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FINDINGS

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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 47.

East Portland has one fewer local business after NIMBYs pressured a landlord into canceling a small shop’s lease. 6 Westside condo owners who

don’t want increased HOA payments have gotten so angry that security tackled one of them and led them out of a meeting in handcuffs. 8 A Salem lawyer is facing more

criticism for voraciously defending his clients’ copyrights. 10

ON THE COVER:

There’s a very pretty lilac that’s been hiding in our soil for a century, which will only germinate because of the fire that those dirtbag teens started. 25 In the good old days, you had to climb up the hill to the ski lodge on Mount Hood, carrying a gallon of diesel if you wanted coffee. 26 One of the new owners of a storied Portland comedy club has a domestic violence conviction. 36

OUR MOST TRAFFICKED STORY ONLINE THIS WEEK:

Hood Life by Joe Michael Riedl.

Since there have been no consequences for the Eagle Creek kid, another group of teens started another fire by playing with fireworks.

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DIALOGUE Last week, WW examined the large number of bodies hauled from the Willamette and Columbia rivers, and the police tasked with recovering them (“Dead in the Water,” WW, Sept. 13). Here’s what readers said.

Chris Elliott, via wweek.com: “An enormous thank you to the first responders who deal with these life-and-death scenarios every day. I doubt the general public truly understands the mental and emotional toll, dealing with daily death, that is taken on these people. Every one of them is a hero in their own way.”

Gary Figueroa, via wweek.com: “While Natalie O’Neill’s moving article was stirring and its content warning appropriate, it was the Novick quote that sets me off. When I read the caption declaring that ‘suicide is largely a matter of convenience’ my heart sank.

Can you imagine the torment any person must be undergoing prior to their act to take their own life? Suicide is far from convenient.”

Heather Novickis, via Facebook: “My friend Alfonso Cotton disappeared a few years back.

His wallet was found floating near the Burnside Bridge. The police suspected suicide. I wish we had closure. I wish he had reached out when things went bad. I miss him.”

Dennis Verlo LaPrade, via Facebook: “This is the Willamette Week that I know and love, such a sad article about something we don’t hear about.

Thank you for bringing this to attention.”

“And yet, the Big Float encourages people to swim in the Willamette.”

Alexa Banta, via Facebook: “This guy [Multnomah County River Patrol Sgt. Steven Dangler] should talk in high school to kids about his experiences and photos. Maybe the teenagers will think more about drinking or smoking weed while playing in the rivers like they do in High Rocks.”

Fayren Chang, via Facebook: “This is so very sad. Thank you all who help the victims’ families find closure. To those thinking of suicide, please reach out; please! It gets better, it does, you are loved.”

Proteus_Marius, via Reddit: “Now I wonder how Portland’s rivers would compare to the East River or the Hudson.”

Robert Petty, via wweek.com: “It’s a shame Oregon has paid less and less attention to mental/emotional illness over the last 40 years or so. We also seem to have a serious lack of early intervention.”

Azure, via wweek.com: “And yet, the Big Float encourages people to swim in the Willamette.

I’m confused: How are we supposed to know where exactly the currents are strong enough to make swimming dangerous?”

Cindy Hines, via Facebook: “Put up barriers. They work.”

CORRECTION

Due to an editor’s error, last week’s cover story misidentified a body of water in Austin, Texas. It is Lady Bird Lake, not Lake Charles. WW regrets the error.

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Dr. Know

BY MARTY SMITH

I’ve got a belly button issue. I used to have an “inny,” now I have an “outy.” My gut has gone from flabby to hard like a melon.

What gives? —Navel Cadet As you grow older, your belly button gradually backs further and further out of your body, like a screw. Eventually, when it unscrews completely, your ass will fall off. This is why old people have such flat butts. You’re welcome.

But seriously: I’m sorry, Cadet. I know you’re hoping I’ll say the transformation of your gut from a flabby quagmire into a taut pumpkin means that you’re finally getting into shape, but you’re not.

Before I explain, however, let’s both take a moment to thank the Portland weather gods for the return of Bulky Sweater Season. This is the time of year when folks like you and me undulate out of our caves, our curves obscured by sweaters, dusters, caftans and the occasional tarp, and reclaim the streets from the lean, bronzed Summer People—who, having the thermal mass of a french fry, are forced to layer up till they’re almost amorphously shapeless as us.

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unfortunates will grouse about the cold while the rest of us watch with bemused pity, like belugas observing an ice-bound grebe.

But back to your condition: Unless you’re pregnant, you’re probably hosed.

The depth of your belly button, obviously, corresponds to the thickness of the belly fat that covers your abdominal wall. If that layer is getting thinner while your overall weight stays the same, congratulations: You have visceral fat.

Yes, visceral fat means that instead of being carried in a layer on the outside of your body, much of your fat is now affixed to your actual internal organs. Some people have fat asses. You have fat kidneys!

Visceral fat is even more linked to heart disease and diabetes than the regular stuff. It is, however, supposed to be easier to aerobicize away. For more details, ask a real doctor.

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Oregon’s bid for highly competitive federal funding to help pay the multimilliondollar repair bill.

Unwanted Lingerie Shop Shuttered in East Portland

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Inquiry Clears Hernandez of Wrongdoing

State Rep. Diego Hernandez (D-East Portland) has been cleared of accusations that he maintained a list of female lobbyists, ranking them by “attractiveness and certain physical attributes.”

A Sept. 15 letter sent to Hernandez by deputy legislative counsel Jessica Santiago says a state inquiry found no evidence he created such a list. Hernandez requested the inquiry himself after rumors of the list circulated in the Capitol. “This incident is a symptom of larger institutional problems at our State Capitol,” Hernandez says in a statement. “It reveals that the Capitol is a place where discrimination, harassment, misogyny, and bullying behavior exists and all too often goes unchecked. I made the decision to respond to these awful rumors in a public way because I want to change this institution for the better.”

State Flops on Funding Columbia River Levees

The Oregon Legislature’s failure to provide $267,000 in funding for the ongoing investigation and planned repair of the Columbia River levees has undermined the coalition of agencies working toward fixing the earthen walls that protect North and Northeast Portland from catastrophic floods. WW reported this month that lawmakers had fallen behind in funding the levee project (“What Could Happen Here,” WW, Sept. 6, 2017). Now the Multnomah County Drainage District, which oversees the levees, tells local governments that state funding isn’t going to arrive. “The state is unable to commit,” district officials wrote in a Sept. 13 email. Levee partners worry the state’s dropping out of the project could weaken

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A lingerie-modeling shop opened by a member of a prominent strip-club family has shut down after pressure from the East Portland neighborhood of Parkrose.

Christian Desmarais, whose mother was convicted in June of conspiring to promote prostitution at the Sugar Shack and other clubs, opened Tush Lingerie Modeling last month along Northeast 105th Avenue.

Neighbors objected. The owner of the property, Evangeline Salvador, has terminated the lease with Tush.

“While the expensive fight is not yet over for Ms. Salvador, it is for the Parkrose community,” lawyer Phil Nelson wrote in a statement Sept. 6 to neighborhood residents.

Desmarais could not be reached for comment.

More Candidates Eye Saltzman’s Seat

In the week since City Commissioner Dan Saltzman announced his plans not to seek a sixth term in 2018, the race to replace him has grown crowded with possible successors. On Monday, Felicia Williams, 40, an Air Force veteran and president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association, announced her plans to run.

Metro Councilor Sam Chase, a former chief of staff to Commissioner Nick Fish, says he’s seriously exploring a bid. The leading contenders for the seat are two AfricanAmerican women: Jo Ann Hardesty, a former legislator and president of the NAACP of Portland, and Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith.

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DUBIOUS ASSERTIONS FROM JEFF SESSIONS’ JEREMIAD AGAINST PORTLAND.

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REASONS PORTLANDERS PROTESTED JEFF SESSIONS’ VISIT. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions got a prototypically Portland welcome this week: curses, jeers and handmade signs declaring him a traitor and a racist.

Here’s why a few of the 300 people awaiting Sessions said they came. NIGEL JAQUISS.

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BY KAT I E SH E P H ERD kshepherd@wweek.com

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spent his brief trip to Portland smearing the city’s good name.

On Sept. 19, the leading hard-liner of the White House’s crackdown on immigrants and refugees arrived to decry so-called “sanctuary city” policies to an audience of federal prosecutors and immigration agents.

He reeled off a litany of violent crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants, and urged Oregon and Portland officials to change their tune and cooperate with President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

His speech was filled with half-truths, misleading statistics and legally shaky arguments. Here are four of the biggest. “ After decreasing for over

20 years because of the hard but necessary work our country started in the 1980s, violent crime is back. The murder rate surged nearly 11 percent nationwide in 2015—the largest increase since 1968.”

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What Sessions gets right: The 2015 jump from 14,164 to 15,696 murders nationwide is the largest increase since 1968. But even with that oneyear spike, the 2015 murder rate is still far below the highest point in recent history of 24,703 murders in 1991. As murder numbers get smaller and smaller, any increase looks larger when viewed as a percentage. America’s murder rate is way down from the high point in the early 1990s, and one bump in 2015 doesn’t show a reversal in crime trends.

“Between 2013 and 2015, [Portland] saw an increase in homicides of more than 140 percent.”

Not only is Sessions’ math wrong—the murder rate actually increased by about 112 percent between 2013 and 2015—but Portland’s murder rate is also so low that any increase at all looks huge when expressed as a statistic.

2013 happened to be the year with the lowest murder rate in at least the past six years, with just 16 people killed. 2015 also happened to be the deadliest of those six years, but the city still saw only 34 murders.

“[Sanctuary] policies hinder the work of federal law enforcement; they’re contrary to the rule of law, and they have serious consequences for the law-abiding residents of Oregon.”

Sessions spent most of his remarks criticizing Portland and Oregon for refusing to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers while emphasizing a commitment to the “rule of law.” However, local law enforcement officials don’t just ignore federal detainers and release undocumented arrestees out of the goodness of their hearts—they’re following the letter of the law.

In 2014, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies had violated a woman’s constitutional rights by honoring a detainer request without any other reason to hold her.

Since that ruling, any Oregon law enforcement agent who honors a request without any other legal authority to hold a person would be in violation of the Constitution and that court ruling.

“The vast majority of Americans oppose ‘sanctuary’ policies. According to one poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that cities should turn over criminal aliens to immigration officials. A poll taken earlier this month of swing-state voters found the same thing: Seventy-seven percent support denying federal funds to sanctuary cities.”

Sessions—and others in the Trump administration—have been touting this 80 percent figure for months. But many experts have questioned the legitimacy of the poll results— both because it is a notoriously unreliable type of poll called an “opt-in web panel sample” and because when it comes to asking about sanctuary cities, responses tend to shift dramatically based on the wording of the questions. Other polls on sanctuary cities show mixed opinions nationwide— but Portland doesn’t reflect or respond to the opinions of people living in other states, it responds to the people who live here.

“It’s important that cities like Portland and Seattle stay strong. This Republican administration is trying to shove policies down our throats when they’re supposed to be the states’ rights party.”

—Courtney Carter, an immigration lawyer “Jeff Sessions is the most dangerous man ever to lead the Department of Justice.

He wants to rid the streets of people of color and put them in private prisons.”

—Naomi Morena, 66, a retired parole officer “If there’s one person in Trump’s administration that’s the worst, it’s probably this guy. I’m opposed to his draconian view of criminal justice and everything he stands for.” —Dan Miller, 49 “He wants to make marijuana illegal again. That’s wrong, because it helps so many people.” —Karen Boyer, 70 “Since Trump got elected, protesting ’s become kind of a part-time job.

I’m mostly here to defend Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and support Portland’s sanctuary-city status.”

—Glenna Hayes, 62 “He stands for everything I’m against.

His racism is at the root of many of his policies. The night Trump won, I cried uncontrollably. Protesting makes me feel less helpless.” —Lisa Pfost, 57 “I served in the military for 21 years.

What Jeff Sessions represents is not America. The ultra-right is trying to redefine patriotism, but this protest is real patriotism.” —Juan Mayoral, 52

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HOUSING CRUNCH: Barbara Guardino, 65, hopes to save her fellow condo owners from being displaced.

Trouble in the Village CONDO RESIDENTS DISCOVER THAT HOME OWNERSHIP IS NO GUARANTEE AGAINST DISPLACEMENT IN PORTLAND’S HOUSING MARKET.

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

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“I’m afraid the board of directors and the association will take away my condominium and I’ll be homeless,” she says.

“Rents are very high.”

As housing costs rise in Portland, renters typically look with envy at the secure lives of people who can afford a down payment on a condominium.

The price of condos can be extravagant: Last week, the all-timber high-rise Carbon12 on North Williams Avenue began offering units for nearly $1.5 million apiece.

But along the outer edges of the city, condos and townhouses—where owners pay homeowner association dues to maintain common property—can represent an affordable path to home ownership.

Maricela Ramirez’s story is a familiar one in today’s Portland.

She came to Oregon more than a decade ago from Northern California, seeking a more affordable place to live. Now, as housing costs climb across the city, a renovation of her building is poised to hike her monthly bills faster than her fixed income can keep pace. Ramirez, 58, fears she’ll end up on the streets.

“I’m just very scared,” she says.

But this tale comes with a twist: Ramirez owns her home.

The people threatening to drive her out aren’t greedy landlords but her own neighbors, who also own condos in a modest complex at the edge of Portland’s “WE PAID THE West Hills.

MORTGAGE, AND WE In June, the Westlake Village FELT VERY SECURE. Condominium Homeowners Association informed Ramirez— THE REALIZATION along with her fellow condo ownTHAT THAT’S NOT ers in the 200-unit complex in the Cedar Mill neighborhood— TRUE HIT HARD.” that it would soon begin repairs, requiring Ramirez to pay a lump WESTLAKE VILLAGE sum of $34,000 or increase her $372 monthly association payments by $292 a month.

Condo ownership, however, carries risks of its own.

For Ramirez, who sank her entire savings of $63,500 An economic downturn can mean foreclosures. And into buying the condo and lives on a monthly $1,200 when the market is hot, it creates incentives to improve Social Security disability check, that’s not something she condo developments like Westlake Village, which has can afford. offered its residents a toehold in Portland. But at Westlake It’s also not clear whether Ramirez could sell before Village, a small group of homeowners forming the associashe falls behind in her monthly payments, because the tion’s board makes decisions about upkeep and so is forccost of the repairs is making it next to impossible to ing payments that the poorest owners can ill afford. attract buyers—a sort of Catch-22.

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It’s a new version of “economic eviction”: one that hits homeowners, not just renters.

“We paid the mortgage, and we felt very secure,” says Elos Cutter, 43, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and has lived with his now-73-year-old mother at Westlake Village for 12 years. “The realization that that’s not true hit hard. You feel like it can be taken away so easily.”

At Westlake Village, where the 22 two-story buildings share a pool, clubhouse and duck pond, the conflict among neighbors has become so intense the board hired a security guard to police the association’s meetings. On Aug. 17, the security officer “removed in handcuffs” one homeowner, a police report shows.

“I had a mini-nervous breakdown watching that happen,” says condo owner Barbara Guardino, 65, for whom the new payments would mean never being able to retire from her two part-time jobs. “I remember they tackled him to the ground. I started screaming, ‘What are you doing? What are you’d doing? It’s only a bunch of buildings!’”

The trouble started in June, with a letter from the condo association to owners. It announced a special assessment, and offered the option of a $6.4 million loan rather than charging condo owners their full share for the repairs immediately. The association described plans to redo the siding and insulation on buildings, and replace windows and doors as well as balconies.

That burden is felt unequally by the condo owners.

More than 80 owners at Westlake Village don’t live there and rent out their units as an investment or provide them for relatives. But for many of the residents—retirees, people with disabilities, or those barely scraping by—the cost of repairs may be too much to bear.

Members of the condo association’s board are elected at annual meetings for terms of two years. It has the authority to make decisions about repairs without the support of a majority of homeowners.

The board argues the changes are necessary, that past plans to gradually maintain and repair the property were inadequate, and that the costs of the project will simply increase if it’s delayed.

“All this board did was looking to the best financial way to finance this project,” says board chairman Tony DuVoix.

DuVoix referred other questions to the board’s attorney, who declined to answer WW’s questions about of the impact of the repairs on lower-income neighbors.

Homeowners who have banded together as Save Westlake Village want to challenge the special assessment partly on technical grounds, saying the project constitutes an upgrade as opposed to repairs. In that case, a majority of owners would need to approve it.

Opponents count 84 votes from a close but failed effort to unseat the board, and they’re trying again.

They say they know repairs need to be made, but they question the scope of the project. There’s been no independent assessment the work is necessary, they say.

Neighbors who can afford the improvements fear the renovations will continue with no end in sight.

The current plan doesn’t address other problems, including lead that’s been found in the water. Others worry that if some owners can’t pay, it will increase costs for those who can.

“If they cannot make their payment, my payment will go up and up and up,” says Tatiana L., who has lived in Westlake Village for six years. “I have the potential of losing my property.”

Westlake Village residents say they are shocked by the callousness of their neighbors—people who lived next door for years but are now prepared to toss them out. They say the condo association has ignored their pleas for answers at multiple meetings.

“You ask them a serious legitimate question that is relevant to the situation, it’s ignored,” says resident Sergey Lazarev, 42, speaking in Russian through a translator. “They’re ready to discuss questions about landscaping and the duck pond, like how many ducks do we have? They can go for hours talking about that. I’m in complete disbelief this is happening.”

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Maximum Hard Drive A COPYRIGHT LAWYER DEMANDS PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF MOVIE PIRACY HAND HIM THEIR COMPUTER HARD DRIVES.

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Bill Sheldon mostly uses his personal computer, a Hewlett-Packard Envy laptop, to watch how-to videos for car repairs so he can make an extra buck now and then by fixing a neighbor’s radiator.

So Sheldon, a 55-year-old Portlander, was surprised in early April when he was sued for copyright infringement for allegedly using BitTorrent software to illegally download a movie called Mechanic: Resurrection—a Jason Statham flick he says he’d never heard of before seeing the title on the court papers.

He soon received an even bigger surprise. On April 28, a second letter arrived, asking Sheldon to hand over his computer’s hard drive for testing.

“I’d never even heard of BitTorrent,” says Sheldon. “I was afraid to look it up on my computer. I didn’t even want that word on there.”

It was the latest aggressive tactic from controversial Salem-based copyright infringement lawyer Carl Crowell, who has made a career of chasing down even the smallest internet pirates.

For more than five years, Crowell has been the go-to lawyer for a handful of small and midsize movie studios that sue people who use BitTorrent to upload, share and download content illegally (“The Pirate Hunter,” WW, Aug. 25, 2015).

His methods have been decried as copyright trolling—a label he vociferously rejects—but his latest tactic goes beyond the simple threat of fines. By demanding people’s hard drives, Crowell is asking for access to the most private aspects of their lives and using it as leverage to get them to agree to settlements.

Lake Perriguey, a Portland lawyer, was assigned to represent Sheldon pro bono for three hours. He decided to stay on the case because of the request for Sheldon’s hard drive.

“There’s no judicial oversight of what [Crowell] can and cannot do with the hard drives,” says Perriguey. “There’s no order to destroy the data or to keep it safe. He’s getting access to people’s highly private and personal information, including legally protected health information.”

Crowell says he asked for Sheldon’s computer only to make sure he had stopped illegally downloading movies.

“I have neither the time nor the interest to review the personal information that might be on a party’s computer,” Crowell says.

Meanwhile, Crowell himself is now the target of a lawsuit—by a former colleague who now agrees Crowell goes too far.

James S. Davis, a former law school classmate of Crowell’s who helped him bring dozens of copyright cases in California, sued Crowell in July for allegedly misleading him about the legitimacy of his cases.

His suit alleges Crowell has not done enough to prove the cases have merit or even that his clients CROWELL own the right to sue for copyright infringement.

Nicholas Ranallo, Davis’ attorney, says Crowell’s cases use scare tactics to drive defendants into settlements.

“The explicit or implicit threat is that you can go to court and defend yourself, but that’s going to cost a lot more than just paying us,” Ranallo says.

“So you might as well pay us.”

Crowell says Davis’ lawsuit doesn’t have merit.

He says no one who has asserted his clients lack the right to sue for copyright infringement has ever won on that claim.

Oregon courts have already taken one step to limit the scope of copyright suits: In 2013, the courts mandated that any copyright infringement case can have only one defendant. Prior to the decision, Crowell filed suits against as many as 615 “John Doe” defendants.

The court also established a pro bono panel of lawyers to represent defendants in copyright infringement cases.

Crowell didn’t get his hands on Sheldon’s hard drive. He tried to drop the case in late May, saying he believed Sheldon was telling the truth when he allegedly agreed not to download movies.

But when Crowell filed to dismiss the case, he wouldn’t agree to pay any attorney’s fees. Perriguey says if Crowell cannot prove his case in court, he should face monetary consequences. The case is still pending before a U.S. District Court judge.

“He’s like a dog with a bone, he wouldn’t let it go,” Sheldon says of Crowell.

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IN PORTLAND, OREGON

BY THACHER SCHMID

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What is the leading cause of homelessness for women?

The answer, according to the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence, is domestic violence.

Advocates say it can be the trickiest social malady to remedy—among housed or homeless populations. Part of the reason, they say, is few victims can speak the truth when their abuser is present. Another is that “abusers use that tactic of ‘It’s me and you against the world,’” says Jaidra Hennessey, community-based services supervisor at the YWCA. The result? People too often feel trapped between an abuser and the streets.

When her boyfriend threatened her, says Jessica, a domestic violence victim who became homeless due to abuse, she couldn’t find help.

Like the time she ran “shaking and panicking” from her boyfriend’s fits of rage and physical abuse of their dog and called 911 more than once, but her cellphone’s calls didn’t go through.

Or the time when, pregnant and afraid, she spoke to her pastor, who told her, “God made him the way he is, and it’s not his fault.”

Worst of all: the closed doors at local domestic violence shelters. After giving birth in 2016, she left the hospital and moved in with her mother, afraid to bring her newborn near her boyfriend. But she couldn’t stay for long at her mom’s mobile home, so she called around for shelter.

“There was no capacity,” she recalls. “The shelters I did call, there was no place for me. And they kept saying, ‘In a month, in a month, in a month.’”

So Jessica moved back in with her boyfriend, as many victims do.

The need for domestic violence shelters continues to outstrip capacity. (Some lifelines do exist in Portland: Human Solutions Family Center, which serves families and women in their final trimester of pregnancy, became a yearround shelter in February 2016, with a policy of turning no one away.)

Last year’s survey of statewide domestic violence programs by the coalition found 192 “unmet requests” for services on the day of the count. Eighty-six percent of those requests in Oregon were for housing—much higher than the same statistic for the U.S., which measured at 66 percent.

Advocates say DV victims are also among the most vulnerable people on the street, at the mercy of all kinds of bad luck and menaces.

Homelessness can even make intimate partner violence seem the safest option, says Eve, who estimates she’s been with 10 abusive partners since age 16. (WW is withholding the identities of Jessica and Eve.) “If you’re homeless right now, it’s probably safer to be with one abuser, because then he’s going to protect you from other abusers,” she says. “Unless you can get into a shelter.

If you’re a woman out here and you’re by yourself and you’re in the streets, it’s not safe, dude. It’s better to know what’s coming than to not know.”

Before her incarceration for DUII and six months’ inpatient treatment, Eve couch-surfed and lived in her car but never went to a shelter, she says, “because I felt like I was ‘too good.’”

She says the lives of DV survivors are especially precarious because of repeated patterns of violence. “You’re not going to amount to shit,” said one man who met her at the

SURVIVOR: Eve, who lived in her car, says she grew accustomed to being abused by partners. “It was normal,” she says. “That’s all I knew.”

“EVEN IF YOU GET AWAY FROM YOUR ABUSER, YOU’RE TREATED WORSE SOMETIMES BY THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU. THEY SAY, ‘WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST LEAVE?’ THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT’S LIKE.” strip joint where she worked and later abused her, “because look where I met you.”

“The system is set up against you,” she adds. “Even if you get away from your abuser, you’re treated worse sometimes by the people that are supposed to help you. They say, ‘Why didn’t you just leave? Why did you jeopardize your kids?’

They don’t understand what it’s like.”

Even a seemingly unrelated event—Oregon’s wildfires, for example, or other natural disasters like hurricanes— can add to the chaos for someone on the run from an abusive partner.

“The wildfires that have happened this summer are putting additional stress on an already overburdened DV shelter system,” says Keri Kuhn, associate director of the coalition, which represents 49 of the state’s 56 domestic violence organizations.

Domestic violence and wildfires might seem only tangentially related, but Kuhn notes the wildfires have created additional scarcity and made it hard for rural staff to reach their offices.

In recent years, advocates note, new laws have been passed to help victims of domestic violence, but some landlords don’t know about—or respect—those laws. One of the most important, says the YWCA’s Hennessey, is a new state law that allows survivors to break their lease in 14 days with a court order.

“I’ve had a number of landlords say that a 14-day lease break for survivors of DV is not something that can be utilized,” Hennessey says. “Obviously it can, because it’s part of the revised statutes in Oregon. I’m not asking for a favor.”

Another law passed locally in recent years protects survivors by making it illegal for landlords to charge survivors for damages to an apartment, or try to “steer” a victim toward a certain apartment. But Hennessey says that still happens.

“Laws change pretty quickly, and there’s been a number of significant changes in the last three years, both at the state and local level,” she says.

When the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Services opened in 2012, it soon became a hub for the metro area, featuring walk-in access, navigators, security and a video conference link to Multnomah County Circuit Court, which now issues more restraining orders each year than the downtown courthouse.

“This one was a home run, I think,” says City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who pushed for the center.

Gateway’s executive director, Martha Strawn Morris, says it will see between 2,000 and 2,200 survivors this year alone. “Between 17 and 20 percent will identify as wanting a change in their housing situation,” she says —430 in all.

For Eve and Jessica, it’s possible such services saved their lives.

Eve turned to alcohol as a result of physical abuse, including stitches, bruises, black eyes and “trouble walking.” After a DUII, Eve spent six months of inpatient rehab at LifeWorks NW’s Project Network, and three months at a Salvation Army shelter.

Having a safe, reliable place to live helped Eve start her life over. She’s off probation and says she’s completed her college degree. “I obtained employment, I was able to stabilize myself,” she says. “I’ve hit the ground running.”

Down and Out in Portland, Oregon is a weekly column that answers the city’s most pressing questions about homelessness by taking them to the people who know the issue best: those living on the streets. This is the final installment of the summer.

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e’ve never been so excited to hear the rain return.

The first downpour of autumn is usually a bittersweet moment in Portland. But this year, it brought relief to a town that’d been shrouded in smoke from wildfires raging in the Columbia River Gorge. Though the Eagle Creek Fire still wasn’t fully contained as of press time, the rainfall brought hope it wouldn’t spread farther. It also brought 300 firefighters home to their families.

This is a strange time to release our second edition of Hood Life, a celebration of the adventures waiting for Portlanders around that snowcapped peak looming on the horizon.

Though the mountain itself is fine—as we went to press, it had just begun snowing at Mount Hood Meadows ski lodge—the beautiful river valley that separates it from Portland has been changed in ways we don’t yet understand.

After reckless teens started a fire on one of our of favorite hiking trails, we tore up our old plan for this issue and started anew. We now have stories about favorite trails affected by the fire (page 20), Gorge waterfall hikes that remain unscathed (page 22) and ways you can give to those now in need (page 24). We also attempt to look forward to what the future holds for the new forests just now sprouting from the ashes—you might be pleasantly surprised to learn that it’s not all bleak (page 25).

While this fire changes Portland’s relationship with our beloved Gorge, there’s still a lot of beauty to explore around us. So we hiked the newly rebuilt Timberline Trail, which does a rugged 40-mile loop around Hood (page 17). We also profile the “Crazy Czech” who turned a tiny warming hut into one of the state’s most unique places (page 26) and look at the father of some of the state’s most treasured architecture, cabin maker Henry Steiner (page 28). And because the coming rain means you can no longer hit the trail in shorts and sneakers, we present our favorite Portland stores where you can get geared up (page 30).

If there’s a silver living to this destructive fire, it’s that it reminds Portlanders just how fragile our treasured little corner of the world can be. As soon as these fires are out, get out there and experience the beauty we have here. You can’t take this place for granted.

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Hikers cross Eliot Creek just above Wallalute Falls on the mountain’s east side. River crossing, we found, was an intriguing spectator sport that often ends with cheers.

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WE HIKED THE REOPENED TIMBERLINE TRAIL THAT CIRCUMNAVIGATES MOUNT HOOD. IT’S A BEAST.

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ith sunlight fading and a storm approaching, I finally admitted it.

“I think we’re going the wrong way,” I said to my companions.

On most hikes, that’s not a big deal. But this wasn’t most hikes; it was the Timberline Trail, the grueling, 40-mile trek that circumnavigates Mount Hood. It’s arguably the most intense backpacking trip you can find near Portland.

Most hikers spend four or five days backpacking it, typically starting and ending at the Timberline Lodge Trailhead. But the length is only part of the challenge. The trail climbs towering ridges, plunges into deep ravines, and traverses snowfields far above the timberline.

Few Portlanders have completed the trail, and not just because it requires 9,000 feet of vertical. In 2006, a flow of ice and rocks in the Eliot Glacier field, on the eastern slope of the mountain, took out a vital part of the loop. The trail only reopened this summer, more than a decade later. Given the climbs and glaciers, it remains one of the state’s most notorious backpacking challenges—in August, two young women backpacking the trail never made it back.

With summer near its end, I wanted to give it a try with my sister and girlfriend.

We’d trekked all around Mount Hood’s wilderness, but had been mystified by photos and stories of the Timberline Trail. So we drove to the lodge and set off with packs stuffed above our heads.

The trail was blazed more than 80 years ago, but it never stays the same for long, as roaring glacial rapids frequently wash out portions of the trail, forcing hikers to scramble up dangerous and rocky terrain. Even after being reconnected at Eliot Creek, the trail still lacks sufficient markers, leaving hikers to guess whether or not they are on the right track.

That’s exactly where we found ourselves on our second day of the hike, around mile 18 of 40. We walked under McNeil Point, between the peak and Bull Run Reservoir on the northwest side of the mountain, and crossed a popular camping area where trails diverged in every direction, making it hard to delineate the true path. I bushwhacked and scrambled, convinced that we had stayed on course.

“We’re heading downhill!” my sister called out from behind—a clear mistake, she felt in her gut.

“It’s fine,” I insisted, continuing to follow the descending path. We patiently trekked farther and deeper in the wrong direction, searching for a turn that never came.

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t had been a hard day, but not as hard as admitting that I had led us in the wrong direction. I looked to my partners behind me, their eyebrows furrowed, frustrated at the wasted effort.

“I’ll run ahead and see where it leads,” I said, holding onto the idea that maybe, just maybe, I was not mistaken at all and we were on the right path.

Counting my bounds, I jogged a half-mile down the trail and arrived at a peak that should not have been there. I kept going, hoping that I would run into someone I could consult. At one point I thought I saw a jacket, but it was just the fluffy white plant called grandfather’s beard.

A knot formed deep in my gut. I felt utterly alone in this quiet, untrammeled land, and finally gave in. I turned back. Beaten, I saw my companions in the dim light, their faces showing their fatigue.

“We have to turn back, it’s the wrong way!” I yelled from a safe distance, expecting ridicule.

None was received. It was a blow that took a lot out of us, one that had pushed us to our limits, but my companions forgave me.

Hiking back up to where we thought we had diverged, we plopped down and made camp for the night, not willing to take another step in those exhausting last few hours of the day.

Throughout the night, the rain poured down.

I had no tent nor a tarp, just a sleeping bag and a mat. Rain dripped onto my bag, and wind ripped through the trees above, tossing the limbs violently as I lay curled up trying to stay warm.

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The next morning, with our clothes still damp from the night before, we started again, this time finding the path. That day, we were heading to the trail’s highest point: Lamberson Spur, 7,300 feet.

As the air grew thinner, climbing higher in this austere, glacial country, we left behind all plants but the most fiercely determined. Fog once again engulfed us. We tramped across slippery snowfields, holding each other tightly, with sudden death lurking inches to our left.

We hiked over the high point then down Gnarl Ridge, our knees nearly giving out with every pounding step. I felt as though each bone in my battered body was on the verge of snapping.

Falling to our backs at night’s camp, we watched as the sky cleared. It was Aug. 13, the night of the Perseid meteor shower. Other campers cheered as the meteors began to rain down, but I was far too exhausted to care. I couldn’t hold my eyes open long enough to catch a glimpse.

I shivered through our last night on the mountain and awoke to a luminous, blue sky.

Looking north, I saw Hood standing tall and peacefully. Despite all the pain, and the adverse trail conditions, I smiled as we strolled by magnificent waterfalls on that last bright day.

We all burst into childlike laughter as we trotted through fields and fields of flowers.

Sighs and groans echoed, more laughter rang out, and tears welled in our eyes as we caught sight of the car. ❈

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No problem, because a weekend traverse is totally doable if you’re willing to work in 20-mile days.

Not that hardcore? Yeah, me neither. Luckily for you, there’s a ton of ways to see the best parts of the trek without a 40-mile commitment. JOE MICHAEL RIEDL.

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To See Gnarly Waterfalls

begin at Ramona Falls Trailhead, just over an hour from Portland. Follow Trail #797 for about a mile. Cross the Sandy River with extreme caution. Keep following the Sandy toward Ramona Falls for about 2.5 miles and you’ll come across the 120-foot waterfall, a cascade of crystal-clear water over a wall made of broken, hexagonal basalt. Or, if you find the leeward side of the mountain more enticing, go check out Wallalute Falls, a nearly 200-foot waterfall that, because of the Forest Service’s new route over Eliot Creek, is a lot easier to see! Start at Cloud Cap Saddle Campground, about an hour and 20 minutes south of Hood River, and follow Trail #600, aka the Timberline Trail, down toward Eliot Creek. Cross the creek and continue on the trail a few hundred feet for a spectacular view of the peculiar waterfall.

To Trot Through Wildflower Meadows follow the Timberline Trail (#600)

east for 5.5 miles from Cloud Cap Saddle, crossing White River and arriving at Mount Hood Meadows, where ski lifts sit idle in the summer and flowers remain abundant through September. Or, for a more challenging route, head the other way, following the Timberline Trail west to Paradise Park.

This secluded expanse offers stunning views of the mountain as well as tons of spots to break for lunch, buzzing bees and hummingbirds feasting on nectar.

To Jaunt to Jaw-Dropping Views

head to Top Spur Trailhead and hike just a mile to Bald Mountain. This quick trip offers views of Muddy Fork below a picturesque Mount Hood. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, attempt Lamberson Spur on the east side of the mountain. Start at Cloud Cap campground and head south along the Timberline Trail for about 2 miles. This rocky, treeless terrain offers amazing views of the Cascade Volcanoes to the north, as well as the Columbia River, and the deserts of Oregon and Washington to the east.

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FOUR GREAT WATERFALL HIKES STILL AWAIT YOU IN THE GORGE.

BY MICHEL L E DEVON A

Just a few weeks ago, we watched in horror after learning our beloved Columbia River Gorge had fallen victim to a massive wildfire, which was still burning at press time.

While it may just be another wildfire to some, it’s a tragic loss for those of us who sought refuge among the lush forest trails and waterfalls. However, we have good news for those still grieving. There are still awesome waterfall hikes on the Washington side of the Gorge that are totally worth the trip, some of which do not get nearly as much foot traffic—or didn’t before this.

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40 minutes from Portland: Take I-5 North and turn right on WA-14 after crossing the Columbia River. Head east to Milepost 26, turn left on Salmon Falls Road, and use the parking lot on your immediate right.

One of the more adventurous and varied hikes in the Gorge, Washington’s Cape Horn Loop takes you along lush forest, idyllic countryside and by a few pleasant waterfalls. The lower portion of the trail is closed from Feb. 1 to July 15 to protect nesting peregrine falcons, so you’ll need to go while it’s open if you’re hoping to see waterfalls. Start from the trailhead, where you’ll soon climb a series of steep switchbacks through a forest of bigleaf maple and some patches of wildflowers.

The loop includes several dizzying overlooks, where you’ll see Oregon points of interest like Angels Rest and Coopey Falls. You’ll also get a panoramic Gorge view at Phoca Viewpoint, a stone amphitheater perched above the highway that eyes Multnomah Falls and Mist Falls across the river. You’ll also hit a section with some tall grassy meadows and pastoral farmland where, if you’re lucky, you can catch a glimpse of some horses. After the countryside, you’ll again snake through forest before eventually ducking a highway underpass, and this is where the trail begins to get more wild and rugged.

The loop’s lower portion zigzags several switchbacks with river vistas and some mossy scree slopes where you’ll see a couple of waterfalls. Just as your legs begin to turn to jelly, you’ll come to a footbridge facing Cape Horn Falls, which you can actually walk behind, although this involves a slight ascent to the waterfall base. The waterfall resembles more of a shower than anything else, sprinkling down onto a bed of rocks. Afterward, you’ll continue down the steep, rugged trail before meeting Cape Horn Road, a paved street that leads you through a rural residential area back to the trailhead.

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2. Hamilton Mountain Loop

60 minutes from Portland: From I-84 East, take Exit 44 and cross the Bridge of the Gods ($2 toll). Turn left onto WA-14. After about 7 miles, you’ll see the parking area for Beacon Rock on your left.

Make a right up the hill, and the trailhead parking lot will be on your right. $10 Discover Pass required.

Right across from Beacon Rock, the Hamilton Mountain Trail has pretty much everything going for it when it comes to Gorge hikes, what with rushing waterfalls, cliffs, epic views and deep forest. During the warmer months, you may come across Oregon grape, thimbleberry and wild rose while in the fall you’ll see an undertone of yellow maples poking out from behind green firs. Begin with a moderate climb up a trail lined with second-growth Douglas fir and then under some power lines before reaching a bench where you can catch your breath and enjoy views of Hamilton Mountain and Bonneville Dam. A little farther down, you’ll find a side trail that descends to a somewhat tree-obscured view of Hardy Falls, one of the three waterfalls on this hike. The two others, Pool of Winds and Rodney Falls, await not far ahead. Hardy Creek gushes from 50 feet above into the rock-formed pool that is Pool of Winds, and if you stand right next to it, you’ll be welcomed with a powerful yet refreshing spray. FYI, you’re going to get a bit wet, but it’s the ultimate in-your-face waterfall experience, one in which you can get up close and personal rather than simply admire from afar. From the footbridge, you’ll see Rodney Falls, the second tier created by Pool of Winds, as it cascades down a mossy rock water slide.

After the bridge, be ready to switchback uphill before meeting a junction with Hardy Creek Trail, where you’ll decide whether to take the high road by continuing the steeper ascent up Hamilton Mountain, with cliff-edged vistas of Mounts Hood, Adams and St. Helens and Table Mountain, or go with the easier Hardy Creek Trail without as many views. Either way, it’s safe to say you’ve earned yourself a pint (or several) after this one.

3. Falls Creek Falls Loop 90 minutes from Portland: From I-84 East, take Exit 44 and cross the Bridge of the Gods ($2 toll). Turn right onto WA-14 and continue about 6 miles before making a left onto Sprague Landing Road. Continue straight to stay on Wind River Highway before making a right onto Meadow Creek Road/NF-30. In less than a mile, turn right onto NF-3062 and continue 2.4 miles to the trailhead. Note: Use extra caution when driving on NF-3062; it’s a gravel road and, at the time of this writing, had a few potholes.

Cloistered within Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Falls Creek Falls is a whimsical three-tiered waterfall often overlooked. The gently graded trail hugs the creek for the first mile, giving way to a tranquil sun-dappled hike. You’ll reach a suspension bridge that crosses a section where the creek channels through a narrow basalt canyon. The trail continues to weave along the creek and takes you past giant old-growth firs and cedars while down below the current makes it way around tight little canyons and rocks.

As you approach Falls Creek Falls, the powerful sound of water thundering down is heard before it’s even within view, and a cool misty breeze pervades the area once you’re there.

Even more lush greenery clings to the rocks around the falls, which make it seem more surreal than anything else. So much so the entire scene could easily pass as cover art for a cheesy romance novel, sans heroine and flowing-hair dude. After admiring the falls, head back the way you came and you’ll soon arrive at a junction that gives you the option to ascend a steep trail to the top of the falls. While only the very top of the waterfalls are within sight here, there are some killer views of the mountains and valley below. To complete the loop, return via Upper Trail 152. FYI, the road leading to this trail is closed Dec. 1 to April 1, so if you go then, add another 4 miles to the trail.

Bonus: Panther Creek Falls is only about a 30-minute drive from Falls Creek Falls Trailhead (below).

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4. Panther Creek Falls Hike

75 minutes from Portland: From I-84 East, take Exit 44 and cross the Bridge of the Gods ($2 toll). Turn right onto WA-14 and continue about 6 miles before making a left onto Wind River Highway toward Carson. Drive 5.8 miles before turning right onto Old State Road for the Panther Creek Campground. Continue 0.1 miles and then turn left onto Panther Creek Road. Stay on this road for another 7.5 miles and you’ll see a large gravel parking lot on the right. Park there and walk back down the direction you came. You’ll soon see a large spray-painted sign on the road for Panther Creek Falls.

Yet another stunning waterfall quietly tucked within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Panther Creek Falls is a nice little hike that you can pair with nearby Falls Creek Falls.

While there’s no official street sign that marks the trailhead, you’ll see a huge arrow spray-painted in the road pointing to the trail. Just walk down the gently graded gravel trail until you hit the viewing platform for Panther Creek Falls. From here, you can observe the upper section of the falls, where Panther Creek plunges down a channel and transforms into a veil of waterfalls cascading over a mossy rock face.

There’s another small portion of the falls that escapes the channel and drops right down, eventually merging with the other falls before tumbling into the pool below. If you’re feeling adventurous, you can take on the somewhat sketchy scramble leading down to the base of the falls, which is only recommended if you have some off-trail hiking experience.

It’s also suggested you bring a rope if you want to do the climb to the waterfall base since it’s such a steep descent. If you do make it down, you can see the true grandiosity of the falls as it plummets from high above. For folks who would like to make a weekend out of it, there’s camping during the summer months at the Panther Creek Campground, which is about four miles south of Panther Creek Falls. ❈ Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 wweek.com

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BY DANA ALSTON

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It’s been a great month in Portland. (Unless you count the hellish blaze ripping through the Columbia River Gorge and the ash raining down from the heavens that followed.)

The Eagle Creek Fire is the result of teenage idiocy—let’s just call it what it is—and the result of that result is environmentally horrendous. As of this week, it’s combined with the Indian Creek Fire and has burned more than 35,000 acres of wilderness. That’s bigger than Walt Disney World.

No human casualties have been reported. But the damage to the Gorge— one of the most popular hiking and camping areas in the entire state—is already catastrophic. To gain some sense of it all, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular burned and/or closed areas in an effort to eulogize the massive loss of nature.

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Eagle-Benson Loop

This was one of the most accessible and well-maintained waterfalls in the Gorge. Now there’s nothing but blackened wood, a oncebeautiful bridge and a grottolike amphitheater.

One of the most challenging hikes in the Gorge was also one of the most revered, probably for the sheer number of photo ops. The loop gave you a tour of the entire Gorge, complete with waterfalls and cliff views.

Munra Point This unmaintained trail offered one of the best viewpoints of the Gorge, though you had to get past a slightly treacherous scramble chimney.

Trust us, the view was worth it. Was.

Wauna Point Near the heart of the fire, the hike to Wauna Point passed several unnamed waterfalls.

Once you got to the top, panoramic views of the Gorge abounded.

This magnificent trail of waterfalls was one of the most popular in the entire Gorge. Full of lush forest, cliffs, streams and strange rock formations, it now lies in the middle of the wildfire and will probably take years to fully recover.

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Buck Point It could be difficult finding the right trails on this hike, but the view—which looked west down the Columbia River—was more than worth it. Too bad the whole area’s now up in flames.

The Eagle Creek-to-Wahtum Lake trek was a favorite for backpackers that connected with the Pacific Crest Trail for a three-to-fourday hike. Now, the lake may be completely inaccessible from the Columbia River thanks to the fire.

Dry Creek Falls It turns out Oregon has a lot of waterfalls.

Dry Creek Falls just happens to be a highlight; despite its name, it never runs dry, even during the warmest summer months.

It’s probably still fine, though the area was at one point surrounded by flames.

Eagle Creek Overlook Created by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, the overlook included a picnic area and popular group campground with connections to all sorts of hikes. Normally, it’s open from May 1 to Sept.

30, by which time the fire will reportedly be contained.

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Mist Falls This Multnomah area hike offered a view of a gorgeous waterfall and a deceptively easylooking hike.

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Trails to this extinct volcano are currently closed to the public. Before the area caught fire, the trail—built in 1915—took hikers across bridges and up a mountain with a relatively steady incline.

One of the most popular destinations in the entire Gorge. But the area’s currently closed, and the fire has spread nearby. The future for the hike is unknown.

Horsetail Falls The best way to see Horsetail was the main loop. It’s low elevation gave hikers great views of three different waterfalls and Oneonta Gorge.

Bridal Veil Falls The short hike to Bridal Veil was a tourist favorite. Be sure to check out all the hearts carved into the lookout railing, once the area is actually open to the public and not on fire. ❈ Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 wweek.com

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This Land Is Our Land HERE’S WHERE TO DONATE TO HELP VICTIMS OF THE GORGE FIRE.

BY SOPHIA J U N E

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When the forest caught fire, Oregonians gave.

Within hours of the fire, cases of water bottles were dropped off at sheriff’s offices without them even asking. They were all delivered, filling an entire TriMet bus.

Three weeks later, the fire is only 32 percent contained, and there are evacuated residents who still cannot return to their homes. Oregonians need to keep giving, and not just supplies, which can actually become a burden during a time of disaster.

But you know what’s always helpful? Money! Here’s where to donate.

1. Red Cross Cascades Region The American Red Cross is currently assisting approximately 170 people evacuated from their homes because of the Eagle Creek Fire. People staying at the two Red Cross wildfire evacuation shelters, located in Troutdale and Hood River, are being assisted with lodging, food, water, shower facilities, and health and mental health services. You can donate directly on the Red Cross website at www.redcross.org/local/oregon. Even just $2.50 provides toiletries, and $5 provides a blanket. The Red Cross is asking for financial contributions or bulk, in-kind donations. For more information about bulk donations, call 503-528-5634.

2. Friends of the Columbia Gorge The only nonprofit dedicated to the Columbia Gorge will be crucial to replanting efforts. Become a member of Friends of the Columbia Gorge at gorgefriends.org/donate. You can also sign up for emails for future volunteer opportunities once the fires have cleared.

3. Gorge first responders Thunder Island Brewery is organizing a GoFundMe page to honor the firefighters first on the scene. So far, it’s raised $13,000 and is now trying to reach $20,000 to be split among first responders from Cascade Locks and Carson, Ore., and North Bonneville, Stevenson, Washougal and Skamania, Wash.

4. Hood River County Sheriff Search and Rescue Donate to the team that rescued the 153 trapped hikers from Eagle Creek. Donations will benefit future searches and rescues. You can donate at any U.S. Bank branch or hand-deliver or mail donations to: 601 State St., Hood River, OR 97031.

5. Wildland Firefighter Foundation The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office is not accepting donations but instead suggests people give to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation, a group that helps families of firefighters who have died fighting wildfires. You can donate at wffoundation.org.

6. Various GoFundMe pages

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There are currently 49 GoFundMe campaigns to help various Eagle Creek Fire efforts. These include helping an elderly woman whose house burned down, a family evacuated from their home, and the chef of the Division Street restaurant Cibo, whose family was evacuated. Visit the GoFundMe website and search “Eagle Creek Fire” for a complete list. ❈

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THE EAGLE CREEK FIRE IS TERRIBLE. BUT WHAT COMES NEXT IS BOTH NATURAL AND BEAUTIFUL.

BY CO R B I N SM I T H

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n 1902, there was a fire near Eagle Creek. How it started is a matter of debate. Jim Atwell’s 1974 history of the Columbia River Gorge presents several conflicting narratives: Either a gang of dirtbag teens was trying to burn out a yellow jacket nest, a hard-working steamboat crew was trying to burn out a yellow jacket nest, or there was a lightning strike.

The cause isn’t that important really.

What is important is that wind and dry grasses conspired to spread the fire throughout the east end of the Gorge and across the Columbia River into Washington, where it found dry September weather, irresponsible lumber storage practices, and other small fires. The blaze laid waste to a massive swath of forest across Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania counties.

The complex of fires was christened the Yacolt Burn, though it barely missed the city of Yacolt. It killed 65 people, cleared a whopping 500,000 acres of forest, destroyed $13 million worth of property and covered Portland in a half-inch of ash.

The transformation in firefighting methods after the Yacolt Burn was swift.

“After that, the general regime was ‘fight all fire very, very aggressively,’” says Andy Matarrese, a reporter for The Columbian who previously fought wildfires for three seasons. “They had something called the ‘10 am rule,’ and the idea was that every fire call firefighters would have under control by 10 am the next day.”

It’s been 115 years since the Yacolt Burn, and the area affected is now a rainforest like every other rainforest in the Pacific Northwest, with only minor signs there was a catastrophic fire there in the relatively recent past. It regrew from the ashes.

This is what forests do.

A complete absence of fire promotes “thick, nasty,” overgrown forest, Matarrese says, one that stops growing in the way its supposed to.

Even the dudes holding the hoses know it, he adds.

“The joke we tell is, late in the fire season, on the ground, basic-level firefighters get sort of an existential crisis because you know a lot of the work you’re doing isn’t necessarily good for the forest,” Matarrese says. “Most fire is pretty good for a forest from a nature-slash-ecology perspective.”

This brings context to the recent string of wildfires along the Columbia River Gorge, popularly known as the Eagle Creek Fire. Three weeks ago, Washington enacted its long-simmering revenge for Yacolt when a Vancouver teen threw a firecracker down a ravine and started a massive blaze that devoured the Columbia Gorge. The fire blanketed the entire Pacific Northwest in smoke, sent a heap of ash pouring into Portland, and destroyed 30,000plus acres of forest along the Gorge, one of the scenic jewels of the beautiful state of Oregon.

Fire is a bummer. It’s dangerous; it burns people’s homes, threatens civic landmarks and razes elements of the natural world some of us have lived with all our lives.

It sends animals scattering to find food and shelter.

But it’s important to observe that fire—even fire caused by humans—is a part of nature.

Grant Kratzer Flowers wilt, rivers flood, volcanoes blow up, forests burn. It’s essential to their very existence, the top of the stroke in the bicycle pedal of their lives, a fundamental fact of their nature, inevitable and beneficial.

Meg Krawchuk, assistant professor at the Oregon State University College of Forestry, says fire is a necessity in forest ecosystems.

“We’re actually in a bit of a fire deficit when we think about this over the longer historical period,” she says.

“You certainly don’t want too much of this, and we’re not sure how the size of the Eagle Creek Fire plays into the natural patterning we might expect to see over a longer historical period of time, but the very being of fire in that ecosystem is very likely a good thing.”

Life will return to burned areas in short order. Fungi are already crawling around in the ashes of the fire, laying the foundation for soil that will support the plants that will constitute the early seral stage of the forest’s regrowth—a time when heat from the fire and sunlight newly reaching the ground in the absence of a canopy encourages a new crop of plants to firm up the soil structure that will allow gigantic trees to thrive.

Some of the plants we’ll see in the seral stage of the Gorge regrowth have a striking beauty. Fireweed, a fast-spreading flying seeder that often sets the stage for post-fire regrowth, produces pyramids of striking pinkish purple flowers. Wild blueberries and huckleberries devour the acidic soils of post-fire environments, and they’ll start to appear en masse.

The California lilac is a crazy little fella uncorked by fire itself, Krawchuk says.

“Studies have shown that it can stay in the soil seed bank for 100 or 200 years,” she adds, “and the seeds are actually germinated by the heat of fire. So it’s waiting for that cue from fire to wake up and to germinate and start to sprout into a rich, shrubby shrub cover.”

It also produces a very attractive, miniature-hydrangea-looking blue flower.

“We just have to get used to the new baby stage that’s going to come up in that area over the next year or two, three, four years,” Krawchuk says, “and let go of the images and the attachments that we had to the older forest that used to be there.”

The only danger for the future of the Gorge is the presence of noxious weeds. Extreme fire events work to clear out invasive aggro pests like Himalayan blackberry, Scotch broom and garlic mustard, but they also leave the area vulnerable to the plants’ regrowth. Time and the omnipresence of nature’s touch will do a lot of the work of restoring the forest, but watching out for these weeds in the early stages and perhaps doing some early tree planting to firm up the soil and prevent erosion and winter landslides will be the responsibility of land managers on the ground at the Gorge.

Plants are not like human beings. They are indifferent to emotional setbacks, they grow where they can, they exist in forms small and large, and they live and die in total indifference to how we feel about them.

The Gorge as we think of it might be altered beyond recognition, but even as the fire still rages, it is already blooming, transmuted by fire, growing into a beautiful new thing in itself, becoming the next beautiful thing it will be for our children. ❈ Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 wweek.com

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HIM OUT PETR KAKES IS A LEGENDARY CHARACTER IN THE HOODLAND. AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT CRAZY.

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

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etr Kakes’ mountain name is “the Crazy Czech.”

And it’s a pretty suitable name, considering he defected from the former Soviet satellite state, and his hobbies include making special Alpine soup for a nacho crowd and being towed behind a snowmobile on skis at 90 mph.

If you’re a serious skier, you may know Kakes from his work with Skibowl’s ski school and pro shop. But anyone who’s visited Mount Hood’s smallest and steepest resort has hopefully stopped to warm their hands by the stone fireplace inside the midmountain Warming Hut on the slopes of Skibowl.

The Warming Hut is a unique place in Oregon, a little piece of Czechia on the West Coast.

“There are people that come to play at Skibowl just because of the Warming Hut,” Kakes says. “Obviously, the Upper Bowl is always an attraction, but not always is the snow of high quality up there. And then there’s a lot of people who ski here for years, including people I know, who go, ‘Oh, I didn’t know there was even food there or that you can drink!’”

Inside the hut, Pilsner Urquell gets the only tap while bottles of Trappist ale chill in the fridge. Your other beverage options are coffee, tea and hot spiced glühwein from Nuremberg. The sausages on the grill are from Otto’s Sausage Kitchen—Kakes has been friends with the owners of the 80-year-old Southeast Portland restaurant since the ’90s, taking them to Europe with him as a way of persuading them to adjust their recipes.

On busy weekends, Kakes serves his own Alpine-recipe soup.

“There were complainers in the beginning, saying, ‘Where is the Coors Light and Bud Light?’” he says. “I was pointing down, down the hill. Down below, not in here!”

The Warming Hut’s peculiarities are all attributable to Kakes, who leases the property directly from the U.S. Forest Service and uses the 400-square-foot hut to indulge his own tastes and passions. Though he’s been affiliated with Skibowl for three decades, Kakes remains an independent contractor who works alongside resort owner Kirk Hanna.

Everything about the unique place Kakes has created in the middle of the mountain, and the unique place he occupies in the lore of Hood, makes a little more sense when you hear his backstory.

In 1980, at age 21, Kakes defected from socialism. He lived in Germany for six years and then moved to the States, where he bought a service truck that followed the pro ski tour. Every day pro skiers need their bindings checked, their skis waxed and sponsor patches sewn onto their clothing, which left a niche for the then-26year-old Kakes. Following the pros brought him for the first time to Oregon, where he parked his truck near the summer academies that set up on the glacier at Timber26

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T h e Warmin g Hut > line Lodge after the nation’s other resorts shut down their lifts for the season.

“I had the truck in New Hampshire, doing nothing during the summertime other than paying the loan to the bank, because it was a pretty high-end truck with all the tools and stone grinders and bells and whistles,” he says.

“So I came here.”

After a few summers in Oregon, he saw an opening in the Hoodland.

“I set up meetings with all three ski resorts, letting them know what my background was and what my plans were,” he says. “Kirk Hanna was the only one who listened, since he was just getting started. He had just bought Skibowl. There was no tuning shop here, there were no demo skis—there was a rental shop. I moved my shop down here, started helping with races, started helping with biking in the summer, then helping with ski school, then running the ski school.”

Then, in 1991, he voiced his displeasure with the Warming Hut, which won him an invitation to operate it himself.

“I was kind of complaining about the service level in the Warming Hut—the water ran out and nobody said anything for two days until everybody complained that there’s no coffee because there’s no water,” he says. “ I said, ‘Kirk, you want me to show you how to run a midmountain warming hut?’ And so we agreed, and I’ve been doing it ever since.”

The hut was built in 1934, and was the original base lodge for the resort. It was in disrepair when Kakes and a new crew of rangers made plans to rehab it.

“The old rangers, they were going to burn it down,” he says. “The beams were being eaten up by the water running through it. The current ranger saved it.”

Midmountain huts are fairly typical at large resorts, but its placement just a few hundred vertical feet above the main lodge may seem a little odd. That’s because the Upper Bowl of Skibowl was once the entirety of the resort. To

get there, you had to hike up from the parking lot. Inside the Warming Hut, coffee and tea were sold on the honor system—they were free if you lugged up a gallon of diesel to run the generator.

Running the hut keeps Kakes plenty busy. It also helps the former Olympian train for his new sport.

In 1989, Czechoslovakia separated from the Soviet socialist republics, meaning Kakes was once again welcome in the homeland he had defected from a decade before.

In 1992, Mount Hood had one of the worst seasons in its history, as weather patterns dumped all of Oregon’s snow on Bend. So Kakes left his fledgling building and went to Europe to train, qualifying to enter the 1992 Olympics as a speed skier for Czechoslovakia. He ended up taking sixth place in the drag racing of snow sports, in which skiers bomb straight downhill at 150 mph.

Kakes no longer speed skis competitively, but he does still ski at 90 mph. He’s a three-time champion of the Arctic Man, a cultish race in Alaska in which skiers bomb downhill, then merge with redlining snowmobiles that tow them uphill. The race covers 5.5 miles in just over four minutes, and “the Crazy Czech” is, as far as he knows, the only one who’s participated for the past 24 years straight.

It’s a race there’s basically no way to train for—well, except by managing a warming hut.

“How about cutting, splitting, stocking 12 or 13 cords of wood under the Warming Hut every fall?” he says. “This is now my 24th year going up there. I don’t need to practice that portion, I just have to stay physically in shape.” ❈

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CABINS MOUNT HOOD’S STEINER CABINS ARE ONE OF OREGON’S GREAT ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES— AND YOU CAN RENT ONE FOR THE WEEKEND.

BY JOR DA N GR EEN

Henry Steiner could’ve raised pigs near Oregon City, but he didn’t like pigs all that much. Instead, at the turn of the 20th century, he learned how to build cabins and flood dams in the Cascade Foothills. For the rest of his life, and working entirely by hand, Steiner and his family built more than 100 log homes and buildings now recognized as architectural treasures.

Not only are the nearly century-old Steiners some of the oldest log cabins in the country still standing, they’re also some of the most distinctive. Their A-frames and straight, strong timbers are set off by doorways made with snow-bent trees and rockers made of tree roots— hardscrabble artistry made of mismatched parts.

His work is as far-flung as the Oregon Writers Colony in Rockaway Beach and the massive hexagonal posts forming the spine of Timberline Lodge. Iconic examples of the National Park Service style that swept Depressionera building and rural vitalization by the Works Progress Administration throughout the early 20th century, they’re also among the few true architectural treasures you can rent for the weekend: Most remain along the winding, root-gnarled roads laced out around Highway 26.

Steiner arrived at Mount Hood from an immigrant family. His parents had moved to America from Erlenbach, Germany, in 1882, when he was just 5 years old, finally settling in a little church community near Oregon City.

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Steiner grew up there, marrying Mollie Jaster in 1905, a month after helping construct the Forestry Building, the largest log cabin ever built, for the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland.

But in 1927, the Steiners relocated to Brightwood, the westernmost link in the chain of villages stretching from Mount Hood along what is now Highway 26. It was here Henry Steiner began his most prolific work. The Arts and Craft movement renewed interest in living off public land, and Steiner began building log cabins to accommodate tourism and vacation homes for Portlanders.

In fact, the Steiners proved prolific in more ways than one: Mollie gave birth to 13 children, and Henry consistently took advantage of the free labor. His sons cleared land, cut timber and shaved cedar shakes while Mollie and the daughters peeled the Douglas fir. The cabins were built with lumber and stones gathered on-site, and photos of original work sites resemble meadows more than forest.

The Mount Hood Cultural Center & Museum, curated by Lloyd Musser, boasts a display of Steiner’s work, including sketched plans and a simple wood box of Steiner’s archaic tools. Musser, one of Steiner’s most vocal champions, points out a long-handled sledgehammer Henry used for driving stakes. The massive sledge might as well be Thor’s mighty Mjolnir.

“That’s what he swung all the way into his 70s,” Musser nods admiringly. But he’s even more impressed by Steiner’s attention to detail. “He used smaller logs than most log-home builders. That’s one of the reasons they don’t collapse like a lot of log cabins. What’s truly amazing is the quarter-inch-round chinking between the larger logs to seal in heat during winter. He cut them himself. It’s a miracle he didn’t lose a finger.”

For all of Steiners’ Teutonic efficiency, it’s the signatures that set his work apart. Porches often feature sunbursts and split Y-boughed benches. Double Dutch doors are common, with arched windows and winding staircases culled from misshapen trunk splits. A few feature elegant branch bannisters, and most are warmed by stone fireplaces curved to conduct heat.

Most of the masonry was handled by Steiner’s sons, John and Fred, the stones pulled from nearby creeks and rivers. During lunch breaks, Steiner would wander off into the woods for his most whimsical flourishes: curiously shaped limb stumps, which he mounted as doorknobs.

Even with Steiner trademarks, each cabin is utterly unique, built on spec and shaped by the curvature of timber found nearby.

In April 1953, at age 71, Steiner left his home in Brightwood and took one last walk into the forest. A day later, in search of his father, Fred Steiner drowned in the Salmon

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River after being thrown from his raft. Henry’s body was found more than a week later, seated by a stump, a little ways off from the paths he’d walked most of his life. After stints in the Marines and logging, John Steiner continued his father’s legacy by repairing many of the cabins his family built until he died in 2012.

But many of the cabins remain. Musser and his fellow Steiner enthusiasts have tracked down 88 of Steiner’s 100 structures. A few have burned down, as log cabins tend to do. Most are in excellent shape, though, and Steiner’s growing legacy has inspired interest by younger generations.

Each year, Musser and retired Welches schoolteacher Nancy Dougherty host a tour of the Steiner cabins in April. At least two Steiner cabins, Dancing Bear just outside Rhododendron and a 1939 Brightwood dwelling called Zoe’s Log Cabin, are available for weekend rentals.

But Dougherty lives in hers—a two-story, three-bedroom Steiner tucked across the highway from the Rhododendron Dairy Queen. Steiner’s craftsmanship is evident in every corner. Even the dining-room table is the family’s handiwork. The cabin is large, with an airy interior for so organic a structure. The torrent of the Zigzag River is a soft hush when the windows and doors are shut. The cabin faces the creek, a grand porch jutting out toward the water under a Steiner sunburst. ❈ Willamette Week SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 wweek.com

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Prep Up THESE PORTLAND SHOPS CAN OUTFIT YOU FOR YOUR MOUNT HOOD ADVENTURES.

BY S H A N N O N G O R M LEY

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This time of year, gear becomes crucial to enjoying the outdoors in Oregon. Having the right clothing can make the difference between your outdoor excursion going smoothly and having a wet, cold and miserable day. Though it’s not necessarily pleasant to hike a trail in flip-flops in the summer, you can usually do it without dying. But in the colder months, when trails get muddy and icy, more than that can go wrong.

Luckily, Portlanders have a lot of options when it comes to buying their outdoor supplies. Whether you’re just looking to replace the straps on your snowshoes or need to outfit yourself for a week in the backcountry from scratch, there’s a shop that has what you need.

Here are the 11 stores with the staff and stock that can best prepare you for your outdoor adventures.

Andy and Bax

324 SE Grand Ave., 503-234-7538, andyandbax.com. 9 am-6 pm Monday-Thursday and Saturday, 9 am-8 pm Friday.

Andy and Bax falls somewhere between a military surplus shop and a novelty store, so you could pass a lot of time just browsing. Want some rabbit pelts or nunchucks? How about guidebooks on hand-to-hand combat or booby traps?

But it also has a large selection of rugged gear at good prices. This isn’t the place to go for backpacking, since it won’t have the latest high-tech ultralight version of whatever you’re looking for, but it will have the military-grade version.

Arc’teryx

605 NW 23rd Ave., 503-8081859, stores.arcteryx.com/portland. 10 am-7 pm daily.

If you have a shit ton of money to spend on outdoor apparel, you should probably spend it at Arc’teryx. The Vancouver, B.C., company makes serious activewear that’s lightweight but extremely durable. Its boutiquelike store on Northwest 23rd Avenue has monochromatic apparel from base layers out, but the gear that’s most worth splurging on is the outer layers: everything from luxuriantly fluffy, rain-repellent parkas to ventilated rain gear and ultra-lightweight thermal jackets.

Evo

200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-972-5850, evo. com. 11 am-7 pm daily.

Everything at Evo looks as if it were meant to be seen through an Instagram filter. The Seattle company’s Portland store has a zen layout, with white walls and light hardwood floors. In addition to bougie clothing from Prana and Patagonia, the Portland store stocks the likes of rainproof wedge booties, T-shirts that say things like “West Coast Wild Child,” and the sleeping-bag version of a snuggie. But on the second floor, Evo has an impressive selection of snowboards, skateboards and skis. You can even get a board decorated with a photo of a cat sitting on the head of a wide-eyed pony if you’re into that kind of thing.

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Icebreaker

1109 W Burnside St., 503-241-8300, icebreaker.com. 10 am-7 pm Monday-Saturday, 11 am-6 pm.

Everyone knows that any synthetic fabric labeled “moisture wicking” is total bullshit. If you want athletic clothing that will keep you dry, wool is the way to go. Icebreaker’s merino wool clothing may not be the cheapest, but it’s lightweight, warm yet breathable and your best chance of keeping warm but not sweaty on cold-weather adventures. Its Pearl District storefront keeps a couple different outdoor clothing options in stock in base, mid- and outer layers. If you’re willing to drive for a bargain, an Icebreaker outlet store in Woodburn offers great deals.

Mountain Shop

1510 NE 37th Ave., 503-288-6768, mountainshop.net. 10 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday.

The name pretty much gives it away, but the Sullivan’s Gulch store is the best place to go for anything mountainrelated—particularly climbing, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing and, uh, mountaineering.

A RC’TERY X Founded by an Oregon mountaineer 80 years ago, Mountain Shop employs a staff that is super-knowledgeable. If you’re climbing Mount Hood, this is where you can get your climbing ropes and harnesses, plus maps, dehydrated food and advice. Mountain Shop carries gear that’s pretty specialized, so it may not have the most cost- efficient options if you’re just starting out. But along with doing repairs, it also has rental gear.

Next Adventure

426 SE Grand Ave., 503-233-0706, nextadventure.net. 10 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday.

Ask most outdoorsy Portlanders, and they’ll tell you Next Adventure is the first place they shop for most gear. That’s because in addition to two floors of solid new stock, some of it from house brands that cost half as much as the alternative, it also has a basement packed with used gear.

Savvy shoppers start downstairs, then work their way upstairs if they can’t find what they want among the wide selection of gear and clothing, which ranges from climbing shoes to bike bags.

Portland Outdoor Store

304 SW 3rd Ave., 503-222-1051, portlandoutdoorstore.us. 9:30 am-5:30 pm Monday-Saturday.

The smell of new leather hits you before you’re even all the way inside Portland Outdoor Store, a higher-end shop for classic wool outerwear, fly-fishers and cowboys. This Western apparel and saddle store has cowboy boots and lots of jeans and jean jackets, but it also sells Filson and Pendleton sweaters and flannel. What Portland Outdoor lacks in variety, it makes up for in consistency. There’s a whole row of the most basic wool sweaters in muted colors, and several floor-to-ceiling shelves of blue jeans.

REI

1405 NW Johnson St., 503-221-1938, rei.com. 10 am-9 pm Monday-Saturday, 10 am-7 pm Sunday.

There’s a reason everybody in Portland owns one of those REI Flash packs. REI is nothing if not reliable, and carries standard to specialized gear and apparel. The fact that it’s a large chain means it has a huge selection of devices like solar chargers and portable water filters and can afford to stock specialty items that are hard to find at other outdoor stores.

Timberland

1015 NW Couch St., 503-227-5125, timberland.com. 10 am-7 pm Monday-Saturday, 10 am-6 pm Sunday.

They come from the other side of the country, but “Timbs” are perhaps the perfect New Portland footwear.

An old-school functional-to-fashion crossover, the rugged and waterproof nubuck leather boots have long been popular with everyone from hikers to construction workers to rappers—Kanye has worn them since he was the old chop-up-the-soul Kanye, and still does now that he’s the spaz-on-the-news Kanye. Portland’s newest shoe store is a boutiquey Timberland shop in the Pearl.

Inside, you’ll find the classics along with newer models that borrow style cues from Red Wing and a line with lighter and more flexible soles called SensorFlex.

U.S. Outdoor Store

219 SW Broadway, 503-223-5937, usoutdoor.com. 9 am-8 pm Monday-Friday, 10 am-6 pm Saturday, 11 am-5 pm Sunday.

The three-level, 60-year-old downtown store mostly stocks apparel. It has a warehouselike discount annex, plus a corner of the store that’s all Arc’teryx. But it also carries the essentials for plenty of outdoor sports, too. On the top floor are beginner-brand snowboards and skis. In the basement, the store offers gear repair services and stock climbing, camping and backpacking equipment. As long as you’re not looking for anything too specialized, U.S. Outdoor probably has it. ❈

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myself on my first Oktoberfest! I was so sow-drunk I could not understand anymore how to read. But that is also because I was four years old and did not yet know how to read! I remember the giant liter bier steins and the Wiesn-grass tromped down into dust, and the giant piss troughs we men could use for free while the pretty ladies had to pay to use the toilet. What fun that was!

German drinking is different from American drinking, and so when you go to your big fake Oktoberfest at Oaks Park with the real Paulaner bier that is tragically not AugustinerBräu bier, there are so many rules. We Germans have so many rules, because rules are how you know how to have fun.

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Do not go eating white sausage after noon. If you are eating a white sausage after noon, then you will lose all your hair. And you will probably also have bad sex, you bald person.

When you are clinking the glasses before you drink, you always look each and every person in the eye, every time you clink every glass. Otherwise you will be having seven years bad sex!

Never drink without clinking a glass and looking a person in the eye. Strangers or children, A-OK! Unless the children do not have bier! Never clink a glass with a glass that does not have bier! If a child does not have bier, give the child some bier. If you clink a glass without bier, also seven years bad sex!

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All drunken children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by their parents. Or by an irresponsible uncle or something.

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There are many things you can say when you are clinking the glasses. You can say “Prost!” Or “Prosit!”

Or “Skol!” Or “Zum Wohl!” Or “Eins! Zwei! G’suffa!” or “Lasst euch nicht lumpen, hoch mit den Humpen!”

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When the music plays, you are to lock arms with your neighbor and sway back and forth.

Germans dance from side to side, not up and down like pathetic little bunny rabbits.

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Drinking and dancing on benches is a very normal thing that people do. Drinking and dancing on tables or bar tops like an American Ugly Coyote is disgusting and you will be thrown out, you animallike thing.

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Wear appropriate hats, like hats with three corners, and big pointy cloth hats like the kind dwarves wear, with blue and white string around them. Do not wear American basketball hats with strange letters on them like P or C or NY that mean nothing and will make people think you are very stupid.

Only kiss a stranger if a stranger kisses you first, and only if you are very drunk. Come to think of it, don’t kiss anyone. Kissing is for the French.

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When you are drinking from a whole stein, do not be drinking your drink down to the last warm and spit-filled drop like an old Swede. This is silly and disgusting. Leave the bottom of your bier on the table.

There is more bier.

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Do not arrive to the Oktoberfest meadow sober.

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Always be tipping your server. Schlepping all of those grand liter biers has made them very strong and angry and dangerous.

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Yes, of course you can eat a little hendl to help you fill out your dirndl. But always be remembering: The bier is the food. It is called liquid bread for a reason!

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When you are drunk, you may get angry. This is completely normal! But when angry, do not tell a person that they are sow-dumb or say that someone has shit inside their head. It is more polite to ask them a question, such as “Are you fucking sow-stupid, or what?” or “Did someone shit inside your head?”

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Always say hello. If someone looks at you a little bit, say hello. If they sit down two tables away, also say hello. If they left to go to the bathroom and then they come back, say “Hallo, again!”

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All the single ladies bind their dirndls on the left. Married ladies bind their dirndls on the right. I do so remember the one time I got it the wrong way, and it was so embarrassing!

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Do not set anything on fire, please. That is for Easter time.

OAKS Park fake Oktoberfest runs FridaySunday, September 22-24 at Oaks Park, 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, oaksoktoberfest. com. Actual German Oktoberfest rules may not apply, because Americans are always drinking wrong. Admission to Oktoberfest is $4-$6 when it should always be free, and it is only three days, which is hardly enough time to drink.

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PROBLEMS WITH PEACH: One of the new owners of Portland’s legendary Harvey’s Comedy Club has been arrested three times and convicted once of domestic violence. The Old Town comedy club closed in July when Barry Kolin, Harvey’s founder and owner of 25 years, suffered a heart attack. The club was then bought by former Harvey’s PEACH manager Jeff Kafoury and Doug Peach, a former parole officer and president of a security company. In 2007, Peach was convicted of fourth degree assault of his thengirlfriend. Kafoury confirmed Peach’s identity, but said he was unaware of any assault convictions. At press time, Peach was not available for comment.

THIRD RAIL: Last week, WW reported that landmark fried-chicken dive Reel M Inn had been saved from probable demolition, after new landlord Chris Briggs bought the Division Street building and agreed to renew the bar’s lease. But even though Reel M Inn is staying, its owner is moving on. Paul Meno will pass the bar along to bar manager Carey Bolton, and CHICKEN is retiring to Arizona after 19 years of owning the bar.

Bolton said she signed the paperwork September 8, and plans to change nothing at all. “I love this place.

I’ve been in the industry since I was 14 years old as a dishwasher, and this is the best place I’ve ever been in my life, with the best regulars,” Bolton says.

“Everyplace else is getting torn down. But Reel M Inn is here to stay. It’s so nice to finally be able to say that.”

TRAINING DAY: Steven Cook, co-owner of Northeast Sandy Boulevard bar Church, founded a nonprofit this month called One Portland to foster inclusiveness and combat sexual violence and coercion in bars and restaurants. “There’s an environment that exists that, if it’s left unchecked, is a fertile ground for problematic situations to arise,” Cook says. “I don’t think it’s common knowledge that alcohol tends to be one of the most prevalent date rape drugs.” Member bars donate to the nonprofit, and require their employees to take workshops on sexual violence, coercion and inclusiveness.

Cook says One Portland’s mission is especially important this year. “It’s a really frightening time to be a person of color,” he says, “a really frightening time to be a woman.”

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FRESH HOP POP-UP

W E D N E S D AY

GOLDFRAPP

Fresh hop season is a perk you get for living here, a short car ride from where the hops are grown. And now, at the height of the season, there’s a five-day parking-lot party in the middle of town with daily tappings bringing out the freshest and hoppiest. Burnside Brewing parking lot, 701 E Burnside St., fresh-hops.com. 11 am-9 pm through Sunday.

The last time Goldfrapp came through town 11 years ago, it was in support of the spectacularly stylish Supernature, an album that answered the question, “What if Marc Bolan lived long enough to make an electro-glam record with the ghost of Marlene Dietrich?” New album Silver Eye is so-so, but “Ooh La La” still bangs. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 8 pm. $40 advance, $42 day of show. All ages.

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HUMAN NOISE

Get Busy

Much of the attention heaped on Rhode Island’s Downtown Boys focuses on their radical leftist politics, but the music is just as radical. This year’s Cost of Living is a saxophone-abetted blast of hardcore. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. See profile on page 41.

Imago Theatre’s newest creation will venture into the quiet desperation and alcohol-soaked world of Raymond Carver. In Human Noise, the company will stage three of the illustrious Oregon writer’s short stories and one of his poems. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th St., imagotheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday through Sept. 30.

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Ecologist and butterfly expert Robert Michael Pyle also happens to have written one of the most compelling tomes on Bigfoot, even if he might not entirely believe in its existence. The author is on tour for the update of his 1995 Sasquatch classic. Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton. 7 pm.

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THE DEAD

The Portland-made film chronicles the wake of a man named Charlie, where his friends and relatives confess years of schemes as secrets to his corpse. Though The Dead has a narrative grandeur that defies its claustrophobic setting. It premieres as part of this year’s Oregon Independent Film Festival, where it’s already won Best Comedy and is up for Best Film. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 9:30 pm. $12. See feature on page 56.

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9/23

DESCHUTES STREET PUB

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Deschutes Street Pub is legendary, a 50-tap bar on wheels that plops down wherever the fuck it likes, in the middle of the street. Expect rare beers, live bands and a bunch of food cooked by Wayfinder brewery, the off-street bar right by the on-street bar. Deschutes Street Pub, 200 SE 2nd Ave., deschutesbrewery.com. 2-10 pm. 14-ounce beer tokens $5 apiece.

How you feel about Lil Yachty probably depends on how old you are. The self-proclaimed “King of Teens” is loathed by aging rap purists for his mealy-mouthed delivery and Day-Glo aesthetic, which has only endeared him to his rabid young fanbase. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-2300033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. $27.50. All ages.

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TELEVISION

NATHAN ENGLANDER

Television has only released three albums in 40 years, but when one of those records is Marquee Moon, you can get away with that. Released in 1977, it’s the album that proved punk could aspire to something more than just three chords and a snarl, its famously interwoven guitars opening up new sonic vistas. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdin-theater.com.

In the 18 years since his first collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander has become one of the grand high poobahs of the short-story form and one of the most compelling observers of modern Jewish life.

His newest, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, is a spy novel about a nice Jewish kid from Long Island who gets all screwed up with Mossad. Powell’s Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

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9/25

SHANDYTOWN

THE ZIZI SHOW

Five of the city's most talented mixologists, including Shipwreck’s Eric Nelson and Ataula’s Angel Teta, will compete to make crazy beer cocktails with Pono Brewing beer, paired up with food from Ben Bettinger of Laurelhurst Market, Carlo Lamagna of Twisted Filipino and Brent Richford of Taqueria Nueve. Also, hundreds of oysters!

Holy crap. Feastly PDX, 912 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

5-9 pm. $45. Tickets at eatfeastly.com.

The Zizi Show loosely resembles a talk show if that talk show were overtaken by rituals and folkloric storytelling.

Created by touring Jordanian arts collective the Rocca Family, this iteration of the interactive performance is aimed at dismantling our culture of fear. It’s also the culmination of a “befriend your fear” workshop held earlier in the week and facilitated by the artists. c3:initiative, 7326 N. Chicago Ave., c3initiative.org. Workshop noon Saturday, Sept. 23, performance 6 pm. Free.

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ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO

DEEP RED

At 57, Angélique Kidjo has the track record and vibrant voice to support her unofficial title as the Queen of African Music. Tonight, with an assist from the Oregon Symphony, she’ll revisit her diverse musical history, which has moved from Afropop to jazz rock to orchestral music. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, portland5.com/arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall. 7:30 pm. $35 and up. All ages.

Director Dario Argento’s other proto-slasher movie, Suspiria, has been getting a lot of attention due to the discovery of a lost print. But Suspiria isn’t coming to Portland until December, and Argento’s 1973 horror movie Deep Red is just as bizarre and unsettling thanks to a terrifying ventriloquist doll. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 SE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $9.

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

www.shandongportland.com

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20 Fresh Hops Pop-Up

Fresh hop season is a perk you get for living here, with farmfresh, bright-green hops throwing off beautifully idiosyncratic farmy notes in beer made just a car ride from where the hops are grown. And now, at the height of the season, there’s a five-day parking-lot party in the middle of town with daily tappings bringing out the freshest, the hoppiest and the best of the crop. Lucky you.

Burnside Brewing, 701 E Burnside St., 503-946-8151. All day.

Shandong www.shandongportland.com

SATURDAY, SEPT. 23

Restaurant Guide

Kokomo 2

Not Hawaii, man: Kokomo. In honor of all the dads who love Jimmy Buffett and the Beach Boys, you get kara-age chicken, breakfast bao and musubi paired up with tiki-inspired cocktails without the sugartooth from two of the city’s best bartenders—Tom Lindstedt of La Moule and Little Bird and Jon Lewis of Rue. Think complex French rums, French liquors and seasonal herbs, La Moule, 2500 SE Clinton St., 971-339-2822. 10 am-2 pm.

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Portland’s definitive annual look at the best of the robust culinary selection our city has to offer.

Featuring our Top 100 Restaurants as well as the Restaurant of the Year.

Guess if your German beer is brewed in Portland, you spell Octoberfest with a C. Either way, meat-happy chalet Tannery Bar is serving up Krautrock, Germangarb contests, stein-hoisting contests and Weisswurst for breakfast, with a full tap takeover and brewer meet-and-greet with fine Rosenstadt beers on their pleasant patio: Festbier, Helles Lager, German Pale and Weissbier.

Hell(e)s yeah. The Tannery Bar, 5425 E Burnside St., 503-236-3610.

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Deschutes Street Pub is legendary, a 50-tap bar on wheels that drives all over the country and plops down wherever the fuck it likes, in the middle of the street— with rare beers, live bands and a bunch of food cooked alongside Wayfinder brewery, the off-street bar right by Deschutes’ onstreet bar. Wayfinder, 304 SE 2nd Ave.503-718-2337. 2 -10 pm.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 24 Vegan Nigerian Brunch

Chef Salimatu Amabebe will be serving up a vegan BYO-booze breakfast feast featuring the flavors of her home country of Nigeria. This means collard greens and coconut gravy, cassava fries, black-eyed pea stew, plantains and pineapple cornmeal pancakes, all for $35. Tickets at eatfeastly.com.

Feastly PDX, 912 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 10:30 am-12:30 pm.

MONDAY, SEPT. 25 Shandytown

Oysters and shandys ain’t quite oysters and sea shanties, but it’s just as close: Five of the best bartenders in town—Shipwreck’s Eric Nelson, Ataula’s Angel Teta, and Han Oak’s Michelle Ruocco, among others—will compete to make the best beer cocktails with Pono brewing’s already aromatic brews, with food from Ben Bettinger (Laurelhurst Market), Carlo Lamagna (Twisted Filipino) and Brent Richford of Taqueria Nueve. Plus, ice cream and oysters!

Holy crap. Feastly PDX, Taqueria Nueve, 727 SE Washington St., 503-954-1987. 5-9 pm. $45. Tickets at eatfeastly.com.

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Doppelbock (FALLING SKY) Why don’t local versions of traditional German lag ers live up to the originals? Ask your average Portland beer geek, and they’ll have a bunch of excuses. My take has always been that the locals are just too (ahem) frugal and busy to bother. Falling Sky’s doppelbock is proof that if they will it, it’s no dream. The Eugene brewery has a Germanmade brewing system built for old-world techniques. Falling Sky set out to be as traditional as possible, building a recipe exclusively with German Weyermann malt and Hallertau hops.

Then, they put in the work—a 16-hour brew day with the three time-consuming boil cycles necessary to render a lager with that dark candy flavor of a beer like Ayinger Celebrator. The result is a wonderful beer that’s not too sweet, but has lots of caramel. For me, there was a touch of juicy strawberry. Apparently, the kegs are all but gone, but we got ours at The Abbey on Northwest 23rd Avenue. If you’re a fan of traditional German lagers, get there. Recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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REVIEW

SUPER CHUPE: Left to right, the chupe de camarones, rotisserie chicken and cancha.

Cancha Eat ’Em All LA LEÑA BRINGS PORTLAND ANOTHER SOLID PERUVIAN OPTION.

BY M IC H A E L C. Z US M AN

@mczlaw

Peru is blessed when it comes to food.

A synthesis of native Incan and Spanish foods together with diverse terrain have created a distinctive cuisine. Ingredients come from along the Peruvian shore, the high Andes and the inland portion of Peru that shares a swath of Amazonian rainforest with Brazil. In the last decade, Lima’s modernist chefs have made it a hotspot for international gourmands.

But Peru’s humblest foods are every bit alluring as any high-end meal. That includes myriad varieties of corn and potatoes, plus fresh fish and roast chicken.

These simple pleasures are the focus at La Leña, which opened on Southeast Hawthorne in July. Though there are some weak spots and weirdness, an outstanding meal can be crafted from La Leña’s diverse menu.

Begin with a true-blue Peruvian nosh: freshly roasted corn kernels known as cancha ($2/$4). The variety used here look like pale, elongated versions of their American cousins with a flavor and texture somewhere betwixt popcorn and bagged Corn Nuts. In Lima, cancha is an obligatory preliminary offered in anticipation of a ceviche lunch. At La Leña, they hit the table salty, toasty and piping hot. Get one of two classically Peruvian beverages: a can of Inka Cola ($3), with its gaudy urine hue and flavor of bubble gum, or delicious chicha morada ($4/$8), made from lightly sweetened purple corn enhanced with a

spill of pie spice.

Next, be sure to check any squeamishness at the door and order a couple anticucho skewers ($10). Succulent chunks of straight-from-the-grill beef heart, in all its essential beefiness—juicy, bold and slightly chewy—are reason enough to have La Leña on your radar. If you didn’t know it was organ meat, you would have no idea.

A side of the fried yucca ($4/$7)—a tuber

the bowl, joined by an abundance of yucca chunks, which are a touch sweeter and firmer than U.S. russets. A knob of queso fresco and a poached egg enhance texture and richness. On reflection, I’m having trouble recalling a seafood chowder as wonderfully on point as this one. Once the rains come and temperatures dip, it will be worth a detour.

So much for the highlight reel. Rotis-

that takes to hot oil as well as any potato— accompanied by two ají chile-enhanced dipping sauces makes for a nice twist on traditional steak frites.

Moving from ranch to sea, your next course should be chupe de camarones ($15). This rich chowder relies on a foundation of potent house-made shrimp stock pepped up with piquant chili and enriched with a little milk. Plenty of perfectly cooked, peeled shrimp float around

serie chicken (whole $29, half $15, quarter $8; with sides: $35/$18/$12) is deeply burnished, but more smoky than simply roasted and seasoned. And the absence of a readily visible rotisserie detracts from the experience. For pollo a la brasa fanatics, a schlep to El Inka in Gresham is still your best bet. Similarly, with the ceviche ($12), La Leña’s simple take is fine but suffers in relation to the extraordinary counterparts once served at Paiche. The pastry casing on

a beef empanada ($7) was a flaky delight, the filling mundane. For dessert, the dulce de leche-filled sandwich cookies called alfajores ($4) are the only way to go.

Portland’s fashionable order-atthe-counter-then-bus-your-own-table system was the rule here until recently, when they eliminated the latter half of this ubiquitous annoyance. The space is attractive and the furnishings, including several large booths, are comfortable. The layout of a semi-enclosed prep kitchen and bar area—both rarely in use during my several visits—at either end of the dining room, was an odd design choice that detracts somewhat from the vibe.

Perhaps it’s the lack of a solid clientele so far, but the staff has seemed downbeat when I’ve been in. The absence of positive energy won’t help bring fickle Portlanders through the door. When I’ve engaged servers, cooks and the boss, former Navarre chef Adam Warren, they couldn’t be friendlier.

La Leña is a fine restaurant well worth a visit, especially given the rarity of decent nearby Peruvian options. If anything, it’s bound to improve, which is a positive for local diners and for La Leña’s longevity in a tough environment.

GO: La Leña, 1864 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-946-1157, lalenapdx.com; Hours: Noon-10 pm Tuesday-Thursday, Noon-10:30 pm Friday, 4:30-10:30 pm Saturday-Sunday.

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Party Politics DOWNTOWN BOYS WILL SHAKE YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE, BUT ONLY IF YOU LET THEM.

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

msinger@wweek.com

Downtown Boys aren’t here to save punk, and they’re damn sure not here to save your newly woke ass.

Granted, it’s a tempting narrative to pin on them. With Donald Trump in the White House, the country is desperate for new insurrectionist heroes, and a self-described “bi bilingual political dance sax punk party” band seems like the ideal saviors to lead us to the other side of our national nightmare. But the Rhode Island quintet, dubbed “America’s most exciting punk band” by Rolling Stone, didn’t just wake up last November and decide to take on white supremacy, the police state and the capitalist power structure—they’ve been doing that since the halcyon days of 2011.

And furthermore, they’re not just shouting at the ruling class. Especially now, the group is equally loud in challenging their own audience, or at least a segment of it, to confront their complicity in making the world such a shit pile and daring them to move beyond platitudes of allyship toward conversations that should make anyone still in denial about their own privilege feel deeply uncomfortable.

In other words, Downtown Boys will gladly show you the tools for resistance. But don’t expect them to do the work for you.

“I think one of the big misconceptions is that we’re out there 100 percent as a protest call,” says singer Victoria Ruiz the morning after a recent show in San Antonio, Texas, her voice showing the ravages of the night before.

“That can be tough, because being a punk band and being seen as a protest-music band are both fine things. But I think it takes away from what we’re trying to do, and some of the nuance, in the music and the message, can be lost.”

It’s a misconception the band is having to deal with more frequently. With the release of Cost of Living, their third album and first for indie heavy-hitter Sub Pop, Downtown Boys are receiving more attention than ever before, which means there are more chances for their artistic goals to be misrepresented in the media.

And a big one, they say, is the tendency to isolate their message from the music that’s carrying it.

To be fair, it’s easy to see why that happens. Even in an age of increased political awareness, where everyone from Katy Perry to Iron & Wine seems to have their eyes open to injustice, there are few bands who work quite as hard to live up to their rhetoric as they do. All the members have worked, and continue to work, with labor organizations in their hometown of Providence. Ruiz and founding guitarist Joey La Neve DeFrancesco oversee Spark Mag, an online magazine dedicated to progressive art, and it’s clear from hearing any interview with them that their understanding of the issues runs deeper than slogans and extended middle fingers.

But to portray the band as activists first and musicians a distant second ignores what truly makes Downtown Boys one of the most exciting bands in the nation—namely, that their music is just as radical as their politics. While steeped in the chaotic thrum of hardcore, the band doesn’t simply bludgeon with rage. In case you missed it, the group describe themselves as a “dance sax punk party,” and in their wild, communal live shows especially, they mine the cathartic joy of screaming back at oppression.

Indeed, the not-so-secret weapon is brass. Acting as a melodic counterpoint to Ruiz’s larynx-shredding shout, saxophonist Joe DeGeorge cuts through the clamor as often as he contributes to it, lending their working-class screeds a hint of Springsteenian drama, which isn’t a coincidence— the band’s name is taken from an early Boss lyric, and they do a wicked cover of “Dancing In the Dark.”

On Cost of Living, the band brought in Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto to produce, and expanded their sonic palette further, adding keyboards, more expansive arrangements and an overall richer sound, at least compared to their basement recording days. But if the music has gotten a few shades brighter, the lyrics have only become more pointed.

Written over the course of two years, from the onset of the Black Lives Matter movement through to the election, the

songs are Ruiz’s attempt to capitalize on her generation’s political awakening and take the discourse to the next step, beyond sentiment and into personal accountability.

“Seeing how neo-liberalism and progressivism is playing out right now, more and more, people are OK with saying ‘Black Lives Matter,’ or that racism against black and brown people is wrong,” Ruiz says. “But the question becomes, are we getting closer to a demand around that? Are we becoming more comfortable with understanding that might mean demilitarizing the police, or it might mean a pay deduction for rich white people in order to shift those resources to poor brown people? So, I think the lyrics and the ideas get more at that discomfort of what it actually means to talk about freedom, and in order to do that, it has to be more personal.”

From the very onset, Ruiz refuses to let anyone off the hook. On rousing opener “A Wall,” which the band says is not explicitly a reference to the wall you’re thinking of, she implores the listener to consider the role they play in erecting structures of division, both metaphorical and literal. “I’m Enough (I Want More)” takes a shot at those who can still afford to straddle fences, while “Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas),” one of three songs sung in Spanish, calls for the dismantling of the white colonial mind state. Strongest of all is “Promissory Note,” which Ruiz describes as “speaking directly to a power dynamic, where one person feels they’re more entitled to emotional space or physical space than another.” It contains perhaps the album’s most powerful line, which speaks to the band’s refusal to kill themselves so others can live more comfortably: “I won’t light myself on fire to keep you warm.”

“I don’t think we do this because people need it,” Ruiz says of their motivations. “We do it because we see it as our way to express and be part of our greater political and cultural context. It’s sort of our vessel for navigating this moment.”

SEE IT: Downtown Boys play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Lithics, Cool Flowers and Little Star, on Thursday, Sept. 21. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

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Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called 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.

Black Kids, Le Vice

[GOTH POP] After garnering instant praise for their dance-floor-packing breakout hit “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You” a near decade ago, Florida’s Black Kids released their debut LP, Partie Traumatic, to pretty much zero fanfare. In February, they finally took aim to overcome the hype-backlash trajectory with longawaited follow-up, Rookie. Anyone old enough to have been there the first time around will easily find a familiar “Robert Smith at the spaceage sock hop” jubilation to latch onto. If you weren’t at the packed NYC Cake Shop gig in ‘07, well, it’s never too late to get nostalgic about something you missed out on. CRIS LANKENAU. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

Bonobo, NoMBE

[ORGANIC EDM] It’s fair to say Simon Green’s chameleonic approach to EDM is the sole asset that sets his Bonobo project apart from the glut of laptop producers clogging festival lineups these days.

Sticking with the formula of sampled live-instrument earworms and throbbing syncopated percussion that made 2013’s The North Borders pop, this year’s Migration sounds even bigger and bolder thanks to kitchensink production tactics that find Green gracefully packing every last inch of sonic space with glowing ambiance and heavy-hitting climaxes

alike. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-2300033. 7 pm. Sold out. 21+.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 21 Future Islands, Oh Rose

[CAN YOU FEEL THE BASS?] When Baltimore synth-pop band Future Islands finally broke out in 2014 on the strength of a viral performance on The Late Show with David Letterman—and really darn good album to go along with it—singer Sam Herring got a lion’s share of the credit. Sure, his hypnotic and spastic shimmying, plus that tender falsetto turned deep growl, is always out front and center, but the band’s rhythmic backbone often steals the show. Bassist Will Cashion is the other star of the group’s new record The Far Field, and really all of Future Islands’ catalogue—those urgent, driving, and melodic bass lines dance across your speakers like lost New Order A-sides. You can trace the bass through “Ran” or “Day Glow Fire,” or you can just shut up and dance to it. Either way, you’ll

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20

THE FIVE GREATEST BOTCHED RAP LYRICS “She blow that dick like a cello.” — Lil Yachty, “Peek a Boo” While schools slash arts funding, our kids are going into the world with no idea how to properly execute orchestra-related blowjob puns. Shame on us.

2 “I say, what’s next, what’s next, what’s N-XE-T?” — Warren G, “What’s Next?”

Snoop is clearly the only rapper who should be spelling things out on record.

3 “Now watch him make a movie like Albert Hitchcock.” — Pitbull, “I Know You Want Me” Y’know, the acclaimed director of such films as The Trouble with Harvey, The Man Who Knew a Good Deal and Dial N for Not Living.

4 “I’m flier than an ostrich.” — Juelz Santana, “Black Republicans” Pretty low bar for flyness, really.

5 “I’m an animal/Half-man, half-mammal.”

— Jay-Z, “Already Home”

Yeah, right, Hov, and I’m 60 percent water. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Lil Yachty plays Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. $27.50. All ages.

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[PSYCH HOP] Lofty guest appearances from names like Snoop and Wiz Khalifa aside, it’s the stoned ebullience with which former No Limit and Young Money signee CURREN$Y devours genres and spits them back out that makes the former 504 Boyz superstar so broadly appealing. On this year’s Pilot Talk III, Curren$y enlists the help of Mos Def, Devin the Dude and Big K.R.I.T. to further explore an even split between jazzy, golden-era jams and the relaxed Southern trunk-funk OutKast fans will immediately love, amounting to one of this year’s most cohesive and entertaining rap albums.

It even throws in some bold psychrock flavors in service of a sound that’s absolutely perfect to get high to. PETE COTTELL. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503-226-6630. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

LVL UP, Dude York, Turtlenecked

[DORM-ROOM ROCK] Four-piece New York dude-band LVL UP is the Neutral Milk Hotel for this century. Fourth album Return to Love, out last year, and their Sub Pop debut are eerily similar, a stew of fuzz guitars, croony horns and wailing vocals to make you sad and happy at the same time. But they’re also able to tone down the bizarreness, sometimes sounding like a poppier Parquet Courts with an emo twist—existing at the intersection of college radio, basement house shows and dorm bands. SOPHIA JUNE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

The Space Lady, DJ Eric Isaacson

[OUTSIDER ART] The notoriety of the Space Lady took off when she was named second-best street musician by The Berkeley Barb—the same paper that came up with the name under which Susan Dietrich Schneider has been immortalized. The Space Lady is a paragon of “outsider music,” spending 20 years busking on the streets of Boston and San Francisco with a Casio while wearing a winged helmet. The enduring charm of the Space Lady’s music comes from the purposeful imperfections in her minimalist delivery. She practically mumbles mouthfuls of sci-fi lyrics through echo delay over the simplest synth beds produced on the cheapest keyboards. Her uplifting mood and timeless space-cadet vibes are hard to resist, even when pitch and perfection are sacrificed for the greater good of conjuring smiles.

Consider it children’s music for adults.

NATHAN CARSON. Turn Turn Turn, 8 NE Killingsworth St., 503-284-6019. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

well. Newest effort Expect the Best ups the voltage a bit without leaving Widowspeak’s signature moodiness behind, adding heft without losing any of the intimacy.

MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Ride, Lo Moon

[SENIORS OF SHOEGAZE] Prior to the genre’s full-blown resurgence, it was universally agreed upon that English band Ride was shoegaze’s more melodic and straightforward yin to My Bloody Valentine’s bleary and ethereal yang. With career reboots now en vogue amongst geezers who flew under the radar until the internet shook them back to life, it stands to reason that Ride should enjoy a victory lap or two while blowing out eardrums with the many stellar tracks that made their 1990 debut Nowhere a genredefining classic. This year’s Weather Diaries is an ambitious but mostly forgettable attempt at recapturing the magic of their relatively poppier 1992 album, <em>Going Blank Again</em>, but a few misfires on account of songwriting rigormortis aren’t likely to scotch the band’s legacy any time in the near future.

PETE COTTELL. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047.

8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

Glass Animals, Amber Mark

[HYPED] Listening to Glass Animals is like getting hypnotized by a snake charmer. It’s easy to peg them as a drug band, but the music is more than just fuel for MDMA-induced massages. The Oxford-based electronic-psych four-piece’s 2014 debut album ZABA—featuring the spongy, sultry single “Gooey”—is one long,

tingly trip. But their latest album, How to Be a Human Being, is a more percussion-based dance party, albeit with the same mesmerizing melodies. SOPHIA JUNE. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St.., Troutdale , 503669-8610. 6:30 pm. $44 advance, $46 day of show. All ages.

Daniel Norgren, William Tyler

[SWEDISH FOLK] It took a while for the states to catch on to Daniel Norgren, but it was only a matter of time. The bluesy Swedish folksmith has been at it for over a decade, jumpstarting Scandinavian indie label Super Puma Records with his first demo in 2002. The Pickathon crowd knows Norgren for his compelling stage presence and countrified sound, akin to early Neil Young.

His haunting minimalism is certainly Swedish in aesthetic, but Norgren’s greatest talent may be transporting the listener to Laurel Canyon in the 1960s. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503288-3895. 8 pm. $20 advance, $24 day of show. All ages.

Turkuaz, Sinkane

[POWER FUNK] Bringing back the old-school, “everyone and their mama” approach to generating funk, Brooklyn nine-piece Turkuaz evokes a sensation only really felt from looping through old 45s and eight-tracks. Appearing no different than a group of your average coffee-shop dwellers, Turkuaz’s take on classic funk perfectly blends soul, pop and R&B, with bass and guitar lines creating thick grooves alongside boisterous horns and powerful vocals which, if you’re unprepared for them, come entirely as a surprise. CERVANTE POPE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 8 pm. $22 advance, $24 day of show. 21+.

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leave happy and beaming. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm.

Sold out. All ages. Through Sept. 22.

Public Service Broadcasting, King Who

[EDUCATIONAL SAMPLING] In a peculiar and endearing way, Public Service Broadcasting is like a live version of those dated videos you were forced to watch in high school history class. The English act weaves old public information films into its self-made art rock, creating a Ken Burns-on-steroids kind of performance. The band’s newest effort, Every Valley, examines Welsh coal mining from the mid-20th century via atmospheric rock so tidal it turns the tired vocals of old narrators into the work of a gifted lead singer. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., Portland OR, 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 22 Widowspeak, Clearance, Wet Dream Committee

[INDIE SLUMBER] Widowspeak has been quietly and consistently turning out some of the strongest indie rock amid the busy New York scene. Molly Hamilton’s pillow-talk vocals mesh beautifully with the band’s slumberous dream pop and gently rippling guitar phrases. With 2015’s All Yours, the act cemented its rising status in the bashful, mildly hypnotic-sounding way it knows

Goldfrapp, Morgan Saint [ELECTRO GLAM] The last time Goldfrapp came through town 11 years ago, it was in support of the last Goldfrapp album you’ve probably heard. Supernature, the English duo’s third full-length, was one of the more stylish records of the aughts, a glimmering electro-glam disco ball that answered the question, “What if Marc Bolan had lived into the Computer Age and produced an album with the ghost of Marlene Dietrich?” Naturally, it earned the group a fair bit of hype in America. So what did they do to follow up? Put out a muted folk album, of course. Beginning with 2008’s Seventh Tree, the band entered a curious pattern of alternating between softly pastoral dreamscapes and sultry synth bangers with each subsequent release—not really the most effective means of keeping the general audience tuned in over the course of a decade. With this year’s Silver Eye, singer-namesake Alison Goldfrapp and producer Will Gregory have cycled back to the dancefloor, though it’s not quite the same one they filled on Supernature. Collaborating with ambient Lord of Darkness the Haxan Cloak, the mood is more shadowy than sparkly, the grooves more mechanized than swaggering. It’s a so-so effort overall. But hey, “Ooh La La” still bangs. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 8 pm Wednesday, Sept.

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HUG THYSELF: Japanese Breakfast plays Holocene on Monday, Sept. 25.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 24 Television

[PUNK ROYALTY] See Get Busy, page 39. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., Portland OR 97202, 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, The Courtneys, The Prids

[INDIE POP] For Kip Berman, the Reed College graduate and main force behind the Pains of Being Pure At Heart, reinvention is key. It’s one of the ways he’s stayed relevant since starting the project back in 2007, tweaking his style just a little on each subsequent album. Pains’ self-titled debut leaned more toward the lo-fi shoegaze side of spectrum, with Belong brimming with heavy distortion and Days of Abandon leaning into the airier indie-pop direction that defines the project now. Recent fatherhood has brought an even more positive pop air to the band’s newest album, The Echo of Pleasure, with Berman putting ever more thought and warmth into his songcraft. CERVANTE POPE. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503231-9663. 9 pm. $17 advance, $19 day of show. 21+.

Vagabon, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

[INDIE SENSATION] Laetitia Tamko’s 2017 debut under the name Vagabon, Infinite Worlds, is one of those once-a-year surprises that appears on the indie-nerd collective consciousness and becomes a seemingly overnight sensation.

In a runtime just under 30 minutes, Tamko encompasses Adderallfueled goof punk, Weezer-esque sways of slushy fuzz and, most impressively, pin-drop-quiet reflections on lost love. The album was bestowed an illustrious Best New Music tag from Pitchfork, alongside a profile that called her “an indie-rock game changer.” Anyone listening would be hard-pressed to disagree. CRIS LANKENAU. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, SEPT. 25 Oh Sees, Dreamdecay, Arrington de Dionyso

[GARAGE PSYCH] Just when you thought Thee Oh Sees had covered every base imaginable, singerguitarist John Dwyer throws yet another curveball. The only consistent member of the project that started in 1997, Dwyer swaps out band names and members like most people change Brita filters.

He treats garage rock like a jumping-off point, using it to catapult himself into psychedelic, noiserock, punk and freak-folk realms with apparent ease. The band’s latest iteration is simply called Oh Sees and consists of Dwyer, a bassist and two drummers that play like Siamese-twin Hydras. They’re responsible for Orc, an album that careens between stoner rock and choogling Deadhead jams. And you

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thought Dwyer had run out of real estate. PATRICK LYONS. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503225-0047. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Japanese Breakfast, Mannequin Pussy, The Spirit of the Beehive

[OUTER SPACE] Japanese Breakfast was almost an indie one-hit wonder. When the jangly pop hit “Everybody Wants to Love You” dropped last February, it quickly amassed major hype, even earning a place on Rolling Stone’s list of 50 Best Songs of 2016.

The success was a major win for Michelle Zauner, the one-woman force behind Japanese Breakfast, who started her career by writing a song a day as a personal challenge.

Now, the Eugene-based musician has just released her second album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, and it’s a worthy follow-up. Full of lo-fi, spacey synths, distorted guitars and ’90s grunge vibes, it’s a melancholy yet energizing album that feels like the deep breath in a much-needed therapy session.

SOPHIA JUNE. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Brockhampton, Romil (DJ set)

[ALT POSSE CUTS] Do you remember what it felt like to get drunk or stoned with your best friends at age 19? That’s what Brockhampton sounds like. The 15-member L.A. rap crew that refers to itself as a “boy band” has released two albums in the past six months, the first volumes of their Saturation series. Both are filled with youthful braggadocio, inside jokes, grinding anthems and even a bit of heartbreak. Most of Brockhampton met each other on a Kanye West fan forum, and if you filtered their love for Yeezy through mid-’90s Pharcyde and added a hefty dose of Odd Future, you’d get a pretty good idea of their sound. Expect a raucous show. PATRICK LYONS. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-2300033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Andrew W.K., Honey Bucket

[PARTY] Andrew W.K. is a fascinating and sometimes annoying multimedia project comprising lectures, motivational speeches, advice columns, conspiracy theories, possible doppelgangers and a partybased philosophy of everything.

Behind all the static is a smart dude who just wants people to experience joy, and he’s pretty damn good at infecting the world with brightness. But his most effective weapon against negativity is the music that made him famous in the first place.

It’s hard to imagine Andrew WilkesKrier finding a shortcut to happiness that works as well as 2001’s I Get Wet, a nearly perfect collection of triumphant anthems that splits the difference between punk rock and Def Leppard. He is touring with a full band again, so I think you know what it’s time to do. CHRIS STAMM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $25. 21+.

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Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, Abacus

[JAZZ WITHOUT BORDERS] Saxophonist and jazz composer Tim Berne has played in and led a lot of bands over the past four decades, but his Snakeoil quartet with clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell and percussionist-vibraphonist Ches Smith is one of his most colorful and energetic. And that’s saying a lot for a 62-year-old musician, whose often dense music still bristles with youthful power and enthusiasm that’s drawn raves from critics and fans worldwide. As befits a Creative Music Guild concert, this show pushes into avantgarde territory but retains its jazz roots. BRETT CAMPBELL. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont Street, 503946-1962. 8 pm Wednesday, Sept. 20. $10-$20. All ages.

Third Angle New Music presents Japanese Music Now

[GARDEN MUSIC] For the last decade, Third Angle has led the way in performing contemporary classical music in odd places—bank lobbies, front porches, the Lovejoy Fountain, etc. Now they’re performing in one of the city’s most beautiful spaces: Portland’s Japanese Garden. And what better music to play in such a venue than contemporary Japanese classical music? Audience members will move from station to station— from the Tea House to a bridge and so on—while musicians play works by composers Dai Fujikura, Kenji Sakai, Sayo Kosugi and Toshi Ichiyanagi for solo harp, marimba, bassoon and horn. It’ll culminate in a clarinet quintet the group commissioned from Fujikura, Japan’s leading living composer, in the sparkling new Cultural Village. BRETT CAMPBELL. Portland Japanese Garden, 611 SW Kingston Ave., 503-223-1321. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Sept. 20-21. $35-$40. All ages.

The BGS Trio

[ORGAN SWING] In the world of heavy-swinging organ jazz, there is perhaps no more formidable live trio than that of guitarist Peter Bernstein, organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. Onstage, the three New York legends take their exceptional individual skills and marry them with 30 years of experience performing together, speaking a unique musical dialect that will tug at your heart strings with dramatic melodies and achingly deep rhythmic pocket. PARKER HALL. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., Portland OR, 503-228-7605. 8 pm and 10:30 pm Friday, Sept. 22. $20 late show, $25 early show. 21+.

Angélique Kidjo with the Oregon Symphony

[QUEEN OF AFRICAN SOUL] See Get Busy, page 39. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland OR, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday, Sept. 26. $35. $35 and up.

All ages.

Bill Charlap

[SOLO PIANO] Bands are wonderful, but if you want the clearest possible glimpse inside the head of the world’s best jazz improvisers, you’ve got to catch them alone. During this exciting solo performance, the Grammywinning fingers of pianist Bill Charlap will showcase his tasteful expressionistic take on the genre, a musical outlook that transforms even the most well-known forms into beautiful and heavily embellished portraits of sound. If audiences are lucky, Charlap will pull out some of the gorgeous melodies from his recently released trio album, Uptown, Downtown, offering intimate takes on his latest material while it is still the softest musical clay in his mind. PARKER HALL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503222-2031. 2 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

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ROCK STAR: Colin Meloy headlines the inaugural ’Stackstock.

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’STACKSTOCK IS BUILDING A KINDER, GENTLER MUSIC FESTIVAL AT THE OREGON COAST.

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ost music festivals begin innocuously enough, but by the end they can feel like a hellish prison you’ll never be able to escape. The first six hours were fun, but now you’re tired, sunburned and can’t seem to escape the smell of raw sewage.

But the festival experience doesn’t have to be punishing, and the Oregon coast’s first annual ’Stackstock aims to prove it. Taking place in the quaint coastal tourist town of Cannon Beach, the event’s all-Portland lineup—headlined by the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, with local indie-pop staples Ages and Ages, Pure Bathing Culture and more filling in the undercard—is aimed more for postsummer, pre-fall relaxation than drunken debauchery.

Willamette Week caught up with ’Stackstock organizer Alicia Rose to discuss the festival’s lineup, why seeing live music in outdoors is so special and why a laid-back music festival experience is so much better than the other option. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Willamette Week: Why Cannon Beach?

Alicia Rose: [’Stackstock founder Ryan Snyder] owns the Surfsand Resort, the Wayfarer Restaurant and the Stephanie Inn, all in Cannon Beach. It’s been his dream for years to have a music festival there. He’s got this fantastic green space that we’re using as the event space called Haystack Gardens. He’s been salivating trying to figure out a way to put a rad little music festival there. There’s never been a music festival or anything like it on the coast, ever.

What’s the draw of seeing music in a beautiful landscape as opposed to the sweaty bars in which we usually see live music?

I love the sweaty, small clubs. [But ] there’s something magical about being near the ocean. We’re really blessed to have that here in Oregon, and I think the appeal of the festival is getting to wander through Cannon Beach.

What was the intention with staying local? Did you consider pulling in a big out-of-towner at first?

In the beginning, there were a few names being bandied around like Neko Case and Jeff Tweedy. But at the end of the day, keeping the lineup wholly local gave it this beautiful, hometown integrity.

What we’ve got going on in Portland is really special. The scene here is amazing—we don’t necessarily need outside talent to do something spectacular.

What demographic were you hoping to appeal to here?

Was this designed for the older person who doesn’t want to deal with 20-year-olds on molly and also wants to be home at a reasonable hour?

We definitely weren’t trying to specifically target or exclude anyone.

We’re pretty inclusive with our MO. In terms of the style of music and appeal, I think “yacht rock” came out of [festival coordinator Kate Sokoloff’s] mouth a few times. And I kind of like that there’s a kinder, gentler music fest that’s still going to rock, but it’s going to be fucking beautiful. It’s not going to be punishing, it’s going to be inviting.

SEE IT: ’Stackstock is at Haystack Gardens, 148 E Gower Ave., Cannon Beach, on Saturday, Sept. 23. 1 pm. $40 general admission, $150 VIP. All ages. See stackstockfest.com for complete schedule.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. SEPT. 20 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Martha Wainwright

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Simrit

Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St Cannibalistic Vivisections, Gut Knife, Dogtooth & Nail

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Pleasure Curses, DMN, Champion

Catfish Lou’s

2460 NW 24th Ave Robbie Laws Jam Session

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Goldfrapp, Morgan Saint

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Big Business

CURREN$Y, Kent Jones, Corner Boy P, T.Y., DJ Ski Beatz 830 E Burnside St James Supercave, The Seshen, New Move

Fremont Theater

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Scuba

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale John Fullbright

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, Abacus

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Twiztid

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Natasha Kmeto, Fritzwa, Notel

Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave Black Kids, Le Vice

Portland Japanese Garden

Mississippi Studios

2845 SE Stark St Aniana and The Brett McConnell Lovetet

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Wasting Seasons, tbi, Hanna Haas, Ali Burress

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Whethan

THU. SEPT. 21 Alberta Rose Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Tristen, Jenny O

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Lost Ox with Russell Street Jam

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Patsy’s Rats, The Heartlights, Suicide Notes 6 SW 3rd Ave Mike Ill, Torbjorn, Cali Behr

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St The Space Lady, DJ Eric Isaacson

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St Public Service Broadcasting, King Who

FRI. SEPT. 22 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Greg Brown

American Legion Hall 2104 NE Alberta St Millennial Falcon

Crystal Ballroom

Alberta Street Pub

Dante’s

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St GBA, Some Kind of Nightmare, Less Than

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Grey Fiction, Naked Walrus, Castles

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Future Islands, Oh Rose

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Atlas Genius

Holocene

MONSTA MASH-UP: Making one of her first live appearances since revealing her battle with Moyamoya, a rare neurovascular disease, Jennifer Lee, aka TOKiMONSTA, took the stage at Holocene on Sept. 15 to prove it’s possible to be both small and mighty in the EDM world. Referring to her extensive palette as “EDM” may even qualify as a mistake at this point, considering her voracious appetite for genres and textures. Armed with a modest lighting rig and a folding table’s worth of mixing hardware, Lee deserves props for not leaving the audience hanging with a barrage of unfamiliar cuts from her forthcoming record, Lune Rouge, though purists may have bristled at her book-ending clumps of newer tracks with megahits like Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright.” She pulled out all the stops on a frenetic encore that functioned as a futurist’s homage to four-on-the-floor house music, but the conclusion of her first set, with the Anderson .Paak-led 2016 single “Put It Down,” felt like the most proper statement of Lee’s intent for the evening. TOKiMONSTA’s career up to this point has been defined by electrifying mixes rooted in pop, experimental hip-hop and just the right dose of marquee guests stars—a formula she’s constantly bending to suit her will. Lee’s music is bright and ecstatic, and her future is likely to follow suit. PETE COTTELL.

The Secret Society

3000 NE Alberta St Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly

1036 NE Alberta St Portland Country Underground, the Lesser Known

350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell

4830 NE 42nd Ave Robbie Laws

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring the Hot Club Time Machine, Pink Lady, John Bennett Jazz Band

The Goodfoot

Dante’s

Spare Room

Roseland Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Ryan Sheridan, Ronan Nolan

1332 W Burnside St Oh Sees, Dreamdecay, Arrington de Dionyso

8 NW 6th Ave TroyBoi

The Paris Theatre

Star Theater

Crystal Ballroom

Portland Japanese Garden

611 SW Kingston Ave Third Angle New Music presents Japanese Music Now 8 NW 6th Ave Bonobo, NoMBE

1037 SW Broadway Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

3939 N Mississippi Ave Downtown Boys

The Analog Cafe

1332 W Burnside St Future Islands, Oh Rose 350 W Burnside St One From Many, Rob Daiker, The Adio Sequence

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Cascade Crescendo

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave The BGS Trio

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Hang ‘17: Quixotes, Amigos, O.S. Heaters, Sun Drunks

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave

The Know

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2025 N Kilpatrick St Cambrian Explosion, Swamp Ritual, Disenchanter

13 NW 6th Ave LVL UP, Dude York, Turtlenecked

3939 N Mississippi Ave Sam Amidon

MON. SEPT. 25

Kenton Club

Star Theater

Mississippi Studios

116 NE Russell St Lemolo, The Breaking

529 SW 4th Ave Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group

Roseland Theater

529 SW 4th Ave Neo-Soul Sunday

The Secret Society

Jack London Revue

Edgefield

Jack London Revue

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Mo Troper, No Thank You, Jason Clackley, Planet Damn

2393 NE Fremont St Gracie and Rachel

611 SW Kingston Ave Third Angle New Music presents Japanese Music Now

830 E Burnside St Dan Croll

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Widowspeak, Clearance, Wet Dream Committee

Sepiatonic, High Step Society

Roseland Theater

The Secret Society

8 NW 6th Ave Mura Masa

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Alison Moyet

Sunlight Supply Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Rd, Ridgefield, Wash.

Jason Aldean

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Metro Station, Assuming We Survive, Avion Roe, Lancifer

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Husky Boys, Get Real, Coati

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Lewi Longmire and The LCR’s, The Colin Trio

The Headwaters Theatre

55 NE Farragut St. # 9 Notes from the Riverkeepers, by Holcombe Waller

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Aerial Ruin, Horse Cult, Weather Veins

116 NE Russell St Old Mill, Haymaker, Steve Wilkinson with Grant Cumpston; Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

The TARDIS Room

1214 N Killingsworth Ave Progress Band, Another Neighbor Disappeared, self involved imagery, Mannequins In Cages, TBASA

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Dreckig, Star Club, Miss Rayon

SAT. SEPT. 23 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Kelli Schaefer, Iska Dhaaf

Classic Pianos

3003 SE Milwaukie Ave Anandi & Friends

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Ride, Lo Moon

The Old Church

Dante’s

The Paris Theatre

Doug Fir Lounge

1422 SW 11th Ave Lenore, Edna Vazquez 6 SW 3rd Ave

350 W Burnside St Nerve, Jojo Mayer 830 E Burnside St

Ramble On (Led Zeppelin tribute), Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne tribute)

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Kris DeeLane

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Glass Animals, Amber Mark

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Chuck Israels Orchestra

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Barrett Martin Group, Jeff Angell of Walking Papers

The Analog Cafe 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Stephen Kellog with Emily Hearn

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Little Sister, Devin Brown, Nick Gamer

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St NOFEST: Phone Call, Astro Tan, Paper Gates, No Aloha

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Brazilian Night

The Know

Kelly’s Olympian

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Psychomagic, Sunbathe, Woolen Men, Charlie Moses

Local Celebrity

The Secret Society

426 SW Washington St Sextile 816-820 N Russell St Beja Wolf, Holly Le Babe, Person Be

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Sera Cahoone

Modular8

1416 SE Morrison St Hataken, Dialectic Flowers

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Daniel Norgren, William Tyler

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Lil Yachty

Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave Giuda, Buster Shuffle

116 NE Russell St Michelle DeCourcy and The Rocktarts, The Yachtsmen

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St The Ukeladies

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Advance Base, Lisa/Liza, Man at War

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St KBOO Grateful Dead & Friends Present Songs to Fill the Air

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Turkuaz, Sinkane

SUN. SEPT. 24 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Television

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Howie Day

Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St Out Of System Transfer, Eggboy, Dogtooth & Nail

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Apocalyptica

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, The Courtneys, The Prids

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Countryside Ride

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd J. Roddy Walston & The Business

High Water Mark Lounge

1001 SE Morrison St Japanese Breakfast, Mannequin Pussy, The Spirit of the Beehive

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St Ruth B

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Death Valley Girls

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Brockhampton, Romil (DJ set)

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave Dubious Move

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Distorted Retrospect

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Galen Ballinger, Mike Scheidt, Nate Wallace

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St Andrew W.K., Honey Bucket

TUE. SEPT. 26 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Angélique Kidjo with the Oregon Symphony

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Acoustic Night

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Magpie Salute

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St INVSN

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Four Year Strong

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Jeff Crosby and The Refugees, Redwood Son

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave City and Colour

The Old Church

6800 NE MLK Ave Lich King, Against The Grain, Hidden Intent

1422 SW 11th Ave Bill Charlap

Holocene

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Black Table, Hexis, Flood Peak

1001 SE Morrison St Vagabon, Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

Tonic Lounge

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Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Sean from Pork Magazine

The Liquor Store

WED, SEPT. 20 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Raging Bull Sound System (soul, r&b)

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Sam FM

Ground Kontrol 511 NW Couch St TRONix: Proqxis

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Joey Prude

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St Wrestlerock

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, post punk, dark wave)

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White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East DJ Clark Kent

THU, SEPT. 21

3341 SE Belmont St Depeche Mode vs New Order

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay: 11 Year Anniversary (goth, industrial)

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Black Book

White Owl Social Club

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

Century Bar

930 SE Sandy Blvd The Warm-Up (hip hop)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Papi Fimbres (afro punk, cumbia)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St Easy Fingers

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Blind Bartimaes

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Nik Nice & Brother Charlie (brazilian)

18 NW 3rd Ave DJ Jack 1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)

FRI, SEPT. 22 Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Video Dance Attack: 70s vs. 80s

Dig A Pony

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

Ground Kontrol

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

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1. Burnside Brewing

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701 E Burnside St, 503-946-8151. burnsidebrewco.com.

Pretty much all week, Burnside’s parking lot will be home to every freshhop brew that matters: Wednesday is Portland fresh hops, Thursday Washington, Friday farmhouse, Saturday Bend (just blocks from the Deschutes Street Pub on Southeast 2nd) and Sunday leftovers. Whew!

2. Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave., jacklondonrevue.com.

Jazz is back on the westside, in the no-nonsense velvet-curtained basement of classic pool hall Rialto, lit up with candles and Christmas lights and outfitted with deep vinyl booths.

3. Elvis Room

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

Consider the gilded-mirror, white-walled upstairs of the Elvis Room a beltbuckled pelvic thrust of budget extravagance.

4. Ash Bar

575 NE 24th Ave., 503-206-4085, nomadpdx.com.

There is no ash at Ash Bar, the hidden boutique speakeasy by Providore where you can get esoteric cocktails with grapefruit-oolong bitters and artisan PBJ bag lunches with blueberry jam.

5. Lafitte’s

2327 NW Kearney St., thewaitingroompdx.com.

The upstairs at the Waiting Room is an ode to New Orleans, with absinthe paraphernalia and classic crystal glassware holding some seriously evolved cocktails from barman Chazz Madrigal.

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St The Black Madonna

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Strange Babes (soul edition)

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd DJ Bad Wizard

Moloko

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

NOT HA-HA FUNNY: Despite a gallery of sad-clown paintings and an animatronic eyeball in a vise, Creepy’s (627 SE Morrison St., 503-889-0185) isn’t actually creepy. The new Southeast Morrison Street space from the owners of White Owl is less horror house than sideshow—a design-happy display case of dolls, deer heads and big-eyed kitsch, presided over by a giant painting of John Quincy Adams with moving eyes. The overall effect is much less sinister than that of its predecessor, Charlie Horse, a cowboy-themed bar full of skaters and degenerates that unnerved more than one friend for reasons they couldn’t describe. Creepy’s carnivalesque menu serves intense frozencoffee cocktails, pickletinis and deep-fried peanuts, not to mention a seriously excellent spicy fried-chicken sandwich ($9). The game room of pinball and pool remains in the back, though now it feels more adult rec room than billiard hole. Not to mention, they’ve aired the previously claustrophobic place out a bit with an open-air window looking out onto a teeming sidewalk full of Dig A Pony patrons, and expanded the patio seating to the edge of the sidewalk. It is self-conscious in its quirkiness, a “zany” bar some guests on an early night remarked felt less like Portland than Seattle. Really, the only truly creepy thing in Creepy’s is a sultrily posed carving of a sad-eyed chimpanzee, which sent off far too many signals at once. But maybe that’s the whole point of the bar. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT, SEPT. 23 Black Book

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

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St Blowpony

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Freaky Outty

Quarterworld

Ground Kontrol

The Goodfoot

Holocene

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Sounds from Across the Pond and Beyond 2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Doctor Jeep & Saule

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Dance United #3: Afrobeat Meets Bollywood Night

The Lovecraft Bar

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Desert Hearts

511 NW Couch St DJ ROCKIT The Excellence of Traxicution 1001 SE Morrison St Candi Pop: A Bubblegum Pop Dance Party

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave Falcons

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St DEADLIFT w/ DJ Acid Rick (new wave, post punk, goth)

Moloko

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

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd GOD MODE (ebm)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St DJ Truhn Juice

Ground Kontrol

The Liquor Store

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

The Lovecraft Bar

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Joel Jett

Tryst

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd A Night For Dancers: Mambo/Salsa Social

3341 SE Belmont St Spend The Night : DJ Lag 421 SE Grand Ave Electronomicon (darkwave, goth)

19 SW 2nd Ave Sneakerball Soiree

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Basehaus

SUN, SEPT. 24 Black Book

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

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave HIVE (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations presents: VCR TV w/ DJ Acid Rick & DJ Kyle Reese (new wave, synth, italo, hunkwave)

MON, SEPT. 25 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave OOPS (80s synth pop)

Sandy Hut

The Analog Cafe

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUE, SEPT. 26 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave AM Gold

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Emo Nite

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Party Damage: DJ El Dorado

The Embers Avenue

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The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Eye Candy w/ VJ Norto

The Lovecraft Bar

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

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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Hands Up

Commissioned by the New Black Fest after the death of Michael Brown, Hands Up is seven monologues by black playwrights about their experiences with institutionalized racial profiling. It’s an intense collection of monologues that all seven actors in Red Door’s production deliver with deeply visceral performances. Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 SW Capitol Hwy., reddoorproject.org. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Sept.

22-24. Free, donations accepted.

Human Noise

Imago Theatre’s newest creation will venture into the quiet desperation and alcohol-soaked world of Raymond Carver. In Human Noise, the company will stage three of the illustrious Oregon writer’s short stories and one of his poems. If it’s anything like the company’s last literary adaptation, it will be a little odd and totally gorgeous.

Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th St., imagotheatre.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday through Sept. 30.

anything, An Octoroon’s message is to point out a need for constant questioning. It pushes back against the language we have for discussing race in more ways than just dramatic punctuation of the word “octoroon.” It tests our cultural lexicon, too. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison, 503-241-1278, artistsrep. org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday, through Oct. 1. $25$50.

Hand to God

Midway through Hand to God, a pink sock puppet attempts to bite off a classroom bully’s ear. By this point in Triangle Productions’ staging of the Tony Award-winning play, the act of savagery isn’t especially shocking, since the puppet, Tyrone, has already insulted a man’s penis and indulged in some unsettling sexual harassment. More than just a vicious monster, Tyrone is the embodiment of the rage and grief of Jason (Caleb Sohigian), a fatherless teenage boy. Set in Texas, Hand to God is a comedy, but it’s also the portrait of a child

Under the Influence: All Trumped Up

In Funhouse Lounge’s musical, we follow the various drunken iterations of a woman named Anita.

After a Drammy-Award winning run in 2015, the company has updated Under the Influence for our current political climate.

“Everyone has some kind of vice,” belts the emcee of the Ruby Slipper, the crimson-toned nightclub where the story of Anita Cup, Anita Smoke and the rest of Anita and America’s intoxicants manifest. Every number in this irreverently fun musical is packed with witty wordplay. Sara Nightingale is hilarious as the many mental states of our impressionable hero, Anita, one minute a murderous caffeine-fiend actually wielding a gun, then joining in for a Nazi salute skyward when the white

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driven to the edge of sanity by the loss of a parent. In a sort of Frankenstein riff, Tyrone voices truths that Jason, his creator, is too afraid to speak. During the traumatic scenes that follow, Sohigian brilliantly sustains the illusion that Jason and Tyrone are two halves of one soul, trying to balance a need for control with a longing to strike out. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., trianglepro.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, September 7-September 30, 2:00 pm Sunday, September 17-24. $15-$35.

The Zizi Show

The Zizi Show loosely resembles a talk show if that talk show were overtaken by rituals and folkloric storytelling. Created by touring Jordanian arts collective the Rocca Family, this iteration of the interactive performance is aimed at dismantling our culture of fear. It’s also the culmination of a “befriend your fear” workshop held earlier in the week and facilitated by the artists. c3:initiative, 7326 N. Chicago Ave., c3initiative.org.

Workshop noon Saturday, Sept. 23, Performance 6 pm Monday, Sept.

25. Free.

ALSO PLAYING An Octoroon

The simplest way to describe An Octoroon is to call it a comedy.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 2014 script is a satirization of an 1859 melodrama, The Octoroon.

(Jacobs-Jenkins is black; the original playwright, Dion Boucicault, was white.) Wearing whiteface, actor Joseph Gibson plays George, a slave owner who’s just inherited a bankrupt plantation and who’s in love with a woman named Zoe (Alex Ramirez de Cruz). Zoe is in love with him too, but the antebellum South has outlawed their potential marriage because Zoe is one-eighth black. Gibson also plays another slave owner, M’Closky, who’s distinguished from George by his handlebar mustache.

The skeezy, violent M’Closky is obsessed with Zoe, and is determined to marry her, despite her objections. And that’s just the play within the play. An Octoroon is a dense, complicated play. But you’re willing to follow along through all of its meta twists partly due to Gibson, who effortlessly switches from satirical theatrical to utterly candid. An Octoroon requires a big cast, most of whom play multiple characters. Thankfully, Artists Rep has filled every supporting role with highly competent actors. If

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THE ALISONS: Allison Mickelson, Sara Masterson, Aida Valentine, Robert Mammana.

Fun Home

Fun Home is a precarious mix of mediums: it’s a musical adapted from an award-winning graphic novel-style memoir by feminist cartoonist Alison Bechdel. The story mainly focuses on Bechdel’s upbringing in a funeral home run by her closeted gay father, who enforces heteronormativity on his lesbian daughter.

It’s subject matter that could be dark (Bechdel lost her father to suicide), but Bechdel’s hopeful world view combined with the feel-goodery of musicals led to a play that’s as heartwarming as it is substantive, plus a whole bunch of Tony Awards. Broadway shows don’t always translate well onto smaller stages, but after embarking on its first national tour less than a year ago, Fun Home continues to be well received. In Portland, we’re getting one better than the touring production: Instead of siphoning a chunk of a national tour, Portland Center Stage is mounting its own production. SHANNON GORMLEY. SEE IT: Fun Home is at Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22-Oct. 22. $25-$70.

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Christian Americans sing their blessing, “You’re A Nation in the Eyes of Jesus.” Nightingale is flanked by skilled sets of pipes and full-bodied performances from Jessica Tidd and Ithica Tell, our vivacious emcee and Pastor. The show’s writer/composer, Ernie Lijoi, graces the stage himself, playing characters like the babydoll who laments Anita’s self-esteem when she drops the toy for a blond, skinny Barbie. Backed by live piano accompaniment from Matt Insley, Funhouse makes a carnivalesque environment for the “Trumped Up” reprise of this perky stab at our addictive culture and surreally strange state of the union. LAUREN TERRY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday through Sept. 30.

Additional show 2 pm Sunday, Sept.

24. $15-$20.

DANCE Cirque du Soleil: Kurios

The only thing surprising about Cirque du Soleil going steampunk is that it didn’t happen sooner.

Over 30 years, the aerobatic-intensive French-Canadian circus show has based touring productions on everything from the catalog of Michael Jackson to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Kurios has the distinction of being hailed as the company’s strongest show in years by the Toronto Star, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle and wouldn’t disagree, as the Victorian age of innovation proves fertile ground for creative costumes, setpieces and off-kilter storytelling.

Kurios uses the motif well, with a brassy bicycle turned into a trapeze and a begoggled pilot balancing on an ever growing tower of tubes and boxes. The story is enough to hold the scenes together and and features a nice mix of humor and stunts. Highlights include the company’s signature contortion and unique trampoline scene that follows the intermission. MARTIN CIZMAR. Portland Expo Center, 2060 North Marine Dr., expocenter.org/events/ cirque-du-soleil-presents-kurios.

8 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 4:30 pm Saturday, 1:30 pm and 5 pm Sunday, through Oct. 8. $29-$280.

Solos, and Not Solos . . .

(But Mostly Solos)

Six years ago, Portland choreographer Carlyn Hudson co-founded contemporary dance company SubRosa. Now, Hudson is making her debut as a solo choreographer with a showcase of new works. For the “not solos” part of the show, she’ll be joined by three other dancers.

Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., pwnw-pdx.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, Sept.

22-24. $15-$25.

COMEDY Cool Kids Patio Show

Hosted by Andie Main, the weekly standup showcase consistently books small but tight local lineups.

Plus, it’s held outside on Doug Fir’s patio during an extended happy hour, and there’s always a Portland band who plays a set before and after the comedy. The show only runs through the summer, though, and there are only two showcases left this season. For the second-tolast show of the summer, there’ll be sets by local mainstays Joann Schinderle and Jason Traeger, and from recent Portland import Shain Brenden. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside, dougfirlounge.com. 6 pm Wednesday, Sept. 20. Free. 21+.

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COMING TO GRIPS: Eric Martin Reid and Gavin Hoffman.

A Tale of Two Watsons COHO THEATER STAGES A TIME-HOPPING PLAY ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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Three radically different plays coexist in The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence. In the Victorian Era, Dr. John Watson stalks a misogynistic husband. In a time that resembles our own, a young woman attempts to create artificial intelligence companions. Amid the leaps through time and space, there’s a side plot about a blustering libertarian mounting a wrathful campaign to become a city auditor, while pitiably pining for his ex-wife.

But the maze of plots is less daunting than it sounds. Onstage at the CoHo Theater, Madeleine George’s play has come to life in a tender and uproarious production. It’s a spirited meditation on technology’s corrosive effect on humanity in which director Philip Cuomo and the cast of three nimbly dance through the disparate time periods.

That dance begins in the first scene as Eliza (Sarah Ellis Smith), who works in the artificial intelligence industry, chats with Watson (Eric Martin Reid), a mustachioed sad sack. Watson speaks in an awkward,

apathetic voice, and it takes a minute to realize that he’s actually an android. Watson is not only Eliza’s servant, but her emotional shield from the world, including her insufferable ex-husband, Frank (Gavin Hoffman), an aspiring city auditor.

Eliza’s determination to create a new generation of AI “companions” and Frank’s fevered political ambitions could have provided enough material for the play. Yet The Curious Case not only finds time to chronicle a blissful yet uneasy romance between Eliza and a blandly cheerful tech repairman (also played by Reid), but also flashes back to the Victorian era. There, Reid plays Dr. Watson, while Smith and Hoffman play a couple entwined in a sinister mystery.

As the production’s sterile, gray-walled set design suggests, each act deals with technology-induced isolation. The dual-era narrative allows the play to riff on the idea from two radically different vantage points.

In the Victorian section of the play, the husband played by Hoffman dreams of replacing his wife with a soulless, obedient replica, while years later, the repairman Eliza falls

in love with becomes so meticulous in his charm that he may as well be a calculator.

The actors dexterously navigate each leap through time with dizzying costume changes and effortless switches between American and English accents, and still find time to embrace the story ’s levity. There’s also a sense of mischief that manifests throughout the narrative. In one disarmingly sweet scene, Frank and Eliza sit on a black leather couch and have a touching heart-to-heart. Not that much later, the play runs alongside Dr. Watson as he attempts to chase down Hoffman’s character with hilarious obviousness.

It is ironic that a play about characters who live such deadening lives ends up being deeply entertaining. The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence is a story of people clawing their way out of lonely stupors, and ultimately learning to gaze beyond the comfort of those gray walls.

SEE IT: The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence plays at the Coho Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions. org. 7:30 pm. Through Sept. 30. $25-$32.

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Dawn of The Dead A PORTLAND-MADE COMEDY IS ABOUT CONVERSATIONS WITH A CASKET.

rockiness, daddy issues—but who also made his fair share of bizarre decisions, like choosIt all started when Edward Martin III needed ing to hide snakes in his house for his friend Jeremy (John Branch), who attends the wake a corpse.

The Oregon director was working on sporting a leather jacket and a sinister smile.

Shot at Martin’s house in Tigard, The Dead is his 2015 zombie flick Flesh of My Flesh and needed someone who could fabricate a modest production that lasts a quick 87 mina dead body for a prop. Amber Bariaktari, utes and, according to Martin, had a budget in a production assistant who had previously the $1,500-$2,000 range. Yet its form is wildly worked on Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, audacious. It may be confined to a single room was more than up to the challeng e. and mostly to a single-camera angle, but it has a narrative grandeur that defies its “Amber showed up on set and was claustrophobic setting. The Dead perfectly willing to build a paris consistently enthralling as the tially desiccated corpse using confessions to Charlie reveal wire coat hang ers, coffee nasty secrets and crushing filters and a gallon of fake heartbreaks—including blood,” Martin remembers.

Charlie’s ex-wife (Brandie It was the first colSylfae) realizing he discovlaboration in a fruitful ered she’d been unfaithful artistic partnership. Since during their marriage but said founding the Tigard-based nothing, and a neighbor (Tara company Hellbender Media in Walker) revealing that Char2011, Martin and Bariaktari have MARTIN lie once made a call to the police created four films, and now The Dead, that saved her from her abusive father. a soulful, darkly witty chamber film that The narrative began percolating on a drive returns the pair to their corpse-based origins.

It premieres this week as part of the Oregon to Seattle. Martin and Bariaktari were discussIndependent Film Festival, where it’s already ing a potential project called The Dead Dead, won Best Comedy and is up for Best Film. No, Really, the Dead. “The idea was that we Martin wrote the script around a story he would set up a tripod with a camera on a casco-wrote with Bariaktari, who also produced ket, leave it up there for 90 minutes, and then the film. The Dead chronicles the wake of finally have somebody come in, close the casket a man in his 40s named Charlie, whom we and leave,” says Martin. His plan involved an never see because the majority of the movie ad campaign that would warn moviegoers is shot from a low angle that keeps most of not to reveal the “secret ending,” and make the casket out of sight. Instead, we learn the film available on Amazon for 99 cents.

But the cinematic gag led to more sober about him through the friends and relatives who pour out praise, musings and scalding thoughts. Bariaktari says she and Martin resentments to his corpse. Strictly through starting talking about “the person who was dialogue, the film sketches a portrait of a man dead...and what if people were coming up to whose life was fraught with banalities—marital that coffin and talking?” Questions about the

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attendees of the wake also began to emerge: “What would the neighborhood kids be like?

What would the mom be like? What would the wife be like? What would the grandfather be like? And it just started growing from there.”

What The Dead grew into was one of the most daunting productions of Martin and Bariaktari’s careers. Martin finished the script in two weeks and was so busy prepping the film that he didn’t sleep for 24 hours before shooting began. When the cameras finally rolled, Martin shot the movie in a single day.

“I think everybody laughed and was relieved when we said, ‘Done,’” admits Bariaktari.

Bariaktari says that the shoot left Martin “wiped out.” Watching the final product, it’s not hard to see why. The Dead has long scenes with few cuts, and a Linklater level of realism.

The movie references Martin’s own experiences at funerals. There’s a subplot about a callous guest named Toby (James T. Price Jr.), who uses the wake as an opportunity to try and snag Charlie’s car and, after his request is rebuffed by Charlie’s lawyer, whines, “She didn’t say yes, but she didn’t say no either.”

The absurd scene was inspired by a moment at Martin’s father’s funeral when a possibly drunk guest asked if she could have his father’s TV. Martin and Bariaktari are already getting started on their next project: a web series called “Doggy Style: Unleashing Your Inner Werewolf ” that will shoot next month and have as many as 75 episodes.

It’s a big project to follow such a marathon production. But Martin doesn’t seem particularly daunted. “I just believed that once we hit our stride, we would blast through,” he says about The Dead. “And we did.”

SEE IT: The Dead is at Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 9:30 pm Friday, Sept. 22. $12.

(1967)

Starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde broke the seal on American cinema’s desire for violence. But historical significance aside, it’s a deeply awesome outlaw tale that’s both alluring and bleak.

Mission Theater, Sept. 24.

(1975)

Director Dario Argento’s other proto-slasher movie, Suspiria, has been getting a lot of attention due to a coveted missing print discovered earlier this year. But Suspiria isn’t coming to Portland until December, and Argento’s 1975 horror movie Deep Red is just as bizarre and unsettling thanks to a terrifying ventriloquist doll. Hollywood, Sept. 26.

Rawhead Rex

(1986)

In the film adaptation of a Clive Barker story, an ancient and oddly phallic demon is summoned in the Irish countryside, where it goes on a killing spree that involves ripping out someone’s throat and pissing on a priest. Its absurd levels of gore and general poor quality meant that Rawhead Rex faded into cult movie lore not long after its American release, but Portland production company Wyrd War is premiering a digitally restored version. Hollywood, Sept. 23.

Repo Man

(1984)

Hollywood Theatre is mourning the recent loss of Harry Dean Stanton with the weirdo punk classic in which he plays the coke-addled, car-repossessing mentor to a zoned out punk kid played by Emilio Estevez. What Repo Man lacks in concise plot or any kind of point, it makes up for with sublime absurdity: a radioactive car, a theme song by Iggy Pop, some weird shit about aliens and an increbile punk soundtrack.

Hollywood, Sept. 23.

Taxi Driver

(1976)

If Martin Scorsese’s recent flops have been getting you down, all you need is a trip into the disturbed mind of Travis Bickle to keep your Scorsese fandom alive.

With career-defining performances from both Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster, the bleak and chilling movie is enough of a masterpiece to eclipse any latecareer indiscretions. Academy, Sept. 22-28.

ALSO PLAYING: Clinton Street Theater: Pet Sematary (1989), Sept. 25.

Hollywood Theatre: It (1927), Sept. 23. Joy Cinema: Some Like It Hot (1959), Sept. 21. Pink Angels (1972), Sept. 21. Kiggins Theatre: Some Like It Hot (1959), Sept. 21 Laurelhurst: Weird Science (1985), Sept. 19-21. Dazed and Confused (1993), Sept. 22-28.

Mission Theater: Clueless (1985), Sept. 21. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: City Lights (1931), Sept. 22. Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Sept. 24.

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In his new psychological thriller, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky continues to be extra. Mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple living in a secluded house.

Bardem (listed as “Him” in the credits) is a writer struggling to complete a follow-up to a revered work. Lawrence (“Mother”) is busy working on the house—it had to be rebuilt after a fire—and maintaining the “paradise” around them. Something feels off pretty much immediately; Aronofsky surrounds Mother with unnerving, blood-themed imagery, and the arrival of nosy and uninvited guests (Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer) throws a wrench into the couple’s utopia.

Soon mobs of people, for whom “personal space” is a foreign concept, are swarming the house. For a while, it works simply as exercise in anxiety.

But the last third of the movie drops into heavy-handed metaphor. The realization that Aronofsky—never one for subtlety—has basically positioned the whole film to be about himself is both unfulfilling and eye-roll inducing. Rendering the Struggles of the Artist into an exhibitionist nightmare is an exercise only the Artist could love. But man, what a nightmare. R. DANA ALSTON. Bridgeport, Casacade, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Hollywood, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Tigard.

Stronger

Most movies described as “inspirational” practically beg to be dimissed as manipulative feel-goodery. Yet this biopic

of Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal) resists the allure of the triumph-over-adversity cliches that would have doomed it. That’s thanks largely to Gyllenhaal, who seamlessly transforms from the younger Jeff—a boyish, people-pleasing Costco employee—into a man reckoning with the loss of most of his legs and the struggle of his mother (Miranda Richardson) and his girlfriend (Tatiana Maslany) to steer him along the thorny road to recovery. Chronicling that journey is director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express), who plunges us into Jeff’s agonizing rehabilitation, but also revels in his bond with Carlos Arredondo (Carlos Sanz), who saved him on the day of the bombing and again rescues Jeff by rousing him from alcohol-fueled self-immolation. There’s something wondrous about seeing these two very different men answering the corrosive power of terrorism with unapologetic love for one another. That’s one of many reasons why watching Stronger, which is based on a book by Bauman and Brett Witter, is a cathartic experience in an age when America seems even more fractured than it did on that day in 2013. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Clackamas.

STILL SHOWING 47 Meters Down

In this shark thriller, a recently dumped Lisa (Mandy Moore) thinks an Instagram post during a trip to Mexico will get her boyfriend back. That gives you a pretty solid idea of the movie’s depth. Still, those seeking the heartpumping adrenaline of a summer shark flick won’t be disappointed. PG-13.

LAUREN TERRY. Vancouver.

A Ghost Story

In David Lowry’s emotional exercise in magical realism, we’re treated to fine performances from Affleck and critical darling Rooney Mara in a timehopping story about a ghost and the house where he lived. Lowry’s vision is on full display here, and the result is one of 2017’s most powerful films.

R. DANA ALSTON. Academy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst.

The Beguiled

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.

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.

Atomic Blonde

Brigsby Bear

Alien: Covenant

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. 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.

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 hyperstylish car chase opera the world deserves. R. AP KRYZA. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Tigard.

We meet James Pope (Kyle Mooney), superfan of a show called Brigsby Bear Adventures, which is like if you mixed Buck Rogers with a firstgen Teddy Ruxpin doll. James lives in an underground fallout bunker. As it turns out, James was kidnapped when he was an infant and the 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. 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.

Despicable Me 3

Conventional Hollywood wisdom dictates that animated children’s movies must vigorously trumpet the merits of kindness (good!) and condemn the evils of selfishness (bad!). But this anarchic entry in the Despicable Me franchise eschews forced wholesomeness and delivers a truckload of dumb fun. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Empirical, Milwaukie, Tigard, Vancouver.

Detroit

The beginning of Detroit, 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. Just as they’re about to go onstage, the announcement comes that the show has been canceled due to rioting.

Larry heads to his $11 room at the Algiers Motel. One thing leads to another, and the Detroit police come to believe they’re under attack by the Algiers guests. 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. 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

In Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. we get to follow a few soldiers and pilots and civilians at sea, but they’re more like stand-ins for the other 400,000 like them marooned on the beach or assisting in the rescue effort. That’s fine, though. This movie doesn’t really need characters, and wasting time on distracting details like what’s waiting at home for these boys would only slow down the headlong pacing of the operation.

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.

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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. Valley Cinema Pub, 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,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.

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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.

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. Amid the chaos, Pattinson as Constantine cuts a fascinating figure. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Clackamas, Fox Tower, Hollywood.

Ingrid Goes West

FANNING THE FLAMES: A still from North of Blue.

Off the Deep End

NORTH OF BLUE IS A TRIPPY SYMPHONY OF IMAGES.

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orth of Blue is kind of like the last 20 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey if Stanley Kubrick had a sense of humor. The first feature-length work from Portland animator Joanna Priestley is completely abstract. Instead of any kind of narrative, North is a collection of shapes and colors that shift together to create a trippy symphony of images. Made with 2D computer animation, lines whizz across the screen and form geometric structures. Humming blue dots pulse in and out of frame. It’s backed by a dreamlike soundscape of synths and glass-like clinks.

Priestley doesn’t operate within the ordinary. The Portland animator has been making films since 1983, when she used rubber stamps to create a seven-minute moving canvas. Since then, her vow to make a film a year helped her create a huge portfolio of 27 films.

But in North of Blue, which premieres this week, Priestley dives even deeper into abstraction. At almost an hour long, it’s a lot to ask of even a patient viewer.

Thankfully, North has plenty of personality. A structure of triangles morph into a collection of red patterns, while a rainbow of flower petals combine to form clock-like architecture. Priestley frequently imbues her work with a sense of humor—one of her works is titled Blue Balls. While North is devoid of direct jokes, there’s a childlike sensibility throughout. Some objects are personified into faceless characters, like a red rectangle that laughs as it slinks off-screen, or a green blob with red tentacles that releases a whale-like moan.

North works on a purely aesthetic level thanks in part to the score and sound design by Portland composer Jamie Haggerty. As the geometry onscreen morphs and turns, Haggerty adds noises like record scratches and the gentle drop of marbles to make each of the forms feel like living abstractions.

North is more concerned with being transfixing than gripping.

But as a visceral experience, it’s calming and endlessly interesting.

North is fascinating to watch, if only to gain a peek into Priestley’s imaginative mind. DANA ALSTON. SEE IT. North of Blue is at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 7 pm Thursday, Sept. 21. $8-$10.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

Patti Cake$

Patricia Dombrowski aka Killa P aka Patti Cake$ is an aspiring rapper.

She’s undeniably talented, but she doesn’t fit the template of what the music industry expects a rapper to look like—she’s a fat white girl. The “chasing your dreams” picture is not a new idea. It usually goes something like this: The main character has a talent and a dream. They usually live in a shitty place and have a shitty job, which is only extra motivation for their ultimate goal. Obstacles and rivals rise and fall in front of them, and then there’s a final test which shows off their skills, heart, dedication. It probably doesn’t matter if they win or lose. Within that framework, director Geremy Jasper’s first feature film is pretty entertaining.

Patti is charming and relatable. She’s filled simultaneously with self-confidence and self-doubt. Australian actress Danielle Macdonald gives one of those performances where it would be difficult to imagine anyone else playing them now: like Tony Soprano or Napoleon Dynamite. The

story takes place in a fully developed world of suburban New Jersey’s hell of highways, parking lots and gas stations. Jasper, who also wrote the script, imbues the world with subtle attention to detail and tough love for his characters that reminds me a bit of Mike Leigh. But ultimately, Patti Cake$ is a simple story done well, with lively performances and positive energy. R. R MITCHELL MILLER. Cinema 21, Hollywood.

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, foulmouthed 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 starmaking turn in Civil War) has to face off against Michael Keaton’s snarling winged menace Vulture. But he also has to find a date to homecoming, train for the academic decathlon and deflect bullies, all while learning to control his newfound superpowers under the tutelage of Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.). As such, Homecoming is as indebted to John Hughes as it is to Stan Lee. There are some excellent, showstopping action sequences sprinkled across the runtime, but Homecoming takes greater pleasure in watching the gawky Holland’s trial-and-error as he navigates his sophomore year. It’s a sunny, breezy comic-book romp of little consequence. In an age of glowering caped crusaders, Homecoming reminds us that we should be having fun watching men in tights smack into walls. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Wind River

Wyoming’s Wind River is 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. 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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Durban Poison is a sativa prized for its medicinal use to combat pain, anxiety, inflamA couple years back, you could have said I was an mation and nausea. Northern Lights #5 is a clasoil man. During a stint in Colorado, I’d come to sic “heavy” indica, which here balances it out. appreciate the convenience of cartridges, loathe Leafly’s tasting notes of “sweet,” “citrus lime,” to roll a messy joint and tar my lips or pack a and “sour berry” are as apt descriptors as I’ve dirty bowl. seen.

But then I got to Portland. And I found Mount Its effect is euphoric, calming and uplifting, Hood Magic at my local dispensary, Terpene Sta- and can be a wonder potion for those struggling tion. I’ve been back to flower almost exclusively with those aforementioned conditions. As such, ever since. it has developed a cult-following, especially Maybe you’ve heard of Mount Hood Magic, a among artists and creatives. strain created by Five Zero Pudding River Farm, Trees, a dispensary farmwhich owns the dispening operation that crossed sary Five Zero Trees, is the Northern Lights #5 with the exclusive grower of clones “I WAS DRIVING pure South African sativa outdoors. They’ve set up an WHEN THE MOUNTAIN arrangement with SouthDurban Poison. The problem? Well, aside from its east Portland-based indoor CAME UP ON THE price, it’s basically imposgrower Resin Ranchers, HORIZON, AND THERE which works to diligently sible to find.

To make sure I always supply the indoor-grown IT WAS, LIKE A have some, I rarely product many Portlanders BEACON.” share it, savoring a tiny grab by the ounce. pinch once a day. For the Other fans of the strain past year, the Durbanmight be excited to know dominant phenotype of that the outdoor version is Mount Hood Magic is all I’ve wanted. I’m not only about a month away, as Jennings and busialone. The frenzy around this strain is so great ness partner, Case Van Dorne, get ready to harthat within 24 hours of its availability being vest and cure this summer’s crop, which includes announced via Zion Cannabis’ Twitter, the both phenos. shelves had been cleared of a dozen pounds.

I’ve never had the outdoor-grown version, as This is unique, says Nicki, the receptionist far as I know, but I’m excited to try it come harat Zion, who sees Mount Hood Magic disappear vest. It’s grown at Pudding River Farm, in Canby, faster than anything else they sell: “This one is just off of the Pudding River, a tributary to the sought after.”

Molalla River. There, the growers employ allWhat makes Mount Hood Magic Durban so natural, fully sustainable methods with no minspecial? Since this issue is in honor of Mount eral salts. They fertilize the soil in the Korean Hood, I decided to ask the grower, Joel Jennings, tradition, using fermented fish they catch with a co-founder of Five Zero Trees. hook and line out of the river.

“It’s really a well-balanced hybrid. In terms of As for the name? I had to ask. indica and sativa, you get the full effect, on both It was a beautiful day, Jennings says, and the spectrums,” he says. mountain was ablaze.

The varietal we now know as Mount Hood “I was driving, actually,” says the lifelong Magic Durban was born as “seedling #26” of a Oregonian, “When the mountain came up on cross of Durban Poison and Northern Lights #5 the horizon. As it does. And there it was, like a he had been working on for years. beacon. Like, it was glowing. I love that moun“It was the star child,” he says. tain.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Psychologists say most people need a scapegoat -a personification of wickedness and ignorance onto which they can project the unacknowledged darkness in their own hearts. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to neutralize that reflex and at least partially divest yourself of the need for scapegoats. How? The first thing to do is identify your own darkness with courageous clarity. Get to know it better. Converse with it. Negotiate with it. The more conscientiously you deal with that shadowy stuff within you, the less likely you’ll be to demonize other people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

If the weather turns bad or your allies get sad or the news of the world grows even crazier, you will thrive.

I’m not exaggerating or flattering you. It’s exactly when events threaten to demoralize you that you’ll have maximum power to redouble your fortitude and effectiveness. Developments that other people regard as daunting will trigger breakthroughs for you. Your allies’ confusion will mobilize you to manifest your unique visions of what it takes to live a good life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.” declared comedian Steven Wright. My Great Uncle Ned had a different perspective. “If at first you don’t succeed,” he told me, “redefine the meaning of success.” I’m not a fan of Wright’s advice, but Ned’s counsel has served me well. I recommend you try it out, Gemini. Here’s another bit of folk wisdom that might be helpful. Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

What is home? The poet Elizabeth Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home. What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance? What influences feel like gifts and blessings? Those are all clues to the beloved riddle “What is home?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

You’re most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods. The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can’t afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: “As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire.” Now here’s Homer Simpson: “Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Filmmakers often have test audiences evaluate their products before releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending. You might want to try a similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo. Solicit feedback on the new projects and trends you’ve been working on -- not just from anyone, of course, but rather from smart people who respect you. And be sure they’re not inclined to tell you only what you want to hear. Get yourself in the mood to treasure honesty and objectivity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

The poet E. E. Cummings said, “To be nobody-butyourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;

and never stop fighting.” On the other hand, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau declared that “We are constantly invited to be who we are,” to become “something worthy and noble.” So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self ? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? I’m not sure if there’s a final, definitive answer, but I can tell you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau’s view will be your predominant truth.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

“When you do your best, you’re depending to a large extent on your unconscious, because you’re waiting for the thing you can’t think of.” So said Scorpio director Mike Nichols in describing his process of making films.

Now I’m conveying this idea to you just in time for the beginning of a phase I call “Eruptions from Your Unconscious.” In the coming weeks, you will be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from the depths of your psyche. At any other time, these simmering bits of brilliance might remain below the threshold of your awareness, but for the foreseeable future they’ll be bursting through and making themselves available to be plucked.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes.

Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival revelry.” In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III lose his composure. He shook and screamed around them.

Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you’ll be host to an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage that you can use to free yourself from long-standing worries.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.” I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you’ve got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve down into hidden abysses. Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna.

He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “So what’s your problem? Are you too ‘cultured’ to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and ‘lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented, and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ellen Page, and Bryan Cranston, for example, the coming weeks will be a time to lay low, chill out, and recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have prime opportunities to boost their reputation, expand their reach, and wield a strongerthan-usual influence in the domains they frequent.

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