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There’s an Oregon man who answers to the nickname “Genocide Jimmy.” 4

Operating a tiger farm in the suburbs could be illegal after all. 6 As many as 69 percent of the whole-home listings in Portland posted on Airbnb appear to be illegal. 7

A savvy millennial is using

intellectual property law as it was intended to be used and has some haters. 12 In some circumstances, club bouncers can actually be fired for being extremely rude. 22 Portland once had an Italian language daily newspaper. 27

Lincoln High School could really do itself a favor by just eliminating all competitive athletics. 9

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DIALOGUE Beth Dershowitz, her husband, Michael, and their children decided to drive from their home in Sacramento to Oregon to see the total solar eclipse.

On their way up I-5, the Dershowitzes, who are Jewish, saw something they were not expecting.

“We witnessed two seemingly coordinated displays of hate on overpasses yesterday heading north,” Beth Dershowitz tells WW via email.

“The first was somewhere south of Eugene. It said, ‘UNJEW HUMANITY.’ We were shaken but continued out of the rural area. Then I saw another near Salem.

“I cannot believe that we still have to face this vicious anti-Semitism in such a public place in 2017. My husband wanted to confront the men behind this, but I was afraid for our children in the car with us. Just another day in Trump’s America.”

Here’s what readers had to say.

Donna Hyland, via Facebook: “This is disgusting, but it is not the president’s fault. If that were the case, what of all of the hateful rhetoric when Obama was in office. Shame on the ones who did this! It’s hateful, for sure.”

Josh Welton, in response: “[The Oregon Department of Transportation] is removing them.

Free speech or not, it’s illegal to distract motorists. Angela Beers Seydel, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Transportation, says her agency also got a call about the signs and is in the process of removing them and making sure no other signs go up on overpasses.”

Jill Leigh, via wweek.com: “To Nigel Jaquiss and the editors of Willamette Weekly. I would appreciate an apology as a resident of Oregon who had nothing to do with this disgusting and hateful act. The article headline states that Oregonians greeted visitors with these banners. I most certainly did not, nor did the rest of the residents of Oregon. It appears that one person, who lacked the courage to stand up and own his behavior and choices was the individual who “I’m ready hung the banners. Congratulations to Willamette Weekly for being part to punch of the problem instead of part of the a nazi now.” solution.”

James Liebrecht, in response: “When the president goes on television and says there are some ‘really good people’ wearing swastikas and spouting hate it emboldens ALL the hateful bigots in this country.”

Emmy Lou Attebury, via Facebook: “Cops patrol all the time in those areas. Why didn’t they put a stop to this?”

Alex Gorman, in response: “Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses.”

Monica Weber, via Facebook: “I’m ready to punch a Nazi now. I lay the full blame at the feet of our commander in chief. It’s gloves off, now.”

“Genocide Jimmy” Marr, an Oregon man who drives around with swastikas on his truck, via Twitter: “I’ve got $6 million that says ‘Beth Dershowitz’ is as fake as Anne Frank’s diary. The solar eclipse over America marked the zenith of the lunar cult’s ascendancy. The honeymoon is now officially over.”

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So, how was the eclipse? —My Mom In the run-up to this week’s total solar eclipse, an expert made the media rounds—you may have heard him yourself—to affirm the life-changing nature of the experience.

“After you’ve seen your first total eclipse,” this fellow enthused, “the only thing you’ll be able to think about is, ‘When and where can I see another one?’”

Putting aside the fact that this is the same argument used to convince people not to try heroin, is it true? Are eclipses really that great? As a public service, I went to Salem to see for myself, so you can make an informed decision whether to take a road trip down to the next close one in 2024.

Unfortunately, the event had received too much advance publicity for me to enact my plan of going into a local Denny’s and demanding, “Bring me a chicken fried steak or I will blot out the sun!” Instead, I found myself watching meekly from a Howard Johnson’s parking lot with a couple dozen other rubes, many in lawn chairs.

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the path of totality, all the seats are good).

The verdict? It’s not heroin, but it’s not bad.

It looks just like the pictures, but seeing it in real life is another thing entirely (which is why the people who were watching it through their phones as they recorded it struck me as exceptionally stupid).

The eclipseheads are right about one thing: The difference between total eclipse and a near-total eclipse is like the difference between winning a championship and almost winning a championship. I’ll leave it to Blazers fans to decide whether “almost” seems sufficient.

That said, if you’re not the sort of person who finds astronomical phenomena even mildly interesting, a total eclipse isn’t going to suddenly transform you into Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Besides, if you wait long enough, you can see one without leaving Portland—though you might want to keep up on your diet and exercise; that one’s not due till 2169.

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State Rep. Knute Buehler (R-Bend), a GOP candidate for governor, reported a whopping $500,000 contribution from Nike chairman Phil Knight on Aug. 16, but the rest of his week didn’t go so well.

Democratic interest groups pounded Buehler so hard for being insufficiently pro-choice that he penned a weekend op-ed in The Oregonian defending his pro-choice credentials.

Meanwhile, in Salem, a number of deep-pocketed Republican donors gathered at the home of timber executive Rob Freres to try to persuade House Minority Leader Mike McLane (R-Central Point) to challenge Buehler in the primary, arguing Buehler is not conservative enough.

Among the groups represented was Oregon Right to Life, the state’s leading anti-abortion group. “Knute is not pro-life,” says Right to Life executive director Lois Anderson. “Our interest is in finding a pro-life candidate.” McLane is mulling his options. “Rep. McLane has not ruled anything out for 2018,” says spokesman Preston Mann.

Progressive Allies Clash Over Union Contract

Two pillars of Oregon’s progressive political power structure are at odds. On June 30, the contract for more than 200 employees at Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette was set to expire. Service Employees International Union Local 49 had orga-

nized Planned Parenthood in 2011, a contentious process that cost then-Planned Parenthood CEO David Greenberg his job and made the chapter one of only five unionized Planned Parenthoods in the country.

Now the union and Planned Parenthood, normally close allies in Salem and on a variety of political fronts, are hoping to avoid an impasse.

“We mutually agreed to a contract extension, which remains in place,” says PPCW chief financial officer Tom Motsiff, “and we remain engaged in productive bargaining.”

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County Cites Exotic Animal Nonprofit on Farm Land

Washington County’s Department of Land Use and Transportation has cited controversial nonprofit A Walk on a Wild Side for two code violations related to the outfit’s creature collection. As reported in a recent cover story (“The Tiger Farmer,” WW, July 26, 2017), A Walk on the Wild Side hauls lions and tigers to fairs and parties along the West Coast for entertainment and education. But the company’s neighbors say it’s breaking local rules by caging wild animals on land zoned exclusively for farm use. The county issued two citations Aug. 18 for “feeding, breeding and management of exotic animals along with sales of the products of exotic animals on farm-zoned property without a permit.”

The violations could result in fines of up to $5,000. Steve Higgs, who runs A Walk on the Wild Side, says he will battle the citations in court.

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Fudging the Numbers A NEW ANALYSIS SUGGESTS AIRBNB’S ATTEMPT AT SELF-POLICING ONLY SCRAPED THE SURFACE OF THE ILLEGAL LISTINGS IN PORTLAND.

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

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An independent analyst says Airbnb’s claims that it’s cracking down on rule breakers are overblown.

Earlier this month, the company announced it had removed 524 listings since January by Portlanders who were renting out more than one entire home.

But despite the crackdown, new data suggests there may be hundreds more listings that are still operating in violation of Portland’s rules for Airbnbs.

That data, which Murray Cox of the New York-based watchdog site Inside Airbnb obtained by “scraping” the Airbnb website, shows there are still 437 Portland listings in which the “host” had listed more than one entire home—which may violate city rules.

That suggests that landlords, instead of renting out spare bedrooms, are turning their properties into hotels.

Cox uses a software program to scrape all Airbnb listings for the city.

“It’s very easy indicator of commercial activity,” says Cox, who’s been tracking Airbnb since 2015.

“It shows us how Airbnb is really being used. They

announce they have removed the bad actors. I wanted to see if that was true.”

City rules require that Portland residents only rent out homes they live in and (with the exception of granny flats) rent them for no more than three months per year.

The policy ’s aim is to keep housing available for the city’s renters.

Although Airbnb claims it’s stepping up policing, the company hasn’t produced data for outside inspection, including by the city of Portland.

The company insists, however, that the independent data-mining Cox did misrepresents hosts’ rental patterns.

“This third-party data scrape is inaccurate,” Airbnb spokeswoman Laura Rillos says in a statement, “and falsely equates an Airbnb listing marketed as an entire space with a unit of housing removed from the market.”

Entire homes listed by P o r t l a n d h o st s w i t h more than one entire home for rent:

Entire homes listed for more than 95 nights per year:

Entire home listings that may violate one or both of the above city rules.

HERE’S WHAT COX FOUND FROM LOOKING AT 2,667 AIRBNB LISTINGS FOR ENTIRE HOMES.

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Open Question

COUNTY COMMISSIONER LORETTA SMITH MAY NOT SAY TILL JANUARY WHICH OFFICE SHE’LL RUN FOR.

BY R ACHEL MON A HA N

LORETTA SMITH

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A key unanswered question hanging over the upcoming election season is which office County Commissioner Loretta Smith will pursue.

Smith, who is prevented by term limits from seeking a third term, has been mentioned as a possible challenger to City Commissioner Dan Saltzman or as a challenger to County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury.

The filing window for the May 2018 primary election doesn’t officially open until Sept. 7, but multiple elected officials and notable community leaders have already announced their intention to run for City Council or the Legislature.

Jo Ann Hardesty, who is challenging Saltzman, told WW that Smith plans to challenge Kafoury. (Smith declined to respond to that assertion.)

There’s one purely practical reason Smith may be inclined to wait. If she’s running for City Council, she can’t formally declare until January without resigning her current post. The county charter dictates that county commissioners can’t run for most offices midterm, which the charter defines as any time up to their last year in office.

Smith’s second (and final) term expires at the end of 2018.

Under a charter change that took effect at the beginning of the year, county commissioners can declare for the chair’s race before the final year of their term. Smith’s reticence suggests she’s looking at City Hall.

Smith declined to comment.

Another variable: City Commissioner Nick Fish announced last week he has stomach cancer. It’s too early to say whether his health or treatment could impact his plans to run next year. Fish “is fully engaged” and “as of now intends to run,” says his chief of staff, Sonia Schmanski.

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Yellow Card ALLEGATIONS ABOUT LINCOLN’S SOCCER COACHES ECHO PREVIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE WESTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL’S ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT.

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

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sizing the importance of being a strong role model,” says Chapman, who was aware of Dipascuale’s reckless driving conviction, “and we have removed coaches on a few occasions for behaviors that did not meet our high expectations.”

Chapman adds that she supports coaches who have learned from their mistakes.

As a school community that aspires to compete with westside athletic powerhouses such as Lake Oswego and Jesuit high schools, Lincoln can be a pressure cooker for coaches and players.

Chapman acknowledg es those high expectations but denies Lincoln drops its standards to elevate on-field success.

Lincoln High School has a new boys varsity soccer coach—and he brings his own baggage to an athletic department that has seen more than its share of troubles.

Pablo Dipascuale, 29, is a Spanish-language teacher at Lincoln and served as an assistant to the previous coach, his brother, Facundo, who left the team under a cloud earlier this year.

Records show in July 2013 Pablo Dipascuale was arrested for driving under the influence in Seattle, where he coached a Portland team at a youth soccer tournament.

Some Lincoln parents are “PPS BURIES CLAIMS unhappy about his promotion.

Last year, a parent filed a OF DISCRIMINATION AND “To be a coach is about complaint with Lincoln HARASSMENT, AND setting a good example,” says alleging Facundo Dipascuale OFFICIALS ARE REWARDED one soccer parent, who spoke had bullied her son, a black to WW on condition of anounderclassman on the varsity FOR DOING SO.” nymity. “I’m very concerned. soccer team.

—KIM SORDYL, PPS CRITIC To the boys, he may lose The complaint alleged some credibility.”

Dipascuale mocked the Although the DUII charge player for being short and was plea-bargained to reckfor saying that he, like other less driving, Dipascuale was black athletes, might one day also cited in 2014 for driving with a suspended license. kneel instead of stand during the national anthem.

“What are the chances of him making another misThe parent of a second player corroborates the story, take?” the parent asks. telling WW that his son had told him the black player Dipascuale’s troubles echo previous problems in the was “getting targeted” by Dipascuale. affluent westside school’s athletic department.

Lincoln forwarded the complaint to Portland Public Highlights include the 2009 firing of football coach Schools for district athletic director Marshall Haskins Chad Carlson for a drunken altercation with Portland to investigate. police. In 2009, boys basketball coach David Adelman Haskins, who is black, questions the premise of the was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. complaint—that Dipascuale mocked the player for He wasn’t fired, though he had one prior DUII. being short.

Lincoln Principal Peyton Chapman says the school “Soccer players come in all different sizes, shapes monitors coaches closely. and colors,” Haskins says. “I don’t know how that would “Over the past decade, we have worked with hunimpact him playing soccer.” dreds of dedicated and talented coaches, always emphaHaskins did not interview a single Lincoln player

about the allegations. (He relied on reports he received from Lincoln officials, who had interviewed just two students.)

“I don’t know what happened because I wasn’t there,” Haskins says of the alleged incidents.

His cursory response to the allegations against Dipascuale raises questions about whether PPS administration has an effective system for responding to complaints against coaches.

PPS spokesman David Northfield denies the district punted on the Lincoln complaint.

“After a thorough investigation, Coach Dipascuale was cleared of allegations he bullied a student,” says Northfield. “He was authorized to return to coaching with guidance on how to better communicate with players.” (Dipascuale resigned in May to coach outside the U.S., district officials say.)

Northfield rejects the notion that the Lincoln coaches might be prejudiced.

“The Dipascuale brothers are Argentinean people of color,” Northfield says.

(Pablo Dipascuale declined to comment, directing questions about his hiring to his bosses. Facundo Dipascuale could not be reached for comment).

The school district’s approach to investigations “is a complete sham,” says Kim Sordyl, who is a frequent critic of the administration. “PPS buries claims of discrimination and harassment, and officials are rewarded for doing so.”

Lincoln is a predominantly white high school, and black students don’t always find it welcoming. Last year, according to enrollment data, just 32 of Lincoln’s 1,703 students—less than 2 percent—identified as African-American.

Last year, WW reported on a complaint alleging boys basketball coach Pat Adelman, David’s younger brother, had made racially insensitive remarks to his players (“Offensive Game Plan,” WW, Feb. 10, 2016).

He was suspended for the rest of the season after WW wrote about the complaint, although he remains the head coach.

The black soccer player’s mother wrote in her emails to Lincoln officials that her son also endured racist remarks from Pablo Dipascuale, who was her son’s Spanish teacher last year.

“The hazing and bullying on the field followed in the classroom,” the mother wrote, “with Pablo making statements about [player’s name withheld by PPS for privacy] in class that were humiliating.”

The mother alleged Dipascuale compared her son to an animal. In a discussion about the way Americans use fences to pen in animals, Dipascuale allegedly said, “Yes, people here use fences to keep their pets in like their cats, dogs and [student name redacted].”

Chapman says there was no merit to the accusation that Dipascuale disparaged the player in Spanish class.

She says all students at Lincoln are treated equally and fairly.

“We continuously review our equity protocols on racial sensitivity,” Chapman says in a statement.

“I was confident that there was no racial harassment going on. Our students’ social, emotional and physical safety are always our top priority. I am looking forward to watching this student play varsity soccer for Lincoln this fall. I think he and his teammates will have a great season.”

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BY T H AC H E R S C H MI D

THACHER SCHMID

IN PORTLAND, OREGON @t h a c hersc hmid

Has Portland really gotten all its homeless veterans off the streets?

MARK NICHOLAS

There are a lot of barriers to ending homeless- an effort by a coalition of local groups that resultness for Portland veterans. ed in permanent housing for 1,300 local homeless Darrell L. Snook, for instance, is both a Viet- veterans in 2015 and 2016. nam Navy veteran and a registered sex offender.

That was real progress, but the June 2017 He and his wife, Pamela, say that’s not the biggest “point in time” count of homeless in Multnomah irony in their lives, however.

County, however, found 446 homeless veterans in That would be their marriage, which they see the county, 24 more than in 2015. as a Catch-22 that keeps them on the streets. They Michael Buonocore, executive director of tied the knot on Pearl Harbor Day in 2014, but Home Forward, says nobody in the coalition were surprised to see their union lead to reduced meant to be misleading. income and thwarted housing opportunities. “[We] never said this was over or that we had “I was offered housing through the VA if I left completely ended veteran homelessness,” BuonoPamela,” Darrell says. He turned down a single- core says. “Portland did meet the benchmarks room occupancy unit in the Henry, a 153-unit for “effectively” ending veteran homelessness, affordable apartment building at 309 SW 4th Ave. and even though we recognize there is still a lot run by Central City Concern. hard work to be done, it was a Pamela says JOIN, a homesignificant milestone for our “SOME VETERANS less outreach agency, offered community.” her a grant for move-in costs GAVE ALL THEY HAD, Vets say the battle never ends. if she found an apartment, “It’s always some formalAND THEN THEY but her caseworker wouldn’t ity,” with the VA system, add her husband to the grant COME BACK HOME says Charles Blackmon, 56, a because of his criminal history. and Army National AND THEY’RE LOOKED Marines “Isn’t that fucked?” Pamela Guard veteran with post-trauDOWN UPON.” says. (The couple now lives in a matic stress disorder. “They GMC van.) don’t give me answers, all they — MAR K NICHOLAS Representatives of those do is tell me no,” Blackmon organizations said they cannot says. “They been telling me discuss specific clients, but painted a different that for 35 years.” picture of how the system works.

Others, like Navy vet Reuben Strand, 72, say Central City Concern spokeswoman Kathy their questions about housing have been “fluffed Pape says her agency tries to be flexible. “If some- off” by VA workers. one were in the veterans program at the Henry “We’re always going to have [homeless vetand wished to find housing to live with a partner,” erans],” says Army veteran Mark Nicholas as Pape says, “we would help find such permanent he pushes a shopping cart along Northwest 6th housing for them.”

Avenue between Bud Clark Commons and Sisters But Shannon Singleton, executive director of of the Road. Nicholas, 56, is staying in a shelter at JOIN, acknowledges criminal convictions can be Southeast Grand Avenue and Stark Street. a barrier to housing. “Some of the federal dollars/ “Some veterans gave all they had, and then vouchers have restrictions on legal histories,” they come back home and they’re looked down Singleton says. upon,” Nicholas adds. “We went into the miliThe Snooks’ story is just one example of the tary with good intentions, but we wind up being gap between the success stories told by officials another person when we come out—that we’re and homeless veterans’ experience of opportuni- not proud to be.” ties limited by a rigid bureaucracy.

Nicholas says he learned to manage his mental Last year, Portland claimed to be the first West illness and drinking from VA staff “up on the hill.”

Coast city to “end” veteran homelessness. “No Like 31 percent of veterans, Nicholas also sufveteran that needs housing is being left outside,” fers from PTSD. He says his allies in the fight to then-Mayor Charlie Hales said in December. manage addiction and mental illness are veterBut for local veterans still living on the street, ans—not “bookworms.” the claim was a joke.

Vets have strong allies in the system: BuonoAl Artero, commander of American Legion core is a veteran, and Alex Glover, housing direcPost 134 on Northeast Alberta Street, saw a story tor for Transition Projects, is one of seven on his trumpeting the news on TV. He watched it with a agency’s “vets team.” Glover says the push to help homeless veteran who frequents the post. veterans in 2015 and 2016 created a “veteran by “We were like, ‘Hey, man, let’s go get your name” registry, and got more vets into shelters. keys!’” Artero recalls. “That was an unfortunate That’s crucial, he says, because houseless vetway to put it. It is more accurate to say that there erans sometimes head into the “deep woods” in is a sustainable strategy, a long-term plan for Forest Park or along the Sandy River. actually dealing with this.”

“A lot of them call it bivouacking,” says Glover.

Portland’s claim stemmed from recognition by “We have some where those survival skills are on the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness of point, and it works for them.”

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ANDREW JONES SAYS HIS MACHINE WILL DOMINATE THE HOTTEST SLICE OF THE MARIJUANA MARKET— BUT A FORMER MENTOR SAYS JONES IS PROFITING FROM AN INVENTION HE DESIGNED.

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Andrew Jones’ company Connoisseur Concentrates has a marketing video on its website than can only be described as perplexing.

For an hour and six minutes, Jones, clad in a white hoodie with the word “Crooks” silkscreened on the front, tells viewers how he’s poised to dominate his industry with patents, how his product is the best on the market and how he can sue anybody who infringes on his intellectual property.

“People want to come in and make a quick buck off of us,” Jones says of outsiders he fears will soon lay claim to the cannabis industry. “It shouldn’t happen and it won’t happen, and if we’re really smart about it, they’ll work for us.”

Jones, 37, specializes in one of the most lucrative segments of the marijuana industry—extracting butane hash oil, or BHO, a sticky, honeylike substance that is distilled essence of cannabis.

Hash oil, which concentrates THC or CBD, the active ingredients in marijuana, is used in vaporizer pens, baked into edibles, or formed into translucent sheets called “shatter,” which is used to dab. In dabbing, a small drop of highly potent extract is evaporated on a heated surface, and the user inhales the fumes.

Extracts, according to the research firm BDS Analytics, make up almost a quarter of Oregon’s $400 million a year cannabis market.

Extracting the oil from marijuana can be risky, because it involves pressure and highly flammable materials.

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Jones claims the device he patented last year—it’s called “Mr. Extractor”—is the best way to reduce such risks and produce a pure product.

Mr. Extractor, manufactured in Tualatin, retails for $10,000.

Jones says he has sold about 50 of them, though the real money, he hopes, will come from licensing his patents.

In a video he made about his plan for market dominance, Jones and his attorney, Holly Johnston, explain the legal protections he has secured and warn competitors not to appropriate his technology.

“I’m pleased to announce that Connoisseur Concentrates has secured the federal patent rights for virtually all closed-loop extraction systems in the country,” Jones says.

In an interview with WW, Jones says the legal talk was meant to send a message: “I wanted to scare some people.”

To some, Jones represents the new wave of cannabis entrepreneurs, chasing the riches the industry promises with the zeal of Silicon Valley techbros. To others, however, Jones is a profiteer who’s relied heavily on other people’s inventions.

Few are more critical of Jones than JD Ellis, the man many people say actually developed the process Jones patented.

“I think he’s a sociopath,” Ellis says of Jones. “He’ll say and do anything without remorse and somehow justify it.”

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G R AY W O L F : For his first closed-loop extractor, which he developed in 2011 (shown at right), JD Ellis says he used paint pots, a pump and a tank of butane.

regon’s temple of cannabis extraction is a small home in Southeast Portland located just off Woodstock Boulevard.

Ellis works out of a living room there.

A worn sofa sits draped with a knitted blanket, a small Buddha figurine rests on a shelf, and paintings and photos cover the walls.

On a recent day, Ellis, 73, wore a plain black T-shirt tucked into faded blue jeans and a small straw hat.

In online cannabis forums, Ellis is known as “Gray Wolf.” His deep, soft voice carries the slightest hint of his Oklahoma upbringing. He worked as an aerospace engineer until 2005, when he turned his technical skills to cannabis.

Ellis says his “eureka!” moment came 10 years ago, when he lost a friend to a brain tumor.

“After he died, I read about a study that was done in Spain in about 1972 where they injected THC into the brain tumors of rats, and the tumors diminished and went away,” Ellis says. “I realized that that treatment wasn’t available to my friend.”

Ellis says he first smoked cannabis at the age of 27.

But he started using it more frequently a little more than 30 years later after he developed degenerative arthritis.

He subsequently obtained a medical marijuana card and decided to learn how to extract THC oil from cannabis.

“Concentrates are meant to have a higher level of potency, a different range of effects, different flavor profiles,” says Casey Houlihan, executive director of the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association.

To make BHO, cannabis leaves and flowers are packed in a canister and liquid butane is pushed through it. The butane acts as a solvent, leaching cannabis oil from the plant.

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BHO extraction is risky because the solvent, butane, is extremely flammable. There have been eight reported hash oil explosions in Portland in the past four years, according to Portland Fire and Rescue. The most recent hash oil explosion, on July 26 in North Portland, left two dead.

In 2011, Ellis developed a much safer method of extraction using a closed-loop system. Rather than allowing butane vapor to escape into the air where it can catch fire or explode, Ellis’ system used a series of pumps and tubes to keep the butane and its vapors contained.

It took him three months and $1,600 to develop.

Along the way, Ellis, who called his lab Skunk Pharm Research, shared his work online and on a popular cannabis forum, icmag.com, making his technology freely available.

In closed-loop extractions, the oily butane and cannabis mixture is deposited in a metal collection pot and a tube connected to another column recaptures the butane vapor. The butane can be recovered with an external pump or by making the collection pot much hotter than the butane recovery tank. The butane evaporates from the warmer pot into the recovery tube and condenses in the cooler tank.

Cannabis industry insiders say Ellis made a major breakthrough.

“I’m surprised I haven’t seen JD celebrated more,” says Jeremy Plumb, co-owner of the Southeast Portland dispensary Farma. “He’s a bit of a unicorn. There’s no other version [of extraction] I can find online that had the same level of expertise and prowess.”

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After he began his first extractions using a closed-loop machine, Ellis says, the demand for his product and questions about his process quickly became overwhelming.

Ellis and his research group built a loyal following.

“I take a gram to 2 grams a day [of Skunk Pharm Research’s BHO oil] as part of my treatment plan,” says C.J. Darneille, a local cancer patient. “It helped reverse my melanoma.”

Ellis and his partners, Carla Kay and Joseph Oats, used marijuana they grew themselves to make extracts.

When that wasn’t enough, Ellis says, sometimes people who heard they were giving away cannabis oil for free would donate their surplus homegrown pot.

Ellis says he welcomed anyone who was interested in learning about extraction to come to his home. In 2010, Steve Bennett, 56 at the time, sought Ellis’ help in treating his stage-four non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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“He was amazing,” Bennett, now in remission, says of Ellis.

“He let me use his house and all his equipment to teach me how to make my own extracts. We spent six to eight hours together, and he never asked for a penny.”

In total, Ellis estimates he’s helped hundreds of people, either by extracting hash oil for them, answering their questions online or teaching them in person how to build a closedloop system.

“We were trying to make medical cannabis available to everybody,” Ellis says. “The way that we could do that was to get enough out there that more people would be using it— and then they’d be running to the voting booths and running through the streets yelling, ‘It’s a miracle!’”

Ellis says he was never interested in getting rich from weed.

“I’m retired,” he says. “I don’t need the money.”

Of all the students who learned from Gray Wolf, none would be as consequential as Andrew Jones.

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ones entered the marijuana industry at a young age, long before cannabis was legal.

“Drew does have a history,” says Craig Opfer of Magneto, a Portland marketing company that advises Jones. “He had a misspent youth, was incarcerated and came out of it with the mindset that he was going to take the establishment down.”

Jones says his mother grew, extracted and distributed marijuana. When he was 13, he started growing pot himself, he says, and soon was selling it.

In 1994, when Jones was 14, police raided his mother’s home in Tigard, looking for a marijuana grow.

“I had guns, they had guns—we ended up shooting at each other,” Jones says.

The Oregonian reported that when a sheriff ’s deputy entered Jones’ room, Jones pointed a gun at him and the deputy “shot Andrew three times with a 9 mm assault rifle.”

Jones was charged with possessing a firearm, convicted and spent three years in state custody at the Hillcrest Youth Correctional Facility in Salem, where he finished high school.

Getting shot and thrown into juvenile detention did nothing to curb Jones’ enthusiasm for the marijuana business.

“I felt so strongly about growing cannabis,” he says. “I felt I needed to go back to finish [making it in the cannabis industry] in defiance of the situation.”

After serving his time, Jones started growing cannabis and says at one point he was growing “hundreds if not thousands of plants.” Soon, he jumped into the extraction business, a move that inevitably led him to Ellis.

Jones and Ellis met online, in closed-loop BHO extraction’s infancy.

“Early in the cannabis industry, most people would talk on the forums,” Jones says. “That’s where I knew Gray Wolf from.”

In 2013, Jones attended an extraction class that Ellis S H AT T E R : Dried hash oil is both a noun and was teaching at the Wooda verb. stock home.

By that time, Ellis had already published three of his closed-loop extractor designs online. He introduced his extraction machines, with photographs and detailed descriptions, to the public on the International Cannagraphic website, icmag.com, as well as on his research group’s site, skunkpharmresearch. com.

The time stamps on the posts date from 2011. The designs included what parts to buy, how many, where to find them and how much they cost. He included photos of his finished extractors as well as technical drawings.

Ellis’ designs came from years of experimenting and his background in engineering.

Ellis remembers Jones attending his daylong BHO extraction class, and how they would “talk at length about closed-loop extraction systems.”

“He was young and bright,” Ellis says of Jones, “but he also sort of put you on edge. He could be pretty glib.”

Jones, who has no technical training, downplays Ellis’ influence and the difficulty of designing a closed-loop extraction device.

“To be quite honest, it’s not that hard,” Jones says.

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M O N E Y E X T R A C T O R : “I’m a businessman,” Jones says. “I make money. I won’t lie and say that’s not what we do.”

culmination of knowledge through Google, you can do just about anything.”

Jones went on to build his own extractor using closed-loop technology, and in 2016, he was awarded federal patent No. 9327210 for his BHO extraction machine.

With his device, Jones uses dry ice, which evaporates in misty clouds from the top of his extractor like a mad science experiment, and hot water during the butane recovery process.

Because cannabis is still illegal under federal law, Jones and his attorney were intentionally vague in the wording of their patent description: “Any extractable plant material can be used in the disclosed devices.” Though, for the sake of clarity, they also added that “in some examples some form of the cannabis plant is used.”

“A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor,” the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office explains on its website.

Those property rights include “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling the invention in the United States.”

Jones moved to dominate closed-loop BHO extraction with his patent. But Ellis and others point out many similarities between what Jones patented and the designs Ellis published online years earlier.

“His device essentially duplicated mine,” Ellis says. “He’s a scoundrel. There’s a lot of stuff out there. I have no problem with anybody using any of it. What I do have a problem with is somebody thinking they can patent it.”

In 2015, while Jones’ patent application was still pending, Jones and Ellis began sparring online. Ellis was skeptical the younger man

would succeed in gaining legal protection for his invention.

“It is unlikely that these interlopers will be awarded [a patent] with their later design drawing heavily on past art,” Ellis wrote of Jones’ application. “If somehow miraculously awarded, think how difficult and expensive it will be to defend!”

“Gray Wolf,” Jones wrote in response, “I respect you and your work. In these years we have found ourselves on different sides of the same coin. This isn’t going to be fun or pretty, but that’s how it is.”

Plenty of people think Jones got his ideas from Ellis and others.

Another extraction pioneer, David McGhee of Tamisium Extractors in Fort Worth, Texas, claims Jones probably drew upon his and others’ designs.

“To me, evidence that somebody copied is when they can’t show their work,” McGhee says. “At some point, he learned [how to make an extractor], either directly from me or from information released online.”

Liz Blaz, sales and business development specialist for the Portland extraction engineering group Eden Labs, says she thinks Jones’ design drew heavily on Ellis’ work.

“People hear about Drew and they realize that his point of reference for expertise, his knowledge source and knowledge base, is JD,” she says.

Jones insists his design is original.

“I did my own research,” Jones says. “I didn’t work with anybody else.”

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“[Ellis] decided that he’s going to give it away to people.

His company is bankrupt. He has no sellable products. I’m making millions of dollars.”

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he cannabis industry is divided over how intellectual property should be handled.

The Open Cannabis Project is a Portlandbased effort to create a comprehensive catalog of marijuana plant strains online so they will be considered prior art and therefore unpatentable.

“The Open Cannabis Project has a simple mission,” the group’s website reads, “to protect the richness and diversity of cannabis…to ensure that they remain available, and in the public domain, forever.”

Farma’s Plumb is part of the Open Cannabis Project. He says Jones’ business model could be bad for the cannabis industry.

“This young guy comes forward with a patent clearly outlined online years before the patent is awarded,” Plumb says. “Patents can have a chilling effect on innovation or they can incentivize. It depends on how they’re pursued.”

Plumb believes Jones’ patents are an example of shifting motivations in the cannabis industry.

He says profiteering patent-holders threaten the free-flowing exchange of knowledge with techniques that characterized marijuana when it was an underground market.

As for Ellis, he’s shifted his focus to helping establish cannabis workplace regulations. He says Jones is a “charlatan” and wants nothing more to do with him.

“There’s going to be a bunch of people in there scrapping and throwing money around, Ellis says, “and the only people that are going to be getting rich are the attorneys.”

But Ryan Leverenz, Jones’ publicist, says people like Ellis and Plumb’s vision of an open-sourced cannabis industry is outdated and unrealistic.

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GOLDEN TICKETS: Jones says his patents (shown above) are what set him apart.

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M A D L A B : For a portion of his income, Jones sells terpenes—essential oil and artificial flavor blends—to retailers to make the extracts taste better.

Flavors include “Fruity Pebbles” and “Bubble Gum.”

tions need to be attributed.”

Jones says small cannabis entrepreneurs will lose out if they don’t patent intellectual property quickly.

He says Ellis’ approach is a recipe for failure.

“One of the things that I find interesting about myself and JD is that we came from the same area,” Jones says. “He decided that he’s going to claim ownership of extraction equipment and give it away to people. His company is bankrupt. He has no sellable products. I’m making millions of dollars.”

The two-story industrial building in Tigard where Connoisseur Concentrates is headquartered is unremarkable on the outside. Inside, the building is a flashy gallery of expensive toys.

In a glass display case inside the front entrance sits an illuminated Mr. Extractor.

Built from shiny stainless steel, the extractor looks simple. It’s made up of three small columns and stands about 3 feet high. On the bottom-most column there is an inscription that reads “Mr. Extractor” above the machine’s lot number: 0002.

It’s the second Mr. Extractor Jones ever produced.

He says the first went to Snoop Dogg. He has a photo of himself presenting the rapper with the extractor in Aspen, Colo., at the 2015 X Games.

On a recent day, a thumping bassline pumped through the building while Jones—dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt with the words “Rebel Fight” printed across the front, baggy jeans, matching black

Converse sneakers and a large gold bracelet and gold watch—showed off his empire.

Crisp white walls, beakers full of terpenes—a blend Jones mixes to make extracts taste better—and a massive flat-screen television adorn his workspace. It’s a long way from Ellis’ quaint Woodstock lab.

Jones claims he now grosses a couple million dollars a year selling Mr. Extractor and related products.

He owns a retail shop in Los Angeles. He holds three patents, and has applied for five more. He hasn’t sued anyone for patent infringement yet, but he’s watching his competitors closely. Those patents, he’s convinced, will make him and people who license his patents wealthy.

“At Connoisseur Concentrates, we’re in the business of making money,” Jones says in one video. “We’re in the business of making you money.”

“That’s your new house,” he says pointing to one of the many bundles of cash that line the table. “That’s your new car. That’s your kid’s car, your kid’s house, your college fund,” he says rapidly.

“Join us,” he says. “Listen to the haters or count the stacks.”

In his many online videos, he speaks darkly of the threat from Big Pharma and foreign investors. His protection from those predators: his patents.

“I fought and sacrificed a lot to get here,” Jones says. “Legalizing [marijuana] with blood to give it to corporations is not what I had in mind.”

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SWEEPING CHANGES: An encounter between a transgender woman who fronts a Portland punk band and staff at Roseland Theater has caused the Old Town concert venue to fire a security guard and implement new sensitivity training. As first reported by the Portland MIRA GLITTERHOUND Mercury, Sweeping OF SWEEPING EXITS Exits frontwoman Mira Glitterhound says she and two friends were discriminated against by Roseland staff while attending a concert on Aug. 17. Glitterhound, a transgender woman, says she was stopped from entering the women’s restroom by a security guard and told to use the men’s room. Kathy Goranson, a manager for Double Tee, the concert promoter that owns the venue, says the security guard was “confused” by Glitterhound’s facial hair, but adds that the way the situation was handled was “not good customer service.” The Roseland quickly issued a statement via Facebook, apologizing to Glitterhound and her friends and announcing they had terminated the staff member. The venue will do away with gendered metal-detector lines and is making the private ADA restroom available to anyone who is uncomfortable using the gendered restrooms, and training staff on how to deal more sensitively with non-cisgendered patrons. “I am happy with the Roseland’s response, and it makes me feel better about putting myself out there and tolerating the backlash,” Glitterhound tells WW. BIG EAST: By next year, Southeast 82nd Avenue will have its own food mall, plus a parking lot full of food carts. Last week, the gargantuan Farm House restaurant, just south of Powell Boulevard, was demolished to make way for an ambitious new project. Mandy Kao, a partner on the project, says the food mall will draw from cuisines across the spectrum.

In addition to indoor mini-restaurants, the 8,500-squarefoot space will be home to 15 or so outdoor food carts, a covered patio and parking for both bikes and cars. “Our thing isn’t just about Chinese food—it’ll be a variety of international foods. I grew up internationally, I love French food, Indian food, strong flavors.” Kao hopes to be open by fall 2018.

BACK ISSUES: Portland’s 20-year-old Independent Publishing Resource Center has found a new, larger location in the Gardeners and Ranchers Building on Southeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, saving the 20-year-old nonprofit from having to close its doors after a large rent hike. After spending 15 months in an unsuccessful search for a new location, the IPRC received a phone call from LETTERPRESS AT THE IPRC their new landlords Edy, Morton & Edy, offering them the new space out of the blue. “We were looking at having to put things in self-storage,”says interim executive director Brian Tibbetts. “We were going to have to do a pop-up version of the IPRC in another space.” The grand opening for the new IPRC is free and open to the public, 7-10 pm on September 9.

DINO EXTINCT: Dino Costa, the sports-radio shock jock drawing fire over his political screeds, is no longer on KXTG 750/102.9 The Game. “Alpha Media has decided to cut ties with Dino Costa,” the broadcaster said. Costa came under renewed scrutiny after the death of a Virginia protestor.

“Listen, as soon as one or two of these sumbitches are run over you’ll see the entire, in unison, everybody be up off the street,” he had said about a Black Lives Matter protest in June.

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THE TRANSPLANTS

8/24

INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE

The anti-transplantphobia standup showcase returns after almost a year off. James Bosquez hosts, and Jacob Christopher will headline the lineup of all Portland comedy imports. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669, portland.heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

Attend a lecture on the search for the actual Holy Grail before watching the second-best Indiana Jones movie—we’re talking Nazis, a zeppelin and snakes. It always has to be snakes. OMSI Empirical Theater, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000, omsi.edu. 6:30 pm. $7. All ages.

WHISKEY, COLD BREWS & RUNDERWEAR

T H U R S D AY

SECRET DRUM BAND The secret of Portland’s Secret Drum Band is that while it is indeed a band made up of five drummers, the music it makes is not just a cacophonous assault, but more like painting with percussion. Dynamics, the group’s debut album, is an extension of leader Lisa Schonberg’s entomological studies, evoking the rhythms of nature in ways that are, at turns, soothing and chaotic. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 503-236-9672, whiteowlsocialclub.com. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

See album review, page 33.

Get Busy

8/25

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SHELLEY SHORT

Veteran singer-songwriter Shelley Short inaugurates Portland’s newest folk venue to celebrate the release of her new album, Pacific City, a collection of Pacific Northwest country that’s as cool, crisp and delicate as the air in the Oregon coastal town that serves as its namesake. Polaris Hall, 635 N Killingsworth Ct., 503-240-6088. 8 pm. $10. 21+. See profile, page 29.

DIE ANTWOORD

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Run four miles, drink some cold brew and indulge in some Bull Run whiskey, all in the comfort of your own underwear. There are talks of free and discounted skivvies, but you already know your underoos are on point.

Fleet Feet Sports, 2258 NW Raleigh St., 503-525-2122, fl eetfeetsports.com. 6:30 pm. Free.

MULHOLLAND DRIVE

Even if you believe David Lynch’s nightmarish tale of a Hollywood amnesiac is totally meaningless and doesn’t amount to any kind of coherent story, it’s still a mindfucking masterpiece. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 Park Ave., 503-221-1156, nwfilm.org. 7 pm. $9.

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8/26 MUSICFESTNW PRESENTS PROJECT PABST

PORTLAND TACO FESTIVAL

The second year of the music festival Voltron, known as MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst, is full of legends: punk godfather Iggy Pop, East Coast rap icon Nas and Beck, the funky Scientologist. But don't be surprised if the act everyone comes away talking about is South African freak rappers Die Antwoord—even if most of the talk is along the lines of, "What the hell was that?!" Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Naito Parkway at Yamhill Street. See projectpabst. com for tickets and complete schedule. Through Aug. 27. 21+.

There is tequila, a chihuahua beauty contest, live lucha libre and a whole mess of tacos, from al pastor to barbacoa, Middle Eastern tacos and “desert tacos.” Consider it a Cinco de Mayo sorority party up at the horse track. Fun, but will you feel guilty tomorrow? Portland Meadows, 1001 N Schmeer Rd., portlandtacofestival.com. Noon-8 pm Saturday-Sunday. $12 for taco fest, $20 for Tequila expo.

S U N D AY

8/27 HAWTHORNE STREET FAIR

MIDDLE EAST FESTIVAL

Catch music at 38th Avenue or a drink at the beer gardens at Bazi Bierbrasserie on 32nd. There's also a bounce house, free ukulele classes and vintage clothing pop-ups. And you know New Seasons will be on its samples A-game. Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard between 30th and 50th avenues, hawthornepdx.com. 11 am-7 pm. Free. All ages.

Get your kebab, gyro and baklava on at St. George Orthodox church for the 40th annual Middle East fest—with a full—on Orthodox choir kicking out the a cappella jams from 2-4 pm, then a bunch of folk dancing to much less reverent music. St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 2101 NE 162nd Ave., 503-255-6055, stgeorgeportland.org.

M O N D AY

8/28 THE MOVIE QUIZ

TOO FAT, TOO SLUTTY, TOO LOUD

Finally put that fi lm degree to the test as you and up to three of your friends prove how much you know about Pedro Almodovar’s 1970s short fi lms and which Alfred Hitchcock movies the director didn’t make a cameo in. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 9:30 pm. $6. All ages.

Anne Helen Petersen’s new book is all about women being unruly. At her book event, the former Buzzfeed columnist and gossip expert will address how all sorts of celebrities are “acting out” and pushing the societal boundary of womanhood—and how people just love to love and hate them for it. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-288-4651, powells.com. 7:30 pm, Free.

8/29 T U E S D AY

PIE HARDER Pie Hard 2: Pie Harder will be offering up some of the best deep-dish pies in town—with happy hour beer and thick minislabs from Baby Doll, Ex Novo, East Glisan, Pizza Jerk, Ranch and Via Chicago, plus dessert pies to boot. Ecliptic Brewing, 825 N Cook St., 503-265-8002. 5-9 pm. $27. Tickets at bit.ly/pieharder.

OK CHORALE ROOFTOP CAMPFIRE SING-ALONG Portland's drop-in choir, OK Chorale, leads a "campfi re sing-along" on the Revolution Hall roof deck. Even if you hate the sound of the human voice, you can't beat the view. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall.com. 6:30 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.

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FOOD & DRINK

Shandong = WW Pick.

By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. www.shandongportland.com

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

Shandong www.shandongportland.com

Fillmore Trattoria

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

SATURDAY, AUG. 26 Portland Taco Festival

There’s tequila, a chihuahua beauty contest, live lucha libre and a whole mess of tacos, from al pastor to barbacoa, Middle Eastern tacos and “desert tacos.” Consider it a Cinco de Mayo sorority party up at the horse track. Fun, but will you feel guilty tomorrow? Portland Meadows, 1001 N Schmeer Rd., portlandtacofestival.com. Noon-8 pm Saturday-Sunday. $12 for taco fest, $20 for Tequila expo. Through Sunday.

SUNDAY, AUG. 27 SE Wine Collective 5th Birthday

Southeast Wine Collective turns 5 this weekend, and alongside free birthday slices of pie this means a big-ass block party with happy-hour pricing and all the food and wine, plus OP Wurst dogs and live music from Mexican Gunfight. Southeast Wine Collective, 2425 SE 35th Place, 503-208-2061, sewinecollective.com.

4-8 pm. Free admission.

TUESDAY, AUG. 29 Pie Hard 2: Pie Harder

1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

(971) 386-5935

Pie Harder will be offering up some of the best deep-dish pies in town— with happy-hour beer and thick mini-slabs from Baby Doll, Ex Novo, East Glisan, Pizza Jerk, Ranch and Via Chicago, plus dessert pies to boot. Ecliptic Brewing, 825 N Cook St., 5-9 pm. $27. Tickets at bit.ly/pieharder.

1. Chin’s Kitchen

4132 NE Broadway St., 503-1811203, chinskitchenportland.com.

This 49-year-old standby now has seriously excellent Northeastern Chinesestyle hand-pulled noodles and dumplings. $$.

2. Jamaican Homestyle Cuisine 441 N. Killingsworth St., 503-289-1423.

At a little over a year old, smoker-fronted jerk shack Jamaican Homestyle is somehow the oldest Jamaican spot in town. It’s also the best. $-$$

3. Aviv

1125 SE Division St., 503-206-6280, avivpdx.com.

Amid a seeming vegan renaissance on Division and Hawthorne, Israeli spot Aviv stands out with thunderously good hummus served with hatch chiles or fiery zhoug. $$

4. Moonlight Mediterranean

232 SW Stark St., 503-2080019.

The main draw at this gyro cart is the killer chicken shawarma— fresh, well-seasoned and even better with hot and white sauces. $

5. Farmhouse Kitchen

3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-432-8115, farmhousepdx. com.

This Thai spot serves up dishes you can’t get better anywhere in town—including a monumentally good beef short-rib soup. $$-$$$.

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PREVIEW THOMAS TEAL

Highly recommended.

GREAT ONES: Great Notion makes the world’s best hazy IPAs.

The West Is Best About a month ago, Ezra Johnson- Greenough, a local beer blogger and microfest magnate, invited me and another WW writer over to his house to drink through a huge haul of Vermont beers. It was pod of whalez, bruh—nine of the most sought-after cans from Lawson’s Finest Liquids, the Alchemist and Lost Nation.

The beers were... good. Not great, but fine. After nearly two years of drinking pretty much every hazy Oregon-made IPA I can find, I was thoroughly unenthused. As weird as it sounds, the best hazy, lightly bitter New England-style IPAs now come from the Northwest.

No disrespect to the region that made hazy hip. The style— just 18 months ago people were arguing with me that it’s not a style, a position that quickly went the way of flat earth theory and phrenology—was arguably invented by the Alchemist. The only other arguable progenitor is classic British IPAs made with London III yeast.

But Oregon has the most concentrated collection of great brewers in this country, and once those brewers started focusing on the style, they mastered it.

Great Notion introduced the style here and won WW’s Beer of the Year honor for Juice Jr., which is still the standardbearer. And the brewery continues to crank out great new hazies. Super Ripe and Super Duper Ripe both impressed me on a recent visit. You can now find cloudy hoppy beers everywhere from the Ram to Wayfinder.

On the whole, our hazies are better than in the region that gave the style its name. I went to Boston last summer and drank everything Treehouse and Lord Hobo had around.

I went to New York a few weeks ago and got what they had at LIC Beer Project and Torst. I had super-fresh Other Half poured by the owners at a party thrown by Chuck Schumer in Washington, D.C. I got a little more at Roscoe’s in Montavilla last week, when Day One Distribution tapped 16 kegs of Other Half, blowing them in just a few hours. (Full disclosure: Other Half co-owner Matt Monahan is the cousin of WW staff writer Rachel Monahan).

Because of Great Notion’s great influence here, Oregon hazies tend to present the fruity hops in a better way while maintaining the soft mouthfeel and striking a balance of bitterness. Fort George 3-Way IPA, a grocery store beer, can hang with anything I’ve had from the Alchemist. Something Wicked at Breakside Slabtown is a striking example of citrus and squishy melon with enough bitterness to not feel flabby.

(Full disclosure: Breakside Slabtown brewer Will Jaquiss is the cousin of WW staff writer Nigel Jaquiss.)

This is all a long-winded way of saying I’ve very, very excited for Hazy Days, the cloudy hoppy festival Lardo’s Rick Gencarelli is running this weekend. There, you will find the finest collection of hazy IPAs yet assembled.

And that’s not hyperbole. MARTIN CIZMAR

Portland Now Has the Best New England IPAs. Discuss.

GO: The Hazy Days festival will tap 26 West-Coast hazy IPAs Friday, August 25, at Lardo, 1212 SE Hawthorne Blvd., lardopx.com. 5-10 pm. Free admission. Kids welcome.

La Tribuna Italiana, Portland’s onetime Italian-language newspaper. 

FEATURE

The Death of Venice mkorfhage@wweek.com

Where’s all the good Italian in Portland?

This is the question every New Yorker asks when they arrive here—every Chicagoan, every Bostonian or San Diegan, people from cities with a Little Italy that still matters.

But we have nowhere to send them. Portland has no neighborhood centered on Italian culture and food, and few Italian spots with traditions older than 30 years.

“It’s scattered,” says Mike Sciaraffo, who organizes the Festa Italiana, August 24-26, in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, celebrating Portland’s Italian culture and history. “I like Piazza Italia in the Pearl, there’s another one on Alberta called Enzo’s Caffe Italiano. Last night I ate at a food cart on Division Street called Artigiano. But they’re not clustered.”

Portlanders often will tell you it’s not our fault, that we’ve never had a real Italian population like those cities.

Except, of course, we did.

In the first half of the 1900s, the zone surrounding what’s now Portland State University might as well have been the Bronx. Between 1900 and 1910, the old South Portland’s Italian-born population swelled from 1,000 to 5,000 Italians—most of whom were born in the old country. There was even an Italian-language newspaper called the Tribuna Italiana. South Portland stretched out along the west side of the river from Mill Street to the Vista Ridge Tunnels.

“Little Italy flourished,” says Kerry-Lynne Demarinis Brown, head of the Amici D’Italia group devoted to Portland Italian life. “It was not just Little Italy, it was also the Jewish Quarter. It was Jewish and Italian side by side.” Near First Avenue and Sheridan Street there was a deli called Calisto and Halperin run together by Jewish and Italian owners.

The restaurant scene was booming. The Rome Cafe served “Ravioli Daily!” across from City Hall, just down Fourth Avenue from the Fracassos’ Prima Donna and Henry’s Pizza restaurants. Italian bakers the Alessios were partners in The French Bakery on 2nd Avenue, before starting their own bakery across the river.

Now only two true Italian monuments remain from those days: St. Michael the Archangel on Southwest 4th Avenue and the Caro Amico Italian cafe on Southwest Barbur Boulevard, a red-sauce Italian spot with a back-patio view of the Willamette that opened in 1949 and claims to be the first pizzeria in Portland. If that isn’t true, no restaurant survives to say different.

But Caro Amico was far enough at the southern edge of Little Italy to escape redevelopment. In Old South Portland proper, Brown says, “St. Michael’s is the only building still standing that maintains its original identity. The rest have changed hands.”

St. Michael’s was the center of Italian Portland, built in 1902 by a process that should be familiar to current Portlanders. It was crowdsourced, raising $15,000 for its construction in less than four months, from recent immigrants who made only $30 or $40 a month.

“It was always just known as La Chiesa—the church,” Brown says. “St. Michael’s became the center of Little Italy.

Immigrants coming in knew they could go there and find people to help them with their documents. Ninety percent of Italians had family baptized or married there.”

But the only surviving building in Little Italy was almost ruined by fire three years after it was built, in a blaze that destroyed the church’s wooden rectory in 1905 and almost killed its founding priest.

YOU CAN’T EAT HERE ANYMORE: The view from City Hall out onto Southwest 4th Avenue’s Rome Cafe, in 1950.

“Father Cestelli climbed up on the roof and started screaming that it was on fire,” says Brown. “One of the nuns woke up and heard him yelling. The fire department was across the street, and they crawled up and rescued Cestelli.”

Little Italy’s heyday in Portland was short-lived.

“Little Italy continued to flourish till they built the bridges that went east,” Brown says. The Hawthorne went up in 1910, and the Ross Island in 1926.

“It gave people an easy way to get across the river,” she says. “They made some money, and the second generation went east and found land. They started the truck farms that supplied restaurants around the city.”

Much of the Italian community dispersed across Southeast Portland, founding farms on what’s now Ladd’s Addition, and produce spots like Rinella and Corno’s—whose fruit cut-outs now adorn Sheridan Fruit—in the industrial warehouse district across the river.

CITY OF PORTLAND (OR) ARCHIVES, A2001-025.1231.

BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE

CITY OF PORTLAND (OR) ARCHIVES, A2005-001.396.

PORTLAND USED TO HAVE A THRIVING LITTLE ITALY. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

HOMES IN LITTLE ITALY, 1962

“WHEN I LOOK BACK AT IT, I THINK WE WERE LIVING IN A GHETTO” —DA RI O R AS CH I O

The most storied restaurants from that time, the Lido Restaurant and 1927-founded Monte Carlo, served authentic Italian food for decades on what’s now the Belmont Goat Blocks. The one-time produce-market building was razed by a fire in 2002, and became a field full of goats.

Sciaraffo says Little Italy’s death was part of a natural progression.

“My mother’s father was from Italy, both my dad’s parents. They came over to get a better life, like a lot of immigrants do,” says Sciaraffo. “They worked hard, wanted their kids to have a better life—and all the kids, once they went to school, they got out of the neighborhood.

The kids speak better English and off they go. Once the older folks disappeared, the neighborhood went with it.”

Portland’s old Little Italy became a place for the lowincome immigrants who stayed rooted next to St. Michael.

The neighborhood began to deteriorate.

“The downtown area was embarrassed by this Southwest Portland area with run-down 1800s houses with laundry lines hanging out front,” Brown says. “There was no garbage service, there were junk piles—where Duniway Park now is, there was a dump.”

While Little Italys are slowly dying all over the country, in Portland’s case it was murder. At the very least, it was assisted suicide. It took only four years to wipe Little Italy from the Portland map.

“They started what they called the urban renewal project. They did what cities do: They paid as little as possible to move them all out,” Brown says. “It started in 1958. By 1962, the area looked like the Hiroshima bomb had gone off. All of the buildings were gone.”

In large tracts of Jewish-Italian South Portland, almost every building was torn down. It was the pilot project of a 1955 mayor’s advisory committee who also recommended replacing acres of “blighted,” predominantly black neighborhoods along Martin Luther King Jr. and Albina with what’s now the Rose Quarter and Providence Hospital. A new agency was formed to steward the revitalization of the city: the Portland Development Commission.

About 1,500 people were displaced by the South Portland renewal project, and Portland’s old Italian culture survives in cultural associations like Amici d’Italia and the Italian Business Club. The Festa Italiana was begun, Sciaraffo says, to shore up the scattered Italian culture that still exists.

Sciaraffo says a lot of second-generation Italian families moved off into the suburbs, a story familiar to many immigrant communities. “The simplest answer,” he says, “is that they became Italian Americans.”

Brown has a different answer. “You can blame City Hall,” she says.

“For the elderly property owners, especially the Jewish and Italian families, the carrying out of the [urban renewal] project also meant the end of a neighborhood,” wrote the PDC’s Joy O’Brien in a 1971 paper on urban renewal. “True, the dissolution had begun long before urban renewal planning began, but ‘South Portland’ was still home—a familiar spot in a changing city and an unstable world.”

“When I look back at it, I think we were living in a ghetto,” Little-Italy-born Dario Raschio told the Catholic Sentinel in 2005, describing his childhood jumping off parked rail cars onto straw, dirt or hot industrial ash. “But we didn’t know it then. It was our place.”

GO: Festa Italiana will offer Italian food, music (including opera) and movies August 24-26 in Pioneer Courthouse.

Square, 701 SW 6th Ave., festa-italiana.org. 11 am-11 pm.

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MUSIC PROFILE

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

FA U L K N E R S H O R T

Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines.

Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com.

Fax: 243-1115.

FRIDAY, AUG. 25 MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst Kickoff Party: Guided By Voices, Bitch’n

[HIGH PROFILE LO-FI] Indie rock’s most prolific basement philosopher hasn’t needed to prove himself in ages, but that’s done nothing to stop Bob Pollard from cranking out brilliant lo-fi pop records at a clip that puts acts half his age to absolute shame. Now a handful of albums into the post-classic-lineup-reunion era of his legendary group Guided By Voices, Pollard’s still at his best when he’s pretending to be the Who. On his latest, this year’s How You Spell Heaven, GBV ditches the trademark layers of tape hiss in favor of trebly guitars and lyrics that make uncanny mentions of his signature rock kicks and endearingly boozy rockstar antics. PETE COTTELL. Dr. Martens Store, 2 NW 10th Ave., 503-552-9000.

4:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Milo, SB The Moor, Kenny Segal

[GIFTS FROM THE GOLDEN ERA] On his recent album Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!, Milwaukee rapper Milo solidifies his status as underground rap’s foremost fuser of the dusty jazz samples with the self-conscious backpack rap that came and went in the previous decade. Underscored by the contrast of confident rhyme-spitting and self-deprecating subject matter that’s fully aware

Lost Bayou Ramblers, Too Loose Cajun/Zydeco Band

[PROGRESSIVE CAJUN] Brothers Louis and Andre Michot, direct descendants of French Acadians expelled from Canada in the 18th century, started Lost Bayou Ramblers in 1999 as a Cajun music outfit spun off from their family’s band. But rather than stick to folk-museum repertoire, the Lafayette-based sextet pulled a Wilco, spicing their roots-musical menu with Creole, zydeco, punk, a dash of psych and even some electronica, courtesy of LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire producer Korey Richey. And is that a Hawaiian slack-key guitar on their

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of its nerdom, Milo is rightfully riding high on cosigns from like-minded forefathers like Busdriver and Open Mike Eagle. But it’s the young rapper’s ability to tackle obtuse subject matter with deft humanity and a slight sense of irony—as evidenced by the intermittent trap beats that punctuate Who Told You’s standout cut “Sorcerer”—that makes him one of the underground’s most promising stars at the moment.

PETE COTTELL. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 503-228-3669. 9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

FIVE SONGS GUARANTEED TO START A PIT AT MUSICFESTNW PRESENTS PROJECT PABST

A Week at the Beach

SHELLEY SHORT WENT TO THE OREGON COAST TO HANG OUT. SHE CAME BACK WITH A MASTERPIECE.

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FIDLAR

FIDLAR, “Cheap Beer”

It’s an ode to cheap beer, at the cheap-beer festival, with a chorus that goes, “I drink cheap beer/So what?/Fuck you.” If you don’t pour PBR over your head and push the nearest stranger, what are you even doing here?

2 White Reaper, “Sheila” While the Louisville band’s arena aspirations are applied with winking affect, they do know how to write the songs that make the whole world pogo, and this one’s got a sugar-sweet chorus that detonates like a bomb in a taffy factory.

3 PUP, “My Life Is Over and I Couldn’t Be Happier” As the title implies, it’s a breakup song, but no one involved sounds particularly upset about it—or at least, that’s how all the rollicking gang vocals and bro-hug-inducing guitars make it seem.

4 RVIVR, “The Tide” If there’s any band that can make a festival in a giant open field feel like a rent party in an Olympia basement, it’s RVIVR, whose new single is the freshest entry to their arsenal of larynx-shredding pop-punk rippers.

5 Die Antwoord, “Fatty Boom Boom” Don’t try to understand it. Just pound what’s left of your tallboy and let your body do the thinking for you. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst is at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 26-27. See projectpabst. com/portland for tickets and complete schedule. 21+.

Shelley Short performs well under pressure. Not only that, but making a record in almost no time at all is almost her default mode of operation. The native Portlander’s new album, Pacific City, is equal parts impromptu collaboration, destination album and, ultimately, a latent masterpiece. And it only took a week to make.

“I didn’t have an album written or anything,” she says, smiling almost constantly between sips from her cappuccino in Portland Roasting’s Cupping Room Café. “It was really just an opportunity to hang out.”

After the release of 2014’s Wake the Dreamers—a covers album conceived, recorded and mixed in only two days, which included contributions from several local musical bigwigs such as Corey Gray of Graves and Chris Funk and Nate Query of the Decemberists—Short eschewed the traditional obligations of a songwriter trying to push a new album out and instead spent most of her time and effort studying to earn a master’s degree in education. Working as a substitute teacher in tandem with studying became a demanding endeavor that pulled more and more time away from writing and performing.

“I was in school full-time all of 2015, like, full, full-time,” she says, eyes wide for emphasis. “I didn’t really have time to think about it.”

It was during this hectic period that the avantgarde composer and budding producer Peter Broderick picked up a copy of Wake the Dreamers from the shelves of North Mississippi record store Beacon Sound, where he was working. Intrigued by his discovery of another local, kindred musician, he extended an offer to Short to come out to Sparkle, his work-in-progress studio in the Oregon coastal town of Pacific City, to record something— anything she wanted, so long as he could produce.

Broderick’s eclectic resume includes deceptively sparse and moving ambient piano pieces and neo-classical folk, as well as a tenure in Efterklang,

the Danish indie-rock band who recruited the constantly on-the-go Broderick while he was traveling through Europe. Once the two convened to the coast, dormant ideas materialized. “He’s just one of those dudes,” Short says. “He plays drums, guitar, piano. He plays everything.”

Utilizing Broderick’s jack-of-all-instruments facility, Short committed to a week of recording the as-yet-unwritten album, harvesting from a mental backlog of ideas and imbuing them with the placid beauty of her environs.

The songs on the resulting album, which she titled Pacific City, almost sound like standards ripped from an unheard volume of the American Songbook. They’re the kind of bright, beguiling tunes that immediately strike you as familiar.

Album opener “Death” could be a campfire singalong passed down through word-of-mouth across generations and newly revived. Halfway between “Danny Boy” and “Sea of Love,” it ponders the inevitable to a lilting waltz lullaby.

Broderick sets Short’s voice in a mostly stark bricolage, surrounded by only melody or percussion. Piano chords pulse out a progression behind a somber lament on “Book Under a Tree” while a tambourine and bass drum eke out a subtle backbeat. “Muddy River” also uses a simplicity that somehow manages to sound enormous, much like Phil Elverum’s production of early Mirah. The actual utensils are lo-fi, but the end results boom.

“Wagoner’s Lad” even incorporates a rolling coastal breeze as a background to Short’s achingly beautiful a capella croon, conjuring the image of a jilted lover lamenting her lot in life on a 1930s boardwalk. It seems unbelievable that a record put to tape with such ease by its authors in 2014 could be delayed for release for so long. But Short is as nonchalant about its release as she was for its inception.

“I like when things happen organically,” she says. “I guess I was just waiting for the right time to put it out, and this is it.” She shrugs, her body language implying a nonchalance charmingly consistent with her agreeable attitude. “I got the opportunity, and so it’s coming out now.”

SEE IT: Shelley Short plays Polaris Hall, 835 N Killingsworth Ct., with Darren Hanlon, on Friday, Aug. 25. 7 pm. $10. 21+.

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MUSIC new album’s opening track, “Aloha Golden Meadow”? Along with Cajun waltzes and other trad-tinged tracks, Kalenda, their seventh release, includes still another influence—the word that refers to a Caribbean dance-inspired Louisiana rhythm. With performances in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Jack White’s recent PBS roots music documentary American Epic, tours with Arcade Fire and Violent Femmes and even a symphony orchestra collaboration, the band is busting out beyond Louisiana.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 8 pm. $14 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

Dent May

[PSYCH-POP] Dent May is an old soul, crooning about the merits of aging against downtempo, pianoheavy pop. May’s vocals wind up and down in toy-like fashion, making them center stage to a relatively newfound synth-driven electro-funk sound. It is almost certainly due to his move from Mississippi to Los Angeles, the city’s bright lights and countless characters imparting new depth and sunshine into his sound. May’s newest effort, Across The Multiverse, is his best, pairing his delightful deadpan with a bigger, bouncier, more dialedin sound. This set is part of Rev Hall’s Sunset Series, located on their remarkable Roof Deck. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503-288-3895. 7 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

The Wild Body, Monster Treasure, Candace, Squishies

[HARD ROCK] The Wild Body is a fairly new Portland trio specializing in fuzzy post-punk with an obvious rock‘n’roll backbone. The group’s 2016 self-titled EP is a fun and raucous helping of sound, made larger with some frequent leanings into psych and the explosiveness that comes with an in-form garage trio. It’s the kind of music that will, hopefully, follow the Know wherever it goes as the city continues to reinvent itself. Arrive early for the hypnotic lo-fi of Candace. MARK STOCK. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

Holy Grove, Hazzard’s Cure, Wild Hunt, Void Realm

[HEAVY ROCK] Few bands possess the lumbering swagger of Holy Grove. Over the past five years, this local quartet has made a name for itself on the international level based on its classic blues-based metal, a definitive self-titled album and a devastating live show. Soulful vocalist Andrea Vidal and her partner in low-end frequencies Gregg Emley took their time piecing together the right players. Things crystalized when guitarist Trent Jacobs came on board, but the Grove has been warming the bench for most of 2017 due to drummer troubles. This Friday is the debut of masterful new skinsman Eben Travis, and a thirst-

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Jidenna, Anik Khan, Mannywellz [SHARPED-DRESSED MAN] You might know Jidenna Mobisson as the best-dressed singer-rapper in the game. The New York-based musician came on the scene in 2015 with his Grammy-nominated single “Classic Man,” a song celebrating good manners and sartorial sophistication with such sincerity it catches you off guard. “Your needs get met by the street-elegant, old-fashioned man/Yeah, baby, I’m a classic man,” he sang while wearing a white suit jacket with an oversized marigold and burgundy lapel. While we’ve waited for a debut album, Jidenna appeared on HBO’s Insecure with fellow Stanford alum Issa Rae, teamed with fellow Wondaland Records artist Janelle Monae and had a chopped-and-screwed version of “Classic Man” soundtrack in a memorable scene in the Academy Award-winning Moonlight. When his debut album, The Chief, finally dropped in February, the wait turned out to be well worth it.

As dazzling sonically as its author’s wardrobe, the album does 180s between Nigerian highlife-inspired vocalizations, Sam Cooke-style ballads, sultry R&B and ’90s hip-hop, all of it cut with laser-sharp lyrics. He even reveals the secret to his stylishness: “Now they say, ’Jidenna why you dressing so classic?’/I don’t want my best-dressed day in a casket.” SOPHIA JUNE. Star Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 25. Sold out, 21+.

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[SCREAMING TREE] As the former frontman of a band that helped kickstart the grunge movement, Mark Lanegan is no slouch. The chimneyvoiced singer was not only the face of the underrated Screaming Trees, but worked with and influenced Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and many others during their formative years.

Presently, Lanegan is touring with his own band behind another strong solo effort, Gargoyle. Much of it was co-written with U.K. musician Rob Marshall, and the record is moody, contemporary alt-rock at its finest.

He may never recreate the masterpiece that was 1992’s Sweet Oblivion, but great artists don’t have time for replication. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 9 pm. $26.50 advance, $28 day of show. 21+.

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Open Signal presents Bring That Beat Back

[BLOCK ROCKIN’ BEATS] Newly opened media arts center Open Signal is celebrating the history of Northeast Portland’s Eliot neighborhood with a party set to take up the whole block surrounding its TV studio. In addition to a photo exhibit, a live art installation from Pitchforkapproved avant-garde noisemaker (and Eliot resident) EMA and the requisite beer garden, there will also be live performances from freakrockers Kulululu, rap vets Destro and Grayskul and R&B singer Saeeda Wright, all of whom have connections to the area. NE Graham Street between Martin Luther King Blvd. and 7th St. 2 pm. Free. See opensignal.org for complete schedule.

Wimps, Máscaras, Blesst Chest

[PSYCH-PUNK] There isn’t a considerable amount of “wimpiness” in punk rock. The genre is based in raw, uninhibited brashness that heightens its appeal, which is especially true for Seattle trio Wimps. In no way do they let their moniker define them, as their fun, party-type personalities enliven their stage presence and make the audience want to engage with their music and performances.

Fans haven’t seen any new Wimps material since 2015’s Suitcase, with only a live recording their sessions on XRAY.fm to tide everyone over in between. But a set full of all their old, in-your-face tracks is still sure to be most enjoyable. CERVANTE POPE. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503473-8729. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

SUNDAY, AUG. 27 Boreen, Surfer Rosie, Two Moons

[BEDROOM ROCK] Earlier this year, it seemed like the Portland bedroom-pop group Boreen blew up out of nowhere. A Good Cheer Records supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Turtlenecked and Cool American, were instant favorites after their second album, Friends, came out in March. Then, they were gone. Just before their last show in June, Boreen said they were taking brief hiatus, having just lost longterm member Garrett Linck to a job relocation. Despite Linck’s departure, Boreen declared they’d be working on some new tunes during that brief break. They may or may not be sharing some of that fresh material during this set but either way, we’re just happy they’re back. CERVANTE POPE. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865. 9 pm. $7. 21+..

Swans, Okkyung Lee

[A BRUTAL GOODBYE] Since staging a comeback in 2010 that was punctuated by 2014’s critically adored The Seer, the hype of Swans’ glorious return has gradually segued into great expectations for Michael Gira’s brutal mix of art-rock, noise and Southern gothic. It makes sense that Gira chose the subdued decimation of last year’s The Glowing Man as the bookend for Swans’ current iteration, but the freshly remastered re-release of their previous incarnation’s no-wave masterpiece, 1995’s The Great Annihilator, is a much more fitting source of material to be played onstage at earsplitting volumes before Gira rides off into sunset yet again. PETE COTTELL. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. 21+.

Dead Cross, Secret Chiefs 3

[CONCEPTUAL HARDCORE] There’s something really heartening about veteran musicians with successful careers assembling a project that’s only for them and whoever happens to dig it. Classic Slayer

DATES HERE drummer Dave Lombardo formed Dead Cross with Justin Pearson of the Locust in 2015, and when things didn’t work out with their vocalist, Mike Patton signed on, fresh from the Faith No More reunion tour. Together with Retox guitarist Mike Crain, these guys turn on the firehose of hardcore riffs, spewing out spirited, vitriolic thrash anthems that sometimes sidestep down secret passages of avant-garde strangeness. They also have the luxury (and the cojones) to self-release on their own labels. It’s been said that Dead Cross inhabits the middle ground between Slayer and Fantômas. Based on the album, there’s little room to argue. NATHAN CARSON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, AUG. 29 AJJ

[PUNKY FREAK-FOLK] Better known in folk-punk circles as Andrew Jackson Jihad, or simply the Jihad, AJJ sets harsh, depressive lyrics (“There’s a person in your head waiting to fucking strangle you”) against surprisingly sticky melodies and happy-clappy percussion. Just like fellow anti-punkers Paul Baribeau and Kimya Dawson, AJJ’s thing feels pretty outdated now, but most millennials will remember a flicker of a phase upon hearing the Juno soundtrack and thinking, “This is the only honest music I’ve ever heard.” AJJ’s new EP, called Back in the Jazz Coffin, lays an early Grateful Deadish country tint over their defiantly anyone-could-play-this acoustic guitar progressions, and the result is the most mature thing a band like this could accomplish. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Dennis Bradford’s Tribute to Robert “Bobby” Bradford

[JAZZ FAM] Portland-bred smoothjazz drummer Dennis Bradford made a name for himself as a member of Jeff Lorber’s group in the 1980s—a band that also featured a young Kenny G on sax—but it’s actually his own family name that will take center stage tonight. The son of acclaimed trumpeter Robert “Bobby” Bradford will honor his father, who once performed with heavyweights like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Quincy Jones, with a special selection of songs spanning the family’s decades-long professional history in music, highlighting the family’s own sound with special arrangements of jazz favorites. PARKER HALL. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 503-228-7605. 9 pm Friday, Aug. 25. $10. 21+.

The Legacy of Obo Addy

[MUSICAL MEMORIAL] Maybe the single-most-important influence on Portland’s global music scene was Obo Addy. In his three-plus decades in Portland, the Ghana-born composer, percussionist and bandleader not only exposed thousands of listeners to the intricate, exhilarating rhythms and structures of Ghanaian drumming via performances with his bands Kukrudu and Okropong, he also taught thousands more, including classes at Lewis and Clark College. His Homowo African Arts & Cultures organization provided still more cultural education, including producing a festival of African music and art. Homowo, now known as the Obo Addy Legacy Project, estimates that more than a million people have been touched by Addy’s work.

As Portland changes so rapidly, it’s important to remember the legacy of culture-shaping artists like Addy, who died in 2012, and this edition of the Oregon Historical Society’s free History Pub examines his impact on the Pacific Northwest, along with a performance by Okropong ensemble.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-3983. 7 pm Monday, Aug. 28. Free. All ages.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Secret Drum Band DYNAMICS

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[DRUM TONES] In terms of sheer visceral energy, there’s almost nothing as powerful as five drummers in a room full of things they can bang on. This simple truth has fueled percussionist (and entomologist) L i sa S c h o n b e r g ’s Secret Drum Band to steadily increasing acclaim since its inception in Olympia, Wash., 11 years ago. On the band’s debut album, Dynamics, Schonberg employs a who’s who of Northwest percussion Gods, including !!!’s Allan Wilson, Unwound’s Sara Lund and her former Explode Into Colors bandmate Heather Treadway, alongside numerous guest stars and noisemakers, each of whom offers unique sonic shading. Eight location-influenced compositions, like album opener “Kipukapuaulu,” allude to Schonberg’s entomology work—which helped Hawaii’s native Hylaeus bees achieve endangered species status—with swirling volcanic layers of rhythm topped by feedback and synthesizers to create a vivid sense of musical place. Other songs, like “Jazz (Timber Sale),” feel more dystopian, a rollicking march with big metallic tones that could easily see placement in the next Mad Max movie. Though it varies in scope and instrumentation, Dynamics is a cohesive work of experimental music that grabs your attention instead of asking for it—exactly the kind of stress ball the world needs in these troubling times. PARKER HALL. SEE IT: Secret Drum Band plays White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., with Notel, on Thursday, Aug. 24. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

Blossom & HOT16 TEASE

(Liquid Beat)

[NEO SOUL R E V I VA L ] Somewhere between E r y k a h B a d u’s earthy charm and Lianne La Havas’ cosmopolitan cool lies Blossom, a singer whose effortless voice impresses from its first exhale.

Her partner-incrime for this 24-minute minia l b u m i s H O T 1 6, a producer whose astral remixes of R&B and soul classics make him a prime candidate to helm the type of retro futurism Tease goes for— think the late ’90s Soulquarians scene by way of the hip L.A. Soulection collective. Blossom’s mindset is very Zen throughout, staying “cool, calm, collected” and unworried by typical earthly drama (“If the stars align then you’ll be mine”), mostly to the benefit of a chill vibe but sometimes to the detriment of pulse-quickening intrigue. When the writing gets lazy or cliché-driven, and the beats become more retrospective replicas than skillful pastiches, Tease feels like it isn’t living up to its creators’ respective talents. But when the pair are on, as they are for highlight “SuperWoman,” they find a propulsive pocket of groove and exploit it like experts. PATRICK LYONS. SEE IT: Blossom plays Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., with Wet Dream, on Sunday, Aug. 27. 8:30 pm. Free. 21+.

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Doyle Bramhall II is one of the most distinctive vocalists, guitarists, composers and producers in contemporary music. Indeed, none other than Eric Clapton, with whom Bramhall has worked with for more than a decade, lauds him as one of the most gifted guitarists he has ever encountered.

JODY CARROLL MCMURRIAN SATURDAY, AUGUST 26TH AT 5PM Jody Carroll’s recordings & performances are a revelation as he effortlessly creates modern interpretations of old Blues masters, his own amazing songs and stories or improvisational musical journeys.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. AUG. 23 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway, Idina Menzel

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Bibster, Chancellor K Hoodrich, Krazy K, What is S.S.B., Kid Moe, Grinchmobb, Illusionz

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St, Diamond Head (U.K.), Danava, Disenchanter

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Blue Wednesday Jam with Robbie Laws

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Kickbacks, Black Ferns

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St. Sparkle Princess Forever, Turnback Boy, Drunken Palms

Mister Theater

1847 East Burnside St., Paul’s Late Night Jam

Pop Tavern

825 N Killingsworth St. The Social Stomach, Divorcer, Negative Option

Sunlight Supply Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Rd, Ridgefield, Wash.

OneRepublic

The Barberry

645 NE 3rd St., McMinnville Ben Rice

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd, Gabi, Chain, Bitter Buddha, Boreen

THU. AUG. 24 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Arthur C. Lee, Ezza Rose

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Weedeater, Telekinetic Yeti, Urchin, Tar Pit

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Mary Flower & Mark Shark

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Shubzilla x Bill Beats, C0splay of Death*Star

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Get Loud Records presents Party Time

Gladstone Street Pub 3737 SE Gladstone St. Jawbone Flats

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Maurice and the Stiff Sisters

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Y La Bamba

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Allie X

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Step Dads, Meat Creature, The Stoney Moaners

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Open Mic

The Know

The Secret Society

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Project Pabst Cooldown: Myke Bogan, Blossom, Foreign Talks

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Doug & Dee’s Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies, Stumptown Swing

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

The Tonic Lounge

White Owl Social Club

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Coco Columbia

The Analog Cafe

The Ranger Station

Justa Pasta

Mississippi Studios

Rontoms

1422 SW 11th Ave Chely Wright’s Story and Song

1320 Main St., Oregon City Idle Poets

2 SW Naito Pkwy, MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst: Beck, Nas, Spoon and more

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Afro-Disiac Fest

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St., Dead Cross, Secret Chiefs 3

1305 SE 8th Ave. Secret Drum Band, Notel

MON. AUG. 28 Ash Street Saloon

FRI. AUG. 25 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Los Tigres del Norte

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Desolate, Sabateur, Valiant Bastards, Entoxikutioner, Tiffany Greysen

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Ave. Rich Layton & The Troublemakers

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. San Cisco

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Huey Lewis And The News

NICE TO KNOW YOU: Hot-take journalists have concluded that nu-metal is long overdue for a revival similar to those of emo or ’80s soft-rock. But the setlist SoCal rap-rockers Incubus unloaded on a half-empty Sunlight Supply Amphitheater on August 18 made very few concessions to a nascent resurgence tailor-made for whipping white dudes with dreads and Monster Energy Drink addictions into a frenzy. Aside from a light dusting of key tracks from their early days—highlighting their rapid transition from heavy-hitting breakthrough stars alongside Limp Bizkit and Korn to what now resembles crunchy, mid-tempo yoga metal—the huge response garnered by shwillier newish songs like “If Not Now, When?” and “Pantomime” indicated that giving up the grinding power chords and frantic turntable heroics that made 1997’s S.C.I.E.N.C.E. pop are all but forgotten. It was a bummer for geezers like myself who dearly miss the mosh pits of the good old days. But the very fact that Incubus has outlasted their Yankee-hat and Adidas-donning brethren in terms of energy and ostensible good taste means they’re doing just fine in the twilight of their career. As such, the consistent choice of closing the set with “Aqueous Transmission,” a terminally chill lazy-river ride of a cut from Morning View, served as a perfect capstone to a set that maintained an admirable amount of energy and diversity throughout. Rather than get the fans soused on the macho energy that propelled them to stardom in the first place, perhaps the best place to direct that energy is inward. Namaste, by good bros. PETE COTTELL.

Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave. Dennis Bradford’s Tribute to Robert “Bobby” Bradford

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Milo, SB The Moor, Kenny Segal

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Lost Bayou Ramblers, Too Loose Cajun/Zydeco Band

Mother Foucault’s 523 SE Morrison St Quiver, Wtrbel

Polaris Hall

635 N Killingsworth Ct. Shelley Short, Darren Hanlon

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Dent May

Rosebud Cafe

50316 Columbia River Hwy, Scappoose Phorehead, Dave Reisch & Turtle Vandenar

Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Bakersfield Rejects

225 SW Ash St The Wild War, The Macks, Quiet Oaks

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Ben Rice

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Showtunes Singalong

Director Park

815 SW Park Avenue, Monday Soundscapes featuring Trio Subtonic

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave The Legacy of Obo Addy

Lake Theater and Cafe 106 N. State St., Lake Oswego Nick Schnebelen Band (Of Trampled Under Foot)

The Blue Room Bar 8145 SE 82nd Ave, The Boondock Boys

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St. Future Historians, Kristen Marlo

8105 SE 7th Ave. Dan & Fran

600 E Burnside St Blossom, Wet Dream

The Old Church

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

David Cook

Muddy Rudder Public House

1300 SE Stark St #110 Swans, Okkyung Lee

3728 NE Sandy Blvd, ThirstyCity: Benedek; Gaasp, Decomp, Dödläge

Hawthorne Theatre

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Cardioid

Revolution Hall

The Know

Trails End Saloon

1336 NW 19th Avenue, Anson Wright Duo

Mississippi Studios

2845 SE Stark St. JoyTribe + Mr. Musu

2393 NE Fremont Street Social Music with Alan Jones

Fremont Theater

LAST WEEK LIVE

The Goodfoot

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Alto!, The Vardaman Ensemble, Paper Gates, Institute for Creative Dying

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= WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

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

Email: music@wweek.com.

SouthFork

4605 NE Fremont Hot Club of Hawthorne

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave., Jidenna, Anik Khan, Mannywellz

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Fernando with Malachi Graham

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., The Wild Body, Monster Treasure, Candace, Squishies

The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Haley Johnsen, Domestics

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

The Secret Society

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St., Mark Lanegan Band, Duke Garwood, Lyenn

2393 NE Fremont St. Carrie Elkin, Danny Schmidt

Hawthorne Theatre

SAT. AUG. 26 Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St. Porch Cat, Cuatl, Kids’ Table, Dogtooth & Nail

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

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Avenue, Rose City Rattlers

Community Music Center

3350 SE Francis Street, Chamber Music Concert

Doug Fir Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Slimkid3 and Tony Ozier’s Monkey Business; Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

830 E Burnside St. The AM

The Tonic Lounge

Esther Short Park

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Holy Grove, Hazzard’s Cure, Wild Hunt, Void Realm

Fremont Theater

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Kris Dee Lane 415 W 6th St, Vancouver, Wash.

Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Arsonists Get All The Girls

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave. Sabroso

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Opera on the Honors Bar

KennedyViolins

508 SE 117th Ave., Vancouver, Wash.

Dan Levenson

Maryhill Winery

9774 WA-14, Goldendale, Wash.

ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jason Boland & the Stragglers

Open Signal

2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Bring That Beat Back Block Party

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110

Casey Neill & The Norway Rats

St. Ignatius School

3330 SE 43rd Ave. A Night with the Platter’s Concert

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., American Me; First Time in Color, Grey Fiction, Small Field, Salvo Idly

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St RLLRBLL, Galaxy Research, Arteries; Sunbathe and Sad Horse

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

2 SW Naito Pkwy, MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst: Iggy Pop, Father John Misty, Die Antwoord and more

Tony Starlight Showroom

White Owl Social Club

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson

The Lovecraft Bar

Bunk Bar

The O’Neil Public House

6000 NE Glisan St. Cedro Willie; Wes Youssi and the County Champs

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Ukeladies; Farnell Newton presents Jill Scott versus Erykah Badu Tribute

TUES. AUG. 29 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Five For Fighting With String Quartet

The Know

421 SE Grand Ave, Cult of the Volt

116 NE Russell St Monday Swing featuring The Cherry Blossom Orchestra

1125 SE Madison St, Tony’s Neil Diamond Experience: Hot August Night 1305 SE 8th Ave East Discogs present Crate Diggers Record Fair and After Party

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Wimps, Máscaras, Blesst Chest

The Secret Society

SUN. AUG. 27 1028 SE Water Ave. Boreen, Surfer Rosie, Two Moons

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Pickin’ On Sundays: Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

Esther Short Park

415 W 6th St, Vancouver, Wash.

Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

Ash Street Saloon

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Radio Moscow

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 2nd Annual OK Chorale Rooftop Campfire Singalong!

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave., AJJ

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Throbs, The Boo Jays, Sea Moss, Body Academics

The Ranger Station

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Bluegrass Tuesday

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MUSIC COURTESY OF DJ SOLO

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

DJ Solo

Years DJing: Started DJing in 2011, and my first club gig was at Afrique Bistro on NE MLK and Russell.

Genre: Afrobeat, dancehall, reggae, hip-hop, soca, reggaeton.

Where you can catch me regularly: Every first Saturday at Local Lounge; every third and last Saturday at Vertical Room; every Wednesday at the Barrel Room for World Beat Wednesdays. I also do the Way Up monthly at Holocene, Craziest gig: Crazy in a good way was when I first DJ’d at Holocene. That was my breakthrough moment. It was the best feeling ever.

My go-to records: I cannot play my set without playing any Mr. Eazi songs, especially “In the Morning” featuring Big Lean. Also, Wande Coal’s “Iskaba.”

Don’t ever ask me to play…: Shatta Wale. His dancehall music style to me is just a bunch of noisemaking, and I personally think as an artist he can carry himself better. It will be good for him to stay with the “hiplife” genre.

NEXT GIG: DJ Solo spins at Vertical Room, 631 NE Grand Ave., on Saturday, Aug. 26.

FRI, AUG. 25 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, Etc!Etc! & Jayceeoh

Black Book

WED, AUG. 23

Black Book

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

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: 80s Movie Hits

Holocene

Dig A Pony

Dig A Pony

Killingsworth Dynasty

Fifth Avenue Lounge

1001 SE Morrison St., Noche Libre: Dance Party for Latin Sounds 832 N Killingsworth St Musique Plastique

The Embers Avenue

736 SE Grand Ave., Papi Fimbres (afro punk, cumbia) 125 NW 5th Ave. JUICE! drum and bass presents Doc Scott

100 NW Broadway, Knochen Tanz (ebm, industrial)

Jade Club

The Lovecraft Bar

Killingsworth Dynasty

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

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

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

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave., Dubblife

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Crystal Ballroom

Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech Street Questionable Decisions

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THU, AUG. 24

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

315 SE 3rd Ave, Moon Boots 832 N Killingsworth St Zero Wave Presents

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Benjamin (international disco, modern dad)

The Lovecraft Bar

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

736 SE Grand Ave., Jimbo (rap, funk, electro)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Nate C. (rock, metal)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., Snap! 90s Dance Party

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Twerk

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd., Rock & Rule w/ Sean from Pork Magazine (hard & heavy rock)

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Monkeytek & Friends (records from the Jamaican regions of outer space)

Where to drink this week.

1. Elvis Room

S O F I E M U R R AY

BAR REVIEW

203 SE Grand Ave., 503-235-5690.

It’s been a long time coming, but Elvis Room is in the building. The former East End is two stories comprising ersatz Graceland chic upstairs, and dim-basement ’70s lounge down below. It’s a beautiful, beautiful bar.

2. Les Caves

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

Les Caves is a dark, denlike winery bar in a literal underground cave—with some of the most adventurous and rarest wines from all over the world— often at surprising discounts on “off” years less valued by collectors.

3. Cat’s Paw Saloon

3565 SE Division St., 503-719-5189.

Cat’s Paw is a pro-skaterowned, slightly punky refuge on bougie Division Street—splitting the difference among $9 lavender cocktails, $2 happy-hour Rainiers and a decent mess of craft brews.

4. Level Beer

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

Wander to Level’s far-east barn brewery for a fine Laurelwood ESB collaboration, or a beautifully complex pepper-and-mint beer made in partnership with Culmination Brewing.

5. 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.

Quarterworld

LONDON UNDERGROUND: Jazz in Portland did not die with Jimmy Mak’s. The closure of the long-standing Pearl District club at the dawn of this year—and the passing of its owner and namesake a day later—served a hard blow to a music culture already on the ropes. The fallout has been the decentralization of the jazz scene, casting it out to less-visible corners of the city. When owners Frank Faillace and Manish Patel bought the century-old Rialto Poolroom and announced their intention to convert the downstairs space into a jazz club, they made no bones about trying to give the music a prominent new home downtown, taking in a few Jimmy Mak’s regulars while also talking about creating a “broader access point” by featuring younger musicians as well. A bar in the basement of another bar might not be ideal when it comes to accessibility, but the Jack London Revue (529 SW 4th Ave., jacklondonrevue.com) does feel like the sort of place where jazz was meant to be seen.

Small and low-ceilinged, with red-velvet drapery and a knee-high stage, it’s like a diorama version of Jimmy Mak’s. The vibe is classy, but still dressed down enough to fit the crusty billiard hall you walk through to get there. Faillace and Patel replaced the carpeting from the room’s days as a poetry lounge with hardwood, lit it with candles and Christmas lights, and installed vinyl booths in the back near the bar. Otherwise, there’s nothing to distract from whatever is happening on the stage. On a recent Tuesday night, that was trumpeter Farnell Newton and his tight three-piece band, who played a slow, funky arrangement of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” for a light but appreciative audience. Seems there might be hope for jazz in this town yet—provided you can find it. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom

The Lovecraft Bar

Ground Kontrol

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down w/ Egyptian Lover

Eastburn

Whiskey Bar

The Lovecraft Bar

The Goodfoot

Ground Kontrol

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd DJ Provoke (italo, electro)

Spare Room

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

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Club Kai Kai (queer & drag)

The Paris Theatre

6 SW 3rd Ave, Super Square (edm)

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St DIE DJs (big beat, darkwave)

SAT, AUG. 26 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave, SNBRN

Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech Street Beech Slap! with DDDJJJ666 & Magnolia Bouvier

Black Book

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

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St, Blowpony

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: New Wave Edition 1800 E Burnside St, Soulsa! (merengue, salsa) 511 NW Couch St. DJ ROCKIT – The Excellence of Traxicution

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St., Main Squeeze Dance Party (house, disco, techno)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty a Go-Go! 2nd Anniversary Party w/ DJ Drew Groove

421 SE Grand Ave, Electronomicon (goth, darkwave)

31 NW 1st Ave, The Next Best Thing 001 Ft. Ghost Channels

SUN, AUG. 27 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Andy Maximum

Black Book

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Get On Up (P-Funk Remixed and Re-Imagined)

Kelly’s Olympian

The Embers Avenue

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

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., ANDAZ Bhangra Bollywood Dance Party

736 SE Grand Ave., OS Battles (new wave, italo)

Dig A Pony

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Lamar Leroy (jams of all types)

The Analog Cafe

TUE, AUG. 29 Dig A Pony

426 SW Washington St, Party Damage: DJ Kitty McKlaine

Moloko

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd ElecTRON (80’s)

421 SE Grand Ave, Black Mass (goth, darkwave)

20 NW 3rd Ave, Flux (rap, r&b, club) 736 SE Grand Ave., Do Right Sunday (throwback rap, electro)

Quarterworld

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

Star Theater

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick (new wave, synth, hunkwave)

MON, AUG. 28 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave., OOPS (80s synth pop)

100 NW Broadway, Recycle (dark dance)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave, BONES w/ DJ Aurora (goth, wave)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Toxic Tuesdays (goth, postpunk, spooky)

Tube

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave, GANZ w/ Octabän, Đår, R&R

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PERFORMANCE = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

BOOKS = WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

REVIEW MEG NANNA

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

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

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

Think your commute sucks? Try being a trucker. That’s exactly what Murphy did after dropping out of college 30 years ago. Since then, he’s been hauling belongings over a million miles across the country.

His new memoir The Long Haul celebrates the mythic American Road Trip through the aged eyes of a worker you might too easily take for granted. Manual labor never seemed so poignant. Murphy will read excerpts from his book Wednesday night. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy., 503-246-0053.

7 pm. Free.

OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Miss Ethnic Non-Specific

Workshopped at this year’s Fertile Ground festival, Miss Ethnic NonSpecific is now getting its fully staged premiere. Written and performed by Kristina Haddad, who’s done character work on Conan and was in the Adam Sandler movie Don’t Mess with the Zohan, the show will deal with the Portland actress’s experiences of trying to find a personal identity in an industry that asks you to conform. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 832 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree.com/on-stage-now. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, 7:30 pm Sunday, August 25-September 3. $20.

James Forman, Jr. with Mitchell S. Jackson

ALSO PLAYING Lungs

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. The environmental issue is at the forefront of the play, but the deeper and more interesting issues lie within its heart. R MITCHELL MILLER. CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, through August 26. $25-$45.

Cirque du Soleil is coming to Portland, and for a very long time. For over a month and on basically every day of the week, the company will perform its new steampunk-inspired show Kurios at the Expo Center. Portland Expo Center, 2060 North Marine Dr., expocenter.org/events/cirque-dusoleil-presents-kurios. 8 pm TuesdaySaturday, 4:30 pm Saturday, 1:30 pm and 5 pm Sunday, August 24-Oct 8. $29-$280.

COMEDY Hot August Night

Portland improv groups and standup comedians are uniting for an auspicious occasion: the 45th anniversary of Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night.

There’ll be performances by standup comedian Kirsten Kuppenbender, the recently formed sketch comedy duo D&D and Shelley McLendon, who, along with collaborator Jed Arkley, has created lovingly ridiculous improv tributes to bands like Heart and Boston.

Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., sirentheater.com. 8 pm Friday, August 25. $10-15.

Cat Patrol

Back in June, Alissa Jessup, Brooke Totman and Chris Caniglia opened the Ape theater in the basement of the Alberta Abbey. Cat Patrol is their first long-form comedy show. Directed by Caniglia and written and performed by Alissa Jessup and Brooke Totman, the sketches in the show will cover stuff like Darth Vader and creepy twins. The Ape, 126 NE Alberta St., catpatrols. com. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, August 25-Sept 16.

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WRAPPED UP: Josh Weinstein and Beth Thompson.

Killing Me Softly TENDER NAPALM IS A VIOLENT, POETIC LOVE STORY.

BY R M I TCH E LL M I LLER

Cirque du Soleil: Kurios

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 Finn Murphy

THEATER

DANCE

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. Fax: 243-1115.

In the beginning of Tender Napalm, a character simply named Man launches into a monologue about how and why he’d like to push a bullet into Woman’s mouth. “You’re in a fucking poetic mood,” Woman responds.

Tender Napalm doesn’t let up from there.

Philip Ridley’s 2011 script depicts a relationship between Man (Josh Weinstein) and Woman (Beth Thompson), the play’s only two characters. The script unravels like a stream-of-consciousness, free-verse poem exchanged by Man and Woman, whether they’re contradicting or threatening each other, or delivering monologues that describe spectacular scenes.

Director Jennifer Rowe’s production at the Shoebox Theater is sometimes surreal, frequently whimsical, explicitly sexual, weird and funny. When the play opens, our two characters are standing on either side of the narrow stage.

There’s a simmering energy between the two. The stage is illuminated by dull, orange light—it could be 3 am in an alley outside a bar or in a bedroom or motel room.

It can be frustrating to try to make sense of what’s going on at the outset of Tender Napalm. It’s a highly abstract play with a timeline that jumps around, and for a while, it’s unclear exactly where the script is going. But the poetic, bizarre dialogue and magnetic performances make it an entertaining ride. He would like to shove a hand grenade (“manmade fist of metal, gunpowder egg, nestled dynamite”) up her pussy. She, in turn, would like

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to shove one up his ass. In one long monologue, he battles a sea serpent, gets swallowed by the serpent, then climbs its spine to stab it in the heart.

She reveals that she’s descended from Neptune and that the vicious sea serpent he just slew was her great, great, great, great aunt.

The joy of Tender Napalm is seeing Weinstein and Thompson perform these monologues, piecing together their personal tragedy. Eventually, it does all come together. After winding through fantastic directions, the end of Tender Napalm pulls you back far enough to see everything in vivid, impressionistic detail.

Still, it seems strange that Ridley would title the play Tender Napalm. Napalm entered the psyches of many Americans through the context of the Vietnam War. It’s a weapon with nightmarish and unique characteristics—when deployed, it casts a wide and clumsy radius, burns a hellish 2,000 degrees and has a jelly-like consistency that clings to human flesh especially well.

The play is full of references to different weapons Man and Woman would like to use to inflict violence on the other, but napalm is never one of them. Neither are any of the descriptions of violence described in a particularly violently manner, if that makes sense. They’re described tenderly, or romantically, or gleefully. If you could quantify the magnitude of napalm’s violence and replace it with tenderness, you might have something like this.

SEE IT: Tender Napalm is at Shoebox Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave., bethjthompson.com. 8 pm Wednesday-Saturday, through September 2. $20.

The son of a prominent civil rights leader, Forman, Jr. touches on the issue of black incarceration and crime in his new book, Locking Up Our Own. Most importantly, he attempts to “demolish [the] lie” that the African-Americans only care about crime if its committed by the police. He’s a former public defender, so you can bet he has the experience that makes his perspective worth a read. Forman will be joined by award-winning, Portlandraised author Mitchell S. Jackson for a conversation about the book.

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

7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 My Pretty Vampire

Wanna REALLY piss off your conservative family? Try picking up a copy of Brooklyn-based cartoonist Katie Skelly’s new graphic novel My Pretty Vampire, which combines feminism, vampires and sexiness into one right-wing-triggering package. It follows a newly transformed vampire as she dreams of escaping her home and experiencing all the world has to offer. Problem is, the world’s trying to hunt her down. Bloodsucking has never been this hip. Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St., 503241-0227, floatingworldcomics.com.

6 pm. Free.

Tal M. Klein

Global warming’s a bit of a problem, but it turns out our solution has been right in front of us this entire time. All we need to do is genetically engineer mosquitoes to eat up carbon fumes instead of blood!

That’s just one of the many futuristic tidbits in Klein’s new sci-fi thriller The Punch Escrow, which follows a dude named Joel who’s accidentally cloned while teleporting. Happens to the best of us, right? Expect shadowy organizations and plenty of commentary on artificial intelligence and the like. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 503-228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

MONDAY, AUGUST 28 Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

Anne Helen Petersen’s new book is all about women being unruly. At her book event, the former Buzzfeed columnist and gossip expert will address how all sorts of celebrities are “acting out” and pushing the societal boundary of womanhood— and how people just love to love and hate them for it. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, 503-228-4651.

7 pm. Free.

REVIEW

TALK:

5am 7am – 2pm

MUSIC:

2pm – 5am

Lisa Alber,

PATH INTO DARKNESS Sure, there’s a murder. There’s always a murder in books like this, with a moody moss-green cover and “County Clare Mystery” blocked out in tasteful type across the front. In the ancient Irish pit-stop of Lisfenora, famous for its matchmaking festival, old pub-drunk Elder Joe has had his belly fitted with six seeping holes, his blood “cheery” in its crimson and the material of his shirt sagging “over his flaccid chest and stomach.” It’s a gothic grotesque, the horror less in the act than in the ruined human body itself.

In Portland author Lisa Alber’s Path Into Darkness (Midnight Ink, 384 pages, $15.99)—the third in the County Clare series–the murder is just the MacGuffin, a hedge mower clearing the underbrush to look at the gross stuff underneath.

Alber’s book is the sort of dark mystery currently popular on the BBC, a pensive character study of isolated small towners who always have too much to hide. As Albers herself writes in the voice of Detective Danny Ahern, “Crime tended to occur because of or within people’s hidden worlds. Half the battle of investigating crimes was cracking the mirrors that reflected back people’s polite facades.”

This is also much of the work of the book. Ahern’s wife lies in a coma as he considers new romance.

Itinerant Californian Merrit Chase has found herself rooted in Lisfenora with her onceestranged father, pressured to take up his mantle of town matchmmaker. Elder Joe had been keeping even elder-er boarders who’ve half lost their minds—and possibly half their bank accounts to Elder Joe. And what’s up with Zoe? Is she a witch or what? Seems like she’s way too into her dad, and he’s… bothered, somehow.

But while at times the book is home to insight and acute descriptions of physical detail—garden implements, the quality of light or the musky chemical smell of paint—the sea of characters and narrators clogs the book with explanation.

Alber seems all too aware of her need to delineate the book’s broad tangle of plot with plainly expository dialogue, whether delivering backstory (“Now I’ve lived here for eighteen months.

Eighteen months. I can’t believe it.”), or tutorials in Irish slang (“Narky... For ‘grouchy.’ As in he’s a right narky old bastard.”)

But the plot is driven mostly by a nest of surprising revelations and hidden, darker identities—with even the most guileless, if “cracked,” of characters prone to sudden and unlikely violence. Every character’s motivations seem utterly different after one more turn of the screw. And, it would seem, there is always one more turn of the screw. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

RADIO IS YOURS

GO: Lisa Albers reads alongside local mystery writers Susan Spann, and Kerry Schafer at Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy., 7834 SW Capitol Hwy., 503-246-0053, annieblooms.com. Thursday, August 24. 7 pm. Free.

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MOVIES I L L U S T R AT I O N B Y R O S I E S T R U V E CENTER PHOTO COURTESY OF CHEERS

Screener

GET YO U R REPS IN

Mulholland Drive

(2001)

Even if you believe David Lynch’s nightmarish tale of a Hollywood amnesiac is totally meaningless and doesn’t amount to any kind of coherent story, it’s still a mindfucking masterpiece. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, August 25-26.

Pacific Rim

(2013)

What’s not to like about giant robots fighting giant subterranean lizard monsters? It might lack the substance of Guillermo del Toro’s other films, but Pacific Rim is stylish as hell and full of glossy, color-saturated scenes of robots punching monsters into skyscrapers and crashing into highways. 5th Avenue Cinema, August 25-27.

O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)

Play It Again

HOMEGROWN DOCFEST DEBUTS 10 INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS.

BY DA N A A L STO N

dalston@wweek.com

Until this year, the closest thing filmmaker Ted Gaty had to industry experience was teaching middle school.

The 69-year-old Salem native taught computer applications and would work multimedia presentations into his lesson plans when Adobe Premiere was in its infancy.

“Kids would go out and film things, and put it on tape, and then we’d try to digitize it,” he says. “I wasn’t unfamiliar with the process of telling a story through film.”

But when Gaty retired in 2004, he left that process behind. It wasn’t until Ted’s son Sam Gaty became executive director at NW Documentary in April that Ted rekindled his interest. He started taking classes at NW Documentary in June.

“I picked up a thread that I’d left behind,” says Gaty. “But the storytelling was the same.”

The Salem native is one of nearly 10 amateur filmmakers whose work will screen as part of NW Documentary ’s Homegrown DocFest, the culmination of the organization’s documentary classes.

All under 15 minutes, one film follows a young African-American man’s experiences on and off the basketball court. Another profiles a Native American artist becoming a mason. Gaty’s film, Cheers, tracks a Salem-based ukulele band made up of older 40

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women from the area.

All of [these films] have a rougher, raw kind of feel,” says Sam Gaty, who helped his father film part of his documentary (though Sam insists his own influence was negligible).

The story in his film follows a ukulele band called Cheers, formed in Salem by a group of women “in their 50s, 60s and 70s.” For several of its members, it was their first time playing an instrument.

“THEY WERE ALMOST ON THEIR DEATHBED...

BUT THEY COULD REMEMBER THE SONGS OF THEIR YOUTH.” - Ted Gaty

Gaty stitches together footage of a performance in Keizer, Ore., that was shot before his class even began. In between shots of Cheers performing the likes of “This Land Is Your Land,” the players talk about why they joined the group, play music or love the ukulele.

“I tried taking guitar lessons...but it was a little lonely,” says Cheers member Marsha

Graciosa. “But when I read the article for a ukulele band, I thought, ‘This is my group.’”

Gaty is quick to point out the faults in his film. “I probably should have gotten more A-Roll,” he says sheepishly.

But his interest in Cheers speaks to the ways film can connect its audience and its creator to the past. He dedicated his film to his later mother and motheri n - l a w. “ T h e y w e r e a l m o st o n t h e i r deathbed...but they could remember the songs of their youth,” he says. “Word for word, tune for tune. That’s the way you communicated with them at the end.”

In the film’s most powerful sequence, Gaty interviews the band’s oldest member, Gloria Jones, as she recounts her brother’s battle with Alzheimer’s. The only way she could connect with him, she tells us, was through music. In Cheers, she plays his favorite song, “ You Are My Sunshine.” Later Gaty orchestrates another sequence over a montage of serene photos of tropical islands, mountains and forests taken by his wife in Hawaii.

“Music is probably what keeps me going,” says Jones. “Even though you’re getting older and older, the music is still there, and it always is.”

SEE IT: NW Documentary’s Homegrown DocFest is at Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 7 pm Friday, August 25. $8.

Maybe it’s not the first or even fourth best Coen Brothers movie, but this yokelized Odyssey is still deeply entertaining and features a classic Americana soundtrack. Also, the screening is free and outdoors.

Sewallcrest Park, August 26.

Rear Window

(1954)

We’ve all spent time staring out the window hoping to see our neighbors getting into some shit, but they’re way less interesting than the murder suspect neighbor in Hitchcock’s classic that inspired Hollywood’s obsession with voyeurism. Joy Cinema, August 24.

This Is Spinal Tap

(1984)

The movie that gets referenced every time anyone mentions hair metal screens on a rooftop as part of NW Film’s Top Down series, and for some reason will screen with “Bird of Flames,” a music video to the song by David Lynch and Chrysta Bell (who plays Tammy in Twin Peaks: The Return), directed

by Portland’s Chel White. Hotel deLuxe Parking Garage, August 24.

ALSO PLAYING: Academy: The Dark Crystal (1982), August 25-31. Clinton: Alice au pays des merveilles (1970), August 23. Stand By Me (1986), August 28. Hollywood: Elvis (1979), August 23. Death Becomes Her (1992), August 24-26. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), August 25. Jules and Jim (1962), August 25. Joy: Rear Window (1954), August 24.

Catliki: The Immortal Monster (1959), August 23. Kiggins: Evil Dead II (1987), August 25.

Laurelhurst: The World’s End (2013), August 21-23. Westworld (1973), August 25-27. Mission: A League of Their Own (1992), August 23. Working Girl (1988), August 29-Sept 4. NW Film Center: Panique (1956), August 25-31. Sunset Boulevard (1950), August 28.

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bunker and Brigsby were merely tools to distract him from his imprisonment.

So when James learns there is no such thing as Brigsby—aside from those episodes produced by Ted, now in prison —he sets out to finish the story. Brigsby Bear is whimsical, sweet and ambitious. Is it funny? Sort of. There are more chuckles than laughs. Particularly humorous are Greg Kinnear as James’ rescuer, Detective Vogel, who missed his calling as a thespian, and Hamill, who in addition to playing James’ “father,” gets to flex his considerable voice talents as the characters in the show within the movie, Brigsby himself and Brigsby’s nemesis Sun Snatcher (Son Snatcher?). Brigsby Bear is not a film for most people, but if you suspect it might be for you, I encourage you to go and find out. PG-13. R MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Fox Tower, Kiggins, Vancouver.

The Boss Baby

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

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

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NOW PLAYING Good Time

Constantine Nikas is positive his little brother shouldn’t be institutionalized for his mental disability. And that’s all we learn about the hyperactive Queens street tough (Robert Pattinson) before he and his brother rob a bank. This pacing is crucial to the Safdie brothers’ forceful new thriller. As movies about robbery and the ensuing chase go, it’s more like being dragged behind the getaway car than observing from the passenger seat. Good Time isn’t concerned with conspiracy plot details or capers; it’s an outlaw bender. The soundtrack’s pulse is unrelenting, and the camera is so duty-bound to characters’ mugs it’s actually a relief when the rare wide shot reveals a violent car wreck. Amid the chaos, Pattinson as Constantine cuts a fascinating figure.

Constantine’s lack of control is disturbing, but his ability to improvise a next move is intoxicating through the tension.

Though it’s unclear whether this man really cares about his brother (or much of anything), he seems born for this panicked run from the law: What’s a cunning New York rat without a maze? R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Clackamas, Fox Tower, Hollywood.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

The Hitman’s Bodyguard sounds like a title plucked from an internet random action-movie trope generator. The same could be said of its storyline. Ryan Reynolds plays disgraced security agent Michael Bryce, and Samuel L. Jackson is master assassin Darius Kincaid. For reasons that don’t seem totally clear, Bryce is sent to safely ferry Kincaid from Coventry to testify against a Slavic despot played by Gary Oldman. But the movie never takes itself all too seriously. Films like The Hitman’s Bodyguard live and die on the addled chemistry between mismatched leads, and the endlessly enjoyable sparks that fly between Reynolds and Jackson render further criticism irrelevant. The movie makes jagged tonal shifts from fussily boilerplate spy games to more intriguing

flights of fancy, like the wonderful reverie explaining how Jackson first met true love Salma Hayek while in a gruesome bar fight. But director Patrick Hughes (Expendables 3) loosens Hitman’s breakneck pace sufficiently for Jackson’s theatrically mean-spirited bluster to find a natural rhythm against Reynolds’ desperate hangdog snark. The stars complement one another perfectly and, in the weirdest way, organically flesh out undeveloped characters otherwise defined solely by Hollywood clichés (the bodyguard’s obsessive preparation vs. the hitman’s shrugged improvisations).

Kincaid’s motto “When life gives you shit, make Kool-Aid” might not make much sense as an assassin’s creed, but filmmakers cobbling together summer blockbusters could have worse strategies. R. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Ingrid Goes West

Ingrid Goes West gets off to a promising start, with an interesting premise and smart, funny dialogue. Title character Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is in many ways your typical millennial. In the morning when she wakes up, she immediately reaches for her phone to see what she missed while asleep. The rest of her day is more of the same: going from one location to another to check her phone, the couch, the toilet, eating or brushing her teeth, hoping to see precious notifications. For many millennials, it’s a sadly identifiable but harmless tick.

But Ingrid’s social media addiction has a dark side, as evidenced by that time she crashed a wedding and maced the bride, a stranger who snubbed her on Instagram. After a brief stay in a mental health treatment facility, Ingrid wipes her slate clean by finding a new Instagram celebrity to stalk: the cool and worldly Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen). This is the best part of the film, as Ingrid does whatever it takes to try to meet and impress her new friend. But once she does, Ingrid is no longer consumed by checking Instagram every moment of every day, and the film becomes less of a

dark satire about social media addiction and fame. It devolves into more of a conventional comedy about quirky millennials. It’s a shift that frustratingly happens just as you begin to wonder where the film is taking you. Rather than taking some more intriguing turns, it seems to just take its foot off the gas and coast to its destination. R. R MITCHELL MILLER. Clackamas, Fox Tower.

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Baby Driver

It takes a scant five minutes for Baby Driver to feel like one of the best car-chase films of all time. 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. 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, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Tigard.

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. Vancouver.

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

A Ghost Story

The Beguiled

**** In David Lowry’s emotional exercise in magical realism, 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. Lowry has a well-developed 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. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst.

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. Laurelhurst.

Atomic Blonde

An adaptation of the Oni Press graphic novel Coldest City, Atomic Blonde depicts Berlin at the Cold War’s last gasp. Charlize Theron plays a British secret agent set to meet up with James McAvoy’s rogue operative and rescue a vital informant from East Germany. With a soundtrack that’s an upscale goth-club wonderland of post-punk/new wave, the inattentive viewer might very well confuse Atomic Blonde with a music video or a lengthy and brutal cologne ad.

But even with the playfully stylized flourishes teasing coherency from a pointlessly complicated narrative, the film has a giddy devotion to its own daft momentum. R. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

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. Vancouver.

Cars 3

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

Despicable Me 3

Sofia Coppola’s Civil War-era tale of amorousness and limb-severing vengeance, a wounded Union soldier John McBurney (Colin Farrell) ends up at 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. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. FERGUSON. Academy, Laurelhurst.

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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Empirical, Milwaukie, Tigard, Vancouver.

Brigsby Bear

Detroit

Baywatch

If you base your decision of whether to see Brigsby Bear on the fact that it’s an “SNL movie,” please let me dispel you of that notion. Although it’s produced by the Lonely Island dudes and stars current cast member Kyle Mooney, it is not an SNL movie. What it is, then, is a more difficult question. We meet James Pope (Mooney), superfan of a show called Brigsby Bear Adventures, which is like if you mixed Buck Rogers with a first-gen Teddy Ruxpin doll. James lives in an underground fallout bunker in the desert with his mother April (Jane Adams) and father Ted (Mark Hamill). In this postapocalyptic world where the air is poisonous, and going outside requires a gas mask, Brigsby is the only thing James has. Only it isn’t, because as it turns out, April and Ted kidnapped James when he was an infant and the

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

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MOVIES 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 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, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Vancouver.

Dunkirk

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

The grunts are sitting ducks for dive bombers on the beach, and beyond that is miles of sea where enemy planes standby to strafe and U-boats lurk shark-like below the surface. You may have noticed I’ve said nothing of the characters in this film. That’s because there aren’t any, really. We do get to

COURTESY OF NW FILM CENTER

REVIEW

From Linda Fenstermaker’s Erased Etchings, which will also screen on Wednesday.

Rise, Hold Steady, Fall

It’d be easy to dismiss Linda Fenstermaker’s Here I Breathe as twee. The Seattle experimental filmmaker’s new short film is a collage of grainy landscapes and what look like family photos of women—an open field at dusk, a photo of a woman in a canoe held in front of a river, an up-close shot of sunflowers twitching in the wind.

The images play out under Fenstermaker’s calmly spoken narration, which begins over a 1950s photo of a young woman staring into the camera with a blank, almost defiant expression. “Rise, hold steady, fall,” says Fenstermaker. “Falling out of a tree off those strong, steady knees into flowing waters on soft skin. ” Here I Breathe screens at NW Film Center this week along with several other of the filmmaker’s works. Fenstermaker, who will attend the Portland screening, describes her impressionistic, experimental works as concerned with female representation. In many of her films, that kind of commentary is overt. 2014’s (Fe)(Male) is a silent blackand-white film that playfully mismatches body parts of cut-up 1950s photos of men and women.

But at her most powerful, Fenstermaker simply insists on taking quiet, soft things seriously. Shot on warm, lo-fi 16mm film, Here I Breathe dwells in sentimental images—a broken robin’s egg, a hand stroking wildflowers drying on a wall—soundtracked to vocalist Michele Finkelstein’s wordless, folk pop harmonies looping in the background. But for all its concern with pretty scenery, it doesn’t romanticize beauty, and to dismiss Here I Breathe simply as gooey sentiment would miss what makes it so affecting.

Repeated throughout the narration, “Rise, hold steady, fall,” feels as if it’s describing the cycle of any given life. It could be depressing, but in the hands of Fenstermaker, it’s neither aloof nor cynical. Here I Breathe just seems sympathetic to how devastating the passing of time can feel.

The narration ends with the same phrase it began with, but instead of accompanying an image of youth, there’s a photo of an older, unsimiling woman wearing red flannel. “I watched my hands grow old and wrinkled. She watched her hands turn raw and wrinkled,” says Fenstermaker. “Rise, hold steady, fall.” SHANNON GORMLEY. Here I Breathe is like an existential meditation tape.

SEE IT. The Films of Linda Fenstermaker plays at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. 7 pm Wednesday, August 23. $9.

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follow a few soldiers and pilots and civilians at sea, but they’re more like standins for the other 400,000 like them marooned on the beach or assisting in the rescue effort. That’s fine, though.

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

R. MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Glass Castle

The last time actor Brie Larson and director Destin Daniel Cretton worked together, it was on 2013’s Short Term 12—a wrenching, beautiful movie about a young woman working at a group home for troubled teens. Yet while The Glass Castle reunites the pair, the fervent honesty of their first collaboration has been eclipsed by speed and gloss that seem out of place in a film adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ memoir about growing up with her nomadic, alcoholic father.

In the film, Jeannette is played by three actresses (Chandler Head, Ella Anderson and Larson) and endures a cascade of horrors, including nearly being drowned by her father (Woody Harrelson) and seeing him dangle her mother (Naomi Watts) out of a window. Yet, despite the story’s nightmarish passages, the film often feels insubstantial. Cretton breezes through plenty of traumatic incidents, but his storytelling is too superficial to fully convey the psychological impact of any of them. Only in a late scene where Larson and Harrelson simply stare at each other and chat do we get a tantalizing whiff of a more thoughtful movie that might have been—and proof that as a team, Larson and Cretton still have cinematic gifts to give. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Tigard, 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. Clackamas.

Lady Macbeth

Adapted from a Nikolai Leskov novella, it’s a sinister slow burner that unfolds in rural England in 1865 and tracks a stifled wife’s transformation into a serial killer. That wife is Katherine (Florence Pugh), who viciously retaliates against the fearsome abuses of her husband (Paul Hilton) and her fatherin-law (Christopher Fairbank), two men so repugnant that you get a savage kick out of their suffering. Yet despite director William Oldroyd’s vengeful flair Lady Macbeth is memorable mainly for attempting to drown its audience in misery. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Living Room.

Logan Lucky

In his comeback heist film, Steven Soderbergh seems actively disinterested in challenging his legacy. This story of a supposedly cursed West Virginia family, The Logans, ripping off the Charlotte Motor Speedway, nickname themselves “Ocean’s 7-11” on an in-movie newscast. Even so, you don’t have enough fingers to count the ways Logan Lucky draws from Soderbergh’s Oceans trilogy.

His first film in four years is a manual for conducting the perfect, victimless, NASCAR-adjacent robbery. After the

robbery plays out in the movie’s second act, Logan Lucky flashes back to the steps it intentionally left out. The pitchperfect band of thieves thrives on folksy glibness while never throttling all the way over to wackiness only the Coens should attempt. As the Logan brothers, Channing Tatum and Adam Driver, are laconic and weatherbeaten, gentle roughnecks who need a win in this life.

And as explosives expert Joe Bang, Daniel Craig’s brilliance is in appearing like a maniac but never detonating. Where it falters, Logan Lucky has Casino syndrome. We’ve already seen Soderbergh’s Goodfellas; he’s played this hand before with snappier pacing and editing. Even so, Soderbergh is perhaps Hollywood’s finest technician, and it’s a pleasure to watch him tour his Vegas act through Appalachia. PG-13.

CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

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.

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.

Laurelhurst.

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. Vancouver.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature

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 jokeheavy 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. Beaverton, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Ahoy, matey! Johnny Depp is washed!

PG-13. 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. 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, 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. Beaverton, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, 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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

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, Milwaukie, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

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One of the Obama administration’s last acts was a shameful one.

In December of last year, before the Orange cloud descended on Washington, the Drug Enforcement Agency tried to schedule CBD. Cannabidiol, which is not psychoactive beyond making people more chill and less epileptic, was listed alongside heroin and PCP. The feds said that it was a “Marihuana Extract”—yes, Obama’s people still spelled it “marihauna,” using the most offensive transliteration of the Mexican Spanish word for cannabis—and that it was no more legal than meth or LSD. Thankfully, hemp farmers sued in federal court and the move has been hindered. At this point, Trump’s team is too busy planning to bomb North Korea to get overly worked up about weed.

And so, thankfully, CBD continues to spread in Portland, with innovative new products hitting shelves at dispensaries and vape shops.

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We’ve had a few interesting encounters with cannabis-infused beer, including one where an intern drank a little too much and ended up in a borderline dissociative state. We also helped make what we believe to be the first CBD beer served to the public in Oregon, a collaboration with the late Dean Pottle, who ran a homebrew speakeasy in the basement of his Northeast Killingsworth home. We served it at last year’s Portland Pro-Am Beer Festival.

The brewery in the stall next to us at the ProAm came up with the very original idea of rolling out “Oregon’s first commercial CBD beer” a few weeks later. That brewery has since dedicated a lot of its production to various CBD-infused beers. Unfortunately, they aren’t very good.

On a recent visit we ordered two beers that each cost $6 for 10 ounces, and abandoned both after a few sips.

So what does someone do if they want a really delicious

beer infused with CBD? Go to Tin Bucket on North Williams, and order the radler.

Tin Bucket is getting CBD-infused fruit sodas made by Bend’s Ablis through their distributor, Point Blank. The lemon ginger is delicious, and with about 10 milligrams of CBD in a half-pint serving, it’s perfect for blending with a lager or hazy IPA to make a drink that’s basically a vacation day in a pint glass. It’s been my favorite beer discovery of the summer.

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“I was left to pick up the pieces of my life and try to redefine myself,” he writes on the site of his new CBD supplement company. “I was now a disgraced former athlete with numerous lingering painful injuries, falling deeper into depression.”

He turned to opioids but found cannabis as a way out. He’s now spreading the gospel through a supplement designed to be anti-inflammatory and relaxing. Each softgel combines 20 milligrams of CBD with fatty acids (Omega 3, Omega 6, and GLA). A jar of 30 runs $50, which is a very good price for this amount of medicine. I used the pills on a recent trip with lots of walking and bike riding and found them very helpful.

Now, if we could just get Jeff Sessions on board with these CBD pills.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval, and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more health-giving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise? Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

One of my favorite Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress, and playwright.

In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

The Witwatersrand is a series of cliffs in South Africa.

It encompasses 217 square miles. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50 percent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand.

What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

What I wish for you is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways.

He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.”

That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upside-down, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert.

While some may be useful, others could be problematic.

So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

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You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of selfesteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring, and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve success even a little -- and would probably undermine it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Stockbrokers in Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of ten goats in a parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

In the coming days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance.

Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets. How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

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