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Working interviews—employers asking a prospective employee to prove their job skills onsite— have become common practice in the hiring process, especially in the restaurant industry. However, when unpaid interviews produce a difficult. “It’s not a simple question,” says sellable product, it raises legal and ethical quesTeller, who practices employment law at tions about workers’ rights to compensation.

Teller and Associates. “It is clear that once “It has been a food-industry standard,” says you are hired, training and orientation do Julie Twiggs, general manager of Mighty-O need to be paid, but in terms of interviews, Donuts. “It’s part of the interview process, they are voluntary.” so instead of having two or three interviews, Teller has never seen a case in court over applicants can see the job itself and if they lost wages from a working interview, probwould like to do it.” Mighty-O has conducted ably because the monetary amount lost is unpaid working interviews for the past five too small. If any prospective employee loses years, and Twiggs says she has seen the praconly up to $30 in wages, it is difficult to tice used over the past 10 years in many Seatenforce, Teller says. tle restaurants. However, Twiggs says workAaron Peets, who has worked in catering ing interviews have “probably grown a little and restaurants for seven years, recently bit, and are having an effect everywhere.” moved to Portland and began to encounter Some restaurants, such as Blue Moon working interviews. He speculates that Burgers, pay minimum wage for a two-tomany employers take four-hour working advantage of working interview. Others, such interviews to gain free as Pasta and Co., do not Print is great, but if you want to see our list of . . . labor in a tough econpay, but provide perks, five places more awkward than Pike Place omy, and he questions like a free lunch. As Market for Canadian tourists to poop, the ethics of free labor for restaurants that do you’ll have to check out The Daily Weekly. when applicants can’t not pay at all, Twiggs SEATTLEWEEKLY.COM/DAILYWEEKLY afford to give this time acknowledges there for free. may be ethical issues “I understand if restaurants want to see if with not compensating these prospective you work in the environment well, but people employees, but says Mighty-O has never manipulate it,” Peets says. “For me, it seems like addressed them. Pasta and Co., Blue Moon a recipe for exploitation.” Allison ThomAsseAu Burgers, and Mighty-O all say between 60 to 80 percent of the applicants they hire have participated in a working interview.

Working interviews may be commonplace in the food industry, but the Washington When last heard from, Idaho RepubliState Department of Labor and Industry is can leader Tina Jacobson was attempting quick to remind that a business still has legal to force Spokane’s daily newspaper, The obligations to pay someone for work they Spokesman-Review, to reveal the name of perform. “There is no such thing as a workan anonymous commenter who had suging interview,” says Elaine Fischer, a spokesgested Jacobson had $10,000 in stolen funds woman for the L&I. “An employee needs to stuffed in her blouse. Given the paper’s First be paid if they are working.”

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Jacobson, chair of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee, felt she was defamed by the Feb. 14 comment to a breezy blog called Huckleberries Online, written for The S-R by Idaho-based writer Dave Oliveria. The topic was presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s visit to Coeur d’Alene. As often happens in comment sections, readers strayed off-subject, exchanging views on political funding—leading to this entry from someone signing in as “almostinnocentbystander”: “Is that the missing $10,000 from Kootenai County Central Committee funds actually stuffed inside Tina’s blouse??? Let’s not try to find out.”

In her lawsuit, Jacobson asked the court to make the newspaper cough up the commenter’s identity. The S-R resisted. “It’s an issue of huge concern to The SpokesmanReview,” said the paper’s attorney, Duane Swinton. “If people are going to be outed on that site . . . it will lose its effectiveness” as a news forum for North Idaho. Idaho District Court Judge John Patrick Luster wasn’t persuaded. Three weeks ago, he ordered the paper to reveal the commenter’s name and any correspondence between the commenter and the newspaper.

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A man convicted in a 2003 gang shooting in South Park has appealed his case all the way up to the state Supreme Court, with his lawyer claiming that witnesses mistook the accused for an “evil doppelganger” nicknamed Wedo Loco.

The man, 33-year-old Charles Weber, is currently locked up in the Monroe Correctional Complex, serving life without parole.

The incident that put him behind bars took place early in the morning of March 18, 2003, during a party at an apartment on the 11400 block of Des Moines Memorial Drive.

According to court documents and police reports, members of the Varrio Loco (VL) Sureño gang picked a fight with an ex-gang member named Gabriel Manzo-Vazquez.

One of the gangsters asked Manzo to step outside. When Manzo refused, a short, skinny, bald white guy nicknamed “Güero Loco” pulled out a large, silver semi-automatic pistol. Manzo fled to his SUV, and as he made his getaway, Güero Loco (translation: “crazy whitey”) aimed the pistol with his left hand and squeezed off eight shots. The driver was unscathed except for a graze wound on his stomach.

Manzo told police the shooter’s nickname, and mentioned that the man had a 206 tattoo on his neck. Local law enforcement just happened to know a gang member fitting that description. Charles Weber has 206 tattooed in two-inch letters across the back of his neck. He also goes by the nickname Wedo (a bastardized spelling of güero) Loco, which is inked on his knuckles; he has other tats linking him to the gang.

Upon seeing photos of Weber, Manzo, who estimated he’d drunk nine beers on the night in question, said he was “80 percent sure” Weber was the shooter. Later, during the trial, Manzo pointed out Weber from the witness stand and said he was certain. Weber was convicted. In prison he committed an assault, his third strike, which led to the life sentence.

Now, court-assigned attorney Mike Kahrs is convinced Weber was wrongfully accused.

Initially a skeptic, Kahrs was swayed by several inconsistencies never brought up by Weber’s public defender during the original trial.

Among other things, Manzo said the shooter initially introduced himself as Güero Loco or Boxer. Two other witnesses remembered a person at the party named Güero Loco/Boxer with a 206 neck tattoo. Weber has never gone by the nickname Boxer. This “Boxer,” Kahrs claims in one court filing, is Weber’s “evil doppelganger.”

Kahrs is working the case pro bono, and still taking shots in the dark to track down a gang member named Boxer with the Seattle area code tattooed on his neck.

“We’re trying to get help from good citizens of Seattle to identify this person,” Kahrs says.

“I was told he got the 206 tattoo, but he’s not from around here. He’s originally from either Southern California or Mexico, but he got it out of respect. He’s probably 5-foot-7 or 5-foot8, with a thin build, and left-handed probably. I heard a rumor that he used to be a boxer, but I don’t really know.” keegAn HAmilton E news@seattleweekly.com

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Idaho doesn’t have a reporter’s-shield law to protect sources, and even if it did, Luster said, in his view Oliveria was not acting as a journalist. Oliveria, who removed the comment a few hours after it was posted, was merely the “facilitator of commentary and administrator of the blog.” Protections thus didn’t apply to the paper, nor to the commenter, said the judge. “While the individuals are entitled to the right of anonymous free speech, this right is clearly limited when abused,” Luster wrote.

The newspaper says it doesn’t plan to appeal the ruling, which appears to have eroded the freedom assumed by legions of faceless commenters. It has yet to reveal almostinnocentbystander’s name in court, but that’s academic now: The S-R disclosed it in a news story last week when the commenter outed herself: She’s Linda Cook, onetime aide to late Idaho Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage.

Cook heard about the alleged missing money from another GOP official, she said.

“At the time that I said it, I was convinced that it was not false, and it certainly wasn’t said with malice.” Rick AndeRson

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John Etterlee was in an outhouse when his life was altered indelibly.

couch because he punched, kicked, and thrashed in his sleep. He was prone to outbursts of anger. He tried to avoid conversations about the war, and, when co-workers inevitably swapped battle stories, his heart pounded and his mind raced.

He says he tried to seek help, but to no avail. “I went to chaplains more times than I can count,” Etterlee says.

“I went to my chain of command, and basically got the runaround.

Nobody put me on any kind of formal treatment program.”

On top of his mental issues, Etterlee was struggling financially. He and his wife divorced. And then, during a training exercise at Fort Lewis, he suffered herniated discs in his back while dragging a fellow soldier in a simulated rescue situation. Despite the painful back injury, he was briefly redeployed to the Middle East. Back at the base again in 2010, Etterlee was at the end of his rope.

Finally, on July 15, 2011, a Veterans Affairs (VA) psychiatrist interviewed Etterlee and diagnosed him with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But five months later the diagnosis was abruptly changed to “adjustment disorder”—a lesser condition—by a forensic psychiatrist at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma. The switch was made even though the clinician merely reviewed paperwork and never spoke with Etterlee or met him face-toface. Only later did Etterlee learn that he was one of several hundred Fort Lewis soldiers who’d had their PTSD diagnoses downgraded by Madigan doctors.

A controversy erupted after several servicemen stationed at JBLM complained about the PTSD screening team—the only one of its kind in the military—at Madigan that overturned their original diagnoses. Internal memos emerged revealing that the military psychiatrists had been told by higher-ups to consider the long-term cost of a PTSD diagnosis, which qualifies a soldier for a lifetime of increased disability payments. In some cases, the memos noted, the total taxpayer burden could be as much as $1.5 million for a single soldier over the course of his or her lifetime.

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ature calls, even in a war zone. And so, in April 2008, when John Byron Etterlee was stationed at an American military base in Baghdad, working the night shift at an Army tactical operations center, he carried his rifle as he stepped outside to use the outhouse. Suddenly, just as he began to relieve himself, he heard an ominous buzz in the sky above.

Etterlee, a stout Georgia native with a blond crew cut and thick spectacles, hustled out of the portable toilet and gazed up into the darkness.

The buzz sounded like a small airplane approaching, but Etterlee, already midway through his second tour of duty in Iraq, realized the white streak tearing through the night was an incoming rocket.

“For a split second I thought, ‘Oh my God, am I going to die?’ ” the 35-year-old soldier recalls matter-offactly in his slow Southern cadence.

“I thought it was coming toward me.

Fifteen seconds later I heard a loud explosion that shook the buildings. The rocket hit maybe 50 yards outside the gate.”

Nobody was injured in the attack, and Etterlee’s desert outpost incurred no serious damage. In hindsight, he says, it was just another close call during a span when he and his unit became accustomed to mortar fire, IED detonations, and other random explosions. But for some reason, perhaps because of the embarrassing circumstances, this particular brush with death has stuck with him.

“I almost pissed in my pants,” Etterlee says with a halfhearted chuckle. “It wasn’t funny when it happened, but it’s kinda funny now.”

A chemical-weapons specialist tasked mainly with keeping records and maintaining equipment, Etterlee had limited combat experience during his time in Iraq. Nevertheless, his vehicle was once nearly struck by a roadside bomb, and one of his closest friends was killed in action in a separate incident. When he returned home to Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in late 2008, the infantryman was clearly rattled. His wife forced him to spend nights on the

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Mind Field » FroM page 11 “By downgrading me to adjustment disorder,” Etterlee came to realize, “they’re eliminating the medical retirement [benefits] and compensation. I was pretty angry.”

Both the Madigan commander, Col. Dallas Homas, and the leader of the forensic psychiatry team were relieved of their duties earlier this year, and an investigation into the PTSD diagnosis reversals is ongoing. Army leaders ordered a system-wide review of their behavioral health-care practices, and announced last week that they would end the use of forensic psychiatry for disability evaluations.

Col. Homas was reinstated as commander of the hospital.

Partly in response to the spate of suicides and war atrocities committed by soldiers stationed at JBLM that led Stars and Stripes to brand JBLM “the most troubled base in the military,” Washington Senator Patty Murray has introduced legislation that would overhaul the military’s PTSD assessment processes and significantly expand eligibility for government-funded mentalhealth counseling to include soldiers’ immediate family members.

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n April 30, an Army nurse in Afghanistan was in the middle of a Skype video chat with his wife in El Paso, Texas, when he suddenly lurched toward the camera and slammed face-first into his desk. Beside herself, the wife swore she could see a fresh bullet hole in the closet door behind him. With the live video feed still running and his motionless body just outside the frame, she frantically phoned the base saying her husband had been shot.

A subsequent Army investigation concluded that the nurse, 43-year-old Capt.

Bruce Kevin Clark, did not die from a gunshot. There was no bullet hole in the room and no wound on his body. The cause of death has not yet been determined, but the Army says foul play is not suspected. Clark’s wife, Susan Orellana-Clark, has communicated to the press only through official statements (while Clark’s mother declined to comment for this story), and in May she stood by her version of events. Barring an Army coverup, the wife simply imagined the worst after her husband’s inexplicable collapse.

Clark’s death was a uniquely bizarre incident, but modern communication technology is increasingly beaming the stresses of the battlefield into American homes. Deployed soldiers are now able to keep in close contact with their loved ones. This is a welcome

“There’s never been a good place in the DSM for the sometimes life-changing fact that it doesn’t have to be an event that might kill you that could be the worst thing that ever happened to you.” the armed forces, and the country as a whole, perceive and treat the invisible wounds of war. Even relatively routine war experiences, such as Etterlee’s ill-timed encounter with an Iraqi rocket, are gaining recognition as lifealtering events with long-lasting psychological repercussions.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), mental-health disorders now affect one in five active-duty service members, and are the most common cause of hospitalization. Even so, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho acknowledged in April that PTSD and related anxiety disorders might actually be underdiagnosed, particularly among the spouses, children, and parents of troops. “We’ve learned over this 10-year conflict that we just can’t treat our warriors,” Horoho told the Senate. “We absolutely have to treat the family, because it impacts both.”

These days, Americans don’t need to witness or participate in the carnage of war to experience post-traumatic stress. The strain that comes with being deployed or having a loved one on the front lines can cause “secondary PTSD,” a little-known, vaguely defined condition something like the mental-health equivalent of secondhand smoke. The symptoms are similar to those of regular PTSD, but the triggers are indirect.

Combined with depression, anxiety, and other mental issues alarmingly prevalent in servicemen and their spouses and children, the emerging issue of secondary PTSD raises a critical question: Can an already-inundated system designed to care for ailing soldiers also handle their entire families?

change, but Vladimir Nacev, a clinical psychologist for the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Help and Traumatic Brain Injury, says “the technology is a doubleedged sword.”

“Nowadays you can text and e-mail and Skype,” Nacev says. “They’re great. But they’re also a great source of trauma because if you don’t call when you’re supposed to call, or your line goes dead, or you hear background noise and the picture disappears— that can throw you for a loop.”

Experts agree that, barring extreme circumstances like witnessing a death via Skype, the worry that comes with having a family member deployed is unlikely to cause fullblown PTSD. But the strain takes an undeniable toll, and doctors are still working on what to call the result.

For nearly as long as America has waged war, its troops and citizens have realized that combat irreparably changes people, though the name applied to that change has shifted over the years. In the Civil War era it was called “irritable heart.” Prolonged exposure to the trench-warfare terrors of World War I caused “shell shock.” Now, after Vietnam and advancements in behavioral health, the condition is known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

But exactly what constitutes PTSD is somewhat subjective. As psychiatrists like to say, PTSD is “a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances.” It is by no means strictly caused by war experiences; any type of violence or near-death encounter, such as a bad car accident, can lead to PTSD months or years down the road.

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According to the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Assoan army ciation’s Diagnostic and Statistical psychologist’s Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMreport cast IV), the official guide used by docdoubt on the tors to diagnose mental illness, legitimacy PTSD can occur after a person has of etterlee’s “experienced, witnessed, or was conclaims. fronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury.” A PTSD sufferer responds to such scenarios with “intense fear, helplessness, or horror.”

Owing to pop-culture portrayals, the symptom most commonly linked to PTSD is a vivid, dreamlike flashback prompted by some sort of noise or image associated with the haunting event—a ceiling fan that calls to mind a helicopter’s whirling rotor blades, to borrow Francis Ford Coppola’s example in Apocalypse Now. Indeed, “re-experiencing” is a marker of PTSD, but much broader and lessintuitive indicators also exist, such as “markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities” social, occupational, or other important areas and “difficulty concentrating.” of functioning.”

Of course, such common problems alone “They’re significantly worse than nondo not qualify as PTSD. Dr. Barbara Rothaffected people and significantly better than baum, a nationally recognized PTSD expert people above the threshold for PTSD,” Friedand the associate vice-chair of the Emory man says. “There’s never been a good place in University School of Medicine’s Psychiatry the DSM for the sometimes life-changing fact Department in Atlanta, says, “The line in the that it doesn’t have to be an event that might sand is functioning. Somebody who has mild kill you that could be the worst thing that PTSD symptoms, but without any interferever happened to you.” ence with life and functioning, doesn’t meet Friedman lists several synonymous terms the criteria for a diagnosis. The same goes for secondary PTSD—secondary traumatizafor family members. Everybody is going to tion, vicarious PTSD, compassion fatigue—but be a little bit scared or a little bit worried, but says none of them are officially recognized by if it’s not interfering with their functioning, the American Psychiatric Association. “People they don’t meet criteria for a diagnosis.” recognize the phenomenon, but exactly how to When depression, substance abuse, and characterize it is still a matter of discussion,” other factors are factored in, the situation he says. The symptoms include many of the becomes even more muddled. There’s no X-ray, hallmarks of regular PTSD, such as withdrawblood test, or surefire way of spotting PTSD, so ing into one’s self, mood swings, and anxiety, psychiatrists rely almost entirely on a patient’s but the critical difference is there’s no direct testimony. “A good clinician who has experiexposure to a traumatic event. Rather, the ence with PTSD is going to know it when they causes can include learning that a traumatic see it,” Rothbaum says. “But you can miss it, event occurred to a close family member, secand if people want to hide it, they can hide it.” ondhand knowledge of some horrific incident, The National Vietnam Veteran Readjustor the cumulative stress of constant vigilance. ment Study, conducted in 1983 in response to “It’s something of a misnomer,” Nacev says, a congressional mandate, found that about 30 referencing the secondhand-smoke analogy. percent of all soldiers deployed to Vietnam “It’s not contagious, where you’ll get it from had PTSD some time after their deployment, associating with somebody who has PTSD.” and 15 percent—about 450,000 men and women—still met criteria for PTSD nearly two decades later. An additional 19 percent andi Jensen, director of The Solhad something termed “partial PTSD.” diers Project Northwest, a nonprofit “They didn’t have the full syndrome, but that offers free, confidential mentalwere clearly affected psychologically by their health counseling to Washington war experience and were very symptomatic service members, veterans, and their families, and reporting functional problems,” says says she has encountered several Army wives Dr. Matthew Friedman, executive director who are worried sick. of the VA’s National Center for PTSD and a “I’m dealing with a young lady right now professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at whose husband is in Afghanistan,” Jensen Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. “We says. “He calls her from a forward operating never had a good place to put those people, base, they’re on the phone, and she can hear except to call it adjustment disorder. And the mortars in the background. That is terrifying. problem with that is there’s a lot of variants You’re bringing the war directly into your livfor adjustment disorder.” ing room. I’m trying to explain, ‘Your fear for To a layperson, adjustment disorder— his life is overwhelming you.’ There’s a sense Etterlee’s affliction, according the Madigan of having no control over it at all.” psychiatrists—sounds an awful lot like PTSD. Michele Smith is familiar with that feeling.

It is defined as “the development of emoShannon, her husband of 22 years, deployed tional or behavioral symptoms in response to to Iraq in 2008 as part of an Army specialan identifiable stressor,” followed by “marked operations unit. The couple chatted regularly distress” and “significant impairment in » Continued on page 14

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Mind Field » FroM page 13 via Skype, and Smith says her husband took pains to make it seem as though he was never in harm’s way.

“I did start to get worried,” Smith says, “not because of what he was telling me, but because of the changes in his personality. I’m 8,000 miles away, I can see my husband having a nervous breakdown, and there’s nothing I can do.”

Smith, the moderator of a 16,000-member Facebook page called “Military with PTSD,” recalls how her husband became obsessed with seemingly insignificant details about his deployment. His sense of humor was supplanted by a surly temper. He complained of stomach pains and insomnia. Only months later did she learn his secret: He’d suffered a head injury.

When the Smiths were reunited in early 2009, Michele recalls that it seemed as though Shannon was “like a lit rocket about ready to launch in every direction.” His anger intensified, and his behavior became increasingly bizarre. He experienced panic attacks and became unnerved by thunderstorms, which he had once enjoyed. Smith says the Army warned her to expect an “adjustment period” upon her husband’s return home, and for months she assumed the changes in his behavior would be merely temporary. The couple briefly separated, but were able to patch things up after the soldier sought counseling.

“They go out and deploy and we’re holding down the fort,” Smith says. “We’re taking care of everything: the bills, the kids, everything that needs to happen while they’re at war. They come back with PTSD, they’re in the house, but they’re checked out. They can’t help because their response requires a level of patience they’re just not capable of . . . It’s an unbelievable amount of pressure to be that spouse.”

In years past, that pressure was brushed aside as an expected hazard of being a military wife. But now there’s a push to recognize the impact of war on entire military families and to help them cope. “The running joke in the military back in the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s was, ‘If we wanted you to have a wife and family, we would have issued you one,’ ” Nacev says. “The service member’s physical well-being was the focus. We’re shifting away from that and looking at service members as a total package: physical well-being, mental health, spiritual well-being, and now including family well-being.”

According to NAMI, mental-health conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress are as prevalent in families as in service members. A study of more than 250,000 military spouses showed that 37 percent had been diagnosed with at least one mental disorder, most frequently anxiety, depression, or sleep disorders. Of the 776,000 children with activeduty parents, roughly one-third have reportedly suffered from a psychological or behavioral disorder. And yet, a recent NAMI report entitled “Parity for Patriots” found that military families have “scant health-care coverage and scarce access to military-informed care.”

A spokesperson for the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury lists multiple resources available to military families— including, on each base, “family support centers, a one-stop shop for service members and their families to access information on key resources that enhance the readiness of

military families.” But most resources are available only by phone or online, and require “self-assessment.” (Spouses are eligible for military health care, and the web service Military One Source—militaryonesource. mil—provides referrals for up to 12 in-person sessions with a mental-health professional.)

Smith, for instance, was living in Utah when her husband returned from Iraq, their home more than 500 miles from the nearest Army base. She used Military One Source and was able to get a counseling referral, but says she ultimately learned that “it’s really hard to find a professional that knows what PTSD looks like in the home.”

At the VA and elsewhere, Friedman says, there’s no question there are “people who are dealing with the consequences of a traumatic event even though they themselves have never been in danger,” but researchers have not carried out many studies on the subject.

As a result, relatively little is known about socalled secondary PTSD. “The time has come,” Friedman says, “to look at the sub-syndromal or partial expressions of PTSD, and see what we can learn about them and what treatments will work for them.”

But who would qualify for such treatments, and, more dauntingly, who would pay for them, remains to be seen. “I don’t think we’ve even touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to secondary PTSD,” Jensen says.

“There are a lot of cases of civilians and family members dealing with it, and they don’t quite get it. They’re not sure why they feel anxiety, or aren’t quite positive what’s going on. As they learn about this, the system is going to be even more overwhelmed.”

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hen Etterlee’s PTSD diagnosis was downgraded to adjustment disorder last December, the psychiatrist responsible, Dr. Thomas Danner, left a brief written explanation in Etterlee’s medical records. The files, shared by Etterlee with Seattle Weekly, show that Danner was skeptical because the previous diagnosis was “based solely on the service member’s subjective report of alleged events to the clinician and unverified by any collateral source of information.”

In other words, Etterlee stood accused of exaggerating, perhaps even fabricating, his war experiences.

The allegation is insulting, the soldier says, because it took him months to muster the courage to come forward and seek treatment.

At first Etterlee thought his insomnia, irritability, and other symptoms were normal. Then he feared being branded as weak or “broken” by his fellow infantrymen and commanding officers. He recalls a common blunt response from non-commissioned officers when he told them he had PTSD issues: “So do I. Everybody does. What makes you so special?”

“It goes back to the mentality in the military that everybody goes through this,” Etterlee says. “You get so used to thinking that it’s normal, but it’s not normal. I held everything inside for a long time. I got tired of holding it inside and not doing anything, just being miserable.”

Records show Danner was also mistrustful because Etterlee showed “an understanding of the secondary gain potential” of being diagnosed with PTSD—insinuating that Etterlee may have concocted his story so he could pocket the extra disability money that accompanies a PTSD diagnosis.

Under pressure from Congress, the Department of Defense agreed in 2008 to grant minimum 50 percent disability ratings to soldiers diagnosed with PTSD, a substantial increase from the 10 percent or less rating the diagnosis previously garnered. (Under the VA system, a 50 percent disability rating is currently worth $770 per month, plus additional allowances for dependents; a 10 percent rating pays $123 per month with no allowances.)

With some exceptions, adjustment disorder and similar afflictions typically qualify for a rating no higher than 10 percent. While noble in its intent, the monetization of PTSD diagnoses has created a classic catch-22.

“There may be disincentive from the point of view of the patient to have symptoms lessen and get a diagnosis like adjustment disorder,” says Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a former top Army psychiatrist now serving as the chief clinical officer for the District of Columbia’s Department of Mental Health.

“PTSD naturally waxes and wanes over time, and is also responsive to medication. If somebody gets better and their symptoms are in remission, normally that’s a good thing.”

counseling opportunities for veterans, and increased oversight of the military’s mental-health system. One section of the bill would expand counseling services to cover soldiers far removed from the battlefield, including pilots of remote-controlled, unmanned aerial drones; military morticians working “outside the theater of combat operations”; and the mental-health professionals who themselves tend to the troops’ psyches.

“From World War II and the Korean War to Vietnam, we’ve never gotten this right,” said Murray, the chair of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, while introducing her package at a July 2 press conference in Seattle. “I believe that in this day and age, we should be much further along in dealing with military mental-health issues.”

Murray also suggests that the family members of deployed troops be eligible to receive access to mental-health-care services at community “Vet Centers,” VA medical facilities, and local civilian hospitals. The senator says the change would help families “cope with the stress of deployment and strengthen their support network.”

“The running joke in the military back in the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s was, ‘If we wanted you to have a wife and family, we would have issued you one.’ ” The Congressional Budget Office did not determine the estimated cost of Murray’s expanded military mental-health programs.

Although it generated bipartisan support, the bill was introduced near the end of the legislative session, and lawmakers never had the opportunity to vote on the measure. Murray spokesman Matt McAlvanah says the Veterans’ Affairs Committee will likely vote on the issue after the August recess, and the Senator “will absolutely continue to pursue these reforms through the end of the year and into next year if necessary.”

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n the wake of public and political outcry over the diagnosis reversals at Madigan, the Army is currently reviewing PTSD diagnoses made at all Army medical facilities dating back to October 7, 2001, the official start of the Afghan war.

The Army Surgeon General identified more than 300 reversed diagnoses, and while the results of the internal inquiry have not yet been released, Sen. Murray said in May that at least 100 soldiers have already had their original diagnoses reinstated.

Count John Byron Etterlee among that group.

Clad in his camo fatigues at Coffee Strong, a Veteran-run antiwar cafe across the street from JBLM, Etterlee says he was re-evaluated in March by an Army doctor from a base in Texas. But while his PTSD diagnosis has been restored, Etterlee’s ordeal with the Army medical system continues. He recently completed a seven-week “symptoms management” program for his anxiety and irritability issues, but left less than impressed.

“It was the same thing as me sitting here talking to you about it,” Etterlee says. “It was bull. It just seems like you get lost in the system.”

Etterlee underwent surgery for the herniated discs in his back last year, but has not recovered. Often in pain, with his mobility

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Predictably, the financial incentive also arouses suspicion that soldiers like Etterlee are faking it. The disability system isn’t especially lucrative; the $1.5 million lifetime figure cited in the Madigan memos assumes a 100 percent disability rating (meaning that an individual is unable to work because of his or her handicap), which pays $2,673 per month.

Nevertheless, there is legitimate concern that opening the military’s disability system to a broader range of mental issues could be extremely costly.

Two pending proposals could prompt such a change. The American Psychiatric Association is currently in the process of revising its DSM, and one probable outcome is a reclassification of PTSD and its cousins. Currently, PTSD is lumped in with a broad range of anxiety and adjustment disorders; next year, it’s likely that PTSD will have a separate new category of “Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders.” The redefinition calls for recognizing “the development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor.” The term “secondary PTSD” isn’t mentioned, but it doesn’t need to be.

“It’s going to open the door,” Ritchie says.

“Whether it opens all the way to somebody hearing about secondhand events, this has again been an area of contention for a long time. What if you hear about a train crash or see a picture of a train crash, or pictures of people jumping out of the windows of the World Trade Center over and over? What is the impact on the disability system?”

In June, Sen. Murray introduced the Mental Health ACCESS Act of 2012 in the wake of the scandal at Madigan and the appallingly high suicide rate in the military. (On average, one active-duty service member commits suicide each day, and, since the war in Afghanistan began, more U.S. military personnel have died by suicide than in combat there.) Murray’s legislation proposes comprehensive, standardized suicide-prevention programs, expanded peer-

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severely limited, he sometimes needs a cane to walk and cannot participate in most training exercises with his unit. Eligible for a medical discharge, he says his case file was “sent through the wrong communications and has been sitting doing nothing for two months.” He is still awaiting a ruling, but his days as an enlisted man are likely numbered.

Discussing Robert Bales, the Fort Lewis soldier accused of going berserk and massacring 17 Afghan civilians earlier this year, and reflecting on his own tribulations seeking treatment for both his brain and his back, Etterlee says he understands how navigating the Army’s bureaucratic labyrinth could push someone over the edge. “I can imagine driving home from work, being frustrated you’re not getting the help you need, and thinking about driving your car into a wall or something like that,” Etterlee says. “I’ve had that thought a couple times.

But I know personally I’d never do something like that.”

A recent study by the VA Inspector General found that more than half of veterans seeking mental-health care for the first time waited 50 days for an assessment, and that the VA had a backlog of nearly 900,000 disability claims—two-thirds of them pending more than 125 days. Several soldiers and veterans interviewed for this story complained of an impersonal, byzantine system that sometimes does as much harm as good.

Greg Miller faced “endless hurdles” when seeking post-combat treatment.

independently operated. There he found support from fellow veterans who’d dealt with the same issues, and his condition improved to the degree that he now works as the Vet Center’s outreach coordinator. The Marine says the VA and the armed forces as a whole have made tremendous progress when it comes to PTSD. “They recognize they have a problem and I think they’re making the right changes,” Sutton says. “It’s just a slow process, and it’s hard to get it through some people’s skulls, as far as old-school Army and Marines, that this exists. Those old terms, where we used to call it ‘wussy syndrome’ and things like that—that will naturally weed itself out.”

Other experts and doctors outside the military likewise say that several VA and Department of Defense PTSD programs offer comprehensive care and cutting-edge treatment techniques, including virtual-reality exposure, that are sometimes ahead of the curve rela-

“Those buildings [at Madigan] may as well be empty,” Miller says. “It’s meaningless help. It leaves you with few choices. I can kill myself, I can go AWOL, or I can bury myself in substance abuse that will probably put me in prison.”

Greg Miller, a former Army infantryman stationed for three years at JBLM, recalls facing “endless hurdles” when he sought help for PTSD issues after his return from Iraq. “Those buildings [at Madigan] may as well be empty,” Miller says. “It’s meaningless help. It leaves you with few choices. I can kill myself, I can go AWOL, or I can bury myself in substance abuse that will probably put me in prison. The Army touts these services, but if you can’t get to them, and if once you do they’re meaningless, what good is that?”

Nathan Sutton, an eight-year Marine veteran, was among the first boots-on-the-ground American troops in Baghdad, an experience he compares to “the Fourth of July on crack.”

During his second deployment, more than 80 percent of his company was either killed or wounded. He says he struggled mightily with PTSD upon his return home in 2009, and his first visit to the VA hospital only made things worse. “I walked out a little more messed-up than when I walked in,” Sutton says. “It’s just confusing. It’s a big organization.”

Sutton eventually found his way to the Everett Vet Center, one of several communitybased treatment centers financed by the VA but

tive to civilian care. Even the much-maligned Madigan has its supporters—including Emory University’s Rothbaum, who praises the facility’s clinical research and use of outside collaborators (Rothbaum included) to evaluate its work. “My experience with Madigan is they’re doing it the right way,” she says.

But 35 percent of soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan either already have PTSD or will develop it eventually, according to a recent estimate by Stanford University researchers, and even more will struggle with adjustment disorder and the other psychological problems that fall under the broad umbrella of secondary PTSD. The ways the military perceives and addresses PTSD are certainly improving, but cases like Etterlee’s prove that soldiers struggling with the aftereffects of “general combat stress,” as one doctor described the root cause of his condition, still have a hellish time getting help after they’ve been to hell and back.

“Honestly, man, it’s just a pain in the ass,” Etterlee says. “I had to go through all this crap just to prove something is wrong with me, just to get help.” E khamilton@seattleweekly.com

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Who says Jeff Bezos never did anything nice?

Not only has the notoriously stingy, Ayn Rand– worshipping retail magnate put money behind the cause of marriage equality, but Amazon is sponsoring this year’s South Lake Union Block Party. And well the company should, since it’s utterly transformed SLU with its office towers and legions of hungry workers. The neighborhood is booming, a true bright spot downtown.

Today, activities begin with—what else?—a yoga class ($5–$10) on the lawn, since all those Amazonians need to learn how to relax.

Following are children’s activities and all manner of food from more than a dozen vendors including Top Pot, Skillet, and Tutta Bella. (Also, try the $5 sampling ticket for a little bit of everything). The Brave Horse Tavern is organizing a beer garden featuring several Northwest breweries. A burger-grilling competition from 4–7 p.m. will feature chefs from Blue Moon Burgers and other red-meat eateries, and you can sample slider-size portions of their entries. Since Amazon is famously pet-friendly, the Seattle Humane Society’s MaxMobile will be showing dogs and cats available for adoption. And the party concludes at 9 p.m. with an outdoor screening of Richard

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In case you missed out on lunchroom food fights in grade school, there’s still a chance to experience the sensation of edible goo dripping all over you. In what promises to be the food fight to end all food fights, the Tomato Battle will provide 40,000 pounds of tomatoes for attendees to pummel and pellet their friends with into a near-marinara mess. The tomatoes used will be overripe local-farm surplus fruit, meaning they’re probably better used as ketchup-like weapons (to ease your ecoconscious worries). Before the battle begins (at 4 p.m.), enjoy live music, an all-you-can-drink

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If the idea seemed unlikely a decade ago, it’s now inarguable: The Northwest is booming musical-theater territory. Tony winners like Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza premiered in Seattle (at the 5th Avenue and Intiman, respectively); a Tony and Pulitzer Prize went to Next to Normal, which first took shape at Issaquah’s Village Theatre; and even ACT is getting into the act with its recent First Date. Smaller but still important is Contemporary Classics, which since 2003 has produced low-budget, high-quality stagings of contemporary musicals. (Its moving, unpretentious take on Andrew Lippa’s john & jen was one of 2005’s best shows.) The 13th installment of its New Voices series features the work of up-and-coming composers and lyricists, with 19 songs performed by some of the city’s finest and a six-piece band. The long list of vocal talents includes nine members of the 5th’s current production of Rent, as well as proven crowd-pleasers like Billie Wildrick, who’s made her name here as several scrumptious Sondheim heroines (such as the befuddled Cinderella of the 5th’s Into the Woods), and Cayman Ilika, still fresh in the memory for knocking audiences out of their seats with her rendition of “Bill” as Julie in the Village Theatre’s ambitious 2009 Show Boat. With such fetching help, these new composers may be well on their way to calling themselves veteran Broadway songsmiths. Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave., contemporaryclassics.org and brownpapertickets.com. $15–$20. 7:30 & 10 p.m. STEVE WIECKING FRI: FESTIVALS

You know what they’ll be drinking at our satellite celebration of Lebowski Fest, a national phenomenon now in its 11th year. You also know that people will come dressed in costume. And you can be certain that many have memorized the entire endlessly quotable script of the Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir The Big Lebowski, which will also be screened this evening (after many White Russians). At a time when the country is divided and politics are so fractious, the Dude now more than ever seems a benevolent emblem of national reconciliation. On his quest to retrieve a stolen rug, nothing rattles Jeff Bridges’ Dude, not a leering Tara Reid, not a lisping John Turturro, not a raving John Goodman, not a simpering Steve Buscemi, and not even shrieking performance artist Julianne Moore, who joins Bridges in a Busby Berkeley–style bowling fantasy that sums up the movie’s sweet, silly spirit. To abide is to avoid extremes and unnecessary arguments. To abide is to accept. To abide is to let things slide—negativity chief among them. Maybe it’s not too late for this country . . . could there be a third Lebowski Party candidate on the ballot this fall? Bring us together, Dude! (A bowling/drinking party follows on Saturday at Roxbury Lanes in West Seattle.) Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave., 628-3151, showboxonline.com and lebowskifest.com. $15–$18 (21 and over). 8 p.m. BRIAN MILLER

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August is generally a dead month in the arts, so it’s a good time to launch the 14/48 Kamikaze Festival, a summer variant on the insta-theater fest generally held at On the Boards. For this iteration, 45 veterans of past 14/48 jamborees will begin hatching their seven new Friday shows the day before (based on a random theme). If you go Friday, you can then suggest ideas for Saturday’s septet of short works—10 minutes is the preferred length. As always, speed is no guarantee of quality, but all the actors, writers, and musicians have been through this wringer before.

With experience comes speed—and the knowledge that sometimes a playwright’s best strategy is fewer words and more white space on the page. (Also, we’ll just warn you now of another, open-air 14/48KF that’ll be part of Seattle Center’s “Next 50” celebration, free, Sept. 7 and 8.) Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, 1524 Harvard Ave., 1448fest.com. $20–$25.

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There are specialized clubs for port, for pistols, for Pomeranians . . . and for playwright Harold Pinter, whose prickly, often unresolved works are hardly a popular cup of tea. Yet since Pinter’s 2008 death, ACT has become Seattle’s unofficial Pinter club. To prepare for this year’s Pinter Festival, I saw The Caretaker this spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and finally I understood what the fuss was about. His iconic silences are like a mutating weather map of mood, conveying a remarkable amount of what seems like narrative information. (It helped also that Jonathan Pryce led the cast.)

Coming home for this nicely polished Pinter two-fer, performed back-to-back with an intermission, I missed the apparently effortless, second-to-second specificity that can make those silences (and subtexts) sing.

The Dumb Waiter concerns two hit men awaiting instructions for their next job. Cutups Darragh Kennan and Charles Leggett, who routinely clean up around town in non-Pinter fare, here play their roles too broadly. The laughs seem more the goal of, rather than the fortuitous byproduct of, character. Leggett’s alpha Ben is an opaque figure, offering no discernible clues to his chronic irritation (unless you happen to know the ending, which most Pinterists already do). Kennan reveals a bit more complexity as the submissive Gus,

but the flatness of John Langs’ directing cedes the interest of the piece to the dumb waiter itself, an appliance whose vicious openings and closings, dramatized by Rick Paulsen’s occult lighting, turn Ben and Gus into the quavering victims of a capricious universe.

The evening hits its stride in the more accessible ensemble piece Celebration (also directed

by Langs). Here, Robert Dahlstrom’s set, an upscale 1980s restaurant, reflects the satirical bent of the play, in which restaurant staffers outclass their crass patrons. Among the latter, as Lambert, Frank Corrado’s mastery of the oeuvre shows in his character’s feather-light meanness. Why Lambert’s wife (Julie Briskman) simply accepts his cutting insults is never clear; maybe Pinter offers no guidance in the text, but one wishes Langs would give us—and his cast— some clues. As a server catering to the revelers’ satisfaction, Cheyenne Casebier casually reveals her lofty pedigree.

Meanwhile, Kennan’s waiter feels compelled to “interject” repeatedly to brag about an important (and improbable) ancestor.

Though not particularly precise or riveting, this production serves an appropriate menu of aspirational pathos. MARGARET FRIEDMAN

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Sitting pretty in the pack of excellent theater options this summer, Vincent Delaney’s new play is a must-see for comedy fans. From the title, I feared a pseudo–Michael Moore documentary. Instead, I was delighted to find an absurd (but coherent) romance in which two job-seekers chronically leapfrog over and around each other in pursuit of the one gig available at any given time. Their hellish double helix of ambition and disaffection spans numerous jobs and provides the strong thematic spine so many modern plays lack. It also lends an urgent, Odets-like cri de coeur in the

face of a seriously unfair economy. While never preachy, 99 Layoffs is relentlessly one-sided: Corporate life turns managers into monsters and the managed into indentured serfs.

Leads K. Brian Neel and Aimée Bruneau are perfectly cast for their plasticity and—how else to put it?—interestingness. As Orson, Neel liquefies his entire body into a puddle on the floor every time he has to shake an interviewer’s hand. In one memorable temp gig, he diddles odd disco moves while wearing a giant frosted and sprinkled doughnut-hole costume (kudos to costumer Julia Evanovich for the nightmare-inducing getup). As Louella (plus various smaller roles), Bruneau keeps it real, but not predictable. Even in the vignettes where Louella and Orson exchange e-mails about their shrinking dreams and growing despair, her subtle facial expressions precision-steer like a Lotus—a godsend for director David Gassner, given Delaney’s penchant for mercurial mood shifts.

Produced and commissioned by Radial Theater Project, the show uses amusing video clips of job-seekers to fill the downtime during set and costume changes, but they’re redundant.

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•FRINGE BENEFIT Booze and performance to benefit the return of the Seattle Fringe Festival, Sept. 19–23.

West of Lenin, 203 N. 36th St., seattlefringefestival.org.

Donation ($10 and up). 7 p.m. Tues., Aug. 14.

THE ILLUSION Tony Kushner’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s prescient 17th-century play exploring reality and perception. Center House Theatre, Seattle Center, 800-838-3006, soundtheatrecompany.org. $10–$15.

Previews Aug. 9–10, opens Aug. 11. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.– Sat., 2 p.m. Sun.; also 7:30 p.m. Mon., Aug. 20. Ends Aug. 26.

LIZZIE BORDEN Workshop performances of this rock musical, part of Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals. Village Theatre, 303 Front St. N., Issaquah, 425-392-2202, villagetheatre. org. $20–$25. 10 p.m. Fri., Aug. 10, 5 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11–Sun., Aug. 12.

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A dance party led by aerial circus/cabaret troupe The Cabiri. Old Rainier Brewery, 3100 Airport Way S., 800-8383006, cabiri.org. $10–$25.

9 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11.

20TH CENTURY MAN/IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Time-travel theater based on the writings of anarchists Emma Goldman and Adolph Fischer. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave. Free. 6 p.m. Fri., Aug. 10, 7 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11.

A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD Arnold Lobel’s children’s classic becomes a musical. Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 S.E. 40th St., Mercer Island, 232-4145 x109, youththeatre.org. $13–$17. Opens Aug. 10. 7 p.m.

Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Wed.–Thurs. & Sat.–Sun. Ends Aug. 19.

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Burien Little Theatre collaborate on Nilo Cruz’ Cuban take on Anna Karenina. Burien Little Theater, S.W. 146th St. and Fourth Ave. S.W., Des Moines, 242-5180, latinotheatreprojects.org, burienlittletheatre.org. $7–$20. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 26.

ANYTHING GOES The Cole Porter classic. West Seattle High School, 3000 California Ave., 800-838-3006, twelfthnightproductions.org. $15–$18. 7:30 p.m.

Fri.–Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 19.

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Bartholomew’s new musical updates the teen sleuth to the ’90s. Presented by STAGEright Theatre. Theater Off Jackson, 409 Seventh Ave. S., 800-838-3006, seattle stageright.org. $15. 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Aug. 18.

THE CELTIC CROSS Matthew Jackson’s play about the Troubles. The Little Theatre, 608 19th Ave. E., 325-5105. $15–$20. Runs Thurs.–Sat.; see washingtonensemble.org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 18.

CHAPS! London, 1944: A visiting American cowboy band misses its live gig at the BBC, so reluctant radio staff must impersonate the dogie-wranglers. The jaundiced Brits eventually warm to it, entertaining the troops and brave citizens under Nazi attack. The audience plays the BBC studio audience, obeying an Applause light and sometimes clapping along. Aside from a few air raids and a micro-romance, not much happens except the rollicking country-Western numbers. Oh, and a few painfully creaky jokes. (Tex: “Have you ever punched cows?”

Miles: “I would never hit an animal.”) Director Karen Lund conjures a mood of shared wartime sacrifice that’s all but extinct in our present era of draftlessness and drones. MARGARET FRIEDMAN Taproot Theatre, 204 N. 85th St., 781-9707, taproottheatre.org. $15–$37. 7:30 p.m.

Wed.–Thurs., 8 p.m. Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat. Ends Aug. 18.

DRIVING MISS DAISY Alfred Uhry’s heart-warmer.

Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., 800-838-3006, reacttheatre.org. $6–$15. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., plus 2 p.m.

Sat. starting Aug. 11. Ends Aug. 25.

EL ULTIMO COCONUT A coming-of-age tale about a Mexican-American cyber-nerd. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$10.

8 p.m. Tues.–Wed. Ends Aug. 22.

GREENSTAGE The Taming of the Shrew and Henry VIII in repertory through Aug. 18. Free, Thurs.–Sun. in area parks; see greenstage.org for exact schedule.

INTIMAN THEATRE FESTIVAL Director Allison Narver sets her Romeo & Juliet in an overpopulated, favela-like world, a teeming cauldron of life. Starring the always-interesting Marya Sea Kaminski as its tragic heroine, director Andrew Russell’s Hedda Gabler lacks the relevance Narver has found for Romeo. Shanley’s 2003 political comedy Dirty Story needs less doctoring to be contemporary, so director Valerie Curtis-Newton hews closely to the ingenious original script: Shawn Law and Carol Roscoe play a couple from geopolitical Hell, bound together in a bare-studs apartment. It’s so hilarious I’m seeing it again. MARGARET FRIEDMAN Intiman Theatre, Seattle Center, 800-982-2787. $30. See intiman. org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 26.

KITTENS IN A CAGE Kelleen Conway Blanchard’s comic take on women-in-prison movies. Annex Theatre, 1100 E. Pike St., 728-0933, annextheatre.org. $5–$15. 8 p.m.

Thurs.–Sat., plus 8 p.m. Mon., Aug 13. Ends Aug. 25.

99 LAYOFFS SEE REVIEW, PAGE 18.

PARALLEL LIVES Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney’s comic two-hander. Theater Schmeater, 1500 Summit Ave., 800-838-3006, schmeater.org. $15–$23. 8 p.m. Fri.–Sat. Ends Aug. 11.

PINTER FESTIVAL The Dumb Waiter, Celebration (SEE REVIEW, PAGE 18), Old Times, and No Man’s Land in repertory through Aug. 26, plus sketches, films, and more. See acttheatre.org for schedule. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., 292-7676. $5–$55.

RENT There’s much to recommend about this revival of the Pulitzer-winning 1996 musical, including a scrappy, mostly local cast that blends better than any of the four previous ensembles I’ve seen. There’s also an

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earnest effort to mine what little humor can be found in Jonathan Larson’s bleak period piece, set in New York at the nadir of the AIDS epidemic. However, director Bill Berry has also coated Larson’s often naked rage with a thick sheen of nostalgia, and not all art should be prettified. I miss the grit-and-spit that made Rent such a relevant hit in its heyday. Yet Berry and musical director R.J. Tancioco elicit one pitch-perfect performance after another from the vocally well-matched cast. Standouts: Jerick Hoffer as drag queen Angel, looking like the child of Ziggy Stardust and Wilma Flintstone, and Ryah Nixon as Maureen, who offers the best “Over the Moon” I’ve yet heard onstage. KEVIN PHINNEY 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Ave., 625-1418. Runs Tues.–Sun.; see 5th avenue.org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 19.

SALLY AND THOR SAVE THE WORLD (AT SUMMER CAMP) Balagan throws myths and fairy

tales into a blender in their new family show. Free.

Plays weekends at 2 p.m. at various area parks; see balagantheatre.org for exact schedule. Ends Aug. 11.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS UPAC Theatre Group presents Robert Harling’s ensemble piece about Southern women and the salon where they hang. United Evangelical Free Church, 1420 N.W. 80th St., upactheatregroup.org. $15–$18. 7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Aug. 19.

TEATRO ZINZANNI: GANGSTERS OF LOVE Improv cutup Frank Ferrante is back as Caesar; Dietrich-like beauty Dreya Weber plays his long-lost amore Myrna.

Music is provided by Francine Reed and Orchestra DeVille. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., 802-0015. $106 and up. Runs through Sept. 30; see zinzanni.org for exact schedule.

WOODEN O Seattle Shakes presents Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale in repertory through Aug. 12.

Free performances Wed.–Sun. in several area parks; see seattleshakespeare.org for exact schedule.

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Must Have Been Violet presents an evening of contemporary works by choreographer Rachel Grant, Bellingham company Dance Gallery, and more. Open Flight Studio, 4205 University Way N.E., imhbvdance.org. $10–$15. 8 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11.

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7:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat. at St. Augustine’s in the Woods, 5217 S. Honeymoon Bay Rd.; 3 p.m. Sun. at Greenbank Farm, 765 Wonn Rd. Aug. 10 & 12 Chamber music with flute by Mozart and Haydn. Aug. 11 Selections from Bach’s solo suites. whidbeyislandmusicfestival.org.

OLYMPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL This weekend, Bach’s grand Chaconne in D Minor, arranged for piano. Olympic Music Festival, Center Road, Quilcene, 360-732-4800, olympicmusicfestival.org. $14–$20 lawn, $18–$30 barn.

2 p.m. Sat., Aug. 11–Sun., Aug. 12.

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of PBR all around.” Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 800-838-3006, operaontap.com/ seattle. $15–$20. 7:30 p.m. Tues., Aug. 14 & Thurs., Aug. 16.

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Composer John Cage not only made pieces of music by subjecting sounds to chance operations, he did the same to prose—snipping, shuffling, and collAging old texts into new ones. His favorite method was the mesostic: arranging randomly extracted lines so that vertically aligned letters Make apropos phrases. A favorite source was Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, with its rich verbal music and extravagant inscrutability. CagE recorded his remix, Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, as a spoken-word piece; on Saturday, Neal KoSaly-Meyer is making a theatrical tour de force out of it.

Collaborating with sound engineer Jake Thompson, he’s giving each of Writing’s 17 episodes a different sonic ambience— distance, reverb, echo, etc. As performed by KOsaly-Meyer, Cage’s monologue becomes a multi-character one-man opera, or perhaps Your schizophrenic Irish grandpa telling endless stories. To heighten the effect, he’s memorized, astonishingly, the entire 70-minute pieCe, having worked on it since last October. (Another in Kosaly-Meyer’s series of Cage memorials in the composer’s centennial yEar comes Sept. 4: a 12-hour reading of Cage’s Empty Words.)

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spectacle—as if to reassure the audience with a Mark Twain paraphrase: Rumors of our straitened finances have been greatly exaggerated.

The first thing you see, as the curtain rises to Puccini’s stentorian brass dissonances, are masklike set pieces representing suitors’ severed heads. Vowing to remain virginal, princess Turandot has challenged any potential husband with three riddles, death being the price of failure. In Saturday’s opening-night cast, Lori Phillips sang the role fervently and powerfully enough to be heard over the considerable tumult, yet never shook off a slight sense of insecurity in her top range. Sounding similar— passionate but a shade shrill—was Lina Tetriani as servant girl Liù. (The production misses a trick here; it can be marvelously effective when this opera’s two sopranos, empress and slave, present strongly contrasting voice types.)

The sheer stage presence of Antonello Palombi as Calaf, the hero, simply negated the character’s plausibility issues: He takes on Turandot’s life-risking challenge after just one glimpse of her from afar, and he spends nearly the whole opera plotting to wed and bed a woman against her will—without, if possible, coming off as a sociopath (cf. Giovanni, Don).

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Off with his head? Phillips and Palombi in Turandot.

than sweet or brilliant; if any listeners who couldn’t get Pavarotti out of their ears were disappointed, they were outshouted by a welldeserved ovation. It’s always fun to hear Puccini’s greatest hit as a concert-encore bonbon, but so much more thrilling when a character’s actually living the words. GAVIN BORCHERT E stage@seattleweekly.com

film»This Week’s Attractions The Bourne Legacy OPENS FRI., AUG. 10 AT BIG PICTURE AND OTHER THEATERS. RATED PG-13. 135 MINUTES.

The Campaign OPENS FRI., AUG. 10 AT PACIFIC PLACE AND OTHER THEATERS. RATED R. 85 MINUTES.

The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules.

Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no rules.”

The reference is a fitting start to this amusing but toothless R-rated comedy from Jay Roach, the founding director of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises, who most recently signed his name to the Palin-humanizing HBO movie Game Change. Like past-his-peak Perot, The Campaign is basically a footnote, a goof on our broken political system—good for a

Ringer as the little fugitive in On the Sly.

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The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books—they’ve been Van Halenized, with an abrupt change of frontman and a resulting dip in personality. The series up to now has survived via Matt Damon’s beady gaze, making decisions about where the story goes, even as director Paul Greengrass’ jittery action fuzz did its best to render the set pieces of the past two entries almost unwatchable.

Now we have Jeremy Renner as another Treadstone mega-man (there were nine, apparently), and though he is a likable enough pug-nosed action figure, the Damonlessness is sorely felt. Working in the trenches so he can eventually make himself another Michael Clayton, director Tony Gilroy keeps things brisk and relatively smart, but he can’t be surprised if we find the rooftop-’n’-motorcycle chase through Manila a little rote by now, however white-knuckly and free of Greengrass camera palsy. The late-in-the-game introduction of a supervillain—a Bourne 2.0 from a “beta program” flown in from Bangkok in white skinny jeans—feels like outright pandering. But hell, it’s the fourth film, and that’s what happens when Hollywood hyperextends a simple paradigm beyond even the patience of the previous cast and crew. MICHAEL ATKINSON

against political novice Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis). The core of The Campaign’s comedy consists of the Brady and Huggins campaigns setting increasingly absurd traps for the other to fall into, each ensuing incident breathlessly reported by a media that stubbornly refuses to traffic in logic or offer context. By design, The Campaign is less a satire than a utopian fantasy. F-bombs and bestiality jokes aside, it’s basically a small-town fable in which just-folks human beings are temporarily corrupted by opportunistic evil outsiders, a threat that’s ultimately eradicated in what amounts to a fairy-tale snap of the fingers.

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Galifianakis and Ferrell prepare to pontificate in The Campaign.

certain novelty but impotent as a challenge to the dominant order. Will Ferrell stars as Cam Brady, a Democratic North Carolina congressman who suggests a hybrid of Ferrell’s George W. Bush caricature and Bill Clinton’s most spoofable horndog extremes, who is running

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OPENS FRI., AUG. 10 AT SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN. RATED R. 99 MINUTES.

This deft, atmospheric Errol Morris–style tour through the phenomenon that is “serial imposter” Frédéric Bourdin homes in on one brief episode from the man’s berserk career: the period in 1997 when the 23-year-old Frenchman convinced a Texas family he was their disappeared teenage son. This is already well-trod territory—hashed over in a 2008 New Yorker article, a 2010 fiction film starring Famke Janssen and Nick Stahl, tons of press coverage, and even Bourdin’s own YouTube channel—but the story still harbors queasy mysteries at its center, as true-crime-TV pro Bart Layton micro-analyzes every step of the case via interviews with the Texans, Bourdin, and the FBI. How Bourdin manages to pull off this charade is the first conundrum, but the question of how credulous this wounded American family really is eventually becomes subsumed by others—as in, what really happened to the vanished boy? Why is the mother, Beverly Dollarhide, such a zombie?

(The clan’s troubles with addiction and the missing son’s budding criminal career are factors Layton largely avoids.) And what’s buried out back, literally and figuratively? Thick

with re-enactments and cute cutaways, the movie evolves into a cultural inquisition, following this stranger through the strange land of bad-news America, where the truth is still waiting to be exhumed. MICHAEL ATKINSON

On the Sly RUNS FRI., AUG. 10–THURS., AUG. 16 AT NORTHWEST FILM FORUM. NOT RATED. 77 MINUTES.

Following the child runaways of Moonrise Kingdom, this small French drama has a 6-year-old girl (Wynona Ringer) flee into the woods not for love, but as a test of her busy parents. “They never look at me,” frets Cathy in her interminable, tedious voice-overs, and her arboreal gambit is to see if they notice her absence. A pint-size survivalist, she forages for berries and mushrooms, sleeps on a bed of ferns in her lean-to, and carries a pet fish around in a pail. (She’s hungry, but not hungry enough to eat it; in the movie’s funniest scene, they share a snack of worms!) While her parents and the police do actually search for her, Cathy’s ruse becomes a kind of thriller, as the little fugitive runs deeper into the forest.

Directed by the young actress’ father, Olivier Ringer, On the Sly steers away from the whimsical or the cute; there’s a gravity to this young heroine, who sometimes recalls the orphan girl in René Clément’s 1952 Forbidden Games (surely an influence). She, like many children, is playing ritual games that allow her to imagine both her parents’ mortality and her own. “I think if I wasn’t around, they’d be much happier,” she sulks. But the film also permits her little fantasies of family happiness—being tickled, going fishing, and so forth—that emphasize the subjective mood.

The adults who ignore her barely register as people (and often have their faces cropped out of frame); and when Cathy gives her full scrutiny to bugs, or the loyal fish, or a passing dog, they become major characters in her sternly self-directed drama. (Note: This weekend features short films also from the Children’s Film Festival in January, when On the Sly was voted best film.) BRIAN MILLER

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The transformation might be complete: The crap-and-gore, genremincing Tasmanian devil of Asian pulp psychosis, Takashi Miike, whom we’ve come to know and kinda semi-love since 1999’s Audition, seems now to have finished evolving into a tasteful, even resonant arthouse master. It has taken him only 50 movies or so.

Hara-Kiri is more than just another bid for respectability, like 13 Assassins, and it may well be Miike’s best film—a patient, ominous piece of epic storytelling that conscientiously rips the scabs off honorablesamurai mythology. Readapting Yasuhiko Takiguchi’s novel (Masaki Kobayashi had an international hit with it in 1962), Miike takes on the portentous shogunate territory of Mizoguchi and Kurosawa with authority; architecture dictates composition, and iconography speaks for itself. In a feudal lord’s palace, news comes from the gate that an unemployed samurai wishes to perform

seppuku in the estate courtyard. “Another one,” the head honcho (Kôji Yakusho) grumbles, already apparently weary of “suicide bluffs.” The would-be gut-cutter (Ebizô Ichikawa) has hidden agendas, not the least of which is to confront the heartless neocon samurai ethos head-on. Miike’s movie is filthy with moments of grace, from the rain that slowly turns to snowfall as bad news looms to the climactic, torrential one-againstmany anti-battle. Japan’s own fifth-gear Tarantino engine, Miike salutes golden-age Japanese cinema the right way—by respecting its heart and celebrating its iconic dazzle. In fact, his detour away from the hyperactive gore and genre excess that made him famous, by way of this deep-dish morality tale, feels positively heroic. (Screened in 3-D.) MICHAEL ATKINSON

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The titular royal is Jackie Siegel, the 40ish IBM engineer-turned-model-turned-trophy wife of 70ish time-share mogul David Siegel.

Audiences laugh at the Siegel family’s tackiness—their life-size oil paintings of themselves, the pet poop drying on what seems like every carpet, the limo Jackie takes to McDonald’s.

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Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in tow, hoping to surprise the married guy with whom she’s apparently having an affair. When he proves less than thrilled by this unscheduled visit, Lucy activates plan B, showing up unannounced at the crazy-posh loft overlooking Union Square where her sister, Jenny (Tammy Blanchard), lives and runs an organic-food business with her straitlaced fiancé Bill (Mike Doyle). The sisters haven’t spoken in years, and the mystery of what went wrong between them—to the point that Jenny refused Lucy’s Facebook-friend request!—is held out for much of Union Square as a big reveal. Set mostly in the loft over a three-day span culminating in a narratively useful awkward Thanksgiving dinner, the sixth feature from director Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) often feels like an acting exercise documented on video for teaching purposes—lots of unnecessary histrionics and ostentatious zooms, with both the story and the improv-like dialogue predicated on contrivances and glaring improbabilities (“You’re trying to pass,” sniffs one proudly uneducated character, dropping the keywords of identity politics a few scenes after having confused mesclun greens for mescaline). That said, there’s a lovely chemistry between Blanchard and Sorvino, whose bond as sisters is most convincing when they’re not speaking.

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Venetian soap opera. He assembles a dozen characters around blocked French novelist Francis (André Dussollier), then has them enact every random scene that’s been cluttering his desk drawers for the past 30 years.

There are suicide attempts, impulsive proposals, private detectives hired to spy on spouses, aristocrats turned to drug dealing, low-speed boat chases through the canals, a sex tape sent to Daddy, alcoholism, Schopenhauer citations, parents lamenting that they had kids, fatal disease, something about queer-bashing, and a colorful peasant wedding where everybody sings by the reeds on the beach. Also, Francis gets a book written by the end, so that he and Téchiné can feel that all this strife and melodrama had a purpose. Trust me, they don’t.

Venice is always scenic, but Unforgivable is such a frantic, busy picture that we’re never allowed to consider the cause of Francis’ jealous nature. His possessiveness alienates both his grown daughter and second wife (the cryogenically preserved Carole Bouquet), who snaps, “The more I know you, the less I know who you are.”

Strangely, Téchiné is no better informed than she. BRIAN MILLER

really even all that LOL-worthy. After the 2008 market collapse, the Siegels have to halt construction on their new “house,” a complex the size of Fantasyland in the form of a replica of Versailles. “The banks made us do it,” Jackie claims, after Westgate—Siegel’s time-share company—lays off 6,000 workers. “I thought that rescue money was supposed to be passed on to the common people,” she says of the bailout. “Or, you know, us.” Fueling Versailles is a nagging, unresolved tension between what seems like the filmmaker’s sympathy for the libertarian boldness of David’s unwillingness to compromise—in the land of the free (market), who has the right to police anyone else’s asset management or consumption?—and the damning evidence Greenfield presents of the ugly gluttony of that spending in practice.

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Unforgivable RUNS FRI., AUG. 10–THURS., AUG. 16 AT VARSITY. NOT RATED. 111 MINUTES.

Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it.

Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The Witnesses, The Girl on the Train) employs a kitchen-sink approach to this overstuffed

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BOTTLE ROCKET And thus, in 1996, was the Wes Anderson juggernaut launched upon unsuspecting white urbanites who thereafter, by indie decree, were required to study the entire Anderson canon on Criterion DVD. Here are Owen and Luke Wilson (and older brother Andrew lurking in the wings—or, more likely, deleted scenes). Expanded from Anderson’s short film two years prior, Bottle Rocket was, yes, a Sundance darling, but not so much a Sundance darling that it makes your teeth hurt. In outline, the gentle, shambling yet fussy comedy is a caper movie à la The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Yet Anderson is less concerned with making a heist flick than communicating the idea possessed by three Texan dimwits for pulling a heist. They’re dreamers, amateurs, a point brought home when they finally meet old pro James Caan, who is nothing if not concrete. (R) BRIAN MILLER Grand Illusion, 1403 N.E. 50th St., 523-3935, grandillusioncinema.org, $5-$8, Aug. 10-16, 7 & 9 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 11, 5 p.m.; Sun., T H I S CO D E Aug. 12, 5 p.m.

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Synth whooshes, distorted earthquake samples, and pan flute swirl around the serene and shrill femininity on display (vistas by DP Russell Boyd). (NR) NICOLAS RAPOLD Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org, $8 individual, $23 series, Fri., Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m.

FREMONT OUTDOOR MOVIES The 2004 wine-country road-trip dramedy Sideways has, appropriately, improved with age. As Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church go golfing and drinking in the Santa Barbara wine country, discontent gradually seeps through. One a failing actor, the other a failed novelist, they both feel how “we’re not getting any younger,” in the words of Haden Church’s TV pitchman Jack, who’s determined to get laid before his wedding (hello, Sandra Oh). Giamatti’s depressed, divorced would-be novelist Miles just wants to get drunk, but in the movie’s long, centerpiece scene, a discussion about pinot noir turns profoundly metaphoric. Miles naturally identifies with the “fragile, thin-skinned grape” (as opposed to the robust, insensitive cabernet). But, says a lovely local waitress (Virginia Madsen) in reply, you never know when wine—a microcosm for life—has hit its peak or begun its “steady, inevitable decline.” On second viewing, after a long interval, the movie is more acutely felt if—like Miles and Jack—you’ve accrued more hardship and disappointment during those years.

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meanderingly enjoyable. This 2005 feature by then 27-year-old Andrew Bujalski is a scripted drama, but, shot on 16mm with raw production values, it feels like documentary. A coterie of 20-something college graduates spends the summer drinking, temping, and performing the awkward mating rituals endemic to people who lack the courage to express their feelings. The film’s protagonist is Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), a satisfyingly complex young woman with a crush on an unworthy boy (Christian Rudder). At her temp job, Marnie meets Mitchell (played by writer/director/editor Bujalski), a sweet but awkward guy who develops a crush on her, and they dance around what both of them know: that he wants her and she wants someone else. Somehow, Bujalski was able to get his non-actors to non-act; the film has a beautiful nonchalance, as though we had just happened upon the scene. Once in a while, it drags, but it’s worth sinking into the film’s haphazard rhythms and paying close attention to its characters’ befuddled humanity. (NR) MELISSA LEVINE Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., 329-1193, nwfilmforum.org, $6-$10, Wed., Aug. 8, 9 p.m.; Thu., Aug. 9, 7 & 9 p.m.

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THE LONG DAY CLOSES With his The Deep Blue Sea one of the more acclaimed films of the spring (and a long-shot Oscar contender this winter), Terence Davies’ 1992 The Long Day Closes offers a study in contrasts.

Instead of adults and adultery, we have a shy 11year-old boy growing up in ‘50s Britain. Probably gay, certainly sharing certain biographical details with the director, young Bud (Leigh McCormack) is bullied at home and school, but he finds escape—where else?—at the movies. Note: no early show Monday. (PG) Northwest Film Forum, $6-$10, Aug. 10-16, 7 & 9 p.m.

MARYMOOR PARK OUTDOOR MOVIES Michael Lewis’ 2003 book concerns Billy Beane, a former ballplayer-turned-scout-turned-GM, and Paul DePodesta, an Ivy League wonk, who transformed the Oakland Athletics.

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ecause blankets can only do so much, Ray’s has perfected the boozy coffee cocktail, spinning elaborate after-dinner warm-ups from chocolate and butterscotch liqueurs, Tuaca and amaretto. But there’s much on the bar menu for those deceptive early-evening hours, when the notion of needing a blanket seems absolutely ludicrous.

A Manhattan made with peach bitters is a seasonal model of the genre, and the Nordic Summer beautifully melds contemporary tropical-beverage trends with a salute to Ballard’s heritage in an ice-filled pint glass.

“Have you had aquavit?” asked the bartender when I ordered the bubbly drink, which also includes caramelized pineapple purée, lemon juice, bitters, and soda. The many people who order the cocktail for its name are nearly always disappointed, he explained.

The vast size of Ray’s Cafe means an outdoor table is usually available within the 45 minutes that was the standard hostess promise when I dined there on balmy nights.

Soon after you’re seated, perhaps while contemplating a second cocktail, you’re likely to succumb to the lure of the small plates, which sound light and inventive on the page. But on both my visits to Ray’s Cafe, every dish disappointed. Bulbs of bok choy, liberally scattered with black and white sesame seeds,

were radically undercooked, putting more Ray’s could serve fried bologna stress on a knife already tested by the greens’ and people would still flock for this view. slippery coat of oil. Spears of asparagus were nicely grilled, but sadly smothered by lemon juice and salt. Artichoke hearts had lingered a balanced herb vinaigrette. And none of far too long in a sauté pan, so the plate’s only my guests registered any complaints about discernible flavors were oil and char. tightly woven crab-and-rock-shrimp cakes or The miniature fish dishes were as vexed as linguine featuring gaping, meaty clams and a those featuring vegetables. A wedge of grilled pistachio pesto sauce. halibut has an alluring crust, but the fish’s Still, the standout entrée isn’t really an nuances are surrendered to a supporting entrée at all, but a sandwich elevated to the mound of buttery mashed potatoes and a rich dinner hour by popular demand. A soft slice tomato beurre blanc that function as their of brioche functions as the base for Rogue go-betweens. Like the halibut, the salmon Creamery’s white cheddar, arugula, plenty looks pretty from every angle, with a coarse of Dijon mayonnaise, and a creamy-yolked mustard-dill crème fraiche insinuating itself egg that’s crisp at its edges. Described by our into grooves left by the grill, but the sauce server as his favorite hangover cure, the openis heavy and the curried faced fried-egg sandwich mashed potatoes are a few is pretty marvelous regardscads of butter beyond less of how you misspent » PRICE GUIDE SALMON SKEWERS .............$12.95 tasteful. the previous night.

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This year, Ray’s hired executive chef Wayne Johnson, late of Andaluca, to craft dishes that could reasonably be expected to hold their own against a pink sunset, and to draw younger customers who pride themselves on their food seriousness. The overhaul started with the second-floor cafe: Although Johnson was careful not to strip the cafe’s menu of its fish-and-chips trussing, he’s already plumped it with nearly a dozen dishes that would have been unthinkable when Lichtenberger was renting boats off the dock. Now there are platters of gluten-free steamed bok choy, shiny with sesame oil, and rockfish tacos scrawled with cilantro-avocado cream sauce.

Unfortunately, it takes a fusillade of culinary tricks to compete with Ray’s surroundings, and too many of them often end up on the same plate. The small plates which are supposed to represent the restaurant’s foray

into the present are aggravatingly busy, swamped with a swirl of overstated flavors that makes diners feel as if they’re on the wrong end of a game of telephone. Johnson’s concepts have been serially addled by too much soy sauce, too much butter, too much oil, and too much salt, no doubt applied by overtaxed and still-learning cooks in a very big kitchen.

But, hey, you’re at the beach, which means freewheeling’s the norm. If you don’t feel like subjecting yourself to Ray’s recent experiments, you can still order a salad or a burger and have a lovely plein air evening. Ray’s has long been known for turning out solid versions of coastal classics, and the current round of tinkering isn’t threatening to rock that reputation. Service remains well-mannered, with plaid throws delivered to shivering customers at a lickety-split clip. And a Ray’s Cafe meal is enormously impressive at its poles: A smart cocktail list and a selection of desserts created by pastry chef Lorna Stokes, who arrived from Cantinetta in April, harbor the restaurant’s greatest pleasures.

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They take their toddlers for first haircuts and buy bagels by the dozen. But what the candid photos of Pete Wentz wearing pajama pants and Jessica Alba pushing a grocery cart really prove is that good-looking celebrities are nothing like the people who listen to their music, see their movies, or read US Weekly. That’s because most non-Hollywood civilians blessed with perfect breasts or chiseled cheekbones wouldn’t dream of slouching about town in broad-brimmed baseball caps and oversized hoodies, as deflecting attention from physical beauty isn’t the American way.

Yet that’s exactly the course that Ray’s Cafe is pursuing with the latest iteration of its menu, which includes an assemblage of small plates intended to recapture eyes that might otherwise be trained on the restaurant’s regionally definitive Shilshole Bay view.

With summer scenery that’s the sea-andsky equivalent of Ryan Gosling, Ray’s would probably still have to invest in vibrating table pagers if it served nothing but gruel and buttermilk. But the 40-year-old institution— older if you date its birth to 1952, when Ray Lichtenberger erected the 50-foot red neon RAY’S sign that still glows today; younger if you’re counting from 1987, when a devastating fire flattened the restaurant—is keen to remind potential patrons that it’s also worthy of a visit on cold, misty days when the landscape’s gray and chowdery.

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The situation isn’t unique to Seattle: While the USDA recognizes that maximizing the use of food stamps at farmers markets improves low-income households’ access to “fresh, nutritious foods,” redemption rates nationwide fell steadily from 1993 through 2009, when a mere .01 percent of benefits were spent at farmers markets. “Historically, the percent of farmers’ market redemption is very small,” the USDA reported in 2010.

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“Fresh Bucks increases the purchasing power of low-income Seattle residents while introducing

new customers to the small and midsize farmers who sell at our farmers markets,” says Seattle Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith.

Many low-income shoppers learn about farmers markets through statewide nutrition programs, but Ulatowski says budget cuts have limited the scope of their promotional efforts. “What’s exciting about this program is that the grant is providing additional funding for outreach to socialservice agencies, as well as printed and translated material,” she says.

The Fresh Bucks program is funded by JPMorgan Chase, the Seattle Foundation, and the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. If funding hasn’t been depleted by October, the program will be extended.

At the federal level, the United States Department of Agriculture this spring announced a $4 million program to increase food-stamp usage at farmers markets. Since the 2004 introduction of the paperless benefits system created new challenges for markets which couldn’t afford— or, in certain cases, plug in—the required EBT terminals, the money is earmarked for the purchase of wireless point-of-sale equipment.

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“Your music . . . was a really big influence on me. Thank you for that.”

Riffing on happy accidents, Mark Lanegan, and “Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boys” with Jack White.

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BY DUFF MCKAGAN hite: Hello.

McKagan: Hey, Jack.

Hey. It’s Duff.

Hey, Duff, how are you doing?

Good, how are you doing, dude?

We did. We did some hanging out there. I’ve never done an interview per se, but I’ve been interviewed a million times, and you probably have too. They thought it would be interesting if you and I just kind of talked.

Yeah.

I really like the new record a lot. The sounds are kick-ass. I read the lyrics away from the music, which is something I don’t always do, but I don’t always interview somebody. Can you tell me about the path that you went on for this record, lyric-wise?

It was sort of different writing ideas I was trying out every day.

Each song was a new way of writing that I had never tried before. I was writing backwards and writing with people in the room . . . One time I had all the session musicians in and they were all waiting for me, and I sat down at the piano and I absolutely had no song at all.

I forced myself to write one right in front of them without them knowing it, and I was trying a lot of ideas like that out to really make things different for me, because I didn’t realize what I was doing until four or five songs in, what this was going to be. I had no plans to make a quote-unquote solo record.

There’s pain in this record. A lot of people use different things to help them write lyrics. Sometimes it’s politics, and sometimes it’s pain. It’s hurt love, relationship pain. Was there a theme here with this record that struck a common chord?

I always find it kind of boring to write about myself. But whatever happens to you, if you’ve gone through anything—sort of a literal train

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wreck in your life, for example—you have to have that inside of you in some way; even if you choose not to write about being involved in a train wreck, it would come out of you no matter what choice you have.

So whatever characters I was writing about during the record, I’m giving them these problems. But the problems are only things that I probably have seen or experienced sometime along the way.

The funny thing is, I always think I’m writing about, you know, a couple of characters, but by the end I’m mixing the song and listening to it back and thinking, “Oh, now I know exactly what this song is about. I’m the only one who’s going to know.” It’s very funny.

I told Brian Ray from Paul McCartney’s band that I’m going to interview Jack, and what do I talk about, and he brought up a very interesting thing. He said you two were talking at some point, and you were a fan of Hunt Sales and that old Iggy band, that Berlin-era Iggy band. You’re a fan of Hunt?

Hunt’s amazing.

How was it that you came onto him?

I had seen old footage of Iggy Pop when I started to get into the Stooges, and then I started getting into Iggy Pop’s solo music later and I saw footage of his rhythm section, and I thought they were playing amazingly and they looked really cool. I didn’t know who they were, and someone said they were Soupy Sales’ kids.

JO MCCAUGHEY

Great. We met one time in a hotel lobby in New York, I think.

In Detroit, Soupy Sales was such a famous star. That was an amazing thing to hear as a Detroiter, that they were from Soupy Sales.

It was even more appealing, and I started to read more about them and learn more about what they had been doing. Hunt was a punk rocker 10 years before punk. I love his drummer style, too.

You are touring with two different bands. That’s kind of like a dream setup—to have a different band every night.

Yeah. Well, I was just trying to think of ways to break things up for me, because a lot of times you see somebody you know from a band and they play under their own name and they just have to find four or five people to stand behind them and play the songs off their old album, and it’s a nostalgia trip, and I don’t really want to do that. And a lot of the stuff—if it’s a White Stripes song, for example, that people are hearing, I don’t want to recreate something that a two-piece band did with six people in some really regular, perfunctory way, or a nostalgic way. So it’s a way for me to shake things up for myself so it stays really alive onstage, not just trying to recreate some moment from 10 years ago.

Also, the new songs of mine were done with these new musicians, so that was the lucky part. I could take all of them with me on the road. It’s very expensive, but I’m getting a lot out of it.

Do you have a normal way of writing riffs and musical beds for your songs?

This one was a lot of accidents. We had this song on the record called “16 Saltines” and the riff was [written while] sort of checking the reverb unit and seeing how long the reverb would last. I said record this real quick, and we’ll come back to it later.

These things would not have happened years ago in the studio. I used to really force myself to go in there like, oh, a White Stripes album, or Raconteurs, we got to record this, and we have eight days to do it, and we’re going to do it for only $5,000, and have all these limitations to myself. But now that I have my own studio, I can take advantage of those things right now—actually record something off the fly and come back to it. I never would have done something like that back in the day.

Do you remember what you have when you get all those happy accidents?

Yeah, I used to let them go, or say, “Oh, just go on.” I said from now on I’m not doing that anymore, and I also made a rule for myself that when I wake up in the middle of the night and have some melody coming out . . . I told myself to write them down—which is probably the hardest thing I’ve done, to write something down at 4 in the morning. Songs on the album came from that—“Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boys” came from that, 4 o’clock in the morning, forcing myself to write down a melody and some words.

How did you get into making Wanda Jackson’s record?

I had been producing a lot of 45s for Third Man Records over the last three years, and she called up. But she wanted to do one of those albums

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White Light/ White Heat Jack reminds us all that commercialism and creativity need not be mutually exclusive.

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aving the freedom to do what you want in a creative venture without the constraints and pressures of mandated commercial success can be the most freeing and self-releasing experience. Twinned with natural gifts and a driven spirit, an environment emerges where truly great things can happen.

Steve Jobs is a great example of this.

Prince always has done what he wants, and done it well.

Clint Eastwood has always been able to create things at will, onscreen and behind the camera.

John Lennon had the freedom to create and the resources to play with whomever he chose.

Jack White is one of those guys.

Creativity knows no boundaries with him. And while the rest of us may think that the guy just can’t sit still (what, eight different band projects in the past dozen years?), success in pretty much all that he does has afforded him the opportunity to have healthy outlets for his growing creativity.

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Are you a fan of Mark Lanegan?

Yeah, yeah. In fact, I met Mark Lanegan at the side of the stage at a Queens of the Stone Age [performance] a while ago. I started talking to him—I didn’t even know it was him I was talking to. I was really funny.

I felt really rude and ignorant, but he has such a beautiful voice. I love that he . . . is working on music becaus he needs to and can’t help himself.

That really appeals to me.

venture, is one of those records that makes you feel like you are in the same room as the players. The sounds and riffs are authentic and hearken back to some Levon Helm/Band-isms, sounding current and urgent at the same time.

If you delve into the word choices, rhyme schemes, and subject matter of the lyrics for Blunderbuss, you will find a smart, dark, and hip trip into the blackness of love found, lost, and finally disposed of. White says he doesn’t like to set out to write about himself, but turns to universal truths of heart-

Western Medicine on kissing and Bigfoot.

BY ERIN K. THOMPSON

Thanks, Jack, man. I dig what you’re doing, I really do. This new record’s really great and authentic, and I appreciate getting snippets of authentic music here and there. It’s kind of rare these days. So thanks. E askduff@seattleweekly.com

Duff McKagan is the founding bassist of Guns N’ Roses and the frontman of Seattle’s Loaded. Read his column every Thursday at seattleweekly.com/reverb.

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break and human wreckage as a foundation to get some anger and emotion out. It’s only after a song gets made that Jack sees his characters clearly.

“The funny thing is, I always think I’m writing about a couple of characters,” Jack told me, “but by the end I’m mixing the song and listening to it back and thinking, ‘Oh, now I know exactly what this song is about. I’m the only one who’s going to know.’ ” White has joined the ranks of Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen as anomalies in the rock-and-roll game. He sells records (and a lot of them). He sells tickets to shows (again, lots). He can afford to tour with two complete bands (one all-male, one all-female. What!?), choosing daily which one will play that night. He can choose who he wants to work with, and those people seemingly jump at the chance (the Stones, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Page, The Edge, etc.).

We need dudes like White. We need people to show us that you can be an individual who indulges the whims of your creative spirit and still be commercially successful. Pushing boundaries and selling records makes other bands and artists stray to the outer edges, away from what’s safe, familiar, and popular— and that is great for music. E askduff@seattleweekly.com

THE SITUATION I’m spending the evening at the Sunset Tavern’s “Black Monday” goth night sharing an asparagus-and-goat-cheese pizza with the rock quartet Western Medicine. The band’s founder and frontman, Adam McKinnon, is Mexican, and grew up on a dairy farm in Indiana. Drummer Rudy Gajadhar is an Eastsider of Trinidadian and Indian descent. Bassist David Audino comes from a Cleveland Jewish family.

Keyboardist Laurel Hoffman sports a bowl cut; she was born in Seoul before being adopted and raised in Pennsylvania. “We’re the United Colors of Benetton,” she says.

HOW THEY GOT HERE McKinnon, warehouse manager at Barsuk Records, started Western Medicine more than two years ago.

He and Audino went through several bandmates before settling on Hoffman (this is her first band) and Gajadhar, whose extensive musical past includes drumming for defunct local favorites Waxwing and Gatsbys American Dream. He insists on recognizing his first band: Sister’s Uterus. “Back in eighth grade—that’s where it all started!” he says.

SHOP TALK Western Medicine’s first effort is the audacious, politically tinged EP In Transit.

Of the songs, McKinnon says, “I want it to be eclectic; I want it to be huge-sounding and then get quiet, too. I want it to be weirder than it is.”

“That’s where I come in!” says Hoffman, who’s just started to write her own songs for the band. For now, McKinnon says he wants the band to focus on playing a lot of shows and “letting the songs breathe”—which makes In Transit a perfect name for their first EP, although he originally wanted to call it Psychic Bigfoot.

“Psychic Bigfoot will be the full-length, for sure,” says McKinnon.

BTW: Western Medicine is something of a family affair. Gajadhar is married to McKinnon’s younger sister, and the couple is expecting their first baby—a girl, to be illustriously named Valentina Grace Gajadhar—within a matter of weeks. And McKinnon and Hoffman, who got off to a rocky start a couple of years ago when he tried to kiss her and she rejected it, are now a couple. “She brings a softness to the band,” McKinnon says, admiringly.

Hoffman says her first years after moving to Seattle were aimless, but “One of the grounding things for me is this group. I find solace in it, I find comfort in it, I find peace in it.” E WESTERN MEDICINE With Hot Panda, Runt. SunsetTavern, 5433 Ballard Ave. N.W., 784-4880. $6. 9 p.m.Thurs., Aug. 9.

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In Transit

It was great to talk with you, Duff. I listened to so much of your music when I was younger, by the way, and [it was] a really big influence on me. Thank you for all of that, I appreciate it.

ALEX FINE

Think of that cartoon snowball going down a mountainside getting bigger and bigger as it picks up speed, taking down trees as it catapults headlong. Jack White is today’s musical equivalent.

His unchecked creativity allows him to do stuff on records—hanging out in the studio at length with some of Earth’s best session players, just waiting for creativity to strike? Wow!—that few others can afford.

Guys like Jack White and Prince set the bar for what becomes standard, but they are always one step ahead.

The Information Age and the disposability of digital files has made new music seem so transient. You have to really go hunting for the good current stuff, or you just go backwards and listen to Zeppelin or the Stones.

Blunderbuss, Jack White’s first true solo

That’s probably why I brought him up. You two remind me of each other in terms of how you roll in your career. Personally, I could see a kickass collaboration at some point. But listen, Jack, I’ll come and see ya when you’re here in Seattle.

ADAM MCKINNON

that I never can get into, which is those where every song’s a duet with somebody or collaboration. And I said, “Well, you know, I don’t even really know who buys those records, Wanda, and maybe it works for Santana once, or something, but I just don’t know if it works for anybody.” And I said “Why don’t we go and just do a single, just do a 45, and if something happens, something inspiring, and we need to do more songs, we’ll do it.”

We did that Amy Winehouse track, and it turned out great, and we ended up having about six songs the first day—and I said, “Wanda, why don’t we just make a whole album and finish it,” and she was really up for it. I’ve had a lot of experience working with septuagenarians. It worked out good.

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The names of MCs Silas Blak and Jace Ecaj pop up in the annals of Seattle-area rap going back well over a decade. Their joint rhyme moniker, Silent Lambs Project, has adorned some of the most electric and artful hip-hop the city has ever been able to claim. When the two partner with vocalist Felicia Loud, they are Black Stax, a project that has allowed each to expand the borders of their creativity, as Loud’s spiritual/ soulful voice floats over and among the deep, smoky verses spit by Blak and Jace, creating swirling, forceful, yet gorgeous moments. Their newest offering, High Rhymes Smoking Jackets, is a full-on collaboration with Oldominion/ Grayskul-affiliated sound engineer Rob Castro, intended to explore a whole new side of the group. With Radio Raheem, Fysha. Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave. S., 722-3009.

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There, the Stillaguamish Tribe will treat you—and by that, we mean admit for free—to three full days of top-notch music and salmon at a gorgeous, sprawling county park. And nothing against Bumbershoot, but would Northwest music fans really prefer to hear Skrillex, Big Sean, and Gotye (at Bumbershoot) over a diverse cast of undeniable musical legends like Alejandro Escovedo, Dr. John, Mickey Hart, and Buffy Sainte-Marie (at Arlington)? The tribe calls you for a quest.

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TWIN SHADOW SUNDAY, AUGUST 12

In this tech-crazy era of computerized graphic design, musicians posing for their album covers isn’t cool anymore.

That’s a fact that George Lewis Jr. chose to ignore for his second Twin Shadow release, Confess; he appears on the cover against a plain blue background, slouched forward, dark hair slicked back, hands casually draped into the pockets of his studded black-leather jacket, one eyebrow slightly cocked. The artwork recalls the iconic cover of George Michael’s Faith, and, like Michael, Lewis has a persona that exudes seductiveness and extreme self-assurance. That aura’s reflected in his slick, alluring music; Confess was inspired by a serious motorcycle accident, morbidity, and black thoughts, but Lewis has said that Twin Shadow was a reaffirmation of life for him, and his new songs are flushed with an energized, confident sexiness.

With Los Lonely Boys, LeRoy Bell & His Only Friends, Lee Brice, Jana Kramer, Dave Mason, Indigenous, Junkyard Jane, Brett Eldridge, Lost Trailers, Marley’s Ghost. River Meadows County Park, 20416 Jordan Rd., Arlington, festivaloftheriver.com. Free. All ages. MIKE SEELY

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Akimbo have been around literally forever.

They started the band as actual babies (don’t believe me? Just look at their tiny-child faces on their 1999 debut, split with Teen Cthulhu).

They have run through seven guitarists (hold your Spinal Tap jokes) and sacrificed five tour vans to the road. Over their half-dozen albums, they evolved from pimply teenage thrash-dudes to an incredibly heavy shredding machine, with Animal-from-the-Muppets Nat Damm on drums and bassist/bellower Jon Weisnewski as the band’s constant core.

Tonight, they play their last show. The split was boring and amicable, according to the band, and Damm and Weisnewski will continue to play together in Sandrider. Akimbo dies as it lived: crushing. With Brothers of the Sonic Cloth,

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sample-heavy esoteric beat-world of instrumental hip-hop. His latest album, Chinoiseries Pt. 2, is the second in a series of records that flip obscure Chinese and Southeast Asian vinyl finds into short and sweet beat studies. An album in the fine touristic, cratedigging tradition of Madlib’s Beat Konducta in India, it’s also an exploration of Onra’s own French/Vietnamese ancestry (and, taking it way out there, France’s old colonial meddling in Indochine.) Live, you don’t need to know where the samples came from or by what historical processes they got there—only that Onra knows how to chop ’em up. With

It’s interesting that the fans decrying Nicki Minaj’s newer music as “not hip-hop” were probably a year ago calling “Super Bass”

Classy lady Nicki Minaj.

pure brilliance. “Super Bass” is a pop track. It wasn’t until Minaj released “Starships,” the rave-up single from her second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, that purists started crying foul—even though music fans should know that if there’s one thing an artist hates, it’s being pigeonholed. Minaj is a woman who wears many multicolored wigs—just because she wants to rap about Bud Light and shake it in a bikini doesn’t mean she’s no longer the girl who spit the jaw-dropping, song-stealing verses in Kanye West’s “Monster.” Sure, “Starships” is fluffy and Minaj’s newest single, “Pound the Alarm,” is a mess, but Reloaded still has more than a few sharp moments (“Beez in the Trap,” “Champion”). Minaj is just exploring her options. When you’re a huge pop star, what’s stopping you? With 2 Chainz.

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Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three TUESDAY, AUGUST 14

With slicked-back hair, a dapper suit and bow tie, and a certain indefinable charisma, Pokey LaFarge looks like he just stepped out of a time machine from the Great Depression.

Fittingly, the St. Louis troubadour and his three-piece band craft tunes that sound as though they could have been broadcast during the golden age of radio. A blend of blues, early jazz, honky-tonk, and Woody Guthrie– style folk, Pokey’s music is living proof that they do in fact make ’em like they used to.

Just ask Jack White: The guitar god picked Pokey and co. as the opening act for his shows at Red Rock Amphitheater, Portland, and Seattle. With Jack White. WaMu Theater, 800 Occidental Ave S., 381-7555. 8 p.m. $49.50 adv./$55 DOS. All ages. KEEGAN HAMILTON

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Nectar Lounge. 8 p.m. $10 adv./$12 DOS. MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE This iconoclastic local drone ensemble includes members of Accused, Earth, and Sun City Girls. With Black Mass Rising. JewelBox/Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., 441-5823, jewelboxtheater.com. 10 p.m. $7.

TOO SHORT A player in the ’80s and ’90s West Coast hip-hop scene, he collaborated with artists like Tupac, Biggie, and Scarface back in the day. With Chillest Illest, Steady the Boss. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9442, neumos.com. 8 p.m. $25.

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NINJA TURTLE NINJA TIGER The latest from this Portland dance-pop group is June’s I’ll Find You in Colors.

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