picture deals with the way scientific knowledge affects cultural attitudes, particularly towards women. CoHo Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Nov. 19. $22.50-$28.
artistic director Robert Guitron’s past shows. Polaris Dance Theatre, 1826 NW 18th Ave., polarisdance. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 10-12. Additional show 2 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. $25.
COMEDY & VARIETY Revolution Comedy: Don’t Shoot PDX
Systematic racism isn’t funny, but that doesn’t mean activists can’t be. In a show where all the proceeds
go to Don’t Shoot PDX, local comic Andie Main attempts to add a silver lining to the lives of empowered human rights activists. And really, in these troubling times, we could all use a good fart joke. JACK RUSHALL. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., curiouscomedy.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9. $10 advance, $15 day of show.
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only Hirabayashi, but also around 30 other people who were apart of his story. Ryun Yu, who will play the part, knows how to rise to the challenge, though: he started in it last year at Seattle’s ACT. The Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, through Nov. 13. $30-$55.
Reborning
There’s a lot of emotional triggers packed into Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project’s first production: infant abuse, drug abuse, and creepy baby dolls. The play is based around an interesting idea: its main character, Kelly, makes her living from parents who commission her to design lifelike replicas of their babies that have died. It’s a bold choice for a first production, but it’s a little confusing what Beirut Wedding is trying to accomplish with its boldness. Still, at worst, attendees get to support a theater company that’s just getting its start. Action/Adventure Theatre, 1050 SE Clinton St., beirutwedding.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, through Nov. 20. $20.
DANCE Epoch
The two choreographers behind the push/FOLD’s Epoch are more involved with their pieces than the average choreographer. In company director Samuel Hobbs’ piece, he not only choreographed the dance but also composed the music, and Jamuna Chiarini is one of the dancers in her piece. Chiarini’s “The Kitchen Sink” and Hobbs’ “November” will make their debut in the joint show Epoch, which explores change and repetition. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., pushslashfold.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 11-13. $16.
The last bell rings for you
On opening night, the majority of the performers in The last bell rings for you will have only been dancers for about a week. Part two of Linda Austin’s dance triptych (the first part, (Un)Made Solo Relay Series, debuted last year) will feature professional dancers along with “15-18 community members,” none of whom are required to have any dance or performance experience. The three-part piece is meant to be an open-ended deconstruction of performance, but The last bell rings for you is particularly interested in exploring group behaviour. Shaking the Tree Warehouse, 823 SE Grant St., pwnw-pdx.org. 8 pm ThursdaySunday, Nov. 12-20. $15.
Reclaimed
Last year, Polaris was evicted from their studio of six years which was bulldozed to make space for condos. But now that they’ve found a new home, they’re starting off their 15th season with a piece that seems like it’s reminding us that they’re here to stay. Reclaimed alludes to the company’s history by sampling choreography from
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MERE FOLLY: Disguised as a man, Rosalind (Caitlin Cushington) messes with Orlando (Tim Fodge).
Sweet Misery
Basically every Shakespeare play has been set in basically every time period for no apparent reason. But with its production of As You Like It, Speculative Drama does pretty much the opposite—the time period seems intentionally nondescript. Some of the costumes are vaguely Victorian, others are explicitly modern. The set, too, is practically blank: just a crate in the middle of the stage and a plain black-curtain backdrop. The bare-bones production suits the subject matter: exiled courtiers soaking up the freedom of their banishment to the Forest of Arden. Rosalind (Caitlin Lushington) dresses as a man for her voyage to the forest, accompanied by her cousin Celia (Megan Skye Hale) and the court jester Touchstone (Sean Bowie). When Rosalind’s crush, Orlando (Tim Fodge), shows up in Arden too, a gender-bending love triangle ensues. Lushington’s performance is wide-eyed and emphatic; she makes all kinds of strange, expressive noises, and at one point literally cartwheels out of Orlando’s arms. The goofiness might seem over the top if she didn’t have such a charismatic character to play. The unabashed, giddily feminine orchestrator of much of the plot, Rosalind is one of Shakespeare’s most enthralling characters, and Lushington does her justice. The biggest creative license the production takes is with Jaques (Zed Jones), who’s typically Arden’s grumbly killjoy. In this production, he turns most of his lines into double entendres and wears a constant flirty smile. There are times when it feels like some of Jaques’ depth is lost (like during his “all the world’s a stage” speech), but it’s entertaining and, in general, makes sense. Adam (Chris Porter) laughs at Orlando’s jokes when he’s starving to the point of collapse, Celia and Rosalind gleefully plan their banishment, and Jaques gets off on misery. The actors in this production can exude the play’s free-forall ethos without the help of overly arty production. That ethos is perhaps best summed up by the epilogue Rosalind delivers, which loosely paraphrased and translated from Elizabethan English, can be summed up as this: Everybody go make out. SHANNON GORMLEY. A sparse production of As You Like It feels abundant.
SEE IT: As You Like It plays at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Southeast 2nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, thesteepandthornywaytoheaven.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, through Nov. 26. $10-$22.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By JENNIFER RABIN. 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: jrabin@wweek.com.
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In Silvia Levenson’s piece titled “She flew away,” a translucent glass swing hangs empty above a pair of tiny glass Mary Janes. All we can think about is the child who should be there to fill them and to play. Levenson’s exhibition addresses Argentina’s “Dirty War,” a period between 1976-83 when pregnant opponents of military rule were killed after giving birth, their children put up for adoption. Levenson tracks the effort to reunite these now-grown children with their biological grandparents by casting in glass a child-sized article of clothing for each resolved case. 121 tiny bibs, onesies, socks and sweaters span two walls of the gallery, a haunting reminder of what was taken from so many families. It is also a symbol of hope, both for those who have been found and for those who have yet to be. Bullseye Projects, 300 NW 13th Ave., 503-227-0222. Through Feb. 4.
Desaparecen?
On Sept. 26, 2014, 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in Iguala, Mexico went missing. Pablo Ortiz Monasterio’s series of photographs is an aching cry of frustration, sadness and anger over their disappearance and of a subsequent cover-up by the Mexican government. The series includes color and black-and-white photos, from landscapes to portraits, that Ortiz Monasterio shot all over the world. Their only commonality is that each one conveys pain, violence, unrest, isolation or absence. Ortiz Monasterio links them further by superimposing handwritten text—like Donde están? (Where are they?)—over the images. He also scribbles numbers—from 1-43—across some of the photographs, disrupting the compositions enough to remind us what is really at stake. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through Nov. 27.
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Passport
When the Soviet Union fell and the Ukraine became independent, its government required that its citizens have new passports. Armed with a camera and a small white transportable backdrop, Ukrainian photographer Alexander Chekmenev was sent on home visits to take passport photos of those too elderly or infirm to apply in person. The visual center of each photo in this series is its subject posing in front of the wrinkled backdrop for their government ID. But the emotional center is created by everything that surrounds them—a house in squalor, a spouse still lying in bed a few inches away, an assistant holding the backdrop in one hand and her jacket collar over her nose in the other to lessen the stench in the room—which Chekmenev has chosen to leave in. Chekmenev takes a bureaucratic assignment and transforms it into an eloquent and deeply effecting display of humanity. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through Nov. 27.
Into the Wilderness: Signal Fire’s Wide Open Studios
The group exhibition of 2-D works at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art this month is in collaboration with Signal Fire, a local arts organization that encourages artists from all disciplines to unplug and reconnect with the natural world through week- and month-long excursions into the wilds of the American
Northwest. Inspired by those outings, all the pieces in the show, without exception, capture something ineffable about the immersive experience of being in nature. This means that you can’t appreciate any of the works—whether they are charcoal on paper, photographs, paintings or letterpress pieces— by looking at photographs of them on the gallery’s website. You can’t even appreciate many of them from across the gallery. You have to go up to each one and try to get inside it. You have to allow it to surround you, to quiet your mind. If you do, you will be transported. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 503-287-3886. Through Dec. 17.
Some Obsessions
All of Barry Pelzner’s works on paper are meticulously rendered black-on-white compositions, but that is where the similarity ends. In some pieces, Pelzner uses watercolor to create repetitive geometric patterns that call to mind Escher’s more two-dimensional works. In one piece, dots of india ink transition gradually by size, weight and spacing to create a vertical gradient so seamless that it is difficult to believe it was drawn by the human hand. Some of the most powerful works feature obsessive markmaking—made with the humblest of tools, the ball-point pen—constrained within minimal squares, the chaos and the rigidity each serving
to highlight the beauty of the other. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 503-222-1142. Through Dec. 10.
The Culture Series
Judging from the festivities on First Thursday, Wieden+Kennedy has done something that most galleries in Portland haven’t figured out how to do, which is to represent, engage and bring out communities of color. Curator (and W+K employee) Jeredon O’Connor put together a group exhibition of works in different media, from photography to wall-hung sculpture to graphic design, that fills the lobby of the ad agency. He says he wants “to give people of color a platform to express themselves through art and show the world our cultural love.” A standout piece by Danielle McCoy is so small and unassuming compared to many of the other works, that you might miss it, so I want to call it to your attention. Referencing the Three-Fifths Compromise, which legally counted black people as three-fifths of a white person, McCoy’s graphic work on paper is a powerful affirmation of human rights and the value of black lives. Go see it for yourself. Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, 224 NW 13th Ave., 503-937-7000. Through Nov. 13.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Kerry Cohen and Karen Karbo
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This reading from two Portland authors may be an ideal start to post-election spiritual cleansing. Kerry Cohen is a psychotherapist and memoirist whose new book is Girl Trouble. Karen Karbo is the author of the Kick Ass Women series. Her new novel is Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, NOV. 10 Hussy Tales and Whorer Stories
It’s hard to imagine a line of work more conducive to kick-ass stories than sex work. Hear tales from hookers, dommes, strippers, pornographers and more at this night of live storytelling. Tips are welcome, touching is not. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503- 236-2665 6:309 pm. Free.
All the Real Indians Died Off
In All the Real Indians Died Off, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina GilioWhitaker examine the roots of the mythology that white populations have created about Native American culture and history, and reveal the larger political agendas that drove its creation. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
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FRIDAY, NOV. 11 Rachel Zucker
Poet and NEA Fellowship recipient Rachel Zucker will explore poetry, confession, ethics and disobedience for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. Literary Arts, 925 SW Washington St., 503-227-2583. 7-9 pm. Free.
pm. $16 advance, $20 day of show, $23 preferred seating. Minors permitted with legal guardian.
Anders Nilsen Coloring Book Party
Pull on your jam jams and pop in a binky, 2016 is a dystopian hellscape. Embrace the regressive anesthetization of the adult coloring-book party. Portland illustrator Anders Nilsen’s new book, A Walk in Eden, d raws inspiration from the illustrations of 19th-century scientist and botanist Ernst Haeckel with intricate natural scenes. Prizes will be awarded to outstanding coloring. (Yes, really.) The Cleaners at Ace Hotel, 403 SW 10th Ave., 503-546-8509. 3 pm. Free.
MONDAY, NOV. 14 Jack Ohman with Peter Ames Carlin
Longtime friends and former staffers at Portland’s daily newspaper, Jack Ohman and Peter Ames Carlin reunite in a conversation about their newest works. Once The Oregonian’s editorial cartoonist, Ohman went on to win a Pulitzer Prize this year at The Sacramento Bee. Carlin is the author of Homeward Bound, a biography on iconic musician Paul Simon. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 503-222-1741. 7 pm. Free.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Many, at some point, encounter the wrong person to love. But few get it quite as wrong as Domingo, the Mexican street kid who falls for Atl, an immortal descendant of Aztec vampires who sees him more as an opportunity for snacking than romance. But on the streets of Mexico City, gangs of narco-vampires pursue her, and she’s forced to rely on Domingo’s help to get to South America. The vampire novel is given a fresh look in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800878-7323. 7 pm. Free.
Tracy Manaster
After the death of her sister, Lida Stearl spends her life trying to recover and redevelop stability, becoming a successful orthodontist and raising a happy family. It’s only when she hears that her sister’s murderer is seeking pen pals from death row that her life as a retiree is brought back to her most painful moment. Lida begins corresponding with the murderer in an attempt to understand his life and crime, but the intensity of her obsession with the man threatens the life she’s worked so hard to create. Portland author Tracy Manaster’s newest novel is The Done Thing. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
Everything We Don’t Know
Local author Aaron Gilbreath’s debut book, Everything We Don’t Know, includes essays published in The New York Times and elsewhere about topics ranging from the Fukushima nuclear disaster to the redwood forests of Northern California. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, NOV. 12 Mortified Portland 9th Anniversary
Whether through masochism or catharsis, it turns out that people like to share how embarrassing they were as kids. Now celebrating nine years of recounting their stories of shame, horror and humiliation, Mortified Portland returns to the Alberta Rose Theatre. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503- 719-6055. 7-11:30
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TUESDAY, NOV. 15 Michelle Tea
There’s something about Los Angeles that brings to mind the apocalyptic. On the lam from her addictions to substances and people, Michelle finds herself in L.A. when the government announces the world is coming to an end in one year. Michelle chooses to wait out the ensuing chaos, protests and death in an abandoned bookstore with her boyfriend Matt Dillon, while creating a novel that ostensibly no one will ever be able to read. A story of queer love, addiction and the end times, Black Wave is the newest from novelist Michelle Tea. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Amélie
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every slightly alternative teenage girl’s favorite movie, Amélie stars Audrey tautou as the eponymous waitress whose acts of whimsical mischief improve the lives of people around her while she struggles with her own sense of isolation from an adorably traumatic childhood. Laurelhurst Theater. Nov. 11-17.
Notorious
(1946)
the Kiggins theatre has a new program with niche wine Bar pairing wines with classic film noir, kicking things off with Alfred Hitchcock’s noiry spy flick/love story Notorious. ingrid Bergman stars as Alicia Huberman, the daughter of a nazi spy who is sent to Brazil by t.r. Devlin (cary grant) to infiltrate a cabal of nazis after world war ii. Kiggins Theatre. 6:30 pm Monday, Nov. 14.
Ran
(1985)
Akira Kurosawa’s masterful historical epic transports King Lear to 16th-century Japan, where an elderly warlord (tatsuya nakadai) sees his empire fall into chaos after he abdicates his throne and divides his kingdom among his three asshole sons. Academy Theater. Nov. 11-17.
Ten
Portland Doc City PORTLAND DOCUMENTARIES RULE THE ROOST AT THE 43RD NORTHWEST FILMMAKERS’ FESTIVAL. BY Walk er M ac Mur do
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until his passing in July of this year, iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami was an extremely strong contender for “best living director.” His widely celebrated docudrama Ten follows a female cab driver in tehran (mania Akbari) conversing with 10 different passengers, most of whom are untrained actors, offering insight into contemporary iranian life. What a Girl Wants (2003), starring Amanda Bynes follows as part of a double feature, because why not? 5th Avenue Cinema. Nov. 11-13.
Time Bandits
CANNED FIT: Christine shorkhuber.
(1981)
the laurelhurst and mission theaters celebrate the 35th anniversary of terry gilliam’s goofy time-travel adventure flick about Kevin (craig warnock), a boy who travels across time to steal treasure with six dwarves, all while evading the wrath of the supreme Being (ralph richardson). Laurelhurst Theater, Nov. 11-17. Mission Theater, Nov. 9-15.
Also PlAying: Church of Film (north star Ballroom): Nevestka (Daughterin-Law) (1972), 8 pm wednesday, nov. 9. Hollywood Theatre: The Time Machine (1960), 7 pm friday, nov. 11; The Omen (1976), 9:30 pm friday, nov. 11; Il Sorpasso (1962), 7 pm saturday, nov. 12; Rock and Rule (1983), 7:30 pm sunday, nov. 13; Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1973), 7:30 pm tuesday, nov. 15. laurelhurst Theater: Memento (2000), nov. 9-10. Mission Theater: Money Pit (1986), nov. 9-14. nW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990), 7 pm wednesday, nov. 9.
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Beer, food, bridges, coffee—Portland does a few things right. Well, throw documentary films on that list. This week’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival offers 14 features and two collections of shorts by filmmakers from across the Northwest and British Columbia. We watched the entire lineup, and three of our five favorites were documentaries from Portland filmmakers. Whether they’re about trans women in small-town Oregon, murder in Wisconsin or the ethereal beauty of Mount Hood, a new crop of Portland documentarians are making some of the most compelling indie movies in the Pacific Northwest. B+
Beware the Slenderman
In 2014, two Wisconsin tweens made national news when they stabbed their best friend 19 times to please Slenderman: a faceless, tentacled internet bogeyman made famous in such miserable corners of the web as fanfic site Creepypasta. While the girls await trial for attempted murder, Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Portland documentarian Irene Taylor Brodsky unravels their plot through police file footage and interviews with the girls’ families. Experts try to explain the children’s behavior, none bigger than Richard Dawkins. The originator of the term “meme,” Dawkins attempts to explain the viruslike spread of imagery and ideas though culture, but his cameo is cut short before his concept can be fully developed. Frustrating,
considering what may be the spookiest insight of Beware the Slenderman isn’t the storybook monster, or the disturbed children, but the potential for hellish internet phenomena to climb out of the monitor and into the world. ZACH MIDDLETON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7:15 pm Monday, Nov. 14. B+
The Devout
When a young couple’s daughter falls ill with what appears to be brain cancer, they try to find ways to ease her pain while attenuating their own mental health. The religious, rural town in which they live attempts to pull together to support the family, and a cop even lets the dad off after a suspected DUI. But as his daughter’s illness progresses, she (Olivia Martin) starts talking about space flight and the death of astronauts she has no way of knowing about. The father concludes she may be remembering past lives, and seeks to connect with the larger cycle of reincarnation to meet up with her in her next physical form. In his feature debut, British Columbian writer and director Connor Gaston shows narrative vision, resourcefulness (the few special effects are reminiscent of the cult sci-fi thriller Primer) and a great deal of potential. ZACH MIDDLETON. 5th Avenue Cinema; 2:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium; 6 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. A
The Pearl
The Pearl is a documentary that focuses its magnifying glass on four trans women, all from Pacific Northwest blue-collar towns, in an effort to depict their subtle triumphs and
deafening defeats—most of which manifest internally. Here, we see women who are forced to masquerade as men in both work and play unless they are joined by specific family or visiting Amy’s Outhouse, a sanctuary where they can “come in to come out.” Documentarians Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca’s main success is the film’s discussion of the gender politics of trans women: how and why they take pride in their femininity. In one scene, trans women attend a class that educates them on how to soften their voices. In another, the audience intrudes on an intimate dinner party that celebrates the distinctive bond of sisterhood. The Pearl isn’t some latenight infomercial selling transgender rights to an uneducated audience. It simply wishes to show trans humanity. JACK RUSHALL. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium; 5 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. 5th Avenue Cinema; 5:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. A-
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Woodsrider
Visions of Reality is a series of non-narrative shorts that play with sound and color to examine the way our senses shape everyday experiences. Animated pieces, like Joan Gratz’s Primal Flux, offer a vivid exploration of the complexities of communication through color, while in Canned Fit, musician Christine Shorkhuber composes her works from the noises in the city around her, using nails, bells and really anything else she can find to single out the alien music amid the familiar chaos. The standout is Voice of the Hi-Line, an engaging look at Native-run radio station KGVA in Fort Belknap, Mont., serving the 35,000 residents of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes. Native sovereignty and identity are explored as pop hits are broadcast alongside traditional tribal music. CRYSTAL CONTRERAS. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium; 7:35 pm Friday, Nov. 11. 5th Avenue Cinema; 3 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. Nineteen-year-old Oregonian Sadie Ford and her dog Scooter (who’s a very good boy) arrive outside Government Camp and set up a makeshift campsite so Ford can spend the snowboarding season on the slopes of Mount Hood. Ostensibly about snowboarding, Cambria Matlow’s documentary Woodsrider is a snapshot of fleeting youth amid the hum of the mountain. This film is awash in visual and aural stimuli—a scene of Ford starting a small fire on an aluminium tray in her camp is an almost trance-inducing swirl of color and sound. Matlow plays those quiet moments off of footage of youthful indiscretion: Ford’s friends performing snowboarding tricks off of a roadside transformer, or smoking cigarettes at a keg party. Matlow’s patient, unobtrusive camera and Ford’s magnetism as a subject makes Woodsrider one of the most intimate docs you’ll see this year. WALKER MACMURDO. Skype Live Studio; 7:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 12. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium; 3:10 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. sEE iT: the 43rd northwest filmmakers’ festival is at nw film center’s whitsell Auditorium, 5th Avenue cinema and skype live studio nov. 10-15. for a complete schedule and tickets, visit nwfilm.org. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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In this unshakable odyssey of sadness and hope from director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario), 12 slender spaceships hover quietly above Earth. People around the globe quickly discover that the ships are home to graceful, squidlike creatures who communicate using smoky-looking symbols, which shatteringly sorrowful linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) gradually begins to decode. Her quest to understand why these many-armed visitors have parked above this particular planet has a dreamy repetition—day after day, Louise enters one of the spaceships, gazes at the symbols conjured by the aliens and updates a squad of tense U.S. soldiers who guard the landing site. All of this is captured with extraordinary grace by cinematographer Bradford Young, who imbues the looming spacecraft and even the grass it floats above with somber beauty. Beyond the ship, the world is less tranquil—the aliens’ arrival rouses humanity’s ugliest impulses in both America and beyond. Yet Arrival inspires because of Louise, who enters the movie shrouded in grief but still has compassion for both the aliens and humanity. Her conviction is the movie’s gift to us, a reminder that the future of Earth depends on our capacity to love one another, no matter what’s lurking overhead. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.
Shut-In Finder
Naomi Watts stars as a psychologist whose husband is killed and teenage son is left brain dead by a catastrophic car accident. When a deadly winter storm hits her isolated home, she comes to believe an intruder is trying to harm her and her son. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport.
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C Ben Affleck stars as an autistic and brutal serial murderer who’s somehow also the hero. Must’ve been a stretch. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week
A The best reason to see Ron Howard’s new feature documentary on the Fab Four’s touring years is to witness the highestquality versions of some exceptionally rare performances. NR. Academy, Joy, Laurelhurst.
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Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen is mudsplattered, idealistic and good at killing things…again. But this time with six kids in tow. R. Fox Tower. A-
Certain Womem
Drawing on three short stories by Maile Meloy, Kelly Reichardt’s piercing slice of 21st-century life follows Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and a masterful, relatively unknown Lily Gladstone skillfully embodying weary Montanans. Reichardt’s sensitive exploration of working-class anguish, old age and sexual identity makes the film feel both profoundly personal and ripped from the headlines. R. Cinema 21, City Center.
Deepwater Horizon
C+ How do you make a movie about the worst oil disaster in U.S. history? If you’re director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), you condense an environmentally devastating oil spill into an incoherent action blowout starring Mark Wahlberg. PG-13. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Eastport.
Doctor Strange
B+ The story spotlights Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), a crippled surgeon who becomes a disciple of a sorcerer named “the Ancient One” (Tilda Swinton). Thanks to director Scott Derrickson’s confidently superficial storytelling, the film’s imagery has a dizzying power. It’s impossible to dislike a movie so buoyantly entertaining that you’re charmed, not irked, when it jAN THIjS
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Don’t Breathe B+
A trio of serial burglars gets trapped in an isolated Detroit home after their mark, a blind vet played with quiet menace by Stephen Lang, turns out to be a brutally efficient badass. R. Academy, Jubitz, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.
Finding Dory
B+ For 13 years, the entire world eagerly awaited the return of Ellen DeGeneres as the forgetful Dory. There’s tears to fill a tide pool, wit to keep adults amused, and laughs for any audience with a short attention span. PG. Empirical, Vancouver.
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Ghostbusters
Paul Feig’s reboot is maximalist. It’s glorious, and if it ruined your childhood, sorry bro. PG-13. Laurelhurst.
Gimme Danger
B- With Gimme Danger, auteur director Jim Jarmusch tells one of the greatest rock-and-roll stories about one of the greatest rock-androll bands: Iggy and the Stooges. The film is carried by its subject matter, and though Jarmusch is clearly out of his element, it’s nonetheless entirely worthwhile to see and hear this story told by the men who made the music. R. Fox Tower, Hollywood.
The Girl on the Train
Tate Taylor’s adaption of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel stars Emily Blunt as a divorced alcoholic who witnesses an incident in her neighbors’ house. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Tigard, Vancouver.
Hacksaw Ridge
C A morally repugnant bloodbath from its shallow, sermonizing first act to its ferociously brutal finale, this would-be epic stares into the maw of World War II through the eyes of combat medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who rescued dozens of his comrades at Okinawa—without ever firing a gun. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.
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The Handmaiden
In 1930s colonial Korea, con man Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) hires a young pickpocket, Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), to help him rob vulnerable Japanese heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) of a fortune controlled by her uncle Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong). Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you’ll see. R. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Kiggins.
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Hell or High Water
Was No Country for Old Men too smart and slow for you? Loved the gunfights and the misanthropic cowboy glamour, but maybe Javier Bardem’s haircut made you uncomfortable? Try Jeff Bridges’ new Western genre vehicle. R. Academy, Fox Tower, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley, Vancouver.
Inferno
Tom Hanks is back to save the world from Catholic extremists. This time, he’s got amnesia. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
B- Blending fantastical stunts (Reacher can punch through windshields and, perhaps, fly) with off-kilter humor, Never Go Back
approximates a brutalist take on the Marvel tropes, which may explain why Tom Cruise continues to embrace this charmless pulp icon—a backdoor chance for the movie star of his era to climb aboard the 21st century’s signature genre. Jack Reacher isn’t the superhero we want, but he may well be the one we deserve. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
Jason Bourne
A- Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon deliver on-brand thrills via hand-held footage of riots in Athens and many scenes in which assassins splash cold water on their faces and reflect in a mirror. PG-13. Academy, Valley, Vancouver.
Keeping Up With the Joneses
B For better or worse, Keeping Up With the Joneses’ poster is the movie—impossibly suave secret agents Jon Hamm & Gal Godot move next door to suburban schlubs Zach Galifianakis & Isla Fisher. It’s infinitely derivative, clumsily constructed and brazenly commercial. But it’s also kinda sweet. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport.
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Kubo and the Two Strings
Laika’s late-summer bid for animation domination is an original story that feels lived in, a kidfocused fable with real stakes, and it’s a high-octane spectacle full of white-knuckle action and terrifying creatures that’s matched every step of the way by heart. PG. Academy, Avalon, Vancouver.
The Magnificent Seven
When an evil industrialist seizes control of a Wild West town, its residents enlist the help of gunslinging mercenaries played by Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and company to save the day. PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division.
A Man Called Ove
Hannes Holm adapts Fredrik Backman’s best-selling novel of the same name, in which a shitty old Swedish guy befriends a young family who moves in next door. Zany life lessons are learned all around. PG-13. Cinema 21.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children B-
Tim Burton’s adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ young adult bestseller nearly ignores the dull business of storytelling altogether via expository plot dumps crumpled in between ever more fantastical evocations of ghoulish Victoriana. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.
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Moonlight
Moonlight follows Chiron, played by three different actors, coming of age over two decades on the rough Liberty City blocks of 1980s Miami. Even against an impoverished backdrop, Moonlight never goes out of its way to declare this black or queer American experience brutal. Every piece of Moonlight is staged in service to a humanist question: What would love mean to a boy who’s been conditioned to hide? R. Cinema 21.
Ouija: Origin of Evil
You may shake your head incredulously at the idea that a universally panned horror movie based on a goddamned board game got itself a prequel, until you learn that the first Ouija movie made over $100 million on a $5 million budget. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
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Pete’s Dragon
Pete’s Dragon deserves the hype.
Effortlessly evoking the triumphant emotions of Disney’s best live-action outings, it also provides a somber examination of the death of innocence. Your kids will cry through the majority of the film, and you probably will too. PG. Avalon.
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Queen of Katwe
B+ The irony of “based on a true story” preceding a live-action Disney film is that the movie to follow will probably feel like a fantasy. But Queen of Katwe’s finishing move is depicting Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi’s rise to a world-class master with levity and without pandering. PG. Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
Snowden
C- Oliver Stone’s biopic about Edward Snowden doesn’t offer any insights beyond what you can get from Wikipedia. Stick to 2014’s Citizenfour. R, Laurelhurst.
Storks
Hilarity ensues when delivery stork Junior (Andy Samberg) is tasked to deliver an unauthorized baby to a human family. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Tigard.
Suicide Squad
C- Suicide Squad rushes through an incoherent two hours of superhero mayhem, pureeing everything into a slush of clichés. PG-13. Avalon, Empirical, Kennedy School, Valley, Vancouver.
Sully
C- Clint Eastwood’s worst movie since 2011’s J. Edgar, his tale of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s 2009 emergency landing of a commercial jetliner in the Hudson River is weighed down by too many familiar actors and rote dialogue. PG-13. Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Tigard.
Tower
B One bright, clear day in 1966, a man named Charles Joseph Whitman sat in the tower in the center of the University of Texas campus and began firing into unsuspecting crowds of students walking below. The new documentary Tower revisits this atrocity, combining archival video, interviews with people who lived through the shooting, and rotoscopic animation of key scenes. NR. Living Room Theaters.
Trolls
B+ Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the bubbly leader of the Troll community, and Branch (Justin Timberlake), a serial pessimist, must save a handful of their goofy friends from ending up as troll soufflé on the dinner table of the Bergens—ugly giants that suffer from depression. Like every contemporary kid’s film, Trolls is rife with enjoyably nauseating life lessons like “no troll left behind,” and that happiness comes from within. PG. Bagdad, Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.
Under the Shadow
B+ When her husband leaves to work as an army doctor on the frontlines, the prickly Shideh (Narges Rashidi) stays home with her daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi) in wartorn, late-’80s Tehran. To make matters worse, there is something very “off” about one of the neighborhood boys who just moved into their building. PG-13. Living Room Theaters.
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Portland documentarian Christopher LaMarca is a master of making rarely seen moments beautiful. For Boone, his first feature film (it premiered at this year’s South by Southwest), LaMarca lived on a Southern Oregon goat dairy farm for an entire year. In a film with almost zero dialogue, no narration and no interviews, LaMarca uses pure photography to convey the grueling, and financially unrewarding, work that goes into converting a bucket of goat milk into a log of chevre for your dinner party. And LaMarca’s second film, The Pearl, is one of our favorites at this week’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival. Co-directed and shot with New York filmmaker Jessica Dimmock, The Pearl documents the trials and tribulations of an older generation of transgender women in the Pacific Northwest who are transitioning to womanhood after a lifetime of grease-coated, car-mechanic masculinity. LaMarca and Dimmock bring warmth to the rarely told stories of transitioning women. As she clicks through a gallery of selfies, Nina shows the camera how in the early stages of her transition, her makeup application was awkward, with thick lipstick and eye shadow like a Rorschach test. In the most recent photos, she’s perfected the process, with smoky eyes and a subtle tone of lipstick. It’s a charming, humanizing depiction of the transition process that few cisgender people get to witness first hand. The Pearl has already been well-received, winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2016 Dallas International Film Festival. “This is a part of [the transgender] community that’s completely underground, that no one knows exists,” says LaMarca. “There’s no services for them, they grew up with no internet, and they’ve been entrenched in masculinity their whole lives, trying to hide this.” Originally from New York, LaMarca gained a love for the West Coast and environmental activism studying environmental science at the University of Oregon. LaMarca built a career as a photojournalist for publications such as Rolling Stone, GQ and Mother Jones, covering environmental stories like a toxic sludge spill in eastern Tennessee and natural gas production in Wyoming. In 2008, he released Forest Defenders, a collection of photographs documenting eco-activists attempting to stop logging in Southern Oregon. LaMarca’s background becomes apparent as you watch his films. Whether it’s the sun peeking into a fog-laden Applegate Valley, or a middle-aged transgender woman changing from the masculine clothes she wears in front of her wife—who doesn’t know she’s trans—to a flowing blouse while ducking away from the eerie yellow haze of a Walmart parking lot, LaMarca’s command of light leaves you gobsmacked. “At the end of the day, that’s the most important thing,” says LaMarca, “that it’s almost a physical experience for the audience.” ZACH MIDDLETON. SEE IT: The Pearl screens as part of the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at 5 pm Saturday, Nov. 12, and 5th Avenue Cinema at 5:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 13. Willamette Week NOVEMBER 9, 2016 wweek.com
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Aside from branding, pot leaves are pretty much useless. The distinctive shape of the leaf is eye-catching, but the vast majority of those leaves end up as mulch. Any time I see it, I wonder if the person who slapped it on a bright pink background and sent it off to the printer understood that those leaves are quickly snipped away from the precious flowers growing in their midst. Hey, for a long time, I didn’t know that. The first of many times I smoked cannabis, I thought I was inhaling dried-up leaves. Was it just me? If Liz Nolan has anything to say about it, maybe pot leaves will finally have a use—as juice. Nolan owns Portland Juice Co., the Southeast Powell Boulevard juicery that specializes in cold-pressed juice made on a state-of-the-art hydraulic press. Late last month, she introduced what she believes to be the world’s first cannabis-leaf juice. “We’ve been cold-pressing juice for four years, and we’ve juiced just about every fruit and veggie you can imagine,” she says. “Everything you can get at the grocery store and many you can’t get at the grocery store.” In the cold-pressed juice scene—it has a fervent following in New York and L.A. and is now expanding to places like Bend with a large bougie population—everyone is looking to push the envelope. “Every type of produce is going to have some unique micronutrients that are unique to that vegetable and that aren’t in anything else,” Nolan says. “Almost every juice company has some variation of apple-beet-carrot, maybe with ginger, maybe without, but nobody gets excited about apple-beet-carrot, as opposed to something like turmeric, which is hot right now.”
And thus, Ananda, the world’s first commercially available cannabis-leaf juice. It’s been on shelves for about two weeks, made from leaves harvested at a hemp farm in Nehalem, near the coast. The variety used is called fedora, which was bred to be a fiber plant. Portland Juice Co. used about 70 pounds of fresh green leaves. Because of the short season, those leaves joined cranberries as the only ingredients the company froze prior to use. There’s about an ounce of hemp juice in every bottle of Ananda, and it definitely tastes like cannabis, though each $8 container also has grapes, lime and sea salt in it. “Compared to other leafy greens like, for example, kale, it has a mild flavor,” Nolan says. “We wanted to complement it and not mask it like we would other greens.” Because it’s made from a hemp plant, it has less than .03 milligrams of THC. That was the lowest the lab could read—it could be even lower. It’s also low in CBD, though a CBD-rich version could be next if Nolan can find a farmer that has plants bred for CBD instead of fiber. Since CBD is unscheduled, they could easily do it, too. Either way, there’s a lot of potential here. Cannabis is a versatile, hearty plant, and yet most of it is wasted, even by an industry in which growers are scrappy and would take pride in finding a way to be more efficient with resources and to feed people. Since Ananda went on sale, Nolan says she’s gotten a few business cards from people in the cannabis industry who want to help her find a use for all those pretty leaves. “It’s a really sustainable plant,” Nolan says. “It grows really quickly, and there’s definitely a lot of plant material that doesn’t traditionally get used that I think is an excellent source of nutrition and could be the next frontier for food sustainability.”
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Now and then you display an excessive egotism that pushes people away. But during the next six weeks you will have an excellent chance to shed some of that tendency, even as you build more of the healthy pride that attracts help and support. So be alert for a steady flow of intuitions that will instruct you on how to elude overconfidence and instead cultivate more of the warm, radiant charisma that is your birthright. You came here to planet Earth not just to show off your bright beauty, but also to wield it as a source of inspiration and motivation for those whose lives you touch. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller. I don’t fully endorse that perspective. For example, when I said goodbye to North Carolina with the intention to make Northern California my new home, Northern California is exactly where I ended up and stayed. Having said that, however, I suspect that the coming months could be one of those times when Fuller’s formula applies to you. Your ultimate destination may turn out to be different from your original plan. But here’s the tricky part: If you do want to eventually be led to the situation that’s right for you, you have to be specific about setting a goal that seems right for now. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) If you were an obscenely rich plutocrat, you might have a pool table on your super yacht. And to ensure that you and your buddies could play pool even in a storm that rocked your boat, you would have a special gyroscopic instrument installed to keep your pool table steady and stable. But I doubt you have such luxury at your disposal. You’re just not that wealthy or decadent. You could have something even better, however: metaphorical gyroscopes that will keep you steady and stable as you navigate your way through unusual weather. Do you know what I’m referring to? If not, meditate on the three people or influences that might best help you stay grounded. Then make sure you snuggle up close to those people and influences during the next two weeks. CANCER (June 21-July 22) The coming weeks will be a good time to fill your bed with rose petals and sleep with their aroma caressing your dreams. You should also consider the following acts of intimate revolution: listening to sexy spiritual flute music while carrying on scintillating conversations with interesting allies . . . sharing gourmet meals in which you and your sensual companions use your fingers to slowly devour your delectable food . . . dancing naked in semidarkness as you imagine your happiest possible future. Do you catch my drift, Cancerian? You’re due for a series of appointments with savvy bliss and wild splendor. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “I have always wanted . . . my mouth full of strange sunlight,” writes Leo poet Michael Dickman in his poem “My Honeybee.” In another piece, while describing an outdoor scene from childhood, he innocently asks, “What kind of light is that?” Elsewhere he confesses, “What I want more than anything is to get down on paper what the shining looks like.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Leo, I suggest you follow Dickman’s lead in the coming weeks. You will receive soulful teachings if you pay special attention to both the qualities of the light you see with your eyes and the inner light that wells up in your heart. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The Passage du Gois is a 2.8-mile causeway that runs between the western French town of Beauvoir-sur-Mer and the island of Noirmoutier in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s only usable twice a day when the tide goes out, and even then for just an hour or two. The rest of the time it’s under water. If you hope to walk or bike or drive across, you must accommodate yourself to nature’s rhythms. I suspect there’s a metaphorically similar phenomenon in your
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Shorts I: Known and Unknown (Or Unknowable) The observable universe–isotropic in orientation–does not conform to all observers equally. As perspectives shift, that which is known and unknown (as well as knowable and unknowable) shifts accordingly. It fails to remain the same in all directions. Secret I, Portland, OR, 2016
dir. Matt McCormick (15 secs., Documentary)
Would not be called a secret for a reason.
Antipodes Rising, Seattle, WA, 2015
dir. Georg Koszulinski (3 mins., Experimental)
Travelling through a tunnel on a mountain road in Alaska becomes a portal for an alternate vision of the Pacific Northwest.
BE R M E N O V15, 2016 10 –
WELCOME The 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival The 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival is pleased to make your acquaintance. We are glad to once again be showcasing new work by some of the very best film talent our region has to offer, capturing a snapshot of the creative community that surrounds us. With this annual event, the Northwest Film Center affirms its mission to nurture the growth and success of filmmakers who are pushing their voices and dreams forward with new and engaging work. Ben Popp, Festival Manager Bill Foster, Director, Northwest Film Center
Judge’s Statement As someone born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, I approached an invitation to curate the shorts in this year’s Festival with trepidation. I disappeared from the area long ago. What would I know of regional filmmaking now? But it seems that I still have a special affinity for regional storytelling after all. As the saying goes, “You can take the magician out of the theatre but you cannot take the theatre out of the magician.” There isn’t such a saying? There should be. Storytelling remains as relevant to my five-year-old daughter as it is for my over-onehundred-year-old grandmother-in-law. Evidently, it is relatively essential to you as well. The shorts programs present an ideal opportunity for call-and-response. Narrative or nonfictional material addressed in one way is revisited elsewhere in another context. At least that was the intention. In these stories, the outcome depends on the decisions that you–the viewer–make and the directions that you take. Think carefully about your choices as they will affect your response to each program as it ends. In that spirit, consider my nine (fanciful) Award Winners and ponder. In any event, consider that these words (and images) will continue to exist forever until they cease to be read (or seen) by anyone. So shall it be.
A visit to a room, dark-adapted; an opportunity to leave-without-traveling. Please remain seated. These are our momentary intersections of place and time.
Copper Perforation Loop Triptych Olympia, WA, 2016 dir. Ruth Hayes (3 mins., Experimental)
Direct animated film made from a five-inch diameter disc of perforated copper scratching away at black leader.
Canned Fit, Portland, OR, 2016
A young man living in the inner city attempts to see the stars through his childhood telescope. An Outer-Space Reality Award.
Sound artist Christine Shorkhuber uses an array of “non-traditional” instruments to create minimalist melodies meant to bring us a little closer to our surroundings.
Outer Darkness, Portland, OR, 2015
Here Nor There, Vancouver, B.C., 2016
What happens when the monotony of “reality” television becomes quite real for one of its subjects and thus its audience as well. The Real Unreality Award.
Nothing is as what it seems as a private investigator arrives at a funeral to speak with the family of a woman whose body he supposedly found.
dir. Arianna Gazca (6 mins., Animation)
A synesthetic take on the desire for hope, shrouded in a blanket of madness. Only-Apparently-Reality Award.
Secret II, Portland, OR, 2016
dir. Matt McCormick (15 secs., Documentary)
dir. Julia Hutchings (15 mins., Narrative)
The Lift, Vancouver, B.C., 2016
dir. Manny Mahal (7 mins., Narrative)
Pushing oneself to the limit can be a challenging thing, add in an immense amount of weight and the challenge becomes an event.
Voice of the Hi-Line, Missoula, MT, 2016
dir. Doug Hawes-Davis (14 mins., Documentary)
Well now!
Profile of KGVA in Fort Belknap, Montana which is among a growing number of Native American run radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.
(Censored), Seattle, WA, 2016
Primal Flux, Portland, OR, 2016
A man’s life is forever changed when his roommate introduces him to a producer he never knew he needed. The Surreal Award.
Colors and shapes shift and change as images emerge and disperse in a play on the nature of conscious and unconscious communication.
Plena Stellarum, Boise, ID, 2015
Me is Being Great, Missoula, MT, 2016 dir. Marshall Granger (21 mins., Narrative)
dir. Isaiah Corey (8 mins., Narrative)
dir. Matthew Wade (12 mins., Animation)
Perhaps a vision of a realm beyond the life of a video game; perhaps a video game itself. The Unreal Realilty Award.
Shared Grief, Seattle, WA, 2016
dir. Adam Sekuler (20 mins., Documentary)
Present day communication and sharing are examined as ways of connectivity during times of heartache and pain.
dir. Ian Clark (82 mins., Narrative)
An unknown–maybe sinister–presence jolts an otherwise peaceful summer in the forest for a reunited couple.
Sunday, November 13, 7 pm, Skype Live Studio Monday, November 14, 5 pm, Whitsell Auditorium RiverBlue, Vancouver, B.C., 2016 dir. David McIlvride, Roger Williams (90 mins., Documentary)
A stationary journey (and everything that follows). Rimmer’s classic film, a Festival winner from the past, seems a fitting way to set the program.
dir. Woodruff Laputka (8 mins., Documentary)
Blue Discord, Fairview, OR, 2016
Friday, November 11, 7:45 pm, Skype Live Studio Tuesday, November 15, 5 pm, Whitsell Auditorium A Morning Light, Portland, OR, 2016
Canadian Pacific, Vancouver, B.C., 1974 dir. David Rimmer (9 mins., Documentary)
Modern Dark, Portland, OR, 2016 dir. Josh Lunden (6 mins., Narrative)
dir. Hannah Piper Burns (11 mins., Experimental)
FILM DESCRIPTIONS AND TRAILERS AT NWFILM.ORG
SHORTS II: Visions of Reality
FEATURES
Monday, November 14, 7:15 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Beware the Slenderman, Portland, OR, 2016 dir. Irene Taylor Brodsky (115 mins., Documentary)
In 2014, two young girls committed an atrocious act compelled by the calling of a fictional internet character. Brodsky’s film explores the backstory leading up to the event.
Saturday, November 12, 7:30 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Sunday, November 13, 5 pm, Skype Live Studio Brides to Be, Seattle, WA, 2016
Night Walk, Bellevue, WA, 2016
dir. Neely Goniodsky (4 mins., Animation)
An impressionistic view of a couple living in New York set to the music of Benjamin Verdouse. An Inner-Space Reality Award.
Ranger, Vancouver, B.C., 2016
dir. Sandra Ignagni, Trevor Meier (8 mins., Documentary)
Saturday, November 12, 5 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema Tuesday, November 15, 7:15 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Saturday, November 12, 5 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Sunday, November 13, 5:30 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema Customer 152, Lake Stevens, WA, 2016 The Pearl, Portland, OR, 2016 dir. Jonathan Holbrook (133 mins., Narrative) Terrence lives a mundane life until he receives a mysterious black credit card in the mail and ends up with creditors from hell.
dir. Christopher LaMarca, Jessica Dimmock (93 mins., Documentary)
The Pearl follows four trans-women in the early stages of coming out as they navigate their lives against a backdrop of post-industrial logging towns in the Pacific Northwest.
Friday, November 11, 5:10 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Sunday, November 13, 8 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema The Village of Middlevale, Tacoma, WA, 2015 dir. Amber Celletti, Nathan Blanchard (100 mins.,
Friday, November 11, 5:20 pm, Skype Live Studio Narrative) Saturday November 12, 2:30 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Dennis decides to leave the hustle and bustle behind to start his own mideival village in the forest and populates it with a hilarious cast of Finding Bosnia, Portland, OR, 2016
dir. Ivana Horvat, Adrian Hopffgarten (90 mins., Documentary)
Director Ivana Horvat’s family fled war-torn Yugoslavia in the early ’90s. She returns to unveil her roots, culture, and a people still dealing with the ramifications of a brutal civil war.
Friday, November 11, 5 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema Saturday, November 12 5:20 pm, Skype Live Studio Finding October, Seattle, WA, 2016 Russell and Ben are on a journey across the Northwest so Russell can ask his girlfriend’s hand in marriage. Along the way they pick up Emma, and as the three venture down the highway, hard truths are revealed.
characters.
Sunday, November 13, 2:15 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Monday, November 14, 7:30 pm, Skype Live Studio Three Days Drowning, Portland, OR, 2016 dir. Mark Andres (72 mins., Animation)
An artist is commissioned by a wealthy couple to paint their portrait. The more he paints, the more he learns about their mysterious lives.
Saturday, November 12, 3 pm, Skype Live Studio Sunday, November 13, 8:25 pm, Whitsell Auditorium What Separates Us, Helena, MT, 2016 dir. Bryan Ferriter (90 mins., Narrative)
An artist is commissioned by a wealthy couple to paint their portrait. The more he paints, the more he learns about their mysterious lives.
(Censored)—The Surreal Award
Saturday, November 12, 7:30 pm, Skype Live Studio Sunday, November 13, 3:10 pm, Whitsell Auditorium Woodsrider, Portland, OR, 2016
Me is Being Great—The All-Too-Real Award
Judge’s Bio
dir. Connor Gaston (100 mins., Narrative)
A devout Christian community’s religious beliefs are shaken when a terminally ill girl professes to have had a previous life.
Robin and Jenna are getting married but the day is marred by feelings of anxiety, self consciousness, panic attacks, and a house that does not particularly want anyone to be in it unless they will remain forever.
dir. Nick Terry (77 mins., Narrative)
A portrait of the Canadian vessel M.V. Northern Ranger which has traversed the narrow straits and unpredictable weather along the remote Labrador coastline for the last 30 years. The Vitally Real Award.
Saturday, November 12, 2:30 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema Sunday, November 13, 6 pm, Whitsell Auditorium The Devout, Victoria, B.C., 2015
dir. Kris Boustedt, Lindy Boustedt (82 mins., Narrative)
dir. Joan Gratz (3 mins., Animation)
Sometimes when relationships end amongst the confusions of growing up, one just might be able to re-connect with their own identity and be set free. The All-Too-Real Award.
Among the many environmental threats to the planet and human survival is the challenge of clean water. On this journey to China, Indonesia, and the Philippines, we meet some forward-thinkers who are working on a path to sustainability.
Jonathan Marlow
dir. Cambria Matlow (94 mins., Documentary)
Tucked in the trees of Mt. Hood, a 19-year-old snowboarder spends the
Friday, November 11, 7:15 pm, 5th Avenue Cinema winter camping on the slopes and riding her board. Monday November 14, 5:15 pm, Skype Live Studio preceded by If There’s a Hell Below, Portland, OR, 2016 1850 LBS, Portland, OR, 2016 dir. Nathan Williams (94 mins., Narrative)
Jonathan Marlow is a film curator, critic, cinematographer, and occasional producer with numerous shorts to his credit. His eclectic arts and business career includes serving as director of the San Francisco Cinematheque, stints at Amazon and VUDU, and co-founding the subscription film service and social-sharing platform FANDOR—experiences which have put him at center of an expanding technologycentric distribution world as a knowledgeable champion of independent film. Most recently, Marlow has joined San Francisco-based Kanopy, the leading on-demand streaming video service for higher educational institutions, as Chief Strategy Officer. Night Walk—An Inner-Space Reality Award
A naïve journalist meets with a shadowy figure in rural Eastern Washington to trade intelligence secrets. The problem: despite their wide-open surroundings, they are not alone.
dir. Pete Gibson, Jin Ryu (7 mins., Documentary)
Portrait of 23 year old Jessie Marvin and his attempt to become one of the strongest men in the world.
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS FROM FILMMAKERS AGES 13-19 Saturday, November 12, 12 pm Whitsell Auditorium Free Admission
SPECIAL EVENTS Friday, November 11, 9 pm – 11 pm, Northwest Film Center (934 SW Salmon St.) After Party & Trailer-mania with Greg Hamilton
Stop by the Northwest Film Center after the evening’s for a lively program of some of the best sci-fi, horror, and exploitation film trailers from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Portland film archivist Greg Hamilton will project (on 16mm) a selection culled from his collection of over 2,000 film trailers. A delight for any film lover and maker. Beer, wine, and snacks–oh my!
Saturday, November 12, 12-5 pm, Northwest Film Center (934 SW Salmon St.) Rebel Heart Workship with Alicia J. Rose
Created by award-winning filmmaker/writer Diane Bell (Obselidia, Bleeding Heart), the Rebel Heart Workshop is about empowering filmmakers with the real-life knowledge needed to make a successful indie film, from developing ideas and fundraising, to finding the right collaborators, stretching a budget, and developing effective promotion, publicity, festival, and distribution strategies. Rebel Heart Alumni Alicia J. Rose, creator of the acclaimed web series The Benefits of Gusbandry will provide practical tools and help participants find the strength and courage to proceed. Tuition $25. Additional workshop information and enrollment at nwfilm.org.
Sunday, November 13, 2:15 pm, Skype Live Studio NW Episodic Showcase
Thursday, November 10, 10 am – 5 pm Fields Ballroom, 1119 SW Park Avenue
Northwest Filmmakers' Summit The Summit’s aim is to provide information and discussion of issues and trends in independent filmmaking with a focus on regional opportunities and resources.
PRESENTERS 10:30 am Juliana Lukasik of @Large Films
How can women owned production companies make a difference.
11:30 am Panel: Achieving Equity in Filmmaking How can the film community better encourage and engage more diverse voices. Enie Vaisburd, faculty, Pacific University Alicia J. Rose, Portland filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone, Portland filmmaker Audrey Rose, Portland filmmaker and grip Elijah Hasan, Portland filmmaker
1 pm Katy Davidson and Madeline Dowling of music licensing company Marmoset Fostering creativity between the local film and musician community.
2 pm Panel: The Episodic
Making new work for new modes of distribution. Drew Beard, faculty, Portland State University Robert Benjamin, founder of Members Media Alicia J. Rose, Portland filmmaker and episodic workshop instructor Zach Schultz, Portland filmmaker Beth Harrington, Portland filmmaker
3:30 pm Festival Judge Jonathan Marlow in Conversation with filmmaker Hannah Piper Burns On-site Vendors include: Carl Ziess SBE Fujifilm / Fujinon Gales Creek Entertainment & Philadelphia Insurance Co.s NW School of Make Up
Oregon Media Production Association Panasonic Pro Photo Supply Pro Video and Tape
(88 mins.)
As modes of distribution and shifts in the culture of viewing have emerged with the rise of Netflix, Hulu, and other online streaming sites, what used to be referred to as miniseries or webisodes have started to fall under the banner of Episodic. Part television, part internet, part feature film, the content of these programs are broken into smaller segments and presented in a way that allows fluidity with regard to where and how they are seen. This program takes a look at new work made in the Northwest that embraces this emerging genre. Co-presented with Members Media.
Tuesday, November 15, 7:30 pm, Skype Live Studio Warhol Goes Boom dir. Matt Schulte (80 mins., InteractiveExperimental)
Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, silent black and white 16mm film shots of New York scene makers, Portland filmmaker Matt Schulte has created a version using local luminaries. These include legendary dancer Fred Nemo, Portlandia producer David Cress, local actress Sharae Foxie, founder of Cavity Search Records Denny Swofford, and many more. Schulte will project his screen tests while creating a live ‘ambient’ score using microphones placed around the theater. A nod to one of the great artists of the 20th century that combines the not-so-distant past with the current interest in Time Based Art.
Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm Kridel Grand Ballroom, Portland Art Museum For more tickets, passes, and more information on the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, please visit
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