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HIDING IN AMERICA FOR A CHILD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, LIFE REMAINS IN THE SHADOWS. BY BETH SLOVIC | PAGE 16
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While I appreciate your article “Weed, the People” [WW, Jan. 12, 2011], it does not fairly represent those of us trying to support the medical marijuana community with access to medicine [and] compliance with the OMMA, but rather focuses on the “recreational” marijuana users who are doing so using medical marijuana as a front. Jenifer Valley and Mike Mullins on the cover may be driving the marijuana marketplace, but perhaps not necessarily the medical marijuana marketplace. There is a clear distinction between recreational and medical use. One is illegal and detrimental to all patients in the OMMP, the other is allowed by the OMMA, preserving the integrity of the law as written and accepted by Oregon voters. While some registered with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program may abuse the system and may engage in criminal activity, most are people in need of palliative care doing everything they can to comply with the law while navigating a very difficult supply system to simply access the medicine they are entitled to use. I would like to invite you to Human Collective for an in-depth look at the real face of medical marijuana supply and the Oregonians who are driving and self-regulating the medical marijuana marketplace. We are a nonprofit organization staffed solely by volunteers who emulate the legal compliance to OMMA and its integrity. Sarah Bennett Executive director Human Collective
READERS COMMENT ON “WEED, THE PEOPLE”
“Are you seriously telling me that the woman smoking out of a 6-foot bong is a FOSTER PARENT?! Does anyone in their right (sober) mind think that it’s OK for this woman to get high with all her patient-friends and then go home to provide care to at-risk teenagers? She takes issue with the foster care agency for taking the kids away, but I would take issue if they didn’t! She’s an addict, whether you’re talking about pain pills or marijuana. No more kids for you, lady!” —elbee “She has gotten off of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs that did not do enough for her pain by using this safe organic herb. She is more cognizant and more present for those children on MMJ than she could be on Vicodin. Why should she be punished for choosing a safer medicine? It’s discriminatory.” —gro4me CORRECTION: Last week’s story, “Roll Call” erred in the percentages of state lawmakers who got their undergraduate degrees from Oregon State University or from a public university in the state other than OSU, PSU or UO. The correct number is 5 percent of state lawmakers got their undergraduate degree from OSU and 9 percent from a state school other than OSU, PSU or UO. WW regrets the error. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
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The batteries in my vibrator expanded due to corrosion and are leaking a gray fluid. I am unable to remove the batteries. Obviously the vibrator no longer works, sadly. My question is how to properly dispose of my vibrator so as not to be an environmental hazard. —Fluffy B.
First, let me congratulate you on whatever circumstances allowed you to neglect your vibrator for long enough that this could even happen. That said, you’re correct in the assumption that a corroded, oozing sex toy isn’t the most earthfriendly thing to chuck into the landfill, especially with the batteries still in. Batteries can range from “not that great” to “horrible” for the planet. Lead-acid batteries, the kind that start your car, are the worst offenders, but I assume your vibrator doesn’t use those. (If it does, I wouldn’t wanna mess with you.) You could be using rechargeable NiCad batteries,
though, which leak cadmium, a heavy metal. Garden-variety alkaline batteries are less toxic than the rechargeable types, and the world probably wouldn’t end if you just chucked the damned thing into the trash. But you want to do the right thing, so you’ll be pleased to learn there are such things as sex toy recycling services. One right here in Portland, run by an outfit called Scarlet Girl (scarletgirl.com), can disassemble your old friend and dispose of all parts appropriately—including the batteries—and throw in a $10 gift card to boot. Male pervs will be pleased to learn that inflatable sex dolls can also be recycled. But don’t put them in the curbside bin, and not just because the neighbors will snicker: Like plastic bags, deflated sex dolls risk becoming entangled in the processing machinery, which can be dangerous and costly, though admittedly hilarious. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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YOU ARE MOST INCREDIBLY AWESOME! Let’s say that again: You are jaw-droppingly generous. I n W W ’s j u s t - c o n c l u d e d 2 0 1 0 Give!Guide, 3,944 of you donated more than $1.16 million to 79 local nonprofits. You also signed up to volunteer for a number of them. You offered goods. And you’ll be providing services. We can’t thank you enough! Everywhere I turn, Give!Guide exposes me to people who genuinely appreciate their city and want to provide less fortunate Portlanders support and encouragement as we enter Year 3 of the Great Recession. It also offers a powerful reminder that newspapers should do everything in their power to be fully engaged citizens in their communities.
two winners above were excluded from this competition. The winners of these incentives in each category are: Cat Adoption Team (Animals), PHAME Academy (Arts), Bicycle Transportation Alliance (Community), The Right Brain Initiative (Education), Friends of Trees (Environment), Portland Women’s Crisis Line (Social Action), Planned Parenthood ColumbiaWillamette (Wellness), and p:ear (Youth). Clearly, this new competition encouraged added giving by younger donors. This entire effort is inspired by the inscription at the base of a large fountain in Old Town: “Good citizens are the riches of a city.” Each of you who gave this year should consider yourself part of that special group. You should NE 23% also realize you’re in good Here are a few highlights company. of your generosity: For starters, there are SW 23% NW 10% the winners of the four In just seven years, you have given more than $3.75 $4,000 awards named for million to local nonprofits that fountain—the SkidOUTSIDE PDX 18% through Give!Guide. more Prize, handed out at SE 23% N a well-attended Portland to process your donations and provided a This year saw a 30 percent 4% City Club Friday Forum held secure depository for your funds. increase (341 more) in the numThen there are the fabulous local busiNov. 19 and later rebroadcast ber of donors 35 and younger—an audience of special interest to us because statewide on radio and TV. The prizes go to nesses that provided this year’s larger we’re aiming to get younger people in the Portlanders 35 and younger who do great incentives for Give!Guide contributors: work at low pay for local nonprofits. This A to Z Wineworks, Rex Hill Vineyards, habit of giving. Despite the continuing lousy economy, year’s winners are: Israel Bayer (director Smith Teamaker, Moonstruck Chocolate, this year’s overall donor total is 505 more of Portland’s Street Roots), Leah Hall (par- Widmer Brothers and Stumptown Coffee than last year (a 27.3 percent increase), ent mentor at Morrison Child and Fam- Roasters. In addition, one of G!G’s longwith the amount donated up $245,594.11 ily Services), Gaby Mendez (case manager time supporters, E&R Wine Shop, helped (a 26.8 percent increase). for Neighborhood House’s CASASTART by providing Argyle sparkling wine for You made 10,074 individual donations, program) and Laura Streib (founder and $2,500-plus donors. Big thanks also to our for an average of $115.51 per contribution. director of the Vibe of Portland). OakTree attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine and On average you gave $295.05 to 2.55 non- Digital and Willamette Week provided the our accountants at Thompson, Kessler, profits. $16,000 for the Skidmore Prize. Wiest & Borquist, who provided Phoebe Adams at Momentum GIVE!GUIDE direct financial support. DONATIONS BY YEAR: Prize winners: Next, but surely not least, are Market Intelligence spearhead2004: $22,000 WW provides $1,000 each to the nonprofit ed the vetting of the dozens of the participants in this year’s 2005: $78,000 raising the largest amount of money and to incredible nominees. Roll of Honor (companies pro2006: $248,397 the nonprofit attracting the greatest numNext come the amazing comviding indirect financial support 2007: $534,084 2008: $806,582 ber of donors 35 and younger. This year the panies whose generosity made a through advertising): Alaska 2009: $918,094 winners in these categories, respectively, huge difference this year. OakAirlines, Comcast, Emma, IKEA, 201 0: $1,163,688 are Oregon Food Bank ($76,925) and PDX Tree Digital, in addition to the Integra Telecom, New Seasons TOTAL: $3,770,845 Pop Now! (143). Market (which also provided financial help with the Skidmore The Meyer Memorial Trust provided Prizes, produces and mainreusable grocery bags for home additional incentives so we could offer tains the guide’s website at wweek.com/ delivery of incentives), the Oregon Com$500 apiece to the nonprofits attracting the giveguide. Signature Graphics provided munity Foundation and Umpqua Bank. We largest number of donors 35 and younger the printing. For the second year in a row, also had great help from communications in each of our eight categories. Because we Bank of America helped reduce the inter- students at the University of Oregon’s only allow one prize per organization, the change fees we pay credit card companies Portland campus.
Huge ups to the team at WW who, with some outside helpers also listed here, chose the Give!Guide participants from among 250-plus applicants, produced the guide, and managed donations and incentives: Phoebe Adams, Kendra Clune, Christina Cooke, Kevin Farris, Patrick Guild, Soma Honkanen, Andrea Manning, David Martin, Kat Merck, Peggy Perdue, Taylor Schefstrom, Hank Stern, Jess Sword and Seth Warren. Executive Director Brittany Cornett is this year’s G!G No. 1 all-star. Finally, huge thanks to this year’s participating nonprofits. You went above and beyond the ordinary call of duty in your efforts to identify and encourage new donors; you engaged large segments of the local business community in your efforts; and you provided fabulous additional incentives. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this year’s effort such a screaming success. Richard H. Meeker
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Street Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,392.00 The Children’s Book Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,740.00 The Forest Park Conservancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,905.00 The Freshwater Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,250.00 The Giving Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,334.00 The Jefferson Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,205.00 The Library Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,275.00 The Pangaea Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,540.00 The Right Brain Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7,260.00 The Wallace Medical Concern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,810.00 Urban Gleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,070.00 Vibe of Portland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,190.00 Wordstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,660.00 Write Around Portland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,615.00 Youth, Rights and Justice Attorneys at Law . . . . . . . . . $5,800.00
TOTALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,163,688.31
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The woman who Neil Goldschmidt sexually abused starting when she was a 14-year-old girl and Goldschmidt was 35 died in a Portland hospice Jan. 16 after a long battle with a chronic illness. She was 49. The woman was Goldschmidt’s baby sitter and neighbor, and the daughter of a woman who worked for Goldschmidt when he was Portland mayor from 1973 to 1979. In 2004, WW published a story (“The 30-year Secret,” May 12) detailing the abuse that occurred over a three-year period and Goldschmidt’s efforts to cover it up. That effort included a $350,000 payment in exchange for the woman’s silence—the last $50,000 of that deal is due in 2015. Goldschmidt went on to become secretary of transportation in the Carter administration, Oregon’s governor from 1987 to 1991 and the state’s consummate deal-maker. The story detailed how his victim’s life spun out of control post-Goldschmidt, including substance abuse and a term in federal prison. A later story (see “Who Knew,” WW, Dec. 15, 2004) named others complicit in the decadeslong cover-up. Goldschmidt’s victim was divorced and had no children. She is survived by her GOLDSCHMIDT parents, who live in Portland. State Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley) has joined Rep. Mitch Greenlick (D-Portland) on cyclists’ hot seat. After BikePortland.org reported last week on Greenlick’s House Bill 2228—which would ban carrying children younger than 6 on a bike or in a bike trailer—Greenlick backed away from his proposal amid biker pushback. Schaufler isn’t doing the same yet with his bill, HB 2602, which would prohibit cyclists from wearing headphones. Schaufler tells WW his legislation is a common-sense measure designed to protect cyclists, and he voiced frustration with the opposition from riders. “People on bicycles ask for a whole lot,” Schaufler said, “and then they say, ‘Don’t regulate us!’”
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Portland City Council plans to decide next month whether the city should rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Most of the speakers at a Jan. 13 council hearing opposed rejoining the JTTF, fearing both the potential loss of civil liberties and harassment from police. Hala Gores, a PalestinianAmerican attorney and co-chair of the Arab and Muslim Police GORES Advisory Council, was worried that a council vote on Feb. 24 to rejoin the JTTF would disturb the trust between Portlanders and local police. “We don’t want that tainted,” she said. Read more at wweek.com/taskforce.
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The South Portland Neighborhood Association’s appeal of a city decision to approve a new federal Homeland Security center heads to the City Council Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 19. The association appeal contends the center slated for its neighborhood is a high-security detention center but that the city has sought to “obscure and camouflage” the proposal’s true nature. The city says the plan, to construct a new threestory building connected to an existing four-story building at 4310 SW Macadam Ave., conforms to current zoning codes. The building currently houses storage vaults for rent.
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On Thursday, Jan. 20, the Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners is scheduled to vote whether to let the state’s 1,805 licensed chiropractors engage in what’s call “dry needling.” The term refers to the fact that the therapeutic needles chiropractors want to use are solid and do not transmit liquids as hypodermic needles do. Advocates for the change say dry needling is different from acupuncture and they should be allowed to do it for patients’ benefit. “It is trigger-point therapy,” says Sharron Fuchs, a Portland chiropractor. “It’s not based on Chinese medicine.” But the proposal has inflamed acupuncturists, another large group in Oregon’s vibrant world of alternative medicine. Oregon has more naturopaths per capita than any other state, and was the second state to license acupuncturists. Tens of thousands of Oregonians visit acupuncturists annually, and that means the financial stakes in this dispute are substantial. Malvin Finkelstein, a Eugene acupuncturist, disagrees with Fuchs’ assertion. He says dry needling is a primitive version of acupuncture that chiropractors want only to expand the scope of their practice by intruding on the state’s 1,110 licensed acupuncturists’ area of expertise. His objection is that chiropractors lack the training to use needles safely and effectively. “There are two levels of risk,” Finkelstein says. “First, doing some damage anatomically by not knowing where to put needles—puncturing the lung, for instance. Second, they could discredit the profession of acupuncture because, without proper training, they may not achieve [beneficial] results.” In Oregon, medical regulation Balkanizes different practitioners. The Oregon Medical Board regulates medical doctors, osteopaths and acupuncturists; chiropractors, naturopaths and physical therapists each have their own regulatory boards. The battle between chiropractors and acupuncturists follows closely on the heels of a similar scrap in 2009 between Oregon acupuncturists and physical therapists. Chiropractors, like physical therapists before them, argue that dry needling is simply another method of physiotherapy and therefore within their scope of professional practice. To buttress the claim they can work “under the skin” with needles in addition to manipulating patients, they point out that Oregon law already permits them to perform minor surgery such as proctology. But acupuncturists say state law
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Western States Chiropractic College), is working to develop training standards for dry needling. But in a Dec. 20, 2010, memo to his members, Chiropractic Board Executive Director Dave McTeague warned such standards might be moot. “Given the level of controclearly defines acupuncture and specifically prohibits prac- versy and opposition from the Oregon Medical Board, the ticing it without a license. Acupuncture Advisory Committee and the acupuncturist’s In December 2009, Finkelstein, chairman of the Medi- association, I would advise the Board to expect legal and cal Board’s Acupuncture Advisory Committee and OMB legislative challenges,” McTeague wrote. Stephen Kafoury, a lobbyist for the acupuncturists, says Executive Director Kathleen Haley laid out their case to the Physical Therapy Board because that board’s members also there’s plenty of precedent for medical turf battles. wanted to do dry needling. In the 2009 legislative session, psychologists fought to gain some of the prescription “Acupuncture and ‘dry-needling ’ use FACT: The Oregon Board of the same tool (acupuncture needles), the Chiropractic Examiners meets privileges reserved for psychiatrists. In the past, optometrists have battled ophthalmolsame points, the same purpose (treating Thursday, Jan. 20, at 8:30 ogists and naturopaths have battled medical pain) and the same needling techniques,” am on the second floor, 3218 Pringle Road SE, Salem. doctors. they wrote. “Dry-needling is the practice of acupuncture.” Kafoury says practitioners make varied The Oregon Physical Therapist Licensing Board arguments about why they should get to broaden their decided to back off telling its members “until training and scope of practice, but finances are often a factor. “You make more money if you get to do things you education can be determined, the Board strongly advises its licensees to not perform dry needling of trigger points.” didn’t used to do,” Kafoury says. To earn an acupuncture license in Oregon, practiAcupuncturists have not introduced legislation to tioners must complete an accredited program, typically block chiropractors. “Lawmakers hate ‘scope of practice’ bills,” Kafoury including 3,000 hours of training. Naturopaths who also want to practice acupuncture must complete about 1,400 says, adding he hopes there can be some resolution without resorting to litigation. hours of training in acupuncture to gain dual licensure. “State agencies aren’t supposed to sue each other,” he The Board of Chiropractic Examiners, in consultation with Portland’s University of Western States (formerly says. “It’s bad form.”
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VAN JONES WHAT OBAMA’S EX-ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISER PLANS TO TELL PORTLAND ABOUT THE GREEN ECONOMY. ZACH GROSS
empower African-American political voices. Jones, who wrote the 2008 award-winning book on green jobs, The Green-Collar Economy, will speak at the University of Oregon’s Portland campus. His lecture topic is “Beyond Green Jobs: the Next American Economy,” and how Portland can be a leader in that shift. WW talked to Jones by telephone. WW: How did the Fox imbroglio last year change the way you do activism? Van Jones: Politics at that level is a contact sport. The agenda hasn’t changed. If anything, it’s just gotten more urgent. I got a chance to work for six months in the White House, which was the biggest honor of my life. It would be in very poor form to leave that experience and be anything but grateful. I came out more committed and convinced than ever.
JONES: “Green jobs will be the cornerstone for a much broader economic revival.” BY STACY B R OWNH I LL
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Van Jones says he isn’t bitter that he’s no longer President Obama’s environmental adviser and green-jobs guru. Jones, who will be speaking in Portland on Jan. 25, has certainly moved on since leaving his administration post in 2009. For those who don’t remember, Jones resigned after Fox News and the right wing relentlessly spotlighted his earlier role in activist groups, and highlighted both his calling Republicans “assholes” and the fact a group he founded was urging a boycott of Fox News host Glenn Beck. Jones is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank; senior policy adviser at Green For All, a nonprofit creating jobs for poor people that he founded in 2007; and on the faculty at Princeton University teaching a course, appropriately enough, on environmental politics. Before joining the Obama administration as a self-dubbed “greenjobs handyman,” the 42-year-old Jones was known for founding two other nonprofits—the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which campaigns for civil rights in Oakland, and Color of Change, which aims to
What will your lecture be about? My basic point is that the next economy [moving out of the crash] needs to go back to production rather than consumption, building rather than borrowing, thrift and conservation. People keep gambling on their future with bust-and-bailout cycles, a casino-based economy. Green jobs will be the cornerstone for a much broader economic revival. It’s a doorway that most communities are going to have to pass through to come out of the economic crisis. We have whole new constituencies of people who fall into categories that did not exist four years ago. We have millions of foreclosure victims. We have veterans returning from overseas who need jobs. Green jobs will have to take even more responsibility than we thought they would in a functional economy. Why do you think Portland will be a leader in that movement? The whole West Coast has groundwork that has already been laid because of public policy. But the thing in particular I’m excited by is the weatherization and energy-rescue work in the Portland area. Portland’s leading the way and really solving a lot of problems through job training and financing that’s really stimulated a lot of communities, and that’s really good.
The great thing about green jobs is you force people to work together who have never been in the same room—the utility company, the mayor’s office, the anti-poverty activist—and then you get successes like the ones in Portland that start getting addictive. What would you say to Portland’s unemployed who argue they just need any old job, regardless of whether it’s green? Very understandable. The question I always ask is: What sector do you think the next round of jobs is going to come from? New sources of energy will be one of the big global industries in the future. These are the solutions to bet on if you’re someone who’s looking for work or if you’re a civic leader looking for ways to revitalize communities. If you don’t have a pole planted [in green jobs], you’re going to miss a lot coming down the pike in the new century. Like what? If we shift away from the thousand-mile salad to secure local food, we’re also securing local jobs. The hydroponics right now being used to grow illegal herbs...I would argue that we could be growing vegetables in our cities and creating local greenspace. People forget the federal government didn’t even recognize the concept of green jobs until 2007. Now you’ve got 80,000 people working in the wind industry, and that’s the same as the coal industry. You’ve got 46,000 people working in the solar industry. That’s what Congress is missing. There was a time when the U.S. automakers were a huge part of driving prosperity in America, but that didn’t mean everyone worked at a car plant. It just means that one part of the economy was humming and that moved everything else along. The green-jobs engine is not a magic bullet. It’s not a cureall. But it’s doing tremendous things for the country. SEE IT: Jones’ “Beyond Green Jobs: The Next American Economy” lecture takes place Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 5:45 pm at University of Oregon’s White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch St. Free, no tickets or reservations required.
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PORTLAND’S “NEW FRONTIER” OF ART HAS A BUMPY START. BY STACY B R OW N H I LL sbrownhill@wweek.com
The first three months at Milepost 5’s Studios in Northeast Portland have been rocky, and residents remain weary after nightmarish plumbing and other problems. In October, nearly 70 painters, photographers, actors, poets, musicians and other “creatives” moved into Milepost 5’s Studios, 96 apartments ranging from 150 to 350 square feet, with one community kitchen per floor. Next door, ART PAINS: Chihiro and Jeff Aldrich moved from Eugene when they heard about Milepost 5. 31 artists live and work in the Lofts’ BELOW: Amanda Haswell’s plumber vs. hot water swankier 54 condos, about 477 to monster illustration vents residents’ frustrations. 880 square feet apiece. Milepost 5, the 150-unit, low-income, live/ tions around the plumbing problems, captioning work campus on 82nd Avenue, offers cheap con- one, “The plumbers are back to fight. & we hope dos and super-cheap apartments (about $200 slay. [sic] the hot water monster.” per month) designed exclusively for artists. The hot-water monster has been slain. But Milepost 5 aims to be a “new frontier” for art, many of the promised community spaces on the says Brad Malsin, co-owner of the site’s developer, Studios’ ground floor, such as a live-music perforBeam Development. But enormous problems mance venue and a shared shop space with a tool arose before and after the October 2010 move-in. library, remain under construction because of the The opening date for the Studios plumbing and permit distractions. had been pushed back twice over Residents are frustrated. They two months, Malsin says, because say rent abatement does not make permits from the city were sluggish up for the problems. Peter Turner, a and designs got waylaid. 28-year-old mixed-media artist, says “Building things is really quick,” he loves the place but has his gripes. says Milepost 5’s creative director “I assumed the rosy pictures on Gavin Shettler, hired by Beam to the website were true,” Turner says. vet applicants and oversee daily “But there seems to be a lack of a operations. “It’s the permitting business plan, or at least one that’s process that always takes longer transparent to the community.” than you think.” Beam Development teamed in Meanwhile, artists were not 2006 with Ted Gilbert, chairman of buying the Lofts’ fancier condos the nonprofit Portland Affordable that had already been completed FACT: Milepost 5 (900 NE Housing Preservation Trust, to buy for two years. the property for $2.8 million. 81st Ave.) invites the public “The original hope was to make to a ribbon-cutting festival “It’s been one of the most painApril 1-3 that will include money off the Lofts and invest in live music, poetry readings ful experiences of my career,” said the Studios,” says Beam Develop- and plenty of artwork. Brad Malsin. “I’ve done millions of Community members are ment director of operations Jona- also invited to the Studios’ square feet of commercial developthan Malsin, Brad’s son. “But we open house every first ment and never seen problems like couldn’t have come to the market at Friday of the month. [Milepost 5’s].” a worse time.” Malsin thinks the building’s age Then opening day finally arrived at the Stu- and fractured redevelopment over time is the culdios, and brown water spewed from the taps for prit. “This is not a project we did to make money,” the first week and hot water was nonexistent for he says. “We did this to support local artists.” many residents, as plumbing problems haunted “This is our family,” says Chihiro Aldrich, a the 90-year-old building. The site had been 28-year-old oil-based painter who moved from vacant for three years since its previous life as Eugene to live in Milepost 5. “And we all really Baptist Manor retirement home. want to make this building work.” Beam Development poured “tens of thou“It’s like everyone here is the same species, sands” of dollars into fixing the boiler and steam and we’re all in a zoo together,” says resident valves. “It was like chasing a ghost through the Liam Marshall, a poet in his 30s who says his building,” says Jonathan Malsin. work has improved because his Milepost 5 It got to the point that resident Amanda Has- neighbors motivate him. “I like to think of us all well designed a whole series of penned illustra- as being really heroic.” Willamette Week JANUARY 19, 2011 wweek.com
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A key promise Mayor Sam Adams made in his 2010 State of the City address—to fund a scholarship program for community college students—remains little more than a concept one year later. Yet city officials say the project is on track to award grants of $500 to $1,500 to 200 disadvantaged students this spring so they can go to school this fall. “Getting an associate degree, and landing a living-wage job,” Adams told a packed City Club of Portland audience Feb. 5, 2010, “just became a lot easier.” When he announced the new program last year, the mayor said the scholarships would be tied to internships with the City of Portland’s water and sewer departments. The link to city internships provided a justification for allocating $332,000 from those two bureaus’ budgets to pay for the scholarships. Another $168,000 was to come from the city’s general fund, bringing the total city contribution to $500,000 for 2011. Adams also said last year that the scholarships would allow students to attend either Portland or Mount Hood community colleges, a move that gave the mayor credibility in his quest to promote city programs in historically neglected East Portland. Although Mount Hood Community College’s main campus is in Gresham, it draws students from Portland’s east side. With Adams scheduled to deliver his 2011 State of the City speech Feb. 18, the mayor’s ambitious educational program now faces a number of obstacles beyond questions from members of the Portland Utility Review Board whether nonessential services like student tuition are an appropriate use of sewer and water ratepayers’ money (see “The Scholarship Spigot,” WW, Feb. 24, 2010). An independent review from City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade on that topic is expected next month.
One snag is that neither the Water Bureau nor the Bureau of Environmental Services has established where to place future interns despite city officials’ plans to open the program to applicants in the coming weeks. “It is still a new idea,” says Water Bureau director David Shaff. “I don’t think we have a great sense of what exactly the plan is.” Kali Ladd, an education adviser to the mayor, defends the timeline in part because internships wouldn’t start immediately. Though she was unsure of the exact start, Ladd said it wouldn’t be until after chosen students completed at least one term of community college classes. That may not be until summer 2012. “We don’t expect them to do the internships in September,” Ladd says. But that means the city will commit financially to students before finalizing a crucial component of the aid plan. Tracy Marks, a two-term former member of the Utility Review Board, says that’s backwards. “If I were an active member [of PURB], I would ask them to help me understand why funding at ratepayers’ expense would be committed without clear criteria of what these individuals would be doing,” says Marks, who left the PURB in June. There’s a second problem. The mayor’s initiative calls for the community colleges to pay for part of the program, and Mount Hood Community College expects to have to cut $4 million to $5 million from its upcoming budget. “We would have great difficulty generating a match for that scholarship,” says Mount Hood President John “Ski” Sygielski, who announced last week he’s leaving to take the job at Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania in July. For the time being that means Mount Hood Community College will not participate in the program. Adams spokesman Roy Kaufmann said Tuesday the mayor was unavailable for comment. But Reese Lord, a second education adviser to the mayor, is comfortable moving forward with the scholarship program without first establishing what the new internships (funded with ratepayer money) might be. “We are fully aware,” Lord says, “of the restrictions on the money.”
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Editor’s note: Cecilia Gomez is not the subject’s real name. No other detail about her life has been altered, although some identifying information, like her native country, has been left out. In some ways, Cecilia Gomez lives the American dream. In her early 20s, she’s risen to the ranks of manager at her job. She has the material trappings of a middle-class life: a car, a house, a cell phone with a sassy animal-print case and a wardrobe that looks like it jumped off the pages of an H&M catalog. Every few weeks, Gomez, who has long, black hair she wears straight and loose down her back, treats herself to a manicure. “The diva in me,” she jokes. For Christmas, miniature holiday decorations in lacquered red and white polish dotted her nails. At home in Southeast Portland, markers of her success hang on the walls: an elementary-school academic award with Bill Clinton’s reproduced signature, a high-school diploma from Franklin High School, and a certificate from a Portland Community College technical-training program. But Gomez knows her dream could turn nightmarish in an instant. “All it takes is one call,” Gomez says. Like 4 percent of the population of Oregon, Gomez is one of 150,000 people in the state who are undocumented immigrants. Call them illegal aliens. Call them lawbreakers. Gomez calls herself an American. More than a decade ago, when she was 9, Gomez traveled with her family to the U.S. on a temporary tourist visa to see Gomez’s grandmother in California and visit Disneyland. But when they arrived in Portland about a week later to visit an uncle, Gomez’s parents announced they weren’t going back home. They’d planned to stay all along. It wasn’t until much later that Gomez realized the significance of her parents’ decision—that their choice to pursue better opportunities for their family had made her, in essence, an outlaw. “I realized it toward the end of middle school,” she says. “Up until then I wasn’t conscious of the situation; maybe because I didn’t understand the issue.” By ninth grade, though, news coverage of beefed-up border security, immigration raids and deadlocked political debate started to draw her attention. “That’s when you started to realize you have all these limitations, even though you feel like everyone else,” she says. As a young person in Oregon, Gomez wants many of the same things as her peers. She wants a good job, a nice boyfriend and more time to hang out with friends. She has aspirations of becoming a professional writer. As an undocumented immigrant, Gomez also worries about something most of her American-born friends can’t fathom: being deported and returned to a country that is no longer home to most of her family. It’s
HANDS ACROSS AMERICA: About 65,000 undocumented immigrants like “Cecilia Gomez” graduate from U.S. high schools every year.
a fear that became reality last year for 400,000 people in the U.S., including 10,000 people in the Northwest. For Gomez, deportation may never come to pass. But that only makes her more uncomfortable. “It’s kind of uncertain for me,” she says. “It could go either way. It could change tomorrow. Or it could be another 10 years, and I could be here doing the same thing.” To understand Gomez’s anxiety is to enter her world, one that is full of inconsistencies, limitations and, conversely, enough loopholes for Gomez to persist. Gomez says she finds it hard to believe the U.S. government doesn’t actually want her to stay here. “There’s always these little windows that they leave for you,” she says. One of those windows closed in December, when the U.S. Senate blocked passage of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. The DREAM Act, which Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley (both D-Ore.) supported, would have carved out a new path to citizenship for about 1.1 million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children before the age of 16. “We were very gratified that it didn’t pass,” says Jim Ludwick of the antiillegal-immigrant group Oregonians for Immigration Reform. Says Melissa Sarabia, a Portland State University student and advocate for the DREAM Act: “People are definitely not discouraged.” The focus will now turn to state capitals, where many are working to tighten the laws. In Salem this
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year, a number of new bills seek to make Oregon more like Arizona, which last April gave local law enforcement officials more power to enforce federal immigration rules. On Jan. 11, Rep. Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) introduced a similar measure in Salem, House Bill 2802. (See page 21.) “We don’t want Oregon to become like Arizona, a place of bigotry and hate,” says Francisco Lopez, director of CAUSA, an immigrants’ rights coalition in Oregon. Gomez is prepared for that possibility. “It could very well happen that people could be OK with it, just like in Arizona,” she says. But she’s not prepared to leave Portland. “If you’re more than a good citizen, why shouldn’t you be allowed to stay?” While an estimated 150,000 illegal immigrants live in this state, Gomez is part of a smaller cohort. She is one of an estimated 40,000 young people in Oregon who came to the United States illegally as children, according to estimates from CAUSA. In essence, they had no choice in the matter. These children attend Oregon public schools, learn English and, in some cases, forget their native homes. “They are Americans as far as you and I can see,” says Brent Renison, an immigration lawyer in Portland. “They just don’t have a paper to show it.” Gomez’s transition from a teeming Latin American metropolis to a rainy city in the Pacific Northwest was easy at first. Her family moved in with a relative in Portland. She enrolled in a nearby public elementary school, which requires no proof of citizenship. (A 1982 ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court protects the rights of undocumented children to attend public schools until the 12th grade.) And she worked feverishly to blend in. “That was our No. 1 goal,” Gomez says. “You have to fit in.” It helped that television in Latin America is so Americanized. Nickelodeon programs, for example, streamed across the television screen in Gomez’s native country, dubbed in Spanish. “It was kind of easy for me to come here and adapt,” Gomez says. “It was just learning the language. A lot of the culture I had already been familiar with.” Her homeroom teacher in Portland, a fan of Harry Potter, would read to her students for 30 minutes a day. “I remember sitting there watching her mouth carefully, seeing how she pronounced everything and telling myself, ‘I have to learn to say those words,’” Gomez says. “I had no idea what she was saying. It was 30 minutes that I was blank, but I would hear sounds and mimic them.” CONT. on page 21
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WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS: Without federal immigration reform, education effectively ends at high school for most undocumented immigrants like Gomez, pictured here walking in front of Franklin High.
About a year after her family moved to Portland, a relative who is a citizen helped them buy a modest house. At Franklin High, Gomez was an active and social student. She played varsity sports and participated in school plays. The school was a safe haven, the only place outside her parents’ house where Gomez felt comfortable divulging her secret to adults. As a result, a few teachers at Franklin were aware of Gomez’s predicament, which was common at the school. And they encouraged her to excel academically. “We took it really personally,” says Osvaldo GarciaContreras, a former math teacher at Franklin. “All these kids who worked so hard, they tasted the freedom.” (Another recent student at Franklin was the subject of a cover story for this newspaper [see “Illegal Scholar,” WW, Nov. 15, 2006]. That young man, also an undocumented student, wanted to go to Reed College, which welcomed his application despite his immigration status.) Once high school ended, Gomez entered a world where it mattered far more that she didn’t have a valid Social Security number, the key piece of documentation for proving that you are an American and for getting a job and enrolling in college. That meant Gomez had two choices. She could get a fake number or go without one. Gomez chose the former option (getting a fake Social Security card is remarkably easy), but she’s exceedingly careful about when she uses it. Representatives of Oregon’s largest public universities are careful to say they comply with the rules of the Oregon University System, which does allow undocumented students to enroll in Oregon colleges. (There’s no federal law barring that.) However, those students must pay the tuition charged to international students, which is typically about three times the tuition that in-state students pay. “If we know the student is undocumented,” says David McDonald, associate provost at Western Ore-
gon University, “they’re charged at that higher level.” In practice, Portland State University appears to have looser requirements when it comes to establishing residency. However, a university spokesman denies this, writing in an email that PSU “would not intentionally allow undocumented students, or any other non-resident student, the in-state tuition benefit if they would not meet the residency test.” PSU President Wim Wiewel is nonetheless an outspoken advocate for the DREAM Act, which would give states the power to charge undocumented students in-state tuition. “PSU is here to serve these students,” he said at a September press conference. “We want these students, and we want them to be able to get in at a price they can afford.” But even the in-state tuition of $7,000 a year at PSU was prohibitive to Gomez because, without a valid Social Security number, she can’t apply for federal student loans. Instead, she enrolled at the lessexpensive Portland Community College, which also enrolls undocumented students. The community college does not require a Social Security number unless a students seeks financial aid. All the while, Gomez has worked, in part to pay for classes but also to support her parents as well. This spring, when members of another class of students from Franklin graduate from college with bachelor’s degrees, she’ll still have too few credits to qualify as a college sophomore. To get a job at a fast-food restaurant, Gomez used her fake Social Security number. Her employer either didn’t double-check her number or didn’t care that it wasn’t a match to her name. Giving it to the restaurant was a risk, but it was one she felt worth taking. She now works for two franchises of the same chain, clocking 70 hours a week. That doesn’t entitle her to overtime pay, since she technically has two employers. “She never has time for school,” her best friend says. “She never has time for friends. She sleeps for
six hours a day at the most, and that’s split up into two three-hour blocks.” Gomez does pay taxes. But she doesn’t use her Social Security number on her forms, because she believes that the IRS and the Oregon Department of Revenue (unlike her employer) would check and determine that it was phony. Instead, she fills out her taxes using an individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN. The irony is that only taxpayers who don’t have Social Security numbers would use an ITIN. “If they were to investigate,” says Gomez, “they would be able to find out.” Yet no authorities have ever followed up; a spokesman for the IRS in Seattle says his agency does not police immigration law. “The mandate of the IRS is to enforce the tax law of the United States,” says Richard Panick, a spokesman for the IRS. And in the meantime, Gomez believes her verifiable record of having paid taxes year after year with an ITIN could actually help her should immigration officials consider her for citizenship. “Me and my family try to live as best we can, do everything the right way as much as we can,” she says. Gomez also takes care how and when to share her secret with friends. For example, her best friend, Kiera, had no idea Gomez was undocumented until years after their friendship developed. Gomez would try to broach the topic of illegal immigration to gauge her friend’s response to the controversy. “I didn’t know how she’d take it, so I’d bring up the subject every now and then and say, ‘What do you think about that?’” Gomez says. Then one day it became impossible for Gomez to maintain the lie. It was spring 2008, before the Democratic primary. Kiera wanted to know whether Gomez planned to vote for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. But when CONT. on page 23 Willamette Week JANUARY 19, 2011 wweek.com
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The anxieties and inconveniences that Gomez endures raise a question: Wouldn’t it just be easier to be back home? Gomez says Portland is home. “There are a lot of people who’ve done this for years and years,” she says. “They’ve built a family. Their children grow up.” But if her life in Portland suddenly ended, knowing English alone would help her succeed elsewhere in the world, she says. “This is better than the life I
would have had back home if I would have never left,” she says. “Much better.” She still pins her hope on legislation like the DREAM Act, which would give immigrant students access to some federal loans as well as legal status after two years of college or military service. Passage would transform Gomez. “My life will start when that happens,” Gomez says.
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Gomez told Kiera she couldn’t vote, Kiera got upset. “Why?” she demanded to know from Gomez, “It’s so important to vote!” When Gomez finally revealed the reason, she said she felt relieved. Since 2008, Oregon has required a Social Security number to get a driver’s license. But Washington remains one of three states in the country that still doesn’t require proof of legal status to get an ID card. Rather than risk detection by using fake documentation to try to get a license in Oregon, Gomez used an uncle’s address in Washington to get a license there. Gomez drives as little as possible and with extreme care, because she doesn’t want to be stopped. She has her fake address in Washington memorized just in case an officer quizzes her. But she fears getting pulled over and being asked questions she can’t answer truthfully, such as, “Why are your plates from Oregon and your license from Washington?” If living clandestinely in this country involves a certain amount of deception, it also involves a great deal of avoidance. Gomez lives at home because she worries about submitting an application to a landlord who may want her Social Security number. “The safest place for me is with my parents,” she says. “If we fall, we fall together.” She doesn’t fly because she doesn’t like passing through security checkpoints. If she were caught, she could be detained by immigration officials. Dating is problematic because she wouldn’t want to fall in love with someone who has his own immigration problems. “It would be hard to think about a future,” she says. If the young man were a U.S. citizen, she wouldn’t want him to think her love stemmed from a need for a green card; immigrants who marry citizens jump to the front of the immigration line. “If I get married,” she says, “it’s going to be for love and not anything else.”
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In the first week of the 2011 Legislative session earlier this month, Rep. Kim Thatcher (R-Keizer) introduced the following five resolutions, all related to illegal immigration. House Bill 2802 comes closest to Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill 1070. It would prohibit restrictions on a “public body’s ability to enforce immigration law” and require police officers to make a “reasonable attempt” to determine a person’s immigration status if that person is stopped or arrested for a crime. It also would create the new crimes of “failure to carry an alien registration document,” “smuggling” for transporting illegal immigrants and “encouraging unlawful immigration” for harboring undocumented immigrants. House Bill 2803 would require counties in Oregon to verify the immigration status of persons incarcerated in county correctional facilities. House Bill 2804 would require proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote for the first time. House Bill 2805 would block state agencies from providing services to illegal immigrants but exempts a number of benefits like emergency healthcare services, K-12 education and prenatal care, among others. House Bill 2806 would force employers to use E-Verify to check the Social Security numbers of workers or risk losing state tax benefits. E-Verify is a federal program that allows employers to check workers’ employment eligibility. Rep. Tina Kotek and Sen. Chip Shields (both D-Portland) are considering legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to again have Oregon driver’s licenses. The bill has not yet been introduced. Rep. Michael Dembrow and Sen. Chip Shields (both D-Portland) may also introduce a state bill similar to the federal DREAM Act. Referred to as “tuition equity,” it would allow Oregon universities to charge undocumented students who graduate high school in Oregon in-state tuition rates.
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SCOOP LAUGH RIOT: Mock Portlandia all you want—the joke’s on us, really!—but Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s new poking-fun-atstereotypes comedy show received a rapturous reception during its premiere PORTLANDIA last Friday at the Hollywood Theatre. Mayor Sam Adams and many other local “celebs” (Colin Meloy, all three Thermals) were in attendance, and the crowd laughed at all the right spots, even when Brownstein admitted in a post-screening Q&A with WW’s own Aaron Mesh that she’s never been to Beaverton. Somebody tell her that’s where all the good Korean food is. Read the WW crew’s take on the show on page 45. RIGHT THAI: The owner and chef of Alberta’s Thai Noon restaurant are set to open another venture: a sustainable Thai restaurant called Thai Seasons. Owner Chip Rothenberger says new eatery will feature “slow food” and use local, sustainable ingredients where possible. He also plans to eventually switch Thai Noon over to the same concept. “We’re just trying to do the right thing by old Mother Earth,” he told WW. Thai Seasons will open on Northeast Sandy Boulevard near 58th Avenue sometime in the next two weeks. CATCH & RELEASE: High-end seafood restaurant Fin will close after Valentine’s Day. Portland Monthly’s Karen Brooks broke the news Monday, noting that, according to Fin’s chef, Trent Pierce, owner Joan Dumas sold the restaurant and a new owner plans to open his own eatery. Given the news that Ten 01 had shuttered came only weeks ago, is this the start of another Portland restaurant apocalypse? GLASS BLAST: After cutting back on present-day music this year in the face of the recession, Portland Opera just announced that next spring it will stage the West Coast premiere of contemporary composer’s Philip Glass’ 2001 opera Galileo Galilei at the Newmark Theatre. That follows last year’s striking staging of Glass’ 1993 Orphée, which resulted in the opera’s first recording released on Glass’ label—a coup for PO. Glass’ website lists no recording of Galileo yet, either. Hmmm.... TYPHOON FEVER: Typhoon—after a couple of national tours and enthusiastic feedback in the national blog-press over 2010 debut album Hunger and Thirst—is so hot right now. Accordingly, the band will offer a brand-new EP on March 8, released via the Tender Loving Empire label. Better yet, those folks who head to tenderlovingempire.com to preorder the new EP ($8 CD, $12 vinyl) get a free download of the band’s debut album right on the spot. (Need convincing? There’s a new track streaming at wweek.com.) The members start another West Coast tour this week, but don’t think the success has gone to their heads—they still have to cram 10 stinky kids and a bunch of amps into a tiny van.
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THURSDAY JAN. 20 [DANCE] OSLUND + CO/DANCE White Bird wraps up its Celebration of American Women Choreographers series with one of our own: Conduit Dance Studio co-founder Mary Oslund. She and her cohorts have collaborated on the world premiere of Childhood Star. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 2421419. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 20-22. $18-$28. [MUSIC] ROCK OF AGES: FRUITION, PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT, WATERTOWER BUCKET BOYS, TWISTED WHISTLE Being a folk-rock superstar may seem a contradiction, but Gillian Welch has cast a long enough shadow over the flannel-clad genre to induce four excellent local bands to expend a night in tribute to her work. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY JAN. 21 [STAGE] CAPTURED BY ALIENS Action Adventure Theatre, the minds behind the excellent live sitcom Fall of the House, turns to reality TV and sci-fi in a new semi-improvised serial, in which a bunch of would-be reality stars discover they have been abducted by beings from another world. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 8 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 13. $12 per episode, $30 for all four. [MUSIC] FREEWAY & JAKE ONE, BIG POOH, TANYA MORGAN, ILLMACULATE AND MORE The third night of Portland’s Poh-Hop festival has the strongest end-to-end lineup, including a set from Philadelphia MC Freeway and Seattle DJ-producer Jake One, a duo that kinda killed it with last year’s Stimulus Package record. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 2482900. 8 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. All ages.
FRIDAY JAN. 21 HOT PLATE
THE FISHWIFE’S BACON BROWNIE SUNDAE I’ve found dessert heaven, and it tastes like pig fat. Buried on the bottom of the menu at the Fishwife, a two-decades-old family seafood restaurant on a stretch of North Lombard Street just before St. Johns, is the perfect carnivore’s delight: a giant, rich and intensely salty chocolate brownie made with bacon fat instead of oil or butter, served with a scoop of Cascade Glacier vanilla ice cream all topped off with housemade caramel sauce, whipped cream and caramelized bacon bits.
The sundae ($5) also has bacon pieces inside the brownie. So, yes, nearly every part of the dessert uses a little pork, which proves the (exhaustively tested but still worthy) theory that there is nothing in the world that doesn’t taste better with bacon. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. OINK: The Fishwife, 5328 N Lombard St., 285-7150, thefishwife. com. 11 am-9 pm Tuesday-Thursday, 11 am-10 pm Friday, 4-10 pm Saturday. $-$$ Inexpensive-moderate.
[SCREEN] THE WAY BACK Peter Weir’s new escape-from-thegulag epic feels like Lord of the Rings, without all that stupid elf shit. Regal Lloyd Center 10 Cinema, 1510 NE Multnomah St., 287-0338, and other locations. Multiple showtimes. $7-$10.
SUNDAY JAN. 23 [MUSIC] BLOWFLY, WITCHBURN In 1971, when Clarence Reid first recorded a set of X-rated song parodies and put himself on the cover disguised as a sort of thrift-store superhero, he probably never imagined anyone would want to hear it 40 years later. His humor has never risen above eighth-grade level, but the career move was a stroke (heh) of genius. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week JANUARY 19, 2011 wweek.com
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DISH EVENTS THIS WEEK Breakside Brewing One-Off Releases
Breakside Brewing kicks off 2011 with a series of weekly “experimental” one-off beer releases. Breakside taps a one-keg batch each Wednesday at 3 pm. This cranberries-and-cream ale or a “rye common” brew. If you’re a beer wonk, you’ll be pleased to know each week there will also be a “Randall infusion” (that’s beer infused with fresh hops, espresso beans, chiles, you name it). Bonus: Starting this month, you don’t need to venture north to Woodlawn in order to enjoy Breakside’s suds; now they can be found at bars, including Bailey’s Taproom, the Hop and Vine, and Grain and Gristle. REBECCA DEWITT. Breakside Brewery, 820 NE Dekum St., 719-6475. 3 pm Wednesdays through Feb. 2. Info at breaksidebrews.com.
Cork’s Blind Side Series
Don’t judge a wine by its color: Starting this month, Alberta wine hub Cork offers a class series on blind tasting. Participants will learn how to find what they’re looking for in a wine without peeking. The once-a-month Blind Side Series begins Jan. 19, followed by five more classes throughout the spring. RD. Cork, 2901 NE Alberta St., 281-2675. 6:30 pm Wednesdays Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March 16, April 13, May 18 and June 15. $20 per class or $100 for the whole series. Reservations required, email alberta@corkwineshop.com.
ChocolateFest 2011
Stock up on chocolate and support the World Forestry Center’s education program at the same time at Portland’s sixth annual ChocolateFest. You’ll find cascading chocolate fountains, lots of chocolate samples, and choco talks and demonstrations, like “how to make a chocolate martini” and “demystifying the dark art of home tempering” (plus live jazz on Friday night). Vendors include Lillie Belle Farms and Leonidas. RD. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 235-7575. 6-9 pm Friday, 10 am-5 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 21-23. $20 Friday (21+), $10 adults, $9 seniors, $7 kids Saturday-Sunday. Tickets and info at chocolatefest.org/ticketing.
BridgePort Tasting at World Cup Coffee
BridgePort Brewing and World Cup Coffee and Tea host a tasting of their latest collaboration, Cafe Negro. A match made in Oregonian heaven, BridgePort has infused its barley and chocolate malt heavy porter with a World Cup coffee roasted specially for the beer. If the union of caffeine and booze makes you smile, you might not want to miss the free tasting followed by appetizers and a tour of World Cup roasting facilities. World Cup Coffee and Tea, 1740 NW Glisan St., 228-5503. 5-8 pm Friday, Jan. 21. Free.
Irving Street Kitchen Booze and Brunch
Portland bartenders wake up before noon (!) to share their knowledge of brunch cocktails. Irving Street Kitchen’s Brandon Wise (Eater Portland’s 2010 Shaker of the Year) and Neil Kopplin from Clyde and Imbue host the third installment of Irving Street Kitchen’s Booze and Brunch series, focusing on fresh, local ingredients. Chef Sarah Schafer will serve appetizers and select entrees from her brunch menu as the ’tender shares the secrets of stellar cocktails. CHRISTINA COOKE. Irving Street Kitchen, 701 NW 13th Ave., 343-9440. Noon-2 pm Saturday, Jan. 22. $40. Call Irving Street or email emily@irvingstreetkitchen.com for reservations.
Pie Fundraiser at Baker & Spice
Fill your pie hole guilt-free at Baker & Spice’s fifth annual National Pie Day fundraiser. All weekend long, the bakery will dole out the pie and donate 25 percent of proceeds to
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Neighborhood House’s Emergency Food Box Program. Check out the pie contest at SweetWares, Baker & Spice’s next-door baking supply store—prizes include a pie a month for a year. RD. Baker & Spice, 6330 SW Capitol Highway, 244-7573. 7 am-6 pm Saturday, and 7 am-3 pm Sunday. Jan. 22-23. bakerandspicebakery.com.
Bar Camp at Lincoln Restaurant
Don’t keep guesstimating on your cocktails; class it up. Lincoln Restaurant co-owner and bar master David Welch teaches a Bar Camp Basics class covering the basics of mixing drinks, including “cocktail lore, handy techniques, side-by-side tastings and recipes for classics.” Afterward, enjoy a family-style feast (with drinks included) by the other co-owner, executive chef Jenn Louis. CC. Lincoln, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-6200. 4:30 pm with dinner to follow Saturday, Jan. 22. $125 per person. Reserve a seat at 288-6200.
Pix’s Gastronomical Trivia
Test your foodie knowledge at Pix’s Gastronomical Trivia night. Categories include beer, charcuterie, cold cereal and nostalgic candy. Teams of one to four players are eligible to play for $5 per person, which includes tasty treats. Every round ends with somebody winning a $25 Pix gift certificate. Trivia at North Williams location only. RD. Pix Pâtisserie-North, 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539. 7-9 pm Tuesday, Jan. 25. (Deadline for reservations Sunday, Jan. 23). $5. For reservations call 282-6539.
Kristen Murray on the Art of the Tart
Check out lauded pastry chef-abouttown Kristen D. Murray’s Sunday Pastry Series. In four sessions she’ll explore the universe of tart dough, covering pâte brisée, pâte sucrée, pâte sablée, yeasted tart dough and laminated pastry dough. Each week will culminate with a wine tasting paired with dishes from the day’s lessons. Only six spots are available. The class ain’t cheap, but Murray is a sweets master. RD. Robert Reynolds Chefs Studio, 2818 SE Pine St., 544-1350. 11 am-4 pm Sundays Jan. 30, Feb. 6, 20 & 27. Cost for the series is $600. For reservations, call 857-222-4817.
Burns Night at the Hop and Vine
On Jan. 25, Scots around the world will hold Burns Suppers to toast the memory of the 18th-century Scottish poet, Robert Burns. In Portland, Burns’ poetry will be read aloud at bottle shop and cafe Hop and Vine, followed by a night of traditional Scottish music, food and whiskey. A pint of beer and four-course meal is $30. Kilts are strongly encouraged. RD. The Hop and Vine, 1914 N Killingsworth St., 954-3322. 6 pm Tuesday, Jan. 25. $30. Reservations at the bar or at thehopandvine.com.
FlavourSpot Jazz Hands January
FlavourSpot waffle cart rewards customers who brave the cold and display jazz hands with a free, warm drip coffee (with purchase of a delicious waffle sandwich). It’s called Jazz Hands January, and if you post pictures of your jazzy, waffley, caffeinated experience on Facebook, you could win free waffle goodness in the month of February. RD. Post to facebook.com/ FlavourSpot. FlavourSpot Lombard, North Lombard Street between Denver and Greeley avenues, 289-9866 and other locations.
City of Portland Urban Growth Bounty Class Series
If you’ve wanted to learn the art of cheesemaking, beekeeping, chickenand goat-rearing or edible landscaping, now’s the time. Brought to you by the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, workshops run February through June. RD. Ongoing registration is now open, classes FebruaryJune. Tuition $10-$95. More info at portlandonline.com/bps/ugb.
POUR-OVER POWER: Coava’s surprise hit filter, the Kone (left), and eagerly anticipated gewgaw the Funnel.
BUILDING A BETTER BREW A PORTLAND COFFEE COMPANY HAS THE BEAN SCENE BUZZING—AND IT’S NOT THE CAFFEINE. BY R U TH B R OWN
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When most coffee shops get too busy, they hire more staff. But when Portland’s Coava Coffee found its baristas were short on time, it simply decided to invent a better coffee brewer. It has become something of an M.O. for Coava’s owners, Keith Gehrke and Matt Higgins. The coffee bar—located appropriately in a bamboo carpentry workshop, full of old work benches, tools and industrial equipment—has become a laboratory for new ideas and inventions, where the two young baristas-turned-entrepreneurs have become obsessed with creating newer, better ways to brew their single-origin roasts. A few years ago, Gehrke became frustrated at running out of paper filters when making coffee in a Chemex coffeemaker—a 1940s glass pour-over brewer that’s enjoying a renaissance among coffee connoisseurs—at home. He did what any logical coffee geek would do: sketched up a blueprint for a new filter and had the device laser welded and photochemically etched in stainless steel. Not only did he solve his own paper problem, as he and Higgins began experimenting with the design, they realized he had created “a hybrid between French press and pour-over,” combining the big body and rich oils of the former, while still retaining the more delicate flavors and brewing control of the latter. They dubbed it the “Kone” and had a few made up for their coffee bar, which opened in July last year. “We never thought we were going to sell them,” says Higgins. “People would come in and ask, ‘Are you selling those filters? Where do you get those filters?’ and I’d explain that we made them. And then finally, we started getting some offers from other coffee companies in our industry, primarily Stumptown…so we said, ‘Let’s do it, let’s roll the dice,’ and we had a thousand made.” The gamble paid off. Despite a $50 price tag,
orders flowed in from around the country. The New York Times sang its praises, while Gizmodo called it “the latest piece of must-have gear for coffee fetishists.” “Fuck, that’s good!” wrote one prominent Seattle barista and coffee blogger. The pair then applied the same technology to an even more niche coffee maker, the AeroPress brewer—a small, plastic syringelike gadget that is already popular in Europe and is just starting to pop up in top coffeehouses around Portland. Their flat, round metal AeroPress filter—called a “Disk”— was released in December, and sold over 600 units in the first two weeks. But the popularity of the Kone means half of the coffee bar’s customers are now asking for pour-over coffee instead of espresso. Each Chemex pot takes about three minutes to brew, and requires a barista to stand perched over the filter, employing a timer, digital scales and intense concentration to make sure the extraction is perfect. And a single barista can only make two at a time. So the pair went back to the drawing board for their most ambitious project to date: an entirely new coffee brewer called a “Funnel.” Instead of a pour-over, the Funnel is a “full immersion” brewer, in which the coffee is left alone to steep in the water—like a French press—before filtering through a Kone into the cup. It’s made from a glass lab funnel fused with a stopcock valve, which allows full control over how quickly the coffee filters out, and sits perched atop a sleek steel stand welded by Higgins himself. According to Gehrke, it’s easier to use, produces more consistent results and, crucially, is less labor intensive. It also looks damn cool. “I feel like my parents could do this, my grandparents could do it,” he says. The Funnel isn’t being released until this week, but the coffee world is already buzzing about it. Gehrke and Higgins aren’t sure if anyone else will actually buy one—they will probably cost in the hundreds—but then, they never expected anyone to pay $50 for a coffee filter. “We’re already working on, like, four other products,” says Gehrke with a shrug. ” DRINK: Visit Coava Coffee Roastery and Coffee Bar at 1300 SE Grand Ave., 894-8134, or check it out online at coava.myshopify.com. Willamette Week JANUARY 19, 2011 wweek.com
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply. Addresses for local venues are listed in WW’s Clublist column, page 37, or online at blogs.wweek.com/music/clublist/ Editors: CASEY JARMAN, MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, enter show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitmusic. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: cjarman@wweek.com Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19 Rockapella
[CROCKAPELLA] When the Misfits hired a Glenn Danzig ringer we said nothing. And when Dead Kennedys had the audacity to tour without Jello we bit our tongues. A Darby Crashless Germs? Fine. Journey’s hitting the road with a Filipino Steve Perry, you say? Cool. But an ersatz Rockapella with only one Carmen Sandiego-era member? This we must not abide! Godapella is deadapella! These sexless harmonies are but hollow mementos of a collapsed kingdom, and your genuflection before these false idols looks more like slavery than worship! What’s next? Wilson Phillips without Phillips? Collective Soul with soul? No. The buckapella stops here. CHRIS STAMM. Aladdin Theater. 8 pm (minors accompanied by parent). $25. All ages.
Guster
[BIRKENSTOCK ROCK] Somehow, “Guster” is the most appropriate name the band Guster could possibly have. The moniker implies the lackadaisical humor of an afternoon spent on a college quad. It sounds like it should be the name of someone’s golden retriever. Guster’s music follows this ambling style. The trio’s albums are marked by acoustic guitars, groupfriendly choruses and an ear for innocuous, inescapable melody—the kind of melody that allowed for “Amsterdam”’s quiet conquest of the year 2003. Since then, the quartet has embraced environmentalism, graduated to Columbia Records, and released this past year’s Easy Wonder. Not bad for a group that seems to exist perpetually in the insouciant haze of its junior year abroad. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
The Head and the Heart, Kelli Schaefer, Bryan John Appleby
pretty huge 2010, winning over crowds and critics across the Northwest with its timeless mix of folk, Americana, indie rock and pop. But 2011 has already eclipsed it—the band just got signed by Sub Pop. In a few weeks, H&H will head off on a U.K. tour with the Walkmen, then re-release a fancier version of its excellent self-titled debut with the addition of much-loved live anthem “Rivers & Roads.” But before all that happens, the band is going to play this show in little old Portland. This is music you want to get up close and sweaty with, music you want to sing along with—so do it while you still can. RUTH BROWN. Doug Fir Lounge. $11 advance, $13 day of show. 21+.
Prescription Pills, Shermstixx, Support Force, Abadawn and the Kill Party
[DIRE DANCE] Cole Browning started Prescription Pills as a solo project in 2009. It was created as a vehicle to explore his drug-piqued interest in odd sampling and lo-fi dance music while cultivating the punk damage he had sustained from years in the pit. Since then he’s played at just about every major basement and bar in town, and with the addition of Thomas Freridge on drums, the project has matured into one of Portland’s most invigorating live shows. The DIY Joy Division aesthetic off Prescription Pills’ recordings would lead some to believe that this is an act more inspired by Prozac than Percocet, but you’ll probably be needing the latter after these guys lay it on you in the flesh. KEVIN DAVIS. Rotture. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
THURSDAY, JAN. 20 Rock of Ages: A Tribute to Gillian Welch with Fruition, Portland Cello Project and more
[TO GILLIAN, WITH LOVE] Being a folk-rock superstar may seem like a
[STARS OF TOMORROW] Seattle sextet the Head and the Heart had a
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THE OLDOMINION EFFECT
THE NORTHWEST’S LARGEST HIP-HOP CREW HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED. BY CASEY JA R MA N
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Northwest hip-hop wasn’t born when Oldominion formed in 1999. But the expansive Portland/ Seattle crew united the local underground rap scene for the first time, and in the band’s 12-year run, its influence is still being felt far and wide (a new full-crew album is rumored to be in the works as well). So what does Oldominion look like? We attempted to put it on paper. Now get to Googling! SEE IT: Oldominion plays Someday Lounge for POH-Hop on Saturday, Jan. 22. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Seattle’s Oracle’s Creed (Onry Ozzborn, Pale Soul, Sleep) meets Portland’s Frontline (Snafu, Nyqill, Destro).
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TOP FIVE
BY THE METAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
TOP FIVE SHAKESPEAREAN IMPOSTORS In the Bard, a man of humble origin didst ascend to become the finest author of any land or any era. Naturally, this tale of triumph doth itch the monied and powerful and they do it scratch by giving the Complete Works to some other figure. O’er five years, the Metal Shakespeare Company’s purpose hath been to drown such claims in waves of metal, pulled forth by the true Bard’s moon. Thou must this struggle continue. Francis Bacon A knave of the worst sort who didst perish whilst attempting to freeze meat. Queen Elizabeth I She couldst not achieve intercourse let alone pun on’t! Earl of Oxford Too busy jousting for proper sonnetry. Christopher Marlowe Couldst not rhyme his way out of a tavern scuffle.
Smoke Zebulon Dak Azrael Rags Tori Akil
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Foul Shawn
Network (Bishop, Onry, JFK)
Gash
Norman (Barfly, Onry)
Myth
Inhalant (Peegee13, Barfly, Hyena)
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Aurora (Sleep, Onry)
Comunalien (Nickels)
Peegee13 Anaxagoras JFK Hyena Tremor Karim Mako Barfly Josh Martinez Coley Cole Mr. Hill
Shakespeare Stout Bottle Thou dost fool me once shame on you, and if twice, shame upon... upon...fie!
Toni Hill
SEE IT: The Metal Shakespeare Company plays its final show on Friday, Jan. 21, at the Ash Street Saloon. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
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Iame XP
Layman’s Terms (Smoke, Hyena)
Dark Time Sunshine (Onry Ozzborn)
Boom Bap Project (Karim, Destro)
Saturday Knights (Barfly) Onry Ozzborn and the Gigantics (Onry)
Siren’s Echo (Toni Hill, Syndel) Grayskul (Onry, JFK, Castro, Mr. Hill) Chicharones (Sleep, Josh Martinez) Nite Owls (Barfly, Mr. Hill) Seattle Suicide Riots (Castro and Hyena)
The Pissed Off Wild (Josh Martinez) Hungry Mob (Toni Hill) Taco Neck (Peegee13) Sleep and Zelly Rock (Sleep) Sandpeople (Iame)
Dimmak (Bishop I, Hyena, Azrael)
Candy’s .22 (Barfly) Blood Tornado (Hyena)
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POH-Hop: Krizz Kaliko, JFK, Kenny Mack, Sapient, Maniac Lok and more
[MOON RAPPIN’] To underscore the diversity of this year’s POH-Hop festival, organizers are throwing the inscrutable Krizz Kaliko—Tech N9ne/Kottonmouth Kings collaborator and self-declared genius— on a bill alongside many of the Northwest’s loudest and finest. Thing is, Kaliko, though not yet a household name, is kind of a genius. And on his 2009 full-length (titled, you guessed it, Genius), he proves it with some of the most danceable, weird and well-produced hip-hop in recent memory. The music is almost too smart for Kaliko’s lyrical content, and there’s a bit of conceptual slippage on last year’s Shock Treatment (AMERICA: STOP ATTEMPTING RAP-ROCK!), but damn if Kaliko doesn’t still make Lil Wayne look a little sleepy by comparison. CASEY JARMAN. Backspace. 7 pm. $14. All ages.
Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree, Deepest Darkest
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] After beginning his folk-singing career here, Portlander Adam Sweeney relocated to the Northeast for a few years. Thankfully, he returned and gathered a band, the Jamboree, around his sweet, reedy voice and thoughtful, melodic tunes. The band’s debut disc is due in the spring; meanwhile, Sweeney’s new, third release, following two solid solo albums, is a humble EP called Wildest Rose. It’s a collection of laid-back, but not too far back, recordings of five of Sweeney’s backlog of tunes, with the composer playing every instrument except drums. Sweeney’s always reminded me of a classic, ’70s-vintage singer-songwriter, though not in a clichéd way; his music’s just refreshingly free of irony. JEFF ROSENBERG. Ella Street Social Club. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
FRIDAY, JAN. 21 The Metal Shakespeare Company, The Badlands, Wizard Rifle
[BARDCORE] Five years ago, a hipster-geeky English-lit major named Jason Simms and some musician buddies played an afternoon show at Lewis & Clark College’s Watzek Library. Dagger of the Mind, as they were then known, was the sort of concept band that could only be born on a college campus: Simms half-sung, half-screamed Shakespeare soliloquies over loosely Maidenesque metal riffs, pogoing up and down in a pirate shirt and riding boots. Friends, they rocked the fuck out of that library. Eventually rechristened the more marketable Metal Shakespeare Company, the band eventually played both of the West’s major bard festivals and acquired a very nerdy, very devoted following before it abruptly called it quits last summer. This concert is the coda we’ve been waiting for; Simms promises eight of the company’s past and present members will be there to say a big goodbye to an idea too good to die quietly. BEN WATERHOUSE. Ash Street Saloon. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Freeway, Jake One, Tanya Morgan, Illmaculate, Onry Ozzborn, Mikey Vegaz and more
[STACKED HIP-HOP SUPERBILL] When it comes to hip-hop hype men and role players, few have ever had the charisma and sheer rapping ability of Philadelphia’s Leslie Edward Pridgen, better known to a legion of rap fans as Freeway. Back when he debuted on the scene in the early aughts, Freeway was signed to Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella label, and 2003’s Philadelphia Freeway—featuring cameos by Nelly, Snoop Dogg and Mariah Carey, along with production from Just Blaze and Kanye West—
remains one of the underrated majorlabel castaways of recent memory. And though Freeway had a few rocky years, his move to Rhymesayers and collaboration with Jake One on last year’s The Stimulus Package turned out to be a smart business decision, as his street-level boasts easily translated to the backpack set and his single “Know What I Mean” still gets tons of bounces in our office. My only question about this show: How does Backspace expect to fit 14 rappers on one bill? Anyone interested in POH-Hop should start here. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Backspace. 7 pm. $14. All ages.
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contradiction, but Gillian Welch has cast a long enough shadow over the flannel-clad genre to induce not two, not three, but in fact four excellent bands to expend their Thursday night in tribute to her work. Fruition is a bluegrass-leaning quartet with two years’ experience in the hoedown business. The Portland Cello Project should need no introduction by this point (and if you’re still in the dark, refer to the name for a primer), and Water Tower Bucket Boys and Twisted Whistle play a county-fair-andwhiskey strain of Americana. All in all, they should do Ms. Welch proud. SHANE DANAHER. Alberta Rose Theatre. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
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TEAM EVIL SATURDAY, JAN. 22 [PRODUCER POP] Talkdemonic. Blind Pilot. Horse Feathers. World’s Greatest Ghosts. If you peruse the liner notes of many of the best indie rock and folk albums released in Portland over the past five years, you’ll notice one common name scrawled in every booklet: producer Skyler Norwood. The 30-year-old musician spends most of his days holed up at Miracle Lake Studios in the basement of his father’s three-story home in Camas, working on music for other people. Finding the time to complete his own album wasn’t so easy. “After a long day, the last thing I want to do is mess with my own stuff—I want to go home and listen to Otis Redding or Duke Ellington or Wu-Tang,” Norwood says. “It’s a delicate balance to give the songs that I do the same amount of love that I do to my other projects and the bands I produce.” The lanky and fidgety Norwood has long thrived as a supporting actor, both for dream-pop quartet Point Juncture, WA, and the bands he produces, but Team Evil’s Mad Reciprocity shows that he can also write a killer two-minute pop song. The group— currently Norwood with friends Victor Nash, Courtney Sheedy, Jordan McCann and Ian Krist—has played together for at least five years, though Mad Reciprocity is technically its first official full-length. Dense and layered, the band’s sound is a culmination of all the music he loves and a strict set of principles (no distortion, no long songs, lots of trumpet and vibraphone) that made finishing the long-delayed record a breeze. “It all happened really fast and organically,” Norwood says of the recording sessions. “Some of the songs happen so fast that you want to rewind, but that’s all intentional—I want people to go, ‘Wait, what’s that?’ and play it again.” Musically, Team Evil’s mellow rock doesn’t fall too far from the Point Juncture family tree, finding a neat middle ground between post-rock Chicago (the Sea and Cake) and the Northwest guitar rock (Sunny Day Real Estate) that Norwood and guitarist McCann loved growing up as teenagers in suburban Florida. Norwood has even picked up a few tricks from the artists he’s worked with: “Capricorn” with a looped pump organ and shaker, sounds like vintage Talkdemonic, and the 54-second “Perfect Shading” is his attempt at writing a Guided by Voices song. Mad Reciprocity even has a loose concept documenting Norwood’s 20s, like The Village Green Preservation Society set as a soundtrack to Portlandia. “Musicians are cranky and hard to deal with,” Norwood cracks with a straight face. “I love playing with Team Evil because it’s nice to get away from that and just jam with your friends.” MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Local producer branches out with his own band.
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[I’VE SEEN IRON & I’VE SEEN WINE] From the moment Norah Jones chanced upon his postcollegiate EP, swooned to hear a honeyed R&B mélange falsely emoting a like-minded muse and opened wide the blessings of AOR dominion, critics had their sport with Amos Lee. Even his name sounds wrong, like an adverb dismissing dyed roots or loving brushes with celebrity. Irritating enough that anyone be gifted the untroubled purity of tone to so move so many with so little, but it’s just not right that—given Calexico’s Joey Burns’ guiding hand, as is the case with just-released Mission Bell—any plasticine castrato could seamlessly James Taylor his vocals toward sounding like a real live boy. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom. 8 pm. $25 advance, $27 day of show. All ages.
Copy, Head Like a Kite, Tape Deck Mountain
[DANCE ATTACK] Seattle’s Head Like a Kite demands you dance, and will do anything to make this happen. The group dabbles in a bit of everything that makes venues thump—a little throbbing electronica, some hook-heavy pop, a dash of soulful falsetto vocals and a topping of hip-hop all combine to make asses shake. The resulting stew sounds like Gorillaz by way of Franz Ferdinand, and like each of those groups, Head Like a Kite’s compositions are instantly lodged in the brain, making the familiar sparkle. No use wallflowering. Resistance is futile. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Anthony B, Outpost, Jagga, Souljah Sound, Small Axe
[RASTAMAN INDIGNATION] If it seems the righteous anger and political consciousness that once defined the sound and soul of reggae have all but disappeared now, it was even worse in the late 1980s, when a teenage Anthony B started making music out of the Kingston suburb of Portmore. Back then, just a few years removed from the deaths of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, the new crop of artists coming out of Jamaica were more interested in delivering misogynist sex rants than chanting down Babylon. But as a devout Rastafarian and fervent admirer of both Marley and Tosh, Anthony couldn’t allow himself to betray reggae’s revolutionary heart. Over the course of more than 20 albums (including 2009’s Rasta Love), the former Keith Blair has kept the fire burning, reminding people with his fierce live shows that reggae isn’t all granola and tie-dye. MATTHEW SINGER. Mount Tabor Theater. 9 pm. $22 advance, $26 day of show. 21+.
Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire, Rude Dudes
[BRINGING SEXY BACK] Glass Candy sounds like the dark prism of sweat from Giorgio Moroder’s mustache hitting Debbie Harry’s lips while making love in the alley outside Studio 54. Which is to say, I actually believe this Portland duo has never listened to anything released after 1986. Still, there is a certain contemporary quality to a project that made its debut in 2003. And it’s this fresh take on a classic era that has led GC to push off from PDX and tour the world with its haunted blend of Italo disco and vogue pop. If you’re like me and you’ve been looking for the perfect opportunity to break out that steamy skintight unitard you found at Red Light and bust a move, this is it. KEVIN DAVIS. Rotture. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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Blue Cranes, Gavin Castleton, Gulls, J.P Jenkins Duo, Doug Theriault
[POST-JAZZ] Tonight marks the release of not one, but two Blue Cranes albums—neither of which is a conventional “jazz” release. The
first, Cantus Firmus, is an EP that finds the Cranes covering (downright masterfully, in fact) three giants of understated indie rock in David Bazan, Blonde Redhead and the Red House Painters. The second is a broad, mixed-bag remix album called Oversea Orbits that features everything from 8-bit reworkings with new lyrics (Jonny Classic’s version of “Grandpa’s Hands”) to droning soundscapes (Ethan Rose’s take on “Here Is You, Here Is Me”). Both releases provide yet more evidence that Blue Cranes is Portland’s risk-takingest post-jazz combo. CASEY JARMAN. Secret Society Lounge. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Jared Mees and the Grown Children, And And And, Charts
[WILD ROCK] There will be no soft strumming, no pitter-patter songs, no whispering croons at this show. Local outfit Jared Mees and the Grown Children’s raucous tracks pair Mees’ untethered wail with an orchestrated ensemble of true-blue rock musicians to churn out some damn catchy, yet unruly, songs on its full-length Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money. Jared Mees and the Grown Children turn the average head-bobbing crowd into a rowdy dance mob at the drop of a dime, and don’t be surprised if Mees hurls himself off the stage to join the party. WHITNEY HAWKE. Slabtown. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
SATURDAY, JAN. 22 Climber, Hello Morning, Little Beirut
[PUTTING THE CLASS IN CASIO] By dropping The Mystic last year, Portland’s Climber reinvigorated itself once more, ushering in a broader, more muscular sound without jettisoning the beeps and buzz that pushed the group upward. Michael Nelson’s lofty, idiosyncratic vocalization now has its yang: a theatrical, energizing disco-pop
element that wakes abruptly when poked. Climber had always been a little robotic, but the quartet is back to creating on its own terms, which can be delightfully otherworldly. When the famous Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars is remade again, Climber should get the nod for live act. MARK STOCK. Alberta Rose Theatre. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Moe.
[SPACE JAM] People who aren’t fans of Moe.—or jam bands in general—won’t be swayed by the New York quintet’s long, meandering, improv-heavy performances. But you know what? Fuck ’em. Moe. has spent 20-plus years climbing the ranks of the patchouli set with its mix of hard-rocking psychedelia and trippy forays into space, with tendencies to rock outdoor festivals from midnight to sunrise, making its followers twitch with every stray note. The band’s shows are like outof-body experiences (the drugs help!), and while it’s not going to convert any haters, the band’s core fan base has elevated Moe. to deity status. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom. 9 pm. $22.50 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.
On the Stairs, Team Evil, Ivan & Alyosha, Petoskey
[NEVER DOUBT A HORN SECTION] Two years ago, poppy math-punk band Les Flaneurs captured our hearts with both its debut record, Villain, and the press photo that came with it, which pictured a pie with legs walking up the stairs of a slide at a public park. That same year, Flaneurs frontman Nate Clark also started another project, named, weirdly, On the Stairs, though I assume it’s probably not about the pie with legs. On the Stairs’ debut record, A Muted Dawn, is a lighter affair, more of a singer-songwriter effort embellished with organ,
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BARRY BRUSSEAU A NIGHT GOES THROUGH (GORBIE INTERNATIONAL)
[THE OL’ SLOW ’N’ SAD] Barry Brusseau is a man with many gifts: a clear, low-register voice that reminds of Smog’s Bill Callahan; dexterous hands that convey soul and patience in his guitar playing; a knack for minimal arrangements. Those gifts help craft songs like “Thrift Store Buzz” and “Fall to the Wayside” into rich, slightly melodramatic vignettes worthy of the Magnetic Fields or the Red House Painters. Brusseau sounds like he’s been writing songs for a long time. And he has—except that his first solo record, A Night Goes Through, is quite a stylistic change-up from the material played by his last two bands, Portland hard-rock outfit the Legend of Dutch Savage and Longview, Wash., punk band the Jimmies. It’s only because Brusseau’s aforementioned musical gifts are so pronounced that his lyricism fails him on occasion: The willfully sparse verbiage on “Coffee Table Song” only underscores that the rhymes themselves leave something to be desired, and the next tune, “The Promise” (which, with a cello mocking vocal harmonies, is one of the most musically striking numbers on A Night Goes Through), is emotionally affecting, but its words seem twisted awkwardly at times to fit the tune. But more often than not, Brusseau’s words do the trick. Whether he’s crooning sleepily about angels on “Stars All Over Their Wings” or getting meta on the verses of closer “A Night Goes Through,” Brusseau has clearly been saving lyrical material that fits well enough into gorgeous recordings (one can almost tell without looking that Adam Selzer and his Type Foundry Studio are responsible for most of the album). But if Brusseau refines his lyricism enough that the words stand up even without his fine accompaniment, he’ll be one hell of a singer-songwriter. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Barry Brusseau plays The Woods on Thursday, Jan. 20, with Jarad Miles in Birdcloud (also releasing a new record). 9 pm. $6. 21+.
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PHILLY’S FINEST: Freeway plays Friday, Jan. 21, at Backspace. woozy guitars and lots of radsounding horns. Clarke’s deep but also yelpy voice falls somewhere between that of Bill Callahan and Akron/Family’s Seth Olinksy, a fitting touch to a pleasant set of songs that won’t change your life but will probably make your afternoon much more enjoyable. See also the Team Evil profile, coming soon. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
The Corin Tucker Band, Old Light
[SLEATER-MOMMY] Even riot grrrls have to grow up sometime. After the end of Sleater-Kinney in 2006, singer-guitarist Corin Tucker essentially retired from music, opting to focus on something that must have seemed utterly foreign back when she was gnashing her way through the band’s seven albums of unimpeachably jagged punk: motherhood. When she returned to performing last year, a lot of fans probably expected her to pick right back up where she left off, blasting her thunderbolt voice over classic hard-rock riffs. But she is a 37-year-old woman with two kids now; 1,000 Years, her debut with the Corin Tucker Band, reflects that new reality. It’s a much subtler collection, with acoustic instrumentation and songs about family and her husband. That isn’t to say the album doesn’t rage on occasion: The blistering single “Doubt” is a reminder that there’s a whole generation of soccer moms out there popping Bikini Kill tapes into the cassette player of their minivans. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios. 8:30 pm. $25. 21+.
Colleen Raney
[CELTIC] On Colleen Raney’s new release, Lark, the Seattle singer breathes fresh air into traditional Irish and Scottish tunes. Clearvoiced Raney takes a sprightly, lilting tilt at the faster stuff here like she’s skipping lightly ahead of the sometimes-stodgy weight of tradition, but rest assured, she can effortlessly stop, turn and pluck your heartstrings like a harp. Backing the lass tonight, as on disc, are Portland MVP Casey Neill, his longtime collaborator and gifted mandolinist Zak Borden, and local artist Matthew Hayward-MacDonald on guitar. Neill’s Norway Rats drummer Ezra Holbrook switches to bass for the night, Dublin’s Colm MacCarthaigh adds cittern, and Raney’s brotherin-law Matt Jerrell drums. Another Neill compatriot and omnipresent Portland player, Hanz Araki, provides sublime flute and whistle work on the album, but will sadly be absent from tonight’s gig. JEFF ROSENBERG. Secret Society Lounge. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
The Angry Orts, World’s Greatest Ghosts, Tope
[ECLECTIC PORTLANDIA] Well, look, it’s three of Portland’s most underrated acts on the same bill. Genius! I’m not sure if this is the Woods’ or the Angry Orts’ idea, but pairing an MC like Anthony
Anderson (Tope) with two of this town’s bounciest pop bands is pure showgoing gold. Tope has been pretty prolific of late, dropping the latest Living Proof record, Full Speed, this month and playing shows as TxE with fellow MC Epp, and tonight’s show will hopefully get his name out to an indie-rock audience that needs to hear just how fresh the local hip-hop scene is getting. Let’s also chant for some new World’s Greatest Ghosts material, as 2009’s No Magic is still as fun and catchy as it was the day it was released. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. The Woods. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
White Hinterland, Wax Fingers, Carcrashlander, Graves, Themes, Lee Corey Oswald and more
[BENEFIT] Diverticulitis is a serious condition. And treating the digestive disease sure ain’t cheap. So all the proceeds of tonight’s show, which features a stacked lineup of locals and might be the best $5 bill I’ve seen in this city, are going directly to Sam Farrell, a local struggling with his recent diagnosis and the intimidating medical bill that comes with it. For the price of one drink you can help out a nice guy and see White Hinterland’s Casey Dienel belt out a set of slinky, woozy R&B, including a possible Katy Perry cover she whipped up just for the winter. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Vendetta. 6 pm. $5. 21+.
SUNDAY, JAN. 23 Huun Huur Tu, Soriah
[STRANGE OVERTONES] Retaining their essential authentic elements—traditional instruments from Central Asia’s Tuva region; infrabass throat singing that produces zingy, droning overtones; ancient indigenous melodies—but adding elements such as harp, guitars, tabla and Western compositional techniques, including minimalism and even electronica, the Siberian quartet Huun Huur Tu still sounds like it comes not just from another culture but another planet. The group, which helped bring throat singing to the West, has lately modernized its sound and broadened its appeal. Be sure to arrive early for the ideal opener, Portland’s own Soriah, who combines Tuvan throat singing with electronics to create evocative, darkly compelling soundscapes. BRETT CAMPBELL. Alberta Rose Theatre. 7:30 pm (minors accompanied by parent). $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Blowfly, Witchburn
[DIRTY OLD MAN] In 1971, when Clarence Reid first decided to record a set of X-rated song parodies and put himself on the cover disguised as a sort of thrift-store superhero, he probably never imagined anyone would want to hear it 40 years later. At the time, the Georgia-born songwriter was
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penning hits for soul artists like Betty Wright and Sam & Dave as well as releasing his own records of sturdy Southern R&B. He put out The Weird World of Blowfly, featuring such juvenilia as “Shittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” and “Hole Man,” on his own label, mostly as a goof. Next thing he knows, he’s made dozens of albums under the Blowfly alias, and his serious work is more obscure than his novelty records. Although his humor has never risen above eighth-grade level, his last studio effort, 2006’s Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party, includes a Ramones parody called “I Wanna Be Fellated,” which is clearly a stroke (heh) of genius. MATTHEW SINGER. Dante’s. 8 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
SexyWaterSpiders, NIAYH, Symmetry/Symmetry
[I WANT TO BELIEVE THE HYPE] In the ’90s, a whole lotta people agreed the Jesus Lizard put on the best goddamn rock-’n’-roll show on the planet. In the 2000s, Lightning Bolt handed the crown over to Monotonix. I’m not saying that SexyWaterSpiders is quite in that league yet, but the growing buzz of its live energy meltdowns is getting hard to ignore. The group reportedly issues its apocalyptic noise-funk jams in epic sets that can actually stretch time. Not sure if I believe it, but I’ve heard tell of multihour marathons that marry psychedelic dada with Live at Leeds sweat and tears. This I gotta see. NATHAN CARSON. Doug Fir Lounge. 9 pm. $6. 21+.
Wovenhand, Git Some
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[ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOW] When David Eugene Edwards finally disbanded his old alt-country group, 16 Horsepower, it freed him up to focus on his more personal outlet, Wovenhand. Melancholy and noir, this music is less for barn dances and more suited to midnight mass. Originally a solo project, Wovenhand became a proper collaborative band two or three years ago with its seventh album, Ten Stones. In 2010, The Threshingfloor was released, and Wovenhand was invited into the elite group of musi-
cians that have played support act to Tool. NATHAN CARSON. Mississippi Studios. 9 pm. $13. 21+.
Dash!, Pregnant, Cruiser, Zac Nelson, Rob Walmart
[ENTER SANDMAN] Valentine’s better pull out the trundle beds tonight—and you better bring an electric blanket and some muscle relaxers (only if prescribed, of course)—because shit’s about to get soporific up in here. Dash!, a.k.a. Marriage Recs exec Jordan Dykstra, will shoot stars into your lids with his weeping viola, while Zac Nelson, a.k.a. Hexlove, gets down to dosing your dreams with questing soundscapes that resemble tiny universes hitting puberty and getting pissed. Cruiser’s spazzy, careening instrumentals will soundtrack nightmares about multiple homicide, before Pregnant’s glitchy electronic pop, bursting with dawn’s promise, lights your way back from the far out. CHRIS STAMM. Valentine’s. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
TUESDAY, JAN. 25 Old 97’s, Langhorne Slim
[SOME DEPRESSION] Hard to blame Rhett Miller and his troupe of shit-kicker-tested, tastemakerapproved aspirational roustabouts for testing the poppier boundaries of y’allternative past the modern rock stampede almost a decade and a half back, but as touring lapsed and successive albums meandered further from the looming shadow of the band’s heyday, you’d figure the Old 97’s had cause to regret their name. For all the country signifiers and performance-intensive ambience of last fall’s album’s supposed return to cowpunk roots, The Grand Theatre, Volume One keeps one eye toward the horizon. If anything, the Byrdsian flourishes of recent work end up sounding more authentic than the all-hat-no-cattle regionalisms. Don’t mess with technique. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom. 8 pm. $21 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
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LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Born: 1946 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Sounds like: Steve Martin playing a banjo concert at a Delaware prep school. For fans of: Pete Seeger, Bob Seger, Richard Thompson, Kate McGarrigle, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Seth Rogen. Latest release: 10 Songs for the New Depression (2010). Why you care: Despite being nominated as a “new Bob Dylan” (what singer-songwriter from the ’70s wasn’t?), Loudon Wainwright never dove headfirst into fame; instead, he keeps dipping his toes in the pool. One of his silliest songs, “Dead Skunk,” became a novelty hit in 1972; he had a recurring role as a singing surgeon on television’s M*A*S*H; his transcendent “Swimming Song” graces the closing credits of The Squid and the Whale; Judd Apatow cast him as an obstetrician in Knocked Up and as a hapless dad on Undeclared. The latter role, a comic mirror of his own fraught relationship with children Rufus and Martha, hints at Wainwright’s penchant for announcing his failings and hymning his selfishness. He puts real guilt back into confessional songwriting: What other performer could croon about smacking his child (“Hitting You”), engaging in barely functional alcoholism with his mother (“White Winos”) or refusing to see another child (“A Year”)? Perhaps as a kind of penance, Wainwright’s kids have become more famous than he is; Martha lets him appear with her onstage, but also calls him a “bloody motherfucking asshole” in a song title. I can’t blame them for their reservations, but I embrace the old man wholeheartedly. SEE IT: Loudon Wainwright III plays the Aladdin Theater on Monday, Jan. 24. 8 pm. $25. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent).
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Funk-Jazz Jam Session
Red Room
Duff’s Garage
Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire, Rude Dudes
Randy Porter
Sndtrkr, Creature Guts
Secret Society Lounge
Square Dance: Bill Martin, Uncle Wiggly (7:30 pm); Rollie Tussing (6 pm)
Sellwood Public House Open Mic Night
Slim’s
Acoustic Showcase with Marie Black
Someday Lounge
The Neck Brace, a PDX Beat Showcase
The Knife Shop
Legendary Black Mark & the Savages, Errata Note
The Woods
Jarad Miles In Birdcloud, Barry Brusseau, John Vecchiarelli
Tiger Bar
An Evening With Rockapella
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club Cubaneo
Ash Street Saloon
Sleepwalk Kid, Granada, Invivo
Beaterville Cafe
Shug Mauldin, Matt Pearlman
Beauty Bar
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Lewis Childs
Mississippi Pizza
Baby Ketten Karaoke
The Dirty Words, Monkey Puzzle
Biddy McGraw’s
Mount Tabor Theater
Stringed Migration (9 pm); Little Sue Happy Hour (6 pm)
Blue Monk
Midnight Expressions
Muddy Rudder Public House Sleepy Eyed Johns
Bellydance
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Camellia Lounge
Plan B
Buffalo Band Stand Mitzi Zilka
Billy Kennedy
Crystal Ballroom
Hearts of Oak, Mystery Siblings, Denim Wedding, A Dull Science
Dante’s
Portland Prime
Guster
Jedi Mindf*ck
Doug Fir Lounge
The Head and the Heart, Kelli Schaefer, Bryan John Appleby
Duff’s Garage
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); Chris Olson’s High Flyers (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club Grey Anne, Mike Midlo, The Harvey Girls
Goodfoot
Perfect Zero, Wubakia
Steve Christofferson
Pub at the End of the Universe Sons of the Late DC, Dirty Little Xmas Blues and Folk Review
Rotture
Prescription Pills, Shermstixx, Support Force, Abadawn and the Kill Party
Secret Society Lounge
Heathman Restaurant & Bar Halie Loren
Jimmy Mak’s
The Mel Brown Quartet
Kells
Pat Buckley
Dub DeBrie Jam
Thirsty Lion
Kent Smith and the 3 of Clubs
Will West’s Songwriter Showcase (9:30 pm); Alexa Wiley with Michael Hurley
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Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge River Twain Karaoke Kings
La Descarga Cubana with Dina & Bamba
Artichoke Community Music Songwriter Roundup
Ash Street Saloon
The Last Days of Dreams, Imperial Legions of Rome
Backspace
Krizz Kaliko, JFK, Kenny Mack, Sapient, Maniac Lok, Meezilini, Truth Universal, Tragedy, Partyboination.com, Eternal Family, Tone G & Dami, Mack Dub, Endr Won, Steveo Alan Ames
Morgan Grace
Blue Monk
Alan Jones Quintet
Buffalo Gap Saloon Liquid Kings
Rockstar Karaoke
Hawthorne Theatre
VIII Days Clean, Set to Burn, Afflictions End, Thunder Crush, Seeds of Corruption
Bobby Torres Trio
Vino Vixens
Chata Addy the Music Man
White Eagle
Wine Down East Lew Jones
FRI. JAN. 21 Aladdin Theater Jim Jeffries
Alberta Rose Theatre
Jolly Roger Kells
The Chancers
Know
Roxy Epoxy, New York Rifles, Perfect Look
LaurelThirst Public House
Conjugal Visitors, The Water Tower Bucket Boys (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)
Local Lounge
Noah Peterson Soul-Tet
McMenamins Edgefield Winery McMenamins Hotel Oregon
Andina
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Johnny Martin Trio
Jimmy Mak’s
The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kells
Pat Buckley
Know
Lazers for Eyes, Carrion Spring, Hunter Becomes the Hunted
LaurelThirst Public House
Sudden Anthem, Azul Yael, The Resolectrics (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Sonny Hess & Lisa Mann
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern Billy Kennedy
McMenamins-Grand Lodge Lex Browning
Mount Tabor Theater
Elizabeth Ames & The Countrypolitans (9 pm); Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre
Chapel Pub Dante’s
Raymond Byron and the White Freighter, Death Songs, The Wooly Moon, Arsenii Vaselenko
Alberta Street Public House
Amy Bleu Band
Mississippi Pizza
Steve Kerin
Ella Street Social Club
Hawthorne Hophouse
Camellia Lounge Deklun and Pace
Boo Frog, Lordy Lords, No Tomorrow Boys, Primitive Idols
Soul Vaccination, Linda Hornbuckle
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
Duff’s Garage
Vino Vixens
Left Coast Country, Wy’East
Heathman Restaurant & Bar
Matices
Twilight Room
Karaoke with the Captain
Goodfoot
Andina
Tony Starlight’s Ayars Times Two
Phil and Nancy Goldberg
East End
Amelia, Stephanie Schneiderman
Aaron Shinkle Band, Strangled Darlings (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up (5:30 pm)
Fenouil
Megafauna
Jimmy Mak’s
Ella Street Social Club Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree, Deepest Darkest
East Burn
Travlers and Thieves, Jawbane Flats, Fear of Flowers Anton Emory
Gladiators Eat Fire
Desperate Hours, Ratface, Fear Of Tomorrow, Bog People
Twilight Cafe & Bar
Dunes
Radumus, The Born Again Heathens, Atrocity Archives, The Abnorms
My Fellow Travellers, Tony Green, The Illuminucci, Hollowdogs, B Plus B
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Biddy McGraw’s
The Country Inn
Rohr, The Reds, Gebular, Useless-N-Pointless
Rock of Ages: A Tribute to Gillian Welch with Fruition, Portland Cello Project, Water Tower Bucket Boys, Twisted Whistle
Someday Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
Alberta Rose Theatre
Beaterville Cafe
Rockstar Karaoke
Laura Ivancie
THURS. JAN. 20
Jenna Ellefson, Amanda Breese
POH-Hop Kick-off Party: Animal Farm, Destro & L Pro, Dubble 00, Rose Bent, Pale Soul, Lyriseez, Dice, Liquid Anthrax, AD, Starbuks, Halfa, Stevie G, DJ Fatboy
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge
Unfiltered Showcase: The Dan Duval Trio, Gravy, Fractal Quintet
Dunes
Heathman Restaurant & Bar
Bre Gregg and Anandi
Amanda Richards, Cris Kelly (9 pm); Scott Law (6 pm)
Jon Koonce, The Twangshifters (9 pm); Joy & Her Sentimental Gentlemen (6 pm)
Tony Starlight’s
Karaoke From Hell
Aladdin Theater
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights, Root Jack, KUFO Kittens
Gabby Holt & Friends Jimmy Boyer Band, Sugarcane String Band, Rosa’s Buds
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge
7th Planet Picture Show
Muddy Rudder Public House Lauren Sheehan
Red Room
The Handsome Family, Sean Rowe
Rotture
White Eagle
Dante’s
Doug Fir Lounge
Rebelution, Iration, Orgone
LaurelThirst Public House
Proper Eats Cafe
Portland Prime
Andrew Orr, Jen Howard
Roseland
WED. JAN. 19
Pete Krebs Duo
Droplaw, Ditchdigger, VX36, Grenadiers Of The Doomed, Acidious Mutandis
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Johnny Reno and the Vice Machine
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Press Club
Stumptown Jug Thumpers
Paddy’s Bar & Grill
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Mia Nicholson Trio with Steve Christofferson (8 pm); Bill Beach (5 pm)
Russell Turner Na Mesa
Artistery
The Old Yellers
Gil Reynolds & Deep Blue
Billy D. & The HooDoos
Rotture
Secret Society Lounge
Blue Cranes, Gavin Castleton, Gulls, J.P Jenkins Duo, Doug Theriault
The Dust Settlers (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy & Jimmy Boyer Happy Hour (6 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon Sunday Last, Anwer Surprise Party
Camellia Lounge
Brian Copeland Trio
Carvlin Hall
Portland Folk Music Society Concert with Lisa Ornstein & Dan Compton, Lauren Sheehan
Crown Room
Wildlife featuring Tyler Tastemaker, Devonwho, Lifepartner
Crystal Ballroom
Amos Lee, Vusi Mahlasela
Mystic Canyon
Hawthorne Theater Lounge
Brian Hinderberger, Leif James
Hawthorne Theatre
Dana Goldberg, Belinda Carroll Paul Green’s School of Rock performs Nirvana
Heathman Restaurant & Bar Linda Lee Michelet
Jimmy Mak’s
Slim’s
Know
Someday Lounge
LaurelThirst Public House
Dye Hippie Dye, Threadbare Naomi Hooley
The Knife Shop
Hairspray Blues, Gorilla Monsoon, Sweet Rock Party
The Woods
Atlantic/Pacific
Thirsty Lion
The Rock Doctors
Tony Starlight’s
The Tony Starlight Show
Twilight Cafe & Bar
Rumblebox, Feral Pigs, John Densmore & The Pink Lady
Kells
The Chancers Lamprey, Ports Will Call, Ghostmob
Cave Country, Patina, The Tumblers (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lucky Lab Tap Room
Hibernation Hoedown: Bad Assets, Marisa Anderson, Flash Flood and the Dikes, Chad Lee Williams
McMenamins Edgefield Winery Matt Meighan
McMenamins Hotel Oregon
Vino Vixens
Elizabeth Cook, Tim Carroll
White Eagle
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Terry Robb
Charming Birds, Dan Jones & the Squids, Fasters (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
SAT. JAN. 22 Aladdin Theater Dan Reed Band
Alberta Rose Theatre Climber, Hello Morning, Little Beirut
Alberta Street Public House Round Mountain with Andrew Oliver & Kane Morris
Andina
Pete Krebs Trio
Artistery
Just Lions, Heatwarmer, Jeff Handley and the Hideaway
Ash Street Saloon
Augustana Jazz Quartet
Biddy McGraw’s
Hawthorne Hophouse
Excellent Gentlemen
Mississippi Pizza
Adam Scramstad
Karaoke
Jolly Roger
Mission Theater
Beaterville Cafe
Gypsy Restaurant and Lounge
Jared Mees and the Grown Children, And And And, Charts
Ash Street Saloon
Freeway, Jake One, Tanya Morgan, Illmaculate, Onry Ozzborn, Mikey Vegaz, Al One, IAMe, Yung Mil, Zito, Eastern Sunz, Beejan, Ad-Vice, Teddy LOKC
Devin Phillips Band
Slabtown
Milky Justus featuring Carmine, Cellar Door, Kenchucky Darvey, Mrs Esterhouse
Backspace
Goodfoot
Patrick Lamb and His Funkified Band
Russell Thomas
McMenamins-Grand Lodge
The Metal Shakespeare Company, The Badlands, Wizard Rifle
Jonathan Swanson
Sellwood Public House
Jizz Wisard, Xoxe Xorx, Cower
Mark Alan
Fenouil
James Faretheewell & The Foolhardy
McMenamins-Grand Lodge Lewis Childs
Mississippi Pizza
Cristina Cano (9 pm); Supervisor (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
The Corin Tucker Band, Old Light, Zoo Animal
Mock Crest Tavern Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
The Realist United with, Tru Game, Staysicc Records
Mt. Tabor Theater Lounge Dementia
Muddy Rudder Public House James Clem
Oak Grove Tavern
Endless Rage, Betrayed by Weakness, Titarius, Ashen Relic
Augustana Lutheran Church
Portland Prime
Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Back Porch Revival (6 pm)
Beaterville Cafe
Meester Meester
Mississippi Studios
Biddy McGraw’s
Jimmy Boyer (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm)
Marguerite Haas and Friends
Blue Monk
Guantanamo Baywatch, Cafeteria Dance Fever
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Red Room
Camellia Lounge
Colleen Raney
Portlandia Screening: The Morals
Copy, Head Like a Kite, Tape Deck Mountain
Mock Crest Tavern Rollie Tussing
Mount Tabor Theater
Anthony B, Outpost, Jagga, Souljah Sound, Small Axe
Muddy Rudder Public House Padam Padam
Music Millennium Dan Reed
O’Connor’s Vault
Dave Fleschner Trio
Oak Grove Tavern
Regiment 26, Dreizehn, Deep Sea Vents, Masonic Weird
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli Lynn Conover
Plan B
Skip Roxy, The Verner Pantons, Air Knives
DC Malone & the Jones
Trash Can Joe Karaoke Huston & Stephen Baker and the Vegas Car Chasers Ezra Weiss Quartet
Crystal Ballroom Moe.
Dante’s
Western Aerial, American Bastard, Dirtnap, Psychodrome
Doug Fir Lounge
On the Stairs, Team Evil, Ivan & Alyosha, Petoskey
Duff’s Garage
Red Hot Blues Sisters
East Burn
Boy & Bean
East End
Parae, The White Woods, Ten Million Lights, Black Market Sunday
Tony Pacini Trio
Press Club
Proper Eats Cafe
Record Room
Static Parallel, Apace Trail, Jetpack Missing, David Duffee
Secret Society Lounge
Sellwood Public House Dick Lappe & Friends
Slabtown
Moments in Static, Enemies of Carlotta, The Ax
Slim’s
Drunken Prayer
Someday Lounge
Poh Hop Fest: Old Dominion, Moka Only, Living Proof, Raise the Bridges, Grynch, Serge Severe, Hives Inquiry Squad, Luck One
The Knife Shop
Shallow Seas, Analog Fiction, The Fasters
The Saratoga
Used to Be Friends, Pony Village, Street Pyramids, Mosshead
The Woods
The Angry Orts, World’s Greatest Ghosts, Tope
Doug Fir Lounge
Hema, Ill Lucid Onset, Stab in the Dark
Vendetta
White Hinterland, Wax Fingers, Carcrashlander, Graves, Themes, Lee Corey Oswald, Matter, Couch Glue, Charlie Gotgart
Vino Vixens
Lincoln Crockett
White Eagle
Fan Fiction, Duover, Super XX Man (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
SUN. JAN. 23 Alberta Rose Theatre Huun Huur Tu, Soriah
Andina
Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
Park Friends, The North Wind
Bishop Creek Cellars/ Urban Wineworks East Noir Notes
Blue Monk
Sam Howard Band
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Northwest Songwriters
Dante’s
Blowfly, Witchburn Sinferno Cabaret
Aladdin Theater
Hawthorne Theatre
Kells
Tony Starlight’s
Plan B
MON. JAN. 24
A House, A Family, and Pets (Ryan Miller)
Twilight Cafe & Bar
The Jacob Merlin Band
White Eagle
Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
Dunes
Glen Moore Trio
Thirsty Lion
O’Connor’s Vault
River Twain
SexyWaterSpiders, NIAYH, Symmetry/ Symmetry
Accidental Intoxication, Real Age, Manneqinhead, Anna Spackman, Drowning Poseidon, Roads
Vino Vixens
Loudon Wainwright III
Andina
Scott Head
Ash Street Saloon Open Mic
Irish Sessions
Backspace
LaurelThirst Public House
Battery Powered Music
Beauty Bar
Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Counterfeit Cash
Biddy McGraw’s Eric Tonsfeldt
Blue Monk
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Renato Caranto’s Funk Band
Brian Copeland
Dante’s
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Karaoke From Hell
Duff’s Garage
Cary Novotny & Hanz Araki
Big “D” Jamboree (8:30 pm); James Sasser Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
Feelin’ Alright (9 pm); Swing Papillon (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
Mississippi Studios
The Dan Balmer Band
Muddy Rudder Public House
Cary Novotny
Red Room
Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Little Sue & Lynn Conover (6 pm)
Kells
Wovenhand, Git Some
Irish
Free Metal Sundays
Secret Society Lounge
Hanz Araki, Cary Novotny
Slim’s
Johnny Ward Karaoke Presented by Down Under Rock No Passengers, No More Parachutes, The Mermaid Problem, Has Been Corner Dash!, Pregnant, Cruiser, Zac Nelson, Rob Walmart
LaurelThirst Public House
The Knife Shop
Living Room Theaters
Matthew Hayward MacDonald Basinbillies, River Twain
Thirsty Lion
Eric John Kaiser Hosts The PDX Songwriter Showcase
Twilight Cafe & Bar SIN Night
White Eagle
Tiger House, Levi, Hand Check, Raised by Television
TUES. JAN. 25 Andina
JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
The Autonomics, The Cryptics, Levi
Beaterville Cafe
Muddy Rudder Public House
Jackstraw
Frightening Waves of Blue
Local Lounge
Pamela Jordan Band
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Water Tower Bucket Boys
Camellia Lounge Weekly Jazz Jam
Dante’s
Duff’s Garage
Ella Street Social Club
The Mel Brown Septet
Goodfoot
DJ Smooth Hopperator
Ground Kontrol
Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Groove Suite
Matador
Ground Kontrol
Slim’s
Holocene
Mount Tabor Theater Family Funktion Jam Night
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
Valentine’s
Video Disco with VJ Dantronix
Yes and No
DJ Paultimore
Bill Portland DJ Har1 Z
Crown Room
Blast Thursdays
Plan B
Warpony, Technicolor Caterpillar, Kids Like Color
The World Famous Kenton Club Tiga
DJ Family Jewels
DJ Tropical Depression
Shadowplay
Holocene
Fez Ballroom
The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
Star Bar
Beauty Bar
Crown Room
DJ Step Sister
Crown Room
See You Next Tuesday Dubstep Party
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Twice As Nice
Holocene
Monkeytek, Ryan Organ, E3, S-Dub
Tiga
Matador
Tube
Rotture
Yes and No
DJ Linoleum, Dan Stallone
DJ Cecilia Paris
Lloyd Jones
Jolly Roger
Eye Candy VJs Plaid Dudes
DJ Airick, DJ Kinetic, DJ Yer Momm, DJ Trans Fat, DJ Ill Camino, Roy G Biv
Star Bar
Labworks
Tiga
DJ Donny Don’t
DJ Smooth Hopperator
DJ Co-Mags, DJ Nurse Buttons
TUES. JAN 25
Girls Night Out!
DJ Wreckuiem DJ ALJ
Yes and No
SAT. JAN. 22
Someday Lounge
Terry Nichols
DJ Blackhawk
Fez Ballroom
Thirsty Lion
Vino Vixens
Star Bar
Valentine’s
Future Ghetto
Soft Metals, Jeffrey Jerusalem, Suzette Kraft
DJ Tibin
Doc Adam, Lionsden
Telephoned featuring Sammy Bananas, DJ IZM, Easter Egg
Sportin’ Lifers
Ground Kontrol
Old Country Night with Billy Lee
DJ Gutter Glamour, Guest DJs
Singer/Songwriter Competition with Eric John Kaiser
DJ Nate C
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The Knife Shop
MON. JAN. 24 East End
Tiga
Beauty Bar
Dominic Castillo
DJ Owen
Star Bar
Linger & Quiet, DJ Brkfst Sndwch, DJ Sexy Cousin
Secret Society Lounge
Plan B
Pirate Dave
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ERIN LEDDY
NATIVE SOIL PORTLAND’S FERTILE GROUND FEST TURNS THREE. BY BE N WAT E R H O U SE
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For the theatergoer weary of endless revivals of The Odd Couple and To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s a bonanza: In the next 10 days, Portland will see no fewer than 68 performances of new works of theater and dance, all of them created by local playwrights, performers and choreographers. The Fertile Ground festival, which began in 2009 as an umbrella for independent producers, has grown to bewildering size; with the purchase of one $50 pass, you could easily attend three performances per day until Jan. 30 without seeing even half of the festival’s offerings. (Events are also individually ticketed.) Choosing which ones to attend is a bewildering task. Here are a few I find particularly compelling; for the rest, look to the Stage listings. My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow In 2001, Erin Leddy, having recently graduated from Emerson College with a degree in radio, spent a year living with her then-81-year-old grandmother, Sarah Braveman, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and recording her memoirs. “I recorded over 20 hours of her voice,” Leddy says. “It was an incredible mix of concrete stories and this strange stream of consciousness. She’d get caught up in memory and the stories would continue to open and open.” Leddy brought the recordings with her when she moved to Portland, where she became a member of Hand2Mouth Theatre. As years passed, the nagging feeling that she should make something from them grew. “Sometimes I would bring her in during scene work, and she just kept appearing more and more,” Leddy says. After fellow Hand2Mouth member Faith Helma successfully toured her solo show, Undine, to New York, Leddy set about turning the recordings into a performance piece. A residency at the Yaddo artists’ community in Saratoga Springs gave her time to refine the piece—and to get Braveman, herself a former actor, to record some new material. The show, which blends music, dance and monologue, “appears to be a live conversation,” Leddy 40
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said. “It creates an intimate cave world, where she’s coming out of all the walls.” The Mouth, inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., hand2mouththeatre.org. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays, Jan. 20-30. $12-$15. Threads Tonya Jone Miller isn’t the sort to shy away from adventure. An “aural courtesan” (i.e., phone sex maven) by day, she’s toured the Canadian fringe circuit showing off her whip scars as part of Inviting Desire, a show about women’s sexual fantasies. But that’s nothing compared to her mother, who traveled to Saigon in 1968, in the middle of the Vietnam War, to become a teacher. Miller says she was inspired to turn her mother’s story into a solo performance after seeing over 50 shows in the 2009 Calgary Fringe Festival. “I did 12 or 13 one-hour interviews, and ended up going down to the Bay Area to interview some of my father’s surviving [Vietnamese] family to fill in the missing pieces,” she adds. Why did her mother risk life and limb to move to a place most Americans her age were desperate to avoid? “She fell in love with my dad, who was a Vietnamese student in the U.S.,” Miller says. “She wanted to do something to show the people of Vietnam that there were Americans who didn’t care about fighting, and wanted to support them.” Miller has distilled her mom’s experience into a 90-minute performance, directed by Canadian actor Sean Bowie, that promises the sort of thrills only found in true stories. “The last day she was there was April 1975, she was 8½ months pregnant with me, trying to get her husband’s father out,” Miller says. “You couldn’t come up with the things she saw if you tried.” The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 6 pm Sundays Jan. 27-Feb. 12. $15. The Missing Pieces Nick Zagone isn’t exactly a newbie when it comes to the Portland theater scene, but you probably don’t remember him. “I had several [shows] produced in Portland a long, long time ago at Portland Women’s Theater, which is where Laurelwood restaurant is now,” he says. Zagone’s
THE FORGERY
career took him first to Seattle, where he was a founder of Open Circle Theater, then Las Vegas, Los Angeles and finally, in 2007, back to his hometown. These days he works at Powell’s Books, which is where he met Brian Weaver, artistic director of Portland Playhouse, during the 2009 JAW playwriting festival, where Zagone’s comedy The Missing Pieces had a reading. “He was buying a copy of Radio Golf, and I said, ‘Oh, The Piano Lesson is better,’” Zagone says. “He told me who he was, and I said, ‘You should see my play.’ It was kind of kismet how it all came about.” Weaver liked the show, which he is directing in a workshop production this week. Zagone calls the show, which takes place in the wake of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, a “selective memory play.” “It’s about a 12-year-old boy whose father has left. He decides he wants to live at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills. His Catholic mother has no plans of letting him leave. To get down there he tries to get the help of an ex-Playboy playmate from 1963, and then chaos ensues,” he says. “It was a very weird time here, right when the mountain erupted.” Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays, Jan. 20-30. $15. Elsewhere: Short Plays In and Around the Afterlife “We like to say that Ellen dies for nine months of the year,” says the Forgery Theatre Collective’s Beth Thompson of Ellen Margolis, the writer of the young company’s new production, who teaches at Pacific University. Death is, as it happens, the subject of the 11 pieces that compose Elsewhere, along with loss and limbo. It’s a slight departure for the Forgery, a group of young performers that grew from a year spent “in the community room of the Belmont Dairy [apartments], making stuff up, drinking wine and talking about theater,” Thompson says. To date, the company’s performances have been created collaboratively and inspired by its members’ shared obsession with objects—sleeping bags, messages in bottles and goggles. This production, which the Forgery presented in a shorter form last summer, grew out of questions both whimsical and terrifying, Thompson says: “What would it be like if Fred Phelps met with God? How do you fall for six pages? Where do lost socks go?” Shaking the Tree, 1407 SE Stark St., fertilegroundpdx.org. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays Jan. 28-Feb 5. $12. SEE IT: The Fertile Ground Festival runs Jan. 20-30 at venues all over Portland. Full-festival passes are $50. Visit fertilegroundpdx.org for details.
JAN. 19-25
It Takes All Shorts
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.
STAGE #smarter_than_phones
[FERTILE GROUND] Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents a new performance/installation exploring human communication in the age of the smartphone. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., fusepdx.com. 10:30 pm Jan. 20, 23, 25, 27 and 30. $10.
All Together
[FERTILE GROUND] PDX Playwrights reads a new play by John Servilo about Audrey Munson, who was at one time the most famous nude model in America. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 12:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 23. $5.
Antarktikos
[FERTILE GROUND] Artists Rep presents a reading of a new play by Andrea Stolowitz about Robert Scott, a writerin-residence at the South Pole, her daughter and an insomniac EMT. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., artistsrep.org. 7:30 pm Mondays, Jan. 24 and 31. $8 suggested donation.
Back Fence PDX
The local storytelling showcase takes over the Armory with stories of medical misfortune by Lauren Weedman, Arthur Bradford, Marlene Turner, Matthew Baldwin and Taylor Cass Stevenson. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., backfencepdxjan.eventbrite.com. 8 pm Monday, Jan. 24. Free.
Billie’s Blues—Tonight at Mama’s Jam
[FERTILE GROUND] CaTs Productions reads Hershell Norwood’s new play about Billie Holiday’s fight to get Columbia Records to let her record “Strange Fruit.” Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 10 am Saturday, Jan. 28. $12.
Captured By Aliens
[FERTILE GROUND] Action Adventure Theatre, the minds behind the excellent live sitcom Fall of the House, turns to reality TV and sci-fi in a new semiimprovised serial, in which a bunch of would-be reality stars discover they have been abducted by beings from another world. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 10:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 8 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 13. $12 per episode, $30 for all four.
The Chalk Boy
Blue Monkey Theater Company presents a world premiere by Joshua Conkel, about four teenage girls whose dabblings in witchcraft draw them into the disappearance of a most popular boy in school. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 593-2629. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 14-15, and Friday, Jan. 21. $15.
The Curing Fox
Play After Play performs a Native American folk tale for children, followed by educational play. The Brooklyn Bay, 1825 SE Franklin St., Bay K, 772-4005. 10 am Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 6. $7.
Death of the Party
[FERTILE GROUND] PDX Playwrights read a play by Sven Bonnichsen about a “frolicky pansexual disco boy.” Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 12:30 pm Wednesday, Jan. 22. $5.
Diary of a Worm, a Spider and a Fly
[FERTILE GROUND] Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a world premiere adapted from the books by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss. For the uninitiated, the series looks at the world from the perspective of various bugs. Take your boys. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2
and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. No 5 pm shows Feb. 12 and 19, no show Feb. 6. Closes Feb. 20. $13-$26.
The Doctor Despite Himself
Twilight Rep stages Molière’s madcap farce about doctors, which should make a nice pairing with Portland Center Stage’s The Imaginary Invalid. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:40 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 6. $15, $10 students and seniors.
Duende de Lorca
The macabre and elegant words of Federico García Lorca have jumped from the page to the stage in Miracle Theatre’s current production. The bilingual one-act by Dañel Malán intersperses surreal, poetic flourishes with the grueling challenges the poet faced in his youth. Despite an overly clichéd depiction of the roaring 20s, and a monotonous fidelity to the struggling artist trope, Duende has some surprises: it’s not in every play that a down-in-the-dumps protagonist falls in love with a butterfly and is tormented by evil cockroaches. A showcase of Lorca’s dark and beautiful writing, Duende de Lorca is fully comprehensible to non-English and non-Spanish speakers alike. The actors’ breathless transition from English to Spanish allows viewers to hear Lorca’s sound and see Lorca’s vision with stunning clarity—a good challenge to the notion that poetry can never be translated. RACHAEL DEWITT. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm Friday, 2 and 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 20-22. $12-$13.
Galaxy Blink
[FERTILE GROUND] The Pulp Diction series of original pulp plays returns, kicking off with a “cosmic comedy” by Francesca Sanders. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway., thepulpstage.weebly. com. 7:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 23. $10.
The Green Book
[FERTILE GROUND] BaseRoots Theatre Company reads a new play by Calvin Alexander Ramsey inspired by The Negro Motorist Green-Book, a travel guide, published through 1965, that helped African-Americans navigate the most dangerous racist hellholes in the country. Po’Shines Cafe De La Soul, 8139 N Denver Ave., 1-800-494-8497. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, Jan. 21-22. $15.
Hamlet 2010
[FERTILE GROUND] Northwest Classical Theatre Company reads a new, contemporary adaptation of Hamlet by Gildevin Jagudajev. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 12:30 pm Monday, Jan. 24. Free.
The Hollow
Lakewood Theatre returns to Agatha Christie in this classic murder mystery. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays Jan. 23-30, 2 pm Sundays Jan. 23 and Feb. 6-20. $24-27.
I Was a Fat Kid…A Really Fat Kid
[FERTILE GROUND] Nathaniel Boggess premieres his solo comedy show about the experiences of a fat city kid exiled to Appalachia. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 10 pm Sunday, Jan. 23, and Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 29-30. $10-$12.
Immaterial Matters
[FERTILE GROUND] CoHo Productions has chosen a winner in its third annual New By Northwest new play competition: Steve Patterson’s play about a photographer who takes pictures of cadavers in 1880s small-town America. CoHo reads the play this weekend. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., cohoproductions.org. 7:30 pm SundayMonday, Jan. 23-24. Pay what you will.
[FERTILE GROUND] Six short plays by the members of PDX Playwrights: Stay by Amy Doherty, Up, Up and Away by Brad Bolchunos, Sundowners by Cassidy Barnes, The Nucleus of Pander by Jenni Miller, Street Corner Profit by John Servilio, and Backtalk by Brad Bolchunos. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 10 pm Friday, Jan. 21. $10.
James Agee: An American Son
Cerimon House performs excerpts from the work of James Agee, writer of A Death in the Family. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 224-3640. 7 pm Friday, Jan. 21. $10.
Little Brown Fucking Machines
[FERTILE GROUND] Portland Dramatist Workshop and PDX Playwrights present a reading of a new play by Sharon Sassone about the Philippine women of Olongapo City, who were born into a life of prostitution to satisfy the sexual needs of U.S. servicemen during the Vietnam War. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 12:30 pm Friday, Jan. 21, at the Armory and 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 23, at Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., Suite 104. Pay-what-you-will.
Polar Opposites
[FERTILE GROUND] Portland Story Theater continues its Armchair Adventurer series as Lawrence Howard tells the story of Amundsen and Scott’s race for the South Pole. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 793-5484. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Closes Jan. 29. $15.
Porn Shop!
[FERTILE GROUND] Third Eye Theatre has transformed the Back Door Theatre into a low-rent adult shop for this world premiere by John Heller. The stage is set with a tall register and a bright red sign that warrants “no refunds”; everything else is a sex toy. When the manager catches two clerks stuffing battery-powered toys in their pants she scolds them like a schoolmarm. When John, the protagonist, gets drunk off bourbon he spits a lovesick monologue that’s both wise and vaguely familiar. The Third Eye Theatre crew finds a way to expel childish energy and enthusiasm into a play
that’s anything but. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays. Closes Feb. 12. $12-$15.
Shadow Testament
[FERTILE GROUND] Portland World Theatre presents a play set in Corvallis, in which a young woman grapples with a crime committed in the name of God. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 367-2650. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays. Closes Jan. 29. $10.
The Shape of Things
Public House Theatre presents Neil LaBute’s story of a dumpy undergrad who becomes involved with a graduate student who talks him into getting in shape, ditching the glasses, breaking up with his friends and undergoing plastic surgery. Eep. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 922-0532. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Feb. 5. $14-$24.
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PERFORMANCE
Losing Ground in the Big City
[FERTILE GROUND] Masque Alfresco performs a new dark comedy by Don Teeter about a dysfunctional family of fundamentalists. Also day trading. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9., fertilegroundpdx.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 20-23. $12.
The Missing Pieces
[FERTILE GROUND] See preview, page 40. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Jan. 30. $15.
Mr. Darcy Dream Boat
[FERTILE GROUND] Vertigo ensemble member Camille Cettina offers an excerpt of her upcoming literary smashup piece. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., theatrevertigo.org. 7:15 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Jan. 29. $5, $20 with 99 Ways.
My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow
[FERTILE GROUND] See preview, page 40. The Mouth, Inside Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., hand2mouththeatre. org. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Jan. 30. $12-$15.
New Plays by Nameless Playwrights
[FERTILE GROUND] New works by a group of playwrights 60 and older. Ellen West’s Past Perfect on Saturday, Dalene Young’s The A-List on Sunday and six short comedies on Monday. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 7 pm Saturday-Monday, Jan. 22-24. $8-$10.
The Nursing Virgin
[FERTILE GROUND] Portland Theatre Works reads Hunt Holman’s new sacrilegious comedy. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., ptwks.org. 7 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 25-26. Free.
Planet Eden: A Galactic Musical
[FERTILE GROUND] Broadway Rose previews Aaron Kirk Douglas and Kurt Crowley’s musical about a ragtag bunch of doomers, holed up in anticipation of the end of days in 2012, who find their apocalyptic reverie broken by an enterprising documentarian. The show will have a full workshop performance at Broadway Rose in May. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 24-25. $10.
PlayWrite with New Avenues for Youth
[FERTILE GROUND] PlayWrite is a nonprofit organization that hires local theater professionals to work one-onone with students in alternative education programs in underserved areas for three weeks to write plays, which are then performed by professional actors. This evening’s works are by students at New Avenues for Youth. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 249-5800. 2 pm Friday, Jan. 21. Free.
DANIELLE LARSON
99 WAYS TO FUCK A SWAN (THEATRE VERTIGO) Ever wondered what Leda saw in that bird?
A lot goes on in Kim Rosenstock’s survey of sexual deviance, directed in its world premiere production by Megan Kate Ward. Not, as the title suggests, a swan sutra, the show crosses centuries and continents to examine a great catalog of kinks, among them exhibitionism, bestiality, masochism, murder, erotic hair removal and the groping of little girls. It is, unlike most plays about perversion, endlessly funny and even kind of uplifting. Mario Calcagno plays Dave, a professional photoshopper who takes a freshman fiction course in hopes of working out some of his many issues on paper. The teacher, Fiona (Brooker Fletcher), assigns him to write about Leda’s seduction by swan-shaped Zeus. (Rosenstock has said the play grew out of a similar writing assignment during her time at Yale.) The subject suits him, since he’s got a thing about women and cats, and he pens an epic while we watch. His work comprises an unconventional take on the Leda myth, the painting of Michelangelo’s lost Leda and the Swan and that painting’s fate. When he isn’t writing, he goes on an excruciatingly awkward date and a terrifying job interview. And everywhere he goes, in and out of his head, he is surrounded by sexual oddities. Rosenstock is interested in the ways people with unusual fetishes cope with their proclivities, and many of her characters are ruined by their attempts to find gratification. But despite a few moments of real darkness, the play keeps a heady comedic pace. Calcagno is too handsome to make a believable sad sack, but he does awkward painfully well. J.R. Wickman, Joel Harmon, Tom Walton and Danielle Larson, each of whom gets a three-part workout, all handle the jumps ably; Walton’s turn as a fast-talking pornographer is inspired, Wickman makes a great uninterested shrink, and Harmon is a delightfully creepy butler. Given the subject matter of the show, it would be easy for a director to wallow in vulgarity or make a clown of Dave, but Ward emphasizes the loneliness and despair of a conflicted cat-fancier, and understands that loneliness can be funny. She’s got chops. BEN WATERHOUSE.
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Sinking Spring
[FERTILE GROUND] PDX Playwrights presents a reading of Dave Chapman’s new play, about an Iowa town wracked by tragedy. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., fertilegroundpdx.org. 9 pm Sunday, Jan. 23. Pay-what-you-will.
The Spirit to Write a Joyful Song
[FERTILE GROUND] The Working Theatre Collective presents a preview of a new play by Nate Harpel about losing one’s soul. Eff Space, 333 NE Hancock St., Studio 14, 893-9075. 8:30 pm Monday, Jan. 24. $5-$10.
Suburban Tribe
[FERTILE GROUND] Kate Mura premieres her mask theater piece about suburbanites rallying around a family during catastrophe. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., fusepdx.com. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays and Jan. 26. Closes Jan. 30. $10.
Superior Donuts
The latest from Tracy Letts (whose August: Osage County won both a Tony and a Pulitzer) is an odd-couple comedy of familiar form: Arthur Przybyszewski, a burnt-out, emotionally stunted former radical and draftdodger who now runs the Chicago donut shop his father founded, hires Franco Wicks, an exuberant, uninhibited black 21-year-old with dreams of literary stardom, to work the counter. They banter, hilariously, as Franco tries to draw his reticent boss out of his shell. The first act is comfortable and entertaining. Bill Geisslinger, who last appeared at Artists Rep as a burntout middle-aged cynic in the company’s 2009 production of The Seafarer, incorporates some of that character into Arthur, by way of The Dude and maybe Harvey Pekar. Vin Shambry is immediately likeable as Franco, constantly in motion and endlessly curious, part grifter, part eager student. We love him as soon as we see him. Letts knows this and, because he’s an emotional terrorist, abruptly saddles Wicks with implausible gambling debts, collected by a pair of anachronistic Irish thugs borrowed straight from 1970s Mamet, and sends the plot spinning off into unearned tragedy. It’s a silly, self-indulgent move, and most of the second act is disappointing. BEN WATERHOUSE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays, 11 am Wednesday, Jan. 26. Closes Feb. 6. $20-$42.
That Was the River, This Is the Sea
[FERTILE GROUND] Icaro Compania de Teatro presents a reading of a play by Claire Willett and Gilberto Martin del Campo in which a woman goes with her Mexican boyfriend to his sister’s wedding and is caught up in ugly family history. The Art Department, 1315 SE 9th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 6 pm Monday-Thursday, 7 pm Friday, Jan. 24-28. $10-$12.
TREASON
[FERTILE GROUND] Artists Rep reads Adam Klugman’s drama, set in the near future, about the first American to be convicted of treason in the 21st century. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 2 pm Saturday, Jan. 22. $5 suggested donation.
Triskaidekaphilia (Just My Luck)
[FERTILE GROUND] Jimmy Radosta revives the solo show he premiered at last year’s Fertile Ground Festival about his lousy luck. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., curiouscomedy.org. 8 pm Thursdays through Jan. 27. $10-$13.
The Whole Entire Package
[FERTILE GROUND] Contagious Theatre presents three short comedies by Wally Jones, Will Lund and Tristian Spillman. The Hostess, 538 SE Ash St., 1-800-494-8497. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Jan. 30. $10.
COMEDY Anjelah Johnson
The MADtvcast member does stand-
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up at Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, Jan. 20-22. $25-$30.
Antiques Improv Show
Bring your antiques, collectibles or white elephants to the Brody Theater, where the crew will pretend to appraise them, comedically. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays. Closes Feb. 5. $7-$10.
David Saffert’s Birthday Bashtravaganza [FERTILE GROUND] Pianist-comedian David Saffert puts on an hourlong variety show for his birthday, featuring comedians Bob Ladewig, Scott Rogers and Jenn Hunter; musicians Don Power and Annie Harkey-Power; and dancers from Oregon Ballet Theatre. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., curiouscomedy.org. 8 pm FridaySaturday, Jan. 21-22. $10-$12. 18+.
The Ed Forman Show, with ME! ED FORMAN!
Aaron Ross terrorizes Dante’s every Tuesday night as Ed Forman, a frenetic, oversexed, foul-mouthed 1970s talk-show host. His guest this week is The Portland Shockwave, the city’s all-women full-contact football team. Dante’s, 1 SW 3rd Ave., 226-6630. 9 pm Tuesdays. $3. 21+.
Mice-tro
Put sixteen improv actors on stage with a voice-of-god maestro pitting them against each other and the audience voting them off and what do you get? A raw and clever Portland show that’s so disgustingly full of talent it reminds you why you never took theater, but love watching it. The actors take cues from the audience, asking them to shout out a hardware object (“hammer!”) or scenario (“rehab intervention!”) or sentence (“do not step on my begonias!”), which they instantly incorporate into their skits. A prompt about a union rally where each sentence starts with the next letter in the alphabet and one person is responsible for the vowels, performed in less than 90 seconds? They do it and make it look good. The competitive intimacy feels like charades at a friend’s house, except with improv geniuses and a killer bar. STACY BROWNHILL. The Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through Feb. 11. $10, $7 students.
UTV
The Unscriptables perform televisionthemed improv comedy. Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays, Jan. 15 and 22. Pay what you want.
CLASSICAL 45th Parallel
The presenting organization stages another benefit for the city’s classical music radio station, KQAC FM, and this one is the most interesting so far. The suspects—Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann—sound superficially usual, but the first names—Michael, Fanny, Clara—not so much. Joseph’s brother, Felix’s sister and Robert’s wife were accomplished composers in their own rights, so this concert of two piano trios and a string quintet offers a glimpse of an alternative world where, for a moment, they aren’t eclipsed by their genius relatives. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 802-9405. 8 pm Wednesday, Jan. 19. $15-$20.
Angel Romero, Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Portland Classic Guitar brings yet another long-reigning monarch of the instrument, the most prominent member of the acclaimed, multigenerational family dynasty of guitar virtuosos. Instead of a solo showcase, he’s appearing with the CSO in Joaquin Rodrigo’s ever-appealing, Baroqueinfluenced Aranjuez Concerto (familiar to jazz fans from Gil Evans and Miles Davis’ version on Sketches of Spain) and a less familiar but still appealing one by the same composer, Madrigal Concerto for two guitarists, guest starring Portland’s David Franzen. Romero will accompany his wife, Nefretiri,
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in music from voice and guitar, and then he’ll conduct the orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. Rolling Hills Community Church, 3550 SW Borland Road, Tualatin, 654-0082. 8 pm Friday, Jan. 21. $30-$49.
The co-founder of the pioneering jazzworld music fusion ensemble Oregon has for four decades been one of the region’s most incisive musicians, transforming the upright bass into a truly equal and often leading voice in the most eloquent of musical conversations. He’s played with Bill Evans, Gary Burton, Elvin Jones, Ravi Shankar, Taj Mahal and too many more to name. This Portland Jazz Festival-sponsored concert pairs him with pianist Dan Gaynor and drummer Tyson Stubelek. Tony Starlight’s, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-8584. 8 pm Saturday, Jan. 22. $15.
our own: Conduit Dance Studio cofounder and longtime contemporary choreographer Mary Oslund. She and her cohorts—various bright lights in Portland’s performance orbit—have collaborated on the world premiere of Childhood Star, a 35-minute work commissioned by White Bird. Oslund + Co/Dance, whose members you may recognize from their work in multiple companies about town, use Portlandbased Christine Bourdette’s sculptural set as a jumping-off point to examine the unpredictability of a shifting environment. The piece is paired with Drift, a 15-minute opening duet from company member Keely McIntyre, who dances with Noel Plemmons (just as she did in the fascinating Teeth duet Home Made last fall). Set to an original score by Jay Clarke, Drift is a lyrical treatise on boundaries and connectivity. Lincoln Hall, Portland
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Glen Moore Trio
Is the 28-year-old Chinese pianist the most talented virtuoso of his generation, or is he more flash and flamboyance than music chops? Or both? Either way, he’s certainly the most talked-about and hyped young soloist to arrive on the classical scene in the past decade, scoring profiles on 60 Minutes and in Time, and he puts on a spectacular show, drawing audiences from beyond the hardcore classical crowd, so a sellout is certainly possible in his return to Portland. His program includes a J.S. Bach partita, a Schubert sonata (the great D. 960) and Chopin’s 12 Etudes, Op. 25. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 20. $33-$173.
State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 242-1419. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 20-22. $18-$28.
The Rosehip Revue
Portland hasn’t yet lost its taste for old-fashioned titillation, which is good news for the Rosehip Revue burlesque show. Held the third Friday of every month, the revue features a rotating cast of bumping-and-grinding regulars, including the Dolly Pops, Angelique DeVil, Burlesquire, Holly Dai, Itty Bitty Bang Bang and more. Each month’s show also features a special guest, just to heighten the anticipation. Barracuda, 9 NW 2nd Ave., 228-6900. 9 pm Friday, Nov. 19. Event takes place the third Friday of each month. $11. 21+.
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Jeff Tyzik conducts another pops concert, this one featuring Broadway singers Debbie Gravitte, Jan Horvath and Christiane Noll joining the orchestra in songs from musicals that include Candide, Wicked and A Chorus Line. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, 3 pm Sunday Jan. 22-23. $20-$90.
Rich Halley Quartet, Dan Raphael
The saxophonist and composer joins poet Raphael to preview their upcoming CD release, Children of the Blue Supermarket. The quartet will play music from its spring release, Requiem for a Pit Viper. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St., 244-2070. 7 pm Saturday, Jan. 22. $10-$15.
Richard Zeller
The acclaimed baritone, who built a strong reputation for performances at the Metropolitan Opera and other leading venues, sings to benefit PSU’s upcoming production of Kurt Weill’s fascinating Street Scene. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 21. $25.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Salvador Brotons leads the band through some stirring Russian Romantic music, highlighted by Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture, RimskyKorsakov’s grand Russian Easter Overture, Borodin’s galloping Polovtsian Dances, and a relative rarity, Taneyev’s Symphony No. 2. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St., Vancouver., 735-7278. 3 pm Saturday, 7 pm Sunday, Jan. 22-23. $9-$42.
ViVoce
Portland Revels’ a cappella women’s choir sings a wide-ranging program of songs stretching back to ancient Greece, medieval chant and folk songs from Israel, Russia and Estonia. The concert also includes stories and readings by Anne-Louise and Bob Sterry, including early Greek and Arabic texts and other folk tales. St. Michael and All Angels Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave., 284-7141. 7:30 pm Saturday, 4:30 pm Sunday, Jan. 22-23. $12-$15.
DANCE Oslund + Co/Dance
[FERTILE GROUND] White Bird wraps up its Celebration of American Women Choreographers series with one of
MCLEAN AND MARGULIES
THE IMAGINARY INVALID (PORTLAND CENTER STAGE) Who’s up for some 17th-century fart gags?
Why has Molière endured? No other nonAnglophone playwright of any century has anything approaching the 17th-century Frenchman’s presence in the English-speaking world. Colleges don’t often trot out Lope de Vega or Pedro Calderón de la Barca, who provide equal opportunity for dressup, if not nearly as many dick jokes, but Tartuffe is ubiquitous. Maybe we’re attracted to Molière’s anarchism, the way his plays overturn the hierarchy of parents and children, masters and servants. Or maybe we just like the sophomoric humor. Constance Congdon, whose liberal adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid plays this month at PCS, seems to favor the latter explanation. Her script possesses all the maturity of The Ren & Stimpy Show. Chris Coleman’s production puts a lot of impressive talent onstage, festooned with bright, polished frippery, all in service of a hundred fart gags. Coleman’s invalid is David Margulies, an exceptional actor whose credits encompass The Sopranos, Angels in America and Ghostbusters (he played the mayor). He brings to the role of Argan a befuddled, doddering disposition and Walken-esque cadence that makes the flatulent, selfish coot—who attempts to marry his daughter off to a preening doctor to save on the unnecessary medical care he delights in receiving— more likeable than he has any right to be. He is supported by our own Sharonlee McLean and Christine Calfas as Argan’s maid and wife, the very dashing John Wernke as his daughter’s would-be lover and Barry del Sherman who, as the quack Doctor Argan, keeps better comedic time than anyone else onstage. I don’t want to sound dismissive, especially since most other viewers seemed to enjoy the show wholeheartedly, but for all the great costumes and vigorous craziness, the flatulence and ribaldry, I was bored and confused. Why does one character have a thick French accent, and another speak like a gay George W. Bush? Why does the set employ the severe forced perspective of a cardboard theater diorama? And how long can we reasonably be expected to laugh at diarrhea jokes before they just get gross? BEN WATERHOUSE.
SEE IT: The Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700, pcs.org. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, noon Thursdays, closes Feb. 6. $33-$58 adults, $18 students and youth.
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NOW SHOWING Resonance
In this sprawling group show, Lawrence Morrell’s mesmerizing glass sculpture, Chameleon I, stands out. Morrell’s abstracted plant-cell structures are illuminated via LED lights that shift between green, pink and electric blue. The artist is at an interesting point in his career, as his work is at the crossroads of geeky, gee-whiz romanticism and the equally gee-whiz but more academically rarefied California light-andspace school, as exemplified by Robert Irwin, James Turrell and, more locally, Hap Tivey (see listing, this page). In pieces like this, Morrell proves he has the chops to rise above the curb appeal of “Ooh!” and “Ahh!” without rejecting the visceral thrills of sheer optical pleasure. Anka, 325 NW 6th Ave., 224-5721. Closes Jan. 28.
Yuji Hiratsuka
Printmaker Yuji Hiratsuka integrates the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut style with contemporary intaglio printmaking techniques. The figures who populate his compositions are bushybanged caricatures whose eyes are wholly obscured by hair or headdresses, giving them vacant countenances that are disturbing, if not outright weird. Their bizarre appearances are mitigated by the sensuality of the artist’s palette and highly textural Japanese mulberry papers. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. Closes Jan. 29.
Jeff Faerber, Steve Matthews, Bret Hostetler, Amigo
LAWRENCE MORRELL’S CHAMELEON 1 AT ANKA
Of the four artists in this group show, two are from Portland, one from New York City, and one from British Columbia. Portlander Steve Matthews makes the strongest showing, with his retro-cool paintings of vintage sports cars and vans in an impish, lowbrow style. Matthews displays a different side
of his talent in semiabstract compositions such as Dandelions, with its intuitive gestures and well-executed spurts and splatters of paint. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. Closes Feb. 1.
I looking at?” light play of James Turrell. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 2240521. Closes Feb. 12.
Winter Ensemble
Among the highlights in the gallery’s winter group show are Julie Rall’s reverse paintings on Plexiglas. In Botanic Dream Zephyr, she juxtaposes intricate drizzles and dots with a vertical totem as symmetrical and allusive as a Rorschach drawing. The titles of Rall’s pieces are priceless, too: Botanic Dream Spider Chandelier, anyone? Butters, 520 NW Davis St., 248-9378. Closes Jan. 29.
As if Portland weren’t already in the running for honors as the Beard Capital of the USA, Texas-based photographer Dave Mead brings his ode to the beard, Magnificent Specimens, to Land this month. Irreverent, borderline disturbing, and at times downright bizarre, these photographs—featuring some of the World Beard and Mustache Championship contestants—sport more hair than most grizzly bears. Land, 3925 N Mississippi Ave., 477-5704. Closes Feb. 13.
Blazer Mania
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Love the Portland Trail Blazers? Love art? Then curator Nathan Tabor has the show for you. Blazer Mania is dedicated to all things Blazer-licious. If you’re not an active fan, you’ll likely be underwhelmed by the artwork, which is populist to a fault. Local graphic designer Thomas Bradley rises above the fray, however, with his elegant, Native American-style screenprint, Warranted to Be, in eye-catching black, white, red and silver. Compound, 107 NW 5th Ave., 796-2733. Closes Jan. 31.
Hap Tivey, Anna Von Mertens
Anna Von Mertens’ hand-dyed, handstitched cotton rectangles are like quilts made by somebody’s LSD-addled grandma. With their tie-dyelike seepages of eye-boggling color and their blurry, blobby organic forms, they radiate an insistent presence that recalls the glowy concentric circles of the HAL-9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The most asymmetrical piece, Arrangement in Grey and Black’s Aura (Whistler’s Mother), is perhaps the show’s most invigorating. In the back gallery, Hap Tivey’s illusionistic rhomboids, with their shadow-casting sculptural elements, painted borders and projected colors, recall the disorienting, “What exactly am
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In the two-person show The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Scott Chase paints realistic black-and-white portraits of pop-culture icons such as Hunter Thompson, Fidel Castro and Elvis Presley. Meanwhile, Chris Haberman paints the same icons in his own, easily recognizable style of combining portraiture with text. Haberman has a unique sensibility, is tirelessly involved in the Portland art community, and continues to make a significant contribution to our collective visual ethos, yet he seems to be slipping into a rut. In many of his pieces, the text is arbitrary and pat. The Elvis portrait, for example, uses phrases such as “King of Rock & Roll,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jumpsuit,” “Sex Symbol” and “Drug Use”—hardly original observations. If an artist uses text, the text needs to say something the viewer doesn’t already know. Haberman also needs to reinvigorate his style with fresh tactics in surface (the current works are exceedingly flat) and theme. Otherwise, he may still be painting exactly like this 10 or 20 years from now. Launch Pad, 534 SE Oak St., 427-8704. Closes Jan. 29.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 20 David Vann
Like any romance, David Vann’s Caribou Island is a dark tale about mutual misery. The story follows a couple living in the Alaskan wilderness, Gary and Irene, whose marriage has been deteriorating over the past 30 years to the point of bitter resentment and loathing. But despite this, the two are united in a common goal to build a rustic cabin on a nearby island. Paired with the feeling of extreme isolation, Irene’s anger toward her husband eventually becomes too much to handle, and the consequences result in “violence born of a bitter life.” Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Janet Begay is a Stormwalker, a sexy woman capable of controlling natural elements (think Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men). On the brink of self-destruction from her own overwhelming power, Begay finds sanctuary with her lover, Mick, the only man “able to calm the storm within her, even as their passion reaches unimaginable heights of ecstasy.” Well, OK then. Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group will meet to discuss Allyson James’ Stormwalker, and how the two lovers find themselves hunting a paranormal evil force responsible for abducting an Arizona police chief’s daughter. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton., 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
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MONDAY, JAN. 24 Dancing With the Devil
Those of you who’ve seen American Gangster may believe that big-time 1970s Harlem heroin dealers Frank Lucas and Leroy “Nicky” Barnes were enemies. But according to truecrime author Neal Hirschfeld (Donnie Brasco) and former undercover DEA agent Louis Diaz, Barnes was Lucas’ behind-the-scenes kingpin, and was so elusive that he became known as “Mr. Untouchable.” A joint project by Hirschfeld and Diaz, Dancing With the Devil: Confessions of an Undercover Agent is Diaz’s memoir of his experiences with the drug trade, and how he finally busted Barnes, ending one of the largest dope rings in American history. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Alcohol, cupcakes and riotous true stories will all be featured at the next Back Fence PDX show, which boasts the theme “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Back Fence is a bimonthly performance that includes snacks and funny stories from a variety of individuals. This installment features amusing anecdotes from Lauren Weedman (The Daily Show, and HBO’s Hung), a Trinidadian baby nurse, and a green-burial assistant. Bonus: For the first time, the show is free. Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. Doors at 7 pm, show at 8 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JAN. 25 Survivors and Thrivers
Well Arts Institute presents stories, nonfiction and poetry by elders from Friendly House, Summerplace, Terwilliger Plaza, Augustana Church, Loaves and Fishes, Hollywood
Senior Center and Elders in Action. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., fertilegroundpdx.org. 12:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 25-26. Pay what you will.
Sherry Turkle
Today, everyone uses Facebook, Twitter and mobile devices to stay plugged into the social pipeline. But MIT social studies of sciences and technology professor Sherry Turkle thinks these things are isolating us from social life. In her new book, Alone Together: Why We Expect
More From Technology and Less From Each Other, Turkle examines how we are drawn to the Internet’s “illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy.” The book also explores the creation of our digital selves (Facebook profiles, etc.), and how they rarely reflect our actual selves. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
TOM RACHMAN THE IMPERFECTIONISTS On the cynical face of it, it is unsurprising that Tom Rachman’s debut novel, The Imperfectionists (The Dial, 288 pages, $15), has been a darling among the newspaper and magazine press over this past year: He is, of course, talking about them. As every on-air media obituary attests, the press’s navel runs The Times’ Roman holiday. perilously deep, and Rachman, a journalist himself in Australia, has a finely tuned ear for the needling tsetse buzz of a far-flung stringer, the inappropriate humming glee of a corrections editor or the horrible thud of a press ground to a halt. The Imperfectionists is a series of interlinked stories about reporters, publishers, editors and readers of an international weekly in Rome, a sort of Winesburg, Ohio for the workaday media set. Really, it’s candy for anyone who’s ever been near a newsroom. But what might be a dismissive description isn’t. What Imperfectionists shares with Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, and with books by Evan S. Connell, especially, is an absolutely touching empathy for the failure at the heart of routine. One of Rachman’s most enduring creations is the sometimeeditor and corrections chief Herman Cohen, a hard-eyed veteran with a heart of gold who somehow narrowly escapes genre-procedural cliché even as he revels in the copy-desk folly that has “Tony Blair included on a list of ‘recently deceased Japanese dignitaries,’ Germany described as suffering a ‘genital malaise in the economy’ and almost daily appearances from the ‘Untied States.’” Despite his professional acumen, at home he is blind to faults and subjected to constant corrections from his wife, daughters and friends, but with no consequence: He is loved. It is wonderfully affirming, without ever succumbing to simple sop or sentiment. Amid failure, even her own, the editor-in-chief Kathleen also emerges as heroic—not for accomplishments but for a consistently broadened humanity. The Imperfectionists represents, more than anything, the transcendent middlebrow. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge is equally this, Bruce Springsteen is, everything by Jane Austen is, and, heck, The Shawshank Redemption (the movie) is perhaps the ridiculous apotheosis of the form. While the highbrow might call form or assumption into question, and the lowbrow merely (often winningly) distract with movement, the transcendent middlebrow affirms everything you already believe so strongly, so convincingly and burstingly, that you’re left staring dumb, sentimental and gape-mouthed at the impossible bruising richness of whatever you first thought life was supposed to be. Rachman here has made something exactly as pretty, though maybe also as fleeting. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. GO: Tom Rachman reads from The Imperfectionists at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-0540. 7:30 pm Friday, Jan. 21. Free.
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Grindhouse curator Dan Halsted opens his Shaolin Cinema martial arts series with this 1978 revenge picture starring Gordon Liu. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Saturday, Jan. 22.
127 Hours
Danny Boyle’s new help-I’mstuck-under-this-rock movie is a reminder that no matter how many other hobbies he undertakes, James Franco is primarily one hell of an actor. He’s very good at communicating not merely pain but annoyance— the crisis has all the frustrations of locking your keys in the car, except instead of his keys it’s his arm. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. 73
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Animate It! Workshop
[TWO DAYS ONLY] A beginner’s course in stop-motion animation for kids ages 7 to 11. Hollywood Theatre. 10 am-1 pm Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 22-23. $70.
Black Swan
53 Darren Aronofsky opens the Christmas movie season with a clammy, upscale horror flick starring Natalie Portman as the dancer whose metamorphosis from “frigid little girl” to ballet queen—complete with the subsuming of a dark twin—is accompanied by madness and molting. So it’s a literalization of Swan Lake, yeah. But previous stagings didn’t include the Black Swan performing hallucinatory cunnilingus on the White Swan. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, CineMagic, Cinetopia, Fox Tower, Oak Grove, Sandy. NEW
Black Dog Trilogy
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] “Depression is a black dog from hell,” says Portland filmmaker Scott Ray Becker, whose own battering from bipolar disorder has led to electroshock therapy, lots of mountaintrail running, and this series of short documentaries. But the dark canine of the title is also Gomboo, Becker’s beloved, graying Labrador mix. In this way, the movies veer between intimate horror and the simple pleasures of living. The three shorts repeat some material, and may seem artless, but their rough handheld intensity evokes the feeling that existence is a handful of dust, and just as frightening. “Life is a hard cookie to crumble,” says Becker’s friend, the developmentally disabled San Francisco artist Michael Bernard Loggins, and while these films don’t shy away from the impossibility of swallowing the whole show, they act like a warm, calming glass of milk to make it go down more smoothly. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, Jan. 20. Scott Ray Becker will attend the screening. The films are preceded by Brian Lindstrom’s Old Town Diary. 70
Blue Valentine
96 In Blue Valentine’s most iconic sequence, a love-struck Ryan Gosling positions Michelle Williams underneath a heart-shaped wreath outside a florist shop and croons the Mills Brothers’ “You Always Hurt the One You Love” while plucking a ukulele as she tap dances. It’s their first date. You see the longing, curiosity and affection in their eyes. You want it to last forever. You wish you hadn’t seen the hour that preceded it. You know you’ll soon return to the claustrophobic sex hotel where Gosling’s Dean is trying to respark his marriage to Williams’ Cindy. You, and they, know their love is all but dead. A film more than a decade in the making, Blue Valentine could well have been torture porn for the heart. Instead, director Derek Cianfrance has crafted a small miracle, a film that reminds us that movies are designed not just to stimulate, but to make us feel—even if those feelings are devastating. It shows us how sometimes the things we love become our Achilles’ heels, that sweetness can ultimately
make the bitter sting even more. From the opening sequence to the beautifully rendered closing-credits montage, it clamps on the heart like an industrial vise, and keeps squeezing long after viewing. It’s a triumph that stings to the core. R. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower..
Casino Jack
48 A sloppy sketch of malfeasance rendered in thick Crayola lines, Casino Jack adopts a cannily canted stance on The Man—politicians and the bespectacled barnacles attached to their backs are callow geeks who’ve seen Wall Street one too many times and have willfully mistaken the map for the territory—but director George Hickenlooper seems to have been so taken with this cynical (and possibly correct) insight that he forgot to build a compelling film around it. Former promising actor Kevin Spacey stars as infamous, hat-wearing scumbag Jack Abramoff, whose wheelings and dealings give Spacey an opportunity to do what Spacey does best, only this time purposefully: be profoundly unlikable while trying very hard to be dryly charming. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3-D
20 The third Walden Media attempt at a C.S. Lewis epic (get ready for Shadowlands: 3-D!) is not quite so soul-smothering as the second, but it feels less like a movie than a velvet painting, or one of those Magic Eye posters you find in malls. There are water sprites and dragons, and if you stare at the thing long enough, out pops a giant moray with terrible inflammation of the bowels. Aahh! It’s enough to make you never want to go to the mall again. PG. AARON MESH. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport. 2-D: 99 Indoor Twin, Eastport, Cornelius, Sandy.
Country Strong
37 Worst rehab ever: Country crooner Gwyneth Paltrow is whisked out of wooded seclusion by manager/ husband Tim McGraw, who can arrange a stadium tour of Texas but cannot keep a Smirnoff bottle out of his wife’s dressing room. “They think I’m better,” Paltrow murmurs to her lover Garrett Hedlund. “Better than what?” he asks. Better than this script. If you’re going to make a movie about a lady who gets so drunk when five months pregnant that she falls off a 10-foot stage and miscarries, it would be nice if you provided some clue, in the script or in the performance, what causes her to drink. Without any individuality, the movie is like a karaoke cover of tragedy: It sounds familiar, but you may need to get drunk yourself to find it affecting. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Sandy. NEW
The Cruise
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A documentary profile of Timothy “Speed” Levitch, a motormouthed New York double-decker tour guide. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Jan. 21-23. Fifth Avenue Cinemas.
The Dilemma
47 Here’s the dilemma with The Dilemma: It’s a relationship comedy that forgets about its own relationships. Oh, it’s also not very funny (disappointingly so, coming from the producers of Arrested Development), can’t decide on a tone and suffers from a light strain of misogyny, but the biggest problem with the film is that it betrays itself. What’s supposed to be the story of two couples is diluted until it becomes about just one individual. Vince Vaughn, in his usual charming alpha-douche persona, discovers the wife (Winona Ryder) of his best friend (Kevin James, in his usual likable every-schlub persona) is having an affair, and he’s subsequently driven
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After months of breathlessly anticipating the chance to watch Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s comedy series Portlandia, it is suddenly difficult to find a place where people aren’t watching Portlandia. Not only does the show premiere on cable’s Independent Film Channel this Friday, but the first episode is already streaming on Hulu, while Beer and Movie is showing each episode for free Friday nights at the Mission Theater. The only thing more ubiquitous than Portlandia? People volunteering opinions of Portlandia. And why should WW be any different? Movie critic Aaron Mesh is curating the Mission screenings for BAM, so in lieu of a review, he gathered WW’s arts and culture staffers (and grizzled newsman Henry Stern) to watch the first two episodes and give instant reactions. Aaron Mesh: So what did everybody think? Kelly Clarke: I don’t know how to feel about it. I mean, it’s funny to us because it’s all Portland places, but I really wonder how it’s going to play to anybody outside of Portland. Ben Waterhouse: It’s like the best local-access show ever. Casey Jarman: But are there enough character types to keep poking fun at without it coming off as poking fun at the same kind of people over and over again? Clarke: I don’t know, I could watch the feministbookstore owners over and over again, and I don’t think I’d get tired of them. It’s the exact same thing as SNL—some of the sketches are really funny, and some of them aren’t. Waterhouse: They’re also far more willing to engage in outright absurdity than SNL is. Jarman: But even that, there were a couple where I felt they were trying for the Tim and Eric really, really, really uncomfortable humor—when his eyes rolled back in his head in the second skit with the mind-fi, it was a little too over-the-top and Tim and Eric-y to fit. It feels like they’re still finding their tone. Clarke: One thing I do like about it is the undercurrent of anger. That makes me incredibly hap-
py—the idea that Portlanders are furiously angry underneath their calm demeanors. There’s a lot of fucking angry characters, and they try to be so nice. That’s one of the things they nailed about Portlanders. Henry Stern: What they nailed is that they’re angry about stupid shit. What was the quote she used? “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” You hear that here all the time. Waterhouse: Every clip that has been pushed online Portlanders apparently do not find funny and find offensive because we take ourselves too seriously. I think there’s no risk of Portlanders not
“PORTLAND IS A NATIONAL PUNCH LINE.” being outraged by this series. Clarke: So why do we like it? Waterhouse: Because we’re not self-serious assholes? Mesh: We so are self-serious assholes. Clarke: Every single Portlander I know doesn’t think they’re a self-serious asshole. That’s why we’re assholes. Waterhouse: Portland is a national punch line. If you listen to NPR, Portland jokes crop up a lot. So that idea of the city that they’re lampooning has become widespread enough that the 10 million listeners of NPR will get it. If some small fraction of that NPR audience watches the show, then they’ll have a hit. Clarke: I feel like what’s going to happen with Portlandia is what’s already happened with it: “Dream of the ’90s” was big for a couple days. It’s exactly the way SNL is big now. Nobody watches SNL at night or watches the entire episode; they watch a skit. And then you forward it to your friends and put it on Facebook. And I feel like Portlandia definitely has the potential to have that kind of viral quality. But I don’t think people are going to need to see it from beginning to end. SEE IT FROM BEGINNING TO END: Portlandia premieres at 9 pm Friday, Jan. 21, on IFC. The first episode is streaming on Hulu. All six episodes are presented by Beer and Movie for free at the Mission Theater at 8:30 pm Fridays, with live bands. (The Morals play at the premiere episode Friday, Jan. 21.) Willamette Week JANUARY 19, 2011 wweek.com
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CRISPIN GLOVER Crispin Glover may be popularly known for playing inarticulate (or completely silent) characters, but he has a lot to say. He returns to Portland this week with his two movies, What Is It? (which stars actors with Down syndrome) and It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! (an autobiographical fantasy scripted by a writer with cerebral palsy). He also arrives loaded with Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show, a projection of chapters from the “profusely illustrated books” he reconstitutes from old volumes that have fallen out of copyright. When WW emailed Glover last week with a few questions, his responses were voluminous and spellbinding. We’ve published his full replies at wweek.com, but here are a couple thoughts from the outsider artist who moonlights as a blockbuster star. AARON MESH.
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WW: What have you learned about acting by directing actors with Down syndrome? Glover: The actors with Down syndrome were all great to work with. Sometimes people ask me if the length of time it took for me to make What Is It? had to do with working with actors with Down syndrome.… What Is It? was shot in a total of 12 days which was spread over three years. Twelve days is a relatively short amount of shooting days for a feature film. The most important thing about working with an actor, whether they have Down syndrome or not, is if they have enthusiasm. Everyone I worked with on What Is It? had incredible enthusiasm, so they were all great to work with. I think a lot of people are curious about what your films are saying. Is there a message, or are they simply an exploration of things you find interesting? I am very careful to make it quite clear that What Is It? is not a film about Down syndrome but my psychological reaction to the corporate restraints that have happened in the past 20 to 30 years in filmmaking. Specifically, anything that can possibly make an audience uncomfortable is necessarily excised or the film will not be corporately funded or distributed. This is damaging to the culture, because it is the very moment when an audience member sits back in their chair, looks up at the screen and thinks to [him or herself ], “Is this right, what I am watching? Is this wrong, what I am watching? Should I be here? Should the filmmaker have made this? What is it?” And that is the title of the film. What is it that is taboo in the culture? What does it mean that taboo has been ubiquitously excised in this culture’s media? What does it mean to the culture when it does not properly process taboo in its media? It is a bad thing because when questions are not being asked, because these kinds of questions are when people are having a truly educational experience. For the culture to not be able to ask questions leads toward a noneducational experience, and that is what is happening in this culture. This stupefies this culture and that is, of course, a bad thing. So What Is It? is a direct reaction to the contents of this culture’s media. I would like people to think for themselves. Visit POWELLS.COM/CALENDAR for further details and to sign up for our EVENTS NEWSLETTER.
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SEE HIM: Crispin Glover appears at Cinema 21 on Wednesday, Jan. 19 (with What Is It? and Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show Part 1), and Thursday, Jan. 20 (with It Is Fine. Everything is Fine and Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show Part 2).
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into a paranoid mania as he struggles to figure out what to do with that knowledge. It’s a premise that could fuel a decent Woody Allen movie, but it only works if we understand the group dynamic being threatened by the infidelity. Director Ron Howard would rather focus on how the central theme—how well can you ever really know another person?—affects Vaughn alone. As a result, it ends up saying nothing much about the nature of male friendship, offering a resolution that amounts to “punch it out, bitch.” Then everyone gets their Disney ending. Except for the cheating whore, of course. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.
Enemies of the People
85 For obvious reasons, most documentaries of atrocity concentrate on the victims, but Enemies of the People attempts something far more courageous: It confronts the perpetrators of the Cambodian Killing Fields. In sweltering Cambodian marshes, reporter Thet Sambath patiently prods frail, shriveled Khmer Rouge conscripts to tell how they slaughtered their countrymen: “The children saw their fathers smashed into the ditch and they cried out.... Then we took the kids and killed them too.” Sambath’s own father, mother and brother were murdered in the “cleansing,” so it is astounding to see him slowly gaining the trust of Nuon Chea, the highranking Communist leader known as Brother No. 2 to Pol Pot’s Brother No. 1. Meanwhile, the ditch-diggers and throat-cutters sit by fires and remember how they drank from the gallbladders of their victims, and we see that the taste of gall is still in their mouths. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
The Fighter
The true story of Lowell, Mass., boxing half-brothers Micky and Dicky, played by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale—no, no, c’mon, pick the paper back up! The Fighter deserves its shot: Director David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) announces his intention from the opening bell to out-Scorsese Scorsese with sprinting cameras, Stones songs and charismatic fuckups. Fleeing formula like Bale’s Dicky runs from cops, the movie is messy and darting and alive. The movie belongs to Bale: I had come to suspect he could no longer attempt any role without the Batman scowl as a crutch, but as The Fighter’s drugaddict older sibling, he hops like a wallaby, breaks into off-key crooning, and generally suggests Anthony Perkins on crack. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest, Oak Grove, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. 89
Forks Over Knives
66 The Western diet makes us fat and sick. And pills make things worse. That’s the basic message of this utilitarian documentary. But we can combat or even reverse the effects of many of the diseases that kill us most often, from cancer to diabetes, by eating our colorful veggies and whole grains and steering clear of meat, dairy and processed grub. It’s an important concept, no doubt, but a commonsense one that has already been shoved down our throats by everybody from Michael Pollan to Jamie Oliver. Forks Over Knives succeeds instead by focusing on the science of animal and vegetable nutrients, sputtering out a machine-gun rattle of stats that’ll make you sick to your stomach (40 percent of Americans are obese. Every minute a person in the U.S. is killed by heart disease. Each of us eats around 600 pounds
THE WAY BACK of dairy products every year) before introducing us to a pair of committed doctor/scientists who have been working on studies for decades showing evidence of how eating our damn greens can fight cancer and other diseases. KELLY CLARKE. Fox Tower. Fox Tower.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest 35 Lisbeth Salander, buried alive with a bullet in her brain at the end of The Girl Who Played With Fire, can barely walk when The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest begins. The Girl Who Opened a Can of Worms would have been a more accurate (although considerably less sexy) title: Salander’s injuries have her confined to a hospital bed for the film’s first half, and she is capable of little more than pecking out her autobiography on a cell phone. Maybe they don’t have cans of worms in Sweden. I don’t know. R. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
The Green Hornet
65 Call it a flattening of genre, or maybe just expectations: With Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet, the superhero movie and the movie about a regular guy pretending to be a superhero have become indistinguishable. The caper, from a script by Seth Rogen and Superbad buddy Evan Goldberg, chronicles insouciant layabouts (Rogen and Jay Chou) becoming casual crimefighters; appropriately, the movie is endearingly amateurish. In fact it feels like nothing so much as a “swede,” one of the backyard VHS remakes cobbled together by videostore employees in Gondry’s Be Kind Rewind. The look on Rogen’s face throughout is that of a man who can’t fully believe he’s starring in a real action picture. This is pedestrian filmmaking—but it is a cheekily jaywalking pedestrian. The continuity is alarmingly slapdash (in one scene, the characters excitedly recount an act of vandalism that happens 10 minutes later) even as the screenplay blithely ignores the pieties expected from this sort of thing: Rogen’s Hornet and Chou’s Kato don their masks in a fit of petulance, ignore the copious collateral damage in their wake, and learn absolutely no lessons. In one scene of exposition, they plot their undercover vigilantism in front of a bank of televisions, each one showing a more horrific news event that they don’t notice: a fatal train crash, a herd of escaped elephants. Except in one flashback sequence, Gondry doesn’t indulge his taste for handicrafts, but the converted 3-D makes the whole movie look like it was made with paper dolls. I can’t recommend this with any seriousness. But I enjoyed most of it. PG-13. AARON MESH. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Sandy. 2-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove.
Gulliver’s Travels
Jack Black is bigger than other people. Not screened for critics. PG. Eastport.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
77 Everybody has tough teenage years, but damn does Harry Potter have issues. Sure, we’ve all dealt with shifty relatives and hormonally imbalanced friends with mean streaks. But we didn’t have the lord of all that is evil breathing down our necks, gigantic snakes trying to eat us, or a crazed government hunting us down in the midst of a genocide attempt on wizard-human lovechildren. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Call theaters for showtimes.
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Jim Carrey is at his most interesting when he explores a worrisome cavity inside his mania—think of his everyman in The Truman Show suspecting his entire life was as empty as his good-morning waves—so he’s very good as the compulsively recidivist Texas con man Steven Russell, who romances (and tries to spring) a fellow prison inmate (Ewan McGregor). R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. 69
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Inspector Bellamy
New Wave rider Claude Chabrol’s final picture before his death last year at 80 begins with the sound of somebody whistling past a graveyard. Then the camera plunges over a seaside cliff to find an artfully burned and decapitated body lying beside a car. Turns out the poor fellow wanted to die, so no worries. This blithe dismissal of mortality extends to the whole of Inspector Bellamy, a mystery movie that contains almost no mystery, and a family drama that hinges on a final revelation that vaguely confirms what we already suspected. Gerard Depardieu stars as the titular policeman, a large man greatly satisfied with the sound of his own sleuthing, and with just about anything else. “I like everything,” says Bellamy. “That’s my charm.” He is the embodiment of Chabrol’s cinema of connoisseurship; at one point, most of the central characters chow down on plates of oysters. (Bellamy has two plates.) But as the detective relishes solving an identity-theft case with flashback flourishes, trouble brews in the form of his resentful little brother (Clovis Cornillac), whose sole occupation is goading his sibling to the edge of violence. The resulting movie, predictable in events but not in rhythm, is all about which brother will get “the last word.” Chabrol’s last word is nothing so strange or alarming as Resnais’ Wild Grass, but at least this director has exited on his own implacable terms. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 65
Kagemusha
[REVIVAL] To certain Western eyes, the later pictures of Akira Kurosawa—1980’s Kagemusha and 1985’s Ran especially—represented a pinnacle of “international” cinema. (Among those loyalists were George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola; they funded Kagemusha when Kurosawa ran short on funds, and if you look closely enough at 68
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The King’s Speech is the sort of awards-season tinsel that opens with a speaking engagement going mortifyingly awry—the youngest son of the House of Windsor (a terrific Colin Firth) cannot make it through a sentence without breaking down in heaving gulps—and ends with a heart-swelling proclamation of war. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Fox Tower. 73
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[ONE WEEK ONLY, REVIVAL] Bill Murray goes bowling. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Friday-Thursday, Jan. 21-27. Clinton Street Theater.
Kings of Pastry
61 Hell is blown sugar and tempered chocolate. At least, it is for the obsessive French pastry chefs who aspire to attain the rank of Meilleurs Ouvriers de France—”Best Craftsmen in France” of pastries. Co-directed by cinéma vérité titan D.A. Pennebaker (with Chris Hegedus), the film is oddly flat. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters.
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Uh-oh. A drama of parental bereavement, starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as the unlucky couple? From that premise, you might expect a strident dirge, but no. Rabbit Hole is a sensitive movie about coping, about how loss can be a badge of honor that drives people away, and a horrible private joke that brings people close. Sometimes it’s the same people. Like Christian Bale in The Fighter, Nicole Kidman is perfectly cast in a role that transcends a habit of on-screen masochism. Director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) and his cinematographer find haunting sterility in cold light, pretty houses, and anguished faces. PG-13. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Fox Tower. 84
Lemmy
[HELD OVER] “They drop a nuclear bomb on this planet, Lemmy and cockroaches is all that’s gonna survive,” gushes a fan of Motörhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister, he of the distinctive muttonchops and “Ace of Spades.” Dave Grohl is even more succinct: “He is the baddest motherfucker in the world.” The music documentary Lemmy is overcrowded with such character witnesses; it’s better when it lounges in Lemmy’s L.A. apartment, which also seems likely to support cockroaches. The English mad dog sits here with his son, recounting how John Lennon shagged the boy’s mum, and the times father and son 68
switched groupies. From a certain perspective, this is slightly horrific, but Lemmy seems gently content. AARON MESH. Clinton Street Theater. 9:15 pm Friday-Thursday, Jan. 21-27.
Little Fockers
13 As if the sight of Robert De Niro with a raging hard-on poking through his pajamas isn’t sad enough, the creators of Little Fockers have to go and make it worse. Appropriately for a movie with a dumbass near-pun for a title, nobody in Little Fockers escapes with their dignity intact. Ben Stiller spends the entire film looking like he can’t wait for it to end—and that’s before his son projectile-vomits in his face. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.
Marwencol
78 Mark Hogancamp was the town drunk of Kingston, N.Y., until the night 10 years ago he had his head stoved in by a pack of local thugs and woke up with his thirst for liquor replaced by a hankering to play with dolls. His memory almost completely wiped, Hogencamp began building a World War II-era Belgian village in his backyard, populating it with Barbies and G.I. Joes representing himself, his friends and his would-be lovers. His photographs of these miniatures look like Saving Private Ryan performed by the cast of Team America: World Police. In short, this is a case of art-as-therapy in which the art is wholly accidental and all the more remarkable for it. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW
No Strings Attached
Natalie Portman wants to boink Ashton Kutcher, but not date him. Half of that makes sense. Not screened by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Sandy, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW
On the Bowery
[REVIVAL] There’s a scene in this restored 1957 documentary, chronicling the lives of New York’s derelicts, in which a street-mission minister preaches to a collection of down-and-outers that, “There are no hopeless places with God.” Maybe. But in this black-and-white time capsule of New York’s Bowery Street, there are plenty of places God seems to have overlooked. Unsentimental and unsparing, Lionel Rogosin’s classic takes little more than an hour to present a compelling pastiche of scenes capturing down-and-outers with a perverse dignity, meandering through rummy barroom conversations, staggering down the street, getting rousted by cops and sleeping where they fell the night before. Rogosin weaves into his documentary a faint plot line with staged dialogue of a new man on the scene and what happens to him over a couple hard days and nights. If you’re worried that mix is an artifice, don’t. Between the actors and non-actors, it’s hard to believe 94
Season of the Witch
Nicolas Cage does battle with the devil’s minions, again—this time with less bees and more swords. Not screened for critics. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Sandy.
The Social Network
Say what you will about Aaron Sorkin, who seemingly hits the “like” button on himself daily, but his script recognizes that rage is our culture’s prevailing mood. Even the haves feel themselves to be have-nots. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters. 94
Somewhere
OK, this is where I explain what the movie is ostensibly about and you gag a little bit, because a plot summary of Somewhere reads like a People puff piece about some gilded dickhead’s forged redemption journey. But here goes: Famous actor Johnny Marco (played by sorta-still-famous actor Stephen Dorff) is living in the Chateau Marmont—Belushi died there, Lindsay Lohan lived there, many beautiful people have enjoyed cocaine there—while promoting his new film and sleepwalking through what appears to be a charmed life. He drinks, he smokes, he drives his Ferrari in circles, he conks out with his tongue inside a gorgeous woman. Money can’t buy happiness, etc. Enter Cleo (Elle Fanning), Johnny Ennui’s 11-year-old daughter, a part-time responsibility who becomes a full-time suitemate when Johnny’s ex-wife skips town on a vague mission of self-improvement. But disregard—or forgive—the predictable arc and sentimental revelations, because Sofia Coppola’s only using them as girders for a weightier project: rendering emotional vacancy and existential exhaustion as it is actually experienced. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower. 87
Tangled
60 Alan Menken has been brought back by Disney to pen the songs, and while none of his compositions is as catchy as his collaborations with Alan Sherman on The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast, he has apparently instructed the directors, Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, what hits to beat. PG. AARON MESH. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove.
The Tempest
65 Stage and opera staple Julie Taymor sets Shakespeare’s tale of shipwrecks and double-crossing nobles on a volcanic isle lorded over by a gender-bending, magic-staffwielding Prospero (Helen Mirren as “Prospera”). But despite a powerful performance from Mirren, these stormy waters don’t run nearly deep enough. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Living Room Theaters.
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Tiny Furniture
Tribeca twentysomething Lena Dunham’s comedy of Tribeca twentysomething malaise has been endlessly scrutinized by Five Boroughs critics—Glenn Kenny deliciously dubbed it “the Cinema of Unexamined Privilege”—but Tiny Furniture seems to examine privilege a bit too much: Like many micro-indies, it knows its own hermetic world very well, and can show why it’s funny, but has nothing to compare. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. 58
Touch of Evil
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Orson Welles goes down Mexico way. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Wednesday, Jan. 19. Local filmmaker Kelley Baker will introduce the film.
Weir, whose sensitivity to the physical has never been better, fills the screen with foggy forests and massive sand dunes—this is filmmaking that David Lean or John Ford would recognize, but the epic style is used to convey the vast scope of totalitarianism across a continent, and the poignancy of human values (like forgiveness, of all things) struggling to escape its grasp. PG-13. AARON MESH. Eastport, Division, Lloyd Center, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, Clackamas, Cinema 99, Cinetopia, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Yogi Bear
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Tron: Legacy
73 Video games have come a long way since Tron hit screens in 1982, and Tron: Legacy has evolved with them. It’s eye-poppingly gorgeous, ludicrous and swollen with enough pure adrenaline to make Raoul Duke trip balls for decades. PG. AP KRYZA. 3-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia. 2-D: Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius.
True Grit
The Coen Brothers’ new rendering of Charles Portis’ novel of Arkansas frontier retribution is remarkable for its lack of perversity—one character voices a slightly unseemly interest in the 14-yearold heroine, and another is graphically relieved of some fingers but, by Coen standards, everybody behaves with relative civility. Jeff Bridges’ drunken lawman is essentially a comic turn, a sharpshooting grandpa who just wants to tell campfire stories, but the music is Carter Burwell’s elegiac piano settings of the hymn “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub. 90
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The Way Back
It is fitting that Peter Weir’s The Way Back, a movie about a journey with a destination that is perpetually denied, should be rejected by festivals (it was turned down by Cannes and New York), but I plead that the dismissal not become an ironic fate: You should see this movie, and as soon as possible. Based on Slawomir Rawicz’s probably-not-true memoir of flight from the Siberian gulag and attempted passage to India, the movie allows Weir to return to the heroic adventuring of The Year of Living Dangerously and the uncanny outdoor danger of Picnic at Hanging Rock. It is one of the best long-distance walking movies ever made, an equal to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but without the orcs. Instead, there are urkas: the ornately tattooed, finger-removing criminals that effectively ran the Soviet labor camps. In a counterintuitive casting coup, one of the Russian thugs is played by Colin Ferrell; he is authentically bestial, a pack dog without a master. (He latches onto the hero, played by Jim Sturgess, for his navigational skills: “You earn my respect with your sticks and pine cones.”) 92
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The Tourist
45 It’s official: Johnny Depp has lost his grasp on reality—or, at least, his grasp on real people. After years of inhabiting fantastical characters with personalities that place no limit on how bizarrely he can play them, in The Tourist he portrays a simple American rube—a Wisconsin community college math professor named Frank—and decides to devoid him of any personality at all. His flat performance tanks a film banking its success completely on the natural fireworks that should exist between Depp and co-star Angelina Jolie. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Call theaters for showtimes.
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times. This time out, the talking bears—the film’s human characters seem underwhelmed by the prospect of bears who speak English; they are, however, impressed by bears who can water-ski—are voiced ably enough by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake and forced to amble through adventure after joylessly clichéd adventure with nary a nod to the cartoon’s heritage. PG. CASEY JARMAN. 3-D: Clackamas, Eastport. 2-D: Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest.
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LIFE ON A COCKTAIL NAPKIN: J.R. Ackerley and Tulip.
MY DOG TULIP
TO LOVE THIS MOVIE.” Judi Diamond – WIL-FM/St. Louis
“GREAT MUSIC, AND GOOD TIMES. You’ll love it!”
Teeny little super cartoon.
A burst of jazz announces the place as 1950s London, where elderly author J.R. Ackerley begins typing a memoir. From his cozy apartment, he introduces his best friend: “My dog is an Alsatian bitch. Her name is Tulip.” Out on the balcony, Tulip squats and produces a dark trickle of urine. It is clear the cartoon we are watching will not be 101 Dalmatians, which, like so many Disney productions, could be titled, “Go Forth and Multiply, Never Mind How.” Indeed, bodily function becomes the central mystery here, as Tulip’s owner commits himself to “finding a husband for her.” The worthy suitor proves elusive. After Tulip rejects a fellow German Shepherd named Max, Ackerley declares, “She attempted to bestow on my leg all the pusillanimous love that Max had been denied.” Animators Paul and Sandra Fierlinger drew and painted every frame of Ackerley’s story by hand. Created using a computerized pen and easel, the pictures look like they were sketched on a cocktail napkin and filled in with watercolors. At one point, the handdrawn Ackerley himself begins drawing on a cocktail napkin. Then, on notebook paper, Tulip appears wearing a dress, and performs a rich burlesque of heterosexual courtship. This queer bemusement shows us the desire common to all sexuality, and all artistry, too. That’s why Ackerley can draw, though he is himself a drawing. It’s why, when a postcard invites him and his dog to a seaside cottage, they arrive to find the cottage is simply a larger postcard, propped up on a bluff. The beauty of life lies in our best intentions, the inky scratch. Ackerley and the Fierlingers reveal humanity by showing us our inner dog. Ackerley’s narration is delivered by Christopher Plummer, in a voice of wisdom pricked by wonderment. I can barely recall Plummer’s performance as the cardboard villain in the Disney-Pixar cartoon Up. That movie depicted finding your soul mate as one long, tropical commotion. It depicted dogs, children and old men alike as chattering plastic toys, babyish amusements with only a veneer of maudlin “personality.” That stuff still gets to many of us because we were raised on Disney’s postwar sentimentality since birth. We may forget the cartoons that actually helped us understand the world. Remember “Teeny Little Super Guy” on Sesame Street? Small fellow? Gravelly voice? Dispensed common sense from within a drinking glass? “Teeny Little Super Guy” was animated by Paul Fierlinger. After honing his craft for six decades, the man has a feature film in theaters for the first time. Don’t miss it. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF.
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CANDYBAR!: There are a lot of reasons to love Frank Oz’s big-screen musical adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, the tale of Seymour Krelborn and his killer plant—the doo-wop girls’ bouncy sass, Audrey’s lisp— but my favorite performance is also one of the 1986 film’s shortest. Bill Murray shows up for four minutes as a masochistic dental patient, a man so turned on by the sound of Steve Martin’s drills and suction that he fairly writhes with pleasure upon Martin’s reclining chair, ecstatically mumbling the mantra “Candy bar, oooohhhhh candybar-candybar-CANDYBAR!!!” through a mouthful of gauze to climax. It’s hilarious, silly and disconcerting—much like the campy film itself. KELLY CLARKE. Bagdad Theater. 9 pm Thursday, Jan. 20. $3. Best paired with: McMenamins Hammerhead. Also showing: Real Genius (Laurelhurst). 503-282-2898 Call for showtimes.
NORTHWEST DOWNTOWN Broadway Metro 4 1000 SW Broadway, 800-326-3264 Call for showtimes.
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510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 THE CRUISEFri 7, 9:30 Sat 7, 9:30 Sun 3
Fox Tower Stadium 10 846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 127 HOURS 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 BLACK SWAN 12:30, 2:25, 3:05, 4:50, 5:30, 7, 7:35, 8, 9:30, 9:55, 10:15 Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 11:55am BLUE VALENTINE 11:45am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 CASINO JACK 12:45, 4:35 FORKS OVER KNIVES 12:10, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40 RABBIT HOLE 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 SOMEWHERE 12, 2:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 THE KING’S SPEECH 11:50am, 12:40, 2:20, 3:30, 4:55, 6:45, 7:30, 9:25, 10
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Cinema 21 503-240-5850 Call for showtimes.
St. Johns Pub and Theater
8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474 FAIR GAME 8:30 Wed 1 MEGAMIND Fri-Sat, MonThu 6 NFL LIVE Sun 12, 3
St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub
8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 THE FIGHTER 5:20, 7:40 Fri-Sun 9:55 Sat 3 Sun 3 TRUE GRIT 5, 7:20 Fri-Sun 9:40 Sat 2:40 Sun 2:40
NORTHEAST Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 Call for showtimes.
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503-249-7474 BURLESQUE 5:30 Tue-Thu 2:30 DUE DATE 8 FAIR GAME 10am MEGAMIND Fri-Mon 3 Sat-Sun 12:30
Laurelhurst Theater
2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 4 LIONS Fri 7:25 Sat-Sun 1:40, 7:25 Mon-Thurs 7:25 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY Fri-Sun 4:30, 9:30 Mon-Thurs 9:30 LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS Fri-Sun 4:15, 7:15 Mon-Thurs 7:15 REAL GENIUS Fri-Thurs 9:40 MEGAMIND Sat-Sun 1:50 WAITING FOR SUPERMAN Fri 7 Sat-Sun 1:10, 7 MonThurs 7 DUE DATE Fri-Sun 4:45, 9:20 Mon-Thurs 9:20 THE TOWN Fri-Sun 4, 9 Mon-Thurs 9 FAIR GAME Fri 6:45 Sat-Sun 1:20, 6:45 Mon-Thurs 6:45
Lloyd Center Stadium 10 Cinema 1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 Call for showtimes.
Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema 2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 Call for showtimes.
Roseway Theatre 7229 NE Sandy Blvd.,
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 Call for showtimes.
Mission Theater & Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 DUE DATE 5:30 Sat 2:30 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS Sat, Mon-Thu 4:35 Sun 8:30 UNSTOPPABLE Sat-Thu 10am
SOUTHEAST Academy Theater 7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 Call for showtimes.
Avalon Theatre 3451 SE Belmont St., 503-238-1617 Call for showtimes.
Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 BURLESQUE Mon-Thu 6 Sat-Sun 5:15 CROWBAR Fri 10:30am DUE DATE MonThu 8:45 Sat 10:15am Sun 8 MEGAMIND Sat-Sun 2
Century at Clackamas Town Center
12000 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264 BLACK SWAN 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25am COUNTRY STRONG 11:05am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05am LITTLE FOCKERS 12:20, 2:55, 4:10, 5:30, 6:50, 8, 9:25, 10:30 NO STRINGS ATTACHED 11:25am, 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15am SEASON OF THE WITCH 12:15, 2:45 Fri-Tue 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 TANGLED 11:20am, 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 12:55, 3:40 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D 11:50am, 4:40, 9:45 THE DILEMMA 11:40am, 1:05, 2:25, 3:45, 5:10, 6:25, 7:50, 9:15, 10:35am THE FIGHTER 11:15am, 2, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20am THE GREEN HORNET 11:55am, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 THE GREEN HORNET 3D 11am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25am THE KING’S SPEECH 11am,
4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264 BLACK SWAN 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 FriSun 11:05am COUNTRY STRONG 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 12:35, 5:30, 10:25 NO STRINGS ATTACHED 2:20, 5:10, 7:50 Mon-Thu 10:30 Fri 11:20am, 10:30am Sat 11:20am, 10:30am Sun 11:20am, 10:30am SEASON OF THE WITCH 2, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:35am TANGLED 2, 4:35, 7:10 Fri-Sun 11:35am THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 2:50, 7:45 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 FriSun 11am THE DILEMMA 2:15, 5, 7:45 Mon-Thu 10:30 Fri 11:30am, 10:30am Sat 11:30am, 10:30am Sun 11:30am, 10:30am THE FIGHTER 2:05, 4:55, 7:40 Mon-Thu 10:25 Fri 11:15am, 10:25am Sat 11:15am, 10:25am Sun 11:15am, 10:25am THE GREEN HORNET 12:30, 3:15, 6:10, 8:55 THE GREEN HORNET 3D 1:55, 4:45, 7:30 MonThu 10:20 Fri 11:10am, 10:20am Sat 11:10am, 10:20am Sun 11:10am, 10:20am THE KING’S SPEECH 1, 4, 7, 9:50 THE WAY BACK 12:40, 3:45, 7, 10 TRON: LEGACY 9:35 TRON: LEGACY 3D 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 Mon-Thu 10:35 Fri 11am, 10:35am Sat 11am, 10:35am Sun 11am, 10:35am TRUE GRIT 8:15 YOGI BEAR 3D 12:55, 3:05, 5:25
CineMagic Theatre
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 BLACK SWAN 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Sat-Sun 3:25 Sun 1:15
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 KINGPIN 7 LEMMY 9:15 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30am THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12
Division Street Stadium 13
16603 SE Division St., 800-326-3264 Call for showtimes.
Moreland Theatre
6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 TRUE GRIT 5:30, 8 Sat-Sun 3:15 Sun 1
The OMNIMAX Theatre at OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave., 503-797-4640 ALASKA: SPIRIT OF THE WILD Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 2 Fri-Sat 8 DEEP SEA FriSun, Tue-Thu 4 Fri-Sat 7 DINOSAURS ALIVE! Fri 12 HUBBLE Sat-Sun, Tue-Thu 12 Fri-Sun 6 Fri 9 Sat 9 SEA REX: JOURNEY TO A PREHISTORIC WORLD FriSun, Tue-Thu 11am, 1, 3, 5
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