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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 28.

Players of “big injun” would get screwed by a new state law. 4 Obama pressured Oregon to stop fleecing prisoners phoning their families. Trump says it’s OK now.

Can you guess what “Democrat” Kate Brown is planning to do? 8 Tragedy has resulted from a Silverton man’s second DUII arrest . 14 Today’s cool vampires say drinking blood is cheesy, and they don’t even bother anymore. 23

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Portland will soon have a Super Mario-themed Chinese bao restaurant. 24 Wollongong is Australian for

Waterloo. 29 The Flaming Lips ’ first memory

of Portland is hearing a homeless man threaten to stab the guy cleaning up outside Satyricon. 33 In his stirring defense of Jimmy Buffett, local author Ryan White suggests Kurt Cobain was the real hypocrite. 46

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AUTHORITIES RELEASE SUSPECT

I’d say skin color and class were both very relevant in this case [“Found and Lost,” WW, May 3, 2017]. We can debate which matters more, as people always try and do. But that would be beside the point.

Yes, most crime victims are poor. But crime victims of color are disproportionately affected.

—“Vladiatör” I see a lot of issues with how this case was handled. I’m guessing the DA’s office screwed up.

You have a situation now where DAs across the country are under pressure to reduce the number of people going to prison. One way to do that is to lower the number of cases prosecuted.

—Pamela Fitzsimmons

For pedestrians—and there are lots of them— the plaza is still Southwest Madison Street, in a form that’s a welcome respite from cars. Walking through a building, during very limited hours only, is nothing like comparable public access.

The article’s final quotes show what J.S. May of the museum thinks of “those people.” City Council, say no.

—“grrlpup”

“I’d say skin color and class were both very relevant in this case.”

The real issue is policing, both the response to a reported crime as well as the follow-up and prosecution, and that’s where the massive failing was in the situation documented in this article.

Also, resources tend not to be available to lower-income and minority communities.

—“pdan”

EXPANSION OF ART MUSEUM

The Portland Art Museum’s arrogance, including touting the project on its website like it’s a done deal, is disgusting [“The Rothko Job,” WW, May 3, 2017].

The uproar over this shows how small-minded Portland can be.

Here’s a chance to put the city on the world’s art map, but some would rather scuttle it than having to walk around the building.

Let’s hope the Rothko family doesn’t change their mind—they really don’t need Portland for anything.

They’re doing us a favor. I’m sure any other art museum in the world would be happy to take their gift.

—“mwpdx”

The opposition is not to a Rothko Pavilion (and Rothko happens to be my favorite 20th-century painter).

The opposition is to the blocking of the passageway. The museum can erect an architecturally brilliant addition with a pass-through, as has been done at other art museums.

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BY MA RT Y SMIT H

House Bill 2190, the anti-poker-room bill, also bans “Chinese chuck-a-luck” and something called “big injun.” What are these games? And do you think Portland Democrats had a pang of conscience about enshrining the phrase “big injun” into legislation?

—Poker Mutant

For the folks at home, the passage in question defines “casino games,” and includes: faro, monte, fan-tan, twenty-one, seven-and-a-half, big injun, chuck-a-luck, Chinese chuck-a-luck, wheel of fortune, chemin de fer, beat the banker, panquinqui, red dog, acey-deucey, and “any other gambling-based game.”

What, no mumblety-peg? No bandy-wicket?

This passage is the gambling version of what would happen if your grandma were asked to make a list of street drugs she thought should be illegal.

I mass-mailed the members of the Oregon House to ask if anyone who voted on this bill actually knows what “big injun” is. The internet had never heard of it, and my gut tells me House members haven’t either.

To be fair, HB 2190 amends existing law. Our clause appears to have been kicking around since “at least 1933” according to Rep. Tawna Sanchez (D-Portland), so it’s not like legislators are writing new law they don’t understand.

Still, what’s it doing there? In your too-long4

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to-print letter, Mutant, you note having found nearly the same language in Vermont law. I was able to find similar lists in Utah, Nevada, Connecticut and Mississippi as well.

I’m guessing at some point—probably about 1890—a hapless legislative assistant was tasked with making a list of all the games favored by those ne’er-do-wells, ruffians and horny-fisted salts down by the docks. Since then, the list has mutated and replicated through the statutes of various states like a virus.

Rep. Sanchez agrees that “big injun” is “a sad part of history that probably should be removed.”

Of course, that would leave a loophole for Portland’s newly unemployed gambling impresarios. Soon, legalized “big injun” parlors may spring up on every corner, with seedy gamblers gathering with but a single thought: “Man, as soon as somebody figures out how to play this game, I’m going to make a fortune.”

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A former Legacy Emanuel Medical Center employee, accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl and shooting upskirt videos

of hospital visitors, was arrested May 5 in Solano County, Calif., between San Francisco and Sacramento.

Daniel Gonzalez, 49, was on the run from Portland after being indicted March 27 on charges of attempted sexual abuse of the girl, who lived in the home where Gonzalez rented a room, and 33 counts of public indecency for the alleged filming up the skirts and dresses of women at Legacy Emanuel with a camera mounted on a mop (“Found and Lost,” WW, May 3, 2017). “I was really happy to hear he’d been arrested,” says the girl’s mother. “I called my daughter at school, and she was relieved.” Gonzalez now faces extradition from California.

Portland Development Commission Gets a New Name

The Portland Trail Blazers, who debuted a spruced-up logo May 8, aren’t the only local institution getting a makeover this week. As it approaches its 60th birthday next year, the city-owned Portland Development Commission proposes to rebrand and change its name to Prosper Portland. The city’s urban renewal agency has a tentative budget of $220 million next year, and big challenges ahead as it embarks on the redevelopment of the 13.4-acre, $88 million post-office site in the Pearl District. The rebranding is supposed to help the public and partners more clearly understand the goal of the agency’s projects.

After adopting a new strategic plan in 2015, the agency looked at its identity, surveyed 400 Portlanders and interviewed 60 stakeholders.

“This has been building for quite some time,” says PDC spokesman Shawn Uhlman. “The name ‘Portland Development Commission’ no longer fits who we are or how or with whom we work.”

The agency’s board is set to vote on the name change May 10. The agency expects the costs of new stationery, signage, business cards, etc., to be less than $10,000.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

IT’S A SABOTAGE PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN’T STOP HITTING ITSELF.

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R AC HE L M O N A H A N

503-243-2122

Entering this month, Portland Public Schools couldn’t afford a single misstep. But the school district just can’t break the habit.

The district belatedly chose this election to ask voters for $790 million to rebuild and repair its aging schools. But on May 4, with ballots on voters’ kitchen tables, PPS gave them three pieces of bad news in less than five hours.

Its human resources director abruptly resigned. A Multnomah County jury found the district owed two employees $1 million in a discrimination lawsuit. And most damaging of all, PPS’s anointed superintendent candidate, Donyall Dickey, declared he wasn’t coming to Portland after all.

Dickey’s botched recruitment caps a series of screwups that imperils passage of the bond.

The School Board is asking voters to trust the district’s ability to execute a risky, complex, multiyear construction program. Officials handled a previous bond effectively, but poor management decisions about personnel and policy, and a continuing aversion to transparency, threaten to undermine voters’ confidence.

“The kind of news we saw last week absolutely affects voters,” says Jim Moore, a professor of political science at Pacific University. “It’s going to be a low-turnout election, and the polling showed soft support. Those who are paying attention to

the election will also pay attention to such news.”

If voters say no to Measure 26-193 on May 16, last week’s news could be the reason. But the terrible day didn’t occur in a vacuum: It’s part of a pattern by PPS of hiding bad news, making decisions behind closed doors, and rushing its announcements.

Here’s a recent history of district mistakes, all of them committed since revelations last May of lead in the drinking water showcased the district’s need for repairs and reforms.

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. WW revealed last May that the district had hidden elevated lead levels in the drinking water at dozens of school buildings, but for at least four years hadn’t told teachers and parents. Yet after the news broke, the board continued to support then-Superintendent Carole Smith until an independent report of the extent of

mismanagement forced her to resign in July. “The board’s job is to supervise the superintendent,” says Scott Bailey, a longtime parent activist now running for the School Board. “That wasn’t happening. If Carole was a weak manager, why wasn’t the board all over that?”

2. Over a weekend last July, board vice

chair Amy Kohnstamm pulled the plug on the fall campaign for what is now a $790 million school bond. The bond was unlikely to pass in November, but Kohnstamm and the board’s abrupt decision—made without explanation to parents and teachers—resulted in a large student walkout, which the district also botched. Benson High School, where students are predominantly minorities and from lower-income families, was locked down while students from comparatively affluent Lincoln High School freely roamed the streets. “That was a missed opportunity,” Bailey says. “I wish they’d sent the superintendent over to Benson and allowed the kids out.”

3. After the board appointed former Cen-

tennial School District Superintendent Bob McKean to replace Smith on an interim basis last August, McKean wasn’t on hand to welcome students back to school.

The reason: He didn’t have a valid superintendent’s license. It had lapsed during his retirement. McKean’s renewal had to be hustled through the state process.

4. In November, in an effort to improve

transparency, district officials tried to hire a new top lawyer. They neglected to Google him. A Florida newspaper reported that the proposed new transparency czar, lawyer Wes Bridges, had in 2009 been convicted of violating Florida’s public records law. In another blow to transparency, the district later sued activist Kim Sordyl and former WW reporter Beth Slovic in a public records dispute. “The culture at PPS needs to be dismantled,” says Virginia La Forte, a longtime district activist running for the School Board. “Accountability, fiscal responsibility and transparency: It was and still is missing at every level of the district.”

5. Last week, the board made a stunning

announcement—Atlanta schools administrator Donyall Dickey, introduced March 3 as the district’s next superintendent, would not come to Portland. The district declined to say precisely what it had learned during a due-diligence review, but the deal-breaker seemed to be Dickey’s unwillingness to commit 100 percent of his time to PPS. That probably should have been obvious: Dickey had worked in three cities in the past five years while aggressively promoting his outside consulting work. “I’m not sure why it took two months to determine there wasn’t a fit,” La Forte says. “I would think a simple background check would have turned that up.”

W H A T T H E Y ’ R E S AY I N G

PPS SUPERINTENDENT FLUB The social-media chorus after Donyall Dickey dropped out of the selection process for the Portland Public Schools superintendent job was immediate and scathing. Here are some characteristic samples.

ELISE HERRON.

“It’s not because I’m cheap that I hesitate to give such a large check to PPS each year. It’s because I just don’t trust them.”

—David Kline on Nextdoor

“And the hits keep coming—Dr. Dickey wants no part of the PPS dumpster fire.”

—Phil Newman on Twitter

“How about some transparency from the school board this time?” —Karin McKercher on Facebook

“We are such a s*^# show!”

—Kate Johnson on Facebook

“The a-b-c’s of portland public schools: they’re not very public about anything, not very much on vetting or accountability, and very basic.” —@yuetsu on Twitter “I would love to see the PPS board finally learn, and evolve into a transparent inclusive body. It’s what Portland schools need.” —Bill Fitzgerald on Twitter Willamette Week MAY 10, 2017 wweek.com

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Calling Collect THE FEDS PERSUADED OREGON TO SCRAP ITS EXPLOITIVE PRISON PHONE CONTRACT—UNTIL THE STATE DECIDED IT NEEDED THE MONEY.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

njaquiss@wweek.com

The Oregon Department of Corrections collects nearly $3.6 million a year from a contract so exploitive of prison inmates and their families that federal officials have pushed for the state to end it.

State corrections officials conceded in March that money from the program would dry up because of pressure from federal regulators.

But the combination of a dire state budget outlook and President Donald Trump’s lighter federal regulatory approach has caused state leaders to scrap the planned reform in the budget they are now struggling to finalize.

That’s good news for the corrections budget, but bad news for the families of Oregon’s prison inmates, who pay millions of dollars a year in artificially inflated phone charges.

“States [like Oregon] have taken the position, if the state can get money out of prisoners’ families, why not?” says Aleks Kajstura, legal director for the Massachusettsbased Prison Policy Initiative.

At issue are the phone calls inmates make from prison.

They make those calls under supervision and electronic monitoring and exclusively through a phone system provided to the Department of Corrections by a private contractor.

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Since 2012, that contractor has been Telmate, a private company based in San Francisco that supplies phone service to 300 prisons and jails across North America.

Under its contract with DOC, Telmate charges inmates 16 cents a minute for phone calls. In return, it pays the

The rate Oregon inmates pay—16 cents a minute—is in the middle of the pack nationally but is 3 cents—or 23 percent higher—than the ceiling the Federal Communications Commission suggested last year.

Liz Craig, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman, says the Telmate contract provides a cost-effective way for inmates to communicate with their families and for prison officials to monitor such communication. (Families prepay for calls by putting money in an account with Telmate.)

Craig explains her agency puts all the money from telephone commissions in an inmate welfare fund, which pays for alcohol and drug treatment, education and amenities such as exercise equipment and television.

“They are paying for a service,” Craig says. “Sixteen cents a minute is relatively low, and funding critical programs is a benefit to the taxpayer.”

Inmates’ families already pay taxes, say critics of prison phone contracts, and excessive rates are effectively another level of taxation for services that advocates say the state should provide.

The price of those calls has also caught the eye of federal regulators.

For years, the FCC, which oversees the nation’s phone system, has sought to reduce the cost of inmate phone contracts, which the commission said last year were characterized by “excessive rates and egregious fees.”

Although the FCC and industry providers are currently battling in federal court, eight states, including Ohio and New York, have stopped collecting commissions on prison phone calls.

Oregon was set to follow their lead this year. In the budget the Department of Corrections submitted to the Legislature in March, the agency told lawmakers it would give up the commissions, poking a $7.2 million hole in the budget over the next two years.

“At the direction of the FCC, Oregon DOC will remove the site commission arrangement in its existing contract and any future contracts,” the budget document said. “As such, the revenue generated from these commissions will be lost.”

The Department of Corrections budget is nearly $900 million a year, so the loss of the phone contract would be a relatively small hit. But it’s significant for the inmate welfare fund, which gets nearly 70 percent of its funding from phone commissions.

The first draft of Gov. Kate Brown’s budget, released late last year, originally proposed to shift general fund dollars to replace about half the phone commissions.

But Craig says that’s no longer in the works.

Instead, state officials decided to extend the Telmate contract, which was set to expire June 30, 2017. Craig says her agency was preparing to put the contract out for bid in early March when responsibility for the contract shifted to the Department of Administrative Services.

“We’ll continue to collect the commissions until there’s a new contract,” Craig says. “I’m not sure when that will be.”

Pressure to reform phone contracts like Oregon’s, intense under the Obama administration, has shifted with

“IT’S EMINENTLY UNFAIR TO PICK ON SOCIETY’S POOR

RESIDENTS TO SAY, ‘YOU NEED TO PAY EXTRA FOR A BASIC SERVICE.’”

—ALEKS KAJSTURA, PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE

state a flat fee of $3 million, plus a percentage of revenues when proceeds from calls exceed projections. Next year, the contract is expected to yield $3.6 million for Oregon.

Critics of the contracts call the commissions that companies pay states such as Oregon “kickbacks.”

“These contracts are enormously profitable,” says Kajstura. “It’s essentially a kickback in exchange for a monopoly.”

Oregon incarcerates nearly 15,000 inmates in state prisons. That means Telmate is paying the state an annual commission of about $240 per inmate in exchange for a monopoly on the calls they make.

a Trump appointee taking control of the FCC. Under the Trump administration, the commission has backed away from its previous court challenge of the prison phone industry, leaving inmate advocates to argue the case for lower rates in a long-running battle now before the U.S. District Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. The Prison Policy Initiative’s Kajstura says states such as Oregon should do the right thing—even if the feds are no longer making a case out of it.

“It’s eminently unfair,” she says, “to pick on society’s poorest residents to say, ‘You need to pay extra for a basic service.’”

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Son of Measure 97 CITY COMMISSIONER CHLOE EUDALY AND PORTLAND ADVOCATES PREPARE TO LAUNCH A CLIMATECHANGE TAX ON CORPORATIONS.

BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

rmonahan@wweek.com

The key debate in the Oregon Legislature this year is whether to impose a tax on businesses, months after voters rejected a similar idea at the ballot box.

But WW has learned that state lawmakers aren’t the only ones who want to hike business taxes.

In Portland, City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly has joined forces with environmental and socialjustice advocates on a potential 2018 ballot measure: a 1 percent city tax on the local gross receipts of businesses with national sales over $1 billion, if those businesses do at least $500,000 in annual sales in the city of Portland.

The proposal would spend the tax revenue it raises on renewable energy projects—like solar panels and community food gardens—in lowincome neighborhoods, with a promise to create jobs for women and people of color.

Eudaly’s office sent the proposed measure to Portland revenue officials and city attorneys last month. WW obtained it this week through a records request. It does not say how much money it would raise, but backers say it would raise upwards of $10 million annually.

“Housing is my main issue,” says Eudaly. “It could definitely be argued that climate change is at least as urgent, if not more. Who cares if you have safe, stable, affordable housing if you are living in the midst of environmental devastation? This could be a huge boost to these efforts.”

The proposal shows that left-wing advocates have new levels of access at Portland City Hall since Eudaly’s election—and Eudaly is giving them a bully pulpit.

The proposal is a joint effort by the climatechange group 350PDX, environmental group Sierra Club, longtime environmental lawyer Brent Foster and the NAACP of Portland. And it is likely to boost the political ambitions of Jo Ann Hardesty, who is president of the NAACP of Portland and is mulling a bid for the City Council in 2018, against either Commissioner Dan Saltzman or Nick Fish.

Hardesty, who is acting as the public face of the proposal, says the measure could help meet the city’s climate-change goals while providing renewable energy projects for housing.

“The first year, we could retrofit every lowincome multifamily unit within the city of Portland,” Hardesty says.

Staff for Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Fish said the officials didn’t yet know enough about the proposal to weigh in.

Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Saltzman did not respond to requests for comment.

The proposal, which backers have dubbed the Portland Just Energy Transition, reads like a Christmas wish list for progressive Portland voters: It taxes big businesses to help end the city’s energy dependence on fossil fuels while boosting economic and racial justice, all in one package that could be passed by the City Council go before voters as soon as May 2018.

But the proposed measure also has the potential to upend the difficult negotiations underway in Salem to address the state’s $1.5 billion deficit.

House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) this week introduced a plan to make up that expected shortfall with taxes on the gross receipts of companies doing business in Oregon.

If Democrats, who control both houses but don’t have the necessary super-majorities to pass a tax, can’t win Republican votes, they could refer a tax measure to voters.

Last November, voters rejected Measure 97, a $3 billion tax on corporations, by a 59 percent to 41 percent margin.

Observers say a Portland-only tax would further complicate current efforts to address taxes statewide.

Ryan Deckert, a former Democratic lawmaker and now the president of the Oregon Business Association, expressed concern.

“That just makes zero sense,” Deckert says.

“This would be a total sideshow to a really important conversation that’s happening in the Capitol right now.”

Hardesty says Portland should proceed regardless. “Because we know the federal government is not going to come to our rescue anytime soon,” she says, “we can’t wait for the state to get its act together to figure out what they’re going to do.”

Eudaly dismisses talk of competition at the ballot box by emphasizing that the tax is just 1 percent.

“Given that this tax targets large corporations that are already subject to very low corporate taxes and [will] receive double digit tax breaks from the Trump administration, even if legislation went through at the state and local level, it would still only partially offset the Trump tax breaks,” says Eudaly. “I frankly don’t think that’s a legitimate concern.”

The Portland Revenue Division and city attorneys are still weighing the economic impact and legality of raising the city’s business license tax for large companies.

Proponents are seeking to address some of the weaknesses that sank Measure 97, even though it passed overwhelmingly in Multnomah County by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent.

The Portland measure would exempt business revenues from groceries or some medicines, using company tax returns.

That’s a key difference from Measure 97, which faced criticism for taxing essential items.

John Horvick, political director of polling firm DHM Research, says the measure could appeal to Portland voters, but could face resistance if twinned with another, statewide tax proposal.

“Even in liberal Portland,” Horvick says, “there is a limit to any community’s appetite for passing taxes.”

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W W ’ S M AY 2 0 1 7 E N D O R S E M E N T S

BY WW STA F F

HERE’S HOW WE SUGGEST YOU CAST YOUR BALLOT.

503-243-2122

Your vote matters in every election. In this one, it may matter more than usual.

As of WW press deadlines, voter turnout in this month’s election hovered at 9.5 percent, with one week left before ballots are counted May 16.

That means only a fraction of citizens are voting on the $790 million Portland Public Schools bond—the largest school construction bond in state history—or on the races that will determine a direction for a troubled Portland School Board and the rarely scrutinized Multnomah Education Service District.

But you still can.

Mail-in ballots must be in the hands of Multnomah County elections officials by 8 pm on May 16. The last day to mail them is May 11. After that, you’ll have to drop them off in the boxes set up at locations that include county library branches.

Maybe you need a little help. That’s what our endorsements are for.

WW’s endorsements are unique for allowing candidates and the backers of ballot measures the chance to make their case in group interviews—all of them captured on camera. You can watch the full interviews, and read the reasoning behind our picks, at wweek.com.

But if you don’t have time for all that homework, here’s a crib sheet.

MEASURE 26-193

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOND

Yes

MEASURE 26-189

CITY AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE

MULTNOMAH EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT

MEASURE 26-194

Kristin Cornuelle

Yes

POSITION 2, AT-LARGE

LODGING TAX ON SHORT-TERM RENTALS

Yes

POSITION 1, ZONE 5

PORTLAND SCHOOL BOARD, ZONE 4

(GRESHAM, FAIRVIEW, TROUTDALE AND PORTIONS OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY)

PORTLAND SCHOOL BOARD, ZONE 5

POSITION 3, ZONE 2 (INNER PORTLAND)

PORTLAND SCHOOL BOARD, ZONE 6

POSITION 4, ZONE 4 (EAST PORTLAND)

Rita Moore

Scott Bailey

Julia Brim-Edwards

Susie Jones

Mary Botkin

Jessica Arzate

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WHERE IS

BY RACHEL MONAHAN

RMONAHAN@WWEEK.COM

Brandon is an American citizen.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement tore his family apart.

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HELPING HAND: Brandon, age 4, holds his mother’s hand.

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BRANDON IS IN MANY WAYS A TYPICAL AMERICAN 4-YEAR-OLD.

Since Donald Trump became president, the federal government has launched a well-documented crackdown on illegal immigrants.

In less than two months this year, ICE agents arrested 578 undocumented workers in Alaska, Washington and Oregon— a 200 percent increase from the same period last year.

Deportation is aimed at punishing people who crossed the border illegally, but it often means breaking up families and leaving children born in the U.S. without one parent, or both of them.

“U.S. citizen children are really at the whim of what happens to their parents,” says immigration lawyer Anna Ciesielski of private law firm Oregon Immigration Group.

The issue of children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents has long been a hot button in the immigration debate.

More than 3.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States have children who are U.S. citizens, according to a 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Cen-

“U.S. CITIZEN CHILDREN ARE REALLY AT THE WHIM ter. In Oregon, Pew figures from 2014 suggest at least 40,000 U.S. citizens probably have parents who could be deported.

The story of the family left behind in Silverton when Andrade-Lopez was arrested is a story playing out across the nation.

“He’s missing his dad a lot, a lot, a lot,” Araceli says of Brandon as she sits on a comfy brown couch, crying softly.

“They were never separated before—we were never separated—for more than a week.”

A LIVING WILL

HOW PARENTS PREPARE FOR LEAVING THEIR KIDS BEHIND. On a recent Wednesday night, Alice Perry, an advocate with the Portland nonprofit the Latino Network, was at a meeting for undocumented students at Chemeketa Community College in Salem.

Perry and others from the group have been crisscrossing the state to help undocumented parents prepare for arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We started hearing from families that there was a lot of fear after the election, and there was concern, principally about what would happen to their children should they be detained or deported,” Perry explains, before launching into the practical advice.

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The to-do list includes items that would be useful to any parents who want to be prepared for an emergency or their own death: a list of contact information for doctors, schools and family members.

There’s a power-of-attorney form, designating who will take care of the children.

That last question is complicated in undocumented communities, because while ICE will recognize a power-of-attorney form presented upon arrest, the agency may also scrutinize the immigration status of any caregiver left in charge of the children, meaning the family often has to find someone outside its social circle to care for a child.

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His favorite food is chicken nuggets. He likes watching Power Rangers, singing “The Wheels on the Bus,” and saying his ABCs. He goes to preschool in Silverton, roughly an hour’s drive south of Portland.

For nearly a month, Brandon has been asking his mother, “Where is Daddy?”

For nearly a month, his mother has lied.

“He’s working,” she tells him.

Brandon is a U.S. citizen, but born to parents who crossed the border from Mexico without papers.

Last month his father, Juan Carlos Andrade-Lopez, 26, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants in the wee hours of Jan. 22. After Andrade-Lopez spent a night in the Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City, he was arrested

by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

They took him to a detention facility in Tacoma, Wash., where he has been ever since, awaiting a hearing that will likely order him to be deported to Mexico, a country he hasn’t lived in for almost half his life.

The deportation will come with firm instructions not to return to the U.S. to see his son or the rest of his family—his partner, Araceli, or his other son, 1-year-old Oliver. (WW is not using Araceli’s last name because she is undocumented.)

The remaining family now lives in an aging farmhouse in Central Oregon—a home filled with extended relatives, religious pictures and a growing sense of dread.

“Brandon started asking for his father after a week,” Araceli says. “He cries for him every day.”

ANDRADE-LOPEZ AND ARACELI MET in 2011, set up on a date by mutual friends. They had a couple things in common. They both worked on farms. And they had crossed the U.S. border as teenagers.

Andrade-Lopez arrived in Oregon in 2006 at age 15, crossing into the U.S. from the Mexican state of Michoacán with his parents and brother. He went straight to work tending grapes.

Araceli arrived from a small town outside the Mexican city of Puebla in 2010 at age 19 to join her mother and brother, who were already in Oregon. Araceli came to the U.S. by walking for two weeks across the Southwestern desert with the help of smugglers. She left behind a 7-yearold sister, who she’d been caring for since their mother left for the U.S. “I didn’t want to think I only had that life,” says Araceli, speaking in Spanish. “There weren’t many opportunities.”

In Oregon, she started picking chilies. Araceli later tended grapes, and she canned fruit.

Araceli and Andrade-Lopez met here a year later. It was winter, and she was out of work because farms weren’t hiring.

He was landscaping Portland yards.

Araceli remembers thinking Andrade-Lopez was funny; he also was very attentive. They never got married, but two years later, in 2013, they had their first child: Brandon.

Their second son, Oliver, was born last year.

Before his arrest, Andrade-Lopez, who also has a 7-yearold daughter from a previous relationship, was a playful father who liked to kick a soccer ball with Brandon or get down on all fours to buck Brandon off his back like a bull.

The family shared a two-bedroom apartment in Silverton.

Araceli describes the two as inseparable.

“His dad was everything for him,” she says. “If his dad went to the store, he wanted to go to the store with him.”

But Andrade-Lopez was arrested twice within the past year for driving under the influence of intoxicants. In September, he pleaded guilty to DUII and driving with a suspended license, but the case was diverted, meaning he had to go through a court-ordered program. He did not have a criminal conviction from that case. Then he drank and drove again Jan. 22.

Another thing Perry advises is obtaining official documents for kids to travel—U.S. passports or documentation from the parents’ home country, so kids can be ready to leave the U.S. if they’re following their parents.

S o m e p a r e n t s h ave b e e n doing just that.

In the past four months, the consulate reports issuing 810 requests for Mexican birth certificates—a key document needed for establishing dual citizenship, according to an official tally. That’s more than double the number from all of last year, when 314 such requests were issued.

That’s a measure of how many people are trying to make sure their U.S. citizen children can join them in their home country if they are deported.

Children of Mexican immigrants

are welcome in their parents’ home country. It’s a matter of filling out the paperwork correctly.

On a Thursday afternoon at the Mexican Consulate, Agusto Ortega Perez, 50, comes to get a passport before his next ICE appearance—as part of demonstrating that he could and would leave the country if ICE decided to reject his case for staying.

Ortega Perez is crowded in among the families waiting their turn. But in under an hour, he is fingerprinted and pays $136 cash for a passport valid for 10 years.

The consulate offers him a form for getting his kids documents for moving legally to Mexico.

“It’s like visiting an American embassy abroad in wartime,” says his attorney, Maria Zlateva. “They’re trying to help.”

RACHEL MONAHAN.

HAPPY DAYS: (From left) Araceli, Brandon, Juan Carlos Andrade-Lopez, and Oliver.

OF WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR PARENTS.” Rose Richeson, an ICE spokeswoman, says federal agents arrested Andrade-Lopez after his two DUIIs. He was already in the federal immigration system, probably because of a speeding ticket in 2012. The drunken-driving arrests violated the terms of his release, Richeson says.

“Mr. Andrade remains in ICE custody at the Northwest Detention Center pending resolution of his removal proceeding,” she says.

DUII is an offense the Obama administration also made a priority for deportation. Nothing short of a complete rethinking of immigration policy is likely to save families like Andrade-Lopez’s from an agonizing decision whether to pull up roots and return to Mexico.

For many lawmakers, Andrade-Lopez’s decisions—first to enter the U.S. illegally, then to drive while drunk—are good reasons to kick him out of the country.

“As soon as you go cross the border, you break the law,” says Rep. Sal Esquivel (R-Medford). “It’s more unfortunate that the kids get involved. But it’s the parents who make it hard on their kids.”

Araceli says she realizes how her partner’s choices have wrecked her family.

“He was irresponsible,” she says. “We all know that’s really bad. I cannot tell you why he was driving with alcohol. He made a mistake. He knows it’s no good. He did it, and now we’re in this situation.”

Yet Araceli never expected this outcome. The family had made no preparations.

THE FAMILY ANDRADE-LOPEZ LEFT

behind now lives in a farmhouse filled with extended family. Brandon, Oliver and Araceli share one of three bedrooms.

—IMMIGRATION LAWYER ANNA CIESIELSKI

The house is tidy—visitors leave their shoes at the door. A safe distance from a wood stove, Brandon has a plastic play kitchen. A corner table holds a painting of Jesus and a Virgin Mary figurine.

When Brandon wants to talk to his father, he asks for his mom’s phone and tries calling him through Facebook Messenger.

“He doesn’t answer,” Araceli says. “[Brandon] says, ‘Ooh, he’s working, but I want to see him.’ So he starts going through photos of his daddy on my iPhone.”

Andrade-Lopez does call every night from detention, but the phone conversations are confusing for Brandon. He expects to see his father when they talk. But the detention center’s phones don’t have cameras. Araceli tells Brandon the camera on his father’s phone is broken.

In the evening, about the time his dad would usually return home, Brandon gets hopeful.

“He looks through the window when he sees a car that is coming,” Araceli says. “[When he hears a car], he screams, ‘My daddy!’ He sees it’s not his dad, and he gets sad.”

His father’s ICE arrest has meant big changes for Brandon.

Araceli has gone back to work, pulling 11- or 12-hour shifts in the hops fields, just as AndradeLopez used to, earning $11.50 an hour. In the summer, the job will require working seven days a week.

At 5:30 on a recent Tuesday morning, she got up and fixed lunch for her kids before heading out to the fields to hang wires that allow the hops plants to grow tall without flopping over.

When she’s not working on hops, she helps tend grapevines on the ranch. She doesn’t return

until nearly 7 pm and sees her sons only briefly before bed.

Brandon now stays with a baby sitter, or his uncle drives him to his Head Start preschool in Silverton.

“He’s not the same as he was before,” Araceli says.

He has started wetting the bed at night and peeing his pants during the day. His mother has put him back in diapers.

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randon’s story is like those of many across the state—and fears of a similar fate have spread wider.

Oregon has an estimated 130,000 undocumented immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center numbers released last year. That’s 3 percent of the state’s population and more than 30 percent of Oregon’s immigrant population.

More than 70 percent of the state’s undocumented immigrants are from Mexico. Half of them have lived here since at least the early 2000s.

For these families, the immigration crackdown feels like a ticking clock.

“My father told us we need to start preparing,” says an 18-year-old senior at Northeast Portland’s Benson High School. He is a U.S. citizen whose parents are not, and he asked that his name not be used.

A couple weeks ago, his dad, who works in the laundry room of a Portland hotel, got worried he’d be picked up by ICE after a report of federal agents downtown.

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no longer willing to drive to pick students up, says Luis Nava, adviser to the after-school Latino Union Club.

Instead, students are riding the bus home at the end of the day and not showing up at club meetings.

Standard attendance at the Latino Union Club used to be 25 or 30 kids. Last month, it fell to zero, says Nava.

American kids now contemplate an impossible choice—to follow their deported parents to Mexico or stay in their birth country as de facto orphans.

“I was worried,” says Edgar, 16, a junior at Centennial High School. He is an American citizen, but he never considered the idea that he would stay in the U.S. without his parents. “They’re our parents. There’s no one who could love us as much as them.”

Catherine, 14, a Portland eighth-grader at Cesar Chavez School in North Portland, says when her estranged father was deported last year for dealing drugs, it didn’t matter to her because they’d never been close.

But ever since the Trump administration began its crackdown, she worries. Her mother and stepfather have resident status, so there’s little danger she’ll lose another parent. But in a sign of the fear that has gripped Latino communities, Catherine questions whether she would follow her family back across the border.

“I consider myself full-on Mexican, even though I was born here,” she says.

But still, she thinks she would stay in the U.S. if her mother and stepfather had to leave.

“The whole reason of why my mom came to the United States is to give me a better life,” Catherine says.

“BRANDON ASKS FOR HIS KIDS LIKE BRANDON HAVE LITTLE RECOURSE.

Once deportation proceedings begin, it’s possible to halt them due to “extreme and unusual hardship” to the children.

But a child’s inability to speak a foreign language or a lack of cultural connection to the parents’ home country is not considered unusual enough, lawyers say, to win over an immigration judge.

Successful appeals usually involve children with serious medical problems or special needs. And there is a cap on how many hardship waivers may be handed out. There’s a two-year backlog at this point, says lawyer John Marandas, who is one of the Oregon immigration attorneys’ liaisons to ICE. Any relief for American kids with undocumented parents is not likely to arrive soon.

In 2014, after Congress failed to take up immigration reform, the Obama administration announced a program to allow parents to stay in the United States, even without obtaining permanent legal residence.

But Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA, was halted by the courts. The legal battle over a judge’s injunction in United States v. Texas went to the U.S. Supreme Court.

That injunction has now expired. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now free to draft a policy to protect parents.

But it’s hard to imagine the Trump administration taking that up.

“Given the current political climate, it’s unlikely the administration would create such a program,” says Shiu-Ming Cheer, senior staff attorney and field coordinator at the National Immigration Law Center.

In the face of a father’s deportation, the choice for Araceli might seem obvious: She and her two children could reunite with Andrade-Lopez in Mexico. But it’s not so simple. Both Araceli’s mother and Andrade-Lopez’s parents are here. So too are some of her siblings and his.

Her family and Andrade-Lopez’s came here because they wanted a better life.

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END OF DAY: Araceli and Brandon now live in rolling Oregon pastureland, and wait for word from the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash.

DADDY TWICE A DAY,” ARACELI SAYS, “AND I JUST TELL HIM, ‘SOON.’” “We all know that working here you can do many things,” she says. “Working—and working hard—you can buy things for your kids. You can send them to school. You can go out and have fun with them.

“In Mexico, no, because even if you work and work and work, it’s not going to be the same as here.”

She starts thinking about Brandon and 1-year-old Oliver, who is sitting on her lap yawning in striped pajamas.

“He can have stuff, clothing, not wealth but his toys. He can go to the playground,” she says. “In Mexico, I never had that.”

She wants Brandon and his brother to grow up and get jobs as professionals. She imagines Brandon becoming a police officer or a lawyer.

But Araceli doesn’t know how she can give him that life now. Andrade-Lopez’s choices and decades of U.S. border policy have left her with an impossible

TRAPPED IN THE GORGE

BY CO R E Y P E I N

COREY PEIN

WHY IS A LOCAL JAIL HOLDING IMMIGRANT DETAINEES IN A SANCTUARY STATE? cpein@wweek.com

When undocumented immigrants are arrested in Oregon, they’re typically sent to Tacoma, Wash., to await deportation. But increasingly, they’re being kept in an Oregon jail—a destination that civil liberties experts say violates state law.

Eighty-five miles east of Portland, an unknown number of immigrants are being jailed in a windowless, single-story beige box surrounded by barbed wire in an industrial district at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge.

This is the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility, better known as NORCOR, in The Dalles. This county-run jail was not designed as a pit stop for people facing deportation, but that’s what it has become.

NORCOR’s board, comprising elected commissioners and sheriffs from the four counties

that fund the jail—Wasco, Hood River, Sherman and Gilliam—has had an agreement since 2012 with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take in the human overflow from the agency’s privately run Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

NORCOR currently allocates 40 beds to ICE detainees, but that number could increase. Budget documents show administrators expect ICE’s contribution to

NORCOR’s $8 million budget to nearly double—increasing from $579,000 to $1 million in the fiscal year starting July 1. (On May 16, voters in the four counties will be asked to approve a $1.3 million annual property tax measure to continue subsidizing the jail.)

NORCOR administrator Bryan Brandenburg says ICE detainees are treated the same as other inmates at the facility. But immigration activists contend inmates are sent from Tacoma to NORCOR as a form of punishment.

“We suspect at least one was transferred down because of his role as an organizer in the [Tacoma hunger] strike,” says Mat dos Santos, legal director for American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon.

That appears to be how the hunger strike over conditions for ICE inmates in Tacoma that began April 10 migrated to The Dalles this month. The NORCOR strik-

decision—and her kids with a future in limbo.

She has no promise to offer her children that is both hopeful and true.

“Brandon asks for his daddy twice a day,” Araceli says, “and I just tell him, ‘Soon.’”

This story is a collaboration with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Roxy De La Torre contributed reporting and translation.

Hear a radio version of the story on opbnews.org.

ers want hot food and in-person family visits (now restricted to a costly private video-conferencing system).

Activists also say NORCOR is violating Oregon’s 1987 sanctuary law, which forbids state and local resources from being used to “detect or apprehend” people who may have violated federal immigration rules.

Last week, a spokeswoman for Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told the Associated Press the law did not apply to NORCOR’s deal with ICE because “it doesn’t appear that NORCOR resources are being used to detect or arrest people.”

Dos Santos says the Attorney General’s Office is wrong to defend NORCOR’s arrangement with ICE. “We think it’s a clear violation of state law for a local facility to house ICE detainees,” dos Santos says. “Apprehend,” he argues, not only means “arrest”— it also means “detain.”

Kristina Edmunson, Rosenblum’s spokeswoman, tells WW the

attorney general’s statement represented a “preliminary finding,” and the DOJ has “not been asked to provide formal legal advice” regarding NORCOR’s contract with ICE. “If requested,” Edmunson adds, “the AG could also look into substandard conditions in county jail facilities.” (Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to a co-owner of WW’s parent company.)

Every day since May 1, a group of a few dozen local activists has stood vigil outside NORCOR. On May 6, 150 activists, some from as far away as Lake Oswego, rallied outside the facility. The day before, several NORCOR inmates called off their hunger strike on its sixth day after jail administrators offered to supply a microwave oven.

At the rally, activist Rosanna Schneider of the Gorge ICE Resistance read a statement from one of the hunger strikers inside NORCOR. “Nothing has changed in here,” it said. “If they don’t change, we will probably go back on strike. We haven’t given up, we are just giving them time.”

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Dear WHAT TO BUY YOUR MOM THIS MOTHER’S DAY.

BY S O P H I A J U N E

sjune@wweek.com

MAGIC ASSORTMENT FROM QUIN CANDY 1022 W Burnside St., quincandy.com. $10 a box.

This 15-piece local “craft candy” box comes with Quin’s sweet and salty caramels, chocolates and our favorite—the dreamy fruit chews. They all melt in your mouth and will leave you digging through the box like a crazed addict. Also, it’s way cuter than a box of See’s.

The best gifts are the ones people want, but would never buy for themselves. A lot of people won’t spend more than a few bucks on soaps, moisturizer or candy—but when you do, it’s significantly better quality. Your mom birthed you: The least you can do is get her a box of rainbow macaroons. Here are 11 ideas for what to get your mom for Mother’s Day— it’s coming up this Sunday, May 14.

BATH BOMBS FROM LUSH 708 NW 23rd Ave., lushusa.com. $5.25-$7.95.

Lush has a million bath bombs, but we chose the three best ones for mom’s fizzy bath.

The yellow “Mom” bomb is made with Sicilian lemon oil and sweet orange, plus it’s got her name on it, so nobody will “accidentally” use it. The Rose Bombshell is filled with rose petals and sea salt, plus it turns the water a bright pink.

The Pink bath bomb is the fun one: It turns the water bright pink, and biodegradable heart confetti spills out.

PRIMING MOISTURIZER RICH FROM GLOSSIER $35 at glossier.com.

Glossier is the first makeup company to combine minimalism and Pantone colors of the year, and already has a devoted following of people who may or may not have actually bought its products yet. The products are also amazing. This face cream feels like you’re painting your face with a soft kitten.

LABSIDE WET SOAP FROM MAAK LAB 916 W Burnside St., maaklab.com. $10.

You know that feeling when you wash your hands for the first time after a long camping trip? That’s what using this soap is like, but you get that feeling every time you use it. It almost doubles as a lotion, leaving your hands covered in a soft moisture after just one wash.

And it smells so pure: unscented by perfumes and aggressively scented by essential oils. With notes of “cedar,” “magazines” and “Wi-Fi,” it’s floral enough for hair and hands, and fresh and earthy enough for camping supplies.

DOUBLE BAR SOAPS FROM MAAK LAB 916 W Burnside St., maaklab.com. 2 for $15.

Th e s e a re n ’ t fo r t h e guest bathroom. These perfect Castile squares, made locally, have just a handful of ingredients and smell like earthy potpourri even when they’re in the box. They come two petite bars to a pack so you’re not left with a big, gooey dissolving bar of soap on your counter.

LARGE GRAB ’N’ GO TOTE BAG FROM FILSON 526 NW 13th Ave., filson.com. $120.

Your mom can be the envy of all the moms at Irving Park, with a tote bag large enough to fit a computer, at least three b o o k s , a b l a n ke t , s a n d w i c hes and a bottle of wine. It’s also the ideal farmers market bag, when you’re trying to pull off that casually aloof vibe, carrying nothing but bouquets of fresh flowers owers.

MEDIUM RUGGED SUEDE POUCH FROM FILSON 526 NW 13th Ave., filson.com. $100.

This is quite possibly the last makeup travel bag your mom will ever need. It’s well-made, smells amazing and most importantly, toes the line of both cabin and city cool. It’s big enough for a weekend trip but small enough to use as a clutch on the daily.

CHOOKA CANTER BOOTS $110 at chookaboot.com.

We a l l k n ow ra i n - b o o t season never really ends in Oregon. Get Mom these stylish riding boots that are actually made of rubber, with leather accents at the top and on the ankle straps. They’re ready for a night out, but if you take the leather ankle straps off, they can also handle the mud in the garden or, if you mom is cool, a music festival.

MACARONS FROM FARINA BAKERY 1852 SE Hawthorne Blvd., farinabakery.com. 12 for $25.

The best macarons in the city, as determined by our writers in a blind-judged contest. You may not be able to take your mom to Paris, but a sleeve of Farina macarons will bring her straight to Ladurée. Pretty and relatively light, as candy-type gifts go.

PAPER GOODS FROM LITTLE OTSU 3225 SE Division St., littleotsu.com. $3.50-$20.

You’ve walked by Division’s cutest shop a million times, but never really had an excuse to buy the cute journals and hand-drawn cards—until now.

Give Mom a planner she’ll look forward to writing in and journals for some #selfcare.

And the cards are a huge step up from the Hallmark aisle.

COSMIC TASSEL NECKLACE FROM OM CERAMICS $52 at omceramic.com.

Ceramics, fringe and handmade are all way in style. The big bead and fringe hark back to the ’70s but are also on-trend today, making the perfect gift for a groovy mom.

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“Recipe book.”

Left: “I was born on Mother’s Day. So, me!” Right: “A lingerie set.”

Left: “A collage.” Right: “Her pick of any pair of shoes at the store.”

WHAT’S THE BEST GIFT YOU’VE GIVEN YOUR MOM FOR MOTHER’S DAY? OUR FAVORITE LOOKS THIS WEEK. “I made her a nice homemade card, and a good pair of earrings.”

“A coupon book of chores.”

“Me.”

PHOTOS BY HEN RY CR OMETT

“One year, I got tickets to Black Sabbath.”

AND NINO ORTIZ

“Hanging-basket for garden.”

“Fifth-grade straight A’s. That shit was cake.”

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The Bump

INTERVIEW WITH A

VAMPIRE

TRUE BLOOD: Lady Raven at the Vampire Masquerade Ball.

THE CREATOR OF PORTLAND’S BIGGEST VAMPIRE BALL SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT THE UNDEAD.

BY S O P H I A JUNE

sjune@wweek.com

WE THOUGHT A Vampire Masquerade Ball would be full of Draculas and Edward Cullen wannabes. We thought there’d be fangs and blood and no garlic welcome on the premises. It turns out, we were wrong.

Vampires are actually quite…misunderstood. Lady Raven, creator of Portland’s Vampire Masquerade Ball, now in its 15th year, sets the record straight.

WW: WHAT MISREPRESENTATION OF VAMPIRES DO YOU SEE IN POP CULTURE? LADY RAVEN: The mainstream cultural fasci-

nation has really picked up in recent years. Like Vampire Diaries on the CW network—I hate that shit. Those of us who are part of the popular gothic folk culture roll our eyes a bit. When I used He’s a 300-year-old the word “vampire” in the title dude interested [of this event], it’s relating to the historical romanticized beliefs in a 16-year-old? around the dark and mysterious.

That’s really creepy...

Interview With a Vampire came out and really touched on the dark romanticism I think everybody on some level deep down is Hello fellow completely intrigued by things young person! that are mysterious.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE WORST VERSION OF A VAMPIRE?

Twilight. Let’s be honest. He’s a 300-year-old dude interested in a 16-year-old? That’s really creepy when you think about it.

WHAT KIND OF VAMPIRES WILL BE AT THE BALL?

There are people that dress up in multiple different types of vampire. There are people in full-blown Renaissance couture, and there’s traditional tuxedos.

You don’t have to be goth. This isn’t exclusively for the goth subculture. We consistently get a lot of professionals: doctors, lawyers, off-duty police officers, people that “lead normal lives.”

I definitely don’t want people to feel that if they ’re not spooky every day they’ll feel awkward.

SO THESE ARE CLASSY VAMPIRES?

Yes, exactly.

WILL GARLIC AND CROSSES BE UNWELCOME AT THE EVENT?

Actually, no, because they’re part of your typical literary vampire that only comes out at night.

That’s typical vampire lore in stories. There’s different aspects to what a vampire is. The event focuses on the romanticism of it and the high couture elegance.

IS THERE GOING TO BE BLOOD TO DRINK?

No. It’s representative of the romanticized nature of vampires, but without the literal cheesiness that can come with a vampire being a character. There’s going to be a chocolate fountain, not a blood fountain.

HOW CAN SOMEONE EDUCATE THEMSELVES ABOUT THIS NONCOMMERCIALIZED VAMPIRE?

Honestly, I really think that it’s open to the interpretation of the reader. A vampire as a character is open to such a large interpretation, just like people are. Who am I to say this is a vampire, this isn’t. Vampires in literature, they’re just as diverse as mere mortals are. All genres of vampires are welcome as long as they are dressed appropriately.

GO: The Vampire Masquerade Ball is at Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder St., on Saturday, May 13. 9 pm. $45 advance, $50 at the door.

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REO’S CATCHES FIRE: Reo’s Ribs, the Hollywood neighborhood rib joint run by Snoop Dogg’s uncle Reo Varnado, caught fire last weekend, with Varnado suggesting it was arson. Reo’s interior was destroyed by a fire early May 8, at about 3:30 am, KOIN reported. According to social-media reports, people were seen running away from the fire as it erupted. Varnado was out of town, sending Facebook messages from California, where he was taking part in Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, the VH1 show Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart co-produce. In a tearful video, Varnado said he believed racism was behind the fire. “To all the people doing dirty, lowdown, rotten racist shit, your day is gonna come,” he said, later adding, “You can’t steal my joy.”

Reached by phone, co-owner Myra Godin says they’ll rebuild.

“We definitely want to stay in business,” she tells WW. “We just don’t know how we’re gonna do it.”

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HIPPIES LISTEN TO NATIVES: The Oregon Country Fair board of directors voted unanimously not to raise the contentious “story pole,” which Native American groups have objected to in the past year. Siletz tribe member Autumn Depoe-Hughes called the carved wooden pole “an abomination.” The decision came after an 8-2 vote in April to raise the pole despite objections. Two weeks ago, the fair told WW it still planned to raise the pole, despite continued pushback from Native American groups. After WW published a story on the controversy, the fair held another board vote last week and unanimously overturned its previous decision, voting not even to allow the story pole on fair property. The board then wrote in a statement, “The Board of Directors offers apology for the distress our actions regarding the story pole have caused to those Native Peoples and members of our family who have been affected by this process.”

BIGGER BIKE SHARE: Biketown is going to get a lot bigger. Last week, the Portland Bureau of Transportation announced the bike-share program—which was recently targeted by anarchist vandals—plans to expand deeper into Northeast Portland as well as add new hubs in Southeast.

The proposed northern expansion is significant, and would include the Alberta and Overlook neighborhoods. PBOT also announced it is piloting “super hub zones” near Portland State University and the industrial eastside. In those districts, Biketown users can now lock their bikes at public racks, not just Biketown racks, without incurring a $2 fee. The proposed expansion is open for public comment, and PBOT hasn’t announced a date when it will decide on a final plan.

BOOM CHICKA BAO BAO: Nintendo-themed late-night bao are coming to Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. The people behind St. Johns’ now-closed Baowry restaurant have been cooking at Hawthorne arcade Quarterworld, and will team with Quarterworld owner Phil Ragaway to open a Super Mario-themed spot called Baoser next door, at the former Big Bertha’s location that served late-night gyros. It will be decorated “like Bowser’s Castle, the original Nintendo one,” says chef Alan Torres. There will be 13 versions of Chinese steamed buns, including spicy chili garlic prawn and sweet Nutella, plus a “duck for two” special with Peking-style duck legs. “These were recipes I had when I owned the Baowry,” Torres says, “but I couldn’t do them all there.” Baoser will be open for lunch and late nights till 3 am, starting the last week of May.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10

Oddisee For the newly woke, consider East Coast rapper Oddisee’s new album, The Iceberg, a primer on the reality you’ve been sleeping through. It’s not a lecture but a conversation about the ugly truths of American life, illustrated with personal anecdotes and observations. Set over soulful production, it’s both a nod to the continuing struggles of the oppressed and a guide to resistance. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100, hawthornetheatre.com. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

TinLip Party Tin Bucket beer bar will be tapping wild, weird and rare shit all month for its fourth anniversary—including funky and sour stuff Friday, and Logsdon grape beer and Ruse pineapple brett beer Saturday.

But today, the Bucket will shut down for a party at the Upper Lip with Nat’s Tepache Mimosa, De Garde Anianish, Arch Rock lager and other good things. The Upper Lip, 720 SW Ankeny St., 503-2951004, theupperlip.net. 5-10 pm.

THURSDAY, MAY 11 That Way Madness Lies Clackamas-born filmmaker Sandra Luckow’s 46-yearold brother developed late-onset schizophrenia. The new documentary from the New York-based Luckow tells his story, in part through iPhone videos that he took before being committed to the Oregon State Hospital. Luckow will be in attendance.

NW Film Center ’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-894-7557, nwfilm. org. 7 pm. Reception at 6 pm. $9.

FRIDAY, MAY 12

Jeff VanderMeer Renowned fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer is back with a new novel, Borne, set in a dystopia almost psychedelic in its strangeness. The narrative centers on a man-made protoplasmic entity that’s neither plant nor animal, but might be an adorable harbinger of new life.

VanderMeer will be joined

by Oregon Book Award winner Lidia Yuknavitch.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells. com. 7:30 pm.

Get Busy EVENTS WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT MAY 10-16

Portland Night Market Portland Night Market is back with its quarterly bazaar of pretty much every Portland artisanal thing that has a marketing department—liquor, candy, jewelry, whatever. That's fine if you’re shopping for Mom (see page 19). But more importantly? Sellwood bar Bible Club will have a speakeasy at the market, so you can get crazy-good cocktails without having to cab it home from deep Southeast. 100 SE Alder St., pdxnm.com. 4-11 pm.

Also Saturday.

The Flaming Lips By now, you should know what to expect from a Flaming Lips show: confetti, glitter, blood, animal costumes, giant plastic balls and whatever other weird ideas pop into leader Wayne Coyne’s acid-damaged skull. No matter how many times you see it, the spectacle never gets old—and tonight, it’s happening in a much-smaller venue than the band has played in a while.

See feature, page TK. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx.com. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Hands Up After staging several performances last year, the August Wilson Red Door Project is bringing back its production of Hands Up for 2017. Created after the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, Hands Up presents seven visceral monologues by black playwrights about their experiences with institutionalized racial profiling. Friendly House, 2617 NW Savier St., reddoorproject.org. 2 and 7:30 pm. Free, donations accepted.

St. Johns Bizarre For this year’s installment of Portland’s best street fair, organizers snared not only pop-punk institution the Thermals but Seattle's Dude York, who take the Thermals’ melodic aggression in ecstatically noisy new directions—plus battle-rap vet Illmaculate, Latin folkies Y La Bamba and rising indie rockers Little Star, along with tons of local food and crafts. Summer isn’t quite here yet, but consider this your official preview. St. Johns business district, stjohnsbizarre. com. 10 am-7 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, MAY 14

Vasalisa Premiere When international arts collective Source Material settled in Portland last year, it made its local debut with A Thousand Tongues, an avant-garde concert sung by a Danish performer in 10 languages. The group's follow-up project is just as ambitious: an immersive performance based on the Russian folklore of Baba Yaga told through Eastern European songs and physical theater. The Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., source-material.us. 2 and 7 pm. $18.

Peter Silberman The sounds of silence have become increasingly important to the Antlers’ Peter Silberman. Impermanence,, his new solo record, is a subtle blend of guitar and voice full of natural emptiness, with beautiful melodies and softly delivered lyrics that feel like they could have been recorded by Jeff Buckley’s ghost. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503-946-1962, fremonttheater.com. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

MONDAY, MAY 15 Pulgasari In 1978, Kim Jong-il had South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, abducted to North Korea, where they made a series of movies under the reign of Kim Il-sung until their escape in 1986. Church of Film hosts Shin's Pulgasari, a 1985 monster movie about an imprisoned blacksmith who makes a kaiju to fight a corrupt monarchy. Now’s your chance to catch this rare fi lm at a sports bar.

Century, 930 SE Sandy Blvd., churchoffilm.org. 9:30 pm.

TUESDAY, MAY 16

Boone Howard Like Harry Nilsson if he hung out at the Know drowning his sorrows in PBR, Boone Howard writes sharp, self-effacing songs about breaking up, blacking out and trying to clean up the mess in the morning. After a long delay that’s seen him develop into one of Portland’s most captivating live performers, he’s finally celebrating the release his debut solo album, The Other Side of Town. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Shipwreck Bartender Eric Nelson (Expatriate, the Suttle Lodge, Laurelhurst Market) will pair the fish-house food of his Alaskan youth with crazy party cocktails from some of the country's best bartenders, including Giuseppe Gonzalez of Suffolk Arms in New York. Expect purple hooters, Midori sours and something called You’r Doing It Wrong, with blended Campari, OJ, and flat Champagne for “yeastiness.” Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., shipwreckpdx. com. 5 pm-2 am. No reservations.

Karaoke From Hell at the Alibi It’s about time Portland’s favorite live karaoke band played an actual karaoke bar. A weekly fixture at Dante’s, Karaoke From Hell finally trips up to Interstate’s iconic tiki lounge so you can live out your rock-star dreams while blasted on Singapore Slings.

Don’t worry, you won’t be missed at work the next day. The Alibi, 4024 N Interstate Ave., karaokefromhell.com. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

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Lunch & Brunch Monday to Friday 11:30am-2:30pm

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Highly recommended.

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SUNDAY, MAY 14 Guamanian Mother’s Day

Ed Sablan’s Food of Guam pop-up is a family-positive love affair with the Asian and Latin influences of Guam’s Chamorran cuisine. For Mother’s Day, brined pork steak is mixed into eggs Benedict and sweetened up with some cherry cheesecake, along with tropical fruits and Chinese sausage and rice. Tournant, 920 NE Glisan St., 503-206-4463. 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $35.

MONDAY, MAY 15 Shipwreck

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

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Tin Bucket beer bar will be tapping wild, weird and rare shit all month for its fourth anniversary—including funky and sour stuff Friday, and Logsdon grape beer and Ruse pineapple brett beer Saturday. But today, the Bucket will shut down for a party at the Upper Lip around the corner from Bailey’s Taproom, with Nat’s Tepache Mimosa, De Garde Anianish, Arch Rock lager, Jester King’s Mad Meg and other good things. The Upper Lip, 720 SW Ankeny St., 503-295-1004.

5-10 pm.

Bartender Eric Nelson (Expatriate, the Suttle Lodge, Laurelhurst Market) will pair the fish-house food of his Alaskan youth with crazy party cocktails from some of the country’s best bartenders, including Giuseppe Gonzalez of Suffolk Arms in New York.

Expect purple hooters, Midori sours and something called You’re Doing It Wrong, with blended Campari, OJ, and flat Champagne for “yeastiness.”

Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., shipwreckpdx.com. 5 pm-2 am. No reservations.

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Rhubarb Wine (BUDDHA KAT WINERY) Back in the 1970s, old Henry Endres ran the oldest family winery in the state—selling jugs of rhubarb wine on the honor system from his porch in Oregon City. Honorably, 15-year-olds used to drop him some dollars and then get hooched up.

Endres is gone, but the rhubarb wine tradition lives on through Sandy’s Buddha Kat Winery. “I got my recipe from the Wasson brothers,” says Kat’s Lorie Dilley, “and I’m pretty sure they learned from old Henry.” Rhubarb, much more than marionberries, is the flavor of Oregon to me, and this is some beautifully tart-sweet wine redolent of rhubarb flavor, scarily chuggable despite being 12 percent ABV. It’s $21 a bottle, a bargain considering how hard it is to make: rhubarb doesn’t juice as easily as berries, and the winery has to use a proprietary process to get some of the acid out.

It’s a small price to pay for alcoholic rhubarb, as evidenced by each batch selling out as soon as it’s made. Bird-dog the website, and snatch up some. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. DRANK

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Where to eat this week.

1. Big’s Chicken

5663 NE Glisan St., 503-477-5922, bigschicken.com.

The parking-lot chicken from Laurelhurst Market is now here in the former Big-Ass Sandwiches space— with the addition of jojos, wings and a sarat gat hot-pepper sauce that’s even better than the Fresno. $.

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1910 Main St., Suite A, Forest Grove, 503-430-0465, kamaainacfoh.com.

Want truly great Hawaiian food near Portland? All it takes is a little drive out to Forest Grove. $$.

3. 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. $-$$$.

4. Danwei Canting

803 SE Stark St., 503-236-6050, danweicanting.com.

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. $$.

5. 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 Japaneseborn chef. $.

In February, WW called Minimus Wines founder Chad Stock the most avant-garde winemaker in Oregon. It’s a reputation he’s more than living up to with his latest release, a rosé of Oregon pinot gris made with the brettanomyces culture much loved by craft-beer freaks but usually spurned by winemakers, who view it as an unwanted infection. (The wine’s full title, like a Fiona Apple record, is: I Have Brett. I Am Okay With That. I Am Enlightened.) With no added sulfites, this carbonic wine ($30) is fermented from whole clusters of grapes—stems and all—and finished in old oak barrels. The result is a bit like a Belgian lambic. Think big notes of cherry, clove and sour ale that mellow into a deep, white fruit over the course of the bottle, like mangosteen or even durian. But I Have Brett… remains drinkable in the best possible way, like someone got the ratio wrong on a batch of sour cherry Kool-Aid. And if you’re a genuine wine dork, let me talk to you privately for a moment: Stock’s brett wine compares favorably to the famous rosés of Frenchman Eric Pfifferling, whose L’Anglore wines from Tavel set natural-wine hearts a pitter-patter from Paris to Tokyo. Recommended. JORDAN MICHELMAN.

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and even offers mixiote, the single-serving version of barbacoa originally made with smaller animals, like hare and fowl. El Buda’s consomé is hearty and brick-red, and don’t miss the smoky salsa morita, made especially for barbacoa from the darker sibling of the chipotle pepper.

EL CAMARONASO 18683 SW Tualatin Valley Highway, Aloha, 503-442-6920.

8 am-4 pm weekends.

Saturday and Sunday, I may sign the checks, but most days, it feels like I’m the adopted gringo son of the women in the Mi Mero Mole kitchen. So when I said I was sampling all the barbacoa in town, three women insisted I find this Aloha food truck. All week during the summer, it serves terrific tostadas of ceviche and other seafood. On weekends throughout the year, it also serves barbacoa de cabeza de res—beef cheek barbacoa.

You can order barbacoa on tiny tacos of handmade tortillas or in consomé. The beef head is intense, luscious and tender, with light spicing offsetting some of the gaminess.

You may want to ask to have the salsa on the side, and apply it according to your tolerance for lava. Its heat isn’t measured in Scoville units, but by the rare-earth metals it can melt. ’CUE BOWL: El Brasero pork barbacoa tacos with consomé.

The Barbecue of Mexico YOU CAN GET BARBACOA AROUND PORTLAND THAT STACKS UP TO WHAT YOU FIND IN MEXICO. HERE ARE THE BEST SPOTS.

Editor’s note: Nick Zukin owns a Mexican restaurant in Old Town called Mi Mero Mole, which does not serve barbacoa.

Despite his dedication to traditional Mexican cuisine—he spent the past few weeks working with a family that has been making barbacoa for nearly 60 years—we don’t usually let him write about other south-of-the-border restaurants. But for Mexican Meat Month, we let him loose.

BY NIC K Z U K I N

Oregon’s Mexican food is often unfairly maligned by Texans and Californians who can’t be bothered to make a trip to Gresham, Hillsboro, Woodburn or Salem.

But friends do not let Mexican friends in Portland eat carne asada or al pastor, two taco meats that fall embarrassingly short of the native versions.

Instead, true friends of Mexican expats in Portland take their Spanish-speaking amigos for barbacoa, the verdadero weekend brunch south of the border. Not only is the average barbacoa taco at Portland taquerias enjoyable, the best could compete with roadside stands and trendy restaurants in the homeland.

Traditionally, barbacoa is pit-roasted meat, whole animals wrapped in agave leaves and buried in the ground and cooked over a pot of veggies in which the drippings make a delicious broth called consomé. Pancita, the stomach of the animal stuffed with a mixture of other innards, herbs, spices, and chili sauce, is roasted alongside. Lamb or mutton is the most common meat used for barbacoa in Mexico, but beef is the most popular here in Oregon. Goat is occasionally used, but generally saved for barbacoa’s soupy cousin from Jalisco, birria (look for a survey in next week’s paper).

I visited more than 40 Mexican restaurants and trucks in the Portland area to find the best barbacoa.

Check wweek.com for two more great spots, plus places serving rico tacos de barbacoa.

EL BRASERO 18238 SE Division St., Gresham, 503-669-1253.

10 am-10 pm daily.

A decade ago, the El Brasero cart at Hawthorne Boulevard’s Cartopia pod was one of the best taco trucks in the city because of its excellent barbacoa de borrego—lamb barbacoa—a rarity at the time. But drunken late-night Americans and vegan hipsters don’t order a lot of lamb barbacoa, leading to the dish’s steady decline. The owners opened a sit-down taqueria on the edge of Gresham, and the barbacoa is better than ever.

El Brasero’s broth is one of my favorites in town, a well-seasoned soup that’s rich without being greasy. The barbacoa meat is simply prepared, without spices or heavy herbs, though not as luscious as others in the area. If you order the double-length barbacoa flautas, you can dip them in the consomé to moisten the fried meat inside. The only knock on the place is it doesn’t serve handmade tortillas.

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EL BUDA

Inside Everyday Deals, 600 SE 146th Ave. 9:30 am-6 pm Tuesday-Sunday (barbacoa weekends only) .

Until last year, the best Mexican food served at the Oregon Flea Market—the massive weekend Mexican bazaar at the edge of Gresham—was the barbacoa at El Buda. After reorganization pushed out all the best food vendors, I thought the succulent roasted meat was gone from my life forever.

Then I saw an El Buda sign outside Everyday Deals, the shockingly green discount grocer, where, if you need it, you can sometimes buy a gallon of A1 Sauce for $5.

El Buda makes its tortillas by hand and its barbacoa from whole lamb, which means you can choose whatever cut you enjoy most, including the head, prized by connoisseurs. El Buda also makes a wonderfully aromatic pancita

LAS CASITAS 19401 SW Boones Ferry Road, Tualatin, 503-563-5088.

11 am-9 pm daily.

Unless you enjoy strip malls, Tualatin doesn’t have a whole lot of fun beyond the camo-themed Disneyland that is Cabela’s. But whenever I’m in the neighborhood, I stop at Las Casitas, the best taqueria between Portland and Woodburn. Las Casitas serves three versions of barbacoa, and they’re all good.

The best, the barbacoa de res, is cooked al vapor in an airtight pouch, leaving the meat moistened only by its juices and fat, concentrating the beefy flavor. The cabeza barbacoa has more spicing, and the borrego is available only on weekends. Try all three. The tortillas are handmade, and the owner is passionate about his food.

MIS ABUELOS 8145 SE 82nd Ave., 503-358-0393. 11 am-8 pm Monday, Wednesday-Saturday; 9 am-5 pm Sunday.

I met Juan, owner of Mis Abuelos, several years ago at his Cartlandia food truck. I was the only customer and interrogated him about his tortillas and barbacoa pedigree, which checked out as from the heralded state of Hidalgo.

When I told him I owned a taqueria, he looked incredulous.

It wasn’t long before he was at my shop telling me what he disapproved of. But I didn’t mind. He just gives a damn, and it shows in his delicious barbacoa.

The lamb and its consomé are simply prepared, no chili or spices, letting the flavor of the meat and the maguey take center stage. The lamb has a nice fattiness, chopped into the rest of the meat, the way they do it in Hidalgo. The balance and seasoning are near-perfect. The meat even receives a last sprinkling of salt.

LA RAZA 4905 NE Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver, Wash., 360-903-5023. 10 am-7 pm Tuesday-Sunday.

When I lived in Vancouver, I would troll for tacos on the 5-mile stretch between I-5 and I-205 on Fourth Plain Boulevard. It’s a bit of a carnitas heaven in Vantucky. But even in that dense zone, La Raza stood out with a sign boastfully claiming “100% chingon”: badass to the core.

La Raza lives up to its hype. It serves from the original food truck, but there’s also a sit-down dining room inside a dilapidated strip mall. La Raza offers lamb barbacoa in consomé or in tacos made with homemade tortillas. The meat glistens from melted fat. The rich consomé is aromatic and comes with or without meat. The spicy-sweet pancita is the best version I’ve eaten in the Portland area.

Be warned: The barbacoa usually sells out by 2 pm.

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FEATURE

HERE IS THE MONEY THAT I OWE YOU: (From left) Steve Birch, Craig Montoya, Art Alexakis and Greg Eklund in their trailer after a miserable radio festival somewhere in the Midwest during the Afterglow tour.

I Think We’ve Got a Problem AN ORAL HISTORY OF EVERCLEAR’S SO MUCH FOR THE AFTERGLOW.

BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R

mcizmar@wweek.com

This week, the best-selling rock album ever recorded by a Portland band will be played in full at Crystal Ballroom.

It’s an event you might expect would draw old friends and veteran scenesters, eager to reminisce about the glory days of ’90s alternative rock and salute the singer, who’s still going strong on the nostalgia circuit.

Nope.

Everclear’s So Much for the Afterglow turns 20 this year.

The band’s third record followed its garagey debut, World of Noise, and major-label breakthrough, Sparkle and Fade.

As its title suggests, Afterglow is a record with a chip on its shoulder. It’s simultaneously a memoir of troubled family life, a victory lap around a scene that had been hostile to singer Art Alexakis, and a sneer at those who doubted the band’s ability to escape a buzz bin overstuffed with one-hit wonders of the era.

Critics can argue about the quality of Everclear’s So Much for the Afterglow, but the numbers don’t lie: three hit singles, double-platinum sales, one Grammy.

Despite the success—or maybe because of it—Afterglow cemented Alexakis as the most hated musician in Portland, a title granted him by Willamette Week in 1995 and again by The Portland Mercury 15 years later.

Art Alexakis declined to be interviewed for this story.

But the two other members of the classic lineup, bassist Craig Montoya and drummer Greg Eklund, shared their memories. We also spoke with touring guitarist Steve Birch and Davey Loprinzi, the bassist in the wings when the band briefly broke up in Australia, as well as two co-producers and Alexakis’ oldest friend, Lars Fox, who also served as the digital-track surgeon who readied the band for massive airplay. Read the much longer version at wweek.com.

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and six months to write your second. Art was a good songwriter, so I knew we had good songs, but it was sorta like, “Wow, if this doesn’t go, this might all end right here.”

Lars Fox, engineer: You’ve gotta remember at the time, in the mid-’90s, there were zillions and zillions of alternative bands that had been signed in the wake of Nirvana. Some of them were having hits. Most of them had a hit, and then they were done. The thing about Afterglow is, a lot of people didn’t think it was going to be anything. A lot of people thought Art was a one-trick pony and it was going to flop.

I. “Zillions and zillions of alternative bands” So Much for the Afterglow came out in October 1997. It was the golden age of alt-rock radio, an era when people still bought CDs and a year when the charts were ruled by one-hit wonders like the Wallflowers’ “One Headlight,” Meredith Brooks’ “Bitch” and the Verve Pipe’s “Bittersweet Symphony.” Alexakis had his hit two years earlier, with “Santa Monica.” It only whetted his appetite.

To record Afterglow, Alexakis first tapped Jim Rondinelli, a seasoned engineer who’d worked on records that included Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend, Weezer’s Pinkerton and Wilco’s Being There. He also called up Lars Fox, an old friend from Los Angeles.

Greg Eklund, drummer: We’d had some success with “Santa Monica,” but there was a really big question mark whether we’d be able to continue that. You know what everybody says—you have 10 years to write your first record

Jim Rondinelli, first co-producer: He never came off to me like he was concerned with a sophomore slump. If Art had fear that he wasn’t going to be commercially successful, I sure as hell didn’t see it. If anything, Art veered more on the side of overconfidence.

Sparkle and Fade was recorded in two weeks at Butch Vig’s Smart Studios and mixed in another two weeks. After two months of work in the studio, Afterglow wasn’t close to finished. The band returned to Portland from Los Angeles, working at the now-defunct White Horse Studios. As the pressure started to mount, Alexakis struggled to finish writing his lyrics. Tensions between the co-producers started simmering to a boil.

Rondinelli: It became apparent to me that Art was not anywhere near having his lyrics finished. And I felt like that was a colossal waste of all of our time. So I tried to keep myself busy in the studio. But at one point I called Perry Watts-Russell, his A&R guy, and was like, “Look, Art simply doesn’t have his lyrics done. I think it would benefit us to take a couple-week break. I can find something else to do. You don’t have to worry about me: I’ve got other people

calling, I can find other records to mix or something. But let’s not just sit here and have Art show up for an hour a day and burn studio time.” Art was deeply offended.

Fox: The sense was that Rondinelli would sit in the lounge, on the phone, talking about what other thing he could do that was coming up. Which, now, I can go, “Oh, you’re just scheduling what’s happening later, which, you’ve gotta do that.” But [laughs] Art didn’t take it that way. So Rondinelli just was not there one day.

Neal Avron, second co-producer of So Much for the Afterglow: Art had actually started Afterglow with somebody else. I don’t know what happened, but that person stopped working on the record, and I got a call to come in.

Rondinelli: Look, it’s Art’s record, so he can do whatever he wants to do. That’s his right. I was just happy to be away from the guy, because he could be a very unpleasant person to spend time with.

As Everclear struggled with the record, many Portland scenesters were openly rooting for the band to fail. Alexakis wrote a song that was a very literal takedown of the Portland scene for So Much for the Afterglow. The song, “California King,” closes the album with threats of physical violence against the scenesters who slighted him. It also includes an interlude in which an old mossback complains about California transplants.

Fox: You know where there’s a guy talking? That’s me. He said to me, “I want a little breakdown here where somebody’s talking, with the Portland thing about Californians.”

So I was like, “All these Californians coming up here, changing everything. They’re a bunch of carpetbaggers. I want them all to just go, go, go.” That’s me. I wrote the words. I think I was reading a book about the postwar South and carpetbaggers, so that’s where that idea came from.

Avron: Drama definitely seemed to follow Art around. I remember him telling me about the fact that he didn’t feel welcomed by the Portland music community so much. But he got to buy his house, just like “I Will Buy You a New Life” says.

DAVEY NIPPLES: Roadie-turned-bassist-turned-roadieturned-guitarist Davey Loprinzi on tour.

“THAT’S LIKE HAVING EDDIE VAN HALEN COME AND BE YOUR GUITAR TECH. YOU WERE MY IDOL AS A BASS PLAYER, AND I CAN’T IMAGINE YOU COMING TO WORK FOR ME.” —CRAIG MONTOYA, TO DAVEY LOPRINZI You were my idol as a bass player, and I can’t imagine you coming to work for me.” And I had to break it down and be like, “Dude, this isn’t about any kind of ego or who liked who or who’s better than who.” He felt really insecure. He was like, “You’re going to steal my job. That’s what’s going to happen.

Art’s going to figure out who you are and what you are and how good you are, and you’re going to steal my job.”

Loprinzi needed the tech job, so he made Montoya a promise.

Everclear was scheduled to tour in support of Afterglow starting in October 1997, and the band was looking for roadie help. Enter Davey Loprinzi, a fourth-generation Portland native, part of the large Italian family that started the gym off Division Street. Loprinzi was the band leader of Sweaty Nipples, a sort of party-band version of Alice in Chains, known for its high-octane shows and aggressive blend of funk, metal and alt-rock.

Craig Montoya was not in favor of this.

Loprinzi: He was like, “No fucking way can you work for me.

There’s no way.” And I’m like, “Why?” And he’s like, “That’s like having Eddie Van Halen come and be your guitar tech.

After its short American tour of small venues and record stores, Everclear was slated to fly down for large outdoor festivals in Australia during summer in the Southern Hemisphere. At this point, the touring version of the band was the three main members, with Steve Birch, a designer who also did the album artwork, touring as a second guitarist. This was at the height of alt-rock radio, and large outdoor festivals were orgies of drunken moshing and flying shoes. Alexakis was in no mood for the boorish Australian festies.

Loprinzi: We were on the road nonstop pushing Afterglow. We were touring like mad. When you do that grind every day, 24/7, it can wear on you.

II. “I will never, ever fucking steal your job.”

Davey Loprinzi, touring band member: One day, right when Sweaty pretty much broke up, my old guitar tech, Sean Cox [Everclear’s thenguitar tech], who I’d worked with for years, my whole career, he’s like, “Hey, we’re looking for a bass tech.” And I was like, “Hmmm, a tech.”

I’m the one who taught all those guys how to tech. I know everything about fixing guitars and maintaining guitars. I used to do all my shit, all my bandmates’ shit, I taught all those guys how to do that shit.

So I was like, “Hmmm, that’s interesting, but would it be weird to go from being on the top in Portland to being on the bottom behind the scenes?” But I was like, “It sounds interesting, I’m having a kid and I need the money. Maybe I’ll try going on tour as a tech.”

III. “You never know the full story about anything.”

Art Alexakis, to Junkee, in September 2012: The problem wasn’t with me. The problem was that the other people were having a hard time. Look, I love Australia!

Especially Melbourne. Every time I go down there, I almost don’t wanna come back. I love it there.

Eklund: That’s complete bullshit. That’s a retelling of what happened. I love Australia, too. It’s one of my favorite places in the world. That’s not what happened.

THREE PIECE: (From left) Art Alexakis, Greg Eklund and Craig Montoya.

Loprinzi: Before I even met anyone else, I swore to him.

I said, “I will never, ever fucking steal your job. No matter what comes my way, I promise I’ll never steal your job. You have that as a brother to a brother.” And so he’s like, “OK, now that I got that off my chest, it would be pretty cool to have you in the family.” So I was a bass tech.

Steve Birch, touring guitarist: Wollongong was packed, and the crowd was rowdy as hell—as were most of the Aussie crowds. They hardly ever got bands to tour down there, so they were just so damn happy to see a real rock show.

Craig Montoya, bassist: Art wanted to be taken seriously. He got sick of people throwing things at his face or pulling on his guitar. He wanted to play his songs and be respected for that.

Eklund: I don’t even know if they were throwing them at Art. That’s what you did back then. You threw boots or shoes.

Montoya: He had built this habit of stopping shows for things that were happening that he didn’t like, or that he wanted something to say about. When you stop the show, it really pulls the rug out from under the whole band. I’d gotten used to this. Instead of being embarrassed and just CONT. on page 31 Willamette Week MAY 10, 2017 wweek.com

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MUSIC standing there, I always had a six-pack of beer on my amp, so I’d just go back to my amp, drink some beer, wait for him to get it out, and eventually we’d start playing again.

Loprinzi: Craig calls me and says, “I don’t want anyone—anyone—going out and playing in my position on this tour.” And I’m like, “Got it.” But, “If anyone’s going to do it, you’re the only guy who’s going to do it.” So I’m like, “So what are you saying?” And he’s like, ‘“Go ahead and do it.” And I’m like “OK, I’ll let those guys know.”

Birch: A few songs in, some kid lobbed a big white high-top tennis shoe, and I followed its arc as it directly hit Art’s mic as he was singing. Immediately he stops the show. His lip was bleeding a tiny The band’s breakup had been reported by Australian bit—later he said he had a tooth knocked out, which alternative music radio station Triple J. Everclear’s was utter bullshit—and after yelling something management sent an email to Everclear fan site like, “Who threw that? Who fucking threw that whitelightning.org to deny the report: “Craig is physishoe?” to the crowd, he turned to me and yelled, cally exhausted after six months of nonstop touring…

“Steven, what do you think Craig asked his bass tech, who about people that throw shit is a close friend of his and who at shows?” I replied someknows all the Everclear songs thing like, “I don’t like it! I by heart, to fill in for him on think it’s total bullshit!” This the U.K. tour…Hopefully, this is all through a cranked PA, will put to rest the false rumors mind you. He then turns to that Everclear are breaking Craig and yells the same thing. up or that Craig is leaving the Craig said something like, “I band. He’s just tired.” don’t give a fuck, I’m just here to play some fucking rock ’n’ Montoya: I always had roll!” And that’s when Art got this kinship with Art. I felt really weird—and then gave there was kinda this older him a shove. It didn’t seem brother-younger brother ALEXAKIS thing with him that ran like that much of a shove, but Craig wasn’t expecting it at all, pretty deep. Him and I so that’s why he fell down. started this thing together, “A FEW SONGS IN, and he pulled me to help SOME KID LOBBED Montoya: He’s up there yellhim get his songs up and ing at the kid or doing what- A BIG WHITE HIGHrunning, and I always gave ever he’s doing, and he comes it 1,000 percent. UnforTOP TENNIS SHOE, over and starts talking to me, tunately, there was never yelling at me. What I recall AND I FOLLOWED ITS really any resolution where him saying was, and I’m paraArt and I got together and ARC AS IT DIRECTLY phrasing, “Why don’t you ever were like, “OK, I feel this support me when shit like this HIT ART’S MIC AS way, and I know you feel happens?” And I’m like, “Hey, this way, and let’s try to HE WAS SINGING. man, when you’re ready to work it out and comproIMMEDIATELY HE play, I’m ready to play.” That’s mise.” I think if that would not what he wanted to hear. have happened, we could STOPS THE SHOW.” He shoved me and I fell down. have totally repaired our That’s the last thing I fuck- —STEVE BIRCH bond, and more successful ing expected him to do. I got albums could have come in embarrassed. He got embarthe future. rassed and walked off. The first thing I did was, I took my bass off and fucking threw it at him.

Today, Art Alexakis lives in his native Los Angeles and tours with a new backing band he calls EverBirch: Backstage, we were all flabbergasted, clear. Greg Eklund tours with Storm Large. Four but also just fucking over it. Craig said, “That’s of the key players from the Afterglow era still live it, man. I am done,” and I said I was totally with in Portland. Davey Loprinzi is a machinist. Steve him. We all said we were with him. Fuck him, Birch is a graphic designer. Lars Fox is a music fuck the band, fuck the tour. engineer who gets to live his dream of being part of the music industry in L.A. without having to live Eklund: We actually broke up in Australia. there. Craig Montoya works as a manager at CD Like, broke up—“See you later, we’re not doing Baby and lives with his girlfriend, Kayte, in deep this anymore.”

Southeast. He has two daughters, Gia and Josie, and two stepkids, Omri and Orion.

Montoya: We were supposed to do a tour of England, Ireland and Scotland. And I’m like, “I’m Montoya says he was bitter for a long time, but not doing it, I need a break from you, I need to that he’s come to appreciate his time with the fucking get away.” band. If he could say anything “to that kid in his 20s, who was acting like he was 17,” it would be Loprinzi: On the flight home, Art’s like, “What do to work harder on empathizing. you think about playing bass?” And I’m like “Ooooh man. Fuck this!” I made a promise to my brother Montoya: I just feel like you never know the full that I wouldn’t do that. So I was like, “Oh my fuck- story about anything. There are so many sides to ing God, I can’t believe this is falling in my lap. I do every story, that you have to kinda color it difnot want to be me right now.” ferently. You never really know the truth about anybody or anything. That’s kind of the beauty of Montoya: They fucking called me and were like, songwriting and music, I think.

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8:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Aimee Mann, Jonathan Coulton

[SERTRALINE QUEEN] There’s really no such thing as a mediocre Aimee Mann album. She’s as consistently great as she is consistently somber. So when early reviews of last month’s Mental Illness boasted of an especially despondent effort from the astute and prolific songwriter, expectations soared. Performing here with the album’s guitarist, Jonathan Coulton, Mann has never sounded more like a counterpart to midcareer Elliott Smith in Beatlesworship mode, elucidating misery with Technicolor studio glitter.

CRIS LANKENAU. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895.

8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

THURSDAY, MAY 11 Anaïs Mitchell, Hip Hatchet

[MODERN FOLK] The daughter of a novelist and academic, Anaïs Mitchell inherited the ability to turn a tale from the onset.

She does so before a backdrop of bare-bones modern folk, with her strangely operatic, Joanna Newsom-like vocals leading the charge. Mitchell’s sound is soft and plaintive, packed full of rich imagery. Her 2012 release, Young Man in America, in particular, remains a graphic and stirring collection of traditional acoustic fare, often so touching it could double as gospel. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, MAY 12 Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express

[CALIFORNIA NOIR ROCK] It’s easy to forget, but San Francisco has been a gritty town much longer than it’s been a sparkly mecca for techies and trust-fund babies. Chuck Prophet is the musical embodiment of the old Bay Area, reminding us of the region’s defiant roots long before “resistance” became a household word. At 53, Prophet is still as fiery ever as the ringleader of his rock-’n’-roll outfit the Mission Express, and still penning insightful songs about protest leaders and the romantic West Coast

of old. His newest, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins, reflects on the strange death of the titular ’60s musician to the tune of gritty, jangly guitar-rock and his signature weathered vocals. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Gritty Birds 2 Year Anniversary: Skull Diver, Coco Columbia

[POD-DANCE] Local podcast Gritty Birds—hosted by singer and Mercury contributor Jeni Wren Stottrup—celebrates its second year of wide-ranging musician interviews with a dance party, featuring performances from psychedelic death-pop sister act Skull Diver and soul-jazz futuristic Coco Columbia, plus a secret headliner. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 503-228-3669. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Divers, Paper Thin Youth, Longclaw, Puppy Breath

[PUNK CRAFT] Divers have released just over a dozen songs in their five or so years of existence, but the quartet still has my vote for hardest-working rock band in Portland. While you might not see their hustle transformed into much purchasable media, Divers’ live show is a thing of wild beauty that betrays a deep dedication to punk transcendence, as well as methodical self-improvement. It can be easy to miss in the sweaty hubbub of a set, but Divers are engaged in an ongoing conversation with their songs, and in the few months since you last saw the band, it will have discovered a handful of rousing new ways to make old sounds soar. CHRIS STAMM. Smart Collective, 6923 SE Foster Road. 7 pm. $5. All ages.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Shrine of the Serpent, Druden, Shroud of the Heretic

[DEATH METAL] Shrine of the Serpent has been keeping it pretty low key for the past few months, and for a good reason. At its first show since last fall, Shrine will be unveiling new material it’s been laboring away at during this gloomiest of seasons. Fans have only been able to indulge in the three-track self-titled release from 2015, so hearing the new ways the band has explored death, doom and black metal in the time since will be the selling point of its set.

CERVANTE POPE. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-2866513. 9 pm. $8. 21+.

Tift Merritt, the Suitcase Junket

[TRUSTY AMERICANA] Tift Merritt is a stalwart of the Americana scene, a singer-songwriter who has shared the stage and studio with the likes of Andrew Bird, Chatham County Line and Hiss Golden Messenger. The Houston-born multiinstrumentalist has released seven albums under her own name, each displaying a keen grasp on the folk and alt-country spheres. Her latest effort, Stitch of the World, was written on a rural Texas farm, produced by Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and offers classic, twangy vignettes reminiscent of Emmylou Harris.

MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 6:50 pm. $20. 21+.

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M AT T S I N G E R

Eternal Flame THE FLAMING LIPS AND PORTLAND, THROUGH THE YEARS.

BY M AT T H E W S I N G E R

msinger@wweek.com

Portland and the Flaming Lips go back a long way.

When the band first played here, its deranged acid punk was many years away from being safe for mainstream consumption, and the city wasn’t much safer. As both entities have grown—with the Lips improbably evolving into America’s cuddliest crew of psychedelic pranksters, and Portland into, well, you know—the two have remained friendly, with the band returning frequently for shows and other special occasions.

Touring in support of their 14th studio album, Oczy Mlody, the Lips are bringing their confetti-, glitter- and blood-strewn live spectacle to Roseland Theater, a venue much smaller than what they have played in recent years. So we asked leader Wayne Coyne about some of the crew’s other notable visits to town.

FEB. 23, 1998: THE FLAMING LIPS PLAY THEIR FIRST PORTLAND SHOW AT SATYRICON. WW: What was your perception of Portland back in the ’80s, coming from Oklahoma City?

Wayne Coyne: It felt like the bastard daughter of San Francisco. Where Satyricon was located, I think it was right across the street from the homeless shelter. There was one time where there was a homeless guy out front, and he pulled a knife on the guy who was cleaning up the front of Satyricon, spraying down the sidewalk from the piss and beer or whatever. I remember sitting in our van, listening to the whole thing happening, and being terrified. I remember the guy said, “You’re not going to stab me, because if you do, I’ll spray you with this water.” It wasn’t cold, but it was a chilly enough day where you wouldn’t want to be homeless and then sprayed with water. And the guy was like, ‘Oh, you’re right,’ and the whole thing fell apart. So we walked in and did our soundcheck. So for a while, that would’ve been the view of it. It’s got its own trip. It’s not Seattle, it’s not San Francisco. For us, anyway, it felt like something in between.

SEPT. 29, 2009: WAYNE COYNE FILMS THE NSFW VIDEO FOR “WATCHING THE PLANETS” AT MOUNT TABOR. How’d you end up shooting the video here?

I’d heard about the Naked Bike Ride probably through a story on NPR or something like that, and I asked [our Portland-based tour manager] about it. By the time we did it, he seemed to think, “Wayne, if you want to get 500 people to do this thing, I think they’d all do it and would be glad they were part of your video.” We were starting to do it up in a little segment of Mount Tabor, and the cops are being patient with us, but little by little they’re like, “You can’t do that here.” It’s starting to get dark, and word is starting to get out that there’s naked people running around. And

BUBBLE TROUBLE: Wayne Coyne on the set of the “Watching the Planets” video at Mount Tabor.

Gus Van Sant, someone in the crew knows him, and he literally says, “You can go out to my place and do whatever the fuck you want.” No money, no prearrangement. Within a couple hours, we organized a bus that would take us all out there.

I was at the shoot and remember you auditioning people to climb naked out of this big ball you were calling “the fur vag.”

I felt embarrassed afterward because the one woman we had, she had these light-colored nipples, which I thought looked amazing in person. But on the video, it looked like we were trying to cover them up. I remember saying, “Y’know, your breasts just aren’t working for this,” and I quickly moved to somebody whose breasts looked different—not better or worse, but worked better for my video. I wasn’t very tactful about it. And I regret that.

AUG. 3, 2014: THE FLAMING LIPS PLAY TOM MCCALL WATERFRONT PARK AS PART OF MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER’S ALL-STAR WEEKEND. How’d the show at Waterfront Park come together?

We’re the first people on the list if there’s a way we can do a free concert. Occasionally, you run into the right combination of people who are willing to do, not a mainstream-type concert but a Flaming Lips-type concert and still put a lot of money into it, and it becomes this great moment where normal people around the city are going to go there and the Flaming Lips freaks are going to be there.

This was during a period when you were receiving a lot of criticism for cultural appropriation, and there was a small number of Native Americans there protesting. Were you aware of that? And looking back, what are your feelings on that backlash?

I definitely regret that it offended some people.

You do a lot of stuff and sometimes it rubs people the wrong way, and sometimes that takes on a life of its own and it stands for something else than what really happened. But if you feel like you have something you want to say, you can absolutely say it at a Flaming Lips show. I remember being in the space bubble, and there were protesters right there in the picture—some people laughing at it, some people being upset, and some people saying, “This is a Flaming Lips show, of course, you can do whatever you want.” I would oftentimes be like, “I don’t think we’re the enemy you think we are, but if you think we are right now, that’s OK. I allow that.”

SEE IT: The Flaming Lips play Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., with Klangstof, on Friday, May 12. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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MUSIC St. Johns Bizarre: The Thermals, Y La Bamba, Dude York, Illmaculate, Little Star, DJ Dirtynick, Red Yarn [LOCAL LEGENDS] See Get Busy, page 25. CHRIS STAMM. North Lombard Street and Philadelphia Avenue. 10 am-6 pm. Free. All ages.

The Weeks, the Lonely Biscuits

ARTFULLY CRAFTED STORYTELLING FROM SKILLED SINGER-SONGWRITER

ANAIS MITCHELL +HIP HATCHET

$13 ADVANCE

THURSDAY MAY 11

VETERAN SINGER-SONGWRITER WITH A PENCHANT FOR TELLING GREAT STORIES

CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS + CASEY NEILL

$15 ADVANCE

FRIDAY MAY 12 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

MOON HOOCH

+ JACKSON WHALAN

$15 ADVANCE

SATURDAY MAY 13

UP AND COMING LOCAL INDIE-FOLK OUTFIT WITH SOME OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN TOWN!

LYNX & THE SERVANTS OF SONG + LAPA + COHEN

$12 ADVANCE

SUNDAY MAY 14

FUNKY PURVEYOR OF R&B JAMS BACK IN THE LOUNGE!

JMSN

+ GABRIEL GARZON-MONTANO +ALCORDO

[SUMMER ROCK] It is no great wonder why the Weeks recently opened for Kings of Leon. The band’s carefree Southern rock reminds of the Kings before their ego grew to arena-size and they started spending more time worrying about getting pigeon shit in their hair than writing good songs.

The quartet’s newest record, Easy, refers to the simplicity that comes with playing with the same musicians you’ve jammed with since high school. Expectedly, the record comes off as organic, with enough garage grit to scuff up the anthemic rock hooks. It’s the agenda-free pop rock of summertime house parties and subsequent hangovers. MARK STOCK. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-206-7439. 8 pm. $10.

All ages.

Questlove, Rev Shines, Dev from Above

[MUSIC MAN] In case you weren’t aware, Portland has a not-so-secret celebrity admirer, and his name is Questlove. The Roots drummer, Tonight Show bandleader and allaround music encyclopedia has gone on record multiple times proclaiming Portland his favorite city in the world. His regular gig keeps him from visiting as often as he’d probably like, so you imagine he’s looking forward to this DJ gig as much as anyone. The dude has forgotten more about music than most of us will ever know, so expect to hear some stuff you never even knew existed.

MATTHEW SINGER. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 503236-9672. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

SUNDAY, MAY 14 Jessy Lanza, Kate NV

[THE FUTURE OF THE PAST] On her 2016 album, Oh No, Jessy Lanza stacks formerly futuristic sounds into tidy, minimal pop hymns that call to mind what Whitney Houston might sound like if she were ever reincarnated as a shit-stirring SoundCloud producer. Like an outdated building that was ahead of its time 30 years ago, the canned beats and radio-

Peter Silberman, Vikesh Kapoor

[SPACED OUT] See Get Busy, page 25. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503-946-1962. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show.

All ages.

Turtlenecked, Surfer Rosie, Truck

[POST-POP] Turtlenecked’s follow-up to last year’s gnarled and noisy Pure Plush Bone Cage will be released by Good Cheer Records next month, and if the three singles from the upcoming Vultures are any indication, Turtlenecked mastermind Harrison Smith has about a million tricks up his sleeve. “Boys Club” begins as a Suspiria soundtrack outtake before morphing into danceable post-punk, while “Meeting You in the Hospital” offers a mixtapeready meditation on romance that peaks with this deadly succinct summation of collegiate melancholy: “I don’t want to die alone or mean.” Finally, on “Pangloss,” Smith follows post-hardcore rage into sweet and perfect pop release. It’s difficult to predict what the rest of Vultures will sound like, and that is a rare treat.

CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

MONDAY, MAY 15 JMSN, Gabriel GarzonMontano, Alcordo

[GREAT WHITE HYPE] Christian Berishaj, aka JMSN, is one Maroon 5 co-sign away from global domination, so you better get up close and personal before he’s headlining Moda Center. While his latest, this year’s Whatever Makes U Happy, deserves zero points for originality, there’s something infectious and exciting about the way the 25-year-old Michigan native and former Motown signee can synthesize the sweeping strings of Bill Withers, the downlow funk of Blackstreet and the sexed-up swing of D’Angelo and make it feel exciting and new.

PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663.

9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

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Oddisee’s Oracle

If the current state of the world frightens you, don’t go to Oddisee for reassurance that everything ’s gonna be alright. As an African-American Muslim and son of an immigrant, the rapper, born Amir Mohamed, isn’t exactly hopeful about the near future. But if it’s any consolation, he will remind you that, for part of the population, this is how it’s always been.

“It really doesn’t feel any different to me,” Mohamed says.

“Islamophobia, profiling, racism, the economic gap between rich and poor, the overtaxed middle class—it’s just another year.”

Don’t mistake real talk for cynicism, though. Mohamed isn’t surprised America elected an outright bigot as president, but if it’s helped shake others out of their patriotic delusions, that’s something to build on. On his new album, The Iceberg, the 32-year-old D.C. native initiates a conversation on the problems that have plagued the country since long before the arrival of the orange menace. Not one to lecture, Mohamed instead uses plainspoken storytelling, dry humor and—to ensure you’ll stay engaged—warmly funky production to drill down into some monumental issues, from wage inequality to mental illness. For the already enlightened, it’s a reminder the struggle didn’t just start last November. And for the newly woke, consider the album a primer on the reality you’ve been sleeping through.

Wrestling with big topics isn’t new for Mohamed. A veteran of the East Coast underground, he’s been making politically astute hip-hop for over a decade. When he first conceived The Iceberg, over a year ago, he intended it to be a more personal project.

After the election, with much of the nation shell-shocked, he felt the need to speak in broader terms.

“It really scared me to see the lack of critical thinking going on in our society,” he says. “So I decided to expand the subject matter of the record to explain why things are the way they are in more than just my own life.”

His own life still factors in, though, and one of The Iceberg’s strengths is the way Mohamed ican pull the focus in and out. On “You Grew Up,” he connects the story of an embittered white friend from childhood with that of an Islamic radical. “Like Really” raises an eyebrow at pervasive racial bias, while on “Hold It Back,” Mohamed laments getting paid more than his collegeeducated sister, which “annoys [him] more than cargo shorts.”

The aim isn’t uplift so much as hard truth-telling. But it’s not a record without optimism: On “NNGE,” Mohamed reiterates his point that 2017 is “just another year” for black America, but adds that, when you’ve already survived centuries of oppression, what is there to fear? Mohamed finds comfort in his community’s capacity for perseverance, and believes others should, too.

“This is life. Life is hard, life is difficult, life has tons of chaos,” he says. “Our human existence is based on the necessity of living in proximity to chaos. We need to live next to the volcano. We have a direct relationship with the yin and yang, and it’s going to continue to happen as long as we’re on this planet. We have to get used to it.” MATTHEW SINGER. On his new album, the veteran indie rapper starts a conversation with America.

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SEE IT: Oddisee and Good Compny play Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., with Olivier St. Louis, on Wednesday, May 10. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show.

All ages.

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MUSIC TUESDAY, MAY 16 Never Shout Never

[BUBBLEGUM PUNK] Equal parts “best night ever” anthems and egregious Target-commercial placement bait, the buoyant teenbop pop Christofer Drew has been churning out at an impressive clip as Never Shout Never is the final nail in the coffin for whatever’s left of pop punk’s tatted and bloody corpse. On display tonight will be Drew’s first three EPs, which prove his penchant for bouncy, hook-heavy blasts of sugar are all the kids need these days—as long as they’re delivered by a buttoncute hype man with jeggings and a shotgun-blast haircut to complete the look. PETE COTTELL. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100.

7 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

Tuxedo

[NEW DINNER-JACKET SWING] Declaring themselves lifelong fans of a musical moment blithely dismissed since about the time of their birth—that coked-up shimmy ’tween disco’s death and the final ascension of a pan-ethnic R&B— there was surely some snark assumed from initial announcements that the all-consuming passion project of Grammynominated tastemakers Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne would replicate the bloodless grooves of electro-funk. As with its predecessor, Tuxedo II unfurls a succession of minor clubland hits plucked from the early ’80s of an alternate universe. The authenticity is remarkable, the painstaking craft sublime, but obsessive attention spent perfecting an earlier generation’s throwaway dancefloor-fillers invites weirdly reactionary-before-the-fact timidity.

The first rule of fashion, after all, remains, “Never let your clothes wear you.” JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 8:30 pm. $20-$79.

All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD 45th Parallel presents Quartets with Guts

Oregon Symphony presents Perséphone

[PUPPETS IN HELL] Lion King puppet master Michael Curry’s life-sized puppets, built in his Scappoose studio, and flying dancers will understandably seize the spotlight here, but let’s not overlook the actual music. One of Igor Stravinsky’s least-performed creations, the 1934 “ballet tableau” Perséphone, based on the Greek myth of the grain goddess’s daughter abducted by the god of the underworld, just doesn’t fit standard categories. With snatches of theater, dance, storytelling, choral music and opera, it never quite adds up to more than the sum of its oddball parts. Yet the music contains enough stretches of cool, neoclassical beauty to make it worth experiencing this possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity— even without the puppets, or the opening Tchaikovsky second symphony. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, May 13-15. $23-$150. All ages.

Sound of Late presents Magic With Everyday Objects

[EVERYDAY NEW MUSIC] Composers draw inspiration from everywhere: current events, failed love affairs, commission deadlines, etc. Sometimes, inspiration can come from something as mundane as a cinder block, as in “Friction (v.),” for flute, viola, double bass, sandpaper and, yes, cinder blocks, which the Portland-Seattle contemporary classical sextet Sound of Late commissioned from young Oregon composer Benjamin J. Penwell. Most of the concert consists of music by one of today’s hottest composers, Missy Mazzoli, whose recent operas Breaking the Waves and Vespers for a New Dark Age are some of the most significant works of the decade. BRETT CAMPBELL. New Expressive Works, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm. Saturday, May 13. $10$15. All ages.

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[GUTSY QUARTETS] Felinophiles avert your eyes: The best violin strings are made from—shudder— catgut. OK, in actuality, they probably came from the intestines of cattle, and today from synthetics.

But especially in the 20th century, string players started using steel strings to produce a bigger sound suitable to larger concert halls and orchestras. The recent return to historically informed performances of pre-Romantic music on period instruments brought a resurgence of gut-stringed instruments, and

the musicians of 45th Parallel— who are sometime members of Portland Baroque Orchestra— wield them with equal aplomb as their modern, steelier counterparts. This show features a pair of classical-era string quartets by Haydn (from his last complete set) and Beethoven, plus a real bonus: a new quartet commissioned from one of Oregon’s—and America’s— finest composers, Portland’s own Kenji Bunch. BRETT CAMPBELL. Grace Memorial Episcopal Church, 1535 NE 17th Ave. 7:30 pm Friday, May 12. $10-$25. All ages.

GLITTER TEARS: Skull Diver plays Kelly’s Olympian on Friday, May 12.

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MUSIC ALBUM REVIEWS

Boone Howard

THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN (Good Behavior) [ H A N G OV E R S A N D HEARTBREAK] In his old band, garage-pop trio the We Shared Milk, Boone Howard was content to let the riffs do much of the talking.

On his own, though, he’s like the dude who’s been at the bar way too long, spilling his guts to whoever’s occupying the next stool, whether they’re listening or not. Written in the midst of a deteriorating relationship, Howard’s excellent solo debut, The Other Side of Town, is an album about breaking up, blacking out and trying to move on, if only your head would stop throbbing. Throughout, Howard is less self-pitying than self-flagellating, and the arrangements—made up of just a few jangled chords and bleary keyboards, mostly—allow him plenty of room to excoriate himself. He doesn’t spare the gory details: The piano ballad “Half a Life” might be the prettiest song ever to employ the image of shitting blood in a hotel bathroom. But it’s the emotional carnage that proves the most cringeworthy. “I don’t need anybody anymore to tell me when I’m done/I’m too good at killing my brain,” Howard yells on closer “Staring at the Sun,” his soft rasp finally growing into a shredded yowl. Turns out, there is light at the end of the hangover—you’ve just got to get thrown out of the bar to see it. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Boone Howard plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Kelli Schaefer and Ghost Frog, on Tuesday, May 16. 9 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Rich Hunter

THIRD EYE INSPIRATION

(Self-Released)

[COSMIC SOUL] After 15-plus years recording under the stage name Risky Star and building a musical career supporting the likes of Cool Nutz and Illmaculate, Portland’s Rich Hunter felt it was time for a change in branding. Now performing under his birth name, Hunter—a former employee of Willamette Week’s advertising department—has also shifted his artistic focus, from MC to singer, on his latest album, Third Eye Inspiration. Anyone who’s heard his previous work knows he always switched between rapping and harmonizing. But Third Eye Inspiration is something else entirely, a move away from hip-hop toward crisp, cosmic jazz for the speakeasy crowd. Hunter takes a spiritual-bluesman approach to the 10-song project, revealing personal revelations about ridding oneself of negativity, dealing with love and striving for happiness. His best work is performed alongside his sister Joyya Marie: “Blessed” and “Smile Again” are much-needed pick-me-ups, while “One Day,” a motivational hymn, wishes people would stop fixating on everyday struggles to find light within their own lives. Hunter’s thoughts on human emotion are ambitious and abstract, sometimes to the point where it’s hard to understand the intended message. In places where they are more refined, though, his silky voice over mellow grooves guides us to a place of momentary bliss. ERIC DIEP. HEAR IT: Rich Hunter’s Third Eye Inspiration is available on iTunes and cdbaby.com.

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wednesdAy, mAy 10 At 6Pm 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’, Fastball will give a special acoustic performance featuring songs from the new album, followed by a meet & greet session with the members.

rOdney CrOwell 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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Over the last few years, the Schizophonics have built up a formidable reputation in San Diego as an Explosive live act. Tapping into the same unstoppable combination of rock ‘n’ roll energy and showmanship that fueled The MC5 in the heyday of the Grande Ballroom, they’re also heavily influenced by artists like James Brown, Iggy Pop, Jimi Hendrix, Little Richard, and The Sonics.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. MAY 10 Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue Jammin’ with Robbie Laws

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Assuming We Survive

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César Chávez Blvd.

Oddisee & Good Compny

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Pomo

Star Theater

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

DVG with MAESU, GRIF CAN’T SLEEP, DANI SKYSCRAPER

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Thurston Moore Group, Marisa Anderson

The Secret Society

Catfish Lou’s

The Old Church

Crystal Ballroom

1422 SW 11th Ave Chloë Agnew

2460 NW 24th Avenue Gabe Cox Quartet 1332 W Burnside St The Polish Ambassador

Dante’s

Artichoke Music Cafe

830 E Burnside St. Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express

3130 Se Hawthorne, Acoustic Village: A Theme-Based Open Mic

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Static and Surrender, Nathan Earle

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Two Moons, the Toads, Fire Nuns

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue Jolie’s Jam

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Everclear

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Anaïs Mitchell, Hip Hatchet

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Battle For Warped Tour 2017: Round #3

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Aan, PG-13, Smokin’ Ziggurats

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, Miller and Sasser’s Twelve Dollar Band

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, Jake Ray and the Cowdogs

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Polyrhythmics

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Bigfoot Mojo

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Larry June

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836 N Russell St The Casimir Effect

MON. MAY 15 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Perséphone

1028 SE Water Ave. Dogheart, The Woolen Men

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Todrick Hall Presents Straight Outta Oz

White Eagle Saloon

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Tape Face

350 West Burnside Witch Mountain, Conan, North, the Sleer

THURS. MAY 11

1125 SE Madison St, Tony’s Mother’s Day Brunch with Liberace, Tom Jones, Liza & Neil (tributes)

FRI. MAY 12

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Don’t, Skull Diver, Virgil

Tony Starlight Showroom

836 N Russell St Dan Tedesco with Shoring

Bunk Bar

1300 SE Stark St #110 Aimee Mann, Jonathan Coulton

3341 SE Belmont St, The Grizzled Mighty

White Eagle Saloon

Revolution Hall

1 N Center Ct St, Chris Brown

The Liquor Store

1420 SE Powell Cemetery Suntan, Mobilities, The Wild War

Moda Center

Doug Fir Lounge

First United Methodist Church

1838 SW Jefferson Street Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street Human Ottoman, Kulululu, Abronia

Grace Memorial Episcopal Church

1535 NE 17th Avenue 45th Parallel presents Quartets with Guts

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Raiju Devils of Loudun Rhine Sacrifice to Survive Ireshrine

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Gritty Birds 2 Year Anniversary: Skull Diver, Coco Columbia

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, The Davenport Brothers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Acid Mothers Temple, Babylon

Catfish Lou’s

DRAMA QUEEN: Leave it to PJ Harvey to roll into her first proper Portland show in more than a decade fronting a gothic nine-piece second-line spaghetti Western cantina band while dressed like a blackbird on its way to the Met Gala. It was dramatic from the onset. Entering the Crystal Ballroom on May 7 as a procession of brass and percussion, the musicians in her band arranged themselves onstage one by one, with Harvey, wearing a feathered vest and brandishing a saxophone, initially taking position alongside the other horn players. When she finally stepped up to the mic, she moved deliberately, illustrating the lyrics by slicing the air with her hands or grabbing at invisible orbs. As a “rock show,” it was controlled, perhaps, to a fault. But as theater, it was mesmerizing; you’ve never heard a less chatty Portland crowd. Approximately half the set was taken up by songs from her great—if occasionally problematic—2016 album, The Hope Six Demolition Project. What was most interesting, though, was seeing how the unusual instrumental lineup transformed her older material. Most thrilling was a clattering junk-punk rendition of early thrasher “50ft Queenie,” with Harvey loosening up enough on the practiced gesticulations to bust out a sly shoulder shimmy. And after spending the evening mostly working her pristine upper register, she revisited the moaning vibrato of 1995’s “To Bring You My Love,” one of her most visceral vocal performances, which here trailed out on a chilling saxophone coda. After ending the main set by singing “Wade in the Water,” she returned to perform her own sort of spiritual, “Is This Desire?,” before vanishing from view again, leaving the other musicians to receive the ovation. A mysterious, unpredictable exit—how very PJ Harvey of her. MATTHEW SINGER. Smart Collective

6923 SE Foster Rd. Divers, Paper Thin Youth, Longclaw, Puppy Breath

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Current Swell

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

BOY HARSHER, SOFT KILL, KOBAN, VACANT; DND7, Jet Force Gemni, ATTRA and Brotherman

The Blue Room Bar

8145 SE 82nd Ave, Brooklyn Street, Danny/ Girl

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Naked Luck, Part Time Perfect

Muddy Rudder Public House

The Fixin’ To

Pop Tavern

The O’Neil Public House

8105 Se 7th Ave. Never Strangers

825 N. Killingsworth Break Up Flowers, Mr. Wrong, Star Club

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave The Flaming Lips

Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Mostly Stones

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13 NW 6th Ave. The Xplodingboys

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Turtlenecked, Surfer Rosie, TRUCK

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Open Mic

Aladdin Theater

Star Theater

The Know

The Ranger Station

Twilight Cafe and Bar

8105 Se 7th Ave. Dan & Fran

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

AFFIANCE, CONVICTIONS, VERSUS, GHOST TOWN GREY

8218 N. Lombard St Kathryn Claire, Arrows in Orbit, B.R. Mt.

Landmark Saloon

Muddy Rudder Public House

The Analog Cafe

The Fixin’ To

1336 NW 19th Avenue, Anson Wright Duo 4847 SE Division St, Jesse and Garrett

LAST WEEK LIVE

13 NW 6th Ave. Moving Units, Second Still, Shadowhouse

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

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Highly recommended.

Editor: Matthew Singer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210.

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8218 N. Lombard St Tweaker Sneakers, Polygris, Crush Hazard

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

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

The Waypost

3120 N. Williams Avenue, Laryssa Birdseye, Maiah Wynne, and Stephanie Kitson

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Jonnycat Benefit: Minds, Polaroids, Bloodtypes, Anxieties

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Polecat

Wilf’s

800 NW Sixth Avenue, Darrell Grant’s MJ New Quartet plays Under the Jasmin Tree: A Celebration of Mothers and Others

SAT. MAY 13 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave The Minimalists

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Perséphone

Artichoke Music Cafe 3130 Se Hawthorne, John Silliman Dodge

Black Water Bar

835 NE Broadway Real Life Buildings, Walter Etc, Lubec, Clovver

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Pickathon Presents Sweet Spirit, And And And

Catfish Lou’s

New Expressive Works 810 SE Belmont, Sound of Late presents Magic with Everyday Objects

2460 NW 24th Avenue Sheila Wilcoxson & Friends

Skyline Tavern

Dante’s

Star Theater

350 West Burnside Booze & Glory

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Shae Altered

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Shrine of the Serpent, Druden, Shroud of the Heretic

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, The Oregon Valley Boys; Shorty and The Mustangs

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Tift Merritt, the Suitcase Junket

Muddy Rudder Public House

8105 Se 7th Ave. Bob Soper & Kory Quinn

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Bundy Band 13 NW 6th Ave. LP, Josiah & The Bonnevilles

St. Johns Bizarre

N. Lombard Street & Philadelphia Ave., 97203 The Thermals, Y La Bamba, Dude York, Illmaculate, Little Star, DJ Dirtynick, Red Yarn

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Argyle

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Jenny Finn Orchestra; HHP Presents: The Goodtimes EP Release Party

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave The Adarna, thunderhound, Elephant Gun Riot

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Parade Day Blowout: Mic Capes, Jenny Don’t and the Spurs, Bitch’n

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Volt Divers

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. JMSN, Gabriel GarzonMontano, Alcordo

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, Ian Miller and Friends

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben

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

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave SweetNJuicy//Louder Oceans

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Redneck Nosferatu, Almost Human, Pisswand

TUES. MAY 16 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Chris Fleming

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue Bill Coones & Daniel Noland

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Hawthorne Theatre

Wonder Ballroom

Landmark Saloon

1420 SE Powell Lovesores, Exacerbators, The Ransom 128 NE Russell St. The Orbiting Human Circus featuring the Music Tapes

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The Weeks, the Lonely Biscuits; Horse Eats Horse, Wave Action, BoomTown Crooks, Willow House

2460 NW 24th Avenue Terry Robb Duo

SUN. MAY 14 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Perséphone

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Never Shout Never 4847 SE Division St, The Tumblers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Baby Ketten Karaoke

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Boone Howard, Kelli Schaeffer, Ghost Frog

The Analog Cafe

2393 NE Fremont Street Peter Silberman, Vikesh Kapoor

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Rose Room Swing Dance; DAISYHEAD, FOSSIL YOUTH, SUNDRESSED, GLACIER VEINS, HAMPTON

Landmark Saloon

The Ranger Station

Fremont Theater

4847 SE Division St, The Oregon Trailers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jessy Lanza, Kate NV

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Bluegrass Tuesday

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Tuxedo

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Where to drink this week.

1.

Deadshot

Mondays at Holdfast, 537 SE Ash St., No. 102, 503-504-9448, holdfastdining.com.

Every Monday at prix-fixe spot Holdfast, the lights get lower, the music gets louder, and the crowd feels hip—rolling in for crazy-good honeycomb madeleines and bespoke cocktails like the Casper’s Ghost ($12), a rum-and-mezcal number spiked with bitter melon syrup.

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2.

The Lay Low

6015 SE Powell Blvd., 503-774-4645.

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-your-ownburger bar transported intact.

Food + Drink

Media + Personalities

DJ Ozroc Genre: Scratch turntablist, true-school and underground hiphop, old school, soul, funk, G-funk modern funk, electro funk.

Outdoor

Cannabis

Arts + Culture

3.

Years DJing: I have been a student in the art of scratching and DJing for about 17 years now.

Where you can catch me regularly: Every Wednesday at Beulahland for Wicked Wednesday; monthly at Skratcher Portland at Platinum Records Lights and Sound; every fourth Thursday with On One Posse at Swift Lounge. I’m also a DJ instructor at Platinum’s Mixlab.

Craziest gig: I can’t mention one without mentioning the other. In 2015, I was honored to have opening sets for two of my childhood heroes: D-Styles of Invisibl Skratch Piklz and the Beat Junkies, and the one and only DJ QBert. Both gigs were the most monumental and memorable gigs of my career thus far.

My go-to records: I can’t really say I have any set go-to records. At any given time I have seven crates of hip-hop 12-inch records on deck to rock at the drop of a dime.

Don’t ever ask me to play…: Absolutely no requests.

NEXT GIG: DJ Ozroc spins at Beulahland, 118 NE 28th Ave., on Wednesday, May 10.

Nightlife

The Standard

14 NE 22nd Ave, 503-233-4181.

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.

4.

Happy Fortune

10420 SW Barbur Blvd., 503-244-8356, happyfortuneportland.com.

In the wilds of deep Southwest Portland, Chinese spot Happy Fortune has an enviable corps of die-hard regulars—with extensive potlucks each Thanksgiving and Christmas and parking lot fireworks on the Fourth of July.

5.

Nyx

215 W Burnside St., nyxpdx.com.

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.

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave Open House: DJ Gina Turner

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd.

DJ Montel Spinozza

WED. MAY 10

Entertainment

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street PM Dusk

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Marti

Ground Kontrol

Local Business

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Free Form Radio DJs

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd.

DJ Joey Prude

Sandy Hut

Wellness

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Marty King

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Aust-Rotten

The Lovecraft Bar

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421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Death Throes (death rock, post punk, dark wave)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

THURS. MAY 11 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Crankdat

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street Yolo Biafra

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave Ladies Night (rap, r&b, club)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Gwizski (new jack swing)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St. DJ Daddy Issues

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Rob F Switch, DJ EPOR

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. NorthernDraw (funk, hiphop, soul)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Smooth Hopperator

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)

FRI. MAY 12 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Vice

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap, r&b, club)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St ‘80s Video Dance Attack: ROCK NIGHT

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Mechlo (chiptune, retrowave)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean (indie-pop)

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave Taiki Nulight (electronic, house)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Cake Party

Moloko

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

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St Chelsea Starr

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Hustle (disco)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

The Big Legrowlski

812 NW Couch St, Discotheque Rebellion (synth, post punk)

The Goodfoot

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

THOMAS TEAL

BAR REVIEW

GK 2, INFINITE WARFARE: Video game bars are like video game franchises: The visuals improve with each new iteration. Old Town barcade Ground Kontrol (115 NW 5th Ave., 503-796-9364, groundkontrol.com) has just completed the first of a two-phase expansion, transplanting itself around the corner to the room formerly inhabited by all-ages venue Backspace, now outfitted with a redand-white, spinning Galaga space-fighter marquee. The original space’s roller-rink drabness has been upgraded with a shiny, retro sci-fi-sleek bar that inhabits the center of the spacious main room, creating a horseshoe of gamers around its gentle glow and a line that bisects the room. For now, the original Ground Kontrol is closed—and will be outfitted with an extra floor, twice the games, and a connecting hallway to the current Ground Kontrol expansion pack. The barcade’s original stock-intrade—nostalgia-steeped ’80s- and ’90s-era arcade games—is now complemented with new on-rails shooters based on the Alien and Star Wars movie franchises. But all your favorites are still here: Killer Queen, the upgraded version of Joust that hosts up to 10 players, is still the best game and still perpetually busy. Mortal Kombat II also remains, albeit with a sticky “block” button. The many pop-cultureinspired pinball games still beep and boop and flash, and the cocktails are still video game-inspired and cheap, like a $7 King Boo with RumChata liqueur and hazelnut espresso vodka that tastes like liquid Ferrero Rocher. The tap list has been doubled, though uselessly, with a dozen mostly grocerystore craft beers (Black Butte, Ninkasi, Full Sail, etc.). Until the full expansion, Ground Kontrol will satiate Tinder daters and dorky guys on the town the same way it always has, just with new-bar smell and a little more room to breathe. WALKER MACMURDO. The Liquor Store

Holocene

The Lovecraft Bar

Jade Club

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

Killingsworth Dynasty

31 NW 1st Ave Johnny Monsoon

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

A Night For Dancers: Mambo/Salsa Social

White Owl Social Club

The Lovecraft Bar

3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me 421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy: M*therF*cker

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Jai Ho! Bollywood Disco Costume Party

Tryst

19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ Bad Wizard

1001 SE Morrison St. Verified w/ Uniiqu3 315 SE 3rd Ave YGB presents: Living Dreams 832 N Killingsworth St Spoiler Room

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jump Jack Sound Machine (diva house, ballroom beats)

Moloko

SAT. MAY 13 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave What So Not

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St ‘90s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Maxamillion (soul, rap, sweat)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St. DJ Blind Bartimaes

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Chip (r&b, hip-hop)

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (modern soul, hiphop)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Wes Craven

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St FEMME feat CoCo Louie

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Spend The Night 2yr : Jimmy Edgar (Ultramajic)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Musick For Mannequins 5 Year Anniversary! w/ DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier & DJ Acid Rick (sexbeat, creep-o-rama, hunkwave)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Skout

Valentines

Whiskey Bar

1305 SE 8th Ave East Questlove, Rev Shines, Dev from Above

SUN. MAY 14 Black Book

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Rockit (80s)

The Analog Cafe

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

TUES. MAY 16 Dig A Pony

20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club)

736 SE Grand Ave. Noches Latinas (salsa, merengue, cumbia)

Dig A Pony

Kelly’s Olympian

Star Theater

Sandy Hut

736 SE Grand Ave. El Chingon (golden era hiphop) 13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Infinity Mirror (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)

MON. MAY 15 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Lamar (boogie, edits, modern dance)

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage: DJ Dessicant (rock) 1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Bad Wizard

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Mood Ring (trap, witch house, techno)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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REVIEW

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com).

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Vasalisa

When international arts collective Source Material settled in Portland last year, it made its local debut with A Thousand Tongues, an avant-garde concert sung by a Danish performer in 10 different languages. Their next project just as ambitious. Based on the Russian folklore figure Baba Yaga and told through Eastern European songs and physical theater, Vasalisa will be immersive and take on the form of an “initiation” more than a play. SHANNON GORMLEY. Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., source-material.us. 2 and 7 pm Sunday, May 14.

Hands Up

After several performances throughout last year, the August Wilson Red Door Project is bringing back its production of Hands Up for 2017. Commissioned by the New Black Fest after the death of Michael Brown, Hands Up is seven monologues by black playwrights about their experiences with institutionalized racial profiling. It’s an intense collection of monologues that all seven actors in Red Door’s production deliver with deeply visceral performances.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Friendly House, 2617 NW Savier St., reddoorproject.org.

2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 13. Free, donations accepted.

Constellations

Two years after it was on Broadway starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Portland Center Stage is producing Constellations with Grimm’s Silas Weir Mitchell in Gyllenhaal’s former role.

The two-actor drama is an alternatedimension-hopping love story between a quantum physicist and a beekeeper who meet at a barbeque and fall in love. But with the help of string theory, the play depicts a series of alternate timelines where things don’t work out that way: In one timeline, they meet at the barbeque but one of them is married; in another, they don’t really interact with each other, and so on.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, noon Thursday, May 13-June 11.

No 2 pm show Saturday, May 13, 20 and June 3, no 2 pm show Sunday, May 14, no noon show Thursday, May 18, no 7:30 pm show Sunday, May 28 and June 11, no show Tuesday, May 30 and June 6.

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 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

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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 Saturday-Sunday, through May 14. Additional performances 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10, and 2 pm Thursday, May 11. $21-$46.

La Bohème

Admittedly, La Bohème is pretty cheesy. The plot has become overly familiar, partly because it’s been adapted into Rent, and partly because it follows the well-trodden love-story narrative that starts with infatuation at first sight and ends in death. Set in 1830s Paris, impoverished writer Rodolfo (Giordano Lucà) falls in love with Mimí (Vanessa Isiguen), who suffers from consumption. Plus, Puccini’s music occasionally sounds like a proto-Disney score.

Portland Opera seems like it’s embracing La Bohème’s excess. Staged at the much-larger Keller instead of the company’s own opera house, the production has giant, detailed backdrops depicting crowded Parisian streets and Rodolfo’s dingy apartment. The company plays up the show’s humor (particularly in the roles of Rodolfo’s housemates, played by Will Liverman, Ryan Thorn and Christian Zaremba), which seems fitting—La Bohème may not be the most meaty opera, but considering it’s a historically classist genre, mass appeal isn’t exactly a bad thing. SHANNON GORMLEY. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., portlandopera.org. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, May 11 and 13. $28-$250.

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 gets 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 Thursday-Saturday, through May 20. $19-$39

Óye Oyá

Even though one of Óye Oyá’s most memorable scenes is a satirical song about bringing a corn-dog-style pizza franchise to Cuba, the entire play is moving, rousing and beautifully brash.

Milagro’s original Spanish-language musical is the story of Felo (Jimmy García), a cafe owner in Cuba trying to send his daughter, Yenisel (Lori FelipeBarkin), off to what he hopes will be a happier life in America. García brings poignant heft to the play’s meditation on parental sacrifices. But it’s the spunky and compassionate Yenisel who powers Óye Oya, along with a series of ebullient song-and-dance numbers. That includes the performance of the pizza franchise song, in which the image of a pizza slice with a smiley face is projected across the set.

It’s clearly meant to be a joke, but it’s

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SEEING DOUBLE: (From left) Khanh Doan, John San Nicolas, Michél Castillo and Madeleine Tran.

Living the Dream

THE TALENTED ONES GETS A LOT WEIRDER THAN YOU’D EXPECT.

BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

sgormley@wweek.com

At first, The Talented Ones seems like it’s going to be a straightforward realist drama. In a kitchen with granite countertops and shiny appliances, Cindy (Khanh Doan) chops vegetables while she and Rick (Heath Koerschgen) wait for Cindy’s husband, Omar (John San Nicolas), to arrive for their dinner party. A familiar love-triangle dynamic quickly becomes apparent: Cindy tells a flirty Rick that she and Omar are going through a rough patch. Omar is a struggling writer, so Cindy has to defer her dreams of becoming a dancer so one of them has a job that can actually pay the mortgage.

But it doesn’t take long before things get weird.

During her conversation with Rick, a ringing drone plays over the theater’s speakers, and a spotlight forms on Cindy. Lights turn on behind the wall that extends above the kitchen set, revealing it to be a screen. A dancer (Madeleine Tran), Cindy’s fantasy self, appears on the platform behind the screen. “When I dance, it’s like a whole other me is switched on,” Cindy says as she and the dancer spread their arms in unison.

A new work by Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi, The Talented Ones deals with subject matter that could potentially seem pretty heavy. Both first-generation U.S. citizens, Cindy and Omar feel an immense pressure to make up for their immigrant parents’ sacrifices with their success. “We’re the ones who have to prove that it was all worth it,” Cindy tells Rick.

Although The Talented Ones isn’t exactly surreal or absurdist, it’s just offbeat enough to be unexpectedly funny and bizarre in moments that could easily seem dark. That’s due as much to El Guindi’s script as it is San Nicolas’ performance— as aloof Omar, he manages to be equally deadpan and charismatic.

When Omar finally shows up for dinner, Cindy and Rick are on the verge of making out. But it’s not clear whether Omar caught them in the act, because he comes through the door rambling about writer’s block. It seems aimless until the analogy between his and Cindy’s relationship lands. “If this is what I love, how could that love fuck me over?” he says, looking at Rick and Cindy.

Realizing they’ve been caught, Rick goes on a defensive rant. Omar doesn’t argue back, sitting on a kitchen stool and listening calmly while munching on some celery.

As the plot becomes more chaotic and darkly funny, the play starts to feel like an over-the-top parody instead of a realist drama in earnest—the first act ends on a cliffhanger and with a few literal knife wounds.

But its politics are sincere. In a flashback to the citizenship ceremony where Omar and Cindy met, the kitchen set is hidden behind a sarcastically large American flag that collapses into their outstretched arms at the end of the scene. Then there’s Rick, a white dude who doesn’t understand why the American dream isn’t as attainable for everyone else as it is for him. His vision of success is “ordinary shit done the right way:” a life with two cars and a couple kids. “I don’t need a huge patio, but a backyard pool would be nice,” he tells Cindy.

The political tensions in the play never reach a full resolution. But even though it’s frank and unromantic, The Talented Ones’ worldview still manages to be kind of beautiful—knife wounds and all.

SEE IT: The Talented Ones plays at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday, through May 21. Additional shows noon Wednesday, May 10, 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 16, and 2 pm Saturday, May 20. $25-$50.

DANCE Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre

Portland Center Stage’s lobby is one of the most traditional venues in which Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has ever performed. The site-specific dance company has hosted shows pretty much anywhere that’s not a stage: a laundromat, a rundown car wash, a bowling alley.

After performing a short, sevenminute show at last year’s Just Add Water festival, PCS has commissioned the contemporary dance company to create another one-off show. This time, it will be in conjunction with Constellations, the string-theory-based love story PCS is currently staging. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 6:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 13-14. Free.

Martha Graham Dance Company

Martha Graham is basically the reason modern dance exists—she mainstreamed the idea that choreography didn’t have to be strictly delicate and graceful. When Graham founded her dance company in 1926, she began to incorporate tense and convulsive movements into her work. White Bird’s show includes two of the company’s classic works choreographed by Graham herself.

They’ll bookend pieces by Nacho Duato and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, two prominent contemporary choreographers whose works are greatly indebted to Graham. SHANNON GORMLEY. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird. org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10. $26-$80.

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also an embodiment of the play’s belief that both life and theater are sweetest when they’re experienced at full tilt. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., milagro.org. 7:30 Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through May 27. $20-$27.

LOVE GAME: Beth Thompson and Matthew Kerrigan.

Unbanned

It’s hard to decide if Dynasty Handbag’s I, An Moron is standup or performance art. The L.A. artist’s show definitely has the production values of a standup set—a mic and stool on a blank stage— but Handbag’s postmodern background clearly has an influence.

Goofy and deeply absurd, I, An Moron seems almost more like a parody of observational humorstyle standup. So while a standup set might seem like an unconventional booking for an art museum (Handbag’s performance will be at the Pacific Northwest College of Art), I, An Moron would seem just as unconventional at a comedy club.

SHANNON GORMLEY. PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, portlandmuseumofmodernart.com. 7:30 pm Thursday, May 11. $15.

After it was first performed in 1889 in Denmark, Miss Julie was promptly banned throughout most of Europe. Set in the servants’ kitchen of a Swedish estate, August Strindberg’s one-act play depicts a lustbased relationship between an engaged servant, Jean (Matthew Kerrigan), and the Count’s bombshell daughter, Miss Julie (Beth Thompson).

But what made Miss Julie so controversial when it debuted— a casual attitude toward sex and class boundaries—is hardly shocking to a modern audience. Shaking the Tree’s production attempts to assert the play’s relevance with contemporary staging. When Jean and Julie get intimate, the stage goes dark and the actors wail from behind a wall of boxes off to the side. Center stage, a projector plays black-and-white headshots of the two characters in ecstasy. The production seems to be simultaneously set in the 1800s and modern day. In some scenes, Jean and his fiancee, Kristine (who also works for Julie’s family and is played by Kelly Godell), wear period costumes. In others, they wear Levi’s jackets, band T-shirts and crop tops.

Thompson’s casting as Miss Julie is superb. She’s equally naive, seductive and superior. As Jean, Kerrigan oddly speaks with a Southern accent and is hypermasculine—a far cry from his flamboyant Mad Hatter in Shaking the Tree’s previous production, We’re All Mad Here.

As a form of power play, Jean physically assaults Julie several times. He kicks a stool at her legs, pours wine on her white dress and throws her to the floor. But Julie verbally resists, dubbing Jean “an animal” to further distinguish her superior social status. Jean, however, is insulted that his inferior standing may be what Miss Julie finds most attractive about him because it offers her a chance to rebel against her aristocratic father.

More than Miss Julie’s formerly raunchy reputation, that tension between social classes is what drives the play. But the underlying sexism might be the strongest catalyst of Julie’s undoing at the play’s tragic end.

When she learns that her neighbors are aware of her romantic tryst, Julie finds a mob outside her window. The mob seems far more interested in condemning her than Jean. Here, we see that beauty and money are only skin deep, and gender provides a more latent divide. JACK RUSHALL.

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SEE IT: Miss Julie plays at Shaking the Tree Warehouse, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, through June 10. No show Sunday, June 4. $25.

Monsters!

Prismagic’s next circus takes its narrative inspiration more from horror movies than big-top style antics.

In Monsters!, two sisters navigate their haunted bedroom after monsters emerge from their wall. It’s an unexpected storyline for a circus, but that’s Prismagic’s thing: its acrobatics- and contortionist-focused shows have been about depression, magic bunnies and space adventures. SHANNON GORMLEY. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd., prismagic.org.

7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10-24. $20 advance, $25 at the door.

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Miss Julie is not as controversial as it used to be.

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“Certified yoga instructor” Dee Dussault’s new book is Ganja Yoga, which discusses a THC-tinged form of the Eastern art that can be practiced and mastered to more easily open a path to spiritual enlightenment. Hopefully someone tells Dussault before the talk that in Portland, ganja yoga is called “yoga.”

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

THURSDAY, MAY 11 Jeff VanderMeer with Lidia Yuknavitch

Renowned fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer is back with a new novel, Borne, set in a dystopia almost psychedelic in its strangeness. The narrative centers on a man-made protoplasmic entity that’s neither plant nor animal, but might be an adorable harbinger of new life.

VanderMeer will be joined by Oregon Book Award winner Lidia Yuknavitch.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Amy Goodman

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For the past 20 years, Amy Goodman has fought the good fight with independent reporting through her Democracy Now! radio, TV and internet broadcast. Her credentials include pitbull-ish reporting on the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., which led to her arrest, and more pitbull-ish reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, which led to a warrant for her arrest. Naturally, she was acquitted in both instances, but it’s not crazy to think that someone didn’t want her on the ground. Her new book is Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 5 pm.

SUNDAY, MAY 14 Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger and public mad-scientist Cory Doctorow hasn’t released an adult sci-fi novel in almost a decade. He breaks the streak with Walkaway, an optimistic story of social reform through societal abandonment. Realizing the basic necessities can be printed, Hubert and Natalie walk away from the system to live freely, starting a revolution that changes society. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800878-7323. 7:30 pm.

TUESDAY, MAY 16 Keith Rosson

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As a Portland artist and illustrator, Keith Rosson has worked for bands like Green Day, Against Me and the Goo Goo Dolls. Now entering the writing world, Rosson is coming out strong with two new novels. The first, The Mercy of the Tide, came out earlier this year and centers on a violent mystery unfolding in the fictional Oregon Coast town of Riptide. Rosson’s other novel, Smoke City, will come out next year.

Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm.

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REVIEW

Ryan White, JIMMY BUFFETT: A GOOD LIFE ALL THE WAY The remastered and Margaritaville.

Should there be any soul alive somehow unfamiliar with Jimmy Buffett, how would one explain the man, the act, the South Florida development mascot? Like John Denver or Kenny Rogers, Buffett seems to exist as a genre unto himself—wielding a celebrity whose remarkable endurance threatens to outstrip that of even his best-known song (“Margaritaville,” for the record). More even than followers of the Dead, Buffett’s loyal Parrot Head navy have built a community of concertgoers for whom the sets themselves are ritualistic signifiers of sun and sand and the permanent vacation. PDX writer Ryan White’s new bio, Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way (Touchstone, 368 pages, $26.99), approximates the effect of its subject’s chosen tipple—over-sugared, surprisingly strong, and bound to curdle the stomach in large doses.

A former music editor at The Oregonian, White’s résumé reveals itself in the reams of meticulously attributed background sources and overflowing guest list of names dropped—Buffett appeared to party through the ’70s with a Kid Rock-like ability to attract disparate comrades-in-debauch. Though such lives are always better lived than examined, the cavalcade of dimly familiar personages (Dan Fogelberg!

P.J. O’Rourke) dipping into Buffett’s orbit at least distracts from the logy narrative and lessens the absence of the man himself.

For those seeking insights into Buffett, A Good Life All the Way cares most about proving its title, though the distance from biographer to biographed lends a daft poignancy to the book’s central thesis.

We love Buffett, White writes, because he so nearly could have been one of us—an oddly reductive way to explain the devotional fervor sparked by pop-rock superstars that is not in any way true.

This book takes every opportunity to burnish its subject’s bona fides by means of geographical coincidence (Hemingway was another poet of the Keys), drinking buddies (Hunter S. Thompson was a friend?), and left-field tributes (Bob Dylan was a fan?!), but the guiding tone tacitly places its subject within the guilty pleasure zone. For the most part, A Good Life All the Way would like readers to consider Buffett as far more (and, at times, a little less) than just a musician, which makes for an oddly tone-deaf music bio.

“Margaritaville” may well be the furthest flowering of Buffett’s singular muse, and casual listeners might believe a shambling barroom crooner had backed into a hit single, tapping the low-key aggressive triumphalism of sun-baked dissipation for retirees of all ages.

In other words, the art matters—and rigorously chronicling the extent to which Buffett’s purposeful careerism belies all beachbum pretense, White tries like hell to have his sponge cake and eat it too. If Buffett is a visionary prophet counseling appreciation of the simplest delights, his inauthenticity galls. If he’s just a likable hack with a peculiar gift for the hummable essence of a self-satisfied people’s happy-hour dreams, why would anyone read (much less write) such a detailed accounting?

White is a Buffett fan, and therefore keenly aware of the untapped market his topic represents: Parrot Heads are hardly the most critical of consumers. This may explain an oddly telling passage within the acknowledgements. As apparent justification for Buffett’s capitalistic excesses, if not the author’s own mercenary ambitions, White writes, “I can buy a Nirvana T-shirt at Target. That’s what happens around here. Our outlaws become kings.” That betrays a shocking disregard for Cobain’s fate—the same as Hemingway’s and HST’s—as opposed to Buffett’s. There’s a world of difference between burning out and wasting away. JAY HORTON. GO: Ryan White reads at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com, on Tuesday, May 16. 7:30 pm. Free.

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VISUAL ARTS

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BY ROGER SHIMOMURA, 2007

War Crimes on the Home Front YELLOW TERROR: THE COLLECTIONS AND PAINTINGS OF ROGER SHIMOMURA DOCUMENTS AMERICA’S SHAMEFUL ACTIONS IN WORLD WAR II.

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well-versed in the era’s history—the spread of pins, posters and propaganda showing in colorful detail the depths of anti-Japanese sentiment within American society.

We spoke to Shimomura about the importance of facing America’s past, the legacy of internment camps, and the likelihood of it happening again.

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In the spring of 1942, Roger Shimomura and his family were told to pack one suitcase and prepare to move from Washington state to the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. Like my grandmother, and 120,000 other people of Japanese ancestry in the United States, Shimomura’s family had only days to make arrangements to sell their home, business and possessions for pennies on the dollar.

While current political sentiments have brought to mind the illegal incarceration of Japanese detainees—62 percent of whom were U.S. citizens—during World War II, this massive rollback of civil rights is typically only briefly mentioned in history schoolbooks.

Shimomura, 77, wants to make sure no one forgets.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the federal government to detain Japanese Americans without trials or hearings. In today’s political climate, is it really shocking to imagine President Trump locking up thousands of American citizens based on xenophobic paranoia?

Influenced by his childhood in the camps, his service in the U.S. Army and his exposure to 1960s experimental art in the Bay Area, Shimomura has been a vibrant force interpreting the West Coast Asian-American diaspora for decades. Elements of Shimomura’s pop art and Japanese ukiyo-e style woodblock prints juxtapose American ideals with images of traditional Japanese representations and stereotypes.

His works are part of permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Seattle Art Museum, to name a few. And now you can see a selection of his work, Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura, at the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center in Old Town.

Shimomura is also an avid collector of World War II memorabilia, a small selection of which is a part of the exhibit. The hateful tokens are shocking even to those

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WW: As you discovered more collectibles, were you ever shocked by the vicious materials from that time?

Roger Shimomura: First of all, this is not one of the larger collections of this sort. There are over 2,000 items in the collection [at Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle], of which you are seeing very few samples in this exhibition. I have seen one collection of similar materials that exceeded over 25,000 pieces—no duplicates—[in the Yoshio Kishi and Irene Yah Ling Sun Collection at New York University]. Once you’ve been exposed to a certain level of extremism, nothing surprises you anymore.

Why share your collection of propaganda with the public?

I didn’t believe the public would believe it till they saw it for themselves.

What do you think of Islamophobia arising here, and across the world?

It’s the culture of “hate it if it’s different” rearing its head again. In this case, if you’re not white, you are the “other.” Now it’s the Muslims’ turn to be hated for their differences.

Is there a risk of American citizens being gathered by ethnicity or religion and imprisoned again?

Under this presidential regime, anything is possible.

[Trump] even said he might have made the same choice that was made during World War II. How do internment camps continue to influence today’s Japanese-American identity?

There is a level of shame that varies from former incarceree to incarceree. This is noted in certain traits that are passed on through the generations in patterns of behavior. Future studies will show it will take several generations for this to correct itself.

What about the effects of the internment camps on the identity/culture of the United States?

It proves that America is not infallible and can make monumental-sized mistakes.

What do you hope people remember when they look at your work?

I am that stick in the eye that won’t let you forget.

SEE IT: Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura is at Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, 121 NW 2nd Ave., oregonnikkei.org, through July 16. 11 am-3 pm Tuesday-Saturday, noon-3 pm Sunday. $5, $3 seniors and students, free on First Thursday.

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MOVIES GET YOUR R E PS IN

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Spike Lee’s story of simmering racial tensions in a sweltering Bed-Stuy summer remains as painfully relevant as ever. Why did they have to do Radio Raheem like that? Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, May 15.

Hail the New Puritan (1987)

5th Avenue Cinema has dredged up a deep cut this week: Charles Atlas’ fictionalized documentary about Michael Clark is a dive into the celebrated Scottish dancer and choreographer’s early years, with a post-punk soundtrack from The Fall and Glenn Branca. 5th Avenue Cinema. May 12-14.

No Home Movie (2015)

NW Film Center’s retrospective of revolutionary avant-garde feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman continues with her final film before her death, a profile of her elderly mother, a Holocaust survivor, taken from more than a hundred hours of conversation. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 4:30 pm, Saturday, May 13.

BEFORE THE STORM: Duanne and Sandra Luckow as children.

The Downward Spiral

The Matrix (1999)

Watching this definitive cultural artifact of the nu-metal era on the biggest screen in town would be good enough as it is. But throw that in with the added bonuses of a virtual reality showcase and a talk about VR and computing from game developer Isaac L Cohen beforehand is too good to pass up.

Empirical Theater at OMSI. 7:45 pm Wednesday, May 10. VR showcase begins at 5:30 pm, lecture begins at 6:30 pm.

Pulgasari (1985)

In 1978, Kim Jong-Il had South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his wife, the actress Choi Eun-hee, abducted to North Korea, where they made a series of movies under the reign of Kim Il-Sung until their escape in 1986. Church of Film hosts Sang-ok’s Pulgasari, a monster movie about an imprisoned blacksmith who makes a kaiju to fight a corrupt monarchy. Now’s your chance to catch this rare film at a sports bar. Century. 9:30 pm Monday, May 15.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Czech New Wave alum Milos Forman swept the “big five” Oscars with his countercultural battle of wits between smalltime Oregon crook Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) and authoritarian Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), who runs her psychiatric ward with an iron fist.

Laurelhurst. May 12-18.

ALSO PLAYING: Academy Theater: Clueless (1995), May 10-11; Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), May 12-18. Clinton Street Theater: Sissi (1955), 7 pm Wednesday, May 10.

Hollywood Theatre: The Incredible Two Headed Transplant (1971), 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 16. Laurelhurst Theater: Stand By Me (1986), May 10-11. Mission Theater: Willow (1988), May 15-20.

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FILMED OVER SIX YEARS, THAT WAY MADNESS LIES LOOKS AT A FAMILY UPENDED BY MENTAL ILLNESS.

BY WALKER MACMURDO

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One devastating moment in Sandra Luckow’s new documentary, That Way Madness Lies, takes place in a Clackamas County post office.

Sandra’s brother Duanne is deep in debt.

He has just sold a rare car part to a collector in Australia, and he’s received a check for $1,500.

Behind the camera, Sandra asks the soft-spoken but excited Duanne what he’s going to do with the money. He calmly explains to her that he’s going to send it to Nigeria. “Then, I will have $10.5 million deposited in my Key Bank account,” he says.

Before 2010, Duanne was a machinist who ran a successful fabrication business and restored classic cars at his home in Clackamas.

Then, at 46, he developed late-onset paranoid schizophrenia. Luckow’s new film tells the story of Duanne’s illness through interviews with Duanne, his friends and Luckow’s elderly parents, primarily between 2010 and 2016, when her family lived in Clackamas County and Portland.

The film, which premieres this week at NW Film Center, is constructed from more than 80 hours of Sandra’s filmed interviews and Duanne’s own personal cellphone videos.

Duanne was a filmmaker and photographer during and after high school. A lifelong bachelor, his relationships with women have been troubled from an early age. “He never dated girls, and it seemed he was only able to be near girls by taking pictures of them,” Luckow explains in the film. Luckow, a career documentarian, producer

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and director coach who went to high school in Clackamas County and currently teaches film at Yale, tells us she was inspired by her brother to become a filmmaker.

Duanne’s illness becomes a prominent part of his and his family’s life in January 2010. He suddenly becomes obsessed with a New Agey YouTube blogger named Jessica Schab, whose videos include “The Illuminati’s Plan for the Starseeds” and “The Hollow Earth & Its Core.”

Duanne attempts to travel to Canada to marry her. He makes the journey without money or ID, blowing a border checkpoint in the process.

For the first year of his illness, he begins acting increasingly paranoid and erratic, which culminates in a video he shoots at the top of Multnomah Falls, proclaiming his devotion to Schab.

Duanne is involuntarily committed to Oregon State Hospital for six months after a court finds he is an imminent danger to himself.

Much of That Way Madness Lies follows Sandra and her parents’ efforts to handle the fallout from Duanne’s committal and the bill for over $115,000 he receives from the state.

The Luckows become ever more entangled in the arcane legal framework of Duanne’s financial affairs and care, while his behavior grows increasingly self-sabotaging. After he begins threatening Sandra—and, later, the police— with violence, Duanne moves from transitional housing to bouncing between homelessness, jail and psychiatric facilities.

Luckow argues that mentally ill people

are failed by a legal system that treats them as rational actors even when their behavior is plainly irrational and self-destructive. Through stoic court visits and tearful conversations with Luckow’s mother attempting to maintain her composure as her son loses his agency, we see systemic problems through the personal. Luckow can’t stop Duanne from harming himself, and neither can he.

Despite consisting almost entirely of interviews and conversations, That Way Madness Lies is compelling film, progressing with slow, constant pressure. Duanne’s self-shot videos, taken both while in the throes of psychotic episodes as he screams over a blood-smeared Bible and in the lucid aftermath as he calmly expresses his frustration with homelessness, are a rare glimpse into the horror of schizophrenia from a first-person viewpoint. The result is intimate but expansive, speaking empathetically to problems faced by thousands of American families.

“Look at what your brother had: He had a life, he had loving parents, he had a house, he had a thriving business, he was very, very skilled,” journalist and mental health advocate Pete Earley explains in an interview with Luckow. “All of that is gone now, and you tried to stop it. You couldn’t.

Why? Because we believe he has a right to throw it all away, even though he’s not thinking clearly.”

SEE IT: That Way Madness Lies screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium on Thursday, May 11. 7 pm. Director Sandra Luckow will attend. $9, $8 students and seniors.

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NOW PLAYING Buster’s Mal Heart

While it takes audacity to cram existentialism, human waste and dead frogs into a single movie, audacity is all this drivel has going for it. It’s the story of a hiply tormented soul, Jonah (Rami Malek), as told in three clumsily shuffledtogether tales. In one, Jonah is a prissy hotel concierge; in another, he’s a drifter with a beard that looks as if it were purchased from the Lippman Co.; and in the film’s most surreal scenes, he’s a tanned loner lost at sea, descending into hallucinatory madness. All of this is depicted with great solemnity by writer-director Sarah Adina Smith, who clearly subscribes to the gross-out-your-audience-untilit-pukes school of filmmaking—she likes to linger on bits of nastiness, like Jonah appearing to drink his own pee and an exploitative scene in which an elderly couple is forcefed after being tied up by Jonah with strings of Christmas lights.

The combination of this casual sadism and the movie’s hollow aspirations toward Camus territory makes the whole affair unpleasant and insufferable, not least of all when Jonah uses a cooking pot as a toilet. How fitting that a film this full of metaphorical shit has some of the literal kind as well. NR. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Hollywood Theatre.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Like Crazy

Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) is a grifter who takes great pride in her exaggerated identity as an aristocratic know-itall. In reality, she’s a patient at the Villa Biondi, a laid-back psychiatric hospital in rural Italy. Donatella (Micaela Ramazzotti) is a shy, quiet newcomer to the facility whose past is shrouded by a dark secret.

When the two escape, they set off on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery that pits them against the world, forging a comically unstable friendship. While the tone sometimes veers too zany, Like Crazy provides a fun romp through Tuscany alongside two fascinating, lovable characters. NR. CURTIS COOK. Living Room Theaters.

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

With all due respect to latter-day Denzel, no Hollywood vet insists on solo missions quite like Richard Gere. Two decades into a streak of vehicle movies and you’d think the silver fox would

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Northwest Animation Festival 2017 The Hollywood Theatre hosts this year’s four-day showcase of animated shorts from around the world. Hollywood Theatre. May 10-14. Tickets at nwanimationfest. com.

PDX Docs: Lindstrom/Taylor-Brodsky + Harris/Hermann + Elliott

A lineup of Portland nonfic heavy hitters comes to the Boathouse Microcinema on Wednesday evening.

The program includes Irene TaylorBrodsky and Sophie Harris’ new documentary, Open Your Eyes, about blind people living in Nepal, while Brian Lindstrom plays his new film, Mothering Inside, about incarcerated women and their families. Boathouse Microcinema. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10.

A Quiet Passion

Any Emily Dickinson biopic would require patience, and A Quiet Passion demands more than its share. The life story of this great American poet, unknown and unappreciated in her time, is one of despair and disease. Cinematically, it’s a tough sell. What’s beautiful about the reclusive Dickinson’s

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Is Guy Ritchie starting a mythological zoo? You might get that impression from this grim revival, which features a super-sized serpent, magical elephants and a creature that looks like a cluster of naked women and moldy spaghetti. One would think that a film populated by such bizarre beasts would be diverting in its ludicrousness, but Ritchie clearly has a gift for making fantasy warfare breathtakingly boring. By telling the tale of how Arthur (Charlie

Hunnam) pulls an impressive piece of cutlery from a rock and battles his usurper uncle, Vordigern (Jude Law), Ritchie apparently hoped to forge a crowd-pleasing origin tale. Yet the film’s editing is nauseatingly rapid, resulting in something that resembles not a movie, but a monotonous commercial for medieval weaponry and Hunnam’s pale goatee. It also doesn’t have enough of Ritchie’s trademark subversive humor—which buoyed his last effort, 2015’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.—though there’s plenty of savagery, including a scene in which Law slices off a man’s ear.

Per PG-13 strictures, this happens off-camera, which poses the question: Why couldn’t the entire movie have unfolded off-screen as well? PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

have arrived at his destination by now. But then there’s Gere’s turn as Norman, an unexpected digression from his usual sleek, unethical senior taking a last shot at love and glory. From writer-director Joseph Cedar, Norman charts the ascendance of a wannabe New York fixer looking for a foothold in IsraeliAmerican relations. Gere impressively strips back his natural polish, networking far too eagerly with hedge fund managers and foreign ministers. It’s who you know, the story posits, but Norman’s rapidly growing iPhone directory is a house of cards in a movie that’s just as fragile. The two hours of intrigue can never answer the question why this handsome old man decided to relentlessly gladhand through his twilight years.

Norman is many things, and that’s a pleasant enough surprise. It’s an achievement in plotting that’s an utter failure of character writing.

It’s borderline Israeli propaganda.

It’s Gere’s finest performance since Chicago. If you’re into pretty compelling nonsense, call anytime day or night; ask for Norman. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. R. Fox Tower.

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Snatched

Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn star in a new comedy about a motherdaugher duo who get up to no good when a vacation to South America goes awry. My guess is, people are going to be really pissed off about this movie. Review to come next week. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Tickling Giants

A new documentary about Egyptian comedian and television host Bassem Youssef, called the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” who satirized the country’s political turmoil following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. NR. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, May 15.

STILL SHOWING All These Sleepless Nights

All These Sleepless Nights centers on the hedonistic trials of two Polish early-20-somethings— think Kids or Less Than Zero in Warsaw, with heartless breakups muffled by techno-electronica dance parties, and clever narrations full of unnecessary, cigarette-inspired metaphors not at all improvised. R. Fox Tower.

Beauty and the Beast

Did we need this remake?

Probably not. Is is pretty good? Yes. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Boss Baby

Somehow, this movie isn’t a terrifying monstrosity. PG. Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

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.

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

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. Academy, Laurelhurst.

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, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, 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.

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, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

Gifted

Every time I read the name of this movie, I think of that T-shirt you’d see at Spencer’s Gifts or wherever, emblazoned with a stick figure with three legs and the word “GIFTED,” implying the wearer has a large penis. PG-13. City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Ghost in the Shell

Assertions that whitewashing and a reliance on futuristic effects makes this American remake of the animated 1995 manga classic a hollow, emotionless shell aren’t entirely wrong, but it’s still a rich and attention-grabbing action film powered

by Scarlett Johansson’s dynamic lead performance. PG-13. Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters.

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.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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.

Vol. 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. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.

Broaching the life of city planning warrior Jane Jacobs, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City attempts to relay the recent history of places where half the planet’s population lives. But the film’s focus sprawls like an unchecked suburb. 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. Cinema 21.

Hidden Figures

Colossal

Raoul Peck develops an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript to eloquently tell the story of American racism. NR. Laurelhurst.

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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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, Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters, Valley, Vancouver.

I Am Not Your Negro

Kong: Skull Island

The Lego Batman Movie

Fast, funny and pleasingly drunk on the joys of mockery, The Lego Batman Movie is as fun as the 2014 original but stars Will Arnett as a petulant, preening goofball who rocks out on an electric guitar and showers orphans with cool toys from a merch gun. PG. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Vancouver.

Life

More like Death, am I right, folks?

R. Academy, Joy, Jubitz, Vancouver.

Logan

Turns out having Hugh Jackman and cute child Dafne Keen perform Mortal Kombat fatalities on robotarmed mercenaries is a cool idea for a movie. R. City Center, Eastport, Fox Tower, Tigard.

The Lost City of Z

This supremely entertaining tale of exploration and obsession unfolds in the early years of the 20th century to chronicle the storied search of Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) for an ancient city he believes lies hidden deep within the Amazon. With a buildup of suspense that would 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.

Raw

Ostensibly about a young woman who develops an insatiable hunger for human flesh, Raw is more a visually stunning, deeply human coming-of-age story than a vicious Eurohorror film. R. Laurelhurst.

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.

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, 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. City Center, Fox Tower.

John Wick: Chapter 2

This may be the smartest, most beautifully shot film ever made that’s basically a montage of people getting shot in the head. R. Valley, Vancouver.

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Following the original’s blueprint, Kong: Skull Island sends a boatload of explorers past the permastorm covering that’s hidden the titular archipelago for millennia.

The similarities end there. Shifting to Southeast Asia just after the fall of Saigon, Skull Island replaces Age of Discovery heroics with wartime ambience. PG-13. Clackamas, Eastport.

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biography remains inside her head and, despite Cynthia Nixon’s earnest portrayal, her verse. Mostly, Terence Davies’ film labors to show the battle for the writer’s soul. She can’t give it to a lover and won’t give it to God. She might give it to the audience, but only if it’s full of Dickinson superfans.

PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21.

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GREEK FREAK: Alexi Pappas.

Runnin’ With the Devil

“It’s like you’re from another world,” intones manic hippie dream boy Sawyer (Chase Offerle). He’s just led doe-eyed Plumb Marigold (Alexi Pappas) back to the co-op he calls home, and he’s ready for a little of that patented “third base in an RV” action that somehow seems magical in Eugene.

Had you wandered into Tracktown, the debut by writer, star and co-director Pappas, right before Sawyer shifted from flirty to creepy, you might think you tuned into some weirdly twee indie take on Martian Child. Plumb is beset with wild hair and googly eyes. Her head seems screwed atop a fat-free, muscular body. She sleeps in a plastic bubble and subsists on piles of meat, raw eggs and chocolate chip cookies. When confronted with ice cream, she promptly sprinkles it with protein powder. She robotically quotes platitudes as if wired into a server full of nothing but motivational desk calendars. But she’s no alien.

Pappas, an American-born Greek Olympic long-distance runner, directed this coming-of-age dramedy in Oregon’s track mecca with Jeremy Teicher. It offers an intimate look into the real world of lifelong runners. Her normality is a world apart from 99.9 percent of ours.

Though often overreaching, Pappas is most effective when focusing on Plumb’s personal relationships, especially with her father (The Office’s Andy Buckley), a local track coach who tends to her every need despite Plumb’s fraught emotional state. That’s compounded by personal and professional setbacks: injuring a leg days before the final Olympic team tryouts, and the sudden return of her estranged mom (SNL alum Rachel Dratch). Forced by a faceless doctor to take a day off from running after an injury, she sets about an existential journey of self-discovery. Consider it Cléo From 5 to 7 filtered through Miranda July, a little Lena Dunham and a shitload of Gatorade.

Tracktown offers its most compelling moments when Plumb and her party-girl teammate (Rebecca Friday) go through their doldrums in an eye-popping, state-of-the-art training facility seemingly ripped from a sci-fi dreamscape. When it comes to the core romance, though, it deflates. There are great elements throughout, particularly Plumb’s Last Temptation-esque thoughts of leaving a lifetime of work for what she believes is love, no thanks to Sawyer’s manipulative douchebaggery. But neither the meet-cutes nor the performances are strong enough to make it feel like anything but a distraction from the bigger issues the film tries, and often succeeds, to tackle.

Pappas seems to realize there’s only so much mileage (sorry) you can get out of racing, and instead focuses on the humanity of a woman whose insecurities with her body and lost youth come to the fore on a rare day when her focus strays, tempting her to leave behind all that she’s worked for to get to something resembling normal. In that regard, she’s far less alien than she appears.

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A local Olympic runner goes mumblecore with the dramedy Tracktown.

SEE IT: Tracktown is unrated. It opens Thursday at Clinton Street Theater.

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My Everest I TRIED TO RATE ALL 100 ORGANIC STRAINS COMPETING IN THE CULTIVATION CLASSIC.

BY M AT T STA N G E L

Portland’s organic cannabis conference and competition, the Cultivation Classic, takes over Revolution Hall on May 12. The event will bring together vendors, a dozen industry speakers and a flower competition for cannabis grown in Oregon using only organic nutritional supplements.

No synthetic pest or disease management inputs or salt fertilizers allowed.

As cannabis critic at Willamette Week, which is presenting the event, and a soil-only cannabis grower, I was extra-curious about the competing flowers. As luck would have it, I was offered an opportunity not only to help judge the competition, but also to run the gauntlet.

Where other judges were given a dozen or so samples from one of nine categories—like Best Indoor THC or Best Greenhouse 1:1—it would be my job to try everything.

I was given 100 samples, give or take a few, and had just three weeks to taste the rainbow.

The Cultivation Classic 100 was my Mount Everest, and I felt as though I’d trained my entire adult life for the ascent. But it wouldn’t be easy.

If I was going to test all 100 samples in 21 days, I needed to do five a day.

And if was going to sleep, eat, meet writing deadlines, and perform the tasks of my day gig for five hours each morning, I’d have a maximum of six free hours a day for tastings.

Having recently tested and categorized roughly 50 strains shortlisted for picks in WW’s Potlander magazine, I knew I’d need to go very small for each strain—just enough to get the flavor and characteristics of the high, but not so much that each strain would overlap with the next, resulting in compounded highs and skewed ratings.

I used the same Grasshopper vaporizer for every sample. This, I figured, would get close to standardizing my dosages, while keeping those dosages manageable.

I also resolved to keep a tight schedule: start my day job by 7 am, finish by noon, write until 3 or 4 pm, and then get to the tastings.

My first day with the samples was all excitement.

So many smells! So many pretty flowers! So many tiny, numerically coded makeup jars filled with pot!

It was a level of variety I had never experienced, and I was a kid in a Day-Glo candy shop in downtown Nirvana.

The first week of tastings went off more or less without a hitch: I stuck to my schedule, did my tastings, and reassured my girlfriend and mom that I wasn’t going to disappear into green plumes of smoke.

But it wasn’t long before I started taking mornings off, writing at unscheduled times, and eating an irresponsible amount of Postmates delivery.

Weed naps also became the norm, because rolling the dice on anonymous jars of weed is unpredictable— the dots coming up indica or sativa, sleepy or activating, at complete random.

None of this was a surprise, though.

It was pretty much like any weed binge, and exactly what I expected.

I was right on schedule by the 10th day, with 50 strains rated on taste, smell and effect, and I began to see snow-capped peaks through the clouds. But then things went terribly wrong.

What started as the sensation of “digesting an inflated balloon,” as I had described it to friends and editors, ended several days later with a trip to the emergency room, at which time I hadn’t slept or eaten in days because of severe stomach pain.

I was out of commission for nearly a week, recovering on a strict diet of soup broth, antibiotics and pain pills. As a result, I could no longer distinguish the defining characteristics of the samples I was testing, and I tapped out.

It just didn’t seem fair to the growers or me to keep going, given that everything’s a 10 when you’re high as balls on pain meds, and that trading health for professional goals isn’t worth it.

And so, through no fault of the conditions of my personal Everest, I lost my footing. I fell on my face. The powdery gusts blanketed me. I froze, and a comical block of ice formed around me like Encino Man. But next year, I will thaw—and damn you, Everest, I will climb you.

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The Big German Bike-Hater

BY DR. MITCHELL MILLAR

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Our city is being slowly strangled to death by the flexing hands and tendons of arriving California transplants, their muscular fingers locked at 10 and 2 around Old Portland’s neck. More and more cars are arriving here daily. Our ancestors arrived here years ago because they desired the quiet solitude that only the Pacific Northwest could offer. Portland was never meant to be a crowded city, yet it is becoming so.

Always, though, there has been a resistance to that growth—men and women who stood up to those bullying transplants who would come here and live beside them, despite being asked not to. One such early hero was known as “the Big German.”

In the autumn of 1900, at the northern end of Union Avenue, there lived a man identified as the Big German. This man was so easily infuriated by passersby that he determined something needed to be done about it. He was antagonized by bicyclists especially, so much so that he came up with a plan to hide next to the road for much of the day, waiting for any unsuspecting cyclist who had the misfortune of passing through the area. Whenever one did, he would pop up from his spot with a mighty roar and attempt to startle them into the gutter.

If successful, the fallen cyclist was his captive audience and he would berate them for however long he felt was necessary to make his point— that they should not be there, that Portland was a place for men like him, a German immigrant who did not ride a bicycle. The Big German believed that by consistent dedication to his plan, all of Portland’s cyclists would eventually be convinced that Union Avenue wasn’t worth the hassle.

How did the Big German become such an avid bicycle-hater in the first place? Unfortunately, there is no hard evidence, but fortunately I am an esteemed historian and accordingly it is my job to insert colorful details where there are none. Let us say then that the Big German’s wife was murdered by a masked villain who narrowly escaped on a bicycle—or perhaps, more poignantly, the Big German harbored painful memories of his estranged wife waving goodbye to him while seated on the handlebars of a bicycle being pedaled away by another man.

After numerous attacks on unassuming cyclists, news of the Big German of Union Avenue spread. The cyclists, however, refused to be intimidated and vowed to continue riding on Union Avenue. Capitulating to the Big German would only lead to further harassment from other large bicycle-hating men of various ethnicities. So instead, they formulated a plan to teach the Big German a lesson.

Knowing the size and ability of the Big German, the cyclists went to boxing gyms in the area scouting for talent. They hired an amateur pugilist who was not quite as big as the German but made up for it with excellent dodging ability. They dubbed this man the Agile Swede, and waited for the day they would send him to the northernmost part of Union Avenue to meet the Big German.

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spends moolah on Lamborghinis and mansions? [S] 19 Former “Come on down!” announcer Johnny 20 “I ___ open this jar.

Can you help, Daddy?” [E] 21 Monkey that eats curtains? [E] 23 “Gimme ___! ... What’s that spell? Ella!” [E] 24 There are 100 in a century (abbr.) [S] 26 Something a toy poodle says [E] 27 Rat-a-___ [E] 28 Something that people say in awe [E] 30 Pookums [E] 35 Scaly creature that

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4 Sinn ___ (Irish political movement)

37 Ninja Turtle that wears red, to his friends [S]

5 Spike thrown in the road to stop robbers [S]

40 Getting from ___ B

6 “___ was saying ...” [E]

41 Kid that can have a cellphone [S]

7 Like show horses’ feet

42 Bird that smokes and does vandalism? [E] 47 Sneaky little animal [E] 48 ___ gin fizz 49 Kid who is “epic!” [S] 52 The ___ on the Shelf [S] 54 Sid: “I’m not ___ years old anymore.” Me: “No, I mean ___ as in ‘I ___ some food.’”

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8 “___ Danger” (Nickelodeon show) [E] 9 Quaint stores (you’d think, based on how they’re spelled)

53 Popular [E] 56 Parents “who do puzzled goodness” [S] 57 Brickell whose band is the New Bohemians 58 “There ought to be _” 59 It may be parallel [E] 60 Olympic hurdler/ bobsledder Jones 62 Drinks that are alcoholic [S] 65 “Waterfalls” trio

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Will sex be humdrum and predictable in the coming weeks? No! On the contrary. Your interest in wandering out to the frontiers of erotic play could rise quite high. You may be animated and experimental in your approach to intimate communion, whether it’s with another person or with yourself. Need any suggestions? Check out the “butterflies-in-flight” position or the “spinning wheel of roses” maneuver. Try the “hum-and-chuckle kissing dare” or the “churning radiance while riding the rain cloud” move. Or just invent your own variations and give them funny names that add to the adventure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Right now the word “simplicity” is irrelevant. You’ve got silky profundities to play with, slippery complications to relish, and lyrical labyrinths to wander around in. I hope you use these opportunities to tap into more of your subterranean powers. From what I can discern, your deep dark intelligence is ready to provide you with a host of fresh clues about who you really are and where you need to go. P.S.: You can become better friends with the shadows without compromising your relationship to the light.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Your symbol of power during the next three weeks is a key. Visualize it. What picture pops into your imagination? Is it a bejeweled golden key like what might be used to access an old treasure chest? Is it a rustic key for a garden gate or an oversized key for an ornate door? Is it a more modern thing that locks and unlocks car doors with radio waves? Whatever you choose, Gemini, I suggest you enshrine it in as an inspirational image in the back of your mind. Just assume that it will subtly inspire and empower you to find the metaphorical “door” that leads to the next chapter of your life story.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

You are free to reveal yourself in your full glory. For once in your life, you have cosmic clearance to ask for everything you want without apology. This is the LATER you have been saving yourself for. Here comes the reward for the hard work you’ve been doing that no one has completely appreciated. If the universe has any prohibitions or inhibitions to impose, I don’t know what they are. If old karma has been preventing the influx of special dispensations and helpful X-factors, I suspect that old karma has at least temporarily been neutralized.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. “I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” In my opinion, that may be one of the most radical vows ever formulated. Is it even possible for us human beings to gracefully manage our unruly flow of feelings? What you do in the coming weeks could provide evidence that the answer to that question might be yes. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now in a position to learn more about this high art than ever before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Africa’s highest mountain is Mount Kilimanjaro.

Though it’s near the equator, its peak is covered yearround with glaciers. In 2001, scientists predicted that global warming would melt them all by 2015. But that hasn’t happened. The ice cap is still receding slowly. It could endure for a while, even though it will eventually disappear. Let’s borrow this scenario as a metaphor for your use, Virgo. First, consider the possibility that a certain thaw in your personal sphere isn’t unfolding as quickly as you anticipated. Second, ruminate on the likelihood that it will, however, ultimately come to pass. Third, adjust your plans accordingly.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

The process by which Zoo Jeans are manufactured is unusual. First, workers wrap and secure sheets of denim around car tires or big rubber balls, and take their raw creations to the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi City, Japan. There the denim-swaddled objects are thrown into pits where tigers or lions live. As the beasts roughhouse with their toys, they rip holes in the cloth. Later, the material is retrieved and used to sew the jeans.

Might this story prove inspirational for you in the coming weeks? I suspect it will. Here’s one possibility: You could arrange for something wild to play a role in shaping an influence you will have an intimate connection with.

“Kiss the flame and it is yours,” teased the poet Thomas Lux. What do you think he was hinting at? It’s a metaphorical statement, of course. You wouldn’t want to literally thrust your lips and tongue into a fire. But according to my reading of the astrological omens, you might benefit from exploring its meanings. Where to begin? May I suggest you visualize making out with the steady burn at the top of a candle? My sources tell me that doing so at this particular moment in your evolution will help kindle a new source of heat and light in your deep self -- a fresh fount of glowing power that will burn sweet and strong like a miniature sun.

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You can bake your shoes in the oven at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, but that won’t turn them into loaves of bread. Know what I’m saying, Sagittarius? Just because a chicken has wings doesn’t mean it can fly over the rainbow. Catch my drift? You’ll never create a silk purse out of dental floss and dead leaves. That’s why I offer you the following advice: In the next two weeks, do your best to avoid paper tigers, red herrings, fool’s gold, fake news, Trojan horses, straw men, pink elephants, convincing pretenders, and invisible bridges.

There’ll be a reward if you do: close encounters with shockingly beautiful honesty and authenticity that will be among your most useful blessings of 2017.

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I predict that your tribe will specialize in unearthing forgotten valuables, homing in on secret miracles, and locating missing mother lodes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

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