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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 35.
Connoisseurs of the classic 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor
can’t find it around much these days, as it’s been driven under by cut-rate competitors. 4 Almost half of Oregon births last year were funded by Medicaid. 7
At least one person did the World Naked Bike Ride on a bike-share bike. 27 Sneaker waves sweep people to
their deaths more regularly than you might think. 29
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You can’t make good budae jjigae without American cheese. 39 A blues musician coming to the Waterfront Blues Festival thinks today’s blues fans only care about guitar solos. 41 A new spot in Southeast Portland claims to be the largest cider bar in the world. 51 Portland’s ennui-heavy indie film scene is going through its Singles phase. 56
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DIALOGUE On June 24, thousands of people got naked and rode bicycles through the streets of Portland. The next day, we published several dozen photos of the riders (see page 27). The photos immediately sparked debate.
Bryan M. Vance, Oregon Public Broadcasting photographer, on Twitter: “Gather ‘round, kids. It’s time for a quick lesson. Photographers do not need your consent or permission to photograph you at public events. Now, that said, most of us will respect your wishes if you kindly ask us not to phoEva Blake, via Facebook: “Did you really ride tograph you, but bullying us after the fact is not the Nike bike with no underwear?” cool. And claiming that a news outlet published a photo of you participating in a world famous pubNikki Gattuccio-Sternberger, via lic event without your permission is Facebook: “What’s lewd about being a moot point. If you don’t want your “Did you nude? It’s a naked human body. We’ve photo taken in public, KINDLY ask a really all got the same parts, just differently photog not to, or stay home.” ride the proportioned. The U.S. sure is uptight Nike bike about naked bodies. I think that’s the Ricky Hower, via Facebook: “The weirdest part about the naked bike most disappointing thing about this with no ride. It’s just skin, people.” underwear?” is the fact that so many people aren’t wearing helmets.” Kenda Davis, in response: “It’s all about what is socially acceptable, and [to] be CORRECTION naked in public in our society is unacceptable, so A story on how Portland transportation policy this kind of thing gets a ton of attention. What’s so (“How Can Portland Justify Adding Car Lanes confusing about that?” on I-5?” WW, June 14, 2017) incorrectly stated that Commissioner Nick Fish’s office declined Anita Smith, via Facebook: “It’s indecent and requests for him to comment. WW failed to make ugly! You can’t walk around children without hav- sure Fish received the chance to respond. WW ing something to cover your private parts, so why regrets the error. is it OK to ride on streets uncovered! Portland CLARIFICATION should be sued for indecent exposure!” Last week’s cover story (“Barbarians at the LauHazel Hasselhoff, in response: “Calm down, relhurst Gates,” WW, June 21, 2017) quoted a Anita. It’s just a penis...Like, 50 percent of chil- homeless man who said he was employed as a dren even have them.” cook at New Seasons Market. Greg Black says he did work at New Seasons while living in his truck. Joshua Fisher, in response: “It’s funny how But a New Seasons spokeswoman says he stopped we teach children to be afraid of the human body working for the grocery chain in May. (note that no one in this bike ride was accused of harassing children) but we don’t teach them to LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. fear death, war, violence and evil. We teach them Letters must be 250 or fewer words. to glorify the violence of the world, yet fear their Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. own and other people’s biological make up. We are Email: mzusman@wweek.com a truly backwards species.”
BY MA RT Y SMIT H
I used to buy 40-oz. bottles of malt liquor in Colorado, but in Oregon I have never been able to find this drink size in any convenience store. Are 40s legal in Oregon? —40 Finder I can see, Finder, that you appreciate the sophistication of an ice-cold Olde English 800. Not only is it English—which, hey, James Bond—but the extra “e” on the “Olde” fairly reeks of nobility. Shine on, you latter-day Galahad! Unfortunately, in some quarters the iconic 40-oz. serving of malt liquor is seen as a menace, the purview of so-called “street drinkers.” You and I know this is nonsense—I once spent three days drinking Olde E. on the corner of West Burnside Street and Broadway, spiritedly challenging passersby to joust, and I didn’t see a single “street drinker” the whole time—but there it is. Plenty of folks recall some news about 40s being banned in certain neighborhoods in Portland a few years ago. Since then, it’s been common knowledge that Portland’s 40s fell victim to the axe of the nanny state. Once again, common knowledge is wrong. Yes, there was a major initiative to ban 40s in some 4
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Portland neighborhoods several years ago, and yes, today 40s are rare. But the two facts are unrelated. The planned joint venture between Portland and the OLCC to create a series of “alcohol impact areas” fell through in 2010, when OLCC lawyers determined that the agency lacked the legal authority to enforce them. So what happened to the 40s? “There’s simply been a movement to 24-oz. cans,” says Columbia Distributing VP Mike Specht. Easier to produce and ship, the big cans have all but priced out their glass forebears. “Two cans totaling 48 oz. are the same price—and sometimes even cheaper—than a single 40.” Add the fact that the last quarter of a 40 is usually a flat, backwash-y mess, and you can understand how they faded. Some Portland 7-11s do still have 40s of PBR, though, for old times’ sake. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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MURMURS Gov. Kate Brown Collects Cash for Re-election
The first hint of a 2018 governor’s race came this week when Happy Valley Mayor Lori Chavez-DeRemer told WW she’s thinking about seeking the GOP nomination next year. Whoever runs against Gov. Kate Brown has some catching up to do. Through June 27, Brown had raised a staggering $654,000 this year. House rules prohibit state representatives from fundraising during session and senators generally do not seek donations, either. During the 2013 session, then-Gov. John Kitzhaber raised less than $50,000 and in the 2015 session, Brown raised less than $25,000. Says DeRemer, who narrowly lost a 2016 House race in House District 51 (Clackamas): “How do I not think about running? Oregon state government is a mess.”
Saltzman’s Staff Gets a Shake-Up
Shannon Callahan, who has worked for Commissioner Dan Saltzman for 10 years, most recently as policy director, is leaving his office. As of Aug. 1, she’ll be assistant director of the Portland Housing Bureau, a new position overseeing the housing bond—which she helped to structure. “She gets to watch her baby grow up,” says Brendan Finn, Saltzman’s chief of staff. He then offered “1,000 percent assurances” that Saltzman is running for reelection.
Oregon Senators Slam DeVos for Failure to Protect LGBTQ Kids
Oregon’s U.S. senators
Cabbies Demand Seat on City Board
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Taxi drivers haven’t had a seat on the city board that advises the city on cabs and ride-hailing services for more than a year—and they’re demanding a shake-up. Drivers arrived at a meeting of the Private For-Hire Transportation Advisory Committee on June 26 to protest their lack of representation in a group that includes Uber, Lyft and taxi company owners. “It’s kind of a slap on my face,” says Darin Campbell, a former Portland taxi driver who represented the cabbies on a similar board in the past. Brendan Finn, chief of staff to City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, agrees the advisory committee needs an overhaul. “They’ve been a dysfunctional body,” says Finn, adding that he hopes to see drivers on the committee as well as “interests outside industry.”
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Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden signed a letter June 27 criticizing U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for her refusal to commit to enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws in public schools, especially laws meant to protect LGBTQ students. The senators joined a group of 34 lawmakers demanding the Department of Education release a set of documents that will show the current status of discrimination and sexual assault and harassment cases handled by the department’s Office of Civil Rights. “There is no more serious responsibility of the Department than to ensure consistent, vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws and protections for all students,” the letter said.
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“IF THIS IS THE SENATE’S IDEA OF A BILL WITH HEART, THEN THE WOMEN OF AMERICA SHOULD HAVE FEAR STRUCK IN THEIRS.” —Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette spokesman Jimmy Radosta
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Unfortunate Things People Have Done With Fireworks in Portland
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BY KAT IE SHEPHERD
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During last year’s fireworks season, which stretches June 23 to July 6, Portland saw 49 fires caused by fireworks. Nineteen of those happened on July 4. As Independence Day approaches, Portland Fire & Rescue inspector Paul Jennings took a trip down memory lane to the worst firework mishaps in the Portland area since 2011.
570,940
Total number of women in Oregon who rely on Medicaid for insurance coverage, as of May 2017
109,005
Total number of women in Multnomah County who rely on Medicaid for insurance coverage
45,656
Women who delivered a baby in Oregon in 2015
20,744
Women who delivered a baby in Oregon who were on the Medicaidfunded Oregon Health Plan
10,400
Estimated number of uninsured women in Multnomah County who are in need of publicly funded birth control, as calculated by a study of age, sexual activity and income level.
5,890
Approximate number of uninsured women age 20 to 44 in Multnomah County in need of birth control who qualified for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion but would not qualify for the proposed Senate health care plan
3,980
Approximate number of uninsured women age 20 to 44 in Multnomah County who qualify for state-funded birth control using a Medicaid waiver program imperiled by the Senate plan
41,996
Women who received reproductive care from Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette in 2016
40
Publicly funded reproductive health care clinics in Multnomah County
21
Number of those clinics in danger of losing funding from Title X under a Republican proposal
27
Abortion providers in Oregon— providers whose clinics could be defunded under a Republican bill that prohibits tax credits go to insurance plans that provide abortion services
714
Women in Multnomah County who have had an abortion so far this year
13 million
Dollars at risk for Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette if the Senate health care plan passes
Sources: Oregon Health Authority, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and the Multnomah County Health Department, and
July 4, 2011 An illegal aerial rocket—a cheap, illicit firework that shoots into the sky and explodes—landed on top of a building on Northeast Alberta Street. The sparks caused a two-alarm fire that closed three businesses (including Aviary, later namedWW restaurant of the year) and did more than $1 million in damages. July 1, 2012 A firework exploded in the hands of a man who was celebrating in Northwest Portland. He lost several fingers and suffered extreme burns on his hand and forearm. July 4, 2013 An illegal mortar exploded directly above four people in Northeast Portland. The firework struck one onlooker in the face, and spit hot sparks at the others. They had to be treated for severe burn injuries. August 19, 2013 Two groups of people aimed bottle rockets at one another, and fired back and forth on Government Island. The fireworks sparked a fire that shut the state recreation area down. Twenty people had to be rescued from the blaze. It took 90 firefighters to quell the flames and two were injured before the last embers died. July 5, 2016 Usually it’s just-lit fireworks or duds that cause the most damage or injury. But last year, a bunch of used fireworks placed in a plastic bag and dumped in a trash can grew so hot that they ignited a house fire in Milwaukie and caused extensive damage to the structure.
the Guttmacher Institute. All numbers 2015 unless otherwise noted. Willamette Week JUNE 28, 2017 wweek.com
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TRICIA HIPPS
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“WE WERE DISAPPOINTED, WE FELT LIKE THEIR POSITION WOULD ULTIMATELY DENY LIFE-SAVING CARE TO TRANSGENDER FOLKS IN OREGON PRISONS AND JAILS.” —Amy Herzfeld-Copple
Cellblocked THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ARGUED AGAINST TRANSGENDER RIGHTS GOV. KATE BROWN SUPPORTS. THEN THE AGENCY BACKTRACKED. BY M AX D E N N I N G
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On May 26, the Oregon Department of Justice made an unusual decision. The agency withdrew a legal motion that it had filed in a high-profile transgender rights lawsuit. John Parry, who teaches civil procedure at Lewis & Clark Law School, says it’s rare for the Department of Justice to withdraw a motion. “Ordinarily,” Parry says, “you figure out if you want to file a motion before you file it with the court, not afterwards.” This about-face was especially awkward because it occurred on a sensitive political and civil rights issue. A transgender state prison inmate sued the state for denying her hormone therapy and the DOJ’s motion supported that denial. The denial and the state’s motion flew in the face of Gov. Kate Brown’s image as a champion of transgender rights—and placed further strain on her relationship with Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, whose agency filed the brief. (Disclosure: Rosenblum is married to Richard Meeker, a co-owner of WW’s parent company.) Three sources familiar with the situation tell WW that the motion angered LGBTQ advocates, who expressed their outrage to the governor’s office, who in turn expressed its displeasure to Rosenblum’s agency. The motion came as a surprise to Brown, who is responsible for the the Department of Corrections. A Department of Justice spokeswoman says Rosenblum didn’t see the motion before it was filed by her agency, and doesn’t support it. The resulting flap raises questions about the communication between the governor and the attorney general, who are both Democrats and lawyers but have previously differed on legal issues—most notably the state’s strategy for settling long-running litigation with Oracle. 8
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Oregon is one of the nation’s leaders on LGBTQ rights issues, earning top marks from the Human Rights Commission. That’s been especially true since 2015, when Brown became the nation’s first openly bisexual governor. On May 31 of this year, Brown signed a transgender rights bill, removing the requirement that changes to someone’s name or gender identity must be posted publicly by the courts. Oregon became the second state in the nation to do so, following California. “As a fundamental human right, government has no business dictating personal identity,” Brown said at the bill signing. But for more than eight months, the state has, in effect, been dictating Michelle Wright’s personal identity. Wright, 25, a transgender inmate at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, says the Oregon Department of Corrections unjustly denied her requests for hormone therapy, which she was seeking to continue her transition from male to female. Wright began wearing woman’s clothing and identifying herself as a woman at 16. Wright was arrested in 2013 and convicted of attempted armed robbery and sentenced to five years in prison. On Oct. 17, 2016 she filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland, claiming that the denial of hormone therapy deprived her of medically necessary care. Hormone therapy is usually one of the first steps transgender people take in their transition—and often precedes gender reassignment surgery. State provision of hormone therapy to transgender inmates has become a national civil rights issue, although most departments of corrections, like Oregon, deny those requests. Inmates in Nebraska, Indiana, Florida and Missouri have all filed similar lawsuits. (A California inmate became the first to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery in January.)
The Obama administration was sympathetic to such claims. In April 2015, the U.S. Justice Department filed a brief in a case backing a lawsuit filed by a Georgia inmate. The feds said the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, requires “individualized assessment and care for gender dysphoria.” On May 17, records show, Gov. Brown and Attorney General Rosenblum met. They discussed Wright’s case, which civil rights advocates were pushing the state to settle. Yet, two days later, on May 19, DOJ lawyers James Smith and Shannon Vincent, filed a motion in Wright’s case, arguing that Wright does not have a constitutional right to hormone therapy. (Neither lawyer replied to a request for comment.) Amy Herzfeld-Copple, co-executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s leading LGBTQ rights organization, said BRO was surprised by the state’s argument. “We were disappointed,” Herzfeld-Copple says. “We felt like their position would ultimately deny life-saving care to transgender folks in Oregon prisons and jails.” BRO officials had earlier met with Rosenblum, encouraging her to settle the case, and received no indication her agency would oppose its wishes. When BRO learned of DOJ’s May 19 motion, the group contacted Brown’s office to express its alarm, BRO spokeswoman Diane Goodwin says. A few days later, DOJ abruptly withdrew the motion. The move, sources say, came after the governor’s office expressed its displeasure to Rosenblum’s office. Kristina Edmunson, Rosenblum’s spokeswoman, would only say that Rosenblum and her executive staff had not seen the brief before it was filed. She did not comment further by press deadlines. Bryan Hockaday, a spokesman for Brown, declined comment. Beyond the legal machinations, Wright’s case underlines the trauma transgender inmates may endure. Currently, figures show there are 42 transgender inmates in Oregon prisons. Wright has “repeatedly attempted suicide and engaged in acts of self-harm, including three attempts at autocastration over the last year,” according to her initial complaint. In one incident, Wright tied a band around her scrotum to cut off its blood supply. “The band was not discovered for five days resulting in trauma and infection to her genitalia,” her complaint says. The treatment Wright is seeking costs $100 a month, according to the Transgender Law Center. Lake Perriguey, a Portland civil rights lawyer, says Wright’s case should be seen as a fight for equality. “People in wheelchairs weren’t always picked up by public transportation,” Perriguey says. “It took an activist group who sued, and now every bus in the nation has wheelchair accessibility. At some point, every prison in the nation will have trans competence to understand what their obligations are.” Wright’s attorneys and the DOJ lawyers have scheduled a settlement conference for July 31. WW staff writer Nigel Jaquiss contributed reporting to this story. Willamette Week JUNE 28, 2017 wweek.com
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Why am I seeing so many homeless people with dogs? You’re not paranoid: The number of Portland dogs bit a cop five years ago. On June 18, Olive was livwith homeless owners is growing rapidly. Local ing in a tent near St. Francis of Assisi Church in the animal hospital Dove Lewis says the number of Buckman neighborhood. He’s been on the streets homeless people getting veterinary care for their for 23 years—using heroin for 20—but he paused dogs has doubled in the past two years. when Brutus came up. That’s because the animals provide emotional “The pound came and euthanized him,” Olive support and four-legged security for people on the said, his expression wistful. streets. Homeless people say they typically obtain their “[Dogs] kind of flip a switch in some people,” animals the same way anybody else does—free says Kathy Loter, program manager for the Port- or for a few bucks via friends, family or adopting land Area Canine Therapy Teams program. “It’s from a no-kill shelter. And numerous Portland like a reset button. organizations help take When people are expecare of the pooches. riencing such great loss The Portland Animal and struggle, to have Welfare Team has seen a dog with you is an a “huge increase in the amazing thing.” number of homeless Take Michael, who people we serve,” intersays his dog saved him im executive director from a beating. Maia Shwartz says. The “He was a rescue team offers free vetpup and he rescued me erinary exams, vaccinaat the same time,” says tions, microchips, and Michael of his lap dog, licenses to owners who Buddy Love. Michael meet income standards. says Buddy was hurt The majority of while protecting homeless owners take Michael from an abucare of their dogs, sive ex-partner. Michael Shwartz says. But some didn’t share specifics won’t—or can’t—follow in May along the I-205 basic rules like local multiuse path, north leash laws. LOST LOVE: Leslie Preston of the Springwater “This one woman, holds a photo of her late pit bull, Blue Dozer (center). Corridor, where he and she comes in literally Buddy Love camped every Thursday to get “HE KEEPS ME last summer. But the a leash,” Shwartz says. bond was clear. “We had to have a seriGROUNDED AND GIVES “He keeps me ous talk with her. She ME A LOT OF HOPE.” grounded, and gives me lives in a tent, right outa lot of hope,” Michael side of our offices. And said. “He’s the love of my life.” she’s definitely a substance abuser, and it’s just not Yet the chaos, mental illness and drug use on something she thinks about until somebody asks the streets can also create situations that put ani- her to put her dog on a leash.” mals, and the public, in harm’s way. Kenny Hagman, 51, interviewed in May while On March 8, after a dog attacked a city camping along the I-205 bicycle path, feeds his employee, Eugene’s city council passed a tempo- fluffy Pomeranian, Mister, by dumpster diving rary ordinance banning dogs from its downtown for 50-pound sacks of dog food outside pet stores. unless owners have “lawful residence within the “They rip a sack, they throw it away,” he shrugs. restricted area.” Mister keeps him sane, he says. “Mister brings Portland hasn’t considered any such rules. But me up—he keeps me out of the distressed mode.” plenty of homeless people have stories about their Mister also travels well on Hagman’s bicycle dogs meeting bad ends. trailer—which can be important for unsheltered Leslie Preston’s pit bull, Blue Dozer, was shot people who have to move frequently. “I just tell and killed by Portland police in September 2016. him to load up, and he jumps on, sits down, and In early June, Blue Dozer’s ashes sat in a box on waits to go,” Hagman says. the dashboard of a van under a bridge in the HollyOn June 14, Hagman was bicycling up and wood neighborhood. A shrine for Blue Dozer was down the I-205 path, gathering information about nearby. official cleanups happening near SE Flavel. Mister Police said the dog attacked officers respond- stood at alert, nose to the wind. As they passed, ing to a domestic violence call on the streets of the several waved and smiled. “Hi Mister!” yelled one Hollywood neighborhood. Preston disputes that, woman as she packed her tent near trucks with saying police shot him “because he was a pit bull. flashing lights. He was leashed, with his service vest on, when he “He’s been out here since the day he was born,” was shot,” she says. Hagman said with a shrug. Andy Olive lost his black lab, Brutus, after he Willamette Week JUNE 28, 2017 wweek.com
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE AWFUL OUR RANKING OF PORTLAND-AREA LAWMAKERS. BY NI GE L JAQ UI SS
njaquiss@wweek.com
READER, BEWARE: WHAT FOLLOWS IS MOSTLY GOSSIP AND OPINION. Ever since 1977, when we first published our Good, Bad and Awful survey grading state lawmakers, we’ve started with the preceding warning. Our goal is to provide readers a candid appraisal of the metro-area legislators who craft Oregon’s laws and shape its nearly $21 billion budget. The 2017 legislative session began with high hopes. Oregon is part of a vanishing herd of blue states, one of only six in which Democrats control both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s mansion. One-party control presents many risks, but failure to accomplish difficult tasks should not be one of them. For the past couple of sessions, Democrats have taken advantage of that control on behalf of students, workers and environmentalists. In the 2015 regular session and the 2016 short session, lawmakers passed big school funding increases, hiked the minimum wage, passed family sick leave legislation and expanded the state’s commitment to renewable energy. This year’s session is likely to be remembered more for gridlock. While the session still has nearly two weeks to go, it seems almost certain that lawmakers will fail to address bloated public employee costs or our dysfunctional tax system. At press time, they were still negotiating a transportation funding deal. Other Democratic priorities, including gun control measures, tighter restrictions on diesel emissions and measures aimed at easing Oregon’s housing crisis, stalled. Part of the key to understanding why so little has happened in Salem in 2017 is that while Democrats have a majority, the rules are such that
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in order to raise taxes, they need a three-fi fths majority vote in each chamber. Democratic majorities are 35 to 25 in the House and 17 to 13 in the Senate, each one vote short of the required super majority. In search of GOP support, Ds held back on policy bills. Among the accomplishments as of this writing are a hospital provider tax increase; a pay equity bill; and possibly (it has not yet passed) a bill requiring employers to give employees advance notice of their work schedules. Worthwhile and important, yes, but pretty small beer. Meaning Oregonians may have to go back to the ballot for substantive tax reform—which is like performing brain surgery with a chainsaw. So how well do individual senators and representatives perform in the Capitol? At times they’ve come across as courageous statesmen and stateswomen, and at others, as craven skunks. To put together this ranking, we asked Capitol experts to grade legislators in the categories of integrity, brains and effectiveness. (See sidebar on page 13 for our methods.) Their overall ratings are an average of those three figures with cut-offs at each even number. The comments in these surveys can be impolite, even cruel. But in some ways, that’s the point—to offer you a peek at what the people who work alongside powerful figures really think of them. Here are their grades: Elise Herron and Tom Berridge contributed reporting and research for this story.
Survey Says... For 40 years, WW has been surveying those who work in the state Capitol about their opinions of Portland-area legislators. In May, we send surveys to the state’s registered lobbyists, legislative staff and news reporters who regularly cover the Capitol. We solicit views from a wide range of people, representing labor, business and other interests. This year, we received 45 surveys back. We loaded the results into a spreadsheet and supplemented them with a review of legislation and conversations with current and former lawmakers. We guarantee that the respondents will be anonymous, which we believe is the best way to get an unvarnished and accurate opinion. The result may irk legislators, but even critics see the value of the exercise. “I hate the Good, Bad and Awful,” says one former lawmaker. “But I can’t wait to read it.” NI G E L JAQU I SS .
SENATE SEN. RICHARD DEVLIN Devlin’s position at the top of this survey is as predictable as the traffic congestion on Highway 99W running through his district. He’s been rated “excellent” in our survey for the past five seasons. As co-chair of the Joint Ways and Means Committee, he is the building’s undisputed budget expert. In 2016, the gnomic retired legal investigator, 64, tried to launch himself out of the Legislature, where he’s served since 2003, by running for Secretary of State. He finished third in the Democratic primary, a result attributable to his retiring personality. This session he spent most of his time balancing the budget. He also worked on Senate Bill 1067, a cost-containment bill designed to make government more efficient and aid the case for new tax revenue. It died. “Without him, the Senate could not function,” says one fan. “Devlin has the intellectual horsepower to lead the Legislature through the minefield of revenue D-TUALATIN raising negotiations,” says another lobbyist. OVERALL RATING: “The challenge is rounding up enough sane legislators to follow him.” “The best senator,” says one veteran lobbyist. INTEGRITY: 8.59 BRAINS: 9.29 EFFECTIVENESS: 8.92
8.93
SEN. MARK HASS D-BEAVERTON OVERALL RATING:
7.59
N o b o d y a tt a c h e d h i m s e l f INTEGRITY: 7.6 more closely to a single issue BRAINS: 8.25 than Hass, 60, a lanky former EFFECTIVENESS: 6.92 KATU-TV reporter turned brand manager, who chairs the Senate Revenue Committee and co-chairs the Tax Credit and Tax Reform committees. He is Salem’s Sisyphus, pushing tax reform up a hill steeper than Mt. Hood. This year, he helped pass a law offering free community college to returning vets. Now in his fifth Senate session, Hass has grown. Lobbyists say early in his career, it was all about Hass. Now he’s become the rarest of lawmakers: one motivated by serving the public’s interest rather than narrow special interests. “Tasked with the impossible: raising taxes in a meaningful way,” says a lobbyist. “His clout has grown considerably,” says another.
SEN. ELIZABETH STEINER HAYWARD D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
7.02
The co-chair of the Joint INTEGRITY: 7 Ways and Means Committee BRAINS: 7.58 on Human Services, Steiner EFFECTIVENESS: 6.47 Hayward, 54, put her shoulder behind a bill that would have raised the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21. (It’s stalled at this writing, thanks in large part to tobacco lobbyist and former Sen. Margaret Carter, D-Portland.) Steiner Hayward passed a bill aimed at upping Oregonians’ use of earned income tax credits, which is among the nation’s lowest. She’s a doctor, a fact she mentions more regularly than many people would like. Others note she often seems more comfortable with fellow sawbones Dr. Knute Buehler (R-Bend) than members of her own party. “The Senator from Did You Know I’m a Doctor and My Kid Goes to Harvard,” sniffs another, repeating a common criticism. “Some politicians are ambitious for power; she is ambitious because she thinks she can do better,” says a veteran lobbyist who thinks Steiner Hayward’s confidence is well-founded. “Much of the time she is right.”
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SEN. MICHAEL DEMBROW
SEN. LEW FREDERICK D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
6.92
6.62
INTEGRITY: 8.08 BRAINS: 6.51 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.27
INTEGRITY: 7.34 BRAINS: 7.18 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.24 If Dembrow, 65, were a car, he’d be a Prius—a white Prius—rolling quietly through the halls of Salem. The low-key Portland Community College instructor chairs the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. However, he was unable to pass much significant legislation, which may account for the biggest drop in scores of any lawmaker this year, down half a point from 2015. “Had a very hard time moving bills out of his own committee,” says a veteran lobbyist. His big push this session, tighter rules for diesel emissions, failed. But he did pass a bill tightening regulations on suction dredge mining in Oregon rivers. “Open door, open mind, works harder to understand issues than any other legislator,” says a supporter. “Maybe try to figure out what’s possible, not just what you want,” says a skeptic.
SEN. GINNY BURDICK D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
6.75
INTEGRITY: 7.03 BRAINS: 6.33 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.88
Burdick, 69, a former journalist turned public relations consultant, has served in the Senate for 20 years. Elected majority leader in 2015, she is a loyal lieutenant to Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem). Long the Senate’s most zealous gun control advocate, she gets blamed for her colleagues failure to pass the modest gun control measures Democrats teed up this session. As co-chair of the Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation, she passed SB 1057, which will allow the OLCC to crack down on excess marijuana “leaking” from the medical market. Most veteran lawmakers saw their scores increase this year but Burdick’s ticked down a hair. “Hard-working, smart enough, decent and determined,” says one veteran observer.” “Her values are with us, but she has little ability to stand up to the crazy pants Senate president,” says one Democratic lobbyist. “She’s been working on the same issue for 20 years [gun control] and has done I’m not sure what with it,” says another observer. “Even though she’s majority leader.”
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Frederick, 65, a genial teddy bear who was once a journalist and is now a communications consultant, moved up to the Senate this session, replacing former Sen. Chip Shields, who retired. He keeps a vintage Epiphone acoustic guitar in his office to ward off stress, and saw his overall score move up this session, nearly half a point from 2015. He’s endured personal health challenges and the death of a longtime aide. As the only black man in the Legislature, he carries an outsized burden and his improving scores are informed by the fact that he often focuses on neglected constituencies. He sponsored House Bill 2855, which creates K-12 ethnic studies curricula standards, and SB 690, a bill that helps convicts qualify for housing and jobs. The comments on Frederick showed an unusual degree of disagreement. “Has grown into a solid legislator,” says one lobbyist. “Super nice guy,” one observer says. “Super ineffective.” “He’s just there,” says another lobbyist. “Cordial, polite but irrelevant to the major discussions happening in the building.”
SEN. KATHLEEN TAYLOR D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
6.23
INTEGRITY: 6.42 BRAINS: 6.47 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.79
Taylor, 50, served just one term in the House before moving to the Senate. She brought her background as an auditor and green eyeshade with her, injecting some energy into Salem’s wax museum. She helped save a successful equal pay law from the scrap heap, helped strengthen the law protecting workers’ rights to unionize and passed bills that cracked down on sex traffickers and eased up on those who are trafficked. “Does not speak often but makes good points when she does,” says one observer. “Understands numbers a lot more than policy,” says another respondent. Several commenters suggested Taylor would benefit from a dose of humility. “You can’t tell her much because she already knows it….her way or the highway.”
SEN. CHUCK THOMSEN R-HOOD RIVER OVERALL RATING:
6.57
INTEGRITY: 7.68 BRAINS: 6.47 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.56
Like the fruit he grows in his Hood River pear orchards, Thomsen, 60, is generally sweet. Lobbyists praise his self-deprecating sense of humor and willingness to listen. A lawmaker who’s spent his six-year career in the minority, he’s like an understudy in a Broadway musical: He knows the tune and memorizes the lyrics but rarely gets to sing. He did pass a bill allowing cider businesses to operate on land zoned exclusively for farming. “If rural Oregon is to have a representative in the Tri-County area, Hood River’s Mr. Green Jeans is your guy,” one lobbyist says. “He’s so dumb,” says another lobbyist. “Really fucking nice though. I love meeting with him—the pears are delicious.”
SEN. LAURIE MONNES ANDERSON D-GRESHAM OVERALL RATING:
6.09
INTEGRITY: 7.27 BRAINS: 5.22 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.78
Monnes Anderson, 71, the chair of the Senate Health Care Committee, saw her score rise nearly a third of a point. The retired public health nurse is serving her seventh session in the Senate after two in the House. As dynamic as a five-foot stack of copier paper, she’s useful but never surprising. She was a chief sponsor of a high profile tenant protection bill that is stalled in the Senate at this writing, and also worked on birth control coverage and veterans bills still alive in the session’s waning days. “She’s not the brightest crayon in the box and if you want her support, you better be the last voice she hears,” a lobbyist says. Others think she’s sharper than she gets credit for. “Over-underestimated,” says one fan. But most comments damned with faint praise: “When she is working on something she understands, she is a strong and effective advocate.”
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SEN. ROD MONROE D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
5.53
INTEGRITY: 6.30 BRAINS: 5.42 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.88
Monroe, 74, first won elected office in 1976, the year before the Blazers won their only NBA championship. He’s served on the David Douglas School Board, the Mt. Hood Community College Board and three terms on the Metro Council. The owner of a large East Portland apartment building, Monroe showed little interest in tenants’ rights. Advocates even followed the lay preacher to church this session to blast him for voting against tenant protections. “He’s great on education (he’ll tell you that every time he meets with you) but what else?” says one advocate. “A poster geezer for term limits,” writes another correspondent. “Should be evicted from the Senate with cause,” says a progressive lobbyist.
SEN. CHUCK RILEY
D-HILLSBORO OVERALL RATING:
5.24
INTEGRITY: 6.84 BRAINS: 4.75 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.13
Riley loves the Blazers and surfer-dude footwear. “He thinks he’s Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” says one lobbyist. He’s a regular in the lower bowl at the Moda Center and in the lower tier of this survey—although his rating this year jumped by more than a full point. A retired IT consultant, Riley, 78, chairs the Committee on General Government and Accountability. He passed a bill cracking down on predatory towing and created a task force to address veterans’ PTSD. Despite his improved scores, he’s still near the basement. “His shoes are usually much brighter than he is,” sniffs one critic.” A poster manchild for term limits,” says another lobbyist.
SEN. ALAN OLSEN A general contractor, Olsen, 69, has struggled to make his mark in Salem in six years. Lobbyists say he’s unfailingly pleasant, but also the first guy to put the arm on them when session ends. Although he was a chemistry major at Purdue, Olsen is a strident climate-change denier. “His extreme prejudice against facts or science of any kind is scary and makes me discount his positions on other issues,” writes R-CANBY one respondent. “Nice guy,” says OVERALL RATING: one of the kinder assessments. Others were less generous. “Clackamas County called and INTEGRITY: 5.74 is missing its village idiot,” said BRAINS: 4.66 a lobbyist. EFFECTIVENESS: 4.09
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REP. JEFF BARKER Barker, 74, an even-tempered ex-Portland D-ALOHA cop, runs the House Judiciary with the calm OVERALL RATING: of someone who spent his career defusing crises. He’s an ideal lawmaker in many ways: he brings a cop’s skepticism, an insider’s view INTEGRITY: 8.71 of government and represents one of the BRAINS: 7.71 most diverse districts in the state. Known EFFECTIVENESS: 8.03 for off-color jokes and a willingness to work across the aisle, he’s less progressive than liberals in his caucus would like but a staunch Democrat who was a chief sponsor of a birth control equity bill stuck in committee at deadline. “Possibly the most effective legislator behind closed doors,” says one admirer. “Scary smart as well.” “Effectiveness stems from his ability to stay in his lane and focus, a talent lacking among many others,” says another lobbyist.
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REP. TINA KOTEK
REP. JENNIFER WILLIAMSON
REP. ROB NOSSE
D-PORTLAND
D-PORTLAND
D-PORTLAND
7.83
7.62
OVERALL RATING:
OVERALL RATING:
INTEGRITY: 6.92 BRAINS: 8.42 EFFECTIVENESS: 8.16
INTEGRITY: 7.03 BRAINS: 8.16 EFFECTIVENESS: 7.66
Kotek, 50, is in her third term as House speaker, tying former Portland Mayor Vera Katz for the longest serving female speaker. She is tight-lipped about her plans and, for a politician, uncharacteristically media-shy and dismissive of talk about higher office. “Everybody (but Tina) wants Tina to run against the governor,” says one lobbyist. This session she stamped her brand on a package of bills aimed at the housing shortage afflicting Portland and many other parts of the state. The bills are stalled at this writing. She’s earned a reputation as an unyielding leader who dives into the weeds of bills, sometimes at the expense of progress. Her scores took a hit this session. “Listens to all the wrong people,” says a left-leaning observer, referring to Kotek’s closeness to public employee unions. Others still gush with praise. “Was Wonder Woman actually based on her?” writes one admirer. Some blame this session’s lack of major accomplishments on Kotek’s unwillingness to compromise. “When the building blows up, look no further than Speaker Kotek,” says a Capitol veteran. “You’d think ‘negotiate’ would enter into her vocabulary after all these years.”
As the House majority leader, Williamson, 43, is next in command to Kotek. Williamson’s scores tumbled nearly half a point from 2015. “If only she could get the speaker to listen to her more often, she’d be more effective,” says one observer. A sunny, personable lawmaker who enjoys end-of-day socializing more than most, she also chairs the House Rules Committee and is widely believed to want to be Attorney General someday. Her focus, beyond herding a fractious caucus, is criminal justice reform. This year, she passed a bill extending Oregon’s prohibition on private prisons and again tried (unsuccessfully) to expand the recording of grand juries. “She manages to be friendly and cheerful and stylish and cool, while also getting shit done,” says a progressive lobbyist. “Intimidatingly smart.” There’s a feeling among several respondents that Williamson struggled to balance her responsibility to manage her caucus with her personal ambitions. “The entire Dem caucus is helping her with her (future) Attorney General bid, whether they want to or not.”
OVERALL RATING:
7.51
INTEGRITY: 8 BRAINS: 7.56 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.97
Nosse, 49, a former nurse’s union lobbyist, is a packrat who wins the award for greatest volume of paper in a legislative office. A rising star who was Rookie of the Year in 2015, he learned the limits of his power this session. As vice-chair of the House Health Care Committee, he went to war with Big Pharma, hoping to cap and, in some cases, slash drug costs for Oregonians. Pharma said “no.” He did pass a bill that gives community college students greater control over student fees. “He’s authentic, not ego-driven, with street smarts and a natural ability to negotiate,” says one lobbyist. “Model Oregon progressive Democrat,” says another. The knock on him is although he’s got an extraordinarily safe seat, he’s risk averse and can be unfocused. “Seems to take on way too much to successfully get issues and concepts across the finish line,” says one veteran lobbyist.
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REP. MITCH GREENLICK
D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
7.36
INTEGRITY: 7.64 BRAINS: 7.94 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.49
At 82, Greenlick, as wise as he is crotchety, still cracks a mean whip as chair of the House Health Care Committee, where complexity, acronyms and big numbers meet in a brain-taxing goulash of legislation. A former professor at OHSU and director of research at Kaiser, he’s long been the Legislature’s intellectual leader on medical issues. He’s impatient with the faux courtesies characteristic of legislative discourse and his peevishness wears on some people. “He has transformed and improved health care,” says an admirer. “He may be the legislator with the highest integrity.” Several lobbyists commented on how long Greenlick, who has battled advanced cancer and two hip replacements, can continue. “Mitch at 50 percent is better than most at full speed,” observes one lobbyist. Others are ready with the gold watch. “Seems like he should retire and give someone else a chance,” one says.
REP. KEN HELM D-WASHINGTON COUNTY OVERALL RATING: 6.94 INTEGRITY: 6.96 BRAINS: 7.81 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.04
Helm, 52, is an ascetic land use lawyer. Many observers find him as dry as a law book that hasn’t been opened since Al Gore invented the Internet. Few doubt Helm’s intellectual horsepower, but the gap between his scores for brains (high) and effectiveness (low) is one of the largest in this survey. A secondtermer, Helm chairs the House Committee on Energy and Environment, always a battleground between business and environmental interests and the center of Oregon’s enduring land use conflicts. “Super smart, progressive, pragmatic, helpful, friendly,” says one left-leaning lobbyist. “Prime example of a short-dick Democrat,” says a business lobbyist. “Too smart not to get more done in committee,” says another lobbyist. “Needs to learn the politics, not just the policy.”
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REP. BARBARA SMITH WARNER
REP. KARIN POWER
D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
7.31
INTEGRITY: 7.23 BRAINS: 7.44 EFFECTIVENESS: 7.27
In her second term, Smith Warner, 50, a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), works the building like a savvy, partisan Energizer Bunny. Smith Warner co-chairs the Ways and Means Education Subcommittee, and serves on seven committees, more than any other House Democrat. “She’s like the number one assister in the league,” observes one lobbyist. “You need to get something done, this lady will make it happen.” “Smart, courageous and well-organized,” says one progressive lobbyist. “Does her homework and knows her stuff.” Business lobbyists like her less. “Kotek’s yipping Chihuahua of halfbaked ideas lifted from Salon.com,” says one.
REP. MARGARET DOHERTY D-TIGARD OVERALL RATING: 6.89 INTEGRITY: 7.39 BRAINS: 6.54 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.75 Doherty, 66, is a vinegary former Oregon Education Association staffer now in her fourth term. She rules the House Education Committee with the firm hand she used as a teacher at Milwaukie High. “I really like watching her rip into people she disagrees with,” says one admirer. Doherty’s a serious Mariners fan, but their season has been as frustrating to her as the anemic $8.2 billion K-12 budget. “A strong and steady progressive voice in the Legislature,” writes one respondent. Others would like to see more independence. “Has she legally changed her name to ‘OEA’ yet?” asks a lobbyist.
D-MILWAUKIE OVERALL RATING:
7.31
This year’s top rookie INTEGRITY: 7.63 led the unusually BRAINS: 7.96 large crop of 10 newEFFECTIVENESS: 6.33 comers. Power, 33, is a former Milwaukie City Councilor and currently a lawyer for the Freshwater Trust. She’s the first LGBTQ representative of an increasingly blue district. Originally from New Jersey, she’s more intense than many of her colleagues. Her service as vice-chair of the House Energy and Environment Committee buoyed the spirits of enviros. One lobbyist called her “a star in the making.” “Smart and pragmatic,” says one lobbyist. “Her experience as an elected local government leader gives her a deep understanding of how to get things done,” says another. Of course, no lawmaker earns all praise. “Outsized view of her own importance,” says a skeptic. “Ambition to burn.”
REP. CARLA PILUSO D-GRESHAM OVERALL RATING: 6.66 INTEGRITY: 7.9 BRAINS: 6.28 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.79 The former Gresham police chief, 61, now in her second term, cannot get enough of public service—she also chairs on the Gresham-Barlow School Board. Piluso joined House Minority Leader Mike McLane (R-Powell Butte) in passing a foster children’s sibling bill of rights. But for all of her experience, she’s been slow to make a significant impact. One example: she pushed a bill this session that would crack down on cops involved in domestic violence but couldn’t overcome the resistance of her former police peers. “Good at this job,” says one fan. “Does her homework and serves with integrity.” But many commented on her being just another face in the crowd. “This slow starter may not have any engine,” says one critic.
REP. ALISSA KENY-GUYER
D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING:
7.06
INTEGRITY: 7.6 BRAINS: 6.94 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.63
In her fourth session, the always sunny Keny-Guyer, 58, who represents the uber liberal and affluent Laurelhurst and Mt. Tabor neighborhoods, chairs the House Committee on Human Services and Housing. She led the charge for Oregon to help abolish the Electoral College. (That effort failed in the Senate, again.) Keny-Guyer, in her fourth term, served as the point person for the Portland delegation’s attempts to address Oregon’s housing shortage and also worked on elder care reform. Keny-Guyer is one of the building’s most progressive members, which often puts her at odds with business lobbyists. “Classic limousine liberal,” says one of them. But the consensus is she’s upped her game. “Don’t let the flower child persona fool you,” says a supporter. “She’s an incisive and increasingly effective player.”
REP. ANN LININGER D-LAKE OSWEGO OVERALL RATING: 6.65 INTEGRITY: 6.73 BRAINS: 6.97 EFFECTIVENESS: 6.25
Lininger, 49, a lawyer who recently switched from corporate practice to the Metropolitan Public Defender’s office, serves as co-chair of the Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation (yes, it’s really called that). After a rookie session in 2015 when her scores suffered from the un-Oregonian characteristic of being too aggressive, the former Clackamas County Commissioner dialed back her ambitions and saw her ratings rise a bit. Many respondents find her inconsistent, perhaps because she’s got the mindset of a Portland liberal but represents a moderate district. “Bright and flexible, very good at reading people and running contentious meetings,” an admirer says. “A little too conflict-averse,” says another. “More brains than boldness.”
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REP. BILL KENNEMER R-OREGON CITY OVERALL RATING: 6.61 INTEGRITY: 7.69 BRAINS: 6.75 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.41
Kennemer, 70, a retired psychologist now in his fifth term after a dozen years on the Clackamas County Commission, is a “picker”—a guy who loves garage sales— but he also drives one of the Capitol’s spiffiest vehicles, a shiny new BMW X5. Kennemer pushed again this session to expand drug-prescribing privileges for psychologists, a bill still alive. “May be one of the last moderate Rs, if there is such a thing any more,” one lobbyist says. “Nice man, can’t wrap his head around complicated health care policy. Resorts to personal (and often moving) anecdotes,” says a critic. “Why he stays passeth understanding,” adds an observer. “Go and enjoy retirement.”
REP. MARK JOHNSON R-HOOD RIVER OVERALL RATING: 6.53 INTEGRITY: 6.63 BRAINS: 6.96 EFFECTIVENESS: 6
A residential contractor and Hood River School Board member, Johnson, 60, co-chairs the Craft Brewers Caucus with Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene). He also works across the aisle on less frothy issues, often teaming up with Sen. Mark Hass (D-Beaverton) on education policies, including passing and expanding a program that gives students free community college, and teaming with Rep. Jeff Reardon (D-Happy Valley) to pass a bill strengthening the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission. As a Republican in an increasingly blue district, he will be a top target for Democrats seeking to win a super majority.“Always respectful, moderate and studies the issues,” says one supporter. But others think Johnson’s concerns about holding onto his seat in a swing district have blunted his effectiveness. “A deadly combo of fear and ego is driving this legislator into the ditch,” says a business lobbyist. “Expectations have become unrealized potential.”
REP. SUSAN MCLAIN D-HILLSBORO OVERALL RATING: 6.31 INTEGRITY: 7.27 BRAINS: 6.06 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.59 McClain, 68, a former teacher and four-term Metro councilor, is serving her second term in the House. She co-chairs the Joint Committee on Legislative Audits, which is a little bit like being the mayor of a small town in Siberia. Bills she worked on relating to greater regulation of Uber and Lyft stalled, but she did pass a bill allowing the sale of ungraded eggs at farmers’ markets. “Started speaking up and showing some pluck and pragmatism,” says one advocate. “Why couldn’t she have run for Metro chair? They deserve her,” said another.
“EXPECTATIONS HAVE BECOME UNREALIZED POTENTIAL.”
REP. TAWNA SANCHEZ D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING: 6.22 INTEGRITY: 7.35 BRAINS: 6.52 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.78
Sanchez, 55, narrowly won the race to succeed now-Sen. Lew Frederick. The director of family services at the Native American Youth and Family Center, and a longtime foster parent, she brings a unique perspective to the House—she’s the first Native American to represent Portland in the Legislature, and only the second to serve in the building. Many people would like her to express that perspective more often. Sanchez passed a bill ensuring state contractors have sexual harassment policies and worked on a family-friendly sentencing reform bill still alive at press time. “She needs to let go of being too nice and trying to please everyone,” a lobbyist writes. “Has a lot to learn to be an effective legislator,” says another.
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REP. RICH VIAL R-HILLSBORO OVERALL RATING: 6.2 INTEGRITY: 7 BRAINS: 6.69 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.92
REP. CHRIS GORSEK D-TROUTDALE OVERALL RATING: 6.18 INTEGRITY: 7.14 BRAINS: 5.83 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.57
REP. JULIE PARRISH R-WEST LINN OVERALL RATING: 6 INTEGRITY: 6.51 BRAINS: 6.45 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.05
Vial, 62, an expert on the law governing condos and homeowners’ associations, replaced former Rep. John Davis (R-Wilsonville) in one of the metro area’s few GOP strongholds. A rarity—a trial lawyer who’s not a Democrat—Vial carved out a position as a moderate in his caucus. He worked with Rep. Janelle Bynum to pass a bill making it easier for homeless and foster children to get a diploma. Opinions on Vial diverged considerably. “Really sharp,” says one lobbyist. “Republican freshman of the year.” Others wanted to see more self-awareness. “No freshman should talk this much,” says a veteran lobbyist. “At least pretend there’s something you don’t know.”
Gorsek, 59, a third termer, is a stocky former Portland cop turned geography instructor at Mt. Hood Community College. His committee assignments are a reflection of his lack of status in his caucus: He serves on just two, Human Services and Judiciary, and doesn’t hold a leadership position on either. He worked on juvenile justice reform, passing a bill requiring the taping of interviews with felony suspects. A couple of lobbyists named him as the lawmaker who asked the fewest questions. But Gorsek’s scores have risen gradually in his three terms and jumped .71 this year. “Solid legislator, smart, works hard,” says one lobbyist. But many expect more. “Nice enough guy but as irrelevant as the day he walked into the building,” says a typical respondent.
Parrish, who spews legislation and opinions with the force and frequency of Old Faithful, is a rare Republican who can win in the metro area. Democratic dominance in Salem cows some Republicans, but Parrish, 43, attacks every day as if she were the gold pioneer atop the Capitol, rather than a minority party back bencher. Now in her fourth term, she spent 2016 advising Republican Dennis Richardson on how to beat Democrat Brad Avakian in the secretary of state’s race. Parrish generates strong feelings. “Both parties hate her, so I guess she’s effective at something,” says one lobbyist. She joined six Democratic colleagues to sponsor still pending legislation that would require employers to schedule workers fairly. Many of her other ideas went nowhere. “A random bill generator,” sniffs one skeptic.” Will come up with good ideas by virtue of the number of attempts.” “She may have the best political instincts in the building and her voters love her,” says one lobbyist. “If only her colleagues felt the same way.”
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D-HAPPY VALLEY OVERALL RATING: 5.98 INTEGRITY: 6.43 BRAINS: 6.30 EFFECTIVENESS: 5.22
REP. SHERI MALSTROM D-BEAVERTON OVERALL RATING: 5.9 INTEGRITY: 7.27 BRAINS: 5.64 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.8
REP. DIEGO HERNANDEZ D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING: 5.72 INTEGRITY: 6.63 BRAINS: 5.64 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.88
Malstrom, 63, a public health nurse, replaced now-State Treasurer Tobias Read this year. She sponsored a bill that would have elevated the marionberry pie to the official pie of Oregon. The bill passed the House, but proved unappetizing to the Senate. She was more successful on health issues, passing bills on rear-facing car seats for babies and health measures for newborns. “A huge step down from Tobias Read, who was no great shakes,” says a lobbyist. A couple of people caught her napping. “Makes effective use of committee time to catch up on sleep,” says one observer.
The youngest lawmaker in Salem, Hernandez, 29, is also among those most eager to move up the ladder. “If ambition was an Olympic sport,” one lobbyist said, “he’d win gold.” Hernandez serves on the Reynolds School District Board, Planned Parenthood Advocates Board and the state commission for Hispanic Affairs. He helped pass a bill that will create an ethnic studies curriculum and worked on another that clarified what immigration information state and local officials can share with the feds. “His deep connections with advocacy groups make him a perfect fit for this job,” says one progressive. “He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know,” says a veteran lobbyist. “And he doesn’t seem to know much.”
“SHE’S REALLY SMART, SHE JUST DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT YET.”
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Bynum, 42, a former General Motors engineer who now owns a couple of McDonald’s franchises in East Portland, brought some real-world experience to a caucus light on business savvy. She replaced Rep. Shemia Fagan and was the chief sponsor of a new law that makes it easier for homeless and foster children to get a high school diploma, and another that streamlines construction of tiny houses. “Potential to be a very good, moderate legislator,” says one lobbyist. “She’s really smart, she just doesn’t know how to use it yet,” an observer says. “Lobbyists don’t need a recap of the campaign speech; it’s time to legislate now.”
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REP. JEFF REARDON D-PORTLAND OVERALL RATING: 5.7 INTEGRITY: 6.82 BRAINS: 5.29 EFFECTIVENESS: 5
REP. JANEEN SOLLMAN D-HILLSBORO OVERALL RATING: 5.49 INTEGRITY: 6.31 BRAINS: 5.5 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.65
REP. MARK MEEK D-GLADSTONE OVERALL RATING: 5.38 INTEGRITY: 5.83 BRAINS: 5.35 EFFECTIVENESS: 4.96
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Reardon, 70, now in his third term, has found a spot in the moderate wing of his caucus. Kotek rewarded him with a gavel this session—the former Tektronix employee and high school shop teacher now chairs the House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. He passed a bill that beefs up workforce training, and another that reduces fees on commercial bee colonies. However, there’s a general feeling that after three sessions, he’s hit his ceiling, and it’s not high. “Really good guy but not a lot of octane there,” says one advocate. “Oh Reardon,” says one observer. “Holier than thou, unpredictable, never findable.”
Sollman, 47, works for an educational software company and serves on the Hillsboro School Board. She replaced Rep. Joe Gallegos this session and, like Gallegos, struggled to make an impact. One of the few bills of which she was chief sponsor would have banned drinking on Oregon beaches. By the end of session, some lobbyists were cracking wise about starting a GoFundMe campaign to put Sollman’s pictures on milk cartons. “Sollman is viewed at this point as simply a reliable vote for the Ds. She’s done nothing to stand out—good or bad,” says one lobbyist. “Lots to learn,” says a typical response. “Below average,” says another. Somebody has to be.
A onetime Southeast Portland bar-owner—he owned the Mt. Tabor Pub in the 90s—turned suburban realtor, Meek, 53, is an everyman. He’s also staggeringly ambitious, however: He replaced former Rep. Brent Barton last fall and some say he’s already whispering about running for governor. Early in the session, Meek nearly got torn in half as real estate interests and his caucus battled for his vote on a contentious bill limiting no-cause evictions. His caucus won and Meek voted against the realtors who’d been his biggest source of support. They are now threatening to finance an opponent for him in 2018. “Stood up to the real estate lobby—impressive for a freshman” says one admiring lobbyist. “Burned those who supported him, will pay a price,” counters a business advocate. “Who’s ready for the Meek vs. [Rep. Diego] Hernandez gubernatorial primary in 2022?” asks one wag.
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A s t h e s t o r y g o e s , the whole town was relieved when the old man moved to Hawaii. People were terrified of him—his employees most of all. “Jack would walk around the brewery as guys were working, and if he saw something he didn’t like, if a guy looked at him the wrong way, he’d fire them on the spot,” says the bartender at a friendly pub in the upand-coming Nye Beach neighborhood. Let’s say that’s not true. Let’s stipulate that the late Jack Joyce of Rogue Ales never once fired a man without good cause, and he treated all with warmth and kindness, regardless of what you read in the NW Labor Press, which reported allegations that employees were fired for trying to unionize over Rogue’s low pay, bad benefits and capricious employment decisions.
Why do such stories swirl years after Joyce’s passing? Answer that and you get pretty close to the soul of Newport, a blue-collar town where the crabbers are crabby and fishermen have big trucks and big guns. This is a place where it’s understood that sneaker waves will randomly sweep people off the jetty and to their death every few years, and where the best fish and chips comes wrapped in ammosexuality. This week we release Going Coastal, our second annual travel magazine documenting the best things to do, see, eat and drink along the stretch of coastline that’s about a two-hour drive of Portland. Look for it now around town. But we also went three hours to Newport, one of our favorite cities on the Oregon coast. Here’s a tease of what you’ll find in the full Going Coastal guide.
SATU R DAY MOR N I NG HILLTOP CAFE 828 SW Pacific Coast Hwy., Waldport, 541-563-2750. It’s a half-hour drive between Newport and Yachats. Split it up by stopping for breakfast at this stylish cafe near the halfway mark. It’s on a hill, though sadly there’s not much of a view. The decor is modern minimalist, but the breakfast fare is hearty, with chunky home fries to douse in Portland Ketchup sauces and toast served with a fat, soft-edged pat of melting butter. If your morning started late, there’s a large drink menu with Pelican Tsunami Stout on nitro for $5 and Willamette Valley Pinot for $6 a glass.
FR I DAY N IGHT BIER ONE 424 SW Coast Hwy., Newport, 541-265-4630. Despite the fact that beer has a long and a prominent place in Newport, until recently there wasn’t a great beer bar. Bier One changes that. This large, warehouse-y space pours an array of contract-brewed sour saisons, stouts and wits listed on the chalkboards hung against the walk-in cooler. The crowd is chatty, the taplist is the best in town and the spacious side room has billiards. SOUTH BEACH STATE PARK 5580 SW Coast Hwy., Newport, 800-551-6949. In the shadow of the massive Art Deco arch of the Yaquina Bay Bridge you find this 500-acre park made up of grassy dunes and an expansive beach. There are yurts and campsites as well as paved trails between those dunes, perfect for an evening walk. 28
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HIKING AT CAPE PERPETUA IN YACHATS Take U.S. 101 south and follow signs for Cape Perpetua. To do Amanda’s Trail, drive south of downtown Yachats on U.S. 101 and turn right onto Yachats Ocean Road. Park at the pullout near the end of the road and follow signs for the Oregon Coast Trail and across 101, where you will enter a spruce forest and hike a mile to the Amanda Statue. Newport’s hiking options aren’t great. So drive down to Yachats, where a towering bluff soars 800 feet from the ocean. There are a lot of trails to choose from, including a loop with several lookouts and a short hike to a 600-year-old giant spruce, known as the Silent Sentinel of the Siuslaw. The main trail is 3.7 miles from Yachats to the peak of the Cape, and named for Amanda DeCuys, an elderly and blind native woman who was forced to endure a grueling hike north from Coos Bay, dying along the way. She’s memorized by a statue along the trail that climbs up the cape.
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348 U.S. 101, Yachats, 541-547-3884, yachatsbrewing.com Yachats is New Portland’s answer to Cannon Beach. The long-time hippie haven and gay enclave on the middle coast is getting hip; it’s where Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein chose to spend her summer last year. With its house-made kombucha and wide array of krauts, kimchis and pickles, Yachats Brewing is a good fit. This excellent operation is manned by Charlie Van Meter, formerly of Sasquatch and Logsdon, and in addition to stellar sours they make their own pickle products, which find their way into almost everything on the menu. The brewhouse/patio has a roof made of clear plastic panels to allow in lots of light but keep off the rain—a design so smart you’ll wonder why it’s not common.
1560 U.S. 101, Florence, sealioncaves.com. 9 am-6 pm daily. Adults $14, seniors $13, children ages 5 to 12 $8, children 4 and under free. You’ve seen the bumper sticker, now see the caves. The largest sea cave in the country sits just few miles south of Yachats. This two-acre stone cathedral is home to a colony of Steller sea lions, the much larger cousin to the more common California sea lions. These hulking beasts can grow to 2,500 pounds, and you’ll get a good look at them afte riding the elevator down to the cave floor.
HIT UP BERNIE’S UNIVERSAL DISPENSARY 3842 S Coast Hwy., South Beach, 541-867-2837, facebook. com/BerniesHigh. Just down the street from South Beach Fish Market, in front of a metalworking shop, this tiny 500-square foot hut is well stocked with all house-grown strains. Bernie’s is as low-key as weed shopping gets and is our favorite dispensary in Newport by a nautical mile. Your clerk is a glassblower turned grower, and he knows everything about his product, which he weighs out, deli style, with you picking each bud. Prices are good and taxes are included.
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SEE SOME SEA LIFE OK, did you smoke your pre-roll from Bernie’s? Time to see some wet animals. Where do you stand on intersection of money, otters and sharks? If you’ve got a little extra scratch, you can help buy sushi-grade shellfish for the Oregon Coast Aquarium (2820 SE Ferry Slip Rd., Newport, aquarium.org), which is a fancy fish zoo highlighted by seal kisses and a walk-through glass tunnel surrounded by sharks, stingrays and the like. Just around the corner, Oregon’s most prestigious state university, Oregon State, offers a freeware version called the Hatfield Science Center (2030 SE Marine Science Dr., Newport, 541-867-0100, hmsc.oregonstate.edu). There are no sharks or seals or turkey vulchers, but there are touchable tidepool tanks and a big (shy) octopus.
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SATU R DAY AFTER NOON/ EVEN I NG LUNCH AT SOUTH BEACH FISH MARKET 3640 S Coast Hwy., South Beach, 541-867-6800, southbeachfishmarket.com. Ask any long-time Oregonian about the best fish and chips on this part of the coast and they’ll point you to this convenience store and fish market. Inside, plentiful pro-gun propaganda, a clerk wearing camo-on-camo who calls everyone “captain” and a counter stocked with excellent seafood, including beloved clam chowder, fresh oysters and golden batter-fried wild halibut.
526 NW Coast St., Newport, 541265-4055, sorellanyebeach.com. Chef Justin Wills runs the Oregon coast’s fanciest restaurant, Beck, in Depoe Bay. Here in Nye Beach, Newport’s hipster district, he shows his casual side—and creates what’s arguably the best Italian spot on our shore. Sorella does handmade pasta (the tagliatelle is outstanding), very nice pizzas and excellent cocktails. It’s a down-toearth room complete with a kids’ play area, but the food is serious. SUNSET HIKE TO THE END OF THE NORTH JETTY Nye Beach is situated above the open ocean, around the bend from Yaquina Bay, which is lined with Newport’s original tourist district, the Historic Bayfront. Hike down the hill from Nye Beach and you’re on the sand, looking over at the North Jetty, a massive rock pile that protects the mouth of the bay. It makes a great evening walk, except when it’s windy—since 2000, many people have been swept off the rocks to their death.
BREAKFAST AT CAFE STEPHANIE 411 NW Coast St., Newport, 541-265-8082 Nye Beach has much nicer things than the Bayfront, including this breakfast spot that’s better than anything else in town. It’s a small, homey room known for soft and sloppy cinnamon rolls, hefty quiche and an excellent corned beef made in-house. SEE SOME SEA LIONS OK, we’ve avoided the Bayfront long enough—the bars, taverns, shops, pubs, T-shirt stands and watering holes next to the fishing docks that were long the city’s economic engine. Well, now it’s time to go listen to the bellowing sea lions and maybe poke our heads into Ripley’s Believe It or Not. COBBLE BEACH AND YAQUINA HEAD LIGHTHOUSE From downtown Newport, take U.S. 101 for three miles and go west on Northwest Lighthouse Drive until you get to the lighthouse. $7 admission for a car. Why are there two lighthouses near Newport, just a few miles apart? Because the one just outside town was too short and too far inland, making it basically useless. So after just a few years they built this monster, the tallest in the state, on a rugged cape. Tours are currently suspended because of budget constraints, but you’ll love checking out the beautiful black rocks of Cobble Beach next to it. At low tide, there are tidepools. At high tide, the sea makes an eerie raking sound as it pummels the cobble rocks. E M I LY J O A N G R E E N E
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David Lynch: A Retrospective Top Down: Rooftop Cinema Classic French Cinema PLUS... SPECIAL SCREENINGS NORTHWEST TRACKING details at nwfilm.org
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Friday, August 4, 7 pm David Lynch, the self-proclaimed Eagle Scout from Missoula, Montana, burst onto the American film scene Saturday, August 5, 8:30 pm Wild at Heart, US, 1990 in 1977 with his unclassifiable and instant cult classic Eraserhead Eraserhead, and hasn’t stopped making his brand of dir. David Lynch (125 mins., psychological drama, 35mm) sui generis work since. Although his work is often grounded in stereotypical trappings of genre, Lynch’s Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage thrillingly star as loversfilms are wholly created worlds unto themselves, filled with the iconography of popular genre films while using mood, pace, and offbeat acting to carve out space to simply be themselves. “Lynchian” has become on-the-run Lula and Sailor in this American road movie, synonymous with all that is weird and macabre while maintaining an ironic distance and a wink of knowing in which nefarious villains slink out of dark corners and extreme violence is always on the cusp. playfulness. With a career marked by many loyal long-term collaborations, including with the composer followed by Angelo Badalamenti; actors Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Nance, and Harry Dean Stanton; editor Industrial Symphony No. 1, US, 1990 Mary Sweeney; production designer Patricia Norris; and sound designer Alan Splet, among many others, dir. David Lynch (50 mins., performance, digital) Lynch has become one of the best-known American film and television directors of the past 40 years, hugely popular both at home and abroad. In addition to highlighting many of the films that have either overtly or subtly influenced Lynch through the course of his career, David Lynch: A Retrospective offers the Saturday, August 5, 3 pm Monday, August 7, 7 pm opportunity to fully slip into in his uniquely cinematic worlds as he means us to: “It’s beautiful when it’s a The Wizard of Oz, US, 1939 shared experience. It’s best on a big screen. That’s the way to go into a world.”—David Lynch. Friday, July 7, 7 pm Saturday, July 8, 8:30 pm Eraserhead, US, 1977
Friday, July 21, 7 pm Saturday, July 22, 8:30 pm Dune, US, 1984
Lynch’s cult classic, which played on midnight movie screens for years after its initial release, is an industrial symphony like few others, following a reluctant father (Jack Nance) after he’s presented with the child he fathered—a child who is not human.
Adapted from the beloved sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, Lynch’s Dune is an idiosyncratic world unto itself in its telling of planetary-level conflict between two warring noble clans seeking control of a universe-altering drug.
dir. David Lynch (89 mins., cult, 35mm)
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dir. David Lynch (137 mins., sci-fi, 35mm)
Monday, July 24, 7 pm 2001: A Space Odyssey, US, 1968
Six Men Getting Sick, 1966, The Alphabet, 1968, The Grandmother, 1970, The Amputee Vols. 1 & 2, 1974 dir. Stanley Kubrick (149 mins., sci-fi, 35mm) Monday, July 10, 7 pm M. Hulot’s Holiday, France, 1953
Kubrick’s most famous film, adapted from Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, is a deeply profound meditation on the place of man in the universe and a probing look into the historical role of technology and its various impacts.
Tati introduced his beloved character Monsieur Hulot in this 1953 modernist slapstick masterpiece, in which Hulot visits the beaches of Southern France in a hilarious and charming skewering of the postwar leisure class.
Friday, July 28, 7 pm Saturday, July 29, 8:30 pm Blue Velvet, US, 1986
Friday, July 14, 7 pm Saturday, July 15, 8:30 pm The Elephant Man, US/UK, 1980
The examination of small-town America, always a Lynchian preoccupation, sees its most crystalline depiction through the coming-of-age tale of Jeffrey Beaumont after he finds a severed ear in a field.
dir. Jacques Tati (114 mins., slapstick comedy, 35mm)
dir. David Lynch (124 mins., drama, 35mm)
A haunting and beautiful vision of Victorian London, refracted through luminous B&W photography to tell the story of John Merrick, a sideshow “freak” who longs to be recognized as a man like any other.
Monday, July 17, 7 pm La Strada, Italy, 1954
dir. Federico Fellini (104 mins., drama, 35mm)
Fellini’s greatest film is a tender-hearted tragedy following a young woman (Giulietta Masina) forced to accompany a brute (Anthony Quinn) as he tours the Italian countryside putting on strongman shows.
dir. David Lynch (120 mins., psychological drama, DCP)
Monday, July 31, 7 pm Rear Window, US, 1954
dir. Alfred Hitchcock (112 mins., thriller, 35mm)
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, Hitchcock’s taut, unnerving psychological thriller takes place in one room as an injured photographer (James Stewart) watches the aftermath of a murder play out behind his apartment.
dir. Victor Fleming (102 mins., musical fantasy, 35mm)
One of classical Hollywood’s most beloved films, this legendary tale of Dorothy, Toto, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the witches (good and wicked), and the Wizard enchants generation after generation with its stunning Technicolor cinematography and groundbreaking sets, costumes, and special effects.
Friday, August 18, 8:30 pm Saturday, August 19, 8:30 pm Lost Highway, France/US, 1997
dir. David Lynch (134 mins., psychological thriller, 35mm)
The iconography of Los Angeles film noir plays a major role in Lynch’s sordid tale of a husband and wife who lack trust, hinting at betrayal and violence.
Monday, August 21, 7 pm Vertigo, US, 1958
dir. Alfred Hitchcock (128 mins., thriller, 35mm)
Jimmy Stewart stars as a traumatized, former San Francisco cop turned gumshoe whose chance encounter with a mysterious woman (Kim Novak) spins him into a world of mystery and obsession.
Tuesday, August 22, 7 pm It’s a Gift, US, 1934
dir. Norman McLeod (68 mins., slapstick comedy, 35mm)
W.C. Fields’s fifth film of 1934 (!) is one of his finest, in which his Harold Bissonette and family move to California to buy an orange grove, but are met with a barren field and few prospects. Will the glittering promise of California deliver?
Friday, August 11, 7 pm Saturday, August 12, 8:30 pm Friday, August 25, 7 pm Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, France/US, 1992 Saturday, August 26, 8:30 pm dir. David Lynch (135 mins., psychological thriller, DCP) Mulholland Drive, France/US, 2001 The epilogue to the first phase of the Twin Peaks universe is a hellish, terrifying look into the final seven days in the life of Laura Palmer, a character who encapsulates the contradictions of small-town American life. preceded by
Premonitions Following an Evil Deed, US, 1994 dir. David Lynch (1 min., experimental, DCP)
Tuesday, August 15, 7 pm Lolita, UK, 1962
dir. Stanley Kubrick (153 mins, psychological drama, 35mm)
One of Kubrick’s relatively lesser-known works, from the novel and script by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita explores a tale of intense obsession involving a 40-year-old professor (James Mason) and a flirtatious 14-year-old girl (Sue Lyon).
Friday, August 18, 6 pm Saturday, August 19, 3 pm The Straight Story, France/UK/US, 1999
dir. David Lynch (112 mins., comedy-drama, 35mm)
“Walt Disney presents...a film by David Lynch.” A 79-yearold man rides his lawn mower 200 miles through the cornfields of Iowa to visit his dying brother, in what Lynch amusingly describes as his “most experimental movie.”
dir. David Lynch (147 mins., psychological thriller, 35mm) Lynch pathologizes the film industry with this multifaceted tale of an up-and-coming young actress (Naomi Watts) plunged into the sordid backroom deals and mysterious machinations of the Hollywood elite.
Monday, August 28, 7 pm Sunset Boulevard, US, 1950
dir. Billy Wilder (110 mins., film noir, 35mm)
Wilder excoriates modern Hollywood and chronicles the decline of decadence in his mythical tale of a fallen silent film star (Gloria Swanson) and the deadbeat screenwriter (William Holden) she takes under her damaged wing.
Friday, September 1, 7 pm Saturday, September 2, 7 pm Inland Empire, France/Poland/US, 2006
dir. David Lynch (180 mins., psychological thriller, 35mm) Lynch’s new-millennium digital missive probes into the psyche of Hollywood through the story of “a woman in trouble,” a washed-up actress (Laura Dern) attempting a comeback.
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Special Screenings (SS) Saturday, July 1, 7 pm Swimming To Cambodia, US, 1987
dir. Jonathan Demme (85 mins., documentary, 35mm) Casque d’Or
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Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s passion-and knowledge-filled cinema valentine My Voyage To Italy, the great French director Bertrand Tavernier’s epic new documentary My Journey Through French Cinema shares his lifetime of love for Gallic cinema. From the New Wave giants such as Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Claude Sautet, to Jean-Pierre Melville and “movie godfathers” like Jacques Becker, Jean Renoir, and Marcel Carne, Tavernier’s film also salutes many overlooked and forgotten figures—actors, writers, composers, cinematographers—whose rich contributions have built France’s cinema legacy. Tavernier’s affectionate salute provides the opportunity to screen some of his French classics–some familiar, some less seen—throughout the summer. Saturday, July 15, 4 pm Sunday, July 16, 7 pm Sunday, July 30, 7 pm My Journey Through French Cinema, France, 2016 dir. Bertrand Tavernier (190 mins., documentary, DCP) The great French director Bertrand Tavernier’s (The Clockmaker, A Sunday in the Country, Coup de Torchon, Round Midnight Midnight), epic history shares a lifetime of love for Gallic cinema.
Saturday, July 22, 6 pm Angels of Sin, France, 1943
dir. Robert Bresson (96 mins., drama, 35mm)
A sophisticated young woman (Renée Faure) joins a Dominican convent dedicated to the rehabilitation of criminal women and devotes herself—to the point of obsession—to “saving” a bitter and rebellious young convict (Jany Holt) sent there for rehabilitation.
Sunday, July 23, 7 pm Le Samouraï, France, 1967
dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (105 mins., drama, 35mm)
Alain Delon is a lonely, Parisian contract killer, preoccupied with the act of dressing, and acting, with exacting precision. His rituals work, until they don’t. “The epitome of French cool.”—Time Out.
Saturday, July 29, 6 pm Le Jour Se Leve, France, 1939
dir. Marcel Carné (93 mins., drama, DCP)
One of the classics of French poetic realism and considered by many to be Carné’s greatest film, François (Jean Gabin), a factory worker, reflects on the circumstances of love, rivalry, and betrayal that have led to his dire standoff in a police dragnet.
Saturday, August 5, 6 pm La Traversée de Paris, France, 1956
Saturday, August 19, 6 pm Casque d’Or, France, 1952
dir. Jacques Becker (94 mins., drama, 35mm)
In this tragic adult fairytale, set in the criminal underworld of Belle Époque Paris, Georges (Serge Reggiani), a humble woodworker, falls in love with Marie (Simone Signoret), the girlfriend of small-time crook Roland (Raymond Bussières), with tragic results.
Sunday, August 20, 7 pm Rules of the Game, France, 1939
dir. Jean Renoir (106 mins., drama, 35mm)
The “game” is life: Renoir’s subject is the foibles of bourgeois French society. At a weekend hunting party Two unlikely companions—a garrulous, resourceful artist on the eve of World War II, amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests and the servants in a (Jean Gabin) and a nervous cab driver (Bourvil)—try Gallic “Upstairs, Downstairs.” to transport four suitcases of black-market pork across Paris during the German Occupation.
dir. Claude Autant-Lara (80 mins., comedy/drama, DCP)
Sunday, August 6, 7 pm Children of Paradise, France, 1945
dir. Marcel Carné (190 mins., drama, DCP)
“The script, based on a mélange of French literary sources, centers on four admirers who court actress Garance (Arletty): a mime, an actor, a duke, and a killer. While she gives something of herself to each, she loves only the pure, naïve, romantic mime. Yet she renounces him on the touching plea of a boy wanting his father back. A fable-like tale soaked in the blood of dark 18thcentury intrigue.”—Pietro Ferrua.
Saturday, August 12, 6 pm Classe-Tous Risques, France, 1960
dir. Claude Sautet (103 mins., drama, DCP)
Saturday, August 26, 6 pm Sunday, August 27, 7 pm Tuesday, August 29, 7 pm Panique, France, 1956
dir. Julien Duvivier (91 mins., drama, DCP)
Michel Simon stars as a reviled voyeur framed for a murder by the girl he adores. “A tingling, compact, kaleidoscopic thriller! Should send shivers through an audience already worried about mob rule, enforced conformity, and a willingness to pin the blame on anyone different.”—Michael Sragow, Film Comment.
All screenings with English subtitles. Children of Paradise
Abel (Lino Ventura), hiding out in Italy and wanted by the French police, decides its time for one last heist. After a robbery in Milan and escape to the Riviera to look up old associates, he finds that things aren't the way they used to be.
Thursday, July 6, 7 pm Running Fence, US, 1978
dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin (57 mins., documentary, DCP)
An engrossing chronicle of the four-year realization of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s spectacular 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric running across the hills of northern California. preceded by
Christo’s Valley Curtain, US, 1974
dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Giffard (28 mins., documentary, DCP)
The Valley Curtain stretched a quarter-mile and 365 feet above Rifle Gap, Colorado. Although it was up for only a day, it fostered a whole new understanding of what art can be, even if it only exists in memory.
Sunday, July 9, 7 pm The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography, US, 2016
dir. Erroll Morris (76 mins., documentary, DCP)
Errol Morris (The The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line Line) profiles legendary photographer Elsa Dorfman, whose subjects have included such friends as Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Jonathan Richman.
Monday, August 14, 7 pm Topophilia, US, 2015
dir. Peter Bo Rappmund (65 mins., experimental documentary, DCP) The 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline System runs north to south, shore to shore, traversing many topographies as it winds through the state. Rappmund traces it, shooting hundreds of thousands of still photographs of the pipeline, revealing hidden rhythms and patterns along the way.
Sunday, August 13, 7 pm Army of Shadows, France, 1969
dir. Jean-Pierre Melville (145 mins., drama, DCP)
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the Simone Signoret star as underground resistance fighters who must grapple with their conception of honor in their battle against Hitler’s regime.
“Spaulding Gray’s feature-length monologue brings people, places, and things so vibrantly to life that they’re very nearly visible on the screen . . . this two-man undertaking shows off both Gray’s storytelling talents and Demme’s ability to frame them.”—The New York Times.
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Northwest Tracking programs showcase the work of independent filmmakers living and working in the Northwest—Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington—whose work reflects the vibrant cinematic culture of the region. Northwest Tracking is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Wednesday, July 12, 7 pm Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production, Portland, 2017
Wednesday, August 2, 7 pm Vernacular Viewings with Robert Sickels, Washington, 2010–17
Graphic Means explores graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—the evolution in technology, process, and craftsmanship from linecaster to photocom position, from paste-up to PDF.
Walla Walla filmmaker Robert Sickels’s witty and insightful meditations dive into everything from the complexities of human personality and behavior, to pop culture and local historical curiosities. Sickels will be on hand to introduce his award-winning films.
Wednesday, July 19, 7 pm Mixed Match, Vancouver, BC, 2016
Wednesday, August 16, 7 pm The Triangle, Montana, 2016
dir. Briar Levit (84 mins., documentary, DCP)
dir. Jeff Chiba Stearns (96 mins., animation/ documentary, DCP)
As multiracial families continue to grow around the world, the issue of finding donor matches for multiracial blood cancer patients also grows. For many, race is no longer just about identity—it is a matter of life and death.
Wednesday, July 26, 7 pm Movement and Flow: Portland Dance Films, 2015-16
dir. Conrad Kazcor, Fuchsia Lin, Dylan Wilbur Media, Gabriel Shalom, Jackie Davis, Amy Yang Chiao (74 mins., narrative/documentary, HD)
Each of these six films by Portland filmmakers presents a different vision of how dance can be represented using the moving image. The filmmakers will be on hand to talk about their films and their unique approaches to dance on camera. Join us for a reception for the filmmakers before the program.
Topophilia
dir. Robert Sickels (90 mins., documentary, HD)
dir. Adam Stillwall, Adam Pitman, David Blair, Andrew Ruzzo, Nathaniel Peterson (96 mins., narrative, DCP) After receiving an unsettling postcard from an estranged friend living in a secluded commune, four filmmakers take their cameras into the wilderness of Montana to document the mysterious inner workings of the group, witnessing something more shocking than they ever imagined.
Wednesday, August 23, 7 pm Fading Landscapes: The Films of Linda Fenstermaker, Washington, 2014–17
dir. Linda Fenstermaker (65 mins., experimental, HD)
Working in Super 8 and 16mm, Fensterman’s experimental essay films explore avenues of female perspectives and the interactions between body and landscape.
All screenings will feature a visiting artist
Top Down: Rooftop Cinema (TD)
Join us Thursday in August at Hotel deLuxe. Each evening will feature XRAY.fm DJS and shorts from Northwest Filmmakers. Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door: $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend. Thursday, August 3, 7 pm The Awful Truth, US, 1937
dir. Leo McCarey (91 mins., screwball comedy, Blu-Ray)
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in Leo McCarey’s timeless screwball classic, as a husband and wife headed towards splitsville, despite the fact that neither of them wants out of their marriage.
Thursday, August, 7 pm Shaft, US, 1971
dir. Gordon Parks (100 mins., blaxploitation/action, Blu-Ray)
A New York City private dick finds himself stuck in the middle between rival Italian and Black gangsters in this blaxploitation classic.
Thursday, August 24, 7 pm This Is Spinal Tap, US, 1984
dir. Rob Reiner (82 mins., mockumentary, Blu-Ray) A tin-eared, British heavy metal band sets out on the road for a comeback tour, one that may not be as well anticipated as the band assumes.
Thursday, August 31, 7 pm Spring Breakers, US, 2012
dir. Harmony Korine, (94 mins., new cult cinema, Blu-Ray)
After landing themselves in jail, four girls on spring break are taken under the wing of Alien, a rapper/ thug with only somewhat veiled intentions. Shaft
Thursday, August 17, 7 pm The Evil Dead, US, 1981
dir. Sam Raimi (85 mins., horror, Blu-Ray)
A group of friends’ weekend getaway to a cabin in the woods quickly goes south after the discovery of the Necronomicon, an ancient book of the dead.
MISSION. The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization founded to encourage the study, appreciation and utilization of the moving image arts; to foster their artistic and professional excellence; and to help build a climate in which they flourish. WATCH. Through year-round LEARN. Individuals find and cultivate exhibition programs surveying cinema past their personal voices as storytellers through and present, audiences and filmmakers come education programs and innovative together to explore our region and the world collaborations which advance media literacy through the moving image arts. and engage the next generation.
MAKE. Regional filmmakers are supported as artists, educators, mentors, connectors, and leaders, strengthening cinema's place in the creative, social and economic sectors of the community.
The Northwest Film Center is funded in part by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, The Ted R. Gamble Film Fund, the Citizens of Portland through the Arts and Education Access Fund, and the support of numerous sponsors, members, and friends.
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7 pm Eraserhead preceded by Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, The Grandmother, The Amputee Vols. 1 & 2 (DL)
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7 pm Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me preceded by Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (DL)
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BYEEEE SALT, BYEEEE STRAW: Portlanders are notoriously willing to stand in line for sweets. Still, it’s somewhat surprising to hear about people waiting in a three-hour, block-long line to get a taste of the brand-new Wailua Shave Ice. The spin-off of a Hawaiian favorite, which shaves every bowl to order and tops the ice with fresh fruit and all-natural syrups, drew huge crowds during the summer heat wave, filling the entire covered corridor at the swanky Union Way shopping center. According to staffers, people started lining up an hour before it even opened, and the shop served more than 700 customers shave ice on Sunday, when temperatures hit 101. (We dropped by Monday when there was no wait—it’s a great spot.) There’s even a cool pink photo wall for posting your shave ice to Instagram. In other Portland restaurant news, Taylor Railworks has announced its closure. The inner Southeast spot was started by former Little Bird chef Erik Van Kley and was ranked #29 in the city in last year’s WW Restaurant Guide. A few blocks away, Grand Avenue’s Lantern has closed with an eviction notice posted on its door. Pono Farm in Hollywood, which served Asian comfort food made with meat from the family’s Eastern Oregon ranch, has announced its closure. Vegan barbecue cart Homegrown Smoker was destroyed by a gas fire on June 21. Homegrown Smoker will have a restaurant later this year and is seeking donations on GoFundMe to get by until then. PUMPED UP: Portland’s first public mountain bike park opened last weekend. With 25 acres of park space, Gateway Green occupies a formerly vacant plot in Northeast. The park was more than a decade in the making, and the city’s biggest new park in decades. The park’s success seemed tenuous as recently as February, when WW reported that parks like Gateway are vulnerable to lawsuits. Plus, the city has had a long and tense relationship with mountain bikers—back in 2015, cyclists were banned by the city from using the River View Natural Area, which had become the mountain biking community’s unofficial home. The ban, created from environmental concerns, drew large protests. Through the efforts of volunteers and eventually $3 million from Metro, Gateway opened to large crowds during last weekend’s heat wave. The park includes forested trails for bikes and pedestrians as well as jumplines and pump tracks, and is open daily. BRICK CITY: When Roger Waters needed a bunch of rebellious teens and pre-teens to visualize the angst of “Another Brick in the Wall” onstage, he knew just who to call—the Portland School of Rock. Six kids from the local music academy, along with six others from Justin Matz Drum School in Beaverton, performed a choreographed routine during the Pink Floyd frontman’s performance at his June 25 tour stop at Moda Center. According to School of Rock music director David Coniglio, representatives from Waters’ management contacted the school only a few days prior to the concert, asking for children between the ages of 10 and 15 who’d like to take the stage with the rock legend. The kids donned orange jumpsuits and mouthed along to the famous chorus—originally sung by a choir of English schoolchildren—before removing the jumpsuits to reveal black shirts reading, “RESIST.” Coniglio says Waters also donated money to Portland Rock On With Us, a local music education nonprofit. Sadly, Coniglio missed the show—he had his own gig at Mississippi Studios, playing drums with his band, 1939 Ensemble.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 Tycho On his latest record, Epoch, Tycho mastermind Scott Hansen dials up the krautrock while still maintaining the technicolor ambience that pairs oh-so-well with the Bay Area group's gooey, blissed-out visuals. McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610, edgefieldconcerts.com. 6 pm. $39.50. All ages.
On Common Ground Created by the ensemble cast and filled with music and dance, On Common Ground is slice-of-life play set in a Pakistani artists' community. Before it makes its way down to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the new work by Pakistan’s Theatre Wallay has a two-show run in Portland. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30pm. Free.
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Come to the Table, Mike Pence In its contribution to SummerFest—which premieres five new works over five weekends—one of Portland’s more experimental theaters, Shaking the Tree, presents a new oddity, with a “plot” involving Queen Elizabeth I, Salome and Eve waiting at a dinner party for a fourth guest who never shows up: Mike Pence. Coho Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 503-220-2646, cohoproductions. org. 7:30 pm. $20.
The Wizard of Oz You've probably forgotten what a horrifying nightmare of a film The Wizard of Oz is, but the flying monkeys are scary as fuck. It returns to the big screen to kick off Oz convention OzCon, with expert John Fricke in attendance. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515, cinema21.com. 6:30 pm. $8.50. All ages.
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Choreography XX Oregon Ballet Theatre's Choreography XX will premiere three works by women choreographers. If that weren't awesome enough, the company will perform the works for free in Washington Park's seriously scenic outdoor amphitheater. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 503-222-5538, obt.org. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Roxane Gay The best-selling author of the dope-ass essay collections Bad Feminist and Difficult Women just released her latest work, Hunger: A Memoir of My Body,, where she writes about how her body changed after being being sexually assaulted as a kid, and what it means to be fat in society. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com, 7:30 pm. Free.
SATURDAY, JULY 1 Portland Craft Beer Festival For the third year, the Fields Neighborhood Park is taken over by Portland breweries. And by that, we mean literal in-the-citylimits-no-not-Milwaukie Portland breweries. The fest features 100 beverages from over 50 breweries. Fields Neighborhood Park, 1099 NW Overton St., portlandcraftbeerfestival.com. Noon Friday-Sunday, June 30-July 2. All ages on Sunday. $25 for a mug with 10 beer tickets.
First Caturday This new monthly meetup invites cat owners to bring their pets in carriers and on leashes to socialize with other cats. You may even see some in costumes. Awesome. Laurelhurst Park, Southeast Cesar E Chavez Blvd. & Stark St., facebook.com/firstcaturday. 1:30 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, JULY 2 Stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga Achieve peak bliss and gain some serious social capital as you try to do downward dog on a paddle board while gazing up at Tilikum Crossing. Just think of the Instagram! Sellwood Riverfront Park, SE Oaks Park Way, 503-233-0706, nextadventure.com. 9 am. $35.
Phora California rapper Phora recently crowdfunded over $60,000 to launch his own label, which tells you a lot about his relationship with his fans. Across six independent albums, he's cultivated a loyal audience through open, honest songwriting drawn from often harrowing real-life experiences. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100, hawthornetheatre.com. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
MONDAY, JULY 3 Waterfront Blues Festival The 30-years-running celebration of blues and blues-adjacent genres has moved away from big-name headliners, but a lineup of Chris Isaak, Booker T. and Canned Heat is guaranteed to get thousands of middleaged toes tapping in their flip-flops. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, north and south of the Hawthorne Bridge. Friday-Monday, June 30-July 4. See waterfrontbluesfest.com for a complete schedule and ticket prices.
E.T. The Hollywood Theatre is celebrating the career of Steven Spielberg with more than two weeks of screenings of nine of his most spectacular movies—including Jurassic Park, Jaws and the original Indiana Jones trilogy—all on 35 mm. Screenings kick off July 1 with E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7 pm. $9.
TUESDAY, JULY 4 Oaks Park Fireworks It ain't Disneyland, but as far as fireworks viewing in Portland goes, Oaks Park gives a pretty spectacular good ol' American show, with the entire park open for picnics and barbecues, and rides operating from noon to midnight. Oaks Amusement Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, 503-233-5777, oakspark.com. Gates open at 10 am. $3-$6.
Slow Bar’s 13th Birthday Party There isn’t much about America worth celebrating right now, so how about spending your holiday partying in the name of Portland’s best burger bar instead? To commemorate its 13th anniversary, Slow Bar is throwing a hard-rock bar mitzvah in its parking lot, with headbanging locals Lord Dying, R.I.P. and more. Slow Bar, 533 SE Grand Ave., 503-230-7767, slowbar.net. 2 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week JUNE 28, 2017 wweek.com
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FOUR ‘GRAMMIES: Chalino’s food is ready for your feed.
Tostaderia de Portland CHALINO IS A SOLID EXAMPLE OF THE NEW WAVE OF UPSCALE MEXICAN, WITH A FEW STANDOUT DISHES. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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Consider the tostada. It seems like there are fried corn tortillas topped with fresh seafood and exotic peppers everywhere these days. They’re so ubiquitous at Portland’s new class of upscale Mexican spots that I’ve come to think of it as a symbol of an entire genre of restaurant. The tostaderia distinguishes itself from the downmarket taqueria with modern furnishings, anejo tequila and no complimentary chips or salsa. We’ve had corn tortillas topped with cheese, veggies and meat forever, of course. In the early days of this country, those tortillas were cut into triangles, making the ancient dish known as “nachos.” But nachos are tacky gringo food for Corona bros, unless you make them with something weird, like “wonton skin.” Tostadas are much, much prettier on Instagram. Since our society is not yet ready to embrace the tlayuda, the tostada is the
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new star pulled from our continent’s thickest and richest recipe book. The thing is, we also live in an era of splittable small plates. The tostada isn’t great for that. There’s rarely a nice melding of the flavors between tortilla and topping, and then they break all weird when you divide them. There’s no consensus about how to eat them—half the table goes with fingers, looking like hillbillies stuffing their maws with cornpone, while the others take up a fork, all prissy and precious until they drop mushy avocado in their lap. That’s a long wind-up for a review of chef Johnny Leach’s four-month-old Chalino, the latest fancy Mexican spot run by an American-born chef situated among pricey new apartments. There are a lot of really nice, fresh flavors and fun ideas, and there are also some frustrations. Chalino strikes me as a pretty good version of the tostaderia, though not yet the game-changer I’d love to see. What’s both right and wrong? Consider
the $16 appetizer of chips, salsa and guacamole. That’s a large basket of chips with a cereal bowl of guac and three smallish cups of salsa. The guac is unremarkable. The brownish-red blend of peanut and ancho is far too sweet and nutty. On the other hand, the red salsa is great, and the blend of tomatillo and Thai basil is a very subtle twist on a classic that seemingly makes good use of what Leach learned in the bowels of the Momofuku empire. But, obviously, there’s that price. Sure, as a wise man once noted, there’s no such thing as free rice—but at $16, it needs to be a showstopper, and it’s not. The tostadas ($610) have been inconsistent on our three visits. The best of the bunch was topped with rich carnitas ($7), amped up with cane sugar, fish sauce and a cashew salsa. Bean sprouts were added to cut the fattiness, but disappeared under the sweetness and umami in an unbalanced dish. A hefty dose of tomatillo and lime could make this a whole different thing. On the other hand, a small plate of two small wild nettle sopes ($12) was beautiful all around. The sopes got their gorgeous green color and a pleasant earthiness from the nettles, and were then built up with blood sausage and Oaxacan cheese, then brightened with pickled serrano. For me, those were one of four mustorder items, along with dessert (more in a minute), a halibut ceviche ($16) with bitter orange and shiso, and a very tasty poloma ($10) that gets a round agave flavor from both tequila and mezcal. The large plates, however, need some work. A batter-fried half-chicken ($22) served with extra-nutty arbol sauce and a standard taqueria escabeche didn’t do
Order this: Tasty poloma ($10), wild nettle sopes ($12), a halibut ceviche ($16), roasted pineapple ice cream ($6).
anything for me. The chicken was unremarkable but for its heavy batter, and the salsas and escabeches didn’t easily combine with the bird. Maybe fresh tortillas would help? But there’s a sweet ending in the form of the exquisite roasted pineapple ice cream ($6). Turns out, Chalino has tapped Le Pigeon pastry chef Helen Jo, and among her offerings is the best dessert I’ve had in a long time: a roast pineapple ice cream topped with mezcal-infused dulce de leche and toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds. There’s even a little cilantro as a garnish— the sort of creative and effective flair that makes upscale dining what it is. That pineapple ice cream ended u p b e i n g t h e st r o n g e st a r g u m e n t I’ve yet encountered for Portland’s tostaderias. More of that, please. GO: Chalino, 25 N. Fremont St., 503-206-6421, chalinopdx.com. 5-10 pm Monday-Saturday.
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On the Han Oak patio, Bamboo Sushi chef PJ Yang can’t stop laughing about getting hit with a stick. “My dad hit me with a mop handle until it broke, and I’m curled up crying and laughing,” says Yang. “‘Damn it, I can’t even beat you right!’” he laughs, mimicking his father. Get seven Korean chefs at the same table, and the conversation turns to their parents. “Believe it or not,” says Koi Fusion’s Bo Kwon from the other side of the table, “I was the good kid in the family.” Just minutes before, he’d been comparing notes with Kim Jong Grillin’s Han Ly Hwang on where to get gold grills for his teeth, and pointing out the faint echo of a penis his tattoo artist had drawn—like a disgruntled Disney cartoonist—on his left arm. “You were the good kid,” Yang tells him. “I was Jerry Springer.” The restaurant where we’re sitting, Han Oak, is best known as a more staid Korean prix-fixe spot, with $45 meals served on weekend nights. The space is half modernist loft, half walled garden, with patio furniture and kids playing. But ever since chef Peter Cho started serving up a Sunday-Monday party menu of noodles and dumplings, the backyard restaurant behind the Ocean has become a sort of home base for Korean chefs in town. On those nights, Hwang says, you can just pop in and expect at least one other chef to be there. Sure, part of the reason is that Sunday and Monday are a chef’s traditional nights off, which means seemingly everyone else in eyeshot has a food handler’s card, aside from the kids blowing bubbles onto the tables. The owners of Shift Drinks, Roscoe’s and 4-4-2 are all just tables away. And part of it is the prices, just $9-$12 a plate. “Chefs don’t really have a lot of money,” Hwang told WW a few weeks earlier. “I kept wondering how [Cho] did it, and then noticed that everything he’s serving is stuff you make at home when you’re broke. It’s kind of genius.” Low prices are the secret, jokes FOMO Chicken’s Sun Kim, to getting a lot of Koreans in a room.
But none of that would matter if it weren’t for Cho’s terrific cocktailhappy menu of wild flavors and rich homestyle comforts, an ever-changing menagerie that always seems to include a $10 plate of thick-breaded and juicy Korean fried chicken so laden with fat and spice our server said she sometimes just noshes on the dredged skins. Elsewhere on the menu are chivepork dumplings ($9) so delicate I almost cried the first time I tasted one, a beautifully salty and crispy blood sausage drenched in over-easy egg, and a Korean-Chinese jja jang myeon hand-pulled noodle dish made with fermented black beans. On the right night, when those thickly al-dente noodles come with butternut squash that melts into the bean sauce, that jja jang murders every other version in town. When you ask how the chef group at Han Oak came together, though, most chefs at the table just nod to Hwang, who knows seemingly every chef in town, and to Yang. “I was already coming down to the Stray Dogs nights,” says Yang, referring to the hot dog pop-up Cho once shared with Chalino chef Johnny Leach. “I was here the first week. I’ve had so much Peter Cho dick in my mouth!” “Quote of the night,” Kwon says. Cho’s father stops by to introduce himself, taking a break from helping out at the restaurant, but he stops shaking hands when he sees Yang. “I know you already!” he says.
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MUSIC How do you track down your artists? I don’t really necessarily look for them. It’s what I run into in a given period of time. The record I did last year, Mariachi Mestizo, I found them through some friends that know about mariachi music. I drove out and found them in a park outside Delano. These are, like, the grandkids of the farm workers who were on the grape strike in the ’60s. I found them playing, and one thing led to another, and I recorded them at Capitol in L.A. We recorded in the main room at Capitol, in that Jetsonslooking building, in the room Frank Sinatra recorded all his albums in. And in April, they played Carnegie Hall. They went from playing a park to playing Carnegie Hall. And it’s the first mariachi music at Carnegie Hall since 1966. It seems like, with many of these artists, it’d be difficult to remove them from the FEDORA THE EXPLORER: Little context in which you experienced them Village founder Jim Pugh. and put it on record. Is it hard to capture what they do in the studio environment? The majority of the records I’ve done, I’ve done at Greaseland Studios, which is a house in San Jose. It’s really a remarkable environment for making records in, because it’s so low-key, and it’s so not intimidating. Part of what I try to do—I have no expectations. If these records sell a million copies or sell 10 copies, it doesn’t financially make a difference to what I’m doing. I’m not going to make anymore money munity service, and having basically grown for them being unbelievably successful. They up in Oakland, I have a real love of diversity. own all the intellectual property. So one of the So the short answer is I took the passions I advantages of it is, I don’t have to worry. When have and built a framework around it, which you take the pressure out of it, you get the is Little Village. trust of people to realize that all they have to do is be themselves, and you get a good chance Why did you feel like you couldn’t do that of getting these kind of recordings. while running a traditional, for-profit record label? You mentioned in an interview that the My board wonders that sometimes, too. Part concept of Little Village might not catch of it is because I’m lazy. Everyone I know on with the modern blues community. who was a small record company, they’re Why? either owed money or they owe money. And I don’t want to say anything that’ll make people at the end of the day, they’re not making think I’m an asshole. The contemporary blues much money. I had someone at a prominent scene is, unfortunately, being overrun by rockrecord label, Alligator, tell me, “My artists guitar players playing blues. And that’s fine, are my record stores, and if they’re not out I have nothing against that. But I think blues there 120 days a year selling my records, I itself needs to move back to a time like it was don’t care how much I love them, I’m not when blues used to be, where the singing and signing them.” the song were as important as the guitar playing. These days, there’s so much blues music The press release says you’re looking where the only thing that seems important for artists from “non-traditional back- is the guitar solo. And it’s kind of killing the grounds.” What does that mean? business. Hopefully, that’s going to change. There are two kinds of people I’ve found But there’s no contemporary blues-guitar god I cannot help. Those people who want to in Little Village. become a big deal—I have no idea how to help anyone become extremely successful. That’s Do you try to downplay your role in getting just not part of what I can do. The other thing this music out? I’ve found is, sadly, that if people are trying Absolutely. I get called to do interviews, and I to figure out where their next meal is coming don’t want it to be about me at all. I don’t want from, I can’t help them, either. So that, to to be Anthony Bourdain in Sicily standing next me, would be slightly nontraditional. It’s not to the locals cooking. There’s nothing more as if I’m going out trying to sign Aerosmith. disgusting to me these days than someone It’s not pop bands. I’m not looking to sell trying to insert themselves around a bunch of a million records. [The artists] are given people like that. I really find that disdainful. 1,000 CDs—they owe nothing, it’s all given to them—and a publicity campaign. This completely flies in the face of traditional record SEE IT: The Waterfront Blues Festival is at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Fridaycompanies. People from regular record com- Monday, June 30-July 4. See waterfrontpanies think I’m nuts for doing this. bluesfest.com for a complete schedule and
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For someone who runs a record label, Jim Pugh isn’t losing much sleep over record sales. Three years ago, the veteran session musician—his resumé includes stints with the likes of B.B. King, Etta James and Van Morrison—founded the nonprofit Little Village Foundation. Operating on grants and donations, the label pays for everything, including recording sessions and publicity campaigns, and gives 100 percent of proceeds from sales to the artists. It’s a model as freeing for Pugh as it is for the musicians. Acting as a sort of internet-era Alan Lomax, the Northern California native seeks out musicians who might otherwise never be heard outside of their own communities. So far, that’s included everything from a 17-year-old spoken-word poet, to a group of farmers playing Mixtec folk music, to an Indian immigrant fusing Bollywood with the blues. This weekend, three recent Little Village discoveries are playing the Waterfront Blues Festival (see sidebar). Willamette Week spoke to Pugh about where he found them, why other record executives think he’s crazy and why modern blues fans might not be the label’s ideal audience. Willamette Week: Where did the idea for Little Village come from? Jim Pugh: I worked with Robert Cray for 25 years, and when I got done doing that, I really looked at trying to find what I had a passion for doing, and how do I make that into the next thing I want to do. And I realized I have three basic passions. I’ve always had a passion for music, a passion for com-
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The Sons of the Soul Revivers This brotherly vocal group is continuing a family tradition, performing gospel-soul highlighted by heavenly fourpart harmonies.
“Quartet music is one of my passions. These guys are from San Francisco but they live in Vallejo. Their fathers were the Soul Revivers, and they’re the sons. Bob Brown, Huey Lewis’ manager, called me up and said, ‘I found this quartet, I think you should record them.’ And I go, ‘Fuck, I’ve known these guys since the 1980s.’ They did this record, and it’s really fabulous singing. Oddly enough, I play organ and piano, but keyboard has, for me, killed contemporary gospel music, because it’s gotten so far away from simple guitar and fourpart harmony. It’s beautiful to me, and they’ve gotten a tremendous response.” The Sons of the Soul Revivers play the First Tech Blues Stage at 3 pm on July 2.
Chris Cain
The San Josebased guitarist plays raw, rugged roadhouse blues, but his self-titled Little Village album also showcases his facility with jazzy, piano-driven slow burners. “He’s like a cross between Ray Charles and Jerry Lewis. I went to Europe with him two years ago to play with Wee Willie Walker, and he lost his passport four times between the curb and the gate. He’s kind of tormented in that way. This [record] is a departure for him— it’s like an early ’50s, kind of Ray Charles [album]. He plays beautiful piano, and he’s never played piano on a record before. It’s all intuitive with him, all feel, and it just pours out of him. If you ask most musicians who know the scene, they’d say he’s someone who’s been denied.” Chris Cain plays the First Tech Blues Stage at 4 pm on July 3.
Sean Wheeler
Formerly the frontman for grimy desert punk band Throw Rag, Wheeler’s debut solo album, Sand In My Blood, goes in a more bluesinspired direction that’s no less gritty. “Last year, at [the Waterfront Blues Festival], Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie’s brother, played, and his rhythm guitar player is a friend of mine. I asked him what he was doing, and he told me he was going out with this guy, Sean Wheeler. I’d watched Throw Rag on YouTube and went, ‘Oh, I totally get this.’ He’s a known entity in his own world, I just haven’t been able to tap into it. But he’s a serious performer. He told me at one point he was banned from every nightclub in Southern California. I know some of those places he played, these punk dungeons. How the fuck do you get banned from a place like that?” Sean Wheeler plays the Crossroads Stage at 9 pm on July 3.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 DIANA, Nicholas Krgovich
[SYNTH POP] Canadian synthpop act DIANA creates music so cool and crystalline that it has a palpable, chilling effect. The trio released a remarkable debut with Perpetual Surrender in 2013, a record that softly merged R&B with the glassy pop of some nottoo-distant future. DIANA became so big in its native Toronto that it almost self-destructed under the pressure to release an equally impressive sophomore album. Fortunately, Carmen Elle and company stuck it out, releasing Familiar Touch last year in the only fashion it seems to know— cool, collected and deceptively soulful. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 29 Ryan Adams
[ALT-COUNTRY] With Ryan Adams’ role as folk-rock’s foremost shit-talker having been ceded to Father John Misty, the famously acerbic singersongwriter has little left on his plate besides cranking out reliably accessible alt-country for the masses. After an enjoyably shallow song-for-song remake of Taylor Swift’s mega-hit “1989,” Adams has returned to form on this year’s Prisoner, which checks all the requisite boxes of his durable talents that originally endeared critics to his sound in the “return of rock” era of the early aughts. His salty ex-lover status lingers on the album’s strongest tracks, but the arrangements are lush enough to gloss over the prickly parts of Adams personality that are clearly on the wane, whether he’s ready to admit it or not. PETE COTTELL. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610 6:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Meatbodies, Máscaras
[GARAGE PUNK] Meatbodies frontman Chad Ubovich has already amassed quite a career, having played with Ty Segall in Fuzz as well as with Mikal Cronin. Working with said garage-rock talents groomed his musicianship and paved the way for his own act, Meatbodies. The band’s chewy guitar licks remind of Black Sabbath, while the glam and punk elements offer a nod to the New York Dolls. Meatbodies just released its third record, ALICE, and it’s a relentless, wailing heap of heavy-handed rock‘n’roll. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Clarke and the Himselfs, Ah God, The Bugs
[HEART MENDING] Clarke Howell’s work as Clarke and the Himselfs is a wild gift. On her most recent album, In Your Heart You Know She’s Clarke and the Himselfs, the prolific Boise songwriter aims straight for your softest and most fiery parts and scores direct hit after direct hit.
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In Your Heart reinvents itself with every track, as Howell moves from Bolan-esque glam stomp to lo-fi dirge to ramshackle prom soundtrack, and every tonal shift and knowing appropriation is shot through with warmth and beauty. The cumulative result is inviting in its familiarity and utterly devastating in its singular truth. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Contact venue for ticket information. 21+.
FRIDAY, JUNE 30 Streetlight Manifesto, Jenny Owen Youngs, Ogikubo Station
[THIRD-WAVE SKA] After splintering off from Catch 22, a beloved punk-as-fuck alternative to the slick pop-ska of Reel Big Fish or Goldfinger, Streetlight Manifesto has maintained an impressive amount of inertia and scene cred despite the ska fad officially going kaput almost as quickly as blew up. Legal trouble with Victory Records threatened to sideline the band after its 2013 album, The Hands That Thieve, got stuck in limbo, but Tomas Kolnacky and company are back on the road again, proving that sticking to your guns and keeping it underground is a viable way to endure the boom-and-bust cycle of niche genres. PETE COTTELL. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
Animal Collective, Stephen Malkmus
[FALLEN IDOLS] After releasing the universally beloved Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009, Animal Collective slowly morphed into an easy punchline about the sketchy end of the indie-rock pool where fauxdeep bros congregate. And even though last year’s exhausting and obnoxious Painting With finally found Animal Collective unleashing something to justify all the jeering, there’s enough sublimity in the fertile span between Sung Tongs and Merriweather to warrant a little patience and forgiveness. Don’t let the bros or even the band itself spoil a good thing. There is still something special here. CHRIS STAMM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $26 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
SATURDAY, JULY 1 The Thermals
[POWER-PUNK LEGENDS] The Thermals are remarkably consistent: There’s nary a misstep in their entire discography, their live show works as well in a cavernous hall as a tiny bar, they have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of compact anthems, and they keep a release schedule that slakes fans’ thirst at regular intervals. So, it’s a little too easy to assume that the Thermals will always be here and that they’ll always be great— but they won’t. And we won’t. Let this be a reminder: The Thermals are a truly special band, and one of life’s little gifts is that we get
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Tycho, Todd Terje & the Olsens, Jaga Jazzist
[CHILLRAVE] It’s hard to pin down exactly when music festivals shifted their focus from arena-ready rock bands to DJs with sizeable social media followings, but the fallout has been a major buzzkill for old-school fans who wish there was something at stake besides a mid-set hard-drive meltdown. Considering this trend, Tycho’s ascent from a serviceable Boards of Canada rip-off to a masterful live ensemble has served as almost a mirror opposite of the way things have been going for so-called “chillwave” artists with impeccable Soundcloud cred. The mastermind of this process is Scott Hansen, the Bay Area designer who founded Tycho as a synesthesia-driven multimedia project, pairing analog synths, gentle grooves and warm-and-drippy psychedelic imagery into what looks, sounds and feels like a halcyon end-of-the-world party on the moon. After the success of 2014’s Awake, the first album Hansen purposely wrote with a live band in tow, this year’s Epoch finds Tycho turning away from the bright and messianic tones of tracks like “Awake” and “Montana” and toward a math-y, krautrock-influenced sound. Jagged, offtime drum fills and knotty guitars are at the fore on tracks like “Division” and “Source,” which stand as the logical next steps in the group’s evolution toward becoming a danceable post-rock group rather than a raver-approved electro group that just happens to play everything live. It’s anyone’s guess what Tycho’s next move may be, but for now, their A-game is as good as it gets with some grass under your feet and a massive projection screen on the horizon. PETE COTTELL. McMenamin’s Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610, edgefieldconcerts.com. Wednesday, June 28. 6 pm. $39.50. All ages. to share a stretch of time with them. Appreciate it while you can. CHRIS STAMM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $5 advance, $9 day of show. 21+. Through July 2.
Pink Martini
[SLINKY POP] Pink Martini, Portland’s beloved 15-piece pop staple, is an institution on par with Pioneer Square and Powell’s. While the city has changed, the band has stayed the same, remaining a constant heartbeat within the city, and whose members are probably connected to every resident by no more than three degrees. Their latest album, Je Dis Oui!, released last year, maintains the jazzy Euro vibes the band established way back in 1995, with ballet-like swan songs sung in French, English, Farsi, Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish and Xhosa. SOPHIA JUNE. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Teen Daze, Sam OB
[AMBIENT ELECTRO] Death can be graceful, and Teen Daze’s latest effort is sonic proof. Themes For Dying Earth, the fifth record of the Canadian artist also known as Jamison Isaak, is a gentle take on the futility of our planet, set to indie-pop and electro-atmo-
spheric sounds. It’s bleak, yes, but thanks to some glimmering piano and alluring touches of ambient noise and house, it is equally beautiful. Fans of S. Carey or Múm ought to be in attendance. We all inhabit a sinking ship, but we can certainly go down in style. MARK STOCK. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Grey Fiction, Harbor, Poor English
[ALT ROCK À LA 2001] The Mousses, three brothers from Beaverton, have had a very busy year indeed. Their alt-rock outfit Grey Fiction released their debut LP, On Your Way to Earth & Back, just this past January, revealing three very driven young dudes who have obviously worked hard to achieve a solid sound and promote themselves well. The problem, though, is while they’ve polished their alt-ness to a popadjacent sheen, that polishing just does more to expose the flimsy, generic quality of the songs themselves. There are a few shining exceptions to this, like when lead singer Zaine’s Rufus Wainwrightlike vocal whine meshes with the dark, AFI-style rock instrumentation to create something strange and operatic. But, for the most
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KORGY & BASS Who: Alex Meltzer (bass, keyboards, synth), Barra Brown (drums, flute, keyboards) Sounds Like: The lounge act at the annual Mensa Members Social. For Fans Of: Zero 7, Stereolab. The two guys in Korgy & Bass are immediately recognizable as “jazz dudes,” so it’s no surprise to find they don’t do much that isn’t musical. At the Fremont Theater, Alex Meltzer is waiting to perform with Noah Bernstein of Grammies, when his bandmate, Barra Brown, walks in, beaming with bright, glowing energy. “Did you get contacts?” he exclaims, noticing the absence of Meltzer’s token spectacles. It’s the first time they’ve seen one another since Barra left for a several-week stint drumming for Shook Twins, an endeavor that, coupled with the other two ensembles where he writes most of the material, make his availability scarce. The two met at an open jam session in 2015 and discussed attempting a collaboration a little less intellectual than the traditional jazz endeavors they’d typically played in while earning hefty music degrees—Brown from Lewis and Clark, and Meltzer from Arizona State. “It was easy to get material together,” Meltzer says. “I’m always chopping up samples, and I like the idea of improvising with that. I have a jazz degree in bass, so improvising was always something I loved to do.” “We go from a song to an improvisation back to a song,” Brown adds. “That’s how our live show works, at least.” The eclectic pool of sampled material incorporated into their laid-back grooves ranges from snippets of Bernie Sanders speeches, automated telephone messages and audiobook passages played over breezy, chilled-out tones, all built upon Brown’s foundation of ornate, stumbling percussion. It’s an aesthetic you’d expect to hear in swanky restaurants and upscale watering holes, but Korgy & Bass excel in a subtlety of minimalistic strokes that allow their rotating cast of featured vocalists to take center stage, whether freestyle rapping or soulful crooning. It’s also imperative to point out that Brown is a phenomenal drummer. Not to throw shade on Meltzer, whose flair for melody evokes island-vacation naptime grooves, but anyone with drumstick callouses will immediately find an affinity for Barra Brown’s skeletal beats. As is the case with such experienced players, the pair have already written their third effort, an EP composed of three instrumental suites they wrote via a long-distance email exchange while Barra was on the road. Their immediate plan for his next stint at home is another exercise in improvisations with various guest performers. “The hope is to do ‘Korgy & Bass featuring,’” Brown says. “We’ll always feature a third person that’s totally different for each show. That’s what’s cool about being just a duo—there are so many options to bring in other people to collaborate. Anyone we can think of who’d be good is an option.” CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: Korgy & Bass play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Brown Calculus and Amenta Abioto, on Wednesday, June 28. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+. 44
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Daniel John Riddle has been recording and performing under the pseudonym King Black Acid since the late 1980s. Riddle’s prolific output has been featured in several film and TV soundtracks including “The Mothman Prophecies” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.
INDUBIOUS
SUNDAY, JULY 2ND AT 5 PM Their last release, Wake The Lion is a textural journey into the world of Rootstronica. Lush synths, deep bass and visionary lyricism encompass the entire album, blurring the lines between roots, dub, dancehall and heavy dance psychedelia. On July 1st, Indubious will be releasing their newest album, From Zero.
RODNEY CROWELL SATURDAY, JULY 8TH AT 1PM 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.
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SUNDAY, JULY 2 Phora
[NARRATIVE RHYMES] Blowing up as an independent rapper is directly related to how you interact with your fans. For proof, check Corona, Calif., native Phora. He recently raised over $60,000 via a crowdfunding campaign to launch his Yours Truly Records and release his album, Angels With Broken Wings, and he did it by being open, accessible and relatable, both online and on record. The 22-year-old MC excels at narrative rhymes drawn from his real life. His story is filled with near-death experiences— he’s been stabbed and shot three times—that have left him thankful for his life and career. He’s released six independent albums, sharing stories about dream-chasing and enduring lost love over slow-building, twinkly beats. With his forthcoming Warner Bros. debut, Yours Truly Forever, Phora pushes his songwriting to greater depths. The melancholy singles “Sinner, Pt. 2” and “To the Moon” find the rising star diving deeper into his own psyche, revealing an artist whose navigating newfound fame in order to give back. ERIC DIEP. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
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sionally incendiary combination, complementing each other well— and, when necessary, staying out of each other’s way. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 29. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
Makrokosmos Project 3: Reichmokosmos!
[AVANT-GARDE FESTIVAL] Though Philip Glass is the bigger household name, his contemporary, Steve Reich, is an elder statesman of equal importance in the world of minimalist composition. Local arts group Makrokosmos is dedicating its third annual festival to Reich in honor of his 80th birthday, inviting high-caliber local and traveling artists to pay tribute. The Portland Piano Company is providing enough heavy artillery for a performance of Reich’s dizzying 1973 work, Six Pianos, which features six pianists in close proximity, hammering notes that slip in and out of phase with one another over the course of a hallucinatory 20 minutes. The Portland Percussion Ensemble and hometown hero Kenji Bunch will also add firepower to the evening. This is the sort of heady fare usually reserved for bigger cities. The ticket price even includes food and wine from the Oregon area just to sweeten the deal. NATHAN CARSON. Vestas, 1417 NW Everett St., 503-327-2000. 5 pm Thursday, June 29. $10 students and seniors, $15 advance, $20 day of show..
Improvisation Summit of Portland
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD
[EXPERIMENTAL OASIS] If you’re interested in performance art, or if you just like interesting musical juxtapositions, the annual Improvisation Summit of Portland is a can’t-miss. Twenty-three performances of improvised and experimental music will invade the Disjecta Contemporary Art Center this week, with musicians joined by an assortment of dancers, filmmakers and other visual artists, while they share their most recent audio explorations. Locals worth catching include a free-jazz trio featuring saxophonist Ralph Carney, drummer Tim DuRoche and bassist Andre St. James, and the ethereal harp sounds of Sage Elaine Fischer’s Dolphin Midwives, who will be joined by a duo playing hammered dulcimer and clarinet. PARKER HALL. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 503-2869449. 5-11 pm Friday, June 30, 3-11:30 pm Saturday, July 1. $12$30. All ages.
Murray/El’Zabar Duo
Chamber Music Northwest
[BLOCK PARTY] Bunk Bar’s annual beach-themed block party has quickly become one of Portland’s best Fourth of July traditions. Come for the Icebergs, stay for the music, which this year includes synth-disco from Gold Casio, Coco Columbia’s whackedout jazz-pop, and classic rockers the Domestics, who’ll likely be previewing songs from its upcoming sophomore album. Bunk Bar, 128 NE Russell St., 503-328-3865. 2 pm. Free. All ages.
Slow Bar’s 13th Birthday
[BURGER BAR MITZVAH] See Get Busy, page 37. Slow Bar, 533 SE Grand Ave., 503-230-7736. 2 pm. $10. 21+.
[DYNAMIC JAZZ DUO] Back in the 1980s, David Murray was considered the next saxophone colossus, with the big tone and champion chops that set him squarely in the jazz lineage of tenor giants Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. Winner of both a Grammy and a Guggenheim, the World Saxophone Quartet co-founder recorded an astonishing 200-plus albums as a leader, and scores more as a sideman, working with stars like McCoy Tyner, Max Roach and even Macy Gray and Jerry Garcia. By comparison, Chicago percussionist Kahil El’Zabar has recorded only five dozen albums, working with Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie and Stevie Wonder, among many others. Beginning with his college study in Ghana, El’Zabar incorporated global rhythms into his avant-garde jazz. As their 2004 collaboration We Is: Live at the Bop Shop demonstrates, Murray and El’Zabar’s joint virtuosity makes a colorful, sometimes gently spacious, occa-
[CLASSICAL] The annual summer classical music festival spotlights contemporary and classic tango music at Reed College on Friday and Saturday and 20th century classics by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Bartok on Sunday at Portland State. Most enticingly, Monday and Tuesday’s shows, at Reed and PSU respectively, include the world premiere of a new work by one of America’s most esteemed composers, Seattle-born Pulitzer Prize winner William Bolcom. His new Sextet—his first CMNW commission since 1973!—addresses today’s dark times but stretches toward hope in a final movement based on the famous American Civil Rights anthem “Life Every Voice and Sing.” BRETT CAMPBELL. Multiple venues and times beginning Friday, June 30. $10-$60. See cmnw.org for complete schedule. All ages.
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Gaytheist Let’s Jam Again Soon (Good to Die) [HEAVY LEVITY] Let’s hear it for band dudes who don’t take their work too seriously! The punk and metal scenes are fit to burst with grave bros who wield guitars like advanced degrees in human excellence, so we need more bands that understand the shortest route to shared joy is partly lit by laughter and glee. Gaytheist is one of those necessary interventions. Taking a cue from the self-aware heaviness of Pacific Northwest-bred bands like Karp, C Average and Red Fang, the Portland trio strikes a perfect balance between quickening riff wizardry and disarming levity. Let’s Jam Again Soon is the trio’s finest album to date, a breathless 30 minutes of rock revelry. Every song is a workout— drummer Nick Parks, a fleet marvel, is especially busy—but it’s all in the service of collective fun. The mostly instrumental “Avenged Seven-Minute Abs” is a whirling post-hardcore wonder that morphs into an anthem for empty nesters. “The kids are grown/They’re on their own,” Jason Rivera sings. “Flex those abs/Lose that flab.” If that fails to tickle you, you might be at the wrong party. Gaytheist isn’t a joke band, though. It simply integrates everyday silliness into its carefully crafted world. And it’s a tiny corner of existence that never stops being fun to return to. CHRIS STAMM. SEE IT: Gaytheist plays The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., with Nasalrod and Drunk Dad, on Saturday, July 1. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Ice Queens Ice Queens (Next Northwest) [CLASSIC ALT-ROCK] Some would argue the charm of current Weezer is the joyous stupidity of their music. But what if they followed up Pinkerton by getting smart? If you can imagine an alternate reality in which Rivers Cuomo emerged from his post-Harvard cocoon with a jagged, math-y sound, the album you’re fantasizing about would sound a lot like Ice Queens’ self-titled debut full-length record. As the canon of what’s considered classic rock evolves to include ’90s alt-rock powerhouses like Smashing Pumpkins and Pavement, Ice Queens are, essentially, a classic rock band in the abstract, utilizing the power of massive guitars coated in thick, punchy distortion. Opener “Others” wastes little time establishing the Queens’ M.O., which rarely deviates from a tandem assault of serrated riffs winding around the sonic foreground like a pair of sparring jiu jitsu masters. “Youth” teems with the triumphant energy of Criteria or Tera Melos at their least noodly, while the pensive, circular melody that spins around on the verse of ”In Hell” recalls the knotty dynamics of Failure. The record’s midsection may drag if the novelty of guitar-driven ear candy isn’t your thing, but anyone who’s felt the slightest pang of disappointment over indie rock’s slow separation from the bombastic fretwork of its peak will find almost too much to love about Ice Queens. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: Ice Queens play Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., with And And And and Ah God, on Sunday, July 2. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+. 48
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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. JUN. 28 Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Mark Geary Live in Portland
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Rare Diagram, Merō, Dominoes Gonzalez
Jack London Revue
2025 N Kilpatrick St New Maps
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Meatbodies, Máscaras
Sunlight Supply Amphitheater
Doug Fir Lounge
The Fixin’ To
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Tycho, Todd Terje & the Olsens, Jaga Jazzist; Bob Shoemaker (The Winery Tasting Room)
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St. Wolf Rojas
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Brown Calculus, Amenta Abioto, Korgy & Bass
Jack London Revue
529 SW 4th Ave. Coco’s Cacophony + Shreddy Symphony of the Subterranean
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. DIANA, Nicholas Krgovich
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Strawberry Girls, Belle Noire
The Fixin’ To
8218 N. Lombard St Mujahedeen, Living Hour, Surfer Rosie
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Asher Fulero Band
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. ThirstyCity: Billy Woods, Fresh Kils, PremRock & Henry Canyons
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Grandfather, Pseudo
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St FutureCastle (Rare Futures + Gavin Castleton)
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East The Ramodes, Havania Whaal
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Ryan Adams; James Joyce Brothers, Billy Kennedy (The Winery Tasting Room)
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St. The Onlies, Vivian Leva iHigh Water Mark
Lounge
6800 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. Aradia, Entrail, Rivers of Mercury, Hexenight
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Party Boyz Presentz: Sadie Hawkinz Dance II
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. White Suns, YCE, Mulva Myasis, Obsidian Needles
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Calico, TheNEEDS
1422 SW 11th Ave Murray/El’Zabar Duo; In Good Hands
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Mic Check: One Year Anniversary
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East Riley Geare Trio, Sama Dams Experimental Set
FRI. JUNE 30 Black Water Bar
835 NE Broadway Cat-chella Presents: Animal Aid PDX Benefit
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Streetlight Manifesto, Jenny Owen Youngs, Ogikubo Station
Dante’s
350 West Burnside Ford Theatre Reunion; Bizzy Bone & Krayzie Bone
Doug Fir Lounge
2530 NE 82nd Ave Bloodshot Bill
2926 NE Alberta St. Live Music Mondays
The Old Church
Edgefield
Duff’s Garage
TC O’Learys Pub
3341 SE Belmont St Mic Capes, OCnotes, DoNormaal
Dante’s
830 E Burnside St, The Prids, Moon Tiger
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
The Liquor Store
830 E Burnside St, YGB Portland Presents: Brown Calculus, Karma Rivera, Soot Uros, DJ Lamar Leroy
350 West Burnside Anoraak
Muddy Rudder Public House
The Know
1417 NW Everett St, Makrokosmos Project 3: Reichmokosmos!
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan (The Winery Tasting Room)
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont Street Cuddle Magic, Johanna Warren
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Azizi Gibson
Jack London Revue
529 SW 4th Ave. Moon by Night SoulJazz
Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College) 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Chamber Music Northwest
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St, PeeWee Moore, Moondawg Hall
736 SE Grand Ave. Don’t Shred On Me: Hustle and Drone, Boone Howard, Dan Dan, DJ Dirty Red
Kenton Club
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Clarke and the Himselfs, Ah God, The Bugs
Vestas
Dig A Pony
2025 N Kilpatrick St Gaytheist, A Volcano, Maximum Mad
2845 SE Stark St Liver Down The River, Sugarcane
8 NE Killingsworth St Mordecai, Grex, Dr. Amazon, Caspar Sonnet
1665 SE Bybee Blvd Jonathan Smith Trio
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Cellotronik (The Winery Tasting Room)
The Goodfoot
Turn! Turn! Turn!
MON. JULY 3 Corkscrew
Edgefield
8218 N. Lombard St Bubble Cats, Last Giant, The Holdout
Doug Fir Lounge
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Kenton Club
Corkscrew
830 E Burnside St, Land of Talk
[JUNE 28-JULY 4]
529 SW 4th Ave. Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group
17200 NE Delfel Rd, Ridgefield, Wash. Brad Paisley
1665 SE Bybee Blvd The Ralphs Swingtet
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BAD SEED RISING: The ushers at the Schnitz must hate Nick Cave. Just as they would clear the aisles of fans clamoring for his outstretched hands, he’d beckon them all back, at one point instructing the crowd to “crush down to the front in a dangerous sort of way.” It was a joke, mostly, though danger—or, at least, portentous dread—has long been his stock-in-trade. Even in a posh theater, he’s going to manufacture some semblance of chaos. Given the last two years of his life, though, it’d be a mistake to classify the show on June 21 as just another spitting, snarling Nick Cave gig. In 2015, his teenage son, Arthur, fell to his death from a cliff near his home in Brighton, England, a tragedy that upended the recording sessions of his latest album, Skeleton Tree. While it didn’t take long for Cave to assume his doomsday preacher persona—stalking the stage, flailing his arms, hooting and howling, and forcing himself on the audience—it felt different. He spent the show practically on top of the crowd, reaching out from the stage, sometimes walking across the seats to venture into the throng. It wasn’t theatrical confrontation of the sort he’s known for—truly, he seemed to be clinging to them. For “Stagger Lee,” his noisy, profane retelling of a bloody folk legend, the show’s themes of communion, catharsis and chaos converged, with Cave inviting dozens of fans to fill the stage. Only Nick Cave would incite a dance party for a song about a guy murdering people in a bar. And only he could make it sound like healing. MATTHEW SINGER.
421 SE Grand Ave Devoured By Flowers, Sandi Leeper
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
2 SW Naito Pkwy, Waterfront Blues Festival
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Ignorados Comediantes, Ash Williams
TUES. JULY 4 Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Bunk Beach: The Domestics, Coco Columbia, Kelli Schaefer, Gold Casio, Living Body, Wet Dream
Dig A Pony Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Eat Skull, The Renderers
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Animal Collective, Stephen Malkmus
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Water, Water, The Vs., Stinkbug
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St JT Wise Band
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. School of Rock.; Stiched Up Heart Hell Or Highwater
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave Luna Vista, Orchards, His Name Shall Breathe
The Fixin’ To
8218 N. Lombard St Lithics, Tender Age, Mattress, Media Jeweler
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Heartless Magnus, Bad Future, Bothers, Mean Spirit
SAT. JULY 1 Anarres Infoshop
7101 N Lombard St. Troll 2 , Dogtooth & Nail
Ash Street Saloon
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
2 SW Naito Pkwy., Waterfront Blues Festival
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fit For An Autopsy, Tombs, Moon Tooth; Grey Fiction, Harbor, Poor English
8218 N. Lombard St Kool Stuff Kate, The Wilder, The Moaning Lorries
1028 SE Water Ave. Skull Diver, The Dead Ships, Pacific Latitudes
Dante’s
The Secret Society
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Innumerable Forms, Rohit, Eosphoros
4830 NE 42nd Ave INDIEpendent Women ft. Ronnie Carrier, Olivia Awbry, and Jane Deaux
Bunk Bar
830 E Burnside St, Press Rewind: 80’s Vs The 90’s
The Tonic Lounge
Spare Room
The Blue Room Bar
The Lovecraft Bar
116 NE Russell St JPJQ Plus 2; Mink Shoals, The Craftsmen, Neighbor Boy
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Indubious
225 SW Ash St Sustainer, The Without, Ditch Digger, Day of Rest
350 West Burnside Ty-Alex, Left Coast Country
421 SE Grand Ave Hawks Don’t Share, Sex Park
Mississippi Studios
Doug Fir Lounge
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pink Martini; The Columbians (The Winery Tasting Room)
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St. Loraih, Noah Kite, The Secret Sea
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Teen Daze, Sam OB
8145 SE 82nd Ave, 60Hz.
The Fixin’ To
The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gaytheist, Nasalrod, Drunk Dad
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Canada Day, The MFA
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St The Libertine Belles
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
2 SW Naito Pkwy, Waterfront Blues Festival
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Torture Rack, Fetid, Pestilent Death, Encoffinized, Nekro Drunkz
SUN. JULY 2 Corkscrew
1665 SE Bybee Blvd Frank Kohl and John Stowell
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Jollymon followed by Sinferno Cabaret!
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St, The Thermals
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pete Krebs (The Winery Tasting Room)
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St. Mountain Honey
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Phora
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE Marthin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Castle, Bewitcher, Satyress
Jack London Revue
529 SW 4th Ave. Neo-Soul Sunday with Thankusomuch, hosted by Rich Hunter
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Dan & Fran
Portland Trinity Episcopal 147 NW 19th Ave Summer Choir
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St Ice Queens, And And And, Ah God
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Club Kai Kai Presents Tea with Shea Coulee
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Til Skys Fall, Hungry Hearts, Within Sight; the Macks, North by North
The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Paper Gates, North by North, No Lala
The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Sky in the Road
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
2 SW Naito Pkwy, Waterfront Blues Festival
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Monsterwatch, FLRT, On Drugs, Gardener
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St McFadden Planet
736 SE Grand Ave. Don’t Shred On Me: New Move, Night Heron, Bryson Cone, DJ Lamar
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Cúl an Tí (The Little Red Shed)
Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave. Farnell and Friends
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 The Grill Out Chill Out: Mama Bird DJs Vincent Bancheri, Haley Heynderickx, Sir Eric Loeffler And Ryan Oxford
Slow Bar
533 SE Grand Ave., 97214 Slow Bar’s 13th Birthday Party
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Burt Sienna, Valvoline
The Ranger Station 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bluegrass Tuesday
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
2 SW Naito Pkwy, Waterfront Blues Festival
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St The Love Movement
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St TK Revolution Jam
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NEEDLE EXCHANGE
Patio season! 1. Roof Deck at Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall.com. The view from Revolution Hall’s brand-new rooftop bar puts every other rooftop view in the city to shame. If you’re looking for NYC vibes, they’re here. Also, there’s sangria.
2. Wayfinder
Riobamba (BROOKLYN) Years DJing: Seven.
Genre: Open format, always. But I tend to draw heavily from breeds of música urban/reggaetón/ dembow, hip-hop and bass music—threads connecting Latinx communities and the diaspora. Where you can catch me regularly: I’m based in Brooklyn and play around various clubs here regularly. I also host a monthly show on The Lot Radio with my sis DEBIT, and my party in Boston called Picó Picante is about to hit our six-year anniversary in July. Craziest gig: Playing an opening set last summer in Manhattan for one of my personal heroes, Tego Calderón, has to be up there. My go-to records: Edits from DJVIVAEDIT (or DJVIVAEDIT 2 when his Soundcloud page gets shut down occasionally) have taken over my playlists. Don’t ever ask me to play…: I’ve learned to how to aggregate “Despacito” requests. SEE IT: Riobamba spins at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., for Gran Ritmos, with Casual Aztec and 2Tabs, on Saturday, July 1. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech Street Freeform Portland DJs
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Atom 13 (kitchen sink o’ sonic excellence)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Logical Aggression (electro)
Lay Low Tavern
6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Mattlock
Sandy Hut 1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Just Dave
The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Knochen Tanz (ebm, industrial)
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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)
Tryst
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. A Train and Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)
Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St. DJ Easy Fingers
Killingsworth Dynasty
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Lay Low Tavern
232 SW Ankeny St Secrets For You Only
6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Bad Wizard
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. DJ Koensy
The Lovecraft Bar
THU. JUNE 29 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Rhienna
5. Paymaster Lounge 1020 NW 17th Ave., 503-943-2780, paymasterlounge.com. Beautiful, if not a little smoky.
White Owl Social Club
832 N Killingsworth St Jordan Magnuson (techno party)
Valentines
4. Apex
1216 SE Division St., 503-273-9227, apexbar.com. You never know when this classic beer patio is going to come to the end of its lease and turn into condos. Enjoy it now.
Crush Bar
19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ Sweet and Low 18 NW 3rd Ave. Dubblife
2100 SE Clinton St., 503-731-6500, nightlightlounge.net. Order a batch of giant nachos, take ’em out to one of the best back patios in the city, and drown the heat with a cheap PBR.
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1400 SE Morrison Drag Dangerzone: A Drag Open Mic
The Lovecraft Bar
3. Night Light Lounge
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave Ladies Night (rap, r&b, club)
WED. JUNE 28
304 SE 2nd Ave., 503-718-2337, wayfinder.beer. At long last, Wayfinder has beer! It’s creeping up on a year since the brewpub opened with food and collabs, and now brewmaster Kevin Davey has finally been cleared to use his ownsystems. Davey is a lager specialist and we’re hoping for big things—better than the oxidized helles on tap right now. And we’re not sure why they want to introduce themselves with an old-school ’90s-style IPA. So why is it number two on this list? That fabulous patio and killer cocktails from Jacob Grier.
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Smooth Hopperator
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Jack 1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)
FRI. JUNE 30 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Apashe & Space Lace
Beech Street Parlor
412 NE Beech Street DJ DHLJ (post ethno-prog, space-synth)
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap, r&b, club)
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: ‘80s VS ‘00s
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker (music for dancing)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Snap! 90s Dance Party
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BAR REVIEW
FOR A FEW SHILLINGS MORE: First, the good news: In the chi-chi new Goat Blocks development on Southeast Morrison Street, the brand-new Schilling Cider House (930 SE 10th Ave., 971-352-6109, schillingciderhouse.com) offers the most impressive cider taplist that Portland has ever seen. It’s not just the boggling 50 cider taps, which give the bare-bones, wood-slatted Portland outpost of the Seattle-based cidery plausible claim as the “world’s largest cider bar,” but what’s on tap. The list sports rare Oregon farmhouses from E.Z. Orchards and Baird & Dewar and Runcible, two different types of Basque sidra, double-taps from Finnriver and Cider Riot, and an almost unseen Portland keg from Salem’s 1859 Cider—makers of our 2017 Cider of the Year. It’s Disneyland for cider lovers, with the caveat you also have to pay Disneyland prices. With a few exceptions, pints bottom out at $7 and spike to $10; instead of giving you an option to pay $6 for 10 ounces, they charge you $9 a pint. The oddly cramped space seems designed to handle cattle drives of tourists, with optimistically tight-packed seating at communal tables and side bars, not to mention a bizarre rope maze preventing customers from simply walking up to the bar. The porch—one side looks out onto the Market of Choice entrance and what appears to be a bike-rack police outline of a Belmont Goat—is a rooftop patio only in that it’s located on the roof of a Chipotle. But nonetheless, I’ll still probably be here at least once a month, eating $5 red-hot Zenner’s corn dogs made gluten-free for the wheatophobes. At $2 a taster, that lovely and experimental taplist more than rewards getting a sampler tray of some of the rarest, most expensive and most exciting cider in town. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St The Glow (electronic)
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. DJ Gwizski
Parasol Bar
215 SE 9th Ave, Nathan Detroit
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Friday Night Hive w/ DDDJJJ666, Miz Margo & Skully (goth, industrial)
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Grilled Cheese Disco: Fleetwood Smack (house)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave 3 BALD DUDES w/ DJ Acid Rick, DJ Wretched & DJ Nightbabe (hunk dance party)
SAT. JULY 1 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Night Bass Summer Phases
Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club)
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison Pants OFF Dance OFF: Red, White, and Nude
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gran Ritmos: Riobamba
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions: Funky Lit Dynasty Dance Party
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Roane (hip-hop, soul, boogie)
Quarterworld
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd VCR TV (heavy synth, dark dance)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Expressway to Yr Skull (shoegaze, deathrock, goth)
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. NXT LVL 3.0
Tryst
19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ AM Gold
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Global Based: Fight Clvb
SUN. JULY 2 Black Book
20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday: DJ Nate C.
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. HIVE (goth, industrial)
The Lovecraft Bar
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MON. JULY 3 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ KingFader
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. A Night For Dancers: Mambo/Salsa Social
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)
TUE. JULY 4 The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rose Room Swing Dance
The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Recycle (dark dance)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave ComaToast (future, glitch, electro)
Tonic Lounge
421 SE Grand Ave Sad Day
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)
White Owl Social Club
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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Come to the Table, Mike Pence
In its contribution to SummerFest— which premieres five new works over five weekends—one of Portland’s more experimental theaters, Shaking the Tree, presents a new oddity, with a “plot” involving Queen Elizabeth I, Salome and Eve waiting at a dinner party for a fourth guest who never shows up: Mike Pence. SHANNON GORMLEY. Coho Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 503-220-2646, cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm. $20.
On Common Ground
Created by the ensemble cast and filled with music and dance, On Common Ground is a slice-of-life play set in a Pakistani artist community. Before it makes its way down to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the new work by Pakistan’s Theatre Wallay has a two-show run in Portland. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm. Free.
ALSO PLAYING Avenue Q
Triangle’s production of Avenue Q has everything you’d expect from a dirty puppet show. The Tony-winning musical is feisty, proudly profane and includes a scene of wiggly puppet sex. The joy of Avenue Q is generated partly from the spectacle of chubby-cheeked puppets swearing and singing songs like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.” But there’s also a tender beauty to the play as the puppets love, yearn and bumble their way through messy, all-too-human lives. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., trianglepro.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, June 8-July 1. $15-$35.
DANCE Choreography XX
Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Choreography XX will premiere three works by women choreographers. If that weren’t awesome enough, the company will perform the works for free in Washington Park’s seriously scenic outdoor amphitheater. SHANNON GORMLEY. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 503-222-5538, obt.org. 7:30 pm. Free.
COMEDY Spectravagasm X
Spectravagasm’s compliation of sketches from their 10 years of existence starts with the cast of nine singing a song with the hook “Hey Mr. Trump, eat a bag of dicks,” in which ensemble members Jessica Tidd and Phillip J. Berns leap across the stage, smiling and singing “Dicks! Dicks!” Thankfully, the interest is dick jokes, not social commentary. Spectravagasm’s lack of interest in any kind of message is one of their strengths. And in Spectravagasm X, nonsense is still the highest order. SHANNON GORMLEY. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd., curiouscomedy.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 28. Shaking The Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-thetree.com. 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 30-July 1. $10.
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PLAYING IT COOL: From left to right: Jed Arkley, Jay Flewelling, Jenn Hunter, Justin Himes, Janet Scanton.
Improv Awareness
A NATIONALLY ESTABLISHED PORTLAND IMPROV GROUP LOOKS TO ITS HOME TURF. BY S H ANNO N GO RM LEY
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Jay Flewelling gets that you’re skeptical of improv. “I feel Portland especially is like ‘Oh, that’s cute. Let’s go see some standup or let’s go see music instead,’” says Flewelling. Talking over Skype, the comedian and founder of Portland improv group J Names sits in the hotel room that Edmonton’s Improvaganza festival has booked for him. He’s one of 10 performers on the festival’s international team—a coveted spot in an internationally recognized festival—but he’s still in the middle of the bill in a very large lineup (which includes the trio Broke Gravy, another Portland improv group who are regulars on the festival circuit). Nonetheless, Improvaganza is paying Flewelling for his performances, has put him up in a hotel for 10 days and even picked him up from the airport. According to Flewelling, no U.S. improv festival provides anything close to that kind of treatment. “There’s just a lot more, ‘Oh yeah, improv’s great,’” Flewelling says about the attitude of improv in Canada versus in Portland. “Somebody came up to me and they wanted my autograph. I thought it was a joke at first.” J Names, Flewelling’s main project, is a team of eight Portland improvisers whose names all just so happen to start with the letter “J.” It formed in 2014 with just Flewelling, Jake Michels and Jenn Hunter. From there, the group kept adding members of the local scene who meshed with the group dynamic, all of whom happened to have a first name that started with the letter “J” (including Jed Arkley, a co-founder of the Stumptown Improv Festival, which has gained a foothold for improv in Portland’s comedy scene since its first iteration in 2014). J
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Names is active in the national comedy festival scene, and has performed at both SF Sketchfest and Denver Improv Festival, two of the most prominent festivals in the U.S. Flewelling says he’s seen a dramatic increase in J Names’ audience in recent years, but he still frequently receives the complisult “That was really funny, and I don’t usually like improv.” That’s partly because Portland lacks what Flewelling refers to as “improv awareness.” In Canadian high schools, improv is an extracurricular activity that’s as common as sports or speech and debate, whereas many Portlanders have seen one bad improv show and given up on the genre without knowing that good improv is out there. “Portland is so small that you go to somebody’s friend’s show who’s a beginner,” he says, “You’re probably not going to go to their show again let alone to anyone else’s.” “Uncomfortable” is probably the most common word people use to describe their bad improv experience. Usually, that sense of awkwardness happens when the performers aren’t all on board with the direction the scene is going, so a member of the group hesitates, fumbles or resist the direction of the scene by making a joke about how the joke isn’t funny. That doesn’t happen with J Names. “My philosophy as the group leader has always been to trust each individual as a veteran improviser,” says Flewelling. They create scenes that feel fully formed because all eight members commit to moving in the same direction. So no matter how absurd the scene gets, as an audience member, you’re willing to go along with it, too—the last show J Names performed in Portland back in April included a competition to be the best dad in Gresham and an audition for a play in which the Keebler Elves fight Nazis. Though the popularity of J Names and Portland improv has been on the upswing for years
now, the scene acquired some promising infrastructure last fall. On a blisteringly hot afternoon, Curious Comedy’s artistic director Stacey Hallal sits in the airy, newly renovated theater, where J Names starts its bi-weekly residency this Friday. She echos Flewelling’s sentiments about how improv can go wrong. “It’s very uncomfortable to be in a comedy situation,” says Hallal. “You don’t want the person onstage to feel bad.” That—plus a grant given to the theater for its All Jane Comedy Festival—is part of what inspired Curious’s extensive renovations. The improv-focused theater is designed to facilitate the audience inclusion that’s so crucial for improv: a low stage and cabaret-style seating that’s wide, not deep, making it easier for the performers to engage with the audience. Curious has the ability to foster the growing local scene, but also to export it—the grant allowed Curious to install some seriously hightech filming equipment. Curious now has four cameras that are operated by improvisors who can anticipate the performance and make live cuts accordingly. It’s still something Curious is working to hone, but already, their streaming has a following in India. “Mumbai is crazy populated, and they have like one [improv] group there,” says Hallal. So somewhat serendipitously, Curious’ live streaming is helping to feed India’s growing demand for improv. Still, Hallal believes the current social climate is enough to spur appreciation of the genre. “Right now, everybody’s angry and everybody’s intense. I think improv is having this Golden Age because improv is a place where you can see people play, cooperate, engage with you,” she says. “It’s a very joyous art form.” SEE IT: J Names performs at Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd,, curiouscomedy.org, with Vanessa Gonzalez. 9:30 pm Friday, June 30. $10-$12.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28 Rebecca Schuman
Like all things German-ish, the title of Rebecca Schuman’s new memoir is a mouthful: Schadenfreude, A Love Story. Me, the Germans, and 20 Years of Attempted Transformations, Unfortunate Miscommunications, and Humiliating Situations That Only They Have Words For. But much of the Schadenfreude—that echtDeutsch word for liking it when others suffer—happens in Oregon, from which humble and tawdry beginnings Schuman regretfully only got to go to Vassar. Yes, it’s that kind of memoir. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm.
Roxane Gay, HUNGER
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FRIDAY, JUNE 30 Manuel Arturo Abreu and Jamondria Harris
Daedalus Books—quietly one of the finest poetry bookstores in the city— will be hosting Manuel Arturo Abreu and Jamondria Harris, two Portlandbased poets and artists working in the smudgeable borders of both genres and identity. Abreu is author of List of Consonants and transtrender and runs an arts residency out of a home garage. Harris uses “words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles” to explore notions of blackness, femme supremacy and body horror. Daedalus Books, 2074 NW Flanders, 503-274-7742, daedalusbooks.com. 6 pm.
SATURDAY, JULY 1 Yuri Herrera
Dubbed “Mexico’s greatest novelist” by author Francisco Goldman, Yuri Herrera writes prose that is alive, halfdrunk, somehow mythic and funny as all hell; it falls somewhere between hard-boiled noir and fairy tales. His new novel, Kingdom Cons (And Other Stories), moves like a jungle predator. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm.
SUNDAY, JULY 2 Ross Jackson and Lindsay Anne Watson
Floating World will be playing host to the release party for two Portland artists—both with new graphic works out on Seattle imprint Cold Cube Press. Ross Jackson’s Sticky Sweets is a nostalgic coming-of-age tale set in the humid Florida heat, while Lindsay Anne Watson’s Well at the Very Least is an art-comic collection centered “around what is lost in language between selves.” Whew! Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 503-241-0227, floatingworldcomics.com. 6 pm.
C O U R T E S Y O F T H E T U E S D AY A G E N C Y
The Sons of Slabtown
Slabtown, now home to luxury apartments, was once the home of Portland sport: the Expo, the ice arena where the Portland Rosebuds laid the foundation for the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Vaughn Street Ballpark where little Johnny Pesky got his start before heading off to the big show. Photo historian Donald Nelson’s new book, The Sons of Slabtown & Tales of Westside Sports, will tell you all about it. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm.
Six months after pulling a forthcoming book from Simon & Schuster because of the publisher’s relationship with Milo Yiannopoulos, Roxane Gay returns with Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Harper Collins, 304 pages, $25.99). Hunger is many things: a brave, if at times self-defensive, portrayal of life as a morbidly obese woman; an exploration of the repercussions of rape; a criticism of American society’s obsession with thinness. But most of all, Hunger is a resonating depiction of Gay’s struggle to claim ownership of her own body. For Gay, this journey began at age 12 when she was raped by a classmate and a group of his friends. Throughout the book, Gay refers to her life in two parts: “before” and “after.” In the “before,” Gay is a normal, if awkward, preteen girl from a loving family. In the “after” the reader watches Gay collapse into a traumatized shell of her former self. The rape, Gay recounts, left a void inside her, and she used food to fill that void. Informed by cultural norms, Gay understood that obese women were unattractive, so she ate in excess to ensure she would never again be brutalized. At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 lbs. In the beginning of the book, Gay calls Hunger the “most difficult writing experience of [my] life.” Unfortunately, at times her struggle to understand her experience is all too apparent. Gay falls into a pattern of instructing the reader on what she wants them to take away from the book instead of simply telling her story. As the book progresses these moments fall away, and once Gay finds her voice, the result is extraordinary. The contradiction of Gay’s experience weaves through her narrative: She built a new body to protect herself and regain some semblance of control, but in doing so she lost even more of who she was. This tension is echoed by her storytelling. Phrases like “I don’t know why I turned to food, or do I?” pepper the book, highlighting Gay’s struggle to understand the journey to own her body. Throughout the book, Gay recounts her story again and again, each time unveiling another layer of loss, pain and confusion. With each recollection, she teeters on the brink of acceptance but never reaches it. Her repetition and the book’s lack of decisive conclusion brilliantly mirror the ceaseless burden of trauma. In its own way, Hunger is the plea that centuries of women have made before. It is a plea to be seen. To be heard. To be understood. To be appreciated. It is Gay’s personal call for what so many women want: to have her worth as a human being judged on the depth of her contribution, her kindness and her character. To have her body be her own, regardless of its size. In that way, the book, like its namesake, is unshakable. EMILY COIT. GO: Roxane Gay will read at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com, on Friday, June 30. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Cousin Bobby (1991)
When Jonathan Demme wasn’t making Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and Stop Making Sense he was making small, deeply personal documentaries that, though mostly unseen, spoke to his breadth and talent as a filmmaker. This week, the NW Film Center takes a look at some of these lesser works, like this profile of Demme’s cousin Rev. Robert Castle, an Episcopalian minister who worked in the black communities of Jersey City and Harlem. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 7 pm, Wednesday, June 28.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
I’m not sure how one is supposed to celebrate the Fourth of July in Trump’s America, but we basically live in an Oliver Stone movie now, so might as well watch one. In his most critically acclaimed role, Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic, a real-life small town athlete whose life falls apart after he kills a fellow soldier and is paralyzed in the Vietnam War. Clinton Street Theater, 7 pm, Monday, July 3.
SHUT UP ANTHONY: Robert D’Esposito as Anthony and Katie Michels as Sam
I Don’t Feel at Home in This City Anymore
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Since his heyday has long passed, it’s kind of easy to forget that Steven Spielberg invented the modern blockbuster and was behind the reins of massive franchises like Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones. The story of a benevolent alien and his young friend Elliott (Henry Thomas) kicks off the Hollywood’s Spielberg on Film series, a retrospective looking at a dozen of the director’s early works on 35mm Hollywood, 7 pm, Saturday, July 1.
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Duel (1971)
Though you’re likely there to see Spielberg’s massive hits, make sure to check out some of his deep cuts too. Duel, the story of a travelling salesman (Dennis Weaver) who gets trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse in the middle of the open road with a tanker truck driver, was Spielberg’s mostly forgotten first theatrical film. Even legends start with truck chase movies. Hollywood, 7:30 pm, Monday, July 3.
Office Space (1999)
One of the earliest “quotable” movies of my time, Mike Judge’s tale of suburban white collar drudgery launched both a thousand forays into the back catalogue of the Geto Boys and a thousand teenaged boys doing the “Oh face” scene at one another. God I love this movie. Laurelhurst, June 28-29.
ALSO PLAYING: Academy: Labyrinth (1986), June 28-29, Raiders of the Lost Arc (1981), June 30-July 6. Clinton Street Theater: Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976), 8 pm, Wednesday, June 28. Hollywood: The Fifth Element (1997), 9:30 pm, Friday, June 30. Laurelhurst: The Maltese Falcon (1941), June 28-29, To Have and Have Not (1944), June 30-July 6. Mission: The Fifth Element (1997), June 28-July 4, Casablanca (1942), June 28-30.
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In Kyle Eaton’s debut, Shut Up Anthony, the filmmaker skewers Portland “fun” with a scene at a work party for a hip creative agency. In an exposed-brick bar decked with Christmas lights, the film’s protagonist, Anthony (Robert D’Esposito), tensely navigates his way through throngs of cool professionals. A woman with frizzy hair introduces Anthony to her boyfriend, who has an enormous, Amish-style beard and a cutely manicured haircut. A man with swooping hair, a bolo tie and a (differently) bushy beard talks to an HR guy who promises to look the other way if he has “a few too many drinks.” A pudgy dude with a beard and snapback gives Anthony mushrooms, and he nervously joins in a bird-flipping group photo that a workmate wants to send to his girlfriend Samantha (Katie Michels), with whom he’s just had a serious argument. It’s a nerve-wracking social trial swaddled in a pastiche of hipness that culminates with Anthony’s abrupt firing for “substandard work performance and unsatisfactory work quality” the next day. When Anthony gets a text from Samantha informing him she wants a break, he decides to head to a rarely used family timeshare. There, he reconnects with his old friend Tim (Jon
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Titterington), an academic who is hiding out from his domineering family, drinking heavily and reconsidering his marriage. The film, which screens as part of the Northwest Film Center’s Northwest Tracking series on Thursday, isn’t alone in speaking to the dissatisfaction many creatives feel in artist-friendly Portland. Alongside films like Matt McCormick’s Some Days Are Better Than Others (2010) and Macon Blair’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Eaton’s Shut Up Anthony is part of a new wave of Portland indies that tackle what it’s like to feel like an outsider in the city where outsiders are supposed to fit in. The protagonists in these films are similar to Anthony, caught in the early-30s penumbra between the end of youth and the beginning of middle age—they aren’t quite “old,” but they’re past the age where youthful indiscretions are cute. These characters aren’t secure in their careers—I Don’t Feel and Some Days revolve around characters with little money—and they certainly aren’t secure in their relationships. As Anthony, D’Esposito is a twitching mess of guilt-ridden nerves who’s unable to emotionally commit to his loving girlfriend and belittles her to Tim, who manifests his neuroses about his marriage by micromanaging
coaster usage and hot tub rules. Anthony is a grounded answer to a wacky stoner from a Judd Apatow movie, except his childish antics are met with annoyed silence. These characters should be right at home in Portland, the city where, as the story should go, Peter Pan Syndrome is a lifestyle. But, for these characters, the city just isn’t panning out. Although alienation and ennui are universal, these films speak specifically to the ways in which Portland can be a huge bummer. Though they differ in tone and content, they all portray the city as a place whose hostility is masked by urbanity. These are visions of Portland where the cute apartment and trendy bar become psychic prisons. Anthony reminded me of a friend of mine, while Some Days gets at how smothering the cutesiness of this city feels when you’re out of work. And sometimes, you just don’t want to be bothered by one of those charity assholes who try to wave you down as you try to walk through downtown. SEE IT: Shut Up Anthony screens 7 pm, Thursday, June 29 at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Director Kyle Eaton will introduce the film. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore streams on Netflix. Some Days Are Better Than Others streams on Amazon Video.
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NOW PLAYING Band Aid
Relationships on the fritz make for some of rock music’s best mythology. In a twee reversal, Band Aid asks whether a civilian Carter-Cash or Buckingham-Nicks could take up songwriting as couples therapy. Anna and Ben (Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally) bicker compulsively—about their mountain of dirty dishes, spiralling all the way to a miscarriage they can barely discuss. Transposing grievances into duets—backed by their neighbor Weird Dave (Fred Armisen) on drums—could be the remedy. It’s a strong conceit from actor, writer and first-time director Lister-Jones (Breaking Upwards, Life In Pieces), and the movie hangs in the chemistry between her and Pally. Both are comfortable in a ping-pong battle between humor and drama, but it’s the multitasking Lister-Jones who proves an uncommonly believable comedic presence. She beats back a world of doting Silver Lake moms and her classless Uber passengers with a dryness that never becomes schtick. Ultimately, though, like so many premise-driven indie comedies, Band Aid crescendos with enthusiasm but has no idea how to strike a resolving chord. It settles on letting its toocute, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus garage-rock songs soak in the limelight. R. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Living Room Theaters.
The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s Civil War-era tale of amorousness and limb-severing vengeance has a beautifully haunting opening: a scene where a young girl (Oona Laurence) happens upon the wounded Union soldier John McBurney (Colin Farrell). With its aura of quiet menace, that moment sets the style for the movie, which follows McBurney back to a Southern all-girls seminary, where his hosts (including Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning) both vie for his affections and subject him to ghastly torment. Coppola—who adapted the film from a Thomas Cullinan novel—may have packed the movie with intimations of repressed rage and sexuality, but she suffocates The Beguiled with monotonously pretty scenery and the tiresome spectacle of awful people doing awful things to other awful people. Only rarely does the film flicker with emotional life, which usually happens when the effortlessly charismatic McBurney is onscreen. He declares that he’s “easily amused,” which begs the question: Why doesn’t Coppola try amusing us for a change? R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.
STILL SHOWING 47 Meters Down
In this shark thriller, a recently dumped Lisa (Mandy Moore) thinks an Instagram post during a trip to Mexico will get her boyfriend back. That gives you a pretty solid idea of the movie’s depth. Still, those seeking the heartpumping adrenaline of a summer shark flick won’t be disappointed. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.
Alien: Covenant
Casting Danny McBride as the alien was a ballsy gamble that paid off. Sadly, nothing else in Ridley Scott’s frenetic follow-up to the underrated Prometheus comes together as it should. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, CineMagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.
The Bad Batch
In director Ana Lily Amirpour’s follow-up to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Suki Waterhouse wanders around a post-apocalyptic desert inhabited by the like of cannibals and a psychedelic cult leader played by Keanu Reeves. Coincidentally, the gory, surreal horror movie features music by Portland band Federale. R. Hollywood Theatre, Kiggins.
The Book of Henry
Directed by Colin Trevorrow’s (Jurassic World), The Book of Henry tells the story of Henry (Jaeden Lieberher), a cute, dying, 11-year-old genius who lives next door to Christina (Maddie Ziegler), another cute kid with an abusive stepfather (Dean Norris). PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower.
Cars 3
Cars 3 is a tribute to the bonds shared by teachers and students, albeit with a slapstick demolition derby scene dominated by a comically sinister school bus. Yet it’s Pixar’s gift for imbuing inanimate objects with humanity that makes you care when Cruz and Lightning lean into the curves. G. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.
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. Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Vancouver.
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. Fox Tower, Vancouver.
I, Daniel Blake
An “I” precedes the name Daniel Blake in Ken Loach’s (The Wind That Shakes the Barley) 2016 Palme d’Orwinning film because its protagonist will eventually be driven to testimony. But Daniel doesn’t start out an evangelist for the English commoner, and neither does the film. Played as a grouch with a heart by comedian Dave Johns, we follow Daniel through a welfare system’s circles of hell in the former industrial hub of Newcastle. You’d be hardpressed to find a more sobering portrayal of a losing streak taking over a life. R. Living Room Theaters.
Kong: Skull Island
Following the original film’s blueprint, Kong: Skull Island sends a boatload of explorers past the permastorm 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. Vancouver.
The Wedding Plan
This pleasantly peculiar Hebrewlanguage rom-com from director Rama Burshtein (Fill the Void) follows Michal (Noa Koller), an Orthodox Jewish woman who’s abandoned by her fiancee and must find a new one by the last night of Hanukkah. PG. Living Room Theaters.
Wonder Woman
I never thought I’d get a lump in my throat watching a superhero movie but here we are. Patty Jenkins’ telling of Diana Prince’s (Gal Gadot) WWI origin deftly balances action, romance, comedy and emotional heft like no other in genre has. PG-13. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.
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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. Clackamas, 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. Empirical, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.
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, Fox Tower.
My Cousin Rachel
Spooky, sexy and gleefully menacing, this fresh rendition of Daphne du Maurier’s novel is a terrific showcase for its stars, Sam Claflin as dunderhead lord of a coastal estate in Victorian-era England who seeks vengeance against the cousin of title, and said cousin (Rachel Weisz), whose masterful performance blends anguish, toughness and terrifying rage. PG-13. Bridgeport.
The Mummy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Paris Can Wait
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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.
It’s been 21 years since Trainspotting turned a blackly comic druggy 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. Laurelhurst.
The Lego Batman Movie
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. Vancouver.
T2: Trainspotting
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We picked up our cannabis clones about a month ago to embark on our third-year adventure of growing cannabis plants on the WW roof. Here’s how we’re doing so far. We’ve been growing cannabis plants in our office since marijuana was legalized in 2015. Last month, we set up the four clones under an indoor grow light and stashed them in an office crevice. We watered them every day, making sure to soak them until some water came out of the bottom, or until the plants started drinking slowly. Last week, we moved the baby cannabis clones to our rooftop garden, which strangely resembles a tiny house garden that might be featured on a TLC show. During last year’s cannabis office grow, we figured out how to set up our cannabis plants for optimum rooftop growth, so we followed that same process this year. We started by carrying four clones up a ladder to the roof, along with a 6-gallon bucket. Then we took a rope, tied it around the hose, which is connected to a spigot outside our main entrance, and hoisted the hose onto the roof. We also set up a tent, because we know this sun isn’t reliable. Each day, we climb a ladder to get to the roof and soak the plants, giving them enough water that a little bit starts to drip out the bottom, as suggested by our former accountant, Deadhead Chris, who had more marijuana growth knowledge than most of the office. This was backed up this year by the folks at Roots, who told us that a large plant in a 45-gallon pot can use 2½ gallons of water on a hot August day. Right
now, our boxes are medium-sized, so we’re soaking the soil until it starts to drip out the bottom, or about 2 gallons. So far, they ’re looking OK. A long Memorial Day weekend may have contributed to the tallest getting dried out. But three are looking healthy, at about 17½ and 24 inches tall, and one is even starting to grow dense, bushy leaves. Within a week of bringing them out from their den with a grow lamp to the sunshine, they’ve shown major growth, both in height and density. The tallest one might be a goner, constantly falling down, unable to even support itself. Our plan is to start the clones out in medium-sized cardboard boxes before moving them to 45-gallon Smart Pots. Last year, we got 20-gallon Smart Pots., which were pretty big, and our plants were pretty big, but they were far from the monsters we’ve seen our friends grow. Along with the four pots, we bought plenty of Roots Organics soil blend to fill them. Culturally, the morale surrounding the rooftop grow has shifted significantly from last year, when staff was taking Instagrams and begging to help us water. This year, it took us two hours to set up the rooftop garden, and not a single person asked about it. If anything, this is a reminder that this year, we want to grow cannabis that’s actually worth consuming. It’s no longer cool to grow weed for the novelty of it, not when everyone’s mom has a cannabis plant in her backyard. In the coming weeks, we’ll be bringing out the big guns: fertilizer. Follow WW’s Office Cannabis Grow on wweek.com. Willamette Week JUNE 28, 2017 wweek.com
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)
This is a perfect moment to create a new tradition, Aries. You intuitively know how to turn one of your recent breakthroughs into a good habit that will provide continuity and stability for a long time to come. You can make a permanent upgrade in your life by capitalizing on an accidental discovery you made during a spontaneous episode. It’s time, in other words, to convert the temporary assistance you received into a long-term asset; to use a stroke of luck to foster a lasting pleasure.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Physicist Freeman Dyson told Wired magazine how crucial it is to learn from failures. As an example, he described the invention of the bicycle. “There were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked,” he said. “You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, it’s difficult to understand why a bicycle works. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential.” I hope you will keep that in mind, Taurus. It’s the Success-Through-Failure Phase of your astrological cycle.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should lease a chauffeured stretch limousine with nine TVs and a hot tub inside. You’d also be smart to accessorize your smooth ride with a $5,000-bottle of Château Le Pin Pomerol Red Bordeaux wine and servings of the Golden Opulence Sundae, which features a topping of 24-karat edible gold and sprinkles of Amedei Porcelana, the most expensive chocolate in the world. If none of that is possible, do the next best thing, which is to mastermind a long-term plan to bring more money into your life. From an astrological perspective, wealthbuilding activities will be favored in the coming weeks.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)
When Leos rise above their habit selves and seize the authority to be rigorously authentic, I refer to them as Sun Queens or Sun Kings. When you Cancerians do the same -- triumph over your conditioning and become masters of your own destiny -- I call you Moon Queens or Moon Kings. In the coming weeks, I suspect that many of you will make big strides towards earning this title. Why? Because you’re on the verge of claiming more of the “soft power,” the potent sensitivity, that enables you to feel at home no matter what you’re doing or where you are on this planet.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
You may not realize it, but you now have a remarkable power to perform magic tricks. I’m not talking about Houdini-style hocus-pocus. I’m referring to practical wizardry that will enable you to make relatively efficient transformations in your daily life. Here are some of the possibilities: wiggling out of a tight spot without offending anyone; conjuring up a new opportunity for yourself out of thin air; doing well on a test even though you don’t feel prepared for it; converting a seemingly tough twist of fate into a fertile date with destiny. How else would you like to use your magic?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Feminist pioneer and author Gloria Steinem said, “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” Is there such an activity for you, Virgo? If not, now is a favorable time to identify what it is. And if there is indeed such a passionate pursuit, you should do it as much as possible in the coming weeks. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your relationship with this life-giving joy. To evolve to the next phase of its power to inspire you, it needs as much of your love and intelligence as you can spare.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
One of the 21st century’s most entertaining archaeological events was the discovery of King Richard III’s bones. The English monarch died in 1485, but his burial site had long been a mystery. It wasn’t an archaeologist who
tracked down his remains, but a screenwriter named Philippa Langley. She did extensive historical research, narrowing down the possibilities to a car park in Leicester. As she wandered around there, she got a psychic impression at one point that she was walking directly over Richard’s grave. Her feeling later turned out to be right. I suspect your near future will have resemblances to her adventure. You’ll have success in a mode that’s not your official area of expertise. Sharp analytical thinking will lead you to the brink, and a less rational twist of intelligence will take you the rest of the way.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
The tides of destiny are no longer just whispering their message for you. They are shouting. And what they are shouting is that your brave quest must begin soon. There can be no further excuses for postponement. What’s that you say? You don’t have the luxury of embarking on a brave quest? You’re too bogged down in the thousand and one details of managing the day-to-day hubbub? Well, in case you need reminding, the tides of destiny are not in the habit of making things convenient. And if you don’t cooperate willingly, they will ultimately compel you to do so. But now here’s the really good news, Scorpio: The tides of destiny will make available at least one burst of assistance that you can’t imagine right now.
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In my dream, I used the non-itchy wool of the queen’s special Merino sheep to weave an enchanted blanket for you. I wanted this blanket to be a good luck charm you could use in your crusade to achieve deeper levels of romantic intimacy. In its tapestry I spun scenes depicting the most love-filled events from your past. It was beautiful and perfect. But after I finished it, I had second thoughts about giving it to you. Wasn’t it a mistake to make it so flawless? Shouldn’t it also embody the messier aspects of togetherness? To turn it into a better symbol and therefore a more dynamic talisman, I spilled wine on one corner of it and unraveled some threads in another corner. Now here’s my interpretation of my dream: You’re ready to regard messiness as an essential ingredient in your quest for deeper intimacy.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Your word of power is “supplication” -- the act of asking earnestly and humbly for what you want. When practiced correctly, “supplication” is indeed a sign of potency, not of weakness. It means you are totally united with your desire, feel no guilt or shyness about it, and intend to express it with liberated abandon. Supplication makes you supple, poised to be flexible as you do what’s necessary to get the blessing you yearn for. Being a supplicant also makes you smarter, because it helps you realize that you can’t get what you want on the strength of your willful ego alone. You need grace, luck, and help from sources beyond your control.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
In the coming weeks, your relationships with painkillers will be extra sweet and intense. Please note that I’m not talking about ibuprofen or acetaminophen or aspirin. My reference to painkillers is metaphorical. What I’m predicting is that you will have a knack for finding experiences that reduce your suffering. You’ll have a sixth sense about where to go to get the most meaningful kinds of healing and relief. Your intuition will guide you to initiate acts of atonement and forgiveness, which will in turn ameliorate your wounds.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)
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