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Typical Oregonians only make $900 more today than they did in 1980. Rich people are doing way better, though, so we can expect that trickle down any day now. 6 Portland’s new police chief has been spared the city’s passive aggression, and says Portlanders are “bold” and have “tenacity.” 7 Portland firefighters are having their union fight to send them out to every 911 call, even though this makes no sense. 8

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A developer wants to build a bunch of affordable housing that may block some rich people’s views.

This is somehow controversial. 9 Canadian carpetbaggers are

trying to come down here and buy up all our weed farms. 35 If you would like a free tarot reading in a bar with lots of rare sake, there is a place. 57 Employed people who live in cars are called “workampers” by other homeless people. 61

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DIALOGUE Last week, WW wrote about Brad Mayer, whose death places a spotlight on the difficulties of running and regulating adult foster homes as Oregon’s population ages (“In a Better Place,” WW, Sept.

27, 2017). Mayer’s adult foster home was shut down by Multnomah County and state officials.

Here’s what readers said about the problem.

the type of care nearly everyone will need if fortunate to live so long.”

Kitty Clackamas, via Facebook: “When it’s all regulation and no support, you’re going to run into problems. This train is coming down the track, and nobody who is responsible seems to be willing to see it coming. It’s going to be a disaster.”

Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter, on Twitter: “There are many reasons to read WW. Strong reporting and storytelling like this from Nigel Jaquiss is among them.”

Harley Leiber, via wweek.com: “The indigent Medicaid covered folks (featured in this article) are always vulnerable to closure of covered facilities and movement to a new place. That, of course, can be very stressful and traumatic after being in one place for a long time. The state and county officials overseeing the system for indigent folks need to all be on the same page, developing new resources all of the time and educating the public repeatedly.”

Oregon Business magazine, on Twitter: “Interesting, doesn’t mention 85 percent of Oregon adult foster care homes owned by Romanian immigrants, a (more positive) tale unto itself.”

“They get one to two years in and think, ‘I had to get on a waiting list for nursing school for this?’”

Seems2Me, in response: “Having money doesn’t guarantee quality or compassionate care.”

Jim Gardner, via wweek.com: “This article couldn’t decide what it was about, so [it] conflated several different issues. Traumatic brain injury and the resulting need for very long-term care is not what most aging seniors have to prepare for and deal with. Adult foster care is the broader issue, because it offers a real (although partial) solution to the huge and rising costs for

Joy Miller, via wweek.com: “According to AARP, as the U.S. population ages, the number of people needing care will rise— but not every boomer will need services. On average, 52 percent of people who turn 65 today will develop a disability that will require care at some point. The average duration of need, over a lifetime, is about two years, and some of that is short-term rehab care.”

Chadorlisa Infirmier, via Facebook: “One of the problems is that many of the new grad nurses are leaving the field of nursing. They get one to two years in and think, ‘I had to get on a waiting list for nursing school for this?’ It isn’t at all what they had in mind! Nurses both new and experienced don’t want to put up with [abuse] anymore. The whole system needs changed.

People are tired of being exploited for these large capitalist care institutions.”

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BY MARTY SMITH

Don’t wildfires like the ones that recently devastated several hundred thousand acres of Oregon forest make a hash of our pinprick individual efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions? —Brian C. Let’s put it this way: In the long run, wildfires should be carbon-neutral, so you should have nothing to worry about. Of course, as John Maynard Keynes so memorably observed, in the long run, we’re all dead.

U.S. wildfires release 290 million tons of CO2 every year, about 4 to 6 percent of our nation’s total.

It’s worth noting wildfires have been around pretty much forever, putting out millions of tons of carbon every year—but somehow, the earth has not been reduced to a molten hellscape.

Could wildfire CO2 be somehow less dangerous?

Unlike fossil-fuel carbon, the carbon from wildfires has been part of our environment throughout human history. It came out of the air as the trees grew, it went back into the air when those trees burned, and when the forest grows back, it will suck all that carbon back out of the air again, in a groovy, never-ending exchange we call the “carbon cycle.”

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Fossil-fuel carbon, by contrast, was dead and buried for tens of millions of years—literally every organism on the planet evolved based on the presumption we would never see it again.

When it enters the atmosphere, the carbon balance changes permanently.

But before you send a valentine to the Eagle Creek Fire, you should be aware that the groovy carbon cycle breaks down if, instead of allowing that forest to regrow, somebody turns the land into a strip mall.

There’s also something of a vicious circle in that climate change exacerbates wildfires—if a larger portion of the earth is burning at any given time, more carbon will be loosed into the atmosphere.

But for now, fossil fuels are still the bigger enemy. Don’t sweat the wildfires, keep driving that Prius, and if possible, evolve faster.

Good luck.

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average Oregonian 45 years to make that much. “Income inequality is one of Oregon’s greatest challenges,” says OCPP analyst Daniel Hauser.

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Oregon’s newly formed and largest business lobbying group, Oregon Business Industry, will name its first executive director Oct. 6 Sources tell WW the pick is state Rep. Mark Johnson (R-Hood River). Johnson now has the task of knitting together the remnants of the two groups that merged this year to form OBI: the moderate Oregon Business Association and the more conservative Associated Oregon Industries. A moderate who has often worked with Democrats on education, Johnson is well-placed to do that. But Johnson’s departure from the House would also be a gift to Democrats, who outnumber Republicans by 2,200 voters in the four-term incumbent’s district. Coupled with the departure of another moderate Republican who holds a seat in a blue district, state Rep. Knute Buehler (R-Bend), who’s running for governor, Johnson’s new job could help give Democrats the super-majority they need to pass new taxes on a party-line vote. Johnson declined to comment. OBI board chairman Sam Tannahill says nobody’s been offered the job yet.

Oregon Income Inequality Reaches Record Level

A new report from the Oregon Center for Public Policy finds the gap between the state’s rich and poor at its widest ever. The annual incomes of the top 0.1 percent of Oregonians—1,170 households—are at an alltime high, while a typical Oregonian’s income has inched just $900 since 1980.

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City Commissioner Dan Saltzman surprised Portland with the announcement last month he wouldn’t seek re-election in 2018.

The announcement, well in advance of the May primary, means the open seat has a wide array of viable contenders. Now Saltzman is saying he won’t try to anoint his successor. “My general idea is not to do an endorsement at all,” he says, before leaving the door open—“not to say that might not change.” The latest name floated in the race? Mayoral staffer Andrea Valderrama, who considered but did not enter the race to challenge state Sen. Rod Monroe (D-East Portland).

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Three Schools Smeared With Racist Graffiti

Three schools in the David Douglas School District in East Portland, found racist graffiti marring their buildings Oct. 2. The school district says video surveillance footage suggests the same two men vandalized all three schools—and they may be the same men who defaced the district’s Menlo Park Elementary School last week.

David Douglas school board member Ana del Rocio saysshe’s horrified. “Whereas last week I felt like it was really tragic act of violence, now we know this is a concerted effort that is targeting children of color,” she says.

“It’s so heinous to target children—it’s so heinous that I don’t know if we can wait for a political solution. I want to talk community defense.”

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Grand Theft Auto: Rip City CRIME IS FLAT OR DOWN IN PORTLAND, EXCEPT IN ONE CATEGORY. kshepherd@wweek.com

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Temperatures are running hot over Referendum 301, a GOP attempt to repeal part of a health care provider tax passed by the Legislature in July. Voter signatures for the referral are due Oct. 5—and could trigger a statewide special election. Proponents of the repeal, led by Reps. Julie Parrish (R-West Linn) and Cedric Hayden (R-Roseburg), complain their opponents, led by Our Oregon, are spying on their signaturegathering efforts and calling their supporters “bigots and extremists.” Our Oregon says the real issue is the 350,000 recipients who would lose Medicaid coverage if the referral succeeds—and the billion-dollar hole it would blow in the state budget. Here’s what you need to know as we wait for results. NIGEL JAQUISS.

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Danielle Outlaw

Danielle Outlaw took the helm at the Portland Police Bureau on Oct. 2, becoming the first black woman police chief in this city’s history. Outlaw comes from the Oakland Police Department, where she gained a reputation as a reformer.

On her second day on the job, she sat down with WW to discuss her goals. Outlaw identified four policies she wants to tackle right away: staffing, police interactions with homeless Portlanders, strategies at protests, and implementing the city’s settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. KATIE SHEPHERD.

What is your position on working with federal immigration agents?

This organization does not enforce civil federal immigration laws. This is a sanctuary city. And it is my role to make sure that all of our policies, actions and directives

are in alignment with just that. We’re still a law enforcement agency. We can still do our jobs without federal immigration laws.

Do you worry the DOJ might pull its support for the settlement agreement under the Trump administration?

Regardless of if there is DOJ oversight or not, I think it is incumbent on us as leaders within the city and the organization to continue to be introspective. That’s how we raise the bar. And that’s how we contribute in a positive way to the national dialogue about how we police in this country. Regardless of whether the DOJ was here or not, we would still be at the forefront in trying to do the absolute best in how we police.

Will police use of force at protests change under your leadership?

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BREAKDOWN

PROPERTY CRIME +13.15% CAR THEFT

“A lot of the people stealing cars are stealing the cars to feed a drug habit,” Burley says. By that, he means people are using the cars as a place to get high—the stolen car provides a relatively hidden and isolated location to do drugs.

Sometimes cars are stripped or valuables are taken from inside the vehicles, Burley says, but not always.

The bizarre campaign by federal agencies to smear Portland as a hive of scum and villainy continued last week when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement falsely claimed to arrest 33 people in Portland during a four-day immigration raid that the agency said targeted “dangerous” sanctuary cities. (In fact, agents arrested just four people in Portland, none for violent crimes.)

But a quick look at the numbers shows Portland remains safe for people, if not for cars.

LARCENY-THEFT +11.58%

Last month, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions described Portland as a haven for violent criminals and gang members. But FBI statistics show crime in Portland is staying low or in decline across all categories but one: car theft.

Murder, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and arson are all down since 2008. The only outlier is stolen cars, which rose by 47 percent in the same period. This year’s Portland Police Bureau statistics show car thefts continuing to climb.

So why all the jacked rides? The National Insurance Crime Bureau warned late last year that thieves are using electronic devices to hack vehicles with keyless entry.

But Portland police spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley scoffs at that theory. He says the rise in stolen cars coincides with a spike in drug addiction, and that detectives often find stolen cars abandoned with drug paraphernalia inside.

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to say what I’m going to come in and change right away.

But that’s on the absolute top of my list.

Are there any elements of Oakland’s highly regarded crowd-control policies you would bring to Portland?

There might be. But it’s not a cookie cutter. Everything doesn’t work for everybody.

What is the most interesting thing you’ve heard from a Portlander so far?

I won’t share that here. But to me it speaks to the fact that folks are just bold. They’ll say whatever is on their mind regardless of how tactful it is. But it’s OK because that’s one of the things that drew me here. There’s a tenacity and a boldness about Portland. And that suits my personality well.

I don’t know. It’s day two, so I am no position whatsoever

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Red Hot and Rolling MULTNOMAH COUNTY IS PRESSING FOR BIG CHANGES IN PORTLAND’S RESPONSE TO 911 MEDICAL CALLS. THAT DOESN’T SIT WELL WITH POWERFUL UNIONS.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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Every seven minutes, 365 days a year, a fire crew—often four firefighters in a very expensive fire truck—and a twoperson ambulance crew both respond to a medical call.

That usually means a minimum of six highly trained, well-compensated first responders racing to incidents with sirens howling and lights flashing.

Sometimes it’s necessary: Car crashes, heart attacks and other life-threatening incidents require an emergency response. But nearly a third of the 90,000 annual calls for medical service, according to Multnomah County, are not emergencies and do not require a response by firefighters.

Doctors in the county health department want to address this puzzling and expensive anomaly.

To do so, they are picking a fight with one of the city’s most unassailable powers—Portland Fire & Rescue—and one of the city’s most embattled agencies: the Bureau of Emergency Management.

The battleground? The ambulance contract Multnomah County administers. That contract, which expires in August 2018 and is currently held by American Medical Response, serves all county residents. The contract is also very large: It will pay the winning bidder around $750 million over the next decade.

In return, county officials are seeking a big change in the status quo. They want the winning bidder to build a private, independent 911 call center that would more precisely evaluate what medical services callers truly need and dispatch first responders more efficiently.

The likely result, if the contract moves forward as the county proposes, is a substantial reduction in the role of firefighters in the response to medical calls—and a potential threat to the city’s Bureau of Emergency Communications.

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City Commissioner Dan Saltzman oversees the fire bureau and has long wanted to reduce the number of firefighters deployed to routine medical calls. He applauds the county’s idea.

“It’s an innovative approach the county is envisioning,” Saltzman says. “It’s been tried elsewhere, and it’s worked.”

The county issued a document formally requesting bids Aug. 7. Since then, county officials have instead been fielding expressions of outrage from parties invested in keeping the system from changing.

The firefighters’ unions in Portland and Gresham have both filed protests, calling the county’s proposal, in a Sept.

7 letter, “deeply flawed.”

Most of the people involved in the battle don’t want to talk: Multnomah County officials, the fire chiefs of Portland and Gresham, and the acting director of Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications all declined to be interviewed for this story.

But documents fill in some of the blanks.

To support its course change, the county is drawing on a 2016 study published in the journal Annals of Emergency Dispatch & Response. That study, based on eight years of data in six large EMS districts, undercuts the rationale for firefighters responding to nearly every call.

Today, firefighters respond first because they can.

There are more of them deployed in more places around the county than there are ambulances. But researchers found there’s often scant benefit in that rapid response.

“With the exception of the relatively few cases of sudden cardiac (or respiratory) arrest, there exists very little evidence that incrementally shorter EMS response times actually improve patient outcomes,” the study concluded.

“Many calls require neither two sets of responders nor a high-speed response,” says county spokeswoman Julie Sullivan-Springhetti. “Such unnecessary responses reduce

the capacity of the system to quickly respond to true timesensitive life-threatening emergencies.”

But fire officials have told the county in writing that creating a new 911 system could slow response times and put citizens’ lives at risk.

“The duplication of a call center in a private setting is not an efficient or effective use of taxpayers’ money and may result in the delay of first responder dispatching,” Portland Fire Chief Mike Myers wrote to county officials Sept 8. In his Sept. 7 letter, Gresham Fire Chief Greg Matthews warned the changes could result in “dire consequences to our citizens.”

For years, Portland Fire & Rescue has resisted largescale changes to how it operates. The clannish bureau is popular with the public and protected by savvy union leadership.

“The stranglehold fire unions have over local governments is very strong,” Saltzman says.

In 2012, a consultant concluded Portland Fire was unique in the nation in responding to every medical call with a four-member fire crew and was “responding to exponentially growing numbers of non-emergency medical calls…creating inefficiencies and costing the City of Portland significant dollars” (“Burning Money,” WW, Sept.

26, 2012).

Since then, the bureau has added two-person “rapid response vehicles,” which are dispatched to about 5,000 less-serious medical calls annually. That’s still a small percentage of the bureau’s calls, and fire officials have regularly tried to scrap the RRVs at budget time.

Last year, ambulances in Multnomah County responded to 90,000 calls. In about 79,000 cases, firefighters responded to the same call.

The county’s emergency medical staff doesn’t think that’s necessary. In fact, documents show they think changing the way operators respond could cut the number of incidents to which firefighters respond by nearly a third—almost 25,000 calls.

Long term, such a reduction could threaten firefighters’ paychecks and job security.

Alan Ferschweiler, president of the Portland Firefighters Association, says he fears a private 911 system would be duplicative and slow. He also notes that medical calls have nearly doubled in the past 15 years with little staffing increase.

Ferschweiler says firefighters would welcome giving up non-emergency calls. But he worries if that happens, city commissioners would try to cut jobs. “If call volume goes down 20 percent, then City Council will want to cut our staffing 20 percent,” he says.

It’s also threatening to Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications, the troubled agency that currently holds a monopoly on fielding 911 calls.

The union that represents BOEC workers says having a contractor build a parallel 911 system makes no sense. “It just seems to make the system more complicated without making it better,” says Rob Wheaton of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 88, which represents 70 BOEC employees. “We oppose it.”

But an onslaught of criticism from inside and out has left BOEC reeling.

Last year, WW reported that the bureau’s staffing had fallen sharply even as call volume soared, leading to employee exhaustion and a worrisome growth in wait times (“Call Waiting,” WW, March 16, 2016). A city ombudsman’s report released in June blasted the agency for losing tens of thousands of calls and reporting false response times. The report found the agency was performing “well below accepted standards.”

Multnomah County plans to award the ambulance contract in December. Ferschweiler worries the county is headed down the wrong path.

“What they’re proposing won’t work,” he says. “It’s a slap in the face of the citizens of this county.”

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NEW HEIGHTS: A plan to build apartment towers near the Riverplace Marina has sparked interest at City Hall. (The towers would rise as high as 400 feet; this artist’s rendering is whimsical and not to scale.)

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A DEVELOPER DANGLES UP TO 500 AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS— IN EXCHANGE FOR THE RIGHT TO BUILD DOWNTOWN SKYSCRAPERS.

BY R ACHEL MON A HA N

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Few civic changes anger Portlanders like the threat of tall buildings blocking familiar views.

Now a Portland-based real estate investment and development company has arrived at City Hall with a proposal to crowd the skyline with skyscrapers as tall as 40 stories on the downtown waterfront.

In exchange, it’s offering to build up to 500 affordable apartments with no public cash. All it wants is the rights to the sky.

It’s by far the largest proposal floated under the city’s new inclusionary housing policy, which requires developers to set aside affordable units in projects of 20 apartments or more. And it threatens to agitate an already heated debate over how high Portland’s skyline can go.

Four members of the City Council, including the mayor, have expressed preliminary interest.

City Commissioner Dan Saltzman says he’s “heartened” by a project pledging to use inclusionary housing. Many private developers, he says, “are saying that inclusionary housing is killing our city. Here we have a big development stepping forward and providing affordable units in a big way. That’s counter to a lot of naysaying we’re hearing.”

The investment company bringing the proposal, NBP Capital, says it wants to build as many as eight apartment towers of at least 100 feet on the streets surrounding RiverPlace, a sleepy low-rise 1990s development along Southwest Naito Parkway that’s now home to a marina, a boardwalk and flocks of Canada geese.

The height limit at RiverPlace in the latest city proposal is 200 feet. But NBP Capital wants to max out at 325 feet—plus one 400-foot tower.

The project could create 2,500 units, up to 500 of them priced to be affordable for people making 80 percent of the median income or less.

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city’s urban renewal agency, expects to spend millions of public dollars to build roughly the same number of apartments on the old U.S. Post Office site in Old Town.)

For seven years, the city’s Planning and Sustainability Commission has been weighing a blueprint—called the Central City 2035 Plan—to allow some developers to build higher.

Raising height limits allows more flexibility in how to build—and these developers apparently favor having open space with stunning views for their own buildings.

Planning commission member Chris Smith calls the debate over height limits the “Vancouver-versus-Paris debate”—Vancouver, B.C., epitomizes the tall towers approach, and Paris the lower heights.

“There is a strong set of voices in the debate advocating for limiting heights even below what exists,” says Smith. “The anti-height voices did not get a lot of traction, even though I think we tried to listen very carefully.”

The loudest anti-height voice in City Hall is Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who has called for a case-by-case review of many of the height increases proposed under the Central City Plan.

Fritz did not respond to WW’s requests for comment on whether the affordable apartments offered by the RiverPlace proposal would sway her to accept higher height limits.

NBP Capital first presented city planners with a proposal in August 2016. But the investment group dramatically expanded its ambitions after the City Council passed its inclusionary housing policy, which includes density incentives for affordable units.

The project’s backers have deep pockets.

NBP Capital says its portfolio is worth a halfbillion dollars. The company was founded by the brother-sister team of Lauren Noecker Robert and Spencer Noecker. It is majority-owned by investors for the trust of a German-American dual citizen and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen. Berggruen was nicknamed the “homeless billionaire” for having no base of operations and living in hotels.

The developers and architect declined to answer questions about their plans. But opposition to new tall towers isn’t going away.

“I fear what would happen if more older structures were to be torn down and replaced with tall buildings,” a West End resident named David Dixon testified to the City Council on Sept. 7. “Would my walks become more perilous through Pearl District-like traffic, sunless wind tunnels and cold concrete and glass storefronts?”

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THE HARVEST ISSUE

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pril 20 gets the attention, but October is the true high season for cannabis.

Right now, pot plants across Oregon are in full bloom, soon to be sheared of their wilting leaves and cured to preserve the shimmery coat of sticky crystals covering their delicate buds. Those fresh flowers will be sent to market, stocking our shelves with dank natural nugs, fueling our state’s robust concentrate industry, and bringing a much-needed infusion of cash to agricultural communities.

Harvest is here—and it’s time for Potlanders to celebrate.

This is the second year we’ve done a Harvest issue. Yes, in some ways, harvest is an outmoded idea, since so much top-shelf cannabis is grown indoors under lights with the help of high-tech nutritional supplements and irrigation systems. But, like a lot of people who love this hearty, powerful and generous plant, we’ve come to feel there’s something extra special about sungrown flower. Not just because it’s so plentiful, but because it can provide flavors and experiences you can’t get via light bulbs. Oregon’s outdoor cannabis sucks up the character of our soil and nourishes us with it—there’s something magical about that.

We’ve put together a Harvest issue that celebrates the things we love about Portland cannabis right now. That starts with our favorite new shops, including a delivery guy hooking up the suburbany hoods of South-

west and a boutique that revives the days of Hendrix and dime bags (page 15). Then we dive deep into the strains that have defined this region’s cannabis scene through the years, from old-school Blueberry to Instagram fave Do-Si-Dos (page 21).

We also talk to a bleeding-edge grower who hopes to operate the first cannabis farm in the state that’s completely carbon neutral (page 25) and an industry leader who is working to keep Oregon cannabis crafty and local so that Oregonians don’t end up as de facto sharecroppers for moneyed Canadians (page 35).

Because all that policy can get a little heavy, we round up our favorite new products (page 29) and the coolest upcoming cannacentric events (page 31).

With all that inexpensive sungrown weed about to hit shelves, it’s a good time to play around with edibles. So we have a piece explaining everything you need to know about decarboxylation, the surprisingly simple secret to making brownies that will get you extremely good and high (page 27).

We also give you a recipe for infusing the nutrient-dense pot leaves that get cut away from the flower, which are otherwise headed for the mulch bin (page 39).

Pot leaves that get you high? That’s a little bit crazy, we know. But what better way to honor the plant? It’s Harvest in Potland— let’s celebrate the bounty we’ve been given.

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Our Favorite New Dispensaries p. 15

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Cannabis-Centric Events for Fall p. 31

HOT DEALS

Strains of the Pacific Northwest p. 21

Bargain Shopping in Portland p. 32

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CORPORATE WEED STILL SUCKS

Quest to Be Carbon-Neutral p. 25

COOK BEFORE EATING What You Need to Know About Decarboxylation p. 27

Meet an Important New Industry Group p. 35

POT CHIPS AHOY

Make Your Leaves Into an Infused Snack p. 39

WE GOT SOME STUFF Favorite New Cannabis Gear p. 29

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NOW IN FLOWER Nine of our favorite new Portland weed hookups, from delivery in leafy Southwest to the throwback hippie stylings of Electric Lettuce.

1234 NE 102nd Ave., 503-384-2959, treesmarijuana.com.

Trees is the future of dispensaries. In addition to being almost entirely women-run, it’s one of the few shops constructed after an April law that eliminated the rule requiring a waiting room. As a result, Trees feels more like a neighborhood bodega than a heavily regulated, sterilized place to buy a schedule I drug. No longer will you wait while the receptionist types the entire contents of your ID into a computer system or sit awkwardly on that velvet couch wondering how many pieces of candy you can take. Trees gives you a sense of autonomy, a place where the budtenders will hold your hand only if you’d like them to. The center of the room even has glass counters with petri dishes of nugs with a magnifying glass you can use to examine them. You’ll need the extra time to browse: There’s a strong selection of about 25 strains, daily pre-roll deals of $5 to $8 and a case full of goodies like CBD teas and THC-infused soaking salts and gummies. SOPHIA JUNE.

ROSEWAY ORGANICS 7420 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-477-4368, facebook.com/pg/Rosewayorganics.

The brand-new Roseway Organics lies in an idyllic setting, out on the elbow of Northeast Sandy, near where the most interesting street in the city bends back south. In the parking

lot, there are two food carts, including one with big ol’ tortas and two-ply tacos. Across the street is a divey pirate-themed strip club shaped like a jug of grog. There’s also a latenight doughnut shop, a century-old pharmacy with a soda fountain, and a second-run movie theater. Roseway is a very nice neighborhood dispensary—still a little sparse, but with a balanced selection that ranges from Grön chocolate to $5 pre-rolls and a jar of really nice Jack Herer. It also has a case full of glass stocked by Mary Jane’s, so you can purchase a pipe without venturing too far out of this magical little bubble. MARTIN CIZMAR.

showcases wood carvings by a local artist, who also crafted wood stands for vape pens that sell for just $10. The shop carries only 15 strains right now, priced from $8 to $24 a gram, with more coming soon. In the meantime, there’s a new discount every day, so try to visit on a Monday for select $4 grams or Tuesday for select $2 pre-rolls.

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OREGON VALLEY CANNABIS 5230 SE 52nd Ave., 503-206-8634, oregonvalleycannabis.com.

Oregon Valley Cannabis caters to the stoner kid in all of us, finally giving customers what they really need: coloring books. For $9, you can pick up a 24-pack of colored pencils and a psychedelic adult coloring book, which are kept in glass cases right alongside the top-shelf strains. The pot shop, full of warm woods, white space and crystals from the owner’s extensive rock collection, regards playfulness and creativity as integral parts of getting high, which all at once makes it one of the goofier but smarter dispensaries.

It also has a neighborhood feel, is owned by the same person as Toast cafe next door, and

RIP CITY DELIVERY Deliveries in Southwest, to the 97201, 97205, 97219 and 97221 ZIP codes; Tetra ripcitydelivery.com.

I placed my first order with Rip City Delivery at 11 am on a Thursday. A few minutes later, an email arrives from Dave Fuegy. “We don’t open until 2, but would you like your order now?” Sure, I reply, if it’s not too much trouble.

“I’ll be there in 20,” he writes. He’s there in 15. Dave is jovial and professional and more buttoned-down than your standard flowerista.

He grew up in his own delivery zone—four ZIP codes covering the suburb-lite neighborhoods of Southwest—before getting his start delivering pizzas in Newport Beach during college. Rip City covers most of Southwest Portland, though, sadly, not hotels or dorms.

I paid with cash, though personal checks and CanPay are also options. Dave cheerily turns down my tip before jetting off again.

The store’s inventory is concentrate-focused.

The edibles are currently limited to Periodic Caramels. The flower I ordered, a crumbly Blue Magoo, smoked a little harsh. These are easy problems to fix, however, and there are already plans to expand. “I just created something I wished existed,” Dave explains.

“I’m my own ideal customer.” WM. WILLARD GREENE.

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Oregon Valley Cannabis

4011 SE Belmont St., 503-206-7559, tetrapdx.com.

To get to Tetra Cannabis at Southeast 40th and Belmont, you’ll probably have to pass another dispensary on your way. Down the block to the west is Serra, a stylish destination shop with top-notch flower. If you’re coming from the north, you might cross the Green Mile. From parts south, you’ll pass the evenly distributed shops that populate neighborhoods in Southeast—a competitive market where dispensaries fight for their share of the lucre by way of deals, deals and deals.

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Tetra has many of the big names in edibles and extracts, knowledgeable budtenders, and flower from some of my favorite producers, like East Fork Cultivars, which specializes in quality CBD strains, and Workingman’s Bud, which does a great job expressing the essence of various classic and new-school cultivars.

What I’m really excited about, though, is Tetra’s new farm, which was recently licensed to produce an upcoming line of in-house flowers. Judging by the quality producers already on tap, it’s an exciting prospect and an indication of where the market is headed: With so many neighborhood shops competing for business, bringing unique products to the shelf is the newest and best way to stand out. Here’s to hoping more shops follow suit.

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AMBERLIGHT 2407 SE 49th Ave., 503-233-0420, amberlightcannabis.com.

A few weeks back, I stopped by Amberlight Cannabis House, a 3-month-old shop tucked off Southeast Division Street in the Richmond neighborhood. Considering it was a sleepy Tuesday morning, the staff was exceptionally bright-eyed—friendly, attentive and refreshingly excited to answer the laundry list of small questions I’d prepared. When I asked what unique products they offered, I was shown limited-edition Lief Goods spiced chocolate, CBD dog treats and an infused water that I’d never before seen. The flower selection included a lot of the usual suspects, but I was also handed a jar of a small-batch release of Doc OG from the shop’s vertically integrated farm, Amberlight Gardens. “It’s CONT. on page 17 15

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VIRTUE SUPPLY COMPANY 510 NW 11th Ave., 971-940-6624, virtuesupplycompany.com.

The newest pot shop near downtown, Virtue occupies the former Tea Zone space right across from the Blick art supply shop in the Pearl. You’ll find the entrance by spotting the tourists who’ve stopped to photograph the large sign that reads “Gluten-Free Marijuana.” Once inside, the reception area is decorated with shelves of minerals and crystals that add a bit of sparkle to the bright, naturally lit space.

The décor is amped up another degree in the budroom, where Sun God tinctures and Wyld gummies are displayed on hollowed tree rings, and where LED projections flash color-changing patterns on the counter. There’s an impressive selection

for such a new shop, with strains from top-notch growers like Nelson & Company Organics, Higher Minds Horticulture and Resin Ranchers. LAUREN TERRY.

SLABTOWN CANNABIS PROPRIETORS 2507 NW Nicolai St., 503-477-6759, slabtowncp.com.

Slabtown is a new neighborhood of luxury light-fixture stores and warehouses on the industrial fringe of Northwest. Slabtown the shop has an old-school feel and the essentials. The large budroom doubles as a yoga studio on some Sunday mornings, and as a venue for bring-your-own-cannabis painting classes called Puff, Pass and Paint events. Along with a glass selection, clones and seeds, it also carries useful accessories like protective vape cartridge cases and Clear Eyes. The owners come from Southern Oregon, and take care to find vendors with cultivation experience. They carry flower from Lucky Lion Farms and Mountain Sun Botanicals out of the Applegate Valley, who have 20 years breeding experience, and vape cartridges from Green Dragon Extracts that are made of high-quality materials with glass fiber wicks. LAUREN TERRY .

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our budget strain right now,” the budtender told me, explaining it was an early release from their new garden. “Five bucks a gram.” My eyes lit up.

It rivaled or upstaged the third-party flowers three times its price, had THC content above 20 percent and smelled fantastic. To boot, once I got my sample home, I found it to be tasty and potent and wished I’d picked up more, despite having bought 4 grams for $20, tax included. This is all to say, I’ll be happily following up with Amberlight’s proprietary flower offerings—which it will roll out in full in the coming months, rendering the store a useful neighborhood dispensary with a lot of potential.

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ELECTRIC LETTUCE 203 NE Weidler St.; 1450 SW Marlow Ave.; 1279 Molalla Ave., Oregon City; electriclettuce.com.

Serra knew its high-end approach wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea. That’s why it created the chilled-out sister brand Electric Lettuce, which leans into classic stoner culture with a polished touch.

You’ll see the same products you see at Serra, like Pruf Cultivar flower, Woodblock Chocolate and Mr. Moxey’s Mints. But the bubble letters and psychedelic paint job embody marijuana’s golden age in American culture. Electric Lettuce wants people to come in to buy weed, but also to get lost in nostalgia, listen to records, and look at the old posters and cannabis memorabilia. The little lobby area looks like your stoner uncle’s house—the one you visited for really strong brownies and stories from his days as a Deadhead, complete with a ’60s-era TV set and a frayed copy of The Old Man and the Sea. LAUREN TERRY.

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The stor y of Por tland cannabis as told through the iconic cultivars of the Pacific Nor thwest.

BY M AT T STA N G E L @ m attstan g e l

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efore Portland had bougie weed shops furnished by Design Within Reach, budtenders with man buns, and poly-hybrid designer cultivars called King Louis XIII, we had great weed.

Strains like Blueberry, Space Queen and Dogshit are part of our cultural heritage.

These cultivars were grown in attics and basements on suburban cul-de-sacs, and guerrilla style on government land. They were revered for their idiosyncratic highs and distinctive flavors.

Since full legalization, many of these strains have become relative rarities, eclipsed by more marketable strains in a climate in which everyone from retired basketball players to long-dead reggae singers are peddling product. Just tracking down many of these old-school strains takes a lot of legwork.

Rare as they’ve become, these iconic cultivars tell the story of Northwest cannabis, from the early hippie days to the drug war to the medical years up through today.

Here’s the history of Northwest weed, as told through the cultivars that defined it.

song about it, declaring, “It’s got me singing melodies I never thought I would”—in a 4-by-4-foot closet in a house in Eugene. But that’s the story the man tells.

Blueberry marks a departure from the wild, landrace cultivars that dominated the U.S. market in the 1960s and ’70s—one of the first stateside strains to employ indicasativa hybridization for the express purpose of indoor cultivation.

Short’s son, JD, described the strain’s cultural impact to Potlander back in April: “A lot of the herb that was around at that point was spice weed, or it was the Afghan, which was skunk. DJ came along with these things that were berry and purple, and it just blew people’s minds.”

The elder Short is a devout sativa enthusiast, but growing sativas in closets is a difficult task because the towering plants can double or triple in size during their fl ower cycle, often outgrowing their environments before they’re ready to harvest.

Short wanted to create a plant that would fit in his closet but also deliver the blissed-out, landrace-sativa highs he grew up on.

He began experimenting with the squat indicas that were trickling into the U.S., crossing them with old favorites to see what he could come up with. When he found those berry notes, he knew he had something special—and those genetics have spread around the world. Pretty much anytime you see a strain with “blue” or “berry” in its name, it came from this Oregon-bred cultivar.

PROTO-MED BLUE MAGOO

THE NANCY REAGAN YEARS BLUEBERRY CIRCA: 1980 PLACE OF ORIGIN: Eugene BREEDER: DJ Short A RO M A : Berries and orange zest in milk chocolate HIGH: Laughy, stupefying and mellow

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n the early 1980s, the Dazed and Confused Carter years gave way to the War on Drugs, just as new technology made it possible to grow cannabis efficiently indoors.

Eugene’s DJ Short was one such early adopter of the indoor grow, back in a time when fluorescent lighting in a closet was considered high tech.

It’s astonishing to think that Short created one of cannabis’s most legendary strains—Ludacris wrote a whole

CIRCA: Late 1980s, early ’90s PLACE OF ORIGIN: Oregon BREEDER: Unknown AROMA: Berries, sour candy HIGH: Elevated mood, decelerated cognition, sleep inducing

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y the 1990s, Blueberry had gained global recognition as an example of what could be achieved by tinkering with hybridization.

It didn’t take long for growers to adopt the practice. One of these early, Oregon-bred efforts is Blue Magoo, a direct descendant of the original Blueberry that claims William’s Wonder as its father.

“I first heard about Blue Magoo when I moved to Oregon in ’96,” says P r o f e s s o r P,

founder and co-owner of cannabis seed supplier Dynasty Genetics in Boring, who granted an interview on the condition we use only his industry name.

Although Professor P didn’t acquire the rare, clone-only cut until a decade later, he’s the strain’s most prominent preservationist.

At the time he obtained the Blue Magoo, cannabis varieties typically circulated as cuttings, not seed, since every seed has its own characteristics and stabilizing the genetics to make a “strain” takes a lot of time and money. Instead, breeders used cuttings from proven mother plants like Blue Magoo.

A solid chunk of Dynasty’s breeding projects and seed releases can be traced back to that storied cut, which still circulates in flower form on today’s dispensary market.

“I started making seeds to be self-sufficient,” says Professor P. As the medical cannabis market began to look something like an industry, more growers came to him for seeds, so he started to develop new crosses.

He got serious about breeding medical strains after a friend lost his leg following a nasty snowboarding accident in 2003 and got hooked on opiates.

“He was a ghost in the shell,” says Professor P. After that, he designed new strains specifically for pain management—strains that helped his friend get off opiates and reclaim his life.

Two years later, when Professor P was himself badly injured in a car wreck, he began using the strains he’d created for pain management, and realized others might benefit from their wider availability.

In a time before strong scientific research, and before we understood the value of non-psychoactive cannabinoids like CBD, medical breeders worked by anecdote and individual-use cases. And they were surprisingly successful.

EARLY MEDICAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST DOGSHIT CIRCA: Early 1990s P L A C E O F O R I G I N : Oregon? Idaho?

Michigan? You decide!

BREEDER: Unknown AROMA: Earthworm castings, old dusty books and faint citrus HIGH: An alertness mediated by contentment—not racy, but present and engaged

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n 1998, Oregon and Washington legalized medical marijuana, just two years after California became the first state to adopt a medical marijuana policy. With this fast-growing

infrastructure for legal weed farming on the West Coast came the designer cultivars we

know today.

While liberal compared to the drug war years, the political climate demanded secrecy and a level of discretion, which had made the history of specific strains hard to suss out.

“Ten or 15 years ago there wasn’t much breeding going on in Oregon,” says Archive Seed Bank founder Fletcher Watson, who’s spent the past 15 years traversing the West Coast, collecting and preserving rare cannabis genetics from clones.

Before the turn of the century, he says, consumers were happy to take what they could get. At the same time, growers were doing their best to stay off the radar— divulging added information about their products only when absolutely necessary.

“Back then, the main locally produced varieties were Pineapple, Pineapple Dogshit, Trinity [and] Space Queen,” explains Watson. “Everything else was being brought in.”

In that era, the “best weed in Portland,” as Watson puts it, was Pacific Northwest Dogshit. It’s a fast-fading memory now— perhaps partly because the name doesn’t look great on letterpressed placards.

Recollections of the strain’s origins are the stuff of lengthy online forum discussions and heated debate.

According to Watson, Pacific Northwest Dogshit actually hails from Idaho. When I tracked down the strain in person at Five Zero Trees West, the manager on duty told me with great conviction that the strain originated in Michigan.

The big takeaway isn’t the who or the where but the why: In a time when to grow or breed was to commit a criminal act, the outlaws who took the risk kept their heads down.

By design, pre-MMJ strains like Dogshit come from nowhere and no one.

MED-MANIA 9LB HAMMER CIRCA: 2010 PLACE OF ORIGIN: Seattle BREEDER: JinxProof Genetics AROMA: Pine-berry incense and lemonbalm musk translate to soapy mango skin when smoked.

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Take Space Queen, an early medical strain that’s become a backbone to the Pacific Northwest’s genetics. The story is that Space Queen came from a guy who called himself Vic High, who created the strain by crossing Cinderella 99 and Romulan. But this shadowy figure is best known for his contributions to web-based cannabis forums, and slipped into the darkness many years ago, never resurfacing.

What subsequently happened to his work captures the medical era in a nutshell.

In the mid-aughts, a grower by the name of Subcool, then in Southern Oregon, picked up where Vic High left off. The majority of Subcool’s critically acclaimed strains, which he releases through TGA Subcool Seeds, rely on a Space Queen dad known as “Space Dude.”

But the best seed Subcool sells, 9lb Hammer, wasn’t actually his.

Rather, a grower and breeder in Seattle who goes by JinxProof, created the Hammer by crossing Subcool’s Jesus OG (a branch of the Space Queen family tree) with a closely guarded Washington strain called Goo Berry (Blackberry and Afgooey).

“I just wanted to create a cool strain,” says JinxProof, creator of the Hammer, who’s been growing in the Seattle area for nearly 30 years. When he started working on the strain back around 2010, he was under Subcool’s employ as a distribution rep.

JinxProof was in contact with growers, so he started passing out seeds of his new cross to testers, who mistook 9lb Hammer for the work of Subcool.

“It started blowing up on social media, and because I worked for Subcool, people started bugging him [for the strain],” JinxProof says. Eventually, reluctantly at first, Subcool began vending 9lb Hammer seeds, distributing them under TGA’s umbrella of genetics.

Soon, though, it became the most popular strain offered by Subcool, while a growing collection of JinxProof ’s subsequent creations also started to commercially outperform Subcool’s original collection.

JinxProof ’s success demonstrated the industry-swaying mass of consumers found on platforms like Instagram, and the way that’s shaping the future of cannabis cultivars.

s medical marijuana became more accessible and demand for cutting-edge designer cultivars increased, people began to worry about the old-school strains, and a preservationist movement took hold. That’s probably best exemplified

by Archive Seed Bank and its keep-everything philosophy.

Fifteen years ago, Archive founder Fletcher Watson made it his personal mission to preserve the West Coast’s most elusive strains, and the result is a host of fantastic crosses—RudeBoi OG (Irene OG x Face Off OG BX1), Scooby Snacks (Platinum Girl Scout Cookies x Face Off OG BX1) and Grimace OG (Purple Urkle x Face Off OG BX1)—all of which are common to the Oregon market.

But none of Archive’s strains has made a splash quite like Do-Si-Dos, a cross of Watson’s go-to Face Off OG stud and what is often referred to as a “mutant” genotype of Girl Scout Cookies, dubbed OG Kush Breath, or OGKB. “I got the cut of OGKB from [online forum user] Norcal ICMag back in late 2012, early 2013,” says Watson.

It wasn’t a commercially viable strain: It was low-yielding and expressed hermaphroditic characteristics.

“It didn’t have any production value,” says Watson.

Yet, the OG Kush Breath was exceptionally tasty and commandingly potent—a standout in the vast sea of Cookies-related genetics.

In an effort to preserve the strain’s potency and decadent terpene profile while improving its yield and reducing its tendency to turn male, thus losing its flowers, Watson introduced the clone-only mutant to his prized Face Off OG male.

Initially, Archive released only a few packs of seeds from the cross, but he also passed cuts back to Norcal ICMag, who produced more clones and released them to the Bay Area grow community.

Do-Si-Dos blew up.

So much so that Archive’s current lineup of seed packs is all fathered by a new Do-Si-Dos stud.

When it comes to his hit, Watson is less a proud father and more a satisfied businessman. He says he’d like to see more interest in the “old-school” heritage genetics he preserves and distributes through Archive Portland, his nursery and dispensary on the southeastern edge of town.

But like any good businessperson, Watson follows demand. “[Do-Si-dos] is commercially viable because cannabis is becoming a marketing thing, but not a localized produce thing like it once was,” says Watson. “People are like, ‘Well, give me whatever I see on Instagram.’”

In that regard, Do-Si-Dos is a mere drop in the tidal shift induced by the new adult-use market, where there’s now demand for ultra-new flower of niche descent.

“I haven’t personally lost a lot of those [old-school] strains,” says Watson, “but the whole market itself has lost a lot of that diversity.”

Yet the market has a way of correcting itself. Those heritage varietals of yore will probably cycle back into the wheel of demand.

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Eco Firma’s obsessive-compulsive quest to go carbon neutral means counting ever y footstep.

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

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esse Peters worries about the phone book. He worries about junk mail, and snack wrappers, and the brown bags his cannabis growers at Canby’s Eco Firma Farms use to carry their sandwiches to work. And he’s also lost a lot of sleep worrying about where to put his bedroom.

Specifically, he wants to know whether he and his wife should sleep next to the cannabis.

“We’re trying to decide,” he says. “Do we put our bedroom next to the flower rooms, or separate them because of the possibility of an outbreak of a pathogen or pest? Do we want our bedroom separate so we don’t cross-contaminate?”

The decision matters: Every extra footstep he takes brings him farther away from total sustainability. At Eco Firma’s new indoor grow site, home to his line of hand-rolled Pacheco cigarettes and 54 marijuana strains from Voodoo Child to Alaskan Thunder Fuck, Peters has set himself what may be an impossible goal.

Like Bhutan and Vatican City, he wants to be completely carbon neutral, growing energy-intensive cannabis while releasing no net carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It’s something only one other cannabis farm, California’s Cache Creek, is even attempting.

“Going out and saying we want to be Oregon’s fi rst carbon-neutral farm is different from saying sustainable gardening,” says Peters. “Carbon neutral is very specific. You’ve got to alienate people. We deal with contractors, we get mail. How do I control for this? These things are coming to our farm: Are they unrecycled paper? I didn’t make the phone book, but it’s here—this is a massive rabbit hole, but it’s one we have to go down.”

Peters, who spends half his week working as a firefighter, says his military background has perhaps contributed to his obsessiveness on the subject.

“There’s a certain meticulous nature. I spent 23 years in the Marines doing explosives, which are very unforgiving,” says Peters. “There’s stuff you learn in the military: The idea is to leave a place better than you

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found it. That’s different than in war, but in training there are things I learned about being meticulous.”

Some of the largest steps, Peters says, were the most straightforward. It meant checking that box on his PGE bill to receive all of his energy from wind power, which he says only a couple other growers do.

And it also meant drawing all of his water out of a well instead of getting it from the local utility.

“We’re 90 percent of the way there,” says Peters, whose grow site is currently LEED Gold-certified. He expects to reach platinum status within the year. “But 90 percent is easy. That extra 10 percent is so many little pieces. You can’t just recycle. You have to look at everything: What kind of containers does it come in?

Can you recycle the lid? Can you recycle the container the lids came in?”

Peters says that his current goal is to completely rid himself of garbage service—which partly means handing out reusable containers to his four employees so they don’t have to throw away garbage they bring.

“It starts with the little things,” he says. “Get extra recycle containers and put them everywhere. Print out recycling guidelines, buy snacks for your employees, make sure the packages are 100 percent recycled materials—that’s really difficult.”

Peters says he doesn’t know whether he’ll ever get to complete sustainability, or whether it’s even possible without buying carbon offsets. But he also says he feels the need to try so he “can know when I see a deer in the yard or a child being born or a bird in the sky I’m trying not to contribute to their demise.”

While he wants the rest of the cannabis industry to follow suit, he also reveals a slight competitive streak: Cultivated Cannabis also went to wind power, he says, but he did it six months before them.

As for the bedroom where he sleeps to avoid burning fuel on a commute, Peters had to make a small compromise on effi ciency, concerned that the potential for contamination was too great if they lived right next to the farm’s four grow rooms.

“Let’s do the math,” he says.

“Take the stopwatch out: How long does it take from point A to B? Extrapolate it: How much time would it take to equate to losing one harvest at this dollar amount? Then we decide. It turns out it’ll take 3.5 years of extra footsteps to equate to one half of a harvest.”

He pauses, considering.

“OK,” Peters says, “let’s space the bedrooms out.”

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COOK BEFORE EATING Why you can’t get high just by eating weed flowers or throwing them in brownie mix.

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hen I was 16, my folks went out of town for a weekend. So I did what any sensible teenager would do and invited a few friends over to get high.

With a vacant suburban home at our disposal, we decided to make “gooballs”—an old hippie term for any number of cannabis-infused treats that take a spherical form. With a few sticks of butter and a quarter ounce of what we called “beasters” (British Columbia weed, then the gold standard), we went to work, first cooking the butter and ground flower in a pan, then mixing the infusion with melted chocolate, peanut butter and Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal to form lumpy balls of the stuff on a cookie sheet.

The end product wasn’t the culinary masterpiece we’d hoped. The flavor was blackened and oversweet.

The texture was ashen and gritty. Most importantly, given how much flower we’d used, the potency was lacking. In the end, we all wished we’d just smoked our bag.

We teens didn’t understand we’d missed a critical step: decarboxylation.

Maybe you’ve heard that word before and immediately zoned out. I can understand, because a big science word doesn’t sound fun when all you want is a space cake. But decarboxylation is really the only important concept any aspiring cannabis chef needs to master, and it demystifies everything about edibles.

It’s also just a fancy way of saying “heating up the weed until it’ll get you high when you eat it.”

In organic chemistry terms, decarboxylation refers

to the removal of a carboxylic acid group from an organic compound. Why would you need or want to remove “carboxylic acid groups” from your marijuana?

Well, if you don’t, your pot won’t get you high.

That’s because when cannabis grows, it doesn’t produce THC, the psychoactive compound commonly associated with the plant. Instead, it produces tetrahydrocannabinolic acid, or THCa. In fact, the high-THC cannabis you buy at the store, despite the labeling, has very little THC in it. When you see the THC percentage listed on a strain at the shop, someone’s done a little math for you, understanding that the extra carbon ring accounts for 13 percent of a THCa molecule’s total mass and calculating how much THC will be yielded after it’s converted.

To get high, you’ve gotta get rid of the extra carbon ring that blocks THC from binding with your cannabinoid receptors. Cannabis sheds the carboxylic acid group when it ages or is exposed to heat. Due to differing methodologies and competing studies on the matter, there is no accepted standard temperature and time combination for the most effi cient decarboxylation of cannabis, leaving an opportunity for today’s teens to complete the world’s best science fair project.

When you light your bowl, a quick and dirty decarb occurs. But lighting marijuana on fire isn’t the only way to get rid of this extra, buzz-killer carbon ring—in fact, we can cleave it off with a simple at-home preparation that’ll have you eating your weed in no time, no lab coats required.

DECARB IT YOURSELF Here’s how to decarboxylate your weed, so you can get the most out of your edibles. Not that old methods of making cannabutter are outdated—the way the pros do it now is to bake the marijuana first, then infuse it however they want.

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AFTER YOU’RE DONE:

To get started, you’ll need some flower, a conventional home oven, a baking pan and some tin foil—plus a free hour to prepare and monitor your project.

First, set your oven to 240 degrees Fahrenheit, a sweet spot that’ll decarb your flower but won’t burn off too much of the THC you’re trying to collect.

While your oven heats up, grind your flower, ensuring a fine, consistent end product.

Once prepared, evenly spread your herb on a foil-lined pan, and when the oven reaches temperature, pop in the pan, stirring every 10 minutes for a total of 40 minutes.

You cannot expedite this process by turning up your oven. Exceeding 240 degrees will only damage the cannabinoids and terpenes.

The end product of any decarboxylation method is flower that’s ready to eat. It can be put into capsules, sprinkled atop mashed potatoes, infused into butter or oil, eaten by the spoonful, whatever.

Get creative, and remember to start small.

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WE GOT SOME STUFF Our favorite new cannabis products for autumn 2017.

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PAX ERA $20 at paxvapor.com and Oregrown.

Car tridges sold separately.

If you’ve owned a few oil pens, you’ve probably broken a few oil pens. The thin lithium batteries are so junky they’re basically disposable. Most cartridges are poorly made, leaking oil onto their threads or out the top into your pocket. Leave it to Pax to wreck the game.

You probably know the San Francisco company from its standard-setting line of loose-leaf vaporizers, which remain the gold standard of portable weed vapes, despite an influx of innovative newcomers. Now, Oregon finally has Pax’s newest product, the Era. A year after rolling it out in Colorado and California, Pax has partnered with Oregrown, the excellent Bend-based extractor, to produce pods that fit Pax’s sleek little pen. The best compliment is that there’s so little to say about it. The Era charges via micro USB, has a simple light system to tell you how charged it is and clips together with rectangular cartridges about the size of a bottle cap. It just works. The oils are tasty and provide the desired effects. The battery will last through a weekend music festival.

Most importantly, the cartridges don’t leak or get gummed up. Pax has done what Pax does— build a better mousetrap.

NOVA DECARBOXYLATOR BY ARDENT $210 at ardentcannabis.com Back on page 27, we dig into decarboxylation, a necessary skill to master if you want to eat weed or efficiently cook with your store-bought flower. We also provide instructions for decarbing at home that involve putting your stash in the oven for a little under an hour. If that sounds sketchy, that’s because it is—you can and will burn your weed if you don’t pay attention and stir frequently. So if the prospect of failure scares you and you have some extra money to spend, you’d be wise to look into the Nova Decarboxylator by Ardent. It makes preparing decarbed weed for edibles stupidly simple. You just load whole, unground buds into a little machine that looks like what would happen if Kirkland made a Fleshlight, plug the thing in and then wait an hour or two until the operating light turns from red to green. The main benefits are the Nova’s risk-free ease of use, efficient (better than your oven) THCa-to-THC yield and automated, science-minded heating cycles that won’t degrade the very cannabinoids and terpenes you’re looking to harvest.

MAGICAL BUTTER MACHINE $174 at magicalbutter.com This “botanical extractor” is part Crock-Pot and part blender—you can infuse any herb to make bug repellent, shampoos, rosemary olive oil or whatever else you’d otherwise pick up at Saturday Market. It also offers a very easy way to make your own cannabis butter. Just add one cup of butter for every 7 to 14 grams of marijuana and one tablespoon of lecithin. You place it all in the machine, set the temperature to 200 degrees for two hours and push a button. After two hours, we opened the machine to gooey, brown syrup and poured the mixture into a silicone tray that shaped it into sticks of butter (sold separately) and let it sit. The butter will harden in a few hours, but you’ll need to refrigerate it to get a really buttery consistency. Then just make whatever you’d make, but with weed butter instead of regular butter. It doesn’t get any easier than that.

SELECT CBD $25 at selectoil.com, Roseway Organics and other shops Nifty low-dose disposable vapes first caught our eye about two years ago. The Quill, which gives about a milligram per puff, is one of our all-time favorite cannabis products. But if that tiny buzz is still too much, and you just wanna relax, check out the CBD line from Portland-based Select. Just suck air and these buttonless teal tubes instantly bake up a little chillaxing CBD vapor. They come in three types, based on the other essential oils added to each: lavender-flavored Relax, minty Focus and citrusy Revive. The grapefruit-enhanced Revive has served us well, making an evening of beers with friends even more relaxed.

ZEUS SMITE POLLEN GEAR JARS

$150 at tvape.com The first edition of the Zeus Smite impressed with its biggest-in-class battery, large oven and its shape, which mimics a box mod vape and thus manages to be sneakily discreet. The market has evolved in the past two years, and the newest edition makes some key improvements while keeping that huge battery, soft mouthpiece and reassuring heft. Rather than choose from just a few temperature settings, you can now adjust up or down by degrees and see the results on a tiny LCD screen. The other really nice feature is a light above the oven— something it’s surprising no one else has done.

No more fumbling around trying to shine your phone flash on the vape while packing the oven on the porch.

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GREEN JAY $20 at Amazon.com and some Portland shops You probably don’t need a high-grade aluminum case to hold your jazz cigarettes during transit. Truth be told, those simple plastic tubes that pre-rolls come in at the dispensary do pretty much exactly what you need, and if you need a case for your own rollies, you can just save one. But if you want the extra peace of mind that comes from storing your j in an airtight tube that can probably withstand being run over by a small sedan, you now have that option. Green Jay is the company behind these tubes big enough to hold a fatty but small enough to look like a pen. Get these on shelves, guys. They also sent us a small, disc-shaped induction lighter, which recharges by USB and which we never knew we needed until we owned one.

Chances are, you’ve encountered a product designed by Edward Kilduff—at a dinner party, if not in your own kitchen. Kilduff is the designer of the Rabbit corkscrew and the Evak coffee container, both mainstays of Bed Bath & Beyond, winners of design awards and staples of Portland pantries. At this point, “beyond” doesn’t go quite far enough to describe Kilduff ’s newest line of innovative storage containers. But Kilduff ’s lineup of Pollen Gear cannabis storage containers, which are childproof and airtight, is a big step up from pill bottles, Ziplocs and Mason jars.

Hardcore heads are likely to appreciate the line of heavy-duty glass jars, which have a reassuring heft and keep your herb field fresh.

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The cannabis-centric events we’re most excited about this fall.

OCTOBER 4 CANNABIS FINANCE BOOT CAMP: RUN YOUR CANNABIS BUSINESS LIKE A CFO WeWork Pioneer Place, 700 SW 5th Ave. 6-8:30 pm. $20. Tickets on Eventbrite.

It’s expensive to keep a tax attorney around.

But understanding the details of tax code 280E, which restricts federally illegal businesses from major business expense deductions, can make or break your business. This workshop covers analyzing financial statements, 280E and cost-saving strategies, and organizing your business to minimize 280E exposure.

OCTOBER 5 SMART CANNABIS WITH HABU HEALTH: A SERIES OF TALKS ABOUT TRUTH Feastly, 912 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 6-8 pm. Free.

The first in a new series of talks aimed at both budtenders and consumers, this is a collaboration between Farma and Habu Health, a new cannabis-focused research project from Dr. Adie Poe. Habu Health is an app that links consumer experience to lab results from every label to develop an evidence-based approach to product recommendations.

OCTOBER 6 JAYNE’S STONED YOGA Tillamook Station, 665 N Tillamook St. 6-9 pm. $50. Tickets on Eventbrite.

Your ticket includes a Jayne yoga mat, food, beverage and unlimited “natural inspiration” from Cascade High Organics during a 90-minute Hatha flow session.

OCTOBER 8 BUDDHA BUD YOGA Yoga Shala of Portland, 3808 N Williams Ave., Suite B. 6:30-8:30 pm. $20. Tickets on Eventbrite.

Bring your own mat and “natural inspiration,” but various tools for consumption and educational guidance will be provided

by Bridge City Collective. Open to yoga enthusiasts of any experience level. It will be a low-key, accessible session.

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all is here, and the recreational cannabis industry has taken a long enough break from regulatory updates to settle into operations and have some fun.

Here is a roundup of every event scheduled for the next couple months. More will solidify as we get closer to the holidays, so keep an eye out for other local events on the horizon, including a new product from Drip Ice Cream, freshly back on recreational shelves, and more Habu Health events to get the word out about its medical research app. Come November, look for the launch of Portland-based Broccoli magazine, a women-produced publication that will look at cannabis “through the lens of art, fashion and culture.” Everything is 21 and over unless noted. LAUREN TERRY.

STONER KARAOKE NIGHT NW Cannabis Club, 1195 SE Powell Blvd.

8-11 pm. $5 nightly admission after $20 lifetime membership.

NW Cannabis Club is one of very few venues for social consumption still operating despite local regulations. Bring your own product.

OCTOBER 17 OREGON CANNABIS INDUSTRY MEET-UP Prism House, 4105 NE 112th Ave. 7-10 pm. $10.

This month’s keynote speaker is Eric Ogden of WeedTraQR.com, who will deliver a talk titled “Traceability and Transparency as Competitive Advantage.” You can also network while partaking in light snacks, lemonade and a dab bar. BYO “natural inspiration.”

OCTOBER 18 POP-UP ART SHOW WITH QUILL AND FARMA Dig a Pony, 736 SE Grand Ave., 6 pm-late.

This launch party for new Quill vaporizer tube designs by local illustrator Molly Mendoza will display her work and feature appearances by the whole Quill crew.

OCTOBER 21 TOKEATIVITY SOCIAL: WITCHY WOMAN Held at a woman-friendly space in Northeast (register for address). 7-10 pm. $20-$25.

Tickets on Meetup.

An all-woman Halloween party, including potion-making with the Sativa Science Club, photo booth courtesy of the Instagram queens at Ladies of Paradise, tarot readings, and mala bracelet making. BYO.

OCTOBER 23 SATIVA SCIENCE CLUB: SHOULD I GROW CANNABIS AT HOME? Jupiter Hotel, 800 E Burnside St., sativascienceclub.com. 1-3 pm. $30.

The Sativa Science Club, founded by Mary J. Poppins, is a science-based cannabis academy of classes pertaining to plant biology, terpene education, budtender compliance, and just understanding cannabis on a deeper level.

This course will help you determine whether home cultivation is a good overall fit, covering cultivation techniques and systems, startup costs and time requirements.

OCTOBER 24 420 FASHION SHOW NW Cannabis Club, 1195 SE Powell Blvd.

7 pm-midnight. $5 nightly admission after $20 lifetime membership. Tickets at Eventbrite.

An “intimate affair that will bring together artists, the stoner community, business professionals and the fashion community.” Presented by Smokers Society and Legal Stoner.

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SATIVA SCIENCE CLUB: BUDTENDER BOOT CAMP Jupiter Hotel, 800 E Burnside St. 11 am-4 pm. $50. Tickets at Eventbrite.

This class in the Budtender Boot Camp series focuses on compliance and client care, led

by Emma Chasen, formerly of Farma. She’ll walk students through consumption methods, common disorders treated by cannabis, customer service, empathetic patient care and how to stay compliant with the rules for permitted marijuana workers.

PUFF, PASS & PAINT Slabtown Cannabis Proprietors, 2507 NW Nicolai St. 7-9 pm. $49. Tickets at Eventbrite.

Art supplies included in the ticket. BYO for consumption in an adjacent outdoor space.

Enjoy a discount at the Slabtown dispensary once class wraps up.

OCTOBER 29 DOPE CUP 2017: DEAD MAN’S PARTY Staver Locomotive, 2537 NW 29th Ave., dopemagazine.com. Free.

A spooky spin on Dope Magazine’s annual awards event for the local cannabis industry, guests can peruse vendor booths, food carts and live music while hearing the winners announced for various growing and processing categories.

OCTOBER 31 HALLOWEEN AT OREGON’S FINEST 1327 NW Kearney St. and 736 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. Free.

Halloween costume contest at both OF locations, with prizes. All weed-related costumes get 20 percent off, and you get an additional 10 percent off if your dog is dressed up too.

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NOVEMBER 13 WOMEN IN CANNABIS BY SIREN NATION Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., sirennation.org. 11 am-5 pm. Free. All ages.

A community workshop about the cannabis industry from women in the industry.

Moderated by Samantha Montanaro, owner and operator of cannabis-related venue Prism House PDX. Panelists will include cultivator Jennifer Hudyma, Ashley Ramona Preece-Sackett of Cascadia Labs, Andi Bixel of Drip Ice Cream, Trista Okel of Empower Body Oils, and lawyer Amy Margolis of the Oregon Cannabis Association.

NOVEMBER 17 TOKEATIVITY SOCIAL: BACK TO THE ’90S Held at a woman-friendly space in Northeast (register for address). 7-10 pm. $17.50-$25.

Tickets on Meetup.

Details to the next all-woman social are still being confirmed, but expect more networking opportunities, crafts, mocktails

by Casey Wiser of Wandering Spirits PDX, and beats by DJ Caryn. BYOC and ’90sinspired vibes.

PUFF, PASS & POTTERY Slabtown Cannabis Proprietors, 2507 NW Nicolai St. 7-9 pm. $75.

Each session includes your choice of either a stoneware spoon or chillum and ashtray combo, paint supplies, glazing by the pottery instructors, and shipping to your home or local pickup. BYO for partaking in an outdoor, consumption-friendly space next door before getting crafty.

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HOT DEALS Some of our favorite cannabis bargains.

MARIJUANA PARADISE

9663 SW Barbur Blvd., 503-206-7462, paradisepdx.com.

This island-themed dispensary on Barbur has surfboards out front and a menu that’s deep with concentrates, topicals and edibles. It also has some great deals, like a gram of shatter made from Sour Diesel (65.9 percent THC) for just $26.40 and some very inexpensive eighths of Scoobie and Gorilla Glue, priced at just $14.40 recreational.

BUDLANDIA

6440 SE Division St., 503-805-2871.

Budlandia is located on outer Division, next to Burgerville and a multiplex theater, so you can make a night of it. It offers deals for every day of the week except Friday. Deals range from 10 to 25 percent off and include some really nice specials on flower, like $5 grams on Monday, and up to 25 percent off of topicals on Tuesday, edibles on Wednesday and vape cartridges on Thursday.

TRU CANNABIS

801 NE Broadway, 503-288-5454, mytrucannabis.com/ district/oregon.

This cool little shop offers lovely wooden counters, glass cases and a friendly, approachable staff. The flower on hand is beautiful, and you can examine it up close with a magnifying glass through well-lit, widemouth jars. The shop always has a budget-friendly stash of $99 ounces, $20 eighths and $5 pre-rolls.

GREENBUDS

10929 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-477-5685, greenbuds.co.

This white house on Sandy carries a huge range of flower, from organic sun-grown to inexpensive indoor.

Grams change weekly and are on tiers between $5 and $15. Half-gram oil cartridges start at $22.50.

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PROGRESSIVE COLLECTIVE

9810 E Burnside St., 503-444-7792, progressivecollective.com.

People trust Progressive Collective for solid genetics and well-maintained starter plants, so its selection of $30 clones varies from day to day. There’s always a range of affordable to top-shelf strains, from $11 to $13 grams of top-notch indoor flower from Nelson & Company Organics and Groen Farm to $100 ounces of Super Skunk from Green Acres farms. The pre-roll selection includes $4, $6 and $8 options and steals like a gram of 76.7 percent THC Dab Society BHO for $27.60.

BLOOM

2637 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-444-7538, bloomportland.com.

If you’re seeking a gentle touch when shopping for weed, check out Bloom. Not only is the vibe calm and the retail experience relaxed, but the budtenders specialize in honesty. Bloom also runs some excellent sales. Right now, a four-strain, 4-gram sampler pack goes for $18, including tax, and a quarter of Willy’s Trainwreck is $22, including tax.

TREES

1234 NE 102nd Ave., 503-384-2959, treesmarijuana.com.

Trees (see page 15) is one of the only dispensaries in Portland where you don’t have to wait in a sterilized waiting room before you buy. Celebrate this fresh breath of deregulation with daily pre-roll deals ranging from $5 to $8.

OREGON VALLEY CANNABIS

5230 SE 52nd Ave., 503-206-8634, oregonvalleycannabis.com One of the most neighborhoody dispensaries in the city not only sells you coloring books and 24-packs of colored pencils but also has a deal every single day of the week. Our favorites? On Mondays, you can get $4 grams, and on Tuesdays, select pre-rolls are $2.

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Zion Cannabis

MEDICAL PATIENT DEALS Customers with a medical card don’t have to pay tax at dispensaries, but some shops go the extra mile to show appreciation for those with serious medical symptoms treated by cannabis.

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ZION

2331 SW 6th Ave., 971-255-1758, zioncannabis.com.

This small shop near PSU carries heavy hitters like Resin Ranchers flower and Smokiez’s range of fruit-flavored gummy edibles. Patients can look forward to 15 percent off flower every time.

FARMA

916 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-206-4357, farmapdx.com.

Portland’s showcase dispensary was founded with medical benefits in mind, and patients still move to the front of the line when they check in. Ten percent off everything in the shop from 10 to 11 am on weekdays for those with a card, and you’ll never pay more than $12 a gram for any of the top-shelf flower.

OREGON’S FINEST

916 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 736 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd; oregons-finest.com.

Both locations of this powerhouse brand offer medical patients 20 percent off most of their enormous variety of products any time of day.

That includes items like SoFresh flower and the new cartridge “pods” from Pax.

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CORPORATE WEED STILL SUCKS How Oregon’s cannabis industr y plans to keep wealth here, and help right the wrongs of the drug war.

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here’s something special about Oregon’s cannabis community. Besides our long history of cultivation and breeding, we’ve done groundbreaking research and innovation that focuses on understanding cannabis as a plant. Most of our successful dispensaries, farms and industry organizations are led by the same people who went to Salem to advocate for intelligent legislation.

But if you talk to those people, they’ll tell you they feel threatened.

“There’s this core of the industry here of people who care deeply, and they are under threat,” says Adam Smith, founder and director of the Craft Cannabis Alliance. “They are not just under threat by the federal government and overwhelming regulation, but by the local people who are behaving badly and all the out-of-state money already fi nding its way into the state, particularly from Canada. This is Oregon’s next craft industry, and we are at risk of not owning any of it.”

Smith is a veteran of the cannabis world. Born in New York and raised in the thick of the drug war, he spent more than 20 years working in drug policy reform in Washington, D.C. Lately, he’s been thinking about what “craft” means in Oregon, and how it could save our state’s industry from becoming corporatized with a few major players owning most of the game.

The idea behind his alliance is that it’s easier to prevent corporatization than to battle our way out of it. Just think about beer, and how a few brands took over, leaving microbreweries to later take on Budweiser.

“Golden Leaf Holdings bought out Chalice Farms last summer—the seventh Oregon brand they’ve acquired, ” says Smith. “Multiple Canadian investment firms have millions of dollars behind them, because they have real financial institutions behind the investors up there.”

Because Canada’s equivalent of the Federal Reserve doesn’t have strict rules against pot investment, Canadians enter the cannabis game with deeper pockets than almost anyone in Oregon. They have the power to push small locals right off the shelves. Right now, the product has to be grown and processed within the state. But when a business is majority-owned by out-of-state investors, Oregon farms become factory farms with low-paid labor, and the real wealth accumulates somewhere else.

“If you can use your muscle to dominate this industry, when the walls come down and we can export across the country and the rest of the world, those are the companies that will own this industry,” Smith says.

How do we avoid turning our esteemed cultivation community into sharecroppers?

The plan now is to define a class of local craft cannabis, so consumers can shop smart and help build strong local businesses.

Smith and his alliance settled on six criteria for craft cannabis certification: clean product, sustainable methods, ethical employment practices, local control, community engagement and meaningful participation in the movement to end the drug war. “ Wi t h o u t t h a t p a r t i c i p a t i o n , ” a d d s S m i t h , “we’re just profiteering off of 80 years of misery and broken lives.”

The association launched at the Cultivation Classic last May, and has grown into a large group of companies that includes Farma, Evolvd, Alter Farms, Mule Extracts, East Fork Cultivars, Quill and Seven Points Farm.

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Founding members also include Jesce Horton of the Minority Cannabis Business Association and Resource Innovation Institute, who along with other third-party certifiers like the Ethical Cannabis Alliance, will help form the specific standards.

“I think that everyone wants to create a better industry, and understanding the differentiation and importance of craft cannabis will get us there,” says Horton, who got national buzz in August when spearheading a boycott of the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition in L.A. because of keynote speaker Roger Stone, former campaign adviser to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Trump.

“If we’re going to make this a better industry, we have to be careful about the compromises that we make,” says Horton. “To prop up someone with such a history of racist and misogynist rhetoric as a keynote speaker at this event makes it impossible for [our group] to be involved.”

The move prompted several other organizations and brands to pull out of the Expo, and eventually Stone’s invitation to speak was withdrawn.

Following the success of that stance, Horton is currently working with the city to distribute a portion of the citywide cannabis tax revenue to communities who have been targeted during the War on Drugs.

“There is a commission that is deciding where the revenue will go,” says Horton. “As the first municipality to pass a tax like this, the country and the world are watching. We have an opportunity to make a strong statement and help a lot of people.”

It’s not too late, Horton says. If we want to build wealth here, in our communities, we can take action to guide the trajectory of the industry.

If we create an authentic value around the craft definition, he adds, it can monetize doing the right thing.

“It’s not that radical to say, ‘How about we be decent human beings?’” says Smith.

“We are running out of time, but there’s a lot to save.”

HOW DO WE AVOID TURNING OUR ESTEEMED CULTIVATION COMMUNITY INTO SHARECROPPERS?

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POT CHIPS AHOY How to make your unused marijuana fan leaves into a great snack.

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STEP 1: MAKE THE CANNABIS SPICE MIX This mix will give you a light buzz. You can also sprinkle the spice mix on chicken or fish, or add it to a vinaigrette or marinade. I make a lot of this mix when my garden is at its peak. It seems to keep indefinitely in an airtight container. I have also added the dried herbs to olive oil or butter, and then it’s a quick drizzle rather than a sprinkle.

Ingredients: 1/4 oz. cannabis 1/4 oz. fresh lemon thyme 1/4 oz. oregano 1.

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Heat oven to 200 degrees. Place the herbs on a baking sheet with sides.

Place the herbs in the oven and bake for 45 minutes. The herbs will have dried and turned brown.

Allow the herbs to cool thoroughly.

Place the herb mixture in the bowl of your food processor. Pulse until coarsely chopped.

Store in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and keep out of direct sunlight.

STEP 2: MAKE THE CANNABUTTER The next step in the process is making the cannabis butter you’ll need for the pot chips. This butter can also go into home-cooked edibles like brownies. The first step is decarboxylation, the process of heating marijuana to turn the compound THCa to the psychoactive THC (see page 27 for a more detailed explanation). To activate your marijuana, fi nely grind the flower and spread it out on a baking sheet. Bake at 40 minutes, stirring regularly, in an oven preheated to 240 degrees.

Ingredients: 4 sticks butter or 16 oz. oil of your choice 1 oz. decarboxylated flower 1.

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You can vary the amounts, just be sure that the marijuana is always floating two inches from the bottom of the pan.

Bring the water to a boil and add the butter or oil.

After the butter has melted, add the marijuana. Once the cannabis is added, the heat

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t’s harvest time, which means many Portlanders will soon be trimming their flowers. If you aren’t growing your own, you’ve probably got a friend who is. This also means that once you’ve pulled the flower, you’re going to have a bunch of fresh leaves you don’t know what to do with.

In the spirit of the whole-plant movement, we are going to rock your cannabis world with pot-infused pot leaves.

These pot chips are infused twice, once when brushed with infused oil and again when sprinkled with a cannabis spice mix. Here’s how to bring it all together, starting with the spice mix.

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should be turned down, very low, to barely a simmer. Cook for 3 hours.

Set up a bowl to hold the finished product.

There are a couple of ways to strain the mixture. Use a deep heatproof glass bowl with a fine mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth.

You can also tie a double layer of cheesecloth around a large heatproof bowl with twine, making it taut across the top.

Strain the marijuana butter over the bowl, trying carefully not to spill. When the saucepan is empty, carefully undo the twine, pick up the cheesecloth from all four sides and squeeze out all of the remaining butter.

Allow the cannabutter to cool at room temperature for about an hour. Place in the fridge until the butter has solidified and separated from the water. The THC and other properties have attached to the butter, so you are just about there.

Run a knife around the edge and lift the butter off the water. Place upside down on your work surface and scrape off any plant matter and milk solids. Your cannabutter is ready to use. Store in the refrigerator or freezer in an airtight container.

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Line a baking sheet with parchment, and lay the leaves on the parchment.

Brush the leaves with the infused butter or oil. Don’t turn them over. Lay another piece of parchment over the leaves.

Bake the leaves for 8-12 minutes. Check at 8 minutes. If the leaves are brittle, they are done. If they are still soft, return to the oven for a few more minutes until done.

Sprinkle spice mix on the leaves and serve.

Local author Laurie Wolf has published four marijuana cookbooks and is the co-owner of Laurie & MaryJane, which makes cannabis products. For more, visit laurieandmaryjane.com.

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“It hasn’t meant much! I wish I had a better answer but I don’t smoke weed.”

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“Not a damn thing. If anything, it made life easier. We all smoke it, so why not try to profit off of it and put money back into something good like schools. My parents always said you’ve hit rock bottom if you’re selling weed, so I guess Portland’s rock bottom—we know we’re a weed city.”

“I suppose I’m glad that it increases the ability to find weed that more appropriately fits the needs of anyone. You know what you’re getting now and can find anything for whatever purpose.”

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“More of my friends can buy it for me now!”

“I’m from San Diego where it’s still not fully legal. I smoke every day, and legalization definitely isn’t coming fast enough where I’m from in comparison to Oregon.”

“The only real impact on my life is that I pick up a TON of high people when I drive for Lyft.

That’s pretty much the only difference since I don’t smoke weed myself.”

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October is Creepy Maps Month, the 11th month in our yearlong Year Of Months series and we start here, at what National Geographic has recognized as one of the nation’s top 10 cemeteries.

Lone Fir is also a time capsule of Portland history—though one it’d be weird to dig up. Here are some of the most famous, infamous and interesting people buried in the cemetery.

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bury over 100 patients at Lone Fir. The asylum stood on what is now Hawthorne Boulevard and 12th Avenue.

Block 17 This is both the oldest and largest mausoleum in the cemetery. Nine lay here, including Martha MacCulloch, whom the mausoleum was built for. She died the day after giving birth to her fourth child. The mausoleum is made of red sandstone to resemble the Macleay’s Scotland home. The Macleay name still lives as part of Macleay Park next to Forest Park and Macleay Boulevard in the Northwest hills.

still just a farm. When Emmor’s son James sold the land, he made the buyer promise they would maintain his father’s grave.

Block 3, Lot 19, 1S The first editor of The Oregonian, Dryer was active in Oregon politics, a prominent member of the Whig Party and commissioner of the Sandwich Islands—now known by their native name, Hawaii.

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Block 1, Lot 18, 3S Emmor Stephens was the first person to be buried in Lone Fir when it was

4. THOMAS J. DRYER

Block 8M, Lot 44, 1N Hawthorne founded the Oregon Hospital for the Insane and helped

Block 8M, Lot 50, 2N His tombstone reads “Founder of Portland.” Lovejoy is most famous for losing a coin flip to Francis Pettygrove to name the city—he wanted to call it “Boston.”

Block 13, Lot 21, 2N The first Poet Laureate of Oregon,

Simpson is most famous for his debut poem, “Beautiful Willamette”: “Time, that scars us / Maims and mars us / Leaves no track or trace on thee.”

Simpson, a heavy drinker, died from hitting his head while falling, drunk, according to the Oregon Historical Society.

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Middle of the cemetery The monument pays tribute to soldiers of the Civil, Spanish-American, Mexican and Indian Wars.

There are over 300 soldiers buried at Lone Fir.

9. MICHAEL MITCHELL

Wes Block, Lot 64, 1N A well-known jig dancer, Mitchell

got drunk one night and froze to death. His headstone reads: “Here lies one who has taken steps that won the applause of men; but grim death came and took a step which he could not withstand.”

10. ANNE JEANNE TINGRYLE COZ

Block 20, Lot 18, 2S Anne Jeanne Tingry-LeCoz was better known as Emma Merlotin, her name while working as a famous “French courtesan” (prostitute). She was murdered right before Christmas. Her eyes were removed for a forensic investigation to see if they contained an image of her killer.

GO: Lone Fir Cemetery is at Southeast 26th Avenue and Stark Street. The “Art and Epitaph Tour” will be Saturday, October 7. 10 am. $10. Tours meet at the Soldier’s Monument at the center of the cemetery.

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PARTY FOULED: What The Festival, the six-year-old electronic music festival held in Central Oregon, will not be returning next year.

“Unfortunately this was a challenging year for us, and we need to take a break in 2018 to recenter and re-energize so we can bring you another great event in the future,” organizers announced on their Facebook page. Voted “Oregon’s most epic party” by Four Loko, What The Festival draws upwards of 5,000 people to Dufur, south of the Dalles.

The festival is known for its art installations and for having a stage situated in what it claims is “the world’s largest temporary wading pool.” A Corvallis woman died at this year’s installment in June, though founder W. Glen Boyd told The Dalles Chronicle that the death was “completely unrelated to the festival.” The statement ends by saying “See you all in 2019.”

MAKING MOVES: Buzzing Portland rapper the Last Artful, Dodgr seems to have something big in the works.

First, she posted a candid video to her Instagram story of what appeared to be Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson laboring at a computer at an LA studio. Then she posted another video, seemingly from the same studio session, where she appeared to be hanging out with Dr. Dre-certified singer-rapper Anderson .Paak and Christina Aguilera. Is this all teasing some kind of collaboration? Dodgr isn’t saying. “I wish I could tell you what’s happening tonight, but just know that probably 10 months from now, it’s going to be in the history books—or on the charts.”

DECEMBER DRINKING: Second-generation Cuban Ricky Gomez, who won the title of the nation’s best bartender THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR in the world’s largest cocktail competition in 2012, plans to open a daiquiri-happy Cuban bar and restaurant called Palomar, serving up Cuban comfort-food classics, blended cocktails and daiquiris by the boatload.

The opening is planned for December in the building on 10th and Division, graced by a 70-foot tall Finbar Dac mural of a woman with plants growing out of her hair. “I want it to be very fun, very entertaining, very approachable,” Gomez says. “There will be blenders, frozen drinks, shaken, stirred. There will be a full daiquiri menu: strawberry, Hemingway, classic, blended.” >> Meanwhile, the former Eddie’s Flat Iron Pizza on North Killingsworth Street will become a whiskey-heavy bar called Haymaker, serving “backyard barbecue” classics like burgers, wings, dogs and pulled barbecue chicken.

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KITCHENHOUSE: Starting in November, the former Berlin Inn and Brooklyn House restaurant on Southeast 12th Avenue will be home to weekly conceptual dinner parties helmed by Lydia Parsley of bottled-cocktail catering service Tender Bar. The Küchenhaus—literally, “kitchen house”—will host themed dinners Parsley says will start at $40. “Once we’re rolling it’ll be dinner and a show,” she says, “musical, very intimate experiences [or] educational pieces, farm to table dinners, explorations on colors. It can be anything.” Parsley says the old, quirky, domestic space will be filled with local art. “I’m going to fill this space with as much community-based art as you can possibly imagine,” says Parsley. “I’m going to mess with people’s minds.”

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UNREST PORTLAND PREMIERE

Welcome to Jamrock Jamrock, the youngest Marley's 2005 breakthrough, was the best album to bear his surname since his father dropped Exodus in 1977. It took him over a decade to follow-up, but the newly released Stony Hill confirms Junior Gong is one of the most potent voices in modern reggae. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. $34. 21+.

Director Jennifer Brea was initially told by doctors that her suffering was “all in her head.” Taking things into her own hands, she began filming her life with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, discovering a vast network of people living with the lifetime illness. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 7 pm. $9 adults, $7 students and kids under 12.

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PEPPER PEPPER Art party emcee and drag queen Pepper Pepper will debut an interactive, outdoor sound installation. Pepper has described the installation as “a staged feedback loop for participants to practice drag, lip-sync” in order to create “kaleidoscopic transformations.”

Awesome. Regional Arts & Culture Council, 411 Northwest Park Ave., opensignalpdx.org. Begins at dusk. Free.

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SOUR POWER AND THE FUNKY BUNCH

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Abel Tesfaye is R&B’s smoothest degenerate. Sex, drugs and self-loathing were the tentpoles of his mixtape days, and now that he’s a legit popstar, his destructive urges have only grown more opulent. Last year’s Starboy was his flashiest effort to date, yet still toxic at its core.

Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771, rosequarter.com. 7:30 pm. $39-$306. All ages.

Loyal Legion is filling over 20 of its taps with wilds and sours to kick off the fall, with heavyweights like De Garde, Little Beast, Logsdon, Pfriem and Cascade. And if that’s not enough for you, fuck it—Cascade Brewing is just a few blocks away. Loyal Legion, 710 SE 6th Ave., loyallegionpdx.com.

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International cookbook author Martha Holmberg is inviting Jews and goyim alike to a traditional Shabbat dinner with Israeli inspired food, housebaked challah and whatever wine is cool in Israel. The meal starts with blessings and ends in singing, led by New York food writer Devra Ferst. Meal at Martha Holmberg’s loft. Tickets at breakingbreaddinners.com. $50.

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The cryptic play tells the story of Chinese artist and activist Lin Bo, who served a two-year sentence in a Chinese detention center. There’s way more to the maze-like experience than that, but to explain any further would reveal Caught’s sleight of hand. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. Oct. 1-29. $25-$50.

Peche Fest is back, and it’s a peach—25 kick-ass beers all made with fuzzy fruit, with classics like Logsdon Peche ’n Brett and Upright Fantasia or crazy-ass one-offs like a mixed-vintage Breakside Dog and Pony Show, which they say is their most sour beer ever. The Bad Habit Room at Saraveza, 1004 N Killingsworth St., pechefest.com. 3-10 pm. $15, or $30 VIP entry at 1 pm.

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THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE

With Tame Impala going pop, it’s left to King Gizzard to fly the freak flag for the Australian psychrock scene. Sketches of Brunswick East, their third album this year alone, is like a ’60s drug experiment, a kaleidoscopic whorl of jazz samples, synths and video game techno-fuzz. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com 9 pm. $22. All ages.

In the sprawling World War II play, multiple storylines and a play within a play form around a peasant woman who finds an abandoned baby.

To make it even more epic, it will be produced by the fearlessly abstract Shaking the Tree Theater. Shaking The Tree, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 6-Nov. 4. $10-$30.

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Jessica Bruder spent three years in the field for her latest book. The author and journalist immersed herself in a world of “workampers,” older transient Americans who traded in their homes for “wheel estate”—trailers, vans and RVs that serve as a new kind of mobile home. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne, powells.com. 7:30 pm.

In a genre dominated by Black Sabbath retreads, Japanese doom-metal adventurers Boris have innovated for a quarter-century, veering off into thrashing riff-fests, punk noise and even ambient compositions. To celebrate 25 years of restless eclecticism, the trio will perform songs from across their discography, including their backto-basics new album, Dear. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.

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Trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is celebrating the centennial anniversary of the first jazz recording with a trilogy of albums in 2017. On each, hip-hop drum machines and modern synths join classic jazz instrumentation, creating a sound that seamlessly shapeshifts between new and old. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 866-777-8932, jacklondonrevue.com.

8 pm and 10 pm. $20. 21+.

Randy Newman is perhaps most famous now for his Disney movie scores, but occasionally the 73-year-old songwriting legend returns to the dark satire he first made his name on.

Dark Matter,, his latest, proves his cynicism and humor are still intact—see the gospel-tinged title track, which pits prayer against science in the way only he can get away with. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., #110, 503-2883895, revolutionhall.com. 8 pm. $59.25. All ages.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4 Wolves and People Meet the Brewer

The brewer from literal farmhouse brewery Wolves and People will be in town with lots of beer, including saisons made with the following things: kiwi and Brett, Montmorency cherries, Brett and Italian plums, hops and Brett, and rhubarb and lemon verbena. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St. 5-8 pm.

nival of Greek culture including souvlaki, dancing, Byzantine art and jewelry, classical singing from Cappella Romana, tons of booze and a raffled trip to Greece.

Opa! Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 3131 NE Glisan St. 10 am-10 pm. Through Sunday.

SATURDAY, OCT. 7 Zoiglhaus Oktoberfest

Sour Power and the Funky Bunch

The final Portland Oktoberfest is in Lents, with a big family-friendly event full of puppet shows, oompah music and competitive yodeling. Entry is free, but they’ll sell half-liter commemorative beer steins good for discounts on beer.

Zoiglhaus Brewing Company, 5716 SE 92nd Ave. 2-10 pm.

FRIDAY, OCT. 6

Peche Fest is back with 25 kickass beers made with fuzzy fruit, with classics like Upright’s Fantasia or crazy-ass one-offs like a mixed-vintage Breakside Dog and Pony Show. The Bad Habit Room at Saraveza, 1004 N Killingsworth St., pechefest.com.

3-10 pm. $15.

THURSDAY, OCT. 5 Loyal Legion will fill over 20 of its taps with heavyweight wilds and sours like De Garde, Little Beast, Logsdon, Pfriem and Cascade.

And if that’s not enough, Cascade Brewing’s barrel house is just a few blocks away. Loyal Legion, 710 SE 6th Ave.

Portland Greek Festival

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Peche Fest

3. Jackrabbit Where to eat this week.

1. Han Oak

511 NE 24th Ave., hanoak.com.

Han Oak just did the smartest thing ever and merged its prixfixe and dumpling nights: all the dumplings, all the ssam, all the cocktails, all the time. Cool. $-$$$.

2. La Leña

1864 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-946-1157, lalenapdx.com.

Peruvian spot La Leña isn’t perfect—but that chupe de camarones seafood chowder pretty much is. $$.

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830 SW 6th Ave., 503-412-1800, gojackrabbitgo.com.

Celebuchef Chris Cosentino’s supermeaty downtown hotel spot has a 60-deep gin selection and great sauces, wheather seasoned bonemarrow sauce or fermented black bean “angry sauce.” $$$$.

4. Aviv

1125 SE DivisionSt., 503-206-6280, avivpdx.com.

Aviv pretty much revolutionized hummus in Portland, with eight distinct preparations including hatch chile, zhoug and harissa versions. $$.

5. Ara Restaurant

6159 SW Murray Blvd., 503-747-4823.

After 10 pm on a Saturday, this may be the most hoppin’ Korean spot in all of Portland. $$.

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Cascade Brewing just celebrated the seventh anniversary of the Belmont Street Barrel House that made it famous as Portland’s original house of sour beer. Alongside an aptly tart beer named T’Art Larrance, after the brewery’s founder, which Larrance apparently got spurted all over him at the tapping, Cascade made an anniversary version of its Bourbonic Plague mixed with cold brew from Stumptown. To make the beer, Cascade took a blend of chocolatey imperial spiced porters aged with vanilla beans up to 22 months inside bourbon barrels, and added some cold-brew coffee. The result is a beautifully alcoholic mix of bourbon-and-vanilla sweetness with deep earthy notes of coffee, set off by a sour acidity that comes off almost like the berry notes in a light coffee roast. It’s a huge beer, well-rounded and maybe a little dirty, bursting with brightness and the low deep notes of both coffee and porter. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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ORDER THIS: Masala and Mysore dosas, vindaloo, Gobi Manchurian, chicken 65.

I’LL PASS: Gutti vankaya curry, meat dosas.

FROM THE HEART: A South-Indian feast of dosas and curries at Dil Se.

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DIL SE IS A BIT INCONSISTENT, BUT THEY MAKE THE BEST SOUTH-INDIAN CREPES WE’VE HAD IN PORTLAND CITY LIMITS.

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The South always rises again. Sometimes this is a threat, but in the case of Indian food in Portland it’s very good news. For a long time, Chennai Masala in Hillsboro was the only place Portlanders ever went to get South-Indian dosas, wafer-thin lentil-and rice crepes rolled up and stuffed with meat or potatoes or both. But Chennai has suffered a long, sad slide in the past year or two, and Killingsworth spot Tiffin Asha’s hot non-traditional takes haven’t really filled in the gaps.

Thank God for Dil Se, a new Indian spot in the strange church-filled blocks of Southwest Portland near the art museum. The name means “from the heart,” and in at least one case it shows: The South-India-born husband and wife team Ramesh Rajendran and Shamla Puthuparambil have made by far my favorite dosa I’ve had all year. Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising, given that Rajendran was a chef at Chennai Masala a decade back.

At a recent brunch, Dil Se served up the traditional breakfast treat of the SouthIndian state of Kerala, a tingling Kadala curry thick with little kala-chana chickpeas, fresh curry leaves and deep, fresh coriander and fennel. But that curry was just the dipper for a gigantic, justat-the-edge-of-crisp dosa ($11) with a razor edge of ferment in its rice and lentil dough, wrapped around the sincerest of Indian comforts: a wealth of mashed potatoes and onions blanketed with fresh-ground, earthy garam masala spice. The plate was both a riot of layered flavor and a warm luxury—curry as aromatherapy.

That weekend brunch is sadly on hiatus until November, and so is that Kadala curry dosa. But get any dosa with masala filling and you’ll be equally transported, especially the style made famous in the southwestern city of Mysore ($11.50) that once presided over its own separate kingdom. In that dosa, the masala-gunpowder potatoes are bolstered by a hearty lentil stew, doubling down on comfort like a blanket over a snuggie.

Another South Indian mainstay on the menu is a brightly and complexly spice-crusted Chicken 65 ($9), an appetizer of deep-fried chicken nuggets served everywhere in India’s southern states; the name is rumored to come from its placement on a 1960s restaurant menu in Tamil Nadu.

The Gobi Manchurian ($8) was a wild-spiced, thick-sauced crispy cauliflower dish that tasted beautifully like Chinese sweet-and-sour with an herbal undertow, influenced by Chinese immigrants living in Kolkata. A lentil-doughnut vada was served up with some of the cleanest, purest spiced sambar I’ve had in Portland. The fresh-baked naan is some of my favorite Indian bread in town.

But in its strange hotel lobby of a space, Dil Se is also very far from a perfect restaurant. A Chennai-style curry usually known for fire arrived without much heat even though we’d asked for “Indian-level spice.”

A gutti vankaya curry with roasted whole eggplants—a mild peanut and coconut specialty from India’s southeast coast—also fell flat. And the meat

dosas didn’t attain the heights of the masala ones, slipping kibbled keema or sparse tikka chicken out the back edge of their folds. And though Puthuparambil is a warm and amiable host if you’re lucky enough to have her at your table, service on a recent lunchtime visit slipped from awkward to actually maddening: a tragicomedy of long waits, dropped and swapped orders, missing plates and necessary silverware inexplicably disappeared and was not replaced.

But all is forgiven while eating the restaurant’s Goanstyle vindaloo, better even than the accomplished version at Bollywood Theater. Far too many local Indian spots drown their curries in ghee, leading to a sort of bland interchangeability. But Dil Se’s pops with bright spice and heat. It’s an explosion of chili, vinegar and earthy flavors that washes across the palate like a tropical storm: first fireworks, and then the warm and soothing aftermath.

GO: 1201 SW Jefferson St., 503-804-5619, dilsepdx.com.

11:30 am-2:30 pm and 5:30-9 pm Tuesday-Sunday.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4

THURSDAY, OCT. 5

LampedUSA Concert for Refugees: Brandi Carlisle, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews

Manilla Road, Motorthrone, Leathurbitch, Magnabolt

[ALL-STAR TRIBUTE] With a lineup like that, you can bet this benefit show—put on by the Jesuit Refugee Service—soldout in seconds. Hard to say exactly how it’s going to play out, but any opportunity to catch some of these folks in a place this small, even if it’s for just a handful of tunes, is a rare gift indeed.

Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Allah-Las, Entrance, Mapache

[PSYCH] Bringing a hazy, Californiabeach tint to their brand of psychedelic rock, the Allah-Las call back to a mellow, ‘60s surf sound that leans more toward a comedown from an acid trip than the excitement of catching waves. They’ve brought this vibe to a short, vinyl-only EP of cover songs, where they graciously transform the likes of Television’s “Hard On Love” and “The Earth Won’t Hold Me” by Kathy Heideman into sandy ditties of enjoyment. The recently announced Covers #1 is just the first in a planned series of cover collections, so hopefully we’ll see them bringing the surf psych of their beloved older tracks as well.

CERVANTE POPE. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

[METAL NUGGETS] Somewhere in the tacky metal ghetto between the purposeful shittiness of Venom and the hyper-stylized fantasy antics of Manowar resides Manilla Road, a band many metalheads have heard of but few have actually heard. That’s because prodigal sons of Wichita, Kansas, have been making homegrown metal since the late ‘70s in a style that’s pointedly off-putting to critics and mainstream fans. Still, rockers with a taste for grindhouse films, crude role-playing game art and substance-fueled guitar heroism will find everything to like. In a world where it’s cool to be uncool, Manilla is suddenly king of the road. NATHAN CARSON. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503-206-7630. 8 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

If These Walls Could Rap

JD McPherson, Nikki Lane

[VINTAGE ROCK] Just a few years ago, JD McPherson played before an intimate Bunk Bar crowd, and his nostalgic rock‘n’roll caused attendees to dance like doubles in a movie scene set at prom circa 1962. A few albums later,

IN A WORLD THAT’S BURNING DOWN, OPEN MIKE EAGLE’S NEW ALBUM ATTEMPTS TO REBUILD A SMALL PIECE OF IT.

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[DYNASTY REGGAE] See Get Busy, page 43. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $34. 21+.

MF DOOM

HIP-HOP’S FUNNIEST FIVE BY OPEN MIKE EAGLE Prince Paul

He was the inventor of hip-hop sketch. He makes a point to inject personality and a brand of humor in everything, and he won a Grammy working with Chris Rock on his comedy albums.

2 Ghostface Killah He is incredibly funny. He starts off songs talking shit to people in the studio, and it’s so funny they leave it in.

3 Serengeti His work is not the funniest, but he has some funny side projects, like Kenny Dennis. He has five projects under that persona, and all of those are funny. He’s a troubled character, and how he talks is a stark difference from Serengeti, it’s at a deep Andy Kaufman level.

4 MF Doom His humor is more subtle. He has a lot of turns of phrase in his work and weird little stories you can put together. He has this weird bald spot he talks about in an off-hand way. He has a lot of hidden jokes that, if you’re not listening, you might not hear.

5 Thirstin Howl III He’s out of New York, and he’s a guy where every one of his songs is based on one joke or another. Some are based, not in reality, but in a heightened sense of reality. There’s a song called “I Still Live with My Moms,” about how proud he is to still live with his mom, where every line sounds embarrassing, but he’s really leaning into it.

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The past year has been a stressful one for Open Mike Eagle. You can probably relate. “Watching the world on fire,” as he puts it, hasn’t been good for anyone’s blood pressure. As a rapper and sometime comic, the 36-year-old LA resident would seem to have plenty of outlets for venting his anxiety. But even for a wordsmith of his considerable skills, trying to articulate outrage at a time when every day brings a fresh atrocity to deal with isn’t just overwhelming, it’s downright impossible.

“The thing about all that shit is, I’d like to know what to say about it, and speak to these big, ugly, complicated problems. But I haven’t figured out how to get them down into song form,” Eagle says. “I don’t have silver-bullet statements to make on the political climate, which I one day hope to have.”

Perhaps that’s why, for his new album, Eagle decided to focus his frustrations on an older, more personal trauma—the razing of the Robert Taylor Homes housing project in his childhood hometown of Chicago. Once the largest public housing development in the country, the property was labeled a hive of drugs and crime and targeted for “urban renewal” in the late ’90s. Torn down over the course of nine years, 11,000 mostly African-American residents were displaced, including Eagle’s aunt, whom he visited often as a kid.

In the destruction of those homes, Eagle saw a metaphor for the disposability of black lives in America. But in his memories of his time there, he saw a way to make the lives that populated the Robert Taylor buildings count for something.

On Brick Body Kids Still Daydream, released last month, Eagle vividly reconstructs the project and the life within its walls, creating a small but powerful monument to the tragedy and resiliency of the dispossessed. And in doing so, he managed to make some sense of what’s happening now, processing new anguish through old wounds.

“A lot of it was making songs to give myself permission to yell,” he says, “to have a place to release.”

Eagle admits that, prior to working on Brick Body Kids, he hadn’t thought about the Robert Taylor Homes in many years. Much of the demolition happened after he left Chicago for Los Angeles and began carving out his career in the alt-rap underground. Watching a documentary on the Homes last year opened a floodgate of both nostalgia and pain for him. What upset him most, he says, is that a decade after the last building fell, the land remains empty—a conspicuous two-mile expanse of fields in the middle of the city’s South Side.

“The grand insult of the whole thing is that there’s not a football field there, there’s not a highway or anything,” Eagle says. “It was just, ‘This is a failure, let’s get rid of it,’ with no regard for the people who lived there.”

Brick Body Kids is Eagle’s attempt to give those people the moment of reflection deprived of them. Throughout, he pays tribute to the survival skills of “ghetto children solving problems in the projects,” describing poorly heated apartments warmed by open ovens and kids so desperate for radio reception they’d wrap their arms in tinfoil and point them out the window.

While the tone of the album is placid, almost meditative, there’s unmistakable anger in songs like the concluding “My Auntie’s Building.” “It was people there and kids there/And drug dealers and church folk/And they hit that shit with a wrecking ball so hard thought the whole Earth broke,” Eagle raps over squalls of dissonance in the record’s final minute. Visiting the site of the Robert Taylor Homes today, it certainly seems like the ground opened up and swallowed the place whole. But with Brick Body Kids, Eagle hopes that whatever ghosts are still haunting the area might finally find some closure.

“People were expected to move on without processing it,” he says. “It’s about taking a moment for the people who were there and commemorating them.”

SEE IT: Open Mike Eagle plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Billy Woods, on Friday, Oct. 6. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

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MUSIC the Oklahoman is getting used to bigger venues and higher festival slots. Fortunately, McPherson hasn’t lost sight of his old-school sound, which falls somewhere between Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis.

His newest effort, Undivided Heart & Soul, is a bit more electrified, reminiscent of the Black Keys’ signature blues-rock. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 6 Mr. Wrong, Vog, Mala Fides, Negative Option, Gut Knife, Fantastic Plastic

[PUNK ROCK] On the title track of their fantastic debut LP, Babes in Boyland, Mr. Wrong implores the listener to “dump your boyfriend, start your own band.” This is excellent advice. Let the band-dude boyfriends rot while Mr. Wrong and their cohort rule. The Portland trio funnels the raw magic of late-‘70s post-punk, like LiLiPUT, the Slits and maybe even a little Crass, into a collection of prickly anthems that are equal parts rage (against gentrification, internet trolls and feckless scene boys) and resignation (in the face of life in general). The best part? Mr. Wrong is only just getting started. CHRIS STAMM. American Legion Hall, 2104 NE Alberta. 7 pm. $6. All ages.

The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, NAV

[SEX AND SADNESS] See Get Busy, page 43. Moda Center, 1 N Center Ct St., 503-235-8771 7:30 pm. $39$306. All ages.

Macklemore

[RAPPIN’ GOOBER] Beating up on Macklemore is pretty blasé at this point, but geez, the poor guy makes it so easy. To be fair, though, the dude finally seems to be catch-

ing on to what people want from him. Gemini, the Seattle rapper’s first album without his usual accomplice in cornballery, Ryan Lewis, in over a decade, is free of the well-intentioned, terribly executed “message songs” that won him that Grammy he’s still trying to live down. Instead, this is pure “Thrift Shop” Macklemore, which isn’t really any less embarrassing, but is much easier to digest when he’s not trying to balance hamfisted social commentary with junior high dick jokes. MATTHEW SINGER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages. Through Oct. 7.

Deathlist, the Fur Coasts, Rayon

[THE PAIN OF POP] Deathlist’s new EP, Weaks, is an album defined by injury, both literal and spiritual. Going into recording, singersongwriter Jenny Logan sprained her shoulder—not a minor thing, considering she was planning on playing every instrument herself.

It forced her to change how she physically performed the songs, and added another layer of emotional heft to a set of music analyzing the psychic wounds left by past relationships. Musically, the record is spare to the point of being skeletal—thudding post-punk bass over deconstructed drum patterns with spindly guitar parts cobwebbed in—allowing Logan’s cool, understated delivery plenty of room to abuse your own bruised heart.

MATTHEW SINGER. The Fixin’ To, 8218 N Lombard St., 503-477-4995.

9 pm. $5. 21+.

Liars, HXXS

[ELECTRONIC NOISE] Liars have stayed defiantly on the fringes of obscurity their whole career, wagging their tongues at the mainstream. Whether critics are standing on their seats and applauding

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[LO-FI POP ROYALTY] After the breakthrough of her 2007 album The Reminder, fueled at first by her association with Canadian baroque rock collective Broken Social Scene and then by the ubiquity of that album’s lead single “1234,” few would’ve slighted Leslie Feist for pivoting from melancholy, understated indie-pop to technicolor crowd pleasers a la Jewel in her “Intuition” era.

Instead, she doubled down on the rocker aesthetic, releasing Metals in 2011 to favorable but underwhelming reviews. On this year’s Pleasure, it sounds as if Feist has finally dialed in the right blend of ragged chords and sparse arrangements to allow her extraordinary vocal abilities to soar. Though the record feels subdued on cursory listens, it turns out that blank space is the perfect canvas for Feist’s subtly triumphant songcraft to properly shine.

The trembling build of “The Wind” and the rolling bar-blues of “I’m Not Running Away” function as sterling testaments to her ability to weave disparate threads of roots rock into a narrative that feels perfectly on brand at this point in her career. PETE COTTELL. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-288-3895.

8 pm Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 7-8. 8 pm. $45. All ages.

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or holding their noses—and they’ve done both—it doesn’t matter to them. originally a four-piece, Liars’ lineup has now been whittled down to chief songwriter Angus Andrew.

Despite the change in personnel, Liars’ new album, TFCF, showcases Andrew’s signature poppy croon over dissonant bite. Andrew flouts typical conventions on songs like “cred Woes,” but songs like “Face to Face With My Face” show that when the electronic fuzz is stripped away and the chaos is stilled, Andrew’s can sing beautifully. JUStIn cARRoLLALLAn. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 9 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.

SATURDAY, OCT. 7 Rainer Maria, Olivia Neutron-John

[EMo REVIVAL] notable for being one of the few female-driven acts at a time when fledgling Illinois-based emo label Polyvinyl was essentially a boys club, Madison, Wisc., powerpop trio Rainer Maria eschewed the hushed introspection in favor of a scrappy and bittersweet style driven by caithlin De Marrais’ bombastic vocal assault. this year’s self-titled reunion effort finds the trio reinvigorated by a newfound viability for their craft, as well as the reverence held for their early classics like Look Now Look Again and Past Worn Searching, which still hold up as essential documents of the late ’90s midwestern emo boom almost two decades later. PEtE cottELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503231-9663. 9 pm. $16 day of show, $18 advance. 21+.

SUNDAY, OCT. 8 Landlady, Ian Chang, Sama Dams

[PSYcHEDELIc PoP] the music of Landlady is as colorful and eclectic as their album artwork. Full of bright layers of keys, big drums and the hopeful voice of ex-Man Man member Adam Schatz, Landlady sounds like the music that comes on in a cartoon when one of the characters just accidentally dosed themselves with LSD— suddenly, everything’s waving and shimmering, changing colors like a neon sign. Shatz and company are famous for loud, joyous concerts, full of sweat and booze. Make sure to bring an extra shirt for the ride home.

JUStIn cARRoLL-ALLAn. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865.

9 pm-12 am. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm

[BEAt PSYcH] See Get Busy, page 43. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $22 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

The Menzingers, Broadway Calls, Lee Corey Oswald

[PoP-PUnK] Growing up suits the Menzingers. the Pennsylvania quartet’s latest LP, After the Party, still bears traces of the early Against Me! and Alkaline trio albums that shaped the whole Fest-centric scene. But this is a bright and shiny pop album built for “modern rock” radio—and that’s not a dig. there’s nothing wrong with being palatable, and the Menzingers know what they’re doing and they’re doing it very well. they know their audience is aging with them and learning the ancient lessons—that hangovers get worse, hearts get even more broken, longing stops being romantic and just hurts. thank God there’s a soundtrack for that. cHRIS StAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100.

8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show.

All ages.

Jonwayne, Danny Watts, DJ EMV

[ARt RAP] Born from LA’s burgeoning beat scene in the mid-2000s, rapper Jonwayne helped breathe new life into a long-stale hip-hop scene. His beats called back to the boom bap of the ’90s, as did his tendency toward bright, jazzy textures.

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Neo G Yo WHO: Danny Diana-Peebles.

SOUNDS LIKE: If the dude from your high school with the impressive Yu-Gi-Oh! card collection had flow.

FANS OF: Juiceboxxx, MC Paul Barman.

Lean, bespectacled and ever-smiling, Danny Diana-Peebles looks like the sweet kid in the neighborhood who taught your grandma how to install Facebook on her Android. Despite his unassuming looks, the rapper known as Neo G Yo is a Portland veteran who helped found Futro Records, the energetic, irreverent hip-hop collective known for wild shows, a diverse roster and a taste for collaboration.

“The focus of Futro has been to be a collaborative platform for people who might not have gotten together otherwise,” DianaPeebles says. “We want [artists] to come together on projects.”

On his own, Diana-Peebles makes what he describes as “scifi party rap.” While his stylistic comfort zone lives in the polysyllabic denseness of Aesop Rock, his beats fit perfectly into what’s becoming the signature sound of Portland hip-hop—big, bright, full of synth layers and musical playfulness. Perhaps the most obvious, and refreshing, element of Neo G Yo’s aesthetic is his sense of humor. It’s on full display in his ’80s-inspired video for “Five Flavors,” In “Minor Problem,” Neo’s wit shines in the lyrics: “I almost skipped college/But then I said fuck it and I learned what not to do.”

While Diana-Peebles’ past projects have been unpretentious and fun—especially his part in the rap duo Serious Business—his latest project under the Neo G Yo moniker is a more ambitious and earnest artistic endeavor. Produced by long-time collaborator Winston Lane, Hazama tells the story of Moon Gazer, a person stuck in a futuristic world who sets out to connect with nature in his digitally saturated world. It’s a concept album whose sound remains steeped in synth-drunk beats and Neo’s swaggy-nerd persona. But it’s also a book illustrated by graphic artist Yu Suda.

“I wanted to do a unique format for the album, more than just a CD or record,” Diana-Peebles says. “I thought a book would be a cool option because it provides a visual experience to go along with the music that also acts as a sort of companion for the story of the album.”

Thanks to translator Cay Horiuchi, half of the copies of Hazama will be published in English, the other half in Japanese. To support the Japanese distribution of Hazama, Diana-Peebles will be going on tour in Japan—a big step, considering this will be Neo G Yo’s first tour ever. But he sounds ready for it.

“I’m very excited,” he says, nearly squealing with joy.

JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. SEE IT: neo G Yo plays Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St., with E*Rock, DnVn and neill Von tally, on Wednesday, oct. 4. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

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man’s not hot: Billie Eilish plays holocene on monday, october 9.

Rap Album One, from 2013, solidified his place in indie-rap circles as a sort of mad genius outlier. His music focuses on existential dread, examining the purpose of rap and the uselessness of fame, knighting him as a sacred figure in the art-rap scene alongside the likes of Nocando, Open Mike Eagle and LA ex-pat Milo.

Jonwayne’s latest record, Rap Album Two, still shows off the rapper’s analytical ability and sense of humor, but songs like “These Words are Everything” also display an unusual vulnerability. JUSTIN CARROLLALLAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

The Shins, Day Wave

[LANDFILL INDIE] With new album Heartworms, it’s becoming apparent that James Mercer is nearing the “fuck it, why not?” phase of his career. Gone are the days of haunting, lo-fi folk anthems about slang and celibacy. In their place is a boondoggle of sonic curiosity replete with bouncy synths, processed guitars and samples that can only be properly described as “Mothersbaughian.”

PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $49.50 general admission, $69.50 reserved balcony seating. All ages.

MONDAY, OCT. 9 alt-J, Bishop Briggs

[ART-J] The ultra-hyped British artband alt-J just released their third album, RELAXER, and it’s a dark turn for a band who previously produced a song catchy enough for a SONOS commercial. The band is so known for their distinctive style that a 2015 Youtube video of two guys eating rice cakes and singing “put it up my butt” to duplicate their sound went viral, garnering more views than most of the band’s videos. But on RELAXER, the band brings out parts of themselves we haven’t seen yet—more strings, horns, a cover of “House of the Rising Sun” that’s barely distinguishable at points, and a heavier, more haunting rock sound. SOPHIA JUNE. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 8 pm. $39.50-$79.50. All ages. Through Oct. 10.

Soulfly Does Nailbomb, Cannabis Corpse, Noisem, Lody Kong

[INDUSTRIAL THRASH] Before there was Soulfly, the most successful and long-running of Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera’s side projects, there was Nailbomb. Releasing only one album, 1994’s Point Blank, and performing live just once, the intriguing “thrash metal with industrial sonics” band never got a fair shake.

Twenty-three years later, Cavalera has decided to revisit the entire album, with the members of Soulfly in tow. While it’d be great to see Nailbomb co-founder Alex Newport join Cavalera for a reunion, this might be the only chance you’ll get to hear Point Blank live. PATRICK LYONS. Dante’s, 350 West Burnside, 503226-6630. 6:30 pm. $20. 21+.

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Boris, Sumac, Endon

[EXPERIMENTAL DOOM] See Get Busy, page 43. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm.

Sold out. 21+.

Billie Eilish, Thutmose

[POP STARLET] When you grow up in LA and come from a family of entertainers, the expectation is set pretty early that you, too, must entertain in some way. At the tender age of 15, Billie Eilish is already gaining attention for her uber-contemporary pop. The songwriter’s moody sounds are often diced up by angular, dubstep-inspired beats making for a compelling, sometimes jarring, listening experience. Eilish’s debut, Don’t Smile At Me, is wise beyond her years, deserving of its spot in the pop music canon while also shaking up the genre’s often flat formula. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 7 pm. Sold out. All ages.

TUESDAY, OCT. 10 The Obsessed, Holy Grove, Time Rif

[DOOM LEGEND] Some people simply drink from the fountain of riffs and share them with the world, and Scott “Wino” Weinrich is one of them. Over the course of a nearly 40 year career, he’s guided his various bands on a gamut of stoner-metal journeys. But his first group was the Obsessed, the most significant Maryland-based doom band after Pentagram. While this third incarnation of the Obsessed features yet another new rhythm section, the songs on Sacred, the band’s first album since 1994’s major label crossover The Church Within, still sound like patented Wino doom rock, full of hooks, heaviness, urgent hard-rock vocals and leads that will make you cry if you aren’t already dead inside.

NATHAN CARSON. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St, 503206-7630. 8:30 pm. $17.25. 21+.

Drab Majesty, Vice Device, Some Ember, DJ Patricia Wolf

[POST-PUNK] There’s magic in discovering a new record that sounds like a lost transmission from a bygone era. Drab Majesty’s The Demonstration, released in January, adds little to the synthwave-pluspost-punk formula first conceived some 35 years ago, but executes it so well that the album deserves a spot alongside the Chameleons, Siouxsie and the Banshees and early Cure records. Sole member Deb DeMure adds an element of androgynous theatricality with costumes and facepaint, which should be enough to get the most blasé goths staring in awe and swaying to the heavily gated drums. PATRICK LYONS. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Randy Newman

[SATIRICAL BLUES] See Get Busy, page 43. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-288-3895. 8 pm. $59.25. All ages.

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Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, Daydream Machine

[MAZZY’S STAR] Though most widely known as the voice behind dream-pop mainstays Mazzy Star—famous for the ’90s radio breakthrough “Fade Into You”—Hope Sandoval has released nearly as many albums with her current band, Warm Inventions. She veers into more eclectic territory on last year’s Until the Hunter, setting her inimitable, smoky croon against longer, more spaciously ambient pieces that emphasize how strikingly singular Sandoval’s pipes really are. Featuring collaborations with Kurt Vile, Mariee Sioux and My Bloody Valentine’s Colm Ó Cíosóig, Hunter adds another chapter of woozy, lulling haze to a consistently impressive career. CRIS LANKENAU. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $30 advance, $33 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80

[FELA LEGACY] Afrobeat’s greatest musician, Fela Kuti, died 20 years ago, but his music lives on—in recordings, videos, the Broadway show Fela! and in concerts featuring his youngest son, Seun. Although his older brother Femi also channels their father’s legacy, Seun actually tours with members of Fela’s old band, Egypt 80, which usually includes guitars, bass, horns, percussion, keyboards and dancers. Along with newer material that incorporates more recent musical trends, they even play Fela’s songs, including many the elder Kuti recorded but didn’t perform live. Seun also channels his dad’s political music legacy more frequently and explicitly than his brother, with songs that directly address his Nigerian homeland government’s corruption as well as broader African and global cultural issues. We’ll never hear Fela’s epic, entrancing live shows again, but Seun is the next best thing.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 4. $22. 21+.

Fear No Music presents The Fertile Crescent

[MIDDLE EASTERN MODERN] While our fearful leaders are making it harder for visitors and immigrants to enter the country, local ensemble Fear No Music is throwing the doors open—at least musically. This concert features contemporary classical composers from Iran, Egypt, Azerbaijan and Syria, with several works played live for the first time in Portland. While some pieces, such as Egyptian composer Bahaa El-Ansary’s ominous Circles for solo cello, bear no explicit political program, the work of some of the younger composers reflect the harsh realities of life in today’s Middle East.

Syrian composer Kareem Roustom devoted royalties from his Aleppo Songs to Doctors without Borders, while his countryman Kinan Azmeh wrote his haunting How Many Would It Take? for violin and electronics during a visit to Syria a year after the bloody revolution began. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-2222031. 7:30 pm Monday, Oct. 9. $10$20. All ages.

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[TRUMPET ACTIVIST] See Get Busy, page 43. PARKER HALL. Jack London Revue, 529 SW 4th Ave., 503-2287605. 7:30 and 10 pm Tuesday, Oct. 10. $20. 21+.

Danilo Pérez: Panamonk

[MONK-ISH] Much like Miles—the mononym that remains the first to pop up whenever jazz trumpet hits the brain—another one-name icon, Monk, remains at the very heart of almost every conversation about the jazz piano. But while the vast musical influence of the legendary Thelonious Monk cannot be overstated, few have also projected its profound non-musical sentiments as effectively as pianist Danilo Pérez. On his 2015 release, Children Of The Light, the Panamanian musician employs Monk-like abilities on his instrument to tell deep and compelling stories of change, while personally bridging the divide between Latin and straight-ahead jazz.

PARKER HALL. Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 10. $30-$35. All ages.

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[HORNY TUNES] String quartets and piano trios may get most of the gigs, but there’s nothing in classical chamber music quite as rich and satisfying, or as loud, as the majestic sounds of a brass ensemble. There’s no better one in the land than the American Brass Quintet. Over three decades and 50 albums, the ensemble—two trumpets, two trombones and horn—has shown they can do soft and subtle just as adeptly as big and, uh, brassy. They also venture way beyond the usual Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, commissioning dozens of new pieces from today’s composers. This concert not only includes music from Shakespeare’s England and earlier, but also 19th century Russian tunes and three contemporary creations, including a playful one from Swedish composer Anders Hillborg and American composer Joan Tower’s Latin-tinged “Copperwave.” BRETT CAMPBELL. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway Ave., 503-248-4335. 7 pm Friday, Oct. 6. $32.50. All ages.

Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra

[AVANT-GARDE CLASSICAL] Every performance of Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra is different. The Japanese percussionist teaches a workshop to local musicians in each city and sculpts a unique performance in disparate workspaces. After the musicians have been prepped, the ensemble employs handmade bows on large gongs in varying patterns to create an other-dimensional sound experience. As ominous and unsettling as the music can feel, Nakatani’s aim is to generate smiles and good feelings. It’s the completely un-American gong show where everyone wins. NATHAN CARSON. Leaven Community Center, 5431 NE 20th Ave. 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 8. $10-$20 sliding scale. All ages.

Reptaliens FM-2030

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[NIGHTMARE POP] On the surface, Reptaliens’ debut fulllength album feels and sounds a lot like a fairly standard dream-pop affair. The entire mix is seeped in reverb and chorus from start to finish, amounting to a rich and rewarding listen that glistens and glides along like a mirage.

Dig deeper, though, and you’ll find some genuinely disturbing shit under the lattice of detuned synths and shimmering guitars. The best tracks on FM-2030 play like distorted fever dreams populated by stalkers, serial killers and Satan himself.

The hook is in the juxtaposition of singer-bassist Bambi Browning ’s serene vocals and guitarist Julian Kowalski’s trembling arpeggios with lyrics that evoke drippy existential dread and the uncertain terror of psychedelics. “Come on DMT find me/Unlock the secrets I seek,” Browning sings over the chilled-out lounge-funk of “Simulation.” Keyboardist Cole Browning shines as the album’s understated sonic superstar on “Nunya,” the album’s bittersweet centerpiece. Manufacturing both woozy ambience in the background and a beautifully woeful synth riff in the fore, it’s sure sure to import more than a few new fans from the Beach House camp.

Building a compelling, live-band-driven effort from hazy atmospherics and wobbly melodies is trickier than the recent crop of bedroom-based dream-pop purveyors would have you believe. FM-2030 is a testament to Reptaliens’ knack for writing weird and wonderful tunes that aren’t reliant on a maelstrom effects to actually sound good. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: Reptaliens play Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Walter TV on Thursday, October 5. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. OCT. 4 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave LampedUSA Concert for Refugees: Brandi Carlisle, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Dave Matthews

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Paul Anka

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Dinner, Sean Nicholas Savage

Dante’s 350 W Burnside St Elvis’ Birthday Party with the Unipiper, DJ Meow

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Slow Dancer

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Michael Shay Trio (The Winery Tasting Room)

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Alan Jones Sextet

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Dope, HED PE

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Neo G Yo

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Allah-Las, Entrance, Mapache

Kelly’s Olympian

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Seun Kuti & The Egypt 80

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Coral Creek, The Groove Cabin

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Humours, Toim with EMS, Stress Position, Oro Azoro

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St There is No Mountain, Perfect Families, Echo Pearl Varsity

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Pompeya, MillionYoung

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St False Face Society & Get Smashing Love Power: Outset

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Ronnie Carrier’s Driftin’ Inn; RoughCuts, Brian Dolzani

THU. OCT. 5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Joe Bonamassa

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St Manilla Road, Motorthrone, Leathurbitch, Magnabolt

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St JD McPherson, Nikki Lane

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Walter TV, Reptaliens

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St bed., Laura Palmer’s Death Parade, A Certain Smile

LAST WEEK LIVE

426 SW Washington St The Thesis

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Anomelea, Pretenser, Bubble Cats

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Groovy Wallpaper, Will West (The Winery Tasting Room)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Billie Eilish, Thutmose

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Free Salamander Exhibit, Dead Rider

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Cosmic Butter, New Dew

Portland Trinity Episcopal

The Fixin’ To

The Analog Cafe

8218 N Lombard St Dommengang, Deep State, Blesst Chest

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Peaer, Lubec, Sinai Vessel, Horse Movies

147 NW 19th Ave PBO: Mozart Requiem

The Know

720 SE Hawthorne St. Major Powers and the Lo Fi Symphony 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Boink, Old Unconscious, Bohr, WL

The Liquor Store

The Lovecraft Bar

The Old Church

The Secret Society

Tonic Lounge

3341 SE Belmont St Sugar Candy Mountain 1422 SW 11th Ave Fear No Music presents The Fertile Crescent

421 SE Grand Ave Skeleton Hands, Statiqbloom, Crimes AM

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Blood Handsome, Lasers of Love, Juracan

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring The Libertine Belles, Baby & The Pearl Blowers

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Deathcrown, Soul Grinder

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Clawfoot Slumber and Sleep Millennium

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Rainbow Electric

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Moon Taxi

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Kabaka Pyramid

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Highly recommended.

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

Email: music@wweek.com.

FRI. OCT. 6 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Sarah Jarosz

American Legion Hall

2104 NE Alberta St Mr. Wrong, Vog, Mala Fides, Negative Option, Gut Knife, Fantastic Plastic

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway ThePianoGuys

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St MisterWives, Smallpools, Vinyl Theatre

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Lords of Acid, Combichrist, Christian Death

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Open Mike Eagle

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Turtle’s Guitar Mafia (The Winery Tasting Room)

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Avery*Sunshine

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Fells Acres, Mercy Graves, Kasey Anderson

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Muzzle Tung, Quiet!, Moogwynd

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave L.A. Witch, Mascaras, Psychomagic

Moda Center

Turn! Turn! Turn!

SMOKE AND LASERS: Between the laser beams, explosions of color and bouts of frontman Chris Martin writhing around on his personal stage extension caked in rainbow confetti, it was hard to leave Moda Center on Oct. 2 without wondering if Coldplay had been planning on such egregious levels of large-scale wankery from the start of their career. In the 17 years since their relatively understated Brit-pop debut Parachutes, the British quartet has evolved into an unwieldy, arena-ready behemoth. Predictably, their art has suffered. After limping through a requisite-feeling cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin,’” on which the group somehow conjured Peter Buck for a guest guitar spot, Coldplay’s mild-mannered storm of lights and magic was relentless for the better part of two hours. It was easy to succumb to the populist energy that overtook the experience every five minutes, particularly when “Paradise” hamfistedly segued into a Tiësto remix that moved Martin to pogo about like a teenager getting lit on club drugs. But the manufactured grandeur presented a perfect example of the moral crossroads an artist reaches at such a bombastic affair. Sure, the dazzling array of visual stimuli is thrilling from an audience member’s perspective. But for a band whose brand has so stridently revolved around delivering meaning and good feelings to its audience, when all was said and done, the end product felt like little more than smoke, lasers and #vibes. PETE COTTELL. PBO: Mozart Requiem

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Gaelic Storm

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Macklemore

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Deathlist, the Fur Coasts, Rayon

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Candace, Black Water (Holy Light), Wet Dream Committee

The Paris Theatre

6 SW 3rd Ave The Weird Kids, Hannah Lemons, DJ NoN

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Lili St Anne, Shae Altered, Rachel Brashear

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Barn Door Slammers

Tonic Lounge

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Tom Papa

Alberta Rose Theater

3000 NE Alberta St BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Concert

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Elephant Gun, Die Like Gentlemen, Dinner for Wolves

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Pickathon presents Chris Bathgate, The Go Rounds

Dante’s

350 W Burnside The Shrike, Deadcode, Volcker

Doug Fir Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Hell, Swamp Witch, Trapped Within Burning Machinery, Bloodmoon

830 E Burnside St Rainer Maria, Olivia Neutron-John

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Lavoy, The Angry Lisas, Caargo

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

White Eagle Saloon

Future Shock

836 N Russell St Unsung Heroes

1 N Center Ct St The Weeknd, Gucci Mane, NAV

Winningstad Theatre

Portland Trinity Episcopal

Wonder Ballroom

147 NW 19th Ave

SAT. OCT. 7 Aladdin Theater

1111 SW Broadway American Brass Quintet 128 NE Russell St Liars, HXXS

Edgefield

1914 E Burnside St Ugly Tarantino

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Within Sight; MAX

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave

Low Roar

Portland Trinity Episcopal

147 NW 19th Ave PBO: Mozart Requiem

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Feist

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Macklemore

SouthFork

4605 NE Fremont St. David Friesen’s Circle 3 Trio

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave TAUK

Sunlight Supply Amphitheater

17200 NE Delfel Rd, Ridgefield, Wash Florida Georgia Line

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd St. Jacks Parade, MLSD, Crowed Habit, the Seth Myzel Band, FLE; Never Let This Go, Baseline

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Family Mansion, Space Car, Muzzle Tung, Grandfather

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St Bobby Peru, Tino Drima, The English Language

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Object Heavy & Klozd Sirkut

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Strange Babes, Sávila

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St BTSM Midnight Terror Tour

SUN. OCT. 8

Tatsuya Nakatani’s Gong Orchestra

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Jonwayne, Danny Watts, DJ EMV

Alberta Rose Theater

Revolution Hall

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

Rontoms

3000 NE Alberta St Red Molly

303 SW 12th Ave Gaelynn Lea

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Concert

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Landlady, Ian Chang, Sama Dams

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Tropical Fuck Storm

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Colter Wall

Edgefield

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

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Menzingers, Broadway Calls, Lee Corey Oswald

Leaven Community Center

5431 NE 20th Ave

1300 SE Stark St #110 Feist 600 E Burnside St New Move, No Kind Of Rider, The Mountain Flowers

8 NE Killingsworth St I Hate Mondays #1 featuring Snakes On Grass, Thicket, Don Gero

TUE. OCT. 10 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St The Accidentals, The Talbott Brothers

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway alt-J, Bishop Briggs

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St The Obsessed, Holy Grove, Time Rif

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave MELT, Shoefiti, Friskies

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Ben Ottewell (of Gomez)

Edgefield

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

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Drab Majesty, Vice Device, Some Ember, DJ Patricia Wolf

Jack London Revue

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave The Shins, Day Wave

529 SW 4th Ave Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

The Analog Cafe

Lewis & Clark College

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Ike Fonseca, Bradley Palermo; LAYNE & Soren Bryce

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Pointed Man Band, Little Sue

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Biddy on the Bench

MON. OCT. 9

0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd Danilo Pérez: Panamonk

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Randy Newman

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Humours, Old Iron, Archons, TOIM

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Mouthbreather, Shake the Baby Til the Love Comes Out, Pet Weapon

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The Liquor Store

Dante’s

Wonder Ballroom

1037 SW Broadway alt-J, Bishop Briggs 350 W Burnside St Soulfly Does Nailbomb, Cannabis Corpse, Noisem, Lody Kong

3341 SE Belmont St Roselit Bone, Mink Shoals, Plastic Cactus 128 NE Russell St Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, Daydream Machine

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Boris, Sumac, Endon

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DJ Sinead Years DJing: Off and on for 16 years, 12 in Portland. But I was pretending to be a radio DJ when I was a kid as early as when Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” came out, I would use a microphone and my record player and dub it all down to tape.

Genre: Gothic, industrial, ’80s, ’90s, synth-pop, electronic music in general.

Where you can catch me regularly: Monday nights for Black Mass at the Lovecraft. Occasionally, I guest Hive at Star Theatre on Sundays.

Craziest gig: David Bowie vs. Prince Pedalpalooza in 2015. So many people just dancing in their Bowie and Prince costumes.

Same-sex marriage was just legalized by the Supreme Court and as I played Blur’s “Girls and Boys,” a giant rainbow flag started sailing around the warehouse. Good times.

My go-to records: Anything Depeche Mode, but in particular Violator; David Bowie, “I’m Afraid of Americans”; anything from the Cure’s Pornography; Einstürzende Neubauten’s “Z.N.S.” and “Haus der Lüge”; Austra’s tracks “Spellwork” or “Beat and the Pulse” from the album Feel it Break; pretty much anything from Crystal Castles II; and I’m really excited by the artist Kanga, her self-titled debut is amazing.

Don’t ever ask me to play…: Concrete Blonde’s “Bloodletting.”

Just don’t.

NEXT GIG: DJ Sinead spins at the Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., on Monday, Oct. 9. 9 pm. 21+.

The Lovecraft Bar

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

WED, OCT. 4 Bit House Saloon

727 SE Grand Ave Mampi Swift vs. Crissy Criss: 7 Deck World Tour

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave El Dorado (early rock & roll, r&b)

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Joey Prude

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St TRONix: DJ Metronome

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Finite Plane

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

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

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THU, OCT. 5 Black Book

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 JEN O (art punk, no wave, underground)

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ AM Gold

Ground Kontrol

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

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St GOTH NITE

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Sappho Digs Deep (disco)

FRI, OCT. 6 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street Musique Plastique

Bit House Saloon 727 SE Grand Ave NoFOMO

Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80’s Video Dance Attack

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave MAXX BASS (funk, boogie, rap)

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave Riva Starr

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St LEZ DO IT w/ DJ Chelsea Starr / Mister Charming

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S O F I A M U R R AY

BAR REVIEW

a Fall Comedy Showcase

w/ Steven wilber, barbara Holm, robbie Pankow, and dan weber

1. Urban Farmer

525 SW Morrison St., 503-222-4900, urbanfarmerportland.com.

For a steep $20 at this steakhouse high in the Nines, you can get the finest Vieux Carré we’ve ever had in Portland: barrel-aged as long as two years and poured from tiny barrels in a cascading mixed-age solera system kept in a little locked case in the back room.

Hosted by Isaac Pendergrass

2393 NE FrEmoNt

2. Breakside Slabtown

1570 NW 22nd Ave., 503-444-7597, breakside.com.

Breakside’s new Slabtown spot took a second, but now they’ve got a nice nacho plate and burger to pair with the great beer— with a tap list that currently includes an excellent Happy Unbirthday lager with lemon verbena.

3. Creepy’s

627 SE Morrison St., 503-889-0185.

Creepy’s isn’t creepy, unless you think the circus is creepy: It’s clown paintings, big-eyed kids and John Quincy Adams, plus goofball coffee cocktails and a great spicy chicken sandwich.

4. 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.

5. Local Celebrity 820 N. Russell St., 219-545-1771, thelocalcelebrity.com.

In the former Mint and 820, new owner Daniel Leussler of the Killingsworth House music performance series has made a nice little music venue and hang.

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Lite It Up First Friday’s with Frankeee B (Scandinavian synthetic funk)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Glam Night

Red Cube Cesqeaux

The Goodfoot

RED ROOM: In the darkness of a red-curtained room that looks like the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks, an elegant woman with a shaved head is explaining that she’s transsentient, while the bartender retrieves a tarot deck he says was blessed by a Buddhist monk. Lots of things have been blessed by monks at tiny Southeast Ankeny bar Chandelier (1451 SE Ankeny St., 503-841-8345, chandelierbarpdx.com), including the four-foot-tall Buddha statue out front.

Owner Matthew Ellis says he conducts free tarot readings at the eight-seat sake, beer and wine bar when business is slow and the feeling is right. But for now, the former Multnomah Whiskey Library bartender, dressed in a fitted black suit and flamboyant bolo tie, is pouring a junmai genshu sake he says tastes like cheese. Miraculously, it does: It tastes like a pure, gooey Brie. Meanwhile, an heirloom red-rice sake called “Ine’s Full Bloom” tastes like porcini mushrooms and smoked fruit; it’s made by one of Japan’s first female brewers. Another sake is infused with plum, while yet another tastes precisely like cocoa nibs despite containing no chocolate. Ellis has milked connections gained by living in Japan, reverentially telling the story of each esoteric, rarely seen sake as he pours it into mismatched stemware. His menu is devoted to finding bottles at the outer edges of what sake can taste like— magic tricks every bit as surprising as the infinity mirror on the room’s back wall, which seems to be a window into a tunneled abyss. The bathroom at Chandelier is equally devoted to the dark arts: The Tibetan Book of the Dead sits open in a black room filled with candles, with the sounds of low and ominous chanting giving way to a triumphant organ at comical moments. Like the Stereolab album, Chandelier is a place of transient random noise bursts, with announcements. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Sticky Toffee All Stars (house, disco)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Stylust Beats with Metapod

SAT, OCT. 7

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Expressway to Yr Skull w/ MISPRID & friends (shoegaze, deathrock, indie)

The Wayback

4719 N Albina Ave Soul Good (feel good)

45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Gareth Emery

SUN, OCT. 8

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

Black Book

Black Book

The Liquor Store

Crush Bar

Dig A Pony

3341 SE Belmont St Uplift

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave DoublePlusDANCE w/ DJ Acid Rick, DJ Battles & DJ Carrion! (new wave, synth, darkwave)

The Paris Theatre

6 SW 3rd Ave Decadent 80s: George Michael vs Michael Jackson

The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven SE 2nd Ave. and Hawthorne Brickbat Mansion: Tribute to Cocteau Twins

Toffee Club

1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd

20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club) 1400 SE Morrison St Pants OFF Dance OFF: Monster MashUP

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Creative Cultivation Dance Party #3

Killingsworth Dynasty

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

Moloko

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

20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club) 736 SE Grand Ave El Chingon (golden era hiphop)

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Infinity Mirror (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)

White Owl Social Club

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Blind Bartimaes

Ground Kontrol

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

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Billy Club

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUE OCT. 10 Dig A Pony

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

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Party Damage: DJ Up Above

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Final Report

Sandy Hut

1305 SE 8th Ave East Your Sunday Best

1430 NE Sandy Blvd Montel Spinozza

MON, OCT. 9

100 NW Broadway Recycle (dark dance)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Motown Mondays

The Embers Avenue

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Caucasian Chalk Circle

You never know what exactly you’re going to get with a Shaking the Tree production. In the hands of artistic director Samantha Van Der Merwe, even seemingly straightforward scripts can become dreamlike. So it seems fitting the company is opening its season with a play as bizarre as Bertolt Brecht’s sprawling, modernist play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. In the 1948 play, multiple storylines and a play within a play form around a peasant woman who finds an abandoned baby. Shaking The Tree, 823 SE Grant St., shakingthe-tree.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 6-Nov. 4. $10-$30.

Caught

The cryptic play tells the story of Chinese artist and activist Lin Bo, who served a two-year sentence in a Chinese detention center. There’s way more to the maze-like experience than that, but to explain any further would reveal Caught’s sleight of hand. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org.

Oct. 1-29. $25-$50.

ALSO PLAYING Fun Home

Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphical memoir, the musical tries to make sense of the cartoonist’s complicated relationship with her closeted gay father, Bruce (Robert Mammana). Propelled by goofy, singalong anthems, Fun Home switches between three different stages of Bechdel’s life. There’s Alison (Aida Valentine) growing up in the funeral home where her father enforced heteronormativism on his daughter. There’s Alison at college (Sara Masterson), who transforms from nervous and slumped shouldered, to belting out love songs as she discovers her sexuality and falls for a classmate named Joan (Kristen DiMercurio). Then there’s Alison the narrator (Allison Mickelson), the successful cartoonist behind Dykes to Watch Out For, and who’s attempting to understand her father through jumbled memories. The show premiered on Broadway in 2015 and won multiple Tony awards that same year. It went on tour for the first time last October, but Portland Center Stage is staging its own production. PCS’ production is so intimate and charming, it’s hard to imagine Fun Home on a giant Broadway stage. At the end of the play, Bruce remains a mystery to Alison. But Through Alison’s self-discovery, we can see Bruce’s misguided hope of sparing his daughter from the pain he feels, while he remains deprived of the freedom she eventually finds.

SHANNON GORMLEY. 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.

DANCE Dance of the Hummingbirds

Since moving to Portland from India almost 30 years ago, Jayanthi

Raman’s shows keep getting more intricate and theatrical. Inspired by classical South Indian and contemporary dance, the medical-doctor-turned-choreographer already produced a dance show earlier this year—the semi-autobiographical Duality told the story of a woman who immigrated from India to Portland. Her next show will explore the nuances of creating cross-cultural art. Along with Raman’s choreography, there will be a poetry reading by Oregon poet laureate Paulann Petersen and a display of paintings by artist Shashank Rao. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, portland5.com. 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 7. $22-$32.

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.

COMEDY Cult Status

Instead of falling into the comedic rut of joking about dating or selfloathing, Cult Status is a standup showcase specifically dedicated to strange stories of escaping dogma, whether in the form of pyramid schemes or religion. This time, the lineup of Pacific Northwest comedians includes former Mormons and Scientologists. Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., sirentheater.com. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 7. $10.

Lez Standup

Every Wednesday in October, Helium will host a different local standup showcase. The series will kick off with one of the city’s most beloved shows, Lez Stand Up. Hosted by the always up-tempo Kirsten Kuppenbender, Lez Standup features all lesbian or otherwise patriarchy smashing comedians. The week’s lineup includes Portland regulars as well as some new additions, like Carlos the Rollerblader, the comedian and performance artist who offered up their personal phone number as an advice hotline on flyers they posted around the city earlier this year. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy. com. 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 4. $12 advance, $15 at the door. 21+.

LOOKING UP: Isaac Lamb.

Risk vs. Reward EVERY BRILLIANT THING IS MORE INTERESTED IN OFFERING EMPATHY THAN CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS.

BY R MITCHELL MILLER

In Every Brilliant Thing, actor Isaac Lamb lists the guidelines newspapers follow when reporting on a suicide: never describe the method used, don’t assume motivation from recent life events, don’t use the word “commit” in reference to the action, never describe an attempt as “successful.”

“Suicide is contagious,” says Lamb, who plays the one-man show’s unnamed character. One suicide can often lead to more suicides in densely populated areas, he explains, citing the Goethe novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Toward the end of the play, he adds, “There’s one thing you should know if you’re considering suicide: don’t do it.”

Every Brilliant Thing is the story of a man and his mother, and how her attempt to kill herself when he was a child shaped the rest of his life. It’s why the narrator began crafting a running list of small and large life-affirming pleasures—ice cream and roller coasters when he started the list at the age of seven, sex and meaningful conversations as he entered adulthood.

Though the one-man show is about living in the shadow cast by the attempted suicide of a loved one, it’s playful, unconventionally structured and unapologetically sentimental. It’s more like group therapy than a traditional play. Audience members are called on stage to play a vet that euthanizes the main character’s childhood dog, or our narrator at seven-years-old who can only respond “why?” as his father struggles to explains that his mother tried to kill herself.

Written by Duncan Macmillan, the play premiered

at England’s Ludlow Fringe Festival in 2013. It started its successful off-Broadway run a year later, and last fall, a film of a New York performance made its way to HBO. In the three years since its premiere, almost all of the productions have been performed by the same actor, British comedian Jonny Donahoe.

Thematically, Every Brilliant Thing doesn’t take many risks. Macmillan himself once said of the play, “It’s the least cool piece of theater ever, in some ways.”

Often cloyingly sentimental, Every Brilliant Thing is not for even the mildly cynical, or those who are unwilling to put aside the fact that a list of “brilliant things” is a simplistic response to a complicated issue.

Still, Every Brilliant Thing succeeds thanks to Lamb’s everyman affability as well as its communal spirit. More than anything, it’s an exercise in empathy. As the play progresses, it becomes as much about our narrator’s depression as his mother’s. Decades after his mother’s attempt at suicide, he’s listed hundreds of thousands of brilliant things. But as he reaches middle age, it becomes more and more clear that optimism isn’t the same thing as happiness.

Anti-suicide is hardly a radical stance, but Every Brilliant Thing isn’t particularly interested in challenging social or artistic conventions. More than just a staging gimmick, the audience interaction is the play’s main message. Offering support, Every Brilliant Thing concludes, can be more powerful than all life’s brilliant things combined.

SEE IT: Every Brilliant Thing is at Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 5. No 7:30 pm show on Sunday, Oct. 8.$25-$55.

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COURTESY OF MIKE LEE

Public Access THE GALLERY OPENINGS TO GO SEE THIS WEEK NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE.

BY SHANNON GORMLEY

sgormley@wweek.com

For this month’s guide to art openings, we decided to do things a little differently. As usual, we’ve picked opening receptions that should be priorities on your crawl across First Thursday —a sonic drag show, photos of a matriarchal village in India and pop art about the philosophy of making fun of Hitler.

But this time, we’ve also included some Eastside galleries with First Friday openings. The idea is to make going to see art as accessible as possible, so if you don’t feel like dealing with parking downtown, you can still see shows that are just as intriguing.

Galleries are always free, not just on First Thursday and Friday. But along with wine and fancy snacks, the benefit of receptions is that you’re not alone in a quiet gallery. There are more people with whom you can share thoughts, questions or just reactions. It’s a far more extroverted mode of viewing art, which can take some pressure off of those who are intimidated by white-walled galleries.

Here are the five gallery openings this week that we’re most excited about.

NORTHWEST Night Lights: Pepper Pepper

For the past five years, drag queen and performance artist Pepper Pepper has emceed one of the Time Based Arts Festival’s most treasured shows, Critical Mascara, which is somewhere between an arty drag show and a giant warehouse party. But Pepper has decide to move on to new artistic pursuits, so this year’s Critical Mascara was the last. The new chapter in Pepper’s career begins with the show that will kick off Night Lights, an annual series of outdoor, avant-garde video installations. Pepper has described

the installation as “a staged feedback loop for participants to practice drag, lip-sync” in order to create “kaleidoscopic transformations.” What specifically that means is to be determined, but it sounds pretty awesome. Regional Arts & Culture Council, 411 Northwest Park Ave., opensignalpdx.org. Begins at dusk Thursday, Oct. 5.

Kingdom of Girls and Plato’s Dogs

National Geographic photographer Karolin Klüppel spent two years photographing a matriarchal village in India where a family’s youngest daughter is their heir and husbands move into their wives’ homes instead of the other way around.

Kingdom of Girls is Klüppel’s photographic essay on the village. When the show opened in New York two years ago, it made headlines in the likes of the Atlantic and the Washington Post, but it’s only now that the exhibit has made its way to Portland.

Klüppel’s work will be exhibited alongside Plato’s Dogs, a series of black and white photos of dogs’ shadows by veteran Brooklyn photographer Thomas Roma. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., blueskygallery. org. Through Oct. 31. Opening reception 6-9 pm Thursday, Oct. 5.

Drawing Life and How to Laugh at Nazis (According to the NYT and a Book)

Ever since Jim Riswold left his job at Wieden + Kennedy, making fun of Hitler has kind of been his thing. Surviving leukemia inspired Riswold to become an irreverent pop artist—his previous shows at Augen gallery included Hitler figurines bought off eBay and repur-

Swimmers by Mike Lee, part of Statsis.

posed into childlike toys. It’s all part of Riswold’s philosophy that the best way to deal with terrible things is to deprive them of their dignity, a philosophy that’s detailed in his upcoming book, How Hitler Changed My Life. His exhibit celebrates the book’s release and will be accompanied by Karen Esler’s understated but detailed watercolor portraits.

Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., augengallery.com. Through Oct. 28. Opening reception 5-8 pm Thursday, Oct, 5.

NORTHEAST Inherent Terrain

The curators at Eutectic Gallery really know how to find some strange, abstract pottery. The gallery ’s next ceramics exhibit is particularly out there. Instead of bowls or vases, the four artists in Inherent Terrain create works that are purely decorative, which allows them to be a lot weirder. Rain Harris makes statues of sheep wearing smocks and standing on their hind legs, while Sasha Koozel Reibstein’s ceramics are totally

alien. Amorphous lumps of crystals and what resembles dripped wax, Reibstein’s sculptures look like they were harvested from some extra-terrestrial ocean. Eutectic Gallery, 1930 NE Oregon St., eutecticgallery.com. Through Nov. 18. Opening reception 6-9 pm Friday, Oct. 6.

SOUTHEAST Statsis

Mike Lee’s paintings look like modernist nightmares. The New York artist paints odd blobs that resemble bulbous, boneless people and float in a grayscale void.

With large, round torsos, featureless faces and limp arms and legs, they’re so eerily smooth they look like they were created by a computer. But what makes them interesting isn’t so much Lee’s technical precision as the fact that his paintings are just unsettling enough that you’re fascinated more than deterred. Stephanie Chefas Projects, 305 SE 3rd Ave. #202, stephaniechefas.com.

Through Oct. 28. Opening reception 7-10 pm Friday, Oct. 6.

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BY DANA ALSTON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

THURSDAY, OCT. 5 Arn Strasser

Swiss-born, New York-raised poet, artist, tai chi instructor, degreed architect and historian, and practicing chiropractor Arn Strasser will read from his new book of poems, Incidental Longing. A student of the poet Denise Levertov, Strasser is also the author of two other volumes, Before Dreaming and To the Poet Listening. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm.

Don’t Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted is one of the last poetic monsters of the late-Beat days of City Lights, and he’ll be reading from Don’t Hesitate, his book of letters and recollections of Allen Ginsberg, taking all sorts of questions and signing books. Poets Suzi Kaplan Olmsted and Josh Lupin will also read. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-236-2665. 7 pm.

Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary

Abraham Lincoln won hearts and minds, and was entrusted warmly into the bosoms of history, while William Tecumseh Sherman pooled the fire-smoked blood into his cupped hands. But in 1862, it was buttoned-up, overcautious Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who took over from the corrupt wreckage of his predecessor, and raised and fed the army that won the Civil War. He also picked up the country’s broken pieces after Lincoln was assassinated. Seward biographer William Stahr chronicles Stanton’s mostly unsung tenure in Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

FRIDAY, OCT. 6 The Impossible Presidency

No, it’s not just another Trump book.

It’s a conditions-for-the-possibilityof-Trump book. In The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office, historian Jeremi Suri tracks the ascension of the presidency from starkly limited bully pulpit to an impossible, impossibly powerful office responsible for everything and blamed for everything—a job too big for anyone to succeed at. Guess if you’re gonna fail anyway, fail bigger? Fail better?

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

SATURDAY, OCT. 7 The Myrtlewood Cookbook Release Party

TEDxMtHood: Alchemy

For seven years now, the irritatingly punctuated TEDxMtHood has been bringing together a mess of interesting and impressive Portlanders for short speeches about themselves.

This year includes teen inventor Videep Edupuganti, activists Gregory McKelvey and Charles McGee, neuroscientist Damien Fair, and Adrienne Nelson, the second female black judge in Oregon history. $37-$77 admission includes breakfast, lunch and so much networking. Roosevelt High School Theatre, 6941 North Central St., $37-$77 at tedxmthood.com.

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MONDAY, OCT. 9 Nomadland

Jessica Bruder spent three years in the field for her latest book. The author and journalist immersed herself in a world of “workampers,” older transient Americans who traded in their homes for “wheel estate”—the trailers, vans and RVs that serve as a whole new world of mobile home. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

Robin Sloan

With his new foodie novel Sourdough, following up on bookie novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan has written his second in a genre usually described as “sly” or “arch”—a mild-mannered send-up of techgeeky mores whose main quality is a lightly affectionate knowingness.

My, what sly references we will all make together! Anyway, people like him. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

TUESDAY, OCT. 10 Richard and Julia Clare Tillinghast

It’s a daughter-father poetry reading and it ain’t even Father’s Day. World-renowned, Harvard-trained, Guggenheim-winning, New Yorkerpublished poet and New York Times critic Richard Tillinghast will be hanging in the tiny environs of Mother Foucault’s bookshop this Tuesday. He’ll be reading his poetry, then having a conversation with his daughter Julia Clare Tillinghast: The pair recently translated a book of poems from Turkish poet Edip Cansever, and are collaborating on a new project. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-236-2665.

7-9 pm.

C O U R T E S Y O F M O T H E R F O U C A U LT ’ S

For seven years Andrew Barton has been hosting a Secret Restaurant pop-up in Portland that’s like a live, edible version of Kinfolk. After crowdsourcing his first Myrtlewood

Cookbook—a self-contained, highly photogenic culinary world of local recipes and bespoke dining—it was picked up by Sasquatch books. At Mother Foucault’s, Barton and e and photographers/arrangers Kate and Pete Schweitzer will share both the cookbook and some snacks. This ain’t a reading, it’s a release party, so drop in whenever. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St. 2-5 pm.

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Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971)

It’s that time of year when basically all movies screening outside the multiplex are some sort of horror movie. But Church of Film’s first October screening is more unsettling than actually scary. The experimental, found footage version of Dracula is set to an eerie score, and the contrast of the black-and-white movie is so amped up, the whole film looks like a ghost.

Clinton, Oct. 4.

Misery

Zen and the Art of Walking to the Gym

PAUL T. LAMBERT

GOING TO THE GYM IS AN AIMLESS ORAL HISTORY OF PORTLAND.

BY S HA N N O N G O R M L E Y

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Going to the Gym’s trailer is dryly absurd.

Standing outside the Hawthorne neighborhood house where he’s lived since 1973, Paul T. Lambert twirls his cane. Lambert, 67, calls it his cane trick, and explains that it’s his primary workout at the gym. “I do three sets of 10, and I can’t tell when one set ends or another begins. When I do it, I kind of feel lost,” says Lambert. “Nobody else does cane tricks at the gym, but I’m hoping one of the other senior citizens will pick it up and then maybe eventually we could have classes.”

A stand-alone film rather than a clip from the movie, the trailer will screen along with the premiere of Going to the Gym this Thursday. Somewhere between experimental and totally banal, Going to the Gym is a strange film. Just under 30 minutes, it follows Lambert on the walk from his house to Loprinzi’s Gym, which first opened in 1948. On the way there, he delivers a totally unscripted, stream-of-consciousness monologue. He names flowers he walks by and comments on neighbors past and present. As his rambling picks up speed, he eventually drifts into his semi-Bohemian past as an artist in Portland.

He was able to live rent-free when he was the resident caretaker at The Old Church and sold his pottery at Saturday Market before it was called Saturday Market. He started working at Pratt & Larson’s tile factory in the late ’80s, but continued to make art, and even got involved with avant-garde literary groups in Paris and Italy.

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It’s not a film about Old Portland versus New Portland. It might not be a film about anything at all, but whenever Lambert points out houses that used to be cheaper or are suspected Airbnbs, it doesn’t come off as cynical. Going to the Gym is like an oral history, but without any particular focus and totally non-linear.

According to director Adam Moser, the inspiration for the film was hardly high concept.

“Every time we saw Paul, he’d say “I’m going to the gym’ or ‘I just got back from the gym’,” says Moser. “And that was intriguing to me.”

Moser stands behind the bar at Likewise, the Hawthorne Street artist collective and bar he co-founded. Thirty-six years Lambert’s junior, Moser wears a black snapback and plays Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar over the bar’s speakers. It’s a typical Tuesday-evening scene: Lambert sits at the other side of the bar drinking San Pellegrino. On the wall next to him is a poster for Going to The Gym, on which Lambert looks into the camera and flexes his bicep, his cane propped up against his hip. “[Moser] told me one time, ‘You never talk about the gym’,” says Lambert. “All you talk about is Taqueria Lindo Michoacan, East Side Deli. I think that’s part of his thing that he thought was funny was that I was un-gym like.”

Lambert met Moser when he stopped into Likewise one day on the way home from Loprinzi’s. “He spoke to me verbally right away,” remember Lambert. “I think he said something like ‘hi.’”

Soon after, Lambert became a Likewise regular. “I started doing some handyman stuff for him around his house and we started hanging

out more and more every week,” says Moser. “I started taking videos and I would usually just share them with my girlfriend like ‘look how Paul cracked me up today.’”

Moser had vague plans to film a movie all one shot. As he got to know Lambert, he realized he had found the subject he had been looking for. After a failed attempt of filming Lambert’s walk from the top of a moving car, Moser enlisted cameraman Everett Nate Yockey, who specializes in steadicam rigs.

Lambert’s dry sense of humor is what makes Going to the Gym entertaining, but Yockey’s fluid camera work is what makes it transfixing.

Filmed on a sunny morning this past summer, Going to the Gym basks in soft cinematography.

The camera is as rambling as Lambert, and occasionally pans across the street toward lawn sprinklers or into shady gardens. When Lambert walks across the intersection of Lincoln and Cesar Chavez, Yockey seamlessly crosses to the other side of the street, allowing bikes to zoom through the shot.

If nothing else, Going to the Gym is a technical feat. Still, there seems to be more to it than just aesthetics. Like Winnie the Pooh, Lambert’s bumbling demeanor is almost profound—he seems perfectly content with the slipperiness of time.

But for Lambert, the appeal is much simpler. ‘“I get a kick out of Paul,” says Moser.

“A big part of it is just wanting to share that with other people.”

SEE IT: Going to the Gym is at Laurelhurst Theater, 2735 E Burnside St., laurelhursttheater.com, 503-232-5511. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 5. $5.

(1990)

The recent inspiration for SZA’s “Love Galore” music video, Misery is the next best thing to the Shining to prepare you for the potential pitfalls of the stir-craziness brought on the rainy months. It’s pretty hard to shake the sledgehammer scene. Laurelhurst, Oct. 4-5.

Mission, Oct. 4-8.

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

It’s hard to imagine there was a time when zombie flicks were a new thing, but if George Romero hadn’t come along, zombie movies might have never existed.

Clinton, Oct. 9..

Serial Mom

(1994)

In John Waters’ send-up of tabloid culture and normalcy, Kathleen Turner plays a mom living in a Baltimore suburb who’s the perfect housewife and a homicidal maniac. One of the Pope of Filth’s most underrated films, Serial Mom is made all the more absurd by the fact it also stars Sam Waterston as Turner’s husband. Academy, Oct. 4-5.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Fuck, this movie is scary. The story of chainsaw-wielding cannibals who wear people’s skin for masks is most the nightmarish nightmare.

Whatever you do, don’t pick up the hitchhiker. Hollywood, Oct. 9.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Ave: Gigi (1958), Oct. 6-8. Academy: Scanners (1981), Oct. 6-12. Hollywood: Hapkido (Lady Kung Fu) (1972), Oct. 10. Joy: Hercules in the Haunted World (1961), Oct. 4. Kiggins: Big (1988), Oct. 8. Out of the Past (1947), Oct. 9. Laurelhurst: Frankenstein (1931), Oct. 6-12. Scream (1996), Oct. 6-12. Mission: The Dead Zone (1983), Oct. 4-9.

Christine (1983), Oct. 8-10.

NW Film: Bugsy Malone (1976), Oct. 8.

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NOW PLAYING American Made

American Made is like a blackmarket Forrest Gump—just slick and loose enough to outweigh its historical foolishness. It tells the hyperbolized story of pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), who flew covert smuggling missions for the CIA and Medellín drug cartel in the early ’80s. Seal’s wild brushes with figures like Oliver North, Manuel Noriega and George W. Bush are rendered with narration and montage. Director Doug Liman doesn’t just make Tom Cruise act, he makes him sweat and stumble through the action sequences. The director-star dynamic made a hit of their first movie together (Edge of Tomorrow), and it’s what makes American Made work, too. As Seal, Cruise is somewhere between a cowboy of the skies and a total schmuck. Liman frames Seal’s story as a loud, absurd, quintessentially American joke—we’re never meant to admire Seal for amassing his millions from gun and drug-running.

It’s the kind of movie where Pablo Escobar screams “cocaine!” at Seal while helicoptering above a field of coca plants. Anything else is just a narrative casualty of an actioncomedy about embracing chaos. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport.

Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes had every excuse to be a straightforward biopic.

It retells the epic 1973 tennis match between rising women’s tennis star Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and aging legend Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), who publicly proclaimed he could beat King because she is a woman and he is a man. It’s already

depth. Still, those seeking the heartpumping adrenaline of a summer shark flick won’t be disappointed. PG-13.

LAUREN TERRY. Vancouver.

an epic premise that could have just piggybacked on the current marketability of #feminism and Emma Stone’s post-La La Land high. But it goes further, creating multidimensional characters and taking a nuanced look at gender dynamics in the ’70s. Riggs isn’t just a misogynist we wanted to see proven wrong, he’s also a father and desperate husband with a gambling problem who sees public spectacle as a way back into the limelight. King is a breakout media darling at her athletic peak, all the while dealing with infidelity and sexual identity as she starts a fling with her hairdresser, Marilyn.

To get King to agree to a televised, theatrical showdown, Riggs stages absurd antics, including dressing up as Little Bo Peep for practice and publicly claiming that “It’s time for women to get back to the kitchen and the bedroom.” Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine) use details like the ambient voices of TV commentators saying things like, “Who does she think she is,” and “If King managed to take off those glasses and grow out her hair, she’d be quite attractive.” It’s a moment in history worth retelling, and Battle of the Sexes offers a lot more than the satisfaction of poking fun at old, rich, white men of the sports elite. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Bridgeport, Casacade, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room, Lloyd Center.

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

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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

Baby Driver

It takes a scant five minutes for Baby Driver to feel like one of the best car-chase films of all time. Director Edgar Wright’s first film since Scott Pilgrim vs. the World kicks off with a stellar getaway through the streets of Atlanta set to Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms.” Somehow, though, Wright manages to top that scene throughout, culminating in a frantic, mesmerizing and utterly joyful 45-minute finale. At the wheel is Baby (Ansel Elgort, whose face really sells the “Baby” business), who combats his tinnitus by constantly pumping tunes through his earbuds. Every sequence plays out perfectly to the music in Baby’s ears, whether it’s the rat-a-tat of gunfire punctuating the snare on an old funk track or clashing metal with the cymbal smashes on classic-rock oddities. This is a movie where violence and velocity are played up to surrealist levels while remaining relatively grounded in reality. It’s hysterically funny, but not a straight comedy. It’s often touching, but seldom cloying. It’s the hyper-stylish car chase opera the world deserves.

R. AP KRYZA. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Tigard, Vancouver

Brigsby Bear

We meet James Pope (Kyle Mooney), superfan of a show called Brigsby Bear Adventures, which is like if you mixed Buck Rogers with a first-

gen Teddy Ruxpin doll. James lives in an underground fallout bunker. 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. Laurelhurst.

Cars 3

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

ally 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. Academy, Laurelhurst.

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, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd, Tigard.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

When the first Guardians debuted, its irreverent, hilarious, bizarro tone came out of nowhere, making audiences fall in love with Marvel’s D-list heroes at the confluence of Star Wars, The Ice Pirates and Buckaroo Banzai. Vol. 2 isn’t the jolt that the first one was, but between all the action and its surprisingly poignant finale, it’s a welcome addition.

We’d follow this band of charismatic assholes anywhere at this point.

PG-13. Empirical, 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

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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. Bridgeport, Fox Tower.

Logan Lucky

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.

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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Mother!

Good Time

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. 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, Tigard, Vancouver.

Ingrid Goes West

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

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

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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

Patti Cake$

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 selfdoubt. 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. Hollywood.

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. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Vancouver.

tional heft like no other in genre has.

PG-13. Academy, Avalon, City Center, Empirical, Jubitz, Kennedy School Theater, Laurelhurst, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Valley Cinema Pub, Vancouver.

Woodshock

Woodshock is a dark and dreamy ode to the Redwoods and the weird shit that happens in rural California.

Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a spacey medical dispensary employee who laces a few grams of shwaggy cannabis before rolling up a deadly joint for her terminally ill mother.

Theresa is no stranger to this spiked concoction—the film is interspersed with flashbacks of her stumbling through the woods in a silk nightgown. The pain of grieving her mother draws her toward a hallucinatory escape, and sober moments become fewer and further between.

As Theresa’s grip on reality loosens, flashes of her bloodied nightgown hint at violent highs ahead. The film was co-wrote and co-directed by Laura and Kate Mulleavy, the sisters behind the wunderkind high-fashion label Rodarte. Shot throughout Humboldt County, the dreamlike forest scenes show the sisters’ reverence for visual art and for their home state. Windows sparkling with coastal condensation cast distorted light on characters’ grim expressions, and geometric shapes glide across the misty tree tops when Theresa exhales. Aesthetics aside, time spent during lengthy shots of Dunst trailing her fingers around redwood trunks could’ve better served to flesh out the rest of the characters. It’s more fever dream than thriller, but permafry has never looked prettier. R. LAUREN TERRY. Fox Tower.

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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. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. City Center, Living Room Theaters.

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.

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, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, 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 emo-

a-ok: an archival still from The Reagan Show.

Getting to Know the Gipper A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT REAGAN’S LEGACY HAS SOME GLARING OMISSIONS.

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here are few people who would object to the claim that politics is a performance. The Reagan Show, a new documentary co-directed by Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez, promises a look into the pageantry and showmanship behind the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose office was unprecedented in their use of video. Using archival news footage and White House video, the New York-based directors show Reagan in an array of candid situations, like the moments before the cameras start rolling, or when the microphones picked up on Nancy Reagan scolding her husband for not wearing a raincoat.

The Reagan Show makes its Portland premiere this week at NW Film Center. While noble in its cause, the documentary’s theme fails to materialize, and there are several glaring omissions (Lee Atwater, anyone?). What’s left is a cursory retelling of ’80s Soviet relations interspersed with presidential bloopers, as if it’s somehow revealing that a president would practice a speech.

It focuses mostly on Reagan’s negotiations with Gorbachev and squeezes as much mileage as possible out of footage of the Gipper trying to pronounce “Sununu.” But the film can’t decide whether it’s trying to show Reagan as a leader struggling with the gravity of his office or as an old, image-conscious fool just chasing the spotlight.

To look back at Ronald Reagan’s presidency is to reflect upon some of capitalism’s greatest hits, from the financial deregulation that made the housing crisis possible, to the increase in privatized prisons due to the War on Drugs, to his use of the “welfare queen” rhetoric to promote austerity measures.

Though the documentary sets out to reveal how Reagan and his team crafted his image, The Reagan Show comes up short by not addressing how he used his persona to advance policies that continue to affect national and even global politics. By not even mentioning the lasting effects of its subject matter, the filmmakers let Reagan off easy.

I’d say the Gipper won this one. CRYSTAL CONTRERAS. see it: The Reagan Show is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 NW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, 4:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 6-8. $9.

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Since July 1, 2015, recreational marijuana has been legal in Oregon. Everyone can legally grow up to four marijuana plants. This is the third year WW grew pot on the roof of the office. And, as is tradition, two interns attempted to tackle the unknown and do some rooftop gardening.

Dana Alston started as an intern the week before me, so the lion’s share of weed-tending fell to him. What he didn’t know was that he was also taking the lion’s share of guilt, online comments, daily watering duties and ladder conquests. When Dana and I started tending to the rooftop cannabis, we knew next to nothing about gardening, let alone growing weed.

Three months in, we still don’t. Our first five plants went to plant heaven, then two fresh ones were donated. They were abandoned on a long, hot weekend and one died. We managed to keep one alive, a hybrid known as Dogwalk-

er, which was graciously donated to us. Leafly describes Dogwalker as “a complex profile of woody and skunky aromas,” that delivers “a strong cerebral calm that radiates throughout the body over time.” We do not speak of his fallen comrades, but their presence can still be felt on the rooftop, along with memorial mounds of soil and dead plant matter, sitting like unburied coffins.

In three months of calamity, highlights included: using fertilizer without diluting it, many days of triple-digit weather, a dearth of rain, an unhealthy dose of smoke and Dana being unanimously named the worst weedgrowing intern in newspaper history. There are worse things to be called.

With Croptober on the horizon, the fate of Dogwalker seems more certain than ever. Another poor intern, possibly with as little familiarity as us, will try to carry the baton across the finish line and harvest the plant. It’s too bad we’re leaving a few weeks before harvest.

Future WW interns take note: If you start interning soon, there will be free weed samples in your future.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

You wouldn’t expect a five-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Picasso’s Guernica or sing Puccini’s opera, La Boheme. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault your companions and you for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature, and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership.

I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency.

Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity.

Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

“If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity. Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like 2 x 2 = 13.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Unless you have an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina -- a distance of about 19,000 miles -- except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian -- a grey area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next ten months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the coming six weeks will be quite favorable for formulating your plans and planting your seeds.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

In my opinion, you’re not quite ready to launch fulltilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote three autobiographies. Speed skating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ono published his autobiography at age 20.

The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.” To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

If you go to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage -- and then metaphorically drink it!

In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

If a late-night TV talk show called and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that? It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do. So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question. Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?

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