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Maybe hackers will be better drivers than Oregonians. 4

Purity policing is bad for activism. 20

Did you skip the anti-Trump marches last weekend? So did most folks. 7

Gus Van Sant ’s new movie about a WW cartoonist is getting rave reviews at Sundance. 30

The Portland Winterhawks don’t get paid. 9

If you want a menu of foraged mushrooms, there is a place…in Ashland. 33

People who live in glass towers are fighting to stop construction of glass towers. 11

SoundCloud rappers are, somehow, not teenagers. 35

RIP Ursula K. Le Guin. 48

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DIALOGUE Last week, WW wrote about Oregon’s struggle to handle the coming wave of self-driving cars (“Baby Driverless,” WW, Jan. 17, 2018). Some state lawmakers consider autonomous vehicles unsafe, but others argue that the technology is coming whether we’re ready or not. Here’s how our readers weighed in.

E.W. Niedermeyer, via Twitter: “Local Oregon legislators are gleefully demonstrating their lack of familiarity with autonomous vehicle policy issues. News flash: AVs aren’t uniquely vulnerable to hackers, guys.” Nat McGowan, via wweek.com: “Let’s be honest here. Ukrainian hackers are probably better drivers than the majority of Oregonians.”

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Paul Dillon, via Twitter: “Most of the drivers in Portland could be replaced with a Texas Instruments scientific calculator and it would be a vast improvement.”

oped roads.’ Will they not drive down them or go headlong into large potholes and never be seen again?”

M u s e o, v i a w w e e k . c o m : “Nobody seems to care that the level of surveillance will ratchet up multifold. Social media, phone, now car. All your actions totally tracked by the corporategovernment overlords.” Donovan Caylor, via Facebook: “Bring it. The less humans are involved in the driving process the better.”

“Color me shocked that our state that banked on streetcars as the future of urban transit is unprepared for self-driving autos.”

Snegurochka, via wweek.com: “One thing needs to get straightened out before these self-driving cars are allowed on our roads: insurance. Who is liable in an accident? Is the human-driven car always going to be at fault? Because we all know computers never make mistakes.” Zotts, via Twitter: “I am looking forward to how autonomous cars deal with all our ‘undevel-

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Jacob Grier, via Twitter: “Color me shocked that our state that banked on streetcars as the future of urban transit is unprepared for self-driving autos.” JG Gibson, via Facebook: “Imagine the herky-jerky, stop and start of those driverless cars in the downtown area, as pedestrians know that those cars will stop, and cross the street even more willynilly and haphazardly than they do now. It will be amazing to watch.”

Sukie DW, via Facebook: “If you can’t accept how to pump gas, you can’t have a self-driving car. It’s that simple.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com

Dr. Know BY MART Y SMITH

A certain 1970s-era van has been parked on the street by my house for probably two years. Can I have it? It clearly doesn’t belong to anyone. Wouldn’t I be doing everyone a favor by fixing it up and turning it into my personal rolling bachelor pad?

—Sammy Johns

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I’m concerned about what you mean by “personal rolling bachelor pad,” Sammy. That said, kudos on the sly pseudonym, which almost went over even my vast head. Unfortunately, you can’t just ground score a van like you would an ounce of weed you found on the sidewalk. It may seem ridiculous to folks like you and me who drive cars that one might reasonably trade for a microphone, but the state insists on an unbroken chain of possession for every car, no matter how shitty: Someone, somewhere, is the legal owner of that van. The obvious solution is to track down that legal owner and offer to take the thing off their hands. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to find someone’s contact info from their license plate number. (If it were, a lot more road-rage incidents would turn into home-invasion murdersuicides.)

There are online services that purport to offer license-plate lookup for a fee, but the one I paid for (you’re welcome) took my money only to tell me there’s no record of either of my cars. What if the owner can’t be found? The law is clear: “In order to title a vehicle, one must have acquired a legal interest through some legal process.” (You can almost hear the bureaucracy saying, “I don’t care, just give me a piece of paper.”) If this van had been abandoned on your property, that piece of paper—a possessory lien— would be pretty easy to get. But since it’s on city property, only the city can seize it. I suggest you rat out the car as abandoned, wait for the city to impound it, and buy it from them when they inevitably auction it off. It’s probably your best bet in a world where the law doesn’t take into account who’s most likely to give a car a good home. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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Organizers of the Dorchester Conference, the longest-running political gathering in the state, paid a pretty penny to book an unlikely keynote speaker: Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser to Donald Trump and a prominent Republican “dirty tricks artist.” Patrick Sheehan, the Dorchester board member who booked Stone, says his standard speaking fee is $10,000. “Bringing Stone in was an effort to keep the conference going in its original intent,” Sheehan says, “which is to spur debate. We haven’t had that for a long time; we’ve been preaching to the choir. Stone will agitate and make people uncomfortable.”

Mortgage Industry Seeks to Block Lawsuits

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Two years ago, Multnomah County won a landmark legal settlement against the Mortgage Electronic Recording System, a giant bookkeeping operation that allowed banks to swap home mortgages back and forth. One of the lowlights of the Great Recession was the discovery that MERS regularly failed to properly record mortgage transfers—and that negligence contributed to the foreclosure crisis. The system agreed to pay the county $9 million in the January 2016 settlement. Now the financial services industry is pushing state legislation that would block other counties from pursuing such lawsuits. Arthur Towers, a lobbyist for the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, says that would be unfair to the counties and homeowners who suffered at MERS’s hands. “It’s a stupid idea,” he says.

Brewery Wins Trademark War Over White Stag Sign

Portland City Hall has surrendered in its fight with a brewery over who gets to use the iconic image of the leaping stag on the “Portland Oregon” sign. Old Town Brewing, which has owned a trademark for the image since 2012, had blocked several city attempts to trademark the entire sign, deer included. (“Oh, Deer,” WW, Nov. 8, 2017). Brewery owner Adam Milne and Mayor Ted Wheeler have now come to an agreement that gives Old Town Brewing the trademark terms it sought. “This was a challenging process,” Milne says. “Once the mayor directly engaged on the issue, we felt an immediate difference in the tone and tenor of the negotiations.” DANIEL STINDT

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The most prominent Somali immigrant in Portland says he was left wondering if he had been accused of being a terrorist after a security guard at City Hall searched through his bag Jan. 20. Kayse Jama, director of Unite Oregon and a candidate for the Oregon Senate, posted about the alleged interaction on Facebook. During the bag search, Jama says, the guard asked if he had “any bazookas or bombs.” Jama now tells WW he believes the guard was not targeting him but was poorly trained. “I am certain the guard asked this question in jest—and, indeed, many community members have experienced similar comments—[but] for me it was not funny,” Jama said in a statement. “I still don’t find it funny.” A spokesman for the mayor’s office pledged reforms.

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Quiet in the Streets BY E L I SE H E R R O N

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The organizers of last year’s Women’s March on Portland are the subject of an investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice into missing funds. Portland’s activist circles have been torn by accusations of racism. And the leadership vacuum left many possible participants unaware that any events were happening last weekend. Activists pointed fingers on social media. “Sadly, we had many white women pissed at us for not having a march set up like last year,” wrote Erica Fuller, one of the speakers at last year’s Women’s March, in a Facebook post. “Even though we gave folks many opportunities to join us in preparing another march, once again Portland white women failed to hit the mark.” We compared Portland’s decrease in attendance from last year against those in five other large cities.

Last January, the streets of Portland teemed with the footsteps and voices of women. The Women’s March on Portland drew an estimated 100,000 people—one of the largest turnouts per capita nationwide to protest President Donald Trump’s inauguration. This year? The outrages of the Trump administration continue. But the marchers went missing. In fact, to calculate the attendance at Portland protests last weekend, WW had to combine crowd estimates from a half-dozen events Jan. 20 and 21—because no official Women’s March on Portland was held. On the first anniversary of the national event, Portland saw about 4 percent as many marchers on the streets as it did the same weekend last year. That’s a much steeper decline than that of any other large U.S. city. Observers of Portland activism attribute the drop to several factors. S E AT T L E

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THE DECLINE IN ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS AT THIS YEAR’S WOMEN’S MARCH ON PORTLAND WAS HUGE—BIGGER THAN THAT IN ANY OTHER LARGE U.S. CITY.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Wyden and Merkley on the Shutdown Vote On Jan. 22, the U.S. Senate voted 81-18 to end a brief federal government shutdown and fund the government through Feb. 8. But both of Oregon’s U.S. senators voted against ending the shutdown. They attributed their “no” votes to Republicans’ refusal to negotiate a solution for the 700,000 people caught in the limbo of ending the immigration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Here’s how Oregon’s senators, both Democrats, explained their votes. NIGEL JAQUISS. “The Republicans who control Congress forced a false choice between protecting sick kids and allowing kids who have grown up as Americans to become citizens.” —Sen. Ron Wyden “My concern with the three-week extension adopted today is that the Republican leadership will fail to negotiate for 15 of the next 17 days. Furthermore, Leader [Mitch] McConnell’s track record of keeping his ‘commitments’ is thin at best. For that reason, I voted no.” —Sen. Jeff Merkley

Swimming Upstream

BY NI G EL JAQ UI SS

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Two of Oregon’s highest environmental priorities are on a collision course. Next month, Democratic lawmakers will introduce ambitious “cap and invest” legislation aimed at taxing carbon emissions in order to reduce them. But Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has another priority: salmon. In a long-running federal lawsuit in Portland, Brown pushed to increase the number of endangered salmon in the Columbia River by spilling more water over the tops of Bonneville Power Association dams. But when water goes over dams, it bypasses powergenerating turbines, which can leave public utilities across

Oregon short of power. To compensate, the utilities will turn to fossil fuels. That runs counter to the carbon-reduction legislation that is a Democratic priority. In Nov. 17 comments on the proposed carbon legislation, publicly owned Oregon utilities highlighted the policy conflict, which they say could cause the emission of up to 840,000 additional tons of carbon dioxide annually. That’s about a 4 percent increase in utility emissions, when the state lags far behind its carbon reduction goals. “We are concerned that the state continues to press for outcomes that will result in increased hydro spill that

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Gov. Brown wants the Bonneville Power Administration to spill more water over Columbia River dams to benefit endangered salmon.

But utilities say spilling more wate r ove r t h e d a m s c a n reduce the supply of cheap hydropower.

clearly will increase greenhouse gas emissions with no apparent or clear benefit to Endangered Species Act-listed fish,” the utilities wrote in a Nov. 17 letter. “It is time for Oregon to reconcile this matter.” A spokesman for Brown says the governor’s priorities can be made to work together. “It’s a false premise that Oregon cannot have healthy fish habitats and clean air at the same time,” Bryan Hockaday says. But here’s how the policies could play out.

To make up for the lost electricity, utilities say, would require burning natural gas and coal, producing significant amounts of carbon dioxide annually.

That could offset much of the carbon reduction Democrats seek with cap and invest legislation.

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A Little Hate A NATIONAL WATCHDOG SAYS THREE OF FOUR HATE GROUPS IN PORTLAND ARE BLACK. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? LOVE GROUP: Natazar Ha Ahsh (right) of the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge and a soldier, David, on the second floor of the Multnomah County Central Library. Read an extended interview with Ha Ahsh at wweek.com. BY THAC H E R SC H M I D

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The McCoy Village community room on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is an earth-toned space that hosts community meetings and the affordable housing complex’s holiday parties. The Southern Poverty Law Center, the nation’s leading watchdog of hate groups, however, claims this room is also a site of hate activity. The room doesn’t host neo-Nazis or the Klan. It’s a place where black separatists come to gather, in a group called the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ. In fact, the SPLC says three out of the four hate groups operating in Portland are black. The claim was first made last year in a “hate map” published by the center every February that lists the 917 most prominent hate groups in America. “That’s ludicrous,” says Jo Ann Hardesty, head of Portland’s NAACP and a candidate for the City Council. “I challenge this premise, that 75 percent of the hate groups operating in Portland are black. Just do the math.” The center’s assertion seems especially bizarre in a city that has seen high-profile acts of racial hate by white men—from an unhinged man stabbing three people on a MAX train to a man yelling racial slurs at a Muslim couple while trying to hit their vehicle with his car. Has the SPLC lost its mind? “We stand behind the listing,” says Heidi Beirich, director of the center’s Intelligence Project. “We call out hate where we see it, and we aren’t going to give a pass to anti-Semitism or antiwhite thinking in these groups.” As the SPLC prepares to publish a new hate map next month, observers of hate speech in Portland argue that the watchdog organization is missing the obvious: Black and white hate groups don’t operate on a level playing field. “Organizations of color do not have the power to enact their vision on this society,” says Walidah Imarisha, an author and Oregon black history scholar. “White supremacist organizations do.” The four groups the SPLC lists in Portland are the Israelite Church, the Black Riders Liberation Party, the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge and 8

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a white-run record label called Soleilmoon Recordings, which this newspaper covered last year (“An Unwanted Label,” WW, Feb. 22, 2017). According to the center, the groups all allegedly preach hate against what the SPLC calls “immutable characteristics”—skin color, gender, sexual orientation and/or faith. But the groups appear to have little leadership in Portland, and few or no programs on the ground. WW reached out to the three black separatist groups. Only one, the Israelite School, agreed to an interview. Natazar Ha Ahsh of the ISUPK came down from Seattle to talk to WW at the Multnomah County Central Library before Christmas. He brought the group’s only Portlander: a new “soldier” named David. The school also has a soldier apiece in Salem and Eugene, Ha Ahsh says. He says the ISUPK merely promotes self-defense and

in America?” The Black Riders Liberation Party, meanwhile, evolved from the New Black Panther Party, the SPLC says. The party’s YouTube videos include weaponry, calls to arms and anti-police rhetoric. The Portland chapter of the Israelite Church hosts an online radio show featuring a “Bishop Yawasapga,” whose podcasts target white people, Jews, the gay community and women. The group did not respond to emails or phone calls. Staff at McCoy Village was surprised to hear a listed hate group was using its community room. “They’re not affiliated with us at all,” says Ashley Fuller, a Cascade Property Management staffer. The SPLC’s list has real influence, and a track record of identifying and taking action against hate groups. Black separatists in Portland, however, constitute little or no threat, local experts say. (Portland is 6 percent black, and 2015 police numbers show four of 34 suspects in bias crimes were black.) “They don’t actually do anything about [their beliefs],” says Randy Blazak, direc“THEY BASICALLY MEET IN A LITTLE tor of the Hate Crimes Research Network. ROOM OFF OF MLK AND TALK “They basically meet in a little room off of ABOUT THE WHITE DEVIL AND THESE MLK and talk about the white devil and these conspiracy theories and then they go CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THEN home.” THEY GO HOME.” Imarisha looks at the hate map and sees a glaring absence. —RANDY BLAZAK “It’s not just Portland,” she says. “Even if you look at the rest of Oregon, it is not reflective of the number, the amount of seeks a separate reality for black people, not hate. white supremacist organizing that is happening. Why is “We’re a love group, so to speak; we love our nation,” that?” Ha Ahsh says. “But the nation that opposes us loving each WW asked the SPLC to explain its seemingly skewed other will label us a hate group.” list. Beirich responded that the center doesn’t list prison Ha Ahsh could not name a single, operational ISUPK gangs that are primarily “criminal enterprises,” such as program in Portland. the European Kindred—which was linked to the killing of “We’re not going to take up arms against anybody,” says a black teenager in Gresham in 2016. Ha Ahsh, who works a full-time job, owns a home and has a Rather, it tracks “propagandists” regardless of skin family—under a different name. “We’re here to gather our color, even when they have little impact. people.” “It’s important for the public to know about [black But the core of his message is the idea that the United separatist] groups and what they believe,” she says. “These States should return to racially separate societies. are terrible ideas that really should be thrown in the ash “The only way to make change is to actually separate,” bin of history.” Ha Ahsh says. “What do you think black people should do Willamette Week JANUARY 24, 2018 wweek.com

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THE PORTLAND WINTERHAWKS ASK LAWMAKERS FOR AN EXCEPTION TO OREGON’S MINIMUM-WAGE LAWS. BY KAT I E S H E P H E R D

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Oregon has moved aggressively to raise its minimum wage, but some of the highest-profile performers in this city don’t get paid at all. Those performers, mostly teenagers, play ice hockey for the Portland Winterhawks in the Western Hockey League. The team sold about 6,000 tickets per game last season and also profits from food, drink and merchandise sales at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the Moda Center, the team’s home rinks. But now the Winterhawks are going to Salem for a custom-made law that would allow the team to continue not paying its players. The Winterhawks claim a pending lawsuit aimed at forcing the team to pay minimum wage— currently $11.25 an hour in the Portland area— could be the death knell for Winterhawks hockey. “Without an exemption for amateur athletes under Oregon law,” Winterhawks attorney Tim Bernasek wrote in a Jan. 11 letter to the Oregon House Judiciary Committee, “the Portland Winterhawks will be forced to either declare bankruptcy or relocate.” Lawmakers take the threat seriously enough that they are crafting legislation for the February short session that would apply only to the Winterhawks, following the lead of other affected states. The Winterhawks are an unusual hybrid: They look and act like a pro team, signing and trading players and earning money as pro teams do, but claiming amateur status for players, some as young as 15. Instead of regular paychecks, players for the Winterhawks get room and board and earn college scholarships. Because players are classified as amateurs, they aren’t eligible for standard employment benefits, such as paychecks. It’s obvious how that benefits the team—but less clear what’s in it for players, other than preserving their eligibility to play college sports. The reason players come to the Winterhawks is that they aspire to become pros. The team has sent more than 100 players to National Hockey League franchises since first hitting the ice in 1976. But in 2016, a former Winterhawks player

joined a class action lawsuit in Canada challenging the amateur athlete model that serves as the foundation of the Canadian Hockey League. Hundreds of players have joined the lawsuit, which affects 60 teams. WHL players practice daily and play two to three games a week, often involving grueling bus rides to remote Canadian towns. Players commonly put in 40 hours a week with teammates on and off the ice. The plaintiffs say that time is work and players should be compensated for it. “The Portland Winterhawks are quite profitable and would have no problem paying players minimum wage,” says Tina Yang, an attorney representing players in the lawsuit. “If you’re employing somebody, and they’re doing work for you, then you have to pay them.” A judge in Alberta ruled last April that the eight WHL teams based in the United States should be exempt from the lawsuit. The plaintiffs appealed. The Winterhawks aren’t waiting to see how the appeal is resolved. Instead, the team is going to lawmakers. The team asked the Oregon Legislature to change the law in 2017. The Senate approved the Winterhawks’ proposal, but the House rejected it as too broad. So the team is trying again. Lawmakers expect the new bill will pass. “I think the bill has been made more specific,” says Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland), who sponsored the failed 2017 bill. “No one had a problem with recognizing this team [as amateurs], but there was a fear of unintended consequences. I think we have that worked out.” The Winterhawks directed WW’s questions to WHL officials, who pointed to laws to similar to the one proposed in Oregon that have passed in Michigan, Washington and six Canadian provinces. The lawyers challenging the junior hockey league say the Oregon bill would deprive players of their chance for justice. “The exemption is being requested to avoid having the courts determine the issue,” says Ted Charney, lead counsel in lawsuit against the league. “This way, the players never get their day in court.” Willamette Week JANUARY 24, 2018 wweek.com

SKY WARS BY R AC H E L M O N A H AN

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A FIGHT OVER THE HEIGHT OF PORTLAND’S SKYLINE IS RAGING. WHO WINS MAY DETERMINE WHETHER THE CITY’S HOUSING CRISIS EVER ENDS. 10

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LOOK OUT BELOW: The prospect of skyscrapers along the southwest bank of the Willamette River has alarmed tower residents. ABBY GORDON

skyscraper backlash is rising. Stanley Penkin, a transplanted New Yorker who lives on the fourth floor of Cosmopolitan on the Park, the tallest condo building in the Pearl District, is on the front lines. He and his wife, Susanne, have a panoramic view: dogs cavorting in the Fields Park, sailboats rolling down the Willamette River, and the graceful arches of the Fremont Bridge. But soon, if developers and city planners have their way, a 17-story glass-and-concrete tower will partly block Penkin’s view of the bridge. Not if Penkin can stop it. “The city is so desperate for housing that it’s sacrificing the integrity of our city,” Penkin says with the distinctive honk of a Bronx native. “Is it just build, build, build to the maximum at any cost?” For more than a month, Penkin has carried the banner of an emerging rebellion in Portland as president of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association. His allies? Fellow residents of the 28-story Cosmopolitan who paid up to $5.4 million (in some cases, more than $1,000 a square foot) for their condos in a building that opened two years ago. Penkin, who bought his condo in 2016 for a more modest $866,603, serves as condo board chairman. Penkin and other Pearl District residents started complaining in October about the new tower, called Fremont Place Apartments. Signatures were gathered. The Portland City Council agreed to re-evaluate the project in February, even though a city panel approved its design in December. Donations started to arrive unsolicited at Penkin’s concierge desk to fund the challenge. Says a Penkin colleague on the board of the neighborhood association, John Hollister, who lives in another Pearl District condo (without a bridge view): “The Fremont Bridge is basically the most expensive piece of art in Portland. I can’t imagine a building that big going up in the middle of the city’s most expensive painting.” “What are we coming to?” asks Glenn Traeger, a third member of the neighborhood association board. “Are we losing our Oregon soul?” Aside from the irony of well-heeled rebels fighting towers similar to the ones they live in, these insurgents are also gaining traction. The City Council faces a decision in March on how high developers may build in the central city. Irate residents are packing council chambers and penning op-eds, demanding that the skyline they love stays the same way it’s been since, well, at least last year. “We feel overshadowed by investors and developers,” testified Joan Kvitka, who lives on the 18th floor of American Plaza Towers, a Southwest Portland building with views of the Willamette River, and says she supports density but not a plan for taller towers nearby. “We oppose diminishing the nature of our waterfront forever.” CONT. on page 12

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If the City Council approves the changes suggested by planners, developers would be allowed to build up to 250 feet higher near Willamette River bridges (see “Bridge Up,” page 14). Citizens are begging commissioners to amend the planners’ proposals so that current views are preserved. The consequences of this decision will matter not just for Pearl District denizens but for renters from Lents to Linnton and single-family homeowners across the city. Economists and other experts say the solution to Portland’s housing crisis is more housing. In a city, that means raising building heights so more people can live on a single block. The battle over view lines is really a battle over whether rents and home prices across the city will ratchet ever higher or be moderated by the increase in housing units that skyscrapers offer. Both the fight in the Pearl District and the debate in council chambers raise the same question: How much voice should residents of a neighborhood have in deciding what can be built next door? “It’s people in towers opposing towers,” says Tim Davis, a condo owner in Harrison Tower near Portland State University. “It’s ‘I got mine, no else is allowed.’”

ROOM WITH A VIEW: Residents of Pearl District condos fear a new development will block views of the Fremont Bridge from their windows and the Fields Park.

ews flash: Portland has a housing shortage. And people keep coming. The metro area will need to produce 13,000 new apartments and houses a year for the next decade, estimates state economist Josh Lehner. Average rents in Portland have soared in the past six years by more than 30 percent. To many, the central city and land along the banks of the Willamette offer the greatest opportunity to deal with the housing shortage. “The central city is the best place for increased density and increased housing,” says Mayor Ted Wheeler. That’s partly because the central city has the necessary infrastructure: The residences are close to offices, light-rail lines, shops and restaurants and fit with the Portland vision of compact cities. It also averts fights with residential neighborhoods of single-family homeowners, many of whom would resist the condos and apartments that will have to be built to keep up with demand. But in the central city, condo owners are now revolting, too. That resentment burst into the open at the City Council last week. More than 60 people testified Jan. 18 about the Central City 2035 plan, which will determine which heights are allowed along the waterfront. (The next vote is expected March 7.) The city is proposing to raise height limits near bridges, while lowering heights to protect historic districts. Many in the audience had something to lose—a view of Mount Hood from their balcony and the property value that comes with it. A half-dozen of the people testifying were residents of apartment towers along Southwest River Drive, aiming to stop a proposed skyscraper project called the RiverPlace redevelopment, a concept of eight towers as high as 325 feet, designed in part by legendary Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. “It reminds me what happened in San Francisco when I lived there in the ’60s and the Transamerica Pyramid was built,” testified Donner Johnson, a Southwest Portland resident. “[It] pierced the written and unwritten agreements that citizens had about building height. Anyone who has seen San Francisco knows what happened there.” Meanwhile, residents of the 18-story Eliot Tower have tried to restrict development in the West End, near the Portland Art Museum. Wendy Rahm, who bought a 10th-floor condo more than a decade ago, has repeatedly testified for lowering the height limits in the West End. “Recent studies indicate millennials also prefer the ‘authenticity’ of the old to the new,” wrote Rahm in an August letter to the City Council advocating height limits lower than the building she currently lives in. “There is a reason we flock to old city centers and villages overseas.” The Portland Downtown Neighborhood Association is staying out of the fight, but its president, Felicia Williams, now a candidate for the City Council, looks on with despair. “If you can’t build tall in downtown, where can you build?” says Williams. “We want housing, housing, housing. The people that live in downtown live in tall buildings.” CONT. on page 14

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SKY WARS DECISION DESK: The Portland City Council (left) will consider an appeal in February affecting the views from the Cosmopolitan on the Park building and the Fields Park in the Pearl District (right).

The fight has taken on a new ferocity as the City Council ponders the Central City 2035 plan. But even if rebellious condo owners lose this battle, they can keep fighting the war on tall buildings. In fact, the city’s system for approving development has guaranteed the war will continue. When Portlanders want to stop a tall building from blocking their view, they call a lawyer like Jeff Kleinman. Kleinman, a native of Long Island, N.Y., who moved to Oregon 47 years ago, has been a lawyer in Portland for four decades. He represents local residents who are trying to stop developments. Neighbors can come with two goals in mind: “They may be seeking to defeat a project, or they may be seeking modifications,” he says. He’s representing the Pearl District Neighborhood Association in their effort to stop or modify the Fremont Place Apartments. For Kleinman’s clients to win, he may not need to win an appeal. He just needs to delay a construction project long enough that the developer decides to compromise or loses interest. Does he use delays to kill construction? “That’s a very good question,” he said. He chuckled, and declined to answer further. The developer of the Fremont Place Apartments doesn’t need a height increase in the 2035 plan. The city so far has approved the building as legal under current code. But neighbors are convinced the project should be smaller. And Portland’s system gives them the power to fight for a height reduction on aesthetic or technical grounds even if a building is within the legal heights. In Portland, the city must approve the design of projects—everything from the materials used to the shape of the building to the way the building appears from the street. Developers of big projects in the central city must get the approval of a panel of volunteers at the city’s Bureau of Development Services. That process, called design review, in part depends on taste. If it goes smoothly, it takes about two months. But when the process goes too smoothly to suit critics, Kleinman and other lawyers can challenge a building they object to. First step: Appeal to the City Council. Not only does the council hear every neighborhood association appeal, it hosts the appeals at no charge. That’s because the city recognizes neighborhood associations as key advisers on their areas of the city who need to have an active voice in projects. “Neighborhood associations are one expert in the process,” says Kara Fioravanti, a supervising planner at the Bureau of Development Services. “They know the neighborhood history. They know the neighborhood character.” If that fails, project opponents head to the state Land Use Board of Appeals. Then on to the Oregon Court of Appeals. 14

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That process can hold a project in limbo for years (see “Slowdown in Slabtown,” page 16). In some parts of downtown, opponents of new construction don’t even have to bother with appeals. In those slices of the city—protected as historic districts—developers must go to a board called the Historic Landmarks Commission. And the commission has a reputation for hating height. Take, for example, the New Omni, a 14-story tower proposed for Northwest 5th Avenue. The project would include 141 apartments, 10 percent of them priced so that a family of four making $44,820 a year could afford the rent. But it’s in a historic district. Wayne Trantow, owner of a seventh-floor loft in Old Town Lofts whose balcony overlooks the project, came to testify to the commission in December. He complained that the new building would block his “light and view corridor.” The majority of the commission appeared to agree, encouraging the developer to reduce the scale of the project—to as low as eight stories. “I was very discouraged,” says architect Paul Jeffreys, who designed the New Omni. “There’s a huge amount of risk and a lot of work”—and now it’s unclear whether it will proceed. The poster child for the strength of landmarks review is what happened in 2016 to a project slated for a parking lot at Southeast Belmont Street and Grand Avenue in the Central Eastside. The number of apartments at the Grand Belmont was cut almost in half—from 214 units to 131—after it went through landmarks and design review for a year and a half. “It’s pretty drastic, particularly when we’re in a housing crisis,” says developer Tim O’Brien, who weighed an appeal to the City Council but decided against it, figuring he would take what he could get. CONT. on page 17

BRIDGE UP

The Portland City Council is mulling a proposal called the Central City 2035 plan. It would allow developers to build higher into the sky near some of the Willamette River’s bridges. Here’s how maximum heights could change on properties close to the river. RACHEL MONAHAN. Next to the Fremont Bridge MAX HEIGHT N OW: 100 FT. MAX HEIGHT IF PLA N IS A PPR OVED: 250 FT.

Next to the Morrison Bridge MAX HEIGHT NOW: 75 FT. MAX HEIGHT IF PLA N IS A PPR OVED: 250 FT.

Hawthorne Bridge MAX HEIGHT NOW: 75 FT.

(NORTH THE BRIDGE, 325 FT. SOUTH OF BRIDGE)

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Tom Brenneke wants to build housing in the Northwest Portland neighborhood of Slabtown. Instead, he’s in the parking business. That’s because more than three years after he agreed to buy property, his planned apartment complex remains delayed by neighbors, with no end in sight. In fact, Brenneke predicts it may be another three years before he completes construction. “Six years to deliver is nuts,” says Brenneke. “It’s ludicrous.” Brenneke is no amateur at pitching and delivering big projects. He’s the developer of Yard, the controversial 21-story building at the east end of the Burnside Bridge, which he sold for a record-breaking $126.7 million in 2016. He has close ties to City Hall—and gave $7,500 to Mayor Ted Wheeler’s election campaign. But despite his résumé and connections, Brenneke’s been no match for his Slabtown opponents. In 2015, Brenneke bought an undeveloped block at Northwest 21st Avenue and Pettygrove Street on the old Con-Way trucking company site. It holds a parking garage and some vacant lots. He had already started the official design process. He planned 150 units. But neighbors demanded a smaller development and a larger public square, which City Hall had promised through a lengthy master-planning process.

In buying the parcel, Brenneke took on the previous landowner’s promise to build that public square, but he says he didn’t fully appreciate the challenges. “The devil’s in the details,” he says. For a first proposal, he says, there were roughly 30 meetings with the Northwest District Association over the course of a year before he presented a plan to the design commission. “They’re a powerful group,” says Brenneke. “I got convinced that we should work with them.” The neighborhood association, in his telling, backed out of a deal to support requests for variations from the code, in part because they opposed his building being six stories instead of four. “Solar access into the square is critical,” wrote Greg Theisen, the neighborhood association’s acting planning chairman in 2016, explaining the neighborhood’s opposition. Karen Karlsson, president of the neighborhood association, says Slabtown residents aren’t looking to halt development, just to get what was promised: “We are losing public open space,” she says. Brenneke commissioned new designs. This time, he decided not to compromise. He would build the maximum square footage allowed. He planned 200 units, 40 priced to be affordable for families of four who make $59,750 a year. And he would build to seven stories instead of six. The neighborhood opposed his plan again, but he won approval through the design review process. The neighborhood appealed to City Hall. When they lost again, the neighbors appealed to the state. The soonest Brenneke expects to complete the project is early 2021. “The costs to carry a large piece of land like this are huge,” he says. “Land acquisition is a risky bet. You can see how an extended process can easily sink a developer.” RACHEL MONAHAN.

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HIGH HOPES: Miles Sisk (left) testified before the Portland City Council last week in support of more housing in the central city.

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tanley Penkin intends to use the tools at his disposal to rein in the Pearl District construction that could block his Fremont Bridge view. “We are known in Portland for paying attention to our quality of life,” says Penkin, “but development has gotten out of control.” Wheeler says City Hall won’t back down in the face of a condo rebellion. “The hard tradeoff we’re going to have to make is view versus housing,” Wheeler told a resident concerned about preserving views of Mount Hood from Tom McCall Waterfront Park. “I like the view, too. I agree with you it’s an iconic view, but I also understand we’re in a housing crisis in this city that’s going to continue into the foreseeable future.” For now, the City Council’s big decision is whether to raise the maximum height of towers on the waterfront. But even if the City Council approves the height increases in the Central City 2035 plan this spring, those won’t be enough, warn housing advocates. They say if opponents of height are allowed to continue obstructing new construction, the city’s housing shortage will only worsen. Former mayoral candidate and PSU associate program director Sarah Iannarone says neighborhood associations “perpetuate a culture of exclusive NIMBYism.” “It’s critical,” she says, “that we see our current ‘growing pains’ as an opportunity to reshape our local planning practices and policies—our local democracy, really.” One simple step: The city could stop funding the cost of neighborhood appeals. If neighbors wanted to challenge a project at the City Council, they would have to put their money where their property values are. But Wheeler says he’s not interested in diminishing the power of neighborhood groups. Instead, City Hall hopes to educate neighborhood associations on the land-use process so they don’t tie up City Hall with futile challenges to legal buildings. “Portland prides itself on process and input,” he tells WW. “While I’ve been very clear that neighborhood associations need to be more open and inclusive, I don’t see a reason to blow up the neighborhood association process. I don’t think the right answer is to close the door. I think the right answer is to open more doors.” One new Portland resident hopes the city rises to the challenge. Miles Sisk is 23 years old. He’s from Grants Pass, a seventh-generation Oregonian who moved to Portland two years ago. He showed up at City Hall last week to beg for taller buildings. “A lot of the city folk might not know this, but Portland has served as a beacon of hope and opportunity for my generation of rural Oregonians,” says Sisk. “You’re not going to hear us talking about heights and views. We’re too busy trying to find a spot at the table. We need more housing.”

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Two days after I visited Midnight Sunlight, a vintage furniture shop and boutique on Southeast Stark, I was $300 lighter and in possession of a beautiful gray-and-black linoleum dining table from the 1950s. This doesn’t often happen when I head out to research shops for this column. Many of Portland’s vintage furniture shops collect great pieces, restore them lovingly and resell them to a sophisticated market of buyers who know their Jacobsen from their Eames. Yet, browsing these spots is tough. Warehouse-sized showrooms don’t let you see the couch or credenza of your dreams in a place that resembles an apartment or living room. Sunny Preston, proprietor of Midnight Sunlight, seems to agree. “As furniture enthusiasts, my husband and I have surveyed the market of what shops in Portland offer,” Preston says. “Without going to a negative place, we found it lacking in a lot of ways. We maybe didn’t feel like it understood who we were as a customer, or what we were interested in besides finding a couch. You couldn’t really get a sense of how something might work in your space. We want people to come in here and say, “This is kind of what I want my apartment to look like.” When I wandered into Midnight Sunlight, I was surprised to find a cozy space with art arranged neatly on walls—an endearing rendition of two toucans sitting on a branch next to an abstract piece from an heir to the Pabst Beer fortune—faded rugs underneath a strikingly restored walnut Danish modern dining table, at which matching mod chairs were tucked in. Lamps and decorative baskets were nicely arranged atop polished credenzas. In the back, a fat rack of Pendleton and Woolrich flannels sat tucked in a corner, across from a shelf of

perfectly distressed vintage denim. “I was taken to antique stores as a kid and eventually grew to really like old stuff,” Preston tells me as we sit atop an enormous modular sofa in the style of Vladimir Kagan. “In high school, my best friend and I would go to furniture stores to hang out, not the mall or the video place. Thinking back on it, it was pretty weird we were looking at fabric swatches and wallpapers. I guess I always really enjoyed the process of collecting or finding these things.” Preston grew up in Homer, Alaska, spending the 2000s bouncing around Los Angeles, Portland, New York and Texas as a vintage dealer, first in clothing, and later in furniture. She settled in Portland in 2014, vending at Vintage Pink before quietly opening Midnight Sunlight in October 2017. She’s self-taught, picking up furniture restoration and curation techniques from years in the business. “My grandfather is basically a self-taught carpenter. I hung out with him as he built a 40-foot wooden sailboat,” says Preston. I’m the type of person who learns by doing, so I’ve just kind of figured out how to do things over the years. I know a little bit about a lot of things, and if I don’t, I have a community of people I can ask.” Midnight Sunlight is one of a handful of vintage shops in Portland arranged so intentionally that it looks like someone’s apartment. There, I visualized that table I bought in my apartment, and it looks even better now that it’s home. “I just look for good stuff, I guess,” says Preston. I know what I like. The fact that it’s turning out that other people like it is so wonderful.” GO: Midnight Sunlight, 2857 SE Stark St., Instagram: midnightsunlightshop. Closed Tuesday.

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WE ASKED A LONGTIME BIKE ACTIVIST AND POLITICIAN: WHAT ACTUALLY GETS LAWS CHANGED?

BY MATTH E W KO RFH AGE

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As a 12-year metro councilor, Rex Burkholder pushed climate change as a consideration in city planning. As an activist, he helped found both environmental group Coalition for a Livable Future and the biketivist Bicycle Transportation Alliance, now The Street Trust—helping pushing through bike lanes, greenways and bike racks on buses. He currently sits on the board of immigrant

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advocacy group Unite Oregon. His new book, The Activist’s Toolkit, is a how-to guide for getting do-gooder shit done. In advance of Burkholder’s appearance at Powell’s Books on Thursday, January 25, we interrupted our political efforts—which consist mostly of hitting “love” when somebody says white dudes are bad on Facebook, plus signing change.org petitions against Trump—to ask what actions actually help get laws changed.

DOESN’T WORK

Find other people to work with.

Signing a change.org online survey.

“People forget, we don’t do anything by ourselves. I can’t even eat breakfast without somebody having a chicken, and the chicken laying an egg. Trying to make a park in your neighborhood? Ask around to find like-minded people. If you want to end world hunger, look around and see who else is already doing the work.”

“I don’t look at them.”

Commit to your cause. “The civil rights movement worked because it was a concerted effort—it was based on strong organization. [Congressman and civil rights leader] John Lewis did not get armed, but he put his life on the line constantly. He argued with the civil rights leaders who said, “Let’s be nice.” He led and was apart of the sit-in movement. He was effective because he lived his beliefs. Martin Luther King got on board and said, I probably won’t live through this.”

Have a cup of coffee with a public official. “Those public meetings, they’re a show. It’s show time. If you really want to make a change you’ll say, I want to sit down with you. It also involves talking to staffers. Find out who they are, ask them who their family is, ask them how you can work together to make life better for everyone. It’s about building those relationships, even when you disagree.”

Write a check if you can’t DO THE work yourself.

As someone who’s had to raise a lot of money, I appreciate it when people say, “Yes, I’ll help you out.” As a parent, I’ve been there: “I can’t go to meetings three times a week, but if you’re willing to do the work, I’ll write a check.” It’s not a substitute. But sometimes you’ve got time, sometimes you’ve got kids and jobs. GO: Rex Burkholder reads from the Activist Toolkit Thursday, Jan. 25, at Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Changing individual hearts and minds by debating on Facebook. “Oh my God—you can’t be serious.”

Marches and protests to express outrage. “It’s nice for building a sense of solidarity, but unless you’re ready with sign-up sheets, it’s not very effective. Where’s Occupy today? Did we change anything? I don’t think we did. The question is, what do you want, and what are you willing to do to get it? Is this it? Communication depends on people actually hearing what you’re saying.”

Calling out allies for being less pure. “One thing about getting old is you realize the world’s not perfect. You realize that purity is a false thing. Let’s say I support bicycle infrastructure, but I have a job at Nike and my wife has a job in Troutdale. We’re going to live in the middle and split the commute. An activist doesn’t have to be a monk and give up their regular life.

Making speeches at City Hall meetings. “Speeches don’t change minds. Protest marches don’t change minds. They make people feel less alone. It’s legislation, and it’s courts: That’s how you change the country. That takes organizing and building power. As a person, you can start an organization and get staffers. Or you can say ‘I’m on your side, count me in as one of your tribe, I will help.’ But I’m kind of an old, conservative rule follower. The other part that I’ll admit: I live in a society where white people don’t get killed for having differences of opinion. I’ve met with people who don’t have those choices. I’ve met with Egyptian activists. They asked, ‘What do we do when the government kills us?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I‘m lost.’”

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Welcome to WW’s 2018 Volunteer Guide. The idea behind this has always been to rally readers to give time and sweat equity to worthy local nonprofits, so as to help make Portland a better place. In today’s social and political turmoil — especially on the national scene — this sort of help is more important than ever. And if last year’s Give!Guide performance is any indicator, you’re more than up to the challenge. Here are 70 nonprofits worthy of your time and attention. They have identified their needs in the pages of this guide. If you can fill one of them, great! If you know someone else who can, point that person in the right direction. Let’s show them what we’re made of. Thank you.

ANIMALS THE PIXIE PROJECT HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? At Pixie, we make animal adoption and rescue a fun, family friendly, and positive experience. Our dedicated staff focuses on finding life-long matches between pet and adopter and takes a hands-on, personal approach to each and every adoption. Pixie is committed to keeping pets healthy, happy, and in their homes for life. Our on-site clinic offers lowincome and homeless pet owners access to vital veterinary care and low-cost spay/neuter surgeries, keeping pets out of shelters and saving lives. Our philosophy at Pixie is simple and unique: find the perfect pet for each person or family. At Pixie we’re not about getting animals out the door, we’re about getting pets into lifetime homes. Sometimes the “right” pet is waiting for you, and other times you may have to search for a while before

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from education programs designed to engage youth and adults in the appreciation and stewardship of nature, rehabilitating wildlife, and advancing environmental science and policy. We have been instrumental in developing the environmental policies that shape our region today, from our urban neighborhoods to ancient forests to marine reserves. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Leading nature tours or birding walks, working in our Nature Store, providing administrative support, rehabilitating wildlife, restoring native species in our sanctuary, and helping out at some of our major events are just a sampling of the volunteer opportunities. Whatever you skills, interests, passions, or schedule, we likely have a role to match. Check out our website at www.audubonportland.org for more information. Adam Kinnard akinnard@audubonportland.org 503-292-6855 ext. 108

your canine or feline soul-mate arrives. We promise, it will be worth the wait! HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteering is a great way to enrich the lives of animals. Through the help of volunteers we are able to provide one-on-one socialization for the animals as well as a clean and safe living environment. Volunteers are key in supporting staff and assisting in the care of the animals. Whether you are a dog person, cat person, or a little bit of both, we have plenty of ways for you to help! Becca Ferguson volunteer@pixieproject.org

AUDUBON SOCIETY OF PORTLAND HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP

PORTLAND? The Audubon Society of Portland strives to inspire people from all walks of life to love and protect nature. We have been doing just that in Portland and beyond for over 115 years. Our work is diverse and far-reaching, ranging

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PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? PAW Team is a nonprofit organization that provides free veterinary care to the pets of those that are experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty. We provide services to over 800 families a year. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? All of our veterinarians, vet technicians, and vet assistants volunteer their time with us. Without those medical volunteers, we would not be able to provide the care that we do to so many pets in Oregon and Southern Washington. Our main need right now is medical volunteers to help us at our weekly clinics and our quarterly drop-in clinics. Kara Klepinger kara@pawteam.org 503-206-6033

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Together with our community, we strive to make the Portland metro area one of the best places in the country for cats and the people who care for them. We offer adoption, foster, medical care, and low-cost spay/neuter programs, plus other high-quality services to help make life better for cats and people. Join us in saving lives! HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Make matches as an adoption counselor, become a kitten foster parent, represent CAT at events, provide daily care for shelter cats, assist spay/ neuter clients, or be a kitty chauffeur. Just bring your people skills and compassion for cats to CAT and let’s save lives together! Nancy Puro, Volunteer Manager volunteer@catadoptionteam.org 503-925-8903

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? DoveLewis Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital is the only nonprofit, 24-hour emergency, critical care and specialty animal hospital in the region. With more than 40 years of service to the community, DoveLewis as treated more than 500,000 animals. DoveLewis community programs serve animals in need, the animal-loving community and veterinary professionals. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are needed to provide oncall transport for stray animals and wildlife, support annual fundraising events in a variety of roles, and represent DoveLewis at community outreach events. Your dog can even volunteer as donor for the DoveLewis Blood Bank! There is no minimum hour requirement to volunteer. Learn

FERAL CAT COALITION OF OREGON

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Whether abandoned, dumped, stray or born on the street, FCCO provides care for homeless cats in our community. The only organization in Portland focused on caring for feral and stray cats, and now also offering services for pet cats, our spay/neuter programs improve the lives of cats and prevent future generations of homeless kittens. Since 1995 we have spayed/neutered almost 90,000 cats! HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? If you’re a team player who cares about cats, we need you! We’ll find a volunteer position that matches your interests and skills. Join our growing volunteer program and help at our spay/neuter clinics, assist with office tasks, engage the community through outreach activities, help with fundraising, and lend your paw to special projects. Most shifts are weekdays at our SW Portland facility. We hope to hear from you! Ashley Foley afoley@feralcats.com 503-797-2606

ANIMAL AID INC.

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We operate a free-roam cat shelter and a cat and dog foster program. We specialize in assisting animals who may not thrive in larger shelter environments, provide our adoptables with daily one-on-one interaction and any and all necessary vet care and training, and commit the animals we rescue for life, including ongoing post-adoption support and a lifetime return policy. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Animal

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RABBIT ADVOCATES

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? As a rescue and educational organization, our mission is to improve the lives of abandoned domestic rabbits. We rescue and then foster them in private homes and organize adoption outreaches, as well as offering “bunny spa days” at two Portland locations. We have a spay and neuter program for our foster rabbits and those in the community who have rabbits, but need some financial assistance to have them altered. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We pack hay as a fundraiser once a month; BunnyPalooza is coming up in September and there are many volunteer opportunities associated with that event. Groomers and “pawdicurists” are welcome at the spa days (we train on the job). Foster homes are always needed--training and certification are provided. Photographers for adoptable rabbits would be wonderful. Apply at our web site rabbitadvocates.org to see other areas of interest. Lora Skelton loraskelton@yahoo.com 503-358-3942

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? CHAP brings the healing power of art to children and their families facing medical challenges. At CHAP, children are known for their creativity and ingenuity - not by their disease, diagnosis or disability. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We LOVE our volunteers, interns and in-service groups! Without the support of our amazing and dedicated volunteers, we could not deliver the quality and quantity of FREE art activities to the children and families we serve. Volunteer projects might include studio maintenance, preparation of foundational program materials, sequinning art objects, printmaking projects, and administrative tasks. Faye Pendergrass faye@chappdx.org 503-243-5294

KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? For 50 years, KBOO has been at the center of Portland’s countercultural & political life. We remain focused on access and diversity even now. Our work centers on communities who lack mass media representation. KBOO is not only “community supported radio”, it is “community supporting radio.” We are building a city of media makers, and offer free broadcast training to

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volunteers. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are critical to KBOO’s ongoing health — programming is made by volunteers, back office tasks are done by volunteers, technical expertise is lent by volunteers. KBOO can only exist because of the passion volunteers have for a liberated, accessible media. Volunteering at KBOO can take many paths, and we welcome people of all ages, skills, and abilities! Ani Haines volunteer@kboo.org 503-231-8032

PORTLAND CENTER STAGE

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Portland Center Stage at The Armory inspires our community by bringing stories to life in unexpected ways. It is the largest theater company in Portland and among the top 20 regional theaters in the country. Established in 1988 as a branch of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the company became independent in 1994 and has been under the leadership of Artistic Director Chris Coleman since 2000. An estimated 150,000 visitors attend The Armory annually to enjoy a mix of classical, contemporary and world premiere productions, along with the annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival, and a variety of high quality education and community programs Volunteers help out in a variety of ways that include ushering, office administrative help, hospitality and providing docent tours. RaChelle Schmidt RaChelleS@pcs.org 503-445-3825

THE PONGO FUND

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Pongo Fund is one of the most innovative groups around, providing high-quality food and lifesaving veterinary care to the pets of those in need, including the homeless, seniors and more. Thereby preventing the hunger and suffering of the animals they love. Our small-but-mighty group has provided more than 10 million meals, saving the lives of 100,000 animals throughout Oregon. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We’ve got some incredible opportunities including our Kibble Pack Team, our Emergency Kibble Response Team, our Veterinary Care Team, our Fundraising Team, our Events Team, our Pet Food Drive Team, our Marketing Team and more. You name it and we can probably find a way for you to help with it. info@thepongofund.org 503-939-7555

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We host local, regional, national and international events. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are front and center as one of our Rose City ambassadors - greeting visitors, giving directions, offering dining tips, and recommending places to visit in and around our exciting and beautiful city. Volunteers help our guests have a wonderful and memorable time in Portland. Peri Muhich perimuhich@oregoncc.org 503-731-7858

OREGON FOOD BANK HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Help us create an Oregon without hunger! Join one of our fun, energetic 2-3 hour long food repack, garden or nutrition education shifts. You’ll be AMAZED at how much we can do! Shifts run throughout the week in Portland and Beaverton, including weeknights and weekends. Volunteers are also needed to support our monthly food distribution programs throughout Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? No special skills are required and training occurs on-site for garden, food distribution and food repack shifts. Many shifts are available for ages 6+, and we can accommodate large groups. Passion, enthusiasm, and willingness to sweat preferred! It’s easy to sign up. Visit www. oregonfoodbank.org to learn more and see the schedule. Laura Yeary volunteer@oregonfoodbank.org

CEDAR SINAI PARK

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We provide residential and community-based care to our elders and adults with special needs, allowing them to live with comfort, independence, and dignity. We recognize that people, including our eldest and most frail citizens, have the right to control decisions made about their lives. Our subsidiary company, Jewish Family and Child Service provides social services that improve the lives of adults, families, and children in the Jewish and general communities. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are at the heart of what we do. From leading recreational activities to lending a listening ear, your time is an essential gift to our residents and to this community. We connect elderly people living in the community to our volunteers and provide transportation to a once a month meeting of Holocaust survivors. Sarah Whisenhunt volunteer@cedarsinaipark.org 971-347-3225

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND/ METRO EAST

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Habitat for Humanity creates affordable homeownership opportunities by partnering with hardworking families and the community to build simple, healthy, affordable homes. Each Habitat homeowner helps build and purchase their home with an affordable mortgage. Since 1981, Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East has built over 340 360 homes for families in need. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? No experience necessary! We need your help to keep building affordable homes in our community. We work year-round and have both indoor and outdoor volunteer opportunities available. Please join us to make the dream of homeownership a reality for deserving families in the Portland/ Metro East area. Marianne McClure marianne@habitatportlandmetro.org 503-287-9529 x14

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? TIP is a group of specially trained citizen volunteers who provide emotional aid and practical support and resources to victims of traumatic events and their families in the first few hours following a tragedy. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Sign up for a Training Academy and become a TIP Volunteer! June Vining tipstaff@tipnw.org 503-823-3937

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HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteer monitors are at the heart of our mission to ensure vulnerable Oregonians are not experiencing abuse or neglect. Volunteer monitors are appointed by the Court to a specific case. Volunteers review the case files at the Probate Court, visit independently with the Guardian and the Protected Person and write a report to the Court regarding their findings. Kristy Wood kristy@guardian-partners.org 971-409-1358

HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking for volunteers to work with youth in our SUN Youth Advocacy and Expresiones After School Programs. Volunteers will help students complete their homework, engage youth in extracurricular activities and provide general program support to our onsite coordinators. We look forward to welcoming volunteers into our ¡Comunidad Viva! Pilar Palos ppalos@HACIENDACDC.ORG

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HELP PORTLAND? Human Solutions’ Family Center and Gresham Women’s Shelter provides housing year-round to families and women facing barriers to housing. Both shelters operate year-round and provide 3 meals a day to all participants. The Family Center houses 130 individuals a night, half of those being children. The Women’s Shelter houses 90 women a night who are fleeing from Domestic Violence. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking for folks who can come together to provide and serve meals for either of our shelters. Feeding this many families and women a

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TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF PORTLAND/ VANCOUVER, INC. (TIP)

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Hacienda CDC is a Latino Community Development Corporation that strengthens families by providing affordable housing, home-ownership support, economic advancement and educational opportunities.

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day, 3 times a day, year-round, is a daunting task financially as well as for staff members, who really should be focusing on providing other resources to our participants. Bringing homemade casseroles, lasagnas, making sandwiches, or purchasing pizzas are all great examples of how folks can help! We provide all serving utensils, tables, and staff support! Christina Newcomb cnewcomb@humansolutions.org 503-278-1637

PORTLAND? Our goals are to identify abuse or exploitation of those under guardianship in Portland, and also to support the thousands of Guardians who care for older adults, persons with disabilities, and children in Oregon.

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PORTLAND? Since its founding 25 years ago, JOIN has helped over 10,000 people find a path out of homelessness and into stable housing. Despite an increasingly challenging rental market, JOIN continues to help 900 people each year leave the streets for a home and hundreds more with critical basic services. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can help run JOIN’s basic service center where 80-100 people experiencing homelessness come each weekday for vital basic services. We ask volunteers to commit to a weekly 2-3 hour shift. Kristin Sanchez ksanchez@joinpdx.org 503-956-4734

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ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Alzheimer’s Association has provided education and support for Oregonians with dementia, their families, and caregivers since 1982. We serve the Portland metro and Southwest Washington area with resources, information and support. Each year, the Alzheimer’s Association provides live education courses, robust online services, a 24/7 helpline, local support groups, and an annual caregivers conference. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Our volunteers are passionate and want to make a difference in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. We offer a wide range of volunteer opportunities, from education presenters and support group facilitators, to fundraising committee members and day-of volunteers at our Walk to End Alzheimer’s events. Learn more: alz. org/oregon Stacey Smith sesmith@alz.org 503-416-0200

EDWARDS CENTER, INC. HOW DOES YOUR

ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We provide training, education, employment, housing, & social opportunities for individuals with developmental & intellectual disabilities in Washington & Clackamas Counties. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can work with participants on tasks, teach a class, attend an event, help with fund raising, improve our grounds or homes or do some admin work. Many opportunities are available for one

person or a group or people. Shelly Edwards sedwards@edwardscenter.org 503-466-2171 x106

COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Community Cycling Center broadens access to bicycling and its benefits. We believe that all Portlanders— regardless of income or background— should have the opportunity to experience the joy, freedom, and health benefits of bicycling. This is the motivation behind everything that we do. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? You don’t need bicycle mechanic skills to begin wrenching; you’ll have a chance to become a Certified Volunteer Mechanic! If wrenching isn’t your thing, volunteers can lead rides and safety clinics. Plus, we rely on volunteer support for communications and marketing, interpreting, recycling bike parts and much more. Come to orientation at 7pm at our shop on the first Tuesday of the month (Feb - Nov) to learn more! volunteer@communitycyclingcenter.org 503-288-8864

TRANSITION PROJECTS

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Transition Projects provides individuals with the services, resources and tools they need to end their homelessness, secure housing, and maintain that housing. Transition Projects operates and manages nine unique locations and places hundreds of people into housing each year throughout the Metro-area. Serving over 10,000 people annually, Transition Projects helps Portland’s

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most vulnerable neighbors start their journey toward stable housing.

music experience necessary! Kerry Linhares volunteer@maybellecenter.org 971-202-7461

HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers play a large role in Transition Projects’ mission, helping us sustain key areas of our work. There are year round opportunities for both individuals and groups to get involved in weekly, on-call, or one-time volunteer roles. Our biggest volunteer need is for meal provider groups to bring healthy, nutritious dinners to our shelters. Learn more about volunteering at www. tprojects.org/volunteer. Tamara Chacon tamara@tprojects.org 503-280-4741

BRADLEY ANGLE HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Bradley Angle’s mission is to serve all people experiencing, or at risk of, domestic violence by providing safety, education, empowerment, healing and hope. We offer survivors emergency shelter, housing assistance, youth & family services, support groups, economic empowerment classes, and culturally specific support for LGBTQ survivors and Black/African American survivors. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can help survivors through Bradley Angle by assisting at GlamHer, our annual fundraising Gala, and at our annual Economic Empowerment Lunch. We also welcome volunteers at FINDpdx, our annual weekend pop-up shop. The sale offers thousands of donated new items at 50% off the lowest retail prices found online. Learn more about these opportunities and more at bradleyangle.org/volunteer. Leada Fuller-Marashi leadaf@bradleyangle.org 503-232-1528 ext. 206

MAYBELLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Maybelle Center believes that no one deserves to live in isolation. We have been building community and relationship with individuals in Old Town/Downtown Portland for over 25 years. Maybelle Center reduces loneliness and isolation by providing meaningful connection through volunteer visits, our Community Room, individual member support, and housing. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? HOME VISITING: A cornerstone program at Maybelle Center. You’ll say “hello” weekly to members in their homes or another location in the neighborhood. COMMUNITY ROOM: Simply be present to members in our Community Room. SPIRITUAL SUPPORT: We offer knitting, art, spiritual support groups on a weekly basis. COMMUNITY CHOIR: Experience community through singing - no 24

ON-THE-MOVE COMMUNITY INTEGRATION HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? On-the-Move supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in accessing their community through healthful, meaningful and environmentally responsible activities. Each day we are out in the community modeling inclusion and celebrating diversity. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking match volunteer community members with individuals with developmental disabilities for the purpose of creating and fostering reciprocal relationships and helping integrate participants into their greater community. We are looking for volunteers able to commit to a semi-longterm, but low frequency commitment. With the help of volunteers, participants expand their knowledge though our programs that inspire personal enrichment in areas like literacy and healthy relationships. Jackie Cunningham Jackie@onthemoveonline.org 503-287-0346

METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICE HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We help people move beyond the limitations of poverty, inequity and social isolation. Two of our programs engage older adults in our communities. Project Linkage provides free rides for older adults and people with disabilities. Experience Corps taps into the experience and passion of older adults to ensure that every child has a chance to succeed in school. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteer drivers with Project Linkage can help provide free rides to appointments, grocery shopping and other engagements, that help older adults stay independent and connected to their community. Volunteers age 50+ can be tutors and mentors for kids in kindergarten through third grade through our Experience corps program. Maruska Lynch maruskal@mfs.email 503-290-9427

THE REBUILDING CENTER

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The ReBuilding Center’s mission is to inspire people to value and discover existing resources to strengthen the social and environmental vitality of community. Diverting 8 tons of materials from the landfill each day, the ReBuilding Center leverage’s their people, materials, and resources to support

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community-owned actions for a more sustainable and equitable Portland. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? The ReBuilding Center offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities; from de-nailing salvaged lumber from deconstructed homes; to building tiny homes for the houseless; to writing/ photographing for the newsletter team; to helping deliver carpentry classes in our ReFind Education shop. Those looking for hands-on, creative work with flexible hours will enjoy volunteer work tailored to help people grow their skills and experience while supporting the mission of RBC. Dave Lowe volunteer@rebuildingcenter.org (971)235-1700

WORLDOREGON HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP We foster informed dialogue between neighbors (and across oceans) to create a more peaceful world— starting in Oregon! Last year, we connected thousands of Oregonians with visitors from 100+ countries, engaged over 8000 people in worldfocused events and forums, and provided cross-cultural resources to K-12 educators. Our local-to-global programs turn strangers into friends, youth into leaders, and opinions into questions. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Share your passion, skills, or home! Our volunteers support our mission in a variety of ways: by providing program assistance in-office or at events; by utilizing their professional skills (like photography or database management); or by welcoming our international visitors for a meal or for a stay in their home. Anna Schneider volunteer@worldoregon.org 503-306-5255

REACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? REACH’s mission is to create quality, affordable housing and opportunities for individuals, families and communities to thrive. REACH owns and manages a portfolio of 2,131 units of affordable housing located across the metropolitan region, including properties in Multnomah, Washington, and Clark Counties (state of Washington). REACH has also prepared and implemented three successful neighborhood improvement plans throughout Portland. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers get hands-on experience by working one-on-one with our residents and homeowners, leading workshops in buildings, executing events, completing office projects, and performing home repairs for senior citizens. Cynthia Parker cparker@reachcdc.org 971-277-7067

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? PYB offers essential services to low income youth who have dropped out of high school. We provide academics, vocational training, and long term support to these students in a full-time educational setting so they can gain useful skills and experience that will help them move beyond poverty. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? PYB needs tutors! We are a fully accredited high school serving students with a wide range of academic skill levels. Classes are taught by our own certified teachers but sometimes our students want and need additional individualized attention to progress in their academics. Tutors are generally needed mornings between 9-12. Elise Huggins elise.huggins@pybpdx.org 503-286-9350 x253

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Our vision is a community where everyone has access to the education needed to transform their lives throughout their lives. In 2017, we’ve educated 800 people in 60 courses in Portland civics, social justice and personal empowerment. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking for some specific skills: - Data analytics and interpretation and strategy: Google Analytics, FB analytics, Mailchimp email segmentation.

- Photography: Taking good class photos for marketing collateral douglas douglastsoi2.0@gmail.com 503-880-9714

GIRLS INC. OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Girls Inc. equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and to grow into healthy, educated and independent adults through educational programming in their communities. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Girls Guide volunteers are essential in facilitating our after school Girls Groups.Girls Guide volunteers are trained by Girls Inc. staff to deliver our research-based, proven curricula to help girls develop the confidence and self-esteem to access a bright and economically-independent future. Tara Porchia tara@girlsincpnw.org 503-230-0054

VILLAGE HOME EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We empower learners to take charge of their education, and foster the natural drive to learn in an innovative, choice-based community setting without grading and testing. We serve over 500 learners in Portland and Salem: most of our learners are homeschoolers who want to learn in an inclusive community setting. We offer a catalog of over 200 classes per week in all subjects for ages 4 and up. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Share

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your passion and expertise in the classroom as a facilitator of a tenor-thirty-week course that meets once a week for an hour a day; create a class of your dreams with a focus on hands-on, collaborative class experiences without a bunch of administrative burden. Experience teaching (formally or informally) is preferred, but not required. Or, Volunteer as a classroom helper to support our amazing faculty! We also need tech expertise to support our computer lab and computing resources. Lori Walker lori.walker@villagehome.org 503-597-9100

YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS BUSINESS WEEK

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Young Entrepreneurs Business Week (YEBW) provides business exposure and professional development education which is not required in high school. YEBW covers business fundamentals through weeklong experiential programs: Business Week, Finance Week, Investing Week, Marketing Week and Entrepreneur Week. These unique experiences are set on the campuses of UP, OSU and UO where students also learn about leadership, teamwork, networking, public speaking, and career paths. www.yebw.or HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Here are some ways Portlanders can make a direct impact on the next generation: ADVISER: Guide and mentor a team of students as they create mock companies, run business simulations and develop business plan presentations. JUDGE: Evaluate student business presentations and provide valuable feedback. INTERVIEWER: Provide coaching that helps students gain practical job interviewing experience and networking skills. www.yebw.org/get-involved Kyle Kavas Kyle@yebw.org 503-740-3598

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SMART (START MAKING A READER TODAY)

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We strive to foster a love of reading in PreK through third grade children, while providing essential early childhood literacy encouragement. Reading is fundamental to building a bright and successful future. With the help of volunteer readers, SMART reaches hundreds of Portland children with vital one-on-one reading support, and books for those who need them most. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can share their enthusiasm for books with children by joining us as reading mentors. They will need to be available to read for one hour per week during public school hours from now until mid-May. Staci Sutton ssutton@getsmartoregon.org 971-634-1616

THE CHILDREN’S BOOK BANK

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Did you know children from low-income households enter first grade with an average of 25 hours of one-to-one book reading, compared with 1,000+ hours for children from middle-class homes? The Children’s Book Bank provides books to children in Portlandarea households, giving families who may not otherwise have them the opportunity to experience the incredible joys and benefits of reading together. In order to process and move ~100,000 books annually into the hands of children who need them most, volunteers are needed to organize book drives, repair onceloved books, and to help sort, bundle and deliver bags and boxes of books throughout the community. Each volunteer hour ensures another family receives books! Volunteer Manager info@childrensbookbank.org 503-616-3981

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LATINO NETWORK

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We are a Latino-led education organization, grounded in culturally-specific practices and services, that lifts up youth and families to reach their full potential. Our work springs from the core belief in Latino community selfdetermination—that is, the ability of community members to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. Our programs for children and parents, youth and adults help improve community livability, foster civic participation, and prepare for educational and life success. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can help in various areas within our organization, from episodic volunteer events to ongoing commitments that are weekly. Justina Romo volunteer@latnet.org 503-283-6881

MARATHON SCHOLARS

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We raise the graduation rate of low-income, first generation college students by 5 times the national average. By matching caring adults with high-potential young people we help make the dream of a college degree a reality. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Relationships can change lives. Volunteer mentors make a 4 year long commitment to show up for a student about 4 hours per month. Our mentors offer support and encouragement in navigating the obstacles of life; opportunities for matches include Scholars aged 11-23. **Bachelor’s degree required** Molli Mitchell molli@marathonscholars.org 503-235-2500

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the futures of local K-12 students by giving them the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, plan for their futures, and make smart academic, career and economic choices.Our programs help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world, and demonstrate how learning correlates to earning. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are the backbone to our organization. We need over 4,000 volunteers each year. Volunteers can help in the classroom teaching one of our scripted programs or assist for one day at either JA BizTown or JA Finance Park. Our volunteers help transform students’ attitudes from “I can’t” to “I CAN!” and help them see what they might achieve in the future. Gina Huntington ghuntington@ja-pdx.org 9712554957

I HAVE A DREAM OREGON HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We leverage and align the resources of more than 60 public, nonprofit, and business partners at the nation’s first “Dreamer School,” Alder Elementary, as well as in the middle and high school in which Alder graduates feed into in the Rockwood neighborhood. Volunteers and community members work alongside us, students and families by providing mentoring, guidance, academic tutoring and more! HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers choose from a variety of opportunities that benefit students, parents, and school staff! Pick an opportunity that fits your lifestyle— become a mentor to a Dreamer student, volunteer as a classroom aide, speak at Career Day or host a group of middle schoolers at your place of business. Jessica Arzate jessicaa@dreamoregon.org 5623947765

ENVIORNMENT OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Volunteers play an important role in helping Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) fulfill their mission of protecting and enhancing Oregon’s fish and wildlife in Portland and throughout the beautiful state of Oregon. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers for ODFW lead guided hikes at our wildlife areas or hatcheries, give classroom presentations, teach fishing, archery or hunter education, collect & report data as a citizen scientist and represent ODFW at outreach events such as the Oregon State Fair. Learn more at http://www.dfw.state. or.us/agency/volunteer/ Darlene Sprecher darlene.m.sprecher@state.or.us 503-947-6413

FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Friends of the Columbia Gorge connects Portlanders to the unparalleled beauty of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. We organize outdoor education youth programs, lead over 100 hikes and stewardship events annually, and rally together to advocate for the conservation and protection of this treasured landscape. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Lend-a-hand at a stewardship work party, volunteer as a naturalist at our outdoor youth education programs, educate and inspire hikers about this place you care so deeply about, and many other ways to offer up your time and talents. Maegan Jossy maegan@gorgefriends.org 971-634-2028

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TUALATIN RIVERKEEPERS HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Tualatin Riverkeepers is a community-based organization working to protect and restore Oregon’s Tualatin River system. TRK builds watershed stewardship through education, public restoration, access to nature and advocacy. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteer naturalists lead students on environmental education field trips. Volunteer trip leaders guide paddlers on river trips. Restoration volunteer crew leaders direct teams as they plant natives and pull invasive species. Office volunteers ensure organizational duties are completed. Advocacy committee members steer the organization through environmental issues affecting the watershed. Margot Fervia-Neamtzu margot@tualatinriverkeepers.org 503-218-2580

FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We work in collaboration with Oregon State Parks to inspire and nurture relationships with nature. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Tryon volunteers support education, outreach and stewardship programs. Whether guiding hikes, pulling ivy, greeting visitors, building forts, or leading school field trips, our volunteer community makes Tryon Creek a unique urban forest. Amy Stout amy@tryonfriends.org 503-636-4398

SOLVE

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? SOLVE involves and connects thousands of Portland residents through hands-on, outdoor projects every year! Our community events keep our natural areas, parks, rivers and neighborhoods clean and healthy. Our volunteer projects help protect and preserve the natural areas that make Portland unique, while connecting community members to each other and to our environment through service. Projects provide a fun, easy way to get outdoors and make a difference! HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Join your community and improve our environment at an upcoming litter cleanup, community planting or invasive plant removal near you! Bring your family and friends to a Saturday project or host an event of your own. No experience is needed; supplies are provided. Get in touch today at solveoregon.org. Quintin Bauer quintin@solveoregon.org 503-844-9571 ext 321

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THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Forest Park Conservancy protects and restores Forest Park. We maintain and enhance the park’s extensive trails network, restore wildlife habitat, and inspire community appreciation and stewardship of one of the largest urban forests in the United States. Volunteers play a central role in our efforts to restore Forest Park. HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Volunteers help us repair and maintain more than 47 miles of trails, build and monitor bridges, and remove invasive species, like ivy, to plant trees and other native species. For volunteers who don’t like working outside, we always need help around the office. Robert Carr, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator rob@forestparkconservancy.org 5032235449106

FRIENDS OF TREES HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Friends of Trees’ mission is to bring people together to plant and care for city trees and green spaces in Pacific Northwest communities. We strive to make the health, environmental, and financial benefits of trees accessible to everyone! HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We need help planting trees! We plant every Saturday, 9:00am-1:00pm between November and April across the greater Portland metro region. Dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes/boots. Gloves, tools and planting guidance provided, as well as breakfast treats and hot coffee/tea. Information on this and other roles can be found on our website: friendsoftrees.org/volunteering Jenny & Randi Volunteer@FriendsofTrees.org 503-595-0213

WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? For over 20 years, Willamette Riverkeeper has been the only nonprofit dedicated to restoring, protecting, and enjoying the Willamette River. Annually we facilitate dozens of on-the-river stewardship events and volunteer opportunities while also continuing to advocate for a cleaner, healthier river. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers of all kinds can help with restoration throughout the year, including Ross Island Paddle & Pulls, monthly Trashy Tuesday river cleanups, and our annual Great WiIllamette Cleanup in October. Experienced paddlers can volunteer to help us lead on-the-water outings, including our award-winning Paddle

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Oregon weeklong river excursion in August. Learn more about your Willamette River at www. willamettteriverkeeper.org. Kate Ross Kuthe - Outreach and Education Coordinator info@willametteriverkeeper.org 503.223.5418

WORLD SALMON COUNCIL HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? World Salmon Council operates the Salmon Watch environmental education program, which serves middle and high school students in the Portland metro area. Salmon Watch hosts educational field trips and service learning projects at stream sites and natural areas. Through these activities, WSC raises awareness about environmental issues related to salmon fisheries, connects young people with nature, and increases scientific literacy. HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? World Salmon Council needs volunteers to teach on Salmon Watch field trips between SeptemberNovember. Anyone can teach on a field trip; WSC provides volunteer trainings in the summer and fall. Field trips run from 9am-3pm on school days during the fall season at stream sites in Mt. Hood National Forest, Tillamook State Forest, and the Columbia Gorge. Rachel Walsh rachel@worldsalmoncouncil.org

THE OREGON GARDEN HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Oregon Garden’s mission is to welcome and inspire visitors with an appreciation for the extraordinary ecology of the Pacific Northwest, and to provide a meaningful educational experience for gardeners of all skill levels and ages. With a commitment to sustainability, The Rediscovery Forest, managed in partnership with the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, educates and reveals insights on forest management. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? The Oregon Garden relies on volunteers to impart enthusiasm and knowledge about the Garden. Oregon Garden volunteers contribute in a variety of departments, including horticulture, visitor services, education, events and administration. Folks may volunteer as an individual, or bring a group of friends, students, co-workers, church members, etc. to volunteer. volunteer@oregongarden.org

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Meals on Wheels People has been changing lives, one meal at a time, since 1970. We provide a nutritional and social lifeline for older adults through meal sites in Multnomah, Washington and Clark counties and Meals on Wheels delivery to homebound elderly. With the help of 5,000 volunteers, the nonprofit organization now serves 5,000 meals daily and 1.1 million meals each year. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We need volunteers every weekday to deliver meals to homebound elderly. We also use corporate and civic groups to volunteer in our Central Kitchen on weekdays. Catie Ellis catie.ellis@mealsonwheelspeople.org 503-953-8101

UCP DISABILITY SERVICES

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? UCP has been committed to progress for persons experiencing disabilities for over 60 years. We provide direct support to nearly 1,000 adults, living, working, and playing within their communities. We also provide services for hundreds of families and their children who have children diagnosed with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? UCP has opportunities to volunteer and assist with events throughout the year including our Friends Breakfast (Tue, May 15, 2018), Walk, Roll ‘n’ Run (Sun, Sep. 22, 2018), Skate Nights (Two times annually, TBA), and the UCP Family Support Conference (Fri-Sat, Oct. 19-20, 2018). Gavin Johnson

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? City of Portland Sunday Parkways presented by Kaiser Permanente promotes healthy active living through a series of free events opening the city’s largest public space - its streets - to walk, bike, roll, and discover active transportation while fostering civic pride, stimulating economic development, and represents the community, business, and government investments in Portland’s vitality, livability, and diversity. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Over 250 volunteers help 15,000 to 30,000 participants per event. Volunteers help keep the event streets open by working at intersections or on bicycles along the 6-9 miles of route. Volunteers work in the parks where there are info booths, food vendors, entertainment and games. Volunteers help us in producing the event by getting supplies and other volunteers ready for the day. Phil Barber sundayparkways@axiomeventproductions.com 503-893-8793

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Central City Concern (CCC) works to end homelessness by providing housing, health care and supportive employment services to people impacted by trauma, substance use disorder, mental illness, chronic disease, and multigenerational poverty. In the last year, CCC provided a safe home for 3,510 people; connected 8,324 patients with compassionate, integrated health care services; and helped 1,000 people re-enter the workforce. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers at CCC are vital in helping to expand our ability to meet

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the needs of our community. Whether they are behind the scenes providing administrative support, assisting in our clinics or pharmacy, helping prepare a resume or job application, or leading a yoga class, volunteers play an important role in fulfilling CCC’s mission. Peter Russell peter.russell@ccconcern.org 503-200-3893

STORE TO DOOR HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Store to Door supports independent living for Portland area seniors and people with disabilities by providing an affordable, personal, volunteerbased grocery shopping and delivery service. Our vision is that the Portland area will be a community where all seniors and people with disabilities are nourished, included and can age with dignity in the setting of their own choice. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Our volunteers act as a bridge between homebound elders and the community. We have fun, meaningful, one-time or ongoing volunteer opportunities for individuals and groups. Support local elders as an order taker, shopper, or delivery driver/friendly visitor. Volunteers can also support our program administration and special projects. Antonia Rangel-Caril Antonia@StoretoDoorofOregon.org 503-200-3333

OUR HOUSE HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Our House provides a full-spectrum of services and compassionate community approach to assist those challenged with HIV, including: 24-hour residential care; supportive clinical services to those living independently; supplemental food and household items; low income housing; multiple resources; and love. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Weekly volunteers help in our residential facility by preparing and serving meals, answering phones, providing companionship, and gardening; they stock shelves and assist clients and

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Volunteers are an important part of our hospice team. They are members of the community who have chosen to devote their service and time to improving the quality of life for our patients and families during this difficult time. Your service can have a profound impact at a time when a person is nearing the end of their life, when heartfelt one-on-one connection is crucial. Our focus is on our patients. Volunteers are assigned one patient at a time, near where they live or willing to travel. Volunteers choose each assignment and make a commitment of visiting one time a week during the person’s time on hospice. The focus for a volunteer may be to provide a break for a family caregiver PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & CAMP ERIN in the home for up to 4 hours a week. During the time in the home, a volunteer might visit with the patient, process donations in our food pantry, watch a movie together, assist with a Dana Kinney project or check in during nap times. dkinney@ourhouseofportland.org Volunteers can also offer to do light 503-234-0175 house work, cook, be there to assist a patient. Your supportive presence is a ALBERTINA KERR PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & gift of time. HOW DOES YOUR When our patients live supportive CAMP ERIN ORGANIZATION HELP housing and their caregiving needs HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Kerr are provided for, the volunteer’s visit provides programs and services to PORTLAND? Providence Hospice is to focus on companionship. Read a those with mental health challenges provides expert, compassionate book, play cards, hold a hand, talk or and developmental disabilities care for individuals and families as just be a caring presence during your and empower them to lead selfthey face the end of life. Caring for visit with patients. determined lives. patients at home, it is our goal to Volunteers are screened, passing help people live life to its fullest by a criminal and drug test before HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? addressing their physical, emotional, attending an extensive 16 hour Volunteers can help in assisting with social and spiritual needs. Our grief hospice volunteer training. fundraising events, at Albertina’s support services help adults and This is an opportunity to give Place or events benefiting Albertina children following a death. comfort, time, and connection, Kerr. honoring each person,s dignity, Margaret Scafidi HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? integrity and wishes. Come learn Volunteer@AlbertinaKerr.org Following training, we match 503-231-3909 the power of holding presence and volunteer interests with patient holding a hand. needs, offering: caregiver respite, Annette Shaff-Palmer, CVA friendly visits, bedside vigils, pet CLACKAMAS hospicevolunteernw@kp.org visits, massage, veteran to veteran, VOLUNTEERS IN 503-499-5168 grief support and more. Camp Erin MEDICINE-THE volunteers support grieving children HOUSECALL ages 6-17 at free summer camp. FOUNDERS CLINIC Service area: Clackamas, Marion, PROVIDERS HOW DOES YOUR Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? counties and Columbia Gorge area. PORTLAND? Housecall Providers is Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine Jean Lyons changing health care by bringing (CVIM) is a free medical clinic in Jean.Lyons@providence.org home primary medical care and Oregon City which serves those who 503-215-4857 hospice services to Portlanders lack insurance. CVIM’s appointment with disabilities, dementia and/or based, primary care clinic provides advanced illness. the opportunity for individuals Too often, these patients go without to receive welcoming, consistent routine care. This results in and competent medical care. All KAISER PERMANENTE expensive and traumatic trips to the residents of Clackamas County who HOSPICE emergency room or the hospital. You meet federal poverty guidelines can help enhance the lives of the most HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP qualify for these services, including vulnerable among us by joining us. those who lack documentation. PORTLAND? Kaiser Permanente hospice is a non-profit hospice serving HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Our HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? volunteers provide much-needed our members and community in the Dedicated volunteers with a wide social interaction for our patients range of skills are essential to keeping greater Portland Metro Area, as well and respite and support to their as Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas our doors open and sustaining our families and caregivers. We also have and Clark Counties. medical services. Our immediate a volunteer-driven music program in need is for administrative volunteers, Hospice is a unique, patient centered, which we provide patients with MP3 team based approach to palliative trained phlebotomists and Spanish players loaded with their favorite (comfort) care for an individual with speaking medical interpreters. We music. a life-limiting illness who chooses also need volunteer doctors, nurse Additional service possibilities care in their home setting. Our staff practitioners, nurses, scribes and include: delivering birthday flowers, are experts in walking with our medical assistants. Clinics shifts are patients and families to support them helping with household chores, and available Tuesday and Wednesday providing administrative help in our on this journey. afternoons, and Thursday evenings. offices. Kaiser Permanente hospice is a Dayna Velasco Todd Lawrence Medicare and Joint Commission cvimvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com volunteers@housecallproviders.org accredited hospice. 503-722-4400 971-202-5515 HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Hospice

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SOCIAL ACTION IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? IRCO is a communitybased nonprofit that provides wraparound services to immigrants and refugees. We have 200 culturally and linguistically specific programs that served over 30,000 clients in 2016 alone. IRCO’s mission is to promote the integration of refugees, immigrants and the community at large into a self-sufficient, healthy and inclusive multi-ethnic society. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? With 200 programs, our volunteers are vital to our organization. Volunteer positions vary, but include things like tutoring, assisting in classrooms for youth or adults, teaching and playing soccer with youth, youth mentoring, and being part of our after school programs. Our volunteers provide essential skills and knowledge to fulfill our mission, meaning your time can have a real impact on people’s lives. Volunteering with IRCO can also provide a transformative opportunity to be part of a diverse group and gain exposure to different areas of social services. Sahar Muranovic saharm@irco.org 503-553-9662

NARAL PROCHOICE OREGON HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? NARAL ProChoice Oregon (NPCO) is dedicated to developing and sustaining a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every woman and person who can become pregnant the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers drive a great deal of our community organizing and movement-building work at NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon. Each volunteer who signs up has the opportunity to self-select the types of tasks they are most interested in or comfortable with, or where their expertise lies. We host volunteer opportunities year-round, from envelope stuffing, to event prep, and general needs. In addition to that, we have major volunteer needs throughout the year including our Summer Tabling program, Spring Telethon, Choice ID Phone Bank, and our Annual Gala. Cherie Martin cherie@prochoiceoregon.org 503-223-4510 ext. 13

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OPERATION NIGHTWATCH PORTLAND HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Operation Nightwatch fosters support, acceptance and trusting relationships with unhoused community members in Portland by providing hospitality. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can sign up to work at our drop-in hospitality centers, where they will hand out food and supplies, play board games and have conversations with our guests who have come in off the streets. Mikaila Smith info@operationnightwatch.org 541-905-3533

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We produce a weekly newspaper and other media to create income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Portland. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers help us run our front desk, copy edit the paper, and do a variety of other necessary tasks for events. More information and our volunteer application can be found at streetroots.org/volunteer. Caelin Miltko volunteer@streetroots.org 503-228-5657

TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES KEEP OREGON WELL

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Keep Oregon Well is a public advocacy movement designed to fight stigma associated with mental and behavioral health. Our mission is to build a trauma-informed community and give people the opportunity to learn more about mental health and stand with those who may be struggling with theirs. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Join the Keep Oregon Well Street Team! Volunteers can help by managing booths at community gatherings, staffing the Keep Oregon Well store, fighting stigma and promoting mental health awareness. Volunteers are needed throughout the year for various events, and schedules are flexible to accommodate day, evening, and weekend opportunities. More information is available at www. KeepOregonWell.com. Sai Stone SStone@TrilliumFamily.org 503-205-4364

RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Raphael House provides life-saving services to adults and children escaping domestic violence while engaging the community in nonviolent living through advocacy, education and community outreach. We offer resources and personalized support to help survivors obtain housing, employment, selfsufficiency, and safety. 28

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HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? After completing a 40-hour advocacy training, direct service volunteers provide support to participants and staff in our emergency shelter, advocacy center, and youth program. Indirect service opportunities include assisting at special events, helping with administrative tasks, and receiving donated items. Elizabeth McKeever emckeever@raphaelhouse.com 503-243-5126

LONGTERM CARE OMBUDSMAN

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Oregon Ombudsman program serves residents living in long-term care facilities by providing education, advocacy, complaint investigation and resolution. Our mission is to protect individual rights, enhance quality of life, improve care and promote dignity for residents who are aging and disabled. This is a free and confidential service provided to residents, their families, facility staff and the public. Many residents are vulnerable and are in need of a Volunteer Ombudsman to visit, learn about their concerns, and advocate for them. We are seeking dedicated individuals with a flexible schedule (4-hours a week), a caring spirit, a willingness to learn, and a desire to help others. Learn more at www. oregon.gov/ltco or 800-522-2602 Lene’ Garrett lene.garrett@oregon.gov 503-378-6303

ZAREPHATH MINISTRIES

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Zarephath supports two food programs in East Multnomah County. Zarephath Kitchen provides a midday meal six days per week for all who come, Sunday through Friday. Zarephath Pantry provides food to East County residents in need four days per week, Monday, Wednesday through Friday. See website www. zmgresham.org for hours.

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more young people engaged and voting, which is why we’ve championed reforms like Automatic Voter Registration and voter pre-registration. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We believe democracy is best when it’s volunteer-driven, so we equip folks with everything they need to knock on doors, talk to voters, help people believe in the democratic process, and more! Volunteers started the Bus, power the Bus and drive the Bus (literally and figuratively), and we’re always looking for more folks to join our team. Gnora Gumanow gnora@busproject.org 503-233-3018

RIGHT 2 DREAM TOO

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Right 2 Dream Too provides a safe place for houseless Portlanders to sleep for up to 12 hours. Hundreds of people have used R2DToo as a temporary stepping stone to housing.We exist because there are not enough shelters or

affordable housing in Portland. As a self managed rest area, houseless folks organize to keep each other safe.

activities. Each day we are out in the community modeling inclusion and celebrating diversity.

HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Running 24 hour security shifts takes a lot of people power. Come work along side our members at the front desk. Please be willing to commit to 4 hours per week for at least 3 months. We also need people with cars or trucks to pick up donations, and other occasional transportation needs. There are more ways to help - just ask! Sarah Chandler

HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking match volunteer community members with individuals with developmental disabilities for the purpose of creating and fostering reciprocal relationships and helping integrate participants into their greater community. We are looking for volunteers able to commit to a semi-longterm, but low frequency commitment. With the help of volunteers, participants expand their knowledge though our programs that inspire personal enrichment in areas like literacy and healthy relationships. Jackie Cunningham Jackie@onthemoveonline.org 503-287-0346

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HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can help the Kitchen in food preparation, cooking, cleanup. Pantry volunteers may stock shelves, interview clients, assist in client shopping, sort food donations. Other volunteer opportunities include drivers to pick-up food from specified locations, organizers for food drives, fund raising, organization promotion and Board Membership. “ Pat Cutsforth info@amgresham.org 503-667-7932

THE BUS PROJECT

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? The Bus Project engages new folks in democracy, builds a great future and empowers great people to lead it, right here in Oregon. We provide leadership development and volunteer opportunities to get folks engaged in the democratic process. We want to see

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YOUTH NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? New Avenues for Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and intervention of youth homelessness. Since 1997, our programs and services have impacted more than 20,000 young people as they work to overcome barriers, pursue their goals, and realize their potential. From supporting basic needs like meals and counseling to providing opportunities for education, job training, employment, and housing, we meet youth where they are - and help them get where they want to go. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? New Avenues welcomes volunteers in a variety of roles, including serving meals in our drop-in center, tutoring youth in our education program, career preparation and mentorship, supporting youth in SMYRC, volunteering at our events throughout the year, and more! Hana Sant hsant@newavenues.org 503-517-3900

A VILLAGE FOR ONE

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? A Village For One provides mental health services to youth who have been commercially sexually exploited and at our core believe in the power of community to support and help heal youth who have been exploited. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers at A Village For One can help with- Fundraising Committees: - Banquet Committee - Annual Giving Tree Committee - Dine to End Exploitation Committee - Marketing - Apparel Design - Donor Relations - Grant Researches/ Writers Cassie Trahan avillageforone@gmail.com 503-730-1469

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by visiting them and speaking to those involved in the child’s life. CASAs monitor the case by attending meetings and hearings, provide an objective opinion to the court, and make recommendations to ensure that each child’s need for a safe, permanent home is met as quickly as possible. Minimum age: 21. www. casahelpskids.org Susan King sking@casahelpskids.org 503-988-6528

ANGELDADS.COM HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? AngelDads provides father figures for girls and boys from ages 2-17 that do not have a father actively involved in their life. We believe every girl and boy needs someone they can think of as they would a dad, mentor, or trusted friend who will be there for them at any time. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We need great dads who would like to make a ongoing positive difference in another child’s life throughout the year. You can signup on our website at www.AngelDads.com to either volunteer as an AngelDad or to request an AngelDad for your son or daughter. Casey Wood Info@AngelDads.com 503-612-6814

PORTLAND COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We offer high quality, affordable soccer to all youth in the Portland Metro Area. Our goal is to reduce/remove the barriers that prevent many low-income and marginalized youth from being able to participate in other high cost clubs. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We can always use volunteer coaches. They need to have knowledge of the game and one year of coaching experience. We also need volunteers for our fundraising committee, Board of Directors, volunteer coordinator, event planning and event volunteers. Kurt Borchardt kurt.borchardt@outlook.com 503-780-0992

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PORTLAND? CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) trains and supports volunteers to speak up for abused and neglected children who are under court protection. Our CASAs provide a stable, caring adult presence in these kids’ lives, giving them hope for a better future by ensuring that their educational, emotional, medical and practical needs are met while they are living in foster care.

PORTLAND? Rock N Roll Camp for Girls has been empowering and amplifying the voices of girls, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth in Portland for 17 years. We provide a safe space for creative self-expression, building a community of supportive peers and mentors, that contributes to the health and vitality of the larger Portland community and especially our world renowned music scene.

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volunteers with all kinds of skill sets - instrument instructors, band managers, cooks, heavy lifters, counselors, workshop facilitators, self-defense coaches, screen printers, poster makers, ticket sellers, and so much more. We have opportunities for direct mentorship with our campers and in-direct support opportunities as well. You can give a little or a lot, either way it will make a huge difference for our campers. Tavi Berrigan tavi@girlsrockcamp.org 503-833-2953

PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION

HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Portland Tennis & Education’s mission is to empower youth, inspire families, and build communities that reach their potential. We accomplish this through one-on-one tutoring, tennis lessons, health curriculum, parent education, and focusing on overall wellness. PT&E is dedicated to the academic success and lifelong health of Portland’s underserved youth, supporting them in becoming well-rounded learners, exceptional athletes, and global citizens. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers play a dual role as coach and tutor. Coach/Tutors assist our certified coaches in tennis and fitness activities and help our scholarathletes stay focused in educational activities. Every volunteer must be willing to take initiative, respond to challenges, and be engaged and positive. No tennis experience is needed. A background check will be completed on every potential volunteer. volunteers@ptande.org 503-823-3629

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Our two Portland Ronald McDonald

Houses provide a “home away from home” for families with seriouslyill children, while they receive important medical treatment at local hospitals. Volunteer opportunities include: cooking, baking, housekeeping, front desk, children’s programming, driving, event support, and a handful of other unique roles. Jordan Boustead jordan.boustead@rmhcoregon.org 503-943-6672

2 hours a week can make a huge impact, mentoring is as simple as meeting with a young adult for 6 months. Each mentor relationship is unique – activity options are endless and the relationship is key. Flexible scheduling. Must be at least 18 and able to pass a background check. Apply here: cvision.org/mentorapp Lacey Elliott lelliott@cvision.org 503-292-4964 ext.136

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through wholesome meals, education, arts, recreation and job training programs to affirm personal worth and create more meaningful and healthier lives. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers support the mission of the program by acting as teachers, mentors, cooks, musicians, janitors, phone answerers—everything that it takes to run a program for our community’s most vulnerable young folk. We are skilled at matching your passions with our needs. Joy Cartier joy@pearmentor.org 503-228-6677

COMMUNITY VISION INC. HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Dream Builders Alliance, a Community Vision program, provides mentors for young adults experiencing disability. Mentors model how to make friends and get involved in the community. Through mentorship, young adults with disabilities grow their social skills, making it more likely for them get a job and pursue further education. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking for kind and respectful volunteers open to new experiences.

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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Project Lemonade provides free clothes and a clothesshopping experience to Portland's foster youth. Since 2011 we have served over 10,000 youth ages 5 and up with new clothes, which are provided by generous community and corporate donors. In the summer, Project Lemonade runs a 10 week internship program, employing foster teens to run the store operations and gain job skills. We are dedicated to improving the self-esteem of foster youth through our Store and Internship programs. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers are the backbone of Project Lemonade and implement almost all of the operations that enable foster youth to shop successfully. During the summer months, volunteers are busy as personal shoppers, guiding foster youth through the shopping experience, or running the check-in and check-out counters. Through the whole year, we host community and corporate groups to manage inventory; sorting donations, restocking the store, merchandising and more. In 2017, Project Lemonade's community of 750 volunteers logged over 3,000 volunteer hours! Lindsay McDonnell volunteer@projectlemonadepdx.org 971.272.7675

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OUT OF THE WOODS: A movie about one of the more bizarre stories in Portland history premiered last weekend at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Leave No Trace is based on a true story about a man named Frank, who lived in Forest Park for four years with his daughter, Ruth. The movie follows the pair’s off-thegrid years in a dugout shelter as well as their fraught re-entry into society after they were discovered by an Australian couple in 2004. So far, Leave No Trace’s reviews have been mixed, but seem to agree that Granik’s film is deeply empathetic to its main character’s unconventional parenting choices. The film has yet to be purchased by a North American distributor, so it’s unclear when Leave No Trace will screen in Portland. GUS AND JOHN: A second movie with Portland ties premiered at Sundance, and its reviews are almost universally positive. Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Gus Van Sant’s biopic about Portland cartoonist John Callahan, is apparently heart-warming. Callahan drew hilarious and often-offensive cartoons for WW for 27 years following an auto accident that left him a quadriplegic. Hollywood Reporter called the movie a “funny-sad, sweet, lovingly made tribute to a unique personality,” while the A.V. Club called it “a tearfully inspirational tribute.” Other early reviews have heralded Don’t Worry as the Portland-based director’s best movie since 2008’s Milk. Don’t Worry will premiere in Portland on May 11. KEEPING SCORE: Inner Southeast’s busiest bar district is seeing two big changes this month. The owners of Southeast Morrison stalwart Robo Taco are planning a beercade two doors east of their taqueria. As of two weeks ago, High Score is already softly open with about 20 classic machines including five pinball machines, Galaga and an Aerosmith game where you kill the fun police with righteous music. Robo Taco co-owner Jason Price says that after he gets his beer license, he plans to serve all food out of the freezer, including frozen Charleston Chew and artisanal Robo-Taco frozen burritos. >> Next to High Score, the original Bunk Sandwiches location closed without fanfare on January 15, Portland Monthly first reported. The Bunk owners plan to use the space to open a second location of Pizza Jerk. There are five other Bunk locations in Portland: on Alberta Street, downtown and at the Portland airport, Wonder Ballroom and Water Avenue.

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NO MORE BURGER BEEF: In August, Killer Burger filed a lawsuit against competing downtown burger joint Rock and Roll Chili Pit, co-owned by former partner Mark McCrary. Killer’s TJ Southard alleged theft of Killer’s Epic and Black Molly burger names and recipes. After additional allegations regarding burger-wrapping and burger-charring techniques, the burger beef appears to be almost over. Killer Burger’s attorneys dismissed all of their claims November 21 in advance of a scheduled hearing. On January 2, Chili Pit’s attorney filed a claim asking Killer Burger to pay attorney fees. On January 3, for unrelated reasons, RRCP changed its name. The Rock and Roll Chili Pit is now called Portland Burger, to better brand itself as a hamburger spot. The Flying V-shaped bar, rock and roll theme and chili burgers remain intact.

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Chicago-based musician Haley Fohr started her Circuit des Yeux project five years ago, but it wasn’t until 2017’s Reaching for Indigo that it all made sense. It is a gift for Trumpian times—incredibly emotional, dysfunctional and oddly reassuring. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

In the city’s only pop-up bar space, Small Bar will be cropping up on Northwest 23rd Avenue Tuesdays and Wednesdays only through February. Last week? They offered up Pfriem beer and a surprise serving of Ranch Pizza, unavailable everywhere else. This week? Stay tuned. Function PDX, 919 SW 23rd Ave., 971-712-3016. instagram.com/smallbarpdx.

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Through Saturday, Loyal Legion will be tapping a honking 15 beers by one of the best breweries in the state—including DAB Lab Hop Hash, Love Potion #9 choco-raspberry stout, and the ever-popular Sticky Hands. Show up early, though, because Block 15 beers tend to disappear. Loyal Legion, 710 SE 6th Ave., 503-235-8272, loyallegionpdx.com.

Portland’s Mimicking Birds are taking a page from the Menomena playbook to roll out their new album, Layers of Us, by premiering it in the OMSI planetarium, complete with a laser show. The setting should complement their subtly lush cosmic folk songs quite well. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000, omsi.edu. 6 pm. Sold out.

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F R I D AY

RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT Rennie Harris was one of the first choreographers to bring hip hop to traditional performance halls. His dance company is returning to Portland with a new narrative dance show that’s loosed based off of Oliver Twist and features a live gospel choir. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., whitebird.org. 8 pm. $25-$38.

1/27

Get Busy

S AT U R D AY

ARCO GOES DARKWAVE

FIRST AID KIT What started off as a video of two Swedish sisters performing an unaffected cover of their favorite Fleet Foxes tune on YouTube has bloomed into a widely-praised family band. New album Ruins continues to mine the golden age of folk-rock, with elegant, saccharine-sweet harmonies and tumbling acoustic guitars. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-320-0033, roselandpdx.com. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

WHERE WE’LL BE DRINKING WEIRD CIDERS AND TRIPPING ON LIGHT- UP SCULPTURES THIS WEEK . COFFEE BEER INVITATIONAL

ARCO-PDX has dazzled audiences with classical music delivered in a rock-show style for years, but it has never played actual rock music. This show gets close. It features ARCO’s classically tinged arrangements of three songs by Depeche Mode songwriter Martin Gore, plus appropriately shadowy music by the darkwavers of 20th century classical, Dmitri Shostakovich and Arvo Part. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene.org. 8 pm. $9 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Usually, “coffee beer” just means cold brew in a stout. But not at this fest: The 20 invited brewers go nuts at this one, a caffeinated competition that’ll include an Elvis-themed peanut butterbanana-bacon wheat beer from Zoiglhaus, a vanilla cream coffee beer from Deschutes and a coffee mead from Nectar Creek. Goose Hollow, 1927 SW Jefferson St., 503-288-7010. goosehollowinn.com. Noon-7 pm. $20 includes 10 tasters.

S U N D AY

1/28

2.5 MINUTE RIDE

REV. NAT’S RARE BOTTLE SALE

Profile Theater begins its season of Lisa Kron’s work with her witty, beautifully written one-person play that switches between a family vacation at middle-America amusement parks and another at Auschwitz. Artists Repertory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison St., profiletheatre.org. 2 pm. $20-$36. Through Feb. 11.

When Nat West opens up his cider cellars, shit gets weird. Along with taster trays, including a cider with an entire rhubarb pie inside it, expect bottles of cold-fermented Kingston black, vintage fermented-pineapple tepache, wine-barrel ciders, lacto ciders and stuff you’ve never even heard of. Reverend Nat’s, 1813 NE 2nd Ave., 503-567-2221, reverendnatshardcider.com. 11 am. Free.

1/29

M O N D AY

WHO READS POETRY? Fred Sasaki and Don Share, editors of Chicago’s Poetry magazine— aka just about the only poetry publication in America that actually has and pays money—will be in town promoting their anthology of essays by poetry lovers. Make sure to show up with poetry submissions wadded up in your fist. They love that. Powell’s City of books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7 pm. Free.

MINORITY RETORT Hosts Jason Lamb, Neeraj Srinivasan and Julia Ramos are reason enough to see any edition of Minority Retort. But this time, the standup showcase is also a homecoming show for LA-by-way of Portland comedian Nathan Brannon. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 8 pm. $12.

T U E S D AY

1/30

YOU’RE GOING TO SURVIVE!

ILLUMINATED WILDERNESS: MEMORY

After gut-wrenching knocks from internet trolls online, Portland writer (and Hunnymilk pop-up organizer) Alexandra Franzen decided to collect stories of failure and rebound. In a time filled with disappointment, this book is about how you might overcome it. New Renaissance, 1338 NW 23rd Ave., newrenbooks.com. 7 pm. Free.

In Portland artist Kindra Crick’s new exhibit, you can walk through a forest of glowing, giant neuron sculptures that are suspended from the ceiling. It’s ethereal, transfixing and lit AF. Littman Gallery, 1825 SW Broadway, facebook.com/littmanandwhite. Noon-5 pm. Free. Through Feb. 2. Willamette Week JANUARY 24, 2018 wweek.com

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Small Bar Pop-Up

In the city’s only pop-up bar space, Small Bar will be cropping up on Northwest 23rd Avenue Tuesdays and Wednesdays only through February. Last week they offered up Pfriem beer and a surprise serving of Ranch Pizza, unavailable everywhere else. This week and next? Stay tuned. Function PDX, 919 SW 23rd Ave., 971-712-3016. instagram.com/ smallbarpdx.

THURSDAY, JAN. 25 Block 15 by 15

Through Saturday, Loyal Legion will be tapping a honking 15 beers by one of the best breweries in the state— including DAB Lab Hop Hash, Love Potion #9 choco-raspberry stout, and the ever-popular Sticky Hands. Show up early on the weekend, though. Block 15 beers tend to disappear. Loyal Legion, 710 SE 6th Ave., 503235-8272, loyallegionpdx.com.

Cocina Casera Poblana

Fernando Otero, the chef of WW’s 2015 food cart of the year, Hole Mole, will be cooking up an intimate five-course dinner serving the foods of Puebla, Mexico—a unique cuisine mashing up Spanish, French and Arab influences. That means poblano peppers wrapped around ground pork and almonds and apricots, an insanely good mole poblano, pre-Columbian pozole with chicken, jicama salad and a lovely tres leches cake. It’s at a private house on Alberta—email holymolepdx@gmail. com for details. 7 pm. $45 BYOB.

Where to eat this week.

Trap Kitchen

8523 SE Stark St., trapkitchen.com. $-$$. The most famous pop-up soul kitchen in LA has slung food to Kobe Bryant, Dave Chappelle, and Kendrick Lamar—but the first permanent location is in Portland, serving up pineapple bowls and seriously fat “rich boy” po’boys with shrimp and salmon.

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Clay’s Smokehouse

2865 SE Division St., 503-327-8534, clayssmokehouse.com. $$. Clay’s Smokehouse has come back revitalized. Along with great saucy ribs and crazily good dessert, it’s making the platonic ideal of smoked chicken wings: tender and smoky, with a great tangy sauce.

Taqueria La Mestiza

8525 NE Fremont St., 503-572-8595. $. The Yucatan-born owners at Taqueria La Mestiza are making achingly good poc chuc and cochinita pibil out of this tiny Fremont Street taqueria— alongside relleno negro soup with sausage-wrapped egg.

Sammich

2137 E Burnside St., 503-477-4393, sammichashland.com. $. Melissa “Pastrami Zombie” McMillan is better known in Portland for her Montreal-style cured brisket. But in cold weather, order Windy City comfort in the form of a beefy, cheesy, jus-dipped, Chi-style Timbo.

The Woodsman Tavern

4537 SE Division St., 971-373-8264, woodsmantavern.com. $$-$$$. Under former Imperial chef Doug Adams, the Woodsman has entered a new golden age. Order the fried chicken, or the trout, or the pimento dip or the oysters, or... honestly, you can’t go wrong.

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HOT PLATES

Jolie Laide Vegan Takeover

Earl Ninsom’s Langbaan restaurant is travelling to Thailand for three weeks until Feb. 11. in the meantime, Vince Nguyen’s endlessly inventive, minimalist-modern Jolie Laide pop-up will take over four nights a week in the tiny backroom restaurant, with wine pairings from Castagna’s Brent Braun. This week, it’ll be an all-vegan menu like you probably haven’t seen it: chewy pears and sunchokes with a mushroom broth flavored with yeast, or seaweed crackers with charred brassica. Langbaan at PaaDee, 6 SE 28th Ave., jolielaidepdx.com. Seatings at 5:45 and 8:30 pm ThursdaySunday. $83 vegan. $95 omnivore Feb. 1-11.

SATURDAY, JAN. 26 Coffee Beer Invitational

Usually, “coffee beer” just means cold brew in a stout. But not at this fest: The 20 invited brewers, meaderies and cidermakers go nuts at this one, a caffeinated competition that’ll include an Elvis-themed peanut butter-banana-bacon wheat beer from Zoiglhaus, a vanilla cream coffee beer from Deschutes and a coffee mead from Nectar Creek. Goose Hollow, 1927 SW Jefferson St., goosehollowinn.com. Noon-8 pm. $20 includes 10 tasters.

SUNDAY, JAN. 27 Rev. Nat’s Rare Bottle Sale

When Nat West opens up his cider cellars, shit gets weird. Along with taster trays, including a cider with an entire rhubarb pie inside it, expect bottles of cold-fermented Kingston Black, vintage fermented-pineapple tepache, wine-barrel ciders, lacto ciders and stuff you’ve never even heard of. Reverend Nat’s, 1813 NE 2nd AVe, 503-567-2221, reverendnatshardcider.com. 11 am.

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Few people ever got to drink the excellent cider made by Hedgerow Cidery’s Robert and Opal Morrow, who planted 58 varieties of cider apple on their tiny farm outside Salem. But one of them was Portland Cider Company’s Jeff Parrish. When Hedgerow closed two years ago, Parrish bought not only the entire harvest of apples, but Hedgerow’s last production batch of cider, bottling it as Union Jack and selling it for $13 in large-format bottles. It’s round, uncarbonated, wildly tannic and unlike any other in the state. It’ll also probably never exist again. But Portland Cider Company cidermaker Deron Davenport also used the Morrows’ cider apples for a new batch. The resulting cider took eight months to make, and when it was done the result was a whopping 10-percent alcohol with almost no sugar—tannic, dry and boozy. He balanced it with dessert-apple cider to make a pleasant 7.2-percent English Pub cider with a bit of sweetness, a bit of wildness and a lot of depth at the back of the palate. This is the only batch with Hedgerow’s apples: Next year’s English Pub will be made with apples from a two-acre farm near Sherwood whose cider Parrish used to buy off a pick-up truck. Each year’s batch will get a little more tannic, says Davenport, as customers’ palates adjust. To pick up a bottle of Union Jack or the current year’s Hedgerow-apple cider, you’ll need to stop by Portland Cider Company’s taproom on Southeast Hawthorne. The Morrows are selling their farm, so that wild mix of apples might not be a flavor you taste again anytime soon. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

LINDSEY BOLLING

REVIEW

TURN(IP)T: Joshua Dorcak’s menu focuses on wild, foraged vegetables, like this braised sesame turnip poke with pickled chanterelles.

Rogue of the Week JOSHUA DORCAK IS TRYING TO CREATE DISTINCTIVE CUISINE IN SOUTHERN OREGON, ONE OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST FORAGING GROUNDS. BY E R IC A G O L D E N

Everyone dreams of “going rogue” and leaving their day job for something unconventional. Joshua Dorcak took the risk. Dorcak is a forager and the chef behind MÄS, Southern Oregon’s first and only pop-up restaurant. Dorcak has a big advantage over Portland chefs: Sunny Southern Oregon is famously friendly to a wide and abundant assortment of natural plants—the region has more wild edibles than almost anywhere. It’s also not picked over. As far as he knows, no other Southern Oregon chefs source their entire menu solely from foraged ingredients, meaning Dorcak’s rural, foraging terrain around Ashland is his for the plucking. “There’s a huge bounty of medicinal plants, herbs and, of course, mushrooms,” Dorcak said. His meals focus on what’s available in the present environment, in season, with top priority going to the freshest wild ingredients. From those ingredients, Dorcak fashions meals that are 10 to 12 courses. He takes a dozen reservations for each meal—sometimes a few more. One of those guests was Marcelo Lima, a Portland food scenester who connected with Dorcak at a Portland food festival where he won the Iron Chef Oregon title and accepted an invitation to come down and eat. “Josh’s food was deliciously exquisite,” Lima said. “A chestnut and uni dish; and a foie, quince and grape dessert were my favorite courses,” Lima said. “It was a great and memorable experience.” Dorcak’s food is nothing if not intentional. His plates tend to be minimalistic, with lots of fermentation and a light Japanese inflection. Dorcak spends his days

researching edibles, foraging materials for his private dining events and stockpiling the components of his portable kitchen. Much like Ryan Roadhouse of Nodoguro, he’s heavily influenced by Japanese omakase, where the chef composes a meal from top to bottom, and the diners sit down and go for a ride. “It’s a blind experience,” he continued. “It’s my opportunity to prove my vision. What I think we should be eating and how we should be eating it.” In other words, Dorcak is trying to establish a distinctive idea of Southern Oregon cuisine. He drives backroads

and takes long hikes, paying attention to what the weeds are doing. “It’s these petite leaves and time stamps,” he says. “To bring it all back to today, this was found today and tomorrow it’s going to be gone or different.” Ashland is his inspiration—the city off I-5, just 15 miles north of the California border, is where two mountain ranges collide. “We’re in a very interesting area because we have two ranges: the Cascades and the Siskiyous,” Dorcak says. “They’re totally different soil types; there’s totally different things that grow in them.” Edible plants that grow wild on the land all have a different character than even the most carefully grown agricultural products, he says. “I think there’s this wabi-sabi beauty effect of these weathered ingredients…they’re exposed, and I find that’s character,” Dorcak said. Dorcak has the chops to get the most out of those ingredients. After randomly choosing to attend culinary school, he spent several years on the job in the Bay Area. Once he learned the mechanics of running a kitchen, he realized he didn’t want to climb the usual ladder in the back of the house. “I could never work for someone else again,” he says. “I could show up to work on time, and do a good job, but I’d just be full of resentment.” GO: Meals on Sunday and Monday, at MÄS, 59 N Main St., Ashland. Meals are $85 per person. Book at exploretock.com/mas.

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MUSIC

EVERYTHING XAN: Lil Xan.

Old Man Yells at SoundCloud AN AGING HIP-HOP FAN AND WW’S RESIDENT HYPEBEAST DEBATE THE NEW SOUND OF RAP. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R a nd WALK ER M AC M URD O

It’s a weird time in music in general, and specifically in hip-hop. First, there’s the emergence of Bhad Bhabie, the “Cash Me Outside” girl from Dr. Phil. Second, there’s the rapid ascent of so-called “SoundCloud rap.” Named for the platform that spread it—a decade-old music site where users upload songs, like YouTube for independent musicians—SoundCloud rap has become a genre in and of itself. The songs typically use simplistic, subdued beats, often with snippets of strings and sometimes complemented with emo chords, paired with lyrics that ping-pong between braggadocio and nihilism, with lots of sex and odes to heavy narcotics thrown in. This week, Lil Xan comes to the Hawthorne Theatre. Xan is a ninth-grade dropout from Redlands, Calif., whose babyface and gentle eyes are offset by his facial tattoos. What is the merit of this stuff ? To find out, I posed some questions to WW’s in-house youth culture expert, Walker MacMurdo. Here’s our debate about the merits of SoundCloud rap, and whether teenagers should get facial tattoos. Martin Cizmar: So you genuinely like this stuff? I tried listening to it, and I could not get over the fact that it was straight garbage, Lil Uzi Vert being the worst, I think. Walker MacMurdo: Well, the fact that you call Uzi a SoundCloud rapper shows just how out of your element you are, my old, washed friend. Cizmar: Well, I literally started on the SoundCloud chart and listened to everything and Lil Uzi Vert had like four tracks in the Top 50. I put in the work, dude. I tried. MacMurdo: Yes, I like this stuff. I think that there are rap-

pers in the SoundCloud rap genre that are very good and that the movement, however long it may last, has artistic merit. Cizmar: Artistic merit? It’s just dudes trying to sound like Lil Wayne but without the charisma to pull it off. It’s all about pain pills and money and getting women. MacMurdo: The classic “Rap is just, ‘Yo, yo, yo/Bitches and hoes!’” argument. Yes, the music tends towards repetition and simplicity, but that’s it’s power. SoundCloud rap is best understood as the second wave of another much maligned sub-genre of music that was criticized for brutish aggression, ignorance and bone-headed simplicity— nu metal. SoundCloud rap is about tapping into your most simple, honest, vulnerable, teenage feelings without pretension. Cizmar: But these dudes are not teenagers. They’re all in their mid-20s. Or early 20s, at minimum. This is not streetwise storytelling. It’s childish. How old was Ice Cube when he wrote “Boyz n the Hood”? Nineteen? Snoop was 22 when “Murder Was the Case” came out. MacMurdo: And I wonder what old-ass people had to say about that when it came out? And how old was he when his very smart, sophisticated track “Ain’t No Fun” came out? Cizmar: Yeah, see, I think this “old people don’t like things the kids like” is the entire defense of SoundCloud rap. Music critics from places like the New York Times are so scared to call bullshit on this and look old that they’re just letting the

abjectly terrible and stupid music go totally unchallenged. “Benz Truck,” by Lil Peep, is one of the most absurdly fucking stupid songs ever put out. This is a real testament to how far hip-hop has come, where any legitimate critic is too scared to call bullshit lest they look “old” and “washed.” MacMurdo: Lil Peep was an incredible musician, and he would’ve been absolutely massive had he not died so young. Think about it—emo rap. The fact that someone had the temerity to turn Modest Mouse and Mineral songs into beats, and then find someone to rap about their vulnerabilities over it, and for that rapper to make it sound cool and badass instead of corny, is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It should’ve been awful, beyond awful. But it’s so good. Cizmar: If they even really talked about their vulnerabilities, maybe. I mean, it’d still be middle-class white idiots whining about girls who wouldn’t fuck them, but maybe there would be a case. But Lil Peep was just talking about opioids and luxury SUVs. MacMurdo: That’s what Future raps about. And no one denies Future’s pain. So why deny Peep’s? When someone says, “Used to want to kill myself/Came up, still want to kill myself” and then they die of a drug overdose at 21 years old right as they were blowing up, how can you say “lol, poser”? Perhaps you just object to the visual element of the genre? Cizmar: Do you know the No. 1 song on SoundCloud right now? 6ix9ine’s “Gummo.” MacMurdo: I didn’t know that “Gummo” was No. 1 but it is deservedly so because that song is incredible— pure aggression. Cizmar: Do they get bonus points for having a bunch of random letters and numbers including lots of X’s and Y’s in their name? You’d be MACCCMUR3R. MacMurdo: The intro to “Gummo” makes me want to put my fist through a wall. I’ve listened to it probably 40 times in the past three weeks. I listened to it like an hour before this convo. I’ve had the chorus stuck in my head for a month. It’s the ”Break Stuff” of this generation. Cizmar: You realize that “Break Stuff ” was a fucking joke, right? MacMurdo: Yes, of course, it still fucking rules, though! Is there anything else we need to discuss with this? Cizmar: My strong belief is that these impressionable young people who are cursed with this being the music of their generation—much as Korn was foisted upon me rather than Nirvana— should be warned not to get their faces tattooed. I feel really strongly about that. Can we agree on that? MacMurdo: Look, it’s none of my business if someone wants to get a face tattoo or not. I grew up in the late ’90s and early 2000s as a chubby kid in a weird, lower-middle-class family, and my parents got very acrimoniously divorced when I was in third grade. I had to deal with all of the sadness and anger from that situation somehow, even though I was far too young to have any idea how to do so, let alone smart enough to know how to do so. “Dumb, shitty, simplistic” music from Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Deftones helped me deal with my crappy childhood, and I see a lot of the aesthetics of that time reflected in SoundCloud rap. Sure, some of this stuff sounds simple, but if you’re a kid or young adult and you’re having a shitty time, you aren’t wrong or an asshole for liking this music even if people think it’s dumb or irresponsible or whatever. In 20 years, some shitbag music critic will be writing this exact same column reminiscing about the good old days of the late 2010s while debating the merits of SkaGoth or whatever else is next. And if you play your cards right, that shitbag music critic could be you. R AV E N P E A R S O N

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Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Nicki Bluhm

[AMERICANA] Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter calls his ninth studio album, Gathering, “a record full of storms.” His new material, full of punchy drums and thoughtful guitars, reflects on the complex relationship between joy and woe through pitter-pattering country ballads and rumbling folk-rock anthems. The end result is something like a rainbow born from a thunderstorm, exploring the full spectrum of human emotion. LAUREN KERSHNER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $35 advance, $37.50 day of show. All ages.

Maarquii, Pleasure Curses, Schaus

[HEAVY PETTY] Maarquii is the singing, rapping alter-ego of Chanti Darling dancer Marquise Dickerson, though really, there doesn’t seem to be much “altering” going on. While Dickerson’s drag background gives the project a performative flair, the lyrics are often all-too-real, drawing from an unabashedly black, defiantly queer point of view—just the perspective Portland needs more of. He’s poised for a big year, and he’ll officially kick it off here with the premiere of a new video. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $8. 21+.

Circuit des Yeux, Lori Goldston

[HYPER-MODERN FOLK] See Get Busy, page 31. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Passion Pit

[ADDLED ANTHEMS] Musicians have been wringing songs from emotional turmoil since the dawn of time, but few have proven to be as reliable in plumbing the depths of their inner darkness as Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos. Last year’s Tremendous Sea of Love builds on his legacy as a crusader against the stigma of bipolar disorder by giving away the record to fans who re-tweeted neuroscientist Michael F. Wells’ tweet on the importance of mental health science and research. The album also continues to mine the classic Passion Pit sound, swinging frantically between signature synth-pop bangers and somber ballads. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. $35 general admission, $45 reserved balcony seating. All ages.

FRIDAY, JAN. 26 Wallows, Strange Ranger

[INDIE BOY-BAND] At first glance, Wallows are an enigma. They have only released four tracks on major streaming platforms, yet are somehow already headlining their own international tour and selling merch for more than $50. Maybe the band’s out-of-nowhere success has something to do with the discovery that the group contains two child actors, Braeden Lemasters and

First Aid Kit, Van William

[FOLK] See Get Busy, page 31. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave, 971230-0033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal

[SCUM AND VILLAINY] Let’s address the elephant in the room right up front: At a radio show in Los Angeles last month, Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme walked to the edge of the stage and casually, viciously kicked a female photographer in the face. It was unconscionable, inexcusable, and also bafflingly out of character. Though his music often leads from the loins, Homme has presented himself throughout his career in opposition to the macho aggression of hard rock; there’s a reason they’re not called “Kings of the Stone Age,” after all. (I’ve also seen him stop shows, Fugazi-style, to berate the rowdy bros in his own audience.) He’s apologized twice for the assault, without offering an explanation for his behavior. The whole thing has left a blot on what should be a victory lap for the band, touring in support of last year’s Villains, their retroactively apropos seventh album. In the aftermath of the incident, Homme has said, cryptically, that he’s “gonna have to figure out some stuff.” Whatever that means, it’s hard to imagine he can figure it out from the road, but here’s hoping he

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Dylan Minnette, whose collective credits include Lost, Six Feet Under and Scandal. Time will tell if the early attention is solely due to their IMDB record, but the LA-based trio’s music ain’t bad. It falls into the realm of surf pop, filled with airy guitar, catchy vocal melodies and hi-fi production. In other words, it’s pretty much what you would expect after handing welloff young adults some instruments and a record deal. SETH SHALER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 5 pm. $15. 21+.

Luna, Daydream Machine

[ATMOSPHERIC ROCK] Rolling Stone once deemed Luna “the best band you’ve never heard of.” A spin-off of Dean Wareham’s Galaxie 500, the band layers mellow guitar riffs over Wareham’s Lou Reedesque vocals. Following a 13-year gap between albums, Luna churned out two new works in September. A Sentimental Education is a collection of underplayed covers, featuring deep-cuts by Bob Dylan and David Bowie, while their instrumental EP, A Place of Greater Safety, manufactures a smooth soundscape of vocal-less dream-pop. Though the double release of new material is enough to suffice for now, let’s hope we don’t have to wait another decade before hearing more. LAUREN KERSHNER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. 21+.

THURSDAY, JAN. 25 Surfer Blood, Terry Malts

[CRASHING WAVES] Since a sophomore slump and frontman John Paul Pitts’ legal trouble burst the bubble of hype surrounding their fantastic 2010 debut Astro Coast, Surfer Blood is finally ready to accept their diminished festival lineup font size and plan accordingly. Last year’s mini-LP Snowdonia finds the Florida quintet adding classic-rock boogie and doses of psychedelia to their formula, culminating in a chilled-out surf-pop sound that keeps inching closer and closer to the dreamy jangle of peers like Real Estate and Beach Fossils. PETE COTTELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

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John Maus, Holy Shit [WEIRD POP] John Maus isn’t for everyone. His songs can be erratic, poorly recorded and challenging to listen to. But there’s a desperation to the compulsive nature of his music that feels intimate, compelling and hard to dismiss. The experimental auteur’s aesthetic lies somewhere between Brian Eno’s scrapped B-sides, ’80s teen movies and the music you might hear in an episode of The Smurfs when the camera pans to Gargamel’s castle right as a crack of lightning splits the sky. Still, Maus’ catalog isn’t without beauty. “Hey Moon,” off 2011’s We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves, is melodic, haunting and elegant. His latest album, the dark and lo-fi Screen Memories, is filled with tinny, 8-bit video-game inspired sounds that match well with Maus’ earnest baritone. Honest, jarring and revealing, the songs on Screen Memories feel like a feverish investigation into fear and desire. While it might be tempting to categorize Maus as inaccessible or pretentious, make no mistake—there’s a special kind of honesty flowing through these songs. His shows, too, can be intense, even uncomfortable. He’s been known to headbang, pogo or suddenly start howling. You won’t want to miss it, so start monitoring Craigslist now. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895. 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 25. Sold out. 21+.

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Next in Line JEN CLOHER HAS WAITED FOR HER MOMENT. IT JUST ARRIVED. The Australasia invasion has gifted the States a host of bands over the years. Acts like Lorde, Vance Joy and Tame Impala have become household names, while the likes of Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding and Methyl Ethel are busy following suit. Melbourne’s Jen Cloher, meanwhile, has been patiently waiting in line for a while now. But 2018 just might be her year. The product of a particularly strong Aussie DIY scene, Cloher, 44, has been writing music since the mid-1990s. She loved singing three-part harmonies as a kid, but it wasn’t until acting school that she started bumping into songwriters and decided to pick up the guitar. “The idea that you could write and perform your own songs appealed to me,” she said via email. “You could be a fully self-sufficient creative universe.” Such a personal approach to songwriting earned Cloher a fair amount of fame in her home country. As Jen Cloher and the Endless Sea, she was nominated for best female artist for the group’s dark and folky debut, Dead Wood Falls, and was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize in 2013 for her alt-rock effort, In Blood Memory. She penned heartbreaking albums like Hidden Hands, about losing her mother to Alzheimer’s. Yet Cloher remains largely known outside Australia as the partner of Courtney Barnett, whose deadpan, Dylan-esque indie-pop has stretched well beyond the range of influence Cloher is accustomed to. Watching your significant other—14 years your junior—burst onto the scene is one thing. Watching her nonchalantly turn out a pair of adored records, a Saturday Night Live performance and an acclaimed collaboration with Kurt Vile is enough to inspire teeth-grinding envy. But beyond a brief bout with jealousy, Cloher couldn’t be happier—or producing better music. “It’s good not to focus on your own music all the time,” she says. “I love watching other people’s music connect with an audience and flourish.” Cloher has certainly done just that, thanks to the successes of bands under her Milk Records label and opening for Barnett’s tour with Kurt Vile last year. But 2018 promises to be Cloher’s biggest year to date thanks to her fourth and strongest album, Jen Cloher, released in late 2017. The record feels like the slow-burning marriage of the Kills and PJ Harvey. It’s the work of an artist who’s comfortable in her own shoes, mixing the punk-ish edge of her early years with veteran songwriting prowess. As they typically do, Cloher’s lyrics stand out. “I’ve spent a lot of time wondering what I should be doing,” she sings on “Shoegazers.” “Success is a slippery eel that keeps on moving/It has nothing to do with making music.” Cloher is on the cusp of headlining a tour of her own. Many of the American dates are already sold out. Whether Barnett’s influence has anything to do with that isn’t really the point. Cloher has put in the hours, currently holds the floor and just wants you to listen. MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Jen Cloher plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Mia Dyson, on Friday, Jan. 26. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 24, 2018 wweek.com

MUSIC does. MATTHEW SINGER. Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 300 N Winning Way, 503-235-8771. 8 pm. $39-$49. All ages.

SATURDAY, JAN. 27 The Octopus Project, New Fumes

[PSYCH-POP] Experimental-electro band the Octopus Project are constantly evolving. One Ten Hundred Thousand Million, from 2005, is an entirely instrumental album made up of fuzzy synths, electronic groans and big-hearted drumming. On last year’s Memory Mirror, however, the Project sounds like a different band entirely. Over the past decade, they’ve added vocals, leaned more heavily on guitars and started building in hooks without losing their playful spirit. Growing is hard, and bands often fail when they change their sound as drastically as the Octopus Project has, but they’ve pulled it off. In any version of itself, the band is worth your time. JUSTIN CARROLLALLAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 503-328-2865. 9:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

DATES HERE beats. PATRICK LYONS. Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 300 N Winning Way, 503-235-8771. 6:30 pm. $32$150. All ages.

SUNDAY, JAN. 28 Moorea Masa & the Mood, Blossom, Siren & the Sea

[SINGER-SONGWRITER SOUL] Portlanders have likely heard Moorea Masa’s gifted vocals, whether it be her work with Ural Thomas and the Pain or backing up a touring act like the NationalRamona Falls supergroup El Vy. Her own project echoes the soulfulness of many of the acts she’s collaborated with, plus a jazz-kissed, formative R&B element circa the early 1960s. Masa is the go-to choice for a revolving cast of musicians in need of Amy Winehouse-esque backing vocals, but hopefully we’ll see her settle in again with the Mood as she did with 2016’s strong LP, The Garden. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Flying Hair, Sea Moss, Floom

The Flesh Eaters

[LA PUNK] Chris Desjardins is amongst the now-legendary class of great LA punk singers like Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Darby Crash and Henry Rollins. His blistering howl and rockabilly swagger gave the Flesh Eaters an impeccable cool, with an accessibility that was missing from some of the other big names of the early ’80s punk scene. He’s enlisted an all-star band for this tour, including John Doe and DJ Bonebrake from X, the Blasters’ Bill Bateman and Dave Alvin and Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. If hearing the seminal Flesh Eaters LP A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die played live isn’t reason enough to part with $20, consider the inclusion of, like, nine other badasses you read about in the LA punk oral history We’ve Got the Neutron Bomb. CRIS LANKENAU. Dante’s, 350 West Burnside, 503-226-6630. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples

MONDAY, JAN. 29 The Wombats, Future Feats, Nation of Language

[APPLE COMMERCIAL INDIE] English pop-rockers the Wombats have mastered the art of making rock music benign enough to sell the newest MacBook. Many bands have had songs in a commercial or two, but rarely do they have the staying power of the Wombats. That’s because their lyrics, sung with the class-clown charm of Matthew Murphy, are disarmingly funny and display a self-awareness usually lacking in bands that land a lot of licensing deals. Just listening to this year’s single, “Cheetah Tongue,” with its big, bright, keyboard-driven sound, proves their allure. You might scoff at first, but you’ll be dancing by the second chorus. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages. MICHAEL THAD CARTER

[CALI ALT-RAP] These two mid-20s products of the Odd Future diaspora already had good things going for them before last year. Tyler had moved on from his blood-and-guts-obsessed early days, instead vying to match the compositional eclecticism of his idols Pharrell and Roy Ayers. Vince Staples, meanwhile, has emerged as the sharpest young commentator in rap, packing both his verses and tweets with valuable insights. Enter Flower Boy and Big Fish Theory, their respective 2017 albums. The former brings Tyler’s maturation full circle, while The latter finds Vince saying more with fewer words, sloganeering and prophesying over Detroit-house-inspired

[HEAVY PSYCH ROCK] Los Angeles quartet Flying Hair play a very fun, strange, high-energy psychedelic rock that manages to straddle the exuberance of the Oh Sees, the riffage of Dead Meadow, the drive of Uncle Acid and the gonzo explorations of Oneida. It’s easy to imagine the show will be as sweaty as it sounds, with no shortage of smiles. Want to see your new favorite band play to 20 people so you can say that you were there? This is your big chance. NATHAN CARSON. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

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MUSIC Viet Rahm, Planet What, Ghost Frog, Body Mask

[SURF-GRUNGE] A genre hybrid eliciting a grand urge to thrash about, the surfy garage meets angsty grunge feel of Oklahoma duo Planet What is reminiscent of a much more fun-loving and carefree time, despite the vindictive nature of some of their lyrics. That same addictive energy can be found in their tourmates, the more punk-ridden Chicagoans Viet Rahm, who’ll bring about a strange desire to try skateboard tricks even if you’ve never touched a board in your life. CERVANTE POPE. The Know, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. $8. 21+.

Voices of Light

Isata Kanneh-Mason

[PIANO RECITAL] The American classical solo piano recital circuit has long been dominated by white pianists playing repertoire overwhelmingly composed by white Europeans. That’s starting to change, as this Portland Piano International performance by Isata Kanneh-Mason demonstrates. The young, gifted and black 21-yearold British pianist’s program includes music by 19th-century Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and a new piece commissioned from Portland’s own African-American jazz piano master and composer Darrell Grant that draws on Coleridge-Taylor’s piano works, based on West African folk themes and African-American spirituals. BRETT CAMPBELL. Portland Pianos, 8700 NE Columbia Blvd., 503775-2480. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 26. Free. All ages.

Brahms’ First Symphony

[CLASSICAL] Johannes Brahms took 21 years to compose his First Symphony, in part because he was a perfectionist, and also because he felt he was in competition with Beethoven. The result is 45 minutes of top-shelf, moody 19th century classical. Austrian guest conductor David Danzmayr leads visitor Benjamin Beilman—who makes his Oregon Symphony debut on his 1709 Stradivarius—in a rousing “Turkish” Violin Concerto No 5 from Mozart. The real sauce tonight, though, is the opening Concertgeblass from modern German composer Detlev Glanert, a four-minute opening blast featuring a rambunctious 12-piece brass ensemble and percussion. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, Jan. 27-29. $24-$115. All ages.

Arco Goes Darkwave

[DARKWAVE CLASSICAL] See Get Busy, page 31. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 27. $10 advance, $15 at door. 21+.

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CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD [LIVE FILM SCORE] Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost for decades when the original print was consumed in a warehouse fire. When a copy of the original print was discovered decades later, New York composer Richard Einhorn was inspired to create a new score for it. Einhorn’s mesmerizing 1994 score/oratorio, Voices of Light, earned its own acclaim. One of the most impressive performances was led in New York by young conductor David Hattner, who now leads Portland Youth Philharmonic. With help from Northwest Film Center, he’s bringing the film and a live performance of its score by PYP’s chamber orchestra Camerata PYP, the superb female vocal ensemble In Mulieribus and Portland State University’s award winning Chamber Choir, Vox Femina and Man Choir. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 26. $10-$60. All ages.

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Tokyo Riffs AFTER A-10 YEAR ABSENCE, JAPAN’S GREEN MILK FROM THE PLANET ORANGE RETURN TO THEIR SECOND HOME. If you were active in the local club scene in the mid-aughts, you’d be forgiven for thinking Green Milk From the Planet Orange was from Portland. Between 2004 and 2006, the Japanese prog-rock trio played a half-dozen frenetic, window-shattering affairs at now-forgotten local stages—one memorable show saw them draw a severely over-capacity crowd to the Tube in Old Town. Then the band flew home to Tokyo and went dark for nearly a decade. Nearly 10 years after the release of band’s last album, 2007’s You Take Me To the World, a new recording appeared on Bandcamp. Appropriately, it’s called “Phoenix.” “Every one of us put maximum power into this tune,” writes the guitarist simply known as “Dead” K in an email. “And I was always thinking about rebirth in 2016, about my personal life and GMFTPO. So I wanted to tell my feelings to people in this song.” Going by single alphanumeric monikers, K and drummer A initially formed Green Milk in 2000. In the beginning, the band played in a more psychedelic jazz mode, eventually growing into their own with a more frenzied and drawn-out style of heavy rock, with expansive songs that often broke the 15-minute mark. “When we started GMFTPO, we were into Pink Floyd and experimental music more, I think,” K explains. “Then we got blood from Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and also some new wave bands. Now our music is inspired by heavy metal, I think.” The pinnacle of the band’s recording career was 2005’s City Calls Revolution, a master class in amphetamine-addled psych that came out on Portland’s own Beta-lactam Ring Records. Those mid-aughts tours put the band on small stages across the world, surrounded by crowds who marveled at drummer A’s powerful, relentless, ricocheting technique. K also stood out by playing his guitar sitting in front of his collection of effects pedals. K describes “Phoenix” as the first song of the “new Green Milk,” which now features bassist Wadamori Yu. The song is quite a journey. Over 13 minutes, it manages to capture the essence of past Green Milk endeavors, and prove that no energy has been lost in the interim. And now, we get to see the band live again sooner than expected. “We were going to do a tour again in the US when we put out a new album. But we got a very good offer to play at a secret party in New York, so we could decide to do a tour on this time,” K says. “We really appreciate the person who invited us.” Whoever that was, we appreciate them, too. NATHAN CARSON.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. JAN. 24 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Daystar; Phil Ajjarapu and His Heart Army

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3003 SE Milwaukie Ave Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival: Iktus Duo

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Nicki Bluhm

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Maarquii, Pleasure Curses, Schaus

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Circuit des Yeux, Lori Goldston

Teutonic Wine Company

3303 SE 20th Ave Trio Uncontrollable

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Star Club, Wave Action

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Wednesday Night Zydeco

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Meringue, Watershed Group, Erin Cooper

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Mise, Matthew Zeltzer, Joseph Hein

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St Luna, Daydream Machine

THU. JAN. 25 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Howard Jones

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Wicked Shallows; James Low

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Meshuggah, Code Orange and Toothgrinder

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St GUN, Tiger Touch, Bad Sex, Erik Anarchy

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Magic Giant

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Anti-Flag, Stray from The Path

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Phone Call, Night Heron, Colin Jenkins

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Metropolitan Farms, Plastic Shadow, Milstone Grit

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St My Proper Skin, YouVees, Luna Vista

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave L Ø V E J Ø Y, Forty Feet Tall, Bitches of the Sun

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Surfer Blood, Terry Malts

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave John Maus, Holy Shit

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Passion Pit

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave Harvey Brindell & The Tablerockers

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St 1969 (Stooges tribute), Craftwork (Kraftwerk tribute)

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St The Get Ahead and Sam Ravenna

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Violent Party, Terminal Conquest, Gaasp

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St A Certain Smile, Risley, Pacific Latitudes

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Ritchie Young & the Dead Lovers, Robin Bacior

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 Plankton Wat, Dolphin Midwives, Paper Upper Cuts

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Nicolai Carrera & the Celebrators, Willow House

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St Rebel Souljahz

FRI. JAN. 26 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Bonfire (AC/DC tribute)

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St David Grisman Quintet

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Madjesdiq

American Legion Post #134

2104 NE Alberta St The Vardaman Ensemble, The Other Place, Eaton Flowers, Road Kill & thePricks

Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St Mustn’t’s (aka Kilroy)

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Voices of Light

Kelly’s Olympian

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Jen Cloher

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St Mos Generator, Disenchanter, Phantom High

LaurelThirst Public House

Lombard Pub

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Wallows, Strange Ranger

High Water Mark Lounge

SouthFork

The Blue Room Bar

8218 N. Lombard St MIni Blinds, Gentle Bender

The Fixin’ To

2845 SE Stark St Jujuba

The Fixin’ To

4605 NE Fremont The Michael Raynor Trio

The Goodfoot

8145 SE 82nd Ave The Electric Brit

8218 N. Lombard St Sparkle Princess Forever, The Put Outs

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd ThirstyCity: Label Launch/ Cassette Release

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Dirty Fences, Mean Jeans, Acid Wash

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Newport Nightingales; Quiet Type, Matthew Fountain

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys; Freddy & Francine, Beth Wood 3100 NE Sandy Blvd Boy Harsher, Soft Metals, Warm Hands

147 NW 18th Ave Telemannia!

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd The Sellwoods, The Freaks Of Nature, The Knights Of Trash, The Reverberations

Veterans Memorial Coliseum

300 N Winning Way Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal

SAT. JAN. 27 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms’ First Symphony 250 NW 13th Avenue Shelly Rudolph 1028 SE Water Ave The Octopus Project, New Fumes

Community Music Center

3350 SE Francis Street Isata Kanneh-Mason

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Weekend At The Crystal, Night #2: ‘80s Tribute Bands

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Flesh Eaters

Jack London Revue

830 E Burnside St Queen Chief, Fire Nuns

Doug Fir Lounge

Wonder Ballroom

WEAPONS OF MASSEDUCTION: Annie Clark did it for the ’gram. It’s possible that she didn’t deliberately design her Fear the Future Tour for maximum social media shareability. But given the themes of Masseduction, her latest album as St. Vincent, which she played front-to-back at Keller Auditorium on Jan. 20, that hardly seems like a coincidence. This was a show that looked, and felt, lusciously online—with all the artificiality that implies. Some critics have dismissed the show as “all style and no substance,” but in the case of St. Vincent, style is the substance. Clark, dressed like a go-go space heroine from a ’70s sci-fi flick, opened with 40 minutes of greatest hits. Playing alone against prerecorded backing tracks, with minimal stage dressing, there was nothing to distract from her guitar playing, which could shift, sharply, from gentle caress to violent chokehold. It was the second half of the set, containing the entirety of Masseduction, that the show’s visual element took over. On a video screen above her, visual non-sequiturs—a blue telephone-shaped cake, a translucent lime green body bag—looped like videos from Andy Warhol’s secret Vine page. Masseduction is maybe not the best St. Vincent album. But as an album that posits the online world can never really be turned off, this was the best way to present it. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge

Arco Goes Darkwave

No Aloha, Airport, Vivian

830 E Burnside St School of Rock Portland presents: Disco Inferno

Jack London Revue

Mission Theater

Hawthorne Theatre

Kelly’s Olympian

Mississippi Pizza

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Lil Xan

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St

529 SW 4th Ave Mic Crenshaw

426 SW Washington St The Forever Agos, White Knife Study, Aaron Baca

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St

1624 NW Glisan St Garcia Birthday Band 3552 N Mississippi Ave Micah McCaw, Jeremy Oliveria, Combe, Arran Fagan

116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Mo Phillips & The Spaghetti Pants Dance Band, Johnny and Jason

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Battle Hymns and Gardens, Sam Boshnack Quintet

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Gul Dukat, Jagular, People

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St David Luning Band

MON. JAN. 29 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms’ First Symphony

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Karaoke From Hell

Edgefield

Turn! Turn! Turn!

300 N Winning Way Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples

8 NE Killingsworth St Honey Bucket, Table Sugar, Mr. Wrong

The Secret Society

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Turn! Turn! Turn!

The Know

2126 SW Halsey St Troutdale Groovy Wallpaper, the Adequates (The Winery Tasting Room)

1420 SE Powell Blvd Drawn and Quartered, Gloam, Petrification, Peste Umbrarum

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

The Fixin’ To

8 NE Killingsworth St Kasey Anderson, Nathan Earle and Sean Taylor

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Tonic Lounge

8 NW 6th Ave Iration, the Movement, Tyrone’s Jacket

SouthFork

8218 N Lombard St Eldridge Gravy & The Court Supreme, Brass Monkey (Beastie Boys tribute)

Roseland Theater

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Flying Hair, Sea Moss, Floom

The Fixin’ To

8 NW 6th Ave First Aid Kit, Van William

Months, Long Hallways, Volcanic Pinnacles

8218 N Lombard St Arctic Flowers, Temple, Medusa Stare, Visions

1937 SE 11th Ave Ice Queens, Vacationeer, Arlo Indigo

1300 SE Stark St #110 Pickathon 20 Year Kickoff Party

[JAN. 24-30]

Revolution Hall

The Firkin Tavern

Revolution Hall

6800 NE MLK Ave Humours, Dryland, Cages, Law Boss 529 SW 4th Ave Transcendental Brass Band

8105 SE 7th Ave James Clem

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Teenage Wrist

8700 NE Columbia Blvd Isata Kanneh-Mason

Bunk Bar

350 W Burnside St Alden & the Ambiance, The Jack Mortensen Band, Evan Knapp

Muddy Rudder Public House

The Analog Cafe

Portland Pianos

Community Music Center

Dante’s

3939 N Mississippi Ave Cash’d Out (Tribute To Johnny Cash)

4605 NE Fremont St Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies

3416 N Lombard St Farrago, Neon Wilderness, Progress Band

Bluehour

3350 SE Francis St Duo Odéon

Mississippi Studios

1300 SE Stark St #110 Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe

2958 NE Glisan St Rose City Kings

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Deathlist, Plastic Cactus

LAST WEEK LIVE

426 SW Washington St Shine Bright Get Connected Fundrasier

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Deathlist, Plastic Cactus, Mini Blinds

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ABBY GORDON

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128 NE Russell St The White Buffalo

Zarz On First 814 SW 1st Portland 97204 Nica’s Dream

SUN. JAN. 28 Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Silver Lake 66

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Brahms’ First Symphony

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St A Look Back at Portland in the 1960s

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Shovelman

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Banditos

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Julie McCarl and Bodacious(The Winery Tasting Room)

8 NE Killingsworth St James Low, John Shepski, Nate Wallae

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Ryan Tharp, Jacob Furr, Jordan Hull

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St January Global Folk Club

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St The Wombats, Future Feats, Nation of Language

TUE. JAN. 30 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Bruce Cockburn

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Tommy Alexander; The Oregon Trailers

Edgefield

2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Michael Berly, the Yellers (The Winery Tasting Room)

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Abronia

Raven and Rose

1331 SW Broadway Na Rósaí

The 1905

830 N Shaver St Bossa PDX

Jack London Revue

The Know

Mississippi Studios

White Eagle Saloon

529 SW 4th Ave Radio Phoenix, David Barber

3939 N Mississippi Ave Moorea Masa & the Mood, Blossom, Siren & the Sea

Rontoms

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Viet Rahm, Planet What, Ghost Frog, Body Mask 836 N Russell St Songwriters Round: Hanna Haas, Arran Fagan, Jake Capistran

600 E Burnside St

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MUSIC COURTESY OF DJ KYLE REESE

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

DJ Kyle Reese Years DJing: Sixteen years. I did a radio show in college, then started playing out live from there. Genres: Right now, I’m playing movie soundtracks, heavy synth and dark dance music, but I’ve done many different styles through the years—glam, punk, soul, Italo, house, Brit pop, etc. Where you can catch me regularly: I do a night called VCR TV with my DJ partner Ken Laüten, first Saturdays at Quarterworld. I also do a weekly radio show on XRAY FM by the same name, Tuesday nights/Wednesday mornings, 3-4 am. Streaming anytime on XRAY.FM Craziest gig: I got to DJ opening for LCD Soundsystem at this giant warehouse show in Philadelphia. The DJ setup was outside, which is always a great place to play music. When it got dark, everyone went inside the warehouse for the band, and the whole night was just really fun. My go-to records: “I Wanted to Tell Her,” Ministry; “Das Philadelphia Experiment,” Splash Band; “Take a Chance,” Mr. Flagio; “New York,” Micro Chip League; “Devil’s Dancers,” Oppenheimer Analysis; “In the Year 2525,” Visage. Don’t ever ask me to play…: Anything from your phone. I basically stopped taking requests a while ago, but most people just like what I play. NEXT GIG: Kyle Reese spins at the Lovecraft, 421 SE Grand Ave., for Softcore Mutations, on Sunday, Jan. 28. 9 pm. Free. 21+. The Lovecraft Bar

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

Where to dance this week. WED, JAN. 24 Beulahland

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

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Wu-Tang Wednesday

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tonic Lounge

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Sleuth & Gumshoe

THU, JAN. 25 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave A Train & Eagle Sun King (vintage cumbia)

Fifth Avenue Lounge 125 NW 5th Avenue JUICE! (drum and bass)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Nu Skin (witch house)

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Ascension

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Salad Nights w/ Benjamin (international disco, synth)

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Sean Rock & Rule

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FRI, JAN. 26 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Dirty Audio

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Weekend At The Crystal, Night #1: Video Dance Attack

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St DJ Nate C. (metal, rock, 80s)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Snap! 90s Dance Party

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Switch. Dance Party (kink, house)

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Chi Duly

BUZZ LIST

BAR REVIEW SAM GEHRKE

TOP 5

Where to drink this week.

1. Brothers Cascadia

9811 NE 15th Ave., Vancouver, 360-718-8927, brotherscascadiabrewing.com. The North Couve’s Brothers Cascadia is a marker of how far our beeriest suburb has come: There’s not a dud on the menu, from a trio of IPAs to an excellent brown spiked with coffee.

2. Huber’s

411 SW 3rd Ave., 503-228-5686, hubers.com. The winter month after the holidays can be depressing. Find refuge at Portland’s oldest bar, where the owner may greet you personally and your server may do tableside magic tricks.

3. Thunderbird

5339 SE Foster Rd., instagram.com/ Thunderbirdpdx. Thunderbird is a FoPoneighborhood collaboration between the owners of Bye and Bye, Cat’s Paw and Foster Burger— serving vegan fare served out of a burger kitchen, with a patio and midpriced cocktails.

4. Haymaker

1233 N Killingsworth St., haymakerportland.com. Within only a couple of months, Haymaker has turned into an admirably busy neighborhood haunt with spicy fried-chicken sandwiches, bartenderfriendly boozy whiskey cocktails and sports on the TV.

5. 15th Avenue Hophouse

1517 Northeast Brazee St., 971-266-8392, oregonhophouse.com. ThroughJanuary, the Hophouse will have a blind taste test: For $12, you taste 12 Oregon IPAs and try to guess them all. The crowd favorite wins a berth on the taplist. Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave D Poetica

No Vacancy

235 SW 1st Ave. Viceroy (summertime)

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down

The Goodfoot

NORTHWEST EGG: Most Old Town clubs are bare-bones grindhouses decorated with liquor branding, less designed for dancing than for human vodka flasks. But at the southern edge of the fun zone, No Vacancy (235 SW 1st Ave., facebook.com/novacancypdx) is the most ambitious DJ-forward dance club Portland’s seen in years. The two-story space looks like Jay-Z’s vision of the Great Gatsby, an amber-lit world of deco lamps, columned archways, exposed brick and backlit liquor that climbs to the ceiling. Started by a DJ promotional company of the same name, No Vacancy unsurprisingly offers the talent a lot of little perks: a massive amount of programmable lights, a dramatically lit second-story DJ booth and smoke machines both inside and outside the DJ area. Even early on a Friday—after we paid a $13 cover for touring talent from Sweden making jerkily theatrical needle drops on the decks—the hexagonaltiled dancefloor was already filled halfway with the requisite crew of hoodied B-boys and girls with cosplay hair. The rear corner is lined with curtained VIP booths, available only at a cost. One booth boasted a tableful of young women drinking from martini glasses, while in the booth next to it a black-clad baller sat alone, manspreading across the plush seat with a solo bottle of bubbles. With nary a Long Island on the menu, the drinks were surprisingly sophisticated, including a deliciously velvety $11 daiquiri made with a mix of Smith & Cross and Appleton rums—offering a decent advertisement for stopping by during the early evening jazz sets, when the cover drops away. And apparently, if you want to keep a fine cognac back for yourself, you can rent a “spirit locker” and drink from your own stash. It remains to be seen whether Portland can support an upscale dance scene that’s so far eluded it, but so far No Vacancy hasn’t made many mistakes. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT, JAN. 27 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Wax Motif

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech Street DDDJJJ666 & Magnolia Bouvier

Eastburn

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

1800 E Burnside St Soulsa! (merengue, salsa, bachata, cumbia)

The Liquor Store

High Water Mark Lounge

3341 SE Belmont St Spend The Night : Beautiful Swimmers

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave + DoublePlusDANCE + (new wave, synth, goth)

The Paris Theatre

6 SW 3rd Ave 18+ to Party (hip hop, edm)

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Massacooramaan

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Mettā w/ Birds of Paradise

6800 NE MLK Ave Temptation (disco)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Main Squeeze (house, disco)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Strange Babes: Soul & Funk Revue

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave Sappho & Friends (disco)

No Vacancy

235 SW 1st Ave. Mahalo

The Analog Theater

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. ANDAZ Bhangra Bollywood Dance Party

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St ORBiT

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Electronomicon (goth, darkwave)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Mission Trance

SUN, JAN. 28

MON, JAN. 29 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Oops (80s synth pop)

Ground Kontrol

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

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUE, JAN. 30 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Noche Libre

Maxwell Bar

Elvis Room

20 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife

203 SE Grand Ave Down the Rabbit Hole

Star Theater

Star Bar

13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations presents VCR TV w/ DJ Acid Rick & DJ Kyle-Reese (dark synth, italo, soundtrack)

y us B t Ge

639 SE Morrison St DJ Joey Prude

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Spend The Night : DJ Lag

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Sleepwalk (deathrock, goth)

PERFORMANCE JASON DODSON

REVIEW

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: Joe Jatcko in The High Captain.

Experimental Phase OUR FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM FERTILE GROUND SO FAR. BY B EN N ETT CA MPB ELL FER GU SON

This year’s Fertile Ground Festival is an exhilarating blizzard of new plays and performance art. With dozens of works by local artists premiering in every quadrant of the city, it’s a festival where you might weep as you watch a woman recall her cancer diagnosis one day, then cackle when a clown bulldozes through the fourth wall. That’s what made the first weekend of Fertile Ground such an intoxicating experience. Many of the shows are still being developed, so they may have rough edges, but that only adds to their power. If there’s one thing the works all have in common, it’s a spirit of reckless and fearless experimentation. Here are our favorite shows from the first half of Fertile Ground, plus the shows we’re most looking forward to in the last days of the festival.

THE HIGH CAPTAIN

In the fascism-skewering satire, a crew from a petroleum barge ends up stranded on an island. There, they struggle to uphold Democratic ideals while guzzling gas fumes from paper bags. The contemporary parallels of the story are obvious—especially in a subplot about the ostracization of Jacob (Myles Lawrence)—but The High Captain is also a blissfully goofy escape to a bizarro land of skeleton worshippers, party-hat wearing pirates and purely absurd, over-the-top political battles.

TRUE LOVE AND OTHER NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

There are no costumes or sets in Brianna Barrett’s transcendent and autobiographical onewoman show about surviving love and cancer. Dressed in a gray, sleeveless coat, she simply stands before a computer and a television, 46

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using personal video footage and photos to usher us through her life moment by moment: hearing her diagnosis over the telephone, lying in bed, shopping for a wig. It’s accompanied by Barrett’s brazen and self-deprecating narration, which leaves you in awe of her boundless wit, strength, candor and lust for life.

PHILIP’S GLASS MENAGERIE

The story—about two siblings languishing under the thumb of a monstrous Southern matriarch— may be familiar. But with minimal dialogue and maximum silliness, director Philip Cuomo’s riff on The Glass Menagerie uses an unlikely and delightful blend of clowning and Philip Glass music to create a tour de force of good-natured nonsense. The entire cast is a joy to watch, but the flighty Laura, Sascha Blocker steals the show by mining comedic gold from the likes of bubble blowing and plastic-unicorn hugging. What to see during the second half of Fertile Ground: Three Sisters, a witty and sweeping feminist adaptation of Chekhov’s play. 7:30 pm Jan. 24-27, 2 pm Jan. 28. The Doctor and the Devil, Mac Kimmerle’s experimental voyage through outer space, psychedelic dreamscapes and the myth of Doctor Faustus. 7:30 pm Jan. 25-27. The Jade Decanter, an improvised ode to film noir that solves the murder of a different cast member in each performance. 7:30 pm Jan. 27. SEE IT: Fertile Ground runs until Jan. 28. For the full schedule, see fertilegroundpdx. org. Festival passes $50, individual tickets available.

= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS 2.5 Minute Ride

Proﬁle Theater begins its season of Lisa Kron’s work with her witty, beautifully written one-person play that switches between a family vacation at middle-America amusement parks and another at Auschwitz. Artists Repertory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison St., proﬁletheatre.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 27-Feb. 11. $20-$36.

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-hallstyle 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. $25$50.

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 and sea expedition. Part Two recounts the failed attempt to establish the trading empire. Shoebox Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave., nwctc.org. 7:30 pm. $30-$70.

ALSO PLAYING Astoria: Part One

Bi-

Bi- is based off a strange Victorian novella called Flatland, which depicts a two-dimensional world in which men are shaped like polygons, while women are just lines. Milagro’s play will use geometry to evaluate cultural, rather than gender divisions. Set in 2089 when geometric identities are arbitrarily assigned to the citizens of a futuristic nation, the new work follows a group of misfits who attempt to escape their predetermined categories. It was written by Georgina Escobar, who has a knack for inventive staging and for finding hope in dark places. Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., milagro.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Jan. 11-20. $20-$27.

Rosa Red

In this magniﬁcent musical, revolutionary German socialist Rosa Luxemburg (Melia Tichenor) declares that she wants “to aﬀect people like a clap of thunder.” Mission accomplished. Written by Laura Christina Dunn (Frankenstein: A Cabaret) and based on letters the Polish-born Luxemburg wrote in prison before being murdered in

Uncle Vanya

Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble manage to make the 1899 play feel fresh, but still recognizable as Uncle Vanya. Working from a new translation by Štepán Šimek, PETE’s production keeps Chekhov’s plot and characters intact. Uncle Vanya tells a story of class disparity between Russian “provencials” and city-dwelling Russian elites. But even though PETE is faithful to the source material, its reverence is far from staid. They’ve brought their version of the play to life with live music and imaginative staging. After seeing Uncle Vanya set to live music, it’s hard to imagine the play without it. Musicians Ralph Huntley, Andrei Temkin and Courtney Von Drehle act as both house band and occasionally interact with the characters. Instead of treating Uncle Vanya with either too much or too little reverence, PETE’s production simply attacks Chekhov’s text with gleeful enthusiasm. R MITCHELL MILLER. Reed College Performing Arts Building, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., petensemble.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 11-20, 7:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 21. $30.

DANCE Rennie Harris Puremovement

Rennie Harris was one of the ﬁrst choreographers to bring hip-hop to traditional performance halls. His dance company is returning to Portland with a new narrative dance show that’s loosed based oﬀ Oliver Twist and features a live gospel choir. Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Ave., whitebird.org. 8 pm. $25-$38.

COMEDY Minority Retort

Hosts Jason Lamb, Neeraj Srinivasan and Julia Ramos are reason enough to see any edition of Minority Retort. But this time, the standup showcase is also a homecoming show for LA-by-way of Portland comedian Nathan Brannon. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 8 pm Monday, Jan. 29. $12.

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PHOTO CREDIT

Based on Peter Stark’s critically acclaimed book about John

Jacob Astor’s attempt to create a fur trading empire in the Paciﬁc Northwest before there were any permanent settlements on the West Coast, PCS is remounting Part One. The ﬁrst part focuses on the two expeditions to establish the trading empire: the ocean voyage led by Thorn (Ben Rosenblatt) and the overland journey led by Hunt (Douglas Dickerman), a businessman-turned-reluctant explorer. Full of period-piece peril, the two voyages set up a polar picture of masculinity and leadership: Thorn is the stern-faced, totalitarian captain, and changing his mind requires holding a gun to his head. Hunt, on the other hand, is indecisive and insecure, and constantly wonders aloud if he’s capable of leading the expedition. There’s plenty of unspoken irony in the lines about being farther west than “other white men,” but Astoria is more interested in examining power structures as they were than in rewriting them: It’s a subtle but intricate portrait of the era of westward expansion. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 13-Feb. 17. 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 11, noon Thursday, Feb. 15, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 18. $25-$70.

1919, Rosa Red is a deﬁant, compassionate and profoundly moving portrait of two extraordinary women. By juxtaposing the fearsome Rosa with her close friend, wife and mother, Sophie Liebknecht (Dunn), the play creates a passionate but aﬀectionate duet between idealism and pragmatism that leaves you grateful that both women lived and loved. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. My Voice Music, 538 SE Ash St., fertilegroundpdx.org. 4 pm 8 pm Jan. 24-25. $5.

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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

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One of the artworks in Ow(n)ed comes with a sort of warning: “This piece requires time and attention.” It’s a bit of an understatement. In a corner of PNCA’s gallery is a cushy chair facing a stack of packets arranged on a small table. The interactive piece is attributed to Julian Adoff, but each packet is compiled by one of the five artists in the show. The packets aren’t exactly light reading—there are about five scholarly articles in each. Diego Morales-Portillo’s has a substantial excerpt from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and John Locke’s Two Treatises and Letter Concerning Toleration in Rhonda Tuholski’s. But most of the articles are fairly obscure, like an essay that’s titled “Searching for Truth in a Post-Green World.” The stack of dense reading materials complicates the visually simple exhibit. There are seven works scattered around it, plus a video installation in a small room off the gallery. Qamuuqin “Muuqi” Maxwell’s The Finding of the New World is a photo collage of the Marriott Hotel along Naito Parkway, with another photograph of a rocky mountain placed where the ground would be. There’s Diego Morales-Portillo’s sculpture of a plastic toy soldier glued on top of a gourd that’s displayed on a pedestal surrounded by excerpts from government reports of the CIA’s meddling in the Guatemalan Civil War. Then there’s Rhonda Tuholski’s Refusal No. 2, a giant-grid word search titled “The Promised Land” printed on sheets of paper. The ink on the sheets of paper gets progressively thicker and blurrier until, in the bottom right corner of the grid, the word search is a totally illegible blob. Initially, it seems like a fairly easy show to comprehend—the works are grappling with land rights and invasion. But the minute you sit down with the packets, the exhibit doesn’t feel like it can be so easily summarized. Tuholski’s reader is full of articles on Israel and Palestine that includes everything from a chapter from Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine, to an article by the televangelist Pat Robertson. The reproduced, progressively blurred image seems less like a statement on meaninglessness and more like bewilderment.

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“The Finding of the New World,” by Qamuuqin “Muuqi” Maxwell

Ow(n)ed doesn’t just want you to be struck by art, it wants you to grapple with it. Clearly, the artists are hungry for audiences who are willing to commit time to process their work and to dig beneath its surface. That’s not to say the works aren’t aesthetically appealing, though. The two photographs in Maxwell’s The Finding of the New World are spliced together so that the piece almost looks seamless, even with the jagged, ripped white paper that divides the two. At first glance, the mountain looks like it could be a pit of dirt dug out for the foundation of a new building development. Brittany Vega’s Mountain contains serene, grainy images of a mountain lake on a TV screen. The video transforms at such a slow, transfixing pace that you don’t really notice that there’s a wall forming over the lake until the lake is already gone. But each work’s aesthetic value seems secondary to the information it’s intended to steer you toward. Morales-Portillo’s 0037 is three color-saturated photographs of the same banana decaying as the artist brought it back to Guatemala, where it was grown. The last image in the series shows a dark, mushy peel that’s almost the same color as the dirt beneath it. It perfectly illustrates a line from an article about South American banana plantations in Morales-Portillo’s packet: “This fruit went from a clearly marginal culture, to a cultural artifact of importance in . . . the United States.” Still, it seems almost optimistic to assume most viewers will take the time to skim more than a few articles. But in a way, that’s the most expressive part of the exhibit: a palpable friction between what the artists want from their audience and what, outside of an academic setting, they can usually get. Go: Ow(n)ed is at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway, pnca. edu. Opening reception 6-9 pm Thursday, Jan. 25. Through Jan. 29.

This week, Oregon lost its greatest living author. On Monday, January 22, 2018, science fiction and fantasy pioneer Ursula K. Le Guin died at her Southwest Portland home at the age of 88. The New York Times first confirmed her passing with her son, who said she had been in ill health. Le Guin was the author of more than 20 novels and seven collections of essays, not to mention 13 books for children. The Wizard of Earthsea, perhaps her best-known book, conveyed the awe and wonderment of an imagined world in a way that was accessible to children, without ever talking down to her audience. The Left Hand of Darkness, a watershed in feminist literature, imagines a planet in which gender is not fixed. Even as she called her introduction to feminism “slow and late,” she was a strong, pioneering female voice in an arena of literature long dominated by expressly macho perspectives. Though she was born in California in 1929, Le Guin’s home has been Portland since 1958, when her husband took a job teaching at Portland State. And she did not leave her hometown untouched by her often astonishingly inventive fiction. In 1971’s The Lathe of Heaven, she imagines a 21st-century Portland in which its population has swelled to unmanageable proportions and dreams must be managed because they become reality. When the main character is instructed to dream of a world without racism, he awakens to find that everyone’s skin has become gray. In 2014, she received a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation. At her acceptance, she decried the lower status of fantastical literature in favor of “realism”—a word she uttered with disdain—and issued a stirring statement in support of artistic freedom against increasing corporatism. “Books are not a commodity,” she said to applause. Le Guin was a major figure not just in science fiction and fantasy, but in literature as a whole. Her standing in arts and letters was so well assured that in 2016, Le Guin was enshrined in the Library of America—an honor received by precious few living novelists other than Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty and Philip Roth. Late in life, Le Guin became an outspoken public commentator, whether on artistic freedom or the sacrosanctity of public lands. As the Bundy family occupied the federal refuge in Malheur County, Le Guin took the Oregonian harshly to task for a headline suggesting the their goal was to free, rather than “hold hostage” the public lands. And as a 2015 Wordstock appearance demonstrated, Le Guin remained as vital a voice in her 80s as in her 30s. We are all poorer without it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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In case Three Billboards left you in need of more Frances McDormand awesomeness, Clinton Street Theater hosts the classic tale of NorthMidwestern murder and mayhem, which went on to inspire the excellent FX series of the same name. Clinton Street, Jan. 29.

Nashville

(1975)

Hollywood will screen Robert Altman’s satirical but touching portrait of fictional musicians in Nashville in the ’70s in 35mm. Plus, Mississippi Records owner Eric Isaacson will give a short talk about country music that will be set to live steel guitar. Hollywood, Jan. 25.

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Al Zubaidi and her son in UNSTATED.

Looking for Sanctuary

Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

A DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWS AN IRAQI REFUGEE’S FIRST YEAR IN PORTLAND. BY L AU R E N T E R RY

In the summer of 2016, Buthaina al Zubaidi moved to Portland from Iraq after her husband disappeared without a trace. When she arrived, al Zubaidi found herself a tightrope negotiating rent, job hunting and caring for her four children, one of whom is disabled. UNSTATED, Portland director Paul Kachris-Newman’s 28-minute documentary, follows al Zubaidi’s first year in her new home, set against the backdrop of Portland’s socio-politically tumultuous past year. The project began with Kachris-Newman’s interest in people who are affected emotionally and physically from war. But stories of displacement have had a personal resonance with Kachris-Newman ever since he was four years old, when he and his mother fled an abusive environment for a halfway house in the middle of the night. “I’ve lived in a shelter. I know what it’s like to chase a sense of place,” says Kachris-Newman. Self-described as “a resettlement story in an unsettled America,” al Zubaidi’s experience is contrasted with footage cataloguing Portland’s political unrest. The post-election protests and subsequent police-antifa conflicts act as a subplot to her daily struggles. Kachris-Newman had filmed the

s o c i a l a c t i v i t y a l l y e a r, f r o m i n i t i a l anti-Trump rallies and neighborhood meetings about the safety of Muslim Americans, to Joey Gibson’s alt-right protest, at one point even catching a policeman lob a flash grenade directly at him. “The film was developed very organically, because we were reacting to what was happening in Portland as I continued to interview and get to know Buthaina,” says Kachris-Newman. “It was kind of electric for a while, so many things were happening all the time. In comparison, the conclusion for Buthaina is pretty simple. She just wants a job.” There’s little mention of the war-torn region from which al Zubaidi fled. KachrisNewman mostly just shows us her day-today concerns: getting each kid off to school on time, looking for better job opportunities, stressing about the healthcare marketplace. Kachris-Newman incorporates interviews with representatives from Catholic and Lutheran charities, who work with the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization as local resources for new refugees. They explain the approval required by several government agencies before refugees arrive in the United States, pointing out that refugees are the most strictly vetted immigrants and the process typically takes years.

(1987)

Maybe it’s because of the climactic dance sequence set to “Time of My Life,” but somehow, everyone seems to forget that the impetus for Dirty Dancing’s romantic plot is an illegal abortion. Mission, Jan. 22-26.

He also reached out to local law enforcement, including Natasha Haunsperger, who manages community outreach at the Portland Police Bureau. As a recent immigrant herself, she speaks about efforts to help them understand their rights, to “plant a seed of mutual trust before a crisis occurs.” There is a stark difference between Buthaina’s measured, quiet persistence as she completely adapts to a new way of life, and the violent intensity of protests and events like the MAX stabbing in 2017, a difference that surprised even KachrisNewman. “There are all these assumptions and paranoia coming from the general culture that she’s being dropped into,” he says. It’s clear things haven’t been easy for al Zubaidi, but she balks when asked if she’s ever harassed about wearing a hijab in public. “On the contrary. When I get on Trimet, people stand up to offer me their seat,” she says in one scene. “Life is always very different from one place to another,” she says calmly, as the camera follows her youngest child smiling and snacking on a cherry tomato plant growing in front of their apartment. SEE IT: UNSTATED is at the Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 3:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 28. $7-$10 suggested donation, proceeds go to the Iraqi Society of Oregon.

The Passion of Joan of Ark is one of the silent film era’s great masterpieces—director Carl Theodor Dreyer basically invented the modern closeup. The Reel Music Festival screening will be accompanied by a live performance of “Voices of Light,” a sweeping oratorio written for the film. Three Portland State University ensembles will join Camerata PYP and three other vocal choirs for the performance. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Jan. 26.

The Room

(2003)

If you still haven’t seen Tommy Wiseau’s baffling bad “black comedy,” now’s the time so you can understand all the inside jokes in The Disaster Artist. Cinema 21, Jan. 26.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: I Am Cuba (1964), Jan. 26-28. Academy: The Boxtrolls (2014), Jan. 26-Feb. 1. Clinton: UNA (2016), Jan. 30. Hollywood: Hasta La Raiz (2016) and Tin Tan (2010), Jan. 24. Black Legion (1937), Jan. 27-28. Ovarian Psychos (1937), Jan. 28. Laurelhurst: Supercop (1992), Jan. 24-25. Run Lola Run (1999), Jan. 26-Feb. 1. Mission: Groundhog Day (1992), Jan. 28-Feb. 2. NW Film Center: The Big Beat: Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock and Roll (2015), Jan. 25. Master of the House (1925), Jan. 27. King Kong (1933), Jan. 28. Vampyr (1932), Jan. 28. The Departure (2016), Jan. 29.

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NOW PLAYING 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, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

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With an overwhelming dissonant, bassy score by Hans Zimmer, 2049 looks and sounds spectacular. But as a testament to the influence of the original, there isn’t much 2049 has to add about how technology blurs our sense of self and soul. 2049 seems less concerned with tiny moments of emotion than big reveals from a twisty plot that seems to define 2049’s imaginative boundaries rather than expand them. Still, it’s one hell of a spectacle. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Academy, Empirical, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

Call Me By Your Name

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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. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.

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Coco

Pixar’s transcendent fable follows a young boy named Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) who lives in Mexico and dreams of becoming a musician like his long-dead idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt). Miguel’s family disapproves of his guitar-filled dreams, but Coco isn’t Footloose for musicians—it’s a Dia de los Muertos odyssey that sends Miguel on a trippy trek to the afterlife, where he seeks validation from de la Cruz’s fame-hungry ghost. Nestled beneath the film’s cheery mayhem, however, is an overwhelmingly powerful meditation on memory, mortality and familial love. Miguel may make some extraordinary discoveries in the great beyond, but the most beautiful thing in Coco is his realization that the only place he wants to journey to is the home he left behind. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.

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. Their enthusiasm yields not a humanizing portrait of the venerated prime minister, but a history-book 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, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Living Room Theaters.

The Florida Project

Six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Kimberly Prince) lives in a harsh, impoverished world. The Florida Project’s heroine resides in a budget motel. Her mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite), is so strapped for cash that she has to work as a petty thief and a prostitute to make rent. The movie makes you worry that both mother

and daughter will either starve, go broke or, given their delightful but dangerous recklessness, be dead by the time the end credits roll. Yet director Sean Baker’s luminous odyssey overflows with wit and joy. That’s mainly because of the happiness Moonee finds with her friend Jancey (Valeria Cotto). Rather than begging us to pity these pint-sized scoundrels, Baker (Tangerine) lets us bask in the joy of their parent-free adventures. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Lady Bird

In Greta Gerwig’s writer/director debut, Christine, who insists on being called Lady Bird, is a high school senior growing up in Sacramento, which she loathingly refers to as the Midwest of California. Desperate to break free from mediocrity, Lady Bird slowly abandons her theater-kid friends for a group of rich kids. Gerwig has crafted a sprawling story in which every character is subject to Gerwig’s absurd humor as much as her deep empathy. What makes the movie so uniquely touching is Lady Bird’s tense interactions with her mom—It’s rare to see a relationship between two complicated women portrayed with such care and empathy. Still, Lady Bird is endearing because of her boldness, not in spite of it. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Vancouver.

Molly’s Game

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. 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 hyper-articulate characters say. 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, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

Phantom Thread

Reported to be Daniel Day-Lewis’ final film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie is his gentlest yet. A love story of sorts set in London during the 1950s, we are immersed in the House of Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis), a quietly eccentric couturier known for his daring and unique designs. Alma (Vicky Krieps) is his latest muse, a sweet-natured country girl who catches his eye and doesn’t want to let

go. After a half-hour worth of needles pulling thread and three bumpy shots of them driving out a country road, it’s clear that Anderson didn’t make a period piece; he made a movie that looks like it was made in the 1950s. Although easily counted as another standout transformation by Day-Lewis into a persnickety, avant-garde dressmaker, if this is truly his last film, it is perhaps too mild an adieu from such a fierce actor. Maybe I’m just not ready to say goodbye without one more vein-bursting monologue. R. LAUREN TERRY. Bagdad Theater, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Vancouver.

The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) has created a film that is beautiful but cluttered, visionary but formulaic and sympathetic to its kind, lonely heroine, but unwilling to let her spearhead the story the way that men have driven del Toro fantasies like Pacific Rim. That heroine is Eliza (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor who works in a Baltimore laboratory where she cleans bathrooms and, on occasion, the chamber where a dark-eyed, water-dwelling creature (Doug Jones) has been imprisoned. Eliza and her slimy-but-beautiful prince, fall in love, but del Toro seems skittish about lavishing their romance with too much attention, so he stuffs the film with subplots about Cadillacs, Russian spies. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, Cinemagic Theatre, City Center, Clackamas, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Vancouver.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A year ago, Mildred Hayes’ (Frances McDormand) daughter Angela was raped and murdered. Now, the case has stalled for the hothead Ebbing police department. So she decides to rent the billboards so that they display three messages: “Raped While Dying”; “And Still No Arrests?”; “How Come, Chief Willoughby?” The residents of Ebbing are forced to choose between the mother whose daughter was brutally killed and the popular Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who’s dying of pancreatic cancer. It would be easy to imagine the premise as a seriously dark and thoughtful drama. But in the hands of writer/director Martin McDonagh, what emerges is a seriously dark and thoughtful comedy. R. R. MITCHELL MILLER. City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Kiggins, Tigard, Valley Cinema Pub.

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Cannabis and fitness go hand in hand. Despite the lazy stereotypes about stoners, lots of cannabis consumers spark up before hitting the gym, yoga class or basketball game, and it enhances their performance. You might find you run a little longer when you’re stoned, or feel better in tune with your body’s tension as you stretch. Amarett Jans, a local social media marketer with a passion for fitness and cannabis, knows that she isn’t the only person to enjoy those interests at the same time. So she started Mary Jane Fonda, a cannabiscentric aerobic experience that combines the fun of a sexy dance-inspired workout, pre-during-post smoke breaks and stoned yoga, in one. The tricky part is the venue. For a mid-January class, that meant turning a Northwest Portland nightclub into a fitness studio, and parking a High 5 Tour bus out front. The large second-story space worked well for the 20 or so yoga mats sprawled from the DJ stand to the bar in the back, the in-house speaker system adding to the bass of the live set throughout class. Thanks to local legislation, the social scene f o r c a n n a b i s c o n s u m pt i o n h a s b e e n r e l e g a t e d into the few loopholes. That’s resulted in a hotbed of cannabis-infused house parties at private

IT’S A LITTLE LIKE THE HYPER ENERGY AT HIGH SCHOOL PARTIES, WHERE EVERYONE IS SO STOKED TO FINALLY HAVE ALCOHOL AND AN UNSUPERVISED HOUSE TO DRINK IT IN...EVERYONE IS IN THE MOOD TO PARTY. residences. Anyone trying to host an event where people are allowed to enjoy legalization with others has to get creative. But we’ve been smoking at house parties for a while now. We’re getting restless. I had some reservations about barefoot stretches so close in proximity to bar floors, but really, the dark, red-light decor of this nightlife space is kind of the perfect ambiance for a self-loving booty workout that involves a lot of caressing one’s own limbs. After a few classes, the group that showed up to this $32 session was a combination of newbies and regulars. Some had tuned in via Instagram or knew Heather Craig, the instructor of the Booty Luv class, from other

gyms in town. There were also a few diehard Mary Jane Fondas in ’80s workout gear. Some more into fitness and some more into cannabis, the mixed group of all ages and genders were quick to start conversations on the smoke bus over East Fork Cultivars CBD joints and cannabis syrup-spiked mocktails mixed by Müru. Mary Jane Fonda is not something you can fit in between errands—it’s a commitment. There’s group warm-up and stretching, time to meditate positive affirmations, a trip back to the bus before breaking a sweat with Heather, then maybe another trip to the bus before stretching with Matthew Erwin, a physical therapist specializing in fascial stretching. It’s hard to put your finger on the comfortable vibe when things go right during a cannabis-centric event. It’s a little like the hyper energy at high school parties, where everyone is so stoked to finally have alcohol and an unsupervised house to drink it in, that everyone is in the mood to party. Public cannabis events outside the direct realm of dispensaries and growing competitions are so new, they are still a novelty. And even those who feel like they’ve been wrung out by the industry would be hard-pressed to feel jaded here. GO: For more information, keep an eye on instagram. com/mjfonda.pdx.

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Week of January 25

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Anders Haugen competed for the U.S. as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his long-postponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

In 1899, Sobhuza II became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

In my ideal world, dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines. We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum -as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Psychology pioneer Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow. However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Between now and March 21, you will be invited, encouraged, and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

In December, mass protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing. But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

In the late 1980s, Budweiser used a Bull Terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your Real Self -- to the max.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

The giant panda is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energyrich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met -- not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You’re the star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras. To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Thirty-five miles per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling. If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

The pawpaw is a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana, and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers’ markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.

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