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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 11.

If the city doesn’t wimp out, it has a scofflaw Airbnb host on the hook for 50 large. 6

If you want to watch as Kyle Korver sinks, like, 25 treys, there is a place. 21

Seattle, San Francisco and Las Vegas can’t hold their liquor like we can. 7

If you want a well-made Blue Star doughnut, there is a place. But it’s a bit of a swim. 23

At Amanda Fritz’s bequest, the city is slated to spend $350,000 to host a bunch of meetings where

Portland will have the Northwest’s first screening of an unreleased film from iconic anime house Studio Ghibli. 41

neighborhood busybodies

complain about the homeless. 8 Japanese tourism in Portland is up 50 percent since 2013. 11

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IMMIGRANT PROTECTIONS

I would like to see the traffic problems on Tarra Martin’s article regarding refugee musi- outer Southeast Division Street resolved. Put in cians reflects a shift across Oregon and the speed bumps or get drivers to slow down—the country to protect and preserve the cultures of recent spate of pedestrian deaths is inexcusable. our immigrant communities [“Two Journalists If this had been Southeast 39th and Hawthorne, Record Refugee Musicians on the Run From there would already be three city commissions and task forces assigned. ISIS,” WW, Jan. 4, 2017]. It is so moving to see how these refugees —Harley Leiber have preserved their warm and welcoming culture although they were so cruelly Yes, Amanda Fritz is a puzzling choice to handle the Bureau of uprooted from their own lives. Only Emergency Communications, or two days after the election, I was in Washington, D.C., lobbying for senanything you want to succeed. tencing and immigration reform with If only there were a Department of Not Preparing for Meetings. fellow Oregon constituents because it —“Jeff S” became increasingly evident that the future for immigrants is unclear. However, the initiatives taken CONTROLLING FEDERAL by local leaders like Sasha Ingber to LANDS support immigrants in America are “If this was long-term, it would be the “Initiatives truly inspirational. It is why legislaof family ranching in the West.” taken by local end tion like the BRIDGE Act, a bipar[“Year of the Grouse,” WW, Jan. 4, tisan bill introduced to protect the leaders like 2017.] futures of young immigrants, is more Sasha Ingber This is the same old, sorry, skyto support important now than ever. is-falling excuse used whenever the I urge Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden immigrants slightest regulation or request for and Jeff Merkley to co-sponsor the are truly conservation is requested. BRIDGE Act in response to the tire- inspirational.” If this statement were true, there less work of constituents to preserve wouldn’t have been one tree logged their diverse communities. in the past 30 years, the oil industry wouldn’t exist, and Monsanto would be broke —Sitara Nath, student University of Portland because it couldn’t make DDT. Western ranchers just don’t want to give up HANDLING THE CITY’S PROBLEMS suckling on mommy government’s teat. Charlie Hales and Steve Novick are gone, and —“Dwight” that’s a good start [“City Haul,” WW, Jan. 4, 2017]. It will be interesting to see what Ted Wheeler can do in the new era of Trump. Wheel- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for veriﬁcation. er’s got the chops, for sure. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Chloe Eudaly may be in over her head, but Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. time will tell. The worst-case scenario is Wheeler Email: mzusman@wweek.com. has to reassign some of her responsibilities.

Thanks for taking on bird-strike deaths in the Portland area. However, what we say is “up to 1 billion birds die annually in the United States.” The person seemed to think it was 1 billion birds in Portland. That is absolutely not the case. Can you clarify? —Ali Berman, Audubon Society of Portland

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My apologies, Ali. The truth is that after seven years of doing this, I don’t always race to the newsstand on Wednesday morning, eager for the heady excitement of seeing my name in the paper. Thus, I didn’t see the column as published until now. In editing, “1 billion birds are killed flying into city buildings” (meaning city buildings across America) got changed to “1 billion birds are killed in Portland,” which is incorrect. It also suggests a very American haziness on the concept of “1 billion.” Most Americans grasp how much, say, $1,000 is. (Not that people in the news business have ever seen it.) Then, we figure a million is probably around 100 times that. And a billion is—eh, maybe like two to five times a million? I don’t want to give our editors too much grief— they work hard and do a great job. (They also have

the power to run a picture of me with a dildo growing out my forehead right next to my column, so I shouldn’t piss them off.) But a billion? If we allow, as Audubon’s most generous estimates suggest, that 10 percent of all birds die in bird strikes, and assume that the average bird lives just three years, that would imply that Portland is home to 30 billion birds, or approximately 46,150 birds per person, a sum that would make Tippi Hedren’s worst PTSD nightmares seem like a quiet day at the park. (Of course, it’s also possible that our editors know exactly how much a billion is, assumed the questioner was grossly misinformed, and wondered why I didn’t set him straight. But, as I think we can all agree, where’s the fun in that?) QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

Give!Guide Goes Wild—Again!

WILLAMETTE WE EK’S ANNUAL GU IDE TO GIVING IN PO RTLAND

2016

WE’RE SEEKING

10,000 DONORS

SUPPORT

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FABULOUS NONPROF ITS!

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AMAZING SKIDMORE PRIZE WINNERS

TO OUR READERS: You continue to amaze and overwhelm us with your generosity. We began this effort in 2004 with modest ambitions. More than anything, we wanted to try to instill in younger Portlanders a healthy year-end giving habit. That first year, when WW’s G!G raised $25,252.50 for 28 local nonprofits, we considered it a rousing success. Never in our wildest imaginings could we have anticipated that a dozen years later, 9,325 of you would have donated $4,248,928—168 times as much.

FOR NOW THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO IS TO THANK YOU WITH EVERYTHING WE’VE GOT.

Altogether, you made some 33,000 individual gifts this year, averaging $125 each, with a median donation of $50. To put this in perspective, the gold standard for this sort of newspaper-inspired giving is The New York Times’ Neediest-Cases Fund. It raises about $6 million each year. Think of how many more readers the Times has—and how much more wealth is to be found in New York City. Portlanders’ outsized performance emphasizes the depth and breadth of your generosity and, ultimately, your commitment to our community. For now, the most important thing we can do is thank you with everything we’ve got. On this page are many more interesting G!G data points. At giveguide.org, you can discover how each of our 141 participating nonprofits did this year, as well as see the identities of the many truly wonderful businesses who help make this annual effort possible.

DONATIONS SINCE G!G’s INCEPTION IN 2004

Thank you all again—nine thousand three hundred and twenty-five times over,

PLANNED PARENTHOOD:

$188,761

$180,836

OREGON FOOD BANK: $138,702

OUTSIDE IN: $82,362 CAT ADOPTION TEAM: $66,433 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $66,047 TRANSITION PROJECTS: $61,995

35 & UNDER WINNERS: ANIMALS

TOTAL:

$20,680,680 2016’S BIG GIVE! DAYS RAISED

$1,145,100

IN DONATIONS

(compared to $887,650 in 2015)

Number of Donors

The Pongo Fund

150

CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS Voz Workers’ Rights

COMMUNITY

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BTA*

CREATIVE EXPRESSION XRAY.FM

EDUCATION

College Possible

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ENVIRONMENT

ECO*

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HEALTH

Planned Parenthood

260

HUMAN SERVICES

IRCO*

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* Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization

$50 WAS THE MEDIAN DONATION 33,808 DONATIONS MADE 9,325 UNIQUE DONORS 2,497 UNIQUE DONORS, 35 & UNDER NEARLY 300 PARTICIPATING OUTGOING G!G BUSINESSES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NICK JOHNSON

DONATIONS BY PART OF TOWN N: 7%

NICK’S HIGHLIGHTS: 82% of groups raised more than their previous time participating in G!G (63% in 2015 and 78% in 2014). Over $1 MILLION of the funds raised in

NW: 13% SW: 20%

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$396,787

FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $95,765 SISTERS OF THE ROAD: $85,130

2004: $25,253 2005: $80,044 2006: $248,397 2007: $534,084 2008: $806,582 2009: $918,094 2010: $1,163,688 2011: $1,588,689 2012: $1,967,423 2013: $2,453,083 2014: $3,145,015 2015: $3,501,400 2016: $4,248,928

Also: Next week, and the week after, WW will be publishing its annual Volunteer Guide. This is your chance to donate sweat equity—every bit as valuable as cash—to dozens of great local nonprofits.

Congratulations also are in order to Mahala Ray, who interned with G!G in 2015, and now becomes our new executive director.

OREGON CULTURAL TRUST:

THE PONGO FUND PET FOOD BANK:

We plan to keep this going. So mark your calendars: Applications for participating in WW’s 2017 Give!Guide and nomination forms for our 2017 Skidmore Prizes will be available at giveguide.org during the month of June.

I need to close this note with a farewell—and the biggest thank you of all. Nick Johnson, who has served as G!G’s executive director these past five years and under whose direction giving has more than doubled, has taken a job with Mercy Corps. We can’t thank him enough for the multitude of ways he’s nurtured, coaxed and strategized WW’s G!G into its current place in Portland. He will be a great asset to his new nonprofit.

2016 TOP 10 RECIPIENTS:

NE: 30%

SE: 30%

the past 12 years has gone to Planned Parenthood and another $2 MILLION to the Oregon Cultural Trust. I’m most excited by the fact that the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization raised over $60,000 after bringing in less than $10,000 in 2014. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

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Portland Successfully Pursues $52,000 Fine for an Airbnb Host

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For the first time since legalizing short-term rentals in 2014, Portland City Hall has cracked down on a property listed on the websites Airbnb and VRBO with the full force of city code. The owner of a house in North Portland’s Humboldt neighborhood faces a possible $52,750.91 fine for charging up to $549 a night to rent six bedrooms. (City rules generally prohibit renting out more than two bedrooms a night and require a permit.) On Jan. 5, Portland hearings officer Adelia Hwang found “egregious” violations of city code by Dozer Construction, which owns the house on North Gantenbein Avenue. Hwang ordered the company to pay a $10,000 fine and surrender all rent collected from Aug. 1 through Dec. 1, 2016. The city and Dozer have until Jan. 19 to comment before the ruling becomes final. Dozer’s attorney, Andrew Seher, declined to comment. City officials declined to comment until the ruling becomes final.

Person sleeping in doorway.

Four People Die of Hypothermia in New Year

Four people have died of hypothermia on the streets of Portland in less than two weeks. David B. Guyot, 68, was found at a bus stop downtown Jan. 1, and died at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. Mark Elliot Johnson, 51, died Jan. 2 on a sidewalk along East Burnside Street. 6

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Karen Lee Batts, 52, died Jan. 7 in a parking garage on Southwest 10th Avenue. An unidentiﬁed 29-year-old man was found dead Jan. 10 in the woods below Southwest Barbur Boulevard. Batts’ death came three months after she was evicted from her downtown apartment after failing to pay $338 in rent. Building managers said they evicted her after she damaged property and refused oﬀers for help. “The harsh reality is that dozens of people are dying on our streets in Multnomah County every year,” says Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots. “And the cold weather has created a nightmare scenario for people sleeping outside.”

Lawyer Faces Disbarment on Foreclosure Scam

On Jan. 9, the Oregon State Bar formally recommended that family lawyer Kathleen Rinks be disbarred. That’s a rare sanction: In each of the past five years, an average of 11 of the state’s more than 12,000 lawyers were disbarred or resigned in lieu of disbarment. The bar’s actions came in response to WW’s story about how Rinks sold the right to redeem her home from foreclosure to at least five buyers (“Redemption for Sale,” WW, Oct. 21, 2015). The bar alleges that Rinks is guilty of dishonest and criminal behavior. Her only response to proceedings in the past year was an attempt to resign, which the bar rejected because she failed to provide sufficient information about her existing cases. “The charges are serious, and we clearly believe the only appropriate sanction is disbarment,” says bar spokeswoman Kateri Walsh. A bar disciplinary panel now has 28 days to rule on the disbarment recommendation. Rinks could not be reached for comment.

NEWS

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH WATCH

110 IN A MILLION RISK OF CANCER FROM AIR POLLUTION

That’s higher than 99 percent of American neighborhoods.

People moving into a neighborhood tend to ask the same questions. Is it friendly? How are the schools? Is there much crime? Upstream Research wants to help people add some new criteria: Will the local air hurt my health? How’s the water? Can you get cancer here? Upstream, a tech startup with offices in Bend and Bainbridge Island, Wash., has launched an app that compiles environmental health data from dozens of government databases, and allows customers to see the risks in their neighborhoods. The company has ambitions to become “the Carfax of real estate.” WW took the app for a spin—to see how Portland compares to similarly sized Western cities. The short answer? Not great. We generated an Upstream report for Portland’s Richmond neighborhood—aka the apartment canyon of inner Southeast Division Street—and compared it against trendy neighborhoods in Seattle, San Francisco and Las Vegas. Just like in the Upstream app, we graded the risk levels green (low), orange (moderate) and red (high). You can check your neighborhood at upstreamreports.com. The results showed that ostensibly green Portland scores poorly compared to its neighbors in several categories— especially the release of air pollution and the locations of toxic soil. One silver lining: The risk of getting cancer from air pollution here is much lower than in the Emerald City. Suck it, Seattle! AARON MESH.

112,800 pounds of pollution released, including nickel, chromium and benzene.

SEATTLE

16TH PERCENTILE OF LEAD EXPOSURE

WE USED A NEW APP TO COMPARE PORTLAND’S HEALTH RISKS WITH THREE WESTERN CITIES.

11 CARCINOGEN AIRBORNE RELEASE POINTS

(Belltown neighborhood)

21% OF ADULTS DRINK ALCOHOL EXCESSIVELY

This census tract has a higher lead-exposure risk than 15 percent of American neighborhoods.

Excessive drinking is more common here than in 92 percent of American counties.

23 BROWNFIELDS

The brownfield sites contaminate soil within 10 miles.

31 CARCINOGEN AIRBORNE RELEASE POINTS 37,000 pounds of pollution released, including styrene, epichlorohydrin and formaldehyde.

PORTLAND

59 IN A MILLION RISK OF CANCER FROM AIR POLLUTION

(Richmond neighborhood)

24% OF ADULTS DRINK ALCOHOL EXCESSIVELY Excessive drinking is more common here than in 98 percent of American counties.

That’s higher than 95 percent of American neighborhoods.

66 BROWNFIELDS

The brownfield sites contaminate soil within 10 miles.

89TH PERCENTILE OF LEAD EXPOSURE This census tract has a higher leadexposure risk than 88 percent of American neighborhoods.

71 IN A MILLION RISK OF CANCER FROM AIR POLLUTION That’s higher than 98 percent of American neighborhoods.

0 CARCINOGEN AIRBORNE RELEASE POINTS No pollution released.

17% OF ADULTS DRINK ALCOHOL EXCESSIVELY

SAN FRANCISCO (Mission Dolores neighborhood)

88TH PERCENTILE OF LEAD EXPOSURE

This census tract has a higher leadexposure risk than 87 percent of American neighborhoods.

20% OF ADULTS DRINK ALCOHOL EXCESSIVELY

Excessive drinking is more common here than in 82 percent of American counties.

17 BROWNFIELDS

The brownfield sites contaminate soil within 10 miles.

KEY

160 BROWNFIELDS

The brownfield sites contaminate soil within 10 miles.

LAS VEGAS (Fremont East neighborhood)

High Risk

Moderate Risk

Low Risk

8 CARCINOGEN AIRBORNE RELEASE POINTS

2,500 pounds of pollution released, including styrene, benzene and polycyclic aromatic compounds. Airborne Release Points

Excessive drinking is more common here than in 55 percent of American counties.

Air Pollution

Lead Exposure

Brownfields

Excessive Alcohol Consumption

Sources: Upstream Research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Toxic Releases Inventory, National Air Toxics Assessment, Centers for Disease Control

71 IN A MILLION RISK OF CANCER FROM AIR POLLUTION That’s higher than 98 percent of American neighborhoods.

66TH PERCENTILE OF LEAD EXPOSURE

This census tract has a higher lead-exposure risk than 65 percent of American neighborhoods.

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Talk It Out PORTLAND CITY HALL IS ABOUT TO SPEND $350,000 HOSTING MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS. By r ac he l m o n a h a n

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Portland City Hall is about to spend $350,000 on a project to fight homelessness. It won’t house a single person or even buy a new bed. Instead, the project was sold to City Hall as a series of meetings—up to 56 sit-downs between neighborhood associations, tenant groups and social-service nonprofits. Its chief goal: “To engage the community…in discussions and solutions regarding efforts to reduce houselessness and the impacts of houselessness.” The project, championed by City Commissioner Amanda Fritz and approved last May, could begin awarding grants to neighborhood groups and nonprofits as soon as next month. The city funds won’t be distributed by the Housing Bureau or the joint city-county homelessness agency. It will instead be run by the Office of Neighborhood Involvement— an office the city auditor faulted two months ago for failing to keep tabs on the grants it awards. Clearly, more needs to be done to address Portland’s homelessness problem. The deaths of four people from exposure to cold weather in the past two weeks is a reminder of that need. And $350,000 is a small fraction of the $28 million the city plans to spend on homelessness this fiscal year. But the price tag for this “community engagement” project has drawn criticism as a sizable bill for a program with few concrete goals except getting more people talking about solving the problem. “It was an unnecessary expense,” says City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who was in charge of the Housing Bureau for the past four years and opposed the allocation. “From what I 8

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COLD SNAP: During the ice storm on Jan. 8, James was sleeping in a tent near Skidmore Plaza under the west end of the Burnside Bridge. “I’m freezing,” he said.

The result? Portland residents would know more about saw of the spending plan, it was taking $350,000 and just dolwhat the city is accomplishing, and the groups that win ing it out to the usual suspects.” The project was approved because Fritz fought to make the grants would be better prepared to lobby for means to address the homeless problem. The groups are also supposed sure ONI got a piece of the city’s housing dollars. Its fate now rests with new Mayor Ted Wheeler and new to train new leaders. In a break from the staid policymaking typical of City Hall, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, who both campaigned on Saltzman and Fritz fought openly over the project in council pledges to fix the city’s housing crunch. Wheeler earlier this month took ONI away from Fritz and chambers May 18. (Saltzman said Fritz didn’t consult the gave it to Eudaly, who now must decide whether to kill the Housing Bureau while cooking up the project; Fritz retorted that she had.) project or keep it for herself. The grants won’t move forward without a careful review, The City Budget Office was, if anything, even more says Eudaly spokesman David Austin, but, just a week and a skeptical of the project. Its analysis in March found the half into her term as commissioner, she hasn’t made a final expenditure duplicated efforts already underway at the Portland Housing Bureau and A Home for Everyone, the decision. (Wheeler says it’s her call.) If Eudaly doesn’t quash the project, the money—which joint city-county office fighting homelessness. comes from the city’s general fund—is slated to begin flowing “While ONI and its partners have special expertise in public involvement, there are a number of engagement to nonprofits and neighborhood groups in March. “We’re holding off on any decisions on this until Com- and outreach efforts already funded and in place in relamissioner Eudaly can get a better understanding of what tion to housing investments and specifically the State of the entities are supposed to do,” Austin says. “She wants to Housing Emergency,” the City Budget Office analysis said, recommending no money be allocated to make sure that the money is going to have the proposal. the most impact on getting people off the The project falls to a city office already under streets and into housing.” scrutiny. Fritz defends the project she spearhead- “it was an An audit in November found mismanageed. She says it will help everyday Portland citizens understand how they can help the unnecessary ment and confusion at ONI. The working papers for that audit noted the bureau had homeless in their neighborhoods. expense.” acquired the nickname “Island of Misfit Toys” “I receive dozens of emails urging the for its hodgepodge of responsibilities, ranging council to ‘do better’ in working to stop —Commissioner Dan Saltzman from licensing marijuana shops to fielding people from having to live outside,” Fritz noise complaints. says. “It’s very clear that many Portlanders don’t know what the plan is, or how they A November audit found ONI doesn’t hold organizations accountable for the grants it can help.” Fritz debuted the project in May. Then-Mayor Charlie awards or require “meaningful” measurement of their work. Some observers question whether more meetings are Hales and Commissioner Nick Fish voted with her to necessary, no matter who’s running them. approve it. “There’s a lot of words and not much action,” says Eric Since its initial approval, the plan evolved. The money would be dispersed in three $80,000 chunks Fruits, former Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association to nonprofits and other organizations focused on low- president, saying the project reminded him of Mayor income tenants, homeless people, and minority, immigrant Sam Adams funding a nonprofit that then lobbied the or refugee groups. Another nonprofit that ONI already works City Council to create the Portland Arts Tax. “I always get with will receive $80,000 to oversee the project. (None of the suspicious when the ultimate goal is to lobby the commisgroups have been selected.) sioners.”

NEWS

Help Wanted TWO OF THE CITY’S BIGGEST JOBS ARE HIRING—BUT IN VERY DIFFERENT WAYS. bslovic@wweek.com

Vito Manolo RoMa

By B e t h slov i c

WHAT’S THE DEAL?

WHAT HAVE THE DECIDERS PROMISED?

WHAT’S THE BENEFIT? Two of the biggest jobs in Portland are taking applications: the chief of the Portland Police Bureau and the superintendent of Portland Public Schools. They are unelected positions. They control two of Portland’s biggest public budgets. They are both about to be filled—but in fundamentally different ways. Mayor Ted Wheeler strode into office this month promising to conduct a nationwide search to fill the job currently held by Chief Mike Marshman, appointed in June by then-Mayor Charlie Hales. Meanwhile, the board at Portland Public Schools has launched an effort to find a permanent replacement for former Superintendent Carole Smith, who resigned in July after her administration mishandled the discovery of elevated lead levels in some schools’ drinking water. The similarities end with the importance of the jobs. Wheeler, who has made transparency a chief aim, says he’ll conduct his search for the next chief in public. The Portland School Board, on the other hand, has said it will keep its hiring process secret. Here’s a look at what each agency says it’s doing—and how it could go wrong.

WHAT’S THE DOWNSIDE?

WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS?

City: the job of police chief isn’t actually open. When Hales appointed Marshman in June, he made clear Marshman was a permanent replacement for retiring Chief larry o’Dea, who left under a cloud after telling different stories about the accidental shooting of a friend during a Harney County hunting trip. Hales’ move undercut Wheeler, who became mayor-elect when he won the primary election with an outright majority a month earlier. Wheeler at the time said he thought Portland should conduct a nationwide search for such an important job. now he has to follow through.

SChoolS: Portland Public Schools appointed Bob McKean, a former superintendent of the Centennial School District in East Portland, in august to replace Smith on an interim basis. But he’s not expected to serve beyond the end of this school year.

City: Wheeler has said he hopes Marshman reapplies for his job. He’s also called for an exhaustive candidate search and said at a press conference last week he’d like three finalists’ names to be made public. But pressed for how that would work, his spokesman, Michael Cox, demurred. “the community will have a chance to articulate their priorities for the next police chief,” Cox writes in a statement. “also, there will be some public vetting of the candidates. More details to come.”

SChoolS: Fearing a public process would scare away potential candidates who would be forced to tell their current employers they’re looking to leave, the Portland School Board has opted for a closed process. the public will not learn the name of finalists. a group of community stakeholders will advise the board on the finalists, but they’ll be asked to sign confidentiality agreements. “We will make sure the stakeholder group is representative and provides quality public input to the board,” Chairman tom Koehler of the School Board said in a statement. in 2007, when the district appointed Smith as superintendent, the board also declined to publicly name its finalists.

City: assuming he makes the names of finalists public and picks the candidate favored by Portlanders, Wheeler could buy tremendous goodwill. Jo ann Hardesty, an activist for police accountability who’s contemplating running for the City Council, counts herself among those optimistic that Wheeler’s process will engage the public. “it’s my hope he’s looking for a truly transformative leader who takes the Portland Police Bureau where it needs to go,” she says.

SChoolS: Members of the School Board say they can attract the best candidates if they can assure them they won’t risk losing their current jobs if they apply.

City: a public process for police chief could drive away candidates. and Marshman, who seems to be doing a good job, hasn’t said for sure whether he’ll apply. “though Mayor Wheeler and i discussed the decision for a national search for police chief, he and his staff are just beginning the complex process of outlining the guidelines and requirements for the position,” Marshman said in a statement. “When that is completed, i will review it and ensure that my personal and professional goals are aligned with what the mayor has outlined. if so, i will apply.”

SChoolS: PPS parents who are willing and able to organize will go nuts if they don’t like the candidate the board picks. Belinda Reagan, president of the Portland Federation of School Professionals union, says the district is missing a chance to show people it’s abandoned its past practice of closed-door decision-making. “it’s much wiser and would keep the public happier if there were more transparency,” she says.

City: By making Marshman reapply for his job, Wheeler faces a number of political problems. He risks alienating Marshman’s allies. and if he dumps Marshman for an outside candidate, Wheeler risks creating a problem where none existed. Daryl turner, president of the Portland Police association union, says Wheeler made his pledge during a moment of uncertainty, as the state launched a criminal investigation of o’Dea over the shooting of his friend. But the bureau has stabilized under Marshman, turner says. “We’re going in a good direction. Morale is up, some things that need to be fixed and being fixed. i believe we have the right people in place now.”

SChoolS: three board members face reelection in May. the board was slow to force Smith’s resignation, and it’s likely board members will have no information about a new boss to share with voters before ballots are counted.

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kanpai!: patrons drink Oregon beers at the pDX Taproom, a portland-themed bar in Tokyo that opened in May outfitted with a library of books about portland (below).

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Like a lot of Portlanders, Miyuki Hiramatsu got tired of the corporate grind. After working 13 years at Columbia Sportswear, she wanted to slow things down. Her dream was to run a nice, little pub serving Oregon beer. She calls her place PDX Taproom, and it pours Ninkasi Tricerahops and Breakside IPA while spinning the Decemberists and Dandy Warhols. The bar is decorated with a replica of the Keep Portland Weird wall, a framed swatch of PDX airport carpet and a house copy of Willamette Week’s Beer Guide. The twist? The bar is in Tokyo—and it’s so popular on weekends you need to make a reservation. “I thought my customers would be beer geeks,” Hiramatsu says. “It turns out, they were just people who like Portland.” In Tokyo, Portland is an aspirational brand. There are more than a dozen Portland-themed restaurants, bars and shops in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, a hip neighborhood that’s home to vibrant street fashion and is one of the only two wards in Japan to recognize same-sex marriage. In fact, the frequency of Portland experiences in Tokyo can be dizzying. On a recent trip, on a winding back alley too narrow for cars, a row of teen girls in white pancake makeup and goth baby-doll dresses smoked cigarettes on the curb while slurping Portlandroasted Heart Coffee. Two blocks away, a wall of pencil-skirted women waited an hour for triple-decker pancakes at the Burn Side St. Cafe, where Instagram-ready salads come in Mason jars. H&M Harajuku sells half-tees emblazoned “Portland.” And at Stumptown Boots & Recrafting, decorated with ivy on the walls and home to an

old-time cobbler, Japan-exclusive Danner boots are sheathed in a quilted rainbow of Pendleton wool. The Japanese obsession with Portland shows up in our city as well. While Japanese tourism abroad has dropped by 13 percent in the past three years, visits to Portland are booming. According to statistics tracked by Visa—nearly 60,000 Japanese visited Portland in 2015, an increase of almost 50 percent since 2013. The Mark Spencer Hotel, in Portland’s West End, has expanded from one to four Japanese-speaking staff members in the past decade. Local brewery bus tour company Brewvana runs regular Japanese-language tours. Last October, Toyoko Inn, Japan’s largest hotel chain, finalized plans to open its first U.S. hotel in Portland’s Old Town. One of the best-selling Japanese travel guides last year was about Portland, according to Amazon. As California was once the sun-bleary MIYUKI HIRAMATSU fantasy of every farm kid in Kansas, and Paris the dream of wine-drunk suburbanites, Portland has become the dream life of Tokyo. There, Portland is a kind-hearted place where nature is never far away and everything tastes fresh, where money doesn’t matter and no one can tell you how to live. “Nobody is in a hurry and I have no impression of being rushed,” reads a June 2015 article about Portland in Japanese magazine Fashion Snap. “Of all the places in all the countries I’ve visited, I think I’ve never said ‘hello’ so much. I never saw a serious or frowning face.” SABURO INAGAKI

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“I thought that the interest in Portland would last only a few months. But I have been surprised. It keeps on expanding.” —Daisuke Matsushima K O T S U C H I YA

ooking out onto the patio of his tuckedaway Tokyo cafe, Daisuke Matsushima can’t help but feel a little responsible for Portland’s fashionability with Japanese. A slight-framed, stocking-capped 31-year-old, Matsushima runs Paddlers, the only cafe serving Stumptown Coffee in Japan. He opened it in 2013, and the woodheavy coffee shop serves meticulous French-press beans that were roasted in Portland only three days before. A bulletin board displays Tokyo events related to the Pacific Northwest, including an upcoming visit from folk musician Peter Broderick from Carlton, Ore. Tokyo-born Matsushima moved to Portland when he was 15, graduated from Portland Lutheran School in 2004, and has become an unintentional cultural emissary. Mention a Portland business owner—John Taboada of Navarre, Joshua McFadden of Ava Gene’s, Wille Yli-Luoma of Heart Coffee—and Matsushima will almost invariably refer to him as a “very good friend.” “People come in to ask me for recommendations of where to go in Portland,” he says. “Sometimes they want me to make reservations for them. It’s not really what I do—I run a coffee shop—but I call anyway.” In early 2014, Matsushima pitched Portland to Tokyo magazine Popeye, a cross between a fashion magazine and Vice. “They had made city guides to Los Angeles and New York,” he says. “I said, ‘Why not make a Portland issue?’” In July 2014, Popeye’s guide to Portland was published. It featured the Skidmore Bluffs and twee nooks like artisan candy shop Quin and brunch spot Sweedeedee. “You see Japanese people walking up North Mississippi Street holding Popeye looking for the places in it,” a local official told the Portland Tribune at the time. “Before that came out, I don’t recall, maybe there were 10 people from Japan,” says Dan Sloan of Everybody’s Bike Rentals & Tours, which rented a bike to the Popeye staff. “Now it’s probably about 100.” To many in Portland, it seemed like a fluke moment of fame. Instead, it was only the beginning. Our city was mostly unknown in Japan when the Portland issue came out, says Matsushima, but soon found footing with a small coterie of tastemakers. “I thought that the interest in Portland would last only a few months,” Matushima says. “But I have been surprised. It keeps on expanding.” In the past three years, the Tokyo edition of Elle published a 100-page miniature guidebook to Portland tucked into the centerfold of the magazine. Fashion magazine Brutus also published a guide to Portland. The same year Popeye’s guide dropped, design icon Teruo Kurosaki—who’d begun a Portland-inspired food-cart pod and farmers market in Tokyo the previous year—published a book-length guide to our city titled True Portland, praising what he calls our city’s “future vision,” a confluence of maker culture, ecologically oriented city planning and forward-thinking design. When it came out, True Portland became the best-selling Japanese-language guidebook of any kind on Amazon. All of those fashionable productions had one unlikely thing in common: a distinctly unhip, scruffy-bearded former hippie named Jeff Hammerly, who runs Asian tourism for Travel Portland. Hammerly—praised as a “guru” doing “extraordinary work” by nearly every local official we interviewed— worked in the Japanese TV business for a decade. He says he doesn’t try to tell these Japanese publications what to write. “I’m a middle-aged guy with an expanding waistband,” Hammerly says. “I don’t try to convince anyone what’s cool.” But Hammerly does curate the experience that Japanese media have while they’re here. Travel Portland courts journalists around the globe, often arranging hotel stays, expensing meals and guiding writers on curated

SWIMMING IN STUMPTOWN: Daisuke Matsushima’s Paddlers Coffee is the first spot in Japan to serve Stumptown Coffee. In September 2013, Matsushima organized a pop-up at trendy department store Isetan called “Lifestyle of Portland.”

tours of Portland, taking them out for Swedish brunch, to crafty stores full of used wood, and to a bar that doubles as a laundromat. Hammerly had been chasing Popeye for years before Matsushima’s pitch. “It’s just critical mass,” says Hammerly, who says he got on Popeye’s radar by pitching a tiny lifestyle magazine called Paper Sky. “Popeye reads Paper Sky, and they were here with a team of six in 2011. It’s not wide circulation, but it’s hip.” Hammerly previously had to court Japanese magazines to write Portland-related articles—as with a 2008 piece in the Japanese lifestyle magazine Coyote in which Gus Van Sant listed his 10 favorite Portland spots, and a Wieden+Kennedy exec hung out with ZooBombers. Now, he says, the magazines come to him. The designer Kurosaki approached Hammerly in late 2013 with the idea of making a True Portland guide. The city of Portland put up about $50,000, and Hammerly got local celebrities like chef Gregory Gourdet to write essays. Kurosaki then sent 10 cool, young Japanese out into the city to have fun and take photos. It worked: The first edition sold out its run of 20,000 copies in just a few months. The Portland brand had taken off. “They think of it as a cool, hip, creative mystery box,” Hammerly says. “They don’t know what they’re going to find. Life in Japan is being told what you can’t do. But in Portland, they see young people who are able to wear what they want and build a life free from the limitations put upon them by corporations.” Meanwhile, corporations are getting in on the action. Portland’s Voodoo and Blue Star doughnut chains have announced plans to open a combined 17 locations in Japan—each with more Japanese locations than it has the United States. Nike has a running lab in Tokyo. Columbia Sportswear has 66 outlet stores across the U.S., but now has 32 in Japan. Pendleton plans to open a flagship store in Tokyo later this year.

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And it’s not just the usual suspects: Tiny Kerns restaurant Navarre was licensed by the Japanese twice, the first time in 2014, when a trend-obsessed lifestyle shop went on the hunt for a Portland restaurant to put in its store. “They brought me to their headquarters [in Tokyo],” says Taboada, Navarre’s chef-owner. “The reception area was literally an exact replica of the Ace Hotel. They were very proud of it.” That version of Navarre, which was turned essentially into a hot- and cold-plate cafeteria, did not succeed. But in May 2016, through some of the same partners, a much more faithful version of the restaurant opened again in Tokyo (see page 23 for reviews of Portland restaurants in Tokyo). Japanese businesses have become so eager to bring Portland back to Tokyo that sometimes they just swipe them. After Portland restaurateur Rick Gencarelli visited Japan in advance of opening a location of his Grassa pasta restaurant this fall, he surprised Multnomah Whiskey Library owner Greg Goodman with pictures of Tokyo Whiskey Library on his phone. Tokyo Whiskey Library, run by a Japanese restau-

DIFFERENT BRANCH: The Tokyo Whiskey Library is an eerie, but unaﬃliated echo of famed Portland bar Multnomah Whiskey Library. “But we’ve been many times, they told Portland chef Rick Gencarelli.”

rant group called Edge, opened in October 2016 as a faithful re-creation of the Portland bar, a dark-wood hall of chandeliers, taxidermy, oil paintings and floor-to-ceiling bottle shelves serviced by sliding ladders. But the two libraries are totally unaffiliated. “It’s a compliment they did it, and they’re very nice people,” says Goodman, who visited Tokyo Whiskey Library in December. “I was surprised they didn’t come up with their own name.” The restaurant trade hasn’t been just a one-way street. Portland and Japanese restaurants seem to be in a sort of exchange program, including three hyped Japanese ramen chains opening in Portland in the past two years. Afuri opened a location in Portland, in part, because of the city’s desirable water quality, while Kizuki arrived to claim a beachhead for a planned expansion across the United States. CONT. on page 14

JAPAN-PORTLAND FACT SHEET The first native English speaker to teach the English language in Japan was an Oregonian—Astorian Ranald MacDonald—who quit his job as a banker and arrived uninvited in 1848. From prison, where he was immediately placed, he taught English to the Japanese ambassador who met Commodore Matthew Perry four years later, opening U.S. trade with Japan. MacDonald was returned home, to die in obscurity. Japan is Oregon’s top agricultural trading partner worldwide. Agriculture accounted for 49 percent of the $1.6 billion in exports from Oregon to Japan in 2014. Nearly all foreign wheat consumed in Japan comes from the Paciﬁc Northwest—about half the wheat Japan con-

sumes overall. The next-biggest export is chemicals. Oregon’s famed oysters are almost all of Japanese origin—the Paciﬁc oyster was introduced from Japan in 1918. One hundred forty-three companies from Japan currently have a foothold in the Portland metro area, more than any other country, and employ 7,500 people. Roughly 20 percent of these Japanese firms are suppliers to Intel, and another 20 percent or so are in food processing. Mizuno—the Nike of Japan—opened its design office in Portland. Snow Peak outdoor company has

its only store outside Japan in Portland, while Montbell opened its second American store here.

outlet stores in the United States. Of 11 super-exclusive NikeLab stores worldwide, two are in Tokyo.

Portland is the smallest city in the United States to oﬀer a direct ﬂight to Asia. Delta’s service was begun by Northwest Airlines in 2004 and bought out by Delta in 2008. Portland is the closest destination from Tokyo to the American mainland. Portland had other direct flights to Asia in the ’80s and ’90s, but this ended in part after the 2000 “Deportland” scandal in which a Chinese businesswoman, Guo Liming, was strip-searched by federal immigration authorities. Both Portland-based Standard Insurance and LaCrosse Footwear are owned by Japanese

At least a dozen Japanese lifestyle magazines have published guides to Portland: Coyote, Paper Sky, Popeye, Nice Things, Mono, Spectator, Brutus, Sotokoto, GQ Japan, Kinfolk Japan, Elle Japan and Lighthouse.

companies—Standard by Meiji Yasuda, and LaCrosse, which includes Danner Boots, by ABCMart. Columbia Sportswear has 32 stores across Japan, including 10 in Tokyo alone, compared to 66

Portland restaurants with locations in Japan or on their way there: Blue Star Donuts, Voodoo Doughnut, Navarre, Original Pancake House and Grassa. Portland restaurants that already opened and closed there: Slappy Cakes.

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Oregon’s and Japan’s interest in each other is far from new. It goes back to 1848, when Astorian Ranald MacDonald, who’d heard wild tales of Japan, quit his job and sailed to Nippon to become the country’s first English teacher. Our geographic position as the closest mainland city to Japan made Portland a hub for immigration, and until World War II Portland was home to a thriving Japantown along West Burnside Street. The area was dismantled after the mass internment of Japanese Americans during the war. And in the 1980s—amid a decadelong boom in Japanese chip manufacturers opening plants in Oregon—the Japanese awareness of our state spiked because of a 13-year TV show, From Oregon With Love, about a Japanese teen sent to live in Central Oregon’s high desert. But although more than 140 Japanese companies still do business in Oregon, with more than 7,500 employees, the Japanese economic collapse in the ’90s took most of the chip plants with it. It took a long time for Japan and Portland to find each other again. It also took an earthquake. In 2011, the Pacific coast of Japan was rocked by the fourth most powerful earthquake since modern record-keeping began in 1900. Waves more than 100 feet high smashed into coastal cities. The tsunami caused meltdowns at three reactors of a nuclear power plant. The island of Honshu, where Tokyo sits, was literally unmoored by the quake, migrating 8 feet to the east. “For the last 70 years, Tokyo has been growing like

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Marukin co-owner Hiroshi Kusuda says his company opened two outlets in Portland after enjoying his visits here. “I got the vibe,” says Kusuda, a stout middle-aged man with squared shoulders, sad eyes and an easy laugh. “The westside is very fashion[able]. The eastside is very hippie. I like that. Because I was a hippie, too.”

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“I got the vibe. The eastside is very hippie. I like that. Because I was a hippie, too.” —Hiroshi Kusuda, Marukin founder

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Almost every Portlandy spot in Tokyo is located in just three neighborhoods.

(North of Tokyo)  Elska + Heart Kashiwa-No-Ha SmartCity 14

(West of Tokyo) Nishitokyo Craft Base (Nishitokyo-shi)

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1. Paddlers Coffee (Nishihara, Shibuya-ku) 2. Burn Side St. Cafe (Tōkyō-to, Shibuya-ku) 3. Niketown Harajuku (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 4. Camden's Blue Star Donuts(Daikanyamachō, Shibuya-ku) 5. Columbia Sportswear (Harajuku and Shibuya-ku) 6. Lug Cafe (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 7. Me Me Me Cafe (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 8. Coloso Coffee Tokyo (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 9. Navarre (Shibuya-ku) 10. The Original Pancake House (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 11. Nike Run Club Omotesando (Harajuku, Shibuya-ku) 12. Food Cart Pod and Farmers Market (Shibuya-ku)

13. NikeLab (Ginza) 14. HUB collaborative brewery Nihonbashi Brewery (Nihonbashi)

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1, 5, 9, 12

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NOT SO ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE: The Portland chain opened a Tokyo location amid the pancake trend of 2013. So did Belmont Street’s Slappy Cakes, now closed.

15. Tokyo Whiskey Library (Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku) 16. Brewpub Pacific NW (Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku)

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hell. It’s all about production and high efficiency,” says Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, head of foreign investment at the Portland Development Commission. “But in 2011, the energy shut down, business shut down. They had weeks of not having enough water, not having enough food. Suddenly they realize, ‘Money is not what we’re after. Maybe making the best car isn’t the best thing. Maybe I should enjoy my friends and family.’” Yamazaki, a svelte, suave 41-year-old wearing the unbuttoned collar and power jacket of the new Japanese business class, has literally written the book on the Rose City, a Japanese-language guide to Portland-style city planning titled Portland—Making the Most Livable City in the World, in which he introduces his native country to mixed-use buildings and design review boards. Although it was first published in May 2016, it’s already on its fourth printing. Yamazaki recognizes that Portland’s fashionability is transient, but he believes there are reasons why the city’s popularity will continue in Japan, reasons that have to do with shifts in the Japanese culture. “Japan is in crisis,” he says, “The population is aging, birth rates are low, and Japan has never been a huge fan of immigration. Young Japanese are moving away from small towns, and the social contract of working all your life for one company has become less attractive to the younger generation. Portland presents an alternative.” Our small size is also considered a virtue. “This is not a big town; [Japanese] don’t want to come to big towns—hustling, bustling, busy,” Yamazaki says. “Portland has open spaces, a sense of community. There are people on the streets in downtown, and people say hello to each other. It is a refreshing slower pace—cleaner, greener. There is local craft.” “The people in Portland are very kind,” says Satomi Komazaki, who opened her Brewpub Pacific NW in October in Tokyo, serving beer from the Commons and Culmination alongside Komazaki’s favorite Portland brewery, Coalition. “Kind” or “nice” are the words one most often hears from Japanese describing Portland. “No one thinks they are in competition with each other,” Komazaki says. “I think that’s the Portland spirit. Everybody’s in it together!” Japan is also investing acreage and cash in creating its own

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Potorando. Portland’s reputation for urban planning has become so entrenched that our city was invited to help build a 670-acre eco-city in our own image, in the northern suburbs of Tokyo. The Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, begun in 2011, is the largest ecologically conscious development in all Asia, a $1.5 billion LEED-Platinum megaplex of housing and shopping at the edge of a suburban university. In 2014, Yamazaki persuaded developer Mitsui Fudosan to bring an urban design from our city aboard to put the “Portland touch” on the project by adding green features like bioswales and making street-level buildings inviting to the public. “We told them, ‘A vital street is vital to your town,’” Yamazaki says. “When they saw it in action here in the Pearl, they said, ‘Oh my God, how do you do that? We want to make this entire area like the Pearl!’” Yamazaki and the architects went to the residents of the development’s area in Japan, bringing an artist with a sketchpad. “In Japan, there’s no requirement of public engagement,” Yamazaki says. “We mimic the Portland process. We ask people, ‘What do you really need?’ They say, ‘If there’s a coffee shop, I’ll bring my workers there.’ We draw that in a drawing. It’s something they’ve never experienced.” So far, Smart City developers have completed only a few buildings, like a bookstore and a co-working space, and so the line of construction workers is long at the McDonald’s kiosk. Next to the construction site, a Smart City Museum is dedicated to a city that hasn’t yet been built. On a cold Saturday in December, nearly 3,000 people traveled to a food-cart pod on the southern outskirts of Tokyo, a small collection of tents and trucks on the bricks of a luxury development whose apartments rent for $11,000 a month. They came to “Feel Portland.” Tokyo’s train stations were plastered with ads for the two-day festival, which showed Portland through the eyes of a fit, windbreaker-clad man gazing out on a city bathed in dreamy light. This was among a handful of similar events that

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have occurred in the past three years—the PDC has put together three Portland pop-ups in Tokyo showcasing Portland artisans making recycled dog leashes or organic soap. In 2016, more than 4,000 people came to a Portland event held at a bespoke barge with sails designed by 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium architect Kengo Kuma. At Feel Portland, a plaid-scarfed young Tokyo woman held out both hands to receive a creme brulee doughnut from a Blue Star cart next to a display of Steven Smith tea. Her boyfriend sipped an IPA tallboy from tiny Portland brewery Ex Novo, whose beer you can’t even find in Idaho. Feel Portland was created to showcase Columbia Sportswear’s new heat lamp, which was installed in a huge tent. But Columbia Japan’s Makoto Mizukami says he couldn’t just have an event for the lamp: “No one would come. People want to sample Portland—Portland food, Portland beers, all together.” Columbia has been aggressive and creative in promoting its Portland identity. On Japanese station TV Tokyo, the footwear and apparel company has sponsored “Portland Life,” a curious series of five-minute segments about real Portlanders who live in idyllic balance between life and nature. Portland-via-New Yorkvia-California folk musician Robin Bacior goes running. An upholsterer named Leland Duck goes fishing. Portland continues to promote itself as home to quirk and freedom, including a Japanese ad campaign

launched last September by Travel Portland depicting our city’s mascot as a huggable blue Sasquatch named Mr. Dude. How long will the love affair with Portland last? The PDC’s Yamazaki believes the appeal of Portland has spread beyond tastemakers to “regular people.” As proof, he points to a Portland-themed issue of a Japanese magazine promoting life in small rural cities. “A 19-year-old college kid called my office,” says Yamazaki. “She asked me, “How do I live in Portland? This is where I want to spend the rest of my life.” Matsushima, the coffee shop owner, says Japan’s ideas of Portland were always unrealistic. “They see the nice food, the restaurants, the coffee. Everything is clean,” he says. “I’ve seen the other side of Portland. I had friends who were skateboarders; everybody had crappy little apartments and drank cheap beer. They don’t see that side of the city. Nobody lives like the people in Kinfolk magazine.” Yayoi Yamamoto, a local consultant for Japanese businesses, believes the trend will pass as the Japanese people MR. DUDE realize Portland does not live up to their utopian ideals. “Japan’s image of Portland now is still stuck in the Portland of 2014,” she says. “It is still cool. But it’s not weird anymore. Japan is always on the hunt for what’s new and popular, and then they move on to the next thing. So next year it will be Europe maybe. Or Denmark.” Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

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WHERE TO HAVE FUN WHEN IT’S FREEZING OUTSIDE.

This ain’t hiking weather. Instead of braving the frigid winds and endless drizzle, why not get some postironic photos for your ’gram. Here are five actually fun inside activities to do in Portland. SOPHIA JUNE and WALKER MACMURDO. OAKS PARK ROLLER RINK

Glowing Greens

509 SW Taylor St., 503-222-5554, glowinggreens.com. Noon-9 pm Sunday-Thursday, noon-11 pm FridaySaturday. $11.50. What do you expect to see in the middle of downtown in a semi-large American city? A marble fountain outside the headquarters of an insurance company? Sure. A Hilton? Yurp! How about a pirate-themed, glow-in-the-dark mini-golf course in that Hilton’s basement? Welcome to Old Portland! At Glowing Greens, you’ll enter through an inauspicious side door that may or may not be manned by a skeletal pirate, from which you’ll descend into a world of swashbucklers, zombies, mermaids, zombified mermaids and just about every other creature or theme you would think appropriate for a mini-golf course awash in the soft glow of ultraviolet light and the sound of pulsating EDM. With nary a craft beer or fancy pizza in sight, but novelty souvenirs for a dollar or two aplenty, Glowing Greens feels like a throwback to preteen years when fun was measured in holes-in-one and birdies. WM.

Oaks Park Roller Rink

7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 503-233-5777, oakspark.com. Hours vary (check website). $6.50-$7.50 admission, $2-$5 skate rental. You might be slightly cuter than you were in seventh grade, but that roller rink is exactly the same, and that’s for the best. It’s still got that unique odor, the Wurlitzer pipe organ that’s been there since 1955, plenty of tan skates with bright-orange laces, and the largest artistic skating team in the nation. There’s nothing more postironic than roller skating and claiming, “THIS IS THE BEST PLACE EVER!” and “WHY DO WE NEVER COME HERE?” That is, until you partake in the roller karaoke. SJ. CHLOE FRANCE

3031 SE Powell Blvd., 503-234-0237, amf.com. Noonmidnight Monday-Thursday, 10 am-1 am FridaySaturday, 10 am-11 pm Sunday. $2.50-$5.49. The secret’s out on this one: On a Tuesday night, we waited 30 minutes for a lane at one of the city’s old bowling alleys. From the outside, AMF Pro 300 Lanes looks as divey as the rest of post-Wendy’s Powell Boulevard. But on the inside, the alley is a world of its own. It has the nostalgic, small-town feeling of a place where you run into people you know and rent smelly bowling shoes, but it’s also a bit like walking into Century Bar. Everything is shiny, somehow. There’s a Portland Metal bowling league, a huge bar in the back serving pitchers of Hopworks, and everyone dresses really, really hip. SJ.

Lloyd Center Ice Rink

953 Lloyd Center, 503-288-6073, lloydcenterice.com. Hours vary (check website). $13-$15 admission, $4 skate rental. I first went to the Lloyd Center ice rink in 1999 for a 6th birthday party. Sixteen years later, some things are different. There’s a Christmas tree in the center of the new rink, which is now a circle. The sky bridges are gone. There’s an H&M. The skates seem nicer. There’s fake snow falling. The only things that were the same: I fell a lot and Michelle Kwan is somehow still relevant. But the biggest difference was the large crowd at Lloyd Center. Despite it being the best shopping mall in the city, my last few visits were bleak at best. It’s good to have the old Lloyd back—and in this HENRY CROMETT

AMF Pro 300 Lanes

case, the new ice rink helps return it to the bustling, hurried days when you dodged people just to get an All American Frozen Yogurt. SJ.

QuarterWorld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-548-2923, quarterworldarcade.com. 3 pm-1 am Tuesday-Friday, noon-1 am Saturday-Sunday. $3 for day pass. All ages until 8 pm. Tired of coughing up quarters to play Battletoads until you’re blue in the face with frustration? At QuarterWorld, there’s an app for that. Because unmitigated smartphone-assisted access to kitschy cabinets like Tapper and Joust is exactly what the eastside deserves, considering how cramped Ground Kontrol can get on the weekends. Housed in the old Alhambra Theatre, QuarterWorld is a roomy dreamland for retro-game LLOYD CENTER ICE RINK enthusiasts, pinball snobs and hipster dads who will plan family outings here under the ruse of working on the kiddo’s hand-eye skills with a rousing game of The House of the Dead 2. And the bao buns and poutine are a huge upgrade over the soggy pizza and fries you’d find at other arcades. PETE COTTELL.

Pips & Bounce

833 SE Belmont St., 503-928-4664, pipsandbounce.com. 3 pm-midnight Monday-Thursday, 3 pm-1 am Friday, noon-1 am Saturday, noon-10 pm Sunday. $15 for 30 minutes (walk-in), $49 for hour (reservation). All ages until 9 pm (Sunday-Thursday) and 7 pm (Friday-Saturday). You’re an adult: You want to blow off steam with your well-adjusted co-workers. Or maybe you’re looking for some structured activity in a central spot for a Bumble date. Pips & Bounce offers just that by way of pingpong, throwing in craft beer and fancy pizza for good measure. It opens in the afternoon, but to truly capture the magical throwback to the ice-cream cake and Hot Pocket-stuffed days of your youth, you’ll want to visit on Friday and Saturday evenings, when black lights give off the glow of your stoner friend’s basement. WM.

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B I T E - S I Z E D P O RT L A N D C U LT U R E N E W S

JOHNNY SIX-TAPS: The landmark John’s Marketplace on Southwest Multnomah Boulevard will soon add an in-house bar. The shop, home to more than 1,000 beers and ciders, as well as kegs of virtually every major brew in the region, is getting six taps, including one nitro, of rare and one-oﬀ beers you can’t ﬁnd in a bottle, says co-owner Robert Petros. “We’re trying to be very selective,” he says. “There’s a lot of beer that’s not available in packages. We used to have taps 12 to 15 years ago.” There will be six barstools, and Petros says seating in John’s sandwich shop will accommodate up to 40 people.

Fix it!

NEVERMORE: Only four months after its second rebranding in little more than a year, the bar and music venue known as The Raven—formerly Panic Room Caution: High Volume Bar and, before that, Tonic Lounge—closed suddenly last week. Under different guises, the bar has been an institution on Northeast Sandy Boulevard for 30 years. In 2015, owner Rod Bitton subjected the club to a makeover by Bar Rescue’s Jon Taffer, who gave the then-Tonic Lounge a hokey apocalypse theme and rechristened it Panic Room. A year later, the bar abruptly changed to the Raven, becoming a hub for extreme metal and electronic dance nights. Shortly after the new year, DJ Richie Staxx posted on Facebook that he was being forced to find a new venue for his weekly House Call party since the club would “no longer be serving booze and the doors will be closing.” Booker Chris Trumpower, who also books the High Water Mark Lounge, confirmed the Raven’s closure in an email, but declined to offer details.

Maloy's offers a fabulous selection of antique and estate jewelry and fine custom jewelry, as well as repair and restoration services.

MILANBOERS

BYE, BYE BELMONT: The Southeast Belmont Street location of locally owned Zupan’s Markets will close after a 20-year run Jan. 22, as the store’s lease expires at the end of the month. This will leave three locations for the upscale grocer: West Burnside Street, Southwest Macadam Avenue, and Lake Oswego. Zupan’s locations once stretched as far as Battleground, Wash., and McMinnville. But Belmont will not be without a chichi local grocer for long. A Eugene-based Market of Choice is expected to open this year in the Goat Blocks development at Southeast 10th Avenue, alongside an Orchard Supply Hardware store.

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FINS OUT: It appears 2017 already has its own Harambe. Tilikum—the whale best known for his starring role in the 2013 documentary Blackﬁsh, as well as for sharing a name with Portland’s newest bridge—died Jan. 6. He was estimated to be 36 years old. The whale was captured in 1983 and transferred to SeaWorld Orlando in 1992. During his captivity, Tilikum entertained thousands and killed three. In a statement, SeaWorld wrote that while “the oﬃcial cause of death will not be determined until the necropsy is completed, the SeaWorld veterinarians were treating a persistent and complicated bacterial lung infection.” May Tilikum rest in peace.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11

Blazers vs. Cavaliers

Stand Up for Don’t Shoot PDX Local comic Andie Main specializes in

Our poor Blazers are likely to be heading for a beatdown at the hands of the Cleveland LeBrons, but look at it this way: Between Kevin Love, who played high school ball in Lake Oswego, and Channing Frye, who married a girl from Tualatin, the Cavs are basically Portland East. We can’t lose! Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., nba.com/ blazers. 7:30 pm. $59-$213.

producing comedy shows tied to popular causes (Bernie, Standing Rock). This fundraiser for Don’t Shoot Portland will feature Whitney Streed, Jake Silberman and others. It’s not marching, but it’s also not typing, and there are drinks. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., curiouscomedy.org. 7:30 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

THURSDAY, JAN. 12

Piﬀ the Magic Dragon

Pfriem Takes Over Loyal Legion

Piff the Magic Dragon’s ascent to the finals of America’s Got Talent has a lot to do with his wry, self-deprecating everydude charm. Whether or not he’s a functional magician is up for debate, but the odd comfort surrounding his underwhelming attempts at wowing audiences is the perfect setup for dry, offbeat humor. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy.com. $20-$24. Through Jan. 15. 21+.

Only in our wildest dreams would Pfriem Family Brewers have enough offerings to take over Loyal Legion’s 99 taps. Today it’s just 30, but that’s still an admirable feat not even possible at Pfriem’s beloved Hood River taproom. Loyal Legion, 710 SE 6th Ave., loyallegionpdx.com. Through Jan. 15.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Summer Cannibals

Get Busy

If rock ’n’ roll is dead, Summer Cannibals are doing a fantastic job reanimating its corpse. With heavy riffs, snarling ’tude and a sprinkle of melodic sugar, the band’s been one of Portland’s most popular for four years, and tonight’s show is its biggest headlining gig yet. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., wonderballroom.com. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT JANUARY 11-17

Cocksucker Blues

The annual Reel Music festival kicks off with an uber-rare screening of Robert Frank’s chronicle of the Rolling Stones’ debaucherous 1972 tour. Together with Olé! Olé! Olé!, a documentary on the Stones’ 2016 trek across Latin America showing the next day, what was once a voyeuristic cautionary tale is now a testament to the life-sustaining properties of cocaine. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 934 SW Salmon St., nwfilmcenter.org. 7 pm. $12.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Girl Fest 2017

With President Gropes-a-Lot about to take office, amplifying the voices of women artists is even more important. Tonight’s annual local showcase highlights some of Portland’s most promising female musicians, including razor-sharp rapper Karma Rivera, jazz visionary Coco Columbia, intense folk singer Haley Heyndrickx and others. Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 7 pm. $8. All ages.

Rose City Rollers Season Opener

Roller derby triumphantly returns for its 12th season in Portland, offering a fun alternative to a night at home wishing the Winterhawks or Blazers were in action. This double-header, featuring a rematch of last year’s championship matchup between the High Rollers and the Guns N Rollers, is guaranteed to get wild. Oaks Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, rosecityrollers.com. 6 pm. $18-$24. All ages.

SUNDAY, JAN. 15 Chrome

Skipping Bedtime: A Dance Party for Parents and Other Tired People

One of the true extremists of the early punk era, San Francisco’s Chrome specialized in ear-bleeding noise with a mechanical pulse that presaged industrial music. Decades and many lineup changes later, the band still manages to induce euphoria and tinnitus in equal measure. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., startheaterportland.com. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Olds are people, too. They enjoy going out and getting down once in a while—just at a reasonable hour. This evening, DJ Paul Donald starts spinning early enough that you can shake your exhausted ass and get home in time for a nightcap of oatmeal and King of Queens reruns. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., holocene.org. 6 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, JAN. 16 How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety

Author Zachary Auburn created the perfect moral trapdoor with last year’s How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety, and at exactly the right moment. As political tensions mounted, Auburn created a unique and sublimely boneheaded angle of poking fun at the supposed moral high ground of the right, all while incorporating the most memeworthy species to walk the earth. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.

MLK Rally and March

A day on the slopes is an acceptable and normal way to spend this national holiday, but there’s a lot of work to be done back in the real world. Join other Portlanders who share the great doctor’s dream of peace and love by marching through the city in peaceful protest of a world that’s about to become a whole lot scarier in a matter of weeks. Glenhaven Park, Northeast 82nd Avenue and Siskiyou Street, 503-823-7529. 11 am-2 pm.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 Ramen Shop Pop-Up

Had all the best ramen in Portland already? Well, have Oakland's best ramen instead. The ridiculously loved and lauded Ramen Shop will be popping up at Han Oak with a three-course Japanese dinner with pickles, smoked black cod salad and, yes, ramen in three fancy, fancy varieties, including veggie. Tickets available for 6, 6:30, 8 and 8:30 pm seatings. Han Oak, 511 NE 24th Ave., hanoakpdx.com. $45.

Animal House

Like the frat-house philosophers that populate these films, I pontificate that the more goofy college comedies change, the more they stay the same. Animal House defined the antics, babes and beers paradigm, and this founding document of broing down holds up decades later. Thank you, God! Laurelhurst Theater, 2735 E Burnside St., laurelhursttheater.com, Jan. 13-19. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

FOOD & DRINK

Shandong www.shandongportland.com

YO U R LY K E E W PERK

Fillmore Trattoria

By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

THURSDAY, JAN. 12 Fantasia 2017 Release

So often, a “bottle release” is a fake event—the 50th IPA from bupkis brewing, or last year’s mediocre doppelbock, because winter. But at Upright, if they bring back a seasonal—like the Flora Rustica, or this, the beautiful barrel-fermented Fantasia aged with peaches, it’s because it’s amazing. They only take cash, but it’s also $20 and it’ll probably just cost more somewhere where they take a card. Suck it up. Upright Brewing, 240 N Broadway, No. 2, 503-735-5337. 5-9 pm.

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Everybody knows bourbon and bacon go together—just like Country Financial and Woodford Reserve, the event sponsors! Because what good is auto insurance without bourbon? General admission’s sold out; if you want 15 bourbon and bacon pairings, you’re paying the $60 VIP price. Tix at portland.bourbonandbaconfest.com. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000. 6-10 pm. $60. 21+.

MONDAY, JAN. 16 Ramen Shop Pop-Up

Bourbon and Bacon Fest

Had all the best ramen in Portland already? Well, have Oakland’s best ramen instead. The ridiculously loved and lauded Ramen Shop will be popping up at Han Oak with a three-course Japanese dinner with pickles, smoked black cod salad and, yes, ramen in three fancy, fancy varieties: mustard green-y tonkotsu, miso with Dungeness crab, and veggie with multiple varieties of mushroom. Tickets are available for 6, 6:30, 8 and 8:30 pm seatings. Han Oak, 511 NE 24th Ave., 971-255-0032, hanoakpdx. com. 6-10:30 pm. $45.

1. Rue

literally and ﬁguratively towers over the competition. Whoever ﬁgured out that coconut oil can be used as Magic Shell deserves a Nobel Prize. $.

Hey! A bourbon and bacon festival! At a science museum!

Tuesday–Saturday 5:30PM–10PM closed Sunday & Monday

(971) 386-5935

Highly recommended.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14

Italian Home Cooking

1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

= WW Pick.

1005 SE Ankeny St., 503-231-3748, ruepdx.com. Starting the end of December, Rue just kicked oﬀ one hell of an oyster happy hour before 6 pm and after 9 pm daily—with $1 oysters, beautifully crisped panisse and one of the best drinks in town: a killer $8 gin and tonic goosed with apple brandy and Bonal. $-$$$.

2. Taqueria Nueve

727 SW Washington St., 503-954-1987, taquerianueve.com. After an oﬀ visit this summer, a recent visit found T9 in top form, with bright salsas and soul-warming corn tortillas topped with achingly tender carnitas. Stop by. $.

3. Kiva Cafe and Spa

1533 NW 24th Ave., kivateaspa.com. The Summer Breeze acai bowl here

4. Duck House

1968 SW 5th Ave., 971-801-8888. Jasper Shen’s soup dumpling spot XLB will be coming soon to North Portland—but for now, take heart that you can get good Shanghai soup dumplings downtown at new Chinese spot Duck House. $.

5. Afuri Ramen

923 SE 7th Ave., 503-468-5001, afuri.us. The new Afuri space is ridiculously impressive—and so is the ramen. The shio yuzu broth is the purest distillation of chicken and ﬁsh, the shoyu is deeper than Mishima, and that shiitake broth as rich as most meat broths. Pair them with sake from a very deep list. $$-$$$.

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Japanese brewing is still pretty touch and go, but Ise Kadoya is one of the two Japanese breweries I’ll seek out on any tap list, alongside Shiga Kogen. Last year, the brewers from the town of Ise toured Oregon on a three-day hop-finding mission—Japanese hops are super-expensive, apparently—and on the fourth day, they brewed. Teaming up with Portland’s Culmination Brewing, Ise Kadoya pitched some yeast harvested from pine trees at Ise’s Grand Shinto Shrine garden to make a lovely sour farmhouse wit called Amataseru, using yuzu citrus. Now Culmination has made another beer with that same monky yeast, which only Culmination and Ise Kadoya are allowed to use. Oregon Kara Sakura—“From Oregon, With Cherry Blossoms,” an homage to a popular Japanese TV show from the ’80s called From Oregon, With Love—is a special Japanese export release for Valentine’s Day, the day in Japan when women give gifts to men. A guy should be so lucky. The delicately floral bottle houses a dark-pink beer of equal delicacy, a pillowy cherry wit made with rose hips. It’s softly sweet and only a little tart, with elegantly subtle spice from the yeast. Most of the beer is going to Japan, but you can pick up a limited number of bottles at the brewery Jan. 11. Do so. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

SABURO INAGAKI; HENRY CROMETT

We went to Japan!

TOKYO WHISKY LIBRARY

CAMDEN’S BLUE STAR DONUTS IN SHIBUYA

Here and There

WE VISITED PORTLAND-FOUNDED SPOTS OPENED IN TOKYO (AND ONE TOKYO SPOT OPENED IN PORTLAND) TO SEE HOW THEY STACK UP. CAMDEN’S BLUE STAR

Daikanyama, Shibuya Camden’s Blue Star Portland: Micah Camden, founder of Little Big Burger, opens a fancy doughnut shop with super-mega-frosted luxury $3.50 doughnuts and, briefly, doughnuts with fried chicken atop them. Camden’s Blue Star Tokyo: In Tokyo, Camden’s Blue Star exists on something called the “log road.” The log road is made entirely of wood and is tucked behind the actual road where cars go. For whatever, reason Google Maps believes the luxury doughnut shop is located inside the live-work building that’s also home to the Tokyo office of Portland’s Will Leather. Only women buy doughnuts inside Camden’s Blue Star, which is located to one side of a cookware, spice and souvenir shop in the Fred Segal store. Next to doughnuts, it sells sundry items all bearing the unlikely truth that “Fred Segal Loves You.” But you know what? Blue Star doughnuts in Tokyo are simply better than the American ones—less frosted, a little less sweet and a little more delicate, from perfect Cointreau-injected creme brulee just crisped on top to a holiday special apple cream cheese that comes with a little slice of fresh apple. But it’s hard not to empathize with the elderly Japanese woman that Portlander Yayoi Yamamoto spoke to at the Blue Star opening in Osaka: “Why would I pay $4 for a doughnut?” she asked.

NAVARRE

Aoyama, Shibuya Navarre Portland: In Portland’s Kerns neighborhood, Navarre is a tiny, lovely, locally focused, farm-centric spot whose many jars of preserves make it look like a home kitchen. There, it serves trademark Spanish-influenced potato dishes alongside tasteful seasonal plates, accompanied by Oregon natural wines chosen according to the particular tastes of chef John Taboada—especially rarities like whole bottles of cult-favorite Minimus, say, or wines from Cameron and Bow & Arrow.

Navarre Tokyo: In Tokyo it is also like this, but the potatoes come with octopus and spicy mayo and are wonderful.

ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE

Harajuku, Shibuya OPH Portland: Classic James Beard-winning home of Dutch babies and old people. OPH Tokyo: My God, the eighth-floor Original Pancake House in Harajuku is almost classy—a place for affluent, slender women between the ages of 15 and 25 to eat pancakes with strawberries on top—the last Portland remnant of the trendy “pancake culture” that first took hold four years ago. (The Tokyo Slappy Cakes has closed.) If men are here, they are arm candy. The sole white person in the room—which is decorated with Portland guidebooks and a house copy of Kinfolk—is —is a silver fox with rumpled khakis who looked as if he fell off a yacht. Sounding for all the world like Dick Van Dyke, he tells his brunch date that “the reality of Portland is that it’s kind of scummy.” This statement seems to alarm her. In the meantime, I receive a Dutch baby filled with salmon, shrimp, avocado and—God help me—some of the loveliest radicchio I’ve had in some time, all piled perplexingly into a Dutch batter that remains just as achingly buttery as at the hometown original.

TOKYO WHISKEY LIBRARY

Minami-Aoyama, Minato Multnomah Whiskey Library Portland: Luxuriant fireplaced, chandeliered hall of portraits and lit-up racks of countless (OK, 1,500) bottles, with rare bottles and sophisticated cocktails—guarded by a doorman, with reserved seating for members and so many people waiting in line. Tokyo Whiskey Library: Many-chandeliered, old-timey

NAVARRE TOKYO

Tokyo Whiskey Library may share a name with Portland’s Multnomah Whiskey Library, and it may look a whole hell of a lot like it, with brick walls and dark wood and lit-up library shelving filled with countless bottles. But there’s no relation, Multnomah owner Greg Goodman says. “It’s a compliment they did it, and they’re very nice people,” Goodman says. “I was surprised they didn’t come up with their own name.” You enter Tokyo’s Library through a second-floor door disguised as a bookcase. The cocktail list is a rudimentary grouping of Negronis and Manhattans, but gracious bartender Kengo Oda—elegant in his Prohibition vest aside from brass “Tequila Master” and “Whiskey Master” flair—recommends Japan’s very first whiskey, an elegant and lightly smoky Taketsuru, along with equally elegant cold-smoked grapes. Oda is disturbed, however, to hear that the Multnomah branch of the Library has 1,500 bottles. He has a mere 1,200.

MARUKIN

Ebisu, Shibuya Marukin Portland: Counter-service spot serving the city’s best tonkotsu broth with Carlton Farms pork—a delicate, light, lively balance. Marukin Tokyo: I meet Marukin founder Hiroshi Kusuda at his Ebisu location of Marukin to discover a world of soups to look forward to in Portland, at a little elbow-bar space only two doors down from Kukai Ebisu (known in Beaverton as Kizuki). More than 20 years old, Marukin in Tokyo isn’t trendy. It’s a standby comfort—an old-school Hokkaido-style pork broth spot that warms the heart, with eight locations around town. The tonkotsu at the Tokyo Marukin uses Japanese pork, of course, and the result is a smokier depth when compared to the equally lovely delicacy of Portland’s Carlton Farms version. And lo and behold, Marukin Ebisu has both abura (oily) ramen and dense-brothed dipping ramen (tsukemen), not to mention a different thickness of noodle for each type of soup, including a fully pork-brothed shoyu I prefer to the American chicken-pork shoyu broth. But I leave feeling pretty damn good, nonetheless, about Portland’s Marukin, even though I can still fondly call up the smoke from that Japanese pork. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

Saturday, January 14, 6:45 pm A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story, US, 2016

Mali Blues 90

I Am the Blues

dir. Keith Maitland (97 mins., Americana, DCP)

A behind the scenes look at 40 years of presenting great American music on television.

Saturday, January 14, 9 pm The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! A Trip Across Latin America, UK, 2016

dir. Paul Dugdale (105 mins., Old guys still rockin’, DCP) An inside look at the Rolling Stones on tour across South and Central America in 2016, culminating in Havana.

Sunday, January 15, 4:30 pm King of Jazz, US, 1930

dir. John Murray Anderson (98 mins., Classic musical, DCP)

Newly restored, this long-forgotten musical revue stars Bing Crosby, music by George Gershwin, and spectacular production numbers.

Sunday, January 15, 7 pm I Called Him Morgan, Sweden/US, 2016 dir. Kasper Collin (93 mins., Jazz, DCP)

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, the tragic story of trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.

Tuesday, January 17, 7 pm, Skype Live Studio NW Music Video Showcase, Oregon/ Washington dir. Various (90 mins., Music videos, Digital)

Music video making thrives in the Northwest as this showcase of new collaborations by bands and directors working in Portland, Seattle, and Olympia attest. Complete program listing at nwfilm.org; Screening at Skype Live Studio. Admission is free.

Tuesday, January 17, 7 pm 78RPM, US, 2015

dir. Joel Schlemowitz (98 mins., Documentary, Digital) A fond paean to lovers of the 1920s era: the gramophone, 78 records, and devotees of flapper and steam punk culture.

Wednesday, January 18, 7 pm The Devil’s Horn, Canada, 2015

dir. Larry Weinstein (85 mins., Jazz saxophone, DCP)

The story of the saxophone, including its longstanding curse and the supposed dark powers that have haunted generations of musicians.

Contemporary Color

Thursday, January 19, 7 pm A Poem Is a Naked Person, US, 1974

dir. Les Blank with Maureen Gosling (90 mins., Documentary, DCP)

Singer-songwriter Leon Russell and friends captured during 1972-74 at Russell’s Oklahoma studio.

Friday, January 20, 7 pm Two Trains Runnin’, US, 2015

dir. Sam Pollard (80 mins., Documentary, DCP)

The search for blues singers Son House and Ship James in 1964 collide with the realities of civil rights activism during Freedom Summer.

Friday, January 20, 9 pm Gregory Porter Don’t Forget Your Music,

UK, 2016 dir. Alfred George Bailey (90 mins., Documentary, DCP)

Saturday, January 21, 4:30 pm Mali Blues, Germany, 2016

dir. Lutz Gregor (93 mins., Documentary, Digital)

Reel Music Welcome to our 34th annual edition of Reel Music. We’ve been on the lookout all year for new works—and timely classics—to feature in our annual celebration of sound, music, and image. Whether your passion is jazz, blues, rock, soul, opera, classical, avant-garde—or anything in between—we hope you find something to discover and inspire you in this eclectic mix of the familiar and unknown. As always, our special thanks go to Music Millennium, Willamette Week, KINK.fm, Music Fest NW, All Classical Portland, BIAMP PDX Jazz, XRAY.FM, KBOO, PDX Pipeline, and Oregon Music News.

Friday, January 13, 7 pm Cocksucker Blues, US, 1972

Malian singer and actress Fatoumata Diawara leads a musical journey through a country whose music culture is under threat by Islamic fundamentalists.

The Devil’s Horn

Saturday, January 21, 7 pm Contemporary Color, US, 2016

dir. Bill Ross, Turner Ross (96 mins., Color guard, DCP) David Byrne orchestrates a one-of-a-kind color guard extravaganza accompanied by Nelly Furtado, St. Vincent, and a host of performers.

dir. Robert Frank, Danny Seymour (93 mins., Bad boys, Digibeta) Special Admission $12; Silver Screen members $10. No NWFC comp admission tickets. Cocksucker Blues is © Robert Frank, 1972, distributed by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Saturday, January 21, 9 pm One More Time with Feeling, UK, 2016

dir. Andrew Dominick (112 mins., Documentary, DCP)

The best Rolling Stones movie you’ve never seen.

The creation and recording of Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s 16th album Skeleton Tree.

Saturday, January 14, 4:30 pm The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith,

Sunday, Jan 22, 7 pm Bang! The Bert Berns Story, US, 2015

From 1957-1965 one man made it his mission to document the freewheeling jam sessions by some of New York’s elite jazz musicians in the loft next door.

He may not be a household name, but the songwriter and producer was behind such classics as “Piece of My Heart,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Twist and Shout,” launched the careers of Van Morrison and Neil Diamond, started two record labels, and much more.

US, 2015 dir. Sara Fishko (88 mins., Documentary, DCP)

dir. Bob Sarles (95 mins., ’60s songwriter, DCP)

Cocksucker Blues

Sunday, February 5, 4:30 pm Arvo Pärt: Even if I Lose Everything,

Like such fellow greats as Sam Cooke and Ray Charles, Bland mixed gospel, blues, and R&B with big-band backing to fashion his own sophisticated style of telling stories of love and betrayal.

Pianist Fred Hersch has overcome near death from AIDS to become one of the most brilliant and influential voices in jazz.

An intimate portrait of minimalist Norwegian composer and his philosophy of life.

Wednesday, February 1, 7 pm Cinesonika: Celebrating the Soundtrack

Sunday, February 5, 6:30 pm Gangbé!, Switzerland, 2015

A showcase of new experimental media exploring sound-image relationships.

Benin’s Gangbé Brass Band bring their effervescent, high-energy brand of Afrobeat to Lagos, Nigeria to perform with Femi Kuti.

UK, 2009 dir. Paul Spencer (60 mins. Documentary, DCP)

The remarkable story of the life and career of Jazz singer and songwriter Gregory Porter, from humble beginnings to international stardom.

JANUARY 13 – FEBRUARY 5

Sunday, January 29, 7 pm Tuesday, January 24, 7 pm Bobby Blue Bland: Two Steps from the Blues, The Ballad of Fred Hersch, US, 2016

with

Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street,

UK, 2013 dir. James Maycock (60 mins., Documentary, DCP)

“Soul-music genius Bobby Womack had talent to burn—and he burned it.”—Rolling Stone.

Wednesday, January 25, 7 pm Saturday, February 4, 9 pm Mose Allison: Ever Since I Stole the Blues,

UK, 2005 dir. Paul Bernays (60 mins., Documentary, Digital)

Van Morrison, Pete Townshend, and a host of musicians pay tribute to the singer and pianist from Mississippi known as the “jazz sage.” double feature

Wednesday, January 25, 8:15 pm How Sweet the Sound—The Blind Boys of Alabama, US, 2015

dir. Charlotte Lagarde, Carrie Lozano (74 mins., Jazz, DCP)

dir. Various (80 mins, Experimental, Digital)

Friday, February 3, 7 pm I Am the Blues, Canada, 2015

dir. Daniel Cross (106 mins., Mississippi blues, DCP)

A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou and the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta to hear the last of the original generation of blues singers.

Saturday, February 4, 4:30 pm Pianists Street, Argentina, 2015

dir. Mariano Nante (85 mins., Classical, DCP)

Estonia, 2015 dir. Dorian Supin (90 mins., Documentary, DCP)

dir. Arnaud Robert (58 mins., Documentary, Digital)

with

Sunday, February 5, 7:30 pm Yallah! Underground, Czech Republic/

Germany/UK/Egypt/US 2015 dir. Farid Eslam (85 mins., Documentary, Digital)

A chronicles of a young generation of liberal Arab musicians and visual artists who are melding the traditions of their past with the styles, sounds, and technologies of today. Hired Gun

On a small street in Brussels, generations of piano prodigies continue to search for perfection.

Saturday, February 4, 7 pm A portrait drawn from ten years on the road with these enduring gospel I Go Back Home—Jimmy Scott,

dir. Leslie McCleave (89 mins., Gospel, DCP) greats.

Friday, January 27, 7 pm Vince Giordano: There’s a Future in the Past, US, 2016 dir. Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards (90 mins., Documentary, Digital).

New York band-leader Vince Giordano has kept the sounds of the past alive for 40 years, adding authenticity to the films of Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and dozens of others,

Saturday, January 28, 7 pm Blackhearts, Norway, 2016

dir. Fredrik Horn Akselsen, Christian Falch (83 mins., Documentary, Digital)

Germany/Korea/US, 2016 dir. Yoon-Ha Chang (99 mins., Jazz, DCP)

Jazz legend Jimmy Scott makes his last recordings at age 85. with

Saturday, February 4, 9 pm Mose Allison: Ever Since I Stole the Blues, UK,

2005 dir. Paul Bernays (60 mins., Documentary, Digital)

Van Morrison, Pete Townshend, and a host of musicians pay tribute to the singer and pianist from Mississippi known as the “jazz sage.” One More Time with Feeling

Black metal diehards come from cultures all over the world, but they all want to play in and be a part of Norway’s notorious music scene.

Saturday, January 28, 9 pm Hired Gun, US, 2016

dir. Fran Strine (90 mins., Rock sidemen, DCP)

Strine’s rousing and entertaining film introduces some of the littleknown background musicians that backup everyone from Billy Joel to Alice Cooper to P!NK.

Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street

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MUSIC FEATURE

Seeing Sounds

A LOOK AT THE LOCAL MUSIC VIDEOS SCREENING AT THIS YEAR’S REEL MUSIC FESTIVAL. BY M AT T H E W S I N G E R

msinger@wweek.com

You can’t have a music-themed film festival without showing some music videos. NW Film Center’s annual Reel Music Festival kicks off this week, and while the documentary lineup is typically stellar (see sidebar), organizers made room for the little guys. On Tuesday, Jan. 17, there will be a showcase of videos by directors from across the Pacific Northwest, many from Oregon. We’ve previewed a few—mainly the ones from Portland artists—below.

Palehound, “Molly”

White Fang, “Drugs I’ve Taken” Director: Nesto Synopsis: Local burnouts do drugs with an odd group of older strangers. Things quickly go awry. Crucial moment: One member of the band wakes up to find his face being eaten by a guy dressed like Colonel Sanders. Key YouTube comment: “well now I don’t have to take that ayahuasca trip I was planning.”

Director: Lara Jean Gallagher and Brian Kinkley Synopsis: A woman eats a sentient egg sandwich, proceeds to trip balls. Crucial moment: When the fried egg’s life flashes before his big, googly eyes—and it’s mostly made up of grainy public domain footage. Key YouTube comment: “Resisting the urge to write ‘eggscellent” and oh shit I did it anyways.”

THE FIVE

MUST-SEE FILMS OF REEL MUSIC 2017

Cocksucker Blues

Robert Frank’s chronicle of the Rolling Stones’ debaucherous 1972 tour is so notorious that there are legal restrictions on when and how it can be shown. But considering the Stones are somehow still alive and chickenwalking—a documentary on the band’s 2016 trek across Latin America screens the next day—what was once a voyeuristic cautionary tale is now a testament to the life-sustaining properties of groupies and cocaine. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 13.

The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

Muscle and Marrow, “Ritual”

Red Fang, “Shadows” Director: Whitey McConnaughy Synopsis: Red Fang goes to war against an invisible foe stalking the band in the forest like some sort of…predator. Crucial moment: Guitarist David Sullivan tries shooting a machine gun, and the recoil lands him impaled on a branch. He takes it pretty well, though. Key YouTube comment: “That was so shitty it was great.”

Director: Edward P. Davee Synopsis: Oh, the horror! Crucial moment: Singer Kira Clark gives herself a blood facial. Key YouTube comment: “Fuck, yes! Visuals and music are pure fucking depressing lunatic bliss.”

Director: Brett Roberts Synopsis: A punk-rock terrorist organization kidnaps a dude and brainwashes him into attempting to assassinate Donald Trump. Crucial moment: Sparks shoot out of Eric “Vegetable” Olson’s guitar. It has nothing to do with the story, but hey. Key YouTube comment: “fuckling true punk rock make want to mess up everything around here but my daughter is sleeping”

78rpm

Even in an era when no music or medium is really obscure, gramophone recordings remain the province of a very particular brand of fetishist. Using interviews and dreamy interludes shot on 16 mm, director Joel Schlemowitz explores one of the last truly niche collector subcultures left. 7 pm Tuesday, Jan. 17.

Contemporary Color

Wampire, “Wizard Staﬀ ”

Poison Idea, “Calling All Ghosts”

One of several jazz-centric ﬁlms screening this year, this retrospective on the Manhattan apartment building that became a home and rehearsal space for the likes of Thelonious Monk should hit Portlanders the hardest following the loss of Jimmy Mak’s. “Jazz has always struggled for a place,” says one talking head. Tell us about it. 4:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 14.

Director: Robbie Augspurger Synopsis: A bewitching femme fatale hires Wampire to track down a mysterious wizard. Crucial Moment: Our heroes appear to give up on their mission and read a book of wizard jokes instead. Key YouTube Comment: “the more I watch this video the more confused I become. At the same time the more confused I become the more I want to watch it. Gotta love these guys though. Wizard jokes, genius.” SEE IT: The NW Music Video Showcase is at Skype Live Studio, 1211 SW 6th Ave., on Tuesday, Jan. 17. 7 pm. Free.

You may not think you want to watch an hour and a half of synchronized ﬂag-ﬂipping, but anything conceived by David Byrne is worth checking out. Pairing original music from St. Vincent, Blood Orange, Tune-Yards and others with routines from some of the best color guard teams in North America, it’s sure to blow away anything you’ve seen at a high school football game, recently, at least. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 21.

Blackhearts

Scandinavia’s black metal scene is well-documented. But rather than gawking further at the corpse paint and church burnings, this Norwegianmade ﬁlm takes a broader view of the culture, looking at how it’s consumed fans in places where any form of rock ’n’ roll is considered “the devil’s music,” let alone music that literally salutes the devil—and it’s not afraid to wink at its more absurd elements, either. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 28.

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

Ascended Dead, Grave Ritual, Sempiternal Dusk, Petrification

[NECROTIC DEATH METAL] San Diego’s Ascended Dead plows through Portland this weekend like a hurricane of knives. With lightning-fast guitar work, blast-beating drums that hit like an apocalyptic hailstorm and classic growling vocals, Ascended Dead lives up to its self-description as “chaotic death metal.” Joining the assault is swampy Grave Ritual from New Orleans, which plies a unique brand of death metal haunted by necrotic low-fi tones. Sempiternal Dusk and Petrification also join the freshly exhumed bill for a truly heavy night. CASEY MARTIN. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Stolas, Fero Lux, Upon a Broken Path, Steaksauce Mustache

[SPAZZCORE] Considering the alarming clip at which the Number Twelve Looks Like You chewed and spit out band members during its mid-2000s heyday, it’s shocking the band’s peculiar blitzkrieg of thrash and hardcore lasted as long as it did. Reinvigorated by an opening slot on fellow New Jersey spazz-rock luminaries Dillinger Escape Plan’s recent farewell tour, expect a chaotic and unrelenting churn of brash time signature changes and grinding backbeats that have been imitated ad nauseam since the band’s last full-length, Worse Than Alone, dropped in 2009. PETE COTTELL. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-206-7439. 6 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

$30 advance, $38 day of show, $45 reserved seating. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Nocturnal Habits, Arrington de Dionyso, China Star, Alto!

[POST-POST-HARDCORE] The latest project from Olympian deity Justin Trosper, Nocturnal Habits brings together a veteran assemblage of Northwest indie titans—his Unwound bandmate Sarah Lund, Two Ton Boa’s Sherry Fraser and Scott Seckington, the Melvins’ Dale Crover—for an album that never quite feels like a regional supergroup in the making. Nineties anti-heroes Unwound, whose enormously influential ‘90s output recently received the worshipful box-set treatment from Numero Group, should be the clear touchstone. But this new act doesn’t so much reignite the old, angular unquiet as invoke mulled commentary through the same bruised sonic palette. On autumn debut New Skin For Old Children, Trosper and friends poke through a familiar soundscape with artisanal patience—bristling melancholia rather gently suggesting all that goes bump in the night. JAY HORTON. Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503225-0047. 8 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. All ages.

Robb Bank$, Da$h, Wifisfuneral, Los Hosale, Ski Mask the Slump God, Warholss, Ronny J, DJ Ill Chris

[TRIP-HOP] On Robb Banks’ “Bett,”

Stick Men

[PROG TOOLS] More than just a band of noodling drummers, Stick Men still treads the same rarefied realms of musician inscrutability. Featuring Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin, the rhythm section for King Crimson, alongside touch-guitar legend Markus Reuter, the trio took their name from Levin’s weapon of choice—tap-happy electrified bass-guitar hybrid, the Chapman Stick—and signature sound from the mothership’s weirder grooves. To be fair, the sorta-vocals and not-unlikerock structures laden throughout recently released fifth album, Prog Noir, veer relatively approachable, though the act has little reason to beg mainstream notice, so long as balding men of all ages flock to the court of the Crimson King. Moreover, a certain arcane intrigue all its own lingers about masters of the stick. But, geez, maybe a little more carrot? JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $22.50 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

PREVIEW C O U R T E S Y O F F R U I T B AT S M U S I C . C O M

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11

off his latest mixtape, C2: Death of My Teenage, the rapper reveals that he twice turned down a coveted spot on XXL’s Freshman Class list. For most artists first entering the hip-hop game, being on that magazine cover is a goal worth striving for. But Banks has built his movement strictly without cosigns. Originally from Broward County, Fla., Banks has been releasing mixtapes independently since around 2012, collaborating with SpaceGhostPurrp and becoming part of the cloud-rap zeitgeist. Five years later, the hard-nosed rapper is one of the premier faces of millennial hip-hop, along with Denzel Curry and Yung Simmie, keeping his sound menacing, dreary and full of rage. He’ll be joined here by New Jersey’s street king Dash and a slew of other internet-famous rappers ready to bring a IRL party. ERIC DIEP. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $20 general admission, $50 VIP. All ages.

Rentz Leinbach, Dan Daniels, Matt D. (of the Toads)

[GEEK POP] Consider this a sample flight of male singer-songwriters in town, with each offering a different yet complementary brand of powerfully poppy flavor. Armed with reverbladen guitar and cheeky lyrical wit, Rentz Leinbach wins hearts with his take on garage-born indie rock, while Dan Daniels incorporates ’60s pop with a bluesy sensibility. Rounded out by Toads bassist Matt Dinaro doing his ’90s alternative nerd rock (à la Daniel Johnston), there’s no way to walk away from this show without feeling power-pop fire in your loins. CERVANTE POPE. Turn! Turn! Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth St Portland OR 97211, 503-284-6019. 8 pm. Free. 21+. .

THURSDAY, JAN. 12 Karla Bonoff

[CHEESY LISTENING] You might think you’ve never heard Karla Bonoff, but you probably have. Much like how Jackson Browne’s “These Days” became a Nico song in everyone’s heads, Bonoff’s greatest hits are better known for being played by someone else—Bonnie Raitt’s “Home,” for instance, and a healthy handful of tracks on Linda Ronstadt’s Hasten Down the Wind. It’s hard to tell whether this is because Bonoff has a generous ear or because she herself can’t do them justice. Excepting the feather-haired smash “Personally” (“PERRR-son-ally, perrr-son-ally, bayyybeh”), Bonoff’s own performing career has been par for the alreadymediocre course of adult contemporary rock. But if you’re lucky, at this show, she’ll steal back some of the good stuff. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503-719-6055. 7:30 pm.

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Fruit Bats, Springtime Carnivore [ALT COUNTRY] Back when Fruit Bats came into existence, the band’s hometown of Chicago was tied up in the beautiful disenchantment of the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. That was 1997, and frontman Eric D. Johnson’s ’70s-inspired sound hadn’t yet been fully revived by a swarm of like-minded bands. Six albums, a few personnel changes, a hiatus or two and a Portland relocation later, Fruit Bats is in its finest form to date, hot off the release of last year’s remarkable Absolute Loser. The album’s alt-country mastery is a thing to behold, with the title track being a bona fide Song of the Year candidate. Fruit Bats’ topsy-turvy past suggests that Johnson is not the easiest guy to collaborate with, but it has never seemed to hinder the group’s full-blooded, pastoral-rock sound. An idyllic mash-up of Grateful Dead, early Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Tweedy, Fruit Bats should sign a contract for a permanent Pickathon residency. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895. 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 14. $20. All ages.

COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL TOURING

SQUAD GOALS: Marching Church plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Jan. 14.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Radler, Two Moons, Lubec, Clovver

[DIY DARLINGS] While it may seem like something of a paradox for a band so intrinsic to the Portland allages scene to share a name with an alcoholic beverage, it actually makes perfect sense in the case of Radler, whose aesthetic is equal parts power pop and pop punk. Having recently expanded to a three-piece, the band is celebrating the release of Cool, an impressive debut release from ﬂedgling Match & Tinder Records. Singles “Ben” and “Heartmelter” possess that elusive quality of being loud enough to hear live in a basement but catchy enough to listen to on a car radio. BLAKE HICKMAN. Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway, 503-281-0439. 7 pm. $5. All ages.

Joe Pug, Hip Hatchet

[HEARTLAND FOLK] No stranger to the drama of a hard-lived life, singersongwriter Joe Pug adds a theatrical flair to the roots-rocker trope that’s damn near impossible to innovate upon at this point. Pug’s allure lies in the animated nuance he drapes all over his live shows, making his chilling, dusty ditties about hard work and heartbreak all the more believable, in spite of the fictional world from which they’re culled. Relative to his bare-bones early work, 2015’s Windfall is a gussied-up affair, punctuated by the occasional piano and banjo track that poke through the darkness to gently suggest a greater emotional weight than what Pug’s spare arrangements were previously capable of carrying by their lonesome. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-2319663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Soul Clap: Saeeda Wright & Friends

[R&B] The ﬁrst installment of longtime Portland promoter StarChile’s monthly celebration of funk, soul and R&B of 2017 features a headlining set from singer Saeeda Wright, whose gospel-powered pipes earned her a spot backing up Prince on one of his ﬁnal tours. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 503-223-4527. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Conditioner, Boyfriends, Damn!, Heat Unit

[PUNK BENEFIT] Tonight, Portland experimental-punk band Conditioner plays a beneﬁt show for the Oakland Ghostship ﬁre, along with fellow punky Portlanders Damn! and local hip-hop trio Heat Unit, as well as Seattle pop-punk act Boyfriends. Conditioner released an eight-track recording, Suggested Use, last year through local company Kennel Jitters Recordings, and it’s a brilliant assemblage of discordant guitar shredding with true-to-punk wailings about discouragement and wretchedness. It’s a good way to get all that angst out so you can go follow through with this year’s resolutions—especially if listening to more punk rock was one

of your goals. MAYA MCOMIE. Pop Tavern, 825 N Killingsworth St. 8 pm. $5 or more donation. 21+.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Dar Williams, Anne Weiss

[POP FOLK] Dar Williams is quite a rare and powerful wizard, alchemizing sounds whose strengths are oft undercut by how easy they are to make fun of—a little Indigo Girls percussion, a little Dixie Chicks downhome pop. Underneath the ear candy, though, lives the subtle and sublime poetry of Williams’ songwriting, which is sometimes so wrapped up in a catchy melody that it goes unnoticed. “As Cool as I Am”—one of her best known singles, from Mortal City, the 1996 album she’s revisiting in full on this tour—delicately confronts the ego dynamics of love. When her partner, at a bar, plays a song to see another woman dance, he says, “Is it how she moves or how she looks?” Says Williams: “It’s loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks.” That’s a good kind of ouch. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503-719-6055. 8 pm. $35. $30 advance, $35 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

John Paul White, the Kernal

[CIVIL WAR] John Paul White was half of the much-celebrated, muchmissed Americana duo the Civil Wars. While there’s little harm in classic duets, White’s solo eﬀort feels more genuine, given the inherent sadness and solitude engrained in Americana- and country-tinged folk. His newest record, the twangy and eerie Beulah, feels like a spooky stroll through an old rural graveyard. White’s Alabama roots pierce through the album’s 10 tracks, with swampy blues undertones. Tonight’s show will no doubt be a lesson in how to exist as a strong contemporary singer-songwriter while honoring traditional musical structures. MARK STOCK. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-226-6630. 8 pm. $17. 21+.

Burials, Usnea, Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy, Tithe

[PROG METAL] We’ve missed the hell out of Burials. Though they never technically went on any sort of hiatus, their last album, The Tide, came out three years ago, and only gave us a small taste of their addictive progressive-meets-black-meetsdeath metal hybrid. Thank goodness they’ve teamed up with Los Angeles vets Exhausted Prayer for an eightsong split record guaranteed to make ears bleed with brutality. It drops the day before the show, so get acquainted with the band’s four newest tracks before experiencing all that heaviness live. CERVANTE POPE. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

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MUSIC Girl Fest 2017 featuring Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka and Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx, Courtney Noe

[GIRL EMPOWERED] See Get Busy, page 21. Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 7 pm. $8. All ages.

Robin Jackson and the Caravan, Johanna Warren

[SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE] Robin Jackson weaves stories together in his slightly melancholy but gorgeously arranged take on feel-good, folk-inflected songs—imagine if the Decemberists formed in Middle Earth. He hosts this local showcase he’s calling the “diva series,” which features a different local female performer as the opener; past shows have featured big names like Edna Vazquez and the Shook Twins. This month’s support act is Johanna Warren, who in September released her third album, Gemini I, a gloriously atmospheric collection that shares similar qualities with Jackson’s more folksy approach, but are shaded a bit darker in mood and delivery. MAYA MCOMIE. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 503288-3231. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Marching Church, Bernardino Femminielli, Public Eye

[EXPERIMENTAL POP] Most things in Europe are simply better, and that often includes pop music. Danish act Marching Church, led by Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, tweaks the traditional Scandinavian format by injecting brooding, sometimes atmospheric sounds with bass-driven hooks and true vocal showmanship. The band’s 2016 release, Telling It Like It Is, does exactly that, with the added bonus of Rønnenfelt’s near-maniacal stage presence. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

SUNDAY, JAN. 15 Secret Drum Band, DoublePlusGood, Abronia

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 A Boogie wit da Hoodie

[HIP-HOP] Apparently, rapping about your savage mic skills while singing a few lines once in a while still works in 2017. After issuing his Artist mixtape, as well as a majorlabel EP, A Boogie wit da Hoodie angles at creating something timeless—as spelled out on his track “Timeless”—but referencing Jay Z and titling a song “Baecation” miss the mark. But the New York MC still might be in ascent, offering thoughtful bars about being caught between breaking through and selling enough albums to have the industry take him seriously. If nothing else, there’s more Bape gear in his videos than anyone’s likely to have seen in a while. DAVE CANTOR. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Dave Alvin, Christy McWilson

[URBAN COWBOY] Three days after Exene Cervenka and John Doe’s acoustic duet at the Old Church, their old L.A. running buddy—not to mention bandmate, in both X and country side project the Knitters— Dave Alvin hits the same venue for his own solo show. Expect a few tunes from his best-known band, roots-punk kings the Blasters, and his various other projects. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-2222031. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages. COURTESY OF MONGREL MUSIC

[DRUM POWER] If there’s anyone who can show you a thing or two about a drum set, it’s Lisa Schonberg. Her noisy and percussive compositions for Secret Drum Band are meant as an immersive reflection of ecological soundscapes and movement. The current members of the band’s rotating lineup have got the whole process down pat, themselves rotating through different percussion instruments that liven the experience even further. With DoublePlusGood’s ’80s-era art-pop and Abronia’s brooding instrumentals, this is already one of the more captivating local bills to check out this year. CERVANTE POPE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Chrome, Soriah, Death of the West

[DRUG MUSIC] Chrome was forged from the chaos and excess of mid’70s Bay Area culture, the death throes of the Stooges and the accessibility of psychedelics leading founding drummer Damon Edge to court sonic apocalypse. In 1976, he was joined by guitarist Helios Creed, and the two became the core of a sonic maelstrom that straddled proto-industrial, acid punk and lo-fi experimentation. The group’s influence has been vast, though its success was obviously limited by the extremes of its expression and lack of a specific genre. Edge passed in 1995, and since then, Creed has resurrected the Chrome brand while simultaneously releasing more than 20 solo albums. This show is being touted as the only U.S. performance for 2017, both as a kickoff to help fund the band’s imminent European tour and a chance to preview its new album live. Techromancy is due later this spring, and it handily recalls the best of Creed’s solo work while nodding to some of the more accessible Chrome tracks featured on the Half Machines From the Sun collection. Over-effected guitars cross streams with maniacal echoing vocals over bouncing, repetitive drumbeats. Techromancy won’t burn out your remaining serotonin, but it just might make you dance. NATHAN CARSON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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The Colin Trio, Tim Connell and Eric Skye

[STRING MEN] Mandolin player Tim Connell and guitarist Eric Skye are two of the most widely respected performers on their instruments, but also the most difficult to categorize stylistically. From masterful interpretations of Brazilian choro music to acoustic takes of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, the pair routinely branch out beyond the rootsy Americana sounds that dominate their instruments’ vocabulary, applying their perfect plucking to new and exciting genres. Though it may sound odd, their latest record, June Apple, is something of a rarity—a set of classic-style fiddle tunes with beautiful and emotive melodies that feel like they were plucked straight from an old episode of A Prairie Home Companion. PARKER HALL. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503-946-1962. 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 14. $8. 21+.

Natasha Paremski

[CLASSICAL CONCERT PIANO] From an almost alarmingly young age, concert pianist Natasha Paremski was winning some of the world’s most prestigious artist awards. But if the Gilmore Young Artists Prize and the Prix Montblanc mean nothing to you, know that on top of the flawless technique, Paremski brings astonishing character to the repertoire she plays. With one program of Chopin, Rachmaninoff and contemporary composers Michael Hersch and Thomas Adès and another program of Brahms and Beethoven sonatas, there’s no one in the world who couldn’t find something to deeply appreciate about this artistry. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 503-725-3105. 4 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 14-15. $45-$55. All ages.

Oregon Symphony presents Pines of Rome

[CLASSICAL] In a tradition that began with former music director James DePreist, Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s orchestral tone poem Pines of Rome has become an Oregon Symphony specialty. Each movement of the piece depicts trees in different areas of Rome at different times of day, and Respighi’s characteristic combination of pre-classical dance suite form and decidedly romantic harmony and texture makes Pines of Rome practically unparalleled in its emotiveness. With cello soloist Alban Gerhardt featured on Henri Dutilleux’s A Whole Distant World concerto on the same program, this is sure to be an unforgettable night of beautifully written, expertly played music. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday and Monday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 14-16. $23$105. All ages.

Yennayer

[NORTH AFRICAN NEW YEAR] It feels so hypocritical to be wishing everyone “Happy New Year” this time out, since what little happiness there is in 2017 will expire Jan. 20. So why not celebrate a happier year—say, 2967? That’s where we are according to the Berber calendar. In Portland, local North African-born musicians have been celebrating Berber New Year with traditional and modern music from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and beyond. This year’s party at Sellwood restaurant Simon’s Office is led by Moh Alileche’s ensemble, featuring guitar, mandol, bendir frame drum and tambourines. It’s also a chance to learn more about this rich, ancient culture via short films, a talk by Oregon State prof Nabil Boudraa, and conversations with members of the North African diaspora. BRETT CAMPBELL. Simon’s Office, 8128 SE 13th Ave., 503-206-4656. 6 pm Sunday, Jan. 15. Free. All ages.

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flEShEaTErS: (from left) Summer Cannibals’ Jessica Boudreaux, Devon Shirley and Jenny logan.

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The past two years have been a whirlwind for Summer Cannibals frontwoman Jessica Boudreaux. While most bands would be content with a solid debut record and a runner-up nod in WW’s 2014 Best New Band poll, Boudreaux’s grunge-pop powerhouse has maintained a level of forward momentum that would be staggering even for more established national touring acts. Rather than enjoy the view from the plateau as one of Portland’s most promising young rock acts, Boudreaux has decided to spend 2017 biding her time between here and Los Angeles in hopes of making it as a career songwriter. She’s too busy recording yet another record to leave for good just yet, but a half-hour picking her brain leads us to believe she has more than enough ambition and talent to make it just about anywhere. Read an extended Q&A at wweek.com. PETE COTTELL. The leader of one of the city’s most popular rock bands talks escaping the Portland bubble.

WW: So is Summer Cannibals now “your” band? Jessica Boudreaux: It’s always just been me writing. Devon [Shirley] and Jenny [Logan] are my people, and when it comes to decisions for the band, it’s the three of us, but the writing is just me. On this new record we’re working on, I co-wrote half of it with Hutch [Harris of the Thermals], which is the first time anyone else has been involved. Are you serious about moving to L.A.? At least until the summer, I’ll be splitting my time between here and there, getting a feel for it and seeing if I want to make the full-time move. But I’m still doing so much up here, like making this record and working on other projects. I want to get involved in writing for other people and doing co-writing and that kind of stuff. You either go there or you go to Nashville—it’s kinda one or the other. What would you change about Portland if you could? For me, it’s the bubble. There can be an ego with bands who are doing well here that just kills creativity. It’s the big-fish-in-a-smallpond mentality. When you go to a place like New York or L.A., where everyone’s more connected or better or richer than you, it’s an ego check. You’re forced to confront all these things you don’t have. I feel like you can lose sight of that in a place like Portland. Do you think people are too vulnerable or sensitive to criticism? I think it’s a lot of patting each other on the back. People won’t like me for saying this, but I like a sense of healthy competition. I found that with Hutch, because we’ve found ourselves in a working relationship where we like being competitive with one another. I need that, because it pushes me to be better. I’m not trying to win anything, but I like the feeling of working to earn something. I think most music scenes deal with this. You ride to the top, but what are you realistically at the top of? SEE IT: Summer Cannibals play Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., with Gazebos and Hurry Up, on Friday, Jan. 13. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

MATT FX

MUSIC SUPERVISOR FROM COMEDY CENTRAL’S

“BROAD CITY”

DJ SET & AUTOGRAPH SIGNING THURSDAY, JANUARY 12TH AT 6PM Matt FX is an artist, producer, and cultural curator who emerged as one of the youngest taste-makers thanks to his role as music supervisor for the hit Comedy Central series, “Broad City” as well as Hulu’s “Difficult People,” FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman,” and the MTV adaptation to the award-winning “SKINS.” A lifelong resident of lower Manhattan, 24-year-old Matt is also the mastermind behind local super-group Scooter Island, whose debut release received on-air support from the likes of Apple Music Beats 1

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and KCRW. As a DJ, Matt founded the Tribes NY party series, which has taken him from downtown clubs, Le Bain & Soho House, and well-known Brooklyn locales, including Output & Verboten, to playing major US festivals from Mysteryland to Sweetlife. In addition to developing a unique taste and style, Matt is also known among his friends for making the best tacos in town, and recently set his sights on training to become a future “Chopped” champion.

MUSIC CALENDAR Hawthorne Theatre

225 SW Ash St Dysgenia

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Robb Bank$, Da$h, Wifisfuneral, Los Hosale, Ski Mask the Slump God, Warholss, Ronny J, DJ Ill Chris

Hawthorne Theatre

Holocene

WED. JAN. 11 Ash Street Saloon

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Voodoo Glow Skulls, Buck-O-Nine, the Porkers, Question Tuesday

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Ascended Dead, Grave Ritual, Sempiternal Dusk, Petrification

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Songwriters Summit Portland

Justa Pasta

1336 NW 19th Avenue, Anson Wright Duo

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Dylan DiSalvio, Sean O’Neill

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Lynn Conover & Gravel

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy

Nonna

5513 NE 30th Ave, Single Malt Trio

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave pdx or 97218 Kickoff Party: Portland Old Time Gathering

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Stolas, Fero Lux, Upon a Broken Path, Steaksauce Mustache

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Ramblin’ Rose

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Alex Wasserman, concert pianist

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Rentz Leinbach, Dan Daniels, Matt D. (of the Toads)

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Bees In A Bottle (w/ Groovebirds) & Pat Kearns

THURS. JAN. 12 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Karla Bonoff

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Colum McCann

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Cheap Horse, Blind Swords

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Nocturnal Habits, Arrington de Dionyso, China Star, Alto! (Lola’s Room)

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Ambience NW: Lex Luger & The Ninetys

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Zach Bryson & Meat Rack

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street The Quadraphonnes

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LAST WEEK LIVE THOMAS TEAL

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Editor: Matthew Singer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/ submitevents. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com.

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Shadows of the Revolution, Hammersmith Rock Institute

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stick Men

The Firkin Tavern

Muddy Rudder Public House

1937 SE 11th Ave Summer Eyes, The Vardaman Ensemble, Feather

8105 Se 7th Ave. Sam Hill Trio

The Goodfoot

The Lovecraft Bar

2845 SE Stark St Talking Dreads

421 SE Grand Ave Volt Divers

The Lovecraft Bar

The O’Neil Public House

421 SE Grand Ave Devoured By Flowers

6000 NE Glisan St. Glass of Hearts (Blondie tribute)

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring The Juleps, 12th Avenue Hot Club

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Jenny Finn Orchestra; Goldfoot, JoyTribe

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Le Grotto, Telephant, Airport, Heat Shimmer

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St AUME with Strange Haze

836 N Russell St Yacolt Burn, Whim Grace, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters

FRI. JAN. 13 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave David Bromberg Quintet

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Bo Baskoro with Shae Williams and Samsel

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Battle Axe Massacre, Grand Head, Fasala

Black Water Bar

835 NE Broadway Radler, Two Moons, Lubec, Clovver

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Termination Dust, Meringue

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Joe Pug, Hip Hatchet

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Radio Giants

Eastburn

1800 E Burnside St, Maxwell Cabana, HB

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Unusual Subjects, DS8

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Woodbrain with Dan Berkery; Garcia Birthday Band (acoustic)

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Soul Clap: Saeeda Wright & Friends

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Kaiya on the Mountain

Revolution Hall

13 NW 6th Ave. Old New Year’s Snow Ball 2017: Chervona and All Stars

2958 NE Glisan St The Brothers Jam; Don of Division Street, Morgan Geer, The MG 3

White Eagle Saloon

10350 N Vancouver Way, Jordyn Mallory

Star Theater

LaurelThirst Public House

1969 NE 42nd Ave. Portland Old Time Gathering

Ponderosa Lounge

1300 SE Stark St #110 Fruit Bats, Springtime Carnivore

1001 SE Morrison St. Cambrian Explosion, Foxy Lemon, Queen Chief

Velo Cult

Marching Church, Bernardino Femminielli, Public Eye

THE LONELY ISLAND: It felt strange to see Kyle Morton playing solo—a feeling emphasized by the grandeur of the Old Church, where he performed Jan. 6. With its towering ceilings and colossal pipe organ, the venue lent a sense of insignificance one usually does not associate with the talented Typhoon frontman, a musician typically seen buried onstage in a sea of fellow musicians. But as he played from his debut solo record, What Will Destroy You, things began to fall into place. While Morton has been hard at work in the Portland music scene for over a decade, this show felt like the birth of a brand-new act. His most intimate release yet begged for a sacred and intimate space, and the Old Church afforded him that. His rich vocals consumed every square foot of the 134-year-old space, while the creaking pews added eerie texture to his stripped-down material. It was the kind of chilling folk that is both accessible in its minimalism yet otherworldly in its pristine execution. Morton couldn’t resist pulling out a few bare-bones renditions of songs from Typhoon’s last album, White Lighter, to the joy of the sold-out crowd. But overall, the night belonged to his newfound, bashful yet equally powerful sound. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Flat Five

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Swinging Doors

Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St, Dowager, Dranky Skelerton, The Carotids

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way, Hang ‘Em High

Pop Tavern

825 N. Killingsworth Conditioner, Boyfriends, Damn!, Heat Unit

Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Tigers of Youth

Slim’s PDX

8635 N Lombard St. Live Karaoke w/ Hans & The Wanted

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ellipses, The Sweatpants, Josh Epifanio, See Bright Lights

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Jimmy Curry, [E]mpress

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Miller & Sasser

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Small Million, MAITA, Butter; Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell The Anxieties, Tiger Touch, Tweaker Sneakers, Husqvarna

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Folkslinger; Yur Daddy, Concious Nest

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Summer Cannibals

SAT. JAN. 14 Alberta Rose Theater

3000 NE Alberta St Dar Williams, Anne Weiss

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents The Pines of Rome

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St

Saola, Ethereal Sea, Robots of the Ancient World, SkullDozer

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Chuck Westmoreland with The Needs

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Girl Fest 2017 Girl Fest 2017 featuring Coco Columbia, Karma Rivera, Neka and Kahlo, Haley Heyndrickx and more (Lola’s Room)

Dante’s

350 West Burnside John Paul White, the Kernal

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. BowieVision with Jealous Dogs (Pretenders tribute)

Duff’s Garage

Fallstar; Avoid the Void, The Intercedent

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Burials, Usnea, Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy, Tithe

Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University

2530 NE 82nd Ave Pin & Horn-it’s; Warthog Stew

1620 SW Park Avenue Natasha Paremski

Fremont Theater

Mississippi Pizza

2393 NE Fremont Street The Colin Trio, Tim Connell and Eric Skye

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

3552 N Mississippi Ave Robin Jackson and the Caravan, Johanna Warren

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave.

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Those Willows + Arlo Indigo + Guests

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Bryan Sutton Band

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Square Dance feat. Sofa Kings & Charmaine Slaven

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Monterey Purple

MON. JAN. 16 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents The Pines of Rome

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer, Metal Reverend Chad

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell

Dead Animal Assembly Plant

232 SW Ankeny St Faster Housecat, Four Lights, Squarecrow

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St 221Fly

SUN. JAN. 15 Alberta Rose Theater

3000 NE Alberta St “Hold up the Light” Portland Interfaith Gospel Choir Honors the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents The Pines of Rome

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St The Variants, Tallwomen, Sweeping Exits, Dogtooth and Nail

LaurelThirst Public House

Landmark Saloon

2958 NE Glisan St Kris Deelane & the Hurt; Billy Kennedy (all ages); Ma Fondue

2845 SE Stark St Chance Hayden’s 30th Birthday Show

Valentines

1620 SW Park Avenue Natasha Paremski

LaurelThirst Public House

The Goodfoot

Hawthorne Theatre

Kenton Club

4847 SE Division St, Jacob Miller and the Bridge City Crooners

Bears Among Men, Serpents Tongue, American Memories, Kelly Kapowski

1420 SE Powell The Adarna, Furniture Girls, Jet Force Gemini

2958 NE Glisan St Freak Mountain Ramblers; The Holler-buddies Bluegrass Jam

2025 N Kilpatrick St Tomber Lever, Birote the Musical, Dad Works Hard, New Not Normals

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Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Secret Drum Band, DoublePlusGood, Abronia

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Dan Balmer Trio

Lagunitas Non-Profit Community Room

237 NE Broadway, MLK Jr. Birthday Community Song Circle and Celebration

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. “Take Warning Presents” HOMESAFE (feat. Ryan of Knuckle Puck) w/Life Lessons, Chase Huglin

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Sonic Forum

TUES. JAN. 17 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Duke Evers, Underwhelming Favorites

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. A Boogie wit da Hoodie

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Mel Brown Septet

Rontoms

Mississippi Pizza

Simon’s Office

The Analog Cafe

600 E Burnside St Ezza Rose 8128 SE 13th Ave. Yennayer

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave pdx or 97218 Portland Old Time Gathering: Cabaret

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Chrome, Soriah, Death of the West

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

3552 N Mississippi Ave Baby Ketten Karaoke 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ultra Magnetic; Rose Room Swing Dance

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Brad Parsons and Friends

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Dave Alvin, Christy McWilson

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St The Adnas with Telephant & David Robert Burrows

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MUSIC COURTESY OF AARON BERGESON

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

DJ Survival Skills Years DJing: About eight years. The first time spinning out was at Tiga—RIP. Genres: Varies depending on the gig. I’m a big jazz guy, but I tend to spin a lot of house, electronic and hip-hop. Where you can catch me regularly: 11 pm to midnight Monday through Thursday on KMHD 89.1 FM. Every third Thursday at Sweet Hereafter starting Jan. 26. Craziest gig: Nothing too crazy, but my favorite in recent memory was a warehouse Halloween party with a floating DJ booth. I spun mostly 45s that night, and it was a blast. My go-to records: Anything from Rhythm Section International; Yussef Kamaal, “Black Focus”; Mr. Fingers, Outer Acid EP. Don’t ever ask me to play…: Something off your phone. NEXT GIG: DJ Survival Skills spins at Sweet Hereafter, 3326 SE Belmont St., on Thursday, Jan. 26. 8:30 pm.

Mad Hanna

6129 NE Fremont St DJ Andy Maximum (power pop, garage)

Moloko

WED. JAN. 11 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Alleys of Your Mind (concrete, experimental)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Suzanne Bummers

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

The Raven

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Wicked Wednesdays (hip hop, soul, funk)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

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THURS. JAN. 12

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Sappho (disco)

The Lovecraft Bar

45 East

421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial)

Club 21

The Raven

315 SE 3rd Ave Oliver Heldens 2035 NE Glisan St. Living On Video (videos from 60s-80s)

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Queer Latin Night

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. A Train and Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Rob F Switch DJ EPOR (electronic)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Deep Disco

3100 NE Sandy Blvd House Call w/ Richie Staxx & Tetsuo

FRI. JAN. 13 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Friday The 13th w/ Delta Heavy

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: The Jacksons

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave.

Where to Drink This Week

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BAR REVIEW

Lombard House

7337 N Lombard St., 503-539-5889. Well, ho-lee shee-it. An actual, honest to God, truly great beer bar in St. Johns. As in, we would go there whatever quadrant it was in. There’s Japanese beer, and Big Bad Baptist, and a big-ass patio, and a really good feeling.

The Old Portland

1433 NW Quimby St., 503-234-0865. “This is the coolest wine bar in the world,” Courtney Taylor-Taylor told us of his own wine bar, which pours 17-year-old French wines in a bar full of vintage concert posters and tables from the Lotus. Well—it’s pretty fuckin’ cool, anyway.

Simple ApproAch

Bold FlAvor vegan Friendly

open 11-10

everyday

Tony’s Tavern

1955 W Burnside St., 503-228-8527. Dry your tears, West Burnside. Tony’s ain’t goin’ nowhere. The owner signed a lease, the kegs are coming back, and the juke’s still one of the best in town.

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St., 503-232-1504, laurelthirst.com. Instead of taking a developer’s oﬀer, the owners of the venerable old Laurelthirst sold their bar to supporters, staﬀ and musician Lewi Longmire— so the music won’t stop. Celebrate here.

Rialto Poolroom

529 SW 4th Ave., 503-228-7605, rialtopoolroom.com. Or here, for that matter. This downtown bar, nearly a century old, also just got new owners and a stay of execution. Happy fuckin’ New Year.

Maxx Bass (funk, boogie, rap)

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 w/ DJ Automaton

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3 (aqua boogie & underwater rhymes)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback (80s)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me w/ Dig Deeper

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy

TOURISTS ONLY: I don’t get Rogue Ales. I don’t understand Rogue Nation. I don’t get the brewery’s creepy-Uncle-Trump-plus-fist-pumping-Bolshevik design scheme. Maybe you’re used to it, but to me it seems right up there with Hop Valley’s Mouth Raper in the Bad Branding Sweepstakes. I don’t get why so much of Rogue’s beer tastes pre-oxidized, or why the Buffalo wings at its newly rebranded Eastside Pub & Pilot Brewery (928 SE 9th Ave., 503-5170660, rogue.com) come half-sauceless and leathery, with skins vinegar-cured into stale hardness. I don’t know why the wall in front of the brew tanks has to moronically say “Pilot Brewery” in big, black letters like it’s a theme ride at Beery Farms. I don’t get why anyone thinks a malty eight-hop IPA is ever a good idea, and the same goes for a cold-brew coffee IPA with “proprietary ingredients.” I don’t get why pints of regular, everyday “independent” beer have to all cost $6.50, and that’s if you even get a full pint. But you know? I do actually understand why Rogue took the one distinctive and idiosyncratic thing it had, the one good thing it still allowed to exist in the world—the strange and geeky and sometimes Hawaiian-shirty Green Dragon that’s now the Rogue-branded Eastside Pub—and smashed it into the soil with its Rogue Nation jackboot. That’s because the Rogue Nationalist party is being thrown across the street from Cascade Brewing Barrel House, which is always full of tourists. And as every true-blue Oregonian knows, only fucking tourists go to Rogue. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Friday the FUNKteenth! w/ DJ ROCKIT (heel turn)

SAT. JAN. 14 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Breathe Carolina

Bit House Saloon 727 SE Grand Ave Let Me Tell You

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Bearracuda

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinozza (the noise / the funk)

Gold Dust Meridian

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Andy Maximum

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Verified (bass, rap, trap)

Mad Hanna

6129 NE Fremont St DJ Drew Groove (soul, funk, mod, rock)

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (soul, heavy breaks)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Sean from Pork Magazine

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Tropitaal: Desi/Latino Soundclash

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Forty Two Much

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Musick For Mannequins w/ DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier & DJ Acid Rick (fog dance, records, hunks)

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Devil’s Pie (hip hop, r&b, new jack swing)

500 NW 21st Ave, (503) 208-2173 kungpowpdx.com

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Super Poke’ Kawaii Party! (Jpop, Kpop, cosplay)

MON. JAN. 16 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Jen O.

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ ROCKIT (80s, hunkwave)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)

TUES. JAN. 17 Dig A Pony

SUN. JAN. 15 Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Skipping Bedtime: A Dance Party for Parents and Other Tired People

736 SE Grand Ave. Trending Latin Nights (reggaeton, bachata, salsa)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Mood Ring (electronic, witchhouse, techno)

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PERFORMANCE LEAH NASH

REVIEW

= 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 OPENINGS & PREVIEWS El Payaso

It’d be easy to take a cynical view on Ben Linder’s story. Linder, an American engineer who went to high school in Portland, moved to a Nicaraguan war zone to provide electricity and aid. He was eventually killed by U.S.-funded Contras while working on a hydroelectric dam in an impoverished village, and became a symbol for political dissent towards the U.S. government’s involvement with the war in Nicaragua. Milagro is reliably idealistic, so instead of being cynical, they’re looking at Linder’s legacy beyond the grave in honor of the 30th anniversary of his death. Playwright Emilio Rodriguez is approaching Linder’s legacy through a ﬁctional Latino college student who, while visiting Nicaragua, discovers that Linder lives on in the legacy of goodwill he left behind. SHANNON GORMLEY. Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., milagro.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 12-21. $18-$27.

CoHo Theater’s db focuses on a particularly enigmatic moment in Portland history: in 1971, a man who’s become known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane between Portland and Seattle, collected $200,000 in ransom and parachuted away, never to be seen again. A crime story shrouded in unknowns, Cooper’s escapade has inspired tons of songs, books, and at least one movie. Considering how little is known about him (including his real name), plus the fact that the his FBI case was only suspended last summer, Cooper’s legacy means a lot of diﬀerent things to a lot of diﬀerent people. But Tommy Smith’s script for db isn’t interested in pinning down Cooper’s position in popular culture so much as reveling in its ambiguity. SHANNON GORMLEY. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 13-Feb. 4. $22.50-$28.

Mister Act

A drag redux of Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act, Mister Act contains substantially less makeup and glitter than the average drag show. Instead of impersonating pop divas, the drag queens in the show play nuns. It might be subdued in terms of color palette, but the premise for the show is plenty wacky. It’s the brainchild of Peaches Christ, who’s known for her narrative-based approach to drag shows. Whoopi’s character—played in this show by a relatively barefaced Latrice Royale—is a lounge singer who goes into hiding as a nun after she ﬁnds herself on the hit list of a mobster. SHANNON GORMLEY. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., aladdin-theater. com. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 14. $30-$80.

Astoria

Portland Center Stage has already been delving into Oregon history with their Northwest Stories series, but Astoria is the ﬁrst in the series with an original script. PCS artistic director Chris Coleman adapted the play from Peter Stark’s New York Times nonﬁction bestseller about John Jacob Astor’s attempt to create a fur-trading empire along the Columbia River, before there were any permanent U.S. settlements along the West Coast. It’s a two-part show that will premiere

over the course of two seasons, and part one will focus on the expedition to Astoria. The plans for the play are epic in many ways: along with the fact that it’s a two-season show, it’s an originally written work by one of Portland’s biggest theater companies about a perilous ocean voyage and Western expansion. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 14-Feb. 12. Additional performances 2 pm Saturday, Jan. 28 and Feb. 11. No 2 pm show Sunday, Jan. 15. No noon show Thursday, Jan. 19. No 7:30 show Sunday, Jan. 29 and Feb. 12. $25-$75.

DANCE Keep Portland Weird: A Sexy Sideshow

For a burlesque company that regularly churns out homages to pop culture which span from Chicago to Bob’s Burgers, you might expect that that’s their shtick. But if Miss Alex Kennedy’s burlesque shows have a shtick, they’re constantly deviating from it. Kennedy’s strongly themed burlesque shows seem to take inspiration from just about anywhere they can ﬁnd it, (involving or not involving pop culture), and this time, they’re taking on the aesthetic of freak shows. Hosted by Wanderlust Circus’s ringmaster William Batty, the sideshow will feature contortionism, sword swallowing and ﬁre eating. SHANNON GORMLEY. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside, danteslive.com. 8 pm Sunday, Jan. 15. $15-$20, includes admission to Sinferno Cabaret. 21+.

COMEDY & VARIETY Miranda Sings

Miranda Sings’ success story proves an unsurprising point: internet haters may be annoying, but they’re also a power that can be harnessed. Created and played by Colleen Ballinger, Miranda Sings is a Crocs-wearing YouTube star who posts videos of herself singing (unbeknownst to her) terribly and wearing poorly applied bright red lipstick. The satirical YouTube channel was originally created just to amuse Ballinger’s friends, but has sparked a Netﬂix series and several Miranda Sings tours. Nasally voiced and delusional, Sings is intentionally an amalgamation of everything YouTube commenters love to hate. But despite the fact that Miranda Sings is a character built on unlikeability, her material isn’t as annoying as all that would imply. Ballinger as Sings manages to be kind of compelling, or at least satisfyingly absurd. SHANNON GORMLEY. Keller Auditorium, 1111 SW Broadway, portland5.com. 8 pm Thursday, Jan. 12. $39.50-$75.

Follies

In standup-oriented Portland, where dry delivery and shock-based storytelling rule, physical comedy and slapstick tend to get overlooked. But Stephano Iobani’s show, which started this past fall, tries to make a case for those genres of humor. Follies draws on the tradition of Monty Python-style silliness, and features sketches and character skits by Iobani and the changing weekly lineup he hosts. SHANNON GORMLEY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 8 pm, Sunday, Jan. 15. $7 advance, $10 at the door. 21+.

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WHAT A GIRL WANTS: In Stellar, Pruett shares stories from her dating history.

Girl Talk BRI PRUETT’S ONE-WOMAN SHOW IS PROUDLY FEMININE. BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

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In Bri Pruett’s Stellar, unaccounted-for condoms are inspirations for proverbs. “If you lose a condom while having sex, the answer might be inside you the whole time,” she says on Funhouse Lounge’s divey stage. One of many lessons derived from the dating stories Pruett shares in her solo show, Stellar, this one in particular comes from a story about a man Pruett knew in her early 20s, and whom years later she learned had died. So after she spends a few moments waiting for the audience’s laughter to die down, she ends the bit with a more serious piece of advice. “Be grateful for the time that you have with these people,” Pruett adds. Normally confined to the conventions of standup, the open-ended format of a one-woman show allows Pruett to be more than just funny. In Stellar, Pruett links together stories from her dating history to create a kind of stream-ofconsciousness tale of self-discovery, and pulls humanist lessons out of one-night stands. Bodypositive, pro-self love and pro-female sexuality, Stellar is overtly feminist and feel-good. The show first debuted at CoHo last fall, but Pruett revived Stellar for a monthlong residency at Funhouse before touring the show later this year. It’s crammed with multimedia: There’s a slideshow that includes a pie chart of the men Pruett has slept with organized by astrological sign. She has audience members read from cue cards. She sings karaoke. For some reason, at the end of the show, she sits on the stage folding blankets into a hamper and dancing to “Try a Little Tenderness” with Adam Pasi (who makes a brief, wordless cameo). But whatever’s going

on, you feel like she’s reveling in it. Self-liberated from the conventions of standup, Pruett is pretty much doing whatever she wants. But for a show that’s part theater, part standup, it doesn’t seem like Stellar is trying to break down the barriers between the two mediums so much as point out their differences. To illustrate why being a comedian doesn’t make it easier to be funny on dates, Pruett tells a joke as if she were performing standup—confident, well-paced delivery, mic in hand and under a spotlight—and then as if she were telling the same joke around a campfire—chin to chest, eyes wide, no mic and quickly mumbling. Though the show gets a lot of its humor and poignancy from walking the line between acting and standup comedy—as well as pointing out just how thin that line really is—it’s the moments when Pruett seems as if she isn’t acting at all that often are the most likable. After she finds out that the “tight, blue-eyed” guy she’s on a first date with is not only lactose-intolerant, but also 23 years old (Pruett is in her early 30s), she mopes around the stage to the instrumental Charlie Brown Christmas song. But as the audience’s laughter builds up, she breaks character with a small, seemingly unintentional smile. If anything, Stellar can feel a little overly earnest. But the fact that it’s unabashedly sentimental is, in a way, another one of the show’s feminist qualities. Like most girly stuff, femininely sentimental art has a tendency not to be taken seriously. But with all its compassion and goofiness, Stellar feels righteously girly. SEE IT: Stellar is at Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 9 pm Thursdays, through Jan. 26. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

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Spiritual Pop

Sister Corita Kent was an artist, an activist, and a nun. This chronological retrospective of her work allows the viewer to track the progression of her colorful screenprints, from ornate, overtly religious works on paper to abstract pop-y compositions that marry secular writing with imagery from advertising and corporate propaganda. What is most notable about Kent’s work is that regardless of its changing styles and cultural influences, she manages to infuse every piece with messages of love, peace, and fellowship that speak to the best in all of us. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811. Through Jan. 27.

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The Less I Speak, the More I Learn

Artist Kris Hargis shows his impressive range with a solo exhibition that encompasses 2-D works and largescale sculptures. The arresting pastel drawings of various sizes that hang in the front room, with their bold colors and sketchy figures, look like the product of a collaboration between Rick Bartow (another of the gallery’s artists) and Egon Schiele. It turns out that Bartow was Hargis’ mentor, and Bartow passed down some of his pastels to Hargis who used them to create this series. Hargis’ sculptural work includes a series of dripping disembodied heads in ceramic, wax and bronze, to a remarkable abstracted figure constructed out of found pieces of gnarled wood, wire and nails. The life-size piece captures the form of a headless body, rib cage arched back into space, gliding gracefully through the gallery.

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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 childsized 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.

loosely-woven grid, its vertical and horizontal threads coming together at the center while the unwoven ends trail in every direction like the tentacles of sea-swept jellyfish. When the textile is mounted on paper, it has a satisfyingly tactile quality. But the showstopper is a series of six pieces in which the cotton grid swims under layers of crystal-clear resin. We lose the materiality and dimensionality of the textile as it drowns under the viscous resin, making it seem very far away—so much so that it appears to be a photograph or a drawing of the textile instead of the object itself. Robb’s ability to take a single form and a single material and give it life in different dimensions is nothing short of spectacular. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., 503-227-5111. Through Jan. 28.

the Less i Speak, the More i Learn by Kris Hargis

Beneath the Veil

The “uncanny valley” is an aesthetic hypothesis, which states that the more human-like a human replica is, the more people are drawn to it. Up until a certain point, that is, when the likeness becomes utterly disquieting. Artist Claudia Hart’s series, Beneath the Veil, can be interpreted in many ways, one of which is as a bold exploration of the uncanny valley. Her 2-D dye transfers from 3-D computer renderings and printed sculptures of female figures get us to look at technology’s role in creating replicas of the human form. Hart’s video projection of a computer-animated figure swinging across the frame spans the entire emotional terrain of the uncanny valley: farther away, she appears as a soft, hazy preRaphaelite goddess but, as her features sharpen, what swings toward you looks much more like a terrifying sex doll. Upfor, 929 NW Flanders St., 503-227-5111. Through Jan. 24.

Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 503-222-1142. Through Jan. 28.

Once Asunder

Even though I’m telling you now that some of Alex Hirsch’s abstract 2-D pieces are made of glass, you still may not believe it when you see them, because she has created a technique of double firing glass that makes it look like handmade paper. The other abstracts in the series are watercolor and gouache on actual paper, muted compositions of scattered line work that evoke the natural and manmade worlds: log-jams, telephone wires, schools of fish and fireworks—sometimes all at once. And the choice to include in the exhibition Alex’s beautiful and delicate paper studies for the glass pieces is an inspired one. Russo Lee Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 503-226-2754. Through Jan. 28.

East Meets West BURMA IN TRANSITION.

In one of Eric West’s large-scale color photographs documenting the Burmese urban landscape, a barefoot monk crosses a dusty, potholed street, his burgundy robe billowing around him. Ahead of him, a humble, three-story building stands on the corner, its façade plastered with advertisements for cellphones. This is the Myanmar (Burma) of today. Until 2011, it was under the oppressive rule of a military junta and largely cut off from the rest of the world, so West’s photos give many of us our first look at this country and its culture. Through his lens we see a place in transition, on the cusp of Western influence. Shot in three cities, the compositions follow the same conceit: people in the foreground going about their quotidian tasks while breathtaking architecture of one type or another rises in the background to help tell their stories. Whether it’s a ramshackle fence guarding an abandoned building or the golden spire of a Buddhist temple, West treats all the structures with obvious reverence for their beauty. We observe people buying and selling produce in front of a dilapidated apartment building, a sidewalk fish market situated outside a row of crowded retail stores, monks and city folk kneeling together before a giant gleaming Buddha statue. And at

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more than a square yard each, the photographs are large enough to make out important details that might otherwise be missed. If you look closely, you will see many of the women’s faces covered in a pale powdery face paint called thanaka, made from the bark paste of indigenous trees. Cityscape Burma is an example of a body of work that must be seen in person to be appreciated. Instead of making digital prints of his images, West chose a process that involves exposing light-sensitive photo paper with LEDS, the result of which looks much more like a photo from a film negative than the glossy digital photography we have become accustomed to seeing. In addition, West’s selection of matte paper (and his possible manipulation of the candy colors of Burmese architecture into a more muted palette) makes each photo look like a hand-colored still from an old MGM film. The buildings take on the appearance of elaborate theater backdrops, and the figures become actors in an epic narrative. West succeeds in making images that are at once sweeping and intimate, revealing the grandiosity of place alongside the humanness of culture. JENNIFER RABIN. see IT: Cityscape Burma is at Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through Jan. 29.

Desert Dreamin’

All of Liz Robb’s wall-hung works incorporate indigo-dyed cotton. Robb repeats the form of a small,

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BOOKS C O U R T E S Y O F C AT H E D R A L C O F F E E . C O M

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. BY ZACH MIDDLETON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11 Joshua Mohr

For a time, novelist Joshua Mohr marked his days with scraped-out lines of coke in the same way prisoners might mark their days by scratching lines on the wall. In his brutally graphic, at times disturbing new memoir, Sirens, Mohr delves into his sordid past from the vantage of his new life of sobriety and fatherhood. Heavy with the jargon of the 12-stepprogram scene, Mohr seems to use the writing of the memoir as therapy. He looks his demons straight in the eye, often counting himself among their ranks. When he’s robbing drunk barflies, carjacking random passersby, or ruining Christmas with his family because he was too drunk to buy presents, one can understand his guilt complex. The story gets tied up perhaps a little too neatly by the end, but Mohr is a talented prose stylist and keeps things interesting along the way. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

On the Fence: Border Culture and Spanglish

According to University of Oregon professors Gabriela Martínez and Peter Laufer, Spanglish may be the key for Latino immigrants trying to establish themselves on the northern side of the Mexico-U.S. border. At this talk sponsored by World Affairs Council of Oregon, hear how Spanglish offers a way for immigrants to cross a boundary that’s as much cultural as it is physical. World Affairs Council of Oregon, 1200 SW Park Ave., 503- 306-5252. 6:30 pm. $15.

THURSDAY, JAN. 12 Amy Minato

The hermit thrush is one of those drab little brown birds you’d never be able to pick out of a lineup of other drab, brown birds. It nests on the ground, giving a humble new meaning to the term “bird’s-eye view,” and it’s maybe this down-to-earth approach to nature that has inspired poet Amy Minato’s newest collection, Hermit Thrush. As with her previous poetry collection, The Wider Lens, and nonfiction work, Siesta Lane, Minato finds meaning in simple natural moments, like a moose wading through the mud or a snake slithering through a field. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 503-246-0053. 7 pm. Free.

Cease Not Until Death

Unless techno-vampiro-libertarian Peter Thiel succeeds in his plan to create an iPhone app that ensures immortality, we all still have to face the reality that our lives are temporary. The newest Delve seminar, a six-week class entitled “Cease Not Until Death,” will explore how art can help to take away the sting of death, featuring examinations of works like Scott McPherson’s play Marvin’s Room, poetry by ovarian cancer survivor Judy Rowe Michaels, and Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811. 6 pm. $195. Through Feb. 23.

Marni Bates

Being an aspiring teenage romance novelist is tough: There’s the flirtatious, sexy bad boys who vie for your attention, the mean private-school girls who bully you, and the old man who collapses on top of you and dies in a Starbucks, after sliding an iPad into your pocket and whispering something about not trusting the government. Marni Bates’ new young adult novel, Dial Em for Murder, hits all the classic tropes. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-8787323. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, JAN. 13 Franz Nicolay

Franz Nicolay traded the mattress-onthe-floor lifestyle of a Brooklyn band member for the cardboard-mat-onthe-train-platform life of a gypsy punk rocker when he left the Hold Steady in 2009. In The Humorless Ladies of Border Control, Nicolay has created a literary travelogue of his time backpacking around Russia and the Balkans with little more than a guitar, banjo and accordion. Nicolay meets up with punks, anarchists and artists, while wrestling with European literary ghosts like Anton Chekhov and Rebecca West. Nicolay will be in conversation with Oregon Book Award winner Cari Luna. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Queen of the Night: Angela Carter

The work of British novelist and journalist Angela Carter will be the focus of the newest installment of the Queen of the Night reading series. Carter is known for her magical realism, fantasy and reimagining of the work of prominent female writers such as Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë. Local authors Alexis M. Smith and Vanessa Veselka and former bookstore owner Chloe Eudaly will read from personal selections of Carter’s work. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-236-2665. 7 pm. Free.

Nate Orton

Artist Nate Orton has fastidiously documented Portland in the past 11 years with his self-published zine series My Day, and the results are impressive. Orton goes to a different part of the city for each issue and draws all day. Sometimes he’s joined by writer friends James Yeary and Chris Ashby. Now on Issue 42, the final product brings together text and drawing. The entire series will be on display, and Orton will choose one drawing to paint on the gallery walls. Passages Bookshop, 1223 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-388-7665. 7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, JAN. 16 How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety

Zachary Auburn’s How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety lambasts rightwing obsessions like national security and the health of the family unit. Filled with such memorable prose as “If your pet could come into contact with a gun without proper training, it could be a cat-astrophe!” this book is perfect for anyone who recites lines from Real Time With Bill Maher under their breath every time someone says “God bless” after they sneeze. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 Jason Diamond

After growing up obsessed with the movies of John Hughes, Jason Diamond traveled to New York in an attempt to write Hughes’ biography. He did this despite having no qualifications, connections or credentials. Despite his yearslong mission, Diamond didn’t get to write the biography, but in his memoir, Searching for John Hughes, he discusses how his sordid Chicago childhood led to an obsession with the director. Diamond will be joined in conversation by author Kevin Sampsell. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

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6 GREAT PLACES TO WRITE IN PORTLAND.

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Most Portland establishments land on kitschy clutter or Kinfolk stark. Caffe Destino resides smack in the middle with comforting carelessness, focusing on friendly service and plenty of space to socialize or work. “There aren’t rows of facial-haired creatives staring with laser focus at their screens like you find in some cafes,” says Karen Karbo, author of the Kick Ass Women series. That leaves room for you to be just that person.

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It’s no secret that writers spend a lot of time with cups. Caffeine is necessary to the writing process— as is booze, for most of us. And while you could prepare your joe or keep whiskey at home, many writers like to be surrounded by fellow humans while they dream up new worlds or dissect their own. Portland obviously has countless options for such places, where one can write with the help of coffee, alcohol or food. But certain details in space and experience can make or break your flow. With so many people working on their New Year’s resolutions by finally starting that novel, we asked a few published Portland writers for their favorite spots to work so you can loiter there, too.

Cathedral Coffee

7530 N Willamette Blvd., 503-935-4312, cathedralcoffee.com.

Cathedral Coffee offers high ceilings and space for the mind to wander. There’s a corner of bookshelves and wing chairs to seek inspiration. Authors Tracy Manaster and Mo Daviau meet here weekly for writing sessions. “Between the abundance of [electrical] outlets, chairs that feel good on the butt, and extensive selection of fresh baked goods—I go for quiche— Cathedral is as comfy as it gets,” Daviau says. Manaster appreciates “the ideal quirk-to-quiet ratio for powering through drafts.” Daviau released her debut novel, Every Anxious Wave, in 2016, and Manaster has written two novels at Cathedral: You Could Be Home by Now and The Done Thing. Clearly, this place is working for them.

Taste on 23rd

2285 NW Johnson St., 503-477-7238, tasteon23rd.com.

Debby Dodds, whose work appears in The Sun magazine and The New York Times best-selling anthology My Little Red Book, looks for quiet places where she can write with a glass of wine. That place is often Taste on 23rd. There’s a dimly lit, third-date vibe at this cozy wine bar in the heart of Nob Hill. If you bring your laptop, come with the confidence to let it glow among intimate conversations. However, the frills aren’t so formal that working is unacceptable. For writers looking for budget vino, glasses are $2 off from 4 to 6 pm.

1339 NE Fremont St., 503-284-9455, caffedestino.com.

Kahveology

1625 SE Bybee Blvd., 503-232-0000, kahveology.com.

The folding chairs will make your back hurt just looking at them, but tables against the wall offer comfy booth seating for writers working at Kahveology in Sellwood. “The space is unpretentious and relaxing,” says Kate Gray, author of Carry the Sky. “It’s never too loud or crowded. I can sink into a story without espresso machines screaming too close.”

Rain or Shine Coffee House

5941 SE Division St., 503-946-8081, rainorshinepdx.com.

This corner shop at Division and 60th buzzes with conversation between neighborhood regulars. The high tops by the window offer enough space to spread out, without feeling obligated to invite seatseekers to join you. It’s perfect if you find inspiration through eavesdropping and people-watching. “I wrote my last book at Rain or Shine Coffee House,” says Bill Cameron, a critically acclaimed mystery novelist. “I’ve always felt at home there, as well as very productive. And the writer’s fuel is superb!” Seeking some outdoor inspiration after caffeinating? Mount Tabor is just up the street.

Lovejoy Bakers

939 NW 10th Ave., 503-208-3113, lovejoybakers.com.

Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This, is a trusted expert on remote working. Lovejoy Bakers in the Pearl District is his go-to breakfast spot, where he tackles the first tasks of the day. “It gets busy during the day,” Guillebeau says, “but the early-morning hours are usually quiet.” Lovejoy’s expansive patio is a nice outdoor option—you can thank Portland for the clouds that prevent sun glare on your laptop. Willamette Week JANUARY 11, 2017 wweek.com

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Terry Gilliam’s time-traveling apocalyptic neo-noir starring a frantic Brad Pitt comes to the huge OMSI screen right before anime season begins, as part of the Science on Screen series. The science tonight comes from Paciﬁc University physics professor James Butler, who’ll present a lecture titled “Cause, Eﬀect, and the Physics of Time” before the show. Empirical Theater at OMSI. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 11. Lecture begins at 6:30.

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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

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Shot in ﬁve days and clocking in at just over an hour, Roger Corman’s grim cult satire of ’50s beat culture in Los Angeles follows a busboy-turnedheralded artist who quickly resorts to murder after he accidentally kills a cat and sculpts it into clay. Presented in a rare 16 mm print. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 17.

King: A Filmed Record...From Montgomery to Memphis (1971) Celebrate MLK Jr. Day with Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s massive, Oscar-nominated documentary, widely regarded as one of the best in history, that follows Dr. King’s civil rights campaign from 1955 to his death in 1968. Clinton Street Theater, 7 pm Monday, Jan. 16, free; Hollywood Theatre, 7 pm Monday-Sunday, Jan. 15-16.

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If you’re grieving over the recent loss of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, the Kiggins is here for you. It’s screening Albert Brooks’ 1996 comedy about a middleaged, twice-divorced sci-ﬁ writer (Brooks) who moves back home to Debbie Reynolds, co-starring in her ﬁrst major role in 20 years, and Fisher/Chevy Chase comedy Under the Rainbow the same weekend (see below). Both are free! Kiggins Theatre. 1 pm Sunday, Jan. 15

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Back from winter break, the wacky kids at PSU’s student-run 5th Avenue Cinema are bringing the classics to the big screen. This time it’s Marilyn Monroe as the generation-deﬁning Lorelei Lee in Howard Hawks’ golden age comedy about unashamed materialism. 5th Avenue Cinema. Jan. 13-15. ALSO PLAYING: Academy Theater: The Thing From Another World (1951), Jan 11-12; The Blob (1958), Jan. 13-19. Clinton Street Theater: Marriage in the Shadows (1947), 7 pm Wednesday, Jan. 11; King: A Filmed Record…From Montgomery to Memphis (1971), 7 pm Monday, Jan. 16. Hollywood Theatre: Friday the 13th (1980) and Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) double feature, 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 13; The Battle of Algiers (1966), 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 14; Maggots and Men (2008), 4:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 15. Kiggins Theatre: Under the Rainbow (1981), 1 pm Saturday, Jan. 14. Laurelhurst: Something Wild (1986), Jan 11-12; Animal House (1978), Jan. 13-19. Mission Theater: The Godfather (1972), Jan 12 and 15; Vertigo (1958), Jan. 16-17; Rear Window (1954), 5 pm Monday, Jan. 16. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: Cocksucker Blues (1972), 7 pm Friday, Jan. 13; King of Jazz (1930), 4:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 15.

(2002), and Miyazaki’s story of a WWI Italian fighter pilot-turned-pirate hunter pig, Porco Rosso (1992). And for those who want to bust out their handmade Totoro costumes, Portland anime convention Kumoricon will be hosting a cosplay contest on the final night of the retrospective, Jan. 22. Many attendees will know these films like the backs of their hands. For neophytes who want to make heads or tales of a studio whose catalog is treated by fans as something like a cross between the Beatles and the Bible, here are three films you—and your kids shouldn’t miss.

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Studio Ghibli probably makes the best children’s movies on earth. From its inception in Tokyo in the mid-’80s, its founders—Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki— have consistently produced genre-defining animated features whose fantastic, adorable characters and universes leap over cultural divides. Where most highly regarded anime remains in the realm of entrenched fandom, Ghibli (pronounced: gib-lee) titles like My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke have a long history of smashing box offices and wowing Western critics. Which makes it awesome that OMSI’s Empirical Theater, the unofficial headquarters of Portland animation and the biggest screen in town, is playing a huge collection of Ghibli classics over the next two weeks. It’s also showing one restored feature that’s new to American theaters. Portland has a surprisingly large appetite for anime, says Russ Repp, who programmed the Ghibli retrospective and everything else showing at the Empirical Theater. The museum got a big response from Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian sci-fi Akira,, screened as part of OMSI’s animation festival in 2014, and decided to go deeper. Three screenings of ultra-popular Ghibli title Princess Mononoke all sold out in

January 2015. Russ doubled down in 2016 with the first festival dedicated to Ghibli, which was a huge success. OMSI is kicking off its second retrospective with a panel discussion of the impact of Ghibli productions on art and culture, followed by a screening of the one Ghibli title most attendees will not have already seen: Ocean Waves. Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and first aired on television in 1993, Ocean Waves portrays a teenage love triangle between two friends vying for the affection of a new girl who arrives in the small island city of Kochi. It’s not uncommon for fans to bootleg and subtitle undistributed films themselves, but this is the first time the film has officially come to the United States, following a digital 4K restoration. “We’re probably the fifth or sixth theater nationally to screen it,” and the first in the Northwest, says Repp. “It’s an honor for us to be selected.” Ocean Waves will screen with Ghiblies: Episode 2, 2 a short collection of vignettes from Ghibli animators from 2002 that also went undistributed in the U.S. until now. In addition to Ocean Waves, the Empirical Theater will screen 12 Ghibli classics, including the critical heavy hitters and deeper cuts like Takahata’s story of a bamboo-dwelling spirit girl The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns

This is the big dog, or big bear, rabbit or benevolent monster of both this festival and anime in general. In rural Japan in 1958, Satsuki and Mei are young girls who befriend the cuddly forest spirit Totoro who protects them while their mother recovers from illness in a nearby hospital. An adorable, magical snapshot of childhood, My Neighbor Totoro is widely considered one of the best animated films ever made and catapulted Ghibli and now legendary director Hayao Miyazaki to stardom. The titular character is widely recognizable (think Japan’s answer to Mickey Mouse), has been parodied by South Pa rk a n d h a s m a d e appearances in Spongebob Squarepants and Toy Story 3 (2010). 4 pm Monday and Sunday, Jan. 16 and 22. Dubbed in English.

Spirited Away (2001)

We’ve all been there before: You’re on a road trip with your folks, who take a wrong turn into a magical spirit land and end up transformed into pigs by a witch who forces you to work in her bathhouse until you can free yourself and get back to Earth. Another hit from Miyazaki, Spirited Away is the only anime to win an Oscar for best animated feature and is the highest-grossing Japanese film in history. Jan. 13 and 20; English subtitles. 6 pm Monday, Jan. 16; dubbed in English.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

If you’ve got older kids, or like a little more action in your cartoons, here’s the flick for you. In a post-apocalyptic future, princess Nausicaä fights against a kingdom that tries to use an ancient weapon to destroy a toxic jungle full of giant insects. Although it isn’t technically Ghibli, Nausicaä is the film that prompted Miyazaki to found the studio in 1985, and is generally accepted as part of the studio’s canon. Jan. 17 and 22. English subtitles. SEE IT: OMSI’s Studio Ghibli Film Retrospective opens Thursday at the Empirical Theater. Ocean Waves and Ghiblies: Episode 2 screen at 7:30 pm. Visit omsi.edu/theater for tickets and a full schedule.

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MOVIES OPENING THIS WEEK Frank’s Song

B Frank Wesley was born Franz Wolfsohn in 1918 Germany. As a young Jew growing up under Hitler’s reign, Frank was briefly imprisoned in a concentration camp before he escaped from Germany, immigrated to the United States, joined the Army and was among the American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald—the camp in which he’d once been held captive. Once the war was over, Frank moved to Portland’s Hawthorne Boulevard and went on to become a psychology professor, author, father, devout jazz fan and saxophone player. Director David Bee invites the audience to meet Frank. We see him playing sax on the porch, gardening with family, and celebrating at his 95th birthday party. Aside from the occasional photograph or brief interview with his children, the audience is rarely given the opportunity to see anyone other than Frank. The decision to keep the camera almost exclusively focused on the film’s main subject adds an undeniable sense of intimacy to the film, but it’s a shame that there aren’t more visual accompaniments. Though Frank is incredible and captivating enough to stand alone, this is a film, after all. Frank’s Song is less a formal documentary, more an invitation into the life of an extraordinary old man. NR. CURTIS COOK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 12.

Live by Night

C The first reel of Live by Night teases some vision of the movie Ben Affleck claimed to be writing and directing— a rollicking pastiche of those classic Warner Bros. shoot-’em-ups borne on breakneck pace, creased fedoras, and romanticized bootleggers. From the moment we’re introduced to Affleck’s WWI-weary minor hoodlum, Joe Coughlin, the film spews forth a Model T-exploding, moll-banging, gangsterslaying frenzy with all the kinetic allure and narrative cohesion of mismatched vintage paperback covers. Shame, then, the last 90 minutes crawl by as an extended estate-planning commercial replete with endless widescreen ogles of classic cars passing lush Floridian vistas. Live by Night suddenly veers from blooddimmed South Boston revenge yarn to logy faux-epic celebrating the social justice meted out by a rum-running middle manager cleaning the Klan out of Tampa. However much the screenplay champions racial equality, supporting actors of color appear only as adoring sidekicks or symbolic touchstones, and the woefully constrained options allowed female leads (Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana and Elle Fanning) nearly justify the refuge for abandoned women our hero keeps promising to build. Blinkered selfdeceit is an essential component of the cinematic American gangster, and the best mob movies focus squarely on the moral disconnect between good ends and evil deeds. Still, burying your head in the sand doesn’t mean you live by night. R. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Division, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard.

Monster Trucks

C+ When resident small-town misunderstood tough kid Tripp (Lucas Till) finds an enormous, oil-drinking manatee-octopus thing at the junkyard one night, his first mistake is to call his tightwad sheriff stepdad (Barry Pepper) about it, who doesn’t believe him. Tripp’s second dumb idea—which turns out to be not just a blessing in disguise, but the entire premise of this movie—is to specially soup up his Chevy truck so the monster can live in it and use the fluorescent cilia on its tentacles to make the car run at super-speed. For a movie advertised as “from the director of Ice Age” (Chris Wedge), Monster Trucks is really, really good. For a movie, in general, it’s not that great. But give it a chance: The screenplay is straightforward, resisting both the planted quips meant to make kids’ movies bearable for parents and the goo-goo-ga-ga simplicity that make them unbearable for everyone.

Narratively, the story is dumbly predictable, but some choices made in its telling are fresh—Rob Lowe plays despicable oil tycoon villain Reece Tenneson, for one, and some pretty relevant lessons about environmentalism are generously sprinkled in. Actually, all the movie’s moral takeaways hold water: Oil companies are evil, animals have feelings, science is cool, parents are clueless, and kids know everything. PG. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Cedar Hills, Clackamas.

Paterson

A- Patient, watchful and quietly tran-

scendent, this urban odyssey from Jim Jarmusch chronicles seven days in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a bus driver who moonlights as a poet. Or is he a poet who moonlights as a bus driver? It’s never entirely clear. For Paterson, work and writing are inseparable—as he ferries passengers though the city that bears his name, Paterson, N.J., he often composes verses in his head, including an unlikely yet eloquent ode to Ohio Blue Tip Matches. To the chagrin of his adoring partner Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), Paterson prefers scrawling these poems in his “secret notebook” to pursuing publication, though their disagreement never provokes a squabble. Instead, Jarmusch delves into the subdued spectacle of Paterson’s daily routine, which he mines for cheeky absurdities and simple acts of decency, like keeping a young girl company after she’s been abandoned outside a factory. It all adds up to a poignant and heartening portrait of a working-class artist. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Cinema 21.

Patriots Day

The new Peter Berg-Mark Wahlberg collaboration about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Not screened for critics. R. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Division, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Reel Music Film Festival

NW Film Center’s 34th Reel Music Film Festival, three weeks of new and old movies about music, kicks off this week with legendary photographer Robert Frank’s raunchy, rarely seen Rolling Stones rockumentary, Cocksucker Blues (1972), which followed the band while it promoted Exile on Main Street. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday Jan. 13.

Sad Vacation

As part of its Sonic Cinema series, the Hollywood screens Danny Garcia’s new documentary about Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, following the couple up to Nancy’s stabbing death at the Hotel Chelsea in 1978. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday, Jan. 14.

Silence

C+ Silence is not a film that should exist. Culled from a footnote of history not important or interesting enough to warrant telling outside of the classroom, this story is too steeped in colonialism and religion to appeal to mainstream audiences. But by the grace of God and Martin Scorsese, here we are, on the beaches of 17th-century Japan, where Portuguese Jesuit priests Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) sail to track down their mentor, Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), who disappeared and reportedly apostatized. Silence is the exact kind of lifelong passion project you’d expect a 74-year-old man to make about religion: a winding, sincere mess of heavy-handed symbolism and oldtimey racism, set off with bad accents and worse voice-overs. Nonetheless, Scorsese is Scorsese. The film takes a turn for the compelling when a play on the unreliable narrator that worked in Shutter Island hints at a deeper discourse on faith and arrogance than the abysmal first act suggests. Until it doesn’t: Scorsese overplays his hand, and Silence ends, 30 minutes late, on the exact syrupy note you expect it to. R. WALKER MACMURDO. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd.

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Moonlight

A Moonlight follows Chiron, played

Arrival

A Arrival inspires because of sorrowful linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who enters a spaceship hovering above Montana shrouded in grief but still has compassion for both aliens and humanity. PG-13. Cinemagic Theatre, Eastport, Fox Tower.

by three different actors, coming of age over two decades on the rough Liberty City blocks of 1980s Miami. If you haven’t seen this film yet, do so: It’s probably going to get screwed at the Oscars, but it’s among the year’s absolute best. R. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Kiggins, Lake.

Assassin’s Creed

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

adaptation of the best-selling video game series about time-traveling assassins comes from Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender): “What the fuck is going on?” It’s a fair question. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Empire Strikes Back, this gritty spinoff brings a depth of humanity to the galaxy that the series hadn’t ever seen. PG-13. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lake Theater & Café, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

B The best line in this lurid, noisy

Elle

A- By stripping away both the kid-

gloves and exploitative approaches to sexual violence, Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert have crafted a grimly humorous but life-affirming portrait of strength and survivorship. R. Cinema 21.

A The best Star Wars film since

Sing

C+ If you’ve been yearning for Seth MacFarlane to play a mouse who sings like Sinatra, this is your movie. PG. Beaverton, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Things to Come

B+ Mia Hansen-Løve’s sleepy French drama about the crumbling life of a middle-aged academic (Isabelle Huppert) captures the jaggedness and inconsistency of daily life. PG-13. Living Room Theaters.

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Fences

A- Denzel Washington swings for the fences with his adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a struggling African-American blue-collar family in 1950s Pittsburgh, hitting a home run and, uh, stealing third base? PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Handmaiden

B+ Park Chan-wook’s revenge tale is an undeniably lush, meticulously constructed film whose celebration of perversity is among the most artful you’ll see. R. Laurelhurst.

Hidden Figures

C Why does Kevin Costner get the

biggest racism-busting line in a movie about underappreciated black women who contributed to NASA’s Apollo 11 trip to the moon? PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Jackie

A Aided by Mica Levi’s ghostly string

score, Pablo Larrain’s peppering in of archival news footage from the time, and Portman’s most spectacular performance yet, this film is less an isolated Jackie Kennedy biopic than a dark and conceptual statement on how the American people classifies, experiences and remembers historic tragedies. R. Cedar Hills, Fox Tower, Tigard.

La La Land

A For some reason, many “cool, smart”

film dorks have decided that Damien Chazelle’s gorgeous modernization of golden-era musicals is bad. Fuck them. La La Land is funny, poignant and as charming as they come. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

Loving

A- The true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), the interracial couple who challenged U.S. miscegenation laws all the way to the Supreme Court, Loving emits slow, relaxed scenes that rely on touch rather than dialogue to illustrate the Lovings’ palpable tenderness. PG-13. Living Room Theaters.

Manchester by the Sea

B- How do you start over when your transgressions refuse to stay buried? According to director Kenneth Lonergan, you don’t, and that denial is one of too many reasons Manchester by the Sea, while admirably tough-minded, is also a drag. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Hollywood.

Moana

B+ If you were curious whether Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could carry a tune, Moana is a ringing affirmative. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

fall from gracE: The Falls 3.

Brokeback Mormon When Portland filmmaker Jon Garcia was 14, he made out with a girl for the first time, an experience he describes as “very innocent.” Yet afterward, Garcia, who grew up Catholic in South Texas, experienced a wave of shame. “I felt like I’d somehow let God down by giving into my carnal curiosity,” he says. “I asked her to leave, and I prayed. I prayed for hours and hours and hours.” Little did Garcia know the experience would later be echoed in his Falls trilogy, which delves into the years-spanning romance of RJ (Nick Ferrucci) and Chris (Benjamin Farmer), two gay Mormon missionaries whose love for each other clashes with the strict parameters of their faith. It’s a conflict that culminates in The Falls: Covenant of Grace, which will have its Portland premiere this Sunday at the 5th Avenue Cinema. Shot in Portland, Covenant of Grace finds RJ and Chris at an emotional and spiritual crossroads. While they’ve outrun many of the obstacles that once divided them, the fusing of RJ’s frustration with the Latter-day Saints’ intolerance and Chris’ continued devoutness imperils their long-distance relationship. The chilly disapproval of Chris’ imperious father (Bruce Jennings), a high-ranking official in the church, doesn’t help matters. RJ and Chris must wrestle with whether they should commit to being a couple or end their romantic journey. Garcia had just a little over 25 days to shoot the film and hopefully overcome the derisive reviews that greeted the second installment in the series, 2013’s The Falls: Testament of Love. “It’s hard to see your work criticized, especially in a publication like Variety magazine or the L.A. Times or The Village Voice,” Garcia confesses, adding with a bitter laugh, “All three of them shit all over Testament of Love.” That said, the battering of Testament doesn’t seem to have overly fazed Garcia. He’s proud of Covenant of Grace, which he characterizes as a story about RJ and Chris proving that it’s possible to exist as both a gay man and a man of God. That sense of finality made for an emotional last day of shooting. “I spent a good portion of the last seven years working with these films. I’ve gotten close to these people,” says Garcia. “I’m hugely grateful for these films, and it’s kind of sad to see them go.” BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Jon Garcia completes his Portland-set Falls trilogy about gay Mormons in love.

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moms” 40 Instances of agreement 41 Hackers’ hangout that’s tough to find via search engines 44 Keg attachment 45 “I’d like to buy ___” (request to Pat Sajak) 46 Armani competitor, initially 48 “I’ll have ___ Christmas without you” (Elvis lyric) 50 “Rio ___” (John Wayne flick) 53 Ask for a doggie treat, perhaps 54 Judy Jetson’s brother 57 “Make ___!” (Captain Picard’s order) 58 Some PTA members 59 Aloha Stadium locale 60 Morgue acronym 61 Judge Lance played by Kenneth Choi on “American Crime Story” 62 First number shouted before a ball drop, often

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author.) In accordance with the current astrological rhythms, Virgo, I invite you to seek out similar influences -- for your own good!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You have a divine mandate to love bigger and stronger and truer than ever before. It’s high time to freely give the gifts you sometimes hold back from those you care for. It’s high time to take full ownership of neglected treasures so you can share them with your worthy allies. It’s high time to madly cultivate the generosity of spirit that will enable you to more easily receive the blessings that can and should be yours. Be a brave, softhearted warrior of love!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In 2017, you will have unprecedented opportunities to re-imagine, revise, and reinvent the story of your life. You’ll be able to forge new understandings about your co-stars and reinterpret the meanings of crucial plot twists that happened once upon a time. Now check out these insights from author Mark Doty: “The past is not static, or ever truly complete; as we age we see from new positions, shifting angles. A therapist friend of mine likes to use the metaphor of the kind of spiral stair that winds up inside a lighthouse. As one moves up that stair, the core at the center doesn’t change, but one continually sees it from another vantage point; if the past is a core of who we are, then our movement in time always brings us into a new relation to that core.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) I love and respect Tinker Bell, Kermit the Frog, Shrek, Wonder Woman, SpongeBob SquarePants, Snow White, Road Runner, and Calvin and Hobbes. They have provided me with much knowledge and inspiration. Given the current astrological omens, I suspect that you, too, can benefit from cultivating your relationships with characters like them. It’s also a favorable time for you to commune with the spirits of Harriet Tubman, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, or any other historical figures who inspire you. I suggest you have dreamlike conversations with your most interesting ancestors, as well. Are you still in touch with your imaginary friends from childhood? If not, renew acquaintances. CANCER (June 21-July 22) “I never wish to be easily defined,” wrote Cancerian author Franz Kafka. “I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.” Do you ever have that experience? I do. I’m a Crab like you, and I think it’s common among members of our tribe. For me, it feels liberating. It’s a way to escape people’s expectations of me and enjoy the independence of living in my fantasies. But I plan to do it a lot less in 2017, and I advise you to do the same. We should work hard at coming all the way down to earth. We will thrive by floating less and being better grounded; by being less fuzzy and more solid; by not being so inscrutable, but rather more knowable. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Here’s my declaration: “I hereby forgive, completely and permanently, all motorists who have ever irked me with their rude and bad driving. I also forgive, totally and forever, all tech support people who have insulted me, stonewalled me, or given me wrong information as I sought help from them on the phone. I furthermore forgive, utterly and finally, all family members and dear friends who have hurt my feelings.” Now would be a fantastic time for you to do what I just did, Leo: Drop grudges, let go of unimportant outrage, and issue a blanket amnesty. Start with the easier stuff -- the complaints against strangers and acquaintances -- and work your way up to the allies you cherish. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) There are some authors who both annoy me and intrigue me. Even though I feel allergic to the uncomfortable ideas they espouse, I’m also fascinated by their unique provocations. As I read their words, I’m half-irritated at their grating declarations, and yet greedy for more. I disagree with much of what they say, but feel grudgingly grateful for the novel perspectives they prod me to discover. (Nobel Prize-winner Elias Canetti is one such

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Now would be an excellent time to add new beauty to your home. Are there works of art or buoyant plants or curious symbols that would lift your mood? Would you consider hiring a feng shui consultant to rearrange the furniture and accessories so as to enhance the energetic flow? Can you entice visits from compelling souls whose wisdom and wit would light up the place? Tweak your imagination so it reveals tricks about how to boost your levels of domestic bliss.

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