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VOICES Four Portlanders are ready for a change. They explain why. Page 11

Street Roots’ Israel Bayer is dropping the mic. Page 12

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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 44, ISSUE 09.

Veal cutlets are coming back. Don’t hate until you try one. 4

Gov. Kate Brown has had quite enough of @Surfingranny4DT. 7 Donald Trump gave Oregon IPA brewers a big tax cut. 9 Portland could fund affordable housing by hiking taxes on Starbucks. 12 Antifa does not like snitching. 14

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It is a bad idea to suggest co-workers flash the cops to get out of speeding tickets. 18 Get Out ran for 21 weeks in Portland movie theaters. 24

We still miss Ziba’s Pitas. 27 Damian Lillard writes extremely wholesome rap lyrics. 29

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DIALOGUE Last week, WW cast a critical eye on Peacock Lane, the row of modestly decorated houses that bills itself as “Portland’s Christmas Street” (“A Grinch’s Guide to Peacock Lane,” WW, Dec. 20, 2017). Our reviewer was not impressed, describing the light display as “pathetic.” The critique drew a blizzard of letters. Here is a sampling: Thank you for pointing out that Peacock Lane is SO overrated. So past its expiration date. A reputation is easy to get and hard to get rid of. Going to Peacock Lane is like going to a burger joint that was awarded Best Burger in Town in 1983! —Paul Halverson

We don’t have a lot of tradition here, so I embrace what is still available from an earlier era. The denizens of this stretch between [Southeast] Belmont and Stark [streets] are not obligated by any neighborhood covenant to produce decorations. Some homes do it up more than others. For my home in the Hollywood neighborhood, I’m being ambitious to get a wreath up on the door! I believe in strong neighborhoods, and I therefore like what I see along Peacock Lane during the holidays. —Erik Jacobsen

Congratulations to you for calling out Peacock Lane. I am a lifelong Portlander and have watched it Your dismissal of Peacock Lane glardecline over the years. If you are ingly reveals your status as a recent out and about, there is a street of arrival to Portland and a young adult almost every house decorated, with no sense of local history. Your Southeast 111th [Avenue] north declaration that Portland is “short of Stark, development is called on tradition” shows ignorance, not Starkwood, has been decorated for insight. Wink-wink cheeky satire aside, about 50 years. Yes, some are dated, there is simply no reason to deride a “I hope you however there are no traffic jams. beloved local custom as “pathetic” and find what Another old eastside neighborhood a “fossil,” or to belittle the hard work you are is Lorene Park, Northeast 108th of the people who make it happen. looking for.” [Avenue] and Glisan [Street], about —Damon Micheau half the houses are decorated. Many houses in Laurelhurst have gone all I just happened to grab Willamette Week, haven’t out. I hope you are not criticized too much for seen one in a while, was a little excited until I saw your accurate article. Note: The new house on your article. This makes me feel sad and sorry. It Peacock Lane fits in well and has one of the best would be nice if I had the experience you have to decorations, go figure. compare Christmas streets; all I have is Peacock —Bob Earnest Lane. The years we went it may not have been the latest or greatest. But it is our tradition, and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Have a Merry Christmas. I hope you find what Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com you are looking for. —Cindy Piltz

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Why is eating veal discouraged in Portland? Back in New York, Italian restaurants featured fabulous veal dishes—scallopine, cutlets, ossobuco, stuffed breasts, legs, etc. Here I’ve only found veal in one store, and at an outrageous price to boot. Why is this? —Charles S. Veal? In Portland? Are you trying to get us both killed? Better you should say, “I was thinking of having a Black Mass and was wondering where’s the best place to get a human baby—New Seasons? Should I brine it first? How many people will that serve?” There are plenty of folks here in the Rose City who will give you the stink eye for eating beef from a fully grown cow. Veal is a whole new level. It’s like the difference between being a regular murderer—which, let’s face it, we can all relate to from time to time—and someone who kills children. Unlike regular beef, which comes from an animal we vaguely imagine had a long, happy life playing Mario Bros. and texting its friends up till the very end, veal is made from a baby cow (actually, a baby bull) that is, basically, tortured its entire life for your epicurean pleasure. Sure, it’s not like cows are endangered— 4

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strictly speaking, the worst thing that could happen to the world’s cow population would be for humanity to go vegan—but there’s something about immobilizing a newborn mammal in a box and deliberately feeding it an anemia–inducing diet that comes across as kind of a dick move. Moreover, this is Portland we’re talking about. Back in the days when we didn’t have as many things to protest as we do now, restaurants in Portland were occasionally picketed for serving pâté de fois gras, another ethically questionable dish. (One chant went—I’m not kidding—“Forcefed ducks! Foie gras sucks!”) And that was just for ducks, which—let’s be honest—are kind of assholes. Baby cows are adorable. I say give an animal time to come to hate life on its own terms before you eat it. Better yet, stick with the Black Mass idea, you’ll make more friends. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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Oregon elections officials ruled Dec. 21 on a vexing question in local politics: They say Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith is, in fact, a candidate for the Portland City Council, despite her claims otherwise. If true, Smith broke state law when she declared in September that she planned to run for City Council and then failed to change the registration of her campaign finance committee accordingly. The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office will fine Smith $250. The ruling is also significant because it says Smith is indeed a candidate to succeed Commissioner Dan Saltzman—and that could mean she’s violating county rules against seeking another elected position while holding county office. Jef Green, treasurer for the Committee to Elect Loretta Smith, says the violation was the committee’s fault: “We take full responsibility for this error.”

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64,750 Number of new Oregonians as of July 1, 2017, according to the Portland State University Population Research Center, bringing the state’s population to 4,141,100. That increase was nearly identical to the previous year’s, matching the early 1990s for population growth.

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Amount the Oregon Government Ethics Commission proposed to fine former Gov. John Kitzhaber for failing to manage conflicts of interest involving the consulting activities of former first lady Cylvia Hayes. The commission rejected the settlement 7-1 and pushed back resolution of the ethics complaint against Kitzhaber to January 2018.

Total assessed value of all property in Multnomah County. That’s a 4.8 percent increase from 2016.

Number of years since Portland Harbor was named a Superfund site by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. After arriving at a record of decision early in 2017, the feds estimated it would take another 17 years to actually complete the cleanup.

1,566 Number of refugees who settled in Oregon in 2016.

642 Number of refugees who settled in Oregon in 2017, as of press deadlines.

$58,957.60 Amount of money Oregonians contributed to President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign in the first nine months of 2017.

$500,000 Amount of money Nike Chairman Phil Knight gave to state Rep. Knute Buehler (R-Bend) on Aug. 14. It’s the largest gift from one individual to a political candidate in Oregon history. Buehler has raised nearly $2.2 million this year as he begins his challenge to incumbent Gov. Kate Brown, who, despite receiving no individual contribution larger than $25,000, raised $2.4 million.

49,557 Number of students enrolled in Portland Public Schools as of the annual October count. That figure is the highest since 2002-2003 and marks the 10th consecutive annual increase.

2 158 Number of days the city of Portland has extended the deadline for Airbnb to comply with a legislative subpoena to produce addresses of all Portland homes listed on its website.

17,508,854 Number of passengers who got on or off a plane at Portland International Airport through November. That number is 4.1 percent above last year’s record traffic.

N umb e r o f pe op l e blocked by the official Twitter account of Gov. Kate Brown, according to a document obtained by a Nov. 28 public records request. The blocked accounts are @Jordanronald13 and @Surfingranny4DT.

$62.4 million Amount of state taxes collected on recreational cannabis sales through the first 11 months of 2017. November receipts of $7.04 million marked the highest monthly total for the year.

48 Percentage of all solid waste produced in the metro area that was recycled last year, according to state figures. It’s a sharp, 5-point drop from 2015 and a black eye for one of the nation’s leading recycling cities. The main causes: declines in the reuse of wood waste and corrugated cardboard.

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Number of traffic deaths so far in 2017, eclipsing last year’s number by one. The total includes 19 pedestrian fatalities, a steep jump from 13 last year and 11 two years ago. The city’s Vision Zero plan aims to eliminate traffic-related deaths on city streets by 2025.

Number of new duplexes and triplexes the city’s “residential infill project” is projected to create in Portland neighborhoods by 2035.

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Average number of seconds callers who dialed 911 in Portland waited to speak to an operator during a five-month period last winter. The city’s Bureau of Emergency Communications misreported wait times for more than 10 years. The bureau previously said hold times averaged one second.

Number of new units of housing Portland will need in the next 25 years, according to regional planning agency Metro.

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BEER ME: Portland’s Breakside Brewing will save $90,000 next year thanks to the congressional tax bill, estimates brewmaster Ben Edmunds.

Drink the Rich

OREGON’S CRAFT BREWERS GOT A CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP: LOWER TAXES. amesh@wweek.com

The massive tax overhaul passed last week by a Republican Congress benefits the usual suspects: corporations, private schools and multimillionaires. Joining them in the winners’ circle? Oregon’s favorite industry, craft beer. The GOP tax bill contains a $4.2 billion tax break for the nation’s small brewers. The bill slashes the excise tax in half—from $7 a barrel to $3.50—for the first 60,000 barrels of beer brewed by companies that produce less than 2 million barrels a year. At last count, Oregon has about 230 such craft breweries—each of which stands to save as much as $210,000 in taxes between 2018 and 2019. In left-leaning, beer-guzzling Portland, the tax cut places craft brewers in an awkward position, as if they discovered a Super Nintendo Classic under their Christmas tree while other Oregonians received socks. “I don’t think anyone’s going to thumb their nose at it,” says Ben Edmunds, brewmaster at Portland’s Breakside Brewery. “Maybe you can find a more fiery brewer who wants to give his taxes back to the government.” Unlikely. Lowering the excise tax on craft brewers has been an industry goal for years. Art Larrance, owner of Cascade Brewing in Beaverton and co-founder of the Oregon Small Brewers Coalition, a lobbying group for craft brewers, praises the tax cuts overseen by President Donald Trump. “The Brewers Association and the other beer advocates’ groups have worked for at least five years attempting to pass this legislation,” Larrance tells WW, “but it has taken President Trump to recognize the importance of small business to Americans. This administration chose to expedite this much talked-about boost to those taking a risk to achieve their dream.”

CHEERS! Small brewers currently pay $7 in federal excise taxes on each of barrel of beer they produce. Under the new tax laws, those brewers will pay $3.50 in federal excise taxes on each of their first 60,000 barrels. THOMAS TEAL

BY AA R O N M E S H

For a brewery that produces, say, 40,000 barrels a year, that’s a $140,000 tax cut.

Oregon brewers already enjoy the lowest state taxes in the country—$2.60 per barrel. Chuck Sheketoff, executive director of the Oregon Center for Public Policy, has long been critical of Oregon lawmakers’ refusal to raise that tax.

He says the federal tax cut is unnecessary and bad policy—and notes that the craft brewing industry is already booming. “There’s been no shortage of new breweries opening in Oregon or around the country,” Sheketoff says. “This is nothing more than a Christmas gift from Congress to an industry that doesn’t need it and that comes at the expense of public services.” The brewers’ tax break was championed by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), who shepherded it through both chambers of Congress. But Oregon’s senior Democratic senator, Ron Wyden, sponsored similar legislation earlier in 2017. His office scoffs at the idea, floated this month by the Los Angeles Times, that Republicans hoped to win Wyden’s vote by including the craft-beer language. “He was never tempted to vote for this bill,” says Wyden spokesman Hank Stern. “Sen. Wyden was and is proud to lead the fight against a bill that showers corporations with goodies and raises taxes on over half of the middle class.” Don’t expect to see the savings in your glass. (It wouldn’t amount to much of a discount anyway—pennies a pint.) Edmunds and Larrance say most brewers will spend their windfall on new employees and tanks. “If you are a brewer of 3,000 barrels a year,” says Larrance, “it’s $10,000, and that can buy a tank for expansion.” At Breakside, Edmunds says brewers will grin and bear the fate of being lumped in with beneficiaries of a politically unpopular plan. “I think that anyone who knows how tax bills get made knows that you’re not going to pass this unless it’s part of a big package, no matter how bipartisan the support is for it,” he says. “It’d be Pollyanna-ish to think this bill could have made it through Congress as a stand-alone piece of legislation.” Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

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THOMAS TEAL

VOICES FOUR PORTLANDERS ARE READY FOR A CHANGE. THEY EXPLAIN WHY.

Time for a reboot. There are plenty of reasons to put 2017 in the rearview mirror. For some people, doing so means making a bolder-than-usual New Year’s resolution or considering a more robust gift to charity. For others, it means beginning a new life. WW often opens the year with our Voices issue, a chance for us to hear what other people in this city have to say. This year, we looked for Portlanders making a significant shift in their lives. One of them is the city’s conscience on homelessness, ready to step off his soapbox but still challenging the

mayor to find a radical plan for getting people out of the cold (page 12). Another had no choice but to change: This Portlander marched with Antifa but was caught aiding the cops, and has been expelled from the protest movement (page 14). We also talked to the man behind a social justice revolution at one of the state’s philanthropic powerhouses (page 16). And we discovered a rock star who found life on the road too grueling. So she went into real estate (page 18). The people in the following pages each found a fresh start. And they’re ready to tell Portland what they learned about moving on.

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Tan, who informed police on Antifa.

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Israel Bayer HERE’S WHAT THE CITY’S FOREMOST ADVOCATE FOR THE HOMELESS SAYS WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

BY AA RO N M E S H

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Israel Bayer is dropping the mic. Fifteen years ago, Bayer joined Street Roots, a thenmonthly newspaper distributed by homeless vendors for a dollar donation. He rose to executive director and turned the paper into a weekly publication, and one of the most vigorous journalistic outlets in town. Bayer, 41, also created a bully pulpit giving voice to people living on the streets. Few Portlanders have spoken so consistently, and with such moral authority, about citizens’ collective responsibility to find housing for our poorest neighbors. Now Bayer, a Minnesota native who worked graveyard shifts at convenience stores before becoming an advocate for the homeless, is leaving his post as Street Roots’ executive director.

I would spend that specifically on permanent supportive housing to get our most vulnerable residents indoors. Get people on the streets right now into housing tomorrow. What should Ted Wheeler do differently? I’ve always communicated to Ted that you need something big and bold in a specific direction, or you end up getting a death by a thousand cuts. Because you’re never going to make everybody happy. We’ve seen that in mayor after mayor after mayor. He needs to step up his game, along with other government officials, and clearly outline how we’re going to create dedicated revenue for housing. I think he’s going to have to have a hard conversation around a sales tax.

neighbors, businesses blaming the homeless for any number of things. I don’t believe people see homeless people as subhuman. I believe they see the trash and the mess as subhuman. How could you possibly fix that, though? I don’t think it’s rocket science. You dedicate a million dollars to a project like [downtown cleaning service] Clean & Safe, and you build it to scale. There’s no reason formerly homeless folks shouldn’t be getting income opportunities to clean the streets up. It’s a perfect win-win situation. You create an army of people that are picking up trash. Homeless advocates don’t like what is often called broken-windows policing, meaning strict enforcement of laws against petty crimes like vandalism. But if it’s my window being broken, that matters to me. Isn’t it a mistake if you don’t say, “Yeah, we want people who break windows to be punished too”? It doesn’t have to be one or the other. If you’re committing a crime—assault, breaking somebody’s window, theft—you’re going to go to jail. If people are committing serious crimes, then we should be targeting those individuals for those crimes. Creating laws that target a specific population, like the homeless through sidewalk and camping ordinances, takes away from law enforcement’s ability to concentrate on more serious crimes. It pulls an entire population of people into the criminal justice system that has committed no other crime than being homeless or poor. It’s cruel and inhumane. What’s the most troubling thing you see on the streets every day? The thing that always eats me alive is seeing so many elders out on the streets. You’re 70 years old, you have a disability, and you’re maybe getting $725 a month from the government—even 10 years ago, we could take that $725 and find a studio on the edge of town. But now we have a wave of elders caught out in no man’s land.

“ WE ’ RE WA L K IN G T HRO UGH A WORLD THAT’S REALLY I NTENS E RIG H T NOW— A L L YO U HAVE TO DO IS WAKE UP AND TURN O N YO UR PHONE TO B E A PART OF T H AT.” He says he needs a break. He plans to work on a book about his experiences with poverty. And he denies rumors that he might launch a bid for elected office. “I’m not going to the other side,” he says. “Never once have I even thought about running for office. I’m a poor kid who overachieved.” Even as he prepares to depart next month, homelessness is as hot an issue as it’s ever been. Shelters have run out of room, placing families on a waiting list. Last week, city residents railed against a planned shelter on Southeast Foster Road. Bayer has seen it all before. And he has a parting message: Unless Mayor Ted Wheeler gets ambitious, Portland’s homelessness problem will get much worse. Bayer sat down with WW to discuss what that big idea might look like. Hint: It starts with a cup of coffee. WW: Is the situation on the streets better or worse than when you started? Israel Bayer: We’re 40 years in on modern-day homelessness. After billions of dollars of disinvestment from the federal government, the issue of homelessness is now the problem of local governments. The idea of ending homelessness is almost out of reach. In many ways, it’s like climate change. Everybody wants to help, nobody knows quite what to do. Let’s say Tim Boyle, Paul Allen and Phil Knight just handed you a $40 million check. How would you spend it? 12

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What kind of tax would work? Los Angeles passed a billion-dollar housing bond last year and came back four months later with a $3.5 billion sales tax. We need a mechanism that can solve our budget deficits to invest in affordable housing. Coffee is very interesting. The entire community drinks coffee. You have progressive companies—that are quote unquote “socially responsible”—like Starbucks or Stumptown. A 1-cent coffee tax? A 1-cent tax on every cup of coffee. I don’t know what that equals, but there are a lot of cups of coffee being made in this city every single day. What’s one thing Portland could do tomorrow that doesn’t involve more money? We could create a lot of affordable housing units by simply lifting the height limitations [on buildings] and letting bigger projects start to take hold. We have to be able to build towards the sky. We should have skyscrapers in Portland. Every neighborhood that’s building a four-story complex should be building an eight-story complex. Last week, Southeast Portland residents turned out to rage against a homeless shelter. They said the site was too close to liquor stores and schools, and complained that it would attract criminals. How sick do you get of the backlash? It’s like Groundhog Day for me. Criminalization, angry

What do you wish somebody had told you 15 years ago when you started this job? It’s so easy to have an emotional response to things that aren’t rational. You see somebody die on the streets. You watch poverty coming at you day after day, and it’s traumatic. And then you’re being asked to engage in healthy conversation about how we solve this problem. So the codeswitching is insane. I’ve lost it. I’ve spouted off on social media. Poverty advocates show up to City Hall and they’re emotional—because they are traumatized. You’ve been crying from the mountaintops for years. It’s not that people don’t care about it. But there’s compassion fatigue. We’re walking through a world that’s really intense right now—all you have to do is wake up and turn on your phone to be a part of that. That’s where Street Roots is tangible, it’s in front of you, it’s a relationship builder. It becomes that instant gratification: to be able to do good in the world, even though you’re walking through a world that’s batshit crazy. What are you going to do now? I want to write a book about my experiences with poverty— essays, vignettes, short stories, funny things, deadly serious things— and try to make it a snapshot of the world we are in. And then, I don’t know. Could be a street paper in another city. I’m going to stay in the fight. I just want to not be in charge of running an organization for a minute. 

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Tan BY KATIE SHEPHER D

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In 24 hours, Tan lost every friend made during 11 months of protesting on Portland’s streets. An exuberant 20-year-old with short, dyed-blue hair, Tan, whose legal name is June Davies and who identifies as gender non-binary, felt a magnetic pull to the left-wing protests in Portland that followed Donald Trump’s election. Two days after the 2016 election, Tan, a manager at Baja Fresh in Lake Oswego, marched in the head-to-toe black uniform of antifascist protesters, better known as Antifa. It was Tan’s first protest. “When I saw that Trump just got elected,” Tan recalls, “I was saying this is going to be a police state, there’s going to be violence against people of color, there are going to be mass deportations.” Tan soon started working in the medic tents at Portland protests, bandaging cuts, washing pepper spray from protesters’ eyes and treating minor burns from fireworks thrown at police. Tan also became a police informant. In June, Tan met Portland police Sgt. Jeff Niiya at a small protest. Niiya frequently patrols protests. They started chatting, and Niiya gave Tan his business card. It took only a day for Tan to become an informant. Tan texted Niiya—and began sharing details of Antifa’s marching routes during protests. For Tan, it made sense to work with police, to make sure Antifa medics weren’t arrested, swept up in kettles or moved by officers. At the same time, Tan never told other protesters about the conversations with Niiya. On Oct. 18, Tan’s double identity was exposed. One of Tan’s friends found four months of texts between Tan and the cops. The friend took screen shots—which were plastered across Facebook alongside warnings to stay away from the police informant. It became, within the Antifa community in Portland, a scandal. And while the contents of the text messages didn’t reveal any closely held secrets of Antifa, the act of reaching out to police was viewed by many as traitorous to the cause. Tan watched onetime leftist comrades close ranks. Rose City Antifa called Tan an “infiltrator.” No one would return Tan’s calls or texts. Tan received death threats on social media and was frightened enough to stay at home for weeks. While Tan endured criticism, many Antifa organizers claimed Tan’s mental health made Tan vulnerable to manipulation by the police, and implied Niiya had flirted with Tan to entice the would-be informant to share information. Tan says those allegations are false—and insulting. “I knew what I was doing,” Tan says, expressing some bitterness at fellow protesters. “It was probably naive of me to think that I could change people’s mindsets. I saw the Portland police actually try. I never saw Antifa try.” Tan broke the first rule of activism and street life: Don’t snitch. Tan talked with WW about what it’s like to be completely ostracized by a community. 14

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WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BETRAY ANTIFA TO THE COPS—AND GET CAUGHT.

“ T HE R E ’ S N O PEACE B ETWEEN PO LI CE AND PROT EST ERS . I DON ’ T THI NK THERE’S EVER GO I NG TO B E A P EACE. BUT I WAS T RYI NG TO MAKE I T EASI ER SO THAT T H E P OLICE WOULD EASE UP ON THEI R TACTI CS.”

WW: Why did you join antifascist protesters? Tan: Election night happened, and then that next night [protesters] started going out. They claimed the highway. I saw it on the news and thought, “That’s pretty intense.” I went out the second night, Nov. 9, by myself. There were so many people there. I think they said 5,000 people were there, but it felt like so many more. I was exhilarated—and then the police showed up. I realized that people were willing to get hurt because this was something they never wanted to happen and they were willing to risk their lives to have it end. I was there until [tear] gas was flowing. I knew the next day I was going to go back. Why did you start talking with a police officer? I saw what everybody else was doing, basically being enemies with the Portland police. And I thought, “This isn’t working at all.” I admired [Sgt. Niiya] because he was another person like myself who was doing a job that isn’t super-common—there’s not a lot of Asian cops. I admired him for it. But the thing is, [the cops] are so unapproachable. For whatever reason, [Portland Mayor] Ted Wheeler doesn’t get that if you show up with a bunch of riot cops at these events that you’re going to expect people to get violent. They look like soldiers or weird robots only meant to follow orders, because they don’t really talk. You knew Antifa was against talking to the cops. Why betray the rules? I watched my friends do May Day, and I thought what they were doing wasn’t 100 percent acceptable. They were just doing stuff to break stuff and wreck stuff. It’s only certain people, hardcore anarchists, who have totally negative opinions toward the police and government. I’m more willing to try to find a way that’s not always so aggressive. There’s no peace between police and protesters. I don’t think there’s ever going to be a peace. But I was trying to make it just a little bit easier so that the police would ease up on their tactics and then also see Antifa ease up on their tactics as well. If you thought you were doing a good thing, why keep it a secret from your fellow activists? I knew they had their superstitions about the cops. I knew if they found out, it would end up exactly how it did. What do you think about the reaction your talking to police evoked in Antifa? Let’s play devil’s advocate: Maybe I did deserve not to be part of activism anymore because I did talk to police officers.

But I thought I was doing something that could benefit everybody. I never had any thought that I was doing this just because I want to be chummy with the police. I was naive, which is hard to admit because it’s really hard to admit when you’re wrong about something. You say the allegations that Sgt. Niiya took advantage of you because of your youth and mental health are simply false. This sounds like a fairy tale. They think I was taken advantage of for my disability. But he didn’t even know! I’ve had depression since I was a kid. I’ve had anxiety since I was in seventh grade. [But] I think those allegations victimize me. I’m not a victim. It sounds exactly like the slander that they’ve done over and over and over again. An accusation comes out of nowhere and picks up steam and takes everybody on this whirlwind around town. It makes everybody more paranoid and more anxious. I mean, activists are anxious, paranoid people. What was it like for you to be exposed? It was awful. I woke up and half of my friends were just gone. Everybody was talking about me. I got threats, I got told that I had to leave the city. It wasn’t exactly explicit, but it was implied that bad things would happen to me if I showed up at certain places. I didn’t leave my house for like a month. I was afraid. The night that everything happened and the next morning, I was suicidal. I’ve had mental problems for a while, but I haven’t had suicidal thoughts that strong since I was 16. How did your banishment change your views on Antifa? I still have the same views as them. I hate the government. I hate how our society is run. It’s not that I don’t have the same views as them. It’s just that I’m not as aggressive. I’m an anarchopacifist. I’m like a diplomat. Is Antifa a force for good? They like to think so. And honestly, I’m not sure. I would say they’re more leaning toward the interests of themselves rather than the interests of the whole Portland community. I only see infighting and negativity and trying to tear people down that they don’t like. What will you do now that you can’t go back to the Portland protest scene? If I ever do activism again, maybe I’ll go to Berkeley. I have been thinking about trying to go down there and see what the activism is like there, because that’s where all the activism started pretty much. Or even Seattle—and Seattle is not that far away from here.  Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

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Doug Stamm HOW A FORMER NIKE EXECUTIVE MADE OREGON PHILANTHROPY LOOK A LOT LESS WHITE. BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

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Doug Stamm changed the rules of the charity game in Oregon. As recently as five years ago, Meyer Memorial Trust, the state’s second-largest foundation (behind the Oregon Community Foundation), could be counted on to support a predictable roster of orchestras and food banks. But starting three years ago, Oregon Ballet Theatre and Catlin Gabel School could no longer be guaranteed they would get funding. Instead, the $800 million Meyer Trust, led for the past 15 years by Stamm, is beginning to use the fortune created by grocery tycoon Fred Meyer to level the playing field for racial, ethnic and sexual minorities. The kind of organization Meyer gives to now? Among others, a rapid response fund for immigrants and refugees, designed to counteract President Trump’s border policies. Stamm, who was hired from jobs at Nike and Friends of the Children, is the reason for the switch. The typical profile of a philanthropic executive is the same as a slice of Franz bread: thin, white and dull. At first glance, Stamm, 64, fits the mold. But he’s done something radical, attracting the national attention of other foundations, not only for whom Meyer Trust gives money to but also for how it invests the foundation’s assets. Meyer has become a pioneer in mission-related investing, picking its portfolio not just for the best returns but for social results Stamm and his board want to encourage. Stamm is retiring in 2018 after 16 years as CEO. His successor could be named as soon as next month. WW talked to him about how he changed a big, slowmoving enterprise, and what he hopes to see Meyer Trust accomplish in the future. WW: How did you apply Nike’s corporate philosophy to charity work? Doug Stamm: We were selling shirts and shoes. It generates a lot of revenue. [So] we developed the tagline, “There is no finish line.” I lived in a fast-paced environment and felt a sense of urgency every day. But social issues—the health and well-being of Oregonians—deserve a much higher sense of urgency. You feel it every day when you walk out these doors and you’re stepping over somebody who’s sleeping on the streets or you’re seeing kids who dropped out of school. What kinds of projects did the Meyer Trust give to when you got here? About 55 percent of our funds went to building capital projects. It was very traditional philanthropy, very top-down, very much who you knew. Food banks. The large-budget arts organizations. We had libraries across the state. 16

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“I F YO U WANT AN ADMINIST RATOR, THI S I SN’T GO I NG TO WORK OU T. I F YOU WANT A CHA NG E AG ENT, WE CAN MAKE THAT WORK .”

Did the trustees know you wanted to change that approach? We had a very frank conversation. I said, “If you want an administrator, this isn’t going to work out. If you want a change agent, we can make that work.” I respected that change wasn’t going to be like at Nike, where I could just flip the switch. What was the biggest change? We landed on making our mission “a flourishing and equitable Oregon.” What I began to realize, thanks to staffers of color, that their view of what was equitable and my view might not be the same. I remember one gathering, I think it was after [the church shooting in] Charleston, when we had conversations among staff about the personal impact. It’s devastating. On another day, one of our trustees, who is AfricanAmerican, shared their experience with police stops. I remember walking home that night, thinking how I had never worried about navigating the street freely, because I’m white. Do you now give to any organizations that Fred Meyer himself wouldn’t have? Yes, with a dramatic yes. Four years ago, we announced to Oregon that we were substantially changing our programs to increase social justice. We just announced $23 million in grants, and the bulk of those are to what I would call social justice organizations—culturally specific organizations, organizations working on the front lines for poor and marginalized folks. You also had a notable failure: the Chalkboard Project. What went wrong? Our goal was to lift student achievement to the top 10 percent in the country, and we are nowhere near that, 10-plus years later. We’re ranked 48th in the country for graduation rates. So is it a failure? Yeah, I’d say the results are disappointing. But I actually think Chalkboard Project is on the cusp of systemic change. In the districts where it’s been working, there has been measurable improvement. You’ve changed the way Meyer invests its money, not just how it distributes charitable grants. How? Where it’s an investment, we expect the market-rate return, but we think that you can invest in things that either further your mission directly or are consistent with the values of the philanthropy. For example, there are no venture capital funds run by people of color for entrepreneurs who are women or people of color. So we started and seeded and worked with Elevate Oregon. It’s a small fund, aspiring to get to $10 million. Does that mean you’re hoping your successor doesn’t look like you? I don’t want to say it shouldn’t be a white male. But, you know, actually, I’d say it’s time for a change. I made a concerted effort to significantly diversify this organization. We moved from being an all-white executive team to being six women and myself—three women of color. Every one of those staff members were living in Oregon. We didn’t move anybody here to diversify our ranks. The same with our trustees. If this search was not able to lift out qualified leaders from marginalized communities, we were going to start the search over again. It’s one of my greatest rewards, managing people who don’t look like me, don’t think like me, and make my life and their lives richer because of it. 

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Rock ’n’ roll never made Zia McCabe rich. Houses might. As the keyboardist of Portland psych-rock mainstays the Dandy Warhols, McCabe, 42, lived a musician’s dream life. She and the rest of the band toured with David Bowie, became the subject of an iconic documentary and established a cultish following, particularly abroad. But after two decades, the grind of the road was beginning to wear her down. So she activated her Plan B—becoming a licensed real estate agent. Earlier this year, McCabe went to work for Windermere, the region’s biggest realty company. While she’s still in the Dandies, selling homes is now her full-time job. For fans, and even some of her friends, the image on the Windermere website—flashing a dimpled smile while wearing a blue blouse fully concealing her prodigious tattoos—is hard to reconcile with the woman who once appeared on film shaking a tambourine while topless. “There’s quite a bit of rebranding between the way people see you as a rock star and the way people see you doing a complicated legal transaction for them,” she says. “I was expecting everyone to go, ‘Zia’s smart, she can do this.’ Some people still think I’m just drunk every day.” It’s a perception she’s dedicated to changing. The transition into office life has been awkward, she admits. But so far, she’s enjoying the challenge. WW: When someone’s been making a living playing rock ’n’ roll then suddenly pivots into a new career, the presumption is that the band is reaching its end. Is it? Zia McCabe: In interviews, we were saying, “Rock ’n’ roll forever,” but I noticed that wasn’t really reflected in our daily lives with each other. Nothing imploded, there were no big fights, but there was a bit of a wearing-out feeling. At some point, I was like, “How much fun are we having, really?” Because unless you’re in five-star hotels and have tour buses, it’s hard work. So we did this wonderful switching of gears

a lot of people do in midlife. We fired almost everybody who was taking a percentage off the top—which is why we weren’t making money— and now we’re doing all these exotic gigs and weekends away, and netting almost the same. So it’s not that we stopped making money as a band, we just stopped working all the time as a band. And that gave us all more time to do other things. We just diversified, really. Why real estate? I was in a band during a time when people are gaining skills, and I realized I was relatively skill-less. Then I realized, you do have some skills. They’re people skills. And I’m good with numbers. And I’m a Portland native. How does that give me an advantage, to be such a big part of my community? Eventually, that narrows down to real estate. There’s almost no other choice, really. It sounds like you arrived at it through a process of elimination. Was any part of you intrigued by the idea of the job? The neighborhood I live in is Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard and Shaver Street, between the New Seasons and the Whole Foods. In ’99, I bought a house there, when it wasn’t a place a lot of people felt comfortable buying houses. I thought, “This is going to be a different neighborhood in 10 years.” Ten years later, I was driving down North Williams Avenue, going, “This is a completely different neighborhood. Wait, you said that 10 years ago. You have a feel for this.” What about the job took the most getting used to? The culture shock of office life. Being under fluorescent lights all day. I spend more of my day doing things I’ve never done and don’t know how to do. That’s a big ego-crusher. I go in and I don’t know how to use the fax machine. And I say completely inappropriate things, because office politics are so different than rock ’n’ roll. Someone was talking about getting a [speeding] ticket, and I’m like, “Get your tits out.” And they’re like, “What? Uh, I have to take a call.”

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What was the reaction from the rest of the band when you said you were going into this? They saw me studying constantly the last couple tours. It’s all I did. I skipped out on a lot of fun, and it was really hard, because it was the last long tours. Everyone’s having a great time, and I’m thinking, “Are these some of the last fun times? Is summer almost over? Should I have gone to the river one more time?” I did the right thing, but it was hard, and sometimes I felt isolated and lonely. But mostly, they were impressed. What has being a real estate agent taught you about housing in Portland? When I imagined going into real estate, I pictured getting first-time buyers cute, old Portland homes with good bones that were a fixer. Instead, what I have to do is get people tiny-ass condos on the edge of town. I have to help them understand that just getting a piece of property is a good idea, even if it’s not your dream.

Have there been any deflating moments? My big introduction was when the eclipse was coming. I got the whole office riled up to order the eclipse glasses, to give to clients. And they were the counterfeit ones. I was devastated. The first way I introduced myself with my new business was by handing out garbage. The deeper you get into this, has it made you think about the mortality of the band? The real impact becoming a realtor has had on the band is now there’s someone in the band who knows how to run a business. Not once has one band member known what our overhead is. If you get a check each month, it’s so easy to not pay attention to where the rest of the money went. Now, everyone wants to know where every penny went. And I sit at a desk, so I can stop doing real estate and do Dandies stuff for 30 minutes. I run one business, it’s not hard to run another business from the same spot. So in some ways, you may have actually elongated the life of the band. I might have just saved our asses.

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THE BEST OF STREET ’17

What cause do you most care about? “We’re having so much trouble with women’s reproductive rights, particularly. I have a daughter, and this is her future. I fought hard to get those rights and now they’re being taken away. It makes me very angry.”

Why do you think people are so mean on the internet? “There’s absolutely no accountability in that world. It’s a really punk move to pull.”

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If you were mayor of Portland what would you change? “I would provide more resources for the homeless. I’d want to make sure that people would have a place to go rather than just having to camp out on the streets before being periodically forced out.”

Where are you from, and why did you move to Portland? “I’m from Queens, NY. I moved to Portland for dance and to check out the West Coast.” 20

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THE VOICES OF PORTLAND Walking up to a complete stranger and asking to take their photo isn't easy. In 2017 I photographed over 250 people on the streets of Portland and asked each a question (Some light, some heavy, some bizarre). Doing this I learned that people are, for the most part, thoughtful and kind. I’ve realized that my own perception of being stylish isn’t about who is wearing an eye-popping outfit— for me, people’s interactions with their surroundings and those around them revealed true style.

What’s the best thing about living in Portland? “Actually being from Portland!”

What is your signature emoji?

If you were a mascot, what would you be? “I’d be a bear wearing a really tight, really small T-shirt.”

What are you doing on December 25th? “Smoking a fat blunt!” (We hope she did.)

What scares you the most about death? (L–R) “The possibility that maybe there’s nothing and mourning the things I didn’t get to do in life” “A boring death.” ”Being closed up in a box.” “Uncertainty.”

Why did you move to Portland? “My heart belongs, and thrives best, in the forest.”

What’s your favorite city? “Anywhere blacker than here. Portland is way too homogenized.”

If you were a scented candle, what would you smell like? “The smell of home. Like the feeling you get after traveling and you get home—the smell of familiarity.”

How would you describe your experience with the housingmarket? (Left) “I work fulltime and barely make rent. I get about $50 from each paycheck because of what I pay for housing and living expenses.” (Right) “I’m a student with two jobs, and I would definitely not be able to afford rent without help.”

Describe an emotional experience you have had with art. “Working with some friends of mine in Black Sun. It’s an all-black production of short plays that really allowed me to emotionally connect with other people of color in Portland. On top of that, it does an excellent job of showing other people what it’s like to be black in this city.”

What city should Portland make a baby with? “I think PDX with the non-gentrified portion of the Mission District in San Francisco. There’s more of a community there that would mesh well with Portland. The specialty stores would be really complementary to the ones here. Also more diversity.”

Who are you most excited to see at Pickathon? “Ty Segall and Tank and the Bangas. I wanted to see Charles Bradley last night, and Dinosaur Jr. for freakin’ sure!” Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

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A Year in Portland Style WE LOOK BACK ON THREE TRENDS THAT DEFINED PORTLAND FASHION IN 2017. BY WA LKER MACMU R DO

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Style always evolves, but the past year seemed like a particularly dramatic leap for Portland. The aesthetic that came to define the New Portland look of the last decade—cutesy graphics, maker-chic urbanized throwbacks to Oregon’s lumber and/or grunge days and a bunch of antlers and birds all over everything—has all but vanished among the city’s trendsetting boutiques. Goodbye, Red Wings and $300 selvedge denim of the “I just moved here from Austin” look. Rather, what I’ve seen in the past 12 months has been been defined, largely, by three trends: The continued dominance of Athleisure, PostNormcore and the New Vintage.

ATHLEISURE

“Athleticism, right now, is really trendy,” remarked Shana Tabor, owner of Williams’ IGWT boutique in October. “Ten years ago, you wouldn’t catch a hipster or fashion human wearing a pair of sneakers. But that’s what they wear now, because it is cool.” Since the renewed cultural supremacy of Nike and Adidas in the mid-2010s, sportswear has still never been cooler, and it doesn’t seem like tracksuits or sneakers are going to be getting old any time soon. Adidas and Nike now regularly collaborate with designers and trendsetting boutiques across the world. High-fashion brands like Balenciaga released two of the most talkedabout sneakers this year: the Speed Trainer and the Triple S Trainer, at $600+ price tags. It’s only going to get bigger in 2018. The accessible-at-any-budget flexibility and new fashion-forward designs we’re seeing from the likes of traditionally functional brands like Columbia is going to keep this train rolling for the foreseeable future.

NEW VINTAGE

If you’ve taken a look at our Street page recently, you’ve probably noticed a lot of hip youths wearing torn, paint-splattered Levi’s 501 jeans, old band T-shirts and ripped Carhartt jackets. It’s always been cool to shop and wear vintage, but this year we’ve seen a new movement away from the traditional find-it-yourself Goodwill 22

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and House of Vintage model and toward a new one based on curation. Shops like Hawthorne’s I Am That (3623 SE Hawthorne Blvd.) and Heir (515 Southwest Broadway) trade heavily on a smaller selection of highly stylized pieces and utilize Instagram to target specific buyers. Vintage denim has supplanted American heritage and Japanese selvedge brands as Portland’s favorite pants. It’s now commonplace for nonvintage boutiques to carry single racks of vintage finds, often at substantial markups from the secondhand shops from where they came. Next year, it’s still going to be cool to shop and wear vintage. But what we’re going to learn is whether this is a sustainable business model in Portland, or if Goodwill and House of Vintage will be all that’s left come July.

POST-NORMCORE

Speaking of old Levi’s—throw in a stylishly oversized sweater, a knit beanie and some tastefully unadorned pottery from a local artisan and you’ve got yourself the look of the year. Going hand in hand with the New Vintage’s commitment to selectivity, boutiques like downtown’s Johan (632 SW Pine St.) and Kerns’ Association (401 NE 28th Ave.) have followed in the footsteps of elder stateswoman Stand Up Comedy (511 SW Broadway) in weaving minimalism and abstraction into a new aesthetic. But why Post-Normcore? Times have changed since the tag referring to the trend of dressing “normal”—e.g., Gap jeans, dad hats, New Balance—broke in 2014. Though the simplicity remains, the new wave is more fashion conscious and more serious in a commitment to anti-consumerism. Garments are treated (and often priced) like art objects, and often sit in gallery-like spaces alongside visual and sculpture art. $70 price tags on scrunchies made of recycled luxury fabrics or vintage denim priced more than its retail act as a deterrent on wanton shopping. Whether Post-Normcore is a new movement, or art-kid nonsense used to rebrand the same old business of selling expensive things to rich people is up for debate. But it’s going to be here as long as vintage windbreakers and overalls remain cool.

THE BUMP

THE DOABLE DOZEN PORTLAND NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENTS YOU CAN BY PET E COT TEL L

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MUSIC

FOOD AND BEER

URAL THOMAS & THE PAIN, AW MERCY, DJ VOID

DEADSHOT AT STACKED

If you’ve had the pleasure of sweatin’ to the oldies at an Eagles Lodge soul night, it’s easy to imagine how rowdy a New Years Eve party hosted by WW’s 2014 Best New Band recipient Ural Thomas & the Pain will get. Fraternal Order of Eagles, 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-232-7505. 8 pm. $20. 21+.

BATTLE OF THE DECADES II

Watch members of Blitzen Trapper, Sleater Kinney, the Jicks and others assemble a quartet of cover bands to play hits from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s in hopes of finally solving which decade rules them all.Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., bunksandwiches.com. 9:30 pm. $20. 21+. bunksandwiches.com.

FAREWELL TO METAL: DITCH DIGGER, SUSTAINER, BEWITCHER, SHELTER RED, OTHRYS, DWARFGIANT, VEIO

Often overshadowed in the annals of downtown’s music scene by Satyricon and Berbati’s Pan, Ash Street Saloon carved its own place in history by booking genre-spanning live acts of all calibers 363 days a year. Celebrate its final night with a bang, as a king’s ransom of local metal acts will push the venerable Old Town club’s soundsystem to its limit one last time. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 503-226-0430. 7 pm. $10. 21+. ashstreetsaloon.com.

ANJALI & THE KID, ORQUESTRA PACIFICO TROPICAL

Shake off a truly terrible calendar year with the Bhangra and Bollywood sounds of DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid, the two-time “Best DJ” recipients of Willamette Week’s annual “Best of Portland” poll. Show up early for Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, the Northwest’s hottest new cumbia orchestra that slayed in 2017 and is poised for a party-starting takeover in the following year. Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder St., 503-232-2759. 9 pm. $25-$35. 21+. melodyballroom.com.

If the opportunity to try Deadshot or Shipwreck eluded you this year, here’s a golden opportunity to experience the standout cocktail popups under the roof of Gabriel Pascuzzi, the head chef of Stacked Sandwiches who was named 2017 chef of the year by Eater. Stacked Sandwich Shop, 1643 SE 3rd Ave., 971-279-2731. 8 pm. No cover. All ages. stackedsandwichshop.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT DEPARTURE

We had to include one fancypants excursion on this list, and it doesn’t get much fancier than a 9-course meal at the preferred rooftop Asian fusion restaurant of wayfaring NBA players as they roll through town. Show up early for one of tasting menus, one of which is vegan, or swing by later for a snazzy soirée that includes a champagne toast and DJ Ana Sia on the decks. Departure, 525 SW Morrison St., 503-802-5370. $120-$180 for party and chef ’s tasting menu, $60 for the party. 21+. departurerestaurant.com.

BREAKSIDE BALL

It’s been a banner year for Breakside since opening their opulent new Slabtown digs back in March. The celebrated brewery will be hosting a capstone party of sorts for New Year’s Eve, which is slated to involve a karaoke room, a silent disco, live music from the Kinky Brothers and a complete shutdown of NW Raleigh St. to account for the inevitable spillage of revelers from the brewpubs legal confines. Breakside Slabtown, 1570 NW 22nd Ave., 503-444-7597. 8 pm. $35 for general admission. 21+. breakside.com.

PIX PATISSERIE NEW YEAR’S EVE CHOCOLATE BUFFET

New Year’s is for bubbles and indulgence. Well, welcome to Pix, home to the best champagne selection in maybe the country, plus a ridiculous midnight chocolate buffet that’s free with drinks: chocolate cake, meringue, truffles, beer, whatever. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St., 971-271-7166, pixpatisserie.com.

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COMEDY MATT BRAUNGER

If laughing at the pitfalls of being socially awkward and prematurely middle-aged sounds far more appealing than being crammed into a club with overdressed strangers, the self-deprecating everyman humor of Portland’s own Matt Braunger is exactly what you need this New Year’s Eve. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669, 8 pm; 10:30 pm. $39-$64. 21+. portland.heliumcomedy.com.

LEZ STANDUP

2017 was an absolute nightmare for anyone with two X chromosomes, but that hasn’t stopped some of comedy’s biggest names from making a mockery of the dumpster fire that’s threatened to envelop the country’s marginalized people whole. Join Caitlin Weierhauser, Wendy Weiss and others for a night of laughs that’s sure to get your mind off the doozy that 2018 is poised to be. The Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., sirentheater.com. 7 pm. $10. All ages. sirentheater.com.

OTHER? LUMBERTWINK

Whether you’re foraging for a forest-dweller or just looking for an excuse to break out the cutoff flannel and the beard oil, Lumbertwink’s 4th annual New Year’s Eve party is your go-to event for a burly evening of beers, beats and bearded bros. Analog Cafe and Theater, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-206-7439. 8 pm. $10 if you’re sporting plaid, $15 without. 21+. analogpdx.com.

1LB SMOKEOUT NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION

Opposed to alcohol but still in the market for a social event where you can get crunk with your crew? Head to the NW Cannabis Club for a sophisticated evening of dabs and doobies courtesy of local purveyors like Terpene Station, Rel Vapes and High Desert Pure. NW Cannabis Club, 1195 SE Powell Blvd., 503-206-4594. $5 for a one-day membership. 21+. nwcannabismarket.com.

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THOMAS TEAL

DRINK & FOOD: After a brief reign of Fireball, the mostconsumed spirit in the state is again HRD Vodka. Oregonians took a total of 18,031,958 shots of the locally made well. Oregonians spent more money on Jack Daniels Black, though: $14,815,800 in total. The most expensive price tag for a bottle HAN OAK in the state is $7,484 for 1.75 liters of Rémy Martin Louis XIII cognac. The state’s biggest brewery, Deschutes, made 58,006 barrels this year through October, down 18 percent from last year. The smallest licensed brewery, Lostine’s M Cow, made just 2.77 barrels. The most popular offering at the iconic Belmont Station beer bar was Block 15’s Sticky Hands. >> Portland’s best barbecue spot, Matt’s BBQ, made 25,000 pounds of brisket, 32,000 rib bones, 7,500 sausages and 2,500 pounds of potato salad. Han Oak became the first restaurant in memory to be named the consensus Restaurant of the Year by the Oregonian, Portland Monthly and WW (which recognized it with several other East Asian spots as the Year of the Rooster). MUSIC: The year’s top seller at Music Millennium was the remastered version of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which moved 481 copies. Second place was the War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding, with 260 copies sold. The song Portlanders streamed more than any other city in the country was Angel Olsen’s “Shut Up Kiss Me.” Portugal the Man’s “Feel It Still” spent 20 weeks at the top of Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, the longest any song has reigned at No. 1 in the chart’s 29-year history. It took only 40 minutes for Radiohead’s show at Moda Center to sell out, the arena’s fastest sellout of the year. Meanwhile, Billy Joel’s Moda Center show was the city’s most attended concert of the year, with 17,526 tickets sold. STAGE: Portland Center Stage’s original adaptation of the first part of Peter Stark’s acclaimed book Astoria sold 20,576 tickets, the most of any play produced by a local company this year. Astoria Part II will open on January 20 (see page 38). The most expensive ticket on resale sites for the big theatrical event of 2018, the Portland run of Hamilton which starts in March, is $2,000. The cheapest listed ticket is $395. BOOKS: The most-sold book at Powell’s was Instagram poet Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey. Kaur’s Sun and Her Flowers came in third. In a sign of the times, George Orwell’s 1984 came in at number seven. Meanwhile, the most checked-out book at the Multnomah County library system was J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, a chronicle of white Appalachia, which was checked out 2,023 times. MOVIES: The most popular movie at the library was the DVD of Jason Bourne, which was checked out 2,682 times. The longest run of any movie in Portland cinema was the 21-week run of Get Out, which followed its theatrical run with a 10-week encore at Laurelhurst Theater. The most popular DVD at Movie Madness was Arrival, which was rented 265 times. The landmark video store went up for sale this year. It took the nonprofit Hollywood Theatre just nine days to raise the $250,000 needed to buy and preserve it.

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AMINÉ’S GLITTERPOP

ART + SCIENCE CIDER TASTING

With Good for You,, his major label debut, Portland rapper Aminé dropped the most joyful rap album of the year. Now, he’s keeping his promise to do something special for his post-release homecoming, throwing a two-night “glitter party” sure to leave attendees looking like they just came from the champagne room at Sassy’s. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages. Also on Dec. 28.

This one’s a treat. Some of the best ciders in the state— and some of the most ambitious—are being made by this little winery and cidery, but they ain’t cheap or easy to find. At Belmont Station this Wednesday, sample excellent foraged, crab apple and quince ciders for free before buying a bottle you won’t regret. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538, belmont-station.com.

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T H U R S D AY

RACLETTE NIGHT Occidental’s Wursthaus is bringing back a fine and deeply weird Swiss-German tradition: The scraping of the hot, soft cheese! No, seriously. They knife hot, melty cheese onto your plate and then you eat it with beer and baguette and ham and such. Occidental Wursthaus, 6635 N Baltimore Ave., 503-286-3686, occidentalbrewing.com. 5-9 pm.

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F R I D AY

MATT BRAUNGER

In the ’80s, LA legends X drew a throughline from Chuck Berry to the Doors to the Ramones, releasing four unimpeachable albums of grittily poetic roots-punk. Those old songs retain every ounce of their power. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 5032 2 5 - 0 0 4 7. 8:45 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

Get Busy

Bridgetown Comedy Festival co-founder Matt Braunger is one of Portland comedy’s most beloved alumni. He’s also one of the most prolific— when he performed here last December, he had recently launched a Comedy Central web series, and this time he’s performing all new material. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., portland.heliumcomedy.com. 7:30 pm and 10 pm. Through Dec. 30.

I, TONYA

SAGE FRANCIS

WH ER E WE ’ L L B E B I D D I N G AD I EU TO T H I S G O D FO R SAKEN Y E AR AN D E ATI N G O FF T H E HAN G OVER T H I S WEEK .

Don’t expect to hear many rhymes about Xanax or sipping lean from Sage Francis. The veteran underground rapper formulates poignant thoughts on society's ills into intense diatribes. It’s been awhile since his last release, but given the year we’ve had, he’ll certainly have plenty to say. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., startheaterportland.com. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

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EXPLODE INTO COLORS

LA RUTA DEL TORO

The one-off reunion of Portland punk-funk heroes Explode Into Colors was one of last year’s greatest surprises. They’re closing out 2017 with an even greater surprise—they’ve apparently been working on new music, and are going to debut some of it across two nights. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios. com. 9 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+. Also on Dec. 31.

Do your big fancy year-end dinner on the eve of New Year’s Eve, when the city is still sane: The Toro Bravo event space will host a big Spanish sidra-keg dinner complete with sword-piercing and such, with many lovely Spanish bites. Plaza del Toro, 105 SE Taylor St., plazadeltoropdx.com. 6 pm. $100.

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12/31

CALEB KLAUDER’S RHINESTONE BALL

PIX PATISSERIE NEW YEAR’S EVE CHOCOLATE BUFFET

Honky-tonk stalwart Caleb Klauder typically prefers dust over diamonds, but he'll sparkle shit up on the most glittery night of the year. Attendees are encouraged to don their blingiest Western wear. Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., 503-287-5800, spareroomrestaurantandlounge.com. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

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PAJAMA BRUNCH M O N D AY

Hungover? Fuck it. Don’t get dressed and come all janky. This year as others, Irving Street Kitchen will be serving up pancakes and gravlax to the underdressed. Irving Street Kitchen, 701 NW 13th Ave., 503-343-9440, irvingstreetkitchen.com. 10 am2:30 pm.

I, TONYA It’s pretty much your civic duty as an Oregonian to witness the public rehabilitation of confessed assault accessory Tonya Harding. Here, she’s a working-class heroine who overcame her abusive mother to spin until we all were just plain dizzy about her. Regal Studios Fox 10, 846 SW Park Ave., various showtimes.

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FLICKATHON

Populated by benevolent and adorably rotund spirits, Miyazaki’s masterpiece is a dark war-torn metaphor cloaked in quirky animation. Academy Theater, 7818 SE Stark St., academytheaterpdx. com. Various times. $4.

You’re probably not going to be recovered enough to start seeing actual live music again, so ease back into the game with a concert on film—in this case, a set from folkies the Lone Bellow at Pickathon 2013. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 503-228-3669. 6 pm. Free. 21+. Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

FOOD & DRINK = WW Pick. Highly recommended. By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 Art + Science Cider Tasting

This one’s a treat. Some of the best ciders in the state—and some of the most ambitious—are being made by this little winery and cidery, but they ain’t cheap or easy to find. At Belmont Station this Wednesday, ample excellent foraged, crab apple and quince ciders for free before buying a bottle you won’t regret. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538, belmont-station.com.

Fillmore Trattoria

Italian Home Cooking Tuesday–Saturday 5:30PM–10PM closed Sunday & Monday

THURSDAY, DEC. 28 Raclette Night

Occidental’s Wursthaus is bringing back a fine and deeply weird Swiss-German tradition: The scraping of the hot, soft cheese! No, seriously. They knife hot, melty cheese onto your plate and then you eat it with beer and baguette and ham and such. Occidental Wursthaus, 6635 N Baltimore Ave., 503-286-3686, occidentalbrewing.com. 5-9 pm.

MONDAY, DEC. 31 Deadshot at Stacked

1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

(971) 386-5935

Technically prodigious Deadshot and goofball midori-sour Shipwreck are the two foxiest cocktail pop-ups in town— and for New Year’s Eve they’ll both be under one roof, alongside happy hour cocktails and a seafood smorgasbord from Stacked chef Gabriel Pascuzzi, including clam chowder, oysters, popcorn shrimp and a whole mess of burgers.. Stacked Sandwich Shop, 1643 SE 3rd Ave., 971-279-2731. 8 pm-2 am. No cover.

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Where to eat this week.

Woodsman Tavern

4537 SE Division St., 971-373-8264. woodsmantavern.com. Former Imperial chef Doug Adams is currently wearing the toque at Woodsman—and it feels like the Tavern’s golden age again. Get you some serious down-home comforts. $$-$$$.

Bark City BBQ

1331 N Killingsworth St., 971-227-9707, barkcitybbq.com. There’s some seriously good new ’cue in town: Split a pit-master platter and a banana pudding milk shake. $$.

Bottle Rocket

1207 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 971-279-4663. Club 21’s burger chef is back at this cart serving up some of the best damn old-school burgers in town, with a side of new-school fish sauce tots. $.

Oui! Wine Bar

2425 SE 35th Pl., 503-208-2061, sewinecollective.com/ouiwine-bar-restaurant. SE Wine Collective’s bar is doubling down on food with a new name, a $35 prix-fixe and really amazing whipped butter with espelette peppers and maple syrup. $$.

Revelry

210 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 971-339-3693, relayrestaurantgroup.com. One of the best deals in town is Revelry’s $5 fried chicken and Rainier deal on hip-hop Tuesdays. $-$$$.

Breakside Ball

Can Font NYE

Oft-traditional Can Font will get a bit more playful for an umpty-course Spanish dinner that includes four separate desserts from seared foie gras to cheese to ganache—following up venison stew and a meat market’s worth of canelon, plus a Spanish army knife of uses for Catalonia’s famed Iberico Bellota country ham. Can Font, 1015 NW Northrup St, canfontportland.com. Tickets at opentable.com. 5-10 pm. $100.

NYE at Departure

Stand at the precipice of the new year at the top of a tall building, with a 9-course meal at the preferred rooftop Asian fusion restaurant of wayfaring NBA players as they roll through town. Show up early for one of tasting menus, one of which is vegan, or swing by later for a snazzy soiree that includes a champagne toast and DJ Ana Sia on the decks. Departure, 525 SW Morrison St., 503-802-5370. $120$180 for party and chef’s tasting menu, $60 for the party.

Pix Patisserie Chocolate Buffet

New Year’s is for bubbles and indulgence. Well, welcome to Pix, home to the best champagne selection in maybe the country, plus a ridiculous midnight chocolate buffet that’s free with drinks: chocolate cake, meringue, truffles, whatever. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St, 971-271-7166, pixpatisserie.com.

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DRANK

Portland Pear Brandy (NEW DEAL DISTILLERY) Portland’s rep as a maker of great distillates was built o n p e a r b r a n d y— t h o s e impossible-seeming fruitfilled bottles from Steve McCarthy-founded Clear Cre e k Di sti ller y, whi ch will move its operations closer to Hood River’s pear orchards next year. But with New Deal’s new pear brandy ($39.95), Portland will get a worthy successor. Released just before Thanksgiving, it’s almost the polar opposite of Clear Creek’s famously bright, crisp spirit. Fermented from a pulp of whole Bartlett pears from Oregon’s Pereday Orchards before undergoing pot distillation, New Deal’s new brandy is like the bass to Clear Creek’s tenor. The earthy brandy tastes beautifully of skin and seed and yeast, with roundness of flavor and the crystalline sweetness of dried fruit. Distiller Tom Burkleaux also tried test batches with Anjou and Bosc pears this summer, but the traditional Bartlett still reigned supreme: The fullness of the fruit in this brandy is pretty much remarkable. Feel free to mix it, but not before you drink it neat. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

REFLECTIONS

WY’EAST PIZZA (2009-2013) This lone-wolf pizza cart sat in the parking lot of Ruthie’s Weaving Studio on Southeast 50th Avenue, just a few blocks away from the pod where Year of the Fish was. The “WEAVE” building and its parking lot are still there, but the old camper trailer is gone. The people behind Wy’East moved back to their native Milwaukie in 2013, and have since grown into a restaurant space rather than cook in an oven that could only accommodate one pie at a time. MC. BUILT TO GRILL (2009-2013) Eight dollars is rarely the ticket to any kind of ecstasy, but at Built to Grill—if you showed up before they sold out—you could eat more than your fill of lovely penne alla vodka, beautifully balanced clams and linguine, or especially heart-rending gnocchi that could teach feelings to a sociopath. In a city that struggles with pasta, this cart served an explosion of flavor in each box, at prices that meant you could always return. After tiring of cart life, the owners moved briefly onto the patio at Star Theater before closing entirely. Chef Brooke Howes last surfaced at short-lived Black Dog Lounge on Division. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. TABOR/SCHNITZELWICH (2009-2017) “Check out Czech food” was the motto of Tabor, which came from husband and wife team Monika and Karel Vitek. During lunch hours, there was always a line for their scratch-cooked, tasty, authentic Czech food. Their Schnitzelwich was so iconic they renamed the cart for it after Bon Appetit said in 2013, “there may be no better sandwich on the planet.” But they also had specials such as a thick pork goulash heady with smoked paprika and chicken paprikash served with thick bread dumplings or tender spaetzle. Tabor closed in May; the new occupants make kombucha-based hot sauce and sell pottery. LC.

WY’EAST PIZZA

Nothing Golden Fried Can Stay PORTLAND’S 12 MOST-MISSED FOOD CARTS. It was just before closing time at Carts on Foster, and I found myself next to the food cart operators huddling in the pod’s beer shanty for their shift drinks. Halfway through a beer, I realized the guy I was talking to used to be my neighbor. “I didn’t recognize you without your captain’s hat,” I said. He’d also cut off his signature ponytail. Edward McGregor’s Year of the Fish cart used to be right by my house, and I’d nodded hello to him more times than I could count, even when I wasn’t stopping by his spot for fish and chips. That pod closed, like they all do, to make way for a shiny new apartment building. But until then, he’d been part of the fabric of my neighborhood, every bit as familiar as the Landmark Saloon patio or the guys with shopping carts working on bikes by the bus shelter next to the 76 Station. We chatted for a half-hour about the old spot—and about what became of all the other people in the makeshift community they’d formed on the parking lot. The Turkish cart has recently landed back next to him. Burger Guild tried to make a go of it in Sellwood before switching to catering. The ladies from Run Chicken Run went back to Thailand. We didn’t even know each other, but it felt like bumping into an old college classmate. And so we end Food Cart Preservation Month, the last installment in a 12-month series of quirky themes that’s also included Vape Awareness Month, Erotica Appreciation Month and Jojo July. The Year of Months was a silly project with a grand objective. We wanted to focus intently on a dozen topics, with the idea that if we spent enough time digging deep between the cushions of life in Portland, we might come across coins we’d never otherwise find. Some times we failed. But other times we were able

to tell stories we’d never otherwise tell—like the time we found a lot more than we expected in the city’s last adult theater on Southeast Division. It also brought us into contact with the guy who ran Sinsemilla Tips, the trade journal of the marijuana industry in the outlaw years. We went back to the heyday of the Portland jazz scene, to long-forgotten clubs like The Dude Ranch and Paul’s Paradise. We even attended a workshop where people learn to throw pies in other people’s faces. This is the last issue of the year, and the last of 57 installments in this series (August was a double month— Auuuugust and Cluster Feeding Month). We’re dedicating it to the food carts we miss the most—all places that fill us with nostalgia and hunger for a previous version of this place. Take heed, if you love something in this city, especially a food cart, you need to support it. Especially in these dreary winter months. MARTIN CIZMAR. NO FISH! GO FISH! (1997-2013) An early Portland gourmet cart, No Fish! Go Fish! opened at Southwest Fifth Avenue and Yamhill Street during the Clinton Administration and survived in a changing Portland for almost two decades. The menu was based on revolving daily soups, plus unique “sandwiches” made using a pancake-type batter prepared in fishshaped Japanese taiyaki molds. The fish-shaped sandos were made to order, and stuffed with melty mozzarella and tomato and curried veggies. Partners John Doyle and Sean Brown gave up the business and went to work in government jobs. LIZZY CASTON. ZIBA’S PITAS (2002-2011) Portland’s first and only Bosnian cart came from the lovely Ziba Ljucevic, an accountant in Bosnia who came to Portland with her husband during the war. Ljucevic operated at Southwest 9th and Alder for almost a decade. Flaky, melt-in-your-mouth “pitas” were made by hand with a thin, strudel-like dough and stuffed with seasoned lamb, or spinach and farmers cheese, like an ethereal spanakopita. Other offerings included köfte meatballs, and the occasional hearty soup. All were served with a generous cucumber salad and side of tangy ajvar eggplant and roasted red pepper sauce. After helping put her daughter through college with her pitas, Ziba retired. LC.

SUSHI PDX (2011-2015) Portland sushi is rarely cheap and wonderful at the same time, but the hand rolls and spicy tuna maki at Sushi PDX put most of the city to shame for a full-meal price tag of $10 or $15. Out of his humble cart at the Belmont Good Food Here pod, Japan-trained chef Toshiki “Toshi” Yokoo masterfully prepped always-fresh fish and delicately vinegared rice in beautiful proportion. In a certain regard, it was some of the best sushi in the city, because it was the best I could afford to enjoy regularly. But less than a year after I fell in love with the cart, its pod closed down and Yokoo was boxed out of the new one across the street. Sushi Ichiban aside, nothing has truly replaced it. MK. PAPA-PAU (2012-2012) It’s common to find people wrapping a hot dog in bacon and call it a Sonoran dog. That’s not a Sonoran dog, as this cart’s brief and beautiful run showed us. I discovered this cart out in the wilds of deep Southeast and was blown away by their mastery of detail, including steamed buns, grilled veggies and salty and smooth guacamole sauce. They even included a tiny bit of chorizo and a sprinkle of powdery cotija cheese. Sadly, some idiots (read: including me) convinced them to move onto inner Southeast Hawthorne, away from the Mexican community, and they promptly shuttered. MC. PRICKLY ASH (2012-2014) This Chinese sandwich cart, named for the trees that give the world Sichuan peppercorns, was at the pod on Mississippi. They made fresh flatbread inside the cart, which resembled a gordita, then topped it with herbs, oils and fatty meat. The flavors were loud and the form managed to be both familiar and fresh at once. The owners took a hiatus in December 2014 and then never reopened the cart, instead doing a few pop-ups before fading into memory. MC. EL AMANECER (2012?-2017) Behind a Stark Street flea market at the edge of Gresham, El Amanecer made the most beautiful tacos de barbacoa, birria and carnitas I have known in Portland—served up on handmade corn tortillas with deep consommé. At least one weekend a month I’d gather friends and dine like a prince under the shade of a giant tree, washing down bites that tasted like miracles with vanilla horchata. And then one horrible day in June it was gone. The cart remained in place but didn’t open, and its owners ceased answering their phone. To get flat-top tacos almost as good, I now have to drive to Salem. MK. MAINE STREET LOBSTER (2013-2015) The mood doesn’t always strike. But when it does, there is nothing else: A lobster roll is a mountain of hot buttered lobster on a hoagie, a New England dockside treat made with shellfish this Cartlandia cart flew in cross-country five times a week. A move to Bethany Village in Beaverton didn’t pan, and now Maine Street’s old website sells Alaskan fishing trips. If you want a Maine lobster roll now, you have to wait for an occasional special at Lardo on Hawthorne—coming up next on New Year’s Day. MK. HOLY MOLE (2014-2016) Puebla-born Fernando Otero’s meals were scratch-made with meticulous care, including a warming pozole, home-spun enchiladas de picadillo dulce and 30-ingredient mole with scratch-made chocolate that took 13 hours to prepare. But the grueling schedule took its toll on Otero’s health, and he had to close the cart. Since then, he’s cooked a few pop-up meals. To get in on the next one, January 27, email holymolepdx@gmail.com for details. MK. BOTTO BBQ (2016-2016) There are those who bear ill will toward Darren Bottinelli. “Botto,” which was in an empty lot next to the Sherwin Williams paint store on the industrial fringe of Northwest, burst onto the scene making the best ribs Portland has ever known. Unfortunately, prior to running the cart he’d stolen about $3 million from poor and disabled, which they set aside for tax-free health procedures and which he subsequently spent on a lavish lifestyle including dinner at the French Laundry, stays at Chateau Marmont and binges on cocaine. I can’t defend Botto’s theft, but I do wish they’d been able to spare him prison time so he could repay his victims by making me brisket—the man had a true and precious gift to share with the world. When he gets out for his third act, I’ll be there with cash in hand. MC.

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List-O-Mania THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD IN PORTLAND MUSIC 2017, RANKED. BY M AT T H E W P. SI N G ER, PATRI C K LYO NS , PARK E R HA LL, C E RVA N T E P O P E , B L A K E H I C K M AN, M I C C AP ES , BRE TT C A M P B E L L , M A RK A. STO CK

TOP FIVE PORTLAND METAL ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. The Slants finally win their trademark case. 2. Aminé is named part of XXL’s Freshman Class. 3. The Last Artful, Dodgr teases a collaboration with Mark Ronson and Christina Aguilera. 4. Portugal the Man has the biggest alt-rock song of the year. 5. Russell Westbrook rocks a Dead Moon shirt onstage at a Lil Wayne concert. (MPS)

1. Hell, Hell 2. Portals Into Futility, Usnea 3. Tyndir, Barrowlands 4. Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light, The Body & Full of Hell 5. Obsidian Arc, Pillorian (PL)

TOP FIVE PORTLAND JAZZ ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

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1. Porter Plays Porter, Randy Porter featuring Nancy King 2. Oregonophony: Live at Fremont Theater, Portland Jazz Composer’s Ensemble 3. EP Vol. II, Korgy & Bass 4. From All of Us Here Pt. I, Thankusomuch 5. Seven American Monuments, Red Oak Duo (PH)

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TOP FIVE FEEL-BAD PORTLAND MUSIC STORIES OF THE YEAR 1. Dead Moon’s Fred Cole dies. 2. Jimmy Mak’s owner Jim Makarounis dies the day after his club closes. 3. Musician-about-town Scott McCaughey suffers a stroke while on tour. 4. Tim/Kerr Records founder Thor Lindsay dies. 5. Long-running record label Soleilmoon is labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (MPS)

TOP FIVE MOST WHAT-THE-FUCK MUSIC STORIES 1. The Domestics’ botched Trumpthemed viral marketing stunt. 2. Lady Gaga Instagrams herself hanging out in Portland. 3. Drake pops in at Memorial Coliseum to perform his song “Portland” in Portland with Travis Scott. 4. TriMet accuses Kanye West and Kim Kardashian of stealing its old logo for their kids clothing line. 5. The straight-edge anarchist drummer from Fall Out Boy opens a vegan coffee shop along the South Waterfront. (MPS)

TOP FIVE PORTLAND RAP ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 1. Bone Music, The Last Artful, Dodgr & Neill Von Tally 2. Good for You, Aminé 3. Pool Party, Myke Bogan 4. Garden Boys, Donte Thomas & Bocha 5. Terrance, Cool Nutz (PL)

TOP FIVE BEST PORTLAND ALBUMS YOUR MUSIC EDITOR HEARD THIS YEAR 1. The Other Side of Town, Boone Howard 2. Bone Music, The Last Artful, Dodgr & Neill Von Tally 3. Blister Steel, Roselit Bone 4. Paint Soup 3: We Need Bread This Time, Paint Soup 5. Vulture, Turtlenecked (MPS)

TOP FIVE PORTLAND MUSIC VIDEOS OF THE YEAR 1. Cliterati, “Burn” 2. Skull Diver, “8 Pack 8 Legs” 3. Myke Bogan, “Take The Nite Off ” 4. Star Club, “Nightmare” 5. Maze Koroma, “Even Though I Can’t Keep up with You” (CP)

TOP FIVE SONGS OF RESISTANCE FROM PORTLAND ARTISTS 1. Rasheed Jamal, “Love is the Highest Religion” 2. Intercision, “If This Isn’t War” 3. Worws, “Truth to Power” 4. Piss Test, “Arizona Cops” 5. We Are Parasols, “Dim” (CP)

TOP FIVE UNDERRATED PORTLAND RAP SONGS OF THE YEAR 1. “Backyard Baseball,” Fountaine featuring the Last Artful, Dodgr 2. “Keep The Juice,” Donte Thomas 3. “Vandals,” Raquel Divar 4. “Gravity,” Lisa Vasquez 5. “5 Blang, Bocha (BH)

AMINE’S TOP FIVE MEDIA APPEARANCES OF THE YEAR 1. Performing “Wedding Crashers”

The Last Artful, Dodgr with Offset on Late Night with Seth Meyers while dressed like a ’50s prom band. 2. Appearing on Desus and Mero, where he argues Portland, Maine, is way whiter than Portland, Oregon. 3. His NPR Tiny Desk Concert, where he very seriously sings the line “dick like ADT.” 4. His live video for “Turf,” where he shouts out Du’s Grill from the produce section of an East L.A. supermarket. 5. His installment of Pitchfork’s Over/Under video series, where he talks about his father’s first encounter with the Naked Bike Ride and compares it to Jumanji. (MPS)

person from great seats. Absolute study session and a phenomenal experience. 4. Meeting Scarface and DJ Quik and opening for them. Scarface played a major part in me falling in love with hip-hop as a child. To top it off, he rocked my “Capes” hat his entire set on stage. 5. The Sheesh release show. My first big headlining show at Roseland Theater. We hit some bumps in the road and I learned some lessons but nonetheless I put on a great show despite having the flu. (MIC CAPES)

TOP FIVE MOST WHOLESOME LYRICS ON DAMIAN LILLARD’S CONFIRMED ALBUM

1. Hunter Noack at the Shire, Astoria Column, Fort Rock State Park, Alvord Desert, Columbia Gorge Hotel, Suttle Lake Lodge, Crater Lake, Naamí Nisháycht Living Culture Village at Tamastslikt Cultural Institute in Pendleton, Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City and Listening Circle at Chief Timothy Park. 2. Darrell Grant in the Elliott State Forest 3. Burn After Listening composers collective at PLACE, a design firm in the Pearl. 4. Third Angle at front porches in Irvington. 5. Dan Brugh at Pettygrove Park. (BC)

1. “You hotter than a sauna, girl/I’d let my mama meet your mama, girl.” 2. “I love all my family and commas/ Might go to the club with my mama.” 3. “Still don’t do the strip club, but love the finer things.” 4. “Balling out with no budget/ Do this verse without cursing.” (2 Chainz) 5. “Trying to be your hubby/Help you run that bath water, be your rubber ducky.” (MPS)

TOP FIVE CLASSICAL CONCERTS AT NON-TRADITIONAL VENUES

TOP FIVE PORTLAND CONCERT MILESTONES OF THE YEAR 1. Radiohead’s first Portland performance in 20 years. 2. Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus, Colin Meloy uniting for an ACLU/ Unite Oregon benefit show. 3. Gucci Mane playing Portland for the first and second time ever. 4. The Avalanches swinging through on their first-ever tour. 5. Beth Ditto making her hometown solo debut. (PL)

TOP FIVE MOMENTS IN THE YEAR OF MIC CAPES 1. Playing Pickathon for the first time. The crowd there isn’t usually accustomed to hip-hop but the love shown to me was immense. 2. Seeing Kendrick Lamar in Tacoma. He is my favorite current artist so it was huge for me to peep his live show to both enjoy it and take notes. 3. Seeing Jay-Z at Moda Center. It’s rare to be able to see a GOAT in

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TOP FIVE FEEL-GOOD MUSIC STORIES OF THE YEAR

TOP FIVE WEIRDEST SIGHTS AT MUSICFESTNW PRESENTS PROJECT PABST 1. Die Antwoord’s ejaculating cartoon baby video. 2. Die Antwoord’s ejaculating cartoon baby video. 3. Die Antwoord’s ejaculating cartoon baby video. 4. Die Antwoord’s ejaculating cartoon baby video. 5. Die Antwoord’s ejaculating cartoon baby video. (MPS)

TOP FIVE BEST LOCAL RADIO SHOWS OF THE YEAR 1. Based Goth Radio on KFFP 2. Ditch Digger on KBOO 3. Songs from Under the Floorboard on XRAY 4. An Evening of Afrotainment on KBOO 5. Bizarre Times on KFFP (CP)

TOP FIVE MOMENTS IN THE YEAR OF BOONE HOWARD 1. Playing Treefort in Boise and just fucking blasting off on positive vibes with all the band friends. 2. Running sound on acid at the mega-secret, not-for-profit Homiefest. 3. Hosting Hustle and Drone on my property in Alaska while they worked on an awesome new album and I cooked moose meatloaf. 4. Watching Alaskan good ol’ boys Portugal the Man get extremely famous—called it. 5. Running sound and driving for the Builders and the Butchers’ European tour. Guys, I was going like 93 mph in the sprinter on the Autobahn but lied and made up a different kph conversion. (BOONE HOWARD)

TOP FIVE PORTLAND BANDS POISED FOR A BREAKOUT IN 2018 1. Reptaliens 2. Donte Thomas 3. Cat Hoch 4. The Domestics 5. Salvatore Manalo (MAS)

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 27 The Brian Setzer Orchestra, the Texas Gentlemen

[RETRO CHRISTMAS] A big-haired entertainer with stadium-sized charisma, Brian Setzer is one of the only people in the world who can make Christmas music last beyond the big day itself. In fact, his whole career has been predicated on resurrection. The famed guitarist and vocalist made a name for himself by helping to bring back classic genres like rockabilly and swing in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Tonight, Setzer and his 18-piece orchestra take over the Schnitz with big-band renditions of Christmas favorites, swinging through holiday hits for a crowd most likely to keep their lights up until well into the new year. PARKER HALL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm. $35.50-$80. All ages.

Aminé, Injury Reserve, Zack Villere

[POPPIN’ POP-RAP] See Get Busy, page 25. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave, 971-230-0033. Wednesday. Sold out. All ages.

THURSDAY, DEC. 28 X, LP3 and the Tragedy

[PUNK NOSTALGIA] See Get Busy, page 25. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 8:45 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, DEC. 29 Beats Antique, CloZee

Sage Francis, Juicy Karkass, Dalton

[HIP-HOP] See Get Busy, page 25. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave, 503-248-4700. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

SATURDAY, DEC. 30 Fruition, Sassparilla

[CHICKEN-COOP FOLK] Fruition have a lot in common with many of today’s folk renaissance bands— but the reason they stand out to us is that they originated in Portland. Their debut album dropped in 2010 and since then, Fruition has been cranking out records, the next of which, Watching It All Fall Apart, is coming out in early 2018. Their music has always spanned the Americana spectrum, but recently their tunes have gradually gone more rock’n’roll—see their latest single “I’ll Never Sing Your Name,” which has a much thicker, more driving sound, despite having a mandolin strumming away in the background. SETH SHALER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 8:30 pm. $27.50. 21+. Through Dec. 31

Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons

[AMERICANA LOUD] Close out 2017 with Portland roots-rock vet Jerry Joseph, who’ll be playing selections from this year’s smoldering Weird Blood. He’ll be joined for the New Year’s Eve show by fellow local songwriting favorite Casey Neill and his Norway Rats. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show, $40 two-night pass. 21+. Through Dec. 31.

Sol, Young Hunter, Coastlands, Lasagna Palace

[POST-METAL] Eclisse’s Febian Perez has a new project in the works called Lasagna Palace, which he describes as “psych-punk pasta rock.” The two-piece act are setting the bar for the night, leading up to the murky, ambient post-rock of Coastlands. The volume steadily build from there, as Young Hunter’s stoner-doom forms an ideal transition from Coastlands’ harmonious sweeps to the quiet-loud-loudest approach of Sol. This bill attacks from all sides of the sonic spectrum and will definitely be a heavy, fullbody experience. CERVANTE POPE. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK Ave, 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $6. 21+. MEGAN HOLMES

[GLOBALECTRONICA] In the decade since electronic producers David Satori and Tommy Cappel founded Beats Antique in San Francisco, they’ve expanded their sample-heavy electronica with various global music influences, from Balinese to Middle Eastern to Balkan and beyond. The group’s varied 10th album, Shadowbox, continues the exploration, adding prominent hip-hop, dubstep and even jazz moves to the band’s abundant mix. None of the new strains sound quite as convincing as the group’s successful gypsytribal electronic fusion, but you’ve got to admire them for not getting stuck in a dance groove. If they now sound like several different bands from different lands, maybe that’s not entirely a negative, as long as that groovy dance beat keeps popping. BRETT CAMPBELL.

Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

PEEK-A-BOO: Explode Into Colors play Mississippi Studios on Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 30-31. 30

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IN MEMORIAM

The Motet, Dirty Revival

[GROOVE MACHINE] The Motet started during the jammy late ’90s, when acts like Phish, Moe and String Cheese Incident turned crowds to mush with extended soloing. The Denver seven-piece went the way of funk instead of endless guitar noodling, fine-tuning a jazzy, Afrobeat-inspired sound over the course of seven studio LPs. Last year’s effort, Totem, was written by the entirety of the sprawling band. As such, it feels especially full, with enough grooves and giddy brass lines to turn the many frowns of 2017 upside down. MARK STOCK. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503-288-3895. $25. 21+. Through Dec. 31.

Nasalrod, C Average, Hair Puller

[SPAZZ PUNKS] In the days before “punk” became shorthand for power chords over pre-packaged rebellion, the term cast a wide net that included just about any shit-disturber who went against the grain. One such unlikely hero of punk’s early days was Frank Zappa, a sonic omnivore whose deranged DNA can be found all over Portland band Nasalrod’s new album, Building Machines. Landing between the prog-funk of Mr. Bungle and the spastic post-punk of Brainiac, the finest moments on Machines offer a glimpse at what might happen if the Blood Brothers kidnapped Mike Patton and joined the circus. Tonight, the band is joined by fellow Olympia weirdos C-Average. PETE COTTELL. The Fixin’ To, 8218 N. Lombard St, 503477-4995. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

STRFKR

[SUGAR POP] Since decamping to Los Angeles a few years back, STRFKR has streamlined their sound and sanded off the quirky edge that made early singles like the Target commercial standby “Rawnald Gregroy Erickson the Second” so insidious. The crew has returned to their roots in a way with this year’s trio of coffers-clearing albums called Vault Vol. 1-3, each of which offers a glimpse into what STRFKR was like back when they were just a drummerless duo blowing out PAs in sweaty basements in “the Real Old Portland.” Considering their two-night stand at Wonder Ballroom is sold out, it’s safe to say those house party days are well behind them. But their latest proper release, 2016’s Being No One, Going Nowhere, is still packed with the residual charms that endeared STFRKR to the city that birthed them almost a decade ago. PETE COTTELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503284-8686. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages. Through Dec. 31.

SUNDAY, DEC. 31 Mason Jennings, Anna Tivel

[FOLK-POP] The best move singersongwriter Mason Jennings may have ever made was leaving surfbro Jack Johnson’s record label. Since then, the Hawaiian native’s music has grown darker, freer and just plain more creative. Jennings turned out Wild Dark Metal last year, a sometimes stark, folk-tinged confessional in the vein of M. Ward or AA Bondy. The simplicity of Jennings’ melodies makes them all the more lasting, a casual approach that comes off as natural even if not entirely original. MARK STOCK. Alberta Rose Theater, 3000 NE Alberta St, 503-719-6055. 7 and 10 pm. Early show $35 advance, $45 day of show, late show $45 advance, $55 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

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Explode Into Colors

[POST-PUNK] See Get Busy, page 25. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 21+. Through Dec. 31.

! S U PICK CARNEY BAKERS: Ralph Carney (left) and Joe Baker.

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LEGENDARY SAXOPHONIST RALPH CARNEY ONLY LIVED IN PORTLAND A SHORT TIME, BUT HE LEFT A BIG MARK. Ralph Carney needed to play. The legendary sideman, who died on Dec. 17 at age 61 after falling outside his home in the Roseway neighborhood, moved to Portland only two years ago. He’d already started three bands and sat in with about a dozen others. “We have a lot of great musicians in this town, yet Ralph was really a gift to this community,” says Joe Baker, who played oldtime 1920s jazz with Carney in a band called the Carney Bakers. “Everyone wanted him to be in this band because he was a fun guy—he had a great sense of humor—but he was really knowledgeable and he just loved to play.” Indeed, Carney played out constantly for 40 years, starting in his native Akron, Ohio. The band Carney joined right out of high school, Tin Huey, was signed to Warner Brothers by Jerry Wexler himself in the wake of fellow scene band Devo’s out-of-nowhere success. In my recent interview with him, Carney characterized those years as a brief, wild ride. “We played and the next thing was, ‘We want to sign you to Warner Brothers.’ Talk about euphoria. ‘I don’t have to worry about nuthin’ ever again in my life!’” Carney said. “And then a year later— ‘What? Why did we break up? And why did we get dropped?’” Tin Huey flopped, but his bandmate, Chris Butler, ended up finding success with his side project, the Waitresses. Carney played the off-kilter jazz sax solo on their hit “I Know What Boys Like.” After Tin Huey broke up, Carney fell in with the New York free jazz scene. He then moved to Brooklyn with his wife, who was attending the Pratt Institute, but briefly gave up music. Then, the producer he had worked with on the Tin Huey record called him up to lay down a part on the B-52s’ Party Mix! record. The band liked his stuff enough to invite him on tour. Carney next connected with Tom Waits, with whom he enjoyed a long collaborative relationship. The relationship soured after Carney granted an interview to Waits’ unauthorized biographer. Carney got a recent boost when his nephew, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, who idolized his uncle Ralph, teamed up with him to write the theme song for Netflix’s BoJack Horseman. “What he did really came from the soul,” Patrick Carney told the Plain Dealer after his uncle’s death. “I remember when my grandmother was dying in 1995, and I was 14 at the hospital and just getting into music. Ralph was there in the hospital and just pulled out a flute to play her a song. I had never heard something so profound in my life.” Carney moved to Portland in December 2015 and immediately started playing out. He felt liberated by the scene’s looseness, which fit his interest in playing out often and with different people, says Baker, his bandmate. “That’s what was so tragic,” Baker says. “He died so young, but this guy had so much knowledge. That he passed away this soon is really sad because he had so much more to give.” Indeed, Carney’s last gig was at O’Neil’s Tavern on Northeast Glisan just two days before his passing. That’s exactly how he said he wanted it. “I got to do all this crazy shit—no regrets,” he said at the end of our interview. “That’s the life, man. I hope to keep doing stuff until I croak.” MARTIN CIZMAR. Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

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Craziest party I DJ’d this year: For pure extravagance, the Portland Opera’s Baroque Ball at the Portland Art Museum was over-the-top insane. Song I’m dropping at midnight: I have a bet with Casey Maxwell, the owner of the Conquistador, that I’m going to outdo last year’s insanity with this year’s track choice, so as precious and pretentious as it sounds, I’m not allowed to divulge. Song that best sums up 2017: Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” I’m still loving the arc that started with the Women’s March and has risen to the current calling-out of fuckwad sexual predators, and though the song’s production is dated, the message is not. If we are talking a song that was released this year, Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” is spectacularly on point.

NYE Gig: DJ Gregarious spins at the Conquistador, 2045 SE Belmont St. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

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Troubled Youth Craziest party I DJ’d this year: The Pride edition of Judy on Duty with King Dee. People were dancing on the pool table. It got wild—never seen so much sweat on a floor after the lights came up. Song I’m dropping at midnight: “Get Your Freak On” by Missy Elliott. A classic song to lose yourself in and forget about what a shit year 2017 was. Song that best sums up 2017: System of a Down’s “Toxicity.” It spoke to me. NYE Gig: DJ Troubled Youth spins at White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave. 9 pm. $25. 21+.

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NYE GIG: Chelsea Starr spins at Killingsworth Dynasty, 832 N Killingsworth St. $7. 9 pm. 21+.

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Craziest party I DJ’d this year: The Women’s March down on the waterfront, which was epic. Later that night I played what basically felt like a rave at 45 East for NXT LVL: A Dance Party for Women’s Rights. Folks were so ready to get down that I got away with everything. Song I’m dropping at midnight: I don’t pre-plan my sets, but at the moment I’m feeling “Litty Litty” by Ta’Shan. Song that best sums up 2017: The Swet Shop Boy’s “T5.” The situation we find ourselves in as children of immigrants and POC means we’re looking over our shoulders more than before. Call me paranoid, but this is what we’re experiencing: “Oh no, we’re in trouble/TSA always wanna burst my bubble/Always get a random check when I rock the stubble.”

The Incredible Kid SWARTZ

R E V NE S MIS A BEAT

Craziest party I DJ’d this year: It’s a toss up between a house and techno party in Atlanta called Deep South and a party at SF Pride called Wild Things. And of course my party here in Portland, Lez Do It, is always a joy. Song I’m dropping at midnight: What? Are other DJs actually answering this question? You gotta come party with us to find out. Song that best sums up 2017: James Curd’s “We Just Don’t Stop.” 2017 has been dark. I think the lyrics make a great argument for dancing it out in tough times: “You can’t lose nothing/Except your pain/If you hold it in/You’ll go insane.”

Craziest party I DJ’d this year: Closing out the Matatu Festival in Oakland this fall with our Tropitaal Desi Latino Soundclash party, because it meant connecting with a lot of new people hungry for our sound. Song I’m dropping at midnight: I never know what I’m going to drop at midnight until 11:58 pm or so. From where I’m sitting right now, I’d say a bhangra remix of “Mi Gente,” because that’s the most ass-shaking thing I can imagine. Song that best sums up 2017: Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You.” We’ve had an absolute shit year under Trump, and that single epitomizes the current iteration of awful white people who fucking suck being inescapable, making our daily lives miserable and ruining our world. NEXT GIG: DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid spin at Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder St. 9 pm. $29.50-$40. 21+.

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CARA ROBBINS

DATES HERE

NO STRS TO FK: STRFKR Plays Wonder Ballroom on Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 30-31.

Ash Street’s Farewell Show: Ditch Digger, Sustainer, Shelter Red, Bewitcher, Othrys, dwarfGIANT, Veio

[BANG YOUR HEAD GOODBYE] For the last 23 years, Ash Street Saloon has been the go-to venue for harsh, gritty bands operating way outside the mainstream. Like many other Portland businesses, the Ash Street has reached its end, and they’re going out in a big way. Bewitcher provides a more traditional heavy-metal sound, while Ditch Digger bring the groove. Melodic hardcore act Sustainer returns to the stage they’ve played a few times in the past, and there will also be a secret mystery guest headlining to end Ash Street’s era on a proper note. The doors are set to close just after the new year begins, so be there on time for prompt goodbyes. CERVANTE POPE. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St, 503-226-0430. 7 pm. $10. 21+.

Caleb Klauder’s Rhinestone Bash

[BEDAZZLED COWBOYS] See Get Busy, page 25. Spare Room, 4830 NE 42nd Ave., 503-287-5800. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

Roselit Bone, Abronia

[TWILIGHT COUNTRY] Purveyors of music that sounds something like country according to Tim Burton, Roselit Bone are wonderfully terrifying. The Portland act’s ghostly country—a dark mix of rockabilly, psych-rock and mariachi—comes straight from a desolate cemetery in the American West. Having turned out one of the more memorable local records of the year in Blister Steel, Roselit Bone have every reason to enter 2018 with momentum. If you feel like spending New Year’s Eve raising the likes of Johnny Cash from the dead, this is your show. MARK STOCK. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd, 503-473-8729. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chandramouli Family

[VEENA VIRTUOSI] In South Indian Carnatic music, the veena occupies an almost sacred position, appearing in ancient epics going back more than a millennium. No wonder—the big hollow-bodied, long-necked lute sings with a ravishing tone, yet allows precise articulation in the hands of a master. Portland is lucky to have a family of veena veterans whose lineage on the instrument stretches back a whopping 11 generations. India-born parents Sreevidhya and Narayanan Chandramouli—longtime teachermusicians who co-founded Oregon’s Dhvani Indian cultural arts organization— have performed around the world, including Washington’s Kennedy Center. They are continuing their respective families’ veena legacy with their college-age children Kapila and Sushruta. All four join Ravi Balasubramanian, an internationally renowned master on the ghatam clay-pot drum, in classical Carnatic compositions. BRETT CAMPBELL. Christ United Methodist Church, 27555 NW Dogwood St. 97229. 2 pm Saturday, Dec. 30. $11-$16. All ages.

Florestan Trio

[BACK-PORCH NEW YEAR’S] Seeking a slightly more intimate New Year’s Eve party? Spending it with legendary outsider folk artist Michael Hurley is about the closest you can get to sipping moonshine on a back porch somewhere in rural Oregon without actually leaving the city. Turn Turn Turn, 8 NE Killingsworth St., 503-284-6019. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

[CLASSICAL] While the rowdier classical hooligans whoop it up with Pink Martini and the Oregon Symphony, classical aficionados seeking a more intimate New Year’s Eve will imbibe chamber music and champagne with one of Portland’s most venerable music institutions. Now in its 41st season with only a few personnel changes, the Florestan Trio—pianist Janet Guggenheim, cellist Hamilton Cheifetz, violinist Carol Sindell—have amassed too many accolades, both individually and collectively, to list. They’re playing an hour-long sampler of duos by Franck, Falla, Francoeur, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff and Pablo Casals, and the final movement of Mendelssohn’s D minor trio. Esteemed baritone Kevin Walsh and pianist John Strege will also contribute a couple of bon-bons before the dessert gobbling and bubbly swilling commence. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Sunday, Dec. 31. $35. All ages.

For more New Year’s Eve concerts and events, see page 23.

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WED. DEC. 27

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Phil Ajjarapu and His Heart Army

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303 SW 12th Ave Dan Sheron, Blind J. Watkins

Artichoke Music Cafe

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s Farewell to Rock’N’Roll: A Dead Moon Tribute

Bluehour

250 NW 13th Ave Bobby Torres

Edgefield

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

Christ United Methodist Church 2755 NW Dogwood St Chandramouli Family

Justa Pasta

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Fruition, Sassparilla

Local Celebrity

Dante’s

816-820 N Russell st Eleanor Elektra

Roseland Theater

350 W Burnside Junkyard, Thee Perfect Gentlemen

8 NW 6th Ave Aminé, Injury Reserve, Zack Villere

Edgefield

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

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Proud and Nasty

The Secret Society

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Sol, Young Hunter, Coastlands, Lasagna Palace

116 NE Russell St Wednesday Night Zydeco

THU. DEC. 28

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Freddy Trujillo

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Ben Cohen, Lightnin’ Wells, Timberbound

225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s Farewell to Hip Hop

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St New Years with GBB

Mississippi Studios

1332 W Burnside St X, LP3 and the Tragedy

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Brad Parsons Band

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Motet, Dirty Revival

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

SouthFork

4605 NE Fremont The Greg Gobel Quartet

The Firkin Tavern

Mississippi Studios

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St An Evening with MRU

LAST YEAR LIVE

4. Kesha at Roseland Theater, 10/28

8. Solange at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 5/21

1. PJ Harvey at Crystal Ballroom, 5/7

5. Angel Olsen at Crystal Ballroom, 2/17

9. Valerie June at Aladdin Theater, 6/3

2. Lizzo at Wonder Ballroom, 11/12

6. Jay-Z at Moda Center, 12/14

10. Fleet Foxes at Crystal Ballroom, 5/18

3. Japandroids at Revolution Hall, 3/17

7. Beck at MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst, 8/27

11. Future at Sunlight Supply Amphitheater, 6/11

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd ThirstyCity

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Haunted Summer

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 Hilahz, Dragging An Ox Through Water, Enron, JackieOMotherfucker

3939 N Mississippi Ave Explode Into Colors, Savila, Daniela Karina

Revolution Hall

Edgefield

Roseland Theater

426 SW Washington St ChasetheDragon, Keegan Baurer, You Will Choose Fire, DLUX THE LIGHT, DJ Zone

2958 NE Glisan St The Good Long Whiles

Crystal Ballroom

8 NW 6th Ave Aminé, Injury Reserve, Zack Villere

Kelly’s Olympian

LaurelThirst Public House

Ash Street Saloon

3939 N Mississippi Ave The Mercury Tree, Long Hallways, Volcanic Pinnacles

1036 NE Alberta St The Junebugs; Rumberos

2007 SE Powell Blvd The Ed Haynes Show

225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s Farewell to Indie Rock

1336 NW 19th Ave Anson Wright Duo

Alberta Street Pub

1037 SW Broadway Pink Martini New Year’s Extravaganza

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Ash Street Saloon

1036 NE Alberta St Tropical Night feat. Dina y los Rumberos

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

1037 SW Broadway The Brian Setzer Orchestra, the Texas Gentlemen

SAT. DEC. 30 Alberta Street Pub

FRI. DEC. 29 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Tezeta Band; Blue Flags & Black Grass

Arrivederci Restaurant & Wine Bar

17023 SE McLoughlin Blvd Bobby Torres Ensemble featuring Julana Torres

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s Farewell to Punk Rock

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St

Beats Antique, CloZee

Dante’s

350 W Burnside Larry and His Flask

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St LYNX & The Servants of Song

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Vince Brown and Ben Bonham (The Winery Tasting Room)

Jo Bar & Rotisserie 715 NW 23rd Ave

Harvey Brindell & The Tablerockers

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Bleach Blonde Dudes, Lee and The Bees, Arlo Indigo

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Hungry Hungry Hip Hop: charis, Neo G Yo, Moblin, VNPRT + Eric Fury

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Helvetia, Deathlist, Floating Room

12. The War on Drugs at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 10/11 13. Charles Bradley at Pickathon, 8/4 14. Radiohead at Moda Center, 4/9 15. Depeche Mode at Moda Center, 10/23

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Borgore

SouthFork

4605 NE Fremont The Saeeda Wright Band

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave Sage Francis, Juicy Karkass, Dalton

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Love Lode with Goats of Belmont, Chemical Rage & Sundiver

16. Downtown Boys at Mississippi Studios, 9/21 17. The Weeknd at Moda Center, 10/6 18. Run the Jewels at Crystal Ballroom, 2/6 19. Nick Cave at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 6/21

The Secret Society

The Know

Turn! Turn! Turn!

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Smush // Nokmim // Nuisance

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Jumptown Aces, Becky Kilgore and the Cowhands

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Nasalrod, C Average, Hair Puller

The O’Neill Public House 6000 NE Glisan St Special Purpose

The Secret Society

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave Brett Sisun and Fantasy Fußball

1937 SE 11th Ave Heaven Skate, Weed Tits & The Salad Munchers, Devy Metal

116 NE Russell St Mary Flower and the BBQ Boys 8 NE Killingsworth St Phil Ajjarapu and His Heart Army, The Zags, Kool Stuff Katie

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd NONE/Undude

Zarz On First

814 SW 1st Robbie Laws Band

116 NE Russell St The Jenny Finn Orchestra; Salsanova

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Chemical Annihilation, Mysticism, Mangled Corpse, Coffin Rot

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St STRFKR, Minden

Zarz On First

814 SW 1st Nica’s Dream Jazz Quartet

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MUSIC SUN. DEC. 31 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Mason Jennings, Anna Tivel

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave Ritchie Young (of Loch Lomond) plays Magnetic Fields

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Pink Martini New Year’s Extravaganza

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Ash Street’s Farewell: Ditch Digger, Sustainer, Shelter Red, Bewitcher, Othrys, dwarfGIANT, Veio

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale The Junebugs (The Loading Dock); McDougall live (The Winery Tasting Room)

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Kimberly Monique featuring Kirk Green

WED, DEC. 27 Beulahland

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

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Atom 13

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St TRONix: Logical Aggression (electro)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Musique Plastique

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Wu-Tang Wednesday

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

Mission Theater

1624 NW Glisan St New Years with GBB

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Explode Into Colors, Maarquii + JVNITOR, Blossom

Ponderosa Lounge

Rontoms

SouthFork

4605 NE Fremont King Louie & LaRhonda’s Shiny New Year!!

13 NW 6th Ave Floater

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St The Quick & Easy Boys

45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Doctor P & Cookie Monsta 736 SE Grand Ave A Train and Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)

Elvis Room

203 SE Grand Ave DJ Matt Stanger

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Nu skin: &ROSES + Triniti

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Ascension

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Bomb Squad, Neutralboy, BreakerBreaker, Titty Babies, Broken Bodies

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St The Parson Red Heads

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St STRFKR, Reptaliens

MON. JAN. 1 Dante’s

TUE. JAN. 2 1036 NE Alberta St Dust & Thirst

Twilight Cafe and Bar

The Know

1420 SE Powell Rue The Day, Chronic Trigger, Skullmaster

Moloko

The Lovecraft Bar

Spare Room

The Paris Theatre

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Roselit Bone, Abronia

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Salad Nights w/ Benjamin (international disco, synth, modern dad) 4830 NE 42nd Ave DJ Joshua Justice (soul, funk)

The Lovecraft Bar

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

The Paris Theatre

421 SE Grand Ave DoublePlusDANCE w/ DJ Acid Rick & DJ Carrion (new wave, synth, goth) 6 SW 3rd Ave Fuego Fridays (latin)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave James Anthony

SAT, DEC. 30

6 SW 3rd Ave Eidolon presents: Ethereal Thursdays

45 East

White Owl Social Club

Bossanova Ballroom

1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)

FRI, DEC. 29 315 SE 3rd Ave Andrew Bayer 1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack - Tribute To Prince

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Jimbo (funk, rap, r&b)

Holocene

THU, DEC. 28

8 NE Killingsworth St Michael Hurley, Hearts of Oak, Plastic Cactus, Mouth Painter

Alberta Street Pub

Crystal Ballroom

31 NW 1st Ave Feed The Woofers ft. Tinfoil-hatt & Kidz Wit Gunz

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Star Theater

4830 NE 42nd Ave Caleb Klauder’s New Year’s Eve

Tube

Whiskey Bar

116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show featuring Mo Phillips & The Spaghetti Pants Dance Band, Johnny and Jason; Dr Theopolis, The Get Ahead

350 W Burnside St Karaoke From Hell

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, dark wave) 18 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife

1422 SW 11th Ave Florestan Trio

Spare Room

45 East

Dig A Pony

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Melody Ballroom

615 SE Alder St Orquestra Pacifico Tropical w/ DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid

Crystal Ballroom

830 E Burnside St Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, Casey Neill & the Norway Rats

The Secret Society

2025 N Kilpatrick St KCNYE 2K18

600 E Burnside St Hustle & Drone, DJ Bodyheat

Doug Fir Lounge

529 SW 4th Avenue (503) 228-7605 • Facebook.com/RialtoPool Open Daily 11am to 2:30am

Kenton Club

Bunk Bar

1332 W Burnside St Fruition, the Lil’ Smokies

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The Old Church

426 SW Washington St GLMG Presents

10350 N Vancouver Way Jessie Leigh and Rekless Kompany

1028 SE Water Ave New Year’s Eve Battle of the Decades II

POOL TABLES SPORTS VIDEO POKER GREAT FOOD

Kelly’s Olympian

1001 SE Morrison St Snap! 90s Dance Party

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Switch. Dance Party NYE Kickoff

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave DJ Gwizski

No Fun

1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd Some Fun (punk)

Spare Room

315 SE 3rd Ave Mark Knight 722 E Burnside St Re:New - NYE 2018 w/ Govinda, Fungineers, Soohan

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Deena Bee (rap, electro)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Main Squeeze Dance Party (house, techno)

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Blue Moon (deep house, various rhythms)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd ElecTRON

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Get On Up “Holidaze”

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Spend The Night New Years Eve Eve

The Lovecraft Bar

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down

421 SE Grand Ave Dance Night! w/ DJ Tito Black, Taylor Hill & Skully

The Liquor Store

Whiskey Bar

3341 SE Belmont St Grilled Cheese Disco

31 NW 1st Ave Subtronics

BAR REVIEW

BUZZ LIST Where to drink this week.

E M I LY J O A N G R E E N E

TOP 5

1. Up North Surf Club

1229 N Killingsworth St., 503-706-5932, upnorthsurfclub.com. Peak surf season is now. Catch tips at this surprisingly rollicking surf shop bar with a great taplist— and order fried chicken from brand-new Haymaker next door.

2. Lighthouse Bar

10808 NW St. Helens Rd., 503-240-8827, lighthousepdx.com. As fog rolls in and lighthouses seem more necessary, isn’t it time to stop in Linnton’s bar that’s themed explicitly for such conditions—if you lose your way, it’ll just be the stiffness of the drinks that causes it.

3. Proper Pint

5965 SE 52nd Ave., 971-544-7167, facebook.com/ ProperPintTaproom. It took a very long time for the Woodstock neighborhood to get a real craft beer bar. Proper Pint was worth the wait.

4. Saraveza

1004 N Killingsworth St., 503-206-4252, saraveza.com. Through December, Saraveza is tapping a different barrel from the larders each and every week: cool stuff, rare stuff, old stuff. Cool.

Alderman’s Portland Tavern

71 SW 2nd Ave., 971-229-1657, aldermanspdx.com. In the former Thirsty Lion space, the new owners have put together a muchimproved beer list and much-improved food menu.

NYE: SUN, DEC. 31 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Levitate: 2018 NYE w/ Mark Farina & Champagne Drip

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street NYE w/ Champagne Sunrise

Beulahland

118 NE 28th Ave Dance Until The World Ends

Bit House Saloon 727 SE Grand Ave AscenDance NYE

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison St Pants OFF Dance OFF: Nude Year’s Eve

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Dance Hard, Kiss Soft NYE w/ Maxx Bass & Lamar

Escape Bar and Grill 9004 NE Sandy Blvd New Years Eve Party with DJ WildFire

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE 39th NYE Masquerade: Bollywood, Bhangra & World Music Dance Party

NEW GOLD: Dekum Street bar Tough Luck (1771 NE Dekum St., 971-7544188, toughluckbar.com) did indeed open this May in a former Woodlawn convenience store that fell on hard times. But it’s not themed for failure. Like the owners’ other gold-digger-themed pstio bars, Paydirt and Old Gold, it’s based on a surefire formula of whiskey and comfort food. And judging from the crowds in the tight-tabled drinking hall at 6 pm, it’s already well-appreciated in its neighborhood. Whiskey is stocked here in impressive abundance, with a five-deep list of $9-$10 house Old Fashioneds including variants using rye, bourbon, Japanese and Irish. The decor is both sparse and outsized: One wall is dominated by a giant mural recreating a mass-market Ouija board, while the opposite wall features a 16-foot-long light-up scoreboard for the house shuffleboard table. If you’re bad at the game, be warned that every single person at the bar will be able to follow along with your incompetence. Consolation will likely come in the form of chef Lauren Miller’s fried chicken. Like Kim Jong Grillin’ and the FOMO food cart, the Kentucky-native chef is playing fruitfully with the natural confluence between Southern-American and East-Asian soul food. The Korean fried chicken bowl ($14) comes topped in sweet-spicy tom kha sauce on a bed of kimchi and fried onions, while the burger is a doublepatty dogpile with kimchi ketchup and pimento cheese. The ramen takes its cues from old cookouts, its pork belly braised with good-old-fashioned CocaCola. But as at the owners’ other two spots, the beer list skews away from the familiar toward beers that are rarely tapped—often for good reason, as with a deeply unfortunate Kolsch from tiny Seaside Brewing. If you want beer that’s not a back to whiskey, you might go for a $5 furikake-topped tallboy michelada that’ll pair nicely with the food. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Function: A Backroom Disco

NYE w/ Chrome Wolves, Tiger Fresh & More

The Paris Theatre

Killingsworth Dynasty

6 SW 3rd Ave NYE at The Paris Theater Year 2 (Red Carpet Event)

Lombard Pub

The Solo Club

832 N Killingsworth St Lez Do It New Year’s Eve 3416 N Lombard St A Very Decadent NYE Tribute to Depeche Mode

2110 NW 21st Ave Sundown Soul : NYE Edition

Toffee Club

Maxwell Bar

1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd NYE Party: DJs Maliksun, Drew the Universe, Tim Blanchard

Pure Space

Tube

20 NW 3rd Ave NYE w/ DJ Easy Egg 1315 NW Overton St Midnite NYE 2018

18 NW 3rd Ave NYE w/ DJ Jack

Roseland Theater

Valentines

Saucebox

Whiskey Bar

8 NW 6th Ave NYE: Audien & Dr. Fresch 214 N Broadway St New Years Eve at Saucebox

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St Chartbusters! Pop Off 2017 NYE!

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew: NYE

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St

232 SW Ankeny St NYE Party w/ DJ Bad Wizard 31 NW 1st Ave DJ.ZOXY, Rubin Sarafinchan, Dan Crocket, Josh Romo, James Anthony

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave NYE at Whiskey Bar

White Owl Social Club

1305 SE 8th Ave East NYE 2018 with DJ’s Troubled Youth and Casual Aztec

MON, JAN. 1 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St Reaganomix: DJ Jay ‘KingFader’ Bosch (80s)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Eye Candy VJs

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUE, JAN. 2 Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Quaz

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Rose Room Swing Dance

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Jam the Controls (punk)

The Lovecraft Bar

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

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Son Latino presents Salsa Social

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JENNIE BAKER

PERFORMANCE

ROLL ON, COLUMBIA: The second part of Astoria opens in January.

Back to Reality WHAT’S IN STORE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE THEATER SEASON. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L E Y

sgormley@wweek

A year ago, it felt like Portland theater was gearing up for the apocalypse. Along with the sobering closures of long running theaters like Sellwood’s Post5, there was a sense of urgency to address the impending doom that would follow the inauguration. That desire to say something—while still struggling to process what was actually happening—manifested in strange, surreal plays that ended with more questions than they started with. Many of the most exciting plays in the second half of the 2017-2018 theater season grapple with real events instead of moral uncertainty. Clearly, audiences have a hunger to reevaluate history through the lens of our current time. There’s no better example than of that than Hamilton, which isn’t included in this preview only because the tickets for all 24 of the Portland shows sold out seconds after they became available. Locally, the trend was heralded by Astoria, a two-part epic about a 1810 expedition to found a fur trading empire in Oregon. Part One premiered last winter, and remarkably, was the best selling play produced by a Portland company this year. It would be naive to interpret that ambition as stability, but if nothing else, it’s a sign of bold perseverance. Here are the five plays that we’re most looking forward to for the rest of the season.

January: Magellanica

A new work written by Portland playwright E.M. Lewis, Magellanica is a five-part play about the 1985 discovery of a hole in the ozone above Antarctica. At six hours long, it’s a ballsy premier—plays of that length are demanding for both the actors and the audience. As theaters struggle to remain open, Artists Rep is asking people to spend a third of their waking day in a theater. But Artists Rep had good reason to put their faith in Lewis. Her last play, The Gun Show, part one-man show, part town-hall-style discussion about gun control, proves she has a knack for conveying a clear political meaning with remarkable nuance, empathy and creativity. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep. org. Jan. 20-Feb. 18.

February: Astoria: Part Two

Last year, Portland Center Stage debuted a massive creation—a two-part play, stretched over two seasons. Written by Portland Center Stage’s artistic director Chris Coleman, Astoria is based on Peter Stark’s critically acclaimed book about the 1810 land and sea expeditions funded by John Jacob Astor, who hoped to create a fur empire mecca in Oregon. The first part, which premiered last winter, was a three-hour-long production about the perilous land expedition. It was brought to life with the thoughtful acting from every member of the huge cast, plus the superbly choreographed, edge-of-your-seat action sequences, which makes the promise of sea-faring peril in Part Two very exciting. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. Jan. 20-Feb. 18.

March: Men on Boats

An interesting though unintentional counterpoint to Astoria, the 2016 play is about a 1869 expedition to map the Colorado 38

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River. But instead of casting men, New York playwright Jaclyn Backhaus’ script calls for an all women crew. An openended experiment instead of satire, it’s neither serious or totally a joke. It isn’t gender commentary, or at least not in the eye-winking innuendo sense. It’s brought to Portland by Third Rail, whose work thrives in conceptual grey area. Imago Theatre, SE 8th Ave., thirdrailrep.org. March 2-24.

April: A Fond Farewell

For the first time in their two decades as a company, Hand2Mouth is holding a regular season. Until now, they’ve forgone a predetermined schedule for the freedom to hone and reinvent each of their plays over years of workshops and touring. But so far, it doesn’t seem like they’re trading careful construction for regularity. Their season debut, Psychic Utopia, was a mesmerizing, abstract account of a fictional Oregon commune inspired by dozens of interviews conducted with real communes and first workshopped almost a year before its official premiere. The second show in their season has been in the works for a while, too. A Fond Farewell is an Elliott Smith tribute that reimagines his songs as a staged classical song cycle. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., hand2mouth.org. April 12-13.

May: Fences

Anytime Portland Playhouse stages an August Wilson play, you should go see it. A prolific, loyal producer of Wilson’s work, Fences is the seventh of Wilson’s ten play cycle that the theater has staged. But there’s extra hype around Fences, considering it became the first of Wilson’s plays to get adapted into a movie last year. Perhaps for that reason, Portland Playhouse has hired acclaimed director and personal friend of Wilson, Lou Bellamy, to direct their production. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., portlandplayhouse.org. May 2-June 10.

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5 x 2017 OUR FIVE FAVORITE PORTLAND ART SHOWS FROM 2017. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L EY

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In Portland’s visual arts scene, the past year was defined by artists and institutions challenging the boundaries of the art world. On a macro level, there’s an ongoing push to assert Portland as an art city of national importance. On a micro level, individual artists and curators are questioning, and attempting, to decentralize who controls how art is interpreted. Here are the exhibits that are not only our favorites that we saw this year, but the ones that most challenged the status quo, whether by pushing out or punching up.

Quest For Beauty at Portland Art Museum Portland isn’t exactly known for its architecture. Our skyline is so simplified and blocky, it looks like it could have been built by Legos. The only mention our city ever gets in art history textbooks is for the Portland Building, cited more as a Post-modernist stepping stone than a triumph in its own right. But the Portland Art Museum’s exhibit asserted that there was another architect who should have put Oregon on the map—John Yeon. Quest For Beauty concisely traced the career of the Portland architect who was at the forefront of American Modernism, and whose visionary conservation work preserved Cannon Beach from erosion and development. There’s clear parallels between Yeon and Frank Lloyd Wright, like their shared ability to harmonize buildings with a surrounding natural landscape. But Wright’s innovations mainly served an aesthetic philosophy, while Yeon’s were rooted in pragmatism that led to ground-breaking innovations, and eventually spurred the green architecture movement. I left the exhibit convinced that Yeon wasn’t just some Pacific Northwest’s version of Wright, but the region’s answer to him.

A Situation of Meat at Disjecta In early 2017, Disjecta’s board of directors ousted Bryan Suereth, their founder and artistic director of 16 years. It was a controversial decision made even more contentious by a feud between Suereth and the board, made public by a series of open letters. This season’s programming was planned before Blake Shell (previously of Marylhurst’s Art Gym) took over as artistic director, so it will take some time before we really see the lasting effects of Suereth’s forced departure. But the defiantly epic A Situation of Meat already felt like a new, aggressively feminine era. Helmed by this season’s curator in-residence Julia Greenway, it was a literally sticky exhibit that insisted grossness deserves a place

A SITUATION OF MEAT in our perception of femininity. It featured five massive installations, from Maggie-Rose Condit’s Don’t Call Me Shirley, a king sized bed coated in red-dyed corn syrup, to Mel Carter’s tender, detail oriented video of roses and severed chicken feet, meditatively displayed in a dim corner over a pool of water.

(Self) at Reed College’s Cooley Gallery Instead of using their exhibit to prove some sort of thesis, curators Stephanie Snyder and Samiya Bashir presented a theme that was intentionally vague: self. As a result, each installation felt like its own microcosm. There was Nona Faustine’s overwhelming tender portraits of her with her daughter, and Paige Powell’s personal photographs from Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in the’80s, were she worked as a photographer and met her partner, Jean-Michel Basquiat. But the most brilliantly simple installation was Nat Turner Project’s Truth Library—a plush couch and chairs arranged on a fluffy rug in front of a bookshelf populated by Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., a collected edition of Marvel’s Black Panther and a biography about Malcolm X. Constructive yet inviting and open-ended, it asked you to literally sit with the information the artists offered and explore it on your own.

Fierce Ghost Eats Human Region at Cobra Lounge

Of all the expressionist art out there, horror movies are the ones we know how to best engage with. We willingly surrender our emotions to their visual language, whether it’s Leatherface swinging around his chainsaw on an open Texas road or a wide shot of a disemboweled guard hanging from Hannibal Lecter’s empty cell. Which is why Fierce Ghost Eats Human Region, an exhibit of hand-painted horror movie posters from Ghana, was such a welcome debut art show from film presenter and record label duo Wyrd War. Created for impromptu screenings of movies the artist may have only know from their VHS sleeves, the 35 posters depicted gory, pulpy scenes of monsters munching on severed human body parts stewing in bowls of blood and a tree consuming a now headless body. It was impossible to leave the show without being forced to grapple with some sort of lingering feeling, even if it was a terrible one.

Black Portlanders, Black Portlands at PSU’s Littman Gallery

When I talked to Intisar Abioto about her exhibit of photographs from her long-running blog, The Black Portlanders, she insisted that she’s not concerned with the dynamics of the gallery scene. That’s one of her strengths—her indifference to art world conventions lead to an exhibit that was completely motivated by care. She personally arranged and rearranged each of the 135 photographs, unframed and hung by paper clips, and sporadically captioned them with pencil scrawled on the gallery wall. The intentional imperfections in Abioto’s work, like people photographed just out of focus or smiling with their eyes closed, seemed like they were meant to remind you that the portraits couldn’t offer you a complete understanding of its subjects. Willamette Week DECEMBER 27, 2017 wweek.com

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Die Hard (1988)

Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker. Mission, Dec. 27.

Our Favorite Portland Movies of the Year. Portland film goes deep. We get to claim big-name directors and Sundance awardwinning movies, plus abstract animation and experimental comedies about funerals. Since our favorite Portland-made feature-length movies and extended shorts of the year include everything from big-budget narrative dramas to small-scale documentaries, we decided not to rank the movies within the top 10. These are the Portland made that we couldn’t stop thinking about this year.

Buzz One Four

Much like the artist behind it, Buzz One Four resists genre. The latest quasi-documentary from Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick traces the history of the B-52 bomber and how a plane carrying two nuclear weapons crashed just outside of Barton, MD, in 1964. For McCormick, the incident is a family affair: his grandfather was flying the plane. Told through a mixture of military history and footage from McCormick’s grandfather’s home movies, the tale is as tall as it is true. DANA ALSTON.

The Dead

Watching people converse with a corpse for nearly an hour and a half doesn’t sound like a great night at the movies. But working from an original screenplay that he wrote with Amber Bariaktari, Tigard-based filmmaker Edward Martin III weaves an eccentric, often moving tale of a dead comedian and the colleagues, neighbors, friends and lovers who show up at his wake. The film is a series of scenes featuring people pouring their hearts out to the comedian’s unseen body, none of which resort to catharsis. Martin just lets everyone say their piece and then closes the casket once and for all. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON.

High Lakes

Experimental filmmaker Pam Minty spent the summer of 1994 doing laundry and cleaning rooms at Diamond Lake Resort. In this documentary, she returns to Diamond Lake to craft an elegiac meditation not only on the dreary work undertaken by the resort’s current cleaning staff, but on the economic upheavals that 40

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have convulsed America throughout the twentyfirst century. But High Lakes isn’t overtly political. Minty trusts us to find the harsh truths that lurk between her beautifully composed images. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON.

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

A rickety flea market near Wilsonville, spooky pine trees and the interior of a Grocery Outlet provide the decrepit backdrop for Macon Blair’s directorial debut, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. Filmed entirely in and around Portland, I Don’t Feel initially appears to be a deadpan comedy about Ruth, a nurse mired in everyday existentialism. But it veers off the rails and becomes a backwoods crime story when she decides to solve a home robbery and teams up with her neighbor Tony—a twitchy loner who has a rattail, nunchucks and a dog named Kevin. It’s a movie that just keeps getting darker and weirder, but it never ceases to be funny. SHANNON GORMLEY.

North of Blue

An hour’s worth of abstract animation is a lot to ask of an audience. But North of Blue, by veteran Portland animator Joanna Priestley, is so transfixing, it’s easy to lose your sense of time. It smoothly morphs from one colorful, pulsing image to the next—trees that look like disassembled Mondrian paintings, lines that swarm in and out of form to create moving patterns and shapes that look like Rorschach tests made of colorful paper cutouts. It’s an opportunity to watch Priestley’s endless humor and imagination evolve in real time. SHANNON GORMLEY.

Priced Out

Cornelius Swart’s powerful documentary should be required viewing at Oregon DMVs. Priced Out breaks down the phases of revitalization, gentrification and a housing crisis in North Portland, reaching back into history for context of our changing city. Comparative photos of the neighborhood over the last 20 years are narrated with interviews that highlight the complicated dynamic between the newer, whiter neighbors and the black community with roots going back to the 1940s. LAUREN TERRY.

Shut Up Anthony

Few films this year featured a protagonist more neurotic—or as awkwardly relatable—than Shut Up Anthony. Writer-director Kyle Eaton’s cringe dramedy follows the titular artist (Robert D’Esposito), a miserable 30-something who feels lost after being sort-of-dumped and for-surefired. Eaton’s debut is at its best when it roasts Portland’s definition of “hip.” As Anthony tries (and fails) to look past a partygoer’s enormous Amishstyle beard, you can almost see Eaton winking at us through the fourth wall. DANA ALSTON.

We Have Our Ways

Dawn Jones Redstone’s extended short hints at a dystopian future of water shortages and curfews. But like Get Out, it’s not a genre study. Ways employs sci-fi suspense to convey a clever call to action for women to survive and rebel against the increasingly dehumanizing oppression of a misogynist, corporatized government. LAUREN TERRY.

Wonderstruck

The first kids movie in Portland based director Todd Haynes’ (Carol, Velvet Goldmine) long and illustrious career is deeply feel-good. It follows the parallel stories of two deaf 12-year-olds who run away to New York. There’s Ben, who explores a gritty, sweltering city in the summer of 1977. In 1927, there’s Rose, whose tale is told in black and white, and is silent accept for an orchestral score. Wonderstruck conveys its familiar message about finding wonder in everyday life with such heart and careful detail that it was impossible to leave the movie theater without a heightened appreciation of the world around you. SHANNON GORMLEY.

Zerzura

In his follow-up to his remake of Purple Rain, Portland filmmaker and ethnomusicologist Christopher Kirkley once again proves his creative ambition. Ahmoudou Madassane, the movie’s star and composer, leads us through a journey from his town in the Sahara—where only flies seem to mind the carcasses of dead dogs in the streets— to a mythical city deep in the desert, where his brother is held captive. Halfway through, it suddenly twists from a meditative hero’s journey to some kind of psychedelic fever dream, packed with striking, strange imagery drenched in magnificent colors. SHANNON GORMLEY.

Edward Scissorhands (1990) Tim Burton’s suburban Frankenstein is a cultural triumph for mall goths everywhere. Joy, Dec. 27-28.

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Populated by benevolent and adorably rotund spirits, Miyazaki’s masterpiece is a dark wartorn metaphor cloaked in quirky animation. Academy, Dec. 29-Jan. 4.

The Princess Bride

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Holy shit, people love this movie. Rob Reiner’s goofball fantasy tale of Westley and his quest to save Princess Buttercup is a classic among cult classics. Mission, Jan. 1-7.

ALSO PLAYING: Cinema 21: The Room (2003), Dec. 29. Clinton: The Great Dictator (1940), Jan. 1. Joy: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), Dec. 27-Dec. 28. Kiggins: West Side Story (1961), Dec. 28-29. Laurelhurst: Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003), Dec. 29-Jan. 4. NW Film: 42nd Street (1933), Dec. 28. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Dec. 29. Babe (1995), Dec. 30. Footlight Parade (1933), Dec. 30.

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In the wee hours of the morning, Molly Bloom’s (Jessica Chastain) phone rings. There are a dozen FBI agents in the hall outside her apartment. She’s under arrest for running an illegal poker game that somehow ended up at the center of a RICO investigation involving the Russian mob. Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game is the story of the rise and fall of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), from aspiring Olympian to “Poker Princess” of LA and New York. At two hours and 20 minutes, Molly’s Game is vast, but it never feels overly long. It takes off immediately and immerses you in different worlds, from Molly’s development as a professional athlete and subsequent disappointment, underground poker and the politics and insecurities of her celebrity players, criminal court proceedings and brushes with the mob, to Molly’s psychologist father (Kevin Costner), with whom she shares a distant but critical relationship. It’s a lot of ground to cover, but Sorkin is a master of hiding exposition by varying dialogic rhythm and precisely choosing the words hyperarticulate characters say. You’re never bored, and you’re never lost. There are some terrific supporting performances in Molly’s Game: Costner, Idris Elba as Bloom’s attorney, and Michael Cera as creepy “Player X.” The unquestioned star, however, is Chastain. A lesser actor would be devoured by Molly Bloom, but Chastain’s performance accomplishes the difficult task of humanizing her. R. R MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Fox Tower.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Two decades after the eponymous game loosed animal hordes upon New Hampshire suburbia, Jumanji is now a video game. Its cartridge is chanced upon by a detention-bound quartet of familiar teen caricatures (gamer, jock, princess, wallflower) who soon find themselves sucked into the game and retrospectively transformed into two-fisted archaeologist Dwayne Johnson, fun-sized ‘weapons valet’ Kevin Hart, husky cartographer Jack Black and dance-fighting Karen Gillan. In theory, the characters’ survival depends on the “no wasted lives” moralism of video games. In practice, gameplay now revolves around the rhythms of Hart’s whining set against the smoldering eyebrows of The Rock. As with Sex Tape and Bad Teacher, director Jake Kasdans slackens the rigors of saccharine banality just enough for absurdist flights of fancy and flashes of perverse wit to regularly subvert expectations. Can we ask much more of our modern holiday blockbusters? PG-13. JAY HORTON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

STILL SHOWING Darkest Hour

If this fussy, grandstanding biopic is too believed, Winston Churchill’s crusade against Adolph Hitler consisted primarily of shouting and smoking his weight in cigars. That’s the narrative that director Joe Wright (Atonement)

tries to sell with help from Gary Oldman, who glowers and yowls mightily as Churchill. He and Wright attack the movie with palpable bravado.Their enthusiasm yields not a humanizing portrait of the venerated prime minister, but a historybook myth that treats him more like a statue to be dusted off from time to time than a human being. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Vancouver.

All the Money in the World

In 1973, oil billionaire J. Paul Getty was the richest man to ever walk the planet. All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of his grandson, which was a tabloid sensation of its day—despite his wealth, Getty wouldn’t pony up a ransom, allowing his grandchild to languish for half a year with his captors. The stakes could scarcely be higher, but none of it is particularly thrilling to watch. The characters here are merely chess pieces in a plot you could just as easily read about on Wikipedia. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Tigard, Vancouver.

MUSIC MOVIES CONTESTS GIVEAWAYS

Call Me By Your Name

The new romance from director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) follows the love affair between Elio, a teenager summering in Italy with his scholarly parents, and Oliver, a grad student studying with Elio’s father, smolders for the better part of this novelesque character study. Though its backdrop couldn’t be more different, there’s a chance Guadagnino’s excellent film could follow in the awards-season footsteps of Moonlight this winter—a highly acclaimed queer love story in which feelings of foreboding are personal and emotional, not societal. The depth of feeling in Call Me By Your Name deserves that kind of recognition. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Fox Tower.

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Mary’s Mulejito (serves one) INGREDIENTS: Ginger beer, lime, fresh mint, Muru Blackberry Lemon syrup, ice. Supplies: pestle, brass cup. DIRECTIONS: Quarter your lime into wedges. In a brass mug, combine two lime quarters and six to 10 mint leaves with one teaspoon Muru syrup. Muddle, rendering the lime juice and macerating the mint. Add ginger beer to taste and mix until evenly combined. Strain and return to mug. Add ice to fill. Garnish with additional mint leaves and a lime wedge.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19):

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“I need more smart allies, compassionate supporters, ethical role models, and loyal friends, and I need them right now!” writes Joanna K., an Aries reader from Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the other hand, there’s Jacques T., an Aries reader from Montreal. “To my amazement, I actually have much of the support and assistance I need,” he declares. “What I seem to need more of are constructive critics, fair-minded competitors with integrity, colleagues and loved ones who don’t assume that every little thing I do is perfect, and adversaries who galvanize me to get better.” I’m happy to announce, dear Aries, that in 2018 you will benefit more than usual from the influences that both Joanna and Jacques seek.

I wish I could make it nice and easy for you. I wish I could proclaim that the forces of darkness are lined up against the forces of light. I’d like to be able to advise you that the opening months of 2018 will bring you a showdown between wrong and right, between ugliness and beauty. But it just ain’t that simple. It’s more like the forces of plaid will be arrayed against the forces of paisley. The showdown will feature two equally flawed and equally appealing sources of intrigue. And so you may inquire, Libra, what is the most honorable role you can play in these matters? Should you lend your support to one side or the other? I advise you to create a third side.

In the Scots language spoken in Lowland Scotland, a watergaw is a fragmented rainbow that appears between clouds. A skafer is a faint rainbow that arises behind a mist, presaging the imminent dissipation of the mist. A silk napkin is a splintered rainbow that heralds the arrival of brisk wind and rain. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose we use these mysterious phenomena as symbols of power for you in 2018. The good fortune that comes your way will sometimes be partially veiled and seemingly incomplete. Don’t compare it to some “perfect” ideal. It’ll be more interesting and inspiring than any perfect ideal.

In 2018, your tribe will be extra skilled at opening things that have been shut or sealed for a long time: heavy doors, treasure boxes, rich possibilities, buried secrets, shy eyes, mum mouths, guarded hearts, and insular minds. You’ll have a knack for initiating new markets and clearing blocked passageways and staging grand openings. You’ll be more inclined to speak candidly and freely than any other generation of Scorpios in a long time. Getting stuck things unstuck will come naturally. Making yourself available for bighearted fun and games will be your specialty. Given these wonders, maybe you should adopt a new nickname, like Apertura (the Italian word for “opening”), Ouverture (the French word for “opening”), Šiši (Yoruban), Otevírací (Czech), Öffnung (German), or Kufungua (Swahili).

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

In 2018, half-buried residues from the past will be resurfacing as influences in your life. Old dreams that you abandoned prematurely are ripe to be re-evaluated in light of what has happened since you last took them seriously. Are these good or bad developments? It will probably depend on your ability to be charitable and expansive as you deal with them. One thing is certain: To move forward into the future, you will have to update your relationships with these residues and dreams.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Poet Diane Ackerman tells us that human tongues, lips, and genitals possess neural receptors that are ultra-responsive. Anatomists have given unsexy names to these bliss-generating parts of our bodies: Krause end bulbs, also known as bulboid corpuscles. (Couldn’t they have called them “glimmering rapture hubs” or “magic buttons”?) In any case, these sweet spots enable us to experience surpassing pleasure. According to my understanding of the astrological omens for 2018, Cancerian, your personal complement of bulboid corpuscles will be even more sensitive than usual. Here’s further good news: Your soul will also have a heightened capacity to receive and register delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I predict that the coming months won’t bring you the kinds of opportunities you were imagining and expecting, but will bring you opportunities you haven’t imagined and didn’t expect. Will you be alert and receptive to these sly divergences from your master plan? If so, by September of 2018 you will have become as smart a gambler as maybe you have ever been. You will be more flexible and adaptable, too, which means you’ll be better able to get what you want without breaking stuff and wreaking whirlwinds. Congratulations in advance, my daring darling. May your experiments be both visionary and practical. May your fiery intentions be both steady and fluidic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz dismissed the idea that a person should be on a quest to “find himself ” or “find herself.” “The self is not something that one finds,” he said. Rather, “it is something one creates.” I think that’s great advice for you in 2018, Capricorn. There’ll be little value in wandering around in search of fantastic clues about who you were born to be. Instead you should simply be gung-ho as you shape and craft yourself into the person you want to be.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Mise en place is a French term whose literal translation is “putting in place.” When used by professional chefs in a restaurant kitchen, it refers to the task of gathering and organizing all the ingredients and tools before beginning to cook. I think this is an excellent metaphor for you to emphasize throughout 2018. In every area of your life, thorough preparation will be the key to your success and fulfillment. Make sure you have everything you need before launching any new enterprise or creative effort.

Is there anything about your attitude or your approach that is a bit immature or unripe? Have you in some way remained an amateur or apprentice when you should or could have become fully professional by now? Are you still a dabbler in a field where you could be a connoisseur or master? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, the coming months will be an excellent time to grow up, climb higher, and try harder. I invite you to regard 2018 as the Year of Kicking Your Own Ass.

Experimental composer Harry Partch played one-ofa-kind musical instruments that he made from objects like car hubcaps, gourds, aluminum ketchup bottles, and nose cones from airplanes. Collage artist Jason Mecier fashions portraits of celebrities using materials like noodles, pills, licorice candy, bacon, and lipstick tubes. Given the astrological configurations for 2018, you could flourish by adopting a similar strategy in your own chosen field. Your most interesting successes could come from using things as they’re not “supposed” to be used. You could further your goals by mixing and matching resources in unique ways.

In 2018, one of your themes will be “secret freedom.” What does that mean? The muse who whispered this clue in my ear did not elaborate further. But based on the astrological aspects, here are several possible interpretations. 1. You may have to dig deep and be strategic to access resources that have the power to emancipate you. 2. You may be able to discover a rewarding escape and provocative deliverance that have been hidden from you up until now. 3. You shouldn’t brag about the liberations you intend to accomplish until you have accomplished them. 4. The exact nature of the freedom that will be valuable to you might be useless or irrelevant or incomprehensible to other people.

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