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FINDINGS
THE NERD OUT, PAGE 37
WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 44, ISSUE 16.
The Legislature can strengthen Oregon’s loose laws on stealing cars and strangling people. 6 Gov. Kate Brown has more fake followers on Twitter than real ones. 7 The top Democrat in the state Senate must decide whether domestic abusers should be allowed to have guns. 9 Portland’s canned wine gets praise for its “Twizzler-esque” flavor. 16
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The creator of the Air Jordan XXI opened a sneaker design school. 17 Last month, Plaid Pantry gave away 10,000 free Snickers bars. 18 Portlanders are calling for a boycott of all McDonald’s if a closed McDonald’s is torn down. 21
A local lab is fighting off big corporate patents on Girl Scout Cookies. 43
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A Portland woman comes forward with her story of being attacked by two prominent men.
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DIALOGUE Last week, WW took a look at Portland’s larger than average population of social media influencers (“Follow Me,” WW, Feb. 7, 2018). The 18 influencers we profiled each have tens to hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and Twitter, and have turned their social media accounts into careers. Here’s what our readers had to say on social media about the business of being on social media. Yu, via Twitter: “Portland really is the Golden State Warriors of cities for people with 10-50k followers on Twitter/Instagram making a living.” Sgperry, via wweek.com: “I would have been interested in reading more about what prompted them to embrace this gig in the first place. Maybe it really is just narcissism? If not, why not?” Leigh Feldman, via Facebook: “It’s a decent list, but they need to add Meatballssmama and Amine and Tyus and Portugal the Man and and and...”
Apaaragita, via Twitter: “Does this mean I should feel bad if I’ve got like 10 followers?” Josiah Roe, via Twitter: “They’re all bots and other people who live in Portland; I realize I may just have been redundant.” Vladiator, via wweek.com: “Basically, a hyperversion of the ‘popular’ kid in high school…with corporate sponsorship.” Annie Radecki, via Twitter: “Finally, a niche of the tech market [where] Portland doesn’t lag behind San Francisco/Seattle: Instagram influencers.”
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“The ‘popular’ kid in high school…with corporate sponsorship.”
Dags van Waardenburg, via Facebook: “Are these people even verified?” Ben Tactic Fuller, via Facebook: “Adding ‘Social Influencer’ to your IG doesn’t really mean anything.”
Due to an editor’s error, last week’s cover story said a social media influencer with a million followers on Twitter can earn $200,000 a year from sponsorships. It is more accurate to say that a person with that many followers can earn $20,000 per sponsored post.
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Dr. Know BY MART Y SMITH
So, because our water occasionally contains a microbe that so far hasn’t made even one person sick, the feds say we have to build a $500 million treatment plant, or else. Or else what? We’re defying them on marijuana and sanctuary cities; why not this? —Uncle Jerry You’re correct that, so far, none of the cryptosporidium found in Portland’s Bull Run watershed has been the type likely to cause illness in humans. That said, most public health officials like to hold themselves to a higher standard than, “Eh, call me when people start dying.” Let’s be clear: There is zero appetite in city government to pursue the course of action you prescribe. For the sake of argument, however, let’s assume Portland is taken over by normbusting Trumpian miscreants eager to flip the bird to the feds. What would happen? For starters, we’d accrue daily fines for as long as we refused to comply. Mind you, even this level of municipal disobedience is rare. I found only one historical example of such open defiance: In 1988, the city of Yonkers, N.Y., racked up several million dollars in fines for flouting the court-ordered desegregation of its public housing. “So what?” I hear you shouting. “We just won’t pay!”
Not even Yonkers acted this bratty, so we’re in uncharted territory. That said, the feds could leverage their cozy relationship with the (ahem) federal banking system to freeze or seize city accounts. What do we do then? Issue our own currency? There are a few cases, like sanctuary cities, in which a compelling civil liberties issue with strong popular support may present a regulatory hill we’re willing to die on. But do you really want to go to the mat for the right of individual cities to flout federal environmental regulations? How will you feel when Charleston, W.Va., starts blithely dumping coal tailings into the river, just like old times? I don’t even want to think about what they’d do in Alaska. Yes, I know: It’s fashionable at the moment to shred basic social institutions, and you don’t want to feel left out. But in this case—just this once—maybe it would be better to just shut up and pay your water bill. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Small Town sees Frisell and Morgan pay homage to jazz elder Lee Konitz with his “Subconscious Lee,” and there are several country/blues-accented Frisell originals, including the hauntingly melodic title track.
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UPCOMING EVENTS BRING YOUR KIDS TO MUSIC MILLENNIUM DAY Saturday, February 17th, 10am-6pm Featuring kid-friendly performances from Mo Phillips (noon) Youth Music Project (2pm) On February 17th, Music Millennium will hold our 7th Annual ‘Bring Your Kids To Music Millennium Day”, an event focused on passing the torch of music appreciation to the next generation. The first 200 attendees under the age of eighteen will receive complimentary gift bags with music, snacks and passes for fun activities from local event sponsors.
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On Dearest Everybody, her latest solo album since 2009’s Accidental Experimental, Inara (The Bird and the Bee, and the Living Sisters) mines that initial loss and others that friends and family have suffered, to find the sorrow, and sometimes the joy blooming in the rockiest of places.
Northwest-based Dustin Rose recently released his third solo album, “Catch The Wind.” Rose is a Portland native and a 6th generation Oregonian who has been performing live for over 20 years, most recently with the band Wilson Fifer Rose.
Wednesday, February 21st, 7pm “It’s OK to feel things and to feel sad,” says singer Mitchy Collins. That’s the mission statement of lovelytheband, the wondrous new indie trio from Los Angeles which meshes beautiful pop hooks and warm synths alongside introspective, sometimes dark sentiments.
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In the week since WW published an account of the alleged 2012 sexual assault of Erica Naito-Campbell by nonprofit leader Charles McGee and Portland banker Aubré Dickson (“No Way Out,” WW, Feb. 7, 2018), Portland police have opened a criminal investigation. “The Police Bureau is aware of this incident and is following national best practice as it relates to victim-centered sexual assault investigation,” says bureau spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley. The employers of both men have also taken action. The Black Parent Initiative, where McGee serves as CEO, placed McGee on leave and will launch its own investigation. KeyBank, where Dickson serves as vice president of community development lending, says it has placed Dickson also on leave. On Tuesday afternoon, McGee issued his first statement since the story ran, “unequivocally” denying all wrongdoing.
Bill Could Solve Portland’s Car-Theft Wave
Portland car thefts have skyrocketed in recent years, thanks in part to court rulings making it difficult to prosecute repeat offenders (“Car Jack City,” WW, Nov. 29, 2017). Now prosecutors, defense attorneys and lawmakers have crafted a possible solution: a bill that would make it a crime to ride in a car with disregard for a “substantial and unjustifiable risk” that the vehicle was stolen. Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Ryan Lufkin says the bill’s
language is likely to increase convictions. “I think the compromise we reached will address the vast majority of cases,” he says. A hefty cost estimate killed a similar bill in 2017. Rep. Jennifer Williamson (D-Portland), who chairs the House Rules Committee, says the cost still worries her—but she wants a fix: “As a resident of Northwest Portland, I see the aftermath of car break-ins and car thefts nearly every day. I am committed to finding a solution to this growing epidemic in Portland.”
Dave Dahl Donates Too Much Bread
Iconic baker Dave Dahl has put some of his fortune into a local election campaign. Dahl, co-founder of Dave’s Killer Bread, gave $5,000 to Multnomah County Commission candidate Sharon Maxwell on Jan. 26. It’s Dahl’s biggest-ever contribution—and it’s too big. Voters in 2016 approved a $500 cap on individual donations in county races, although the county is waiting for a court ruling to begin enforcing the rule. Maxwell said on Feb. 13 she’ll give the excess cash back. Dahl did not return a call seeking comment.
Portland Survivor Testifies on Domestic Violence Bill
Lawmakers took testimony Feb. 13 on a bill that would expand the legal definition of strangulation. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from survivors of domestic violence, including one of their own, Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D-Portland), who told of her first husband repeatedly choking her 30 years ago. Another survivor offering testimony: Portlander Kim Bradley, whose abuse was the subject of a WW cover story last fall (“For More Than 30 Years, Kim Bradley Hid From Her Husband,” WW, Nov. 15, 2017). “There are too many strangulation victims and too many of us don’t survive,” Bradley told lawmakers. “Strangulation by an intimate partner needs to be a felony.”
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
Imaginary Friends Gov. Kate Brown
On Twitter, Oregon’s top officials are swarmed by bots. BY M IK E B I V I N S
@itsmikebivins
The biggest names in Oregon politics are feeding off of fake Twitter followers. It’s no secret that the social media platform is rife with fraudulent accounts—bots. These automated accounts provide the illusion of clout for online celebrities, all the way up to President Donald Trump. A black market has grown around purchasing that influence: Last month, The New York Times reported it was able to purchase 25,000 followers for $225. It’s not easy to determine who’s buying fake followers. But it’s simple enough to see who has them. A New York-based app called Twitter Audit runs a scan
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden @RonWyden 145,416 real 244,438 fake (37% real) “Senator Wyden has urged Twitter to weed out fake accounts and bots, including at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last year, and believes they can do much more to combat this problem,” says his spokesman Hank Stern. “He has never bought fake followers.”
Mayor Ted Wheeler @tedwheeler 12,861 real 7,619 fake (62% real) “We do not use Twitter as a badge of popularity,” says spokesman Michael Cox. “The mayor has made no secret of his criticisms toward Donald Trump, and that seems to be a driver in attracting these followers. The mayor is a public official, so we can’t block these people.”
of the accounts following any Twitter handle. It calculates whether the first 5,000 accounts it scans are managed by live humans, then takes an educated guess at the full ratio of real followers to bots. “Of course, this scoring method is not perfect,” the app’s creators admit, “but it is a good way to tell if someone with lots of followers is likely to have increased their follower count by inorganic, fraudulent or dishonest means.” WW used Twitter Audit on seven of the biggest names in Oregon politics. It didn’t take long to spot a trend: Oregon’s governor and both U.S. senators, all Democrats, have huge followings—made mostly of bots. The state’s top Republicans have far smaller audiences, but they’re more real. Here are the results, and the officials’ explanations.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley (government account)
161,298 real 182,620 fake (46% real)
@OregonGovBrown
REAL
31,470 real 53,356 fake (37% real)
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“The governor’s office is aware of an unconfirmed number of fake accounts following the governor’s official Twitter account,” says Brown’s spokesman Bryan Hockaday. “However, in no way does the governor’s office solicit or purchase social media followers of any kind.”
House Speaker Tina Kotek @TinaKotek @JeffMerkley (personal account)
34,837 real 2,067 fake (94% real)
2,517 real 43 fake (98% real) Her office declined to comment.
“Senate rules prohibit purchasing twitter followers for official government accounts, like Senator Merkley’s,” says his spokeswoman Martina McLennan. “The increasing prevalence of bots and other potential vulnerabilities of the various social media platforms continues to be a source of concern for Senator Merkley, as it should be for any social media consumer.”
Secretary of State Dennis Richardson
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden
@OregonSOS (government account)
@repgregwalden (government account)
6,021 real 154 fake (97% real)
@DRichardsonOR (personal account)
2,169 real 44 fake (98% real)
“We are proud of our social media outreach program, and we seek authentic communication with real people,” says his chief of staff, Debra Royal. “We would never buy fake followers.”
22,613 real 2,346 fake (90% real)
@votegregwalden (personal account)
936 real 28 fake (97% real)
“Rep. Walden maintains an active presence on social media, and has an active and organic following,” says his spokesman Justin Discigil. “Rep. Walden has never purchased nor considered purchasing so-called ‘fake followers’ on any social media platform.”
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You can’t vote on “cap and invest” bills. That hasn’t slowed the dueling TV ads. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS
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Political campaigns typically blanket the airwaves with ads during election season. But eagle-eyed viewers flipping between Blazers games and Olympic events have noticed something novel: dueling TV ads arguing about bills currently being weighed by the Oregon Legislature. The subject? The so-called “Clean Energy Jobs Bills,” which aim to reduce carbon emissions with taxes on big polluters and use the money to invest in green jobs. Viewers can’t vote on these bills. But they’re being urged to call their legislators and make demands. On one side: the business-backed group Priority Oregon, urging a “no” vote.
“While the plan won’t really reduce pollution,” says its ad, “it will raise your cost of living by to $1,000 a year.” Renew Oregon, a nonprofit that supports the bills, fought back with a $200,000 TV and social media campaign of its own. “The Clean Energy Jobs Bill will cut pollution, invest in wildfire prevention and create good jobs,” Renew Oregon’s ad says. “Tell your state legislators it’s time to pass the Clean Energy Jobs Bill.” Because both Priority Oregon and Renew Oregon are organized as nonprofits, they are not required to disclose the source of their funding or their expenditures under Oregon’s elections law, as candidates’ political action committees are. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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One in the Chamber Gov. Kate Brown hopes to take guns away from stalkers and abusive boyfriends. She’ll need the help of a longtime rival. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS
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For Gov. Kate Brown, the 35-day February legislative session boils down to one bill—a gun control measure that previously died in the Oregon Senate. Last week, Brown’s priority legislation, House Bill 4145, passed out of the House Judiciary Committee by a 7-2 vote, garnering two extraordinarily rare pro-gun control votes from Republicans, state Reps. Rich Vial (R-Hillsboro) and Andy Olson (R-Albany).
Penny Okamoto, executive director of Ceasefire Oregon, which supports gun control measures, says the show of House Republican backing is likely to set up a showdown in the Senate. “We have support from a Democratic governor and a Democratic House,” Okamoto says. “And with these House Republicans supporting the bill, it’s going to be extremely disappointing if it doesn’t pass the Senate.” Even though the Senate majority is by essentially the same margin as Democrats’ 35-to-25 lead in the House,
“AN Y TI M E TH E WO R D ‘G U N ’ APPE ARS I N A B I LL , IT ’ S A H E AV Y LI F T… B UT TH IS B I LL IS ABO UT PEO PLE WH O B E AT TH EI R PARTN ERS . TH E Y S H O U LD N OT HAVE G U N S .” — S TAT E R E P . J E F F B A R K E R
The bill establishes a procedure for taking guns away from those convicted of stalking an intimate partner, and expands the state’s authority to take guns away from abusers—not just spouses, but any person who has lived with or had a sexual relationship with the victim. By the standards of gun control, closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole” is a fairly modest tweak, although a similar bill died in the Senate without a vote in 2017. That’s where it’s probably headed again—to a Democratically controlled upper chamber where gun bills and other progressive legislation often die, even though Democrats outnumber Republicans in the Senate 17 to 13.
senators under the leadership of Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem) have proven far less friendly than House members on a wide range of progressive issues, ranging from tenant protections to family medical leave to environmental safeguards. The highest-profile legislation introduced this session is the so-called “cap and invest” bills, carbon reduction measures a decade in the making. But they’re on life support because Courtney signaled a lack of interest in pursuing controversial, complex bills this session.
The gun control legislation will be a test of wills: Brown’s and Courtney’s. Who wins will signal whether the governor can deliver a high-profile win in an election year. Last month, Brown released a document highlighting issues important to her in the February session. Those issues included rural economic development, beginning to address the state’s unfunded pension liability, spending government dollars wisely and, most concretely, House Bill 4145, the boyfriend loophole bill. Two dozen states, including gun-friendly Utah and Louisiana, have passed versions of the gun bill, but Oregon lags behind neighboring blue states in terms of passing gun control laws. The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives California an A for its gun laws, Washington gets a B, and Oregon a C. State Rep. Jeff Barker (D -Aloha), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, which heard the gun bill last week, says Brown’s office called him a couple of months ago to urge him to carry the bill this time. “Any time the word ‘gun’ appears in a bill, it’s a heavy lift,” Barker says. Scores of gun rights supporters submitted comments to Barker’s committee last week, urging them to kill Brown’s bill. “Gun owners have concerns,” says Barker, a retired Portland detective. “I’ve got concerns myself, as a lawabiding gun owner, but this bill is about people who beat their spouses or partners. They should not have guns.” Barker says he was pleasantly surprised when his GOP colleagues, Vial and Olson, joined him in voting “yes” on Brown’s bill last week. “Getting Republican votes on a gun bill is new,” Barker says. “But you never know about the Senate—they killed the ‘Charleston loophole’ bill.” The Charleston loophole, a provision that allows gun dealers to sell guns to buyers if background checks aren’t completed within three days, permitted Dylann Roof to buy the weapon he used to kill nine people in 2015 in a Charleston, S.C., church. Yet in 2017, the Senate rejected a bill to close the loophole. Can Brown get a better result this time, as she gears up for a re-election bid against the likely GOP nominee, state Rep. Knute Buehler (R-Bend)? The answer largely turns on the response of one man: Courtney. Courtney and Brown have a long and complicated relationship. Courtney edged out Brown in a bitter race for Senate president in 2003 and they’ve coexisted uneasily since, first with Brown as Senate majority leader, then as secretary of state from 2009 to 2015. Last year, lawmakers and lobbyists say, Courtney gave Republicans an effective veto over many bills, requiring any bill that came to the Senate floor have the support of at least one GOP senator. It’s not clear yet whether the bill will get any GOP votes in the Senate. “There is strong opposition from Senate Republicans,” says Senate GOP spokeswoman Tayleranne Gillespie. And one Democrat, Sen. Chuck Riley (D-Hillsboro), is also ailing and may miss much of the session, which could cost a “yes” vote. So will Courtney move Brown’s bill? Courtney’s spokesman, Robin Maxey, is cagey. He says his boss is watching the bill with interest. “He was encouraged to see bipartisan support for House Bill 4145 in the House Judiciary Committee,” Maxey said in an email. “And [Courtney] hopes the measure can gain bipartisan support in the Senate as well.” Brown spokesman Bryan Hockaday says it’s wrong to view HB 4145 as a test of her influence. “Gov. Brown doesn’t believe in litmus tests for leadership, she believes in doing the right thing for Oregonians,” Hockaday says. “The true test should be whether or not the Legislature is willing to vote its conscience instead of playing politics with Oregonians’ safety. Bills relating to firearms present many challenges in the Capitol, but the challenges faced by Oregonians demand that action must be taken.” Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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Tyler Roppe used to be excited about an affordable housing development in his North Portland neighborhood. Not anymore. “You have a huge parcel of land right at the gateway of the neighborhood,” says Roppe, chairman of the Kenton Neighborhood Association. “To see it not live up to the anticipation is heartbreaking. It’s extremely sad.” Roppe had hoped to see Kenton’s bustling business district expand. An apartment building would replace a long-vacant lot on North Argyle Street, anchored by more than 8,500 square feet of space for shops and restaurants. In November, Roppe learned the developer, Reach Community Development, had canceled plans for the retail space to save money. The Trump tax cuts have blown a hole in affordable housing budgets across the country, even as construction costs in Portland continue to rise. That’s because tax breaks lower the value of tax credits, which are used to finance affordable housing. In Kenton, the crunch brings into sharp relief two competing goods: affordable housing and well-paying jobs. Reach CDC proposes to make up for the tax credit shortfall by eliminating retail space in the building. Cutting retail would allow Reach to wiggle out of the state requirement to pay construction workers the prevailing union wage. Developers argue that by reducing labor costs—specifically the requirement to pay the highest rate for workers—they can keep their commitment to building affordable housing. Reach says making that decision on the $52.8 million building in Kenton preserved roughly 190 apartments, all affordable to individuals making a maximum of $31,380 a year. “If you have public financing plus even one square foot of commercial, the entire project triggers [prevailing] wage,” says Reach’s Jessica Woodruff. “That’s $3 million in additional wages. Working with the public funders, the decision was made to remove the commercial space.”
The state requires developers pay $53 an hour in wages and benefits for a carpenter in Portland when a project gets government subsidies. But the law also allows an exemption for affordable housing projects that are four stories or fewer and don’t include any retail space. Nonunion carpenters in Portland are paid around $30 an hour in wages and benefits, though some developments must pay slightly more. Reach’s decision hasn’t just alarmed neighbors: It has irritated organized labor and its allies, who say prevailing-wage jobs are key to helping working-class families keep pace with Portland’s rising cost of living. “Lowering some wages in order to build affordable housing—it’s a step backward,” says former state Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Eugene). Affordable housing developers are pushing to expand the loophole used in Kenton—so they can pay lower wages and still build retail space. “Construction that has a small amount of commercial space should not trigger the commercial prevailing wage rate,” says Martha McLennan, executive director of one of the state’s largest nonprofit affordable housing developers, Northwest Housing Alternatives. “We’ve created an increased cost to affordable housing, and that’s a problem.” McLennan says the prevailing wage requirement can add $25,000 per unit in costs. But developers face an uphill battle in trying to get a wider exemption. Hoyle is the leading candidate to become commissioner of Oregon’s Bureau of Labor and Industries, the agency that makes prevailing-wage determinations. She is opposed. And Tim Frew, executive secretary of the Oregon Building Trades Council, isn’t interested in a broader exemption. “I support prevailing wage,” he says. Mayor Ted Wheeler pledged to cut the cost of affordable housing, though he never specifically addressed prevailing wages. His spokesman Michael Cox says Wheeler favors other approaches. “The mayor prefers filling gaps in funding through private-sector philanthropic donations rather than achieving affordability off the backs of workers,” Cox says.
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Because the RE A L Portland is finally onscreen…
Portlandia is dead. Long live Portland. It’s probably sheer coincidence that the city’s cultural back catalog is entering the zeitgeist as the show that spent eight years making fun of that culture goes off the air. Cosmically, though, it feels right. For the past decade, the image of Portland was shaped by two people who weren’t born here, and who haven’t even lived here for several years. It was of a playground for liberal narcissists on the run from adulthood, an insular paradise too selfobsessed to relate to the world beyond its city limits. Whether you agreed with the portrayal or not, we argued about it for so long we forgot what we ever thought we were before. That’s all over now. Portlandia is in its final season, but Portland itself is suddenly everywhere, on even bigger screens. And the people who are defining how the world sees the city now are the same people who were doing it long before anyone else cared—the misfit cartoonists, the celebrity
strippers, the feral children, the misunderstood rednecks. It started with I, Tonya, which rehabbed the image of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding as a hard-nosed survivor of abuse, classism and her butthead neighbors. In May, John Callahan, the late, iconoclastic doodler who drew comics for this paper for 30 years, will have his own wild life dramatized by another native son, Gus Van Sant. Animator Will Vinton is getting a documentary. Iconic writer-stripper Viva Las Vegas is getting a documentary. Leave No Trace, the true story of a family that lived off the grid for years in Forest Park, premiered at Sundance to raves. The time is right for Portland to get back in touch with itself—and not just at the movies. The city outside the multiplex is worth getting reacquainted with, too. In the following pages, you’ll find 29 other reasons why. Portland, it’s nice to see you again. MATTHEW SINGER.
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30 REASONS TO L♥ VE PORTLAND
Because TriMet could soon stop charging liferuining fines… For years, it’s been the most disproportionate punishment in Portland. Hop on a MAX train without a $2.50 ticket and TriMet will levy a $175 fine on the first offense. But that draconian rule could soon end. On Dec. 17, TriMet proposed changes to its policy on fare evasion. Starting as early as July 1, a new fee structure would charge first-time offenders $75 or four hours of community service. Another proposal would waive citations for low-income, elderly and disabled riders, as long as they load a fare card with at least $10. Why the change? The Oregon Legislature passed a law last spring that allows the transit agency to deal with fare-evasion cases without sending people to court. It’s part of a national movement to stop criminalizing poverty. Maria Hernandez of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon, who helped craft the reform, says credit should go to TriMet riders. “TriMet felt the pressure to agree,” she says, “and joined our effort to reduce fines and penalties and address the true root cause of fare evasion: economic instability.” TriMet’s board of directors could approve this common-sense reform Feb. 28. ELISE HERRON.
Because there are JOBS now… So few people in the Portland area are officially out of work that we’ve returned to a statistic not seen since the first term of the Bill Clinton presidency—an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent. We haven’t seen the number that low since 1995. Since 2007, the metro area has ranked in the top 5 of the country’s 100 largest cities for its increase in high-paying jobs. The category for doctors, lawyers, accountants, managers and any other professions for which the average pay is at least $60,000 a year has expanded more rapidly than low- or moderate-paying employment, with lowincome jobs also increasing. (As elsewhere in the country, it’s jobs in the middle that are disappearing.) But this is still a pleasant reversal from the job crunch after the recession, when Portland got its stereotype as a home to jobless college grads. “Wages are rising,” says Josh Lehner, a state economist, “unemployment is falling, poverty is falling.” RACHEL MONAHAN.
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Because you can now smoke cannabis while listening to live classical music… …or doing yoga. (THE MAKE & MARY) …or modeling. …or twerking. (MARY JANE FONDA) …or painting. (THE MAKE & MARY) …or watching a burlesque show. (NW CANNABIS CLUB) …or networking. (TOKEATIVITY WORKSHOPS)
…or getting your tarot read. (TOKEATIVITY SOCIALS)
(LADIES OF PARADISE)
…or eating gourmet food. (ARCANE REVELRY)
…or sewing. (THE MAKE & MARY) …or taking a bus tour of the Columbia Gorge and Multnomah Falls. (HIGH FIVE BUS TOURS)
…or playing golf. (FORE TWENTY GOLF TOURNAMENT)
WHY SINGER K.D. LANG ♥ 'S PORTLAND
5. BECAUSE MY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM IS ONLY A SHORT WALK AWAY… “Probably the most important Portland experience for me is walking over the Broadway Bridge and going to see my Blazers. That, to me, is an incredible thing— that I can walk to the game. I just love the atmosphere of Rip City, and I love the team right now. In a way, they’re better than they’ve been the last few years. They’ve been in the top 8 for the whole year pretty much. There were some hiccups, but the motivation of the team seems really in place. Every player is playing with a lot of heart, and that’s really all you can ask for. And Damian [Lillard]’s commitment to Portland and his love for Portland is so infectious and beautiful. I’m just really into the Blazers.”
—k.d. lang
Because the Blazers star in some WEIRD-ASS commercials…
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Shabazz Napier jukes left. The Portland Trail Blazers guard glides to the basket, pulling up for a graceful jumper. He pours steaming hot coffee onto the face of the fool who tried to guard him. Bizarre local TV ads starring a hometown basketball hero aren’t a new phenomenon, or unique to Portland. But Rip City may be home to the most self-aware commercials ever—postmodern meta-commentaries on advertising, with jingles that sound like They Might Be Giants noodling after three dabs. C.J. McCollum just joined the party, with a Papa Murphy’s ad that features him giving a desultory voice-over about home-baked pizza that would fit in a Charlie Kaufman movie. But the most notorious of these spots? That prize still goes to the Napier ad for Stumptown Coffee, which has been viewed 50,000 times on social media in less than three months. The ad director and jingle composer is Tim Wenzel, who worked six years as a Stumptown barista before turning “in-house creative” for the java company in 2016. He also stars in the ad as the palooka getting his ankles broken on the court. Wenzel is already a familiar figure in Portland music circles: He’s the guitarist for White Glove, a keyboard-heavy, change-resenting garage-rock trio. (The band is best known for its anti-gentrification anthems: “Division Street,” a tongue-in-cheek screed against condos, yuppies and brunch, and “Fred and Carrie,” a not particularly tongue-in-cheek broadside against yuppies, Carrie Brownstein, and Fred Armisen.) “Sellout or not, whatever,” Wenzel says. “Stumptown lets me do what I want to do. I’ve been told that some of the ridiculous songs I write will stick in people’s heads. It actually works now. CONT. ON PAGE 14 Put to it to some use.” AARON MESH.
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A year ago, Portland mountain bikers had only a third of a square mile they could call their own. Now, they have 25 acres. After 12 years of planning, fundraising and bureaucratic process, Gateway Green opened last June. Initiated by volunteers, the plan was designed to solve two problems: revive a vacant lot sandwiched between I-205 and I-84 that once housed a county jail, and create a park for Portland’s trailless off-road cyclists. Before Gateway Green, the only single-track mountain bike trail in the city was a sliver in Forest Park. Cyclists briefly claimed River View Natural Area as an unofficial mountain bike park until they were officially banned in 2015. Now that it’s finally here, it’s glorious. There’s single-track trails through trees and one that snakes down a big, grassy hill. There are dirt pump tracks, a cement pump track. There are beginner-level jumps all the way up to massive, expert-level jumps. Best of all, you can bike to the bike playground: Gateway Green is directly off the I-205 pedestrian path, and within walking distance of a MAX stop. It’s still a work in progress. In the future, the park will have a multiuse path, will be ADA accessible and, hopefully, will have solar-powered lighting that will enable the park to stay open 24/7. Still, any improvements are just an appendage—a major missing piece in Portland’s recreational cycling infrastructure is finally in place. SHANNON GORMLEY.
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Because Portland is the playground of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma… In October, a new vision of downtown’s sleepy RiverPlace neighborhood began drifting through City Hall. The renderings showed eight pagodaslatted towers rising as high as 400 feet above the waterfront, bristling above cascades of trees. The naturalistic spires seemed to come straight out of both Blade Runner and Avatar, an architectural boldness foreign to our city. The plan’s architect, Kengo Kuma, is one of the most celebrated architects in Japan, the author of 2020’s Tokyo Olympic Stadium—an exposed, woodlatticed bird’s nest that somehow manages to appear both futuristic and serene, a booming whisper announcing Japan’s national identity to the world. But until last year, he hadn’t put up a single project in the United States. In April 2017, Kuma completed a majestic expansion of Portland’s already world-renowned Japanese Garden: a green-roofed “cultural village” at once
Because THE SHOW WILL GO ON…
Ten days after he watched his offices burn to the ground, Peter Bilotta sounds ebullient. “We’ve been so moved and so inspired and so thrilled by the community response,” says Bilotta, top executive at Chamber Music Northwest. “In a lot of ways, the tragedy hasn’t been tragic at all.” The organization’s offices on Southwest Macadam Boulevard burned down on the last Sunday in January. It happened during the second concert in CMNW’s annual Winter Festival, one of the classical music organization’s biggest ticket events. Bilotta got a call informing him that the group’s headquarters had gone up in flames. He drove to the Macadam Business Center, where firefighters were already on the scene. “I stayed until 11:30 and decided it was probably OK to go home when the third-floor offices collapsed into our second-floor offices,” he says. “My office exploded. So that was probably 14
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the time when I decided, ‘Yeah, I think we’re done here.’” The fire destroyed decades’ worth of sheet music and vinyl and CD recordings. But less than 24 hours after the offices had been gutted, the last concert in the series went on as planned. “We’re thrilled that we did,” Bilotta says, “because it was an awesome concert.” The organization recently moved into temporary office space provided by BodyVox Dance. Now, it’s looking for a permanent new home. “In the two-and-a-half years since we moved into Macadam Center, office lease rates have gone up between 15 and 25 percent,” he says. “Nonprofits are being forced to the fringe of the metro area.” But for the most part, Bilotta sounds undaunted: “All we lost is stuff. The music, the art that we create continues on. That’s really demonstrative of how wonderful Portland is as a community, and how generous Portland’s art community is as well.” SHANNON GORMLEY.
“In a lot of ways, the tragedy hasn’t been tragic at all.”
Escherian in its geometry and gentle in its harmonies, with light shimmering through wooden slats that hang like willow branches from the ceiling. Since beginning that project, he has made our city an architectural home away from home. Last May, he redesigned chef Naoko Tamura’s elegant Shizuku restaurant on Southwest Jefferson Street as an ethereal world of sunlight and undulating bamboo screens. In the Southeast suburb of Happy Valley, the Street of Dreams now contains a house unlike any other near Portland: a light-bathed structure of gently sloping roofs within a moat of patio, bending like an elbow around rolling greenery designed by the Japanese Garden’s landscaper. It will be the model for a series of homes just like it. Building by building, Kuma is helping to reimagine what architecture can be in Portland, both in scale and in elegance. We can’t wait. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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Because you can soon stream LOCAL MUSIC at the library… Before Spotify, there was the public library. In the pre-digital era, music fans could build a collection with a library card and a CD burner. The Multnomah County Library will soon make it even easier—and put a spotlight on local music. This spring, the library is launching the Library Music Project, a streaming platform featuring music exclusively by Portland artists. Based on similar projects in Seattle and Nashville, the website’s collection will be made up entirely of new music submitted to the library and selected by a curated listening panel. The first round of submissions opens Feb. 14.
REASONS TO L♥ VE PORTLAND RI GH T NOW ! The goal is to open with 50 albums and expand to 100 within the year, says Javier Gutierrez, the library’s director of collections. And you won’t even need a library card. “It’s re-envisioning what people think the library is,” says Gutierrez. “People think it’s a building with books, but really it’s everywhere.” MATTHEW SINGER.
Because Oregon just became the first state to defelonize hard drugs… Last June, Oregon’s police chief and sheriff associations wrote an extraordinary letter to a state senator. The idea they proposed was in many ways obvious. It was also unprecedented. They wanted Oregon to stop throwing people in prison for possessing small amounts of coke, heroin, oxy, Ecstasy, LSD or meth. “Too often, individuals with addiction issues find their way to the doorstep of the criminal justice system,” the letter read. “Unfortunately, felony convictions in these cases also include unintended and collateral consequences, including barriers to housing and employment and a disparate impact on minority communities.” Before this June, Oregon was prepared to punish a single rail of coke with five years in prison—a law that would imprison half the musicians, line cooks and software execs in town if it were evenly enforced. Which, of course, it wasn’t. With the full-throated support of law enforcement, House Bill 2355 passed in July 2017—and with it put an end to seven decades of a failed and punitive drug war in Oregon that seemed determined to treat a public health issue as a criminal one. These drugs aren’t truly decriminalized; they’re still listed as class-A misdemeanors, same as a DUII or weapons charge. But Oregon has come further than any state in the country in doing away with the toxic paranoia that would theoretically ruin a teenager’s life for crunching Molly at a rave. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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WHY CITY COMMISSIONER NICK FISH ♥ 'S PORTLAND
12. BECAUSE EAST PORTLAND IS GETTING AN AERIAL TREE WALK… “Leach Botanical Garden is East Portland’s little gem. It’s 16 tranquil acres along Johnson Creek—home to over 1,000 species of plants. It was donated to the city by pharmacist John Leach and botanist Lilla Leach, who wrote the gift of their prized garden to the city in their will. This secret public garden has big plans for the future, including a pollinator garden and an aerial tree walk. Historically, East Portland had a deficit of parks, trails, and natural areas. That’s changing. Since 2014, we’ve invested over $55 million in parks east of 82nd Avenue. Let’s toast the Leaches and all the volunteers and donors who are transforming Leach Botanical Garden into an accessible, world-class destination in East Portland.”
—City Commissioner Nick Fish
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Because we’re the world capital of CANNED WINE… Fourteen years after Sofia Coppola started selling white wine in pink cans, canned wine is finally the next big thing in America. The United States drank $28 million worth last year, nearly twice what it did in 2016. As it turns out, we pretty much own that shit. Portland brands Underwood and Portland Sangria account for more than onethird of the canned wine sold in the country, and that’s before former Stumptown VP Matt Lounsbury and local wine business guy Ron Penner-Ash started filing their Free Public wine into every schmancy grocery store in Portland. And in taste tests across the country, our wine keeps winning. Food and Wine called Portland Sangria one of the best canned cocktails in the country. When California wine bar owners tasted canned grapes for Bloomberg, Underwood was rated the best canned rosé, sparkling wine and red in the nation. “If I were at a concert at the Greek Theater,” said ’90s power-pop singer-turned-wine guy David Gibbs, who praised Underwood red wine’s “Twizzler-esque” flavor, “I would buy a can of this and be very happy.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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WHY AUTHOR OMAR EL AKKAD ♥ 'S PORTLAND
14. BECAUSE PORTLAND IS A HOTBED OF SMALL BOOKSTORES… “I’m a writer, which is a fancy way of saying I have no social life. When I do venture outside, more often than not it’s to go to a bookstore. Everyone knows about Powell’s, but this city offers so much more. Broadway Books is, by virtue of the people who run it, one of the finest small bookshops in the country. There’s the delicious chaos of Longfellow’s, a serendipity engine where you won’t find what you’re looking for but will leave with a dozen other books anyway. There’s Title Wave, a place where you can stock up on a year’s worth of used books for the price of a single new hardcover. There’s the connoisseur-ish, old-school vibe at Mother Foucault’s. There’s In Other Words, a world-class bookshop and community center that does a lot of important civic work in a town that sorely needs it. There’s Street Books, a bicycle-powered mobile library that is one of the single best ideas I’ve seen in this town. In a country where so many neighborhoods are effectively storytelling deserts, Portland punches above its weight.”
—Omar El Akkad, former Globe and Mail reporter and author of the 2017 novel American War 16
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SEATTLE’S ALYSSA YEOMAN PERFORMING AT MINORITY RETORT IN 2017
Because unlike any other city, we have a niche comedy fest for… …black comedians. (NW BLACK COMEDY FESTIVAL)
…queer comedians. (PORTLAND QUEER COMEDY FESTIVAL)
…women comedians. (ALL JANE COMEDY FESTIVAL).
…sketch comedy. (PORTLAND SKETCH FEST)
…improv.
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Kevin Cavenaugh, the developer who completed the brightly colored FairHaired Dumbbell last year at the east end of the Burnside Bridge, is not just making Portland’s skyline a stylistically interesting place. He’s also trying to save our soul. In a development that will break ground this year, he’s tackled the thorniest problem the city faces—without gov-
At a time of great civic angst, the one thing Portland can agree on is the airport. Sure, it pulled out the beloved carpet in 2015. But since then, Portland International Airport has gradually transformed into a diorama of the city itself. It’s got a Powell’s and a Pendleton store. It’s got doughnuts from Blue Star, and Country Cat serves its famous skilletfried chicken. There’s even an offshoot of the Hollywood Theatre, screening locally made short films. The more the airport adds, the more it looks like a neighborhood you’d consider moving into. Last year saw the addition of craft boutique and record label Tender Loving Empire. In the coming months, PDX will add Deschutes to a bar scene that already includes Laurelwood and Henry’s Tavern. Providence is also about to open an express care facility onsite, where you can purchase over-the-counter medication and send out prescriptions for pickup. It’s the little things, too—like the overhead heaters in the rideshare waiting area, which are much appreciated when you step off the plane from balmy Southern California into an icy Portland night. Most airports make you yearn for the sweet relief of a cramped international flight. Ours makes you wonder why you’d want to leave at all. MATTHEW SINGER.
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ernment handouts to help him. He’ll build housing for the homeless and subsidize it with market-rate rents. The twin two-story buildings on Southeast Gladstone Street are called Jolene’s First Cousin. They’ll contain 11 rooms for formerly homeless people. Also in the buildings? Two marketrate lofts and three small commercial spaces, all on a 5,000-square-foot lot. He wants to replicate this CrestonKenilworth project with a “second cousin,” a third, a fourth and so on, all across Portland. “I want to be building Jolene’s 20th Cousin in 2020,” says Cavenaugh. “Right now, I’m proud of an idea. I want to be proud of an actual thing.”
Cavenaugh also has a project in the design phase to provide subsidized housing for social workers trying to solve the homelessness crisis. At the Atomic Orchard Experiment, on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, 11 of the 55 one-bedroom lofts will rent for $582 a month. People with a master’s in social work and whose job is related to homelessness will have first priority. “It’s about good-citizen housing,” Cavenaugh says. “What they do makes Portland a better city. And I want to honor that. I don’t want to live in a city that doesn’t have first responders and teachers and social workers within its bounds.” RACHEL MONAHAN.
Because we’re home to the world’s first sneaker design school… ABBY GORDON
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D’Wayne Edwards wanted to go to school for sneaker design. But in the late 80s, that wasn’t an option—even in Los Angeles. “I grew up in Inglewood, Calif., and it’s a garment town. So there were tons of apparel design schools there, but nothing for footwear,” he says. “This was preGoogle, so I couldn’t just jump online and look stuff up, so it was really the phone book and word of mouth. But I looked into things, and there wasn’t anything available. There was no path for me to go to college to study specifically for footwear.” Edwards ended up getting a job at LA Gear, where he worked on shoes, including the legendary Catapult. He went on to work for Karl Kani and Skechers before coming to Nike, where he designed the Air Jordan XXI and XXII. His designs have sold a billion dollars around the world. But Edwards never forgot about that path that wasn’t available to him. So in 2010, he started his own school, Pensole, in Old Town. It’s still the only sneaker design school in the country. His philosophy is to rebuild education to suit everyone so that his students graduate with the knowledge their employers need. To that end, Pensole partnerships range from Parsons to MIT to Foot Locker to Adidas. The thing Edwards is most excited about isn’t just the shoe design school, it’s the design of the shoe design school—which is closely modeled on trade schools to better prepare his artistic students for the trade they want. “What we do could be applied to multiple industries, and quite honestly should be—from the perspective of how we go about structuring the academy and how the kids learn and how we work with companies,” he says. “There’s just a massive disconnection between education and corporate America. If schools were held accountable with what they taught students in conjunction with the ratio of them getting employed, we’d probably have a lot of schools close. But you will see education is going to close, because kids are getting disenchanted with being there four and five and six years, leaving with a mortgage and with no opportunity for employment.” MARTIN CIZMAR.
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…and the world’s first DOG TAP ROOM…
There is nothing better or more American than beer and dogs. Fido’s, at 7700 SW Dartmouth St. in Tigard, is the first place in the world where you can watch dog videos, drink salted caramel stout from one of 40 craft taps and play with six adoptable puppies that aren’t yours. You’re welcome. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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If you live in Portland and enjoy weed, you’re in luck: We’re currently experiencing a massive statewide cannabis surplus. Prices are falling, and there’s no bottom in sight. It’s estimated that Oregon now produces three times more cannabis than its regulated adult-use market consumes in a given year. And the bubble only inflates as more and more speculative cash goes online. Presently, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission has issued 912 producer licenses, while an additional 1,107 await approval. This means more grow operations will be launching amid an already flooded market— one best characterized by desperate and yet-to-profit farms competing with other desperate and yet-to-profit farms, and by growers slashing wholesale rates to the bone and sacrificing margins to meet bare operational costs. According to a recent report in Marijuana Business Daily, wholesale prices for raw, extract materials—post-harvest trim, B-grade buds and other lesser-quality flowers, the kind of stuff that’s commonly used to make the concentrates that fill inexpensive, disposable vape cartridges—have fallen to as low as $50 a pound. This means that not only will flower prices bottom out in the coming months and years, but we’ll probably see dramatic price reductions on concentrates and edibles as the oversupply is transmuted into more shelf-stable products. To be clear, though, we’re not applauding the current state of the industry—a lot of people stand to lose a lot of money—but one person’s flaming investment is another person’s smoke, smoke that consumers will be enjoying for unprecedented low prices until the market levels out. And as state lawmakers grapple with how to best address the oversupply—reducing canopy sizes, capping the number of producer licenses the OLCC may award, establishing regulatory mechanisms for interstate cannabis trade, etc.—there’s no telling when that leveling out might happen. MATT STANGEL. 18
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Because our local mini-mart chain makes Snickers give you free candy bars…
Approach the register at any of the 109 Plaid Pantry stores across Portland, and it’s like a tag sale at the Willy Wonka factory. Ghirardelli chocolates are three for a dollar, while “organic energy bars” might go for only a quarter. Meat sticks come in two-packs for a buck, and for a shiny 50-cent piece you can discover experimental flavors of Combos and Kettle Chips you’re very sure should not exist. The deals aren’t overstock, and the candy is not out of date: It turns out Plaid puts its entire marketing budget into subsidizing impossibly good deals on weirdball junk food. “We do no billboards, no radio ads, no television ads,” says CEO Jonathan Polonsky. “Vendors have marketing money for stores. Snickers will have X amount of dollars, and they’ll say, ‘You’re gonna partner with us. Can we pay for a radio spot?’ We say no. We’d rather get it in markdown money.” In other cases, candy companies like Nestlé might have new types of candy they want to try out on an unsuspecting public: like maybe Twix eggs months before Easter. In they go to the Plaid bargain bin at 50 cents a king-size bar. The deals come in at the first of every month, and the best deals are often gone fast to die-hard Plaid Pantry bargain hunters. “They call us up on the first of the month asking what deals there are,” says Polonsky, “Last month, we gave away 10,000 free Snickers bars. We used coupons. They lasted three hours.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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And behind one of the most striking and beautiful paintings in the city—a festively bright 70-foot-tall geisha by Irish street artist Fin DAC, with live plants growing as her hair—we will soon have a rum-happy Cuban bar by Ricky Gomez, named the U.S. Best Bartender of the Year in the world’s largest cocktail competition in 2012. At Palomar, opening by the beginning of March at 959 SE Division St., Gomez hopes to evince the “crumbling paradise” of his heritage with black and white encaustic tile, Cuban street food and a whole hell of a lot of cocktails. The building’s mural honors, in part, the bar. The bird perched on the woman’s shoulder is a Cuban trogon, the national bird of Cuba. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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Because we are STILL NO. 1 in semifactual superlatives…
• No. 1 Best Airport in America (Travel and Leisure, July 2017) • No. 1 Best Burger in America, at Stanich’s (Thrillist, May 2017) • No. 1 Best Restroom in America, According to a Restroom Cleaning Company, at Off the Waffle (Cintas, September 2017) • No. 1 City to Celebrate National Wine Day (Infogroup, May 2107) • No. 1 Best Coff ee City in the U.S. (Condé Nast Traveler, January 2018) • No. 1 City for Business and Careers (Forbes, October 2017) • No. 5 Best City for Hippies (real estate blog Estately, July 2017) • No. 1 Best City to Get Your Freak On (The Great Love Debate, November 2017) • No. 1 Best City in the Country to Get Responses on Dating Websites (OkCupid, August 2017) • No. 2 Worst Large City for Football (WalletHub. com, February 2018)
• No. 4 City Where SelfDriving Cars Make the Most Sense (Fortune, March 2017) • No. 1 Best City for Vegans in the World (CNN Travel, April 2017) • No. 2 Best Lesbian City in America (LiveAbout, February 2017) • No. 1 Whitest and Arguably Most Racist City In America (Huffington Post, June 2017) • No. 1 Most Politically Violent City in America (Politico, June 2017) • No. 1 Most Livable City in America, According to Rich British People (Monocle, June 2017) • No. 1 Safest Place to Avoid Natural Disasters (Sperling’s BestPlaces, October 2017) • No. 1 Coolest City in America (MSN Travel, July 2017) • No. 1 City Where Outsiders Want to Move In, and Residents Plan to Stay (Zillow, April 2017) • No. 1 City for Semifactual Superlatives (Willamette Week, February 2017)
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24. BECAUSE WE MAKE BIKING SO ACCESSIBLE... “I’ve heard it said that the perfect speed to take in a city is on a bike, and I agree. That’s why one of my favorite things about Portland is Sunday Parkways. My husband and I biked Sunday Parkways before we had children. Then we put our kids in bike seats and trailers to ride. And now they ride on their own. It’s an event for people of all ages. I particularly love the Sunday Parkways in East Portland. It’s a way to highlight the part of the city where I live and that a lot of people may not normally get to see. And the city does a great job of showcasing new investments. I remember when the city opened Harper’s Playground in Arbor Lodge, a wonderful playground accessible to all children. The city’s other Summer Free-forAll events, like outdoor movies in multiple languages like Russian and Spanish, the concerts that feature music as varied as Pacific Islander, African and all kinds of Latin American music, are a great way to get to know different parts of the city and different cultures within Portland. —Jessica Vega
Pederson, Multnomah County commissioner
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29. BECAUSE WINTER THIS YEAR IS A PUSSYCAT...
…like the world’s greatest video store (Movie Madness, $315,346)…
…and a Portland-themed tarot deck with strippers and bridges ($2,845)…
…and the world’s greatest maker of hazy IPAs (Great Notion Brewing, $22,063)…
…and a photographic project to document black Portlanders (The Black Portlanders, $24,579)…
…and a new home for the world’s largest zine library (Independent Publishing Resource Center, $21,882)… …and a handmade papermaking studio in St. Johns (Pulp & Deckle, $13,032)… …and a T-shirt showing a map of Portland’s bridges (Nick Martinelli, $4,556)… …and an independent radio station (X-RAY. FM, $103,762)… …and the city’s best $4 tacos (Taqueria Nueve, $31,413)… …and an ayurvedic herb farm (Portland Ashwagandha Farm, $31,413)… …and an art studio for kids (Portland Child Art Studio, $15,325)…
…and a touring project to fi ght homophobia at the Warped tour (The Equalizers, $2,540)… …and a lending library for outdoor gear (The Portland Wilderness Gear Library, $3,515)…
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…and wiping out the school lunch debt of every kid in the Portland Public Schools (Sean Brendan Sexton, $28,235)… …and a historic theater on Northeast Alberta Street (Alberta Rose Theatre, $125,250)… …and soon, saving the city’s oldest folk venue (Laurelthirst Public House, $33,813 and counting).
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“Before I moved to Portland, everyone warned me about the weather. They told me to get a raincoat and a good umbrella and prepare to get soaked. Right now, what I love about Portland is our unusually sunny winter weather. It’s been beautiful. I seems like the city listened to me when I asked for sun. Rain or shine, though, I love Portland’s progressive spirit, and I see that every day reflected in the students, faculty and staff here at PSU.” —Rahmat Shoureshi, mechanical engineer
…and a replacement car for a cat rapper whose whip got stolen (Moshow, $17,705)…
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Last weekend, 110 homeless dogs and a cat were flown five hours from Oklahoma. They were coming to Portland, where pets find homes. The Northeast Portland branch of the Oregon Humane Society—now celebrating its 150th anniversary—adopts out pretty much all pets that land there, with no risk they’ll be put to sleep after a set time. We adopt so many pets we’re a net importer, bringing in more than 7,000 pets from shelters all over the country. And those are adopted, too. “On average, dogs and cats are adopted in under a week,” says OHS spokeswoman Laura Klink. “Guinea pigs, gerbils, bunnies, rats—we’ve got great adoption rates.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
Because you can crowdfund A N Y T H I N G here…
…and the nation’s only fi lm festival devoted to an angry gothic god (H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, $42,035)…
Because our Humane Society rescues pets from all over the country…
As malls close nationwide, ours are among the only ones that a worldly adult can visit without slipping into deep depression. Lloyd Center has always been awesome, but it’s about to become even more of a cultural nerve center: Last year, Live Nation, the world’s biggest concert promoter, announced it would open its first music venue in Portland in the former Nordstrom space. Pioneer Place will complement its indoor bowling alley and 100-tap beer bar by bringing dim sum back to the westside at 3,000-squarefoot Yong Kang Street, alongside a Sonoran taco spot. Our malls are almost enough to make you feel patriotic. MATTHEW SINGER AND MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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Say what you want about trend-hopping Portland: We respect our dead. We will publicly mourn bars we haven’t even been to and exhume Santa displays fromn stores we no longer want to shop in. When Greek diner the Overlook announced it would sell to developers, diners who hadn’t visited in a decade flooded in to sit shiva at its lunch counter. When beloved but obscure dive bar Penguin Pub closed in Westmoreland, a former WW editor declared it the end of the city: “We are destroying everything that makes Portland so Portland,” wrote Byron Beck on social media (#notmycity). But this year, nothing struck us more than the arches. In January, a McDonald’s franchisee announced plans to renovate his drivethru on Southeast Powell Boulevard. In the process, he wanted to bulldoze what is probably the third-oldest McDonald’s in the country, a Golden Arches design built in 1962 that had stood mostly vacant on his lot for 37 years. News of the restaurant’s impending demise became WW’s most-read story online for two weeks. On a Save Powell McDonald’s page, Portlanders called for a boycott of all McDonald’s if this one went down. “Few Golden Arches McDonald’s still exist. Losing it will not only be a loss for Portland, but for the entire nation,” wrote an Oregonian reader in a letter. In a city changing so fast it can be difficult to recognize a street from one year to the next, almost anything can become hallowed ground. Our love for our own collective memory is outsized, perhaps even embarrassing. But it’s also how our city maintains its character. For every Overlook there is a Sandy Hut or Clyde’s Prime Rib, preserved in amber light. The McDonald’s on Powell still has a week left intact. Who knows what its afterlife will be? MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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“Haha, when I was born here.”
“When there was a black community in North Portland—that was my childhood, and I miss it. Also, Peninsula Garden, where I grew up.” PHOTOS BY SAM GEHRKE
“ The summer of 2016, at one of the Dug shows, which is an underground art show/collective in Portland. It helped so much in helping me figure out how to direct my photography.”
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“I moved here on a whim, and everything fell into place. The realization of a great creative scene, with a ton of connections and artistic community—there was none of that where I’m from in New York. It sounds cheesy, but I’ve been able to feel more like myself here.”
“I don’t live here anymore, but I did definitely fall in love the moment I moved here about seven years ago.”
WHEN DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH PORTLAND?
“I’d say when I started to work on building my black and brown community around me.”
“I don’t know if I have yet. I just haven’t been here long enough. I feel like I’m starting to, though, through the wonderful people I’ve met and become friends with.”
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(Left) “2015, when I moved here. I was walking home from work and stopped on a bridge to look over the city. I came home to new roommates; they were filming home movies. That was the moment when I started feeling like I had found friendship in a new city.” (Right) “I was interning here in 2011, sitting on my porch and Face-Timeing my friend at 9:30 pm, and it was still light out, which never happened where I used to live in LA. I was only there for two months, but I could take the bus right from where I was living to work and back, and it was so easy. Coming from LA, it was such a new thing and I loved it.”
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Last week, LMVH Luxury Ventures, an offshoot of Paris-based conglomerate LMVH that owns dozens of luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Dom Pérignon, invested an undisclosed amount in New York-based sneaker and streetwear reseller Stadium Goods. Though it’s common knowledge in Portland that there’s money in athletic shoes, this investment makes plain what a lot of people who pay attention to the high-end sneaker market have been tracking for the past few years: Reselling sneakers is big money now. And with big money comes big fraud. In 2017, Happy Valley’s James Pepion pleaded guilty to federal charges of trafficking in counterfeit goods and money laundering after being busted with 1,600 pairs of counterfeit shoes in his house in 2016. Bank records showed Pepion had paid about $175,000 for shoes imported from China, while PayPal records revealed he’d received more than $2.6 million since opening in 2012. Take a trip to Old Town sneaker reseller Index and you’ll see walls of rare Air Jordans, Yeezys and other sought-after shoes that resell for hundreds of dollars more than their retail price. Many pairs run well into four figures; a handful—such as the black and silver Air Jordan “Carhartt 4” collaboration between Nike, Carhartt and rapper Eminem—break five. “The sneaker game has evolved from where it came from a few years ago, where it’s really mainstream now,” says Mike Nguyen, co-owner of Index. “There’s a lot of money to be made, and wherever there’s money, there’s going to be fakes. We see it at least once or twice a day.” Nguyen and his business partner Terrance “Tee” Ricketts tell WW that the quality of fraudulent sneakers has markedly improved in the past few years, coinciding with the enormous boom in popularity of fashion sneakers following the introduction of Adidas’ Yeezy collaboration with Kanye West in 2015. “There are a lot of different dynamics to it,” explains Tee, “but we see shoes every day to the point where we know what to look for. It’s not just
one thing we look at, because the people who are making the fakes are perfecting their craft as well.” Using a pair of “Blue Tint” Yeezy Boost 350 V2s that Tee and Nguyen keep “deadstock” (trade lingo for unworn)—they have an unworn pair of every shoe in the Yeezy line in store for reference—they break down where and how fraudsters make mistakes with counterfeit pairs. In short, a mistake can be made in any part of the sneaker. Which is why Index checks every part, including packaging materials, labels, insoles, the receipt and even the smell of the shoes (real Yeezys smell faintly of cardboard). With fraudulent shoes, mistakes are very frequently made in the spacing, lettering and font size on labels and tags in the shoe. Savvy scammers will even include authentic accessories, such as packaging materials or laces, with fake shoes to throw buyers off. Unfortunately, there is no easy way for someone looking to buy a pair of shoes from a reseller online to guarantee they’re getting the real thing, but there are a few precautions that can be taken. “If the price is too good on a hot shoe, and they have multiples, and it’s way below market, just walk away,” says Tee. He further advises buyers to use the fraud-protected PayPal as the payment service and, if possible, to go with sellers that have good reputations. Even better, go to Index, where they’ll professionally “Legit Check” your shoes for free, even if you aren’t buying anything from them, offering Portland’s sneakerheads a safe space for commerce and trading. With thousands of hours of experience, they’re the best resource for sneaker authenticating in the city. “We’ve been doing this for 12 years plus, just authenticating sneakers,” says Tee. “We’ve seen people cry before, where they’ve spent thousands of dollars on a sneaker, and we have to tell them it’s not authentic. We take this extremely seriously.” GO: Index, 114 NW 3rd Ave., 503-208-3599, IndexPDX.com. Instagram: @indexportland. Noon-7 pm Monday-Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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The trippy, weirdly sexually tense Blazers documentary is showing at Revolution Hall for Valentine’s Day. Here are the most romantic scenes. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R mcizmar@wweek.com
Fast Break is not a great movie. The arty Blazers documentary about the team’s 1977 championship season begins with four minutes of random drumming set over footage of Bill Walton and his teammates disembarking from a commercial flight from Los Angeles. Then there are several minutes of the players stretching and taking warm-up layups as a flute plays. Then, you sit through the entire national anthem as the screen shows the film’s credits scrolling across the scoreboard. But it’s also a surprisingly romantic movie—not just for a lost era when NBA practices were open to whoever wanted to show up and players went to barbecues with local dignitaries, but because everyone involved seems ready to strip off their short shorts and make the most of the ’70s at any moment. Here’s what stands out from this discursive, oddly meditative film.
• For no apparent reason, the movie follows local author and onetime WW scribe Larry Colton as he interviews players for his book Idol Time. We get an early look inside Colton’s writing room, and to eavesdrop on a conversation with his editor. “I doubt if basketball players, across the board, are any more interesting than plumbers or schoolteachers or lawyers or anybody,” the soft-spoken and brooding Colton says. “It’s just the fact that they happen to be in the public eye and I happen to have received a nice, healthy advance to write a book about basketball players. I didn’t get an advance to write a book about plumbers.” • Then we get to see Bill and Larry stop to pick berries on the side of the highway during a long bike ride from Portland to the coast. • Late, great forward Maurice Lucas swims in a warm pool, chatting with another player about what they did over their brief summer break. After his dip, you get a look inside the locker room where
Lucas shows off his new deodorant, saying that you “won’t believe how effective” it is. • Then it’s to the gym, where an elderly man who can’t afford season tickets shows up to watch every practice. In the ’70s, local dudes just showed up at the gym to watch ball players sweat. “I get my kicks out of coming over here and watching them practice,” he says. “I’m just a little runt, but I have fun.” The man has no problem striking up conversations with the players. “All the players are easy to talk to, I find. All you have to do is go up and start talking to them.” • Bill Walton, sitting by a creek, talks about the majesty of the championship team. “When everything is going right for us— which obviously is not going to happen every game—but when it does happen, it’s just hard to explain, but everybody at once seems to be on the same wavelength,” he says.
• Walton and Colton go bike riding. Walton teases Colton about his slow pace. “If you just stay right on my tail—if you sit about this far off my back wheel the whole time, you’ll get my draft, and then you won’t get tired,” he says softly, and with a smile. • A photographer shows off his fancy new Nikon camera to a sassy young Vera Katz. “Two hundred and sixty dollars?” she says. “I’m a politician, we only make, what, $600 a month!” • A few seconds later the mood is broken by a brief cameo featuring former Portland mayor, governor and child rapist Neil Goldschmidt. • The movie ends with Bill Walton taking a long walk along the Pacific, by himself. Colton is nowhere to be found, and his absence is not explained. GO: Fast Break screens at Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., after the Blazers-Warriors game, on Wednesday, Feb. 14. 7:30 pm. Free. 21+.
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BIG’S IN THE ’BURBS: Big’s Chicken is coming back—but not to Portland. The smoked-chicken spot, which started as a summertime pop-up in the parking lot of steak house Laurelhurst Market, burned down last July at its Northeast Glisan Street brick-and-mortar location after being struck by an errant firework. According to co-owner Ben Dyer, it’ll serve a mostly unchanged menu of thighs, wings and potato wedges starting in July in downtown Beaverton at 4570 SW Watson St., in the heart of K-town across from longtime Korean spot Nak Won. But Portland will have to wait. “Parkinglot chicken is done,” says Dyer, “but plans for a Big’s in Portland aren’t done either.” HOLD ON, WHAT? Taco-themed pizza spot Associated, formerly hip-hop-themed P.R.E.A.M., will close, The Oregonian first reported, and its space will be taken over by Buckman prix-fixe spot Holdfast, which will shut down in its current location at the end of February. Holdfast’s Monday-night-only cocktail pop-up, Deadshot, will travel with it, but will take over the large front-room bar portion of the former Associated space and be open every night of business. Associated and Holdfast will both close approximately at the end of February, as Holdfast and Deadshot transition into the new space. Nick Ford, formerly of both Associated and P.R.E.A.M., plans to open a pizzeria called Pizzeria Sul Lago in Lake Oswego. R.I.P.: Christopher Cooper, co-founder of longrunning Portland record label Cavity Search, died Feb. 12 after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 52. Cooper and business partner Denny Swofford formed Cavity Search in 1992, issuing records from many of the most prominent Portland bands of the era, including Hazel, Helio Sequence, King Black Acid and Richmond Fontaine. Most significantly, the label released Elliott Smith’s first solo album, Roman Candle, in 1994. Cooper had not been involved with the label’s day-today operations for several years, but Swofford says he and Cooper remained close. “The Portland music community has lost an irreplaceable figure,” Swofford said in a statement. “He naturally seemed to be everything you needed—husband, father, son, brother, artist, storyteller and the dearest of friend, if you were fortunate enough to know him.” HORRIBLE B.O.: The latest TV show set in Portland premiered over the weekend to terrible reviews. HBO’s Here and Now, directed by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood) stars Tim Robbins as a middle-class dad mired in middle-age ennui. The New York Times described it as “full of clichés of middle-age disaffection and disillusionment,” while Vox called the show “kind of a dud.” Vulture summed it up as “an insufferable 10-episode HBO series that’s trying very hard to speak to the mood of our times but ultimately does not have anything significant to say about it.” >> Last week also offered the first glimpse of another filmed-in-Portland production. The first trailer for Bad Samaritan, a suspense thriller starring David Tennant, was released last week, complete with shots of gray skies, the downtown Target and the Broadway Bridge.
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A VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY BY REVA DEVITO Reva Devito is one of Portland R&B’s sultriest singers, and probably the person you’d most trust to curate a truly lit Valentine’s Day party. Chicago’s smooth-gliding Drama Duo sets the mood, then Devito herself seals the deal. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639, holocene.org. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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Americans are finally embracing Dua Lipa. The British-born singer’s brand of pop is Swedish in its streamlined perfection, seamlessly blending EDM, synth pop and soft rock. Her tropical house-styled single “New Rules” is peaking on the charts, and with a new album in the works, Lipa won’t stay playing rooms this size much longer. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx. com. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
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Natty by Nature is an oyster-fueled, hip-hopthemed party for some of the best natural wine available—orange wine from Central Europe, light reds from Italy, and “damn good Champagne”— curated by celebu-somm Dana Frank. Tournant, 920 NE Glisan St., 503-206-4463, tournantpdx.com. 6-10 pm. $49 advance, $59 door.
After every show for the past six years, drag “clown” Carla Rossi has pressed her full-face makeup into a makeup wipe, creating a negative print. Now, dozens of those makeup portraits are hung on clothespins around Littman Gallery. Maybe it’s the eyelashes clinging to some of the wipes, but the show feels as humorous as it is intimate. Littman Gallery, 1825 SW Broadway, 503-725-4452, littmanandwhite. com. Noon-6 pm. Through March 2. Free. See page 39.
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MAGELLANICA
It’s touted as a celebration of “the historical role the Crystal Ballroom played through the previous half-century of psychedelic music,” but this year’s Sabertooth festival defines “psychedelic” in broad terms. Oregon doom-metal overlords Yob, rant-rockers Parquet Courts and noise-freak icon Thurston Moore headline. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. See sabertoothpdx.com for ticket information and schedule. Through Feb. 18.
NW BLACK COMEDY FESTIVAL Last year, the first NW Black Comedy Festival was bursting at the seams. This year, it's expanded to four days instead of just two, and the lineup is still packed with many of the city’s funniest comedians. On the second night, there’ll be a local standup showcase plus a set from Portland's nationally lauded improv group Broke Gravy. Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6 N Tillamook St., facebook. com/dirtyangelent. 6-11 pm. Feb. 15-18. $10-$150.
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A world premiere by Portland playwright E.M. Lewis, Magellanica is an odyssey about a group of researchers working in Antarctica. It has a five-and-a-half-hour run time, but 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. Artists Repertory Theatre, 515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 5:30 pm. Through Feb. 18. $25-$50.
ZWICKELMANIA This year, as every year, the brewers of Portland thrust open their backroom doors and allow the needy beer nerds of the city to tour their brew tanks and sample their wares. It is a wonderful day, unless you’re a brewer. For participating breweries, see oregoncraftbeer.org/ zwickelmania.
MONDAY, FEB. 19
MARY TIMONY PLAYS HELIUM In the ’90s, Helium’s sludgy, medieval dirges turned ennui into inspiration. After two albums, the band dissolved, and leader Mary Timony went on to several other successful projects. Twenty years later, she’s revisiting her most beloved outfit, playing the “hits” backed by Brooklyn indie band Hospitality. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios. com. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB Stanley Kubrick’s satire about government idiots was always a masterpiece, but lately, it’s also a masterpiece that seems more relatable. “It’s funny because it’s true” with every new cycle. Academy Theater, 7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500, academytheaterpdx.com. Various times through Feb. 22. $4.
THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER Francisco Cantú—a third-generation immigrantturned-Border Patrol agent—has written a book haunted by both his own family history and the things he found on the border, hauling in the dead who couldn’t cross the desert. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
THE PRIDE The Olivier Award-winning play tells parallel stories of a relationship between the same two men set in two different time periods: 2008 and 1958. It’s the kind of play that requires both boldness and tenderness from a production team, which Defunkt Theatre is more than capable of providing. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-974-4938, defunkttheatre. com. 7 pm. Pay what you will, $20 suggested.
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PRINCESS NOKIA If Cardi B is the reigning queen of New York rap, Princess Nokia is, well, the princess. “The weird girl that’s runnin’ shit,” as she calls herself, has a tough-talking flow, while the production is a leftfield reimagining of Southern trap. It’s a vibrant, bold, subversive joy. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686, wonderballroom. 8:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
WILLY VLAUTIN The movie based on Willy Vlautin’s Portland horse-track novel, Lean on Pete Pete, hits theaters in March, but Don’t Skip Out on Me, his new, heartbreaking book about a Native American boxer ashamed of his heritage, drops this week. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free. See interview, page 40. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2018 wweek.com
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Sammich is not the experience of a deli in Chicago. But it’s what you think it should be, if you’ve never been. Few spots in Portland are as dominated by the personalities of their owners as this East Burnside sandwich spot, plastered with Cubbies and ’Hawks wall art and fronted by a smoker full of beef and bacon. Even after a couple months, Melissa McMillan knows half her customers either by order or name, and if it’s the latter, she’ll bellow it out from the kitchen in her thick Northside accent. A kid comes in wearing a soccer uniform, she’ll hop around the counter to ask how the game was. “I used to coach Little League,” she tells one dad while talking to a kid straight off the playing field. “So this is my dream.” She’s currently looking for a team to coach. McMillan, always donning a backward Cubs cap or one from her family’s ranch in Texas, is best known in Portland for her Montreal-style smoked, brined pastrami at Mississippi Avenue cart Pastrami Zombie. But here at Sammich—a shop she founded in Ashland—it’s all 28
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about the house giardiniera. That spicy, pickled mix of chilies, pepper, celery and carrots is the flavor of Chicago, available everywhere from hot dog shops to Potbelly to Subway franchises. McMillan’s housemade mix is the light, bright, quick-pickled and thin-sliced North Chicago variety. If native Southsiders complain they want the thick-sliced vewrsion, she’s considered keeping some of the oily Cisco stuff in jars just for them. That giardiniera adds crunch, spice, and acid to everything from her “Cubbie Cubano,” to the burger, albacore sandwich and Italian beef. Chicago’s most obscure and particular delicacy, those Italian beef sandw i c h e s a r e av a i l a b l e ot h e r w i s e a t n e a r by M i c h a e l ’s, a t B r i d g e City Pizza in Woodstock and almost nowhere else in Portland. McMillan’s Italian beef ($12) is now my favorite version in town. Her jus—pronounced “juice,” in open defiance of the French—is deep, rich, ad fresh daily and well-seasoned, a balance difficult to achieve and especially to maintain. The beef, roasted and sliced in-house, is tender and just a bit on the fatty side. And the hoagie buns have the right amount of rubber
CHICAGO BEEF: Owner and chef Melissa McMillan with her Italian, pictured below.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14 in them to stand up to the jus without dissolving into fluff: McMillan worked with a baker at Philippe’s Bread and Lardo to get just the right texture, rolling through countless attempts to get just the right elasticity. Those hoagie buns also come into play on the Timbo ($12), an iceberg- and vinaigrette-topped take on the cheesesteak modeled after those at Chicago’s Hoagie Hut. That sandwich also gets its own helping of jus. The mix of jus and thin-sliced beef forms a swirl of protein and fat, with a druglike hit of processed cheese. It’s near impossible to eat it without needing to launder your shirt. The Cubano ($12) rounds out my three-sammich trio of favorites at the shop, with the giardianera amping the flavor output of a bacon-heavy version of the Miami classic heavily spiked with yellow mustard. Prices are higher by volume than at some shops, a product of the enormous amount of work involved in producing McMillan’s housebrined, -roasted and -smoked meats. In Chicago, an entire citywide ecosystem is built around Italian beef, and at her current volume, McMillan says the margins on her laborious pastrami are razor-thin. And not every sandwich was a hit. The albacore ($12), unfortunately, got lost in mayo on a fluffed Grand Central bun. And the housesmoked turkey meat has been dry on two different dishes and occasions, something McMillan says she’s since remedied by brining the turkey in her giardianera juice. I’ll also admit I’d never quite bonded with the namesake at Pastrami Zombie, McMillan’s northside cart, because that 5 ounces of pastrami gets lost in a big mess of slaw and bread. The solution at Sammich is to get the pastrami in french-fry form. Conceived by the shop’s kitchen manager, those Zombie Fries are an instant classic, a booming answer to a thousand soggy, ill-conceived dirty fries. They’re also simple—just french fries topped with giardinera, bell peppers, a tangy-spicy Zombie sauce, and squares of McMillan’s pastrami that have been crisped in a pan and finished in the oven. The light caramelization brings out extra savory notes in the meat, not to mention a satisfying crispness. “I could eat these forever,” said a recent dining companion, waving a forkful of fries in the air. They’ve got perhaps less to do with Chicago than anything else at Sammich, but they are a perfect junk food—as beefy, fatty and full of starch as the Windy City itself. GO: Sammich, 2137 E Burnside St., 503-477-4393, sammichrestaurants.com. 11 am-8 pm daily.
My Beery Valentine
For the ninth (and perhaps final!) year, Bazi will host a V-Day for the beerobsessed, with love-themed beers from Burnside Brewing’s Sweet Heat to Oedipus Brewing’s Polyamorie. Bazi Bierbrasserie, 1522 SE 32nd Ave., 503234-8888, bazipdx.com.
Natty by Nature
Natty by Nature is a hip-hop-themed party for some of the best natural wine available—orange wine from Central Europe, light reds from Italy, and “damn good Champagne”— curated by celebu-somm Dana Frank. Expect oysters, cured meats and tapas-style bites in a free-flowing social environment. Tournant, 920 NE Glisan St., 503-206-4463, tournantpdx. com. 6-10 pm. $49 advance,
SATURDAY, FEB. 17 Zwickelmania
This year, as every year, the brewers of Portland thrust open their backroom doors and allow the needy beer nerds of the city to tour their brew tanks and sample their wares. It is a wonderful day, unless you’re a brewer. For participating breweries, see oregoncraftbeer.org/zwickelmania. 7 pm. $45 BYOB.
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Bar Casa Vale
215 SE 9th Ave., 503-477-9081, barcasavale.com. $$. Our 2017 Bar of the Year has expanded to brunch on weekends, with some seriously good house-fermented yogurt with apricots, chocolate toast loaded with pistachio, and seriously excellent cazuela dishes—particularly the lamb.
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Afuri
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Clay’s Kitchen
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Pot and Spicy
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Tapalaya
50 SW 3rd Ave., 971-288-5510, afuriramenanddumpling.com. $$. The poke tacos at the westside Afuri are a flavor bomb of umami, citrus and spice—a Latin-Asian carnival alongside lovely shrimp ramen and whitefish shinjo-age dumplings that are like fish bonbons wrapped in a pinwheel of fried noodle.
2865 SE Division St., 503-327-8534, clayssmokehouse.com. $-$$. Clay’s makes some of the best saucy barbecue in town alongside killer wings, pulledpork nachos and maybe homestyle desserts like pineapple upside-down cake, baked each day by Grandma Jean Slyman.
8230 SE Harrison St., No. 345, 503-788-7267, potnspicy.com. $. Pot and Spicy is making deep-fried skewers, jja jiang mian noodles, spicy Szechuan classics and hot pots both dry and brothy in Portland’s best Asian food strip mall. 28 NE 28th Ave., 503-232-6652, tapalaya.com. $$. Even after Mardi Gras, Tapalaya will continue serving King Cake beignets all February to those too afraid of crowds to catch them during the holy week.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14 Saint Valentine: A Valentine’s Day Party By Reva Devito
[LET’S GET IT ON] See Get Busy, page 27. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Adan Jodoworsky, Y La Bamba, Rudy de Anda
[COOL BREEZE] What kind of music would you the son of spectacularly psychedelic director Alejandro Jodoworsky to make? Something pretty weird, right? Turns out, Adan Jodoworsky doesn’t seem to have his father’s acid-fried sensibilities, at least not on his latest solo album, Esencia Solar. It’s less El Topo than Getz/Gilberto—a set of lightly swaying bossa-nova breezes more suited for a poolside joint than a mushroom-fueled vision quest. It’s lovely stuff, with hints of film-score grandeur folded into the delicate grooves—he’s a director,
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actor and composer as well—but don’t expect it to burn a hole in your brain based on pedigree alone. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 7:30 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 15 Peter Case, Jeremy Wilson, Paul Brainard
[ACOUSTIC TROUBADOR] Though he boasts the looks, hooks and bright voice of a pop star, Peter Case has the soul of a country bluesman. Blues have fueled his music since the breakthrough 1980s solo albums that established Case as one of the finest songwriters of his generation. They’ve accompanied him through his journey from major-label rock star to folk-label acoustic balladeer, classic blues covers to raucous rockabilly, a reunion of his
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YOB CITY: (From left) Yob’s Mike Scheidt, Aaron Rieseberg and Travis Foster.
Cheating Doom A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE SLOWED OREGON METAL HERO MIKE SCHEIDT, BUT IT COULDN’T STOP HIM. BY PATR ICK LYON S
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FIVE TOP PICKS FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF THE PDX JAZZ FESTIVAL Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble with Edna Vazquez (Feb. 15) Portland-based Latin American songwriter Eda Vazquez and a dozen of the city’s finest jazz scribes collide onstage, offering one of the festival’s most compelling never-before-heard events. PARKER HALL. The Old Church. 7:30 pm. $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
2 Kurt Elling & Friends Swing Jon Hendricks (Feb. 16) Classic-crooning icon Kurt Elling performs a long-form tribute to his favorite jazz singer, Jon Hendricks, adding in a two-song duet with local vocal hero Nancy King, in addition to a special segment with Portland State’s jazz vocal ensemble. PH. Revolution Hall. 7 pm. $35-$65. 3 Julian Lage Trio (Feb. 17) The gritty, melodic improvisations of guitarist Julian Lage are supported by Bo Diddley-influenced grooves inside his current bass-drums trio, forming a kind of beat jazz that is uniquely inviting to non-jazz ears. PH. Winningstad Theatre. 10 pm. $35-$45. 4 Luciana Souza’s Word Strings (Feb. 17) Even though she’s worked with jazz legends like Herbie Hancock, Brazilian singer Luciana Souza has never fit the mold of a pure jazz singer. In a trio gig, she expands her career-long fascination with poetry, setting to music words by Leonard Cohen, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and other poets. BRETT CAMPBELL. Revolution Hall. 7 pm. $29-$49. 5 Regina Carter: Accentuate the Positive, Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan Duo (Feb. 18)
Two masters of the stringed instrument universe, violinist Regina Carter and guitarist Bill Frisell, play back-to-back sets, with Carter’s sextet performing upbeat Ella Fitzgerald compositions before the quiet, thoughtful Frisell offers an intimate duo with bassist Thomas Morgan. PH. Revolution Hall. 7:30 pm. $29-$59. MORE: The PDX Jazz Festival is Feb. 15-25. See pdxjazz.com for tickets and complete schedule.
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When Mike Scheidt is asked how preparation for his band Yob’s new album and mini-tour is going, his response is at once dramatic and a massive understatement. “We’re taking it slow and careful,” he says. “Yet at the same time, I began 2017 in the hospital almost dying, and at the end of the year, we had a new record. That’s kind of wacky.” In 2016, Scheidt, the godly voiced frontman of Eugene’s acclaimed doom-metal vets, was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis, an extremely painful disease that inflames intestinal walls. His intestines were such a mess that he required surgery and a nine-day hospital stay. Doctors told him that waiting any longer to check himself in probably would have killed him. What was the hardest part of returning to writing, recording and performing music in the wake of such a traumatic experience? “All of it,” Scheidt says. “Any conceivable part of it.” And yet, he jumped right back into it, starting to write Yob’s upcoming eighth album almost immediately. “We had a few ideas that we had been throwing around, but it wasn’t until surgery and post-surgery that it came into focus,” he says. “By the time the band could actually get together and practice, I had most of the album written.” Perhaps if Scheidt played in a more lighthearted band, it would have been more difficult for him to snap back. But compared to their doom-metal peers, Yob has always prized mood over ’tude. Scheidt’s emotive voice invokes passion and spirituality, and his epic-length compositions often stir in elements of psychedelia and post-rock. Lately, the vibe in Yob’s music is that of long, painful paths that conclude with catharsis. “I feel like there’s generally a sense of positive process in our music,” says Scheidt, “meaning that the magnifying glass of the moment is on something heavy and depressive or angry or what could be conceived as negative, which I don’t think is
actually negative. We’re not just putting it on, like, terry cloths that stick to us and living in that vibe. It’s a process where we’re moving through it and the goal is to get to a better place by the end.” That sort of arduous journey defined Yob’s last album, 2014’s soul-cleansing Clearing the Path to Ascend, which focused on Scheidt’s recent divorce and chronic depression. This time, much more of the strife in Scheidt’s life is in the physical realm. “My body definitely has gotten better, but sometimes I’d hit a wall,” he says. “I would feel good, energy-wise, within boundaries of being careful, then all of the sudden my energy was just gone and it was almost like I mentally shut down. It wasn’t by choice, it just happened, and I would have to slow down and rest. Building my voice back up was also a challenge, because if I bore down too hard, I could herniate at incision sites, so it’s been a process.” Yob was able to reunite for a string of shows last summer, less than six months after Scheidt’s surgery. Since August, they’ve taken a break from the road to record their still-untitled eighth album, and to give Scheidt the chance to play some solo acoustic sets. Yob’s upcoming concert in Portland, at the first night of the Crystal Ballroom’s annual Sabertooth Micro Fest, will be their first date here since Scheidt’s diagnosis. Scheidt is relatively opaque on the themes explored in his new songs. But longtime fans of his past records’ metaphysical quests may be able to read between the lines. “What would be maybe termed as ‘dark vibes,’ to me it’s like positivity,” Scheidt says. “There’s another part of this picture that’s integral to our ability to argue about mustaches or even our breath, the very fact that we’re alive, that we can love. This is stuff that gets overlooked and seen as insignificant and yet, without it, we’re literally nothing. So that’s what I like to write about.” SEE IT: Yob plays the Sabertooth Micro Fest at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Coven, Conan and Pillorian, on Friday, Feb. 16. 6 pm. $25. All ages. See sabertoothpdx.com for a complete schedule. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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MUSIC early-’80s power-pop outfit the Plimsouls and major heart surgery. His latest album of new material, 2015’s Hwy 62, named after the road that took the young dropout from his Buffalo home to California busking then stardom, draws from all those phases. Yet the blues still inhabit his deftly crafted, socially conscious portraits of today’s struggling Americans. BRETT CAMPBELL. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 503226-6630. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
Dua Lipa, Tommy Genesis
[NU POP] See Get Busy, page 27. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Autograf, Ramzoid, Confresi
[ROBOT ROCK] At this point, Autograf’s portfolio is filled with singles, EPs and remixes—essentially what a successful SoundCloud artist’s résumé should look like. The trio relies on complex rhythms rather than the normal repetitive “boots and cats” beats, and as far as melodies go, the sound follows the template of their first and most popular single, “Dream.” Needless to say, the group has found an audience in an overlap of electronic, rock and pop, bringing a slyness to electronic music many of their peers lack. SETH SHALER. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave, 503-248-4700. 9 pm. $18. 21+.
FRIDAY, FEB. 16 Sabertooth Micro Fest: Coven, Yob, Conan, Pillorian
[METAL] See Get Busy, page 27, and profile, page 31. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 6 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
Ron Pope, the National Parks, the Heart Of
[DIY POP] Ron Pope turned out four records by himself before trying a giant label on for size, and leaving it shortly thereafter. It’s funny, because as his latest EP, Worktapes, suggests, Pope is built for the FM airwaves. Two parts radio pop and one part grit, Pope’s sound reminds of Bruce Springsteen and has snuck its way onto television programs like So You Think You Can Dance and The Vampire Diaries. Also like the Boss, Pope injects some open-road Americana into his craft, giving it a healthy dose of blue-collar charm. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $18.50-$95. All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 17 Sabertooth Micro Fest: Parquet Courts, Japanese Breakfast, Jay Som, Cat Hoch, Hand Habits
[RANT ROCK] See Get Busy, page 27. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 6 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.
Hound the Wolves, Mammoth Salmon, Young Hunter
[CASCADIAN DOOM] One of my metal pet peeves is bands that refer to their concerts as “rituals.” Thankfully, local quintet Hound the Wolves earns the term. Visually, the band drapes the stage in avian and mammalian bones, a candelabrum and the foggy aura of Northwestern seasonal change. Musically, it’s a doom-filtered take on bleak Americana, with lap steel and synths filling out the sound beneath Juan Caceres’ vocal litanies. This eve, the band celebrates the release of their epic, four-song album, Camera Obscura, which should appeal to fans of Neurosis, Swans, and Wolves in the Throne Room. Considering how easy it is to start a doom band that sounds like everyone else, it’s heartening to see a local band forging their
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Johanna Warren GEMINI II (SPIRIT HOUSE) [WITCH FOLK] Sinking into a Johanna Warren album is like stumbling across an ancient pagan ritual in an enchanted forest. Gemini II—the fraternal twin to her 2016 album, Gemini I—serves as a séance f o r a n ot - s o - d e a r l y departed romance. The dual albums, both released through Warren’s label, Spirit House, are musical embodiments of the opposing Devil and Lovers tarot cards. Together, they conjure supernatural introspection into a tumultuous relationship with, of course, a Gemini man. The opening track of Gemini II, “Hopelessness Has Done Nothing for Me,” soundtracked by acoustic guitar and tinkling piano, embraces the darkness of past pain as a way of moving into the light. “Say You Do” and “Here to Tell” echo with quiet aggression, as Warren spews sweetly venomous lyrics. The album’s final track, “Was It Heaven,” is a sad yet transformative ending to Warren’s romantic plight. Wistfully repeating the words “with you I was infinitely lost,” she sings of a man in an “angel’s mask” who proved to be a devil all along. Gemini II radiates lush harmonies, melancholic guitar and transcendental lyrics that slowly escalate to a kind of musical cleansing. By the end, it is clear that Warren has found freedom from a toxic bond, and that the music has helped get her there. LAUREN KERSHNER. SEE IT: Johanna Warren plays the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., with Maitland, on Saturday, Feb. 17. 7 pm. $10. All ages.
And And And IDIOT (SELF-RELEASED) [EASTSIDE BAR R O C K ] Ju s t a f e w tracks into And And And’s latest album, Idiot, singer-guitarist Nathan Baumgartner makes his lyrical purview clear: “ Wage a war against the sin that made you what you are/Love yourself and hate yourself/Forget it in the bar,” he sings on the record’s title track, in an aggravated warble reminiscent of Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull. Images of a depreciating prince of the Buckman bar scene swirl about, and for a second the schadenfreude of an aging socialite getting called out on his bullshit feels kinda good. Then a moment of reckoning is due. In press materials for the record, And And And claims that “despite big tech, [Idiot] is a truly independent record.” While the record may lack biglabel money, And And And has a wealth of social capital behind them. Reaching their zenith with a Vice-documented mayoral run from drummer Bim Ditson, And And And is at the center of the local music universe these characters orbit. Idiot has its moments, like the seething banger “A Joke” and the introspective loser anthem “Lowers for the Blind,” and it’s enough to make you believe that And And And’s gambit of staying true to their cause may pay off handsomely if they find themselves on 94.7 FM sometime soon. But their vehemently “independent” stance may find them at odds with what that world has to offer for a group that’s essentially the spirit animal of the eastside’s bar-rock scene. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: And And And plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Tribe Mars and Melt, on Friday, Feb. 16. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.
own path through the darkness. NATHAN CARSON. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE MLK Ave, 503-286-6513. 8 pm. $9. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 18 Sabertooth Micro Fest: Thurston Moore Group, Heron Oblivion, Lavender Flu
[SONIC SENIOR] See Get Busy, page 27. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 6 pm. $35 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.
Bruno Major
[RHYTHM & BLUES] Bruno Major probably listens to a lot of D’Angelo and James Blake in his free time. The British musician turns out a smooth and jazzy brand of R&B, often with little more than some melodic keys, sampled drums and his own soulful voice. The singer-songwriter’s latest effort, A Song for Every Moon, sounds like a downtempo take on Sohn, teeming with cloudy English broodiness. Far from uplifting, Bruno Major’s aching sound is a fitting backdrop for the dead of winter. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Night Beats
[GARAGE NOISE] There’s something effortlessly mysterious about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Taking their name from the gang in Marlon Brando’s 1953 biker film, The Wild One, BRMC has always been a band lauded for their stylistic choices. Their first few records recalled the slow, fuzzy rock of bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain while also pulling from founding member Peter Hayes’ brief time with Brian Jonestown Massacre. Throughout the years, they’ve grown into their own brand of even fuzzier rock, as can be heard on their most recent album, Wrong Creatures. Despite a new crop of bands trying to do much the same, BMRC will always be thought of as the OGs of noisy garage for their generation. CERVANTE POPE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave, 971-2300033. 7 pm. $26. All ages.
All Pigs Must Die, Baptists, Burials
[THROAT PUNCH] Listening to All Pigs Must Die, the supergroup that unites legendary Boston hardcore acts Converge, Bloodhorse and the Hope Conspiracy, feels like getting a tooth pulled without anesthetic. Supergroups can be tricky beasts—sometimes egos sink the project before it’s had a chance to spread its wings, other times the various talents clash rather than complement each other. With All Pigs Must Die, the members’ skills coalesce into a perfect blend of chaos. On 2017’s Hostage Animal, the guitars shriek and churn, the bass pedal beats as quickly as a jailhouse shanking, yet the band’s not afraid to slow down and let songs simmer. This show will punish you, and you’ll love every minute of it. JUSTIN CARROLL-ALLAN. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd, 503-2380543. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 19 Mary Timony Plays Helium, Allison Crutchfield
[ALT LEGEND] See Get Busy, page 27. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.
TUESDAY, FEB. 20
is the probably the best way to describe the sounds of Pearl Charles, the sultry flower child whose music conjures acid-damaged images of Laurel Canyon in the late ’60s. Following her selftitled 2015 EP, her first full-length album, Sleepless Dreamer, is a collection of desert rock grooves swirling with sun-kissed vocals, mellow guitar and head-bobbing percussion. Close your eyes, soak up the good vibrations, and let Charles guide you on a mental journey back to the Summer of Love. LAUREN KERSHNER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave, 503-3282865. 9:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Album Leaf, Rituals of Mine, DJs Keith Sweaty and Lorna Dune
[INSTRUMENTAL] Jimmy Lavelle’s penchant for minor-key melodies carried over from his days leading Tristeza, the singerless San Diego rock band that opened the door to instrumental indie rock for mopey punks everywhere. His slower, more electronic solo effort has produced a wealth of even more somber, slower material that continues the breadcrumb trail to ambient and avant-garde electronic music. After a reissue of their catalog late last year and with a new record on Relapse, Lavelle’s onetime side project has blossomed into a fully staffed band purportedly delivering staggering performances of Lavelle’s excellent—albeit downtempo—arrangements. CRIS LANKENAU. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod
[HEAVY METAL] Metal-adjacent hard rock hasn’t dominated airwaves since the late ’90s and early 2000s. While looking back at all the spiked hair and studded bracelets of the time can be cringeworthy, there’s one band that’s never really seemed to lose traction, and it’s Black Label Society. Fronted by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, the band recently dropped their 10th album, Grimmest Hits, showcasing how Wylde and the rest of the band still possess their proclivity for hard, energetic shredding accompanied by bluesy feels. No wonder this show sold out. CERVANTE POPE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave, 971-2300033. 7:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Princess Nokia, Suzi Analogue, Karma Rivera
[FREAKY TOMBOY RAP] See Get Busy, page 27. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.
CLASSICAL, JAZZ, WORLD Music of John Williams
[OSCAR’S FAVES] John Williams has come a long way since his first film score, the low-budget 1958 drive-in flick Daddy-O. No composer has more Academy Award nominations under his belt than Williams, and with Oscar season upon us, he’s only two weeks away from another potential win, for his work on The Last Jedi, which is his record-breaking 51st nomination in the category. The Oregon Symphony’s principal pops conductor, Jeff Tyzik, takes the lead tonight for a retrospective of Williams’ most acclaimed scores, and though Williams will not be in attendance, expect E.T., Jaws and a cavalcade of Star Warriors to make thematic appearances. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 17, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 18. Sold out. All ages.
Pearl Charles, Acid Tongue
[PSYCH FOLK] Think Fleetwood Mac meets Lana Del Rey—that
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MUSIC CALENDAR DNESDAY, WED. FEB. 14 Alberta Street Pub
An Evening with Scott Amendola
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 Art Abrams & His Swing Machine Big Band
Roseland Theater
1036 NE Alberta St Local Roots Love Series
8 NW 6th Ave Dua Lipa
Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel
Star Theater
303 SW 12th Ave Holy Smokes & the Godforsaken Rollers
Black Water Bar
835 NE Broadway Stay Wild, Pity Party, Dying For It, Rexmanningday
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St SAOLA, LáGoon, Forty Feet Tall
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St R.LUM.R
Holocene
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave My Body
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St The Family Funktion’s Valentine’s Night Extravaganza
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Wednesday Night Zydeco
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Neon Wilderness, Sun King, Binary Marketing Show
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St Adan Jodoworsky, Y La Bamba, Rudy de Anda
THURSDAY, THU. FEB. 15 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Los Lobos
Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Wilkinson Blades; Cary Novotny Band
Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Holy Smokes & the Godforsaken Rollers
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Lotus
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St Peter Case, Jeremy Wilson, Paul Brainard
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St The Coronas
Holocene
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Mo Phillips, Tallulah’s Daddy
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd All Pigs Must Die, Baptists, Burials
Twilight Cafe and Bar
1420 SE Powell Kathartica, The Hague, Free Kittens & Bread, The Shifts
2845 SE Stark St The Mike Dillon Band, Amandla
MON. FEB. 19
The Know
Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Shelly Rudolph: Soul Shine!
The Liquor Store
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St Shame, Dreamdecay
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble with Edna Vazquez
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Reggie Houston, Pete Krebs and the Rocking K Ranch Boys
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Jack Wright, Evan Lipson + Doug Theriault, Wyland/Niekrasz/Sielaff
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Get Married, Throw, Faster Housecat, Jay Levy
Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St LP
Mississippi Studios
GOOFY GANG: “This is going to be a weird and intimate night,” Becca Mancari told the sold-out crowd at Aladdin Theater on Feb. 9. She and the two other points that complete Bermuda Triangle—Jesse Lafser and Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard—made good on that promise from the get-go, dancing onstage to Missy Elliott before picking up their stringed instruments of choice and launching into an uptempo original. With the number of band members outweighing the recorded songs in their catalog—they’ve released only two singles so far— no one was quite sure to expect. In the end, it resembled a fun girls-night-in. The self-proclaimed best friends laughed at each other when their drum machine failed to start, ad-libbed a song asking fans to “buy merch” and recounted the hilarious story of how they decided to start a band after a tequila-infused jam session. But where the laughter stopped, the magic began. Howard infused Aretha Franklin-like soul with Southern grit, plucking at the standup bass she recently learned to play on a whim. Throughout the night, she and her counterparts rotated through guitars, banjos and harmonicas, playing their two singles, “Rosey” and “Suzanne,” along with a collection of unreleased country ballads and back-porch Tennessee tunes. As promised, the night ended on an intimate note. Uniting the room with a sign of solidarity, the trio ceremoniously threw their hands up in a triangular pose they invited everyone to mirror, then followed with a warm acoustic ballad marked by flawless vocal harmonies and gentle strings. True to their name, it was impossible not to get lost in the moment. LAUREN KERSHNER.
3939 N Mississippi Ave Mary Timony Plays Helium
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Judah & The Lion
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Shae Altered, Bo Baskero, Arbor Daze
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd Michael Trew Band, The Heavy Hustle, Bitches
TUE. FEB. 20 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Tommy Castro & the Painkillers
Alberta Street Pub
FRI. FEB. 16 Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Jacob Sartorius
Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Lousy Bends; Nathan Earle
Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Holy Smokes & the Godforsaken Rollers
Anarres Infoshop 7101 N Lombard St Michael Trew
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Sabertooth Micro Fest: Coven, Yob, Conan, Pillorian
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St And And And, Tribe Mars, MELT
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Von Doom, Morbid Fascination, Day Of Rest
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St Whisper Hiss, The Bedrooms, Drunken Palms
3939 N Mississippi Ave
3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Translucent Spiders, Cult of Zir, Gooo, Body Shame
The Goodfoot
Jack London Revue
Mississippi Studios
The Know
8218 N Lombard St Jay Shingle, Modal Zork, Walter Diego, Hunter Donaldson
1001 SE Morrison St Visible Cloaks, Byron Westbrook, Dolphin Midwives 2025 N Kilpatrick St WESKE, Erin Jane Laroue, Ali Ippolito, Fat Kitten
13 NW 6th Ave Murderbait, Sweeping Exits
The Fixin’ To
3341 SE Belmont St Lost Ox, Conscious Nest
426 SW Washington St A Tribute to Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
Star Theater
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd The Veer Union, Veio, Xaon
Jack London Revue
[FEB. 14-20] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Night Beats
The Analog Cafe
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Leading Psychics, Souvenir Driver
Kelly’s Olympian
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13 NW 6th Ave Autograf, Ramzoid, Confresi
1001 SE Morrison St Saint Valentine: A Valentine’s Party by Reva DeVito 529 SW 4th Ave Eldon “T” Jones & N Touch with LaRhonda Steele
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529 SW 4th Ave Devon Lamarr Organ Trio
Kenton Club
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St
Sabertooth Micro Fest: Giants in the Trees, Skull Diver, Mere Mention
Year Of The Coyote, Hair Puller, Beach Party, She
Mississippi Studios
128 NE Russell St Ron Pope, the National Parks, the Heart Of
3939 N Mississippi Ave Holiday Friends, Paper Brain, Siren and the Sea
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 PDX Jazz Fest: Kurt Elling & Friends
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave J Boog
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Camellia, Crushed!?
The Fixin’ To
8218 N Lombard St Erotic City (Prince Tribute)
The Know 3728 NE Sandy Blvd Dead Friends. Insignifcunts, Suck Lords, Born Sick
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore
The Secret Society
116 NE Russell St The Sportin’ Lifers feat. Erin Wallace; Soul Progression, JoyTribe, Mr. Musu
Turn! Turn! Turn!
8 NE Killingsworth St Black Belt Eagle Scout, Layperson, Pools
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd
Wonder Ballroom
SATURDAY, SAT. FEB. 17 Alberta Street Pub
1036 NE Alberta St Robin Jackson, Margaret Wehr; Cary Novotny Band
Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Holy Smokes & the Godforsaken Rollers
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Music of John Williams
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Sabertooth Micro Fest: Parquet Courts, Japanese Breakfast, Jay Som, Cat Hoch, Hand Habits
Dante’s
350 W Burnside ZEKE, Bombsquad, The Sadist
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Sean Rowe
Hawthorne Theatre
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Talk Modern, LEO ISLO, Small Skies
High Water Mark Lounge
6800 NE MLK Ave Hound the Wolves, Mammoth Salmon, Young Hunter
Jack London Revue
529 SW 4th Ave Dmitri Matheny Group; Faye Carol
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave The Builders and the Butchers, Federale
Mothership Music 3611 NE MLK Blvd Pat Keen, Teton, Numbskull
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 Luciana Souza’s Word Strings, the Dave King Trio
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Lettuce, Chali 2na
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave Terrapin Flyer Featuring Melvin Seals
The Analog Cafe
720 SE Hawthorne Blvd This Patch of Sky with Cambrian Explosion
The Fixin’ To
8218 N. Lombard St The Bandulus, Irie Idea, Curtis Irie
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Long Hallways, Gazelle(s, KUNUK
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave Johanna Warren
The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St James Mason & The Djangophiles; Pepe & The Bottle Blondes, 3 Leg Torso
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Gaytheist, Couger, Fruit of the Legion of Loom
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Music of John Williams
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Sabertooth Micro Fest: Thurston Moore Group, Heron Oblivion, Lavender Flu
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Bruno Major
Hawthorne Theatre
8 NE Killingsworth St Wave Action, Grammerhorn Wren, Average Pageant
1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Enter Shikari
Twilight Cafe and Bar
529 SW 4th Ave The Pariahs
1420 SE Powell Blvd Disembowel, Encoffinized, Nekro Drunkz, Coffin Rot
Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway PDX Jazz Fest: Julian Lage Trio
SUN. FEB. 18 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St An Evening with Karla Bonoff: Portland
Alberta Street Pub
Jack London Revue
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St Rocketship, Bad Guys, Andrew Kaffer and the Stuffed Shirts
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave An Intimate Evening with Langhorne Slim
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 PDX Jazz Fest: Regina Carter & Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan
Rontoms
1036 NE Alberta St The Sentiments, Steve Swatkins
600 E Burnside St Rontoms Sunday Session: Lorain, Matt Dorien, Rainwater
Anarres Infoshop
Roseland Theater
7101 N Lombard St Free Kittens & Bread
1036 NE Alberta St The Desert Dogs
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave Pearl Charles, Acid Tongue
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Bell Witch
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St The Album Leaf, Rituals of Mine, DJs Keith Sweaty and Lorna Dune
LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Eric Kallio
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave Slim Cessna’s Auto Club
Revolution Hall
1300 SE Stark St #110 Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton, Tahirah Memory Trio
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod
The Know
3728 NE Sandy Blvd Jessica Moss, Plankton Wat
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St Princess Nokia, Suzi Analogue, Karma Rivera
8 NW 6th Ave
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NEEDLE EXCHANGE
FRITZWA Years DJing: I bought my first set of CDJs in 2011, though I’ve been a resident house-party music curator since the ascendance of CDs. Genre: I love DJing hip-hop, Afrobeat and dancehall. Growing up in NYC, that’s what I heard and danced to going out. I’ll play anything a function calls for, including Top 40, house and hits from the ’70s and ’80s. Where you can catch me regularly: All over town. I usually post my gigs on Instagram. Church Bar is the first bar I played in Portland, and I make sure to hit the spot at least once a month. Craziest gig: I DJed a private party in a very large home for some wealthy folks who were burnt out from work and family duties. By the end of the night, onlookers might’ve mistaken the party for a nudist rave. It was wild! My go-to records: Missy and Kanye. They always get at least a rotation in most of my sets. Don’t Ever Ask Me to Play…: I don’t rule out any music when it comes to gigs, because a lot of the time, the function is a celebration for people who may not have the same taste as me. Though if it’s my party, or something that doesn’t require curation, my rule of thumb for requests is, if you ask, the probability of me playing it probably diminishes. NEXT GIG: Fritzwa spins at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., for Saint Valentine, with Reva Devito and Drama Duo, on Wednesday, Feb. 14. 8:30 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Ascension
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Nik Nice & Brother Charlie (Brazilian)
WED. FEB. 14 Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave Wicked Wednesday (hip-hop)
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Marti
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Curse Your Black Heart: A February 14th Dance Party For Everybody Else
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave Hal-V & SpaceCase
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Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd Death Throes (death rock, post punk, dark wave)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife
, THU. FEB. 15 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Dilla Tribute: DJ Rev Shines, House Shoes, Trox & Theory Hazit
Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Post-Punk Discotheque: Death Throes Edition
The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial, 80s)
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave DJ Jack
FRI. FEB. 16 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Oliver Heldens
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St Video Dance Attack
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Battles & Lamar (boogie, hip hop, r&b)
BAR REVIEW HENRY CROMETT
TOP 5
BUZZ LIST Where to drink this week.
1. Modern TImes
630 SE Belmont St., 503-420-0799, moderntimesbeer.com. Maybe it costs a buck extra a beer, but you’re going to find your way in to try the new hot beer in town. Do yourself a favor, and make it a coffee stout or a sour, both of which are great.
2. Small Bar
919 NW 23rd Ave., 971-712-3016, functionpdx.com. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays this month at pop-up bar space Function, Small Bar is turning out excellent classic cocktails and a truly killer jackfruit taco by former Ración chef Anthony Cafiero.
3. Brothers Cascadia
9811 NE 15th Ave., Vancouver, 360-718-8927, brotherscascadiabrewing.com. The North ’Couv’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.
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. 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.
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Drunk In Love: Beyonce vs Drake Tribute Night
Killingsworth Dynasty
832 N Killingsworth St Strange Babes Danze Party
Maxwell Bar
20 NW 3rd Ave Chi Duly
Moloko
3967 N. Mississippi Ave Sappho & Friends (disco)
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark St Soul Stew (funk, soul, disco)
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Sublimate Records Presents: Deadcrow & Djedi
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave DoublePlusDANCE (new wave, synth, goth)
The Whiskey Bar
31 Northwest 1st Avenue Mettā, ill-ēsha
GEEK-DRUNK: There’s something to be said for commitment. While other board-game and theme bars offer a light garnish of geek for the normies, Belmont’s kitsch-packed, comic-wallpapered The Nerd Out (3308 SE Belmont St., 503-233-1225, thenerdoutpdx.com) is a yearlong boozy comic-con—so aggressively nerdy you’d feel uncool being cool, possibly to the point of actual discomfort. The lights are cafeteria-bright, all the better to flip through back issues of Wolverine from the take-one-leave-one comic library. Your bartender wears purple lipstick and elf ears, and the table up front might be dressed in Little Bo-Peep or Deadpool cosplay. If you don one of the house collection of kid-sized superhero masks to fit in, the woman playing with the 4-foot-tall Batman might loudly demand to be in your selfie while aping the Dark Knight’s charcoal growl. The food menu is a form of meta-joke. Alongside a few bougie items like beet-pickled deviled eggs, much of the food is what Peter Parker ate at Aunt May’s: chicken soup, a pot roast, or chicken with sweet corn pudding. The $9-to-$11 drinks on the cocktail menu are likewise in-jokes for the out crowd. The neon-blue Fantastic 4 is a numbingly sweet AMF by another name; an accomplished zombie comes with a burnt cocktail umbrella and is called a George Romero; the white Russian is called The Dude Abides. The menu descriptions of each are cheerfully oblique. As the description for the stout-cider-whiskey Plutoxin Seven states, “Your questions are really beginning to annoy me.” In other words, speak nerd or fuck off. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. SAT. FEB. 17 45 East
315 SE 3rd Ave Love Phenomenon 2018: Malaa
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback
Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Maxamillion (soul, rap, sweat)
Hawthorne Eagle Lodge
4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd Atomic Blast (r&b, soul, rock n roll)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St Slay
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Sabbath (darkside of rock & electronic)
The Whiskey Bar
31 Northwest 1st Avenue Dance United: Afrobeat Meets Bollywood Night
Valentines
232 SW Ankeny St Signal 34 (dub, bass, dancehall)
SUN. FEB. 18 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Emerson (hip hop, r&b)
Kelly’s Olympian
MON. FEB. 19 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave J. Free
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St Metal Monday: DJ Hellby
The Lovecraft Bar
421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, post-punk)
TUE. FEB. 20 Dig A Pony
736 SE Grand Ave Noches Latinas (salsa, merengue, reggaeton)
832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions
426 SW Washington St Party Damage DJs: DJ Blind Bartimaeus
Maxwell Bar
No Vacancy Lounge
Maxwell Bar
The Lovecraft Bar
Killingsworth Dynasty
235 SW 1st Ave, 97204 Bodywork
The Liquor Store
3341 SE Belmont St Spend The Night: Shanti Celeste
20 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife
Tube
20 NW 3rd Ave Quaz 421 SE Grand Ave Sleepwalk (deathrock, gothrock, post-punk)
18 NW 3rd Ave Sunday Funday
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REVIEW
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.
THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Pride
The Olivier Award-winning play tells parallel stories of a relationship between the same two men set in two different time periods: 2008 and in 1958. It’s the kind of play that requires both boldness and tenderness from a production team, which Defunkt Theatre are more than capable of providing. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunkttheatre.com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, through March 17. Pay what you will, $20 suggested.
ALSO PLAYING Astoria: Part One
Based on Peter Stark’s critically acclaimed book about John Jacob Astor’s attempt to create a fur trading empire in the Pacific Northwest before there were any permanent settlements on the West Coast, Portland Center Stage is remounting Part One. It focuses on the two expeditions to establish the trading empire: the ocean voyage helmed by Thorn (Ben Rosenblatt) and the overland journey led by Hunt (Douglas Dickerman), a businessman-turned-reluctant explorer. Full of period-piece peril, the two journeys set up a polar picture of masculinity and leadership: Thorn is the stern-faced, totalitarian captain, and changing his mind requires holding a gun to his head. Hunt, on the other hand, is indecisive and insecure, and constantly wonders aloud if he’s capable of leading the expedition. There’s plenty of unspoken irony in the lines about being farther west than “other white men,” but Astoria is more interested in examining power structures as they were than in rewriting them: It’s a subtle but intricate portrait of the era of westward expansion. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm SaturdaySunday, 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 13-Feb. 17. 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 11, noon Thursday, Feb. 15, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 18. $25-$70.
Astoria: Part Two
When last we left the intrepid explorers trying to establish the first American settlement on the West Coast at the mouth of the Columbia, they were about to die. Then again, there are very few portions of Astoria in which our protagonists aren’t about to die—well, at least the protagonists not wearing a top hat and living in Manhattan. Chris Coleman’s Astoria was adopted from Peter Stark’s popular history tome, from which the longtime Portland Center Stage artistic director drew a framework he fashioned into a stage play with a coherent plot and invented dialogue. In an ambitious twist, the play was split into two parts over two seasons, with the first emerging as a surprise hit. The strength of the first part was that there were two narratives to follow, one aboard a ship sailing around Africa and an overland party coming from St. Louis. In Part Two, the two parties link up in the newly christened Astoria, where the narrative frays into subplots involving up river trading posts, skirmishes with the indigenous people and the War of 1812. It’s a harder story to tell, and the result is a script that grows a little more impressionistic, getting its best moments from scenes like the one where the paranoid drunken Duncan McDougall convinces the Chinook that he holds a vile of smallpox in his
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pocket. Potentially the most intense scene, the sinking of the Tonquin, is told by the surviving interpreter, rather than playing out on stage. Part One was mesmerizing, and Part Two is a little less so but remains a mustsee for its ambition and local import. MARTIN CIZMAR. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday, through Feb. 18. $25-$77.
Magellanica
Written by Portland playwright E.M. Lewis, Magellanica is a harrowing, epic odyssey about a group of researchers working in an isolated Antarctica laboratory. A world premiere staged by Artists Repertory Theatre, Magellanica has a five-anda-half-hour run time, three intermissions and a 25-minute dinner break. But 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. While the play is sweeping in scope, some of its finest moments are its most delicate, as in a scene in which Adam tends to Todor, who is stricken with elevation sickness. Magellanica is so impressive as a work of visual art 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 re-created onstage may be gorgeous, but its days are numbered. We are also never allowed to forget it’s not too late to do something about that. 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. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. Jan. 20-Feb. 18. $25-$50.
COMEDY NW Black Comedy Festival
Last year, the first NW Black Comedy Festival was bursting at the seams. This year, it’s expanded to four days instead of just two, and the lineup is still packed with many of the city’s funniest comedians. On the second night, there’ll be local standup showcase plus a set from Portland’s, nationally lauded improv group Broke Gravy. Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6 N Tillamook St., facebook.com/dirtyangelent. 6-11 pm. Feb. 15-18. $10-$150.
DANCE A·mor·phous
DownRight Productions’s showcase is more than just dance. There’ll also be short films, sculptures and live music, but itsr dance lineup is extensive, including a new butoh piece by Portland choreographer Ben Marten and a performance by Vancouver, Wash., dance and film collective Horizon3. The Headwaters Theatre, 55 NE Farragut St., downrightpdx. com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 15-18. $20.
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SEEN AND HEARD: Monica Fleetwood, Shareen Jacobs and Tyharra Cozier.
Open Call
Actors Tyharra Cozier and Monica Fleetwood decided to create the roles that weren’t offered to them. BY LAU R EN YOSHIKO
@LaurenYTerry
When Portland Actors Conservatory grads Tyharra Cozier and Monica Fleetwood started making the rounds during casting season, something didn’t feel right. They were roommates at the time, and Cozier recalls sitting in their kitchen and venting about a disappointing audition. “For a young, black woman, you had two choices,” says Cozier. “Play a role you weren’t 100 percent comfortable with, like a maid or slave, or audition for a role that better suits you, but the guy who got cast as your partner is 20 years your senior, so the role goes to a woman who’s been around longer than you.” Fleetwood brought up The Clark Doll, a play written by Liz Morgan about the internalized experience of black womanhood, and one that could be done very well on a shoestring budget. From there, Syde-Ide Collaborations was born. Seven months after that conversation in the kitchen, their production of The Clark Doll is now playing at Performance Works NW. Directed by Victor Mack, Shareen Jacobs joins Cozier and Fleetwood as three women who are stuck in a room, each representing different shades of psyches society has imposed upon black women. They flip through a book of fairy tales and act out parables of femininity and blackness for each other, struggling to learn a way out when they don’t see themselves in any of the stories. The sparse set holds only the props necessary for the play, like a jump rope that Cozier spins faster and faster as she struggles to sing a nightmarish lullaby in time. “My priority was that we could work with a four-person cast and a minimalist set, and focus on the work itself,” says Cozier. By keeping the overhead low and tapping former classmates from the Portland Actors Conservatory for crew, the pair were able to create the platform they wish they’d had when entering the theater scene. “We want to give people a chance to do things
they haven’t been able to do before,” says Cozier. Syde-Ide is equal parts collaboration hub for minorities to get their art produced and a springboard for new talent to develop the skills in acting, directing, engineering and design that they weren’t getting the opportunity to cultivate elsewhere. “Someone has to take a chance on you,” says Fleetwood. “Syde-Ide is not just a ‘black theater company.’ It’s important to us to explore and to accurately convey the nuances and details of different experiences with integrity.” Fleetwood says that despite the moderate selection of local productions featuring actors of color, there’s still a disconnect between the storytelling and the actual experiences of black audience members. “It seems like anytime there was a play with minorities in it, it was described with words like ‘gripping,’” she says “Why is it shocking and edgy to see three African-Americans on stage? And you can’t move around Shakespeare, cast black women and pat yourself on the back for fixing things.” “It’s the difference between A Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park,” adds Cozier. “In A Raisin in the Sun, you don’t have to talk about racism because you see it in the way these people live, talk and carry themselves. Whereas Clybourne Park is just four people in a room talking about racism in a circle, not really achieving anything. That’s something written for a white audience to understand racism, not for a black audience to feel heard and seen.” With recent trends pushing every company to avoid accusations of discrimination, Cozier and Fleetwood are well aware of the recent marketability as female artists of color. But they know that doesn’t equal progress. “We don’t want to let things slip back in a couple years when the trend fades,” says Cozier. “You want to be a part of the change, but you also want to make sure that the change is real.” SEE IT: The Clark Doll is at Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., sydeidepdx.com. 8 pm and Monday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday, through Feb. 21. Additional 10 pm shows Saturday, Feb, 17. $20.
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW
In Me, Myself & It, drag performer Carla Rossi displays six years of used makeup wipes. BY S HA N N O N G O R M L EY sgormley@wweek.com
When Anthony Hudson looks around his new art exhibit, he sees his own demise. “The makeup that didn’t make it on these prints is living in my lungs and will be the death of me,” says Hudson. Currently, there are dozens of Hudson’s used makeup wipes hanging on the walls of the Littman Gallery. For the past six years, after every show as his drag persona Carla Rossi, Hudson has pressed his face into a Neutrogena face wipe, creating a copy of Carla’s white face paint, bright lipstick, multicolored eye shadow and high, drawn-on eyebrows. Hudson has now accumulated almost 200 of these wipes, but until recently, he had no idea what he was going to do with them. “I just started keeping them and I never knew what I was going to use them for or why,” he says. “It was less intention about turning them into a project. It just became a habit of, ‘OK, I’m just going to record the face that I did tonight.’” Me, Myself & It is the result of that private, post-performance ritual. There’s commentary handwritten on the walls, which Hudson says is in the voice of Carla Rossi. A makeup wipe marked with bright orange and yellow eye shadow is captioned “Oh no, someone found neon paint on clearance (road cone chic).” Under a print where the mouth is an amorphous, deep red blob, Hudson-as-Rossi has written in pink marker: “I put on some light lipstick to Beyoncé’s ‘Pretty Hurts.’ I had been in a back brace for months.” Further down the timeline, a wipe is captioned with “first show with Joel,” with a pink heart drawn on either side of Joel’s name. The prints are arranged in chronological order. As the timeline progresses, Carla Rossi’s eye makeup evolves from thin, arched eyebrows underscored with bright colors to thick, winged eyeliner. A small dot on each cheek is eventually replaced by Cher-like swipes of pink. Eventually, Carla starts outlining her wide, U-shaped chin, a development that’s labeled with “look at these spectacular chins,” written in all caps. Me, Myself & It works purely as irreverent pop art. The symmetrical prints look a little like
COURTESY OF LITTMAN GALLERY
Dirty Job
MANY FACES: Neutrogena face wipes in Anthony Hudson’s new art show.
drag queen Rorschach tests: endlessly repeating, slowly evolving colors and shapes that amount to the cakey remnants of the painted-on features of an invented persona. But for all the meta, self-deprecating humor, Me, Myself & It isn’t impersonal. “These are biohazards. There’s eyelashes still attached to some of them, there’s glitter flakes,” says Hudson. “A lot of them are like turning black. I don’t know if I was outside and that’s like pollution or what’s accumulating on my face. Maybe I do secrete toxins. Carla does.” The show is attributed both to Hudson and Rossi. In that way, Me, Myself & It is sincerity filtered through performed fakeness, as if Hudson is genuinely trying to say something, while acknowledging the risk that it could be bullshit. “Carla, she’s a clown, she’s a trickster, she can’t do anything right,” says Hudson. “But me, I’m vulnerable. So I can never commit to making anything 100 percent just Carla from her perspective.” Aside from the makeup wipes and their commentary, the only art in the exhibit are Carla Rossi show posters displayed on a dividing wall in the center of the gallery. One is covered with a “canceled” sign. The handwritten caption explains that the Gay Straight Alliance at Concordia University has tried to book Rossi for several events, only to have the Lutheran administration cancel the show each time. The club was recently disbanded by the school (and then reinstated after a story published by WW) so Rossi/Hudson has included the name, email address and telephone number of the university’s president. It’s the exhibit’s one moment of clear conviction. On a dividing wall in front of the entrance, Carla has scribbled “Still figuring out my gender identity.” There’s an asterisk that leads you to “Somewhere out there, Fraggle Rock is missing a talking garbage pile.” Another asterisk leads you to the final fragment: “Absolutely my gender identity.” “Carla’s like my way of the theater of the absurd,” says Hudson. “We have to laugh because if we don’t laugh, we’re going to cry.” SEE IT: Me, Myself & It is at Littman Gallery, 1825 SW Broadway, littmanandwhite.com. Noon-5 pm Monday-Wednesday, noon-6 pm Friday-Thursday, through March 2. Free Willamette Week FEBRUARY 14, 2018 wweek.com
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BOOKS VIVIAN JOHNSON
PROFILE
Why’d you decide to write a soundtrack to the book? I just did it for fun. Writing takes so fucking long. This book took me so long—it was like 600 pages at some point. I can write a lot of songs in three and a half years. The mood of the book was so melancholy—Horace feels like a sad song to me. I started writing all these tunes, and when I got the book done the songs were in fairly decent shape. Fontaine, we’re kinda retired, but I was really bummed out we never did an instrumental record. I gave them the roughs of the songs and they said, “Yeah let’s do it.” We practiced for two months and recorded the whole thing in one day. I love it because my voice isn’t on it. It’s the only thing I’ve done I ever listen to. Do you want people to listen to it while they read? I don’t expect people to. I can’t read to music. I can’t do anything to music except daydream. Anytime music comes on and it’s halfway something I like, I have a hard time. I can’t even have a conversation. I just get sucked into it like a daydream world. I wanted it to be like when you listen to a soundtrack, you think of the movie. People read a book and it just goes on the shelf. But people listen to a record for years, so if they fall in love with Horace maybe they’ll listen to the record and think of him.
Heartbreak Willy Willy Vlautin has a book and a movie coming out within a month of each other. We talked about both. Everything Willy Vlautin does ruins you with sadness. It might be the hard-luck songs the Portlander wrote for years as singer of Richmond Fontaine, or it might be his five tumble-down novels of the the American West—full of broken-down alcoholics with broken-down trucks. This spring, he’s got two new heartbreaking things coming to light. On March 30, British director Andrew Haigh will release a Portland-shot film version of Lean on Pete, his 2009 novel in which a down-on-his-luck kid named Charley Thompson steals a horse from a racetrack to save it. This Tuesday, Feb.y 20, Vlautin will read from his justpublished novel Don‘t Skip Out on Me, about an orphaned Paiute ranch hand named Horace, who hates his heritage and wants to change his identity to have a better life as a Mexican boxer. The book comes equipped with an instrumental soundtrack. We had a free-flowing conversation with Vlautin at his St. Johns office—he’s lived in Scappoose for the past decade—about sadness, fistfights and broken people. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Why are your books so sad? Willy Vlautin: I always start out thinking it’s going to be escapism. You know how people say your characters take over the book? My thing is, your characters become your heart—what you feel, what your soul feels. What was behind [Don’t Skip Out on Me], I thought, “Why can’t someone reinvent himself? Why can’t I not be me?” Then the reality comes in. I’ve got a dark mind and it starts taking over. 40
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Where’d the idea come from for Horace to want to be a Mexican boxer? As a kid, I thought, there’s gotta be an answer to how I can get by in this world better, some uncle somewhere that owns a used car lot and will adopt me. I gotta have some distant relative that lives in Australia and on a ranch. I’m gonna meet a girl who will save me, find a relative that will save me instead of being a normal person and figureing uprt shit out. With Horace, he was like, “I’ve got it! I’m gonna be a Mexican!, Mexican boxers are the toughest.” I want to hang out with a guy like Horace—I like that guy. He wants so badly to be something, so he’s worth something to somebody else. He wants to be a champion so he’s worthy of love. I like that he’s ambitious enough to try, even though he’s got a bad plan. He’s a broken man fixing himself in a broken way. I write about people wanting to save broken people. Inside my own mind I’m saving people, but I’m definitely on the more dented side of things. A lot of your characters seem a little broken. It’s so easy to break somebody, and it’s hard to put them back together. Like Horace has the love of this broken old man, Mr. Reese. The offer isn’t great: [Mr. Reese] wants to give him his place [his Nevada ranch], which is isolation. He wants to give Horace everything he has, and it’s not enough. We all get broken, but some people get really broken too young. As a society you deal with that, but it’s hard on the personal level, too.
Have you seen the film version of Lean on Pete? I liked the movie. I know it was really hard for them to get Portland Meadows and they got it. They shot in Burns [Ore.] and I was glad about that too. You’re never sure about that stuff because it’s all money and tax breaks, where they shoot. It was a story that didn’t need to be in the Northwest, but I was glad it stayed here. The take on horse racing and the kid’s life, a certain level of horse racing, the lowest big time level of horse racing—there are tracks like that everywhere. I wrote the book right here, so I’m glad they stuck true to where the kid lived [by Portland Meadows]. I tried to buy a house there once. I was always trying to buy shacks. I always thought if I bought I house I’d be a good person. How much of that book came from Portland? With Charley Thompson, I just saw a kid walking down the street one day. Something about that kid’s face just stopped me. It took my breath away. I thought, “I know that kid.” I was on Belmont in 2002, saw this kid walking down the street and I was like, ‘Oh man, poor kid.’ It’s like that series The Wire, when you want to break the TV and pull the kids out and save them. Lean on Pete started with the idea of a powerless kid trying to save something that had even less power than he does. There was a horse I fell in love with at Portland Meadows, and I thought, “I want to buy it.” I was living in a shitty little place at the time, and then I thought if I can’t buy it, I would love to just steal it someday, and then save it. You know—save it from what? I didn’t know shit. Then the reality takes over, what would really happen? Your own blood gets involved and it gets darker.” I once saw a brutal fight at [St. Johns dive bar] the Blue Bird between two construction workers in orange shirts. The young guy was beating the fuck out the the old guy, and it was awful. That made its way into Lean on Pete. The Mexican grocery store and taqueria [Tienda Santa Cruz] made its way into Lean on Pete. The movie theater he goes to, that’s there [at St. Johns Twin Cinemas]. Does Charlie Plummer, the kid who played Charley Thompson, line up with your ideas of Charley? He’s really good in it. You always have different pictures of things in your head, but he’s a good actor, man. I don’t understand actors, I don’t understand that world at all. But I did picture a little rougher-looking dude. GO: Willy Vlautin reads from Lean on Pete on Tuesday, Feb. 20, at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.
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MOVIES
P IFF P ICKS
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales (2017) The directors of Ernest & Celestine return with this hand-drawn animation film about a fox who finds that the whole carnivore thing doesn’t quite work for him. Noon Saturday, Feb. 17, and 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 24, at Fox Tower. 12:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Empirical.
Foxtrot
(2017)
Israeli director Samuel Moaz’s military drama is one of the most controversial films of the season—it both swept the Israeli academy awards and was deemed traitorous by the nation’s culture minister. 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 18, at Cinema 21. 5 pm Monday, Feb. 19, at Laurelhurst.
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Aftermath
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On Dec. 11, 2012, Skye Fitzgerald was planning to take his son Christmas shopping at Clackamas Town Center. “For whatever reason, the universe nudged me away from it, and I decided I was going to do something else instead,” remembers the Portland documentary filmmaker. That same day, a shooter entered the mall with an assault-style rifle and killed Cindy Yuille, a hospice nurse, and Steve Forsyth, who sold custom-made wooden coasters at Clackamas. “I’d been a gun owner the bulk of my life, but I’d never really examined that on any deep level,” Fitzgerald says. “So when I almost took my 2-year-old son to Clackamas Town Center during the time when the shooting happened, I started to think about it a different way, and I started to ask questions I hadn’t asked before, and that was literally the catalyst for the entire film.” The movie in question is 101 Seconds, which will premiere at this year’s Portland International Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the debate on gun control that erupted in Oregon in the wake of Clackamas and the Sandy Hook massacre, which occurred three days later. It follows Yuille’s daughter, Jenna, her stepfather, Robert, and Forsyth’s brother-in-law, Paul Kemp, as they advocate for more vigilant
gun control laws in Oregon. While the film plunged Fitzgerald into the midst of the gun control-versus-gun rights debate, he argues that he “didn’t set out to make a film about guns at all. I set out to make a film about the impact that a single act of gun violence has on families who are deeply impacted by it.” He says he developed trusting relationships with the film’s pro-gun control voices, including Jenna Yuille and Oregon state Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland). 101 Seconds also delves into the lives of some of Oregon’s Second Amendment rights activists. Unfortunately, their involvement in the film didn’t go as smoothly. Chris Cochran and Michelle Finn, two Second Amendment advocates who appear in the film, withdrew from the project during filmming. Fitzgerald has made a career of gritty documentaries like his acclaimed 50 Feet From Syria and Peace Commands, during the filming for which he ran from “soldiers chasing me along roads in Central Africa.” But Fitzgerald say that 101 Seconds was one of the most difficult films he’s made. “Just because something ’s hard doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile,” he says. “I would actually propose that for something to be worthwhile, it probably has to be hard. Because those are the things that take real effort and may
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (2017)
have the potential to make real change.” But for the most part, Fitzgerald says he’s profoundly grateful for many of the experiences he had while making 101 Seconds, including an extensive interview with Stephen King about his book Guns and witnessing Jenna Yuille emerge as an activist force who moved to Washington, D.C., to work for Americans for Responsible Solutions, a gun-safety advocacy group founded by Gabby Giffords. “It was an honor,” Fitzgerald says of his experience following Yuille’s journey. “What I bore witness to was a young woman in terrible pain at the beginning who was still coming to grips with the loss of her mother through senseless violence” and found “that she wasn’t going to allow that grief to shape her in a negative way.” In that spirit of sending a positive message, Fitzgerald chose to end the film with the signing of Oregon’s 2015 backgroundcheck bill “to leave the viewer with that sense that even with this entrenched issue that we face in America with the neverending series of shootings, it is possible for the individual to do something.” SEE IT: 101 Seconds screens at 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Laurelhurst Theater, 2735 E Burnside St., and at 4:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 18, at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., nwfilm.org. $12.
Using footage shot over 14 years, director Gustavo Salmerón created a documentary about his mother, Julita Salmerón, who fulfilled her dream of having lots of kids, a monkey and a castle. 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 18, at Whitsell Auditorium. 12:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 25, at Cinemagic.
The Rape of Recy Taylor (2017)
In 1944, Taylor, a young black mother, was raped and abducted by six white men. Nancy Buirski’s documentary looks back at the assault—and the quest for justice Taylor undertook with the aid of the NAACP and Rosa Parks. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 19, and 7:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 24, at Fox Tower.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018) Directed by Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom), this documentary explores Fred Rogers’ three-decade tenure as host of PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. 2:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 17, at Cinema 2. 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 18, at Laurelhurst.
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NOW PLAYING In 1973, oil billionaire J. Paul Getty was the richest man ever to walk the planet. All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of his grandson, which was a tabloid sensation in its day—despite his wealth, Getty wouldn’t pony up a ransom, allowing his grandchild to languish for half a year with his captors. The stakes could scarcely be higher, but none of it is particularly thrilling to watch. The characters here are merely chess pieces in a plot you could just as easily read about on Wikipedia. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Academy, Fox Tower, Vancouver.
Miguel’s family disapproves of his guitar-filled dreams, but Coco isn’t Footloose for musicians—it’s a Dia de los Muertos odyssey that sends Miguel on a trippy trek to the afterlife, where he seeks validation from de la Cruz’s fame-hungry ghost. Nestled beneath the film’s cheery mayhem, however, is an overwhelmingly powerful meditation on memory, mortality and familial love. Miguel may make some extraordinary discoveries in the great beyond, but the most beautiful thing in Coco is his realization that the only place he wants to journey to is the home he left behind. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Academy, Avalon, Beaverton, Clackamas, Empirical, Kennedy School Theater, Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters, Vancouver.
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With an overwhelming dissonant, bassy score by Hans Zimmer, 2049 looks and sounds spectacular. But as a testament to the influence of the original, there isn’t much 2049 has to add about how technology blurs our sense of self and soul. 2049 seems less concerned with tiny moments of emotion than big reveals from a twisty plot that seems to define 2049’s imaginative boundaries rather than expand them. Still, it’s one hell of a spectacle. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Empirical, Laurelhurst, 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 with his scholarly parents, and Oliver, a grad student studying with Elio’s father, smolders for the better part of this novelesque character study. Though its backdrop couldn’t be more different, there’s a chance Guadagnino’s excellent film could follow in the awards-season footsteps of Moonlight this winter—a highly acclaimed queer love story in which feelings of foreboding are personal and emotional, not societal. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Kiggins, 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).
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If this fussy, grandstanding biopic is too be believed, Winston Churchill’s crusade against Adolf Hitler consisted primarily of shouting and smoking his weight in cigars. That’s the narrative that director Joe Wright (Atonement) tries to sell with help from Gary Oldman, who glowers and yowls mightily as Churchill. Their enthusiasm yields not a humanizing portrait of the venerated prime minister, but a history-book myth that treats him more like a statue to be dusted off from time to time than a human being. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
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. Director Paul McGuigan shapes his movie around the requisite flashbacks of Gloria (Annette Bening) falling madly in love with Peter Turner (Jamie Bell). 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 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-turned-husband—that are more interesting than the physical and emotional decay at its core. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. R. Cinema 21.
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The Florida Project
Six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Kimberly Prince) lives in a harsh, impoverished world. The Florida Project’s heroine resides in a budget motel. Her mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite), is so strapped for cash that she has to work as a petty thief and a prostitute to make rent. The movie makes you worry that both mother and daughter will either starve, go broke or, given their delightful but dangerous recklessness, be dead by the time the end credits roll. Yet director Sean Baker’s luminous odyssey overflows with wit and joy. That’s mainly because of the happiness Moonee finds with her friend Jancey (Valeria Cotto). Rather than begging us to pity these pint-sized scoundrels, Baker (Tangerine) lets us bask in the joy of their parentfree adventures. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Academy, Laurelhurst.
Lady Bird
In Greta Gerwig’s writer-director debut, Christine, who insists on being called Lady Bird, is a high school senior growing up in Sacramento, which she loathingly refers to as the Midwest of California. Desperate to break free from mediocrity, Lady Bird slowly abandons her theater-kid friends for a group of rich kids. Gerwig has crafted a sprawling story in which every character is subject to Gerwig’s absurd humor as much as her deep empathy. What makes the movie so uniquely touching is Lady Bird’s tense interactions with her mom— It’s rare to see a relationship between two complicated women portrayed with such care and empathy. Still, Lady Bird is endearing because of her boldness, not in spite of it. R. SHANNON GORMLEY. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd.
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. Fox Tower.
Phantom Thread
Reported to be Daniel Day-Lewis’ final film, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie is his gentlest yet. A love story of sorts set in London during the 1950s, we are immersed in the House of Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis), a quietly eccentric couturier known for his daring and unique designs. Alma (Vicky Krieps) is his latest muse, a sweet-natured country girl who catches his eye and doesn’t want to let go. After a half-hour worth of needles
pulling thread and three bumpy shots of them driving down a country road, it’s clear that Anderson didn’t make a period piece; he made a movie that looks like it was made in the 1950s. Although easily counted as another standout transformation by Day-Lewis into a persnickety, avant-garde dressmaker, if this is truly his last film, it is perhaps too mild an adieu from such a fierce actor. Maybe I’m just not ready to say goodbye without one more vein-bursting monologue. R. LAUREN TERRY. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub.
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) has created a film that is beautiful but cluttered, visionary but formulaic and sympathetic to its kind, lonely heroine, but unwilling to let her spearhead the story the way that men have driven del Toro fantasies like Pacific Rim. That heroine is Eliza (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor who works in a Baltimore laboratory where she cleans restrooms and, on occasion, 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. Bagdad Theater, 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 hothead Ebbing police department. So she decides to rent billboards 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 police chief (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, Lloyd, Moreland, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Valley Cinema Pub.
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Finding a strain or particular genetic attribute that works for your specific needs is a uniquely satisfying triumph. If I catch a whiff of that familiar, funky scent of Girl Scout Cookies, I rest easy knowing it will give me a boost of cheery motivation for my gloomy variety of stress. I don’t know how every strain will taste or feel just based on smell, but I do know that some mix of those GSC genes gives me exactly what I need to unwind worries without turning my brain off. I also know that one day, the wrong company could patent the Girl Scout Cookies strain and I wouldn’t be able to find anything other than a watered-down copy. The actual growers who invented the strain wouldn’t be allowed to cultivate it without infringing on some corporation’s rights. Thinking about the corporate monopolization of cannabis makes me need something heavier than GSC. Fortunately for us Girl Scouts, local cannabis genome lab Phylos Bioscience has collected samples from more than 50 varieties of Cookies, which are to be posted publicly by the Open Cannabis Project. Now if someone wants to file a patent on any of these varieties, those genetic reports serve as “prior art,” or evidence that the strain existed already. This open-sourced approach to a comprehensive scientific cannabis database could not only save the soul and botanical integrity of the industry, but also show that we can take control of the scientific progress we believe in; Prove that we have a chance at maintaining accurate and ethical databases in a post-algorithm world. After founding her own open-source mapmaking website, Beth Schechter, executive director of the OCP, is optimistic about the potentially radical difference these efforts could make. “I see design, technology and community
engagement as tools to unfuck the world,” says Schechter. “Our job [at OCP] is to help protect people from facing unwarranted cease-anddesist orders for growing the same strain they’ve been growing for decades.” It’s not about filing your own patent faster than your competition. It’s about getting as much info into the public so that we’re collectively free, not just individually protected. There are thousands of patent applications on cannabis-related products and processes currently pending. Since the prior-art approach has a two-year window, this public database also cuts any illegitimate patents already in process “off at their knees.” “If we do our job well, we can create one of the largest and most robust open-source, scientifically verified collections of cannabis data that the world has ever seen,” says Schechter. “And that’s rad for all kinds of reasons.” Schechter points out that without a baseline for cannabis data, “there’s not a great way to parse through all of the new information being introduced to the public. We want to aggregate as much data as possible so that we can truly understand what’s new or anomalous and what’s not.” If you grow cannabis, have ever gotten a sample tested and still have a copy of that lab report, visit the OCP website at opencannabisproject. org to reach out about contributing your data to the database. “The older the better. Anything to prove that x or y genetic or chemovar reading has been around for a long time. Some patents have been on the books since 2013.” Expired or not, your crinkled, 4-year-old Sour Diesel test result from a lab that doesn’t exist anymore is one piece closer to ruining some patent-hungry ghoul’s day and protecting that strain for decades to come.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
At 12,388 feet, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest peak. If you’re in good shape, you can reach the top in seven hours. The return trip can be done in half the time -- if you’re cautious. The loose rocks on the steep trail are more likely to knock you off your feet on the way down than on the way up. I suspect this is an apt metaphor for you in the coming weeks, Aries. Your necessary descent may be deceptively challenging. So make haste slowly! Your power animals are the rabbit and the snail.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a few short jaunts through the air in a flying machine they called the Flyer. It was a germinal step in a process that ultimately led to your ability to travel 600 miles per hour while sitting in a chair 30,000 feet above the earth. Less than 66 years after the Wright Brothers’ breakthrough, American astronauts landed a space capsule on the moon. They had with them a patch of fabric from the left wing of the Flyer. I expect that during the coming weeks, you will be climaxing a longrunning process that deserves a comparable ritual. Revisit the early stages of the work that enabled you to be where you are now.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
In 2006, five percent of the world’s astronomers gathered at an international conference and voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a “dwarf planet.” Much of the world agreed to honor their declaration. Since then, though, there has arisen a campaign by equally authoritative astronomers to restore Pluto to full planet status. The crux of the issue is this: How shall we define the nature of a planet? But for the people of New Mexico, the question has been resolved. State legislators there formally voted to regard Pluto as a planet. They didn’t accept the demotion. I encourage you to be inspired by their example, Gemini. Whenever there are good arguments from opposing sides about important matters, trust your gut feelings. Stand up for your preferred version of the story.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Ray Bradbury’s dystopian bestseller Fahrenheit 451 was among the most successful of the 27 novels he wrote. It won numerous awards and has been adopted into films, plays, and graphic novels. Bradbury wrote the original version of the story in nine days, using a typewriter he rented for 20 cents per hour. When his publisher urged him to double the manuscript’s length, he spent another nine days doing so. According to my reading of the planetary configurations, you Cancerians now have a similar potential to be surprisingly efficient and economical as you work on an interesting creation or breakthrough -- especially if you mix a lot of play and delight into your labors.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Poet Louise Glück has characterized herself as “afflicted with longing yet incapable of forming durable attachments.” If there is anything in you that even partially fits that description, I have good news: In the coming weeks, you’re likely to feel blessed by longing rather than afflicted by it. The foreseeable future will also be prime time for you to increase your motivation and capacity to form durable attachments. Take full advantage of this fertile grace period!
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
In 2004, a man named Jerry Lynn tied a batteryoperated alarm clock to a string and dangled it down a vent in his house. He was hoping that when the alarm sounded, he would get a sense of the best place to drill a hole in his wall to run a wire for his TV. But the knot he’d made wasn’t perfect, and the clock slipped off and plunged into an inaccessible spot behind the wall. Then, every night for 13 years, the alarm rang for a minute. The battery was unusually strong! A few months ago, Lynn decided to end the mild but constant irritation. Calling on the help of duct specialists, he retrieved the persistent clock. With this story as your inspiration, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you
Virgos to finally put an end to your equivalent of the maddening alarm clock. (Read the story: tinyurl.com/ alarmclockmadness.)
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Was Napoléon Bonaparte an oppressor or liberator? The answer is both. His work in the world hurt a lot of people and helped a lot of people. One of his more magnanimous escapades transpired in June 1798, when he and his naval forces invaded the island of Malta. During his six-day stay, he released political prisoners, abolished slavery, granted religious freedom to Jews, opened 15 schools, established the right to free speech, and shut down the Inquisition. What do his heroics have to do with you? I don’t want to exaggerate, but I expect that you, too, now have the power to unleash a blizzard of benevolence in your sphere. Do it in your own style, of course, not Napoléon’s.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit,” said French playwright Molière. I’m going to make that your motto for now, Scorpio. You have pursued a gradual, steady approach to ripening, and soon it will pay off in the form of big bright blooms. Congratulations on having the faith to keep plugging away in the dark! I applaud your determination to be dogged and persistent about following your intuition even though few people have appreciated what you were doing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
The growth you can and should foster in the coming weeks will be stimulated by quirky and unexpected prods. To get you started, here are a few such prods. 1. What’s your hidden or dormant talent, and what could you do to awaken and mobilize it? 2. What’s something you’re afraid of but might be able to turn into a resource? 3. If you were a different gender for a week, what would you do and what would your life be like? 4. Visualize a dream you’d like to have while you’re asleep tonight. 5. If you could transform anything about yourself, what would it be? 6. Imagine you’ve won a free vacation to anywhere you want. Where would you go?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
You may think you have uncovered the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re just a bit more than halfway there. In order to get the rest of the goods, you’ll have to ignore your itch to be done with the search. You’ll have to be unattached to being right and smart and authoritative. So please cultivate patience. Be expansive and magnanimous as you dig deeper. For best results, align yourself with poet Richard Siken’s definition: “The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
The posh magazine Tatler came up with a list of fashionable new names for parents who want to ensure their babies get a swanky start in life. Since you Aquarians are in a phase when you can generate good fortune by rebranding yourself or remaking your image, I figure you might be interested in using one of these monikers as a nickname or alias. At the very least, hearing them could whet your imagination to come up with your own ideas. Here are Tatler’s chic avantgarde names for girls: Czar-Czar; Debonaire; Estonia; Figgy; Gethsemane; Power; Queenie. Here are some boys’ names: Barclay; Euripides; Gustav; Innsbruck; Ra; Uxorious; Wigbert; Zebedee.
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