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A get-rich-quick scheme went awry for two people who don’t understand Oregon government. 9 Portland is home to the world’s largest pileated woodpecker. 16 A current Guinness World Record holder is coming to town to attempt to set a new record. 21 Chuck Palahniuk recommends a thrift store in Gladstone to any tourist visiting Portland. 22

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Portland’s Old Chinatown was once its New Chinatown. 25 A local author had his book optioned for fi lm before it was written. 39 Someone has re-created the experience of seeing a film in one of the oldest and grandest movie theaters in the world for VR headsets. 42 You can legally smoke weed in the back of a private bus. 43

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DIALOGUE Here’s what readers said about a defiant couple breeding big cats in the Portland suburbs (“The Tiger Farmer,” WW, July 26, 2017).

Kaldurak9, via Reddit: “This will probably end the same way a lot of these end. On an episode of When Animals Attack.”

Hairball, via wweek.com: “The four scariest words in this story are “self-taught animal handler.” Humans: It’s what’s for dinner.”

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Brianna Apling, via Facebook: “Keeping everybody out, especially the press, means they’re not doing the right thing and don’t want to be exposed. The animals need to be removed and sent to REAL sanctuaries that know how to properly treat them.”

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Hate4Breakfast, via Reddit: “I would be shitting my pants at the idea of lions being close enough to hear them.” @PiepsinPDX, via Twitter: “Sanctuaries do not breed or exhibit the animals in their care. Shut them down, and send the animals to a real sanctuary. I’ll donate.”

“The four scariest words are ‘self-taught animal handler.’”

The Revelator, via wweek.com: “There’s lots to comment on this article, but I’ll stick with this: There’s no way in hell she has a ‘purebred Barbary lion.’ The subspecies went extinct decades ago.”

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that this is somehow educational? What are you educating someone about when you take a tiger cub from its mother so you can feed it formula, and show it off at county fairs?”

Fractalfay, via Reddit: “Do they actually think they’re fooling anyone with their BS ‘we sell tiger dung’ story, and the even more absurd notion

Molly Elwood, via Facebook: “I got banned for sharing this article on [a Walk on the Wild Side] page.

I think more people should be asking them to open up and address these allegations.”

Lindsey McBride, via Facebook: “This is the ‘organization’…that brings lions and tigers in small cages to the Portland Rose Festival. These are wild, endangered animals in small cages in a Portland city park.”

Marta Lynn, via Facebook: “This should be illegal.”

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For at least 20 years, the northeast corner of Southwest 3rd Avenue and Oak Street has been a yawning pit in the heart of Portland. With construction at its height, you would think it would have been developed by now. Why is this? Is it a Superfund site? —Wannabe Parking Mogul Oh, you mean the Hellmouth, transdimensional gateway to the realm of the Elder Gods, where reason itself is devoured by the Old Ones and living souls beg for death? The site so damned that it actually belched a partial summary of Donald Trump Jr.’s closed-door testimony at my feet yesterday? (Cue flashback glissando.)

“Trump Jr. said he ‘couldn’t recall’ whether Satan, Prince of Darkness, was present at the meeting. ‘I took so many meetings that summer— it’s hard to say whether a 12-foot winged demon covered in burning sulfur was at this one or not.’

“Trump added that he was also ‘drawing a blank’ as to whether he left the meeting in a dump truck filled with hundred-dollar bills.” (Cue return-to-present glissando.)

Scary stuff! Still, even the pit of the shoggoths is no match for the mighty ax of gentrification.

Who would sit, dithering, on such a potentially profitable piece of real estate for so long?

As reported in 2013 by WW, the dither-sitter

was the Portland Development Commission, which bought it in 2002 for $1.2 million, hoping to steer its development in a convivial direction.

In 2005, the PDC offered the land—for free!— to developer Trammell Crow Co. to build a condo tower. Unfortunately, in all the excitement, the PDC demolished an underground parking garage belonging to the building next door, on the assurance that the new owners would rebuild it.

TCC pulled out of the deal, leaving the property “encumbered,” which meant whoever bought the place would have obligations to a third party— specifically, that new garage.

But good news! Since we last reported on this story, the property sold, in 2016, to Japanese hotelier Toyoko Inn for $1 million. That’s less than the appraised value of $2.4 million, but the Japanese will use the extra cash to build that legally mandated parking garage. Don’t forget to leave a space for Cthulhu or Trump Jr. or both.

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From the Department of Shameless Self-Promotion: Willamette Week took home seven prizes at the 2017 Association of Alternative Newsmedia Awards, including four first-place awards.

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by Martin Cizmar. And the WW editorial staff won the first-place public service award for “Resist”—a cover story, published one week after the November election and six nights of street protests, evaluating the threats Donald Trump’s presidency posed to Portland. The four first-place awards were the most for any alternative newspaper in the nation.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

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Oh, Boycott

WHERE DO CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS STAND ON A BILL TO QUASH BOYCOTTS OF ISRAEL?

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has become a reliable voice of dissent during the Trump presidency. Yet he’s also the sponsor of a bill that critics say silences left-wing protest.

Wyden is co-sponsoring a Senate bill that could make it more difficult to boycott companies that support the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories—in some cases imposing a penalty of up to $1 million and 20 years in prison.

The bill, known as the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, has sat before Congress since March, virtually unopposed until it was met with strong objections last month by the nation’s leading civil rights advocacy group.

The American Civil Liberties Union sent letters to all U.S. senators in mid-July asking them to vote no on the Israel Anti-Boycott Act because of the “chilling effect” it could have on free speech. News website the Intercept wrote about the bill late last month.

The bill would outlaw only those boycotts led by foreign governments or international agencies (like the United Nations). No such boycott currently exists, but the ACLU says just the implied threat within the law—that someone could be prosecuted for supporting a boycott—could silence speech.

Supporters of the legislation say that no individual American would be subject to the law, because it’s meant to police corporations. And they say even companies can boycott based on their owners’ personal beliefs, as long as they don’t coordinate with foreign governments on the boycott.

The bill places Oregon’s Democrats in Congress in a tight spot: stuck between supporting Israel and backing the lefty protest groups, reliably pro-Palestine, that have given them a boost in the Trump era. So we asked them where they stood on the bill.

Do they support acts of protest even when they may not agree with the protesters?

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Sen. Ron Wyden still supports the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, and he says the ACLU has misinterpreted the effect the bill would have on Americans and their ability to protest Israeli policies. “This bill continues to allow anyone to boycott Israeli products or to say they intend to boycott Israeli products,” says Henry Stern, a spokesman for Wyden’s office. “This bill wouldn’t prevent anybody or punish anybody for making those choices. It does nothing to restrict Americans’ speech. This bill doesn’t create any new penalties either—it uses the same language as a 40-year-old law that prevents American commercial activity from participating in concerted boycotts led by foreign governments.”

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici declined to take a stand for or against the bill, and a spokeswoman for her office said Bonamici would “continue to study it and consider input from constituents about it during her time in Oregon.”

Rep. Peter DeFazio’s office said in a written statement that he worries the bill’s language could “impede on the First Amendment rights of those wishing to voice their concerns about the conflict between Israel and Palestine.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley could not be reached for comment by press deadlines. A spokeswoman for his office said he was engaged with unexpected Senate business, and would reply later this week.

Rep. Kurt Schrader’s office declined to return several calls and emails seeking comment on the bill.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer says he has strong reservations about the bill. “I do not support the legislation,” he says.

“By failing to differentiate between Israel and the territories it has occupied since 1967, this bill undermines long-standing, bipartisan U.S. policy and puts a two-state solution further out of reach.”

THE BIG NUMBER That’s the number of residences in Portland without an air conditioning unit,

according to a 2015 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Homes and apartments without air conditioning make up 30 percent of Portland housing units. Those numbers, noted by The New York Times on Aug. 1, are newly relevant as the Rose City stares down an unprecedented heat wave—temperatures this week could

rise as high as 107, matching an all-time record, and the city could see highs above 99 degrees for four straight days. That’s never happened before.

In response, Multnomah County is opening three cooling centers until at least Monday, Aug. 7. The centers will be open weekdays from 5 to 8 pm and weekends from 2 to 8 pm. If temperatures stay over 90 degrees, the centers will continue to stay open. TOM BERRIDGE.

The cooling centers are at these locations:

Multnomah County Walnut Park Building 5325 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Portland

Multnomah County East Building 600 NE 8th St., Gresham

Hollywood Senior Center 1820 NE 40th Ave., Portland

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NEWS “BIG TOURIST EVENTS LIKE THIS ARE A BENEFIT TO BUSINESS. WE’VE LOST MOST OF THE ENTIRE SUMMER AT DETROIT LAKE. IT SUCKS, AND THERE’S NOT MUCH WE CAN DO UNTIL OLCC GRANTS US AN INVESTIGATOR.”

Watch the Skies AN OREGON COUPLE RACED TO OPEN A POT SHOP IN THE PATH OF THE ECLIPSE. BUT THEY’RE STUCK WAITING FOR THE OLCC.

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In March, Joseph and Chelsea Hopkins had a flash of inspiration.

The couple looked at news stories projecting massive crowds flooding into Oregon to be the first Americans to watch this summer’s full solar eclipse.

And they realized: Those people are going to need some weed.

The Hopkinses own the Greener Side, the oldest cannabis dispensary in Eugene. A friend told them about a place in need of a pot shop: Detroit, a 217-population Cascade mountain town 53 miles east of Salem. The hamlet is home to scenic Detroit Lake and square in the path of the totality.

“There should be 60,000 to 80,000 people going through the valley,” Joseph Hopkins says. “Detroit Lake is at the center of the eclipse—it’ll stay darker longer than anywhere else.”

They now have a building near Highway 22, a ready supply of bud, and a customer base arriving in less than three weeks.

The only problem? They’re stuck in regulatory limbo with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

The state agency is so far behind in inspecting cannabis shops that it’s unlikely to issue a license for the Detroit Lake shop by the Aug. 21 eclipse. That failure looms even though the Greener Side submitted an application to be licensed in Detroit on April 14, a little more than four months before the celestial event.

An OLCC inspector has yet to visit the shop. Not

only that: The application hasn’t even been handed to a site inspector.

“All I’ve heard is that we’re still in the queue, and that they’re still licensing people from the beginning of March,” says Joseph Hopkins, who carefully watches his words. “The OLCC has been pleasant to work with, but the speed at which things are accomplished is slower than preferred.”

The Hopkinses’ dilemma is a symptom of a complaint Oregon cannabis shop owners started leveling shortly after voters legalized recreational pot in 2014: The state isn’t keeping up with the pace of business.

“It’s been really difficult for businesses to plan around the uncertain wait times,” says Casey Houlihan, executive director for the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association. “It’s definitely led to businesses burning through money and having to let people go while they wait.”

T h e Ho p k i n s e s ’ c a s e i s p e r h a p s t h e m o st extreme—if they don’t get a license in the next two weeks, they ’ll miss a one-time-only market. But they aren’t the only ones who’ve had to play waiting games with the OLCC. Sean Wilson, owner of the Portland dispensary Ascend, had to close doors to his shop for five months while waiting for a license to sell recreational cannabis. Wilson was losing customers by offering only medical marijuana, and the recreational license delay was nearly fatal to his business. Ascend has since reopened, but Wilson says recovering lost cus-

tomers is a slow process.

“We literally only had a couple people a day come in,” Wilson says of the days after reopening.

“We need at least 50 to 60 customers a day to even break even.”

The OLCC blames an employee shortage for the long wait times.

Agency spokesman Mark Pettinger says 23 employees are responsible for reviewing and approving the more than 2,700 applications currently submitted to the agency.

He says the application timeline varies depending on how complete each application is—in the Hopkinses’ case, it took the couple 10 days to furnish proof of local government land-use approval for their business.

Pettinger says it takes on average three to four months for an application even to be assigned to an investigator. He concedes that inadequate staff and a higher than projected volume of applications have spread the agency thin.

“We realize we can’t continue at the same pace,” Pettinger says.

To keep up with the flurry of cannabis shop applications, he says, the OLCC’s marijuana division borrowed staff from the liquor division of the agency. Those employees have since had to return to their original jobs, increasing the wait for application approval.

Pettinger says additional hires for the cannabis sector of the OLCC have been approved by the Oregon Legislature—10 additional investigators and 12 inspectors—but it could take months to complete recruiting, vetting and training. “Our staff are doing the best work they can under the circumstances,” he says.

That will be little consolation to the Hopkinses.

Projections vary on the number of eclipse tourists descending on Oregon—some reports say 1 million, others are more conservative. Everyone agrees, however, that the impact will be big. The OLCC recently advised liquor stores to stock their shelves for an expected 20-to-40-percent increase in sales.

Pettinger says no such suggestion has been issued to cannabis dispensaries, but he expects a high curiosity factor to drive up sales with so many out-of-state visitors coming from places where recreational cannabis use is illegal.

Joseph Hopkins is running out of patience.

“Big tourist events like this are a benefit to business,” Hopkins says. “We’ve lost most of the entire summer at Detroit Lake. It sucks, and there’s not much we can do until OLCC grants us an investigator.”

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Is there an ethnic group more likely to be homeless in Portland than others?

Timothy Allen Ferdoing a very good rell is the kind of job of it.” person officials and He had to bum a ride advocates argue to an interview at about. the Columbia River Despite a lifelong Inter-Tribal Fish history of trauma— Commission, he born with drugs recalls, and “showin his system to a ered” in a rest-stop 15-year-old mom, sink on the way. then foster care, “I was really conheroin and meth use, scious about how I and drug-related smelled when I went c r i m i n a l c o nv i c in there, because tions—Ferrell insists I came from the homelessness is his river,” he says, with choice. a laugh. He doesn’t A HARD EDUCATION: “I learn more “Being in a house laugh when he menabout being native every day,” says i s s t a s i s — y o u ’r e tions he was denied Timothy Allen Ferrell, who goes by Damian. stuck there,” says basic services by Ferrell, 42, who uses both tribe and state. the street name Damian. “I wander out of apartIt’s a story echoed by Ferrell’s friend Susan ments.”

McIntire, an enrolled Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Ferrell is Native American: an enrolled who goes by Oracle. McIntire is living in a ChevYakama Nation member who lives in a tent rolet Astro minivan decorated with teddy bears outside St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in and art supplies.

Southeast Portland. And he explicitly connects “You’re not getting the resources or help from his homelessness to his heritage. the different Indian agencies,” she says. “Even on He recalls the words of his great-grandmoth- the reservations, there’s no housing there.” er Ida Nason, a Wenatchi elder featured in a 1986 For her, as for Lumley, the services have been University of Washington documentary: “You scarcest when she needed them most. “When I have the right to wander—by blood, by right.” was in [a] bad wreck in ’82 and needed a wheelOther Native Americans in Portland tell a chair, even the native groups couldn’t get me a different story: They’re houseless not by choice, wheelchair,” she says. “Not the state or county or but because they’ve been cut off from help from anybody.” their tribes and government agencies.

Now McIntire, 64, survives on Social Security Ferrell is among 424 Native Americans who and a $500 annual “elder check” from her tribe, are homeless in Multnomah County this year. “if they decide not to spend it on something That’s 10 percent of homeless people in the else.” (For his part, Ferrell gets a check from the county—a hugely disproportionate number. Yakama of $127 a month, he says.)

(Native Americans make up just 2.5 of the counOfficials at the city-county Joint Office of ty’s population.)

Homeless Services hope to do something to cut Overall, people of color made up 40.5 percent into the Native American numbers—as they did of this year’s count, slightly higher than in 2015. when they prioritized black people after the But Native Americans are now homeless at a rate 2015 count, which found 24 percent of homethat far exceeds any other racial or ethnic group less people at the time were African-American. in Portland.

(In two years, they lowered that number to 16 Why is that? percent.) On July 14, the office released a notice Executive director Paul Lumley of the Native saying it would make as much as $1.9 million American Youth and Family Center points to available for programs that help reduce Native social ills that have long afflicted native people. American homelessness numbers.

But he also says those scourges are made worse Outside St. Francis church, Ferrell and McInby geography: Native Americans who leave tire watch each other’s backs, and were recently reservations to live in cities are separated from heartened by the installation of a new Portland a social safety net and government money that Loo. But they still struggle. Ferrell’s Yakama often flows through tribal leadership. tribal ID isn’t accepted by local businesses and “No tribe will come to anybody’s rescue in the some government agencies, and McIntire’s dog urban area,” Lumley says. (Officials at the Siletz, Buddy was removed by county animal services.

Grand Ronde and Warm Springs tribes didn’t Ferrell’s short-term plan involves the Native return calls requesting comment.)

American Rehabilitation Association, which Lumley knows a thing or two about native runs the only Native American dental clinic in houselessness. A Yakama citizen like Ferrell, the metro area. he was homeless as a teenager, “living on the “Very soon I’m going to hit up NARA,” he Columbia River fishing for a living [and] not says. “I need teeth.”

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Portland is in a construction frenzy.

The horizon is thick with cranes: 32 at last count, more than all but four other U.S. cities. As many as 10,000 hardhat jobs remain unfilled, The Oregonian reported last month. Developers will add a projected 6,500 apartments to the metro area this year.

All this change tends to unsettle some Portlanders.

Brace yourselves: Even bigger changes are on the way.

A handful of large-scale projects are expected to break ground in the next five years, and they could radically alter the face of both sides of the Willamette River. They could change Portlanders’ commutes, and the jobs where they work. And these few projects could have an outsized effect on the cost of housing.

“One thing we can be sure of: Whatever we think won’t change will,” says Ethan Seltzer, professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University.

That may sound like hyperbole. But these proposed projects are big, ambitious and still unformed. If done right, they could help Portland grow into a major U.S. city, make it a national model for transportation, and handle a wave of new arrivals without pushing out people who live here now. If done wrong, the projects will squander a building boom, clog the streets with cars and make this city a playground for the rich.

“We have a tremendous opportunity to shape entire neighborhoods, improve our economy and continue to put our values around sustainability into practice,” says Mayor Ted Wheeler. “We should think big.”

None of that future is certain. Some of these projects need champions. Some of them require money. And others—the biggest opportunities of all—are still casting about for the right idea.

In the past month, WW has spoken to more than two dozen planners, architects and city officials. Many of them pointed to the same spots on the map—and said these places could herald a new cityscape.

These could be the seven wonders of Newer Portland. Or the next developments you’ll love to hate. Either way, get ready.

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Basically, a mini Silicon Valley—a swath of the city dedicated to companies focused on health, science and technology, lining the river on both ends of Tilikum Crossing.

Oregon Health & Science University is awash in a billion-dollar fundraiser by Nike co-founder Phil Knight to find a cure for cancer. OHSU and Portland State University want lab space for startups that grow out of their cancer research and tech incubators. “ We need innovation to stay in Portland,” says Erin Flynn, associate vice president of strategic partnerships at PSU, who is spearheading the project.

The state’s first and only bioscience-focused startup incubator, run by a group that goes by the catchy name Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute, or OTRADI, has a waitlist of more than 10 new companies that need labs.

The companies at the incubator are working on health tech ranging from new drugs to treat eye disease and stroke to a completely artificial heart.

“It’s perfect timing,” says OTRADI executive director Jennifer Fox. “Our most pressing need is space for when they move out of the incubator.

They are used to being clustered around each other.

They have gotten addicted to collaboration.”

So OHSU and PSU have joined forces with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and Portland Community College. Together, they’ve concocted an ambitious scheme to take a section of the city with a lot of new development and vacant property, and roll it into one project. They’re calling it the Innovation Quadrant.

The four organizations are betting they’ll produce enough tech startups—especially around cancer research and genetic engineering—that they can attract developers to build lab space for those companies.

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WHERE WOULD IT GO? Ground zero is OHSU’s 300,000-square-foot Knight Cancer Institute, under construction in the South Waterfront.

A block away, Zidell Yards just finished welding its last barge—and the Zidell family TILIKUM CROSSING wants to develop the 30-acre shipyard. (The OHSU plans for Zidell Yards currently include 1.5 million square feet of office space, 2,200 residential units and 200 hotel rooms.)

ZIDELL That’s at one end of Tilikum Crossing. On the YARDS other side, the east bank of the Willamette? A maze of train tracks and vacant lots, including roughly 10 acres owned by OMSI. The museum board has for years been clamoring for a big development on the Central Eastside and is poised to go to the city this fall with new plans.

Half a block north, Prosper Portland—the city urban renewal agency formerly known as the Portland Development Commission—bought three blocks of parking lots for $2.8 million in June. It wants to develop them into space for light manufacturing and offices.

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Already, investors are making the first tentative moves. A private developer, Summit Development Group, is rehabbing a space on Southeast Alder Street into labs. It will open next year. California-based tech company AutoDesk, which currently has offices in Lake Oswego, will next year move hundreds of employees into the nearby Towne Storage building.

The biggest chunk of property is Zidell Yards, and it’s not yet clear how sold the barge-building heirs are on the tech dream, though they issue vaguely positive statements. OMSI will ask city planners for advice on its designs this month. Prosper Portland aims to line up a developer by the end of the year.

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The wrangling of large institutions working together on a project could easily fall apart. They’re supposed to formalize their partnership within the next two months, and say how much money they’re each willing to invest.

They haven’t announced how many buildings they have in mind, who would occupy them, how much they would cost, or where the money is coming from. That’s a whole lot of question marks. And the Zidells and OMSI are looking for the highest possible return on their real estate investments.

Observers are skeptical of the basic concept. Without major private capital pledging to invest in the businesses, having a lot of available real estate won’t matter.

“We’ve been down this road before,” says Seltzer, who describes what he’s heard so far as a real estate play that doesn’t have any big-money backing. “It didn’t materialize. That’s not how biotech is playing out across the country.”

Since the millennium, the city’s central U.S. Post Office site has been the white whale of Portland real estate. It blocks the upscale Pearl District from the dingy alleys surrounding Union Station—and city planners see linking those two neighborhoods as the key to smoothing out inequality.

Last year, Prosper Portland—the urban renewal agency—bought the site for $88 million. Having spent lavishly on the property, Prosper Portland is now looking to turn it into an apartment and retail center to match the Pearl (and work as a disinfectant on the squalor of Old Town).

Prosper Portland says that’s what will happen: 2,400 new apartments, space for 4,000 jobs, and an office tower zoned to rise as tall as 40 stories.

“It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity,” says Prosper Portland executive director Kimberly Branam. “This is a development of regional import.”

More interesting to most Portlanders: The agency’s plans call for 700 of those apartments to be subsidized as affordable housing.

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The U.S. Postal Service’s hulking, drab mail-sorting center sits between the Pearl District and Chinatown, clogging the central city with a shrinking federal agency in a building that has all the charm of a 1960s cafeteria (plus an actual cafeteria). In 2018, the post office will move to a new location near Portland International Airport.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Trying this experiment at the edge of Chinatown could backfire. Or the project could fail to build all the affordable housing units promised.

Observers look at Prosper Portland’s grandiose plans for shopping, offices and low-income housing and wonder how the agency will man-

LOOKING BACK Prosper Portland's Lisa Abuaf and Kimberly Branam look out over the future Broadway Corridor development site at the central U.S. Post Office.

age it all. Longtime developers say trying to do too many things on one site can mean nothing is done well.

“It’s really, really important to do it right,” says parking garage magnate Greg Goodman. “You don't allow someone to cut their teeth on a Rembrandt.”

WHAT’S NEXT? Prosper Portland is seeking to line up a developer by next year, and to start work on a plan for a site. It’s not clear which aspect of the project the developer will tackle first. Prosper Portland expects to take more than a decade to complete the overhaul.

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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? You may know that Portland contains one of the 10 largest cityowned parks in the country. You might not know that the 5,200 acres of Forest Park contain 52 species of native mammals—like bobcats and mountain beavers—and 100 species of birds, including the largest known pileated woodpecker, standing 1 foot tall.

Why don’t you know that? Because there’s no visitors’ center.

Portland Parks & Recreation has drafted initial designs for a visitors’ center that would include short trails and viewpoints, play areas for children, and classrooms for educational programs.

The new entry point would let the parks bureau explain the work it’s doing to restore the woods. It has declared war on invasive species, working in the past three years to restore 360 acres of natural habitat from the invasion of blackberry, ivy, holly, clematis and laurel.

In short, the Nature Center could give Portland’s greatest city park the national park visitors’ center treatment—an education for tourists and locals alike about the world they’re entering when they hike the Wildwood Trail.

“It’s not just a park—it’s a complete and functioning ecosystem,” says Kendra Petersen-Morgan, a Portland Parks natural area supervisor. “And it’s all accessible from a TriMet bus.”

WHERE WOULD IT GO? The parks bureau in 2014 spent $150,000 on a parcel of land along Highway 30 and Northwest Kittredge Road, a short drive from the St. Johns Bridge.

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In 2010, just 1,142 people lived in the neighborhood. But the Lloyd District has changed dramatically. Developers have opened three new apartment buildings, each with less than 1,000 units—including one with a national record number of bicycle parking spaces: 1,200.

That’s not a typo: Lloyd now has more bike parking spots in one building than it had residents in the entire neighborhood seven years ago.

“The Lloyd District got caught in a Rip Van Winkle period,” says PSU’s Seltzer. “It has emerged. It’s adding housing in ways that are pretty striking.”

Even as Lloyd Center mall undergoes a face-lift, the rest of the neighborhood could fundamentally change. “It’s catering to people driving in for that suburban-mall experience,” says MacKenzie. But as more residents arrive, “you are going to get a critical mass.” Bye-bye, Wendy’s Frostys. Hello, Salt & Straw lines.

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Developers are designing apartments near Lloyd Center that could dwarf any housing proposal under review in the central city.

One would build on the parking lot for Lloyd Cinemas—a vaguely depressing Regal multiplex. The project would include 680 apartments and artist livework spaces. Another, called Oregon Square, could place a whopping 1,100 units atop office buildings.

That’s a grand total of up to 1,800 apartments and condos—more than the number of homes in the entire Hollywood neighborhood.

“Oregon Square is likely the largest single development in Portland’s history,” says Iain MacKenzie, who writes the development blog Next Portland. “It’s easily conceivable that by the time of the 2020 census, the population of the neighborhood will have quadrupled.”

Portland needs housing on the scale of whole new neighborhoods. Rents rose 44 percent in the first half of this decade—and between 2010 and 2015,

Multnomah County added 2.7 jobs for every housing permit application filed, according to data from Apartment List.

Adding density in inner Portland also takes pressure off suburbs farther from jobs and public transit. “Every single home that we build in Portland,” says planning journalist Michael Andersen, “is one that isn’t being built in Battle Ground, Wash., or Sherwood.”

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Apartment developers are getting nervous about breaking ground on new towers—let alone new neighborhoods. That’s because a glut of apartments is about to hit the rental market this October, and investors worry about market saturation.

“Lenders have pulled back,” says developer Tom Cody.

At Oregon Square, developer American Assets Trust has sought the option of turning one of the apartment towers into office space, projecting that office space may be more profitable in the near term.

Another, smaller hiccup: Lloyd’s car-heavy infrastructure still revolves around I-5 exits (see the next item for a solution).

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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? City planners see an opportunity for a public space as iconic as New York City’s High Line—abandoned train tracks that became a romantic pedestrian boulevard.

Instead of train tracks, Portland could turn its streets, or at least parts of streets, into a linear park that would run through downtown and the Central Eastside.

A park like this—forming a circle through central Portland—could also provide bike commuters with a hub through the downtown core, with residential, bike-designated streets fanning out likes spokes on a wheel.

The ambitious project could give Portland the signature cycling and walking path its planners have long coveted. “It’s a 21st-century solution,” says city planner Mark Raggett.

Final permits for the Lloyd Cinemas site and a new plan for Oregon Square. The first of up to 1,800 units won’t hit the market at least another year. Lloyd Cinemas, which would move into the mall, could eventually be demolished in favor of 500 more apartments.

One key to linking these streets into a circle: bike and walking bridges spanning interstate freeways.

The Portland Bureau of Transportation has studied designs for the first of these bridges. It’s called Sullivan’s Crossing, and would run over I-84 at Northeast 7th Avenue.

It would cost more than $9 million, and connect the Lloyd District to the neighborhoods around Benson High School.

A similarly styled pedestrian and bicycle bridge is part of the massive, unfunded and controversial project to widen I-5 in the Rose Quarter. (A third such bridge, over I-405 at Northwest Flanders Street, isn’t on the Green Loop, but it’s already funded with $5.9 million.)

“The bicycle and pedestrian connections over our freeways are flat-out dangerous,” says Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who oversees the Transportation Bureau. “The Northwest Flanders and Northeast 7th crossings could be a game-changer for Portlanders.”

WHERE WOULD IT GO? The six-mile pedestrian- and bike-friendly park would run in a circle: through the westside along the Park Blocks, over the Broadway Bridge, and down the eastside along either 6th or 7th Avenue to Tilikum Crossing.

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WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? Big Pink is lonely. The 536-foot skyscraper (real name: U.S. Bancorp Tower) is the second-tallest building in Portland, the only one with a nickname, and arguably the only skyscraper in Portland worth mentioning.

The Goodman family has a plan to correct that.

It’s also a flashy way to market properties his family owns near the Willamette. He calls the 11 sites the Ankeny Blocks.

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Portland would dedicate entire lanes of traffic exclusively to TriMet buses. Then the city would update the technology that allows buses priority at stoplights.

Think of it as another Bus Mall—but across the city, and especially moving east-west.

It’s the single transportation project that could “do the most to transform people’s lives in the next decade,” says Jarrett Walker, Portland author of the book Human Transit.

Bus lanes aren’t as sexy as new light-rail lines or a downtown subway.

But those ideas aren’t likely to happen in the foreseeable future. They require decades of work and billions of dollars in either federal funding (read: Trump) or local tax measures (read: persuading Clackamas County voters).

So the next step is counterintuitive. Portland needs to make its traffic problems worse, and quickly, at least for cars, so that commuters using public transit get to their jobs more quickly. If we can move buses more efficiently, more people will be willing to ride them.

City leaders could decide to wait for the autonomous vehicle revolution. But self-driving Ubers could create the same gridlock—or even make it worse.

WHAT’S NEXT? PBOT says it’s weighing options for improving a couple of bus routes.

But transit advocates who recently started to organize around the issue say orange cones could start the city down this route tomorrow. They point to pop-up pilot projects in other cities (like Everett, Mass.) that have transformed bus routes quickly.

“I’m concerned that they’re going to do an overblown public process and not have the courage to follow through,” says Alan Kessler, who founded an activist group called the Portland Bus Lane Project.

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Four of the properties SW ASH S T. could become among the highest skyscrapers in the city; they’ll be zoned to rise up to 460 feet. They could be a mixture of office, retail, hotels and apartments or condos. Greg Goodman is hunting for tenants.

“We have had conversations with regional, national and international companies,” says Goodman. “Ten years ago, you wouldn’t have gotten the interest. For the younger demographic, Portland is a cool place to go.”

A massive company choosing to move in could change the waterfront into a bustling place.

“The idea of transforming a place that is that close to the waterfront is powerful,” says city planner Raggett.

“We haven’t done a good job of creating a vibrant active waterfront.”

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Walker suggests starting with places where the most bus riders are affected by traffic—the connection between the Bus Mall and the Hawthorne Bridge along Southwest Madison Street, for example—and working down the list.

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Critics—including prominent bike advocates—deride the Green Loop as a shiny object that planners can imagine slipping into their portfolios while ignoring grittier problems, like dangerous crosswalks in East Portland.

“It distracts us from the breadand-butter things we need to do,” says Jonathan Maus, who runs the website Bike Portland. “People are getting killed in East Portland right now.”

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Not everybody is excited about tall buildings along the river.

Some elected officials want to block them. “Nobody made a good case for why those buildings had to be that tall,” Commissioner Fritz told WW last year.

“They’re going to stick out like sore thumbs.”

A City Council vote is scheduled for next month on downtown zoning—including building heights, but the council is expected to raise those heights.

WHAT’S NEXT? The Goodmans are developing the first of the sites, at 108 SW 3rd Ave. The Historic Landmarks Commission recently approved a six-story building with 133 apartments, a fifth of them affordable, and retail on the ground floor. Construction is expected to begin this year.

For Goodman, there’s no urgency on other properties, and he acknowledges “nothing is remotely imminent” in terms of landing a big fish.

The Goodmans could bide their time. “They’re moving ahead,” says MacKenzie. “But they’re not developing all of their properties all at once.”

As with Portland's other ambitious projects, the Ankeny Blocks are open to revision. And that may be good news. A city is never more flexible than when it’s in a building boom. Portland has an opportunity to dream big about what it can be—and who it’s for.

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“I would really work on solving the problem of zombie houses in Portland. They continue to be a problem and nothing is being done about them.”

“I’d resign and make gore pig mayor!”

“Create more resources for the homeless community.

There’s so much more that could be done. It’s such an epicenter. More direct support from city officials.”

IF YOU WERE MAYOR OF PORTLAND WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE? “Restructure pretty much everything. Many problems couldn’t be solved without addressing a ton of other things.

The way everything is being divided prioritizes development first and people last, and that really has to stop.”

“I would prioritize housing, affordable housing and rent control among many, many other things.”

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THE REAPER GREG FOSTER HOLDS THE RECORD FOR EATING THE HOTTEST PEPPERS IN THE WORLD. HE’S IN PORTLAND TO DEFEND HIS CROWN.

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Greg Foster might be a little insane. Last November, the SoCal resident claimed his plot in the Guinness World Records by eating 16 pods of pure, vomitous fire in just one minute. That’s 120 grams of the hottest chili in the world—the Carolina Reaper, which measures 2.2 million on the Scoville heat scale. That’s 10 times hotter than a habanero. It’s 300 times hotter than the hottest jalapeno ever grown.

“Nobody in their right mind should have this record,” Foster says, “You gotta be a little sick in the head to think that this is a fun thing to do, which a lot of people say that I am.”

Nonetheless, he’s coming back for more.

He only beat the previous record by one gram, and it makes him nervous. And so on August 6, Foster and other world-record hopefuls will try to beat that record at the PDX Hot Sauce Expo in the parking lot next to OMSI. We chatted with Greg about getting high on peppers, the aftermath of eating 16 chilies and being a world champion.

WW: What’s it like to eat a Reaper?

Greg Foster: Eating just a sliver, for the uninitiated, is an out-of-body experience— not to understate it. The first couple of seconds you get this sort of intense floral,

citrusy, really good pepper flavor, which very quickly turns over to the high, intense, searing heat. With the Reapers, the real pain is kind of in the back of your throat, the roof of your mouth. A lot of people equate it to swallowing a charcoal briquette.

It’s one of those heats where your body just doesn’t know what to do—your mind

recovered, I stumbled back to the booth and I had to sit down because I was high—and I haven’t smoked weed in a long time, and I gave up drinking a while ago.

I sat down and I turned to my friend and I looked at him and said, “Man, it feels like I just smoked a blunt. I am sooooo high right now.”

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kind of goes into shock reaction. If one isn’t prepared, you can certainly panic and have all sorts of weird reactions to it. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart.

We’ve read there’s a kind of hot-pepper euphoria. Is it like a really painful edible?

The first time I tried the contest, in Portland last year, I only got like 60 grams or something. After I vomited and kind of

You get the body high, you get the head high. I equate it more with a runner’s high or if you work out really hard and you have that kind of euphoria, where your body’s—I don’t want to say numb or tingly, but you feel that sort of light airiness to your whole body.

You’re a little bit dizzy, you’re kind of spinning. And you’re really, really happy. That first time I ate at contest level, I was happy. I was really happy for about half an hour.

Are you trying to beat your record at the PDX Hot Sauce Expo?

A lot of it depends on conditions. If it’s too hot, if the nerves get to me, there are a lot of things that can play into beating the record. It’s not like I can just walk up on stage, chow down 120 grams without batting an eyelash and walk away. Just like any high-performing athlete or performer, if something is off or you’re a little off your pace or something gets in your way—like if a bug landed on my nose and I had to swat it away—that can upset the rhythm.

We’re talking about 20 peppers in a minute—that’s one pepper every three seconds.

If everything lines up, the peppers are the right size, I’m in the right frame of mind, and I start off with a good pace, the wind is blowing in the right direction and there’s no other real distractions, then I got a really good chance.

I think my goal right now is 150 grams.

But frankly, if I get 50 grams and walk away, that’s a successful day. Really, a successful day is nobody beating my record.

GO: The PDX Hot Sauce Expo is at the OMSI Bridge Lot, 1945 SE Water Ave., PDXHotSauceExpo.com on Saturday and Sunday, August 5-6. 10 am-7 pm. $7 general admission. $35 for a shirt, hot sauce and 5 beer tokens. $60 VIP. The Guinness World Record pepper-eating competition is at 4:30 pm on August 6.

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TUGBOAT BREWING

NORTH BY NORTHWEST: The owners of Mississippi Studios are adding another building to their growing constellation of music venues. Kevin Cradock and Jim Brunberg have purchased the North Star Ballroom at 635 N Killingsworth Ct., which has served as an event space since the 1920s. “It’s a really funky building,” says Cradock. “It looks like Grandma’s house, and it really hasn’t been touched.” A popular wedding location, the hall will remain available to rent for private events. As with Revolution Hall, Cradock and co-owner Jim Brunberg plan to maintain its vintage design.

But they are changing the name to Polaris Hall. Mississippi Studios will use the venue primarily for community events. In addition, they will book about 30 concerts per year, mostly of the acoustic variety, beginning with the release show for local singer-songwriter Shelley Short on Aug. 25.

TUGBOAT SUNK: On August 29, downtown’s 28-year-old Tugboat Brewing will close its doors, probably forever. The weird little brewery was known for its vast bookshelves, board games and super-strength Russian Imperial Stout. In March, a fire ripped through the apartments above the pub, collapsing its ceiling. In June, Tugboat was able to reopen, but owners and employees wrote that the conditions and frequent damage done by the “fleabag” apartments, often home to transients and the disabled, has made the bar uninsurable. Owners haven’t officially said they won’t reopen, but bartender Linsel Greene wrote on social media he found it unlikely. “I think Terry might be done moving kegs, and I can’t say I blame him,” Greene wrote. “I’m pretty tired of it, too.”

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OPEN AND SHUT: Northeast Fremont bar Bottles is getting new owners, but it will remain a barbecue and beer spot. The new co-owners will be Seven Brides Brewing of Silverton, Ore., who will use the space partially as a taproom.

The food will come from the other set of owners, who own a ’cue caterer called Pig Sauce. >> The Radio Room owners will be opening a new restaurant and bar in an old locksmith shop on North Killingsworth, and they’ll be keeping the old sign. The bar will be called Keys. >> Pearl District Vietnamese spot Fish Sauce will be closed for at least a week after a fire early Monday morning that left the entire building without electricity. The fire appears to have begun next to the restaurant’s dumpsters. Owner Ben Bui says his restaurant was undamaged, but the building will need to be inspected before he can reopen. “It’s sad,” says Bui, “because [Tuesday] is my 5-year anniversary. It’ll have to be a candlelight party.”

FUGITIVES AND REFUGEES: Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk was asked to pick his top three Portland tourist attractions for a Seattle TV station. Chances are you haven’t been to any of them.

Palahniuk suggested the Kidd Toy Museum, the Portland Memorial Mausoleum, which he called “a PALAHNIUK fantastic city of death,” and the Gladstone thrift store Red, White & Blue. “People who love the Red, White & Blue will hate that I’m talking about it,” he says. “Because it is such a kept secret.”

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8/2 GREEN DAY

SILENT DISCO AT KELLER FOUNTAIN

Green Day gets older, but their fans stay the same age. Few rock bands have proven able to regenerate a young audience like these poppunk warhorses—a testament to the enduring power of songs so simple an 11-year-old can play them. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771, rosequarter.com. 7 pm. $29-$225. All ages. See feature, page 29.

What better place to rock some headphones, bust some moves, splash in the fountain and wonder if you breathe too heavily? Music starts at 7, but arrive early with ID to guarantee a set of headphones.

1501 SW 3rd Ave., heartbeatsoundsystems.com. 7pm10pm. All ages.

8/3 POLISH-ISRAELI DINNER AT RAY

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Polish food is big in Israel right now, and it’s the heritage of a lot of Israelis from the early diaspora. At Ray, Jenn Louis will be cooking up a three-course Polish-Israeli feast, including her grandmother’s cottage-cheese pancakes with cured salmon, pierogies, garlic beets and plum dumplings.

Ray, 3808 N Williams Ave., 503-288-6200, raypdx. com. $40 includes booze pairings.

Every year, Pickathon's reputation as the country's best little music festival grows, while the festival itself stays the same—small, sustainable and impeccably booked. This year's headliners include Charles Bradley, Dinosaur Jr. and Drive-By Truckers.

Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley, pickathon.com. Through August 6. Single-day passes $125, weekend passes $310. All ages. See preview, page 27.

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Can’t make it to Pickathon? You still have a chance to catch one of the festival’s most buzzworthy performers. New Zealand’s Aldous Harding is making waves among critics by twisting the neo-folk model, taking the narrative sensibilities of Joni Mitchell and adding chilling bits of Bjork, Weyes Blood and Joanna Newsom. Revolution Hall Roof Deck, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-2883895, revolutionhall.com. 7 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

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Proscenium Festival will premiere two full-length plays and three short plays, all in the span of one weekend. Premiering on the second day of the free festival, Santos is a comedy about a high school teacher trying to land a small role in a movie. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1516 SW Alder St., 503-241-1278, portlandshakes.org. 7:30 pm August 4-6. Free.

DANIEL WILSON The new book from Portland author and roboticist Daniel Wilson, The Clockwork Dynasty, has already been optioned by Fox for a movie. It’s about steampunk clockwork automata who’ve been with us since the dawn of time—sorta like sexy vampires without the sex parts. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free. See review, page 39.

OREGON BURLESQUE FESTIVAL

The third year of OBF wraps up with a burlesque competition and showcases performers from across the country. There’ll be striptease in the form of everything from classic burlesque to comedy. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside, 866-777-8932, danteslive.com. 9 pm August 3-5. $20-$125.

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TOTS AND BEER FESTIVAL There’s beer, and there’s fucking tater tots.

It’s like a Paleo nightmare. Specifically, you can sample up to 30 beers from all over and a metric ton of sesame, cheese, garlic, spicy, dusted, sauced or otherwise doctored tots.

Because tots and beer. Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E 5th St., Vancouver, 360-816-6232, tatertotfestival.com. 1-4 pm. $35.

TIM AND ERIC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AWESOME TOUR! With Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,, the duo of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim established themselves as two of American comedy’s most brilliantly disturbed minds, and the bizarre universe they built from scratch is definitely a place worth revisiting. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall.com. 6 pm and 9:30 pm. Early show sold out. $47.50. 21+.

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8/7 JAC JEMC

OREGON NOW WINE FAIR

Chicago’s Jac Jemc is the new hot shit in literary thrillers, and her new book, The Grip of It, is a seriously creepy, claustrophobic psychological horror story in which stains and drawings appear and disappear, and rooms reveal new rooms—a sickening spiderflesh of a novel somewhere between Shirley Jackson gothic and eerie metafictional House of Leaves. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323, powells..com. 7:30 pm. Free.

Oregon wine is getting crazy—orange wines, naturally fermented bubbly, wines aged in foudres or clay amphora—and finally there’s a festival to let you taste it. Pick up tipples from 30 progressive Oregon winemakers who are stretching the borders of what Oregon grapes can be, from Day to Minimus to Ovum to Division Winemaking. Union/Pine, 525 SE Pine St., oregonnowwinefair.com. 5-10 pm. $45-$55.

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The Hollywood is one of only a handful of theaters in the country that can screen Christopher Nolan’s new war movie in 70mm. Today’s the last day of the film’s limited Portland run in wide format. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7 pm and 9:45 pm. $15.

The Incessant, the fourth album from Chicago quartet Meat Wave, is the musical equivalent of popping a zit— it’s super gnarly, but once you start, it’s hard to stop. It’s aggressive, red-meat rock that’ll at once alleviate your angst and get you pissed off about something else all over again. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Shandong = WW Pick.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 Polish-Israeli Dinner

Surprise—Polish food is big in Israel right now, and it’s the heritage of a lot of Israelis from the early diaspora.

At Ray, Jenn Louis will be cooking up a three-course Polish-Israeli feast, including her grandmother’s cottagecheese pancakes with cured salmon, pierogies, garlic beets and plum dumplings. Ray, 3808 N Williams Ave., 503-288-6200, raypdx.com. $40 includes booze pairings.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 Tots and Beer Festival

There’s beer, and there’s fucking tater tots. It’s like a Paleo nightmare.

Specifically, you can sample up to 30 beers from all over—don’t expect massive rarities, but expect volume— and a metric ton of sesame, cheese, garlic, spicy, dusted, sauced or otherwise doctored tots. Because tots and beer. Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E 5th St., Vancouver, 360-816-6232, tatertotfestival.com. 1-4 pm. $35..

Hot Sauce Expo

Wanna watch people in pain? Pain you can’t even understand, mixed with ecstasy? Show up at 4:30 pm at the Hot Sauce Expo and watch foolhardy people eat the hottest peppers in the world, for nothing but bragging rights.

OMSI Bridge Lot, 1945 SE Water Ave., PDXHotSauceExpo.com on Saturday and Sunday, August 5-6. 10 am-7 pm. $7 general admission. $35 for a shirt, hot sauce and 5 beer tokens. $60 VIP..

Where to eat this week.

1. Farmhouse Kitchen

3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-4328115, farmhousepdx.com.

This San Fran-founded Thai spot serves up a few dishes you can’t get better anywhere in town— including a 24-hour beef short-rib soup that’s monumentally good. $$-$$$.

2. Jack’s Chicken

909 NE Alberta St., 503-282-2169.

For a mere $5 you get serious wings, great jojos and a side of ranch in a mini mart. This is Alberta Street’s worst kept secret. $-$$$

3. Han Oak

511 NE 24th Ave., 971-255-0032, hanoakpdx.com.

Sunday and Monday dumpling and noodle nights are more on point than a credit union. $-$$$

3. Bunk Bar Wonder

128 NE Russell St., 503-328-2865, bunksandwiches.com.

Every Friday and Saturday, Bunk Bar Wonder’s Josh Luebke is making one of the best burgers in the city: a double cheeseburger with pork-onion jam, fried onions and killer french fries on the side. $.

5. Marukin

609 SE Ankeny St., A, 503-8949021, marukinramen.com.

It’s so hot. There’s now cold ramen at Marukin with house shichimi togarashi. $

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FOOD & DRINK

ANDY YOUNG OF ST. REGINALD PARISH

GREAT GRAPES Whatever you thought about Oregon wine five years ago, the new generation of winemakers is throwing that on its head, starting a revolution against homogenous, larger-winery tipples. They’re making wines turned orange from grape-skin contact; naturally fermented bubbly; wines aged in foudres, acacia wood barrels or clay amphorae; and white-wine grapes served up as red wine.

And on Monday, August 7, at the Central Eastside’s Union/ Pine event space, there’ll finally be a festival to let you taste these wines together. Around 30 of Oregon’s top progressive winemakers will take part in a brand-new festival dubbed Oregon Wine Now, a rare exhibition for the next generation we called the New Oregon Wine in a February cover story ("New Crush," WW, Feb. 15, 2017). Think of this as a craft-beer festival, but for wine. The wineries will include Bow & Arrow Wines, Day Wines, Division Winemaking, Minimus, Ovum, St. Reginald Parish and many other small, local winemakers stretching the borders of what Oregon wine can be.

We asked founder Michael Rhodes what this event means for Oregon wine. JORDAN MICHELMAN. WW: How did you decide which wineries to include?

Michael Rhodes: These wineries have emerged on the Oregon scene in the past 10 years or so, and in wine terms are new. All of them are small businesses where the owner is also the main worker.

In recent years, numerous multinational wine corporations from California and France have bought tracts of vineyards and wineries in the Willamette Valley. For decades, wealthy individuals and investor groups have been starting or buying well-funded wine estates in Oregon and hiring people to do the farming and winemaking for them. These well-financed groups control more and more of the grape sources and have extensive sales and marketing operations.

Whatever you think about that, it does have the clear effect of squeezing the little guys. So it seems the little guys need to band together to get a share of the Oregon wine conversation.

Do these winemakers share interesting similarities?

The diversity of styles and flavors is pretty amazing. But in terms of philosophy, this group has a lot of similarities. The phrase “post-natural-wine-movement experimental minimalists” works pretty well as a shorthand. I’m sure some will disagree.

As a starting point, they share the idea that wine grapes should be grown in an ecologically sustainable way and handled with great care, that cellar work should be minimally interventionist, that winemaking should express varietal character and the terroir of the vineyard site. That’s almost an unspoken assumption. They also appreciate cool labels.

GO: Oregon Wine Now will take place Monday, August 7, at Union/Pine, 525 SE Pine St., oregonnowwinefair.com. 5-10 pm. $45-$55.

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ROUND-UP

place in Portland where chop suey and egg foo young are still considered delicacies, with eight variations of each.

Sure, the place has seen better days (on our visit, the door had been smashed THE REPUBLIC CAFE in, and covered with particle board) but almost nowhere in Portland is the distant past so present. The egg foo young ($7.50) is like an old man’s heart—full of egg and gravy. You couldn’t call it good, but it is a profound comfort. The hot-andsour soup and General Tso’s chicken can be safely ignored, but the Republic serves the most classic rendition of Mongolian beef ($11.95) in Portland, a massive platter that is all green onion bittersweetness and cellophane crunch, under strips of beef.

GOLDEN HORSE LOUIE, LOUIE: Chinatown's last dim sum.

It’s Chinatown, Portland WE ATE AT EVERY RESTAURANT IN PORTLAND’S ORIGINAL HOME TO CHINESE FOOD.

BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE mkorfhage@wweek.com

For two decades, Portlanders have said Chinatown isn’t Chinatown anymore.

Old Town’s Chinatown, founded as "New Chinatown" in the 1870s, is nonetheless one of the oldest in the country. But lately most of the city’s Chinese population, and most of its best Chinese food, has moved to the New Chinatown on 82nd Avenue.

But the history stays here, next to the Hip Sing Association building and the massive sign announcing the chop suey of Hung Far Low, Taishanese dialect for “almond blossom fragrance.” And for years, Chinatown has seemed impervious to change, its oldest restaurants standing as eternal monuments to midcentury American ideas of Chinese food.

But this June, as the Hi-Lo hotel becomes the second boutique hotel to open in Old Town alongside the Society, it seems that even Chinatown might get an update.

This month is Cluster Feeding Month at WW, where we investigate the zones in Portland where various cultures' cuisines hangs together in tight proximity. And so we decided to eat at every Chinese restaurant that still remains in Chinatown, eating specialty items where relevant. If available, we always ordered the American-Chinese classics of General Tso’s chicken, Mongolian beef and hot-and-sour soup.

What did we discover? Chinatown is still Chinatown, now and forever.

HOUSE OF LOUIE

331 NW Davis St., 503-228-9898.

House of Louie has long been the plush-boothed Denny’s of Portland American-Chinese, its door framed in a grand and kitschified circle. As nearby Chinese restaurants closed, House served the third-best, and then the second-best, and now the only dim sum in Portland’s old Chinatown, with glutinously oversticky dumplings and rice noodles, and sugar-sweet char siu. But hating Denny’s is silly—it’s like hating an elephant ear at the fair. At House of Louie, the trick is to avoid things requiring finesse, and probably also vegetables. Get the General Tso’s chicken, a bread bomb thick with sugar and sesame and just a tangy hint of spice—which goes down better with the slightly singed chili oil on each table. The hot-and-sour soup is lightly sour, sneezy with white pepper and corn-starch syrupy—and if it's not great, it still feels as classic as a greasy burger at the diner.

THE REPUBLIC CAFE

222 NW 4th Ave., 503-226-4388.

Two of Portland’s oldest restaurants are Chineseowned. One is Huber’s, which was taken over by the Chinese Jim Louie family. And the other is the family-owned Republic Cafe, founded in 1923. The Republic is home to perhaps the most beautiful seedy bar in Portland, the Ming Lounge, a red-lit palace of baroque Orientalism dominated by a dragon on one wall. The oddly cramped dining room is hung with floral wall tapestries and a mural that looks like it was unearthed from an ancient tomb. The menu is similarly ancient: It is, perhaps, the only

238 NW 4th Ave., 503-228-1688.

If you go to Golden Horse, make sure you have nowhere to be. On our visit, the clientele was all retirees, and neither the food nor the ordering nor the payment happened quickly. Nobody else seemed to mind: One guy read the paper, and one looked at his phone, while three women rounded off their third pot of tea. The beef was gristly, and the chicken was, too. The salt-and-pepper squid was fishy. The hot and sour soup tasted like molasses.

GOOD TASTE

18 NW 4th Ave., 503-223-3838.

Good Taste is the kind of bare-bones, no-nonsense, tight-tabled Cantonese barbecue spot where you’re greeted at the door by a side of pork and a neat row of ducks hanging from meat hooks above metal trays of chopped pork. It feels a little dusty, but is always full of Cantonese speakers. There is an American-Chinese menu, which we felt somewhat guilty ordering from, with perfunctory bell-pepper-and-onion Mongolian beef, not to mention a hot-and-sour soup ruined by the vinegar. But as always at Good Taste, what you want is the Super Bowl A: chicken noodle soup filled with eight wontons, chopped duck and barbecue pork. It’s a barbecue sampler in soup form, and one of Chinatown’s simplest pleasures.

RED ROBE

310 NW Davis St., 503-227-8855, redrobeteahouse.com.

Since opening in 2011, Red Robe has been one of the finest teahouses in town, pouring teas from complex Da Hong Pao (literally, RED ROBE “big red robe”) to beautifully smoky roasted Tie Guan Yin. If you’re lucky on your visit, gracious owner Pearl Zhang will perform the Gongfu tea ritual at your table, rinsing and sealing and short-steeping your tea for maximum flavor without bitterness. Until now, I’d never tried the food. That was a mistake. The hot pot ($28 for two people) is now my favorite in town—a subtle, aromatic, vegetable-thick broth without the bathwater tepidity or angry spice of most versions. Make sure to include both wonton and dumpling in your hot pot order. Your receipt will arrive with free almond cookies, a piece of good fortune much better than any future you'd find in a folded factory shell.

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THE SEGALL HAS LANDED: Ty Segall playing The Galaxy Barn at Pickathon 2016.

Pickin’ and Choosin’ THE 11 MUST-SEE SETS AT THIS YEAR’S PICKATHON.

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

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Every year, Pickathon’s reputation as the country’s best little music festival grows, while the festival itself stays the same—small, sustainable and impeccably booked. After a huge 2016 weekend, this year’s lineup has come back down closer to earth, with a handful of medium-sized names on top and a typically strong undercard of potential breakout acts.

As usual, everyone plays twice, but given the different stage environments, not every performance is the same. Here are the 11 artists we’re most excited to see, and where we’re most excited to see them.

Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires

(Mt. Hood Stage, 8:50 pm Thursday) Other than securing a primo camping spot, there’s often not much reason to get to Pickathon the day before things really pop off. But this year, the festival is rewarding early birds with one of the true headlining sets of the weekend. A recent cancer scare forced the Screaming Eagle of Soul off the road for a time, and though he’s since recovered, it’s a reminder you should never take an opportunity to bask in such rare passion for granted.

KING

(Treeline Stage, 3:10 pm Friday) When it comes to setting the mood, L.A.’s KING are up there with Sade and Marvin Gaye circa “I Want You.” But their brand of euphoric electro soul isn’t just babymaking music—it works just as well for stoned self-love, too. And thank God for that, since boot-knocking conditions at Pickathon aren’t exactly optimal.

Xenia Rubinos

(Treeline Stage, 8:10 pm Friday) No one puts Xenia Rubinos in a corner!

Stylistically speaking. Across two albums, the Brooklyn singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist has dizzied critics, zigzagging between graceful R&B, sassy hip-hop, playful punk-funk and other hot-wired genre combinations. Her hyperactive live sets are even more head-spinning—expect to sweat.

Priests

(Galaxy Barn, 11:40 pm Friday) Ever since Thee Oh Sees decimated the Galaxy Barn in 2012, Pickathon has made a tradition of cramming the wildest band on the lineup into its smallest venue at the peak of the crowd’s collective inebriation, setting off what’s basically a raging house show in the middle of a rustic music festival. But Washington, D.C.’s Priests aren’t exactly the first group you’d invite to play a kegger—their twisted, discordant, politically motivated post punk is more likely to scare the dance floor than get it moving. As someone once said, though, anger is an energy, and there’s enough fury in Priests’ violent cacophony to power anti-Trump rallies from here ’til impeachment.

Tank and the Bangas

(Woods Stage, 4:20 pm Saturday) Winning NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest hasn’t yet proven to be a career springboard, but it’s impossible to watch the joyous entry from New Orleans’ Tank and the Bangas and not see stars in the making. Led by singer and slam-poet Tarriona Ball, the six-piece band foregrounds her shape-shifting vocals and narrative storytelling against elastic funkand-soul grooves. It’s a broadly appealing melange, one which plays equally to fans of Chance the Rapper as public radio listeners.

Dungen

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(Starlight Stage, 10:15 pm Saturday) Long before Tame Impala, Sweden’s Dungen were creating lush worlds of sound so three-dimensional they feel like you can live inside them. The band’s pastoral psych folk—as meticulously crafted as a Swiss watch and as richly detailed as a Cézanne painting—is transportive enough on record, but under the open sky of the Starlight Stage, don’t be surprised if you doze off and wake up to find yourself in some mystical Scandinavian glen.

(Treeline Stage, 4:30 pm Sunday) Aminé wasn’t Portland’s only outta-nowhere success story of the last year. Though he’s yet to blown up the same way, R&B singer TYuS Strickland snagged a major-label deal on the strength of his self-produced sex jams, which should sound decidedly out of place at Pendarvis Farm. But being an outlier at Pickathon just means you’re more likely to be remembered, and Strickland has the voice to make sure of it.

Dinosaur Jr.

(Treeline Stage, 10 pm Sunday) A multi-time veteran of the festival, who attends as a fan even when he’s not on the bill, Segall is becoming as much of a Pickathon staple as the opening night square dance, and he makes sure to bring it each time.

What “it” is depends on his ever-changing whims. An acoustic punk set? A glam-rock spectacle? He’s had, for him, a relatively quiet year so far—only one album, bro?—so there’s little telling what he has planned this time around, but expect it to be loud.

(Woods Stage, 11 pm Saturday) Was a Dinosaur Jr. set in the Galaxy Barn too much to ask for? Probably—J Mascis’ patented guitar squall likely would’ve made the roof cave in. But hey, the Woods is still a nutty place to see one of indie rock’s most legendary bands, whose reunion has arguably produced more great music than their original run. Maybe this’ll be the year someone finally tries to crowd-surf one of those decorative hay bales.

Aldous Harding

(Galaxy Barn, Noon Sunday) Want to feel uneasy on Sunday morning?

Wake up, grab a cup of Stumptown, and let Aldous Harding welcome you to the festival’s final day with such delightful ditties as “What If Birds Aren’t Singing They’re Screaming.” She might play guitar with spiderweb delicacy, but beneath the New Zealand singer’s breathy compositions lurks a pronounced sense of dread.

With a vocal range spanning from Joanna Newsom to Nico, Harding’s earned the tag of “gothic folk,” and while the lyrics aren’t always pretty, the music sure is gorgeous.

Ty Segall

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(Galaxy Barn, 11:40 pm Sunday) Meet the other Haim sisters, three Israeli siblings making pan-global party music in the M.I.A. mold, with the hyper-bright fashion sense to match. Having already earned a crucial cosign from Mr. Worldwide himself, Pitbull, the trio’s mashup of hiphop, reggae, EDM and traditional Middle Eastern folk should be the find of the festival for anyone smart enough to have taken Monday off from work. Dalé!

SEE IT: Pickathon is at Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Rd., Happy Valley, on Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 3-6. See pickathon.com for complete schedule and ticket information. All ages.

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A SEAT AT THE TABLE: Aldous Harding plays Revolution Hall on Friday, August 4. = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2 Marika Hackman, The Big Moon

[BRIT POP] On her third album, I’m Not Your Man, Marika Hackman sounds like she woke up from a dreamy, acoustic sleep. Hackman, previously known for soft-spoken, finger-picked lullabies á la Laura Marling, has now embraced dark, swirling, psychedelic folk and Smiths-inspired noise pop.

Listening to her is like waking up from you own pleasant dream and landing at a London house show where you can’t stop dancing.

SOPHIA JUNE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Sleepy Sun, Skull Diver

[PSYCH ROCK] It’s been over a decade since Sleepy Sun formed between classes at UC Santa Cruz.

The quartet has built a small but faithful following since, thanks to their hypnotic, exploratory rock.

Sleepy Sun’s fifth full-length, Private Tales, features enough heady guitar noodling and shifty sonic structures to appease even the pickiest psych-rock enthusiasts. The fluid instrumentation and blown-out vocals remind of Portland stalwarts King Black Acid. The equally electric-guitar loving, self-described “nightmarepop” Portland duo Skull Diver kicks things off. MARK STOCK. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-754-7782. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+..

THURSDAY, AUG. 3 Taking Back Sunday, Every Time I Die, All Get Out

[EMO RESUSCITATION] As the emo revival keeps churning and flash-in-the-pans like Mineral and the Anniversary reunite to relive the glory, one can’t help wonder what a band like Taking Back Sunday—who’s been quietly releasing one sharp and sugary

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blast of early ’00s emo pop the entire time—has to think about all of this. Perhaps it would’ve served them better to stay broken up after the stress caused by the runaway success of their now classic debut record Tell All Your Friends. But last year’s Tidal Wave shows that sticking with the formula of frontman Adam Lazzara’s signature shit-talking sing-alongs punched up with massive guitar hooks and drum fills finally solidified TBS’ status as men among boys. The younger generation may have more hair, but they have far fewer good ideas. PETE COTTELL. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 7:30 pm. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show.

All ages.

Jlin, Swan Meat, Neybuu

[ELECTRONIC] Gary, Ind., producer Jlin turns the rapid, frenetic energy of footwork on its ear, opting for a more languid approach that stretches out the music’s skittish skips and hisses into the foundation on which to build intensely complex aural landscapes. It’s a formidable deluge of elements—vocal samples repetitiously dropping as counterpoint to loose melodic flourishes, pounding blips of percussive pummeling—that might require some patience from anyone not already familiar with her. But it shouldn’t take long for a layman to see why Jlin is being heralded as a pioneer in a pretty esoteric genre. Both her 2015 debut, Dark Energy, and this year’s follow-up, Black Origami, were awarded the coveted the Best New Music title from Pitchfork. CRIS LANKENAU. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Bobby Bare Jr., Quinn Deveaux, Kevin Lee Florence

[THE GIGGING TREE] Growing up next door to George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and earning his first Grammy nod at age 8, the son of country legend Bobby Bare never had to be much more

than merely adequate for an idling career as the indie Bocephus.

Instead, though Bare the Younger acknowledges he never quite took a musical career seriously until his 30s, he’s recorded an enviable discography midst a flurry of farflung projects, including playing guitar on last year’s Guided By Voices tour and co-producing a tribute album for poet-songwriter Shel Silverstein. Still, however worthy the diversions, albums like 2014’s Undefeated reveal the restless genre-spanning talent behind tuneful narratives rollicking and harrowing and ever deserving of further exploration. As the prodigal son passes his fifth decade, this really should be where the side work ends. JAY HORTON. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show.

21+.

a brooding post-punk sound— one which still retains the catharsis and caterwauling of frontman Davey Havok—is as good a look as any when the uncooling effects of old age begin to take hold. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 9 pm. $34.50. All ages.

AFI, Circa Survive, Citizen

Darsombra, Thrones, Mike Scheidt, Stoller

[GOTH PUNK] It’s taken two decades for their sound to properly match their aesthetic, but a slightly more mellow and melodic approach to the macabre post-hardcore that once made AFI heroes of the Warped Tour suits the quartet quite well on this year’s The Blood Album. When you can’t vamp on the Misfits forever, evolving toward

The Weight Band

SATURDAY, AUG. 5 [AMBIENT DRONE] A common characteristic of noise music is its harsh-yet-appealing dissonance, and Baltimore duo Darsombra have been churning it out successfully in the last 12 years. Symbiotically joining guitars, synths and intense

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[CLASSIC ROCK] While contemporary acts like Old Crow Medicine Show and Blitzen Trapper can sell out larger venues performing full albums by their 1960s folk-rock heroes, this tribute to the Band actually boasts ex-members of one of the most celebrated groups of the 1960s. Carrying the music into the future long after several of its authors have passed on, the Weight Band revive an inimitable blend of country, folk and rock’n’roll. CRIS LANKENAU. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 8 pm. $28. 21+.

sibilities of Joni Mitchell. Picture a fearsome melding of Bjork, Weyes Blood and Joanna Newsom, set to chilling, gothic-tinged Americana.

Harding’s live performances have left music critics in a big, reeling heap. She is unlikely to play a rooftop at this price ever again, so get up there. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall Roof Deck, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-288-3895. 7 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Mane of the Cur, Megaton Leviathan

[FANTASY METAL] Long-running Bay Area metal act Slough Feg are still hard at work crafting their 10th full-length album. That being the case, the notoriously irreverent band is calling this swing through the Northwest a promotional tour for their new enamel pin. That badge features the same artwork as Slough Feg’s classic Traveller album, based on the ’80s sci-fi roleplaying game of the same name.

Overall, fans of Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy and other heady, conceptual hard rock and power metal owe it to themselves to see this master class in melodic nerdcore. NATHAN CARSON. The Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-238-0543.

8:30 pm. $10. 21+.

Weeed, Young Hunter

[PSYCH METAL] Bainbridge Island, Wash., isn’t the most well-known city in the Pacific Northwest, but the big-haired, heavy-psych trio Weeed are making their blip on the map a little bit bigger. Stoner stylings are everywhere in the metal world nowadays, but Weeed leans more toward a late ’60s style of psych than the slow-rolling dirge of classic stoner metal. Murky riffs meet vivid, long-winded grooves in a perfect marriage of acid trip weirdness and weed-induced drifting, making Weeed sets the kind where you can enter sober and still leave feeling intoxicated.

CERVANTE POPE. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 503-2369672. 8 pm. Free. 21+..

FRIDAY, AUG. 4 The Wailers

[CLASSIC REGGAE] What’s summer without a little reggae?

The Wailers—as in, “Bob Marley and the”—is now led by bassist Aston Barrett, but the songs are so timeless it really doesn’t matter who’s playing them. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-288-3895. 8 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.

Aldous Harding, Briana Marela

[NEW FOLK] The tastemakers at London label 4AD have a new darling in Aldous Harding. On her new album, Party, the New Zealand artist is twisting the neofolk model, imparting a haunting mixture of intense introspection, raw emotion and the narrative sen-

Sweet Children Unless Billie Joe Armstrong goes the way of Ben Weasel and curdles into a caricature of reactionary conservatism, my family will always be a Green Day family. Along with Red Vines and Wayne’s World, it composes our holy trinity, and it is all beauty and suffering.

My dad recently told me he doesn’t want a funeral. “Just get some people together and listen to a few Green Day songs in my honor,” he said. My dad took me to my first Green Day show when I was 15 and he was 36. That was one of the happiest days of my life. When I think about my dad, I think about that day— the sun on our necks, Green Day onstage, joy surrounding me.

When my brother and I saw the band on their American Idiot tour in 2004, we felt so betrayed by the pyrotechnical hugeness of latter-day Green Day that we almost cried.

I am now 37 and have a 3-year-old daughter. She is one of the few things in this world I love more than Green Day. When she was an infant, I sang her to sleep every night. Since “Basket Case” was one of the only songs I could sing from memory, I would sing it to my daughter over and over and over until she finally fell asleep. I still sing it to her sometimes. I try, at least. By the time I make it to the second line of the first verse, her hand shoots to my mouth to keep me from embarrassing us both.

But like me and my dad, and like me and my brother, my daughter and I will always have Green Day. She will hear “Basket Case” in a bar one day and a sliver of her will remember a hovering, shadowy shape sending her to sleep. And she will hear Kerplunk in some buddy’s basement and remember, in some vague way, the summer we moved into a new house and drove around with the windows down, Green Day cranking.

And she will hear “Going to Pasalacqua” on some spaceship taking her to a better planet, and she will remember me remembering my brother remembering my dad, and we will be bound up in something beautiful and true. For a fleeting instant, she will be me and I will be her, and the song will go on even when I cannot. CHRIS STAMM.

Raising the next generation of Green Day fans.

SEE IT: Green Day plays the Moda Center, 1 N Center Ct. St., with Catfish and the Bottlemen, on Wednesday, August 2. 7 pm. $35-$280. All ages.

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Aminé

GOOD FOR YOU

(Republic)

[POP RAP] Around this time last year, Aminé came out of nowhere and did the impossible—he put Portland hip-hop on the national radar. “Caroline,” the Benson High School alum’s viral juggernaut, ripped its way through the zeitgeist of summer 2016, going triple platinum and launching the 23-yearold from Soundcloud heatseeker to radio-hit wonder boy.

When an artist is catapulted into the spotlight as abruptly as Aminé, though, it’s often the follow-up that really proves their worth. It doesn’t always work out. But with his debut fulllength Good for You, the rapper proves himself a whip-smart MC, versatile enough to slip from the mischievous swagger of “Caroline” to more thoughtful modes with unique ease.

Aminé’s buoyant odes to romance continue on songs like “Hero,” the flute-driven “Spice Girl” and “Wedding Crashers,” a biting tag team with Migos member Offset. In contrast, the Nelly-abetted “Yellow” is a celebration of self, a peacocking anthem for those still blessed with the invincibility of youth. The slow, dizzying synthesizer riff works well with the bursts of drum machine, acting as a metaphor for adolescence itself—it drags on, then disappears impossibly fast. “Hell yeah/I’m feeling myself,” the chorus trumpets, a reminder of what it’s like to be under 25 and drunk with confidence.

The influence of Outkast runs deep throughout Good for You. In the past, Aminé has made no secret of his debt to the Southern rap legends—see the flip of the “Ms. Jackson” chorus on his Calling Brio EP—but here, he makes it even plainer, declaring at one point, “I’m Andre’s prodigy, you won’t find a hotter me.” Indeed, Aminé exhibits a level of cool somewhere between Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik-era André 3000 and Pharrell in his pre-big-hat phase. He’s helped greatly by the production, which does a lot with a little, allowing Aminé’s elastic voice the space to stretch out.

But Aminé has more on his mind than girls and goodnatured braggadocio. On “Turf,” he delivers a tender love song to his hometown that doesn’t ignore its major flaws. “They kickin’ out the blacks and all the houses getting cloned,” Aminé laments over a soft guitar riff. The spare instrumentation pairs well with the weight of the issues Aminé is wrestling with, without getting maudlin. Good for You is, for the most part, a classic summertime party record. But “Turf ” proves Aminé’s ability to slow down and tell a compelling story about where he comes from. Let’s hope that, with his success, more Portland artists will get the chance to do the same on a national stage. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. HEAR IT: Aminé’s Good for You is out now.

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visuals, Darsombra’s sound can best be described in their own words as “trans-apocalyptic galaxy rock,” perfectly scoring a selfcreated space-war narrative. It’s somehow moody and upbeat all at once, acting as a proper medium between Thrones’ experimental doom, the electro-prog of Stoller and Mike Scheidt’s dark folk.

CERVANTE POPE. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. $9. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 6 Avi Buffalo, Haunted Summer

[BEACH-BUM INDIE] Avi Buffalo turned a lot of heads back in 2010 when he released “What’s In It For?” The Southern California singer-songwriter caught Sub Pop’s eye and toured extensively, but ultimately only released one additional album on the iconic Seattle label.

Fortunately, Avi Buffalo is working on his third full-length all by his lonesome, reminding us of his gift for creating wavy, indie beach rock.

Part formative country rock, part dreamy explorative pop in the vein of Youth Lagoon, the music of Avi Buffalo is worth the wait. MARK STOCK. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 503-236-4536 9 pm. Free. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 8 Eyehategod, Capitalist Casualties, Cliterati, Hands of Thieves

[EXTREME LEGENDS] The despairing sludge of Eyehategod and the pissed powerviolence of Capitalist Casualties infected seemingly every extreme band of the late 20th century, but neither act was content to linger as a mere memory. The former’s self-titled 2014 album was a hair-raising howl from the abyss, while the latter’s occasional appearances on split 7-inches have offered convincing proof there is no need to slow down with age. So respect your elders and let them demolish you. Again. CHRIS STAMM. Dante’s, 350 West Burnside St., 503-2266630. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

Meat Wave, Rad Payoff

[ASPHALT ROCK] Meat Wave’s fourth album, The Incessant, is the musical equivalent of popping a zit.

It’s gnarly, but there’s something that compels you to keep going.

The album is non-stop, aggressive, red-meat rock that’ll at once alleviate your angst and make you pissed off about something else all over again. SOPHIA JUNE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Braxton Cook, Farnell Newton

[JAZZ SOULS] Much of the world’s most creative music is being made in the sonic gray area between Erykah Badu and Esperanza Spalding by people like alto saxophonist and singer Braxton Cook.

A Juilliard-trained horn player who has toured the world playing with neo-jazz luminaries like Christian Scott, the Brooklyn-based musician’s recently released album, Somewhere in Between, perfectly exemplifies this sound, mixing beautifully round vocal tones with shredding horn solos and deep, R&B influenced grooves into a wall of sound that’s simultaneously inviting and complex. Cook is joined tonight by local trumpeter and Jill Scott collaborator Farnell Newton, whose soulful horn solos will blend perfectly into the cutting-edge mix. PARKER HALL. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 503-228-7605. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 4. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Siren and the Sea WHO: Cristina Cano (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Erik Clampitt (baritone guitar, pedal steel), Ethan Fox Tucker (bass), Ayal Alves (synths), Judd Kennedy Harris (drums).

SOUNDS LIKE: Metallic tropical fish, happily drowning in deep water.

FOR FANS OF: Bomba Estéreo, Sylvan Esso.

On the cover of her debut album as Siren and the Sea, Cristina Cano wears a gold jumpsuit, all of her shimmering. “I held the angels, dripping with diamonds,” she sings at one point, her voice equally shimmery with reverb, as droning synths build behind her like clouds accumulating rain. “My gold is worth more than you bargained.”

“I’ve always been a little dramatic,” she says, laughing.

Cano, with long dark curls and an acute soprano tone, in some ways instantly recalls the temptress her band’s name evokes. In everyday conversation, though, her brooding stage persona feels remote. She talks about her music in a seasoned, grounded way, tracing her progress from solo acoustic singersongwriter upon her arrival in Portland nine years ago to her current guise as a cosmic electro-pop bandleader.

This Time With Feeling, Siren and the Sea’s first full-length album, was released this past February. Thematically, it’s a deepsea dive into nonhuman realms, at times literally evoking a sense of disembodiment, as on indie-rock earworm “Limbs,” which opens with the command, “Off with the left/Off with the right.”

And the music itself takes its loose categorization as “swimwave” literally. It is awash with Moogs, Nords, Korgs and all manner of phosphorescent synth sounds, some manifesting as coats of sheen atop melody, others as blinking percussion in the style of Karl Blau-esque bedroom pop.

“There’s the fluidity of the water,” says Cano, whose birthplace of Hawaii and upbringing in Miami attached her to aqueous themes from an early age, “and the idea that it’s a very dark place—but then you have something calling you into it, making you deal with it.”

There’s still a thread, too, of the first iteration of the band as it existed eight years ago, in a very different, folk-obsessed Portland. Cano played with a violinist and an accordion player, making dark gypsy folk that occasionally peeks through in her current project, mostly in the finger-picked guitar and pedal steel that adorn story-songs like “Pocketwatch.” On an album largely obscured by layered electronic sounds, it glistens with clarity.

“I need a door with a lock and key/So I can stay away from me,” Cano sings, in a compact distillation of the album’s themes.

Cano’s new work will be in much the same vein. It’s a hurricane-themed concept EP, made, as This Time, alongside EYRST engineer Justin Longerbeam. Expect it to sound expansive, unpredictable and fully enveloping—and maybe just a bit sad.

“Even when you’re not feeling super overloaded with melancholy, it’s always there,” says Cano. “I’ve always tried to tap into that.” ISABEL ZACHARIAS. SEE IT: Siren and the Sea play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with PWRHAUS and All Night, on Wednesday, Aug. 2.

8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. AUG. 2 Corkscrew

1665 SE Bybee Blvd Rachel Brashear Trio

Dante’s

350 West Burnside 3TEETH

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Moody Little Sister (The Winery Tasting Room)

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. Alan Jones Sextet

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., Siren and the Sea, Pwrhaus, All Night (Luz Elena and Ryan Oxford)

Justa Pasta

1336 NW 19th Avenue, Anson Wright Duo

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Marika Hackman, The Big Moon

Moda Center

1 N Center Ct St, Green Day

O’ Malleys

6535 SE Foster Rd. New Not Normals, Manx

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Blackberry Smoke

The Barberry

645 NE 3rd St., McMinnville Sonny Hess with Lisa Mann

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St. DoveDriver

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Exotica. Frenzy, U-nix, Petite

Howard M. Terpenning Recreation Complex

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. In The Whale, Stab In the Dark, Living Skins

16581 SE Hagen Rd., Happy Valley

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell I Disagree, Absence of Despair, Skulldozer

THU. AUG. 3 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Cloud Cult

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Coast2Coast Live, Cool Nutz, TROX, DJ OG One

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St, Madchild, Sid Wilson

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave, Slow Caves, The Toads, Plastic Cactus

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Ave. Jolie’s Jam Session

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Taking Back Sunday, Every Time I Die, All Get Out

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Anita Margarita & the RattleSnakes (The Little Red Shed)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St, Jlin, Swan Meat, Neybuu

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1001 N Schmeer Rd. Vanport Jazz Festival

Portland Center Stage 128 NW 11th Ave. , First Thursday with Cedar Teeth

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St. #110 Kyle Morton, Black Belt Eagle Scout

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave, The Weight Band 8218 N. Lombard St. Cool Schmool, Mere Mention, Tashi Delay 2845 SE Stark St. Gipsy Moon

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St. Marbletop Orchestra, Jason Undefined, Speedway

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Pawns, Bellicose Minds, Terminal Conquest

The Know

The Ranger Station

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Darsombra, Thrones, Mike Scheidt, Stoller

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Open Mic

The Tonic Lounge

1420 SE Powell Tallwomen, Friendship Commanders, The Lxcals

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Weeed, Young Hunter

FRI. AUG. 4 Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St. Dandelion Massacre, She/Her/Hers, Raccoon Venom

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St High Summer Fest: Disenchanter, Year of the Cobra, Wounded Giant, Sarama

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave, Oshwa, Paper Gates

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Just Friends

Edgefield

The O’Neil Public House

WATCH THE STORM: Waxahatchee frontwoman Katie Crutchfield emerged from behind the curtains of the Wonder Ballroom on July 26, cloaked in black and wearing a self-assured stare. As she dove into “Recite Remorse,” off her spellbinding new album, Out in the Storm, she left her hands free to take control of the microphone, singing, “For a moment I was not lost/I was waiting for permission to take off.”

With her killer band—which includes her twin sister, Allison— Crutchfield scorched through every haunting song off Waxahatchee’s latest masterpiece. Out in the Storm tells the story of a relationship that seemed to wring Crutchfield out of her own body.

In Portland, Waxahatchee performed songs like “Brass Beam” as a seething reclamation of power. Crutchfield gripped her guitar with all her strength as she sang, “I couldn’t see the sun from there, just a beam/I thought it would never come out, yeah, I had to leave.” The more fragile “A Little More” lingered with a similar message, only with less noise: “I’ll fly away just like a bird/A jagged truth left unheard/And I live a little more/And I die a little more.” For a moment after the last note rang out of closing song “Under a Rock,” Crutchfield’s hair fell across her face in the same arrangement as shown on the cover of Out in the Storm, and she smiled. It feels good to get lost in a performance, but for that moment, she didn’t seem lost—she was just soaking in the joy of it. TARYN NOBIL. JB’s Nightclub & Lounge

909 N Hayden Island Dr. The Myxx

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Scarlet Sails, Radiator King, Garanzuay

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Mark Alan (The Winery Tasting Room)

Marylhurst University

Fremont Theater

Mississippi Studios

2393 NE Fremont St. Bobby Torres Ensemble featuring Julana Torres & Carmelo Torres

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd..

AJR

Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave. Braxton Cook, Farnell Newton

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17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy 43), Marylhurst Sister Mercy

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Whistles and the Bells, The Rocketboys

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave AFI, Circa Survive, Citizen

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave, Deathcharge, Murderbait, Vacant Stares

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., School of Rock; He Is Legend, Islander, To Speak Of Wolves, Bad Seed Rising

The Fixin’ To

Pendarvis Farm

8218 N. Lombard St. Clawfoot Slumber, Young Elk, Sallo

Revolution Hall

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Drunken Prayer, Fernando, Hearts of Oak

16581 SE Hagen Rd, Happy Valley Pickathon

1300 SE Stark St. #110 Aldous Harding, Briana Marela (roof deck); the Wailers

The Know

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Hot Club Time Machine

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Stress Position, Death Eyes, Ssold, Rat Heaven

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Bloodtypes, Whoosie What’s It’s, Dreadful Children, Rad Max

SAT. AUG. 5 Adventureland Ballroom

2262 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd, Soul Progression, Yard Gypsy

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St. Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls’ Summer Camp Showcase

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. High Summer Fest: Mammoth Salmon, Teepee Creeper, KLAW, Ancient Warlocks

Bare Bones Café

2900 SE Belmont St. The Hugs, Volturz

6000 NE Glisan St. Cosmic Butter

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St. The Libertine Belles

The TARDIS Room

1214 N. Killingsworth Ave. The Party Continues

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Columbians (The Winery Tasting Room)

1028 SE Water Ave, GRAMMIES, Johanna Warren, WL

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Ave. Terry Robb 815 SW Park Avenue, Monday Soundscapes featuring The Flat Nines 2126 SW Halsey St. Troutdale Cellotronik (The Winery Tasting Room)

Parklane Christian Reformed Church

16001 SE Main St, (Other)Worldly Travels: A Concert of Vocal Chamber Music

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St. Comet Talk, Body Shame, Roadkill

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Bad Joy, Boink, Malt Lizard

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Ave. Millstone Grit, Tallwomen, Floods, Sparkle Carpet, Rascal Miles

TUE. AUG. 8 Dante’s

Bluehour

225 SW Ash St. The Boondock Boys, The Bar Pilots, Mr. Pink, Loveless Root 250 NW 13th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. GAEA

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Julie McCarl and Bodacious (The Winery Tasting Room)

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton

Muddy Rudder Public House

Cider Riot

830 E Burnside St. Stu Larsen

Bunk Bar

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Cúl an Tí (The Little Red Shed)

SUN. AUG. 6

16581 SE Hagen Rd., Happy Valley Pickathon

Doug Fir Lounge

225 SW Ash St. Dwight Church hosted by Dwight Dickinson

Ash Street Saloon

8105 Se 7th Ave. Dan & Fran

807 NE Couch St. Mike Hellman

MON. AUG. 7 Ash Street Saloon

350 W Burnside St. Eyehategod, Capitalist Casualties, Cliterati, Hands of Thieves

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Rare Monk, Eclisse, Coastlands

1420 SE Powell Skank Bank + Heavy City

Edgefield

1937 SE 11th Ave Frenz, Gloomsday, Other Lights

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Lungs, The Desolate, Glasghote, Carve the Earth

Twilight Cafe and Bar

The Analog Cafe

The Firkin Tavern

The Know

3341 SE Belmont St, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters, Nouveauxfaux, The Moaning Lorries

Director Park

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Blue Water Highway, Lewi Longmire

The Goodfoot

8 NW 6th Ave. Chevelle

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave., Con Brio, Naughty Profesor

The Fixin’ To

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Lombard Pub

16581 SE Hagen Rd., Happy Valley Pickathon

Pendarvis Farm

Tony Starlight Showroom

The Liquor Store

5736 NE 33rd Ave Opera on the Honors Bar

Pendarvis Farm

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bobby Bare Jr.

Town Center Park

Kennedy School

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Junebugs, Balto, Falcon Heart

Mississippi Studios

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Mane of the Cur, Megaton Leviathan

Roseland Theater

529 SW 4th Ave., Andy Stokes

Mississippi Studios

2958 NE Glisan St Credit Electric, Anywhere West

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Jack London Revue

3416 N Lombard St Porn Bloopers, The Toads, Marcy’s Band

LaurelThirst Public House

29230 SW Parkway Ct., Wilsonville Tracey Fordice

1125 SE Madison St, Tony Starlight with the Vanport Jazz Big Band

LAST WEEK LIVE

15707 SW Walker Rd., Beaverton Garcia Birthday Band

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Sleepy Sun, Skull Diver

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Highly recommended.

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

Email: music@wweek.com.

Pendarvis Farm

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Suitcase Junket (roofdeck)

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Avi Buffalo, Haunted Summer

Edgefield

Lan Su Chinese Garden

239 NW Everett St. 97209 Eugenie Jones

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Meat Wave, Rad Payoff

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St. Fire Nuns, Teenage Sexx, Meat Creature

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd, Verner Pantons, Real Numbers, Plastic Cactus, Frenz

The Ranger Station

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Bluegrass Tuesday

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Bombpops, Fuck Off And Dies, Ty Vaughn of Broadway Calls

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Bulldog Shadow, Dead Frets, Davey Death Ray, Albert Nicholas

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. The Low Bar

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NEEDLE EXCHANGE

VNPRT Years DJing: Two.

Genre: House, funk, soul, hip-hop, Soulection, trip-hop, jazz, (original) trap, footwork, future bass.

Where you can catch me regularly: Every Sunday at Society Hotel from 12-3 pm; every first Friday at Valentine’s with DJ Timothy Bee. Craziest gig: When I did Renn Fayre at Reed College last year with Fountaine, Grape God, (aka Tron) and Eric Fury. It was the first time I played in front of a large amount of people. I was also the curator for the show. I had Eric Fury start the night off. He killed his set. Then Fountaine performed and everything went up another notch. I followed after him with a fusion of footwork, trap and house. It was the best reception I received from a footwork-inspired set. Tron ended the night with an interactive performance, captivating people’s attention with an off-the-top spoken-word flow over his producer, Skelli Skel’s, trademark production, along with his live paint session. All in all it was the definition of an organic collaboration, which is dope.

My go-to records: “Domino” by Free WiLL Vibin; “Kame” and “Dressed to Kill” by Fountaine; “Feel Like I Do” by Disclosure; “Country Shit” by Big K.R.I.T; “Grind” by Les Sins; “So Cool” by Blossom & HOT16; “Bossa Bossa Bass” by VKIAH. Don’t ever ask me to play…: #NoRequests, unless it’s your birthday.

NEXT GIG: VNPRT spins at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., as part of The GLOW, with Survival Skills, Feel Good Green and Fritzwa, on Saturday, Aug. 5. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Shadowplay w/ DJ Carrion & friends (goth, industrial, 80s)

WED. AUG. 2 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street Planet Rock (indie, world, psych)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: DJ Metronome (techno)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Finite plan

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Hot Lips

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

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Black Book

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Community Library DJs: DJ Brokenwindow & Strategy

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave, Royals with MS Match and Mark Lundquist

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Goth Night

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Sappho (disco)

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

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

Sandy Hut

Valentines

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wrestlerock

232 SW Ankeny St Psychotic Reaction

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FRI, AUG. 4 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, Gentlemens Club

Bit House Saloon 727 SE Grand Ave NoFOMO presents: Perfect Lovers (house, techno)

Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Video Dance Attack: ‘80s VS ‘00s

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ EPOR (electronic)

Hawthorne Eagle Lodge

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ A-Train

4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

In The Cooky Jar (soul, r&b)

Star Bar

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., Bling Bling: Early 2000s Hip Hop Tribute Night

Cooling stations: Windowless is the new patio.

THOMAS TEAL

BAR REVIEW

Mon-Thur 11-9 Fri 11-midnight Sat 11-1am Sun 11-8 304 SW 2nd (& Oak) 971-242-8725

1. The Alibi

4024 N Interstate Ave, 503-287-5335, alibiportland.com.

The decor’s fake Polynesian and the drinks are tiki, but the temp is cool as fuck. If you’ve never been day-drunk in a plush booth at the Alibi, long before karaoke, you don’t even know the place.

Classic Rock $6.49 during ‘Classic Rock Hour’ M-F 2-6pm LIVE Music EVERY FRIDAY 9pm-MIDNIGHT! Karaoke EVERY SATURDAY 9pm-1am

2. Yamhill Pub

223 SW Yamhill St, 503-295-6613.

This graffiti-strewn concrete bunker of a bar opens early enough to start blasting the air conditioner well before noon, and their pitcher prices make this the cheapest cold place in town to drink an icy PBR.

3. Les Caves

1719 NE Alberta St., 503-206-6852. ovumwines.com/les-caves.

Two floors down, where the ground is cool, Les Caves is a killer wine bar with seriously rare and exotic local bottles—hidden in a 100-year-old wine cave beneath Aviary restaurant.

4. Joe’s Cellar

1332 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-8825.

Windowless Joe’s, God bless you, because you are always cold and the popcorn is always free.

5. Pepe Le Moko

407 SW 10th Ave., 503-546-8537, pepelemokopdx.com.

Feeling flushed? Drink artisanal Blue Hawaiis and down oysters in a deep basement bar where you’ll never have to know that outside, the world is on fire. It’s a metaphor!

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave, Motez

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Lez Do It

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Frankeee B (Scandinavian synthetic funk)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Uncontrollable Urge

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St First Friday Superjam (funk, soul, disco)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Uplift

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, DoublePlusDANCE w/ DJ Acid Rick & DJ Dark Entries (new wave, synth, goodthink)

The Paris Theatre

6 SW 3rd Ave, Decadent 80s w/ DJ NoN: Depeche Mode Tribute Night

The steep and thorny way to heaven SE 2nd & Hawthorne, Brickbat Mansion presents Visiting Diplomats

FOR SAKE’S SAKE: Amid the Portland hype cycle, newly expanded Zilla Sake (1806 NE Alberta St., 503-288-8372, zillasake.com) is weird as all hell.

Rather than make a huge splash and then coast on rep, Zilla slowly and surely picked up serious steam. Now, it’s a tiny juggernaut, punching well above its weight. The once-cramped spot renovated this spring to include a full bar space, and celebrated by carving up an entire maguro tuna with Japanese knife shop Seisuke Knife. They’ve built their bottle collection to a nearinsane 90 sakes by the glass ($6-$14 for four ounces), more options than almost anywhere in the U.S—including alcohol-added honjozos, old-schoolfunky yamahais and an a nine-deep selection of unpasteurized namazakes including a dry, intense and wild Chiyomusubi made with pungent heirloom rice. Co-owner Kate Koo is encyclopedic in her sake knowledge, telling stories of the strange bureaucratic tax quirk that let a brewer make sake using government samples of Watari Bune, the ancient grain from which all other rice sprang. It’s one of the world’s rarest sakes, which you probably couldn’t even find in Tokyo—but it’s here for $28 for four ounces, and tastes like the purest essence of rice grain. Rum Club’s Matt Kesteloot has spruced up the cocktail menu, including a summery gin-cognac Strawberry Magic ($11) made with fresh berry pulp. Meanwhile, the sushi sourcing has also gone nuts—Koo and Departure alum Sam Saltos have been gathering contacts in Hokkaido and Hawaii and Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji fish market to net cold-grown scallops and blooming sea urchin that shame the uni elsewhere. On August 7, the bar will host an artisan tasting with sake bingo, hosted by “Sakemen” dressed in Mexican wrestling masks. Zilla has become a monster—a circus made of fish and booze. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT. AUG. 5 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, Megalodon

Black Book

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

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Pants OFF Dance OFF: Back to Old SKOOL

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90s Night: Glow Night In the Ballroom

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., The GLOW: Fritzwa, Vnprt, Survival Skills, Feel Good Green

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions: Funky Lit Dynasty Dance Party

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd., DJ Joey Prude

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Roane (hip-hop, soul, boogie)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd VCR TV (heavy synth, dark dance)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ OverCol

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave, Sad Day

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Wake The Town

MON. AUG. 7

The Lovecraft Bar

Ground Kontrol

Valentines

Sandy Hut

421 SE Grand Ave, Expressway to Yr Skull (shoegaze, deathrock, indie)

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Jay ‘KingFader’ Bosch (80s)

232 SW Ankeny St DJ Vakkuum (acid house, techno)

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Wes Craven

Whiskey Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Black Mass (goth, post punk)

31 NW 1st Ave, Global Based: Rell The Soundbender

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East Day Fade #3

SUN. AUG. 6 Black Book

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Black Sunday: DJ Nate C. (metal)

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave., Hive (goth, industrial, darkwave)

The Lovecraft Bar

TUE. AUG. 8 Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage: DJ El Dorado

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Final Report

The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway, Recycle (dark dance)

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Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave., Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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REVIEW

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

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

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Proscenium Live Festival of New Work

Now in its third year, the Proscenium Live Festival will premiere two fulllength plays and three short plays, all in the span of one weekend. There’ll be a comedy about a high school teacher trying to land a small role in a movie, a love story between one woman who writes horoscopes and another who reads them, and a short play about an android made from corpses. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theater, 1516 SW Alder St., portlandshakes.org. 7:30 pm August 4-6. Free.

Hot ’n’ Throbbing

For its first play of the season, Twilight Theater will produce Paula Vogel’s 1994 play that’s as lascivious as it sounds. Hot ’n’ Throbbing is a seriously dark comedy that tackles the porn and domestic abuse: protagonist Charlene is a mom with a crazy ex-husband, and she makes her living writing screenplays for feminist porn. But Vogel, whose Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive deals with incestual rape, is no stranger to writing about disturbing subjects. SHANNON GORMLEY. Twilight Theater, 7515 N Brandon Ave., twilighttheatercompany.org. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday August 4-20. $17 advance, $18 at the door.

Urinetown

The classic musical about a dystopian city in which private toilets are illegal and everyone pays to take a piss has been staged tons of times.

But for this particular production, the actors won’t have ever seen each other until the night of the show. For Anonymous Theatre Company’s productions, the actors all rehearse separately, so the first time they work together is the show’s opening night.

Although the Portland company has been around for 15 years, this is their first production since 2014.

SHANNON GORMLEY. The Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave., anonymoustheatre.org. 7 pm Monday, August 7. $25-$50.

Something Wicked This Way Rocks

Macbeth has been staged in basically every contemporary setting imaginable. But instead of trying to devise a point or assert the Bard’s relevance, Torchsong’s updated production is pure irreverent parody. Something Wicked This Way Rocks is a hairmetal adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous murder plot, and will feature the music of the likes of Van Halen and Guns ’n Roses, plus lots of ridiculous wigs. SHANNON GORMLEY. The Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., witd.org. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 6 pm Sunday, August 4-13. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

ALSO PLAYING Romeo & Juliet/Layla & Majnun

For its production of Romeo & Juliet, theater company Bag&Baggage has combined Shakespeare’s script with Layla & Majnun, an epic poem from 12th century-Persia that’s theorized to be the source of Shakespeare’s

plot. Artistic director Scott Palmer spliced together dialogue from both scripts, alternating between Elizabethan English and translated Persian. Capulets become Romans, Montagues become Persians. Palmer has staged his vision outdoors on the plaza of Hillsboro’s Civic Center.

A giant canopy, draped over one of the center’s balconies, makes up a majority of the set, while the costuming recalls the Crusades.

Making a war between Christianity and Islam the central conflict in the Western world’s most famous love story has plenty of political implications. The opportunity for effective social commentary is there, especially in a political climate marked with Islamophobia. But despite the seemingly radical premise, there’s little here that feels resonant. Palmer instead focused his energy on combining two stories from different eras. He does so convincingly, but there seems to be less attention on the play’s emotional impact. Layla & Majnun is more an exercise in adaptation. DANA ALSTON. Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 E Main St., bagnbaggage.org. 7:30 p.m., ThursdaySaturday through August 5. $20.

OUT IN THE COLD: Max Young and Carol Triffle.

Stop Making Sense

PORTLAND OPERA TAKES ON TWO STRANGE, CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACTS.

BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

DANCE Oregon Burlesque Festival

For the third year in a row, OBF is bringing together a massive lineup of local and national burlesque performers. There’ll be nightly striptease showcases that range from traditional, to arty and narrative heavy, to tongue-in-cheek comedy. The festival will culminate in a competition on the final night. SHANNON GORMLEY. Dante’s, 830 W Burnside, danteslive. com. 9 pm Thursday-Saturday, August 3-5. $20-$125.

Art in the Dark

Each year, aerial dance company A-WOL stages an outdoor show after dark in which the dancers perform in silks suspended from trees illuminated by ethereal uplighting lighting. This year, the show has a theme slightly unexpected for such an idyllic scene: ’60s sci-fi TV shows.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Mary S. Young State Park, 19900 Willamette Dr., West Linn, awoldance.org. 8:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, August 4-13. $15$36.

COMEDY Get Busy

Portland has no shortage of weekly standup showcases with solid local lineups, but the city’s about to get another one. Hosted by Becky Braunstein and Ali Reingold, the first edition of Get Busy has a lineup packed with local heavy hitters, including Anthony Lopez and Caitlin Weierhauser, who both host two awesome weekly showcases, Earthquake Hurricane and You’re Welcome, and both just placed first and second in Helium’s Funniest Person competition. They’ll be joined by the equally funny Adam Pasi (also a You’re Welcome host) and Amanda Arnold, who both placed in WW’s most recent Funniest Five poll. So far, Get Busy seems like a welcome addition to Portland’s weekly showcases.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Barrel Room, 105 NW 3rd Ave., barrelroompdx.com.

8 pm Thursday, August 3. Free.

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Staging a David Lang opera is not an easy task. The rogue classical composer’s work is visceral and highly abstract, so, to an extent, you have to let go of your desire to reach a tangible understanding of his pieces.

Which makes a director’s job a bit of a paradox, and Jerry Mouawad’s Portland Opera directorial debut an imposing test. For the opera’s last show of the season, Imago Theatre’s artistic director and founder helms two of Lang’s pieces, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field and The Little Match Girl Passion.

Lang’s much-loved, Pulitzer prize winning Little Match Girl is almost never staged at all. The sparse, somber choral piece is adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen story about a girl who freezes to death in the streets, too afraid to return home to her abusive father after not selling any matches. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field is often staged, but it’s a bizarre, confusing piece. Set in the American South, it’s based on an Ambrose Bierce story about a plantation owner who vanished in plain sight while walking across a field. It’d be a mystery plot if it weren’t for the fact that Lang doesn’t seem interested in solving anything.

Instead, Lang revels in the strangeness of the tale.

Portland Opera’s production does, too. Crossing a Field is full of striking, subtle images that are a tonic to Lang’s tense, fervent score in which repetitive minor keys are played by shrieking strings, and the libretto is full of rounds dense with poetic, abstract language. The set is just a low, three-tiered platform, some wooden chairs and a screen at the back of the stage that changes to deep hues of red, orange and blue. Mr. Williamson’s (Allen Nause) disappearance is signaled by his wife’s (Hannah S. Penn) screech, which cuts off an aria, and a spotlight that shines down on an empty, white chair off to the side of the stage. When chorus member Nicole Mitchell lets loose into her first solo of the night, the curtains slowly pull back so that the warm orange screen grows with her dynamic, rich voice. Mouawad manages to create a world that doesn’t strip Lang’s tale of its mystery, but instead adds to its wonder.

The set for Little Match Girl is simple. There’s a large, black sheet of fabric that hangs from the floor to the ceiling in the middle of the stage. Throughout the piece, it’s illuminated by a yellow backlight so ensemble dancers become like human shadow puppets behind the sheet. In the silent role of the little match girl, Max Young wears a wears an expression of utter despondency and a tattered dress that reveals legs covered in multicolored bruises. Wearing ornate Medieval robes, the vocalists hover like angels above Young.

But often, the staging seems more concerned with being clever than emotive. When the girl scrapes a match down through the air as if she’s lighting it on a wall, the dancers throw fireballs out of their sleeves. At first, it’s kind of cool, but it begins to feels distracting and overwrought, as do the ensemble dancers, dressed in Dickensian tattered clothes who do an Elvis-like shuffle across the stage.

Match Girl has its sublime moments. As the girl begins to freeze alone, she imagines or perhaps hallucinates that a match she lights is a Christmas tree “Larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant’s.” The vocalists and dancers hold candles in their hands with their arms outstretched, resembling branches, around Young. When strangers in the street find the girl dead on New Year’s Day, the line “No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen” sticks out more than usual.

The most affecting moments still come from Lang’s music. Near the end of the piece, the chorus briefly leave their role as otherworldly observers and sing a first-person line that’s painfully human. “When I am most scared / Don’t leave me.” It’s a line that the soloists sing in a fragmented treble that’s at the very least a technical feat. The only staging is the vocalists slowly walking across the stage. It’s a moment that doesn’t need anything else.

SEE IT: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field and The Little Match Girl Passion is at the Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, portlandopera.org.

7:30 pm Thursday, August 3. 7:30 pm Saturday, August 5. $35-$200.

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VISUAL ARTS COURTESY OF PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

PREVIEW

Through the Forest

JENNIFER STEINKAMP, ORBIT

THE ART OPENINGS WE’RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT THIS MONTH. sgormley@wweek.com

Admittedly, I never planned to go to Jennifer Steinkamp’s show at the Portland Art Museum. Sure, Steinkamp’s critical accolades date back to the ’90s, but CGI trees just didn’t sound that compelling. When I wandered into the L.A. artist’s video installation on a whim, however, just after it opened in July, I was totally transfixed.

In a large, dark room, three video installations of slowly but constantly moving animated trees are projected on the walls. In the center of the room, there are cushioned benches that face each piece. Along with seemingly everyone else who walked in during my visit, I silently sat down on a bench and spent 30 minutes staring at trees. It’s rare to see museumgoers spend more than a few seconds with a single work—and so, almost more than the trees themselves, the art was us sitting quietly on the benches, watching trees transform at the speed of a lava lamp.

But the more potent takeaway from Steinkamp’s exhibit is one you often hear: You really have to see art in person to understand it. Here are five exhibits opening this month (Cosmos, Permeate Green, and Madame Cézanne’s Hairdo all have First Thursday receptions, Breaking the Mold’s is on Friday) that you shouldn’t stay away from.

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Jennifer Steinkamp

It’s easy to lose your sense of time in Steinkamp’s exhibit. It’s physically engulfing and totally serene. In two works from her Judy Crook series, the leaves and branches appear to be inhaling and exhaling as the tree trunks slowly twist and transition through different seasons.

But Orbit might be the most mesmerizing: A massive tangle of disembodied, psychedelic branches spiral across an entire wall. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave. Through Sept. 17. $19 museum general admission, free on Thursday, August 3, after 5 pm.

Cosmos

Jim Nickelson’s photography doesn’t look like what you imagine when you think of space photography. Instead of ornate nebulae, the Maine-based photographer’s images are minimal diagrams of celestial movement. Seen from the ground and based on photographs taken in a single night, the planets in Nickelson’s works become perfect spheres, and faraway stars hurtling around Earth become a mass of dots and lines. Camerawork Gallery, 2255 NW Northrup St. Through August 25.

Permeate Green

With jewel-toned acrylic paint, Takahiko Hayashi creates highly gestural, surreal landscapes—blotches of blue rising from the ground, a swarm of precise, emerald brushstrokes that look like minnows escaping from the center of the page and a tree bleeding blue up into the sky. The little paintings are whimsical, but also endearingly intimate: The works in Permeate Green hang unframed on Froelick Gallery’s white walls. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St. Through Sept. 2.

COURTESY OF FROELICK GALLERY

BY SHANNON GORMLEY

TAKAHIKO HAYASHI, D-20 APR. 2017

Breaking the Mold

The six national and international artists in Eutectic’s show provide a convincing lineup for the exhibit’s premise—the slipcast ceramics in Breaking the Mold look like they’re made of just about anything but clay. Kyle Johns’ intricate pieces jut out in all directions and Joris Link’s resemble origami, while Julian F. Bond’s vases look like they’re built from 3-D pixels. Eutectic Gallery, 1930 NE Oregon St. August 4-Sept. 23.

Madame Cézanne’s Hairdo

John Baldessari is a legend. A pioneer of conceptual art and coiner of the phrase “death to boring art,” the South Bay resident has been making groundbreakingly irreverent art since the ’70s. One of his newest shows has made its way to Portland. Madame Cézanne’s Hairdo is a series of eight large screenprints of Paul Cézanne’s wife’s hair as it appears in her husband’s portraits of her. They’re some of his most placid pieces—and as in many of his works, the faces are featureless and monochromatic, cropped just below where the eye would be, under solid black hair. But they’re still radiant with Baldessari’s sense of humor. Each piece is nonsensically labeled with shapes like “oval” and “rhomboid” in a deadpan font. Even if it doesn’t exactly shatter expectations, it certainly lives up to them.

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., Through Sept. 2.

BOOKS COURTESY OF WUNDERKIND PR

REVIEW

Daniel Wilson,

CLOCKWORK DYNASTY Seemingly every word Portland author Daniel Wilson writes gets optioned for a movie. His dystopian sci-fi Robopocalypse is forever the next movie Steven Spielberg plans to make, and his newest, The Clockwork Dynasty (Doubleday, 320 pages $26.95), was optioned by 20th Century Fox before it was even written. It’s easy to hear the breathless pitch meeting with his agent: “It’s like a steampunk Highlander meets Interview with the Vampire!”

What Wilson does as well as any writer alive is create selfcontained and fully realized worlds—the cinematic stuff of dreams and stardust, mixed with the dirt of actual living. He does so with sensitivity, intelligence and a gift for near-baroque detail.

Wilson’s alternate world is one of clockwork wonders beyond human capacity, a race of near-supernatural avtomat—Russian avtomat for automaton—existing since the dawn of time and passing as human with faces of porcelain and leather. Their gear-toothed lungs and soul-filled clockwork hearts are animated by a word that defines their existence, whether Truth or Logic or Chaos. Their machined perfection is portrayed as a kind of alien nobility.

At the book’s beginning, an old Russian recounts seeing one of these beings fighting a German Panzer in the Battle of Stalingrad: “We had been eating rats, June. We were weak. But this man was strong. He was holy…. I felt I was somehow witnessing the truth.”

The avtomat are, of course, locked in a centuries-old struggle, the slowly revealed nature of which forms much of the pleasure of the book. It is a new universe unveiling itself, a history overlaid onto our own with meticulous care.

It is both a virtue and a flaw in Clockwork that the avtomat themselves are far more compelling than the humans. Antiquity-sleuth June, the Portlander who narrates the book’s present-day sections, is like a Dan Brown character—a rote vessel for the awe, confusion and fear that is meant to be felt by the reader.

But Wilson is an MIT-trained roboticist himself, and his description of an avtomat coming to life feels foreign and beautiful, an undertow of otherness that’s nonetheless revelatory of being human. “Somehow, I am. And, I tell you, I find it a strange thing, to be,” Wilson writes from the consciousness of newborn avtomat Peter. “Somewhere inside me I am placing the sights and sounds into a smaller, simpler idea of a true world that is too complex. From within this little world in my head, I am making decisions.”

By mid-book, wonderment gives way to the necessities of plot—brother and sister avtomats reborn to serve Peter the Great, and a progenitor “mother of worms” stalking them through the centuries. It all plays out as a wonderfully imagined clockwork deism: The gods and their game have been set in place, and so the world will now run out according to plan. It’s also difficult not to see the minutely choreographed battles and rococo robot mansions as self-consciously cool set pieces invented for the film to come. But what a wonder it still is, to see the gods’ great and terrible work set in motion. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. GO: Daniel Wilson will appear Friday, August 4, at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

Throughout the month of Ahhhhgust! WW will feature reviews of thrillers, mysteries and potboilers by Oregon authors.

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Breaking Away

(1979)

Peter Yates’ loveable ode to small-town weirdos, cycling gangs and Bloomington, Indiana, is a coming-of-age story set in a town where tradition is valued over ambition and a dude shaving his legs is unbearably eccentric. Full of dry humor and featuring a cat named Fellini, it’s never anything less than heartfelt.

L.L. Stub Stewart State Park.

Saturday, August 5.

Children of Paradise

(1945)

When critics refer to Children of Paradise as the greatest French film of all time, they’re usually referring to its ability to be as vivid and expansive as a novel, and the fact that it’s as artfully poetic as it is recognizably human. In 1828 Paris, an actress named Garance has to deal with four suitors who span from a mime to a murderer. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium.

August 6.

Eve’s Bayou

(1992)

If anyone other than Miyazaki made an animated film about a World War II fighter pilot who turns into a pig and is voiced

by Michael Keaton, it would probably be as ridiculous as it sounds. But in the hands of Miyazaki, it’s full of upsetting cartoon violence, poignant symbolism and adorableness.

Academy. August 4-10.

Wild at Heart

(1990)

One of his rarest films, David Lynch’s road-trip movie stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as two lovers kept apart by their disapproving families. It’s full of Southwestern pastiche and open roads, and like many of Lynch’s movies, it would only be reasonable to call it cheesy if it wasn’t so strange and surreal.

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium August 4-5.

ALSO PLAYING: Clinton Street: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Monday, August 7. Hollywood: Violent Saturday (1955), August 5-6.

Laurelhurst: Red Rock West (1993), through August 3. Night of the Comet (1984), August 4-10. NW Film Center: The Awful Truth (1937), August 3. The Wizard of Oz (1939), August 5 and 7. La traversée de Paris (1956), August 5. Mission: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), August 4-7. Some Like It Hot (1959), August 4-7.

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Into the Void

(1997)

Gorgeously shot and intricately constructed, Eve’s Bayou is a movie that’s as complicated as the dynamics of the family its plot centers around. Featuring Samuel L. Jackson in one of his less idiosyncratic but still charismatic roles, Eve’s Bayou is a portrait of an upper-class black family living in 1960s Louisiana.

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. August 6.

Porco Rosso

ROTSZTAIN’S VR CINEMA

A PORTLAND VR PROGRAMMER PICKS UP WHERE A FILM VISIONARY LEFT OFF.

BY S H ANNO N GO RM LE Y

sgormley@wweek.com

In 1929 New York, Frederick Kiesler had a vision for the ideal movie theater. In 2017 Portland, Jeremy Rotsztain is making that vision a reality—sort of.

Rotsztain has re-created Kiesler’s The Film Guild Cinema, one of the first movie theaters to ever exist, inside a virtual-reality program titled The House of Shadow Silence. This week at the real-life Academy Theater, a few people at a time will be able to wear an Oculus Rift headset that will transport them to a black-and-white version of the historic theater. They’ll be able to watch a vibey, six-minute film that samples the work of Hans Richter, an avante-garde filmmaker whose work forgoes narrative for simple shapes and movement (one of Richter’s films was screened at the Film Guild’s opening weekend in 1929).

But House of Shadow has much higher ambition than rousing film geek nostalgia. “I was thinking about the indebtedness VR has to film, but also of the kind of new possibilities it enables,” the animator and artist explains while sitting in his airy Northwest studio. With added interactive features, Rotsztain’s work takes Kiesler’s dreams beyond what the Austrian-American architect could have imagined almost a century ago.

Kiesler’s cinema is gorgeous. The clean, modernist interior has ominous Kubrickian symmetry, and the circular screen looks out at you like a giant eye. But his plans for the Film Guild went far beyond aesthetics. Kiesler wanted it to be a place where “the spectator must be able to lose himself in an endless, imaginary space”— along with the main screen, there’d be projections on

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the walls and ceiling and choreographed lighting like you’d see in a play.

Unsurprisingly, Kiesler’s ideas were never realized. There wasn’t the budget, let alone the technology, for what Kiesler was proposing—the first non-silent film was released just two years before the Film Guild opened.

So Rotsztain is picking up that quixotic vision where Kiesler left off. “We’re now at a time when we can realize it without Hollywood budgets, or maybe with Hollywood budgets,” says Rotsztain.

“It’s definitely a much more democratic time for this kind of medium.” (Participating in The House of Shadow Silence is free).

In the black-and-white VR program, you look out into the Film Guild from a movie theater seat. The lights dim and you can hear the ticking of film running through a projector.

Then, you start floating. Your virtual chair lifts up into the air as Richter’s shapes populate the screen and the walls, and you move toward the front of the theater. You fly through the screen and enter into the strange void of the expressionist film, where you hurtle through a dark void and float up through the darkness among monolithic white rectangles.

The House of Shadow Silence is the kind of dystopian image VR skeptics fear—rows of people sitting shoulder to shoulder, but cut off from each other by the screen over their eyes. Human interaction is a concern for Rotsztain, too. In the final version, you’ll be able to see the other theatergoers (or rather, their shadow-like, computer-generated contours) floating in chairs next to you. In one of the scenes where you’re floating among

Richter’s shapes, you can trigger musical notes by looking at different forms. “You’ll all kind of create this cacophony together,” explains Rotsztain.

Less than two years after it opened, the Film Guild was renamed the 8th Street Playhouse. By the ’70s, its striking circular screen was replaced by a standard rectangle. But in a strange twist on Kiesler’s dream of an immersive theater, it helped found the tradition of participatory Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings along with its Greenwich Village neighbor, the Waverly. The theater closed in ’91 and now houses office space for a hospital.

“Next time I’m in New York,” says Rotsztain, “I’m going to try and see if I can talk to the realtor or something like that and try and get in and see if there’s any little bit left.”

While Rotsztain says he’s more interested in abstraction, he sees the possibility for something more narrative than House of Shadow. “Look at Dunkirk,” says Rotsztain.

“You could do that same thing in VR pretty well.” (Or A Ghost Story or the Twin Peaks revival, for that matter).

But Rotsztain also believes the possibilities of House of Shadow don’t necessarily have to do with film at all. “When they’re back in the real world,” says Rotsztain about House of Shadow’s participants, “It’s kind of neat that they’ll think of the physical world as being more malleable.”

SEE IT: The House of Shadow Silence is at the Academy Theater, 7818 SE Stark St. It shows every 20 minutes, 5-8 pm Friday, August 4 and 1-5 pm Saturday, August 5. Free.

Editor: WALKER MACMURDO. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210.

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NOW PLAYING 13 Minutes

When most moviegoers think of plots to kill Hitler, they think of the fictional slaughter in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. In 13 Minutes, director Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall) offers a far less stylized depiction of real-life German hero Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), who nearly succeeded in dropping a ceiling on the Führer’s head. Sadly, Elser failed and was captured, which forces Hirschbiegel to dwell on his protagonist’s suffering at the hands of the Gestapo—most memorably in a scene where he vomits after being strapped to a metal cot and flogged. Yet, despite the savage torments Georg endures, you can’t look away. The scope of 13 Minutes, which is in German, is modest—it’s largely about Georg’s life before the assassination attempt, including his romance with a woman named Elsa (Katharina Schüttler). But it’s also a moving tale of a man whose moral awakening forces him to realize that he can’t ignore the tyranny of the Third Reich. That may be an old story, but it’s also a powerful one, especially in this age of resurgent fascism.

R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Living Room.

Atomic Blonde

Detroit

The beginning of Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit plays somewhat like the first acts of her recent films The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. We’re in a war zone, but it’s Detroit, not Baghdad.

Looting and destruction are inflicted by some, not all, and there are good cops and monstrous cops, and it’s not easy to tell what’s what. We meet Larry Reed (Algee Smith) and his R&B group the Dramatics at the Fox Theater. The Dramatics are well-rehearsed and this could be their big break, but just as they’re about to go onstage, the announcement comes that the show has been canceled due to rioting. Larry heads to his $11 room at the Algiers Motel. One thing leads to another, and the Detroit police come to believe they’re under attack by the Algiers guests. Thus sets off the so-called “Algiers incident” involving the guests and the Detroit police, led by brutal officer Krause (Will Poulter). What happens there is harrowing, and will leave you feeling emotionally drained.

Perhaps the filmmakers thought it was too harrowing because the Algiers incident comes to an abrupt end and the last 30 minutes of the film deal with the aftermath. In a sudden, goofy turn, John Krasinski appears as the defense

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. Clackamas, Joy, Vancouver.

A Ghost Story

A glimpse at the promotional poster for A Ghost Story—Casey Affleck, clad in a white sheet with eye holes—suggests creepy horror. But there’s little that’s frightening in David Lowry’s emotional exercise in magical realism. Instead, we’re treated to fine performances from Affleck and critical darling Rooney Mara in a timehopping story about a ghost and the house where he lived. Affleck really is behind that sheet, haunting his suburban home after his character dies in a car accident. His wife (Mara) moves through the house and tries to move on from the loss over days and weeks.

Time moves quickly. We get glimpses of a 19th-century prairie and a futuristic cityscape. It’s introspective and head-scratching, thanks in part to a haunting soundtrack from solo violinist David Hart. Comparisons to Spike Jonze’s equally conceptual Her are somewhat apt. But Ghost Story is much more supernatural. Lowry has a welldeveloped eye for inventive storytelling thanks to his background in micro-budget shorts. His vision is on full display here, and the result is one of 2017’s most powerful films. R. DANA ALSTON. Bridgeport, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas.

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. Jubitz, Laurelhurst, Vancouver

Baby Driver

It takes a scant five minutes for Baby Driver to feel like one of the best car-chase films of all time. Director Edgar Wright’s first film since Scott Pilgrim vs. the World kicks off with a stellar getaway through the streets of Atlanta set to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms.”

Somehow, though, Wright manages to top that scene throughout, culminating in a frantic, mesmerizing and utterly joyful 45-minute finale. At the wheel is Baby (Ansel Elgort, whose face really sells the “Baby” business), who combats his tinnitus by constantly pumping tunes through his earbuds. Every sequence plays out perfectly to the music in Baby’s ears, whether it’s the rat-a-tat of gunfire punctuating the snare on an old funk track or clashing metal with the cymbal smashes on classic-rock oddities. This is a movie where violence and velocity are played up to surrealist levels while remaining relatively grounded in reality.

It’s hysterically funny, but not a straight comedy. It’s often touching, but seldom cloying. It’s the hyper-stylish car chase opera the world deserves. R. AP KRYZA. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Tigard, Vancouver

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Baywatch

I am pleased to report that this movie is exactly as unnecessary and idiotic as you think it is. R. Vancouver.

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. FERGUSON. Living Room Theaters.

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FRANCOIS DUHAMEL

An adaptation of the Oni Press graphic novel Coldest City, Atomic Blonde depicts Berlin at the Cold War’s last gasp. It’s a fitting checkpoint in director David Leitch’s career between the fatalist vengeance slog of John Wick (on which he was an uncredited co-director) and the post-modern mercenary spree of Leitch’s next project, Deadpool 2. Leitch’s specific brand of violence—an instantly recognizable modern dance borne of the moment when swaggering deliberation makes way for blood-dimmed reflex—blends effortlessly with the faintly ridiculous formalism of spy movies. Charlize Theron plays a British secret agent set to meet up with James McAvoy’s rogue operative and rescue a vital informant from East Germany. A watch carrying the identity of a critical double agent goes missing. An adorably unprepared

French spy falls into Theron’s bed.

Thickly accented Stasi officers do horrible things. It’s curiously old-fashioned in its nostalgia for analog recording devices and state secrets unspooled through microfiche, but Atomic Blonde overcomes the wearying machinations of an energy-suck framing device and labyrinthine plot by literally drowning out every exposition with a soundtrack that’s an upscale goth-club wonderland of post-punk/new wave. Drenched in spray-paint hot pink and steel gray, the inattentive viewer might very well confuse Atomic Blonde with a music video or a lengthy and brutal cologne ad. But even with the playfully stylized flourishes teasing coherency from a pointlessly complicated narrative, the film has a giddy devotion to its own daft momentum. R. JAY HORTON. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

attorney for Krause and two other officers, and the whole thing feels more like an extended epilogue than a resolution. Despite a third act that doesn’t really fit with the first two, there’s a lot to like about Detroit, notably very strong performances by Smith and Poulter. R. R MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Living Room Theaters, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver

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MOVIES The Boss Baby

Somehow, this movie isn’t a terrifying monstrosity. PG. Empirical, Vancouver.

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

Giddy satire gives way to lazy bombast in this animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s children’s book series, which has too much of its titular underdressed superhero and too little of its prankster protagonists, two elementary schoolers (voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch) at war with the tyrannical Principal Krupp (Ed Helms).

PG. Academy, Avalon, Joy, Vancouver.

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 inan-

imate 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.

Despicable Me 3

Conventional Hollywood wisdom dictates that animated children’s movies must vigorously trumpet the merits of kindness (good!) and condemn the evils of selfishness (bad!). Yet that memo clearly hasn’t reached the makers of this anarchic entry in the Despicable Me franchise, in which the bulbous, reformed supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) finds his lust for mischief is stoked by his twin brother, a cheerful moron named Dru (also Carell).

Among their adventures is a tussle with the mullet-sporting master criminal Balthazar Bratt (Trey Parker) that allows for plenty of delightfully nonsensical scenes, including a dance-off

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Water War

A PRotesteR in awake.

Some documentaries are valuable for chronicling the past, others for uncovering vast journalistic stories. But Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock feels like a living document.

The new doc from Josh Fox about the protests surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Its Portland premiere is the centerpiece to this year’s Life.Art.Being. Festival, which features art related to environmentalism and spirituality.

Fox, a Native American filmmaker, followed the grassroots movement to divert the pipeline—funded by a collection of big banks and corporations like Wells Fargo—away from sacred Native American grounds in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Indigenous people stood in the path of bulldozers, riot cops and boats to protect their land while the debate over legal jurisdiction raged in Washington.

“I did two tours in Iraq, and I came back angry and guilty,” says one unnamed protester. “My vow today is to fight for clean water, to fight for a beautiful environment, because the beauty of the land will always show us that we need to take care of each other.” Another protester, also unnamed, says she left her job as an attorney in Washington, D.C., and drove to Standing Rock to defend her people’s land. “It really wasn’t a choice,” she says. “I had to be here.”

The conviction in the protesters is palpable thanks to Fox’s decision to mix candid interviews with artistically shot montages of water and land. A swirling score of violins and other strings occasionally intersects with the imagery. The production elevates a dark moment in recent history to lore-like status. Awake is almost worth seeing solely for its aesthetic value.

But the harrowing images of protesters clashing with armed law enforcement and empty plains stretching out far into the distance is a reminder of how ugly the fight over the environment in the United States has become. This story lives on for now, especially after Trump approved the pipeline’s construction in February. Whatever happens next, Awake proves that protest remains a powerful tool.

DANA ALSTON. A new movie about Standing Rock feels like a living document.

see it. Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock plays at the Clinton Street Theater, ctspdx.com. 7 pm, Wednesday, August 2. $10 online, $13 at the door.

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that features Gru and Balthazar busting moves to Madonna’s “Into the Groove.”

Like the film itself, that scene eschews forced wholesomeness and delivers a truckload of dumb fun—which, in an age when even witless entertainments like The Mummy arrive swollen with pomposity, is a minor miracle. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Dunkirk

There are plenty of bombs and rifle-fire and bulletholes and casualties, but for a war movie, there is very little actual fighting that goes on in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. When the film opens, we’re immediately dropped into the abandoned beachside town of Dunkirk, France, where bullets are whizzing at dehydrated soldiers and propaganda fliers are raining down. The idea that our protagonist, the English war machine, could face down the Germans and triumph in a conventional battle is ludicrous. The only sliver of hope is evacuation. So, evacuate to where?

The grunts are sitting ducks for dive bombers on the beach, and beyond that is miles of sea where enemy planes standby to strafe and U-boats lurk shark-like below the surface. You may have noticed I’ve said nothing of the characters in this film. That’s because there aren’t any, really. We do get to follow a few soldiers and pilots and civilians at sea, but they’re more like standins for the other 400,000 like them marooned on the beach or assisting in the rescue effort. That’s fine, though.

This movie doesn’t really need characters, and wasting time on distracting details like what’s waiting at home for these boys would only slow down the headlong pacing of the operation, which is one of the film’s major successes. The star of the show is cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, whose serene photography provides a necessary counterbalance to the breathless editing. I don’t think this film will win Best Picture at next year’s Oscars, but it’s a shoo-in a handful of technical nominations. PG-13.

R. MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Everything, Everything

This young adult movie about a girl (Amandla Stenberg) who lives in a bubble is just as devoid of logic, storytelling or disability rights as it sounds like it is. PG-13. 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. 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. Laurelhurst.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

When the first Guardians debuted, its irreverent, hilarious, bizarro tone came out of nowhere, making audiences fall in love with Marvel’s D-list heroes at the confluence of Star Wars, The Ice Pirates and Buckaroo Banzai.

Vol. 2 isn’t the jolt that the first one was, but between all the action and its surprisingly poignant finale, it’s a welcome addition. We’d follow this band of charismatic assholes anywhere at this point.

PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Joy, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Tigard, Valley Cinema Pub.

Lady Macbeth

Picture a proper BBC costume drama spiced up with sex and blood, and you should be able to imagine Lady Macbeth. Adapted from a Nikolai Leskov novella, it’s a sinister slow burner that unfolds in rural England in 1865 and tracks a stifled wife’s transformation into a serial killer. That wife is Katherine (Florence Pugh), who viciously retaliates against the fearsome abuses of her husband (Paul Hilton) and her fatherin-law (Christopher Fairbank), two men so repugnant that you get a savage

kick out of their suffering. Yet despite director William Oldroyd’s vengeful flair and admirable exploration of the tale’s racial fissures—the scenes where Anna (Naomi Ackie), a black servant, is bullied into taking the fall for Katherine’s indiscretions leave a nauseating sting— Lady Macbeth is memorable mainly for attempting to drown its audience in misery. The film has a punishingly bleak conclusion and an exploitative scene involving a young boy. It’s not clear if those scenes were included simply to showcase Oldroyd’s toughness, but in any case, they reveal what many moviegoers will guess: that the director has mistaken brutality for brilliance and sadism for art. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Living Room.

The Lego Batman Movie

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

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Maudie

In this biopic of Canadian folk visualist Maud Lewis, Sally Hawkins embodies the mid-20th century painter with incredible resilience. The whimsy Maud pours into her colorful landscapes is a tonic to her painful relationship with her husband Everett (Ethan Hawke) and her severe arthritis. Maud meets Everett when, looking for an escape from living with her Aunt Ida (Gabrielle Rose), she signs up to work as his housekeeper. Hawkins’ portrayal of resisting physical decay is deeply touching, and Hawke, one of Hollywood’s most prolific emoters, exercises ultimate restraint as Everett, breaking his wife’s heart as a grumbling, nearly unreachable soul.

As a couple, they’re “like a pair of odd socks,” Maud waxes in one of the film’s most touching moments. It’s a moment to relish, because hardship is far more common in their remote Nova Scotia cottage—the one Maud gradually turns into a four-walled canvas, illustrating petals and birds on every surface.

It’s not that Maudie wastes these two remarkable performances, they’re just the only two hues on its palette.

Otherwise, it’s a paint-by-numbers biography that resets constantly and clunkily with folk arpeggiating, and never really digs for Lewis’ deeper character or philosophies in its script. Who knows what made her great, the film says, but her essence was innately good. PG-13.

CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Kiggins.

The Mummy

The Mummy is a bunch of haphazard action sequences hastily constructed a one-sided romance between an Egyptian zombie princess (Sofia Boutella) and Tom Cruise’s goofy daredevil Nick Morton. Still, it’s almost wondrous in its stupidity. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL. Avalon, Empirical, Valley Cinema Pub, Vancouver.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Ahoy, matey! Johnny Depp is washed!

PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Vancouver.

Rough Night

In Lucia Aniello’s first feature film about millennial women behaving badly, five college friends reunite for Jess’s (Scarlett Johansson) bachelorette weekend in Miami. The cast is packed with America’s stoner, foul-mouthed sweethearts, including Ilana Glazer from

Broad City, Jillian Bell (Workaholics), SNL’s Kate McKinnon and Zoë Kravitz.

Rough Night doesn’t revolutionize wild weekend movies, but it’s a smart skewering of the bro’d out black comedies that have dominated the R-rated genre.

R. LAUREN TERRY. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley Cinema Pub, Vancouver.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

The second reboot in a cinematic series that’s merely 15 years old is as interesting for what it leaves out as for what it tackles. There’s no damsel in constant distress. No revisiting the murder of Uncle Ben or a radioactive spider bite. Hell, there’s not even a world-threatening conflict. Instead, director Jon Watts takes Spidey’s first solo outing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and puts him up against something far more daunting: high school. Sure, Peter Parker (Tom Holland, returning after a starmaking turn in Civil War) has to face off against Michael Keaton’s snarling winged menace Vulture. But he also has to find a date to homecoming, train for the academic decathlon and deflect bullies, all while learning to control his newfound superpowers under the tutelage of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). As such, Homecoming is as indebted to John Hughes as it is to Stan Lee. There are some excellent, showstopping action sequences sprinkled across the runtime, but Homecoming takes greater pleasure in watching the gawky Holland’s trial-and-error as he navigates his sophomore year. It’s a sunny, breezy comic-book romp of little consequence. In an age of glowering caped crusaders, Homecoming reminds us that we should be having fun watching men in tights smack into walls. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

War for the Planet of the Apes

The third installment in the new Apes saga is designed like a classic Hollywood combat epic. Marred by irredeemable, indistinct human characters, War feels every bit the technological achievement of Dawn without the inter-primate intrigue. It’s operatic, very long and intentionally little fun.

The stakes are cataclysmic enough to end this franchise, though they probably won’t. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

Wish Upon

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THE SAME LEVEL.” licensed cannabis manufacWednesday ’s Coffee and turing facility Sticky Finger Cannabis tour takes attendOrganics. ees to the Nossa Familia Between points of interest, attendees are roasting facility, as well as java and ganja outlets encouraged to smoke on the bus. of choice.

Making our way from Foster Buds to the The tours are laid-back. There’s minimal aforementioned grow op, the group is all about scripting on the part of our guide, Rosenbaum. sampling their recent purchases. Pre-rolls are “We don’t think of ourselves as a typical tour blazed, bowls are packed and the communal dab where we’re… giving you information and kind nail is torched at irregular intervals—all while of overloading you with Portland facts,” says cruising down the freeway at 60 miles per hour.

Rosenbaum. “It’s more of a conversation on the This might sound a little excessive, but for bus. We try to make every tour kind of a custom tourists who can’t legally smoke weed in public experience for the person and what they want to and happen to be lodging in locations subject to learn and not just a bunch of information that we Oregon’s Indoor Clean Air Act, there aren’t many think they might want.” options for safe places to consume cannabis: you The whole day feels a lot like hanging out in gotta smoke it where you can, and the High 5 bus an old friend’s living room. is one of the rare places.

Rosenbaum says he intentionally cultivates High 5 Tours owner and operator Sam the relaxed atmosphere, actively embracing the Rosenbaum explains the legal workaround: “It’s dual roles his company fills: it’s not just about a private vehicle and...we have a divider which showing people around town, it’s equally about addresses the Indoor Clean Air Act so that our giving tourists a place where they can feel com[driver] is separated and not in an area with fortable smoking without the fear of judgement smoke.” or the pressure of an overwhelming guide.

With that divider, you have a legal smoke “We’re getting high together, we’re all getspot, accessible to anyone with enough dough to ting at the same level,” says Rosenbaum. “So you buy a seat. might be saying something crazy, but we’re also When we arrive at Sticky Finger Organics, high over here and we understand what you’re we’re greeted by master grower John Robinson, going through.” who first shows us his flower room before taking us to a separate vegetative chamber to check out GO: Book your High 5 cannabis tour, Monday through Friday, at high5tours.com younger plants that aren’t yet big enough to sup or 503-303-2275.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely, and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers, and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

The RIKEN Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next eleven months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Leo actor Robert DeNiro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone -- just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you.

So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness -- an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes?

An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

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Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps.

At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

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Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going.

I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn -- from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges?

I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: 1. tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans.

It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your longterm dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most.

For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

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