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At Legacy Emanuel, janitors are called “floor technicians.” One floor technician allegedly mounted a camera on his mop so he could shoot peeper videos. 9 If you want to drink a purple hooter made by an acclaimed bartender visiting from New York, there is a place. 14 Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker is an inspiration to other gingers making ethnic food, including the chef of a new Jamaican pop-up. 16
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In defending a decision to erect a hippie totem pole, the Oregon Country Fair has floated the concept of transnativism. 22 The guy from Grandaddy moved back to California, so he’ll share his favorite secret hiking trail. 27 A FoPo bar now has a “rudebwoy” night with a DJ spinning rocksteady and reggae. 35 Reed College has a history of kicking out gay students. 41
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WW’S MAY ENDORSEMENTS
Portland Public Schools has shown it is not a good manager of its buildings [“The Fixer-Upper Election,” WW, April 26, 2017]. The public should vote no on the bond measure until PPS can show taxpayers it can produce better graduation rates and control its spending. It is crazy that PPS thinks fixing old buildings is the right economic solution, with many buildings over 70 years old. This is not This Old House Portland style. It would be better to consolidate the number of buildings by constructing new schools that meet building standards. It is far cheaper to run new buildings than to continually ask voters for more bond money for additional remodel fixes. —Steve Jay
The success of the district begins with the leadership of those on the board, meaning their ability to identify the challenges the district faces and build agreement on lasting solutions. Diverse perspectives are especially needed to meet the needs of all children. The clear choice on those criteria is Munson. —Doug Capps
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If one were to take seriously WW’s premise that this is the “fix it” election with regard to PPS, why would anyone vote for School Board candidate Julia Brim-Edwards, who had one shot already and fixed nothing? It’s the same question regarding Scott Bailey, who has been around for years, though not in an elected position, and ignored the district’s lead issues. —“round up the usual suspects”
I wish WW had endorsed Virginia that PPS LaForte for the Portland School Board. She has just the energy, tenac- thinks THREAT OF VIOLENCE ity, leadership and smarts PPS needs. fixing old CANCELS PARADE The fact that she has experienced buildings Let all the far-right wackos and far-left firsthand what it’s like to be up is the right wackos fight it out. Then the rest of us against PPS bureaucracy, and kept at can go back to living in peace [Mureconomic it—for years—speaks volumes. murs: “Brewing Street Brawl Derails We now have a bond on the bal- solution.” Parade Plans,” WW, April 26, 2017]. lot to address the urgent health America is not North Korea. We’re not ruled by one family. You and safety needs she called out as a concerned parent. She will bring that needed get another chance to elect the person you want parent-advocate perspective to the board. 3.75 years from now. Until then, stay off the freeways and streets, or else face the consequences —Lisa Zuniga of your actions. I believe WW made a serious mistake not endors- —“Jake” ing Jamila Singleton Munson for the School Board. A successful board member is not deter- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. mined by knowing the minutiae of PPS’s work or Letters must be 250 or fewer words. having “shown up” to serve on committees. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com.
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How can I persuade cellphone users sitting in their cars to stop pumping out all those unnecessary greenhouse gases? I’m glad these people aren’t texting/talking/swiping while driving, but shouldn’t they turn off their engines, too? —CO2 & You Cellphones already come with one highly effective CO2-mitigation strategy: causing fatal car accidents. This neutralizes the carbon footprints of people who otherwise would have continued—in some cases, for decades—such carbonintensive activities as driving; taking long, hot showers; and exhaling. Of course, there’s always some do-gooder to come along and talk during the Grim Reaper’s backswing, so hands-free laws and “don’t text and drive” campaigns have slowed the carnage. In fact, a bill currently working its way through the Oregon Legislature (House Bill 2597) would broaden the prohibition against texting or talking while driving to include pretty much anything you might do with a phone (or similar device) in the car. This means no more tweeting, swiping, Instagramming, Candy Crushing, or doing that thing where you turn on LinkedIn notifications, set your phone to vibrate, and stuff it down your pants. 4
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Such social opprobrium may eventually begin to penetrate the skulls of phone-mad drivers. Soon, instead of veering into the oncoming lane while retweeting pictures of Taylor Swift with Hitler quotes, social-media addicts may pull over and retweet the same pictures while pointlessly burning half a tank of gas. We will call this “progress.” Which brings us to your question, CO2. So far, we haven’t seen an environmental study of cellphone-related engine idling. Anecdotal evidence is pretty overwhelming that the activity is on the rise, however—and you’re right to object. Some folks think turning your car off and on causes more pollution than letting it idle. They’re wrong: If you’re going to be stopped for more than 10 seconds, you should turn off the engine. To persuade people, just try to get that info out into the world. Could you write in to a newspaper column or something? Try to pick one in which the guy doesn’t sound like a serial killer. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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During his 2016 campaign, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler made a high-profile pledge to ensure a shelter bed for everyone living on Portland streets by the end of 2018. In announcing his first proposed budget more than a year later, Wheeler insists he’s living up to that campaign promise. “My budget makes the largest-ever investments to address homelessness, by investing more than $25 million to the Joint Office of Homeless Services, matching the county’s generous commitment,” Wheeler said May 1. But budget documents show the investment he’s proposing is not a record—it’s $300,000 less than the city has contributed this year—and none of it is dedicated to adding shelter beds. A memo from the joint office shows Wheeler’s budget may, in fact, cause a reduction in shelter beds. He’s increasing funds to shutting down and cleaning up after homeless camps. “I’m hopeful that the other commissioners and members of our community will push for more funding to address this emergency,” says County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury.
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One of the biggest anachronisms in Oregon politics—Republican control of the Washington County commission—could soon come under fire. Washington County is the state’s economic engine, home to Nike, Intel and other highpaying employers. The state’s second-largest county long ago turned blue: Democrats now outnumber Republicans 39 percent to 24 percent. Yet the county commission, although nonpartisan, is all-male and majority Republican. That could change
next year, when incumbent chairman Andy Duyck, a Republican, steps down after his second term. Eyeing the post, say multiple sources, is Ryan Deckert, president of the Oregon Business Association and a former state lawmaker. A business-friendly Democrat, Deckert fits the county’s new profile, and he may need a new job when the OBA merges with Associated Oregon Industries later this year. Deckert could not be reached for comment.
Homeless Advocate Michael Stoops Dies
Michael Stoops, director of community organizing for the National Coalition for the Homeless, died May 1 at age 67. Three decades ago, Stoops was a major figure in Portland. He led the Burnside Community Council, which ran a variety of homeless services, including an East Burnside Street homeless center named Baloney Joe’s. In 1987, Stoops helped galvanize support for congressional legislation that brought billions of dollars to the homeless in subsequent decades. But that
same year, WW published a cover story that reported Stoops regularly had sex with homeless boys under age 18 who’d come to Baloney Joe’s seeking assistance. Stoops’ allies tried to discredit the story, which included numerous on-the-record sources and evidence from Stoops’ medical records. An independent investigation confirmed WW’s reporting, and Stoops resigned immediately. “I do not want my own mistakes to be used as an excuse for anyone to withhold support for a cause I believe in,” Stoops said after the report was released. He left Portland for Washington, D.C., and was never charged criminally.
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Shaun King’s Top Five Overlooked Stories of Police Violence Shaun King writes about justice. But he can no longer believe in it. For two years, the activist and columnist has covered criminal justice— especially police brutality—for the New York Daily News. Those stories, which often end with grand juries declining to indict officers who kill black people, have left King jaded. “It would rock most nations to their core,” he says. “Most developed countries can go a year without police killing their citizens. We mow through people here.” King is coming to Portland to speak on civil rights May 4. Before his trip, he told WW the five cases he’s covered that he feels haven’t gotten their due on TV news and in the national consciousness. “None of these families received justice,” King says. “And every single one thought they would. I thought they would.” AARON MESH and COREY PEIN.
—Chant by Black Bloc protesters at the May 1 march in downtown Portland.
“The city has canceled the permit, based on the violence of the crowd.” —Portland Police Bureau loudspeaker van, announcing the city had revoked permission for the march after protesters threw projectiles, including full Pepsi cans, at riot police.
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“That was a riot!” —A Portland antifa member, gushing as police made 25 arrests and ended the march after Black Bloc members set fires along MAX tracks and smashed the glass of shop windows.
1. Ramarley Graham, New York City In 2012, a police officer chased 18-year-old Graham into his apartment and fatally shot him in his own bathroom. The officer was indicted, but the charges were dismissed. “His family has fought nonstop for justice,” King says. “They witnessed the shooting. It was literally right there in their house.” 2. Ezell Ford, Los Angeles A 25-year-old black man who suffered from mental illness, Ford was fatally shot in the back while handcuffed in 2014 by an officer. Prosecutors did not seek charges. “It was one of those cases where the entire
community felt let down by the system,” King recalls. “No one lost their job. No one was ever held accountable, and certainly no one was prosecuted.” 3. Dillon Taylor, Salt Lake City Taylor, 20 years old and white, was walking out of a convenience store wearing headphones in 2014 when a police officer investigating a robbery ordered him to stop—then shot him dead. Prosecutors never filed charges. “You can see this on the body camera, and it’s just unreal,” King says. “You see Dillon dying right there on the sidewalk. And the headphones are in his ears the whole time.” 4. Rekia Boyd, Chicago An off-duty police detective fired five shots into a crowd in 2012, hitting 22-year-old Boyd in the face. The detective was charged with manslaughter, but a judge cleared him of all charges. “Oh, man, that one burns me up even thinking about it,” King says. “Rekia was just the sweetest girl.” 5. Alton Sterling, Baton Rogue, La. Sterling’s 2016 killing received national attention—but King says the media have overlooked how President Barack Obama left the cases unresolved. The U.S. Department of Justice on May 2 declined to indict the officers involved in Sterling’s death. “The family told me very confidently that people in the Justice Department had told them, ‘We got it, we’re going to close it out, and it’s not going to be left up to Jeff Sessions or anybody else,’” King says. “And they didn’t. They sure didn’t.” GO: The World Affairs Council of Oregon presents Shaun King at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, on Thursday, May 4. 7 pm. $20-$170.
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OREGON POLITICIANS HAVE A HISTORY OF USING CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO PAY PERSONAL BILLS. Last week, state lawmakers pulled House Bill 2351 just before a floor vote, after campaign finance expert Dan Meek argued the bill would allow candidates to convert campaign funds to personal use with only a 10 percent penalty. Even without that incentive, Oregon’s notoriously lax campaign laws have provided plenty of opportunities for mischief. Here are five of the most glaring examples. NIGEL JAQUISS.
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Portland City Council candidate Emilie Boyles is ordered to repay $145,000 in public campaign funds after paying her 16-year-old daughter $15,000 for marketing advice, among other improper expenses.
Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland) pays $3,092 in fines to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission for 11 counts of using campaign funds to pay for car insurance for her personal vehicle.
Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) uses campaign funds to pay 159 tabs at two Salem bars ($8,000), rent a room in his home for a campaign office ($4,800), and stay 58 nights at a Salem hotel ($7,400). Elections officials OK the expenses.
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Found and Lost PORTLAND AUTHORITIES RELEASED A MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY MOLESTED A GIRL. THEN HER MOTHER FOUND EVIDENCE OF MORE CRIMES.
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A little after 3 am on a February night, Michele Wilkens called the Portland Police Bureau. Minutes earlier, Wilkens’ daughter, 12, burst into her bedroom crying. “Daniel was in my room with his pants down, rubbing against my leg,” the girl told her mother. The alleged intruder was Daniel Armando Gonzalez, 49, who rented a room in Wilkens’ Piedmont neighborhood home. Wilkens (last name changed to protect the victim) called the cops. They arrested Gonzalez for sexual abuse in the first degree, a felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 75 months. But 36 hours later, they let him go. A few days later, a relative of Wilkens’ searched Gonzalez’s now-vacant room and found a flash drive that appeared to show Gonzalez had been shooting video up the skirts and dresses of visitors to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, where he worked. Last month, Gonzalez was again charged, this time with attempted sexual abuse and private indecency relating to the girl, and 33 counts of invasion of personal privacy relating to the surreptitious videos. But he has disappeared. Wilkens says her dealings with law enforcement officials in the past two months have left her questioning the decision to release Gonzalez from custody in the first place. Wilkens is black and earns a modest income. She questions
whether the concerns of Portlanders of her race and economic status are given sufficient attention. “If it had been a white girl on the westside this happened to,” she says, “he probably wouldn’t have been let out.” The story of Gonzalez’s arrest and release provides a window into the way Portland police and Multnomah County prosecutors make decisions in alleged sexual assault cases. Wilkens says police and prosecutors rarely returned her calls and failed to tell her when Gonzalez was released from jail, leaving her to discover that online. “The secrecy around an investigation can make victims and their families feel they are being ignored,” says Rosemary Brewer, a former prosecutor and executive director of the Oregon Crime Victims Law Center. “If you come from a population that expects to be treated badly by police and prosecutors, you are going to feel it more.” Police arrived Feb. 28 and arrested Gonzalez without incident. He had rented a room in the house for 2½ years, according to court records. He said he was born in El Salvador but had lived in Portland since 1990. Records showed he’d been arrested previously in California but never convicted. At the time of his arrest, he worked at Legacy Emanuel in North Portland as a floor technician. He’d been there for nine years, he said, and earned $19.90 an hour. Wilkens and her children moved into the house, which belongs to her grandfather, in 2016. She says they rarely saw
Gonzalez. “He had a second job,” she says. “He “I watched the video, and I’m like, ‘Wow— was never there.” he’s a weirdo,’” Wilkens says. On the morning Gonzalez was arrested, the She says the video captured Gonzalez’s face girl gave a statement to investigators, and her at times and also included time and date stamps. leg was swabbed for DNA. (That flash drive is apparently the basis for 33 Wilkens says a detective texted her that counts of invasion of personal privacy “on or morning saying police would come to collect between Aug. 10, 2015, and April 17, 2016.”) the sheets from the girl’s bed later that day. Wilkens says after discovering the flash She says she believes the swab from her drive, she called Legacy’s human resources daughter’s leg yielded Gonzalez’s DNA because department to tell what she’d seen and that the detective texted her later and told her not she’d turned it over to police. to bother saving the sheets. (Police declined to “They said, ‘You did the right thing, but don’t comment. DNA evidence can, however, take tell anybody about it,’” Wilkens recalls. weeks to test.) A Legacy spokeswoman But the next day, the Multdeclined to respond to nomah County District AttorWilkens’ concern the hosney’s Office “no-complainted” pital wanted to cover up the the case, which means it alleged filming. dropped the charge against “As soon as we were notified Gonzalez and released him 36 of Daniel Gonzalez’s arrest, hours after he’d been booked. we took swift and appropriProsecutors often drop ate action and can confirm cases in which a suspect has he no longer works for us,” been arrested without an Legacy spokeswoman Megan extensive prior investigation. Deisler said in a statement. They may determine there Deisler declined to answer is no basis for charges or ask other questions. police to investigate further. Police Bureau spokesman Once a suspect has been Sgt. Pete Simpson says he arrested, prosecutors must can’t comment on a pendbring a case before a grand ing investigation. But when jury within five business days WW asked whether police or release the suspect. If they were less aggressive in their present an incomplete or weak investigation and less comcase and the jury declines to municative with the family indict, it’s difficult for them to because the alleged victim is bring the case again. black, Simpson replied, “The Police escorted Gonzalez answer is a categorical no.” back to the North Portland On March 27, a Multnomah home, where he and the girl County grand jury indicted lived, so he could pick up his Gonzalez on charg es of belongings and move elseattempted sexual abuse in where. the first degree and private Wilkens says she was very indecency related to the girl upset authorities released and 33 counts of invasion of him. She says she believed, personal privacy related to based on the detective’s text the hidden camera. message, police had enough to But by that time, he was gone. hold him. Gonzalez no longer lived at “They had the DNA and her the address where the alleged statement,” she says. “It made crime occurred, and he’d been me feel like they thought my fired from his job. daughter was a liar.” Rees says his office has Don Rees, a senior deputy done everything it could to district attorney, says his communicate with the girl’s DANIEL GONZALEZ office cannot comment on the family and that publicity now specifics of a pending case, just makes authorities’ jobs including why Gonzalez was harder. released, but says prosecutors were diligently “The U.S. marshals office indicates publicaworking toward determining the truth. tion of this story will hinder their efforts to “Any delays post-arrest were related to apprehend the subject,” Rees says. further investigation and legal research and to Wilkens says she’s talking before Gonzalez’s make sure constitutional rights of the accused trial—if he’s apprehended—not because she’s are protected,” Rees says. seeking publicity or planning to file a lawsuit A couple of days after Gonzalez was released, but because she wants law enforcement offiWilkens says, another family member was cials to take responsibility. cleaning Gonzalez’s room and found a flash “I want them to know they were wrong and drive in the closet he’d used. they didn’t do their jobs,” she says. Wilkens says she downloaded the flash drive She says her kids are fearful because Gonzaon her computer and watched the video on it to lez is free. see if there were any images of her daughter or “It just makes me so angry,” Wilkens says. her two other children on it. “He’s out there walking the streets because they She says the drive did not contain images of didn’t hold him and they didn’t make him give a her family. It did include dozens of images that reporting address. appeared to come from a camera pointed up “It took them a month to bring these women’s dresses and skirts—a hidden camera charges,” she adds. “They had the videos. That’s mounted on a floor mop. ridiculous.”
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The Other School District W W ’ S M AY 2 0 1 7 E N D O R S E M E N T S FOR THE MULTNOMAH EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT
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In some elections, opening your ballot can provide an education. Tucked between a record $790 million Portland Public Schools construction bond and three Portland School Board races is an entity many voters won’t recognize: the Multnomah Education Service District. Few people are familiar with MESD, a government agency with an $81 million annual budget and few headlines. MESD uses its state and grant funding to provide eight school districts (including PPS) with school nurses, tech and special education services as well as Outdoor School. In 2015, the district received a tsunami of bad press when a former Oregon Teacher of the Year said he was fired after claiming discrimination based on sexual orientation. (He was rehired, and eventually settled with MESD.) That same spring, the MESD board dumped its superintendent over her management style. Two years later, that leak of unpleasant news has been stanched. In 2016, MESD hired a new superintendent, Sam Breyer, out of Centennial School District. MESD started tracking annual goals and launched new programs, several of them aimed at its most at-risk kids. In this election (ballots were mailed to voters last week and must be turned in by May 16), MESD has four contested races to consider. As always, WW invited the candidates to participate in a joint interview, asking them tough questions along with a more lighthearted one (video is available on wweek.com). Here are our picks.
POSITION 2, AT-LARGE Kristin Cornuelle The race to succeed Nels Johnson in a position spanning all of Multnomah County presents a contrast between an insider and outsider of local schools. Helen Ying is a hearings officer at Parkrose High School— a job that means deciding whether to expel students from the school in Northeast Portland. She’s a firstgeneration immigrant from Hong Kong who brings 30 years of teaching experience in Portland schools, ideas for new ways to reach out to minority kids, and a bevy of endorsements. (In 2012, Ying ran for Metro Council—an unsuccessful bid marred by questions of whether she actually lived in the district where she campaigned.) Kristin Cornuelle is an intellectual property lawyer who serves as president of the Bridlemile Parent Teacher Association in the West Hills. She moved to Portland five years ago from the San Francisco area, where she represented tech companies. In her short time here, she’s plunged into volunteering and coaching basketball, and gets raves for her advocacy for special-needs students. It’s a close call. But Cornuelle gets the nod—both for bringing fresh ideas and being the rare Bay Area tech transplant to take her formidable private-sector chops to Portland’s social issues. We also like that she declined to do any fundraising for this race, a sign that she’s seeking the office as public service. John Sweeney is also running. He served on the MESD board from 1979 to 1987. He’s been a perennial office-seeker since then, but his ideas haven’t demonstrably evolved. What Cornuelle’s high school yearbook said about her: “Most fun on a deserted island.” 10
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most troubled kids, including a plan to bring “dorm dogs” to the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Center as fourlegged means to lower stress. Her opponent, Joe Hanson, didn’t provide a biography in the Voters’ Pamphlet or answer our calls.
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POSITION 1, ZONE 5 (GRESHAM, FAIRVIEW, TROUTDALE AND PORTIONS OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY) Susie Jones Susie Jones taught music classes in East Multnomah County for more than 30 years—saxophone and flute are her specialties. But her more relevant experience is on the Mt. Hood Community College board. That’s a fractious elected body (board member George “Sonny” Yellott hijacked meetings last year with rants about undocumented immigrants) in which Jones has repeatedly fought to pass a general obligation bond with a constituency averse to taxes. “We’re an elected board, and we can’t fire each other,” she says. “You have to mold seven individuals into a team.” Her opponent, Abigail Howatt, is a special-education assistant in the GreshamBarlow School District. She didn’t reply to WW’s requests for an interview. What Jones’ high school yearbook said about her: She was voted “most talented” at Lebanon High School.
POSITION 3, ZONE 2 (INNER PORTLAND) Mary Botkin Mary Botkin boasts a fascinating life story: As a white student at majority-black Jefferson High School, she was galvanized to travel to the Deep South as part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. She then became a longtime political director for the Oregon chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest labor union of public employees in the U.S., until retirement two years ago. On the MESD board, where she’s served since 2015, Botkin is distinguished by bigheartedness: In her endorsement interview, she displayed photos of at-risk students from Helensview School like a doting grandmother. (Botkin championed a visit to the Oregon Capitol for them—something no education service district had tried before.) She’s focused on new ideas to help the
What Botkin’s high school yearbook would have said about her: “Lost.”
POSITION 4, ZONE 4 (EAST PORTLAND) Jessica Arzate The incumbent in this position, Francisco “Frank” Acosta Jr., works campus security for PPS. He’s served one term in office, but didn’t show up for WW’s endorsement interview. He faces two spirited challengers. Jodi Ballard-Beach is a projects manager for Multnomah County who co-chairs the Oregon Women’s Equity Coalition. She wants to focus on early education and increase graduation rates. But the most promising candidate in this race is Jessica Arzate. She’s a second-generation Mexican-American from California who manages the early learning program at United Way. Her endorsement interview was a struggle: She couldn’t identify practical ways for the district to improve, or how she would perform more ably than Acosta. But Arzate’s passion for underserved students was clear, and she’ll provide a needed perspective in a part of Portland that is growing more diverse. She gets our vote. What Arzate’s high school yearbook would have said about her: “Most likely to be a writer.”
WW’S FULL ENDORSEMENTS IN THE MAY 2017 ELECTION: Measure 26-193 Portland Public Schools bond Yes Portland School Board, Zone 4 Rita Moore Portland School Board, Zone 5 Scott Bailey Portland School Board, Zone 6 Julia Brim-Edwards Measure 26-189 City auditor independence Yes Measure 26-194 Lodging tax on short-term rentals Yes
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PAINTED INTO A CORNER: This walkway at the Portland Art Museum was created in 1968, when the city set aside a portion of Southwest Madison Street for pedestrians and cyclists. Now the museum wants to use the site for its new Rothko Pavilion (drawing below).
The Rothko Job THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM RAISED $27 MILLION FOR AN EXPANSION IT LACKS THE LEGAL RIGHT TO BUILD. BY S OP H I A J U N E
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Portland’s largest arts nonprofit has put itself in an awkward position, raising more than $27 million for a project it lacks the legal permission to construct. In October, the Portland Art Museum announced plans for its largest expansion since 2005: a $50 million project called the Rothko Pavilion in honor of late abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, who grew up in Portland and is critics as one of the most significant American artists of the past 75 years. The museum says it has raised funds for the project and the Rothko family has agreed to loan works from its collection. Groundbreaking is scheduled for 2018. But the museum missed one key step: It doesn’t have the legal right to build the expansion. The Rothko Pavilion expansion plan would fill a space that is currently an open sculpture garden and public walkway between the two buildings on the museum’s Southwest 10th Avenue campus: the main building and a former Masonic temple, which was acquired by the museum in 1992. With its central location on the South Park Blocks and a board of directors that includes many prominent business leaders, the museum is a citadel of power— particularly of real estate clout. Among the large property owners who give their time and money to the museum are Melvin “Pete” Mark; Mark Goodman, who with
“THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION IS WHETHER THE INCONVENIENCE FOR THOSE PEOPLE IS VASTLY OUTWEIGHED BY THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A MUCH BETTER MUSEUM.” —J.S. MAY, PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
his family owns 25 downtown blocks; and developer Jim Winkler. That shared expertise makes the museum’s predicament all the more surprising. Nearly 50 years ago, the city of Portland gave the art museum the right to take over a portion of Southwest Madison Street, barring car traffic so the street could become a pedestrian walkway. But that gift came with a condition, placed in writing in 1968: “the vacated street will not be used for any pur-
pose other than an open mall.” But the Rothko Pavilion project would place a two-story glass enclosure atop the site—in effect turning the sculpture garden and walkway into a new lobby for the museum. That lobby would be open for the public to walk through, but only during museum hours. Bikes and pets would no longer be allowed to pass through at all. Museum officials knew they would
eventually need city permission to build the Rothko Pavilion on the walkway. But they didn’t formally ask the City Council until halfway through the fundraising campaign. Several observers of City Hall say they’ve rarely seen such a misstep. “It’s a pretty big error in judgment,” says planning consultant Peter Finley Fry. “Control of the site is the most important critical first step. If you’re going to spend millions, you [must] control the property legally before you start.” Winkler, the developer and museum board member, says the board did conduct informal discussions during the administration of then-Mayor Charlie Hales that “would indicate we had majority support” on the City Council. “I think we will prevail,” Winkler says. “It’d be a huge black eye for the city.” Concern about the proposal started last fall in the nearby Eliot Tower condo complex. By December, neighbors and bike advocates began organizing opposition. As Bike Portland first reported last month, the Portland Commission on Disability and the city’s pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees all oppose enclosing the walkway. Geoff Wren, a neighbor and museum supporter, says the plan requires lowincome residents of the neighborhood to make their way through a gleaming new lobby to get home. “It seems almost absurd to suggest people in wheelchairs go through a museum lobby full of patrons, children and visitors,” he says. “The Rothko Pavilion would be a fortress that is impermeable. I wonder if that’s part of the idea, to create a structure that will make the homeless and poor feel unwelcome.” At an April 20 City Council meeting, the museum sought to amend the 1968 ordinance and obtain an easement allowing it to continue planning the Rothko Pavilion. City Commissioner Dan Saltzman introduced the proposal, but acknowledged the plan would “spark some controversy and concern, and does fly in the face of some pretty specific central city policies around connectivity and accessibility.” At the meeting, 24 people, including some museum patrons, opposed granting the easement. One man compared the pavilion, which would eliminate the most direct path to a nearby streetcar stop, to President Trump’s border wall and travel ban. After hearing public testimony, Saltzman pulled the amended ordinance back from a vote, asking the museum to hold further discussions with his office. Museum officials say the objections are overblown. “The fundamental question is whether the inconvenience for those people is vastly outweighed by the benefits of having a much better museum,” says J.S. May, chief advancement officer for the museum. “People can legitimately disagree on that issue.” Saltzman plans to reintroduce the museum’s request for the amended ordinance and easement as soon as next month. “Most people are able to walk the two blocks,” May says. “When the project is done, the people who perhaps were not liking it would actually be stunned with the project. I would hope they would be able to move on to enjoying this.” Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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POP-UPS FOR THE PEOPLE
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FORGET PORTLAND’S PRICEY, STAID POP-UP RESTAURANTS. THE NEW CLASS IS INNOVATIVE, INEXPENSIVE AND FUN.
t’s a sunny Friday at Apex, one of the most famous beer bars in the country, and competition for patio seats is fierce. We’re not here for the beer. Even though this bar doesn’t have a kitchen, two days a week you can get some of the best new pizza in town, courtesy of a pop-up pizzeria called Ranch. Ranch’s hefty grandma-style square pies are mysteriously delivered here on foot and only to a few beer bars in the neighborhood. Next weekend, one of those bars, the Beermongers, will also play host to Jamaican Taste, a new pop-up serving fish cakes and beef patties made by a chef who’s cooked for every reggae band touring the East Coast. A week after that, Taqueria Nueve will host a pop-up called Shipwreck, a boozy party that will serve trashy purple hooters paired with popcorn shrimp. Something amazing is happening in Portland food. The once-staid Portland pop-up trend has gotten…fun. Pop-ups have been a fixture in Portland for three years.
But most have been expensive and formal, like Nodoguro’s Japanese dinners themed after fairy tales or Langbaan’s region-hopping Thai. But those $100 umpty-course backroom dinners seem to indulge the chefs more than the diners. The mood at these staid supper clubs is often like a food church presided over by a chef with tweezers. And God help you if get sick, have to work late or are allergic to something on the fixed menu not announced in advance. If the Portland pop-up of yesterday was a clubby banquet, this bold new wave of pop-ups feels fresh, exciting and democratic—a low-risk, casual way for chefs and bartenders to showcase the food they’re passionate about. These days the scope, inventiveness and sheer amount of talent on display feel a lot like the birth of Portland’s food-cart scene, back when top-tier chefs kicked out $8 sandwiches from inside a sun-baked aluminum box. We spent the past month finding our favorites among the new crop of Portland pop-ups. Most will feed you for $25 or less. The other will stuff you for $42 and let you bring your own booze. CONT. on page 14
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JORDAN CHESBROUGH
POP-UPS FOR THE PEOPLE
ERIC NELSON
SHIPWRECK
Green Eyes cocktail
A SEA OF GUILTY PLEASURES SERVED BY THE BEST BARTENDERS IN TOWN. If it weren’t for the guy who set his own butt on fire, there probably wouldn’t be a Shipwreck. Back in 2013, the kitchen manager at Pal’s Shanty robbed his own restaurant and then torched the place to cover it up—accidentally setting himself on fire in the process. Pal’s never reopened, and Eric Nelson was sad. “I lost all the food I wanted to eat,” says the Laurelhurst Market bartender, who at the time was mixing drinks at Naomi Pomeroy’s colonial-hip cocktail spot Expatriate. So the Alaska native figured he’d grab his chef buddy Jake Stevens from Beast and create a pop-up devoted to all the trashy seaside fare he loved from his childhood, from crab Louie to a fishwich to Ore-Ida fast-food fries. Pretty much every item on the menu is a memory from Oregon or Alaska, including the name: Shipwreck was the moniker of the bar side at Sea Galley, a family seafood spot he used to go to in Anchorage as a kid. “At Gino’s, it was steamer clams,” he says. “Popeyes was popcorn shrimp. As for the fish sandwich—I just think there’s a shortage in Portland.” But the most important thing, he says, is to keep Shipwreck simple, accessible, cheap, boozy and fun. No plate costs more than $14. Unsurprisingly, this was a popular decision. The first Shipwreck night had an hour-and-ahalf wait almost from opening. “We’re not fermenting, we’re not foraging, we’re not taking reservations, it’s not the churched-up, 12-course meal,” Nelson laughs. “It’s just a bartender party, an homage to bartenders.” But even on the cocktail menu, Nelson refuses to make you take your medicine, opting for the crazed, sugary, goofball palate of his Alaskan homeland.
“People in Alaska like sweet, fruity, neon-colored drinks,” he says. “There’s a lot of Midori. I like those things because they’re fun and kitschy, and we can make them taste good.” His Green Eyes Midori drink is every bit as neon-green as he said—but that mix of overproof gin, lemon and egg white is threateningly chuggable and balanced, enough so it’s already landed on the menu at Teardrop Lounge in the Pearl. The party behind the bar is only getting bigger and dumber. “Emily Mistell, the former bar manager at Rum Club, is doing her take on a purple hooter,” he says. Jetsetting former Woodsman Tavern bartender Evan Zimmerman will make “a little drink with blended Campari and OJ—without ice so it adds aeration—and then flat Champagne. He says it adds ‘yeastiness.’ It’s called You’re Doing It Wrong.” And, hell, Giuseppe González—inventor of the Trinidad sour and owner of the Suffolk Arms in New York—figured he’d fly out to pour drinks at Shipwreck, too. “Giuseppe is the guy Jeffrey Morgenthaler looks to when he wants to know what to do next,” Nelson says. “He’s a hero.” But as with any good party, Nelson says he doesn’t plan to keep anything too consistent— the chefs will rotate just as often as bartenders, just to keep it interesting. “This is Jake’s last one,” Nelson says of the May Shipwreck. “Whoever wants to jump in, I’ll invite them. I thought about getting the kitchen manager of Holman’s to come cook at one. I like the idea of showing that anybody could throw a good party.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
“WE’RE NOT FERMENTING,
WE’RE NOT FORAGING, WE’RE NOT TAKING RESERVATIONS.”
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NEXT UP: The next Shipwreck is at Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., on Monday, May 15. 5 pm-2 am. shipwreckpdx.com.
HENRY CROMETT
RANCH PIZZA
DETROIT PARTY PIES DELIVERED TO YOUR FAVORITE BEER BAR.
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ortland has a proud history of mystery pizza. If you’re a veteran Portlander, you probably remember the mystique of Lonesome’s. Before it was a window at Dante’s downtown, Lonesome’s worked from an unmarked kitchen, firing up late-night pies topped with edible glitter, with weird names that would change every few weeks. The guys behind Ranch don’t remember any of that, but they ended up doing something similar. Ranch pies are available only at the Beermongers, Apex and Baerlic Brewing. There’s still some mystery about it—even my favorite bartender at the Beermongers blew me off when I asked for contact info. So I ended up calling during off-hours and getting the scoop on these pies, which are delivered on foot by a man who appears by the door of the bar with a big, heavy, pricey square pie that will serve five to six. If you’re in a smaller group, don’t worry—Ranch makes for great leftovers. In fact, that was the plan from the beginning. “Our first inspiration was actually leftover pizza,” says Richard Corey, who runs Ranch with his buddy Eric Wood. “We love really good pizza that you reheat in a cast-iron pan or the oven, and it gets a little char on the bottom or a little crispy.” The best pies for that? Detroit-style, which also happens to be the hottest trend in the pizzaverse right now. “We both love all types of pizza,” Corey says. “The SicilianDetroit-grandma-style pizza has been popular recently, and we
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Pepperoni pizza
thought it was kinda underrepresented in Portland. It’s something we really like, and we were having trouble finding a good one. So we just started experimenting with it. We actually spent three-ish months just experimenting on pizzas. We’d make a few pizzas a day, testing different dough consistencies, different ingredients.” The crust they ended up with is thick but also crushable. It’s chewy in the middle and a little crispy on the bottom and sides. It’s neither undercooked or burnt—a challenge. Part of the secret is the sauce. They use a fresh, uncooked sauce, and they apply it twice. “Because it’s so thick, we have to bake the crust before we top it,” Corey says. “We bake it with sauce initially so it doesn’t dry out too much, and then we sauce it again.” That hefty crust can handle lots of toppings—I highly recommend the thick-cut pepperoni. The only drawback? The Beermongers and Apex were already crowded on Friday nights, and adding some of the best new pizza in town has only exacerbated the situation. Get there early and guard your seat. “Both the bar owners were really happy to get really good food, especially good food that could be delivered right there, so people wouldn’t have to leave their bars to get it,” Corey says. MARTIN CIZMAR. NEXT UP: Ranch delivers at the Beermongers and Apex, on the corner of Southeast 12th Avenue and Division Street, and at Baerlic Brewing, 2235 SE 11th Ave. Order by phone at 503-477-6481. 5 pm-midnight Friday-Saturday, 3-10 pm Sunday. ranchpdx.com.
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JAMAICAN TASTE
SCRATCH-MADE JERK SAUCE, AND FISH CAKES LIKE CRAB CAKES.
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obert Bryant likes to say he’s not just a white guy, he’s “like, the whitest guy.” “I get sunburnt from flash photography,” he says. “I did Jerk a little bit of work on friends’ turkey! Jamaican trucks. Once in a while, some Rasta would walk up, take one look at me and go, ‘Oh, hell no.’” Those food carts were in Boston, a city with a large Jamaican population. In Portland, Bryant has found a thing you know I was catering for pretty much every totally different reception for his Jamaican Taste pop-up, reggae act that rolled through Boston. It just became my which serves the best fish cakes and beef patties we’ve had thing, and I just got better and better at it.” in this city. In 2000, he put himself through culinary “In Portland, it doesn’t seem to matter. school. He ended up working for Schlesinger, It’s a town of foodies that are adventurous the best-selling The Thrill of the Grill author eaters,” he says. “They don’t care where who is a regular on Martha Stewart’s show. the hell you came from—how’s your food, Portland was calling Bryant. how are your patties?” “I think it’s the food city of America, and I The patties are good—they’re actureally wanted to be part of this community,” ally pasties, here in a delicate dough wrapped he says. “And I realized there isn’t much in around extra-beefy ground beef that’s mildly the way of Jamaican out here.” seasoned with curry. On that, he’s right. There are a few JamaiBRYANT Bryant moved to Portland six months can spots, but none that really stands out. ago, and has been popping up a few times a It’s a lot like Thai food was before Pok Pok’s month, mostly at beer bars and bottle shops, Andy Ricker opened his chicken shack. Brywhich turn out to be fertile new ground for ant has corresponded with Ricker, who is pop-ups, given they typically don’t serve food his inspiration. and are populated with customers primed to “He’s my idol,” Bryant says. “He’s a ginger, just like me, but all you really have to have hunt for new and exotic consumables. I PAY MORE Bryant is hoping to open a food cart. is knowledge and a will and you can make it Before he can do that, he needs to sell happen.” MONEY, Unlike Ricker, though, he’s not obsessed someone a car. Specifically, he needs to find BECAUSE I with authenticity. a buyer for his ’61 Nash Metropolitan. He’d Take the fish cakes, which are gluten-free take $9,900 for it—enough to buy himself a DON’T WANT and heavy on the fish—the small, pale patcart. TO CUT ANY ties have a delightful lightness to them. If that sounds like an odd twist for a chef CORNERS.” “Of all my dishes, my fish cakes are probwho worked at Beard-awarded chef Chris ably the least authentic, because when you Schlesinger’s highly acclaimed East Coast get fish cakes in Jamaica, they use a lot of breading and Grill, it’s just one of several. not much fish, and I don’t like that,” he says. “I use a lot Bryant started out in the real estate business. of fish and make it a bit more high-end, like crab cakes.” “I loved the easy money from working in real estate He uses a similar twist on the fried plantains—which for 30 years. It just came rolling in, you didn’t have to do have a dessert quality, with a molten center and a light, anything, but it wasn’t satisfying,” he says. “I was also doing crisp shell. some catering, and I started cooking for my friends who “Jamaicans fry them when they’re a bit greener, were reggae musicians, word of mouth spread, and next and it’s more of a french fry. I let them get a little riper and it’s more like a dessert,” he says. “It’s like nature’s beignets.” The beef patties and the jerk chicken, on the other hand, are the thing those Rastas passing him by are really missing out on. “I try to make my Jamaican better. Most people use the premade jerk sauce you get in a big tub. That stuff’s salty as hell,” he says. “I make mine from scratch, I pay more money, because I don’t want to cut any corners.” MARTIN CIZMAR. Curried
“I MAKE MINE FROM SCRATCH,
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NEXT UP: The next Jamaican Taste pop-up is at the Beermongers, 1125 SE Division St., on Friday, May 19. 5-8 pm.
FOOD OF GUAM A WILDLY GENEROUS MIX OF LATIN AND ASIAN FLAVORS— ALWAYS FAMILY-STYLE. We’re having a contest on who can eat the most ribs, but we’re all losing. The piled-high, meaty mountain of pork laid out family style on the table is almost unholy tender, cooked sous vide for 3½ hours and caramelized on the grill out front—blessedly redolent of ginger, garlic and onion. But we’re four courses into our meal, having already downed a massive bowl of coconut-onion tuna ceviche so bright and rich it blends the senses into blank submission, fast-pickled papaya with a cheerful pepper kick, and a crab-and-coconut-milk soup floating with herbal oil that is the culinary equivalent of Reiki massage. Most at the table—sated and a little tipsy from bottles of wine they’ve brought from home, with no need to pay for corkage— relent happily after three beautifully meaty spareribs. Then word travels: Some guy down the table has seven bones on his plate and refuses to stop eating. At chef Ed Sablan’s new Food of Guam pop-up, nobody leaves hungry. And nobody finishes the family plate. “Family is a big part of the culture,” says Sablan, whose wife and daughter also serve at the meal. “Our culture is centered around family, and eating is a big communal event to enjoy with everybody: family, strangers and friends.”
Ribs and more ribs
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Sablan grew up on Guam before coming to Portland for culinary school in 1993. “I learned cooking from parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents,” he says. But for over a decade after cooking school, he was devoted to another tradition entirely—French food, both at the Heathman and at St. Honoré bakery. “That’s one thing that drew me to French culture, the food,” he says. “Everything is very classic, but elevated.” That got him thinking: Why couldn’t he do the same for the Chamorro cuisine of Guam, and its whirlwind of Latin and Asian influences? Though there were many Chamorro people all over the mainland, there were almost no restaurants. “I think it might be because of how everybody grows up with the food,” he says. “Sometimes the dishes may get oversimplified. You get in that mentality of thinking maybe something’s not good enough. What I want to do is shift the thinking. The way they were conditioned, they think the food should be cheap. It shouldn’t be cheap. We should be proud of this.” He started his PDX 671 cart seven years ago, serving up smoky, citric, spicy kelaguen mannok chicken and insanely good coconut flatbread. But balancing the cart with these pop-up meals, he feels he’s finally accomplishing what he wanted. “I feel like with this pop-up, I’m leaning more toward fulfillment,” he says. Food of Guam is a riot of flavors and a wealth of food, leaving diners reeling as they finish off yet another baked wonder: a latiya shortbread leavened with cinnamon and hazelnut and coconut, topped with custard and chiffon cake. But while the $42 meal advertises five courses, it turned out there was a sixth. One by one as they left, each diner picked up a to-go box, and they departed with yet more of those tender ribs. No one leaves Sablan’s kitchen hungry. NEXT UP: Sablan’s next pop-up is a Guamanian Mother’s Day brunch at Tournant, 920 NE Glisan St., on Sunday, May 14. 11:30 am. $35. The next Food of Guam dinner is at the new Feastly space, 912 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Sunday, May 28. Tickets and details at eatfeastly.com or facebook.com/pdx671.
POP-UPS FOR THE PEOPLE
Bibingka rice cakes
JUNJUN
EAT BRUNCH LIKE A FILIPINO FAMILY, WITH PLENTY OF SWEETNESS. “What’s a bloody mary?” our waiter asks, minutes before breaking into a dance to the tune of Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy.” Forgive him: He’s still in elementary school. JunJun (pronounced “June June”) is a kind of place that serves champorado— warm chocolate rice porridge descended from the cornIT’S ABOUT based Mexican version, that the chef says kids eat while watching cartoons—while the son of the server helps take your order. He might have to ask Mom how to spell “pork belly,” though. The atmosphere at Jun Robles’ Filipino-American brunch pop-up—$25 for four courses—is casual and familial, a half-dozen chefs horsing around behind the counter while diners eat a meal whose goal, Robles says, is “honoring traditional Filipino food and celebrating the Filipino-American experience.” Robles, a Portland native who cut his teeth at such spots as Le Pigeon and Oven and Shaker, brings gently elevated technique to traditional Filipino breakfast foods. “I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel or mess with anything too much,” he says. “It’s a nice, gentle ease into getting people accustomed to Filipino food.” Our meal is literally and figuratively sweet. The champorado is served alongside a paper bag of fried shrimp crackers flavored with a grip of garlic—although
in the Philippines, we’re informed, the porridge often comes with dried, cured fish as salty counterpoint. We moved on to taho—a small cup of multicolored tapioca pearls and silken tofu served in warm brown-sugar syrup. Taho street vendors, Robles says, walk through neighborhoods with two buckets hung on a stick across their shoulders—a lot like the ice-cream man. “Businessmen, kids, everybody comes running.” Later, we’ll finish with bibingka, a springy rice cake baked in banana leaf and served with coconut shaved with cured duck egg. Alongside a bloody mary spiked with fish sauce, there was a three-deep mimosa menu, including lychee and mango. But the star of the show is silog, a large bowl of garlicfried rice, pickled papaya and vegetables, poached egg YOU!” and your choice of meat— order the lumpia stuffed with Filipino longanisa sausage—served with sweet chili, soy and chili and garlicvinegar sauces. “As a kid, the sauces are always on the table,” Robles says. “With Filipino cooks, it’s not about their perspective or interpretation, it’s about the person dining. Dump all the sauce you want on it. It’s about you!” That’s Robles’ approach in a nutshell. “Sometimes you try too hard to tell a story through the food,” he says, “or compose something that’s so perfect that the idea in your mind is not on the plate. Some of that is a selfish endeavor. For me, there’s a little bit of freedom to just make something fuckin’ delicious. Don’t stress on how someone’s supposed to enjoy it.”
“DUMP ALL THE SAUCE YOU WANT ON IT.
NEXT UP: The next JunJun pop-up brunch is tentatively scheduled at the new Feastly space, 912 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Saturday, May 27. Tickets and details at eatfeastly.com.
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“Salt & Straw.”
“Cafe Broder.”
“Pastini Pastaria on Division.”
“Ha VL on 82nd.”
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“Tusk on Burnside.”
“Fire on the Mountain.”
“Papa G’s.”
“Teote.”
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OUTDOORS
THE CHASE: Clear skies on the eastern side of Mount Bachelor.
VERMONT-STYLE VOLCANOES MOUNT BACHELOR’S NEW CLOUDCHASER LIFT IS A GAME-CHANGER ON STORMY DAYS. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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Mount Bachelor is the only place I’ve needed my ski helmet. A few years ago, I was on the mountain outside Bend when it was subsumed by a blizzard. Unable to see the contours of the trail, I fell off some weird 4-foot ledge and bumped my head. I was fine, but I worried something worse would happen. I took only a few more runs before retreating to the lodge for a few hours sipping Black Butte Porter and waiting for the bus back to Portland. Bachelor is a beautiful mountain, with more interesting terrain than Mount Hood. And Bachelor the ski area is one of the largest on the continent—there’s a reason a lift ticket here runs almost $100—and has drier snow thanks to its higher elevation. Problem is, like the other peaks in the Cascades, it tends to be cloudy during ski season, which means there are few visual reference points when you’re above the tree line on a snowy day. Bachelor has been pummeled with more than 500 inches of snow this year. On days when you’ve dropped $100 for a lift ticket, bad conditions can be a real bummer. Enter Cloudchaser, Bachelor’s first new lift in 20 years, which opened this season. This high-speed quad not only opens 13 new runs and 650 acres of new terrain, but brings riders around to the less blustery east side of the mountain, and below the tree line. “We knew that we needed more of this kind of terrain—when it’s storming, we didn’t have enough places for people to go and escape that,” says Drew 20
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Jackson, a spokesman for Bachelor. “So when we were looking to expand, we wanted to diversify the terrain and get over to this side of the mountain, where the weather is more hospitable.” Then I found my way down to Cloudchaser. The skies cleared up, and because I was below the tree line, there was some relief from the endless white. The lift serves a maze of blue runs through the trees, most still unsigned but all named for the mountain’s weather.
“When it’s storming, we didn’t have enough places for people to go and escape that.” —Drew Jackson
“The trees in the glades over here are a little farther apart than the other parts of the mountain,” Jackson says. “We’ve been watching how the runs are used and where there are bottlenecks for skiers or groomers, and we’re going to widen the runs a few places this summer. We wanted to start out narrow, because you can always make a run wider, but you can’t make it narrower.” The result is some of the most pleasant ski terrain I’ve found in Oregon. It reminded me of Vermont—I love Vermont. I also like well-groomed runs and warm, bluebird days with soft snow. I know, I know: I’m a sissy. I’m supposed to like super-bitter IPAs, and ungroomed “Cascade powder” (read: crud). But let’s say I’ll always prefer freshly groomed corduroy, trees, clear skies and a couple glasses of hazy IPA afterward. It’s not just me, either. My friend Brooke Geery, a former pro snowboarder and publisher of Yobeat magazine, had to be rescued after she rode out of bounds on Mount Hood this season. The problem, she says, is that the Cascades are volcanoes, and that means they’re big cones covered in weird lava chutes. “The topography of Mount Hood is superconfusing, with tons of valleys,” she says. “When it fills in with snow, it’s super-easy to end up going the completely wrong direction. Only thanks to modern technology, my iPhone compass, did I make it out in Govy and not wind up all the way down in Zigzag when I got lost.” Recently, I chatted with Peter Kakes, the Czech who runs the ski shop and mid-mountain warming hut at Skibowl. He’s a former Olympian, and he doesn’t like skiing during a dump of “Cascade powder” either. “In Europe, we don’t ski in the storm,” he told me. “We wait for it to stop, and then we go out and ski.” Amen to that. GO: Mount Bachelor will be open through Memorial Day thanks to a very snowy winter.
The Bump
B EIN G JOHNNY U TA H AN OBSESSIVE’S TIPS FOR OWNING THE LEAD ROLE IN POINT BREAK LIVE.
and wiping it on your face. You might be the lead, but they’re the stars. What’s more, all of Utah’s lines are written on cue cards, which an actor holds extremely close to the Chosen Utah’s face to slow down the line reading. That person needs a job, and if you’ve got all the lines memorized, you’re putting that employment in danger, squid brain. So play dumb, even if you’re enlightened. Just like Utah!
Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 opus, Point Break, Break is an oft-quoted classic, a takedown of male machismo masquerading as a celebration of it. It’s also one of the greatest blood-spattered romances of the era, the tale of rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), who learns the Zen side of extreme sports while tracking Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), a bank robber with a heart of gold. Love and violence ensues. For 14 years, Point Break Live has celebrated the amazing and ridiculous nature of the seminal film. It debuted in Seattle, enjoyed a nine-year run at a tiny L.A. theater, and turned into a touring riot that amps up the homoeroticism and Gary Busey craziness in an audience-participation riot featuring squirting blood, simulated skydiving and meatball sandwiches. Most interestingly, each performance features someone from the audience playing Utah. Before the show, audience members take the stage for a group audition with “Bigelow,” who chooses her leading man, assigns him a cue-card-toting assistant, and squeezes him into a wetsuit. It can be stressful: I know. I’ve gone through the process, losing the role of a lifetime in an adaptation of my favorite movie to a much handsomer man. But I’ve learned from my mistakes. With the show hitting Crystal Ballroom on Friday night, here are this obsessive insider’s tips on winning the role, then becoming the best Utah you can be.
REMEMBER, UTAH’S NOT STUPID. Special Agent John Utah is often mistaken for an idiot because of his delivery and general early-period Keanu-ness during a time when the specter of Ted Theodore Logan was still fresh in everybody’s mind. Despite choosing to attend Ohio State University on a football scholarship, Utah is no dummy. He’s a graduate of law school and Quantico, for God’s sake. But he’s also trying to infiltrate surf culture as a yuppie insect, and as such he plays into the surfer-dude stereotype. That means dumb. Stony. If anything, Utah’s just a bad actor. But by the time he realizes surfing is also a Zen exercise, he becomes enlightened and less dopey. Which is to say, Utah is a very layered role full of intricacies few truly understand. To properly execute the role, you’ll need to understand when it’s time to jerk off and when it’s time to jump.
DON’T COME IN WITH THE LINES MEMORIZED. You’ve very likely been watching Point Break on repeat for more than 25 years—if you have any taste, at least—and know every line. Forget them. Part of the fun of Point Break Live is watching the Chosen Utah struggle through the lines next to actors who have spent years yelling about taking shrapnel at Khe Sanh while you were crapping in your hands
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MASTER YOUR WEIRDLY PUNCTUATED DELIVERY. In Point Break,, Reeves reads his lines with a weird cadence and disregard for punctuation that would give Christopher Walken pause. The notorious “I. Am. An. F. B. I. A. Gent” is just the tip of the iceberg. A true Utah knows when to follow a comma and when to blow right past it, and appreciates a randomly placed period in the middle of a sentence. Use the cue cards as a guide, but the punctuation marks as suggestions.
MASTER YOUR GRUNTS AND GESTURES. Approximately 68 percent of Special Agent John Utah’s emotion is communicated through grunts, screams and wild gestures. Whether reacting to hitting terminal velocity on his first free fall, nursing his busted-ass knee in a foot chase, or firing his gun into the air passionately while screaming, a true Utah must master the art of the grunt. Meanwhile, he has a tendency to be extremely stoic one moment before flailing like Nicolas Cage getting hit with a police-grade Taser the next. Master that duality, and you will join the pantheon of the great Utahs.
HONE YOUR 1,000-YARD STARE.
The other 32 percent of Utah’s communication is executed through the employment of intense staring. Bodhi going on about the philosophical side of adrenaline addiction? Laser-focused stare. Caught telling a lie about his dead parents to Tyler? Sheepish stare over the right shoulder. Bodhi emerging, glistening, from the ocean like some sort of gillequipped, scruffy Adonis? Longing stare. Angry that his love interest reveals that he is, indeed, the leader of the bank-robbing Ex-Presidents? Dagger stare! No two stares are alike. Stack your arsenal accordingly.
WEAR COMFORTABLE UNDERWEAR. Once you’re chosen as Utah, you’re going to be crammed into a too-tight wetsuit. And you’re going to dangle from a harness to simulate skydiving. Twice. This isn’t just a performance, it’s an endurance test. And plan for boners. This is, above all, a romance. GO: Point Break Live is at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, May 5. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
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HIPPIES ANGER NATIVES: A wood-carved “story pole” at this summer’s Oregon Country Fair is receiving pushback from members of Native American tribes. The pole, which has been hotly debated by the fair’s board and tribe members, will be raised in July, despite continuing objections. Siletz tribe member Autumn DePoe-Hughes says the pole is an “abomination.” “These are white people calling themselves part of a clan that take Northwest coastal Native American-inspired images and change them a bit to make them their own to tell their own history,” DePoe-Hughes says. “It’s problematic in a number of ways.” The story pole faced controversy last year, when the fair’s board of directors voted whether to raise it. Many arguments were made, including: “In the present world, you are not stuck with your own gender assignment, why in the world are we stuck with our own culture?” Representatives of the fair, held July 7-9 west of Eugene, say they “understand that some individuals may disagree with the decision to carve and raise the story pole, but we hope they understand that part of the Oregon Country Fair’s mission is to create discussion and understanding.” The fair still plans to raise the pole, with a display next to it “that challenges the reader’s ideas about authenticity and cultural appropriation.”
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THE NONG GOODBYE: One of Portland’s busiest foodcart pods is on deathwatch after a developer filed paperwork with the city seeking to build a hotel at the downtown location. DLR Group filed an application April 18 to build an 11-story, 177-room hotel on Southwest Alder Street between 10th and 11th avenues, site of the small pod currently home to the original Nong’s Khao Man Gai cart. Other longtime carts at the location include the Dump Truck and Savor Soup House. The property is owned by Downtown Development Group’s Greg Goodman, who is also co-owner of the Multnomah Whiskey Library. Goodman tells WW the application indicates interest from Minneapolis hotel group Graves Hospitality, but no deal has been inked and any possible development would be at least a year away. In February 2016, Goodman went public with an ambitious plan he called “the Ankeny Blocks,” which earmarked a number of properties for development, including downtown’s oldest food-cart pod at Southwest 5th Avenue and Stark Street. Goodman told WW at the time that development would be a long, slow process—with ample time for carts to adjust. “You’re not going to wake up one day and see the parking lots all gone at the same time,” he said. THE GOOD BOOKS: In a ceremony April 24, Literary Arts announced winners of the 2017 Oregon Book Awards honoring the best books written in the state. Perhaps the most vaunted prize—the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction—went to Portland’s Joyce Cherry Cresswell for her debut novel, the Civil War story A Great Length of Time. Former Portland State University lecturer Walidah Imarisha—who’s now at Stanford—received the creative nonfiction award for Angels With Dirty Faces, about the criminal justice system. Corvallis’ Tracy Daugherty won the general nonfiction prize for her Joan Didion biography, The Last Love Song. McMinnville’s Joe Wilkins won the poetry prize for When We Were Birds. The Readers Choice Award went to Eugene’s Eliot Treichel for his young-adult novel, A Series of Small Maneuvers.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3
Magnetic Fields Never one to shy away from ambitious concepts, Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt followed up 1999’s classic triple album 69 Love Songs with this year’s 50 Song Memoir Memoir—that’s —that’s one song for each year of his life. In anyone else’s hands, it’d be an exercise in overindulgence, but Merritt can still combine tongue-in-cheek witticisms with earworm melodies better than anyone in the game. He’s performing the album in full across two nights. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503288-3895, revolutionhall.com. 8 pm, through May 4. $35-$80. 21+.
Eighth Blackbird with Bonnie “Prince” Billy Widely respected Chicago chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird continues its history of collaborating with indie rock’s A-list, adding Will Oldham to a résumé that already includes Bon Iver and members of the National. Performing Bryce Dessner’s Murder Ballades, this vibrant, eclectic sextet employs acrobatic polyrhythms and pitch-perfect accuracy, bringing modern classical music to the cool-kids club. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm. $26$36. All ages.
THURSDAY, MAY 4
Shaun King You know you’re doing something right as a social justice advocate when conservatives demand to see your birth certificate. Journalist Shaun King is one of the loudest voices of outrage in the Black Lives Matter movement, and among the most adept at using social media as a bullhorn. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7 pm. $20$170. All ages.
FRIDAY, MAY 5
Bridgetown Comedy Festival Opening Show Bridgetown celebrates its 10th year with a lineup packed with national big names and Portland comedy scene graduates. Hosted by Shane Torres, this showcase will include festival headliner Janeane Garofalo, Torres’ fellow former Portlander Amy Miller, Second City affiliate Sonia Denis, and America’s Got Talent Talent’s Drew Lynch. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., bridgetowncomedy.com. 7 pm. $20. Festival continues through May 7.
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Gigantic Brewing 5th Anniversary Considering its labels look like rock posters, it’s appropriate that Southeast Portland brewery Gigantic is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a stellar lineup of local bands, including inthe-red garage-rockers Wooden Indian Burial Ground, shoegazers Bed and, appropriately for Cinco de Mayo, Latin-folk institution Y La Bamba. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700, startheaterportland.com. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
System Fucker You like your punk fast? System Fucker is faster. You like your punk distorted? System Fucker is more distorted. You like your Mohawks big? System Fucker's hair can dust the upper corners of your loft. Seemingly every punk signifier is pushed into and beyond the red, and the result is a spectacle ripped from adolescent visions of what punk rock might be. It is perfect. Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway, 503-281-0439. 7 pm. $10. All ages.
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SATURDAY, MAY 6
Stammtisch Maifest Every year in the month of Mai—which is the German word for communism—we shut the street and dance around the Maypole and drink light alcoholic maibock biers and sweet wines, and stuff ourselves with white asparagus and flame cakes that are like German pizza. When we are done, we are fat and happy, and the young ladies compliment us because we really fill out our lederhosen. Stammtisch, 401 NE 28th Ave., 503-2067983, stammtischpdx.com. 11 am-1:30 am.
SUNDAY, MAY 7
15th Annual Filmed by Bike Festival Just a little too late for WW’s bike issue, Filmed by Bike returns for its 15th iteration with 80 jury-selected films from around the world celebrating the two-wheeled future of transportation. An opening-night street party hosted by Base Camp Brewing kicks off the weekend at 5 pm Friday outside Velo Cult. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128. May 5-7. See fi lmedbybike.org for a full schedule and tickets.
MONDAY, MAY 8
Charly Bliss Many people got turned on to the white-knuckled pop of Charly Bliss when the Brooklyn quartet recently toured with Sleater-Kinney. It was an ideal pairing. On its official debut, Guppy, the band is tender and punishing at once, offering a sugary brand of grunge that’s downright infectious. And like Corin Tucker, frontwoman Eva Hendricks possesses a knockout voice that keeps pace with the brash guitar work. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
TUESDAY, MAY 9
Clueless Some people consider themselves Chers. Others, Dionne, or maybe Tai. Me? I’m Brittany Murphy’s apparently unresolved 2009 death from pneumonia, drug overdose, toxic mold or heavy-metal poisoning, depending on whom you ask. Academy Theater, 7818 SE Stark St., academytheaterpdx.com. May 5-11.
Kentucky Derby Party Horse racing has no great traditions in the Pacific Northwest, which makes Derby Day something of a dandified costume party of bow ties and floppy hats that pretty much turn Portland Meadows into Jay Gatsby’s front lawn. But if you must place a $6 bet based on nothing but the horse’s name to have an excuse to drink a mint julep in the bright sun—bookending two minutes of racing with six hours of drinking—so be it. Portland Meadows, 1001 N Schmeer Road, portlandmeadows.com. Noon-6 pm, race is at 3:34 pm.
Heritage After-party Chesa is hosting an all-star chef dinner called Heritage with tons of local celebuchefs. It costs $170 and you can’t go. But you can totally bag in for the after-party, with free snacks from Maya Lovelace (Mae) and Doug Adams (Imperial)—plus collabo churros from chefs Gregory Gourdet (Departure), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast) and Nora Antene (Le Pigeon, Tusk), and a hosted bar of select beer, wine and cocktails. Hooo! Chesa, 2218 NE Broadway, 503477-9521, chesapdx.com. 10 pm-midnight. Free with RSVP only.
Jessamyn Stanley Like Lizzo for the lotus-pose set, Jessamyn Stanley’s unbreakable spirit and outspoken stance on body positivity inspires far beyond her chosen medium. If the Instagram yoga guru’s book, Every Body Yoga, accomplishes nothing but permanently dashing the image of svelte 20-somethings in Lululemon doing downward dog between trips to Starbucks, then she’s done a tremendous act of good for the rest of us who just want to gain some core strength and a maybe a little confidence in the process. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Even though he's shifted away from the piano- and guitar-based pop punk of his years leading Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, Andrew McMahon’s knack for emo melodicism propels the synth-powered indie rock of his solo work. Recently released second album Zombies on Broadway is his poppiest effort yet, but it still holds on to the emotive release familiar from his previous projects. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-2250047, crystalballroompdx.com. 7 pm. $25.50 advance, $30.50 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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FRIDAY, MAY 5 T9 Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo is pretty much a Mexican-themed gringo party. Celebrate with some of the city’s finest gringo tacos, out on a DJ-equipped patio with gallons of killer margaritas, plus carnitas and spicy chicken tacos. Also, there will be festive Jell-O shots. Because America! Or Mexico! Or because you like tequila Jell-O shots! Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., 503-954-1987. 1-10 pm.
SATURDAY, MAY 6
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Stammtisch Maifest
Every year in the month of Mai— which is the German word for communism—we shut down the street and dance around the Maypole and drink light alcoholic maibock biers and sweet wines, and stuff ourselves with white asparagus and flame cakes that are like German pizza. When we are done, we are fat and happy, and the young ladies compliment us because we really fill out our lederhosen. Stammtisch, 401 NE 28th Ave., 503-206-7983. All day.
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1. St. Jack
1610 NW 23rd Ave., 503-360-1281, stjackpdx.com. St. Jack’s bar just instated, quietly, one of the most beautiful happy hours in town: $1 oysters till 5 pm, and till 6 pm you can get an amazing $6 fried chicken sandwich so big it looks like a Midwesternstyle pork tenderloin.
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Heritage After-party
Chesa is hosting an all-star chef dinner called Heritage with tons of local celebuchefs. It costs $170 and you can’t go. But you can totally bag in for the after-party, with free snacks from Maya Lovelace (Mae) and Doug Adams (Imperial)—plus collabo churros from chefs Gregory Gourdet (Departure), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast), and Nora Antene (Le Pigeon, Tusk), and a hosted bar of select beer, wine and cocktails. Hooo! Free, but only with a reservation at eventbrite.com. Chesa PDX, 2218 NE Broadway, 503477-9521. 10 pm.
MONDAY, MAY 8 Gigantic 5th Anniversary Tap Takeover
Of all the Gigantic 5th anniversary events this week—including Y La Bamba playing at Star Theater on May 5 and Danava at White Owl on May 6—this is the beeriest. Belmont will feature 10 Gigantic taps, including a sneak preview of Fantastic Voyage, a one-year barrel-aged Brett saison. But if you miss this night, just show up Tuesday at Gigantic’s taproom for $2 beers. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538. All day.
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Where to eat this week.
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SUNDAY, MAY 7
803 SE Stark St., 503-236-6050, danweicanting.com. At this new Beijing street-foodfocused spot, the la zi ji chicken (aka hot pepper chicken bath, $10) is easily the best version of this Sichuanese dish to hit town since Lucky Strike’s. $$.
2713 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-954-1172, warespdx.com. Get the yuzu-miso rice bowl with egg and chicken or pork belly, and a heavenly granola-spiked congee at brunch. $$.
4. Richi’s
432 SW 3rd Ave., facebook.com/ richisdowntown. Richi’s, home to Okinawan taco rice, is also the only spot in town to get streetside ramen from a Japanese-born chef. Get the spicy “aka” red ramen. $.
5. XLB
4090 N Williams Ave., 503-841-5373, xlbpdx.com. The new Shanghai dumpling spot from former Aviary chef Jasper Shen has been inconsistent on those soup dumplings—but when they’re on, Jesus Christ, they’re on. $$.
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Charles Porter already has one Beer of the Year award in the bag. As the founding brewer at Logsdon, Porter was the man behind masterpieces like Seizoen Bretta, Peche ’n Brett and the fresh-hopped saison that topped our first annual list of the best beers in Oregon. Logsdon has had some tumult since then, with Porter leaving when Dave Logsdon sold out in 2015. Now, he’s back with Little Beast, which took over the system in the doomed Brannon’s steampunk brewpub in Beaverton. Little Beast’s Fera is a beautifully crisp and rounded Brett farmhouse saison that leaves the palate with a bit of complex and fruity pith, but it’s the Bes tart wheat that feels like the flavor of the summer to come. Fermented with three strains of saccharomyces and kettled with lacto—plus lightly dry-hopped with multiple varietals, including citric Lemondrop—Bes comes on refreshingly tropical and just a little sour, propped up by a satisfying wheaty fullness. Consider it a coconut-crumbled lemon tart in super-crushable beer form. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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MY MACHACA: Rehydrated Mexican beef, as found in Phoenix.
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Behind the butcher counter in a Mexican grocery store, they usually have brontosaurus-size slabs of beef jerky. What sort of man gnaws from one posterboardsized piece of jerky? Where does he store it between chaws? Well, that’s not jerky. That’s carne seca, and you’re better off thinking of it as a specialized cut of super-dry-aged steak. In that form, it’s tough as a boot and not especially tasty. But it’s an ingredient in other dishes. Specifically, machaca—the king of all Mexican meats. The Mexican cattle industry is in the hot and dry northwestern corner of the country. In the days before refrigeration, ranchers in the Sonoran Desert would cut their beef into thin slices and hang it to dry into jerky, a fast process when it’s 110 degrees with no humidity. The result was carne seca (“dried meat”) that would later be shredded and/or rehydrated to make machaca. You’ll find machaca on menus all over Mexico and the United States. Most of it isn’t the same thing. Outside Sonora, machaca becomes shorthand for a combination of stewed beef and eggs, typically eaten for breakfast. When it is made with carne seca, it’s dry and jerkylike, served like bacon bits on scrambled eggs. In Sonora, versions vary from pan-fried shavings to ultra-beefy stew made with rehydrated beef. My favorite Sonoran machaca comes from a place called Carolina’s in South Phoenix. Carolina’s has bars on the windows and a lunch rush that flows like the Colorado River. The restaurant is famous for its burros—in Sonora, there’s no “-ito”—made with flour tortillas and machaca. Those machaca burros are among the best things I’ve ever eaten—the beefiness is otherworldly, like a
wagyu rib-eye magically made of spicy jerky then turned into beef bourguignon. And it comes inside a still-steaming flour tortilla. I’m not alone in my obsession. Googling turned up three threads in which people discussed the “food epiphany” of machaca and the disappointment of available recipes, which “sound like shortcut versions that are basically shredded stewed meat, which does not even come close to the real thing.” Several other sites pointed to a recipe like the one my wife adapted, a way of cooking chuck roast in a slow cooker. Her recipe makes very nice beef, but it’s not quite machaca. How does Carolina’s do it? I wish I could tell you. Sadly, the recipe for this wonderful jerky stew is a closely guarded secret. Carolina’s is owned by three sisters who trace their Arizona ancestry back eight generations, to when Phoenix was still part of Mexico. “We don’t even know how to make it,” said a clerk who answered the phone. “I don’t think they’ll tell you anything.” Indeed, two calls and an email got no response. So I decided to make my own machaca. I started with a recipe adapted from Diana Kennedy’s The Art of Mexican Cooking. With help from Mi Mero Mole owner Nick Zukin, I actually reached out to Kennedy, the Julia Child of Mexico, for help. Unfortunately, her knowledge is focused to the south, below the range of the Sonoran specialty I was trying to re-create. So I bought 2½ pounds of carne seca (that’s $50—dried beef ain’t cheap) from La Tapatia Market at Southeast 183rd Avenue and Stark Street, and spent the weekend experimenting with adapted recipes. Here’s the best I came up with. It can’t touch Carolina’s, but it’s better than that stuff you find mixed with eggs around town.
MARINADE
MACHACA
5 cups beef broth 1/8 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 teaspoon chili powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
BEEF AND SAUCE 1 pound carne seca (dried, unseasoned beef jerky in large slabs, available at the meat counter at Mexican markets, including La Tapatia in Southeast Portland) 1/4 cup cooking oil Half yellow onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup beef broth 12 ounces red chile sauce 4 dried chile de árbol peppers, diced, with seeds 1 tablespoon cumin 1 tablespoon oregano Salt to taste
HOT SAUCE 12 chile de árbol peppers, diced, with seeds 1 ounce sesame oil 12-ounce can peeled whole tomatoes 2 cloves garlic Half white onion, diced 1 teaspoon oregano Salt and pepper to taste Combine ingredients for the marinade in a large plastic container and shake to mix. Add dried beef and marinate for four to eight hours, agitating the marinade to soak the beef and moving the beef every few hours. After two or three hours, the beef should be soft enough to tear into smaller pieces. Do that and shake some more to soften the beef as much as possible. After marinating, discard the marinade and put the softened, torn pieces of carne seca into a food processor to shred as finely as possible. (You can also do this in the traditional way, with a mortar and pestle.) Put onions and oil in a slow cooker and saute. Add garlic and árbol peppers. After garlic, onions and chiles are lightly browned, add beef broth, red chile sauce and salt, stirring to combine. Add shredded meat from the food processor and stir. Set slow cooker to low and cook for four hours or until meat is soft but relatively dry. To make hot sauce, chop árbol peppers and brown in sesame oil. Dice garlic, onions and put tomatoes through food processor until they’re nearly liquid. Add garlic and onions to chile peppers. Simmer for one hour. Add oregano, salt and pepper to taste. Chill after cooking. Serve machaca on flour tortillas with hot sauce on the side.
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MUSIC HOTSEAT C O U R T E S Y O F G R A N D S TA N D M E D I A
Why did Grandaddy split up back in 2006? It was a lot of things. I felt like we’d plateaued as a band. Up until then, I did a pretty good job of running on instinct and figuring out when was a good time to bump things up to another level. There seemed to be a natural flow to it, like saying OK to things and keeping quality control in check. If anything, we kinda lucked out that things plateaued at the same time the money was going away. The industry was changing big time, and I was never kicking or scratching or trying too hard. Being a touring musician isn’t interesting enough to me to stay in this, and there were all these reasons why it wasn’t making sense anymore. I was falling out of love with music, and there was all this baggage tagged on to being in a band and making music. It was becoming not fun to me anymore. The excitement was going away. If anything, that would’ve been the biggest crime—me watching the wonder and excitement and the adventure go away. You’re just holding on to this thing desperately trying to keep it going. And I saw there was a possibility of me losing this relationship with the guys in the band. There were all these glaring reasons that said, “Stop it.”
Modesto Mouse GRANDADDY’S JASON LYTLE MOVED TO PORTLAND, BOMBED AT KARAOKE AND GOT DIVORCED. SO HE WENT BACK HOME AND RESTARTED HIS BAND.
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If George Harrison had lived to see the days of Twitter and Facebook, his music might have ended up sounding a bit like Grandaddy’s. Founded in 1992 by Jason Lytle, the Modesto, Calif., group’s charm is found near the intersection of bucolic Americana and the inevitable creep of modern technology. Having spent his most creative years living in Bozeman, Mont., Lytle is a naturalist at heart, but it’s his sardonic wit and penchant for idiosyncratic lyrics about sad robots and El Caminos rusting in the high desert that have created some of the most unique imagery in indie rock in the past 20 years. After Grandaddy split up in 2006, Lytle released a handful of solo records and moved to Portland in 2013. With a new Grandaddy record, the recently released Last Place, in the can, as well as a small reunion tour and a second record on deck, Lytle spoke to WW about going back home, anti-California sentiments and life on the fringes of Cully. Read an extended Q&A at wweek.com. WW: Are you still living in Portland? Jason Lytle: I’m back in Modesto. I packed it up and left Portland about a year ago. Why did you move? A lot of real-life things. There was this sort of tugging away at me where I needed to get back to California. I’d been gone about 11 years, and I was really fantasizing about getting back to my roots.
Did getting Grandaddy back together have anything to do with that decision? More than anything, I’m at the point where I can make a record wherever I’m at because I do a lot of the stuff myself. Actually, the only other recording that happens besides what I do by myself is with the drummer, and we did all of that at a place in Portland called the Map Room. More than anything, it was the logistics of rehearsal and stuff. Once I knew we were gonna be playing shows, that factored in a little. At some point I was laughing and thinking, “There’s no fucking way I’m moving back to Modesto.” Next thing you know, I’m scouring newspapers for an apartment, and here I am. Did any of the “go back to California” sentiments ever get to you? I thought it was hilarious because, once again, I’m doing it wrong. There’s this big exodus of people leaving Cali and going to Portland, and I’m like, “Fuck it, I’m going back to California.” I was [in Portland] just long enough to hear all the moaning and groaning and see certain intersections and thoroughfares and stores getting clogged up—I just got enough of a glimpse of it. I did feel a little glad I didn’t have to contribute to that. At the end of the day, I don’t care about that stuff. I tread so lightly, and I’m always part of the reverse commute. I do my best to not contribute to what people are complaining about.
Is the new song “I Don’t Wanna Live Here Anymore” about Portland? Yeah, it actually is. I was here for one week, and we ended up in the neighborhood [Cully]. It was a little scrappy where we ended up, and I was feeling the pressure of buyer’s remorse, wondering whether or not I made the right decision. Too much of the logistics of storage facilities and gear and all the stress of moving—I finally felt like I’d had enough. We lived next to this sketchy trailer park. I hadn’t done drugs in ages, and I actually went over there looking for drugs. I hadn’t been out of the house, and I’d been building way too much IKEA furniture, and I was finally like, “Screw this.” I walked down to the Spare Room and there was hardly anyone in there. I did a couple karaoke songs, and I finished a song and not a single person was clapping, and I was like, “This is so awesome, it’s like my first show in Portland.” I got into town and did “When Doves Cry” to echoes. All of it was super-depressing. I was really doubting the move, and around the time this song just plopped out of me. It was a no-brainer. Because I love the idea of letting people attach themselves to whatever the subject of the song is, I kinda got off on the fact that it could apply to anyone who just moved to a new city or goes away to college for the first time and is doubting themselves. So now you’re back in Modesto. Any hopes and dreams for your new life in California? This is kind of a temporary thing as well. It’s working out in a cool way because, once again, I live on the edge of town in the Cully version of Modesto. I have a good escape route for riding my bike and running through the orchards and country roads where I can get near all the sounds and smells I grew up with, which has been very healing. As much as I loved Montana, I felt like a visitor, and it was the same thing in [Portland]. It’s cool and it’s beautiful, but it’s not mine. It’s nice to be back around what I grew up with. SEE IT: Grandaddy plays Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., on Tuesday, May 9. 7 and 10 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. Early show all ages, late show 21+.
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FAVORITE PORTLAND PLACES Control Voltage
Fantastic synth shop on Mississippi that is fully “hands on” and brimming with so many synths and sound-makers and gadgetry. Almost overwhelming, but very cool.
Worn Path
I’m not much of a shopper, but I really like this store. I would have no problem spending a $500 gift certificate in short time. Store items and subject matter are all right up my alley.
Yen Ha
So many good Vietnamese places on Sandy, but this place made my favorite pho— usually with a Corona just to help fix my head, and because Mexican beer with pho is wrong.
Category Six
I was happy to have this as my local bike shop and stoked to have befriended one of the owners, Kirk Bernhardt, who is the maestro mechanic of the shop and matches my grumpiness and healthy-but-broken sense of humor pretty well.
Khunamokwst Skate Park Nearly impossible to pronounce, but so fun to ride. I’ve dedicated a better part of 40 years of my life to skateboarding and am heading into the twilight years, but skate spots like this are my favorite—small, flowing, weird and low-key.
Spare Room
As far as “dark bars with an accepting vibe and a beckoning warm blanket of liquid calming agent” go, I could only hope I end up somewhere someday that has a bar similar to the Spare Room. I won’t abuse it. But I’ll be relieved to know it’s there.
Cape Horn Trail (Wash.)
I could get to the trailhead from my house in 24 minutes. It’s a 6.5-mile loop that somehow packs in incredible views of the Gorge, a massive waterfall, a very impressive boulder field, a quiet country lane, lots of elevation gain and loss, and almost no people if you go on a weekday before noon. I used to refrain from telling anyone about it, because it was my favorite trail running area and I don’t like to see people when I’m out on a trail. Well, I’m gone now, so have at it!
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Lydia Ainsworth, Dolphin Midwives, Johanna Warren
[ART POP] Lydia Ainsworth is a one-woman show from Toronto, known for mixing elements of her classical cellist background with witchy synths and clever vocal sampling. She spent time composing film scores at McGill University before recording 2014 debut Right From Real, an album that takes much of its influences from cinematic voyeurism. And while her recently released sophomore effort, Darling of the Afterglow, finds Ainsworth moving in a poppier direction, if you’ve ever wanted to watch a movie unfold in the form of music, this still might be the ticket you should consider throwing your money at. VANESSA SOZA. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
The Magnetic Fields
[SONGS IN THE KEY OF ME] See Get Busy, page 23. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895. 8 pm, through Thursday, May 4. $35-$80. 21+.
E-40, Kool John, Cylde Carson, Skinny Pete, Tha Native
[BAY AREA RAP] Who’s the best seasoned rapper still doing it today? Certainly, E-40 is the first name that comes to most minds. The 49-year-old has established himself as the Bay Area’s cultural ambassador, a figure that young rappers look up to and older MCs admire for his sheer longevity. It must feel good to be an E-40 fan, because he supplies the streets with albums that contain multiple volumes at one time. The D-Boy Diary (Book 1 and Book 2) is packed with E-40’s sleek lingo and elastic flows, but you don’t have to stop there. His classics are also rich with function starters. For this tour, he’s brought along two younger disciples, NorCal underground staples Kool John, of Iamsu’s HBK Gang, and Clyde Carson, a former member of the Team making slaps for the contemporary era. For one night only, it’s town bizness. ERIC DIEP. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
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FIVE REASONS WHY NED FLANDERS IS TOTALLY METAL, BY OKILLY DOKILLY, THE WORLD’S ONLY NED FLANDERS-THEMED METAL BAND Flanders has an intimate knowledge of Satan. His aversion to a Canadian doppelgänger offering the devil’s lettuce, his warnings to sons Rod and Todd about Harry Potter and the path of witchcraft and wizardry, and the fact that he appeared to Homer as the devil himself all indicate Flanders might be a little more acquainted with the Dark Lord than we think.
2 Death surrounds him. He watched his first wife plummet to her doom. His second wife left him, and his third wife died, too. That’s really brutalino. 3 Left-handedness is often associated with things evil and bad. Not only does he refuse to repress his own left-handedness, he operates a store that caters specifically to lefties. If nothing else, it is a shrine of arrogance to an unholy preference of dexterity. 4 He’s a self-professed “mur-diddly-urdler.” OK, all he murdered was a ficus plant. But to call yourself a murderer and be comfortable enough to make it a silly thing is pretty scary. And that’s pretty metal. 5 He calmly checked himself into a mental hospital, called Lenny a jerk, threatened to run people down with his car and professed a deep-rooted hatred for the post office (and his parents), all in one episode. See the “Hurricane Neddy” episode for the other 18 reasons Flanders is super-metal. SEE IT: Okilly Dokilly plays Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., with Beatallica and Latter Day Skanks, on Wednesday, May 3. 9 pm. $15. 21+. 28
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SO MUCH FOR THE AFTERGLOW: Lydia Ainsworth plays Holocene on Wednesday, May 3.
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Haux, Aisha Badru
System Fucker, Deathcharge, Dog Soldier, Frenzy
[SONIC LANDSCAPES] Inspired by the beautiful mountain landscapes of his hometown in the Berkshires, Woodson Black, aka Haux, creates strains of folky electronica brimming with quiet intensity. Last summer’s debut EP, All We’ve Known, contains songs that have simple chord structures but are dense with sound, with Black’s barely-above-awhisper introspections echoing over cool yet warm-toned soundscapes. Also a film photographer, the breathtaking natural scenes in the videos for “Seaside” and “Caves” coheres with what’s going on sonically, presenting a calm expansiveness suggestive of finding peace in solitude. MAYA MCOMIE. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503-946-1962. 9 pm. $12. All ages.
Com Truise, Clark
[TRON TRAP] Under the moniker Com Truise, producer Seth Haley has been creating some of the most unabashedly chintzy electro on the scene. His approach of going all-in on plunking sequencer bass, wobbly synth pads and the kind of clunky drum-machine fills you’d hear during an ’80s movie montage has created a sound that’s somehow uniquely his own. His 2016 EP, Silicon Tare, is proof positive that few artists can take the 8-bit schlock of outdated sounds and turn it into gold quite like he can. PETE COTTELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503239-7639. 9 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Cashmere Cat
[MOUSY TRAP] Like a finer, softer, dry-clean-only variant of Wonderland’s feline provocateur, Cashmere Cat would suddenly appear in the damnedest places—scratching for Norway at the turntablist world cup, remixing Lana Del Rey and 2 Chainz, laying the sonic backdrop for Kanye’s “Wolves”—before vanishing with only the merest trace of wry amusement left behind. Magnus August Høiberg isn’t the only Scandinavian superstar DJ in waiting to don the hoodie of branded self-effacement, but debut 2012 EP Mirror Maru showcased a rare blend of technical proficiency, distinct vision and the sort of ascendant buzz that pushed his gentle banger of a title track onto Grand Theft Auto. As the furthest flourish of the same blueprint, newly released first album 9 leads a hit parade of guest vocalists (Ariana Grande, the Weeknd, Selena Gomez) around intricate soundscapes of daft bass drops and minimalist toy-piano figures, though only surmounting cleverness truly lingers from the genre-swept cavalcade. If you don’t know where you’re going, another cat once told Alice, the path doesn’t really matter. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-868. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 9 pm. All ages.
[PUNKEST PUNK] See Get Busy, page 23. Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway, 503-281-0439. 7 pm. $10. All ages.
Okkervil River, Bird of Youth
[INDIE ICONS] Austin’s Okkervil River has been in the game long enough now that creativity has become part of its recent tour philosophy. In 2015, Will Sheff and company honored the 10th anniversary of their outstanding record, Black Sheep Boy, with a celebratory tour. Now, core members of the band will play acoustically from their expansive discography as a trio. It’s a clever means to sell tickets, sure, but make no mistake—Okkervil River is one of the most important bands in the crowded indie-rock sector. Sheff’s bookish lyrics, dark storylines and melancholic yet melodic rock informed and inspired an entire family of musicians, from Death Cab for Cutie to the Decemberists. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.
Gigantic Brewing 5th Anniversary Party: Y La Bamba, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Bed., Comfy Boyz [DRINK TO THIS] See Get Busy, page 23. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
SATURDAY, MAY 6 Horror Vacui, Vice Device, Bellicose Minds, Fleshh, Vacant Stares
[POST-PUNK] When it comes to heavy bands from Italy that have climbed the charts of success here in the States, the one that usually comes to mind is Lacuna Coil, which has made it easy to associate theatrical goth metal with the bootshaped country. But an even more radical genre has overcome the cobblestoned streets of Bologna. Selfdescribed “vampire punks” Horror Vacui are darkwave diamonds in the rough, promoting anti-fascism and anti-sexism in a part of the world where those are revolutionary stances. Since post-punk is slowly taking over Portland, they’ll be playing this show among sonic family, with dark trio Vice Device and up-and-comers Fleshh. CERVANTE POPE. Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway, 503-281-0439. 7 pm. $7. All ages.
Lil Peep
[GRUNGE BLUES] Pitchfork has called 20-year-old rapper Lil Peep “the future of emo,” rapping about cocaine (“Cobain”), suicide (“OMFG”), depression (“Kiss”) and romantic shortcomings (“White Wine”). Those who grew up plagued with teen angst can relate to the dark nature of the L.A. transplant’s music, and maybe even think he’s a genius for throwing a half-rap, half-singing
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KISS FROM A ROSE: Lil Peep plays Hawthorne Theatre on Saturday, May 6. cadence over trap beats laced with alternative-rock samples. Others might question why anyone over the age of 25 would listen to this. But polarization in the SoundCloud age breeds a following in 2017. Hate him or love him, the Hellboy wants to cause havoc. ERIC DIEP. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 9 pm. $15. All ages.
Kiefer Sutherland, Rick Brantley
[COUNTRY ROCK] Is it too much to hope he busts out a cover of “Cry Little Sister” from the Lost Boys soundtrack? Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 7:30 pm. Sold out. 21+.
High School Records Prom 2017: Hollow Sidewalks, You Said Strange, Sweeping Exits, Volturz, DJ Joseph Hopper
[PSYCHGAZE] Prom may not have been the most pleasant memory for the non-jock types who flood the Portland music scene, but new local label High School Records is putting a funner spin on the tradition. The event calls for glitzy fashion, advertising an inclusivity—and probably drug-induced trippiness—along with performances from lo-fi shoegazers Hollow Sidewalks, glam punks Sweeping Exits, and French psych group You Said Strange. All proceeds go to social and medical service nonprofit Outside In. If dances aren’t your thing, there’s also the High School Records After Prom, which is occurring the next night for free at the Liquor Store with Devy Metal headlining. CERVANTE POPE. Republic Cafe, 222 NW 4th Ave., 503-226-4388. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
SUNDAY, MAY 7 Louder Than Words: A Benefit for DJ OG One
[RALLY ‘ROUND] In March, David “DJ OG One” Jackson—a longtime Portland hip-hop booster and the official DJ for the Blazers— went in for surgery Stage 3 colorectal surgery. While the surgery was successful, he came out of it with some unexpected aftereffects: He lost his sight and feeling in his right arm. Tonight, the local rap and R&B scene rallies to his aid, with sets from singer Saeeda Wright, trumpeter Farnell Newton, rappers Vursatyl, Mic Capes and Jon Belz, and fellow DJ Juggernaut. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY, MAY 8 Jamey Johnson
[NEW OLD COUNTRY] In the seven years that Jamey Johnson has waited to formally follow up his 2010 breakthrough, The Guitar Song, the Alabama singer-songwriter had his spot as the “critically revered bearded savior of outlaw country” jacked by Chris Stapleton. A shitty development,
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considering Johnson cuts a much more compelling figure—and not just because he looks like a shitkicking Rob Zombie. The Guitar Song, a double album divided conceptually between songs of darkness and redemption, showcased the man’s ambition—unparalleled in the world of modern country, Sturgill Simpson aside—not to mention his strong storytelling ability and side-of-mouth drawl. In the intervening years, Johnson recorded a Hank Cochran tribute album while releasing a couple one-off singles, but has yet to drop another full-length of originals, and doesn’t appear to have one on the immediate horizon. Hopefully, he’ll debut some new material at this stop, on a tour seemingly designed to remind fans he hasn’t retired yet. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 7:30 pm. $40 advance, $45 day of show. All ages.
Charly Bliss, Little Star
[BUBBLE GRUNGE] See Get Busy, page 23.. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Old Crow Medicine Show
[OUTLAW COUNTRY] While perfectly acceptable as an unhinged country-bluegrass outfit sangin’ ’bout moonshine and cocaine, Old Crow Medicine Show at its most alluring is usually indebted to musical legends like Hank Williams, Doc Watson and, most famously, Bob Dylan. Its version of Dylan deep cut “Wagon Wheel” landed it on the iPod of any self-respecting music fan, so it’s only fair it should pay a full-album homage to Dylan’s golden-haired crowning achievement, 1966’s Blonde on Blonde. CRIS LANKENAU. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.
TUESDAY, MAY 9 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Atlas Genius, Night Riots
[POST-POP] See Get Busy, page 23. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 7 pm. $25.50 advance, $30.50 day of show. All ages.
Testament, Sepultura, Prong
[THRASH] For Bay Area veterans Testament to go on record and say they’ve created their most thrash album yet, you know it must be top tier. The Brotherhood of the Snake, the 11th album of Testament’s 30-plus-year career and third since reuniting, is indeed one of their most power-packed to date. The majority of the album showcases Chuck Billy’s fantastical lyrics and grunting vocals over classic thrash-metal riffs. Now that its rotating membership has come to a stop, Testament has solidified its place in metal history, and its onstage presence never falters. CERVANTE POPE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave Portland OR 97209, (971) 230-0033. 6:30 pm. $25 - $130. $25-$130. 21+.
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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD [MODERN CLASSICAL] See Get Busy, page 23. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 3. $26-$36. All ages.
heavy rhythm and pulse to his articulate guitar phrasing. Earlier this year, he released Samba, a delightful melting pot of Malian folk, blues, soul and even jazz. Yet the real treat is when Touré is afforded the spotlight and a few measures to show off his soloing chops. MARK STOCK. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 9 am Thursday, May 4. $17. 21+.
Gerald Clayton Trio
Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro
Eighth Blackbird with Bonnie “Prince” Billy
[THREE WISE MEN] Pianist Gerald Clayton, drummer Kendrick Scott and bassist Joe Sanders speak profound truths through their instruments, and they don’t beat around the bush. Joining intricate and groove-oriented modern jazz melodies with a calm and elegant touch, the three use space as an important element of their sound, never saying more than they each need to at a given moment. Tonight, they will perform various original pieces from their many years together. PARKER HALL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 3. $25 advance, $30 day of show.
Vieux Farka Touré, Clinton Fearon
[SAHARAN HENDRIX] The son of late Malian guitar great Ali Farka Touré, Vieux Farka Touré is often dubbed “the Hendrix of the Sahara.” He learned to wail against his father’s will and ultimately carved out a successful career revolving around his musical dexterity and busy West African sound. Originally a drummer, Touré imparts
[CHORO AND CLARINET] There’s nothing quite so joyous as seeing virtuosic musicians play a hardto-find genre they love, and that’s especially true of Anat Cohen’s recent collaborations with acclaimed Brazilian group Trio Brasileiro. Though the Israeli clarinetist’s soaring straight-time melodies have long showcased a deep love of the country’s quickpaced choro music, it wasn’t until she began performing with the guitar, pandeiro—think of a really awesome tambourine—and mandolin trio that she could actually sink her teeth into the real thing. Needless to say, it’s a sight to behold, with Cohen ripping gorgeous reed solos over the top of fantastic, traditional-sounding Brazilian compositions, and clearly enjoying every moment of her time onstage. PARKER HALL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Friday, May 5. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
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PJ Harvey
[QUEEN OF THE DIRGE] Polly Jean Harvey refuses to be typecast. Ever since she burst on the scene in 1992 with the raw and brutally intimate kiss-off Dry, Harvey has changed her sound and image with each project. Her discography is daunting and nearly impeccable. She can be both disarmingly loud and hauntingly quiet, often in the same song. She sings piano ballads (“When Under Ether,” “The River”) just as well as she delivers classic rock riffs like “This Is Love.” And nobody, outside of perhaps former flame Nick Cave, does the dirge quite so well. Her voice can flutter, and it can destroy. After mostly sticking to her upper register on the previous two records, Harvey is back in siren mode on The Hope Six Demolition Project, her most rock-bound collection since 2004’s Uh Huh Her. Recorded behind one-way glass in public sessions in London, the album is more of a heavy-handed political statement than an art experiment. Harvey documents trips to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the poorest sections of Washington, D.C., in vivid detail, creating investigative-journo songs full of droning guitars and folk instruments and marching-band drums. It’s another left turn in a career full of weird and captivating moves. The most exciting thing is seeing what comes next. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8:30 pm Sunday, May 7. Sold out. 21+. Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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The Builders and the Butchers THE SPARK
(Badman Recording Co.)
[TO BUILD A FIRE] For their fifth LP, the Builders and the Butchers, WW’s Best New Band of 2008, attempt to strip back the dense jamboree feel of their previous output. The brawny, roadhouse-blues vibe of The Spark was, according to the band, inspired by the White Stripes’ White Blood Cells and the king of brawling bar music, Tom Waits. The influence of the former is particularly palpable in the eclectic mix of musical styles from track to track. There’s the outright rocker (“No Grave”), the amped-up punk track (“Older Than Sin”), the folky campfire lullaby (“Let It Shine”), the doomsday blues-rock anthem (“Casket Lands”) and the stripped-down a cappella spiritual (“Let the Wind Carry Me Home”). It’s nothing to call a copyright lawyer over, but for a guy who brazenly employs the same hollow vibrato made so famous by another local frontman, Colin Meloy, you can’t help but wonder if singer-songwriter Ryan Sollee is an especially impressionable sort. Though easily sourced, The Spark still features all the earthy, bucolic appeal of its predecessors. The Builders are adept enough to evolve through the variety of sonic signatures deftly, and the kinetic energy so present in their live show is apparent in each track. Even the downtempo crooners retain a slow-burn, high-drama appeal that feels more like intentional respites—breathing room for the explosion that’s always sure to follow. CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: The Builders and the Butchers play the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., with Loch Lomond, on Saturday, May 6. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Eyelids OR (Jealous Butcher) [INDIE POP] “She said, ‘If I can’t keep from sighing, why can’t you?’” Eyelids’ Chris Slusarenko sings on “Slow It Goes,” the first song on the band’s second album, an expression of shared ennui that’s made to sound like bliss. Melodic melancholy is the group’s signature, and on Or, it sticks with what works—gentle rockers bright enough to distract from the weariness at their core. It’s a classic power-pop move, and coming from a supergroup of side players, whose résumés include stints alongside Robert Pollard and Colin Meloy, a well-studied one. Peter Buck produces, as he did Eyelids’ 2015 EP, and “Camelot” and “Falling Eyes” jangle and sway like Reckoning-era R.E.M. Buck also dusts off his mandolin for the waltzing “Ghost Ghost Ghost,” a fine detail on an album full of them. While the volume might nudge in either direction, the mood of sweet sadness never breaks, and though the scenery starts to look the same after a while, the tender craftsmanship ensures it’s never not lovely. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Eyelids play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Point Juncture WA and Jackson Boone, on Thursday, May 4. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. 32
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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. MAY 3 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Eighth Blackbird with Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Dante’s
350 West Burnside OKILLY DOKILLY with Beatallica
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Liz Vice
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Superjoint, Battlecross, Child Bite
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Lydia Ainsworth, Dolphin Midwives, Johanna Warren
Landmark Saloon 4847 SE Division St, Honky Tonk Union
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Brent Amaker and the Rodeo, Chuck Westmoreland
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 The Magnetic Fields
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave E-40, Kool John, Cylde Carson, Skinny Pete, Tha Native
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Apple Jam Music Festival 2017 Portland Prefunk
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Macula Dog, Goo, Modal Zork
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, The Fernando Band
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Gerald Clayton Trio
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Innersphere
THURS. MAY 4 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Marc Cohn
Fremont Theater 2393 NE Fremont Street Haux, Aisha Badru
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Murs
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Com Truise, Clark
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St Champ!on, Maurice & The Stiff Sisters, Ellis Pink
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St, Miller and Sasser’s Twelve Dollar Band; Jake Ray and the Cowdogs
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Eyelids
Muddy Rudder Public House
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8105 Se 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Plastic Weather and Cool Schmool
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Timber Timbre
MON. MAY 8 Catfish Lou’s
2460 NW 24th Avenue Ben Rice
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 The Magnetic Fields
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Jamey Johnson
Slim’s PDX
8635 N Lombard St. Lucky’s Late B-day Show
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Vieux Farka Touré, Clinton Fearon
Hawthorne Theatre
The Fixin’ To
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Brother Ali, Sa-Roc
The Goodfoot
4847 SE Division St, Ian Miller and Friends; Mama’s Day with Mamma Coal: Country Tributes and Dedications
The Secret Society
3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben
8218 N. Lombard St Mic Crenshaw presents: Freddy Flowpez, Poesia, Quincy Davis, Gipetto, So-Far-I, Solomon Starr
Landmark Saloon
2845 SE Stark St Tezeta Band
Mississippi Pizza
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Baby & The Pearl Blowers, The Pepper Grinders
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Charly Bliss, Little Star
Muddy Rudder Public House
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Sovereign, Death Fetishist and Vitriol
8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Revolution Hall
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St Crow and the Canyon, Alwyn & Jolliff
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Cashmere Cat
FRI. MAY 5 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Son Volt
Black Water Bar
835 NE Broadway System Fucker, Deathcharge, Dog Soldier, Frenzy
First United Methodist Church 1838 SW Jefferson St. Chor Leoni
GUIDED BY VOICES: Some artists engage audiences by bringing the funk and getting booties shaking. Portland roots-pop ensemble Joseph doesn’t do much of that. But during its sold-out show at Crystal Ballroom on April 28, it did something even more amazing: Singing sister sirens Natalie, Allison and Meegan Closner got 1,500 riveted concertgoers to fill their lungs, open their throats and join in without inhibition, while clapping until their hands sang, too. The women’s pipes are truly a force of nature. Rarely, if ever, will you hear vocalists as locked in, with such astonishing harmonic intimacy, range, breath control, mic control, tone, balance and power. Despite the name, Joseph is not contemporary Christian music. Still, at times the all-ages show was a churchy barn-burner. It makes sense, because at their best, Joseph’s music can facilitate the best singing-in-the-shower moments you’ve ever had. There was plenty of crowd chatter during weaker songs, but when they played “White Flag,” the song that hit No. 1 on the Adult Alternative chart, the energy popped. An audience that was two-thirds women hollered, “Burn the white flag!” It’s not clear how long the group has included the three men who played drums, bass, guitar and keyboards behind them, but there was a musical disconnect between the sisters and the band—at times, for example, the electric guitar was completely inaudible. If the Closners can better integrate the rhythm section, it’s scary to imagine how good they’ll be. THACHER SCHMID.
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Boondox
Kelly’s Olympian
Landmark Saloon
The O’Neil Public House
4847 SE Division St, Midnight County; Zach Bryson
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Okkervil River, Bird of Youth
Moda Center
1 N Center Ct St, Chris Tomlin
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Reverb Brothers
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Flogging Molly, the White Buffalo, Dylan Walshe
Skyline Tavern
8031 NW Skyline Blvd Gerle Haggard
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Gigantic 5th Anniversary. Show: Y La Bamba, WIBG, bed. & Comfy Boyz
St. Mary’s Cathedral 1716 NW Davis St, In Mulieribus
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave Hostal Riviera, Motorcoat, Low Flyer
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. As It Is, Grayscale, Sleep On It
The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave Kizik
TUES. MAY 9 Catfish Lou’s
2460 NW 24th Avenue Roadside Angels
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Atlas Genius, Night Riots
Hawthorne Theatre The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Master Naada Yogi, Sri Shyamji Bhatnagar; Anat Cohen and Trio Brasileiro
426 SW Washington St. Moon Duo, Heron Oblivion
1300 SE Stark St #110 Old Crow Medicine Show Performing Blonde on Blonde
6000 NE Glisan St. Special Purpose
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St The Midnight Serenaders, The Rhythm Future Quartet; The Barn Door Slammers
Tony Starlight Showroom
1125 SE Madison St, Tony Starlight’s Tribute to Television
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St PJ Harvey Tribute Show
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell CBK, Ether Circus, Here’s Your Warning And The Sweatpants
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Makaena Durias
SAT. MAY 6 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Tony Furtado
Artichoke Music Cafe 3130 Se Hawthorne, Dan O’Sullivan, Don Wheatley
Ash Street Saloon
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Pegboard Nerds r
Skyline Tavern
Black Water Bar
8031 NW Skyline Blvd Kris Stuart of Wanderlodge with Nick Foltz
Dante’s
8635 N Lombard St. Hex Tremors, Agents of Ecco, Downfall Strategy, Nails Hide Metal
225 SW Ash St secnd best, Ike Fonseca 835 NE Broadway Horror Vacui, Vice Device, Bellicose Minds, Fleshh, Vacant Stares
Slim’s PDX
350 West Burnside Gooferman, Lovebomb Go-Go, Sepiatonic, The Klown DJ
Star Theater
Fremont Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. School of Rock Lake Oswego
2393 NE Fremont Street JD Kindle & The Eastern Oregon Playboys
Hawthorne Theatre
13 NW 6th Ave. Barns Courtney, Foxtrax
The Analog Cafe
The Firkin Tavern
1507 SE César Chávez Blvd. Lil Peep
1937 SE 11th Ave Haymaker, Wilkinson Blades, Rentz Leinbach
Landmark Saloon
The Goodfoot
4847 SE Division St, Gary Kirkland; Buddy Evans
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kiefer Sutherland, Rick Brantley
Republic Cafe
222 NW 4th Ave., 97209 High School Records Prom 2017: Hollow Sidewalks, You Said Strange, Sweeping Exits, Volturz, DJ Joseph Hopper
2845 SE Stark St Magic Beans and Steve Swatkins
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Murderbait
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Seattle’s Ballard High School Choirs in Concert; The Builders and the Butchers, Loch Lomond
The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Kaeley; La Rivera
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Oregon Backstage: A Fundraiser for OMHOF feat. Portugal. The Man, Pete Krebs, Ural Thomas
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Rum Rebellion, Chartbusters, The Israelites, All Worked Up!
SUN. MAY 7
Jade Lounge
2342 SE Ankeny St, Waffle Taco
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St, Anita Margarita and The Rattlesnakes; Miller and Sasser
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Anthony David
Mississippi Studios
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Battle Beast & Leaves’ Eyes
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St, Well Swung
Lincoln Performance Hall
1620 SW Park Ave. 23rd Young Artists Debut Concerto Concert
Revolution Hall
3939 N Mississippi Ave. All Them Witches, Idle Bloom
1300 SE Stark St #110 Grandaddy
1037 SW Broadway Portland Youth Philharmonic Spring Concert
Muddy Rudder Public House
8 NW 6th Ave Testament, Sepultura, Prong
Artichoke Music Cafe
Star Theater
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
3130 Se Hawthorne, Fine Company
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St PJ Harvey
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont Street Squirrel Butter
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César Chávez Blvd. PnB Rock
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Louder Than Words: A Benefit for DJ OG One
Impossible Box Arts
215 SW 1st Ave. Ashley Bellouin, Ilyas Ahmed, Jonathan Sielaff
8105 Se 7th Ave. Dan & Fran
13 NW 6th Ave. Velvet Acid Christ & Guests
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, High School Records After Prom!
The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Sky in the Road
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St The Empty, Brakemouth, Nick Arneson
Twilight Cafe and Bar
Roseland Theater
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rose Room Swing Dance
The Fixin’ To
8218 N. Lombard St Littler (Philly), Lubec, Deathlist, Husky Boys
The Ranger Station 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bluegrass Tuesday
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Real Friends, Have Mercy, Tiny Moving Parts, Broadside, Nothing Nowhere
1420 SE Powell Omnihility, Logistic Slaughter, Abiosis and Ygnatus
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STREET
MUSIC WED. MAY 3 Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Wicked Wednesday (hip-hop)
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. El Dorado (rock & roll, r&b)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: DJ Metronome
Lay Low Tavern
6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Matt Stanger
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)
The Paris Theatre 6 SW 3rd Ave Undrcats
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Death Throes (death rock, post punk, dark wave)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg
THURS. MAY 4 Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave Ladies Night (rap, r&b, club)
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Papi Fimbres (afro funk, cumbia)
Jade Club
315 SE 3rd Ave andhim (Superfriends - Germany)
Lay Low Tavern
6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ OverCol
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Sappho (disco)
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Subduction Audio Presents: ENEI
COURTESY OF JON AD
NEEDLE EXCHANGE
Jon AD Years DJing: I started in 1991, when I was in my early teens, so a good deal over half my lifetime ago. Genre: Started out with rave cuts, then moved to jungle, while playing house, since that was all the promoters let you play then. Ended the ’90s in Milwaukee and then San Francisco playing mostly Chicago house, then came back to Oregon where I did the Goodfoot First Friday Super Jam funk and disco party off and on for 10 years until I got busy with LoDubs, my dubstep label. Now I hover between all these genres, depending on the night and/or need. Oh, and I spent a couple years in the middle delving into dancehall as well. Where you can catch me regularly: The past year I’ve mostly been playing in Detroit at Temple Bar, but I’m starting my first monthly in Portland since we closed Various, which will be at the Old Gilbert Road Tavern. It will be known as the First Saturday Soul Social and will focus on soul, R&B, rocksteady, reggae in a somewhat subtle “rudebwoy” context. Craziest gig: One that springs to mind was this underground spot I played on the South Side of Chicago that was a former funeral home. The place was a great fit, other than that a lot of people got robbed going there. Of course, once the cops caught wind of it, there was a mandate to make sure no one ever returned to the spot, and find the promoter and “disappear” the door money. I was by the decks, so I saw the promoter hide a bundle between the turntables and the road cases. This proved to be a bad spot, because the half-dozen cops kicked in all the speakers, smashed all the lights and ultimately flipped over the table the turntables were on, causing all the money to spill out. They then ran everyone’s IDs before letting them leave. And with that, there was no more of that spot, to my knowledge. My go-to records: Max Graef & Glenn Astro, “W313D”; Paulette and Gee, “Feel It”; Nancy Nova, “The Force”; Reggie Dokes, “The Chicago Pimp”; Jakki, “You Are a Star”; Kylie Auldist, “Waste of Time.” Don’t ever ask me to play…: Anything with Auto-Tune.
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)
NEXT GIG: Jon AD spins at Old Gilbert Road Tavern, 5501 SE 72nd Ave., on Saturday, May 6. 10 pm. 21+.
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Smooth Hopperator
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St SOUL-O-Nite
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Joker & Dirt Monkey
FRI. MAY 5 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Unlike Pluto
Bit House Saloon
727 SE Grand Ave NoFOMO presents: Nark
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap, r&b, club)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Maxx Bass & Freaky Outty (funk, boogie, rap)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ EPOR (electronic)
Hawthorne Eagle Lodge
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. In The Cooky Jar (r&b, soul)
Holocene
Star Bar
Double Barrel Tavern
The Goodfoot
Holocene
639 SE Morrison St. Uncontrollable Urge 2845 SE Stark St First Friday Superjam (funk, soul, disco)
The Liquor Store
1001 SE Morrison St. Love In This Club dance party
Killingsworth Dynasty
3341 SE Belmont St, Uplift
832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions (funk, disco, hiphop)
The Lovecraft Bar
Lay Low Tavern
421 SE Grand Ave Darkness Descends (classic goth, dark alternative)
The steep and thorny way to heaven SE 2nd & Hawthorne Brickbat Mansion
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Global Based: Cinco de Mayo
SAT. MAY 6 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Audien
Bit House Saloon
727 SE Grand Ave Developer (techno)
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club)
1001 SE Morrison St. 3 Kings Tribute Night: Prince, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder
Crush Bar
Moloko
1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Frankeee B (Scandinavian synthetic funk)
2002 SE Division St. DJ Low Life
1400 SE Morrison Pants OFF Dance OFF
Crystal Ballroom
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Dirty Red (soul, hiphop, funk)
6015 SE Powell Blvd. VJ Gregarious
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Roane (hip-hop, soul, boogie)
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave Sugar Town PDX (queer soul night)
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St, Wake The Town
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Expressway to Yr Skull (shoegaze, deathrock, goth)
SUN. MAY 7 Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club)
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. VJ Norto: A Music Video History of Rap
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday: DJ Nate C. (metal)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive (goth, industrial)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Sad Day: Lilith Phair 2 (90s, drag)
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East Your Sunday Best: 2017 Season Opener
MON. MAY 8 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Bad Wizard (50s-60s soul & rock)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Nate C. (80s)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)
TUES. MAY 9 Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Party Damage: DJ Kitty McKlaine (80s synthpop)
Sandy Hut
1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Tiger Stripes
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack
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MUSIC
FRI 5/12
BAR REVIEW THOMAS TEAL
KULULULU HUMAN OTTOMAN ABRONIA 8:3 0 p m
$5
21+
fremonttheater.com
2393 NE Fremont Ave.
SAINT BLASPHEMER WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 AT 6PM
Saint Blasphemer is an independent band based out of Santa Ana, California, whose music has been compared to early Tool, Peter Gabriel, Nirvana, and Jane’s Addiction.
BRENT COBB SUNDAY, MAY 7 AT 3PM
Already receiving acclaim, NPR Music’s Ann Powers praises, “‘Solving Problems’ is emblematic of the calm insights Brent Cobb offers on Shine On Rainy Day, an album genuinely worthy of comparisons to often-invoked names like Jesse Winchester and Kris Kristofferson.”
FASTBALL
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 AT 6PM MEET AND GREET & ALBUM LISTENING PARTY With nearly 20 years of musical explorations and milestones under its belt, Fastball remains one of the most consistent and continuously celebrated rock bands on the road these days. In celebration of the release of their new album, ‘Step Into Light’, join the band at Music Millennium, as they play the new album and answer questions from the audience. This event will be broadcast live online.
RODNEY CROWELL
FUSION REACTION: Holdfast Dining is one of the most impressive experiences in Portland food, a nine-course ride through nitrogen-frozen melon and a legendary honeycombed madeleine. But it’s also $105 just to walk inside. Thank God for Deadshot (537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 503-504-9448, holdfastdining.com). Every Monday from 6 to 11 pm, former Rum Club barman Adam Robinson (most recently of Ounce, in Taipei) teams up with Holdfast chefs Will Preisch and Joel Stocks, who offer their inventive food a la carte. The lights get lower, and the music gets louder. The crowd feels hip—it’s a lot of service workers enjoying their first night off after a busy weekend. “We wanted an opportunity to do something very different and more casual,” Preisch tells WW. “Adam had just come back from being out of the country, and we wanted to join forces, give him a creative platform to showcase his work.” Perhaps the signature drink on Robinson’s cocktail list is the Casper’s Ghost ($12), a rhum-and-mezcal number spiked with bitter melon syrup, an ingredient Robinson picked up in Taiwan. Elsewhere, riffs on elevated tiki merge with left-field whimsy, as in the Who Is Jack Nance? ($10), a whiskey drink containing sesame, mustard and egg yolk. The food menu flirts with fusion—think kimchi mac and cheese ($12), or Buffalo chicken skin nachos ($12)—without veering into Guy Fieri territory. But get the fried prawn heads with spicy mayo and togarashi ($3 each). It’s like the best part of a sushi dinner, without the rest of the sushi. And fuck me, those madeleines (one for $4, two for $6) are as good as the hype, laden with shaved lardo, Parmesan and honeycomb, and best paired with a glass of wine from staff “winesman” and Golden Cluster winemaker Jeff Vejr. Because while the food is indeed a progressive take on bar snacks, and the cocktails transcend the tired suspender-y trendiness of the modern American scene, Vejr’s personal stash of wine is transcendent, whether sherry, rare Georgian wine or an Oregon blanc de noir from Idealist Wines ($10) that turned honey-sweet with the madeleine. JORDAN MICHELMAN.
THURSDAY, MAY 11 AT 7PM Rodney Crowell’s career has been long and multi-faceted. There’s the record-making, which dates back to 1978 and has only grown in sophistication and power since. There’s also his fiercely lyrical and personal writing, including his 2011 memoir ‘Chinaberry Sidewalks’. Now there’s a new album, Close Ties, on which Crowell both demonstrates his strengths as a songwriter and illustrates how he has learned to balance personal recollection, literary sophistication, and his profound musical reach. It’s at once his most intimate record and his most accessible, the product of years of understanding the ways songs can enter—and be entered by—life.
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Where to drink this week. 1. The Lay Low
2. The Standard
3. Ground Kontrol
If former dive bar Club 21 is now an outdoor graffiti museum on Sandy Boulevard, the old owners’ new Lay Low Tavern is like a museum devoted to Club 21, with seemingly every bartender, every piece of decor and the build-yourown-burger bar transported intact.
Some of the city’s best boozy slushies are back in action for a cool $5, the patio just got its roof blown off, and—guess what!— it’s sunny. Welcome back to Portland summer.
Ground Kontrol’s got a new expansion in the old Backspace, with 16 taps, more space and—gasp!—modern games. But the old room’s now being remodeled.
6015 SE Powell Blvd., 503-774-4645.
14 NE 22nd Ave, 503-233-4181.
115 NW 5th Ave., 503-796-9364, groundkontrol.com.
4. Nyx
5. Cosmo Lounge
In the former Alexis, second-story nightclub Nyx plays host to a crowd that looks more Brooklyn or Chicago than Portland—with hip-hop and sneakerheads worlds apart from the usual Old Town club crowd of frat boys and fuccbois.
Cosmo is a Westmoreland gem we forget about sometimes— then ease into with the comfort of an old sweater, with just the right mix of dim light, enormously stiff Jell-O shots and ladies painted on velvet.
215 W Burnside St., nyxpdx.com.
6707 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-233-4220.
PERFORMANCE C O U R T E S Y O F B R I D G E T O W N C O M E DY F E S T I VA L
PREVIEW
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: (From left) Hampton Yount, Jonah Ray and Baron Vaughn.
A Decade of Bridgetown
NOW 10 YEARS OLD, THE FESTIVAL IS BASICALLY PORTLAND COMEDY’S FAMILY REUNION. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L EY
sgormley@wweek.com
It’s hard to imagine what Portland comedy would be like without Bridgetown Comedy Festival. When Bridgetown debuted in 2008, no one outside the city was paying attention to the local comedy scene. Now, Portland exports a steady stream of comics to New York and Los Angeles, and the list of former Bridgetown performers who’ve made it big—Amy Schumer, Eric Andre and Hannibal Buress among them—keeps growing. Bridgetown still feels intimate: The four-day festival is basically the Portland comedy scene’s family reunion. Most of the showcases include at least one Portlander past or present. There are plenty of non-local comedians, like Myq Kaplan and Kevin Avery, who are festival regulars. Patton Oswalt, who had a pre-festival show Tuesday at the Schnitz, headlined the first Bridgetown. And L.A.’s Baron Vaughn has performed at every year of the festival so far. With Bridgetown’s overflowing schedule, you’re always going to miss something good. But here are the shows we think will be particularly special.
THURSDAY, MAY 4
Bridgetown: The Early Years
On its 10th birthday, Bridgetown is getting sentimental. Organizers have rounded up six performers from the festival’s first five years, including Denver comedyscene breakout Troy Walker, and headliner and prolific podcaster Jackie Kashian. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 8 pm. $15.
Let’s Do It With Bri Pruett
Hosted by Portland’s most recent export to L.A., Bri Pruett’s showcase has a typical Bridgetown lineup in the best possible way: It’s an odd but somehow fitting mix of Portlanders and national comedians. Sure, it makes sense that Pruett’s relationship-centric show would include fellow bluntly sex-positive comedian Annie Lederman and Debra DiGiovanni of Single Awkward
Female. But throw in Dave Hill’s mumbled erotic fiction, festival veteran Myq Kaplan, and Allen Strickland Williams’ dry delivery, and things start to get weird. Paris Theatre, 6 SW 3rd Ave. 8:30 pm. $15.
An Evening With the Guys From Mystery Science Theater 3000
Matt Braunger: Right Meow
Rebooting a cult hit is a risky move. So the fact that Mystery Science Theater 3000 managed to pull off a well-received revival without any of the original actors is somewhat of a miracle. The terrible-movie-panning, sci-fi comedy series was recently rebooted on Netflix, and as proof of the festival’s wide reach, all three actors are Bridgetown veterans: Baron Vaughn, Jonah Ray and Hampton Yount. With festival co-founder Andy Wood as MC, they’ll perform standup sets preceding a screening of two MST3K episodes. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. 7:30 pm. $20.
The New Negroes
SUNDAY, MAY 7
FRIDAY, MAY 5 Matt Braunger doesn’t need to tape his standup special at Bridgetown. The Portland native kicked off his career in Chicago and is currently living in L.A., so he could easily claim either of those cities as his home turf. But instead, he chose Bridgetown, and that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy. Paris Theatre, 6 SW 3rd Ave. 7 pm. $5. Hosted by Baron Vaughn, the New Negroes has become a Bridgetown institution. Ever since the first show in 2013, it’s been a yearly highlight of the festival. Now, it’s on its way to TV-show levels of recognition, too. Less than a month ago, Comedy Central announced it will pick up the Bridgetown-born showcase as a series. Friday’s lineup includes Kevin Avery, Marcus Coleman (a new star in the local scene) and, of course, Vaughn himself. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St. 10 pm. $20.
SATURDAY, MAY 6
Can I Pet Your Dog?
The premise for Allegra Ringo and Renee Colvert’s podcast is as simple as it is genius: The pair just geek out about dogs and their recent canine encounters. For their Bridgetown live taping, they’ll be joined by two of this year’s headliners, Janeane Garofalo and Karen Kilgariff, plus Drew Lynch of America’s Got Talent fame. Maybe it’s because Garofalo ministered a dog wedding on Broad City and Kilgariff charmingly relays murder stories on her podcast My Favorite Murder, but listening to them rambling about dogs sounds like it’ll be incredible. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St. 2 pm. $20.
All Fantasy Everything
Last fall, Ian Karmel, one of Portland’s best-known exports, launched a wonderfully absurd podcast in which Karmel and friends craft fantasy drafts for nonsports, like condiments and famous animals. He’s livetaping the new show for the first time at Bridgetown with fellow export Sean Jordan and current Portlander Anthony Lopez. They ’ll be joined by the blunt but deeply clever Dulcé Sloan. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St. 1 pm. $15.
A Good Trip With Shane Mauss
Considering Bridgetown has so many stacked lineups, it seems inefficient to go to a show that features only one (very funny) comedian. But A Good Trip is not an ordinary showcase. It’s not even a standup show: More of a one-man campaign on the benefits of psychedelics, Mauss’ show mixes standup jokes with drug-related facts and stories. Besides, by Sunday you might be in the mood for something slower-paced. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 4:30 pm. $15. SEE IT: Visit bridgetowncomedy.com for full schedule. Festival passes $99. Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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PERFORMANCE 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 ICP Festival of New Work
Each year, the the Institute for Contemporary Performance’s small group of students end its yearlong training with a festival of works. Topic of this year’s plays range from androids to an examination of “survival in isolation” films, but with new works by emerging playwrights, you don’t really know what you’re going to get—which is exactly how experimental theater should be. Plus, ICP is lead by the well-regarded Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, whose standards for contemporary theater are definitely encouraging. SHANNON GORMLEY. Coho Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, May 5-7. $5.
La Bohème
Over the years, La Bohème has come to seem more ubiquitous than revolutionary. But Puccini’s 1890s opera about the Latin Quarter of Paris was a game changer for the genre. Not only did it add something relatively gritty to the canon of a historically classist genre, but its simpler, more accessible music was a big step towards musical theater—in the very least, it’s the reason we have Rent. For its production, Portland Opera is upsizing venues from its normal home to the Keller Auditorium and importing the show’s tenor, Italy’s Giordano Lucà. SHANNON GORMLEY. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., portlandopera.org. 7:30 pm Friday, May 5, Thursday, May 11, and Saturday, May 13, 2 pm Sunday, May 7. $28-$250.
or less embracing the campiness, the six-woman cast gives a laudable performance, impressively shifting between styles, with the real standout being Antonía Darlene, whose Aretha Franklin will give you goose bumps. Let’s hear it for the girls. PENELOPE BASS. Broadway Rose Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, broadwayrose.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, through May 14. Additional performances 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10, and 2 pm Thursday, May 11. $21-$46.
Medea
It seems callous to dub a tale as carnage-ridden as Medea “entertainment.” Yet that’s the only word that fittingly describes Imago’s production of the Greek tragedy. Working from Ben Powers’ modern adaptation, Imago’s Medea honors Powers’ quest to strip away Medea’s more fanciful flourishes, and features a terrifying performance by Anne Sorce as the eponymous spurned wife-turned-child killer of the title. Sorce sells the theory behind her character’s self-immolating revenge: that Jason, her soon-to-be ex-husband, is not only a treacherous spouse, but a cog in a misogynistic societal machine that deserves to be upended in the grisliest manner possible. That means the play has to get bloody, but it also offers an exhilarating portrait of a woman whose wrath strips her of self-doubt and self-hatred, making her both evil and mesmerizing. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., imagotheatre.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, through May 20. $19-$39
DANCE In Close Proximity
There’s a whole branch of sociology that just deals with personal space. And now, there’s a whole circus that deals with it too. Contemporary, acrobatics-focused circus troupe Tempos’ new show In Close Proximity digs into the meaning behind rules about personal space and what happens when we violate those norms. SHANNON GORMLEY. Echo Theater, 1515 SE 37th Ave., temposcircus.com. 8 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, May 5-7. $15-$25.
COMEDY Beau & Aero
Veterans of fringe festivals from Hollywood to Edmonton, Portland clowning duo A Little Bit Off is about as arty as slapstick gets. The physical humor is in the tradition of old vaudeville and French miming. The pair’s performances as inept aviators Beau and Aero have a particularly old-school vibe: They wear giant red noses and ’20s flight suits, and their act includes acrobatics and balloons. The duo kicks off a national tour of a new Beau and Aero show with a one-night hometown performance at Curious Comedy. SHANNON GORMLEY. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503477-9477, curiouscomedy.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 9. $15.
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That Pretty Pretty (or, The Rape Play)
Less of a feminist manifesto than a feminist challenge, Sheila Callaghan’s 2009 play is intentionally controversial. We’re used seeing male characters behaving badly, but pop culture is somewhat lacking in female anti-heroes. So That Pretty Pretty chronicles the debaucherous adventures of two women, Agnes and Valerie. They’re both former strippers and current murderers whose pastimes include Jell-O wrestling, one-night stands and getting beat up. SHANNON GORMLEY. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd, defunkttheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, May 5-June 10. No show Sunday, May 7. $10-$25.
ALSO PLAYING Beehive
What’s great about compilation albums is that you can condense an entire genre/decade/artist into a tidy little package of hits while ignoring any missteps. That’s the general concept behind Beehive, a musical revue packed with a parade of hits from the female icons of the ’60s, from Lesley Gore to Janis Joplin. Strung together with the loosest of plot structures and cultural milestones touched on with the depth of a middle school social studies report, Beehive goes from bubblegum pop like The Chiffon’s “One Fine Day” to a dash of Motown with a Supremes medley, before wrapping things up with an unfortunate caricature of Janis Joplin. More
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Miss Julie Late-1800s Sweden was not prepared for the attitude toward sex in Miss Julie: After it premiered, August Strindberg ’s play was promptly banned throughout most of Europe. About an aristocratic woman who has an affair with a married servant, it portrayed a relationship based on lust with a man from a lower social class—both things that Victorian audiences weren’t really cool with. But Shaking the Tree’s production is less interested in the play’s formerly lascivious reputation than its currently apt portrayal of class and power structures. So far this season, Shaking the Tree’s ensemble-devised plays have been contemporary in a fragmented, wonderfully poetic way. So it will be interesting to see how the theater decides to handle a more traditional play with a pre-existing script like Miss Julie. SHANNON GORMLEY. SEE IT: Miss Julie plays at Shaking the Tree Warehouse, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, May 4-June 10. No show Sunday, May 7 or June 4. $25.
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THE FIRST-THURSDAY ART SCENE LOSES ONE GALLERY AND GAINS ANOTHER. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L EY
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It’s a turbulent time for First Thursday. After almost a decade of programming, White Box gallery is opening its final curated show. Gallery closings in Portland are nothing new, but it’s particularly foreboding that White Box isn’t an independent gallery—it’s affiliated with the University of Oregon, which is shutting down the gallery because of a lack of funding. Meanwhile, another Northwest Portland gallery is rising from the grave—sort of. The much-loved Hap Gallery closed at the end of last year, but only a few months later, Hap’s former associate director, Iris Williamson, has co-founded a new gallery in Hap’s old space with John Knight of Cherry & Lucic. This week, Williamson|Knight kicks off its programming. Amid the rise and fall of arts spaces, here are the five shows we’re most excited about.
Ice Fishers and Nadachi
Photography gallery Blue Sky’s doubleheader exhibit tells a tale of isolation. There’s Aleksey Kondratyev’s sparse, isolating photos of ice fishermen along the Ishim River in north-central Kazakhstan, the world’s second-coldest populated region. The photos are as stark as they are intimate: The men huddle alone in translucent plastic tents surrounded by an all-white landscape. Then there’s Seiya Bowen’s photographs of the rural Japanese town where his grandparents live, Nadachi. Set in a warmer climate with lushly forested landscapes, Bowen’s images are far more vibrant than Kondratyev’s but still convey a certain loneliness—the underdeveloped town of Nadachi sits below a giant highway overpass. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., blueskygallery.org. May 4-28.
A Group Thing
Stephanie Chefas Projects’ next group show is about, well, groups. Chefas has rounded up nine local and national artists with disparate backgrounds, from Godeleine de Rosamel’s small, otherworldly ceramic creatures to John Felix Arnold III’s large, mixed-media installations. But the works revealed so far are precise and harmonious— Laura Berger’s and Ryan Whelan’s are particularly meditative. It’s hard to imagine how all of that will
fit together, but Chefas has a reputation for letting the artists influence her curatorial projects. So like a true group thing, the exhibit’s narrative can only really manifest when all nine artists’ works are on display. Stephanie Chefas Project, 305 SE 3rd Ave., No. 202, stephaniechefas.com. May 5-27.
Social Learning Theory
Sheida Soleimani’s Social Learning Theory is the official start to Williamson|Knight’s programming, and a bold re-entry into the gallery world. The works of Soleimani, an Iranian American who lives in Rhode Island, include cotton figures printed with pixelated photos of Iranian women who have been executed by their government. The figures reference Bobo dolls, the inflatable plastic punching toys used in an early-’60s study on childhood aggression. Williamson|Knight, 916 NW Flanders St., williamsonknight.com. May 4-June 17.
Functionally United
White Box isn’t going down quietly. Its extensive lineup for Functionally United seems less a conciliatory retrospective than a way of reminding us what we’ll miss when the gallery is gone. For its final show, White Box has booked an extraordinarily large list of artists, nearly 40, many of whom have previously had work displayed at the gallery. White Box, 70 NW Couch St., whitebox.uoregon.edu. May 4-27.
What Is Art? Questioned & Answered
We get it—modern art can be intimidating. The clichéd question, “What is art?” can sound more alienating than anti-establishment. But thankfully, the two people leading this talk are frequently criticized for their extreme lack of taste. Shane Bugbee has pissed off people for a lot of reasons, but perhaps most famously for publishing Mike Diana’s comics during Diana’s obscenity trial and for assisting in the formation of the Satanic Temple. He’ll be joined by comedian Rick Shapiro, whose acting credits include a role in Lucky Louie and voice acting for Grand Theft Auto. If anyone has the ability to bring some needed levity and genuine insolence to a conversation about art, it’s them. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 7 pm Tuesday, May 9. $13 advance VIP ticket includes swag bag, $7-$10 suggested sliding scale at the door. Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory
Slavery was outlawed in the Oregon Territory, so it might come as a surprise that Oregon was the only state admitted to the Union with a voter-approved constitutional clause banning African-Americans from the state. In his new book, Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory, R. Gregory Nokes discusses the legacy of racism in Oregon. Oswego Heritage House, 398 10th St., Lake Oswego, 503-635-6373. 6:30 pm.
Imagine the biologist prostrate before the ceibo. His ears are open to the scraping of twigs in the breeze, his nose is half-buried in soil. This is Pulitzer Prize finalist and consummate dendrophile David Haskell, and in his new book, The Songs of Trees, he strives to tell you the important things you’re missing about trees. And buddy, there’s a lot you’re missing. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
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Yaa Gyasi
Garnering the National Book Critics Circle Award’s John Leonard First Book Prize, and then being called “an inspiration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Homegoing was one of 2016’s standout literary achievements. Yaa Gyasi’s epic debut tracks two black lineages starting in 17th-century Ghana, and follows them through 20th-century Harlem. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 4 pm.
We’re lousy with comic books here in Portland. On Free Comic Book Day at Things From Another World, you’ll be able to choose up to 10 free comic books from a selection of 40 titles. Comic book artists David Walker, Brian Michael Bendis, and David Marquez will also be on site for signings. Things From Another World, 2916 NE Broadway, 503-284-4693. 9 am.
SUNDAY, MAY 7 Once They Were Hats
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Author Francis Backhouse will read from her book Once They Were Hats, about the outsized environmental and cultural impact of the smelly little fur log known as the American beaver. Once trapped nearly out of existence, the beaver grew to symbolize industriousness and now nobly, if gracelessly, adorns our state flag. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, oregonzoo.org. 1 pm.
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The Songs of Trees
Historian Nicholas Reynolds’ new book, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, suggests that in the mid-1940s, the Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) enlisted Ernest Hemingway as a clandestine intelligence man in the battle against Hitler. It’s worth noting this was a period when Hemingway was bored with his third wife, living in a state of fury-in-perpetuity at not being given the Nobel Prize for literature, and had declining health due to years of chronic alcoholism, acute oyster consumption, and a concussion he’d received in a car crash. Imagine those field reports. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
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I dreamed about Borne (MCD, 336 pages, $26) the night I started reading it. The book invited my mind to fill in gaps where previously there weren’t even borders—between hope and despair, sure, but also between drugs and insects. Jeff VanderMeer’s novel is a dystopia nearly psychedelic in its strangeness, exploring the cockroachlike ability of humanity to survive in the aftermath of environmental crises we ourselves created. The narrator, Rachel, is a scavenger haunted by memory on an ailing future Earth—venturing out to glean in a ruined metropolis known only as the City. The City has long ago been betrayed by the Company— an ominous, generic stand-in for corporate malice roughly analogous to “the Man”—that lost control of its biotech and unwittingly unleashed a being called Mord on the refugees that scrabble in his shadow. Mord, it’s worth mentioning, is a gigantic levitating bear. It’s also a godlike presence, making the city a living hell for its remaining inhabitants. That people choose to live in a place so toxic ruined—in this future, all adverbs have shed their “ly,” in a sort of pidgin— with a vicious ursine overlord on constant rampage says a great deal about how completely fucked the rest of the world must be. Still, it is from Mord’s fur that Rachel manages to pluck a protoplasmic VANDERMEER entity that she names Borne. Borne sometimes resembles a sea anemone, at others times a squid or a vase, and constantly exudes scents of vanilla and beech reeds, sea salts and passionflowers. While Mord represents death in the most heavy-handed way possible—it’s almost the French word for it—Borne represents…oh, but you get it. The entity brings out Rachel’s parental instincts, representing a new kind of life in name as well as form. The continuing enigma of Borne—whether he’s human or something else entirely—is one of the story’s greatest strengths. VanderMeer’s prose shines on every level, immersing us in the strangeness of the world without losing the thread of character or narrative—synthesizing odd and disparate images. Rachel’s lover Wick is a mad scientist who relies on “memory beetles” and “alcohol minnows.” And while Borne may have four more senses than most, VanderMeer doesn’t skimp on detailing the five we enjoy, lending verisimilitude to a world that seems unbelievable in synopsis but works flawlessly on the page. NATHAN CARSON. GO: Jeff VanderMeer will be joined in conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com, on Thursday, May 11. 7:30 pm. Free.
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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN
The Blood of Jesus (1941), Within Our Gates (1920)
A double feature of early AfricanAmerican cinema. Spencer Williams’ race film masterpiece, The Blood of Jesus, sees a newly baptized woman (Cathryn Caviness) navigate a series of spiritual tests after her atheist husband (Williams) accidentally shoots her, lest she wind up in Hell. Oscar Micheaux’s explosive Within Our Gates depicts the violent racial politics of the 1920s, following an African-American woman who goes north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, May 7.
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Clueless (1995)
Some people consider themselves Cher. Others, Dionne, or maybe Tai. Me? I’m Brittany Murphy’s apparently unresolved 2009 death from pneumonia, drug overdose, toxic mold or heavymetal poisoning, depending on whom you ask. Academy Theater. May 5-11.
The Dark Crystal (1982)
Puppets: We all agree they’re scary. But Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s “children’s movie,” which follows Jen and Kira, two elflike creatures who must defeat the evil Skeksis, is terrifying. 5th Avenue Cinema. May 5-7.
The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979)
Those familiar with Wu-Tang Clan’s unimpeachable debut album will finally have an opportunity to see where so many of the group’s samples originated, courtesy of Hollywood programmer Dan Halsted’s collection of rare kung fu on 35 mm. As the Ghostface Killer assassinates his old rivals with the five-element technique, a student of kung fu is taken under the wing of a chess master. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 9.
Scarface (1983)
Make no mistake, Scarface is idiotic. But its gleefully senseless violence, childlike moralizing and screaming-in-your-face obnoxiousness makes it one of the greatest idiotic movies of all time. Mission Theater. May 7-8.
ALSO PLAYING: Clinton Street Theater: Maria, Mirabella (1981), 8 pm Wednesday, May 3; Ekimmu the Dead Lust (2014) and The Black Sea (2015) double feature, 7 pm Saturday, May 6; An American Werewolf in London (1981), 7 pm Monday, May 8. Hollywood Theatre: The Wild One (1953), 9:30 pm Thursday, May 4; Casablanca (1942), May 6-7. Laurelhurst Theater: Goodfellas (1990), May 3-4; Stand By Me (1986), May 5-11. Mission Theater: Footloose (1984), May 3-5. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: From the Other Side (2002), 7 pm Saturday, May 6.
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Gastronomic Gigolo JAMES BEARD: AMERICA’S FIRST FOODIE UNRAVELS THE LIFE OF THE LEGENDARY PORTLAND-BORN CHEF.
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of money,” says Federici. Mrs. Beard ran a hotel, the Gladstone, and was a semi-socialite obsessed with fresh produce who had a major influence on her son’s career.
Go into some of the finest restaurants in Portland—Le Pigeon, Beast, Higgins—and you may see the friendly, bald image of James Beard emblazoned on a medal, framed and tucked away Beard was raised largely by a Chinese chef. with conspicuous humility. James Beard Awards His dad was “a philanderer and gambler,” are the most prominent in American food, but according to Federici, and not really in the the namesake has the national memory. picture. Instead, Beard was mostly raised James Beard: America’s First by his mother and, though this didn’t make it into the doc, a chef named Foodie, by Portland directorproducer Beth Federici and proJu Let. ducer Kathleen Squires, aims “He was quasi-raised by this to extend the Beard brand Chinese chef that had first outside the world of Insworked for his mom in the tagrammed tweezer food. boarding house she ran,” The new doc, airing May says Federici. “The chef, 21 at 7 pm on PBS as part Ju Let, worked in Elizabeth of the American Masters Beard’s kitchen while livseries, explains how a cook ing in Chinatown. Let was in from Portland revolutionized Beard’s life until he died.” American home cooking and fine So when Beard went to New FEDERICI dining alike. York, he was going with this West We spoke to Federici about Beard’s endur- Coast, big Asian influence on his palate. “He ing impact ahead of the Portland premiere at loved Asian cooking,” Federici says, “and NW Film Center. Here are the juiciest details published Let’s recipes at a time when most about Beard’s life, outside of the fact that he Caucasians weren’t going to Chinatown.” got kicked out of Reed College for being gay and that a handful of Portlanders have floated Beard’s recipes made home cooking better the idea of naming a Pike Place Market-style and easier. institution after him. “In the ’50s in New York, you had people going to fancy French and Italian restauJames Beard’s mother, Elizabeth Beard, rants, and the rest of the people in the counwas one of the coolest people in Portland. try were making cream soup casseroles,” At the turn of the 20th century, timber boom- says Federici. “The home cook was feeling town Portland was the place to be. “When he like that was all that they were capable of.” Beard didn’t reinvent the culinary wheel was a kid, Portland had some of the best restaurants in the country: amazing chefs, lots with his cookbooks. Instead, he brought
simple homestyle recipes that didn’t rely on preserved foods to the masses. “That was his huge influence on the American housewife,” Federici says, “or the single person who wanted to eat good food that wasn’t ridiculously expensive.” Beard had an early cooking show, but it was probably bad. Though no episodes survive, Beard hosted I Love to Eat, one of the first cooking shows, on NBC. It lasted for less than a year in 1946 and ’47. Years later, Beard would end up overshadowed by the much more famous Julia Child. “People could accept that she was kind of quirky and funny, and let’s face it: he’s not very telegenic,” says Federici. “As soon as the camera would come on, he froze up.” Beard was one of a handful of people who revolutionized American fine dining. New York restaurateur Joe Baum was the money man behind several of the most prominent restaurants in midcentury America. Most famous was the Four Seasons, the first finedining restaurant in America to have a seasonal menu and serve American wines. Beard was a consultant on the Four Seasons, plus many of Baum’s other spectacular eateries. “He consulted on the Newarker, a very fancy restaurant at the Newark Airport; the [Roman empire-themed] Forum of the Twelve Caesars; La Fonda del Sol, the first Latin-inspired restaurant that was presented to the New York society set as high end; and Windows on the World at the World Trade Center,” says Federici. Beard loved the Skyline Restaurant’s hamburger. “He always loved the Skyline burger,” Federici says, “which he thought was one of the best burgers in the country.” Skyline’s burger is no longer among the best in the country. It was eliminated in the first round of our recent Burger Madness competition, losing to Little Big Burger, the chain now owned by the same people who own Hooters. SEE IT: James Beard: America’s First Foodie screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium on Friday, May 5. 8 pm. Director Beth Federici will attend. Willamette Week MAY 3, 2017 wweek.com
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NOW PLAYING All These Sleepless Nights
It’s really difficult to tell Michal Marczak’s film is a documentary. This is a good thing. All These Sleepless Nights centers on the hedonistic trials of two Polish early-20-somethings—think Kids or Less Than Zero in Warsaw, with a unique edge in all the fuccboi antics. Heartless breakups are muffled by techno-electronica dance parties parading in the background, and clever narrations full of unnecessary, cigarette-inspired metaphors are not at all improvised. Main character Krzys is too real to be scripted. Ultimately, the flick has enough color and swerve that you stop asking questions. R. JACK RUSHALL. Fox Tower.
America Is Waiting
Remember the J20 protests of the Trump inauguration and that photo of all of the photographers taking the picture of that one trash can someone set on fire? Well, Seattle director Georg Koszulinski traveled to Washington, D.C., to capture the protest in a new hourlong doc, hopefully with a little more nuance than the trash photographers did. NR. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4:30 pm Saturday, May 6.
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Before broaching the life of city planning warrior Jane Jacobs, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City takes a helicopter tour of the world’s skylines. The visual message is clear: Cities are among humanity’s most incredible, unsolvable creations. This documentary’s task is just as towering. How do you relay the recent history of places where half the planet’s population lives? Urban renewal titan Robert Moses versus urban activist Jacobs is a compelling microcosm, and the doc’s middle chronicles their squaring off in 1950s New York City. Jacobs fought tooth and nail for urban spaces to be revitalized and imagined around human interaction, while Moses played a calloused God, bulldozing his way into creating modern ghettos. Outside this conflict, however, the film’s focus sprawls like an unchecked suburb, scratching the surface of topics from institutional racism to gentrification to community organizing to the birth of a white-collar economy. It’s nearly impossible to balance giving CliffsNotes on these massive societal forces while mining for drama in a 70-year-old battle over Washington Square Park. Either Ken Burns needed to make this film over the course of 12 hours, or it needed to call the Hudson and East rivers its borders. NR. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Something strange happens at the midpoint of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, James Gunn’s latest entry in the increasingly cosmic Marvel Cinematic Universe. It isn’t the sight of Kurt Russell surfing a space egg through an intergalactic dogfight and waving casually at smartass hero Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) amid a hail of lasers. And it isn’t the sequence in which a blue space pirate (Michael Rooker), a psychopathic talking raccoon, and a murder-happy sentient sapling mow down scores of bad guys with a magic, whistle-controlled arrow to the tune of “Come a Little Bit Closer.” It’s that all this psychedelic weirdness, rapidfire quipping, visual humor, and casual violence suddenly seems…normal. When the first Guardians debuted, its irreverent, hilarious, bizarro tone came out of nowhere, making audiences fall in love with Marvel’s D-list heroes at the confluence of Star Wars, The Ice Pirates and Buckaroo Banzai. Three years later, it’s comfort food. That’s not a slight, either. Gunn and Marvel are so successful at world building that the sight of burly wrestler Dave Bautista hacking his way out of the stomach of a giant octopus monster as ELO blares is the norm. Vol.
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2 isn’t the jolt that the first one was, but between all the action and its surprisingly poignant finale, it’s a welcome addition. We’d follow this band of charismatic assholes anywhere at this point. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
An unsuccessful New York power broker (Richard Gere) gets in over his head and is lured into a geopolitical drama by a charismatic Israeli politician (Lior Ashkenazi). Review to come next week. R. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.4 pm Sunday, May 7.
River Restoration Northwest: Stories of Our Watershed 2017
Rivers, lakes and streams, oh my! Nonprofit River Restoration Northwest hosts a collection of shorts celebrating the Pacific Northwest’s bodies of water, with some filmmakers in attendance. NR. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 3.
Short Stories/Short Films
Boathouse Microcinema hosts a collection of new narrative shorts from Portland filmmakers. Dawn Jones Redstone’s Sista’ in the Brotherhood follows a black tradeswoman who must choose between making a stand or keeping her job when she faces workplace discrimination, while Lara Jean Gallagher’s American Gladiators explores sibling rivalries. These two and more new shorts, with directors in attendance. Boathouse Microcinema, 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 3.
Steve Roggenbuck at Boathouse Microcinema
Tucson internet poet and video and meme artist Steve Roggenbuck has been profiled by The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR and The Atlantic, and he’s coming to a tiny concrete bunker in the middle of a trainyard near you to both screen his work and perform live. Boathouse Microcinema, 7:30 pm Friday, May 5.
Youthfilm Project 2017
Kids these days: always texting, always vaping, always making short films tackling the heady subject of The 14th Amendment: Transforming American Democracy. The smartest, best children win prizes. Hollywood Theatre. 6:30 pm Thursday, May 4.
STILL SHOWING Cézanne et Moi
What exactly do artists and writers do? If Cézanne et Moi is to be believed, they work occasionally, but spend most of their waking hours bickering about art, life or women, making this biopic about the turbulent bromance between two 19th-century French legends, novelist Emile Zola (Guillaume Canet) and painter Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne), pretty dull. R. Fox Tower.
Chasing Trane
Search “John Coltrane live” on YouTube and enjoy the results while perusing the jazz great’s Wikipedia page. You’ll come away only marginally less informed about the man and his music than if you’d paid $8.50 for a ticket to this underwhelming documentary. NR. Cinema 21, Kiggins.
Colossal
Nacho Velgado’s new monster flick follows Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudekis drunkenly rampaging through the friend zone as down-and-out yuppies whose angst somehow controls gigantic kaiju. PG. Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Hollywood.
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David Lynch: The Art Life
No one has ever accused David Lynch of being uninteresting, but Jon Nguyen’s new documentary about him certainly is. NR. Cinema 21.
The Fate of the Furious
Sadly, Paul Walker was the key ingredient missing in the eighth iteration of the Fast and the Furious franchise. At least there’s still a bunch of cool explosions and shit. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.
Frantz
A girl befriends a Frenchman she encounters at the grave of the fiance she lost in the Great War. Hilarity does not ensue. NR. Living Room Theaters.
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Sony thinks moviegoers are dumb enough to pay money to see rote lessons in togetherness and acceptance acted out by tiny little blue people in blue pajamas. Save your money and buy some Haribo Sour Smurfs instead. PG. Avalon, Bridgeport, Clackamas, Tigard, Vancouver.
T2: Trainspotting
It’s been 21 years since Trainspotting turned a blackly comic druggie caper into generational touchstone, and the follow-up posits that if you can survive the first rush
of freedom and weather the inevitable hangover of crashing dreams, nostalgia becomes the last true habit R. Fox Tower.
Their Finest
’Ello, love! It’s what seems to be the thousandth period romance this year, this time revolving around a screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) in the British Film Industry in 1940, marred by needless plot hiccups that make this film dissonantly depressing. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
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Get Out
Yes, this movie is as good as everyone says it is, enough so that it makes you ask why other horror movies aren’t better. R. Cinemagic, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Moreland, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.
Gifted
Every time I read the name of this movie that T-shirt you’d see at Spencer’s Gifts or wherever, emblazoned with the graphic of a stick figure with three legs and the caption ‘GIFTED,’ implying the wearer has a large penis, pops to mind. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.
Going in Style
Zach Braff’s Going in Style acts as a bitterly honest ode to aging, ageism and existentialism—themes that are always spry. What one might not expect is a plot that’s fairly heinous, both morally and logistically, with characters who remain justified and likable throughout. PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, Tigard, Vancouver.
Hidden Figures
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. Academy, Joy, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters, Valley, Vancouver.
I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck develops an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript to eloquently tell the story of American racism. NR. Academy, Laurelhurst.
Logan
Turns out having Hugh Jackman and cute child Dafne Keen perform Mortal Kombat fatalities on robot-armed mercenaries is a cool idea for a movie. R. City Center, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
The Lost City of Z
This supremely entertaining tale of exploration and obsession, unfolds in the early years of the 20th century and chronicles Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) storied search for an ancient city he believes lies hidden deep within the Amazon. With a buildup of suspense that could have made Hitchcock crack a sinister smile, and intoxicating images— men hacking their way through foliage with machetes, ramshackle boats floating toward elusive destinations—from director James Gray (Two Lovers), the movie hypnotizes completely. PG-13. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Vancouver.
The Promise
Is it just me, or is the historical-fiction romantic epic back? PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Vancouver.
Risk
Academy Award-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) turns her eye to Julian Assange after following him and his team for six years NR. Cinema 21.
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Cinema of Cycling
“People were buying tickets knowing that they weren’t going to be able to see the screen,” recalls Filmed by Bike founder and festival director Ayleen Crotty. When the cycling-centric film festival Filmed by Bike debuted in 2003, Crotty’s humble expectations—she hoped 30 people would show up—were shredded by the gargantuan turnout. “We were onto something that was worth continuing.” Talk about an understatement. Filmed by Bike—which returns Friday to the Hollywood Theatre—is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. It has grown remarkably since its debut, transforming into a celebration of biking worldwide that features 80 short films hailing from a long list of countries that includes India, Sweden, England, Kenya and Japan. Which is a long way from where the festival started. Crotty admits its early years were filled with “trick riding on BMX bikes, urban trick stuff, mountain bike videos”—all of it in films that she says were “really fun to watch but did not have a lot of substance behind them.” That seems to have changed, thanks to a diverse slate of movies divided into several different programs. These include “World’s Best Bike Movies,” “Adventure Night,” “Race to the Finish” and “Triumph,” which evokes the event’s international scope with films like My Ride, which takes a look at an all-female Muslim cycling club in London. That doesn’t mean Filmed by Bike has abandoned its roots—it features Oregonian efforts like Dirty Sellwood: You’re Never Gonna Make It, from Hood River filmmaker Manny Marquez. It is nominated for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Helmet. Yet Crotty says the festival’s movies are largely non-local now. One of this year’s most entertaining and illuminating entries is Voice Notes: A Tandem Ride With Horst A. Friedrichs, a moving film from Spain about the titular bike-adoring photographer. Although she says that hasn’t helped her get submissions from bicyclecentric Amsterdam. “People in Amsterdam don’t make films about biking, because to them, biking is just like drinking water,” Crotty explains. Could Portland be headed in that direction? It’s hard to say, though Crotty says “if we get to the point where people no longer have an interest in making bike movies…I think that will be a victory, because it will mean that cycling is so common that we don’t have to make movies about it.” “But I don’t really hope we get to that point,” she concedes, “because we’re having so much fun as it is.” BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON.
Filmed by Bike returns with a sweeping (and international) slate of films.
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Ever wanted to use weed to treat what ails you, but found yourself wading through multitudes of semi-convincing blog posts and abstracts for medical papers that require a subscription to view in full? You’re not alone. The good news is, as cannabis becomes increasingly mainstream, comprehensive sources of information are emerging. The Cannabis Health Index (North Atlantic Books, 660 pages, $20) is a new reference text by mind-body medicine author Uwe Blesching that combines evidence-based, scientific cannabis research with mindfulness techniques to help readers heal themselves of “100 chronic symptoms and diseases.” The Cannabis Health Index makes no assumptions about its audience, opening with a beginner’s guide of sorts: overviewing the mammalian endocannabinoid system, discussing cannabis safety and side effects, defusing misnomers like the “gateway” argument and ingestion methods. Following this primer, Blesching expands on his mind-body healing emphasis, asking readers to “consider the possibility that by generating specific emotional content you are also changing the very chemistry of your body, either fully or partly modulated via the endocannabinoid system.” He continues, claiming that by exercising emotional responsibility, acceptance and intervention, “we can consciously direct and support the self-healing abilities of our body.” After laying out his thesis, Blesching then dives into treatment plans, which are organized by condition. Individual conditions are each explained from a Western medicine perspective, after which available cannabis research is summarized and applied to “strain-specific considerations.” Also included are applicable mind-body medicine techniques, as well as suggested blessings and affirmations to be used in meditation. Some sections include food suggestions, too. Each treatment plan opens with a one-tofive-leaf rating, indicating whether it is “possible,” “probable” or “actual” that cannabis will be effective for the condition in question.
The leaf rating is coupled with a Cannabis Health Index score, a number that indicates both the author’s confidence in the available, reviewed research, as well as the scientific community’s degree of certainty as to whether cannabis is a viable treatment. To arrive at this CHI score, each research paper reviewed is given a numerical value based on the type of study—clinical trials on humans get higher scores than, say, trials on mice—and the findings dictate if research should be positively or negatively weighted. To calculate the final CHI score for a particular condition, all reviewed studies are added together for a total point value. Blesching claims, for instance, that mitigating migraines with cannabis is probable (three leaves)—basing this claim on three reviewed studies, with a total CHI value of 10. That may or may not be convincing depending on who you are. As a reader, I was surprised by how many treatment plans were based on just a handful of studies—though I’m inclined to believe this has more to do with the limitations of prohibitionera research than it does with any laziness on the author’s part. The opposite side of that assumption, though, is that Blesching spreads his focus a bit too thinly, or more precisely, tries to write too many books at once: The mindfulness sections feel scattershot, more an indulgence in the author’s professional interests than a coherent message to the reader. That feeling is only exacerbated as Blesching further derails to discuss the role of spices and foods in healing, appending many treatment plans with dietary suggestions (Blesching penned a book about using spices as medicine). And though it’s fairly obvious why Blesching opts to incorporate holistic techniques—because weed will not solve all your problems or health issues—a more focused and comprehensive resource would be welcome. More than anything else, The Cannabis Health Index illuminates the scientific community’s varying levels of confidence in cannabis to treat particular conditions—exposing holes in our understanding of medical marijuana, and outlining where more research needs to be done.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Beware of feeling sorry for sharks that yell for help. Beware of trusting coyotes that act like sheep and sheep that act like coyotes. Beware of nibbling food from jars whose contents are different from what their labels suggest. But wait! “Beware” is not my only message for you. I have these additional announcements: Welcome interlopers if they’re humble and look you in the eyes. Learn all you can from predators and pretenders without imitating them. Take advantage of any change that’s set in motion by agitators who shake up the status quo, even if you don’t like them.
In addition to fashion tips, advice for the brokenhearted, midlife-crisis support, and career counseling, I sometimes provide you with more mystical help. Like now. So if you need nuts-and-bolts guidance, I hope you’ll have the sense to read a more down-to-earth horoscope. What I want to tell you is that the metaphor of resurrection is your featured theme. You should assume that it’s somehow the answer to every question. Rejoice in the knowledge that although a part of you has died, it will be reborn in a fresh guise.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
“Are you ready for the genie’s favors? Don’t rub the magic lamp unless you are.” That’s the message I saw on an Instagram meme. I immediately thought of you. The truth is that up until recently, you have not been fully prepared for the useful but demanding gifts the genie could offer you. You haven’t had the self-mastery necessary to use the gifts as they’re meant to be used, and therefore they were a bit dangerous to you. But that situation has changed. Although you may still not be fully primed, you’re as ready as you can be. That’s why I say: RUB THE MAGIC LAMP!
When poet Wislawa Szymborska delivered her speech for winning the Nobel Prize, she said that “whatever else we might think of this world -- it is astonishing.” She added that for a poet, there really is no such thing as the “ordinary world,” “ordinary life,” and “the ordinary course of events.” In fact, “Nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world.” I offer you her thoughts, Taurus, because I believe that in the next two weeks you will have an extraordinary potential to feel and act on these truths. You are hereby granted a license to be astonished on a regular basis.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Would you consider enrolling in my Self-Pity Seminar? If so, you would learn that obsessing on self-pity is a means to an end, not a morass to get lost in. You would feel sorry for yourself for brief, intense periods so that you could feel proud and brave the rest of the time. For a given period -- let’s say three days -- you would indulge and indulge and indulge in self-pity until you entirely exhausted that emotion. Then you’d be free to engage in an orgy of self-healing, self-nurturing, and self-celebration. Ready to get started? Ruminate about the ways that people don’t fully appreciate you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
In a typical conversation, most of us utter too many “uhs,” “likes,” “I means,” and “you knows.” I mean, I’m sure that . . . uh . . . you’ll agree that, like, what’s the purpose of, you know, all that pointless noise? But I have some good news to deliver about your personal use of language in the coming weeks, Cancerian. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ll have the potential to dramatically lower your reliance on needless filler. But wait, there’s more: Clear thinking and precise speech just might be your superpowers. As a result, your powers of persuasion should intensify. Your ability to advocate for your favorite causes may zoom.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
In 1668, England named John Dryden its first Poet Laureate. His literary influence was so monumental that the era in which he published was known as the Age of Dryden. Twentieth-century poetry great T. S. Eliot said he was “the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the eighteenth century.” Curiously, Dryden had a low opinion of Shakespeare. “Scarcely intelligible,” he called the Bard, adding, “His whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is coarse.” I foresee a comparable clash of titans in your sphere, Leo. Two major influences may fight it out for supremacy. One embodiment of beauty may be in competition with another. One powerful and persuasive force could oppose another. What will your role be? Mediator? Judge? Neutral observer? Whatever it is, be cagey.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Just this once, and for a limited time only, you have cosmic clearance to load up on sugary treats, leave an empty beer can in the woods, watch stupid TV shows, and act uncool in front of the Beautiful People. Why? Because being totally well-behaved and perfectly composed and strictly pure would compromise your mental health more than being naughty. Besides, if you want to figure out what you are on the road to becoming, you will need to know more about what you’re not.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
You may have heard the exhortation “Follow your bliss!”, which was popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell. After studying the archetypal stories of many cultures throughout history, he concluded that it was the most important principle driving the success of most heroes. Here’s another way to say it: Identify the job or activity that deeply excites you, and find a way to make it the center of your life. In his later years, Campbell worried that too many people had misinterpreted “Follow your bliss” to mean “Do what comes easily.” That’s all wrong, he said. Anything worth doing takes work and struggle. “Maybe I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters,’” he laughed. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you are now in an intense “Follow your blisters” phase of following your bliss.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
The versatile artist Melvin Van Peebles has enjoyed working as a filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, composer, and novelist. One of his more recent efforts was a collaboration with the experimental band The Heliocentrics. Together they created a science-fiction-themed spoken-word poetry album titled The Last Transmission. Peebles told NPR, “I haven’t had so much fun with clothes on in years.” If I’m reading the planetary omens correctly Capricorn, you’re either experiencing that level of fun, or will soon be doing so.
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In what ways do you most resemble your mother? Now is a good time to take inventory. Once you identify any mom-like qualities that tend to limit your freedom or lead you away from your dreams, devise a plan to transform them. You may never be able to defuse them entirely, but there’s a lot you can do to minimize the mischief they cause. Be calm but calculating in setting your intention, Aquarius! P.S.: In the course of your inventory, you may also find there are ways you are like your mother that are of great value to you. Is there anything you could do to more fully develop their potential?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
“We are what we imagine,” writes Piscean author N. Scott Momaday. “Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.” Let’s make this passage your inspirational keynote for the coming weeks. It’s a perfect time to realize how much power you have to create yourself through the intelligent and purposeful use of your vivid imagination. (P.S. Here’s a further tip, this time from Cher: “All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”)
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