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WHITE STUFF TWO DECADES AFTER AUTHOR JIM GOAD FELL FROM GRACE IN PORTLAND, HE’S RE-EMERGED AS AN ICON OF THE ALT-RIGHT.

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OUTTAKE: This sign appeared in the background of a photo of Jim Goad taken in LA. PAGE 14

WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 51.

Union goons are trying to ruin the Portland airport. 8

There’s going to be a new music venue inside Lloyd Center. 30

Rep. Greg Walden’s campaign has paid his wife’s sister nearly a halfmillion bucks. 10

Add 626 to the list of area codes you should know are shorthand for cool spots. 32

There’s a bond on the November ballot, and in a shocking turn, this newspaper supports it. 12

where “margaritas make everyone bonitas.” 43

“Senoritas prefer Carlita’s”

A Portland author wrote a defense of white people that used the N-word 76 times, and a local bookstore held a reading for him. 14

The first American to win the critics’ prize at Cannes is from Portland. 48

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DIALOGUE Last week, WW wrote about a proposal to spend nearly a half-billion dollars to widen Interstate 5 at the Rose Quarter (“The Low Road,” WW, Oct. 11, 2017). Here’s what readers had to say about the proposal:

Foundation is trying to help workers. Let’s be clear: The Freedom Foundation is not a friend of working people. Their idea of “helping” is to dismantle all organized labor, leaving workers and their families with no collective power. They oppose nearly every pro-worker policy, like raisGuard Lance Boyles, via Facebook: “I’ve driv- ing the minimum wage and paid sick leave. They en all over the country, and it’s one of the worst are even attempting to cut workers’ retirement stretches I’ve driven as far as chronic congestion benefits. and accidents. It seems there’s always a wreck Further, while I appreciate WW’s vigilance in there or near it.” unearthing their nefarious activities, the article failed to provide important context regarding Theodore Birchard, via Facebook: the Freedom Foundation’s efforts.

“Widening lanes does pretty much “Widening Quite simply, they are not very good nothing to relieve congestion, as the lanes does at their job. To be sure, they have traffic increases to fill that lane regarddeep pockets from a network of outless. This has been happening for pretty much of-state funders, but they have made years, and only recently have cities like nothing.” no significant impact on organized Houston and L.A. started to learn this. labor in the Northwest. The article Let’s not fall into that same trap.” mentions attacks made on home health care workers but fails to menChris Elliott, via wweek.com: “We tion that their union, SEIU 503, has all know that we are overdue for a record-high membership. major earthquake. And we all know This is not to say the Freedom Founthat most, if not all, of our bridges dation does not provide a danger. In will fall. And we all know the gridlock its ham-handed efforts, they have that happens in this city when even abused the law and put workers at one bridge isn’t open. Why in the holy risk, at times resorting to nefarious hell wouldn’t the first priority of Oregon Depart- means to obtain union members’ personal informent of Transporation, the city and the state be mation and putting them at risk of identity theft. to fix and/or replace our bridges?”

Freedom Foundation is a sham organization whose only purpose is to attack workers.

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Dr. Know

BY MARTY SMITH

The other day, I moved some trash bins off the street in order to park. When I returned, someone had strewn trash on my car and wedged the bins passive-aggressively against it.

Was I wrong not to respect this person’s “reservation” of the parking space? —Clara H. Welcome to Portland: If it weren’t for passive aggression, we’d have no aggression at all.

As you’ve probably already guessed, claims like the one your neighbor attempted to make upon the parking space in question are not only not binding, they’re not even legal. A city ordinance—17.102.290, for you code fetishists— specifically forbids you to leave your trash bins in the street.

Technically, it’s not even legal to leave your bins on that little strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street unless it’s trash day. (The name for that grassy area, by the way, is the “furnishing zone,” which was also the name of the least-popular Twilight Zone sequel in history.)

If that’s not enough, a separate ordinance (16.20.170—yeah, baby, you love it) forbids leaving anything other than a vehicle in a regulated parking space for any amount of time at all.

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But before you get too excited imagining the full weight of the justice system raining SWAT teams on your neighbor like he just killed a cop in Grand Theft Auto, you should be aware that enforcement of these regulations is generally limited to the authorities’ sending the offender a postcard.

To be fair, I’m told it is a quite strongly worded postcard. Still, if you’re thinking it probably won’t stop the sort of person who’s willing to dump moldy burritos on your hood to prove a point, I’m not going to argue with you.

But perhaps we should count our blessings. I just found four separate incidents in the past few months in which someone was killed over a parking space somewhere in the United States. As far as I can tell, that hasn’t happened here. So…yay?

It’s a low bar, but by God, we cleared it.

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New Library Rules Show Struggle to Deal With Homeless Patrons

County Speeds Forward With Ambulance Reforms

Wait Continues for Jeremy Christian’s Trial

It’s been nearly three months since the last court appearance of Jeremy Christian, the man who killed two men and injured a third on a MAX train in May. Christian, charged with two counts of aggravated murder, is being held in a single-occupancy cell at the Multnomah County Jail in downtown Portland. That wait will soon end: Christian is scheduled to appear for a bail hearing Nov. 15. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Cheryl Albrecht will decide whether Christian’s bail should be adjusted—he’s currently being held without bail. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office filed notice in June that it intends to Willamette Week OCTOBER 18, 2017 wweek.com

Multnomah County this week dealt with a litany of complaints about one of the single biggest contracts it will administer: the 10-year contract to provide ambulance services, which could be worth upward of $750 million. Portland Fire & Rescue, Gresham Fire and the unions representing both agencies all filed protests to the request for proposals that the county issued in August (“Red Hot and Rolling, WW, Oct. 4, 2017).

The firefighters blasted the county’s proposal to shift medical 911 calls to a private operator. The county politely told the objectors they had no standing, since they didn’t bid. It further explained that officials expect the new system to provide a more effective response and that the county commission is accountable for its performance.

Thorns Win Second National Championship

The Portland Thorns won their second National Women’s Soccer League title with a wild, nerve-racking 1-0 victory over North Carolina Courage in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 15. Midfielder Lindsey C O R R I G O AT E S

Effective Nov. 1, the Multnomah County Library, the nation’s second-busiest for its size, is updating its rules for the first time in 20 years.

The 27 rules now governing behavior suggest the library is struggling to deal with homeless patrons who spend much of the day in library buildings. The most contentious areas: Food is now banned in most cases, drinks are limited to 24 ounces, and personal belongings cannot impede staff or patrons.

And the library is cracking down on “lounging” and sleeping, as well as the use of restrooms for “bathing, shaving and washing hair.”

Library spokesman Shawn Cunningham says the rule revisions were two years in the making, including extensive public input. “We want the library to be a welcoming environment for everyone,” Cunningham says. “It’s a balancing act.”

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seek a sentence that exceeds the maximum set out in the state’s sentencing guidelines because Christian’s crimes were motivated by racial and religious bias and because he has “demonstrated no remorse for his acts.”

Horan scored the match’s only goal. Nearly 200 Portland fans traveled to Florida to cheer on the squad—the latest demonstration of support for a team that draws a following unprecedented in professional women’s soccer.

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The Strip is gone…

The “Strip,” a stretch of North Lombard StreetI-5 in St. Johns where approximately 20 homeless people lived in a dozen RVs, is gone. In July, WW explored the location, a favorite dumping ground abandoning RVs and a makeshift community for people living on the streets (“Zombieland,” WW, July 19, 2017).

Only a converted school bus is still there—its disabled owner has invoked the Americans With Disabilities Act to fend off the city. It’s a strategy that disabled homeless people living in RVs in other cities are using.

Portland Bureau of Transportation spokesman Dylan Rivera says one or two of the RVs from the Strip moved, and the rest were towed to a police impound lot. PBOT and police are working with the sole remaining occupant, Rivera says, to find “other suitable locations.” …but there’s a new “hot spot” in Lents.

While the city’s new Community Caretaking tow program has gotten many of the most dilapidated RVs off city streets, Lents neighborhood activist Jennifer Young says new RV “hot spots” keep popping up—like the one on a hillside near Interstate 205.

Debbie Saylor and her partner Steve’s Winnebago was one of five parked there Sunday, but the retirPORTLAND ees and their RV don’t fit “zombie” 84 stereotypes. In May, three months after the city passed a rule mandating 205 landlords pay moving costs in some evictions, Saylor and Steve received $3,000 from their landlord after a “nocause” eviction from their two-bedroom apartment along Southeast 82nd Avenue. (Steve declined to give a last name.)

After looking for housing and finding only “scammers”205 and move-in costs around $4,000, they bought a 1988 Superchief and moved their belongings into two storage units. The pair share a monthly income of $1,500 that will jump to over $3,000 after Steve’s pension begins.

They plan to head to the coast and seek a trailer park that takes older RVs.

RVs and Towing 650 The Portland Bureau of Transportation’s “rough estimate” of the total number of RVs on Portland streets with people living in them, based on calls to a city hotline, reports from police, and PBOT parking enforcement.

156 Number of RVs towed by the city since Jan. 1. Roughly 100 of these were towed since May under the city’s new tow program for occupied, hazardous RVs.

$1,500 The estimated cost to dismantle an RV legally. Calls to four local junk yards and auto salvages Oct. 16 found no one willing to take an old, nonworking RV—even for money. “I’m not interested—no sir,” said Oregon & A to Z Auto Wrecking.

$300 MOVING ON: Debbie Saylor is parking a Winnebago on the street until she can find an RV park on the Oregon Coast.

What John Maher charged.

$500 or six months in jail

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John Maher’s Failed RV Scrap Plan On Oct. 11, Portland resident John Maher was found guilty of 13 misdemeanors stemming from dismantling and abandoning 11 RVs without a license in St. Johns.

Maher rented land at 6048 N Columbia Way to illegally dismantle at least 14 RVs, which were brought to him by towing companies. He successfully dismantled two and gave one away. Then he left 11 on city streets in March and April. Maher says the towing companies and property owner Ray Blackford had no knowledge of his plan.

Multnomah County Assistant District Attorney Kevin Demer, who prosecuted Maher, says nobody else is abandoning mobile homes on this scale. “The impact on the community of abandoning 11 RVs was significant,” Demer says, noting that each became a nexus for trash, debris and crime. “There’s a clustering effect.”

Here are Maher’s taped statements to Portland police Detective Jeff Myers, submitted by prosecutors as evidence at his trial. They have been edited for space.

problem, and there was a little tiny, tiny bit of money to be made.”

“Retriever [Towing] and Speed’s [Towing] both volunteered to give me $300 [per RV] because that covers the garbage…and then out of the scrap that’s left, there’s like $200 to $300 that’s left in scrap. I would pay Ray the $100 that he wanted, and there’d be $100, $150 left for me.”

“[The RVs] weren’t partially scrapped [when abandoned on the streets]. People have done that to them since I put them out there. They were complete, there was motors, radiators, wheels, tires.”

“That was my plan, that was my goal, to help these other two tow companies alleviate this big burden that’s been thrust upon all the tow guys. It was helping to solve a

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“[Blackford’s] got working jaws that pretty much make quick work out of a motor home. It grabs a few big bites, he drops the bites into the drop box, and it’s ready to take to the dump, and it gets it down to [a weight] where the scale will take the frames. And you can get rid of them.”

The potential penalty for selling a “hazardous” RV under a new Portland policy passed by the City Council on Oct. 4.

Oct. 29 The date of the city’s RV Disposal TurnIn Day, at which it will take residents’ old campers off their hands, free of charge, at Portland International Raceway.

In the recordings, Maher does not clearly state why he abandoned his plan to scrap the remaining RVs, but mentions that he needed 20 for the operation to be profitable, and that Blackford expressed concern that Maher had no dismantler or “wrecker” license.

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“Everybody started questioning, ‘Don’t we need a wrecker’s license? Don’t we need a wrecker’s license?’ and I said, ‘Let me check, I don’t believe we do!’”

“I despise doing what I did. I know it’s not right, but it’s the only way to get any attention to any of this. I know it’s a disgrace to the neighborhood, I know it’s despicable—I know all that. I’m not a moron.”

LONG, STRANGE STRIP: John Maher was convicted Oct. 11 of charges stemming from illegally dumping RVs along this stretch of North Lombard Street, known as the “Strip.”

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Final Destination ORGANIZED LABOR WANTS TO PUSH OUT LOCAL RESTAURANTS AND RAISE PRICES AT PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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In February, Portland International Airport will unveil the latest additions to its lineup of Portlandian drinking and dining.

The airport’s owner, the Port of Portland, recently NOT DUNKIN’: Portland-based Blue Star Donuts began doing business at PDX in signed 10-year contracts with Deschutes Brewery and 2016, along with local operations Tamale Boy and Tender Loving Empire.

Hopworks Urban Brewing to open new pubs in the D concourse.

But if one of the nation’s largest labor unions gets its For the past five years, Travel & Leisure magazine has Unite Here is building momentum at PDX. The union way, those openings could mark the last time local busi- named PDX the nation’s top airport. organized about 100 restaurant workers in 2015 and 50 nesses claim a foothold inside PDX. Port staff attribute that ranking to two factors. First, retail workers last year—although that still leaves about 85 Unite Here, a New York-based labor union, repre- they credit the lineup of local restaurants, bars and shops percent of the concession workforce unrepresented. sents airport concession workers up and down the West at PDX. Officials also point to so-called “street pricing,” a The union wants port officials to change the way PDX Coast—but for now, only a small percentage of those in policy that requires vendors—including national chains does business. Right now, 40 different concessionaires Portland. For the past two years, it has been urging port such as Starbucks and McDonald’s—to charge the same operate at PDX, including local favorites such as Kenny & officials to dramatically reduce the number of conces- prices in the airport as they do elsewhere in the city.

Zuke’s, Bambuza, Country Cat and the boutique Tender sion contracts at PDX. That change could sweep Loving Empire. out local beer and bagels, but make it easier for Each of those companies has its own contract hundreds of workers to join their union. with the port and, in turn, negotiates terms with its In 2016, Portland International generated “Workers at PDX are falling behind,” says Stefan employees. For Unite Here, that makes organizing more concession dollars per passenger Moritz, an organizer for Unite Here. “Housing and workers—many of whom work behind security and than peer airports. other costs are going up far faster than their wages. are inaccessible—difficult. $14 Portland is the only major West Coast airport that Unite Here would like to see the port consolidate $12 doesn’t have a solid labor retention policy. We’d all its businesses into the hands of one or two operalike to change that.” tors, as is the case at many large airports. $10 Unite Here is a powerful force in the nation’s Kristen Leonard, the port’s in-house lobby$8 airports. And for the first time in decades, PDX’s ist, says that would change travelers’ experiences. business model is under pressure from the union, “You’d have a lineup of Burger Kings, McDonald’s $6 which has shown an ability to dictate terms in and Taco Bells,” Leonard says. $4 West Coast airports from Seattle to Los Angeles.

Unite Here’s second wish is for the port to “Unite Here is very big in larger cities,” says abandon street pricing. The union argues that high $2 Felicia Hagins of SEIU Local 49, which represents airport operating expenses combined with price 600 non-concession airport workers. “They’re constraints squeeze workers. “The only place you very serious about what they’re doing at PDX and can save is on labor costs,” Moritz says. “This creates AIRPORT PDX TPA SEA SAN HOU BNA MDW STL SLC they’re in it for the long term.” a real tension.”

AVERAGE Unite Here workers at PDX get a small premium Unite Here representatives have paid regular $12.91 $11.07 $11.06 $11.03 $10.96 $10.49 $9.24 $9.22 $8.64 SPENT above Oregon’s minimum wage, currently $11.25 an visits to port commission meetings recently.

SOURCE: PORT OF PORTLAND hour in the metro area. Workers at Seattle-Tacoma They’re finding some support on the nine-member International Airport make $15 an hour. Portland’s commission. In August, when the commission voted “We think both of those factors make us unique in on the Deschutes and Hopworks brewpub contracts, two of minimum wage will not rise to $15 until 2023.

At issue are two different visions of PDX: Port offi- the industry,” says Chris Czarnecki, who directs conces- the nine commissioners sided with Unite Here. cials believe the airport’s mission is to serve passengers sions at PDX. “Most places you land, you could be in “When you have street pricing, it is coming on the back and promote the region for tourism and economic Anyplace U.S.A.” of the worker,” said commissioner Tom Chamberlain, Port officials point to one metric—dollars spent per president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, before voting against development. Labor representatives say the publicly owned facility should focus more on the pay and welfare passenger—as evidence that their formula works. The the contracts.

60,000 passengers who flow through PDX each day spend of airport workers.

Chamberlain declined to comment for this story.

As regular national accolades show, Portland is a recog- more money per person than passengers at airports in Ultimately, the public policy question is whose welwealthier cities, including Seattle, Boston and Washington, fare the port prioritizes: travelers or the workers who nized leader in concentrating on customer satisfaction.

“There has to be balance, of course, but my belief is that D.C. And compared to peer airports, PDX comes out on top serve them. airports operate for the benefit of travelers,” says Daniel (see chart).

Bubb, the UNLV professor, says research shows travel“It’s our belief that street pricing helps generate more ers are very attuned to their airport experiences.

Bubb, a former airline pilot and now an assistant professor of aviation history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. revenue than if prices were higher,” Czarnecki says.

“People will pay more money to avoid a lousy airport,” “Flying is such a frustrating experience for many people “Somebody who pays $5 for a bottle of water isn’t going Bubb says. “Airports are the first and last points of contact shopping.” that airports are trying to pick up the slack.” for a traveler. If an airport is unpleasant, travelers will go out of their way to avoid it.”

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE: U.S. Rep. Greg Walden greets Oregon Army National Guard soldiers returning from Afghanistan in a 2015 ceremony in Bend.

Bring the Family ETHICS LAWS PREVENT CONGRESSMAN GREG WALDEN FROM HIRING FAMILY MEMBERS. BUT HIS CAMPAIGN DOES SO FREELY.

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U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) uses campaign funds to pay the salaries for two members of his family.

Walden’s campaign employs Marta Simons, sister to his wife, Mylene Simons-Walden, as campaign treasurer and chief financial officer of the Walden Victory Fund Political Action Committee.

Walden’s stepsister Barbara Hosford also does part-time administrative work for the PAC. Using campaign funds to pay family members is legal. But experts worry it can lead to corruption and raises concerns about an elected official’s judgment.

Federal anti-nepotism law prohibits members of Congress from using taxpayer funds to hire family members as government staff. New congressional staff hires must fill out a form promising they are not related even as an in-law or a step-relative to a current member of Congress. If family members are “appointed, employed, promoted, or advanced” in violation of federal law, they are “not entitled to pay.”

Far less regulation exists, however, on paying family with campaign funds.

Experts say this loophole is the result of a flawed system.

“While legal, hiring a spouse or family for campaign work raises questions about self-dealing, and can be ripe for abuse if not monitored,” says Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Walden says he’s done nothing wrong.

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He tells WW in a statement that Simons is an accountant and “expert” in election compliance. “I don’t think I could find anyone better qualified for this position,” Walden says. “She does an excellent job.”

Walden adds that Simons ran her own campaign compliance business “for a myriad of state candidates” in the past.

He says Hosford, a retired schoolteacher, is an asset to have as an administrator because she “taught and coached so many young people in my hometown over the course of 30 years in the classroom.”

Because of his leadership position, Walden heads three PACs (most lawmakers have just one). Representing an overwhelmingly Republican district, Walden has never faced a serious challenger and has instead been free to focus his fundraising prowess on helping fellow Republicans win election.

In the past two election cycles, during which he chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee, Walden’s PACs have raised almost $10 million altogether. Less than halfway through the current cycle, Walden has raised more

“HIRING A SPOUSE OR FAMILY FOR CAMPAIGN WORK RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT SELF-DEALING, AND CAN BE RIPE FOR ABUSE IF NOT MONITORED” —SCOTT AMEY, GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT

A former state legislator from Hood River, Walden first won election to Congress in 1988. Oregon’s only Republican congressman, he represents the largest district by land size in Oregon and the seventhlargest in the country.

Walden is one of the most senior members of the House Republican caucus.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) named him chairman of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this year. In that position, Walden helped introduce the GOP’s effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

than $3.5 million. Almost three-quarters of that revenue, $2.5 million, comes from Walden for Congress.

A small portion of Walden’s impressive campaign funds has benefited his family.

S i n c e Wa l d e n h i r e d S i m o n s i n December 2007, she has been paid about $429,000 in salary. Hosford has made more than $12,000 since April 2016.

Since December 2013, Walden for Congress has also paid more than $51,000 to Moda Health for health insurance. It is unclear how much of that sum benefited his relatives.

Walden is not the only member of Congress whose campaign employs family: USA Today found that 32 members of Congress in 2012 spent more than $2 million to pay immediate family members with campaign money. But that number might be greater because, as in Walden’s case, lawmakers might be hiring stepsiblings or in-laws who are harder to detect because they have different last names than the member of Congress.

Earlier this month, The Des Moines Register reported that U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has employed his son and daughter-in-law as full-time campaign staffers for the past 13 years, for a total of more than $805,000.

Critics don’t like the practice. However, as long as members of Congress say salary and expenses for family count as legitimate campaign expenditures, they can spend contributions however they want.

“There’s been a long controversy about what constitutes the personal use of campaign funds,” says Meredith McGehee, strategic adviser for the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C. Unless the Federal Elections Commission receives a complaint, it typically does not investigate.

McGehee says her organization and others have asked the FEC to crack down on nepotism, but the agency has been unwilling to do so. “The honest answer,” McGehee says, “is [that] the FEC would not go there.”

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PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOND Voters may be surprised to find ballots in their mailboxes this week. Silver lining: They can make short work of filling them out.

For most Portland voters, the only item on the Nov. 7 ballot is a $185 million Portland Community College bond.

PCC is Oregon’s largest educational institution in terms of students served: about 78,000 each year. The students are older and more diverse than Oregon university students. They come to PCC because it’s far cheaper to attend than a four-year school, and because they want to learn job skills. (Vigor Industrial set up a welding program, and Intel and Genentech helped establish curricula for technicians.)

A recent economic impact study the college commissioned found that each dollar invested in those students’ education will return $12.50 in cumulative benefit over the course of the students’ lives. The Portland Business Journal ranked 21 colleges based on graduates’ salaries compared to the cost of their education—and PCC ranked first.

Despite the vast number of students they serve, community colleges are the runt of Oregon education. They lack the passionate grassroots support that K-12 parents reliably deploy on lawmakers to fund schools, and they cannot mobilize the well-heeled, politically connected boosters that Oregon’s public universities draw upon. Community college students are less able to shoulder the big tuition hikes four-year universities can impose, and the community colleges are less able to attract the out-of-state and overseas students who subsidize the University of Oregon, Oregon State and Portland State.

That means when PCC needs money, it comes to voters.

PCC stretches across four campuses and eight learning centers, reaching deep into North, Southwest and East Portland. These campuses include some structures that are

either decrepit, obsolete or inaccessible to people with disabilities.

The college would like to use money from this bond for three priorities: to expand jobtraining facilities; to upgrade labs and technology used to prepare students for health and science jobs; and to improve the safety and security of its buildings.

On the drawing board are no-frills projects such as razing two buildings on its Workforce Training Center campus in Northeast Portland and building a new day care center at its Rock Creek campus in Washington County to accommodate the large number of students who are also working parents.

It’s a mostly painless decision for voters. If the bond passes, their taxes will not increase.

That’s because this bond would replace a $144 million bond voters approved in 2000. That bond will soon be paid off, so the new bond would merely take its place at the same estimated tax rate.

PCC has shown foresight in spending the previous bond. Its biggest success was the decision to purchase land that now holds the college’s Southeast campus, located on 82nd Avenue north of Division Street. When it was officially dedicated in 2014, Southeast became PCC’s fourth campus and its first new one in 40 years—purchased at a fraction of what the land would cost today.

Interest rates are lower now than they were in 2000, and the number of taxpayers have increased, so the college would be able to borrow more money for the same average tax payment. The cost per household: 40 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.

In 2016, the average assessed value of a home in Multnomah County was $210,000.

That means the average homeowner would pay $84 a year for the life of the bond. That’s a good deal. Vote yes.

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wenty years ago, Jim Goad was Portland’s hottest new writer.

When he gave a reading of his first book in May 1997, fans spilled onto the sidewalks outside Reading Frenzy, the downtown counterculture bookshop owned by now City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly. They were there to get a look at the 35-year-old author with a rockabilly bouffant and a heart tattooed on his sculpted biceps.

“There were people out the door, peering in the windows,” he now remembers.

Goad was then a breakout name in Portland, where he lived for 11 years. The Temple University graduate arrived here with a bit of notoriety as the creator of a crass zine called Answer Me! that printed “ironic” essays in favor of rape and abusing women. In Portland, he wrote his first and most infamous book, The Redneck Manifesto, which earned him a $100,000 book deal from Simon & Schuster.

Early reviews of Redneck—which opened with a chapter called “White Niggers Have Feelings Too” and uses the N-word a total of 76 times—were mostly positive. Florida’s Sun-Sentinel called it a “furious, profane, smart and hilariously smart aleck defense of working-class white culture,” while Publishers Weekly said he was “writing at the top of his voice” and “merits a listen.” Kirkus Reviews wrote that while Redneck was “sure to infuriate the liberal reader, he is also likely to make that same reader laugh ruefully, and often.” WW praised the book’s “brutally candid critique of American race relations.”

That book was the closest Goad got to mainstream success.

Twenty years later, Goad has become instead a leading figure in far-right fringe media. Best-selling author Michael Malice called him “godfather of the new right.”

In 2016, Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Media who later founded the Proud Boys—a farright men’s organization whose members dress in MAGA hats and Fred Perry polos—called Goad “the greatest writer of our generation.” McInnes lists The Redneck Manifesto as one of three “required” books on modern Western culture, alongside Pat Buchanan’s The Death of the West and Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray.

“This is Proud Boy Holy scripture,” reads a review of Goad’s book on the Proud Boys’ website.

“This book could be our bible.”

Goad’s popularity during the Trump era has seen a resurgence. Goad says his former publisher doesn’t give him figures, but The Redneck Manifesto’s sales are accelerating. It’s been through 17 printings, and its Amazon sales rank shot up 200,000 places between 2012 and 2017. It’s currently the No. 30 top-selling book in “minority studies.”

“People see that Trump got elected, and they want to know how this monster came to power,” says Goad. “They come to me for the etiology of the disease.”

Portlanders often view the alt-right that elected Trump as a phenomenon foreign to our city. But the “bible” of the Proud Boys was written right here. If you want to know where the angry white men of the alt-right came from, it’s important to try to comprehend Jim Goad.

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oad, now 56, is divorced and living with a pit-bull mix named Bam-Bam in a rented room on the outskirts of Atlanta. He publishes a weekly column on Taki’s, a right-wing blog, and writes dirty short stories for Thought Catalog. He also records a podcast—recent episodes include an interview with the editor of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer and Goad’s rant about how the left “destroyed comedy.” Though he is still writing books— his latest, The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of “Social Justice”, was published in February— he hasn’t given a public reading in five years. After surgeries to remove both a benign tumor and his gallbladder, he has taken up yoga and a Paleo diet. His rockabilly hair has given way to a bald head and muted button-down shirts.

When pressed, Goad dodges all political labels and party affiliations, saying he’s a “lone wolf.” He claims not to consider himself part of the alt-right, though he did stump for Trump.

“Those guys don’t like me because I’m not a team guy. I don’t identify as right wing. They’re wired that way, it’s a team movement,” he says. “I’m radioactive in ways, I’m beyond the pale.”

That’s not how established figures on the right see it. Michael Hoffman, a writer of anti- Semitic histories, praised Goad’s ability to bring his revisionist history of “white slavery” to a wider audience.

“Redneck Manifesto is one of the first major breakthroughs for drawing attention to the suppressed history of the bondage of whites in early America,” Hoffman tells WW. In the new right’s media universe, Goad is ubiquitous. He’s been praised by nearly every major far-right website, from white nationalist Richard Spencer’s AltRight.com to anti-Semitic

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white-identity blog the Occidental Observer to anti-immigration site VDARE. VDARE founder Peter Brimelow, a former National Review writer whose book Alien Nation argues that America should stay as white as possible, had lunch with Goad not long ago. “[He’s] one of the brightest and bravest voices to emerge on the politically incorrect right,” Brimelow tells WW. “His style is far too wild for the conventional pearl-clutching [Republican] types, and he’s really too idiosyncratic to be part of any movement, but he will regularly make great and important arguments.”

Jared Taylor, editor of white supremacist website American Renaissance, tells WW that Goad is “an excellent writer who treats taboo subjects creatively, incisively and with a sense of humor. He is always worth reading.”

Goad, for his part, says people who call him racist are trying to hang him with “guilt by association,” complaining that racism has become a catchphrase for “any white person who’s OK with being white.”

But along with insisting repeatedly that people labeled Holocaust deniers are just “quibbling over numbers” and white supremacists are mythical, Goad cites studies that say “whites are supreme in IQ tests by far” to blacks and Hispanics.

“Although I hold Mexicans in the highest esteem as a proud and noble (if exceedingly short) people, they tend to score poorly on standardized tests and have never invented much of note beyond nachos,” he wrote in his column, in response to this year’s controversy over Portland’s Kooks Burritos, which shut down after its American owners were accused of culturally appropriating their tortilla recipe from Mexico.

Yet Goad has not been totally shunned by the mainstream.

He remains friendly with comedian Patton Oswalt, who opted to debate the election with Goad on a podcast last November. Oswalt defended his decision with effusive praise of Goad.

“The man can fucking write,” Oswalt wrote on Facebook. “And, unlike a lot of the failed comedians and sad punks on the alt-right, he isn’t in it for the ‘lulz’ and doesn’t affect a bullshit nihilist pose.”

But if Oswalt is still willing to consider Goad a worthy debate partner, he’s poison to most who knew him in Portland. Attempted interviews with Goad’s friends and former publisher here were stopped at the mention of his name.

That’s not just because of Goad’s current politics, but because of what happened here after the publication of The Redneck Manifesto.

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t 5:45 am on May 29, 1998, almost exactly one year after Redneck was published, Goad left his girlfriend Sky Ryan bleeding on the side of Northwest Skyline Boulevard. When police found her, Ryan’s left eye was swollen shut, the eye socket had been fractured, and her thumb had been bitten deep into the flesh. It took 26 stitches to put her face back together, and three days for her eye to stop bleeding.

When police came for him, Goad’s defense was that she had hit him first.

“She bops me in the nose,” he says now. “Yeah, I beat the fuck out of her.”

The couple had a long history of violence, and so did Goad. Previously, he’d admitted publicly to hitting his wife, Debbie. He had also filed for a restraining order against Ryan after a series of threats.

He remains unrepentant. “I know I’m supposed to say I was bad, but that’s not how I feel,“ he says now. “That’s why I’m so hated. People resent it when somebody has a little spine.”

Four years before the abuse, he had written an essay, “Let’s Hear It for Violence Toward Women!”, which began, “Women are only good for fucking and beating. When you get tired of fucking them, there’s only one thing left to do.”

To prosecutors, this was evidence.

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“Portland writer Jim Goad has long been accused of glorifying violence against women,” WW’s Maureen O’Hagan wrote at the time. “Now he’s been charged with practicing it, as well.”

The thing that saved Goad from a 15-year sentence was his habit of saving phone recordings, tapes in which Ryan threatened Goad that she would “stab you a million times” and “cut you up into a million pieces.”

Goad was allowed to cop a plea, and served two and a half years.

While in prison, Goad says his worldview sharpened. He’s since spoken of both how arduous the experience was and admiringly about how prisons function as an ideal society.

“In prison, people get along better than they do on the streets,” he wrote on his personal website. “Convicts display the sort of camaraderie that only emerges under siege. They are polite to one another because they know the consequences of being rude. It’s as if everyone’s carrying a gun, so no one gets shot.”

Goad came to believe segregation of racial groups in prison showed tribalism was natural. Though The Redneck Manifesto argued for class unity against the rich, Goad now says equality of races is a myth and that racial separation is the natural order.

“Everyone understood that they were tribal, and as long that was cool, everyone gets along,” he said on a recent podcast

describing his prison time. “Plus, Oregon was overwhelmingly white, so if you fucked with peckerwood you’d have an ocean of sunshine drowning you. If it was ambiguous who was in charge, that’s when you got conflict. If there’s one group completely in charge, things seemed to cool out.”

The other thing that Goad decided while incarcerated? That his own suffering in jail far outweighed that of his victim. In his memoir Shit Magnet, Goad writes that he had no sympathy at all for Ryan: After all, he’d been assaulted, too.

“Incarceration,” he writes, “is much worse.”

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hen Goad got out of prison in late 2000, he was treated like a leper. Almost no one wanted to talk to him, he says, except Frank Faillace, owner of Dante’s on West Burnside Street.

“Frank got a job, created a job for me when I got out of prison,” says Goad.

He began by designing strip-club magazine Exotic, where he was later promoted to editor.

The book he wrote in prison, Shit Magnet, was devoted to Goad’s toxic relationship with girlfriend Ryan while his wife was dying of ovarian cancer. It was published in 2002 by then-Portlandbased Feral House after being rejected by every major publisher in New York, according to a 1999 piece in The Village Voice. That piece noted that Goad was “something of a local pariah” and called Shit Magnet “part autobiography, part self-justification, part screed.”

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Only eight people came to the June 2002 reading of Shit Magnet at bookstore CounterMedia, one of whom was Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, who has his own sphere of influence within the alt-right (see “Right Club,” page 21).

“He doesn’t pull his punches. Brutally honest without worrying about being correct,” Palahniuk told the Portland Tribune when interviewed at the reading.

Palahniuk, Faillace and Eudaly are the only Portlanders Goad speaks warmly about.

“We used to go to pug play day in Irving park—he had Boston terriers,” Goad says of Palahniuk.

Faillace still describes Goad as a friend and “fucking brilliant writer,” but says they “respectfully disagree on a lot of things” and that the two haven’t corresponded in a decade.

In an email to WW, Eudaly says her store had a policy at the time of accepting all books from local authors or publishers, without regard to content. But she says if she were running a bookstore now, she wouldn’t host a reading by Goad.

“There’s no way in hell I would host any author that would draw a crowd of the kind of creeps and fools that populate the alt-right,” she writes. “It isn’t something I’d subject my staff, my customers, my community, or myself to.

That’s not censorship, it’s personal choice.”

In the years following his domestic abuse conviction, Goad complained about the increasingly “cold reception” he got from most of the writing community in Portland. “Where I come from, tolerating ideas is probably the most precious kind of tolerance,” he says. “But not in Portland.”

Goad says he was “silenced” here. Specifically, starting in 2004, his decision to wear an Iron Cross necklace caused him to be confronted by an anti-racist skinhead group called the Rose City Bomber Boys.

In 2005, a friend suggested Goad leave Portland to write a book about NASCAR. He was ready to go. Goad never finished the NASCAR book but landed in Georgia, working as a copy editor and making pamphlets for a medical company. He went two years without a single paid writing gig.

Goad might have faded into obscurity were it not for Gavin McInnes, a longtime admirer.

McInnes, recently departed from Vice Media, brought Goad aboard as a writer for a thenobscure website called Taki’s.

Goad wasn’t sure they’d have him. He confessed his criminal record and that he’d been to prison. It wasn’t a problem.

“That’s OK,” said his new editor. “We’ve all been to jail here.”

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DANCES WITH WOLVES THE FAR RIGHT’S STRANGE OBSESSION WITH PORTLAND AUTHOR CHUCK PALAHNIUK. If a sheep dies in the woods outside Portland, it might be because of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk.

A man named Jack Donovan runs the local chapter of a far-right group called Wolves of Vinland that doubles as an insurrectionist fight club in the style of antihero Tyler Durden in Palahniuk’s book. Obsessed with the idea that American masculinity has been degraded and feminized, the Wolves of Vinland sacrifice animals to old gods, beat the snot out of each other and prepare for the inevitable fall of civilization. Donovan cites Palahniuk as an inspiration, and so does the Wolves’ main leadership in Virginia. Their training manual quotes only two people: Vlad the Impaler and Tyler Durden.

They’re not alone. Though its only clear politics are anti-consumerist, Palahniuk’s hyperviolent, masculinityobsessed 1996 novel has become a touchstone for the angry men of the alt-right. Fight Club, which achieved cult status as a 1999 movie starring Brad Pitt, is about a group of men who form a secret cult of warriors and stage ritualist fights, waging war against the inauthentic modern world that has taken their manhood from them.

In January, Vice called Fight Club the “ultimate handbook for men’s right’s activists.” Renegade-right Wall Street blog Zero Hedge, derided by one of its own former writers as “a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Trump,” signed every post with the name Tyler Durden.

This July, Richard Spencer’s alt-right blog reprinted a seminal essay called “Generation AltRight” written by a guy who identified himself as Hannibal Bateman.

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“Our credo,” Bateman writes, “could be summed up in that most angsty of films, Fight Club: ‘We’re the middle children of history, man.

No purpose or place.…We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.’”

The photo accompanying the essay depicts Brad Pitt as cult leader Tyler Durden.

The common thread to the altright’s love of Palahniuk’s book is Durden’s sense that men no longer have a sense of themselves as heroic: They are, evolutionarily, mighty hunters and warriors adrift in a sea of shopping malls.

“Fight Club asked the question, ‘How much do you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?’”

Wolves of Vinland’s Jack Donovan tells WW. “Fight Club inspired me to begin challenging my own received ideas about masculinity and identity and the psychological relationship that men have with violence.”

But of course, the character most right-leaners admire in Fight Club is not the hero of the book. Tyler Durden is a sociopathic split personality resulting from a psychotic break, whose messianic fight cult becomes a violent farce. The book was less a celebration than a dark send-up of masculinity, with the lion’s share of its bile reserved for consumer culture.

Though it’s hard to blame Palahniuk’s book for what the far right has made of it, Palahniuk has nonetheless proudly claimed parentage of the Trump crowd’s favorite insult, “snowflake,” trotted out to shame anyone who gets offended on the internet.

The first time the word was used in the modern sense was in Fight Club.

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake,” Durden says. “You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

Strangely, Palahniuk, who started his career in Portland and lives in the Columbia River Gorge, once posed for a photo with his arm around the neck of Vinland’s Donovan, who along with leading a wolf-cult chapter is a far-right media figure flirting with white nationalism. “‘Fight Club’ author Chuck Palahniuk stopped by my offi ce today to talk about masculinity and choke me out. #fightclub #wolvesofvinland #operationwerewolf #opww #masculinity,” Donovan posted on Instagram in August 2015. Through a representative, Palahniuk told the website Daily Beast they were only acquaintances, and that the chokeout was his standard pose when being photographed with fans.

When asked about the right’s love of Fight Club, Palahniuk is quick to say the book’s dark vision has also been adopted by the left.

“Please note,” he tells WW, “that the left has also embraced the concept and is running a network of college-based ‘fight clubs’ to train Antifa how to punch Nazis.”

According to Palahniuk, the reason Fight Club is so popular with political radicals is that there are so few options for people dissatisfied with the world as it is.

“A man recently asked me why Fight Club and The Matrix provide most of the language and metaphors for political discourse right now,” he tells WW. “My sad answer is that very few books or films have questioned the status quo in recent decades. Perhaps we’ll see more ‘game-changing’ narratives instead of stories set in stock reality.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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hough the alt-right may have started as a fringe movement, it’s now seized a level of prominence unthinkable a few years ago—or at least unthinkable to most Portlanders.

Goad says he’s not surprised to see the rise of Trump.

“I think the left really overplayed its hand with identity politics,” he says.

In a post titled “Smells Like Victory,” penned Sept. 16, 2016, Goad predicted Trump would win the election on the backs of “a huge brooding swath of Americans out there who know that the media despises their very existence.”

“A Trump victory would be a deathblow to the media and political establishment,” he wrote. “That’s a good thing. A Trump victory would also lead to massive collective depression and rampant suicidal ideation in all the people that I genuinely hate.”

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As a political stance, this is hardly better than utter nihilism. But 20 years after it was written, The Redneck Manifesto is an eerie harbinger of the seething white resentment that now fuels a part of the American right.

“Working-class whites are denied any identity beyond a guilt rap,” Goad wrote in 1997. “So don’t act surprised when they form an identity merely on being hated and scapegoated. As opportunities for unskilled labor vanish, white trash is likely to get nasty. And politicized in ways that make you squirm.”

But according to many on the left and center of the political spectrum, Goad’s not just chronicling that resentment: He’s amplifying it.

“Goad incites fear, and fear, of course, is a primary driver of hate,” says former Portlander Joshua Frank, who co-edits leftwing magazine CounterPunch. “Goad’s con-

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In the past, Goad’s works have triggered fringe types, conspiracy theorists, and the simply unhinged.

In 1994, Francisco Duran fired 29 rifle shots at the White House, leaving an issue of Goad’s zine and a hand-scrawled quote from Goad in his van: “Can you imagine a higher moral calling than to destroy some one’s dreams with one bullet….” Duran was eventually convicted of attempting to assassinate President Bill Clinton.

Two years later, three teenage British neo-Nazis killed themselves after reading Goad’s essay about suicide; one left Goad her life savings so he could continue his work.

And the Charlottesville rally, where Heather Heyer was killed and hundreds of men marched to the chant “Jews will not replace us,” was organized by a onetime member of the Proud Boys, founded by one of Goad’s chief admirers, Gavin McInnes.

(McInnes did not respond to requests for comment.)

Goad’s inflammatory writing is rightly protected by the First Amendment. But Goad refuses all moral culpability for what others do with his books.

“There are a lot of strangled hookers because of a misreading of a passage on the Whore of Babylon,” Goad says. “Blame ends with the actor. If I tell somebody to go kill somebody and they’re dumb enough to do it, I think they should go to prison, not me.”

Goad is unmoved by claims that his writing—or that of other writers on the radical-right fringe— might share some blame for inciting the violence in Charlottesville and on the streets of Portland. He blames instead the leftist counterprotesters who he says are trying to shut down free speech.

“Goad, [and] so many on the alt-right, proclaim to be champions of free speech but sure as hell hate it when their marches are met with overwhelming resistance,” says Frank. “Does Goad have a right to speak his idiotic mind in a public space? Of course he does, but we also have a right to challenge him and drown out his fearmongering.”

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“The hardest part is finding your community and learning how to be comfortable in most of the white spaces where you’re very visible. You’ll walk into a space and feel like it’s all eyes on you. Also, feeling hurt as a person of color because if you have no one to relate, then a lot of people will brush it off ’cause there’s no one else to back you up or say what you’re saying.”

“Taking the time to give support and showing love within communities of color can become difficult when we are existing in times of injustice. The injustice we experience together brings anger and sadness that we have to overcome on a daily basis. We as people of color have that strength to be resilient and keep pushing forward through barriers. ”

“To me the hardest thing is not seeing other black people. I think we should see each other. I hear all the time that there are no black people in Portland, but there are. Even though there are a small amount of black people here, what matters is that we’re still here. It wouldn’t matter if there were 100 or 100,000, we’re still here and we can do anything together.”

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1. Entrance to Spirit of Halloweentown You’re in another world now. Expect to see witches, warlocks, werewolves, trolls, ogres, zombies, pumpkin heads and full-grown adults who were 10 when this movie came out.

2. The Pumpkins at Plaza Square

You may be tempted by the shiny, silver pumpkin in the center of the square, but venture a little farther and you’ll find the original pumpkin that was instrumental in saving Halloweentown from Kalabar’s wrath. If you’re around on Saturday, October 21, you’ll encounter the Haunted Hotrod and Hearse Rally.

3. Psychic Cab

The psychic cab received a modern facelift, resembling a modern taxi. Benny isn’t driving, but there’s a skeleton in the front seat that looks like him—maybe it’s his cousin?

ROSIE STRUVE

Some movies remain undead forever. Nineteen years after first airing on the Disney Channel, Halloweentown, a made-for-TV movie about a young girl who learns she comes from a long line of witches, has maintained a loyal following. The small Oregon city where the original movie was filmed, St. Helens, transforms into Halloweentown every October.

The plot of the movie is vaguely Harry Potteresque and too complicated to explain here, but the simple version is that Halloweentown is a realm separate from the mortal world where there are vampires, werewolves and creatures with pumpkins for heads who only interact with humans through a portal that opens on Halloween.

All month long, the riverfront district of St. Helens becomes that alternate realm, replete with scarecrows, witches, ghosts and pumpkins.

As part of Creepy Maps Month, we scoped out the best spots, where you’ll find caramel apples, haunted hotrods and severed heads on the journey through Spirit of Halloweentown.

4. School Bus

No, it’s not a real bus and no, it doesn’t fly. But you can still have your picture taken from behind a wooden standup version of the bus that takes Marnie, Dylan and Sophie from the mortal world to Halloweentown.

5. City Hall

City Hall is actually the Columbia County Courthouse. This is where Kalabar staged his final stand, unveiling his true identity. Expect to wait for a line of people taking their pictures at the foot of the steps.

6. Haunted House

As in all mortal world Halloween events, a haunted house is a requirement. For real-life ghost stories, go across the street to the Klondike, a restaurant that has had its share of paranormal activity, including several ghost sightings and a supposedly haunted coffee machine.

7. The Columbia Theatre

The theatre where Luke betrayed the Cromwells, leading Aggie to Kalabar, who unleashed his evil freezing spell. In the movie, the theatre marquee reads “closed forever.” In real life, movies still play daily.

8. Aggie Cromwell’s House

The house is a bed and breakfast now. The biggest Halloweentown fans stay here, though bringing your own cauldron and “Instant Witches Brew” is highly discouraged.

GO: Spirit of Halloweentown runs through October. St.

Helens Riverfront District, discovercolumbiacounty.com. Daily schedules vary. Free.

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LLOYD CENTER STAGE: Lloyd Center will be getting a music venue from Live Nation, the world’s largest live entertainment company.

According to a liquor license application filed with the OLCC, the venue will be located at the west end of the shopping mall in the former site of Nordstrom, LLOYD CENTER which closed in 2015. Bob Dye, the general manager of Lloyd Center, says the venue is tentatively scheduled for an early 2020 opening, “pending the necessary approvals.” Representatives from Live Nation did not respond to requests for comment. Live Nation owns over 100 clubs and amphitheaters internationally, including the House of Blues chain. Though the venue is listed as “Rose City Music Hall” on the OLCC application, the LLC name is “HOB Entertainment,” suggesting it could be branded as a House of Blues.

YES YOU CANNABIS: In a strong step forward for cannabis, the World Anti-Doping Agency, which is responsible for drug testing in the Olympics and other major sporting events, is now allowing cannabidiol, or CBD. The agency has determined that CBD does not have the potential to enhance sport performance, represent a health risk to the athletes or violate the spirit of sport—the criteria for listing drugs on the prohibited list. The decision marks a major step forward for cannabis-friendly athletes like Nate Diaz, an MMA fighter who vaped CBD at a press conference last year, risking a one-year suspension. Other outspoken athlete cannabis activists include former Blazers player Cliff “Uncle Spliffy” Robinson, who was suspended for cannabis use three times during 18 seasons in the NBA. “I used it as a way to calm down.

I had a little anxiety sometimes. I definitely didn’t like pharmaceutical drugs…so I would use [marijuana],” Robinson told WW last year. The new rule will take effect in 2018.

MORE PARKING: East Portland will get a new 16-acre park this week, at Northeast 127th Avenue and Fremont Street. Luuwit View Park will be about two-thirds the size of Laurelhurst Park, and will include playsets, a skate park, a community garden LUUWIT VIEW PARK and public ping-pong tables. Portland Parks and Recreation’s Mark Ross says the park had been promised to park-deprived East Portland for 40 years. “To be able to offer something of this size and complexity is icing on the cake,” he says. The grand opening will be Saturday, October 21, from 11 am to 2 pm, and will feature a Native American blessing and drumming ceremony, breakdancing, skateboarding classes and Zumba.

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ALL-PRO AMATEURS: On Saturday, October 14, Willamette Week hosted the fifth annual Portland Pro/Am Beer Festival, one of the city’s most beloved beer festivals, in which home brewers and professional brewers collaborate on a one-off recipe. This year’s event also included cider and was held at District East in Southeast Portland. The people’s choice winners were Grape Lotion, by Great Notion Brewing and Dan Schlegel, and Grape Stomp, by Portland Cider.

The judge’s choice winners were Saison L’énorme,

by Gigantic Brewing Company and Dean Ehnes, and Banana Royale by Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider.

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SMASH BROS. TOURNAMENT

LOOSE CANNONS

Play Smash Wii U on QuarterWorld’s big screen, then take your winnings and head next door for Super Nintendo-themed restaurant Baoser for some bao. QuarterWorld, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-548-2923, quarterworldarcade.com. 7 pm. $5 buy-in, $1 admission. 21+.

Helium Comedy’s month of local showcases continues with a night dedicated to up-and-coming Portland comics. But Loose Cannons will hardly be amateur hour—even Helium’s open mic is one of the funniest standup showcases in the city. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm. $5. +21.

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NW DANCE PROJECT FALL SHOW The Portland dance company will open its season with a new work by choreographer Wen Wei Wang. The fact that Wang’s work will share the bill with two of the most strangely beautiful works from NWDP’s repertoire is very promising. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., nwdanceproject.org.

7:30 pm. Oct. 19-21. $34-$58.

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The Kid Kid, the new album from experimental musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, is her best and biggestsounding yet—a radiating batch of electronica that falls between digitized chamber pop and the score to a particularly unnerving episode of Black Mirror. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, DEPECHE MODE dougfirlounge.com.

9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Get Busy

The new Kurt and Courtney are two of indie rock’s most lovable slackers. Lotta Sea Lice, the duo’s collaborative album, is a set of lovely guitar pop delivered with a nonchalant shrug. The Schnitz, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335, portland5.com/arlene-schnitzer-concert-hall.

8 pm. $30-$45. All ages. See feature, page 35.

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The new work by Portland choreographer Taylor Eggån will critique the hero myth and other ways we overvalue masculinity. Abominable features elaborate costumes and an involved set based on medieval Scandinavian tales. Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N Interstate Ave., disjecta.org.

8 pm. $16-$20.

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10/21

LENORE RISES: AN EDGAR ALLAN POE MACABARET

LA FUERZA: A BORI-MEX BENEFIT Maybe you haven’t donated to Puerto Rico or Mexico yet. Here’s another chance. Your money will get you a day of music featuring a string of local bands, performance art, tarot readings and, of course, the Portland Mercado food carts. All proceeds will go to groups benefiting Puerto Rico and Mexico.

Portland Mercado, 7238 SE Foster Rd., facebook.com/nxtlvlpdxofficial. 2-8 pm, $10-30 sliding scale. Cash only.

A cabaret dedicated to female characters in Poe stories already sounds amazing. But to make it even better, it’s co-created by the righteously odd and feminist Broken Planetarium. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., brokenplanetarium.org. 7:30 pm. $8 advance, $10-$15 day of show.

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CORALINE

KILLER IPA FEST

A trippy nightmare disguised as a kids movie, Coraline put LAIKA on the map as one of the most innovative (and creepy) animation studios out there. Pair this screening with a visit to the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit of never-before-seen sets and props from the Hillsboro-based studio. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 2 pm. $9.

As part of Killer Beer Week, which kicks off at Roscoe's on Friday, N.W.I.P.A. will tap a mess of crazy hazy double IPAs from Great Notion, Culmination and others. Show up Saturday instead and get rare IPAs from out-of-state spots like Pizza Port and Structures. N.W.I.P.A. 6350 SE Foster Rd., nwipa.beer.

2-10 pm. Starts Oct. 21.

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CLASSIC SIMPSONS TRIVIA: HALLOWEEN EDITION Better rewatch every Treehouse of Horror episode before you show up. Don’t worry, it’ll only take you about 15 hours. White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 503-236-9672, facebook.com/groups/simpsonstriviapdx.

7 pm. Free, 21+.

DEPECHE MODE The synth-pop giants’ new album, Spirit, has an apropos political slant. But let’s be honest about what really makes this the biggest show of the fall—it’s the 30-year-old songs about BDSM and molesting Jesus. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771. 7:30 pm. $50-$195. All ages.

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BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

BLAZERS HOME OPENER

In a year where many of the last big indie-rock bands returned with new music, Broken Social Scene’s Hug of Thunder sounds the most triumphant. The Toronto supergroup brought the whole gang back for another album of wide-scale, lighters-up anthems. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com.

8 pm. $31 advance, $33 day of show. All ages.

The Bad Boy Blazers make their Moda Center debut against the New Orleans Pelicans. Will Nurk elbow Anthony Davis so hard it separates his unibrow? Fingers crossed! Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771. 7 pm. $22-$108.

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REVIEW PHOTOS BY LIZ ALLAN

Highly recommended.

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

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18 Little Beast Meet The Brewer

Charles Porter’s Little Beast Brewing hasn’t had a single dud yet, but the Beaverton brewery can be hard to visit.

Take your chance at Belmont Station to get brand-new bottles of Animal Family foeder-aged saison, plus a version of that beer made with a whopping 950 pounds of strawberries called Dream State. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St. 5 pm-8 pm.

THURSDAY, OCT. 19 Muselet Champage Day

For the second time, a closed bar will revive itself inside pop-up bar space Function PDX on 23rd Avenue. Zombie wine bar Muselet will re-animate in Nob Hill for three days starting Friday, serving up $20 wine flights Friday and $35-$50 oyster-blini-champagne extravaganzas Saturday and Sunday. Function PDX, 919 NW 23rd Ave., 97210. All Day.

ZERO TIMES FOUR: Left to right: sea salt matcha, ube milkshake, mangonada and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos elote.

FRIDAY, OCT. 20

Taste the 626

Basil Bar 17th Anniversary

For their anniversary, Basil Bar is giving away free killer appetizers, plus throwing a 70s-themed party with prizes for the best costumes. The Basil Bar, 3131 NE Broadway St, 503-281-8337. 5:30 pm-9 pm.

SATURDAY, OCT. 21

ZERO DEGREES BRINGS L.A.’S LATEST DESSERT DRINK TRENDS TO PORTLAND.

Killer IPA Fest

Killer Beer Week starts Friday at Roscoe’s, but N.W.I.P.A. is kicking out the heart of the week with two days of killer IPAs. Saturday is hard-to-get out-of staters like Pizza Port, El Segundo, Columbus Brewing and Structures.

Sunday is great double hazy IPAs from local spots like Great Notion and Ruse.

Where to eat this week.

1. Dil Se

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

Serivce is still rounding out, but Dil Se has made our favorite South-Indian masala dosas we’ve had in Portland city limits. $.

2. ImJai

3801 SE Belmont St, 503-477-8069, imjaithai.com Little Imjai Thai spot on Belmont serves up specials that exist almost nowhere in town—whether fermented-fish curry, fivespice porkbelly dishes or stinky-bean pad sator. $$.

3. Han Oak

511 NE 24th Ave., hanoak.com.

Han Oak just merged its prix-fixe and dumpling nights: all the dumplings, all the ssam, all the cocktails, all the time.

Cool. $-$$$.

4. La Leña

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

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

5. Jackrabbit

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

Celebuchef Chris Cosentino’s super-meaty downtown hotel spot has a 60-deep gin selection and great fermented black bean “angry sauce.” $$$$.

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BY M ARTI N CI Z MA R

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It’s 7 pm on a Sunday night, and the crush of people lined up at Zero Degrees is barely contained inside the door. Every seat at this chic boba shop in the corner space of a plaza on Southeast 82nd Street is accounted for, with those who’ve already ordered standing with receipts in hand as Cardi B and Migos blare overhead.

Zero Degrees is packed, no thanks to the traditional channels of Portland hype. As far as I can tell, this is the first time Zero Degrees has been mentioned in mainstream local media—an indictment of the city’s newsrooms, and not this creative California-based chain which serves dessert drinks, like a horchata-and-matcha blend called a matchata, a strawberry lychee slushie and the house speciality, the mangonada.

That craveable mangonada—a mildly sweet mango slushy with big chunks of squishy fresh fruit that’s accented with Mexican Tajín seasoning powder—is reason enough to brave the line.

Zero Degrees comes from the San Gabriel Valley, a network of suburbs east of Los Angeles that became the nation’s first suburban Chinese enclave. The San Gabriel Valley, often identified by its 626 area code, is a hotbed of Asian culture and known for popularizing boba, which quickly became a worldwide trend.

A Los Angeles Times writer who wrote a

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feature on the culture of the 626, which now draws young Asian Americans from around the country, described it as such: “They’ve developed a world view based on the odd melding of things Chinese and American and the habits of a young Asian generation obsessed with boba tea, break dancing and Instagram photos of food.”

At Zero Degrees, that takes the form of drinks like a bright-purple milkshake made with colored yams popular in the Philip-

pines called ube (pronounced eww-beh and not like rube—which I revealed myself to be when ordering). The shake is topped with a super ’grammable skewer featuring a toasted marshmallow and a sour candy rainbow.

In addition to the drinks, there’s a small snack menu that includes popcorn chicken and a cheesy corn casserole based on elotes,

which comes regular or topped with the dust of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos—a dish that’s become a trend at Los Angeles’ Korean and Mexican shops alike. We had the Flamin’ Hot corn and found it pleasantly rich and spicy, though disappointingly served lukewarm in its tin pan.

Though it falls under the broad genre of boba shop, boba is old news. Zero Degrees has moved into trendier dessert beverages like an horchata frappé and a strawberry mojito with fresh fruit, mint leaves and chia seeds. They range in price between $4 and $6.50 depending on size and recipe, and tend to be mildly sweet with lots of fresh fruit and less cream than the stuff you get at Starbucks. Zero Degrees drinks often incorporate a little Mexican flair, like a tamarind straw or a dose of chamoy, a thick sauce made of pickled fruit.

To make your drink extrasuper ’grammable, and take home a souvenir, Zero Degrees offers milk and mason jars as an upgrade option for $1.50 or $2.50 respectively.

What’s beautiful about Zero Degrees is what’s beautiful about America: Angelenos making Taiwanese boba, shakes made of purple Filipino yams and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos elotes. No wonder there’s always a line.

GO: Zero Degrees, 8220 SE Harrison St., 503-772-1500, zerodegreescompany.com.

11 am-10 pm daily.

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DECISIONS ON TWO LEGAL FIGHTS INVOLVING PORTLAND RESTAURANTS.

KILLER BURGER

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Please be seated.

Today I’ll be issuing decisions on two cases from our docket, both well-publicized fights involving Portland restaurants. In each case, plaintiffs argue that defendants have caused harm to their businesses by misappropriating their intellectual property. These cases were headed for court, but we’ve decided to save everybody a lot of time and money by adjudicating them here. Though there is no legal basis for doing so, we suggest that these decisions be treated as binding by all parties involved, just as they would if being heard by the esteemed Hon. Judith Sheindlin.

Killer Burger v.

Rock and Roll Chili Pit

made peanut butter sauce (the Classic Rock burger for $9.90, sub in peanut sauce). We found that Killer Burger’s take is superior, as the char of the juicy patty and the restrained but nutty sauce worked far better than the overly sweet and thick peanut sauce.

The court also found that Killer Burger’s fries are superior on the basis of crispness, but that ROLL CHILI PIT the boozy milkshakes at Rock and Roll Chili Pit ($7.49) are tasty, though seemingly too numerous in type to be deftly executed.

We rule that Rock and Roll Chili Pit must remove half the shake flavors from its menu and that Killer Burger, upon securing a full liquor license, be ordered to also make boozy shakes and name them after items on the menu at Rock and Roll Chili Pit.

Our first case, Killer Burger v. Rock and Roll Chili Pit, was filed by Killer Burger owner TJ Southard, who alleges that former Killer Burger co-owners Mark and Robin McCrary stole recipes for two of his burgers, the “Epic,” topped with pulled pork and slaw, and the “Black Molly,” topped with grilled onions, a smoky sauce and pickled green chilies.

Killer Burger is a beloved local chain that places bacon on every burger. Rock and Roll Chili Pit is the new project from the former co-owner, who has built a Vegas-y downtown restaurant with a huge line of boozy shakes and a bar top shaped like a Flying V. According to the lawsuit filed by Southard, “an article in the Willamette Week newspaper noted that the similarities between Killer Burger’s business and defendants’ new store were ‘suspiciously hilarious,’ but there is nothing funny about it. The defendants are stealing from Killer Burger. They should be stopped and must be made to pay.”

You cannot copyright a recipe, and in order to protect the name of a product such as the Big Mac™ through trademark you have to federally register it. Killer Burger has not secured either trademark.

We visited both downtown restaurants for lunch recently—if this case does go to another court, we sincerely hope that an enrobed judge and jury of their peers is paraded through both—and found that neither had the Black Molly or Epic burgers for sale, though Killer Burger has since brought back the Molly. Therefore, we rule that Killer Burger does not have standing to file a lawsuit.

The court also wanted consider the merits of the burgers that are actually available. So we purchased our favorite, the Peanut-Butter-Pickle-Bacon ($9.95 with fries), and then asked the folks at Rock and Roll Chili Pit to re-create the same burger using their house-

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Heart Pizza v.

Heart Coffee Roasters Our second case features two local businesses named Heart. One is an artisanal coffee roaster known for its delicate light roast profiles and sparse aesthetic.

The other is a new pizza place from Micah Camden, owner of Blue Star Donuts and Boxer Ramen, and who also co-founded Little Big Burger before selling it to Hooters.

Heart Pizza is a small, sparse space in downtown’s West End neighborhood that serves whole Neapolitan pies, salads and a large line of canned beverages. On a recent evening visit we were the only party. Our cookserver had to come inside from a vape break to make our pies.

We found that the salads were rather boring. An arugula and prosciutto salad ($8) suffered from the fact that no one bothered to cut the prosciutto into small pieces so that you weren’t just eating a slab of thin-sliced ham. The Caesar ($8) had too much garlic and not enough umami.

On the topic of the pies, we find that Heart Pizza is mimicking Heart Coffee Roasters too closely—that is, both pies we had were baked to the same extreme lightness as their namesake’s beans. This means the pies are barely done, lacking any hint of crispness. It’s less pizza than naan, and this is not good.

Furthermore, while the combination of olives, marinara, mozzarella and basil was okay, a “sausage fennel” pie ($13) with white sauce, mozzarella and fennel pollen was ill-considered, with a lack of acid to balance the fats.

We order that Heart Pizza change its name to Pizza Umbria and that it henceforth bake its pies to the appropriate level of doneness so that they have a ribbon of crispness and maybe a hint of char.

GO: Rock and Roll Chili Pit, 304 SW 2nd Ave., 971-242-8725, rockandrollchilipit.com. Killer Burger has nine locations, including downtown at 510 SW 3rd Ave. killerburger.com. Heart Pizza, 417 SW 13th Ave., 503-764-9239, heartpizza.com. Heart Coffee has three locations, including downtown at 537 SW 12th Ave., 503224-0036, heartroasters.com.

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MUSIC FEATURE

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

DANNY COHEN / DORA HANDEL

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

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

Fax: 243-1115.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18 MuteMath, Colony House, Romes

[PROG EMO] Formerly known as a proggy emo act whose frontman did backflips and unironically sported a keytar, MuteMath’s music has changed considerably over the past decade.

Fueled in part by relentless touring and big-ticket festival appearances, this year’s Play Dead reflects the group’s evolution into a buzzing hybrid of funk and pop that’s undoubtedly been tweaked over time to cater to unknowing jamband junkies who may happen upon them while waiting for Widespread Panic to take the stage. PETE COTTELL. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $25. All ages.

evidence that Full Moon Fever is most definitely still contagious. CHRIS STAMM. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-206-7439. 7 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. All ages.

THURSDAY, OCT. 19

She and Him

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[MMMPOP] Two decades ago, the world was introduced to three young, charismatic blonde brothers from Tulsa, Oklahoma, via one of the catchiest songs of 1997—the infamous “MMMBop.” The song was infectious and became an

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FIVE DEPECHE MODE SONGS THAT PROVE THE RAMONES ARE THEIR SPIRITUAL COUSINS,

BY THE RAMODES, PORTLAND’S RAMONES-INFLUENCED DEPECHE MODE TRIBUTE BAND. “Shouldn’t Have Done That”

There is a song on the Ramones’ Leave Home called “You Should Have Never Opened That Door.” Methinks the boys in Depeche Mode were listening to punk and krautrock and trying to be, like, Kraftwerk meets Ramones.

2 “See You” Don’t let this one fool you. Listen to the full chorus in the song, and it says, “All I wanna do is see you/Don’t you know that it’s true?” And the opening track off the Ramones’ second album is called “Glad to See You Go.” Which means the opposite, but whatevs.

3 “Something To Do” With this song, all you need is an “I Just Wanna Have” in front of it and you’ve got an actual Ramones song—though, the DM song actually asks, “Is there something to do?”

4 “I Want You Now” This is pretty straightforward here, and you get extra when you get to the bridge. It says, “I don’t mean to sound like one of the boys/ That’s not what I’m trying to do/I don’t wanna be like one of the boys/I just want you...now.”

5 “I Just Can’t Get Enough” This one hits all the marks except having the word “wanna” in the title. Instead, though, we get an “outta” in the first line: “When I’m with you baby/I go outta my head.” I’m sure when the original Ramones were alive they were OK with it.

SEE IT: Depeche Mode plays Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771. 7:30 pm. Monday, October 23. $50-$195. All ages.

The Ramodes play the Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., with DJ Acid Rick, on Friday, Oct. 20. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

RICK VODICKA

[PETTY PUNK] You miss Tom Petty.

We all miss Tom Petty. Dude was singular. But the history of popular music he so skillfully plundered is still free for the taking, and one of the best Petty-esque borrowers around is Together PANGEA. Their latest album, Bulls and Roosters, is a sun-kissed, country-tinged amalgam of classic rock‘n’roll and anthemic pop that mitigates the pain of losing yet another Wilbury. Album highlight “Gold Moon” is the best song Petty never got around to writing, and it is heartening

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In the indie-rock fan fiction that inevitably exists somewhere on the internet, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile were likely getting ’shipped long before they announced a formal collaboration. Never mind that she’s married (to a woman) and he’s in a committed long-term relationship with his guitar.

The pairing just makes too much sense. She writes hilariously deadpan songs that mine humor and pathos from life’s small details, while he makes mumbly, stargazing folk rock that’s at once expan-

sive and low key. Stylistically, they go together like weed and Magic Eye posters.

And then, of course, there’s their names. For an older generation, the phrase “Kurt and Courtney” brings to mind a different alt-rock power couple, albeit one that presided over an era of slackerism the new Kurt and Courtney are certainly familiar with. The irony is not lost on them—they allude to it briefly in the video for their single “Continental Breakfast.” But how much in common do they really have with the King and Queen of Grunge? We put together this chart to find out.

WHO IS HE? Long-haired, mush-mouthed guitar wizard.

Voice of a generation, though no less mushmouthed. Also dead.

WHO IS SHE? Endearingly droll Australian, sometimes referred to as “the slacker Bob Dylan.” Everyone pretty much agrees she’s, like, the best.

Just a wee bit more polarizing. A little crazy, for sure, but also endearing in her own, “let a stranger at Wendy’s suckle your boob” kind of way.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS Platonic buds touring together seemingly so they don’t have to tour with anyone else. Barnett’s wife, Jen Cloher, joins them on the road.

The Sid and Nancy of the ’90s. Or the John and Yoko, depending on just how sexist you want to be about it.

HOW THEY MET At a barbecue in Melbourne, where Barnett slipped Vile a copy of her first album.

At Portland punk club Satyricon, where Love compared Cobain to the singer of Soul Asylum and he playfully wrestled her to the floor.

NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS Lotta Sea Lice, an album of lovely, languid guitar pop that sounds like it was knocked out half on accident while they were noodling around on the porch one afternoon.

Does Frances Bean count? Conspiracy theories also suggest Cobain ghostwrote Live Through This, but that’s likely just misogynist horseshit.

COMMON INTERESTS Their friend Tina who hooks up the “reeferina,” writing songs about how hard it is to get off the couch to write a song, the band Belly, who they cover on Lotta Sea Lice.

Feuding with Axl Rose, talking shit about Dave Grohl, messing with Kurt Loder. But heroin, mostly.

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT Barnett first broke through with an autobiographical song about the time she tried to do some gardening and went into anaphylactic shock.

Remember when Vanity Fair revealed Love did heroin while she was pregnant? Oh man, was there egg on her face after that!

LYRIC THAT BEST DESCRIBES THEIR RELATIONSHIP “I cherish my intercontinental friendships/We talk it over continental breakfast/In a hotel in East Bumble-wherever/Somewhere on the sphere, around here.”

“Married/Buried.”

SEE IT: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile play Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, with Jen Cloher, on Friday, Oct. 20. 8 pm. $30-$45. All ages.

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shroud out loud: Zola Jesus plays the old Church on Friday, oct. 20. instant hit that launched the boys into immediate stardom. Normally, this story ends with an episode of VH1’s Where Are They Now? but these musically gifted brothers avoided the one-hit-wonder curse and went on to produce six successful studio albums and sellout shows worldwide. Their latest greatest hits compilation, Middle of Everywhere, showcases the trio’s aptitude for sunny, contemporary rock and includes a new feel-good song “I Was Born.” SHANNON ARMOUR. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out.

All ages.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Maria Usbeck, Cool Maritime

[MODULAR MOODS] See Get Busy, page 31. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Ariel Pink, Telecaves

[ACID POP] To truly appreciate Ariel Pink, you must look between the cracks of an often impenetrable edifice of woozy psychedelia and appalling narcissism. Not unlike Tom Waits, Pink’s fixation with sordid folk heroes is the most inviting trait of his drugged-out pop music, which plays out as a biography of one such character on this year’s Dedicated to Bobby Jameson. Pairing the story of a presumed-to-be-dead protest rocker with Pink’s signature palette of lo-fi production tactics and chintzy sonics, Bobby Jameson is somehow warm and personal despite being about another outsized and troubled persona. PETE COTTELL. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., #110, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $26.75 advance, $31.75 day of show. 21+.

Doug Martsch

[NORTHWEST ROYALTY] Built To Spill frontman Doug Martsch is a god in these parts. In the ‘90s, the icon tugged indie rock from its strongholds in cities like Portland and Seattle, and shifted attention to his hometown of Boise. Known for his high-register vocals, beard and incessant guitar noodling, Martsch plays a rare solo show tonight. Expect stripped-down versions from BTS’ strong 2015 release Untethered Moon and shouts for “Carry The Zero” from the middle-aged fans in the quiet pews of the Old Church. MARK STOCK. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8:30 pm. $20. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 20 Iron & Wine, John Moreland

[FOLK] On his new album as Iron & Wine, Sam Beam is looking forward while moving backward.

After exploring pop, jazz and R&B influences, with Beast Epic, the singer-songwriter has returned to his folk beginnings in order to explore the aging process. “That life is ending, you seem contented/ While the graveside flowers die,” he sings on “Bitter Truths,” a song about learning to let go in the latter half of one’s life. Musically,

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his latest tunes take on a comforting tone, harking back to the sound of 2004’s Our Endless Numbered Days, with soft, deep guitars that alternately soothe and gently roar. SETH SHALER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Bob Mould, Moon Tiger

[PUNK LEGEND] This fall, archival label Numero Group is doing the Lord’s work and finally reissuing the early catalog of pioneering punk band Hüsker Dü. It seems like a good, if unfortunate, time to reassess just how massive and important the Minneapolis trio was—drummer-singer Grant Hart’s recent death has surely made a lot of old punks are already revisiting the band’s influence. Hüsker Dü basically invented pop punk, and it was Hart and Bob Mould’s juxtaposition of power chords and tender lyrics that set the stage for so many other emotional rock bands of the past 30 years. Mould’s music has always expertly balanced the harsh with the beautiful, blending raging guitars with gorgeous singalong melodies, and this sparse tour lays everything bare. It’s just Mould, his electric guitar and an incredible set of songs from the Hüskers, Sugar and Mould’s recent string of solo albums. Bring your earplugs—and your tissues.

MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside St., 503-2319663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

Lose Yr Mind Festival: Wand, Twin Peaks, Tacocat, Chastity Belt and more

[MINI-FEST] The fourth installment of this annual D.I.Y. mini-festival is big enough to necessitate a move into a larger space. Ty Segall collaborators Wand, Chicago punks Twin Peaks and two of Seattle’s finest, Tacocat and Chastity Belt, join a handful of rising local acts for two days of raucous garage rock action. The North Warehouse, 723 N Tillamook St. 8 pm. $15. 21+. Through Oct. 21.

Zola Jesus, John Wiese

[GOTH POP] Nika Roza Danilova has run the gauntlet with her ambitious Zola Jesus project. Starting off as a lo-fi hero on Brooklyn’s hip Sacred Bones label, she eventually beefed up her sound and let her pop bonafides show on 2014’s Taiga, released on electronic megalabel Mute. After a three-year break filled with personal loss, she’s come full circle, rejoining Sacred Bones’ roster for this year’s excellent Okovi.

Blending her goth-y, darkwaveleaning early material with postYeezus industrial-pop, it’s her best album yet, losing none of the vocal power that attracted us to her in the first place. PATRICK LYONS. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Earthless, Pushy, Mammoth Salmon [IMPROV METAL] San Diego’s Earthless may be the most badass

instrumental power trio of all time.

Propelled by Mario Rubalcaba’s immaculate and powerful percussion, the group weaves epic-length tapestries of rock, but they’re careful to distinguish their improv work from casual jamming. These guys employ krautrock filters to explore the deepest territories of heavy psych without ever losing sight the groove. While the band often scales ecstatic heights of blues-infused feedback and frenzy, their latest release, a split single with Harsh Toke called “Acid Crusher,” sounds more like a Funkadelic session from the early ’70s. NATHAN CARSON. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-238-0543. 8 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 21 The Black Angels, Ron Gallo, Daydream Machine

[BIKER ROCK] Equal parts Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground and Flaming Lips, the Black Angels sound like what Hunter S. Thompson might’ve listened to as the bats descended upon him on the road somewhere between Barstow and Las Vegas. The moody, muddy guitar riffs and old-school psychedelic sound earned the Austin band national recognition, and their latest record, Death Song, stays true to the band’s essence—reverb-drunk rock songs steeped in the dark side of Americana. “Comanche Moon” and “I’d Kill for Her” are two of the hardest rocking tracks, and they’ll both sound magnificent thundering through the Roseland. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 9 pm. $20. All ages.

MONDAY, OCT. 23 Nick Hakim, Sam Evian

[BEDROOM POP] Nick Hakim is

like Marvin Gaye if Gaye grew up in post-millennial Brooklyn listening to Grizzly Bear. His sound is lush, intimate and sexy—the kind of thing that might play in an indie romantic drama just as the two leads kiss for the first time. Hakim’s latest album, Green Twins, is his most impressive yet, and shows Hakim embracing a retro-soul sound that matches his voice perfectly. He has a versatility that transcends genre— he’d be a great opener for either Dirty Projectors or Solange. One thing’s for sure: When Hakim plays “Roller Skates,” there won’t be a still pair of feet on the dance floor.

JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Wolves In The Throneroom

[BLACK METAL] Although they’ve rejected the “Cascadian black metal” tag in the past, Wolves in the Throne Room are viewed as icons in the nature-focused scene that’s risen in opposition to black metal’s oft-problematic Scandinavian innovators.

Working on an agrarian commune just outside Olympia, Wash., the group has plumbed the Pacific Northwest scenery for inspiration— the high peaks on the jagged Black Cascade, the darkest corners of its woods on Two Hunters and its starfilled night skies on the ambient Celestite. Last month’s Thrice Woven is a return to their most rip-roaring black metal, and should appease anyone disappointed by the band’s recent Tangerine Dream worship.

PATRICK LYONS. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-238-0543. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+. Through Oct. 24.

Tash Sultana, Pierce Brothers

[ONE-WOMAN POWERHOUSE] Tash Sultana is a 21-year-old Melbourne street busker turned viral sensation. She garnered millions of views on YouTube before embarking on

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PREVIEW

Broken Social Scene, Belle Game [BIG PICTURE INDIE-ROCK] In a year where many of the last big indie-rock bands—Fleet Foxes, Wolf Parade, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear—returned with new music for the first time since early in Obama’s second term, Broken Social Scene’s Hug of Thunder sounds the most triumphant. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The Toronto supergroup has always made wide-scale, maximalist rock that inspires both music nerds and bros to send “This is EPIC!” text messages without thinking twice. After a brief instrumental intro, “Halfway Home” sends you right into Broken Social Scene’s world. Bandleader Kevin Drew sings about broken dreams and inevitable death as the music swells higher and higher, layering strings and bright horns against a bed of feedback and one of Drew’s best melodies. Hug of Thunder features the contributions of nearly everyone in the BSS orbit, but it’s the lone Feist’s lead vocal on the understated title track that shines brightest. Like the band’s best work, it slows the pace but heightens the tension. “All along we’re gonna feel some numbness/Oxymoron of our lives,” she sings as the drums begins to rumble. If you haven’t downloaded a lighter app for your phone, this is your queue. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm Tuesday, Oct. 24. $31 advance, $33 day of show. All ages.

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COURTESy OF BARROWLANDS

a sold-out world tour on just the sixsong EP Notion. Though Sultana’s music reaches from steely surf riffs to growly Alanis Morissette-inspired ballads to bluesy ska, her latest single, “Mystik,” points to something far more jam-band oriented, with a chiller vibe underlying her piercing, hypnotizing vocals. SOPHIA JUNE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. Sold out. 21+.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 24 Mister Heavenly, FAN

[DOOM-WOP] Indie supergroup Mister Heavenly—featuring members of Man Man, Unicorns and Modest Mouse, plus, for a time, actor Michael Cera—just released their sophomore effort, Boxing the Moonlight, and it manages to deliver on the promise of its authors’ past efforts, far exceeding their perfectly decent debut. It’s an indie-pop, doo-wop and hip-hopindebted party record that encompasses everything from ’50s schmaltz to Beefheartian freakouts, without skimping on the hugely catchy hooks.

CRIS LANKENAU. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Rozwell Kid, Mylets

[POST EMO] The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die—henceforth referred to as TWIABP—has been like a rock-band clown car for several years, cramming many more members than necessary into what is essentially a fairly traditional emo band. On their past two records, Harmlessness and this year’s Always Foreign, TWIABP has transcended their roots and made some of the best and most ambitious rock music of the era. Bolstered by newish member Dylan Balliett—who has been releasing excellent tunes under the moniker Spirit Night on Bandcamp—songs like “The Future” are not-quite-protest songs that typify the great anxiety and dread that so many of us face in the Trump era. BLAKE HICKMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Christian McBride’s New Jawn

[BASS GOD] Christian McBride is a bass player’s bass player. A smoothtalking, suit-wearing statesman with a gravelly DJ voice and an ever-rotating set of radical jazz glasses, McBride has lent his powerful low-end to over 300 recordings throughout his two decades in the spotlight, earning five Grammys in the process. Tonight, McBride, drummer Lewis Nash and saxophonist Benny Green play a swinging tribute to late upright icon Ray Brown, whose storied career of melodic innovation served as a definite blueprint for McBride’s own.

With no chordal instrument in tow, the bass player’s magnificent sense of harmony should be on full display.

PARKER HALL. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St, 223-4527. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 18. Sold out. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Marquis Hill Blacktet

[POWER JAZZ] Given the speed and accuracy of his improvised lines, it’s amazing trumpeter Marquis Hill’s horn isn’t made of some kind of futuristic space metal. As it turns out, the man behind the Thelonious Monk Competition-winning brass was first a drummer, and that same quickpaced thought process extends to his own compositions and arrangements. On the 2016 release The Way We Play, his Blacktet tackles speedy and rhythmically engaging tunes with beautiful improvisations and intertwined background melodies, outlining the sharpest edges of high-level modern jazz in a manner that still appeals to the uninitiated. PARKER HALL. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont Street, 503-946-1962. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 19. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

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Barrowlands WHO: David Hollingsworth (vocals, guitar), Jay Caruso (guitar), Ray Lorenz (cello), Martti Hill (drums), Chris Gaye (bass).

SOUNDS LIKE: Hiking up a mountain through a blizzard, then pausing at the summit to marvel at the untouched snow.

FOR FANS OF: Agalloch, Panopticon, Falls of Rauros, Wolves in the Throne Room.

Onstage, David Hollingsworth is an intimidating presence. With slicked-back black hair, tattooed arms and a classic banshee shriek, the Barrowlands singer-guitarist resembles the quintessential black-metal frontman—spartan in appearance and aggressively stoic in demeanor.

The band is only his side gig, though. During the day, he’s an elementary school teacher.

Barrowlands are the heir apparents in a loosely defined scene of American black-metal bands erasing the stylistic boundaries put in place by the genre’s Scandinavian forebears. But what truly differentiates Barrowlands from the black-metal pack are the lyrics. Where a lot of bands in the genre steer clear of political statements—or worse, dabble in nationalism and xenophobia—Hollingsworth addresses issues of social justice head-on, often drawing from his experiences as an educator.

“It’s about social inequality, economic disparity and the bleakness of the system that everybody lives in,” he says of “Empty Hands Grasping,” a track on the band’s upcoming second album, Tyndir. “That’s a theme that I deal with in my professional life, so I write about that kind of thing.”

Musically, the band is unique as well. The first thing you’ll notice about the Portland five-piece is their cello player, Ray Lorenz. He and Hollingsworth have been finding ways to incorporate the bowed instrument into black metal since their days in the group Mary Shelley. In Barrowlands, Lorenz saws ferociously amid the rest of the band’s assault of blast beats and tremolo picking, then mournfully heaves back and forth during downtempo interludes.

Fleshed out with members from the proggy Lykaia, Barrowlands released their first album, Thane, in 2014. Since then, the band has gone through lineup changes, most notably adding guitarist Jay Caruso, also a former member of Lykaia. Those personnel changes inform Barrowlands’ evolution on Tyndir.

“Lyrically, it’s similarly bleak,” Hollingsworth says of the wintry new album. “And musically, it’s got a similar foundation, but there’s a lot more interplay between the guitars, and it’s a little more complex. That’s Jay’s input on the band—a little more progressive, a little more musical. It’s a natural continuation, but it does show that we’ve progressed and brought in some new ideas.”

So far, the band has only shared epic closing track “Empty Hands Grasping,” but Caruso’s presence is impossible to miss.

The churning opening section and ensuing change of pace are familiar, if more compositionally intricate than much of what’s heard on Thane. The song opens up in its second half, though, riding beautifully harmonized guitar leads that would anger many fans of “true” black metal but should enrapture any metal fan whose appreciation for the genre goes deeper than corpse paint.

“Barrowlands is always going to be what we come up with,” Hollingsworth says. “It’s not defined by any ideas or preconceived notions. So long as it’s always a place for all of our creativity, then it’s going to be our main project.”

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Phantoms of the Orchestra

[SPOOKY CLASSICAL] Cultivating a new generation of symphony fans is necessary for the survival of the form. Several shows each season are dedicated youth programs, but the fantasy elements also appeal to a certain kind of adult. As we’re now in Halloween season, guest conductor Jeff Tyzik leads some appropriately monstrous members of the Magic Circle Theatre and a fully costumed Oregon Symphony in a show full of gothic classics interspersed with memorable film theme songs. Max Steiner’s “King Kong,” Danny Elfman’s “Batman” and John Williams’ “Hedwig” play hopscotch with the requisite “Bach Toccata,” Dukas’ “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain.” NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 21 and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 22. $23-$110. All ages.

Extradition Series

[THE POWERS OF PAULINE] When she died last year at age 84, Pauline Oliveros was rightly celebrated as a central figure in the development of experimental electronic music. In the ’60s, the accordionist from Houston co-founded the influential San Francisco Tape Music Center, which helped spawn electronic music as we know it. She also expounded musical concepts like “deep listening,” which combined improvisation, ritual and electronics, and “sonic awareness,” to connect musical creativity to the sounds happening around us. This installment of the Creative Music Guild’s Extradition Series includes music by Oliveros and later composers and musicians who use her creative concepts, with ample room afforded for spontaneous musical choices, indeterminacy and silence.

Performers include harpist Sage Fisher, guitarist Mike Gamble, pianist Reason, bassist Andre St. James and a slew of singers. BRETT CAMPBELL. Leaven Community Center, 5431 NE 20th Ave., 503-287-7553. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 21. $5-$15 sliding scale.

All ages.

Hudson

[SCENIC SCENE] In the rolling forests of New York’s Hudson River Valley, four of the finest jazz musicians alive reside in pleasant suburban homes, escaping the speed and intensity of the jazz world’s biggest mecca by a well-rehearsed commute. Like their native surroundings, the music of the jazz fusion supergroup known as Hudson—made up of drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Larry Grenadier, guitarist John Scofield and keyboardist John Medeski—takes a slower and more exploratory vibe than the city-made stuff. The group’s selftitled debut is as groundbreaking as it is cathartic, with compelling takes on classics like a version of the Band’s “Up On Cripple Creek” nestled between shredding blues numbers.

PARKER HALL. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503-828-8285. 7:30 pm Monday, Oct. 23. $45-$65. All ages.

Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Ségal

[KORA MEETS CELLO] In 2009 Ballaké Sissoko, the Malian kora harp master, met Vincent Ségal, a classical cellist and trip-hop musician. Each admired the other’s work, both had played in their respective national orchestras and somehow achieved an almost telepathic musical empathy.

Their first collaborative album, Chamber Music, became a sensation, winning the French equivalent of the Grammy and leading to more albums and world tours. Their subsequent work maintains and sometimes deepens the warm, understated vibe of the first, as the two musicians effortlessly shift from lead to accompanying roles, drawing on influences from both Africa and Europe and succeeding in creating a uniquely mesmerizing, pulsating hybrid that often sounds quite different from either.

BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Oct. 24. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Nasalrod BUILDING MACHINES (Self-Released)

A BIZARRE BLAST OF PUNK DERANGEMENT. [ S PA Z Z P U N K S ] I n the days before “punk” became shorthand for power chords over prepackaged rebellion, the term cast a wide net that included just about any shit-disturber who went against the grain.

One such unlikely hero of punk’s early days was Frank Zappa, a sonic omnivore whose deranged DNA can be found all over Nasalrod’s Building Machines. Landing between the prog funk of Mr. Bungle and the spastic post-punk of Brainiac, the finest moments on Machines offer a glimpse at what might happen if the Blood Brothers kidnapped Mike Patton and joined the circus. At the fore of the mix is the push-pull between the crazed ranting of Jeffrey “Chairman” Couch and the angular fuzz of guitarist Mustin Douch. On “Destroy Collapse Repeat,” Couch spews vitriol in a cartoonish bark about a 35-year-old loser who lives with his mom while Douch darts between woolly arpeggios and unnerving stabs from pitch-shifted notes. Propelled by former Fear drummer Spit Stix, the album’s most compelling moments are neatly crammed into “Better Prepare,” a knotty ode to the end times that finds the quartet convulsing from one jagged tempo change to the next. Repeat listens reveal an uncanny likeness between Couch’s disgruntled delivery and the haughty howl of Jack Black, but that shouldn’t deter listeners from Building Machines’ fun and furious attack. PETER COTTELL. SEE IT: Nasalrod plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Boink and Honey Bucket, on Sunday, Oct. 22. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Strange Ranger DAYMOON (Tiny Engines)

INDIE ROCK FOR PORTLAND’S SADDEST DAYS. [TIME TRAVEL] Strange Rang er ’s new album Daymoon is a wonderful bummer that will resonate with anyone who feels autumn’s slow and mighty current pulling them away from shore.

But for listeners of a certain age, Strange Ranger’s delicate plaints will also trigger sublime nostalgia trips. The Portland trio is eerily adept at recreating the magic of turn-of-the-century Northwest indie rock, and it is as comforting as an electric blanket with a side of Vicodin.

On last year’s Rot Forever, the band—then known as Sioux Falls— favored rangy, rowdy epics that recalled Modest Mouse’s long drives through lonesome lands. Daymoon is less ambitious, and it is better for it. The truly modest “Everything Else,” a devastating lullaby clocking in at just over two minutes, deserves a spot right next to Built to Spill’s “Twin Falls” in the canon of small and fragile songs that can somehow withstand dozens of consecutive replays.

Sure, we will always have There’s Nothing Wrong With Love and Weekends of Sound and The Glow, pt. 2 to soundtrack stretches of melancholy retrospection, but there are so many gray and wet and cold and downright miserable seasons still to come. We need more music like this. CHRIS STAMM. SEE IT: Strange Ranger plays Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway St., with Mo Troper, Alien Boy and Snow Roller, on Wednesday, Oct. 18. 7 pm. $6. All ages.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. OCT. 18 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St The Variants, Maurice and the Stiff Sisters, Rascal Miles Band

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Take Me to the River: A Memphis Soul, Rhythm & Blues Revue

Black Water Bar

835 NE Broadway Strange Ranger, Mo Troper, Alien Boy, Snow Roller

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Escape-ism, Mattress, Echo Oh’s

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St MuteMath, Colony House, Romes

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Bob Schneider

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Social Music

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Knuckle Puck

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Floating Room, Mini Blinds, No Aloha

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Clay Giberson

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Mama Magnolia

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St Christian McBride’s New Jawn

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Robin Bacior

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Nothing But Thieves

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Together PANGEA, Tall Juan; Thieves of Sunrise

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Human Ottoman, STIG

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Arteries, Collate, Soft Butch, Avoiders

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St La Rivera, Bird Concerns, Yaqouina Bay

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Patrick McCulley and Brogan Woodburn

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Frederick the Younger

THU. OCT. 19 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Hanson

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St Tim Reynolds & TR3, Rob Balducci, Dorado

Crystal Ballroom 1332 W Burnside St Seshollowaterboyz

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Maria Usbeck, Cool Maritime

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Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Marquis Hill Blacktet

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Token

Nasalrod, Boink, Honey Bucket

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Small Skies, Penny Mart

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Genders, The Invisible Mans, Turtlenecked

The Lovecraft Bar

Holocene

421 SE Grand Ave Craow, Lower Tar

1001 SE Morrison St Annie Hart, Madeline Kenney, Johanna Warren

The Secret Society

529 SW 4th Ave Kandace Springs

116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Mo Phillips, Jeremy Wilson

Kelly’s Olympian

Turn! Turn! Turn!

LaurelThirst Public House

Twilight Cafe and Bar

2958 NE Glisan St Blue Lotus, High Council

1420 SE Powell Blvd Bobby Rock, The Replicants, The Strid

Mississippi Studios

White Eagle Saloon

Jack London Revue

426 SW Washington St Melville, Abbot Kinney, Camp Crush

8 NE Killingsworth St An Outing, Cuthroat Raquetball

836 N Russell St BRI CAUZ

3939 N Mississippi Ave Marty O’Reilly

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Ariel Pink, Telecaves

MON. OCT. 23 Doug Fir Lounge

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave GRiZ

The Old Church

NO -STAKES SPRINGSTEEN: “It’s Bruce Springsteen, but nothing’s at stake,” said the friend I brought to the War On Drugs show at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Oct. 11. Adam Granduciel’s Philly-based band are the current standard-bearers of guitar-driven rock, and thus draw an audience so broad it includes both people who saw Dire Straits at the Civic Auditorium and kids who were rolling on molly at the Lil Yachty show last month. But my friend is right—this is classic jammy, psych-tinged, Mid-Atlantic bar rock, but made by a graduate of America’s oldest prep school, Boston’s Roxbury Latin, who now lives in Philly’s hyper-gentrified Fishtown neighborhood. Granduciel is a talented songwriter and a master of tone. His records are great, even if they don’t quite resonate the way music with an agenda does. And yet the lack of stakes gives the music a certain hollowness, a quality transcended only at the pinnacle of the show, “Under The Pressure,” when the band coalesced and Granduciel delivered his best and truest lyrics. “You were raised on a promise,” he says, in a line I’ve always figured was aimed directly at Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” “found that over time, better come around to the new way, or watch as it all breaks down here.” It’s the one time Granduciel leans into the inherent tension between neoliberalism and nostalgia, and it’s the closest he comes to the estrangement that makes Springsteen an icon. MARTIN CIZMAR.

The Secret Society

Powerman 5000

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Phutureprimitive, Papadosio

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St Slutty Hearts, The Later Day Skanks, The Exorcists

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Karaoke From Hell, Ruby Howl, Jody and Nick

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Devoured By Flowers, Patrick Ogle 1422 SW 11th Ave Doug Martsch

116 NE Russell St Joshua Fialkoff, Pete Krebs and the Rocking K Ranch Boys

Turn! Turn! Turn!

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Grim Ritual, Xoth, Toxic Witch, Leathurbitch

Jack London Revue

White Eagle Saloon

Kenton Club

FRI. OCT. 20 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Iron & Wine, John Moreland

Alberta Street Pub

529 SW 4th Ave Happy Orchestra

2025 N Kilpatrick St Little Hexes, The Stubborn Lovers, Mammoth in Space

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Yumi Zouma, Chad Valley

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave REZZ

1036 NE Alberta St Cedar Teeth, The Coffis Brothers, Blind J.

Star Theater

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The Analog Cafe

1037 SW Broadway Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Sallie Ford, Dead Men Talking

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Rising Appalachia, Gill Landry

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Trashcan Sinatras

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Bob Mould, Moon Tiger

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Greta Van Fleet, Glorious Sons

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave The Babe Rainbow, The Orange Kyte

Moda Center

1 N Center Ct St Depeche Mode

Newmark Theatre 1111 SW Broadway Hudson

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave RITTZ, Sam Lachow

Tonic Lounge

8 NE Killingsworth St Fernando, Arrows In Orbit, Sarah Parson 836 N Russell St Elettrodomestico, Onion The Man

830 E Burnside St Nick Hakim, Sam Evian

13 NW 6th Ave Twiddle 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Smoochknob’s Robots and Nurses Ball; Tony MacAlpine, Felix Martin; Decades In, Samsara

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Charts, Lee and The Bees, The Late Great

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St Farnell Newton & The Othership Connection

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Prids, Murder Bait, Pacific Latitudes, Tweaker Sneakers

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave The Ramodes

The North Warehouse

723 N Tillamook St. Lose Yr Mind: Wand, Chastity Belt, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, The Ghost Ease, Lithics

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Zola Jesus, John Wiese

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Sportin’ Lifers feat.

Erin Wallace; Dina y los Rumberos

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Earthless, Pushy, Mammoth Salmon

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Ballantynes, The Knast, Bobby Terrell, DJ A-Train

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Weener; Mick Overman

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St The Aquabats, Mean Jeans, Dog Party

SAT. OCT. 21 Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Grupo Masato

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Phantoms of the Orchestra

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St BulletBoys

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Caamp

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Oh Wonder

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Motorbreath, Maiden NW, Parabola

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St The Quick & Easy Boys

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street Hot Club of Hawthorne, The Juleps

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Lostboycrow; Poppy

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave The English Language, Joan & The Rivers, The Von Howlers

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Five Alarm Funk, Sam Ravenna

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Atomic Candles, Coronation, DMN

13 NW 6th Ave The Creepshow, Sammy K

Studio 2 @ N.E.W. 810 SE Belmont St Sound of Late

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd NateWantsToBattle with Amalee, MandoPony

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Helens, Young Elvis, Terrain is Blank

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Chuck Westmoreland, Hawkeye Pierce, Jordy Appleheart

The Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark St McTuff

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Secret Light, We Miss The Earth, Shadowlands, Leading Psychics

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Kathy Foster’s Roseblood, Kirt Debique, Joel Cuplin

The North Warehouse

5431 NE 20th Ave Extradition Series

723 N Tillamook St. Lose Yr Mind: Twin Peaks, Tacocat, Public Eye, BlackWater HolyLight, Night Heron

Mississippi Studios

The Old Church

Leaven Community Center

3939 N Mississippi Ave Dead Winter Carpenters, Polecat

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave The Black Angels, Ron Gallo, Daydream Machine

Star Theater

1422 SW 11th Ave An Evening With Peia

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St James Mason & The Djangophiles; Grasshopper, Groove Revelation, Tezeta Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Reverb Brothers; Garcia Birthday Band

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St Mr. Carmack, Mija, Knox Fortune, Vlad Sepetov

SUN. OCT. 22

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Wolves In The Throneroom, Dark Castle

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Forrest Friends, TALC and YCE

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Tash Sultana, Pierce Brothers

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St MarchFourth

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Benjamin Tissell

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Phantoms of the Orchestra

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Milky Chance

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Heroine, The Do Betters, The Stuntmen

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Whitehorse

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont St Ellis

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Wednesday 13

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Common Starling, Tai Woodville, Anita Stryker

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave

TUE. OCT. 24 Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Broken Social Scene, Belle Game

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Mister Heavenly, FAN

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Brujeria

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Rozwell Kid, Mylets

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Hoodie Allen

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Fea, Hurry Up, Bruiser Queen

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Ségal

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Wolves In The Throneroom, PIllorian

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MUSIC COURTESY OF TIMOTHY BEE

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

DJ Timothy Bee Years DJing: Just over a year or so.

Genre: Funk, disco, ’80s groove hip-hop, trap, house.

Where you can catch me regularly: The Liquor Store once a month, Valentines every first Friday, Biwa and Swift occasionally.

Craziest gig: Day Fade this summer at White Owl. I asked the homie DJ Jerry Bandito if I could do a 30-minute guest set around 7 pm, and the crowd had been literally getting day faded since the afternoon. The crowd was lit and the energy was very high. I will never forget dropping Dr. Dre’s “Let’s Get High” and seeing the crowd jump off.

My go-to records: Dam-Funk, “O.B.E”; Whodini, “Friends (Instrumental)”; Mr. Fingers, “Children at Play”; Gucci Mane, “Fat Pockets”; Kaytranada, “Track Uno.” Don’t ever ask me to play…: No Bruno Mars, no B.O.B.

Restaurant Magazine

NEXT GIG: DJ Timothy Bee spins at Maxwell Bar, 20 NW 3rd Ave., on Thursday, Oct. 19. 10 pm. 21+.

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Sean from Pork Magazine

The Liquor Store

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WED, OCT. 18 Beulahland

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

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Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Honest John (garage, soul) INSIDE 

Our Restaurant of the Year!

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Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Buzzkill

Ground Kontrol 511 NW Couch St TRONix: Proqxis (electronic)

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Eat yr heart DJ’s

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Joey Prude plus: our f av o r i t e Pop-Ups and Pop-Ins

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Amit (AMAR, UK)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon w/ DJ Straylight (darkwave, industrial)

The Paris Theatre 6 SW 3rd Ave Diskord

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Tonic Lounge

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

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Spurious Signals

THU, OCT. 19 Black Book

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

Century Bar

930 SE Sandy Blvd The Warm-Up (hip hop, r&b)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St DJ Easy Fingers

3341 SE Belmont St Courteous Family Showcase w/ Gangus, Hapa, Tone

The Lovecraft Bar

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

FRI, OCT. 20 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Thomas Jack

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DJ Bad Wizard

Black Book

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

Ground Kontrol 511 NW Couch St DJ ROCKIT The Excellence of Traxicution

Killingsworth Dynasty

Holocene

Moloko

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Post Punk Discotheque 3967 N. Mississippi Ave Nik Nice & Brother Charlie (brazilian)

No Fun

1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd Questionable Decisions

1001 SE Morrison St The WAY UP: 1 Year Anniversary!

832 N Killingsworth St Strange Babes

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Sappho & Friends (disco)

Where to drink this week.

S O F I E M U R R AY

BAR REVIEW

1. Capitol

1440 NE Broadway St., capitolpdx.com.

Well, that cocktail and karaoke bar in David La Chapelle’s weird lighthouse building finally opened and it looks like a space-age bachelor pad fucked a rainbow peechee.

Ellis ModErn Folk Music Sun October 22

2. Applebee’s

2393 NE Fremont • fremonttheater.com

1439 NE Halsey St. and other locations, applebees.com.

Applebee’s has dollar margaritas all month. Nuff said.

COFFEE ISSUE

3. Chandelier Bar 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

NACHO TACOS: “Senoritas prefer Carlita’s,” says the menu at Carlita’s (1101 NW Northrup St., 503-224-7919, carlitaspdx.com), the new Mexican-themed Pearl District bar that makes the bewildering claim that it is “Portland’s first spirits-forward taco bar.” Elsewhere on the menu, it appears the “muchachos like our tacos,” while “las margaritas make everyone bonitas.” Here in the dark heart of the Pearl near Tanner Springs Park, a somewhat suburban niceness prevails. The walls of the former Streetcar Bistro are an inoffensive blue inflected slightly with earth tones, the lights dim, the mood cheerily professional. On an early Thursday evening, the bar was full of both convalescing neighborhood couples and party groups in fives. As with other Portland bars opened by Urban Restaurant Group (Brix, Bartini), the promise is a happy hour that almost never ends, with only the time between 6 and 9 pm exempted from the deals. But unlike those ridiculously cheap $4 martinis at Bartini, it’s less easy to get excited about a $3 taco. This is true especially when the food speaks the same questionable Spanglish as the menu, from oversweet apple-smoked carne asada to underseasoned grilled green-mole chicken. Still, a $6 margarita and free house-made tortilla chips seasoned with lime salt are staples foolish to complain about. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

Quarterworld

Eastburn

Dig A Pony

The Goodfoot

Ground Kontrol

Star Theater

Holocene

The Lovecraft Bar

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Soul Spectrum (soul, hip hop) 2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Patrick Russell & Bryan Kasenic (NYC)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Depeche Mode Party! w/ DJ Acid Rick & DJ Carrion (new wave, synthpop)

Toffee Club

1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Parklife (brit pop)

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Decadent 80’s w/ DJ NoN

SAT, OCT. 21 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Lookas

Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack: New Wave Edition

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Maxamillion (soul, rap, sweat)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St DJ Malty Stag

1800 E Burnside St Soulsa! (merengue, salsa, cumbia) 511 NW Couch St DJ “Showtime” Dylan Reiff 1001 SE Morrison St SLAY (hip hop)

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St GHOUL a Go-Go! w/ DJ Drew Groove (soul, garage, mod, r&b)

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd DJ Camarones

736 SE Grand Ave LVLST (tropical, dancehall, afrobeat) 13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial) 421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick (new wave, synth, hunkwave)

3967 N. Mississippi Ave DJ Cuica

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd DJ RoCKiT (hadouken)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Sabbath (darkside of rock & electronic)

Dig A Pony

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

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Philadelphia Freedom

Valentines

Ground Kontrol

Whiskey Bar

Sandy Hut

232 SW Ankeny St Signal w/ DJ Sep (Dub Mission / SF) 31 NW 1st Ave Global Based: Dia de lxs Sucixs

SUN, OCT. 22 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave YehMe2

Black Book

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

TUE, OCT. 24 736 SE Grand Ave AM Gold (greazy oldies)

Kelly’s Olympian

Killingsworth Dynasty

MON, OCT. 23

511 NW Couch St Reaganomix: DJ Robert Ham (80s) 1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Schneck Tourniquet

The Analog Cafe

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

The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Venus In Furs: A Darkly Gothic Erotic Dance Night

503.243.2122

Dig A Pony

White Owl Social Club

Moloko

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

426 SW Washington St Party Damage: DJ Kitty McKlaine

1305 SE 8th Ave East Skipping Bedtime

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The Lovecraft Bar

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Sunday Funday

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832 N Killingsworth St Past Haunts

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Montel Spinozza

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Rose Room Swing Dance

The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Recycle (dark dance)

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Eye Candy w/ VJ Norto

The Lovecraft Bar

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

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Tuesday Salsa with Lynn and Mark

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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PERFORMANCE ROSEMARY RAGUSA

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 Lenore Rises: An Edgar Allan Poe Macabaret

A cabaret dedicated to female characters in Poe stories already sounds amazing. But to make it even better, it’s co-created by the righteously odd and feminist Broken Planetarium.

Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St,. brokenplanetarium.org. 7:30 pm. $8 advance, $10-$15 day of show.

ALSO PLAYING The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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. The ensemble cast of 12 play a countless rotation of characters, often as campy caricatures. 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. 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. Shaking the Tree, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-thetree.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Nov. 4. $10-$30.

Caught

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. 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 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

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both Bo and yourself. 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.

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, 2pm Sunday through 29. Additional shows noon Wednesday, Oct. 18 and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 28. $25-$50.

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 lifeaffirming 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 Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 5. No 7:30 pm show on Sunday, Oct. 8.$25-$55.

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

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THE ACTRESS AND THE PROFESSOR: Tabitha Trosen and Gary Powell.

Behind Closed Doors ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MARILYN MONROE MEET IN A HOTEL ROOM IN INSIGNIFICANCE.

BY B EN N ETT CA MPB ELL FER GU SON

When Marilyn Monroe meets Albert Einstein in Insignificance, she’s wearing dark sunglasses and the white dress from The Seven Year Itch. Lazy thinking may suggest that she’s the beauty and he’s the brains, but Defunkt Theatre’s production convinces you that they’re each a little bit of both. Not long into their conversation, she explains the theory of relativity to him.

To be clear, the play’s protagonists are Einstein and Monroe in all but name. In 1953, in a hotel room that overlooks the Chrysler Building—thanks to a beautiful backdrop courtesy of Lara A. Klingman’s set design—we meet the Professor (Gary Powell), whose cloud of wild hair betrays his identity in the first scene. He receives an unwelcome visit from a McCarthy-like senator (Nathan Dunkin), who has ordered him to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee the next day. The senator quickly departs, but his visit casts a pall over what seems to be an otherwise quiet evening.

Then the Actress (Tabitha Trosen) shows up.

Eager to meet the professor whom she idolizes, she barges in and demonstrates the theory of relativity using flashlights and toy trains. The Professor seems delighted by his star-struck visitor, even when their solitude is disrupted by her instantly recognizable husband, “the Ballplayer” (Morgan Lee), whose jealousy turns the play into a pressure-cooker narrative of disparate celebrities vying for dominance in a single room.

Terry Johnson’s play premiered in 1982 England, and was adapted into a movie just three

years later. But it wasn’t until last year that Insignificance made its New York premiere.

Now, Defunkt is parking in its resurgence.

The shenanigans are a perfect fit for Defunkt’s intimate stage. You feel physically close not only to the play’s larger-than-life characters, but to the production’s astounding aural and visual details, from the sounds of traffic that waft up to the hotel room to the pulsating light that illuminates the Actress’ sorrowful face.

Thanks to a dextrous cast and the lush imagination of director Andrew Klaus-Vineyard, Insignificance portrays Monroe and Einstein as charming caricatures—she baby talks and his mustache is atom bomb-sized—without letting either of them become one dimensional.

Insignificance’s dark comedic twists and turns culminate in a brutal act of violence meant to lend gravitas to the proceedings. This attempt to deepen the material is a mistake—the play is at its best during its goofiest moments.

Ye t t h e s t o r y ’s w e a k p o i n t s a r e u l t i mately redeemed by the actors, especially Trosen. Her portrayal of the Actress’ persona is a masterful Marilyn impersonation.

Instead of attempting to imagine the Monroe of real life, we feel as if Trosen is portraying Monroe’s myth. In doing so, she shows us the precarious power of being coveted by bullies like her husband and scheming predators like the Senator.

SEE IT: Insignificance is at Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunktheatre.com.

7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, through Nov. 18. Pay what you will, $20 suggested.

Nesting: Vacancy

REVIEW CASEY CAMPBELL PHOTOGRAPHY

the play, Bruce remains a mystery to Alison. But Through Alison’s self-discovery, we can see Bruce’s misguided hope of sparing his daughter from the pain he feels, while he remains deprived of the freedom she eventually finds.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22-Oct. 22. $25-$70.

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 Thursday-Sunday, Oct. 13-Nov. 4. $25.

DANCE NW Dance Project Fall Show

The contemporary Portland company will open their season with a new work by contemporary choreographer Wen Wei Wang.

The fact that Wang’s work will share the bill with two of the most strangely beautiful works from NWDP’s repertoire is very promising. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., nwdanceproject.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 19-21. $34-$58.

Abominable

If we’ve learned anything from Shakespearean tragedies and Jimmy Cliff songs, it’s that heroes fall the hardest. Through the hero myth, Portland choreographer Taylor Eggån’s new work will critique the ways our culture overvalues masculinity. Based on medieval Scandinavian tales, Abominable features elaborate costumes and an involved set.

Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N Interstate Ave., disjecta. org. 8 pm Friday and Sunday, 6 and 8:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 20-22. $16-$20.

Uprise

Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater’s new show takes its inspiration from Angela Davis. Each of its three works is by a different contemporary choreographer whose influences range the wide spectrum of diasporic African dance.

The works will address the power structures created by how we value (or don’t value) different artistic aesthetics. Reed College Performing Arts, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., diasporadancetheater.weebly.com. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 5 pm Sunday Oct. 20-22. $16.

COMEDY Loose Cannons

Helium Comedy’s month of local showcases continues with a night dedicated to up-and-coming Portland comics. But Loose Cannons will hardly be amature hour—even Helium’s open mic is one of the funniest standup showcases in the city. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland. heliumcomedy.com. 8 pm. $5. +21.

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RA AM ME EN N+ + R WH H II S S KY KY W DRAMA: Arianne Jacques and Jeremy Sloan.

FESTIVAL

New Avenue

BAG & BAGGAGE SPOOF COMMUNITY THEATER WITH A DRAG WHODUNIT.

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ive years after they first appeared in a drag parody of A Christmas Carol, Bag & Baggage have revived their fake community theater company to stage a madcap murder mystery, Murder at Checkmate Manor. A convoluted whodunit set inside an English country estate, Checkmate Manor is an awful play. Fortunately for Bag & Baggage’s farcical humor, the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society are even worse at presenting it.

Bag & Baggage’s production, whose full title is Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Murder at Checkmate Manor, recreates the opening night of an amateur murder mystery production plagued by misfortune. As explained at the outset by Farndale Avenue grande dame Phoebe Reese (Patrick Spike), the leading ladies Thelma Greenwood (Norman Wilson) and Mercedes Blower (Jeremy Sloan) despise one another, the costume designer has sewn her fingers into claws and the pill-addled lighting tech lets the spotlight run free.

Farndale Avenue pokes fun at the egos and errors of community theater. It’s a familiar premise, but the old jokes still hit. Inventive staging and fast pace dissolve any hint of the insular theatricality that usually infects plays about plays.

The fusillade of verbal hijinks only heightens the effectiveness of some truly inspired moments once the momentum slows. Under the warmhearted direction of Bag & Baggage’s artistic director Scott Palmer, the amateur thespians are allowed notes of humanity that ultimately forgive their worst pretensions. When Farndale Avenue’s stage manager playing a policeman (Arianne Jacques) grills a witness played by Mercedes, he accidently repeats the scene’s opening line mid-scene. That launches a dialogue loop that spins from slow-building frustrations toward the tragic helplessness that fuels grand comedy.

Men cast as exaggerated parodies of women is a farcical setup that runs from music halls to Monty Python. But Farndale Avenue adds something more resonant by explicitly acknowledging the more complicated themes of layered identity introduced by drag culture. Dying, as they say, is easy.

Slapstick in stilettos is hard. JAY HORTON. SEE IT: Farndale Avenue . . . Murder at Checkmate Manor is at the Vault Theatre, 350 E. Main St., Hillsboro, bagnbaggage.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through Oct. 31. $30.

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SEA-ING IS BELIEVING: A puppet from Kubo and the Two Strings.

Off Camera

THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM’S NEW EXHIBIT GOES BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF LAIKA STUDIOS.

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

sgormley@wweek.com

A few years ago, LAIKA had a problem. The Hillsborobased animation studio needed a giant skeleton for their most recent stop-motion film, Kubo and the Two Strings. To get the scale right, they couldn’t just make the other puppets smaller, since they’d be too small for any kind of expressive detail. Most other studios would just use digital effects to create the difference in scale.

But in their 12 years as a studio, LAIKA has handmade every piece of their movies, from the facial expressions in each still of dialogue to their highly detailed sets. So for Kubo, the studio decided to build the largest stopmotion puppet ever.

At 16 feet tall, it was too big to even move around LAIKA’s studio—ultimately, they had to film the legs and torso separately. So Portland Art Museum’s Animating Life: The Art, Life and Science of LAIKA is the first time the puppet has actually been in one piece. It stands at the entrance of the exhibit, with a glowing eye and illuminated with shadowy, dramatic uplighting.

Animating Life is the second animation exhibit PAM has ever held. After a recent exhibit in LA, it’s the second time any art museum has paid tribute to the work of LAIKA. In many ways, it makes perfect sense—one of the city’s most established art institutions playing tribute to 46

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one of Oregon’s most imaginative and celebrated creators.

But Animating Life does seem unconventional. It looks more like a science museum exhibit than a traditional art show. The walls are painted black, the lights are low and creepy. There’s a timeline of the history of stop-motion animation. There’s a display of the metal skeleton each puppet is built from. There’s an interactive section of the exhibit where you can operate a puppet and the rig LAIKA used to make the ocean waves in Kubo—sheets of blue paper topped with rugged white caps that fold over each other like dominos.

Animating Life is more about marveling than interpreting, but there’s plenty to find marvelous. In the center of the exhibit is the set for the garden in Coraline.

You don’t need to have seen the movie to appreciate its opulence: illuminated cherry blossoms and glowing pumpkins, a bridge over a river covered in leaves and petals, and a hill covered with tiny blue flowers. It might even be more magical seeing it outside of the movie.

Physically in front of you instead of on a screen, it feels completely real.

The genius of LAIKA’s films is as much in their fantastical ambitions as it is in their details, which is something Animating Life constantly reminds you of. In the back center of the exhibit is LAIKA’s first automated puppet, a green sea fern with a giant robotic eye. Up close, you

can see the texture of foam under the puppet’s green paint. Its wires and mechanical spine are exposed along its back. There’s a control panel where you can move the puppet’s head by rotating a bowling ball—due to an almost obsessive need to empathize with their work, the fern monster’s creators wanted to have a physical sense of the puppet’s giant eye as they controlled it, and a bowling ball was the closest approximation.

It might be the banal details of LAIKA’s films that are the most mind blowing. Several sets are displayed throughout the exhibit, including the exterior of Norman Babcock’s house from ParaNorman. Less than three feet tall, it’s a rickety home in set the suburbs of New England, complete with disheveled plastic blinds, a stack of cinder blocks partially hidden beneath a bush, a milkcrate with overflowing paint tins and stacks of unused tan plant pots. You feel like you could reach out turn the tiny water spigot, which is sort of how you feel when you’re watching LAIKA’s movies, too. Ultimately, it’s those tiny, dusty details that make LAIKA’s films seem too lifelike.

SEE IT: Animating Life: The Art, Life and Science of LAIKA is at Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., portlandartmuseum.org. Through May 20. Museum admission is $19.99 Tuesday-Sunday and $5 after 5 pm every Friday.

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Highly recommended.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18 Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles’ poetry is bad-ass, terse, free-flowing, funny and, when you least expect it, wrenching as all hell.

Her new book Afterglow is a memoir written from the perspective of her dead dog, and it starts with an accusatory letter from her dog’s lawyer.

We haven’t seen it in our office yet, but it’s probably wonderful. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside, 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

THURSDAY, OCT. 19 Comma Reading Series: Tracy Daugherty, Julian Smith

Comma Reading series is devoted to crossing genres of author–this-thing comma-that-thing—but this time around, it seems both authors are retracing arduous journeys. In Didion, Tracy Daugherty is retracing the lines of Joan Didion’s brittle, anxious, brilliant life in a new biography. In Crossing the Heart of Africa Julian Smith follows in the literal footsteps of old explorer Ewart Grogan by traversing the 4,000 miles of Africa entirely on foot. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm.

SATURDAY, OCT. 21 Airstream Poetry Festival

The workshops and lodging are all full up! But, at the Sou’wester Lodge near Astoria, Mother Foucault’s will host a full night of poetry with Zosia Waitr, Carl Adamshick, Jay Ponteri, Erin Nelson, Airin Miller, Joni Whitworth, and Jennifer Firestone—followed up by the Wandering Reel traveling film festival. Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, Wash., 360-642-2542.

7-10:30 pm.

TUESDAY, OCT. 24 Bizarro Hour

Portland is the birthplace of an entire book genre: the world of off-track, screwed up, grotesque, strange and just plain wrong lit called Bizarro. The usually staid environs of Multnomah County Library will play host to it as Rose O’Keefe, founder of Eraserhead Press, brings her crew of Bizarro authors for a panel discussion about the genre. Then, live performance art!

Don’t be surprised if there’s blood.

Multnomah County Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 503-988-5123. 6 pm-7:30 pm.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Portland novelist Lidia Yuknavitch’s new book, the Misfit Manifesto, began as a Ted Talk—essentially the story of how being a misfit fueled everything that is good and beautiful about her life. On the Ted Books imprint, Yuknavitch has expanded this into a memoir-as-argument for the odd ducks and square pegs. But if she keeps winning Oregon Book Awards, she may eventually have to give up on the notion she’s a misfit at all. Powell’s Books, 1005 West Burnside. 7:30 pm.

Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis

Carson Ellis’ distinctive illustrations make the kids’ books of Decemberists singer and Wildwood author Colin Meloy recognizable from 100 feet, through the haze of an out-of-date prescription. Their new book, The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid, is about a bunch of child pickpockets.

Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

Too Much Covfefe Man PORTLAND CARTOONIST SHANNON WHEELER ILLUSTRATED TRUMP TWEETS.

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fter wading through more than 30,000 posts from our commander-in-chief ’s Twitter feed, Portland resident (and WW comics page contributor) Shannon Wheeler illustrated the most absurd and evocative ones for his new book, Sh*t My President Says (Top Shelf Productions, $14.99, 120 pages). Currently on a self-imposed break from political social media—aside from a Pence-baiting sketch he drew (above) in the middle of our interview—the New Yorker cartoonist and Too Much Coffee Man creator talked with WW about moving beyond alt-icon status, befriending Trumpists and learning the art of the tweet.

WW: When did you start following Trump?

Shannon Wheeler: Last November? I was contracted for another book and had started putting that together, organizing these cartoons I’d drawn. This was right around the inauguration, and, like a lot of people, I felt shocked. Overwhelmed.

Looking at my own stuff, I was just bored with it all—repulsed by the banality of my gags. They felt irrelevant in the context of the election. Charles Brownstein—he runs the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and moved here recently—told me to illustrate Trump’s tweets. I leapt on the idea.

Did you ever find yourself pulling for the “Donald” character?

A little bit, yeah. He has this folksy wisdom. You and me, dear reader, against this crazy world. Over and over again. Look out the window, it’s snowing— how can there be global warming? That’s his shtick.

Like Will Rogers?

But stupid. And petty.

Wa s t h e r e a n y t h i n g y o u couldn’t use?

The only thing that came close was this tweet: “Are we living in Nazi Germany?”

I felt Trump was trying to talk about himself as a persecuted Jew. He has this weird complex where he’ll play the victim and then turn around and bully. So, I drew him in Auschwitz clothing with a little star. [My editors] didn’t want me drawing Trump as a Jew in a concentration camp. I put him in a Nazi uniform.

Has there been any blowback from the left?

‘Oh, you’re drawing him too cute!’ They wanted me to vilify him, and I think he should be humanized. In that sense, I think we’ll understand him better. He’s greedy. He’s narcissistic. He’s frail as a human being. I think that gives us a lot more power dealing with him.

GO: Shannon Wheeler appears Sunday, Oct. 22 at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

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MOVIES GET YO U R REPS IN

Carrie

(1976)

It’s October, so you’re required by the unspoken laws of our society to see this movie.

Mission, Oct. 19.

Child’s Play

(1988)

There was a simpler time in horror movies when all horror movies had to do was possess an inanimate object with a demon or the soul of a serial killer. Tom Holland directs Chucky in the one that started it all. Laurelhurst, Oct. 20-26.

The Evil Dead

Out of the Blue

James Blue

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EDUCATED JAMES BLUE HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING.

BY R MITCHELL MILLER

In 1962, Portland-raised and University of Oregon-educated James Blue became the first American filmmaker to win the Critics Prize at Cannes. About the fall of French colonialism in Algeria, Les Oliviers de la Justice was praised for its realism and the unusual choice of hiring local non-actors for prominent roles. Unlike most of his later works, Les Oliviers is fiction. But the film hinted at Blue’s ideal o f “ d e m o c r a t i z e d m e d i a ” — fi l m s t h a t were less concerned with the filmmaker’s perspective than with voices of the voiceless and of the audience themselves.

But outside of academic circles, Blue’s name and legacy aren’t exactly well known.

Daniel Miller is trying to change that. His new film Citizen Blue: The Life and Art of Cinema Master James Blue, seeks to illuminate the life and career of an underappreciated innovator of cinema. “I think certainly that James Blue’s goals, as I have discovered them, were always about learning who we are as human beings changing and affecting the world for better or worse,” says Miller.

Miller is a filmmaker and professor at University of Oregon, which houses the James Blue archives in its Special Collections. He’s also the director of the Oregon Documentary Project, a program that helps student filmmakers create documentaries about issues relevant to the Pacific Northwest. In his time with ODP, Miller has advised students in the production of more than 75 short documentary films.

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line with the legacy he hopes to honor in Citizen Blue. Through archival footage and interviews, Citizen Blue tells the story of an artist and scholar who helped make independent filmmaking what it is today and who’s ideas of how to communicate social issues through media were far ahead of his time.

Following his success at Cannes with Les Oliviers, Blue began working for a vaguelynamed governmental appendage called the United States Information Agency, whose main function was to produce informational films only meant to be screend outside the U.S. Even the works he made for the Cold War agency were idyosyncratic, open-ended films. However, it meant that many of his movies couldn’t be viewed in the US until after the fall of the USSR. During his time with the USIA, he directed the iconic documentary about the Civil Rights movement, The March, which was added to the National Film Registry in 2008.

A few years later, he also made A Few Notes On Our Food Problem, which examined food production in impoverished parts of three continents and won an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary in 1968.

Later in his career, Blue took his idea of democratizing the media a step farther. While teaching at Houston’s Rice University in the late ’70s, Blue made Who Killed The 4th Ward? and The Invisible City, both of which tackled issues of poverty and housing crises in Houston.

The films were made in multiple installments, and invited viewers to call or write in between each part with suggestions about where they’d like to see the film go.

But according to Miller, Blue’s commitment to varied representation by media extended beyond his films. Blue served on the National Endowment for the Humanities first Public Media Panel, which determined a model for federal art funding that paved the way for independent filmmaking. Blue was instrumental in the push to spend federal money on regional centers and individual filmmakers instead of just two national centers.

“He favored democratizing media, and the NEA took up this sympathy as policy,” says Miller. “Thus began the possibility of independent films and important regional institutions such as Portland’s Northwest Film Center and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.”

In 1980, Blue passed away from cancer at the age of 49. But his legacy is still very much alive. In some ways, we have achieved a democratized media with independent filmmaking resources like Miller’s own work with the Oregon Documentary Project. But it’s difficult to gage how close we’ve come or how far we’ve strayed from Blue’s idealistic vision. What would James Blue think about the rise of YouTube and media agencies that bend the truth around the visions of their supporters?

Miller doesn’t have the answers, but he believes Blue’s career at least provides crucial context. “I believe his contribution will resonate and grow stronger the more people investigate his work,” he says.

SEE IT: Citizen Blue: The Life and Art of Cinema Master James Blue is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 19. $9.

(1981)

Basically a mashup of all other horror movies, The Evil Dead has all the spooky shit you could ever want: chainsaw-wielding murderers, demons, an isolated cabin, even prolific B-movie actor and recent Oregon transplant Bruce Campbell. Academy, Oct. 20-26.

Messiah of Evil

(1973)

The story of a woman who finds herself in a town overrun by a zombie cult, Messiah of Evil’s script is written by the same couple who wrote the likes of Howard the Duck and Temple of Doom. But Messiah of Evil is more about its insanely beautiful art direction than its over-thetop plot. Clinton, Oct. 18.

Nosferatu

(1922)

The vampire movie that created all other vampire movies is still one of the best—an expressionist masterpieces that’s seriously creepy. Hollywood Theatre, Oct. 28.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: The Devil Probably (1977), Oct. 20-22. Academy: The Omen (1976), Oct. 13-19.

Clinton: The Invisible Man (1933), Oct. 23. Joy: The Street Fighter Club (1999), Oct. 18. Laurelhurst: Friday the 13th (1980), Oct. 18-19.

Dracula (1931), Oct. 18-19. The Wolf Man (1941), Oct. 20-26.

Mission: The Running Man (1987), Oct. 19-23. They Live (1988), Oct. 22-24. NW Film: The Exterminating Angel (1962), Oct. 20. Chicken Run (2000), Oct. 22.

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Child’s Play

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NOW PLAYING Happy Death Day

The premise of Happy Death Day has the potential for dumb entertainment. A sorority girl named Tree (Jessica Roth) wakes up in the dorm of a guy she met the night before.

She can’t remember anything from the night before when she was blacked out. It’s her birthday, and by the end of the night someone will have brutally murdered her. But then, as the knife drives into her, she wakes up—in the same dorm. She’s doomed to re-live the same day, Groundhog Day-style. Each scene seems to demonstrate the film’s perfectly distilled vacuousness more than the last: a character who asks, “Who takes their first date to Subway? It’s not like you have a foot-long,” or another scene where a character says, “I hope you both die,” and then sure enough they both do. That may sound funny in a kitschy way, but really, it’s just an unrewarding slog. PG-13.

R. MITCHELL MILLER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Vancouver

Mark Felt

Better known as “Deep Throat,” Mark Felt is a historical figure most associated with his voice, or at least the idea of it. That seems to be the chief reason behind casting Liam Neeson as the Watergate informant in this period drama from Peter Landesman. With his gruff baritone, Neeson renders the lifelong FBI man the only way he can: upright and steadfast. But the whistleblower’s journey asks for emotional complexity Neeson and this generally starchy script can’t find. As the mostly confused and monologuing Mrs. Audrey Felt, Diane Lane is unforgivably neglected. And alongside the stars, a dozen character actors hit one concerned note. Mark Felt tries to unpack a government conspiracy so famously convoluted in under two hours, while also shoehorning in its subject’s troubled home life and ancillary career missteps. Mark Felt is mostly overacted brooding and D.C. monuments in the background of every establishing shot. PG-13.

CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Fox Tower.

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.

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.

Blade Runner 2049

With an overwhelming dissonant, bassy score by Hans Zimmer, 2049 looks and sounds spectacular. But 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.

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,

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.

Woodshock

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

gown. 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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Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: sgormley@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

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, blood-themed 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 heavy-handed 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. DANA ALSTON. Clackamas, Living Room, Lloyd, Tigard.

My Little Pony: The Movie

Much has changed in Equestria since a string of pastel centauresses first cantered into theaters. 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. However kid-friendly the daft plot, its dialogue has been sharpened for a much older, more cynical clientele. The taint of bronyism hangs heavy over each knowing aside and attempted clever reference and can’t help but curdle the surrounding ethos of friendship, sparkles and everything nice. PG. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Divison, Eastport, Pioneer Place.

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. 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.

LOST AND FOUND: Valeria Cotto and Brooklynn Kimberly Prince.

Small Kingdom THE FLORIDA PROJECT IS A LUMINOUS ODYSSEY THROUGH A BRUTAL CHILDHOOD.

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ix-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Kimberly Prince) lives in a harsh, impoverished world. The Florida Project’s heroine resides in a budget motel. Her mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite), is so strapped for cash that she has to work as a petty thief and a prostitute to make rent. The movie makes you worry that both mother and daughter will either starve, go broke or, given their delightful but dangerous recklessness, be dead by the time the end credits roll.

Yet director Sean Baker’s luminous odyssey overflows with wit and joy. That’s mainly because of the happiness Moonee finds with her friend Jancey (Valeria Cotto) as they frolic across the sunsoaked outskirts of Orlando, Fla. Rather than begging us to pity these neglected, pint-sized scoundrels, Baker (Tangerine) lets us bask in the joy of their parent-free adventures, like scrounging up enough money to buy a soft-serve ice cream cone and teasing Bobby (Willem Dafoe), the cranky-but-kind manager of the motel.

Working from an original screenplay that he co-wrote with Chris Bergoch, Baker rejects the mechanical loss-of-innocence tropes that often hamper movies about childhood. The film’s gifted child actors attack each scene with seemingly improvisational flair. Baker follows suit, allowing the narrative to take episodic detours that fuel the film’s thrillingly vérité vibe. That includes a nighttime birthday party and a touching moment where an overworked Bobby can’t resist letting Moonee play hide-and-seek in his office.

There are also some nauseating things to witness, like the menacing elderly man who lingers near Moonee outside the motel. Yet there are also vibrant colors and gloriously intense emotions.

Most of all, there’s the wild image of Moonee and Jancey sprinting together, laying claim to a world that may be brutal and imperfect, but is still theirs. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON.

SEE IT: The Florida Project is rated R and opens at Fox Tower on Friday, Oct. 20.

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Not everyone who enters the cannabis industry has time to work harvests, process flower and study the plant on a scientific level. Most new business owners are pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and don’t have the resources to have a cost-efficiency consultant on retainer.

Enter Mary J Poppins and the Sativa Science Club.

Poppins saw the industry moving at a faster pace than individuals in the cannabis community could keep up with, so she formed a cannabis science and business school aimed at anyone and everyone. Along with Emma Chasen, former education director at Farma, they’ve created the first organized cannabis education program that’s independent of a single dispensary, law office or investment firm.

Sativa Science Club’s classes weave between hyper-specific advice about social media use for small businesses and the vascular passageways transferring nutrients throughout the plant, to beginner level stuff like distinguishing male and female plants and crafting a tax-sensitive, sciencebased approach to employee training.

When I attended a terpene-focused course within their “Budtending 101” program, the packed room of between 30 and 40 people was a mix of budtenders and dispensary managers from throughout Oregon and California, people with chronic medical conditions, and entrepreneurs entering the industry at various angles and ages, some in cannabis media, others interested in trademark law and licensing. There was even one curious Australian tourist.

“There is a lack of education for budtenders, who are the face of the industry,” begins Chasen at the start of the class. “If a new customer has a negative or confusing experience, they may not try cannabis again, never discovering a certain product that could really help them or a loved one.”

After graduating from Brown University with a degree in medicinal plant research, Chasen worked in oncological research before moving to Oregon and landing a job at Farma in 2015. Now she’s regularly introduced as the “Ms. Frizzle of the cannabis industry,” and is in charge of the education program at SSC. She speaks with clear enthusiasm for the chance to explain the biology behind cannabis in a relatable way.

She starts with the basics, which is the new front against the overly simplistic “sativa or indica” distinction, which most high-end dispensaries are working to get away from. “‘Indica’ got its name essentially because it looked different than the sativa sample, and was

found in India. These words aren’t enough, they just don’t work,” said Chasen.

She explained how taxonomy of that era was based on observations, not inhalation, so the three defined species of cannabis (sativa, indica, ruderalis) really have nothing to do with the effects.

She also dives into the entourage effect, which is why extracting individual cannabinoids isn’t as effective, using the history of aspirin to explain how compounds exist synergistically, in a matrix.

“When white imperialists noticed that Native Americans ate willow bark to remedy a variety of discomforts, they analyzed the willow bark. They isolated the compound that seemed like it was doing the most, and manufactured that to create aspirin. You know how aspirin can give us a stomach ache? That’s because we aren’t getting the other fibers and compounds that were present in the whole plant effect of consuming willow bark, which are vital in order to process the medicine efficiently.”

The Jupiter Hotel is the Club’s home campus for the remainder of the year, and perhaps beyond.

Upcoming courses include a morning class on the endocannabinoid system on October 23 ($30 non-member), and an evening class on the cannabis compounds in herbal medicine with Missy Rohs of the Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies. On October 25, the Club will be joined by Brian Kuo of Business Advisory Services at the accounting firm McDonald Jacobs, to discuss good accounting practices for your business and tackling tax code.

Members can pay for a variety of packages, and they offer business-friendly packages that enroll staff into specialized classes for a group price— Nectar is enrolling their dispensary managers in the program.

I’ve worked as a harvest manager, flower vendor, budtender and medical dispensary manager, and I learned plenty of new things during the Sativa Science Club class I attended. Increasing the ranks of educated cannabis employees, business owners and investors; the people who will spread evidence-based knowledge and shine a light on misconceptions, can only strengthen the legal cannabis industry as it continues to spread across the United States.

Fortunately, information can pass freely across state lines even if cannabis can’t yet.

GO: Sativa Science Club, 800 E. Burnside, 971-331-0341, sativascienceclub.com. Tickets for upcoming courses can be purchased at eventbrite.com.

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Week of October 19

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

“I am my own muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself.

So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

“Happiness comes from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

Sigmund Freud was a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the twentieth century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

In the next twelve months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Are you interested in diving down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

Louisa May Alcott wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth -- but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

A woman I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home, and in the groove.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Simon & Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement.

When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”

Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself.

And if you succeed, your self-transformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you. Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

In 1969, two earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years.

I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.

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