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STAFF Editor-in-Chief Mark Zusman EDITORIAL Interim Arts & Culture Editor Ruth Brown Interim Managing News Editor James Pitkin Staff Writer Nigel Jaquiss Copy Chief Kat Merck Copy Editors Matt Buckingham, Sarah Smith Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Ben Waterhouse Screen Editor Aaron Mesh Music Editor Casey Jarman Editorial Interns Nathan Gilles, Karen Locke, Evan Sernoffsky CONTRIBUTORS Classical Brett Campbell Dance Heather Wisner Visual Arts Richard Speer
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INBOX TAX BREAKS SUPPORT FAMILY FARMS Did anyone ask the Friends of Family Farmers about HB 3626 and why Representative Peter Buckley supports family farmers and ranchers in Oregon by providing new and young farmers the opportunity to benefit earlier from an alreadyin-place tax break [Rogue of the Week, May 11, 2011]? Do you have any idea about the average age (over 57) of farmers in Oregon? Representative Buckley sees very clearly that we need young farmers if we wish to continue to supply Oregonians with food. Do you care if we have younger, local farmers replacing the retiring ones, or would you rather see even more conglomerates taking over our agriculture? There are young people passionate about growing food organically and with sustainability in mind who are not able to start farming because of the high cost of land and property taxes. I choose to buy locally grown food and meat, not only for health reasons, but also for economic, environmental and “better taste” reasons. It is important that we help young farmers so that more of us can buy locally. Young farmers who do not inherit their land cannot get loans for farmland and are having to stop their farming business before it hardly gets started. If Willamette Week is so concerned about taxes being taken from our children, why not look to the corporations paying only $150 per year? Family farmers and small ranchers are NOT part of our tax problem; the wealthy and the corporations who are permitted to use loopholes in the tax code are where our problem is. Janice Rose Colton
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The recordings on MAX are only in Spanish and English. What about Russian and Vietnamese, if they’re really trying to “honor” non-English speakers? Won’t this discourage other groups from riding the train? Either give the info in every language, or just do English. —Kyle in SE Portland
folks as it can. As to why only Spanish makes the cut: There are between three and five times as many Spanish speakers, depending on how you crunch the numbers, in the greater Portland area as there are speakers of any other non-English language. TriMet puts the number of non-bilingual Spanish speakers in its service area at around 30,000, or 2.5 percent—not a huge number, but still worth a few extra recordings. After that, diminishing returns kick in pretty quickly: Speakers of all other languages combined only total 1.3 percent. And anyway, this policy makes your life easier as well. “These announcements minimize confusion for our Spanish-speaking riders,” says TriMet’s Mary Fetsch. “[That] makes the system more efficient for everyone who rides.” Fewer timeconsuming communication breakdowns—who can argue with that? Unless, of course, you miss those opportunities to roll your eyes and feel superior.
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In the latest round of the long-running Oregon Department of Energy contracting saga, attorneys for former ODOE director Mark Long filed a bar complaint on May 13 against Department of Justice criminal chief Sean Riddell. Riddell was the state official who led the probe that resulted in Long being placed on paid leave, along with three others. Long’s lawyers say Riddell “repeatedly and unequivocally lied to witnesses and coerced and intimidated them.” DOJ spokesman Tony Green says his agency will cooperate fully with any bar investigation. The complaint comes at a time when an independent lawyer hired by state agencies to review the fate of the four suspended employees is nearing a decision—and if the bar takes up the complaint, that process could delay or alter the state’s final decisions on the employees’ fates. Political junkies get some early fodder for 2012: Martha Schrader announced Tuesday she will seek the seat on the Clackamas County Commission that she vacated in 2009 to replace her husband, Kurt, in the state Senate. Not yet announced but actively seeking support for the county chair position, which Lynn Peterson left to join Gov. John Kitzhaber’s staff, is incumbent Ann Lininger, the comMARTHA SCHRADER missioner who replaced Schrader in Position 3. Schrader, who narrowly lost a 2010 Senate re-election bid, said in a statement, “I feel my greatest accomplishments have been at Clackamas County, and I have more to offer.”
As first reported at wweek. com, longtime Portland marijuana activist Paul Stanford pleaded guilty May 17 to one count of Oregon personal income-tax evasion and agreed to serve 18 months of probation. Stanford, who runs a nationwide chain of medical-marijuana clinics (see “King Bong,” WW, Dec. 12, 2007), has claimed state prosecutors indicted him as political payback for his work advocating for canPAUL STANFORD nabis legalization. “I think the fact that he pleaded guilty dispels any notion about the legitimacy of this case,” says Oregon Department of Justice spokesman Tony Green. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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A former facilities maintenance coordinator at the Kennedy School in Northeast Portland is suing McMenamins, claiming the restaurant chain ordered him to falsify health records for the entertainment center’s soaking pool. In the lawsuit filed May 12 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Thomas Kerr claims he was fired Dec. 3, 2010, after reporting the alleged order to falsify pool records, which Kerr says he believed to be a violation of state or federal law. The lawsuit does not specify how the records were allegedly to be falsified, or to whom Kerr says he made the report. Renee Rank, spokeswoman for McMenamins, declined to comment.
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Just as City Hall prepares to kick the giant glass box that is Veterans Memorial Coliseum down the road, three local men are shopping an audacious plan to turn the cavernous building into the Northwest’s answer to Hollywood. Sports marketer Rob Cornilles, multimedia producer Tim Lawrence and Hollywood vet Kirk Iverson want to turn the sleepy, city-owned Coliseum into a multimedia production facility that would capitalize on Portland’s reservoir of underemployed creatives, the building’s location and its architecture. Cornilles, who lost as the Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) in the 2010 election, says he’s long viewed the moribund Coliseum as an opportunity. Iverson was an assistant to producers on Terminator 3: Rise
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“It’s likely to be a nonstarter if the Winterhawks can’t be kept whole,” Kovatch says. Another sports franchise with a possible trump card is the Portland Trail Blazers, who operate the Coliseum and have an option to continue doing so until 2023—unless the city wants to convert it to a new use. “That’s the city’s call,” says Blazers Senior Vice President J. Isaac. “They can do what they want with the building.” Mayor Sam Adams likes expanding Portland’s production capacity but says there are better and cheaper locations in the city. “Right idea, wrong site,” Adams says. Cornilles disagrees and says he and his partners will be pushing to build support. “We admit that we’re late to the party, but it’s time to put more refreshment in the punch bowl and light this thing up again,” Cornilles says. “I’ve been disappointed that we can’t find a long-term sustainable use for the Coliseum that will drive some job creation.” Adams shares Cornilles’ frustration. Last year he convened a Rose Quarter development task force in hopes the group would add more than what Adams called “several unsuccessful attempts in 17 years” to breathe life into the neighborhood. That impulse followed Portland Timbers and Beavers owner Merritt Paulson’s idea to raze the Coliseum and build a minor-league baseball stadium. Adams’ task force reviewed nearly 100 ideas—including developer Doug Obletz’s community gym and the Blazers’ Jump Town— but in the end, none gained traction. This month, the Portland Development Commission voted to sink $20 million into renovations at the Coliseum, which preserves the status quo but little more. Since the Portland Trail Blazers moved next door to the Rose Garden in 1995, the Coliseum has been home to the Winterhawks, events and meetings. According to the Coliseum’s audited financials, the building lost $343,000 last year. Cornilles and his partners say the absence of internal walls and the fact that only four pillars support the building make it attractive for building sets and special effects. The lofty roof, highway accessibility, proximity to Portland International Airport and the Northwest’s surrounding beauty all make it a prime location, they say. Iverson’s team says the cost of converting the Coliseum into a production facility with office and educational space is about $80 million. Based on previous Coliseum studies, he says about $30 million in tax credits could be available. After consulting a Los Angeles investment bank, Iverson says he thinks private investors would provide the remaining $50 million—if the state and city were willing to provide incentives to get the plan off the ground. “We’ve got the right players, and the facility is ripe for retrofit,” Cornilles says. But for now, Adams says he’s content to stick with what he’s got—a revived Winterhawks franchise that rode its new owners’ greater resources deep into the Western Hockey League playoffs this year. Adams’ lack of enthusiasm is perhaps understandable. He’s spent much of the past 20 years watching plans for the Rose Quarter fail. “Everybody has come forward with plans for surefire winners that will make everybody a lot of money,” Adams says. City Council is scheduled to vote on Memorial Coliseum renovations June 22. Willamette Week MAY 18, 2011 wweek.com
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on to become president and CEO before retiring in 2010. Brady has never held an official position in the company nor sat on its board of directors, but says she maintains an ownership stake. She BY JA MES PITKIN jpitkin@wweek.com declined to say how large her stake is. Brady says she heard of the crash soon after Portlanders need no introduction to New Seasons, it happened and considers it a tragedy. She says a local grocery chain with a near-fanatical follow- she feels a personal connection to the case as a ing. One key to the company’s success has been its biker and a mom who has had a child injured in reputation for ethical business practices. a car accident. This spring Eileen Brady, a New Seasons coBrady says she did not follow the case, and she owner, has signaled she’s strongly considering a repeatedly declined to comment on the way it was 2012 campaign for mayor. If she runs, we’re sure handled by New Seasons, saying she can’t speak for to hear more about her role shaping New Sea- the company. When WW informed Brady of the sons’ celebrated corporate values. large jury award, her response was “thank god.” But a recent court case offers a different view Luikart is exactly the kind of voter Brady of “the friendliest store in town.” would hope to win over. At the time of the acciOn Thursday, May 12, a Multnomah County dent, she worked at Zenger Farm in Southeast jury ruled against New Seasons and awarded Portland and commuted by bike to cut her fossil$667,742 to Genevieve Luikart, a 26-year-old fuel use. She has since moved to an organic farm bicyclist who was struck by a New Seasons truck. in Southern Oregon, and WW’s attempts to reach According to court documents, Luikart was her there were unsuccessful. riding south on Northeast 15th Avenue on Sept. After Luikart sued, New Seasons argued 23, 2009. She had a green light and was crossing in court papers that Luikart was negligent for Northeast Broadway when a New Seasons delivery speeding through a crosswalk and failing to keep truck turned left onto Broadway, a proper lookout. plowing into her. New Seasons offered to settle Eileen Brady is chair The impact smashed Luikart’s FACT: the case for $130,000, Colbach emeritus on the board of Zenger upper jaw, broke her left shoul- Farm, where Genevieve Luikart says, the approximate amount employed when she was hit der, fractured her right wrist was the jury eventually found would by a New Seasons truck. and left her with severe dental only have covered her medical injuries. But Luikart’s attorney, expenses. Colbach refused, and Michael Colbach, says New Seasons’ insurer the case went to trial. refused to pay. “They were just hoping they’d get lucky Instead, Colbach says, New Seasons blamed because she couldn’t remember,” Colbach says. the accident on Luikart, who has no memory of “They just continued to blame her for the accithe crash. The lone eyewitness of the crash said dent and hoped the jury would fall for it.” Luikart was not at fault, and the jury agreed. Sedlar says New Seasons was not responsible “They tried to take advantage of a girl who had for the legal strategy. Rather, shes says, it was amnesia and was very badly injured,” Colbach the store’s insurance company and the attorney says. “Taking care of her would have been the it hired, Maria Liesl “Sam” Ruckwardt of Portright thing to do, and it would have been a great land’s Smith Freed & Eberhard. Ruckwardt did way to spread some goodwill. But at the end of not return phone calls seeking comment. the day, the bottom line always comes first.” “It wasn’t something where we were trying to “Certainly we are not a company that puts the deny our responsibility in any way,” Sedlar says. bottom line first,” says New Seasons CEO Lisa SedBrady says her personal beliefs and the New lar. “It was an accident, and we’re very sorry for it.” Seasons philosophy still apply. Brady helped found New Seasons in 2000 “Good businesses,” she says, “do the right along with her husband, Brian Rohter, who went thing.”
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Rainbow Vista in Gresham looks like any other retirement community. Austere facility on the outside, pastel floral wallpaper on the inside. But Rainbow Vista isn’t your typical old folks’ home. In fact, it’s one of the only retirement centers in the Portland area intended specifically for gay, lesbian and transgender seniors. At Rainbow Vista, the 12 current residents can live without fear of having to hide their sexual identities. “We’re not just gay-friendly,” says Bill Stein, an 89-year-old resident. “We’re gay.”
PROUD SENIOR: Bill Stein
Even in live-and-let-live Portland, suitable facilities for senior citizens who are gay are uncommon. And although national polls show increasing acceptance of gay rights, gay and lesbian senior citizens who need supportive housing in retirement find themselves in a difficult spot, says Mya Chamberlin, director of services for seniors and the homeless at the nonprofit Friendly House. “They have to lean on people they don’t know if they can trust,” Chamberlain says. LGBT seniors are more likely to rely on nursing homes and other institutions for long-term care because many are single, childless or estranged from their biological families, according to a 2010 study by the National Senior Citizens Law Center. Many elders also reported they could not be open with facility staff about their health needs. Some in the survey even reported they had been denied medical care because of their sexuality. Chamberlin, with a program called Gay and Grey, hopes to combat such forms of housing discrimination through a new Portland survey of gay-friendly facilities for older residents. The housing assessment would take an independent look at centers’ nondiscrimination policies—or lack thereof. It would also ask facility managers questions like, “Would it be a problem if
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HOME SWEET HOME: Rainbow Vista serves as a refuge for gay seniors.
somebody who appeared to be male dressed to express themselves in public only since 2000. Messerschmidt worries about what in what we think of as female clothing?” Chamberlin says the result of the sur- might happen to her freedom if she were dependent on a long-term vey will offer consumers something similar to a care facility. FACT: Friendly House will seal of approval. “I would like to think be hosting the 2011 Gay and I have the guts not to go Gay and Grey estimates Grey PDX Expo, an LGBT back in [the closet], but in there are over 10,000 seniors’ resource convention, 15 years when I’m frail… LGBT seniors in the Port- 10 am-4 pm Saturday, May 21, at Friendly House, 1737 NW I’m not sure I’ll be strong land metro region. Sharon 26th Ave. For event details, see Messerschmidt, 73, and gayandgreypdx.org. enough,” she says. “Older gay people have had our her partner, Jo Hamilton, fight. We’re not interested 69, have been together since meeting at a Christian motorcycle in continuing to put up the fight. We want a rally in 1986. But they have felt free enough safe place to be ourselves.”
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Your Journey to Graduate School Begins June 11 in Santa Barbara This special program on Saturday, June 11 is a comprehensive overview of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Degree Programs: • Sit in on typical classroom sessions • Attend information meetings about each of Pacifica’s degree programs • Explore both of Pacifica’s campuses, located between the coast and the mountains near Santa Barbara, California • Interact with Pacifica students, alumni, and faculty members.
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DENNIS TUNE On May 10, a gunman shot a clerk at Cigarettes Plus on North Lombard Street. The clerk survived but the gunman fled, leading Portland police to lock down two nearby elementaries in the Portland Public Schools district: Chief Joseph and Peninsula. But more than 300 elementary-school children and a couple dozen adults at a PPS charter school located just 2 1/2 blocks from the shooting—the Portland Village School—remained unaware of the danger. “We had to find out from a neighbor,” wrote school principal Jackie Jaffe in a May 11 message to families. For its failure to inform charter schools about ongoing emergencies, we’re giving Portland Public Schools security director De nni s Tune this week’s Ro g ue dunce cap. Portland Village School is one of the seven charter schools in the Portland Public Schools district. Charters are public schools, and charter-school parents pay taxes like public-school parents. But last week, Portland Village School families found out they’re considered second-class citizens at PPS. “I wanted to follow up to make sure the Charter Schools… don’t have a false expectation that we will be contacting them in instances where a PPS school is placed in a lock in/out,” Tune wrote in a May 13 email responding to Jaffe’s concerns. “A lock in/out can be initiated by the police, the school and the security office. Currently there is no mechanism for notifying Charter Schools,” Tune wrote. Asked why notification wasn’t better and what he planned to do, Tune offered this email response: “The school district and the Office of Charter Schools [at PPS] are looking at how schools of all types are notified.” Lt. Robert King, a spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau, says precinct officials call nearby schools to initiate lockdowns. King says until last week’s shooting, police had contact information provided by PPS for 65 conventional schools, but not for charters. King says the Police Bureau has now requested contact information for charter schools as well, but since PPS granted its first charter in 1999, that request is very late in coming. Portland Village School business manager Tracy Rimel notes 20 percent of her school’s state funding goes straight to PPS for administration. “ We pay more than $350,000 a year to the district,” Rimel says. “For that, I think we should get a spot on the police call list and some safety for our children.”
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A Corporate Spokesperson for Ohio Valley Gold & Silver Refinery said, “We’re ready to spend the money.” It has become a frenzy for the Ohio Valley Gold & Silver Refinery, that opens up for business today. Jason Horner, one of the show managers, said that based on previous show history, he expects to see a lot of broken and unwanted jewelry. Horner said, “Dozens of people every day cash in on old jewelry and walk out of our events with hundreds of dollars per transaction.” Tish McCutcheon, a customer from Lancaster, Ohio, spoke to me over the phone about attending a recent event and walking away with $412.87. “I think this is great. I’ve had that [jewelry] in my dresser for years,” said Tish, “and I knew not to throw it away, but I never knew what to do with it. I think there were
two rings, a class ring, a broken herringbone bracelet and two necklaces that my grandmother had had. I would have thought maybe fifty bucks would be great, but $412.87 is a whole lot better.” Hundreds of calls come into the Refinery’s office from residents wanting to deal directly with the company, but in most cases that is not possible. This week, local residents will be in the unusual situation to do just that. What an unbelievable opportunity for the community. Gold is currently trading at over $1,400.00 per ounce and silver is just under $40.00 per ounce. Anyone can check the current market prices on gold and silver on the internet. Ohio Valley Refinery also has a live feed with up-to-theminute market prices displayed at the event. This event is also opened to local businesses that deal with precious metals, like jewelry stores, pawn shops, dentists, medical
ITEMS OF INTEREST COINS: All coins made before 1965: silver and gold coins, dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. All conditions wanted! VINTAGE GUITARS: Martin, Gibson, Fender, National, Rickenbacker, Gretsch, Mandolins, Banjos & others WRIST & POCKET WATCHES: Rolex, Tiffany, Hublot, Omega, Chopard, Cartier, Philippe, Waltham, Swatch, Elgin, Bunn Special, Railroad, Ebel, Illinois, Hamilton & all others JEWELRY: Gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, all types of stones and metals, rings, bracelets, necklaces, etc. (including broken and early costume jewelry)
ANTIQUE TOYS: All makers and types of toys made before 1965: Hot Wheels, Tonka, Buddy L, Smith Miller, Nylint, Robots, Battery Toys, Mickey Mouse, Train Sets (all gauges, accessories, individual cars), Barbie, GI Joe, German & others WAR MEMORABILIA: Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, etc: swords, badges, clothes, photos, medals, knives, gear, letters. Local records reveal to our research department that recent vintage guitar sold for $2400.00 and another for $12,000.00 to a collector that will be tied into the event this week via live database feed.
Above: Refinery representatives will be on hand this week starting Tuesday through Saturday to purchase all gold, silver and platinum items, as well as coins. Public welcome!
laboratories and some industrial manufacturing plants. If your business works with precious metals and you would like to discuss doing business directly with Ohio Valley Refinery, you should call ahead to make an appointment. They offer several dealer programs and are always looking for new, long term clients. You can reach Ohio Valley Refinery during open times by calling (217) 787-7767.
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GRIMM UNCERTAINTY: Word leaked Thursday evening that NBC has picked up a full season of the fairy-tale cop series Grimm, which filmed its pilot in Portland. But before you don your favorite troll costume and start celebrating— there’s no guarantee the series will be filmed here. “I have not received confirmation that the show is going to be filmed in Oregon,” Vince Porter at the Governor’s Office of Film & Television told WW Friday evening. “There was no pre-deal like, ‘We promise you we’re gonna come.’ We’re going to try like hell to put our best foot forward.” That pitch becomes more precarious with Gov. John Kitzhaber’s controversial proposal to expand tax credits for Oregon film production still in limbo in the Legislature. While you’re biting your long, poison-apple-red fingernails, watch a scene from the pilot at wweek.com. NIGHTLIFE ALERT: A woman is suing the manager of Couture Ultra Lounge in Old Town for allegedly assaulting her on New Year’s Eve 2010. In the suit filed May 17 by attorney Greg Kafoury, Chung Kim claims club manager Mark Seid’s girlfriend assaulted her at the club, then Seid called Kim a “fucking bitch” and punched her in the face. “I own a nightclub, I can do whatever I want,” Seid said, according to the suit. Kim is seeking $100,000 for pain and suffering. Seid did not return a phone call for comment. THE CRITICS ARE RESTLESS: This has not been the easiest Cannes Film Festival for Gus Van Sant. Not only did early notices for his doomed-teen romance Restless cement our worst fears (“banal and indulgent!” raves The Hollywood Reporter; “nauseatingly twee!” gushes the Onion AV Club), but he left his U.S. passport in Portland while producing his new Starz TV show, Boss in Chicago, and didn’t realize it until a day before the French premiere. As Deadline Hollywood reported, “a friend grabbed it, flew cross-country to give it to Van Sant and accompanied him to France.” NOIR NEWS: How much longer can West End’s Pinot American Brasserie go on? Now on its fourth head chef in less than a year, Richard Huggins (formerly of the Crowne Plaza Convention Center), the restaurant has announced it’s cutting its lunch service. Head bartender Glen Allen also jumped ship on the weekend, snapped up by McMenamins’ new Zeus Cafe. LOVE AND THEFT: Bob Dylan turns 70 on Tuesday, May 24. To celebrate, and to make up for all the mean things we said about Dylan’s creepy Christmas album, WW’s music staff has contracted a handful of local musicians to record Dylan covers for a free digital EP called Buckets of Rain. The EP, which will be up at wweek.com on Tuesday for your downloading pleasure, features And And And, Typhoon’s Kyle Morton, St. Even, Ghosties and more.
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THURSDAY, MAY 19 [MUSIC] TIN HAT Post-classical violin virtuoso Carla Kihlstedt’s quartet plays classicaltinged folk music. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $15. 21+. [MUSIC] BAD MANNERS, THE ISRAELITES, ORIGINAL MIDDLEAGE SKA ENJOY CLUB Now that we’ve had time to recover from our awful ’90s ska-punk days, it’s time to face it: 2 Tone-era bands like Madness and the Specials had the best clothes, the best album art and some of the best music of the ’80s. Bad Manners, then— the tongue-in-cheek British Fat Boys of ska who never made it big stateside—is overdue a comeback. Dante’s. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
FRIDAY, MAY 20 [MUSIC] PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT The cellists welcome guests Ages and Ages, Laura Gibson, Weinland and Tomo Nakayama. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $15. [MOVIES] THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS Part Prairie Home Companion, part Hee Haw and part Jack Benny, the Topp Twins are Kiwi lesbian sisters whose yodel-filled country-western act incorporates comedy, political activism and sunshiny sweetness. A documentary follows the Topps from childhood into the spotlight. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-8899. 7 and 9 pm. $6. [MUSIC] BLACK CIRCLE FESTIVAL You know what you need in your life? You need metal. Loud, viciousmetal from bands with names like Inquisition, Cemetery Lust and (our personal favorite) Grim Ritual. There’s plenty of metal at Branx Friday and Saturday. Get your earplugs in and go to fucking town. Branx. 6 pm. $15. All ages. The festival continues on Saturday.
WE ARE SO LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU THIS SATURDAY! We’ve seen the billboards, the sign trucks and the canvassers, so we know Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, has predicted you will return to Earth on May 21. And we know—except for the time he predicted you would show up in 1994—he’s never been wrong! And of course we know, on the word of City Commissioner Nick Fish, that Portland is your “favorite city,” so we assume you’ll be stopping here before you kick off your world tour. And since you’re a busy guy, we put together an itinerary for the day—although, if you’d rather just burn a few at our place and watch some South Park, we’d be fine with that, too. CASEY JARMAN AND BEN WATERHOUSE.
His Bakery: (6011 SE 72nd Ave.) The place is named after you, so you’d better drop by! And, since your last meal was a Seder, we bet you’re jonesing for some leavening. Lucky Devil Lounge: (633 SE Powell Blvd.) We know you like prostitutes, so how do you feel about strippers? If you can make it rain at the Lucky Devil Lounge—a minor miracle considering your track record—these girls will be turning the other cheek all night long, if you catch our drift. Mount Tabor: Y’know, in case you want to give a sermon. The reservoirs would be a nice place for a quick stroll, too. The ReBuilding Center: (3625 N Mississippi Ave.) Time to get back in the carpentry game, am I right? Let’s resurrect some siding, J-dog! “Pod,” the sculpture at SW 10th and Burnside: You’ve known the guy for eons, so maybe you can clear this up—is that really what Satan’s balls look like? Heavenly Donuts: (1915 N Lombard St.) Heavenly, eh? We’ll let you be the judge of that.
SATURDAY, MAY 21 [MOVIES] STRIPES A 35 mm print of Bill Murray in boot camp, with leading lady P.J. Soles in attendance. Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. 1 pm. $7. Proceeds benefit military families at Fisher House. [MUSIC] OREGON SYMPHONY Carlos Kalmar and the gang mark the season’s end and a triumphant return from Carnegie Hall with a smorgasbord of soloist showcases by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Michael Daugherty and OSO’s own Jeff Tyzik. Then, they show off the whole band with Béla Bartók’s magnificent “Concerto for Orchestra.” Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm. $20-$90.
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OREGON CITY, ON THE MEDITERRANEAN: Burl Mostul dug and moved this 75-year-old ‘Sevillano’ olive from California to the grounds of his home and business last year. It hasn’t leafed out fully after its recent pruning and winter temps in the teens, but Mostul is confident of its rejuvenation.
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has fielded inquires like, “So, who’s the rich California bastard in the castle?” (This tickles Mostul, who grew up laboring on his father’s vegetable farms in nearby Carver.) The grounds, including his wholesale plant business—a cluster of lunar-looking the season. We sold 10 the other day to a domed greenhouses down the hill from the couple hoping to start their own grove.” castle—is only open to the public twice a Suzy Hancock, general manager of BY SA R A H S M I T H ssmith@wweek.com year, for a $10 summer-evening party July Portland Nursery, sees olives as the latest 9 and a free annual plant sale this weekwrinkle in the locavore movement. “It’s The freshest tree to emerge in Portland’s tied in with the whole growing-your-ownend. About 200 of the 500 young olives he’s urban landscape is actually so ancient, it food thing—although I don’t think most growing and testing for cold-hardiness will makes the Old Testament look like a Twit- people realize you don’t just pick olives be for sale (from $19.50 for a one-gallon ter feed. to $49.50 for a seven-gallon container) off the tree and eat them [brining is necamong an array of more unusual plants (if It’s not a palm or banana, persimmon essary to cure the fruit]. It’s the romance or kumquat. It’s the olive (Olea europaea), of cooking using herbs you grew yourself, you know what a bromeliad is or yearn to grow a hardy banana, this event is for you). whose fruit and oil have made star turns dining al fresco with your olive tree. I Last year, Mostul finally acquired a in the service of humanity for 5,000 years, think it just completes the picture.” and are referenced in cultural proper set of big, sculptural olive trees. After some sleuthing, he miracles from Moses to Matisse. located a Northern Californian Northwesterners tend to associate olive trees with faraway who was giving the stink-eye to an old orchard on his land for preclimates, where the wines are big and red and the coffees small and senting an obstacle to his dream of black. Portland’s 5,800-specimen horses grazing in an emerald field. So Mostul, who’s been on botanic collection at Hoyt Arboretum, explorations from China to Mexfor example, is olive-free: “Even ico to South Africa, departed on though we can get, at times, a Mediterranean climate, a lot perhaps his strangest plant hunt of times our weather’s a little of all—to the self-described Olive too wet and our soil is not wellCity of Corning, Calif. drained enough for them,” says He rented a front-loader and, James Allison of Portland Parks. in a few hours, severely pruned and But it’s become an open secret dug seven huge 50-to-75-year-old in recent years among Stump‘Sevillano’ olives (lacking a tap root, town cognescenti that it’s quite olives can be transplanted with possible to grow the Mediterjust a tiny collar of roots, and their ranean icon in Portland, with a branches rejuvenate even after viglittle care and good fortune in orous trimming). Then he loaded getting the baby trees beyond the his instant olive orchard onto a SURVIVING AND THRIVING: A young ‘Bidh el Hammam’ olive tree (left) flourishes in an unheated frost-vulnerable stages. Once well flatbed truck and drove it home. greenhouse at Rare Plant Research while a mature ‘Sevillano’ graces the landscape nearby. established in a sunny spot with Suddenly, his new villa looks a OLIVE RESOURCES: Rareplantresearch.com; and two farms growing commercial olive orchards in the good drainage, olives blossom lot less like an homage to Canby, Willamette Valley, oregonolivetrees.com and redridgefarms.com. white in June, bear fruit in fall and a lot more like Catalonia. and become rugged and droughtFor others who don’t wish to resistant. Unlike most fruit trees, wait half a century for a sapling to they have the added ornamental virtue of A force behind the scenes of the local tower, rising out of an otherwise everyday become a gnarled giant, Mostul has two of being evergreen. olive trend is Rare Plant Research, which Oregon City pasture. the senior ‘Sevillanos’ for sale. For $3,000, Lately, olives have started to show off grows and supplies exotic and tropical “You just don’t see too many Spanish you too could sip Barolo under one of the their silvery tresses in public spaces such as greenery to retailers, including Portland monasteries around here,” says Hancock, oldest olive trees in northern Oregon. McMenamins Edgefield, where an ‘Arbequi- Nursery. Its owner, gregarious, globe- who visited the newly completed Villa CatBut then you’ll want the castle. na’ has graced the distillery for five years. trotting plant hunter Burl Mostul, who alana and urged Mostul to propagate olive Livingscape nursery displays olives resembles a compact, warmed-up version trees for retail sale. Portland Nursery sold GO: Rare Plant Research open garden and sale, 11900 S Criteser Road, Oregon City, in gallon pots on the stairs of its cheery of John Kitzhaber, has spent decades on about 100 last year, she says, and expects to 780-6200. 11 am-4 pm Saturday-Sunday, converted Craftsman on North Vancouver the trail of plants “new to science.” sell more this year. May 21-22. Bistro lunch and coffee available, Avenue. “People are definitely surprised. Despite that longstanding pursuit of The Mostuls’ vision of Medieval Europe along with King’s Raven Winery tastings and sales. Bring a photo of your garden They ask how hardy they are,” says plant the undocumented and unknown, Mostul’s in Clackamas County can be a rural traffic- and receive ideas from garden designers buyer Eilidh MacLean. “They’re actually latest passion is one of the most familiar stopper, and has not gone uncommented Lucy Hardiman, Nancy Goldman, Margaret very popular. We sell a lot of them during edibles in cultivation—albeit not in north- upon. Burl says the dairy farmer next door de Haas van Dorsser and Mary Baum. Free.
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erly climates like Portland’s. Mostul says he was driving through southern Spain’s Andalusia region a decade ago when he was smitten by the sight of a sublimely soulful olive tree. It was shaped into a behemoth bonsai, and Mostul instantly knew he had to have one, “but I didn’t think I could. I didn’t think they would grow here.” And he didn’t have the ideal situation. Until a couple of years ago, he lived and ran his business in a semi-sketchy area of Southeast (he says KXL garden personality Mike Darcy, an Oswegoan, once visited and muttered, “Burl, we’ve got to get you out of here.”). Four years ago, Mostul and his wife, Cindy, began to build an eyepopping setting for an olive collection: a Romanesque stone castle complete with
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THE CHOCOLATE MAKER Charley Wheelock is a man with big dreams. Sitting on his back deck in inner Southeast Portland, he talks of building a chocolate factory, running small cacao plantations all over the world, and sailing boatfuls of beans from South America. But before he can do any of that, he has to make his first dream come true: starting Portland’s first bean-to-bar chocolate company. An industrial designer by trade, Wheelock and his wife, Jessica, decided several years ago that they wanted to start a more sustainable business for their young family. “We were going to dig a cave and be cheese finishers, make yogurt, fancy Popsicles,” he says. “Then we came across chocolate. Beyond chocolatiering, but making chocolate from the bean…. In Portland, no one’s even doing it!” Wheelock enrolled in a chocolate science class at UC Davis, purchased some hobby equipment, and the family started making loads and loads of chocolate. A year and a half later, they’re ready to take their Woodblock Chocolate brand to market. It’s almost surprising that no one else in local-obsessed Portland is making chocolate. The city’s top chocolatiers—Alma, Sahagún, Xocolatl de Davíd, even Moonstruck—don’t. They buy couverture chocolate, often from Europe, and use it to make “confections.” In the industry, they’re known as “remelters.” Wheelock makes chocolate. In his kitchen, he takes raw cacao beans from big burlap sacks, roasts them in a tiny coffee roaster, cracks them in a grinder powered by his electric drill, removes the shells with a homemade contraption built from PVC pipes and two vacuums (“For a long time, I was in the backyard with a salad bowl and a hair dryer—so this is a big step up!” he says), grinds the nibs down in a juicer, then smooths the paste for three days in a small “conching” machine. The chocolate then ages for about a month, before being tempered and set. It’s a time-consuming, scientific and notoriously delicate process, and mastering it requires patience, practice and passion— something Wheelock appears to have in spades. Earlier this year, he went to Costa Rica to visit cacao farms and learn about how the growing and harvesting determine the quality and flavor of the final product. “For the first time, people are looking at cacao like grapes, like wine,” he says. Out on the deck, Wheelock pulls out three finished bars, all made from 75 percent Venezuelan beans. “Oh, yeah,” he whispers to himself as he peels back the foil. We bite into the first, from the Ocumare region. It begins subtly, building into a long, rich earthy flavor that develops across the palate. The next, from Rio Caribe, is a totally different experience: shorter, bigger, fruitier. This week, Woodblock Chocolate finally launches, selling bars at artisan charcuterie bar Olympic Provisions. Wheelock is already thinking big: a real factory, a tasting room, collaborations with local chocolatiers. But to get there, he will first have to sell Portland on why Woodblock’s bean-to-bar chocolate is unique. We taste the third bar. Studded with bittersweet cacao nibs and fleur de sel, it’s a beautiful synthesis of tastes and textures. “This is fucking great, right?” Wheelock—who estimates he’s on track to eat 80 pounds of chocolate this year—says, beaming, before taking another piece. RUTH BROWN. Portland’s first bean-to-bar chocolate is dreamy.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 The Greenhornes, Jeff the Brotherhood, The Night Beats, The Angry Orts
See profile, page 23. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $13.50 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Hayes Carll, Quiet Life
[RAGGED COUNTRY & WESTERN] Every dude with a guitar and a pair of cowboy boots aims to embody the spirit of outlaw country greats like Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. But no one since Steve Earle has gotten as close to their signature combination of truthtelling, bitter romanticism and angry screeds as 36-year-old Hayes Carll. The Texas native arrived on the scene fully formed in 2002 with the brilliantly titled LP Flowers & Liquor, and he has only gotten stronger since. In his latest LP, KMAG YOYO, he takes on a variety of guises (the embittered vet, the grizzled lover) as he and his band, fueled by cheap beer and plenty of nicotine, travel down a dusty road. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Kathryn Calder, The Dimes, Himalayan Bear
[YOUTHFUL POP] If you’re the niece of A.C. Newman, you’re both Canadian and musically inclined. Kathryn Calder is indeed both: Raised as a New Pornographer, she found her own voice via now-defunct eclectic pop act Immaculate Machine. These days, she’s currently yearning to stretch her own legs. Touring solo for the first time in the wake of last year’s debut, Are You My Mother?, Calder bears a Feist-like playfulness, expressed through riffs played on old Kleenex boxes and forgotten high-school trumpets. Written beside her terminally ill mother, Calder’s only record is surprisingly bright, softened further by her seraphic vocals and restless touring band. MARK STOCK. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 21+.
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Midnight, Saviours, Lightning Swords of Death, Archons
[METAL] Cleveland’s hooded menace Midnight returns to Plan B as headliner of a touring quartet of total metal devastation. Bassist-vocalist Jamie Walters deserves to be famous based on his relentless metal worship, powerful chops and onstage shenanigans. From his old power-metal/sludge band, Boulder, through to his current retro first-wave black-’n’-roll act, Midnight— the man would have us believe that he sweats bullets and humps largebreasted Baphomets. East Bay thrash torch-bearer Saviours is tagging along for the ride, as well as one of Los Angeles’ best Fuligin Metal exports, the Lightning Swords of Death. LSOD is still on an epic quest to promote its 2010 Metal Blade release, The Extra Dimensional Wound, and should not be missed. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Man Man, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
[END TIMES ROCK] From Wall Street economics to Old Spice commercials, absurdity rules our lives these days. Man Man is a suitable soundtrack for all the craziness—playing wildly orchestrated circus rock with a penchant for juxtaposing rainbow-colored melodies and completely discordant outbursts— but at least the band knows it’s crazy. “It’s all about the ebb and flow/ Of
losing your mind sometimes and letting go,” Gypsy-freak frontman Honus Honus suggests over disconcertingly cheery beach-party instrumentation on “Piranhas Club,” from the Philly collective’s fine new record Life Fantastic. Good advice, surely, though his recommendations get a bit more troubling as he goes along. “And if you gotta scream until your voice breaks/ I say do it/ And if you gotta punch your dad in the face/ I say think about it/ Do it.” Wholesale disembowelment is another of Honus’ recommendations. Maybe Man Man doesn’t know it’s crazy. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
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Devin the Dude, Coughee Brothaz, Mikey Vegaz
[SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES] The two subjects Devin the Dude covers most in his rhymes—weed and gratuitous sex—won’t win him many fans in conservative political circles (or with concerned parents). But if they listened past the hos and blunts, rightwingers would find plenty to like in Devin’s worldview. On his anthem “Do What You Wanna Do,” the Houston rapper preaches about the importance of family and encourages listeners to respect their elders (after all, “they’ve been through similar shit”). And on “It’s On You,” from his latest album Suite 420, he advises a girl who’s cheating on her boyfriend (with Devin, of course) to seriously consider the gravity of the situation. “You’ve gots to pick which dick you wish to stick wit,” he wisely advises. Now that’s family values in action! CASEY JARMAN. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.
Tin Hat
Every Portland appearance by Tin Hat—the Bay Area acoustic quartet that transplants roots music somewhere dark and otherworldly to profoundly cinematic effect (appropriately enough, ringleader Mark Orton scored The Good Girl)—should be treasured, as the outfit has lately graced the Sundance stage and toured Europe but hasn’t played locally for years. Tin Hat is in town recording an album, though, and whereas its past, largely instrumental releases have included guest icons Tom Waits and Willie Nelson, the latest collection extrapolates the poetry of E.E. Cummings through trademark art-folk classicisms with violinist Carla Kihlstedt assuming vocal duties. JAY HORTON. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
Jimmy Eat World, Kinch
[EMO FOR THE AGING] Arizona’s Jimmy Eat World could’ve been the emo Beatles. That’s related to both the band’s popularity—2001’s Bleed American, featuring propulsive single “The Middle,” went platinum—and its ability to take a genre associated with teenage hormones to more mature artistic vistas without alienating the young people it’s meant for. But the two albums that followed the band’s mainstream breakthrough—the dark Futures and the appropriately named return-to-brightness Chase This Light— found the group stuck on a difficult (ahem) middle ground: a half-step too bubblegum for “serious” listeners and still too thoughtful for sustained mass
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Katy Davidson spent her high-school years in rural Arizona playing Nirvana covers on her guitar. It never struck her that she could write her own songs until she saw her friends at Lewis & Clark College, Jake and Dave Longstreth (the latter would go on to form Dirty Projectors years later), writing songs of their own. “Then it just clicked,” she says. “I was writing songs like crazy.” That doesn’t mean she was writing good songs, Davidson says. “I was such a product of the ’90s,” she says. “I was just trying to write songs like Weezer or Pavement or Guided By Voices.” Davidson says she’s not sure exactly when she stopped cribbing from Liz Phair (another early favorite), but the smart, quirky and atmospheric pop tunes committed on tape for her band Dear Nora’s 2001 debut, We’ll Have a Time, are evidence that living in the now-legendary Magic Marker house on Southeast 34th Avenue— which hosted some of the era’s best pop groups for impromptu living-room shows—had an impact on her songwriting. “It opened up a whole world to me,” she says via phone from Seattle (where she’s on tour as a full-time member of YACHT). For most of the aughts, though, Davidson was living in California—first San Francisco and then Los Angeles. “I’m obsessed with California,” she says. Even now, after returning to Portland in 2009 and forming a new project, Key Losers, Davidson says she misses the state every day. So it’s perhaps not surprising that she’d pen an entire album, California Lite, built around her experiences there. That phrase, “California lite”—a term Davidson says was coined by Portland musician Tara Jane O’Neil, who occasionally plays with Davidson’s soft-rock cover band, Feelin’ Alright—“is kind of an attitude,” Davidson says. “I think [O’Neil] is referencing a ’70s L.A. vibe, like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell hanging out with Crosby in the hills.” She thinks a minute. “It’s just, like, lens flare. Just picture lens flare.” “Lens flare” is a surprisingly accurate visual metaphor for the sounds on the first Key Losers full-length. The disc is a curious combination of
the experimental pop featured on the Losers’ 2010 debut EP, Adjust, and a worry-free sort of jamming one associates more with yacht rock than YACHT. Of course, the disc was recorded at the studio of Phil Elverum in not-exactly-sunny downtown Anacortes, Wash. So Davidson hand-selected musicians appearing on the disc—including some from uncharacteristically sunny bands like No Kids and Lake—because she thought they could pick up what she was laying down. “I said, ‘Dudes, do not hold back,’” Davidson says now. “I was like, ‘I want you to shred the nastiest solo or play the cheesiest sax line you can think of that still sounds good to you’... and people just went off.” While adding accents of smooth ’70s electric jazz (“Metal Masks”) and saxophone-fueled ’80s pop (“Horizon Line”) might sound like ironic artistic decisions, Davidson says it has more to do with her ever-expanding musical palette. “All through the ’90s I just thought that stuff sounded cheesy,
“I DON’T THINK ANYTHING SOUNDS CHEESY ANYMORE.” —KATY DAVIDSON and now I don’t think anything sounds cheesy anymore. I’ve removed that word from my language. I can say it—because I can hear how other people might hear it—but I only hear the musicianship and the songwriting.” That’s exactly what makes California Lite such a cool—in every sense of the word—listen. From the wandering bass lines and free-jazz breakdown of “Limited Time” to the Graceland-inspired West African guitar licks and gospel-style vocal blasts on “Smoggy Mountain High,” Davidson expands her sonic palette while retaining the tight, descriptive songwriting that makes her pop songs so special. What’s even better news for Davidson’s local fans is that she says she’s now a Portlander “for life,” a fact she chalks up to her local friends, collaborators and the relaxed pace of life here. “It has been like a permanent vacation since I got back,” she says happily. “But I still don’t like the weather.” CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Key Losers plays Work/Sound on Monday, May 23, with Mount Eerie and Nicholas Krgovich. 8 pm. $9. All ages.
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THURSDAY - FRIDAY consumption. Outside its hardcore fan base, a lot of people assumed the band had broken up when it released Invented last year, which found it once again exploring the darker regions of its sound and perhaps admitting, once and for all, that guys in their mid-30s just can’t make music for kids anymore. MATTHEW SINGER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 8 pm. $20 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[MORE PCP] How’s this for unexpected? Tonight marks the Portland Cello Project’s first hometown show of 2011. The prolific orchestral coven has been on the road for months, filling its polyglot schedule with a mixture of performance and outright creative flourish. Tonight’s show finds the Project collaborating with a typically stellar group of local heavy hitters: Gothic folkstress Laura Gibson will share real estate with the gospel choirlevel excitement of AgesandAges, as well as the intricate musings of Seattle multi-instrumentalist Tomo Nakayama. Welcome home,
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PROFILE
JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 [GARAGE ROCK] They just don’t make bands like JEFF the Brotherhood anymore. Or, rather, bands don’t make themselves the way these guys did anymore. In an age when groups are signed and hyped off demos three practices into their careers and dismissed by the time their first album is out, this Nashville psych-punk duo, brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall, self-released five records of Southern-fried psychedelic riff punk over the span of six years before finally feeling worthy of sharing itself with the rest of the world. Then, it hit the asphalt. Hard. “We quit our jobs, put our shit in storage, moved out of our places and lived on the road for 13 months,” says singer-guitarist Jake Orrall over the phone from their tour van as it rolls through the Arizona desert. “We had a solid record to tour behind. Plus, I was sick of working at grocery stores and shit.” Leaping into the nomadic grind of life as a full-time, completely self-sufficient rock band is usually a make-or-break proposition. As you might guess from the title of the pair’s upcoming album, We Are the Champions, the gamble has started to pay off. After living through the typical absurd hardships of being poor and essentially homeless—eating only peanut butterand-jelly sandwiches for weeks straight; trying to trade CDs for an oil change—things began to crest for the Orralls. The band got props from Spin, which called it one of the must-hear acts of South by Southwest; it attracted the attention of Jack White, who put out a live Brotherhood album on his Third Man Records imprint; and it secured a distribution deal for the album that pushed it out the door, 2009’s Heavy Days. Written in a week and recorded in three days, Champions sounds like the product of a band that logged 240 shows in 2010. It’s a leaner record than those that came before it, shrinking down the long-form, beery-eyed krautrock jams to punk scale and sweetening the hard-rock riffs with power-pop hooks and grungy crunch. Not everything has changed for the brothers, though. The new album is still coming out on Infinity Cat, the homespun label they run with their songwriter father, Robert Ellis Orrall. And they’re still touring heavily. There might be easier methods of achieving success these days, but the Orralls have no regrets. “I wouldn’t trade [anything] for our experience, ever,” Jake says. MATT SINGER. Call them old-fashioned, but JTB knows how to rock.
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MUSIC ALBUM REVIEWS
TARA JANE O’NEIL AND NIKAIDO KAZUMI SELF-TITLED (K RECORDS) [EXPERIMENTAL FLUTTERINGS] Tara Jane O’Neil is that rare musician who always sounds like she’s searching for new modes by which to express her overwhelming supply of artistic ideas. While O’Neil came to the attention of the indie world through her membership in groups like Rodan and Retsin, her solo work (along with sideline work sitting in with Jackie-O Motherfucker and Mount Eerie) has allowed her to tear into everything from noise to lucid folk to knee-buckling psych rock. O’Neil’s latest work finds her collaborating with friend and Japanese touring mate Nikaido Kazumi on an album of freeform songs, which glide in and out of the conscious world like dust motes through a sunbeam. The two apparently conceived the material here using pantomime and drawings, as neither spoke the other’s native language. And yet the music never feels disjointed. The smattering of instrumentation—a floor tom or jangling bit of percussion here, a touch of guitar or keyboard there—settles in perfectly with wordless vocal melodies that serve either to lull or jar. It’s rare when the album settles on anything that could be potentially recognizable to the average listener. O’Neil slips in little grace notes of blues licks into songs like “Nursery” and the exquisite closing track, “Temple Lullaby.” Otherwise, she and Kazumi bracingly saunter all over the sonic map, vocalizing with Yoko Ono-like intensity over the sound of the titular instrument on “Thumb Drum” or evoking the quiet chug and hums of “4 Trains.” The disc may strike some listeners as challenging, but the rewards that come from giving oneself over to its delicate beauty are vast. ROBERT HAM.
ASH BLACK BUFFLO ANDASOL (KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS) [CINEMATIC POST-ROCK] Local music obsessives who pore over the liner notes of their LPs and CDs will probably recognize the name of Jay Clarke. Since moving to Portland, he has been a member of the long-lamented post-rock outfit the Standard, helped form Dolorean with Al James and logged time onstage with folks like Grails and Holy Sons. Along the way, Clarke has carved a niche as a creator of soundtracks for theater and dance productions as well as for film (his work under his stage name Ash Black Bufflo forms the backdrop of the award-winning documentary Marwencol). That same spirit of stirring up emotions and encapsulating a narrative into a piece of music has been carried over on to Andasol, Clarke’s first solo album. The multi-instrumentalist imbues the 18 tracks here with a wealth of feeling, both melancholy and ebullient. Clarke has said that the songs here are something of a sonic spirit cleanse, allowing him to wrestle with the lingering emotions of childhood and family he was looking to sort through as he and his wife prepared to have their first child. With that idea in mind, the songs, even during the most fractured and discordant moments, have a full beating heart at their center. It’s hard to hear the plaintive guitar and xylophone melody of “Tulsa Slut” or the lost-in-the-ether piano of the title track (a reference to the street where Clarke grew up) without it dredging up your own stockpile of yellowing memories. ROBERT HAM. HEAR ’EM: Both these albums will be available at finer Portland record stores Tuesday, May 24.
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See Saturday listing. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 5 pm. $15. 21+.
The Thermals, Nurses, Purple Rhinestone Eagle
[THREE-PIECE TRIPLE THREAT] How many damn times do the Thermals play Portland in a year? It’s not like this is a group of upstart newbies trying to gain a foothold in the scene. At this point, they’re up there with the Decemberists and Menomena as one of the city’s biggest bands, and you don’t see those guys performing at places like Oaks Park Skating Rink every month, do you? Of course, that’s probably to the Thermals’ credit: Their punchy power punk never really gets old, but considering how easy it is to see them in town at any time, the true attraction of this gig is actually the combination of local openers. Stoner-metal vixens Purple Rhinestone Eagle and avantpop trio Nurses don’t have much in common other than being two of Portland’s best acts. But with neither having put out a record in a while—particularly Nurses, which is readying a follow-up to 2009 gem Apple’s Acre—this presents a great opportunity to possibly hear some new material. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. All ages.
James Blake
[COMPUTER BLUE-EYED SOUL] Arriving with a sound as subtle as water vapor and hype declaring him the future of electronic music, James Blake is undoubtedly the most anticipated British export hitting American shores this year. So what’s all the brouhaha about? Beats me. His eponymous debut amounts to a bunch of vague emoting over formless digital squiggles, yet folks insist he’s forging a bold new path for soulful singersongwriters. But don’t let my lack of endorsement keep you from this show. Let the fact that it’s long sold out do that. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. SOLD OUT. 21+.
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[VERY, VERY UNPLUGGED] Kristian Garrard and Luke Berman are the Simon and Garfunkel of modern-day acoustic folk—ever tussling in a majestic melodic battle of quick-witted guitar and hushed, coffeehouse vocals. The two guitarists, playing as Thousands, released the aptly titled The Sound of Everything this spring. The disc is a collection of atypical, classically fostered nondenominational hymns set to various organic background sounds—seagulls, wind gusts, crashing waves—from a
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recording journey that took them all over the Pacific Northwest. Impressively, the album involves zero post-production whatsoever, summing up the duo’s wafting, cafe-free sound in recorded form. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
SATURDAY, MAY 21 Ezza Rose, Alameda
[YOUNG FOLKIE] They grow up so fast. Ezza Rose has gone from nervous young singer-songwriter to talked-about Portland hotshot over the course of the past two years or so, and it’s easy to see that development on new album Jacob, which sees release tonight. Rose’s voice, delivery and arrangements are all thoroughly convincing, as is the disc’s production—sparse and old-timey where it needs to be; fleshed out and orchestrated elsewhere. The credit for all of this is due to the 22-year-old singer-songwriter (she self-produced Jacob at a few different Portland studios), but by the same token it needs to be said that her songwriting skills are still developing, which results in some of Jacob‘s tracks coming across as a bit precious and boy-crazy. Of course, you might be too distracted by Rose’s guitar playing and vocal range to notice what she’s singing about in the first place. CASEY JARMAN. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 9 pm. $10. All ages.
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[METALFEST] Now in its third year, the Black Circle Fest once again brings Inquisition to town. The band formed in Colombia way back in 1988, but actually lurks in the Seattle area now, enjoying its well-earned cult status and continuing to release albums such as 2010 entry Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm. Musically, Inquisition provides masterful and cosmic black metal, though the vocals land in that region occupied by Abbath from Immortal and Popeye the Sailor. Friday night includes a host of regional black- and death-metal acts from Portland, Battleground, Wash., and regions not far beyond. Historic Cleveland death-metal act NunSlaughter headlines Saturday night, presumably performing material from its forthcoming release, Nekrofilth. NATHAN CARSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 5 pm. $15. 21+.
Bizzy Bone
[BONE THUG (SINGULAR)] Of the post-Bone Thugs careers, Bizzy’s has been perhaps the most mercurial. There have been meltdowns and drunken ejections from Bone Thugs reunion tours. There was that weird-ass collaboration with the lead guitarist from a math-metal band called Animals as Leaders (um…yeah). Yet behind this troubled history, there remains a captivating essence to
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THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: Ezza Rose plays Alberta Rose Theatre on Saturday. Bizzy’s rapid-fire amalgam of rap and singing. He has a talent, and though you have to dig through the feuds, meltdowns and misguided side projects, it’s still there. New record Evolution of Elevation features a pair of lazy, free-flowing singles that feature an MC with a unique take on hip-hop rather than a percentage of Bone Thugsn-Harmony that is decidedly less than its whole. Note that tonight marks a rare all-ages gig at the Tabor—whether the kids come out remains to be seen. SHANE DANAHER. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 7 pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Re:vive Arts Benefit: The Kingsmen, Michael Allen Harrison (in the Rose Room)
[SCOTS ROCKS] More than half a century ago, en route to forging the riff that launched a thousand thousand high-school bands, Mike Mitchell attended David Douglas High School. This evening, he brings his iconic garage band the Kingsmen to the Rose Garden and joins the DDHS (whose mascot is the Scots) orchestra for a rendition of “Louie, Louie” as the doubtless high point of the Re:Vive Arts event to benefit the school district’s embattled music program. New Agey pianist and local charity circuit mainstay Michael Allen Harrison—composer of the “Mt. Hood Concerto”—will also perform. JAY HORTON. Rose Garden, 1401 N Wheeler Ave., 235-8771. 6 pm. $35. All ages.
Nuggets Night: Dharma Bums, Beyond Veronica, Welcome Home Walker, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, The Welfare State and more
[MONSTER GARAGE] The fifth annual “Nuggets Night” benefit brings another collection of local luminaries and soon-to-be legendary acts to the Slabtown stage covering selections from Lenny Kaye’s seminal compilation of ’60s garage. For former greats, there’s the alloriginal Dharma Bums—vocalist Jeremy Wilson’s foundation serves as the evening’s more than worthy recipient—rumbling through “You Must Be a Witch” (from Fred Cole’s Lollipop Shoppe) and “I Can Only Give You Everything” (more MC5 than Them, natch). Of the newish entries, there’s event founder and High Violet Luke Strahota’s all-star instrumental octet declaring “I’m a Man.” And, blending both strains, there’s reason for excitement over the debut of Sean Croghan & Satan Pilgrims (as the Pynnacles) announcing, with some reason, “You’ve Never Had It Better.” . JAY HORTON. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 223-0099. 8 pm. $10. 21+.
Seapony, Swim Swam Swum, Ghost Animal
[TWEE POP] The Seattle trio known as Seapony is, in some senses, positively indistinguishable from the glut of sun-dappled garage-pop groups traversing the world like a musical sequel to The Endless Summer (Vivian Girls, Real Estate, et al.). What keeps me turning back to its new album, Go With Me, more than any other similar release has
almost everything to do with Jen Weidl’s dreamy vocals, which evoke the best parts of the ’80s postpunk aesthetic while maintaining a treacly modern edge. Tonight, Seapony shares the stage with two local and much noisier versions of the same musical idea—Swim Swam Swum, and my frontrunner for Best New Band 2012, Ghost Animal. ROBERT HAM. The Woods, 6637 SE Milwaukie Ave., 890-0408. $7. 21+.
The Twilight Singers, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
[BLACK CELEBRATION] Greg Dulli doesn’t have fans so much as he has devotees. Those faithful, many of whom began following the songwriter during his run with seminal ’90s rock outfit Afghan Whigs, have seen a handful of incarnations of the Twilight Singers—Dulli’s mainsqueeze project since 2001—that slide on a scale from electro-pop to full-on rock band. While new record Dynamite Steps is a decidedly gloomy (and only somewhat electronic) record full of gritty lyrical Dulli-isms, there’s still something a bit Peter Gabriel grandiose about sweeping, slow-building tunes like “She Was Stolen” and “The Beginning of the End.” Dulli has surrounded himself with a fantastic (and fantastically loud) live band for this tour—but onstage the Singers remain largely anonymous. The show is Dulli, front and center, turned up loud so his fans can hear every precious word. Just how it should be. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
SUNDAY, MAY 22 System and Station, Wax Fingers, Apache Trail
[KRAUTROCK] With a video and new songs in the works, reliable Portland krautrockers Wax Fingers continue to evolve with the bubbly, hallucinogenic motion of your favorite lava lamp. In its comfort zone since last year’s stellar single, “Sticky Bees,” the trio is riding a big wave crafted by the likes of brethren bands Battles and Arboretum. There’s a good chance guitarist Pete Bosack will debut the Eventide Pitchfactor pedal he won on eBay tonight: Just one more piece of weaponry in Wax Fingers’ lengthy artillery belt of effects and modifiers. System and Station and Apache Trail share an evening devoted to local experimental rock presented by Jack Daniels (so we expect cheap-ass whiskey). Ye gods! MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Ravenna Woods, Tango Alpha Tango [CONTEMPLATIVE HOOTENANNY] It feels a little like we’re playing into stereotypes whenever the Northwest produces a band whose neo-folk sound befits these forested and flannel-clad parts so quaintly (see: Fleet Foxes, Cave Singers). It’s hard to mind, though, when the acts emerging from our plaid woods are as creatively
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mature as this show’s Seattle-based headliner. On Ravenna Woods’ just-released EP, Valley of the Headless Men, toe-tappin’ drumming, fancy gee-tar finger work, and singer Chris Cunningham’s selfassured drawl turn up the hoedown energy while quieter, reflective numbers tone down the honkytonk. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
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[RHETORICAL QUESTION] What’s it like, y’think, to be in a cocoon? In reality, probably pretty uncomfortable, what with all the generating of appendages and the metamorphosing. But if you imagine it as like being swaddled in a fuzzy blanket, then Cocoon, the title of Ever Isles’ debut album, evokes the San Franciscan boy-girl duo’s soft and somnolent indie pop perfectly. In a one-two punch, singercomposer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s high, clear vocals lull you as dreamy banjo, clarinet and xylophone accents set you on your way toward nodding off with the lights out. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Valentine’s, 232 SW Ankeny St., 248-1600. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
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RECORD RELEASE EVENT! SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE TUESDAY 5/24 @ 6PM
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside vigorously mines a sweet spot between modern and vintage. Sallie’s voice has elicited comparisons to classic jazz and blues icons, yet it is stoked with the fire of youth and rebellion. Since 2008 they have been intertwining elements of swinging roots rock, country, jazz, and blues with a contemporary lyrical stance and Ford’s instantly recognizable voice. Now, with the release of ‘Dirty Radio,’ Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside offers the most fully realized example of its aesthetic yet.
SYSTEM AND STATION • WED 5/25 @ 6PM
Led by Ryan Heise, whose song-writing acumen is both colossal and melodic, System and Station write songs that are accessible, complex and endearing. ‘A Series of Screws’ is System and Station’s fifth LP. The title speaks volumes about a band that has been crafting and perfecting their epic brand of rock over the past decade.
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Lew began playing around Portland back in 1974 and has been playing live gigs every week ever since. His latest release, ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ is a concept album celebrating dreams, love, hope, and music. Jazz genius Brad Rapp is on several tracks, as well as drummers Ken Woodside (Shorty and the Mustangs) and Dennis Elmer (The Lew Jones Band, Henry Moon). Also in the mix is Jon Lindahl on bass and Kevin McGloughlin on vocals.
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MONDAY, MAY 23 Go By Train (Dan Balmer and Clay Giberson)
[TRANCE JAZZ] There’s a thin line between synth-fueled, experimental acid jazz and new age noodling. It’s a line that guitarist Dan Balmer and keyboardist/programmer Clay Giberson occasionally tow on their new record as Go By Train, Transmission. But for the most part—even when they seem dangerously near losing themselves in the wilderness of the spacedout “Future X”—these guys carry a torch that burned strong in the ’70s, when Les McCann, Return to Forever and Herbie Hancock tested the technological boundaries of jazz. The transportative “All Unnecessary Equipment (Is Being Turned Off)” and an unexpectedly pretty and somber cover of the Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” both attest to the duo embracing an optimistic stripe of jazz futurism that all but died in the Reagan era. Balmer and Gibson, both extremely talented players, make that old future look new again. CASEY JARMAN. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
TUESDAY, MAY 24 Slow Trucks, Pony Village, Charts, Casual Dolphins
[SLACKER ROCK] If Slow Trucks has a selling point in excess of its guitar-heavy, indie-rock brethren, it is that the San Francisco-based trio sounds like it’s having fun with what it’s doing. A lot of fun, actually. It’s reminiscent of the fun that was had by Pavement when sloppy was a preference rather than a creed; the fun of Built to Spill’s early experiments in setting a riff in motion and seeing where it landed. Slow Trucks’ debut album, Hard, released in March, sounds like it was cryogenically frozen in 1997, only to be thawed when the world needed reminding that guitars and 4/4 time signatures are meant to elicit spontaneous enjoyment. SHANE DANAHER. The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian, 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669. 9 pm. $4. 21+.
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[MAY 18 - 24] Ghost Animal, Prescription Pills, Hausu, Period Romance
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Jade Lounge
Vie de Boheme
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Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
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Landmark Saloon
WED. MAY 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brian Bonz
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Songs of Sondheim
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Mercyia, Impaler, Curien, Revolution Overdue
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Death Songs, River Banks, On the Stairs
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration (9 pm); Little Sue (6 pm)
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Blake Lyman Trio
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. The Greenhornes, Jeff the Brotherhood, The Night Beats, The Angry Orts
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
4605 NE Fremont St. Karen Maria Capo
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Hayes Carll, Quiet Life
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave.
Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs
LaurelThirst
714 SW 20th Place Tyler Gregory, Chris Luxem, Margo May
2958 NE Glisan St. Treetop Tribe, Hawkins Wright (9 pm); Michael Hurley (6 pm)
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
625 NW 21st Ave. Eric John Kaiser, The French Troubadour
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St.
2126 SW Halsey St. Hanz Araki
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Kathryn Calder, The Dimes, Himalayan Bear
Mississippi Pizza
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Anna Spackman
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Todd Bishop
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Man Man, Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers
THURS. MAY 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brian Bonz
Aladdin Theater
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Andrews Avenue, AM Exchange
Mississippi Studios
Alberta Rose Theatre
Muddy Rudder Public House
3000 NE Alberta St. The Bedroom Show
Alberta Street Public House
8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns
1036 NE Alberta St. Namoli Brennet, Eric Himan (9:30 pm); Tyler Gregory (6:30 pm)
Music Millennium
Andina
3158 E Burnside St. Hayes Carll
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Midnight, Saviours, Lightning Swords of Death, Archons
Pub at the End of the Universe 4107 SE 28th Ave. Lillian Soderman, Karyn Patridge, Feather Dove, Rachel Miles
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Cody Simpson, Greyson Chance, Camryn
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Glitter Express, Le Roy Jerome
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. The Chemicals, Therapists
TeaZone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Blake Lyman Trio
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Melz, Prigodich, Erskine Group
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The New Pioneers, Martyrs, Maggie Jane
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Catheter, Violence of Humanity, Streetwalker
The Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St The Directory
D AV I D C O O P E R
1530 SE 7th Ave. Glenn Moore, Dan Gaynor, Tyson Stulbeck
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Antoine Dufour, Gareth Pearson, Ewan Dobson, Craig D’Andrea
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kasey Anderson & The Honkies, Gasoline Silver, Lincoln’s Beard
1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Dina & Bamba Y Su Pilon D’Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Public Drunken Sex, Reign Pro, Doughboy the Wordsmith, Proper Respect
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Sufenta, The Eventuals, Ghevont, Sabrina Fountain
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Open Bluegrass Jam (9 pm); The Don of Division St. (6 pm)
Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Quintet
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Heart Attack High, Buck Williams, Proven, Passing Judgement, Decieving The Gods
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Chris Bigley
Chapel Pub
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stone River Boys (9 pm); Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place And I Was Like What?, Low-Fi, The Lion The Tamer, Tiger House
625 NW 21st Ave. Anthony Brady
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Devin the Dude, Coughee Brothaz, Mikey Vegaz
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Renegade Minstrels
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Pagan Jug Band
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. James Sasser
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Redeemed, W.C. Beck (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Blackberry Hall 2126 SW Halsey St. Cornmeal
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Douglas Cameron
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Tin Hat
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Annie Bethancourt (9 pm); Erin Cole-Baker, Blue in the Face (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs, Dead Rock West, Garrett Pierce
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. On the Stairs, Mystery Siblings
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Toussaint the Liberator, Escort Service Band, Chronicle, Alcyon Massive
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Discotecca Electronico with Tage Starheim Savage
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. John Bunzow
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Red Room
Thirsty Lion
4605 NE Fremont St. Ron Steen’s Jazz Jam
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
510 NW 11th Ave. Chris Bigley
Dante’s
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
8132 SE 13th Ave. Two Rivers, Rex Cabot Wilson
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Los Estupidos
Plan B
1332 W Burnside St. Tango Alpha Tango, Hello Morning, No Kind of Rider, Violet Isle
Sellwood Public House
Goodfoot Lounge
Crystal Ballroom
1669 SE Bybee Blvd Clifford Koufman Trio
Nu Sensae, White Lung, Arctic Flowers, Fast Weapons DJs
8635 N Lombard St. Kevin Barber Band, Karyn Patridge
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
350 W Burnside St. Bad Manners, The Israelites, Original Middleage Ska Enjoy Club
71 SW 2nd Ave. David Kessler, Avery Camacho
Buffalo Tom
Corkscrew Wine Bar
The World Famous Kenton Club 2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Barkers
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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Anandi
2314 SE Division St. Andrew Orr, Jen Howard 1305 SE 8th Ave. Erik Anarchy, Wizard Boots, Stashback, Idols Diatribe, Lucky Beltran 2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Ascendants, Stringbean
Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Don Omar
TeaZone and Camellia Lounge
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Lucy Hammond Band
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Juli Homi and Homiopathy
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. New York Rifles, The Ax, Old Kingdom, Beau Burtnik
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Worthless Eaters, Cursebreakers
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. SpecOps Music: Harp, Flak, Uncommon Sense
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Yeah Great Fine, Yarn Owl, Future Historians
The World Famous Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Pat Reedy and The Roadrunners, Countryside Ride
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Kent Smith
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Snowbud and the Flower People, The Warshers, Cherry City Deadbeats
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Fixed and Dilated, Tim Connor
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Bre Gregg Trio
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Dean, Rainbow Jivehammer (8:30 pm); 6bq9 (6 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Aaron Shinkle Band, Jawbone Flats (8:30 pm); Will West and the Friendly Cover Up (5:30 pm)
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Jimmy Eat World, Kinch
FRIDAY, MAY. 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Brian Bonz
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Portland Cello Project, with AgesandAges, Laura Gibson, Weinland and Tomo Nakayama
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Bedroom Show
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave.
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8635 N Lombard St. Woodbrain
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Franco and the Stingers
TaborSpace
5441 SE Belmont St. Faux Dill and the Sparklettes, Phresh Kids, Zesty Peppers, Seven on a Bench
TeaZone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Negara
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lloyd Allen Sr.
The Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. The Gams, Mighty Ghosts
OLD JOY: The term “Prohibition-style cocktails” is troubling. Do the cocktails come sans booze? Do they carry little tommy guns? At Sidecar 11 (3955 N Mississippi Ave., 208-3798, sidecarpdx.wordpress.com), a new “speakeasy” on Mississippi Avenue, “Prohibition-style” apparently just means “real good.” The club’s marquee drink, a murky-looking sugar-topped citrus concoction called the Mississippi Sidecar ($7), is as tasty as it is pretty. The mint julep-esque Gin Gin Mule (also $7) comes in a half-empty glass, but a startlingly strong first sip proves that the cup is really half full. The hallway-shaped room, like Sidecar’s drinks, is sparsely decorated (out of necessity, as it is a tiny space). That makes it a low-key escape from an increasingly bustling neighborhood. Also, the already cheap appetizers are half off for happy hour. Maybe Prohibition wasn’t all that bad. CASEY JARMAN. Lucky Jumping Voice (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
The Buckles (9 pm); Joy and Her Sentimental Gentlemen (6 pm)
Five Eyed Hand, Sugarcane String Band
Andina
East End
801 NE Broadway White Fang, The B-Lines, Grown-Ups, DJ Jeffrey Jerusalem
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Seven Reasons, Shelter Red, Spatia, A((wake))
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Mean Satisfaction
Berbati’s Pan
231 SW Ankeny St. This Will Destroy You, Sleep-Over, Pure X
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Fenbi International Superstars (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy and Jimmy Boyer (6:00 pm)
Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Rabbit Foot
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Northwestern Black Circle Fest: Inquisition, Mysticism Black, Panzergod, Tormentium, Cemetery Lust, Grim Ritual, Infernus, Phlegethon, Sacrament ov Impurity
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Negara
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The Thermals, Nurses, Purple Rhinestone Eagle
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Honey Wars
203 SE Grand Ave. Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Soft Bombs, Go Fever
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Tim Roth
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. River Twain
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. Buster Blue
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Patrimony, Half Way There, Buster Blue, The Backyard Blues Boys
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Sam Densmore (8 pm); Vivavoce (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Thara Memory’s Superband
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers (9:30 pm); Come Gather Round Us (6 pm)
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
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3158 E Burnside St. Lew Jones
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Norman Sylvester
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Agent Orange, Clackamas Baby Killers, The Bloodtypes, Mean Jeans
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Old Yellers
Proper Eats Market and Cafe 8638 N Lombard St. Stumptown Jug Thumpers
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Chloraform, The Warshers, Half the Battle, Nothing Said, Boston Rex
Roseland Theater
Rotture
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Three Finger Jack (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
Mock Crest Tavern
1635 SE 7th Ave.
Music Millennium
Mississippi Pizza
Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
8105 SE 7th Ave. Renegade Trio
2126 SW Halsey St. Ryan VanDordrecht
4605 NE Fremont St. Nick Saumé Trio 830 E Burnside St. James Blake
Muddy Rudder Public House
8 NW 6th Ave. David Allan Coe, Mike Damron, Kurt Van Meter with Lock, Stock and Barrel
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Thousands, Great Wilderness, Ryan Francesconi (9 pm); Eye Candy VJs (5 pm)
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
Mudai Lounge
3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin Out
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
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315 SE 3rd Ave. Dylan Rhymes, Jaden, Vize, Team Sexy
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Casey Neill and The Norway Rats
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Arlie Conner and Friends
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. And And And, My Autumn’s Done Come, No Tomorrow Boys
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. The Volt Per Octaves, Lord Senor Antron, Sir Mongoose Thompson the 8th
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Love Lies Dying, Ill Lucid Onset, Chris Margolin and The Dregs
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Nasalrod, Dr. Moss
The Lovecraft
O’Mercy (9:30 pm); Justin Klump (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Damn Glad To Meet You, Tinzen, AM Interstate
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Hello Electric, DSR, Kopath Bear, Murmuring Pines, Kevin Rafn, Paint and Copter, Rollerball (7 pm); Kim Boekbinder, Myrrh Larsen (5 pm)
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Los Cow Tones, Sloppy Joe, John Malloy and his Birthday Bash
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Drunken Prayer, Massy Ferguson (9:30 pm); Twisted Whistle (5 pm)
Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. James Faretheewell
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Northwestern Black Circle Fest: NunSlaughter, Ceremonial Castings, The Red King, Blood of Martyrs, Oakenheart, Nihilotep, Thrallscurse, Drakul, Adduara
421 SE Grand Propaganda, Dead Animal Assembly Plant
Camellia Lounge
The Whiskey Bar
Clyde’s Prime Rib
31 NW 1st Ave. Rick Bain and The Genius Position, Hawkeye, Whole Wide World
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Adam Sweeney and The Jamboree, The Beautiful Trainwrecks, Boy and Bean
The World Famous Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Haukness, Last Prick Standing, Billions and Billions, Batmen
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Julian’s Ride
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Deathtrap America
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Outpost, Synrgy
510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Captured by Robots, Raise the Bridges, Gaytheist
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
4605 NE Fremont St. Jay Harris’ Moon by Night Jazz and Soul Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Lewi Longmire Band, Sassparilla, James Low Western Front
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. D.K. Stewart Sextet
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Superband
Vie de Boheme
Hawthorne Hophouse
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
White Eagle Saloon
Hawthorne Theatre
836 N Russell St. John Craig and the Weekend, Nicole Berke (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Joan as Police Woman, Bhi Bhiman, Themes
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward Sharkskin Review
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Bizzy Bone
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Why I Must Be Careful, Karen, Breezin, Woolen Men, DJ Landlord
Muddy Rudder Public House
4111 SE Hawthorne Folk and Spoon
1503 SE 39th Ave. Tin Silver
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Target For Tomorrow and the Horns of Destruction, The Closet Monsters, The Flailing Inhalers, The Long Shots
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
Astakask, Hellshock, Arctic Flowers, Belicose Minds, DJ Ahex, Anok4uok?
The Know
Ella Street Social Club
426 SW Washington St. Oxcart, A Killing Dove 2026 NE Alberta St. Heaven Generaton, Bitch School, Knox Harrington
The Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St Hoops with Ben Krahn, DJ Alex
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Wayne Gacy Trio, Mercyia, Deep Sea Vents, Fall From Zero
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Seapony, Swim Swam Swum, Ghost Animal
The World Famous Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Singing Knives, Right On John, Ghostwriter
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Bradley Band
Queen of Hearts Tavern
Vie de Boheme
8638 N Lombard St. Jacki Wheeler
5501 SE 72nd Ave. Original Middleage Ska Enjoy Club, The Sentiments, DJ Mikey Oh!
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Flesh Lawn, Shovelbelt, Red Ships of Spain
1530 SE 7th Ave. Trashcan Joe, Mel Kubik
White Eagle Saloon
Red Room
836 N Russell St. Sabrina Fountain, Sleepwalker (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Rose Garden
128 NE Russell St. The Twilight Singers, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Pitchfork Abortion, Zombie Messiah, Dirtnap, Ninja 1401 N Wheeler Ave. Re:vive Arts Benefit: The Kingsmen, Michael Allen Harrison (in the Rose Room)
Saratoga
Wonder Ballroom
SUN. MAY 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Truckstop Darlin’, Alexander Hudjohn
116 NE Russell St. Bridgetown Sextet (9 pm); The Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Andina
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Wicky Pickers
225 SW Ash St. Cuddlebone, Kopath Bear, The Starship Renegade
Slabtown
Berbati’s Pan
1033 NW 16th Ave. Nuggets Night: Dharma Bums, Beyond Veronica, Welcome Home Walker, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, The Welfare State, Brownish Black, Pynnacles, The Satin Chaps, Mr Howl, Metropolitan Farms, The Honus Huffhines, Deep Joy, Jim Jams, Pataha Hiss, Terwilliger Cur
Spare Room
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
231 SW Ankeny St. Sam Bradley, Holly Conlan
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. E.S.I.
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen’s Jazz Jam
Dante’s
LaurelThirst
3954 N Williams Ave. Saturnalia Trio
830 E Burnside St. System and Station, Wax Fingers, Apache Trail
2958 NE Glisan St. Jimmy Boyer Band (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
The Blue Diamond
Duff’s Garage
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
The Globe
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ezza Rose, Alameda
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.
2126 SW Halsey St. Brady Goss
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy & Tim Acott with Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Twilight Café and Bar
Landmark Saloon
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Shawn Mullins
LaurelThirst
Proper Eats Market and Cafe
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Colin Vallon Trio
510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre
Aladdin Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Pacific Crest Jazz Orchestra (4 pm); Viva Voce, Sneakin’ Out, DJ Anjali (1 pm)
Mississippi Studios
2621 SE Clinton St. Pete Krebs Swing Trio
SAT. MAY 21
4847 SE Division St. Ric Rac
Kennedy School
Tony Starlight’s
2527 NE Alberta St. Amy Keys
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Diego’s Umbrella, Domino Trauma, Age Sex Occupation
1182 SE Pine St. Jim Page
303 SW 12th Ave. Brian Bonz
2346 SE Ankeny St. Ahmond (8:30 pm); Human Voices (7 pm); Autumn Rouse (5:30 pm)
Press Club
Original Halibut’s II
Jimmy Mak’s
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Jade Lounge
Mississippi Pizza
3158 E Burnside St. Massy Ferguson
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze
221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tribal Seeds, Through The Roots
Tonic Lounge
Music Millennium
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Shook Twins (8 pm); Highball Whistle (6 pm)
Hawthorne Theatre
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
317 NW Broadway Jar of Lies, Lovedrive
128 NE Russell St. Eisley, The Narrative, Christie DuPree
Wonder Ballroom
714 SW 20th Place Tomten, Casual Dolphins
Tiger Bar
8105 SE 7th Ave. Greg Clarke
Secret Society Lounge
Goodfoot Lounge
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Terry Robb
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Klickitat, Howlin’ Winds (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)
East End
1800 E Burnside St. The Oh My Mys
Twilight Café and Bar
1530 SE 7th Ave. LaRhonda Steele
Mississippi Pizza
6910 N Interstate Ave. Play/start, Forsorcerers, Dexter Flowers
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Midnight Serenaders 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Smoking Mirrors, Frozen Border, Acoustic Rumor
1624 NW Glisan St. Crow Quill Night Owls, Mud Bay Jugglers, Tune Stranglers, Magidah, Miss Michael Jodell
East Burn
203 SE Grand Ave. Astakask, Burning Leather, Tensions, Fast Takers, DJ Col Loko
Tony Starlight’s
Mission Theater
St. Francis of Assisi Church - Dining Hall
TeaZone and Camellia Lounge
The Analog Room
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo 2045 SE Belmont St. Western Family, Phil Anderson
2126 SW Halsey St. Mary Flower
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Kim DeLacy (9 pm); Jenny Finn Orchestra (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Typhoon, Cannons and Clouds, Youth (9 pm); Sean Flinn & The Royal We, River Banks (4 pm)
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway El, Population 2
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Day Glo Abortions, Rum Rebellion, Embrace The Kill, Rendered Useless
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Ravenna Woods, Tango Alpha Tango
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. El Tri
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Hanz Araki and Cary Novotny
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
8635 N Lombard St. Johnny Ward Sharktet
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Rychen and Friends
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. Denison Witmer
The World Famous Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. DJ Holiday, The Fantastic T.A.D.
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Friendly Skies, Drunk on Pines, Hypnogogue (8 pm); Hangover Helper Comedy and Burlesque Showcase (2 pm)
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret, Danny Harvey’s 50th Birthday Show, The Rocketz
Tupai at Andina
Doc George’s Jazz Kitchen
232 SW Ankeny St. Ever Isles, Lindsay Clark, Hearsay and Hyperbole, Ryan Francesconi
4605 NE Fremont St. Ed Neumann with the Big Easy Band
Doug Fir Lounge
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Stolen Sweets
East End
203 SE Grand Ave.
1314 NW Glisan St. Stephanie Schneiderman
Valentine’s
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Elke Robitaille
MON. MAY 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Truckstop Darlin’, Will Fries and Brian Altman
CALENDAR Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Shawn Mullins
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. The Warm Guns, T. Jones
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Scott Head
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Dorkbot
Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Renato Caranto’s Funk Band
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Little Sue and Lynn Conover (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Skip vonKuske
Mount Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Keegan Smith and The Fam
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Boom, Keep Your Fork There’s Pie, The Glyptodons
The Globe
Not Your Robot, Xponential
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Hot Victory, Extralone, DJ Remy the Restless
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Buoy LaRue, Rich Lander
TUES. MAY 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Truckstop Darlin’, Kip Lendig
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Terrible Buttons, J. Wong
DJ Freaky Outy
625 NW 21st Ave. Kory Quinn
1305 SE 8th Ave. Stonecreep, Titan’s Eve, Deth Proof
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Jade Lounge
Rotture
Valentine’s
Someday Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Mick Schafer
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8:30 pm); Sunset High School Jazz Band (6:30 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Caleb Klauder and Sammy Lind
Mississippi Pizza
315 SE 3rd Ave. Woods of Ypres, Mary Shelley, Noctis, Acidious Mutandis
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Singer-Songwriter Showcase
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Slow Trucks, Pony Village, Charts, Casual Dolphins
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Beaterville Cafe
Mississippi Studios
2026 NE Alberta St. Eye Candy VJs featuring Milk Music
Mock Crest Tavern
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Countryland
2201 N Killingsworth St. Frank Tribble Quintent
Bunk Bar
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Total Slacker, Total Bros, Karen
Camellia Lounge
3435 N Lombard St. Jeff Jensen Band
1028 SE Water Ave. Pegasus Dream 510 NW 11th Ave. Weekly Jazz Jam
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Bleak Resonance
Ella Street Social Club
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh’s Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
714 SW 20th Place Glitter Express, Crypt of the Grave, The Shoguns
The Knife Shop at Kelly’s Olympian
Goodfoot Lounge
426 SW Washington St.
Plan B
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Baby Ketten Karaoke (9 pm); Cedro Willie (6 pm)
Andina
2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio
MUSIC
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
Mount Tabor Theater 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Family Funktion featuring Average Leftovers
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Ride The Light, Timmy Williams
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Sallie Ford
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Paul Brainard
The Know
The World Famous Kenton Club
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PDX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Ayars Vocal Showcase
Twilight Cafe and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. The Roaming
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Houndstooth
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Gabby Holt, Hot Milk, Monkey Puzzle
18 NW 3rd Ave. Townbombing: Doc Adam, Lionsden
WED. MAY 18 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Smooth Hopperator
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway DJ Matt Scaphism
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Nightshift: Z-Man, The Cuf, Equipto, DMLH, DJ Gwizski, DJ ATM
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ A-Train
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Party Aminal
THURS. MAY 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Studio 69: Strength, Sex Life, Soft Metals, New Moon Poncho DJs, DJ Acidwash
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. The Fix: Rev. Shines, KEZ, Dundiggy
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Skate Rock! with DJ Fun Thousand
The Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St DJ ID
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Mild Child
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Bang A Rang: Doc Adam
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Dreamlover, DJ Snakk$, DJ Sister Sister
FRI. MAY 20 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Hwy 7
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour: Kendall Holladay (5 pm)
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Stylized: Illaj, Halfa
Star Bar
232 SW Ankeny St. Ecstacy House Night: The Miracules Club, DJ Avalon
SAT. MAY 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Stargazer
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming, DJ Trans Fat, DJ Ill Camino
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Abbey with DJ F Star
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Sunday’s Best: DJ Nick Dean, DJ 60/40
MON. MAY 23 Ash Street Saloon
Rotture
Star Bar
315 SE 3rd Ave. Amigos!: Chaach, El Cucuy, Darkcloud, DJ RAD!
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
Someday Lounge
1465 NE Prescott St. Cenobites
125 NW 5th Ave. Ante Up: Doctor Adam, DJ Nature, Ronin Roc
Star Bar
Tiga
TUES. MAY 24
639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself! with DJ Cecilia Paris
Star Bar
The Lovecraft
The Lovecraft
The Spot
Tiga
421 SE Grand Blast!
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJs vs. Nature
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Takeover
The World Famous Kenton Club
1305 SE 8th Ave. DJ Catsup and Mustard
The Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St Dave the DJ
125 NW 5th Ave. Hive: Owen, Brian Backlash
225 SW Ash St. Rocks’Off: DJ Nik Elvis, DJ Danny the Eliminator, DJ Pete
Plan B
2041 N. Harding St. Kings Krown 3D: SPKR Ninjaz, Killa K, Rustik and more
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Paultimore
SUN. MAY 22
Tiga
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave.
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator 421 SE Grand Darkness Descends 1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday: Ronin Roc
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Black Dog
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The Mystery of Irma Vep
= 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.
Bust
On any given day, the Los Angeles County jail system holds more than 18,000 men and women in custody— 160,000, all told, in 2010. Lauren Weedman’s autobiographical play, drawn from her experiences volunteering there as an inmate advocate, is about more than inhumane jail conditions, weaving her visits to the jail with the humiliation and frivolity of the lives of the not-quite-famous. But it is the sense of overpopulation that lingers, perhaps because the work itself teems with life. Where a lesser performer might fall back on narration to convey her reaction to the horror, Weedman, a veteran of The Daily Show and Reno 911, never once breaks character. She is a remarkable observer of behavior, and every person she encounters, in the jail and health spa and audition room, appears fully realized, conveying entire biographies through voice and stance, each of them immediately recognizable. BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Wednesdays and Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays and Sundays, noon and 7:30 pm Thursdays, through June 19. $18-$40.
The Cherry Orchard
With the premiere of Richard Kramer’s commissioned adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, Artists Repertory Theatre and director Jon Kretzu have completed the project of four new Chekhov adaptations they began six years ago. Kramer’s take maintains the tug-of-war between sorrow and wit that dates back to the show’s first production, when Constantin Stanislavski turned what Chekhov meant to be farce into tragedy, but adds sitcomesque humor. Uncomfortable cruelty and profound loneliness are peppered with conspicuous laugh lines that swing between flavorful and tasteless: The affluent Yermolay (Tim Blough) is announced to have stepped in crap, and the rotund Pischik (Todd Van Voris) claws at the air with a long “meowww” when Varya (Val Landrum) turns her back. NATALIE BAKER. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 and 7:30 pm Sunday, May 18-22. $20-$42.
Fortinbras
[NEW REVIEW] Profile Theatre’s finale to its season of plays by Lee Blessing may pick up where Hamlet left off, but it’s no Shakespearean tragedy. Fortinbras is so contemporary it would be spooky, save for the superb humor. Following a national disaster (bizarre royal regicide), frat boy Fortinbras seizes the throne and decides to rewrite history (inventing a villain, declaring false wars and shutting down nonconformists). “How can we be heroes if we can’t even see who we’ve triumphed over?” Fortinbras asks. “We need someone we can hate right here, right now.” Déjà vu, anyone? Don’t worry, the borderline raunchy humor (hot sex with a dead person, for starters) will bring you back to fiction. The talented cast led by Profile regular Leif Norby performs a retrospective lesson on History with a capital “H,” punctuated by witty comedy and Rolling Stones interludes. Written following the 1991 Gulf War, Fortinbras is well worth seeing in this strange age we live in. STACY BROWNHILL. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Talk with the playwright following matinee on Sunday, May 22. Closes June 5. $12-$28.
Grand Guignol 3: Ménage à Trois
An evening of gory horror vignettes from Third Eye Theatre. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 970-8874. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through June 4. $12-$15.
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How I Became a Pirate!
Oregon Children’s Theatre presents a musical about juvenile piracy. Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22. $17.50-$33. All Ages.
Last of the Boys
The jammed-up Vietnam vet, as a character, achieved its epitome in 1998 at the hands of the Coen brothers, but writers keep going back to the Walter Sobchak well. Steven Dietz’s 2004 drama draws straight from the archetype. A pair of Army buddies—Jeeter (Michael O’Connell), a groovy community-college professor whose taste in music and spirituality were frozen in 1975, and Ben (Damon Kupper), a reclusive carpenter who mostly just scowls—down endless bottles of Miller High Life in the littered yard outside Ben’s trailer, noisily flinging the empties into a dumpster and talking about anything but their ghosts. BEN WATERHOUSE. Third Rail Rep at the World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $15-$32.
Lazarillo
Last summer, CarlosAlexis Cruz staged an odd and exhausting circus-inspired performance titled A Suicide Note From a Cockroach. In that show, the writer-director-performer stood in the middle of the stage while a succession of tragedies transpired, loudly, around him, with much tumbling and mugging, to a soundtrack by Juan Prophet Organization. This show, very loosely adapted by Cruz from the 16thcentury picaresque novella Lazarillo de Tormes, is spiritually identical to that work. Cruz plays Lázaro de Patillas, a Puerto Rican New Yorker who is sold into service to a succession of cruel masters and eventually finds rewarding work at a fast-food joint. While the music (by Juan Prophet Organization, again) is good, and the masks worn by all the performers but Cruz are masterfully designed (by Kate Braidwood, who also performs), the show is, despite many entertaining moments, too long and too loud. BEN WATERHOUSE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 28. $14-$25.
Lobby Hero
Twilight Repertory Theatre presents a comedy by Kenneth Lonergan about four people who live in a really awful apartment building. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 312-6789. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 12. $10-$15. Sundays are “pay what you will.”.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Having enjoyed great success in 2010 with August Wilson’s final play, Radio Golf, Portland Playhouse now returns to the playwright’s work to end its season with his first. The play takes place in 1923 in three rooms of a Chicago recording studio (neatly stacked back to front in Daniel Meeker’s set), where white record producer Sturdyvant (Bruce Burkhartsmeier) is preparing for a session with blues singer Ma Rainey (alternately Julianne Johnson and Marilyn Keller). The problem: Ma Rainey has not shown up. The musicians, who gather in the studio’s rehearsal room, manage very little rehearsing between a lot of first-rate bullshitting: Cutler (Wendell Wright), Slow Drag (Jerry Foster), Toledo (Wrick Jones) and Levee (Victor Mack, in his best performance I’ve yet seen) are characters you can chew on for hours. BEN WATERHOUSE. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 205-0715. 8 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $20-$25.
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Bag & Baggage presents a comedy by Charles Ludlam that parodies Hitchcock, Poe, Brontë and Shakespeare in the story of a murder in a mansion populated by various shapes and sizes of Brits, all played by two actors. The Venetian Theatre, 253 E Main St., Hillsoboro, 345-9590. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $16-$23.
Neverwhere
Northwest Academy presents a stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novelization of his own script for a BBC series about magical beings living beneath the streets of London. Northwest Academy’s Blue Box Theater, 1130 SW Main Street, ballard@nwacademy.org. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, May 19-22. $5-$10.
Past-Present-Future
Northwest Senior Theatre presents a revue of excerpts from Broadway, movies, television and radio comedy with music from Camelot, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific and Carousel. Alpenrose Dairy Opera House, 6149 SW Shattuck Road, 503-227-2003. 2 pm Wednesday-Saturday, May 18-21. $5 suggested donation.
Snow White
Northwest Children’s Theater presents a new, “anime-inspired” take on Snow White. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. 7 pm Fridays, 2 and 6 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $18-$22.
Songs of Sondheim
Most of the cast of Artists Rep’s 2006 production of Sondheim’s Assassins join Susannah Mars, Margie Boulé, Julianne R. Johnson-Weiss, Brian Bartley and Dale Johannes in music by the great composer. A benefit for Cerimon House and Stumptown Stages. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 381-8686. 7 pm Wednesday, May 18. $40.
Splat
Imago co-founder Carol Triffle premieres her latest comedy, about a woman instructed to do horrible things by the voice on her French learning tapes. Expect delightful weirdness. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th
Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays. Closes June 4. $8.
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Compass Rep has chosen a ballsy work for its second production in John Ford’s controversial Jacobean tragedy ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Young Giovanni (Noah Dunham) falls passionately in love with his sister, Annabella (Alex Leigh Ramirez), who is fending off the unwanted advances of several other suitors. After a bit of eyelid batting, the two cast aside their crushing Catholic guilt and begin screwing like horny teenagers. It all goes rapidly downhill from there, in a bloody mess of murder, eye gouging and moneygrubbing cardinals. One of the reasons the play caused such a stir in its time was for making a sympathetic protagonist out of the incestuous Giovanni. This production—either by design or flaw—never quite achieves that (Giovanni spends so much time shouting at us, it’s frankly a relief when he’s inevitably knifed). RUTH BROWN. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center,
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Portland Actors Conservatory Graduate Showcase
The 2011 graduates of Portland Actors Conservatory perform scenes and monologues as the capstone of the Conservatory’s training program. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, May 18-21. $15.
Reasons to Be Pretty
[NEW REVIEW] Attention unmarried men: Never, ever say anything about a woman’s body that could possibly be construed as anything but complimentary. Ever! When Greg (Casey McFeron) tells his work buddy Kent (John San Nicolas) that, although his girlfriend, Stephanie (Nikki Weaver), has only a “regular” face, he wouldn’t trade her for the world, Kent’s wife, Carli (Kelly Tallent), immediately tattles on him, unleashing a wrath of an order I hope never to encounter. Greg, a thick but well-meaning regular guy, fails to understand why his offhand comment resulted in his romantic termination, so playwright Neil LaBute sets about explaining it to him, through a succession of miserable experiences. Reasons to Be Pretty is the wittiest and most believable of LaBute’s plays about body image, perhaps because it’s less about appearances than the countless unintentional ways we hurt the people we love. Director Gretchen Corbett and her perfectly selected cast execute LaBute’s funny, profane script so vividly that I found myself wanting to spit on San Nicolas’ smarmy, despicable Kent. That’s some damn fine acting. BEN WATERHOUSE. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 18. $20-$25. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Road House: The Play!
Patrick Swayze as Dalton, the “philosophical” bouncer with a penchant for one-liners and the ability to whip not just bars but whole towns into shape. Sound familiar? It may seem unlikely that anyone would think to adapt the gloriously ridiculous film for the stage, but creator Shelley McLendon and co-writer Courtenay Hameister got it exactly right. The duo’s humor blends so seamlessly with the original script it can be hard to distinguish real lines from riffs. My date had never seen the film, but was soon laughing with the rest. Caitlin Mccarthy. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 10 pm Friday-Saturday, May 20-21. $18 in advance, $22 at the door.
The Secret Garden
Kirk Mouser and Alan D. Lytle direct the musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 635-3901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 and 7 pm Sunday, May 22; 2 pm Sundays May 29, June 5 and 12. $20-$32.
UNCANNY VALLEY (HAND2MOUTH THEATRE) Hand2Mouth, the Portland performance ensemble headed by director Jonathan Walters, is obsessed with memory. While its last several performances have ostensibly been about greed, patriotism, immigration and the reasons we feel the way we do about our families, they all bear a unifying theme of the sharing and airing of personal memories. The company’s new work brings the subtext to the fore, translating the mental labor of remembering into physical effort through the power of jogging. I suppose some mention of Proust is in order, but I don’t see a lot of literary influence in Uncanny Valley. The performance has the flavor of a very arty pop concert or a very hip religious service, and seems to draw from Arcade Fire, Depeche Mode and Meddle-era Pink Floyd. The performers are engaged in a ritual of memory retrieval. Dressed in oversized green windbreakers and knit cotton jumpsuits, at once shapeless and oddly angular, they jog in and begin a hype-up routine right out of an evangelical aerobics session. Most of the action occurs around the perimeter of a large square of shiny white tiles, angled upward around the edges, which the players leap into, like a mnemonic holodeck, in hopes of reliving lost memories. They work themselves into a liminal state through running, dancing, hopping and hypnotic suggestion, then jump into a memory. Never once does the process work as it’s supposed to—they wind up in the wrong memory, or another person’s memory—but they keep on trying until they are exhausted, and the performance abruptly ends. Uncanny Valley is more coherent than the company’s other recent work, which is not to say that it makes more sense than Repeat After Me or Everyone Who Looks Like You—performances that seemed logical despite having all the narrative congruity of a Dadaist cut-up—but that it observes the Aristotelian unities of action, place and time. It is fairly polished, with strong choreography and a sound design that’s equal parts hip-hop samples and X-Files spookiness. It is highly self-aware, with multiple asides about the company’s process. It is funny and aesthetically interesting, but for all the cast’s physical exertions, the show feels cold, missing the emotional resonance of previous Hand2Mouth works—as I remember them, anyway. BEN WATERHOUSE. The memory machine is broken.
SEE IT: Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 235-5284. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays, May 12-22. $12-$18 at boxofficetickets.com.
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5340 N Interstate Ave., 800-4948497. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 3 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $20, $10 Thursdays.
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There is very little meat in this 90-minute musical, written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell about the creation and production of a 90-minute musical that happens to be this 90-minute musical. The joke starts to wear thin before the opening number, “Untitled Opening Number,” is through, but that’s sort of the point, I think. [Title of show] is a quick, funny, foul-mouthed exercise in interesting harmony, sung, in Greg Tamblyn’s production for Triangle Productions, by four of the city’s finest voices. Erin Charles, Dale Johannes, Joe Theissen and Pam Mahon are having a blast with the score’s dynamic tricks and tricky chords, and watching them play is just delightful. BEN WATERHOUSE. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $15-$35.
Trailing Colors
Weaving the tales of a struggling refugee, the shopkeeper who takes her in, two aid workers, a naive journalist and an elephant keeper, local writer and director Gretchen Icenogle’s new play tells the familiar story of lives brought together and torn apart by the Rwandan genocide, while doing justice to the complexity of a nightmare that still haunts much of the world today. The play moves with ease between its underlying call to action and the smaller but riveting plot lines among individual characters. Brutally honest in one moment, as humanitarian doctor Will (Keyon Gaskin) struggles with the reality of being AfricanAmerican in Africa, and hilarious in the next instant, as his cheating journalist girlfriend, Leah (Jenny Finke), realizes that she’s been set up to cover the humanitarian work of Will’s own secret lover, Cinzia (Kate Mura), Icenogle’s piece provides an emotional balance that keeps the two-hour performance interesting and fresh. NATALIE BAKER. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 800-838-3006. 8 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 29. $10-$15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.” Proceeds from Thursday and Saturday performances benefit charities working in Rwanda.
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REASONS TO BE PRETTY enough to save her world. CAITLIN MCCARTHY. Newmark Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays (no 5 pm show May 28 or June 4), 2 pm Sundays (no show May 29) through June 5. $16-$26.
COMEDY Apocalypse Now and Later
[NEW REVIEW] Curious Comedy’s post-apocalyptic view of the world is typical: domination of corporations, prevalence of technology, overpopulation and the like. The satire is somewhat generic but the dialog is clever and the actors do an impressive job of creating distinctive characters, especially Alex Gavlick, who worries he won’t have sex before “the decimation.” The perils of live performance are apparent at times: The cast mollified a few stray sound effects in one scene by intermingling them into the dialog. The level of audience participation is high, as expected: The cast acts as a heavenselection committee, deciding which audience members get to pass through the pearly gates above. The content gets pleasantly raunchier during the long-form improv that ends the show, better demonstrating the cast’s ability to produce laughs. KAREN LOCKE. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 4. $12-$15.
Mice-tro
PlayWrite, the terrific Portland nonprofit that conducts play-writing workshops for youth in underserved areas throughout Oregon, presents a showcase of short plays by students from New Avenues for Youth, Merrick School/ChristieCare, Rosemont School, White Shield Center, Portland Night High School and the Mount Scott Learning Centers, performed by great local actors. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., playwritemay18. eventbrite.com. 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 24. $10-$25.
Put 16 improv actors onstage 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 show that’s disgustingly full of talent. 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. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Fridays through May 27. $8-$12.
A Wrinkle in Time
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[NEW REVIEW] Oregon Children’s Theatre puts on a marvelous and clever production of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic tale, directed by Marcella Crowson. The cast features three children as the leads, and three adults who play all the rest. Light, sound and projection work from Mark LaPierre brings the interplanetary travels and landscapes to vivid life; he also composed the thrilling score. The story enthralls: Meg Murry (Madeleine Rogers) is older sister to Charles Wallace (Jack Clevenger), and both are bright and not a little “different.” Charles Wallace—the brighter and different-er of the two, with a commanding performance from Clevenger, sweeps his sister and friend Calvin O’Keefe (Connor Delaplane) into a fantastical plot through space and time in search of their absentee scientist father. Meg is a realistic and refreshing heroine, flawed, and unsure of herself as any teen would be, but ultimately strong
An improv troupe that creates live spoofs of Ken Burns documentaries. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 10:15 pm Saturday, May 21. $8.
UTV
You suggest television or movie genres you’d like to see turned into improv-comedy fodder, and the Unscriptables make it so. The Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, May 20-21. “Pay what you want.”.
CLASSICAL Alexandra Sostmann
The German pianist plays a striking program featuring two pillars of the keyboard repertoire: J.S. Bach’s magnificent Italian Concerto and Sergei Prokofiev’s blazing Sonata No. 7, along with music by contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm,
Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Michelle’s Piano Company, 600 SE Stark St.., 830-5017. 7 pm Saturday, 12:30 pm Sunday, May 21-22. $10-$25.
Bach Cantata Choir
Accompanied by a chamber orchestra, the 55-member chorus closes its sixth season with a cantata and motet by its namesake, a work by the splendid Czech composer Jan Zelenka and a new piece by BCC member Elinor Friedberg. Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, 1907 NE 45th Ave., 702-1973. 2 pm Sunday, May 22. Free.
Beaverton Symphony
Three competition winners play music by Sarasate, Mendelssohn and Weber, and the orchestra plays Schumann’s Manfred Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty suite. Village Baptist Church, 330 SW Murray Blvd., Beaverton, 819-4664. 7:30 pm Friday, 3 pm Sunday, May 20 and 22. $5-$10.
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Consonare Chorale
The 40-voice choir sings together and also divides into smaller groups to perform love-lampooning works by Monteverdi, Morten Lauridsen and Paul Simon with jazz pianist Mac Potts. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 226-1855. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 21. $12-$18.
Denis Azabagic
Classical-guitar fans are more likely to recognize the Cavatina Duo (his group’s moniker) than Denis Azabagic by himself. Nonetheless, Azabagic is highly regarded by experts like John Williams, the judges in the many competitions he’s won, and Portland Classic Guitar’s William Jenks, who’s bringing Azabagic to town. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, Marylhurst. 652-1418. 8 pm Friday, May 20. $30-$49.
Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Various ensembles perform music featuring band, flutes, cellos and more by Puccini, John Franzen and others. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, Marylhurst. 239-4566. 3 pm Sunday, May 22. $5-$10.
The Dill Pickle Club and Publication Studio present:
VOICES OF PORTLAND PDX RE-PRINT is a series of publications and free public lectures celebrating obscured and out-of-print books on Portland’s visual culture.
Date/Time: Thurs. May 26, 2011 -- 7PM Location: Project Grow -- 2156 N. Williams. Voices of Portland documents the history of Portland’s neighborhoods through oral histories conducted in the mid-1970’s.
Oregon Symphony
Carlos Kalmar and the gang mark the season’s end and a triumphant return from Carnegie Hall with a smorgasbord of soloist showcases by Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Michael Daugherty, OSO’s own Jeff Tyzik and more. Then, they show off the whole band with Béla Bartók’s magnificent Concerto for Orchestra. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, 8 pm Monday, May 21-23. $20-$90.
CHRISTINE ERMENC Executive Director, Windsor Historical Society, Oral Historian, Author
Portland Camerata
ARLIE SOMMER Eliot Oral History Project
In a benefit for Mercy Corps’ Oregon Japan Relief Fund, the singers offer an enticing program of Renaissance (Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, Orlando de Lassus), baroque (Monteverdi, Lully) and other
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The cellists welcome guests AgesandAges, Laura Gibson, Weinland and Tomo Nakayama. They’ll play both classical and postclassical tunes by Osvaldo Golijov and Lili Boulanger. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm Friday, May 20. $15.
Portland Peace Choir
In a globe-trotting choral concert, 70 singers perform music in eight languages from six continents. St. David’s Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison St., 482-9630. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 21. Free.
Rajhesh Vaidhya
Accompanied by mridangam drum and ghatam clay pot percussion in this Rasika-sponsored concert, the masterful vina virtuoso plays melodically complex Carnatic music on his 4-foot-tall South Indian fretted lute. Intel, Jones Farm Campus, 2111 NE 25th Ave., Hillsboro, 531-7266. 5 pm Saturday, May 21. $10-$20.
Satori Men’s Chorus
The choir closes its season with a program of love songs that ranges from pop covers (Neil Diamond, the Drifters) to show tunes (Gershwin, Berlin) to classical (Schubert, Offenbach) to postclassical (contemporary composer Stephen Paulus). The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 242-4244. 8 pm Saturday, May 21. $7-$12.
Tin Hat
Post-classical violin virtuoso Carla Kihlstedt’s threesome has expanded to a quartet, with clarinetist Ben Goldberg joining guitarist Mark Orton and accordionist-pianist Rob Reich. They’ll play classical-tinged folk music, including tunes from their forthcoming album of settings of E.E. Cummings texts. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 8 pm Thursday, May 19. $15. 21+.
Yamato Dawn Japan Benefit
The tremors may be gone, but the damage and injuries remain in northwest Japan. Marylhurst University helps fund healing and repair with this benefit concert featuring music by Japanese composers, including 20th-century master Toru Takemitsu and Michio Miyagi, plus contemporary Japanese and Japanese-American composers and performers on piano, violin, koto and guitar. It shouldn’t take a disaster to hear these striking sounds here. First Christian Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 228-9211. 3 pm Sunday, May 22. Donation.
DANCE Alembic No. 14
New York City’s Karen Bernard performs her solo piece Ouette, a multimedia exploration of identity,
mortality and desire. Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, May 20-21; free panel discussion 2 pm Sunday, May 22. $12-$15.
BodyVox
What comes to mind when you think of home? The dance company BodyVox, which has just returned to Portland after touring Germany, considers the question by staging an old favorite: A Thousand Little Cities. In a series of vignettes—many athletic, some lyrical, a few even airborne— the company evokes the times, and places, of our lives. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm WednesdayFriday, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, May 18-21. $36-$49.
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest
It depends on a choreographer’s style whether the music or the movement comes first. Less often, however, space plays an early and essential role in the creation of dance. Such is the case for native Portlander Heidi Duckler, who now works in L.A. Dubbed “the reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the Los Angeles Times, Duckler dances almost anywhere: down staircases, off the sides of washing machines, you name it. So, it’ll be interesting to see what she does with her new offshoot company, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest. The theater’s debut, Off the Top of My Head, is a duet for dancers Carlos Rodriguez and Marissa Labog. Sapphire Room at the Indigo, 430 SW 13th Ave., 503-546-1286. 8 pm Saturday, May 21. $40 suggested donation.
The Rosehip Revue
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. Barracuda, 9 NW 2nd Ave., 228-6900. Event takes place the third Friday of each month. 9 pm. $11.
TopShakeDance
TopShakeDance is a newcomer to the Portland contemporarydance scene, but its members are not: Jim McGinn spearheads the group, joined by Pamela James, Jessica Hightower, Chase Hamilton and Dana Detweiler, with Tucson transplant Amanda Morse. TopShakeDance’s debut performance, Gust, draws inspiration from the ghostly elements of the wind. Music by Loren Chasse. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, May 19-21 and Thursday-Saturday, May 26-28. $12-$25. Wednesday, May 18, is “pay what you will.”
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Michael T. Hensley’s medium-scale paintings look good on the concrete walls of the cavernous storefront level of the splashy 937 condominiums. Despite the enormousness of the space, Hensley’s work is chromatically aggressive and visually dense enough to command the venue, which was masterminded by real-estate developer/social activist Nez Hallett and curated by longtime gallerist Mark Woolley. Some of Hensley’s paintings, such as Coming Down the Mountain, are in the familiar vein of his signature style, diffuse in graffitilike imagery and outlined in black atop uniform color fields. But in his eerie Carbon series he explores darker, more minimalist territory. It is gratifying to see the artist taking fresh stylistic risks. Pop Up Space, 939 NW Glisan St., 998-4152. Closes May 28.
Sang-ah Choi
The reach of Sang-ah Choi’s Fab:topia exceeds its grasp. The sprawling panels of resin, felt pen, and glitter attempt
a critique of urban sprawl and the scourge of landfills, but are hindered by facile technique and shoddy execution. The most successful pieces in the show, Light and Shadow, benefit from compositional and material simplicity, but unfortunately succeed only in being vaguely decorative. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398, chambersgallery.com. Closes June 25.
Chris Johanson
In addition to Chris Johanson’s drolly comic-derived works, the artist’s latest show at Augen also showcases some less familiar avenues within his output, including the hilariously titled and compositionally assertive print Casual PostPost-Modern Sculpture. In the back gallery, curator Pamela Morris’ drawing invitational features work by six West Coast artists, including Portland ecoartist Bruce Conkle. Augen Gallery, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056, augengallery. com. Closes May 28.
Selections from the PCVA Archive
While it is in no danger of setting the world aflame with drama and dynamism, there are some thought-provoking aspects to fledgling nonprofit YU’s inaugural exhibition, Selections
from the PCVA Archive. For one thing, its extensive collection of correspondence, programs and newspaper clippings harkened to a time when true art-world big shots had shows in little old Portland. We’re talking Chuck Close, Christo, Robert Smithson and Donald Judd, to name only a few. The clippings also show the extent to which local media covered the arts back in the day. An impossibly long, photo-packed, full-page 1979 Willamette Week feature about a Robert Rauschenberg show would elicit Pavlovian drooling from any arts writer today. What does any of this portend about whether YU can revive public enthusiasm for visual arts? The jury is out, but we’d be coldhearted cynics if we wished them anything but the best in their efforts. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., 236-7996, yucontemporary.org. Closes July 30.
Bradley Streeper
For Trophies, Bradley Streeper gilds taxidermied animal skulls with gold leaf and other precious metals. The resulting works are elegant and creepy, channeling both a 1980s Neo-Geo commodity critique and a 2000s-era Damien Hirst death fetishism. PDX Window Project at PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart. com. Closes May 28.
Ted Katz
Many of the paintings in Ted Katz’s Looking at Pictures: The Edge of Vision present his trademark cerulean skies
meeting the hard horizon line at the lip of an abstracted landscape. Others, such as How Far, are more pointedly gestural, with nearly abstract swaths of teal, royal blue, green and maroon sweeping diagonally across the picture plane. Still other works, such as Always Put Up Pictures, with its frothy waves, suggest seascapes rather than landscapes. In pivoting between razoredged linearity and more painterly effects, Katz finesses the line between cucumber-cool cerebral meditations and the drama of atmospherics. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 248-9378, buttersgallery.com. Closes May 28.
Johannes Girardoni
Johannes Girardoni’s wax-encased wooden boxes are drop-dead gorgeous and highly allusive, while his Exposed Icon photographic prints leave as much to the imagination as they give to the eye. This show, titled Light Matters, occupies the entirety of PDX and PDX Across the Hall and is one of the most sensually gratifying, conceptually challenging exhibitions of the year. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart. com. Closes May 28.
Cheryl Norton
Delicate and enigmatic, Cheryl Norton’s installation of clay-caked undergarments is understated, yet impactful. The neatly stacked piles of clothing rise from gray pedestals: highly sculptural, fragile-looking, implying volumes, divulging little. Based on porcelain work by Hong Kong artist Sara Tse, the pieces make a unique statement using
a minimum of colors and visual information. 325 NW 6th Ave., 224-5721, ankagallery.com. Closes May 27.
Sean Healy
Pristine is not a word that comes to mind in association with devastated Northeastern manufacturing towns (“sooty,” “grungy” and “derelict” are more like it), but in Sean Healy’s dramatic Upstate, the once-thriving industrial hub of Brasher Falls, N.Y., becomes a spotless and abstracted metaphor for everything from urban decay to the psychic ravages of middle age. The cigarette butts and filters deployed in works such as Smoke Breakers, Ember and Male Pattern Midlife I, are placed with such O.C.D. precision and chromatic exactitude they turn a quotidian material into the stuff of transubstantiation. Elizabeth Leach, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521, elizabethleach.com. Closes May 28.
Dante Marioni
In the triumphant exhibition Variations, Seattle-based sculptor Dante Marioni, best known for his work in blown glass, stretches his already formidable technique to include works in kilncast and fused glass. By extending his reach into diverse glass techniques, he pushes his own envelope. In Variations, Marioni takes a big risk, and it pays off in spades. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222, bullseyegallery.com. Closes June 25.
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Q&A
TOM CRAMER OREGON LANDMARKS Tom Cramer casts a quirky gaze on his native state.
We spoke with Tom Cramer, an Oregon native and veritable Portland institution, about the sources of inspiration for his show Oregon Landmarks. WW: What drew you to the Northwest landscape this time? Tom Cramer: For one thing, it’s in my blood. I was born here, and so were both of my parents. Politically, this has always been a liberal, libertarian state; it’s never been part of the military-industrial complex. Geologically, the land itself is a microcosm of the planet Earth. You could shoot a Hollywood Western here and make it look like west Texas; there are rainforests that look like Costa Rica; the Cascades look like the Swiss Alps. It’s amazing. It’s as if—if you wanted to manufacture every possible landscape on earth, you could find it in Oregon. I see the beauty you’re portraying in the work, but in some pieces I detect some sinister undercurrents.
Yes. There’s a connection between the sinister and the romantic. I think there’s something scary and Brothers Grimm-like in the old-growth forests. When you go to the Columbia River Gorge and Crater Lake and certain parts of the coast, there’s a primal, Black Forest, fairy-tale kind of spiritual power. I have a piece called Oneonta Gorge, which...is literally like walking into a pussy or a womb or a cave…. There’s a sense of the dark side: a dread, an angst straight out of Richard Wagner and Francis Bacon and the Doors. It’s a romantic view of late nights and hangovers and loneliness and desperation. Why do you like metallics so much? The pragmatic answer is that it unifies all the visual information. The other component is that it adds a holographic, 3-D effect and a polish. I’m very attracted to jewels and jewelry and things that are ornamental and affluent-looking. It’s a Heideggerian concept: If it looks beautiful, it is beautiful. I like beauty. I think we’re living in an ugly age, and I’m rebelling against that. RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754, laurarusso.com. Closes May 28.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RUTH BROWN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche Journalist Ethan Watters believes America’s most dangerous export isn’t weaponry or crappy food—it’s our mental illness. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anorexia are spreading around the world, argues Watters in Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. “In teaching the rest of the world to think like us,” he says, “we have been, for better and worse, homogenizing the way the world goes mad.” Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
Author Robin Black’s debut shortstory collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, tells 10 tales of love and loss. The book was shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award—just about the highest honor there is in the shortstory sphere. Annie Bloom’s Books, 7834 SW Capitol Highway, 2460053. 7 pm.
Jim Shepard
A college professor whose writing has been published everywhere from The Paris Review to Playboy, Jim Shepard writes short stories that jump effortlessly between time and voice. The stories in 2007’s Like You’d Understand Anyway, which won the Story Prize and was nominated for a National Book Award, move from Tibet during World War II to the Chernobyl disaster to ancient Rome. And his new book, You Think That’s Bad, promises an equally impressive array of people and places. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm.
John Sayles
Film director and screenwriter John Sayles (Lone Star, Matewan, Eight Men Out) has penned a 968-page epic that spans five years and takes readers all over the globe during the beginning of the Spanish-American War. Published by McSweeney’s, A Moment in the Sun has already garnered high praise from the people who’ve actually managed to read the whole thing. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. All ages.
Mountain Writers Series
One of the nation’s longest-running literary series, continues its thirdWednesday readings at the Press Club, with local author Jennifer Lauck and poet Cindy StewartRinier. Lauck’s tragic childhood led her to pen the acclaimed 2001 memoir Blackbird, followed by its sequel, Still Waters, and short-story collection Show Me the Way. She recently published her fourth autobiographical book, Found. Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 233-5656. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation.
Shanghaied in Portland: History, Mystery & Knock-out Drops
Local mystery author S.L. Stoner’s second Sage Adair novel, Land Sharks, is set in Portland’s seedy underbelly in 1902—which means Shanghai Tunnels and a time when Old Town was a dirty place full of criminals, booze and...oh. Murder by the Book, 3210 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 232-9995. 4 pm.
Steve Earle
Country musician Steve Earle (“gee-tar town!”) has penned a novel called I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive, about the Hank Williams song of the same name. Set around the time of JFK’s assassination, it tells the story of a morphine-addicted doctor who performs illegal abortions. Hank Williams’ ghost also makes an appearance. How meta. Powell’s
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Vox: A Spoken-Word Chorus
Vox is a spoken-word chorus of local actors and singers which performs poetry arranged like a musical score. It’s both disarming and engaging. The group will perform works from Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, William Stafford, Maya Angelou, Kamau Daaood and more. Waterbrook Studio, 2109 N Albina Ave., No. 108, 901-5101. 7:30 pm. $15.
Write to Publish Conference
PSU’s student-run publishing house, Ooligan Press, is holding its third Write to Publish conference, which teaches budding writers how to get published. On Saturday, workshops cover everything from finding an agent to small-press publishing. The following day, aspiring scribes can schmooze with publishers, editors and agents at the “industry mingle,” while published authors and poets take to the stage to talk about their experiences working with the publishing industry. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, 725-3307. 9:30 am-4:45 pm Saturday, 11 am-6 pm Sunday. $35 for each workshop Saturday, or $120 for four. $10 entry Sunday.
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REVIEW
LARRY FLYNT AND DAVID EISENBACH ONE NATION UNDER SEX “How the private lives of presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed the course of American history,” promises the cover of One Nation Under Sex (Palgrave Macmillan, 304 pages, $25), which also bears the byline of Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, towering over the The political history of presidents’ pants. decidedly smaller one of historian David Eisenbach. If Flynt knows anything, it’s how to sell sex, so a titillating teaser is hardly surprising. And to be sure, the book is filled with plenty of juicy insights into the (alleged) bedrooms of important historical figures—Warren Harding’s hushed-up love child, Eleanor Roosevelt’s lesbian lover, James Buchanan’s gay relationship with a senator. Working up chronologically from the founding fathers, the authors detail (and, in some cases, speculate on) the sex lives of American presidents and leaders—from Thomas Jefferson fathering a small village with one of his slaves to Bill Clinton not having sexual relations with that woman. But the lesson is not how these events “changed the course of American history” at all. In fact, it’s remarkable just how much presidents got done while simultaneously screwing around like teenagers. According to Flynt and Eisenbach, Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation while pining for a male slave owner, Woodrow Wilson navigated America’s entry into World War I while heartbroken over his lover’s refusal to marry him, and JFK could barely brush his teeth without sticking his dick somewhere first. More than a history of politicians’ sex lives, this is a history of the media’s relationship with politician’s sex lives. Americans have been electing horndogs into office since day one. But for much of the country’s history, the press simply did not write about their private peccadilloes. They were randy philanderers whose sexual escapades were every bit as scandalous as Clinton’s (Benjamin Franklin made Clinton look like a Carmelite nun), but they got on with shaping the nation’s history while the public generally minded its own business. “We might not be able to prevent our leaders from being sexually reckless, but we can prevent their sex scandals from diverting our attention from the real problems at hand,” argue the authors, who advocate for a “European” attitude of amused indifference to our politicians’ pants. They’re correct. But coming from a man who who famously paid $18,000 for pictures of Jackie O sunbathing, and after 300 pages of call girls, orgies, venereal diseases and J. Edgar Hoover giving blow jobs, it’s difficult to believe they truly want the obsession to end. RUTH BROWN. GO: Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach visit Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm Friday, May 20, Free.
MAY 18 - 24
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: AARON MESH. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: amesh@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
NEW
Back to the Future
[REVIVAL] Gimme a milk—chocolate! PG. 99 West Drive-In.
Battleship Potemkin
NEW
90 [FIVE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL]
It will never be possible to relax and enjoy Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent picture—dialectical montage is the original “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”—and, yeah, you’ll probably spend the majority of the film just waiting for the Odessa Steps scene to arrive. But for all its pushiness, Potemkin still has the power to rouse (look at good ol’ Vakulinchuk, still keepin’ it real for all us sinners), and Eisenstein’s grand ambition pays off in every crowd scene, where the scope of men and boats awes to a degree more advanced special effects can never approach. There are those brief images every film-school student remembers, though they may forget how eerie they were: ghostly bodies hanging from the yardarms; worms writhing through lunchmeat; a wildbearded priest tapping his crucifix, waiting for sailors to die. Then that title card comes flashing in—”AND SUDDENLY”—to mark the moment when Battleship Potemkin turns into a still unequaled daymare. The Odessa Steps sequence endures as a synecdoche for all cruelty, panic and, yep, outrage. You’ve seen it even if you haven’t seen it: It’s repeated in The Untouchables, sure, but Bong Joonho’s 2006 The Host also owes Odessa its first waterfront monster attack, borrowing the staircase setting, the crush of bodies, and the camera fleeing with the crowds. See the original. Run toward Potemkin. AARON MESH. Cinema 21. Sunday-Thursday, May 22-26. Restored 35 mm print.
The Beaver
58 Though it sounds like a nickname
Mel Gibson might give one of his girlfriends, The Beaver is director Jodie Foster’s attempt to grant her friend and star some redemption, or at least exorcism. Gibson plays Walter Black, a suicidally depressed toy executive who takes to speaking through a bucktoothed hand puppet with a Ray Winstone accent, but the movie is bleaker than the outrageous premise suggests: This isn’t a whimsical healing journey, but another form of breakdown. “Oh, c’mon, it’s a radio show,” complains Terry Gross when Walter visits her Fresh Air studio. “People can’t even see the puppet. So why talk through the puppet?” That question might well be posed to Gibson, who is begging forgiveness through a character far less despicable than himself. There is, in his blue eyes, a hint of the madman despairing and shamed by his own madness—but he’s always had a good face, and this may be a drunk’s practiced sympathy ploy. (The Beaver includes—of course it does—a scene of self-torture and mutilation.) But here I am playing armchair psychologist when there’s a whole movie ready to do just that. Or half a movie: The other, much better half features Anton Yelchin and Jennifer Lawrence as high-school sweethearts with their own, more intelligible grief to surface from. The younger actors are the more affecting, not just because they are wisely restrained, but also because they don’t have all that external baggage to carry. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.
Bill Cunningham New York
82 Arriving with the prized impri-
matur (and fonts) of the Sulzberger Times, director Richard Press’ graceful documentary is deceptively spontaneous—a quality it shares with fashion photographer Cunningham’s “On the Street” column. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Bridesmaids
60 There is something a little labored
about Bridesmaids, as if director Paul Feig and star Kristen Wiig were
trying to compensate for a decade of Judd Apatow’s dong jokes by bypassing the genitalia and going straight for the universally scatological. Not 30 minutes into the movie, there’s a wedding-dress fitting interrupted by an eruptive case of food poisoning, and after our heroines finish vomiting into each other’s hair and lining up to use a fancy marble sink as a commode, the bride (Maya Rudolph) rushes out of the store and shits in the street. Considering this is the first direct reunion of Feig and Apatow since they co-created the wondrously warm Freaks and Geeks, all that straining for ribaldry feels a little sad, like Feig and his actors know they’re sacrificing honesty for coarse bumptiousness. I don’t think it makes me a chauvinist if, when a movie climaxes with two people screaming in public about their bleached assholes, I feel a little sorry for them. It may just be that I don’t find Wiig much fun to watch. In her SNL skits and supporting movie roles, she’s shown two gears— discomfort disguised by maddeningly persistent cheer; affectless muttering—and she doesn’t add many here, at least until her final outburst, a mortifying and self-perpetuating overreaction that destroys most of a garden party. While Bridesmaids is billed as a women’s group-bonding comedy (a bra-mance?), it’s also a movie that operates from the premise that women are brutally competitive and backstabbing—that they basically can’t bond as a group. R. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
80 The new Werner Herzog docu-
mentary is comparatively thin on the cuckoo German’s trademark perversity—except when you consider that he has made a 3-D documentary about motionless drawings on rocks. They are, admittedly, very old drawings on very unique rocks: Sketched in charcoal on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in southern France, the 32,000-yearold paintings are the earliest ever found, preserved by a rockslide that sealed the artwork (and many bear bones) until 1994, when the cave was uncovered and immediately locked up again for preservation. Still, there are no flying dragons. You will have to settle for woolly rhinos, which doesn’t strike me as too painful a concession. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters, City Center.
The Conspirator
68 It’s set in 1865, but make no
mistake: Robert Redford’s The Conspirator is a post-9/11 movie. Although the film is ostensibly a reenactment of the trial of Mary Surratt, the sole woman accused of partaking in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, Redford’s intentions are clear the moment the other alleged coconspirators are dragged in front of a military tribunal wearing Guantánamostyle hoods. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower. NEW
Coup de Cinema
43 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Any movie
whose press release leads off with “Ever watched a terrible film and knew you could do better?” is asking for it, so here goes: Coup de Cinema is a film that could’ve been done much better. It’s built on a promising concept—a heist comedy in which the thing being thieved is the production of a motion picture—but Portland-based writerdirectors Sean Parker and Austin Hillebrecht don’t seem to realize what it’s actually about is post-college hubris. Or at least it should be, given the lead character is a film-school grad with a raging sense of entitlement. Hillebrecht plays Miles Smith, a twentysomething aspiring filmmaker who thinks himself so above his job as a gofer on the set of a hacky actionadventure flick that he steals the script
and persuades the cast and crew to shoot his version behind the back of the clueless director (Corey Brunish). Even though it’s unclear how his revisions improve the original, Smith is presented not as a pretentious egoist unwilling to pay his dues but as a crusader for the art of cinema. As such, Coup ends up being a farce in all the wrong places. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre. 5 pm Saturday, May 21.
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Everything Must Go
75 Another movie concerning
unhappy people living behind perfectly manicured lawns, with a crucial difference: It’s about an unhappy person forced to live on his perfectly manicured lawn. Adapting a Raymond Carver short story, first-time director Dan Rush isn’t interested in simply putting suburban anguish on display; he wants to deal with that anguish by dragging it out into the open, literally. That probably seems odd for a film starring Will Ferrell; existential crises aren’t exactly his usual forte. As Nick Halsey, a once-successful salesman and relapsed alcoholic who, after coming home one day to find his wife gone, the locks changed and his stuff scattered outside, takes up residence in his front yard, Ferrell turns out to be an inspired casting choice. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower, City Center.
Fast Five
70 Vin Diesel and his cast of chis-
eled friends—Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, some Asian dude from Tokyo Drift and the gorgeous model Gal Gadot—don’t just steal fast sports cars and obliterate the streets of Rio, they concoct a plan to swipe $100 million from Brazil’s biggest drug kingpin, who keeps his bills locked inside an impenetrable vault inside police headquarters. If this concept seems far-fetched, well, I hate you. Go watch The King’s Speech and get off my lawn, you damn intellectual. PG-13. MICHAEL MANNHEIMER. Clackamas, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub, 99 West Drive-In. NEW
The Found Footage Festival
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The fifth edition of this discovered-VHS roadshow wasn’t screened for critics (presumably so we would not give away the secrets of “Enjoying Love Making Through Hypnosis”), but I have seen the prelude, a 16-minute document called Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The title is precise: Here is the parking lot of a 1986 Judas Priest concert in Maryland, and there are the concertgoers, pre-gaming, mostly sans shirts. Their pale, mooncalf faces shine in the dusk as they issue imprecatory psalms against their foes: “Madonna can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. She’s a dick.” Everyone is drunk or high or both, and an alarming number of attendees explain that they have come to this arena parking lot in honor of dead or injured friends. I am not giving this show a critic’s rating, partly because I haven’t seen most of it, but also out of a healthy fear that some of the people in Heavy Metal Parking Lot are still alive and ambulatory. AARON MESH. Laurelhurst. 7:30 and 9:30 pm Saturday, May 21.
Hanna
65 Best things first: I see no reason why every movie shouldn’t be filmed in a rusting, abandoned German amusement park. If there were an Oscar for location scouting, Hanna would be the 2011 front-runner; as it is, the eerie moonscapes throughout the film (Finnish ice floes, orange-tiled Berlin subway stations, granite military compounds under the Moroccan desert) help compensate for a script that feels a little too eager to be a punky parable. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, Cinema 99.
I Am
29 The high point is watching director Tom Shadyac control the energy field
I’VE SEEN THINGS YOU PEOPLE WOULDN’T BELIEVE: Rutger Hauer says it’s time to die.
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN This is going to be a summer of worn retreads and diminishing returns, but no last gasp will be as wheezing and shallow as Hobo With a Shotgun. Another full-length film based on an interstitial “trailer” from the Tarantino-Rodriguez Grindhouse, this Canadian feature (with Rutger Hauer as the titular drifter) has none of the border-fence political ax-grinding of Machete; it just wants to look exactly like an early-’80s film that wanted to make fleapit viewers retch in delight. The audience for Hobo With a Shotgun is supposed to retch ironically. I hated every knowing, intentionally shitty minute of it. At its most indulgent, grindhouse love—an exaltation of exploitation that sometimes seems like the only strain of cinephilia in Portland right now—allows audiences to geek out on transgression, obscurity and stimulants, without having to bother with humanity or beauty. Hobo is the perfect fix: It opens with crime boss Drake (Brian Downey, looking like a cross between Bruno Ganz and a slug) forcing passersby to watch him decapitate his brother with razor wire and a manhole cover, and that’s one of the less aggressively vile scenes. Director Jason Eisener dumps artificial internal organs across the frame like plastic balls in fast-food playland, while the film’s color register is skewed to look like a garishly damaged VHS tape—a gangrenous, putrid rainbow. As the hobo, Hauer at least delivers a real performance from behind his shopping cart. His line readings sound like authentic mental imbalance; even when he’s talking to his one pal, gorgeous gore-covered prostitute Abby (Molly Dunsworth), he seems as if he’s incoherently gibbering to himself or screaming at God. He has catchphrases, but I didn’t find them funny: I don’t tend to write down the rants of the homeless people who sleep in our doorway and repeat them to my pals for giggles, either. If I’m moralizing a bit here, it’s not because I think there’s something inherently wrong with a movie about an indigent man killing people who kill the indigent for fun—though it is a little gross, right?—but because Hobo has no aspirations other than to be as cheap, vicious and sickening as possible. The movies it’s burlesquing were trying to say something about how life on the streets felt (and at least one of those movies, John Carpenter’s They Live, managed to say quite a bit), but this dreck is made out of the grime skimmed off their surfaces. Even James Gunn’s Super, as awfully pleased with itself as it was, managed a thought or two about civility and vigilantism; Eisener doesn’t want to build an internally coherent fantasy world, let alone make it relate to the real one. Watching it, you initially think, “This is terrible,” and then comes the much darker thought: “That is exactly what it’s trying to be.” Which makes it somehow both a little nauseating and a lot boring: It’s commodity product for vintage-squalor junkies. The only thing that elevates Hobo With a Shotgun above the next Transformers movie is that it wasted a lot less money. AARON MESH. Getting sick of the grindhouse.
32 SEE IT: Hobo With a Shotgun opens Friday at the Hollywood Theatre. The Hollywood will run a “Rutgerspective” of 35 mm Rutger Hauer trailers before the shows on Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21.
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Into Eternity
A TODD PHILLIPS MOVIE
79 This Finnish documentary tonally
suggests a conceptual horror movie and, sure enough, its subject is an ancient Lovecraftian abomination beyond reckoning—except it is contemporary, and we don’t know how to warn coming generations about it. “You are heading towards a place where you should never go,” intones Into Eternity director Michael Madsen as his camera creeps into a tunnel carved into bedrock. “What is there is dangerous and repulsive. Please turn around and never come back.” The place is Onkalo, a massive burial chamber being dug beneath Finland; what will be there are canisters of nuclear waste, lethally radioactive for 100,000 years. The film could not be more timely, or timeless—this is a Cave of Dreams We Would Like to Forget—and though it could probably stand to be a fraction less histrionically grim, that might break the spell. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
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sweeping period romances: This is not the Jane Eyre you are looking for. Although this version chops vast swaths of the original text, it is, in many ways, a much truer adaptation than most of the 5 trillion others. Really, most of the characters in the original novel are assholes—ugly assholes—and director Cary Fukunaga doesn’t shy away from that. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Fox Tower.
Jumping the Broom
45 As directed by Salim Akil, this
wedding picture is more polished than the Tyler Perry movies, but Perry is willing to skewer everybody. This feature feels more like a hip youth-group leader who tries to join in on the dirty jokes, but keeps needing to mention that, OK guys, it’s good to laugh, but let’s remember that sex really is a precious gift shared between a husband and wife, and that’s not something we should take lightly, right? The uncomfortable piety distorts the whole film, so that Jumping the Broom is never free to be at ease or funny; it’s an unintentional reminder why you don’t invite church people to parties. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Forest, Lloyd Mall. NEW
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Meek’s Cutoff
93 “We’re close, but we don’t know
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what to.” These lines, spoken in an apprehensive hush near the close of Kelly Reichardt’s pioneer drama Meek’s Cutoff, are a key to what makes her film—which is methodical, arid, uneventful and without resolution—so improbably thrilling. It is not, as many of us were vocally hoping, the Oregon Trail video game turned into a movie. Instead, it saturates an audience with the sensations of what it was like actually to be on the Oregon Trail: the complete disorientation, the exhausting routines as a means of warding off fear, the paranoia of being surrounded by so much silence but being unable to quite hear the most important conversations. It is a vision of the West different from and more intimate than any I have seen before, and it sets a high-water mark for the Oregon film renaissance. PG. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW
The Off Hours
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] A highway-diner waitress dreams of a life beyond pouring coffee in a film from Seattle director Megan Griffiths. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, May 24. Griffiths will attend the screening.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Ninety-six bottles of beer on the wall. This one wasn’t screened for critics by WW press deadlines; look for a review on wweek. com. PG-13. Clackamas, Cedar Hills, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, Division, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Roseway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
35 I imagine the conceit of The Greatest Movie Ever Sold sounded oh-so-clever to Morgan Spurlock when he first dreamed it up: Make a film about product placement in movies by filming himself selling product placement into the movie itself, and thereby exposing the big Hollywood secret that: Brands pay money to put their products in movies! Did you hear me? THEY HELP FINANCE THE FILMS BY PUTTING THEIR PRODUCTS INTO THEM! Oh…you knew that? Your 7-year-old knows that? Forgive my facetiousness, but the very concept of this film is inherently flawed. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Broadway.
Potiche
56 Catherine Deneuve takes the reins of the factory run by her piggish husband (Fabrice Luchini). It makes umbrellas. Yep, as in Cherbourg. François Ozon’s winking, 1977-set gender skirmish is painted in the Technicolors of Demy’s musical, though it also looks a lot like the set of The Brady Bunch. The title roughly means “trophy wife,” but the exact translation is “vase”—indeed, interior decoration and wardrobe steal the show, with a shaggy green telephone earning a big laugh. Speaking of cherished heirlooms: Here comes Gérard Depardieu, growing more adorable the more he resembles the Muppet Sweetums. R. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters.
Priest
Paul Bettany is a killer monk—again. Not screened for critics. PG-13. Clackamas, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Princess of Montpensier
51 As if in rebuke to the Disney associations conjured by the title, Bernard Tavernier’s tale of 17th-century foxiness opens with a Huguenot soldier, cornered in a barn, accidentally stabbing a pregnant mother in the belly with a pike. This is the Comte de Chabannes (Lambert Wilson), who resigns from religious war to tutor teenage Princess Marie de Montpensier (Melanie Thierry), who loves one heir, is forced to marry another, and pursued by a third—I don’t think differentiating them is of much use, since they’re
mainly distinguished by how forcefully they stare at Marie’s gregarious bosom. It’s a bit of fun as period anti-romances go, but it becomes so drearily and stereotypically French, culminating with cutlass-wielding noblemen hissing at each other through their wispy mustaches. AARON MESH. Living Room Theaters. NEW Radical Light: Alternative Film & Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL, CURATOR ATTENDING] Probably the second-most anticipated oral history of an entertainment industry released this week (behind that ESPN tell-all), the hefty volume Radical Light comes to Portland with three accompanying film programs curated by its authors, Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid. Because most of the shorts are on 16 mm and Beta, they weren’t screened for critics—but we’ll take a guess at what’s worth checking out. Illuminated Music #1 (Clinton Street Theater, 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 18): “In 1971 Stephen Beck completed his groundbreaking image processor, the Direct Video Synthesizer #1, in which the electronic circuitry generates images without the use of an external camera or tape source. By plumbing the chaos of random voltages, the Beck Direct could compose intricately plotted geometries, hues, and patterns that sinuously unfold in time.” Schmeerguntz (Whitsell Auditorium, 7 pm Thursday, May 19): “A pioneer feminist document from 1964, it’s put together from elements that are unprepossessing—in fact, often revolting. Items plucked from the public, sanitized, ad-glamorized American scene are thrown rapid-fire against shots of the unmentionable side of home life: the guck in the kitchen sink, the mountain of dirty clothes, squalling infants, filthy rumps, used tampons.” Selections from Target Video (Whitsell Auditorium, 7 pm Friday, May 20): “[Joe] Rees collaged footage of jets, warfare and other disasters with live punk performance.... Unfortunately, no ‘releases’ had been signed, and after a few bands sent lawyers in search of royalties Target disbanded and vanished.” Cinema Project presents an abstract program at Clinton Street Theater at 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 18. The NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium hosts ‘60s and punkrock programs at 7 pm ThursdayFriday, May 19-20. Steve Seid will attend all programs. NEW
Rick Prelinger Presents
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] Film archivist Prelinger visits with two collages: The Lives of Energy (7 pm Saturday, May 21), which recounts the history of people and resources, and Eating, Energy, Environment: How We Got It Wrong the First Time (4 pm Sunday, May 22), which includes a cache of putatively educational reels. NW Film
MAY 18 - 24 Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Rick Prelinger will attend both shows.
Evergreen, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Rio
Soul Surfer
with a Busby-Berkeley-in-Brazil number, a computer-choreographed cavalcade of tropical feathers. Overall, it’s hard to watch a cartoon toucan without thinking he’s selling you cereal. But this one is voiced by George Lopez, and he’s selling Latino libido and the joys of species procreation. That just means more little CGI birds get made, and I didn’t mind that. I’m only human—I like artificial colors and flavors. G. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, 99 Indoor Twin. NEW
The Room
25 The true story of Bethany Hamilton is basically a genderswitched 127 Hours, except she gets her arm stuck in a shark. There’s a scene in which the family is about to eat dinner, but Bethany reminds them they need to say grace first, but when they start to hold hands, she can’t hold hands, because she doesn’t have a hand. That sort of thing. Yes, I know I shouldn’t be so cynical, and plenty of people will be inspired by Soul Surfer to...surf, maybe, or help tsunami victims, or help tsunami victims surf. But this
is the first movie I’ve ever attended where the security guards were unsuccessfully stifling laughter. PG. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, 99 Indoor Twin.
Source Code
93 While Hitchcock famously
defined suspense as a conversation in which the audience knows a bomb is under the table, Source Code’s adrenaline rush of slightly comic dread is one man knowing the bomb is there, and not being able to defuse it, because it already went off. Duncan Jones’ movie is Groundhog Day, except instead
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Slow Century
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Sometimes your favorite band’s music is enough. Such is the case with Pavement, a group without a particularly inspiring or atypical story that just happens to have changed the course of rock and roll. There’s no epic biopic coming down the pipe, because save for Pavement founding drummer Gary Young—a lovable nutjob if ever there was one—Pavement’s members are relatively boring dudes who make great music. So you can forgive Slow Century, a decade-old documentary from Portland director Lance Bangs, for serving as a record of the band’s wild early performances rather than a nail-biting retelling of the band’s biography. Slow Century knows that its live footage— some of it truly historic and much of it filmed by Bangs himself—is its strong point, and thus relies heavily on the music. But the film still leaves something to be desired by relying on only one outside source (Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore) to tell the unindoctrinated viewer just how important and seminal Pavement is and by letting the band members get away with largely superficial interviews that reveal little of their character. If you are looking for insight—how Stephen Malkmus writes songs, why the band called it quits 12 years ago (before reforming in 2009), what these guys’ lives are like when they’re not onstage— you’ll have to wait for a deeper analysis of the band. If you want to see Pavement rocking out and goofing around in the green room—certainly something hardcore Pavement fans should enjoy—then by all means, see this one on the big screen. CASEY JARMAN. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, May 20. Presented by Sound + Vision.
Something Borrowed
24 Without a doubt the most harrowing of the Saw sequels, Something Borrowed stars Kate Hudson as Darcy, a tan with teeth engaged to a haircut with teeth named Dex (Colin Egglesfield, who looks like he was conceived, delivered and christened at one of Rob Lowe’s Slip ’n Slide parties circa 1985). Darcy and Dex, whose names actually function as rather swift character development—stay away from these people, basically—have enough money and free time to go to the Hamptons every weekend to wear sandals and play badminton and drape thick white sweaters over V-necks without a care in the world. The only problem: Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin, cute as a button sewn into the face of a kitten that’s as cute as a bug’s ear), Darcy’s best friend and maid of honor, has a thing for Dex, and that Top Gun-looking motherfucker Dex might have a thing right back. Features Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind songs. Cover versions. Yup. PG-13. CHRIS STAMM. Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center,
THERE’S NO POSSIBLE WAY THINGS CAN GET WORSE: Lubna Azabal thinks.
INCENDIES There are things you don’t do on film, if you want to keep your viewer’s sympathy. You don’t shoot toddlers, for one—especially not in front of their mom. You don’t burn innocents alive. You don’t rape the main character, then get on speaking terms with the rapist. Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies does all of these things, amid a thinly fictionalized Lebanese civil war, but it manages to do so without any rote shock or hollow spectacle. The tone instead is slow-building elegy. Rather than dote lovingly on the grotesque physicality of atrocity—think Spielberg, that most talented of pornographers—the camera registers instead the atrocity’s effects on the remarkably expressive face of protagonist Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal), a mother who is seeking her son somewhere in the wreckage. Her ability to register grief or anger or exhausted serenity approaches sublimity in its bottomlessness—as if she were a late-Almodóvar icon of womanhood, set loose in the desert of the Arab 1970s to suffer for the sake of beauty. Her pain is framed, again, by pain, spread around like thick jam; Narwal’s harrowing story is told in fits and starts, discovered with great difficulty by her now-grown French-Canadian children— twins, portentously, with opposing relationships to the past—as they try to find their unknown father in their mother’s homeland, after her death, to meet the eccentric terms of her will. It is a distancing formal gesture on Villeneuve’s part, one that makes obvious the film’s start as a play—it is now a play with some tremendously expansive cinematography, a great steaming post-Sirkian melodrama recast as meditation. The wild narrative implausibilities and telegraphed classical gesture—tragedy twisted round tragedy like a snake round a sword—paradoxically elevate what might have been a mere formalist weepie into an affecting politico-Oedipal fable about memory, loss and forgiveness. The film buttons itself up a little too tightly, perhaps, in the end—one feels the sudden onset of a moral, a self-satisfied summation, but the shock of this is gentle. What remains in one’s memory is the deeply satisfying transcendence of beautiful suffering. This, too, is a sort of pornography—a middlebrow porn of important feelings—but also a fulfilling affirmation of what remains after loss: Less rainbows after the rain than the unlikely weight of the waterlogged and the blinding shine of a wet street. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.
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26 It has been two days since I saw Thor. Rarely has a movie given me so little to think about and consequently faded so quickly from my memory. Looking through my notes now feels like reading someone else’s journal—a few lines of disembodied dialogue (“Is the Renaissance Faire in town?” and “Oh. My. God.” stand out) and lots of wanton cursing. Chris Hemsworth—he’s the musclebound Aussie who plays Thor—is from the “louder is better” school of acting, and lucky for him the role calls for plenty of incoherent yelling. But even when the film speaks softly, the dialogue is so entrenched in action-movie cliché—with just a touch of hack-job Shakespeare from director Kenneth Branagh—that you might as well wear headphones through the whole thing (Handel, maybe? Powermetal?). I’d much rather flip through old comic books than sit through two more hours of flexing and screaming. PG-13. CASEY JARMAN. Clackamas, CineMagic, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Broadway, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
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62 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Part Prairie Home Companion, part Hee Haw and part Jack Benny, the Topp Twins are Kiwi lesbian sisters whose yodelfilled country-western act incorporates comedy, political activism and sunshiny sweetness. And they’re national treasures to everybody from artists to rednecks. A documentary follows the Topps from childhood into the spotlight, where they fought to end apartheid and anti-gay laws through kindness and humor. While twins Jools and Lynda are great company, it’s hard not to think there’s a less conventional way to tell such an unconventional success
JUST WHERE I SAID IT WAS: Despite Quentin Tarantino’s reputation as a kind of career defibrillator, nobody ever mentions the inverse trick he pulled with Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown: recognizing a descending catatonia and casting the star as a bemused, clogged and unthinking hoodlum who explodes in useless fury at Bridget Fonda in the parking lot of Del Amo mall. Louis Gara is De Niro’s last really brave performance, ranking with Jake LaMotta and Noodles Aaronson as men at the mercy of impulse— except that Louis is trailed by the pot-clouded fear that his gifts are squandered. “What the fuck happened to you, man?” Samuel L. Jackson asks, pausing from shooting him. “Your ass used to be beautiful.” R. AARON MESH. Academy. Best paired with: Firestone Walker Double Barrel Ale. Also showing: Red River (Laurelhurst), Stripes (Cinema 21, 1 pm Saturday, May 21). story. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Thursday, May 20-26. NEW
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
62 In the public eye, Vidal Sassoon
played many roles: celebrity hairdresser, mod-style pioneer, TV personality, fitness buff, hair-product mogul and post-Katrina humanitarian. In his private life, however, Sassoon was…well, that’s a question documentarian Craig Teper’s Vidal Sassoon: The Movie forgets to ask. Which is a shame, because the famous stylist’s story seems poised to unfold as a starkly personal examination of a complicated life. The film begins with a tour of Sassoon’s childhood home—a Dickensian British orphanage—and a look into his time in the Israeli army, addressing abandonment issues that drove him to reach for the top. When the hair starts flying, though, the film becomes less revelatory, framing the ’60s through the eyes of the people who shaped the hair and fashions of the era. The times are fascinating but, like the decade’s excesses, the film becomes hollow. Later, when the aged Sassoon speaks briefly about the death of his daughter, we get a very moving glimpse of his soul, and it’s hard not to long for more of the man behind the myth. Vidal Sassoon certainly has style, but the substance that briefly surfaces is too quickly rinsed away. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Water for Elephants
30 Oddly, at no time in this surpassingly dreary circus movie does anybody fetch any water for the show’s sole elephant. The pachyderm is seen slurping up lemonade, and often it is served buckets of contraband hooch (it’s Prohibition, but try telling that to the elephant); however, there’s no water-carrying— which is strange, since you’d think with all that boozing, the poor creature would be dehydrated. Anyway, it’s a gorgeous elephant, and just about every scene she’s in is interesting—as opposed to just about every scene Robert Pattinson is in, which is boring. PG-13. AARON MESH. Clackamas, Forest, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen,
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Brooklyn kids plan a robbery. Not screened for WW critics. R. Living Room Theaters.
Win Win
81 In Tom McCarthy’s redoubtable
indie film, Paul Giamatti plays Mike, a New Jersey elder law attorney and high-school wrestling coach who volunteers to become guardian for laconic runaway Kyle (Alex Shaffer), who turns out to be a champion high-school wrestler. It’s a drama about disappointment and failure that secretly wants to be a very populist comedy. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower. NEW
Wretches & Jabberers
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Two austistic men share their stories on the road. Cinema 21. 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 24. NEW Worst in Show: The World’s Ugliest Dog
55 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] It’s almost a decade since Spellbound, and still the cute-competition documentary endures, with the stakes ever smaller and the honors more dubious. Here it’s the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest in Petaluma, Calif., where proud owners come bearing their hideous canines and... well, not doing all that much, since you can’t really do anything to make an ugly dog uglier. Naturally, the frontrunners are Chihuahua-like ratdogs and their ilk: Chinese cresteds and African sand dogs, several with tongues that stick out the sides of their mouths. The forefather of the event is a three-time champion crested named Sam who died in 2005, though in all honesty I’m not sure how you could tell, since he already looked exactly like a zombie. Directors John Beck and Don R. Lewis have a nice message about rescuing animals, and the subjects are far less narcissistic than most contest-doc subjects. Also, Worst in Show marks the last movie appearance of the great Jane Russell, and while it’s probably not how she imagined going out, the dog owners seem thrilled to meet her. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, May 21.