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DIALOGUE Last week, WW wrote about Bitcoin miners eyeing Oregon’s cheap hydroelectric power (“Coin Rush,” WW, Feb. 21, 2018). One cryptocurrency mine in The Dalles uses enough energy to power the town of Sisters, and critics say that energy has an environmental cost. Here’s what our readers had to say.

Tomescu Mohr, via Facebook: “This is not OK. These are not the people who paid for building the dam and rolling out the electric grid and everything else related. This is the monopolization of semi-socialized shared resources intended to boost economic gain for all of us, not to be squandered by some greedy parasite.”

Jay Gaddy, via Facebook: “This is insanity, pure unmitigated speculative insanity. This world will burn before these madmen figure it out.” International Rivers, via Twitter: “Bitcoin continues its river-destroying ways—now in the U.S.” Steve Tait, via Facebook: “Tax them like crazy. Every kilowatt-hour they use will ultimately increase the cost of producing electricity for the Northwest. Stop the giveaway.”

Billy Belson, via Facebook: “Bitcoin is a fundamentally valueless scam that has sucked real value out of the economy into a nebulous ether that does no work and provides no resources. There’s never a good time for such “It sort of a thing to exist, but now is the worst ever for it. Bitcoin needs to shows you time be shut down and voided, never how mind- encouraged.”

bogglingly stupid we are as a species.”

John Buss, via Facebook: “Are they paying their electric bill? Yes? Then they’re all good! You know what the term for increasing your rates based on demand is, right? Price gouging. Most aren’t OK with this in any other circumstance, why would this be different?” Nick A. Zukin, via wweek.com: “So what is the alleged problem? It’s basically just one more data center, like thousands upon thousands of other data centers across the country. Is it somehow ‘less productive’ if his clients are Bitcoin miners rather than fashion bloggers?”

Thedeadtext, via wweek.com: “It sort of shows you how mindbogglingly stupid we are as a species to allow this completely and utterly useless consumption of energy to occur.”

Spindles, via wweek.com: “What a waste of electricity. I prefer the good ol’ fashioned monopolistic printing of endless free fiat for the military industrial complex and stock market to waste with abandon.” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for veriﬁcation. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: mzusman@wweek.com

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Can Portland sue the federal government for causing the homeless crisis? Few would argue that the homeless epidemic can, more or less, be traced back to trickle-down Reaganomics—why should we shoulder the burden of their bad policies? —Garrick A. Ah, that redoubtable legal standard, “more or less.” Judges can’t get enough of it! There’s nothing a court of law enjoys more, when painstakingly reconstructing a series of causal links, than a brisk round of good old-fashioned handwaving, perhaps punctuated by an impish shrug. (Don’t even get me started on “few would argue,” except to suggest that the reason so few are arguing may have less to do with the irrefutability of your position than with the fact that you’re standing on a street corner with a colander on your head.) Sorry to draw out my answer to your question, Garrick; it’s just that it doesn’t take very long to say “no.” (I tried saying “nope” instead, but it’s not much better.) Perhaps I should put it this way: I’ve got bad news, I’ve got good news, and then I’ve got more bad news. First, the bad news: Under a legal principle called “sovereign immunity,” the government cannot be sued by its citizens. This idea has its 4

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roots in English common law, under which it was illegal to sue the king. (One justification for this was that courts derive their authority from the government, so they can’t compel the source of their own power. Another was, “I’m the king, so fuck you.”) Now, the good news: Drilling down, we find that the longer version of this rule is, “You can’t sue the government, unless the government gives you permission.” Luckily, it has given us that permission, in the form of the 1946 Federal Tort Claims Act. Finally, the bad news: The FTCA is only a limited waiver of sovereign immunity. You can sue for the standard types of negligence Americans love to sue for (slipping on a banana peel at the Social Security office, getting rear-ended by a postal truck), but not for broad policy decisions (starting wars, colluding with the Illuminati). Disappointing, but probably just as well. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE FLIES INTO TROUBLE: There are now nine Republicans vying for the GOP nomination for governor. One entrant with an interesting résumé has already fallen afoul of campaign rules. Greg C. Wooldridge of Southwest Portland, who once commanded the Navy’s Blue Angels, has been using photos of himself in uniform and a military jet in campaign materials. He retired from the Navy in 1997. The U.S. Department of Defense rules for candidates, active and retired, are clear: Any use of photos in uniform must be accompanied by a disclaimer that it does not constitute a DoD endorsement. Wooldridge’s spokesman, Jonathan Lockwood, says the candidate was unaware of the prohibition and will comply. SODA TAX FIZZLES AGAIN: After spending more than $100,000 this year and $855,000 last year, propo-

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PORTLAND IS GETTING A SIXTH QUADRANT: A sixth quadrant in Portland? That may sound absurd, but it’s coming—and city officials say it’s a matter of public safety. The Portland Bureau of Transportation launched a process this month to officially add a new section to the city, called South Portland, as a way of making it easier to direct emergency vehicles to addresses in the sliver of Portland east of Naito Parkway but west of the Willamette River. The east-west addresses in the area currently start with zero. That’s difficult for the city’s 911 system to handle, and adding the new sector would eliminate the zeros. The change won’t take effect immediately; the current timeline is for South Portland to debut between 2020 and 2025.

nents of a 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax on sweetened soft drinks abandoned hopes this week of putting the tax on the November 2018 ballot. As first reported by WW, the Coalition for Healthy Kids and Education Committee, which only last November moved its target from May to this November, say now is not the right time to join cities such as Seattle, Berkeley and Philadelphia, which have already passed such taxes. The soda industry has made it clear it will spend whatever is necessary to defeat such a tax. “While there will be no ballot measure in the current political cycle, our diverse and broad coalition remains committed to working toward reduced soda consumption,” said campaign manager Terri Steenbergen in a statement.

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HARDESTY PICKS HIGH-PROFILE HOUSING ADVISERS: Portland City Council candidate Jo Ann Hardesty has named three high-profile advocates to advise her on housing policy: Ibrahim Mubarak, who helped found such homeless villages as Right 2 Dream Too; Maxine Fitzpatrick, executive director of Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives Inc., a nonprofit developer of affordable housing in North and Northeast Portland; and Margot Black, who helped found the renters’ rights group Portland Tenants United. The selection of Black is significant because she resigned her leadership post with PTU last month after charges of racism by a black activist; she is now working to elect one of two black women in the race. “One of the things I love about all three of these people,” Hardesty tells WW, “is their deep commitment that those who are on the margins are included and part of the solution.”

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What you need to know about a group seeking to repeal Oregon’s immigrant sanctuary policies. kshepherd@wweek.com

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the Minutemen to send “patrols” to day-laborer sites in Oregon where undocumented immigrants looked for farm and construction work. Since then, it has regularly hosted anti-immigration speakers and events in Salem. OFIR leadership did not respond to WW’s requests for comment. But in 2014, OFIR organizer Cynthia Kendoll told WW the group wanted all illegal immigrants to leave the U.S. immediately. “We are told all the time that people come here and want to become Americans,” Kendoll said. “I don’t think they’re interested in becoming U.S. citizens. It’s just an organized assault on our culture.”

CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP: Oregonians for Immigration Reform president Cynthia Kendoll asked voters in 2014 to reject driver’s cards for undocumented immigrants. She won resoundingly.

It’s not every day that an organization labeled a hate group can be found gathering signatures on the Portland State University campus. But that’s exactly what’s happening this month, courtesy of a Salem-based group that wants to make Oregon a hostile environment for undocumented immigrants. The group, Oregonians for Immigration Reform, is aiming to intensify the debate over Oregon’s sanctuary-state law, which prevents local and state police from cooperating with deportations. If OFIR is successful in gathering signatures for its ballot measure, voters in November could be faced with a referendum on the federal immigration crackdown that has divided Americans during the Trump administration. Here’s what you need to know as the group returns to the forefront of Oregon politics: What would this ballot measure do? It would repeal Oregon’s 31-year-old sanctuary-state law that prevents local and state resources, including money and labor, from being used to enforce federal immigration laws. These sanctuary policies have wide support from politicians and police across the state, who argue that the law makes Oregon’s immigrant communities safer. But federal officials, most notably U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, say sanctuary policies make it harder for immigration enforcement agents to fight drug trafficking and gang violence. The ballot measure, if passed, would allow local police and sheriff ’s deputies to assist in identifying, surveilling and detaining undocumented immigrants. It would also allow state resources and money to aid immigration enforcement. Who’s behind the measure? The measure is spearheaded by Oregonians for Immigration Reform, which was founded in 2000 by a Salem man named Jim Ludwick. The group rose to prominence that year, when it partnered with the militia group called

What else puts OFIR back in the news? Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center—the nation’s leading watchdog of extremist groups—placed OFIR on its annual “Hate Map,” a list of the 954 most active hate groups in the United States. The SPLC has described OFIR as a racist organization since the mid-2000s. But this is the first time it has placed the Oregon group on its short list of hate groups—specifically as an “anti-immigrant, nativist extremist group.” “This year, there was a culmination of all their work that was enough to bring some awareness to what they were doing,” says Ryan Lenz, a reporter for the SPLC’s Hatewatch website. “Last year, they sponsored a Whiteness History Month. They’ve been active for a while. We felt it was necessary to list them.” Does OFIR stand a chance of passing its measure? Its track record says yes. In 2014, the Oregon Legislature passed a bill allowing undocumented immigrants to get a temporary driving cards so they could legally get behind the wheel. Elected officials in both parties, as well as the state’s business leaders, hailed the bill as a win for safety and the economy. But OFIR forced the issue to the ballot as Measure 88—and 66 percent of state voters rejected the driver’s cards. Multnomah County was the only county in the state to vote in favor of the cards. Observers say OFIR could struggle to repeat its triumph. “If the same political environment exists in 2018 as existed in 2014, the measure would pass, and pass handily,” says Pacific University politics and government professor Jim Moore. “But the political environment is very different now. Immigration and how people think about it has become something of a referendum on President Trump.” How is the signature collection going? Two weeks ago, PSU students filed a complaint with the Secretary of

State’s Office, alleging that paid canvassers were lying about what the ballot measure would do. “I thought it was fishy,” student Sunny Petit told Street Roots as she described being told by a canvasser that her signature would help strengthen sanctuary laws and oppose the Trump agenda. “It was totally, totally misleading. There was a line of people around me who were all coming up to sign it.” When will we know if the measure makes the ballot? OFIR needs 88,184 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. In January, it had to toss out 8,000 signatures, after a legal challenge stymied an attempt to widen the signature-gathering window. The group has spent more than $41,000 on its efforts to repeal the sanctuary law this year, largely bankrolled by an out-of-state $30,000 in-kind donation given to the effort by the national Federation for American Immigration Reform. The deadline for signatures is July 6, and those signatures will be verified by Aug. 5—the day when we’re likely to know whether Oregon faces a referendum on its sanctuary status.

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THE BIG NUMBER

$72,092.92 That’s the total fines and fees Portland City Hall collected earlier this month from the operator of a scofflaw short-term rental listed on Airbnb. It’s the largest fine the city’s Bureau of Development Services has successfully levied on an Airbnb rental for breaking city rules—in this case, operating six bedrooms when only two are allowed. Fourteen months after the city’s first administrative hearing, and multiple appeals later, operator CityCraft—a co m p a ny b a s e d i n Po r t l a n d — exhausted its appeals, paid the city and sold the Humboldt neighborhood house. “That’s a major, major victory for the neighbors and the city,” says

BDS spokesman Michael Liefeld. Meanwhile, the same bureau now pledges it will attempt to enforce the rules against a Pearl District parking garage operated in defiance of city code. Last week, BDS said it was uncertain whether to proceed with a case against a parking garage that was paying a $1,400 monthly fine and continuing to operate (“Free Parking,” WW, Feb. 21, 2017). Now the bureau tells WW it will go to an administrative hearing to try to fine the owner $1,000 a day if Harsch I nve st m e n t s , r u n by p ro p e r t y magnate Jordan Schnitzer, doesn’t reduce the number of garage spaces to eight from more than 50 this week. RACHEL MONAHAN

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Out of Control Under Charles McGee, the Black Parent Initiative violated state law. Its chief funders didn’t notice.

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This month, an investigation by WW into allegations of sexual assault and harassment cost Charles McGee his job running the social services nonprofit he founded, the Black Parent Initiative, as well as his candidacy for a Multnomah County Commission seat. While the results of the investigation shocked many of McGee’s supporters, it’s now clear that for the past two years, his nonprofit existed in a state of chaos, much of it rooted in McGee’s personal conduct. For nine months last year, for example, the BPI operated without a board of directors, in violation of state law. Yet neither Portland Public Schools, Multnomah County nor the Oregon Department of Education—the three government agencies that funded half of the nonprofit’s $1.1 million annual budget—seemed to notice. Even now that they have become aware, none of them has taken action. The county and PPS continue to fund the BPI today. ODE has agreed upon but not yet started a new contract. The situation raises questions about government agencies’ scrutiny of the contractors they pay to provide services to some of Portland’s most vulnerable citizens. The BPI’s three big funders last year were the county ($100,000), the education department ($175,000) and the school district (about $200,000). The agencies hired the nonprofit to do outreach to black parents and to help them and their families with literacy, parenting skills, job searches and finding housing. When the BPI signed those contracts, the nonprofit agreed to adhere to “all federal, state and local laws.” One of the most basic Oregon laws governing both for-profits and nonprofits is that “each corporation shall have a board of directors.” As the Portland Tribune reported last week, the initiative’s board resigned en masse in December 2016—following an allegation of sexual harassment against McGee by a BPI employee—and the organization did not reconstitute its board for nine months. (This allegation is separate from the alleged sexual assault by McGee that WW reported Feb. 7.) The resignations matter because a board’s primary responsibility is to safeguard an organization’s legal and financial health, in part by supervising its top executive. Beatrice Dohrn, director of the Nonprofit Clinic at the University of Oregon School of Law, says without a board, a nonprofit technically doesn’t exist.

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“Only contracts with federal funds,” she says, “are required to have onsite reviews where we would have obtained information regarding an absent board.” The Oregon Department of Education was also unaware the BPI’s board had quit. The agency’s two-year contract with the organization ended last June, but ODE recently agreed to its two-year, $200,000 contract. “The ODE was not aware that BPI was without a board of directors for nine months,” says agency spokeswoman Tricia Yates. “ODE is current seeking advice through the Department of Justice to determine how best to proceed in relation to the time period in which the nonprofit was without a board.” Yates says her agency is also seeking DOJ’s advice on how to proceed with a pending contract with the BPI. Another practice that might have alarmed the initiative’s funders, had they noticed: The person handling human resources for the BPI for the past two years was McGee’s wife, Serilda Summers-McGee, who also worked for one of the nonprofit’s biggest funders. Summers-McGee confirmed to WW that from January 2015 through January 2017, she provided the initiative with a variety of HR consulting services. She did some work for free and was paid for other work. During much of that time, Summers-McGee also served as the full-time director of human resources for the Oregon Department of Education. She says she played no role, however, in getting the nonprofit awarded a two-year, $350,000 LOST FOUNDER: Charles McGee, 32, co-founded the Black contract from that agency. (ODE confirms this.) Parent Initiative in 2006. He was fired Feb. 14. And although she served as an HR consultant to the Black Parent Initiative, Summers-McGee, who is now director of human resources for the city of Portland, also says she was unaware of the “ IT ’ S A S TU N N I N G FAI LU R E . 2015 harassment allegation against her husband that led TH E BOAR D S H O U LD N ’ T the board to resign. HAVE R E S I G N ED; TH E BOAR D “I had no involvement with that complaint at all,” she says. S H O U LD HAVE FI R ED M CG EE .” Some experts think it is a bad idea for a spouse to provide HR consulting services to the organization her — B E AT R I C E D O H R N , husband runs because her loyalties to her spouse and the U O S C H O O L O F L AW organization’s well-being could be at odds. Dohrn says there are circumstances in which a non“The organization isn’t empowered to do anything without profit’s leader or staff might want to hire a family member. a board,” Dohrn says. “The board is the organization.” But she says that decision is not the executive’s call to Dohrn says it is “extremely uncommon” for an entire make—best practices would be for the board to hold a board to resign. What the board members should have recorded vote on any such appointment. That didn’t hapdone, she says, was exercise their authority. pen, apparently. “It’s a stunning failure,” Dohrn says. “The board A spokeswoman for the BPI board says the current shouldn’t have resigned; the board should have fired board was unaware that Summers-McGee provided pro[McGee].” fessional services to the nonprofit. Portland Public Schools says it didn’t know at the time “Neither the current board nor counsel knew before that the BPI’s board had quit—and now that it does, the you asked that Serilda’s firm had been retained,” says BPI district’s response is that it’s focused on services provided spokeswoman Kerry McClenahan. “Nor do they know by BPI front-line staff, not the nonprofit’s governance. what the scope of services was that she provided.” “PPS was not aware,” says district spokeswoman Amber Although the BPI’s funders have shrugged off news Shoebridge. “It is not part of our contract expectations or about the organization, its new board has taken action. monitoring process.” The board fired McGee on Feb. 14, following its discovMultnomah County also says it didn’t know until last ery that he had covered up a female staff member’s 2015 week that the BPI had operated without the required allegation of sexual harassment against him. supervision. “Multnomah County was not aware that BPI That discovery came after a WW story about allegadid not have a board of directors for nine months,” says tions McGee and another man, Portland banking execucounty spokeswoman Julie Sullivan-Springhetti. “This is a tive Aubré Dickson, sexually assaulted a woman in 2012 concern, and the county will be taking steps to ensure that (“No Way Out,” WW, Feb. 7, 2018). Neither man could be public funds are being spent appropriately.” reached for comment for this story. She says the county would not normally check to see if A criminal investigation by the Portland Police Bureau a nonprofit’s board is operational. into the sexual assault allegations continues. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

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OFF THE BUS: “I feel like I’m the fall guy here,” says Jeff Anderson, who used a hemp tincture and lost his job. “All I wanted to do is be pain-free.”

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A school employee was assured he could use a CBD tincture and still pass a drug test. He didn’t. BY KA R I N A B R OW N

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Jeff Anderson says it’s been 20 years since he smoked pot. But he’s out of a job anyway, after failing a drug test. Anderson, 62, drove a bus for the Beaverton School District for 18 years. Last November, he started taking a daily dose of a hemp tincture to treat the pain from his psoriatic arthritis—a chronic inflammation of the skin and joints. He says he was pain-free for months, thanks to the tincture’s active ingredient: cannabidiol, better known as CBD. That’s the cannabis compound that eases pain without the psychoactive “high” of THC. Employers aren’t looking for CBD on drug tests. And Anderson says the Beaverton marijuana shop he visited assured him the level of THC in the tincture couldn’t be detected by tests. But when the school district urine-tested Anderson in January, his THC levels were massive: five times the testing threshold. The district forced him into an early retirement. “I was emphatic when I walked into the dispensary that I can’t test positive for THC,” Anderson says. “My job was on the line, and I don’t know about this stuff. I’m not a biochemist. But I lost my job, I lost health insurance for me and my daughter, I’m living on peanuts. And I don’t feel like I did anything wrong other than trust in a company.” Experts say Anderson’s story checks out. Daily use of a CBD tincture with a small amount of THC—like the 20 milligrams of Ra Hemp CBD Indica Tincture that Anderson took three times a day for three months—could build up in his body’s fat cells and show up in a urinalysis. “It’s entirely plausible,” says Dr. Michelle Sexton, a cannabis researcher who helped the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board set up its lab-certification process for recreational marijuana. “If he was taking it three times a day for months, we can only imagine what kind of accumulation might have been going on.” Anderson’s story is a dramatic example of a widespread misconception. In a state where weed is as common as cough drops, many employers still use urine tests to

keep pot users off their payrolls. Cannabis retailers assure customers that CBD products won’t show up on drug tests. But in fact, those products often contain small amounts of THC—and the drug tests don’t distinguish between somebody who smoked a joint yesterday or who had THC build up in his system over several months. Even the tincture’s manufacturer, Sun God Medicinals in Eugene, warns against using its product in advance of a drug test. “We would never recommend to anybody that they use our product if they are subject to a drug test,” says Mark Weir, the company’s operations manager. Yet that’s what Green Mart, the Beaverton store where Anderson bought his tincture, told him. Jami Arvon, manager of Green Mart, confirms that she recommended the product, knowing Anderson was subject to random drug tests. “I genuinely believe Sun God’s product is not the reason why he failed,” she says. “If it is, I’m not a scientist, but I have anecdotal-only evidence that this product will not make you fail a drug test.” She’s not alone. WW called a half-dozen cannabis stores in Portland, and all recommended various CBD products for pain relief, claiming they wouldn’t show up on a drug test. In Colorado and Washington, where recreational cannabis has been legal longer, the same inquiry received a different response. A random selection of budtenders in Denver and Seattle declined to recommend a CBD product for pain relief that would avoid detection by urinalysis. Anderson’s story now has his labor union sending out a warning. Kim Bonner represented Anderson in his dealings with the district for the Oregon School Employees Association. She said the situation jolted her into issuing a warning in its February newsletter: “Buyer beware,” it read. “I think he was misled,” Bonner tells WW. “People don’t know that if you consume any kind of cannabis product, you’re going to have some level of THC involved, even if it says zero. Dispensaries should not be in the position of telling people you’re OK to go drive a school bus when legally you are not.” Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

THOMAS TEAL

ALE M ET HOD OL O G Y : In the two days

leading up to Feb. 15, we collected 115 IPAs brewed in Portland. (There were a few IPAs we couldn’t taste, including Pono, Moonshrimp and Scout.) Only IPAs brewed within Portland city limits were considered, and we excluded IPAs outside the range of 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent ABV. In addition, we excluded heavy fruit additions, sour IPAs and Belgian yeasts because the different flavor profiles would make comparison difficult. Our panelists ranked each beer on a scale of 0 to 100, and offered tasting notes on each. The top 10 beers from that tasting— along with a wildcard from a smaller tasting—were then sent to a blind public taste-off, where over 150 voters ranked their top three beers. Was the process flawed? Of course it was: Any tasting that large leads to palate fatigue and maybe a little drunken tetchiness. But we also note that three of the top four beers chosen by our original panel and the people’s choice were the same.

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WE TASTED DAMN NEAR EVERY IPA IN PORTLAND—115 IN ALL—IN A BLIND TASTING. THESE ARE THE 10 BEST. ALL BEER PHOTOS BY HENRY CROMETT

hen it comes to craft beer, IPA is king. In the 22 years since Portland’s BridgePort invented the piney American IPA, the hop-crazy style has become a craft-beer juggernaut. Today, more than half of all craft beers ordered in America are hoppy pales. At Willamette Week’s Oregon Beer Awards being held this week at Revolution Hall, no category received more entries than IPA. But the past few years have seen huge changes. Bitter, dank, piney IPAs have been replaced by a new breed of citric, tropical and yeast-hazed brews. In fact, the best IPAs brewed today bear almost no resemblance to the ones brewed even five years ago. This week, we publish our glossy annual WW Beer Guide (available for free all over the city), a survey of the best breweries in the state. We thought there was no better time to revisit the new Portland IPA and follow up on our ranking of IPAs in Portland from two years ago. This time, we collected damn near every IPA brewed in Portland in February—115 in all—and chose the top 10 in a blind taste test of eight beer pros (see opposite for the methodology we used). We then invited the beer lovers of Portland to the neutral ground of Reverend Nat’s to try the top 10 IPAs in the city—and to vote for their favorites. Here are the top 10 IPAs in Portland.

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1. RIPE

GREAT NOTION ’Hood: Concordia ABV: 6 percent

Back in 2016, Northeast Alberta’s Great Notion Brewing landed two IPAs among the top 10 in Portland after WW’s massive blind tasting of 73 Portland IPAs, it was a shock. The beers looked like orange juice, and tasted a bit like orange juice—a world of tropical fruitiness, yeasty haze and low bitterness that more traditional brewers refused to recognize as real IPA. Now, a win by Great Notion almost feels like a foregone conclusion. In the two years since Great Notion inaugurated the hazy New England IPA in Portland, the cloudy beer wars have been fought and won. A hazy IPA is Portland’s favorite IPA in town, and that hazy is Great Notion Ripe—the same beer that won fifth place in 2016. Except it’s not quite the same beer. For the first year of its existence, Ripe was a slightly different beer almost every time you tasted it. “The idea with Ripe originally was that it was an ever-evolving beer, almost like fruit on a tree,” says Great Notion co-brewer James Dugan. “Eat it young it’s one way, eat it later it’s different. Ripe was an expression of fruit in different stages—we had all kinds of variations, different hoppy varieties.” Ripe has settled into a beer devoted to only one hop: Citra. When added late in brewing to offer up the aromatics rather than the bitterness, Citra is one of most single-mindedly fruity hops in existence. It’s like P.O.G. in a nugget.

Ripe tastes amazingly, aggressively, almost impossibly juicy. In both our panel judging and the public tasting, many tasters refused to believe fruit hadn’t been added to the beer, including some of the finest beer palates in Portland. “Amazing fruit adjunct beer,” wrote one commenter. “DOPING!” wrote another. But according to its brewers, it’s all hop—and a little bit of chemistry. “Part of it is the way we treat our water,” says Dugan. “We have a unique approach on mineral additions and pH. Look at the type of water in Portland. It’s almost like distilled water, it’s incredibly soft. It’s like seasoning our food; we build our water back up with minerals that are absent.” They’ve also added more hops to their beers—a stunning 4 pounds a barrel, doubling the number of hop additions and adding two-thirds more hops each time. “Call it two-thirds double dry hopping,” says Great Notion co-brewer Andy Miller. Ripe was an amazing beer when it was first made, but it’s evolved into a fruity cornucopia of epic intensity, a candied IPA so creamy and fruity it almost shoots off into its own category of beer. But Dugan insists that under that intensity, the fundamentals remain sound. “ We didn’t change the station,” he says. “We just turned up the volume.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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3. KIDS THESE DAZE LAURELWOOD

2. 33RD STATE MCMENAMINS KENNEDY SCHOOL ’Hood: Concordia ABV: 6.8 percent

Thirty-five years into building a beer empire, McMenamins isn’t a just a brewery anymore: It is legion. Oregon’s largest and oldest beer chain contains multitudes of breweries, each with its own specialty beers and one-offs, and each with its own exclusive IPAs. Mike and Brian McMenamin’s five Portland breweries are like independent brewpubs, they all devote multiple taps to their own obsessions alongside the classic Hammerhead and Terminator and Ruby: The nine McMenamins IPAs delivered to our office included not only one of the lowest-voted IPAs in town but one of the best. At the Kennedy School, brewers Brian Riley and Ryan Lund work schedules like firemen—four days on, four days off, with only one day they’re both in the same room together to collaborate on brews. Lund’s brews at West Linn were already some of the best I’d had from McMenamins before he joined Riley there this November. And 33rd State, the IPA they made together with Riley taking the lead, is the best IPA we’ve ever tasted at a McMenamins. Though not hazy, it can read a little hazy—the McMenamins breweries don’t filter—but the hop haze is something both Riley and Lund prize in the beer. “We figured we’d make something different,” Riley says, “marrying Cascade—the long-standing hop of the West—together with Amarillo and Equinox that have grapefruity flavors…then with this we put Citra and Mosaic into the dry hop, the new hops everybody loves.” The result is a beer of uncommon balance and sturdy malt backbone, giving way to so much fruit flavor it’s like a peach gone squishy in the sun. That mix of oldschool and new school IPA flavors made it extremely popular in our panel tasting—no one didn’t like it. The public obviously agreed. Riley and Lund sell more of their IPAs than even the McMenamins classics, and their last 12-keg batch of 33rd State disappeared almost immediately after the brewers made it—even though it distributed only to Kennedy, Chapel Pub and St. Johns. They’ll make one more batch for the first week of March, and then it might not return for quite a while. “We brewed quite a few IPAs, probably 20,” says Lund. ”We’re trying to keep ourselves from getting carried away—nail down a consistent recipe so people can come back and get the beers again.” MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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’Hood: Rose City Park ABV: 6.5 percent

Family-friendly Sandy Boulevard brewpub Laurelwood can be a little like the Workhorse IPA that pays its bills—and which also made its way into our top 10 two years ago. It’s a reliable Portland staple, so familiar you can forget how good the brewers are at their jobs. But when it came time for them to jump into the haze game with their very first New England-style IPA, things didn’t go exactly as planned. “At first, we struggled to actually make this beer hazy,” says brewmaster Cameron Murphy. “It wasn’t until probably our third batch that we finally achieved an acceptable level of haze.” “Not only does making a hazy beer go against everything that we’ve been trained to do as brewers,” adds head brewer Eric Ebel, “but our system is designed to make our beers as clear as possible.” What started as a fun, one-off project turned into a bigger undertaking that required four batches and some advice from other brewers. They had to change the malts they used, and then tried replacing the popular Mosaic hops with more accessible Amarillo hops, alongside an additional balanced trio of Galaxy, Equinox and Citra hops. “Drinkability was the most important thing for this beer,” Murphy says. “We wanted something that could be sessionable, something that people could drink a few of in one sitting.” “And we didn’t want it taste like you were just chewing on hops,” Ebel chimes in. Kids These Daze is definitely drinkable. It’s bright gold with just enough haze to keep it in the category, and the aroma screams of juicy oranges and pineapple with a splash of passionfruit—a well-balanced flavor that doesn’t smack you in the face with bitterness. It’s a hell of a beer. SHANNON ARMOUR.

4. INTERSTELLAR VOYAGE CULMINATION ’Hood: Kerns ABV: 6 percent

It can be hard to taste the same Culmination beer twice. While a lot of breweries go hunting for their next big flagship—finding one thing that works and sticking with it until it becomes stagnant—the 2-year-old Kerns brewery is always finding ways to sate the beer geek’s need for shiny new things, whether vegan and

Indian pop-ups at the brewery or a raft of new beers. “You have to keep changing things up to keep people interested,” says head brewer Conrad Andrus, We’d expected to see Culmination’s Obscured by Clouds IPA at the tasting—the brewery’s rice-adjunct hazy we’d called one of the very best of a bumper crop of Portland New England IPAs. Instead, a previously unseen Interstellar Voyage showed up at our door— and it quickly shot up into our top 10 in the blind tasting. Culmination’s non-hazy flagship Phaedrus IPA didn’t fare as well this time, but two years ago we ranked it fourth-best in the city. Interstellar Voyage relies on an entirely new formula, says Andrus. The idea, he says, was to use a base beer with a light body and then “just dry hop the hell out of it.” That base beer got overhauled with a new grist build that included wheat, 2-row and a type of malt Andrus says he normally avoids: Crystal, which Andrus says can cause beers to taste oxidized. But Crystal 15 is “barely a Crystal,” he says—so he tried it out to amp up the crispness to set off naturally fruity New Zealand-grown Nelson Sauvin, and a smattering of popular, lightly tropical Mosaic and Galaxy hops to round things out. “Nelson hops just make sense normally,” Andrus says, “but this is the first time we’ve actually used them in an IPA.” The result is an intensely juicy beer that drinks smooth and bright, with tons of citrus and tropical fruits on the nose and traveling across the palate, with just a touch of pine and a slight bitterness. As with all its one-off beers, it’s a mystery whether we’ll see Interstellar Voyage again after this batch, but it may just be because the Culmination team has something bigger and better up its sleeve. “We’re going to keep making hazy IPAs because they’re fun to make,” says Andrus. “If we’re not having fun, then we’re doing something wrong.” SHANNON ARMOUR.

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HOPS UP: Tasters at the public top 10 IPA tasting at Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider.

5. JUICE JR. GREAT NOTION ’Hood: Concordia ABV: 6 percent

Juice Jr. is a phenomenon. By the time WW named Great Notion’s original flagship our 2017 Beer of the Year, the Mosaichopped beer had already all but taken over the Portland beer conversation. It was the first New England-style hazy IPA brewed and sold in Portland, modeled on the famously cloud-soft and fruit-forward beers of the Northeast like Treehouse and Trillium. If the Portland IPA palate has moved away from dank and piney to a new and softer profile, Juice Jr. is a big reason. Two years ago, when Juice Jr. was voted the third-best IPA brewed in Portland, Great Notion’s two beers were the only two hazy beers in the city. This year, we tasted 37 of them. But Juice Jr. is still the most famous hazy IPA ever brewed in Portland—swapped for avidly by beer traders nationwide anytime it’s possible to get a crowler at all. When I held up a crowler leftover after the tasting, one of our tasters noted CONT. ON PAGE 16

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that I could probably get $100 in an online auction. (We did not do this.) Though a mere 6 percent ABV, Juice Jr. is a monster beer when it comes to both roundness and flavor. As with Ripe, its brewers have massively increased the amount of hops they use, to make it both more floral than a Tchaikovsky score and more tropical than deepest Brazil. It’s quite possible that on any other day, Juice Jr. would have been voted next to Ripe as the top two beers brewed in town. But while the pillowy, near-creamy wallop of Juice Jr. still placed it high in the rankings, some tasters noted a brewing flaw in the batch we tapped at Reverend Nat’s, something we hadn’t tasted from the brewery before—a tinge of butteredpopcorn flavor, which some are extremely sensitive to and others don’t taste at all. And even that batch was voted the fifth-best IPA in the city in a blind tasting. Perhaps no other beer in Portland could do the same. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

6. LUNCH BREAK ISA BREAKSIDE ’Hood: Slabtown ABV: 4.7 percent

at both the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup. Lunch Break is typically brewed in Milwaukie alongside the other year-round Breakside standbys—which means Wanderlust and all the others weren’t eligible for this taste-off. But as an experiment, Breakside tried out Lunch Break this year at its brand-new two-story Slabtown brewpub around the corner from the New Seasons. Though Edmunds thought the Portland batch was “a little drier” than he would have liked—perhaps less preferable compared to the ones the brewery makes in Milwaukie—brewing in Slabtown made it eligible for our beer tasting. It turns out even a sixth-fiddle Breakside IPA is still one of the best in Portland. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

7. OH YEAH! WIDMER ’Hood: Boise-Eliot ABV: 7 percent

Though it isn’t as gnarly as a sweat-stained leotard, Widmer’s Oh Yeah! IPA is big and burly as far as IPAs go. A 7 percent ABV hop bomb that used flowers in every step of the brewing process—from mash to fermenter—Oh Yeah! is a modern hom-

age to the dry, crystal clear West Coast IPAs of five years ago. It’s also a nod to Macho Man Randy Savage. Founded in 1984, Widmer is one of the oldest breweries in Portland. But at only age 45, brewer Thomas Bleigh is the self-proclaimed “grandpa” of Widmer’s small-batch innovation brewery—a hotbed of beers that’ll turn out 144 unique brews this year. When he decided to throw down against his two younger colleagues in a competition to make the best possible IPA, his thoughts went straight to the prince of the pro-wrestling smack talkers. “The beer should have the aroma and the characteristic of Macho Man Randy Savage after he got out of a wrestling match,” chuckles Bleigh of his original target. “It was also modeled after an old quote of his that was really ridiculous: ‘Too hot to handle, too cold to hold.’ I wanted to make a beer that was gonna be so good that you couldn’t hold onto it—you were gonna wanna drink another one.” A blend of Simcoe, Mosaic and Amarillo were added just before the beer hit the fermenter, providing a thick blanket of tropical citrus (and a hint of sweaty passionfruit funk) in a beer with a clean, dry finish. “What’s different about this beer to me is that it plays into a lot of old IPA characteristics but amplifies it for a more refined palate,” says Bleigh. To most Portlanders, Widmer is hefeweizen, the ubiquitous American take on hazy wheat the Widmer brothers invented more than 30 years ago and placed on seemingly every old-guard bar tap in Portland. But with Replay two years ago—which ranked No. 10 in our blind test—and now Oh Yeah!, Widmer can stake a claim as one of the city’s best makers of hoppy ales. If he puts out another batch, Bleigh figures he can put Oh Yeah! on the top rope. “The first five times I had that beer I loved it,” he says, “but I still think I can do better.” PARKER HALL.

Most session IPAs seem thin—like hop-butter stretched over too much bread. But ever since Breakside Brewing made its first batch back at its Milwaukie brewery at the beginning of 2015, Lunch Break ISA has been a wild exception. Even at a puny 4.7 percent alcohol content, it’s a full-throated, full-bodied roar of hop flavor. Still, amid flagships like Wanderlust and What Rough Beast and Breakside IPA—perhaps the most belaureled beer in the state—Lunch Break slips through the cracks. “It’s always been fifth fiddle,” says Breakside brewmaster Ben Edmunds. “[But] it’s one of my personal favorite beers, a real gem in our portfolio.” The key to its success is that Breakside brews their session IPAs just like the big boys, rather than scale everything down the way some breweries do. But it’s also a matter of paying attention to what hops do in lower-alcohol beers. “When you dry hop with a lower-ABV environment, you pull more polyphenol, more grassy herbal character,” Edmunds says. “Nerding out on specific oil profiles of hop varietals can make a real difference.” Starting with fruity, earthy Simcoe hops known for their complexity, Breakside added a bunch of tropical fruity-tasting hops from New Zealand and Australia: Galaxy, Rakau and Azacca. It’s a lowalcohol IPA with surprisingly full mouthfeel, and a massive hit of aromatics—enough to make it the only hoppy Breakside beer to medal in its category A PERFECT CIRCLE: Every top IPA, plus one. CONT. ON PAGE 18

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THE NEXT 11 The IPAs that almost made our top 10. 11. HAZY ELIOT (EX NOVO) In Ex Novo’s seasonal hazy take on its flagship Eliot IPA, which ranked No. 6 in our tasting two years ago, tasters praised the beer’s tropical and melon notes— stemming from a super-tropical mix of late-hopped Galaxy, Citra and Mosaic. NOTES: “Savory, herbal, very unique.” “Melon with cream…how do you do that?” “Whoa. Citrus zest. Some tamarind candy.” 12. H28 SPACE INVADER (GREAT NOTION) Great Notion, but Galaxy instead of Citra or Mosaic. We liked that, too. NOTES: “Sweet, juicy, ripe.” “Pineapple, mango, papaya.” 13. STABLE GENIUS (LEVEL) Level’s Trump-themed hazy—“cloudy, like his judgement”—turned out classy and tremendous. This shouldn’t be surprising, given that Level’s brewers are the former heads at Ex Novo and Laurelwood. One taster was convinced it was, in fact, Great Notion’s Juice Jr. N OT E S : “Juice Jr.” “Smooth, rounded hoppiness.” “Nice and soft, long finish.” 14. FRUIT BOOTS (DESCHUTES) “I swore I’d never make a hazy beer,” Harper tells WW. But last fall, Portland Deschutes brewer Jake Harper broke down and made his first pub-only hazy— a mix of Idaho 7, Mandarina Bavaria, Azacca, El Dorado and an experimental variety called 431 that tastes like peaches, it’s been the most popular beer in their taproom. NOTES: “Grapefruit peel.” “Soft and pillowy, cloudy, smooth finish.” “Traditional in a hazy suit.”

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15. UPPER LEFT (OLD TOWN) Old Town is a sneakily good brewer of IPAs; its Shanghai’d won a Great American Beer Festival gold among Englishstyle IPAs three years ago, but that Englishy maltiness kept that beer out of the top slots. But we praised the balance in this Upper Left—a mix of Columbus, Cascade, El Dorado, Rakau and Mosaic hops—though some tasters detected what they thought were brewing flaws. N OT E S : “Nice and balanced.” “Pretty good.” “Burnt caramel.” 16. POST UP (OLD TOWN) Like we said, Old Town is a sneakily good brewer of IPAs. This mix of Columbus, Nugget, El Dorado, Cascade and Amarillo was a bit of an experiment—the brewery aimed for a sort of “fruity-piney” thing. That’s what it got. NOTES: “Spicy, earthy, toothsome and reckless.” “Fruity, but not too much.”

17. SABERTOOTH KUSH (MCMENAMINS CRYSTAL) In some ways, this was our favorite high-shower in the tasting—an IPA made with a cannabis protein designed for a stoner-metal festival. The hemp flavor was pronounced, leading to both lovers and haters. NOTES: “Diesel, OG Kush, but actually pretty nice.” “Dank, weedy. Hemp. All the marijuanas.” “Dank! Earthy. Upfront bitterness, smooth finish.” “Cannabis kills the hops.” 18. ROYALE IPA (ROYALE) Royale resisted making IPAs for the first two years of its existence, before spending all year going through a round of betas. Well, turns out it was worth the wait—with aromatics balanced in a heady stew of Amarillo, Azacca, Idaho 7, Mosaic and Meridian hops. Our tasters found it balanced and pleasant, though one thought it was a brazen play for the middle of the market. NOTES: “Clean, fresh, balanced.” “Very soft and pleasant.” “Classique IPA.” “OK, I get it…probably sells well.” 19. ORDERVILLE (MODERN TIMES) San Diego-based Modern Times had just one Portland-brewed IPA on tap that fit our criteria for the tasting—an intensely fragrant, lightly hazy Orderville mixing Mosaic and “dank hops.” Tasters liked the balance—or found the balance boring. NOTES: “Mosaic blended, good job. Finishes like a gin and pineapple with the warmth.” “Classic and flawless.” “Wide range of hops. Balanced/boring.” “Dank— touch of Mosaic?” 20. ALTERNATOR (ALAMEDA) This was a weird one. Made with Bravo, Chinook, Cascade and an experimental hop known only as 0207, Alameda’s IPA tasted like bubble gum, an intentional product of how the brewery treats its water. NOTES: “It’s the zebra with colorful stripes. Fruit Stripe gum.” “Bubble yummy.” WILD-CARD TASTING WINNER: PILLOW TALK (10 BARREL) This Portland-brewed entry from 10 Barrel easily won its way past its competitors in an eight-brew wild-card tasting—earning a berth as the 11th tap in our top 10 tasting. Nonetheless, the clean, lovely, lightly hazy beer did not manage to crack the top 10 at the public taste-off. In a flight of hop monsters, some tasters wanted the hops to be a bit more aggressive. N O T E S : “Golden, smooth.” “A little malty—not much hop.” “Hazy but piney?” 

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PAPER CHASE R: A voter mulls her ballot at the IPA tasting at Reverend Nat’s.

8. WAY WITH WORDS RUSE ’Hood: Kerns ABV: 6 percent

If it weren’t for a split-second decision by Ruse Brewing founders Shaun Kalis and Devin Benware, Ruse’s crystal-clear Way With Words would be yet another of the hazy hop bombs taking over Portland. The beer was originally meant to be an experiment laying powdery Kölsch yeast from Germany onto a New England IPA base. But a quick gut decision on the brewstand had the two throwing in a dose of crisp, light, dry California ale yeast. “We love New England-style IPAs, but sometimes it’s so chewy that it’s hard to drink multiple in a row,” says Kalis. “We love that this beer is so crushable.” Dry and drinkable, Way With Words goes down as breezily as a summer thriller. The clean, quickclearing yeast chewed through all the flashy framework that would normally have formed a juicy East Coast hop bomb—pillowy calcified water, a heavy dose of oats, and massive late additions of Mosaic and a lesser-known hop called Cashmere—to create an invigorating hybrid with gorgeous notes of citrus, overripe mango, and a sprinkle of bitterness on the finish.

Last-minute inspirations are common for the pair, who’ve been brewing out of Culmination’s brewhouse just north of Sandy Boulevard for two years, and will soon open their own brick-and-mortar location in Sellwood. “I think the next step in this whole progression of the IPA is going to be this new thing,” says Benware, “It’s not going to just be this hazy thing.” The IPAs of the future, they think, will pair modern New England hopping rates with dry and drinkable beers. A recent batch also saw the pair using both New England IPA yeast and West Coast ale yeast in a triple IPA made for hop haven N.W.I.P.A. “We’re going to just start calling them all IPAs,” says Benware of Ruse’s future hoppy ales. “We might drop the ‘New England’ or the ‘West Coast.’” PARKER HALL.

9. DESTROYAH HOPWORKS URBAN BREWERY ’Hood: Creston-Kenilworth ABV: 6.6 percent

The path to Destroyah started with a Belgianstyle Pig War. Christian Ettinger, founder of 11-year-old bike-friendly Powell Boulevard brewery Hopworks, always liked a 2012 white IPA they brewed called Pig War, inspired in part by Belgium’s Poperinge hommelbier. He refers to the beer as a “magical combination of wheat and hops.” That was before hazy beers took over the Portland brewing landscape. With a wheat and oat base, Destroyah amps up Pig War to a massively fruity New England-style IPA with a blast of fruit flavor—mixing homegrown Simcoe with newschool tropical hops from New Zealand called Wakatu and Ekuanot. Destroyah is like a passionfruit smoothie, redolent with malt and fruit aromas—and at 6.6 percent ABV, it’s perilously drinkable. “There’s something magical about the haze that drives hop flavor,” Ettinger says. “The nucleation sites [proteins in the haze] seem to be a nice place for the hop oils to grab on.” One’s tongue is also a pretty chill place for them as well–and Hopworks will be pushing out six more hazies this spring. But Destroyah destroys most every IPA in town—and it’s available in 16-ounce cans at your

local supermarket. Make sure to check the sell-by dates: You want this one fresh. Nonetheless, we were curious about the beer’s name. Ettinger smiled and pulled up a Godzilla video on his phone. “Because Godzilla is cool,” he says. “We like flame-breathing monsters.” DON SCHEIDT.

10. EAST GLISAN MOSAIC MONTAVILLA BREW WORKS ’Hood: Montavilla ABV: 6.3 percent

Most West Coast IPAs are not great food beers—an aggressive stew of citrus aromatics, dank diesel and a bittering pine blast that car-bombs your palate. But Montavilla Brew Works’ East Glisan Mosaic is both fruity and delicate, the rare balanced IPA with a malty backbone that doesn’t distract from its tropical Mosaic hops. Brewer Michael Kora brewed the IPA as the house beer for East Glisan Pizza just blocks from his Southeast Stark Street brewery, where it will be served alongside the city’s best saucy, meaty, cheesy, thick-crust Detroitstyle pies every Tuesday and Saturday. Kora had already collaborated with several local businesses on special beers, and he’d already met the East Glisan Pizza owners at a neighborhood business association meeting even before the former homebrewer started Montavilla Brew Works in 2015. East Glisan was inspired by a popular seasonal fresh hop beer that Kora brewed in 2017 called Tangled Up in Hops. “We basically brewed a non-fresh hop version of Tangled,” says Kora. The result was one of the best new IPAs in Portland this year—a result that shouldn’t be surprising given that Montavilla’s Flam Tap IPA was voted as one of Portland’s top 10 IPAs in WW’s all-Portland blind tasting two years ago, when Montavilla was only 6 months old. East Glisan takes some of the old-school notions of backing up an IPA with a chewy malt base, but goes new school with the superpopular Mosaic hop variety and more finishing hops for heavier aromatics. “East Glisan Mosaic IPA has a way different flavor and aroma of mango, dank herb and berries,” says Kora. “People who like Mosaic hops really like this IPA. We really like it too.” EZRA JOHNSON-GREENOUGH.

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of the boutique. The shop also imports some of their goods and works with a few small local “Sustainability” is the biggest buzzword in Port- producers, such as a Gresham seamstress who land fashion. Speak to womenswear designers, dropped off two large bags of flower-patterned boutique owners and vintage resellers, and your travel bags on a recent visit. conversation will quickly turn to the ethical “We want to show these beautiful fabrics,” implications of minimizing production waste says Katsu Tanaka, Kiriko Made’s owner and and the joys of rescuing old garments from small- creative director. “What is the best way to show town Goodwills and junk shops. it? Many of the Japanese products are for a niche Kiriko Made takes Portland’s sustainability market. Instead of making Japanese products ethos, wraps it in a cozy layer of woven indigo, with Japanese fabrics, we’re making dopp kits and ratchets it up to the extreme. Tattered and backpacks.” vintage blankets are imported from Japan and Tanaka is a veteran of Portland’s fashion patched with once-discarded squares of cotton. scene, having opened Old Town streetwear Kimonos are tailored to constalwart Compound Gallery temporary cuts, the excess in 2002. He started Kiriko “A LOT OF FABRICS Made as an online retailer cut from the garments’ traTHAT WE USE HAVE ditionally long sleeves fashin 2013, opening a storefront ioned into spacious pockets. less than two blocks away LASTED 50 YEARS, Scraps of fabric are tightly from Compound in 2016. As rolled and sewn together HOPEFULLY THEY LAST far as fashion goes, the two into multicolored floor mats. ANOTHER 50 YEARS.” businesses couldn’t be more different. Such fabrics—some of which —KATSU TANAKA, are up to 50 years old—are “I was getting really tired relics of a garment culture of how fast the fashion scene KIRIKO MADE’S OWNER that is fast waning among was working,” says Tanaka. “When we started Compound, there were three Japanese youth. “Younger people [in Japan] are no longer and a half [fashion] seasons. Now, there are six interested in the traditional arts-and-crafts or seven seasons. Within a month, everything is scenes anymore, because they’re interested in devalued 25 percent. Within three months, its 50 Western culture,” says Momoko Kanaoka, Kiriko percent. So we asked, ‘What’s the value?’ Here, Made’s product designer and production manag- we’re balancing it out a little bit.” er. “The whole industry of traditional Japanese Tanaka and Kanaoka don’t just strive for a arts and crafts is dying.” zero-waste business. In using scraps of fabric and Kiriko Made doesn’t sell Japan’s cultural repurposing unwanted traditional garments into ephemera to fetishizing Americans, but takes modern fashion items, they aim to turn others’ traditional Japanese fabrics and design tech- leftovers into products with emotional value. niques and applies them to goods for today’s hip “A lot of fabrics that we use have lasted 50 consumers. Many of Kiriko Made’s products are years,” says Tanaka. “We give them another life, one of a kind—blankets, bags, jackets and vintage so hopefully they last another 50 years.” Levi’s are hand-repaired with imported vintage fabrics by one of Kanaoka’s in-house seamstress- GO: Kiriko Made, 325 NW Couch St., 503-2220335, kirikomade.com. Instagram: kirikomade. es, who work in an open studio space at the back Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

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R.I.P. CITY Did Portland accidentally turn into the totalitarian dreamworld imagined by Ursula K. Le Guin in The Lathe of Heaven? BY MATTH E W KO RFH AGE

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If there’s one thing we learned from YouTube and the Oregonian letters page, it’s that Ursula K. Le Guin was almost always right. When she died in January at age 88, she was Portland’s greatest novelist, a titan of science fiction and an increasingly public figure speaking out on publishing rights and politics. One of her most lasting works—the only one to transfer to the screen as an object of obsession—was a 1971 dystopia called The Lathe of Heaven. It was set in 2002, in a broken-down, totalitarian Portland where the book’s protagonist discovers he can control reality with his dreams. North Portland DIY concert space Anarres Infoshop (named after Le Guin’s fictional planet where gender is utterly fluid, from her novel The Left Hand of Darkness) will pay tribute to the author with a screening of the 1980 cult TV movie based on the book. We decided to put our hypothesis to the test by stacking up Le Guin’s predicted future Portland against the genuine article. PREDICTION: The national government becomes a vague, menacing and totalitarian presence—distorted by the New Federal Constitution of 1984. REALITY: The national government is a vague, menacing and totalitarian presence—distorted by the Reagan landslide of 1984. VERDICT: URSULA WAS RIGHT! PREDICTION: After years of carbon emissions and unchecked industry, the temperature in Portland climbs to a lurid, unseasonable 70 degrees in March, raining “ceaselessly, steadily, tepidly. It was like living in a downpour of warm soup, forever.” REALITY: We did that two years ago. And last year, our rainy season had more wet days than any on record. If we remember correctly, it was ceaseless and tepid. VERDICT: URSULA WAS RIGHT! PREDICTION: At 209 W Burnside St. is a lawyer’s office in a converted former automatic parking garage where all the floors have “a curious slant, a skewness, which meant that one was never entirely convinced that one was standing quite upright.” REALITY: For 36 years, the Alexis Greek restaurant felt the exact same way—but that was mostly due to grappa. Meanwhile, Holden Steel announced plans in 2017 to build a series of 15 “robo-garages,” stacking cars one atop the other. VERDICT: URSULA WAS WRONG! 22

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PREDICTION: The South Waterfront is filled with condo towers dense and gleaming with life. REALITY: The South Waterfront is filled with condo towers gleaming in eerie, discomfiting silence. VERDICT: URSULA WAS RIGHT! PREDICTION: Pittock Mansion becomes a government office complex. REALITY: Pittock Mansion becomes an event space available only to Gold-Level Corporate Members. VERDICT: URSULA WAS WRONG! PREDICTION: Mount Hood blows its top, filling the air with gray ash and devouring the people who remain on its slopes with creeping lava. REALITY: She picked the wrong mountain. VERDICT: URSULA WAS HALF-RIGHT! PREDICTION: Portlanders will be sent off to fight in a war in Afghanistan that expands to entangle much of the Middle East. REALITY: Mostly rural Oregonians were sent off to fight in a war in Afghanistan that has expanded to entangle much of the Middle East. VERDICT: URSULA WAS RIGHT! PREDICTION: Portland builds dramatically across its rivers, with 16 bridges crisscrossing the Willamette and nine tunnels underneath. The Marquam is a destroyed, moldering husk of ramp. REALITY: Instead of building lots of new bridges, we just rebuild the same bridges over and over—including the Marquam. VERDICT: URSULA WAS WRONG! PREDICTION: An optimistic technocrat clumsily seeks to remake the entire city of Portland into a utopia modeled after the reality-altering dreams of a drug-positive parks employee. REALITY: This seems pretty accurate. VERDICT: URSULA WAS RIGHT! GO: Honoring Ursula: A Sci-Fi Event to Honor Ursula K. Le Guin is at Anarres Infoshop and Community Space, 7101 N Lombard St., facebook.com/anarresinfoshop, on Sunday, March 4. Open mic 3 pm, The Lathe of Heaven screening 5 pm. $5 suggested donation. All ages.

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DEADPOOL PARTY: Actor Ryan Reynolds is now a “significant” owner of Portland’s Aviation Gin, he announced Feb. 21. “About a year ago, I tried Aviation for the first time,” the Deadpool star told Forbes. “Since that day, I’ve spent my time finding some way to infiltrate the company. I did this for one simple reason: It’s the best damn gin on the planet.” Though House Spirits still makes the gin—one of the first great success stories in Portland craft distilling—the distillery already sold its gin brand to New York marketing firm Davos Brands in 2016 to finance production of its scratch-made whiskey. Reynolds will now sit on Aviation’s board and serve as creative director for the brand. HASTA LA VISTA: Last week, several Portland bike shops announced a boycott of Vista Outdoor, a parent company to some of the nation’s largest bike manufacturers, which also makes assault rifles and ammunition, and staunchly supports the National Rifle Association. The boycott was spurred by a blog written by Bike Portland, which reported on Vista’s political affiliations. Clever Cycles and Recumbent PDX announced on Twitter that they currently do not sell and will continue not to stock products from any Vista subsidiaries, while Sellwood Cycles released a statement saying it would no longer stock Vista’s products. Gladys Bikes announced it had recently placed a large order with Giro, which Vista owns, before the news broke, and will donate proceeds from sales of its current and pending inventory to Everytown for Gun Safety.

EXTRA GRAVY: Popular Mississippi Avenue breakfast and lunch spot Gravy will open a second location this spring, in the space of former Sandy Boulevard vegan restaurant Harvest at the Bindery. Harvest closed suddenly Jan. 3 after the death of owner Jon Steuer. Gravy owner Marc Greco had not been actively looking for a second location but says after a broker contacted him, the sale happened with uncommon speed. He will take over the lease from Steuer’s family. “I feel bad for his folks,” he says. “They wanted to be done with it. Just being there was hard for them.” Greco says he’ll take his restaurant concept largely unchanged into the new space, serving his signature scrambles, hashes, egg sandwiches and fluffy biscuits— but he may consider opening for happy hour starting in the summer.

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THE LIFE AQUAVIT: Three months after Latin-fusion spot Oba closed in the Pearl District after 20 years, River Pig owner and Kachka partner Ramzy Hattar told Portland Monthly he planned to open an ambitious new 8,000-square-foot cocktail lounge and occasional music venue called Zizou in the space. Hattar hopes the posh lounge will serve as a venue for cozy, quiet performances by megastars who have played bigger shows earlier in the night—much the same way Boyz II Men did at River Pig after a show at the Schnitz in June 2017. Zizou will also serve as a pop-up kitchen space for celebrity chefs when not serving food by Hattar’s sister, Tamara Hattar, currently cooking at Ava Gene’s.

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Wednesday, Feb. 28

Thursday, March 1

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Urban Bush Women

Uniique has been spreading the gospel of jersey club, the hyper-localized dance phenomenon of her hometown of Newark, N.J. It's an addictive sound that has found its way into DJ sets all over the world—she’s a big reason why. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 50-3239-7639, holocene. org. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Lean on Pete

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Lean on Pete is a soft, sad book written by Portland author Willy Vlautin about an orphaned boy who tries to save a racehorse. It is now a soft and sad movie starring a young actor named Charlie Plummer alongside Steve Buscemi and Chloe Sevigny. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-2211156, nwfilm.org. 7 pm. $12.

It’s been almost two decades since New York dance collaborative Urban Bush Women first premiered Hair Stories, an exuberant, theatrical performance about the relationship black women have with their hair. Now, they’re reviving the show with the same message but different stories. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503-245-1600, whitebird.org. 8 pm. Through March 3. $25-$38.

Haley Heynderickx With a voice and breadth of vision that recall Angel Olsen, Portland’s Haley Heynderickx is a wide-ranging talent. On her excellent debut LP, I Need to Start a Garden, the singer-songwriter effortlessly commingles humor and philosophy. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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Saturday, March 3

Sunday, March 4

Brockhampton

SheBrew Beer Festival

Mission Theater Oscars Viewing Party

This 15-member juggernaut is part rap group, part startup—but they prefer the term “all-American boy band.” The Texas collective flooded the market last year with their appropriately named Saturation series of mixtapes. The strategy paid off, as the group is already playing stages large enough to contain them. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 9 pm. $35. All ages. See page 29.

Black Out Beer Fest For lovers of the dark arts, Lompoc is playing host to 20 stouts, porters, coffee beers and black IPAs from all over the Northwest, whether Breakside, Zoiglhaus, Pfriem or Buoy—plus one Dutch beer from Oproer. The next day, nurse your hangover at Lompoc’s chowder challenge. Lompoc Sidebar, 3901A N Williams Ave., 503-288-3996, lompocbrewing.com. 4-10 pm. $20 for a glass and eight tasters.

SheBrew is a brewfest devoted to burying the default picture of the bearded dude brewer. All beers poured at the fest will be poured by women brewers—10 homebrewers, plus 20 pro brewers. Buckman Coffee Factory, 1105 SE Main St, 503-970-5497, shebrew.beer. Noon-8 pm. $20 for a glass and 10 tasters.

Lauren Weedman at Back Fence PDX The Back Fence live storytelling event is now in its 10th year, so it’s brought out the big guns. Lauren Weedman, whose solo shows sell out pretty much immediately, will head a group of funny-talkers that also includes local comic Caitlin Weierhauser. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdintheater.com. 7 pm. $10-$22. 21+.

The Oscars are basically just pomp and circumstance—and no one understands pomp better than drag queens. Mission’s annual viewing party is helmed by veteran host Poison Waters. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 503-223-4527, mcmenamins.com/ mission-theater. 5 pm. Free.

Kodachrome Kodachrome, a world premiere play, is a series of romantic vignettes vividly brought to life by alluring set design. It’s at once a love story, mischievous comedy and supernatural dream. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 503-445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm. Through March 18. $25-$42.

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Tuesday, March 6

Thunderpussy

Between Riverside and Crazy New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is one of theater’s most irreverent voices—his last play was called The Motherfucker With the Hat. His most recent play, and his first to win a Pulitzer, follows a family comprising a retired cop, his recently paroled son and a recovering addict named Oswaldo. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm. Through April 1. $10.

Just as Elvis as Iggy, Thunderpussy sucks up all of rock music’s most romantic iterations and spits out a blood-tinged sex potion. They aren’t just the next thing; they’re the new thing. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 8:30 pm. $15. 21+. F e ar N o Music p r esen ts

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This concert focuses on contemporary classical music by today’s Mexican and MexicanAmerican composers. Works range from eruptive to playful, while composer Juan Pablo Contreras’ sadly relevant “Silence in Juárez” commemorates the teenage victims of a 2011 mass murder. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031, fearnomusic.org. 7:30 pm. $10-$25. All ages.

THUNDERPUSSY

Comic Patton Oswalt is touring the nation in support of the true-crime book about the Golden State Killer written by his late wife Michelle McNamara, who died in 2016. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is an account of the man who terrorized California for more than 10 years. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 503-228-4651, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

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You can’t talk about Oregon IPA without talking about Tyler Brown. And we’re talking a lot about IPA this week. Willamette Week’s fifth Beer Guide, featuring the best beer destinations in Oregon, hits stands this week. And our cover story anoints the best IPA made in Portland, as determined by a panel of experts who tried damn near every IPA made in the city and then sent the top 10 to a blind public judging. So it makes sense to talk about Tyler Brown, who is arguably the best brewer of hoppy beers in the state, and whose Baker City brewpub turns 20 this year. Barley Brown’s is also one of the great stories in Oregon beer. Brown’s family are veterans of the restaurant industry who hopped from business to business before finally opening one of the state’s great beer destinations. In 2013, Brown took home gold in American India pale ale at the Great American Beer Festival, the most hotly contested category at the country’s biggest, most prestigious beer competition. Pallet Jack, which you’ll now find on taps all around Portland, is one of only three Oregon IPAs ever to scale the highest peak in hopdom. (Pallet Jack followed BridgePort’s 1997 win and preceded Breakside’s win the following year.) Tyler Brown’s brewpub was also named the best very small brewery in the country. And it all happened because of a broken-down van. In 1974, the Brown family was moving from Connecticut to Seattle when their VW clunked out on the highway near Baker City. They liked the look of the place and decided to stay. It was a big adjustment for 7-year-old Tyler Brown. “We lived in the edge of town in a motel called the Lariat Motel,” he says. “I remember being signed up for school late—we missed the first few weeks—and showing up at school and telling the kids, with my East Coast accent, that my parents broke down here, we live here,

and we live in the motel. And trying not to get beaten up.” Today, Brown’s speech has the soft accent of the intermountain West. He might have spent his earliest years in Milford, with a dad from Philadelphia and a mom from New York City, but Brown has become fully inculturated in the ways of the Eastern Oregon town. In fact, he’s pretty much the town mascot by owning the town’s most prominent business and three restaurants in all—including Sumpter Junction, a train-themed diner on the edge of town, with hangover-curing eggs Benedict that are legendary in the beer industry. After Brown persuaded kids not to beat him up, he had an idyllic childhood. “You rode your bicycle to school, you rode your bicycle to the ball field,” he says. Not that it was easy for the Browns. When they first arrived, Tyler’s dad, Bill, got a job as a farmhand driving a combine. Bill Brown had never worked on a farm, and the job was short-lived. “Winter came and he got laid off, and when he got laid off, he went and applied for a job at a restaurant called Fancy Dan’s,” Brown says. “Fancy Dan’s was very ’70s—purple, orange, green, neon lights, cursive. I remember my dad’s shift uniform was neon orange with a purple handkerchief thing and bell-bottoms.” But the Browns put down roots. Bill Brown eventually acquired partial ownership of a new truck stop on the edge of town and became an owner-operator for a decade. Then they opened a bakery downtown, which lasted until Safeway and Albertsons opened bakeries that undersold them. That evolved into a restaurant called Windmill Inn, which had a Dutch partner. “Which, to this day, is still the corporate name,” Brown says. “Employees get their paychecks, and it says, ‘Windmill Enterprises,’ and they ask why, and it’s like, ‘Eh, it’s too long of a story.’”

The Windmill didn’t work, but they turned it into a restaurant called the Brass Parrot. “We tried all sorts of different concepts, from gourmet burgers, pizzas—I can’t remember everything we tried doing,” Brown says. “The thing that caught on and worked was Mexican food. Just by default, because there wasn’t a Mexican restaurant in town, it worked. Until a family of Mexicans moved to town and opened a Mexican restaurant, and we couldn’t compete.” That Mexican-run Mexican restaurant, El Erradero, is still in downtown Baker City—Tyler is a regular and good friends with the owner. Around the same time, Brown got interested in homebrewing. He bought a homebrew kit in Boise, where he experimented with malt extract: “It was the best beer I ever had when I drank it,” he says. “My friends didn’t agree.” The idea of opening a brewpub was percolating. Brown, a vociferous reader, had seen an article about America’s first modern brewpub, which had opened in 1982 in tiny Yakima, Wash. Yakima Brewing and Malting Company was owned by Bert Grant and survived 20 years, closing shortly after its founder’s death in 2001. “We talked about it long before we did it,” Brown says. “Bert Grant started up this cool little thin, and that was the first brewpub I was aware of. I remember looking at it in the restaurant magazine, like Nation’s Restaurant News or whatever you get, and it was on the cover. The way I looked at it, if Bert Grant could make that work in Yakima, which is a tiny town, I could do it.” Brown briefly moved to Florida, where he learned to become a Harley-Davidson mechanic—a skill he still uses as a dirt biker. When he came back to Baker City, he decided to open a brewery inside the family business downtown. “It was like, ‘We have a building, everything is in place, we just need to carve out a spot,’” he says. “We removed part of the kitchen and put the brewhouse inside, took out some of the booths from the dining room and put the fermentation out there, and just carved out this little space. The thinking was, back then, it was unique. People like unique.” But in 1998, Brown was finally ready to brew. Or almost ready to brew. “Back then, it was the [federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] that gave you your license. I had to wait for a guy to drive out from Seattle,” Brown says. “It took me a lot of phone calls to get this guy. Our license wasn’t valid until he signed off, so he came out to quiz me. He looked at the kegs to make sure they had the pregnancy warning on them. That’s the only thing he actually looked for. He told me to pay all my taxes, because he would be very angry if he had to travel from Seattle back down here over a tax issue.” At first, the concept was a little too unique. At the time, people still conflated breweries with bars, and families didn’t come in. The first three years “sucked,” Brown says, before a critical mass developed around it. Then “it was like a light switch came on.” That switch has stayed on since. Since 2010, Tyler Brown’s beers have won silver or better at every Great American Beer Festival except one, a rare distinction in blind-judged contests—with golds in everything from wheat beer to chili beer. His brewpub is also the biggest tourism draw in Baker City. Beer lovers regularly drive the five hours from Portland just to pay their respects. When you go, make sure to get a hotel. If you manage to catch Brown at the brewery, he’ll drink you right under the table.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 2

Trattoria

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

Black Out Beer Fest

For lovers of the dark arts, Lompoc is playing host to 20 stouts, porters, coffee beers and black IPAs from all over the Northwest, whether Breakside, Zoiglhaus, Pfriem or Buoy—plus one Dutch beer from Oproer. Nurse your Saturday hangover at Lompoc’s all-city chowder challenge the next day. Lompoc Sidebar, 3901A N Williams Ave., 503-2883996, lompocbrewing.com. 4-10 pm. $20 for a glass and eight tasters.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

(971) 386-5935

SheBrew Beer Festival

SheBrew is a brewfest devoted to burying the default picture of the bearded dude brewer. All beers poured at the fest will be poured by women brewers—10 homebrewers, plus 20 pro brewers. And the winner of the homebrew contest, announced at the fest? She’ll get to brew a beer with Breakside’s Natalie Baldwin. Buckman Coffee Factory, 1105 SE Main St, 503-970-5497, shebrew.beer. Noon-8 pm. $20 for a glass and 10 tasters.

Firkin Fest

Held over from the Green Dragon days, this is the best event Rogue does all year. More than 20 unfiltered, unpasteurized, cask-conditioned ales will be on tap from about as many breweries—including casks from Modern Times, Gigantic, Baerlic and Cider Riot, among others. Rogue Eastside Pub, 928 SE 9th Ave., rogue.com. $10 for a glass and five beer tickets, $25 for a VIP tasting with special beers, oysters and a brewer meet-and-greet.

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HOT PLATES Where to eat this week.

Nimblefish

Bhuna

Kee’s Loaded Kitchen

Bamboo Sushi

Pot N Spicy

1524 SE 20th Ave., 503-719-4064, nimblefishpdx.com. $$$. The former Fukami chef’s new Belmont sushi spot is a corker—with some of the best Edo-style fish and rice you can expect in Portland—plus the city’s best tamago egg sushi.

Mondays at Culmination, 2117 NE Oregon St., 971-254-9114, facebook.com/bhunarestaurant. $$. At Culmination Brewing every Monday, chef Deepak Kaul serves Kashmiri dishes you won’t find anywhere in town—including a wonderful Christmas-spiced lamb and truly splendid greens and kohlrabi.

4709 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-516-2078, facebook.com/KeesLoadedKitchen. $. How did we sleep on this cart for so long? Loaded is the real thing—pure homestyle soul, from wings to ribs to banana custard to amazing baked beans. Check the menu on Facebook Thursday to Sunday, then get there early before it sells out. 310 SE 28th Ave., 503-232-5255, bamboosushi.com. $$-$$$. All of March, the Southeast Bamboo Sushi is bringing brunch back, with kimchi fried-chicken waffles, smoked trout and a bloody mary with togarashi spice and an octopus-tentacle garnish. (pictured above)

8230 SE Harrison St., No. 345, 503-788-7267, potnspicy.com. $. Pot N 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.

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MUSIC FEATURE

Squad Goals Brockhampton is hip-hop’s newest, biggest crew. We ranked the most important members.

BY JU ST I N C A R R O L L-A LLAN @justin_carroll9

Brockhampton is part rap group, part startup, part family, part vision for the future. The 15-member juggernaut of talent and energy, formed by the charismatic Kevin Abstract in San Marcos, Texas, ripped into 2017 with the swiftness and fury of a tornado skidding across Kansas on an unseasonably warm night. Last year, the self-proclaimed first “boy band” of the internet released a series of three albums, the appropriately titled Saturation I-III. They had a show on Viceland called American Boy Band. They performed on MTV’s TRL painted head to toe in blue paint. And they very quickly exploded in popularity, already able to headline stages big enough to contain them. It’s not often that a dozen-plus artists can get behind a singular vision without reserve, and their commitment to the Brockhampton sound is what makes them such a force to be reckoned with. To put them in their proper context, we’ve ranked the performing members of the group in order of importance. This ranking isn’t complete—there’s a shit-ton of members, many of whom play non-performing roles involving graphic design and photography. But it should give you a taste of what Brockhampton is, and a preview of what they’ll surely become. 1. Kevin Abstract Age: 21 Special skill: Cult leader, hook master Every movement needs a leader, someone whose charisma can catch the attention of the world—and in this case, persuade a group of artists to drop everything and move to LA. The Texas-raised rapper has that power. Abstract’s the one who sings all of the band’s infectious hooks, but that’s not his only talent. His verses are nakedly honest, often discussing his queer identity and the consequences of it in the rap world. His music is urgent, new and smooth.

2. Ameer Vann Age: 20 Special skill: Deadpan confessions With his deep, smoky baritone and close-trimmed mustache, Vann looks years older than the rest of the crew even though he’s one of the group’s youngest members. His flow is controlled and subdued compared to the wild, bursting-at-the-seams energy of his peers. Still, don’t mistake his restraint for a lack of skill or talent. Vann is one of the group’s strongest lyricists. His verses have a menacing, nuanced bite that kick around in your brain long after the beat’s faded out. 3. JOBA Age: 23 Special skill: Shapeshifting JOBA—real name: Russell Boring—is a true renaissance man. He first met a handful of future Brockhampton members as a high school student in Houston, recording and engineering some of Abstract’s early work, and realized they had a rare artistic chemistry. Boring’s verses can be hard to identify because his voice is so fluid. On “Boogie,” he sounds like a hysterical mad scientist, while on “Face,” he sings the hook in a soulful falsetto. But “Johnny” features Boring’s best verse yet, discussing sobriety, anxiety and his innate desire to hide from the world with artful poise. 4. Dom McClennon Age: 24 Special skill: Technique Like Kevin Abstract, McClennon forged his own path as a solo artist before joining forces with Brockhampton, and his experience as a seasoned rapper shows. McClennon’s syrupy voice contains an intoxicating, unshakable confidence rare in performers his age. It’s not all swagger—he’s the group’s most technically proficient rapper. His verse on “Gold” is a master class in flow and clever word play. McClennon’s

lyrics aren’t always full of substance, but thanks to his technique, they are always memorable. 5. Merlyn Wood Age: 21 Special skill: Ace Ventura-level physicality Wood oozes emotion into every verse by conscripting his entire body into it. Voice, body, breath—Wood expends all energies to achieve his desired effect. It’s a level of physical animation that calls to mind the likes of Busta Rhymes, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Missy Elliott. Like Busta, Wood takes on various dialects when it suits him. He’s from Texas, but at times it sounds like he hails from Jamaica, Haiti, Queens or Miami. This is perhaps Wood’s greatest talent—the ability to manipulate accents, pronunciation and inflection to create a new, authentic language. 6. Matt Champion Age: 22 Special skill: Smooth flow Champion is a good rapper surrounded by great ones. His lyrics are funny enough, and his delivery is often smooth. Still, when sandwiched between Abstract’s electrifying hooks and JOBA’s hysteric shrieks, his verses are enjoyable but forgettable. He has his moments, though. On “Rental,” Champion showed an unforeseen versatility, singing about giving up everything for love in an angelic, controlled falsetto. The tonal shift in both delivery and theme proves that Champion has earned his seat on the Brockhampton bus. 7. Romil Hemnani Age: 22 Special skill: Banger slangin’ Hemnani, who produced nearly every track on Saturation III, manages to cater to the talents of Brockhampton’s deep and diverse roster. He’s the dude behind all of the singles, and

he’s one of the most interesting production talents in hip-hop. His beats are like a shot of adrenaline straight to the jugular, walking a fine line between big-hearted playfulness and cheesy, bombastic shlock. “Boogie,” the opening track on Saturation III, features two different kind of sirens, a wailing, ’80s-style sax and bone-shaking bassline. It’s big, loud and totally banging. 8. Bearface Age: 24 Special skill: R&B guitar ballads Hailing from Belfast, producer-singer Bearface (real name: Ciaran McDonald) provides a necessary palate cleanser to Brockhampton’s sound. Most Brockhampton songs sprint along at a breakneck clip, but McDonald operates best when things are slowed down, the lights are turned low, and the production is stripped to the bone. On both “Waste” and “Summer,” which close out Saturation I and II, respectively, McDonald sings his heart out over a wailing guitar riff, which unfurls patiently and beautifully in a way that sounds more like a Frank Ocean song than a typical Brockhampton joint. Like an unseasonably warm day in January, McDonald’s songs are a welcome surprise to the Brockhampton experience. 9. Q3 (Jabari Manwa and Kiko Merley) Age: 21 (Manwa), 20 (Merley) Special skill: Synths, horns, vibes The production duo Q3 also takes a more laid-back approach. Their muted horns and catchy synths are for Sunday afternoons as you do laundry, wash dishes, smoke a joint and try to shake off the hangover Saturday night stuck you with. Their style is a great balance to Hemnani’s pedal-to-the-floor approach—after all, an album of nonstop siren noises would give you a hernia. SEE IT: Brockhampton plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, March 2. 9 pm. $35. All ages. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

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MUSIC PROFILE

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C O U R T E SY O F PA L M FAC E B O O K

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28 Uniique, Dai Burger

We Only Go Backwards Philly’s Palm want to turn rock ’n’ roll inside out. As one might expect of a band whose stated goal is “playing rock music backwards,” the music of Philadelphia’s Palm often gets compared to a bad acid trip. The band’s deconstructed rock songs are off-kilter experiments, to be sure. But while the sounds Palm conjures are undoubtedly bracing, they’re never abrasive. They somehow manage to remain melodic and pleasing to the ears—and Palm has never sounded better than they do on Rock Island, their second LP. To achieve this “backwards” rock music, Palm takes many of the form’s traditional norms and recontextualizes them. Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt’s highly modified guitars often do the work of a traditional rhythm section, with drummer Hugo Stanley and bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos’ left-field work pushed to the fore. An example of the band’s many unique flourishes is Kurt’s guitar is modded to sound at times exactly like a steel drum, of all things—a move that sounds outlandish but one the band makes work in spades. “Kasra started using an ’80s Roland MIDI pickup on his guitar, which basically allows you to trigger samples on the guitar, making it a kind of keyboard, but one that still has that guitar sound,” says Alpert over the phone from the tour’s stop in Minneapolis. “It’s cool to not be constricted to guitar sounds. It’s really allowed us to open up our sound even further.” And the Palm sound is indeed very open. The irreverent arrangement of “Color Code” recalls the Dirty Projectors, as does the band’s ability to imbue their songs with a soulfulness too often lacking in indie rock. The band flexes as though “Composite” is going to be a relatively straightforward Beach Boys exercise before morphing into something that sounds like the legendary band filtered through a Halloween funhouse—distorted and rearranged with a hint of unease or nefariousness on the periphery. The striking “Dog Milk” features the aforementioned steel drum sounds prominently at the song’s outset, only to see those melodic tones crumble into chunky dissonance by the track’s conclusion. With so many unique ideas working out for the band, it’s perhaps a surprise to learn that none of the band members had any formal musical training. But Alpert says it’s one of the band’s strengths. “I guess for us it seems like it would be constricting to get a musical education and then try and make really original music,” she says. “For a lot of people who are classically trained, I think it can be hard to break the rules they’re taught, so I think, in a way, not going to school for music has helped us from square one. We just picked up our instruments and started experimenting with what kinds of sounds could come out of them.” DONOVAN FARLEY. SEE IT: Palm plays Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., with Spirit of the Beehive, on Friday, March 2. 9:30 pm. $15. 21+.

[BRICK CITY CLUB ANTHEMS] See Get Busy, page 25. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St, 503-239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Helvetia, Blesst Chest, Wet Fruit

[ALT-ROCK] The Built to Spill connection is obvious with Portland band Helvetia, as the bands share two key members: singer-guitarist Jason Albertini and guitarist Jim Roth. Yet, despite all the similarities, Helvetia is very much its own animal. The group may not be as active as it was a decade ago, but as 2017 EP Sun Chasers proves, the quartet is still hard at work. Blending the wayward guitars of ’90s alt-rock with abrasive garage-rock tendencies and a lo-fi mentality, Helvetia feels nostalgic and timeless all at once. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave, 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1 The Wood Brothers, The Mastersons

[PICKIN’ & PLUCKIN’] Among the resurgence of hard-strumming folk bands, the Wood Brothers stand out. Lead vocalist Oliver Wood’s voice—twangy, hollow and usually instantly recognizable—is the main reason why. Add Chris Wood’s infamous jazz bass to the mix, and the group does a bang-up job of inspiring dancing and stomping. The group has just released their latest record, One Drop of Truth, which follows the formula of their previous albums, with Delta-inspired electric guitar and those ever-important throbbing bass riffs. SETH SHALER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St, 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $25. All ages.

Alex Cameron, Molly Burch

[YOUNG ADULT CONTEMPORARY] Alex Cameron is a slick young Australian guy who writes guileless, high-concept soft-rock songs from the vantage point of abject antiheroes. Get past the exoskeleton of shlock surrounding last year’s Forced Witness, however, and you’ll find tender AOR gold with studio production that’s way too high-end to be a bad joke. If dirtbag disco becomes a thing, we’ll undoubtedly have Alex Cameron to thank. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Porches, Girl Ray

[SOFTBOY POP] Already neck deep in unironic soft-rock flourishes, The House finds Aaron Maine digging even deeper for chintzy sounds to make modern again under his Porches moniker. The magic lies in Maine’s ability to throw vocod-

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MUSIC ers, U.K. big-beat samples and drippy lovers-rock textures into a blender and emerge with something fresh and earnest without ever feeling like some kind of bad normcore megamix. PETE COTTELL. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 503-206-7439. 6:30 pm. $15. All ages.

DaiKaiju, King Gidhora, Titty Babies

[SILVER SURFERS] There’s a dearth of information about DaiKaiju on the internet, but that’s by design. The anonymous members of this spaced-out, high-energy surf-rock band employ stage names like Secret Man, Rock Man, Blast Man and Pulse Man. Apparently they wear Kabuki masks on stage and generally don’t do interviews. But the live performances are reportedly legendary. Time Out Beijing awarded the band “Best show by a foreign touring act” in a tie with Public Image, Ltd. In reality, these guys are from Alabama, but moved to Houston, one assumes in order to get closer to the Johnson Space Center. Fans of Man or Astroman take heed, and blast off. NATHAN CARSON. Twilight Cafe and Bar, 1420 SE Powell Blvd, 503-232-3576. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Lee Ann Womack, Eddie Berman

[COUNTRY] It’s been 18 years since Lee Ann Womack danced into America’s hearts with her country-pop crossover hit, “I Hope You Dance”—the timeless anthem for graduations and weddings that reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Her ninth studio album, The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone, harks back to her Texas roots with jukebox ballads, country gospels and Southern Gothic tunes. If you get the choice to sit with your arms crossed or dance—well, you know the rest. LAUREN KERSHNER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503-231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

Santana

[HOT ONES] Carlos Santana has accomplished a lot in his career— he played Woodstock, helped bring Latin rock into the American mainstream, piled up Grammys and sold a shit-ton of records—so it’s a shame the first thing that pops into most people’s heads at the mention of his name is the sweaty face of Rob Thomas growling lecherously about the weather. “Smooth,” the ubiquitous single from his 1999 global smash Supernatural, is up there with Smash Mouth’s “All Star” as a song that’s now more meme than music, and all he really did was play guitar on it. Of course, given that Thomas’s meteorological come-ons inspired every horny mom on the planet to buy the album, thus keeping the guy with his name on the cover from having it slum it on the classic-rock casino circuit, the joke is probably on us. But after 20 years of chasing the Supernatural formula to considerably less success, it seems Santana himself has grown nostalgic for the “old” Santana. 2016’s Santana IV, his last album of original material, reunites most of the band from his ‘60s heyday for a successful backto-basics set of searing solos, percolating percussion and soulful mysticism. And man, it’s a hot one. MATTHEW SINGER. Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 300 N Winning Way, 503-235-8771. 8 pm. $48-$123. All ages.

Architects, Stick To Your Guns, Counterparts

[PROGGY METALCORE] Innovation isn’t synonymous with success, and this show’s lineup is proof. All three of these bands came out of the gate playing blistering metalcore, but only one has stayed committed to the head-spinning instrumental prowess that drives the genre’s most iconic bands. Architects initially combined Dillinger Escape Plan’s math-y rhythms with more emotive, pop-oriented music,

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but on their past four albums, including 2016’s All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, they have become increasingly formulaic. Counterparts, on the other hand, sound better with each ensuing album. Last year’s You’re Not You Anymore proved that there’s still ample room in metalcore for inventive songwriting and emotional depth, despite the fact that many of the genre’s long-in-thetooth veterans have been spinning their wheels for years. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503284-8686. 7 pm. $25 advance, $27 day of show. All ages.

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 ZZ Ward, Billy Raffoul, Black Pistol Fire

[BLUES ROCK] Husky-voiced, fedora-wearing femme fatale ZZ Ward is a force to be reckoned with. Since moving from Roseburg, Ore., to Los Angeles, the singer-songwriter has released two full-length albums, collaborated with Kendrick Lamar, rocked Coachella and even toured with Eric Clapton. She’s had songs from her debut album, Till the Casket Drops, featured on popular TV shows, including Pretty Little Liars and Shameless. From small screens to big stages, Ward’s music reveals an irresistibly unique fusion of gritty blues-rock and smooth R&B. LAUREN KERSHNER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St, 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $29.50$99. All ages.

MONDAY, MARCH 5 Thunderpussy

[HAMMER OF THE GAWDS] See Get Busy, page 25. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St, 503231-9663. 8:30 pm. $15. 21+.

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 The Dears, Camp Crush, Lili St. Anne

[ART ROCK] It’s hard to believe that husband-and-wife duo the Dears has been at it for over 20 years. The group’s sturdy earlyaughts art rock opened the floodgates for the likes of Arcade Fire, New Pornographers and Wolf Parade. While they’ve yet to match anything as fetching as 2003’s No Cities Left, the Montreal act’s newest effort, Times Infinity Volume Two, is a crafty offering, full of the band’s signature vocal harmonies and melodic, everbusy guitar lines. Perhaps most importantly, it translates well to an acoustic tour, which they are currently on. Leave your earplugs at home—you’re not gonna need ’em this time. MARK STOCK. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd, 503-233-7100. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

Movements, Can’t Swim, Super Whatevr, Gleemer

[EMO] The new wave of emo is getting pretty crowded, but it’s still easy enough to parse out who’s worth a listen by checking the production credits on their latest release. Movements are the latest in a long line of bands like Title Fight and Balance and Composure to employ the services of Will Yip, the Philadelphia studio mastermind who’s essentially become the Steve Albini of emo’s fourth wave. On last year’s Feel Something, the SoCal quartet combines the fury of ’80s hardcore with the seething guitars of those aforementioned acts, while the vocals provide introspective melodies that serve as a stark counterpoint to the roiling angst of the arrangements. PETE COTTELL. The Analog Cafe, 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd, 206-7439. 6:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Herbie Hancock

[JAZZ MASTER] Herbie Hancock’s story begins with his work as a Miles Davis sideman and Blue Note recording artist in the early ’60s and spans all the way up to the 21st century in his role as the face of the Bose Wave Radio infomercials. His fusion classic Headhunters is one of the best-selling Jazz albums of all time, and he’s been giving recent lectures on poetry at Harvard. Hancock helped usher in the age of breakdance, hip-hop and MTV with his groundbreaking hit “Rockit” and has over 40 solo studio albums in his discography. He’s the definition of an elder statesman who “made it.” And if all that isn’t enough, he somehow managed to make the keytar cool. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, March 2. $24-$115. All ages.

Burn After Listening New Music presents (Dis)connect: New Music for Challenging Times

[MULTIMEDIA MUSIC] Three of Portland’s most forward-looking composers—Lisa Ann Marsh, Stacey Philipps and Jennifer Wright—join forces in the newmusic collective Burn After Listening to present original, approachable new music in nontraditional settings. Their latest multimedia-enhanced extravaganza, which happens amid the found blue plastic objects comprising Portia Munson’s art installation Flood at Disjecta gallery, boasts video, dancer Christina Wolken and writer Katie Boehnlein. The main event is several new acoustic and electronic creations variously featuring singer Laura Beckel Thoreson, violist Christina Ebersohl and Oregon’s finest chamber ensemble, Delgani String Quartet, along with percussion and a variety of keyboards, including Wright’s crazy, deconstructed Skeleton Piano. BRETT CAMPBELL. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate. 7:30 pm Saturday, March 3. $10 for students, $20 general admission, $50 VIP. All ages.

The Broken Consort

[SISTERS DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES] Eight centuries ago, in what’s now Spain, rebellious 13th-century Cistercian nuns founded a convent that allowed them to explore their minds and music without patriarchal interference. Their virtuosic vocal compositions are the earliest music on Broken Consort’s nearly millennium-spanning program of women’s music. Three centuries later, a group of female Italian professional musicians got similar notions of self-realization, forming their own pioneering performance and improv society, and demanding equal pay for equal creative work. These concerts by a sextet of performers from San Francisco, Boston, LA, New York, Baltimore and Portland also include works by three leading contemporary female American composers— Meredith Monk, Kate Super and Pauline Oliveros—plus the premiere of Maggie Finnegan’s autobiographical cantata based on a rape survivor’s tale and BC leader Emily Lau’s In Praise of Menstruation. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Hallowed Halls, 4420 SE 64th Ave 97206, 503-319-8329. 2 pm Sunday, March 4. $10-$50. All ages.

Fear No Music presents Sin Miedo a la Música

[MODERN MEXICO] See Get Busy, page 25. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave, 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Monday, March 5. $10-$25. All ages.

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Haley Heynderickx I NEED TO START A GARDEN (MAMA BIRD RECORDING CO.) [FUTURE FOLK STAR] On her excellent debut LP, Haley Heynderickx effortlessly commingles humor and philosophy with the grace of an artist well beyond her years. With a voice and breadth of vision that recall Angel Olsen, the Portland singersongwriter ’s music extends beyond typical folk and indie realms. Whether she’s considering a female god carrying a knock-off Coach bag and “big hips and thick lips” in the charming “Untitled God Song” or unspooling the eight-minute guitar-driven epic “Worth It,” Heynderickx’s deft amalgamation of fragility and strength is on display throughout I Need to Start a Garden. The latter song begins with languidly strummed guitars accompanying the singer’s concerns that, “Maybe I’ve been selfish for these sounds,” before coming to the cathartic realization during the song’s exultant peak that “Maybe I, maybe I’ve been worth it.” Heynderickx’s distinctive lyrics are buoyed by intriguingly paired arrangements, such as the sudden piano and string flourishes on “Show You a Body” that provide an extra kick to the lines “Fate is a sundress ripped at the thigh/Thigh high and safety net/Swarmed by the hornet’s nest/To cover my eyes.” Garden stands as a potent debut that seems destined to propel Heynderickx into the national spotlight. DONOVAN FARLEY. SEE IT: Haley Heynderickx plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Vikesh Kapoor, on Thursday, March 1. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Candace NEW RUINS (SELF-RELEASED) [DREAMGAZE] Since changing their name from Is/Is, Candace has quietly evolved into one of Portland’s finest dream-rock outfits. Their most obvious influence has always been Slowdive, with 2016’s New Future seeing the trio alternate between the shoegaze legends’ split personalities as pedal-stomping rockers and atmospheric expressionists. On New Ruins, Candace paints with tones and textures drawn mostly from the latter, often to stunning results. Reverb drips off each note of the opener “Sunlight” like condensation in an old-growth forest at dawn, but Candace takes extra care to make sure their heavenly vocal harmonies cut through the fog with laserlike precision. While the resurgence of shoegaze has birthed legions of young bands who lean on spatial effects to mask shoddy songwriting, the best tracks from New Ruins would sound just as good in their purest form. Aside from the subtle touches of distortion that punctuate the breezy loner ballad “Wallflower” and the minor chords of “Mendocino,” the album’s nine tracks unfold as an ambling and subdued affair. Candace are undoubtedly capable of the violent dynamics pivotal to the shoegaze genre they flirt with, but New Ruins deserves praise for proving that truly blissful guitar music doesn’t always need deafening volume for its beauty to make an impact. PETE COTTELL. SEE IT: Candace plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with the Ghost Ease and Lavender Flu, on Friday, March 2. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

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MUSIC CALENDAR 3000 NE Alberta St Altan, Lúnasa, Kevin Burke

Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St J. Moses & The Ragged Sunday

Alberta Street Pub

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

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St The Delta Bombers

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Good Old War, Justin Nozuka

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Yung Pinch

Jack London Revue 529 SW 4th Ave Rebecca Kilgore

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Late Shift

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Helvetia, Blesst Chest, Wet Fruit

426 SW Washington St The Thesis

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Wednesday Night Zydeco

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Nate Wey, Skin Lies, Smiling Strange

THU. MARCH 1 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Pink Martini Presents Kathleen Saadat

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Jaycob Van Auken; McDougall & Friends

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Oregon Symphony presents Blind Pilot

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St Exhumed, Incantation, Phobia, Petrification, Ninth Circle

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St The Wood Brothers, The Mastersons

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St Mickey Avalon & Dirt Nasty

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Alex Cameron, Molly Burch

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Charts, Mini Blinds, Mere Mention

Alberta Rose Theater

3000 NE Alberta St Masters of Hawaiian Music

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Secrets

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

The Fixin’ To

303 SW 12th Ave Laryssa Birdseye

8218 N Lombard St Yardsss, The Wild Body, Dim Wit

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

The Goodfoot

1037 SW Broadway Kids Concert: Along the Oregon Trail

2845 SE Stark St The Jauntee

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd The Vardaman Ensemble, Young Hunter, Sea Moss

8 NE Killingsworth St Anna Hoone 1420 SE Powell Blvd Sandals, Frantarctica, Chris Marshall

FRI. MARCH 2 Alberta Street Pub

1036 NE Alberta St Mic Crenshaw and Global Fam Presents Amenta Abioto, Chase and the Dragon, Jana Crenshaw

Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St Jonny Cool

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Herbie Hancock

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave Palm, The Spirit of the Beehive

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Brockhampton

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Cascade Crescendo

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd Nate Staniforth

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Personal, Goddamned Animals, Banners Raised

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St Cars & Trains, CURTA, CHAMP!ON, Paper Gates

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Streetcar Conductors, Human Ottoman, Jazz Boyfriends

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Candace, The Ghost Ease, Lavender Flu

Moda Center

1 N Center Ct St Old School Throwback Jam

Born to Lous: A Birthday Celebration Tribute to Lou Reed

Bossanova Ballroom

Mississippi Pizza

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Bunk Bar

Mississippi Studios

Revolution Hall

1420 SE Powell Blvd DaiKaiju, King Gidhora, Titty Babies

SouthFork

Wonder Ballroom

1300 SE Stark St #110 Pimps Of Joytime 4605 NE Fremont St Devin Phillips

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Porches, Girl Ray

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St TK & the Holy Know Nothings

The Ranger Station 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd Little Comfort

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St The Lowest Pair, Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters, Huck Notari; The Barn Door Slammers

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd A//tar, Ninth Moon Black, Hrenin, Azoth, Anna Vo

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St

128 NE Russell St New Politic

SAT. MARCH 3

722 E Burnside St Tana Mongeau

1028 SE Water Ave Smokey Brights, Shelby Earl

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St MarchFourth

Disjecta

3000 NE Alberta St An Evening with John McCutcheon

8371 N Interstate Burn After Listening New Music presents (Dis)connect: New Music for Challenging Times

Alberta Street Pub

Doug Fir Lounge

Alberta Rose Theater

1036 NE Alberta St Scarlet Town; Corey Kilgannon, Natalie Schepman, Matty Charles & Katie Rose, Mr. Manager

Anarres Infoshop

7101 N Lombard St Escort, Eteraz, Prolix Destruct, Displaced

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Tchaikovsky’s 4th

Artichoke Music Cafe

2007 SE Powell Blvd Andrea Wild Presents “A Welsh Celebration”

830 E Burnside St Lee Ann Womack, Eddie Berman

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd East of Eli; Ryan Caraveo

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St The Marmozets

3552 N Mississippi Ave Sabroso 3939 N Mississippi Ave The Travelin’ McCourys, T Sisters

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Flannel Fest: 90s Grunge Tributes

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Lonesome Traveler, RILLA, Woodge

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Goodnight Cairo, Coloring Electric Like

The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Keith Harkin

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Rik & The Pigs, Impulse Control, Vog, Fantastic Plastic

Turn! Turn! Turn!

529 SW 4th Ave Afrolicious

8 NE Killingsworth St Galaxy Research, Low Hums, Astral Synth Armada

Memorial Coliseum

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Jack London Revue

300 N Winning Way Santana

1420 SE Powell Blvd

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Thunderpussy

Lincoln Performance Hall 1620 SW Park Ave Quatuor Ebène

Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave Yaquina Bay

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Wailin’ Jennys

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Machine Head

The Firkin Tavern

The Secret Society

SEX, DRUGS AND R&B: In Portland, it’s a rare treat to catch the opening night of a tour. For some reason, though, LA R&B star Miguel chose to launch his War & Leisure Tour at the Roseland Theater on Feb. 22. “I’ve been looking forward to this day for the past seven months,” he announced to the sold-out crowd, probably referring to the moment he finished work on his fourth album, which shares the tour’s name. His enthusiasm was apparent throughout, both in the four-piece backing band’s energetic performances and especially in Miguel’s athletic onstage strutting, which left him sweating through his third shirt of the night. True to its title, War & Leisure finds Miguel reflecting on world events in between his usual horndogging. Onstage, though, he turned every potentially preachy moment into a punch line. “I have something very serious to ask you,” he announced between songs. “Do you guys like drugs?” It was a perfect segue into his 2012 stoner sex jam “Do You,” which was then skillfully blended into a “Pass the Dutchie” cover. Before concluding the night with his two biggest singles, “Adorn” and “Skywalker,” Miguel allowed the audience to issue a challenge to the crowd that would greet him the following night. “Seattle, say what up to Portland,” he said into his phone, turning it toward the raucous audience. Even if attendance at the next venue trumps the Roseland’s, so what? Portland got the first Miguel show of 2018. We’re allowed to gloat about it. PATRICK LYONS.

303 SW 12th Ave Laryssa Birdseye

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St MarchFourth 15th Anniversary Spectacular

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Becky Kilgore and the Cowhands, Baby & The Pearl Blowers

Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel

The Analog Cafe

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Alice DiMicele, Cassandra Robertson, Wynter Byrnes

The Matthew Lindley and Rich West Blatt Radio Hour feat. Pretty Gritty

Artichoke Music Cafe

2007 SE Powell Blvd Soldiers Songs and Voices: A Benefit for Artichoke Music

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1422 SW 11th Ave Séan McCann of Great Big Sea

SUN. MARCH 4

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave Haley Heynderickx, Vikesh Kapoor

The Liquor Store

The Old Church

128 NE Russell St Architects, Stick To Your Guns, Counterparts

2025 N Kilpatrick St Great Neice, Almost Dark, Introvert, Gul Dukat

The Goodfoot

3341 SE Belmont St Merō, Anomelea, The North Country, Manybest

Wonder Ballroom

Kenton Club

Turn! Turn! Turn!

2845 SE Stark St The Garcia Project

Caustic Wound, Acid Feast, Disease, Hacksaw

BEN KUBANY

Alberta Rose Theater

Kelly’s Olympian

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Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St Busty and the Bass

Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave Thankusomuch feat. Michal Angela Wilson, Stephanie Kitson & Rick Jones

Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave An Evening With Chris Thomas King

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Wailin’ Jennys

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Rontoms Sunday Session: Psychomagic, Ben Katzman’s Degreaser

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Little One and Anna Fritz

The Hallowed Halls 4420 SE 64th Ave The Broken Consort

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Mega Ran, None Like Joshua, Qbala

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Masonique and Vasillus

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St The Not-So-Secret Family Show feat. Red Yarn

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Meet Cute, Body Academics, Inhalant

Twilight Cafe and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd Some Kind Of Nightmare, Tools Of War, FCON

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St ZZ Ward, Billy Raffoul, Black Pistol Fire

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd CIFIKA with Anomie Belle and Common Souls 1937 SE 11th Ave Avalanche Lily, Piefight

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Fear No Music presents Sin Miedo a la Música

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Cynthia Nelson + Digressive Combine, Shorty Grapes, Aaron Mullan

TUE.MARCH 6 Al’s Den at Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave Laryssa Birdseye

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Walk Off The Earth

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St Faith Healer with Reptaliens

Hawthorne Theatre 1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd The Dears, Camp Crush, Lili St. Anne (lounge); The Contortionist

Jack London Revue

529 SW 4th Ave The Nth Power, Lesser Bangs

Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave ORB

Raven and Rose

1331 SW Broadway Na Rósaí

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd Movements, Can’t Swim, Super Whatevr, Gleemer

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Fresh Track

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd Pet Weapon, Tar Pit

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St TK Revolution Jam

MN. MARCH 5 Alberta Street Pub 1036 NE Alberta St

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MUSIC COURTESY OF CHAACH

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CHAACH

Years DJing: I started banging on my mom’s pots in Ecuador when I was 3, producing music when I was 17 and mixing songs via turntables since I was 22. Oh boy, I’m about to turn 38. Genres: Multigenre with a heavy Latin/Afro-Cuban influence— electro-cumbia, dancehall, moombahton, Spanish hip-hop. Where you can catch me regularly: First Fridays at Night Light Lounge. I also host an open DJ night there most Thursdays. Otherwise, just look out for my name. I’m always booked somewhere amazing and random. Craziest gig: My second gig ever. I was writing music in my living room, and someone from the Disco Biscuits had booked me for their set break to a crowd of 2,000 East Coast wookies at B.B. King’s nightclub in Times Square. Second gig. Well, I started playing and then realized that NYC had passed a law against smoking indoors like two days prior, and had to see 2,000 hippies bounce on me to go smoke. It was all good, though—they came back in, and we rocked out for an hour. I had an MPC2000XL and a full-on Mac tower computer with a computer desk and everything. I was not mugged hauling all that around. My go-to records: Anything by Moombahton Massive, Bersa Discos, Dutty Artz or the Funk Carioca that came out in 2002 to 2008. Oh, and “Just Like Music” by Erick Sermon. Don’t ever ask me to play…: Just don’t ever go up to a DJ who is obviously Latino and request “Despacito.” You have to know how awful that is for you and everyone around you. NEXT GIG: Chaach spins at Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., for Gran Ritmos, with Zuzuka Poderosa and 2Tabs, on Saturday, March 3. 9:30 pm. $7 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty Goth Night

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Ascension

WED. FEB. 28 Beulahland

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

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave Atom 13

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St TRONix: Logical Aggression (electro)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Uniique, Dai Burger

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd Venus In Furs: Darkly Erotic Gothic Dance Night

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The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

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

Tonic Lounge

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

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Bassmint, SubDrive & Ronin

THU. MARCH 1 Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Tribute Night Presents Future vs Kanye vs Drake

FRI. MARCH 2 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Christian Martin & Worthy

Ecotrust

721 NW 9th Ave, Ste 200 We the Dreamers present Esto Es Para Ti: Zine Launch to Humanize DACA

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Lez Do It

TOP 5

BAR REVIEW LIZ ALLAN

BUZZ LIST Wh e re to d r in k this we e k.

1. Modern Times 630 SE Belmont St., 503-420-0799, moderntimesbeer.com.

Maybe it costs a buck extra, but you’re going to find your way in to try the new hot beer in town. Make it a coffee stout or a sour, both of which are great.

2. Wildwood Saloon

1955 W Burnside St., 503-228-8527. West Burnside dive Tony’s Tavern is gone, but its spirit lives on at the Wildwood with the addition of dollar hot dogs and some Jell-O shots.

3. The Nerd Out

3308 SE Belmont St., 503-233-1225, thenerdoutpdx.com. The Nerd Out is the nerdiest nerd bar that ever geeked—a nest of comics wallpaper, action figures, elf ears, bright blue drinks, a 4-foot-tall Batman and a library of comics.

4. Small Bar

919 NW 23rd Ave., 971-712-3016, functionpdx.com. From Tuesday to Thursday through March at pop-up bar space Function, Small Bar is turning out excellent, classic cocktails. The tacos are gone—replaced now by Japanese fare from Yoshimasa Ikeda.

5. Garrison Tap Room

8773 N Lombard St., 503-780-6914, royalebrewing.com. Royale Brewing’s St. Johns taproom has transitioned into the pleasant cocktail haunt the ’hood had been missing for years.

Lombard Pub

3416 N Lombard St A Dance Celebration of Life for Reggie

No Fun

1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd Coco Louie and Thumper

No Vacancy Lounge

235 SW 1st Ave, 97204 Billy Kenny

Paris Theatre

6 Southwest 3rd Avenue Mantis

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Keys N Krates

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St First Friday Superjam (funk, soul, disco)

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St Uplift

The Lovecraft Bar

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

LOOK, DON’T TOUCH: Perhaps you read about the “world’s first dog tap room” opening in the Portland area and imagined a utopia: a strange new land where you could get tipsy while frolicking with tiny puppies that aren’t actually yours. This dream comes only partially true at Fido’s (7700 SW Dartmouth St., Tigard, 503-941-5757, ilovefidos.com). Nestled behind a Walmart in a Tigard strip mall, the spacious bar and dog adoption center has the exterior look of a PetSmart with a face-lift. Linoleum floors suggest easy frequent cleaning up of dog doo, and numerous portraits of earnest-looking rescue pups make your pet-free life feel like sad spectatorship. If you go seeking relief, note that there are framed dog adoption stories even in the restroom. The 40-tap beer list—hung under a bold sign reading, “Eat. Drink. Adopt.”— takes two large TV screens to display, and the waitstaff is overwhelmingly friendly. You might receive a hearty greeting from Fido’s owner himself, if he’s not busy attentively caring after the handful of dogs Fido’s has up for adoption. The only catch? Those pups aren’t actually running around freely, pining for your attention while you sip your pint. The dogs are—probably wisely—kept in a separate room. A $4 “donation” gets you entrance into this puppy den, where five or six rescue dogs roam, relieving themselves where they please. You can’t take your drink in with you. But you can still watch the puppy playing action while sitting at the barstools lining the windows of the room. “Is it bad that the smell of dog poop is making my cider taste bad?” one patron seated near a window inquired on a recent evening visit. Which, truthfully, is the type of question future dog owners must ask themselves. Because all the dogs are, after all, up for adoption. ELISE HERRON. Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Massacooramaan

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Mettā

SAT. MARCH 3 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Destructo

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St Bearracuda Portland!

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 90’s Dance Flashback

Danny & Doc

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd VCR TV (heavy synth, dark dance, soundtrack)

Killingsworth Dynasty

832 N Killingsworth St Questionable Decisions: Funky Lit Dynasty Dance Party

No Vacancy Lounge 235 SW 1st Ave

13 NW 6th Ave Hive (goth, industrial)

The Lovecraft Bar

The Goodfoot

421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations (synth, new wave, weird records)

The Liquor Store

Ground Kontrol

Valentines

The Lovecraft Bar

2845 SE Stark St Tropitaal Desi Latino Soundclash: DJs Anjali and Black Daria 3341 SE Belmont St Wake The Town: Salva & Tyler Tastemaker 232 SW Ankeny St Halcyon (nu disco, funky house)

MON. MARCH 5 511 NW Couch St Reaganomix: DJ Jay ‘KingFader’ Bosch (80s) 421 SE Grand Ave New Noise (emo)

TUE. MARCH 6

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St Gran Ritmos: Zuzuka Poderosa, Chaach!!!, 2TABS

Star Theater

SUN. MARCH 4 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St Black Sunday: DJ Nate C. (metal)

Maxwell Bar

20 NW 3rd Ave Dubblife

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Recycle (dark dance)

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Son Latino presents Salsa Social

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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Between Riverside and Crazy

New York playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is one of theater’s most irreverent voices—his last play was called The Motherfucker With the Hat. His most recent play, and his first to win a Pulitzer, follows a family comprising a retired cop, his recently paroled son and a recovering addict named Oswaldo. Artists Repertory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Sunday March 4 and Tuesday, March 6. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday. March 7-April 1. $10-$50.

Lauren Weedman at Back Fence PDX

The Back Fence live storytelling event is now in its 10th year, so it’s brought out the big guns. Lauren Weedman, whose solo shows sell out pretty much immediately, will head a group of funny-talkers that also includes local comic Caitlin Weierhauser. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694, aladdin-theater.com. 7 pm Saturday, March 3. $10-$22. 21+.

houettes of gracefully twisted tree branches, is suffused with poetic grandeur. A swirl of lights and the sound of Peter Gabriel belting out “In Your Eyes” instantly teleports you to a tender, slow dance at a prom. What Kodachrome can’t do is overcome some occasional passages of grating dialogue. Scenes that should have been played straight— like a daughter discovering that her parents are getting divorced and the widower’s encounter with an eccentric gravedigger—are milked for jokes that feel intrusive in a story that cries out for more sincerity. Equally problematic is the homogeneity of the play’s love stories, many of which cling to a tired trope: the shy outcast fretting over the inability to master the art of flirting in complete sentences. But none of that detracts from Kodachrome’s entrancing images or Kaminsky’s boundless charisma. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm TuesdaySunday, 2 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursday, through March 18. $25-$42.

COMEDY Broke Gravy: Live and in Color

Though they’re favorites on the national comedy festival circuit, it’s rare for Portland improv group Broke Gravy to perform a standalone hometown show. But two weeks after performing at the NW Black Comedy Festival in the same venue, the trio will be back at the Eagle Lodge headlining their own show. The opening set will be performed by fellow Portland longform improv troupe, the zany quintet Mom Jeans. East Portland Eagle Lodge 3256, 4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd., brokegravy.com. 7:30 pm Thursday, March 1. $10, $8 with a non-perishable food donation to the Oregon Food Bank.

DANCE Urban Bush Women

Scarlet

Despite the political relevance of a novel about society shaming a woman for a sexual decision, it’s hard to think of The Scarlet Letter as anything other than a book that everyone is forced to read in high school. So for her adaptation, Oregon playwright and composer Michelle Horgen decided to turn Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel into a musical. It’s getting its premiere at Portland Playhouse. The show doubles as a debut of the Playhouse’s newly renovated theater, a historical church in Northeast that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar overhaul. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., portlandplayhouse.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, March 3-25. $25-$34.

ALSO PLAYING Kodachrome

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Written by Adam Szymkowicz and having its world premiere at Portland Center Stage, Kodachrome is an ensemble love story, a mischievous comedy and a supernatural dream. Kodachrome’s many genre fragments don’t always cohere. Yet thanks to sumptuous scenic design and a paralyzingly realistic performance by Kaminsky, the play transports you to a world brought to vivid life by Rose Riordan’s imaginative and impassioned direction. The play is set in Colchester, Conn., the cozy New England town where the play’s mysterious heroine, a woman known simply as “the Photographer” (Lena Kaminsky), lives. She is our tour guide, a narrator who leads us to Colchester’s modest landmarks, from a lonely public library to a restaurant called Harry’s Place. She draws our attention to a variety of romantic vignettes, which include a goofy tale of a perfume maker (John D. Haggerty) lusting after an apathetic waitress (Tina Chilip) and a moody subplot about a hardware store-owning widower (Ryan Vincent Anderson) tormented by his resurgent longing for his high school girlfriend. Riordan and her gifted crew make the town palpably alluring. Even a graveyard, complemented by projected sil-

JAMIE REA AS MACBETH

Macbeth

Shaking the Tree is once again staging Shakespeare’s shortest, bloodiest and most quotable tragedy. It’s a perfect fit: The contemporary theater company thrives with macabre source material, and has a knack for making classics surprising with abstract, offbeat staging. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., 503-235-0635, shaking-the-tree.com. 7:30 pm. Through March 17. $30.

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.

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Reinventing the Rabbit Alice (in wonderland) isn’t a traditional ballet or Lewis Carroll adaptation. BY BE N N E T T C A M P B E LL

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There are also hedgehogs, flamingos and a sunglasses-wearing frog, but Alice savors the In one of the most ebullient scenes in Oregon vastness of its menagerie without losing its Ballet Theatre’s Alice (in wonderland), Alice grasp on the individual eccentricities of its (Xuan Cheng ) and the Mad Hatter (Brian characters. The dancers clearly understand Simcoe) duke it out with the Jabberwock. It’s that a thousand beautiful pirouettes mean not a surprise that our heroes triumph against nothing if they aren’t fueled by personality. As the dragonlike bruiser. It is unexpected, how- the White Rabbit, Parsons nimbly hops across ever, when Alice celebrates their victory by the stage with fussy precision that’s perfect flexing her muscles and striking an Arnold for a harried mammal determined not to miss Schwarzenegger-style pose. his “very important date.” Peter Franc’s looser, Seemingly off-the-cuff flourishes like this make more playful movements as the Cheshire Cat Alice more than a nostalgic revisitation. OBT’s perfectly fit the famed feline’s impish spirit, and Emily Parker gives an eerily production mixes Lewis Carroll’s psychedelic children’s undulating performance as a caterpillar. story with Septime Webre’s THE PERFORMANCE choreography and Matthew Alice features plenty of Pierce’s giddy music. Invigopas de deux, but it’s the zaniMAKES CARROLL’S rated by James Kronzer’s er, less-expected moments multicolored set design and QUIRKY AND MENACING that have the greatest force. a cast whose grace as dancers Especially memorable is the DREAMSCAPE FEEL Queen of Hearts’ croquet is matched by their charisma ENTIRELY NEW. as actors, the performance game with flamingo mallets makes Carroll’s quirky and and hedgehog balls. Alice menacing dreamscape feel creates the comedic scene with croquet players who hoist dancers playing entirely new. Alice (in wonderland) begins with Alice flamingos into the air and swing them at chilseated in a gray armchair and surrounded by dren in prickly hedgehog costumes, who then towering white drapes. It’s a deliberately drab somersault through giant wickets. It’s a feat of image that frames her as a young woman whose magnificent slapstick weirdness that’s executed life is a blank slate ripe to be filled with adven- without a single false move. ture. A family friend cheekily named Lewis There are moments in Alice that seem a little Carroll (Simcoe) is more than happy to help, indulgent, including a lengthy flamingo dance that as is the White Rabbit (Chauncey Parsons). He feels like a distraction from Alice’s journey. But leads Alice down that notorious rabbit hole—an even that scene features young dancers dressed as illusion created by suspending Cheng above baby flamingos who deliver the show’s best sight the stage on wires to create the impression of gag by shaking their beaks in unison. That’s the a seemingly endless fall—and into Wonderland, most remarkable thing about Alice—it never runs the home of charming oddballs like the Mad out of ways to fill you with awe. Hatter and the wrathful and ridiculous monarch the Queen of Hearts (Martina Chavez). SEE IT: Alice (in wonderland) is at the Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., obt.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday, noon Sunday, though March 4. $45-$121.

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years, with several series set across multiple countries and continents. To really take it all in, you’ll need more than a quick stop on a First Thursday walk. But the exhibit is worth it even if you only have time to check out one series— each of Sheikh’s portraits tells its own story. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., portlandartmuseum.org. 5-8 pm. Through May 20. Construct. Yes, this is also at the Portland Art Museum, but Construct. is part of a new series intended to sit outside the museum’s conventional programming. The multimedia exhibit of local and nonlocal artists was curated by installation and performance artists Sidony O’Neal and Kenyon Gaskin, who have a prolific history of shows with a beyond-the-gallery-walls HAND IN HAND: Dakie Galma Sora and Dira Wako approach to art. Though many of Guyo, who are both war widows, photographed by the 16 artists in Construct. work Sheikh in an Ethiopian refugee camp. with paint and canvas, there’ll be performances, talks and other chances for interaction and discussion throughout the installation that are as integral to the exhibit as the art itself. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., portlandartmuseum.org. 5-8 pm. Through May 6.

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The five March art openings we’re most excited to see. BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

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Political photography can pose a strange paradox. In an effort to elicit sympathy for citizens of war zones or crisis areas, photojournalism can become exploitative, treating the subject more like a symbol than a person. Often, photographers take the photographs without ever knowing the subject’s name or even asking for permission. Fazal Sheikh does the opposite. Sheikh has spent decades taking portrait photographs in crisis zones, refugee camps and holy cities in India. Though there’s a clear humanitarian message behind his photos, his methods are as much about exposing indignities as evoking empathy. In stark opposition to the “get in and get out” practices of most photojournalists, Sheikh spends months getting to know his subjects, never photographs anyone without permission, and ask his subjects to pose themselves. In Common Ground, a massive retrospective of his work that’s currently at the Portland Art Museum, there’s a whole hallway dedicated to the story of one woman, Seyhab Azir, whom Sheikh photographed for the entire month of Ramadan while she was awaiting asylum in Denmark. Sheik is based in New York, but there are plenty of Portland artists and photographers who are attempting let their subjects speak for themselves. Here are the First Thursday and Friday opening receptions we’re most excited to see this week.

THURSDAY Common Ground After premiering at the Denver Art Museum last fall, Common Ground has made its way to Portland. It’s a massive exhibit that spans 25 40

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Portland in Color Last fall, Portland photographer Celeste Noche created Portland in Color, a photo blog dedicated to the Rose City’s artists of color. Each post is a mix of portraits taken in idyllic lighting and candid shots of the subjects immersed in their craft— sculptor Maya Vivas apron-clad in a ceramics studio, or Carlos the Rollerblader hosting a standup showcase on Killingsworth Dynasty’s sunlit stage. UNA Gallery, 328 NW Broadway, No. 117, unagallerypdx.com. 6-10 pm. Through March 25. Father Figure For Father Figure, photographer Zun Lee wanted to depict black fathers in a way that subverts the polar stereotypes of absent father or Bill Huxtablestyle superdad. So he spent months visiting the households of four black families, allowing him to capture banal yet touching moments—one father spoon feeding his toddler daughter ice cream in a corner of their kitchen, another pushing a stroller across a crowded New York crosswalk. The candid tenderness of the photos is palpable, and for Lee, it’s personal. It wasn’t until he reached adulthood that Lee, who was raised in Germany by Korean parents, learned that his biological dad was a black man whose name his mother had forgotten. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., blueskygallery.org. 6-9 pm. March 1-31.

FRIDAY Ghost Ships It’s typical for Smith Eliot’s photographs to look ghostly. The Portland photographer’s portraits are grainy black-and-white, and frequently set in the likes of rickety attics or mossy forests. But for her new show, she’s specifically referencing legends about sunken ships by displaying her distorted images underneath convex glass. Instead of trying to capture a moment, Smith’s works look like they’re already lost to time. Wolff Gallery, 2804 SE Ankeny St., wolffgallery.com. 6-8 pm. Through March 2.

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Blade Runner

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The only thing better than Roy Batty’s “tears in the rain” monologue is getting to watch it on a big screen. Plus, Clinton Street is screening the cyberpunk masterpiece as part of its resistance series, so while the screening is free, the theater is collecting donations for a nonprofit for homeless youth. Clinton, March 5.

Escape From New York

Being Boring

Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Before Isle of Dogs is released at the end of March, Mission Theater is screening Wes Anderson’s most recent quirky quirkster movie. Mission, March 5-9.

Locally filmed Everything Sucks! brings new life to an old crop of freaks, geeks and estranged things. BY JAY H O RTO N

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Apparently, the dream of the ’90s now lives a little south of Portland. Well before its 10 episodes were unfurled, Everything Sucks! was trumpeted as Netflix’s latest triumph of tastemaking faux nostalgia. But while the success of retroscapes like Stranger Things doubtlessly eased production, the Oregon City-shot, Boring-set program more directly harks back to Happy Days, The Wonder Years, That ’70s Show, Freaks and Geeks and every other primetime staple mining laughs from the travails of the last generation. Comedy, as they say, equals tragedy plus time. Though it ostensibly details the misadventures of three misfits aiding the A/V club against the school’s fearsome theater troupe, Everything Sucks! focuses more on the doomed flirtations of budding auteur Luke (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) as he vainly tries to win the heart of the principal’s daughter Kate (Peyton Kennedy) just as she accepts herself as a lesbian. Where past retro-coms ignored any obligation to their supposed settings beyond the odd newspaper headline or Top 40 staple, the early episodes of Everything Sucks! dissolve into an endless whirl of disjointed references, dimly remembered tropes and misused phrasings. “All that and a bag of chips” was only ever said ironically and, inside Clackamas County, perhaps never said at all. The effect approximates a semilucid slumber alongside an I Love the ’90s marathon, which isn’t quite as dreadful as might be expected. However awkward the constant flood of time-worn memes and outdated

lingo may seem in the moment, the faux-nostalgic eventually blurs into a constant undercurrent and highlights poignant moments by its absence. Plus, awkwardness is essentially the catalyst for Everything Sucks! The cringe-worthy retro-speak feels regrettable precisely because we all remember fumbling about with overheard slang or second-hand opinions spurred by an all-consuming drive to belong—desperately groping toward relevance through a popculture fusillade. In a weird way, the overreliance on hackneyed verbal tropes furthers the show’s shaggy realism. As Luke’s cohorts, Rio Mangini and Quinn Liebling lean into their banter with a keening gracelessness. However absurdly their plot lines may twist, there’s a believability about the main characters. The series takes pains to ensure the kids always seem like kids, even as their over-cited era and underexplored hometown feel utterly removed from any recognizable time and place. In the first episode, while Kate and Luke walk back from school, they run across a few tourists marveling at the town signage. The scene occurs just after talk of Tori Amos and right before they discuss Oasis, so any escape from era-identifying signifiers would’ve felt poignant. But there’s a note of genuine melancholy when Luke wryly noted passers-by “never go into town, they just take a picture and then leave.” Weirdly, though, neither do we. For all the picturesque establishing shots of a riverside

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locale far lovelier than the dumpy pasture land of the actual town, we glimpse Boring proper purely through a handful of weathered storefronts (Vinyl Verdict, The Crouton Factory) hinting an exurban squalor that makes less and less sense for a community whose high school boasts closed-circuit morning news broadcasts and SoCal location shoots for a frosh-helmed student film. Portland’s cultural footprint is limited to a brief Aladdin visit and background music from the Softies. Los Angeles holds more significance, though in an odd twist of fate, the Sandy, Ore., Blockbuster took the place of an otherwise nonexistent LA franchise. Even the lure of New York, which claims alpha thespian Oliver (an incandescent Elijah Stevenson) and sets in motion Kate’s romantic awakening, feels more prominent. To be sure, any high school boasting a principal so slavishly tolerant or student hierarchy this supremely twee (our heroes are bullied, once again, by the drama club) holds more than a whiff of nascent Portlandia. But grounding the stories within a fundamentally featureless every-burg allowed Everything Sucks! to embellish flights of fancy and propel momentum through a self-sustaining dream logic as the leads range further and further from any recognizable adolescent routine. Let the kids fly free, but keep Boring dull. SEE IT: Everything Sucks! is now streaming on Netflix.

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I don’t give a fuck about your war, or your president. Academy, March. 2-8.

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An homage to the music video block that ran on BET from the ’90s to the mid-2000s, Re-Run Theater and the Portland Black Film Festival are screening their own complication of music videos and interviews from the golden age of rap. Hollywood, Feb. 28.

The Room

(2003)

Even if it’s not the black comedy Tommy Wiseau claims it is, the movie that inspired The Disaster Artist is fascinatingly terrible. Cinema 21, March 2. ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue: The Cruise (1998), March 2-4. Clinton: Millionaire Man (2015), March 1. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), March 4. Hollywood: The Hitch-Hiker (1953), March 3. Broadcast News (1987), March 5. Joy: The Kid (1921), March 3. Laurelhurst: Mo’ Better Blues (1990), Feb. 28-March 1. Mission: The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Feb. 28.

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NOW PLAYING Lean on Pete

Lean on Pete is a story about a hapless boy on the road with his bunged-up horse. Based on a book by local author Willy Vlautin, it’s also a piece of neorealism devoted to the other Portland—the day laborers and pickup-truck pluggers who got left behind—shot in the industrial fringes girding the Columbia Slough near Portland Meadows. British director Andrew Haigh fills vast and desolate American expanses with the unlucky and the hard-scrabble. The film’s protagonist, 15-year-old Charley Thompson, is played by actual teenager Charlie Plummer with heartbreaking eagerness and mute, wounded sadness. Orphaned by a party mom and a reckless if charismatic dad, Charley becomes obsessed with saving the only thing more helpless than himself: a broken-down racehorse named Lean on Pete, whose alcoholic trainer is played by Steve Buscemi. Charley is, of course, in no position to save anything, including himself. The horse is just the only thing between Charley and the abyss. The sense of both transcendent beauty and crushing futility is so all-encompassing that it accidentally infected my own life: Before I remembered I was merely watching a film, I earnestly worried I was doomed. Before its wide release this spring, Lean on Pete is getting its Portland premiere at Portland International Film Festival. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. NW Film Center.

Red Sparrow

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Red Sparrow is the kind of film you know whether you’ll like before you see it. If you like pulpy spy movies and Jennifer Lawrence, it’s probably suited to your tastes. Lawrence plays Dominika Egorova, which sounds like a Russian ballerina’s name, and she just so happens to be a ballerina for the first 10 minutes or so. When injury ends her dancing career, her uncle Ivan (Matthias Schoenaerts) recruits her to become a “Sparrow,” a secret agent highly trained in the science of seduction. To explain why Sparrows exist, one character gravely says: “The Cold War did not end. It shattered into a thousand dangerous pieces.” Dominika’s mission is to get close to Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), a CIA agent, and learn the identity of Nash’s prized asset, a mole in the Russian intelligence sector. The plot is generously seasoned with the salt

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of the genre—double crosses, cobblestone European alleyways, shadowy rendezvous in parks and hotel rooms, foreign banks. There’s also a weird side tangent involving the heist of a stack of floppy disks that apparently contain some kind of important spy information. This ridiculous plot point is treated, like the entire rest of the movie, with deathly seriousness. Even if you don’t enjoy Red Sparrow in the same way the filmmakers intended, it’s a solid spy movie if you want an excuse to turn off your brain for two hours and 20 minutes. R. R. MITCHELL MILLER. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

STILL SHOWING A Fantastic Woman

In this Chilean drama from Sebastián Lelio, Marina (Daniela Vega), a transgender woman whose older boyfriend, Orlando, dies, is met at every turn by police, doctors and Orlando’s family who have probing questions and make dark assumptions. It’s an affecting examination of posthumous rights and privileges for LGBT partners. But it never feels like a parable fashioned from headlines. Lelio aims deeper, imbuing his film with spectral hallucinations and apparitions of rage, disfigurement and grief. R. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21.

Black Panther

In the Marvel-ized Afrofuture of Black Panther, camo is replaced with kente cloth. There are sub-Saharan villages along with glossy skyscrapers, and the king’s guard is a team of bald female warriors with spears that collapse like lightsabers. It’s a well-crafted Marvel flick. It’s a satisfying sci-fi story. But Black Panther eschews genre conventions where it counts. Director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) takes Wakanda’s tech savvy to Star Trek proportions, complete with a morphing, vibranium-laced panther suit and glowing weaponry. Black Panther manages to satisfy the expectations viewers have of a visually spectacular superhero movie while still offering the intersectional makeover the genre needed. PG-13. LAUREN TERRY. Bagdad Theater, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard,

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Call Me By Your Name

The new romance from director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) follows the love affair between Elio, a teenager summering in Italy with his scholarly parents, and Oliver, a grad student studying with Elio’s father. 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). 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, Empirical, Kennedy School Theater, Valley, Vancouver.

Darkest Hour

If this fussy, grandstanding biopic is to be believed, Winston Churchill’s crusade against Adolf Hitler consisted primarily of shouting and smoking his weight in cigars. That’s the narrative 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, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.

Lady Bird

In Greta Gerwig’s writerdirector 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, Fox Tower, Lloyd.

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. Although easily counted as another standout transformation by Day-Lewis into a persnickety, avantgarde 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 YOSHIKO. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd.

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 dark-eyed, water-dwelling creature (Doug Jones) has been imprisoned. R. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Hollywood, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.

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 hotheaded Ebbing police department. So she decides to rent billboards that display three messages: “Raped While Dying,” “And Still No Arrests?” and “How Come, Chief Willoughby?” The residents of Ebbing are forced to choose between the mother whose daughter was brutally slain 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.

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Roll Play Four innovative joints that attempt to solve the problem with pre-rolls. BY M ATT STA N G E L

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A few weeks back, I was sharing a pre-roll with a buddy when things went sideways. We weren’t a quarter way through the cone before the paper started running, catching fire along one side to expose a lengthy, knotty stem. Such is the risk of mass-produced joints. These ready-mades can be a bit of a gamble. Some contain harsh, leafy post-harvest trim, others have staling b-bud materials, and there’s no manufacturer obligation to disclose as much. Even when your preroll is packed with premium, top-tier herb, these little fingers can sit on the shelf for some time—all the while, terpenes age and break down, cannabinoids degrade, and the quality of smoke deteriorates. But lots of companies are attempting to solve the Pre-Roll Problem, and still more are innovating the humble joint in new and novel ways. So we decided to try out a number of these products to see just what kind of value they offer the consumer and who they’re really for. For the fresh-seeker: Medford’s Grown Rogue is the first farm in Oregon to tackle the Pre-Roll Problem by nixing air from the equation. Its ready-mades are your standard paper cone packed with 0.8 grams of ground flower, but with a slight twist—the slender smokes are stored in petite, nitrogen-sealed glass vials, a packaging innovation that’s meant to “prevent oxidation,” in theory slowing the degradation of terpenes and cannabinoids for a fresher smoke. The glass vials contain two joints per and open with a little sip of air returning to the container—like cracking a tiny can of tennis balls. The result is a fair improvement on what I’ve come to expect from the ubiquitous pre-roll—a step up from the blanched and grassy quality of many in-house, dispensary joints. Progress be praised, though you will be paying roughly twice as much for these pre-rolls as you would for Grown Rogue’s flower, so take the convenience and innovation with the markup in mind. For the canna-curious beginner: Pachecos by Eco Firma are easygoing, flower-and-kief ready-mades in the form of a traditional cigarette— complete with a cottony, cellulose acetate filter and upscale Vera Cruz Nocturne paper tube for a slow, even burn. They come in packs of three 1-gram joints that retail for around $20 and are categorized by effect rather than cultivar—a gesture of accessibility to newcomers who don’t want to bother with strain choices

or extraneous information. Also of interest to those who are just getting in touch with their green side, the traditional filter takes care of messy pull-throughs, saving newbies from stomach-churning mouthfuls of shake and socially awkward spit takes. Despite being enhanced with kief—a potent, yellow-green powder made of cannabinoid-rich resin heads—a Pacheco is a manageable high. The Stryders are a mellow, uplifting stroll, while the Hammerheads offer a bit more oomph, and the Keens incorporate CBD-rich cultivars for a light, first-timer-friendly experience.

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For the puff of the party: What’s better than a tasty, well-constructed joint? A tasty, well-constructed joint that’s been dipped in rosin—solventless, full-spectrum extract—and rolled in fluffy, resinous kief. As it happens, that is exactly what Karma Originals does to its Dip Sticks. These multilayered wands of chronic start at around $12 for a half-gram (including 0.125 grams of both rosin and kief ), making for an affordable and potent every-nowand-again treat that seems purpose-built for parties and larger social sessions. What’s more, Karma solved the canoeing issue that I’ve observed in other concentrate-enhanced ready-mades—that is, an uneven burn resulting from dissimilar densities of flower and extract, the latter of which tends to build up in a strip on one side of the joint when applied internally. The even, external rosin dip and kief coating begets a remarkably user-friendly experience—a relaxed, consistent burn that satisfies after only a few puffs. For the unwavering connoisseur: If you’re the type of smoker who doesn’t do pre-rolls, then LTRMN’s Cabanas are for you. These strain-specific, 1-gram riffs on the standard cone-and-crutch formula are sold in Spanish cedar-lined tubes that are said to regulate humidity and temperature and therefore “preserve taste and freshness.” Joints leave the tube fresh and aromatic, which impacts the flavor and high. Of course, this isn’t solely due to packaging. Cabanas are filled with premium a-buds from industry-leading growers, including Resin Ranchers and Archive. I tried out Emerald Evolution’s Pink Lemonade, which outperformed any pre-roll I’ve experienced in scent and, to a lesser degree, flavor—more akin to homemade than store-bought, but with all the benefits of professional milling techniques and hand-finished human attention. That said, you will be paying poolside prices for your 1-gram Cabana: $12-$19, depending on the retailer. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 28, 2018 wweek.com

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Week of February 22

ARIES (March 21-April 19):

On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying . . . or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago . . . or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you . . . or transform your relationship with an old wound . . . or all of the above.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

The Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps -- to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment, and abundant slack.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):

No one can be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines, and wild boars. These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):

Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

“You can’t find intimacy -- you can’t find home -when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will

have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the halfright thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not

love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the works. But it is

a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2. You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):

As you make appointments in the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat.

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