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Chloe Eudaly blamed “bad tenants” for her father’s deadly car accident. There were other factors in the crash, which also killed a little boy and his mother. 9 In Romania, wolves occasionally drag someone away to eat. 14 In 1992, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies charged $900 to play a wedding. 29 The Rose City Saboteurs want tourists to take Uber instead of biking. 36

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You can try British Columbia’s answer to Pallet Jack IPA at a festival this weekend. 38 An old punk dude does not like Auto-Tune. 41 The guys who sold their lease on Club 21, clearing the way for its demolition, made a little museum to it on Southeast Powell. 49 At the height of Reagan’s drug war, even marijuana magazines had to pretend they were about cucumbers and tomatoes. 58

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FUTURE IN DOUBT FOR FOREST

This is Oregon, where we are still debating whether we should clear-cut old-growth trees on public land in 2017 [“This Land Is Your Land,” WW, April 5, 2017]. Half of the Elliott State Forest is made up of stands over 100 years old, but there is plenty of money to be made from thinning the younger stands. The Department of State Lands confused its obligation to make money off the Elliott with “maximize revenue.” Maximize in their minds meant selling it off to private logging interests. The state should keep it in public ownership, set aside the remaining old growth for permanent protection, and focus timber harvest on the younger stands. “The —“Deschutes Redside”

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Until the state of Oregon or the timber companies can figure out a way to have a vertically integrated timber industry here in the Northwest, and until timber companies start opening their lands back up to free public access, it doesn’t seem worth it to me to cut down our last big trees and ship them across the Pacific. —“Mike A.”

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I am all for helping Dreamers if possible. Being here illegally was not of their doing, and they are as American as the rest of us. I would be far more concerned about the charge of DUII, which is a real scourge of our society. —“mspadorchard”

The focus of this article was a small baggie of weed from high school, yet Luis Gerado Zazueta was to appear in court for a DUII from not so long ago [“Deported for a Dime Bag,” WW, April 5, 2017]. Sorry, but as someone whose family has welcomed green-card holders as well as legal foreign immigrants, I have no sympathy for this guy. —“TC”

It is not legal to act as security in Oregon without a license from the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training [“Mild Hogs,” WW, April 5, 2017]. These rogue bikers are breaking the law, as well as attempting to suppress multiple constitutionally protected rights. This is banana republic behavior. —Paul Fielding

CORRECTIONS

Last week’s story on a group of bikers standing guard during a protest outside U.S. Rep. Greg Wa l d e n ’s B e n d o f fi c e ( “ M i l d Hogs,” WW, April 5, 2017) incorrectly identified the group asked to act as security by Central Oregon Veterans Outreach. The group was actually the Central Oregon Veterans Council. Last week’s cover story (“This Land Is Your Land,” WW, April 5, 2017) misidentified the town of Lakeside, Ore., as Lakeview. WW regrets the errors.

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An online friend recently lost her beloved cat (RIP, Roger) and needs to find him a final resting place. She’s leaning toward cremation, but we wondered: Is it legal to bury a pet in your yard? —Portsmouth Pal

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It is surprisingly difficult to find a straight answer to this question in city publications. Portland city code clearly states that it’s illegal to bury a horse, cow or other large animal within city limits, but it doesn’t say anything about smaller creatures. So it’s OK, right? Well, maybe. City code also says you can’t spit “on the floor or walls” of any public place, but it doesn’t say anything about the ceiling. Theoretically, that should mean you won’t get in trouble for hocking a loogie into the rafters the next time you have to appear before a judge, but you first. As a practical matter, it’s unlikely the SWAT team is going to bust up your parakeet’s funeral no matter what the law says. Calling city information just gets you a reference to Multnomah County burial guidelines, and the county says it’s fine as long as you wrap the deceased in heavy plastic, put them in a wooden or metal box, and

bury them at least 3 feet deep so as not to attract scavengers. That said, if your friend can afford cremation (anywhere from $20 to $600, depending on the size of the animal and the fanciness of the ceremony), I recommend it. Why? When was the last time you dug a hole? Gangster movies make it look like two dudes with shovels can bury a grown man in about 20 minutes, but in real life things are very different. It turns out that what you and I think of as “the ground” is actually made up mostly of rocks and tree roots, with a little dirt packed in for color. Unless you’ve got a backhoe, digging a 3-foot-deep hole big enough for that wooden or metal box will take you all day. You’ve suffered enough—go with the Viking funeral. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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On April 10, approximately 100 inmates refused their lunch at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prison in Tacoma, Wash., commencing the second hunger strike at the facility in three years. ICE disputes that term, although the strike was sufficiently well-organized to coincide with a rally outside the prison by immigrants’ rights activists. “For clarification, the current so-called hunger strike is more correctly termed a ‘meal refusal’ involving a number of detainees who have chosen not to eat meals provided by the cafeteria,” ICE spokeswoman Rose Richeson tells WW in a statement. However, by the time this paper hits the streets—72 hours after the commencement of the hunger strike—ICE protocols will kick in and inmates who have refused to eat during that time could be subjected to forced feeding. “ICE fully respects the rights of all people to voice their opinion without interference and does not retaliate in any way against hunger strikers,” Richeson says. The hunger strikers are protesting conditions at the 1,500-inmate Northwest Detention Center, privately managed by the GEO Group. Among their demands: an increase in the $1 daily pay they receive for facility maintenance, a practice alleged to violate the constitutional ban on slavery in an ongoing federal lawsuit filed in 2014 on behalf of detainees at an ICE prison in Colorado.

County Sends Campaign Finance Measure to Court

The long, strange trip that is campaign finance reform in Oregon took a new turn last week, when the Multnomah County Commission voted to send a ballot measure voters passed last November to Multnomah County Circuit Court to see if it violates the Oregon Constitution. Assistant county attorney Katherine Thomas explained that “questions have been raised about the constitutionality of this measure.” The court “validation proceeding” is supposed to address those questions. Oregon is one of a handful of states with no limits on campaign contributions. The new measure, now part of the county charter, limits

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contributions from individuals and political action committees in county races to $500 and requires disclosure of sponsors of political ads. Dan Meek, a longtime public interest lawyer who helped write the measure, criticized county commissioners for sending it to court rather than simply defending the legality of the limits in the event they are challenged. “The county attorney is obligated to defend the laws enacted by the voters, and what this is proposing to do is to not defend what the voters have done,” Meek testified. “I find that to be extremely alarming.” Proponents of the measure, which passed by a wide margin, will gather at the County Commission meeting at 9:30 am Thursday, April 13.

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“Finally, this is an extreme nominee from the far right who doesn’t believe in the fundamental vision of ‘We the People’ and makes decision after decision through tortured, twisted, contrived arguments defined for the powerful over the people, and that is unacceptable.”

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FIVE NUMBERS THAT EXPLAIN ONE OF THE OREGON LEGISLATURE’S SHOWPIECE BILLS.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley is a champion talker. Last week, the Oregon Democrat attempted to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, with a speech on the Senate floor. It lasted more than 15 hours, and ultimately failed— Gorsuch was sworn in April 10. But Merkley’s stemwinder made a national impression. You probably haven’t had time to listen to the whole thing, so here are the highlights, hour by hour. COREY PEIN.

Last week, the Oregon House narrowly approved limitations on no-cause evictions and lifted the ban on rent control. The more conservative Senate is considering a different approach to the housing crisis. Senate Bill 849, the First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act, would allow Oregonians to deduct pretax income of $5,000 a year ($10,000 per couple) from their paychecks and put it in a tax-free investment account to be used later as a down payment on a first home. The bill has bipartisan support

and, perhaps more importantly, is the subject of an extraordinary effort by the Oregon Association of Realtors. It is spending heavily to generate support for the bill, which mirrors legislation Colorado adopted last year and would benefit real estate interests. Tax watchdogs, including the Oregon Center for Public Policy, don’t like the bill, which provides a tax break without means testing. OCPP calls it “the rich families down-payment assistance program.” Here are five key numbers that explain the First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act.

HOUR 15 “It’s exactly what the filibuster was designed for—to keep there from being judges nominated from outside the judicial mainstream.”

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HOUR 14 “There is absolutely no foundation for what happened last year in American history.”

HOUR 1 “The majority team in this chamber decided to steal a Supreme Court seat.”

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Average home sales price in Multnomah County in 2016.

HOUR 2 “This is a crime against our Constitution, and the responsibilities of this body.”

“Certainly we have a nominee who seems to want a 19th-century judicial philosophy for the 21st century.”

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“If President Trump worked to conspire with the Russians or his team conspired with the Russians at his direction or his knowledge, that is traitorous conduct. And we shouldn’t be considering on this floor a nominee under that set of circumstances.”

“I understand the sun is coming up behind the Supreme Court. Mother Nature gave us a beautiful, beautiful day, but partisan politics gave us a very, very ugly setting here in the Senate chamber.”

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Number of households realtors say will use the tax credit in the next ﬁve years.

“You can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI, Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances.”

Percentage of beneﬁciaries the Oregon Center for Public Policy says will be in the top 20 percent of earners.

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“We should not go back in time to a world in which the copper barons ruled Montana, not back to a time where the railroads and the oil companies called all the shots.”

“You know, the more I read his opinions, the more I think Neil Gorsuch should run for office. He wants to change the law in case after case after case.”

“There is a researcher from Oregon State University, Professor Dixon, who has made studying coral reefs his life’s work. He said, ‘These reefs are my babies, and my babies are dying.’”

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“The Constitution didn’t say money is speech. Citizens United is the opposite. It says those who sit on the board of bazillion-dollar corporations get a voice a bazillion times large than the ordinary citizen. It is damaging our nation.”

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“Just pause for a moment and ask yourself, would you feel comfortable if the parties were reversed, if this were a Democratic Party stealing a Supreme Court seat from a Republican president? Would you? I ask you, would you?”

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“The very survival of the court as an independent body will be at stake—is at stake right now. That’s why I’m here on the floor at 4:20 in the morning. Because so much is at stake in terms of the legitimacy of the court.”

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What She Left Out CITY COMMISSIONER CHLOE EUDALY TOLD A GRIPPING TALE OF PERSONAL LOSS. BUT IT WASN’T THE WHOLE STORY. BY AA R O N M E S H

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Portland Commissioner Chloe Eudaly won election last year on the strength of a powerful personal narrative and a surgical focus on housing costs. At a Feb. 2 meeting of the City Council, she was about to vote on a rental reform when she told a story that combined both. It was an extraordinary anecdote—both for what it contained and what it left out. Eudaly gave the opening remarks at a hearing for her city ordinance requiring landlords to pay the moving costs for tenants evicted without cause. The ordinance prompted a contentious debate, with renters and property owners each accusing the other of bad faith. Eudaly told a cautionary tale to show that she was already familiar with problem tenants. Her own parents had been landlords, she said—and when they evicted a tenant in Washington County, the renter trashed the house. “My father was driving home from assessing and photographing the damage on a rainy day in October 1983,” said Eudaly, who was 13 that year. “He lost control of his vehicle on a tight curve, hit an oncoming truck and died instantly.” Her revelation disarmed her critics and silenced the room. A month later, Eudaly repeated the story on Oregon Public Broadcasting, describing the impact of her loss. “My biggest takeaway from my dad’s early death was… this realization that you could do everything you’re supposed to do, work hard, support your family, give up your personal dreams and have it all taken away in an instant,” she said.

But the wrenching story Eudaly told was incomplete. John Ray Eudaly did die in a car crash on Southwest Farmington Road outside Hillsboro on Oct. 30, 1983. But records show he was driving drunk. Eudaly, 37, was driving east on Farmington Road at 1:43 pm on a rainy Sunday afternoon. When his Volvo crossed the center line, it collided with a Ford Courier pickup. Washington County sheriff’s deputies estimated Eudaly was traveling between 60 and 75 mph on a 30 mph curve. A toxicology report placed John Eudaly’s blood alcohol content at .12, well above the legal limit of .08. “As Mr. Eudaly was removed from his vehicle,” the police report notes, “observed between his legs was a quart of Boones Ferry Applewine [sic] which was 3/4 empty and pint of Magnum malt liquor on the floorboard under his feet; empty.” In the pickup that Eudaly hit was 11-year-old Jeffrey Hunter, who was killed instantly. His mother, 35-year-old Linda Jo Hunter, survived for another 52 days in the hospital before dying from her injuries. George Hunter, Linda’s husband, sued the state of Oregon for negligence in 1984, saying the curve lacked adequate warning signs and was obscured by tree branches. A lawyer for the state argued that Eudaly’s drunkenness caused the wreck, The Oregonian reported in its coverage of the trial. The jury agreed with the state. Ted Runstein, who represented George Hunter in the wrongful-death case, recalls it as one of the saddest of his 50-year career. “The jury was in tears afterward,” he says.

“It was a very nice lady returning from shopping with her son, who was killed on the spot.” Runstein says the tragedy of the Hunter family shouldn’t be forgotten. “I’m sure the commissioner feels bad about her father’s death,” he says. “But her father caused the collision. Two innocent people were killed.” George Hunter, now 69, tells WW he holds no ill will toward Chloe Eudaly for omitting his wife and son’s deaths from her story. “That whole event was equally tragic to her family,” Hunter says. “It was a tragedy for two families.” WW obtained the police reports from the 1983 crash via a public records request. So did OPB, which learned of these details after it aired the interview with Eudaly, and then last week ran a one-paragraph addendum to the interview on its website. WW asked Eudaly to explain why she told an incomplete story. She responded April 11 with a statement. “I was 13 years old when my father was killed in a head-on collision that took the lives of two other people,” Eudaly said. “I was shielded from certain details of the accident by my family, specifically that he was eventually found responsible for the accident in civil court due to intoxication, and didn’t learn the complete story until very recently. “Despite these painful revelations,” Eudaly continued, “the fundamental facts of the story I shared remain the same—my father died on the way home from inspecting his trashed rental property, and unfortunately his poor decision led to the accident. The point I was illustrating, though, remains unchanged. And that is that policymaking based on personal anecdote is bad policymaking. The impetus for sharing this aspect of the story of my father’s death came when I watched state legislators—who are landlords—share their own bad tenant stories, using them as an excuse to deny all tenants greater protections under the law. “It was not my intent to misrepresent my father’s role in the accident,” she said. “I regret any pain I may have caused surviving family members by discussing the accident in public.” Eudaly declined through spokesman David Austin to answer further questions. For some, Eudaly’s initial use of this incomplete story to score a political point is troubling for a public official whose brand is candor. Eudaly campaigned on a personal narrative: running an independent bookstore as a single mother, and the struggle to pay rent in an increasingly expensive city. She pledged to bring transparency to City Hall and stick up for the downtrodden, messages that helped her defeat incumbent Commissioner Steve Novick in November. But the choice to use her father’s death to bolster her political position—without mentioning the deaths of two others or her father’s culpability—raises questions about Eudaly’s judgment. When this story was shared with Hana Callaghan, director of the government ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, she said it appeared to be “a way of getting people to sympathize with you and thus get behind you. And in that sense it’s deceptive by omission. It’s problematic: Public officials have duty of honesty and integrity.” “It’s odd,” Callaghan concludes. “I haven’t had this one before.” All of Eudaly’s colleagues on the City Council declined to comment on her remarks. Before her Feb. 2 testimony, Eudaly seemed to warn herself against using a personal story as political grist. “As former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich recently said, ‘Governing by anecdote is not governing. It’s demagoguery.’ And it’s been disappointing and frustrating to witness opponents to tenant protections…resort to playing on the public’s emotions and prejudices, rather than basing their positions on facts.” She paused, then continued: “But I’m going to share a personal anecdote today with you anyway.” Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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Deep Impact A PROMINENT NONPROFIT RUN BY A FORMER COUNTY CHAIRMAN CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE. BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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Last July, Multnomah County placed Impact NW, one of its biggest nonprofit contractors, on a “get-well plan” because Impact’s financial situation was so dire. Impact had just signed contracts to run the Schools Uniting Neighborhood program at nine public schools, for which it would be paid more than $7 million over the next five years. But the county was worried about the agency’s survival—and placed it on six months’ probation to rectify its finances. Eight months later, according to records obtained by WW, Impact NW is still struggling. “February was not a stellar month,” wrote Impact’s chief financial officer, Kevin Washington, in an April 3 email to county officials. The monthly figures showed continued losses, leaving Impact $260,000 behind target for the year to date. That’s a significant shortfall in an annual budget of $12.3 million. Impact NW’s executive director, Jeff Cogen, presented the county with a series of cost-cutting measures he’d made since July, but they haven’t outpaced revenue shortfalls. For the past two years, Impact has hemorrhaged money, reporting an operating loss of $817,000 in 2015 and $1.2 million last year. Cogen says Impact NW has made significant improvement both in reducing expenses and generating cash flow, which means Impact is taking in more money than it’s spending. He attributes the loss so far this year to depreciation, a non-cash expense. “We’ve scaled back our management team, moved our office out of downtown and trimmed some benefits,” Cogen says. “I think we’ve made tremendous progress.” The agency’s financial issues are significant for two reasons. First, they matter because Impact gets most of its money from public sources—about $4 million a year from a mixture

of federal grants and nearly $4 million a year directly from Multnomah County. Second, as the county launches its budget-setting process later this month, Impact’s struggles raise questions about the county’s oversight of contractors, which the county pays more than $1 billion a year. Founded in 1966, Impact is one of Portland’s oldest social service agencies. It provides a variety of services to needy children, families and seniors. In addition to SUN schools, where it leads chess lessons and dance classes, it provides services to preschoolers, people facing eviction, and disabled seniors.

“We are very concerned because they are not hitting revenue targets,” Campbell says. “If we feel the services aren’t being performed or they were headed to another million-dollar loss, one of my roles would be to recommend no more business with them,” Campbell says. “We’re not at that stage, and we’re not hearing concerns about the services they provide.” Previous losses cut into Impact’s savings and forced the agency to tap another nonprofit, the YWCA of Greater Portland, for a new $750,000 loan, a transaction about which the county expressed concern because it “might affect the

“I THINK WE’VE MADE TREMENDOUS PROGRESS.” —Jeff Cogen, Impact NW executive director

Cogen joined Impact in January 2015 and became executive director July 1, 2016. His long-standing relationship with the county complicates county oversight of Impact NW. Cogen served as county commissioner from 2006 to 2010 and chairman from 2011 to 2013, when he resigned after an affair with a subordinate. The county responded to Impact’s dire finances last July by demanding monthly financial reports and face-to-face meetings. Top officials didn’t mince words. “The county requires additional information, transparency and commitments from Impact NW to avoid contract termination,” wrote county chief operating officer Marissa Madrigal to Impact NW on July 20, 2016. County chief financial officer Mark Campbell says his staff is treating Impact NW no differently from any other contractor. He says since Impact went on a plan of assistance last July, the nonprofit has been transparent and responsive— although it has also failed to meet financial goals.

long-term financial viability of both organizations.” Impact also pursued a merger with the YWCA. But in January, Cogen told the county a previously announced combination of the two agencies was off. “Last night our board reversed its decision to merge,” Cogen wrote in a Jan. 26 email to a county accountant. In that email, Cogen listed $268,000 in budget cuts he’d made this year and a list of others he’s still considering. On April 14, Campbell is pulling together county contract officers who do business with Impact NW for a review. He says he’d hoped the agency would have been done with its plan of assistance by now. Cogen says he expects Impact to be strong enough by the end of the fiscal year (June 30) that it will no longer need special monitoring. He adds that throughout a difficult process, Impact’s clients have always come first. “We’ve focused our cuts on administration,” he says. “We have never impaired our ability to provide services.” Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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In pursuit of knowledge, reason, science, and good will, without God

In February, we wrote here about the Humanists of Greater Portland (HGP) joining grassroots civil rights marches. On April 22, some HGP members will join the March for Science PDX, and our parent organization, American Humanist Association (AHA), will join the D.C. March. These promise to be well-attended, as citizens rally for investment in science and science education. What is humanism? Why would humanists march for science? Humanism can be described as “an ethical

stance that emphasizes the value and agency of humans to improve human life through reason, education, and ingenuity, without submitting to tradition or supernatural authority.” The idea that humans have intrinsic value and agency evolved beyond early imaginings that human worth and morals were endowed by gods. In the second century, a Latin writer said “humanity alone, of all the animals, feels philanthropy, a friendly spirit and good-feeling towards all men” and those are most humanist who

value “education in the liberal arts.” In 1765, a French enlightenment periodical termed humanism a beautiful, necessary virtue. The first Humanist Manifesto, signed by ministers and theologians, called for science to replace dogma and the supernatural as the basis of morality and decision-making. The American Humanist Association was formed in 1941 and now partners with the Secular Coalition for America to promote separation of church and state. Humanists of Greater Portland follows a

long tradition of humanist efforts to progress human life without theism. A commitment to science is part of that tradition. We offer FREE educational programs at Friendly House on NW 26th and Thurman, every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Speakers have included professors, scientists, writers, dramatists, physicians. (See Facebook, Meetup, or our website for discussion & Meetup opportunities.)

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Apocalypse Wow!

PORTLAND’S DOOMSDAY PREPPERS WILL HELP YOU SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD. FOR A FEE.

BY COR EY PEIN

Valentino and I trudge through 6 feet of snow along the southern slope of Mount Hood. Somewhere beneath the snowpack, Valentino assures me, are the bones of those who died on this old pioneer trail. Valentino is my guide. I found him on the internet. I’m trusting him to teach me how to survive a night in the woods— and the breakdown of civilization. He offers his full name, Valentin Belia, reluctantly, and refuses to tell me his age. “There is much I would like to forget,” he says. Growing up in rugged Banat, Romania, he learned wilderness survival from his grandfather. The wolves that prowled the forests there, he says, would occasionally drag away a villager to eat. He came to America to be “poor and free” in 1999, and stopped in Oregon, where the terrain reminded him of home. Though he rents a small house in Southeast Portland, he claims he lives for as long as six months at a stretch in these woods. He eats tinned food and salted meat kept cool in a stream. When bears, cougars or bandits prowl too close to his camp, he tries to reason with them and, if that fails, fires a warning shot from his 1952 Czech army pistol. Is any of this true? When the sun is setting and you’re still sawing trees to build a tarpaulin shelter, it’s best to follow Valentino’s lead. This is, after all, his business. For $190, he will take you up on the mountain for an “immersive, advanced survival training” course. His target market: “preppers”—a term commonly used to describe people obsessed with surviving cataclysmic societal collapse. It’s a booming market. “This is in vogue,” Valentino says.

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There’s certainly a lot to worry about these days: nuclear war, civil war, class war, climate change and that old constant fear, the megaquake. But Valentino and a number of Oregonians have turned this worry into a cottage industry, if not quite a business model. They are ready to teach you how to approach the apocalypse with confidence—for a price. The doomsday-prepping fad has never been more lucrative. As The New Yorker reported in January, you can now buy a luxury post-apocalypse apartment in a decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Kansas for $3 million, or follow fearful Silicon Valley billionaires seeking to escape nuclear fallout and rising seas in remote New Zealand. What Oregon’s preppers lack in wealth, they make up for in experience and tradition. “There is a strong [prepper] culture here in the Pacific Northwest,” says Eric Holdeman, the Puyallup, Wash., consultant and writer who runs a blog called disaster-zone.com and pens a column for Emergency Management magazine. Holdeman says many preppers are located in Eastern Washington and Oregon, but spreading to the west side of the Cascades. “It’s not just the good old boys, backwoods type of thing,” he says. “I’ve seen more—let’s just call it ‘educated’— people who are informed and are making what they think is a logical decision” to plan for the worst. After browsing the vast marketplace at the end of the world, I identified three distinct types of Portland-area preppers— plus a city agency that tackles the same dark obsession using your taxpayer dollars. These are people who dedicate a substantial portion of their lives to thinking about doomsday—for money, yes, but also love. CONT. on page 16

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HATCHET MAN: Valentino says he lives for months at a time in the woods. But he also likes art galleries and classical music.

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ONE WEIRD TRICK: “Survival Bro” Cameron McKirdy worries about economic collapse—and collects supplies for that bleak future , including lighters and cotton balls to make a campfire.

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His video titles are straightforward: “Breaking Car Windows With the Gerber LMF II” (a survival knife), “How to Get FREE From a home base in Clatsop County, Ore., Cameron McKirdy runs Stuff—Request, Complain, Take” and “Would YOU Pee in a Plastic Bottle? Be honest!” a YouTube channel and website, survivalbros.com. The site bills itself as “more than an emergency preparedness In a recent video, McKirdy narrates his discovery of a derelict blog”: It’s also a “strong community” and an “alternative news” trailer by the side of the road. source (think conspiracy king Alex Jones). With his infotainment “I want to swoop it,” McKirdy says. “Would you guys do it? Do brand, McKirdy markets himself to millennials as a high-protein, you have that hustler’s mentality like me?… Make sure to subscribe on YouTube.” fluoride-free guide to scraping by in the dystopian chaos. And he has no doubt that someMcKirdy’s manic screen presthing terrible will in fact occur. His ence earned him a guest appearmoney is on economic collapse. ance last year on the Viceland series Abandoned, in which he “After something bad happens, people are going to be killing each gave a tour of tsunami evacuation routes on the Oregon Coast. other for like five days,” he says. McKirdy, 33, grew up in SeaHe came to Portland last month side and attended the University to show me some urban survival tricks. of Oregon. He started taking surHis vision of urban scavenging vivalism seriously after a 2011 amounts to constantly demandtsunami warning. ing free samples. “That’s kind of Like many people his age, he’s juggling multiple gigs. He was an what this is all about, is the art of DON’T BE SHY: McKirdy also works announcer at mixed martial arts asking,” he says. as a professional cuddler. Within minutes of parking his fights, but now he’s an on-call proMustang, McKirdy led me to a fessional cuddler with Portland Sherwin-Williams paint store in Northwest Portland to procure business Cuddle Up to Me, offering platonic embraces for $1 a minute. McKirdy also works retail at a nutrition store, which confers a survival gear. He told the clerk he was “working on a project” and discount on the protein powders that compose much of his diet. asked for some complimentary T-shirts and a hoodie. He got two Sometimes he wins cash prizes in eating competitions, and he shirts, each with the store’s logo. But no hoodie. Next stop: a nearby Holiday Inn. “I don’t want to mislead them makes about $100 a month from ads on his Survival Bros YouTube or lie, so I’m just going to ask for ‘more soap please,’” he says, strollchannel, which has roughly 6,000 subscribers.

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ing into the lobby. It works. The receptionist hands him soap and shampoo without even asking for his room number. At a convenience store, McKirdy scores some free matches and a large plastic sack of the sort used to collect large quantities of aluminum cans. Then he spends $2 at a Dollar Tree to build a low-cost fire kit with cotton balls, lighters and lip balm (the store was out of petroleum jelly). In a parking lot, McKirdy smears the balm on the cotton to make kindling. With a few clicks of the lighter, bingo: fire. He rolls out a sleeping mat he bought for $20 from a homeless guy. He puts the garbage sack on the mat, stuffs it with T-shirts and climbs in, looking cozy on the asphalt. “This is kind of the new American dream: being more mobile,” he says. Since McKirdy’s method amounts to small-time grifting, I ask what the difference is between being a Survival Bro and a hobo. “I prioritize self-care and hygiene,” he replies. McKirdy also suggests making tin-can caches of scavenged goods and burying them in safe places. This is an ongoing project for him. Finding spots to bury your stuff legally is difficult. “I’m creating my own system, like William Blake,” he says. The flaw in McKirdy’s system is obvious: It relies on the generosity of a functioning society. It doesn’t work in the event of a systemic breakdown, when stores are closed and pantries empty. “If it gets even worse than it is now, I’m just going to resort to asking people on the streets for a light, or matches, or a dollar,” he says.

THE HOARDERS From their $844,000 home in Portland’s West Hills, David and Beth Pruett travel the country selling homemade first-aid kits and teaching informal classes about emergency medicine. Since living through the San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Pruetts have stockpiled supplies, made checklists and practiced for the next disaster. David is a U.S. Navy veteran and an emergency medicine doctor at Oregon Health & Science University. In 2011, David designed a compact, individual first-aid kit, the iFak, which is short for “individual first-aid kit” and stocked with medicines, bandages, implements and adhesives. Soon the couple turned their hobby into a preparedness business and blog, amp-3.net, which Beth runs from home, selling iFaks, radio gear, books like The Survival Nurse and Modern Weapons Caching, and some self-produced instructional DVDs. In 2015, Beth says, Amp-3 topped $140,000 in sales. They get a lot of online sales, but it’s more effective to go where the customers are: prepper conventions. Last October, the Pruetts attended the Sustainable Preparedness Expo at the Portland Expo Center. The next one is May 21 in Grants Pass. On April 21, the Pruetts will travel to Utah for PrepperCon, which is expected to draw more than 13,000 attendees. Then, on May 6, they’ll travel to Prosser, Wash., for the Northwest Preparedness Expo featuring lectures on “home food storage,” “defensive landscaping” and “concealed carry options,” as well as David’s “wound care basics” course. Also scheduled to speak: Republican state Reps. Matt Shea and David Taylor, who last December introduced a measure proposing that Eastern Washington secede and form a new state called Liberty. “David and I are very conservative. Always have been, always will be,” Beth says. “But we’re not into the crazy stuff.”

After the Pruetts’ experiences in 1989 in California— navigating cracked roads, passing fires and downed power lines, worrying about where to get fresh water—the aftermath of a major earthquake scares them more than anything. Their home is in what will be one the most dangerous areas in Portland after a big quake, the West Hills. (They know this; they’re moving.) Because they expect the cellular networks and power grid to fail, the Pruetts have invested in ham radio and backup generators. The cost of preparedness can quickly add up. The couple set aside $100 to $500 a month for equipment and supplies. They don’t have a panic room, Beth says, because their philosophy is “everyday preparedness,” meaning full pantries and frequent trips to Costco. Their son, Matt, often asks Beth why she brings home even more food. “Because,” she replies, “we can never have enough.” Attending expos, the couple has made friends with the “Christian-based preparedness community” in Prosser. To Beth, non-governmental protective associations form

ALL SHOOK UP: California quakes made David and Beth Pruett take preparedness more seriously.

“ w e ’ re n o t in to t h e c r a z y s tu ff .”

STITCH UP: The Pruetts teach emergency medicine, like this “wound and suture class,” at prepper conferences.

the backbone of the post-apocalyptic future. “These people that just think they’re going to have their guns and their weapons and fend off whatever intruder comes, that’s ridiculous,” Beth says. “Because every 48 hours or so, you have to sleep. I believe that if we band together, we can take care of ourselves and one another.” CONT. on page 18

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Not everyone with a survival obsession is making money on it. For some, it’s a matter of duty. Under the guidance of Portland City Hall, something like Beth Pruett’s vision of neighbors banding together is already happening. The roughly 20 employees of the $4.7 million Portland Bureau of Emergency Management spend every day planning, training and warning people of the worst things to come. And the worst, as most Portlanders know by now, is inevitable: a major earthquake along the Cascadia fault. “It’s absolutely going to happen. The science is crystal clear,” bureau spokesman Dan Douthit says. “It would be irresponsible for us to ignore it.” The bureau has recruited 1,000 Neighborhood Emergency Team leaders to act as point persons in an emergency. An April 29 training event at Benson High School has 400 people enrolled and room for 100 more. Volunteers are key to the city’s response plan. “Get to know your neighbors,” Douthit says. “That, in many ways, is more valuable than a box of granola bars.” Last month, I toured the bureau’s 2-year-old, $20 million seismically fortified bunker on Southeast 99th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, where politicians and local emergencyresponse commanders will gather in relative safety after an earthquake or other emergency. From the outside, it’s a dismal, squat rectangle surrounded by tall black iron gates. Inside, the facility looks like Jason Bourne at a ski lodge. The largest room features a wall-sized grid of monitors. An adjacent room features a large wooden conference table, where city and county leaders will convene if downtown Portland dissolves into a gruesome mélange of liquefied soil and fallen towers. Upstairs, there’s a restaurant-quality kitchen and a freezer stocked with food. The roof features cisterns to keep the toilets flushing. “We’re optimistic,” Douthit says. “We think we can survive and get through whatever disaster.” Last fall, the bureau gave DHM Research an $80,000 contract to identify “barriers to preparedness.” The report isn’t finished, but a DHM telephone survey last November asked Portlanders such questions as whether they would “feel comfortable asking for a small favor such as yard work or borrowing a cup of sugar” from their neighbors. The bureau already knows that some advice is outdated, such as the idea that people should keep two days’ worth of supplies in the home. Douthit says people should stock enough food and water to last two weeks. At this point, though, the bureau doesn’t have that much in its own freezer.

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THE GOOD NEIGHBORS

“It ’s ab so lut ely go ing to ha pp en . The sc ie nc e is cr ys ta l cl ea r. ”

FLUORESCENT FORTRESS: Portland Bureau of Emergency Management spokesman Dan Douthit shows off the city’s quake-proof command center, complete with a secure supply closet for classified briefings.

THE MOUNTAINEER

Valentino says bushcraft is “in the genes,” and survival is in his soul. Valentino, 43, has a long beard and weathered face. He wears army surplus gear and a leather belt engraved with his name. He carries axes and knives ground from salvaged metal. During the week, he works construction. On weekends, he focuses on his side business, named after his home state in Romania: Banat Wilderness & Urban Survival Training. His motto: “Train local, not on YouTube.” “THIS WORKSHOP IS NOT FOR EVERYONE,” the website says. “Please don’t sign up unless you are willing to get sweaty, dirty, cold, tired, stressed, challenged, and HAVE FUN.” Valentino says he doesn’t turn a profit on his roughly $6-an-hour classes, though he would like to. He keeps his costs down by shopping at budget tool shops, thrift stores, army surplus outlets and scrap yards. He asks clients who sign up for the weekend course to pack warm clothes ( but no cotton!), work gloves, food, water, a sleeping mat and bag, a 10-by-12-foot tarp and a knife. Valentino supplies more essential gear: hatchet, saw, fire and first-aid kits, more tarps and rope. Schlepping his packs on a plastic sled, Valentino leads a photographer and me over the snowy trail away from the parking lot at Barlow Pass Sno Park. Partway up the trail, he remembers: “Oh! Safety.” He proceeds to explain all that could go wrong. Mount Hood could explode. There could be an earthquake—he felt several tremors last year. Cougars could pounce from trees and eat our kidneys. We could disappear in a snow-covered pit. We could be impaled by a tree. Assuming good cellular service, help is two hours away. Later, he remembers another thing. “I forgot,” he says. “Today there is avalanche warning.”

Survival, Valentino believes, is a state of mind. “I believe in gear, but I also believe in here,” he says, tapping the blade of his knife against his head, then his heart. We arrive at the campsite. Valentino already spent hours digging through the snow to create a trench for the campfire. Shelter comes first, he says. Thus begins a long day of chopping and sawing. It is possible to build a fire with wet logs. Valentino shows how. Split the deadwood to reveal the dry core. Keep splitting until you have a sizable pile of dry kindling. Clean the damp bark from some branches and shave the wood to make tinder. “I love fire,” he says. “Fire is life.” Valentino’s ax handle breaks. This is hazardous work, for trees can shatter like glass. Valentino cuts his hand. “I don’t feel it,” he says. Once he saw a movie about 19th-century naturalist John Muir. “The human was stronger at that time,” Valentino says. “The human is softer now. I am softer.” He cooks by throwing huge pork steaks directly on coals on the ground. At midnight, after ghost stories, it is time to crawl inside our tarp shelters. Valentino says some campers prefer to sleep with their feet toward the entrance, rather than risk having a bear drag them out head-first. I sleep for four hours and shiver for two. Valentino emerges from his shelter looking rested. “Morning is beautiful when you’ve got a man with a pistol and a knife approaching you,” he says cheerfully. Valentino boasts his course proved “too scary” for one student, a combat veteran. But he also recalls one night that left him full of fear. Valentino took part in first-responders training designed to simulate what might happen in Portland after the big quake. One team played the wounded; another, the rescuers. Valentino hid in the dark, pretending to be pinned under rubble, watching flashing lights, listening to sirens and screaming. “The hairs were standing up

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on the back of my neck,” he says. “That was just training. Can you imagine in real life? “It’s a nightmare. I can see the nightmare.” In the event of a catastrophe, Valentino says, Mount Hood will be no refuge. He expects it will be overrun with poorly trained, overconfident, trigger-happy preppers—more dangerous than in the city, where at least one could still find food and shelter. “Let’s talk about shit hit the fan,” Valentino says. “People will not survive in the woods. They can’t. Something will happen. The cold will take them down. Or their own brain will take them down. And what if people have children?” When the big shocks come, you won’t catch this mountain man running for the hills. Instead, he says, he’ll be in the city, helping others. Sign up for the city’s free April 29 Neighborhood Emergency Team training at goo.gl/iJoXuZ or email net@portlandoregon.gov.

MIND OVER MATTER: Gear is important to survival, Valentino says, but not so much as training and experience.

GIMME SHELTER: On the south slope of Mount Hood, Valentino shows how to make an improvised tent with a saw, two tarps and some rope.

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MY PARENTS WERE EUGENE SCENESTERS, AND THE CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES PLAYED THEIR 1992 WEDDING. I TEXTED THEM ABOUT IT BEFORE THIS WEEK’S DADDIES SHOW AT REVOLUTION HALL. BY S O P H I A J U N E

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Did the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies play at your wedding? (On the record.)

Not sure what you mean by on the record, but, yes, absolutely. I think I still have the contract. Woah! Do you remember what you paid them?

I think it was a grand.

Yep…$900. I believe there is a video…Rick? On the record. Lol.

Hmm. Not sure what became of that video. I can look around.

So cool! Was it so weird to see them get famous?

How did you find them? Were they your friends?

One of them lives at Stonehenge.

Can’t remember. We were having a wedding, btw! I remember one song that we played on their equipment: “They Love Each Other” by the Grateful Dead. Look it up on YouTube. I think you’ll like it. I looked it up. So awesome! So you lived with one of them?

It was fun to see them on Letterman.They killed it!

What kind of music did they play at your wedding?

So awesome. I wish I could’ve been there to see them.

Swing/rock, heavy on the horns, with a punky attitude.

I can look in the video collection. Rick, do you think Mom and Gene may have taken pictures?… Before everyone jumped in the pool?

Did the band jump in the pool too?

I have a video but not a VCR. I’m trying to find the contract for you. No pics of the band, but one pic of us playing on their equipment.

I have a VCR!!! We should watch it… Off the record first, hehe.

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Davey: “I was raised in Southern California. I moved up here with her (Timbre) to be closer to her grandparents. Plus I really love it up here.” Timbre: “I grew up in Hong Kong, and we recently moved up here from California for my grandparents, as he said.”

LOOKS WE LIKE WHERE ARE YOU FROM? WHY DID YOU MOVE TO PORTLAND? PHOTOS BY SA M GEHR KE

“I’m Portland born and raised. Sometimes I think about moving to Los Angeles. They have a better sneaker culture.”

“I grew up in Phoenix, Ariz. I came up to Portland for school.”

“I grew up in Sherwood and moved to Portland when I was 18. I lived on the East Coast for a couple of years, so I could see myself moving back there at some point in my life.”

“I’m from Queens, N.Y. I moved to Portland for dance and to check out the West Coast.”

“I’m from Memphis, Tenn., originally. I’m visiting Portland for an extended stay, and considering living here eventually.”

“Born and raised in Portland. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else!”

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STARTERS

J O N AT H A N M O O R E

B I T E - S I Z E D P O RT L A N D C U LT U R E N E W S

JUST DRIVE IT: Last week, vandals hit at least 20 BikeTown stations, damaging more than 200 bikes—20 percent of the city’s entire fleet, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Police had not made any arrests at press time, but a group called “Rose City Saboteurs” claimed responsibility, leaving behind signs at some stations reading, “This BikeTown is now closed. Our city is not a corporate amusement park,” the BikePortland blog first reported. Vandals also wrote messages condemning Nike, such as “Nike Hates the Poor,” slashed tires and seats, spray-painted LED displays, and cut wheel spokes. Since the attack, PBOT has returned 50 bikes to the streets. DROPPING THE FAT SUIT: The Lardo lawsuit is over. In May 2016, WW reported that Lardo sandwich chain partner Ramzy Hattar—also a partner in Kachka and River Pig Saloon—had filed a $1.6 million lawsuit against chef Rick Gencarelli and restaurateur Kurt Huffman, alleging they had improperly shuffled $200,000 between Lardo locations and conspired to cut Hattar out of subsequent Lardo projects. Hattar followed up with a second $9 million suit in December, alleging breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and— unusually—breach of federal racketeering laws. But on March 31, Huffman tells WW, the two parties settled the suits for the much smaller sum of $250,000, which Huffman says is similar to the original settlement offer made to Hattar. “Rick [Gencarelli] is very relieved,” Huffman says. BELMONT STREET BBQ: Longtime Portland ’cue spot Russell Street BBQ has filed for a liquor license for a second location, on Southeast Belmont Street. The space, a block from Movie Madness, once housed Japanese spot Fukami. This means Russell Street’s second spot may now join the illustrious ranks of Portland businesses such as Apizza Scholls, the Hawthorne Strip and Captain Ankeny’s Pizza & Pub whose names transcend location. >> Meanwhile, the Westin Hotel on Southwest Alder Street—soon to become a new boutique hotel called Dossier from local chain Provenance Hotels—filed paperwork for both a bar called Opal managed by John Janulis (Bye and Bye, Century Club) and a restaurant called Omerta managed by ChefStable’s Kurt Huffman. Huffman declined to comment on the restaurant’s cuisine but said he hoped to open by this fall. BULLSEYE: The “unnamed retailer” taking over the AMF Pro 300 Lanes bowling alley on Southeast Powell Boulevard will be Target, as reported by the Portland Business Journal. The newspaper has confirmed the store chain signed a lease with Vancouver-based MAJ Development Corporation, which purchased the property last August for $4.8 million. Construction is set to begin after the alley closes this August, when its lease expires. Last week, AMF released a statement promising to stay open until August “and perhaps longer.” It wrote that MAJ was requesting a zoning change to allow the national retailer to go in. But according to the Portland Bureau of Development Services, the address is already zoned for retail, which means the Target is allowed without zoning adjustments. The store is expected to open next summer. 36

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12

Whitney On a victory lap for last year’s brilliant Light Upon the Lake, the Chicago two-piece’s foggy, summer-morning grooves should be in top form after 12 months of touring. Tonight’s show is sold out, but if you can’t finagle tickets, you’ll get another chance to catch the band this summer when it returns for a little thing called MusicfestNW presents Project Pabst. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall. com. 9 pm. Sold out. All ages.

All Comics Are Bastards Beloved by the punks, vegans and activists it so brilliantly lampoons, the Hard Times is easily the best fake news site since the Onion. Head writer and Portlander Bill Conway hosts All Comics Are Bastards, a monthly comedy series loosely centered on the absurdity his site feasts on, with sets from Laura Anne Whitley and WW Funniest Five winner Adam Pasi. Kickstand Comedy Space at the Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., kickstandcomedy.org. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. All ages.

THURSDAY, APRIL 13

Terra For Oregon Ballet Theatre’s spring show, it's staging two pieces by big-name modern ballet choreographer Nacho Duato. But perhaps even more exciting is the company’s reprise of Helen Pickett’s equally minimalist and lush Petal, as well as a premiere of Terra, a new work by Pickett. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, obt.org. 7:30 pm. Through April 22. $29-$102.

Julie Buntin Julie Buntin’s debut novel, Marlena, centers on two girls who live life faster than their age or experience permits. This story of youthful exuberance has been called “haunting” by Harper’s Bazaar and “brilliant” by Nylon, and the electrifying prose should convince any remaining skeptics. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

Thursday After disbanding in 2011, post-hardcore heavy hitters Thursday are back from the dead. This is the Jersey band’s first headlining tour in five years, and though it’s unclear if a new album is in the works, their reunion set at last year’s Wrecking Ball Festival suggests nostalgic emo kids will not be disappointed. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033, roselandpdx. com. 7:30 pm. $27.50 advance, $32 day of show. All ages.

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Spring Beer & Wine Fest Some of the newest and smallest breweries in Oregon pour their brews at the Oregon Convention Center— including, this year, British Columbia’s Driftwood (see page 38), Michigan’s Founders, and the spruce beer from Seal Rock's tiny Wolf Tree. Also available? The excellent whiskeys of Eastern Oregon’s Stein, and wine. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., springbeerandwinefest.com. Noon-10 pm. Through Saturday. $10-$25.

Get Busy

Pueblo Unido Want to fight Trump in a way that doesn’t involve randomly vandalizing city bike shares? Support local immigrant businesses—supergood-tasting ones, with mole and tlayudas and Haitian stews—at Portland Mercado’s second birthday party, while watching live music. Your $5 donation goes to the American Civil Liberties Union and other causes that support immigrant rights. Portland Mercado, 7238 SE Foster Road, portlandmercado.org. Noon-7 pm.

Cult of the Volt If you find the ideas of ponytailed geezers jamming with guitars and electronic musicians who do nothing but hit play on their MacBook equally loathsome, the first iteration of this recurring hardware-only synth jam is exactly where you want to be. Hosted by synth-geek collective Volt Divers, attendees will witness to four randomly assigned groups of three musicians nerding out with all the esoteric knobs, buttons and dials they can fit on a single table. The Lovecraft Bar, 421 SE Grand Ave., thelovecraftbar.com. 7 pm. $5 donation. 21+.

WHAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT

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The New Pornographers First, the bad news: Dan Bejar, the wine-drunk philosopherpoet of this long-running Canadian supergroup, is not currently touring with the band. The good news is that this clears more room for the spotless vocals of Neko Case and A.C. Newman. And as its new album, Whiteout Conditions, confirms, the high-voltage melodic riffs the band has banked on for years remain electric as ever. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686, wonderballroom.com. 8 pm. $35. 21+.

Pix Easter Egg Hunt Every year, toddlers waddle around on lawns searching for plastic Easter eggs containing a pink-stained Peep that tastes like diesel fuel. Well, fuck that. At Pix, the 50 hidden eggs contain tickets for cool shit, like chocolate bunnies riding motherfucking motorcycles, or $50 worth of liquor and French pastries. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St., 503-271-7166, pixpatisserie.com. 2 pm sharp! Free. All ages.

MONDAY, APRIL 17

Guided By Voices Every time Robert Pollard thinks he’s out, Guided By Voices pulls him back in. For the latest incarnation of his unkillable power-pop institution, the booze-swilling, high-kicking songwriting machine recruited alt-country scion Bobby Bare Jr. to record his 100th—yes, 100th—studio album, August by Cake, a 32-track behemoth that finds Pollard maintaining the highest batting average in indie rock. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

TUESDAY, APRIL 18

Gucci Mane Atlanta is the cultural capital of the United States right now, and Gucci Mane is its goodwill ambassador. While a prison stint halted his prolific career, young acolytes turned his mumbly flow into hip-hop’s style du jour, and he re-emerged last year into a world where kids in Beaverton know what a “trap house” is. Now, he’s not just a hometown hero but a national star, and an example of what can happen if you spend a decade dropping mixtapes as often as other people put gas in their car. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 8 pm. $39.50 advance, $40 day of show. All ages.

Beer Besties Three brewery sizes—little, kinda little, kinda big—won Brewery of the Year awards at the Oregon Beer Awards in February, and all three will show up at Belmont Station with crazy barrel-aged beers. The Commons apparently got hold of a Nocino barrel for its Belgian dubbel, Breakside has a barrel-aged peach sour, and Baerlic has a “non-gin-barrel-aged saison." Cool. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538, belmont-station.com. 5-8 pm. 21+.

Lidia Yuknavitch Fresh off the success of her 2016 Oregon Book Award-winning novel, The Small Backs of Children,, Lidia Yuknavitch is back with The Book of Joan,, a reimagined Joan of Arc tale that takes place on a platform hovering above Earth, providing a new home for refugees of a post-apocalyptic planet. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

FOOD & DRINK

Shandong = WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

By MATTHEW KORFHAGE. www.shandongportland.com

Editor: MARTIN CIZMAR. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Spring Beer & Wine Fest

Some of the newest and smallest breweries in Oregon pour their brews at the Oregon Convention Center—including, this year, British Columbia’s Driftwood (right), Michigan’s Founders, and the spruce beer from Seal Rock’s tiny Wolf Tree. Also available? The excellent whiskies of Eastern Oregon’s Stein, and wine. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503235-7575. Noon-10 pm. $10-$25.

MONDAY, APRIL 17 Beer Besties!

Three brewery sizes—little, kinda little, kinda big—won the Brewery of the Year award at the Oregon Beer Awards in February, and all three will show up at Belmont Station with barrel-aged beers. The Commons got hold of a Nocino barrel for its Belgian dubbel, Breakside has a barrel-aged peach sour and Baerlic has a “non-gin barrel-aged saison.” Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538. 5-8 pm.

TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Aviv Pop-up

500 NW 21st Ave, (503) 208-2173 kungpowpdx.com

Chefs Tal Caspi of the former Gonzo falafel cart and Sanjay Chandrasekaran of the Sudra will team up for a $25, ﬁve-course vegan Israeli pop-up with coconut-halvah ice cream, cucumber-sumac salad, hummus, falafel and a veggie mezza. L’chaim! Heart Bar, 1125 SE Division St., 971-808-2848. Seatings at 6 and 8 pm.

DRANK

Fat Tug IPA

(DRIFTWOOD)

Driftwood’s Fat Tug IPA is brewed in lovely Victoria, British Columbia. It is by consensus one of B.C.’s two great IPAs, alongside Red Racer from Central City Brewers. It’s never been in Oregon before, and this weekend is your first chance to get it. That’s because Driftwood joins a long line of small, unique breweries tapped by the Spring Beer & Wine Fest. The annual fest at the red-rugged Convention Center is the city’s second-oldest festival, but off the radar for too many beer geeks. Actually, it’s arguably the geekiest fest of the year, with a lineup that sticks to the exotic and nano, eschewing the big names that seem to come along with the jockey boxes at most fests. This beer was brought down by Mike Neely’s brand-new nanodistributor, Craft Masters—following in the footsteps of Day One Distribution by bringing tiny breweries to Oregon that otherwise might not hitch a ride across the state line. Well, as it turns out, Canada’s Fat Tug tastes like a classic West Coast IPA. The 7 percent ABV beer is big, hopforward and aggressively grapefruity with a stern malt backbone—a full-bodied IPA with an even fuller bittersweet flavor profile. Though new to me, the classic profile makes it almost pleasantly nostalgic…a bit like those hopey-changey days of 2008, the sort Canada is living through now with Justin Trudeau. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

DRANK

Where to eat this week. 1. Sunset Fried Chicken

In Rachel’s Ginger Beer, 3646 SE Hawthorne Blvd., sunsetfriedchicken.com. Until April 25, enjoy quite possibly the ﬁnest fried chicken sandwich in town—a crisp OG sammie with dill pickle and acid-sweet slaw. $.

2. Urdaneta

3033 NE Alberta St., 503-288-1990, urdanetapdx.com. Basque spot Urdaneta’s new pintxo hour from 5-6 pm weekdays is killer— $2 Gildas with house boquerones, $4 Morcilla with deep-noted blood sausage, and Asturian cider or Spanish vermouth for merely $5. $$-$$$.

3. Spitz

2103 N Killingsworth St., 503-954-3601, spitzpdx.com. L.A.-based Spitz has brought in the best Turkish-German döner in Portland at the moment—but those dirty-Greek street-cart fries may be just as good. $.

4. Fukami

In Davenport, 2215 E Burnside St., fukamipdx.com. Every Sunday and Monday, reserve a place to get umpty plates of kaisekistyle Japanese food, from nettle salad to the ﬁnest sashimi in town. $$$$.

5. Bless Your Heart

126 SW 2nd Ave., 503-719-4221, byhpdx.com. Hot damn—real-deal East Coast hamburgers, whether Carolina-style or straight-up double-cheese on a Martin’s potato roll. Life is good. And bless your heart. $.

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Hunter’s Moon

(1859 CIDER CO.)

Don’t look for 1859’s cider in Portland anytime soon. “We’ve gotten a lot of keg requests since we’ve opened. Bushwhacker, lots of people,” says Patricia Fox, who cofounded the Salem cidery last July with her husband, Dan. “I haven’t filled a single one except three in Salem.” Their Hunter’s Moon is the rare cider that’s worth a drive. The Foxes have wine backgrounds, and they make their cider the same way—crushing their own apples, many of which come from their orchard, and not using sugar or water. But they don’t leave it to chance either: Hunter’s Moon is a single-varietal winesap farmhouse that uses eight yeast varieties, including wild, that the Foxes ferment in different barrels and blend to taste. Split-batch blends are rare enough in local cider as to be unheard of, and the results pay off. Despite no spicing or back-sweetening, the yeast imparts beauteous, clove-y complexity, while the apples offer up a slight taste of cinnamon. Because the apples were sugary and harvested late, the very-dry cider fermented into a whopping 8 percent ABV. But there’s no booziness or heat, just extraordinary complexity and a depth of fruit. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

J O E R I E D L ; E M I LY J O A N G R E E N E

REVIEW

BAO, CHICKEN, BAO WOW: When you get a good batch of XLB at XLB, it’s heaven.

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($9), meanwhile, were almost Polish in their bitter-leafed savoriness, avoiding the dense-doughed pastiness afflicting far too many steamed dumplings.

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Back in 2012, Portland’s farm-to-table movement felt like a prison made of fennel and salmon. So when Northeast Alberta Street’s Aviary and Fremont Street’s Smallwares both leapt onto the restaurant scene with their refined, fun takes on Asianish food, the only debate was which one to name Restaurant of the Year. In the end, the more haute Aviary and its flagship chicken-skin salad prevailed, while Johanna Ware’s more casual, boozy, Momofuku-influenced Smallwares was runner-up. Fast forward five years, and chefs from both restaurants are again surfing the wave of Portland food trends—this time with upscale fast casual. Their routes are different— Ware closed her full-service restaurant after five years of scraping by in the moribund Beaumont neighborhood, while former Aviary co-chef Jasper Shen took a buyout with an eye toward starting his own place. Now Ware is at Wares, serving highlights from her old menu at Northeast Sandy Boulevard’s bustling food mall the Zipper, and Shen is making Shanghai soup dumplings at XLB on North Williams Avenue.

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Three years ago, Aviary alum Shen promised to finally bring the city credible xiao long bao soup dumplings—those little dough pockets filled with broth and meat that have a cult following among foodies. He spent years practicing the deft twist of the wrist required to make the dumplings before opening XLB in the old Lardo space on Williams in January. XLB’s open-kitchen, fast-casual space is a clean-lined hall of ironized Asiatic kitsch, complete with stylized kung fu paintings, Qing dynasty lights hung at varied heights, and a gold-painted wallpaper pattern of Chinese zodiac silhouettes—perfect dog, perfect snake, perfect rooster. The namesake dumplings are, by all accounts, inconsistent. An early visit found them too dry, a common complaint among people we’ve talked to. On a recent visit, they were terrific—bursting with lovely, savory, herbal, warming broth, accented with an on-point vinegar-shallot dipping sauce. Those heavenly dumplings prove the kitchen capable

of great XLB, but there’s no guarantee you’ll get such a good batch. Other entrees were mostly successful, in particular a light-battered five-spice popcorn chicken ($8) that was sweetly clove- and cinnamon-heavy with a slight afterglow of numbing Sichuan pepper. A ho fun noodle stir fry ($10) was upgraded with beautifully steaky beef strips—a welcome addition, though it’s hard to prefer it to the delicate noodle texture of the chow fun at Pure Spice off Southeast Division Street. Cabbage-and-mushroom baozi

Ware, a Chicago native with experience at a couple of New York’s busiest kitchens, has always been a big-city chef in a town that runs at a lower frequency. Well, at the Zipper, she’s found a place with a pace—a recent visit found the food mall overrun with customers aggressively bogarting chairs, junglestyle, as Ware and her staff sprinted around the kitchen. Wares is a great spot, and probably a better fit for its namesake’s distinctive style. You won’t get the same tweezery attention to detail found at the sit-down spot, but it’s much more accessible. Take Wares’ signature dish—batter-fried kale with fish sauce and bacon bits. The version at Smallwares was akin to the super-airy tempura you find at good Japanese restaurants, with a fine mist of fish sauce spread evenly. At Wares, where you watch as each batch is dropped into a basket fryer behind the counter, the batter tends to be a little clumpy, with the fish sauce and bacon collecting at the bottom of the bowl. The loud flavor is still there, though—and many more people will get to experience it. The rice bowl ($11, add chicken thighs or pork belly for $3) is fantastic, with a bright but earthy sauce of yuzu and miso, topped with a runny fried egg, furikake seasoning and avocado. The noodles in the ramen ($13) are a bit under-alkaline, but the chicken broth is a lively black-pepper and chili-oil number, softened up with a tender-poached egg. Weekend brunch also gives you the run of the regular menu, but the best reason to wake up in the morning is Wares’ savory, textured congee, a savory rice porridge crunched up and sweetened with granola, deepened with house-fermented Chinese sausage and egg yolk and prickled up with chili oil. It all comes together as an idealized balance of hot, salty, sour, sweet and savory. Or, scratch that: It’s just plain perfect. EAT: XLB, 4090 N Williams Ave., 503-841-5373, xlbpdx. com. 11 am-3 pm and 5-10 pm daily. Wares, inside the Zipper, 2713 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-954-1172, warespdx.com. 11 am-midnight daily. Brunch weekends 11 am-3 pm. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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MUSIC HOTSEAT

RICK VODICKA

Eternal Damnation THE DAMNED’S CAPTAIN SENSIBLE ON 40 YEARS OF PUNK, POLITICS AND PUNCH-UPS. BY NAT H A N C A R SO N

503-243-2122

For a band that released the first-ever U.K. punk single, the Damned never quite received the attention of their peers. “New Rose,” from 1976, beat the Sex Pistols out of the gate by a matter of months. In ’77, manic debut album Damned Damned Damned followed. The songs were fueled by the raw energy of the Stooges and MC5, but also stood on the shoulders of glam bands like the Pink Fairies while ratcheting up the tempos. Unlike their contemporaries, the Damned skipped out on the major label advances and promotion, stuck to their guns and helped define the independent spirit of punk—not merely waving the flag, but actually living up to its morals. Of course, it was a short-lived victory, and the band was constantly broke. Members splintered off and the band began to mutate, helping forge a second genre, goth, in the process. But what the band lacked in relative fame, it’s made up for in longevity. In 2016, the Damned celebrated their 40th anniversary. Never a group to be hung up on tradition or sentimentality, it is continuing its long trip by doing what it does best: laying down sets of bristling fury night after night, around the world. Captain Sensible—the group’s resident madman, former bassist and current guitarist— took a moment on tour to answer some questions. WW: It took only 40 years, but it seems the Damned are playing larger and classier venues than ever before. Does it feel like you’re finally getting your due? Captain Sensible: Some bands worry about their status, and whether they’ll get some stupid award or other. The Damned are outsiders, and have nothing to prove—we’re just happy to be able to travel around the world playing gigs. All the British punk bands from ’77 had their own approach to punk. I respect the Stranglers and [Sex] Pistols, but for me the Damned have an adventurous musicality that makes their live performances a unique and theatrical experience. The Damned are a real live band, [and] the reason we are still popular is as an antidote to the awful, plastic modern music. Auto-Tune, quantise, compression—it’s cheating and not for us.

2 OF THE 5: The Damned’s Captain Sensible (left) and Dave Vanian.

But mainly I was trying to change my own world, ’cause for me as a teenager with little education to boast of, I had a life of drudge ahead of me at best. Or a vagabond of some sort. I was already known to the law, and things could have gone from bad to worse. I was dossing in a Brighton squat, surrounded by junkies and ne’er-do-wells. Then punk rock showed up and saved me. Every band needs a chaos factor, and I became the Damned’s random unpredictable nutcase. My dream job. As for low points—maybe the rows and punch-ups? But all bands have them I think, even the Mamas & the Papas. The Damned were the first British punk band to release a single, thanks to your relationship with independent label Stiff Records. What about the legacy today and after the Damned are gone? I’m absolutely not interested in any legacy, awards, status, hanging out with celebrities or any of that stuff rock stars do. For me, punk bands and fans are the same. Star trips are the sort of thing we set out to get rid of. The Damned were both ferociously fast and totally wild in 1976. What are your thoughts about the incredible frontiers of tempo and extremity of subject matter that have come to music in the ensuing years? Little Richard—a huge hero of ours—he was considered subversive once. You have to try and view artists in context of the period in which they broke through. We

“YOU’D BE SURPRISED HOW UPSET PEOPLE WERE BY PUNK IN ’76. JUST WALKING DOWN THE ROAD WEARING A STUDDED LEATHER JACKET WAS AN INVITE TO ANYONE WHO FANCIED TO ENGAGE IN FISTICUFFS.” —Captain Sensible How strange has the whole trip been? It’s a cliché, I know, but the whole thing’s been a rollercoaster ride of massive highs and desperate lows. We were just making the music we wanted to hear because there was precious little around at the time that had any get-up-and-go. Glam rock had packed the sequins and gone. All we had left was country, disco and prog.

ruffled some feathers at a time when country, rock and disco were everywhere. You’d be surprised how upset people were by punk in ’76. Just walking down the road wearing a studded leather jacket was an invite to anyone who fancied to engage in fisticuffs. Being no hero, I actually became very good at running during that period.

In 2006, you formed the political Blah! Party, which later mutated into a protest group. Trump and Brexit are symptoms of a huge disconnect between politicians and voters. People don’t trust Washington and want change, which explains the popularity of outsiders like Bernie [Sanders] and Trump. As for Britain, Tony Blair’s lies to justify the Iraq War had me so enraged I started my own political party, rather than put a brick through the TV screen when his face popped up. The Blah! Party I called it, as in “blah blah blah, heard it all before.” The people want a government that listens to them, not the corporations. Blah! to the lot of them. Where should people be looking for hope, and what do you think the average music fan can do to make a difference? Don’t ask me about politics, I’m just a daft guitarist. Leave that to our trusted elected representatives who somehow manage to answer not to the voters but to the corporations who so generously fund them. I’m loving the debate about “fake news.” That’s been a long time coming. People don’t like wars—they have to be lied into supporting armed interventions, and we have to learn from previous examples. In the U.K., it was a genuine thrill when the Tories were booted out by Blair’s New Labour project. But then they took us straight to Iraq via “dodgy dossiers” and a whole bunch of “fake news” from the mainstream media. Do you think there’s anything inherent in the punk manifesto that is an argument against playing a greatest-hits set from a 40-plus-year career, or is this exactly what you should be doing? The first rule of punk is there are no rules. Punk was a reaction against the excessive rock-star nonsense of the mid-’70s, the swaggering, macho buffoons with a foot up on the monitors while boring audiences to death with long, tedious guitar solos and lyrics about wizards and pixies. I’m happy to say we helped get rid of that. This tour, and its across-the-board set list, is a celebration of not only 40 years of the Damned but of actually surviving a lot of extremely mad and debauched times in one piece—physically, if not quite mentally. SEE IT: The Damned play Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, April 14. 9 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12 Atriarch, Sol, Marriage and Cancer

[DEATH DOOM] Atriarch has been one of Portland’s leading doommetal bands for quite some time, and now that status is about to become boozily official. The foursome are getting their own limited-edition brew through McMenamins, as part of their Blasphemous Collaboration Series. Atriarch’s beer, the Devolver Coffee Stout, bubbles a bit of British malt with just enough of that coffee bitterness to make it just as biting as Atriarch’s sounds. CERVANTE POPE. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

Monkeys, Blossoms sing about girls and parties to the tune of powerful hooks and a prominent rhythmic pulse that seems practically required on the Brit-rock circuit. Like any band destined for arenas, Blossoms like to show their tender side as well, offering the occasional swooning, piano-led ballad. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

Whitney, Julie Byrne

[INDIE SOUL] See Get Busy, page 37. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

[BRIT ROCK] An ocean away, Blossoms are blooming. The U.K. quintet had a bang-up 2016, releasing its buzzing self-titled LP and earning spots at massive stateside festivals like Coachella. Following in the footsteps of peers like Arctic

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FIVE RAPPERS WHO OWE THEIR CAREERS TO GUCCI MANE Young Thug

As an A&R man, Gucci Mane has an incredible ear for talent. And sometimes he doesn’t even need to hear it to know it’s there: He signed Young Thug to his 1017 Brick Squad Records label before listening to a single song. The eccentric MC is forever in Gucci’s debt, paying homage with tribute songs (“Again”) and eventually reuniting with him after Gucci’s recent prison stint on comeback album Everybody Looking.

2 Migos Like Thug, Migos also signed to Gucci’s label early in their careers. Adopting Gucci’s method of releasing multiple tapes per year, the group officially became a mainstream phenomenon when its hardhitting single “Bad and Boujee” went No. 1 in January. 3 Playboi Carti Atlanta’s young prince has amassed a feverous internet following after “Fetti” and “Broke Boi” broke out on SoundCloud. Although Carti doesn’t have a debut mixtape out yet, he is reaching Gucci levels of popularity from oddball singles that showcase his peculiar strain of genius. 4 Dreezy Chicago upstart Dreezy collaborated with Gucci Mane on “We Gon Ride,” a BFF anthem on her Interscope debut, No Hard Feelings. Of Gucci’s influence, she’s said, “He always been his self. He never switched up for nobody. I like how he stands his ground. I like how you can make it from the streets. It’s just motivating.” 5 Fetty Wap Gucci’s DNA is all over the “Trap Queen” rapper-singer’s music. This is how much Gucci means to Fetty Wap: After meeting his idol for the first time last year, he exclaimed “life goals” and even joked about quitting rap. Because what else is there left to accomplish? ERIC DIEP. SEE IT: Gucci Mane plays Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Playboi Carti and Dreezy, on Tuesday, April 18. 8 pm. $39.50 advance, $40 day of show. All ages. 42

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WIG OUT: Of Montreal plays Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, April 15.

FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Minus the Bear, Beach Slang, Bayonne

[CTRL-ALT ROCK] If there is one thing Minus the Bear is known for, it’s ridiculous song titles— “Hey, Wanna Throw up? Get Me Naked.” But the Seattle math-rock band has shown it is more than just a gimmick. Lyrically, it creates engaging stories within each song, complete with unexpected time changes that keep you guessing where everything is going. This year’s Voids arrives five years after the group’s last full-length release and shows the band has not lost its grunge-influenced vocals, bucking guitar riffs and catchy melodies. Resurfacing every few years or so, Minus the Bear continues to be that band that you just can’t part ways with as it manages to retain relevance and continues to remind you why you loved it in the first place. JASON SUSIM. Hawthorne Theatre, 1507 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-233-7100. 8 pm. $22.50 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Ab-Soul, Little Simz

[WOKE RAP] Abstract lyricist and conspiracy theorist Ab-Soul ended 2016 by finally releasing his oftdelayed fourth studio album, Do What Thou Wilt. If Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q are the top dogs of Top Dawg Entertainment, then Ab-Soul is the quiet assassin, mind-fucking his fans with syllabledense songs that make you ponder the world. DWTW isn’t the best album in his catalog—that honor goes to 2012’s Control System— but it does provide further proof that he cares very little what critics think to promote his #staywoke messages. On this tour, he’ll be joined by prolific London rapper Little Simz, a 23-year-old fire spitter whose escapist raps are much appreciated in this tragedyfilled climate we live in. Real thinkers are welcome. ERIC DIEP. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700. 9 pm. $23. 21+.

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 21 Savage, Young M.A., Tee Grizzley, Young Nudy

[ATL TRAP] Atlanta rapper 21 Savage, formerly of the group Slaughtergang, broke out as a solo MC with his 2014 hit, “Picky.” At merely 24 years of age, the self-dubbed “Slaughter King” is riding the wave of Atlanta’s booming hip-hop scene. His latest album, Savage Mode, is produced entirely by Atlanta’s Metro Boomin, one of the highest-paid producers in the game. 21 Savage halfmumbles with the same gritty, dry-voiced trap-house swagger as his ATL contemporaries Future and Migos, and with friends like these, the dude has nowhere to go but up. JASON SUSIM. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-2300033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Of Montreal, Christina Schneider’s Jepeto Solutions, Phone Call

[INDIE POP] For last year’s Innocence Reaches, the ever-prolific Kevin Barnes sequestered himself in a Paris flat and worked quietly into the wee hours of the night on another sprawling electro-prog epic. Apparently inspired by his recent divorce, the resulting LP still has the Technicolor mania the 21st-century version of Of Montreal has successfully employed, but its minor injections of aureate gloom reveal flickers of the band’s earlier days of somber fuzz pop. Standout lead single “It’s Different for Girls” serves as a peephole into the quirky, slightly off-kilter modern incarnation Barnes has created. CRIS LANKENAU. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 16 Banks, Raury

[ALT-R&B] Twenty-eight-year-old Banks is two albums into a career shaped by somber, downbeat indie pop. Her second album, The Altar, is heavier on the electronic effects than her 2014 debut, Goddess, but still rife with moody R&B beats. She fell into songwriting at 15, when playing the piano helped her deal with the loneliness and anger she was suddenly feeling due to her parents’ divorce. Although the mood of her music is depressive, it is intensely hypnotizing and sleek, inviting listeners in to commiserate about their darker emotions. MAYA MCOMIE. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 8 pm. $29.50 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

Mastodon, Eagles of Death Metal, Russian Circles

[D&D METAL] Mastodon has been on the wrong side of critical excitement for almost a decade now, but the consistency of the Atlanta fantasy-metal outfit’s output still draws dice-chucking headbangers by the boatload. The lowered stakes probably account for the stylistic swerving on this year’s Emperor of Sand, a concept album (surprise!) loaded with songs that sound like Judas Priest and the Scorpions riffing fan fiction on the 2002 film The Scorpion King. Get there early for sounds of the zombie apocalypse courtesy of post-metal titans Russian Circles, as well as the sexed-up stoner-pop swagger of Eagles of Death Metal. PETE COTTELL. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 7:30 pm. Sold out. All ages.

The New Pornographers, Waxahatchee

[POWER POP] See Get Busy, page 37. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $35. 21+.

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Mount Eerie, Lori Goldston [CEREMONIOUS SONGS] On Phil Elverum’s latest dispatch as Mount Eerie, the Washington-based songwriter tells stories that are almost too tough to bear. With songs detailing the fallout associated with the death of his wife, Geneviève Castrée, last year, the title of his new album, A Crow Looked at Me, seems like an artist’s statement as much as a warning to the uninitiated, and the subject matter can’t be cushioned with the somber folk maneuvering Mount Eerie has become associated with. Of course, the Microphones—Elverum’s project that morphed into Mount Eerie 15 years back—refused to mask emotion, too, making use of its own solemn stories. But back then, the extra instrumentation buffered listeners from some of the more dire moments the songwriter got on tape. On Crow, all we have, for the most part, is Elverum and his guitar, presenting stark vignettes depicting a lonely guy taking out the garbage and puzzling over the future of his children. It’s painful. Opening tonight’s show is cellist Lori Goldston, who’s probably best known for contributing to Nirvana’s appearance on MTV’s Unplugged, but has released a handful of charming solo works. DAVE CANTOR. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503288-3895. 8 pm Monday, April 17. Sold out. 21+.

MONDAY, APRIL 17 Guided By Voices

[LO-FI LEGENDS] See Get Busy, page 37. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

Two Door Cinema Club, the Zolas

[INDIE ROCK] Three years ago, things weren’t looking so good for Irish indie-rock trio Two Door Cinema Club. Lead singer Alex Trimble was hospitalized for health problems, and after years of nonstop touring and recording, the band wasn’t getting along. Luckily, after making a few lifestyle changes, Trimble and company returned with 2016’s Gameshow, showing that they’re still more than capable of crafting jumpy, melodic hooks, led by Trimble’s falsetto and with traces of power-pop and ’80s synth pop contributing to the mix. MAYA MCOMIE. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-2300033. 8 pm. $35-$50. All ages.

Roísín Murphy

[FOUR MOLOKO] Upon dismantling U.K. trip-hop duo Moloko around 2003, Roísín Murphy seemed every part the Lady Gaga-in-Waiting. The Irish singer tried the major label path to dimming results before re-awakening global interest via 2015’s Mercury Prize-nominated Hairless Toys. The recording sessions for that album also birthed the foundation of her latest release, Take Her Up to Monto, but where the earlier work distilled a relatively salable haute electronica, the remainders ended up as deeply strange house. Though there’s no end of thrills buried within wickedly abstruse, over-the-top head-scratchers, the absence of any through line leaves an emptiness not even Murphy’s daft costuming could resolve. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Julia Jacklin, Gold Star

[INDIE FOLK] Technology’s planetshrinking effect is bewildering and sometimes disheartening. And in the case of folk music, it can be downright confusing. Take Julia Jacklin, who was raised in rural Australia and is currently responsible for some of the brightest Appalachian-tinged indie music around. The internet may have aided in sharpening her musical taste, but it was the classical training that fine-tuned her exquisite voice. Last year, Jacklin released a sleeping giant in Don’t Let the Kids Win, a countrified bedroom-rock album the likes to which Billy Bragg and Marlon Williams would tip their hats. Arrive early tonight for the impressive Americana of Gold Star. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $11 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD FearNoMusic

[COMPOSITIONAL COLLAB] After Portland composer Ryan Francis did the string arrangements for onetime Portland resident Emily Wells’ last tour, the pair hit it off, and when local new music ensemble Fear No Music invited Francis to curate a concert, he invited Wells to collaborate on a new piece. Their Living Fabric is inspired by patterns of animal behavior, such as flocking birds. Francis, who won a sterling reputation in New York newmusic circles, also contributed Pocket Studies, a set of miniatures that adds calculator-sized Pocket Operator synthesizers to various Fear No Music chamber music ensembles. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 7:30 pm Friday, April 14. $10 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.

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Oregonophony

[NATIVE JAZZ] For the past few months, five of Oregon’s finest jazz songwriters have been foraging through our state with portable recorders, saving sounds of rainy days, hikes through the Gorge and urban bike rides, as part of the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s Oregonophony project. Tonight, each composer will present an original piece of music specially arranged for the PJCE’s 12-piece orchestra. It’s a concert that should be both intimate and interesting, offering a simultaneous glimpse inside the mind of our state’s most interesting jazz authors and the native sounds that inspire them. PARKER HALL. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503946-1962. 8 pm Saturday, April 15. $12-$20. All ages.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

[TRAD JAZZ] More a long-standing cultural stalwart of traditional jazz than any one group of musicians, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is named for its celebrated venue of origin in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But putting it that way would be far too stuffy for this crew. This is jazz returning to its dancehall music roots, and these days the PHJB has expanded its sound to include contemporary jazz-fusion styles and even aspects of EDM and indie rock. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SW Milwaukie Ave., 503-234-9694. 8 pm Tuesday, April 18. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

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[MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY] On his band’s self-titled sophomore effort, Little Star singer Daniel Byers has learned an important lesson: You can vent about your own misery ad nauseam, so long as you dress your existential dilemma in pop hooks to keep the kids dancing. Evolving past the first album’s cherrypicked pastiche of various indie elements, Little Star moves toward a retro jubilance that’s difficult to pigeonhole by genre. The band’s busy, manipulated sonic assemblage evokes the Cure in pop mode, and lays the foundation for Byers to speak plainly and candidly about some pretty dark personal situations. Little Star opens with a pair of angular laments about coping with depression. While Robert Smith uses metaphor to describe the depths of his suffering, Byers comes clean in such casual vernacular that you can’t help but admire his sincerity. “My life is empty and useless without you in it,” he croons on “Mood,” going so far as to name Zoloft as the subject of his conflicted feelings. Lines like “I feel so down/I wonder if there could be any way out” are awfully doomy, but backed by a cool breeze of skittish, jazzy percussion and flanged New Wave, you hardly notice that he’s debating the pros and cons of suicide. Another pair of tunes, both called “Calming Ritual,” zoom in on the actual day-to-day elements of living with mental health issues. Byers observes the world around him in a passive tone, everything outside himself existing on the periphery of his neurosis. People drive alongside him on the highway and move around him, in and out of his field of interaction, but he remains an observer, interjecting every so often to remind himself about life’s inevitable evolution. His relationship ends. He relates his state to Linda Blair in The Exorcist. He paints his heartbreak in delicate strokes of neon shades that force a vibrancy on otherwise woeful environs. He screams a little bit over guitars way too manipulated to relate his frustration. But the dichotomy of Little Star’s dark subject matter and bright instrumentation is the source of their success. The same way Byers can’t do much but take a walk or watch a movie on the days his disease gets the best of him, he can’t mine someone else’s suffering for material and mean it. So he does his best, considers the world around him, and shoves the worst of it through his pedalboard to make it better—forcing his pain to evolve into pop. CRIS LANKENAU. SEE IT: Little Star plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Oh Rose and Blackwater (Holylight), on Friday, April 14. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. APRIL 12 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Union Avenue, Nick Roberts Band

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Atriarch, Sol, Marriage and Cancer

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Zeta

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Blossoms, Arkells

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street All In: Trio Uncontrollable

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Vow of Volition - Battle for Warped Tour 2017 Round #1

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St, Rocky Butte Wranglers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy:

Nonna

5513 NE 30th Ave, May Picard

Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus

17705 NW Springville Road, “Of Foreign Lands and Peoples,” a Concert with Lyrical Strings Duo

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Whitney, Julie Byrne

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Millstone Grit, Maiah Wynne, and Ambulai

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Ramblin’ Rose

The Vault at O’Connor’s

7850 SW Capitol Hwy Fern Hill Bluegrass

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell DND7, Right Lane Ends, and Paradox Rebellion

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St The Deer + House Of Angels

Mrch, Fringe Class, Small Skies 4847 SE Division St, Jake Ray and the Cowdogs

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Homeshake

Roseland Theater

Artichoke Music Cafe 3130 SE Hawthorne, Acoustic Village: A theme-based open mic

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St The Wild Jumps

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St New Language

Dante’s

350 West Burnside CARTER WINTER

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave brother Yussef

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St.

350 West Burnside KARAOKE FROM HELL

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. PC Worship

Doug Fir Lounge

The Lovecraft Bar

830 E Burnside St. Guided by Voices

421 SE Grand Ave Bestial Mouths, SOLVE, The Blood of Others

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mount Eerie, Lori Goldston

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Laura May

Muddy Rudder Public House

The Ranger Station

FRI. APRIL 14 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Choir! Choir! Choir!

Artichoke Music Cafe

3130 Se Hawthorne, Friday Night Coffeehouse

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St The Damned

8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

SO BLEEPING SPECIAL: Radiohead are growers, not showers. Returning to Portland for the first time in 20 years on April 9 at Moda Center, the exalted British art-rockers were in no hurry to grab the sold-out crowd by the throat. Opening with “Daydreaming,” a spectral ballad from last year’s A Moon Shaped Pool, and then following with the similarly subdued “Desert Island Disk,” the band didn’t exactly come storming out of the gates. But then, that’s Radiohead, innit? Few bands of their stature have earned the creative capital to do whatever they want, and fewer still have the trust of their audience to just let them do it and see where it goes. After a slow start, the set built into a dynamic career retrospective. The last time Radiohead played in town, they were solidly a guitar band, and even after shunning the instrument in recent years, they proved they might still be one. “Airbag,” with its skywriting opening riff, still resonated as an air-raid siren set to music, and the slinky computer blues of “I Might Be Wrong” smoldered. Singer Thom Yorke didn’t speak much, as is his wont, but he seemed in good spirits. At one point, he acknowledged the band’s long Portland absence: “It’s been a short while since we’ve been here. 1996. What do you want? We’re busy.” And then, perhaps as a gesture of conciliation for having avoided Portland for so long, they played “Creep,” the grunge-era hit they dust off now and then like a shocking rarity. It was a nice surprise, though if recent set lists are an indication, it bumped either “Paranoid Android,” “Fake Plastic Trees” or “Karma Police,” one of the three more complex songs that first elevated Radiohead from potential one-hit wonder to Band of a Generation status all those years ago. Oh well. There’s always next time. MATTHEW SINGER.

Dante’s

350 West Burnside HELL’S BELLES with special guests

Doug Fir Lounge

Duff’s Garage

Eastburn

1800 E Burnside St, Gabe & The Babes

Fremont Theater

1036 NE Alberta St Yeah Great Fine + [bryson, the alien]

Dante’s

The Know

Wilf’s

Alberta Street Pub

1332 W Burnside St Michigan Rattlers, Lowlight

2845 SE Stark St McTUFF

2530 NE 82nd Ave Rae Gordon

THURS. APRIL 13

Crystal Ballroom

The Goodfoot

White Eagle Saloon

800 NW Sixth Avenue, Lori Boone with Ron Steen Trio

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer

13 NW 6th Ave. Robert Wynia, Chris Tsefalas

1420 SE Powell NIcolai Carrera & the Celebrators, Civil Lust, Willow House

2393 NE Fremont Street Jonathan Brinkley and Robin Jackson

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Minus the Bear, Beach Slang, Bayonne

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Buddy Wakefield

Gentle Bender, Plastic Weather, Drunken Palms & Dr. Burtrum

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Thursday

Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Cindy Lou Banks

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Ab-Soul, Little Simz

St. James Lutheran Church 1315 SW Park Ave. Bach Vespers

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. BARETONE AMICI PRESENTS: BRASS TACKS, The VON HOWLERS, STOLEN ROSE

The Firkin Tavern

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Little Star; Oh, Rose; BlackWater (HolyLight)

1937 SE 11th Ave Radio Hot Tub Showcase - Agents of ECCO, Rilla, Kill Frankie

Montavilla Station

The Know

Mississippi Studios

417 SE 80th Ave, Edge of Eether

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way, Sacred Road & The Branded Band

Pop Tavern

825 N. Killingsworth

836 N Russell St David Pollack | Chris Dugan

Ash Street Saloon

Star Theater

Twilight Cafe and Bar

White Eagle Saloon

MON. APRIL 17

8 NW 6th Ave Coheed and Cambria

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing! Featuring 12th Avenue Hot Club, The Barn Door Slammers

1420 SE Powell All Things Blue, My Proper Skin, Caws Pobi

Wonder Ballroom

10350 N Vancouver Way, Urban Sub All Stars & Kinky Brothers

The Secret Society

Twilight Cafe and Bar

128 NE Russell St. The New Pornographers, Waxahatchee

Ponderosa Lounge

830 E Burnside St. River Whyless

836 N Russell St Lee Harvey Osmond

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4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Dad Works Hard // Hot Won’t Quit // Tigers on Opium

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Mozart’s Sonata with Pianist David Rothman; FearNoMusic

The O’Neil Public House

Doug Fir Lounge

21 Savage, Young M.A., Tee Grizzley, Young Nudy

6000 NE Glisan St. Bahttsi

830 E Burnside St. Ramble On (Led Zeppelin Tribute)

The Secret Society

Duff’s Garage

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rosedale, After Hours, mustrd., In My Head, No Plug

Fremont Theater

The Firkin Tavern

116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Tony Starlight Showroom

1125 SE Madison St, Tony Starlight’s ‘80s Experience

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Crucial Change, All Worked Up, UNITE, The Sadists

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Happy Hour with Coyote Willow; Steep Ravine & Front Country

SAT. APRIL 15 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Väsen

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Skinned, Nihilist Nation, Boudica, Existential Depression, Trojan Swamp Monster

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Jenny and the Mexicats

2530 NE 82nd Ave Too Loose 2393 NE Fremont Street Oregonophony

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd. Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers

LaurelThirst Public House 2958 NE Glisan St Denver and Chuck Westmoreland

The Analog Cafe

1937 SE 11th Ave Drunk On Pines, High Five Danger, The Ornery

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Cult of Volt

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Stephanie Schneiderman, Samantha Kushnick & Anna Tivel

Mississippi Studios

The O’Neil Public House

PNCA

The Secret Society

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Laura Gibson 511 NW Broadway Rays, Gen Pop, Dr. Identity, the Bedrooms

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way, Rock and Roll Cowboys & Whisky Union

Raven and Rose

1331 SW Broadway, Corey Foster Collective

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave

6000 NE Glisan St. The Juleps

116 NE Russell St James Mason & The Djangophiles; World Music Night w/Ojos Feos CD Release, Dusu Mali

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell The Latter Day Skanks

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Luminous Things, Vandella; Reverb Brothers

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Of Montreal, Christina Schneider’s Jepeto Solutions, Phone Call

SUN. APRIL 16 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Morbid Fascination, Mindscar, Gidrah, Ninth Circle

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Two Door Cinema Club, the Zolas

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave Jonny Ampersand, Karyn Ann, Kurt Gentle

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Sonic Forum

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Martian Cult, Mood Beach

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Harvest Gold Duo, Trinkle

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Roisin Murphy

TUES. APRIL 18 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Gucci Mane; Lola Buzzkill, Reptaliens (Lola’s Room)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Baby Ketten Karaoke

Mississippi Studios

Crystal Ballroom

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Julia Jacklin, Gold Star

Doug Fir Lounge

1300 SE Stark St #110 Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

1332 W Burnside St Banks, Raury

Revolution Hall

830 E Burnside St. Pretty Gritty + The Druthers

The Analog Cafe

Mississippi Studios

The Goodfoot

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ian Sweet

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Roselit Bone, Weezy Ford

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave Mastodon, Eagles of Death Metal, Russian Circles

The Know

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Benefit for Jonnycat: Andy Place & the Coolheads, Welcome Home Walker, Mr. Wrong, Way Worse

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rose Room Swing Dance 2845 SE Stark St Fresh Track

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave “Little Ears” Concerts for Children: Mo Phillips Band

The Ranger Station

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bluegrass Tuesday

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts

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Nyx

215 W Burnside St., nyxpdx.com. In the former Alexis, second-story nightclub Nyx plays host to a crowd that looks more Brooklyn or Chicago than Portland—with hip-hop and sneakerheads worlds apart from the usual Old Town club crowd of fratboys and fuccbois.

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-238-0543, tonicloungeportland.com. Panic Room Caution: High Volume Bar is now the Tonic again, the metal continues, and all is right with America. God bless what’s left of America.

DJ Just Dave

Years DJing: I DJ’d a little in the early ’90s in Norfolk, Va., then there was a long gap. I picked it up again when I moved to Portland in 2006. Genres: New Wave, rock ’n’ roll, punk, goth, industrial, hip-hop, dancepop divas, queer jams like Le Tigre and Gossip—if I can get away with mixing many genres at a gig, I will. Where you can catch me regularly: I have a goth night every Wednesday, called Wednesday, at White Owl Social Club; QuarterFlashback is my ’80s night, second Fridays at Quarterworld; I spin once a month at Sandy Hut on random days; I guest-DJ at Hive several times a year; and I should be back to spinning for Blow Pony at Bossanova Ballroom every fourth Saturday starting in May. Craziest gig: New Year’s 2010 I DJ’d a huge house party at a punk house called C-Rev House on Northeast Rodney. It was an all-out rager. I remember a speaker falling through a window, lots of people making out (probably because of drugs), cops showing up but the party resuming, beer on my turntables, a circle pit forming when I played something (I think it was Iron Maiden)—good times! My future wife was right next to me at that party, too, watching the chaos. My go-to records: Depends on the gig, but some standards are Missy Elliott, Robyn, Slade, A-ha, Devo, Thin Lizzy, Lil Mama’s “Lip Gloss,” Judas Priest, Meat Beat Manifesto, ABBA, ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down,” Black Sabbath, B-52s, X, Zero Boys, the Saints, Rihanna... Don’t ever ask me to play…: People can ask me to play whatever, I just can’t stand it when they say, “Can you play this?” and stick a phone in my face! I point at my cases and say, “All I have is these records, if I have it I will play it.” Unless it’s Drake. If I have a Drake record, someone snuck it in there. SEE IT: DJ Just Dave spins at White Owl Social Club, 1305 SE 8th Ave., on Wednesday, April 12. 9 pm. 21+.

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Free Form Radio DJ’s

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Honesty

The Lovecraft Bar

Century Bar

930 SE Sandy Blvd. Night Moves

Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Queer Latin Night PDX

Dig A Pony

Killingsworth Dynasty

The Lovecraft Bar

Quarterworld

1932 NE Broadway St Leftside Lean (funk, soul) 421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth, industrial)

45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave KRANE & Sharps

Ground Kontrol

Black Book

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Deep Disco

736 SE Grand Ave. Maxx Bass (funk, boogie, rap) 1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean 832 N Killingsworth St Cake Party

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback (80s)

Spare Room

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1305 SE 8th Ave East Wednesday: A Goth Night

2035 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-477-4252. Brunch spot by day, Trinket turns into a lovely dessert-andliquor place by night— with Mumbai margaritas and salted honey pie.

Swift Lounge

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave)

511 NW Couch St. DJ Rob F Switch / DJ EPOR

NightCap

Holocene

Action/Adventure Theatre

White Owl Social Club

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20 NW 3rd Ave Ladies Night (rap, r&b, club)

2610 NW Vaughn St., 503-220-0283. The Gold smooshed together Slabtown Ribs and Acapulco’s Gold into a Tex-Mex bar with stiff-ass margaritas at $21 a pitcher. When the weather warms, where else would you be?

Sandy Hut

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

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

Black Book

The Gold

Dig A Pony

1430 NE Sandy Blvd. VJ Gregarious

THURS. APRIL 13

3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729, the knowpdx.com. Well, the restroom at the new Know—the Knew, perhaps?— might need a little more graffiti to feel the same. But “EAT SHIT, KYLE” is a good start.

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Markrof & DJ Carey

WED. APRIL 12

The Know

1050 SE Clinton St. Dance, Fools, Dance!

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap, r&b, club)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Hustle (disco)

The Goodfoot

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

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me feat. Eddie C.

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Jai Ho! Dance Party

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SWING LOW: If former dive bar Club 21 is now an outdoor graffiti museum on Sandy Boulevard, the old owners’ new Lay Low Tavern (6015 SE Powell Blvd., 503-774-4645) is like a museum devoted to Club 21. The bar staff, the build-your-own-burger menu and seemingly every piece of beer kitsch have been relocated to Southeast Powell Boulevard after Club 21 was closed in February to become apartments. But the former Coasters Bar & Grill lacks Club 21’s distinctive Hansel and Gretel architecture: The boxy bar looks like a wood-paneled, plush-boothed dive in 1970s-era Montana. In that room, Club 21’s vast menagerie of trophies, big-boobed velvet paintings, framed Elvis photos and cast-metal guns advertising beer look startlingly normal—blue-collar, even. If you told us the bar had been decorated this way since 1972, there would be no reason for disbelief. Among the new additions? A giant flag devoted to an Elks Lodge in Lebanon, Ore., that also sort of looks like it’s been there for 40 years. During a recent weekday visit to Lay Low, the customers were almost all staff from other bars run by co-owners Marcus Archambeault and Warren Boothby. Maybe this makes sense, because the people who hung out at Club 21 six years ago probably can’t afford to live in the old neighborhood anymore. So Club 21 is coming out to meet them where they are now. The patio is partly covered, it still has the big ol’ hexagonal table, and it’s open late despite the visible window of an upstairs tenant, whose curtains flutter lightly. It is an interesting world in which an entire bar exists not as a revival of another bar, but as a quotation of it. As if to punctuate the point, the sign that used to grace the door of the old Matador on West Burnside is given pride of place near the large flat screen. Welcome to the Matador. Welcome to Club 21. Welcome to Lay Low. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Tryst

19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ Bad Wizard

Jade Club

Valentines

315 SE 3rd Ave Juliana Huxtable & Anthony Dicap

Whiskey Bar

832 N Killingsworth St Max Capacity

232 SW Ankeny St DJ Rockit (black lightning) 31 NW 1st Ave Dack Janiels

SAT. APRIL 15 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Rusko

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Come As You Are: 90’s Dance Flashback

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Cake PDX + Ante Up PDX Present: SLAY

Killingsworth Dynasty

Lay Low Tavern

6015 SE Powell Blvd. DJ Major Sean

Lombard Pub

3416 N Lombard St Resist (dark dance)

Parasol Bar

215 SE 9th Ave Graintable (house, disco)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd DJ Rockit (kinshasa)

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Get On Up: James Brown Remixed

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Booms & Claps feat. Mike Gao / DJ Drew Groove

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Sabbath (darkside of rock)

The Analog Cafe

Tryst

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd. A Night For Dancers: Mambo/Salsa Social

Valentines

421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave)

19 SW 2nd Ave, Hipshakers & Soul Groovers 232 SW Ankeny St Signal 25 (dub, dancehall)

SUN. APRIL 16 Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave Flux (rap, r&b, club)

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Church of Hive (goth)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Super Adventure Kawaii Party

MON. APRIL 17 Ground Kontrol

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

The Lovecraft Bar

TUES. APRIL 18 Beech Street Parlor

412 NE Beech Street JAM the Controls (punk, garage, soul, reggae)

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736 SE Grand Ave. Noches Latinas (salsa)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage: DJ Matthias

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd. DJ Over Cöl

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Mood Ring (trap, witch house)

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

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS A Maze

Playwright Rob Handel’s A Maze was previewed as a staged reading in 2010’s JAW playwright festival, but it’s not until now that it’s getting a fully staged premiere. The play features four plots linked by Handel’s interest in self-discovery: a teenage girl who’s just escaped from a basement where she was held captive for a year, a comic book artist who’s just gained success, a band who’s dealing with the fact that they’re past their glory days, and a king trying to build the world’s biggest maze. SHANNON GORMLEY. Shoebox Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave., theatrevertigo.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 14-May 13. Additional shows 7:30 pm Sunday, May 7 and 14. $10$20, pay what you will Thursdays and Sunday evenings.

Beehive

A musical revue about ’60s female pop icons from Aretha Franklin to Janis Joplin, Beehive is somewhat antithetical to contemporary theater values: full of nostalgia, familiar songs, peppiness, virtuosic singing, and usually brightly colored mod dresses. But Broadway Rose seems like it’s embracing all that, considering its website describes the production as “frothy.” After all, the company is entirely dedicated to musical theater, so if anyone in Portland is going to make a case for the genre, it’s going to be them. SHANNON GORMLEY. Broadway Rose New Stage Auditorium, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, broadwayrose.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm SaturdaySunday, April 13-May 14. Additional shows 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10, and 2 pm Thursday, May 11. No show Sunday, April 16. $21-$46.

The Fever

Actor Wallace Shawn of The Princess Bride and Manhattan is also a wellrespected playwright, and his one-man play, The Fever, is one of his best-known works. The monologue is an exercise in paranoid do-goodery: set in an insect-infested hotel room in a country that’s in the middle of a civil war, the narrator reflects upon his life of privilege, which Wallace frames as necessarily built off of other’s poverty. Contextualizing privilege with Third World strife might not sound all that compelling, but The Fever has a reputation for being deeply affecting. SHANNON GORMLEY. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., readerstheatrerep.org. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, April 14-15. $8.

Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys will probably never die. Since its premiere on Broadway in 2005, Jersey Boys basically hasn’t stopped running. Across its 12 years of existence, the musical about ’60s pop group the Four Seasons of “Oh What a Night” fame has had several runs on Broadway and in the West End (among other places), been on two U.S. tours, and racked up several Tonys and Oliviers and a Grammy. SHANNON GORMLEY. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., portland5.com. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday, 1 pm and 6:30 pm Sunday, April 18-23.

ALSO PLAYING The Angry Brigade

Despite the fact that the eponymous leftist anarchist group orchestrated a series of bombings in London between 1970 and 1972, The Angry Brigade is more concerned with liberation from the mundane than the politics of terrorism. It’s a fast-moving play: The cast of four actors hurtles through an array of characters that range from absurdly hilarious to deeply compelling. The first half of the play follows Scotland Yard’s search for the Angry Brigade as the detectives become seduced by the philosophy of the enemy. The distinctly darker second half follows the Brigade themselves, four disillusioned college grads living in a busted-up flat. Like many of Third Rail’s plays this season, what makes The Angry Brigade so supremely imaginative is the creative team’s willingness to try and understand something simply for the purpose of experiential discovery, and not in the service of some end like morality. SHANNON GORMLEY. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8 Ave., thirdrailrep. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, April 13-15. $25-$42.50.

Chapatti

Portland’s Irish theater company, Corrib, is bringing back their production of Chapatti. The play tells the stories of Betty, a cat lover, and Dan, a dog lover; two aging and lonely widowers who are brought together by a plan to bury a dead cat that was run over by a car. It might sound like little more than an average gooey rom-com with some quirky dark humor thrown in, but what made Corrib’s last production of it successful was the performances by Allen Nause and Jacklyn Maddux as Dan and Betty, both of whom will be reprising their roles. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., corribtheatre.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 13-16. $20-$25.

Clue

Mister Theater’s plays have all been campy adaptations of cult movies: First was Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, and now there’s this stage adaptation of the movie adaptation of the board game Clue. But the plot is recognizable enough even if you haven’t seen the 1985 Tim Curry movie: Seven dinner guests are invited to a mansion under mysterious circumstances, their host is eventually murdered in a 30-second blackout, and the rest of the play is spent trying to figure out the killer. It’s full of deeply nonsensical humor, but even though absurdity is the goal, it feels as if the show would benefit from a more carefully crafted production. Still, the cast’s comedic sensibilities hold the play together. Plus, the show hints at the new company’s potential: Mister Theater has a sense for the deeply bizarre. SHANNON GORMLEY. Mister Theater, 1847 E Burnside St., mistertheater. com. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 13-16. $12.

Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

A longtime creator of shows that star only her, playwright and actor Lauren Weedman is familiar with the criticism that she’s “self-centered.” But aside from the fact that such talk is pretty sexist—men in theater don’t get called self-centered—ego is some-

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SOUL-SEARCHING: Erin Leddy plays Andrea and other roles in Berlin Diary.

Lost Legacy

GENERATIONS LATER, A PORTLAND PLAYWRIGHT CONFRONTS THE HOLOCAUST’S IMPACT ON HER FAMILY. BY B EN N ETT CA MPB ELL FER GU SON

Andrea Stolowitz didn’t want anything to do with the journal that became the basis for her play Berlin Diary. When the Portland playwright’s mother tried to give her the diary of her great-grandfather, a Jewish doctor named Max Cohnreich who fled Berlin during the Holocaust, Stolowitz was reluctant to accept it. So when her mother decided to donate the diary to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum instead, Stolowitz was relieved. “I was like, ‘Yes, that’s perfect,’” she recalls. “‘Thank God I don’t have to deal with the family legacy.’” Yet family legacy is exactly what Stolowitz deals with in Berlin Diary. With a time-hopping structure, the play entwines Cohnreich’s life with Stolowitz’s struggle to understand how the trauma of the Holocaust led to what she describes as her family’s “dysfunction.” The end result has made her a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for drama—which she’s already won twice for Ithaka and Antarktikos—and is getting its American premiere at CoHo Theater this week. The leap from being afraid to open her greatgrandfather’s diary to writing an entire play about it came during a year spent in Germany with her family. There, she began thinking about unearthing the diary, an idea driven in part by a desire to educate her own kids about their family history. Berlin Diary uses two actors who embody multiple characters, including Andrea, who Stolowitz describes as a “more neurotic” version of herself, and Cohnreich, whose dialogue Stolowitz lifted directly from his diary. The play is partly about Cohnreich’s immigration to New York, but ultimately, Berlin Diary is more about Andrea, who, in a meta twist, is writing a play based on the diary. In her script, Stolowitz also confronted what her great-grandfather left out of his writing: the

lethal toll that the Holocaust took on his massive family. “He was writing to his unborn grandchildren,” Stolowitz says. “What are you going to say? ‘I had a hundred cousins in Berlin and 50 of them or 20 of them were deported or died in concentration camps’?” That revelation was especially important to Stolowitz, who says that before the Holocaust, Cohnreich had the kind of family she always wanted. Her great-grandfather “had a hundred people at his bar mitzvah,” she says. “I’ve never been in a room with a hundred relatives.” Hand2Mouth artistic director Jonathan Walters, who directs the play, seems prepared to confront the depth of that loss. He’s keyed into the play’s time-hopping by blurring the line between past and present—in one scene, Andrea talks to her mother on an old-fashioned crank telephone. Despite the tragedy at the core of Berlin Diary, his rendition will have a “magical” quality, which may explain its use of what he describes as “puppetlike, little wooden blocks” that become gravestones and glow. Walters remembers Stolowitz telling him that her family is “sort of complicated, and people don’t really see each other that much,” and that she wondered if that’s “just the way it is, or is it because of the past, the things that broke our family apart and scattered us to the wind.” Even if the play leaves that question unanswered, Stolowitz is clear about Berlin Diary’s personal significance. “It’s not a story about a man who has to flee Nazi Germany and go to New York and start his life over,” she says. “It’s a story about a woman who is trying to figure out what her family history is so she can make the family she wants to have.” SEE IT: Berlin Diary plays at CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, April 15-30. $20-$30. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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thing she plays with in her newest show, Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. It centers on her big-haired alter ego Tami Lisa, who hosts a country music variety show in which she talks about her messy love life. She sings Lucinda Williams in front of a big pink sign that reads “Tami Lisa” in lights, and plays an array of characters. But the show is deeply concerned with the emotions hidden behind the big production and big hair: Interspersed with the outlandishly over-the-top performances, Weedman delivers candid monologues with little more staging and production than a stool and a spotlight. In what Weedman describes as a “Jungian nightmare,” Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is an exercise in open-hearted and sometimes painful honesty. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Sunday, through April 30. Additional shows 2 pm Saturday, April 22 and 29, and Sunday, April 30. No shows April 12, 14, 18 and 26. $25-$70.

DANCE Terra

For Oregon Ballet Theatre’s spring show, they’re staging two pieces by big-name modern ballet choreographer Nacho Duato, who’s helmed the likes of the Berlin State Ballet and Russia’s Mikhailovsky Theatre. It’s a big deal, but perhaps even more exciting is the company’s reprise of Helen Pickett’s Petal, as well as a premiere of a new work by Pickett. Petal is awesome— equally minimalist and lush, it has the delicate fluidity that we’re used to seeing in pointe ballet, mixed with the tension and fervor of modern dance—so it seems reasonable to assume that Terra will be too. SHANNON GORMLEY. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, obt.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 13-22. Additional show 2 pm Saturday, April 15. $29-$102.

COMEDY You’re Welcome

Weekly standup showcase You’re Welcome is always a solid bet, because no matter the guest rotation, the hosts are four of the funniest comics in Portland: Marcus Coleman, Adam Pasi, Caitlin Weierhauser and Matt Monroe. It’s a lineup that’s solid on its own, but this week it will also be joined by Nariko Ott (one of the more recent Portland comedy scene expats), Amanda Arnold (who, along with Pasi and Weierhauser, placed in WW’s most recent Funniest Five poll). SHANNON GORMLEY. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., mississippipizza.com. 9:30 pm Wednesday, April 12. Free.

J Names

Improv troupe J Names has appointed itself Portland’s improv supergroup. That’s fair enough: The eight comics, all of whom have first names that start with the letter J, have made their way around the local improv circuit as well as performed at a long list of national improv festivals. So it’s not surprising that for this show, they’ll be joined by Shelley McLendon, who, in addition to serving as artistic director of the Siren Theater, is a long-standing and revered figure in Portland’s improv scene. SHANNON GORMLEY. Siren Theater, 315 NW Davis St., sirentheater.com. 7:30 pm Friday, April 14. $15.

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WHO ARE YOU?: Kristin Barrett (left) and Tyharra Cozier.

Missed Connections This Random World could seem like a more complicated Love Actually without Christmas: Steven Dietz’s 2016 existential dramedy is a collection of loosely related side plots about love and self-discovery. But to the casual nihilist, it’s an exercise in accepting our rockier life decisions. The play centers on the Ward family—aging matriarch Scottie (Kathleen Worley), her adult daughter Beth (Kristin Barrett) and her 29-year-old son Tim (Jacob Beaver)—who never directly interact during the play. The plot is largely expressed through monologue-heavy vignettes, which allow no more than two characters to intersect at a time. The set is a graceful replica of a Japanese garden, but the globetrotting plots see characters crossing paths all over the world, permitting chance encounters to happen on a miraculous scale. However, these encounters often become missed connections. When Scottie and Gary (John D’Aversa) are trapped on a mountain together in Nepal, they begin flirting. In any other play, this scene might be the start of a burgeoning romance. But here, both characters end up asking each other: “What’s the point?” Brimming with dramatic irony, they actually have a tight-knit connection back home they are unaware of. In This Random World, more plot points are introduced than actualized. Though the play’s stream-of-consciousness approach may seem unproductive, the vignettes are compelling enough that they amount to something just as rich as a complete narrative. Rhonda (Tyharra Cozier) has perhaps the most varied and intimate role. She is a sister, a receptionist, a caretaker and a wanderer; she is also the only secondary character to interact with all three Wards. When given the chance to travel abroad to a spiritual garden in Japan, she ends up huddled over a group of stones, one of which she must choose to set her friend’s spirit free. Cozier handles the selection process with a successful mesh of anxiety and grace: Her character is tempted to believe that no stone will do the trick. Here, we feel as if we, too, are struggling to find meaning in a concentrated mass of identical objects. In the end, Rhonda lets someone else choose for her. JACK RUSHALL.

This Random World is a nihilist Love Actually.

SEE IT: This Random World plays at Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., pac.edu. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through April 23. No show Sunday, April 16. $18.

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The Successor

BLAKE SHELL HAS TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DISJECTA FOUNDER BRYAN SUERETH. AFTER HE FINALLY LEAVES THE BUILDING.

BY SHANNON GORMLEY

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It’s just over two weeks before Blake Shell starts as Disjecta’s executive director, and Bryan Suereth, her predecessor, is still occupying a section of the gallery’s building. Suereth founded Disjecta 15 years ago, helping it become one of Portland’s most prominent contemporary art organizations. Disjecta features a different curator in residence each season, and also helms the Portland Biennial, one of the city’s largest showcases of contemporary regional artists. The Biennial is just a year away, and Shell has the unenviable task of taking over an institution in tumult. To get you caught up: Last November, Disjecta’s board of directors announced it had asked Suereth to leave the organization Dec. 31. In mid-January, Suereth sent out a foreboding mass email in which he warned that “we should all be worried” about Disjecta’s future. He claimed he had been squeezed out of his position “under the thumb of an overeager board,” and that “only in the weird world of nonprofits would a group that invests 1 percent in a business feel empowered to upend a flourishing entity and remove the founding director without cause.” A day later, Disjecta’s board responded with its own letter to the public. Most of Disjecta’s board members have financial backgrounds, and they’re chaired by Christine D’Arcy, who was controversially dismissed from her previous position as the Oregon Arts Commission’s executive director, in part because of concern that she lacked artistic vision. The letter claimed that “consistent, seasoned leadership skills ongoing and responsive communication are also what we need to be able to bring Disjecta to the next level of artistic excellence.” After several paragraphs of tersely diplomatic language, the board members revealed that on his final day, Suereth

produced a lease that granted him use of Disjecta’s studios until 2018. Months later, they’re still working on an uncoupling. So, yes: As Shell plans next year’s event, her unhappy predecessor still has a desk in the building. But sitting in the cafe of a market on Northeast Sandy Boulevard, Shell seems above the controversy swirling around her. “I can’t really speak to what came before me,” she says. “But I’m aware of the rumors.” With her thick-rimmed glasses, large scarf and sculpted eyebrows, Shell emits a vibe that is distinctly “art world professional.” When talking about (or, rather, not talking about) Suereth, she seems less obstinately professional than genuinely indifferent about the conflict that led to the job opening. If board members were looking for more traditional leadership, they’re getting it with Shell. Unlike Suereth, who founded Disjecta sort of out of the blue, Shell’s 15-year career has been working with existing nonprofits. At her previous position, as director and head curator at Marylhurst University’s Art Gym, she doubled the operating budget. She isn’t planning any radical changes to the organization at Disjecta. “The curator and residence program and the Biennial are already very successful,” she says. “So I’m not looking to change anything about the programming.” But Shell’s hiring is still a sea change for Disjecta: She’ll be its first director who isn’t also its founder—and so her tenure will be the test of how the arts organization will survive. Shell’s vision for Disjecta is more about financial pragmatism than artistic vision, which she’s content to leave in the control of the curators in residence. She says she views curation as a form of research— reporting what’s happening in the art scene as opposed to constructing a vision of it. “I’m looking for things that are happen-

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ing in the field and things that are resonating with different audiences,” she says. “As long as the artist’s work fits within the context of the show, I really try to step back.” One of the changes she’s looking to implement is getting Disjecta certified by W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Great Economy), a third-party program providing standards on how much to pay artists for their work. The Art Gym became certified under Shell’s leadership. “Disjecta is already paying artists,” she says. “But I think that getting certified does two things: It shows artists in the community that there are standards in place, but also it encourages other organizations to consider paying artists.” The fact that Shell is so collaboratively inclined and financially minded makes it hard to tell what sort of creative influence she’ll have. It’s also probably what made her such an appealing candidate. The 2016 Biennial was wildly ambitious—perhaps too much so. Previously, most participating venues had been in Portland. Last year’s event included more than 20 venues scattered across Oregon. The board’s many mentions of experienced leadership are likely coded criticism of how the Biennial went down. The size was difficult to manage, and many felt Suereth had taken on more than he could handle. Resources were spread thin, and many artists felt neglected. Shell describes the last Biennial as “a very exciting thing and a big endeavor to

take on,” but the next one “may not necessarily be at the same scale.” She says the Biennial’s yet-to-be-announced curator will determine the event’s size, not her. “The component of having different curatorial voices at Disjecta,” she says, “does mean that things will shift in terms of the different visions.” However, Shell believes it’s necessary for the Portland art scene to focus on interacting with national and international art markets. “[Several years ago], there became kind of this rallying cry in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest to focus on artists of the Pacific Northwest,” she says. “Now I feel like Portland’s past that. So that natural next stage is, ‘How do we get the work out there?’” Although Shell has expansionist goals, she’s starkly moderate and passive compared to Suereth, who built Disjecta from a tiny space on North Russell Street to its current studio in a former bowling alley. It’ll be a year until we know what those goals entail. The programing for Disjecta’s current season is already in place, and Shell doesn’t officially start until April 10, two days after Michele Fielder opens Sensory Gymnastics, her final exhibit in her year as resident curator. For now, Shell is biding her time. “Different executive directors have different ways of doing things,” she says. “But I’m looking forward to collaborating and connecting with people in the community.”

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April 3, 2017 I want to thank you for your concern about the human rights abuses of extremist religions like Jehovah’s Witnesses. Jehovah’s Witnesses have destroyed tens of thousands of families through their practice of shunning family members who leave their religion. They have caused thousands to die because of their hostility to medicine, particularly blood transfusions. They have defrauded governments by their deceit about their alleged status as a charitable organization. There are literally thousands of sites on the internet exposing these practices. One example is silent.lambs.com which documents Jehovah’s Witness’ support of pedophiles within their religion who prey on children. Documented therein are dozens of lawsuits filed in the United States. The Royal Commission of Australia is also investigating this religion and has uncovered over 1,000 unreported child sex abusers who have never been reported to the authorities. In the United Kingdom the Charity Commission has done similar work in exposing this huge problem in their country. I personally speak for my niece, who at the age of 15 years was not allowed to attend her mother’s funeral, and was shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses as she came to say goodbye to her mother for the last time. Also, another niece was a teenager when she was given one suitcase and told to leave her family home because she openly enjoyed Christmas lights at a shopping mall. I have other nephews, nieces and even my own children who are being shunned because they do not practice the religion of their parents (in my case my children’s mother). I am aware that Jehovah’s Witnesses have mounted a massive letter writing campaign to tell you not to ban their religion in Russia. I don’t know whether a ban on their activities would be successful, but I do agree they are an extremely antisocial and disruptive force in all societies. They believe all governments are controlled by the Devil, so no matter what each government does or does not do, they as an organization will have contempt for that government. I am enclosing some information about some instances here in Oregon, including several cases of alleged pedophilia, and family murder/suicides that occurred as a result of threats to shun families and take children away from parents who were no longer practicing the religion.

BOOKS

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane is the latest from best-selling author Lisa See. The story digs deep into the fraught (and occasionally criminal) world of international adoption to tell the story of a Chinese mother and daughter who are connected, but living on opposite sides of the world. And if the world of international adoption isn’t your bag, it also sheds some light on the Pu’er tea industry! Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.

Sunshine Girl, Uninterrupted Paige McKenzie never set out to be a novelist. After portraying The Haunting of Sunshine Girl’s titular heroine for six years, 16 seasons and more than 1,000 webisodes, the local 20-year-old actress planned to continue her role as the program she created with her mother/costar Mercedes Rose and business partner Nick Hagen shifted from PDX-based YouTube phenomenon to television series. When the Weinstein Company purchased their property, however, the studio decided to promote their upcoming TV series with a trilogy of young adult novels. WW’s 2014 cover story (“80 Million Paige Views,” WW, July 30, 2014) was one of the first pieces to document McKenzie’s rise to fame. Upon the release of her third book, The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl, WW sat down with McKenzie and Rose to talk about the TV show and the terrors of internet fandom. JAY HORTON.

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 David Samuel Levinson

Acclaimed short-story writer David Samuel Levinson’s new novel, Tell Me How This Ends Well, tracks three Jewish siblings in a near-future America wrought with anti-Semitism who want to murder their tyrant father, whom they believe is slowly killing their mother. Their mission is undermined by their pettiness and overwhelming contempt for each other. The jacket copy doesn’t indicate whether the father has a rotting pumpkin-shaped face and a penchant for taxpayer-funded golf trips. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

Julie Buntin

Julie Buntin’s debut novel, Marlena, centers on two girls on the road who live life faster than their age or experience permits, leaving one dead, and one unalterably changed. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

SUNDAY, APRIL 16 The U.S. Goes to the Great War

“The world must be safe for democracy,” said President Woodrow Wilson almost exactly a century ago, and in doing so, he brought our nation into the Great War. This marked a shift in how the United States saw itself in regards to the world community, and it’s affected foreign policy in incalculable ways ever since. OSU professor Christopher McKnight Nichols will present on this turning point in our nation’s history, and discuss how it continues to affect our society. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 503-222-1741. 2 pm.

TUESDAY, APRIL 18 Chris Santella

Chris Santella is a Portland marketing consultant-turned-outdoors author with a passion for fishing. Author of eight books, his latest, The Tug Is the Drug, has a very funny title. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323. 7 pm.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Fresh off the success of her 2016 Oregon Book Award-winning novel, The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch is back with The Book of Joan. A reimagined Joan of Arc tale, the book takes place on a platform hovering above Earth that provides a new home for refugees from an irradiated, war-torn, post-apocalyptic planet. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

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Local YouTube star Paige McKenzie has her third book out.

WW: How did this all begin? Paige McKenzie: We started the YouTube channel back in 2010. YouTube was not new, but it didn’t really have anything based on storylines. We thought ghosts were a creepy, cool thing to talk about. On YouTube, you can do a reverse search. We looked and found that was the No. 2 most-searched thing. I think we’re on season 16. Like, road trips will be a season. We go to the beach, and, usually, that’s 15 episodes. Then, we’ll start a new season with us back in the house being haunted.

Which is, of course, not your real house… PM: I’m a pretty private person. Mercedes Rose: We kept her name out of it as long as we could. It wasn’t until Seventeen magazine insisted they use her name for an article. We floated out fake names, we were trying really hard—but, she was part of a contest. Here’s the funny twist! She was one of five finalists, and there were two girls with the first name Paige. The other girl was born HIV positive and was writing a book about her experiences. Her literary agent was looking for stuff about that Paige—searching ‘Paige Seventeen magazine’—when [our] Paige came up, and that’s how we got our literary agent! We’ve tried really hard to keep her private life private because of the emails that she gets from stalkers—marriage proposals and death threats, sometimes in the same email. What should newcomers know about Sunshine Girl? PM: Sunshine is a luiseach—a paranormal guardian. In Celtic, it means light-bringer. Book one, the origin story, followed the first YouTube playlist. She’s coming into her powers and learning where she fits into this paranormal world. Book two’s her training, if you will. She goes to Mexico, learns to fight the demons and helps light spirits move on. Then, book three, she ends up coming home—kinda back to her roots. She’s back with Mom and the whole Scooby gang. She’s really figuring out where she’s gonna go from here. And, how to save the world, too. Since you are the literal face of the franchise, will you have to turn into Sunshine Woman for the TV series? PM: I think I look pretty young [laughter]. I think I can handle being in high school for a TV show. I don’t know, Sunshine goes to college? Veronica Mars went to college—I could go to college! GO: Paige McKenzie will sign copies of The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl at Voodoo Doughnut Too, 1501 NE Davis St., on Thursday, April 13. 5-6 pm.

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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN

Pink Floyd: The Wall

(1982)

The painstaking production and half-cooked Orwellian themes of The Wall are clearly the tipping point in Pink Floyd’s transition from prog-rock wizards to bloated, self-aware wankers, but the accompanying 1982 film is essential viewing for stoners and hardcore Muse fans. Mission Theater. April 12, 14 and 17.

Set It Off

(1996)

Historically the province of dunderheaded males, Set It Off challenged the heist format by casting Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Jada Pinkett Smith and Kimberly Elise as the antiheroines in this 1996 caper film about four black women who pull off one bank robbery after the next until inner turmoil turns their crew inside out. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Monday, April 17.

The Matrix

(1999)

The Trump presidency has drawn a lot of obvious comparisons to Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy, Idiocracy, but if we’re not careful, we might actually be bearing down on a future that’s much closer to what’s depicted in this Keanu-driven dystopian sci-fi classic instead. Is there a black pill that puts you out of your misery instead? Academy Theater. April 14-20.

Donnie Darko

(2001)

Douse any film or television event in enough ’80s pastiche and you’re all but guaranteed a hit these days, so at least the baffling Philosophy 102 logic that folds Donnie Darko’s plot into a bow is interesting enough to work without Tears for Fears and Echo and the Bunnymen tracks around every corner. Kiggins Theatre. April 14-18.

Oil Lamps

(1971)

Familial relations be damned, a scheming rogue, Paul, decides that conning his wealthy actress cousin into marrying him is the panacea to all of his financial woes. An Arrested Developmentthemed reboot of this plotline feels like a foregone conclusion at this point. Church of Film at North Star Ballroom. 8 pm Wednesday, April 12.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue Cinema: Losing Ground (1982), April 14-16. Church of Film (Century Bar): Demons (1971), 9 pm Monday, April 17. Clinton Street Theater: The Mission (1986), April 14-16; The Eyes (2016), April 14-16. Hollywood Theatre: New Tale of Zatoichi (1963), 7 pm Sunday, April 16; Supersonic Man (1979), 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 18. Mission Theater: A League of Their Own (1992), April 16-18. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: Black Orpheus (1959), 5:30 pm Friday, April 14; Almayer’s Folly (2011), 8 pm Friday, April 14; To Sleep With Anger (1990), 7 pm Saturday and 4:30 pm Sunday, April 15-16; Show Me Love (1998), 7 pm Sunday, April 16.

NATIVE WISDOM: THE PEOPLE OF THE OREGON COAST

out that connection with our ancestors, and remembering the future generations that are going to be here long after we’re gone.

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THE NATIVE WISDOM FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASES HOW THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST IS LEADING THE FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING. BY WALKER MACMURDO

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tion of nature. They’ve got this gift. They can talk about how the world has changed, and some of them are in their 90s. They know their watersheds, they know their sacred landscapes so well, and they know how they’ve changed. But not only that, they know what their grandparents said about their environment.

“It was said that there will come a day,” explains Rose High Bear, “when the people of the world will look to Native Americans and other indigenous people to learn how to take care of the earth and how to take care of one another.” Not only is the Native Wisdom Film Festival she produces crucial for preventing catastrophic As an Alaskan Native, I was alarmed at the climate change, it’s also prophecy. changes that were being witnessed by Native Storytelling and climate science elders. Around 2012, I talked with a number of climate scientists at UAF and UAA, join forces at the festival, where and that’s when I understood what Native elders of the Pacific Northwest share the changes they were doing. They were makthey have witnessed as the ing these recordings and using planet rapidly grows warmer. the elders’ observations in Recording Native elders’ climate science. So there was an integration between trastories is something that High Bear has been doing ditional ecological knowledge for years, but it wasn’t until and climate science. We always recently that she and producrecorded our elders to save their messages, and I realized that we er-director Lawrence Johnson had the equipment to start making had to do this work of sharing their HIGH BEAR observations with the world. documentaries. The four short films they produced show how climate science and Native knowledge are working side by side to What is unique about the Pacific Northreclaim lost heritages and restore our planet’s west in regards to climate change? This is a sacred landscape for hundreds of most precious resources. WW spoke to High Bear about the Native tribes, some of which are not federally recogWisdom Film Festival and our region’s unique nized. So we have thousands of people who role in preventing climate change. lived here for thousands of years and kept the Pacific Northwest pristine, to the point where WW: Can you give some background into Lewis and Clark and the early explorers came how these films came about? in, and it looked like it was totally unoccupied. Our people, as do many other Native Rose High Bear: We’ve been experiencing climate issues in Alaska for over 50 years now. nations, know how to take care of their sacred The climate scientists at University of Alaska landscapes, they know how to take care of Fairbanks and University of Alaska at Anchor- their watersheds. To us it is sacred because age have all been turning to Alaska Native there’s a spirit in it that we work with. We’re a elders because they have this astute observa- spiritual people, and we just don’t work with-

What can we do to understand the Pacific Northwest’s global role in preventing climate change? Our role in the Pacific Northwest is to share with the world what’s going on here locally and making it engaging enough to attract attention of people. We have to pray for people. I don’t believe we can ever be angry at someone. I don’t believe we can ever demonstrate hatred, animosity, resentment, we can’t put that out in the world, there’s too much already. What do you think the folks here in the Pacific Northwest have to learn by building relationships with our friends in Alaska? The very first climate refugees are Alaskan Natives in a small village of Newtok, Alaska. It got to the point where it wasn’t the ocean that was invading them, it was the permafrost that was thawing. So everything underneath them, which had been probably been frozen for thousands of years, became thawed, and the whole village was toppling. So they had to move to more solid ground. We got to see what the elders had to say about that. And so what they are is the canary in the coal mine, and we can learn from their experience. They’re like a grandparent to us when it comes to the climate response. What role does preservation and reclamation of Native languages and cultures have in preventing climate change? We need to know our Native language. With the names of some plants, we’ll describe its purpose, its creation, its uses. Otherwise you’ve just got a Latin name and an English name. So we would be losing an element of our relationship with the plant world—with the four-legged world—if we didn’t have our language. When it comes to climate change, we’re in a place where we’re trying to restore what could be threatened or lost. One of our biggest species we’re concerned about is the Pacific lamprey eel. It is a sacred food to the people. There’s a medicine in it that saves the lives of elders who are fragile and declining. It’s older than the dinosaurs, and yet it could be wiped out in our generation. SEE IT: The Native Wisdom Film Festival screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium on Saturday, April 15. 2 pm. See nwfilm.org for a list of films and tickets. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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MOVIES

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OPENING THIS WEEK Brigsby Bear

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Meaning lies in the googly eyes of the eponymous bear costume: The orbs are eerie, too perfect, but there’s wisdom in their childlike fascination. SNL’s Kyle Mooney brings the same traits to playing and exploring the unsocialized James, forced to confront the larger world with a vocabulary based solely on Brigsby Bear, a VHS-era kids’ show with which James is singularly obsessed. The world, of course, is not into it. Surrounded by Mark Hamill, Claire Danes and Greg Kinnear, the unassuming Mooney is an unlikely but intriguing focal point, sporting the chipmunk expression and manchild lovability of Dana Carvey’s Garth. During bouts of family drama, Brigsby is at its most Sundance-y: cute, adequate and unoriginal. Even where the bizarre is concerned, we’ve seen recent black comedies in which loners don massive, cartoonish heads (Frank) and unhealthily fixate on making kitschy entertainment (Welcome to Me). Yet, the imagination here surpasses other efforts where comedians conceive characters too disturbed for broad laughs. Heartfelt to the end, Brigsby cherishes a thought experiment on the blissful, solipsistic delusion any superfan occasionally harbors: “Did somebody make this just for me?” PG-13. CHANCE SOLEM-PFEIFER. Cinema 21.

Gifted

Picture Kramer vs. Kramer stripped of its turbulent emotions and cutting performances and you’ll have a good idea of what it’s like to suffer through this bland, tear-soaked train wreck. It’s the latest catastrophe from director Marc Webb, last seen crashing the Spider-Man franchise, teamed up with

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a different Marvel tights-wearer for Gifted—Captain America star Chris Evans. He plays Frank, a hunky boat repairman whose adoptive daughter Mary (Mckenna Grace) is a math prodigy. Much of the movie revolves around Frank’s manipulative mother (Lindsay Duncan) suing for custody of Mary, which Webb clearly hopes will inspire viewers to dangle from the edges of their seats and cry, “Oh no! Will this chilly schemer wrest annoyingly precocious Mary from her down-to-earth surrogate dad and his dashing beard?” If you can’t guess the answer to that one, you’ll have a blast. Otherwise, get ready for a mechanical melodrama that’s just as joyless as Evans, who possesses not even an ounce of the expressiveness necessary to communicate the anguish of a man living through every father’s worst nightmare. His stiffness is galling, since Webb wastes two superior performers—Octavia Spencer and Jenny Slate—in appallingly one-dimensional roles. Now there’s an offense worthy of a court battle. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters.

God Knows Where I Am

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival, this new feature from Emmy-winning Jedd and Todd Wider (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God) chronicles the life and death of Linda Bishop, a woman suffering from bipolar disorder and psychosis whose body was discovered in a New Hampshire farmhouse in 2008. NR. Fox Tower.

Going in Style

Going in Style, a remake of the 1979 film of the same name, acts as a bitterly honest ode to aging, ageism and existentialism—themes that are

always spry. Director Zach Braff, yes, Garden State Zach Braff, takes a boat from his preferred cinematic island of young adult melodrama and tackles this film about a trifecta of disgruntled friends who feel forgotten, wallowing in illness and retirement. Hollywood heavyweights Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin begin brainstorming a heist to flush their fiscal troubles down the drain: They’re going to rob a bank. Going in Style markets itself through absurdity, but its characters illustrate their hardships through very tangible devices: family photos of grandkids they can’t afford to visit, eviction notices and organ wait lists. For these men, the end of life doesn’t mean life is over, and sometimes you’ve got to get creative to keep living. The casual viewer will receive an anticipated dose of elderspecific dark humor: Jokes about death, pensions and kidney failure all make appearances, but these cracks are well-integrated and seldom crude. What one might not expect is a plot that’s fairly heinous, both morally and logistically, with characters who remain justified and likable throughout. PG-13. JACK RUSHALL. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Tommy’s Honour

How much drama can be wrung from the sight of balls rolling into holes? Not much, if this dull golfcourse tale is any indication. Set during the 19th century, the factbased film chronicles the career of star Scottish golfer Tommy Morris (Jack Lowden). The real Morris braved some harrowing ordeals, once winning a match that lasted six snowy days. Yet director Jason Connery rarely captures the passion and cunning that Morris surely would have needed to survive that experience. The inadequacy of his leading man doesn’t help matters—Lowden looks like a stale slice of Wonder Bread next to Ophelia Lovibond, who is sultry and soulful as Tommy’s wife, Margaret Drinnen. To be fair, Tommy’s Honour also gets a lift from Peter Mullan’s potent turn as Tommy’s austere yet loving father, who remains a golfing legend in his own right. Yet the film ultimately

collapses because it’s too slow and tasteful to deliver the crowd-pleasing fervor that a great sports film demands. Watching Tommy’s gentlemanly exertions just isn’t the same as watching Rocky pump his fists in the air atop the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. PG. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Fox Tower.

STILL SHOWING After the Storm

Once-bestselling novelist Shinoda Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) slums it as a private detective, but After the Storm is ultimately a sad-bastard film about a protagonist viewers leave the movie wishing had more depth than what’s shown. NR. Living Room Theaters.

Alive and Kicking

Remember Brian Setzer Orchetrsa> Whether you’d like to or not, this documentary about the rise, fall and 90’s resurgence of swing dancing will have his cover of “Jump Jive an’ Wail” stuck in your head all over again. NR. Kiggins Theatre.

Beauty and the Beast

Did we need this remake? Probably not. Is is pretty good? Yes. PG. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Roseway, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Boss Baby

Somehow, this movie isn’t a terrifying monstrosity. PG. Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

A Dog’s Purpose

Filmgoers were barking mad when they thought the producers of A Dog’s Purpose had abused a canine on set. But this tale of doggy death and rebirth exploits every inch of furry adorability to blot out critical faculties and fan the sparks of true emotion. Who’s a good movie?! PG-13. Avalon, Vancouver.

A girl befriends a Frenchman she encounters at the grave of fiance she lost in the Great War. Hilarity does not ensue NR. Kiggins, Living Room Theaters.

Get Out

Yes, this movie is as good as everyone says it is, enough so that it makes you ask why other horror movies aren’t better. R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Hollywood, Lloyd, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.

Ghost in the Shell

Assertions that whitewashing and a reliance on futuristic effects makes this American remake of the animated 1995 manga classic a hollow, emotionless shell of a film aren’t entirely wrong, but it’s still a rich and attention-grabbing action film powered by Scarlett Johansson’s dynamic lead performance. PG-13. Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

Going in Style

Zach Braff directs Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin in a movie about three old guys who rob a bank. Review to come next week. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Hidden Figures

Why does Kevin Costner get the biggest racism-busting line in a movie about underappreciated black women who contributed to NASA’s Apollo 11 trip to the Moon? PG. Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Vancouver.

I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck develops an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript to eloquently tell the story of American racism. NR. Hollywood.

John Wick: Chapter 2

This may be the smartest, most beautifully shot film ever made that’s basically a montage of people getting shot in the head. R. Academy, Laurelhurst.

Kedi

Yes, the stars of this documentary about Turkish street cats are cute and furry. It’s a shame they all support Erdoğan’s unconstitutional takeover. NR. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Kiggins.

Kong: Skull Island

Following the original’s blueprint, Kong: Skull Island sends a boatload of explorers past the permastorm covering that’s hidden the titular archipelago for millennia. The similarities end there. Shifting to Southeast Asia just after the fall of Saigon, Skull Island replaces Age of Discovery heroics with wartime ambience. PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Moonlight

Personal Shopper

Director Olivier Assayas’ second collaboration with Kristen Stewart (after Clouds of Sils Maria) follows a medium who tries to commune with her deceased twin while intermittently perusing Paris boutiques as a celebrity model’s assistant. It fuses at least two movie genres—a haunting thriller by way of the muted tone of a character study. R. Cinema 21.

Power Rangers

*Sad_trombone.mp3*. PG-13. Academy, Fox Tower, Joy, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Living Room Theaters, Valley, Vancouver.

At once awful and awfully amusing, this ramshackle franchise reboot fuses bad acting, worse writing and enough spunk to make the whole thing seem charming in its monumental stupidity. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Lego Batman Movie

Raw

La La Land

Fast, funny and pleasingly drunk on the joys of mockery, The Lego Batman Movie is as fun as the 2014 original but stars Will Arnett as a petulant, preening goofball who rocks out on an electric guitar and showers orphans with cool toys from a merch gun. PG. Academy, Avalon, Bridgeport, Empirical, Kennedy School.

Ostensibly about a young woman who develops an insatiable taste for human flesh, Raw is more visually stunning, deeply human coming-of-age story than a vicious Eurohorror film. R. Cinema 21.

The Red Turtle

More like Death, am I right, folks? R. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Vancouver.

The first non-Japanese animation from Studio Ghibli is a simple fable on paper, but this heart-rending depiction of a man stranded on a desert island and the giant turtle that torments him is a tour de force in visual storytelling. PG. Academy.

Logan

Rock Dog

Life

Turns out having Hugh Jackman and cute child Dafne Keen perform Mortal Kombat fatalities on robotarmed mercenaries is a cool idea for a movie. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

This movie is about a dog who rocks. PG. Vancouver.

Moana

The Sense of an Ending

If you were curious whether Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could carry a tune, Moana is a ringing affirmative. PG. Vancouver.

Monster Trucks

Monster Trucks is really good for a children’s movie about a kid named Tripp (Lucas Till) who has a monster living in his truck. PG. Vancouver.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

It’s looking like this movie is going to be in theaters forever. PG-13. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Valley, Vancouver.

This adaptation of Julian Barnes’ acclaimed novel is partially set in a British boarding school, which means that if a character doesn’t get buggered by the headmaster, you’re within your rights to ask for a refund. PG-13. Fox Tower.

Sing

If you’ve been yearning for Seth MacFarlane to play a mouse who sings like Sinatra, this is your movie. PG. Academy, Vancouver.

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Smurfs: The Lost Village

Sony thinks moviegoers are dumb enough to pay money to see rote lessons in togetherness and acceptance acted out by tiny little blue people in blue pajamas. Save your money and buy some Haribo Sour Smurfs instead. PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver. .

Split

James McAvoy stars as a guy with multiple-personality disorder who kidnaps a group of young girls, who must try to coax one of the good personalities to set them free. Is this problematic? PG-13. Jubitz, Valley, Vancouver.

T2: Trainspotting

It’s been 21 years since Trainspotting turned a blackly comic druggie caper into generational touchstone, and the follow-up posits that if you can survive the first rush of freedom and weather the inevitable hangover of crashing dreams, nostalgia becomes the last true habit R. Clackamas, Fox Tower.

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I was just thinking about how good the camera work is in this movie this morning, if you still haven’t seen it, now’s your last chance. R. Academy, Laurelhurst.

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Is Jessica Chastain a good actor, or does she just look like a scary robot? PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Fox Tower.

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When Alcoholics Attack Just one month after the latest King Kong movie blamed American arrogance for upsetting the natural order, Godzillareimagining Colossal underlines the devastation careless bloggers might unleash. Kicked out of her NYC apartment by an ex-BF, underemployed and overserved Gloria (Anne Hathaway) slinks back upstate to her parents’ vacant home and soon busies herself with a waitressing gig and after-hours succor at the vintage saloon now owned by childhood pal Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). Breaking news then inspires an odd moment of clarity—her recent blackedout stumbles homeward evidently coincided with a skyscrapersized behemoth wreaking havoc on the Asian coastline. Noting a familiarity in the beast’s mannerisms, Gloria realizes she’s somehow been vicariously ravaging South Korea via an outsized reptilian avatar. When Oscar follows her through the nearby park in the wee hours, a giant robot simultaneously follows suit along the same patch of downtown Seoul. Alas, where Gloria was horrified by her sprees’ blood-soaked consequences, he finds grim empowerment in ripping off the nice-guy mask and stomping across the friend zone. Their relationship— Gloria’s dismissal of Oscar as anything beyond a feckless chum, at least— forms the blackened heart of a deeply strange, ultimately joyless pastiche veering uneasily between mumblecore tastes and blockbuster facility. Whatever the characters may think about their choices, the picture itself resents their nights of destruction with a blinkered classism and moralistic disdain seemingly ensuring an easy allegory for she who makes a beast of herself. So much of the film is done so well and so thoughtfully, with such seriousness of intent pulsing through the batshit concept, that audiences can’t help but expect a climactic mission statement of higher purpose that never arrives. Critics have praised the film as a feminist parable, which ignores the ongoing tonal disconnect. The monsters are revealed as little more than inexplicably realized revenge fantasies borne by a little girl grown to trade upon the charms of a weaponized immaturity. However alluring our antiheroine’s ebullience, it evades the story’s actual truths. Fight not the monster, lest ye become a monster. And drink too long with townies, the dive stares also into you. JAY HORTON.

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Tom Alexander wanted to be a marijuana grower. Instead, he ended up a journalist. As the founder of Sinsemilla Tips and The Growing Edge, Alexander is a legend in pot publishing. His magazines, based in Corvallis, were “the nation’s only technical journal for the marijuana industry.” Alexander helped hundreds of thousands of growers survive the ravages of spider mites and their closest mammalian relative, Nancy Reagan. Alexander retired from his magazines in 2009 and now lives in Sacramento, where he has a CBD-focused farm, consults with upstart growers and runs Sinsemilla Tips as a Facebook group. He’s gone from outdoor sinsemilla to hydroponic tomatoes and is now an advocate for natural outdoor-grown cannabis. Alexander’s story is, in many ways, the story of American marijuana since the mid-’70s. And it starts with a clerical error. Were it not for cops flubbing one of the numerals in the address of his grow outside Corvallis, Alexander was headed for prison. Instead, the tainted evidence cops stole from his humble 1,324-plant grow was discarded. “Stole,” is the appropriate word, because when the cops busted his mature crop, they didn’t burn it in a bonfire. Rather, they set about selling it—as cops are wont to do with a drug haul so large they can’t consume it themselves. “They stole it and were selling it, and they got arrested by the Oregon State Police,” Alexander says. “The Benton County district attorney, when they pleaded no contest, said they suffered enough and so he suggested to the judge that they get three years probation. Before the charges were dropped against me, I was facing 20 years and a $100,000 fine. So I got pissed off and started Sinsemilla Tips. Originally, I wanted to write a book, but all my grower friends said, ‘No, no, we need an ongoing journal!’” They embraced that journal. Early editions covered guano fertilizer, camouflaging greenhouses, and the intricacies of drip irrigation. He drove copies of the magazine down to Humboldt [Calif.] and up to Seattle. “Growers started writing articles, and it took on a life of its own,” he says. “I hired graphic designers and editors, and it became a real publication.” It was a good time to be in the grow supply business, as marijuana cultivation was newly equipment-intensive. During the Reagan years, cops used airplanes to bust out58

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“I hired graphic designers and editors, and it became a real publication.” —Tom Alexander door grows. So growers moved indoors, using the hydroponic techniques we now know so well. Then came a 1985 law that criminalized the possession of certain types of fertilizer, lights and other normal growing supplies if “intended for illegal use.” In 1989, the Drug Enforcement Administration cooked up Operation Green Merchant. President George H.W. Bush’s goons raided retail stores in 46 states, arresting 119 people and seizing business records so they could hassle anyone doing business with the magazines or their advertisers. They even tried to obtain lists of magazine and catalog subscribers, according to The New York Times. “Users are a major factor in the drug trafficking problem, and they are going to be held accountable and subject to suitable penalties, both civil and criminal,’’ the DEA’s Terrence W. Burke told the Times. Pretty much everyone targeted was located through the pages of widely distributed magazines.

“They went after grow shops, mainly the ones that were advertising in High Times and Sinsemilla Tips, and basically it killed our revenue stream,” he says. “But I had seen the handwriting on the wall about a year before, and I’d started another magazine.” That magazine was called The Growing Edge, which concentrated “entirely on new high-tech gardening information, with no mention of marijuana. However, the information can be applied to cultivating marijuana.” “I would go to the International Society of Horticultural Science conferences—which is the university researchers and all the big researchers around the world—which has a subcommittee on controlled environment agriculture and greenhouse growing,” he says. “I would do stories on the conferences and the farms in the countries where I was at where they were using hydroponics and state-of-the-art greenhouses. So the pictures were all about tomatoes and cucumbers, but the information could be used for cannabis.” It worked—his subscriber list doubled. Although he dedicated much of his career to hydroponics, Alexander has returned to his sun-grown, natural-soil roots—the kind of organic-style cannabis you’ll find celebrated at WW’s Cultivation Classic next month. “Sun-grown, organic, in-soil is the way to go,” Alexander says, “even though I was one of the ones to push indoor in the ’80s with Sinsemilla Tips. It’s going to be just like the organic food movement. There’s going to be people who consume chemically grown, artificial light, mechanically trimmed, and there’s going to be those who want top-shelf connoisseurquality stuff, and that’s natural, sun-grown organic.” GO: WW’s Cultivation Classic is at Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., on Friday, May 12. Noon-8:30 pm. $25. Visit wweek.com/cultivationclassic for a full schedule.

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Tax Day is fast approaching, friends, and olde Dr. Millar is expecting a bit of a cash refund this year, following a sizable deduction for a work expenditure. I’m the proud new owner of a top-of-the-line custom typewriter that types exclusively in Comic Sans. Why would someone need a typewriter that types in such an exceptional font, you might ask? My rationale is that the phrase “Comic Sans” literally translates to “without humor,” which I believe is appropriate and tonally consistent with the kind of serious historical missives my readers appreciate. We Portlanders are subject to a litany of inscrutable taxes. And while I do appreciate our many city services, sometimes I get the sense that our elected representatives take perverse pleasure in daydreaming about items to which they can attach their next tax, with questions about how to allocate those revenues an afterthought. Multnomah County voters may soon be asked to vote on a soda and sugary drinks tax, which will raise the price of a can of soda by 18 cents. It seems a foregone conclusion that the petition will acquire enough signatures to appear on the November ballot. I’ll vote yes because I don’t drink soda, and like most people, I see nothing wrong with taxing someone else’s vice. You win some, you lose some. You soda swillers hit my wallet pretty hard back in 1985, when the city instituted a 25 percent tax on tips to exotic dancers. That was the year Mary’s Club became the first place in Portland with live nude dancers to also be allowed to serve alcohol. The city did not assess this tax against Mary’s Club or the dancers themselves. Rather, it fell on the patrons—the tip-givers—to pay. If you had plans to sit at the rail, you had to go into a little booth onsite at Mary’s and register with a special tax assessor, who remained there throughout the night. You had to give the man your Social Security number, and he would give you a form to fill out and return before you left. An old change machine was purchased from the Avalon Theatre so you could cash in your bills and pay your tax as you went, or if you were a frequent flier, you could wait and declare the whole kitty on your April 15 return. Apparently the city had a highly attuned scale designed by Multnomah Institute of Technology scientists installed under the stage. The scale measured the incremental weight increase of a single note of U.S. currency being thrown onstage. Rumor has it that the scale was sensitive enough to tell the weight differences of various bills—$1s, $2s and $100s—on the atomic level based on how many ink molecules were in the bill. Beware that I can’t verify whether that last bit is true, but it is at least a fun urban legend. This is also why sometimes you will hear longtime Portland strip clubgoers refer to the beginning of a new dancer’s set as “taring the scale.” I’m happy to say the heavy-handed “pole tax” did not last long. It proved difficult to enforce, despite continued strong support from the men at the Multnomah County Office of Assessment & Taxation. Willamette Week APRIL 12, 2017 wweek.com

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Before visiting Sicily for the first time, American poet Billy Collins learned to speak Italian. In his poem “By a Swimming Pool Outside Siracusa,” he describes how the new language is changing his perspective. If he were thinking in English, he might say that the gin he’s drinking while sitting alone in the evening light “has softened my mood.” But the newly Italianized part of his mind would prefer to say that the gin “has allowed my thoughts to traverse my brain with greater gentleness” and “has extended permission to my mind to feel a friendship with the vast sky.” Your assignment in the coming week, Aries, is to Italianize your view of the world. Infuse your thoughts with expansive lyricism and voluptuous relaxation. If you’re Italian, celebrate and amplify your Italianness.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

For over a century, the Ringsaker Lutheran Church in Buxton, North Dakota hosted rites of passage, including 362 baptisms, 50 marriages, and 97 funerals. It closed in 2002, a victim of the area’s shrinking population. I invite you to consider the possibility that this can serve as a useful metaphor for you, Libra. Is there a place that has been a sanctuary for you, but has begun to lose its magic? Is there a traditional power spot from which the power has been ebbing? Has a holy refuge evolved into a mundane hang-out? If so, mourn for a while, then go in search of a vibrant replacement.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

It’s closing time. You have finished toiling in the shadow of an old sacred cow. You’ve climaxed your relationship with ill-fitting ideas that you borrowed from mediocre and inappropriate teachers once upon a time. And you can finally give up your quest for a supposed Holy Grail that never actually existed in the first place. It’s time to move on to the next chapter of your life story, Taurus! You have been authorized to graduate from any influence, attachment, and attraction that wouldn’t serve your greater good in the future. Does this mean you’ll soon be ready to embrace more freedom than you have in years? I’m betting on it.

Most people throw away lemon rinds, walnut shells, and pomegranate skins. But some resourceful types find uses for these apparent wastes. Lemon rind can serve as a deodorizer, cleaner, and skin tonic, as well as a zesty ingredient in recipes. Ground-up walnut shells work well in facial scrubs and pet bedding. When made into a powder, pomegranate peels have a variety of applications for skin care. I suggest you look for metaphorically similar things, Scorpio. You’re typically inclined to dismiss the surfaces and discard the packaging and ignore the outer layers, but I urge you to consider the possibility that right now they may have value.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

The heaviest butterfly on the planet is the female Queen Victorian Birdwing. It tips the scales at two grams. The female Queen Alexandra Birdwing is the butterfly with the longest wingspan over 12 inches. These two creatures remind me of you these days. Like them, you’re freakishly beautiful. You’re a marvelous and somewhat vertiginous spectacle. The tasks you’re working on are graceful and elegant, yet also big and weighty. Because of your intensity, you may not look flight-worthy, but you’re actually quite aerodynamic. In fact, your sorties are dazzling and influential. Though your acrobatic zigzags seem improbable, they’re effective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Picasso had mixed feelings about his fellow painter Marc Chagall, who was born under the sign of Cancer. “I’m not crazy about his roosters and donkeys and flying violinists, and all the folklore,” Picasso said, referring to the subject matter of Chagall’s compositions. But he also felt that Chagall was one of the only painters “who understands what color really is,” adding, “There’s never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has.” I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will be the recipient of mixed messages like these. Praise and disapproval may come your way. Recognition and neglect. Kudos and apathy. Please don’t dwell on the criticism and downplay the applause. In fact, do the reverse!

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“Go Tell It on the Mountain” is the title of an old gospel song, and now it’s the metaphorical theme of your horoscope. I advise you to climb a tall peak -- even if it’s just a magic mountain in your imagination -- and deliver the spicy monologue that has been marinating within you. It would be great if you could gather a sympathetic audience for your revelations, but that’s not mandatory to achieve the necessary catharsis. You simply need to be gazing at the big picture as you declare your big, ripe truths.

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You’re growing too fast, but that’s fine as long as you don’t make people around you feel they’re moving too slowly. You know too much, but that won’t be a problem as long as you don’t act snooty. And you’re almost too attractive for your own good, but that won’t hurt you as long as you overflow with spontaneous generosity. What I’m trying to convey, Sagittarius, is that your excesses are likely to be more beautiful than chaotic, more fertile than confusing. And that should provide you with plenty of slack when dealing with cautious folks who are a bit rattled by your lust for life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Until recently, scientists believed the number of trees on the planet was about 400 billion. But research published in the journal *Nature* says that’s wrong. There are actually three trillion trees on earth -- almost eight times more than was previously thought. In a similar way, I suspect you have also underestimated certain resources that are personally available to you, Capricorn. Now is a good time to correct your undervaluation. Summon the audacity to recognize the potential abundance you have at your disposal. Then make plans to tap into it with a greater sense of purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

The poet John Keats identified a quality he called “negative capability.” He defined it as the power to calmly accept “uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” I would extend the meaning to include three other things not to be irritably reached for artificial clarity, premature resolution, and simplistic answers. Now is an excellent time to learn more about this fine art, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Are you ready for a riddle that’s more enjoyable than the kind you’re used to? I’m not sure if you are. You may be too jaded to embrace this unusual gift. You could assume it’s another one of the crazy-making cosmic jokes that have sometimes tormented you in the past. But I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope you’ll welcome the riddle in the liberating spirit in which it’s offered. If you do, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as it teases you in ways you didn’t know you wanted to be teased. You’ll feel a delightful itch or a soothing burn in your secret self, like a funny-bone feeling that titillates your immortal soul. P.S.: To take full advantage of the blessed riddle, you may have to expand your understanding of what’s good for you.

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