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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THIS WEEK’S PAPER VOL. 43, ISSUE 19.

A complaint filed against a brave hero judge who helped a man escape ICE is riddled with spelling and punctuation mistakes. 6 The anti-narc features on Uber’s app really pissed off the narcs. 7 The growing Oregon wine industry gets a lot of subsidies. 10 Remember those subsidies for the Oregon wine industry? The reporter exposing them is also the uncle of the head brewer at the new Breakside. 22

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Astoria now has a brewery

specializing in cloudy IPAs. 24 311 has its own brand of vape pens and hosts an annual Caribbean cruise. 33

The tradition of “crazy quilts” started because slaves had to make functional things their masters didn’t want to steal. 44 At its peak, Pornland was home to 18 adult theaters. 46

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Lake Oswego’s “March 4 Trump” devolved into incoherent animal noises.

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JUDGE ALLEGEDLY AIDS ESCAPE

Judge Monica Herranz faced a moment of truth, and she stepped up [“The Great Escape,” WW, March 1, 2017].

I admire her and applaud her humanity. As we know only too well, sometimes the higher good comes from obeying your conscience and defying the law.

—“Seems2Me” The role of judges is to make wellreasoned judicial decisions based on the law as written, not to point out when the law is unjust. A judge makes a decision that is subject to review by higher courts.

What a judge doesn’t do is assist a suspect to escape justice. If he or she does that, then it is time for disbarment and criminal charges.

—Johnathan Swift Jr.

People get the idea we’re a bunch of healthy, vegan, environmentalist hipsters here in Portland. Turns out we totally disregard the environmental impact of the meat industry, participate in the slaughter of cows and pigs, and stuff our faces with burgers that cause heart disease.

Thank you for all your artery-clogging work!

—Susan Hashem

OREGON ZOO’S DECISION TO PUT DOWN PACKY

“I admire Judge Herranz and applaud her humanity.”

The law has always included a large component of discretion in both its interpretation and application.

The law is a human endeavor, and as such, is not simply black and white.

It is completely fair to debate whether the discretion applied in this case was appropriate, but to simply say discretion should not be a part of the equation is naive.

—“Ray”

FLIP SIDES OF BURGER MADNESS

I’m digging this! [“Burger Madness,” WW, March 1, 2017.] The bracket format is way cooler than a boring ol’ poll.

Cue the anti-burger people, and don’t forget to sound off about how superior you are for not eating them. We all care so much.

—“Socratic/Sardonic”

All euthanasia decisions at the Oregon Zoo now need to be put under a microscope [“The Packy Papers,” WW, March 1, 2017]. Elephants can live a long time with tuberculosis.

But zoo management and Metro can prove fatal to them.

—Courtney Scott If Oregon Zoo officials truly put Packy down because they did not want to risk infecting other elephants (or people), why did they not even consider placing Packy at PAWS sanctuary in California?

—“Anne”

PPS’S RECORD-SETTING BOND

I feel like I’m still paying for the last Portland Public Schools bond on my tax bill [“Playing Bond,” WW, March 1, 2017]. PPS needs an overhaul, but I’m not sure how much money or even if money can fix it.

The district needs to stop paying people who are not doing their jobs well, shrink the administration and get working.

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BY MARTY SMITH

On a sunny day, wouldn’t you like to sit on a deck overlooking the Willamette River? At your favorite restaurant, shades on, drinking a cold margarita? Well, you can’t, because no such place exists. Why does Portland have such a shitty waterfront? —Catherine H.

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Portland’s waterfront will thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head, Catherine. There are three answers to your question.

ANSWER NO. 1: Shut up. There are actually quite a few restaurants that fit your description— I can think of at least five. If only there were some sort of technology where one could enter search terms like “restaurant, Portland, river view, outdoor seating” and be provided with a map of the results. Ah, well; maybe someday.

But it’s true that those places are all south of the city’s core; maybe you’re looking for something more central. But instead, there’s just a big, stupid park on the west bank taking up half of the city’s prime drinking space.

ANSWER NO. 2: That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. While you might be perfectly happy to swap Waterfront Park for a couple of casinos and a TGI Fridays, Portland in general is pretty smug about having preserved this prime piece of

real estate for wholesome activities like jogging, doing yoga, and taking heroin.

Mind you, we didn’t always have the park—we built it on land reclaimed from an expressway called Harbor Drive, which was decommissioned after I-5 rendered it unnecessary. Unfortunately, I-5 did to the east bank exactly what Harbor Drive had done to the west, which brings us to…

ANSWER NO. 3: Oops. In retrospect, running a freeway over what would otherwise be some of the most valuable and picturesque real estate in the city was an obvious blunder, and city planners have been regretting it ever since.

There has long been a vague plan to put the freeway in an underground tunnel—but even if we could find the money, the process would take 30 years. By that time, margaritas will probably be illegal.

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Court Referee Faces Complaints After Escape

Multnomah County court referee Monica Herranz faces further fallout from her alleged role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (“The Great Escape,” WW, March 1, 2017). This week, the Oregon State Bar received at least one complaint against Herranz based on the allegation that she allowed Diddier Pacheco Salazar to escape waiting ICE agents by leaving court through an employee door. The complaint, filed by Bonita Seubert, a Vancouver nurse practitioner, is riddled with surplus exclamation points and misspells Herranz’s name. Radio talk-show host Lars Larson had earlier filed a complaint against Herranz with the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability. Federal law enforcement officials who previously examined the incident declined to file a complaint against her. Herranz did not respond to requests for comment.

Class Action Suit Claims Airbnb Discriminates

A class action lawsuit filed March 6 in Multnomah County Circuit Court alleges Airbnb discriminates against black Oregonians seeking to rent rooms. The company’s policies allow hosts to refuse to rent to anyone who doesn’t provide a photo or name. They also allow hosts to screen based on those names and photos. Lawyers asked Airbnb on behalf of the plaintiff, Patricia Harrington, to change its policies and were rebuffed,

according to legal filings.

“If the public learned that a major hotel chain would not allow guests to book rooms online without the hotel first looking at the guest’s photograph and full name, there would be outrage,” says Josh Ross, a lawyer with Portland firm Stoll Berne. “In many ways, the new shared economy allows discrimination to continue in a somewhat hidden manner, but the same rules apply.”

Airbnb spokeswoman Laura Rillos says the lawsuit has no merit.

OLCC Chairman Lands Weed-Consulting Gig

Rob Patridge resigned this week as chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. That’s not a huge surprise because Patridge, who is also the Klamath County district attorney, applied for the job of Medford city manager last OREGON.GOV

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year. What’s notable is where he’s headed—Salem sources say it’s Deloitte, the large accounting and consulting firm that has built a practice of advising government on marijuana legalization.

Patridge has overseen a generally smooth and financially successful rule-making and regulatory process for Oregon’s marijuana industry.

That he’s now becoming part of the industry is a remarkable transformation for the district attorney and former GOP legislator who opposed pot legalization and initially expressed doubts after its passage. It’s a sign of how far attitudes have shifted in the state that Patridge will now go to work in the industry. Patridge did not respond to requests for comment.

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NEWS

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

Uber’s Last Stands THE RIDE-HAILING COMPANY FACES NEW EYEBALLS ON ITS PRACTICES.

BY R AC H E L M O N A H A N

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There was a time when Uber seemed to rule Portland City Hall.

In 2014, the Silicon Valley ridehailing company muscled its way into the city, thumbing its nose at inspectors and taxi companies. Uber hired a well-connected lobbyist who consulted on the political campaigns of Mayor Charlie Hales as well as City Commissioners Steve Novick and Dan Saltzman—and persuaded the three to support making its hightech car service legal.

Hales and Novick are no longer in office. And Saltzman is now overseeing a city investigation of Uber.

Last week, The New York Times revealed that when Uber operated illegally in 2014, it used a software called “Greyball” to evade a city crackdown. The app blocked sus-

pected city inspectors, then filled the screens of inspectors’ smartphones with fake rides while Uber drivers escaped undetected.

It was no secret even in 2014 that Uber was dodging inspectors. But the report of high-tech deception has brought sharp criticism.

“This is a company that has taken the time at the highest levels to create a special application for the purpose of falsifying the information on their primary app for regulators,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said March 6 as he announced a city investigation into Uber’s alleged deception.

The report on Greyball sets up confrontations between Portland officials and Uber on at least three fronts.

This Week’s Lie On March 6, President Donald Trump signed another executive order, which proclaimed it “is the policy of the United States to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s government is redefining what counts as “terrorism.”

The investigative website the Intercept reported March 2 that the Department of Homeland Security had characterized anti-Trump protests in Portland following November’s election as “domestic terrorist violence.”

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PROTESTERS ARE TERRORISTS?

Investigation

The Portland Bureau of Transportation has launched a 30-day investigation looking for evidence of continuing deception by Uber or its competitor, Lyft. PBOT plans to examine rider complaints, compliance audits and other data on rides, looking for civil or criminal violations. The city could potentially fine companies or bar them from Portland.

City Commissioner Nick Fish wants to know if Uber used Greyball only to block regulators—or if it blocked unwanted customers, too.

“Once you have figured out how to effectively redline consumers,” he says, “what prevents you from blocking people who live in poorer areas, older adults, people with animals, people with disabilities?”

“We’re looking carefully at the use of this technology and will update you as soon as we know more,” says Uber spokesman Nathan Hambley.

Legislature

A bill in the Oregon House would remove Portland’s authority to regulate Uber.

House Bill 3246 would create statewide rules for Uber, disbanding Portland’s collection of fees and forestalling city restrictions.

Wheeler’s evaluation of the bill is scathing. “While this [scandal] is being revealed,” he said, “the very same people are quietly working in Salem to undercut our entire regulatory framework.”

At least one sponsor of the bill, Rep. Brian Clem (D-Salem), is already backing away, calling for a carveout to let Portland enforce its own rules. “My interest is expanding the service to my city (Salem) and the rest of the state and not getting the bill hung up in a political battle over Portland’s existing rules,” he writes in an email.

The source: an unclassified DHS report jointly prepared by the agency’s North Carolina field office and its national Office of Intelligence and Analysis. “DHS assesses that anger over the results of the 2016 Presidential election continues to be a driver of domestic terrorist violence throughout the United States—as evidenced by rioting in Portland, Oregon, following the election,” the report said.

In fact, the six nights of protests in Portland were largely peaceful, although a handful of vandals smashed car windshields and shop windows Nov. 10. WW could not determine to what extent DHS agents in Oregon may have informed that assessment.

Portland Police Bureau spokesman Sgt.

Regulations 2.0

If the Legislature doesn’t give Uber protections, the company will face a new round of city rule-making this spring.

The City Council is expected to consider small, technical code changes. But the scope could expand if the mayor’s office decides it wants to limit Uber’s freedom to operate. And the politics look grim for the company: Portland’s two newest elected officials, Wheeler and Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, are vocal skeptics of ride-hailing companies.

“Just because you’re smart, successful and rich does not mean you are bestowed with ethics,” Wheeler said March 6. “This company seems to repeatedly demonstrate that point.

These revelations have to shake everybody’s confidence in how this company is operating.”

Pete Simpson says he doesn’t believe local police were consulted. “I can say,” he adds, “that the Portland Police Bureau does not view demonstrators or protesters as domestic terrorists.”

Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office derided the idea that protesters posed a threat to national security. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D - Ore.) warned against “carelessly smearing legitimate protests because of the actions of a few.”

On March 6, the Mittleman Jewish Community Center in Portland’s Hillsdale neighborhood became the latest Jewish center among dozens across the nation to evacuate because of a bomb threat. The Portland office of the FBI said it was investigating possible “civil rights violations.” COREY PEIN. Willamette Week MARCH 8, 2017 wweek.com

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THOMAS TEAL

NEWS 1. Are you willing to break the law?

A ROOM WITH NO VIEW: Francisco Aguirre (left) spent nearly three months in Pastor Mark Knutson’s Augustana Lutheran Church in 2014, when he was facing deportation.

How to Build an Underground Railroad ABOUT 30 CONGREGATIONS ACROSS PORTLAND ARE PREPARING TO GIVE SANCTUARY TO FEARFUL IMMIGRANTS. THE DEVOUT FACE FOUR HARD CHOICES.

BY CO R E Y P E I N

cpein@wweek.com

Pastor W. J. Mark Knutson has turned his church’s steeple into an alarm.

He grabs a thick woven rope dangling from the bell tower of Augustana Lutheran Church at Northeast 15th Avenue and Knott Street. He pulls. Deafening chimes echo against the brick.

“That goes 12 blocks in all directions,” Knutson says.

When neighbors and congregants hear the signal, the pastor says, they will know to come and surround the church to physically prevent the deportation of whomever may have taken sanctuary inside.

“We will use our bodies if need be,” the pastor says.

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement escalates deportations of undocumented immigrants under President Donald Trump, Portland churches are preparing to take drastic measures.

Augustana Lutheran Church is preparing to shelter as many as 100 people. It’s one of about 30 Portland-area religious congregations that have pledged to offer sanctuary to immigrants in their houses of worship.

Portland’s status as a so-called “sanctuary city” has so far offered little practical comfort to undocumented immigrants in the time of Trump.

ICE has increased its arrests surrounding Multnomah County courthouses (“The Ice Storm,” WW, Feb. 1). Federal agents arrested 11 immigrant men last week in Woodburn; Oregon Public Broadcasting reported most of them were Guatemalan flower pickers with no prior criminal history. For every such arrest, dozens more rumors ricochet through local immigrant communities.

“If Donald Trump deports as many people as he wants to, and says he will—that’s 12 million or so—that would be

as if the entire states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho disappeared at 6:30 am because ICE showed up and got them,” says Rae Anne Lafrenz of the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, which coordinates a network of 500 volunteers in the local sanctuary movement from a small office in Augustana’s basement. “It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true. It’s really happening.”

That leaves people whose scriptures demand hospitality pondering how to make their places of worship into shelters of last resort for strangers in need.

Augustana is the only local church with direct experience in sheltering someone facing imminent deportation

The legal basis for sanctuary is pretty flimsy. ICE policy lists churches, along with schools and hospitals, as “sensitive locations.” This doesn’t mean agents are barred from entering such locations to conduct investigations or make arrests.

It just means agents need special approval to do so.

ICE responded to WW’s questions about its policy on “sensitive locations,” including churches, by supplying links to its website. The policy was recently updated to remove a clause that said enforcement would not take place in such locations “unless exigent circumstances exist, such as imminent risk to human life.”

Anyone who “conceals, harbors, or shields from detection” a foreigner who entered the country illegally—or even attempts to do so—may run afoul of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. The penalty: 5 to 10 years in prison for each immigrant harbored.

The crucial question of whether a conviction for the crime of harboring requires proving intent to conceal has never been examined by the U.S. Supreme Court. However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees Oregon, has interpreted the law more strictly than other courts.

“Technically speaking, where we live, all you have to do is provide food and shelter to be prosecuted,” says Gwynne Skinner, a director of the Human Rights and Immigration Clinic at the Willamette University College of Law. Skinner has advised the Catholic church she attends on the legal ramifications of offering sanctuary. “It’s very unpredictable what this administration is going to do,” she says.

There are also city fire codes and zoning rules to consider, although when stacked up against possible felony charges, these may seem an afterthought. “If there’s a crisis, are we going to ask somebody permission? We can’t,” Knutson says.

2. Whom do you want to shelter?

Different congregations offer different answers. One key question is whether a church shelters only people who share its faith.

“The Latino community is the most visible, and targeted in a particular way,” says Katie Dwyer, chairwoman of the justice commission at Ainsworth United Church of Christ in Northeast Portland’s Concordia neighborhood.

“But there are strong efforts to build bridges with the Muslim community as well.”

Skinner, the law professor, says churches will also have to decide what level of criminal offenses they’re willing to overlook. The accused are often the first to be deported, although ICE is no longer focusing only on convicts.

“We’re not talking about churches providing sanctuary to violent criminals,” she says. “We’re talking about churches providing sanctuary to people who are undocumented and perhaps have minor immigration violations, out of love.”

“ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER TO BE PROSECUTED.” —Gwynne Skinner, immigration lawyer

by ICE. In 2014, Augustana harbored an immigrant from El Salvador, Francisco Aguirre, in a basement room for nearly three months and promoted his case to the national news media. Last year, the U.S. attorney’s office in Portland dropped Aguirre’s “illegal re-entry” charge, but he’s still fighting for his right to remain.

He’s also promoting sanctuary efforts. “Every day we are afraid to go out,” Aguirre says. “We are afraid ICE will wait outside our house to take us into custody and leave our children behind. We will fight. We all contribute to this country and we deserve respect.”

No church will say it’s currently sheltering immigrants on its property. But dozens are preparing.

Any group seeking to join them must be ready to answer four difficult questions.

3. Where are you trying to send people?

Sanctuary congregations also need to decide what their ultimate goals are. Are they seeking to shield targeted immigrants until they can make their case in court? Or to help them flee the country to seek asylum elsewhere?

The choice a church makes here will determine how much publicity it seeks. Lafrenz says congregations have vowed to do everything publicly—“there’s nothing secret,” she says—but several local clergy hint of other, underground efforts.

“There are people who want to stay below the radar,” says Rabbi Ariel Stone of Congregation Shir Tikvah in Northeast Portland, speaking generally. The rationale for secrecy? “Legal boundaries are not respected nowadays.

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[Congregations] don’t want to endanger our ability to do this work by talking about it.”

Stone fears that showy proclamations of sanctuary may backfire by giving the feds an easy target. “I would hate the idea that somebody who was offering sanctuary to large numbers of people discovered all they had done was create a collection point for ICE,” she says.

Knutson isn’t worried about inadvertently assisting ICE. Sheltering immigrants from deportation, he says, is “meant to buy time”—and generate publicity that could be helpful while they make their case.

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4. Where will people stay?

Ainsworth United Church of Christ recently voted whether to advertise its sanctuary status by placing a banner on the building.

Congregants decided no.

Pastor Lynne Smouse Lopez says that’s because her congregation didn’t want to make promises they weren’t yet prepared to keep. One complication: A possible shelter space in the church basement is currently occupied by a day center for people with HIV and AIDS. “You need spaces for people to sleep,” says Dwyer, a parishioner at Ainsworth. “You need spaces for people to shower. You need spaces where people can be relatively quiet. You also need people to cook meals, and people to provide accompaniment—so someone is at the church building at all times.”

At Augustana, Knutson shows a reporter around the sprawling church compound, which spans 24,212 square feet on two stories—plus the bell tower, which Knutson figures could shelter 20 people in a pinch.

Some rooms are already undergoing renovations. The church has installed diaper-changing facilities in the restrooms, and has builders on call to install showers at a moment’s notice. If a few families moved in, they might be able to enjoy private rooms, but if more should come, the cavernous underground space—or, indeed, the nave with its rows of pews—could be converted into dormitories.

“Say there was a real crackdown overnight,” Knutson says.

“That’s what church is for. The door is open.”

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SOURCE: OREGON WINE BOARD

Pork and Wine OREGON’S WINERIES ARE THRIVING—AND DEMANDING A MILLION-DOLLAR STATE SUBSIDY.

BY NI GE L JAQ UI SS

njaquiss@wweek.com

By any measure, Oregon’s wine industry is a great success.

In 2000, there were 122 wineries in Oregon. Today, there are nearly six times that many—702 wineries, bottling varieties from albariño to zinfandel. Oregon grape harvests continue to break records, with annual volume increasing nearly 40 percent between 2013 and 2015, and now totaling just under 85,000 tons.

Yet industry representatives are seeking a hefty subsidy at a time when the state is broke.

The Oregon Wine Board, which spends about $2.2 million annually on marketing, education and research, is asking state lawmakers for a $1.5 million annual subsidy to encourage wine tourism and help it sell more bottles to out-of-state customers.

That money would come out of the state’s general fund—the pot of money that also funds schools, health care and public safety.

Edith Rusch, a retired management professor who volunteers for the watchdog

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group Tax Fairness Oregon, says now is not the time to subsidize a booming industry.

Lawmakers usually seek to subsidize businesses such as solar or wind energy that are not yet economically competitive.

But the wine industry’s growth shows the business is attractive and can raise private capital.

“I think the legislators’ intentions are good,” Rusch says, “but we haven’t yet taken care of the state’s basic revenue requirements.”

A lot of crazy bills have been introduced in this year’s Legislature—a coffee tax, a tax on old cars, and a bill that would expel college students convicted of rioting. But those bills are dead on arrival: They’ll either never get a hearing or never move out of committee.

The wine subsidy is different, perhaps because many lawmakers have wineries in their district, and even those who don’t are fond of small, homegrown successes. After a Feb. 27 hearing, lawmakers voted unanimously to send the bill to the budget-setting Ways and Means Committee.

State Sen. Jackie Winters (R-Salem), one of 13 sponsors of the bill, was the only one to testify on its behalf last week. Winters, an

18-year veteran of the Legislature, acknowledges that general fund dollars are scarce.

But she says sometimes lawmakers have to spend money on economic development.

“Without job creation, we don’t produce the revenue that we need for family stability and other issues,” Winters tells WW. The wine industry’s choices of spokesmen at the Feb. 27 hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Business and Transportation were telling.

Making the industry’s case were Steve Thomson, chief operating officer of Salem’s Cristom Vineyards, and Jim Bernau, founder and CEO of Willamette Valley Vineyards in Turner, just south of Salem.

Thomson’s winery sold 35,760 gallons last year. And like most Oregon producers, Cristom is exempt from paying a per-unit tax on the wine its produces.

Bernau runs the state’s ninth-largest winery. Records show publicly traded Willamette Valley Vineyards is solidly profitable and rewards Bernau generously: His compensation from the company in 2015 was $436,446. He also owns shares in the company worth about $4 million and lives rent-free in the winery’s chateau.

Oregon’s wine industry, Bernau told lawmakers last week, has been a “huge economic engine for Oregon and a remarkable success.”

There’s no disputing that.

Oregon wines continue to command high prices—$38.09 per bottle shipped out of the region, second only to Napa wines nationally, according to Wines & Vines magazine.

Oregon wineries already benefit from a 1983 law that exempts that exempts producers of less than 40,000 gallons a year from paying the state production tax of about 67 cents per gallon.

About nine in 10 Oregon wineries fall below that cutoff. The result is that California wineries, which dominate the Oregon market, pay most of the wine tax in Oregon.

Not surprisingly, the California wineries dislike the possibility of Oregon producers grabbing $1.5 million of that tax money to find new customers.

Dan Jarman, a lobbyist for the Oregon Winegrowers Association, acknowledges the state’s wineries are flourishing. But he also says their share of the market is small, both here and across the country. Oregon wineries account for just 12 percent of the wine sold in the state and just 1.5 percent of sales in the nation overall.

“How do we really open up new distribution and sales channels for Oregon wineries?” Jarman asks.

He says the $1.5 million marketing subsidy would return multiples of that amount to the state in the form of new jobs and more taxes.

Rusch says Tax Fairness Oregon is skeptical of such claims. She notes that the growers association could simply assess its members to fund new marketing efforts.

Rusch adds that the tradeoff is easy to calculate: Giving the wineries what they want is the equivalent of cutting preschool for low-income children or failing to retain or hire 176 teachers in the public schools.

“Every time you take money from the general fund,” she notes, “you have less that can go to school districts and other basic services.”

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BY RAC HEL MONAHAN rm on a h a n @wwee k .co m

Rukaiyah Adams traveled from Northeast Portland to Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Now she’s come home to fix the city where she began.

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n many afternoons, Rukaiyah Adams laces on bright pink Brooks sneakers and runs through the city she came home to change.

The afternoon run has been part of Adams’ schedule since she moved back to Portland from New York City six years ago.

Her jog sometimes takes her from Tom McCall Waterfront Park across the Steel Bridge into the Rose Quarter. As with many Oregonians, running helps her burn off the stress of work or life.

Pressure—she’s got plenty. There’s her day job as chief investment officer for Meyer Memorial Trust, in many ways Oregon’s most prominent philanthropic organization outside of Phil Knight’s pockets. Earlier this year, she added a volunteer gig, agreeing to chair the Oregon Investment Council, which oversees a jawdropping $92 billion of state monies and public employee pension funds.

On her runs, Adams says she often jogs past the challenges that bedevil Portland: homeless camps huddled under bridges, rental housing where longtime residents can’t afford to live, and the Rose Quarter, an ocean of empty concrete that, in what she sees as a historical indignity, sits vacant unless a basketball team is in town.

And to her, it’s all connected.

“It just burns my heart to see people sleeping in tents in a neighborhood that used to be about affordable housing,” she says.

At age 43, Adams cuts a distinctive profile: As tall and graceful as one of the new apartment buildings lining the Willamette River, she still looks like the basketball player she was at Carleton College in Minnesota.

In a majority-white city, Adams stands out: She’s a black woman who has earned not just a place at the table but the chair at the head of it.

“She’s a lethal combination of independence and brilliance,” says Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who as state treasurer served with Adams on the Oregon Investment Council.

To some of her numerous supporters, Adams is more than a financially savvy steward of the investments of huge sums of money. She is also the person willing to use the megaphone that her professional position affords her to challenge conventional wisdom in the halls of power.

And her ideas include using investments to create social justice and rectify racial inequities even while seeking top-tier returns.

“A lot people who want to make social change get involved in politics,” says Portland venture capitalist Nitin Rai. “She wants to do it with money.”

Adams’ story is a homecoming. But it’s also an upending of the status quo. She has risen to the highest levels in Oregon’s corporate and public life—and now seems poised to change it from the inside.

In a state meeting last September about the Public Employees Retirement System deficit, she laid out the stakes.

BRIGHT EYES: “We can’t just talk about numbers anymore,” Adams at about age 7 in her Adams said. “This is becoming a moral issue.”

ADAMS WAS BORN IN A BERKELEY, CALIF., hospital and grew up on Northeast Roselawn Street, in the heart of Portland’s historically black neighborhoods.

Her mother, Nobie Hill, worked as a customerservice representative at NW Natural gas company.

Her father wasn’t around. But Adams recalls a very stable community—a Northeast Portland where she remembers that black people, from the local police officer to the elementary school principal, looked out for each other.

“That community, if you had looked at it from a wealth perspective, it would have seemed underresourced and small,” Adams says. “But to be inside of it as a black girl, I was surrounded by people who knew my name and knew my family. The adults created this environment for me to be strong.”

Her great-aunt is former Sen. Margaret Carter (D-Portland), the first black woman elected to the Oregon Legislature. Carter recalls Adams as serious about her studies. “She has always stood out,” Carter says.

In 1987, when Adams was 13, she was plucked out of Northeast Portland by an elite private school.

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grandparents’ house on Northeast Roselawn Street.

Portland’s most gifted students and offered them significant scholarships. Never before had the school, where current high school tuition is $31,100 a year, had so many black kids in a single class, says then-admissions director Ron Sobel.

The journey across the Willamette taught Adams how to assimilate into a white world—“a black woman power,” she calls it.

She also maintained her sense of self. Her ninth-grade teacher, Clint Darling, remembers leading a discussion about Shakespeare when Adams asked whether there was a difference between Stratford-upon-Avon and Stratford, two names for the same English town. Her classmates tittered, recalls Darling.

Adams didn’t slink away. “‘Look, I just don’t have your family background,’” Darling recalls her calmly saying. “‘Don’t go laughing at me while I catch up.’”

Adams graduated from Catlin Gabel in 1991 as student body president. She was also student body president at Carleton College, and then again at Stanford Law School when she graduated at 25.

Before she graduated, she took a job as a lawyer at Skadden Arps in San Francisco, representing Silicon Valley investors. Skadden Arps is often called Wall Street’s most powerful law firm.

She found practicing law unfulfilling, and within seven years decided she needed an MBA. Adams started over, relearning basic arithmetic to get into business school. She worked 14-hour days as a lawyer, and for a year came home each night to study, starting with fractions.

She got her business degree from Stanford at age 35, and moved to New York. And she started to build a platinum résumé. But she says the neighborhood where she grew up never left her.

“My 7-year-old self with her hair in braids, with beads at the end, jumping rope, missing a tooth in the summer—she’s in me,” Adams says. “Everywhere I go, someone’s trying to whack at her. And I’m not going to have it. So I’ll kick someone in the privates if they come close to her, and that’s just the way it is.”

IN PERSON, ADAMS SPEAKS SOFTLY. On first impression, she’s feminine, even demure. She thanks men who catcall her when she’s jogging, and she spends her evenings on Etsy browsing for heirloom seed for her garden, where she grows tomatoes and Persian cucumbers for pickling.

Those habits belie a fierceness and commitment to social justice.

Last June, Adams gave a talk at Revolution Hall in Southeast Portland. She described her grief after the 2015 death of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction in Texas and died in police custody.

Adams said she looked for answers in the place she knew best: math.

She wanted to know what economic progress AfricanAmericans had made in the 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation. Pew Research Center figures show that the average black household’s wealth was $11,000 in 2013—that’s $130,900 less than the average white household.

Adams’ calculations showed that black households had no more purchasing power than they did in 1863.

“We have to get comfortable talking about wealth in a racialized context,” she concluded. “I’m forcing us to talk about it because I see my people don’t have it.”

Adams started thinking about economic power as she obtained jobs at institutions that had it.

Law school friend Junichi Semitsu, now a deputy attorney general in California, remembers Adams persuading him that the next step in civil rights progress involved black women in positions of economic power.

“One of the things that Rukaiyah helped me appreciate was that for an African-American woman back in 1999 to take an in-house [legal] position at a corporation is as much in the public interest as working for legal aid,” Semitsu says. “That was a very controversial idea for me to accept.”

Adams began working for Wall Street hedge fund IAM Asset Management in 2008. But after a health scare and a breakup, she felt the pull of home.

“I noticed some of my peers were more successful because they had the authority of place,” Adams recalls.

“I had never felt that.”

Adams moved back to Portland in 2010. She soon saw how the city had changed. Her old neighborhood was being altered by gentrification.

Census figures show that between 2000 and 2010, inner North and Northeast Portland lost one in three of its black residents, as black families were pushed to the eastern edges of the city.

Adams says she saw what she could offer Portland: She could reverse her community’s calamitous decline.

She has deeply personal reasons for wanting to help.

While she climbed the ladder in San Francisco and New York City, two close family members struggled.

One suffers from mental illness. Another has been in and out of jail while fighting drug addiction. Adams declined to discuss specifics.

A year after Adams returned to Portland, she was on an evening jog across the Steel Bridge when she saw her younger brother standing in a group of homeless men near the waterfront. It was his birthday.

“What are you doing here?” Adams asked him.

“Is that really the first thing you have to say to me today?” he replied.

Adams felt ashamed of herself. She knew it was his birthday. But she hadn’t called.

Adams felt her brother was sending her a message: “You can’t run fast enough and run far enough. You can’t just send your news of success. You have to be present in this community and visible.”

AFTER ADAMS RETURNED HOME, she took a job at insurance company the Standard. In 2013, she was asked to join the volunteer board of the Oregon Investment Council.

Scott Nelson, economic adviser to then-Gov. John Kitzhaber, attended Carleton College with Adams. He recommended her to Kitzhaber and then-Treasurer Wheeler.

Nelson knew, he says, that Adams would hold her own on a board that has typically included members such as Rick Miller, who made a fortune in senior and assisted housing and lives on an island in Lake Oswego, or former members Richard Solomon, the accountant for some of Portland’s wealthiest citizens, and Jerry Drummond, who was a mining executive.

“We live in a pretty provincial place,” Nelson says, “and [Adams] is exactly not provincial.”

In January, three years after Adams joined the OIC,

ment portfolio—trying to maximize returns to fund programs.

In her three years there, Adams has provided the foundation’s trustees with ways to invest responsibly. At Adams’ urging, the trust has hired investment managers who are women and people of color, says chief executive officer Doug Stamm.

“She brings a soul, if you will, to investment responsibilities,” Stamm says. “It’s unusual to see a chief investment officer using the bully pulpit.”

Adams, a traditional investor whose chief priority is investment returns, has set out to prove it is possible to get top-flight returns while vetting companies based on her values.

Adams’ work sometimes meant offering ideas to others. Nitin Rai, CEO and founder of health care data company First Insight, says in 2015 Adams gave him the idea for a new venture capital fund. The $10 million Elevate

“She’d have the Wall Street boys

squirming in their seats

with her line of questions.”

—Mayor Ted Wheeler

she became its chairwoman, officially elected by the board in February.

Adams’ appointment (which is a volunteer position with no compensation) places her at the center of Oregon’s most intractable challenge. Decades ago, the state signed contracts with its public employees that included generous pensions. State officials failed to set aside enough money for these pensions, and this shortfall in PERS now threatens to cripple the state.

The OIC’s job is to oversee how the state and PERS money is being invested, with the aim of increasing returns, in part to offset a sliver of this shortfall.

Wheeler says when Adams joined the board in 2013, she added rigor to the selection of investments. Her approach was quietly and patiently waiting until others had a chance to speak, then asking questions about the footnotes and appendices of board books.

“She was just fun to watch,” Wheeler says. “She’d have the Wall Street boys squirming in their seats with her line of questions.”

Adams has used her role as more than a bean-counter to emerge as a leader warning state officials that a reckoning on PERS is looming.

Adams fears the PERS shortfall will hit hardest those who can least afford it. “Poorer people will carry a heavier burden,” she says. “If we have to fill that $20 billion gap in larger class sizes, kids in far East Portland or in Dundee or John Day don’t have school foundations that can supplement the loss in revenue. This is impacting real people.”

WITHIN A FEW YEARS OF RETURNING TO PORTLAND, Adams caught the attention of the upper brass at Meyer Memorial Trust.

The trust was created from the estate of Fred Grubmeyer, the German-born storekeeper who built Fred Meyer into a huge chain of superstores. The trust distributes roughly $35 million in grants each year to Oregon education, affordable housing and environmental programs.

In 2014, Adams became chief investment officer at Meyer. She oversees the trust’s $750 million invest-

Capital fund aids new companies started by minorities, veterans, women and others in the Pacific Northwest.

“I‘m doing it for Rukaiyah,” Rai says. “She evoked something inside me that I didn’t know I had. My whole focus in life now is to serve underserved communities.”

Elevate Capital has invested in at least half a dozen startups, including an app that blocks names from résumés to reduce hiring biases, a kids’ apparel company, and a Yelp-style website for Latinos.

Adams wants to go further—and use the Meyer Memorial Trust’s investments to aggressively shape social policy, including fighting the gentrification that has hollowed out the city’s black population.

The trust has invested in mortgages in foreclosure— “distressed securities” in the language of the business.

Adams is proposing alternatives.

Her biggest idea: Allow renters and local business owners to invest in their own neighborhoods by owning a stake in their own buildings and others nearby.

Here’s how it would work: A company funded by Meyer Memorial Trust would raise at least $100 million and invest it in affordable housing through a “real estate investment trust.” It would then invite renters to essentially buy stock in those buildings and others.

“Imagine if the people who live in the neighborhood could actually invest in it,” Adams says.

The idea of residents having an ownership stake in a community rather than an individual property is nearly unheard of, even in affordable housing, says Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.

“It’s exciting,” says Williams, who cautions that real estate investments can also be risky. “Meyer Memorial Trust has a long reputation for being creative in socially responsible investments.”

There’s one place in particular where Adams thinks this idea might work: the neighborhoods of North and Northeast Portland, where she grew up.

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“I want

the most vulnerable people to have the benefit of someone at the table when thereʼs a chance to shape policy and wealth.”

—Rukaiyah Adams

W

hile Adams works in the Pearl District, runs along the Willamette and lives on the westside, some of her free time is focused on the concrete desert better known as the Rose Quarter. The district surrounds Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum and, to her, is one of Portland’s greatest shames.

Memorial Coliseum was built in 1960 and was the home of the Bill Walton-led Trail Blazers in 1977, when they won their only NBA title. The Rose Garden, now Moda Center, replaced Memorial Coliseum in 1995 as the Blazers’ home arena, and since then, multiple ideas for development in the area have floundered.

To Adams, the Rose Quarter is one of the great injustices committed by the city in the name of urban renewal.

In 1956, Portland voters approved the clearing of 22 acres of property to build Memorial Coliseum. According to a tally by Portland State University professor Karen Gibson, the project razed businesses and 476 houses, half of them home to African-Americans. Adams says the district’s residents included her great-grandmother.

The Portland Development Commission, the city agency responsible for renovating “blighted” neighborhoods, was founded in 1958—just before Memorial Coliseum’s construction. In the 1960s, the PDC razed nearly 200 more nearby homes to expand Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.

Adams doesn’t mince words when talking about the PDC’s role in destroying black neighborhoods.

“In essence, PDC intentionally and systematically destroyed the black community and converted community wealth into individual wealth,” she says. “And because we separated development work from housing, they weren’t on the hook for the problems they helped to create.”

In recent months, Adams has been lending her influence to a group that includes a private developer, business people and community members who are proposing a new vision for the Rose Quarter.

The private group, brought together by Moda Health executive vice president Steve Wynne, won’t discuss the details of the concept, but it will include affordable housing, Adams says.

Her involvement with Wynne’s group lends it heft— she serves as a representative of black Portlanders who were evicted.

Former City Commissioner Jim Francesconi, who now works for Moda Health, says the group’s work will “reverse gentrification” in North and Northeast Portland.

Francesconi and former NW Natural CEO Gregg Kantor met with Wheeler in August, when he was not yet in office, according to the mayor’s spokesman. They are one of at least three groups he’s heard from regarding the Rose Quarter. Wheeler’s spokesman, Michael Cox, says the mayor will debut a city strategy in July to “kickstart the Rose Quarter redevelopment.”

PDC director Kimberly Branam says she is unfamiliar with the specifics of the group’s proposal. But she agreed that her agency must take a different approach. “With

any kind of public investment,” she says, “one of the primary questions we need to ask is, who benefits from it?”

Adams says she looks forward to the day when PDCfunded buildings “are named after Kwame, or Keisha or Joachim, and not just Elizabeth, Henry and you know the names of the buildings in the Pearl.”

Adams knows this race is a marathon.

She’s tackling problems that have existed for decades—the pension deficit and the challenges in the Rose Quarter—and are pieces of bigger challenges without easy solutions.

“I’m walking on hot coals,” Adams says of her work at Meyer Memorial Trust. “I feel called to step into my voice as a black woman and inevitably that means some talk about race and some talk about social responsibility. I just don’t know where it’s going.”

But she’s happy with her decision. In New York, the paychecks were bigger but few in the community knew who she was—and nobody was counting on her to fix their problems.

Now, she sees the chance to determine a path for her hometown, her community and her family.

“We’re always responding to things when they’ve already been decided,” Adams says. “I want the most vulnerable people to have the benefit of someone at the table when there’s a chance to shape policy and wealth.”

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BY JAC K R US H A L L

an Francisco’s got the Castro. Chicago has Boystown, and New York has Greenwich Village. Even Seattle has Capitol Hill—but where’s Portland’s gayborhood?

Among major U.S. cities, only San Francisco has a higher percentage of LGBTQ residents. But ever since the collapse of Southwest Stark Street’s Pink Triangle, Portland’s LGBTQ population has no cultural home.

And we’ll probably never have another one: Nationally, gayborhoods are a dying breed.

Partly, it’s because of old-fashioned gentrification— think Ace Hotel and the West End restaurant scene.

But other reasons behind the decline of so-called lavender ghettos are less obvious.

According to a recent article in The American Prospect, among the biggest culprits are dating apps that make gay clubs less necessary to find partners.

And paradoxically, another reason is LGBTQ political advancements. Without much of a legislative agenda, big cities are finding gay unity to be less of a necessity—and more straight people are moving into historically gay enclaves than their queer peers.

If you ask most people why Portland doesn’t have a proper gayborhood, they’ll proudly retort, “Everybody’s kind of gay in Portland” or “We’re all liberal, though.”

“Portland is such a blue bubble, we don’t have the need for those types of enclaves like other parts of the country still do,” says Susie Shepherd, an early LGBTQ advocate who masterminded the 1976 booklet “A Legislative Guide to Gay Rights” for the Portland Town Council, an early local gay rights group.

But it’s easy to forget that progress isn’t guaranteed.

Just days after the U.S. elected an administration whose vice president wanted to jail same-sex couples applying for marriage licenses, the bathrooms of liberal bastion Reed College were plastered with slurs, with a chilling moral scrawled in Sharpie: “The white man is back in power, you fucking faggots.”

But it’s unclear whether the sorry state of national politics will lead to more interest in a sustainable LGBTQ district in Portland.

“With the coming administration, it depends on how much hate crimes start increasing again since before reform,” Shepherd says.

It might be impossible for Portland to establish a traditional gayborhood. But there’s reason to believe that’s a good thing. Here’s why.

WHY PORTLAND CAN’T HAVE A

ONE OF THE NATION’S MOST LGBTQ-FRIENDLY CITIES HAS NO QUEER ENCLAVE. MAYBE THAT’S A GOOD THING.

an early member of the Portland Gay Liberation Front and the author of a 1973 Oregon House bill that laid the groundwork for banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. “Some young gay men were at the time more likely to rent apartments rather than buy homes, partly because they usually did not have kids. And because of job discrimination, some gay men worked for the service industry, mostly as waiters.

Many of the restaurants where they worked were downtown.”

Shepherd says she spent most of her time with gay men, despite being openly lesbian.

“Many of the women at the time, 1976-77, were so separatist,” Shepherd says. “They wanted to own houses and were thinking about extended family. I hung with the guys because I didn’t want to go to tofu potlucks and process my feelings.”

Gayborhood

WE’RE TOO LIBERAL.

Gayborhoods have traditionally been hubs for those yearning to unite in order to fight for civil rights, open LGBTQ -related businesses, combat discrimination, or simply feel at home. And though Portland does still have gay bars and clubs, these bars are peeking out from an open casket, and their numbers continue to shrink. Last year, Portland lost another—the all-ages venue the Escape.

Portland was one of the first cities with an openly gay mayor, Oregon still has the nation’s first openly LGBTQ governor, and city commissioners recently decided to make two-thirds of city restrooms gender-neutral.

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of Portland city limits—hinting that the city is running out of battles to win.

“Two decades ago, much of Oregon was hostile to the LGBTQ community,” says Amy Herzfeld-Copple, co-executive director of BRO. “In fact, this state was ground zero for anti-LGBTQ hate. Our work is more important than ever with this election, particularly in small towns and rural communities.”

Let’s not forget that Gresham was home to the notorious now-closed Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple in 2013.

Even as gay spots have been vanishing from Portland, they’ve been sprouting in smaller cities. Until 2014, Eugene didn’t even have a monthly gay event. And it wasn’t until the Wayward Lamb opened in 2015 that Eugene finally got a queer taproom designated to ignite community outreach.

Likewise, Salem now has a gay bar, Southside Speakeasy, but that wasn’t the case a couple years ago.

GAYBORHOODS ARE OUTDATED.

Recently, the LGBTQ world has finally offered more visibility for the B, T and Q parts of the acronym—people who identify bi, trans or queer. Today, a burgeoning gayborhood couldn’t be labeled a gayborhood. It’d have more success as “the LGBTQuarter.”

For a social minority long symbolized by a rainbow, gender is only now becoming less black and white.

“I remember in the ’70s, the area around Northwest 21st [Avenue] was referred to as Vaseline Hill because, you know,” Shepherd says. “That was the area for gay men. Lesbians lived in the 97214 zip code [of inner Southeast Portland]. Most of the bars were downtown and catered toward gay men, and now if any of those places are left, they cater toward gays and straights.”

In Portland, the divide between gay men and women may have been mostly logistical.

“Many gay men lived in Northwest, which was close to downtown and had a huge supply of older and lower-cost apartments,” says George T. Nicola,

THERE’S NO ROOM.

There’s a reason the Pink Triangle, Vaseline Hill and the Buckman neighborhood hub of ’70s lesbian life died out before relocating.

Portland has a housing crisis, which means all neighborhoods are in demand by everybody—genderqueer or cisstraight-white. There’s pretty much nowhere west of I-205 where any group could plausibly carve out a space for itself, even if those identifying with the group could afford it.

“Everybody was moving here and rents tightened,” Shepherd says of the death of Vaseline Hill. The Nob Hill neighborhood is now the city’s sixth most expensive neighborhood.

These housing-cost increases may not be a coincidence.

It’s already a fact of real estate that gay neighbors raise property values—a perception supported by a Harvard Business Review study in 2012.

But in more conservative areas like Gresham, the introduction of gayborhoods is linked to lower housing prices because homophobic neighbors reject living too close to LGBTQ residents.

If housing prices continue to skyrocket in Portland and the local LGBTQ population feels politically vulnerable, the community could logistically set up shop in the suburbs.

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The Bump According to lore, Pink Floyd’s mega-hit album The Dark Side of the Moon synchronizes perfectly with the film The Wizard of Oz, leading to speculation that the album was inspired by the 1939 film. Although band members and producers of Dark Side of the Moon have said this is coincidence, the legend—known as Dark Side of the Rainbow—lives on.

This weekend, Portland-based Pink Floyd tribute band Pigs on the Wing are re-creating one of rock music’s most famous urban legends at the Wonder Ballroom. We’re taking a page from the Pigs’ playbook and imagining some other Portland tribute bands re-enacting some of rock ’n’ roll’s most infamous incidents and urban legends.

RAMBLE ON AT MOLOKO

Led Zeppelin knew how to party in its heyday, but the band has one particular word attached to its name whose very mention elicits knowing smirks and shudders in equal measure: mudshark.

For those whose dads weren’t cool enough to share the tale with you, the rumor is that on a fateful evening at Seattle’s Edgewater Inn in 1969, members of the Zep...uh, “loved,” a particularly eager groupie with the aid of a mudshark they had caught with a fishing reel from a window of the hotel, which abuts Elliott Bay. What better place for Zeppelin tribute act Ramble On to re-create the mudshark incident, with a willing fan, of course, than North Mississippi Avenue’s premier fishtankadorned cocktail lounge? Sushi dinner included with ticket.

MOTORBREATH AND APPETITE FOR DECEPTION AT ASH STREET SALOON The early 1990s were a prime time for gigantic arena megatours, chock-full of now-legendary rock acts. The 1992 Guns N’ Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour—with Faith No More opening, naturally—was one of the big ones, at the height of both bands’ astronomical popularity, and the height of Axl Rose’s notorious show-canceling stage drama. On the Montreal leg of the tour, Metallica frontman James Hetfield narrowly escaped immolation when he accidentally stood on a pyrotechnics display, burning his left arm to a crisp.

GNR took to the stage after a long delay, but Rose closed their set early because of throat problems. Aggrieved Montrealers rioted, smashing cars and windows, looting businesses and setting fires bad enough that Montreal police struggled to get the crowd under control.

There are many rock- and metalfriendly bars in the West Burnside/Old Town area. But the Ash Street Saloon, scheduled to close in 2018, deserves a going-away party worthy of its raucous legacy. Motorbreath is going to have to take one for the team, but literally “Jump[ing] Into the Fire” would cement its legacy as the greatest Metallica tribute act in history.

GOLD DUST AT ANY NIGHTCLUB IN OLD TOWN

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By the mid-’80s, Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks had done so much cocaine she burned a hole through the middle of her nose, a habit so out of control her surgeon told her she was at risk of dropping dead. As part of the blizzard, rumours emerged that she had an assistant find a different method of administering her coke that avoided her nasal passages: through the anus, by way of a straw or suppository or whatever other implement seemed funniest.

Now, it’s going to be hard for members of Mac tribute band Gold Dust to belt out a rousing rendition of “Go Your Own Way” with their pants around their ankles. But if there’s any part of Portland where we can make that dream into a reality, any Old Town nightclub should do the trick.

SEE IT: Pigs on the Wing perform The Dark Side of the Moon at Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. on Friday, March 10. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

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BREAKING!: Breakside Brewery, winner of last week’s Oregon Beer Award for Best Large Brewery, opened its first close-in brewpub in Portland on March 6, adjacent to the Slabtown New Seasons Market. The 10-barrel brewery, expected to be a “hop lab” for hoppy beers brewed at Breakside, will be headed by Will Jaquiss, former brewer at Breakside’s three-barrel Northeast Dekum Street brewery.

(Disclosure: Jaquiss is the nephew of WW reporter Nigel Jaquiss.) The 16 taps will include house-exclusive beers, including a hazy New England IPA called Something Wicked that the brewery plans to inaugurate with regional IPA styles called the Seeker series. The company also has a new logo, which cost a lot more than the old logo—a chair that owner Scott Lawrence bought for only $350.

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RED FLAG RAISES WHITE FLAG: After 10 years, Kerns bar Red Flag will close March 29 rather than pay a drastic rent hike, the staff says. The bar had hoped to move to a nearby location on East Burnside Street, but those plans fell through.

Red Flag owner Danny Bortfeld was also an owner of the original Northeast Alberta Street location of punk venue the Know, which closed Nov. 30. At the time, Bortfeld told The Portland Mercury he would not be involved in the new Know on Northeast Sandy Boulevard because he was moving to Pittsburgh. Bortfeld has featured a countdown of days until Red Flag closes on his Facebook account. With 23 days to go, the page showed an angry John Goodman pointing a gun at the head of a surprised bowler.

DEATH TO THE MACHINE: Portland could be one step closer to a landmark legal case. On Feb. 1, the city’s Bureau of Development Services issued a demolition permit for a North Williams Avenue warehouse that is home to the 27-year-old Machine mural by artist Tom Cramer. As WW noted in a July 20 cover story (“Up Against the Wall”), the mural is protected by a little-known federal law called the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990. At the time, Cramer said he wouldn’t take destruction of the mural lying down . “We are poised and ready to go to court if someone touches that wall without talking to me or Tom,” Cramer’s attorney, Kohel Haver, told WW in July.

DELAYED DEBUT: A lost piece of Portland music history is finally seeing the light of day. In the early 1980s, the Boy Wonders played an integral role in the city’s burgeoning punk scene. They were the first band to play legendary club Satyricon, and featured a young Andrew Loomis on drums, several years before he joined Dead Moon. But the band broke up before ever releasing an album. Shortly after Loomis died from cancer last year, his girlfriend, Neva Knott, recovered some live recordings from his personal belongings.

Now, Spokane, Wash., label Resurrection Records has pressed them to vinyl. Taken from Satyricon shows in 1984 and 1988, LUV represents the first commercially available Boy Wonders music. “Andrew wanted to do this a while ago,” says guitarist Rod Batista, the trio’s only surviving member. (Singer-bassist John Stafford has also passed.) “It’s a nice tribute to him.”

The release celebration is at Sunshine Tavern on Wednesday, March 8—a year to the day since Loomis’ passing.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

Portland Music Video Festival While we can all agree the music-video form peaked when Riki Rachtman dove through Axl’s wedding cake in “November Rain,” people still keep making them, and some are pretty good. Tonight’s showcase gathers recent highlights from around the world—including a few from our own backyard—and puts them on the big screen. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $9, $7 students and seniors.

Pints for a Purpose Roscoe’s—the bar that smacked around a Trump piñata at its own birthday party—is putting its money where its bat’s swung. For a full day, Roscoe’s and a bunch of local breweries, including Upright, Sunriver and Crux, will donate all proceeds to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the National Resources Defense Council and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Roscoe’s, 8105 SE Stark St., 503-255-0049, roscoespdx. com. 11 am-2 am.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Gabriel Kahane Gabriel Kahane’s idiosyncratic pop forms a bridge between Jon Brion and Stephen Sondheim. His calling card is injecting high drama into humdrum subjects. His 2014 album, The Ambassador,, was inspired by various L.A. street addresses. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503222-2031, theoldchurch.org. 8 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

Evicted As far too many Portland families can tell you, eviction and poverty are linked in ways that tend to devastate communities. Sociologist Matthew Desmond, whose book, Evicted Evicted, is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, will present as part of the annual Everybody Reads literary series. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335, portland5.com. 7:30 pm. $15-$65.

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River’s Edge A cross between Twin Peaks and Wayne’s World, River’s Edge set itself apart from the more upbeat coming-of-age films of the ’80s by including a little murder—and a very young Keanu Reeves.

Daniel Roebuck stars as Samson, whose hesher buddies have to decide whether to narc when he kills his girlfriend and leaves her body at, well, the river’s edge. Roebuck will attend this screening. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-493-1128, hollywoodtheatre.org. 7:30 pm. $13, $11 students and seniors.

Morgan Parker To give you an idea of the tone Morgan Parker is aiming for in her new poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé,, she begins the book with a poem titled “ALL THEY WANT IS MY MONEY MY PUSSY MY BLOOD.” Imagine being someone who doubts this reading will kick ass. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com.

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Feathers and Teeth Opening Night Part campy horror story, part metaphor for grief, Feathers and Teeth is about a 13-year-old girl dealing simultaneously with the death of her mother and a mysterious cooking pot full of murderous, undead creatures. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 503-241-1278, artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm. $25-$50.

Baker’s Dozen Coffee Beer and Doughnut Festival Thirteen bean-infused beers meet 13 doughnut morsels, as beer writer Brian Yaeger pairs coffee-infused selections from renowned breweries like Block 15 with bakeries like Blue Star and Joe’s Donuts. Culmination Brewing, 2117 NE Oregon St., 971-254-9114, oregoncraftbeer.org. 10 am-1 pm and 2-5 pm. $27 advance, $30 at the door.

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 Trentemøller Danish electronic music producer Trentemøller started his career with one foot in the underworld, and he’s only gotten darker and weirder in the decade since. His 2016 album, Fixion, is awash in cavernous reverb and undulating swells of sub-bass that would pair perfectly with scenes from the upcoming Blade Runner reboot. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686, wonderballroom.com. 8 pm. $18.50 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

XRAY.FM Third Birthday Not only is the Portland community radio station celebrating its third anniversary tonight, it’s also launching its new television venture. Come for the premiere of XRAY TV—free with RSVP—and stick around for sets from R&B supergroup Chanti Darling and atmospheric folkie Karl Blau. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895, mississippistudios.com. 9 pm, XRAY TV screening at 6 pm. $12. 21+.

MONDAY, MARCH 13 Lindy West Through her column in The Guardian, her former position as a staff writer at Jezebel and her latest book, Shrill,, Lindy West has demonstrated she is one of those rare writers able to evoke an opinion in every literate human on earth, and all of those opinions are stupid, embarrassing and categorically wrong. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323, powells.com. 7:30 pm. Free.

Boreen Good Cheer Records—the local label operated by WW contributor Blake Hickman—has established itself as Portland’s most trusted imprimatur for lo-fi, high-emotion indie rock, and it has another winner in Boreen’s Friends, an album of fuzzy bedroom pop that evokes the feeling of flipping through a stranger’s faded photo book. Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, mcmenamins.com. 8 pm. $7. All ages.

TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Inside the Feline Mind Ever wonder why your cat is a total psychopath? Here’s your chance to hear Dr. Rolan Tripp, a veterinarian and animal behaviorist, offer scientific insights as to why your cat does weird shit like obsess over discarded twist ties or refuse to play the piano when you finally got the shot framed just perfectly. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 503-719-6055, albertarosetheatre.com. 7 pm. $13, $8 students. Minors permitted with guardian.

Justin Townes Earle While his last album, 2015's Absent Fathers, made clear that his own father, country legend Steve Earle, wasn’t around much during his childhood, Justin Townes Earle is proof that talent is often a matter of nature over nurture. Earle kicks off a monthlong Doug Fir residency tonight, previewing new songs in an intimate setting. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663, dougfirlounge.com. 8 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

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For a full day, Roscoe’s and a bunch of local breweries, including Upright, Sunriver and Crux, will donate 100 percent of proceeds to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, National Resources Defense Council and Oregon Public Broadcasting. Roscoe’s, 8105 SE Stark St., 503-255-0049.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 11 Baker’s Dozen

A baker’s dozen is 13, because it’s such good luck—and so the BD fest will pair 13 local-made coffee beers and 13 doughnuts from 13 bakers around town.

And you get to try all of them for a mere $27 ($30 at the door), and then lay out on your couch, stuffed with dough but wired on coffee. There will be two sessions: one starting at 10 am, and one starting at 2 pm.

Culmination Brewing, 2117 NE Oregon St., 971-254-9114.

10 am-1 pm, 2-5 pm.

3rd Annual CSA Share Fair

Want a basket of whatever food is fresh delivered at your doorstep every week? Want to make sure it’s not all random knobby gourds you don’t want? Each year the Hollywood Farmers Market hosts a meet-and-greet for CSAs, to match up people who want farm-fresh produce and milk with the right local farmers. There will also be workshops and food for sale.

Hollywood Farmers Market, 4420 www.shandongportland.com NE Hancock St., 503-709-7403.

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Where to eat this week.

1. Güero

200 NE 28th Ave, 503-887-9258, gueropdx.com.

Güero is back serving up city-beating tortas on 28th—but now with margaritas and mezcal, in a casually comfortable space. What could possibly be wrong? $.

2. Spitz Mediterranean

2103 N Killingsworth St., 503-954-3601, spitzpdx.com.

L.A.-based Spitz has opened next to Old Gold with killer Turkish-style doner kebab, booze and an open space with street-art murals. $.

3. Teppanyaki Hut

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

Behold, the sushi burrito!

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

4. East Glisan Pizza Lounge

8001 NE Glisan St., 971-279-4273, eastglisan.com.

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

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PILED HIGH: The open-faced trout at Stacked.

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When was the last time you were challenged by a sandwich?

No, but really: How long has it been since a sandwich made you think about the essential nature of bacon?

Portland-native chef Gabriel Pascuzzi—known for New York popup restaurant PN26—just opened a sandwich spot called Stacked in a nigh-unmarked storefront underneath banking firm Simple.

A menu full of fancy cocktails—think beer with tangerine and ramazotti—won’t debut until after March 10. But Stacked is already an impressive production. In its enormous open kitchen, you can watch from the dining room as a brigade of cooks tweezes fennel pollen and roe onto an open-faced, smoked trout on rye ($8 a slice) containing a harvest-toned bouquet of cross-sectioned apple and beet. It is a beautiful sandwich—and so its cooks can be forgiven if they pause service for a moment to Instagram the results.

What look like breadcrumbs on the top of the open-face elk tartare ($9 a slice) turn out to be horseradish that’s been both candied and fried, along with a shiitake-shallot duxelles. The tartare’s customary egg yolk was salted, cooked and spread across Danish rye as caramel.

Sure, the elk tartare gets a little lost in that thick Lovejoy Bakers rye—Pascuzzi says he may switch it out for lavash cracker—but it’s bracing to see this kind of ambition in a sandwich shop.

It’s the oxtail French dip ($13) that should pay the bills. That fatty oxtail is snuggled in gooey havarti caramelized to light brown speckling, its umami bolstered by pan-seared onion and crimini mushroom. The jus is the masterstroke, beautifully savory with a festive edge from rosemary.

Does everything work? Not yet. The five-spice or rosemary cookies feel like an experiment still in progress. The turkey club ($12) contained lovely texture and lovelier meat, especially that house pepper bacon. However, the tomato aioli Pascuzzi is using as a placeholder until tomatoes are in season was a bit of a wet blanket for flavor.

But then you encounter the shiitake “bacon” on the wedge salad, the made-to-order doughnut holes or the expert turmeric cauliflower among the pickles, and you’re right back in the fold. Stacked is stacked with ideas—we look forward to seeing them develop.

MATTHEW KORFHAGE. EAT: Stacked, 1643 SE 3rd Ave., 971-279-2731, stackedsandwichshop.com. 11 am-8 pm Monday-Saturday.

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Amoeba Session IPA (REACH BREAK) It’s getting cloudy on the coast. The newest brewery in sudsy Astoria, Reach Break, opened last month just a block from Fort George. To stand out in an increasingly competitive scene, Reach Break got a smart idea: make a hazy IPA like Juice Jr., the one Great Notion just rode to being our 2017 Beer of the Year. Amoeba is the best hazy beer I’ve had from an Oregon brewery not on Alberta Street. It has a nice light-amber haze and a load of hop flavor from dank Simcoe and bright, citrusy Citra. It really glows fresh from the taps, and a crowler left in my trunk for a few days didn’t do as well, showing just how delicate these hazy beers can be given all the suspended proteins.

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Buyer’s Market BEER BUYERS ARE THE NEW ROCK STARS OF THE CRAFT BEER WORLD. WE CRAWLED ACROSS TOWN TO RANK THEIR LISTS.

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Remember when a DJ was just a guy with a crate of records?

If you’re younger than 30, you might not. But in pre-Skrillex America, a guy with two turntables and a microphone couldn’t sell out arenas.

Quietly, something similar is happening in beer. The new rock stars of the beer scene are “beer buyers,” and, yes, this is a full-time job. They don’t bartend, they just pick the hits out of the crate and play them in the order that keeps the crowd hyped.

As we worked on our annual guide to the local beer scene—look for WW’s 2017 Portland Beer Guide at the bars listed below, local brewpubs and places you’re used to finding the paper—we noticed there’s an elite class of buyers emerging in the city.

So, on a recent Wednesday afternoon, four of our writers hit 12 of the city’s finest beer bars to find the best buyer.

We picked locations with notable buyers who aren’t dedicated to one place, style or tradition. We then rated the selection on quality, excitement, variety and balance. We sampled the beers to make sure the stuff on the board was as tasty as we’d hoped.

Our tasting panel was designed for balance and made up of Beer Guide editor Martin Cizmar (a haze fiend who also gravitates toward barrel-aged sours), Matthew Korfhage (a lagerhead who also picks tons of fruit beers), Don Scheidt (a Germanophile with a deep appreciation of all classic European styles), Shannon Armour (who likes sours, porters, stouts, coffee beers, black IPAs and pretty much anything weird) and Pete Cottell (who pretty much always orders porter or stout).

Every spot was rated figure-skater style, on a 1-to-10 scale with fractions.

When we crunched the numbers, we ended up with a result that matches our recent experience. Here are the top five— for the full results and an extended version of this story, go to wweek.com.

1. TIN BUCKET

3520 N Williams Ave., 503-477-7689, beercheesesouppdx.wix.com/tinbucketpdx.

Score: 8.86 Buyer: Jim Bonomo was the buyer at Beermongers from 2010 to 2013, and then sold cider for Reverend Nat’s before moving to Tin Bucket last September.

We didn’t realize how much we missed Bonomo. The former buyer at cozy, geeky Beermongers was out of the game for three years before popping up at this little growler fill station on North Williams Avenue last fall. He’s really impressed us since—the Bucket always seems to have a well-balanced list that includes coveted new releases and a bunch of old favorites.

Bonomo has a built-in advantage with

40 taps, 36 of them for beer. His large lineup means he can keep something like Arch Rock Brewing’s much-awarded Gold Beach Lager on tap most of the time.

“It’s never off, it’s beautiful in its simplicity, it’s thirst-quenching, and we have to remind ourselves often of the benefits of beer-flavored beer,” Bonomo says.

He shows bravery and great taste elsewhere, like with Barrel Mountain Starway Stout. On our visit for the Beer Guide, this beer stood out as the tiny Battle Ground brewery’s one gem. In fact, everything else was terrible. “I know I can hand-sell people on a beer like that which I know is great, even if they don’t know the brewery or don’t have a favorable opinion,” he says.

We kept ordering tasters, and we kept wanting more—a lager from El Segundo, a coffee beer from Breakside, a hazy beer from Block 15, and an imperial bière de garde from the Lost Abbey. It felt like Christmas morning, one of our tasters said.

2. BAILEY’S TAPROOM 213 SW Broadway, 503-295-1004, baileystaproom.com.

Score: 8.66 Buyer: Bill Murnighan, who worked his way up from bartender.

As downtown’s only elite beer bar, Bailey’s Taproom has a coveted niche. It stays on top through studious attention to its 26 taps.

“I have spreadsheets and systems, but I don’t want to bore anyone with that stuff,” Murnighan says. “I like to mix adventurous selections with proven classics. Our menu flips quickly, so I feel like I have an added challenge of keeping things consistently interesting while maintaining quality.”

Murnighan also works hard to check his biases and give a shot to a grocery-store beer like Lagunitas Aunt Sally or an imperial stout from Salem, a city that doesn’t have much cred with beer geeks.

“I regularly blind-taste beers and brewery samples to keep my bias out of the equation,” he says. “We’ve all had duds from our favorite breweries and remarkable pints from subpar ones. I just want my tap list to be honest.”

GOLD BUCKET: Jim Bonomo won the day for his North Williams Avenue growler fill station.

style analytics to beer buying.

“We keep track of every beer that has been poured, when it went on tap, when the keg kicked, how long it took, etc., and refer to that data during our ordering sessions, especially for seasonals, so we aren’t relying on anecdotal information or a year-old memory,” Morrison says.

Like a lot of other top spots, Belmont Station works hard to balance its 23 taps by style, strength and price. But it also tries to revisit some old favorites that get lost because of what Morrison calls “Ale-DD.” “A good example of this is the Deschutes Obsidian Stout we had on our nitro tap,” Morrison says. “I was reminded how it truly is one of the best nitro stouts ever when I had it at the [Deschutes] pub in Bend recently, so when it was time to order the next nitro tap, I snapped one up!”

There were two big blemishes on this tap list. The first was the Raspberry Blonde from Belching Beaver, a San Diego brewery, that one of our tasters said he “wanted dead.” And three blown kegs had not been replaced.

“We typically will replace those taps, but we were planning a four-beer showcase with Monkless out of Bend the next day,” Morrison says. “So we had instructed our beertenders to leave taps open.”

4. HORSE BRASS 4534 SE Belmont St., 503-232-2202, horsebrass.com.

4500 SE Stark St., 503-232-8538, belmont-station.com.

Score: 8.46 Owner: Joellen Piluso, the business partner of Horse Brass founder Don Younger, took over the pub after Younger’s death in 2011.

Score: 8.64 Owner and buyer: Belmont Station began as a bottle-shop spinoff of the Horse Brass.

Four years ago, Lisa Morrison bought it.

Morrison, who has been a beer writer since 1997, hosts a weekly radio show and is the author of Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest. In July, she hired Ryan Fosbinder as beer buyer. The daily draft lists are done by general manager Neil Yandow, bar manager Susan Luoma and Morrison.

Belmont Station is bringing Sabermetrics-

This old warhorse is still getting it done after all these years. As legend has it, the 40-year-old English pub was purchased on a cocktail napkin. It went on to become the first Oregon account for brewing stalwarts like Russian River and Sierra Nevada.

There are no TV screens here, just paper menus on which kicked kegs get scratched off with Sharpies.

Horse Brass has a lot of latitude given its history: While working on this year’s Beer

3. BELMONT STATION

Guide, two nanobrewers beamed with pride as they told me they’d finally attained their goal of getting their beers on draft at the pub.

Aside from a few fossils—Young’s double chocolate stout, a few Rogue beers—Horse Brass was better than solid, with a few surprises, like an uncharacteristic but wonderful oatmeal stout from Pfriem.

5. SARAVEZA 1004 N Killingsworth St., 503-206-4252, saraveza.com.

Score: 8.26 Owner: Sarah Pederson, who was the buyer when her eponymous pub opened in 2008. She took a six-year hiatus from that job before resuming the duty last year.

Our judges were mindful of the advantages that bars with lots of handles have, and strived to reward a small but well-chosen tap list, but you may have noticed that our top four spots each had more than 20 beers on tap.

With only nine taps, Saraveza was playing with a handicap. And yet Pederson still managed to get a score in the 8s.

“Having a small tap list provides little room for error,” she says. “There’s not much for a customer to jump to if they’re dissatisfied with the draft style of choice.

That’s why a thoughtful and knowledgeable curation is so damn important—it’s got to be a tight, smart list.”

Pederson says her list was “a bit ballsy compared to normal,” and we agreed.

When you only have nine taps, making one of them a smoked beer is a commitment, or as Pederson calls it, “A hold-your-breath kind of move.” But that beer was a lightly smoked Rauch from Pfriem, which our smoke-adverse tasters loved.

A really nice rustic cider from Logsdon, a double IPA from Three Weavers and an outstanding bretted and dry-hopped saison with mango from Yachats rounded out our tasting. Everyone found at least one beer they were stoked on—what more do you want, really?

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MUSIC CANON FODDER

RICK VODICKA

Amber Alert

IN OBSERVANCE OF 311 DAY, WE DEEP-DIVE INTO THE LONG-RUNNING RAP-ROCK POSI-BROS’ DISCOGRAPHY.

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In Canon Fodder, we revisit, re-evaluate and rank the discographies of music’s most reviled artists, to answer a simple question: How bad are they really?

Before there was the Beyhive, there was the Bro Hive.

Hard to believe, but we’ve been living with 311 for three decades now. When the band first emerged from the cornfields of Nebraska, busting rhymes over chunky-funky guitar riffs, no one would’ve put money on them surviving the ’90s. Somehow, they’ve maintained.

Today, 311 isn’t just a band but a lifestyle, selling branded vape pens and hosting Caribbean cruises for a devoted audience as fervent in their fandom as Phish heads and Dave Matthews acolytes. They even have their own holiday, observed, naturally, on March 11.

Music snobs long ago dismissed 311 as a silly frat phenomenon. But any artist with that much staying power shouldn’t be shrugged off so easily. So, in honor of 311 Day, we decided to dive into their discography to figure out what’s worth revisiting and what you should feel justified in avoiding.

1. Transistor (1997)

Critics and new fans alike initially hated Transistor for its noodly ambition and failure to keep the party going after “Down” lit up the radio, but this sprawling, 64-minute epic has revealed itself over time to be 311’s OK Computer. Aside from lead single “Beautiful Disaster,” which adequately satisfied the thirst of alt-rock radio programmers, the rest of the record is basically one stellar deep cut after the next. All of 311’s muscles are flexed across Transistor’s 21 tracks, from the tenacious punk-funk energy of “What Was I Thinking” and “Electricity” to the ambling psych reggae of “Inner Light Spectrum” and “Running.” Even the haters can’t deny that “Stealing Happy Hours” is a sleeper hit, now regarded as one of the band’s best, thanks to heavy rotation toward the end of 311’s marathon live sets.

Key track: “Use of Time,” the album’s contemplative centerpiece, which pivots between the band’s signature reggae-lite sound and an impressive facsimile of Dark Side-era Pink Floyd. PETE COTTELL.

2. 311 (1995)

Arriving in the direct aftermath of grunge, when the alt-rock airwaves were fiending for some posi-vibes to help wean itself off all the heroin dirges, the ’90s’ other Blue Album is where Omaha’s chillest bros achieved their idealized form. Where Transistor challenged even longtime fans, the self-titled album is peak 311, capturing the band at its chillest (“All Mixed Up”), broest (“Hive”), cringiest (“Guns [Are for Pussies]”) and catchiest (“Don’t Stay Home”). Admit it: You’ve still got this in the secret CD wallet you keep in your car, and rap along to “Jackolantern’s Weather” when you think no one is looking.

Key track: “Down,” the band’s first big single, which sounds like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” as played by a sentient bottle of Surge soda. MATTHEW P. SINGER.

3. Grassroots (1994)

6. Music (1993)

4. Soundsystem (1999)

7. Stereolithic (2014)

In the early ’90s, the notion of a borderless music world, where rap, rock, funk and reggae could coexist in the form of five Nebraskan cornhuskers, was basically the utopian dream of Alternative Nation, and 311 pulled it off with panache on its second album. Grassroots isn’t the band’s best effort songwriting-wise, but it’s the one that actually sounds the best today—a vision of what could’ve been, had they not gone so hard after the Rasta-snowboarder demographic.

Key track: “Homebrew,” 311’s first nolie, honest-to-Jah, really pretty good song. (MPS) Heralded as a “return to form” on the strength of single “Come Original,” Soundsystem effectively splits the difference between the raw energy of 311 and the cosmic explorations of Transistor. While time has shown this middle-of-the-road approach was eventually 311’s downfall, choice nugs like “Flowing,” “Sever” and “Mindspin” are proof that their wave of goodwill was still cresting amid the pre-millennium boom of boy bands and nu metal.

Key track: “Eons,” a spacey, midtempo riffrocker about PMA and forgiveness. (PC)

5. From Chaos (2001)

Just about everyone had a duped copy of From Chaos stuck to the floor of their first car in 2001, and for good reason. This album truly had something for everyone, first and foremost the legion of fans who heard bangers like “Sick Tight” and “Full Ride” and knew 311 was here to stay.

Key track: “Amber,” which quickly became the official summer of 2001 soundtrack for white girls drinking Malibu in the back of their Pontiac Sunfires and signaled the beginning of the group’s rapid descent into the dregs of radio-friendly mom reggae. (PC)

311 knew what it was about early on— dank buds, tasty grooves, slap-bass solos and busting flows like no one’s listening— but it hadn’t yet figured out how to make those elements congeal into actual songs.

As its generic title suggests, the band’s debut makes no grand statement beyond, “Whoa, music, am I right?” but the enthusiasm alone was enough to justify the next record.

Key track: “Visit,” the prototype for the blend of instrumental crunch and melodic lightness that would elevate their later hits. (MPS)

9. Universal Pulse (2011)

With only eight tracks, 311’s first record for Dave Matthews’ imprint ATO Records feels more like a stopgap rushed to market to justify staying on the road for another year. Half the tracks feel like they were written during a wake-andbake session right in the studio, which adds to a slapdash feel that bolsters the record’s energy in a surprising way.

Key track: “Weightless,” a serotoninpowered anthem that rides one of the most memorably buoyant licks guitarist Tim Mahoney has written to date. (PC)

10. Don’t Tread on Me (2005)

At this point, there’s no such thing as a casual 311 fan—either you’re astounded it still exists or you’re putting together your flip-cup team for the annual 311 Caribbean Cruise—so it’s understandable that the band wouldn’t bother coming up with many new ideas. But while Stereolithic contains nothing the band hasn’t already done before, it’s executed with a verve it hasn’t managed in ages.

Key track: “Friday Afternoon,” the best Sugar Ray song Mastodon never wrote. (MPS)

Having seen returns diminish, creatively and commercially, on Evolver, the band upped the reggae quotient for its eighth album and grasped at another “Amber,” with middling results. On the plus side, this is probably the exact moment when 311 realized that pivoting into a career as a literal cruise-ship band wouldn’t be the worst idea.

Key track: “Waiting,” a rancid glop of island sunshine so half-baked it’ll give you a new appreciation for 311’s shantsrap days. (MPS)

8. Evolver (2003)

11. Uplifter (2009)

Whatever you think about 311, over its first decade of existence, you couldn’t say the band ever seemed bored with itself.

Ironically, Evolver was the first indication that the group was beginning to feel bogged down and bummed out by its own formula. Other than the initial energy rush of “Creatures (For a While),” the riffs are flat and uninspired, and the mood is oddly deflated throughout. You might not think you want any 311 album, but you really don’t want a sad 311 album.

Key track: “Seems Uncertain,” if only to hear what 311’s take on psych folk sounds like. (MPS)

In a bizarre twist of classic rock metareality, 311 spends the majority of Uplifter singing about what it’s like to be in the band 311. The results are abysmal, with the majority of the record landing between flaccid attempts at “Amber” remakes and latter-day Third Eye Blind drivel.

Key track: “Never Ending Summer,” which finds our heroes reminiscing on the fast-and-loose life of touring and the lessons they’ve learned after almost 30 years of it. Let that sink in for a minute.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Red Bull Sound Select: Denzel Curry, Pell, Rare Treat

[HIP-HOP] The silver linings of Hurricane Katrina are few, but rapper Pell is one of them. The historic storm displaced the young artist from his native New Orleans, dropping him in nearby Mississippi, in a house full of family members and a beat machine.

There, he transformed into his current guise as a smooth-operating rapper whose radiant sound belies his chaotic upbringing. His discography is limited thus far, but Pell has the lyrical chops and delivery to turn a lot more heads. Florida powerhouse and frequent Odd Future collaborator Denzel Curry headlines, while Portland hiphop’s own power-trio, Rare Treat— Neill Von Tally, Myke Bogan and the Last Artful, Dodgr—kicks off the latest Red Bull-sponsored showcase. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm. $3 with RSVP at redbullsoundselect.com, $12 without. 21+.

Vallis Alps, Matt Maeson

[ELECTRO EUPHORIA] Australian electro duo Vallis Alps produces some of the chillest, most meditative pop out there—it’s almost as if David Ansari and Parissa Tosif formed the group per some doctor’s orders to play away the various stresses of daily life. Like fellow high blood-pressure relievers Isaac Delusion and Röyksopp, Vallis Alps operates in a soothing, downtempo format that carries enough nuance to keep it from inducing sleep. Vallis Alps’ 2015 self-titled EP is pretty, charismatic and sharply crafted, making it the perfect counter to the current daily barrage of political gut punches. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

DJ Logic, Object Heavy, Klozd Sirkut

[FADER FLIPPER] DJ Logic is taken with collaborations. He’s issued work in tandem with John Popper—yes, the Blues Traveler guy—and played with Medeski, Martin and Wood, among scores of others. And while these efforts enable Logic to fudge hip-hop’s boundaries, it’s his legacy as a foundational figure in contemporary turntablism that’s allowed his work to retain the sheen of ingenuity. While he began releasing full-length albums around the same time as the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Logic took a less heavy-handed approach, and his work remains as sensitive to melody as it does to rhythm, intimating that he’ll be in tune with the dance floor for Thursday’s set.

DAVE CANTOR. The Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St. 9:30 pm. $12. 21+.

Hungry Ghost, Sam Humans, Mujahadeen

[ALT-BLUES] Beneath the grit and hard-rock riffing of Hungry Ghost’s exterior is a decidedly bluesy core. If searing heartache were to take human form, pick up an electric guitar and go to town, it would look and sound something like this. The Portland act has been relatively quiet since releasing its self-titled debut in 2012, but local ears continue to ring from that record’s punishing sound. MARK STOCK. The Know, 3728 SE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

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Boreen WHO: Morgan O’Sullivan (guitar & vocals), Asher Groh (drums), Emit Martin (keyboard), Garrett Linck (bass), Harrison Smith (guitar).

FOR FANS OF: Alex G, Mirah, Mount Eerie.

SOUNDS LIKE: Striking up a conversation with a stranger at a crowded party and getting the sense that you’ve known them forever.

Over coffee he’s barely touched at Lauretta Jean’s in Southeast Portland, Morgan O’Sullivan makes a concession about his music: “Bedroom pop’s not a bad word for it, since they are pop songs made in a bedroom.”

He shrugs and laughs like he doesn’t know exactly what to say. It’s the same nervous agreeability found on Friends, the LP he just released under the moniker Boreen, via fan-favorite Portland indie label Good Cheer Records. By equal turns speechless and literately lucid, Friends’ concept is so simple as to feel completely new.

“I realized that the songs were about people, specific people with specific narratives,” O’Sullivan says. “I’d like to think that I’m always writing about people that I care about. But I realized that these songs, more than others, were stories about my friends.”

In the album’s vocabulary, and in O’Sullivan’s demeanor, it seems Friends was not entirely intended to extend past the ears of those it was written about. Instead of just being cute and esoteric, however, that quality actually gives it a sort of super-powered intimacy, so specific to O’Sullivan’s life that listeners can imagine it as their own. Friends names its characters directly, weaving through found-audio segues, bendy dreampop affectations and mystifying lyrical moments that somehow feel familiar.

Having become frustrated with computerized instruments in his early tries at recording, O’Sullivan became insistent on Boreen using just “real instruments and recordings of things that I heard around, like recording someone singing in a practice room at school or something like that.” Most everyone we hear on Friends has an organic, real-life relationship with O’Sullivan’s life—his girlfriend and sister both sing on the album, and some buddies took turns coming in to drum for him.

“That’s kind of a constraint that I’ve put on the project,” O’Sullivan says, “to only use the limited instruments that I have around, even though I can’t really play any of them very well.

But I think that adds to it in some sort of way.”

With Friends, Boreen invites listeners into a world that is mostly noisy with flashes of deeply personal sweetness, and the experience is less like listening to an album than it is living a day in the skin of a complex human being. In his actual life, O’Sullivan is a Lewis & Clark English major with “literally no post-graduation plans.” When asked why he started playing music, and if he’ll keep going, he says, “That’s a good question,” adding another uncertain shrug. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. SEE IT: Boreen plays Lola’s Room at Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., with Gillian Frances, Chain and Lutra, on Monday, March 13. 7 pm. $7. All ages.

Erotic City, Mattress, Strange Babes DJs

[LOUNGE FUNK] It’s no secret that we all miss Prince. On almost any given week since his passing, you’re likely to find a show or two dedicated to memorializing and celebrating the sultry styles of the Purple One himself, and local tribute act Erotic City has been the main go-to.

Frontman Julian Stefoni’s transformation starts before he even sets foot onstage—the mild Jheri Curl, platform shoes and glistening sequined outfits are part of embodying the Prince lifestyle on an everyday basis.

While he assumes a totally different persona, Rex Marshall’s steady return to performing as electrolounge singer Mattress has brought just as much delight. His gold lamé suits will shine perfectly through the expected fog and purple-hued lights.

Come prepared to slink about the Liquor Store and party like it’s…well, you know. CERVANTE POPE. The Liquor Store, 3341 SE Belmont St. 9 pm. $7. 21+.

Similar last year, and though its lineup isn’t the classic version, the album is rife with the progressive riffs it’s been known for throughout the years. Come relive the metalcore days of yore, as reminiscing about the better times is really the only thing that makes the current times OK. CERVANTE POPE. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 503206-7630. 6 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Milo Greene, New Move

[WESTSIDE STORIES] See Get Busy, page 23. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031. 8 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. All ages.

[FESTIVAL FOLK] The word “cinematic” comes up more than once in Milo Greene’s press materials, but it’s not just PR hokum that’s earned the group glowing comparisons to Local Natives and Lucius. It’s likely this quartet of annoyingly attractive youngsters moved to L.A. with silverscreen dreams in their heads that just so happened to manifest in ways more suited for the stereo than the screen. Slight them for their naked ambition all you’d like, but this year’s Never Ender EP is a fantastic effort that leans on male-female harmonies and cavernous reverb in just the right places. PETE COTTELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-2319663. 9 pm. $17-$20. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

Archgoat, Valkyrja, Hellfire Deathcult, Weregoat

Gabriel Kahane

Norma Jean, He Is Legend, Capsize, Comrades, Vigil Wolves

[METALCORE] There was once a time when metalcore and post-hardcore were the preferred genres of every cool kid in Southern California.

Bands from the American South, like Georgia’s Norma Jean and North Carolina’s He Is Legend, were some of the most rocked names in band paraphernalia of the early 2000s. In this world, not much has changed: Norma Jean’s latest album is proof of that. The band dropped Polar

[BLACK METAL] With perhaps the greatest name of a tour ever, the Angelslaying Fuckin’ Darkness Tour is bringing to the States some black metal OG’s from the world’s Nordic region. Archgoat’s satanic philosophy has underscored its barreling blast beats, guttural demonic barks and occultist, anti-Christian themes since 1989. During Archgoat’s 11-year hiatus, many death-metal acts came and went, leaving fans clamoring for the return of its primeval creations. Returning to action

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Helado Negro, Luz Elena Mendoza, Anis Mojgani, Daniela Karina [ELECTRO-TROPICALIA] The son of Ecuadorian immigrants and a native of South Florida, Helado Negro—one of the many monikers of experimental electronic producer Roberto Carlos Lange—makes music that is tonally identical to a warm summer day: dreamlike and loose, a little bendy and strange from the heat. His latest LP, Private Energy, in particular, sees Lange constricting his sound, which is not to be confused with stripping it down. Such statement-making songs as “Young, Latin and Proud” and “It’s My Brown Skin” morph into lo-fi, private and distinctly bothered moments. Invoking Devendra Banhart’s sense of vocal freedom, the impeccably produced collection is of-the-moment in every way, effortlessly navigating English and Spanish, electro and indie rock, its own inner world and the big one just outside it. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663. 9 pm Wednesday, March 8. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

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MUSIC in 2004, the band is touring on the back of 2015’s The Apocalyptic Triumphator, and having picked up Sweden’s Valkyrja along the way, it’s coming to America to show us how to really angelslay some goddamn darkness. CERVANTE POPE. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 503-2484700. 9 pm. $16 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 Lettuce, the Russ Liquid Test

[GALACTIC STONER-FUNK] Lettuce is one of those bands, like the Floozies or Eoto or, to a certain extent, Phish, that you mostly know about because your pothead college roommate would never shut up about them. In some ways, Cory with the unfortunate Baja hoodie was onto something. It may be predictable and relentlessly goodtimey, but Lettuce’s discography of high-stacked funk sandwiches is sure to satisfy any craving for party music. That’s because it’s actually really well played. Even taking all the usual turns of a soul-funk party tune—groove out, key up, add brass, fade out—Lettuce’s stuff is magnetic because it’s all there. The solos are compelling, the vocals rip, the beat never stagnates. The stride is hit no more convincingly than on Mt. Crushmore, Lettuce’s 2016 album.

Fusing vintage soul guitar and keyboard effects with space-age freakishness, it’s a solid throwback that lives firmly in the now. ISABEL ZACHARIAS. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 9 pm. $20. 21+.

Kinski, Drunk Dad, Marriage and Cancer

[STONER PUNK] Kinski’s 2017 record, 7 (or 8), features a few too many wah-wah solos to qualify as “punk,” but the Seattle quartet’s agile approach to stoner rock qualifies the band for designation beyond the fuzzy chooglin’ their contemporaries often get lost in. The sneering, zero-fucks-given energy of Lemmy and Ozzy are certainly there, so why bother splitting hairs? It’s easy enough to acknowledge that Kinski scratches all the right spots for anyone itching for loud, fast and groovy rock that’s just heavy enough to hear above the weird noises your old Econoline 150 makes while tearing up I-5 toward sludgier pastures. PETE COTTELL. The Know, 3728 SE Sandy Blvd., 503-473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket prices. 21+.

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 XRAY.fm’s Third Birthday: Chanti Darling, Karl Blau, Lake, Women’s Beat League

[SOUND AND VISION] See Get Busy, page 23. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

Trentemøller

[DARK DUB] See Get Busy, page 23.

Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 8 pm. $18.50 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

MONDAY, MARCH 13 Globelamp, Snow White, the Tamed West

[SWOONING POP] Elizabeth Le Fey’s Globelamp project embodies everything from ’60s spiritualism to psychedelic folk to ’90s grunge.

There are echoes of Grimes, both in the eclectic musical inspiration and the feminist bent of her lyrics.

Le Fey’s newest album, The Orange Glow, is packed with emphatic lyrics such as “I’m blocking out the negative,” countered by flowery, woozy, offbeat timbre of her voice. MAYA MCOMIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-288-3895.

10 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show.

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DATES HERE ALBUM REVIEWS

Elliott Smith,

EITHER/OR: EXPANDED EDITION (Kill Rock Stars) [REMASTER CLASS] Elliott Smith’s third solo LP holds a distinctive, bittersweet place in the collective memory of Portlanders—it’s the moment that marks his transition from beloved local treasure to renowned, Oscarnominated celebrity. For its 20th anniversary, Kill Rock Stars is reissuing the album, adding previously unreleased material and a hefty remaster supervised by Larry Crane of Jackpot Studio, which he founded with Smith in the mid-’90s. New Moon already collected two full discs’ worth of B-side material from this same time period in 2007, and the sprawling, internet-only Grand Mal tapes assemble everything after; KRS even released several alternate takes from Either/Or in 2012 to celebrate the 15th anniversary.

So there are already ephemera aplenty readily available online even for diehard completists. And yet, Smith’s prolific acumen for self-documentation still reveals several new gems from his much-harvested back catalog of unreleased material. The slightly somber but colorful “I Figured You Out”—originally gifted to Mary Lou Lord—is the quiet cousin to “Division Day,” while a stunning alternate version of XO’s “Bottle Up and Explode” features all-new lyrics and sonic profile. The intricacies of what there is to appreciate in a remaster are harder to specify. The performances are made bigger and clearer, and seem to bring Smith closer—something even those who were there the first time around will cherish by the inch. CRIS LANKENAU. HEAR IT: Elliott Smith’s Either/Or: Expanded Edition is out Friday, March 10.

Jackson Boone

ORGANIC LIGHT FACTORY (Raindust) [LO -FI PSYCHEDELIA] In many ways, Organic Light Factory, the new album from singersongwriter Jackson Boone and his band, the Ocean Ghosts, feels like a baptism. It is bookended by watery sounds, beginni n g wi th the slowly sinking “Nu Oshen” and taking its exit with the buoyant twang of “White Elephant.” It moves with mesmerizing comfort and grace for nearly the entirety of its halfhour playing time. And, while certainly not a reinvention for an artist known for his vaporous sound, the record is so well-assembled that it comes off as both momentous and regenerative. If there’s a tidal shift in tone, it occurs halfway through “Don’t,” when a mildly funky guitar riff gives way to more ominous phrasing and Boone’s best impression of John Entwistle singing “Boris the Spider.” It’s a telltale moment indicating darkness ahead, and while gloomier conditions do follow, they still fall within the molten sonic framework Boone builds at the onset. One of the great merits of Organic Light Factory is that when Boone does feel like throwing a curve ball—such as the Beck-like blues rant in “Blue Sunrise”—it tends to land nimbly in the larger sea of the Ocean Ghosts’ rich musical backdrop. Nothing feels out of place, yet nothing is predictable.

MARK STOCK. SEE IT: Jackson Boone plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., with Cat Hoch, Sinless and Wave Action, on Friday, March 10. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

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FIELD DAY: Thao plays Mississippi Studios on Tuesday, March 14.

Bebe Rexha, Daniel Skye, Spencer Ludwig

[EDM POP] At first glance, it might be easy to dismiss Bebe Rexha as just another pop singer trying to emulate Britney, but that description fails to acknowledge her songwriting talents and vocal prowess.

She has the ’tude and the chops of a Gwen Stefani or an M.I.A., but the 27-year-old’s résumé is also peppered with writing credits for big-name artists like Eminem and Rihanna. Newest release All Your Fault: Pt. 1 builds on her popcentric 2015 EP, adding heavier hip-hop and R&B elements.

Whether behind the scenes or in the spotlight, Rexha has all the trappings of a superstar. MAYA MCOMIE. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 503-284-8686. 9 pm. $17-$142. All ages.

TUESDAY, MARCH 14 Justin Townes Earle, Barna Howard

[SON OF AN OUTLAW] See Get Busy, page 23. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 503-231-9663.

8 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.

Thao, Johanna Kunin

[FOLK ROCK] Thao Nguyen is best known for being the titular lead singer of alt-folk group Thao & the Get Down Stay Down. The group’s latest album, A Man Alive, is about Nguyen’s conflicted relationship with her father, with the music veering away from typical acoustic guitar-driven folk and toward more experimental, riff-heavy indie rock.

As evinced by watching any of Nguyen’s live performances, she’s a virtuoso on guitar and banjo, and brings to life the earnest and soulful force of her voice. She’s got more than enough raw power to hold her own as a solo act—which is good, because she’s playing alone tonight.

MAYA MCOMIE. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 503-2883895. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

CLASSICAL, JAZZ & WORLD Los Romeros

[CLASSICAL GUITAR x 4] What the Corleones were to cannoli and crime and the Fondas to acting, the Romero family is to classical guitar. Starting with patriarch Celedonio—whose 100th is being celebrated with this year’s tour—and then his descendants, the Spanish family has premiered a startlingly high percentage of 20th-century music for classical guitar. So famous are they that they don’t even bother to announce a program. Isn’t the name “Romero” enough? What else do you need to know? For classical guitar fans, it’s an offer you can’t refuse. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335. 7:30 pm Friday, March 10. $19-$49. All ages.

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

[CLASSICAL] Though Carlos Kalmar conducted a Dvořák symphony on the same stage just a month ago, the lauded Czech composer’s music is already coming back. On offer this time is the Cello Concerto, largely considered the finest of its kind, with Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh making her Oregon Symphony debut performing this epic, bowstripping workout. The centerpiece of these shows is the world premiere of Portland native composer Kenji Bunch’s percussion-heavy new work, Aspects of an Elephant. Maybe he’ll dedicate it to Packy. NATHAN CARSON. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-2484335. 7:30 pm Saturday-Monday, March 11-13. $23-$85. All ages.

Concert of Remembrance

[OLD CRIME, NEW MUSIC] Imagine police and Army officers locking Americans up simply because of their nationality or country of origin, out of fear that they might pose a threat of terrorism. OK, maybe that seems a lot more imaginable now than it did a few months ago. But it actually happened here in the 1940s, when the president issued an executive order that sent 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry—many from Portland—to internment camps for years. As if to demonstrate the contemporary relevance of this historic outrage, several accomplished members of Cascadia Composers have written new music to go with an exhibition commemorating the order’s 75th anniversary. The free event, sponsored by the Oregon Historical Society, the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center and the Japanese American History Museum, features internment camp photographs by New Mexico photographer Joan Myers, poetry recitation by former Oregon poet laureate Lawson Fusao Inada, performances of music premieres by top Portland chamber musicians, and a video. BRETT CAMPBELL. Oregon Historical Society-Miller Pavillion, 1200 SW Park Ave. 3 pm Sunday, March 11. Free, donations accepted.

Portland Baroque Orchestra

[SHAKESPEARE SONGS] When we think of Shakespeare, we generally think about words, words, words, as Hamlet muttered. But there’s musical mentions aplenty in the Bard’s plays. So during the first great Shakespeare revival a few decades after his death, English Baroque composers wrote music for his plays. Soprano Suzie LeBlanc joins Portland Baroque Orchestra to perform tunes by Matthew Locke and the great Henry Purcell from 17th-century productions based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest and Othello, along with songs from Shakespeare’s own era. BRETT CAMPBELL. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 3 pm Sunday, March 11. $29-$59. All ages.

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MUSIC CALENDAR WED. MARCH 8 Alberta Rose Theater 3000 NE Alberta St Cheryl Wheeler, Kenny White

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Farm Animals

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Helado Negro

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Adelitas Way

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Sean O’Neill Band; Jessica Stiles Experience

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Tallulah’s Daddy

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Hustle and Drone, And And And, No La La

Nonna

5513 NE 30th Ave, May Picard

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The Fame Riot

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Dodgy Mountain Men, Band of Comerados

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, The Furies, The Mean Reds, The Sadists

The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave Marlise Stroebe

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Glasys, Fian, The Secret Sea

THURS. MARCH 9 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St 817 INC, the Sexbots, Eminent503

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Red Bull Sound Select: Denzel Curry, Pell, Rare Treat

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Zach Bryson & Meat Rack

LaurelThirst Public House

Erotic City, Mattress, Strange Babes DJs

The Old Church

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St Thursday Swing featuring The Juleps, 12th Avenue Hot Club

13 NW 6th Ave. Dirtwire

2958 NE Glisan St Kung Pao Chickens; Portland Country Underground

Ash Street Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

225 SW Ash St Mz. Etta’s World, Free!

Mason Jar

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St,

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Globelamp, Snow White, the Tamed West

722 E Burnside St. Norma Jean, He Is Legend, Capsize, Comrades, Vigil Wolves

Muddy Rudder Public House

Crystal Ballroom

8105 Se 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

1332 W Burnside St The Wood Brothers

The Goodfoot

Dante’s

350 West Burnside Whiskey Myers

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Milo Greene, New Move

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave James Counts Band

First Presbyterian Church

1200 SW Alder St. Scott Kluksdahl’s An Enchanted Cycle for Solo Cello: The Works of J.S. Bach and A.R. Thomas

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

A Chapter’s Breakout

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Woodbrain, W.C. Beck; Kory Quinn & the Quinntessentials, Anna Lynch

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Waxwings

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jackson Boone, Cat Hoch, Sinless

Muddy Rudder Public House

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Lettuce

Skyline Tavern

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Archgoat, Valkyrja, Hellfire Deathcult, Weregoat

The Analog Cafe

The Firkin Tavern

3728 SE Sandy Blvd.

Hungry Ghost, Sam Humans, Mujahadeen

3552 N Mississippi Ave Mr. Ben

Bossanova Ballroom

The Know

The Goodfoot

LaurelThirst Public House

1037 SW Broadway Los Romeros

2845 SE Stark St DJ Logic, Object Heavy, Klozd Sirkut

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

SCRU

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Architects

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Laura Stevenson, Completions, Erica Freas of RVIVR;Mike Damron (I Can Lick Any SOB), Stoned Evergreen Travelers (members of Witchburn), James Hunnicut

The Analog Cafe

350 West Burnside Karaoke from Hell

Hawthorne Theatre

FRI. MARCH 10

8031 NW Skyline Blvd Wes Youssi & The County Champs

Star Theater

Dante’s

830 E Burnside St. Wrabel

836 N Russell St GONZO, Enjoys Things, SEED LING

Mississippi Studios

8105 Se 7th Ave. Fern Hill

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Boreen, Gillian Frances, Chain, Lutra (Lola’s Room)

Doug Fir Lounge

White Eagle Saloon

2958 NE Glisan St Lewi Longmire & the Left Coast Roasters; Ky Burt & the Moonlight Travellers, the Pine Hearts

Muddy Rudder Public House

LAST WEEK LIVE

1422 SW 11th Ave Gabriel Kahane

8105 Se 7th Ave. Zach Bryson

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Vallis Alps, Matt Maeson

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1937 SE 11th Ave The Spirit of 206, The Basinbillies

The Know

3728 SE Sandy Blvd.

2845 SE Stark St Sonic Forum

SWEET AND SOUR: Some singers use digital effects as a mask, hoping to cover up pitch problems or other inadequacies. Amber Bain, the British musician behind The Japanese House, uses them to create an androgynous, polyphonic sound that has become her signature. During the best moments of her sold-out show at Holocene on March 5, Bain’s sound was a balancing act, flexing and stretching between analog and digital, weaving guitar, bass and drums with bass cliffs and washes of synth. At times, transitions between songs became disjointed: During “Leon,” a song from her November EP Swim Against the Tide, Bain giggled as the arrangement came apart a bit after she sang the line, “I love the feeling just before you go down.” But the hiccups were due partly to the level of artistic risk involved—this was no “plug in a laptop and hit play” gig.

Despite those flubs, the future looks bright for Bain, and the crowd was deeply appreciative. After performing the anthemic “Face Like Thunder”—“our least depressing song of the night,” as Bain put it—she accepted a pair of red chrysanthemums from an audience member. “That’s so sweet,” she responded. If the Japanese House’s songs aren’t quite sweet, neither are they depressing. And if the audience didn’t quite burst into actual dancing, neither did it shift its gaze from the stage, even for a minute. THACHER SCHMID. Nocturnal Habits, Eyelids, RLLRBLL

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave St. James’s Gate and Amadan; Radio Radio

The O’Neil Public House 6000 NE Glisan St. Mr. Musu

The Secret Society 116 NE Russell St Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys

Turn! Turn! Turn!

8 NE Killingsworth St Nuggets Night Fundraiser

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St Old Unconscious

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Pigs on the Wing: A Tribute to Pink Floyd

SAT. MARCH 11 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Artichoke Music Cafe 3130 Se Hawthorne, Artichoke Music Teacher’s Concert

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St Riverpool, Volcker

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Motorbreath (Metallica Tribute)

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Joe Baker Matty Charles; WartHog Stew; The Waysiders, Matty Charles & Katie Rose, Malachi Graham, Joe Baker

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Hayley Kiyoko

High Water Mark Lounge

6800 NE MLK Ave Ceremony of Sludge

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Garcia Birthday Band (acoustic); Moody Little Sister (all ages); Kris Deelane & the Hurt

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Lorna Miller

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Red Yarn (early all-ages show)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 Se 7th Ave. Jet Black Pearl

Multnomah County Central Library

801 SW 10th Ave, Recorder Orchestra of Oregon

Revolution Hall

1300 SE Stark St #110 The Brothers Comatose

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave Lettuce

Skyline Tavern

8031 NW Skyline Blvd BundyBand

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Climb the Moon

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave New Not Normals, Shed Incorporated, Sin City Ramblers

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Eminence Ensemble, Yak Attack

The Know

3728 SE Sandy Blvd.

Kinski, Drunk Dad, Marriage and Cancer

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Volt Divers

SUN. MARCH 12 Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Kings And Vagabonds, The Toads

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Birds of Chicago

Duff’s Garage

2530 NE 82nd Ave Curley Taylor

First Presbyterian Church

1200 SW Alder St. Scott Kluksdahl’s An Enchanted Cycle for Solo Cello: The Works of J.S. Bach and A.R. Thomas

Kaul Auditorium (at Reed College)

Dany Laj & the Looks, Muscle Dungeon, Brave Hands

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St Kulululu, Dreckig

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Soriah, Hom

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave Resound NW Winter Concert

The O’Neil Public House

6000 NE Glisan St. Mrs Doyle & The Teapots

The Secret Society

116 NE Russell St W.C. Beck, Wanderlodge, Barna Howard

The Know

3728 SE Sandy Blvd.

Big Business

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Hide X

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St Chasing Ebenezer

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Bebe Rexha, Daniel Skye, Spencer Ludwig

TUES. MARCH 14 Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St The Rays, Species Unknown

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St Lake Street Dive

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Justin Townes Earle

Hawthorne Theatre

1507 SE César E. Chávez Blvd.

Sisyphean Conscience

LaurelThirst Public House

2958 NE Glisan St Jackstraw; Mick Overman & The Maniacs

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave Baby Ketten Karaoke

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Thao, Johanna Kunin

Twilight Cafe and Bar

The Old Church

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Portland Baroque Orchestra

1420 SE Powell Vibrissae, The Hood and The Lyre, Rachael Miles

Raven and Rose

The O’Neil Public House

LaurelThirst Public House

Twilight Cafe and Bar

The Analog Cafe

1422 SW 11th Ave InCity Worship

The Ranger Station

2958 NE Glisan St Julie & the WayVes (all ages); Freak Mountain Ramblers

The Secret Society

3939 N Mississippi Ave. XRAY.FM’s 3rd Birthday Party with Chanti Darling and Karl Blau

6000 NE Glisan St. Odell’s Mystery Trio 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

E-Wayne Jones and Friends

116 NE Russell St The Jenny Finn Orchestr; Lincoln Barr, Dominic Castillo, Swansea

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St Robin Jackson and the Caravan

Mississippi Studios

Oregon Historical Society’s Miller Pavillion

1200 SW Park Ave. Concert of Remembrance

Pop Tavern

825 N. Killingsworth

1420 SE Powell The Collection, Sisters, Chris Molitor

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Trentemøller

1331 SW Broadway, Na Rósaí 720 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Rose Room Swing Dance

The Goodfoot

2845 SE Stark St Boyz II Gentlemen

The Know

MON. MARCH 13 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St Dwight Church, Dwight Dickinson, Eddie Kancer, Bad Sex, The Sadists

3728 SE Sandy Blvd.

Big Business

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Mink Shoals, Small Million

The Ranger Station 4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Bluegrass Tuesday

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James Vance

Years DJing: I started collecting records in 1998 and began DJing club residencies in 2002. My friends back then said that was too quick of a transition—back then, the norm was five to 10 years DJing in the basement, perfecting your craft, before you dare step into a club. Times have changed a bit since then.

Genre: Modern-, electro- and boogie-funk, ’90s R&B, West Coast rap and club slaps on the weekend.

Where you can catch me regularly: At #OnTheOneTues, my five-year-running weekly dedicated to funk, every Tuesday at Swift Lounge; last Thursday at Century for Return of the Mack, a night of ’90s R&B and West Coast classics; and every Friday and Saturday at Vault Martini, mixing up club classics from the past 20 years.

Craziest gig: I can’t speak about anything crazy without putting reputable people on blast, but a fun one that comes to mind is the time I was DJing an underground hip-hop show and saw Shock G from Digital Underground sitting at the bar. We called him up onstage and he performed “Same Song.”

My go-to records: Tuxedo, “Number One”; Thundercat, “Oh Sheit It’s X”; Anderson Paak featuring Sir, “Already”; Dam-Funk, “The Sky Is Ours”; Cassie, “Me & U”; One Way, “Cutie Pie.” Don’t ever ask me to play…: Any song while I’m in the middle of a mix. If you see me cutting in a record and fading a song out, take a knee.

NEXT GIG: James Vance spins at Vault Martini, 226 NW 12th Ave., on Friday, March 10.

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Shadowplay (goth)

Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Behind The Groove

WED. MARCH 8 Dig A Pony

Black Book

Ground Kontrol

Crush Bar

736 SE Grand Ave. Marti 511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Popcorn Mixed Signals (electronic)

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

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Smooth Hopperator

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Suzanne Bummers

The Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand Ave Event Horizon

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Easy Egg

Valentines

232 SW Ankeny St DJ Rockit: Prince vs M.J.

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THUR. MARCH 9 20 NW 3rd Ave Ladies Night (rap, r&b) 1400 SE Morrison Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Dig A Pony

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

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ EPOR DJ Rob F Switch

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Deep Disco

Mad Hanna

6129 NE Fremont St Dessicant

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. NorthernDraw (funk, hiphop, soul)

Valentines 232 SW Ankeny St Living On Video

FRI. MARCH 10 45 East

315 SE 3rd Ave MK (marc kinchen)

Black Book

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

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St 80s Video Dance Attack

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Maxx Bass (funk, boogie)

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ Mechlo (retrowave)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Dance Yourself Clean

Killingsworth Dynasty 832 N Killingsworth St Cake Party

Where to drink this week.

1.

Breakside Brewery

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BAR REVIEW @WillametteWeek

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1570 NW 22nd Ave., 503-444-7597, breakside.com.

Breakside is open in Slabtown. It’s a triple-decker pub, with a rooftop bar planned for summer, and has an opening lineup that includes a killer plum gose and—gasp—a hazy IPA.

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Bardot

626 SW Park Ave., 503-914-5799, bardotpdx.com.

At Bardot in downtown, you can do a $15 blind flight in which you try to guess the age and origin of the wine to get the pours for free. You’ll totally lose, but the wine’s good.

3.

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.

4.

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.

5.

Parasol Bar

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

In the former Biwa space, Parasol is slowly figuring itself out. Beats and karaoke at Biwa? How strange.

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. King Tim 33 1/3 (aqua boogie, underwater rhymes)

Nyx

215 W Burnside St. Doc Martin (SubLevel L.A.)

Quarterworld

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Quarter Flashback (80s)

Saucebox

214 N Broadway St Chelsea Starr

THREE CAP: A great room in a bad location can often outlive its concept.

Nob Hill’s Laurelwood/Northwest Public House/Huckleberry Pub/Peddler and Pen/Pelican’s Waiting Room/Waiting Room springs immediately to mind. So does the space now home to NightCap (2035 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 503-477-4252). Stranded alone on a fast-moving stretch of Chavez Boulevard between Hawthorne and Division, this homey nook was originally built out as the Kingdom of Roosevelt, a “wild game” restaurant that served fallow deer heart tartare and wood pigeon liver custard. That spot was designed and built by Eric Bechard, the restless and talented chef now running a wonderful little tavern in Astoria called Albatross. Last summer, Bechard told me he thought of himself as an interior designer as much as a chef. NightCap’s pleasant, versatile space—with dark walls, antler chandeliers and deep wooden booths—is a testament to his prowess. By day, it’s still Trinket, the nice brunch spot Bechard’s former crew opened after taking the keys. By night, it’s NightCap, a new spot for cocktails and desserts. It’s my favorite use yet of the space, a quiet place to drop in for a Mumbai Margarita ($8) or a $6 glass of cheap French red. Trinket’s pastries have always been good, and I’d love a slice of salted honey pie ($6) with a glass of bourbon.

When it comes to nightlife, for my taste, Hawthorne tends to lack nice things while Division feels a little harried. NightCap splits the difference. And so it’s a place I intend to use quite literally. MARTIN CIZMAR. Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave Global Based: Rawtek

Black Book

Valentines

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

Crystal Ballroom

Whiskey Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday

315 SE 3rd Ave DJ Craze 20 NW 3rd Ave The Ruckus (rap, r&b, club)

Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Freaky Outty (floor fillers)

The Liquor Store

Ground Kontrol

The Lovecraft Bar

Holocene

The Secret Society

Mississippi Studios

421 SE Grand Ave NecroNancy

116 NE Russell St Bollywood Carnival Mardi Gras Masquerade w/ JaiHo! & PDX Samba

Tryst

19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ Bad Wizard (soul, 90s)

232 SW Ankeny St DJ Rockit (demons)

45 East

The Goodfoot

3341 SE Belmont St, Believe You Me (house music)

Valentines

The Lovecraft Bar

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

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

214 N Broadway St FEMME 421 SE Grand Ave Musick For Mannequins w/ DDDJJJ666, Magnolia Bouvier & DJ Acid Rick (sexbeat, creep-o-rama, hunkwave)

SAT. MARCH 11

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave The Hustle (disco)

Saucebox

511 NW Couch St. DJ Chip (r&b, hiphop, dance) 1001 SE Morrison St. Verified (bass, trap, club) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Jump Jack Sound Machine

Moloko

3967 N. Mississippi Ave. Klavical (modern soul, heavy breaks, hip-hop)

232 SW Ankeny St Devil’s Pie (hip hop, r&b) 31 NW 1st Ave Shades, Ivy Lab, Woolymammoth

SUN. MARCH 12 Black Book

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

Star Theater

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

The Lovecraft Bar

421 SE Grand Ave Infinity Mirror (occult techno, esoteric ambiance)

Tryst

19 SW 2nd Ave, DJ Matthew Nicely

MON. MARCH 13 Ground Kontrol

Star Bar

R E V NE S MIS A BEAT

The Lovecraft Bar

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

TUES. MARCH 14 Dig A Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Lowlife (garage, rockabilly)

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. DJ Erika Elizabeth

Sandy Hut

1430 NE Sandy Blvd.

DJ Joey Prude

The Liquor Store

3341 SE Belmont St, Rev Shines (funk, soul)

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Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

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

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: sgormley@wweek.com.

THEATER OPENINGS & PREVIEWS Feathers and Teeth

Part campy horror story, part metaphor for grief, Feathers and Teeth is about a 13-year-old girl who’s dealing with the death of her mother, as well as a mysterious cooking pot full of murderous, undead creatures. Beneath its goofy, bloody exterior, Artists Rep’s production of the genre-bending play hopes to offer a genuine and compassionate look at how we process grief. SHANNON GORMLEY. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Sunday and 2 pm Sunday, through April 2. Additional shows noon Wednesday, March 22, 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 28, 2:30 pm Saturday, April 1. No 7:30 pm show Sunday, April 2. $25-$50.

In the Heights

Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, Hamilton, has been in the news constantly for the past year: first for its critical and box-office success, and then because the cast publicly asked Mike Pence to work for all Americans when the vice president attended the show, causing Trump to call for a boycott of the musical (it continued to sell out performances). But before Hamilton became a household name, Miranda had a hit with 2005’s In the Heights. The musical depicts three days in the largely DominicanAmerican New York neighborhood, Washington Heights. Based on a book by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes (whose work is the subject of Profile Theatre’s current season), the play is soundtracked to ’90s hip-hop-inspired music and grapples with cultural identity and ambition. SHANNON GORMLEY. PCC Performing Arts Center, 12000 SW 49th Ave., pcc.edu. 7 pm FridaySaturday and 2 pm Sunday, March 10-19. Additional shows 7 pm Wednesday, March 15, and 11 am Thursday, March 16. No show Sunday, March 12. $10-$15.

Winter’s Passage

In her adaptation of The Winter’s Tale, playwright Jennifer Le Blanc turns the play’s attention to two of Shakespeare’s fiercest characters: Queen Hermione and Paulina.

Hermione remains strong and poised even when her husband publicly accuses her of being pregnant with someone else’s kid, and Paulina, the king’s court’s defiant moral compass, is a badass who says things like “Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes/First hand me.” For this adaptation, Winter’s Passage, Le Blanc has added a prologue to The Winter’s Tale that imagines Paulina, Hermione and Emilia (Hermione’s lady in waiting) as young students.

Combining Shakespeare’s language as well as added contemporary verse, the play will include much of the original plot—Hermione is put on trial for adultery and her infant daughter is banished to the pastoral Bohemia where she is raised by a shepherd—but will also attempt to fill in what happens in the lives of Paulina, Hermione and Emilia when Shakespeare’s text focuses on the banished princess in Bohemia.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Cerimon House, 5131 NE 23rd Ave., cerimonhouse.org. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, March 13-14. Free.

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Golda’s Balcony

For the next production in their season focused on female cultural figures, Triangle Productions is staging the play that holds the record of the longest-running onewoman show. Golda’s Balcony depicts Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir around the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. Mainly set in 1973—a year before her resignation, five years before her death—Golda’s Balcony depicts Meir as she oversees her country during wartime and reflects upon her life. SHANNON GORMLEY. The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., trianglepro.org. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday and 2 pm Sunday, March 9-April 1. No show Sunday, March 12. $15-$35.

Chiflón: El Silencio del Carbón

Silencio Blanco’s puppetry is not your average kitschy puppetry fair.

There’s something almost eerie about the completely unornamented papier-mâché puppets the Chilean company uses to silently tell their narratives. Their shows tend to deal with pretty heavy subject matter, too: Chiflón deals with both love and poverty through the story of a Chilean miner and his wife.

SHANNON GORMLEY. Reed College Performing Arts Building, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., boomarts.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Thursday, March 8-9.

Free.

ALSO PLAYING Savage/Love

Imago’s production of Sam Shepard’s Savage/Love is a gem of contemporary theater. Instead of a conventional narrative, the play is a collection of 19 staged love poems brought to life through contemporary dance. The play’s ensemble actors take turns reciting each poem, while the rest of the cast evokes the mood and narrative through strange, and sometimes even silly movements. There’s no dialogue—the ensemble members briefly come to life when they inhabit a character or the narrator, while the rest remain in a sort of dazed, dreamlike state. All at once funny and sincere, melancholy and overdramatic, Savage/Love is an engrossing piece of abstract, impressionistic performance. SHANNON GORMLEY. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., imagotheatre.com. 7:30 pm Friday, March 10. $5-$15 pay what you will.

God of Carnage

We may like to think of ourselves as rational, civilized citizens upholding the pillars of polite society. Yet it takes only the slightest of provocations to peel back the veneer and reveal us as we truly are. So when Alan and Annette Raleigh (Don Alder, Sarah Lucht) visit the home of Michael and Veronica Novak (David Sikking, Marilyn Stacey) to discuss a fight between their 11-year-old sons, it doesn’t take long for strained, awkward conversation (exemplified

by Lucht’s brilliant facial expressions) to completely devolve into savagery—insults are hurled, hamsters are murdered, coffee tables are vomited upon. With each descent in civility, the characters become more dimensional, deserving of both sympathy and loathing in turn. Adapted from the original French play, God of Carnage depicts us at our worst and, perhaps, most honest.

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TWEAKING: Zed Jones and Peyton McCandless.

A Loss for Words SPECULATIVE DRAMA’S FAIRY-TALE ADAPTATION IS BASICALLY A VIBEY MUSIC VIDEO.

BY SHA N N ON GOR MLEY

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The second night of Speculative Drama’s The Skin Coat was a rarity in the theater world: Almost everyone in the audience appeared to be under 25.

Maybe it’s because the warehouse venue, the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, hosts darkwave dance parties post-show, or maybe it’s because of the company’s DIY ethos—it doesn’t have the support of big-name donors, which means a smaller budget but also substantial creative distance from the tastes of moneyed art-world types and the typical theatergoer.

It’s a freedom the company flaunts. The Skin Coat is completely wordless and adapted from the German equivalent of Cinderella, but without the evil step family and with an added incest attempt.

Disguised by a fur coat given to her by a witch (Megan Skye Hale), a princess (Peyton McCandless) runs away from home after her father, driven mad by the death of her mother, attempts to marry her. She ends up in another kingdom where she befriends the prince (Zed Jones). They fall in love when she attends a ball without her coat, but she runs away at the end of the night.

The play’s Facebook page features a long list of contemporary staging techniques: found-object seating; site-specific staging; immersive, devised and movement-heavy theater. But the physical production is actually very simple. There’s no set except for a crate, two goblets and, in one scene, a pillow. There is virtually no lighting variation, and the songs all play at the same loud volume. This creates a lo-fi edge, which, instead of seeming as if the company is trying to fabricate aesthetic cred, actually feels kind of earnest, like it’s another way the company is exercising its creative inhibition.

The narrative is fleshed out through slow, dramatic gestures and vibey Icelandic music. It’s almost like an extended music video: It’s more about a mood produced by both movement and music than it is about detailed plot or characterization.

It’s also helped along by the fact that McCandless has extremely expressive eyes. When the princess first puts on her fur coat, she looks at herself in the mirror with a wide-eyed expression that’s somewhere between amazement and fear.

But that’s about as ambiguous as the play gets.

Most of the gestures and expressions clearly convey what’s going on, which is impressive given the absence of words, but it makes the experience somewhat one-dimensional. After the princess runs away from the ball for the first time, the prince later finds her hiding in plain sight with the help of her fur coat. He stares dreamily as he gestures with his arms in sweeping movements, signifying he’s the one talking. Meanwhile, the princess’s eyes widen as she leans forward excitedly: Clearly, the prince is saying some very complimentary things about the girl he’s just met at the ball.

It’s simple yet ingenious staging, and there is something rewarding about understanding wordless interactions. But it doesn’t seem as if there’s more to get out of it beyond the fact that it works.

The Skin Coat’s theatrical possibilities don’t seem fully realized, but arguably that’s another benefit of their freedom: Their experimentation doesn’t have to reach a conclusion.

SEE IT: The Skin Coat plays at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Southeast 2nd Avenue and Hawthorne Boulevard, thesteepandthornywaytoheaven.com. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, through March 11. $12-$20.

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 ThursdaySaturday, through March 18. $15-$20.

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PENELOPE BASS. Lakewood Theatre Company, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, lakewood-center. org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, through April 9. Additional shows 7 pm Sunday, March 9 and Sunday, April 2, 2 pm Sunday, March 12 and 26, April 2 and 9, and 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 5. $30-$32.

I AM NO BIRD: Cassie Greer as Charlotte Brontë.

DANCE Companhia Urbana de Dança

Companhia Urbana de Dança fuses Brazilian street and hip-hop with contemporary ballet sensibilities, often to fast, intricate beats. The thematic and visual complexity of their shows are by design: Led by artistic director Sonia Destri Lie, the Brazilian dance company’s choreography process is highly collaborative. As a result, the piece channels the individual stories and experiences of the nine dancers in the show, creating a complex picture of Brazilian identity and the human experience. SHANNON GORMLEY. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, March 9-11. $25-$34.

COMEDY Spec Script: The Walking Dead

For Spec Script, comedians stage a reading of a fan-fiction TV show by someone who’s never seen the show. The show’s second episode is The Walking Dead as imagined by Shane Hosea, host of the podcast Hosea Hustle. SHANNON GORMLEY. Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., kellysolympian.com. 7:30 pm Sunday, March 12. $5. 21+.

Sean Jordan

Despite its constant outflux of comedians to bigger cities, the Portland comedy scene never seems to truly let go of its former regulars that have moved out to New York or L.A. So if someone like Sean Jordan comes back to Portland for a show, you can expect a lineup packed with regulars from the local scene. Jordan will be joined by seven comedians who have all racked up a lot of well-earned cred in Portland comedy, including Earthquake Hurricane host Anthony Lopez, Caitlin Weierhauser and Adam Pasi of this year’s Funniest Five and You’re Welcome, It’s Going to be Okay host Barbara Holm, and Funny Humans v. the Wheel and Awkward Phase host David Mascorro. SHANNON GORMLEY. The Secret Society, 116 NE Russell St., secretsociety.net. 8 pm Wednesday, March 8. $12 advance, $15 at the door. 21+.

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Embracing the Thorn Bag & Baggage didn’t plan to stage Brontë in a public library. But weeks before the show about the three Brontë sisters opened, the company was informed of the pending sale of the Venetian Theatre, its venue for more than a decade. With limited venue options in Hillsboro, the significantly smaller Hillsboro Brookwood Library was its best bet. So in the company’s immersive production, the Brontë sisters lead the audience past bookshelves displaying a Star Wars novel and posters of Nathan Fillion and Taylor Swift.

But it’s not difficult to ignore the library’s vestiges of modernity: Director Michelle Milne has configured the play for the library so skillfully it’s difficult to imagine enjoying Brontë anywhere else. By weaving the lives of Charlotte and her sisters through doorways and between bookshelves, she has created a production that physically unfolds.

The play is set in the Brontë family home in West Yorkshire, where Charlotte (Cassie Greer), Emily (Morgan Cox) and Anne (Jessi Walters) live with their cranky father, Patrick (Peter Schuyler), and their volatile brother, Branwell (Joe Copsey). However, it’s not a straightforward domestic drama but a vortex of stormy philosophical conversations and brainstorming sessions, in which surreal cameos by characters from Charlotte’s Jane Eyre and Emily’s Wuthering Heights explore how the torments endured by the sisters’ literary avatars may have mirrored their creators’ isolation.

The Brontës remain confined to their home for the majority of the story, although the vastness of the library keeps the play from becoming claustrophobic. It also helps that the cast seems remarkably comfortable working in an unconventional space, including Copsey, whose fascinatingly unhinged performance as the alcoholic Branwell heralds the beginning of the end of the Brontës.

That end—a sober reckoning with mortality for the three sisters—is almost unbearable to witness. Yet Milne’s inventive staging and the cast’s dexterous navigation of fierce emotional waters keep Brontë from descending into oppressive bleakness, allowing you to forget that you’re sitting in a modern library and, for just over two hours, to take part in the Brontës’ strange and lonely lives. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bag & Baggage moves Brontë from its theater to a library.

SEE IT: Brontë is at Hillsboro Brookwood Library, 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, 503-345-9590, bagnbaggage.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday, through March 26. $25-$30.

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VISUAL ARTS COURTESY OF SAM MIDDLETON

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LOVE DAY BY SAM MIDDLETON

Reconsider Your Gaze IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO SHOW WORK BY UNDERREPRESENTED ARTISTS. WE HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO SEE IT.

BY JENNI FER RABI N

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The exhibition Constructing Identity at the Portland Art Museum, which features more than 100 works by 84 African-American artists, asks something important of us as viewers. It remains to be seen whether we are up to the task.

There has been much talk about how our art institutions need to do a better job of showing underrepresented artists. Little by little, more galleries and museums are starting to do this. But if the remarkable collection of 20th and 21st century works in Constructing Identity is any indication, it turns out that showing the work of underrepresented artists is only half of the equation.

To understand or evaluate the work of artists who have been shut out of the art world, we need to expand our line of sight, retrain our eye and rethink our perspectives. It requires that we give up the dominant gaze, which will be difficult because it will make us feel uncomfortable in the short term. But until we are willing to do so, we will not be able to appreciate or assess the true contributions of marginalized artists.

I will use myself as an example. The first time I saw Constructing Identity, I quickly dismissed Marita Dingus’ hanging textile piece Blue Quilt because of what I perceived as a lack of craftsmanship. I have been indoctrinated by the 44

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aesthetics of white colonial American quilt-making, with its neatly repeating patterns and perfectly even stitching, because it is the quilt-making of the dominant culture and the only type to which I have been exposed.

I was wholly ignorant to the tradition of “ugly” or “crazy” quilts. I did not know that since slaves were disallowed from owning property, an ugly object was in some cases perceived as having so little value as to not be considered a possession, and, therefore, not taken away by the master. Female slaves made “ugly” quilts from discarded materials—escaping the master’s notice—and sometimes stitched into them topographical maps of escape routes, which the women shared with other slaves by hanging the quilts over clotheslines.

Equipped with this information on my second visit to the exhibition, Blue Quilt was a completely different piece.

It made me think about what it means to work with unwanted materials— something that is integral to Dingus’ practice as it relates, she says, to the way that “African-American artists were used and discarded”—and to give them new life. And in the jagged and uneven fabric strips of Dingus’ large-scale composition, I saw plots of land, tilled and untilled, the landscape of history, and the faithful blue sky watching over it all. I was able to view the piece within the context in which it was created as opposed to the one I have long been dragging around with me.

Similarly, as visitors to the museum, we can’t properly view the abstract pieces in this exhibition without reframing their significance. When an artist is marginalized, oppressed, unseen or misrepresented by the culture around them, there is an urgent human desire to offer narratives and figurative representations of one’s experience in an attempt to say, “I am here! I exist!”

So for an artist of color in America to take up abstraction, it is a different (and rarer) pursuit than for a white artist.

The responsibility of line and abstract form to convey identity and experience becomes much greater. In some cases, the pursuit of abstraction may mean that artists have been liberated from having to represent and define themselves to a culture that has ignored and misrepresented them, choosing to say, “I am here! I exist!” by rendering the pure forms that speak from the soul—an inherently defiant and hopeful act.

These are things to consider when you see the lines of monochromatic ink dragged and feathered across the paper in Norman Lewis’ minimal Untitled Abstract Composition, which reads like a map of possibilities. Or when you take in Sam Middleton’s Love Day, with its nods to the ebullience of midcentury abstract expressionism and the restraint of Asian calligraphy.

Abstraction is one of the six categories—along with gender, community, spirit, faces and the land—that artist, academic and guest curator Berrisford Boothe has identified the aesthetic and thematic through lines of the collection.

The wall tag for each piece is topped by a color-coded label to identify which category it belongs to. This may feel clunky or unnecessary at first, but there are subtle curatorial forces at work.

More recently, the Portland Art Museum has made the decision to remove its institutional presence and voice from the written material in the exhibitions that feature underrepresented artists, a movement that is happening in museums throughout the country, so as to better allow these artists to self-represent. Boothe fought to have PAM’s logo—a red P—printed on the wall tags. By having that red P on every tag next to every piece in the show, Boothe makes a thoughtful commentary on the role of cultural institutions in the lives and work of these artists. The red P disappears almost entirely from some of the darker labels and stands out in stark relief from others, reminding us how these artists have had to constantly imagine and reimagine for themselves their identities, their modes of representation, and their forms of expression in response to the dominant culture and its aesthetic preferences.

But you don’t need to see these curatorial subtleties to appreciate the show.

Taken as a purely visceral experience, it is overwhelming to be surrounded by so many beautiful and powerful images of blackness, not least of all because it calls our attention to how rarely such experiences are afforded to us. Also, there is a bone-deep feeling of amplification between all the works in the show, which was a welcomed if unfamiliar feeling. I’m accustomed to seeing shows in which most of the works feel, if not in competition with one another, separate and contained.

You will no doubt be called to the singularity of certain pieces as I was to Young Woman from Yoruba, a charcoal drawing on paper by Herman “Kofi” Bailey that held me in place until time became an abstract construct. It features a young African woman wearing a head wrap, looking off to the side, a circular patch of light behind her—but in her face, Bailey managed to capture something so universal that I saw all women reflected back at me.

Not all of the pieces in the show are so immediate. Some must be carefully parsed, and I am still learning and making mistakes as I push beyond the gaze that I have always taken for granted. But that is part of the process; fumbling is a sign that we are trying. It is important, through all of this, to be clear about what is at stake: The work of the artists in Constructing Identity doesn’t just represent African-American history, it represents the American history that has been kept from us. And we can only unlock it with our willingness to give up what is comfortable in favor of reclaiming a collective human identity.

SEE IT: Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art is at Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503226-2811. Through June 18.

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.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 Whitney Gardner

The debut young-adult novel from Portland writer Whitney Gardner is You’re Welcome, Universe, which tells the story of a young girl named Julia who is expelled from Kingston School for the Deaf after her best friend snitches on her for painting graffiti. Unfortunately, Julia isn’t able to teach her best friend the valuable life lesson that snitches get stitches, and she’s instead exiled to high school in the suburbs. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323.

7 pm.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 Everybody Reads: Evicted

readers include Michelle Overby, Izzy Ferguson, Chris Maday and Sara Renberg, with music by the improbably named Jordan O’Jordan. Mother Foucault’s, 523 SE Morrison St., 503-2362665. 7:30 pm.

De-Canon: A Living Canon Talk

Challenging the assumptions about what constitutes the North American literary canon, De-Canon is a literary series that builds a space for writers and artists of color to create their own approach. Poets Samiya Bashir and Neil Aitken will talk, while Racist Sandwich podcast co-host Zahir Janmohamed will moderate. University Club of Portland, 1225 SW 6th Ave., 503-223-6237.

6:30 pm. $5.

MONDAY, MARCH 13 Lindy West

As far too many Portland families can tell you, eviction and poverty are linked in ways that tend to devastate communities. Evicted is the National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist work of nonfiction by sociologist Matthew Desmond, and its relevance to Portland is salient. Desmond presents as part of the annual Literary Arts series Everybody Reads. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 503-248-4335.

7:30 pm.

Through her column in The Guardian, her former position as a staff writer at Jezebel, and now her new book, Shrill, Lindy West has demonstrated she is one of those rare writers who is able to evoke an opinion in every literate human on earth, and all of those opinions are stupid, embarrassing and categorically wrong. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

Christina Baker Kline

TUESDAY, MARCH 14

Christina Baker Kline follows up her wildly successful novel, Orphan Train, with A Piece of the World, which is based on the inspired Andrew Wyeth painting “Christina’s World.” The novel blurs the line between history and imagined history as it enters the mind of the painting’s central figure. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 800-878-7323.

7 pm.

How Soon Is Now?

Daniel Pinchbeck’s new book, How Soon Is Now?, proffers the theory that our now-unavoidable impending climate catastrophe was subconsciously self-induced by humanity as an “initiatory ordeal” that will allow humanity to reach a higher plane of consciousness.

It’s been called “a blueprint for the future” by comedian Russell Brand, while Sting said it provides “the context we need to understand the chaos and turbulence of our times.” Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-8787323. 7:30 pm.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

Jim McDermott

Bitter Is the Wind is the debut novel from Portland writer Jim McDermott, and it’s been 25 years in the making. The coming-of-age story explores the social stratification of New York state, from the fetid bowels of Wall Street to the bucolic upstate working-class towns. Luckily for McDermott, if the whole writing thing doesn’t work out, he also happens to be a wildly successful business litigation lawyer. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 503-284-1726. 7 pm.

H.W. Brands

Oregon-born historian H.W. Brands returns to Portland to present his new book, The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, for the Oregon Historical Society. Unfortunately, tickets for this event are sold out. First Congregational Church of Portland, 1126 SW Park Ave., 503-228-7219. 7 pm. Sold out.

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READERS’ POLL

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Two Plum Press and Antiquated Future

Two Plums Press’ reading series returns to Mother Foucault’s Bookshop, this time teaming up with fellow micro-press Antiquated Future. Both publishers are celebrating the release of their 20th books, and featured

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To give you an idea of the tone Morgan Parker is aiming for in her new poetry collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, she begins the book with a poem entitled “ALL THEY WANT IS MY MONEY MY PUSSY MY BLOOD.” Imagine being someone who doubts this reading will kick ass. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 800-878-7323. 7:30 pm.

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MOVIES GET YO UR R E PS IN

Big Trouble in Little China

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(1986)

I don’t know if this movie is considered problematic now, but it sure rules. Kurt Russell stars as a trucker who gets into big trouble in San Francisco’s Chinatown when he accidentally becomes embroiled in an ancient battle between good and evil, in the fantasy kung fu cult classic by John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween). Laurelhurst.

March 10-16.

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Gus Van Sant’s classic snapshot of a darker, seedier Portland served as inspiration for this week’s Screener.

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix star as two street hustlers trying to track down Phoenix’s mother.

Academy Theater. March 10-16.

FLICK THEATER

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Miramax had crisp new 35 mm prints struck to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s controversial, star-studded (Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel) debut. When a diamond heist goes horribly awry, the thieves, isolated in a warehouse, have to figure out which of the eight of them set the others up. Hollywood Theatre, March 11-12; Kiggins Theatre, March 10-14.

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

In Charles Laughton’s shadowdrenched classic, Robert Mitchum’s performance as tattooed, serial-killer preacher Harry Powell sent him on a one-way path to the movie villain hall of fame. He sets his sights on a widow with young children when he learns $10,000 may be hidden in their house. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 5:30 pm Friday, March 10.

ALSO PLAYING: Clinton Street Theater: Thelma and Louise (1991), 7 pm Monday, March 13. Hollywood Theatre: Seven Grandmasters (1978), 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 14; Salt of the Earth (1954), 7:30 pm Monday, March 13; Singin’ in the Rain (1952), March 11-12. Kiggins Theatre: The Lady From Shanghai (1947), 7:30 pm Monday, March 6. Laurelhurst: Starship Troopers (1997), March 8-9.

Mission Theater: Twister (1996), March 8-9; Boogie Nights (1997), 8:30 pm Thursday, March 9; Gangs of New York (2002), 11 am Sunday, March 12; Austin Powers (1997), 5:15 pm Tuesday, March 14. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium: The Black Stallion (1979), 4:30 pm Saturday, March 11; Dekalog, Parts 3 and 4 (1988), March 12-13.

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STAR THEATER PARIS THEATRE

PUSSYCAT THEATER JEFFERSON THEATRE

River’s Edge (1986)

Something like a cross between Twin Peaks and Wayne’s World, River’s Edge set itself apart from the more upbeat coming-of-age films of the ’80s by including a little murder— and a very young Keanu Reeves.

Daniel Roebuck stars as Samson, whose hesher buddies have to decide whether to narc when he kills his girlfriend and leaves her body at, well, the river’s edge. Roebuck will attend this screening. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, March 10.

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Walker Macmurdo

THE 1970S WERE THE HEYDAY OF ADULT MOVIE THEATERS. A LOCAL EXPERT TALKS ABOUT DIRTY MOVIES AT THE PEAK OF PORTLAND VICE.

BY WALKER MACMURDO

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In our city of squeaky-clean fast-casual food spots, pun-name craft beer, and opulent new apartment blocks on every corner, it’s becoming increasingly tougher to remember a time when Portland was a rough-and-tumble backwater. But just a few decades ago, an economically depressed 1970s Portland was home to scores of dirty bookstores, dirty theaters, dirty massage parlors and something called “lotion studios.” At the height of Portland sleaze, more than a dozen adult businesses were within a few blocks of City Hall, and the city played host to at least 15 adult movie theaters.

In 2012, then-Portland State University graduate student Elizabeth Morehead completed a dissertation called “Public Policy and Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1970-2010.”

Morehead, now working in PSU’s College of Urban and Public Affairs, spoke to WW about the glory days of dirty Old Portland and its downfall in the 1980s. We reconstructed a map of most of those theaters at porn cinema’s citywide peak in 1974. If you were raised in Portland, ask your parents about their favorites!

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ALADDIN THEATER

The Advent of the Dirty Movie Theater

W E S L E Y H A M I LT O N

When national cinema chains began building multiscreen megaplexes in the suburbs and malls, small urban theaters were forced to change their business models to compete.

“In the ’70s, there was a movement toward multiplexes for mainstream cinema,” says Morehead. “What became adult theaters had developed as old vaudeville or neighborhood movie theaters. The larger chains started to develop, and these older theaters weren’t as lucrative as they used to be.”

And then a little movie called Deep Throat came along.

The film, released in 1972, revolutionized pornography with better production and actual storylines.

“There was a change in the way adult films were made, to make them longer and more like a full-length film, to have storylines, which they didn’t have before—and greater production values,” explains Morehead.

“Prior to that, an adult film might be available, but it would be very short, something you might watch in a small arcade or adult bookstore. They became longer, and many existing theaters were repurposed to show films like that.”

Where Were They?

OREGON THEATER

CLINTON STREET THEATER

Old Town and Chinatown have been synonymous with Portland vice for more than a century, but the city’s adult theaters were strewn across town.

“In many ways, they followed the geography of the old commercial districts that are still in a lot of city neighborhoods,” says Morehead. “There was a theater in Northeast Portland along MLK [Boulevard], there was one in Sellwood, there was one on Clinton Street. They were in existing commercial hubs and not one specific part of the city.”

But Old Town became a hub for adult businesses other than theaters. “It’s different if you look at other kinds of adult entertainment,” Morehead adds. “The pornography stores that weren’t movie theaters tended to cluster more in Lownsdale [immediately east of City Hall]; later, in Old Town. With a movie theater, it’s harder to move.”

The Backlash

As former neighborhood movie theaters were converted to adult movie theaters, and as adult businesses began springing up across town, Portlanders got mad, especially about porn theaters near schools.

“People mainly complained about adult businesses being located near schools or near paths that children walk past,” says Morehead. “Increasingly, as prostitution was associated with some of the businesses, people who were more family-centric didn’t approve of those businesses being in their communities. There was a big push that, if the city couldn’t zone all of the businesses out, to get them moved to one area.”

The End of an Era

As it turns out, most people didn’t want to go to a dirty movie theater if they didn’t have to.

“The late ’70s would’ve been the heyday of the adult movie theater,” says Morehead. “After that, what changed was the introduction of the VCR, and different ways you could get adult entertainment in hotel rooms. Now you could more privately watch videos in your own home, go to a hotel and get a pay-per-view movie.”

Peak Porno

According to Morehead, the peak of Portland’s adult theater boom was 1974, when 18 theaters were playing feature-length adult films all over town—although there were plenty of arcades and bookstores playing shorts throughout this period as well.

By 1982, the number of adult theaters in Portland had shrunk to five. Of those five, only one remains open today: the Oregon Theater on Southeast Division Street.

But you can see the remnants of Portland’s filthy past in the marquees of renovated theaters. The Star and Paris theaters in Old Town are now music venues. The Clinton Street Theater bounced from traditional theater to adult theater and back again, now hosting odd documentaries and the country’s longest continuous weekly screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Aladdin Theater in Brooklyn that now hosts bluegrass shows was famous for playing Deep Throat for 14 years straight.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Blood, Sand and Gold

When the top salvage company in the world loses a billion dollars’ worth of 15th-century artifacts, chief archaeologist Mave Adams (Monica West) hires ex-criminal Jack Riordan (Aaron Costa Ganis) to track them down. This tiny, indie action flick was made for less than $250,000.

Not screened for critics. NR. Clinton Street Theater.

Evolution

French director/co-writer Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s horror film relies on creeping dread rather than shock value and over-the-top gore. Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives on remote island inhabited only by women and young boys.

The boys eat green gruel, take mysterious black medicine, and live under the watchful command of their cold, deadeyed mothers. After finding a corpse in the ocean, Nicolas begins to rebel against the women and question why all the boys are forcibly hospitalized at puberty. With the guidance of a sympathetic nurse named Stella (Roxane Duran), Nicolas unveils a nightmarish coming-of-age story and discovers the island’s horrifying secrets. Rather than jumping from one high-stakes scene to another, Evolution is deliberate and meticulous in its pacing.

The film offers very little dialogue between characters, conveying terror through an eerie aesthetic, with every scene carefully crafted to be unsettling. The sinister symbolism embedded in the imagery helps to clearly express the film’s themes of puberty as well as the physical and emotional fears and traumas society requires boys to endure as they transition into manhood. NR. CURTIS COOK. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Friday, March 10.

Kong: Skull Island

Though I’ve never personally understood cinema’s enduring infatuation with the God-ape Kong, Skull Island’s second modern reboot—after Peter Jackson’s interminable 2005 effort— looks to be a pretty fun monster movie. Review to come next week.

PG-13. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

My Life as a Zucchini

Don’t buy a ticket to this stopmotion fable expecting a cheery romp about an anthropomorphic Italian squash. My Life as a Zucchini is an unsparing glimpse of the life of a brutalized boy nicknamed “Zucchini” (Gaspard Schlatter), who is put in foster care after a horrifying accident kills his drunken mother.

At times, the film is tough to take— Zucchini’s comrades are victims of abuses ranging from abandonment to rape. Yet, as Zucchini bonds with friends, My Life as a Zucchini blossoms into an intensely moving tale of recovery about kids who realize the secret to their survival lies in holding onto the frayed but beautiful friendships they share. PG-13. BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Fox Tower, Kiggins Theatre.

My Rock n Roll Fantasy

A celebration of the downtown Portland punk scene in the 1990s from local filmmakers. The event kicks off with a selection of animation from upcoming doc My Rock n Roll Fantasy, set at former punk venues the X-Ray Cafe, the Howling Frog and La Luna, followed by the premiere of zine-animation short Jen Likes Heroin, and rounded out by X-Ray Visions, a doc about legendary all-ages venue the X-Ray Cafe.

Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, March 9.

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The Ottoman Lieutenant

A good old-fashioned epic historical love story set in Turkey during World War I. Who is the intended audience for these movies? Not screened for critics. R. Fox Tower, Bridgeport, Cinetopia, Clackamas.

PDX Animation All-Stars: Rose, Priestly, Margolis

Matt McCormick’s new indie microcinema features new animated shorts by locals Joanna Priestly, Zak Margolis and Rose Bond, whose work has been screened as far and wide as the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance and the New York Film Festival. All three artists will attend a Q&A following the screening. Boathouse Microcinema, 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 8.

Portland Music Video Festival

While we can all agree the music video form peaked when Riki Rachtman dove through Axl’s wedding cake in “November Rain,” people still keep making them, and some are pretty good. Tonight’s showcase gathers recent highlights from around the world—including a few from our own backyard—and puts them on the big screen. Hollywood Theatre, 7:30 pm Wednesday, March 8.

Table 19

Do you have a hankering to see a movie that thinks a boy bragging about the size of his penis is the funniest thing since Charlie Chaplin’s mustache? If so, Table 19 will be your City Lights. Co-written by the Duplass brothers (Jeff, Who Lives at Home), the film focuses on Eloise (Anna Kendrick), a reluctant attendee of a wedding reception forced to sit with a bickering, diner-owning couple (Craig Robinson and Lisa Kudrow), a horny teen (Tony Revolori), a dopesmoking retired nanny (June Squibb) and Walter (Stephen Merchant), a well-dressed felon whose false insistence that he’s “a successful businessman” is one of the film’s many lame jokes. For a time, it’s amusing to watch these mismatched bumblers attempt to endure each other, especially when Kendrick amps up her cranky charm. Yet the majority of the movie’s gags—including the inevitable smashing of the wedding cake and a cute dog showing up in a bathtub—are staged so blandly that you’re more likely to wince than laugh. That’s why when Robinson’s character declares that he and his wife are “ridiculous,” it’s less of a statement of fact than a scrap of wishful thinking from director Jeffrey Blitz, who seems convinced that his film is far funnier than it is. PG-13.

BENNETT CAMPBELL FERGUSON. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Eastport, Fox Tower, Vancouver.

Rhythm Assemblies: Films

by Reed O’Beirne

Seattle filmmaker Reed O’Beirne travels down to Portland to screen a selection of his films, including his look into the 1999 Battle of Seattle protests No Time for Shopping (2000), interpretation of the Persephone myth Last of Our Kind (2012), and cameraless, MRI scan-created Phantom Limbs (2015). NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8 pm Thursday, March 9.

Skate Weekend

This weekend, the 5th Avenue Cinema presents a collection of early 16 mm skateboard film shorts from the collection of Pacific Northwest College of Art professor Stephen Slappe. 5th Avenue Cinema. March 10-12. Visit 5thavecinema.com/skate for a full schedule.

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20th Century Women

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 United Kingdom

The politically forbidden 1947 marriage of Botswanan prince Sir Seretse Khama to English typist Ruth Williams is a little-known anecdote of racial progress worthy of illuminating. The love is there; what’s missing is the care.

PG-13. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Living Room Theaters.

Arrival

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. Academy, Fox Tower, Jubitz, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

Assassin’s Creed

The best line in this lurid, noisy 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.

Vancouver.

Before I Fall

A mean girl learns to play nice in this slick, soulless riff on Groundhog Day that isn’t half as heartfelt as it pretends to be. PG-13. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Bitter Harvest

Nothing sets off the Ukrainian genocide quite like a sappy love story. R. Fox Tower.

Doctor Strange

Thanks to director Scott Derrickson’s confidently superficial storytelling, this film’s imagery has a dizzying power.

PG-13. Valley, Vancouver.

A Dog’s Purpose

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

PG-13. Bridgeport, Clackamas, Eastport, Milwaukie, Vancouver.

The Eagle Huntress

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.

Laurelhurst.

Fences

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. Living Room Theaters, Vancouver.

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, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, 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. Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Vancouver.

WESTERN GOTHIC: The Reflecting Skin.

The Nightmare of Childhood Roger Ebert liked it better than Blue Velvet. Rolling Stone gave it 3.5 stars. Declared a cult classic at Cannes, where word of mouth about its shocking opening scene was so intense that extra screenings had to be scheduled, it went on to win 11 international awards. Yet due to distribution problems rendering the film functionally unavailable for years, The Reflecting Skin is one of the best films you’ve probably never seen.

In post-World War II Idaho, Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) is 8 years old and leads a life full of fear. His parents are almost Amish in their rural simplicity. His father (Duncan Fraser) reads pulp vampire stories on the porch when he’s not pumping gas for the local greaser gang. Seth’s mother (Lindsay Duncan) could be the burntout shell of Wendy Torrance from The Shining.

For Seth, the barren sticks are a breeding ground for nightmares.

When his nuclear family finally falls apart, Seth’s older brother Cameron, played by a young Viggo Mortensen, returns home from the war. Physically, at least. Emotionally, he is distant until he becomes romantically involved with a woman Seth convinces himself is a vampire. As friends and family disintegrate, so does Seth’s fragile sanity.

The Reflecting Skin was shot in the wheat fields of Alberta, Canada—which director Philip Ridley spray-painted yellow—the stark landscapes springing right out of his favorite paintings by Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. Cinematographer Dick Pope almost steals the show, except that behind the high-contrast beauty and vast landscapes are a dark story and a cast of characters out of the Old Testament.

Ridley’s chops as a playwright and visual artist preceded The Reflecting Skin, his first feature. Thanks to his multimedia experience and auteur sensibilities, his screenwriting is up to the task of balancing the subtle with the grotesque. His quiver is full of surrealist images, but at no point is the viewer more truly at a loss than the 1990 film’s lead character. Ridley’s imaginary vision of a fire-andbrimstone gothic America is not far off from something Nick Cave might conjure. The first scene in the film—young boys exploding a bullfrog onto the local schoolmarm with a slingshot—is graphic enough to belong in a Crispin Glover experiment.

Here it becomes more than just an unforgettable image, though.

Vampirism, child stealing, self-immolation, and desiccated angel babies keep things positively apocalyptic as Seth’s world collapses around him.

Ridley’s pure gothic vibes translate to a bizarre deliciousness.

Despite its warm reception and Ridley’s striking vision, this serious, strange film got lost. After its initial run on VHS in the U.K. and U.S. in the early ’90s, The Reflecting Skin didn’t see another release until 2005, when a Japanese widescreen DVD release quickly ran out of print. The film spent another 10 years in hibernation until a special Blu-ray edition was released in 2015. But it wasn’t playable in the U.S. region, only adding to frustration for fans of this black gem.

Thanks to NW Film Center’s new Magic & Loss series, the faithful and curious can finally see a 35 mm print of this wonder on the wide screen. If that doesn’t sell you on The Reflecting Skin, just come to catch a glimpse of young Viggo Mortensen’s ass. NATHAN CARSON.

An overlooked, previously unavailable masterpiece of American gothic comes to the big screen for one night only.

SEE IT: The Reflecting Skin screens at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium on Sunday, March 13. 7 pm. $9.

Get Out

John Wick: Chapter 2

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

This may be the smartest, most beautifully shot film 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.

The Great Wall

La La Land

This movie may have been engineered by Hollywood’s top scientists to make as much money as possible by bridging the gap between the Chinese and U.S. film markets, but it’s still a pretty fun, albeit messy, ride. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Vancouver.

Hacksaw Ridge

A morally repugnant bloodbath, 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. Vancouver.

Hidden Figures

Why does Kevin Costner get the biggest racism-busting line in a movie about underappreciated black women who contributed to NASA’s Apollo 11 trip to the Moon? PG. Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Fox Tower, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd, Moreland, St. Johns Pub and Theater, Tigard, Vancouver.

I Am Not Your Negro

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

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore

*Sad_trombone.mp3*. PG-13.

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

Logan

Turns out having Hugh Jackman and cute child Dafne Keen perform Mortal Kombat fatalities on robot-armed mercenaries is a cool idea for a movie. R. Bagdad, Beaverton Wunderland, Bridgeport, Cedar Hills, Cinemagic, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, St. Johns Twin, Tigard, Vancouver.

Manchester by the Sea

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. Fox Tower, Tigard.

Moana

I’m not sure if this surprise Grand Jury winner at last month’s Sundance festival is supposed to be a black comedy or not, but it kind of plays out like what would happen if Napoleon Dynamite moved to Portland and got really into vest metal. NR. Netflix.

If you were curious whether Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could carry a tune, Moana is a ringing affirmative. PG. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Valley Cinema Pub, Vancouver.

Jackie

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, Vancouver.

Moonlight

*Dancehall_airhorn.mp3* R. Bridgeport, Cinema 21, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Lloyd, Oak Grove, Roseway.

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. Hollywood, Living Room Theaters.

Passengers

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. Academy, Avalon, Kennedy School, Laurelhurst, Vancouver.

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 and the giant turtle that torments him is a tour de force in visual storytelling. PG. LAUREN TERRY. Cinema 21.

Rock Dog

This movie is about a dog who rocks. PG. Bridgeport, City Center, Clackamas, Division, Eastport, Oak Grove, Tigard, Vancouver.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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. Fox Tower.

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Sing

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

PG. Clackamas, Valley, Vancouver.

Split

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

Bridgeport, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, Vancouver.

Why Him?

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

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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.

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A PERFECT DAY OF BEER AND CANNABIS PAIRINGS.

BY B RYA N T COCKS

Any true degenerate knows that beer and weed are the cornerstones of a successful day off. It’s easy to just grab whatever is sitting in your fridge and pack a bong with whatever is mixed in your grinder, but with some light planning you can maximize your enjoyment throughout the day.

WAKE AND BAKE

A good wake and bake can set the tone for a great day. I like going fruity in the morning—for health. Ching Ching from Bend Brewing Co. pairs perfectly with Mango Kush from Eugreen Horticulture.

Although it’s an indica-heavy hybrid, this strain has an energetic body high to get you moving.

The tart pomegranate and hibiscus flavors in the beer make it about as close to fruit juice as you can get, and the low ABV and THC percentages won’t overpower you at the start of the day.

MIDMORNING

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Around lunch time, I tend to go with a pale ale and a sativa-heavy hybrid with about 20 percent THC. The light hops in Barley Brown’s Hand Truck and the earthy flavor of Permafrost by Vita Biodynamics tasted great together. This pairing wasn’t too heavy and gave me a good head buzz to match the body high from breakfast.

MIDAFTERNOON

Day drinking is just about the most fun activity on the planet, but you have to be careful about going overboard. The Green Crack Distillate pen cartridge by Clear Path is the perfect sativa extract for walking around town. In my opinion it’s the smoothest and cleanest cartridge on the

market, leaving virtually no aftertaste. I like lagers in the afternoon, and the Commons’ Pilsner is my favorite right now. It’s all about regulation at this point, and you can control your buzz with pen hits and low-alcohol beers so you can actually make it to dinner in respectable form.

DINNER

The most important decision of the day is where to eat dinner, and you certainly don’t want to go sober. This is the time to ramp up the intoxicants so you’re feeling spectacular after being seated. A half-gram joint of a sativa-heavy hybrid like Super Silver Haze from Scissortail Farms has well-balanced piney and citrusy notes, much like Breakside IPA. Every time I smoke this strain—at 25 percent THC—I feel like I’ve never eaten in my life, so having a beer that is flavorful without filling me up is key.

This pairing gives you the right mix of being talkative while focusing on the flavors of your meal, and doesn’t wreck your palate with overbearing hop or cannabis flavors.

DESSERT

Like a true stoner, I’m a little kid at heart. So when I went to TreeHouse Collective and told the budtenders I wanted to pair an indica with Sunriver Cocoa Cow Chocolate Milk Stout, they didn’t hesitate to say, “Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie.” Mentally, milk and cookies always work well together, and this might be the closest thing to adult chocolate milk I’ve ever encountered. The thick, heavy, milky bong hits I took just added to the fun and gave me a super-focused, intense head high. My couch never felt so comfortable.

Bryant Cocks is manager of the Growler Guys in Southeast Portland.

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Week of March 9

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

As soon as you can, sneak away to a private place where you can be alone -- preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that’s making you sad and puzzled and crazy.

For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms.

Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart. Keep on going until you find the relief that lies on the other side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

“I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Nothing is ever as simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks. On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Seek intimacy with experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex -- and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet.

Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Would you like to live to the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for ten decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes.

Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You’re ripe. You’re delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy. I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly.

If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing.

P.S.: If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Let’s talk about a compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love. Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Evolved Scorpios don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want. They may, however, experience urges to achieve TOTAL CUNNNG DAZZLING MERCILESS VICTORY over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

“The noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile, or apathetic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

“Either you learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be six years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity -- as well as conundrums, incongruity, and anomalies -- there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad!

Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Lichen is a hardy form of life that by some estimates covers six percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

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