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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 41.

“Tiny” Toese got beat up and faces charges for his trouble. 6 JoAnn Hardesty calls a plan to build affordable housing for black families in inner Northeast Portland “ludicrous,” “arrogant” and “obnoxious.” 7

There are still a few people who don’t realize homeless people have the constitutional right to beg for change on a public sidewalk. 8

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You can go to jail for operating ATMs that johns use to pay hookers who don’t take Square. 11 Texas is planning to hunt pigs by hot air balloon. 21 If you would like a boozy Dilly Bar, there is a place. 30 If you would like to experience sound healing in a yurt between three giant trees near a bubbling brook, there is a place. 33

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DIALOGUE Here’s what readers said about seven major development projects that could radically alter Portland in coming years (“Newer Portland,” WW, Aug. 2, 2017).

Debinpdx, via wweek.com: “When places like cities don’t grow, they die. It’s better to have a responsible plan than to do things halfway or not responsibly. Portland’s growth is inevitable. It’s just a fact.”

Chris Elliott, via wweek.com: “‘A mini Silicon Valley.’ There is nothing appealing about that goal. Have you been to Silicon Valley? A concrete, unaffordable, overcrowded mess. And the proposed changes to the Ankeny Blocks are heartbreaking, destroying some of the heart of old Portland.”

Pdan, in response: “Yes, nothing good has ever come out of Silicon Valley.

Definitely not the device and software you used to type this comment.”

the idea that another building, another bridge, another road is, in itself, providing any tangible benefit to the residents of a city.”

Michael Andersen, in response: “What’s the alternative? If we don’t accommodate growth, then we (a) get more car traffic from the suburbs instead of more riders for our transit system and (b) displace our poorest residents because rich people show up anyway and are able to bid poorer folks out of the homes that used to be theirs.”

“Come on, admit it.

Old Portland sucked.”

Deb O’Naire, via wweek.com: “I miss the days when Portland consisted of people who didn’t ‘need’ a big, new skyscraper phallus to feel good about themselves. Portland had better human beings back then. 2010.”

Damon, in response: “Come on, admit it. Old Portland sucked. It was seedy, dirty, economically lousy, and perpetually depressed. Some are still stuck in that mindset. What was will never be again. Get over the change that comes with time.”

OregonJelly, via wweek.com: “All of these discussions are built upon the unspoken assumption that growth is inherently good. While I am not anti-development, I do have a problem with

Seethinksay, via Reddit: “WW misses the big in promoting the small. The Forest Park portal is too far out. They missed the development of Sandy, Esco, future 82nd, the gentrification of Old Town, outer Northeast gentrification, soon to come to outer Southeast, Barbur and the MAX…on and on.”

Guard Lance Boyles, via Facebook: “Just leave the old houses alone and nobody gets hurt.”

Naomi Ellis, via Facebook: “Eff you, Willamette Week. How many people on your staff grew up here? It’s not just about not liking change. It’s about not wanting to be displaced from your home, family and support system.”

Nicole Johnson-Jones, via Facebook: “East Portland left in the dust. We’re lucky if we get fixed roads. Anything east of 92nd should turn into Gresham, at least then maybe some things would change.”

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If, during a fundraising dinner or a rally, a person in the reception line were to punch the president of the U.S. (not lethally, just enough to bloody the nose), what would be the immediate and longer-term consequences? Asking for a friend. —Erasmus B. Natural Ix-nay on the eason-tray, Erasmus; I’m on enough lists as it is.

While I sympathize with your concern that our chief executive may be dangerously incompetent (I worry not so much that he’ll blunder into a war with North Korea as that he’ll somehow find a way to lose), please do not attempt to punch him in the face.

As you might have suspected, it is more illegal to assault the president than it is to assault a regular person. Title 18 of the U.S. Code provides a penalty of up to 10 years for assaulting the chief.

(According to the same law, assaulting the deputy secretary of agriculture—yes, it’s in there—only gets you a year.)

You don’t even have to land a punch for it to count as assault. In 2016, Sean Thompson found himself facing charges including battery and felony assault of a public official just for hitting the mayor of Sacramento in the face with a coconut cream pie.

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And that was just a mayor (and just a pie). One can only imagine how humorless the authorities would become if you hit the president with your actual fist—a crime that is not only more serious but less funny.

It does make you wonder, though, what would happen if the president himself got hit with a pie.

No sitting president has ever been successfully pied, though presidential candidate Ralph Nader took one to the face in 2003 (from an assailant/ folk hero who was never apprehended).

Obviously, I do not advocate hitting any government official with any kind of pastry. No sir.

That said, I understand that after the inevitable accession of President Honey Boo Boo in 2033, tossing doughnuts at the lectern will be not only tolerated but encouraged because, hey, doughnuts.

QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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The Oregonian is losing another prominent reporter.

Casey Parks, an 11-year newsroom veteran who covers diversity issues, completed a three-part front-page series this month on a teenager’s gender reassignment. The project was Parks’ swan song: She’s leaving the paper this week for a master’s degree program at Columbia University, where she hopes to write about budget cuts to core services in Louisiana.

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Gov. Kate Brown unsheathed her veto pen Aug. 8, showing she’s capable of playing hardball. In the recent legislative session, Democrats desperately needed a GOP vote to pass the $670 million hospital tax.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

F IVE Q U E STI ONS F O R …

Jo Ann Hardesty

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

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Jo Ann Hardesty doesn’t mind being called angry— so long as she wins your vote.

Hardesty, 59, announced Aug. 5 that she’s challenging Commissioner Dan Saltzman for his council seat in May 2018. Hardesty, a former state representative, pulled the NAACP of Portland out of mothballs when she became its president in 2015.

She lives in the East Portland neighborhood of Gateway—and has no intention of returning west.

What’s a vote Saltzman has taken where you would have voted differently?

The great example would be the housing bond that voters passed in November. Saltzman can pat himself on the back for the most expensive affordable housing measure on the planet. He believes we can do the same thing we’ve always done and get a different result. And so I voted no, and for anybody who asked me I told them I was voting no.

What’s your grade for Ted Wheeler so far?

Right now, he’s at a C-minus. He’s got a lot of really smart lawyers on his staff—however, none of them have deep roots in Portland. And so, you have all these highly educated, certified smart people who have no understanding of the history and the lived experience of people in this city. And that’s why he continues to bring forward really bad public policy.

Do you like Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s proposal to shift citizen oversight of the police settlement with the Department of Justice?

I was kind of appalled at the prospect of putting the Office of Equity and Human Rights in charge somehow. I was on the committee that created them. But here we are five years later and I have asked for an

audit, because I don’t know what [director Dante James] does. He talks a good game, but fundamentally, has anything changed in the city of Portland?

You look at contracting, and the answer is no. Not no, but hell no.

What do you think of the city’s plan to help black families return to North and Northeast Portland?

It’s the most ludicrous, arrogant, obnoxious policy imaginable. You’re going to build a low-income housing unit in the middle of the most expensive area in Portland, and then you’re going to invite people who can no longer afford to eat at the restaurants that are around them or shop at the grocery stores that are around them? But somehow just being in Northeast Portland, which looks absolutely nothing like it did 10 years ago, is somehow going to make people of color feel better? We don’t live there anymore, and we won’t live there anymore until white people decide that they don’t want to live in inner Northeast anymore. Then all of the sudden, we’ll be walking back.

You’ve talked about being angry. Are you ever afraid of being typecast as the angry black woman?

When you’ve been advocating as long as I have in the city of Portland, and you watch leadership come and go, and you watch outcomes stay exactly the same, you can’t help but be angry. In the Pacific Northwest, we bend over backwards to make people comfortable, because heaven forbid anybody’s uncomfortable. But change only comes in the uncomfortable places. So yes, I’m angry, but I’m angry enough to actually have solutions to some of these systemic problems.

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The Police Reform Carousel Portland is getting a new police chief: Danielle Outlaw, the first black woman ever named to the job. She’s coming from Oakland—and entering a city fighting the same old battles about overseeing cops.

On Aug. 10, the Portland City Council will vote on proposed changes to the city’s policing policies. Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposals have outraged police watchdogs and activists, who jammed council chambers last week to object.

Here’s what Wheeler put on the menu—and why it’s not appetizing to some. KATIE SHEPHERD. Public oversight Wheeler wants to replace the Community Oversight Advisory Board, which dissolved last August amid infighting and ineffectuality. Such a group is required to comply with a 2012 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which found a “pattern and practice” of excessive force against people suffering from mental illness.

Wheeler’s spokesman Michael Cox says the mayor’s proposed group, the Portland Commission on CommunityEngaged Policing, would solve the biggest problem that doomed the old one—“they couldn’t get feedback on their recommendations.” But Wheeler’s group has drawn criticism for lacking independence from the mayor, closing its meetings to the public, and having too few members.

The 48-hour rule Last year, then-Mayor Charlie Hales negotiated a new contract with the police union that erased a policy that gave officers who had fatally shot someone 48 hours before speaking to investigators. But this summer, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said it couldn’t prosecute a police officer who had been compelled to talk.

Now Wheeler is trying a work-around: compelling the testimony but keeping it secret from investigators. Most criminal justice reform groups in the city cheered moves to strike the 48-hour rule. But Wheeler’s original proposal would have put the changes on hold until a court OK’d the policy. Activists raised hell over the delay—and Wheeler’s office decided to amend the proposal to take effect immediately.

Incoming Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw

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PORTLAND’S MAY 2018 BALLOT It’s nine months until the next election. But races for four Portland-area seats are already getting crowded. RACHEL MONAHAN.

City Council, Position 2 Nick Fish is seeking re-election.

Environmental advocate Julia DeGraw is challenging him. Tenant organizer Margot Black is still deciding whether to enter the race.

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City Council, Position 3 Dan Saltzman is seeking reelection. Jo Ann Hardesty is challenging him (see above). Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith is also rumored to be a candidate.

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Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury is seeking re-election. Hardesty says Loretta Smith told her Aug. 4 she plans to run against Kafoury. Smith declined comment.

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Oregon Senate, District 24 Sen. Rod Monroe (D-East Portland) is seeking re-election. Former Oregon state Rep. Shemia Fagan and Unite Oregon executive director Kayse Jama are challenging him. Andrea Valderrama, a senior policy adviser to Mayor Ted Wheeler, says she’ll also run if Monroe drops out.

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ROUGH EDUCATION: Westley Foster, who is homeless and attending Portland Community College, says he was beaten by security guards at a downtown Safeway. He’s about to sue.

It Hurts to Ask A HOMELESS PORTLAND STUDENT IS SUING SAFEWAY SECURITY FOR ALLEGEDLY INTERRUPTING HIS PANHANDLING WITH A BEATING.

BY KAT I E SH E P H E R D

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In April, Westley Foster went to the downtown Safeway seeking spare change. Instead, he received a beating so severe that an ambulance took him to the hospital.

Four months later, Foster is suing the security company hired by the grocery chain for damages—saying Safeway’s guards interfered with his right to free speech by interrupting his begging with a nightstick.

“The whole thing was just ridiculous,” says Foster.

“They didn’t have any right to come out on the sidewalk and do that to me.”

Few forms of communication generate more emotion in this city than panhandling—the closest encounter many Portlanders have with homelessness and poverty.

For years, it’s been the bane of local businesses; several mayors have tried and failed to restrict it. Foster and his attorney say what happened to him will serve as an important civil rights example.

They will soon take their argument into Multnomah County Circuit Court—in a case that cites rulings that panhandling on the sidewalk is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Foster, 29, a Portland Community College student who has been living on the city’s streets for nine years, wants to use what happened outside Safeway’s Southwest 10th Avenue and Jefferson Street location as an affirmation of his and others’ rights.

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next week. “He was exercising his First Amendment rights. And they attacked him because they didn’t like his message.”

Chris Turrey, who runs Signal 88, the Portland branch of the Nebraska-based security company contracted to guard Safeway stores, says the issue isn’t speech but safety.

“It’s a frenzy out there,” Turrey says. “My guys, they’re just trying to protect themselves.”

The story of Foster’s violent encounter with Signal 88 guards is told in police reports, court filings and his own words.

On April 5, he was sitting at the northeast entrance of the Safeway on 1010 SW Jefferson St., asking passersby for a dollar. He was there for 15 minutes, when two security guards dressed in blue uniforms came out to confront him.

Chris Templeton approached Foster and told him he couldn’t stay in front of the store. Foster says he responded that he had a right to be on the public sidewalk and shouldn’t have to move.

During this conversation, a second security guard, 19-year-old Ibrahim Seraphin, walked up to Foster. He says he thought Foster was being too aggressive with Templeton, so he shoved him, pushing him off the curb and into the busy downtown street.

Foster says he threw up a hand in defense, as a reflex to being shoved. Templeton told police that Foster punched Seraphin in the face.

Foster says he turned to pick up a backpack he uses

to carry his school books. That’s when Seraphin allegedly started beating him with a baton. The police report from April 5 says Seraphin hit Foster with the baton just twice, but Foster says it was more like five times.

Seraphin says he hit Foster “two or three” times.

Seraphin and Templeton handcuffed Foster. In a video taken just after they put the handcuffs on Foster’s wrists, Seraphin can be seen dragging Foster across the sidewalk and slamming him against the wall. Foster sinks to the ground and waits for the police to show up.

Seraphin, wearing blue latex gloves, grabbed Foster’s backpack and dropped it next to him. When Foster asked him to grab some papers that were left in the street, Seraphin kicked them over to where Foster sat handcuffed.

A Portland police officer who arrived on the scene called an ambulance. Foster had bruises on his ribs and back from being shoved and beaten. He said it took almost three weeks to fully heal. He said he still sees a therapist more than four months later for panic attacks that started after the alleged assault.

“I’ll just be sitting somewhere and doing something normal and I’ll have a panic attack,” Foster says. “I feel like it’s really messing with my life. I could be doing anything and I just have to leave so I’m not crying like a baby.”

Foster was born and raised in Salem but has lived in Portland for most of his adult life. A self-described “free-love hippie,” he says he spends most of his time in the library studying or in the street skateboarding.

Nine years ago, Foster landed on the streets of Portland. He’s been homeless ever since, going through bouts of heroin addiction, though he’s enrolled in classes at PCC now and says he’s kicked the habit. Over the years, he’s had run-ins with law enforcement for misdemeanor drug possession, for fighting and for a robbery charge that was later dismissed.

But Foster says his most common interaction with Portland police is an officer asking him to move his panhandling.

“I’ve had the cops called on me several times in different places,” he says. “When the cops respond, they basically take the side of whoever calls them there.

They’ve made me leave a public sidewalk several times just because they’re like, ‘We don’t want to keep getting called out here.’ They don’t really care about my rights.”

Foster’s lawsuit will seek damages from Security 88 and will assert he was exercising his First Amendment rights when the guards tried to stop him from asking for money on the public sidewalk.

Safeway says that it isn’t responsible for the confrontation because it uses a security contractor.

“The security guard in this video works for a company who provides uniformed coverage for Safeway,” says Safeway spokeswoman Jill McGinnis in a statement.

“Our primary concern is customer and employee safety, and this falls outside the guidelines of how we request our third-party security vendors to handle such situations.”

Seraphin no longer works at the Safeway and hasn’t since April, McGinnis adds.

Templeton still works for the security company, but declined to answer questions about the confrontation with Foster.

Seraphin says he was fired from Signal 88 after Safeway asked the company not to send him to provide security services a few days after the April 5 incident. He says he thought Foster was acting aggressively as soon as his partner approached him. He says he was afraid.

“He’s a transient, I didn’t know what was in his pocket,” Seraphin says. “It could be a knife. In my experience, 85 percent of the transients in this area carry knives. I do my job exactly as I’m supposed to do in order to keep myself safe.”

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SIGN OF THE TIMES: A new business in the Northeast Portland neighborhood of Parkrose faced backlash—and within days of opening, it temporarily closed.

The Family Jewels A STRIP-CLUB FAMILY WAS CONVICTED OF CONSPIRING ON PROSTITUTION AND EVADING TAXES. THE SON IS BACK IN BUSINESS.

BY RACHEL MONAHAN

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Christian Desmarais’ new business describes its product in 3-foot-tall letters, lit at night by flashing white Christmas lights: “TUSH.” The lingerie shop on Northeast 105th Avenue represents a new start for the scion of a family whose Portland strip-club empire was undone this year by federal convictions of three members for conspiring to promote prostitution and evading taxes.

The 10 businesses they ran were the subject of an FBI sting—and local nonprofits spent $2.3 million, with help from a $250,000 loan from City Hall, to rehab one of the properties, which housed the Sugar Shack in Cully.

Kandace Desmarais, 65, was sentenced in June to two years in prison for her role in operating ATMs to promote prostitution.

One month after Kandace’s sentencing, her son, 41-year-old Christian Desmarais, opened Tush Lingerie Modeling.

His new neighborhood? Parkrose, 30 blocks east of the old Sugar Shack.

It’s hard to know what Christian Desmarais has planned. He didn’t speak to WW. So-called lingerie shops—which offer oneon-one time with women wearing lingerie or nothing at all—have long been an everyday feature of Portland’s grittier neighborhoods.

At least a half dozen of the businesses, often referred to as “jack shacks,” operate in the city. They’re protected by Oregon’s vaunted free-speech laws, so neighbors have often found their complaints impotent.

Desmarais has landed in a changing neighborhood, one with enough political sophistication to try to interrupt his operation within days of its opening.

“The assumption seems to be that because it’s East Portland no one would complain or, if anyone did, no one would listen,” says Mingus Mapps, district

manag er for Historic According to a court affiParkrose, a businessdavit from the 2011 case, development “management posted nonprofit for the instructions in each neighborhood. “But of the private rooms E a st Po r t l a n d i s on how to properly changing, particudispose of the used larly in Parkrose, condoms.” Owen was where people are also accused of paying coming together.” dancers for sex.

There’s no indicaAn affidavit in the tion that anything about 2011 civil-forfeiture Tush is illegal or even case lists Christian Desin violation of city code. So marais’ role as manager and OWEN Mapps and other community son of Kandace. leaders are putting pressure on the buildIn 2015, the feds brought charges against ing’s landlord. “Parkrose is going to have to Owen and Kandace and Gilbert Desmarais. help itself,” Mapps says.

Owen was living in Mexico—but prosChristian Desmarais is part of a sex-club ecutors said he still ran the business. He was family once run by Lawrence George Owen. arrested in California in February 2015.

Owen and his adult stepchildren, Meanwhile, another family member, Kandace Desmarais and Gilbert “Mace” Craig Desmarais, was shot to death in Desmarais, owned or managed 10 clubs December 2014 outside the family’s club and adult video stores in the Portland area, Tommy’s Too. including the Landing Strip, the Oh! Zone Owen, now 75, was sentenced in April to and Tommy’s. two and a half years. He’s already out.

In 2010, local, state and federal law On June 28, Kandace and Gilbert Desenforcement officials raided the clubs, marais were sentenced for their part in seizing $807,785 in cash, but not the promoting prostitution and conspiring to properties. (Police had been receiving evade paying more than $728,000 in federal complaints since the late 1990s about income taxes. prostitution in the vicinity of the Sugar Christian, along with other family memShack. During an undercover sting by bers, was not charged.

Portland police between 2006 to 2009, a In 2014, a Northeast Portland neighborman paid 21 visits to three clubs and paid hood coalition, Living Cully, bought the for prostitutes during 18 of them, accord- empty shell of the Sugar Shack from its ing to The Oregonian.) indicted owners.

The price to rent a private room was Parkrose residents are now concerned $60; the price for private lap dances that the drama has moved into their was $100, according to court filings; neighborhood. and informants told law enforcement “Folks were really upset,” says Annette that managers knew the rooms were Stanhope, chairwoman of the Parkrose used for prostitution.

Neighborhood Association. “People are

apprehensive about strange men coming into the neighborhood looking for this kind of business.”

A Craigslist ad for Tush Lingerie Modeling seeks “Lingerie Models/Dancers and Counter person” and describes the place newly remodeled with “4-Private Show Rooms” and “Discreet parking” and “close to PDX.” Ads were posted in Salem, Portland and Seattle.

Desmarais rented a pale green house in Parkrose and opened for business Aug. 1.

The owner of the house, Evangeline Salvador, says she had handed over the work of renting it out to Windermere Real Estate and was unaware of what kind of business Desmarais was operating.

“I trusted Windermere,” says Salvador, and blames the company’s agent, Craig Gilbert. “When I was getting the call from other people, I didn’t know anything. Craig told me, ‘Everything is OK, they’re going to sell lingerie.’ Craig told me there would be no hanky-panky.”

Gilbert’s attorney says the broker and owner are working to address neighborhood concerns.

“We are investigating the many complaints we have received from the neighbors,” says the attorney, Nick Drum. “We take those complaints very seriously.

We are actively reviewing them to determine whether [Tush is] in compliance with the lease.”

A representative of “All or Nothing, LLC” doing business as Tush declined to comment via text.

By Aug. 7, Tush announced on its voice mail that it would be closed for the remainder of the month.

WW news intern Max Denning contributed additional reporting.

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t’s a warm morning in late July, and we’re on a desolate patch of scrub desert with three high-caliber rifles. We came here to kill. mkorfhage@wweek.com Shaniko, an hour and a half north of Bend, was once called the wool capital of the world. Now it’s a ghost town of 36 people, amid hills so overrun with juniper and sagebrush they smell like a soap store.

Out here, it’s pig country.

Thousands of wild hogs have invaded Oregon. And as a matter of policy, the state of Oregon wants them dead. Hunting season is year-round. These pigs are serious big-game animals—they grow to be 300 pounds and are as smart as a 3-year-old—but you can bag as many you want with a $32 license you can buy at Walmart.

Wild hogs are one of the most destructive invasive species on earth, causing an estimated $1.5 billion in damage in the 40 U.S. states where they’ve been found.

Everywhere they go they leave carnage in their wake—rototilling the soil with snouts and tusks and acting as a petri dish for disease.

Oregon is at war with invasive plants and animals, and pigs are just one of many threats to native species like steelhead and salmon.

It’s something the state is taking seriously—but maybe not seriously enough.

Earlier this year, the state declared that invasive species are “one of the most serious current threats to our economy, ecosystems, infrastructure and natural heritage.”

On July 26, scientists and lawmakers from across the Northwest gathered at Portland’s Marriott Hotel to file their battle reports. Speakers each brought their own vision of catastrophe, from a tree-killing water mold that has turned 6,200 acres of Oregon forest into quarantined field burns, to mussels that could jam up our hydroelectric plants and turn our watershed into a graveyard.

These threats aren’t unique to Oregon, of course. But our unspoiled ecosystem and mild climate make us uniquely vulnerable.

“Myself and my colleagues, we quite literally get the feeling we’re under siege,” says Clint Burfitt at the Oregon Department of Agriculture. “Lots of other states don’t have the pest risk we have. They don’t have the immediacy of the impact.”

Oregon, Burfitt says, is an Eden ripe for invasion by foreign species. We have dense forests and water systems, a long growing season, and small acreages of high-dollar crops growing close to urban areas. And perhaps most significantly, we have been so far spared the ravages that have already afflicted states to the south and east.

“It’s a security issue,” says Portland State University’s Mark Sytsma, who 16 years ago helped found the Oregon Invasive Species Council to coordinate efforts among a vast, unwieldy consortium of local, state and federal agencies. “People don’t tend to see it that way. It’s economic security and it’s health security. It’s important to protecting our way of life. We’ve invested a billion dollars in salmon recovery. Mussels, flowering rush, pike—they could negate all that spending.

We’re vulnerable.”

State funding to prevent infestations remains low in Oregon compared to our neighbors, especially considering the risks involved. While Montana’s wildlife department just allotted $10 million over two years to fight mussels after the state was infested, Oregon funds its $500,000 inspection program wholly through boat registrations.

At least in Shaniko, the government has done its job.

I found no pigs on my pig hunt, because the state has done a good job of minimizing these menaces.

Shaniko Ranch owner Jon Justesen says there used to be so many “I used to hit them with my truck,” he says happily, remembering better days. “One time I got seven with one pass. Death by Dodge!”

But in the past two years, Justesen says ruefully, the government removed most of them.

“They shot probably a thousand of them,” says Justesen about the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “They come in with a four-door helicopter, and there are three guys with shotguns leaning out the doors. I actually banned them from flying over my property. But pigs don’t stay still. They moved on over to the Mobleys’ place next door, and that’s when they shot ’em.”

Gary Lewis, a soft-spoken, snakeskin-hatted outdoor writer and Frontier Unlimited TV host who led our hunt, has no sentimentality about dead pigs. “I hate the pigs,” he tells us later. “I hate ’em.”

Here are 10 plants and animals all Oregonians should hate, and what we’re doing to get rid of them before they take over.

BY MATTHEW

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SHELL GAME: Every year, boats infested with zebra and quagga mussels are stopped on their way into Oregon.

ZEBRA AND QUAGGA MUSSELS WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Dead salmon and rolling brownouts.

Millions of tiny mussels disrupt salmon spawning grounds, starve out fish and cost $500 million a year in economic damage—$300 million alone by clogging hydroelectric dams.

Originally from Ukraine, these tiny, fastreproducing mussels suck all the nutrients out of any water they inhabit. Since stowing away on a ship to Lake Erie in 1989, they’ve transformed the Great Lakes— killing native clams, harming fisheries and causing botulism-tainted algae blooms that have poisoned thousands of birds.

“They’re only as big as your thumbnail but they take in a liter of water a day. Lake Erie gets turned over once every week and a half,” says the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Rick Boatner. “They break up the food chain, eat the good phytoplankton and spit bad stuff out. Blue-green algae grows and fish starve.”

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The mussels have spread rapidly, hitchhiking on boats to waters as far west as California and Montana.

They can arrive attached to any boat exposed to infected water—and just a thimbleful of water containing mussel larvae can doom an entire lake.

“They’re transported in the microscopic stage, and they can live out of water for days and weeks depending on temperature and humidity,” says Boatner. “They’re hovering at the gates.”

Since 2011, every boat entering Oregon is required to submit to inspection for quagga and zebra mussels. Of the 16,825 boats checked in 2016, 17 mussel-infested boats were found—although, due to budget shortfalls, no inspections are conducted between October and May. No one has ever successfully gotten rid of these mussels once they’ve taken hold, so stopping them on their way into the state is Oregon’s only defense. So far, we’ve been lucky.

GOLDFISH AND OTHER CARP WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

A statewide network of mud lakes, with massive damage to birds, salmon and especially trout.

The worst invaders in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last January weren’t the guys with the guns. It was the millions of Asian carp, whose planned eradication was disrupted by the occupiers. Carp are one of the most opportunistic and effective eaters in the world, chumming 20 percent of their body weight in plankton every day and muddying a lake so that other food can’t get enough light to grow.

It’s almost always humans who introduce carp to ponds and rivers, says ODFW’s Boatner, either by dumping out aquariums or by using them as bait fish. Though goldfish— a species of domesticated carp—can look harmless when they’re small, they grow into voracious bottom-feeders that lay 40,000 eggs a year. Near Shaniko, at a tributary to the John Day River where rainbow trout are born, so many thousands of goldfish swarm beneath the surface that the lake is the color of rust where they swim.

“Carp are vegetation eaters,” says Boatner. “They damage the food supply for the waterfowl. The food is dried up for the birds.” They produce more than a million eggs in one go, which means they quickly take over a lake or river, slowly changing the water into a muddy, turbid swamp, an environment they prefer.

Once carp are introduced, you pretty much have to kill the whole lake with a poison called rotenone to get them out. In 2010, Southeast Oregon’s Mann Lake was so clogged with its population of 200,000 goldfish that pilots flying overhead could see a “golden halo” of carp beneath the surface, eating all the food and causing native trout to starve. To stop them, officials flooded the lake with poison, then reintroduce the trout to a dead lake.

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GRAY GHOSTS: Infected tanoak trees.

WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Spooky ghost forests and widespread economic devastation. Up to 80 percent of Oregon tanoaks will die, while Douglas firs and redwoods will be seriously harmed. Nurseries get infected, and a quarantine is placed on plants coming from Oregon, destroying a billion-dollar industry.

ASIAN GYPSY MOTH

WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

O R E G O N D E PA R T M E N T O F A G R I C U LT U R E

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“It’s Portland’s worst nightmare!” Burfitt says. “It kills roses, which doesn’t make it too popular in these parts. It eats hops. It feeds on cannabis. And grapes. It eats everything we like.” Direct agricultural damages are estimated at $43 million a year.

Since last August, Burfitt has been fighting an entrenched infestation in the West Hills neighborhood of Cedar Mill—a voracious Japanese beetle he says seems specifically designed to destroy the Portland way of life.

It’s a bug that is causing a Pharaonic catastrophe in the Midwest: a voracious flying beetle stripping crops of soybean and corn, along with leaves and fruit from trees.

“I’ve been getting these texts from an ecologist in Missouri,” Burfitt says. “They’re amazing! Here, from July 23: ‘The Bible belt has biblical levels of Japanese beetles.

Swarms are hitting cars.’”

Burfitt’s office has set 7,500 traps to stop the Portland invasion, catching as many as 2,000 bugs in a single trap— the population in 2017 was higher than expected, but Burfitt feels confident eradication is still possible. The current effort in Cedar Mill is costing upward of $600,000, including emergency funds. If eradication fails, that’s the end of a Portland without the Japanese beetle.

leg slipping on the fecal slick in her driveway.

Oregon sets 15,000 traps each year at a cost of a half-million dollars, but the moth is hard to prevent because it can arrive in so many ways, including in the holds of ships coming from Eastern Europe.

“In Eastern Asian ports, specifically far east Russian ports, the forests come right up to the port,” says the Oregon Department of Agriculture’s Burfitt. “The ports are very well-lit, and these moths are attracted to the light.”

But they also are sometimes attracted to the glint of a passing car: Vacationers drive them to Oregon in campers. When a dangerous infestation of gypsy moths was discovered and eradicated in Bend in 2006, the moths were eventually traced to a 1967 Chevy the owner had bought on eBay.

SCOTCH BROOM WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

We’re living it: a continuing, endless nuisance that costs $39 million a year.

BILL MCNEE

Forests of trees are stripped naked by gypsymoth caterpillars and potentially finished off by beetles; a quarantine on Oregon trees and plants damages the $830 million nursery industry, the $600 million timber export industry and the $104 million Christmas tree industry.

For 40 years, Oregon has been in a state of near-constant war against the gypsy moth. Asian gypsy moth caterpillars are particularly voracious, potentially defoliating every tree in the forest—leaving them vulnerable to fire and other parasites.

In the Eastern U.S., the moth’s Euro-cousin has defoliated entire forests: 29 million acres in a single year, stripping trees of their leaves. The moth’s hairs cause rashes in humans, and its feces falls from the trees in such volume that picnics are impossible. Last June, an elderly Boston woman called authorities in tears, afraid she’d break her

JAPANESE BEETLE

Sudden oak death is what it sounds like, but worse. An invasive funguslike pathogen of unknown origin, it kills tanoaks with a mortality rate of 50 to 80 percent, and causes blight in Doug firs and coastal redwoods. The dead oak trees turn into ghosts: gray, skeletal husks whose trunks are pocked with bleeding cankers showing diseased pink tree flesh.

The disease can hitchhike from nursery to nursery in soil from any of 135 potential host plants—including rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias—and its spores can travel airborne for up to 4 miles from one tanoak to another.

Parts of California are so infected it’s considered a lost cause for eradication—and the disease was first detected in southwestern Oregon’s Curry County in 2001. Now, more than a third of the county is under federal quarantine, requiring treatment that involves burning up to 26 acres of forest surrounding each infected tree. So far, 6,200 acres in Curry County have been subject to controlled burns, and the hills are filled with dead trees.

Oregon state Rep. David Brock Smith (R-Port Orford) estimates up to 35 percent of Curry County’s economy has already been affected, and tree and habitat death are monumental. If the disease becomes more widespread, Oregon’s $830 million nursery industry could be crippled by an international quarantine. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley is worried enough he pushed through $3.7 million in federal funds to combat a new, virulent strain of the fungus just found in Oregon.

VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLARS: Baby gypsy moths attack.

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In 1850, Scottish army officer Walter Colquhoun Grant grew nostalgic for the pretty little yellow flower that grew in his homeland. And so he unleashed one of the most noxious invasive plants Oregon has ever seen on Vancouver Island.

Like the Himalayan blackberry you see taking over vacant fields, Scotch broom chokes out native plants, takes over entire fields of grassland in ways that harm bird and bee populations, and makes drastic incursions into agriculture. It now covers 1.5 million acres in Oregon, and has no native predators.

And yet, it’s pretty enough our own government used it to control erosion in the ’40s, on dunes and on freeway road cuts.

“There are old postc a r d s s h ow i n g t h e beauty of the Scotch broom along roads i d e s ,” s a y s Ve r n Holm of the Western Invasives Network, a nonprofit devoted to controlling noxious invasive weeds. “It was It was a good idea gone bad, just like kudzu.”

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D R AW I N G B Y T I M OT H Y K N E P P - U . S . F I S H & W I L D L I F E S E R V I C E N AT I O N A L I M A G E L I B R A R Y

“IT’S LIKE YOU’RE RIDDLED WITH CHICKENPOX.” —JOE MARONEY

WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Toothy “slough sharks” eat all the salmon and trout before we can get to them. After they’ve eaten all the salmon, they’ll eat each other.

“Northern pike are coming,” says the Kalispel tribe’s wildlife manager Joe Maroney at the Marriott meeting. “And you should be very afraid.

If you live in Portland, you should be nervous. If you like to fish for salmon or steelhead, you should be nervous.”

Nicknamed the “up-north barracuda,” it’s the most voracious river predator in North America, feeding relentlessly on other fish.

In Southcentral Alaska, invasive northern pike are being caught with baby salmon still in their bellies. And in Eastern Washington’s Box Canyon Reservoir, which flows into the Upper Columbia River 640 miles upstream from Portland, Maroney saw the pike’s population jump from 400 in 2004 to 5,500 in 2010. After a radical effort, those pike are somewhat under control, but Maroney says they keep returning. “You see a dot [on the map] here, a dot here,” Maroney says. “Then it’s like you’re riddled with chickenpox.”

The Kalispel had to install a radical gillnetting program that involved setting 124 miles of nets for five consecutive years, catching upward of 46,000 fish each year and throwing back the ones that weren’t pike. Only 10 percent of the by-catch died, he says.

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WATER PRIMROSE

W E S T E R N I N VA S I V E S N E T W O R K

NORTHERN PIKE

WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Slow-flowing bodies of water turn into oxygen-depleted swamps covered in yellow flowers. Fish, herons, egrets, salamanders and turtles are threatened.

WALKING ON WATER: Primrose grows so thick on this waterway near Corvallis it’s possible to walk across it without sinking.

EMERALD ASH BORER WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Up to 99 percent of ash trees die in zones affected by this beetle.

The emerald ash borer, a metallic-green beetle about the size of a carpenter ant, has wreaked massacres on ash trees in the United States since its discovery 15 years ago in Canton, Mich.

Wyatt Williams, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s invasive species specialist, knows that within a single piece of firewood from Colorado could lurk the destruction of almost every ash tree in the state. The beetle has now spread to 30 states, eating its way beneath the bark of ash trees until they die. The bug has no native predators that can control its population. It’s never been successfully eradicated.

Since its 2002 introduction in Michigan, the ash borer has swept the Eastern states’ ash trees, killing nearly every one. By the year 2019, it’s expected the bug will have killed 9 billion trees in the

U.S., and it leapfrogged to Colorado last year. First, trees died in Denver, and then in Boulder. Colorado Springs awaits its fate.

The only way to stop the borer is to make sure it doesn’t enter the state—it won’t cross the Rockies unless someone brings infested wood into Oregon. And while Oregon has a rule restricting interstate transit of firewood, Williams worries that’s not enough.

“The firewood rule is nice,” says Williams. “But it’s unfunded.

They’ve never done a single inspection and never assessed any penalties.”

Six years ago, Willamette Mission State Park near Keizer was a popular spot for paddleboats and fishermen. Now, the waterway is choked so completely with yellow-flowering aquatic plants that it’s possible to walk on top of them. The water primrose, brought in from Uruguay as a decorative flower for aquariums and water gardens, is so difficult to remove that conservation groups must use herbicides to kill large expanses.

There have been eradication efforts at both Delta Ponds City Park in Eugene and the Blue Heron Wetlands in North Portland.

Water primrose is like the bamboo of the water, able to double its biomass in just 14 days.

“It’s killing the Willamette River in places,” says the Invasives Network’s Vern Holm. “It totally invades flat-water areas, and grows up to 3 feet over the waterline. The people controlling it are walking across a mat of plants. You can’t fish, you can’t birdwatch, you can’t go canoeing. How can you put a cost on not being able to canoe or kayak into your favorite place?”

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Feral Pig WORST-CASE SCENARIO:

Hundreds of thousands of pigs destroy Eastern Oregon highways, uproot city parks and dig 6-foot ruts into high school football fields.

A single full-grown boar is 300 pounds of fur, muscle and vicious tusk that can run 30 miles an hour on the hoof. Wild pigs have no steady habits you can depend on, and they multiply faster than a calculator, with the potential to double their population every year. They’re a $1.5 billion national crisis.

But in Oregon, where the pig population never got higher than a few thousand, it’s still possible to win the fight. In fact, there’s reason to believe we’ve already turned the tide after a campaign of relentless helicopter culling dropped the population estimates to 500.

But to see what could happen in Oregon if we fail, look to California and Texas, where the battle has already been lost. “In California, the feral pig is the No. 1 big-game animal in the state—that’s the wrong place to be,” our hunting guide Gary Lewis says.

In Texas, there is routine talk of a “hog apocalypse,” and desperate lawmakers this year approved pig hunting by hot air balloon, by helicopter and with wickedly painful poisons.

Lewis says he disagrees with anyone who lets a pig live.

“I met a couple who said they were pig hunters,” Lewis says. “They said they’ve killed 27 pigs. They killed a sow and she had seven babies. They walked up to where the babies were and then brought the gun real close.”

He makes a rapid trigger-pull gesture with his hand, over and over.

“Bap bap bap bap bap bap bap!” he says.

“That was seven of their 27 kills. That’s how you have to be.”

HEY, PIGGY: This hog (upper left) was the first radio-tagged by the state. “I remember it having a mean disposition,” says ODFW’s Rick Boatner. Wild pigs (above) can gather in packs of up to 40.

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Who are you most excited to see? Luz Elena Mendoza: “Ty Segall and Tank and the Bangas. I wanted to see Charles Bradley last night, and Dinosaur Jr. for freakin’ sure!”

Every time it looks like Pickathon is about to go big, something reins it back in.

In 2016, it certainly seemed like Portland’s biggest little music festival was approaching a tipping point. In terms of prestige, the lineup was its heftiest yet, and it showed in the turnout. Pickathon has never had trouble drawing people to the woods of Happy Valley. As you’ll often hear, it’s all about the experience, man, not who’s playing. But last year was the first time where it felt like the festival might be on the verge of outgrowing not just its location, scenic Pendarvis Farm, but its own humble ambitions.

A year later, Pickathon was back to being Pickathon again. Whether it was the heatwave or the upcoming eclipse festivities siphoning off attendees, the crowds returned to a more manageable level. And while the bookings also returned to the mean, the moments that make the festival what it is—the experience, man!—were bountiful. Swedish psychedelic maestros Dungen live-scored a 1920s animated film under a moonlit sky.

Dinosaur Jr. shredded so loud it threatened to crack the trees shading the Woods Stage in half. Young acts like Priests and Tank and the Bangas played breakthrough sets to audiences that never saw them coming. On a personal level, maybe you took a weed nap under a glowing geodesic cube, or waited in line for pie behind Robyn Hitchcock.

It won’t actually stay like this forever, of course. Nothing good does.

But for now, it remains one of Portland’s truest pleasures. Enjoy it while you can, and save your cynicism for tomorrow. MATTHEW SINGER.

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“It’s our fave ’cause everybody’s really nice, open and giving. It’s like a really friendly Coachella.”

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Do you drive or camp? “Camp! To be able to fall asleep next to my son while Dungen was playing in the background last night was really surreal and great. It’s good to just be able to wake up and go. Plus driving sucks!”

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Who are you most excited to see? “Charles Bradley for sure. His outfits are incredible. Last night he looked like a disco ball!”

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What’s your favorite thing about Pickathon? Mic Capes: “The diversity of genres of music and the hospitality.”

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Buddhists will walk by the ICE detention center, promoting justice for immigrants as they “emulate the migration of peoples” and happily teach you the art of opening your heart in order “to transform suffering through peace-walking meditation.” Portland ICE Detention Center, 4310 SW Macadam Ave. Noon-1 pm Thursday, August 10.

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Life sucks a lot of the time. This self-care workshop will go through basic self-care methods and how to use purification, plants and flower essences, protection, grounding and other witchy stuff to try to feel better about it. This month, the class will celebrate Leos. Sea Grape Bath and Body, 319 NE Wygant St., 419-972-1792, seagrapesoap.com. 6-9 pm Friday, August 11. $25-45 sliding scale.

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A family-friendly happy hour with face painting and a raffle to benefit Planned Parenthood. 9th Annual Pink Party, Dig a Pony, 736 SE Grand Ave., 971-2794409, digaponyportland.com.

5-8 pm Wednesday, August 9. $5 general admission, $10 VIP. Free for kids under 10.

Want to meet the members of your local rednecksocialist uprising who may or may not have punched an alt-righty in the face at the Portland Waterfront recently? Folks who believe that the interests of the working class involve solidarity among races against the capitalist oppressors? Well, apparently they want to meet you, too. In Gresham. Main City Park, 219 South Main Ave., Gresham. 6:30-9 pm Sunday, August 13.

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Hang out with anarchist Kevin Van Meter and learn how the working class is way more passive-aggressive than you ever thought—waging a war on the man by being shitty employees on purpose. I’d pour your coffee, but fuck capitalism. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-228-4651, powells.com.

7:30 pm Thursday, August 10. Free.

Beloved Festival

Are you into gong meditation, lectures on “the energetics of the feminine cycle” and dancing to Qawwali-dub fusion possibly played by a former political prisoner? Well, namaste.

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This is the establishment where the Portland establishment talks about the continual reestablishment of the establishment. There are probably cookies. Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave., 503-248-0826, multdems. org. 6-8:30 pm Thursday, August 10.

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NEW AGE: Todd Haynes, one of Portland’s most acclaimed directors, is making a documentary about The Velvet Underground. Variety first reported on the project, which is currently in production. The article quotes Haynes (I’m Not There, Velvet Goldmine) as referring to the difficulty of the task, given early footage is limited to an hour-long movie of a 1966 rehearsal that Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey filmed. The documentary will “rely certainly on Warhol films but also a rich culture of experimental film, a vernacular we have lost and we don’t have,” Haynes told Variety. In 2007, he directed I’m Not There, the Bob Dylan biopic, and his 1998 Velvet Goldmine was an ode to glam rock featuring a David Bowie-inspired protagonist.

But his untitled Velvet Underground project will be the independent filmmaker’s first documentary, complete with new interviews of the surviving band members and archival footage. Haynes says while the group’s initial obscurity poses a challenge to making a documentary, it’s also part of what drew him to the band. “Their influence has nothing to do with sales or visibility or the ways we portion ideas of success,” he says.

LONESOME NO MORE: Famously quirky Lonesome’s Pizza has disappeared. The late-night delivery pizza spot inside Dante’s on West Burnside Street was made famous for including edible glitter among its toppings and art in every box.

Lonesome’s gave a week’s notice before Dante’s had to take over its pizza window under the name Pizza Slut. “We’re going back to making good New York-style pizza,” Dante’s owner Frank Faillace tells WW. The Lonesome’s pizza site currently redirects to a donation page for Planned Parenthood.

SHOE SALESMAN: Damian Lillard tweets out his shoes almost twice as often as any other star in the NBA, according to an ESPN story devoted to praising Dame’s social media chops. His 74 Adidasshoe selfies bested runner-up James Harden by 35 tweets, while Stephen Curry tweeted his notorious Under Armour shoes a total of only 17 times. The piece also praises Lillard’s #4BarFriday game, in which NBA stars and fans submit hip-hop videos, and asserts that Lillard’s social-media engagement rivals stars like LeBron James, despite his having a tenth as many followers.

ANTI-ANTI-ANTIFA ACTION PLANNED: A controversial punk band who claims to have invented the genre of “rape rock” plans to headline a metal show in Portland next month, and local activists are threatening to boycott the venue unless it’s canceled. The Mentors, formed in Seattle in 1976, have faced plenty of backlash in the past. Their lyrics are deliberately misogynist and shocking, and politicians have used them to advocate for the censorship of the music industry for years. Past appearances in Portland, however, have occurred without much conflict. But their inclusion in a metal showcase at Rock Hard PDX called Sickness in September on September 8, is part of their “Anti-Antifa” tour and faces significant controversy online. “It’s imminent harm. It’s clear and present danger,” a tipster told WW. “It’s not something that needs to be encouraged in any community.” A protest, organized by In Other Words Feminist Community Center, is planned if the show goes through.

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Catch The Shining in the ideal venue: your car, and as far away from a long hallway as possible. And, since they charge by the carload, don’t be afraid to sneak your small friend in the trunk, next to the cooler. Portland Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Dr., 503-736-5200, expocenter.org/content/ pdx-drive-movie-spectacular. $15 per carload of 6 people.

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Crown of Sparrows Sparrows, Austin songwriter Monk Parker’s sophomore album, sounds like the work of a lonely ghost haunting a rickety old saloon.

His hazy Americana calls to mind the likes of M. Ward and Amen Dunes—it’s big and sweeping, yet delicate and desolate. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865, bunksandwiches.com. 9:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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Shaft on a roof? Shut your mouth! Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave., 503-221-1156, nwfilm.org/festivals/top-down-rooftop-cinema. 7 pm. $9 seniors and students, $10 general admission.

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DJ QUIK AND SCARFACE While both are thought of as legends, particularly in their respective regions of origin, if anything links these two gangsta-rap vets, it’s that they’re still egregiously underrated. Backed tonight by a live band, they’ll be drawing from a collective history that spans three decades. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 9 pm. $30-$50. 21+.

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Starring Charlize Theron as a secret agent who kicks dudes through glass tables while wearing stilettos, Atomic Blonde is a hyper-stylized spy flick with a killer post-punk/new wave soundtrack. Coincidentally, it’s also based on a comic published by Portland’s Oni Press. See page 50 for feature. Fox Tower, 846 SW Park Ave., 844-462-7342. Various showtimes. $11.75.

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Yes, Hacky Sack has a sport that isn’t just you and your high school friends standing in a circle listening to Phish. The Net Finals may blow your mind—a mix of volleyball and regular Hacky Sack. And if you’re lucky, you’ll bump into the man who invented the footbag, Mr. Hacky Sack himself. Oregon Convention Center, Hall E, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 800-791-2250, footbag.org/worlds2017. August 6-12. See website for full schedule.

ART IN THE DARK In aerial dance company A-WOL's annual outdoor show, the dancers perform in silks suspended from trees illuminated by ethereal uplighting. This year, the show has a slightly unexpected theme for such an idyllic scene: ’60s sci-fi TV shows. Mary S. Young State Park, 19900 Willamette Dr., West Linn, 503-351-5182, awoldance. org. 8:30 pm. $15-$36.

PORTLAND RADLER FESTIVAL

The radler is the finest German invention since Rammstein, and now the sunny-day fruit juice-and-beer drink gets its own festival. Expect orange creamsicle gose radler, apricot-blackberry radler and mango beer with mango juice. Not sunny enough for you? There's also a Jamaican jazz band. Stormbreaker Brewing, 832 N Beech St., 971-703-4516, stormbreakerbrewing.com. Noon-8 pm. $15-20 for 8 tasters.

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You’ve heard Sister Nancy, even if you don’t know it. The Jamaican dancehall queen’s 1982 single, “Bam Bam,” might be the most sampled reggae record ever, having been incorporated by Kanye, Lauryn Hill and, most recently, Jay-Z. To hear the original in person, on one of Portland’s best patios, is a true summer miracle. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 503-236-9672, whiteowlsocialclub.com. 3 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Broadway restaurant Chesa might be gone, but every second Sunday you can still get that paella on the smoky Josper oven for brunch. But this time, it’ll always be cooked by head chef Jose Chesa. $50 nets you up to four servings of paella, a salad and a glass of sangria, with the famous gin and housemade tonic available for dedicated lushes. Chesa, 2218 NE Broadway, chesapdx.com.

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Can you name all the fro-yo flavors at 42 Squirts? What about the alt-J song that plays while Fred Armisen, in a diaper, watches Abbi and Ilana clean his apartment? Do you know the secret recipe for Ilana's firecracker smoothie? Put on your period pants and see who else does, too. Le Bistro Montage, 301 SE Morrison St., montageportland.com. 9 pm.

THE SELECTER Before American mall punks ruined it in the ’90s, ska was music with enough anger in its frantic rhythms to rage alongside the original British punk movement, and the Selecter were on the frontlines. Still led by Pauline Black, the band continues to attack society’s ills, on record and on the dancefloor. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdin-theater.com. 9 pm. $30. All ages. See profile, page 37.

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The Mushroom Hunters author takes on salmon with Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, From River to Table. Why is the wild population dwindling, while farmed schools thrive? Seattle author Cook takes an in-depth look at the reasons behind the shift, and how humanity can counter it. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

It's closer than Pendleton, and you still get to witness an entire culture that doesn't exist in Portland, one where you can watch barrel racing, bareback riding, steer wrestling, tie-down roping and something called "saddle bronc." Giddyup! Clackamas County Fairgrounds, 694 NE 4th Ave., Canby, clackamas.us/fair/rodeo.html. 7:30 pm.

Through August 19. $17-$22. All ages.

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On August 21 at 10:18 am, there will be a full solar eclipse, where the sky will go dark for two entire minutes. Oregon’s small towns, which are in the path of the eclipse’s totality, are gearing up for the first coast-to-coast solar eclipse since 1918.

So far, it’s been total mania. Hotels around the state have been accused of canceling reservations and then upping rates for the weekend of the eclipse, while others have been booked for three years. If you want to stay somewhere for the weekend, you better make reservations fast. Here’s a list of some of the many eclipse events going on in Oregon.

1. Moonshadow Festival

August 18-21,6500 NE McKay Creek Rd., Prineville, 503-810-7003, winedownranch.com, $50 day pass, $250 camping.

Wine Down Ranch will host the Moonshadow Festival, a four-day family-friendly event that will highlight both the eclipse, as well as Central Oregon culture. The festival promises its own farmers market, yoga instruction, plein air paint-andsip classes, musical entertainment, ranch demonstrations, cowboy storytelling, farm tours, guided hikes, stargazing and cabins you can stay in. It’ll all happen on a 2,100-acre working ranch, which means there are actually cattle there. The ranch hugs the Ochoco National Forest and is just north of Prineville.

2. Willamette Valley Vineyards

August 21, 8800 Enchanted Way SE, Turner, 503-588-9463, willamettewines.com.

If you’re not trying to stay overnight, head to the Salem area, where you can drink a glass of red wine and watch the world go dark.

After, they’ll be hosting events until 6 pm, which is plenty of time to get drunk and sober up again.

3. Solarfest [SOLD OUT]

August 17-22,Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 430 Fairgrounds Road, Madras, 541-475-7601, oregonsolarfest.com.

If NASA’s throwing a party, you know it’s about to be lit. The hippest government organization around is teaming up with the Total Solar Eclipse to bring you Solarfest, an eclipse-themed festival at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. It remains to be seen whether or not this is one of the few festivals that will not have a guy in a headdress looking for a girl named Molly...but it will have helicopter rides available! Suck it, Sasquatch. For real though, there

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4. Oregon Eclipse 2017 Festival [SOLD OUT]

August 17-23, Big Summit Prairie, Crook County, oregoneclipse2017.com.

In what appears to be Crook County’s answer to the Fyre Fest, this festival promises EDM music and luxury camping. The lineup includes guest speakers and performers from over 70 countries, along with a huge number of workshops and activities. Attendees will have 300 artists on seven stages awaiting them, along with art installations and a massive swimmable lake. Think Burning Man in the Oregon wilderness.

5. Oregon State University’s A Total Eclipse Experience

August 19-21, 541-737-0724, communications.oregonstate.edu/ space, free admission.

The festival will include a photography workshop, where you can learn how to take the best photos of the eclipse, astronomy exhibits, a series of lectures, a BBQ/cocktail party, outdoor movie night, a soul cover band concert and an eclipse viewing party. What’s even cooler, is that they’re opening residence halls for guests to make reservations. You can reserve a lodging and dining package on OSU’s website. Packages range from $265 for a single room to $1,275 for a six-person suite. This includes a two-night stay, dinner and breakfast, tickets to the concert, access to the pool and gym, and a tailgate blanket.

6. Indy Goes Dark Eclipse Festival [CAMPING SOLD OUT] August 17-21, Riverview Park

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and Amphitheater 50 C St. Independence, 503-838-1212, independencegoesdark.com, $175-275 tent camping, $375 RV. Apparently, the city of independence goes by “indy,” which is probably a good marketing tactic for them. As is this four-day festival, which will have fireworks, outdoor movies, an Aerosmith cover band, a food truck and beer fest and hypnotism in a huge outdoor park.

7. Solar Eclipse Campout & Cider Tasting

August 18-22, Roshambo ArtFarm, 22900 SW Pittman Rd., Willamina, 503-560-0673, artandsciencenw. com/solar-eclipse-fundraiser. $10-20 You can help this farm raise money to build their new barn and open their cidery by camping out on 50-acres in Willamina, which is also the location of the Wildwood Music Fest.

On the 19th, they’re hosting a cider tasting, and from that night on, their 12-acre field will be open for RV and tent camping at just $20/person.

8. Volcanoes EclipseFest 2017

August 18-21, Volcanoes Stadium, 6700 Field of Dreams Way, Keizer, 503-390-2225, volcanoesbaseball. com/eclipse, $25-115 What’s more American than baseball, brews and “blackout?” Head to Keizer for a weekend of Volcanoes games and a weekend-long beer fest before the eclipse on Sunday morning, which will interrupt the morning game.

9. Pandyfest

August 19-21, Weaver Farm, John Day, pandyfest.com, $50-245.

If you’re looking for a food and performance festival that’s a little more exclusive, Pandyfest has you covered. The event will

take over Weaver Farm, and will serve breakfast and dinner with a musical backdrop full of Pacific Northwest artists. Attendance is limited to 200 guests, so grab tickets while you can.

10. Mystery of the Eclipse Explained

August 19-21 Geiser Grand Hotel, 1996 Main St, Baker City, 541-523-1889, geisergrand.com/events/2017/04, $50 dinner, $40 brunch.

Ever wonder how the eclipse actually works? The Geiser Grand Hotel will host a day-long seminar dedicated to answering the biggest scientific questions behind it, complete with seven presentations, a Q&A, and homemade quiche. At least one of those things is appealing to everyone, and the guest speakers (who’ve won the NASA Achievement Award) are sure to dazzle those interested in the stars.

11. Solar Eclipse Viewing Party with OMSI [SOLD OUT]

August 21, OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., Portland, 503-797-4529, omsi.edu/calendar.

OMSI will add an educational touch to eclipse viewing with its event, scheduled for the day of the eclipse. Lectures and things mysteriously labeled “entertainment” will accompany a “celebration of complete and total darkness for about two minutes.” If you want to delve deeper into the science behind the eclipse, this is the place to go.

Nerds welcome.

12. Eclipse 2017 at Camp Taloali

August 18-21 Camp Taloali, 15934 Santiam Hwy. SE, Camp Taloali, Stayton, 503-877-3864, www.taloali. org/eclipse, $600 RV/campsite, $900 cabin.

Got kids and a love of the outdoors? Camp Taloali has everything you need to keep the whole family

busy until the sun disappears. A swimming pool, rock-climbing wall, challenge course, hiking and biking trails, and an arts & crafts center all await. RV and campsites all come in three-day packages starting at $600.

13. Solar Eclipse 2017 Corvallis

August 19-21, Crystal Lake Sports Fields, 100 SE Fischer Lane Corvallis, 541-766-6918, solareclipsecorvallis.com, $200 per site.

Corvallis’ Parks and Recreation Department is offering tent and RV campsites for the entire eclipse weekend. Before you say something like, “Not another campsite,” consider this: There’s a disc golf course within walking distance. Live entertainment, food, educational presentations and a beer garden are available to campers as well. But c’mon.

Disc golf.

14. Silver Falls Path of Totality Festival

August 18-22, Silver Falls State Park, 20022 Silver Falls Hwy SE, Sublimity, 866-575-8875, silverfallslodge.com, $745 per person/ triple occupancy, $995 per person/ double occupancy.

By most standards, Silver Falls State Park is already gorgeous enough to warrant a visit. But if 9,000 acres of nature somehow fall short for you, the lodge will host a festival from Friday through Tuesday that puts attendees right in the path of the eclipse. The total two-night allinclusive package includes live music, local craft beer and wine tasting, 30 miles of hiking and biking trails and a “very special appearance by the Silver Falls Sasquatch.” So by celebrity appearance standards, this is the place to be.

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

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

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 Vancouver Brewfest

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1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

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Vancouver is the Portland area’s second-best beer city after Portland—and Trusty, Loowit and Trap Door merit visits all by themselves. Oregon’s Pfriem and Base Camp are also crashing the party for the fun of it.

Esther Short Park, 301 N 8th St., Vancouver, Wash., vancouverbrewfest.com. 4-11 pm Friday, noon-9 pm Saturday. $17-$32 for up to 20 tastes.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12

Shandong Pan African Festival

At Portland’s first-ever Pan African Festival, spanning African, www.shandongportland.com Caribbean and African American cultures, expect plenty of music, dance, food and fashion from across the African continent—and the African diaspora—to take over Pioneer Courthouse Square all day. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., panafricanfestivalor.org. Noon-8:30 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 Paella Sunday

Broadway restaurant Chesa might be gone, but every second Sunday you can still get that paella on the smoky Josper oven for brunch. But this time, it’ll always be cooked by head chef Jose Chesa. $50 nets you up to four servings of paella, a salad and a glass of sangria, with the famous gin and house-made tonic available for dedicated lushes.

Chesa, 2218 NE Broadway St,, chesapdx.com.

DRANK

Going Gris (Upright)

When Upright’s Alex Ganum agreed to make a collaboration beer for Bailey’s Taproom’s 10th anniversary, beer buyer Bill Murnighan knew what had to happen: Ganum had to meet Chad Stock of experimental winery Minimus. “They’re pretty much the wine version of Upright,” Murnighan told us. Ganum visited, and was “blown away” by the wines. Stock introduced him to both acacia-wood barrels, which impart a sort of fruity note to beer, and a very rare cabernet sauvignon rose grape that Ganum thought would mix beautifully with a one-off rose-petal beer. And so he fermented 100 pounds of grape with orchard yeast, blended with a mix of saison and rose beer, and aged it in acacia for about six months. It’s the white wine of fruit beers—lightly bitter-sour, beautifully aromatic with hints of flower petal and stone fruit, and downright elegant. And even at $15 a bottle, there’s already almost none of it left. Get some.

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Where to eat this week.

1. Red Robe

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

Red Robe is not only the most gracious Chinese teahouse in town, with Gong Fu tea ceremonies—it also offers a beautifully flavorful $28 hot pot for two. $-$$.

2. Farmhouse Kitchen 3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-432-8115, 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. $$-$$$.

3. Aviary

1733 NE Alberta St., 503-287-2400, aviary.com.

Aviary’s back bar finally has a burger—and unsurprisingly, it’s great, a ciabatta banh mi burger with spicy pickled carrots and hoisin. $$-$$$.

4. 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. $-$$$.

5. Chin’s Kitchen

4132 NE Broadway St, 503-181-1203, chinskitchenportland.com.

This 49-year-old standby has been revived with Northeastern Chinese hand-pulled noodles and dumplings. $$.

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Trattoria

CARLEIGH OETH

Fillmore

Uncle Nearest Dilly Bar (Wiz Bang)

Say what you want about Wiz Bang Bar’s Tyler Malek: The dude makes cross-marketing opportunities seem like actual fun. The Pine Street Market soft-serve spot shares a PR company with Jack Daniels’ very au courant campaign for Uncle Nearest whiskey, named after a Tennessee slave who mentored the whiskey company’s original distiller. And so as if by magic, Wiz Bang is serving up an Uncle Nearest Dilly Bar, a $7 ice cream pop made with whiskey-soaked banana chips and drizzled with a whiskeybutter caramel. But, surprise!

It’s also an eerily faithful PBJ sandwich—a peanut-butter magic shell around strawberry-blackpepper ice cream. It’s sweet, spicy, boozy and way less weird than it sounds: The sweet-breathed whiskey-banana hangover is a feature, not a distraction. These Dilly Bars won’t get you drunk anytime soon, but they taste good enough I may start dunking my sandwiches in whiskey. R e c o m m e n d e d .

MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

JEFF SCHULER

REVIEW

Gyro of the Day WE ATE OUR WAY AROUND SOUTHWEST PORTLAND’S KEBAB CORNER, LOOKING FOR THE BEST HUMMUS, CHICKEN AND LAMB.

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

mcizmar@wweek.com

America is a land of opportunism.

Our businesses look for niches— which is why neighborhoods in Portland, like most American cities, tend to have one of each thing that a neighborhood needs. And it’s why food cart pods will keep the same crappy burrito cart for years even when there are other, better, burrito carts willing to compete for business.

In other parts of the world, goods and services tend to be clustered. If you want shoes, you go to the shoe street. If you need a camera, you go to the camera corner.

Which maybe helps explain why there are more than a dozen gyro, shawarma and kebab carts crammed together at two pods downtown. More than half the carts at the pods, one at Southwest 10th and Alder and the other at Southwest 3rd and Stark, serve basically the same menu. We’re not the first to notice this: After we started this story, we discovered that Mercury food critic Zahir Janmohamed had dubbed the 10th and Alder pod “Shawarma Square” earlier this year.

Janmohamed picked the Lebanese shawarma at Sam’s Saj as the best there.

So, as we celebrate Portland’s culinary clusters for for Cluster Feeding month, we headed to the other kebab corner in the Gyro District, Southwest 3rd between Stark and Washington, where we ordered pitas topped with chicken and lamb, and a side of hummus.

At the pod on Southwest 3rd, many of the carts are run by recent Iraqi immigrants. It’s hard work with long hours— especially unpleasant on our visits, on days when the temperatures on the street soared above 100 degrees. There aren’t many other options according to Saad Alameri, a friendly and chatty Baghdad native who runs the Moonlight Mediterranean Food cart.

Many of the Middle Eastern people who’ve made their way to Portland have been boxed into the carts by the economics of American restaurants and convenience stores, which often make much of their profit off alcohol.

“We’re Muslim, so we don’t sell alcohol,” Alameri says. “We can’t make any profit off alcohol, that’s haram. We have people come here after drinking. One night a man, a Muslim, came and asked me if my meat was halal. He’s drunk. I say, ‘Why do you care if it’s halal! You’ve been drinking alcohol, that’s already haram!’”

Alameri is also proud of his halal food, particularly his chicken shawarma and the spicy red sauce he adds upon request, which he says was a gamechanger when he opened here in 2010.

“I brought this from my country and it was very popular, so other people started doing it,” he says.

Chatting with the operators of the other carts here, we discovered that all had something they’re proud of—and a few opinions on what their competitors could do better.

Here are our picks for the best things at each.

ELMASRY 243 SW Washington St., 503-515-6444 The original gyro cart in this BEST pod has been open for nearly HUMMUS a decade now, starting in May of 2009. The cart is named after one of Egypt’s oldest soccer clubs.

The thing to get here is the hummus, which is quite different than the others on the block, an extra-saucy and nutty version that we scraped dry, the only one to meet that fate. The lamb is cooked on the flat-top and did not have a lot of character, while the chicken was a little stewy for my taste.

ELMASRY

PERSIAN SOFREH

MOONLIGHT MEDITERRANEAN

412 SW 3rd Ave. Our favorite lamb came from BEST this cart. They slice it fresh off LAMB the spinning cone, unlike any of the others on this block during our visits. We picked it without knowing that, though—it’s fatty and light, dense with flavor but with a pleasant softness.

The chicken here is interesting, as it comes in a heavy curry sauce. The hummus has an oatmeal texture and is, oddly, garnished with two cobs of baby corn.

232 SW Stark St., 503-208-0019 There’s a cone of lamb pictured BEST on the side of the cart, but CHICKEN Alameri gave it up because of the hassle, instead tossing a few thin slices of frozen lamb on the flat-top then topping the gyro with two cream sauces and a little spice. It’s a hulking pile of food for just $8. The main draw here is the chicken, which is fresh and wellseasoned. It gets even better with the hot sauce and creamy white sauces. The hummus is super-creamy and was our secondfavorite behind El Masry.

WELCOME TO MEDITERRANEAN 426 SW 3rd Ave., 503-799-7960 Are you in a hurry? This cart had FASTEST our order bagged up to go before the others had swiped our cards.

Unfortunately, that speed was paired with chicken that had a frozen potpie flavor and the worst hummus, which tasted like freezer-burnt cardboard.

CASABLANCA’S BEST BBQ CHICKEN ON CHARCOAL 426 SW 3rd Ave. This recently opened cart BEST BBQ isn’t your typical shawarma, instead using charcoal-cooked chicken for their cigar-shaped wrap. It’s smokey and pleasant chicken that recalls the stuff grilled up for family barbecues. They don’t have a hummus side, instead selling a mini mezze platter with loose, soupy grape leaves.

PHILLY KING 230 SW Stark St. Despite the cheesesteak on the BEST OFF-MENU menu, owners of Philly King a r e n ’t f r o m P h i l a d e l p h i a — ITEM they ’re from Baghdad. Their sour-yogurt-tzatziki-drenched shwarma and gyro weren’t among the best on the pod, but Philly King ’s owners were nice enough to let us sample the secret menu item stewing in the crock pot: a rich, delicate, bone-in lamb-shank soup they serve up only to special customers.

We were honored to be deemed special enough to try it.

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MUSIC FEATURE

C A R LT O N WA R D

Dearly Beloved EXPLAINING BELOVED, OREGON’S LONG-RUNNING “SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL.”

BY M AT T H E W S I N GER

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The first thing you see when visiting the website for the Beloved Festival isn’t a poster loaded with band names, but a monkey wearing a crown of flowers.

Scroll down further, and you’ll find the monkey is seated atop a giant owl, surrounded by bees, purple flowers, butterflies and floating tiger and coyote heads.

The aesthetic is less outdoor summer music festival than store that sells healing crystals, dreadlock butter and books about natural mudpit births.

It’s eye-grabbing, for sure, but also stigmatizing. And founder Elliot Rasenick wouldn’t disagree. After 10 years of organizing his “sacred music festival” in Oregon’s coastal woods, he’s aware of how it looks from the outside. Unless you’re already about that earth-mama life, it’s easy to look at the advertising for Beloved and dismiss it as a glorified yoga retreat.

But if you look beyond the intuitive painting workshops and lectures on “the energetics of the feminine cycle,” Rasenick believes the festival is just as appealing to hardcore music fans as amateur yogis. In fact, he calls Beloved “a little sister to Pickathon,” another festival that suffered from a hippie-dippy stigma for its first decade.

So what is Beloved, really? WW went to Rasenick for answers to our most frequently asked questions.

SO THIS IS A HIPPIE THING, RIGHT?

Elliot Rasenick: My sense is the community is more diverse than you might think. I know the idea of Beloved is that it’s just a New Age hippie festival, and that’s the idea that’s held by a lot of people, and I really don’t think that’s the only thing Beloved is.

WHAT IS IT, THEN?

We call it a sacred music festival. What I mean by “sacred music” is music that reminds us that we are connected. One of the universal experiences most of us share is that at some point, we have had some moment at a show, on a dance floor, where we just felt totally connected to everyone around us. And it’s that moment that the festival is really celebrating and trying to preserve for an entire weekend.

SO IT’S LIKE COACHELLA, BUT NOT?

One of the fundamental differences is that there is one stage. At a normal music festival, the model is that you’re constantly

CELEBRATING THE SACRED: The scene at Beloved Festival.

feeling like there’s something you’re missing. The idea of Beloved is, if we’re going to put all this effort into being together, let’s all be together at a single stage.

IT SAYS THE LOCATION IS IN “TIDEWATER FALLS.” IS THAT A REAL PLACE?

It’s about 15 miles inland from the coast.

When the wind is right you actually smell the sea. It’s in this gorgeous coastal forest, up on the top of this hill. It has this feeling of perfect safety. There’s no roads nearby.

When we’re there, it feels like we’re alone in the universe.

WHAT KIND OF ARTISTS ARE PLAYING?

Las Cafeteras is this unbelievable [group].

They’re all either first-generation or secondgeneration immigrants from Mexico, and they have this unbelievable story. For me, talking about border imperialism feels really important, and that’s a lot of their conversations. In that same realm, Rahim AlHaj is this incredible master oudist. He was a political prisoner of Saddam Hussein for a long time.

He was eventually granted refugee status here in the states, and his story is another one I’m really excited to tell—to talk about what it meant for him to have no home and then be granted refugee status.

THAT’S GREAT, BUT WHAT IF I WANT TO DANCE?

Another act I’m super excited about is Fémina, this amazing Argentinian threesister act that’s sort of their own little take on the new underground cumbia that’s emerging in Latin America. Another long sought-after act for me is Khun Narin. These guys have taken this traditional Thai instrument called the phin, which is like this wild, wooden lute, and put a pickup in it. They do these all-night, psychedelic Thai-funk parties in the forests of Thailand. They’re just incredible, and I’m super excited to host them.

THERE ARE ARTISTS GROUPED UNDER “HEART OF DEVOTION” ON THE LINEUP. IS THAT, LIKE, THE RELIG-Y PART OF “SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL”?

A lot of the Heart of Devotion artists are presenting old traditional devotional music from around the world. A lot of it is this genre of music called Kirtan, it’s a call-and-response tradition from India. And, of course, the other music you might think of as more traditionally occupying the sacred music space is gospel music, and I’m really enthusiastic that we have Arietta Ward at the festival. You would think of Beloved as a space that might be afraid of gospel music, but I’m excited we have a moment where we say, “We’ve invited all the Hindu gods to be here, we’ve invited the Sufi notion of the Beloved to be here and we’ve also invited Jesus to be here.”

WHAT IS “SOUND HEALING”? I SEE THAT ON THE LINEUP, TOO.

Most of the sound healing takes place in this other really special part of the festival, in a yurt between these three giant trees near a little bubbling brook. Most of our sound-healing artists are using really old instruments that have been part of different ceremonies, from different traditions, for millions of years. Most of them have traveled to the places where these traditions and instruments come from, and worked with teachers and received permission to use these old sounds that have been used in healing traditions for a long time.

AND I’M GONNA TAKE A WILD GUESS THAT THERE’S YOGA, TOO?

I think one of the most stunning places in the world to practice yoga is our yoga pavilion. It’s in a small clearing in the middle of this gorgeous forest. We have this stunning cathedral of a pavilion, and we’ve worked with each individual yoga teacher to curate music that fits their particular class.

WHAT ELSE?

One thing I’m really excited about, having been engaged in these last two years, is really talking about justice and oppression, partly through the lens of dismantling patriarchy and creating a culture of consent. At any music festival, it’s such a provocative environment.

There’s very little clothing, it’s highly sexually charged. So inside that environment, we’ve been having a very serious conversation about, “What is consent”?

We have a 24-hour hosted space that we call our “care tent,” and in that space, anyone can come and have a conversation about the nature of consent or some ways they may have experienced harm, or some ways they’re trying to understand how to avoid experiencing harm—how to unravel the patterns of manipulation that those of us who have continuous access to male privilege have to work to not act out those manipulative patterns. And in the middle of the day Saturday, we have a break in the music and a real conversation about oppression and injustice.

SO YOU REALLY DON’T THINK THIS IS A HIPPIE FESTIVAL?

I really don’t. Especially the work we’re doing to have a serious conversation about oppression and justice takes us out of that. I think the story about what love is, and the sense that we’re making an effort to confront real issues, demonstrates that we’re not trying to live in a fantasy world. We’re trying to stay here and be present here.

SEE IT: Beloved Festival is at Tidewater Falls, 12154 E Alsea Hwy, Tidewater, Oregon, from Friday-Monday, Aug. 11-14.

See belovedfestival.com for tickets and complete schedule.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9 Monk Parker, Sam Densmore

[WESTERN GHOSTS] See Get Busy, page 27. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Cake

[THE DISTANCE] Thrown to the back of alt-consciousness like so many threadbare ironic tee shirts, Cake long ago surrendered ambitions toward anything more than teasing nostalgia from a comfortably maturing fanbase. Loathed among certain circles for embodying a nascent hipsterdom’s most toxic strains ever since the release of ‘96 breakthrough Fashion Nugget, those dilettante romps through discarded idioms with swaggering selfawareness have actually aged rather well midst a generation readily confusing aesthetic and identity. JAY HORTON. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-669-8610. 7 pm. $48 advance, $49.50 day of show.

All ages.

GZA, Sims, Libretto, DJ Wicked

[BRAINIAC RAP] Method Man once called GZA the head of the imposing Voltron formed when every member of the Wu-Tang Clan is in the same room. The Clan’s most cerebral member is probably the only rapper to have

ever released a chess-themed LP, and definitely the only one to claim that he “drops megaton bombs more faster than you think.” GZA is now planning the sci-fi-themed Dark Matter album, rumored to be a collaboration with famed Blade Runner soundtrack composer Vangelis, but in the meantime, he continues to tour with like-minded disciples. If you like a grandiose, gladiatorial element in your battle rap, GZA’s your Maximus. PATRICK LYONS. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503248-4700. 9 pm. $20. 21+..

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THURSDAY, AUG. 10 Bomba Estéreo

[BORDERLESS ELECTRO] Long before “tropical house” was a thing, Colombia’s Bomba Estéreo was making “electro tropical,” wedding traditional South American dance rhythms to the modern throb of electronic dance music. After a decade thrilling more worldly underground club-goers, Amanecer, the group’s 2015 album, broke the duo to a wider audience, landing on Rolling Stone’s best albums of the year list. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 9 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show.

All ages.

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PREVIEW

Bryan Ferry, Judith Owen [OXY MUSIC] Still commanding the stage in louche evening wear, with profile undimmed and hair the envy of men aged half his 71 years, Bryan Ferry’s seemingly spent most of his career preparing for a dignified stroll through public senescence. To best showcase the enigmatic wonderment of a frontman reportedly worshiped as a literal god by Congolese tribesmen, these concerts have largely skipped past recent solo efforts like 2014’s Avonmore and focused upon early triumphs, alongside well-chosen covers from the Great Boomer Songbook—John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, etc. Alas, even this crack touring band—multi-instrumentalists replicating Eno squawks, backup singers supporting vocals whenever they threaten to falter—can’t always turn back time on a set overloaded with Roxy Music hits that rarely benefit from aggressively tasteful presentations. While love’s still the drug, Ferry’s late performances can feel all too medicated. JAY HORTON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 8 pm Tuesday, August 15. $41-$99. All Ages.

R E V NE S MIS A BEAT

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MUSIC Raekwon

[DON CORLEONE RAP] With Raekwon’s classic debut, Only Built for Cuban Linx, the Wu-Tang Clan’s seediest underworld representative took gangster rap off of the corner and into plush, smokefilled, high-trafficking backrooms.

In the years since, his elaborate vocabulary has continued to flourish while his volatility ever so gradually subsides. On his latest album, The Wild, he’s “seen the bigger picture, shifted [his] way of thinking,” his grimy DeNiro steez giving way to Brando’s calmer, cooler and more commanding gravitas. PATRICK LYONS. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503226-6630. 9 pm. $25-$80. 21+..

The Swirlies, Cruel Summer, Tender Age

[COLLEGE ROCK] More clown-car collective of goofball Bostonians than a proper touring outfit, the Swirlies have nonetheless managed to maintain the legacy of being the northeast’s highly underrated answer to the collegiate power pop of Chapel Hill, N.C., scene heroes Archers of Loaf and Superchunk. Their output has been random at best since their messy masterpiece Blonder Tongue Audio Baton tickled the fancy of late-night college radio programmers in 1993, but a lowstakes reunion slog may be just what the Swirlies need to remind everyone that many good things from the college rock heyday are still waiting to be rediscovered.

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

9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Sisters, Gold Casio, Dan Dan

[EASYGOING POP] The Washington-based pop duo—and recent Tender Loving Empire signees—Sisters lives in constant celebration. On their debut studio album, Drink Champagne, Andrew Vait and Emily Westman deliver easygoing electro pop that makes you feel like you’re at a kids’ birthday party switching between the bounce house and floating in an expensive pool eating Cheetos and drinking rosé out of a gold goblet. When the daydream ends, you remember the world sucks, but when you’re listening to Sisters, it doesn’t have to.

SOPHIA JUNE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

Royal Blood, Welles

Mickey Avalon

[STILL GOIN’] After a disappointing five-year hiatus, alleged rapper Mickey Avalon has released a new album, the self-released Teardrops on My Tombstone, a journey that takes us from lyrics such as “Suckin’ out milk of Medusa’s tits” to the surprising doo-wop tune “Teenage Pregnancy.” The only plausible explanation for this release was that Avalon was waiting until the world was weird enough for him to finally fit into the post-Myspace era.

Oh well. Hopefully he’ll still play “Jane Fonda.” SOPHIA JUNE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

FRIDAY, AUG. 11 The Weepies

[HEART STRINGS] Whenever you need a good, cathartic cry, the Weepies are there. Deb Talan and Steve Tannen haven’t released new music since 2015’s Sirens, which they put out after a fiveyear hiatus during which Talan was fighting breast cancer, but their first four albums couldn’t have held up better. Their acoustic folkpop fingerpicking and close harmonies are still as intoxicating as they are comforting. SOPHIA JUNE. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

DJ Quik & Scarface, Mic Capes, J-Ritz & Saywards, Rayvon Owens & Jay-Are, the Kings

[WEST MEETS SOUTH] See Get Busy, page 27. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St. 503-2250047. 9 pm. $30-$50. 21+.

Willie Nelson & Family, Kacey Musgraves

[THE MAN IN RED] See The Bump, page 25. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale, 503-6698610. 6:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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[GARAGE ROCK] Though massive overseas in their native Brighton, U.K., stomping rock duo Royal Blood are only nominal rock stars

stateside. Blending Jack White’s fuzz-laden appropriation of the blues and Ozzy Osbourne’s doomsday vocal inflection, Royal Blood’s sound is a towering aural monstrosity that’s even more impressive when sourced back to only two dudes. June saw the release of their sophomore effort, How Did We Get So Dark?, a more contained onslaught of their brooding howl-and-growl that’s poised to spread the feverish fandom across the pond. CRIS LANKENAU. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $25. All ages.

WHITE PARTY: Bomba Estéreo play Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, August 10.

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[BIG BAND HIP HOP] A jazz saxophonist and bandleader puts together a big band for a high school talent show act, then meets rapper Elmer Demond in Los Angeles. The result is one of those only-in-L.A. fusions, a 13-piece big band that invites guest soulpop singers like Gavin Turek and rappers (Camp Lo, Logic the Topic and others) to front the ensemble.

Even with leader R.W. Enoch writing most of the original material— though they cover everyone from the Pixies to Gorillaz—the resulting variety can sometimes make Urban Renewal Project records sound like compilations. But thanks to the excellent band’s tight, danceable grooves, most of it works well enough to make them appeal to a broad range of listeners. The hornfueled soul cuts lend a distinct ’70s vibe to their swinging third album, the new 21st Century Ghost, and with a string of tours, including an opening slot with Galactic, the band seems poised for a breakout.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 503-2287605. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Chastity Belt, Never Young, Strange Ranger

[DREAM GRRRLS] Had it been released two decades ago, it’s likely that Chastity Belt’s careful juxtaposition of dream-pop songcraft and earnest lyrical barbs that drives the soft femme punk of this year’s I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone would have secured the Seattlebased quartet a spot on the roster of Kill Rock Stars. The hazy beauty of the album feels both timeless and effortless, belying the intricacy of their arrangements and the razor sharp impact vocalist Julia Shapiro maintains on the album’s many understated slacker anthems like “Complain” and “Used to Spend.”

PETE COTTELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 9 pm. $12.

All ages.

Bell Witch, Hell, Aerial Ruin

[FUNERAL DOOM] Bell Witch has been one of, if not the finest metal acts to come out of the Pacific Northwest in years. Their atmospheric doom is as glum as the the gray skies of their hometown of Seattle, but an even darker pall cast over the band last year when drummer and vocalist Adrian Guerra passed away.

Now, they’re about to lose another crucial part of their sonic assault: Upon announcing this show, Bell Witch shared that it’s likely the last time they’ll be playing with sometimes member Erik Moggridge, of Aerial Ruin, for quite awhile.

Whether this means the end of Bell Witch entirely or just the end of their partnership isn’t really clear, but the most certain thing is that this is a set that can’t be missed.

CERVANTE POPE. The Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503238-0543. 8 pm. $13. 21+.

SATURDAY, AUG. 12 Blind Pilot, Gregory Alan Isakov

[TENDER ROCK] If you told me five years ago that Portland indiefolk act Blind Pilot would sell out the Oregon Zoo in 2017, I’d likely call you crazy. Hats off to the band, which has gone in an increasingly more soft-rock direction since its inception but still maintained a loyal legion of followers. Blind Pilot’s 2008 debut, 3 Rounds and a Sound, remains a triumph of folk-y, Pacific Northwest indie pop. Last year’s easy-listening And Then Like Lions, may appeal more to baby boomers than millennials, but who cares?

The group is a local success story, whose mastery of soft, melodic, feel-good sounds still impresses today. MARK STOCK. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Rd. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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Urban Renewal Project

Pick It Up and Start Again The Selecter’s Pauline Black revives ska’s political conscience.

Ask most Americans what they think of ska music, and the reaction will likely land somewhere between a giggle and a dry-heave. Once the province of a young Bob Marley, and later of bands angry enough to rage alongside the English punk movement, the genre’s last brush with mainstream relevancy, in the 1990s, left it with a semi-permanent stain. Appropriated by suburban punks who barely understood how to do punk rock credibly, let alone blend it with horns and the jumpy rhythms of Jamaican dance music, the triple-diluted version often sounded cartoonish, like it was made exclusively for Saturday morning cereal ads.

But if you ask Pauline Black, singer of British ska legends the Selecter, even worse than the mishandling of ska’s musical heritage during its so-called “third wave” was its total lack of political consciousness.

“Dare I say, it was a sign of the times in the ’90s,” she says. “Nobody, really, was caring that much about what was going on socially in the world. It’s almost like those were simpler times, and they felt that maybe a lot of the subjects we were dealing with in the late ’70s had been resolved in one way or another, which they obviously hadn’t.”

As the product of blue-collar Brits and West Indian immigrants uniting against common ills, ska of the sort Black played was, inherently, music of protest. Speeding up the already fleet-footed rhythms that lit up Kingston dancefloors in the 1960s, the sound of the 2 Tone era—named for the label that put out many of the bands—was a frantic reflection of life in Thatcher’s England. Like their peers in the Specials and Madness, the Selecter operated on a platform of racial equality and empathy for the working class.

But as one of the few prominent women in the scene, Black added a feminist agenda, too. As a woman of color, she says it would’ve been a “dereliction of duty” for her to do otherwise.

She still sees it that way. Now leading a new version of the Selecter, with vocalist Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson as the only other original member, Black isn’t content to rest on her back catalogue. As she admits, the first incarnation of the band was hardly successful in eradicating the problems she addressed on record, and given that racism, sexism and xenophobia have taken on newer, more virulent forms of late, they deserve fresh responses. On Subculture, the Selecter’s 2015 album, Black takes on domestic violence, the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and, on the ghostly reggae tune “Breakdown,” the state-sanctioned murders of black youth in both America and the U.K. On “Frontline,” the lead single from the upcoming Daylight, she confronts a new concern—the internet. Specifically, it’s about the many ways in which living life online distorts reality.

“We live in a world of, presumably, alternative facts,” she says.

“That’s not to say the media hasn’t served up lies as its proverbial food for thought for years and years. But I think people can, not be gullible, but they can certainly be drawn into things, like, ‘Here they are, on the internet, so they must be true.’”

Black’s intent with this current iteration of the Selecter isn’t necessarily to salvage ska’s reputation. But if there’s value in leading by example, there might be hope for it yet.

“I think we’ve always made music that tickles the soles of the feet,” Black says, “but hopefully, it also tickles the brain cells as well.”

MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: The Selecter plays Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., with the Grand Yoni, on Monday, August 14. 9 pm. $30. All ages.

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MUSIC Illmaculate & Goldini Bagwell, Smoke M2D6, Little Warrior

[PDX HIP-HOP] It’s not a stretch to say Portland hip-hop would look a lot different today without the contributions of Illmaculate. Beyond his status as one of the country’s best battle rappers, the veteran MC’s response to the “Blue Monk incident” of 2014 shook Portland enough to spark a citywide discussion about the attitudes toward rap culture in the City of Roses.

A couple years removed, hip-hop is now a vital and visible part of Portland’s music scene, and Illmac can get back to doing what he does best—making hard-hitting, socially astute records. Tonight, he and Sandpeople alum Goldini Bagwell celebrate the release of their new collaborative album, Ethereal.

MATTHEW SINGER. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 13 Inter Arma, Atriarch, Sol

[PARADISE DOOMED] Few musicians translate the feeling of cataclysmic abandon as well as Inter Arma. On the Richmond group’s 2016 breakthrough, Paradise Gallows, vocalist Mike Paparo howls about chaos and destruction while elements of thrash, doom and grindcore undulate like molten earth beneath him. Inter Arma’s slight pastiche and sudden uptick in popularity is likely to cause purists to look elsewhere for tuneless drop-C bludgeoning, but a vast swath of converts who’ve drifted over from the fanbases of bands like Pelican and Russian Circles are now primed for a whole world of bleak metal that hits harder and slower than they may be accustomed. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

Sister Nancy, DJ Gravy, Chaach, DJ Solo, Freaky Outty, Selecta YT, Lamar LeRoy

[DANCEHALL] See Get Busy, page 27. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave East Portland OR 97214. 3 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show.

21+.

MONDAY, AUG. 14 Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Mastersons

[THE DUKE] See The Bump, page 25. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110 Portland OR 97214, 503-288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Daymé Arocena

[NEW CUBAN] Swirling modern jazz lines, rhumba rhythms and soul-inspired vocal melodies find new and vibrant homes in the music of Daymé Arocena, twisted by the 23-year-old Cuban vocalist’s hyperglobal outlook. On Cubafonía, a gorgeously produced album that hit stores earlier this year, even the language in which Arocena sings shifts from Spanish to English and back again, on a series of songs that’s clearly and proudly Cuban but more inspired by the roots of her country’s musical tradition than the dogma of more rigid preservationists. Arocena offers a compelling 21st century take on her country’s historical melting pot of sound— an aesthetic that thrives because of its ability to absorb the best of anything. PARKER HALL. Lan Su Chinese Garden, 239 NW Everett St., 503-228-8131. 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 15. Sold out. All ages.

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DATES HERE ALBUM REVIEWS

Golden Retriever ROTATIONS (Thrill Jockey) [AVANT-GARDE] With track titles like “Pelagic Tremor” and “ThirtySix Stratagems,” it’s obvious from the get-go that Golden Retriever is operating on another plane entirely. The duo, composed of Matt Carlson on analog synth and Jonathan Sielaff on bass clarinet, is known widely in the Portland soundsphere thanks to past projects such as AU and Parenthetical Girls. As Golden Retriever, the form—just the two instruments played in an elongated, improvisational style—is as experimental as the functioning sound. On Rotations, Sielaff and Carlson have expanded into a full-chamber ensemble, but remain confined to similar structural parameters. The sound is richer, more textured and moodier, like the score to a dystopian film. Beyond its challenging nature and intense feeling, the album is deeply pressing.

You can’t help but tense up amid the skewed mathematical sounds of “Tessellation” or slip into a strange euphoria with the swell of the Old Church’s pipe organ, which is featured prominently throughout the album. From a composition standpoint, the album is musicians’ music, and it’s a reminder that minimalism, when taken very seriously, can yield a maximum emotional response. This is not your head-bobbing summer mixtape. It’s meant to trigger an intangible feeling most music doesn’t. MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Golden Retriever play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Visible Cloaks, Dolphin Midwives, Ilyas Ahmed (DJ set), Danielle Ross and Chloe Alexandra, on Wednesday, August 9.

8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

The Suicide Notes IS THAT YOU? (Hovercraft)

[ D E AT H A N D T H E MAIDENS] For their first proper LP, the Suicide Notes adhere to their self-described ethos of girl-group aesthetics delivered with the sonic elements of punk. It manifests with a plethora of hooks and layered vocal lines as well as a one-per-song minimum of background ooohs and/or aaahhs for good measure. The trio of singers is backed by an equal amount of local scene-dude veterans hailing from bands like the Epoxies and Pure Country Gold, whose tenure in rock outfits results in tight chops and lean, ingratiating tunes that could get a morose paraplegic nodding in time to the endless assault of chunky grooves. Hand claps are a prerequisite, as are the scorching guitar solos, heightening the “graveyard sock-hop” vibe into the stratosphere. Jordan Richter’s production captures each performance deftly, but first prize goes to whoever designed the multilayered harmonies present in each track. It’s reminiscent of ’90s California ska outfit Dance Hall Crashers, whose vocalists always pulled off a confident brawn in tandem with an allure that made you wonder if any of them would be willing to date a kid who still lived with his parents.

CRIS LANKENAU.

SEE IT: The Suicide Notes play the Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., with Mean Jeans and Sleeptalker, on Thursday, August 10. 8 pm. Contact venue for ticket prices. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED, AUG. 9 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave The Alarm

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Sounds Like Disco

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. The Abyssinians featuring Bernard Collins

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave, Monk Parker, Sam Densmore

Edgefield

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. 3rd Annual Louis Armstrong Celebration

Edgefield

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

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. Trio Uncontrollable

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St, Golden Retriever, Visible Cloaks, Dolphin Midwives

Justa Pasta

1336 NW 19th Ave. Anson Wright Duo

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Alex Napping, Little Star

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. GZA, Sims, Libretto, DJ Wicked

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, The Sound of Ghosts with Hawkeye Pierce and Tumbledown

The Barberry

645 NE 3rd St., McMinnville Ellen Whyte

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St. Kulululu, Attic Ted, Modal Zork

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St. Be Grateful: A Garcia Celebration

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Ash Reiter and Indianna Hale

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Black Vice, Haunter, Crawl, Mania

THU, AUG. 10 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave John Moreland

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Jam Session

Center Street Park

11895 SW Center St., Beaverton Bobby Torres Ensemble

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Bomba Estéreo

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Raekwon

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St, The Swirlies, Cruel Summer, Tender Age

529 SW 4th Ave. House of Waters

Slim’s PDX

8635 N Lombard St. The Guestlist

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St, Sisters, Gold Casio, Dan Dan

Starday Tavern

Lombard Pub

Star Theater

Mississippi Studios

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Cake

Jack London Revue

4001 SW Canyon Rd. Blind Pilot, Gregory Alan Isakov

6800 NE MLK Ave. Dim Wit, The Groans, Drunken Palms

Corkscrew

Edgefield

The Lightheads, False Positives, The Hammerbombs, Brave Hands

Oregon Zoo

High Water Mark Lounge

2460 NW 24th Avenue, The Claudettes 1665 SE Bybee Blvd Cindy Lou Banks

LAST WEEK LIVE

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale New Breed Brass Band

3416 N Lombard St All the Colors of the Dark# XXIII: Screamin’ Geezers, Quiet!, Introvert

Catfish Lou’s

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6517 SE Foster Rd, Old Portland Strikes Back 13 NW 6th Ave., 8th Annual Oregon Summer Jam, hosted by Champagne James & Juma Blaq

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ian Moore

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Monobody, Party Apartment, Holy Tentacles

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Royal Blood, Welles

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Illmaculate & Goldini Bagwell, Smoke M2D6, Little Warrior

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Mickey Avalon

The Analog Cafe

The Lovecraft Bar

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Elk and Oak, The Cold Year

421 SE Grand Ave. Volt Divers

The Old Church

The Fixin’ To

1422 SW 11th Ave Chris Thomas King

8218 N. Lombard St. Every Minor Arcana, Moon Tiger, Notel

The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd, Mean Jeans, Suicide Notes, Sleeptalker

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave. Fleshh

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Poor Deers

The Ranger Station

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Open Mic

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring 12th Avenue Hot Club, The Barn Door Slammers

Town Center Park

29230 SW Parkway Ct., Wilsonville Radical Revolution

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd.

Barbarian, Peucharist, Grim Ritual, Bewitcher

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Michael Howard & The Magic Powers, Pretty Gritty

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Pickathon Presents: Khun Narin, 1939 Ensemble

FRI, AUG. 11 503 Uncorked

22578 SW Washington St., Sherwood Skyylar Pelous

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave The Weepies

Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St. Cotton Ships, Riled, Young Elvis

Arrivederci Restaurant & Wine Bar 17023 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie Bobby Torres Ensemble featuring Sean Holmes

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Kenny Lavitz Kombo

THE GREEN PARTY: I don’t think I’ll ever forgive Rage Against the Machine for sitting out the Bush administration. While Harvard-trained champagne socialist Tom Morello played with his pedals in Audioslave, a high school dropout from the crusty side of the East Bay penned the definitive political album of his generation. It was an unlikely trajectory for Green Day, a pop-punk trio that broke through with a song about beating off in a beaten-down logging town. It was, as they say, something unpredictable, that in the end was right. This is probably why the American Idiot-era material dominated the Green Day show at Moda Center on Aug. 2, which felt more like a political rally than a pop-punk show, albeit one with a shitload of pyro. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool played a setlist culled from their entire 30-year career. But the Idiot-era stuff—“Holiday,” “St. Jimmy,” “Letterbomb” and “Jesus of Suburbia”—drew the warmest reception, and seemed to be the favorite of the band. “Portland, you get it, you always have, you’ve always been a step ahead of the rest of the United States,” Armstrong said to proud cheers. Another highlight was “Still Breathing,” a single off last year’s Revolution Radio. It’s a strong pop-punk song—it’d have been a great Avril Lavigne song—and Armstrong sang it with passion. But it’s also more inwardly focused than the songs that got the crowd standing, stomping, moshing and extending their middle fingers toward the oppressors. It’s hard to sing about beating hearts when the crowd came for red meat. MARTIN CIZMAR. Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St DJ Quik & Scarface, Mic Capes, J-Ritz & Saywards, Rayvon Owens & Jay-Are, the Kings

Director Park

815 SW Park Ave. Friday Night Groove

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Caleb Klauder Country Band

Eastburn

1800 E Burnside St, Violin Secrets, Urban Shaman, David Amir

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale The Resolectrics (The Winery Tasting Room); Willie Nelson & Family, Kacey Musgraves

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. Bad Luck & Mike Gamble

Gladstone Street Pub 3737 SE Gladstone St. Hank Hirsh

Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave., Urban Renewal Project

JB’s Nightclub & Lounge

The Secret Society

909 N Hayden Island Dr. Bone-Yard

116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Mississippi Studios

The Tonic Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Eilen Jewell

Pop Tavern

825 N Killingsworth St. Cockeye, The Bedrooms, UK Gold, Collate

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St. #110 Shook Twins (roof deck)

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave., Chastity Belt, Never Young, Strange Ranger

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, True Form

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., School of Rock

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Death Ridge Boys, Piss Test, Broken Spirit

The O’Neil Public House

6000 NE Glisan St. The Pepper Grinders; Stumptown Jug Thumpers

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Bell Witch, Hell, Aerial Ruin

Tony Starlight Showroom

1125 SE Madison St. Tony Starlight & the Nu Wavers ‘80s Experience

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Jeffrey Lewis, Rebecca Tilles

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Legion76, Junto, Petite

Bacari a Petit Restaurant

134 NW 3rd St., Gresham Barbara Dzuro Jazz Piano

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Secret Headliner, My Dallas Teens, The Dandelyons

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Sportin’ Lifers

Church

2600 NE Sandy Blvd.

Hot Mass

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Chris Newman Deluxe Combo, The Screamin’ Geezers, Pistol Whiplash

Edgefield

SAT, AUG. 12 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St. Alberta Fringe Fest featuring Astro Tan and Slow Corpse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Mohawk Yard, Goats of Belmont, Muff Pistol, Dead Remedy, Draggin’ Ass

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Primus, Clutch; The Winterlings (The Winery Tasting Room)

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Make Them Suffer

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave.

The O’Neil Public House

6000 NE Glisan St. Hayley Lynn & Amy Håkansson

The Paris Theatre 6 SW 3rd Ave. PIG Fest 2

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Jenny Finn Orchestra; The Craftsmen, Trujillo, Vinyl Gold

The Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

More Hell, Doomlit sky, BadxMouth

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. It’s so Bazaar! The XRAY. FM Summer Party & Street Fair

SUN, AUG. 13 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Tripleswift, Pinehurst Kids

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Whipped Dance Co.

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St, Inter Arma, Atriarch, Sol

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Lewi Longmire & Anita Lee Elliott (The Winery Tasting Room)

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street The Northside Four

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., Hollow Sidewalks, Draemings, Ever So Android

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Dan & Fran

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Drowse, Zen Mother, EMS, Floom

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Candy Cigarettes, Origami Ghosts, My Proper Skin

[AUG. 9-15] The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave, Aural Abyss Chvrch

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Sister Nancy, DJ Gravy, Chaach, DJ Solo, Freaky Outty, Selecta YT, Lamar LeRoy

MON, AUG. 14 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave The Selecter, the Grand Yoni

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church hosted by Dwight Dickinson

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Ave. Ben Rice; Jesse Meade

Director Park

815 SW Park Avenue, Monday Soundscapes featuring Jason Okamoto

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Groovy Wallpaper with Kory Quinn (The Winery Tasting Room)

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave LE Yikes Surf Club, MANX

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Mastersons

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Shawshank Redeemed, Final Drive, Ascensions

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St. Faustina Masigat, Claire Puckett, AO Gerber

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Ahleuchatistas, U Sco, Teton

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave. Shark Jackson, XUA

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St. Monday Swing featuring The Newport Nightingales

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell St. The Function, Girl Fry, Mannequins In Cages, Boyslut

TUE, AUG. 15 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Bryan Ferry, Judith Owen

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Professor Gall with Three for Silver and the Debaucherantes

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Cul An Ti (The Little Red Shed)

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. Trey Hensley & Rob Ickes

Lan Su Chinese Garden

239 NW Everett St. 97209 Daymé Arocena

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Ghost Ease

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Vesperteen

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., Narita Munehiro, Moon Duo, RIP

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MUSIC POCHO’S COSAS

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

Where to drink this week.

1. Level Beer

5211 SE 148th Ave., 503-714-1222, levelbeer.com.

As temps drift down later this week, wander to Level’s far-east barn brewery for a fine Laurelwood ESB collaboration, or a beautifully complex pepper-and-mint beer made with Culmination Brewing.

2. Les Caves

Frankeee B

Years DJing: I started collecting records in 2009 or so and have been DJing for roughly seven years. I’ve been managing a small record label called Ausland Schläge for four years. We initially released music on cassette tapes and after a few years began pressing vinyl records.

Genre: When preparing a set, I don’t focus too much on genres but rather find records that share common influences. However, as almost anyone will tell you, I’m very fond of a style of music based in, but not limited to, Scandinavia called “skweee.” The fun thing about skweee music is that it isn’t style specific. It tends to span multiple genres—dancehall, minimal, electro, funk, R&B, manele and various Middle Eastern, North African and South American influences.

Where you can catch me regularly: I have been hosting First Fridays at Moloko bar for roughly four years.

Craziest gig: I’m not to fond of craziness when it comes to social events, but we were fortunate enough to bring over our good friend Beem from Sweden and host a two-day event pairing with Control Voltage and the late Groove Suite. They are truly wonderful people, and having the chance to host their first visit to Portland was quite the treat. Besides that, I once played a pop-up set outside from 11 pm-3 am downtown in the Ankeny Alley until the fuzz showed up.

My go-to records: Baba Stiltz, “Palats/Crypt”; Beem, “Sings With His Hands”; Markis Sage, “Percelles Lens/Mutant Love Triangle”; Daniel Savio, “Nekropolis.”

Don’t ever ask me to play: I often get asked to play hip-hop, which I don’t mind at all. But when I serve up a selection that isn’t American hip-hop, people tend to be disappointed. Just because you might not understand the language that is being spoken doesn’t mean that the message isn’t important. If they are persistent I’ll throw on some Ice-T remixes by Daniel Savio or some mid-’80s electro-funk.

NEXT SHOW: Frankeee B spins at Moloko, 3967 N Mississippi Ave., on Friday, Sept. 1. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave., Marti

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Free Form Radio DJ’s

The Embers Avenue

232 SW Ankeny St Psychotic Reaction // Spurious Signals

THU, AUG. 10 Black Book

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

Dig A Pony

The Lovecraft Bar

Ground Kontrol

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

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

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Valentines

100 NW Broadway, Knochen Tanz (ebm, industrial) 421 SE Grand Ave, Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

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18 NW 3rd Ave., Dubblife

736 SE Grand Ave., Gwizski (new jack swing) 511 NW Couch St. DJ Rob F Switch / DJ EPOR

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave, Open House: LTJ Bukem

4. Revolution Hall Rooftop Deck

1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall.com.

There’s nothing more posh than a rooftop bar—and this one’s finally open to the public whenever it’s sunny, which it totally is.

5. Bottle Rocket

1207 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

This new Cartopia burgerand fish-sauce-tots spot offers the once unthinkable privilege of enjoying an ice-cold radler or Pfriem pilsner on the patio with your Chicken and Guns. Now it seems barbaric you couldn’t do so before.

Ground Kontrol

Moloko

Holocene

Sandy Hut

Killingsworth Dynasty

The Lovecraft Bar

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. RapClass

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3. Zilla Sake

1806 N. Alberta St., 503-288-8372, zillasake.com.

Zilla has evolved into a boozy juggernaut—with more sakes by the glass than almost anywhere in the country and some seriously good cocktails from Rum Club’s Matt Kesteloot.

Indulge on sushi, or just tipple on the bar side at happy hour.

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Punk Night

WED, AUG. 9

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

Or, you can keep cool in the basement at Les Caves, a wine bar with seriously rare and exotic local bottles hidden in a 100-year-old wine cave beneath Aviary restaurant, owned by the craft winemakers of Ovum and Golden Cluster.

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave, Latin Dance Night

511 NW Couch St. DJ Mechlo (chiptune) 1001 SE Morrison St., Dance Yourself Clean (indie) 832 N Killingsworth St Cake Party

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

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback: Heavy Metal Edition

Spare Room

FRI, AUG. 11 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, Midnight Tyrannosaurus

Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80’s Video Dance Attack

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave., Maxx Bass (funk, boogie, rap)

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Hustle! (disco)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

The Goodfoot

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

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave, NecroNancy

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SKATER, LATER: Former pro skater Mickey Reyes once got kicked off a plane in Detroit for rabbit-punching skater Tony Trujillo over and over in the face. He took out one of Jim Thiebaud’s teeth with a knife. He told Vice he used to keep a loaded gun in every room in the house, and had “way too many knives.” But now? He’s got a nice little bar called Cat’s Paw Saloon (3565 SE Division St., 503-719-5189) in a former shoe-repair shop on Division Street.

“I know he’s got a bad boy reputation,” says our bartender. “But I haven’t seen it.” Sure, there are remnants of the bad old days—a Dogtown poster signed by everyone who matters, skull art on the walls and some Spitfire skate-wheel coasters advertising joke beers named after proskater friends of Reyes, whether Justin Brock Bock or Cardi-ale Pale. But tiny, wood-grained Cat’s Paw is otherwise a pretty chill place. And on chichi Division Street, it’s a refuge of slightly punky sanity, already evolving into a service-industry hang for the type of kitchen staff who like their Jack Daniels with a mini-grenade of High Life. There’s Pfriem pilsner on the taps and Stiegl Radler in the fridge, and refreshing $9 cocktails with hints of lavender in them. There’s also a nice, half-covered patio out back decorated with twinned black-and-white skateboards: the deck of LOVE and the deck of HATE. It’s the sort of place where the bartender acts as a cheerful concierge for a visiting couple from Alabama, and also knows a passing homeless man by name, waving sweetly as he walks by. “He actually got cleaned up and got an apartment recently,” she says, sadly, since that situation didn’t endure. She then recounts a tale of waking up a nodding heroin-couple in a parked car during a heat wave, to tell them to crack their windows so they don’t die. Between Cat’s Paw and punk-rock pizzeria Atlas across the street, plus the always-closed goth bookstore next door, Division Street still hangs on to some old Portland grit, even if here it comes scented with lavender. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Jai Ho! India Independence Day Dance Party

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St DIE DJs (techno, darkwave)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave, Zeke Beats, Subduktion, Mike. iLL, Klippee, Notzouk

SAT, AUG. 12 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, TyDi

Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech Street DJ DHLJ (post ethno-prog, space-synth)

Black Book

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

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Pants OFF Dance OFF: The Sports Ball w/ the Portland Lumberjacks!

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave., Montel Spinozza

Valentines

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

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

The Lovecraft Bar

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

Holocene

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

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TUE, AUG. 15

Lay Low Tavern

Beulahland

Mississippi Studios

Black Book

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

Dig A Pony

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage: DJ AM Gold

Star Theater

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Major Sean

The Lovecraft Bar

100 NW Broadway, Recycle (dark dance)

6015 SE Powell Blvd., DJ Matt Stanger 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jump Jack Sound Machine: Deep Dive

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (modern soul, heavy breaks, hip-hop)

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Tropitaal Desi Latino Soundclash

The Lovecraft Bar

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

Toffee Club

1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Love Action (80s electro)

118 NE 28th Ave, Maximum Pop N Roll 20 NW 3rd Ave, Flux (rap, r&b, club) 736 SE Grand Ave., El Chingon (hip-hop) 13 NW 6th Ave., Hive (goth, industrial) 421 SE Grand Ave, Infinity Mirror (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)

MON, AUG. 14 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave., Bad Wizard (50s & 60s)

Ground Kontrol

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

Dig A Pony

Kelly’s Olympian

Sandy Hut

The Embers Avenue

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Sleepwalk (deathrock, gothrock, post-punk)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)

Tube

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

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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks is hardly a rare find in musical theater: Up until 2002, The Fantasticks had been running in New York for a full 42 years straight, with Broadway and off-Broadway productions staged back to back since it first opened in the 1960s.

Its most recent Broadway revival began in 2006, and only closed a few months ago. In a twist on Romeo & Juliet’s much-used plot, the musical tells the story of two dads who pretend they hate each other in order to trick their kids into falling in love. Vancouver company Metropolitan Performing Arts is opening their iteration of the most frequently staged play this week.

SHANNON GORMLEY. The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., metropaa.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySunday, August 10-20. $15-$25.

ALSO PLAYING Something Wicked This Way Rocks!

You may not have asked for a hairmetal parody of Macbeth, but it’s here, and it’s an improbable delight.

Set during a particularly bloody band tour, Something Wicked This Way Rocks! chronicles the misadventures of a deluded rocker goofily named Thane Macbeth (Norman Grey), who is urged by his scheming wife Lady M (Heidi Davis) to murder superstar Duncan King (Doug Galbraith)—which in turn rouses the suspicions of Banquo (Owen Hofmann-Smith). Gore, murder and supernatural doings follow, but what makes Something Wicked such a kick is the way it mashes the grim betrayals of Shakespeare’s narrative against a gloriously kitschy world where the only thing more rad than Banquo’s luscious blonde wig is Banquo’s skintight purple pants.

Holding together this beautiful madness is Davis—pulling triple duty as star, writer and director—who has packed the play full of brilliantly choreographed musical numbers and songs from, among others, AC/DC and Twisted Sister, as well as a climactic sing-off between Macbeth and Macduff (Lynn Greene). That scene, like the entire production, is gloriously deranged, and it leaves you amazed that Davis’ strange vision coheres. Ultimately, the play is best summed up by a quote from one of Thane Macbeth’s zonedout bandmates: “Pretty cool, man!”

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. The Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., witd.org. 8 pm FridaySaturday, 6 pm Sunday, through August 13. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

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 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, through August 20. $17 advance, $18 at the door.

Twisted; The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier

Simultaneously a Disney spoof and a Wicked reference, Twisted retells Aladdin through the perspective of the movie’s villain, Jafar. The musical will be helmed by Funhouse Lounge, so maximum goofiness and camp is likely. SHANNON GORMLEY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 7 pm FridaySaturday, through August 19. $15$85.55.

DANCE 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. 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, through August 13. $15-$36.

FAMILY FEUD: Cristi Miles and Darius Pierce.

Maximum Capacity LUNGS EXAMINES THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF BABIES.

BY R . MITCHELL MILLER

COMEDY Girls Gone Mild

An 11 am comedy show seems an ambitious way to start your Sunday, but Siren’s Sunday brunch show has a lineup of Portland comedians that’s probably worth it. Along with a continental breakfast and a bar that’s serving mimosas, there’ll be standup from a fitting batch of comedians: the deeply blunt Caitlin Weierhauser, Lez Stand Up’s energetic host Kirsten Kuppenbender, plus the delightfully insouciant Laura Anne Whitley. SHANNON GORMLEY. Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis, sirentheater.com. 11 am Sunday, August 13. $12-$13.

Cool Kids Patio Show

Doug Fir’s standup series only lasts for the summer, but it’s one of the best-booked weekly standup showcases in the city that comes with a lot of perks—an outdoor venue, extended happy hour, a different band booked every week and it’s free. Hosted by Andie Main, this week is a group of up-and-coming local comedians: Jake Silberman, Jeremiah Coughlan and John Washington, and music by dark and ethereal folk band Laura Palmer’s Death Parade. SHANNON GORMLEY. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. dougfirlounge.com. 6 pm Thursday, August 10. Free. 21+.

In Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s production of Duncan Macmillan’s play Lungs, W (Cristi Miles) and M (Darius Pierce) have an existential crisis about a baby they might have. W is concerned that the mere act of bringing another person into the world is unsustainable. In order to balance the carbon neutrality of the life they’ve inflicted onto the world, a lifetime of car rides, airplane flights, plastic bag usage and avocado importation, W says, the parents of a newborn baby would need to plant 2,550 trees. “Unless intelligent people stop having babies,” she says, “The world is totally fucking fucked.”

Of course, you could also say that if intelligent people stop having children the world would eventually run out of intelligent people and also be totally fucking fucked. The question is at the forefront of the play: Should W and M commit to bringing another person into the world? All 90 minutes of run time are spent teasing out the morality and consequences of that action.

W is a Ph.D. candidate in an environmental field, which explains why she has such terrifying statistics and projections about the environment ready at her fingertips (Did you know each person releases 10,000 tons of CO2 into the air in their lifetime, which is the equivalent of 10,000 elephants made of CO2?). The earth contains only so many resources and so much oxygen, and each new person brings us one step closer to maximum capacity. We are reminded of this fact even in the

extremely minimalistic set design, which consists of barely enough stage for the actors to move. The backdrop is made of 112 plastic grocery bags hanging on hooks, each with an eerily glowing plastic water bottle.

The environmental issue is at the forefront of the play, but the deeper and more interesting issues lie within its heart. Putting aside overpopulation, does W really want a child? Does she really want a child with M? Fittingly, Cristi Miles imbues W with tremendous complexity in scenes of quiet, traumatic devastation as well as rapidfire monologues lamenting the state of the planet.

There are no set changes, costume changes, or even lighting or sound changes in director Rebecca Lingafelter’s staging of Lungs. There are also no other actors aside from Miles and Pierce. The play takes place over many conversations over the course of several years, with new scenes announcing themselves simply as bits of dialogue that don’t fit within the previous scene—such as a chipper “Good morning!” at the conclusion of a scene that takes place at night.

In that way, the play merges many conversations across several years into one long conversation. But the extreme minimalism goes beyond thematic or aesthetic value. In a strange way, it makes Lungs seem more real. It feels like a memory—like one of the characters revisiting their decision years after they came to it.

SEE IT: Lungs is at CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through August 26. $25-$45.

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PREVIEW

ALL OF THE LIGHTS: MSHR’s Drift Iteration Paths.

Verging on Vast CONVERGE 45 MIGHT BE THE ARTS FESTIVAL PORTLAND NEEDS. sgormley@wweek.com

For a growing art scene, festivals are essential. A wellcurated arts festival can give a city the kind of national recognition that encourages innovation on a local level. But festivals that are too locally focused often miss the opportunity to connect artists with larger markets, while a festival that’s too ambitious can mean forsaking a wieldable vision at the expense of the attendee and the resources available to the artists.

Converge 45 strikes the right balance. Founded last year by influential Portland gallery owner and art dealer Elizabeth Leach, it’s again curated by another key figure in the Portland art scene, Kristy Edmunds, who founded PICA and TBA. Converge’s second iteration starts this week with a mix of performance art, large-scale installations and gallery shows from local and national artists. It’s ambitious programming full of complex multimedia work.

But what makes Converge seem so promising isn’t so much its bounds as its limits—it still seems intimate.

It’s a relatively small lineup, consisting of only 25 artists spread over a manageable eight venues. Most shows are free to the public. Many of those artists have been collaborating with Edmunds since last year’s festival.

In a way, the ideal arts festival requires thinking big and small at the same time. Here are the four works in this year’s Converge that seem most likely to do just that. See the full schedule on converge45.org.

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unexpected way. In Combat Paper, veterans are invited to cut up their old military uniforms and churn them through a Hollander beater, which transforms the scraps of cloth into paper. It’s a therapeutic ritual that’s deeply poetic. The works veterans have created on their uniform paper have been on display in the Portland Art Museum since June, but there’ll be a pop-up papermaking workshop as part of Converge.

Portland Art Museum Evan’s Lower Court, 1219 SW Park Ave. 8-10 pm Wednesday, August 9.

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performance titled Nothing Is Natural. There’ll be art exhibits relating to the performances’ pieces displayed on the campuses until October 1, but the morning of the performances offers something that all good arts festivals should: something that’s both ephemeral and strange. Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 11 am Friday, August 11.

Drift Iteration Paths

With a complicated combination of mediums, Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy create work that seems almost formless. Both artists had recent solo shows at Upfor gallery in which they displayed colorful, intricate 3D printed forms. As MSHR, they combine their eye for detail and whimsical sense of form. For Converge, they’re installing a weird machine that shoots lasers, makes strange gurgling noises and resembles a giant, ornate circuit. PSU Littman Gallery, 1825 SW Broadway. Through August 13.

This Is a Black Spatial Imaginary COMBAT PAPER

Choreography for Reading Aloud and Nothing Is Natural

On Friday, Reed’s campus will be overrun with performance art. In the library, artists in Choreography for Reading Aloud, by Portlander MK Guth, will devise an abstract performance piece based on books they find onsite. Around the spring that runs through the campus, three artist collectives (R.I.S.E., Winter Count and Postcommodity) will unite for a call-and-response

Portland artist Sharita Towne can do just about anything. She’s a videographer, and a print maker, and just about everything she does is radiant with a complicated yet hopeful sense of beauty. For Converge, Towne, along with collaborating artists, will perform a new piece titled This Is a Black Spatial Imaginary.

Towne’s work often deals with issues like gentrification, and this particular piece is intended as a public intervention. Performed by the Broadway Bridge at night, it will almost certainly be one of the festival’s most special moments. The east side of the Broadway Bridge. 9:30 pm, Thursday, August 10.

BOOKS = WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

REVIEW

BY DANA ALSTON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Heather Harpham

Normally you’d expect a memoir about raising a very sick child not to be titled Happiness: A Memoir.

But Harpham manages to make the experience universally sympathetic and relatable. The subtitle—The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After—helps explain it bit. This is less a self-help motivation manual and more a portrait of parenthood and friendship between Harpham and her partner Brian. Be sure to buy a box of tissues on your way out; this one’s a tear-jerker.

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

Free.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10 Sarah Sentilles

War is hell, but it’s not ending anytime soon, so we get to read some books about it. Sentilles— who now teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art—has a new novel about the ways people create art in response to war. Draw Your Weapons follows a conscientious objector during World War II and a young soldier stationed in Iraq, who both create art. Turns out you can be peaceful and creative in the midst of bloody conflict; who knew? Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

Kevin Van Meter

Guess what, liberals: You’re wrong about everything! Inconvenient truth, or just a triggering provocation?

You decide, while social activist Kevin Van Meter tracks the evolution of capitalism and everyday resistance in Guerrillas of Desire.

Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-2884651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11 Brenda Peterson

On all levels except physical, I am a wolf. Not really, but Peterson’s Wolf Nation—which explores the centuries-old history of wild wolves in America—might turn us all into furries. Early Americans revered them before nearly driving them to extinction during their westward quest. Now, scientists and writers are fighting to bring them back into the wild. Peterson has been in that fight for more than two decades, and other scientists will join her at Powell’s to discuss their efforts. If you love doggos—thanks, Internet— then maybe you’ll care about saving their furry ancestors. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm. Free.

Langdon Cook

Mushroom hunting is a lucrative business for Oregonians. Just ask Cook, whose book The Mushroom Hunters chronicled the industry’s most avid collectors. His new book Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, From River to Table focuses on—what else?—the salmon. The fish is an incredibly popular meal, which might explain why its wild population is dwindling while domesticated schools continue to grow. Cook takes an indepth look at the reasons behind the shift, and how humanity can counter it. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323.

7:30 pm. Free.

Nancy Bush,

DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR Sure, there are fake mustaches, amnesia and scarves that kill. But what else did you expect from a writer who was once tapped by an ABC “think tank” designed to come up with ever more outlandish soap opera storylines? Lake Oswego’s Nancy Bush has been one of Oregon’s most prolific writers for over 30 years, if little known outside her New York Times best-selling niche—churning out at least 31 steamy romances and thrillers under her own name and even more under pseudonyms.

Her newest, Dangerous Behavior (Zebra, 384 pages, $5.75), has more twists and turns than a roller coaster. And just like that last metaphor, you’ve probably seen this ride before.

The book follows a young Portlander named Julia, whose husband, Joe, is mysteriously killed. And wouldn’t you know it? She develops amnesia. Luckily, Sam, Joe’s brother (and Julia’s former high school flame), is determined to find his brother’s killer and maybe also rekindle a former love. Weave in a few murders, bad investment opportunities and a boat on fire, and you have a book heavy on action—if you know what I mean—and light on character development. By the end of the novel, if the characters haven’t really evolved much, they all seem to be having massive amounts of sex.

But it’s a very particular kind of sex, almost stilted in its romance and respectfulness. There are some amazing sentences to be enjoyed in Dangerous Behavior: “When he kissed her again, it was with respect for her arm,” or “They’d also made love twice more by mutual consent.” Lest it seem too dainty, you are reassured: “It was still the best sex in the world.”

The book reads like a soap opera in another very specific way: There are commercial breaks installed in the prose. Every third paragraph seems to end in a cliffhanger, as the narrative shifts to another character. We’re always one heartbreaking secret away from the truth, but the truth is always interrupted for another very important message.

Nancy Bush does whip up some real doozies in the surprise department, though. A mystery couple kills for thrills, a character fucks someone to death on a grave—a bit of aerobics that’s “almost better than working out at the gym.” And you seriously will not see the twist coming at the very end.

But for such a seamy potboiler, the hilariously specific detail bogs down much of the narrative. Bush religiously writes the cardinal directions and highways taken on each drive, and fills the book with a Walmart parking lot worth of cars, complete with the specific make and model of each. But if you have a few hours to kill, grab a seat at good ol’ Portland bar Tiny Tim’s and order yourself a cold pint of “Deschutes Black Porter” and prepare for some mystery. And sex, lots and lots of sex. JOSH O’ROURKE Throughout the month of AHHHHGUST!, WW will feature reviews of thrillers, mysteries and potboilers by Oregon authors.

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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN

American Werewolf in London (1981)

Boogie Nights

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Despite the fact that it was the first movie to ever win an Oscar for makeup, horror comedy American Werewolf In London is about as intentionally lowbrow as its title implies. David is just an average college student backpacking through the English moors, until he transforms into a werewolf and goes on a killing spree through London. The cult classic has gotten some revived attention recently due to the promise of a remake by director John Landis’ son. For Hollywood’s screening, lead actor David Naughton will attend for a post-movie Q&A. Hollywood Theatre, August 12.

(1997)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s seminal porn-industry movie is a snapshot of ’70s sleezebaggery. It’s all about the money shot, even when it’s lifted from I Am Cuba. Pix Patisserie, August 9.

Fire Walk with Me

THE COLDEST CITY

(1992)

According to co-creater Mark Frost, the Twin Peaks prequel is the key to understanding the series’ recent revival. Much like Fire Walk with Me itself, that’s probably just a fanlore-baiting rabbit hole.

Even so, the movie is a dark trippy nightmare, sometimes in a good way. Plus, it screens with one of David Lynch’s shorts, Premonitions Following an Evil Deed. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, August 11.

Lolita

(1962)

Dianne Johnson, who co-wrote The Shining, once said that Stanley Kubrick believed that when choosing a book to adapt into a screenplay, “You should choose a work that isn’t a masterpiece so you can improve on it.” That might explain why Kubrick’s adaptation of Nabokov’s basically perfect novel falls short, but James Mason is still fittingly eery as pedophile Humbert Humbert, and the film is a crucial turning point in Kubrick’s career. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, August 15.

The Warriors

(1979)

For some reason, the Mission Theater’s screening of Walter Hill’s film about one gang in New York fighting off all the other gangs in New York comes with a signature cocktail. But the cocktail is called Coney Island Punch, so that seems fair enough. Mission Theater, August

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue Cinema: Holes (2003), August 11-13. NW Film Center: Classe Tous Risques (1960), August 12. Army of Shadows (1969), August 13. Clinton Street Theater: Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), August 14. Academy: Space Jam (1996), August 11-17.

Hollywood: Muppet Treasure Island (year), August 12. Snake In the Eagle’s Shadow (1978), August 15.

Steel (1997), August 14. Mission: Waterworld (1995), August 13-16.

Kiggins: Monterey Pop (1968), August 11-13.

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Oni Vision THE PORTLAND COMIC BOOK PUBLISHER BEHIND ATOMIC BLONDE.

BY JAY HORTON

@Hortland

Before Oni Press had even published The Coldest City, Antony Johnston’s graphic novel was slated for a movie adaptation starring Charlize Theron. Five years after Coldest City’s release, that adaptation has made its way to the big screen in the form of Atomic Blonde.

As Hollywood increasingly farms its plots from comics, Portland has proved to be fertile ground. Along with industry titans like Milwaukie’s Dark Horse and the recently arrived Image Comics, that includes Oni Press, which has just 16 employees releasing around a dozen comic books and trade paperbacks each month. Oni has long subsidized its own slate of original creator-owned material with comics licensed from properties like Clerks and Rick & Morty. The Portland publisher has also managed to become an influential source for feature

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films: Whiteout, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and now, Atomic Blonde, a highly stylized spy flick set in Cold War-era Berlin.

On the eve of Atomic Blonde’s opening weekend, Oni publisher and Atomic Blonde executive producer Joe Nozemack spoke with WW about thinking outside the panel.

WW: Had you always wanted to work with movies?

Joe Nozemack: Not at first.

Then, around 2000-2001, once we kind of got comfortable, I started to notice comics becoming a real source for intellectual property in Hollywood. By then, we knew what we were doing on the comics side, and we decided it was maybe time to try the movie side as well. So, we talked to a couple creators about a couple of our books, they allowed us to represent the film rights and we started from there.

How ’d Atomic Blonde come about?

Charlize and her production company came onto the material before the book was even done.

This is one of the few times that I’ve seen the Hollywood development thing work pretty seamlessly. She was looking for a property. Her production guys went through our catalog.

We had this graphic novel in development that sounded like something she’d like. So, we sent her the script for the book, and it was exactly what she was looking for. Then, we just worked together to develop it for a film.

Is the movie faithful to the comic?

It’s very faithful as far as the character and the story arc g o e s. T h e b o o k i s v e r y L e Carré—a kind of minimalist spy thing. Then, when David Leitch came on as director, they amped it up and added the fight scenes and the action.

What’d the creator of the comic think?

He loved it. You know, he understands the adaptation process.

He adapted some novels into comics and video games into comics, so he knows what you have to do. Again, they kept the characters and story intact.

There are even lines of his dialogue still in the movie. They just put their stamp on it. David did what he does, and it worked really well.

It seems like Hollywood’s interest in comics has spiked recently.

That tie between comics and film … The connection was bound to happen sooner or later. When we first started, you know, people didn’t really take comics seriously as material. Now, they’re one of the main sources of inspiration for the [film] industry. Just seeing that transition in Hollywood over the last 15, 20 years has been really interesting. Originally, when they first made comic book movies, they didn’t really sell books. The first Batman movie sold a lot of T-shirts, but they weren’t selling comics.

Then, when we saw Hellboy [based on a Dark Horse comic] come out, that changed. Hellboy sold comics, so, you know, in my mind, if I want to get some of these original books to start selling better, I need to get movies made.

At this point, do creators take it as a given that Hollywood will come calling?

Everybody thinks that. I mean, it’s weird. You always try to let the book be a book. We like to work with creators that aren’t kind of pre-programming that into the pitch for the book to begin with.

I think part of why comics are working so well as content for Hollywood is because they’re not being created with the thought of going through the Hollywood development process, so they’re not self-editing themselves to get through the hurdles that are usually put there. When we first published Scott Pilgrim, we never thought that would be a movie.

I mean, he’s in there punching people and they’re blowing up and turning into coins. So, we just did our cool little book, Edgar Wright ended up really digging it, and next thing you know, we’ve got a movie.

SEE IT: Atomic Blonde is now playing at Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

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NOW PLAYING Forest For The Trees Film Fest

The massive lineup for the second year of FFTT is a long list of independent filmmakers working in short format: narrative and animated shorts, music videos and commercials. The bill is heavy with local filmmakers, including a recent Funny or Die short by Whitey McConnaughy, a new Rasheed Jamal music video and another short starring members of White Fang. Laurelhurst, 9 pm Thursday, August 10.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature

There are many baffling things about The Nut Job 2. Namely, that it’s sort of an artistry-free remake of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Director Cal Brunker’s animated movie stars a purple-furred squirrel, Surly, voiced by Will Arnett. Surly leads a group of furry vermin battling the bulbous, greedy mayor (Bobby Moynihan), who wants to destroy the park they call home. It’s a barf joke-heavy movie, and the only female characters in the movie’s main cast are a nagging squirrel, a monstrous little girl and a dog. The Nut Job 2 is the kind of animated children’s movie that makes you feel like either Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki should have engineered a hostile takeover of American animated films a long time ago. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Division, Tigard, Vancouver.

Wind River

Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation is as sprawling as it is empty.

It’s prone to blizzards except for when it’s too cold even for snow. It’s a hell of a place to examine an ignored America and a fitting setting for a noir thriller.

In the directorial debut from Taylor Sheridan (writer of Sicario and Hell or High Water) a game tracker (Jeremy Renner) discovers the frozen body of a young Native woman. A hardscrabble investigation unfolds, and the tracker joins forces with an FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen), the tribal police chief (Graham

Greene) and myriad snowmobiles.

Sheridan excels at simple turns of phrase and leading us into a rat’s nest of violence. But Wind River meditates on loss more than it burns through plot, and it occasionally feels heavy handed. We get it—Renner’s character has a backstory that makes this crime personal. There are constant references to predators and prey, and it’s fueled with male aggression and female pain. But while those pitfalls are common, Wind River’s unexplored geography, depth of spirit and honoring of survivalism are not. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Fox Tower.

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 heart-pumping adrenaline of a summer shark flick won’t be disappointed. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Clackamas, Joy, Vancouver.

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.

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 time-hopping 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

Cars 3 is a tribute to the bonds shared by teachers and students, albeit with a slapstick demolition derby scene dominated by a comically sinister school bus. Yet it’s Pixar’s gift for imbuing inanimate objects with humanity that makes you care when Cruz and Lightning lean into the curves. G. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Avalon, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division.

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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.

The Boss Baby

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

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

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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 under-dressed 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, Vancouver.

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 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. Beaverton, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

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 socalled “Algiers incident” involving the guests and the Detroit police, led by brutal officer Krause (Will Poulter). What happens there is harrowing, and will

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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 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, Cinema 21, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

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REACHING OUT: Christopher Sweeney in Neither Wolf Nor Dog.

Late Arrival

If it weren’t for Steven Lewis Simpson, Portland author Kent Nerburn’s novel would have never become a movie. Nerburn tried to turn Neither Wolf Nor Dog—his 1994 novel about a white author who’s asked to write a book about a Lakota elder—into a movie for over two decades. But it went unmade, mostly because Hollywood’s big-budget vision clashed with the source’s personal nature.

Along came Steven Lewis Simpson, a Scottish filmmaker who’s worked extensively with indigenous organizations on his past films.

A master at low-budget projects, Simpson bought all of the equipment for the 18-day shoot himself and handled all of post-production in an attempt to “keep the elements as real as possible,” he says.

“Hollywood’s treatment of Natives in cinema has been atrocious and, in many cases, actually pro-genocide. This was too important a novel for it to be subjected to the Hollywood treatment.”

Seeing Neither Wolf Nor Dog is a deeply meaningful experience, thanks in part to a performance from a legendary Lakota man named Dave Bald Eagle. “Casting [Dave] was like the search for Scarlett,” he says. “I will never film a more beautiful face.” Bald Eagle was 95 during the shoot and passed away soon after. His connection to the reservation and his involvement with Wounded Knee, where 200 followers of the American Indian Movement occupied a town partially in protest of the U.S. government in 1973, makes his performance almost otherworldly, and connects an otherwise fictional film to real events.

Kent (Christopher Sweeney), an author living in Minnesota, receives a call from a woman on a reservation. Her grandfather, Dan (Bald Eagle), is a Lakota elder nearing the end of his life who wants Kent to write a book from his perspective. Eventually, Dan and his friend Grover (Richard Ray Whitman) whisk Kent away on a road trip through Lakota country to help Kent gain an understanding of their history.

Simpson was able to squeeze a remarkable amount of narrative and aesthetic value from his tiny budget. It’s a testament to the power of independent filmmaking: By dodging bigger Hollywood offers, Nerburn found an artist with an emotionally resonant vision. DANA ALSTON. After 20 years, a Portland book makes it to the big screen.

SEE IT: Neither Wolf Nor Dog opens at Cinema 21 on August 11.

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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 stand-ins 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, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Tigard.

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 father-in-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. 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. Academy.

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 SOLEMPFEIFER. 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, Jubitz, Vancouver.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Ahoy, matey! Johnny Depp is washed!

PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Joy, 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, Laurelhurst, 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 star-making 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 trialand-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, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, 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 SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Wish Upon

Newton’s third law of wishes states that for every wish granted by a numinous foreign artifact or spiteful djinn, an equal and opposite blood debt must be repaid. Basic physics aside, Wish Upon is the story of unpopular high schooler Clare Shannon (Joey King), who is haunted by memories of witnessing her mother’s hanging suicide when she was a child. Her father, Jonathan (Ryan Phillippe), tries to be a doting father and surprises her by gifting her a scary-looking antique Chinese music box. Clare comes to learn that the music box is not actually very useful if you just want to hear a little ditty, but it does purport to grant its owner seven wishes. Ignorant of the strings that usually come attached to such things, she begins making wishes.

Wish Upon doesn’t offer anything new to the “be careful what you wish for” trope, but there are a generous handful of tense moments and amusing bits of dialogue.

R. R. MITCHELL MILLER. Clackamas, Division, Eastport.

Wonder Woman

I never thought I’d get a lump in my throat watching a superhero movie, but here we are. Patty Jenkins’ telling of Diana Prince’s (Gal Gadot) WWI origin deftly balances action, romance, comedy and emotional heft like no other in genre has. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

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PAX FINALLY ENTERS THE OIL-CARTRIDGE GAME IN OREGON. THE ERA IS POISED TO WRECK THE LEAGUE.

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Pickathon smelled different this year.

Sure, it was a little hotter than normal at the music festival on Pendarvis Farm in Clackamas County. But the lingering scent I noticed around the stages wasn’t that unmistakable blend of sweat, natural deodorant, spilled beer and dank flower. It was light, bright, citrusy vapor.

All around the festival, from the bluegrass hippies seated by the kids area sponsored by a Waldorf School to the scenesters cramped into the side area at the barn stage, everyone had switched to oil pens.

Were there joints, too? Probably.

Presumably. I think?

I was at Pickathon for two days, and I only saw a few people actually lighting little paper tubes of cannabis on fire—joints are about as common now as old-fashioned cigarette lighters held aloft during the encore of a 21 Pilots show.

It’s not news that oil cartridges have exploded in popularity. But stop to consider that all this growth has come despite the products still kinda sucking.

If you’ve owned a few oil pens, you’ve likely broken a few oil pens. The thin lithium batteries are so junky that they’re basically disposable. The majority of cartridges are poorly made, leaking oil onto their threads or out the top, into your pocket.

At first, I thought it was me. Then, I thought it was a few companies. Finally, I realized it was the basic design of the standard 510 thread cartridge, which is flawed.

Leave it to Pax to wreck the game.

You probably know the San Francisco-based company from their standard-setting line of loose leaf vaporizers, which remain the gold standard of portable weed vapes, despite an influx of innovative newcomers.

Now, Oregon finally has their newest product, the Era. The Era is closely related to another Pax product, a sleek nicotine vape called the JUUL, which we’ve previously advised you to hack for cannabis oil. Well, now you won’t have to muss your kitchen table filling the little pods by hand. Finally, a year after rolling the Era out in Colorado and California, Pax has partnered with Oregrown, the excellent Eugene-based extractor, to produce pods that fit their sleek little pen.

The Era is, as we expected, a wonderful little device.

The best compliment is that there’s so little to say about it. It charges via micro USB, has a simple light system to tell you how charged it is and clips together with rectangular cartridges that are about the size of a bottle cap.

It just works. The oils are tasty and provide the desired effects. The battery will last through a weekend music festival. Most importantly, the cartridges don’t leak or get gummed up.

Pax has done what Pax does—build a better mousetrap. I’d expect their line will spread as fast as pens themselves have.

What happens now will be interesting.

In Oregon, other oilmen are on notice. They can double-down put their efforts into hardselling a product with known issues or they can put their efforts into engineering something better. Here’s hoping they innovate.

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Case No 17JU00391 PUBLISHED SUMMONS TO: Santiago Che-Mis IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: A petition has been filed asking the court to terminate your parental rights to the above-named children for the purpose of placing the children for adoption. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO PERSONALLY APPEAR BEFORE the Coos County Court, 250 North Baxter, Coquille, OR 97423, on the 18th day of September 2017 at 9:30 a.m. to admit or deny the allegations of the petition and to personally appear at any subsequent court-ordered hearing. YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM ON THE DATE AND AT THE TIME LISTED ABOVE. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING IN YOUR PLACE. THEREFORE, YOU MUST APPEAR EVEN IF YOUR ATTORNEY ALSO APPEARS. This summons is published pursuant to the order of the circuit court judge of the above-entitled court, dated July 20, 2017.

The order directs that this summons be published once each week for three consecutive weeks, making three publications in all, in a published newspaper of general circulation in Multnomah County.

Date of first publication: July 26, 2017 Date of last publication: August 9th, 2017 NOTICE READ THESE PAPERS CAREFULLY IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR PERSONALLY BEFORE THE COURT OR DO NOT APPEAR AT ANY SUBSEQUENT COURTORDERED HEARING, the court may proceed in your absence without further notice and TERMINATE YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS to the above-named children either ON THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THIS SUMMONS OR ON A FUTURE DATE, and may make such orders and take such action as authorized by law.

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS (1) YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY IN THIS MATTER. If you are currently represented by an attorney, CONTACT YOUR ATTORNEY IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIVING THIS NOTICE. Your previous attorney may not be representing you in this matter.

IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY and you meet the state’s financial guidelines, you are entitled to have an attorney appointed for you at state expense. TO REQUEST APPOINTMENT OF AN ATTORNEY TO REPRESENT YOU AT STATE EXPENSE, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY CONTACT the Douglas Juvenile Department at , phone number , (541) 4404409 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. for further information.

IF YOU WISH TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY, please retain one as soon as possible and have the attorney present at the above hearing. If you need help finding an attorney, you may call the Oregon State Bar’s Lawyer Referral Service at (503) 684-3763 or toll free in Oregon at (800) 452-7636.

IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY, IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN CONTACT WITH YOUR ATTORNEY AND TO KEEP YOUR ATTORNEY ADVISED OF YOUR WHEREABOUTS. (2) If you contest the petition, the court will schedule a hearing on the allegations of the petition and order you to appear personally and may schedule other hearings related to the petition and order you to appear personally. IF YOU ARE ORDERED TO APPEAR, YOU MUST APPEAR PERSONALLY IN THE COURTROOM, UNLESS THE COURT HAS GRANTED YOU AN EXCEPTION IN ADVANCE UNDER ORS 419B.918 TO APPEAR BY OTHER MEANS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TELEPHONIC OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS. AN ATTORNEY MAY NOT ATTEND THE HEARING(S) IN YOUR PLACE. PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY Emily N. Snook Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice 975 Oak Street, Suite 200 Eugene, OR 97401 Phone: (541) 686-7973 ISSUED this 21st day of July, 2017.

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Week of August 10

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

I hope you’re making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you’ve been reinventing a long-term relationship that needed creative tinkering. Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It’s possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There’s still time to tap into the fecundity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano defines “idiot memory” as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them.

“Lively memory,” on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. “We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are,” writes Galeano. “Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case.”

Here’s another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: “The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Sometimes, Gemini, loving you is a sacred honor for me -- equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don’t take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret -- that you’re composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Liz, my girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. “Beauty must suffer,” her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head.

While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive -- as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you’d like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Each of us comes to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. “For some it is wild and unfettered,” he writes. “For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone.” Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you’ll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Would you scoff if I said that you’ll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It’s OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

This is the Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality.

If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: “Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life. It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hardheaded practical grist.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Some zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops?

Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what’s growing in your life will continue to thrive?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain.

There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness.

Now here’s Twain: 1. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 2. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” 3. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 4. “When in doubt, tell the truth.” 5. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. “But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water.

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In 1985, Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist.

He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan’s case.)

Are you willing to accept that?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

Tally up your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea.

Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You’ll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you’ll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.

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