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“WELL, I WAS ALWAYS KIND OF A WEIRDO.”

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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 17.

After boldly taking a hard line against anti-Trump protests, which resulted in lots of violence, Mayor Ted Wheeler says he wants to “de-escalate tensions.” 6 The only guidebooks that outsell Rick Steves’ are to Disneyland. 7 In the past eight years, Portland cops have shot 30 people. Seven were holding fake guns. Asked whether the city should maybe ban the sale of fake guns, the mayor said, “Nah.” 8

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legislator landlords

Although commentators like to state “conflict of interest,” the legal reality is a bit more complex and not black and white [“Landlord of the Senate,” WW, Feb. 15, 2017].

In fact, most likely there is no conflict of interest for Oregon legislators who also own rental properties to vote on large-scale housing and rental-related issues.

Basically, if the Legislature discusses and determines that owning rental properties is a conflict of interest, then it can choose how to proceed. But that would mean there are five less Democrats and three less Republicans allowed to vote on this issue, which wouldn’t help to pass these proposed measures.

—“pdxwonk”

The new oregon wine

This is mostly just the latest fad, where Portlandia and Oregon’s wine industry temporarily intersect [“New Crush,” WW, Feb. 15, 2017]. A lot of varietals are neglected here in the Willamette Valley, but many of these new vintners will have crashed and burned during the next five years.

I’d love to see more riesling, Müller-Thurgau and many other varietals. However, the fact is, as long as Oregon is fetching top dollar for pinot noir, the prime acreage is going to be planted with pinot noir.

—Chris Prechel

the big band theory

Brett Campbell and WW managed to exhibit both a dismissive musical taste and ageism in just one sentence [“A Festival Supreme,” WW, “Sen. Rod This isn’t a legal question. It’s a Monroe Feb. 15, 2017]. political one. And Sen. Rod Mon In the piece on the Maria Schshould be roe (D -Portland) should be held neider Orchestra, big bands are accountable for his self-dealing and held called “grandparent music,” to be utter contempt for the community accountable of interest only to the stuck-in-thehe purports to serve. past nostalgia crowd. for his self—JD Mulvey I saw the Duke Ellington Orchesdealing.” tra under his (at age 69) direction, Rod Monroe is charging $875 per and was blown away by his wrinkled month to rent a one-bedroom aparttrumpet players, drummer, et al. ment in outer Northeast Portland. That doesn’t And check out Carla Bley, somewhat toned down seem out of line with average rents, and maybe at 80 from her rockin’ avant-garde bands. even a bit below the going rate.

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By Ma rt y Smith

I am a semi-recent transplant (about a year) from New Hampshire. There, I could usually find a 12-pack of craft beer for $12, or $14 at most. Here in Beervana, those same 12-packs are $16 and up. Why the discrepancy?

—Aaron S.

You know that “record stops with a scratch” sound effect you hear when Adam Sandler walks into the biker bar dressed in a “sexy chicken” costume? I’m going to spell that “brp-zz-ZIP.” Now, Aaron: Many new Oregonians are surprised by our relatively high excise taxes and fees. As one of the few states without a sales tax, our beer and wine taxes are higher than those in states where—brp-zz-ZIP! Oh, New Hampshire doesn’t have a sales tax either? Huh. Well then, I’m sure you’re familiar with the trade-offs that come with that revenue model: We decided to tax beer, while you guys went with a higher personal income tax—brp-zz-ZIP! Really? No income tax on salary and wage income either? Then how do you…never mind.

(I guess your beer distributors bribed the legislature and ours didn’t; whatever.)

Let me just check the tax tables…yes, see?

New Hampshire’s beer taxes are the lowest in 4

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the nation, while Oregon’s are—brp-zz-ZIP!…the third lowest, at $0.08 per gallon.

So it’s not taxes at all. Could it just be that everything is more expensive in Portland? It’s true that our overall cost of living is about 10 percent higher than it is in Manchester. But when I checked beer prices in Pendleton, where life is cheap and sheep are nervous, it was just as spendy there.

The oddly high price of Oregon beer is a wellknown conundrum in craft-beer circles. One proposed explanation is, there are relatively few beer distributors in the state, and so far none has been inclined to initiate a price war.

But maybe the real secret is that New Hampshire is a free-beer fairyland! All you semi-recent transplants should totally ditch this Stalinist hellscape and relocate to the never-ending keg party that is Concord—I hear it’s gonna be the next Pittsburgh!

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Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith, who is prevented by term limits from running for re-election next year, reported Feb. 20 making a $2,600 payment to the Seattle political consulting firm Kully Hall Struble, which often runs Oregon political campaigns. Smith is considering running for Portland city commissioner in 2018, against either Dan Saltzman or Nick Fish. Still unanswered is when Smith will resolve a tax lien resulting from unpaid 2012 state income taxes. After the Portland Tribune first reported the then-$37,000 lien in July 2016, Smith said it was a “misunderstanding,” but her Feb. 15 pay stub, obtained through a public records request, shows the state is still garnishing $735 from her wages every two weeks (Smith makes about $100,000 a year). Smith’s chief of staff, Elizabeth Mazzara, says Smith hasn’t made a decision about 2018 and merely hired Kully Hall Struble for communications help. She says Smith’s accountant has been working with tax authorities to clear up the lien, a “grindingly slow” process.

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Renters’ rights group Portland Tenants United championed the groundbreaking city ordinance earlier this month requiring many landlords to cover tenants’ moving costs in the event of no-cause evictions or 10 percent rent increases. But the group never registered its lobbying activity even as it had at least 10 contacts with one city office and approached other city officials. That’s the allegation in a Feb. 15 letter sent to PTU by city Elections

Officer Deborah Scroggin, warning the group about a possible violation of city ethics rules. The city requires organizations to register as lobbyists within three days of spending at least eight hours lobbying or preparing to lobby city officials, even if the groups spend no money.

PTU organizer Margot Black says her group was unfamiliar with the requirement. She submitted registration for PTU on Feb. 21.

Wheeler Draws Ire After Violent Arrests

Civil liberties advocates are criticizing the Portland Police Bureau’s handling of street protests under Mayor Ted Wheeler. On Feb. 20, riot police arrested 13 protesters at a “Not My President’s Day” march downtown. The violent arrests—including police tackling protesters and firing non-lethal projectiles at them—drew outcry from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon. “Portland Police DIEGO G DIAZ

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Bureau policy led to violence against peaceful protesters including young kids and retired public employees,” the ACLU wrote. ”It was shameful.” The criticism comes as protesters and police grow increasingly polarized in the wake of the fatal shooting of black Portland teenager Quanice Hayes on Feb. 9. A police spokesman says protesters need to obtain a city permit for marches. Wheeler says he met with Police Chief Mike Marshman on Feb. 21 to “help create a more positive space for expression and emphasize tactics that deescalate tensions.”

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

Desperate times call for a public television host.

Rick Steves is the sleepyvoiced European wanderer best known for his travel guidebooks and PBS specials. But he’s also something of a lefty firebrand: He wrote a 2009 book, Travel as a Political Act, and was among the leading proponents of Oregon’s cannabis legalization campaign.

Steves visits Portland on March 1 to give a lecture on the political implications of travel in an era when the president is trying to restrict it. RACHEL MONAHAN.

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR

Rick Steves

What’s so important about travel now?

There are powerful political forces that would like us to be dumbed down and would like us to be more fearful. When we’re dumbed down and fearful, it’s easier for them to have their way with us.

The irony is, we’re a perfectly safe society. If we become more fearful, we could become endangered. I’m just saddened that years ago people use to say “Bon voyage” and now they say, “Have a

safe trip.” I tell them: “You have a safe stay at home, because where I’m going is safer than where you’re staying.”

Columbia. Even with the refugees. If you want to find the most successful societies in Europe, you would go to Scandinavia.

If you could design a world tour for President Trump, what would you want him to see?

I’d like him to hang out in Europe and talk to people about why they are so willing pay their taxes, and why they believe a society can work together to provide a safety net for people who are struggling.

I would think that if he traveled in Latin America, where wealthy people have to live behind designer fortification and where there are armed guards in front of every bank and every pharmacy, that he would realize even if you’re motivated only by greed, you don’t want to be filthy rich in a desperately poor world. I hope I could take him to Israel, so he could talk to people on both sides of that wall and get two narratives.

Do you think Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a danger to the marijuana legalization you fought for?

I just gave $50,000 to the ACLU. He’s one of these regressive drugwarrior-type people.

Have you ever been to Malmo, Sweden, where Trump says crime is rampant?

Yes. The level of crime in Scandinavia is like small-town British

This Week’s Lies DISPATCHES FROM THE TRUMPIVERSE, FEB. 15-21.

“A great spirit of optimism is sweeping, and—you see it—it’s sweeping all across the country,” President Donald Trump said at a Feb. 18 rally in Florida. One day previously, a Gallup poll found Trump had a historically low approval rating of 40 percent—a 5 percent decline since his inauguration.

Where would you travel to escape Trump?

I wouldn’t travel to escape.

It’s exciting to go, especially to Europe, because to me Europe and America are sister societies.

We’re both basically democratic, affluent, Christian, pluralistic societies.

I like to learn from my travels and come home with a little broader perspective. Or we can just go to Orlando and get selfies with Mickey Mouse for the rest of our lives. The only guidebooks that outsell my guidebooks are guidebooks to Disneyland.

“We’ve got to keep our country safe…. Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” Trump said at the same rally, leading many to assume he had made up another terrorist attack.

Trump later said he was referring to a Fox News segment on immigrant crime in Sweden. Swedish officials told The New York Times— an “enemy of the American people,” according to Trump—that they were more concerned about hate crimes targeting immigrants than immigrants attacking native Swedes.

GO: The World Affairs Council of Oregon presents Rick Steves at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Wednesday, March 1. 7 pm. $80.

WIRED WORLD TECHFESTNW IS THE PLACE TO PITCH YOUR STARTUP.

Portland is the place to pitch your startup.

Next month’s TechfestNW is attracting an international roster of entrepreneurs pitching their companies to potential investors.

(Disclosure: TFNW is produced

by WW.) The 75 entrants include a Singaporean startup that makes indoor smart air monitors, a Hungary-based digital food journal, a battery innovation company from Hong Kong, and a Peruvian hospitality startup.

“I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life,” Trump said at a Feb. 16 press conference. Trump then told a Jewish reporter to sit down. “Quiet, quiet, quiet,” Trump said. “See, he lied.” The reporter had said he believed Trump was not anti-Semitic. He had intended to ask about a wave of bomb threats at synagogues. On Feb. 21, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect stated: “The antisemitism coming out of this administration is the worst we have ever seen from any administration.”

The competing companies come from seven countries. Here’s where they honed their pitches.

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“You’re telling me things I don’t even know about…I have to leave,” Trump said before walking out of a BBC interview in 2013, after being asked about his longtime business partner Felix Sater. A Russian-born mob associate who spent a year in prison for stabbing a fellow broker in the face, Sater’s business cards listed him as a “senior adviser” to Trump. On Feb. 19, the Times reported that Sater was involved in back-channel White House diplomacy with Russia. (see page 10).

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NEWS REPLICA GUNS RECOVERED AT PORTLAND OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS.

Brad Lee Morgan (fatal, 2012)

Alan Lee Bellew (fatal, 2015)

Jonah Aaron Potter (non-fatal, 2012)

Don Allan Perkins (non-fatal, 2017)

Denorris Laron McClendon (non-fatal, 2014)

Quanice Hayes (fatal, 2017)

Toy Gun. Real Death.

NEARLY ONE IN FOUR PORTLAND POLICE SHOOTINGS INVOLVES A REPLICA GUN, BUT THE CITY HAS NO RESTRICTIONS ON SUCH WEAPONS.

BY NIG E L JAQ UI SS

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Portland police Officer Dominic Lovato was standing in a WinCo parking lot on a summer night when he suddenly found himself looking down the barrel of a gun.

Lovato and his partner had been chatting with three people outside the grocery store at Northeast 122nd Avenue and San Rafael Street a few minutes before midnight on June 28, 2015. Lovato started to search the vehicle after seeing drug paraphernalia—and one of the three people, 29-year-old Alan Lee Bellew of Eugene, reached into the car and aimed a gun at him.

“As soon as I saw the revolver and it was pointed at me I thought, I am going to get shot,” Lovato later told a grand jury. “I might die.”

Lovato yelled, “Gun!” Then he and his partner, Officer Michael Currier, shot Bellew eight times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Bellew died after he pointed a gun at Lovato that could not have hurt the officer. It fired only blanks.

When a technician at the Oregon State Police crime lab tested Bellew’s gun, he determined it was a starter’s pistol, the kind used at track meets.

The circumstances of Bellew’s death are disturbingly common in police shootings.

Overall, officer-involved shootings are rare in Portland—there have been an average of four per year since 2009. In the past eight years, records show, Portland police officers have shot 30 people. Of that total, seven shootings involved fake guns. Four of the shootings were fatal.

Two of those shootings occurred earlier this month, on Feb. 9. Both shootings allegedly involved replica weapons.

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handgun. Later, in Southeast Portland, police shot Donald Alan Perkins, 56, after he pointed a gun at them. Perkins survived, but officers said the gun he carried was also a replica.

If those accounts are correct, it lands Portland in the center of a problem with national scope.

In December, The Washington Post published an investigation into police shootings involving replica guns. The paper found that police killed 43 people in the U.S. in 2015 in incidents involving fake weapons, and the same number again in 2016. That’s 4.4 percent of all fatal U.S. police shootings during those two years.

Yet unlike other cities where teenagers holding toy guns have been killed by police—including Baltimore, New York and Chicago—Portland hasn’t banned the sale of replica weapons.

Penny Okamoto, executive director of the gun control nonprofit Ceasefire Oregon, says her group would like to see a statewide ban on the sale of replica guns.

“Guns are not toys,” Okamoto says. “Toy guns are like candy cigarettes—they should have gone away a long time ago.”

Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office says it has no immediate plans to seek a ban.

Wheeler’s spokesman, Michael Cox, says such a ban faces a variety of obstacles, such as recreational use by hobbyists and paintball players and the legal challenge of passing local ordinances that conflict with state laws.

“If it could be done and if it could help, then it’s obviously something we’d be interested in taking a deeper look at,” Cox says. “It’s something we’re looking at as part of the overall environment around policing. Oregon has a legally complicated landscape around gun regulation.”

Replica guns are easy to obtain. At Dick’s Sporting Goods in the North Portland neighborhood of Hayden Meadows, a full aisle is dedicated to pellet pistols and air rifles. A Smith

& Wesson “range ready” air pistol sells for $69.99.

Other cities have taken action to reduce the availability of fake guns. Most recently, the Baltimore City Council voted in December to ban the sale of fake guns after a detective shot a 14-year-old boy holding a BB pistol.

Gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association, have opposed such bans across the country, saying they are ineffective and criminalize innocent behavior.

Kevin Starrett, executive director of the Oregon Firearms Federation, the state’s leading gun rights group, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Although the Oregon Legislature has been a battleground for a wide variety of gun control measures, nobody in the Capitol has tried to ban replica weapons. A spokeswoman for Everytown for Gun Safety, the most active gun control group here and nationally, says it has no position on replica gun bans here.

JoAnn Hardesty, president of the Portland branch of the NAACP, has decried the killing of Quanice Hayes, who was black. But Hardesty says she’s not sure a ban on replica gun sales would be effective, because people who want to use guns—real or fake—to commit crimes aren’t worried about breaking the law. “I’m not sure if a law like that would have much of an impact,” she says.

Officials say it will be mid-March before a grand jury hears the details of Hayes’ death or the other Feb. 9 shooting. So it’s unclear what witnesses will add to the police narrative of confronting realistic-looking guns.

Back in 2015, when Lovato and Currier told a grand jury about the starter pistol Bellew pointed at Lovato, they had plenty of backup from the testimony of Bellew’s friends.

“It looked to me as real as a gun could look,” Bellew’s friend Wesley Howe testified July 2, 2015. “No cap on the end to signify a cap gun. It looked very real.”

WW staff writer Rachel Monahan contributed reporting to this story.

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DEATH IN JUNE MERCHANDISE FOR SALE AT SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS.

An Unwanted Label A NORTHEAST PORTLAND RECORD LABEL LANDS ON A NATIONAL HATE-GROUP REGISTRY.

BY THAC H E R SC H M I D

@thacherschmid

A record label headquartered on Northeast Portland’s Alberta Street has been declared a racist organization by the nation’s leading watchdog of white-supremacist and hate groups.

On Feb. 15, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed Soleilmoon Recordings among 25 new hate groups across the United States.

Owned and operated by Charles Powne, Soleilmoon is a nearly 30-year-old “boutique” label that sells what Powne calls “dark industrial ambient” music, mostly via mail order. Its mailing address is a post-office box located between brunch spot Helser’s and Alberta Co-op Grocery.

And its top-selling product is the music of an alleged neo-Nazi band from England.

Powne says he’s “mystified” by the hate-group listing. “The solution to bad speech is not to shut it down, but to overcome it with more speech,” he says.

The designation revives concerns about the white-power movement in Oregon, which constitutes seven of state’s 11 hate groups, according to the SPLC. It also raises questions about creative freedom, free speech and guilt by association.

The election of President Donald Trump has emboldened white-nationalist groups across the U.S., and sharpened their opposition. The SPLC, based in Montgomery, Ala., tracks racist groups and hate attacks. It recorded 42 hate incidents in Oregon in the month following the Nov. 8 election.

But conservative critics have accused the SPLC of political overreach, and of demonizing unpopular speech. The group’s release of new hate-group listings comes as college campuses and conservative organizations argue over how large a platform to afford racist provocateurs like Milo Yiannopoulos.

Soleilmoon Recordings sells MP3s, CDs, vinyl records and T-shirts of 123 artists, including Throbbing Gristle, the Legendary Pink Dots and Merzbow.

But it’s music that critics have identified for years as neo-Nazi that pays the bills. Powne says Soleilmoon brings in more than $100,000 a year,

and Death in June—the controversial, far-right project of British neo-fascist Douglas Pearce—is its top-selling artist.

Death in June refers to the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, when Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of his political rivals within the Nazi Party.

The band employs a wide range of fascist and Nazi imagery, such as wearing Waffen-SS uniforms onstage.

On Death in June’s official website, Soleilmoon is listed as the band’s official distributor. Death in June accounted for more than half the label’s digital sales, and moved “a couple thousand” units last year.

The SPLC says Death in June is the main reason for Soleilmoon’s hate-group listing.

“The label’s owner makes such a concerted effort to promote and cast [Death in June] as, basically, the centerpiece of the label’s project that we couldn’t ignore it any longer,” SPLC spokeswoman Rebecca Sturtevant wrote via email. “The label also sells acts like NON, which is Boyd Rice’s experimental noise project.”

Powne denies that Soleilmoon is racist, and says Pearce and Rice—whose icon is a half-swastika—are not racist either.

Powne adds that he “endorses” the SPLC, and says if he’s guilty of anything, it’s capitalism.

“I feel fortunate to be able to [run a music label], but I could be accused of compromising before the almighty dollar,” he says. “It’s just music and it’s just money. I just go where the customers need me.”

Last week’s listing of Soleilmoon among 917 hate groups across the U.S. was part of the SPLC’s annual census of extremist organizations. “2016 was an unprecedented year for hate,” says Mark Potok, editor of the nonprofit’s magazine, Intelligence Report.

The SPLC’s analysis of 16 U.S. “racist music” groups described sales of racist music as a “primary conduit of money and young recruits to the radical right.”

Northeast Alberta Street seems an unlikely spot for a white power group. It runs through the center of Portland’s historically black neighborhoods, and has in recent years been the focus of frustration over how African-American residents were displaced by a wave of gourmet ice cream, spas and wine.

Powne, 55, has been selling Death in June’s records for 12 years, he says. But he draws the line at more notorious acts like British skinhead band Skrewdriver.

“I used to have a record store here in Portland, the Ooze,” Powne recalls. “I remember people came in and asked for Skrewdriver records, and I would send them away, and say, ‘That’s a racist band. I don’t want anything to do with them, and I don’t want you as a customer.’”

Soleilmoon’s sole Portland-based artist is Daniel Menche, who identifies with the label’s abstract electronic artists, like Merzbow—not Death in June or NON, whose music he calls “shit.” “[Soleilmoon is] one of the longest-running experimental labels in the world,” Menche says.

“It has major legacy to it. A hell of a lot of artists are on Soleilmoon that are fucking cool. These hot-button artists? That music’s not good at all.”

Menche disagrees that Powne’s business supports the neo-Nazi movement. He says Powne donates “a hell of a lot” to National Public Radio and other progressive groups.

Powne sighs as he discusses the listing.

“God, it’s just a very vexing problem,” he says. “I don’t want to feel like I’m a victim of the SPLC. I’m not happy about [the listing], but it’s what they do, and it’s their right.”

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TINKER TAILOR WHAT TIES DONALD TRUMP TO RUSSIA? RON WYDEN WANTS ANSWERS.

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BY COR EY PEIN

hen President Donald Trump fired his national security adviser last week for lying about his conversations with a Russian diplomat, nobody thanked Ron Wyden.

They should have.

Michael Flynn, a longtime military intelligence official-turned-top White House adviser, had bonded with Trump over a shared fear of Islam, a fondness for conspiracy theories, and a sympathy for the far-right “traditionalism” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Leaked government wiretaps of Flynn’s secret talks with a Russian ambassador led to his forced resignation Feb. 13. For months, Wyden had been pushing for a full investigation of the Trump campaign’s Russian connections. “I was determined to get to the bottom of it,” he tells WW. Wyden wasn’t the only person demanding answers. But since September, he’s been the loudest voice in Congress calling for the FBI to release what it knows about Trump and the Kremlin— and to do it before Trump can fully take over the intelligence agencies.

Multiple sources on Capitol Hill say Wyden’s questions helped keep the issue alive until leaks doomed Flynn.

“In crucial periods, [Wyden] has raised his voice,” says Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists’ project on government secrecy. “He helped ensure that it did not fade away in those periods when it was not headline news.”

Now, with several formal investigations underway into the links between Putin and the Trump administration, Wyden, the Democratic senior U.S. senator from Oregon, will have the opportunity—and perhaps the mandate—to lead Congress in exposing the truth about Trump.

As a 16-year member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Wyden has access to secrets few Americans have.

Under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Wyden used his position to shed light on at least three illegal domestic surveillance programs.

His new mission: keeping that raw intelligence out of the wrong hands.

“Look, I don’t think this is hard, to describe the risk,” Wyden

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tells WW. “When the Russians hacked the [Democratic National Committee], Donald Trump said, ‘I wish I had that power.’ I think that sums it up.”

In the weeks since Trump took office Jan. 20, Wyden has worked to prevent the president or his minions from listening to your phone calls, reading your emails or monitoring your internet browsing history. Wyden has repeatedly warned that Trump’s access to the government’s surveillance powers poses a threat to liberty and security.

“We’ve never faced something quite like this,” says Wyden, 67. “I think it is extraordinarily important to stand up for the integrity of American institutions. It is as important now as at any point in my lifetime.”

Every high-profile Oregon politician embraced his or her calling and acted on it. For Wyden’s mentor and idol, Sen. Wayne Morse, as well as Sen. Mark Hatfield, it was early opposition to the Vietnam War. For Wyden’s predecessor, Sen. Bob Packwood, it was mastery of the tax code. Even Wyden’s junior partner, Sen. Jeff Merkley, found his place on the populist left within months of arriving on Capitol Hill.

For two-thirds of his 36-year congressional career, Wyden rocked no boats and burned few bridges. He was a mayonnaise sandwich from a backwater state, best known for cutting deadon-arrival deals with Republicans.

But in the past decade, Wyden has finally found his purpose: civil liberties in the age of digital spying. From exposing—and ending—creepy Pentagon programs with names like Total Information Awareness, to catching top spies in blatant lies, Wyden’s oversight work has earned notice and respect.

“He more than anybody right now is able to identify when there’s problems, even if he can’t tell people what they are,” says Marcy Wheeler, a longtime intelligence reporter.

“He’s the guy who keeps the spirit of Ben Franklin alive in the U.S. Senate,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) says of Wyden, a fellow member of the Intelligence Committee. “He’s not ready to trade his liberty for security.”

Wyden’s transformation is also personal. It echoes the life story of his father—parts of which were unknown even to Wyden, until recently.

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FATHER AND SON: A teenage Ron Wyden poses with his father, Peter, a journalist and World War II veteran.

The full extent of Peter Wyden’s work for the U.S. government was a secret even to his son, although Peter’s name comes up several times in recently declassified CIA documents.

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Habe is seated. Peter Wyden, with pipe, stands third from right.

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TINKER TAILOR SENATOR SPY ened citizens’ Fourth Amendment protections, that turned Wyden into a privacy hawk. “Like everyone else, I voted for the Patriot Act,” he says. “We had 3,000 people murdered in cold blood.”

The Patriot Act opened the door to the worst excesses of the Bush administration. U.S. intelligence agencies created and expanded warrantless wiretapping programs, surveilled mosques, and funneled billions of dollars to private national security contractors.

When the Patriot Act first came up for reauthorization before the Senate in 2005, Wyden was one of only 10 no votes. “Instead of coming back to review it, the Bush administration put their feet on the pedal and kept expanding and expanding it,” he explains.

Watchdogging the surveillance state hadn’t been Wyden’s first choice in the days before 9/11. He was

his second wife, Barbara; and a wrenching personal history of the schizophrenia afflicting Ron’s younger brother, Jeffrey, who died in 2002 at age 51.

But the senator’s father had a special interest in espionage. That’s because during World War II he was trained as an American spy. His assignment: the 4th Communications Unit of the Psychological Warfare Division of the 12th U.S. Army Group in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. His specialty: producing German-language anti-fascist propaganda.

Born in West Berlin in 1923 as Peter Weidenreich, he was 13 when his family fled the Nazis for America, trading a home in a wealthy Berlin neighborhood for a small apartment on East 20th Street in Manhattan.

As a young man, Weidenreich worked as a reporter for the daily Metal Worker. In the early 1940s, he volunteered for the U.S. Army and was assigned to a facility so secret it didn’t even have a telephone: Camp Sharpe in Gettysburg, Pa. Camp Sharpe had a single purpose—training soldiers for psychological warfare. There, Weidenreich trained under Hans Habe, a flamboyant Austrian writer and former French legionnaire who had married an American heiress before being drafted to run an Allied propaganda campaign on Axis territory. Habe hand-picked a team of journalists and intellectuals who were also refugees from Germany, Austria and Hungary.

Weidenreich “seems to have been one of Habe’s favorites,” Beverley Eddy, author of 2014’s Camp Sharpe’s “Psycho Boys”, tells WW. According to Eddy, Weidenreich crossed the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy a MORSE CODE: Sen. Wyden got his start in politics campaigning for anti-war Sen. few days after D-Day and was involved in one Wayne Morse. of the most remarkable bloodless victories of the war. An American reconnaissance patrol of 24 men, backed by French guerrillas, persuaded a Nazi general to surrender 20,000 soldiers. Weidenreich manned the loudspeaker and translated during the surrender negotiations.

A photograph at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—marked “Luxembourg, 1945”—shows Weidenreich standing behind Habe alongside other Army intelligence officers.

“Yeah, that’s definitely my dad!” Sen. Wyden said, shown the picture for the first time in his D.C. office.

As far as Wyden knew, his father’s propaganda work consisted of writing anti-Nazi leaflets. But, as he was “flabbergasted” to learn, there was more to it.

After Germany’s surrender, Habe founded Die Neue Zeitung—“the new newspaper”—a daily newspaper with offices in Munich and Frankfurt. It carried the Allied government’s official view, along with a range of opinions, and was an important element in the campaign of “de-Nazification.” Weidenreich, only 23, led the paper’s Berlin bureau. hoping for a seat on the Senate Finance Committee, but In 1946, Weidenreich moved back to the U.S., party leaders offered him the Intelligence Committee changed his name to Wyden, and went to work at The instead in early 2001.

Wichita Eagle. His son Ron was born in Kansas in 1949 “At the time, I didn’t know that much about all the to his wife, Edith, another Jewish refugee who also things they did,” Wyden recalls. “But I knew they were served in the U.S. Army. involved in technology. And I said, ‘Huh. I bet my dad Politicians often set priorities based on the will of would’ve been interested in that.’” their constituents, or donors. But Ron Wyden’s focus on the security state can’t be so easily explained.

When Wyden’s parents divorced just before his teenage This may be a case where patrimony trumps pragyears, he followed his mother to California. Neverthe- matism. “His father was probably the most powerful less, Wyden’s father loomed large. influence in his life,” Wyden’s former chief of staff and “He was the most patriotic person that I’ve ever met,” longtime consigliere, Josh Kardon, once told Politico.

Wyden tells WW. “He was definitely a liberal. He always Wyden doesn’t like to talk about how his father’s used to say, ‘I’m lots more liberal than you, Ron Wyden.’” experience informs his views. He simply says his dad, Peter Wyden wrote for Newsweek and The Satur- who died in 1998, taught him the value of skepticism. day Evening Post. His first success as an author was a “If my dad knew I was on the Intelligence Commitgroundbreaking study of an infamous American covert tee,” Wyden tells WW, “I’d say, ‘My job is to break no operation in Cuba titled Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story. oaths, share no classified secrets, and ask the tough He wrote 16 books, including the illustrated Suburbia’s questions.’”

Coddled Kids; a sex therapy memoir co-authored with COURTESY RON WYDEN

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hese days in Washington, D.C., Trump supporters practically spit the name Wyden.

“Sen. Wyden, I’ve got a Valium pill here that you might want to take,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) said in a Jan. 19 Senate Finance Committee hearing, fed up with Wyden’s questions.

Days later during a floor debate, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) repeatedly and with obvious annoyance referred to Wyden as “the senator from Washington—I’m sorry, from Oregon.”

Other senators may not know where he’s from— some faraway land of lumberjacks and bacon-scented marijuana—but they know who Wyden is. He’s the tall, gangly guy who gets under their skin with his endless, detailed, inescapable questions.

“He’s the first to find an issue before it becomes a real issue—he has almost an ability to predict the next big thing,” says Kerry Tymchuk, a longtime chief of staff to former Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.).

Former U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D - Ore.) says Wyden can be tenacious. “If he gets on an issue and he really believes in it, he’ll fight for it,” she says. “He doesn’t play too many games.”

Because Congress is basically high school, one of the first things Capitol Hill types volunteer about Wyden is that he is…strange. By which they mean cagey and awkward. At 6-foot-4, Wyden is too large for most furniture and often sits with his feet splayed at odd angles, or up on a desk.

A former basketball player at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Stanford, Wyden keeps a ball handy for pickup games. President Obama challenged him several times to play one-on-one, but Wyden declined because he was waiting for a moment when he

“He was the most patriotic person that I’ve ever met. He was definitely a liberal. He always used to say,

‘I’m lots more liberal than you, Ron Wyden.’”

had a big favor to ask. “Somehow the time just passed,” Wyden says wistfully.

Through much of his political career, Wyden was known to be as chummy with Republicans—especially Smith—as he was with members of his own party.

Critics called him wishy-washy. “I can’t imagine how bad he’s going to be in three or four years,” Ralph Nader told WW in 1995, after calling Wyden gutless in The Oregonian. (Nader accused Wyden of taking corporate money then seeking to relax regulations on pharmaceutical companies.)

But nine months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Wyden’s trajectory changed. He joined the Senate Intelligence Committee.

As a committee member, Wyden participated in inquiries into missed warnings prior to 9/11. He voted for attacking Afghanistan but, inspired by Morse’s stand on Vietnam, against the invasion of Iraq.

But it was the USA Patriot Act, which dramatically expanded government surveillance powers and weak-

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he Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is one thicket in the vast “wilderness of mirrors” that is the world of espionage.

America’s so-called intelligence community is a $67 billion, 17-agency bureaucratic octopus that includes the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency. Overseeing all of this are 15 senators—eight Republicans and seven Democrats, including Wyden.

Most intelligence committee meetings are secret, held in a “vaulted” area of the Capitol Visitor Center under 24-hour guard. Were a member of Congress or security-cleared congressional staff to expose classified information, he or she would probably be removed from the committee, censured or even criminally investigated. As recently as two years ago, a CIA lawyer asked the Justice Department to indict Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) staff for allegedly leaking classified reports on torture.

In short, Wyden has to try to limit the abuses of the intelligence apparatus—without talking publicly about what the president or his spy agen-

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cies are doing. That’s delicate work. But Wyden’s efforts still stand out.

He’s introduced 26 intelligence-related oversight bills since 2001, including a 2015 bill to restrict the government from tracking cellphone locations. Wyden’s diligent questioning has also become legendary. “He’s certainly one of the bestprepared members of the Intelligence Committee,” says Siobhan Gorman, a former intelligence reporter for The Wall Street Journal. “It’s obviously a passion.”

Not everyone is impressed. “ Wyden has the right instincts, but he’s afraid,” says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who served 27 years and prepared daily briefings for President Ronald Reagan. “He seems to be a little shell-shocked, just like the other senators.”

McGovern cites instances when Wyden failed to follow up with witnesses who gave misleading answers, or missed opportunities to read classified information into the Congressional Record.

Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Lee Tien, who handles legislative affairs for the San Franciscobased digital rights group, is more generous.

“It’s Congress’ job to keep the executive branch in line,” Tien says. “There’s one thing I can say about Sen. Wyden: He’s always tried to do that while at the same time honoring his ethical obligations as a member of Congress. In terms of trying to tell the public what’s going on—without actually telling us—he’s gone far beyond what other members of Congress have done.”

Famously, in a March 2013 Intelligence Committee hearing that was open to the public, Wyden asked then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?”

“No, sir,” Clapper replied.

“It does not?” Wyden responded.

“Not wittingly,” Clapper replied.

“All right. Thank you,” Wyden concluded.

Three months later, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked thousands of documents that proved Clapper had lied. Clapper said he had answered Wyden in the “least most untruthful manner.” Clapper was never sanctioned for lying to Congress, and stayed in office until last month.

The global surveillance apparatus now reports to President Trump, whose debts remain a mystery.

Last month, Wyden led the attempt to block Trump’s nominee to lead the $15 billion CIA, former U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.). The reason: Among other things, Pompeo supported a new centralized intelligence database, unprecedented in scope, combining phone and email records of Americans with “lifestyle” information culled from social media. “I have never heard an idea so extreme, so overarching and so intrusive of Americans’ privacy,” Wyden declared.

On Jan. 23, Wyden forced a six-hour Senate

JUST ASKING QUESTIONS: Sen. Wyden questions President Trump’s treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, about his off-shore holdings, at a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing Jan. 19.

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TINKER TAILOR SENATOR SPY “GRASSROOTS JUGGERNAUT”: Wyden, shown here at last week’s town hall in Oregon City, is counting on public pressure to force action in Washington, D.C.

floor debate on Pompeo’s confirmation.

“We are headed into dangerous times,” Wyden warned the nearly empty chamber. “If confirmed as CIA director, the doors would close, and he would operate in secret.”

It didn’t matter.

Pompeo was confirmed by a vote of 66 in favor, including 14 Democrats, to 32 opposed, including Wyden. “I didn’t think we’d do as well as we did,” he says.

Wyden’s current focus is the Senate investigation into the Trump administration’s alleged ties to Russian and Ukrainian spies, gangsters and oligarchs.

Wyden has pressed committee leaders for, and obtained their commitment to, three essential elements: subpoena power, declassification of evidence and open hearings.

“I believe the next step on Russia should be Mike Flynn walking into an open Intelligence Committee hearing, raising his right hand, taking the oath, and telling the American people what in the world is going on here,” Wyden says.

He is counting on the people—what Wyden calls a growing “grassroots juggernaut”—to help him force accountability in the White House.

Wyden saw the earth tremble at a Feb. 4 appearance at the Linn-Benton Community College gymnasium in Albany. The bleachers were jammed with more than 1,500 attendees, who cheered wildly as Wyden entered the town-hall meeting.

During questions, multiple people expressed fear.

A Marine Corps veteran said: “I’m proud to be a Jewish American and I’m very concerned…. The parallels between Trump’s administration and what was going

on in 1933 under Adolf Hitler are terrible. What can we do and what can you do to help relieve this situation?”

Wyden listened, lips pursed.

He denounced Trump’s “extreme views,” but stopped short of comparing the president to Hitler.

“You talked about Jewish Americans…. My parents fled the Nazis,” Wyden said.

“Again and again we’re seeing what I call a challenge to the Oregon way,” he went on. He asked whether former Sen. Hatfield or former Gov. Tom McCall would have tolerated Trump’s immigration policies. “That’s what this ‘vetting’ is all about. This is code for having religious tests. And we’re going to fight it.”

By the time Wyden finished, his fist was clenched tight. His comments were like his career in microcosm: cautious instincts finally giving way to conviction.

And he keeps getting louder. On Feb. 18, Wyden held another packed town hall in Oregon City. Every other question was about Trump and Russia.

“There is nothing more important on my plate,” he said. “Nothing that is more central to the legitimacy and the credibility and the confidence we have in the American government than getting to the bottom of this.”

The crowd rose to its feet, stomping and cheering.

“Sweeping it under the rug is not acceptable, and I am not going to let it happen,” Wyden hollered. “Not— going—to let it happen!”

For once, Wyden’s views weren’t a secret.

“This goes right to the heart of the

legitimacy of American government.”

—Wyden speaking to constituents in Oregon City on Feb. 18.

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GO: The Art of the Brick is at OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4000, omsi.edu, through May 29. $19.75 adult, $15 senior, $13.50 children 3-13.

Email jshowers@wweek.com if you’re interested in purchasing one of these kits.

The Strip Club, $79.99 Kit includes everything shown.

A Portland Bar, $89.99 Kit includes bartender and one customer.

Limited Quantity.

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A Cannabis Dispensary, $69.99 Kit includes everything shown.

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A Portland Homeless Camp, $49.99 Kit includes everything shown.

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the cafe. Fyre’s Facebook page is filled with pictures from polyamory events and videos from MoonFyre Cafe parties.

For Fyre, her foray into polyamory was natural. She grew up living with her grandparents, who were swingers and nudists. She fondly recalls hanging out at the nudist colony and always feeling safe around older, naked people.

She spent years in monogamous relationships before trying polyamory.

Fyre moved to Portland five years ago, finding a welcoming poly community.

“The community here is huge: swingers, polyamory, non-monogamy, kink, queer culture,” she says. “I call Portland my diamond because of all the facets.”

For others, they might meet someone who’s already in a poly relationship, such as Puppy’s boyfriend, who’s in a “formal mentorship,” learning how to be dominant.

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MONOGAMISTS CAN BE SELFISH.

POST-MONOGAMOUS PORTLAND WE TOOK A POLYAMORY 101 CLASS AT A LOCAL S&M CAFE. HERE’S WHAT WE LEARNED.

BY JAC K R US H A L L a n d SO P H I A JUNE

Mistress Pixie Fyre commands the room. She’s standing in front of a dozen people, wearing a white button-down shirt and a black corset. She’s the kind of woman who glows like she has eight orgasms a day.

When she speaks, people stop cuddling. They become alert, their eyes fixed on her. This makes sense: She is a dom, after all.

Behind her, LED lights are strung across the entrance to the dungeon. You’re not allowed to eat here, a sign on the door reads. Good to know.

In a dark-pink, dimly lit room of the S&M coffee shop the MoonFyre Cafe, Fyre hosts monthly fetish nights and workshops covering everything from “electrical play” to the master-slave relationship to high-protocol service.

Today, she’s hosting Polyamory 101, a college lecture-style class complete with a PowerPoint presentation.

Portland might be the kinkiest city in the country, she tells us.

At least, that’s what we’ve been called by Kink University, which named Portland “the kinkiest city in America” in 2015. A 2016 Guardian article was titled: “Polyamorous in Portland: The city making open relationships easy.”

There is no established figure of how many polyamorous couples live in Portland in comparison to the rest of the U.S., but an estimated 4 to 5 percent of Americans practice polyamory, with 9.8 million having experimented with some form of non-monogamous, open relationship.

A lot of local monogamists are still nowhere near finding “the one.” So, a couple of us decided to take matters into our own hands and find out what polyamory is about, at least according to some people who practice it.

In the course of the three-hour class, we saw an ex-military sergeant act like a dog, a vintage hospital room set up for “blood play,” and a community of people so comfortable with fluid-bonding that they looked almost bored.

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style,” says Fyre, the cafe’s founder. “We want to obliterate the taboos.”

So she let us come and observe. Here’s what we learned.

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EVERY POLYAMOROUS FAMILY IS DIFFERENT.

Fyre describes polyamorous families as a bicycle wheel. Someone is the hub; everyone else is a spoke.

“This is my family,” Fyre tells us. “This is how I do poly, but there’s no one way to do it. That’s why polyamory is difficult to teach.”

This is a breakdown of Pixie’s polyamorous wheel: Fyre is the “handler” of many “slaves,” ranked by different tiers. She says most people need a flow chart to comprehend her family structure.

Angel is Fyre’s primary partner. They’ve been together for nine years, longer than anyone else in the family.

They’re in a master-slave relationship, which is the highest form of dominant and submissive. Fyre makes Angel’s life decisions, including what she does for a living. Angel wears a collar that symbolizes her dedication to Fyre.

Fyre’s “secondary” partner, Dane, whom she affectionately refers to as “Boy,” has been “collared” for three years.

Dane joins the class from his bed in Minneapolis via Skype.

Fyre is dominant over Boy, but it’s not the same as masterslave level. “I don’t control what he does for a living,” Fyre tells us. “But I can control if he masturbates.”

Finally, there’s her tertiary partner, “Puppy.” Fyre is not sexual with Puppy, who has a boyfriend, though Puppy interacts with Fyre as part of a power-exchange relationship.

“I don’t like being property, but I do like having property,” explains Fyre, commanding Puppy to bark. He complies.

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YOU PROBABLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW THESE THINGS START.

When we asked students in the class how they got into polyamory, they all chuckled, before answering, “Well, I was always kind of a weirdo…”

It seems a lot of people found a community in polyamory.

At the end of the workshop, most attendees gave Fyre a long, hard hug, and there was a buzz in the air as they discussed plans for the evening, with many attending Fetish Night at

Admittedly, many monogamists probably don’t think about being monogamists. It’s like being straight before 2012.

However, you can rest assured that polyamorists have plenty of thoughts on monogamists.

Some polyamorists say polyamory has allowed them to become more aware of their romantic selves through increased feedback from multiple partners. Poly is extremely self-reflective, they say. Most of Fyre’s lecture centered on the idea that you have to be honest with yourself and your partners, all the time.

With monogamy, “I didn’t feel like I had to have a lot of check-ins with myself,” Fyre says. “Polyamory has made me own my shit.”

Others say monogamy is too overwhelming, with one workshop attendee claiming, “I don’t feel as well-fed, and I get real snippy. I get jealous and I don’t like myself as much.”

Another student, says monogamy can be selfish: “It’s a lot of responsibility to put on one person.”

Finally, there are polyamorists who don’t see polyamory or monogamy as black and white. Being “monogamish” is fairly normal, with some polyamorous members spending a few years with one person and then reverting back to multiple partners or other members of the family.

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THERE ARE RULES. LOTS OF RULES.

Although polyamorous relationships are distinguished by their perceived openness compared to traditional monogamous relationships, unfaithfulness is still possible—and deeply discouraged.

In many polyamorous families, a member has to get permission from all other members before being allowed to have sex with somebody outside the family. This is mostly done to avoid picking up an STD. Some families even require new members to provide medical records proving they are STD-free.

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NOT ALL PARTNERS ARE SEXUAL PARTNERS.

In the world of polyamory, not every relationship requires a big spoon, and not every family member is intimate with one another.

For instance, Fyre’s “Puppy” does not sleep with Mistress Pixie Fyre. Though Puppy and his partner are members of the family, they are celibate to all but each other. As you might imagine, this probably makes things a bit less tense for the partners Fyre does cozy up to.

We spoke to another man at the workshop who had been snuggling with a woman most of the day. When we asked what his “partner’s” name was, he explained that they were in a brother-sister bond and didn’t have sex.

GO: The MoonFyre Cafe is at 5224 SE Foster Road.

Check out its events at moonfyrecafe.com.

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“I live by the Portland Art Museum. I would move to Hawthorne because it’s so cute, but I’m a full-time student and I can’t move that far out.”

“I’m from Venezuela. It’s my first day here, and NW is the first neighborhood I’ve visited. I would live in this part. It’s very cool.”

WHERE DO YOU LIVE? IS THERE A NEIGHBORHOOD YOU WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO? “I live right across the bridge in North Portland. I thought about moving back to SE, but I like where I live a lot.”

“I live in Irvington. I wouldn’t move away—everything is so walkable, and everyone is really nice.”

“I just moved to the Mississippi neighborhood. I wouldn’t move—it’s nice and easy.”

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“I live in Lake Oswego. I would move to the Pearl because of shopping and food, but it’s too expensive.”

“We actually just moved from NW to NE because it’s cheaper, and we get to live in a home versus an apartment.”

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“I live out in Goose Hollow. I would like to live in the West Hills because of the Craftsman homes and neighborhood feel with trees. However, I can’t live there because it’s expensive.”

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BEER IS THICKER THAN BLOOD: Last week, we reported that friends of Dean Pottle were hoping to buy his homebrew speakeasy, Dean’s Scene, and preserve it as a fraternal order.

On Feb. 17, they got bad news: Pottle’s heirs accepted another offer. Scenester Andrew Tappert had bid well above the asking price for the former residence and speakeasy owned by the legendary local bandit brewer, who passed away last October.

Pottle’s relations took a higher bid, but there are still plans to create a fraternal order, like the Masons or the Elks. “It’s hard not to be angry,” Tappert says, vowing to continue the fight.

WW’s 2017 Beer Guide, which will debut at next Tuesday’s Oregon Beer Awards, is dedicated to Pottle’s memory.

CALLAHAN ON FILM: Back in November, we reported Gus Van Sant was working on a movie based on the life of Portland cartoonist John Callahan, a longtime WW contributor who became quadriplegic in a car accident at age 21. Joaquin Phoenix is onboard to play Callahan, and Rooney Mara and Jonah Hill have also signed on. All four principals were in Portland last weekend visiting Callahan’s favorite haunts, including the Heathman Hotel. Twenty years ago, Robin Williams bought the rights to Callahan’s autobiography, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, and tapped Van Sant to direct, but the film was tabled until this year. Shooting is expected to take place in Los Angeles.

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BEARDS EVERYWHERE: Portland chefs and restaurants were nominated for a record 16 James Beard Awards this year, the prestigious national food awards named after the Portland-born chef. These include a Rising Star semifinalist nod for Maya Lovelace of Southern-fried Cully spot Mae, WW’s 2016 Pop-Up Restaurant of the Year. Le Pigeon’s Gabriel Rucker, a two-time winner as Rising Star and Best Chef Northwest, is up for Outstanding Chef—the prize for the best chef in the country—and Korean spot Han Oak is in the running for the country’s best new restaurant. Portland dominates the Best Chef Northwest category with eight nods, including a firsttime semifinalist slot for chef Ha “Christina” Luu at Vietnamese soup spot Ha VL on Southeast 82nd Avenue. A full listing of nominees can be found at wweek.com.

BELATED BERRY: The marionberry, the Oregon-invented blackberry varietal wildly popular in Oregon but virtually unknown outside the state, has long been blocked from becoming our state berry.

In 2009, it was proposed as such, but was blocked after Washington County kotataberry farmer Larry Duyck worried that if the marionberry became official, the kotataberry would be squashed in the market. Other raspberry and blackberry farmers then joined the complaint, and the marionberry went unrecognized. Well, it appears compromise is finally in the works. Rookie state Rep. Sheri Malstrom (D-Beaverton) introduced House Concurrent Resolution 19 on Feb. 9, which would make marionberry pie the official state pie of Oregon.

We await the objections of the kotataberry pie lobby.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22

Mel Brown Big Band Tonight, as part of the Portland Jazz Festival, drummer Mel Brown—the Godfather of Portland jazz—debuts a big band comprised of his many longtime Jimmy Mak’s bandmates, performing the music of Dizzy Gillespie in honor of what would have been his 100th birthday. Famed New York trumpeter Jon Faddis plays the part of Diz. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., 503-288-3895, revolutionhall. com. 7:30 pm. $19-$49. All ages.

BoatHouse MicroCinema Launch Arthouse cinemas are like the mythical Phoenix: As one perishes, another is reborn. As the long-running Cinema Project draws to a close, local DIY hero Matt McCormick kicks off his brand-new microcinema project with a collection of local shorts curated by experimental filmmaker Ben Popp. BoatHouse MicroCinema, 822 N River St., boathousemicrocinema.com. 7:30 pm. $8 suggested donation.

Viet Thanh Nguyen New book The Refugees collects 20 years of stories from Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Considering his first novel, The Sympathizer,, earned him a Pulitzer Prize, and his two nonfiction books were finalists for other major literary awards, there’s a good chance this will be one of the year’s best collections.

Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

Abstraction, Difference and Presence: The Works of Jean-Paul Kelly After 14 years, the experimental film collective Cinema Project screens its last program. It showcases the work of Canadian artist and filmmaker Jean-Paul Kelly, whose films explore the relationship between materiality and perception through found material and sound clips. NXT Industries, 1302 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 971-266-0085, cinemaproject.org. 7:30 pm. $8 suggested donation.

THURSDAY, FEB. 23

FRIDAY, FEB. 24

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Sour Fruit Fest Portland's house of sour celebrates itself Wednesday through Sunday—but this is the first night you won’t have to work the next day. More than 50 different fruity sour beers will rotate through the barrel house, with bourbon-barrel-aged Cherry Vlad quad headlining Friday. Pucker up and drink, or vice versa. Cascade Brewing Barrel House, 939 SE Belmont St., 503-265-8603, cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com. Noon.

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Chicano Batman Not all heroes wear capes—some prefer ruffled 1970s prom gear. While Chicano Batman's look isn’t likely to strike fear in the hearts of many men, the band's distinctly Mexican-American sound—psychedelic Latin grooves delivered with a soulful smoothness learned from L.A. oldies radio—should agitate one tangerine-colored supervillain in particular. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700, startheaterportland.com. 9 pm. $14. 21+.

SATURDAY, FEB. 25 Triple IPA Fest Hoppy heavyweights from across the West Coast hit the taps at N.W.I.P.A. in celebration of the height of late winter’s triple IPA season. Boozy, bright, and bitter, these once-a-year creations dominate your palate, a delicious blend of honey and hop cone. But be warned: Follow up an IIIPA with the normal variety, and you’ll wonder if it’s secretly La Croix.

N.W.I.P.A., 6350 SE Foster Road, 503-805-7342, nwipa.beer. 2 pm.

Monster Jam Purists can hate on the validity of monster truck rallies as actual sporting events all they want, but few things in the arena entertainment world are as exciting as watching Grave Digger spit fl ames and grind a stack of Geo Trackers into dust.

Aside from the occasional hockey fight, it doesn’t get more gratifyingly lowbrow than this. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St., 503-235-8771, rosequarter.com. 1 and 7 pm. Also 1 pm Feb. 26. $20-$90.

SUNDAY, FEB. 26 Hell No! That line about how President Trump is going to inspire great art might be a crock of shit, but at least he’s already inspiring killer benefit concerts. Tonight’s show of protest brings together Portland’s indie-rock ruling class—Colin Meloy, Stephen Malkmus and Sleater-Kinney—along with several others to raise money for the ACLU and Unite Oregon.

Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 6 pm. Sold out. All ages.

Kachka Butter Brunch Yes, it is time for Maslenitsa!! Butter Week in Russia! So get drunk on horseradish vodka and eat butter blini family-style with cured fish and roe and fruit preserves alongside machanka—a “Belorussian gravy of braised meats.” Ah! Winter is over! Life is good. And to celebrate coming out of the darkness, proceeds go to the ACLU. Kachka, 720 SE Grand Ave., 503-235-0059, kachkapdx.com. 10 am-noon. $45. Reservations required.

MONDAY, FEB. 27 Scratch Local authors Cheryl Strayed,, Cari Luna, Kevin Sampsell, and A.M. O’Malley will come together to discuss the question: How do writers get the money and time to write? The topic is at the heart of a new essay collection entitled Scratch,, edited by Manjula Martin, which features contributions by Luna and Strayed. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

The Radio Dept.

It took six flippin’ years, but we fi nally got a new Radio Dept. album last year. On Running Out of Love Love, Sweden’s fi nest indie-pop group downplays the guitars and turns up the synths, bringing bits of minimalist techno into its dreamy milieu. Sadly, “We Got Game” is not a response to Public Enemy’s “He Got Game,” but it was worth the wait anyway. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 9 pm. $17. 21+.

TUESDAY, FEB. 28 Portland Mardi Gras Parade In New Orleans, everybody can have a parade any time they want, and anyone can join you—them’s the rules.

Well, here’s at least one parade in Portland you can jump right into. Show up at Victoria Bar at 5:30 or so looking like an idiot or a skull or something, then march down Mississippi Avenue. Don’t show your boobs yet: There are kids. Victoria Bar, 4835 N Albina Ave., victoriabarpdx.com.

Parade leaves 7 pm.

Aparna Nancherla Following the release of her fi rst standup album, Aparna Nancherla got boxed in as “the mental-health comedian.”

While her candid approach to anxiety and depression is definitely a bonus, it’s her super-dry delivery and absurdist twists on living the sad single life that really set her apart.

Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 8 pm. $16.50 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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FOOD & DRINK = WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 Sour Fruit Fest

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The “House of Sour” celebrates itself Wednesday through Sunday with more than 50 different fruity sour beers on rotation, from Bourbon Bada Bing to Shrieking Violet. Pucker up and drink, or vice versa.

Cascade Brewing, 939 SE Belmont St., 503-265-8603. Noon-11 pm.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 25 Triple IPA Fest

Hoppy heavyweights from all over the West Coast hit the taps at N.W.I.P.A. Boozy, bright and bitter, these once-a-year creations are a delicious blend of honey and hop cone. N.W.I.P.A., 6350 SE Foster Road, 503-805-7342. 2 pm-midnight. www.shandongportland.com

Shandong Brewstillery Fest

Shandong www.shandongportland.com

Fillmore Trattoria

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

Beer and liquor are a sick combo— and 19 local breweries and 19 distillers will pair up, whether Pfriem with New Deal or Breakside with Clear Creek. A $20 advance ($25 door) gets you 10 tickets’ worth of split boilermakers. Stormbreaker Brewing, 832 N Beech St., stormbreakerbrewing.com. Noon-8 pm.

Blackout Beer Fest

Afraid of the dark? Don’t come here, where 25 dark beers from Oregon and Southwest Washington will be served alongside food taster trays and a pregame brunch if you plan to get crunk and heavy. The chowder challenge will take a breather this year, however.

Sidebar, 3901 N Williams Ave., lompocbrewing.com. Noon-10 pm.

TUESDAY, FEB. 28 Acadia Mardi Gras

There are Mardi Gras parties with more party, like the parade or Tapalaya. But for the best trueblue Cajun food, go to Acadia. Pick up a $25 three-course dinner with cake and greens, or get $15 items à la carte, whether cornmeal-fried catfish, jambalaya with andouille sausage, or smoked pork cheeks.

Yum. Beads and masks included, should you want them. Acadia, 1303 NE Fremont St., 503-249-5001. 5 pm.

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DAB Lab: Juice Joint (BLOCK 15) No matter how much Neil deGrasse Tyson sucks the fun out of science on his killjoy Twitter feed, Block 15 Brewing just keeps loading it right back in with its DAB Lab IPAs— doing weird shit with hops to make hoppy beers taste even hoppier.

Think of DAB Lab (short for “dank-ass beer”) as the potato cannon of beers. Both last year’s amazing Hop Hash and now this month’s Juice Joint amp up Block 15 beers with CO² hop extracts, and follow that by tossing in lupulin powder, made by freezing and concentrating hop resins and oils. But if Hop Hash was the groundbreaking proof of concept, Juice Joint is break dancing on the shoulders of giants, a ridiculous swirl of Mosaic and Apollo extract, Columbus hops and Citra lupulin powder, which is then dry-hopped with Galaxy and Columbus alongside even more lupulin powder from Citra and Mosaic. The brewing process is like the run-on story a 4-year old would tell about Godzilla: “And then he ate Earth and breathed big fire!” Well, Juice Joint breathes fire—it just about steams with juicy hop flavor. Recommended. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. DRANK

Pale Ale

The rarest beer in Oregon? That would be this one, a pale ale from Wm. Roesch Brewery in Pendleton, (WM. ROESCH BREWERY) which made less than a barrel of beer last year. Ryan Roesch is the great-great-grandson of William Otto Roesch, who came over from Germany after studying brewing in the same class as Adolph Coors, who sent him Christmas cards in their new land. William Roesch was all over Oregon—he opened breweries up and down the coast, and worked for Henry Weinhard in Portland. Eventually, he made his way to Eastern Oregon, where he operated five small-town breweries. His heir, Ryan, started homebrewing while living in Eugene and decided to go pro when he moved back home to Pendleton.

“Their only competition at the time was Coors and Budweiser,” he says of Roesch Brewery. “But then it got handed down to some family members, and they weren’t really into drinking. Then World War II happened.” All these years later, the brewery is in a new building on the same ground where William Roesch operated. “All the old recipes he had, we have lying around,” Ryan says. “But you can’t really go back and take anything from them, because all the malts and hops are all labeled by numbers. All the hops, they brought them over from Germany and they didn’t have names at the time.” Ryan’s first release is a pale ale, and the only place to get it is 40 Taps, a new hipster beer bar in downtown Pendleton. Unfortunately, it’s not especially pale—it could pass for a brown ale—and it is a little soapy.

But it has a hell of a history. MARTIN CIZMAR. DRANK

1937 NW 23RD Place Portland, OR 97210

1. Teppanyaki Hut

(971) 386-5935

Simple ApproAch

Bold FlAvor vegan Friendly

open 11-10

everyday

4233 N Mississippi Ave., 503-383-4705.

Behold, the sushi burrito!

Get the Black Widow ($9)—a rice-out nori-rito stuffed with crab salad and soft-shell crab. $.

2. East Glisan Pizza Lounge 8001 NE Glisan St., 971-279-4273, eastglisan.com.

On Tuesdays, get the best Detroitstyle pies in town. $$.

3. Gastro Mania

1986 NW Pettygrove St., 503-6893794, gastromaniapdx.com.

Portland’s finest lunchtime gyro-andoctopus spot now serves dinner till 8.

So go. $-$$.

4. Kim Jong Smokehouse 413 NW 21st Ave., 971-373-8990, kimjongsmokehouse.com.

All barbecue should come with gochujang. $.

5. Grain & Gristle

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1473 NE Prescott St., 503-288-4740, grainandgristle.com.

Grain & Gristle’s $12 burger is a beautiful ode to simplicity—beef, pickles, mayo and buttery bun. $$.

Maja

(HAIR OF THE DOG with OMNIPOLLO)

Beer hype is a funny thing. A few years ago, Hair of the Dog’s big annual dock sale drew hundreds.

I remember showing up a half-hour before sales started and waiting toward the back of the line.

Top Dog Alan Sprints is a legend, but so many new breweries have opened, and all Hair of the Dog beers are now regularly available at the tasting room. So I was excited when another local paper breathlessly reported on the release of Maja, a collaboration with Stockholm’s Omnipollo. Pronounced “MY-yah,” it’s a 10.8 percent ABV barleywine that was brewed with maple syrup and spent a year aged on vanilla beans in bourbon barrels. “Expect a line,” another paper wrote, which honestly sounded like fun. Sadly, I couldn’t get there until the afternoon.

There were still plenty of $16 bottles available, as there were 10 days later, when I called again. Sprints says the beer cost a mint to make, but it’s relatively straightforward—a sweet barleywine spiked with maple and vanilla, plus a little oak. I recently had a vanilla bourbon cream ale at Sasquatch that scratched the same itch, and for onefourth the price. The world spins fast these days. Not recommended.

MARTIN CIZMAR.

TASTE-OFF

Brand New Bag EVERY BOILED BAGEL IN PORTLAND, RANKED. sjune@wweek.com

Portland’s bagel universe imploded six years ago when beloved local chain Kettleman was sold to Einstein Bros. In the aftermath, we did a taste-off, crowning tiny upstart Spielman as the new king, with Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen close behind. A year later, we repeated the survey, but with five rabbis doing the judging. They picked then-new Bowery Bagels, with Spielman close behind.

But the disruption of the Kettleman closure continues.

Spielman Bagels rapidly expanded to three locations, including two former Kettlemans. Nine new boiled-bagel shops have opened since.

We wanted to survey the lay of the land now. So we conducted a blind tasting of the 14 bagel shops that boil or steam their bagels. (Baked bagels are unsweetened doughnuts.)

All bagels were purchased or delivered during the same two-hour window on a Tuesday morning, to ensure their freshness. At each stop we ordered “two plain bagels and two of your most popular flavor,” which was almost always the everything bagel.

We started by rating the plain, untoasted bagels on numbered plates. Plain cream cheese was available but rarely used by our six tasters. After we’d gone through the plain, untoasted bagels we broke out the other flavors and toasted the ones we were most curious about to further inform our ratings.

What did we discover? Bagels are tough, and the crown weighs heavy. The two runaway winners were tiny upstarts you’ve probably never heard of, working way harder than everybody else and taking no shortcuts. Spielman, once the pride of Portland, really slid.

Here are all of Portland’s boiled bagels, ranked on a 100-point scale.

1. Bundy’s Bagels (92 points)

1421 SE 33rd Ave., 503-880-8550, bundysbagels.com.

Joel Bundy first started making bagels because he was bored.

He typed into Google: “what should you do when you’re bored.” Google suggested he try cooking or baking. He typed: “what should i cook or bake,” and bagels came up.

Nine years after his first inedible batch, three years after quitting his job as a garbage collector to open the cart, and two years after he found himself flat broke and deep in debt, Bundy is quietly making the city’s finest bagels in a tiny food-cart pod in an alley off Hawthorne.

They’re made in the cart, by hand, with careful attention to every step of the process, and high-quality ingredients like Bob’s Red Mill flour. Between closing one day and opening the next, he works up to eight hours getting them right.

“I’ve closed down because the bagels didn’t turn out to what I would personally eat,” Bundy says. “I’m not going to be open and selling it if it’s not up to the standard.”

Right now, his food cart is for sale— Bundy plans to use the proceeds to finance a brick-and-mortar location. Someone please give him money.

Comments: “Crackles on the exterior with flavor inside, best!” “Great crust and flavor, this is my ideal bagel: crispness, lightness, salt.” “Perfect balance of malty, tangy.”

2. Bernstein’s Bagels (90)

Available at Townshend’s Teahouses and Museum Grounds at the Portland Art Museum.

Bernstein’s Bagels is almost completely unknown, save for a small profile in Oregon Jewish Life.

Noah Bernstein, a musician who start-

ed making bagels in his kitchen just two years ago, typically ends his day by playing a gig until midnight, and begins it by waking up at 5:30 am to make bagels. Despite his schedule, he doesn’t cut corners.

Bernstein uses organic barley malt syrup and hand rolls all the bagels, letting them rise in the fridge for two days to give them a deep flavor not unlike a sourdough pretzel. He also boils with lye, which is super-dangerous, he says, “but the quality of bagel when it’s done is so much better.”

Bernstein and business partner Peter Hurteau are planning to open a store in St. Johns by early April.

Comments: “Smells right, looks right, chewy exterior, great shape.” “Great flavor, crust, soft middle, chewy.”

3. Kenny & Zuke’s Bagelworks (71)

2376 NW Thurman St., 503-954-1737, kennyandzukes.com/bagelworks.

Kenny & Zuke’s were among the best six years ago, and we’re glad to see they’ve managed to keep the magic surrounding their hole. (Full disclosure: The recipe was created

by WW contributor Michael C. Zusman.)

Comments: “Super-malty, tastes like barleywine?” “Nice chew, sweet finish.” “Nice exterior, could be a little more done.”

4. Bowery Bagels (57)

310 NW Broadway, 503-227-6674, bowerybagels.com.

Four years ago, we had a panel of rabbis rank all the bagels in Portland, and they deemed Bowery the winner. It still ranks high, but the score drop-off after Kenny & Zuke’s is precipitous, with many tasters finding its bagels a bit too cooked.

Comments: “Bland, too chewy.” “Very cereal, laboriously chewy.” “Bagel rock.”

SAM GEHRKE

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JOEL BUNDY OF BUNDY’S BAGELS

5. Kornblatt’s (56)

There’s not another bagel spot where you can get such a huge selection of smoked fish.

Comments: “Top is undercooked, dry bread.” “Nice chew, but it’s whole-wheaty.”

editor Martin Cizmar had one of his favorite bagels in Portland out of the shop, an excellent pepper-infused and characterrich round. But we found the plain bagels need more character.

Comments: “Too bready.” “Exterior like a tough, 25-year-old pot sticker.”

6. Bridgetown Bagel Company (55)

10. Henry Higgins Boiled Bagels (41)

Bridgetown opened three years ago as a cart before opening a brick-and-mortar, making it one more stop on a tour of Sandy’s Green Mile, especially when you’re high.

Comments: “Nicely tangy, but too dense.”

“Too bready, but decent exterior.”

Owner Leah Orndoff came from years at Kettleman, and head baker Dave Barile learned his craft on Long Island—but most tasters found its bagels alkaline and a little bland.

Comments: “Love the look, like the bit of sourness.” “Way too alkaline.”

628 NW 23rd Ave., 503-242-0055, kornblattsdelipdx.com.

5221 NE Sandy Blvd, 503-268-2522, bridgetownbagel.com.

7. Spielman Bagels (52)

2314 NW Lovejoy St., 503-208-3083; 2200 NE Broadway, 503-477-9045; 2111 SE Division St., 503-946-8297; spielmanbagels.com.

This was disappointing. Besides being one of the city’s most beloved chains that doesn’t feel like a chain, the sunny Division Street location is so pleasant. Since winning our tasting five years ago, it’s got two new locations and offers fancier things.

But we found the bagels in our tasting a bit dense and bready.

Comments: “Dense, moist, but too bready, very sweet.”

6420 SE Foster Road, 971-271-8613, hhboiledbagels.com.

11. Blackheart Bagels (33)

607-351-2653, blackheartbagels.com.

Blackheart is the one-woman operation of Bethany Venooker, who missed boiled bagels after moving to Portland.

Comments: “Beautiful exterior but no character inside.” “Great chew.”

12. Finicky’s Bagel Cafe (20)

5127 SW Macadam Ave., 503-827-4158.

They also have salad and bubble tea.

Comments: “Tasteless dinner roll.” “This is a dry dinner roll, not a bagel.”

8. Bakehouse Water Bagels (52)

13. New Cascadia Traditional (11)

6141 SW Macadam Ave., 971-302-7968, bwbagels.letseat.at.

1700 SE 6th Ave, 503-546-4901, newcascadiatraditional.com.

Bakehouse actually imports its bagel base from the East Coast. The travel seems to have taken all the taste away.

Comments: “Super-chewy, lots of grain flavor.” “Super-bland.”

Maybe gluten-free bagels shouldn’t exist.

C o m m e n t s : “ We i r d c r u m b c a ke .”

“Blargh!”

9. Eisenhower Bagel House (49)

4350 N Interstate Ave., 503-288-5376, eisenhowerbagelhouse.com.

Last year, the bagel shop created a Kickstarter-like campaign for a new space, and it raised almost $19,000. Arts and culture

14. Broadway Bagels (6)

12731 NE Whitaker Way, 503-241-9232, broadwaybagels.org.

A gluten-free bakery beat out Broadway Bagels. Yikes. Guys, we need to talk.

Comments: “Terrible! Too soft, like bread.” “They look par-frozen.” “Sugarsweet.”

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THE OTHER PLAYERS AND PLACES MOVING PORTLAND’S JAZZ SCENE FORWARD Noah Simpson (trumpet)

Young, energetic and full of cohesive improvisational ideas, Portland State graduate Noah Simpson has been popping up all over town as a sideman in various ensembles, in addition to leading his own quartet.

Coco Columbia (singer)

BRASS TRACKS: The PJCE performing at the Montavilla Jazz Festival.

The Shape of Jazz to Come THE PORTLAND JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE IS FOSTERING THE FUTURE OF JAZZ.

BY M AT T H E W S I N G E R

msinger@wweek.com

So much of the conversation around modern jazz focuses on preservation, as if it were a historic home under threat from a wrecking ball. But the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble doesn’t just want to stave off demolition—it wants to retrofit the foundation with new ideas that’ll allow the house to remain standing for generations.

Spinning off from a group of Portland State jazz students, the collective started as a way for its members to continue playing new material in a big-band setting after graduation. In 2010, the organization applied for nonprofit status and began commissioning works from outside composers—often reaching across genres— for quarterly live performances. Now with a record label, a podcast and a mentorship program under its umbrella, the PJCE has become perhaps the most vital outlet in the city for pushing jazz forward.

With the ensemble’s annual Grasshoppers showcase—featuring debut pieces from young composers, some not yet out of high school— happening this week, Willamette Week spoke to PJCE executive director Douglas Detrick about the organization’s mission, the current state of Portland jazz and its future.

WW: What would you say is the ultimate mission of PJCE? Is it the preservation of jazz, its evolution or a little bit of both?

Douglas Detrick: We’re preserving the practice of the music—the idea of having a large ensemble that performs and is a relevant force in the community is a little bit of an antiquated idea. The trends are toward smaller projects and smaller groups. But the evolution part of that is really important, too. If all we do is preserve the way jazz was done in the 1950s, there’s not much energy there. There might be a small number of people that are interested in that, and there are

for sure. But I don’t think as an organization that there’s much of a future for us doing that. We want to broaden the idea of what’s possible with jazz, and say that we have open arms to the rest of the artistic community and beyond that, too.

If you’re an astrophysicist and you want to make a jazz project, I’d love to hear from you.

You’re helping to develop composers from a young age, as well.

Grasshoppers is our student composer mentorship program. We kind of throw them into the deep end. Normally, we’re working with very experienced composers who’ve written for groups somewhat like this before, because it is challenging and there are so many different details you have to be on top of. We give them as much help as we can, but we’re also ready for them to not be ready. We give them the opportunity for that first failure, so they can have those hard-knock experiences where they say, “I had no idea it would sound like that, I had no idea that wouldn’t work.”

But they’re also going to have some successes where they say, “Wow, that sounded great and I had no idea.” It’s an amazing opportunity to hear such young artists do the biggest projects they’ve ever done at this point in their lives.

Are there models similar to PJCE elsewhere in the country?

It’s not completely unique. There are some other nonprofit record labels and nonprofit ensembles.

But I think the opportunity we have is fairly unique. We have both of those things under one umbrella, as one organization. What I’m hoping for the PJCE, in the future, is that we’re a center point for collaboration across lots of different music genres, with different organizations and other fields, that is building opportunity and community for jazz musicians and composers and students and audiences, and bringing people into jazz who weren’t interested in it before.

So it’s pretty unique in that it’s all those things under one roof, even though we’re using “roof” metaphorically—we don’t have our own space.

That’s something we’d love to have, but we don’t have it right now.

Jazz harmonies blend with various electronic and hip-hop influences in the music of Coco Columbia, a wig-wearing vocalist and composer who has done well to break into the mainstream of Portland’s music scene.

Ezra Weiss (piano)

In terms of a project you would use to introduce someone who thinks they don’t like jazz to what you’re doing, which ones stand out to you?

Our most recent album that came out is called Breath of Fire, and it’s by a piano player and composer named Andrew Durkin. He calls it “a meditation on mortality,” so it’s this really heavy subject matter he’s thinking about, but he also brings this campy, almost silly music and influence into it. He loves Zappa, and he has these almost ’60s rock beats in there, and it’s this funny, kind of joyful look at death and having a bad back.

How do you feel about the state of jazz in Portland at the moment?

It’s a tricky question, because we’re not just a bubble here in Portland. There’s a national trend going on. Jazz audiences are still declining; that’s what the data says. At the same time, more broadly, outside Portland—it’s funny, because Catherine Feeny, when we were talking, she said, “I think jazz is having a moment, that it’s coming back, and a lot of hip-hop recording artists are hiring jazz musicians to be on their records, and there’s a little more interest.” I think I’ve seen that a little bit, but at the same time, it’s hard for us to get people’s attention.

Overall, people think they don’t like jazz.

In Portland, it’s a tricky time. I’ve been talking to a lot of my colleagues who feel it’s at a low point right now. With our organization, we’re most successful when we reach out to other communities and say, “We’d love to help you tell your story.” That can be the Oregon Historical Society, or it could be singer-songwriters, it could architects, it could be scientists, it could be doctors. Those are always ideas we’re working on, and we’re working on more of that for next year.

SEE IT: The Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s Grasshoppers showcase is at the City Hall Atrium, 1221 SW 4th Ave., on Thursday, Feb. 23. Noon. Free. All ages. Also at the Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., on Friday, Feb. 24. 7:30 pm. $15 for students, seniors and PJCE members, $20 general admission. All ages.

Among the finest composers and arrangers living in Portland, Weiss has recently adapted many of his original works for large ensemble, a setting in which his manylayered ideas come together with astounding beauty.

The 1905 (830 N Shaver St.)

This small, musician-run pizza pub mixes performances from the biggest names in Portland jazz with some fresh young faces, taking over Jimmy Mak’s spot as the best place to catch exciting, spur-of-themoment happenings.

The Fremont Theater (2393 NE Fremont St.)

An intimate high-ceilinged concert venue with a beautiful stage, Northeast Portland’s Fremont Theater frequently hosts Portland’s best jazz musicians, including a few exciting Portland Jazz Festival showcases.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

(8 NE Killingsworth St.)

Talented local saxophonist Ian Christensen curates a regular jazz series on Sunday evenings at this warm Northeast Killingsworth Street bar and coffee shop, bringing in an array of music ranging from vocals to free improvisation.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 Los Campesinos, Crying

[TWEECORE] Making cellos and glockenspiels sound punk as fuck is a tall order, but Los Campesinos know no other way. Frontman Gareth David has steered the Welsh collective nimbly between lovesick balladry and post-breakup bangers since the departure of founding member Aleksandra Berditchevskaia in 2011, but the rotating cast of female cohorts has served as an essential he-said, she-said foil to David’s bitter songcraft that’ll purely be in prime form on the forthcoming Sick Scenes.

PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. 21+.

THURSDAY, FEB. 23 Blake Shelton

[POP COUNTRY] Though nowhere near as good or iconoclastic as Eric Church, Blake Shelton is at the forefront of the current pop-country crop. His latest album, If I’m Honest, is loosely themed after both his unsuccessful relationship with Miranda Lambert and his new relationship with Gwen Stefani. Lead single “She’s Got a Way With Words” was the funniest song of 2016, hands down, with lyrics like, “She put the ‘her’ in ‘hurt’/She put a big FU in my future.” I assumed the song was unintentionally hilarious, but after watching Shelton smirk his way through it during an awards show performance, I think the joke might be on me. BLAKE HICKMAN. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St. 7:30 pm. $52.50-$82.50. All ages.

Riff Raff, DJ Afterthought, Dolla Bill Gates, Owey Komplex

[FUCKBOY POLLOI] Eternally dogged by questions of authenticity, Riff Raff remains desperate but not quite serious. Although the former Horst Christian Simco’s first brush with stardom arose via MTV’s From G’s to Gents, he’d already spent years hawking CDs ‘round the North Houston mallscape. While that subsequent celebrity felt dependent upon a wearying succession of cheekily over-the-top YouTube videos, early albums Neon Icon and Peach Panther wed his syrupy stream-ofconsciousness rhyme scheme to surprisingly assured party-starters.

(Let’s ignore last October’s ill-conceived, over-stuffed DJ Afterthought collab Balloween, or rumors of his upcoming country project.) If Riff Raff’s peak cultural relevance came

INTRODUCING C O U R T E S Y O F B A N D C A M P. C O M

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines.

Middle Kids, Haley Heynderickx

[INDIE POP] Already widely known on Australian radio, Middle Kids’ swooning, jangly, feel-good hooks— think Where the Wild Things Are set against the Aurora Borealis—won them the coveted top spot of Sydney radio station FBi’s Northern Lights competition last year, sending them to Iceland to perform alongside more established bands. On their mostplayed song by far, “Edge of Town,” vocalist Hannah Joy’s powerful croon sounds, on occasion, like the rasps of a folk-country singer, while “Fire in Your Eyes,” another song on their forthcoming debut EP, dips into softer pop melodies. MAYA MCOMIE. Fremont Theater, 2393 NE Fremont St., 503-946-1962. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

Palmistry, Dylan Stark

[FUTURE R&B] Palmistry is the stage name of one Benjy Keating, a London musician and producer. The innovative electronic artist embarks on his first American tour in support of Pagan, an absorbing record that sounds like dancehall by a introverted shut-in.

Keating croons quietly atop repeated synth lines, syncopated percussion and slow-jam breakdowns. Palmistry is very much influenced by the rhythmic structures of reggae and Latin pop, but his outsider, bedroom-born perspective provides a creative touch.

MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 503-239-7639. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

The Joy Formidable, Ohmme

[BRITISH POST-PUNK] Fans of heartwrenching Welsh dream-punk stalwart the Joy Formidable are in for a major treat. Swapping their usual heavy rock arrangements, this show will be all-acoustic, highlighting the emotive songwriting that’s often lost in the distortion and drawing out the intimate sweetness that makes this band so special. Sharing as much musical territory with shoegaze as Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Joy Formidable has built a discography of alt-rock largely underappreciated for its studied knowledge and synthesis of post-punk sounds. And, with the exception of a few regrettable tracks on 2016 full-length Sleep Is Day, it’s managed to craft a sound that feels wholly original. With any luck, here, it’ll stick to its discography’s oddly tear-jerking highlights here. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. Sold out. 21+.

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Visible Cloaks WHO: Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile.

SOUNDS LIKE: If T-Pain and Brian Eno recorded an album within the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

FOR FANS OF: Golden Retriever, the Books, Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

To hear the members of Visible Cloaks describe making music together, it sounds more like excitable tweens strategizing a game of Minecraft.

“Our compositional process involves lots of shifting, movable layers and interlocking pieces, or blocks of sound,” says Spencer Doran, half of the experimental electronic duo. “There is a sense of collage that guides the listener through different sonic environments.”

Growing up in Arcata, Calif., Doran and his bandmate, Ryan Carlile, started out collaborating in their hometown’s DIY electronic scene, but didn’t come together as Visible Cloaks until 2009, after both moved to Portland separately. Around the same time, Doran gained attention online for his acclaimed Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo mix series, highlighting traditional Japanese synth composers of the ’80s.

Expectedly, a sense of retro-futurism informs the music of Visible Cloaks. Doran and Carlile mix software and acoustic instruments with the idea of creating a dialogue between past and present musical forms. On new album Reassemblage—recently given a coveted Best New Music tag by Pitchfork—it’s often hard to tell if you’re hearing a synthesizer or vocoder. On the highlight “Neume,” guest Matt Carlson of Golden Retriever harmonizes with the duo, and it could be interpreted as a cyborg Gregorian chant or an intro to a Lil Yachty song. The result is a sound as visual as it is textural— lush, ambient soundscapes reflecting a vision of utopia.

As heady as it all seems, though, Carlile and Doran insist the presentation is not difficult for the average listener to grasp.

“I don’t think our sound is that unusual in the realm of electronic music,” Carlile says. “EDM is far stranger. Our music is actually relaxing.” WYATT SCHAFFNER. SEE IT: Visible Cloaks play Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., with Motion Graphics, Massacooramaan and Women’s Beat League DJs, on Tuesday, Feb. 28. 9 pm. $7 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.

via fueling James Franco’s Spring Breakers impersonation, he deserves similar creative license. A world so hopelessly tongue-in-cheek deserves neither sincerity nor diction. JAY HORTON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. $20. 8 pm. 21+.

FRIDAY, FEB. 24 Heavy Hands, Acracy, Naux

[HARDCORE PUNK] It’s thrilling to hear bands like Condominium and Dawn of Humans dismantle hardcore and do unexpected things with the pieces. But like all folk forms, hardcore punk needs reverent practitioners to keep the old ways alive.

Heavy Hands fall into the latter camp, and the Portland quintet’s 2016 demo is a master class in fast-ashell, tight-as-fuck rage that offers still more evidence that playing catchup with Bad Brains is as fun now as it was in ’81. Tonight’s show benefits Portland Underground Punk Art Zine, which is just about to publish its fourth installment of printed radicalism. CHRIS STAMM. Black Water Bar, 835 NE Broadway, 503-281-0439. 8 pm. $5. All ages.

Temples, Night Beats, Deap Vally, Froth, Jjuujjuu, Door

[EXPERIMENT OR BUST] A preface to the young and growing festival happening later this year in Joshua Tree, the Desert Daze Caravan brings a hefty serving of heady experimental rock to the Crystal, with a bill that includes Deap Vally, Froth and Night Beats. The frosting on the cake is the headliner, English rock quartet Temples, whose new album, Volcano, delivers some of the spaciest and well-orchestrated rock ’n’ roll since the formative days of Tame Impala. Oh, what a time to be alive—when weed is legal and the festival comes straight to you.

MARK STOCK. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047.

8 pm. $25-$30. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.

Chicano Batman, 79.5, SadGirl

[LATIN PSYCH POP] See Get Busy, page 21. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-248-4700. 9 pm. $14. 21+.

SATURDAY, FEB. 25 Muscle Dungeon, Backbiter, the Lightheads, Bothers

Mike Watt & the Missingmen, Toys That Kill

[WORKING-CLASS HERO] No band believed in the dream of punk rock more than the Minutemen, and no one has lived it quite like their bassist, Mike Watt. He, drummer George Hurley and singer-guitarist D. Boon—three self-described “corndogs” playing brief, wiry blasts as indebted to Ornette Coleman and Captain Beefheart as Black Flag—neither looked nor sounded like the other acts in the ‘80s Southern California hardcore scene. Boon’s death in 1985 cut short a brilliant career, but Watt has kept the torch burning ever since, touring relentlessly with gazillions of groups—including the reunited Stooges—while refusing to travel in anything more extravagant than an Econoline van. Tonight, he plays with his long-running trio, the Missingmen, who tap into the sound and spirit of his most famous band, and add covers of Blue Öyster Cult and Wire for the hell of it. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm.

Sold out. 21+.

Balto, Ryan Oxford

[ROOTS ROCK] Miss the old My Morning Jacket? The rootsy, rambling, rambunctious My Morning Jacket? Portland’s Balto has you covered. On the quartet’s upcoming album, Strangers, the band plays riff-driven, organ-scented, harmonious roots-rock straight out of Big Pink—as in the Band, not the Bancorp Tower. It’s familiar as your favorite throw, and just as warm.

The Fixin To, 8218 N Lombard St., 503-477-4995. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

SUNDAY, FEB. 26 Hell No!: Sleater-Kinney, Colin Meloy, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Quasi, Team Dresch, Chanti Darling (DJ set), Summer Cannibals, Máscaras

[RESISTANCE ROCK] See Get Busy, page 21. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047. 6 pm.

Sold out. All ages.

The Octopus Project, Sound of Ceres

[NINTENDOCORE] Toto Miranda, Josh Lambert and Yvonne Lambert make up the quirky Austin trio known as Octopus Project, a band perhaps best-known for their mindbending use of theremin. They’ve been described as “psychedelic pop” because of their trippy visual aesthetic and unique light shows, but their mostly instrumental music is an 8-bit flashback to the days when you blew into Nintendo cartridges to get them to work. Fever Forms, the band’s latest, is popfriendly territory governed by exper-

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JOHNNY GEE

[POWER PUNK] Tonight, we say goodbye to one band while ringing in another. After only about two years since its formation, dreamy punk trio Backbiter is bidding us adieu, but only after giving us one more opportunity to enjoy its brand of fast-paced, melodic punk on stage. As sad as this is, it’s ushering in the arrival of power-pop quartet Muscle Dungeon, which is celebrating a double-tape release. With song titles like “Bong Jovi” and an album called Beef Angel, its dungeon must be just delightful. CERVANTE

POPE. American Legion Hall, 2104 NE Alberta St. 8 pm. $5. All ages.

JAM ECONO: Mike Watt and the Missingmen play Mississippi Studios on Saturday, Feb. 25.

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imental elements that are at once transformative and transcendent.

VANESSA SOZA. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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Meatbodies, Genders

[GARAGE PSYCH] Chad Ubovich, former guitarist for Mikal Cronin, began playing shows in Los Angeles under the name Chad and the Meatbodies in 2012. The project was quickly noticed by Ty Segall, who released the group’s wellreceived debut cassette on his God? label. Meatbodies quickly became serious contenders after signing with garage-punk imprint In the Red in 2014. But the trio’s new album, Alice, is something else entirely—a concept album evoking dark, haunted imagery, and riddled with sludgy guitar riffs and spooky vocals. The result is a weirdly poetic production in which monsters and magic reign supreme. JASON SUSIM. High Water Mark Lounge, 6800 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 503-286-6513. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

MONDAY, FEB. 27 The Radio Dept., Germans

[THE RESISTANCE WILL BE LO-FI] See Get Busy, page 21. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $17. 21+.

Adia Victoria, Amenta Abioto

[SOUTHERN GOTHIC] Don’t call Adia Victoria a Southern belle. Yeah, she’s from South Carolina, but there’s nothing pretty about her murky, gothic brand of punky blues. On her debut, last year’s Beyond the Bloodhounds, Victoria digs into her upbringing with a desire to uncover the “unseen” and the “unspeakable.”

“Dead Eyes,” augmented with haunting echoes, paints a dark picture with lyrical admissions like, “You don’t believe in God/Hey, whiskey will do.” Almost-pop “Mortimer’s Blues” speaks of loneliness, with a soft vulnerability that is delivered with such calm assuredness that it comes across more declarative than frail. -MAYA MCOMIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

Tennis, Hoops

[SPARKLING POP] The married couple behind Tennis, Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, might not be pushing any boundaries when it comes to either music or couplehood, but that doesn’t make what the two create together any less vital. The Denver duo’s acclaimed debut, 2011’s Cape Dory—inspired by a post-college, eight-month stint on the ocean— might be confused for surf rock, but it’s really exists within a more measured and thoughtful echelon of pop, with a retro-’70s tint. That same mix of earnestness and easiness makes up the newest track, “Modern Woman,” on the forthcoming album, Yours Conditionally, which, propelled by Moore’s wispy but robust soprano, explores the vast landscape of fear, tenderness and longing. MAYA MCOMIE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8:30 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

TUESDAY, FEB. 28 Stevie Nicks, the Pretenders

[SIREN SONG] Stevie Nicks released her eighth studio album, 24 Karat Gold, in 2014. Many of her demos from decades earlier were being shared on YouTube, so Nicks knocked out new recordings of 14 nuggets from yesteryear. It’s well-regarded collection of songs, which sounds remarkably timeless and uncorrupted by modern production styles. The rest of the live show is obviously a greatest-hits retrospective, touching on her charmed career of heartbreak.

Nicks ably proves that her throat is still golden. And with the Pretenders opening, that gives her the chance to duet with Chrissie Hynde. NATHAN CARSON. Moda Center, 1 N Center Court St. 7 pm. $49-$445. All ages.

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Larry Crane FRIDAY, FEB. 24 From the moment Larry Crane and Elliott Smith finished building their ramshackle audio production space along a thendeserted inner-Southeast byway, Jackpot Recording Studio has played an invaluable role in shepherding the growth of the Portland music scene.

In the past two decades, Jackpot would welcome just about every notable local artist—Sleater-Kinney, the Gossip, Stephen Malkmus, She & Him, Death Cab for Cutie, the Decemberists— while serving as the home studio away from home for a murderer’s row of touring acts, from R.E.M. to Eddie Vedder. To honor the indie mecca’s 20th anniversary, WW asked Crane for rough liner notes on 20 records plucked from throughout the studio’s storied history. The full version is available at wweek.com. We begin here, though, with arguably the defining Jackpot record. JAY HORTON. The owner of the studio that made Portland music talks about the record that made him.

“Miss Misery,” Elliott Smith (1997) Larry Crane: The song that changes people’s careers. It’s kinda crazy to think about. Working with Elliott was always very easy, because he knew what he wanted, and he could play all the instruments. He’d just say, “Gimme a click,” find the tempo, and boom, start laying down parts. I remember, during “Miss Misery,” he asks for a cassette, walks away, comes back and has me put up the rough instrumental. Then, he just sings a few tracks over it. Done. I made a rough mix and kept listening to it.

I played it once for [Decemberists drummer] John Moen, and he was like, “That sounds so good that it’s depressing. How does he do that?” It had such meticulous writing and arrangement.

It just feels right, you know? And, one day, when I was out running errands, he plays it for Gus [Van Sant].

WW: He just stopped by?

Well, I think there was a specific reason. They’d been using some of the songs from Either/ Or and Roman Candle as temp score tracks for Good Will Hunting. Temp scores are used to set the mood during editing before they have the rights to any music, and, when you put songs in, sometimes you can’t let go. Eventually, you start to feel like there’s nothing else that’s going to be as good, and you have to go to the source.

So, then, it ends up in the movie. And, a song written specifically for a movie can get an Oscar. That’s why every movie over a certain budget has its own song, whether or not it’s a complete lie.

A few times, when I was doing press about Elliott, his manager would look it over and want me to change anything about when Gus had first heard the song. Obviously, “Miss Misery” wasn’t written for a movie, but since it wasn’t on any previous release…

We were hanging out when it was nominated. I went down to L.A. for a week while Elliott was recording XO at Sunset Sound, and we were listening in the car. Like, we went out to the parking lot, got into his car, and listened to the song on the radio.

And, like, we knew, “Oh, shit. It’s going to happen.”

SEE IT: Jackpot Recording Studio’s 20th anniversary celebration is at Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., with the Minders and the Secret Sea, on Friday, Feb. 24. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

DATES HERE

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Portland Jazz Festival presents Groovin’ High: Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie at 100

[TRIBUTE TO THE BEBOP GOD] See Get Busy, page 21.

Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St., No. 110, 503-288-3895. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. $19-$49. All ages.

The Gladiators with Droop Lion, Rising Buffalo Tribe, Buddy Jay’s Jamaican Jazz

[RASPY ROOTS] Advancing through the stylistic shifts Jamaican music underwent during the late ’60s and ’70s found the Gladiators easily adapting to slower tempos. And as years spun on, the crew—originally a vocal trio—contributed to the island’s musical canon with compositions like “Bongo Red” and “Stick a Bush.” As the troupe’s leader Albert Griffths stepped away from touring in 2004, Droop Lion took over vocal duties, bringing a raspier touch to the classic compositions. Re-recording some of those cuts for 2014’s Back on Tracks finds the band in vintage form. DAVE CANTOR. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700. 9 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. $15 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

Portland Jazz Festival: Roy Ayers, Farnell Newton & the Othership Connection

[JAZZ-FUNK] Dubbed “the Godfather of Neo-Soul,” Roy Ayers is one of the most influential musicians of his time. Pioneering the strong, infectious back eat and binary rhythmic groove we call jazz-funk, Ayers continues to play unparalleled jazz for the dancefloor.

ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Revolution

Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503288-3895. 7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. $29-$59. All ages.

Portland Jazz Festival: John Scofield

[GUITAR SLINGER] White-haired guitar virtuoso John Scofield shows his softer side tonight, performing selections from his recent album Country for Old Men, which highlights classic country tunes made famous by everyone from Hank Williams to Shania Twain.

PARKER HALL. Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. #110, 503-2883895. 7:30 and 10 pm Friday, Feb. 24. $29-59. All ages.

Oregon Symphony: Elgar’s Enigma Variations

[UNSOLVED CLASSICAL MYSTERIES] Tonight’s symphony begins with a bang. John Adams’ 1995 piece, Slominsky’s Earbox, cascades and cavorts like something out of Stravinsky, sans strings. Winds, brass and a full percussion section make this joyous, energetic, complex work a groundbreaking piece in Adams’ career. Central to this program is the return of pianist Jeffrey Kahane, who this year serenades us with Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Of course the finale is none other than Elgar’s Enigma Variations, an 1899 symphony coded with mystery (perhaps a hidden melody) that its author claimed was never solved— a secret he took to his grave.

NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, Feb. 25-27. $23-$105. All ages.

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Weyes Blood, Fatal Jamz [INTREPID FOLK] Before she became Weyes Blood, Natalie Mering was a young kid building a worldview according to her Godfearing musician parents. But her father was no ordinary Christian, having dated Joni Mitchell and signed a contract with Elektra during his secular rock-’n’-roll days before settling down and becoming a family man. It seems these apparently opposing sides have each influenced Mering, whose intrepid brand of folk embraces the majesty of angelic hymns and the ’60s folk sensibilities of Nico. Mering chased a career in music all over the country, in between odd jobs and stays in countless cities, including a year in Portland studying at Lewis & Clark College and playing with Jackie-O Motherfucker. By 2011, she was ready to jump-start Weyes Blood, self-releasing The Outside Room. The arc of her two albums since, including last year’s Front Row Seat to Earth, follows an upward curve in confidence and sonic texture, backed by Mering’s bewitching vocals. Currently based in New York, Weyes Blood is not only entering its prime but setting the standards for a certain brand of contemporary ethereal music. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. $12. 21+.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. FEB. 22 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Heather Maloney, Marc Douglas Berardo

Bunk Bar

Classic Pianos

3003 SE Milwaukie Ave, PDX Jazz Festival: Bill Mays

Crystal Ballroom

Dante’s

Dante’s

225 SW Ash St Millstone Grit

350 West Burnside SIN CITY RAMBLERS with The Welfare State and Archangels Thunderbird

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Los Campesinos!, Crying

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street Middle Kids, Haley Heynderickx

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Lucero, Esmé Patterson; Amigo The Devil (lounge)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Palmistry, Dylan Stark

LaurelThirst Public House

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Portland Jazz Festival presents Groovin’ High: Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie at 100

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. The Gladiators with Droop Lion, Rising Buffalo Tribe, Buddy Jay’s Jamaican Jazz

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Sidewalks and Skeletons, Brothel, Resonata, Essex, Force Publique

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Yak Attack

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S. / Long Knife / Andy Place and the Coolheads

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Don Frueh, organist

The Secret Society

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St House of Angels, David Swensen and Joel Swensen

830 E Burnside St. Rubblebucket

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Great American Canyon Band

MON. FEB. 27 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street Susy Sun, Shawn Alan Hurd

1037 SW Broadway Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Ash Street Saloon

Hawthorne Theatre

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

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Overkill

Dante’s

LaurelThirst Public House

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Rakes, Thunder & Revenge, Sarah Gwen

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Weyes Blood, Fatal Jamz

Moda Center

1 N Center Ct St, Blake Shelton

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. The Horsenecks

350 West Burnside Karaoke From Hell

RA RA RIOT: Angel Olsen used to be a cheerleader. The reason she quit, she revealed to the sold-out crowd at Crystal Ballroom on Feb. 17, was because she “had a shitty attitude all the time.” “I was like, ‘I wanna be in a rock-’n’-roll band! I wanna be Gwen Stefani!’” she said, her laugh making clear that she’d had a few backstage.

“So this is what I’m doing now—my Gwen Stefani band.” Throughout the show, Olsen balanced coy stage banter with the piercing, vibrato-laced howls of her singing voice, playing charming, maladjusted oddball and raging, heartsick sex goddess at the same time. The combination was enchanting, and an absolute blast to behold. When Olsen’s band—dressed in matching powder-blue suits, on a stage decorated like a ’50s country prom—kicked into “Shut Up Kiss Me,” the full-tilt guitar-rock love plea that electrifies last year’s acclaimed My Woman with shrieking romance, the audience’s innocent crush on Olsen turned pornographic. “I could take it down to the floor,” she sang, “You don’t have to feel it anymore/A love so real that it can’t be ignored.” The real begging came after the last verse, when she ripped out a pained, growly soprano chorus of ohs. Olsen’s voice is more than beautiful, bending and snarling and opening and closing to be present with each phrase’s feeling and cadence. And hearing it in person is so much more than pleasant—it pierces and makes you think, Ouch. ISABEL ZACHARIAS.

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 Roy Ayers:, Farnell Newton & The Othership Connection

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Riff Raff, DJ Afterthought, Dolla Bill Gates, Owey Komplex

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Jon Wayne And The Pain; Dyami ; Pacific Dub

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Asher Fulero ‘SuperBand’

The Liquor Store

Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis and Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Paul Roberts

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave The Irish Rovers, We Banjo 3

Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Tommy Castro and the Painkillers

American Legion Hall

116 NE Russell St The Show Ponies, Wesley Randolph Eader

3341 SE Belmont St, White Alps debut show with Motrik

Twilight Cafe and Bar

The Lovecraft Bar

Ash Street Saloon

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Consumer, Volcanic Pinnacles, The Social Stomach, ABSV, DJ Sharon

421 SE Grand Ave Undines

The Old Church

Black Water Bar

The Secret Society

Crystal Ballroom

836 N Russell St Blake Morgan and Janita

Wonder Ballroom

Twilight Cafe and Bar

White Eagle Saloon

128 NE Russell St. Dawes

THURS. FEB. 23 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Hot Tuna

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Millennial Falcon

225 SW Ash St Panzergod, Brume, Menin, Curtains

1422 SW 11th Ave PDX Jazz presents Craig Taborn Quartet: Keyboard Misterioso 116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring Doug & Dee’s Hot Lovin’ Jazz Babies, Stumptown Swing 1420 SE Powell The Dark Backwards, Bitter Buddha, Farm Animals

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Spare Spells, The Great Sadness, Spirit in the Room

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Mic Check

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Radio Dept., Germans

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Dope, Combichrist

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Adia Victoria, Amenta Abioto

Portland Center Stage 128 NW 11th Ave. Gospel Night with Mt. Olivet Baptist Church

The Analog Cafe

FRI. FEB. 24

2104 NE Alberta The Lavender Flu, Dubais, Patsy’s Rats, Soaked, Mope Grooves

1420 SE Powell Western Settings, Caskitt, Problem Daughter, Question Tuesday

Rontoms

1422 SW 11th Ave Emmet Cahill’s Ireland: Celtic Songs & Tales; The Ensemble of Oregon presents In Vino Vertias

Doug Fir Lounge

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Trap Set II and Revival Drum Shop 8th Anniversary

The Old Church

350 West Burnside The Variants, Rotties, The Wilder

2958 NE Glisan St Love Gigantic; Big E and the Stomp

Mississippi Studios

600 E Burnside St Devy Metal, Fire Nuns

1332 W Burnside St William Singe

2958 NE Glisan St Blue Lotus, Dusty Green Bones; Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Joy Formidable, Ohmme

LAST WEEK LIVE

1028 SE Water Ave. Earth World , DAN DAN, Glasys

Ash Street Saloon

[FEB. 22-28]

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= WW Pick.

Highly recommended.

Editor: Matthew Singer. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/ submitevents. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings.

Email: music@wweek.com.

835 NE Broadway Heavy Hands, Acracy, Naux 1332 W Burnside St Temples, Night Beats, Deap Vally, Froth, JJUUJJUU, Door

Dante’s

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street PDX Jazz Festival: Aaron Parks Trio

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Born Of Osiris

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Lynn Conover & Little Sue; Counterfeit Cash

Lombard Pub

3416 N Lombard St The Misery Men, Skulldozer, Urchin, Furnace

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Miya Folick; Rust Never Sleeps: A Neil Young Tribute

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

Ponderosa Lounge

10350 N Vancouver Way, Carrie Cunningham

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 John Scofield

Star Theater

350 West Burnside A Rockabilly Riot with Legendary Shack Shakers, The Brains, & The Delta

13 NW 6th Ave. Chicano Batman, 79.5, SadGirl

Doug Fir Lounge

The Analog Cafe

830 E Burnside St. Tash Sultana

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Vanladylove

Duff’s Garage

The Firkin Tavern

2530 NE 82nd Ave Stumptown Stompers; Joseph Demaree and the Square Tires, The Craftsmen

1937 SE 11th Ave Mutineers, Afterlife Revival, Tourist Union

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave

Portand Jazz Composers Ensemble with the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Jackpot! Recording Studio 20th Anniversary Celebration feat. The Minders, The Secret Sea; Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell The Latter Day Skanks, Burn Burn Burn, Secnd Best

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Shelby Lanterman, Karyn Ann and Shelley Segal; JT Wise Band

SAT. FEB. 25 American Legion Hall

2104 NE Alberta Muscle Dungeon, Backbiter, the Lightheads, Bothers

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Rishloo, This Patch of Sky, Cambrian Explosion, Orchards

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Dead Winter Carpenters, Scott Law & Ross James’ Cosmic Twang

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Kris DeLane

Fremont Theater

2393 NE Fremont Street John Santos & Alex Conde ft Bobby Torres

Grace Love, The Get Ahead, Jessie Davis; The Ukeladies

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Just Marbin, Joytribe

Wonder Ballroom

Twilight Cafe and Bar

Hawthorne Theatre

1420 SE Powell Schadenfreuders, SpeedWitch, Stumblebum, Here’s Your Warning

128 NE Russell St. Tennis, Hoops

LaurelThirst Public House

White Eagle Saloon

Ash Street Saloon

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Mission Rock 6.66

2958 NE Glisan St Denim Wedding, The Colin Trio; Tenbrook (all ages); The Yellers

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Christopher Worth, Moorea Masa, Papa Bear; The American Coots

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mike Watt, Toys That Kill

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 It’s Monk’s Time: John Beasley’s MONK’estra & T.S. Monk Sextet

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Kevin Abstract

The Fixin’ To

8218 N. Lombard St Balto, Ryan Oxford

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Goodfoot 16 Year Anniversary w/ The Quick and Easy Boys

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave The Great Sadness, Spirit in the Room

The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Greg Lief

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St

836 N Russell St Black Sheep Black, AntiHibernation

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Hippo Campus

SUN. FEB. 26 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St My Proper Skin and Dirtybird

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St HELL NO!

Dante’s

350 West Burnside On A March In The Snow

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Octopus Project, Sound of Ceres

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Yonas

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Meatbodies, Genders

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Pagan Jug Band (all ages); Freak Mountain Ramblers

TUES. FEB. 28 225 SW Ash St Barret C. Stolte, Camille Rose, Nick Roberts, Amy Bleu, Jaron Yancey and more...

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Wei Zhongle, Teton, Don Gero, Brumes

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Tango Alpha Tango, Astro Tan

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Norman Sylvester

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Visible Cloaks, Motion Graphics, Massacooramaan

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave All the Apparatus; Rats Gone to Rest

Moda Center

1 N Center Ct St, Stevie Nicks, the Pretenders

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Savage Family Band, Danny Dodge & The Dodge Gang, The Needs

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Wonderly, Taylor John Williams, Rachel Taylor Brown

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MUSIC courtESy oF SkNNy MrcLS

NEEDLE EXCHANGE

Sknny Mrcls

Years DJing: 17 years playing out, another five in the basement at first.

Genre: Soul, funk, jazzy beats, reggae, hip-hop, bass music and all other good-feeling tunes from the past, present and future.

Where you can catch me regularly: I play at Swift Lounge once a week. It’s been my home base for some time now: first and fourth Saturdays, second and third Thursdays.

Craziest gig: I was asked to cover a DJ gig for a buddy, which was a roller derby after-party. I got there and was told by the person behind the bar to set up in another room. It seemed a little strange because there were model walkways all around and [it was] a little removed from the bar area. Just minutes after I dropped the needle on the first record, I looked up and saw four real tan dudes wearing just bikinis staring at me and telling me I better play good house music that they could dance to. Within 10 minutes, I realized that this after-party venue was also a split room with a male strip club. I tried to make the best of it and play some sexy songs for them, but the dancers and manager continued to come up upset at me because I was not playing fast-enough music. Within 20 minutes of playing and getting everyone upset at me, I was cut a check and I pulled my records and packed up.

My go-to records: I always keep one or two Roy Ayers records in my crates. DJ Vadim is usually in there as well. And a good 12-inch of Leon Haywood’s “I Want’a Do Something Freaky to You.” Don’t ever ask me to play…: Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy.” It’s a great song, of course, but if I had a nickel for every time I’ve been asked that…

NEXT GIG: Sknny Mrcls spins at Swift Lounge, 1932 NE Broadway, on Saturday, Feb. 25.

Black Book

20 NW 3rd Ave The Cave (rap)

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack

WED. FEB. 22 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Logical Aggression (dark electro)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Punk Night

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon (darkwave, industrial)

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

THURS. FEB. 23 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Golden Features

Century Bar

930 SE Sandy Blvd.

Return of the Mac (r&b)

Double Barrel Tavern 2002 SE Division St.

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DJ Montel Spinozza

Dig A Pony

Killingsworth Dynasty

736 SE Grand Ave. Cooky Parker (music for dancing)

Mad Hanna

Gold Dust Meridian

832 N Killingsworth St Zero Wave presents 6129 NE Fremont St DJ Brownbag (blues, r&b, hiphop)

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Benjamin (international disco, synth, modern dad)

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The Deep: Bass

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

FRI. FEB. 24 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave Sasha

3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

DJ Bad Wizard

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ ROCKIT - The Excellence of Traxicution

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. SNAP! 90s Dance Party

Jade Club

315 SE 3rd Ave The Take Over (dance, house, hiphop)

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Twerk

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Monkeytek & Friends (records from the Jamaican regions of outer space)

Where to drink this week.

1.

Tin Bucket

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BAR REVIEW

3520 N Williams Ave., 503-477-7689, beercheesesouppdx.wix. com/tinbucketpdx. tin Bucket, quietly, has turned its tap list into one of the most exciting in town—if not the best. stop in now for Block 15’s Juice Joint—an experiment in hop extracts.

2.

No Bones Beach Club

3928 N Mississippi Ave., nobonesbeachclub.com. the world’s second vegan tiki bar turns out to be delightful. skip the mai tai for the piña colada, and get the Buffalo-sauced cauliflower “wings” that best most of this city’s sad set of Buffalo bones.

3.

Bota Bar

606 NE Davis St., 971-229-1287, botabar.com. ever so softly since the snow fell, Bota Bar is already a great—if hidden—addition to a ’hood dominated by much louder bars, with beautiful wine, obscure beer and tapas that come with drinks as a surprise.

4.

Cart Lab

1831 SW River Drive, 503-477-5577, cartlabpdx.com. amid myriad upscale food courts, Riverplace’s Cart lab combines Koi Fusion, pleasantly spicy Korean fried chicken from Fomo and full-sized PDX sliders into a blue-collar sports bar.

5.

Parasol Bar

215 SE 9th Ave., 503-239-8830, parasolbar.com.

Parasol has felt abandoned since not being Biwa—but slowly it’s figuring itself out. Beats and karaoke at Biwa? how strange.

Sanchez Cantina

10075 SW Barbur Blvd #7 Salsa and Bachata Night

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Get Down

The Goodfoot

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

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Flight - Le Femme Fatale (house, techno, acid)

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Club Kai Kai (queer & drag night)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave City Hearts Portland (house, techno)

SAT. FEB. 25 45 East

BEER NEAR AND DEAR: Blond-wood, low-light gastropub Grain & Gristle (1473 NE Prescott St., 503-288-4740, grainandgristle.com) began in 2011 with a preposterous premise—that a food-happy bar co-owned by Upright brewer Alex Ganum should have regular, everyday, boring beers that mostly didn’t come from his own brewery. Look, I like going to that little cash-only Upright brewery basement on game day as much as anybody, but think: For nearly six years, we were denied the pleasure of sitting down to one of the best burgers in town while drinking Portland’s finest Pilsner or cherry lambic. Well, thank God, our long and yeasty nightmare is over.

With the addition of a six-deep selection of mostly seasonal Upright taps in December, and a food menu honed to meaty essence, Grain & Gristle is now perhaps the greatest beer taproom in all of Portland. For $15—the price of a burger with bacon at Burnside Brewing—you can get a full plate of braised lamb with fennel and tomato-kale ragu. Each day, one rotating meal for two charts in at $25—including two 12-ounce beers. The meat comes from sister butchery Old Salt. The multitude of small-batch bottles comes from Upright. And that Hereford-beef burger? Dear Lord, it is a revelation in simplicity. Just $10 at happy hour and softly pink in the dim light, that patty is more flavorful than beef has any right to be. But more importantly, you can now eat that burger with a bottle of Upright’s Fantasia, a world of skin-on, pit-in liquid peach. When summer comes, this is the patio you’ll find us on—happy, dumb and drunk. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. DJ Ronin Roc

1932 NE Broadway St Leftside Lean (funk, soul, beats)

Dig A Pony

The Analog Cafe

722 E Burnside St. Blowpony

736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outty (floor fillers)

Eastburn

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

3341 SE Belmont St, Disco Super Night

Killingsworth Dynasty

Tryst

832 N Killingsworth St Dynasty a Go-Go! w/ DJ Drew Groove

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Lamar Leroy (jams of all types)

Roseland Theater

Bit House Saloon

Sandy Hut

20 NW 3rd Ave

The Liquor Store

The Lovecraft Bar

1001 SE Morrison St. Main Squeeze Dance Party (house, disco, techno)

8 NW 6th Ave Bass Cube: Ghastly, Cesqeaux, Fransis Derelle

Black Book

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

ANDAZ Bhangra Bollywood Dance Party

Holocene

315 SE 3rd Ave Dr. Fresch 727 SE Grand Ave 11: Body Service (house, r&b, hiphop)

Swift Lounge

Bossanova Ballroom

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Sean from Pork Magazine

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St Zu (electronic)

421 SE Grand Ave Electronomicon (goth, industrial, darkwave) 19 SW 2nd Ave, The Wiggle Room (exotica, popcorn)

Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Ben Nicky, Tim Clang (Timmie), DJ.ZOXY

SUN. FEB. 26 The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Softcore Mutations w/ DJ Acid Rick & Lady Evil (hunkwave, leotardcore, spite rock)

MON. FEB. 27 Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Reaganomix: DJ Robert Ham

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Black Mass (goth, new wave) Combichrist after-party w/ DJ Joe Letz

TUES. FEB. 28 Crush Bar

1400 SE Morrison Mardi Gras Pants OFF Dance OFF

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Party Damage with Skull and Bones

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Wrestlerock

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

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesdays w/ DJ Jack

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PERFORMANCE = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

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Editor: SHANNON GORMLEY (sgormley@wweek.com).

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THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS The Forfeit

For their Brown Paper Bag series, Triangle Productions have been staging readings of early 20th-century anti-lynching plays. Many of the plays featured in the series have been by women playwrights who are lesserknown, despite the progressiveness of their scripts. That includes the next one-act in the series, The Forfeit

by Corrie Crandall Howell, which is about a white family who blames a black man for a crime he did not commit. SHANNON GORMLEY. The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., trianglepro.org.

7 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. $5.

Matilda the Musical

Matilda the movie may have shaped the quirky cultural sensibilities of millennials in their middle- school years, but until last year, only those who were able to to make it to London or New York could catch Matilda on stage. But now, Matilda the Musical is coming to Portland. Along with the wave of fanfare it rouses every time it’s staged, the musical, based on Roald Dahl’s book about a resilient, super-genius 5-year-old girl who loves books, has won more Olivier Awards than any other show. SHANNON GORMLEY. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., portland5.com. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm Saturday, 1 and 6:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 28-March 5. $35-$110.

Mystery Ten Minute Play Festival

Monkey With a Hat On is one of the city’s most frequent producers of mini-play festivals. Lately, the themes for their festivals have all been colors (the last one was simply “blue”). But this time, the theme is more concrete—mystery—yet the topics are still vast: pick-up artists, detectives, amnesiacs and a child TV star who’s also a kidnapper.SHANNON GORMLEY. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., cstpdx.com. 7 pm FridaySaturday, Feb. 24-March 4. $5.

ALSO PLAYING Marjorie Prime

This Pulitzer-nominated play juxtaposes the failing memory of grieving humans against the imperfection of digital data storage. Vana O’Brien plays both the titular AI, Marjorie Prime, and her predecessor—an 85-year-old woman prescribed a holographic husband, Walter Prime (Chris Harder) in order to minimize her memory loss. Her damaged daughter, Tess (Linda Alper) plays the most human character, believably rendering the dysfunction of her broken life. Despite several tragedies, humor runs throughout. Small reminders that the story is set later in the century garner well-deserved laughs; when Marjorie mentions ZZ Top, husband Jon (Michael Mendelson) wonders what that might be—maybe a band?

Eventually, more sparkling “Prime” characters are introduced, providing excellent foils for the sometimes too-robotic humans. Likewise, the AIs become more human as their knowledge grows. Ultimately the simulacrums’ recollection of history is only as perfect as the stories they were told in the first place. NATHAN CARSON. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org.

7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday, 2 pm Sunday, through March 5. Additional

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On The Edge

Considering Defunkt is one of Portland’s most progressive theaters, it’s a little surprising that one of the next plays they’re producing is from 1916. But their double bill of one-act plays serves as a sort of history lesson in radical social politics in theater.

Trifles, Susan Glaspell’s early 20th century play, is a murder mystery with an anti-patriarchy twist that was radical for its time. Radical too was Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play, Dutchman, about a manipulative white woman who meets a black man named Clay on a the New York subway. SHANNON GORMLEY. Defunkt Theatre, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., defunktheatre. com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-March 18. No show Sunday, Feb. 26. $15-$20.

Pep Talk

Two years ago, the experimental Hand2Mouth Theatre gathered their audience in a community center gymnasium. Wearing brightly colored windbreakers and whistles on lanyards, the ensemble posed as the interactive show’s amped-up coaches and gave grandstanding speeches on the art of pep talks and prompted audience members to play foosball on stage. At the time, it was a meandering half-parody, half-genuine look at the culture of motivation. But Hand2Mouth’s productions are constantly evolving, and in those two years since it’s last had a long run in Portland, Pep Talk has been on the road. For their return, they promise a more refined show honed through those years of touring. SHANNON GORMLEY. Coho Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 23-26. $20-$30.

pen/man/ship

Portland Playhouse’s set for pen/ man/ship is almost surreal: A sail is looped from the ceiling over a desk and chairs sit in a sunken, shallow pool of water surrounded by heavy wood flooring. Written by contemporary playwright Christina Anderson, pen/man/ship is set in 1896 aboard a ship bound for Liberia for a reason expedition leader Charles Boyd (Adrian Roberts) keeps secret for most of the play. His son (DeLance Minefee) has snuck on board a stowaway, Ruby (Andrea Whittle), who’s escaping from the horrors of the Jim Crow South. Ruby is the only woman on the ship, and she’s a fiercely intellectual atheist who constantly comes into conflict with the religious and elitist Boyd. Ruby’s presence, along with the fact that the all-black crew and captain are sailing from Plessy v.

Ferguson America, provides a set-up for racial and ideological debates delivered through formal, turn-ofthe-century-style dialogue. But it’s far from dry: The second act is action-packed, and it’s a witty script that features a mysterious, unraveling plot driven by some intense performances, particularly Whittle’s and Roberts’. SHANNON GORMLEY. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., portlandplayhouse.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, through March 5. $19-$34.

We’re All Mad Here

We’re All Mad Here takes you down the rabbit hole, Alice in Wonderlandstyle. Creators Samantha Van Der Merwe and Matthew Kerrigan employ

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PRINCE CHARMING: Peter Franc and Xuan Cheng.

REVIEW

Real Love

OREGON BALLET THEATRE WANTS TO MAKE SWAN LAKE RELATABLE.

BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

Portland is not a city of traditionalists, which puts classically oriented companies like Oregon Ballet Theatre in a weird position. Even though they’re not beholden to purists and their audience’s taste runs toward the contemporary, most people still want their Swan Lake to seem familiar.

With its production of Swan Lake, OBT hopes to satisfy both contemporary and traditional inclinations by changing up the narrative of the classic ballet. It’s still about Prince Siegfried (Peter Franc) who falls in love with Odette (Xuan Cheng), a women under a spell that turns her into a swan during the day. But in an attempt to create a more realistic and relatable story, OBT cut out the part of the evil sorcerer, von Rothbart, and focused the plot on Siegfried instead of Odette.

However, much of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s choreography remains, and it certainly has the appearance of a traditional ballet: The bigbudget sets include an elaborate great hall and a forest at dusk. The multitude of costumes include medieval dresses with skirts that balloon when the dancers twirl, and the iconic stiff white tutus worn by the swans.

But the production’s strongest moments are when the company does depart from the original choreography. At the ball, where Siegfried must find someone to marry, an ensemble character that would normally be a jester becomes the prince’s wingman. The ball’s foreign visitors provide an opportunity for an array of traditional Russianand Spanish-inspired costumes, and some of the production’s most virtuosic choreography: When an impostor of Odette shows up, she and Siegfried

take turns leaping around the stage and performing endless twirls.

The scene provides an opportunity for humor, too. Two sisters (Emily Parker and Makino Hildestad) trying to win the prince’s attention fight each other and fall over, while their helicopter mom tries to instruct them from the background.

Every time a woman tries to introduce herself, the uninterested and somewhat rude Siegfried gestures to his wingman in exasperation. It gives Siegfried a trait uncommon in the pristine realm of emotions traditionally displayed in ballet: angst.

One kind of wishes that emotional range would come through in the scenes with Odette and Siegfried, though. When they first meet near the lake—the ballet’s most iconic scene—the choreography is practically untouched. Featuring slow, impeccable dips, the technical mastery of Odette’s performance is the focus. It is supremely beautiful, but it’s so delicate that it’s hard to find the burgeoning love between the prince and the Swan Queen relatable. Love is typically depicted in ballets as Petrarchan and sterile, which is something OBT’s Swan Lake doesn’t really challenge.

Considering how well the changes to other parts of the ballet go over, it feels like a missed opportunity. The decision to modify a staple of the classical canon is admirable, but the company’s ambitions don’t seem fully realized. OBT’s adjustments succeed in giving Siegfried a modern appeal, but the company doesn’t seem up for the risk of altering the ballet in a way that would really require a questioning of convention.

SEE IT: Swan Lake plays at Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., obt.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday and 2 pm Saturday, through Feb. 25. $29-$146.

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Alice as their leading muse for this experimental show where Kerrigan plays a multitude of characters, including the Mad Hatter. The show is full of surprises: an interpretative dance routine involving juggling stacked pastel plates, a schizophrenic dialogue that acts as an ode to the formidable years of one’s repressed sexuality, and a curtain that doubles as an evening gown. Mad is an interactive fairy tale for adults, or perhaps an existential one-man circus. JACK RUSHALL. Shaking the Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St., shaking-the-tree. com. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 23-25. $10-$25.

DANCE CCN-Ballet de Lorraine

If you’re looking for proof of the benefits of European governments’ funding of fine arts, look no further than France’s CCN. A network of 19 ballet troupes, the governmentfunded organization was founded as an incubator for creative, contemporary choreography. In its visit to Portland, the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine will present three pieces that mix traditional leaps and twirls with odd, unconventional movements that are set to sometimes jarring music by minimalist and post-contemporary composers. It’s thoroughly inventive choreography that doesn’t sacrifice traditional values like cleanliness and precision. SHANNON GORMLEY. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave., whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22. $26-$70.

COMEDY Alternative Acts

Longtime favorite of the local standup scene Bri Pruett may be leaving for L.A. next month, but she’s not coasting her way to the finish line. She just finished up a month-long residency of her touching part-standup, part-storytelling show Stellar, and now she’s cohosting a showcase spread over three weeks with fellow Earthquake Hurricane host Katie Nguyen. For Alternative Acts, the two standup comedians put together three different lineups over three different days that feature standup as well as improv, storytelling and sketch comedy. SHANNON GORMLEY. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., funhouselounge.com. 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 23. $10 advance, $15 at the door.

Aparna Nancherla

Last year, Inside Amy Schumer and Conan writer Aparna Nancherla’s career rose to prominence with the release of her first comedy album and an extensive tour. Her material’s focus on mental health (Nancherla deals with anxiety and depression) has made an easy angle for the media, which has boxed her in as the comedian who makes people laugh about sad things. Although Nancherla’s candid attitude toward mental health is an endearing part of her material, it’s not what most distinguishes her from her peers.

Instead, it’s her super-dry, almost meek delivery, and her absurdist take on the usual sad, single-person jokes—such as ending bits about a houseplant being her boyfriend with intentional fumbles like, “that was a joke, I’ll probably do more of those.” SHANNON GORMLEY. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., mississippistudios. com. 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28. $16.50 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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BRINGIN’ SEXY BACK: Kate Farrar and Ryan Thorn.

Old Flame

Portland Opera’s Songs of Love and War is a lot like your average Saturday night when those new Tinder matches never roll in: full of lust, love, rejection and pain.

Songs of Love and War draws upon books 7 to 9 of 17thcentury Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi’s madrigals, touching upon the inflammatory tenderness summoned by both romance and heartbreak. The madrigals featured in the show are not ordered into a story arc, so the performers often express stimulation and melancholia in repetitive strides.

Thanks to the semi-recent baroque-pop fad, the music, which is played live, almost feels contemporary. Aesthetically, the production is like a living painting, complete with six pasty soprano, bass, tenor and baritone soloists decked out in silk bathrobes. There are three female and three male soloists, and their characters’ group objective is simple: They must seduce everybody in the room.

To do this, they largely rely on gender norms. The men wear robes that reveal hairy, masculine chests, while the women resemble powdered, radiant sirens, often perched over their stage—basically a California king bed—reeling in their male counterparts with seductive wails. Soloists Kate Farrar and Lindsay Ohse pick on men in the audience by sitting next to them in order to serenade them into the spirit.

Ryan Thorn, one of the male soloists, charms the audience by sustaining a playful smile as he jumps around the stage, occasionally tugging a blanket over himself after belting a provocative baritone.

Sometimes, it feels like you’re watching wild animals attempting to court one another. But then the humanity kicks in, and you see the sting of rejection reflected through the actors as they separate and pout. The chemistry is palpable, and after a while, you’ll begin to fondly recollect your most recent Netflix and chill, or maybe a recent breakup as cuffing season comes to an end.

It’s that chemistry that bridges the centurieslong gap and makes Songs of Love and War feel so accessible. Monteverdi might have been composing love songs 400 years ago, but they’re still painfully relatable and alluring. JACK RUSHALL. Music from 1638 is still sexy.

SEE IT: Songs of Love and War plays at Hampton Opera Center, 211 SE Caruthers St., portlandopera.org. 7:30 Thursday and Saturday, Feb. 23 and 25. $65.

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VISUAL ARTS FEATURE

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Youniverse

Tad Savinar’s 2-D, minimal-to-thepoint-of-being-sterile, predominantly text-based pieces belie the humanity that pours from them when you take a moment to look. An entire page of uninviting black text on charcoal grey paper reveals an autobiographical story of what happened to the artist when he found himself, on a terrible day, in the loving embrace of a Hispanic lesbian karaoke bar. Another large-scale piece is almost entirely blank but for a Yahoo! search bar at the bottom that reads, “how can i turn my business into a private club so i don’t have to serve spics, jews, fags, ragheads, nig…” before it is cut off. This retrospective of Savinar’s work also includes paintings and sculptures, proving that the artist is capable of infusing a lot of different media with tenderness, biting social commentary and humor. Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 503-768-7687.

Through March 5.

Torrent Tea: Queer Space and Photographic Futures

Guest curator Ashley Stull Meyers has put together a group exhibition that celebrates blackness and queerness. Blackand-white candid photographs by Texas Isaiah document a revelatory dance party, while across the gallery, a series of elaborately staged portraits by Devin N. Morris use saturated color to present a stark look into the lives of its subjects.

Much has been said about the female vs. the male gaze, but this show gives us potent examples of the queer gaze and the sense of creative agency that comes when artists represent themselves and their communities. This is the first time that any of the photographs have existed as prints, having all lived previously online in chosen corridors of the digital realm. Something about seeing them as physical objects feels strong, present and empowered. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 503-963-1935. Through Feb. 25.

Mother

Roxanne Jackson’s and Julia Oldham’s two-person exhibition, centering on the duality of female power, is heavy with humor, horror and kitsch. Jackson’s ceramic she-beasts have iridescent horns and golden fangs, all the better to eat you with after getting back from the mall. In Oldham’s video, “The Birdmaker,” a benevolent witch stirs her blood into a cauldron until a murder of crows flies out. Oldham’s 2-D “beastiary”—a series of Gorey-esque drawings of zombie brides and adorably murderous animals—rounds out the show. In all of its glorious, grotesque glory, Mother reminds us that any creature who is able to give life also has the power to end it. The Art Gym, 17600 Pacific Highway, 503-699-6243. Through March 18.

Constructing Identity

This exhibition consists of 100 works

by African American artists, offering a nuanced exploration of identity and selfrepresentation. The museum has done something interesting by categorizing the works—which range from paintings to conceptual sculpture to textiles—into six categories: abstraction, gender, community, faces, spirit and the land. By doing so, we get a sense of the different scaffolds around which communities construct their identity and on which individuals hang their sense of isolation or belonging. Because artists of color are notoriously underrepresented and their work is largely left out of the art canon, it is a rare and overwhelmingly wonderful experience to stand in a museum gallery surrounded by voices we so rarely get to hear. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811. Through June 18.

Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. All Day.

Self Destruct Mode

This two-person show takes place in what is perhaps my new favorite exhibition space in town. Actually, it’s a semiindustrial studio shared by multiple

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By JENNIFER RABIN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: jrabin@wweek.com.

artists that smells deliciously of paint and leather and doubles as an exhibition space. One of the artists there, Bobbi Woods, curates the shows, and this month she has chosen to feature the work of heavy-lifters Heidi Schwegler and Christopher Russell. Schwegler’s conceptual sculptures speak to the disuse of found objects, so don’t be surprised to see a twig resting inside the bristles of a hairbrush, or a ceramic cat figurine face-planting into an old Stride Rite sneaker. Russell, the creator of the zine Bedwetter, who now shows at the Getty, makes abstract photographic prints into which he scratches intricate patterns and paints with semen. Strange and wonderful, all. Private Places, 2400 NE Holladay St., privateplaces.us. Through Feb 25.

Adrift

Photographer Magda Biernat documents the realities of climate change by pairing images of the melting ice caps in Antarctica with images of hunting lodges in the Arctic that have been abandoned, due to the dying off or the changing migration patterns of the game there.

The photographs of the ice caps practically glow from the fugitive blue ache inside them. In contrast, the photographs of the snow-covered lodges in the bleak Alaskan landscape appear to be blackand-white, even though they are full color. The sloped roof lines of the ramshackle lodges mimic the jagged forms of the ice caps rising from the water.

Looking at them side by side, you realize that man is responsible for the soon-tobe irrelevant construction of one, and the near-total destruction of the other. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-2250210. Through Feb. 26.

Something Light

It is rare that I will write up a single piece in a show, at the exclusion of all the other work, but Hap Tivey’s large-scale light installation is worthy of this entire listing.

When you walk into the back gallery at Elizabeth Leach, a color field washes over you, filling you with an unearthly calm. It emanates from a plain wood box, hollowed out at its center to create a luminescent cylinder framed by gold leaf.

As you move around it, inspecting it from different angles, you see Venn diagrams, crescent moons, and glowing orbs. The light field changes color in a series of smooth transitions and fast pulses, and you needn’t understand any of it to feel it transport you. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 503-224-0521. Through March 11.

We the People

Wieden+Kennedy is harnessing the power of a social movement and doing a lot of good in the process. The ad agency has invited members of the public to bring in their protest signs and protest art to be displayed in its front gallery. For every sign donated, $10 will be given to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. As of First Thursday, the gallery was filled floor-to-ceiling with messages like “Jews Against Islamophobia,” “Nazi Politics Fuck Off,” “We Will Rise + Unify,” “The Future is Female,” and “Pussy is God.” Wieden+Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Ave., 503-937-7000. Through March 31.

Text Means Tissue

Artist Francesca Capone makes woven wall-hung pieces that jump rope between 2-D and 3-D. Many of them feature a densely woven background with a contrasting material—like mylar or shoestring—zigzagged through the surface, making endless U-turns from the top of the composition to the bottom. Some threads are continuous, like long, meandering thoughts, while others stop and start like interrupted memories. Adding further depth and beauty to the exhibition is an artist’s book that Capone made exploring the intersection of textiles, language and femininity. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., 503-477-9786. Through Feb. 26.

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EXPOSE YOURSELF TO ART: A 1979 poster featured future Portland Mayor Bud Clark.

Get to the Gallery

INTRODUCING ART PASSPORT PDX, AN EXCUSE TO GO GALLERY-HOPPING WITH A CHANCE TO WIN A $1,600 CREDIT TO BUY ART.

BY JEN N IFER R A B IN

jrabin@wweek.com

Art in Portland is in trouble.

Last year, we lost nine galleries—including the gloriously experimental Hap Gallery, Duplex, Carl & Sloan, and Mark Woolley Gallery, which had been around since the early ’90s. We also said goodbye to the Museum of Contemporary Craft, which was the oldest craft institution on the West Coast, founded in 1937.

Part of the reason these institutions have closed without much uproar, or even notice, is because many of us have come to think of art as a luxury or an indulgence—something inessential that doesn’t pertain to our lives. It’s not a common value that we hold as a city, so we’re not collectively invested. The reality of our apathy hit home when a gallery owner, who hadn’t had any visitors to the gallery in days, once said to me, “I don’t even care if I sell anything, I just want someone to come in and care about the art.”

The lack of engagement in Portland’s art institutions, combined with impossibly high rents and massive gentrification, means that the creative class is being driven out. Artists are leaving. Galleries are shuttering after decades. Once the artists and galleries have gone, is this a place you’ll want to live?

We take for granted that our cultural institutions will always be there, should we ever decide to take advantage of them. But that’s not the case.

If we don’t take an interest in the arts, they’ll wither and disappear.

So, we’re trying a new experiment: Art Passport PDX. Saying, “Hey everybody, go out and visit the galleries!” sounds simple, but that’s not something everyone feels comfortable doing. We can’t ignore the reality that a lot of people feel intimidated or unwelcomed by the art world, that people are uncomfortable going into a gallery because they think they don’t know enough about art to be able to ask the right questions. Or they think there’s no point, since they don’t have enough money to buy anything.

With Art Passport PDX, I’m hoping to break down some of these obstacles.

I’ve handpicked eight galleries for you to visit.

You pick up a free passport book at the launch party on March 16 or at any of the participating galleries, and you collect stamps from the galleries. When all of the passport books are handed in, one winner will get a $1,600 credit to spend on art. (A runner-up will get lots of other amazing stuff.)

There’s a catch. In order to get stamps, you have to talk to someone at the gallery about art, which means you have to be a little curious. You have to be willing to ask questions.

Once, when I was at a gallery reviewing a show, I spotted a painting that I thought was so awful, I was offended it was hanging on the gallery wall. I said (politely) to the gallerist, “I really don’t like that painting. Can you tell me why you like it?” After she explained why she picked it for the show and what the artist’s work meant to her, my perspective on it completely shifted. I still didn’t want to take it home with me, but I had a genuine appreciation for it, because she turned me on to a style of painting that I hadn’t known anything about. I was able to see it with new eyes.

Learning about art doesn’t have to be an academic pursuit. Sometimes simply asking a person to explain why they like something helps you to figure out why you like it. Or vehemently dislike it. This is how we develop our tastes, our confidence and our comfort with art: one question at a time.

These eight galleries will be expecting you.

Whether you’re an art aficionado or you’ve never set foot in a gallery before—especially if you’ve never set foot in a gallery before—they are waiting to talk to you about art, to find out what you like, or to tell you about the artists they love.

So let’s try this grand experiment together. Visit the galleries. Collect your stamps. Ask as many questions as you can think of—the passport books will have some sample questions if you’re feeling shy. Together, let’s reinvest ourselves in art, and make it one of the city’s common values.

To register for the program and for more information, go to artpassportpdx.com.

BOOKS = WW Pick. Highly recommended.

BY ZACH MIDDLETON. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

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Colum McCann

Irish author Colum McCann—a sort of poet of family estrangement and whippings by priests— is the latest speaker for the Portland Arts & Lectures series.

McCann is the author of six books of fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. His most recent collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking, was released in 2015 to wide acclaim. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm. Sold out.

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Emily Fridlund

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22 Hit Makers

Why did the video of Adele and James Corden singing karaoke in a car earn hundreds of millions of YouTube views, while writers with doctorate degrees produce painstakingly crafted novels read only by a handful of their peers? In his new book, Hit Makers, Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson reveals a hidden set of rules that govern why some things go viral and others don’t. Writing in a pop-economics style similar to Freakonomics or The Tipping Point, Thompson illuminates the hidden infrastructure of pop culture. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323.

7:30 pm.

THURSDAY, FEB. 23 Edward Hershey

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Portland author Edward Hershey got to realize the dream many young, horribly uncoordinated (but very self-aware) people share: He got to write about the sports he loved but couldn’t play. In his new memoir, The Scorekeeper, Hershey shares some of his favorite memories, like when he interviewed sports gods Mickey Mantle and Arthur Ashe, or when he covered the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm.

The coming-of-age novel, History of Wolves, is the story of Linda, a 14-year-old who finds herself alone almost everywhere she goes. It doesn’t help that she grew up on a failing commune, or that she has a crush on her history teacher, Mr. Grierson, who gets charged with possessing child pornography. A literary novel cut through with the tension of a thriller, this accomplished debut by author Emily Fridlund has garnered much early praise. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm.

SATURDAY, FEB. 25 The Mercy of the Tide

Blending touches of magical realism and alternative history, The Mercy of the Tide tells the story of the fictional town of Riptide, Ore., which is being ravaged by someone or something mysterious. Local artist and writer Keith Rosson will launch the book (his first) in a gathering that will also include readings from writers Hannah Pass and Doug Cornett. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-2362665. 7 pm.

SUNDAY, FEB. 26 Allison Cobb and Kaia Sand

Local poets Allison Cobb and Kaia Sand will read from their new collections. Cobb, whose After We All Died was released in December, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and is the author of four books of poetry and prose. Sand is the author of four collections of poetry, including the new A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money That Lost Its Puff. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 800-878-7323. 4 pm.

MONDAY, FEB. 27 Scratch

NGUYEN

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen collected the stories in his new book, The Refugees, over a 20-year period.

Considering his first novel, The Sympathizer, earned him a Pulitzer Prize and his two nonfiction books were finalists for other major literary awards, there’s a good chance this will be one of the year’s best collections. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm.

Local authors Cheryl Strayed, Cari Luna, Kevin Sampsell and A.M. O’Malley will discuss the question: How do writers get the money and time to write? The topic is at the heart of a new essay collection entitled Scratch, edited

by Manjula Martin, which features contributions by Luna and Strayed. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

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MOVIES Beyond Extra Large:

THE 41ST PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, PREVIEWED

AS PIFF XL WRAPS UP, WE TAKE A LOOK INTO THE FILMS THAT WILL MAKE PIFF XLI THE BEST EVER.

BY Walker MacMurdo

wmacmurdo@wweek.com

We’re just as bummed out as you are that the 40th Portland International Film Festival is coming to an end. Luckily, Willamette Week has obtained an early list of highlights from next year’s program. As we wave goodbye to three weeks of quiet dramas, brutal Euro horrors and documentaries, whet your appetite for PIFF XLI with these previews.

Twarzowy (Becoming)

18 Hours (Damn You, Chumlee!) (Denmark)

[DRaMa] Danish biopic master Lars Larssonsenson offers his grand opus chronicling a little-known american legislative event. a shot-for-shot reconstruction of C-sPaN footage depicting the successful, 18-hour filibuster by sen. Bluff Chuffins (R-Ga.)— implemented by reciting the dialogue from seasons 1 to 4 of the show Pawn Stars—of a Democratic bill that would ceremonially list the dodo bird as the “National Extinct species.” 1,086 mins.

ZaCH MIDDLEtON.

2,222 Girls, One Cup (Brazil)

[ROMaNtIC COMEDY] It’s ladies-only night at a Manaus soccer stadium, and the crowd is going wild. But after the breakout of a mysterious virus that makes everyone “lovesick,” a nauseating wave of amory and gastroenteritis washes through the stadium.

Programmer’s note: Contains violently graphic sexual and scatological content. 87 mins. ZaCH MIDDLEtON.

Bogdan’s Big Day (Moldova)

[satIRE] Bogdan (Vinde Gogosi) is a file clerk working at Moldova’s leastbusy DMV. after meticulously filing all of the files he’s been assigned to file, his boss politely assigns him more files to file. 400 mins. CURtIs COOK.

Dans le Poche (Into the Pocket) (France/Algeria)

[ROMaNtIC COMEDY] this elegant black-and-white film catalogs the life of a nameless french-algerian man from the perspective of the condom he keeps in his pants pocket. a sonic tour of the City of Lights: the footsteps of tourists and sizzling kebabs of the Latin Quarter cut against sights of fumbling fingers. Has he finally met his match, or is he just buying another pack of cigarettes? 136 mins.

LaUREN tERRY.

The Day My Mother Returned From the Store With Bananas and a Murdered Child (United States)

[EXPERIMENtaL] Portland avantgarde auteur Jarrick startremble recalls, via found, unedited camcorder footage of a banana being savagely peeled in 1986, the formative day of his childhood on which his mother killed him. Or, metaphorically, his childlike innocence. 1,440 mins.

IsaBEL ZaCHaRIas.

Filtered (China)

[HORROR] the latest app for photo editing is guaranteed to show an irresistibly glamorous life for those who choose the correct filter. But as four teenage girls are about to learn, choosing wrong has deadly consequences. a coming-of-age slasher film shot entirely in 30-second cellphone videos. 93 mins. LaUREN tERRY.

I Love You, Period (France)

[DRaMa] set in the “red tents” of biblical lore, acclaimed director abdellatif Kechiche’s spiritual sequel to Blue Is the Warmest Color follows the blossoming romance between two adolescent girls exiled for four days per month, where their confusion about menstruation leads them on an erotic journey of self-discovery. 179 mins. aP KRYZa.

Isabella Upon the Stairs (France)

[DRaMa] shot entirely in the stairwell of a suburban apartment complex, these vignettes follow 12-year-old Isabella meeting her fellow tenants ascending and descending the steps each day. Dialogue artfully obscured by the stairwell’s echo serves as a metaphor for class struggle. 246 mins.

CHaNCE sOLEM-PfEIfER.

Middle (Iran/Germany)

[tHRILLER] a popular Youtube celebrity suffering from an abnormal, severe form of schizophrenia shifts between believing he is a bird and a beetle. Problems ensue when he becomes cognitively stuck, simultaneously acting as both creatures, climaxing in an attempt to eat himself on facebook Livestream. 75 minutes.

JaCK RUsHaLL.

[DOCUfICtION] at any given time, in dozens of nations around the world, a drama using a man’s midlife crisis as a metaphor for cultural change is in production. But what about the midlife crises of the actors portraying those men? shot on the sets of six films, Middle blends truth and fiction to capture the universality of ennui in receding hairlines and poorly financed sports car purchases. 184 mins. waLKER MaCMURDO.

Graphite (Norway)

My Hunger, Quietly (Ukraine)

Flying Solo (Canada)

[DOCUMENtaRY] Director Magnus “the Charlie Kaufman of Norway” sorderstrooom employs animated pencil drawings and marionette puppetry to tell the tale of Norway’s oftforgotten pencil shortage of 1941, an event that led to the development of the No. 2 pencil, scantron testing and, sorderstrooom argues, love. 62 mins. aP KRYZa.

[DRaMa] an isolated, aging farmhand in the Donbass must come to terms with his legacy when his eldest daughter defies tradition and marries his prized stallion. shot in stunning black-and-white and called a “devastating, tarkovskian meditation on duty and loss” by Sight & Sound. 441 mins. waLKER MaCMURDO.

A Night for Poundcake (Italy)

[COMEDY] an adaptation of a critically panned short story by civil asset forfeiture judge-cum-writer Balucio antonioni, hilarity ensues when three bumbling swedes attempt to break into an Iron Curtain-era Prague bakery. 91 mins. ZaCH MIDDLEtON.

An Ocean Without Water (Russia)

[DOCUMENtaRY] filmed over the course of 30 years, this relentless documentary finally provides unequivocal proof that it is, in fact, difficult to be a poor, black, transgender, onearmed, half-Jewish, female orphan serving a life sentence of hard labor in a siberian prison. 224 mins.

CURtIs COOK.

Our Family Home (Hungary/

Czech Republic)

[DRaMa] In a morose, striking portrait of a former soviet republic, the shadow of totalitarianism looms over a middle-class family. teenage Marco is unsure he wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, a jaded civil servant. Playing Marco’s mother, acclaimed swiss movie star Greta Mischler smokes in the background through many charged conversations.

121 mins. CHaNCE sOLEM-PfEIfER.

The Bathhouse (Armenia)

[HORROR] Every year the inhabitants of a tiny, rural armenian village journey to a thousand-year-old bathhouse in the Geghama mountain range. they return to their village days later, missing their hands, with no memory of what happened. an american documentarian and his small crew travel to the village to investigate the phenomenon. 96 mins., of which 50 comprise real villagers having their hands mutilated.

JaCK RUsHaLL.

Screen Door Submarine (Poland)

[DOCUMENtaRY] Celebrated documentarian stas Kolinskikiza combs through history to examine the history of Polish jokes, confronting both the long-standing stigma against his nation and seeking to discover the true fate of the Polish hockey team, which perished during an outdoor match in august. 86 mins. aP KRYZa.

Tea With Oolie (Germany)

[COMEDY] Oolie drinks tea over the course of this whimsical biopic about the act of drinking tea and the art of being named Oolie. Programmer’s note: Contains explicit sexuality involving peroxide and a biscotti. 118 minutes. aP KRYZa.

Thijs (Netherlands)

[COMEDY] Every single fucking person who thijs Van den Berg has ever known is fucking dead, but this masterfully artdirected coloring of thijs’ clothes and surroundings gets brighter and brighter as he therapeutically draws each page of his eventually best-selling graphic memoir. 96 mins. IsaBEL ZaCHaRIas.

Twarzowy (Becoming) (Ghana/Canada/ Angola/Vietnam/United Arab Emirates/ Cambodia/Egypt/Guatemala/Austria/ Burkina Faso/Greece/Iceland/Nepal/Chile/ Australia/France/Slovenia/South Korea) a Polish woman gives birth in a field. 114 minutes. waLKER MaCMURDO.

Weird Scheisse (Turkey/Germany/Belgium) [faMILY] Praised as “the turkish answer to Stranger Things” by Variety, this German-language feature follows three Deutsche tomboys and a psychic, Enoobsessed, gender-bending glam-tot star in this throwback about live-action roleplaying in the days before the Berlin wall fell. You’ll find no Eggos in this Belgian waffle, but a CGI-restored Peter falk sublimely plays both himself and the enigmatic “Dungeonmeister.” 112 minutes. NatHaN CaRsON.

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MOVIES GET YO U R REPS IN

Confessions of a Bad Girl (1965)

A little seen, almost forgotten exploitation rarity from legendary B movie director Barry Mahon on 35 mm. Confessions stars Judy Adler as Judith, a young woman from a small town who comes to New York City to be a star but quickly finds herself descending into a seedy nightmare. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 27.

Gaslight

DEATH IN SARAJEVO

(Bosnia-Herzegovina/France) [DRAMA] Strippers in the basement, news broadcasters on the roof, and VIPs in the penthouse suite: What do they have in common? Hotel Europa. Bosnian Oscar winner Danis Tanovic’s Death in Sarajevo takes place on June 28, 2014, the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

The film’s simple set serves as a wonderfully detailed base for its dramatic themes. Hotel manager Omer (Izudin Bajrovic) stirs stressfully at the colossal bills, having not paid his staff in over two months. He angrily attempts to persuade his front-desk agent, Lamija (Snezana Vidovic), to stop her mother, Hatidza (Faketa SalihbegovicAvdagic), and the other hotel staff from striking. On the roof, TV news reporter Vedrana (Vedrana Seksan) debates Sarajevo’s war-torn history with nationalist Serb Gavrilo Princip (Muhamed Hadzovic). AMY WOLFE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24. Fox Tower: 6:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

Kati Kati (Kenya/Germany)

[SUPERNATURAL THRILLER] Kenyan director Mbithi Masya tells the story of a 28-year-old woman named Kaleche (Nyokabi Gethaiga) who has mysteriously died and reawakened in a remote, purgatorylike village. Valley: 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

THREE STARS The Dreamed Ones (Austria/Germany)

[AVANT-DRAMA] You’d think watching German-language poets Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan read two decades of love letters to each other would get old. Well, you’re wrong. Fox Tower: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Old Stone (China/Canada)

[THRILLER] According to a persistent urban legend, Chinese rules of the road have adapted in brutal ways to the looming financial penalties for drivers who hit pedestrians but leave them alive. Johnny Ma’s gripping thriller follows the downward spiral of a kind-hearted cabbie (Chen Gang) who puts bank account, marriage and sanity at risk by delivering a faultlessly struck pedestrian to the hospital, despite the virtual guarantee of back-breaking hospital payments. Employing verité camera work to condemn traditional social realist targets of deadened bureaucracy and police corruption, Ma sustains a creeping noir sensibility by accentuating the claustrophobic unease of

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tiny smoke-filled cars hurtling along teeming streets toward blood-soaked ends ever threatened. JAY HORTON. Valley: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Fox Tower, 3:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

The Olive Tree (Spain/Germany)

[ROAD COMEDY] This bordercrossing odyssey follows Alma on her travels from Spain to Germany to recover an olive tree that once belonged to her grandfather. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

Raising Bertie (United States)

[DOCUMENTARY] Filmed over the course of six years, director Margaret Byrne’s feature debut documents the lives of three young black men fighting an uphill battle against generational rural poverty, educational inequality and lack of opportunity.

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 5:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Rara (Chile/Argentina)

[COMING-OF-AGE DRAMA] Sara (Julie Lübbert) is a 12-year-old girl just a few weeks away from 13.

As her birthday approaches, she’s pulled away from her childhood innocence under the mounting pressures of fitting in at school and taking care of her little sister. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 3:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

Starless Dreams (Iran)

[DOCUMENTARY] Starless Dreams is a compassionate documentary that offers an intimate look at the lives of teenage girls in a juvenile detention center in Tehran.

Laurelhurst: 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

The Stopover (France/Greece)

[WAR DRAMA] Two French soldiers, Aurore and Marine, stay at an opulent resort for three days of postcombat “decompression” before flying home. Fox Tower: 3:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Without Name (Ireland)

[ECO-HORROR] This exercise in paranoia pits a professor against a primeval Irish woodland. Whether as punishment for his infidelities with a student, or simply because he is sent to the absolute wrong place, nothing goes well for Eric. Director Lorcan Finnegan’s film makes an excellent first impression in the quiet-horror subgenre, the performances matching the beauty of the wilderness. Fans of Altered States, The Wicker Man and The Witch will enjoy Finnegan’s psychedelic montages, Eric’s descent into madness, and the forest’s meditative unease. NATHAN CARSON. Bagdad: 10:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24.

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TWO STARS After the Storm (Japan)

[DRAMA] Shinoda Ryota, a oncebestselling novelist slumming it as a detective, tries not to gamble away the alimony he owes. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

Apprentice

(Singapore/Germany/France/Hong Kong) [DRAMA] A correctional officer is drawn into a friendship with one of Singapore’s top executioners after being transferred to a high-security prison. Fox Tower: 8:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

(United States/United Kingdom) [MYSTERY/HORROR] “Every body has a secret,” whispers father mortician (Brian Cox) to son assistant (Emile Hirsch) when that of a young woman arrives at their small Virginia mortuary. Discovered half-buried in the cellar of the scene of a grisly murder, the titular Jane Doe arrives deceased, but ostensibly unscathed.

As the duo attempts to find the cause of death, the autopsy gets progressively weirder. What begins as a novel spin on the claustrophobic thriller takes a turn for the familiar about halfway through, but strong performances, lean exposition and tight camera work keep indie-horror rising star André Øvredal’s new feature compelling. WALKER MACMURDO. Bagdad: 10:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

Daguerreotype (France/Belgium/Japan)

[HORROR] Hitchcock’s shadow looms over this macabre Frenchlanguage feature in which a young Belgian man takes a job as assistant to an eccentric photographer. Valley: 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

Kékszakállú (Argentina)

[DRAMA] Based on the Hungarian opera Bluebeard’s Castle, director Gastón Solnicki reimagines a journey through a haunted castle in the eyes of young women venturing toward maturity and womanhood in Buenos Aires. Fox Tower: 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

Ma’Rosa (Philippines)

[CRIME DRAMA] Despite dabbling in meth sales, aging shopkeepers Rosa and Nestor could barely keep doors open. A police raid pushes their children to desperate acts to bribe authorities for the couple’s release.

Valley: 8:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

One Week and a Day (Israel)

[DRAMA] One Week and a Day follows Eyal and his wife, Vicky, at the end of their son’s shiva, the week of mourning following his death. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Panamerican Machinery (Mexico/Poland) [BLACK COMEDY] When the owner of a small factory suddenly dies, its bumbling accountant reveals the company is bankrupt, sending the business into chaos. Fox Tower: 8:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24.

Staying Vertical (France)

[ROAD MOVIE] Alain Guiraudie’s first film since 2013’s Stranger by the Lake arrives as a drastic stylistic departure from the Cannesblessed thriller. Though it opens with traveling screenwriter Léo (Damien Bonnard) bedding the farmer’s daughter, Staying Vertical isn’t quite a comedy either. As our uninterested hero dazedly journeys through an especially homoerotic stretch of rural France—he’s disrobed by a phalanx of homeless men, a healer reached only by rowboat indulges a peculiar form of naturopathy—the slow build of trending-supernatural elements undermines mumblecore staging without ever quite becoming the fairy tale suggested. Despite the dramatic emphasis placed on wolves idly roaming the countryside, they’re probably intended only as metaphor twinned to sexual appetites continually indulged. For all the characters’ predatory bluster, they’re just sheep in no clothing. JAY HORTON. Laurelhurst: 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

ONE STAR The Human Surge

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) A: Always. B: Be. C: Closing.

Laurelhurst Theater. Feb. 24-March 3.

Soul Train Express

The Portland Black Film Festival wraps up this week with a curated collection of classic funk, soul and R&B performances from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, the Del Fonics, Sly and the Family Stone, and James Brown. More film festivals should wrap up like this. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb 22.

This Is Spinal Tap

(1982)

When you think about it, Rob Reiner’s pioneering parody of ’70s heavy-metal excess has so permeated pop culture (think Parks and Recreation and The Office) that it’s mockumentary style is almost taken for granted. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, Feb. 27.

ALSO PLAYING: 5th Avenue Cinema: All Good Things (2010), Feb. 24-26.

Academy Theater: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Feb. 22-23; Sid and Nancy (1986), Feb. 24-March 2.

Hollywood Theatre: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), 2 pm Saturday, Feb. 25; Zombie Nightmare (1986), 9:15 pm Saturday, Feb. 25; Blaxploitation Trailer Spectacular!, 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28. Mission Theater: Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Feb. 25 and 27 and March 1.

(Argentina/Brazil/Portugal) [ENSEMBLE DRAMA] If you enjoy sitting slumped in a theater while an ambitious filmmaker attempts to bore you to death, you shouldn’t miss this stultifying feature debut from writerdirector Eduardo Williams. Fox Tower: 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 22.

I Am Not Madame Bovary (China)

[SATIRE] Li Xuelian and her husband get a “fake divorce” as part of a plan to cheat the government.

But when her husband remarries another woman, Li begins a decadelong series of lawsuits in an effort to undo the fake divorce, remarry her ex-husband and file for a real divorce.

Fox Tower: 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 23.

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FOUR STARS Death in Sarajevo

(1944)

The origin of the term “gaslighting,” this adaptation of the 1938 play Gas Light follows newly married Paula (Ingrid Bergman), whose abusive husband Gregory (Charles Boyer) isolates her in a London townhouse and toys with her sense of reality when Paula stumbles upon a terrible secret.

Mission Theater. Feb. 27-28.

This Is Spinal Tap

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Editor: WALKER MACMURDO. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: wmacmurdo@wweek.com.

Fax: 243-1115.

OPENING THIS WEEK Bitter Harvest

Yuri (Max Irons) is a talented young painter. He lives in a small Ukrainian village alongside Natalka (Samantha Barks), the love of his life. When Russian soldiers begin terrorizing Ukraine, the couple is separated by circumstance and forced to fight for survival. This period piece takes place during the Holodomor, the Soviet-made famine that claimed 7 to 10 million Ukrainian lives between 1932 and ’33. The casual brutality of Stalin’s vile tactics is reflected in the abundance of scenes featuring senseless killings and children sobbing over their parents’ dead bodies. We’re shown families starved to death in the streets and train cars filled with rotting corpses. Unfortunately, these solemn depictions of genocidal famine are poorly accompanied by Yuri and Natalka’s sappy love story. Despite earnest performances, their romance is banal to the point of inauthenticity. So much time is spent establishing their melodramatic relationship that the film’s other roles go undeveloped. Every character is an archetype, and even in the midst of nationwide starvation, it’s difficult to care about a prosaic cast.

Director George Mendeluk exposes audiences to an oft-forgotten historical tragedy, but the film’s stark portrayal of Ukrainian suffering is stymied by a trite tale of young love. R. CURTIS COOK. Fox Tower, Cascade.

Dying Laughing

Featuring interviews with Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Foxx, Amy Schumer and a zillion other comedians, this new documentary explores standup comedy through the relationship between the comic and the audience. NR. Clinton Street Theater.

The Great Wall

Long Live the King

Have you been admiring that sweet new Kong: Skull Island poster that pays homage to vintage kaiju flicks?

Bide your time for that massive slab of blockbuster with this new documentary chronicling King Kong and his cinematic legacy. Playing as part of a double feature with the late John Fasano’s Mystery Science Theater 3000-mocked Zombie Nightmare. NR. Hollywood Theatre.

7 pm Saturday, Feb. 25.

The Red Turtle

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 is a tour de force in visual storytelling. The man initially sets out building a boat for himself, only to have it destroyed multiple times by a giant red sea turtle. Dutch writer-director Michael Dudok de Wit takes a more subtle approach than the usual anthropomorphized Ghibli fauna, eliminating any spoken dialogue or anthropomorphic expressions on the animals. The red turtle observes him without clear malice or interest, her face as impassive while his boat falls apart as it is when he strikes a blow to her head with a thick bamboo stalk. Without words or context, there is an underlying tension to the mystery of what happens next. The painterly style of the background landscapes is immersive, making the forest appear a solid wall of green sparsely populated with leaves. It is an escape to lose yourself in this progression of life without civili-

Trends in Experimental Latin American Animation

Sponsored by Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Animated Arts, this selection of animated shorts from South and Central America produced between 2007 and 2014 explores new techniques, including stop-motion, drawing, film scratching and animation with painting and metal. Curator Lina X. Aguirre will attend. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, Feb. 24.

Two Lovers and a Bear

Starring Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Dane DeHaan, this Canadian indie follows a couple living in a small town near the Arctic Circle who flee to the wilderness after experiencing supernatural phenomena. R. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Feb. 22-23.

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STILL SHOWING 20th Century Women

B There are moments when Mike Mills’ semi-autobiographical family drama is wittily revolutionary, especially when Abbie (Greta Gerwig) teaches her teenage son the basics of feminism and later galvanizes a dinner party by coaching the guests to say “menstruation” in unison.

20th Century Women has a frankness that is welcome and rare in American cinema. R. Fox Tower.

A Cure for Wellness

If you’re going to include child rape in a story, there must be an unavoidable narrative necessity for it. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

A Dog’s Purpose

B+ 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. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division,

Eastport, Vancouver.

Arrival

A Arrival inspires because of sorrowful linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams), who enters a spaceship hovering above Montana shrouded in grief but still has compassion for both aliens and humanity. PG-13.

Bridgeport, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Lake, Lloyd.

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** Within this fantasy-fusion epic’s first few moments, we learn the Great Wall of China was originally erected to protect the Chinese from marauding forces embodying the depths of human greed. Shortly afterward, we realize The Great Wall was made for precisely opposite reasons. In clear hopes of bridging the planet’s two largest cinematic markets, this mammoth production pairs veteran director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers) with the aspirational affability of Matt Damon, an 11th-century mercenary lost on the road to gunpowder. The result is utterly predictable tonal confusion. It is hard to argue the most expensive production ever filmed entirely within the Middle

Kingdom shouldn’t try to wring gold from its most famous monument, but The Great Wall seems irritatingly aware of its Westerosi counterpart. If casting Pedro “The Red Viper” Pascal as a wisecracking sellsword weren’t overt enough, every scene of candy-colored soldiers prepping wall defenses suggests Game of Thrones’ title sequence, as performed by Cirque du Soleil. However awkward and derivative, the efforts never feel cynical, and a childlike enthusiasm for antiquated novelties—magnetized ores, hot-air balloons, Willem Defoe—taps into the impassioned huckster grandiosity once fueling homegrown epics. The once and future Bourne proves a poor fit for the surrounding ethereal mechanics, but giving themselves so fully to the absurd mismatch, both manage to save face. PG-13. JAY HORTON. Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

zation, and gives gut-wrenching impact to the moments of connection between the man and the animals he encounters. PG. LAUREN TERRY. Cinema 21.

y p p Ha Hour LOS CAMPESINOS!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND AT 6PM

Los Campesinos! write about smart people doing terribly irrational things – using a depressant like alcohol to beat depression, burning the skin off your hands before seeing a palmist, investing your emotional well-being in a far-flung football team. Everyone involved should know better and yet they keep doing whatever it is to wrest something out of life. For LC!, that means deciding whether or not to dedicate their energy to one of the most irrational past times someone in their 30s can pursue: being in a rock band.

FROTH

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH AT 6PM

On their new album, ‘Outside (Briefly)’, FROTH have dialed back the noise of their previous albums to reveal delicately beautiful melodies, intricately arranged instrumentals and some of their most experimental songwriting to date.

FROTH hvae toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe, opening for acts such as The Drums, Tamaryn, Pond and Craft Spells.

GEORGE HARRISON BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH AT 3PM Enjoy complimentary cake while we celebrate George’s life and the release of ‘The Vinyl Collection’

BALTO

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH AT 5PM Balto’s first full length release after a 5 year absence lands with a swell of feedback, a heavy downbeat, and a punch to the gut. It’s an album of unbridled american rock’n’roll – steeped in the mythology of the legendary songwriters and Motown’s almighty groove. Biting cynicism, instant classics, tear-your-heart-out live energy, a willingness to swagger, rip hard, and live behind the beat.

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MOVIES Assassin’s Creed

Hacksaw Ridge

Moana

adaptation of the best-selling video game series about time-traveling assassins comes from Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender): “What the fuck is going on?” It’s a fair question. PG-13. Jubitz, Vancouver.

this would-be epic stares into the maw of World War II through the eyes of combat medic Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who rescued dozens of his comrades at Okinawa—without ever firing a gun. R. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Lloyd, Vancouver.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could carry a tune, Moana is a ringing affirmative. PG. Academy, Avalon, Clackamas, Empirical, Kennedy School, Valley, Vancouver.

Doctor Strange

B+ Thanks to director Scott

Derrickson’s confidently superficial storytelling, this film’s imagery has a dizzying power. PG-13. Academy, Vancouver.

The Eagle Huntress

A- Set in the wilderness of Mongolia,

this astounding documentary follows a 13-year-old Kazakh girl who hunts with the help of a golden eagle. PG-13. Fox Tower.

C A morally repugnant bloodbath,

Hidden Figures

C 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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Moreland, Oak Grove, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

I Am Not Your Negro

Fences

A- Denzel Washington swings for the

fences with his adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a struggling African-American blue-collar family in 1950s Pittsburgh, hitting a home run and, uh, stealing third base? PG-13. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Lake, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd.

Fifty Shades Darker

With unguarded humor and sometimes even something verging on wit, Darker discusses consent, sexual boundaries, trauma and relationship autonomy with a frankness that honestly makes it, despite soap-opera drama and predictability, a pretty good movie. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

Fist Fight

Something like a three-episode It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia in which Charlie gets a black teacher fired but is still the hero of the movie.

R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Founder

B Amid the past few years’ McConaissance, did we fail to notice the Keatoning? Judging by his spot in this biopic about McDonald’s impresario Ray Kroc, he’s a “serious, important” actor now. PG-13. Laurelhurst.

Gold

F Gold is like Wolf of Wall Street

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except with gold instead of junk bonds, unlikable Matt McConaughey instead of begrudgingly likable Leo, and 45 minutes of unnecessary exposition instead of naked Margot Robbie. R. Vancouver.

Raoul Peck develops an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript to eloquently tell the story of American racism. Cinema 21, Hollywood, Kiggins.

Jackie

A Aided by Mica Levi’s ghostly string score, Pablo Larraín’s peppering in of archival news footage from the time, and Portman’s most spectacular performance yet, this film is less an isolated Jackie Kennedy biopic than a dark and conceptual statement on how the American people classifies, experiences and remembers historic tragedies. R. Fox Tower.

John Wick: Chapter 2

This may be the smartest, most beautifully shot movie ever made that’s basically a montage of people getting shot in the head. R. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Tigard, Vancouver.

La La Land

A Surprise, surprise: La La Land got

nominated for 50 billion Oscars. PG-13.

Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Lake, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Tigard, Vancouver.

The Lego Batman Movie

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 and preening goofball who rocks out on an electric guitar and showers orphans with cool toys from a merch gun. PG. Bagdad, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Roseway, St. Johns Twin Cinema & Pub, Tigard, Vancouver.

Loving

A- The true story of Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Loving (Ruth Negga), the interracial couple who challenged U.S. miscegenation laws all the way to the Supreme Court, Loving emits slow, relaxed scenes that rely on touch rather than dialogue to illustrate the Lovings’ palpable tenderness.

PG-13. Academy, Laurelhurst.

The Lure

If the words “sexy cannibal mermaid musical” sound like your idea of a great evening, then boy do we have the movie for you! NR. Cinema 21.

Manchester by the Sea

B- How do you start over when

your transgressions refuse to stay buried? According to director Kenneth Lonergan, you don’t, and that denial is one of too many reasons Manchester by the Sea, while admirably tough-minded, is also a drag.

R. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Fox Tower, Lloyd, Tigard.

Monster Trucks

C+ 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. Avalon.

Moonlight

A Moonlight follows Chiron, played by three different actors, coming of age over two decades on the rough Liberty City blocks of 1980s Miami. If you haven’t seen this film yet, do so: It’s probably going to get screwed at the Oscars, but it’s among the year’s absolute best. R. Bridgeport, Cinema 21, Clackamas, Lloyd.

Oscar Nominated Shorts

They go underappreciated and mostly unseen by mainstream audiences during the year, but this week the Oscar-nominated animated and live-action shorts make it to select Portland-area screens in preparation for the big show. Bridgeport, Hollywood, Kiggins, Living Room Theaters, Clackamas.

Passengers

C When a malfunction in Chris Pratt’s hibernation pod leaves him awake and alone decades early on a 120-year space voyage, he decides to wake up Jennifer Lawrence for companionship, telling her that her pod malfunctioned as well. This is very creepy when you think about it. PG-13. Clackamas, Vancouver.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

The sixth and final (yeah, right) movie in the long-running franchise based on the video game series about zombies, starring an apparently ageless Milla Jovovich. R. Eastport, Vancouver.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

A The best Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back, this gritty spinoff brings a depth of humanity to the galaxy that the series hadn’t ever seen. PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

Silence

C+ Silence is the exact kind of lifelong passion project you’d expect a 74-yearold man to make about religion: a winding, sincere mess of heavy-handed symbolism and old-timey racism, set off with bad accents and worse voiceovers. R. Academy.

Sing

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

Split

B+ 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. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Vancouver.

Toni Erdmann

B The jury is still out on whether Europeans are funny. R. Cinema 21.

Why Him?

C+ I ask this question every time James Franco is cast in a comedy, too.

R. Kennedy School, Vancouver.

XXX: Return of Xander Cage

B Do we need another Fast and Furious franchise? The new Vin Diesel flick answers that question by flipping double birds while hitting a stoppie into a villain. R. Avalon, Clackamas, Jubitz.

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However relentlessly familiar it becomes to Portlanders, one narrative never gets less frustrating: The city is changing, and creative people can’t afford to spend a lot of time—13½ years in Cinema Project’s case—doing shit for free.

Whether abstract explorations of color theory, rarely seen interviews with revolutionary civil rights leaders or documentary shorts of kids in small-town Texas (to name three examples from this season), since 2004 experimental film collective Cinema Project has been bringing high-minded film to Portland cinemagoers in its original formats. Sadly, it’s time to say goodbye to this prized institution. After its upcoming final screening this Thursday, Cinema Project’s regular programming will be put on hold indefinitely.

But when board member Mia Ferm talks about the project’s final season coming to a close, she doesn’t mention an absolute ending.

“We’ll hang on to our nonprofit [status] and our equipment,” she says, with the eventual, unhurried goal of restarting the project someday. “It could be in a year, or it could be never. We don’t know.”

That said, this final screening is not to be missed. Titled Abstraction, Difference and Presence, the one-night-only program features work by contemporary Canadian filmmaker Jean-Paul Kelly, which, Ferm says, “is really about examining what might be called the documentary code of ethics: thinking about the visual structures and editorial structures that inform how we make documentaries, and that slippery slope between objective and subjective filmmaking.”

In many cases, Kelly draws on images viewers might recognize, further obscuring their own sense of truth and reliability of memory. One strong example is Service of the Goods, an arresting 25 minutes that re-create, shot by shot, scenes from films by seminal documentarian Frederick Wiseman (La Danse, High School, Hospital, Welfare).

With the shuttering of Cinema Project, Portland stands to lose a legacy of more than 100 visiting filmmakers and 10 to 14 relevant, thoughtfully curated programs like this one each year. Thankfully, other programmers are taking the reins. The Portland International Film Festival featured an avant-garde section for the first time this year. “There are people who are working to fill in those gaps,” says Ferm. “Folks at [the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art] and at Yale Union are stepping up their game in terms of experimental video and film.”

But what Ferm sees as Cinema Project’s deepest legacy, one she hopes will be carried on by other local film organizations, is the plea “not to think there are two different camps: the film people and the visual-art people…to be able to take experimental cinema seriously as a different, political, radical way of looking at the world.” ISABEL ZACHARIAS.

The last screening of Cinema Project’s final season examines reality vs. representation, and questions the nature of truth.

SEE IT: Abstraction, Difference and Presence: The Work of Jean-Paul Kelly will play at NXT Industries, 1302 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on Thursday, Feb. 23. 7:30 pm. $8 suggested donation.

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One side effect of the post-prohibition retail market was the rush to win the top of the market, with trendy shops that look as if they were furnished by Design Within Reach and that specialize in boutique organic oils and high-end edibles that cost $30 per serving. At most of these stores, if you didn’t have to wait while your ID was checked into the computer system, you might think you’d entered an apothecary on the moon—where newly discovered “cannabis” had been brought aboard a concrete-floor laboratory for experimentation.

But at Electric Lettuce, you don’t buy cannabis. You score bud, reefer or ganja.

Electric Lettuce isn’t any less bougie than its sister shop, Serra—but it’s working a much different vibe.

“We wanted to really embrace the counterculture,” says Chasity Roesler, marketing director for Serra and Electric Lettuce. “We wanted that late-’60s and early-’70s vibe to be present.

When pot was still cool, when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were still alive. So we took an approach of calling it ‘grass,’ ‘weed,’ ‘reefer’ in the windows.”

The signage is modeled after that of a shortlived head shop called Psychedelic Supermarket in Lair Hill, dating back to when the neighborhood just south of downtown was an acid-happy hippie haven.

Inside, that aesthetic continues with a hanging chair, old ashtrays, LPs from the early ’70s and lots of vintage books, magazines and pamphlets collected from all over, including a handout called “Marihuana: Some Questions and Answers” that was sent to a doctor’s office in Eugene.

For the decor, Electric Lettuce is looking for “things that sort of embrace when it was still illegal but people were still partaking and enjoying and changing,” Roesler says.

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The T-shirts look like something you’d expect to see on a YMCA camp counselor in bell-bottoms.

“You want to bring your mom here, or your dad here, and hear those old stories,” she says.

“Part of the inspiration was, you find your dad’s old keepsake box and inside it is an old roach clip and these photos, and you’re like, ‘Dad, tell me those stories! Grandpa, tell me those stories!’”

The shop doesn’t have any Thai sticks, yet, but it’s on the hunt for hash and other throwback products. There’s a small display of roach clips, and Electric Lettuce is looking to source strains like Panama Red and Acapulco Gold.

“We try to find exclusive things very specific to us and us alone,” she says. “We’re actually working with growers to find those old, classic strains so that we can definitely sell here. It’s not just about buying high-quality flower anymore, but for this brand, it’s about buying product that fits.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19)

My astrological radar suggests there’s a space-time anomaly looming just ahead of you. Is it a fun and exotic limbo where the rules are flexible and everything’s an experiment? That might be cool. Or is it more like an alien labyrinth where nothing is as it seems, you can hear howling in the distance, and you barely recognize yourself? That might be weird. What do you think? Is it worth the gamble? If so, full speed ahead. If not, I suggest a course correction.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Someone on Reddit.com asked readers to respond to the question, “What is the most liberating thought you’ve ever had?” Among the replies were the following six: 1.

“If new evidence presents itself, it’s okay to change my beliefs.” 2. “I get to choose who’s in my life and who isn’t.”

3. “I am not my history.” 4. “You can’t change something that has already happened, so stop worrying about it.” 5.

“I am not, nor will I ever be, conventionally beautiful.” 6.

“I don’t have to respond to people when they say stupid s--- to me.” I hope these testimonies inspire you to come up with several of your own, Taurus. It’s a perfect time to formulate liberating intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

It has been a while since I told you that I love you. So I’m doing it now. I LOVE YOU. More than you could ever imagine. And that’s why I continue to offer these horoscopes to you free of charge, with no strings attached.

That’s why I work so hard to be a playful therapist and an edgy mentor for you. That’s why I am so tenacious in my efforts to serve you as a feminist father figure and a kindly devil’s advocate and a sacred cheerleader. Again, I don’t expect anything in return from you. But if you would like to express your appreciation, you could do so by offering a similar type of well-crafted care to people in your own sphere. Now would be an excellent time to give such gifts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

“I like the word ‘bewilderment’ because it has both ‘be’ and ‘wild’ in it,” says poet Peter Gizzi. I propose that you go even further, Cancerian: Express a fondness for the actual experience of bewilderment as well as the word.

In fact, be willing to not just tolerate, but actually embrace the fuzzy blessings of bewilderment. In the coming weeks, that’s your ticket to being wild in the healthiest (and wealthiest) ways. As you wander innocently through the perplexing mysteries that make themselves available, you’ll be inspired to escape formalities and needless rules that have kept you overly tame.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Are you familiar with psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow? It’s the unflattering or uncomfortable part of you that you would prefer to ignore or suppress.

It’s the source of behavior about which you later say, “I wasn’t acting like myself.” Jungians say that the shadow hounds you and wounds you to the degree that you refuse to deal with it. But if you negotiate with it, it leads you to beautiful surprises. It prods you to uncover riches you’ve hidden from yourself. I mention this, Leo, because any shadow work you do in the coming weeks could generate rather spectacular breakthroughs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You could make a vow like this: “Between now and April 15, I will be relentless in getting my needs met. I will harbor a steely resolve to call on every ploy necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are not just gratified, but satiated to the max. I will be a dogged and ferocious seeker of absolute fulfillment.” If you want to swear an oath like that, Virgo, I understand. But I hope you will try a softer approach -- more like the following: “Between now and April 15, I will be imaginative and ingenious in getting my needs met. I will have fun calling on every trick necessary to ensure that my deepest requirements are playfully addressed. I will be a sweet seeker of unpredictable fulfillment.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

How would Buddha ask for a raise or promotion? How would Jesus tinker with his career plans as he took into consideration large-scale shifts in the economy? How would Confucius try to infuse new approaches and ideas into the status quo of his work environment? Ruminate deeply on these matters, dear Libra. Your yearning to be more satisfyingly employed may soon be rewarded -- especially if you infuse your ambitions with holy insight.

How would Joan of Arc break through the glass ceiling?

How would Harriet Tubman deal with the inefficiencies caused by excess testosterone? How would Hildegard of Bingen seek more emotional richness on the job?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

I suspect you would benefit from acquiring a new bedroom name, my dear. But should I be the one to give it to you? I’m not sure. Maybe you could invite a practical dreamer you adore to provide you with this crazy sweet new moniker. If there is no such person to do the job (although given the current astrological omens, I bet there is), I’ll offer the following array of amorous aliases for you to choose from: Wild Face . . . Kiss Genius . . . Thrill Witch . . . Freaky Nectar . . . Boink Master . . . Lust Moxie . . . Pearly Thunder . . . Peach Licker . . . Painkiller . . . Silky Bliss . . . Slippery Diver . . . Swoon Craver.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Soon I’ll be off on my first vacation in 18 months. At first glance it might seem odd for an astrologer like myself to have selected two Sagittarians to be my housesitters.

Members of your sign are reputed to be among the least home-nurturing people in the zodiac. But I’m confident that by the time I return, raccoons won’t be living in my kitchen, nor will my plants be dead or my snailmail stolen or my TV broken. The current astrological omens suggest that most of you Centaurs, at least for the foreseeable future, will display an uncommon aptitude for the domestic arts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The near future will be mutable, whimsical, and fluky.

It’ll be serendipitous, mercurial, and extemporaneous.

You should expect happy accidents and lucky breaks.

Your ability to improvise will be quite valuable. Do you believe in lucky numbers? Even if you don’t, yours will be 333. Your sacred password will be “quirky plucky.”

The cartoon characters with whom you will have most in common are Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner. The place where you’re most likely to encounter a crucial teaching is a threshold or thrift shop. Your colors of destiny will be flecked and dappled. (P.S.): I suspect that an as-yetundiscovered talisman of power is crammed in a drawer full of junk.)

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Treat your body like a sublime temple, please. And regard your imagination as a treasured sanctuary. Be very choosy about what you allow to enter in to both of those holy places. This strategy is always a wise idea, of course, but it’s especially so now, when you are extra sensitive to the influences you absorb. It’s crucial that you express maximum discernment as you determine which foods, drinks, drugs, images, sounds, and ideas are likely to foster your maximum well-being -- and which aren’t. Be a masterful caretaker of your health and sanity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

What would your best mother do in a situation like this? Please note that I’m not asking, “What would your mother do?” I’m not suggesting you call on the counsel of your actual mother. When I use the term “your best mother,” I’m referring to the archetype of your perfect mother. Imagine a wise older woman who understands you telepathically, loves you unconditionally, and wants you to live your life according to your own inner necessity, not hers or anyone else’s. Visualize her. Call on her.

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