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The subject of last week’s cover story says it was “pretty much an invitation to shoot” him. 4
Problematic fave John Callahan is getting a new memorial, which someone will probably protest. 13
The director of the Oregon Humane Society bought a
There are concerns that a city commissioner may have just unilaterally approved shanty towns in Portland. 14
purebred dog and not everyone is happy for her. 6 Some library patrons are happy about new anti-homeless rules that will target people like the ones who shared a rotisserie chicken before “tossing the bones to a large, unmuzzled pit bull.” 7
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DIALOGUE In the past week, WW has received an interesting B l a c k Av e n g e r o f t h e S p a n i s h M a i n , v i a array of responses to our cover story on onetime wweek.com: “As someone who is both interestPortland author Jim Goad (“The White Stuff,” ed in issues of social justice and transgressive WW, Oct. 18, 2017). art, I was actually somewhat interested to learn On the right, we were threatened with a law- a bit more about Goad. Nevertheless, this piece suit by the attorney for the Proud Boys, and sent really does feel like it’s giving him unnecessary a demand for retraction by Michael Hoffman, exposure, and presents him in a light that could a historian whose work calls the Holocaust into be interpreted as positive to exactly the wrong question. sort of people. It definitely didn’t need to be a The responses from our more progressive front-page article.” readers were twofold. Some told us they didn’t read the story, but were offended that our cover Adrienne Graf, via Facebook: “This is a new featured a man they considered racist. Others low even for you all. I am heartbroken to read read the story and felt that it gave too large a that you give this violent abuser free publicity platform to a man with abhorrent views. in your community magazine. Research empiriWe expected strong feelings. cally shows that articles like We were more surprised to yours, with a blasé handling of arrive at our office Oct. 23 and a very serious violent offender, find one corner of our parking are a part of a culture that norlot covered by a 6-foot-high pile malizes and condones violence of compost. It was topped with a against women, non-binary sign: “SHIT RAG.” We used the and trans people, and children donation to nourish the plants of all genders.” at a nearby apartment building. Here’s what else people had LABOR AND LOCAL to say: FOOD CAN CO-EXIST “Jim Goad is Jim Goad, on his podcast: “An article like this, in a city like Portland, is pretty much an invitation to shoot me.”
part of Portland’s ugly tapestry.”
Darklady, via wweek.com: “Gotta love watching Goad play the same victim card after so many years. I guess it sells him books and gets him coverage in Willamette Week, but it sure gets tired.” Stephen Quirke, via Facebook: “This is a textbook example of how NOT to cover fascists and woman-abusers— making them the center of attention, highlighting their ‘successes,’ dramatizing their failures, and ultimately giving them and their supporters (in this case literal neo-Nazis) the vast majority of narrative space while providing ZERO for their victims.” Rebecca Hall, via Facebook: “It’s hard for me to buy into the ‘it’s good to expose them’ argument anymore. By now, most people that pay attention know that these kind of ideologies have a wide and growing audience. I don’t want to see this scumbag’s grinning face plastered around my neighborhood and outside of my work, not because I need a ‘safe space’ but because I expect more respect from our local paper.” Angelique Rochelle Davis, via wweek.com: “What a great article. Completely reminiscent of actual journalism. Presenting FACTS without bias. It doesn’t matter to me that people don’t like the content. The writer did a fantastic job.” Jason Wilson, journalist for The Guardian, via Twitter: “Great @wweek story on ex-Portlander, ex-con, & alt right favorite Jim Goad.” theoretical huxtable, via wweek.com: “Like it or not, Jim Goad is a past part of Portland’s ugly tapestry, as much as Mulugeta Seraw’s murder, Jeremy Christian, Tom Metzger, East Side White Pride, and Ken “Death” Mieske. To ignore how the book he wrote while living in Portland has had an effect on our current state of affairs is sticking your head in the sand.”
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Based on a false premise, lacking basic understanding of modern airport concessions, and misrepresenting Unite Here’s positions, the article about airport restaurants (“Final Destination,” WW, Oct. 18, 2017) gets almost every relevant fact wrong. We refuse to accept that the taste of poverty is part of the unique local flavor at PDX. We refuse to accept the idea that good jobs are incompatible with a unique airport. According to the author, Unite Here wants to kick local businesses out of the airport. If the author had done his research, he would have learned that almost all his examples, like Deschutes, Hopworks Brewery and Tamale Boy, will be operated by multinational airport concessionaires like SSP America and HMS Host. We do not want to limit PDX to just two concessionaires. There are very few airports that operate that way anymore. Unlike the port staff, we have moved with the times and learned how to work with all airport stakeholders. As a local union representing local workers, we want good local jobs, successful businesses, and satisfied customers. Finally, it is not our goal to raise prices on customers. Most airports have some pricing restrictions on their restaurants. But low prices should not come on the backs of low-wage workers. It is dishonest to say that street pricing doesn’t pose a challenge for both workers and small businesses. The Port of Portland must get beyond its mistaken belief that this is an either or situation. We need a good-faith effort by those in charge to actually seek creative solutions that benefit businesses and workers. For more background, visit www.unitehere8.org. Jenn Graham Vice President for Oregon Unite Here Local 8 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com
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Gov. Kate Brown this week appointed Sen. Richard Devlin (D-Tualatin) to the Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Council. County commissions in his district will soon appoint a successor. The big name looming over the seat—up for election next year—was Karl “Rick” Miller, the 7-foottall investor whom Brown appointed to the Oregon Investment Council and a panel looking at pension fixes. Miller made a fortune running the Avamere senior living chain (he gave $9 million to Portland State University, where he’s the new board chairman, in 2013). Insiders speculated Miller might leverage Devlin’s seat to run for governor in 2022. He’s passing, reluctantly. “It’s the right thing but the wrong time,” Miller says. “I’ve made commitments, and I want to and need to follow through.”
Low-Income Utility Ratepayers Getting Less Help
Portland’s city utilities have offered less help to lowincome customers recently, a new audit says. City Auditor Mary Hull Caballero found the Water Bureau doesn’t look at “existing customer data to target assistance where it’s most needed”— and last year missed its goal of aiding 10,000 ratepayers by more than 3,000. In fiscal year 2015, the year auditors examined most closely, at least 291 residences had no water for a month after not paying bills—yet water managers couldn’t tell auditors whether any of the houses were unoccupied. The bureau says it has made changes to improve outreach.
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Mayor Ted Wheeler last month announced a partnership with the startup NoAppFee.com, a website designed to make it cheaper and easier for renters to apply for apartments. The company was founded by Tyrone Poole, who is formerly homeless, and lets renters apply for multiple apartments with a single background check. Now the company has a high-profile Portland investor: Pearl District developer Homer Williams. (He would not disclose the amount of his investment.) “It’s going to change the way people rent apartments,” says Williams.
Humane Society Director’s Dog Draws Disdain
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
Shhhhhhh! PUBLIC COMMENTS SHOW PORTLAND’S DIVIDED OPINIONS ON WHO USES THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. BY N IGEL JAQU ISS
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On Nov. 1, the Multnomah County Library’s 19 branches will begin enforcing rules that this month were updated for the first time in two decades. In the first two weeks of October, the library solicited public comment on the updated rules, which include prohibitions on using drugs, carrying weapons, eating, sleeping and using the restroom sinks for bathing or shaving. While the updated rules don’t mention homeless people directly, the comments show the debate is a proxy for deep differences of opinion about people on the margins using library branches as daytime shelters. Here are some of those responses, edited for brevity and clarity:
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“Just a THANK YOU. Noticed you have amended the library rules and have made updates regarding animals and food. I don’t know how many times I saw entire meals spread out, especially in the public computer areas. Once photographed 3 transients sharing a rotisserie chicken and tossing bones to the large unmuzzled pit bull of theirs under the table.”
“Your apparent contempt for our most vulnerable citizens leaves me saddened. Because Portland’s elected leaders have failed to take action in offering basic support services to people lacking shelter, the library assumes an added burden. But your callous indifference to the plight of the unfortunate should shame you. These ‘rules’ are ultimately cruel and insulting. Shame on you.”
“Faces covered with bandanas should not be allowed. Pants down below the ass should not be allowed.”
“Please consider relaxing the ‘eating food’ stipulation. I would really appreciate it if I can eat my 2 slices of toasted butter and cheese slice sandwich I make at home every day, somewhere in the library. I bring them in a tidy Ziploc bag, and never mess any crumbs anywhere.”
“I wholeheartedly agree with these rules. Time it got back to being a library versus a homeless shelter with books. Hopefully I’ll be able to go in and pick up reserved books without have to hold my breath/ nose and feeling like I’m taking my life in my own hands.” “Please for the love of god enact all of them. I work downtown pretty near the Central location, and I hate going there due to the smell and creepiness of a lot of the other patrons. I’m not anti-hobo and I think the guys who play cards and chat that have known each other for a million years are sweet. But god help me if I want to be trapped in an elevator with a guy that reeks of pee, BO and god knows what else.” “We need to do everything in our power to prevent access to freeloading out-of-town transients by cracking down on [library] card-sharing.” “Please add that people with open sores on their body should not be allowed into the library. A man with many sores with scabs on his body sat next to me on Computer 311 a month ago, AND he kept picking off the scabs! I don’t know what he did with the scabs; I reported it to the desk attendant upon leaving, and requested that the computer and seat be sanitized.”
“Overall, these rules make sense to me, but it should be noted that referring to ‘marijuana and its derivatives’ is problematic on a couple of levels. First, ‘marijuana’ is a loaded term that was designed to inflame racial prejudice, and using words that refer to the plant itself should be revised to read ‘cannabis.’” I for one plan on breaking the law, and hopefully when I’m being busted for bringing in my carry-all luggage, another patron will take out a sandwich and eat it, and when they get harassed, someone else will take a sip off their Big Gulp, and then when they are reprimanded by the rat patrol down there, somebody else will close their eyes and meditate.” “I think many of these ‘rules’ are aimed at people who have no home and nowhere to go. If they don’t have a home, it’s hard to shower and of course they smell. Please don’t put up signs that say everyone is welcome when what you mean is everyone except the homeless people are welcome at the library.” “The chief librarian’s insensitivity to those struggling with poverty should be an embarrassment to all who serve the library. As our President would say, ‘Sad.’” Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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TRICIA HIPPS
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Wait and Seed OREGON’S CANNABIS TRACKING SOFTWARE IS THE TARGET OF GROWING FRUSTRATION.
BY KATIE SHEPHERD
“It’s very time-consuming, and it’s just kind of confusing to navigate,” says Whitney. “But it’s an important tool. The state of Oregon has stumbled into another frustrat- Fundamentally, it’s absolutely essential to have tracking ing computer glitch involving a tech contractor—this one to drive people into the legitimate market.” hired to ensure that recreational cannabis stays off the The Metrc software plays a pivotal role in Oregon’s black market. legal cannabis market. When voters approved recreThe online tracking system that monitors each can- ational cannabis in 2014, state officials assured skeptical nabis bud from nursery to retail checkout counters has feds that legal pot wouldn’t leak onto the black market, or annoyed growers and distributors at the height of mari- across borders into states where weed is still outlawed. juana harvest season, which is occurring now. To keep that pledge, the state awarded a $1.7 million In complaints to state officials and interviews with contract in 2015 to a Florida-based company for cannabis WW, growers say the already complicated tracking tracking software that all growers, distributors and stores system, known are required to as Metrc, has use. “WE’VE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH slowed to a crawl, Wo r ke r s a t burdened by the THE METRC SYSTEM. THERE’S marijuana farms large number of must record a NO WORK-AROUND FOR A SYSTEM users. serial number for GOING SLOWLY.” The explosive each seedling and growth of recre— M YR ON C H A D OW I TZ mature plant, the ational weed has exact location of resulted in tax e a c h pl a nt, the receipts far beyond the state’s original projections. For cannabis’s life cycles as it matures, the waste produced people in the burgeoning recreational cannabis industry, during harvest, and the amount of flower packaged for cumbersome record-keeping is an unpleasant cost. There sale—among several other data fields. are only two options: live with the difficult software or “It’s such an important role,” Whitney says. “Your die by the hand of state regulators. business’s life is dependent on compliance.” Beau Whitney, a Portland cannabis grower and econoThe winning bidder was technology company Franmist who specializes in studying the marijuana market, well, which operates its cannabis tracking system in seven says he has a designated employee whose main duty is to states. The decision was controversial: BioTrackTHC, the deal with the Metrc tracking system. Metrc is so slow and runner-up in the contract competition, sued the state in baffling, Whitney says, that dealing with the software is Marion County Circuit Court for allegedly changing the nearly a full-time job. kshepherd@wweek.com
procurement rules in the middle of the bidding process. The lawsuit was dismissed. Franwell’s software, Metrc, debuted in Oregon in 2016. But in the past year, growers have become increasingly irate over how Metrc works. A group of users regularly gives feedback on the Metrc system to regulators at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which oversees recreational cannabis. About six weeks ago, the group started voicing complaints about slow connections during peak hours and long loading times for the system’s meticulous “manifest” process, which documents the inventory of plants. “We would happily pay money, if we had to, to increase server speed,” said a wholesaler who could not be clearly identified on an audio recording of a Sept. 18 meeting with OLCC and Metrc representatives. “I’ve been keeping track of the speeds of that cog spinning, and Friday nights when the dispensaries get really busy is when it really slows down.…It’s the slowest with editing manifests. That takes forever.” The users also told the OLCC they want a centralized guide to the tracking system, and requested shortcuts within the system that would cut down on the amount of time it takes to inventory product. The state regulatory agency acknowledges the grievances. “Some concerns were raised that the manifest was one aspect of the cannabis tracking system where the load time was particularly slow,” says OLCC spokesman Mark Pettinger. “It was one of two things that were mentioned. The other was the load time at peak-time usage, which makes the system drag. We’re aware of those concerns.” Myron Chadowitz, who owns a cannabis farm in Eugene, says he wastes an hour each day updating manifests. “What should be a five-minute operation can now become a half-hour operation,” Chadowitz says. “We’ve learned to live with the Metrc system. I’ve found ways to get around [some] things. But there’s no work-around for a system going slowly.” Representatives from Franwell did not respond to WW’s requests for comment. Meanwhile, Gov. Kate Brown and state law enforcement officials have gone back and forth on the effectiveness of Oregon’s efforts to keep cannabis out of the black market. A draft of an Oregon State Police report leaked in January said that Oregon is one of the largest producers of cannabis sold on the black market and only about 30 percent of cannabis sales happen within the legal market—even with strict regulations and the tedious tracking software. Attorney General Jeff Sessions seized on OSP’s report as an opportunity to criticize the state’s permissive drug laws. In a letter to Gov. Kate Brown, Sessions reaffirmed his belief that “Congress has determined that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that the illegal distribution and sale of marijuana is a crime.” Brown and other state officials, including OSP, responded by denouncing the draft as inaccurate and incomplete. Whitney and other growers have a more immediate beef: They say the system is costing them money. “In economics, it’s called opportunity cost,” Whitney says. The money spent paying someone to input data could be spent on growing a bigger, better crop. He estimates the average pay for someone doing data entry is between $15 and $20 an hour for about 20 hours each week—and more during peak times. “But it just has to be done,” he says, “and if you don’t do it and you get a slap on the wrist, you lose your license and then you lose your business.”
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In a Jam CITY OFFICIALS SAY THE ROSE CITY ROLLERS’ RINK IS TOO DANGEROUS. BUT THE LEAGUE HAS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO. BY SOPHIA JU N E
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The Rose City Rollers roller derby league faces an existential threat: Its Southeast Portland skating rink has been deemed unsafe by the fire marshal, but the league has nowhere else to play. Portland Fire Marshal Nate Takara declared this summer that the Hangar, a rink in Oaks Park where the league has held most of its practices and games since 2009, is too dangerous for crowds because it doesn’t have sprinklers. Takara says the league needs to install a costly sprinkler system by next July, limit its attendance or find another venue. In July, the fire bureau tightened its sprinkler requirements for buildings that occasionally host large crowds. Portland city officials made the changes in response to the December 2016 warehouse fire in Oakland’s “Ghost Ship” art colony, which killed 36 people. The Rose City Rollers have 17 teams. Twentyeight skaters at a time compete in front of crowds of up to 500 people. Under the new rules, the Rollers would have to limit attendance to 200 people. (The rules’ effect on the Rollers was first reported by the Portland Tribune.) Rose City Rollers executive director Kim Stegeman is lobbying city commissioners to either be lenient or help the league find a new home. Last month, Stegeman sent an email to City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, who oversees the Bureau of Development Services, begging for assistance. “We desperately need to get the word out to the city of Portland, people who have properties, people who may want us to be a part of a development, and people who want to support the league,” she wrote. “To save RCR and the multitude of good things that roller derby provides for women, girls, and Portland overall—we need help!” The fire marshal’s decision places Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who oversees Portland Fire & Rescue, in a political bind. The Rose City Rollers are a beloved Portland institution, the largest roller derby league in the world and a feminist pillar. Yet bending the rules could expose Saltzman to criticism of playing favorites at the expense of public safety. The city already faces litigation over a related rule. In September, landlords of several down10
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town nightclubs sued the city over a 2013 ordinance that required clubs to be retrofitted with sprinklers. Club owners and the state Building Codes Division say the fire marshal’s office exceeded its authority in that instance. Saltzman’s office says City Hall is willing to negotiate deadlines—but the Rollers have got to move. “I did make it clear that we have to see some action and potential options, but if June 30, 2018, comes down and we’re just waiting a couple months, we’re not going to make them homeless on that date,” says Matt Grumm, a senior policy director for Saltzman. “It’s a special case because they do such great stuff in the community.” But the Rose City Rollers remain frustrated the rule was applied at Oaks Park. Because the Hangar uses only temporary permits for derby games, it doesn’t have to meet the same safety standards as buildings with permanent permits. The updated rule closes this gap. “I understand they wrote the rule and so they don’t want to be the ones going, ‘Oh well, here’s this exception,’ but our building is a lot different than buildings this is meant to apply to,” Stegeman says. Fire officials concede Stegeman has a point. “The doors are wide enough. The exiting is not an issue,” says Portland Fire & Rescue spokeswoman Capt. Louisa Jones. “The problem is, we can’t exempt one facility and hold everyone [else] to that standard.” Staying in the building as is would force the Rose City Rollers to cut the Hangar’s occupancy from 625 to 300, crippling the league financially. About 100 people help run the event, from skaters to ticket collectors, meaning the league would be allowed to sell only about 200 tickets. Because the building doesn’t have a water main, installing sprinklers would cost the Rose City Rollers $250,000, which the organization cannot afford. A new home for the Rollers would require 25,000 square feet with 20-foot ceilings and the capacity to hold 750 fans. “It’s unfortunate that something that has never been a problem is making us change the whole way we do Rose City Rollers,” Stegeman says. “I’m trying to be optimistic and say maybe it’s the time and catalyst we needed for this to happen.”
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Far On Foot SPIKY CARTOONIST JOHN CALLAHAN GETS HIS OWN KIND OF MEMORIAL. IT MIGHT NOT OFFEND YOU.
QUAD GOALS: John Callahan drew cartoons for WW for 26 years before his 2010 death at age 59. His memorial opens this week.
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In a scratchy drawing of a sheriff ’s posse on horseback, a wheelchair is tipped over in the desert. The sheriff turns to the others. “Don’t worry,” he says, “he won’t get far on foot.” That caption is the name of the forthcoming Gus Van Sant movie about the life of prolific cartoonist John Callahan, a quadriplegic who spent his adult life zipping around Northwest Portland in a motorized wheelchair and published his bad-mannered drawings in Willamette Week for more than a quarter-century. It is also the epitaph on his grave. Callahan, who died in 2010, believed in moving forward—by whatever means available. “Self-pity or getting stuck was his enemy,” says Rena Whittaker, executive director of the Good Samaritan Foundation. “What he loved to do was encourage people. To say, ‘Hey, this is your life. What are you going to do with it?’” This week, Callahan gets a new platform. A memorial garden will be unveiled Oct. 27 on the campus of the Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center to celebrate his life, showcase his work, and maybe bring a smile to the faces of patients. The memorial will feature 50 of Callahan’s cartoons, screenprinted onto slabs of porcelain enamel, snaking through a garden of prickly plants intended to evoke the artist’s sense of humor, as well as his spiky orange hair. The memorial will occupy a narrow slice of land on Northwest Marshall Street near the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon, or RIO, a state-of-the-art rehab center for the recently disabled. Callahan was once a patient there. Later, he was a frequent volunteer, helping patients who may have just found out they’d never walk again. Tad Savinar, one of three artists who designed the memorial, says Callahan’s role at RIO was “to work with recently paralyzed people and kind of shock them into moving forward.” Much of Callahan’s work made light of circumstances he had struggled through. He taught himself to draw again after a 1972 car wreck left him paralyzed. He was an alcoholic in recovery. His childhood in Catholic school provided a wealth of material for his work.
As a boy, Callahan started out drawing cartoons about the nuns at his grade school—a habit that often got him in trouble. He was naturally gifted in sports, but hated playing. He was the kid who was always pushing back against coaches, parents and teachers, according to his brother, Tom Callahan. “John was pretty rebellious to authority even at a young age,” Tom Callahan says. “He just had a thing about taking orders. And he always had an ability see things differently than what other people would notice.”
“WHEN YOU THINK OF A NICE LITTLE GARDEN, IT’S NOT REALLY A JOHN CALLAHAN THING.” —TAD SAVINAR
WW published its first Callahan cartoon in 1984. Eventually, Callahan’s cartoons ran in papers across the country and around the globe. His syndication grew steadily—although it contracted briefly whenever he produced a particularly offensive drawing. Over the 27 years that WW published his cartoons, readers reacted with phone calls, angry letters and, in one case, even a boycott, recalls editor Mark Zusman. “They gave us 24 hours to fire John,” Zusman says. “We didn’t.” Callahan’s cartoons often ran counter to WW’s point of view. But Zusman says he gave Callahan all the freedom he wanted. “I don’t remember ever sending a cartoon back and saying, ‘This won’t work,’” Zusman says. “The problem is, if you started worrying about what John published, you would never run anything he did.” Savinar says the team that designed the memorial wanted it to be the kind of place where Callahan might have felt comfortable.
“When you think of a nice little garden, it’s not really a John Callahan kind of thing, so we twisted the word ‘garden,’” says Savinar. He specializes in sensitive projects: He helped design a memorial at the scene of the Columbine High School shooting and the Holocaust Memorial in Portland’s Washington Park. Savinar teamed with graphic designer John Laursen and landscape architect Jesse Stemmler to create a “ribbon” of panels of Callahan’s art curving through the garden, like a living comic strip. “I wanted gnarled beauty,” Stemmler says. “I thought of twisted, spiky plants full of unique character, like John, but it should be accessible to everybody.” Laursen says choosing from the thousands of cartoons Callahan drew was no small task. “We wanted to showcase his skill, his humor, his willingness to test boundaries and be transgressive,” Laursen says. “The biggest single challenge was representing the range of his work and the edginess of it but keeping it within what was appropriate for the hospital and people who would come across this in a public sphere with no context about who John was.” One cartoon the team debated whether to include depicts a home for patients with Alzheimer’s. A person living there says, “I have half a mind to get out of here.” That drew a veto. Another showed a psychiatric ward with a sign on the door that reads, “Do not disturb any further.” They kept that one. “It’s a tightrope, and everyone would walk that tightrope in a different way,” Savinar says. “We were all able to agree on cartoons that portray John’s sense of humor and his perspective without going out of its way to be offensive.” Whittaker says the garden will have a serious therapeutic purpose. “This will be a place where our patients who are learning to walk and talk can go and use their hands again, sometimes for the first time, and touch plants again.” Maybe it will help people laugh again, too. GO: The John Callahan Memorial Garden will open with a dedication ceremony on Northwest Marshall Street between 21st and 22nd avenues at 11:30 am Friday, Oct. 27.
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Luz Gomez has moved into a classic Portland home—in miniature. On an early October afternoon, she climbs the three steps from a Northeast Portland driveway into her new, handcrafted home. Gomez, a 55-year-old onetime refugee from Honduras, has bleachblond hair, bright blue nails and an easy smile that camouflages the fact that she lost her job and home in the past three years. Sunshine is streaming through the house’s nine windows onto the oak floors. Should she install shades, she wonders, or enjoy the light? “I’m feeling like I have a place that I call home, a refuge,” says Gomez, adding that she had “so many bags for six months, a year. Finally, I moved into my place.” But she’s also trying to figure out how she and her 14-year-old son are going to share the 16-by-8-foot space. That’s right—her new house is smaller than a standard parking spot. The kitchen is a hot plate and a mini-fridge, and the bathroom is a shower and a composting toilet. 14
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For this, she’s spending $800 a month plus utilities: $500 to the man who built the house and $300 to the Cully neighborhood homeowner whose driveway hosts her miniature residence. This is one of the ways Portland elected officials hope to soften the housing crisis. Portland has long adored tiny homes as a quirky lifestyle choice. The little boxes on wheels have been featured on Portlandia, got their own show on HGTV and were turned into a tiny-house hotel on Northeast Alberta Street. But this month, city officials sanctioned placing a tiny home in the driveway of any homeowner who wants to add an extra housing unit to a city with a notorious rental crunch. “Tiny homes aren’t about how cool the tiny home is,” says Andy Miller, executive director of the housing nonprofit Human Solutions. “It’s about the fact that the person living in the tiny home is king of that domain.”
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DOWNSIZING: A handcrafted tiny home in the Cully neighborhood is among the first of the new homes sanctioned by the city of Portland this month.
On Oct. 15, City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly directed the Bureau of Development Services, which she oversees, to stop enforcing city code that forbids tiny homes and RVs from being inhabited and parked in driveways. In doing so, she gave her blessing to placing tiny houses on wheels in the city’s neighborhoods. Tiny-home advocates estimate that at least 100 such homes currently exist illegally—but changing the rules means they can move into spaces across the city, in driveways in every residential neighborhood, and on parking lots in commercial districts. More than 150,000 lots potentially could host tiny homes. This policy change won’t allow people to park their RVs on the side of the road, a practice that has enraged Portlanders. Enforcement against those so-called “zombie” RVs will continue. Instead, City Hall is betting that tiny houses and mobile homes scattered on private property will give people on the margins some breathing room while officials look for other ideas. But some observers wonder: Is this a solution to the housing crisis—or another symptom of it? Five years ago, Eudaly started a Facebook group that launched her political rise. She called the group “That’s a G-D Shed”—a reference to a literal garden shed she found listed as a rental for $950 a month. Eudaly says the similar monthly rent for a tiny home isn’t a contradiction. “Tiny homes and RVs were built for human habitation,” says Eudaly. “Sheds are generally not meant for living in.” Eudaly has supported a number of solutions to the housing crunch—from rent control to legal tent camping in backyards. But the continually increasing cost of renting points to a dilemma faced by Eudaly and the rest of City Hall: Portland has so badly failed to substantially increase the stock of affordable housing that the city has been reduced to giving the OK to what some see as overnight camping. While tiny homes may help ease some of the crisis, they won’t come without pushback. Robert Schultz, a homeowner in the Lents neighborhood, reflects a number of Portlanders’ attitudes about tiny homes: He says a lack of close city supervision could lead to chaos. “I’m a huge fan of tiny homes, but there needs to be some kind of oversight or you’re going to have shacks everywhere,” he says. Neighborhood complaints aside, the idea of tiny homes as a salve for the rental crunch raises a more fundamental question abut the speed and seriousness with which City Hall is tackling the crisis. Tiny houses could represent the second coming of small-scale DIY innovation— something on the order of food carts, which transformed this city’s food scene without big construction costs. But they could just as easily serve as a distraction from Mayor Ted Wheeler’s push for more traditional housing. In a worst-case scenario, the sanctioning of tiny houses could be the first step to the creation of shanty towns. “If they start to put people into RVs on a permanent basis, that would be a mistake,” says Andrew Morrison, a former builder who offers workshops for people building small homes. “It’s a temporary, emergency solution. It’s not a long-term solution.” CONT. on page 16 Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS: Dana Denny got a no-cause eviction from the Portland room she was renting. Now she lives in a little home she helped build.
“I was so angry and so disappointed... I thought I could live for a year or two. I thought I would be able to make a life here.” composting toilet to start the composting process. Once a month, she moves the poop to its own compost pile outside. She likes the environment-friendly lifestyle—even the toilet. “When I go into town and flush,” she says, “I think, ‘My God, think of all the water.’” But Denny also had to move out of town to find a parking spot that she could hide away in—a parcel of land near Sandy, where she pays $400 a month to rent a space off the driveway, and another $50 a month for utilities. She feels isolated. That’s because Portland’s rules barred Denny from keeping a tiny home in a backyard within city limits. Since 2015, she had tried to get tiny houses legalized under the city’s comprehensive plan, testifying before the City Council that they fit into the plan’s goals for high-quality affordable housing. “They are free to the city of Portland at no cost,” she said in her fourth appearance before the council on Jan. 13, 2016. “Let me age with dignity in my little house.” At the time, City Hall said no. But then another group started banging on the door. CONT. on page 19
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HANDMADE IN PORTLAND: Luz Gomez lives in a tiny home, handcrafted by a Portland artisan, parked in the driveway of a quarter-acre lot in the Cully neighborhood.
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nearby. If tiny houses become a balm for Portland’s rental crunch, Gilmore Jones will deserve some credit. She’s co-director of Leaven Community, a faith group that pushed for the legalization of tiny houses in Portland. Gomez’s house will be the culmination of six months of organizing, lobbying City Hall and finishing the little house. Leaven Community was looking for social justice projects. In rapidly gentrifying inner Northeast Portland, housing kept coming up. They hope eventually to create a group of congregations and community organizations that build and host affordable housing. “Luz is on that team,” says Gilmore Jones. “This is one small action we took in response to what she shared with us.” A member of the community was building a tiny home—it wasn’t illegal to build it, and there was talk that churches might be able to host such structures. But the group quickly discovered the rules against tiny homes wouldn’t make that a secure option. The city could swoop in at any time on a neighbor’s complaint. A member of the group prepared by writing a letter to every neighbor to explain what she was doing and to ask permission to host a home. She went back to every house with Gomez to make sure her neighbors were on board. At the same time, the group sought to make the house fully legitimate, going to Eudaly’s office. It didn’t take much convincing. “I should have thought of that,” Eudaly chief of staff Marshall Runkel recalls thinking. Mayor Wheeler also threw his support behind the idea. “During the campaign we talked about having flexible housing options,” says the mayor’s spokesman, Michael Cox, “options that increased density, that increased affordability.” Commissioner Nick Fish likes the basic idea but was noncommittal. Commissioner Amanda Fritz declined to comment, and Dan Saltzman was traveling and unavailable for comment. The City Council is expected to solidify the new rules by amending city code next year, with some additional guidelines. (One lingering question: whether to outlaw short-term rentals of tiny homes on websites like Airbnb, although such rules haven’t stopped scofflaws in the past.) But not everyone rolled out the welcome mat. In the days after Eudaly’s Oct. 15 announcement of the rule change, some neighborhood leaders expect widespread objections. The concern from neighborhoods—particularly Lents, which has been a hotbed of both homeless camping and opposition to the city’s policies—is that it will have a similar impact as former Mayor Charlie Hales’ “safe sleep” policy. That policy lent legitimacy to what was already happening on city streets: tent camping without fear of police sweeps. CONT. on page 21
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SWELL ON WHEELS: Neighborhood leaders criticize the city’s plan for allowing RVs in residential neighborhoods as the housing emergency continues.
Cora Potter serves on the Lents Neighborhood Association. It has not taken an official position on the policy—but she has. “What people in inner neighborhoods see as enabling ‘tiny homes’ and nomadic millennials,” Potter says, “I see as an open invitation for derelict RVs to squat in the driveways of vacant homes with absentee landlords, and permission for problematic houses to expand their footprints and create even more havoc for their adjacent neighbors. We need every enforcement tool possible. In this case, a really valuable tool is being taken away.” People in some wealthier neighborhoods are also skeptical. “We had about 50 people present for a panel, and the issue of homeless camps was of considerable concern among many of the residents,” says Steven Cole, president of the Irvington Community Association. “To no one’s surprise, the police confirmed that the rise in homeless camps is likely linked to a rise in property crime. Thus, if a church were to set up a mini-camp, I am guessing there would be some concerned neighbors.” Some advocates for tiny homes question whether RVs should be legal long term. They worry RVs aren’t a good housing solution anyway—because they generally have less insulation and aren’t built for winter. “RVs are not as easy to keep comfortable,” says Lina Menard, who lives in a tiny home (illegally, until this month) and runs a related business, Niche Consulting. “The same goes for yurts. I don’t have a good, solid answer.” Solid answers are hard to come by in Portland housing. Nearly a year after voters approved a $258 million bond to fund affordable housing, little progress has been made in spending that money. Reforms in the Oregon Legislature that could have helped—including outlawing no-cause evictions—instead fizzled. And while the building spree across the city may bring down rents, that relief has yet to materialize for low-income people. So that leaves city officials hunting for Band-Aids. Maybe tiny houses will be a useful one: an innovation that shows a lot of little ideas put together can make a difference. Or maybe it’s just the latest in a series of desperate gestures that don’t move the needle—because Portland’s leaders haven’t been able to solve the crisis. “We’ve seen a lot of promise out of the Wheeler administration,” says Chris Trejbal, chairman of the Overlook Neighborhood Association. “I hope we see a lot of action in the coming months.” As for Gomez, she gets a house and will stay in Portland. (Gomez has a 20-year-old felony conviction for seeking public assistance she was not entitled to, and a criminal record can make finding rentals more difficult.) But she has a hard time seeing it as a long-term residence. She says she’d rather own a home. She’s hoping to start a rent-to-own deal with the builder in a year. Otherwise she isn’t sure her new tiny home is an answer. “It’s not really permanent,” she says. “I’m not building equity.”
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“I love the rain. I never get to see it ’cause I live in LA. It’s cleansing with a little bit of irony.”
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The Willamette Valley is well-known as one of the most favored grape-growing regions in the world. But the lush, rolling hills of wine country aren’t only popular with tipplers. The end of the Oregon Trail has a long and dark history that’s drawn paranormal enthusiasts from all over the world.
1. A MURDER, A HANGING AND A GYPSY’S CURSE IN LAFAYETTE
Situated along a main route for California gold prospectors, the once-booming town of Lafayette has had its share of bad luck. For years, the story goes, locals blamed Anna Marple, a supposed gypsy who cursed it as an act of revenge after her son was hanged for murdering a local shop owner. Rumor has it, during the execution Marple screamed that the town would be ravaged by fire. The town would indeed see two disastrous fires in the years that followed, and believers to this day predict there are more to come. The main draw here is Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery, which has attracted paranormal enthusiasts from all over the world. Though Anna Marple was buried down in Jacksonville, visitors have reported sightings of a woman roaming the grounds and the sound of laughter. Some say it’s Lena, who reportedly haunts Argyle Winery, and is buried here. Whether you’re a believer or not, the place is still unsettling and, if you’re feeling daring, you can spend the night on the grounds as long as you sign a waiver at the Yamhill County Historical Society. An even spookier alternative is the Masonic Cemetery a couple of miles away. It’s peaceful and unmaintained, and the gorgeous views and big shady oak trees are worth the quarter-mile uphill trek.
For our final installment of Creepy Maps Month, we’ve chosen some truly spooky spots in Yamhill County that are guaranteed to send chills down the spines of even the biggest self-proclaimed non-believers.
History nerds will enjoy chatting with the friendly, and frighteningly knowledgeable, folks at the Yamhill County Historical Society, who seem to know every single thing about every single person who has passed through the area. Feel free to explore their extensive research library, which includes an impressively large “MURDERS” section. Next door is the museum, housed in a creaky old church built in 1892, where visitors have reported strange sights and sounds. GO: From I5 South, take 99W to Lafayette. The Yamhill County Historical Society is at 605 Market St., yamhillcountyhistory.org. Open Wed., Friday and Saturday 10-4,. Lafayette Pioneer Cemetery (from the Historical Society): Head north on Market St. toward 7th St. Turn right and continue until you reach Duniway Road. Continue north and the cemetery will be on the right. Lafayette Masonic Cemetery: From 99W turn right onto NE Mineral Springs Road and follow for about a mile until you come to a grassy gated road on the right.
2. DRINK WITH THE DEAD AT ARGYLE WINERY
Known for its selection of award-winning sparkling, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines, Dundee’s Argyle Winery has a rambunctious ghost whose presence has been felt and heard by a number of employees. In 1908, Lena Elsie Imus committed suicide in the old City Hall building, in what would later become a tasting room. Staff have
reported the scent of flowers and perfume, lights turning on and off by themselves, the sound of wine glasses shattering yet no fragments found and footsteps in a vacant upstairs room. A service technician was so shaken from his experience that he vowed never to return. But, overall, employees and locals believe Lena is a good, “gentle” spirit, even naming their Spirithouse Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays in her honor. She’s buried alongside her parents and brothers at Pioneer Cemetery, where her headstone reads “Not Dead, But Gone Before.” GO: Argyle Winery, 691 Highway 99W, in Dundee. 503-538-8520, argylewinery. com. Open daily from 11 to 5 pm.
3. PAY YOUR RESPECTS AT EBENEZER CHAPEL AND O’DELL CEMETERY
This one’s a doozy. The directions on Google Maps aren’t terribly accurate, so be sure to have enough gas in the tank. Originally built in 1856 and again in 1926, the Ebenezer Chapel stands alongside a spotty cluster of mossy, deteriorating headstones that are reminiscent of a scene from a B horror flick. Ghost hunters and paranormal experts have reported nighttime sightings of spirits, glowing lights in the forest and voices in the chapel. Legend has it that the preacher murdered his 13 children and burned them in the fireplace. Ouch. The cemetery’s other residents include a Civil War vet, early Oregon Trail pioneers, two sisters
who, at 2 and 9, died six months apart, and the most recent burial that appears to be from 1911. GO: O’Dell Cemetery is about 6 miles south of Dayton, a quarter-mile south of Alderman on Webfoot Road.
4. HOTEL OREGON’S RESTLESS LONG-TIME RESIDENT
Built in 1905 as a stopover for weary southbound travelers, guests at what is now McMenamins Hotel Oregon have reported hearing doors opening and closing, and and voices coming from empty rooms. Some have felt a ghost they believe is a former long-time resident named John, who roams the halls leaving rooms cold in his wake. To make things even more interesting, the hotel hosts the town’s annual UFO convention each May to commemorate the UFO sightings and photographs captured by a local farmer in 1950. Join Spooks to Spirits author Tracey Ward as she retells some notable ghost stories and paranormal activity reported in Yamhill County. The event will take place Oct. 28 from 6-9 pm at the Yamhill Valley Heritage Center. GO: Hotel Oregon: 310 NE Evans St., mcmenamins.com. Yahmhill Valley Heritage Center: 11275 SW Durham Lane, yamhillcountyhistory.org.
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LIVING LEGEND: Portland punk legend Fred Cole was hospitalized last week and is being treated for bleeding in his liver. According to a post on the Pierced Arrows Facebook page, a procedure to stop the bleeding was successful, but Cole, 69, faces “a lot of recovery FRED COLE OF DEAD MOON time.” A second update on his condition described him as “in good spirits,” but noted that he is “still very ill.” Cole, best known as the frontman of Dead Moon, has suffered several health scares in recent years. He underwent emergency bypass surgery in 2014, and collapsed onstage during a performance at Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival in 2015. Last year, following the death of Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis, Cole and his wife and bandmate Toody, announced they were retiring from rock, though they’ve continued to play acoustically as a duo. TOTAL MADNESS: In just nine days, Portlanders donated $250,000 to save the iconic Movie Madness video store from closing. After Movie Madness owner Mike Clark, who has run the video rental store on Southeast Belmont for the last 26 years, announced he was retiring, he offered to sell his store to the Hollywood Theatre. The MIKE CLARK, Hollywood Theatre launched MOVIE MADNESS a Kickstarter on October 11 to raise $250,000 before November 10 to buy the store. Nine days after the campaign was posted, the theater exceeded the goal, with the help of more than 3,200 donors. They are now stretching the goal to $350,000 to build a screening room. HELLO AND GOODBYE: This month, one classic Portland spot was saved from closure, while another suddenly disappeared. Southeast Belmont’s 13-year-old breakfast mainstay Cricket Cafe, which closed this June, will re-open with the same name and menu in November. New owners Gordon Feighner and Katie Prevost also own brunch spot Jam on Hawthorne. “We’re keeping it as the Cricket,” says Feighner, “trying to keep it pretty much as it was.” >> Meanwhile, 60-year-old East Portland treasure Pink Feather Restaurant and Lounge—known for kids’ karaoke, broasted chicken and hot pink wallpaper—closed suddenly October 6, apparently permanently. Secondgeneration owner Claude Ogle died in February, leaving the far-Southeast Division Street restaurant to a third generation of family.
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ON TAP: One of Portland’s only tap dance companies has a new home. Earlier this month, Milwaukie’s Chapel Theater began renting out their space to theater and improv companies. The Chapel is coowned by Corinn deWaard, the founder of tap dance company Trip the Dark, whose past shows have paid tribute to the likes of Twin Peaks and Labyrinth. “We’re really open to what the community expresses interest in,” says deWaard. “But our priority will be performance art.” The theater is still under renovation, so the Chapel won’t officially open until February, but starting next month Trip the Dark will offer tap classes at the Chapel and will begin rehearsals for their next show, based on House of Cards.
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DRACULA WITH PHILIP GLASS AND KRONOS QUARTET
STRIP CLUB HAUNTED HOUSE
Composer Philip Glass is a master of movie scores, with a style perfect for raising goosebumps. Glass has gone back and scored the 1931 version of Dracula, which he will perform live tonight with the great Kronos Quartet as the film plays. The Schnitz, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, portland5.com/arlene-schnitzerconcert-hall. 7:30 pm. $49-$89. All ages.
DJ Dick Hennessy is bringing Portland’s first strip club haunted house back for the third year in a row. This year’s theme? A timely Haunted Strip Club Mansion, inspired by Hugh Hefner himself. Spyce Gentleman’s Club, 33 NW 2ng Ave., 503-243-4646, stripclubhauntedhouse.com. 9 pm-2:30 am through Oct. 31. $15, 21+.
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ATTRACTOR Somewhere between a contemporary dance show and a ritual, Dancenorth Australia’s show is full of trance-like thrashing and set to live music by an experimental throat-singing duo from Indonesia. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., whitebird.org. 8 pm. $25-$34.
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Portland’s annual ode to all things fermented is back with cider, cheese, kombucha, pickles, kimchi, kraut, you name it. Bring your own, learn to make your own, or just drink rare treats like Hawaiian okolehao moonshine. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., #200, portlandfermentationfestival.com. 6-9:30 pm. $10 for tastes and classes.
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This whirlwind play follows a survivor The ex-Sonic Youth guitarist’s solo stuff has never of a mass shooting as she attempts to process WITH M O N S TE R S A N D O G LI N G set the world ablaze—his new album, Electric Trim, is what she experienced. The seriously intense story reminiscent of late-period R.E.M.—but no matter. RareG H OS T S TH I S W E E K . is told by just two actors, plus a community choir that ly do you get the chance to see someone of his legendlooms on the edge of the stage like a Greek chorus. Imaary pedigree this close-up. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., go Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thurs503-328-2865, bunksandwiches.com/bunkbar. 9:30 pm. day-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday through Nov. 18. $25-$45. $20. 21+.
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Having survived a traumatic past few years, Kesha is no longer bragging about brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels. On new album Rainbow, she puts aside her party-monster persona in favor of emotional pop ballads, fuzzed-out rock and country duets, and club jams that are less self-deprecating and more fiercely feminist. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.
As the finale to Killer Beer Week, Bailey’s Taproom throws down a wild mess of bestin-class or rare beers downstairs—and this year the upstairs will have a full takeover from kick-ass Cali spot Pizza Port. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 503-295-1004, baileystaproom.com. Noon-midnight.
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Lasting a year in Portland’s comedy scene is something to celebrate. So for their first anniversary, the weekly event is bringing together some of Portland’s finest, most of whom host showcases of their own. The Slide Inn, 2348 SE Ankeny St., slideinnpdx.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
Did you know thousands of animé fans pour into Portland for the city’s 15-year-running animé convention? It’s one of the many ways the Japan-Portland obsession goes both ways. There will be mascots, cosplay contests, lip sync, karaoke, sake tasting, and of course, a ton of food. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., kumoricon.org, $40-55. All ages.
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HALLOWEEN “It's Halloween—everyone's entitled to one good scare.” Even better: All proceeds go to Call to Safety, a 24/7 crisis line and advocacy group for survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Clinton Street Theater, 522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 7 pm. $5 donation recommended.
PORTLAND MONSTER RIDE Naked Bike Ride not your steez? Maybe dressing as a monster is. Meet at Holladay Park for a massive, spooky bike ride. Holladay City Park, NE Holladay Street & NE 11th Avenue, portlandsociety. org, 1-4 pm, free. All ages.
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Moz has really stretched his fans’ patience in recent years, but then he goes and does the most Morrissey thing possible, like release a single called “Spent the Day in Bed,” and all is forgiven. The Schnitz, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, portland5.com/arleneschnitzer-concert-hall. 8:30 pm. $39.95-$95. All ages. See Top 5, page 29.
ZILLA AND ZOE In this Portland-made movie, a young girl tries to turn her older sister’s wedding into a literal horror movie. A year after its premiere, the wacky comedy is returning to its hometown for the opening night of Portland Film Festival. Laurelhurst Theater, 2735 E Burnside St., portlandfilmfestival.com. 6:45 pm. $10. Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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THURSDAY, OCT. 26 Portland Fermentation Festival
Portland’s annual ode to all things fermented is back with cider, cheese, kombucha, pickles, kimchi, kraut, you name it. Bring your own, learn to make your own or just drink rare treats like Hawaiian okolehao moonshine. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave., Ste. 200. 6-9:30 pm.
Modern Times Coffee & Beer
Modern Times, coming into the Commons brewing space, is not just a brewery but a roastery. Taste both their coffee and their beer at Tin Bucket, with four specialty beans plus plenty of rare brews including a barrel-aged cuvee and a barrel-aged old ale-stout hybrid made with barrel-aged coffee. Drink up, then stay up. Tin Bucket, 3520 N Williams Ave, 503-477-7689. 5-10 pm.
SATURDAY, OCT. 28 Bug Appetite With the Bug Chef
For a little Halloween flavor, skull-andweird-stuff shop Paxton Gate—itself a Halloween gallery all year—will host a bug event with bug chef David George Gordon (Eat-a-Bug Cookbook) making all sorts of bug snacks with “insects and their kin.” He’ll also teach you how to make your own bug snacks if you’d like. As seems almost necessary, alcohol will be served. Paxton Gate, 4204 N Mississippi Ave, 503-719-4508. 7-9 pm. Free.
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Leena Ezekiel’s always excellent Thali Supper Club Indian-food pop-up
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ished the beer with a cranberry “relish” made with whole cranberries grown on Edgefield’s property, along with cinnamon, orange zest and cooked-down orange juice. The result is like a mulled fruit cup, a beautiful side to turkey and stuffing. Amid strong competition, it won third place in the judges’ voting at the festival. Drink it soon: There are only a few kegs left, though a second batch may be on its way. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
will host its annual Diwali dinner this year to celebrate the Indian festival of lights. For $74, you’ll get a full seven-course meal including pakoras, cinnamon-garlic spiced karhai gosht goat, a mattar paneer dish with peas and tomato, and a five-spice pineapple chutney dish with mustard and jaggery. Tournant, 920 NE Glisan St., 503-206-4463. 6-11 pm. Tickets at eatfeastly.com.
Killer Beer Fest
As the finale to Killer Beer Week, Bailey’s Taproom throws down a wild mess of best-in-class or rare beers downstairs—and this year the upstairs will have a full takeover from kick-ass Cali spot Pizza Port. Bailey’s Taproom, 213 SW Broadway, 503-295-1004, baileystaproom.com. Noon-midnight.
Where to eat this week.
1. PaaDee
6 SE 28th Ave., 503-360-1453, paadeepdx.com. On the Monday-Tuesday Issan menu, order fiery nahm prik hed oyster-relish with an order of pork rinds. Weirdest, best chips and dip in Portland. $$.
MONDAY, OCT. 30 BreakfastClub
In an pop-up designed by a branding agency, three Portland restaurants will offer $30 weekday breakfasts restyled as fancy “fast food,” complete with superfluous branded bag and food wrappings. Monday is Mediterranean spot Tusk, Wednesday is Thai spot Nong’s Khao Man Gai, and Thursday is Russian spot Kachka. 8-10:30 am. Tickets at breakfastclub.tocktix.com.
TUESDAY, OCT. 31 Dia de Los Muertos Beerfest
Bazi and nearby Imperial Bottleshop (31st and Division) team up yet again for a two-day ode to death. The two spots will both tap a mess of Mexicaninfluenced or muerto-themed beer, whether Undead Party Crasher stout from Clown Shoes, tequila-barrel-aged pinapple-guava sour from Culmination or tamarind cider from 2 Towns. $15 nets 10 five ounce pours, or $2 gets you a single.Bazi Bierbrasserie, 1522 SE 32nd Ave. 4-10 pm.
2. Killer Burger
510 Sw 3rd Ave. and eight other locations, killerburger.com We tried to settle Killer Burger’s lawsuit with rival Rock n Roll Chili Pit by tasting burgers head to head. Advantage: Killer Burger. $.
3. Alto Bajo
310 SW Stark St., 971-222-2111, altobajopdx.com. Credit where due: Their chile poblano relleno with apples and almonds is one of the most inventive and lovely Mexican plates we’ve had in Portland. $$$.
4. Jackrabbit
830 SW 6th Ave., 503-412-1800, gojackrabbitgo.com. Loads of meat, a 60-deep gin selection and great fermented black bean “angry sauce.” $$$$.
5. Dil Se
1201 SW Jefferson St., 503-804-5619, dilsepdx.com. Our favorite South-Indian masala dosas in Portland city limits. $.
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DRINK AND DIP: Short Round is a great new gastropub.
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SHORT ROUND IS THE VIETNAMESE GASTROPUB INNER SOUTHEAST HAS BEEN NEEDING. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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I’m rarely sentimental about closed restaurants. It’s the cycle of life: Today’s opening is tomorrow’s closing, which leads to the next new opening. As another food critic in town once told me, halfjokingly, “After a while, it’s all real estate.” But there are a few exceptions—singular things that did what they did better than anyone else, and which leave a hole in their wake. Wafu is on that very short list. Trent Pierce’s izakaya-style gastropub brought pubby, clubby, loosely Japanese drinking food to its white-bread Richmond neighborhood until it closed too soon in 2013. It was open until midnight and combined great whiskey drinks with big bowls of starchy ramen, along with drinking snacks like tempura shrimp with wasabi mayonnaise. Pierce never quite recaptured the magic with the other two concepts he plopped into the Division Street space that’s now Rockin’ Crab & Boiling Pot. With apologies to Whiskey Soda Lounge, ever since Wafu closed, one of the city’s best food neighborhoods has really missed a laid-back spot for locals that’s both open late and serves big bowls of noodle soup and spicy drinking snacks. Which is what makes Short Round such a welcome addition to Richmond. The new Vietnamese street-food pub from mother-son duo Ben Bui and Lauren Huynh, owners of Fish Sauce in the Pearl, is everything you (read: I) want in a neighborhood pub, bringing oil, heat and tunes back to a ’hood that’s sleepier than it should be. Short Round, which takes over the long and narrow shotgun space that formerly housed Polish pub Bar Dobre, is super casual, with plywood walls and huge TVs showing sports. You mark up the sushi-style menu to order items like fish jerky, pan-fried sticky rice cakes and lemongrass-heavy chicken banh mi. Short Round’s biggest strength is its killer drink menu, which includes a long list of creative cocktails like a matcha and Japanese whiskey drink called the Matchmaker ($13) and a rye, applejack, jackfruit, lemon and grenadine called the Jack Rose ($9). The Jade Trade ($10) with gin, pennywort, lime and lychee liqueur comes
highly recommended, as does their exotic version of a L.I.T. ($10), which uses the usual gin, combier and cola but with cachaca and artichoke tea. Over the summer, Short Round had two boozy slushies, including a fun and not-too-sweet Blue Hawaiian ($9), though the machines have sadly been mothballed for the winter. Short Round feels a little more like a bar than a restaurant, and so it makes sense that the food was a bit inconsistent over our three visits. The menu is long and diverse, including everything from fried sugarcane shrimp to geoduck to pho to lemongrass ribs. In general, you want the smallest snacks or the biggest entrees. The roasted peanuts with chiles and lime ($3) are a must even if you’re not eating a full meal. Two other snacks that stood out are the bo la lot, salty beef wrapped in earthy-peppery betel leaf ($5) and banh tet ($4), a pan-fried sticky rice cake with pork belly and mung bean. Both are primal pleasures, rich with salt and fat that are set off with a little heat. The beef pho ($12), bo tai chanh ($11) and cari ($12) are my other go-tos. The bo tai chanh, is a rare filet mignon is dosed in a sauce of lime, sweet onions and peanut. It’s a very simple dish with big flavor serves in a satisfying portion. The cari is a rich and hearty yellow curry with fingerling potatoes, nutty Japanese kabocha squash and yam. You get to choose between chicken, tofu or shrimp as the added protein. The chicken makes the dish into a very substantial winter soup. Not everything is as well dialed. The ribs suffer from having the sauces added on top of a finished rib, meaning the flavors don’t meld. The banh mi can’t hang with rival sandos with just-baked bread, and the tender, spicy barbecue beef ($14) is served with odd and undercooked fried potatoes. But as gripes go, those are fairly minor. Short Round succeeds by walking a loud, dark line between bar and restaurant. This is boozy food, with cocktails that call out for spicy snacks. If you find yourself feeling too picky, you’re doing it wrong. GO: Short Round, 3962 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-384-2564, shortroundpdx.com. 11 am-midnight daily. Happy hour 3-6 pm, 9 pm-midnight.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cold Cave
[ALT-ROCK] Iconic Scottish alt-rockers the Jesus and Mary Chain self-destructed in the late ’90s after a strong showing the previous decade. The band managed to weave together shoegaze, noise-pop and alt-rock in a way that is both effortless and engaging. A strange reunion set at Coachella in 2007 signaled there might be gas left in the tank, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that JAMC truly revived. The group’s first release in 20 years, Damage and Joy feels surprisingly fresh and relevant. Their sound may have cleaned up some, but there’s still plenty of edge. This show is a make-up date from May when a downtown power outage forced them to cancel. MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 9 pm. $35$65. All ages.
Denzel Curry, Trash Talk
[RAP’N’THRASH] Denzel Curry burned his way onto the rap radar last year, when he received the honor of being named part of XXL’s Freshman Class and his head-knocking hit “Ultimate” was featured in an Adidas commercial. Not a bad start for the ex-Raider Klan member. Curry’s takeover hasn’t slowed down this year. He released a video in which he collaborated with jazz favorites BadBadNotGood, and then came a tiny masterpiece, the 13 EP. It flaunts Curry’s signature machine-gun flow, has a few exceptional features (including the enigmatic Lil Ugly Mane) and includes the brilliant line, “I never went to college/Don’t even listen to Asher Roth.” Joining Curry tonight will be California thrash masters Trash Talk. Be sure to wear a mouth guard to this one—it’ll be wild. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd, 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $22. All ages.
Zombi, Author & Punisher
[SPACE PROG] Thanks to the success of Stranger Things soundtrack maestros Survive and the French electro-horror of Carpenter Brut, it now feels like a great time for Zombi to finally catch fire. Leaning heavily on the plastic synth leads of Com Truise and the krautrock rhythms that put Tortoise and Trans Am on the map, the Pittsburgh duo’s most recent record, 2015’s Shape Shift, is the ideal soundtrack for an interstellar dance party that ends in a chaotic B-movie bloodbath. PETE COTTELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503288-3895. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Yelle, Lewis OfMan
[DISCOTEQUE] It’s been 23 years since Yelle debuted “Je veux te voir,” a boomclap dancehall Eurotrash anthem, on Myspace. While it’s still the French electropop trio’s biggest banger, the three singles released in 2017 so far make an excellent case for close seconds. “Romeo” is like an ultra-bubbly Aqua jam, while “Ici & Maintenant” has already been remixed by Kanye. SOPHIA JUNE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503284-8686. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
HELLO, NURSES: John Bowers (left) and Aaron Chapman.
All for Naughtland TO MAKE THEIR NEW ALBUM, PORTLAND’S NURSES HAD TO ESCAPE THE INDIE ROCK RAT RACE. BY MA R K STOCK
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FIVE SUGGESTED COSTUMES FOR MORRISSEY’S HALLOWEEN SHOW Johnny Marr
Nothing would scare Moz more than looking into the crowd and seeing the ex-bandmate he’s been ducking for years staring back at him.
2 Zombie Cow Pretend you’ve come to claim unpaid royalties for your deathmooing on “Meat Is Murder.” 3 Girlfriend in a Coma The ultimate couples costume! All you’ll need is a wheelchair and a girlfriend willing to sit totally still and dead-eyed through the whole concert. 4 Jimmy Smits As in, actor Jimmy Smits if he were the secret fifth member of the Smiths. Admittedly, this is a hard one to execute, but just imagine the payoff! 5 An Immigrant Actually, this is what would scare Morrissey the most. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Morrissey plays Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, on Tuesday, Oct. 31. 8:30 pm. $39.95-$95. All ages.
Contrary to how it’s often seemed the last six years, Nurses never broke up. But they did slow down. To hear them talk about it, they had to. The Portland avant-pop duo toured extensively in support of their impressive third album, 2011’s Dracula. Meanwhile, “life was happening,” as frontman Aaron Chapman puts it, and there was no longer room for creativity on the side. On top of the day-to-day grind of being in a moderately successful indie band, Chapman was increasingly absorbed by a serious relationship, and his bandmate moved out of town. But still, there was never any question that another Nurses album was going to come eventually. It may have taken six years for the band to complete its latest record, Naughtland, but it had been in their sights from the onset. “John and I were just locked in the janitor’s closet for a really long time and we couldn’t get anyone to come to help us out,” Chapman says, referring to his musical partner John Bowers. “We were maniacallysingle minded about pursuing things before. You write music, you play a bunch of shows, tour, repeat. We needed to step off the treadmill and get some perspective and live for a minute.” Chapman and Bowers first met as teenagers while growing up in the small town of Idaho Falls, Idaho. After stints sleeping on bunk beds in Southern California and living out of a van in Chicago, the duo settled in Portland in 2008. Over the next few years, they established a strong footing locally, acting as Portland’s response to the twisted pop being made by the likes of Animal Collective, Tune-Yards and Yeasayer, and signed to rising indie label Dead Oceans. But the treadmill routine proved exhausting, and Nurses opted to slow the pace. They walked away from their label when the contract was up, and in 2014 Bowers moved to Astoria and then Los Angeles. Chapman stayed in Portland, but the two maintained close contact, talking daily and co-writing lyrics via Skype or Facetime. Living apart after a decade of sharing a room (or a car) ended up inspiring the pair
creatively. Bowers says they’ve written hundreds of songs since 2011, on top of solo efforts from each member. “Fully entering adulthood and having separate lives is cool, because we’re interested in each other’s separate lives,” he says. Deciding to self-release their new album allowed them the luxury to work at their own pace— which is good, because they certainly needed the time. The duo enlisted Unknown Mortal Orchestra bassist Jacob Portrait, Chapman’s former neighbor, to engineer the album, and working at Portrait’s Brooklyn studio headquarters added another 3,000 miles to an already long-distance relationship. “We were all living in different places,” Bowers says. “Navigating three people was hard. Only every few months could we get shit done.” As it turns out, Naughtland was worth the wait. Sonically, it is expectedly rich and layered, while balancing a duality that Chapman refers to as “beauty and terror.” There are big, wonky, hip-hop-style beats so head-nodding that A$AP Rocky may again sample the band, as he did back in 2011. There are glitchy yet emotional numbers like the title track, which feel like hyper-modern classical sonatas. As on previous Nurses records, there’s a pronounced pop sensibility at the album’s core, but one that’s made unsettling by Chapman’s pinched, nasally vocals and Bowers’ primal rhythms. The album concludes with one of its catchiest numbers, “Yours to Keep,” about Chapman’s recent marriage. It’s the kind of candid jam that could only come from an extended stretch away from music— even if that stretch involved twice-daily calls with his long-standing bandmate. “We’re lifers, we’ll always be making records,” Bowers says. “Everybody is expected to be creating content all of the time, and that’s not how we want to live. We ended up just following our gut and taking the time to make the record we wanted to make.” SEE IT: Nurses play Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Golden Retriever and Strange Babes, on Tuesday, Oct. 31. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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SITTIN’ UP IN MY ROOM: EMA plays Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Oct. 28.
THURSDAY, OCT. 26 Slowdive, Cherry Glazerr
[DREAMY SHOEGAZE] Slowdive were never as in-your-face as their fellow early shoegazers. One of the key bands in a loosely-defined British scene based around effects-heavy guitar work and muffled, ghostly vocals, they were less rock-oriented than Ride and far less abrasive than My Bloody Valentine. The Reading five-piece released two bonafide classics in the ‘90s that took the Cocteau Twins’ famously ethereal approach to vocals and blended it with post-rock’s compositional sensibility. The band took a 20-year hiatus that ended with a reunion tour and, earlier this year, a phenomenal comeback album. The band has always had a stately, reserved sound, and as that self-titled 2017 release proves, it’s an approach that ages gracefully. PATRICK LYONS. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $28.50. 21+.
Tegan and Sara
[INDIE-POP] On this current tour, Tegan and Sara are reflecting on a defining moment of their career— the 2007 album The Con. One of the duo’s best-selling records, The Con is where Tegan and Sara’s signature harmonies, energetic rhythms and spacious melodies first congealed into something truly special. For the 10-year anniversary tour, though, the band is stripping down the album’s 14 tracks to create an intimate moment of celebration between the musicians and their fans. SETH SHALER. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.
FRIDAY, OCT. 27 Lee Ranaldo, Itasca
[NORTHERN GOTHIC] See Get Busy, page 25. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave, 503-328-2865. 9:30 pm. $20. 21+.
Omni
[LO-FI POST PUNK] For a short while, Omni was a treasure buried deep within the hyperlinks of Bandcamp. But soon enough, the Atlanta trio emerged from internet obscurity to reach something approaching, um, “omnipresence.” After debuting with Deluxe last year, Omni’s energetic take on post-punk quickly became an underground favorite. On newest record Multi-task, perky riffs and punchy drumming act as a backdrop for lyrical motifs about life in the South and acknowledging white privilege. And best of all, they make tough discussions sound good. CERVANTE POPE. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK Ave, 503-2866513. 9:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
A Giant Dog, Colin Jenkins
[GLAM RAWK] The second song on Austin quintet A Giant Dog’s new album is called “Fake Plastic Trees.” No, it’s not a solemn Radiohead cover. In fact, it’s quite the opposite—a taut power-pop nugget about
being stoned, bored and in desperate need of a car. But the fact that they would nod to Thom Yorke and the boys without ever explaining the joke speaks a lot to what makes the band so irresistible. Like the three records that preceded it, this year’s Toy is the kind of raw, wild blast of rock ’n’ roll fun that’s getting rarer and rarer these days. Songs like “Angst In My Pants” and “Hero for the Weekend” exude glam swagger at punk speed, with a sense of irreverence that never tips over into disaffected irony. MATTHEW SINGER. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St, 503-2283669. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
The Black Heart Procession, Sam Coomes, Dramady
[GOTH POP] San Diego’s Black Heart Procession was started by two veterans of Three Mile Pilot who reconvened after they’d each been emotionally destroyed by respective breakups. The result was a hodgepodge of melancholic wordplay and funereal instrumentation. They reissued their gloomy debut, 1, last year, touring it through Europe for its 20-year anniversary. Like a zombie Eddie Cantor lamenting through a megaphone, Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel continue to spin their misfortune into somber, suicidal gold. CRIS LANKENAU. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503-2883895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
A$AP Mob, Playboi Carti, Key!
[SWAG RAP] You know the diehard A$AP Mob fan based on their devotion to designer brands and love of “vibey” music. (What vibe exactly? Who knows?) When the Harlembased crew, spearheaded by A$APs Rocky and Ferg, first emerged around the turn of the decade, their Southern rap swagger-jacking was intriguing, especially when godtier beatmaker Clams Casino was in tow. By this year’s posse tape, Cozy Tapes, Vol. 2: Too Cozy, though, all trace of substance has been erased. You still get vibrant personalities, like Rocky the roguish runway model, Ferg the energetic weirdo and Twelvyy the token tough guy, but if you’re looking to do more than jump around while bellowing catchy ad-libs, sell your Givenchy on eBay and give the A$AP worship a rest. PATRICK LYONS. Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center, 1 N Center Ct St, 503-235-8771. 8 pm. $40. All ages.
SATURDAY, OCT. 28 Cousin Stizz, Swoosh, Big Leano
[“HE’S FROM BOSTON?” RAP] Outside of Gang Starr’s Guru, Boston hasn’t produced many rappers who get respect across the country. You’ve got conservative boom-bappers like Masspike Miles and Termanology, and you’ve got frat-pop lowlifes like Marky Mark and Sammy Adams. That, my friends, is slim pickings. But Cousin Stizz is here to change that. With a vaguely trappy, regionless sound, the Dorchester native’s made inroads with everyone from Drake to
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MUSIC EMA, The Blow, Decorum
[POST-INDUSTRIAL SPRAWL] On Exile in the Outer Ring, Erika M. Anderson’s latest deep recon mission into the American psyche, she inhabits the Outer Ring, a fictionalized reference to the very real zone surrounding most cities inhabited by those who’ve been pushed out of urban centers. These are songs of the hopeless, the disenfranchised, the angry—those who, in Anderson’s own words, “drive Toyota Camrys and get fucked up in Best Buy parking lots.” Giving their lives an eerie sheen redolent of dingy alleys lit only by headlights, she smears noise, clanging beats and mangled synths across a bleak lyrical canvas. The Portland transplant is joined tonight by ex-Portlanders, the Blow, currently promoting their own new album of experimental electro-pop, Brand New Abyss. PATRICK LYONS. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
Billy Strings, Trout Steak Revival, Whiskey Shivers
[STONER AMERICANA] It takes eight songs for the debut full-length from Billy Strings to get weird. Up to that point, the album, titled Turmoil and Tinfoil, is mostly an exercise in hotpicking bluegrass, with Strings and his band attacking their instruments— guitar, banjo and mandolin—at damn near speed-metal tempos. Then, you reach the two-and-a-half minute interlude “Spinning.” Beginning with the sound of a bong rip, Strings proceeds to describe a drug-fueled vision involving an interdimensional being showing him the secrets of the universe. It’s the kind of odd non-sequitir that colors subsequent listens, and brings out the weirder moments buried beneath the virtuoso displays of musicianship. Turns out, it’s more of a trip than you might think. MATTHEW SINGER. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #113, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $17 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
intoxicating you can’t help but drink it all in. MARK STOCK. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave, 503-328-2865. 9:30 pm. $12. 21+.
TUESDAY, OCT. 31 Halloween Hocus Pocus Party: The Shivas, Star Club
[GARAGE GLAM] Halloween in Portland usually involves seeing local musicians trying their hand at covering classic punk and new wave acts. This show is nothing like that, though it is themed around the spooky Disney classic Hocus Pocus, which will be projected in its entirety on a screen behind the bands as they play. Don’t expect many, if any, cover songs, as both bands will be playing their own originals. The Shivas again dive heavily into the surfy garage rock that’s made them Portland’s pride and joy for the last decade, while the slinky post-glam of Star Club will set the mood for the night. There will also be a secret guest performance, as well as a post-show haunted dance party. Can’t find a Halloween weekend house party? Here’s the next best option. CERVANTE POPE. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St, 503-754-7782. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet play “Dracula”
[CLASSICAL] See Get Busy, page 25. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 25 $49-$89. All ages.
Joe Kye, BRAVO Youth Orchestra, ARCO-PDX
[LOOPER] A singing, looping, classically trained violinist? No, it’s not
Kishi Bashi or Andrew Bird, but Joe Kye, the Korea-born, Seattle-raised composer, violinist and singer, who moved to Portland from LA last year. Kye’s pop-oriented tunes, wellsuited to his breezy tenor, wear their classical influences lightly. His new album, Migrants, includes touches of jazz, a light rap interlude and even what sounds like an old-fashioned show tune. This show features an actual ensemble, Portland’s admirable BRAVO Youth Orchestra, and Kye’s collaboration with veteran Portland dancer Ching Ching Wong from Northwest Dance Project, whom Kye is touring the world with next month. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Abbey, 126 NE Alberta St., 503-897-7037. 7:30 pm Friday, October 27. $10 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
[EPIC CLASSICAL] Per usual, Oregon Symphony conductor Carlos Kalmar will start his program off with a bang. The 18-minute world premiere of British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Symphonic Movements is sure to be a hair-curling musical journey. Turnage is known for his dramatic, jazz-influenced modern work, and the instrument list promises an orgy of percussion and wind. Juilliard pianist Garrick Ohlsson will be visiting to show off his world-class chops on Barber’s Piano Concerto, while the second half begins with Schubert fragments that were not fully arranged until 200 years after his birth. Of course, the show concludes with Mozart’s final symphony, Jupiter, which is loved for its bold, complex and spectacular finale. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday and Monday, Oct. 28 and 30, and 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 29. $24-$115. All ages.
PREVIEW OLIVIA BEE
Migos via a consistent series of rocksolid tapes. On his latest, July’s One Night Only, mainstream rap has never sounded more at home in Beantown. PATRICK LYONS. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd, 503233-7100. 8 pm. $18. All ages.
SUNDAY, OCT. 29 Thirsty City: Fountaine, Blangblanglang, Omar Gomez, Gvspvr & Dusty Fox, Magic DJ
[PICCOLO RAP] Fountaine has been one of Portland’s best hip-hop talents for several years now. And while he hasn’t enjoyed the same following as many of his more overtly conscious colleagues, he’s managed to build a solid audience with a string of inventive and creative projects, as well as his multifaceted live performances— not every rapper in town can spit and make beats this well, and even fewer can do so on stage. Hell For Infinite Losers, his latest project, is one of the best local hip-hop releases of the year. Led by cuts like “Backyard Baseball,” featuring Portland phenom the Last Artful, Dodgr, the project mixes icecold talent with compelling off-kilter weirdness—see the the Dragon Ball Z references in “Yamcha’s Thoughts.” The rapper has been selling “Fuck New Portland” ringer tees, which feels like more than just a kneejerk reaction to recent transplants. That’s because there’s something about Fountaine’s own immense, quirky talent that feels quintessentially Rose City. BLAKE HICKMAN. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd, 503-473-8729. 8 pm. $5-$10. 21+.
MONDAY, OCT. 30 Hockey Dad, Psychomagic, On Drugs
[SURF POP] Aussie duo Hockey Dad play a gnarly style of surf-rock that’s as raw as it is approachable. The band’s strong 2016 release, Boronia, reminds of the powerful, satisfying one-two punch you can generate with just guitar and drums. In the vein of Mikal Cronin, Hockey Dad possess an underlying anthemic quality that’s so
Kesha, Savoy Motel [FIERCE POP] Almost a decade after bragging about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels, Kesha has re-emerged and done a complete 180, releasing an album of powerhouse emotional anthems. Her “stay up all night even if we die” messages are gone, perhaps due to her ongoing legal battle with producer Dr. Luke, whom Kesha accuses of drugging and raping her. The lawsuits prohibited her from recording and releasing music for five years, which makes the release of Rainbow, produced by Ryan Lewis, especially powerful. “Praying,” the album’s first single, is a mostly piano-driven gospel anthem, where Kesha addresses her abuser directly. But amidst the pop ballads and fuzzed-out rock and country duets—Kesha sings with Dolly Parton on one track—there are still the same party anthems that made you fall in love with Kesha in the first place. Only now, they’re less self-deprecating and more fiercely feminist. See “Woman,” the biggest gay club banger since anything by Lady Gaga, where she sings, “I’m a motherfucking woman, baby, all right/I don’t need a man to be holding me too tight.” SOPHIA JUNE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm Saturday, Oct. 28. Sold out. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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Rasheed Jamal INDIGO CHILD
(U AIN’T THE ONLY 1!) (FRSH TRB Republic) THE MC CAN DO IT ALL—AND SOMETIMES TOO MUCH.
[RAP OF ALL TRADES] If you finish listening to a rap album and your first thought is, “This guy needs to do less,” the problem is never talent. Portlandvia-Arkansas MC Rasheed Jamal clearly has that. More often than not, he spews his words at a mile a minute, and switches up his delivery relentlessly enough to back up his brag, “Got enough flows to rap the mundo.” One second he’s a dead ringer for Pusha T (“Never Die Alone”), the next he could pass for at least half of TDE’s roster (“Lxrd Finesse”). Indigo Child shows that Jamal’s capable of doing whatever style he wants. He just doesn’t narrow his scope enough to make it a unique and compelling full-length. If you’re looking for a highlight reel that echoes the most universally acclaimed, undisputed hip-hop from the last two decades—think OutKast, A Tribe Called Quest and Kendrick Lamar—look no further. It’s at least interesting to hear the worlds of ’90s jazz rap and modern sophisti-trap collide with little context. But Jamal’s autobiographical content and wide-ranging societal observations could gain more impact with sharpened aesthetics and a more vibrant persona. Indigo Child’s lyrical gymnastics and well-produced beats ensure that it’s never a slog. But without something tying everything together, it’s hard to separate it from the pack. PATRICK LYONS. SEE IT: Rasheed Jamal plays Mic Check at White Eagle, 836 N Russell St., with Glenn Waco and Trox, on Thursday, Oct. 26. 10 pm. $7. 21+.
Paint Soup PAINT SOUP 3:
WE NEED BREAD THIS TIME (Self-Released) TAKE A TRIP THROUGH THE HIP-HOP UPSIDE DOWN. [SURREAL WORLD] On their third collaborative album, outré Portland rappers Slick Devious and Old Grape God issue their mission statement in the form of a subverted Future brag: “Salvador Dali Lama/Fucking up some common sense.” Keeping it surreal is the group’s main prerogative, and on Paint Soup 3, the duo, along with producer Skelli Skel, seem to be broadcasting from their own corner of the Upside Down. Following nothing but their own streams of consciousness, the absurdist wordplay seems to flow from straight from their heads and onto the record, and the fun is just trying to keep up with their trains of thought. Indeed, it leads to some odd places—like Auto-Tuning the sounds of a dial-up modem, or flipping “Bawitdaba” into something that could work as a Missy Elliott hook. While Devious switches between a singsong croon and delivering El-P-style body-blows, Grape God flows like a lava lamp, stretching his voice around the beat rather than riding along with it. On his own projects, his free-jazz approach is often inscrutable, but here, Skel’s dub-influenced production gives him more space to move around in. “I watch a lot of standup comedy and not a lot of battle rap, my apologies,” he confesses early on. In the bizarro world of Paint Soup, Mitch Hedberg is the God MC, Ai Weiwei hangs with Papa Roach and udon noodles come laced with codeine—and the more you listen, the more it all starts to makes impossible sense. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: Paint Soup plays the Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St., with Spinnaface, Chilly Willy, Este and DJ Eric Fury, on Thursday, Oct. 26. 8 pm. $5. 21+. 34
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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. OCT. 25 Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Ziplander, Ancient Oak
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet play “Dracula”
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave The Pacing Party, The Sarcastic Dharma Society, Shannon Entropy
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St The Jesus and Mary Chain, Cold Cave
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Songhoy Blues
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St Mike Gamble Band
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Denzel Curry, Trash Talk
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St Plastic Cactus, The Foil Antenna LP, The Scourge of Ians
Hawthorne Theatre
Holocene
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave Sounds of Jefferson Revival Benefit
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Lojia and Saola
The Fixin’ To
8218 N Lombard St Zozma, School Bully, Los Vamanos
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Sneaky Pete & The Secret Weapons
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Aura Noir, Weregoat, Iron Scepter
The Secret Society
1422 SW 11th Ave Andrew Hsu, Angelo Yu
426 SW Washington St The Choppers, Fir, Friends From Home
116 NE Russell St Johnny and Jason feat. Paul Brainard, Mo Phillips, Tallulah’s Daddy
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St Salo Panto, Kizik, Lousy Bends, MMRW
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St The Tone Brothers
LaurelThirst Public House
MON. OCT. 30
2958 NE Glisan St Scratchdog & Dodgy Mountain Men
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
3939 N Mississippi Ave Frenship
1037 SW Broadway Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Revolution Hall
Bunk Bar
Mississippi Studios
1028 SE Water Ave Hockey Dad, Psychomagic, On Drugs
1300 SE Stark St #110 Tegan and Sara
Roseland Theater
Crystal Ballroom
8 NW 6th Ave YelaWolf
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Slimpickens with Brother Busk, the Stoney Moaners 8218 N Lombard St Davi & The Fuzz, Love & Proof 2845 SE Stark St Amendola vs. Blades vs. Skerik
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Paint Soup, Spinnaface, Chilly Willy, Este, DJ Eric Fury
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave The Slow Poisoner, Of The Dark I Dare
The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Michael Nau
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring 12th Avenue Hot Club, the Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Trujillo, Yankee Gaucho & Hearts of Oak
White Eagle Saloon
1332 W Burnside St Needtobreathe
MUSIC FOR THE MASSES: For better or worse, Depeche Mode refuses to act their age. At Moda Center on Oct. 23, in their first Portland concert since 2001, the English synth-pop giants refused to capitulate to the expectations of a band encroaching on the 40-year mark and just play the hits. It took eight songs before they got to anything the less-than-diehard Depeche Mode fan might recognize, and left many other classics off the setlist. But stringing together material from their oft-overlooked latter-day albums, along with several selections from this year’s politically charged Spirit, created a mid-tempo slog that only really alleviated when they eventually dipped into more melodically rich ’80s cuts like “Everything Counts.” Not that they ever sounded bad, per se. Expanding the core trio of frontman Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher into a five piece, the live version of the band knocked out everything with verve and muscle. At age 55, Gahan’s sonorous croon is well-preserved, as is his energy—his stage presence lands somewhere between a jauntier Freddie Mercury and a less-messianic Bono. The momentum gradually met Gahan’s enthusiasm in the back half of the set, as the band finally deigned to “play the hits,” or at least some of them. Ending with a stomping, snarling version of “Personal Jesus” might seem fairly predictable given how the rest of the night played out. But sometimes, doing what’s expected of you is the best course of action. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Mystery Skulls
High Water Mark Lounge
The Firkin Tavern
529 SW 4th Ave Transcendental Brass Band
Wonder Ballroom
White Owl Social Club
Kenton Club
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Penny & Sparrow
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St Sack Lunch, Nails Hide Metal, Enola Fall-solo
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave Fever Feel, The Hugs, Beatrix Sky
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Slowdive, Cherry Glazerr
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Wilkinson Blades
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Alvvays, Jay Som
Fremont Theater
2393 NE Fremont St Tara Velarde, Maiah Wynne, Emily Robinson
The Analog Cafe
Jack London Revue
836 N Russell St Sharlet Crooks, Folkslinger
THU. OCT. 26
8 NW 6th Ave Slushii
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Rosedale, Waterfronts, ASAM, French Letters, NoPlug
Kelly’s Olympian
128 NE Russell St Yelle, Lewis OfMan
Roseland Theater
6800 NE MLK Ave Omni
836 N Russell St Mic Check: Rasheed Jamal, Glenn Waco, Trox
White Eagle Saloon
421 SE Grand Ave Nobodys Human, 13 Nails
Kelly’s Olympian
The Goodfoot
8 NW 6th Ave Koo Koo Kanga Roo
The Lovecraft Bar
The Old Church
Mississippi Studios
Roseland Theater
Thirsty City: Fountaine, Blangblanglang, Omar Gomez, Gvspvr & Dusty Fox, Magic DJ
1001 SE Morrison St Siren and the Sea, Small Million, Amenta Abioto
The Fixin’ To
3939 N Mississippi Ave Zombi, Author & Punisher
LAST WEEK LIVE
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Authority Zero, Mouse Powell, Question Thursday, Burn the Stage
LaurelThirst Public House
2958 NE Glisan St Jim Page & Casey Neill
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426 SW Washington St A Giant Dog, Colin Jenkins
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Bunk Bar
Dante’s
The Fixin’ To
Doug Fir Lounge
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Panzer Beat
8218 N. Lombard St Sole, Mic Crenshaw, Bypolar, Egbe Vado
350 W Burnside St My Life with Thrill Kill Kult 830 E Burnside St Max Frost
Hawthorne Theatre
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Pee-Weezer, Alice and Chains
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Cousin Stizz, Swoosh, Big Leano
Wonder Ballroom
LaurelThirst Public House
The Paris Theatre
Jack London Revue
FRI. OCT. 27 Alberta Abbey
126 NE Alberta St Joe Kye, BRAVO Youth Orchestra, ARCO-PDX
American Legion Hall 2104 NE Alberta St Luna Vista, Bashface, Mandark
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave Lee Ranaldo, Itasca
Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd Brad Mehldau
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St The Lost Cause, Jon Koonce & the Gas Hogs
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave JoyTribe, Soul Progression
Mississippi Studios
Dante’s
3939 N Mississippi Ave The Black Heart Procession, Sam Coomes, Dramady
Doug Fir Lounge
Moda Center
350 W Burnside St Hell’s Belles 830 E Burnside St Alvvays, Jay Som
1 N Center Ct St A$AP Mob, Playboi Carti, Key! (Theater of the Clouds)
The Fixin’ To
1937 SE 11th Ave Get Real, Moral High Horses, Dim Wit
2025 N Kilpatrick St Thin Rail, Starshine Black & Madison Crawford, The Half of It
2958 NE Glisan St Anna Hoone, Nassau, and W.C. Beck
1937 SE 11th Ave Leo London, Pink Princess, Nathan Baumgartner 8218 N Lombard St Geezer, Month of Burma, Diamond Dogs, Craftwork; Kulululu, Toxic Slime Records
1028 SE Water Ave Dana Buoy, Nassau, W.C. Beck
1305 SE 8th Ave Isaac Rother & the Phantoms, The Reverberations 128 NE Russell St Snakehips
The Firkin Tavern
6 SW 3rd Ave Masquerade Ball
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys; Left Coast Country, Scratchdog Stringband
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Battalion of Saints, Oppressed Logic, The Cryptics
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St JT Wise Band
SAT. OCT. 28 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Paula Cole
529 SW 4th Ave Dave Douglas Meets The Westerlies
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St Neuro Narrative
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St Die Like Gentlemen, Gamma Repeater, Lojia
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave EMA, The Blow
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 Billy Strings, Trout Steak Revival, Whiskey Shivers
Roseland Theater
The Know
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Brock Zeman with Blair Hogan
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St The Midnight Serenaders, The Libertine Belles, The Ukeladies
Turn! Turn! Turn!
350 W Burnside St Secondhand Serenade, He Is We, Ronnie WinterDefoe
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Moon Honey, DAN DAN
Kelly’s Olympian
1001 SE Morrison St Dean Lewis
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave Mary Lambert, Mal Blum
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St Cambrian Explosion, Black Water (HolyLight)
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Hollywood Undead, Butcher Babies
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Fear No Music presents Music of Resistance
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St October Global Folk Club
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St The Underachievers, Injury Reserve, Warm Brew
TUE. OCT. 31 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
426 SW Washington St Haiku de Kodename
1037 SW Broadway Morrissey
Kenton Club
Ash Street Saloon
Mississippi Studios
Crystal Ballroom
Moda Center
1332 W Burnside St Nothing More with My Ticket Home, Hell Or Highwater, As Lions
2025 N Kilpatrick St Young Hunter, King Chiefs, Disenchanter 3939 N Mississippi Ave Colleen, Derek Hunter Wilson 1 N Center Ct St André Rieu
225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s 23rd & Final Anniversary Party
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Life During Wartime
8 NE Killingsworth St The Rolling Stones, Boys Keep Swinging (David Bowie Tribute)
Rontoms
White Eagle Saloon
Roseland Theater
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Turnover, Elvis Depressedly, Emma Ruth Rundle
Star Theater
3939 N Mississippi Ave Nurses
836 N Russell St Two Bit Rumor
SUN. OCT. 29 Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave The Old Yellers
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
8 NW 6th Ave Kesha, Savoy Motel
1037 SW Broadway Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Star Theater
Crystal Ballroom
13 NW 6th Ave Lyrics Born
Dante’s
Holocene
1332 W Burnside St Haley Reinhart (Lola’s Room)
600 E Burnside St Holiday Friends, Paper Brain 8 NW 6th Ave In This Moment, Of Mice & Men, Avatar 13 NW 6th Ave Genitorturers
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Beautiful Eulogy
Hawthorne Theatre
Mississippi Studios
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St B2G
The Know
The Fixin’ To
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Marilyn Manson, Killing Joke
The Know
3341 SE Belmont St Halloween Hocus Pocus Party: The Shivas, Star Club
8218 N Lombard St Replicas, Cocteau Triplets, DJ Misty Mary 3728 NE Sandy Blvd
The Liquor Store
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Benjamin Years DJing: Formally, I’ve been playing out for about seven years. I’m a lifelong, if lapsed, musician and equally a compulsive and omnivorous consumer of recorded sound, so it was equally a natural transition and retroactive justification for my best and worst excesses. Genre: If one pictured a Venn diagram with segments representing Steely Dan, Ashford & Simpson and late-era Weather Report, I’m in the middle trying to figure out how to keep people from leaving the bar. I’ve also toyed with “Modern Dad” and “DX7th Heaven.” Where you can catch me regularly: Every fourth Thursday at Moloko for Salad Nights. I’ve also been at Toffee Club (with Jason Urick as Pro Gear and Pro Attitude) and Biwa quite a bit lately. Craziest gig: Nothing immediately springs to mind at like a Jimmy Page/misdemeanor charges/“waking up on a kibbutz with the touring cast of Cats” level. But in recent memory I played with Tony Remple of Musique Plastique and there was table dancing as well as interpretive rug flapping. So suffice to say the fuse had been lit. My go-to records: ”Let Me Kiss You Baby” by Fern Kinney; “Adventures in Success” by Will Powers; “Gone Flying” by Phil Manzanera; “On a Day Like Today” by Gichy Dan’s Beachwood #9; “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” by Prince. Don’t ever ask me to play…: One memorable night involved a Swedish couple where the male representative repeatedly requested some Sepultura, which “would make big party happen,” so let’s just say I’d be OK if that’s a one-shot deal. NEXT GIG: Benjamin spins at Moloko, 3967 N Mississippi Ave., with Natural Magic, on Thursday, Oct. 26. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
FRI, OCT. 27 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Haunted House Party
Bossanova Ballroom
WED, OCT. 25 Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Wicked Wednesday (hip-hop)
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Mutant Sounds w/ Musique Plastique
Rock Hard PDX
13639 SE Powell Blvd Grimey Chills And Thrills Halloween Show
Shake Bar
28 NW 4th Ave GIRL POWER / All Female DJ Showcase
The Embers Avenue 100 NW Broadway Knochen Tanz (ebm, industrial)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon w/ DJ Straylight (darkwave, industrial)
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Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, dark wave)
THU, OCT. 26 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Brillz
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Dave Cantrell (world’s newest post-punk)
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Salad Nights w/ Benjamin (international disco, synth, modern dad)
The Lovecraft Bar
722 E Burnside St Ritual - Halloween 2017
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack Halloween
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St DJ Nate C. (anthem rock, hair metal)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St SNAP! ‘90s Halloween Costume Dance Party
Killingsworth Dynasty
832 N Killingsworth St Switch.’s halloqween kink slasher
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Monkeytek & Friends
North Warehosue
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)
723 N Tillamook St HOWL 2017
The Paris Theatre
The Goodfoot
6 SW 3rd Ave Eidolon Presents: Au Revoir
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
Where to drink this week. 1. Zero Degrees
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BAR REVIEW
8220 SE Harrison St., 503-772-1500, zerodegreescompany. com. Taste the flavors of the San Gabriel Valley at this new franchise spot mashing up Taiwanese boba, purple shakes made with Filipino yams, mangonadas and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos elotes.
2. 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.
3. Applebee’s 1439 NE Halsey St. and other locations, applebees.com. Applebee’s has dollar margaritas all month. ‘Nuff said.
4. 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.
5. 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.
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Club Kai Kai (queer & drag night)
The Melody Ballroom
615 SE Alder St Halloween Salsa Extravaganza
Tryst
19 SW 2nd Ave Decadent ‘80s w/ DJ NoN
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Bollywood Thriller Halloween Costume Party
SAT, OCT. 28 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Paul Oakenfold
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DDDJJJ666 & Magnolia Bouvier
Black Water Bar 835 NE Broadway Spooky Spectacular Halloween Dance Party!!
Bossanova Ballroom
722 E Burnside St Blowpony’s Homoween
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St
IT TAKES A NATIAN: There are sports bars and game bars and goth bars. But Burnside Street’s Natian Tasting Room (1306 E Burnside St., 503-7196994, natianbrewery.com) is probably the city’s only bar devoted full-time to penguins and weird bugs. “One TV is always on the nature channel,” our bartender told us. “The owner figured there were already lots of sports bars.” But that’s the thing about Natian Brewery: They never do things the way you’d expect. For eight years, they’ve quietly been brewing cans of Everyday IPA and Undun Blonde out of Couch Street’s Portland Bottling plant—they were canning long before canning was cool, and it gave them a niche in an increasingly competitive industry. But unlike taproom-first breweries, there’s been no reliable place to drink Natian’s beer on draft until this August, when they opened up a no-nonsense, blonde-wood taproom in one of those big new buildings on Burnside. Another quirk surfaced when Guinness threatened to sue owner Ian McGuinness for selling his excellent milk stout under his own name; he repackaged it as Cease and Desist. It’s still the best beer Natian makes, but now among the bar’s 24 taps of tea-leaf ale or pumpkin stout, you can get a four-year vertical of Cease and Desist stretching back to 2014. We recommend this heartily—though the vintage 2016 IPA is an anomaly we were a lot less excited about. There’s also a nutty selection of board games, from Uno to Connect Four, and a gargantuan big screen tuned to prank-call TV shows. The only thing missing is food, a problem in a no-man’s-land stretch of Burnside five blocks from the nearest take-out. Whatever solution they come up with, it probably won’t be anything we expect. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. You Better Work, Witch: Pre-Halloween Dance Party
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Main Squeeze: Halloween
The Solo Club
2110 NW 21st Ave Dance of the Damned
Toffee Club
Killingsworth Dynasty
1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Kick or Treat Costume Party
Quarterworld
31 NW 1st Ave A Halloween Inferno
832 N Killingsworth St Ghosted: A Homo Halloween 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Invasion of the Penny Snatchers: Halloween Dance Party & Costume Contest
Saucebox
214 N Broadway St Legendary Halloween
The Analog Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Boulevard Bollywood Horror XV Halloween Costume Party
The Evergreen
618 SE Alder St Haunted Disco (Yelloween)
Whiskey Bar
White Owl Social Club
1305 SE 8th Ave East Halloween Party
SUN, OCT. 29 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Do Right Sunday: A Benefit for Puerto Rico Disaster Relief
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave HIVE (goth, industrial)
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St GET on UP “Monster Mashup”
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Electronomicon (darkwave, goth)
The Paris Theatre
6 SW 3rd Ave Get Spooky Halloween Bash (edm, hip hop)
MON, OCT. 30
TUE, OCT. 31 Conquistador Lounge
2045 SE Belmont St Dance!Dance!Die! Halloween Dance Party
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St All Holla’s Eve: a Halloween Party & Costume Contest
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Come As You Are: 90s Dance Flashback
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St Party Damage DJs: Halloween DJ Jam
Killingsworth Dynasty
832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty Goth-o-ween!
Sandy Hut
1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Major Sean Presents Night of the Living Sally
The Analog Cafe
Dig A Pony
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Halloween Mambo Madness
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Happy Halloween! Dance!!
736 SE Grand Ave OOPS (80s synth pop) 421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, darkwave)
The Lovecraft Bar
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Halloween Costume Party
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PERFORMANCE K K E L LY P H O T O G R A P H Y
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 The Events
The whirlwind play follows a survivor of a mass shooting as she attempts to process what she experienced. The seriously intense story is told by just two actors, plus a community choir that looms on the edge of the stage like a Greek chorus. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., thirdrailrep.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Oct. 27-Nov. 18. $25-$45.
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. 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-the-tree.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. Caught works with revelatory, insidious force as it mutates from one kind of a show into another and into yet another after that. To reveal much more than that would ruin its slippery spell. Lee and Chen challenge your perception of both Bo and yourself. 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 life-affirming pleasures—ice cream and roller coasters when he started the list at the age of seven, sex and meaningful conversa-
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tions as he entered adulthood. Though the one-man show is about living in the shadow cast by the attempted suicide of a loved one, it’s playful, unconventionally structured and unapologetically sentimental. It’s more like group therapy than a traditional play. Audience members are called on stage to play a vet that euthanizes the main character’s childhood dog, or our narrator at seven years old who can only respond “why?” as his father struggles to explains that his mother tried to kill herself. Often cloyingly sentimental, Every Brilliant Thing is not for even the mildly cynical, or those who are unwilling to put aside the fact that a list of “brilliant things” is a simplistic response to a complicated issue. Still, Every Brilliant Thing succeeds thanks to Lamb’s everyman affability as well as its communal spirit. More than anything, it’s an exercise in empathy. R MITCHELL MILLER. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm TuesdaySaturday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through Nov. 5. No 7:30 pm show on Sunday, Oct. 8.$25-$55.
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. TThe show premiered on Broadway in 2015 and won multiple Tony awards that same year. It went on tour for the first time last October, but Portland Center Stage is staging its own production. PCS’ production is so intimate and charming, it’s hard to imagine Fun Home on a giant Broadway stage. At the end of the play, Bruce remains a mystery to Alison. But Through Alison’s selfdiscovery, we can see Bruce’s misguided hope of sparing his daughter from the pain he feels, while he remains deprived of the freedom she eventually finds. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, noon Thursday, 2 pm Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22-Oct. 22. $25-$70.
DANCE Apparition
Somewhere between a contemporary dance show and a ritual, Dancenorth Australia’s show is full of trance like thrashing and set to live music by an experimental throating singing duo from Indonesia. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., whitebird.org. 8 pm. $25-$34.
COMEDY Sincerity Is Gross Anniversary Show
Lasting a year in Portland’s comedy scene is something to celebrate. So for their first anniversary, the weekly is bringing together some of Portland’s finest, most of whom host showcases of their own. The Slide Inn, 2348 SE Ankeny St, slideinnpdx.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
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SHOCK AND AWE: Tyharra Cozier
Empty Nesting NESTING: VACANCY IS PART-HAUNTED HOUSE, PART-TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE. BY SOPHIA JU N E
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We should have learned by now that nothing good happens when you enter an abandoned house. But instead of watching characters enter a house you know they shouldn’t from the comfort of your own couch, the horror plays out right in front of you in Theatre Vertigo’s second season of their binge-worthy horror show, Nesting: Vacancy.Thankfully, they give you a big blanket to use. Trust us—you’ll need it both nights. Nesting is told in four episodes over either one or two nights, depending on when you go: It’s theater you can binge-watch like Scandal. Nesting debuted to a cult following at now-closed Action/ Adventure Theater in 2015, before getting picked up by Theatre Vertigo last year. This year’s Nesting: Vacancy brings back old and new cast members with a new storyline. The play begins with a distressed Cameron (Jacob Camp) entering a dark and spooky house, constructed by wooden planks that eerily resemble a corn maze. He’s panting, his eyes are wide and he’s literally afraid of his own shadow. Right behind him is Sylvia (Isabella Buckner), his lovable slacker older sister. A vague backstory leads us to believe that their parents sucked so they had to run away to an abandoned house in Portland. Everything seems dismal, but okay: The siblings move in, get to know their #basic
neighbors and get drunk with their accomplished childhood friend Ryan (Tyharra Cozier), who is by far the most stable character in the play. But then shit starts to get weird. In a dizzying and gradual degrade into madness, the siblings start seeing a light behind a locked basement door in the middle of the night. Then they start to hear voices. Then they start to see a terrifying Valley of the Dolls, Stepford Wives being (Elizabeth Jackson) who’s so close to your seat in the tiny Shoebox Theater, she can stare straight into your eyes. Unfortunately, because of the heavy psychological themes, the play can easily turn maudlin, like when Cameron beats himself up, hurling himself against the walls, which loses a carefully crafted tension. What makes Nesting: Vacancy work is the pairing of psychological horror often seen onstage paired with cinema-style horror, like strobe lights, an eerie score and echoed voices. The result is what feels like part-haunted house, part-really twisted episode of Twilight Zone— except that you can’t turn it off. You wouldn’t want to even if you could. SEE IT: Nesting: Vacancy is at The Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave. See nestingpdx. com for episode schedule. 8-10 pm ThursdaySunday, through Nov. 4. $20.
PHOTOS BY ROSIE STRUVE
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW
Strange Brew A NEW ART SHOW DISPLAYS POSTERS FOR HORROR MOVIES THE ARTISTS HADN’T SEEN.
THE HORROR! Works by various artists in Wyrd War’s exhibit. BY SHANNON GORMLEY sgormley@wweek.com
The first thing you see when you enter Wyrd War’s exhibit of horror movie posters is a work with its title painted in red and white capital letters: “THE FIERCE GHOST EATS HUMAN REGION.” It was painted by Ghanaian artist Sharp Ashaiman in the late ’90s, and according to Dennis Dread, the show’s curator and founder of record and film company Wyrd War, the poster is a loose translation for Interview with the Vampire. Like the other posters in the exhibit, its details take time to sink in. “They kind of just keep giving,” says Dread. “There’s little things that you don’t quite catch because they are so overwhelming at first.” Lining the walls of the Cobra Lounge behind Tiny’s Coffee on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard are 35 of the most bizarre and gory Ghanaian movie posters Wyrd War could find. The pulpy, surreal scenes are painted with smooth, glossy acrylic on large sheets of stitched-together flour sacks. On a poster by an artist whose moniker is Teshie, there’s a man shooting spider venom into another man’s mouth. There are several posters in the exhibit by Dr. Drew, one of the movement’s most legendary artists, including a poster for a movie called House Party, on which a group of powder-blue monsters in green dresses feasts on human body parts and bowls of blood. In the mid-’80s, VHS tapes of American movies became widely available in Ghana. So impromptu movie theaters popped up around the country that were usually held outdoors and powered by portable generators. To advertise the temporary movie theaters, artists would paint detailed, vivid posters. “It’s beautiful fine art, but it’s also meant to be commercial advertising,”
says Dread. “Those two collided and created this new anomaly.” Most of the posters were made by artists who had never seen the movies and were working from a plot summary, or at best, the VHS sleeve. In Wyrd War’s exhibit, there’s an Indiana Jones poster that depicts a scene that’s unrecognizable from any of the movies: A man and a woman screaming as they’re boiled alive in a giant caldron. In the late ’90s, distributors started supplying mass-produced promotional art for screenings in Ghana.
Without the need, the creation of hand-painted movie posters died down. But it was around that same time that the art movement caught the attention of American art collectors due to the publication of a book in 2000 called Extreme Canvas. Written by Ernie Wolfe and horror movie director Clive Barker, the book helped launch an obsession with Ghanaian movie posters among art collectors. Despite their popularity with private collectors, the posters are rarely exhibited, even though they were initially created for a public audience. Most of the posters in Wyrd War’s exhibit are on loan from Chicago’s Deadly Prey Gallery. The gallery is entirely dedicated to movie posters from Ghana, mak-
ing it one of the few places where the general public can view the artists’ work. Deadly Prey owns hundreds of posters, most of which are purchased directly from the artists. But occasionally, the posters have circulated through American buyers for long enough that the gallery has to track down the artist to compensate them for their work. It’s possible to think of the art as a way to view American culture from the outside. There’s even a poster by Teshie for an movie called America 3000, complete with an American flag and a giant ape with glam-metal hair carrying a boombox. But the posters you can’t stop staring at are the ones that seem impossible to completely unlock. One of Dr. Brew’s posters is for a Nigerian movie called The Guardian. A tree is consuming a person head first through a bloody slit in its trunk. Its roots are curled around small, struggling people, and there’s a dog off to the side with someone’s severed leg in its mouth. It’s hard to tell what exactly the movie is about, and since The Guardian is unaccounted for and went straight to VHS, the answer may be lost to time. But Brew’s poster tells enough of its own story that it doesn’t really matter what vague plot summary it was based on. It’s that layered, vivid sense of narrative that makes the gory scenes so engulfing. “We’re not really ‘buy a landscape and put it over your couch’ kind of people,” says Dread. “Art should be visceral.” SEE IT: The Fierce Ghost Eats Human Region is at Cobra Lounge, 2027 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., wyrdwar.com. 4 pm-8pm Wednesday-Thursday through Oct. 26. Closing reception 7 pm-10 pm Friday, Oct. 27, with a lecture by the owner of Deadly Prey Gallery. Free. Willamette Week OCTOBER 25, 2017 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25 Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur, internet phenom, Instagram poet, beloved Courierfont faith healer and channeler of collective trauma, weird source of controversy, favored lyricist of deep thinker Ariana Grande and believer in typesetting, is in Portland. It’s sold out. But here’s a free poem, in its entirety, from her Instagram: “i do not need the kind of love/ that is draining/ i want someone/ who energizes me.” Don’t we all. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 828-8285. 7:30 pm.
Atticus
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Hey! Turns out Instagram poets beloved by Teen Vogue—known more for sentimentalism and typography than merit—aren’t just Rupi Kaur. There’s more of them! So many more! For example, there’s the portentously named “Atticus.” Sample poem, in its entirety: “Break my heart/ and you will find yourself inside.” #loveherwild #heart #forever. Go literacy, or whatever. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.
Jim Riswold
Legendary Wieden+Kennedy creative director Jim Riswold—creator of Spike Lee’s Mars Blackmon spots and the original Michael Jordan commercials—famously quit advertising to become an artist, moving from “a career of selling people things they don’t need to making things that people don’t want.” In his memoir Hitler Saved My Life, he tells the literally bruising story of surviving both cancer and its treatment. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 am.
FRIDAY, OCT. 27 56 Days of August Book Launch
SATURDAY, OCT. 28 Burnside Review: Montreux Rotholtz
Seems like every literary journal has a publishing imprint now— from McSweeney’s to Tin House to the Burnside Review. The Review’s newest book is Unmark, from Seattle poet and Iowa Writer’s Workshop grad Montreux Rotholtz—chosen by local star poet Mary Szybist to receive the Burnside Review Press Book Award. She’ll be joined by fellow Burnside Review poet Paula Cisewski. Organizers promise “cheap, donated beer.” Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St. 7:30 pm-8:30 pm.
SUNDAY, OCT. 29 Kate Carroll de Gutes
Oregon Book Award Winner Kate Carroll de Gutes has been making a book tour of Portland lately for her new collection The Authenticity Experiment, which takes place in a year in which she lost many people close to her. She pledged to represent this fear, darkness and grief authentically on social media and in life, without the sugary coating or denials that normally accompany private tragedy. This book is the result. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
Filament Series: Hauntings
The Filament reading series, run by (and featuring) students at Portland State’s MFA program, will host writers reading what they feel to be ghost stories, whether spooky scares or perhaps the much grimmer hauntings of memory. The guest reader will be Susan DeFreitas, author of eco-activist bildungsroman Hot Season. It’s at Turn! Turn Turn! so you can also buy records if you like. Spoooooooky. Turn! Turn! Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth St., 503-284-6019. 7 pm-9 pm.
MONDAY, OCT. 30 Oregon Jewish Voices Reading
Every year for 18 years, the Oregon Jewish Museum has played host to a reading featuring prominent local Jewish writers—whether fiction, essay or poetry. This year’s crop will include Tracy Manaster, McSweeney’s contributor and author most recently of novel The Done Thing; poets Claudia Savage and Shaindel Beers; Froelich’s Ladder novelist Jamie Yourdon; and of course poet Willa Schneberg, who’s organized the event since 1999. Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, 724 NW Davis St., 503-226-3600. 7:30 pm.
Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind
Two years ago, Jamie Lowe wrote an article for the New York Times that turned into a viral blockbuster: “’I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium.” This is now a book called Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind, all about Lowe’s struggles with bipolar disorder and affection for the drug she says saved her. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
The Trouble With Reality
Moral panic seems to be the dominant cultural mode of our time. Whether on the radical left or the right, the inquisition of dog whistles, the counterfactual insinuation and the enshrinement of the call-out have become the highpitched, terrifying, terrified voice of America. Brooke Gladstone, co-host of public radio’s On the Media, examines this fatiguing mania of our times in The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time. Her troubling thesis is that individual opinion is far too often impervious to fact, and she devotes the book to discovering why—how the big lies became a means to power, and how media reinforces this in a divided nation. She’ll be joined by Dave Miller of OPB’s Think Out Loud. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
KRISTIN CLEAGE
For 11 consecutive Augusts, the Poetry Postcard Fest has featured all the poetry that’s fit to print on a little piece of reinforced paper that could be placed in a mailbox without additional postage. To celebrate anthology 56 Days of August, organizer Kelleyanne Pearce will read with contributors
Beth Bown, Carolyn Adams, Keli Osborn, Abhaya Thomas, Rachel Barton, Eliza Rinaldi and Susan Tracy. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St. 7 pm.
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MOVIES Screener GET YO U R REP S IN
CHLOE KENDALL
Cat People
Grand Guignol Making a movie in three days is intense. But according to Julia Reodica, the producer of GuignolFest, the annual filmmaking competition that requires teams to make a movie in just 72 hours, this year’s festival will be more intense than usual. “We had like 15 teams three weeks ago,” says Julia Reodica. “Three weeks ago last year, we were struggling with just like three teams and saying, ‘Are you guys coming out to do this or what?’” Reodica runs the festival along with its founder and curator, Dylan Hillerman. She attributes the urgency of this year’s participants to a desire to “cope with the real fears and the real world by making a few scary short movies.” But the influx of participants is also evidence of the effect the festival has had on local filmmaking. Since it was founded in 2008, GuignolFest has helped nurture and challenge Portland’s DIY filmmakers. This year will feature at least 17 filmmaking teams. Each will be selected to make a film in a specific horror sub-genre, which includes erotic, grindhouse, environmental and occult. Then, the entire film has to be written, filmed and edited in three days. The festival provides valuable infrastructure for budding filmmakers. It guarantees a screening before a script is even written, and the randomly assigned teams helps connect artists with other filmmakers who might have more resources and experience.
But it also demands a great deal of creativity—making a movie in three days isn’t easy. Unsurprisingly, for a festival that draws from so many disparate horror sub-genres, GuignolFest usually spawns films that are delightfully bizarre. Past results have included a silent film about three witches, a musical called The Sound of Murder and a comedy about a haunted bowling ball.
THE PRODUCERS: Reodica and Hillerman
Fittingly, Hillerman and Reodica met at a haunted house. Hillerman was the casting director and Reodica was a volunteer. Reodica is a doctor, but her love of horror stretches back to the first time she saw The Exorcist. She was only three years old, but she says that the raw quality of William Friedkin’s box-office smash left an impression on her, and may have inspired her performance art, which she says has involved her “drawing blood from performers onstage” and “squirting it all over them in a blood-sex-magic type of ritual.” It wasn’t long after Reodica met Hiller-
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
That glorious time of year when horror movies are screening everywhere all the time is winding down. So it might be your last chance until next year to see the first and greatest zombie movie in a theater. Hollywood, Oct. 30-31.
The Room
THIS YEAR, PORTLAND’S 72-HOUR HORROR MOVIE MAKERS ARE MORE AMPED UP THAN USUAL.
BY BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON
(1942)
It’s sort of surprising that there aren’t more feline horror movies —cats are associated with bad luck and Satan, plus they’re just generally creepy. Regardless, Jacques Tourneur’s movie about a woman who fears her husband will turn into a panther is a gorgeously eerie classic made out of a tiny budget. NW Film Center, Oct. 28.
man that she joined GuignolFest as its producer. As Hillerman puts it, the pair are “weirdly like-minded.” So it’s not exactly surprising that they plan to be married by the end of the year, even though Hillerman says that spiritually, they got married in Transylvania around the time Trump was elected. “The mood was weird because we got there the minute the election happened,” says Hillerman. “You go from crying in your beer for a few hours to saying “I love you” and walking across the street to a church that Dracula built.” That mood had an effect on the last GuignolFest, too. According to Reodica, campaign fatigue resulted in a crop of films that were “funny” and “light.” But this year, “There’s an urgency,” says Reodica. “I can feel it in the way that the teams are getting in touch with us. They’re raring to go. They’re revving up.” GuignolFest is also a competitive environment that Hillerman says attracts “reality-biased people,” but has also apparently generated some volatile passions. “I had a guy not win a single award one year and he came back and literally tried to kick my ass,” he says. Hillerman is proud that the festival inspires that level of energy, though he does want filmmakers to abide by his safety rule. “No dipshittery. Don’t jump off a building into a pool to make a good horror film—that’s not necessary,” he says. “Fucking green screen that shit.”
(2003)
The hype keeps building for James Franco and Seth Rogen’s upcoming comedy about the making of The Room. So if you haven’t seen Tommy Wiseau’s bafflingly bad movie, now’s the time. Cinema 21, Oct. 27.
Shaun of the Dead
(2004)
Now that the tidal wave of zombie comedies has crashed, we can start to forgive Edgar Wright for starting it. Mission, Oct. 30-Nov. 1.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The story of chainsaw-wielding cannibals who wear people’s skin for masks is most the nightmarish nightmare. It’s fucking scary, but also an artful masterpiece. Whatever you do, don’t pick up the hitchhiker. Academy, Oct. 27-Nov. 2.
ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: Hobo With a Shotgun (2011), Oct. 27-29. Academy: Poltergeist (1982), Oct. 27-Nov. 2. Clinton: Halloween (1978), Oct. 30. Hollywood: The Beyond (1981), Oct. 26. Nosferatu (1922), Oct. 28. Kiggins: The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012), Oct. 27. Christine (1983), Oct. 27-31. Laurelhurst: The Wolf Man (1941), Oct. 25-26. Child’s Play (1988), Oct. 25-26. NW Film: Near Dark (1987), Oct. 27. The Gold Rush (1925), Oct. 29. Corpse Bride (2005), Oct. 29.
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With its tidy storytelling, immaculate costumes and overbearing score, this biopic of disability rights advocate Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is the sort of fussy English period drama that’s easy to hate. Yet under the confident, compassionate direction of Andy Serkis, Breathe rises above its shortcomings and blossoms into a rousing survival story that begins shortly before Cavendish contracts polio in the 1950s at 28. Transformed from athletic to speechless and paralyzed, Cavendish yearns for a hasty death. Yet he ultimately regains the use of his voice and, thanks to the devotion of his indomitable wife, Diana (Claire Foy), is able to live beyond hospital walls and fight for other polio patients to be able to do the same. A life as astounding as Cavendish’s deserves a more nuanced screenplay and an actor who lacks the otherwise-excellent Garfield’s self-satisfied grin. Yet thanks to wondrous moments, such as when Cavendish revels in the joy of a roadside party in Spain and when Diana says to her husband, “Thank you for choosing to live,” Breathe moves, inspires and earns its tearful but transcendent conclusion. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Clackamas, City Center, Fox Tower.
Goodbye Christopher Robin
If you don’t want Winnie the Pooh’s innocence ruined by publicity stunts, Oedipal anguish and World War I flashbacks, you should avoid this biopic of writer A.A. Milne. Otherwise, Goodbye Christopher Robin is a bland but fascinating creation myth. In the film’s first act, Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) is passionate about a decidedly not-childish project—a pacifist manifesto inspired by the trauma he experienced from servicing in the War to End All Wars. Yet, he ends up crafting a book inspired by the stuffed-animal pals of his son Christopher Robin (played at different ages by Will Tilston and Alex Lawther). Of course, that included a tiger, a piglet and a very cuddly bear. Eventually, the all-consuming popularity of Winnie the Pooh strains the bond between father and son. But director Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold) doesn’t fully capture Christopher Robin’s terror at being shoved into an invasive and unforgiving spotlight. Luckily, the movie holds your gaze because Milne is a brittle and unforgettable figure: a tormented veteran who, like many of us when we revisit the sweet and blissful adventures of Pooh, longs to slip into youthful dreams. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Opens Friday, Oct. 27.
The Snowman
As a good psychological thriller should, Director Tomas Alfredson’s psychological thriller leads you down a dark path. Unfortunately, it holds your hand in doing so. Adapted from a bestselling novel by Jo Nesbø, The Snowman tells the story of Detectives Harry Hole (Michael Fassbender) and Katrine Bratt (Rebecca Ferguson) trying to find a serial killer who targets married women with children. The killer strikes whenever there’s
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a fresh snowfall, and leaves behind a snowman as a creepy calling card. The film is full of beautiful yet bleak views of Norwegian cities and banks of snow. The richest source of dread, The Snowman isn’t what we’re shown explicitly, but what we’re allowed to find on our own. The film’s biggest problem is that it’s been stretched to the seams with thin plot points and shifting perspectives, leaving us with no time to explore and forcing us to think about what is happening rather than what could happen. R. MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Casacade, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, City Center, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd Center.
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. Kennedy School.
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. Laurelhurst.
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 Emma Stone’s postpost-La La Land high. But it goes further, creating multidimensional characters and taking a nuanced A SNOWMAN
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allure of the triumph-over-adversity cliches that would have doomed it. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Clackamas, Fox Tower.
Blade Runner 2049
Victoria & Abdul
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.
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.
Woodshock
Woodshock is a dark and dreamy ode to the Redwoods and the weird shit that happens in rural California. Kisten Dunst plays spacey medical dispensary employee who laces a few grams of shwaggy cannabis before rolling up a deadly joint for her terminally ill mother. 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.
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. Academy, Laurelhusrt, Kennedy Schoo, Vancouver.
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Happy Death Day
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. 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 fin. PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Fox Tower.
Mother!
In his new psychological thriller, Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky continues to be extra. Mother! stars Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple living in a secluded house. Bardem (listed as “Him” in the credits) is a writer struggling to complete a follow-up to a revered work. Aronofsky surrounds Mother with unnerving, 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.
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
FADING AWAY: Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell.
You Don’t Know What Love Is The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a battle of love, logic and chaos.
Steve Murphy (Colin Farrell) is living the American dream. He’s a successful cardiologist who lives in the suburbs with his wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their two children. But it doesn’t take long into The Killing of the Sacred Deer, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to The Lobster, before we realize that something is off. The Murphys seem devoid of any kind of familial affection or emotion. After Steve’s daughter Kim (Raffey Cassidy) practices her choir scales, he dives into a monotone analysis on how she can improve. Things seem stable in the Murphy’s hyperlogical world until we meet an awkward teenager named Martin (Barry Keoghan). Steve took Martin under his wing after his father died on the cardiologist’s operating table. When Martin is revealed to be a sinister supernatural presence, the tension of the psychological thriller begins to build. Steve’s logic is put to the test when Martin confronts him with a disturbing problem that forces him to decide who he loves most in his family. Lanthimos’ movies depict reality with a slight shift. In Sacred Deer, conversations are obscenely direct, emotions are ignored and logic is the main catalyst for any thought. As Martin turns Steve’s ordered life into chaos, the movie becomes a vacuum where logic and emotions duke it out. Sacred Deer looks and sounds like a horror movie. Lurking cameras slowly pan in and out of shots and the score’s tense strings set the mood well before the drama starts. But it’s more about sustained discomfort than repeated jump scares. In a way, that almost makes Scared Deer more difficult to watch: There’s no relief from the steadily built sense of dread around a single decision that Steve must make. Still, the psychological nightmare is full of dark comedy, and manages to be hilarious at the most inappropriate times. But even those moments feel more like nervous laughter than an actual break from the movie’s unsettling atmosphere. Ultimately, Sacred Deer disrupts your understanding of familial love and loyalty so much that by the end of the movie, you’re forced to succumb to a world where logic cannot survive. SETH SHALER. SEE IT: The Killing of a Sacred Deer is rated R and opens Friday, Oct. 27, at Cinema 21.
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HOW TO TELL WHEN YOUR OUTDOOR CANNABIS PLANT IS READY TO HARVEST. BY SETH SHALER SSHALER@WWEEK.COM
Growing cannabis in northern Oregon can be tough, especially when it comes to harvest season. Portland’s climate is a mixed bag for outdoor growers. On one hand, we have hot dry summers. On the other hand, autumn comes on quickly and brings with it cold, damp days when the sun doesn’t stay out long enough to dry the dew off your plants, putting them at risk of mold. For the last three years, WW has grown cannabis on the roof of our office in our attempt to take full advantage of the 2015 legislation. This year has been tough. Long story short, we lost all plants that we started with. Now that we are entering harvest season, our only successful plant, Dogwalker, is caught in a common Portland predicament: The plant still has a couple of weeks before it’s fully in bloom and ready to harvest, but with the wet weather, Dogwalker is in a climate where it doesn’t belong. All we can do is keep it covered, warm and hope that bud rot doesn’t ruin our harvest. This is one of the areas where the pros separate themselves from the amateurs. Toby Feuer, a local grower for Five Zero Trees, recommends light deprivation as the best way to ensure a smooth harvest season. Essentially, he tricks the plant into thinking that summer is ending early by giving it less sunlight in the midsummer. “Naturally, your plants start flowering in August,” Feuer tells us. “But in Oregon, you want to use light deprivation to get your plants flowering early. This is a way to ensure that you beat the rains that come in late September.” The big problem with light deprivation? If you didn’t start this process three months ago, you’re out of luck. But there are some things you can do. Feuer advises to “gut” your plant. Gutting involves removing the lower leaves of the plant. This helps allow more energy to go toward the buds and, most importantly, helps create airflow to keep your plant as dry as possible. Another step to help keep you from this nightmare of uncertainty is to pay
close attention to your plant’s grow cycle. Starting count from day one can help you know when harvest time is coming near. Knowing what week your plant is on can save you the headache of taking educated guesses as to when your plant is ready to cut. Harvesting at the right time is crucial when it comes to growing cannabis. If you harvest too early, you will have premature buds which leads to a poor product and a smaller yield. Harvest too late and the potency of your weed takes a steep decline or turns to rot. We spoke with Stoney Girl, who is affiliated with Portlandsterdam University, a premier cannabis training center. She verifies that it is crucial to harvest your buds on time. If you’re late, Stoney Girl says “the THC starts to degrade into CBN…[which leads to] a more sedative high.” So how do you know when it’s time to harvest? The telltale sign of harvest-ready weed is when the hairs of the plant, or pistils, have fully darkened and curled in. If your buds are looking thick and dense, but there are still some straight white pistils, it’s not time yet. However, opinions on harvest time vary. Stoney Girl recommends pulling your buds when the pistils are still transitioning to their new color. “ Fo r t y p e r c e n t i s t h e p e a k . A t that time, you’ll g et the peak of what y o u r s t r a i n i s p r o d u c i n g ,” s h e s a i d . Fe u e r ’s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a bit later in the budding process. “The most reliable way to tell if your plant is ready to harvest is with a microscope or a good quality close-up photo,” Feuer says. “You want to look at the trichome heads to see when they go from clear to amber. The second way, if you only have the naked eye, is to see when 80 percent of the hairs have gone from white to red.” Maybe you prefer one way or the other, maybe it’s somewhere in between. Many believe that the bud has different effects depending on when you harvest. On the roof of WW, our pistils are about 50 percent transitioned and we are looking to harvest sooner rather than later, for fear of bud rot.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
I share Vincent Van Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.” But I also think that the next twelve months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series The Muppet Show, puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
In the next two weeks, you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news, and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes, and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
What is the material object you want most but don’t have? This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Did you get a chance to go to circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? Probably none of the above, right? Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next ten months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Now is an excellent phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets, and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past, and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself. So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
“You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
How can you enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last ten months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs. Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right. There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions, and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
Many years from now, in your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.
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