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DIALOGUE Last week, WW wrote about a Portland-based real estate development company offering to build up to 500 affordable apartments with no public money. In return, it wants City Hall to grant the rights to build skyscrapers as tall as 40 stories along the downtown waterfront (“Aiming High,” WW, Oct. 4, 2017). Here’s what readers said about one of the city’s most hotly debated issues:

Laura Linda Gamari, in response: “Hasn’t our own planet taught us that there’s a limit to expansion? Let’s stay in a happy zone where there’s plenty of people and opportunities but not so much that we start treating each other like common rats.”

Aaron Collins, via Facebook: “Unless humans suddenly become a subterranean species, only two choices exist: upward or outward. Weigh the pros and cons and make your choice.”

Mayor Ted Wheeler, in an Oct. 6 press conference: “I support it, number one, because I believe that as our city continues to grow, as the population continue to grow, we are going to need increased density. And “Portland the best place in this city to create needs to increased density is in the urban core.” figure Rebecca Ando, via Facebook: “Let’s not become another cookie-cutter city with high-in-the-sky buildings, let’s keep some character to this city. Unfortunately, many beautiful landmarks have already been demolished.”

out what it wants.”

Dennis Verlo LaPrade, in response: “This would only replace a suburbanstyle apartment complex in downtown that is nowhere close to being considered historic.”

Ken Killam, via Facebook: “As soon as the place gets built and sold (on paper), the affordable part goes right out the window.”

Katie Mann, in response: “Or they consider $2,500 a month affordable.”

Nathan Oleson, via Facebook: “Portland needs to figure out what it wants. No sprawl. No towers.

No four-story apartment buildings. It’s almost like it wants no change at all.”

Marie Lefleur, via Facebook: “As someone who has lived in NYC her whole life, I can tell you that it is wise to spread out new developments. Once you get too many people in an area of land everyone turns into an angry a-hole. I do think Portland can take some development as I’ve been there and it feels empty to me in most areas, but I’d caution on putting too many buildings in one place. People were not meant to live that close to each other.”

Chelsea Bianchi, via Facebook: “This has happened before. In the South Waterfront. Except they made the ‘affordable’ units for families studios. Which, of course, weren’t actually affordable at all.”

Fitz71, via wweek.com: “What’s considered affordable? Are those 300-square-foot bedsits, or real apartments? Are these owner-occupied or bought and rented for short-timers? We need to ask a lot more questions. I’m for density, but I’m not convinced we’re doing it right.”

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BY MARTY SMITH

During TV coverage of the recent wildfires, I noticed that the Multnomah County sheriff wears two stars on his uniform. I checked out other Oregon sheriffs, and some wear up to four stars! Is our guy outranked? I am proud of Portland and I want the best! —Andrew Your letter got me thinking—what sheriff has the most stars of all? That distinction belongs to the sheriff of Los Angeles County, who sports no fewer than five stars on his overburdened collar.

It’s a bold move, considering that only five men have reached five-star rank in the entire history of the U.S. Army, and three of them of them were Dwight Eisenhower. Still, the LASD is the largest county sheriff’s department in the nation. Perhaps the number of stars corresponds to the size of the department?

Not in Oregon. As Andrew notes elsewhere in his letter, the sheriffs of both Jackson and Josephine counties rock three-star insignias. It’s possible that Josephine County’s notoriously tight-fisted voters gave their sheriff an extra star in lieu of health insurance, but there’s no reason 4

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for Jackson County’s sheriff to outrank Multnomah’s guy.

And what about that preening satrap, the sheriff of Lane County? What pie-eating contest did he win that he should stagger under the weight of no fewer than four stars?

“The number of stars is specific to each agency and not standardized or regulated,” says Lane County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Carrie Carver. Basically, the number of stars reflects nothing except the department’s founders’ fondness for bling.

Carver went on to note that while she’d never seen her boss in a pie-eating contest, “We think he’s pretty cool and would probably be able to hold his own.”

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A white supremacist with Portland roots, Dennis Lloyd Mothersbaugh, was extradited to Charlottesville, Va., on Oct. 6 to face charges of assaulting two people at an August “Unite the Right” rally. Mothersbaugh, 37, has been a notorious skinhead for nearly two decades. In 2005, his white supremacist gang threatened a black man with a machete at a convenience store in Gresham while flashing white-power salutes. He now lives in North Vernon, Ind., where he was arrested Sept. 28 after video surfaced showing him punching counterprotesters in Charlottesville. As he was escorted by law enforcement from an Indiana jail, Mothersbaugh sported a “God, Guns & Trump” T-shirt.

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Now the world’s largest tobacco company, Altria, is opening its checkbook to make sure its friends stay in line. The tobacco giant gave $33,500 to the House Republican caucus, $30,500 to the Senate Republican caucus, and—its largest contribution to any individual lawmaker—$5,000 to Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem), without whose approval nothing happens in Salem. Courtney’s spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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“Our conversations with the city since Jan. 1,” she adds, “have gotten a lot more productive.”

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JOE RIEDL

The latest standoff between so-called “alt-right” protesters and their antifascist adversaries on Oct. 8 was a sleepy affair, attended by less than 150 people.

But cops are racking up overtime hours policing these fringe protesters.

The Portland Police Bureau spent $1.9 million on overtime policing protests between July 2016 and June 2017. That breaks down to about 31,300 hours of personnel time—the equivalent of a 15-year career.

And that doesn’t include any of the material costs

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associated with protests that can include food and water for officers and pepper spray, rubber bullets and other material resources used to control crowds.

Assistant Chief Chris Davis says overtime pay accounts for most of the costs associated with protests for the bureau.

“We have to try to find out as much as we can to find out what the [protesters’] plan is and try to assess the risks,” Davis says. “That’s at least as much art as it is science.”

It is an expensive art. Here are the most costly protests in recent months.

APRIL 29 A “patriot rally” along Southeast 82nd Avenue following a canceled community parade

$28,480 CHRISTINE DONG

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MAY 1 Organized labor May Day marches

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Some lucky Portland buyers have snapped up houses sold with a tantalizing come-on: years of nearly property-tax-free living.

The Multnomah County Assessor ’s Office is nearly finished calculating the property tax bills it will mail out next month. For most county residents, the news is predictable: a 3 percent tax increase, the maximum allowed by state law.

But not everybody expects to pay.

Under the city of Portland’s Homebuyer Opportunity Limited Tax Exemption Program, 100 homebuyers each year qualify for a 10-year tax holiday on the value of the home’s structure (not the land). To qualify, they need to earn no more than Portland’s median income for a family of four.

But the deal continues for the full 10 years, even if the home’s owner changes. With the rapid appreciation in Portland property values, some owners are flipping their subsidized homes quickly for big profits. The sweetener for buyers: They don’t have to meet any income requirements and they still get the tax break.

That’s what happened, for example, with a home on North Hunt Street in the Kenton neighborhood. The original buyer under the program purchased it in September 2013 and sold it in 2016 for $166,000 profit. The new buyer benefits from the remaining seven years of a tax break.

“That’s ridiculous,” says Chuck Sheketoff, executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy. “It makes no sense to pass along the tax break without the income limitation.”

Javier Mena, assistant director of the Portland Housing Bureau, disagrees. Mena explains that the bureau used to require subsequent buyers to also earn below median income, but enforcement proved expensive and ineffective. He says the goals of the program have also shifted over time.

“Initially, we were trying to improve neighborhoods with the program,” Mena says. “Now, it’s about creating home-ownership opportunities. We think it’s working.”

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An alt-right “free speech” rally in the wake of a double slaying on a MAX train

AUG. 6 A “Patriot Prayer” rally near the Waterfront Blues Festival that turned into a brawl

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The Low Road STATE OFFICIALS SAY I-5 IN THE ROSE QUARTER POSES A DEADLY DANGER. POLICE REPORTS UNDERCUT THAT CLAIM. STREETSCAPE: State officials are selling the $450 million I-5 project at the Rose Quarter as a way to save lives. Police reports suggest that won’t work.

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The proposal to widen Interstate 5 at the Rose Quarter had hit a speed bump.

At two public hearings last month, a string of Portland transportation and environmental advocates lined up to argue the project was a waste of nearly half a billion dollars.

Then, on Sept. 14, an Oregon Department of Transportation official provided a rejoinder. Policy and development manager Kelly Brooks testified that adding two new lanes and wider shoulders to I-5 at the Rose Quarter would address safety. And she told the City Council the highway interchange was deadly.

“It’s unfair to say we don’t have any severe crashes,” said Brooks. “Between 2010 and 2014, we had two fatalities.” (She also mentioned seven serious injuries.)

In exchanges with the press, ODOT officials have repeated Brooks’ line of argument—that the Rose Quarter project is about safety. That’s a particularly compelling argument because Portland City Hall has committed itself to eliminating traffic deaths.

“The primary purpose of this project is to address a critical safety need,” emails ODOT spokesman Don Hamilton.

But adding lanes to the highway would not have prevented the two deaths cited by ODOT. Both deaths were of homeless men who walked onto the highway in the middle of the night, according to police reports obtained by WW. In the 2010 case, the mental health of the man who walked onto the road may have been a factor, according to a relative.

“He had a lot of mental health stuff that was going on,” says the man’s sister-in-law. “We’re not sure if he was taking a shortcut home or something else was going on.”

In the other case, in 2013, the man who died crossing the highway registered a blood alcohol level of 0.294 percent, according to a police report, more than three times the legal limit for drivers.

In neither case were drivers faulted. Highway conditions were dry, according to police reports, although in 2013, a street light was out.

“They’ve been trying to do the equivalent of greenwashing, but for safety,” says economist Joe Cortright,

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a longtime ODOT critic lobbying against the project.

“They’ve said crash, crash, crash all the time. This is actually one of the safest parts of the transportation system.

On average, [the interstate] is about five times safer than the average arterial streets in the city.”

In selling the $450 million highway project—and encountering predictable opposition in a car-unfriendly town—ODOT and city officials haven’t been able to present a justification that resonates with Portlanders.

State officials initially pitched the project as a way to help move freight through Portland more efficiently, but now their official talking points highlight safety. The City Council, which approved the plan back in 2012, still hasn’t decided whether it will move forward.

State funding for the I-5 project was approved this spring as part of Gov. Kate Brown’s transportation package. It’s up for debate again as part of the city’s planning process, specifically the Central City 2035 Plan. Four of the five city commissioners have said they support the project, with Commissioner Chloe Eudaly as a possible lone dissenter.

The project represents a massive public investment— larger than the $64 million the Portland gas tax is projected to bring in over four years, and larger than the $268 million housing bond.

Yet ODOT has not settled on a coherent argument for the project.

In a phone interview with WW, ODOT project manager Megan Channell said the project could save commuters 2.5 million driving hours a year. Yet Channell also says there are no firm answers whether it would simply move a bottleneck up the road.

“We can’t give you a definitive yes or no,” she tells WW, adding that an environmental review of the project is underway to project traffic impacts during and after completion of the project.

ODOT also hasn’t been able to show that I-5 at the Rose Quarter is more lethal than other stretches of highway in the city.

ODOT says I-5 southbound through the Rose Quarter scores in the top 5 percent of its highways for number of crashes, but most of these are minor accidents—690 fender benders in five years. The agency believes the project could cut crashes by up to 50 percent, but there’s no evidence it would work to limit fatalities.

ODOT did not provide detailed information on the causes of the serious crashes by deadline, and Channell says she had no details on whether they could be prevented by the project.

“There are no engineering elements that can prevent people who want to get out on the highway from getting out on the highway,” says Hamilton. “But there are things that we can do to help reduce the number of problems.

Fender benders hurt people; they cost them a lot of money. It sounds cute, but it’s actually a very serious issue to reduce fender benders.”

There are other, state highways in the city where pedestrians, cyclists and motorists have died in greater numbers, including Southeast Powell Boulevard.

Nine people died in crashes on Powell from Southeast 7th Avenue to Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard in the decade from 2005 to 2014. That stretch of state-run highway hasn’t been fully funded for upgrades—work that would cost a fraction of the I-5 Rose Quarter project.

In the same decade, the Rose Quarter stretch of I-5 saw three fatalities—the two documented by police reports and a third death, in 2009, that was also of a pedestrian on the highway, according to ODOT data.

The rate of crashes on the Rose Quarter stretch of I-5, according to ODOT data published in June, is lower than on nearly every stretch of Southeast Powell Boulevard, and of 82nd Avenue. Yesterday, the Portland Police Bureau announced another traffic fatality—a person crossing Northeast 82nd Avenue on foot—bringing the total of such fatalities to 33, one more than at this time last year.

“If this location justifies $450 million for safety, then streets like 82nd and Barbur are owed billions,” says Chris Smith, a member of the city planning commission who opposes the project. “When residents of East Portland have twice the chance of dying just walking in their neighborhoods than folks living west of I-205, how can we justify this expenditure at the Rose Quarter?”

The two deaths cited by ODOT might also have been prevented by different public investments. Life expectancy for people living on the streets is low.

“For $450 million,” says Israel Bayer, executive director of Street Roots, “we could be talking about getting hundreds of people off the streets and into housing— period.”

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Two-Minute Drill A MISSED DEADLINE PLACES MULTNOMAH COUNTY IN A POLITICAL BIND AMID ALLEGATIONS OF RACISM.

BY KATIE SHEPHER D

kshepherd@wweek.com

Multnomah County is in a difficult position.

The controversial firing of Tricia Tilliman, until recently the county’s director of public health, prompted employees last month to step forward with accusations of institutional racism targeted at black workers. County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury committed to countywide reforms and implored voters to hold county officials accountable for treating everyone equally.

At the same time, the contractor that provides the bulk of county services for black seniors living in Portland failed to turn in a proposal to continue providing those services, leaving Multnomah County without any applicants to carry on programs the county says it wants to expand.

The county says its longtime partner, the Urban League of Portland, missed a deadline for proposals by two minutes on June 28.

In bold type at the top of the first page, the instructions for bidders declared: “Proposals Due: June 28, 2017 not later than 4:00 pm.” In all capital letters, it emphasized, “LATE PROPOSALS SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED.” A county official says it’s rare for bidders to show up late.

“It’s pretty unusual,” says Erin Grahek, community services manager for the Aging, Disabilities and Veterans Services Division of the Department of County Human Services. “We tell proposers: ‘This is the deadline. It must be in by this date. Please pay attention to day of week.

Allow for traffic. Don’t forget.’ Nobody [else] that I’m aware of missed the deadline.”

No one else applied to provide the culturally specific services to African-American seniors— including transportation assistance, community activities and case management—that the Urban League has provided for years.

“They’ve been a valuable partnership to us and make sure we’re providing equitable services,” Grahek says. “We want to maintain those things.”

The missed deadline also raises questions because the Urban League’s record with county funds is uneven. The county promised in late 2011 to keep a closer eye on the organization after a financial scandal revealed that the nonprofit’s then-president, Marcus Mundy, could not account for more than $44,000 spent using the organization’s credit cards (“Maxed Out at the Urban League,” WW, Dec. 7, 2011) .

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The county also found serious shortcomings in the Urban League’s senior services program back then, including inadequate record keeping and a failure to live up to promises to provide transportation assistance to clients.

Under new leadership, things have improved, although over the past year, the Urban League earned mixed performance reviews from the county.

The missed deadline placed Multnomah County in an awkward position. As complaints about racism were heating up, the county was left without a contractor to provide services to black seniors.

Nkenge Harmon Johnson, president and CEO of the Urban League, denies the proposal was late. She says an Urban League representative showed up just before the deadline to turn in the application but found no county worker available to accept the proposal.

A time-stamped form and a memo written June 28, however, shows that a county employee was at the desk at 4:01 pm when the procurement window closed. Moments later, the memo says, an Urban League representative walked in and the county employee at the front desk timestamped the proposal at 4:02 pm.

But the county forgave the tardiness earlier this month. County officials decided to move forward with the Urban League, offering the organization a one-year contract of $121,000 to provide culturally specific services to black seniors in 2018. That’s more than five times the organization’s previous contract of about $23,482 in fiscal year 2016.

County documents say officials awarded the Urban League more money because “the Department of County Human Services has examined its allocation practices to find ways to better align funding with the needs of communities most negatively impacted by systemic racism, health inequity and barriers to opportunity.”

Multnomah County will reopen the procurement process for senior services in January, giving the Urban League a second chance.

If the organization turns in an application by the April 30 deadline, it will probably be awarded the four-year contract it would have received this year if it had met the deadline.

“It’s great news,” Harmon Johnson says. “Running the Urban League means a number of things, including learning to roll with the punches. The Urban League’s intent is to continue running the seniors program that we’ve run for decades.”

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You Can Now Literally Drink Oregon Eastside Distilling ’s newly reinvented whiskey and bourbon has been aged in a special oak you can only find on the west side of the Cascade Range, primarily in the Willamette Valley..

Despite what you may have heard, Burnside Street is not named after Ambrose Burnside. The Union General with legendary mutton-chops had no connection to our then-nascent riverport.

Burnside Street is actually named after some dude named David Burnside. That’s why Eastside Distilling is changing their beloved Burnside Bourbon—and the sepiatoned photo of General Burnside on its label—to make it all about Portland and the rare Oregon oak.

Beginning this fall, three of Eastside’s whiskeys will see their bottles remodeled.

These changes won’t be subtle. Civil War imagery is biting the dust in the alcohol industry, as well as in parks across the country.

The new Burnside Oregon Oaked Bourbon will have a label that drops old man Burn, opting instead for a vintage chic. The new colors will be a teal and red reminiscent of the art deco towers on the Burnside Bridge.

Likewise, you might recognize some local geography in Burnside’s Goose Hollow RSV Bourbon and its West End Blend.

That curly-tailed “R” on the label is pulled straight from the Roseland Theater sign.

These changes are a continuation of Eastside Distilling’s dedication to making small batch, hand-crafted spirits with true local flavor. Inspired by Oregon’s original winemakers in the 70s, Eastside Distilling has utilized barrels of Quercus Garryana —more commonly known as Oregon Oak— to finish whiskey since 2012. And now all Eastside’s whiskey will receive this special touch.

Our native oak can only be found in a few places in the world. The Willamette Valley is one of them, which is why Southeast Portland distillery might just have the largest collection of Oregon oak casks of any distillery today. Quercus Garryana is soft, white oak containing unique tannins, including an unusually high amount of vanillin. The Garryana aging lends a smoother finish to Eastside’s blended bourbon. These six new small batch whiskeys will each be a different expression of this essentially Oregon flavor.

Eastside doesn’t view this as innovation so much as dedication to, sorry for the pun, its roots. Burnside bourbon is all about pride in one’s place. Prize winning Bourbon made for Portlanders—and, well, anyone with a discerning palate—from the wood the spirit is barrelled in, right down to the label.

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Senior Editor, Random Lengths News

PROJECT CENSORED TAKES A HARD LOOK AT THE MEDIA’S BLIND SPOTS— AND THE OVERLOOKED STORIES THAT THREATEN OUR COUNTRY.

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hecking the news hardly seems necessary these days. The news finds you.

Push notifications interrupt your dreams with dire bulletins. The president has turned the White House into a stage for his Twitter beefs— which now include the threat of nuclear war. Each day brings a fresh outrage or a new monster.

At the same time, the proliferation of mysteriously sourced stories on social media makes it harder than ever to discern which stories matter.

American confidence in the media is rebounding from an all-time low. Part of that distrust stems from a wave of lies spread by President Donald Trump and his supporters.

But a large helping of blame belongs with the corporate press and cable TV networks, who enabled the rise of a demagogue. The media aided Trump by failing to recognize his nihilistic and racist populism, and by growing addicted to the spectacle of entertaining blarney—no matter how cruel or untethered to reality.

That failure—the inability to distinguish what’s important to our democracy and stubbornly cover it—is why many Americans have lost faith in their press.

It also gives renewed relevance to Project Censored. Since 1976, the annual book and reporting effort has catalogued each year’s most important but underreported news stories. This year’s book, Censored 2018, was published last week.

The project, headquartered at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif., is the joint effort of 310 student researchers and 27 faculty, who evaluate thousands of independent news stories looking for ones that demand national attention— but haven’t received it. A panel of judges then ranks the stories from 1 to 25.

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The name notwithstanding, Project Censored isn’t about the muzzling of a free press by government. It instead grapples with how the press has censored itself, by refusing to amplify stories with massive effects on readers and viewers. Consider it an eye test that looks for the media’s blind spots.

By at least one measure, Portlanders should be heartened by this year’s list. The top story is one to which this city’s media paid close attention in the past year: lead in drinking water. (WW’s reporting of how Portland Public Schools administrators covered up lead testing results won special recognition from the Bruce Baer Awards, Oregon’s top investigative journalism prizes.)

But even here, Project Censored provides an eye-opener. The findings show that the greatest danger to public health from lead may be hidden— because the financial burden of fixing toxic pipes could soon make water unaffordable for a big chunk of the country. That’s one of the patterns this year’s list establishes: the way that public health is being held hostage by unaccountable companies and governments.

“The ‘inconvenient facts’ underlying each of these stories challenge not only fundamental institutions in our society, but also cherished notions about who we are and the values we hold sacrosanct,” writes Sonoma State University professor Andy Lee Roth in the introduction to this year’s book.

The 10 stories you’ll read in the following pages are filled with such unpleasant facts. You may not agree with all the conclusions Project Censored draws. But grappling with news you don’t like—and not just dismissing it as “fake”—is this country’s best shot at digging itself out of its collective mess.

Start digging.

—Aaron Mesh, News Editor

Lead in Pipes Could Soon Make Water Unaffordable for One-Third of Americans

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After President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, Mich., because of lead contamination of the city’s water supply in January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide, with shocking results.

In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 ZIP codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint.

In Flint, 5 percent of children screened had high blood lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children—have elevated blood lead levels.

But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hot spots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Penn.,…where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to…Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” What’s more, “In some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40 to 50 percent.”

But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017.

“Lead pipes are time bombs,” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan.

In 2012, the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins reported, a January 2017 Michigan State University study found that “while water rates are currently unaffordable for an estimated 11.9 percent of households, the conservative estimates of rising rates used in this study highlight that this number could grow to 35.6 percent in the next five years.”

As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

“WHILE

THE WATER CONTAMINATION CRISIS

WILL OCCASIONALLY STEAL A HEADLINE OR TWO, VIRTUALLY NO ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO THE

FACT THAT WE’RE PRICING A THIRD OF UNITED STATES C I T I Z E N S O U T O F T H E W A T E R M A R K E T .”

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In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all federal agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades.

As Dave Lindorff reported for the news website This Can’t Be Happening!, the DOD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress— what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added.

The report appeared at a time when “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare.…Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending…even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.”

In March 2017, after Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and timeconsuming.”

The most recent DOD audit deadline was September 2017, yet the Pentagon, Congress and the media don’t seem to have paid any attention.

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The Pentagon Paid to Create Fake News About Al-Qaeda for Iraqis

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Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable—operation.

The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and—most disturbing— fake al-Qaeda propaganda films.

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M I L I T A R Y D I D N’ T H A V E T H E

IN-HOUSE EXPERTISE AND WAS OPERATING I N A L E G A L ‘ G R A Y A R E A .’ ”

A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the bureau that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus—commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’”

Documents show Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point, and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million a year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in the midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the U.S. CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week OCTOBER 11, 2017 wweek.com

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200,000 Wisconsin Voters Were Kept Away From the Polls, and Trump Won the State by 22,000 Votes

CITY HALL IS HIDING POLICE TACTICS BEHIND HUGE PUBLIC RECORDS FEES. kshepherd@wweek.com

Despite a legislative session marked by reforms pages of public records related to a database of to Oregon’s public records law, a troubling alleged gang members. trend is emerging among Portland’s city agenThe bureau initially denied her request for a cies. They are in effect censoring local media by fee waiver, but Brosseau appealed to the Multrefusing to comply with the spirit of the public nomah County district attorney, who considers records law. appeals when a city or county agency denies a Legislators passed the law in 1973. Their records request or fee waiver. The DA cannot, goal was transparency. “The public is entitled to however, make a ruling on whether a cost estiknow how the public’s business is conducted,” mate is reasonable or not. says the Oregon Attorney General’s Public The DA noted that “where fees in excess Records and Meetings Manual. of a thousand dollars have been found reaBut when handling requests for public sonable, they usually involve requests for documents—already paid for by taxpayers— thousands or tens of thousands of pages several city agencies engage in price gouging of records.” He ordered the Police Bureau as a deliberate delay tactic. to reconsider, but did not say whether the On Aug. 30, for example, WW requested bureau had to waive or reduce the fee. emails that would shed light on the city of PortThose 39 pages would reveal details of how land’s response to street protests. The protests police officers justified designating suspects preoccupied the city this summer: They reguin the agency’s controversial gang database. larly degenerated into politically charged brawls As Brosseau recently detailed on Twitter, the and damaged property. Portland police were bureau eventually gave Brosseau the records criticized for their tactics, which included firing nearly one year after her initial request—one pepper balls and rubber bullets into crowds and day before the city announced it was disposing pepper-spraying protesters. of the gang list.

Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office asked for $3,189 When Oregon’s public records law first for a set of emails between six staffers discusswent into effect, it established a presumption of ing the protests. openness—the burden lay with the government The public records law agency to demonstrate that permits agencies to charge a record was exempt from requesters the cost of prodisclosure. ducing records but also “When I first started as a “GOVERNMENT allows for fee waivers if reporter, it worked as it was CAN CHARGE “making the record available intended to work,” says Brent FOR EVERY L AST primarily benefits the general Walth, assistant professor PAPER CLIP, public.” at the University of Oregon JUST TO MAKE Wheeler’s office acknowland former WW news editor. edged a clear public interest “It was a law of disclosure.

IT DIFFICULT FOR in producing the documents.

It took clear evidence that a THE PUBLIC “The city agrees its record was exempt from disTO SEE WHAT constituents deserve the closure [to justify a denial].”

THE PUBLIC fullest picture relating to the But over the years, legprotests,” Wheeler’s office islators passed hundreds of ALREADY OWNS.” responded to a petition for exemptions, making it more a fee waiver. “Public officials’ difficult to access records policy decisions are of public created during the course of interest due to the use of city resources and government business and funded by taxpayers. safety, transparency, and First Amendment In 2015, the Center for Public Integrity gave concerns.”

Oregon an F grade for ease of access to public But the mayor’s office did not agree to the information—due in part to a lack of timeliness fee waiver. Instead, it offered WW a 25 percent and high costs. discount.

After the 2017 reforms—which set deadlines In other words, it determined that the pubfor response times, established a Sunshine lic had an interest in seeing the records in the Commission to review exemptions, and created newspaper only if the paper first paid $2,287. a public records advocate position—it is more That’s a steep price for a small newspaper, and difficult to sneak a new exemption through WW hasn’t paid it. the Legislature. But the reforms didn’t tackle Some transparency advocates believe high the recurring problem of blocking requests by fees are intended to keep the public in the dark. charging exorbitant fees.

“It’s apparent to me and to others that “It was a lot of work to accomplish what we doing that is intended to discourage people did during the attorney general’s task force,” from going after public records,” says Judson says state Rep. John Huffman (R-The Dalles), Randall, co-founder of public-records nonprofit who worked on the Attorney General’s Public Open Oregon. “It’s simply a technique to keep Records Law Reform Task Force. “Costs and the records from being released. It’s a crummy response times definitely came up in the contechnique, to say the least.” versations, but it was challenging to come to a The mayor’s office defends its practices. reasonable conclusion.”

“We believe transparency is an essential Members of the public lack an avenue to element of good governance, and make every appeal unreasonable fees. The law allows for effort to achieve that value under our public government agencies to charge the “actual records laws,” says Michael Cox, spokesman cost” of producing the records. However, it does for Wheeler’s office. “Collecting and reviewing not offer further guidance on how to calculate records can be a time-consuming, and therefore that cost or place limits on what government costly, process.” can charge.

It’s not just the mayor’s office. In late 2016, “Government can charge for every last paper the Portland Police Bureau asked Oregonian clip,” Walth says, “just to make it difficult for the reporter Carli Brosseau to pay $1,170 for just 39 public to see what the public already owns.”

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RIOT COP PHOTOGRAPHED BY WILLIAM GAGAN 

BY KAT I E SH E P H E RD

The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “pre-clear” changes. As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal approval in advance.

Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the U.S. Department of Justice before the Shelby decision.

Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis by Priorities U.S.A. of the effects of voter suppression, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes.

Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. In counties that were more than 40 percent African-American, turnout dropped 5 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to 2.2 percent without. In counties that were less than 10 percent African-American, turnout decreased 0.7 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to a 1.9 percent increase without. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.”

As Berman noted in an article published by Moyers & Company in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “cable news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

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The Trump Campaign Used to Craft His Message 

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When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up.

In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed but with decades of refinement, technological advances, and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for The Guardian in February 2017.

After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.”

Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. In Trinidad, it paid for the painting of graffiti slogans purporting to be from grassroots youth. In Nigeria, it advised its client party to suppress the vote of the opposition “by organizing anti-poll rallies on the day of the election.”

But now the company can micro-target its deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after Cambridge Analytica joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook.

This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. With the real patterns of influence, ideology, money, power and belief hidden from view, the very concept of democratic self-governance is now fundamentally at risk.

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The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but it has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported

by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016.

Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured—have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine.

SUPERBUGS HAVE ALREADY KILLED AN ESTIMATED

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“After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Projected Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries.

Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe—thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to U.K. National Health Service chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies.

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The Navy Is Killing Pacific Sea Otters With Torpedoes

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The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by the West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for news website Truthout.

This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and other marine wildlife, including endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters.

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IS WELL KNOWN IN THE

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As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: • A 778 percent increase in the number of torpedoes fired • A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary) • A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft • An increase from none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters “It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported.

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Women Are Dying in Childbirth Far More Often in the U.S., Even as Other Countries Make Pregnancy Safer

Governments Across the Globe

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The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid.

“Each year, over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes, and over 65,000 experience life-threatening complications or severe maternal morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.”

“The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” then-U.S. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) stated at the meeting.

“Inadequate health care in rural areas and racial disparities are drivers of this maternal health crisis,” Project Censored summarized. “Nationally, African-American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, with rates even higher in parts of the U.S. that Gay characterized as ‘pockets of neglect,’ such as Georgia, where the 2011 maternal mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 live births was nearly double the national average.”

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The Democratic National Committee Says It Can Legally Pick Whomever It Wants as the Presidential Nominee

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A key story about 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media—a class action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast.

The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on the suit in April 2017 in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment.

As Michael Sainato reported for The Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the committee’s charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the committee “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” In addition, DNC attorney Bruce Spiva later said it was within the committee’s rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.”

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In 2016, governments around the world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service.

“In the worst cases, internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities.” Olukotun said.

Kevin Collier also covered the report for news site Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those that occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized internet “curfew”—as a single instance.

“Many countries intentionally blacked out internet access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored notes.

“Understanding what this means for internet users can be difficult,” Azad Essa reported for Al Jazeera in May 2017. Advocates of online rights “need to be constantly pushing for laws that protect this space and demand that governments meet their obligations in digital spaces just as in non-digital spaces,” he was told by the U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye.

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The sweltering hell of summer is long gone.

October in Oregon sees the rain return, which for some means cozying up on the couch with a book. But for those still craving outdoor adventure, here are four reportedly haunted hikes around the state.

1. Oaks Bottom Loop Hike: 2.3 miles Inside Portland: Heading south on 99E/Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard, make a slight right onto SE Milwaukie Avenue, then a right onto SE Bybee Boulevard and continue on SE 13th Avenue. Turn right onto SE Sellwood Boulevard, left onto SE 7th Avenue, then turn right into Sellwood Park.

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This hike takes you through Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge, an urban wetland known for birdwatching. From the Sellwood Park trailhead, you’ll descend a bluff and take the footpath through a field of cottonwoods. You’ll wind around Wapato Marsh, passing by the wildlife mural on the Portland Memorial mausoleum, which became the first crematory west of the Mississippi when it opened in 1901. Eventually, you’ll turn left onto the Springwater Corridor and head toward Oaks Amusement Park. The amusement park is allegedly haunted by a young man and a little girl who died there long ago, according to Ghosthunting Oregon by Donna Stewart, and visitors have reported seeing floating balls of light. According to Stewart, one park visitor said she felt a cold hand on her shoulder and then a whisper saying, “let’s go.”

2. Fort Stevens Loop Hike: 10 miles Two hours from Portland: Take 26 West to 101 North.

Drive for 13.7 miles and then turn left on Highway 104 toward Fort Stevens/Warrenton/Hammond. After 1.4 miles turn left onto Delaura Beach Lane before merging right with Ridge Road. Keep straight for 3.5 miles and then turn left toward Fort Stevens Park, where you’ll bear a right into the park. Day use parking permit is $5.

Fort Stevens has been around since the Civil War, when it was used to guard the mouth of the Columbia River. This loop trail starts at the military museum, which highlights the fort’s history then passes through dunes and a marsh where you’ll find the rusted remnants of a 1906 shipwreck. You’ll then pass a coastal lake and head inland to continue on a paved trail where you can explore old ramparts and Battery Russell, a fortification named after a Union Army major killed in the Civil War. There are accounts of a man dressed in a 1940s-era military uniform walking the trail with a lantern in hand. The campground near it has been called “Oregon’s most haunted” and campers have claimed to hear footsteps near their tents in the night, with no one to be seen.

3. Tillamook Head Traverse Hike: 6.3 miles

4. Oregon Caves Loop Hike - 1.2 miles

90 minutes from Portland: Take 26 West to 101 North and turn left at Avenue U in Seaside. Then make a left onto Edgewood street and continue straight onto Ocean Vista Drive and straight onto Sunset Boulevard, which you’ll follow until you hit the trailhead.

5.5 hours from Portland: From I-5 South take Exit 55 for Hwy 199 toward Crescent City. Drive about 30 miles and turn left on Hwy 46 for 19.3 miles until you reach the day-use parking area for Oregon Caves.

Cave tour fees are $8.50 for adults and $6 for children.

FYI: You can only access the caves via a guided tour.

This is a beautiful trail during warm summer days, but the cooler months bring lingering fog, dark clouds and coastal storms. Beginning at Tillamook Head trailhead, you’ll ramble through a thick forest of spruce, hemlock, alder and fern, and then hit switchbacks before descending to a rustic campground, where you’ll see creepy abandoned WWII bunkers. You’ll then come to a viewpoint for Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, perched eerily on a rock island. Opened in 1881, it was known as “Terrible Tilly” due to the constant storms that batter the structure and two deaths that occurred there, one a surveyor and the other a lighthouse keeper. It’s now decommissioned, but those who’ve worked there report hearing ghostly cries. Another macabre detail: From 1980 to 1999 the lighthouse operated as a columbarium, otherwise known as a place where urns are stored.

Dark caves are inherently scary, and this trail that burrows deep within the Siskiyou Mountains is no different. Oregon Caves National Monument was discovered in 1874, and its marbled cave system includes crazy column-like formations and intricate flowstone passageways. Come Halloween, there’s a fun yet gimmicky Haunted Candlelight Tour, where you are encouraged to dress up. While on the guided tour you’ll see the Oregon Caves Chateau, a hotel built in 1934 that’s supposedly haunted by a ghost named Elizabeth who died after falling from the window of room 310.

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FUTURE SWIMMING: The public lake in the center of Lake Oswego is almost open to the public. Last week, the Oregon Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging a city ordinance prohibiting the public from using the stairs in a public park to access the public lake, which has been controlled by a group of wealthy squatters who own the land beneath the public river that was dammed to create it. The property owners on the shores have long called the public lake “private” and dissuaded others from using it. In 2012, after WW kayaked on the lake to show it was legal, the city passed a bizarre park rule prohibiting the use of the public staircase that leads to the water, which was upheld by lower courts. The trial will begin April 10, 2018, with the lake to possibly be freed shortly thereafter.

GOLDEN ALES: Oregon breweries picked up 17 medals last weekend at the Great American Beer Festival, the country’s largest and most prestigious beer festival, which draws 7,923 entries in 99 categories. Oregon’s medal count placed it third overall in the country, behind only California and Colorado.

The medal count was led by a strong showing from Portland’s Breakside Brewing. Breakside’s four medals, including a bronze for Breakside IPA in the largest and most prestigious category of American IPA, gave the brewery more medals than any other brewery in 2017. The other big showing came from Bend’s Sunriver, which won Small Brewing Company of the Year and top prizes for its Fuzztail wheat beer and Cinder Cone imperial red. The two gold medals tied the tiny brewery for the most gold medals in the competition.

NO MORE MEAT PIES: Two Northwest Portland eateries closed without advance notice in recent weeks. Pacific Pie Company quietly announced on its Facebook page Sept. 15 that its Northwest 23rd Avenue location was shuttering after four years in business. The original location on Southeast 7th Avenue remains open, and recently added delivery service. >> Steve McLain’s 20-year-old Pearl District bar and restaurant Oba! Ristorante closed apparently overnight on October 5, as first noted by local food blogs. The restaurant space was marked with a sign announcing that the “landlord is now in possession of the premises,” according to the Oregonian, and some employees reportedly had to email the owner to pick up their belongings from the locked restaurant.

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NEWEST HAVEN: Two Portland pizza spots were ranked among the best in America in 2017. For the past six years, food site the Daily Meal has polled over 50 critics around the country for opinions of the 101 best pizza spots in America. Two Portland pizzerias made the list this year. Hawthorne spot Apizza Scholls came in at number 18—among New Haven-style pies, only 80-year-old New Haven spots Frank Pepe’s, Modern Apizza and Sally’s were ranked better.

Ken’s Artisan Pizza ranked 58. Nostrana and Lovely’s 50/50, two Portland pizza restaurants that made the list last year, were dropped from the list in 2017.

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Portland’s all-woman comedy festival will become the first comedy festival to live- stream its sets. But you can see it IRL, starting with DeAnne Smith, who's best known for her bit about dating women who’ve decided it’s easier to pretend to be a lesbian than deal with straight dudes.

Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., alljanecomedy. com. 7:30 pm. $15.

On their new album, A Deeper Understanding, The War on Drugs take cues from classic-rock radio but stretches and swirls those reference points into transfixing, kaleidoscopic funnel clouds of nostalgia. The Schnitz, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, portland5.com/ arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall. 8 pm. $29.50$45. All ages. See Top 5, page 30.

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PORTLAND TANGO FESTIVAL

What better way to honor the late, great Harry Dean Stanton than with a movie that’s mostly about his weathered face? The story of a semimute, estranged father named Travis is full of lonely LA and West Texas scenery, and Ry Cooder’s gorgeous slide guitar score. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $9.

The longest-running tango festival in America returns with four nights of sultry Argentinian dancing, including all-night milongas every damn night. The Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., 503-972-3329, portlandtangofest.com. $10$35 for individual dances through Sunday.

Get Busy

On their new album, Relatives in Descent, Protomartyr’s ominous post-punk swaps danceability for dread. But thanks to singer-ranter Joe Casey’s fuck-it-all attitude, the whole thing attains an offbeat charm. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

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Whether you’re getting a tat or looking at tats or entering your tat in a contest, there will be even more tats than normal in Portland this weekend. Apparently, a couple is even getting married there. They have tats. Portland Expo Center, 2060 N Marine Dr., portlandtattooexpo. com. $20-$40, Through Sunday.

All ages.

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TWO-MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL The second year of the North Portland Unknown Film Festival ends with a screening of the shortest, strangest films you’ve never heard of. With dozens of microfilms that could be about literally anything, it’ll be a deluge from the underworld of independent film. Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center, 8371 N Interstate Ave., northportlandunknown.com. 9:30 pm. $5.

PRO/AM FESTIVAL Pro brewers and cidermakers team with amateurs to make 32 one-off, crazy-ass dranks including a Great Notion grape hazy IPA, sake-barrel-aged beer by a Japanese brewer and an open-fermented Hefe from Upright. Taste all 32 beers and ciders for $28. District East, 2305 SE 9th Ave., Bit.ly/TicketsProAm2017. 1-6 pm. $28. ($55 VIP at noon.)

10/15

PORTLAND HIP-HOP DAY S U N D AY

For the third year, hip-hop is coming to the steps of City Hall. Well, weather permitting—last year got rained out. Rasheed Jamal, Fountaine, viral wunderkind Wynne and Brookfield Duece, a.k.a. Damian Lillard’s cousin, will represent, whether indoors or outdoors. Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave. #340.

3 pm. Free. All ages.

PORTLAND PUERTO RICO FUNDRAISER The president doesn't give a shit about helping Puerto Rico.

Luckily, there's an easy way for us to, with a fundraiser featuring Latin food, Puerto Rican music and an auction. All proceeds go to Puerto Rico. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., helpisonthewaypuertorico.com. 12-5 pm. $25. All ages.

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After a 16-year break, Afghan Whigs made an unexpected return in 2014, and things went well enough that they decided to keep going.

This year’s In Spades keeps their soulful alt-rock sound alive while taking on new, goth-like eeriness. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686, wonderballroom.com. 8:30 pm. $33. 21+.

There’s a lot to be angry about. Channel that aggression in a healthy way as you dip, duck, dive and dodge with a bunch of strangers, commitment-free. Beaumont Middle School, 4043 NE Fremont St., recesstimesports.com. 6:30-8:30 pm. $5, cash only. All ages.

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Portland Art Museum is paying tribute to the pride of Oregon animation. The exhibit will give a behind-the-scenes look at the Hillsboro company that created the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman with entirely handmade sets and props. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., portlandartmuseum.org. Through May 20. $19.

Former Cook’s Illustrated editor and America’s Test Kitchen star Christopher Kimball will be live onstage at the Aladdin, showing off food demonstrations and kitchen bloopers at his new Milk Street Live show. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdin-theater.com. 7 pm. $45-$95.

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We look forward to the Beer and Cider Pro/Am Festival pretty much all year, and not just because we’re putting on the event. This raucous fest is all about tapping the talent of homebrewers by teaming them up with some of the best breweries and cideries in town. Then we pit them against each other to pour at a huge party for the public.

This year’s Beer and Cider Pro/Am Festival is Saturday, Oct. 14, at District East. For a mere $28, you get to try 32 beers and ciders and vote for your favorite.

Every year this fest is full of off-the-wall, surprising and flat-out excellent brews that have never been seen on earth. Past winners and favorites have become signatures at their breweries. Sasquatch’s excellent bourbon cream ale was first made for the Pro/Am Festival by future Yachats and Allegory brewer Charlie Van Meter. The same goes for Feckin’s Top O’ the Feckin Mornin’ coffee stout made with the help of dedicated beer taster John Lovegrove. Both were among the state’s 10 best beers of the year.

We haven’t tried any of the Pro/Am Festival beers and ciders this year, and neither has anybody else. But these are the ones we’re most stoked about.

Grape Lotion Hazy Grape IPA (Great Notion)

Grape Lotion is a shout-out to the haters, a nickname given to the brewery by beer nerds. The beer sounds as fun as the name—a light and hazy IPA brewed with light Chenin Blanc grapes and Nelson Sauvin hops that already taste like wine.

Hive Mind Japanese Braggot (Breakside)

Breakside’s Natalie Baldwin is Pro/Am Festival royalty. In 2014, she won as an amateur with a coffee milk stout that knocked everybody on their asses. This year, she and homebrewer Jim Thompson made a Japanese-style honey ale with earthy matcha, yuzu citrus and local honey.

Foggy Day Bavarian-Style Hefeweizen (Upright)

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This is a German nerd beer for Oregon nativists: a Bavarian-style Hefe open-fermented at Upright

BEER, BROS!: Last year’s very exciting Pro/Am Fest.

to bring out big clove notes, made with Mt. Hood hops and artisan Mecca Grade Estate malts from Oregon. (Disclosure: The amateur on this beer is WW beer writer Parker Hall, so we’re rooting for him to succeed wildly or fail hilariously.)

Mexican Gose (Fat Head’s)

This lime, salt and serrano-pepper beer is like a refreshing margarita that comes with its own salsa. It sounds like a whole damn day at Chili’s condensed into a single glass.

Saison L’Enorme Apricot Brett Saison (Gigantic)

Both Gigantic’s Ben Love and Farmboy Fermenteering’s Dean Ehnes have each been barrel-aging some wild saisons and Bretts. Then they blended them together to make a world of funk and deep oak notes, balancing it out with a mess of apricot purée.

Peach Papaya Beerboocha (Unicorn)

It’s a beer. It’s kombucha. It’s beerboocha. Specifically, it’s Kölsch mixed with peach-papaya kombucha from Underdog’s Joseph Seeley. We are both excited and afraid.

Peach Better Have My Honey Cyser (Oregon Mead and Cider)

It’s cider. It’s mead. It’s a ferment of apples and honey made with basil and peaches. It sounds like dessert in a glass.

Wizards and Fuggles Cider (Cider Riot)

Amateur Chelsea Stowers was hands-down winner of the SheBrew competition showcasing female cidermakers and brewers. Now she’s teamed up with Cider Riot’s Angie Watkins for a floral cider with rose hips and English Fuggles.

Bat Shit Hazy IPA (Fort George)

Fort George has been much bulletproof on hops this year, from a 3-Way IPA to a super-fruity fresh hop. Along with Belmont Station’s Lisa Morrison, they’re throwing tropical soursop and tangerine into what they call a “tropical glass of opaque mayhem.” We’re stoked.

GO: Beer and Cider Pro/Am Festival, District East, 2305 SE 9th Ave., Saturday, Oct. 14.

1-6:30 pm. $28 ($55 VIP tasting starts at noon.)

Tickets at Bit.ly/TicketsProAm2017.

PROFILE

Milking It CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL WANTS TO UPEND AMERICAN HOME COOKING. mcizmar@wweek.com

Christopher Kimball still recalls the first time he had cilantro. It was 1963, and he was on vacation with his family in Mexico.

“I can still to this day remember that bite—it was lamb and cilantro, and it was very pungent and floral and gamey and wild,” Kimball says from Denver, where he was touring with the food-themed variety show he brings to Portland this week.

You could trace Kimball’s new magazine venture, Milk Street, to that day, when a kid from New England encountered an herb that’s now available at every grocery store in America.

Fifty years later, the former America’s Test Kitchen founder has pivoted to ingredient-focused cooking that eschews the careful technique and long cook times of traditional American and European recipes.

Milk Street focuses on worldly recipes that are also easy—and if that sounds like a contradiction, that’s just because you’ve marinated too long in a Eurocentric worldview.

“We want the stuff that people cook on Tuesday night, as opposed to the more ornate and exoticized version of ethnic food,” Kimball says. “Most people around the world don’t think about cooking the way Mastering the Art of French Cooking did...Most people don’t figure out what they’re going to eat at 5 at night.”

If you know Kimball’s name and bowtie, it’s probably because he launched the America’s Test Kitchen television show in 2001 (“In this day and age it’s really had to be a single-platform publisher,” he says). The show featured Kimball and other chefs working out kinks in familiar recipes to make “the perfect chocolate chip cookies” and mainstreaming techniques like spatchcocking chicken. Kimball had an acrimonious split with America’s Test Kitchen in 2015.

In October 2016, Kimball launched Milk Street with the premise that if you “start with the right mix of ingredients… the cooking almost takes care of itself.”

“When I was in Thailand, it’s mostly prep. The cooking isn’t really the issue, it’s the prep. And they’re starting with such bold ingredients that you can’t really go wrong because you’re starting out with a ton of flavor,” he says. “Americans love big flavors and they always have. Look at the fast food people, they figured that out long ago.”

The problem with traditional American cooking, in Kimball’s view, basically boils down to the fact that it takes too long and uses too much meat. That’s something we inherited from the Europeans who settled here.

“Every place in the world came up with a cuisine that made sense for that place. The fact that roasted meat was the centerpiece of the Western European plate is because it was cheap, and you had lot of fuel,” he says. “French cooking doesn’t really use spices because Europe didn’t really have spices—and it’s kind of weird if you think about it. I grew up with a cuisine that didn’t use spices, and that’s why it was all about technique.”

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Why has this shift taken so long, and why is it changing now?

“Everybody in the last 10 years has a much wider experience with a variety of foods than they did before, and it’s greatly accelerated,” he says. “When I grew up in the ’60s, going to a Mexican restaurant was big deal—there was the band and the Saltillo tiles and the whole thing, it was some exotic experience.”

But making food from another culture can, of course, create some tension. Cultural appropriation is now a hot-button issue in the food world, a phenomenon that became clear in Portland when two young American women went on a surfing trip to Mexico and then launched a brunch pop-up called Kooks, where they served breakfast burritos made from flour tortillas they learned to make by observing Mexican women’s tortilla-making techniques.

It’s a fight Kimball watched closely. Appropriation is, he says, “the third rail of the culinary world right now.” While he says that “stealing is stealing,” he also says that “you can’t copyright a recipe.”

“Cooking is a performance art. If you get 12 people together and make the same recipe, every one of them will turn out differently.

You can’t take a recipe out of a culture successfully,” he says. “It’s not like it’s a piece of music or poem or a book—it’s an instruction.”

But, Kimball says, it’s important to provide context and credit.

“So as long as you give credit where credit is due and you’re respectful of that culture and the context, I think it’s fine,” he says. “Especially if it’s a recipe where there are hundreds of variations that already exist.”

That puts Milk Street in an interesting place—the whole project rejects Western culinary supremacy while delving into the wealth of cuisines from around the world.

“At this point in society we don’t have to stick with what made sense 100 years ago. American cooking is still basically Fannie Farmer,” he says. “Obviously it has advanced, but it’s still the same precepts. People still talk about making stock and sautéing meats and pan sauces. Now that we have the option of using the other ingredients and techniques, we don’t have to do that anymore, let’s do what makes sense.”

GO: Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Live appears at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdintheater.com. 7 pm. $45-$95.

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RAPPER BROOKFIELD DUECE FOLLOWED HIS COUSIN, DAMIAN LILLARD, FROM OAKLAND TO PORTLAND. HE’S MADE THE HIP-HOP SCENE HIS SECOND HOME.

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Brookfield Duece is well aware that Portland doesn’t always take kindly to outsiders, especially those from California.

But the Oakland rapper is a special case.

After all, without him, Damian Lillard may never have settled in here.

“I actually moved his stuff there,” says Duece, the beloved Blazers point guard’s oldest cousin. “I loaded his and his mom’s stuff in a U-Haul truck and drove it there. So I was actually in Portland before they made it to Portland. But I hadn’t been to Portland for any other reason than Dame.”

Duece has been back a lot since, and not just because he gets primo seats at Moda Center. Seeing a wide-open hip-hop scene not yet defined by any particular style, he saw an opportunity to establish himself outside the Bay Area’s crowded hyphy scene. He jumped on bills at Holocene and Kelly’s Olympian, collaborated with a pre-fame Aminé and coaxed Dame D.O.L.L.A. onstage for the first time. Earlier this year, he released an EP on Lillard’s Front Page Music label, showcasing a soulful, introspective style.

Now, Duece has been invited to play the third annual Portland Hip-Hop Day. It’s a moment of validation for an artist who’s put in a genuine effort to win over the city and not just rest on his familial connections. Willamette Week spoke to Duece about being accepted as one Rip City own, what Portland doesn’t understand about itself and competing with his cousin—both on the mic and on the court.

Willamette Week: Did you have any perceptions of Portland prior to Damian getting drafted here?

Brookfield Duece: I came in with a definite clean slate. Before I even made my way up there, I got on the internet and Googled “Top 10 rappers in Portland.” I just started connecting with people, and whenever I could do a show, I’d drive up or fly up and give away

Adidas or Adidas passes—whatever I could do to give back. I didn’t want to come into the city and not give back and have people looking at me like I came to take from them.

Were you surprised to find there was such a strong hiphop scene here?

I was surprised by the talent level.

Based on me watching the conversations on Facebook and stuff, there are a lot of people arguing about how Portland doesn’t support each other, and how in other areas like LA and the Bay, it’s different. I look at that situation and laugh. It isn’t true. That’s the surprising part to me—that Portland doesn’t see how good Portland is.

How did you start rapping?

I had no dad around, my mom was always working, and I had no real way to express my feelings. I had questions, and I would write the questions down in poem form. As I got older, telling your homies you do poetry was kind of boosie. At the time I was writing poems, I was in high school, and [Tupac] just died. I perceived him as a poet, and I heard him doing those poems over music.

It took me six or seven years to actually get the courage to spend some money to do it for real. I recorded my own song, called “I’m a Gangsta,” which is hella funny, because I don’t perceive myself to be that at all. The insecurities you have as a youth with doing poetry, and you don’t want to tell nobody, then you turn it into rap and the first song you give them is “I’m a Gangsta.” You can tell there’s some acting involved.

Dame told a story to Slam that you’d pick him up from school and play your own music in the car.

I was the oldest, so I was the first one with a license. I was like the taxi in the family.

So I’d pick him up and play my music, and

he’d be like, “Man, put Tupac on” or “put Ludacris on.” I’d be like, “But listen to this,” and he’d be like, “I don’t wanna hear that mess!” He got to watch my process not knowing he got to watch my process.

So would you say you mentored Dame as a rapper?

I wouldn’t say that. Our family was really competitive. It was, like, 10 kids in one house. You had to speak up and be heard and do what you gotta do to put your foot on the ground, because we’re all alphas.

Like, I haven’t played basketball since high school. But if me and Damian were on the court, I’d give him 20 points. I truly believe that. The same rules apply for music. It’s like, “I rap,” and he’s like, “So what? I rap, too. Listen to these bars!”

I don’t think I mentored him, but I think of all the cousins in our family, he was one of the more attentive ones. I think he paid a lot of attention to things you didn’t think he was paying attention to.

Whatever he took for me, I wouldn’t know unless he told me.

Do you still feel like you’re competing with him on some level?

I mean, I’m happy for him. You can’t tell him every day, because then it sounds like

you’re fake. I pick and choose my spots. Like last year, he was struggling right before the All-Star break. I texted him and I was like, “You’re not doing the same things you used to do.” Instead of telling him, “I’m proud of you being in the NBA,” I’m like, “You’re messing up right now.” And he’ll do the same for me. So I don’t think we’re in competition. Now it’s to the point where Dame’s in the NBA, he’s got his money, he’s got his influence—let’s get the next family member in, let’s get them to the next level.

What does it mean for you, being a non-native Portlander, to be invited to something like Hip-Hop Day? I appreciate being accepted in a city I’m not from. Me being invited to Hip-Hop Day is solely attributed to the hard work I’ve done in Portland, with Portland artists, and Portland recognizes that. They said, “We can accept you as a Portland transplant.”

I know that’s a big thing in Portland where Portland doesn’t like all the people who are invading the city. I don’t think that applies to me anymore.

SEE IT: Brookfield Duece plays Portland Hip-Hop Day at City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave. #340, with Rasheed Jamal, Fountaine and Wynne, on Sunday, Oct. 15. 3 pm. Free. All ages.

SeveN CrUCiAl MOMeNtS iN POrtlAND HiP-HOP HiStOry • 1981: Electro-funk band Shock releases “Let’s Get Crackin’,” Portland’s first rap song—at least according to frontman Malcolm Noble.

• June 23, 1990: U-Krew appears on Soul Train.

Host Don Cornelius asks, “What’s

it like trying to get funky and soulful in Portland, Oregon?”

• June 14-15, 1995: The first annual Portland Oregon Hip-Hop Festival, cocurated by Cool Nutz, is held at La Luna.

• June 12, 2003: Lifesavas release

Spirit in Stone, the first Portland rap album to receive significant national attention—even Rolling Stone took notice.

• March 1, 2014: Cops crash a local rap concert at the Blue Monk on Southeast Belmont,

leading to an internal review of the Portland Police Bureau’s treatment of hip-hop shows.

• Oct. 15, 2015: ThenMayor Charlie Hales inaugurates the first-ever “Portland Hip-Hop Day.” Mic Capes, Vinnie Dewayne and others perform on the steps of Portland City Hall.

• Nov. 15, 2016: Benson High alum Aminé performs his viral hit “Caroline” on the Tonight Show, adding a verse opposing newly elected President Trump just days after the election.

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blend the cinematic blast of Mogwai with the sophisticated baroque influence of Rachel’s. On their recent and excellent LP, Clear Language, they reduce their previously broad array of instrumental elements to a reductive pallet of keys or guitars eeking out melodies that are as accessible as most radio hits. Benoit Pioulard’s recent Lignin Poise, meanwhile, is another subtle ambient masterwork from Thomas Meluch. Released

by Portland’s own Beacon Sound, it blends a soothing cacophony of hums with delicately plucked musical phrases reminiscent of Max Richter or Dustin O’Halloran. CRIS LANKENAU. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

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

Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek. com/submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

City of Caterpillar, Thou, Dreamdecay, Longclaw

[EPIC PUNK] City of Caterpillar’s run in the early aughts was far too brief, but the band, which shared members with screamo deity Pg. 99, was around long enough to bless that blighted decade with a stunning self-titled album. Combining the post-hardcore chaos of ’90s pioneers like Angel Hair with the apocalyptic grandeur of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, City of Caterpillar’s sole full-length is a crucial document of a time before “screamo” became a bad word and a suitable soundtrack for a world that is even more screwed than it was 15 years ago. CHRIS STAMM. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503-206-7630. 7:30 pm. $17.25.

All ages.

ings from outstanding London label 4AD, Torres is perhaps its most angular yet poetic voice. Having toured with an impressive cast of musicians, including Okkervil River, Sharon Van Etten and Lady Lamb, the Nashville-based artist is poised for her own breakout.

Combining the unpredictable and theatrical elements of PJ Harvey with the electronic pop elements of Eurythmics, Torres is a deeply engaging presence. The brooding, goth-inspired side of newest effort Three Futures only adds to her intrigue. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

[MINIMALISM] Somewhere between post-rock and avant-garde orchestral chamber pop, Austin duo Balmorhea

[INDUSTRIAL GOTHIC] Among the latest offer-

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Recommended Song Pairing: “Red Eyes” While this outstanding track from 2014’s Lost in the Dream is more about crying than getting ripped; it’s also one of the finest examples of leader Adam Granduciel’s driving rock genius, so it deserves a clear-headed uplifter.

2 Light Alcohol Recommended Song Pairing: “Best Night” This track kicked off Slave Ambient in 2011 and remains Granduciel’s best opener, a shimmery number that’s nice to hear while sipping on your first glass of zin or bourbon. Or maybe Two Towns or a light lager.

3 Solitary Cigarettes After You’re Already Drunk Recommended Song Pairing: “Strangest Thing ” You may find yourself rummaging for the hidden pack and out on the back patio staring up at the moon after the family’s been asleep awhile. You can take a drag, picture yourself looking out over the Schuylkill as that opening reverb rushes in.

4 Master Kush Recommended Song Pairing: “Thinking of a Place” “Thinking of a Place” begins in Little Bend, South Dakota, rides down a river of sound and ends in a baptism of guitar and piano. You can listen in any and all states of mind, but one of those times, maybe get good and stoned, put on some headphones and get lost in the music.

5 Codeine-laced Cough Syrup Recommended Song Pairing: “In Reverse” If the doc signs off and you find yourself holding a bottle of cherryflavored gold, might I recommend the closing track from Lost in the Dream? Slather on some VapoRub, go to bed early, and let the soundscape and opioids wash you away. WM. WILLARD GREENE. SEE IT: The War on Drugs plays Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, with Phoebe Bridges, on Wednesday, Oct. 11. 8 pm. $29.50-$45. All ages.

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P.O.S., Sean Anonymous

Balmorhea, Benoit Pioulard

Torres, The Dove & The Wolf

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11

[INDIE-RAP] P.O.S. is the busiest rapper in music. Though he’s only put out five solo albums in the past 13 years, his voice can be heard everywhere, with the hip-hop collective Doomtree, the indie supergroup Gayngs and the hardcore punk outfit Wharf Rats. No matter the project, the one thing you’ll always get with P.O.S. is unflinching honesty and a poetic swagger akin to Burroughs.

His latest effort, Chill, dummy, features an eclectic list of collaborators from the brilliant Open Mike Eagle and inimitable Busdriver to indie golden boy Justin Vernon and the legendary Kathleen Hanna. Songs like “Faded” show the rapper’s dexterity on the mic—rather than densely thudding against the beat, his voice floats like a smoke ring drifting skyward.

JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

Sisters, Rare Diagram, Sheers

[EASYGOING POP] If you were a fan of the dazed, rose-tinged grooves of synth-happy pop duo Sisters’ first album, Drink Champagne, their second effort and first for Tender Loving Empire, Wait Don’t Wait, shows there’s a lot more where that came from. So far, the singles point to a less dreamy, more melody-driven sound. “Let Me Go” was vibe-y enough to snag a spot on Apple Music’s newest indie playlist, with lyrics touching on the ways we can make this fucked-up world a better place. SOPHIA JUNE. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-754-7782. 9 pm-11:45 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

FRIDAY, OCT. 13 Sun Kil Moon featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra, Josh Haden [SLOWCORE] Back in 2014, Sun Kil Moon, aka Mark Kozelek, managed to piss off a good deal of his fans by calling North Carolina festivalgoers “hillbillies” and, in the same breath, started a small feud with indie darlings the War on Drugs. In 2015, he added a few more enemies to his list when he made derogatory comments during a performance toward a female journalist.

But some was forgiven once the grumpy songwriter teamed up with British experimental band Jesu’s Justin Broadrick to create a brilliant combination of spoken wordmeets-shoegaze on the simply named 2016 album Jesu/Sun Kil Moon. Shortly after reeling his fans back in, Kozelek released his epically long, 129-minute eighth album, Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood. Over pensive folk arrangements, the latest Sun Kil Moon project delivers a new string of heartbreakingly conversational songs about life, death, Trump and the occasional cute cat. SHANNON ARMOUR Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show.

All ages.

Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker), Charlotte Cardin, Heathered Pearls [ELECTRO POP] After spending the last five years making music

C O U R T E S Y O F E P I TA P H R E C O R D S

HARDCORE HURT: Touché Amoré plays Hawthorne Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 14. See profile at wweek.com. and touring under the stage name Chet Faker—an homage to jazz legend Chet Baker— Australian electronic-pop musician Nick Murphy decided to put his moniker to rest and continue his up-and-coming music career using the name his mama gave him. On his first short collection of songs as himself, Missing Link, Murphy lost the soulful, dreamy sound that carried throughout his first album, Built on Glass, and replaced it with a mix of heavily produced dance beats and fiercer vocals.

SHANNON ARMOUR. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.

Protomartyr, Hurry Up, the Woolen Men

[MIDDLE MANAGEMENT PUNK] See Get Busy, page 25. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

JR JR, Hembree

[FITTING-ROOM POP] You’ve heard JR JR whether you wanted to or not. In 2015, the Detroit indie-pop duo released “Gone,” which has played in every Starbucks and American Eagle from coast to coast. It’s no mystery why the song wriggled its way into the zeitgeist— it’s got whistling, wistful musings on lost love, harmonized choruses and finger snapping. Recent single “Clean Up” shows that JR JR’s talent for making catchy pop viruses hasn’t waned. Don’t be surprised if you hear it soon on an uplifting Sprint commercial or scoring a viral video of puppies frolicking with giggling babies. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show.

All ages.

SATURDAY, OCT. 14 Oregon Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

[STATE PRIDE] Alt-rockers Floater head up this year’s class of inductees into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. They’ll perform tonight, alongside blues-organ master Louis Pain and a tribute to the late Portland folk fixture Jimmy Boyer, featuring several Laurelthirst regulars. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-9694.

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

Touché Amoré, Single Mothers, Gouge Away, Dead Tropics

[POST-HARDCORE] See profile at wweek.com. Hawthorne Theater, 1507 SE 39th Ave., 503-233-7100.

8 pm. $15. All ages.

SUNDAY, OCT. 15 Tei Shi, Twelve’Len

[R&B] Born in Argentina, Valerie Teicher, aka Tei Shi, has a tight grasp on the sound of ’90s-era R&B, as reflected on her debut LP, Crawl Space. Much like the pop era it pulls from, Tei Shi’s sound shuffles between acoustic bedroom sounds and beat-driven elec-

tronic structures, with the smokyvoiced singer imparting sultriness to already-humid bass lines and swelling synths. There’s more than enough actual instrumentation to make for a fascinating live show, although Teicher’s isolated vocals alone would be worth the price of admission. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $17. 21+.

Screaming Females, Street Eaters, Macho Boys

[SHE SHREDS] With a voice like Grace Slick if her feet were on fire and instrumental chops sharp enough to get her listed as one of the greatest guitarists of alltime by Spin, Marissa Paternoster leads Screaming Females less like a garage-punk outfit and more like a startup revolution. They recently released their first new tune since 2015’s Rose Mountain, the fiery, anthemic “Black Moon,” which exemplifies everything fans have come to love about the them— sludgy, powerhouse riffs, a contagious chorus and Paternoster’s inimitable, howling vibrato.

CRIS LANKENAU. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

War Curse, Dismantle, Curtains

[THRASH METAL] There are no real surprises on War Curse’s debut EP, Final Days, other than simply the quality of the songs, performances and recordings.

The Cincinnati band proudly flies the flag of traditional thrash metal, and if it sounds like anyone outside the obvious—Megadeth, Testament, Overkill—it’s Dave Lombardo’s post-Slayer quartet Grip Inc., which is little surprise, considering Grip Inc. bassist Jason Viebrooks lent a hand on the recording. This is a chance to see some pro-level, grown-up thrash-metal on a small Portland stage. LA’s Dismantle supports, but there are about 16 Dismantles on Bandcamp, so you’ll just have to guess what they sound like.

Headbanging metal is a safe bet. NATHAN CARSON. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-238-0543. 8:30 pm-11:30 pm. $6 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, OCT. 16 Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, Full of Hell, Artificial Brain

[DEATH-GRIND] Cattle Decapitation have never faltered in their austerity. Vehement in their feelings on animal cruelty and exploitation, Cattle Decapitation have been fighting the good fight since the mid-’90s. But even still, in 2017, their message, along with the death metal-meets-grindcore musical stylings, remains potent.

It may not be coming out before the year’s end, but the foursome have shared that they’re prepping a new album. It’s unclear if we’ll be hearing any fresh material here, but harshness is somewhat of a guarantee. CERVANTE POPE. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503-206-7630. 6 pm-. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

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MUSIC Tera Melos, Speedy Ortiz

[PROG-PUNK] On their early releases, Sacramento’s Tera Melos sounded like they dumped 60 years’ worth of jazz, progressive rock and post-hardcore melodies and rhythms into a blender. Once wordless and blindingly prodigious, the band went through some lineup changes and came out the other side as a brainy pop band.

X’ed Out, from 2013, sanded down their intriguing warts and wrinkles into an overly pristine indierock visage, but Trash Generator, released in August, is a better-balanced blend of their headiest and catchiest impulses. Ease into their headlining set here with Speedy Ortiz, among the most indie-rock of indie-rock bands, whose eccentricities are rarer, and catchiness comes more naturally. PATRICK LYONS. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $15. All ages.

The Afghan Whigs, Har Mar Superstar

[POST-GRUNGE GRUNGE] See Get Busy, page 25. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686.

8:30 pm. $33 general admission, $135 VIP. 21+.

TUESDAY, OCT. 17 Generationals, Benjamin Jones

[CATCHY OR DIE] Generationals got an early start in the era of electro-inspired pop music. As early as 2009, the New Orleansbased two-piece was making ’60s-leaning California jangle-pop songs infused with melodic electro beats that make you feel like you’re flying downhill on a skateboard. The band hasn’t released a full album since the Richard Swiftproduced, ’80s-influenced Alix in 2014, but we’ve gotten a taste for what’s to come with five singles released in 2017. They point to a turn for the club while keeping the same reverb-soaked vocals, big synths and jangly surf guitars.

SOPHIA JUNE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 9:30 pm. $13. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

[CLASSICAL] Dmitri Shostakovich’s fifth and most popular symphony likely saved his life. He had pulled his Fourth Symphony during rehearsals out of fear of potential retribution from the Russian state. His response was to compose the “absolute music” of his Fifth as being without text or explanation, and restrained himself from pushing boundaries that could lead to his execution. Nevertheless, it’s an epic and exciting work deserving of its reputation. The first half of this weekend’s program by Swissborn guest conductor Baldur Brönnimann features Canadian cellist Johannes Moser delivering a Saint-Saëns concerto. But the real treat is the opening 11-minute percussion extravaganza of Ângela da Ponte’s 2011 poetically inspired work, The Rising Sea. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, Oct. 14-16. $25-$120. All ages.

Delgani String Quartet

[CASCADIAN COMPOSITIONS] Now in its third year, the young, Eugene-based Delgani String Quartet has quickly risen to become one of Oregon’s most distinctive and impressive chamber music ensembles. Not only do their performances display a higher level of preparation and energy than most of the state’s veteran groups, their programs also include as much music from today’s composers as established classics.

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DATES HERE native Paul Safar’s groovy Quartet in Red, Black, & Blue, a Cubaninfluenced quartet by LA-based Latin Grammy winner Yalil Guerra, Joshua Hey’s piece inspired by an Alpha Centaurian lens flare and more. The main course is Portland composing eminence Tomás Svoboda’s fierce, tragic sixth string quartet, inspired by fellow composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s struggles against Soviet repression.

BRETT CAMPBELL. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 14. $5-$20.

All ages.

Northwest Art Song & The Ensemble

[WOMEN’S VOICES] Women have long been discriminated against in classical music, with American orchestras devoting less than 2 percent of their programming to music written by women.

Portland is leading the way in redressing this imbalance. This concert, presented by local classical vocal groups, the Ensemble and Northwest Art Song, features two of the city’s finest singers, sopranos Arwen Myers and Laura Beckel Thoreson, accompanied by pianist Susan McDaniel, and will present music written by some of today’s most prominent female composers. That includes the venerable Libby Larsen to younger generations represented by Abbie Betinis, Kati Agócs, Juliana Hall and Stacy Garrop. That would be rare enough—but here, all of the poetry the composers set to music is also written by women. BRETT CAMPBELL. First Christian Church, 1314 SW Park Ave. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 15. $20-$25. All ages.

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus

[PROTEST SONGS] A lot of Portland artists have gotten political since last November, some devoting whole seasons to creations that protest injustice or raise social consciousness. Now the city’s biggest gay chorus joins the fray. The program’s centerpiece is a harrowing, moving recent work

by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson. The lyrics for each of its seven movements consist entirely of the last words uttered by unarmed African-American men and boys before they died at the hands of police and other so-called “authority figures,” including, of course, “I can’t breathe.” The group is putting their money where their mouths are, donating 50 percent of proceeds from table seats to nine co-sponsoring local community social justice nonprofits. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College), 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 503-222-6000. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 15. Contact venue for ticket prices.

All ages.

Organic Nation Listening Club

[PEPPER UPPER] A couple weeks ago, Parkrose High hosted the fifth annual Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival—a symbol of the high regard the state holds for one of its most prominent Native American artists and nationally renowned jazz legends. A charter class inductee of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, the Salem-born saxophonist pioneered a blend of jazz and Native American music with his ’60s band, the Free Spirits.

His music, recorded on over 50 albums and including an original symphony, also often incorporated Latin and African influences.

Tonight, David Ornette Cherry, son of late trumpet legend Don Cherry, celebrates Pepper in this edition of the keyboardist’s annual Organic Listening Club Project, tracing his trajectory through Portland and beyond. BRETT CAMPBELL. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 17. $15. All ages.

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Dame D.O.L.L.A. CONFIRMED (Front Page Music)

THE BLAZERS STAR TAKES A STEP TOWARD HIP-HOP LEGITIMACY.

[LILLARD TIME] Appropriating the iconography of Biggie, Tupac and Nas on your album cover is a ballsy move for any rapper, especially when you’re a part-timer like Damian Lillard. But that’s sort of the point. Having already hurdled the low bar for NBA players dabbling in hip-hop, with his second full-length project, the Blazers star is demanding to be measured against the same standards as any MC. To that end, Confirmed is a significant step forward. It’s a much more polished and dynamic effort than last year’s The Letter O, with hard-hitting production and performances that alternate between playful and fiery. Moving away from the come-up anthems he used to fixate on, this is PG-13 Dame D.O.L.L.A.— grittier and braggier, but still not cursing or otherwise endangering his endorsement deals. At times, his attempts to balance stunting with role-modeling get awkward, particularly when big-name guests like Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz are forced to bite their tongues. And flirty radio grabs like “Shoota” don’t really suit him. But when he gets contemplative—as he does on “The Let Down,” pondering the eventual end of his playing career and whether his supporters will abandon him when he’s no longer useful to them—Lillard displays a level of honesty that’s rare for a pro-athlete, and for most rappers, too. MATTHEW SINGER. HEAR IT: Confirmed is out now on all streaming platforms.

R.I.P. STREET REAPER (RidingEasy Records) IT MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE TYPICAL DOOM METAL, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT. [STREET DOOM] On the surface, Portland’s R.I.P. don’t resemble your average doom metal band. They call their music “street doom,” rock Eazy-E T-shirts and use scythes for mic stands. In such a serious and morose genre, R.I.P. inject a rare dose of levity into their image. But spend 45 minutes with the band’s new LP, Street Reaper, and R.I.P. appear much less iconoclastic. They pilfer pulpy ’70s and ’80s doom for all it’s worth, from the theatrical vocals, to the “dark” lyrical clichés, to the slew of predictable transitions between time signatures. The album’s most damning moment comes when the band bites Black Sabbath on consecutive songs. The reverb-drenched crawl of “Shadow Folds” is a dead ringer for “Electric Funeral,” while ensuing track “The Dark” opens with a guitar interlude that makes use of similar chords and tone as Sabbath’s own interlude, “Embryo.” Couple that with bong-hit revelations like “Down deep inside your mind/ There’s a sea that you can’t find,” and Street Reaper seems best enjoyed when experiencing the dazed wonderment and temporary memory loss associated with sweet leaf. If you have no time for the psychedelia, abrasion or ambitious concepts of other doom metal, and prefer something burly, macho and immediate, R.I.P. are your guys. Otherwise, you’re best off leaving Street Reaper on the shelf. PATRICK LYONS. SEE IT: R.I.P. plays Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., with Cauldron, Amulet and Magnabolt, on Friday, Oct. 13. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. OCT. 11

Hawthorne Theatre

Mississippi Studios

Alberta Rose Theater

Revolution Hall

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The Goodfoot

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Shawn Mullins 3000 NE Alberta St Noggin Fest

1037 SW Broadway The War on Drugs, Phoebe Bridges

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Rosetta, North, A//TAR

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St City of Caterpillar, Thou, Dreamdecay, Longclaw

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Kim Boekbinder

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Angry Lisas, the Jarrod Tyler Band

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Torres, The Dove & The Wolf

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Shelley Short and Jessi Adele

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Ghost of Paul Revere, The Last Revel

3939 N Mississippi Ave P.O.S., Sean Anonymous

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Sashay, Cockeye, Man Repellant

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Pleasure Curses, Sex Park

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Balmorhea, Benoit Pioulard

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Hissing, Vitriol, Taarna, Hexenight

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Cynthia Nelson Band, Jessica Dennison + Jones, Ali Clarys

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Unlikely Saints

THU. OCT. 12 Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Ape Machine, Year of the Cobra, Robots of the Ancient World

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Barb Wire Dolls, Svetlanas, 57 and the U.S. Wage Slaves

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St LÉON

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St The Bluegrass Special presents Jeff Scroggins and Colorado

1420 SE Powell The Rocketz, The Silver Shine, The Brainax, Misfortunes of Mr. Teal

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Sisters, Rare Diagram, Sheers

Bossanova Ballroom

1422 SW 11th Ave This Is The Kit

722 E Burnside St Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, Full of Hell, Artificial Brain

The Secret Society

Bunk Bar

The Old Church

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring the Cherry Blossom Hot 4, Pink Lady & John Bennett Jazz Band

1028 SE Water Ave Fire Nuns, Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, PennyMart

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St La Femme, Wet Dream, Future Twin

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Luthor Maggot, Baronic Wall, Jock Worms

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Stump Tail Dolly, Whiskey Dick, James Hunnicut, Shootdang

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Fox and Bones, CORNER

FRI. OCT. 13 Aladdin Theater

Bunk Bar

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Yardsss, Indira Valey, Halloweener, Coleman Stevenson

Twilight Cafe and Bar

MON. OCT. 16

The Know

The Goodfoot

The Know

8 NE Killingsworth St The Dreaming Dirt

836 N Russell St Cow Paddy Stompers; Szlachetka & Tyler Fortier

2845 SE Stark St Qbala, Galaxe, Signal Bath

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Bob Howard, Pretty Gritty 2845 SE Stark St Brothers Gow

Turn! Turn! Turn!

White Eagle Saloon

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Mavericks

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Sun Kil Moon featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra, Josh Haden

The Analog Cafe

LAST WEEK LIVE

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Cribs

Aladdin Theater

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THOMAS TEAL

= WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

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

Email: music@wweek.com.

1028 SE Water Ave Keeper Keeper, Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs, Mobilities

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Nick Murphy, Charlotte Cardin & Heathered Pearls

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Protomartyr, Hurry Up, the Woolen Men

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Last Internationale

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd JR JR, Hembree

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Dennis Bradford

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St J.Lately, DJ Nocturnal, Space Cadet

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Crystal Lake, Meterse, Heavÿ Baäng Stäang

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Palehound

Revolution Hall

READY, WILLING, ABEL: Back in 2012, I remember speaking with a friend who had attended Coachella for the sole purpose of catching the Weeknd’s first U.S. show, only his third-ever live performance. My friend was disappointed, to say the least. On the previous year’s trilogy of introductory mixtapes, the singer, born Abel Tesfaye, crafted a seductive version of indie-friendly R&B, but all that cool was apparently stripped away when Tesfaye no longer had vocal effects and blog hype to hide behind. His stop at Moda Center on Oct. 6 proved this is no longer the case. The Starboy himself arrived by beaming up through the floor. The stage featured a catwalk that jutted out deep into the floor seats, and over that hung a color-changing platform that looked like Damocles’ star destroyer when suspended a mere feet above Tesfaye’s impressive coif. This was a downright spectacle, and the music wasn’t shabby either. Tesfaye’s voice is markedly improved from his early days, and so is his stage presence. And his three-piece band plowed through the songs with precision and dexterity. Some of it bordered on schmaltzy, with “Real Life” and “Earned It” making an eventual Vegas residency seem almost inevitable. “The Morning” and “Wicked Games,” both from his debut mixtape, appeared back-to-back, relatively unadorned and stripped down in comparison to the rest of the show. Belting those songs’ soaring hooks that first appeared shrouded in digital reverb, Tesfaye showed just how far he’s come. PATRICK LYONS. The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Vardaman Ensemble, James Powers Wintet, Coloring Electric Like

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Star Club, Smokin’ Ziggurats, Dusty, Because

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Don’t, Petite, The Countdown, Gutknife

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Minor Key Series presents Chuck Prophet

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St Alexa Wiley & the Wilderness

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Cauldron, Amulet, RIP, Magnabolt

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Paul Metzger, John St. Pelvyn, White Shark, This Sax Kills Fascists

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Roseland Theater

1420 SE Powell Blvd anothernight, Isaac Pierce, Oceans Are Zero, Mere Mention

Star Theater

836 N Russell St Jacob Westfall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Marc Broussard 8 NW 6th Ave The Kooks

13 NW 6th Ave The Expanders, Iya Terra, For Peace Band

White Eagle Saloon

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Bad Suns

SAT. OCT. 14 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave 11th Annual Oregon Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Matty Charles & Katie Rose, Amanda Breese & Jenna Ellefson

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave The Strypes

Community Music Center

3350 SE Francis St Delgani String Quartet

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Stone In Love (Journey tribute)

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Touché Amoré

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Ty Curtis Band

Kelly’s Olympian

JAM’N 107.5 presents Boo Bomb 4: Chingy, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Lloyd, Warren G, Ying Yang Twins, Montell Jordan, Too Short and more

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 North Mississippi Allstars

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave RL Grime

Star Theater 13 NW 6th Ave Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Flamingosis

St. James Lutheran Church

1315 SW Park Ave Oregon Renaissance Band

The Analog Cafe

The Jenny Finn Orchestra; Debra Arlyn & The Goodness, Brian Copeland Band

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Cloud Catcher, Smokey Kingdom

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Jernigan, Dustin Scharlach, Donald Beaman

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Leathurbitch, Skelator, Gorgon Stare, Warpfire

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St The Adarna & J.Graves; King Columbia

SUN OCT. 15

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd SWMRS, The Interrupters, Sharp/Shock; Versus, Redeem/Revive, Villain of the Story

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

The Firkin Tavern

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1937 SE 11th Ave Fake Fireplace, Games, Azul Toga

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St The Bandulus & Wicked Shallows

The Know

303 SW 12th Ave Dylan Lee Johnston

Mississippi Studios

The Lovecraft Bar

Doug Fir Lounge

1 N Center Ct St

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Native Harrow, Huntsman, Holly Ann

350 W Burnside St Rachel Lark 830 E Burnside St Balto, Smokey Brights, Weezy Ford

First Christian Church

1314 SW Park Ave Northwest Art Song & The Ensemble

The Analog Cafe 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Call Me Karizma, A Summer High, Sky Haven

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Bitches of the Sun, Piefight, Terms of Youth

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Phantom Family, Revolution Bummer, Bothers

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, Hedersleben, Children of the Mushroom

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Johanna Warren, Julia Lucille, Moses Nesh

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Dead Lakes, Modern Color, Glasghote, Outlier, Worws

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St The Afghan Whigs, Har Mar Superstar

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Carnage The Executioner

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Hot Club of Hawthorne; BINGO and friends “Church”

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Screaming Females, Street Eaters, Macho Boys

Portland City Hall

3341 SE Belmont St Sound of Ceres, Pavo Pavo

722 E Burnside St Terror, Blind Justice, Safe and Sound

Dante’s

Moda Center

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Portland Gay Men’s Chorus

Bossanova Ballroom

3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Trashies, Bobby Peru, VOG, Negative Option 421 SE Grand Ave Volt Divers

Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College)

1221 SW 4th Ave Portland Hip-Hop Day: Rasheed Jamal, WYNNE, Brookfield Duece & Friends, Fountaine, DJ OG One, hosted by StarChile

1037 SW Broadway Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony

426 SW Washington St Walkman Coffin Tour 3939 N Mississippi Ave Stephen Ashbrook

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Tei Shi, Twelve’len

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Tera Melos, Speedy Ortiz

The Liquor Store

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Tallulah’s Daddy, Fernando

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd War Curse, Dismantle, Curtains

TUE. OCT. 17 Artists Repertory Theatre

1515 SW Morrison St Organic Nation Listening Club

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Paul Kelly

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave The Wild Body, Miss Rayon

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Generationals, Benjamin Jones

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Cay is Okay, Dim Wit, Sad Horse

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Spanish Love Songs, Chris Hahn Band, Ducking Punches, Question Tuesday

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St The Half-Hearted

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Alison Wonderland

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MUSIC C O U R T E S Y O F WA L K E R & R OYC E

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

Walker & Royce (BROOKLYN) Years DJing: Gavin has been DJing for 18 years and Sam has been DJing for 15 years. We have been DJing together as Walker & Royce for six years Genre: We make house music, which a lot of people refer to as tech house. It’s very funky, dramatic and in your face. As DJs, however, we often transcend genres during our sets.

Where you can catch us regularly: On the road. We came up in the New York scene and use to DJ there constantly, but we’ve been traveling so much as of recently. We’re all over the place.

Craziest gig: Dirtybird Campout last year. It was one of the best sets we’ve ever played, and people even made totems based around “ITB,” an old track of ours, and signs they were waving around in the crowd.

My go-to records: Recently, our track “Rub Anotha Dub” on our new album with Green Velvet has been our go-to. It always hypes the party up. Michael Meds’ “Jackin’ Drunk” has also been a go-to for years. No one ever seems to know this song yet, every time we play it people go crazy.

Don’t ever ask me to play…: Don’t ever ask us to play Journey “Don’t Stop Believing.” We’re so sick of it.

NEXT GIG: Walker & Royce spin at Jade Club, 315 SE 3rd Ave., on Friday, Oct. 13. 10 pm. $10. 21+.

The Lovecraft Bar

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

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WED, OCT. 11 Beulahland

118 NE 28th Ave Wicked Wednesday (hip-hop)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Marti

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Atom 13

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St The Soul of Freeform (50s-60s r&b, soul)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Lex Lurker / DJ Oxblood

The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Knochen Tanz (ebm, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

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Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, darkwave)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Latin Dance Night

18 NW 3rd Ave DJ Jack

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)

FRI, OCT. 13 45 East

THU, OCT. 12 Black Book

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

Century Bar

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

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ A-Train

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St DJ Rob F Switch / EPOR

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Love Is For Sops

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Rap Class (slow disco, deep jazzy house cuts)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Overcöl

315 SE 3rd Ave Protohype

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 Bobby D (funk, 90s hiphop)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St DJ Mechlo (chiptune, retrowave)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Dance Yourself Clean

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave Walker & Royce

Where to drink this week.

1. Chandelier Bar

HENRY CROMETT

BAR REVIEW

1451 SE Ankeny St., 503-841-8345, chandelierbarpdx.com.

In a space that looks like the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks, drink rare sakes that taste like you’ve probably never had them.

2. 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.

3. Breakside Slabtown

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

Breakside’s new Slabtown spot now has a nice nacho plate and burger to pair with the great beer—look for the Happy Unbirthday lager with lemon verbena.

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.

DOLLAR THRILLS: October is baseball heaven and football’s early-season shakeout, the last month before Blazers fans get really depressed.

And at your neighborhood Applebee’s (ours is at 1439 NE Halsey St., 503-284-8040, applebees.com), it’s $1 mothafuckin’ margaritas all day, every day, all month. Few press releases have ever spurred our editorial staff to swifter action: We rushed down within minutes of reading about it to drink two Dollaritas™ apiece, batch-mixed into tupperware and poured into weird little beer mugs filled with ice cubes. The cheap margaritas are here, we’re told, to remind America that Applebee’s is also a bar. But it is not a bar. The physical bartop and rail are a horseshoe island in a sea of heavy booths and heavy eaters. In its clunky corporate reliability and naive huckster branding—one sign cheerily announces $12.99 all-you-can-eat riblets on Thursdays—Applebee’s is a retreat from both ecstasy and tragedy. Nothing good or bad is possible here. The half-rack of ribs tastes nostalgically like those frozen Tony Roma’s ribs my father used to bake in the oven. An onion-laden burger is so full of fat and sugar, the bun seems to dissolve. A mere $25 buys a steaming hill of calories, including burger, ribs, mashed potatoes, fries, green beans and onion rings. And as for those Dollaritas?

They taste a little like lime Kool-Aid. Each little mug is a sweet and sour bomb lit with a fuse of budget tequila. Four dollars buys the sugar-spinning buzz of two grown men. The Dollarita is, perhaps, a miracle. The mood outside these walls may be apocalyptic, but Kansas-based Applebee’s is the still-smiling face of fake America. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Killingsworth Dynasty

Whiskey Bar

4. 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, bigeyed kids and John Quincy Adams, plus goofball coffee cocktails and a great spicy chicken sandwich.

5. Jack London Revue

832 N Killingsworth St Cake (hiphop)

31 NW 1st Ave Sage Armstrong

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd DJ Dad Rock

SAT, OCT. 14

Moloko

45 East

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

315 SE 3rd Ave Felix Da Housecat DJ Both Josh

Quarterworld

Black Book

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback (80’s vinyl)

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Hustle (disco)

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St DJ Smooth Hopperator

The Goodfoot

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

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Deena Bee (hiphop, r&b)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Verified (bass, rap, club)

Kenton Club

Quarterworld

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

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Tropitaal Desi Latino Soundclash w/ Daniela Karina, Casual Aztec

The Lovecraft Bar

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

Valentines

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Johnny Yono

SUN, OCT. 15

421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy

2025 N Kilpatrick St Sugar Town: Spellbound (r&b, soul)

Black Book

The Paris Theatre

Killingsworth Dynasty

Dig A Pony

The Secret Society

Mississippi Studios

Star Theater

The Lovecraft Bar

6 SW 3rd Ave Friday the 13th (edm) 116 NE Russell St Jai Ho! Dance Party

Toffee Club

1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Waves

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Honesty

832 N Killingsworth St J-Boogie (japanese dance) 3939 N Mississippi Ave Jump Jack Sound Machine: Monster Mash-Up

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Klavical (modern soul, heavy breaks, hiphop)

20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club) 736 SE Grand Ave Emerson (hiphop, r&b) 13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Kawaii Party Presents: DWMA Monster Ball

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Sunday Funday

MON, OCT. 16 Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Sam FM

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St Reaganomix: DJ ROCKIT (80s)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Joel Jett

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUE OCT. 17 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Noches Latinas (salsa, merengue)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Party Damage: DJ Dave Cantrell

The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Recycle (dark dance)

The Lovecraft Bar

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

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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REVIEW

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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

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

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Nesting: Vacancy

Actor and playwright Joel Patrick Durham brings back his episodic horror play for a second year. Like the first season, season two is the story of two friends navigating a creepy house plagued by supernatural forces. You can watch individual episodes or “binge watch” all four. Last year’s was seriously spine tingling and full of cliff hangers, so binge watching is advised. The Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave. See nestingpdx.com for episode schedule. 8 pm-10 pm ThursdaySunday, Oct. 13-Nov. 4. $25.

The Turn of the Screw

When the plot revolves around two eerie orphaned children who live in an isolated English estate, you know things are going to get scary. In honor of Friday the 13th, Reader’s Theatre Repertory is staging Henry James’ classic psychological thriller.

Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., readerstheatrerep.com. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 13-14. $10.

Insignificance

Defunkt Theatre opens their season with Terry Johnson’s satire of celebrity culture in which Marilyn Monroe explains relativity to Albert Einstein.

In a hotel room, we meet thinly disguised versions of four pop culture icons, who are referred to only as the Actress, the Scientist and the Senator and the Ballplayer. The play (which inspired the 1985 movie of the same name) first premiered in 1982, but only made its stateside premiere last year. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunktheatre.com. 7:30 pm ThursdaySunday, Oct. 13-Nov. 18. Pay what you will, $20 suggested.

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

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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.

Every Brilliant Thing

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. 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. 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. 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. R MITCHELL MILLER. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm TuesdaySaturday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 5.

No 7:30 pm show on Sunday, Oct. 8.$25-$55.

DANCE Portland Tango Festival

The longest-running tango festival in America returns with four nights of sultry Argentinian dancing, including all-night milongas every damn night. Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave, 503-972-3329, portlandtangofest.com. $10-$35 for individual dances through Sunday.

COMEDY All Jane Comedy Festival

This year, Portland’s all woman comedy festival will become the first comedy festival to live stream its sets. But you can see it IRL, starting with a taping of Deanne Smith’s new standup special. Smith is best known for her bit about dating women who’ve decided it’s easier to pretend to be a lesbian than deal with straight dudes.

Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Oct. 11-15. See alljanecomedy.com for full schedule.

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REAL HUMAN BEING: Greg Watanabe.

Into the Labyrinth CAUGHT IS A SHAPE-SHIFTING PLAY THAT BLURS FACT AND FICTION.

BY B EN N ETT CA MPB ELL FER GU SON

When you arrive at Artists Repertory Theatre for its production of Qín (Caught), Mao Zedong greets you in the lobby. Actor Larry Toda, playing the infamous Chinese dictator, stands at the entrance to the first phase of the show: a crowded art exhibit filled with everything from meditation alters to chubby model cats.

It’s a dizzying display that leaves you overwhelmed before you even take your seat, and that feeling of instability continues to grow once the theatrical portion of Caught begins. Armed with Christopher Chen’s brilliant and bizarre script, director Shawn Lee has staged a show that defies description.

Caught tells the story of Lin Bo, the artist credited with creating the show’s art installation and who was imprisoned by the Chinese government for political activism.

It’s far from a traditional play. The first scene is a PowerPoint presentation hosted by Bo. Dressed in a dark jacket, he recalls his imprisonment after he protested against the Tiananmen Square massacre. As he describes the details of his incarceration—the abysmal food, the toilet filled with rats—he becomes so emotional that you can see sweat glistening on his forehead.

Emotions run ever higher in the following scene, which appears to be a strange mix of fiction and reality. A reporter for The New Yorker (Sarah Hennessy) and her editor (Chris Harder) ruthlessly grill Bo about his experiences in captivity.

As they harp on seemingly insignificant details— does it matter whether or not Bo was served cabbage soup?—the racism-tinged spectacle of two white Americans denying the legitimacy of Bo’s torment becomes almost unbearable to watch.

But what exactly are we watching ? Caught works with revelatory, insidious force as it mutates from one kind of a show into another and into yet another after that. To reveal much more than that would ruin its slippery spell.

Lee and Chen challenge your perception of both Bo and yourself. When Bo laments that he is viewed as a “symbol of all Chinese suffering,” it’s easy to pity him as a tragic icon. Yet as Caught gradually reveals Bo to be a flawed and multifaceted human being, you’re forced to recognize that to merely pity him is to deny his humanity.

The cast navigate Bo’s story with grace, and reveal new dimensions of their characters with every scene. Actor Greg Watanabe’s performance is both fluid and shape-shifting.

Like most of Caught, it’s hard to explain the full extent of Watanabe’s work without spoiling the whole play. But for all its deception, Caught is wildly entertaining. Its hairpin narrative turns may be unsettling, but they’re the reason the entire experience is a giddy thrill. Caught rewrites beliefs about what theater can and should be in real time.

SEE IT: Caught plays at Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org.

Through Oct. 29.

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WRITING ON THE WALL: Jessica Tidd.

Life During Wartime

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE IS A SPRAWLING MIX OF POLITICS AND COMEDY.

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he Caucasian Chalk Circle is a dense play. There are multiple story lines. There’s a play within a play, and another play within that play. It’s three hours long.

Set during World War II, Bertolt Brecht’s modernist epic tells the story of a town near the Caucasus Mountains. The town’s governor gets beheaded by the militant Ironshirts. In the chaos of fleeing the rebellion, the governor’s wife (Clara Hillier) leaves behind her infant son. Grusha (Samie Pfeifer), a maid in the governor’s house, rises out of the swirling mass of characters as the closest thing to the play’s protagonist when she reluctantly takes the abandoned baby on a journey across the mountains.

It’s a sprawling, complicated plot. So it’s a relief to find that the set for Shaking the Tree’s production is so bare. The stage is created by a single ring of audience chairs surrounded by chalkboard walls. The ensemble cast of 12 play a countless rotation of characters, often as campy caricatures—Jessica Tidd plays an animalistic Ironshirt with wide eyes and bared teeth, and in his brief role as the governor, Heath Koerschgen does a Donald Trump impersonation.

Using bamboo sticks, the cast create the scenery, too. They hold sticks vertically above their heads to make a forest, and into the form of a triangle for a house. Clifton Holznagel and Briana Ratterman Trevithick serve as our narrators, introducing scenes with hammy smiles and folky songs played on guitar and accordion.

With weighty dialogue about political revolution, cheeky humor and abstract staging, Chalk Circle is a lot to make sense of. But it’s also lively and often hilarious, and there are moments that are as imaginative as they are emotionally effective. On Grusha’s journey, she has to cross a treacherous mountain pass.

In low, dramatic lighting, actors hold a net of interlocking strands of cloth just above the ground. Grusha carefully steps from thin cloth to cloth, weighing it to the ground as the net trembles in sync with a tense violin played by ensemble actor Luisa Sermol.

Holding the attention of an audience over three hours is a feat itself, as is balancing oddball humor with sincere drama.

Even with its evocative imagery, Shaking the Tree doesn’t totally overcome those challenges. But the fact that they get as close as they do is remarkable. SHANNON GORMLEY.

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SEE IT: Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree. com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Nov. 4. $10-$30.

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EVIL DEAD’S BRUCE CAMPBELL TALKS OREGON LAVENDER FARMING AND PORTLAND’S HIP LITTLE LIFE.

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ruce Campbell is just a humble Oregon farmer. The strongchinned B-movie stalwart has made at least 50 movies since starring as demon hunter Ash in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. But for the past 19 years he’s lived on a lavender farm outside of Medford with his wife and a John Deere tractor, fighting skunks and the Bureau of Land Management, and finding meth heads and abandoned cats near his property. His second memoir, Hail to the Chin (St. Martin’s Press, 308 pages, $27.99) covers the Michigan native’s life after 40 and his move out to the Oregon sticks.

In advance of his February 13 appearance at Powell’s in Cedar Hills, WW talked with Campbell about Portland hipsters, Medford rednecks and legal weed. JOSH O’ROURKE. WW: What compelled you to write another book?

Bruce Campbell: I just have a lot more experiences to tell, a lot more water under the bridge. I still think the B-movie world is underrepresented in general awareness. Most books you read are autobiographies of famous people: A movies. But most people that work in the film business don’t work on the A movies. The rest work in the second tier or the third tier. So I guess, more than anything, we’re working stiffs.

Do you feel like people only want sequels from you?

I’m not sure there always needs to be more of certain things.

We brought Evil Dead back from the dead. I’ve already said no to a Bubba Ho-Tep sequel, so that’s not gonna happen. Most things people propose are not gonna happen. I’ve got a bunch of original material that I haven’t filmed yet. That’s what I wanted to focus on. I honestly have literally 10 scripts that I’ve had written over the last five years. And my wife and I looked at each other and said, ‘Hey, y’know, if not now, when?’ So, after the TV show’s over I’m gonna switch gears.

What’s your impression of Portland, compared to Ashland or Medford?

Ashland’s a classic hippie town, diametrically opposed to Medford 12 miles away. They couldn’t be further apart, philosophically.

Which is great—a little diversity is great. Medford’s very conservative: dogs, pickup trucks, shotguns, God Bless America. I like living between the worlds. Portland’s a big version of Ashland. I like Portland a lot. It’s a town that doesn’t mind that you’re there. It’s sort of run by hipsters—they just want to have a hip little life.

When are you going to start your lucrative lavender business?

Never. It’s a money-losing proposal.

What keeps you here in Oregon?

I just love it. They treat you like an adult in Oregon. Legal weed is one good indication that they’re willing to try new stuff. It’s a very beautiful state. The coastline is spectacular, and the Cascades ain’t so bad either, and the high desert. I tell people it rains in Oregon all the time.

GO: Powell’s at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton. October 13, 6 pm. Bruce will read and sign copies of his new book and one other item. A purchase of Hail to the Chin is required to enter the signing line.

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Friday the 13th (1980)

Duh. 5th Avenue, Oct. 13-15. Laurelhurst, Oct. 13-19.

Paris, Texas

(2006)

What better way to honor the late, great Harry Dean Stanton than with a movie that’s mostly about his weathered face? The story of a semi-mute, estranged father named Travis is full of lonely LA and West Texas scenery and Ry Cooder’s gorgeous slide guitar score.

Hollywood, Oct 12.

RACHAEL PERRELL AND DONNY PERSONS IN CORPSE.

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PORTLAND HORROR FILMMAKER BRYAN HILTNER HAS TURNED NECESSITY INTO IDIOSYNCRASIES.

BY SHANNON GORMLEY

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A week before CORPSE is scheduled to screen at NW Film Center, Bryan Hiltner’s new short film still isn’t finished.

“We’re in frantic post production right now,” says Hiltner “It’s just a stressful mad scramble to get it all done.”

Like most of the Portland filmmaker’s movies, CORPSE is a psychological thriller. A couple (Donny Persons and Rachael Perrell) check into an Airbnb where they get into an argument. But the tense, domestic scene contains a dark, supernatural twist. Their relationship starts to fall apart along with the movie’s sense of reality when their argument bookends a bizarre dream sequence in an eerie forest.

But until about a month ago, Hiltner was going to make an entirely different film. It would also be set in an Airbnb, but that Airbnb would be run by a couple who cut open the skulls of their guests to perform experiments on their brains. Depicting live brain surgery would have required special effects, though, and crowdfunding didn’t go as planned. “It got really grim where we didn’t get almost any money,” says Hiltner. After a month, he had raised less than $2,000 of his $16,000 goal.

“I wrote a new script in 48 hours and we just made a different movie that was simpler and cheaper,” he says.

What made the alternate CORPSE different from Hiltner’s previous movies wasn’t that he couldn’t meet his budget, it’s that he was trying raise a substantial budget in the first place. “My other short films, we had no money from the getgo,” he says. “So I wrote for having no money.”

Hiltner is a Beaverton native who learned how to make movies by throwing himself into the deep end of Portland’s independent film scene, starting with Attack of the Flix.

Curious Comedy Theater’s monthly series screened new shorts by Portland filmmakers. Hiltner challenged himself to enter as often as he could, and ended up making five movies over the course of just six months.

“There’s probably a lot of videos that I should mark private on Vimeo just because they don’t necessarily seem that professional,” says Hiltner about his early work.

Now almost a decade into his career, Hiltner’s made upwards of 16 short films with moody lighting and glossy cinematography using low to nonexistent budgets. Most of the films that will screen this Wednesday along with CORPSE were created in just a few days.

Necessity is what lends Hiltner’s movie their idiosyncrasies. He says he’s more interested in feature-length films than shorts, but shorts require far less resources (his first full-length film has been in progress for seven years). The unintentional advantage of short horror movies is that they’re conducive to sustained, uncomfortable moments and condensed, whirlwinds plots. Without a budget for special effects, Hiltner forgoes jump scares and gore for movies that are more unsettling than scary.

Hiltner’s filmography is dotted with odd Portland references. “ When you’re making low-budget movies, the first thing you do when you write the script is go ‘okay, what do I have at my disposal,’” he says.

Another film that will screen this Wednesday is Elena Vance, about a woman murdered in her home on Peacock Lane while hundreds of unaware bystanders take pictures of the Christmas lights outside.

The movie’s premise was partly inspired by the opportunity for a free filming location— Hiltner decided to make Elena Vance not long after one of his friends moved into a

house on Peacock Lane. Similarly, CORPSE was filmed in another friend’s Airbnb.

Though it’s somewhat accidental, there’s something darkly funny about a horror film set in an Airbnb or on Peacock Lane.

Hiltner’s constant output helped connect him with Portland’s independent film scene. “I’ve helped out a lot of friends on their movies and those are the same people that work on my movies,” he says.

“Now when I have these impulses like ‘let’s make a movie,’ all of a sudden there’s 10, 15 people who are like ‘okay we’ll do it.’”

According to Hiltner—who was once stalked by a set designer hired off of Craigslist—Portland’s artistically hungry film scene has been one of the greatest tools for making movies. While filming Spunk of the Reaper earlier this year, actress Alysse Fozmark had a serious allergic reaction to the catered lunch.

“At the end of each take, she’d go to the bathroom, vomit, come back and do the scene,” says Hiltner. “Nobody’s making money off of this movie. People like that just want to make art and they’re willing to be miserable to do it.”

Though he’s deep into the most stressful part of making CORPSE, Hiltner says that the lack of funding might have worked out for the best.

“I actually like the script a lot better,” he says.

No money means no bloody brain surgery scenes, but it also means a more subtle, insidious approach to creating an unsettling film.

“All of a sudden we didn’t have the money to show scary things,” says Hiltner. “We have to present ideas that hopefully creep people out.”

SEE IT: Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After You: Short Films of Bryan Hiltner screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm. org. 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 11. $9.

(1967)

Jacques Tati’s mostly silent comedy is one of film’s most masterful of masterpieces. The visually striking movie’s six different storylines are set in a claustrophobic, futuristic Paris. NW Film Center, Oct. 16.

Scream

(1996)

Wes Craven’s post-ironic slasher flick Scream was both a send-up of and homage to horror, credited with bringing the genre out of the directto-video doldrums.

Laurelhurst, Oct. 11-12.

The Thing

(1982)

Somebody in this camp ain’t what he appears to be. John Carpenter’s tense horror masterwork features lots of disgusting practical effects and Kurt Russell reaching maximum Kurt Russellness. Plus, Hollywood will screen the movie in 70mm film. Awesome.

Hollywood, Oct. 13.

ALSO PLAYING: Academy: Scanners (1981), through Oct. 12. The Omen (1976), Oct. 13-19. Clinton: The Craft (1996), Oct. 16.

Hollywood: Strangers on a Train (1951), Oct. 11. The Wizard (1989), Oct. 12. The Sound of Music (1965), Oct. 14-15. Rocktober Blood (1984), Oct. 16. Joy: Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966), Oct. 11. Kiggins: Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984), Oct. 13. Laurelhurst: Frankenstein (1931), Oct. 11-12. Dracula (1931), Oct. 13-19. NW Film Center: Earnest and Celestine (2013), Oct. 14. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), Oct. 15.

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NOW PLAYING Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years from where the original Blade Runner left off, Los Angeles is still an opulently grimey sprawl cloaked in endless rain. In director Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi noir masterpiece, the Tyrell Corporation has been replaced by the Wallace Corporation, which has figured out how to manufacture subservient replicants that don’t stage bloody mutanies. The older models of synthetic humans are illegal, and it’s still the job of blade runners like K (Ryan Gosling) to hunt them down. But the flimsy social order of humans over replicants becomes threatened by something K discovers at a protein farm. What he finds there leads him on an odyssey through gorgeous wide shots of deserted metropolises coated in sunbaked dust, a shootout strobe lit by a malfunctioning Elvis hologram and eventually to Harrison Ford’s gruff Rick Deckard. With an overwhelming dissonant, bassy score by Hans Zimmer, 2049 looks and sounds spectacular. But 2049 wants to be more than just visually stunning. It’s full of dramatic one-liners and existential musings, and dotted with literary references. As a testament to the influence of the original, there isn’t much 2049 has to add about how technology blurs our sense of self and soul.

Still, it has its own moments of beautifully rendered longing. Gosling’s lone-wolf stoicism is more kicked puppy than hardened self-reliance, and we meet Ana (Carla Juri), who manufactures memories for replicants in the small, sterile room she’s been confined to since the age of eight.

But 2049 seems less concerned with tiny moments of emotion than big reveals from a twisty plot that seems to define 2049’s imaginative boundaries rather than expand them. Still, it’s one hell of a spectacle. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Bagdad, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Milwaukie, Tigard,

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My Little Pony: The Movie

Much has changed in Equestria since a string of pastel centauresses first cantered into theaters. The 1986 original incarnation of My Little Pony: The Movie was a hastily assembled, C-lister-voiced historic flop that’s unrecognizable from the glossy new release. Zoe Saldana voices a pirate parrot, there’s con cat Taye Diggs, seapony Kristin Chenoworth. Sia not only wrote an original song for the movie, but also voices the character Songbird Serenade. The ponies’ signature visual style has evolved into something like Lisa Frank anime—a swirling pinkish, purply miasma of flattened expressiveness. The underlying mythology has expanded, too.

A benevolent monarchy supports the twinkly adventures of Twilight Sparkle (Tara Strong) and other Mane Six principals. There’s an obvious tot appeal for the inane, song-drenched quest of Twilight and pals to defend their homeland against the Storm King (Liev Schreiber) and his brokenhorned hench-unicorn (Emily Blunt).

But MLPTM creators are all too aware they now serve two masters. However kid-friendly the daft plot, its dialogue has been sharpened for a much older, far bitchier clientele. The taint of bronyism hangs heavy over each knowing aside and attempted clever reference. The constant stream of Redditbaiting badinage can’t help but curdle the surrounding ethos of friendship, sparkles and everything nice. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Divison, Eastport, Pioneer Place.

STILL SHOWING 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. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Pioneer Place, Lloyd Center, Eastport.

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Atomic Blonde

An adaptation of the Oni Press graphic novel Coldest City, Atomic Blonde depicts Berlin at the Cold War’s last gasp. Charlize Theron plays a British secret agent set to meet up with James McAvoy’s rogue operative and rescue a vital informant from East Germany. 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. Academy, Vancouver.

Baby Driver

It takes a scant five minutes for Baby Driver to feel like one of the best car-chase films of all time.

At the wheel is Baby (Ansel Elgort, whose face really sells the “Baby” business), who combats his tinnitus by constantly pumping tunes through his earbuds. Every sequence plays out perfectly to the music in Baby’s ears, 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 classicrock oddities. 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. Academy, Laurelhurst, Fox Tower.

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 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. 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.

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.

Logan Lucky

In his comeback heist film, Steven Soderbergh seems actively disinterested in challenging his legacy. This story of a supposedly cursed West Virginia family, The Logans, ripping off the Charlotte Motor Speedway, nickname themselves “Ocean’s 7-11” on an in-movie newscast. As the Logan brothers, Channing Tatum and Adam Driver, are laconic and weatherbeaten, gentle roughnecks who need a win in this life. And as explosives expert Joe Bang, Daniel Craig’s brilliance is in appearing like a maniac but never detonating. Soderbergh is perhaps Hollywood’s finest technician, and it’s a pleasure to watch him tour his Vegas act through Appalachia.

PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cascade, Fox Tower.

Mother!

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. Aronofsky surrounds Mother with unnerving, bloodthemed imagery. 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 heavyhanded metaphor. Rendering the Struggles of the Artist into an exhibitionist nightmare is an exercise only the Artist could love. But man, what a nightmare. R. Clackamas, Living Room, Lloyd, Tigard.

Stronger

Most movies described as “inspirational” practically beg to be dimissed as manipulative feelgoodery. 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.

R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Clackamas, Fox Tower.

Victoria & Abdul

Even the power of Judi Dench’s fearsome gaze isn’t enough to redeem Victoria & Abdul, a whitesavior fantasy from director Stephen Frears (Philomena, The Queen). At the center of the plot is Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), an Indian prison clerk who travels to England to present Queen Victoria (Dench, who also played Queen Victoria in 1997’s Mrs Brown) with a ceremonial coin. Abdul beguiles Victoria, who promotes him from servant to teacher—much to the consternation of racists like her son Bertie (Eddie Izzard). We’re meant to be deeply moved whenever Victoria defends Abdul by shaming Bertie and his xenophobia, yet we learn little of Abdul’s life, family or personality. Instead, the film uses him as a means for Victoria to prove her nobility. It’s meant to be a tender story of an unlikely friendship, but it’s hardly about friendship at all. PG-13.

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Fox Tower.

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.

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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We’ve barely begun to tap the potential health benefits of CBD in cannabis.

The non-intoxicating substance has already shown remarkable potential for treating chronic musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. But the way it works is often misinterpreted.

“CBD is psychoactive; a lot of people misunderstand that,” says neuroscientist Dr. Adie Poe of Washington University in St. Louis. “CBD binds to targets and activates processes inside your brain. It just doesn’t have the same intoxicating effect that THC does, nor does it affect motor functions.”

And unlike other drugs shown to have benefits, you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to use it. This means a lot of people are getting unexpected benefits from CBD. To capture all that data, Poe has partnered with Portland dispensary Farma on Habu Health, a project devoted to gathering feedback from cannabis consumers as a baseline for pharmacological research.

“I almost think of CBD as another vitamin,” Poe says, “a nutritional supplement for people who may suffer from anxiety, insomnia and various other problems with body systems.”

According to Poe, users have reported that CBD can soothe day-to-day maladies that we typically treat with some form of sugar, caffeine or other more metaphorically addictive activity. Here are a few crutches you might be able to replace with CBD. COFFEE Chugging coffee before a work interview? Reaching for that third cup at 2:30 pm? Try a single dose of a CBD -dominant chocolate bar like Serra x Woodblock’s dark chocolate bar ($12) and you’ll feel calmly collected without a hint of the red-eyed silliness from THC, or the digestive and physical panic after three espressos.

AMBIEN I personally don’t mess with this sleepwalking black magic, but a huge population relies on the heavy-handed medication to literally knock themselves out at night. CBD can help you wind down, quieting the rambling streams of consciousness keeping you awake. Nighttime routine for a good night’s sleep: a few puffs off a vape pen with a cartridge of Evolvd’s Tahitian Clear ($60 for 0.6 grams, 77.3% THC 12% CBD) and 10-15 minutes of slow stretching before hitting the sack.

A HANDFUL OF ADVIL Whether it’s an athlete sore from grueling drills or a boomer headed to a pickup game with a bad knee, many people consider a few Advil or Tylenol part of their daily vitamins. For the sake of your internal organs, try one or two Wyld CBD strawberry gummies ($24-$28 for an 118.3gram pack) for several hours of serious relief from muscle/nerve/joint pain. If we’re sure of one thing about this cannabinoid, it’s the antiinflammatory properties.

A REGRETTABLE HOOK-UP To some, there is no such thing. But for those saddled with regrets or hangovers in the morning, I recommend a robust pre-roll of high-CBD flower like Charlotte’s Web ($8) as a better stress come-down than heading out to debauch away a particularly rough day. You won’t feel too stoned, and it’s easier on your body than drinking until the guy in front of you sounds witty.

A SELF-RIGHTEOUS MIDDLE FINGER Sure, it’s cathartic after a long day to flip off the guy who can’t figure out how zipper-merging works. But you can also opt for a subtle CBD capsule after work and funnel that stress-fury into some critical theory or, you know, summoning awareness for a nonprofit. Sun God Medicinals has a 10-pack with 138-178 mg CBD ($27). CBD can help severe medical conditions, but it can also help a stressed-out person just get through the day.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

In his book The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner discusses the visionaries who built the Aswan Dam in Egypt. Their efforts brought an abundance of cheap electricity to millions of people. But the planners didn’t take into account some of the important effects of their innovation. For example, the Nile River below the dam no longer flooded its banks or fertilized the surrounding land every year. As a result, farmers had to resort to chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollution increased. Marine life suffered because of the river’s diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will motivate you to carefully think through the possible consequences of decisions you’re contemplating. I guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, you’ll have to temporarily resist the momentum that has been carrying you along. You’ll have to override the impatient longing for resolution.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

Are you primed to seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional intelligence?

From an astrological perspective, the next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these things. You will have opportunities to deepen your engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity and communicate effectively. It’s possible you may feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential new connections. But I urge you to press ahead anyway. Though you may be less ripe than they are, their influence will have a catalytic effect on you, sparking you to develop at an accelerated rate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

“I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,” Dean Young tells a new lover in his poem “Changing Genres.”

But Young goes on to say that he’s no longer content with that terse genre. “Now I want a Russian novel,” he proclaims, “a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window.”

He yearns for a story line about “a fallen nest, speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge glittering ball where all that matters is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.” I bring Young’s meditations to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to move into a more expansive genre with a more sumptuous plot.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Statistical evidence suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the month are safer than other Fridays.

The numbers of fires and traffic accidents are lower then, for example. I find this interesting in light of your current situation. According to my analysis, this October’s Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongoing efforts to cultivate stability and security. On this day, as well as the seven days before and seven days after, you should receive especially helpful clues about the future work you can do to feel even safer and more protected than you already do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Too much propaganda and not enough real information are circulating through your personal sphere. You’re tempted to traffic in stories that are rooted more in fear than insight. Gossip and hype and delusion are crowding out useful facts. No wonder it’s a challenge for you to sort out the truths from the half-truths! But I predict that you will thrive anyway. You’ll discover helpful clues lodged in the barrage of bunkum. You’ll pluck pithy revelations from amidst the distracting ramblings. Somehow you will manage to be both extra sensitive and super-discriminating.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

A journalist named Jenkin Lloyd Jones coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which he defined as “concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.” I want to urge you Virgos to avoid engaging in a personal version of Afghanistanism.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“I am more interested in human beings than in writing,” said author Anais Nin, “more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.” I invite you to adopt that perspective as your own for the next twelve months, Libra. During this upcoming chapter of your story, you can generate longlasting upgrades if you regard your life as a gorgeous masterpiece worthy of your highest craftsmanship.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Scorpio actress Tara Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she had been in her natural state. “I’ll never be perfect again,” she mourned. I bring this up in the hope that it will inspire you. In my astrological opinion, you’re at a tuning point when it’s crucial to appreciate and foster everything about yourself that’s natural and innate and soulfully authentic. Don’t fall sway to artificial notions about how you could be more perfect than you already are.

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I didn’t go to work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely breakfast, and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what I should advise you Sagittarians to attend to. And my gut wisdom told me that you should temporarily escape at least one of your duties for at least three days. (Escaping two duties for four days would be even better.) My gut wisdom also suggested that you get extra sleep, enjoy leisurely meals, and go on long walks to spots that fill you with a wild sense of peace. There you should consult your gut wisdom about your top dilemmas.

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A snail climbed to the top of a big turtle’s shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. “Wheeee!”, the snail thought to itself. I suspect, Capricorn, that this little tale is a useful metaphor for what you can look forward to in the coming weeks.

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“If these years have taught me anything, it is this,” wrote novelist Junot Díaz. “You can never run away. Not ever.

The only way out is in.” That’s your plucky wisdom for the coming weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase in your life cycle when you can’t achieve liberation by fleeing, avoiding, or ignoring. To commune with the only kind of freedom that matters, you must head directly into the heart of the commotion. You’ve got to feel all the feelings stirred up by the truths that rile you up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

J. Allan Hobson is a scientist of sleep who does research at Harvard. He says we dream all the time, not just at night. Our subconscious minds never stop churning out streams of images. During the waking hours, though, our conscious minds operate at such intensity that the lower-level flow mostly stays subliminal. At least that’s the normal state of affairs. But I suspect your dreamgenerator is running so hot right now that its stories may leak into your waking awareness. This could be disconcerting. Without the tips I’m giving you here, you might worry you were going daft. Now that you know, I hope you’ll tap into the undercurrent to glean some useful intuitions. A word to the wise: The information that pops up won’t be logical or rational. It will be lyrical and symbolic, like dream

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