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BAGEL BUTT, Most Glam title winner in the PDX PET PAGEANT. The Pet Issue, PAGE 10
WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 44, ISSUE 14.
RIP Peterson’s on Morrison. 6 No matter what anybody says, Seth Woolley did not play Dungeons & Dragons in his parents’ basement. 8 The maker of HRD Vodka isn’t excited about a tax break for craft distillers. 9 A psychic says your cat’s accident may be a protest poop. 14 Amanda Seyfried fell in love with a baby lemur. 16
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Portland has a $40 burger. It feeds three. 35 Yacht is very sorry about its fake sex tape. 37
A giant Lite Brite is going up next to Tilikum Crossing. 48 The walls of a Sellwood restroom are covered with Big-Mouth Billy Bass, and they all sing. 49 Another Southeast Portland house lets you smoke up and listen to Brahms. 51
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Hank Doodle (@hank_doodle), the winner of the inaugural PDX Pet Pageant! Photo by Thomas Teal, lettering by Tricia Hipps
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DIALOGUE PORTLAND’S SKYLINE DEBATE
Your recent article on building heights (“Sky Wars,” WW, Jan. 24, 2018) missed a crucial point: The current system is delivering the worst of both worlds. The new housing in taller buildings is not addressing the affordability crisis, because the price of the new units is inherently more expensive. The number of units being built in the core is also a small fraction of regional demand, so is doing little to address the shortage of units. The loss of iconic views—as well as sunlight, skyview, scale, massing, wind and other impacts on livability—affects not only private condo owners, but all of us who share the city’s public realm, including Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Pioneer Square, the Rose Garden, and other treasures of our urban commons. Building heights are going up under Central City 2035, and expensive properties are only being made more expensive by neighborhoods who are protesting the degradation of their livability—as they have every right to do in a democracy. Instead of throwing them under the bus, what we need is to seek a more rational, win-win approach, less likely to put up expensive eyesores and “space invaders,” and more likely to build on the heritage, beauty and livability of the city. Unfortunately the current simplistic “build, baby, build” thinking (and NIMBYs be damned) takes us far from that goal. Michael Mehaffy President Goose Hollow Foothills League Senior Researcher KTH University, Stockholm
Blessed with hydropower resources that provide over 50 percent of the region’s electricity, the Northwest can easily improve on the mere 15 percent of power that we currently get from renewable resources like wind and solar. Iowa replaced more than a quarter of its electric generation with renewables in the last 10 years—they are now generating almost 40 percent from non-hydro renewables. And Oklahoma and Kansas have replaced more than 10 percent of their generation with renewables in just three years. In the Pacific Northwest, renewable resources can easily fill the small reduction in hydropower generation that will occur during the spring— when we have the most hydropower available already. Will there be challenges in making the transition? Sure. Electricity markets are complicated; a slight increase in natural gas generation for a year or two as we make the adjustment is possible. Although that depends on many factors, including hydro run-off levels, the pace of energy efficiency and storage, electricity market variations, and the diversity of renewable development to name a few. Making the transition will also require utilities to adapt to an electric system that’s more dynamic and in which hydropower resources may be used differently. But the shift will reward us with an electric system that’s more flexible, more reliable, and that will help us save the salmon and advance climate change solutions. Wendy Gerlitz Policy Director NW Energy Coalition
SAVING SALMON AND CLEAN AIR
Contrary to Nigel Jaquiss’s claims in his column [“Swimming Upstream,” WW, Jan. 24, 2018], efforts to restore salmon and to have clean, affordable electricity are not on a collision course.
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Dr. Know BY MART Y SMITH
I regularly drive the Southeast McLoughlin Boulevard “tree tunnel” between Bybee and Tacoma streets, where I often see large fallen limbs beside the road. Has one ever hit a car? Who monitors the health of these trees? Should I avoid this route in windy weather? —CC in Milwaukie I feel you, CC—I get paranoid after the third or fourth day of a speed binge, too. Going through that tree tunnel usually makes me worry more about turning into the giant space baby from 2001: A Space Odyssey than getting hit on the head by a branch, but to each his own. My initial impulse in this matter—as it so often is—was to tell you to take another Xanax and forget about it. Is not existence itself a gamble? And isn’t it true that into every life a little rain (and by “rain,” I mean “barrage of deadly 200-pound logs”) must fall? As it turns out, though, you’re even safer than the above dice roll would imply. In what I’m sure will be welcome news to milquetoast Portlanders who insist on finishing each day with the exact same number of children they started with, there is actually a city program to prevent precisely the scenario that so worries you. 4
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“Portland Parks & Recreation’s urban forestry division has recently taken responsibility over street trees in this area now that the TriMet Orange line runs through [it],” says PPR’s Mark Ross. (This is presumably because trains can’t easily steer around fallen branches, not because people without access to light rail are half-human savages who deserve to have their populations culled by falling timber.) Even now, Ross says, crews are working their way through the trees in this corridor, identifying potential hazards and pruning accordingly. In the meantime, anyone with a “tree emergency” should get in touch at trees@portlandoregon.gov or by phone at 503-823-TREE (8733). I’m still awaiting the launch of 503-823-SPACEBABY—and somebody needs to get on that soon, because I’m pretty sure I’ve turned into one at least twice. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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MURMURS Lawmakers Seek to Strengthen Domestic Violence Law
Oregon’s Fight for Net Neutrality Moves Slowly
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Oregon trails other states in fighting a December ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that repealed the Obama FCC’s doctrine of “net neutrality.” The doctrine prevented internet service providers from treating customers differently. Under net neutrality, providers could not charge customers different rates, slow down transmission of data or discriminate against content providers. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, both Democrats, have issued executive orders prohibiting their states from buying internet service from companies that violate net neutrality. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown isn’t there yet. “[She] is working with the state chief information officer to explore ways for Oregon to take action at the state level that will ensure an open and fair internet, for both consumers and companies,” says her spokesman Chris Pair.
Peterson’s on Morrison Closes Shop DANIEL STINDT
Oregon has lagged behind other states in taking seriously the crime of strangulation. The crime is a felony in many other states but often charged as a misdemeanor in Oregon, as WW reported last year (“Looking the Other Way,” WW, Nov. 15, 2017). Next month, lawmakers led by Sen. Kathleen Taylor (D-Portland) will attempt to expand the definition of strangulation and reclassify it as a felony when the victim is a family or household member of the perpetrator. Senate Bill 1562 calls for a prison sentence of up to five years and a fine of $125,000, or both. “It’s outrageous to me that strangulation is usually a misdemeanor,” Taylor says. “Oregon can’t continue to be passive on how it treats perpetrators of domestic violence.”
Environmentalists Want Tax on November Ballot
Environmentalists have filed a November ballot measure to create a Portland tax on businesses to fund renewable energy projects. The proposal would create a 1 percent city tax on local gross receipts of retailers with national sales over $1 billion if those businesses do at least $500,000 in annual sales in the city of Portland. It resembles statewide Measure 97, which voters rejected in 2016. But this time, enviros have exempted food, medicine and health care services from the tax. It would fund energy upgrades for buildings, renewable energy infrastructure like solar panels, and related job training for “low-income communities and people of color.” 6
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The downtown convenience store Peterson’s on Morrison closed this month after a drawn-out battle with Prosper Portland. The city’s urban renewal agency plans to remodel the parking garage where Peterson’s occupied a street-level storefront (“No Longer Convenient,” WW, Aug. 30, 2017). “I’m really disgusted,” says owner Doug Peterson closed his doors Jan. 7. “We were a needed service, and they just wrote us off.” The city will renovate the garage and give priority to new retail businesses run by women and people of color.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
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Aldo Solano
A DREAMER GIVES HIS STATE OF THE UNION. BY KAT I E S H E P H E R D
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On Jan. 30, Aldo Solano sat in the U.S. Capitol to listen to a president who has threatened to deport him. Solano, 24, is a health care advocate who was born in Colima, Mexico, and has lived in Oregon since he was 6 years old. His immigration status was protected by a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. That program, which allows people who illegally immigrated to the U.S. as children to stay here, is now the subject of partisan wrangling between Congress and President Donald Trump. Solano was flown to Washington, D.C., by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) to attend the president’s State of the Union address in Blumenauer’s place. Blumenauer was the first member of Congress to announce he would boycott the speech—but his decision last week to send Solano inspired more than 20 other Democrats to send DACA recipients, or Dreamers, as well. WW spoke with Solano hours before Trump’s speech. What would you say to President Trump if you had five minutes with him? How many more DACA recipients have to go without [legal] status before we can make this happen and find a solution? I think the time is just about now. This country
is losing out on talent. The more DACA recipients that lose out on status the more likely they will feel they have to go chase their American dream somewhere else, which is something that can have a very big economic impact on the country. What would it mean for you to have to go back to Mexico if you lost your DACA status? I haven’t thought about that, because for me, I can’t imagine going back. There’s nothing for me back there, besides my family. My parents are back there now, and my grandma and some distant relatives that I don’t really know. [But] my life is here. This is where my future is and where I always imagined my future happening. It would be completely disastrous for me to have to go back there. It’s just not my home. What has this limbo meant for your life? It’s meant that I have to plan out my life by what’s going to happen in the next coming months. That’s something that’s been kind of normal growing up undocumented. But we tasted a little bit of the American dream when DACA was granted. Now, I can’t plan anything. I’m really hesitant with every move that I make because I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. It keeps me up at night.
What’s the one thing about you that would most surprise people? I always have to keep things together and not show a lot of emotion and how things are affecting me, because the community is relying on me to be a leader. If I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t be able to lead people and tell them that things are going to be OK. That we can do this. That change is going to happen. [But] most of the time, I feel sad, I feel disappointment, I feel fear. What do you want to show people by attending the State of the Union? I want people to remember that it is not just politics. These are our lives that people are negotiating with. We’re not just pawns in a game, we’re real people. And we deserve to be here.
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What’s the Matter With Malheur? Last week, Oregon voters resoundingly approved Measure 101 by a margin of 61.6 percent to 38.4 percent. The people who most need health care in Oregon will keep it—in some cases, despite themselves. That victory came even though the GOP lawmakers who had referred the measure to the ballot were inviting voters to say “no” to new taxes, which is usually an easy selling point. But the referral of the Medicaid funding package proved so confusing and unpopular that the “no” side struggled to raise even a pittance to fight it, getting outspent about 30 to 1. The exercise in futility, brought to voters by lawmakers preaching frugality, was expensive. It cost state
and local governments $3.32 million to conduct the one-item election. The secretary of state’s Elections Division spent $500,000 to administer it, and Oregon’s 36 counties spent $2.82 million to print, mail and count ballots. The empty g esture was more welcome in some places than in others. The measure won despite opposition in the counties where the funding it preserves is most acutely needed. More than 1 in 4 Oregonians receive health insurance through the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program. The measure to preserve health care funding failed in several counties, including four of the five counties with the highest share of Medicaid recipients. NIGEL JAQUISS.
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WORKING FROM HOME: Seth Woolley, an officer of the state’s Pacific Green Party, has filed multiple complaints against Portland and Oregon politicians in the last two months.
The Enforcer
SETH WOOLLEY HAS APPOINTED HIMSELF THE TRAFFIC COP FOR PORTLAND’S NEXT ELECTION. BY R AC HE L M O N A H A N
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Seth Woolley sat with his MacBook on the comfy green couch of his Northeast Portland home Jan. 26 and prepared to launch his latest fusillade at city politics. Woolley, 37, has had a busy winter. In the past two months, he had filed three complaints with state officials, one complaint with Multnomah County, and one lawsuit— all of them alleging violations of Oregon elections law. Most of the infractions he’s spotting are as common as breaking the speed limit. Woolley has accused 83 Oregon candidates, including Secretary of State Dennis Richardson and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, of failing to disclose which office they were seeking while fundraising. But it’s Woolley’s watchdogging of the race to replace Commissioner Dan Saltzman on the Portland City Council—the first open seat on the council in a decade—that may prove most significant. He has focused a magnifying glass on County Commissioner Loretta Smith’s campaign fundraising practices. He is pressuring state and county officials to force Smith to resign her county seat—something he says she should have done months ago, when she announced her intention to run for City Hall. That’s the subject of the complaint Woolley sent from his couch last week: It demanded that the state rule on whether Smith must resign her county job. (State officials have declined to do so, and the county has declined even to investigate the issue.) “There are a chain of people who should be doing their jobs,” he says. In the absence of that, Woolley has become Portland’s self-appointed elections watchdog. It’s a role Woolley first assigned himself in the 2012 mayoral race, when WW raised questions whether thencandidate Charlie Hales met the residence requirements to run. But Woolley has stepped up his activity this cycle. 8
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Woolley’s complaints against Smith—and, to a lesser degree, her opponent Stuart Emmons, whom he’s also accused of a violation—have received mixed reviews. Smith and her supporters say he’s a persnickety gadfly who has singled out a black woman for scrutiny. “I always tell my children to assume good intentions,” says state Rep. Barbara Smith Warner (D-Portland), who has endorsed Smith and is one of the 83 officials Woolley has complained about. “This complaint is all about assuming bad intentions about the innocuous stuff. I don’t entirely understand what he’s trying to do, other than prove he’s smarter than everybody else.” But longtime Portland advocates of campaign finance reform say Woolley is the only figure holding candidates accountable to the rules. “The election law—in particular, campaign finance law— is very difficult to get enforced because the enforcement mechanism runs through politicians,” says public interest lawyer Dan Meek. “Somebody needs to enforce this. Seth is performing an important role.” If Woolley succeeds in his mission, he will draw more attention to a campaign fundraising system he sees as broken. He could also undermine Smith’s candidacy—an outcome he would also like to see. “My No. 1 concern is educating people about campaign finance reform,” he says. “The rules of the game need to be fair and consistently applied.” Woolley, whose floppy brown hair falls over his glasses, combines a zeal for ethics with the computer skills of a Silicon Valley programmer. A political foe once derided Woolley as a Dungeons & Dragons nerd filing ballot measures from his mother’s basement. No dice, he says. His childhood home was a trailer in rural Snohomish County, Wash.—no basement. As for D&D: “I’ve never played,” he says. “Everyone I know has.”
He’s an officer in Oregon’s Pacific Green Party, which fights corporate influence in politics. That’s a strange match with his day job: He works on maps and navigation systems for Uber, the ride-hailing company that muscled its way into Portland in 2014, getting elected officials mired in ethics complaints in the process. In fact, Woolley says he was preparing to file an ethics complaint related to Uber in 2015, when Uber bought the mapping company that employed him. Woolley started politics early. At age 18, he read the platforms of every political party and decided to go Green. It was 1999—and consumer advocate Ralph Nader was about to run for president on the Green Party ticket. Woolley studied computer science at Willamette University and has been a leader in the Green Party in Oregon ever since. He ran for Oregon secretary of state in 2008 and 2012 and drew roughly 3 percent of the vote. He also filed two other lawsuits related to elections law. His most high-profile target: Hales. He sued thenSecretary of State Kate Brown in 2013 for failure to address an alleged violation of elections law—Hales had filed Washington state tax returns while voting in Oregon. The lawsuit was dismissed. Mark Wiener, Hales’ political consultant, now praises Woolley, saying he is providing a valuable service.“Electionlaw enforcement in Oregon is a complaint-driven system,” Wiener says, “and unless there are people who are willing to take that kind of action, the system lacks accountability.” In 2015, Woolley joined a group of activists who supported limiting campaign contributions to $500 per donor in Multnomah County races. A ballot measure passed in November 2016, with nearly 89 percent of the vote. Last September, when the measure went into effect, Smith’s fundraising caught Woolley’s eye. She had been seeking donations and telling people she planned to run for the City Council—but she hadn’t resigned her county seat or changed her campaign committee’s registration to reflect she was running for City Hall. Woolley filed a complaint against Smith in November. It placed her in an apparent catch-22: Either she had violated the county limit on campaign contributions by raising too much money, or violated the county charter by running for city office before Jan. 1 without resigning her seat (Woolley says both). Smith says she walked a delicate line without violating the rules. She also says Woolley is applying a “double standard” by scrutinizing her more closely than onetime County Commissioner Jules Bailey, who did the same thing in 2015. “I won’t speculate on Mr. Woolley’s serial filing practices,” Smith says in a statement to WW. She was more expansive on OPB’s Think Out Loud on Jan. 17. “Jules Bailey did the same thing,” she told them. “I’ve seen these kind of publicity stunts done when people want to get attention. I think this is nothing but nonsense.” Smith Warner defends Smith on the same grounds. “How is it not a problem when the white guy did it,’ she asks, “and now it’s a problem when the black woman does it?” Woolley says his allies in campaign finance reform left him to fight this battle alone, fearing the racial dynamic of taking on Smith. “Most of the other people don’t want to be on record,” he says. “I imagine it has to do with her reputation for calling people racists.” Woolley admits his complaints may harm Smith’s campaign, and he is OK with that. The other four candidates in the City Council race— Emmons, Jo Ann Hardesty, Felicia Williams and Andrea Valderrama—all say they supported the county’s campaign finance measure and will support a possible city measure. Smith opposed the county change during a review in summer 2016, calling it unfavorable to women and people of color because they have less access to traditional donors. “There is at least one candidate in the race that is in favor of campaign finance reform,” Woolley says. “There is at least one who is not in favor of campaign finance reform. I am happy to go after anyone who is against campaign finance reform.”
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BOTTOMS UP: Oregon tasting rooms, like the one at Cannon Beach Distillery, could soon see a major tax break.
Have Another Round OREGON DISTILLERS LINE UP FOR A TAX BREAK— BUT THE BIGGEST ONE’S NOT ON BOARD. BY KAT I E S H E P H E R D
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These are heady times for the makers of Oregon liquor. The number of licensed distillers in the state almost doubled from 46 to nearly 100 in four years. And Oregon distilleries are each about to save as much as $1 million a year from the federal tax overhaul passed last month by Congress. Now craft distilleries are asking the Oregon Legislature for another tax break—this one allowing most distillers in the state to keep all of the revenue made in tasting rooms. “Tasting rooms in Oregon are not a profit center,” says Brad Irwin, vice president of the Oregon Distillers Guild and owner of Oregon Spirit Distillers in Bend. “They lose money. By allowing us to keep all of the proceeds from the sale, it allows us to continue to employ people and buy more Oregon-grown grain to make more spirits.” The politics of this request have become a power struggle: The state’s oldest and largest distillery has dissented. It warns the tax cut, which would benefit its smaller competitors, would also cripple the state’s regulatory apparatus. Hood River Distillers, which makes Pendleton Whisky and HRD Vodka, says the tax break would weaken the Oregon Liquor Control Commission and open the door for large, out-of-state liquor manufacturers to operate unchecked in Oregon. “We believe this legislation weakens the state system,” says Hood River CEO Ronald Dodge. “We didn’t start out with a state subsidy, and we have still been able to benefit from Oregon’s system. The short-term gains included in this bill do not outweigh the potential serious, long-term, harmful consequences.” Smaller distillers think the state’s largest craft distillery is really worried about its competition. “[The bill] serves to aid small and upcoming businesses, and larger, incumbent distilleries like Hood River Distillers are likely to feel threatened by this,” says Christian Krogstad, president of the distillers guild and founder of House Spirits Distillery in Portland. “They don’t like anything that
increases competition.” Liquor sellers currently pay the OLCC about 30 percent of all retail sales to customers who buy bottles in tasting rooms. (Irwin’s distillery sold 5,028 bottles of whiskey in its tasting room last year. He made $148,137 from that business, and forfeited $44,145 of that sum to the OLCC.) If Senate Bill 1564 passes, distilleries wouldn’t pay any fees on the first $500,000 made in a tasting room. That tax break could be worth up to $900,000 a year for the industry—but samall distilleeries benefit the most. The money gained by distilleries would come at the expense of the OLCC, the regulatory board that oversees hard liquor sales at state-licensed retailers. The state’s regulatory body has long been credited with keeping small alcohol suppliers alive. The OLCC reserves shelf space for small, local distillers who couldn’t otherwise afford the placement that is critical for sales. It also keeps liquor out of grocery stores—which drives people into tasting rooms that introduce them to new products made by smaller companies. So the subsidy distillers are seeking could weaken the forces that allow them to exist. A formal fiscal impact statement has not yet been produced for the bill, which gets its first hearing Feb. 5. State Sen. Lee Beyer (D-Springfield), the bill’s sponsor, could not be reached for comment. The distillers guild, which is pushing for the subsidy, acknowledges the bill could cost the OLCC its cut of the $3 million in annual sales that occur in tasting rooms each year. But the guild says the impact would be negligible—a fraction of the agency’s $1.22 billion annual revenue. The guild’s Irwin says critics’ worries about weakening the OLCC are unfounded. “I think the opposite, in fact,” he says. “By allowing a modernization of the system, by relieving the 30 percent tax burden in tasting rooms and allowing some of these small distilleries to see a little bit of revenue in these tasting rooms, it keeps the control model working for everyone.” Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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LETTERING: TRICIA HIPPS
SOME OF OUR TITLE WINNERS FROM THE PDX PET PAGEANT
BAGEL BUTT ✩ MOST GLAM ✩
OUR GUIDE TO HORSE WRANGLERS, ROBOTS FOR CATS, AND YOUR NEW FAVORITE DOG PARK.
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n Portland, pets are the new children. Not only does Oregon rank fourth in pet ownership, but the new generation flocking to Portland is increasingly choosing to pour its parental energies into cats and dogs. More than twice as many people in Oregon—63 percent—have pets as have kids in the house. Portlanders also pamper their pets with unusual fervor. Sure, we’ve got more dog parks per capita than any city in the country (see page 12), and organizations ranging from pet websites to Animal Planet rate us one of the best pet cities in the country. But we’ve also got two full-service dog hotels, 19 pet acupuncturists, and a pet psychic with clients in Singapore and Finland (page 14). We’re home to the world’s first professor dedicated to animal law (page 11) and an animal trainer who orchestrated the longest single-take dog ballet in music-video history (page 16). For this year’s Pet Issue, we decided to showcase our singular devotion to pets with a citywide pageant. Owners across the city sent in more than 500 photo submissions, from pigs in jean jackets to ducks in Home Depot aprons—and 4,000 of you voted for your favorites. Well, meet Hank, the Ultimate Supreme Pet champion of our 2018 Portland’s Pet Pageant. Along with being wildly photogenic, the good-natured 6-year-old dachshund pictured at right is also a bit of a philanthropist: He’s the official spokesdog of Oregon Dachshund Rescue, dressing up each Friday in tuxes to help other doxies get adopted. “He knows when that camera is coming out,” says owner Anne Marple. “He knows he’s gonna get a treat, so he’s happy to put on the outfit.” This issue also offers advice on how to pamper your own pet, whether you’re looking for a robot to instantly clean your Siamese’s litter box (page 16) or want to soothe your anxious Boston terrier with a low dose of cannabis (page 13). For those more bent on necessity than luxury, there’s a guide to low-cost pet resources (page 15). If you’re just here for the cute pictures of cats and bunny rabbits, check out our center spread (page 28) for the best-looking pets in Portland. But be warned: By next year, you’ll probably own a guinea pig. ¨
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80 FINALISTS ON PAGE 28!
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THUNDERSHIRT $41.50 at Pets on Broadway, 2762 NE Broadway Dogs and cats are anxious creatures. Surely, you can relate. Also like you, when the world gets scary, they really just want to be held. Think of the Thundershirt as wearable Xanax for pets. It’s a vest made of light, breathable fabric that applies gentle pressure to your pet’s chest, simulating the feeling of being swaddled to help keep it calm during a thunderstorm, Fourth of July fireworks or Trump tweetstorm. Sadly, the only option for you is to continue binge-eating taco bowls.
ATTORNEY AT PAWS PORTLAND IS HOME TO THE WORLD’S FIRST ANIMAL LAW PROFESSOR. WE ASKED HER ABOUT THE BIGGEST LEGAL ISSUES WITH PETS. According to the state of Oregon, your pet is equivalent to a couch. In the eyes of the law, your pet is considered your property, which means that courts view your dog the same way they view a piece of furniture. In divorce cases, this can get messy: Pets go to whoever can prove they’re the owner, not who’s best able to take care of them. “The law doesn’t really handle animals well,” says Kathy Hessler, professor of animal law at Lewis & Clark College, the first and largest animal law program in the world. She’s also the first full-time animal law professor in the world. Until Michigan State University hired a full-time animal lawyer last fall, she was the only one. But interest in animal law has spiked in the past few years. “People who have animals in their home are seeing them more as part of the family rather than property and rather than working animals or agriculture animals,” says Hessler. Though Oregon isn’t one of the two states to have recently created a legal framework for pet custody cases, Hessler says Oregon is one of the most progressive pet law states. “We’re a state where we have agriculture, we have laboratory testing of animals,” she says. “There’s a lot of people here thinking about these issues.” Animal law is one of the fastest-changing arenas of law in the country. So we talked to Hessler about the most interesting areas of pet law, and where Oregon stands. NAM IN G P ETS I N WI L L S Until little more than a year ago, there was no secure way to will money to your pet. “There’s a saying in the law that you can’t leave property to property, so that got really messy,” Hessler says. “People were doing these charitable trusts, and they weren’t always honored.” In November 2016, Oregon passed a statute to create pet trusts so people could leave funds for the care of their pets. PET CUSTODY A year ago, Alaska passed an amendment to allow courts to require shared custody of a pet, or even financial support that’s basically the pet equivalent of child support. Last September,
Illinois passed a similar amendment. Pet custody legislation has yet to make its way to Oregon, “We could make an agreement and ask the court to acknowledge that agreement,” she says, “but the court couldn’t make one of us do something we didn’t want to do.” ANI M ALS IN E NT E RTAINME NT Rights for animals in entertainment are a growing area of animal law. “SeaWorld is restricted from breeding new orcas,” she says. “You may have seen that Ringling Brothers shut down.” In 2014, two years before Ringling announced it would close for good, Clatsop County became the largest jurisdiction in the country to ban many of the abusive handling tools the circus used on elephants and tigers, which effectively banned Ringling from the county. ANIMALS AS VICT IMS O F CRIME S If someone abuses a pet, it’s usually considered a crime against the owner, not the animal itself. “Oregon is unique in the country in that the state Supreme Court has ruled that animals can be seen as victims of crimes,” Hessler says. That’s due to the 2014 ruling in State v. Nix. Arnold Nix was arrested after police found 20 KATHY HESSLER starving horses and goats living among decaying animal carcasses on his Umatilla County farm. Instead of charging Nix with one count of neglect, the court convicted him of 20. That meant the court had to treat each animal as a victim of neglect, rather than as a collective entity simply described as property. The ruling applies only to criminal cases of abuse and neglect and doesn’t apply to agriculture or laboratory animals, but according to Hessler, that’s still significant. “It’s been clear that they really are trying, in legislatures all over the country but certainly in Oregon, to protect animals from unnecessary cruelty and harm,” she says. “The best way to give effect to that goal is to say that animals can actually be seen as victims of a situation.” There’s still a long way to go, but the rapid change in the past few years is reason to be optimistic. “The good news is,” Hessler says, “state legislatures and policymakers are beginning to take these issues a lot more seriously.” ¨
TANNER ADJUSTABLE DOG LEASHES $90 at Tanner Goods, 4719 N Albina Ave. Paying $90 for a leash might seem like a lot, but think about how many cheap leashes you go through in your dog’s lifetime. These handsome leather straps from Portland’s Tanner Goods, made from the same English bridle leather as the company’s gorgeous wallets and purses, will last forever.
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worry when your dog immediately sprints out of view up the park’s winding dirt path. While you can’t play fetch, dogs do seem to enjoy running up and down the steep inclines. On nearby trails, you can watch certain dedicated humans doing the same thing. Bonus for dogs: Running ahead along the trails and hiding in the bushes until owners catch up. Drawbacks: Parking is sparse near the dog park.
6. Chimney Park
9360 N Columbia Blvd. 5.5-acre fenced dog park. Named after the giant incinerator whose fires once burned here, this isolated St. Johns spot is now a busy, sociable dog park. The sparsely wooded dog park is both vast and fully fenced, great for high-energy dogs with less-than-reliable recall. Bonus for dogs: Being able to run to the far edges of the park without being called back. Drawbacks: The ground is pretty muddy in wet weather.
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Dogs have more chances to sniff butts in Portland than anywhere else in America. That’s not politics, it’s math: With 33 public off-leash areas, Portland has the most dog parks per capita of any large U.S. city. But not all dog parks are created equal. With the help of a tireless Australian shepherd named Scout, we spent a very rainy week exploring 10 of the largest, most singular dog parks in town. As we learned during the course of our visits, Portland’s off-leash spots can run the gamut from “ill-marked muddy field” to an impressively expansive nature park on the shores of two rivers. We ranked the parks giving equal weight to amenities, social factors, and design and terrain. Here’s what we found, from best to worst.
1. Thousand Acres
(Sandy River Delta Park) Crown Point Highway, Troutdale. 1,400 acres, all off-leash except the Confluence Trail and parking lot. In Portland’s swampy northeastern reaches, Thousand Acres is dog Shangri-la. Expect a trail leading to a lazy river, a wild abundance of plant life and a Maya Lindesigned bird blind. Consider it less a city park than an off-leash hiking trail. Bonus for dogs: Racing other dogs to fetch sticks thrown into the shallow waters of the Sandy. Drawbacks: You have to drive to Troutdale. Also, there’s no escaping the mud. Bring towels.
2. Sellwood Riverfront Park
Southeast Spokane Street and Oaks Parkway. 8 acres, with off-leash only on the main lawn. At this picnic-friendly park under the Sellwood Bridge, the off-leash area is a large lawn populated by goldendoodles and chatty owners, but the trails along the waterfront can feel surprisingly woodsy. Come here if your dog wants to swim, but you don’t want to drive to Troutdale.
Bonus for dogs: Striking regal poses against the backdrop of the Willamette River with downtown in the distance. Drawbacks: The off-leash area doesn’t include the waterfront. Few dog owners heed this.
3. Ross Dog Park
5167 NE 15th Ave., Vancouver, Wash. 8 fully fenced acres. Yes, it’s in Vancouver. But always-busy Ross puts Portland’s fenced parks to shame. Iit’s huge, with a half-mile of jogging trail around a lawn dotted with trees. You’re never far from a trash can or plastic-bag dispenser, and the park’s water spigot saves you the trouble of bringing a bottle. Like Portland’s Normandale Park, Ross offers a separate fenced area for small dogs, ensuring a Yorkie can chase balls without being pushed around by a German shepherd. Bonus for dogs: Running wild with the dozens of other herding dogs that always seem to show up here. Drawbacks: You have to drive to Vancouver.
4. Laurelhurst Park
Southeast Cesár E. Chávez Boulevard and Oak Street. 31 acres. Off-leash dog run abutting Oak Street. Its grassy hillocks, duck pond and shaded nooks make Laurelhurst Park Southeast Portland’s collective backyard. As with a lot of backyards, dogs get free run of the place. But the paved, winding paths and art installations make it as pleasant for people as for pups. Bonus for dogs: Chasing the ducks, jumping in the duck pond, watching the ducks swim in the deep water and daring them to come back to the shallows. Drawbacks: There are fewer dog pals than at other parks. The off-leash area technically doesn’t include the duck pond.
5. Mount Tabor
6336 SE Lincoln St. 190 acres. 4-acre off-leash area at the bottom of the hill on the south side. The hillside dog park at the bottom of Portland’s most famous cinder cone is fenced just enough that you won’t
6010 NE 37th Ave. 26 acres, with a large off-leash area. At the eastern edge of Concordia, Fernhill Park has a little something for everyone. Near tennis, horseshoes and softball, the off-leash area is large and varied. Dogs can run, chase, fetch and train easily here. Bonus for dogs: On this occasion for Scout, it was a round of Frisbee with a very fast Jack Russell terrier. Drawbacks: The park has no fence and is very close to a busy street. For trusted dogs only.
8. Portland International Raceway
1940 N Victory Blvd. 300 acres, with a 3-acre off-leash space. When cars aren’t whizzing around the track, dogs are free to race around on an endless grass field. But bring waterproof shoes. The raceway is located next to wetlands, which turn the field to muck. Bonus for dogs: The only things to do here are running fast and playing fetch, but these happen to be two of Scout’s favorite activities. Drawbacks: Other than open space, there’s not much else.
9. Lents Park
5208 SE 88th Ave. A small off-leash area in the corner of a 38-acre park. Lents Park’s off-leash dog area is a small, uneventful space in the corner of the park’s grassy expanse. On our visit, no other dogs were present. But we did appreciate the water spigots allowing worn-out pups to catch a sip. Bonus for dogs: It’s easier to focus on fetch when there are no other doggies around to distract you. Drawbacks: The park was empty and small.
10. Dog Bowl
3100 N Willamette Blvd. On Skidmore Bluffs best known for romantic views at sunset, the Dog Bowl is an ode to steely pragmatism—an undeveloped lot locals decided might as well be a dog park. There’s an extremely muddy open area where you can play fetch. And sometimes, that’s all you need. Bonus for dogs: The sticks here are apparently very interesting. During fetch, Scout kept bringing me new ones instead of fetching the one I’d thrown. Drawbacks: Street parking. No trash cans. No fence. The park is accessible only by climbing down a steep, slick path. ¨
FAT CATS AND DIAMOND DOGS CONT. CLEVERPET $299 at clever.pet Dogs are thought of as the jocks of the pet world whose only interests are running, humping, shitting and sleeping. But studies show that they enjoy using their brains, too—particularly when food is involved. With an interface that’ll remind ’80s kids of the game Simon, CleverPet’s Hub asks the dog to solve a series of increasingly difficult pattern-based puzzles by pressing light pads, and dispenses a treat as reward. It’s Pavlov for the digital era. 12
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BARRIER BEDS $70-$160 at Cycle Dog, 2215 NW Quimby St. Portland’s Cycle Dog specializes in pet products made from recyclable material, including brightly colored dog beds made from water bottles. The waterproof material is similar to Gore-Tex, which makes it easy to clean, and the three-layer fleece protects against odor and microbes. Plus, it’s comfortable enough to curl up in yourself after stumbling home on Saturday night. Win-win!
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hen I met my neighbor’s dog Luna, I was happy to dog-sit her. A social, affectionate 10-year-old German shepherd-wolf mix, she was one of those dogs that try to cuddle in your lap despite their large size. Then we went outside our downtown apartment building for a walk. The second the doors to the elevator opened, she became a different, anxious dog. Amid the tumult of the sidewalks, Luna strained at the leash, lunging at random strangers on the street, and I had to use a muzzle just in case. It was enough to make Jackie, Luna’s dogmom, worry she might have to move to a lesscongested neighborhood. Then again, Jackie had her own experience with anxiety. She’d been able to treat it with a legal, over-the-counter remedy that has helped millions nationwide: CBD. Maybe, she thought, it could help Luna too. CBD is the therapeutic, non-intoxicating agent found in cannabis, and if it’s news to you that people give CBD to their animals, don’t blame your veterinarian. In Oregon, vets risk their licenses if they even suggest it. This is not just because it’s a Schedule I controlled substance. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also sent warning letters to two Washington companies that make CBD for pets, Canna-Pet and Canna Companion, for selling unapproved animal drugs. Very little research has been conducted into the effects of THC and CBD on domestic animals. But all mammals have endocannabinoid systems with receptors that respond to these compounds. Based on low health risk and massive potential for health benefits, some clinicians have come to believe that dogs and cats can also experience physical and emotional relief using CBD. One fearless local vet clinic is embracing the issue. The Hawthorne Veterinary Clinic has a resources page at hawthornevet.com that talks about medicinal cannabis and pets. Hawthorne
posts the most recent research on its website, primarily from Colorado veterinarian Dr. Robert J. Silver’s studies on cannabis. “We recommend hemp products primarily for mobility issues, like arthritis in older pets,” says Dr. Cornelia Wagner at Hawthorne Vet Clinic. “It won’t be effective for every pet, but we’ve seen some good responses. Start with a low dose of 0.1 mg per kilo, eventually increasing if the animal seems to develop a tolerance.” When she decided to treat Luna with a CBD tincture, Jackie started with about a fraction of what would be a normal dose for a human. “About three days into CBD treatment, it’d worked wonders,” Jackie says. “Luna stopped trying to pull me back home on our walks and became much more friendly with strangers, to the point of approaching them for affection again. She was more attentive and displayed little to no anxiety.” It’s gone well for several months now, but Jackie emphasizes consistency. “Now it’s very obvious when she doesn’t get her CBD on any given day,” she says. “She reverts back to her displays of neurotic and panicky behavior.” Silver’s research indicates that it’s important to begin with CBD formulations that have zero or as little THC as possible, because dogs are more sensitive to THC than other mammals. “In dogs in particular,” Silver writes, “the high-CBD, low-THC hemp plant is much safer to use in pets than the high-THC marijuana strains.” Emma Chasen, the millennial Bill Nye of Portland’s cannabis scene and education director at the Sativa Science Club, also treats her cats with a high-CBD, low-THC tincture when symptoms of anxiety arise or there’s a stressful visit to the vet on the horizon. “We usually give them high-CBD tinctures that include 1 to 3 milligrams THC,” she says. “Just remember to start small,” advises Toomey. “You’re aiming to enhance your pet’s life, not sedate them.” ¨
P E TSA F E S MAR T DO O R $94.99 at petsafe.net and Mud Bay locations. Call ahead to confirm inventory—see mudbay.com. The drawback to allowing your pets the freedom to come and go as they please is that it leaves your home vulnerable to intruders, whether it’s a mouse, opossum or felonious toddler. PetSafe’s SmartDoor solves that problem by essentially giving your cat and/or dog their own key— in this case, an electronic device attached to the animal’s collar, which sends out a signal to unlock the battery-powered flap.
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When a dog adopted from Portland’s Rescue Faerie started lashing out at his elderly new parent, volunteer Renee Stilson knew who to call. Bridget Pilloud is a pet psychic, and according to Stillson, she’s one of the best in the business. She’d worked wonders for Stillson when her own cat was pooping outside the litter box, and again when her rabbit wouldn’t stop compulsively digging. Stillson asked Pilloud if she could talk to the dog. “He told Bridget he didn’t want to be with someone needy who’d just lost their animal. He needed someone who was already secure, who didn’t need him,” says Stillson. Following Pilloud’s advice, Rescue Faerie was able to place the troubled dog with new parents, who were advised not to push the dog too hard. “They were exactly what he needed. He’s doing great,” Stillson says. “It was one of our biggest success stories.” Pilloud, 48, is booked up a month in advance even at $150 an hour. She often communes with an animal from her farm outside Vancouver, Wash., after receiving only a photo of the animal. After 15 years, she says her work has done a lot of good. She wouldn’t do such a taxing job without feeling she was helping people. “The stigma and mysticism around most spiritual occupations exist because people can make more money from this if it seems like magic. It’s not magic,” she says. “People don’t talk about this, but there are a lot of mediums and psychics who get a big ego thump from feeling like they can do something someone else can’t do. We all intuitively ‘talk’ with our pets. We pick up a lot about how they are feeling, what they want, etc. What I do, anybody can do. It’s like running. There are people who can step out their door and run a marathon without ever practicing.”
Pilloud spoke to WW how she got into this line of work and what it involves. WW: Are you a psychic who does pets only, or do you also deal with people? Bridget Pilloud: I used to do some work with people, but I really work only with pets now. Doing intuitive work, I compare it to being an athlete. Any good athlete can do different sports, but they usually specialize in one that they’re really good at. Intuitives are the same way. I focus on pets. Are there certain pets you can’t read? I would refer to it as “talk with” rather than read. I can talk with pretty much any animal. Some animals have pretty limited cognitive abilities, so talking with the fish or talking with bugs is pretty difficult and probably wouldn’t really be perceived as talking with. More like just relating to. So when you talk to a gorilla, for example, is it the same as talking to a child? I think there’s a wide variety of cognitive abilities in animals. When I think about my own pets, I have a dog that has great cognitive ability and great language ability, and she’s a pretty deep thinker. And then I have another one that, he’s really like living with a caveman. I don’t think he can put more than two words together. When did you become aware you had this ability? I had a dog who was a horribly behaved dog. I had taken her to the vet, taken her to the trainer, taken her to see an animal behaviorist. I hired an animal communicator, because I didn’t know what else to do. She changed
our experience. She literally just changed everything in an hour and a half about how I perceived that dog and the dog perceived me. After that, I had an experience where a dog we recently adopted was grieving her former home. I woke up in the middle of the night, she was sitting up in her bed, and I just felt this really deep sadness. And so I said, out loud, “What’s going on?” And she said “What did I do? What did I do to end up here?” She’d gone from this really wonderful home—her owner had met somebody who didn’t like dogs. He’d ditched his dog for this woman, and she ended up at our house. So that stunned me. You understand many would be doubtful of this. What do you say to skeptics? I usually say something to be effect of: “That’s fine, you don’t have to believe me. I don’t blame you, there’s lots of things that I don’t believe in that other people do.” If you haven’t experienced it, why would you believe it? That seems like a normal reaction. Sometimes I come across someone who believes that because I believe this, I’m open to everything. They’ll talk to me about their time on the astral plan, and I’ll be like, “Wow, I have just entered a whole field of bullshit that I don’t believe in.” I absolutely understand I have no room to talk. And yet, on the other hand, what she’s saying is obviously crazy. What types of people call you? One of the primary reasons why people hire me is because they have a behavioral situation with a pet. I was working with a cat last week who lives here in Portland, who was starting to have what I would call a protest poop. He was pooping outside of the box. I went to talk with the cat—his name is Sam. He didn’t sound like a little child, he knew exactly what he was doing. The thing he said to me was, “It’s unfortunate that it’s come to this.” The message he was trying to get a across was that he didn’t like that his owners were leaving dirty clothes on the floor of their bedroom. The bedroom’s the nest—that’s the safest place in the house—and if it has a lot of scent to it, it would cause predators to go there. I said, “Well, are you really experiencing a lot of predators on the Southwest Waterfront?” And he’s like, “No, but I smell them.” Do you ever get asked to speak to pets on the other side? There was a dog named Neo who lived in Portland. He had passed away at a fairly young age from heart disease. His mom wanted to connect to make sure he was OK on the other side. It is very frightening when our pets die. We do really worry about them. [Neo] kept showing me the New Seasons grocery store. He kept showing me boxes of cereal. He said, “Yeah, tell her I have all the cereal I want.” I said OK. I didn’t know this dog. She knew about eight months before he was going to die that he had this congestive heart disease that was going to kill him. So she just decided to give him whatever he wanted, and he really liked cereal, so he had a bowl of cereal in the morning every day until he died. So the reason why he shared those things with me, I think, was to help her realize that he was OK on the other side. I think it’s important for some people to experience that. ¨
FAT CATS AND DIAMOND DOGS CONT. OUR PETS WONDERBOWL SELECTIVE FEEDER $41.99 at target.com When it comes to food, pets can make deeply disrespectful roommates. The WonderBowl solves the problem of multiple pets eating each other’s meals. Using the same basic idea as the SmartDoor, it scans an infrared module attached to your pet’s collar and lifts a lid preventing unauthorized animals from chowing down. Unfortunately, there is not yet any such device to keep Scott from stealing all your damn pizza rolls. 14
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iFETCH $115 at goifetch.com Is your schnauzer’s energy surpassing your attention span? An ideal toy for the absentee pet owner, iFetch allows dogs to play fetch with themselves. Simply drop a ball into the hole in the top, and this tea kettle-shaped robo-nanny shoots it across the room. Once your dog figures out how it works, he’ll entertain himself for hours. Also doubles as a fine
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LOW-COST PET RESOURCES IN PORTLAND VACC IN E S, D E WO R M I N G, S PAY- NEUTE R The Good Neighbor Vet mobile clinic pops up at grocery and pet stores, offering low-cost deworming, flea prevention and vaccines. See goodneighborvet.com for a schedule. The Animal Shelter Alliance’s Spay & Save program offers spayneuter surgeries for $15 to $30 through organizations like the Feral Cat Coalition (feralcats.com) and the Cat Adoption Team (catadoptionteam.com). V E TE RI N A RY C A R E Ask your vet, but local pet nonprofit Animal Aid (animalaid. org) lets clinics apply for a grant each month to cover a pet’s medical costs up to $500. In December, the Pongo Fund (thepongofund.org) instated a mobile hospital program with full surgical capacity. You can apply on the program’s website. For pet owners who are homeless or living in extreme poverty, the Portland Animal Welfare Team (pawteam.org) offers free veterinary care and prescriptions—plus spaying and neutering funded by Animal Aid’s C-SNIP program. Pet adoption and rescue agency the Pixie Project (thepixieproject.com) also offers low-cost care to low-income and homeless pet owners. DoveLewis Animal Hospital’s Velvet Financial Assistance Fund (dovelewis.org) offers up to $750 for emergency care, on a discretionary basis. PE T F O O D The Pongo Fund Pet Food Bank (thepongofund.org)—the largest such food bank in the U.S.—offers free, high-quality dog and cat food to low-income pet owners after a consultation. PE T BEH AV I O R Cat won’t stop peeing in your shoes? The Oregon Humane Society Behavior Help Line offers free training advice (503-416-2983). E ND OF L I F E DoveLewis Animal Hospital (1945 NW Pettygrove St., 503-228-7281, dovelewis.org) offers donation-based euthanasia and communal cremation services for low-income pet owners. The Oregon Humane Society (oregonhumane.org), which is celebrating its 150th year and is one of the biggest pet-placement organizations in the country, offers a number of end-oflife options for pets—including euthanasia, cremation, an animal cemetery and a mausoleum. Family Animal Services (17819 NE Riverside Parkway, Suite B, 503-665-8300, familyanimalservices.org) offers low-cost cremation for a minimum fee of $30. The less ceremonious can bring deceased animals triplebagged in plastic to the Metro North Transfer Station at 6161 NW 61st Ave. A small number of veterinarians offer at-home euthanasia services when needed. Find a directory at multcopets.org/ deceased-animals-end-life-services.
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When she was 9, long before she wrangled wolves for Twilight or pit bulls for Straight Outta Compton, Lauren Henry had an orange tabby cat and an Australian shepherd. “I’d put on little shows,” says Henry, now 48, who as owner of Talented Animals is the most sought-after animal trainer in the Pacific Northwest. “The cat would ride in a basket that the dog would pick up and bring to another point. There were obstacle courses. They’d open the mailbox and deliver the mail. My grandfather would say I was going to train animals for the movies, but, of course, my parents wanted me to go to college and get a degree. Well, I did go to college. I did get a degree. And then I went on to train animals for the movies.” Henry currently lives on a sizable piece of property southwest of Salem, where she and partner Roland Sonnenburg keep “eight dogs, six of which are working movie dogs (two are retired), and then two cats, horses, goats, a donkey and another couple
of Northwest natives—a skunk and raccoon.” If a film was made in Oregon and there was a live animal in it, chances are it hired Talented Animals, a company the pair founded in 2005. Henry’s first gig, in 1999, came about entirely by accident. She was on her way to becoming a veterinarian when she noticed an odd request forwarded to all members of her Listserv group. “An email went out for a dog that looked like a wolf and could work with an actor and pull somebody on skis,” she says. “I had that dog.” On set in Canada for a TV movie about a wolf, she then caught the eye of an animal coordinator who needed a border collie. Turns out, she had that dog, too. “Things snowballed,” she says, and after that second project she eventually dropped out of grad school to work full time in movies. “This pursued me!” When Henry and Sonnenburg are contacted by a film producer, they either work with their own pool of animals or they find a freelance trainer whose animals are suited for the job.
“If we don’t have a particular animal, we’re very, very fast at bringing one along, building a rapport and trust, and then successfully polishing that behavior for set,” says Henry. “For an episode of Big Brother, we trained a guinea pig to spin a wheel that matched up the people that were going to live in the house together, and we trained a hamster for this Amazon Pet Alexa commercial.” She has also trained tortoises, snakes, llamas, rats, badgers, parrots, owls and crows. “A lot of insects are CGI’d these days,” she says, “but we do maggots, earthworms.” On set, Henry is equal parts choreographer, acting coach and stage mom. And even if her animal is well-prepared, there’s always the human element to consider. Jennifer Aniston halted production on Management rather than disturb a puppy that fell asleep in her lap. During the shoot for Gone, Amanda Seyfried fell in love with a baby lemur that we had on set, and it was really hard to get her to go back to work. She just wanted to sit in our truck and play with our lemur.” Not all stars feel the same about all animals. And so Henry earned her Screen Actors Guild card for those instances when safety issues or phobias necessitate stunt work. Under presumably heavy makeup, Henry played Vivica A. Fox’s body double for a Junkyard Dog attack scene, and waded into a cottonmouth-infested pond during last year’s Portland-made Sundance champ I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. In another case, she says, an unnamed actor was afraid of goats, and the filmmakers had to shoot the scene in split-screen and stitch it together. “The actor could not be in the same room as the goat,” she says. “That was interesting.” One feat of technical wizardry is a source of particular pride. In 2010, Chicago band OK Go—known for filming their music videos in intricate single takes—needed Henry’s help. The video for “White Knuckles” required 12 mismatched pooches to synchronize steps without any of the camera angles and editing trickery that’s become stock in trade for animal trainers. Henry and Sonnenburg coordinated magic in a Corvallis warehouse, spending weeks orchestrating the movements of a dozen dogs and their trainers through more than a hundred attempts. “White Knuckles” earned 2 million views in a couple days, eventually collecting more than 23 million, and entered the viral pantheon. Last year, top-rated Japanese television show Q Tube asked the pair to recreate the feat in a warehouse in Albany, arriving with a full crew. Henry clearly relishes the storytelling aspect of her work as much as the technical side. Horses, she says, are best at comedy. Dogs are great at drama. “It’s the most amazing thing,” she marvels, “but dogs that do movie work regularly somehow figure out the personality we’re going for that day.” Henry recalls her work on Green Room, the 2015 Cannes standout starring Patrick Stewart against neo-Nazis in the Oregon backwoods, “This pit bull was supposed to go through bodies and find his mark near the actor playing his owner, who’d just been killed,” she says. “The training was very specific, but when we go to shoot, the dog starts walking super-slowly over to the actor, curled up next to him, looked at the camera, and closed his eyes with a deep sigh, as if he was dying alongside his owner. Everyone behind the camera was choked up. The director said this would be the saddest psychological thriller ever. We were all so moved because he just put so much angst into selling the scene—you know, like he was in character.” ¨
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OREGON’S TOP ANIMAL TRAINER FOR MOVIES AND TELEVISION RECALLS HER FAVORITE LOCAL FILM AND TV MEMORIES. Into the Wild (2007)
“Everybody wanted to pet the wolf, but we had to make sure we got through all the scenes before all that. We’d trained the wolf to snarl over a hunk of meat. He looked mean, but there was no aggression. It was all on cue. So, once they were done filming, we told the crew they could come over and pet him, but it was kinda funny. Nobody came up to him after that.”
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My Name Is Bruce (2007)
“We filmed that at Bruce Campbell’s house [in Southern Oregon]. We camped at his property and he fixed us dinner. We had our dog play his dog. In the scene that comes to mind, Bruce’s character was drunk, and he pours a bunch of ‘hooch for the pooch’ into the dog’s food bowl. The dog just looks at him like, ‘Whatever, this is my dinner?’ and starts drinking down the whiskey (actually chicken broth).”
Lean on Pete (2017)
“We presented the director with 30 horses through pictures and video, and out of that group, nine horses were selected by the director for him to meet at the ranch and that is when he fell in love with the horse that portrays Pete. The horse has a prominent role and did a very nice job. Horse racing is kind of a minor piece. I’d love it if it was more of a Homeward Bound kind of a thing, but it is a very touching story about a boy and a horse.”
Untraceable (2008)
“That was shot in Portland with Diane Lane. It’s this cyber-crime movie where a deranged killer puts up a live link of him murdering people. So, the very beginning, when they’re establishing that this guy is crazy, he basically live-streams a kitten lured out onto a glue trap. We had the kitten come out on a fake trap—just a piece of plastic with cellophane over the top—and then the production made an animatronic kitten that matched it perfectly. It was pretty hysterical. They probably spent tens of thousands of dollars on four puppeteers working this little tiny kitten for literally a second of screen time.”
The Hunted (2003)
“They had a mock-up of Kosovo down in Portland’s industrial district, and we had horses pulling wagons and dead bodies. That was an interesting one, because the movie was filmed just after 9/11 and everybody was so on edge. They were shooting off all these fake bombs during the filming of this scene, but nobody had told the National Guard. They thought that the city of Portland was under attack for real and scrambled two fighter jets that went flying over our set, trying to figure out what was going on. It ended up on the news that night.”
Grimm (2011-2017, NBC)
“We had 100 rats on an episode. That was funny. There were 30 that we’d trained to do specific behaviors like run to a station, so when cameras pan across we could have 15 or 20 rats running from one side of a scene to the other. Most of those caged rats ended up going home with our trainers and living long, full lives.”
Portlandia (2011-present, IFC)
“A lot of Portlandia is shot improv, so we can’t step in and give the animal a treat because they’ll just roll on. Our cat Max, who also plays Majique in Grimm, was so good. He actually started to improv with the actors. Like, Kristen Wiig’s pointing a gun at one of their characters, and the cat goes up and starts whacking her to get the gun out of her hand.”
Management (2008)
“We’ve actually done, I think, two or three Jennifer Aniston movies, so she’s gotten to know us pretty well. We were on with a puppy that had fallen asleep in her lap. They were ready for her next scene, but she was like, ‘Nope! You’ll have to go to the next one!’ Production had to halt everything because she would not disturb the puppy.” ¨
and a “Swiss chalet,” both priced at $5,500. There’s a $6,200 pink castle—“if desired the coronet on the front can be ennobled with Swarovski crystals,” notes the product description—and one shaped like a wooden lifeguard station for only $6,000. Most egregious? A straight-up Southern-style plantation home, complete with mansion pillars and latticed windows, for $7,500. Sure, they’re all insanely expensive, but once you start renting it out as an Airbnb, it’ll pay for itself! ¨ Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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Do Better HOW TO MAKE PORTLAND’S FASHION INDUSTRY MORE DIVERSE.
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never attended local fashion events until they saw me out of fear of feeling out of place and intimidated to be “the only one” of color there. As the Trump admin continues to attack equal- While a part of me felt flattered, another part ity, many fashion designers and brands have felt sad and a little frustrated. Although it can used their platform to voice their political views be uncomfortable at times to be “the only one,” and the importance of gender, body and racial we (people of color) can’t complain about the diversity. From protests on the runway to politi- lack of diversity if we don’t show up. cal merch, the historically non-progressive During the panel, we were asked what we fashion industry is taking small steps towards could do to improve diversity in the Portland inclusivity. fashion community. I have two suggestions: At the conclusion of the Spring 2018 New To people of color: York Fashion Week shows this past September, The easiest way to get involved is to show up the Fashion Spot reported that out of 92 run- and participate. If you’re a model, practice your way shows and 2,601 model appearances, 36.9% walk constantly and keep your portfolio fresh. of the models were of color, up from the 31.5% If you aren’t already signed to an agency, introduring the Fall 2017 season. Every runway show duce yourself to designers and brands and offer included at least two models of color, a first in to model in their next lookbook. Attend events NYFW history. and casting calls and get to While 36.9% is a failing YOU HAVE THE POWER know people in the indusgrade at any educational try. TO SET THE TONE institution, it’s an industry If you’re a designer, have record for racial diver- FOR WHAT PORTLAND’S a professional website, sity during NYFW and perfect your sewing skills, FASHION INDUSTRY IS apply to participate in deserves some celebration. However, there’s still work fashion shows and local OR ISN’T. MAKE A to be done, especially in pop-up events and have CONSCIOUS DECISION. professional photos taken Portland. While there are definitely a handful of key of your designs. Introduce players in the industry who are of color, as a yourself to the press and pitch them your story. whole, the Portland fashion scene is not very The same goes if you’re a stylist or fashion phodiverse. tographer. Consistency and quality are key to In 2016, I had an opportunity to speak on the breaking into the fashion industry for anyone Portland City Club Friday Forum panel along- regardless of race, and often opportunities side Portland-based apparel designer Mar- won’t land on your doorstep. cela Dyer and Portland Apparel Lab co-founder To designers, brands, publication staff and Dawn Moothart. We were asked about diversity show producers: in the Portland fashion industry, where PortYou have the power to set the tone for what land currently stands on the topic and if/what Portland’s fashion industry is or isn’t. Make a changes should be made in order to create more conscious decision to include people of color inclusivity. and not just so that you can check the box on Are people of color not given the same oppor- diversity or to have a token brown face on your tunities to get involved in the Portland fashion Instagram feed. scene, or are they just not showing up? I’d argue February may be Black History Month it’s a little bit of both. I once had someone of but diversity is worth celebrating year round color tell me that although they wanted to, they through equal opportunities and inclusion. brittany@laptopsandsmalltalk.com
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WALL OF SOUNDS IN HONOR OF THIS WEEK’S PHIL LESH SHOW, WE ASKED AN ASSORTMENT OF PORTLAND DEADHEADS FOR THEIR FAVORITE SONGS. It depended on a lot of variables—who was there, where they were. There was one time in 1993, in Eugene, at Autzen Stadium. They were coming up and playing the stadium every few years at that point. We were sitting in the back—in the way back, you couldn’t get any further from the stage. The first set was fine, but then they started the second set with “Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin’s Tower” and all hell broke loose. Everybody was standing up and screaming. It’s one of those times when you see something that’s improbable, unexpected and it blows you away. There are a lot of people who thought that was the greatest version of it that they ever did. —Mike McMenamin, co-founder and owner of McMenamins “Ripple”—it’s a beautiful, simple tune, but also to me it has a message about our obligations to one another and how our good works have effects that reach far beyond the ones we help. My dad was an actual Deadhead. He got introduced to them in college when he was at UCLA. They would drive up to San Francisco for concerts. When I was a kid, I would go on trips with my dad and he would listen to his 8-tracks of the Grateful Dead, Elvin Bishop and various oldies, like The Big Bopper. But later, when I was in middle school or high school, he had me transfer his vinyls to tape, and I really listened to them then. He would have me repeat favorite songs with whatever tape was left, too, like “Sugar Magnolia.” —Nick Zukin, owner of Mi Mero Mole and local gadfly My favorite song is “Eyes of the World.” I love the jazzy vibe; it always gets me dancing. And even though the lyrics were written decades ago, I feel like the words are more important today than ever before. We are all truly the “Eyes of the World.” We are exacting big changes by observing, posting and commenting through social media, something that didn’t exist when the lyrics were written. While I find all the lyrics compelling, the line “Sometimes we live no particular way but our own” resonates very strongly with me. —Lisa Morrison, owner of Belmont Station
—Jordan Busch, co-owner of Fire on the Mountain Favorite Dead song? “Eyes Of The World.” Why? Because the song is about the power of us being the makers of the world we want to live in. To see the beauty in ourselves and to make with that beauty what we want in our world. We are at the control switch of our lives, and we need to walk with that knowledge. This song says it all. The struggle exists, but there’s beauty in everything if we choose to find. Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
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This is a question I think about a lot that is both easy and difficult. Sort of a paradox, like the song “Terrapin Station” itself. Is it the end or the beginning? “Terrapin Station” has been my favorite song since the first time I heard it in 9th grade. All the beautiful imagery of turtles, crescent moons, spiral lights of Venus, strange shadows, crickets and cicadas singing; the introductory lyrics (“Let my inspiration flow”) foreshadowing a story about a storyteller. Then you get Jerry Garcia singing about a storyteller’s job being to shed light, not to master. Apropos lyrics if there ever were any. For me, songs don’t get any better than this. A rare and different tune indeed! Look at these lyrics, I mean, c’mon! “Counting stars by candlelight/All are dim but one is bright:/The spiral light of Venus/Rising first and shining best/From the northwest corner/Of a brand-new crescent moon/Crickets and cicadas sing/A rare and different tune, Terrapin Station.”
—Mimi German, activist suing Commissioner Chloe Eudaly to win access to public records on her private Facebook account Thank you for contacting the Mayor’s office. I spoke with the Mayor and he said “Box of Rain” is his favorite song from Grateful Dead. —Trevaun Myrie, constituent service specialist, Office of Mayor Ted Wheeler
GO: Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band play Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, on Friday Feb 2 and Saturday Feb 3. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
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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 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 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, 22
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
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: fi nd 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 your canine or feline soul-mate arrives.
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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
CAT ADOPTION TEAM (CAT)
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
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
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
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ANIMAL AID INC.
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 more at dovelewis.org. Jim Gabrio jgabrio@dovelewis.org 971-255-5950
HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Animal Aid would not exist without the love and dedication of our volunteers! On-site volunteer opportunities include cat caregiving, cat socializing, assisting with cat and dog adoptions, and assisting with front desk reception and administration. Off-site volunteer opportunities include assisting with fundraising and outreach, events, facilities, and marketing, as well as cat and dog fostering. Julie Toporowski volunteer@animalaidpdx.org 503-292-6628
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.
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
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.
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
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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
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-butmighty 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 fi nd a way for you to help with it. info@thepongofund.org 503-939-7555
ARTS CHILDREN’S HEALING ART PROJECT
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,
COMMUNITY 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 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 HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? 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
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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 communitybased 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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND/METRO EAST
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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 Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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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.
who provide emotional aid and practical support and resources to victims of traumatic events and their families in the fi rst few hours following a tragedy.
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
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? 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
HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP 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. 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
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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION 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 day, 3 times a day, year-round, is a daunting task fi nancially as well as for staff members, who really should be focusing on providing other resources to our participants. Bringing home-made 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
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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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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP 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
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
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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 most vulnerable neighbors start their journey toward stable housing. 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
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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.
community through singing - no music experience necessary! Kerry Linhares volunteer@maybellecenter.org 971-202-7461
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
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.
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
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HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are seeking volunteers for our spring and fall adult reading programs. No teaching experience necessary! All you need is a willingness to learn, listen and share. This summer, we are launching a new program that matches community members with individuals who experience disability to connect and build friendships. For more information, please contact us! 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
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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 landfi ll each day, the ReBuilding Center leverage’s their people, materials, and resources to support 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
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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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community setting. We offer a catalog of over 200 classes per week in all subjects for ages 4 and up.
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HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Share 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
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
PORTLAND UNDERGROUND GRAD SCHOOL
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
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.
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THE CHILDREN’S BOOK BANK
HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Did you know children from low-income households enter fi rst 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
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
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www.yebw.org/get-involved Kyle Kavas Kyle@yebw.org 503-740-3598
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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.
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
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
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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We raise the graduation rate of low-income, fi rst 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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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? By empowering 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 fi rst “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
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? Lenda-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
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?
EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT 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
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
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
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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? We work in collaboration with Oregon State Parks to inspire and nurture relationships with nature.
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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.
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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 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 September-November. Anyone can teach on a field trip; WSC provides volunteer trainings in the summer and fall. Field trips run from 9am3pm 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.
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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 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 fulfi lling 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? 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 gjohnson@ucpaorwa.org 503-467-0355
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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 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
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.
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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 process donations in our food pantry, Dana Kinney dkinney@ourhouseofportland.org 503-234-0175
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HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Kerr provides programs and services to those with mental health challenges and developmental
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disabilities and empower them to lead self-determined lives. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Volunteers can help in assisting with fundraising events, at Albertina’s Place or events benefiting Albertina Kerr. Margaret Scafidi Volunteer@AlbertinaKerr.org 503-231-3909
CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-THE FOUNDERS CLINIC HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM) is a free medical clinic in Oregon City which serves those who lack insurance. CVIM’s appointment based, primary care clinic provides the opportunity for individuals to receive welcoming, consistent and competent medical care. All residents of Clackamas County who meet federal poverty guidelines qualify for these services, including those who lack documentation. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Dedicated volunteers with a wide range of skills are essential to keeping our doors open and sustaining our medical services. Our immediate need is for administrative volunteers, trained phlebotomists and Spanish speaking medical interpreters. We also need volunteer doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, scribes and medical assistants. Clinics shifts are available Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and Thursday evenings. Dayna Velasco cvimvolunteercoordinator@gmail.com 503-722-4400
PROVIDENCE HOSPICE & CAMP ERIN
HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Providence Hospice provides expert, compassionate care for individuals and families as they face the end of life. Caring for patients at home, it is our goal to help people live life to its fullest by addressing their physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. Our grief support services help adults and children following a death.
HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Following training, we match volunteer interests with patient needs, offering: caregiver respite, friendly visits, bedside vigils, pet visits, massage, veteran to veteran, grief support and more. Camp Erin volunteers support grieving children ages 6-17 at free summer camp. Service area: Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill counties and Columbia Gorge area. Jean Lyons Jean.Lyons@providence.org 503-215-4857
KAISER PERMANENTE HOSPICE
HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Kaiser Permanente hospice is a non-profit hospice serving our members and community in the greater Portland Metro Area, as well as Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas and Clark Counties. Hospice is a unique, patient centered, team based approach to palliative (comfort) care for an individual with a life-limiting illness who chooses care in their home setting. Our staff are experts in walking with our patients and families to support them on this journey. Kaiser Permanente hospice is a Medicare and Joint Commission accredited hospice. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Hospice 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 in the home for up to 4 hours a week. During the time in the home, a volunteer might visit with the patient, watch a movie together,
assist with a project or check in during nap times. Volunteers can also offer to do light house work, cook, be there to assist a patient. Your supportive presence is a gift of time. When our patients live supportive housing and their caregiving needs are provided for, the volunteer’s visit is to focus on companionship. Read a book, play cards, hold a hand, talk or just be a caring presence during your visit with patients. Volunteers are screened, passing a criminal and drug test before attending an extensive 16 hour hospice volunteer training. This is an opportunity to give comfort, time, and connection, honoring each person,s dignity, integrity and wishes. Come learn the power of holding presence and holding a hand. Annette Shaff-Palmer, CVA hospicevolunteernw@kp.org 503-499-5168
HOUSECALL PROVIDERS HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? Housecall Providers is changing health care by bringing home primary medical care and hospice services to Portlanders with disabilities, dementia and/or advanced illness. Too often, these patients go without routine care. This results in expensive and traumatic trips to the emergency room or the hospital. You can help enhance the lives of the most vulnerable among us by joining us. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Our volunteers provide much-needed social interaction for our patients and respite and support to their families and caregivers. We also have a volunteer-driven music program in which we provide patients with MP3 players loaded with their favorite music. Additional service possibilities include: delivering birthday flowers, helping with household chores, and providing administrative help in our offices. Todd Lawrence volunteers@housecallproviders.org 971-202-5515
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SOCIAL ACTION IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? IRCO is a community-based 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 fulfi ll 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 PRO-CHOICE OREGON
HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP PORTLAND? NARAL Pro-Choice 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 stuffi ng, 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, staffi ng 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
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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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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 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.
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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 right2dreamtoo@gmail.com
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
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, self-sufficiency, and safety. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? After
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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
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF MULTNOMAH, WASHINGTON, AND COLUMBIA COUNTIES HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP
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. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Our volunteers get to know each child 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
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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
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CAMP FOR GIRLS HOW DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HELP
PORTLAND? Rock N Roll Camp for Girls has been empowering and amplifying the voices of girls, transgender, and gender non-conforming youth in Portland for 17 years. We provide a safe space for creative selfexpression, 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. HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? Rock N Roll Camp for Girls needs 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
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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
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
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? 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
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
HELP PORTLAND? p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through wholesome meals, education, arts, recreation and job training programs to affi rm 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
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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.
HELP PORTLAND? Our two Portland Ronald McDonald Houses provide a “home away from home” for families with seriously-ill children, while they receive important medical treatment at local hospitals. Volunteer opportunities include:
HOW CAN VOLUNTEERS HELP? We are looking for kind and respectful volunteers open to new experiences. 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.
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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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ALLEGED BAD ALLY FINDS CALLOUT “HURTFUL”: As Portlandia began its eighth and final season January 18, the national press has been taking note of the show’s legacy and mixed reception in Portland. Asked by New York magazine, Portlandia co-star Carrie Brownstein gave her first public comment on a “Fuck Portlandia” sign that appeared in the window of North Killingsworth feminist bookstore In Other Words, where the show had previously filmed. The store accused the show of transmisogyny and gentrification. “On a personal level, it was hurtful because I think of myself as an ally and a feminist,” Brownstein said, noting that she made a donation of a “couple hundred dollars” to the nonprofit bookstore. THIS MODERN WORLD: After taking over the massive Belmont Street space previously home to the Commons, California-based Modern Times has already achieved something few Portland brewers have ever accomplished: Modern Times opened ahead of schedule on Sunday, January 28, before their projected February opening. >> In other news related to transplanted concepts, Las Vegas-based Holsteins has closed its burger and shake spot in the Pearl District. The restaurant took over the 6,400-foot space, formerly P. F. Chang’s China Bistro, and served up absurdities like a seared steelhead patty topped with smoked salmon and $15 shake that came rimmed with candied bacon and had a full cupcake perched on top. The closing, first reported by the Eater blog, comes after just nine months. AWARD TOUR: An 18-year-old from West Linn is the co-writer and the voice behind one the country’s biggest club bangers. Two years ago, Haley Joelle wrote a song that was sent to veteran Swedish DJ and producer StoneBridge called “Meet in the Middle.” Since its release 10 weeks ago, the pop-house confection, which features Joelle’s vocals, has climbed to No. 4 on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart—meaning it’s the fourth most-played song in nightclubs across the country. “It was honestly so weird. I’ve never even met him,” Joelle says of the song’s producer. >> Another chart-topping Portland artist, Portugal the Man, took home a Grammy this week. Their hit single “Feel It Still” beat out the likes of Imagine Dragons, the Chainsmokers and “Despacito” in the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category. Accepting the award, bassist Zach Carothers shouted out the Trail Blazers and ended with a casual “Hail Satan,” while singer John Gourley mimed wiping his ass with the trophy in the background. INCOMING: Pickathon has announced the initial lineup for its 20th anniversary edition. Keeping with recent tradition, the headliners are drawn from the indie-rock world, with Broken Social Scene and Built to Spill leading the way. The legendary vocal group the Blind Boys of Alabama and a raft of singersongwriters join them. Pickathon is Aug. 3-5 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley. >> In other festival news, the guy who wrote “Pretty Fly For a White Guy” is bringing a taco festival to town. The Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco and Music Festival takes place May 13 at Portland Meadows and is sponsored by Gringo Bandito, the hot sauce company founded by Dexter Holland of skate-punk vets the Offspring. It’s promising “top chef created tacos,” 100 craft beers, a pro-wrestling tournament and a music lineup including Pennywise, Against Me! and, yes, the Offspring.
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In the past, Michigan rapper Dizzy Wright only seemed interested in smoking weed and goofing off. But his latest album, 2017’s 2, shows a newfound maturity, State of Mind 2 focused less on buzzword hooks and touching on more nuanced themes. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
Now in its 10th year, the Back Fence series brings in six writers and yarn-spinners to play the storytelling equivalent of improv—a game show in which people like fiction writer Arthur Bradford or comic Katie Nguyen invent stories on the fly. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., backfencepdx.com. 7:30 pm.
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The dark months are depressing, but the Winter Light Festival is fucking joyful. The waterfront between OMSI and Tilikum will have the largest cluster of light installations, but there'll be interactive displays in every quadrant of the city. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 1945 SE Water Ave., pdxwlf.com. 6-11 pm, ThursdaySaturday Feb. 1-3. Free.
At World Foods in the Pearl, for one night only, the beer will come from Baerlic, the fried chicken sandwich will come from Basilisk, and the bar will be open till midnight. And everything is $5. Chicken is $5. Beer is $5. Hell, wine is $5. World Foods, 830 NW Everett St., worldfoodsportland.com. 9 pm-midnight.
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WINTER LIGHT FESTIVAL
Get Busy
Sure, Perry’s last album was a flaming diaper of bad ideas, but Teenage Dream still bangs. And at least she had the good sense to get Carly Rae Jepsen to open this tour for her. All hail the Queen of Support Slots! Moda Center, 1 N Center Ct. St., 503235-8771. 7:30 pm. $50-$150. All ages.
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SKINNER|KIRK DANCE ENSEMBLE They only perform about one show a year, but Skinner|Kirk is one of Portland’s most meditative, emotive contemporary dance companies. For their 2018 show, they’ll perform two pieces from their repertory, plus a new duet that’s sure to be heart wrenching. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., bodyvox.com. 7:30 pm. Through Feb. 10. $27-$64.
THE MAGIC NEGRO AND OTHER BLACKNESS
PORTLAND SEAFOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL
After making its rounds to comedy festival for the past two years, Mark Kendall’s one-man show about how black men are represented in popular culture is coming to Portland. It’s sharing the bill with Portland improv group the Local Ensemble, plus LA sketch comedy super group White Women, who are actually all black men. The Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., stumptownimprov.com. 8 pm. $13.
It’s peak Dungeness season, and so for the 13th year the Convention Center will fill up with wine from the valley and seafood from the Oregon Coast—especially a bunch of shell shuckers piling into fresh crab and oyster. Convention Center, 777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd., pdxseafoodandwinefestival.com. Noon-10 pm. $12-$14.
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THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN WITH WILL VINTON
SUPER BOWL AT THE EAGLE
Will Vinton’s vignettes of Mark Twain stories were the first claymation movies ever made in the region. For NW Film Center’s screening, the legendary animator and Portlander will be in attendance. NW Film Center, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilmcenter.org. 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 3-4. $9.
Watch the Eagles at the Eagle with manly bears in assless pants. By luck or design, this is free Sunday BBQ day at the North Portland gay bar— which means free, hot cheesy bacon burgers during the game. The Eagle, 835 N Lombard St., 503283-9734. 3:30 pm.
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MEZCAL AND OYSTER ACADEMY WITH SHUCK PORTLAND In a fundraiser for ocean conservation at Olympia Oyster Bar, learn oyster shucking from a Hama Hama oyster-farm shucker, oyster cooking from Olympia chef Maylin Chavez and all about mezcal from Mezcal Amaras’ Sofia Acosta. Or, you know, just eat oysters and drink booze. Olympia Oyster Bar, 4214 N Mississippi Ave., 503-841-6316, shuckportland.org.
THE SHAPE OF WATER Accusations of plagiarism might get in the way of winning all those Oscar nominations it’s racked up, but Guillermo del Toro’s transpecies Cold War love story is as visually spectacular as Pacific Rim and as poetic as Pan’s Labyrinth. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. Various times. $6-$9.
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ASTORIA: PART II
THE NIGHT BEFORE DILLA
Portland Center Stage’s two-part “adaptation” of Peter Stark’s massively popular book is an extremely ambitious production. The sprawling but carefully constructed play follows two perilous expeditions to found a fur-trading empire in Oregon. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm. $25-$77. Through Feb. 18. See page 46.
Before he was in Jack White’s touring band, Daru Jones was the go-to drummer for rappers looking to put together a live band— one of the first being Detroit’s Slum Village, the group featuring legendary beatsmith J Dilla. Tonight, Jones teams up with local producer Galaxe for an improvisatory tribute to the late hip-hop icon on the eve of his birthday. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 East Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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FOOD & DRINK
USE YOUR NOODLE AFURI’S NEW WESTSIDE DUMPLING HOUSE IS WONDERFULLY EXPERIMENTAL—BUT STILL WORKING OUT KINKS. When Tokyo-based ramen chain Afuri came to Portland, the owners figured go big or go home. Rather than replicate the barebones ramen shops at their various locations across Tokyo and Yokohama, their first Portland location on Portland’s eastside was a palace of upscale Japanese fare: somehow a ramen shop, an izakaya, a steakhouse and maybe even a wine bar. But that ambitious original Afuri location also suffered a bit from over-formality—it’s unclear I need a $48 wagyu steak, a sake sommelier or carpaccio composed on a spoon at a ramen spot. Their new Old Town dumpling bar and “noodle lab,” which opened in November, hits what may be the sweet spot between minimalism and bursting ambition. The fast-casual restaurant is a low-key rumpus room with aggressive cocktails and goofball circus-food innovations like poke hard-shell tacos. A new item seems to hit the menu every week. This is fitting, perhaps, for a space that used to house a pirate-themed pizza pub and an aerialburlesque pole-dancing spot. Those poke tacos (two for $8) are like the technicolor dream of the San Gabriel Valley—a Latin-Asian mashup that also manages to be about as intuitive as ceviche on a cracker. The homestyle crisp taco shell is filled to overflowing with citric albacore, smothered in avocado sauce and lanced through with ginger and spice. Each bite is a tender fish bomb bursting with impossible flavor. The shinjo-age dumplings are equally showy, looking like tentacled sea urchins made of fried noodles. But at their core is a delectable bonbon made of shrimp and whitefish, topped with sweet-hot chili sauce. Other casual standouts have included a beautifully balanced chirashi rice bowl and the citrus wallop of a yuzu tsukemen. If this is Afuri’s noodle lab, the westside shop’s take on these toothsome dipping noodles are a highly successful experiment: sticky, thick, slightly al dente and endlessly satisfying. Not everything translated beautifully, however. On two December visits, Afuri’s trademark yuzu shio ramen—a marvel of floral delicacy and subtlety on previous visits to the eastside location—had the telltale flavor of over-caramelization, leading the broth to be both bland and a bit bitter. The shop is still working out the kinks on their trademark ebi (shrimp) and ginger-pork dumplings. On one visit, the dumpling wrappers displayed a lovely scrim-thin delectability, while on another they felt over-oiled and a little overcooked—aflicted by the cloying nuttiness of too much sesame oil. A newly unveiled ebi shio ramen, however, was a paragon of quietude—a quality rare on a menu prone to flavor punches. The noodles offer a firm counterpoint to a gently fish-flavored, lightly aromatic broth that blooms into eloquence. On a cold and rainy night, with my hair still wet under my hat, I could feel my cheeks warm as the glutamate hit my brain. I wanted only one thing: more of the same. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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GO: Afuri, 50 SW 3rd Ave., afuriramenanddumpling.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 11 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday, 11 am-9 pm Sunday.
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MOUTH BUSTER: Stoopid’s maximal burgers can’t be eaten without dissection.
I’m With Stoopid STOOPID BURGER BRINGS PORTLAND A NEEDED DOSE OF OUTLANDISH MAXIMALISM. BY JO R DA N M I C H E L M AN
@sprudge
We know the story by now: Local food cart does good, and expands to brick and mortar. Sometimes, it slips. Other times, it gets even better. The latter narrative applies to Stoopid Burger, which started out in 2014 as a humble cart up on North Vancouver before blowing up in a barrage of good press—from a Final Four Burger Madness appearance in Willamette Week to the People’s Choice Award from the local daily. In late 2016, Stoopid’s co-owners Danny Moore and John Hunt took their talents to Northeast Glisan, filling in for Slow Bar’s “Slowburger” concept, which has retreated back to its original home. After multiple visits to the new Stoopid Burger, I am left in awe of the textual literalism of the restaurant’s name. A moment comes with every Stoopid Burger—be it Silly, Dummy, or flat-out Ignorant—when the sandwich takes over, edging out all distraction. It silences conversation. The burger renders you dazed, meat-drunk and dumbfounded. Not just stupid, but Stoopid. The space is nothing special—it’s hard to do much with the prefab functionality of the Ocean restaurant incubator. There’s around a dozen seats, with eight more high bar stools and communal outdoor seating. The eponymous Stoopid Burger comes stacked high with beef, cheddar, bacon, ham, a hotlink and a fried egg, plus the traditional burger assemblage of lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle, and slathered with house Stoopid Sauce. This is the burg’ that nearly won our 2017 Burger Bracket, back when Stoopid was a mere cart, and it’s every bit as good in the brick and mortar, though at $15.75, you can argue it’s pricey. The rest of the menu rewards exploration. Stoopid’s onion rings ($5.50) are exemplary—crispy, crunchy, never soggy, and served without risk of the dreaded onion sleeve pull-off phenomenon that threatens other, lesser form factors. I like my rings plain, but you can order them here as Stoopid Rings ($8.50), topped with good bacon and a healthy (volumetrically, not calorically) dollop of that house Stoopid Sauce, a kind of creamy, tangy, appealingly off-pink savory sauce that conjures childhood Big Mac memories. My favorite vessel for said Stoopid Sauce is the excellent shrimp Poboy ($13), upon which it comes dressed with lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and subtly spicy, perfectly breaded and golden
fried shrimp. Stoopid’s deftness with fried foods plays off that saucy sweetness. It’s not traditional NOLA by any stretch, but in a town wanting quality Po’ boy options, it’s a strong new entry. Those among us wanting to keep their burger purchase under the $10 threshold should get the “Almost There” ($9), in which the ostentatious house style at Stoopid is stripped down to the bolts. Cheese, bacon, tomato, lettuce, Stoopid Sauce, super fresh—bigger than a fast food burger, not quite as big as a pub burger, spiritually somewhere close to what you’d find at a good cookout—it comes out looking like the burger emoji, and lacks for nothing. If you have a picky friend or someone who doesn’t want all that other shit on their sandwich, get this. My favorite thing there is the Wicked Burger ($15.50), an astonishingly spicy set of beef, bacon, cheddar, pineapple mango habanero chutney and peanut butter, stacked high and lurking with delicious malintent. That chutney, when fused with the peanut butter, becomes a kind of nuclear lava jelly of sweetness and depth, a slow-burning napalm of abiding heat, offset by the deep contrasting savory duo of bacon and beef patty. Your mouth will be spicy for another hour after eating. It is not for the faint of heart or meek of colon. And then there is the Ignorant Burger. It costs $40. Listing its full set of ingredients would exceed my word count. It feeds three, easily, though co-owner Danny Moore told me that he has seen at least one solo diner take it down. It’s too big to stand on its own, and must be eaten in shifts. This is not the best thing on the menu—but it is an experience you can’t get anywhere else in town. There’s not much here not to like, though the Stoopid Juice ($3), a riff on a childhood purple drink, will be too sweet for some, I much preferred the rings to the fries. But these are minor quibbles. Stoopid Burger is like an antidote to all the fussy, minimalist, Scandinavian-influenced micro-plate light-roast pomegranate Portland bullshit. Which is not to say it’s not photogenic. This, too, is Instagram food, but it’s so stirringly maximalist, so indulgently outlandish, people can’t help but mash that heart. GO: Stoopid Burger, 2329 NE Glisan St., 503-477-5779. 11 am-9 pm Monday-Saturday, 11 am-7 pm Sunday. Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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MUSIC J A C LY N C A M P A N A R O
PROFILE
Walk of Shame A PR DISASTER FORCED YACHT INTO HIDING. WILL THE WORLD WELCOME THEM BACK? BY M AT T H E W S I N G E R
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Claire Evans and Jona Bechtolt are surprisingly eager to talk about their sex tape. Or rather, their “sex tape.” It’s not a subject you’d think they would leap into discussing with much enthusiasm, given how it nearly destroyed their band, the formerly Portland-based electro-pop group Yacht, and just about ruined their reputation with the music press and some of their fans. But almost two years since the incident—in which the band’s core duo convinced the media they’d been the victims of a privacy hack, only to reveal it was a promotional stunt—they’ve come to terms with what they did wrong, and the backlash that followed. And for two artists obsessed with the machinations of digital culture, and how the online world shapes our offline reality, the experience of getting fed through the wood chipper of public opinion was too interesting to not talk about. “Listen, we are fully cognizant of the fact that we made a major misstep, that what we did was insensitive and uncalled for in terms of our fan base taking it seriously and feeling betrayed by the language we used,” Evans says over the phone from Los Angeles, where she and Bechtolt moved seven years ago. “That being said, the experience of going through being on the inside of a full-on online shaming at that level—I mean, I don’t wish it on anybody, but I feel like you cannot understand the internet and what it’s doing to the world unless you have experienced it.” Of course, that doesn’t mean the whole thing wasn’t painful, embarrassing and damaging to their career. They’re only now crawling out from under the pile of angry tweets and think-pieces that subsumed them. Ultimately, they’d like to move on, and get back to the business of being Yacht again. But speaking about it publicly—something they’re just starting to do—is part of getting to that point. It’s their way of making amends, and owning their mistake. It is also, they say, a means of taking ownership of everything that’s happened since. “We were afraid to talk about it for a long time because we just didn’t know how to talk about it, and how people would receive it or even be willing to hear it,” Evans says. “Now we’ve found the only real way to do it is to be totally honest about what it was and how it felt and what we meant, and kind of kill ‘em with kindness, truth and honesty.”
Before the stunt, Yacht were critical darlings. They were regarded as smart, savvy pop seditionists, admired as much for their creative, high-concept “world-building” as their technicolor dance music. In interviews, Bechtolt and Evans, who are also longtime romantic partners, took to referring to Yacht as a “band, business and belief system,” augmenting their records with books, video installations, apps and even their own fragrance. I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler, their sixth album, was the apotheosis of Yacht as a multidimensional art project. Its elaborate rollout involved faxes, GIFs and drone-shot YouTube videos; they premiered one single by streaming it only when Uber prices were surging in LA. As a cap to the promotional cycle, Evans and Bechtolt decided to try something more personal. One day in May 2016, they posted a message on Facebook reporting that someone had stolen a private video of them having sex. In order to circumvent the alleged “exploitation,” they announced they were going to make the video available for
YACHT, ROCKED: (From left) Yacht’s Jona Bechtolt, Rob Kieswetter and Charlie Evans.
paid download. Several news outlets, including this one, reported on it in earnest. A day later, the video appeared on PornHub. At first, it seemed like the real deal, with Evans and Bechtolt canoodling in night vision, before taking a swift turn into sci-fi horror. It was intended, they later said, to comment on “the attention economy, clickbait journalism, and celebrity sex tapes”—and also to tease their next single, “I Wanna Fuck You Till I’m Dead.” “At the time, we thought we were being culturejammers,” Evans says. “And it didn’t play out the way we thought it would.” That’s putting it lightly. Judgement was swift. Several articles accused them of undermining victims of actual revenge porn. Jezebel, who revealed the band had tried weeks earlier to get them to assist with the hoax, called it “one of the grossest publicity stunts I’ve ever seen.” “I’m pretty gross, but I’m not spoiled-rich-white-kid-band-faking-a-sex-tape-leak-level gross,” read one tweet. In trying to explain themselves, Evans and Bechtolt dug the hole deeper, and had to issue two apologies to quell the outrage.
In the direct aftermath, the band entered a period of “internal reckoning.” They left their label and their own publicist had thrown them under the bus. “We didn’t feel comfortable making art for a while, at least publicly,” Evans says. “I never want it to seem like we were the victims, but when you make a misstep that large, to fuck up on that level 15 years in, it makes you re-analyze. Who am I as an artist? Am I a bad person?” They took a year off from music and put their focus into other projects. Evans wrote a book, about pioneering women in tech, and she and Bechtolt helped restore the Triforium, a massive sculpture in downtown Los Angeles that’s also considered the world’s largest instrument. But even with all their different pursuits to fall back on, it became clear after a while that they’d have to come back to
the band. For Bechtolt—who dropped out of high school to tour in punk bands, and founded Yacht as a solo project— there wasn’t much choice. “I don’t know how to do anything else!” he says in a faux-cry, but only half-joking. In late 2017, Yacht tiptoed back into the studio, selfreleasing a five-song EP called Strawberry Moon. It finds them processing the past two years in ways both oblique and overt. But it is hardly downcast, nor self-pitying: On “Shame,” Evans chants the word “shame” over bubbly synths like she’s auditioning to castigate Cersei Lannister, except it sounds like she’s practically skipping as she does it. In the video, the band doesn’t satirize its own situation but rather a different kind of shame—specifically, shaming-as-advertising. Evans and Bechtolt pose as hip, young Instagrammers selling a “life mist” that vaguely promises to make existence more fulfilling. In true Yacht fashion, they’re turning it into a real thing. “We wanted to capture this moment we’re in by observing the insanity of lifestyle branding,” Bechtolt says. “So while doing that, we were like, ‘I guess the best way to show this is to create a fictional product.’ Rather than just making it goofy and transparent and a parody of something, we put a lot of work into creating something we’d actually want to own and create.” In many ways, the sex tape debacle has changed the way Yacht operates. It’s forced them to consider more carefully what they’re putting into the world, and pushed them to live more honestly and empathetically. But clearly, it hasn’t changed who they are. “We’ve made a conscious decision to just be Yacht for a really long time,” Evans says. “We’ve seen bands we’ve come up with rise and fall and disappear and start new bands and become 10 million times more successful than us and then break up. We’ve weathered the storm—many storms. And it’s always been Yacht. It will never not be Yacht.” SEE IT: Yacht plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with French Vanilla, on Tuesday, Feb. 6. 9 pm. $15. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31 Dizzy Wright, Marlon Craft, Reezy
[ALMOST RADIO RAP] See Get Busy, page 33. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd, 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 1 Jessica Lea Mayfield, Sun Seeker
[DARK COUNTRY] As a kid in Ohio, Jessica Lea Mayfield played in a touring bluegrass band composed of family members. Such an early introduction to music taught her how to pen engaging songs and imparted a lasting twang to her sound. After three records and gigs opening for the likes of Ryan Adams and Band of Horses, Mayfield is fresh off her most personal album to date, Sorry Is Gone. With domestic abuse as a major theme—something she’s experienced firsthand—set to foreboding country rock, it is also hands-down her best yet. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.
LáGoon, Head the Hive, Average Pageant
[FUN ROCK] The term “rock’n’roll” means different things to different people. In the case of this bill, the only thing these acts have in common is that they each fall, in some way, under rock’s expansive umbrella. Average Pageant is considerably drone-y, dreamy and moody, while Head the Hive lean more toward the hard end of things as it was defined in the early 2000s. And LáGoon could soundtrack a modern Tony Hawk game with their King Tuff-esque skater jams. There may not be much cohesiveness to this bill, but there’s enough variety to please basically any rock fan. CERVANTE POPE. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St. 9 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.
Jessica Dennison + Jones, Peter Rainbeau, OK Bird
[QUIET IS THE NEW LOUD] Last year’s self-titled album from Portland duo Jessica Dennison + Jones is understated enough to imagine it being written and recorded in either the corner of a library or adjacent to a sleeping roommate. But what’s ostensibly lacking in volume is balanced by plaintive, catchy elegance. Their subdued indie-folk follows in the vein of the best hushed twee like Isobel Campbell’s Gentle Waves or Kings of Convenience. Fresh off their tour with Crowley, the two Jesses are in peak form to celebrate their homecoming with another pair of eclectic local songwriters, Peter Rainbeau and OK Bird. CRIS LANKENAU. Turn! Turn! Turn!, 8 NE Killingsworth St, 503-284-6019. 8 pm. $5. 21+.
FRIDAY, FEB. 2 Over, At The Heart Of The World, Behalf
[INDUSTRIAL] It’s been seven years since duo At The Heart of the World shared their Muttering Pervasiveness EP, a short, threepart package of harsh, screeching and grating snarls from vocalist Joshua Greene. In the time since, ATHOTW have constructed their official debut album, Rotting
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Forms. And though “Golden Cross” and “Fear and Peace” are the only works they’ve shared thus far, they serve as shrill displays of the duo’s grisly squalls, jarring synth tones and engaging guitar riffs. It’s a sound recalling a robust combo of Nine Inch Nails and Front 242. CERVANTE POPE High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK Ave, 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen
[CALIFORNIA DREAMS, CANADIAN EMOTIONS] See Get Busy, page 33. Moda Center, 1 N Center Ct. St., 503-235-8771. 7:30 pm. $50-$150. All ages.
John Hiatt & The Goners
[AMERICANA] He might be 65, but John Hiatt is feeling 22—at least in album years. He recently released his 22nd album, Terms of My Surrender, full of acoustic guitar, tinny banjo and gravelly vocals singing playful lyrics like, “Love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.” Since the start of his career over 40 years ago, Hiatt has penned many tunes, perhaps most notably his 1988 radio hit “Slow Turning” from the album of the same title. Backed by the Goners, Hiatt will perform that album in its entirety in celebration of its 30th anniversary. LAUREN KERSHNER. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503-288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out. 21+.
Of Mice and Men, Blessthefall, Fire from the Gods, Cane Hill, MSCW
[NU-EMO] As you can probably infer from the fact that they coopted a Steinbeck title for their band name, Of Mice and Men desperately want to be taken seriously. Their songs have melodramatic titles like “Unbreakable” and “Bones Exposed,” and lyrics like “I won’t back down” and “My blood fills your lungs.” The music is vapid, trite and ultimately artless. But one thing about Of Mice and Men can’t be denied: They’ve lasted a long time in a genre not build for longevity. They’ve been able to evolve their sound, become less abrasive and end up in that benign “hard rock” sphere that’s allowed them to open for wildly popular nu-metal bands like Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch. You can knock many things about Of Mice and Men, but not their hustle. JUSTIN CARROLLALLAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $19.50-$27. All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 3 555-Burn: Summer Cannibals, Kelli Schaeffer, Roseblood
[CHEAP THRILLS] Cheapskates, rejoice! Doug Fir kicks off a monthly $5 local concert series with a cassingle release from mighty grunge-pop destroyers Summer Cannibals. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503231-9663. 8 pm. $5 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.
Flor, Handsome Ghost
[ARENA EMO] Not unlike aspirational rappers writing songs about getting rich and forcing the reality to manifest itself, LA-viaHood River alt-pop quartet Flor is gunning for the big leagues from the comfort of their own bedrooms. Last year’s come out. you’re hiding is a neon sampler platter of what’s big on rock radio right now, but no amount of buzzy synths, circular drum patterns and sugary vocal hooks can stand up without
an earnest interest in the process that puts such a shiny, crowd-pleasing package on the table. Singer Zach Grace knows a thing or two about penning melodies that bang, making the band’s graduation from blown-out car stereos to festival stages inevitable. PETE COTTELL. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St, 503239-7639. 6:30 pm. Sold out. 21+.
A Tribute to Antonia Stampfel
[ODDBALL AMERICANA] Nestled amid more radio-friendly cuts on the epochal Easy Rider soundtrack was the unreconstructed psychedelic weirdness of the Holy Modal Rounders’ “If You Want to Be a Bird (Bird Song).” Antonia Stampfel’s goofball-visionary lyrics, set to a warped take on an old Ray Price country hit, gave the widest countercultural exposure to the NYC acid-head collective, whom Antonia herself had spawned by introducing then-husband-to-be Peter Stampfel to gonzo folkie Steve Weber. The Rounders decamped to Portland in the ‘70s, adding members, including Dave Reisch, Robin Remaily and Roger North. Eventually, the bond between Weber and Peter Stampfel frayed and the band morphed, without them, into the adored Freak Mountain Ramblers, who entertained Portland’s lovers of skewed roots music for decades until they, in turn, sadly split last year. Antonia passed away last September, so Reisch, Remaily and North reconvene tonight with other friends— including beloved backwoods imp Baby Gramps—to perform in her honor. JEFF ROSENBERG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. $13. 21+.
Beth Hart
[BLUES] Since the mid ’90s, Beth Hart’s smoldering vocals have fueled a fiery career. From humble street musician to international blues siren, her trail of success began with her Billboard-charting hit “LA Song” in 1999. Hailed by The Blues Magazine as “the ultimate female rocker,” the Grammy-nominated powerhouse has collaborated with guitar legends like Joe Bonamassa and Slash. Her latest solo project, Fire on the Floor, features smoky jazz tunes, intimate piano ballads and growling blues that prove her flame is still roaring. LAUREN KERSHNER. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St #110, 503288-3895. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Vice Device, Glaare, Fearing, Sex Park
[POST-PUNK] Promoter Soundcontrol PDX has been killing it lately with its dark and brooding lineups. For this one, Portland teams up with some of the best in California post-punk. On the cutely titled “Tour of Heaven,” Los Angeles foursome Glaare join their ethereal, Cocteau Twins-tinged darkwave with the cold, gothic air of Oakland’s Fearing. Having both dropped albums recently, there’s enough fresh material between them, while Vice Device’s latest split with Void Vision and new tracks from Sex Park’s upcoming February release will keep the night from growing anywhere near stale. CERVANTE POPE. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd, 503-238-0543. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 4 Nick Delffs
[AMBIENT FOLK] On last year’s stellar, self-made Redesign, the former Shaky Hand shed some of the boisterous, jovial energy of his former outfit and channeled his eccentricities with more ethereal austerity. Imagine if Conor Oberst had blended the two modes he’d worked in for each of his simultaneously released 2002 albums, or maybe Brian Eno producing Townes Van Zandt—nuanced, spacious and affectionate. CRIS LANKENAU. Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave, 503-972-2670. 7 pm. Free. 21+. Through Feb. 10.
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Give the Drummer Some DRUMMER DARU JONES WENT FROM HIP-HOP CLUBS TO TOURING WITH JACK WHITE. BUT IN MANY WAYS, HE’S NEVER LEFT THE CHURCH. These days, Daru Jones lends his funky, passionate drumming to everyone from Jack White to Pete Rock. Growing up, though, Jones didn’t listen to rap, or rock’n’roll, or anything approaching popular music. In fact, for the bulk of his formative years behind a drum kit, he was forbidden from listening to anything that wasn’t church music. “I came up with a really strict foundation where everything outside of gospel, we couldn’t listen to it,” says the drummer, whose extended family used to attend nightly services at a Church of God in Christ congregation outside of Detroit. Looking back, Jones doesn’t feel like he was deprived, at least in retrospect. “You know what’s crazy?” he chuckles. “It wasn’t until later that I started dissecting the music and I was like, ‘Man! Gospel music was funky!’” It turned out, the same deep grooves that Jones had used to keep churchgoers singing the Lord’s praises each night throughout his teenage years translated extremely well to his eventual explorations beyond the steeple. A ferocious performer who towers above a bed of steeply angled drums, Jones blends classic gospel chops with a jazz touch and drum machine-style breaks. It’s a unique and colorful sound that initially acted as a magnet for big-name rap acts, and has transformed into a whirlwind of opportunities in virtually every genre. After a series of touring gigs, Jones’ first break came with legendary Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village in 2005. Eventually, he moved to New York, where he began sharing the studio and stage with musicians like Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch and Detroit rapper Black Milk. Then, in 2010, at a show in Nashville, an epic drum solo on a Black Milk song called “Losing Out” caught the attention of Jack White. “Jack was in the back of the room,” Jones says. “After that song he came to the front of the stage and put his hands up and was like, ‘Yeah!’” A few months later, White was recording a song with RZA from the Wu Tang Clan, and needed someone to lay down drums. Jones made his way back to Nashville, but RZA cancelled at the last minute. White felt bad about flying him all the way down there for nothing. “He said, ‘Well I’ve got a couple of solo things we can try out,’” Jones says, “and from what I was told, that’s what started his solo career and the Blunderbuss album.” Two tours and two critically acclaimed albums later—plus another release to come later this year—Jones’ drumming remains a prominent part of White’s lively musical aesthetic. But he hasn’t lost his hip-hop gigs, either. He is currently serving as the musical director and drummer for a new project from legendary producer Pete Rock called Pete Rock and the Soul Brothers, and is performing in Portland as part of a special improvised tribute to the late, exalted beatsmith J Dilla, with local producer Galaxe. But despite how far he has come in the world of secular music, Jones still claims his faith impacts every note. “I have to let the music tell me what to play, and also step up to the plate,” he says, “That came from church.” PARKER HALL. SEE IT: Daru Jones plays with Galaxe as part of The Night Before Dilla at Doug Fir Lounge, 830 East Burnside St., with Brown Calculus and Abyss Infinite, on Tuesday, Feb. 6. 9 pm. $10 advance, $15 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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MUSIC Prawn, Caravela, SÓL, Lowglo
[TWINKLE PUNK] Prawn hit the ground running as the logical next step in emo’s evolution from introspective legacy acts like Appleseed Cast to bouncy youngsters like You Blew It. But the straightforward pop-punk of last year’s Run has twinklecore devotees concerned that the New Jersey quartet’s sound is growing in reverse. It’s still a fun and thrilling album filled with crunchy guitars and plaintive vocals, but it looks like the glory days of their thoughtful dalliances with heady post-rock well in the rearview. PETE COTTELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Chanticleer
[WAR SONGS] Every culture throughout time has created songs about perennial human concerns. Love and lust probably ranks at the top, but alas, war has also been a perennial subject for centuries. That’s the premise of Chanticleer’s “Heart of a Soldier” program, which the great San Francisco men’s choir brings to its annual Portland visit as part of its 40th anniversary tour. The dozen superb singers perform Renaissance war songs by English composers William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins, as well as French composers Guillaume Dufay and Clement Janequin. Then, perhaps presciently, they sing martial music from Russia, including those sung by marching soldiers. Two of today’s finest American composers, Jennifer Higdon and Mason Bates, retaliate with new songs. Whether exhorting or lamenting, war music never seems to go out of date. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College), 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, 503-2226000. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 31. $30-$55 general admission. All ages.
Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy
[VIDEO GAME MUSIC] The first Final Fantasy game featuring soundtrack music by composer Nobuo Uematsu was released on the Japanese Famicom system back in 1987. Over the ensuing 30 years, the franchise has become a world-renowned best seller, spawning 14 sequel games and several feature films. Music director Arnie Roth has been conducting the touring symphonic Final Fantasy tribute Distant Worlds since 2007. This concert brings in the Portland State Chamber Choir to recreate some of the best themes and leitmotifs, while projections from games throughout the saga help lure nostalgic game nerds out of their basements in order to reminisce over specific battles and moods in a public setting. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, Feb. 3-5. $25-$95. All ages.
Cappella Romana
[MEDIEVAL MASTERPIECE] Historians consider the famous Mass of Notre Dame, by the greatest composer and poet of the 14th century, Guillaume de Machaut, one of the keystone compositions of the Middle Ages—but no one really knows how it actually sounded back in the day. In 1996, French conductor-scholar Marcel Pérès’ Ensemble Organum released a recording of Machaut’s masterpiece— the first complete setting of the Catholic mass by a single composer— that shocked the polite world of early music. Using traditional Corsican singers instead of, say, English choirboys, its gritty, ecstatic singing was derided as “Corsican shepherds braying” by listeners accustomed to the solemn, pristine sound commonly cultivated for later church music. Peres’ reading emphasizes lower voices more than most, which makes it perfect for Cappella Romana and its great basses, whom he’ll direct on this visit to Portland. BRETT CAMPBELL. St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1716 NW Davis St. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 3. $24 and up. All ages.
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Kyle Craft FULL CIRCLE NIGHTMARE (Sub Pop)
[BYGONE ROCK] Since releasing his promising debut two years ago, Kyle Craft has stayed busy. He created an ode to iconic female musicians like Cher and Patsy Cline with the covers album Girl Crazy. He dropped “Before the Wall,” a poignant antiTrump single—one of the alarmingly few indie musicians to do so. Now comes Full Circle Nightmare, a record that cements the Portlandvia-Louisiana transplant as a true frontman with uncanny classic rock sensibilities. Far from a reinvention, his second full-length album of original material feels more like settling in. It offers an at-home feel, wherein Craft is both immensely comfortable with his fiery lyrics and his band’s bluesy, near-Baptist rock’n’roll sound. Perhaps that’s no surprise. Full Circle Nightmare is baldly autobiographical, an effort Craft himself has described as offering a sense of closure. His first real project in a proper studio, the record is noticeably crisper than 2016’s Dolls of Highland, without shedding the unruly Southern-rock guitar and stained-glass-window-shattering keys. The rowdy “Heartbreak Junky” sounds like an early Dylan song hijacked by Stillwater, while “Bridge City Rose” is fit for closing time at a heartland bar. Craft is still a sucker for acoustic slow-swellers that have you reaching for your Zippo—see “Slick and Delta Queen”—but his storytelling overshadows any nostalgic kitsch. Full Circle Nightmare suggests that the bet Sub Pop placed on Craft a few years back is paying off in full. MARK STOCK.
CELEBRATE OREGON CRAFT BEER
SEE IT: Kyle Craft plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with the Shivas and Ghost Foot, on Friday, Feb. 2. $15. 9 pm. 21+.
Little Star EVEN IN DREAMS (Good Cheer) [STEADY PROPULSION] O ve r j u st t w o y e a r s and two albums, Little Star have earned local and national praise for their tender and wobbly approach to post-punk. Seasick guitars and propulsive jazz drums barreled ahead, while s i n g e r a n d g u i t a r i st Daniel Byers’ subdued warble followed closely behind. But on the first half of their new EP, Even in Dreams, the band makes a concerted effort at letting their New Wave influences build the mood. On opener “Providence,” Byers employs spot-on impersonation of Morrissey, offering a pointed observation about the track’s steady krautrock beat: “I recognize repetition/I don’t do it better/I don’t do it different.” The title track that follows is an off-key post-punk ballad that welds part of the Cure’s “Pictures of You” to an even more deliberate drum pattern. The metronomic nature of the EP is due to Byers having written the record solo while bassist Julian Morris was out of town (founding drummer John Value left the group last year), but very little of the reckless charm that propelled Little Star’s previous work is lost in the process. Closing with a minute-long piano tune called “Waltz,” Even in Dreams could’ve functioned as a single built around the first two tracks. But Little Star’s growing fanbase will be delighted to see a steadier side to Beyers’ frenetic songwriting nonetheless. PETE COTTELL.
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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. JAN. 31
Muddy Rudder Public House
Portland Center Stage
Alberta Street Pub
Roseland Theater
1036 NE Alberta St Girl Can’t Help It: A Tribute to Journey; Liz Chibucos
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St Alan Kanning, Nicholas Matta, Count Kellam
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Dizzy Wright, Marlon Craft, Reezy
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Barna Howard, Ryan Oxford, Kele Goodwin
Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Rebecca Kilgore
Justa Pasta
1336 NW 19th Ave Anson Wright Duo
Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College)
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Chanticleer
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St The Bellicose Minds, Public Eye, DJ Dan Stalone
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Lost Ox, Band of Comerados
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Gardener, Bear Call
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Wednesday Night Zydeco
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St ComediMusiCrünk: Traeger, de Dionyso/ Bennett, Niekrasz/Katz
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd Father Mountain, Evolver Ocelot, Needle Spiders
THU. FEB. 1 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Eric Johnson, Arielle
Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Jaycob Van Auken; McDougall & Friends
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Jessica Lea Mayfield, Sun Seeker
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Kris Deelane (The Winery Tasting Room)
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE MLK Ave UnDude, The Secret Ceremony
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Two Feet
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St The Thesis
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St LáGoon, Head the Hive, Average Pageant
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Lewi Longmire
[JAN. 31-FEB. 6]
LAST WEEK LIVE
Edgefield
8105 SE 7th Ave Sleepy Eyed Johns
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Bruce Cockburn
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HENRY CROMETT
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128 NW 11th Ave Crow and The Canyon 8 NW 6th Ave
Drive-By Truckers
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Bedrooms, Gary Supply, Bacteria, Diced Candy
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Ah God, BB, Toxic Slime Records
The Liquor Store
The Secret Society
3341 SE Belmont St EPV, Radio Phoenix, Just Pretend
116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show! feat. Red Yarn
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Becky Kilgore and the Cowhands, Baby & The Pearl Blowers
MON. FEB. 5 Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel
Turn! Turn! Turn!
303 SW 12th Ave Nick Delffs
8 NE Killingsworth St Jessica Dennison + Jones, Peter Rainbeau, OK Bird
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Seth Walker
FRI. FEB. 2 Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Jonny Cool; Mbrascatu, Isabeau
Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd Harvey Brindell & The Tablerockers
Edgefield
WEEKEND WARRIORS: “Happy Saturday, y’all,” Josh Homme half-mumbled to the crowd at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 26, raising a glass toward its fabulously trashed rafters. It was Friday, but same diff. When you’re in hard-rock party monsters Queens of the Stone Age, the week is one long blur anyway. Good-natured hedonism has long been the driving force behind the band’s hip-swiveling, sledgehammering rock’n’roll. But after Homme kicked a female photographer at a concert last month—among other distressing behavior—it’s become fair to wonder if the party is starting to catch up to them. There was no such incident in Portland, but the show had issues of its own. A big one was the sound. The guitars were cranked at the expense of every other instrument, immolating the groove of opener “If I Had a Tail” and everything that came after in ear-piercing treble. The long, malleable light-up tubes placed around the stage were distracting and obstructive—and in light of recent events, it didn’t help that the band kept compulsively kicking at them. And Homme seemed more disengaged than normal, ceding much of the onstage energy to bassist Michael Shuman. After an encore of “Songs for the Deaf,” Homme hobbled offstage with a noticeable limp. Some on Twitter called it karmic retribution for last month’s random act of violence. But it was also, perhaps, an indication that what he needs right now is an extended vacation. MATTHEW SINGER.
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave The Deep Dark Woods
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Phil Lesh and Terrapin Family
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Kyle Craft
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Turtle’s Guitar Mafia (The Winery Tasting Room)
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd 10 Years
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE MLK Ave Over, At The Heart Of The World, Behalf
Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Beat Parlor Presents Reliqs, Survival Skills, Korgy & Bass
Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Reliqs, Survival Skills, Korgy & Bass
Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College) 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd Chanticleer
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager
Moda Center 1 N Center Ct St Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave The Junebugs
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 John Hiatt & The Goners
SouthFork
4605 NE Fremont St Devin Phillips
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave The Bitchins
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Noise Brigade, Intervention, Sunsleeper
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Intervals, Night Verses
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave All I Feel Is Yes, Denim Wedding, The Doomies
The Fixin’ To
Kelly’s Olympian
8218 N.Lombard St Meringue, Fake Fruit, Toxic Slime Records, Grapefruit
Leaven Community Center
3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Dovecotes, Point Juncture, WA, Paper Brain
426 SW Washington St Tom Ghoulie, Tino’s Dream, Wild Kingdom
5431 NE 20th Ave McCowen, Rhodes, uneasy trio
529 SW 4th Ave Super Sonic Soul Jam, Tiffany Wilson, DJ Rockefeller 600 E Burnside St Rontoms Sunday Session: Nasalrod, Kulululu
2845 SE Stark St Brian Charette Trio
1420 SE Powell Blvd The Subjectors, Tunnel Vision, Neutralboy, Purdy Spit
Jack London Revue
Rontoms
The Goodfoot
Twilight Cafe and Bar
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Ed Haynes (The Winery Tasting Room)
The Know
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St
The Barn Door Slammers
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Buddy Jay’s Jamaican Jazz Band, Postmodern Pirates
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd The Toasters, The Sentiments, Original Middle Age Ska Enjoy Club, Heavy City, DJ Mikey Oh
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Piefight, Soft Kamikaze, New Not Normals
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Panzergod, Funeral Chant, Pandiscordian Necrogenesis
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Electric Relic
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St Of Mice and Men, Blessthefall, Fire from the Gods, Cane Hill, MSCW
Zarz On First
814 SW 1st Portland 97204 Robbie Laws Band; Paul Mazzio Trio
SAT. FEB. 3
Alberta Street Pub
Jack London Revue
The Old Church
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Kenton Club
The Secret Society
Bluehour
3939 N Mississippi Ave Get Out & Fly: A Tribute to Antonia Stampfel
1036 NE Alberta St Scarlet Town; Matty Charles & Katie Rose
1037 SW Broadway Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy 250 NW 13th Avenue Mel Brown, Dan Faehnle, Phil Baker
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St L.A. Guns
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave Little Star, Wave Action
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Phil Lesh and Terrapin Family
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St Grand Royale (Beastie Boys tribute), Shoot to Thrill
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St 555-Burn: Summer Cannibals, Kelli Schaeffer, Roseblood
Edgefield
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale The Columbians (The Winery Tasting Room)
Hawthorne Theatre
Aladdin Theater
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Original Wailers
Alberta Rose Theater
Holocene
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Orgone 3000 NE Alberta St Kerosene Dream
1001 SE Morrison St Flor, Handsome Ghost
529 SW 4th Ave Seatown Soul All Stars; Ed Taylor 2025 N Kilpatrick St General Electric, Summer Eyes
Mississippi Studios
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave Jet Black Pearl
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 Beth Hart
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Boombox Cartel
SouthFork
4605 NE Fremont PDX Side Hustle
St David of Wales Episcopal Church
2800 SE Harrison St Michelle Alany & The Mystics, Trio Tsuica
1422 SW 11th Ave Classical Piano Benefit Concert 116 NE Russell St Pink Lady presents “The Cat’s Meow”; The Libertine Belles
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Vice Device, Glaare, Fearing, Sex Park
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Vegetable Revival Project, Cosmic Butter, Gravelroad
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St An Evening with Polecat
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Greenriver Thrillers, Year of the Coyote, Law Boss
2926 NE Alberta St The Lads
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Marbin
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St John Kadlecik Solo Acousti’Lectric
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Prettiest Eyes, Bombay Beach, Memory Boys, Pennymart
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St David Dondero with Birger Olsen, Adam Ostrar
TUE. FEB. 6 Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave Nick Delffs
Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Two-Step Tuesdays feat. The Desert Dogs
Doug Fir Lounge
Zarz On First
Edgefield
814 SW 1st Heather Keizar Duo
SUN. FEB. 4
Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel
8218 N Lombard St The Get Ahead, Wallace
TC O’Learys Pub
128 NE Russell St Lights
The Firkin Tavern
The Fixin’ To
106 N. State St, Lake Oswego Tyrone Hendrix Dance Extravaganza Featuring Steveland Swatkins And Arietta Ward
830 E Burnside St The Night Before Dilla: Daru Jones x Galaxe
St. Mary’s Cathedral
1937 SE 11th Ave Havania Whaal, Supermoon, Husky Boys
Lake Theater and Cafe
Wonder Ballroom
Alberta Street Pub
1716 NW Davis St Cappella Romana
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Cellotronik (The Winery Tasting Room)
1036 NE Alberta St Matthew Zeltzer
303 SW 12th Ave Nick Delffs
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave Prawn, Caravela, SÓL, Lowglo
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Evan Thomas Way, Matt Dorrien, Slater Smith
2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale Ben Larsen (The Winery Tasting Room)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave Yacht
Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway Live at Lunch presents Sarah Wild
The Analog Cafe and Theater
720 Se Hawthorne Blvd. Wastewalker
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Jame with Shae Altered & Bo Baskoro
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MUSIC COURTESY OF JASON BURNS
NEEDLE EXCHANGE
Jason Burns Years DJing: Around 15. I started in 1996 but I took a hiatus in the mid-2000s. Genres: House, techno, acid house, breaks, other random stuff. Where You Can Catch Me Regularly: I just started hosting a night called Bodywork at the newly opened No Vacancy Lounge. I also play at 45 East, Jade Club and Liquor Store regularly. Craziest Gig: The most fun I’ve had recently was at Your Sunday Best at White Owl over the summer. The crowd there is always really responsive and they aren’t shy about dancing, which is great. It was also pretty crazy that I got to play Coachella a few years ago. My Go-To Records: I seem to pull “Step it Back” by Bodhi quite a bit. I have an older track called “Mami (Manare Remix)” by Piri Piri that regularly works its way into my sets. Don’t Ever Ask Me to Play…: Anything. Like most DJs, I hate requests and will usually ignore them. Unless of course, someone asks me to play one of my own tracks. That’s always flattering. SEE IT: Jason Burns spins at No Vacancy Lounge, 235 SW 1st Ave., for Bodywork, on Saturday, Feb. 17. 10 pm. $5 advance, $10 day of show. 21+. Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Sappho Digs Deep (disco)
Sandy Hut
WED, JAN. 31 Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Wicked Wednesday (hip-hop)
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Papi Fimbres (afro punk, latin psych)
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St TRONix: Logical Aggression (electro)
Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Wu-Tang Wednesday
The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Venus In Furs (gothic)
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)
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Tonic Lounge
1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Smooth Hopperator
Tube
421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, dark wave) 18 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St FREQ(UENCY)
THU, FEB. 1 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave W&W
Elvis Room
203 SE Grand Ave DJ Joey Prude
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty Goth Night
Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Ascension
The Lovecraft Bar
White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave East Taken by Force (rock ‘n roll)
FRI, FEB. 2 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Joel Fletcher
District Portland
220 SW Ankeny St DJ Problemsolver
Ground Kontrol 511 NW Couch St DJ EPOR
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Dirty South Tribute Night
BUZZ LIST
BAR REVIEW C J M O N S E R R AT
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. No Vacancy
235 SW 1st Ave., facebook.com/novacancypdx Aggressively art deco No Vacancy is like a housemusic DJ party on the set of the Great Gatsby, with surprisingly good daiquiris coming out of the bar.
3. 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.
4. Garrison Tap Room
8773 N Lombard St, 503-780-6914, royalebrewing.com. With a new tasting room open at the brewery since last year, Royale Brewing’s St. Johns taproom has transitioned into the pleasant cocktail haunt the ‘hood had been missing for years.
5. 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. Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Lez Do It
Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Chi Duly
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Frankeee B (Scandinavian synthetic funk)
The Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark St First Friday Superjam
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Uplift
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave + DoublePlusDANCE + (new wave, synth, goth)
The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven
SE 2nd Ave & Hawthorne Blvd Brickbat Mansion: A Tribute to The Cure
Toffee Club
1006 SE Hawthorne Blvd Sticky Toffee (house, disco)
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Massacooramaan
PUNCHING IN: Until a year ago, the strange little zone on North Killingsworth between I-5 and Interstate Avenue felt less like a neighborhood than the urban equivalent of a pull-tab. But all those new apartment buildings beget new businesses, apparently. The little stretch suddenly feels downright hospitable after the sudden addition of a food cart pod with great barbecue, a surf-shop bar with great beer and a new neighborhood tavern called Haymaker (1233 N Killingsworth St., haymakerportland.com). Open at 3 pm each day, Haymaker is a utility pub of the old-guard sort—a hall of booze and comfort food that thrives on a packed crowd of people who all live three blocks away. In an elbow-bar space that always seems full of sports fans glued to the flat screens, everything seems to be repurposed: The tabletops are reclaimed wood from former bowling alley floors, while the “chandelier” overhead seems to have been made from actual tree branches. The only staff on our visits has always been the bar’s owners: Former Kells manager Nick Brown tends a bar that splits the difference between $2.50 Old German tallboys and whiskey cocktails that include a $9 boozy-hot herbal Doc Brown mixing up rye, fernet and Dr. Pepper. In the kitchen, co-owner Dave Bertelo cooks up a menu of fried-chicken and roastpork bar sandwiches with a yen for the carnivalesque: Their triple-decker club sandwich ($14) is stacked tall with the crunch of a fried and breaded chicken breast, while the $25 Moda Monster is five inches of mixed meat; it was meant as a joke until someone actually ordered and ate it. Meanwhile, The Chicken Little is a strange invention that’s a bit like a soul-food take on a corn dog: fried chicken on the inside, waffle on the outside, with an option of maple syrup. And for $9, you can get the meal deal: Chicken Little, a shot of Old Taylor bourbon and a Cold Snack tallboy. It’s like a cheap date at the dirt track, but it’s oddly satisfying. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT, FEB. 3 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Cosmic Gate
Crush Bar
1400 SE Morrison St Pants OFF Dance OFF: Valloween
District Portland
220 SW Ankeny St DJ Playtime
Ground Kontrol 511 NW Couch St DJ Vaporware
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Club Tropicana
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Roane (hip-hop, soul, boogie)
Scandals
1125 SW Stark St Dance at Scandals w/ DJ NoN
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Pandemonia (goth, industrial)
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Get on up: James Brown Remixed
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Wake The Town w/ Chimpo
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Expressway to Yr Skull (shoegaze, deathrock, indie) Death Trip w/ DJ Tobias
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Halcyon (nu disco, house)
Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Oolacile
SUN, FEB. 4 Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial)
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick & DDDJJJ666 (synth, new wave, weird)
The Paris Theatre
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Sandy Hut
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1430 NE Sandy Blvd DJ Bad Wizard
The Lovecraft Bar
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421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, post punk)
TUE, FEB. 6 Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St Party Damage DJs
Maxwell Bar
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20 NW 3rd Ave Quaz
The Lovecraft Bar
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421 SE Grand Ave Sleepwalk w/ Miz Margo (deathrock, gothrock)
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PROFILE
Trading Up CHRIS COLEMAN BILLS ASTORIA AS AN ADAPTATION OF PETER STARK’S BEST-SELLING BOOK. HE’S BEING TOO MODEST. BY MA RTIN CIZMA R
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In 1811, John Jacob Astor was an established baron of the fur trade. He’d already built a vast network of traders around the Great Lakes when he decided to gamble on a pair of expeditions to create a fur trading post at the mouth Coleman of the Columbia. Those expeditions established the first American settlement on the At this point in your career, that’s is a West Coast, and laid the groundwork for Astor pretty bold step. You’re very established as to become the richest man in the country. a director, but not as a playwright. There are some parallels between Astor’s I s u s p e c t t h a t f o l k s o n o u r l e a d e r s h i p ambitious mid-career moves and those of t e a m p r o b a b l y h a d t h a t t h o u g h t . L i ke , Portland Center Stage’s Chris Coleman. Cole- “Ohhhhhhhhhkay.” But we all knew that, man has been the artistic director of the city’s e v e n i f i t s u c k e d , t h e b o o k w a s p r o b largest theater company since 1999. Coleman ably popular enough to draw an audience. will depart for Denver after the spring season, but he’s still pushing things—particularly when Breaking it into two different parts and proit comes to Astoria, his two-part adaptation of ducing it over two seasons was a bold decision. Peter Stark’s book. To do two parts over two seasons, to have this “Adaptation” isn’t really the right word— huge canvas, is a huge risk. But it’s totally played Stark’s work is a lively but dense history with no out way beyond our hopes. The real bitch of dialogue. For only the second time in his career, it was that we lost three actors from Part I and the first time in 25 years, Coleman wrote between last year and this year so we have to a script. The results teach it to them in a week have been extraordiby themselves. It’s been nary. The first part of hard as hell. “THERE’S NO DIALOGUE Astoria became one IN THE BOOK... SO I of the best-reviewed What was your writing GOT TO THAT RATHER local productions of process and how long did it take? 2017 and the bestTERRIFYING MOMENT It took me about 18 selling play produced WHERE—I’VE DONE MY months. I basically creby a Portland theater ated an outline like you last year. RESEARCH, BUT THEN would for a screenplay. With Astoria: Part IT’S LIKE ‘NOW WHAT?’” I made it so hard for II now playing, we sat the director—who is down to chat about - Chris Coleman me—because I give you the project. no narrative connective WW: What made you want to work with tissue to create an event, knowing somehow I was going to create that physically or with a Peter Stark’s Astoria? Coleman: It was completely a page turner for design element. But it was like, “Good luck!” me. I love history, I love nonfiction, so this And there were times I was like, “Oh my God.” was really in my personal interest zone. But This year I’m a lot more confident, but last year I was really struck by, how the hell did they I was like, “You’re killing me, Coleman!” survive? And the unbelievably bad leadership decisions. Not one or two, but cascading. Holy Have people from Astoria come out in droves? cow. I reached out to Peter Stark and he gave Yes. The most interesting one is the greathis blessing, and then I started doing more great-grandson of Alexander MacKay. He knew serious research. There’s no dialogue in the that his relative had been involved in the fur book, the characters don’t really speak, and so trade but didn’t know that he was in this story. I got to that rather terrifying moment where— There have been a couple of those where someI’ve done my research, but then it’s like, “Now one who was related to someone in the story what? How much of it is narrative? Do I just shows up, which is really cool. make up the dialogue? Do I have that permission?” And so first we’re like, time out. I’m like, SEE IT: Astoria: Part II is at Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm I hope [Stark] doesn’t freak out. I just have to Tuesday-Sunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, invent—how does John Jacob Astor talk? through Feb. 18. $25-$77. 46
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THE BIG CHILL: From left to right: John San Nicolas, Allen Nause, Vin Shambry, Joshua J. Weinstein, Barbie Wu, Sara Hennessy, Michael Mendelson, Eric Pargac.
At World’s End Magellanica is an epic but intimate arctic journey. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E LL FE RGUS O N
Magellanica is a lot to take in. Written by Portland playwright E.M. Lewis, it’s a harrowing, epic odyssey about a group of researchers working in an isolated Antarctica laboratory. A world premiere staged by Artist Repertory Theatre, Magellanica has a fiveand-a-half-hour run time, three intermissions and a 25-minute dinner break. That may make the play sound like a daunting ordeal, Magellanica isn’t something you sit through to prove that you can—full of intoxicating images and intense emotions, it’s a seamless fusion of spectacle and intimacy. Directed by Dámaso Rodríguez, the story begins in February 1986 as a crew of fictional scientists—Morgan (Sara Hennessy), May (Barbie Wu), Vadik (Michael Mendelson), Lars (Eric Pargac), Todor (Allen Nause) and William (Joshua J. Weinstein)—prepare to depart for an Antarctic research station where they will be sequestered for roughly eight months. Morgan and Vadik are studying the hole in the ozone layer, Todor plans to create “a new and accurate map of the world,” but they all labor under the stern rule of Adam (Vin Shambry), a captain from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and his communist-hating sidekick, Freddie (John San Nicolas). Tensions simmer between the characters, especially when Adam tries to squash Morgan and Vadik’s plan to mount a life-threatening, kilometers-long expedition beyond the station to gather data on the ozone hole. Yet what makes Magellanica potent is its utopian vision of women and men of myriad backgrounds not only surviving together, but bonding through scenes of joyous silliness, like when William rouses everyone’s spirits by flawlessly lip synching to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy.” While the play is sweeping in scope, some of its finest moments are its most delicate, like
a scene where Adam tends to Todor, who is stricken with elevation sickness. When Adam gently removes Todor’s boots and tucks him into bed, it’s a moving reminder that despite the petty aggressions that sometimes cleave the play’s characters apart, they’re willing to rise above them when a life is at stake. This cozy camaraderie perfectly counterpoints the grandeur of Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s scenic design. The set of Magellanica is less a fixed creation than a shapeshifting behemoth. It transforms from a well-lit kitchen with a rectangular table where characters feast on pancakes and porridge cooked by Lars to the freezing wilderness outside the station, where clouds of smoke and heavy white drapes create the illusion of an endless, icy void and the sounds of shrieking winds making it feel like you’re lost in a punishing storm. Magellanica is so impressive as a work of visual art that it would be easy to sit back and solely savor its technical achievements. But that would defeat Lewis’ point. Throughout the play, we are reminded that the specter of climate change is looming. The snowy landscape recreated onstage may be gorgeous, but its days are numbered. We are also never allowed to forget that it’s not too late to do something about that. Not only do the characters of Magellanica overcome vast divides to support Morgan and Vadik’s quest to prove that climate change is real, but the play encourages a similar kind of togetherness in the audience. Like the characters, everyone who sees Magellanica is bound together for a massive stretch of time—you have little choice but to communicate with one another. And that, the play declares, is what will save us. SEE IT: Magellanica is at Artist Repertory Theatre, 515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 5:30 pm Thursday-Friday and 2:00 pm SaturdaySunday, through February 18. $25-$50. Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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The Five February Art Openings We’re Most Excited to See. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L E Y sgormley@wweek.com
You can’t really compare the Winter Light Festival to other Portland art festivals. It’s free, backed by corporate sponsors, sells merch, has its own app and when the first edition of the festival was held in 2016, it drew a crowd the size of Sasquatch. At the very least, Winter Light Festival is a delightful an antidote to the depressing dark months: visually, it’s fucking magical. But the festival is also one of the largest art displays of any kind the city sees all year, let alone of interactive, large scale installations. This year, it’s also making a point of bridging the spectrum of Instagram-worthy aesthetics and more traditional ideas of high art—the festival has partially folded itself into First Thursday and Friday. There are light festival hubs in the vicinity of both art walks, plus a few regular gallery openings on both sides of the river that will double as part of the festival and their respective opening receptions. Here are the five art openings we’re most excited to see this week.
Harem Room-1 and Two Women
For Harem Room-1, New York artist Alix Pearlstein arranges dozens of tiny cat figurines on the gallery floor. It’s both hilarious and kind of creepy—the cats are those beady eyed figurines with the kind of fur that feels eerily real. The installation will be paired with 48
her equally bizarre Two Women, a video of a man making out with a small cutout photo of a naked woman. Like a Tim and Eric sketch, it’s both hilariously awkward and deeply unsettling. Upfor, 929 NW Flanders St., upforgallery. com. Opening reception 6 pm-9 pm. Through Feb. 24.
Elizabeth Malaska
Portland painter Elizabeth Malaska’s portraits of women have the heavy flesh of a Francis Bacon painting, warped into the distorted forms of Picasso or de Kooning. But a sardonic sense of humor that’s distinctly her own permeates all her stylistic references. Still Life on War Rug, her painting that was acquired by the Portland Art Museum a little over a year ago, is of a stoic woman with the skin of a marble statue standing on her head and balancing a vase on her foot, bright red underwear visible between her grey legs. But perhaps more defiant is Legacy of Ruin, in which a woman wearing wedge booties and holding an assault rifle lurks in the background of a would-be Matissean still life. Russo Lee Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., russoleegallery.com. Reception 5 pm-8 pm. Through Feb. 24.
Winter Light Festival at PNCA
Though it’s technically a hub for the Winter Light Festival, PNCA’s massive exhibit is right in the middle of First Thursday. The Broadway building is going to become a madhouse of 25 installations by students and other local
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artists. There’ll be aerial dance, poetry readings, stop motion animated snowflakes, gifs projected onto walls and paintings that only exist in VR headsets. PNCA 511 NW Broadway, pnca.edu. 6 pm-9 pm through Feb. 3.
Byte Me 7.0
This it the seventh year that Afru Gallery has held their group show of art that either involves or comments on technology. As usual, the lineup is giant: over a dozen artists who work in almost as many mediums. But since it’s apart of the Winter Light Festival this year, Byte Me is bound to be extra epic. There’ll be an animated, self-generating primordial soup, an installation inspired by the aurora borealis, and a gorgeously apocalyptic landscape by large scale illustrator Vance Feldman. Afru Gallery, 534 SE Oak St., afrugallery.com. Reception 6 pm-midnight. Through Feb. 28.
Winter Light Festival at OMSI
This weekend, there will be Light Festival hubs in every quadrant of the city, but the one in between Tilikum Crossing and OMSI will be the largest. There’ll be over thirty installation which will range to conceptually stimulating, to simply pretty, to interactive games, like a giant Lite Brite or a ping-pong table boxed in by illuminated clear side panels for ricochet. But the light festival is less about the individual pieces and more about the collective spectacle. OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., pdxwlf.com. 6 pm-11 pm through Feb. 3.
Back Fence Russian Roulette
Now in its 10th year, the Back Fence series brings in six writers and yarn-spinners to play the storytelling equivalent of improv—a game show in which people like fiction writer Arthur Bradford or comic Katie Nguyen invent stories on the fly. Curious Comedy Theater, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., backfencepdx.com. 7:30 pm.
THURSDAY, FEB. 1 Scott McClanahan
Scott McClanahan is that rarest of things: an Appalachian martial artist and novelist. His new The Sarah Book is a book of love and heartbreak in the backwoods hill country, arriving with a storm of mash notes from Rolling Stone, Playboy and NPR, who said it “reads like a fever dream, and it feels like a miracle.” The press kit from his publisher, on the other had, calls the book “a love letter to divorce, in a language somewhere between romantic poetry and a distilled mountain twang.” Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
Madisyn Taylor
Madisyn Taylor is co-founder of the aggressively sunny and virally popular website DailyOM, home to perhaps the most relentless push-marketing mailing list in America covering the healing effects of drumming. Her new book Unmedicated is all about the brave journey that Taylor took escaping the anxious, depressionfilled “roller coaster” of accredited science toward the world her website describes: a place where you can “Find True Love in 27 Days” and stop asking for “Permission to Keep It Real.” Her book will also, apparently, help you find your tribe. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.
SATURDAY, FEB. 3 Peter McCleery Kids’ Storytime
Pull the kids to the bookstore for storytime with author Peter McCleery, whose new picture book Bob and Joss Take a Hike! is—as may seem obvious—about Bob, Joss, and their hike. But of course, Bob and Joss aren’t too bright, so they get bumblingly lost. Each page is outfitted with an elevation marker for kids to keep track of how low the pair has fallen on their goofballed trek through the woods. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 7:30 pm.
MONDAY, FEB. 5 Cheston Knapp
Portland’s Cheston Knapp is the editor of Tin House Books. His new book Up Up, Down Down is a collection of linked essays in which the writer and the subject become intextricably intertwined. Watching a skateboard camp causes him to question his own relationship with nostalgia, pro wrestling makes him think of his dad, and in profiling UFO believers he is led toward his own relationship to faith. In a way it’s a coming-of-age book through the prism of everybody else’s life— one that Jim Shepard has called “exhilarating and funny and endlessly smart on dads, fraternities, southerners, drinking games, retribution, tennis, the anxiety of influence, guilt” and so many other things. He’ll be talking to Portland author Jon Raymond, whose paperback edition of Freebird comes out on Tin House this month. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Everything Dr. Nadine Burke Harris thought she knew changed after meeting a boy named Diego: He had stopped growing after a sexual trauma. After surveying tens of thousands of adult patients, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris came to a conclusion she believes could change how we treat and think about the changes wrought by trauma: Adverse emotional experiences like divorce and abuse and neglect lead not just to mental health difficulties but to physical health problems, changing our neural systems permanently. Her new book The Deepest Well is about how to intervene, and maybe help ameliorate the damage. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.
Thisbe Nissen
Thisbe Nissen’s new novel Our Lady of the Prairie is about a long-married Iowa theater professor named Phillipa Maakestad who has a sweaty fling in Ohio and now doesn’t know what to do with herself amid all these feelings. Her husband is a seething mess of revenge fantasies, and her daughter’s mother-in-lawto-be may be a Nazi collaborator. And Trump’s getting elected. Oh, and there’s a tornado, which may or may not be a metaphor for feelings and wreckage and such. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.
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Dunkirk (2017)
In case you missed Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic over the summer, Hollywood is bringing it back for two screenings, both of which will be in luscious 70mm. If you’ve already seen it but only in digital, then you really need to see it in wide format. Hollywood, Feb. 3.
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
A landmark in not just Oregon film history but international animation, Will Vinton’s vignettes of Mark Twain stories were the first claymation movies ever made in the Northwest. For NW Film Center’s screening, the legendary animator and Portlander will be in attendance. NW Film, Feb. 3-4.
TAKE THE WHEEL: One of Chuck Linville’s cars in Thou Shall Not Tailgate.
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THOU SHALL NOT TAILGATE SEARCHES FOR OLD PORTLAND. Sellwood resident Chuck Linville is an ordained minister who decorates his cars with paint, toys, and dangerous objects. Why? Because he can. At least, that’s the conclusion that local filmmaker Greg Hamilton reaches in Thou Shall Not Tailgate. The documentary, which will premiere at the Hollywood Theatre this Sunday, profiles 67-year-old Linville and his eccentric cars. WW spoke to Hamilton about his new film, Linville’s lifestyle and Portland’s good old days of not-for-profit strangeness. WW: You knew Chuck for a decade before deciding to tell his story. How did you meet? Greg Hamilton: We crossed paths through our mutual interest in the Portland Cacophony Society. I had connections and friends through them, and attended some events. One of them was a wedding that Chuck hosted at his house for a couple members of the Society. That was my first experience meeting Chuck and getting to know him a little bit. That planted a seed for Thou Shall Not Tailgate, because I looked at the world that surrounds him and thought, “This is an unusual and unique person.” His art is visually pretty wild. How would you characterize his work? His expression isn’t specifically artistic. He does the things that he does out of boredom, out of the desire to provoke conversation. It’s about him playing with the system, and having fun with it. He’s got four different art cars, including “Our Lady of Eternal Combustion,” featured at the beginning of the film. It’s covered in all sorts of tchotch-
kes and toys and lots of different things. It’s almost chaotic, but intoxicating to look at. His house is similarly adorned; he lives out in the Sellwood district, in this house he’s lived in for 20 plus years. Every room is a different theme. His living room walls are covered in board games. The bathroom is covered in Big-Mouth Billy Bass, the animatronic singing fish, and they all activate when you walk in there. So when I saw that I thought, “That has to be captured. That has to be documented. That has to be explained.” So it was a visual attraction that got you thinking about this idea? Oh, for sure. The visual aspect of Chuck’s work is what interests people the most. And these cars are his daily drivers, so he’ll go out and run errands in them. He’ll have people staring at them [in public] trying to figure out what’s going on. That’s what he enjoys the most; the curiosity and the confusion that comes when [people] are faced with something way outside the mainstream. This film is mostly about Linville, and his art. But the film also explores the world around him, and how he operates in that world. When we shot it, we weren’t exactly sure how we were going to approach it. We did sit-down interviews with him several times, and tried to get insight into what makes him tick. And so the film is an organic construction of everything we pulled together. It’s a combination of his background, his history, but also it involves some of him telling stories. He’ll talk about interactions he’s had that involved the car, or the perspectives that drive some of his art. It’s
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not a traditional documentary. There are no sit-down interviews [on screen], it’s all audio-narrative that is put over the visual material. You hear him talking through the whole piece, but you never see him visually talking to the camera. You’re looking at his world as he guides you. What makes Linville a great documentary subject? The thing that attracts me most to Chuck’s story is that he’s an individual that stands outside of mainstream culture. There are very few of those people left. He is part of what old Portland used to be. There was a strangeness, a weirdness, that you don’t really find anymore. What you find [in Portland] now is kind of pasted-on weirdness. Weirdness sold for profit. Chuck’s weirdness comes out from within, and is a representation of a time when Portland was a much stranger place. His house sits in a nice little neighborhood with groomed yards. And it stands out. When people walk by it, they nearly fall over. That’s why I want to celebrate it. He represents what Portland used to be, but also really unrefined and beautiful individuality.
Every film by the former Will Vinton Studios just keeps getting more and more spectacular, and their most recent is no exception. Not only does it feature the largest stop-motion puppet ever built, but also tells a genuinely touching (and somewhat terrifying) tale. Academy, Feb. 2-8.
Malcolm X (1992)
Starring Denzel Washington, directed by Spike Lee and released in the wake of the Rodney King uprising, Malcolm X was a big deal before it was even released. More than 25 years later, it’s still just as potent. Clinton, Feb. 5.
ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: La Noire De (1966), Feb. 2-4. Academy: The Boxtrolls (2014), Jan. 31-Feb. 1. Clinton: Shadow Play: Women in Experimental Animation (various), Jan. 31. Hollywood: The Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Feb. 1. Stormy Weather (1943), Feb. 5. Angel of Fury (1992), Feb. 6. Joy: Sister Street Fighter (1974), Jan. 31. Kiggins: The Big Heat (1953), Feb. 5. Laurelhurst: Run Lola Run (1999), Jan. 31-Feb. 1. Mission: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Feb. 5-11. NW Film: Day of Wrath (1943), Feb. 2. Ordet (1955), Feb. 3.
In that sense, what do you hope people take away from the film? Well, I want people to be able to relate to him. When most people see Chuck and look at his work, they say, “That guy is strange, that guy’s dangerous.” Chuck’s actually a very normal human being, who just chooses to live the way that he wants. It’s important to celebrate that. SEE IT: Thou Shall Not Tailgate screens at Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., hollywoodtheatre.org. 6 pm Sunday, Feb. 4. $5.
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Based on the real-life romance between faded Hollywood starlet Gloria Grahame and an unlikely Liverpool thespian 30 years her junior, this drama is clouded by dread. For one, an unhappy ending looms. Director Paul McGuigan shapes his movie around the requisite flashbacks of Gloria (Annette Bening) falling madly in love with Peter Turner (Jamie Bell) and then hitting all the snags age and fame disparities can cause. On the present timeline, a bedridden Gloria grows sicker. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool has no hope of living up to its own star. Annette Bening continues her remarkable run of complex character work as Gloria. She exacts a brilliant hybrid of breathy Doris Day and intransigent Norma Desmond in a movie that can’t match her creativity or range. Even more, the script constantly gestures to stories on its margins—about pansexuality, industry sexism and stepsons-turnedhusband—that are more interesting than the physical and emotional decay at its core. This somber cousin of My Week With Marilyn could really do with more ruminations on acting, on and off stage, and fewer on the ravages of terminal illness. CHANCE SOLEMPFEIFER. Cinema 21.
ALSO SHOWING 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. 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. Academy, Fox Tower, Vancouver.
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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, and Oliver, a grad student studying with Elio’s father, smolders for the better part of this novelesque character study. It’s a queer love story in which feelings of foreboding are personal and emotional, not societal. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd.
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). The Día de los Muertos odyssey 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. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Empirical, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove.
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. It’s 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, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.
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. Yet director Sean Baker’s luminous odyssey overflows with wit and joy. 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. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd, 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, Fox Tower.
Phantom Thread
Reported to be Daniel Day-Lewis’ final film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie is his gentlest yet. Set in London during the 1950s, we are immersed in the House of Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis), a quietly eccentric couturier. Alma (Vicky Krieps) is his latest muse, a sweetnatured country girl who catches his eye and doesn’t want to let go.
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. 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 and unwilling to let its heroine spearhead the story the way that men have driven del Toro fantasies. That heroine is Eliza (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor who works in a Baltimore laboratory where she cleans the chamber where a darkeyed, 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 and Russian spies. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, 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 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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Kiggins, Lloyd, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Valley Cinema Pub.
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Like cannabis, classical music faces certain stigmas that make it seem less accessible. But when a professional trio of cellist, pianist and violinist commenced Beethoven’s “Ghost” piano trio at the Live At HiFi Farms event with Groupmuse last Friday, just as the high from my Nelson & Co. Organics Cherry Kush joint set in, it became clear that combining the two makes a lot of sense. In fact, the pair counterbalances their stereotypes. This classical concert-meets-house party elevated the stoner pastime of listening to music in your friend’s living room and created a chill, approachable environment for classical music, defining what a grown-up kickback should look like in post-legalization Portland. And it makes sense for HiFi Farms, headed by Lee Henderson, which was founded with music in mind in 2014. “We’re all big music fans, and that became our thing,” says Henderson. “We saw what a lot of other companies were doing, and we wanted to be different. A music-themed brand.” The Live At HiFi Farms concert series takes place at the McCormick Mansion, a legendary old home in Southeast Portland where Henderson and his wife Sarah now live. Musicians like Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers and Justin Townes Earle have made appearances. They also host variety shows called “LoFi,” which include anything from spoken word to poetry readings and short films. Through the LoFi events, HiFi raised over $6,000 for local nonprofits like Street Roots and the YWCA in 2017. High off the success of last February’s concert, where Kyle O’Quin of Portugal The Man played piano, Henderson was intrigued to pursue this pairing of classical music and cannabis. He reached out to Groupmuse after reading about the DIY classical music house party organization. The idea is to find people who are willing to host a small concert in their home, and Groupmuse takes care of curating a performance from the local artists on their roster. The musicians get paid, and attendees are directed to BYOB and be cool with possibly sitting on a living room floor. “Much like [Groupmuse] has a keen interest in demystifying classical music for a new genera-
tion,” says Henderson, “HiFi continues to have an interest in demystifying cannabis for people who don’t know how to feel about it.” The crowd of 120 or so people, more comfortable after a solid hour of chatting over shared joints on the wrap-around porch, were seated cozily throughout the couches and hardwood floors of the large, warmly-lit living room. The musicians worked together seamlessly through dynamic trios by Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn, the whole audience utterly hypnotized by the rich harmonies nearly vibrating the floorboards. As defiant chords reached a crescendo, the silent crowd would erupt in awe-inspired hollers and rowdy applause. For these professional performers, that enthusiasm was refreshing. “The fun part of chamber music is collaboration and community,” commented Susan, on piano. “That’s really what this event is about as well. We can play perfectly in a room together but the audience makes the performance fun, and this one was so appreciative.” During intermission, people wandered the main floor of the beautiful historic home. When asked if he worries about being bothered by regulators, Henderson points out that, to his knowledge, this is a legal way to have friends over and enjoy cannabis at the same time. “It’s my house. If I hosted a political fundraiser, it’d be normal to serve alcohol. It’s BYOB, BYOC, and people are mellow,” he says. “It’s always been a word of mouth kind of thing. I love the idea of hosting a sort of salon-styled party with all kinds of people from different walks of life.” Censorship has a funny way of guiding creativity. Forcing people to gather at private residences has actually brought out the best in the cannabisconsuming community, with everyone extra conscious of the generosity and trust required by the host. Ten house shows deep, Sarah Henderson has zero regrets. “Why do I bring all these strangers into my home multiple times a year? It makes me feel good,” she says. “It makes me feel good to meet good people, see them have a good time together, and feel that good energy buzzing in my house.” Willamette Week JANUARY 31, 2018 wweek.com
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
In all of history, humans have mined about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we’ve already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavating hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to access.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Stories have the power to either dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that’s just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here’s the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Author Anaïs Nin said, “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” For two reasons, Anaïs’s formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Are you more inclined right now to favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here’s another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I’m hoping you’ll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
In March 1996, a man burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song “The Rainbow Connection,” as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don’t break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Many varieties of the nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain, and urinary problems. That’s why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: “Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety,” says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Knullrufs is a Swedish word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
In his “Crazy Lake Experiment” documented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What’s your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
In 1989, a man spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn’t care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America’s Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don’t expect it, or develop a connection with something that’s better than you imagined it would be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
In the 1740s, a teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father’s farm, indigo ultimately became the secondmost-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
When I was in my early twenties, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn’t have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one’s willpower and diminished one’s determination to transform one’s life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven’t smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
Would you like to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you’re ashamed of ? I’m not saying you’re more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it’s just that now is your special time to seek redemption.
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