Brasserie Montmartre returns from the grave—again. P. 25
TO ADVERTISE ON WILLAMETTE WEEK’S BACK COVER CALL 243-2122 Eating Disorders HIPPIE MODELS MAC REPAIR Free Family and Sufferers Support Seeking female models. Creative outdoor PORTLAND MAC TECH Groups. 12 Week Treatment Groups. nude shots. 18+ slim/average/fit body.
Free House Calls • Low Rates $25 diagnostic fee, $50 per hour. Call 503-998-9662 or Schedule an appointment at www.portlandmactech.com
$100-$10,000 Cash for Running & Non-Running Vehicles
Individual Counseling. Call for free “Steps To Recover” brochure. A Better Way Counseling Center 503-226-9061 www.abwcounseling.com
Natural, completely unshaven/hairy. Minimal tattoos/piercings. $400. 503-449-5341. Hippiegoddess.com
FREE Consultation. Eliminate Debt. Experienced. Debt Relief Agency. Jake Braunstein 503.505.0411
Now enrolling. Beginners Welcome! Brody Theater 503-224-2227 www.brodytheater.com
P ing Pong table now p lay ing
WILLAMETTE WEEK PORTLAND’S NEWSWEEKLY
We pay Top dollar for any kind of vehicle! Free Towing 503-989-5834 503-989-2277
Bankruptcy Attorney
It’s not too late to eliminate debt, protect assets, start over. Experienced, compassionate, top-quality service. Christopher Kane, 503-380-7822 www.ckanelaw.com
HOT DOGS • FRIES • FULL BAR
Open Noon until 3am EVERYDAY
200 + Garage Sales! Clark co. LARGEST!
AA HYDROPONICS
9966 SW Arctic Drive, Beaverton 9220 SE Stark Street, Portland American Agriculture • americanag.com PDX 503-256-2400 BVT 503-641-3500
www.zachsshack.com
UPCOMING CLASSES A GUIDE TO BETTER ORGASMS WITH MIKAYA HEART WED, AUGUST 25TH • 7:30PM • $25 (INCLUDES BOOK) ROUGH SEX 2: IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION SUN, JULY 17TH • 7:30PM • $20 PLEASE RESERVE YOUR SPOT ONLINE AT SHEBOPTHESHOP.COM — SPACE IS LIMITED
Anita Manishan Bankruptcy Attorney
971-222-8714.
MAMA’S MEDICAL Marijuana Clinic Mayhem Tattoo
ALL MUSIC PAWN SHOP!
$40 Oregon with Heart 805 nw glisan | 503.230.8952
Briz Loan & Guitar. Downtown Vancouver, WA 360-699-5626 www.briz.us FREE Consultation. Payment Plans. Experienced. Debt-Relief Agency Scott Hutchinson. 503-808-9032 www.Hutchinson-Law.com
20% Off Purchase With This Ad! Glass Pipes, Vaporizers, Incense & Candles
Vancouver, WA 98665
7070 SE 16th (Sellwood) 503-232-9642 3665 SW Hall Blvd (Beaverton) 503-526-8828
(360) 735-5913 212 N.E. 164th #19 Vancouver, WA 98684
(360) 514-8494
1425 NW 23rd Portland, OR 97210 (503) 841-5751
6913 E. Fourth Plain Vancouver, WA 98661
Longview Wa 98632
(360) 213-1011
1825 E Street
Washougal, WA 98671
(360) 844-5779
IT’S MY PLEASURE
Feminist gift store for romance. Classes. www.itsmypleasurepdx.com 503-280-8080.
JiuJitsu
Ground defense under black belt instruction.
WE BUY GOLD!
The Jewelry Buyer 2034 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland. 503-239-6900
Medical Marijuana Card Services Clinic
30 MINUTE APPOINTMENTS
Open 7 Days • FREE Medical Records Reviewing
Serving OR & WA • 4911 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland 97213
www.nwfighting.com or 503-740-2666
Low Income Therapy
You may qualify for a reduced rate. Call for info. 503-227-1439 Adam Zwig, Ph.D. http://.www.Adamzwigtherapy.com
Medical Marijuana Referrals OR & WA
Accupuncture, Massage, Reiki Affordable, Convenient. 503-288-5579 www.AltMedChoices.com
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Our nonprofit clinic’s doctors will help. The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation. www.thc-foundation.org 503-281-5100
MEET GAY & BI SINGLES Listen to Ads & Reply FREE! 503-299-9911 Use FREE Code 5906, 18+
Muay Thai
Self defense & outstanding conditioning. www.nwfighting.com or 503-740-2666
North West Hydroponic R&R
We Buy, Sell, & Trade New & Used Hydroponic Equipment. 503-747-3624
SUMMER JOBS
Paint For Process Group
Discover your aliveness through painting! www.angelanewburg.com
Poppi’s Pipes
1712 E.Burnside Pipes, Detox, Scales, Hookah, Shisha Cream Charger Special 503-206-7731
$Quick Cash for Junk Vehicles$
Free removal. Ask for Steve. 503-936-5923
Stop SMOKING, Already! Hypnotherapy works. Jen Procter, CHt., M.NLP 503-804-1973 hello@jenprocter.com
SuperDigital
The Recording Store. Pro Audio. CD/DVD Duplication. www.superdigital.com 503-228-2222
Zipper Repair & Replacement
Boots, Shoes, Leather Goods JD’s Shoe Repair 3441 N Vancouver Ave www.jdshoerepair.com 503-287-7078
PROTECT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!
Animator Bill Plympton turns himself inside out. P. 44
Are those Wi-Fi waves or voices in your head? P. 11
“Life has pain, and walks in the woods, and sometimes burgers.” P. 45
Steve Jones is the best cheesemonger in the world. P. 22
WWEEK.COM
THE
BLOGFATHER
WORK FOR GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS
www.weedcardclinic.com
503.384.WEED (9333)
www.transitionsop.com 503-348-2840
Portland’s mixed record curbing prostitution on 82nd Avenue. P. 7
P. xx
Great weekly group for you! with Adam Zwig, Ph.D. Wednesdays 7pm- 9pm $15/week. 503-227-1439 Adamzwigtherapy.com
Vancouver, WA 98664
(360) 695-7773 (360) 577-4204 Not valid with any other offer
Personal Trainer & Fitness Consultant At The Gym, Or in Your Home. Got Issues With Your Parents? 503-252-6035 www.billpecfitness.com Weekly Group with Adam Zwig, Ph.D. Tuesdays beginning July 26, 7 - 9 pm. CDPDX Registration: 503-227-1439 The Best For CD + DVD Duplication. or info@adamzwigtherapy.com 503-228-2222 • www.cdpdx.com Adamzwigtherapy.com
Depressed moods? Life Problems?
8312 E. Mill Plain Blvd
1156 Commerce Ave
CRCHealth/Dr. Jim Thayer, Addiction Medicine
Dr. Camacho accepting new & renewing July 24, we pay $100/boat medical marijuana patients. contact: marisa@portlandbridgeswim.com 503-477-5643 www.pdxclinic.com
BUY LOCAL, BUY AMERICAN, BUY MARY JANES
7219 NE Hwy. 99, Suite 109
Evening outpatient treatment program with suboxone.
Medical Marijuana Portland POWER BOATS NEEDED! Alternative Clinic Inc. For the Portland Bridge Swim
ATTORNEY- BANKRUPTCY
BILL PEC Personal Trainer & Fitness Consultant
Male Seeking Adult Female Opiate Treatment Program Interested in BDSM, leather, kink, etc.
Getting registered for medical marijuana needn’t be a counter-culture experience. MAMA: 503-233-4202. MAMAS.org
20 YEARS EXPERIENCE. DEBT RELIEF AGENCY. www.nwbankruptcy.com FREE CONSULTATIONS, 503-242-1162
Bikram YogaMost Affordable in Town! $29 Intro Month
4611 SE HAWTHORNE BLVD • PORTLAND, OR
“TKTKTKT TKTKT TKTKT TK. TKTKT ”
July 23rd $15 per spot Battle Ground Wa 20 min N.from PDX www.portlandgsale.com 1-503-798-6117
371729.031011 PP
“Music was not meant to be played in a basketball arena.” P. 27
Fresh Start: Bankruptcy Improvisation Classes
$350-$550/WK FULL-TIME/CAREER
503.866.6430
CALL QUINN AT OR APPLY ONLINE AT www.grassrootscampaigns.com
METAFILTER FOUNDER MATT HAUGHEY PUT THE BLOG IN BLOGOSPHERE. NOW HE LOOKS TO THE FUTURE. WWEEK.COM
VOL 37/36 07.13.2011
BY RUTH BROWN | PAGE 15
C H R I S R YA N / W O N D E R F U L M A C H I N E
BACK COVER
NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH
Dentistry In The Pearl That’s Something To Smile About!
$74
New Patient Exam and X-rays
$49
New Patient Basic Cleaning (exam required)
Dr. Viseh Sundberg
$59
. r e m m u H o t. Sgh t s. Ni
Children’s Exam & Cleaning (new patients age 12 and under)
$99
Professional Home Whitening (exam required)
(503) 546-9079
$299
222 NW 10th Avenue www.sundbergdentistry.com
In Office 1 Hour “Zoom!” Tooth Whitening (exam required)
❤ 1811 NE Broadway • 503.281.7430 722 NW 23RD • 503.274.4190 www.ohbabylingerieshops.com
BOOKS PAGE 44
Urban Farm Store 2100 SE Belmont St (503) 234 -7733 www.urbanfarmstore.com 2
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
CONTENT . 18 0 MEGA
60D BODY ONLY IN STOCK!
89999**
$
PIXELS
n Multi-control Dial with simple touch n Enhanced 63-zone dual-layer metering for superb results in difficult lighting situations
$
. 12 2 MEGA
PIXELS
Great Starter Camera
1,19999**
FLIP-OUT VARI-ANGLE MONITOR
Canon T3 with 18-55mm IS II Lens KIT
$
54999*SAVE
n Fast 3 frames per second rapid shooting n Improved EOS HD Movie mode with expanded recording n Dual-layer metering for accurate exposures
NEWS
4
FOOD & DRINK
25
LEAD STORY
15
MUSIC
27
CULTURE
22
MOVIES
45
HEADOUT
23
CLASSIFIEDS
51
Editor-in-Chief Mark Zusman EDITORIAL Managing Editor for News Brent Walth Arts & Culture Editor Kelly Clarke Staff Writers Nigel Jaquiss, Corey Pein, James Pitkin Copy Chief Kat Merck Copy Editors Matt Buckingham, Sarah Smith Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Ben Waterhouse Movies Editor Aaron Mesh Music Editor Casey Jarman Editorial Interns Natasha Geiling, Nathan Gilles, Shae Healey, Reed Jackson, Corey Paul CONTRIBUTORS Classical Brett Campbell Dance Heather Wisner Visual Arts Richard Speer
* Canon Rebel T3 18-55 IS Kit reg price is $599.99 - $50 Instant Savings. Rebate expires 7-30-2011.
PowerShot
ELPH 300 HS
Incredible Thin & Powerful $24999† SAVE n 1080p HD videos with stereo sound $20 n 24mm ultra Wide-Angle lens n 5x Optical Zoom n High speed Burst Mode that captures 8 frames per second † Canon PowerShot 300HS reg price is $249.99 - $20 Instant Savings. Rebate expires 7-30-2011. n
Erik Bader, Judge Bean, Nathan Carson, Devan Cook, Shane Danaher, Jonathan Frochtzwajg, Robert Ham, Jay Horton, Matthew Korfhage, AP Kryza, Hannah Levin, Jessica Lutjemeyer, Jeff Rosenberg, Matt Singer, Chris Stamm, Mark Stock PRODUCTION Production Manager Kendra Clune Art Director Ben Mollica Graphic Designers Melissa Casillas, Soma Honkanen, Adam Krueger, Brittany Moody, Carolyn Richardson Production Interns Jacob Garcia, Katharine Jacobs, Dustin Murdock ADVERTISING Director of Advertising Jane Smith Display Account Executives Sara Backus, Maria Boyer, Michael Donhowe, Drew Harrison, Janet Norman, Kyle Owens Classifieds Account Executives Ashlee Horton, Corin Kuppler Advertising Assistant Ashley Grether Marketing and Events Manager Jess Sword Marketing and Promotions Coordinator Brittany McKeever
Our mission: Provide our audiences with an independent and irreverent understanding of how their worlds work so they can make a difference. Circulation: 80,000-90,000 (depending on time of year, holidays and vacations.) Though Willamette Week is free, please take just one copy. Anyone removing papers in bulk from our distribution points will be prosecuted, as they say, to the full extent of the law. Willamette Week is published weekly by City of Roses Newspaper Company 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Main line phone: (503) 243-2122 fax: (503) 243-1115 Classifieds phone: (503) 223-1500 fax: (503) 223-0388
50
$
503-241-1112 800-835-3314 www.ProPhotoSupply.com 1112 NW 19th (at Marshall), Portland, Oregon STORE HOURS n MON 7:30-6:00 n TUES-FRI 8:30-6:00 n SAT 9:00-5:00
STAFF
100
For the Enthusiast!
** Canon 60D Body reg price is $999.99 - $100 instant rebate. Canon 60D 18-135 Kit reg price is $1299.99-$100 instant rebate. Rebates expire 9-3-2011.
BRAIN POISON: What’s worse, the WiFi or the conspiracy theories? Page 11.
SAVE
$ Canon 60D with 18-135mm IS Lens KIT
n
CANON U.S.A. ONE-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY
DISTRIBUTION Circulation Director Robert Lehrkind WWEEK.COM Web Production Brian Panganiban MUSICFESTNW Executive Director Trevor Solomon Midwestern Messmate Dan Winters OPERATIONS Accounting Manager Andrea Manning Credit & Collections Shawn Wolf Office Manager & Receptionist Nick Johnson Office Corgi Bruce Manager of Information Systems Brian Panganiban Publisher Richard H. Meeker
Willamette Week welcomes freelance submissions. Send material to either News Editor or Arts Editor. Manuscripts will be returned if you include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. To be considered for calendar listings, notice of events must be received in writing by noon Wednesday, two weeks before publication. Send to Calendar Editor. Photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a selfaddressed, stamped envelope. Questions concerning circulation or subscription inquiries should be directed to Robert Lehrkind at Willamette Week. postmaster: Send all address changes to Willamette Week, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Subscription rates: One year $100, six months $50. Back issues $5 for walk-ins, $8 for mailed requests when available. Willamette Week is mailed at third-class rates. A.A.N. Association of ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLIES This newspaper is published on recycled newsprint using soy-based ink.
MAIN STORE 706 SE MLK BLV D. 503.233-5 973 & O U T LET 534 S E B E L M O N T S T. 503. 446. 2205 Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
3
Have a look…
D I SD C IOSUCNOTU N T
Near Wholesale DesignerDesigner Frames, Frames, Near Wholesale Prices Prices
Low prices on
Acuvue
disposable contacts Now with UV protection box of six
$19
503-295-6488 • 134 NW 21st Ave • opticalbrokers.com
ERNEST HEMINGWAY • KENNETH COLE • RAY BAN • COLUMBIA • & more...
Are you a woman seeking a new form of contraception? Women’s Health Research Unit is recruiting for a clinical research study evaluating an investigational new version of the female condom. To qualify, you should be currently in a monogamous sexual relationship (of at least 4 months) with a male partner, be between the ages of 18 and 40, and be in good general health.
INBOX WWEEK.COM READERS COMMENT ON “BLOCK BUSTER,” JULY 6, 2011 “[Last Thursday’s] lack of regulation is the bulk of its charm. Don’t f*** up a perfectly good festival with a bunch of bureaucratic B.S. and DON’T start charging booth fees. That will entirely WRECK Last Thursday and everything that’s good about it. How are you gonna have a space for Portland’s broke-ass artists trying to make rent if they have to pay a booth fee and register way in advance and all that crap? Everyone who supports Last Thursday ‘growing up’ is missing the point of the event.… The problem is not that Last Thursday doesn’t have enough oversight, it’s that other neighborhoods have too much! This town needs more opportunities to come together in a haphazard way, not a bunch of control freaks in charge of things.” —Uriah Zebadiah “Where to start? ‘Bureaucratic B.S.’: You mean the law? ‘Busybodies’: You mean the area residents who are sick of an untrammeled drinkfest, tired of having their yards used as toilets and bedrooms? ‘Broke-assed artists’: Why should any citizen be forced to subsidize any private enterprise? My father was a ‘broke-assed artist.’ He was also a ‘broke-assed auto mechanic’ to put food on the table when art sales were slow. ‘Control freaks’: You mean the public servants we pay (rather handsome) wages to, that ensure some mean level of livablity in our neighborhoods?
Uriah, perhaps you want to live your life as a free spirit, but not everyone wants an unregulated ‘Burning Man’ in their neighborhood every month. And certainly, not at taxpayer expense.” —Zippy “Yes, I mean the area residents who bought a house in the neighborhood because they wanted a piece of the neighborhood culture and are now bitching. These whiners knew about Last Thursday when they chose to move here…. Regardless of whether everyone wants an unregulated temporary autonomous zone in the neighborhood, the fact remains that we DO need one at least somewhere in the city. Don’t want to spend money on it? DON’T. The people are fully capable of blocking off the street themselves…. —Uriah Zebadiah “It seems to me that the reason this is subsidized by the mayor is that the event draws an important voting group that supports the mayor and it costs him nothing to buy it off using taxpayers’ money.” —GregQ “Soooo glad I moved away from there. Though I sure do miss the earnest 20-year-olds who just moved here last year lecturing us residents about how ‘Last Thursday is what Portland is all about.’ Thanks for the heads up. And welcome to town.” —Schemes LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
To find out more information and to learn if you are qualified to participate please contact the Women’s Health Research Unit confidential recruitment line, 503-494-3666, or surveymonkey.com/whru
Qualified participants will receive at no cost: • Study related physical & Gynecologic exams • Up to $450 in compensation for time and travel (over the duration of the study) • Investigational female condom
eIRB #6445
For more information call 503-494-3666
4
OHSU is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
Traveling around America, I’ve noticed fewer mosquitoes in Portland than most other urban areas. Is it the climate? Secret nighttime spraying? Or just hungry salmon? —Forrest Here’s the thing: If Portland is light on mosquitoes, I know why. But I can’t prove that it is. Anecdotally, I’m with you—I grew up in the muggy Mississippi Valley, and I recall the mosquitoes there as basically the bugs from Starship Troopers, only with wings. They darkened the sky of a summer’s evening, strafing our villages and carrying off children and livestock, and to my mind, the Portland version has nothing on their size and numbers. Unfortunately, science doesn’t have my back. A statement from Multnomah County Vector Control gives the party line: “Our geography as a flood plain and our proximity to multiple bodies of water contribute to the large presence of mosquitoes in this area,” they claim. “We have just
as many mosquitoes as many other urban hubs around North America.” Hmm. I don’t wanna be the guy that says that since it snowed last winter, global warming must be a hoax. But…really? “My guess would be that there’s no way to tell,” says Matt Davis of county vector control. “It becomes really difficult to compare one city to the next in terms of mosquitoes, because there are so many variables involved.” Once again, science’s obsession with “evidence” and “facts” lets us down: We don’t know. Just channel your inner Republican and believe whatever you find convenient. If we are relatively mosquito-free, though, it’s probably because Portland summers are dry, so we don’t have the standing puddles they get in, say, the Midwest, where there’s a thunderstorm practically every afternoon. No puddles means no place for mosquitoes to breed, and better picnics for all. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
OREGON MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY STAY HYDRATED THIS SUMMER!
SAVE UP TO 25% ON SELECT HYDRATION SYSTEMS BY:
25% OFF
20% OFF
Camelbak Hydration Packs & Accessories
Our BIGGEST sale of the season!
Osprey Hydration Packs & Accessories
H.A.W.G NV PACK Reg $129.95
MANTA PACKS Reg $128.95 - $148.95
Now $102.95
Now $102.95$118.95
ALPINE EXPLORER PACK Reg $84.95
RAPTOR PACKS Reg $108.95 - $118.95
Now $67.95 H.A.W.G NV PACK
MANTA 20 PACK
20% OFF All
STAINLESS STEEL SQUARE WATER BOTTLES Reg $24.95 Now $14.95
Now $86.95$94.95
25%OFF
All
CLASSIC W/ PRE-FILTER Reg $69.95 Now $52.45
SPECIALS RUN 7/13 - 7/26 Visit us online for hundreds of other great deals:
www.e-omc.com 2975 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR Hours: M-F 10-7 SAT 10-6 SUN 12-5 503-227-1038
Sale is limited to items on hand while supplies last.
WW summer sale ad 11.indd 2
6/28/2011 3:45:50 PM
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
5
CURBING IT: Mixed results in slowing 82nd Avenue prostitution. WI-FI WEIRD: Exposing extreme concerns about radio waves. ROGUE: The Oregonian. COVER STORY: A blogosphere pioneer sees the future.
Portland's Alternative Outdoor Store New • Recycled • Closeouts
7 11 13 15
www.nextadventure.net
GET YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE
SHOP DECK TODAY! GRANIT GEAR VAPOR TRAIL
$34.99 w/grip tape
Available in Short and Long Torso lengths. 2010. LIST $170
HIGH SIERRA WAVE 50
OUR PRICE $119
Hydrate on the go!
ALPS ORIZABA 3900
ONLY $19.99
VAUDE ASTRA 55+10
LIST $109
ONLY $79.99
LIST $180
OUR PRICE $129
LEDGE SCORPION
KELTY GETAWAY 4
2 person. Waterproof fly. Aluminum poles. ONLY $99.99
DIPPER YOUTH BAG Get those kiddos outside! LIST $25
OUR PRICE $14.99
Perfect size for a queen Insta-Bed. LIST $199 OUR PRICE $139
SEAL LINE BLACK CANYON 40L DRY BAG LIST $49.95 OUR PRICE $27.99
INSTA-BED QUEEN Sweet dreams. LIST $60
HIGH PEAK SIRIUS
HIGH PEAK HYPERLITE
OUR PRICE $49.99
2 person. Waterproof fly. Fiberglass poles.
ONLY $49.99
Perfect summer weight bag. LIST $39 OUR PRICE $29.99
OUTBOUND SELKIRK RECTANGLE
Roomy, rectangle bag. LIST $79.99 OUR PRICE $49.99
Great for family picnics at the beach! LIST $260 OUR PRICE $99.99
HIGH PEAK SUMMIT 20 degree synthetic for year round use.
MSR MO ROOM 2
OUR PRICE $49.99
MTI FISHER PRO PFD LIST $75 OUR PRICE $39.99
EDDIE BAUER NORTH PORT SHADE
Bomber. LIST $400
OUR PRICE $299
MTI LIVERY PFD LIST $40 OUR PRICE $29.99
PADDLE SPORTS CENTER
704 SE WASHINGTON ST
ROUGE RIVER 14 LIST $499 OUR PRICE $399
PRIJON TOURING KAYAKS PICTURED: MARLIN. 20% OFF
RIOT WW KAYAKS
PICTURED: MAGNUM 80.
30% OFF
STORE HOURS: M-F 10-7 • SAT 10-6 • SUN 11-5 • CORNER OF SE STARK & GRAND • 503-233-0706 • NEXTADVENTURE.NET 6
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
OUR GOOGLE+ INVITES GOT LOST IN THE MAIL. Oregon Ethics Commission Executive Director Ron Bersin has recommended the panel dismiss complaints against the Oregon State Treasury’s chief investment officer, Ron Schmitz, and two senior managers, Brad Child and Andy Hayes. The commission investigated the officials after The Oregonian reported on problems with travel and entertainment policies at the state treasury, which oversees investments of more than $75 billion in public funds. In Schmitz’s case, the ethics commission investigation found he received $256 in meals reimbursements beyond his expenses. But, the report found, “Mr. Schmitz immediately repaid the Treasury when errors came to his attention, providing mitigating factors to dissuade a recommendation to find violation of Oregon Government Ethics law.” Tough times for the Tigard-based Typhoon Thai restaurant chain. The food-service distributor Sysco Portland on July 8 sued Typhoon in Multnomah County Circuit Court for allegedly failing to pay $411,000 in bills. In the same week, a federal arbitration panel ordered Typhoon to pay $268,000 to a chef that the panel found had been discriminated against because of her Thai origin. And that’s not all. A Bureau of Labor and Industries spokesman says that Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian is poised to level civil charges against Typhoon for alleged repeated civil-rights abuses and widespread wageand-hour violations. Typhoon owner Steve Kline did not return a phone call seeking comment. About 2,500 bureaucrats from around the nation descend on Portland this weekend to dine, schmooze and attend panels at the National Association of Counties’ annual conference—and Multnomah County taxpayers are footing part of the bill. Former County Chair Diane Linn volunteered to host the conference, and her successor, former Chair Ted Wheeler, agreed to move forward, even as the economy tanked. In 2009, Commissioner Diane McKeel agreed to raise the money for the conference. She’s $143,000 short of the county’s $674,000 goal, after paying outside MCKEEL consultant Metropolitan Group $220,000, in part to help with the fundraising. The county’s general fund must pay the difference even as the county is laying off staff. McKeel tells WW she’s not disappointed; she says the attendees will sink millions into Portland’s economy over the weekend. Farmers Insurance Group announced in 2007 that it would move hundreds of employees from Tigard to a large call center in Hillsboro. State and local leaders cheered, praising the company for its “longstanding commitment to Oregon” and the state’s “solid workforce.” Indeed. The U.S. Department of Labor announced July 6 that Farmers would pay $1.5 million in overtime back wages to 3,500 employees in six states—including the ServicePoint call center in Hillsboro. According to the Labor Department, employees routinely performed an average of 30 minutes of unpaid work every week before clocking in.
W W S TA F F
HARD CANADIAN MAPLE
GOT A GOOD TIP? CALL 503.445.1542, OR EMAIL NEWSHOUND@WWEEK.COM
ANDREW ROBERTS
NEWS
THE PROSTITUTION REPORT
ing women enroll in school or find jobs, and for improving their overall mental health. The low point of the scorecard was in getting women to finish just two-thirds of their treatment. LifeWorks Northwest had hoped to get 60 percent of the women to meet that goal. Only 18 percent did. Leonard himself spearheaded to reform career criminals The report covered only six months, from December downtown: Instead of simply watching arrestees cycle in and 2010 through May 2011. And LifeWorks Northwest staff out of jail, the justice system would force them into treat- members say their outcomes have improved since the program started in 2009. ment so they could make a permanent break from street life. BY JA M E S P I T K I N jpitkin@wweek.com About 150 women have entered the program since it Beth Glisczinski, addictions services director at Lifelaunched in January 2009. Those who stay can receive Works Northwest, says prostitutes are some of the most counseling, free mental-health and addiction treatment, traumatized clients her organization has ever seen. Many Three years ago, prostitution was engulfing 82nd Avenue. Arrests were up 43 percent. Sex workers stalked the and help finding homes and landing jobs. It’s an ambitious come from a lifetime of abuse and relapse several times avenue day and night. Shady johns trolled the street look- plan, and one fully in line with the latest thinking on the after entering treatment. Initially, treatment in the proing for hook-ups. And neighbors flooded the cop shop with problem of human trafficking—a view that sees prosti- gram was supposed to last six to nine months. tutes as victims of the sex trade rather than as criminals. But Glisczinski says the program has learned that success complaints. usually takes a year or longer. Some clients have gone on to City officials vowed to tackle the problem with an inno- The city has spent nearly $643,000 so far. vative program to help prostitutes start new lives through But until now, no one could say how well the idea new lives and written glowing reports about the program. “Knowing this population, we’ve had a lot of sucwas working. LifeWorks Northwest, the nonprofit that mentoring and treatment. designed the program and runs it, last month issued the cesses,” Glisczinski says, sitting in a small conference The results are in, and they’re mixed. WW has learned that the city-funded program, called first report card on its program at the insistence of Mult- room in the nonprofit’s Rockwood office. “A lot of these New Options for Women, has fallen short of several key nomah County, which acts as a pass-through for the city women have been on the street for five or 10 years. They come in here, and their benchmarks. And lives get better.” while police and treat“I’M NOT AT ALL DISAPPOINTED. IT OFTEN TAKES REPEATED ATTEMPTS Compared with a similar ment providers hail its AT RECOVERY FOR PEOPLE TO SUCCEED.” —RANDY LEONARD program in Texas, the Portsuccesses, some prosland effort shows mixed titutes have chosen jail results. In its 2010 annual report, Dallas’ Prostitution Diverover treatment because the program requires them to dollars and manages the contract with LifeWorks. sign paperwork allowing their information to be turned That June 30 report—obtained by WW in a public- sion Initiative claims 34 percent of its clients completed records request—shows LifeWorks Northwest has met treatment. That’s double the 18 percent who completed twoover to police. Back in 2008, officials cited a moral imperative to end three of eight goals it set for the program’s success: keeping thirds of their treatment at LifeWorks Northwest. clients sober, helping them form a safety plan, and persuadLeonard insists the program is worth the money. prostitution. “I’m not at all disappointed,” he says. “It often takes “The truth is a lot different from the fantasy,” Commis- ing them to attend at least two treatment appointments. LifeWorks Northwest came close to meeting goals for repeated attempts at recovery for people to succeed, so sioner Randy Leonard said at the time (see “Street Fight,” WW, Aug. 13, 2008). “It is a living hell.” getting recovering prostitutes into safe housing and keep- I’m not surprised they’re not meeting the goals they set Leonard and the Police Bureau said the solution was to ing them from being re-arrested. CONT. on page 8 The nonprofit fell far below its benchmarks for helpborrow from a program that a cop named Jeff Myers and
A SEX-WORKER TREATMENT PROGRAM FAILS KEY BENCHMARKS AND RAISES PRIVACY QUESTIONS.
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
7
NEWS
Dava Bead & Trade 2121 NE Broadway
503.288.3991 :: davabead.com *
Featuring Rubies, Blue Topaz, Sapphires, Citrines and more! * except classes and consignment
STARTS FRIDAY AT THE HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 4122 NE Sandy Blvd Portland, OR · (503) 281-4215
New Programs for Medical Professionals! MASTER OF ACUPUNCTURE Classes begin in September 2011 The Master of Acupuncture program is designed for students having a special affinity for classical acupuncture and moxibustion, but desiring a more streamlined educational experience. The foundation of the MAc program is similar to that of the Master of Science in Oriental Medicine (MSOM) program, but with fewer hours of theory and without the focus on herbal instruction. An increased emphasis is placed on the refinement of palpation skills used in acupuncture diagnosis and treatment.
POST-GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN BOTANICAL MEDICINE Classes begin in October 2011 NCNM’s new Graduate Certificate in Botanical Medicine provides a foundation of knowledge that bridges the knowledge and clinical uses gap for health care providers. Especially urgent is the need to address safety and efficacy. Common uses of herbs will be addressed as well as their potential for interactions with pharmaceutical medicines. The curriculum is centered on the integration of traditional herbal wisdom and modern scientific knowledge.
DOCTORATE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE FOR CHIROPRACTORS Classes begin in January 2012 Courses for the DC Professional Track program are consistent with courses from the full-time ND curriculum, but specifically designed with the training of the DC in mind. Course content will build upon and advance the academic education DC’s received in their chiropractic training, as well as providing the knowledge, clinical experience and competencies required to be a family care physician.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR ALL PROGRAMS.
Contact us for details or apply online! admissions@ncnm.edu 503.552.1660 / 877.669.8737 www.ncnm.edu 049 SW Porter Street, Portland, Oregon 97201
PROSTITUTION, CONT.
out for themselves.” Cops apparently agree. This spring, when funding for the program was threatened by city budget cuts, the Police Bureau’s director of services, Mike Kuykendall, stepped in to save the program with $120,000 from the police chief’s budget. That’s enough to keep the program running through November. After that, its future remains uncertain. One person who hopes the program stays is Officer Randi Miller, a three-year member of East Precinct’s Prostitution Coordination Team. After the program started, prostitution arrests citywide dropped by 31 percent in 2009 and by 46 percent a year later. “It’s not something you can fix with the wave of a wand,” Miller says. “[Prostitutes] have so many underlying issues to deal with.” Miller is one of four officers on the prostitution team who work directly with the LifeWorks Northwest staff. They meet once a week to share information about how the women are doing in treatment, who’s staying clean, and whether any clients have reported problems with their pimps. Because the city funds the program, the clients are required to sign a form allowing treatment providers to share wide-ranging information with police. The form says they can provide the
“THE IDEA THAT THESE OFFICERS WHO ARE HARASSING THESE WOMEN AT TIMES ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN THEIR TREATMENT, I THINK, IS JUST TOO MUCH FOR SOME OF THE WOMEN TO HANDLE.” —STEPHANIE ENGELSMAN cops with a client’s medical and psychological reports, treatment results, and information on her drug and alcohol use—although staff say they don’t divulge personal information. Many of the women are in the program on a judge’s orders, as a term of their probation. If LifeWorks Northwest reports a woman is skipping treatment, Miller says police will try to contact that client. In some cases, she could land back in jail. Close cooperation with the cops is crucial to the program’s success, Glisczinski says. But it has also caused a handful of potential clients who approached LifeWorks Northwest of their own accord to back out of participating, says Carey Cogswell, clinical supervisor for the program. And close ties to the police have caused at least three criminal defendants to choose jail over treatment. One of those women talked with WW. She asked that her name not be used to avoid embarrassing her family. The woman, 43, has spent two decades in the Portland sex trade—not because she’s traumatized or addicted, she says, but simply to make money. She’s also been arrested more than 90 times. This spring, after violating her probation by walking too close to 82nd Avenue, she chose to spend 120 days in jail rather than attend LifeWorks Northwest. In an interview in Inverness Jail, the woman said police have harassed her in the past. She said she refused the program because she doesn’t need treatment, and also because she doesn’t like the fact that treatment providers share information with the cops. “I’m not going into a program and talk where I know it can be used against me,” she says. The woman’s court-appointed attorney, Stephanie Engelsman, says she knows of at least two other defendants who have refused the program for the same reason. “These women are very vulnerable,” Engelsman says. “The idea that these officers who are harassing these women at times are also involved in their treatment, I think, is just too much for some of the women to handle.” Not all clients have a problem with the police being involved, Glisczinski says. “You might find that helpful if you’re trying to make a change,” she says. “You might find that not helpful if you’re not trying to make a change.” WEB EXTRA: Go to wweek.com to see the LifeWorks Northwest report.
8
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
Oregon-made since 1921. Through July
20% OFF any purchase $599+ offer valid in store only.
meet one of our THE DUNTHORPE
No, you are not dreaming. This is really how great sleep feels.
all-stars
find all five at parklanemattresses.com beaverton • clackamas • gresham • hazel dell hillsboro • lake oswego • tualatin • vancouver
MULTNOMAH COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES PRESENTS
THE 4th ANNUAL ADOPTION PARTY (IN CONJUNCTION WITH TROUTDALE SUMMERFEST)
11 AM - 8 PM SATURDAY, JULY 16 MCAS shelter: 1700 W Columbia River Hwy, Troutdale 97060 503-988-7387
PUT A DOG ON IT! ADOPTABLE ANIMALS, FOOD, MUSIC, VENDORS, TATTOOS & MORE www.MultCoPets.org Sponsored by: Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
9
SUMMER SUPER SALE SOLID HARDWOOD MISSION SIDE CHAIR Reg. $97 Now
$79
ALDER/ BIRCH BUTLERS PANTRY 21” W 72” H 13.5 D Reg $387 Now
$319
NaturalFurniturePDX.com
42” MEDIA CONSOLE Solid Pine Two glass doors Reg $257 Now
$199
800 NE Broadway (503) 284-0655 Ready to finish Since 1975
FEATURING NEW WORKS BY ANDREA STOLOWITZ MATTHEW B. ZREBSKI PATRICK WOHLMUT BRIAN KETTLER QUINCY LONG KEVIN MCKEON DAVID GRIMM DAN O’BRIEN
Ronni Lacroute
10
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
HEALTH
PSEUDO-SCIENCE STRIKES AGAIN IN A PARENT’S LAWSUIT AGAINST PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. BY CO R E Y P E I N
cpein@wweek.com
The parent of a student at Mount Tabor Middle School has sued Portland Public Schools, claiming that its use of Wi-Fi is “genotoxic, carcinogenic, neurotoxic and otherwise…harmful” to his daughter. Yes, this is the same kind of Wi-Fi that provides wireless Internet connections in public buildings, coffee shops and homes across America. There’s virtually no scientific basis for the belief that Wi-Fi is a health threat. But the federal civil suit against PPS is the latest expression of anxiety by a growing community of Wi-Fi-phobic and selfdiagnosed “electrosensitive” individuals who believe a laundry list of physical ailments can be traced to the proliferation of consumer electronics. Last year in Santa Fe, N.M., a man sued his neighbor over her use of an iPhone, claiming it interfered with his digestion. Earlier this year in Portland, a group of neighborhood activists monkey-wrenched
Clearwire’s plans to install new towers to expand its 4G wireless Internet service, citing health concerns. Wi-Fi fears have spawned a cottage industry around the sale of protective amulets and field-disruptors. To many physicists, radio engineers and psychiatrists, all this is quackery. “Nobody has ever claimed, as far as I can see—a legitimate organization with legitimate credentials—that Wi-Fi was dangerous,” says Sam Churchill, a Pearl District resident whose blog, dailywireless.org, tracks the wireless industry. In his suit filed June 17 against the Portland schools, David Morrison doesn’t want money. He just wants to publicize what he says is the threat Wi-Fi, cellphones and cell towers pose to us all. “The telecom companies know this,” Morrison says. “They will someday be sued like the tobacco companies.” Morrison, a bookseller with no science background, says he went down the “rabbit hole” of online research after the private school where he used to send his daughter allowed a cell tower to be installed on its grounds. He later enrolled his daughter at Mount Tabor only to learn the school used Wi-Fi; he filed his suit after the school district declined to rewire its computer systems.
K E I T H WA R R E N G R E I M A N
WI-FI WOO-WOO
NEWS
On June 30, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman denied Morrison’s request for an injunction barring the district’s use of Wi-Fi. PPS has yet to file a response. A district spokesman says Morrison is the first parent to complain about the Wi-Fi. “The majority of the evidence says there’s not adverse health impacts,” Robb Cowie says. There’s no proof Wi-Fi makes people sick. Advocates like Morrison cite many studies that experts say are flawed by design and often are not peer-reviewed. But neither can scientists say with absolute certainty that exposure to low-level radio-frequency electromagnetic field, or RF EMF, radiation has no long-term health effects. The key, experts say, is proximity, intensity and duration of exposure. Federal Communications Commission guidelines put RF EMF exposure from cell towers and Wi-Fi routers well within the safety zone. Still, the anti-wireless activists have been emboldened by a June decision from the World Health Organization. After reviewing a large body of research, WHO classified EMF radiation, such as that emitted by cell phones and wireless routers, as a “possible carcinogen,” like welding fumes or coffee. But Wi-Fi signals are a long way from being a proven carcinogen as identified by the WHO—such as cigarette smoke, plutonium-239, the X-rays used at dentists’ offices and airport security checkpoints, and solar radiation (i.e., sunlight).
Ruby
Birthstone for July Crystals and Jewelry From $1 to $225
jewelry • crystals • carvings • meteorites • fossils
We will rock you!
Pioneer Place • Concourse Level • 340 SW Morrison (503) 228-6998 • www.fossilcartel.com
www.wagportland.com
VOTED
BEST DOGGIE DAYCARE
BY WW READERS
Daycare • Boarding • Behavioral Counseling 2410 SE 50th Avenue 503.238.0737
7am-7pm weekdays 8am-5pm weekends Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
11
ANNIVERSARY SALE already in progress! Save $10-20 off select seasonal styles.
Willamette Week’s
POP-TOGRAPHY presented by
Mississippi Street Fair 2011 PLUS, DON’T MISS THE 2-DAY BASEMENT SALE
JULY 16TH & 17TH
for photos of where we've been or to find out where we're going visit wweek.com/poptography or follow us on twitter @wweek #wwpop
love. without the handles.
h& 96t Hwy f o le ner Cor -Hillsda n t Bv
Ove
Signature Shoes
r 30
0S
tyle
s!
SUMMER HOURS 503-626-8413 • MON - SAT 9 - 7 • SUN 11-6
Friends of the Children presents
Pe
rf
or m
a
n
e
c
STAGE CLASSICAL DANCE A beneet concert for Friends of the Children
PAGE 41
Saturday, September 3rd Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
www.hallandoates.com www.friendsofthechildren.org/portland 12
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
NEWS
ROGUE
ROGUE OF THE WEEK
THE OREGONIAN THE WEBSITE OF THE STATE’S BIGGEST PAPER HAS RUN PAID CONTENT MASQUERADING AS NEWS. Neighborhood Notes is a different kind of online news source. The website features “hyperlocal” news from around Portland. What’s really different, however, is that Neighborhood Notes also charges people to publish their news. For the right price, the site will feature your press release or even write a story about your business or government agency. The Oregonian, like most journalism organizations, holds itself to a more traditional standard: Sources shouldn’t be able to buy coverage. But, WW has learned, links and excerpts of stories that Neighborhood Notes says are “sponsored” have been routinely ending up on OregonLive.com. And The O hasn’t been telling OregonLive readers this “news” is paid content. Failing to tell its readers about prepaid PR masquerading as news earns The O this week’s Rogue. A bit of background: In April, the daily launched its Oregonian News Network, an online partnership with nine blogs to provide local news on OregonLive. The project got a $50,000 grant from the J-Lab Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, in turn funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. One of the blog partners is Neighborhood Notes, which charges some users $25 to post an event listing and $75 for a news story. The website editor, Lynnette Fusilier, says it once charged the Port of Portland $600 to have a freelancer write about the agency. “Shopping your press release or news item to media outlets takes time and often produces disappointing results,” the website says. “Our efficient and affordable process makes sharing your news with Portland neighbors a snap!” Neighborhood Notes does signal that these items are “sponsored” when you visit the site. The Oregonian’s website, however, featured many items without telling readers that the subjects had paid for access. About 70 links or excerpts of “sponsored” stories have appeared on OregonLive’s Oregonian News Network page since April 20. The paid “sponsored” stories fed to The O’s site include an article on a home-buying seminar by a local credit union (which paid $25), the Northeast Broadway Business Association ($20) and the Port of Portland, which promoted “Portland Harbor, Behind the Scenes Tour: All About Potash” ($25). The Oregonian News Network’s “Partnership Standard’s [sic] & Practices” say partners must “avoid conflicts of interest” and “distinguish news from advertising.” Oregonian News Network coordinator Cornelius Swart acknowledges that this arrangement “is something that traditional journalists kind of look at in a questioning way.” But sponsored posts, he says, “are a reality of the blogosphere.” On Friday, July 8, WW contacted Oregonian Editor Peter Bhatia to ask him about the practice and whether it comported with the daily’s ethical st a n d a r d s. T h a t d a y, O r e g o n L i v e stopped showing links to sponsored stories from Neighborhood Notes. O n M o n d a y, B h a t i a responded by email to say the practice had ended. “So the questions you ask,” he said, “are moot.”
Cutting-Edge Treatments for Skin and Hair Problems Acne, Eczema & Psoriasis • Rashes, Rosacea, Vitiligo & Warts Skin Cancer & Mole Evaluation • Hair Disorders & Treatments Body Contouring & Reshaping • Botox & Dermal Fillers Chemical Peels & Microdermabrasion • Laser Treatments for Skin Rejuvenation Photodynamic Therapy for Acne & Pre-cancerous Spots
Urgent Care Appointments Available
503-297-3440 PORTLAND 9427 SW Barnes Rd. Suite 495
HILLSBORO 5880 NE Cornell, Suite B
facebook.com/pdxdermatology
Bernard Gasch, M.D. • Beata Rydzik, M.D. Board Certified in Dermatology Holly Chandler, PA-C
centerdermlaser.com
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
13
Mon - Fri 9-5, Sat 10-4 15794 SW Boones Ferry Rd in Lake Oswego 503-699-9995 • accentlighting.com
Master of Acupuncture Program NCNM’s School of Classical Chinese Medicine is founded on a millenniaold and highly complex system of knowledge within the framework of a modern graduate curriculum. The Master of Acupuncture (MAc) three-year program is designed for students having a special affinity for classical Chinese medicine and wanting a more streamlined graduate experience focused on acupuncture and moxibustion, with fewer hours of theory and herbal instruction. It folds the very best traditions of mentoring and lineage into a course of study that richly integrates the wisdom and philosophy of the ancients.
Applications are now being accepted for fall 2011 and winter 2012 entry. Contact admissions@ncnm.edu 503.552.1555 14
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
C H R I S R YA N P H O T O . C O M
THE
BLOGFATHER METAFILTER FOUNDER MATT HAUGHEY PUT THE BLOG IN BLOGOSPHERE. NOW HE LOOKS TO THE FUTURE. BY RUTH BR OWN
rbrown@wweek.com
Thirty-five miles from Portland is the home of one of Oregon’s hottest tech properties. It’s a long way from the “Silicon Forest” of local startups. It’s an even longer way from those who work in Silicon Valley, their offices bustling with Razor scooters and wunderkinds having mad, Red Bull-fueled coding parties. Instead, this company operates out of a single room in a suburban house in McMinnville. The
38-year-old CEO, Matt Haughey, fits neither the stereotype of the reclusive computer nerd nor the geek-chic startup whiz. Tall and lanky, with a relaxed demeanor that betrays his California roots, he talks little about himself. Sporting a slightly goofy grin, he enthuses about other people, ideas and “interesting stuff.” CONT. on page 16
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
15
THE BLOGFATHER
CONT.
“Interesting stuff” is Haughey’s trade. It started in 1999, when he posted a link on his blog to a website where people were posting pictures of their cats. It sounds like nothing in 2011, but in 1999, this was pretty monumental. Then a 26-year-old Web designer living in California, Haughey had to code all the software so he could “blog” in the first place. He had to design the front page, and find enough people who knew what a blog was to read it and join in. To do that, he had to create blog comments. In the first year, about 12 others signed up to his project—which he called “MetaFilter.” Today, MetaFilter is one of the most active blogging communities on the Web, and has shaped much of the way blogs work. It has amassed more than 50,000 registered members from all over the world and now receives 25 million page views a month. More people visit MetaFilter each month than visit MSNBC.com, according to Quantcast.com. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has called it “the ultimate group blog.” Members congregate to share links, news and discussion, or answer each other’s questions in the more recently created Ask MetaFilter, which is now the most popular section of the site. Collectively, they have uncovered online scams and documented major world events in real time. Yet MetaFilter is a throwback, defying the trends that have helped other social sites boom. Its design is virtually unchanged since 1999. Members are consulted on everything. There is no interactivity with social media. There are no images, videos or complicated voting systems. It is carefully curated and moderated and proudly low tech. Haughey has no intention to take the business public, sell it, or even to grow it any bigger than it already is. In 2003, he moved from the Bay Area to McMinnville with his wife, an associate professor at Linfield College, and he seems to relish the relaxed, small-town Oregon life he has adopted, where he can divide his time between working on the site, riding his bike and visiting Portland.
While little has changed at MetaFilter, the blogosphere outside has been radically evolving. The ease of Facebook and Twitter has lured the masses from their time-consuming blogs, while many of the best bloggers are now being paid to write for newspapers or online media sites. Many blogs now base their content and writing more on generating hits, links and retweets than they do on quality. And in an ominous moment in Web history, Google has announced it will integrate Blogger.com—one of the first and most important blogging sites, for which Haughey was one of the original developers—with its new Facebook competitor, Google Plus. Given all this, can a simple, community-driven site continue to thrive for another 12 years in this brave new world where blogging can be a billion-dollar business? WW chatted with Haughey about MetaFilter and the future of the blogosphere. WW: How did MetaFilter come about? Matt Haughey: I was a Web designer at UCLA. Blogs had just started in ’97, ’98. At the time, people were making like 10, 12 posts a day; they were just making random posts of things they found on the Internet, like “Here’s a Lego museum in Texas.” There was no software for blogs. So I built [some] blog software, and once you build your own completely from the ground up, you can make one author or 10,000 authors. I can’t find 10 things a day, but maybe four or five people could find two or three things, and together we’d have a decent blog. And then I made comments. I’d only seen one other site with comments, so I sort of had to invent how blog comments work. I just thought those four or five authors might want to talk to each other. I thought long and hard about how the comments were going to look and be displayed. I always wanted names at the bottom, so that you didn’t prejudice
MASTERPATH
what someone was going to say. I noticed that early systems like [tech blog] Slashdot just put, “Bob says this,” and you’d go, “Fuck Bob—he’s that libertarian psycho! I don’t want to hear a word he says!” So I put them at the bottom so you can be gently surprised. How many users and hits do you get now? Fifty or 60,000 [registered members who pay a $5 fee]. It’s like 25 million page views a month. Ninety percent of people are [unregistered readers] just finding the site from searches. You haven’t really encouraged registered members, though—it’s almost like the anti-Facebook. You’ve actually inhibited growth and made barriers to becoming a member. I [originally] had a full-time job and ran it in my free time, and I’d have to check on it every hour. So it was a hassle, and I just shut off sign-ups if I ever got any press. It was kind of nice to have it shut off for a week; there was no stress in my life, so I thought I’d just keep it shut off. Then there was this point where people were trying to sell their account on eBay, and someone sold an account for like $120, and I thought that was ridiculous, so I thought, “I’ll make them $5 and get rid of that.” You have created an almost troll-free comment section. Yeah, but we also now have three full-time moderators and a whole back-end system so people can report objectionable stuff, and we monitor that and try to remove anything that sucks. It’s probably something on the order of half a percent of everything—maybe 10 or 20 things we have to delete a day out of 3,000, but we do our best. CONT. on page 19
®
THE TEACHINGS OF LIGHT AND SOUND
The conventional approach to spirituality instructs us to search for
God and truth outside ourselves (exoteric), whereas the Light and Sound approach instructs us to search for God and truth within ourselves (esoteric). There is a vast difference between the two, of which greater numbers are growing increasingly aware. –– Sri Gary Olsen
Sri Gary Olsen Spiritual Leader of MasterPath
EXOTERIC APPROACH
Big musical. Big comedy. Big hair.
ESOTERIC APPROACH
NOW PLAYING
Search for God in temples or scriptures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . God, Soul, and Spirit exist inside the body Born in imperfection, forgiving of sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Born in perfection, resolving of karma Only one incarnation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Multiple incarnations External worship of past Saints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Attaining your own Self and God Realization Mind is the disciple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soul is the disciple Morality, forced abstinence, and denial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Moderation and balance in all things Hope of heavenly reward in afterlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heavenly state attained while living Ascended Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Living Master
Saturday, June 23rd — 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Clark Public Utilities - Community Room 1200 Fort Vanvouver Way, Vancouver, WA 98663 1:00 - 2:30 pm Introductory Talk (includes video presentation) To receive a free copy of the book Soul’s Divine Journey by Sri Gary Olsen, please visit our website at www.masterpath.org or write to P.O. Box 9035, Temecula, CA 92589-9035 USA
Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical.
Photo by Craig Mitchelldyer
All sincere seekers are cordially invited to a free introductory talk on the Mysteries of the Divine Spirit, given by a longtime student of MasterPath (includes video presentation).
THRU
JUL 24
proudly presented by Pearson Financial GrouP
503.620.5262 www.broadwayrose.org Deb Fennell Auditorium • 9000 SW Durham Rd., Tigard
16
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
PDX BRIDGE FESTIVAL
turns the Hawthorne Bridge into a grassy park for one day.
Brunch on the COME BRUNCH WITH US!
SATURDAY AUGUST 6
10AM-2PM
World's Largest Box of Doughnuts by Voodoo Doughnut Tastings Provided, Food Carts Available On Site, Picnic Baskets Welcome Croquet & Family Fun! Bid on a package that includes a one-of-a-kind picnic table and entry for 4 at local Whole Foods, beginning July 22nd VIP WITH DELIVERED BREAKFAST $75 | GENERAL ADMISSION $25 | KIDS AGE 6 TO 12 $10, 5 & UNDER FREE.
BUY A $4 “I BRIDGE PDX” BUMPER STICKER AND BE ENTERED TO WIN TICKETS FOR 2!
FIND OUT MORE AT PDXBRIDGEFESTIVAL.ORG/BRUNCH-2011 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
Self-alignment with the positive energies of the universe
Simple changes
Presenting:
Create happiness
Bluegrass
can bring more meaning to your life and wellbeing
ALWAYS FREE
Columbia gorge
festival
Skamania County Fairgrounds
Stevenson, Washington “Evolving Consciousness through Conscious Food Choice” th -
7pm - Mon, July 25
New Seasons Market, Community Room 15861 SE Happy Valley Town Center Dr., Happy Valley
& “A Change of Direction; Exploring our Fourth Element” 7pm - Thurs, July 28th- Center for Natural Medicine 1330 SE César E. Chávez Blvd., Portland *Talk given by an authorized speaker
Sant Baljit Singh, the spiritual Master teaches meditation on inner Light & Sound to anyone who is searching for a deeper meaning in life.
July 21-24, 2011 Ticket Information: 509.427.3979 columbiagorgeBluegrass.net Sponsored by:
Seldom
Scene dry branch Fire Squad John Reischman
&The Jaybirds
PRAIRIE FLYER
caleb clauder Country band
Saturday night not so square dance Sugar Pine Town mountain the bluegrass regulators Jammers Jamboree instrument contests workshops Much more to come...
info@knowthyselfassoul.org 1-877-633-4828 www.santmat.net Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
17
KEVIN FA RRISP HOTOGRA P HY.COM
THURSDAYS All You Can Eat
Spaghetti $6.95
Mon - Thurs 11am - Midnight Fri. & Sat. 11am - 1am Sun. 11am - 11pm
WILLAMETTE WEEK’S 2011 GIVE!GUIDE
50 SW Third Ave. 503-223-1375
Apply Now! WWEEK.COM/GIVEGUIDE
Also: Nominate someone who’s making a difference
2011 Skidmore Prize
They could receive $4,000 and lots of well-deserved attention. Their organization could gain automatic participation in this year’s Give!Guide.
All details online at wweek.com/skidmoreprize.
THE SECOND ANNUAL
POP-UP POOL PARTY JULY 30TH // NW 23RD AND SAVIER // 2 - 7 PM // 21+
PERFORMANCES BY
DAFT HUNKS SERIOUS BUSINESS DOC ADAM CLUB CROOKS LAWN GAMES & SLIP-N-SLIDE
FREE WITH FACEBOOK RSVP ($5 COVER AT DOOR WITHOUT RSVP)
PARTY BENEFITS FRIENDS OF TREES
18
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
We’ve moved to North Portland! New look, new location, new services! Portland’s first private cedar soaking tub, with sauna! Coming Fall 2011
Mention this ad and receive 20% OFF Voted Best Day Spa & Massage! bloomingmoonspa.com 1920 N. Killingsworth St 971-279-2757 / info@bloomingmoonspa.com
Call now to book appointments
THE BLOGFATHER C H R I S R YA N P H O T O . C O M
CONT.
That’s still pretty remarkable, though—most news sites get almost entirely trolling or abusive comments. What is it about the Internet that turns people into assholes? I think the anonymity; they think they can get away with it. Anonymous speech—like whistle-blowing—definitely has a role in society, but any time you introduce anonymity people can freely be assholes. Like, I grew up in L.A., and when you’re in a car in L.A. with 8 million other people, you’re totally anonymous; people drive horribly. And then you move up to Oregon, and everyone’s waving at each other and people drive much nicer. I see that online—it’s like, whatever level of anonymity you allow, is how much garbage you’re going to get. A lot of news sites have open name fields—that always kills me, they don’t even force you to sign up for an account. We have rules where you can only have one account per email, so it’s a real pain in the butt to be a serial troll. But newspapers have their arms tied, thinking this is letters-to-the-editor stuff, with hundreds of years of tradition, like, “We have to respect our readers.” But they’re not respecting you guys. Your community has spilled out into the real world too, right? The first meet-up was in 2002—there was a story on the Seattle earthquake, and there were 30 or 40 people in Seattle like, “My wall was shaking.” People were like, “Hey, there’s 30 or 40 of us, why don’t we go to a bar in Seattle?” So 15 people showed up after that, and they became friends, and then we started putting tools on the site for people to organize meetups. We’re doing 300 or so a year, so every weekend, there’s five to 10 meet-ups somewhere in the world. The second one we ever threw was in New York, and my friend Neil was there and Elizabeth Spiers was there. And then Nick Denton came in and saw a picture of me on the wall and was like, “Why is Matt on the wall?” And then I introduced him to Neil, and Neil introduced him to Elizabeth Spiers, and that became Gawker [with Denton as founder and Spiers as its first editor] six months later.
MATT HAUGHEY
The site still basically looks like it did in 1999, but in the meantime, all those Web 2.0 sites like Digg and Reddit have popped up. Do you ever worry MetaFilter will look old-fashioned? It’s tough; people don’t want anything changed ever. We have a thousand or so hyper-fans who hate everything. Every tiny little change we make, we test out with everyone who works behind the scenes, then we talk about what we’re going to say to everyone, how we’re going to present it to them. There’s a culture [former Harper’s editor] Paul Ford wrote about called the “Why wasn’t I consulted?’ culture: WWIC. And [MetaFilter] is the ultimate example. We have an entire subsite talk-
GOLDEN THREADS We asked Haughey to nominate his five most notable MetaFilter threads.
1. Seattle Earthquake thread
3. Russian Girls thread
This sort of happened live on the site before blogs really covered news, and it was a big deal that MetaFilter “beat” CNN and MSNBC with some news. It also led to the first meet-up, which has spawned thousands of meet-ups since: metatalk.metafilter.com/523/ Seattle-Meetup.
Last summer, a friend noticed two Russian students he taught previously were coming to America for summer jobs, but the details kept changing and sounded shady, and he was worried they might be caught up in a sex-trafficking ring. A bunch of members of the site in NYC pulled through and met up with the girls, explained what was going on, and housed them for weeks before raising enough money to send them home.
metafilter.com/6093/Big-earthquakehits-downtown-Seattle
2. 9/11 thread
metafilter.com/10034/Plane-crashesin-to-the-word-trade-center
The planes hitting the building took place almost live on the site, which now serves as a historical document of everyone’s emotions on that exact morning.
ask.metafilter.com/154334/Help-mehelp-my-friend-in-DC
4. Is it “beep beep” or “meep meep”? ask.metafilter.com/112923/Its-MeepMeep-dammit
A user wonders if the Road Runner in cartoons says “meep meep” or “beep beep,” and
eventually, after a bunch of speculation, a friend of Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc chimes in with the ultimate answer.
5. Tracking down an address from 1939 ask.metafilter.com/25714/TrackingDown-An-Address-In-1939-Vienna
A member asks how to track down where his grandfather lived in Vienna, Austria, in 1939 before having to flee to the U.S. to escape capture by the Nazis. Luckily, a researcher at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., not only found the address in the museum’s document archive but also found his immigration papers and gave them to the family. The member got to visit the site where his grandfather lived several months later on a European trip.
ing about the site. So everyone is consulted on everything, and everyone has an opinion on everything. It seems like the blogosphere—at least with independent blogs—is actually shrinking since Facebook and Twitter showed up. Yeah, like I have an interesting thought in the morning and think, “Can I whittle this down to one sentence? I can!” then “tap tap tap, done.” I feel bad because Twitter is so ephemeral. All the people I know who were blogging in 1995, all have blogs where the last post was six months ago. I have a friend who says if you don’t blog it, it didn’t happen. Twitter’s too ephemeral. But it kills blogs dead. It was just reported that Google will be integrating Blogger.com into its new Facebook competitor, Google Plus. As one of the original Blogger programmers, do you think that’s a positive thing for the blogging world, or is there a danger of things becoming too homogenized or monopolized? The name “Blogger” is kind of generic, but then they’re going to call it “Google Blogs,” which is even more generic!. Some people have said they’re trying to brand Google so you don’t just think of them as search. It seems strange to me—I don’t understand how it integrates into Plus. I’ve been playing with it, and it’s just like Facebook—it doesn’t really have anything to do with blogging. Yeah, I was bummed. I was bummed to see a top-10 site on the Web change its name from one that has been around for 12 years now. It’s surprising. MetaFilter is two weeks older than Blogger, but you’ll never see “Google presents MetaFilter” or something. I can’t really see an upside to what they’re doing—it just seems silly. Where do you see blogs in 10 years’ time? In a really weird space, because of Twitter and Facebook. There’s definitely been a decline in the last year or two, but I sort of see a resurgence of people who want to be serious writers be like, “Why am I dicking around with writing things in single sentences?” So I think serious blogs might come back, but I don’t think raw numbers of people blogging will ever get up again. Because Twitter and Facebook are so much easier. It’s funny: [Twitter co-founder] Evan Williams, who I worked with on Blogger.com, was very into making ideas as simple as possible. We started with a byzantine project management app, which grew to huge groups working on CONT. on page 20 Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
19
THE BLOGFATHER
CONT.
FOUNDER’S FIRST 5 Matt Haughey follows 200 or 300 blogs. Here’s what he says about five favorites: Not Martha (notmartha.org)—her site’s just like cool design stuff and home projects and crafty stuff. Plastolux (plastolux.com) is just like architecture porn—amazing photography and rich people houses. Jason Kottke’s site (kottke.org) is just one of the oldest blogs there is, and he’s like a one-man New Yorker on everything interesting in the world. Daring Fireball (daringfireball.net) is mostly for Mac nerds—anything you want to know about the design of Macintosh computers and iPhones and stuff. It’s one pundit’s take on everything. Andy Baio (waxy.org) is actually from Portland—he’s an old friend and he just runs a cool site. I guess I would call it journalism—interviews with video-game creators and anything he thinks is interesting. He puts a lot of work into the bigger pieces on his site, but he posts four or five links a day of really cool stuff in between the major stuff he does.
massive projects for months, and one part of it was, every project had a blog, and then we were just like, “Why don’t we just spin this off as a thing?” And then that became Blogger. And then, “Blogging’s so hard, why don’t you just make that a sentence?” It’s a logical progression, but then what happens to culture? It’s kind of a bummer.
Was it hard leaving the Bay Area and that real center of tech? It was kind of a bummer. As ridiculous as Silicon Valley is—ridiculous riches and people throwing money at any idea—at least it’s a sense of optimism, techno-futurism. It’s fun to be around. It’s kind of infectious.
Where will MetaFilter be in 10 years? I don’t know. I’m thinking about it right now. I just looked at our stats and, like, 12 percent of all our traffic’s on mobile devices. I thought it would have been 2 percent. I think by 2020, every phone’s going to be a smart phone— probably a third of the time I’m online is on my phone—so I think that will be the new dawn…. But it’s people clicking on ads that pay the bills, and mobile ads don’t work as well. Ask MetaFilter won’t go away—I think it has a magic number of just-right size.
But MetaFilter isn’t really part of that tech scene, either, because, as you say, it is a lifestyle business and not a startup. I know you’ve been a bit of a critic of startups in the past. I’m OK with this lifestyle business. It’s a put-down for a lot of people, especially in Silicon Valley. I think it’s the best thing in the world. You don’t have to kill yourself. I’ve been at startups where we worked 16 hours a day and didn’t get anything out of it. It’s stupid. Geeks who know how to program and make things should be able to make a small thing that runs forever and make $100,000 a year and live off that. I mean, what is wrong with that? It’s an awesome goal. I never got that message anywhere in the tech community. Like, what is wrong with making a decent living in doing something you love forever? And then people put that down as a “lifestyle business.” Or ask, “How are you going to change the world or make the next Facebook?” It’s like nobody sings unless they want to be Britney Spears. That’s stupid—we should all sing in bars three nights a week if we like it and get paid as professional musicians. Who says you have to be a superstar? I hate the whole “rock-star programmer” thing where you have to make the next Facebook. It’s very Portland to do sustainable things that are here for a long time. You can do sustainable things and not have to slash and burn and sell.
Can that make further growth a problem? Yeah, I think once we get to 100,000 it could start to get too big. I’m OK with how big it is today. It is a lifestyle business for me—I’m just running this thing and I have a few employees and we’re all happy. What’s better than that? What about writing certain things to get hits—search engine optimization and link-baiting and such? I hate that stuff, because I’m an old-school Web person and I can’t stand people gaming search engines. I know Jonah Peretti a bit, who co-founded The Huffington Post. He’s very smart, he’s an awesome dude, but he was sort of led down a bad path without noticing it. They A/B test everything: They have two headlines for everything, and they have coordinated systems to pick the one which gets the most clicks, and it’s so horrible. It’s just crass.
Attic Sale Save 75 up
to
%
Find the lowest prices of the year on select lighting, hardware, furniture, and accessories. Friday, July 15 – Sunday, July 17. All sales are final. Not valid on prior purchases. No additional discounts apply.
REJ UV ENAT I ON .COM 1100 SE Grand Ave., Portland, OR 97214 • 503-238-1900 • Mon–Sat: 10am–6pm • Sun: 11am–6pm 20
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
CryStal ballroom
the KillS SePt. 7
ti c k e o n S tS ale now !
f all o e th e S r e Sa w o Sh g e S! all a
doorS 8 Pm
aladdin theater CharleS bradley & denniS Coffey
blitzen traPPer Sept. 9 with Sharon Van etten & weinland doorS 8 pm
arCherS of loaf SePt. 8 with Sebadoh & ViVa VoCe doorS 7 Pm
blind Pilot
Sept. 10 with aVi buffalo, alela diane & black prairie doorS 7 pm
Pioneer Stage at Pioneer CourthouSe Square
roSeland theater
iron & wine
butthole SurferS
Sept. 8 with monarqueS doorS 7 pm
horSe featherS
SePt. 9 with marKéta irgloVá & Sallie ford & the Sound outSide doorS 3:30 Pm
Sept. 8 with throneS & dirty ghoSt doorS 8 pm
Sept. 9 with Joe pug & anaiS mitchell doorS 8 pm
exPloSionS in the SKy SePt. 10 with the antlerS, tyPhoon & eluVium
Portland Cello ProJeCt Sept. 10 with lifeSaVaS & emily wellS doorS 7 pm
doorS 2:30 Pm
band of horSeS
SePt. 11 with CaSS mCCombS band, morning telePortation & bobby bare Jr doorS 2:30 Pm
maCKlemore & ryan lewiS
Sept. 9 with Shabazz palaceS and txe doorS 7:30 pm
neuroSiS
Sept. 10 with grailS, yob & akimbo doorS 7 pm
for tiCKeting and wriStband info go to muSiCfeStnw.Com/tiCKetS limited number of adVance ticketS for theSe ShowS are aVailable throug h ticketSweSt.
$70*
wriStband pluS a guaranteed ticket to one Show at pioneer courthouSe Square: iron & wine, exploSionS in the Sky or band of horSeS
$115*
wriStband pluS guaranteed ticketS to all three ShowS at pioneer courthouSe Square: iron & wine, exploSionS in the Sky and band of horSeS *Service Fees Apply
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
21
TIRED OF BEARDED, SENSITIVE SINGER-SONGWRITERS?
ON SALE NOW
Live Music
FOOD & DRINK: Vive la France! MUSIC: Straight talk with Pete Anderson. DANCE: Getting sweaty in the park. MOVIES: Terri and Harry! Teen boys in trouble!
25 29 41 45
SEPULTURA S Kairos
$12.95-reg. ed. cd
The Brazilian metal group’s 12th studio album is a celebration of their 25+ year career.
SCOOP
RED FANG ANG
Murder The Mountains
$12.95-cd
TUES NIGHTS AT 9PM
Produced by Decemberists’ Chris Funk, the latest from Portland’s Red Fang has an epic, ferocious sound.
BLACK COUNTRY B RY COMMUNION 2
$14.95-cd
Hard-rock heavy hitters Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple/Black Sabbath), Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian (Dream Theatre) and Joe Bonamassa combine forces for a great Led Zep vibe. Sale prices good thru 7/24/11
NEW RELEASES OUT THIS WEEK:
Decapitated • Earth Crisis • Mayan • Samael • Rhapsody of Fire Sleeping Giant • Suicide Silence • Deceased • Iced Earth • Incubus
USED NEW &s & VINYL VD CDs, D
SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE WED & THURS: 9PM FRI & SAT: 8.30PM
WED 07/13
ERIC JOHN KAISER THURS 07/14
MERRILL LITE FRI 07/15
BIG ELECTRIC FOR ANY & ALL USED CDs, DVDs & VINYL
DOWNTOWN • 1313 W. Burnside • 503.274.0961 EASTSIDE • 1931 NE Sandy Blvd. • 503.239.7610 BEAVERTON • 3290 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. • 503.350.0907 OPEN EVERYDAY AT 9 A.M. | WWW.EVERYDAYMUSIC.COM
SAT 07/16
THE BRADLEY BAND SW 2ND & ASH • (503) 222-2155
THIRSTYLIONPUB.COM
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS...OF THE CHEESE WORLD. I AM THE CHEESE: Portland’s own Steve Jones is officially the best cheesemonger in the world. Now, devotees of Jones’ Cheese Bar already knew this. But it’s nice to have it confirmed at the second annual Cheesemonger Invitational, held last Friday, July 8, in Long Island City, N.Y. Jones bested more than 40 competitors from around the globe in sniffing, tasting, cutting and plating cheese. His winning slate (a.k.a. cheese plate) featured “mountain cheese with [Portland’s] Xocolatl de Davíd bacon caramel popcorn.” SECRET BACON: For those who feel no burger is complete without cured pork belly, Little Big Burger now offers bacon “pretty regularly now” according to a cook at the Mississippi Avenue location. But you won’t find it on the menu—until the bacon option is officially announced, you’ll have to ask for it. SKYLINE COMES TO TOWN: According to an OLCC application, the owners of West Hills burger joint Skyline Restaurant are opening a second restaurant in the former Jay’s Mexican Restaurant space on Northeast Broadway. THEY’RE IN THE MONEY: Broadway Rose Theatre Company’s world-premiere staging of Ripper, a new musical by Duane Nelsen about Jack the Ripper, got a major vote of confidence last week when the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Tigard company a $30,000 grant to support the production. Ripper runs Aug. 3-21 at the Deb Fennel Auditorium in Tigard.
ED-JECTED: The Ed Forman Show, with ME! ED FORMAN! has always been something of a parody of Los Angeles lounge acts, so it only makes sense that, after three years at Dante’s, Forman alter ego Aaron Ross is moving his show... to Los Angeles. The final Dante’s show will be Dec. 27; Ross hopes to have an L.A. venue confirmed by then. “I wanted to have the opportunity to make [Ed Forman] a television show,” he says, “or whatever it can be in the Age of Aquarius.” The show has become a Burnside standby whose guests in the past month have included Dave Dahl of Dave’s Killer Bread and actor Peter Stormare, best known as the wood-chipper operator in Fargo. “I spent five days emailing back and forth with who I think is one of the five most terrifying guys in modern cinema, and [Stormare] was the nicest guy,” Ross said. ED FORMAN & PETER STORMARE
22
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
BRAD NORTON
IN THE MIX: Longtime Portland turntablist DJ Wicked scored enough votes in a contest on YouTube last week to secure a spot as the final competitor on the BET Network’s forthcoming Master of the Mix reality show. The contest required Wicked, a “vinyl purist to the core,” to learn to use digital software on the fly for his YouTube presentation—but apparently he’s a quick study. No word yet on when the second season of the show will air (Season 1 premiered last November), but you can bet Portland’s oft-neglected hip-hop community will be watching when it does.
HEADOUT N I C K P A T T O N I L L U S T R A T I O N .Y O L A S I T E . C O M
WILLAMETTE WEEK
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK IN ARTS & CULTURE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 [MUSIC] EARTH, ANGELO SPENCER ET LES HAUTS SOMMETS Earth’s new album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light spells doom the same way a sunset in the desert does. This is heavy instrumental rock music that builds like sediment in stone. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, JULY 14 [VIDEO GAMES AS ART] ARCADEO-VISION: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Ground Kontrol and Filmusik join forces to present the TMNT arcade game with a live soundtrack composed and played by two local ensembles. After a screening of the Turtles’ 1990 movie, Electric Opera Company will perform Levels 1-4, and Cosmic Fluke will perform levels 4-6. Tubular. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7 pm. $8.
FRIDAY, JULY 15 [MOVIES] TERRI Portland novelist Patrick deWitt has written a movie about a fat kid’s school days, and it is a balm for anyone who’s ever felt inadequate to getting through this thing called life. Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10, 846 SW Park Ave., 221-3280. Multiple showtimes. $10.50. [THEATER] MY MIND IS LIKE AN OPEN MEADOW Memory, old age and the importance of living life to the fullest are the themes of this solo performance by Hand2Mouth Theatre member Erin Leddy, which was honored five times over at this year’s Drammy Awards. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 7 pm. $15. All ages.
SATURDAY, JULY 16 THE WHEELS ON THESE BIKES GO ROUND AND ROUND. For a city so fixated on bikes, Portland pays surprisingly little attention to bike racing. Maybe that’s because all Portland’s potential racers are, at present, using biking mainly as an alternative to drunken driving. Or perhaps there’s a correlation between our lack of interest in competition and our hippie-dippy, no-enemy collective ethos. We’ll leave these questions to the sociologists, and the bike racing to about 150 cyclists expected to compete in the Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge this weekend. The Challenge is one of the biggest velodrome competitions in the country, drawing cyclists from all over North America to race in oddly named events like the Keirin, the Madison and the Flying Lap on the nearly 50-year-old Alpenrose Velodrome’s exceptionally steep track. Riding on fixed-gear bikes at an approximately 43-degree angle, cyclists must maintain a pace of at least 12.5 mph to stay upright. For most, that shouldn’t be a problem: Top riders can attain speeds of at least 40 mph. Don’t know a velodrome from a Thunderdome? Don’t sweat it: There’s a YouTube-annotated “Track Racing 101” guide to velodrome events on the competition’s website (alpenrosechallenge.com), and here, courtesy of race organizer Charlie Warner, is a list of the top three riders to watch. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. GO: The Alpenrose Velodrome Challenge takes place at the Alpenrose Velodrome, 6149 SW Shattuck Road, 246-0330, alpenrosechallenge.com. Friday-Sunday, July 15-17. Free. For full competition schedule, visit alpenrosechallenge.com. Warner says the most exciting events, including the men’s team sprint, will take place in Session 4, which starts at 4 pm Saturday. Visit wweek.com to watch video of Portlander and “rider to watch” Kevin Mansker pedaling impossibly fast.
Kevin Mansker
A Portland native who is now a member of the U.S. national cycling team as well as Project London, an elite group of track cyclists seeking to represent the United States in the 2012 Olympics. The 21-year-old “will be looking to break a couple track records,” Warner says.
Monique Sullivan
A rider on the Canadian national cycling team, this 22-year-old Olympic hopeful already holds two track records at Alpenrose and should be a standout in the elite women category.
Michael Blatchford
Blatchford burst onto the trackcycling scene when, as a mere 18-year-old, he beat two Olympians to win a national sprint title. The now-25-year-old himself competed with the USA Cycling team at the 2008 Olympics, and is training for a 2012 return.
[VIVE LA FRANCE] PIX’S BASTILLE DAY BLOCK PARTY Pix throws an epic, oddball bash featuring everything from a winedrinking fun run through Northeast Portland to live bands and a bike scavenger hunt for le quatorze Juillet. Pix Patisserie-North, 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539. 3 pm-midnight. Free entry; two cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank. Event schedule at pixpatisserie.com. [FOOD/MUSIC] BACON CUP Wombstretcha hosts an evening devoted to baconphilia, including a bacon competition, bacon art and lady bacon wrestling. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 8 pm. $5-$10. Info at baconcup.com. 21+. [GIRLFIGHT] RUMBLE AT THE ROSELAND Portland hosts the first-ever 200-plus-pound female fight in the Full Contact Fighting Federation’s history, among other cage-fig¶ht clinches. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-8499. 7 pm. $29-$59. Willamette Week July 13, 2011 wweek.com
23
July 27, 2011.
www.pixpatisserie.com
VISUAL ARTS 3PM to MIDNIGHT *We are collecting food for OREGON WITH LIVE MUSIC BY:
DEELAY CEELAY
FOOD BANK!
OY • YEAH RIGHT FINE COOL NUTZ AND DJ FATB ANCE COUNSELOR CLOUDY OCTOBER • GUID LIGHT • PIGEONS THE SAM HUMANS &
10:30 PM - DANCE PARTY WITH
DJ ERIK BEATS!
24
Portland, OR • 503-282-6539
EVENTS INCLUDE:
5K Wine Run! Bike Scavenger Hunt! Sabering! Grape Stompin’!
UPCOMING EVENTS
...and more!!!
2 NONPERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS!!! Bar & Grill
Who’s your mommy? All dinner specials are served with sautéed vegetables, house salad, garlic bread and a choice of potato. All steak entrees are prepared with USDA CHOICE grain-fed beef.
Thursday Broadway Steak - $11 Friday Prime Rib or New York Strip - $13.75 Saturday Rib Eye - $13.75 or Top Sirloin -$10.75 12434 SW Broadway St., Old Town Beaverton 503-641-7474 I www.broadwaysaloon.com Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
full liquor bar 14 domestic & micro brews on tap all lottery games 8 big-screen TVs
gourmet hamburgers & hot sandwiches excellent lunch specials happy hour
BRING
3901 N Williams Ave
> JUL 22
> JUL 23
> JUL 29-31
> AUG 5
> AUG 11-14
> AUG 15
> AUG 26
> SEP 11 Be the FIRST to know! Connect us! Sign up towith receive
advance notification, facebook.com/rose.quarter.pdx pre-sales @Rosequarter and more at RoseQuarter.com rosequarterblog.com
GALLERY LISTINGS AND MORE! PAGE 43
Rose Garden Area/ Memorial Coliseum
>
Tickets ON SALE NOW at Rose Quarter Box Office, all participating Safeway/ TicketsWest outlets, , or by calling 877.789.ROSE (7673).
For more info please visit RoseQuarter.com
FOOD & DRINK REVIEW
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
THURSDAY, JULY 14 Boxer Northwest Garage Sale
Need a 12-quart food-safe container or a commercial deep fryer? Local kitchen supply store Boxer Northwest is throwing big, three-day garage sale this weekend—with deals on factory closeouts, used stuff and new goods, too. Ten percent of the proceeds benefit Loaves & Fishes, which means you can score pro kitchen tools and feed seniors in needs at the same time. KELLY CLARKE. Boxer Northwest, 438 NW Broadway, 226-1186. 8 am-5 pm Thursday-Friday, 9 am-3 pm Saturday, July 14-16. Free.
Pix’s Bastille Day Block Party
It’s not all about sweets, people. Pix Pâtisserie throws an epic, oddball bash featuring everything from a winedrinking fun run through Northeast Portland to a Tour de Portland bike scavenger hunt for le quatorze Juillet. There will also be grape stomping, live bands, a Champagne and oyster bar and, of course, French desserts. KC. Pix Patisserie-North, 3901 N Williams Ave., 282-6539. Events taking place 3 pm-midnight Thursday, July 14. Free entry; guests encouraged to bring two or more cans of food to donate to the Oregon Food Bank. Race and hunt registration, as well as event details, at pixpatisserie.com.
Bastille Day at Suzette Crêperie
Northeast Alberta Street’s très chouette crêperie celebrates France’s uprising for independence with a pretty open-air dinner packed with buckwheat crêpes, lemon cream puffs and live music from AnnaPaul and the Bearded Lady. KC. Suzette, 2921 NE Alberta St., 473-8657. Seatings start at 6 pm Thursday, July 14. $25 per person. Reservations required. Call or email jehnee@suzettepdx.com.
FRIDAY, JULY 15 Williams Street Wolfdown
Stuff your face with some truly excellent eats and raise money for Oncology Youth Connection, which helps kids cope with cancer and treatment. North Williams’ Eat: An Oyster Bar hosts a series of four eating contests (oysters, Little T American Baker mini cupcakes and more) plus DJ tunes and more. Come and compete or cheer on the belly-busting contenders. Eat: An Oyster Bar, 3808 N Williams Ave., No. 122, 281-1222. 8 pm. $60 per team. Info and team signup at oncologyyouthconnection.org/williams-st-wolfdown.
Portland International Beer Festival
Oregon loves to pretend that our beers are the only beers on the planet (and really, we have reason to believe this) but the city’s International Beer Fest celebrates brews from across the globe. From Austria to Belgium and England, PIB’s boasting more than 150 beers from 15-plus countries, as well as food trucks like Violetta and Koi Fusion to pad your sudsy stomach. North Park Blocks at Northwest Davis Street and Park Avenue. 4-10 pm Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, noon-7 pm Sunday, July 15-17. $20 advance, $25 door; includes 10 beer tickets and official PIB glass. Additional 4-ounce serving drink tickets are $1 each (full pints for three tickets). Info and tickets at seattlebeerfest.com/Index2 PIB.htm. 21+.
SATURDAY, JULY 16 First Annual Bacon Cup
Master of insult rap Wombstretcha the Magnificent and his filthy cohort Statutory Ray host an entire evening devoted to baconphilia, which includes a bacon competition, bacon art, bacon-related product vendors and lady bacon wrestling. Also, DJs Castor Pollux & Twinkletits, who (I’m not making this shit up) will be “DJing
THOMAS OLIVER
PRICES: $: Most entrees under $10. $$: $10-$20. $$$: $20-$30. $$$$: Above $30. Editor: KELLY CLARKE. Email: dish@wweek.com. See page 3 for submission instructions.
topless in bacon-strip pasties.” There are bands, too (Public Drunken Sex, Pill Brigade, etc.). Really, I don’t know what to make of this event. But I do know that it is sponsored by Exotic magazine, Sassy’s, Slappy Cakes and Cannabliss, among others. And that’s enough for me. KC. Ash Street Saloon, 225 SW Ash St., 226-0430. 8 pm Saturday, July 16. $5. $10 B.I.P. (Bacon Is Priority) bracelet allows patrons to sample, judge and enjoy the competitors’ bacon. Info at baconcup.com. 21+.
Migration Pig Pickin’ Party
What’s better than getting the chance to taste-test new beer releases from Migration, New Old Lompoc and Upright Brewing? Sipping your pint and chowing on a “pork-centric plate” from excellent local barbecue cart Robb’s Really Good Food while listening to live banjo and bluegrass tunes. KC. Migration Brewing, 2828 NE Glisan St., 753-7572. 7 pm Saturday, July 16. Free entry.
Saraveza's 2nd Annual IIPA Fest
North Killingsworth brewhouse Saraveza and Brewpublic promise crazy-hoppy beers, live music and “B.B.L.T.s (yes, that’s bacon-bacon)” at this celebration of Imperial IPAs. The list of more than 20 brews includes a bunch of beers never before slurped, from Fort George’s "The Resistance" and Coalition’s "Double Dog Dare" to a new, special version of Ninkasi’s habit-forming Tricerahops. The fest also debuts Saraveza’s first-ever staff beer: the “Saison De Roxana” BelgoIIPA, created at Portland’s Breakside Brewery. KC. Saraveza Bottle Shop & Pasty Tavern, 1004 N Killingsworth St., 206-4252. 1-10 pm Saturday-Sunday July 16-17. Free entry.
SUNDAY, JULY 17 NW Veg Potluck
Enviro author, photographer and tour guide George Wuerthner gives a talk on “Livestock and the Environment” at NW Veg’s latest meat-free meal. Reminder: Only “plant-based” grub is OK at this potluck. If that sounds unappetizing, you can always go hang out with the freaks at the Bacon Cup (see above). KC. Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark St., 740-6776. 5 pm Sunday, July 17. Free entry. Info at nwveg.org/events.
MONDAY, JULY 18 Puckerfest
The Oregon Craft Beer Month festivities continue with the fifth annual Puckerfest, where Belmont Station spends a week highlighting sour brews and chatting with the charming weirdos who make ’em. On tap/ on pour so far? Flat Tail Brewing’s Corvallerweisse on Monday and Devil's Kriek, made with Rainier cherries from Double Mountain, on Tuesday. Wednesday, July 20, brings the release of Belmont Station's 14th Anniversary Ale (bottles and draught), created by PDX’s own Upright Brewing. KC. Belmont Station Biercafe, 4500 SE Stark St., 232-8538. Daily MondaySunday July 18-24. Free entry. Visit puckerfest.com for a full schedule.
HANAGHAN’S WAY: Trout with brown butter and toasted almonds at the revived Brasserie.
BRASSERIE 3: THE BRASSERING BRASSERIE MONTMARTRE RETURNS FROM THE GRAVE—AGAIN.
A veteran of Thomas Keller’s Per Se and Bouchon Bistro, Hanaghan was the last of four chefs to helm Adam Berger’s much-missed Ten 01. He had an excellent one-year run at that restaurant, where he created BY B EN WATER HOU SE bwaterhouse@wweek.com brilliant small plates like fiery confit duck wings. So far, Hanaghan hasn’t had much opportunity Our story thus far: In 1978, the same year voters to show the inventiveness that marked his term approved the creation of the nation’s first urban at Ten 01—the Brasserie’s menu doesn’t venture growth boundary and WW declared the Bee Gees far from the expected—but his attention to detail artists of the year, Brasserie Montmartre opened is evident. His rabbit boudin blanc ($18) is impecon the ground floor of the Esquire Hotel, around cable: a fat, juicy sausage, mild in flavor but not the corner from the department stores and hotels bland, the skin snapping slightly under the knife. that made up the heart of pre-Pioneer Courthouse An expertly boned trout came under a hill of green Square downtown. With its nightly live jazz and beans dressed with brown butter and capped with late hours, the restaurant soon became the sort a sprinkling of toasted almonds, the sweet, nutty of place you could, according to a 1988 Oregonian scent so alluring I spent a good minute sniffing the report, spot Rindy Ross chatting up Matt Dillon. fish before digging in. (It tasted good, too.) Abdel Omar, a former Benson Hotel busboy, Brasserie Montmarte’s menus (you can order purchased the restaurant in 1983 and ran it until from the dinner menu or shorter, cheaper bistro 2006, when the building underwent a major reno- menu in the front of the enormous dining room, vation. The six-month closure dragged on, and on, but only from the dinner menu in the back) are until it became apparent that the Brasserie, which designed for comfort, offering four sorts of fries had long since drifted off the city’s (plain or with duck fat, pork culinary map, was kaput. belly or truffle dressings), Order this: The fragrant trout, $19. In 2009, Matt and Sara Male- Best deal: The huge slab of veal pâté, $10 good onion soup ($9) and tis bought the gutted Brasserie, or $6 at happy hour (2-6 pm daily and 10 familiar entrees (roasted pm-midnight Monday-Saturday). added a downstairs lounge and chicken, pork chop, mussels I’ll pass: Fried Parisian gnocchi ($6) look optimistically signed a 20-year delightfully like Tater Tots, but the toofrites). You’re unlikely to lease. Their version of the res- strong truffle flavor outweighs the novelty. eat anything here that will taurant was a hit with fans of broaden your culinary horilive jazz, but struggled to attract the attention of zons, but your meal will taste good and look great. Portland diners. In April, they sold the business The re-revived Brasserie is a pleasant, comto developer Carl Coffman, who owns the build- fortable place to eat, its menu and unrefined but ing, and Pascal Chureau, the owner of West Linn’s congenial service unlikely to offend anyone. But Allium Bistro whose local résumé includes stints at the restaurant is boring, and given Hanaghan’s sucTucci, Fenouil and the spectacularly failed Lucier. cess at Ten 01 and Chureau’s Icarus-like ambitions In the month between purchasing the restau- at Lucier, it should be anything but. If any of the rant and reopening, Coffman and Chureau made daring these chefs have shown in the past makes some smart changes. The awkward bandstand at its way onto the menu, Brasserie Montmarte could the back of the restaurant is gone, replaced by a become a real destination; for now, it is a nice, safe wine rack, and the acoustic jazz performances have place for dinner and drinks with co-workers, where been moved to the front of the dining room. They I guarantee you won’t run into Matt Dillon. also ditched the cheesy fireplace lounge, subbing bistro tables for armchairs, and roughed up the EAT: Brasserie Montmartre, 626 SW Park Ave., 236-3036, brasserieportland.com. Lunch 11:30 decor with exposed brick and chalkboards. am-2 pm Monday-Saturday; bistro menu 2 pmMore important, the new owners had the good midnight Monday-Saturday, 2-10 pm Sunday; sense to hire Michael Hanaghan to run the kitchen. dinner 5-11 pm Monday-Saturday, 5-10 pm Sunday. Brunch 10 am-2 pm Sunday. $$-$$$.
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
25
CRYSTAL
836 N RUSSELL • PORTLAND, OR • (503)
THE
HOTEL & BALLROOM
CRYSTAL BALLROOM 14th and W. Burnside
80s VIDEO DANCE ATTACK
FRIDAY, JULY 15 9 PM $5 21+OVER WITH VJ KITTYROX
282-6810
The historic
MISSION THEATER
1624 N.W. Glisan • Portland 503-223-4527
LIVE STAGE & BIG SCREEN! WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
FRI JULY 22
LEFT COAST COUNTRY FREE
THURSDAY, JULY 14 5:30 p.m. is “eagle time” • free
WILL WEST AND THE FRIENDLY COVER UP!
Truckstop Darlin’ (acoustic)
LOLA’S ROOM
UNDER THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM
DANGERMUFFIN BEAUTIFUL TRAIN WRECKS FRI JULY 29
Thursdays at Al's Den
DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
KLICKITAT FREE
FRIDAY, JULY 15 5:30 p.m. is “eagle time” • free
REVERB BROTHERS
COWBOY CADILLAC SATURDAY, JULY 16 4:30 p.m. is “eagle time” • free
THE STUDENT LOAN BIG BUSK AFTERPARTY
TARGET FOR TOMORROW
THE
DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE
SUN JULY 17 ALL AGES
Sassparilla
A Psychedelic Birthday Happening
FREE
SUNDAY, JULY 17
“OPEN MIC/SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE” FEATURING PORTLAND’S FINEST TALENT FREE
MONDAY, JULY 18
TANGO ALPHA TANGO SARA JACKSON-HOLMAN MIKE MIDLO
10:30pm No cover 21+
(OF PANCAKE BREAKFAST) FREE
TUESDAY, JULY 19
THUR JULY 21 21 & OVER LOLA’S ROOM
special guest
FRI JULY 15 ALL AGES
RANDOM RAB
FREE
Pink Snowflakes The
HAWKEYE
MUSIC AT 8:30 P.M. MON-THUR 9:30 P.M. FRI & SAT
1776
(UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 13th & West Burnside Enter through Ringlers Annex!
WED JULY 27 21 & OVER
SUN JULY 24 21 & OVER LOLA’S ROOM
OCTOPUS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
“LOCAL FLAVORS”
Redwood Son GLASSBONE CHRIS MARSHALL · GABBY HOLT 8/7
BRAD CREEL AND THE REEL DEEL
Water & Bodies The Days The Nights Priory The Crash Engine
PDX BRIDGEFEST 8/11 ARCTIC MONKEYS 8/12 BEIRUT 8/16 SORRY FOR PARTYING PROTOMEN-lola’s 9/7-10 MUSICFEST NW 9/10 JAI HO!-lola’s 9/20 THE SCRIPT 10/5 ERASURE 10/11 DAVID CROWDER BAND 11/10 THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
8/24 & 25
DANCEONAIR.COM DOORS 8pm MUSIC 9pm UNLESS NOTED
FREE!
EVERY THUR.
7/21 Back Fence PDX Storytelling 7/28 PDXJazz: Devin Phillips Quartet: “Impressions of John Coltrane” 7/29 David Mayfield Parade 8/14 CraftyThe perfect way to enjoy Wednesday’s 10pm feature… Underdog “THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: ANIMATION” 8/26 Cloud Cult Call our movie hotline to find out what’s playing this week!
(503) 249-7474
CRYSTAL HOTEL & BALLROOM Ballroom: 1332 W. Burnside · (503) 225-0047 · Hotel: 303 S.W. 12th Ave · (503) 972-2670
CASCADE TICKETS 26
cascadetickets.com 1-855-CAS-TIXX
OUTLETS: CRYSTAL BALLROOM BOX OFFICE, BAGDAD THEATER, EDGEFIELD, EAST 19TH ST. CAFÉ (EUGENE)
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
Event and movie info at mcmenamins.com/mission
mcmenamins music
JULY 13-19 PROFILE
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
MEGAN HOLMES
MUSIC
Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. Editor: CASEY JARMAN. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: cjarman@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band
[ROYAL BLUES] Founding member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Grammy winner for 2001’s Do You Get The Blues, Jimmie Vaughan is far more than his little brother’s keeper. Still, as the legend of Stevie Ray continues to grow two decades after his untimely death, the similarly styled guitarist seems increasingly known for his classic-car restorations and libertarian tendencies as much as his distinctly archival spin on shitkicker blues stomps. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $25 (Minors must be accompanied by an adult). All ages.
Earth, Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Wyrd Visions
ANGEL CEBALLOS
[DRONE METAL] Describing Earth’s new album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 does not lend itself to hyperbole. It’s not so much apocalyptic as it is wistful. It spells doom the same way a sunset in the desert does. This is heavy instrumental rock music that builds like sediment in stone. Seattlebased minimalist guitarist Dylan Carlson envisioned drone metal at the crack of the ’90s—before anyone else had really considered it a valid form of music. Ignored for years, Earth’s catalog has become the blueprint for a genre. Now Earth is a quartet rounded out by slow-motion drum ritualist Adrienne Davies, full-time cellist Lori Goldston (of Nirvana Unplugged fame) and electric bassist Karl Blau. These three support Carlson as he continues to unfurl new chapters in a legacy of
aching, windswept musical landscape paintings. NATHAN CARSON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, JULY 14 John Doe, Jill Sobule
[COUNTRY-POP COLLABORATION] The relentless and restless spirit of John Doe is something we could all take inspiration from. When he’s not on tour with L.A. punk giants X, Doe is writing and recording devilish and spry roots pop of his own creation. He comes to Portland with collaborator Jill Sobule, in support of A Day at the Pass, a fan-funded album that the two recorded in a single day. Released on Record Store Day 2011, the disc finds the songwriters prodding one another to add a little sweetness (and sometimes grit) to their heartbroken anthems. ROBERT HAM. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.
Eddie Vedder
[UKE ROCK] After ushering in the grunge explosion with Pearl Jam’s Ten two decades ago, middle-aged rock god Eddie Vedder has finally decided to ditch the big sounds of the arena for something a little more subdued. The biggest surprise packed into this year’s Ukulele Songs is just how well Vedder’s haunting voice pairs with the Hawaiian instrument. Embracing the instrument’s obvious limitations, Vedder bounds from quiet introspection to stripped-down “Battle of
TOP FIVE
CONT. on page 29
BY PA R E N T H E T ICA L GIRLS’ Z AC P E N N I N GTO N
CURIOUS, TRAGIC AND AWESOME MENTAL DISORDERS. 5. Stendhal syndrome A rare disorder in which the afflicted experiences rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and occasional hallucinations when faced with a particularly breathtaking piece of art. 4. Delusional misidentification syndrome Lassoing together a slew of bizarre, exotic-sounding mini-delusions, DMSs are afflictions characterized by the perception that one’s surroundings have somehow been nefariously altered. My personal favorite sub-delusions include: Capgras delusion (the belief that a loved one has been swapped for an identical imposter), Fregoli delusion (different people are thought to be a single person in various disguises), and subjective doubles syndrome (the belief that the patient has one or more doppelgängers leading alternate lives). 3. Cotard delusion A DMS-related condition, Cotard is sometimes called “walking corpse syndrome,” as its sufferers believe they are either dead, actively dying, or simply don’t exist at all. 2. Body integrity identity disorder Wherein otherwise perfectly healthy people believe they would be happier as amputees. 1. Koro Particularly rampant in Asian and African cultures, Koro—or genital retraction syndrome—is the overwhelming belief that one’s genitals are in state of retraction or shrinkage, and that they may threaten to disappear completely. There have been several documented cases of mass Koro hysteria in the 20th century. SEE IT: Parenthetical Girls play Holocene on Sunday, July 17, with Vice Device, Extra Life and Sam Mickens. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
THE TWO-YEAR ITCH DIRTY MITTENS WANT YOU BACK, BABY. BY R OB ERT HA M
243-2122
One of the more striking moments from last year’s MusicfestNW was watching a packed Berbati’s Pan lose its collective shit to the jumpy, giddy pop of Dirty Mittens. The band, especially firebrand frontwoman Chelsea Morrisey, fed off that energy and threw everything into the performance. It had the joyous abandon of a basement house show, leaving both the Mittens and their audience sweaty and spent but with huge grins on their faces. “The thing that I’ve always heard from people is, ‘Man, you guys look like you’re having the best time up there,’ says guitarist Ben Hubbird, picking at the weeds in the overgrown backyard of bandmate Josh Hawley. “Good! ’Cause we are! I’m so glad we can communicate that.” That spirit flows out of the band’s first fulllength album as well. Heart of Town (released this week on Magic Marker Records) is a crisp and positively infectious concoction that finds a fruitful valley between the worlds of disco, twee, ’70s pop and the underground rock that the band’s four core members were reared on. Effortless as it may sound on record and in concert, the Mittens found their voice (and captured it for mass consumption) through a lot of trial and error. The band was started by Morrisey and keyboardist Noah Jay-Bonn in 2006 playing a ramshackle version of folk music. “We didn’t know what the hell we were doing,” Jay-Bonn says. “That’s an understatement,” counters Morrisey (a onetime WW music intern). “We didn’t know how to play our instruments, but we started playing shows anyway. And because we had a lot of friends in bands, we were playing big shows.” Out-of-town engagements were a tougher prospect. Over the course of the next three years, Morrisey and Jay-Bonn started enlisting the help of more accomplished players, while also learning how better to play their instruments. And the Mittens finally started to settle on a sound they could call their own. Then came the struggle of recording it for posterity.
In total, Heart of Town took a full two years to finish. The sessions, overseen by veteran producer Jim Brunberg, were squeezed in around the band’s work schedules with extra time tacked on for string and horn overdubs. That took all of eight months with the rest of the time devoted to mixing. “We mixed the whole album once,” says JayBonn. “We went through this collaborative process of mixing the whole album ourselves. All of us would have notes on it.” Bassist Patrick Griffin laughs. “There were some early mixes that we thought we were pleased with. But a couple of days later, simultaneously, an email chain started going out saying, ‘Yeah, I hate this.’ ‘Yeah, me too.’ ‘What were we thinking?’” “I don’t think it was a problem,” Jay-Bonn continues. “It just wasn’t what we were looking for. It was a very clean studio record. It was missing a lot of youthfulness.” To bring it back to the band’s original vision, the Mittens enlisted the help of Paul Laxer, after admiring his work on Typhoon’s Hunger and Thirst. “He pulled out entire parts that we spent hours and hours recording,” says Hubbird. “Cut out drums in places. Changed the structures of songs in some ways.” Jay-Bonn agrees, “It was always a shock at first, but then I’d listen to it again and realize, ‘Oh, that’s great, actually. Why didn’t we think of that?’” Now there’s a palpable sense of relief among the members of Dirty Mittens. Relief that they finally put the big debut album to bed, and that they have reached a point where they don’t have to beg for out-of-town shows anymore. “I almost feel like I want to send each person who replies to my emails a fruit basket,” says Morrisey. But Morrisey also feels like the Mittens have a long way to go here in their home town, in spite of shows like last year’s MFNW triumph. “It’s been a little bit of an uphill battle. I feel like people still remember shows where we were just bad. We’re constantly winning people back or winning them over.” SEE IT: Dirty Mittens play Mississippi Studios on Thursday, July 14, with the Black Whales and Orca Team. 9 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
27
“You want the El Jefe?
YOU CA N’T
HA NDL E
WIN TICKETS TO
THE EL JEFE!”
ge: Jefe chall en Take our el tes u in m e’s in 7 Eat 15 El Jef all of Flame”! r “W & make ou
SCAN TO ENTER
7.30 @ OREGON ZOO
Our 12 sa uces also Whole Fo at ods, New Lamb’s Th Seaso ns, riftway, M arket of & Food Fr Choice o nt Co-O p
GO TO WWEEK.COM/PROMOTIONS
1708 E Burnside • 503-230-9464 4225 N Interstate • 503-280-9464
DOUBLETEE.COM / ROSELANDPDX.COM
LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD
FRIDAY NITE!
INNA VISION
Tomorrow niTe!
JULY 14TH • JIMMY MAK’S • ALL AGES: 7PM • 21+: 9:30
FRI JULY 15TH • 9PM • ALL AGES PETER’S ROOM @ ROSELAND
SAT JULY 23RD • ROSELAND • 9PM • ALL AGES
DJ Craze AUGUST 4TH • ROSELAND • 8PM • ALL AGES
Skism • Treasure Fingers • Freq Nasty • Ak1200
FRI AUGUST 12TH • ROSELAND • 7PM • ALL AGES
SEATED SHOW!
SAT AUGUST 13TH • ROSELAND • 8PM • 21+
ON SALE FRIDAY!
AUGUST 9TH • 8PM •ALL AGES PETER’S ROOM@ROSELAND
DOUBLE TEE CONCERTS & KESEY PRESENT
FRI SEPT 23RD, SAT SEPT 24TH & SUN SEPT 25TH • 7PM ALL AGES • CUTHBERT AMPHITHEATER 28
Western Aerial
3 GREAT SHOWS!
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
SEPT 1ST • ROSELAND • 8PM • ALL AGES
SAT AUGUST 20TH • PETER’S ROOM@ROSELAND • 8PM • 21+ SAFEWAY-MUSIC MILLENNIUM 503-224-TIXX
THURSDAY - FRIDAY
MUSIC
Sign up for Swag Rag to receive drink recipes from our favorite watering holes
PARTY SWEATER: Cool Nutz plays the Bastille Day Block Party on Saturday, July 16. Evermore”-style chaos with ease. This is the sound of a man reflecting on life from the mountaintop—with a tiny guitar in tow. AP KRYZA. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7 pm. $85. All ages.
The Moondoggies, Jack Wilson, The Blue Hit
[HARMONY ROCK] Seattle’s Moondoggies are musically wise beyond their twentysomething years, channeling the melancholic pop spirit of Big Star, the road-weary performance muscles of the Band and a wide swath of psych-tinged influences that make their own take on dusty, dreamy, country rock instantly memorable. The band’s sophomore release, Tidelands (Hardly Art), doesn’t pack the same emotional wallop that its debut did, but Moondoggies’ live shows remain striking because of the players’ easy chemistry and improvisational attitudes. Opener Jack Wilson divides his time between Seattle and Austin, and you can definitely hear those geographical touchstones at the heart of his mournful yarns, garnished with just the right amount of celestial-minded pop. HANNAH LEVIN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Yung Mil, G.I.S., Young X, JNV
[HIP-HOP HOMECOMING] Portland MC Yung Mil is so laid back with his flow that you’d swear he recorded his bars while stretched out on a couch. That’s not to knock the busy recent Parkrose High grad’s grind: The chill aesthetic is what’s winning Mil (Zeke Jones Jr. to his pops-slash-manager) fans on national level. And while Mil raps about skinny jeans and girls much like his jerkin’ contemporaries, he seems a bit more forward-thinking than the over-marketed Los Angeles jerks currently draining the last few seconds from their 15 minutes of fame. Mil’s career to date—including his recent contestwinning trip to New York, which won him a slot on BET’s 106 & Park and face time with Russell Simmons—has been entirely D.I.Y., and he’ll celebrate tonight’s homecoming show alongside plenty of friends and family. Still, it’s going to take patience and a lot of hard work to turn Mil’s recent flirtations with fame into a full-fledged relationship. We’ll be rooting for him. Good Call Sports Bar & Grill, 11010 SE Division St., 251-8999. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
Dirty Mittens, Black Whales, Orca Team
See music feature, page 27. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Faster Pussycat, Iron Lords, Burning Leather
[GUNS N’ REESE’S] The most memorable subjects of the all-tooprescient glam-metal documentary Decline of Western Civilization Part 2—a dubious honor, in the way Caligula seemed like the breakout star of Gibbon’s own
>>
Decline—Faster Pussycat should’ve remained forever frozen in Aqua Net. The preening, petulant, impossibly leonine denim dandies were poised for immortality at that moment of endless potential separating the empires of Poison and Pearl Jam. As doughy sleaze-rock casualties with absurd stage names go, Axl Rose at least appears recognizably himself while the current incarnation of Pussycat frontman Taime Downe (white-faced, spilling out of goth martinet apparel) resembles a reanimated cadaver, forever haunting a self-constructed house of pain. JAY HORTON. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
wweek.com/promotions
FRIDAY, JULY 15 Shpongle Presents the Shpongletron Experience, Random Rab
[PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE] Shpongle sounds like a couple of DJs misinterpreting the early-’90s memo dictating that ecstasy be the drug of choice for clubbers, opting instead for the merits of acid. Formed in 1996 and comprising two globe-trotting British producers, Shpongle is house music’s answer to Dr. Seuss. The duo combines droning, vaguely Middle Eastern trance beats with the weirdest of weird-assed visuals to create sights and sounds that actively disdain unaltered cognition. Though Shpongle’s four albums (of which Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland is the latest) tend to be repetitive, the group can always be relied on to blow some minds with a live show that is equal parts Jungian nightmare and DayGlo playground. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $25. All ages.
David Bazan, Rocky Votolato
[ROCK BULLSHIT DETECTOR] Even for David Bazan—who has made a career out of calling out his own bullshit—new disc Strange Negotiations is one conflicted album. This becomes resoundingly clear on the album’s fourth song, “People,” where Bazan sings: “Man, you’ve got to find the truth and when you find that truth, don’t budge/ Until that truth you found begins to change, and it does/ I know.” That sentiment, delivered over raw, live-sounding riffage, pretty much sums up the Seattle songwriter’s legacy—but there’s something satisfying about hearing him cop to it. And while Bazan focuses much of on self-improvement and reconciliation (“Level With Yourself,” “Virginia”), he finds plenty of time for casting cathartic stones (“Wolves at the Door,” “Don’t Change”). But he’s at his best on the title track, a moving six-minute meditation on the U.S. bank bailouts and corporate control that reminds us that Bazan, already one of the finest songwriters of his generation, is indeed getting better all the time. CASEY JARMAN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $15. 21+.
Tic
RAILROAD
EARTH TRAVELIN’ McCOURYS
KELLER
EMMITT NERSHI
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS CORNMEAL ELEPHANT REVIVAL CASCADIA PROJECT
TODD SNIDER &
& THE KEELS
DAROL ANGER, SCOTT LAW, SHARON GILCHRIST, AND SAMSON GRISMAN
JACKSTRAW Cascadia Coffeehouse Acoustic Stage!
Fruition, Sugarcane, 4 On The Floor, Left Coast Country, The Scrugglers, and Dust Settlers
BAND
GREAT AMERICAN TAXI FEATURING VINCE HERMAN
DANNY BARNES with DREW EMMITT and LARRY KEEL
PETE KARTSOUNES & BENNY “BURLE” GALLOWAY
PERT NEAR SANDSTONE
3- Day Passes On Sale Now! Upgrade for Early Entry and “Three Band Thursday”!
KIDS!!
Ages 10 and under are free with paying adult. Kids Area Expanded!
CONT. on page 30 Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
29
MUSIC
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
Sun Angle, Hookers
GREAT WILDERNESS YOUTH +YOUR CANVAS WEDNESDAY JULY 13
FREE
A double CD release show with deliciously stylized pop and R&B tunes full of frenzied joy
[DRUG SUMMER] You never quite know what you’re going to get out of Charlie Salas-Humara, the brains behind local synth project Panther and a bunch of other musical endeavors, none of which have a whole lot in common outside of his skewed perspective. Toss in Papi Fimbres of dance favorites O Bruxo and things become even more predictable. As far as we can tell, the pair’s new group, Sun Angle, specializes in a kind of appropriately sun-dappled (or perhaps sunstroked), psychedelic party music made up of clattering percussion and euphoric chanting. Summer has finally come to Portland, and here’s the soundtrack. MATTHEW SINGER. Mudai Lounge, 801 NE Broadway, 287-5433. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
PETEANDERSON.COM
Portland indie-folk outfit of youthfully captivating vocals and lush orchestrations
PROFILE
SATURDAY, JULY 16 Yourself and the Air, Wax Fingers, Imaginary Airship
DIRTY MITTENS
BLACK WHALES +ORCA TEAM $10
THURSDAY JULY 14
Famed NW musicians whose riveting folk songs are masterpieces of verbal introspection
DAVID BAZAN +ROCKY VOTOLATO FRIDAY JULY 15
Langhorne Slim, Weinland
$15
Spectrum Culture and Muscle + Bone present: Rock Against Alzheimer’s!
FERNANDO
THE MINUS 5 KELLI SCHAEFER +MIKE COYKENDALL
SATURDAY JULY 16
$15
Doors 7:30pm Show 8pm
BAR BAR SUMMER PATIO SESSIONS
KASEY ANDERSON
+EMPIRE ROCKET MACHINE
SUNDAY JULY 17
FREE
4pm - 7pm on Bar Bar Patio
[BLEEDING HEART] “Feel good” doesn’t quite capture Langhorne Slim, the countrified crooner who brings so much enthusiasm to his sets you might mistake him for a motivational speaker. Slim’s fine 2009 release, Be Set Free (produced by Portland’s Chris Funk), is his most involved effort to date: a panoramic record that side-steps his straight-shooting, stripped-down folk comfort zone. Instead, the disc treads on trippier grounds with heavier instrumentation, without sacrificing his signature high-energy twang. Before a full band, Slim still steals the stage, inherently charismatic and engineered for a raucous crowd. With new material on the way, expect some additional tricks up his sleeve tonight. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
The Dimes, Priory, Tango Alpha Tango
FRIDAY JULY 15
TIM ROBBINS
Mississippi Studios and the Alberta Rose Theatre Present
AND THE ROGUES GALLERY BAND +JAMIE DRAKE
This show is at THE ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE 3000 NE Alberta St Doors 7pm Show 8pm
TUESDAY JULY 19
[ATMOSPHERIC, WITH BOUNCE] With three EPs to its name, Chicago ambient rock threesome Yourself and the Air put a lot of work in before joining forces with a legitimate label. Last spring, the group paired with Lujo Records to release Who’s Who in the Zoo, a crisp collection of wandering reverb, faux-funk breakdowns and neatly stacked effects. Imagine Royal Bangs (or, for the Portlandophiles, Wax Fingers) on heavy sedatives, plus helium-fed vocals. Longtime friends make well-balanced bands, and YATA is living proof. MARK STOCK. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 2482900. 9 pm. $7. All ages.
$25/$30
Coming Soon 7/20 THE HAGUE 7/21 ECHO HELSTROM 7/22 JEREMY MESSERSMITH BAND 7/23 CULTS 7/26 COME GATHER ROUND US 7/27 THE TUMBLERS 7/28 PAPER/UPPER/CUTS 7/29 RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN 7/30 TALLY HALL
[LITERARY ROCK] The Dimes’ Johnny Clay once said he wanted the band’s songs to evoke a sunny day. The folk-pop group’s two full-length albums, The Silent Generation and The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry, are as pleasing to the ear as they are well-crafted. But this is Portland, and the Dimes’ sunshine is often obscured by clouds. The band’s sonic pleasantness belies a dark underbelly—songs about insomnia, murder, corruption and other unsavory topics have a sinister secret life just under the shiny veneer. Taken together, this is smart stuff—and a rare example of neo-folk band songwriting actually making a band’s music better. AP KRYZA. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $8. 21+.
Electrogals
[ELECTRETCETERA] The term “electronic music” embraces such a multitude of genres and performers that it’s about as descriptive as “keyboard music,” which could include everyone from Bach to Thelonious Monk to Jerry Lee Lewis. And “women’s music” could describe musicians from Hildegard of Bingen to Chrissie Hynde to Sister Rosetta Tharp to Laura Veirs. Thus the identity issue that plagues this umbrella organiza-
CONT. on page 33 30
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
PETE ANDERSON, MONDAY, JULY 18 [BLUES-ISH] Pete Anderson has lived out your wildest rock-star dreams, and they left something to be desired. “Music was not meant to be played in a basketball arena,” the quick-talking guitarist-songwriter-producer says via telephone from his home studio in Los Angeles. “I played to 80,000 people in football stadiums with Dwight [Yoakam], and I’ve played to nobody, and the most exciting [room] is about the size of the House of Blues—about 1,000 people. You can see everybody, and when you put something out there that moves people, in this very bizarre physical way, it comes back to you. When you do that in a football stadium, it just floats away like a balloon.” It’s not that fame has been unkind to Anderson: Though the press often terms Yoakam and Anderson’s 2004 split “vitriolic”— Anderson did sue Yoakam for lost wages—the producer-guitarist has nothing but good things to say about his 17-year collaboration with the country star-turned-actor these days. “I got lucky,” he says of meeting Yoakam in L.A. in the early ’80s. “We made a lot of great records together.” But that pairing, which introduced Anderson’s reverb-strewn guitar licks to the world and made him a sought-after studio hand (he has produced albums from artists as far-flung as Roy Orbison, Michelle Shocked, and the Meat Puppets), certainly kept Anderson from pursuing his solo career with more gusto. Between his duties with Dwight, his production engagements and running his own label, Little Dog Records, Anderson has just four solo albums to show for a career that spans almost two decades. But it’s what’s on those discs that would surprise the casual country fan. “I guess I’m playing what a lot of people call blues,” he says. “I don’t want to say I’m doing something new, but I’m doing my own thing. I’m playing my blues.” The Detroit-born, L.A.-bred songwriter’s albums are indeed hard to describe—on his 1994 debut, Working Class, he plays a TexMex instrumental take on the ’60s classic “Our Day Will Come”; 2004 effort Daredevil features a New Orleans-via-Japan groove called “The New World Cakewalk”—but he seems to have settled on a sound with newly reissued 2009 effort Even Things Up, a well-traveled mix of rockabilly and blues that sounds like it was an awful lot of fun to make. The disc features some of Anderson’s best songwriting (and most confident and natural singing) to date, but it’s Anderson’s cooking guitar lines that will stand out for most listeners. That suits him just fine. “My main impetus has always been to play live onstage—that’s what I enjoy most,” he says. “So I’m just touring, man. I’m soaking it up.” The stadiums may be a distant memory, but “if I can play rooms of 200 or 300 people,” Anderson says. “I’m perfectly happy.” Though he produced and played on three consecutive No. 1 country albums with Yoakam before Garth Brooks took the music into the commercial stratosphere, Anderson says he’s happy to be out of the country-music big time. “Garth Brooks looks like Hank Sr. compared to what’s going on now,” he says, laughing out of frustration. “Music has been destroyed by capitalism.” CASEY JARMAN. From mega-country right-hand man to eclectic indie bluesman.
SEE IT: Pete Anderson plays Duff’s Garage on Monday, July 18. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
31
Since 1974
Never a cover!
BENEATH THE HISTORIC
RIALTO POOL ROOM
4th & Alder Downtown Portland
Wednesday • July 13th
BUFFALO GAP
Friday • July 15th
“Buffalo Bandstand”
Portland Playboys
Wednesday, July 13th
(3 Live Bands)
DJ Gregarious Shut Up and Dance 10p.m.
Presented By: Live Artist Network
Saturday • July 16th
Thursday, July 14th • 9pm
DJ Cooky Parker 10 p.m.
Sunday • July 17th DJ Meow 10 p.m.
Monday • July 18th Shanrock Trivia 8 p.m.
Tuesday • July 19th
Stumptown Stories: History of PDX’s Chinatown
Wednesday • July 20th Lily Wilde Quartet 8:30
Balto & Hip Hatchet (folk americana)
Friday, July 15th • 9pm
TBA
Saturday, July 16th • 9pm
Justin James Bridges & Anthony Brady (southern & alt rock)
Tuesday, July 19th • 9pm
OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted By: Scott Gallegos
WIN $50!!
OPEN NIGHTLY AT 7 FOR COCKTAIL HOUR 529 SW 4th Ave Portland Oregon
32
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
6835 SW Macadam Ave | John’s Landing
SATURDAY - SUNDAY
MUSIC
MAKE IT A NIGHT Present that night’s show ticket and get $3 off any menu item Sun - Thur in the dining room
Thursday, July 14th
Jill Sobule & John Doe
SEXY BEASTS: Yourself and the Air plays Backspace on Saturday, July 16. tion devoted to promoting female electronic music performers and composers: A concert might include everything from academica electronica to beat-heavy house music. This show, however—which features Christi Denton, Myshkin, Heather Perkins, Rasheeda & the Cheetah, the Sexbots, Some Strange Music (featuring Sylvia Hackathorn) and Sugar Shortwave—boasts a unifying thread: Every piece of music played tonight originates in the ’80s pop world, from Eurythmics to Patti Smith to Grandmaster Flash. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mississippi Pizza, 3552 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3231. 9 pm. 21+.
teaches, except now he lectures on more pressing matters, using dense wordplay to call attention to our society’s imperfections. Crown City Rockers frontman Raashan Ahmad is similar in his desire to help solve the problems of today, but he does so in a more simplistic manner, often preaching in his songs that love is the only true answer. REED JACKSON. The Crown Room, 205 NW 4th Ave., 503-222-6655. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Fernando, The Minus 5, Kelli Schaefer, Mike Coykendall
[CHILL POP] With frequent performances at Edgefield, a Junespanning residency at the White Eagle, and this weeklong stint at the Crystal Hotel downtown, Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights is close to being the McMenamins empire’s de facto house band. The restaurant restorationists could certainly have made a worse choice: Robley’s lush, muscular folk rock is not only infectious but also approachable in a way that solicits many a “Hey, I dig that,” rather than a “Hey, I’m already forgetting about that.” Robley and company are currently prepping a sixth LP, and tonight’s Al’s Den debut is a great opportunity to remind yourself why that’s cause for excitement. SHANE DANAHER. Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel, 303 SW 12th Ave., 972-2670. 7 pm. Free.
[SONGWRITER TYPES] Mike Coykendall is a household name, known best for his work with folks like M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper and Richmond Fontaine. And while spending most of his time behind the soundboard as engineer from his PDX home studio Blue Rooms, the founder of now-defunct Old Joe Clarks heeded the encouraging words of Willy Vlautin and others in 2010 and crafted his own record, The Unbearable Being of Likeness. Like many of the artists he works with, Coykendall practices a sparse brand of blues folk that feels twice as authentic and in turn hits twice as hard given his Wichita upbringing. Not that they need the inspiration, but tonight’s show—a benefit for the Alzheimer’s Association— ought to bring out the best in all this evening’s performers. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $15. 21+.
Bastille Day Block Party: DJ Erick Beats, Deelay Ceelay, Cool Nutz and DJ Fatboy, Guidance Counselor, Cloudy October, Pigeons, Yeah Great Fine, Sam Humans and the Light
[BLOCK PARTY] This is one of my favorite days of the year. Not just because Pix Pâtisserie usually unveils some ungodly mountain of caramel-drizzled baked goods for its annual party, but because this concert is always one of the most fun, eclectic things summer has to offer. This year has a decidedly dance-centric vibe (Deelay Ceelay’s psychedelic dance music might be the most exciting thing on the bill), but King Cool Nutz and Cloudy October bring two very different stripes of hip-hop to the party while Pigeons, Yeah Great Fine and Sam Humans bring some more rock-centric music to the outdoor stage. Even if the musical acts were sub-par, you’d want to be here—good on Pix that it booked an excellent cross-section of Portland’s music scene instead. CASEY JARMAN. Pix PatisserieNorth, 3901 N Williams Ave., 2826539. 3 pm. Free. All ages.
J-Live, Raashan Ahmad, TxE, The Love Loungers
[HIP-HOP] New York MC J-Live has always had a way with words. While his debut album, The Best Part, was caught in label limbo during the late ’90s, he taught seventh-grade English in Brooklyn. Today, he still
SUNDAY, JULY 17 Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights
The BoDeans, Truckstop Darlin’
[ROOTS ROCK] For aging music fans like me, the BoDeans are one of the bands that arrived in the mid-’80s as part of a roots-rock revival that followed the success of R.E.M. For folks who came of age a decade later, it’s the band that provided the theme song for TV’s Party of Five. Perhaps some young music lovers will have a new association to attach to the band, because 25 years after the release of its first LP, the BoDeans are still with us, providing sharp, jagged rock that amplifies leader Kurt Neumann’s dusty explorations of the human experience. ROBERT HAM. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $28 advance, $30 day of show. 21+.
Breathe Carolina, Chiodos, I See Stars, The Color Morale, Mod Sun, The Air I Breathe
[CRUNK MONKEYS] One couldn’t quite accuse Breathe Carolina of pandering—messily digitized postpunk crunk is hardly climbing what remains of the charts—and neither its (inane) lyrics or (mangled) vocals or (aggressively blissed) tone seem manufactured, much less crafted. On just-released Hell Is What You Make It, though, the ever-enthusiastic Denver duo slows down the beats and pump up the production just enough to perhaps make the leap from pogoing throngs to spinning classes. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 5:45 pm. $16 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.
CONT. on page 35
DOUG FIR RESTAURANT + BAR OPEN 7AM - 2:30AM EVERYDAY
SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, LATE-NIGHT. FOOD SPECIALS 3-6 PM EVERYDAY COVERED SMOKING PATIO, FIREPLACE ROOM, LOTS OF LOG. LIVE SHOWS IN THE LOUNGE... LEGENDARY DRONE DOOM FROM SEATTLE QUARTET
JACK DANIELS PRESENTS THE “BLACK & BLUE” SERIES
WEDNESDAY!
THE
MOONDOGGIES
THURSDAY!
Sunday, July 17th CHAMBER MUSIC NW PROTEGE PROJECT PRESENTS
EARTH ANGELO SPENCER ET LES HAUT SOMMETS +WYRD VISIONS
WEDNESDAY JULY 13
WANMU PERCUSSION TRIO WITH
SOOYUN KIM
Tuesday, July 19th
•
$12 ADVANCE
DF & OCTOPUS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT A BENEFIT FOR KZME
ARCHEOLOGY
FRIDAY JULY 15
•
$10 ADVANCE
OUR FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES WITH
LEWI LONGMIRE BAND AND SHELBY EARL EVERY SUNDAY THROUGH AUGUST 28TH JOIN US ON THE DF PATIO FROM 3-7PM FOR GREAT MUSIC, FOOD AND DRINK SPECIALS! CHECK OUT WWW.DOUGFIRLOUNGE.COM FOR THIS SUMMER’S LINE UP
& The Rogues Gallery Band
Wednesday, July 20th
DAVID WAX M USEUM R EAL VOCAL STRING Q UARTET THE
U NBANDE
SUNDAY JULY 17
•
3-7pm
FREE
EXPANSIVE POP FROM NEW JERSEY LUMINARY
MEMORY
TAPES
Thursday, July 21st a benefit for Industrial Workers of the World
David Rovics
Chris Chandler Paul Benoit Thursday, July 21st
Polyester Fest with
ANTSY MCCLAIN
and the Trailer Park Troubadours
+SLEEP OVER
7/24
WEDNESDAY JULY 20 •
COLD CAVE AUSTRA +DANGEROUS BOYS CLUB
FRIDAY JULY 22
•
$12 ADVANCE
AlbertaRoseTheatre.com
SATURDAY!
+WEINLAND
SATURDAY JULY 16
•
$12 ADVANCE
A SPECIAL EVENING WITH HOTEL CAFE ALUM SONGSTRESS
MEIKO +BUDDY
MONDAY JULY 18
•
$12 ADVANCE
A LOG LOVE NIGHT OF HOMETOWN MAGIC
NORMAN THE TREE RING +JOHN HEART JACKIE
THURSDAY JULY 21
•
$6 ADVANCE
LUMERIANS BILLIONS AND BILLIONS +WITCH MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY JULY 23
•
$10 ADVANCE
THROWBACK INDIE ROCK FROM UK QUARTET
YUCK
A SOLO/ACOUSTIC EVENING OF CREATIVE ROOTS ROCK
+UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA
SUNDAY JULY 24
Children of the Doomed”
Alberta Rose Theatre (503) 764-4131 3000 NE Alberta
ENERGIETIC PUNK-FOLK FROM BELOVED CRAFTY WORDSMITH
LANGHORNE SLIM
VIBRANT GARAGE ROCK FROM OAKLAND QUINTET
EXPERIMENTAL GOTH-POP FROM NEW YORK
Matt Brown Album Release “Jeff Steele:
Movie Premiere 7/28 Old Town Bohemian Caberet 7/29 Karmacoda, Oracle, Sutro 7/30 Blackie and the Rodeo Kings 7/31 Matt Schoeld
$5 ADVANCE
$12 ADVANCE
coming soon... 7/23
•
FRIDAY!
HURTBIRD WATER & BODIES +BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE
TIM ROBBINS
JACK WILSON +THE BLUE HIT
THURSDAY JULY 14
BOB SCHNEIDER TUESDAY JULY 26
•
$18 ADVANCE
•
$12 ADVANCE
THE MILK CARTON KIDS - 8/18 BRITE FUTURES - 8/23 LIAM FINN - 10/2 DUM DUM GIRLS - 10/7 WILD BEASTS - 10/9 ZEE AVI - 10/11
All of these shows on sale at Ticketfly.com
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER 7/24 • SONS OF HUNS 7/27 • THOMAS DYBDAHL 7/28 TU FAWNING 7/29 • THE ALTERNATE ROUTES 7/31 • BEN SOLLEE 8/1 RASPUTINA 8/5 • DEELAY CEELAY (Album release) 8/6 • JUST PEOPLE 8/11 ADVANCE TICKETS AT TICKETFLY - www.ticketfly.com and JACKPOT RECORDS • SUBJECT TO SERVICE CHARGE &/OR USER FEE ALL SHOWS: 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW • 21+ UNLESS NOTED • BOX OFFICE OPENS 1/2 HOUR BEFORE DOORS • ROOM PACKAGES AVAILABLE AT www.jupiterhotel.com
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
33
BEST
MOVIE TIMES
Live Music, Music, Cabaret, Cabaret, Burlesque Burlesque && Rock-n-Roll Rock-n-Roll Live
BREAKFAST
BURRITOS in PDX!
Tel. 503-226-6630 • Open Daily 11am-2:30am •
w w w. da n tes l i ve. c o m 13 ROOM MELODIES DAY GUN NEStopless D WE13 LAZARRO • THIRSTY VULTURES bartenders and E REW! CHEAP MEATS O Our drinks are pretty JULY 70SFHdancers awesome too. ADVISORY • WILD HOGS SDAYweek! Reach
Sundays 9:30-2:30
C RU Z R O O M
THU14R JULY
E FREW !
SHO
DINNER FOR WOLVES MICHAEL DEAN DAMRON
HEMA
OpenYEvery Day A FRID 11am to 2:30am 15
PAGE 50
JULY 15 $5 Cover MATTHEW LINDLEY & THE COMMISSION www.CasaDiablo.com ANTHONY BEASLEY NE 24th & Alberta • cruzroom.com (503) 222-6600 • 2839 NW St. Helens Rd
JIMI HENDRIX
SAT16URDAY LY 16 JU LY
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
TRIBUTE
Y DA NLY MOJU 18
So You Wanna Be A ROCK STAR ?
•••cCABARET a b &aVAUDEVILLE••• ret
9pm 9pm VOLTERA VOLTERA 10pm $3
KARAOKE WITH A LIVE BAND 9PM - WIZARD BOOTS
THE ED FORMAN SHOW
DSL
open mic comedy with hostess dirt starr love
COMING SOON
AY FRID 22 JULY
TICKETSWEST $12 Adv
FROM BAUHAUS & LOVE AND ROCKETS
DAVID J ADRIAN H & THE WOUNDS & FEVER
URDAY SAT23 JULY
CD RELEASE! PARTY
SCOTLAND BARR MEMORIAL SCOTLAND BARR & THE SLOW DRAGS I CAN LICK ANY SOB IN THE HOUSE STEVE WILKINSON
SUN24DAY JULY
TICKETSWEST $12 Adv
THE DAMNWELLS STARTS AT 7PM WITH JOSH FLETCHER FOLLOWED BY SINFERNO CABARET AT 11PM
7/13 Gun Room Melodies + Lazarro 7/14 Advisory + Wild Hogs 7/15 HEMA 7/16 Purple Haze 7/16 BERLIN AT THE STAR THEATER 7/17 Sinferno + Voltera 7/18 Karaoke From Hell 7/19 The Ed Forman Show 7/21 Jerry Joseph & Friends 7/22 David J + Adrian H & The Wounds 7/23 Scotland Barr Memorial 7/24 The Damnwells + Sinferno 7/28 Chops’ Birthday Bash 7/29 Hopeless Jack CD Release 7/30 The Accused 8/6 Sahara Summer Nights 8/13 The Memorials & NIAYH 8/17 God Is An Astronaut 8/18 The Avengers 8/19 Red Elvises 8/20 The Blasters 8/20 DRAG THE RIVER AT DEVILS POINT 8/27 Exotic Mag 18th Anniversary 8/28 Mac Lethal & Sinferno 8/30 MC Frontalot 9/2 Valient Thorr 9/15 Stanton Moore Trio 9/16 Bob Log III 9/17 Miss Skooled Pageant 10/1 World Inferno/Friendship Society 10/4 Electric Six 10/5 Goddamn Gallows 10/7 Super Diamond 10/8 Cash’d Out TICKETS AVAILABLE @ DANTE’S, SAFEWAY, MUSIC MILLENNIUM 800-992-8499 AND TICKETSWEST.COM
URDAY SAT30 LY 30 JU LY
AVENGERS THU18RSDAY ROXY EPOXY & THE REBOUND AU G
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
TICKETSWEST $15 Adv
RUSSIAN ROCKENROL REVOLUTION
RED ELVISES
BLASTERS SAT20URDAY THE SWINGIN’ UTTERS AUG 20 TICKETSWEST $18 Adv
MING THIS CO DAY!
SATUR
34
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
CHEAP MEATS
!
• WILD HOGS Y ADVISORY THU14RSDA DINNER FOR WOLVES REE JULY
F
!
SHOW
MICHAEL DEAN DAMRON
HEMA
AY FRID 15 JULY
MATTHEW LINDLEY & THE COMMISSION ANTHONY BEASLEY
$5 Cover
JIMI HENDRIX
SAT16URDAYY LY 16 JU LY
TRIBUTE
DOUBLE TEE PRESENTS
SINFERNO •••cCABARET a b &aVAUDEVILLE••• ret
Y DA NLY MOJU 18
Karaoke FromHellHell Karaoke From So You Wanna Be A ROCK STAR ?
9pm 9pm VOLTERA VOLTERA
TUE19SDAY LY JU LY
No Cover 8pm Show
10pm $3
KARAOKE WITH A LIVE BAND
9PM - WIZARD BOOTS
THE ED FORMAN SHOW
DSL
open mic comedy with hostess dirt starr love
COMING SOON
AY FRID 22 JULY
TICKETSWEST $12 Adv
FROM BAUHAUS & LOVE AND ROCKETS
DAVID J ADRIAN H & THE WOUNDS & FEVER
URDAY SAT23 JULY
SE CD RELEA TY! PAR
SCOTLAND BARR MEMORIAL SCOTLAND BARR & THE SLOW DRAGS I CAN LICK ANY SOB IN THE HOUSE STEVE WILKINSON
SUN24DAY JULY
TICKETSWEST $12 Adv
THE DAMNWELLS STARTS AT 7PM WITH JOSH FLETCHER FOLLOWED BY SINFERNO CABARET AT 11PM
7/13 Gun Room Melodies + Lazarro 7/14 Advisory + Wild Hogs 7/15 HEMA 7/16 Purple Haze 7/16 BERLIN AT THE STAR THEATER 7/17 Sinferno + Voltera 7/18 Karaoke From Hell 7/19 The Ed Forman Show 7/21 Jerry Joseph & Friends 7/22 David J + Adrian H & The Wounds 7/23 Scotland Barr Memorial 7/24 The Damnwells + Sinferno 7/28 Chops’ Birthday Bash 7/29 Hopeless Jack CD Release 7/30 The Accused 8/6 Sahara Summer Nights 8/13 The Memorials & NIAYH 8/17 God Is An Astronaut 8/18 The Avengers 8/19 Red Elvises 8/20 The Blasters 8/20 DRAG THE RIVER AT DEVILS POINT 8/27 Exotic Mag 18th Anniversary 8/28 Mac Lethal & Sinferno 8/30 MC Frontalot 9/2 Valient Thorr 9/15 Stanton Moore Trio 9/16 Bob Log III 9/17 Miss Skooled Pageant 10/1 World Inferno/Friendship Society 10/4 Electric Six 10/5 Goddamn Gallows 10/7 Super Diamond 10/8 Cash’d Out TICKETS AVAILABLE @ DANTE’S, SAFEWAY, MUSIC MILLENNIUM 800-992-8499 AND TICKETSWEST.COM
URDAYY SAT30 LY 30 JU LY
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
DAAYY DNESD WE17 G 17 TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
AU G
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
AY FRID G 19
F
SHOW
THU18RSDAYY AVENGERS ROXY EPOXY & THE REBOUND G 18
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
AUG 18
JULY
AU G
WE17DNESDAAYY G AU G
ROOM MELODIES DNESDAY GUN WE13 LAZARRO • THIRSTY VULTURES REE
Best &Show DJs, Magic Debauchery! NLYD17AY “The In Town!” SUJU
FromHellHell Karaoke From SINFERNO Karaoke No Cover 8pm Show
w w w. da n tes l i ve. c o m
Burlesque, Firedancers
Burlesque, Firedancers Best &Show DJs, Magic Debauchery! NLYD17AY “The In Town!” SUJU
JU LY
Tel. 503-226-6630 • Open Daily 11am-2:30am •
TICKETSWEST $10 Adv
DOUBLE TEE PRESENTS
TUE19SDAY LY
Live Music, Music, Cabaret, Cabaret, Burlesque Burlesque & & Rock-n-Roll Rock-n-Roll Live Live Music, Cabaret, Burlesque & Rock-n-Roll
AY FRID 19 AUG 19
TICKETSWEST $15 Adv
RUSSIAN ROCKENROL REVOLUTION
RED ELVISES
BLASTERS SAT20URDAYY THE SWINGIN’ UTTERS AUG 20 TICKETSWEST $18 Adv
MING THIS CO DAY!
SATUR
SUNDAY - TUESDAY
Parenthetical Girls, Vice Device, Extra Life, Sam Mickens
[EXTRAVAGANCE] Charlie Looker had a brief stint with fledging indie stars Dirty Projectors before branching off with NYC trio Extra Life. Since its debut full-length, Secular Works, in 2008, the group has meandered in and out of obscure genre tags and personnel, ultimately settling on a lean, chamber-rattling, art-rock format. Just-dropped EP Ripped Heart shows a fit and forceful act operating at its creative apex. Like Huxley or Kierkegaard, Extra Life is a tough read at first, but rich with fresh ideas and cryptic soundscapes. Friends and local standouts Parenthetical Girls (see Top 5, coming soon) headline the bill with an increasingly rare local appearance. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Owl City, Mat Kearney, Unwed Sailor
[RADIO POP] Owl City’s Adam Young begins his first world tour this summer, starting on the West Coast and eventually ending up in far-off lands like Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia. This is quite a changeup for 25-year-old Young, who only a couple of years ago was recording his brand of storybook dream pop in his parents’ bedroom—the same room that spawned his breakout megahit “Fireflies.” Now, fresh off the release of his newest album, All Things Bright and Beautiful, a respectable follow-up for fans who fell in love with the danceable innocence of his debut, Young looks to prove that he’s more than just a one-hit wonder. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 7 pm. $28. All ages.
Trio Subtonic
[FUNKY JAZZ GROOVES] For a group that channels so many influences (Brazilian music, Afro-Cuban hip-hop, Indian and European classical, laid-back Meters-style funk and more), this Portland-based threesome wields its sources with a deft, light touch. Lewis & Clark grads keyboardist/composer Galen Clark and drummer Jesse Brooke create surprisingly concise and melodic, groove-oriented jazz funk with PSU alum bassist Bill Athens, some of which sounds like it could have come out of one of Herbie Hancock’s 1970s bands. BRETT CAMPBELL. The Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont St., 503-595-0575. 7:30 pm. $3-$7. 21+.
The Cysts, Drunk Dad, Dragging an Ox Through Water
[WEIRDLY INSPIRATIONAL] In the summer of 2006, a friend gave me Dragging an Ox Through Water’s first EP, Rebukes!. The 7-inch featured “Aces,” a song penned with such tragic honesty it made me involuntarily weep every time I played it. Last summer’s new 7-inch release, They’re Gonna Send Me to the Dead Mumford Pencil Box Factory, evoked a similar feeling of nostalgia right from the first listen. DAOTW’s signature lo-fi sound, a blend of acoustic folk and fuzzed-out experimental music has remained intact over the years, as well as Brian Mumford’s unabashedly honest lyrics. But where “Aces” once had Mumford asking if he’d “be held to the fire for wishing your boyfriend dead,” his focus has shifted from the pains of unrequited love to ruminations on modern society. On “A Sign of Weakness,” he sings: “We are young now/ Deeply advertised/ We got screenburn in our eyes”—a troubling observation that may not tug at the heartstrings, but certainly nags at the mind. DEVAN COOK. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 4738729. 8 pm. Cover. 21+.
MONDAY, JULY 18 Liturgy, Tecumseh, Wilderness
[HEAVENLY BLAST BEATS] “Art metal” is typically a euphemistic way of describing a metal band
that’s crossed over with indie kids, and while that’s certainly true of Brooklyn’s Liturgy (8.3 Pitchfork ratings don’t lie), in its case the term also works in identifying a band whose ambitions exceed its genre. Texture isn’t something of much use in most modern metal—it just serves to soften the blunt-force trauma—but on its bracing second album, Aesthetica, the group has created something close to a superheavy Loveless. Drummer Greg Fox’s blast beats operate the same way as Kevin Shields’ guitar, creating a disorienting haze that envelops vocalist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s pained screams. The difference is, instead of a dreamlike wooziness, the end result is more akin to what self-immolation must feel like. But if you stick with it, you come away with a similar sense of euphoria. MATTHEW SINGER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 8 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. All ages.
Pete Anderson (9 pm)
See profile, page 30. Duff’s Garage, 1635 SE 7th Ave., 234-2337. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
Acrassicauda, Nether Regions, Lord Dying, The Guild, DJ Nate C
[HEAVY METAL OUT OF BAGHDAD] Firas Al-Lateef, Tony Aziz, Marwan Reyad and Faisal Talal are four young Iraqi men who exude the familiar, agitated energy of your average, angry metalhead—but their state was arrived at with more authentic strife than most American metal bands could imagine. Few things are more metal—or evident of a commitment to craft—than carrying cans of gasoline to band practice in order to power the generators that run your instruments, and that’s precisely what Acrassicauda had to do during its formative years living under Saddam Hussein’s terrifying reign. Ten years after the band’s inception, it fled Iraq and is now finally free to tour the States. HANNAH LEVIN. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $13. 21+.
The Dan Balmer Band (8:00 pm); The New West Guitar Group (6:00 pm)
[YOUNG AXES] The New West Guitar Group plays with a virtuosity and integration that belie their age. The recent USC graduates have already scored a gig accompanying jazz singer Gretchen Parlato’s
MUSIC
last album, and have just released their fourth CD, Round-Trip Ticket, which continues and deepens their exploration of classical and rock-influenced jazz. Devotees of modern jazz guitar legends from Montgomery to Metheny will find much to admire in their fluid, melodic approach and pinpoint precision. Stay for the free 8 pm show and hear Portland’s own master axman, Dan Balmer, for a double gig that is easily one of the city’s— and the West’s—finest musical happenings. BRETT CAMPBELL. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6 pm. $5. All ages.
TUESDAY, JULY 19 Nanci Griffith
[FOLK WISDOM] Texan singersongwriter Nanci Griffith, a contemporary of Lyle Lovett and similarly laconic, literate and utterly screwed by timing—making her bones in that late-’80s gap ’tween a foundering Nashville and aborning alt country— wound her way through various idioms, never straying too far from a hummable Americana (and ever finding greatest success ghosting hits for others), before her late life turn toward a politicized folk. “The Loving Kind,” title track from her 2009 album, finds some bittersweet majesty in a humanized screed against marital sanctions—but such gossamer vocals fail to convincingly wax agitprop. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $39.50 advance, $42 day of show (Minors must be accompanied by a parent). All ages.
Best Supporting Actress, The Binary Marketing Show, Cat Fancy
[FEVERISH DANCE ROCK] While it takes a name from the cutesy magazine that celebrates all things feline, Cat Fancy is all claws and teeth. The four members of the group combine their musical obsessions—goth pop from the ’80s, soul music past and present, and skittish modern electro—into a singular sound that is dance party ready, sexy and, yes, catty as hell. Be sure to pick up a copy of the band’s self-released debut CD, Pick of the Litter, but insist on getting the version with bonus tracks: It features a dirty collaboration with former Make-Up frontman Ian Svenonius. ROBERT HAM. Mudai Lounge, 801 NE Broadway, 287-5433. 9 pm. $3. 21+.
PRIMER
BY MATTHEW SI N GER
THE AVETT BROTHERS Formed: In 2000 in Concord, N.C. Sounds like: An emotional power-pop three-piece that got its instruments mixed up with a string band’s at the airport. For fans of: Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Devil Makes Three Latest release: 2010’s Live, Vol. 3, capturing a rapturous homecoming gig in Charlotte that confirms the group’s rep as an ace live band. Why you care: Keeping one foot planted on the porch as the stages it plays on grow increasingly bigger, the Avetts—brothers Scott and Seth, along with bassist Bob Crawford—have built a dedicated following that reaches beyond the Americana crowd by intercutting their hillbilly hootin’ and hollerin’ with universal weepin’ and wallowin’. Along with Mumford & Sons and Noah and the Whale, the band is part of an expanding class of roots-scented groups less interested in modernizing American folk traditions than in using bluegrass instrumentation to make swollen-hearted, radio-ready pop songs. Its piano-heavy major-label debut, I and Love and You, pushed the trio dangerously close to “adult alternative” territory, but there’s a reason it has three live albums to its name: The Avetts are a band best experienced in person. MATTHEW SINGER. SEE IT: The Avett Brothers play Salem’s LB Day Comcast Amphitheater on Saturday, July 16. 7 pm. $35 advance, $37.50 day of show. All ages. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
35
100 +
magazine titles
STUMPTOWN
a night of summery indie pop wed
july
13
WITH and
ioa LAK E
8
$
CAINS & ABELS
imposing ballads and bar songs from...
thu
july
14
the white buffalo WITH
spanish for 100
$10ADV $12DOS
july apr
in the the detention hall winebirds cooky parker and DDDJJJ666
butter & jam
ice cream
cards & gifts 1740 SE HawtHornE • 503.384.2160 www.oui-presse.com • find us on
6 skate 5 15 &w/theslow 30 singleman affair WITH
toast
baguette WITH
a night of classic and rare 80’s dance music
fri sat
coffee
$$
&
open 7 days a week • 7-6 M-Sat; 8-5 Sun
3 r d F R I DA Y O F E V E RY m o n t h !
comic & “chapPelle’s show” co-creator
an evening with sat
july
16
neal brennan
$15ADV $18DOS
TONIGHT! aMY StROUP • WEDNESDAY 7/13 @ 6PM TONIGHT!
A NIGHT OFYOU’re WEST COAST INDIE-POP THINK lucky? mon MON
july
18
AU DUNES B-I-N-G-O RANGE OF LIGHT free WITH
hosted by WILDERNESS
B R Iand A NYE J .S WA PEY REZ
UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES
7pm/8pm
6 8:30pm $
UPCOMING SHOWS 7/21 - the cabin project, the lower 48, PRAIRIE EMPIRE 7/23 - OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN, SEACAVES, NEVELE NEVELE 7/24 - STORM LARGE IN THE WOODS (SOLD OUT) 8/4 - THE CARIBBEAN (HOME TAPES) 8/6 - “IN THE COOKY JAR (SPECIAL “FIRST SAT” EDITION) 8/9 - LAURA GIBSON, BRIGHT ARCHER Doors 8pm, shows 9pm (unless otherwise noted)
Beltaine • THURSDAY 7/14 @ 6PM Brian Baker, John Keys and Kris Chase- is a trio from the Pacific Northwest that plays Celtic and traditional music featuring two hammered dulcimers, guitar, flute, mountain dulcimer, marimbula, and other instruments from around the world. Their fourth CD, ‘Jump at Samhain’s Fire,’ is a collection of original and traditional music fusing Celtic with folk, jazz and rock influences, and featuring hammered dulcimer, guitar, flute, marimbula and vocals.
JOYFielD • FRIDAY 7/15 @ 6PM 6637 Milwaukie AVE. PORTLAND — served by bus lines 19 & 70 — ticketS available at:
thewoodsportland.com
THE BIGGEST
FOOT
FETISH EVENT IN PORTLAND
Thursday July 21st 8PM-Midnight • “Summer Soles and Toes Party” • Multi-Girl Foot Worship • Hot Soles and Toes • Forced Foot Smelling • Barefoot, Socks and Nylons • Foot Smothering • Foot Domination • Sniffing and Worshipping Hot Fragrant Toes Footnight™ parties are safe, private and discreet havens for people who love female feet, and want to enjoy their personal foot fantasies in a comfortable, relaxed environment.
Please visit
www.footnight.com/portland.html for details
36
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
Seattle-based Joyfield consists of Ellie Soderberg (vocals, keys), Michael Szember (guitar), Nick Arneson (bass), Karris Nicklaus (percussion). ‘Kaleidoscope,’ Joyfield’s debut full-length album, includes ten songs ranging from soft acoustic tracks to deep, grungy sounds, all of which are backed by the melodic piano and vocals of Ellie Soderberg. The mix of heavy guitar/ bass and harmonious keys/vocals give them a unique approach to the alternative rock genre.
OFFICIAL RECORD RELEASE EVENT! tiM ROBBinS anD tHe ROGUeS GalleRY BanD TUESDAY 7/19 @ 6PM FRee liVe PeRFORManCe anD aUtOGRaPH SiGninG*
ENTER TO WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED GUITAR (MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN) Tim Robbins has been part of the fabric of popular culture as an Oscar winning movie star, writer & director, philanthropist and political activist. With the release of his strange and rather wonderful debut album, ‘Tim Robbins And The Rogues Gallery Band,’ he reveals himself to be a gifted singer-songwriter in the American narrative tradition. Produced by maverick genius Hal Willner, Robbins’ belated musical debut somehow brings all the strands of his creative life together. Whether it is through the mediums of acting, writing, directing or singing, Tim has always been, at heart, a storyteller. *LIMIT 1 ADDITIONAL ITEM SIGNED WITH PURCHASE OF NEW ALBUM
MUSIC CALENDAR = WW Pick. Highly recommended. Editor: Jonathan Frochtzwajg. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, send show information at least two weeks in advance on the web at wweek.com/submitevents or (if you book a specific venue) enter your events at dbmonkey.com/wweek. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: music@wweek.com.
[JULY 13 - 19] PCPA Music on Main Street SW Main St. and SW Broadway The Buckles
832 SE Grand Ave. Dina and Bamba Y Su Pilon D'Azucar with La Descarga Cubana
Papa G's Vegan Organic Deli
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
2314 SE Division St. Billy Kennedy
Find more music previews: page 27 For more listings, check out wweek.com
Press Club
ADAM KRUEGER
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Krystos, Truculence, Nocturnal Slaughter
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. The Forms, Ritual Fiction, Project Talent
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Cigga Rette, Hindershot, Lucky Tigers
Someday Lounge
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Alderbrook Park Resort
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Buffalo Bandstand
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Zay Harrison
Doug Fir Lounge
24414 NE Westerholm Rd. The Norman Sylvester Band
830 E Burnside St. Earth, Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Wyrd Visions
Andina
Duff's Garage
1314 NW Glisan St. Scott Head
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Shovelman, Great Migration, Insomniac Folklore, Slutty Hearts
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Dustin Ruth, Amy Stroup, Holly Rossmiller
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim's Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Awkward Energy, Frozy, More Eats
Holocene
2126 SW Halsey St. Raina Rose
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Great Wilderness, Youth, Your Canvas
1001 SE Morrison St. Extreme Animals, Oregon Painting Society, E*Rock with Megazord, Breakfast Mountain with Daneover, View You
Mudai Lounge
Jade Lounge
8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
2346 SE Ankeny St. Matt Lauretano (8 pm); Christopher Worth (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak's
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Barkers, DJ Tuff Gnarly
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St.
801 NE Broadway Timmy The Terror and The Winter Coats
Muddy Rudder Public House Music Millennium 3158 E Burnside St. Amy Stroup
Oregon Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road Plena Libre, Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca
PCPA Antoinette Hatfield Hall
1111 SW Broadway Portland Metro Youth Pipe Band
Buffalo Gap Saloon Camellia Lounge
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Pete Kartsounes' Soulo Loop Set (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed 2126 SW Halsey St. Pagan Jug Band
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Patti King Band, Dasha and the Bear (9 pm); Mo Phillips, Jason and Johnny (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Dirty Mittens, Black Whales, Orca Team
Mock Crest Tavern
3435 N Lombard St. Claes of The Blueprints
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Faster Pussycat, Iron Lords, Burning Leather
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Animal Eyes, Welsh Bowmen, Ugly Flowers
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Thad Beckman
Music Millennium 3158 E Burnside St. Beltaine
Original Halibut's II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Papa G's Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Jen Howard, Andrew Orr
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. IOA, Lake, Cains and Abels
Chapel Pub
Tiger Bar
Corkscrew Wine Bar
Plan B
White Eagle Saloon
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Supervillains, Tomorrow's Bad Seeds, Micah Brown, D.P., Raise the Bridges
3725 N Mississippi Ave. Marian Call, The DoubleClicks
Avi Dei, The Fast Takers, The Drawing Board
Pioneer Courthouse Square
2929 SE Powell Blvd. 6bq9
6000 NE Glisan St. Little Sue
Bridge City Comics
The Woods
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy's Bluegrass Jam
510 NW 11th Ave. Elke Robitaille
1530 SE 7th Ave. Zenda and Mike Doolin
Hawthorne Theatre
111 SW Ash St. Shameless Thursdays
The Lovecraft
Vie de Boheme
Biddy McGraw's
Beauty Bar
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Balto and Hip Hatchet
1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King, Steve Christofferson
303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Beaterville Cafe
Biddy McGraw's
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Piano Throwers (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
115 NW 5th Ave. School of Rock All Stars
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
317 NW Broadway Julian's Ride
625 NW 21st Ave. Laura Ivancie
Backspace
Beauty Bar
421 SE Grand Ave. Nothing Lasts Forever
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
225 SW Ash St. Alabama Black Snake, Heaven Generation, Red Ships of Spain, Monster Sized Monsters, The Cover Girls
The Globe
2026 NE Alberta St. Raw Nerves, Lords of Light, Septic System
2201 N Killingsworth St. Lowell John Mitchell and the Triplets of Beaterville
Ash Street Saloon
111 SW Ash St. A Lukewarm Mess-Free Comedy
The Know
Beaterville Cafe
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriters Roundup
The Blue Monk
426 SW Washington St. Hindershot, A La Mode, Castronaut
WED. JULY 13
Artichoke Community Music
2201 N Killingsworth St. Loose Change Trio
2045 SE Belmont St. Renaissance Cocktail
Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
1037 SW Broadway Eddie Vedder
125 NW 5th Ave. The Dolly Pops, Lana Louche 3341 SE Belmont St. Arabesque Belly Dance
KELLI SCHAEFER PLAYS SATURDAY, JULY 16, AT MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS
Andrea's Cha Cha Club
836 N Russell St. Left Coast Country
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen with Wendy Goodwin and Joe Millward
THUR. JULY 14 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jon Anderson
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. John Doe, Jill Sobule
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Jim Han (10 pm); Mistral with Beaucoup Chapeaux (6:30 pm)
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Koloku Holt
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Sellwood Jazz Quintet
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. The Moondoggies, Jack Wilson, The Blue Hit
701 SW 6th Ave. Pilar French
1305 SE 8th Ave. Truculence, Otis, At These Hours, Devour
Red Room
Duff's Garage
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Skatterbomb, Mouthwash Enema, PDX Punk Rock Collective, The Long Shot, Mr. Plow, Five-O
Ecotrust
Roseland Theater
1635 SE 7th Ave. Portland Playboys 721 NW 9th Ave., Suite 200 Y La Bamba, Greylag
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place The We Shared Milk, Youth, Paper Brain
8 NW 6th Ave. Jo Jo Jorge Falcon
Slim's Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. The Chancers
The Blue Monk
Ford Food and Drink
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Quintet
Goodfoot Lounge
2045 SE Belmont St. Nick Brakel
2505 SE 11th Ave. Eugene Lee
2845 SE Stark St. The Lee Boys
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Brian McGinty
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE 39th Ave. Savoir Faire Burlesque
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Into the Woods Quarterly: Feelings, The Reservations, Pigeons, Radiation City
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. The Jackalope Saints
Jimmy Mak's
221 NW 10th Ave. Lydia Pence and Coldblood
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St.
The Globe
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. The Verner Pantons, Held Up Hands, Father Figure
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Sons of Huns, Doseywallips
The Woods
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. The White Buffalo, Spanish For 100
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Merrill Lite
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Animal R&R, The Oldest Profession, My Robot Lung
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Andrea Algieri
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Swing Papillon
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. W.C. Beck (8:30 pm); Robert Rogers (6 pm)
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Will West and the Friendly Cover Up
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
Worksound
820 SE Alder St. Poemophone
FRI. JUL. 15 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Executive Swede (9:30 pm); Mikey's Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Ian James
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs Trio
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. My New Vice, The Spittin' Cobras, Lost City
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Sexy Water Spiders, The Shivas, The Blacklights, Stankbot Tyranny (9 pm); School of Rock Showcase (5 pm)
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Dawn and the Dents
Bethel Congregational Church 480 E. Jewett Blvd., White Salmon, Wash. Gorge Music Festival: Naomi LaViolette
Biddy McGraw's
6000 NE Glisan St. Chris Robley, WBB and Friends (9:30 pm); Billy Kennedy and Jimmy Boyer (6 pm)
Cathedral Park
N Edison St. and N Pittsburg Ave. Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: Norman Sylvester "Boogie Cat," Robbie Laws
Clyde's Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Emerge N See Festival: Shpongle Presents the Shpongletron Experience, Random Rab
Dante's
350 W Burnside St. Hema
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Archeology, Hurtbird, Water and Bodies, Boy Eats Drum Machine
Duff's Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Skirtchasers (9 pm); Honey and the Hamdogs (6 pm)
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Spellcaster, Skelator, Cemetery Lust, Raptor
CONT. on page 38 Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
37
MUSIC
CALENDAR
SPOTLIGHT
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
CAMERONBROWNE.COM
Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold and Groove Swingers
Worksound
820 SE Alder St. Poemophone
SAT. JULY 16 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Lauren Shera
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Strangled Darlings (9:30 pm); A Thousand Years at Sea (6:30 pm)
Aloft
CHEAP FLIGHT: Apparently, in Belgium, bar food is both delicious and served at ridiculously low prices. Can’t afford a plane ticket? No worries. Portland’s own Bazi Bierbrasserie (1522 SE 32nd Ave., 234-8888, bazipdx.com) has got you covered. Neatly hidden in a quaint neighborhood off Hawthorne, Bazi specializes in serving Belgian “bier” with 18 on tap, from dark elixirs made with fruit and spice to zesty summer ales. The food menu is even more impressive: For around $5, you can get everything from beerbraised pork sandwiches to Belgian house salads made with apples and toasted walnuts. For snacks, the usual salt-slathered pub mix is replaced here by European-style spiced almonds or baguettes topped with blue cheese and date jelly. You can enjoy all of this from the friendly patio seating area—a great place to spend a warm summer eve with friends. REED JACKSON. Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Guantanamo Baywatch, Wavesauce, Surf Weasels, DJ Drew Groove
Greeley Avenue Bar & Grill 5421 N Greeley Ave. Rabid Wombat
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. Ken Hanson Band
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Alkaline Trio, Smoking Popes, Dead Country
Helen Bernhard Bakery 1717 NE Broadway NE Broadway Summer Street Fair: Knuckleheads with Satellite Malone, Monti Amundson
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Ailsa Weiss (8 pm); Ronno Rutter (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak's
221 NW 10th Ave. Wheels in the Sky: A Tribute to the Music of Journey
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Future Ghetto, Julian's Ride
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kory Quinn and the Comrades, Simon Tucker, Bitterroot
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Jack McMahon
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Brassroots Movement, Chives (9 pm); AM Exchange (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. David Bazan, Rocky Votolato
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Blueprints
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Sun Angle, Hookers
38
Music Millennium 3158 E Burnside St. Joyfield
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew with Dave Captein
Original Halibut's II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace
Papa G's Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Lynn Conover
Peter's Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Ky-Mani Marley, Gramps Morgan, Inna Vision
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Notches, The Lordy Lords, Redeemed, Celebrity Graves
Slim's Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim
Someday Lounge
9920 NE Cascades Parkway The Andre St. James Trio
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Borikuas
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Goh Kurosawa
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Public Drunken Sex, Pill Brigade, Delaney and Paris, Mr. Plow, DJ Castor Pollux, DJ Twinkletits
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Yourself and the Air, Wax Fingers, Imaginary Airship
Bagdad Theater & Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Rock N Roll Camp for Girls Showcase
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Kode Bluuz Band
125 NW 5th Ave. Porches, Sisters of the Midnight, Old Age
Biddy McGraw's
The Globe
Branx
2045 SE Belmont St. Dogtooth and Wandering Zoo
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar
1001 SW Broadway Bobby Torres Ensemble
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Blood Owl, Cellar Door, Oden
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Team Evil, That Instrument, Rat Bite Fever
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan 320 SE 2nd Ave. J-Ho, DJ Puppet, MoRocka, Kinetic, Stormy Roxx, Darkcloud, Feyonce, Jeau Breedlove, Sushilia
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge 1503 SE 39th Ave. The Shinkle Band
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Dear Hunter, Kay Kay and his Weathered Underground, O'Brother, Naive Thieves
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Andrea Algieri
Jimmy Mak's
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dimes, Priory, Tango Alpha Tango
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Zach Zerzan And The Brassierllionaires, Dye Hippie Dye, Amy Rude, Jobo Shakins
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Student Loan, Spoonshine, Ali Marcus (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Electrogals (9 pm); Will Coca Trio (6 pm); Shoehorn Kids Show (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Negative Queen, Valkyrie Rodeo
NE Broadway Summer Street Fair--Main Stage
Cathedral Park
Nel Centro
Railside Pub
Tonic Lounge
Creston Park
Record Room
Tony Starlight's
5301 NE Portland Highway Sandy Saunders 8 NE Killingsworth St. The Encounters
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Roozapalooza
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Dangerous Boys Club, Teams, Zombelle, Sick Jaggers
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Shicky Gnarowitz (9 pm); Anna Paul and The Bearded Lady (6 pm)
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Russell Thomas
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Jail Weddings, Hawkeye, 1776
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Hollywood Tans, Rare Monk, Bottle Cap Boys 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Mel Kubik
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Haley Horsfall Trio
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Sons of Richard, Scissorclam, Hot N' Bothered
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Lara Downes
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Lisa Mann Duo
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Cowboy Cadillac (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite SE 42nd Ave. and SE Powell Blvd. Emerge N See Festival: Tyler Tastemaker, Behnibubu, Vize
Dante's
350 W Burnside St. Jimi Hendrix Tribute: Purple Haze
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Langhorne Slim, Weinland
Duff's Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Moby Dicks, Needles and Pins, Youthbitch
Goodfoot Lounge
4001 SW Canyon Road ZooLaLa
Original Halibut's II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe and The Tornadoes
3901 N Williams Ave. Bastille Day Block Party: DJ Erick Beats, Deelay Ceelay, Cool Nutz and DJ Fatboy, Guidance Counselor, Cloudy October, Pigeons, Yeah Great Fine, Sam Humans and the Light
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Fang, Wayne Gacy Trio, The Tanked, Tweakin Like Matty
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Ben Meyercord (of Y La Bamba), Holland
Ravenz Roost Cafe 11121 SE Division St. 6bq9
Red Room
2845 SE Stark St. Fareed Haque's Math Games
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Roozapalooza
Hawthorne Hophouse
116 SE Yamhill St.
4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Folk and Spoon
116 NE Russell St. Brian Oberlin Duo (9 pm); The Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Fools Errands
Slabtown
Slim's Cocktail Bar
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Stephen Ashbrook
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Berlin, Kleveland
1001 SW Broadway Karla Harris
3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward Sharkskin Review
Pix PatisserieNorth
71 SW 2nd Ave. Big Electric
Secret Society Lounge
Mock Crest Tavern
Clyde's Prime Rib
8638 N Lombard St. Stumptown Jug Thumpers
31 NW 1st Ave. Red Party: Evan Alexander, Gabriel Driscoll, Jamie Meushaw
315 SE 3rd Ave. Emerge N See Festival: Lunice, Daedelus, Dillon Francis, Tyler Tastemaker, Doc Adam, Rude Dudes
The Crown Room
Thirsty Lion
Proper Eats Market and Cafe
The Whiskey Bar
Rotture
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Fernando, The Minus 5, Kelli Schaefer, Mike Coykendall (8 pm); Kasey Anderson, Empire Rocket Machine (4 pm)
Oregon Zoo
2621 SE Clinton St. Lara Michelle, Matt Brown, Michael Jodell
317 State St., Hood River Gorge Music Festival: Naomi LaViolette
Mississippi Pizza
N Edison St. and N Pittsburg Ave. Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: Portland Jazz Quintet, Warren Rand, Weber Iago and Dave Valdez, Mike Winkle
Press Club
Ash Street Saloon
8635 N Lombard St. Lloyd Mitchell Canyon, The Fall Men
2126 SW Halsey St. Alison Rice amd The Wheel
1408 SW 6th Ave. Dave Captein and Randy Rollofson
510 NW 11th Ave. Chris Bigley, Jackbone Dixie
Riverside Community Church
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Camellia Lounge
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Justin James Bridges and Anthony Brady
Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
1033 NW 16th Ave. Musicianers, Book Frog, Atomic Bride, Sick Broads
Northeast 16th Avenue between Broadway and Weidler Street NE Broadway Summer Street Fair: Kathy James and Eric Austin, Soul Funk Stew, Big Monti, Lloyd Jones Band
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Emerge N See Festival: Tipper, Funginears, Noah Pred, Danny Corn, Janover, saQi, Russ Liquid, Solovox, Kyrstyn, Behnibubu, Manoj, Barisone, Globalruckus, Shovelman
Refuge
205 NW 4th Ave. J-Live, Raashan Ahmad, TxE, The Love Loungers
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Beyond Veronica, dKOTA, Les Jupes
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Armed For The Apocalypse, Into The Open Earth, Ape Machine
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. David J with Adrian H, Product, DJ Missionary, DJ Sin
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. The Bradley Band
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Fight the Quiet, Fallen Intent
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Kopath Bear, AM Interstate, The Addiction Dream
Tony Starlight's
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Kelley Shannon, Steve Christofferson
Twilight Café and Bar
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Mad Moniker, Kopath Bear, Red Ships Of Spain
303 SW 12th Ave. Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero 225 SW Ash St. Doomsday, Knothead, Tragedy 503, COlt
Biddy McGraw's
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan (6 pm); Myelin Ensemble Sunday Brunch (11:30 am)
Cathedral Park
N Edison St. and N Pittsburg Ave. Cathedral Park Jazz Festival: Tom Grant, Patrick Lamb, Barbara Lusch, Grant Richards
Clyde's Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. The BoDeans
Dante's
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret, Voltera
Duff's Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Stolen Sweets
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place Blind Bartimaeus, Gallop, Evyn Oliver, Doug Loghry
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Breathe Carolina, Chiodos, I See Stars, The Color Morale, Mod Sun, The Air I Breathe
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Parenthetical Girls, Vice Device, Extra Life, Sam Mickens
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Josh Schroeder
Kettleman's Bagels-NE Broadway 2200 NE Broadway Alma Brasileira
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Billy Kennedy and Tim Acott, Jake Ray (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Rychen and Friends
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Jackbone Dixie, Find Your Smile, David Stefanik
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Cysts, Drunk Dad, Dragging an Ox Through Water
Tillicum Club
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin
Valentine's
232 SW Ankeny St. Hurry Up!, Dreamdate, Heather and Lisa (of Explode Into Colors)
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Classical Beauties
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Holus Bolus
MON. JULY 18 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Instant Tradition
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Martini
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Counterfeit Cash
Biddy McGraw's
6000 NE Glisan St. Mike D
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Liturgy, Tecumseh, Wilderness
1635 SE 7th Ave. Pete Anderson (9 pm); Suze and the Sidecars (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
203 SE Grand Ave. Acrassicauda, Nether Regions, Lord Dying, The Guild, DJ Nate C
Refuge
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band (8:00 pm); The New West Guitar Group (6:00 pm)
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Fanno Creek (9 pm); Thistle & Rose, Moriah Domby (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Generationals, Gardens and Villa (9 pm); Mbilly, Ryan Francesconi (4 pm) 116 SE Yamhill St. Emerge N See Festival: NiT GriT, Gladkill, B. Bravo, Max Ulis, Noah D, Cohen and The Sea, Vokab Kompany, Chris Sia, Kitty D, Reva Devito, Erica Dee, Sporeganic
Rontoms
Roseland Theater
White Eagle Saloon
Secret Society Lounge
8 NW 6th Ave. Owl City, Mat Kearney, Unwed Sailor
836 N Russell St. Target for Tomorrow (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
116 NE Russell St. Hanz Araki, Cary Novotny
Worksound
131 NW 13th Ave. Bob Sterry with John Kazee
SUN. JULY 17
3341 SE Belmont St. Trio Subtonic
Mississippi Pizza
2126 SW Halsey St. Pete Kartsounes
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
820 SE Alder St. Poemophone
The Blue Monk
Doug Fir Lounge
600 E Burnside St. Point Juncture WA, Deer or the Doe
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Radio Cowboy
8635 N Lombard St. NoPoMoJo
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Dawid Vorster Quintet
Slim's Cocktail Bar
Sherman Clay/Moe's Pianos
Sleep Country Amphitheater
17200 NE Delfel Road, Ridgefield, Wash. Steve Miller, Eric Johnson
830 E Burnside St. Meiko
Duff's Garage
East End
Jimmy Mak's
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St. Skip vonKuske with Susie
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. The Mean Jeans, Guantanamo Baywatch, Jr. Member, The Memories
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson/Dave Mills Big Band
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. A La Mode
CALENDAR The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Hank Hirsh's Jazz Lounge and Open Jam
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Mad Moniker, Nicodemus Show, Not Your Robot
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Cognitive Dissonance
The Mudhut
N St. Louis Ave. and N Edison St. The Instigators Screening: Charming Birds; Bison, Bison; Irie Idea, Meghan McNealy
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Unicorn Domination, Pink Noise, Vintage Time Machines
Valentine's
232 SW Ankeny St. Ghost to Falco, Like a Villain, Desert of Hiatus
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Tango Alpha Tango
TUES. JULY 19 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Chris Robley and the Fear of Heights
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Nanci Griffith
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Fred Van Vactor with Ryan Tennis
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
The Day I Ate the Moon, Hardcore Party People, March of May, The Cicada Cycle
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Jade Lounge
Ash Street Saloon
Jimmy Mak's
1037 SW Broadway Sara Bareilles 225 SW Ash St. Avi Dei, Noise-a-tron, Mantra Fear
Backspace
2346 SE Ankeny St. Nico Bella 221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Chrissy Faith (6:30 pm)
115 NW 5th Ave. Fallen Parrot, Lyrica, Brian Law
LaurelThirst
Bunk Bar
McMenamins Edgefield Little Red Shed
1028 SE Water Ave. Gratitilium, Gay Ghost
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Weekly Jazz Jam
Duff's Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9:30 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Smoking Mirrors, Holy Children
Freedom Foursquare Church 660 SE 160th Ave. Mark Phillips and IIIrd Generation Bluegrass Band
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
2126 SW Halsey St. Stringed Migration
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Eddie Cohn
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Saint Motel, The Silent Comedy, Celilo, Black Mercies
Mudai Lounge
801 NE Broadway Best Supporting Actress, The Binary Marketing Show, Cat Fancy
Music Millennium
Goodfoot Lounge
3158 E Burnside St. Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge
2314 SE Division St. Paul Brainard
2845 SE Stark St. Scott PembertonTrio
625 NW 21st Ave. Kent Smith
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen and Austin Moore
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Papa G's Vegan Organic Deli
Pioneer Courthouse Square 701 SW 6th Ave. Kate Davis
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave.
Mormon Trannys, Black Black Things, Stupid Man Suit, Realization Orchestra, Bastard Maker
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Dominic Castillo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Globe
2045 SE Belmont St. Robert Stragnell and Sam Emmitt
The Knife Shop at Kelly's Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Jobo Shakins, Sam Emmitt
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The We Shared Milk, Brainstorm
Tony Starlight's
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Piano Bar with Bo Ayars
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with The Roaming
Valentine's
232 SW Ankeny St. Lavender Mirror, Pool of Winds, Period Romance
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Lynn Winkle, Mark Stauffer
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur "Fresh Air" Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St.
WED. JULY 13 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sandy Stiletto
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Future Beats with Ryan Organ
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ 808
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Grunge Night with Pippa Possible
Slim's Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Pop-Up Club: Lionsden, Nick Dean
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ La'Monjello
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Sup, Dude! with Freaky Outy
THUR. JULY 14 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. DJ Shawn Creeden
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Krinkle Kut
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. I've Got A Hole In My Soul: Laurent Reus, DJ Maxamillion, DJ Worms
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Pickle Barrel and Count Lips
Valentine's
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linger
FRI. JULY 15 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Santo
Beauty Bar
111 SW Ash St. Jet Set: DJ Swervewon and DJ 100proof
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Ultragroove: DJ Non, DJ Encrypted
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJ Capcom
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy (9 pm); Soft Rock Happy Hour with Kendall Holladay (5 pm)
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Blast Friday: Lowriderz, Hyphy Takeova, Spekt One, Myk Dub
The Lovecraft 421 SE Grand Ave.
MUSIC
Propaganda: DJ Ikon, DJ Horrid
The Abbey with DJ F. Star
The Woods
Tube
6637 SE Milwaukie Ave. In The Detention Hall: Cooky Parker, DDDJJJ666
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Cowboys from Sweden
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Townbombing: Doc Adam, Lionsden
SAT. JULY 16 Al's Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Stargazer
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Scott E(lectronic)
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Ante Up: Doctor Adam, DJ Nature, Ronin Roc
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hootchie Koo! with DJ Danny Dodge
MON. JULY 18 Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Vick Alfonso
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Into the Void with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron
TUES. JULY 19 East End
203 SE Grand Ave. DJ Mike V
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
Tiga
1503 SE 39th Ave. DeeJay Be Lo
Tonic Lounge
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Colleen
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Chick-A-Boom-Boom: DJ Action Slacks, DJ Pukes In Vans, DJ Magic Beans
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Freaky Outy
Valentine's
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ vs. Nature
SUN. JULY 17 Kenton Club
Record Room
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJs Sunny 1550
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Good Music For Bad People with DJ Entropy
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday with DJ Nature
2025 N Kilpatrick St.
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
39
presenTs
crystal ballroom
archers of loaf sepT. 8 wiTH seBadOH & ViVa VOCe , OR SE PTE M B E R 7 -1 1, 2011 • P ORTLAN D
dOOrs 7 pM
Band Of HOrses • iron & wine
entry with musicfestnw wristband* or $20 advance ticket
BuTTHOle surfers • archers of loaf b r an d n ew* • M sTr K r f T* • n e u r o s i s
roseland theater
explosions in The sky • THe Kills b li n d Pi lot • B liTz e n Trappe r • s e badoh MackleMore & ryan lewis • HandsOMe furs liT Tle d r ag O n • the Vaccines • TH e anTle r s CHarles Bradley • yacht • sHarOn Van eTTen thee oh sees • THe jOy fOrMidaBle* • horse feathers
THe THerMals • dennis coffey • THe HOrrOrs • glass candy Off! • cass MccoMbs band • pHanTOg raM • aVi buffalo r H eTT M i lle r • Mar kéta i rg loVá • Ty s egall • b ig fr e e dia giVers • kylesa • pOrTland CellO prOjeCT • Pig destroyer the oliVia treMor control • daM-funK & MasTer BlazTer CrOOKed fing ers • you aM i • Ted leO • eManciPator • g rails
butthole surfers sepT. 8 wiTH THrOnes & dirTy gHOsTs dOOrs 8 pM
eMa • shabazz Palaces • BOBBy Bare jr. • tennis • CenTrO-MaTiC TypHOOn • dan Mangan • TH e HOOd i nTe r n eT • talkde Mon ic salli e for d & th e sou n d outs i de • TH e M O O n d O g g i e s • z e ke
t wi n s i ste r • the gaslaMP killer • p s i lOVe yO u • eluViuM TH e s O f T M O O n • P u r it y r i n g • Mad r ad • d i rt y b eac h e s Mor n i ng te le Portation • TH rOn es • aki M bo • an d an d an d yOB • ViVa Voce • unKnOwn MOrTal OrCHesTra • anders Parker ale la dian e • B laCK prai r i e • wh ite ar rows • s le e py s u n yOung BuffalO • white hills • jOe pug • lifesaVas • eMily wells pierCed arrOws • heaVy creaM • riCHMOnd fOnTaine • y la baMba natas ha kM eto • r e B eCCa gaTes • Poison i dea • B laCK COB ra • rtX BOaT • the ladybug transistor • TH e M i n de rs • th e M us ic taPes we i n lan d • rab b its • dOlOr ean • th e M i racles clu b • Bar e wi r es a stor M of lig ht • z u z u Ka pOde rOsa • 80’s Vi deo dance attack HOlCOMBe waller • suuns • dj anjali, THe inCrediBle Kid, e3 & CHaaCH!!! di rTy M iTTe ns • u M e • anais M iTCH e ll • an d Many Mor e...
entry with musicfestnw wristband* or $25 advance ticket
* niKe pr es e nTs
* tic kets & wr istban ds on sale now at all tic ketswest locations i n f o avai l ab l e at m u s i c f e stnw.c o m /ti c k ets
40
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
JULY 13-19
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow
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.
THEATER THE 1 FESTIVAL
Mizu Desierto’s the Headwaters Theatre presents a 10-day festival of solo performance. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. Showtimes vary July 7-17. $10-$15 per show, $75 full-festival pass.
As You Like It
This is the summer of Shakespeare in Portland, apparently. The new Portland Shakespeare Project makes its debut with a Michael Mendelson-directed production of the Bard’s other comedy about frolicking in the woods, starring two of my favorite actors, Cristi Miles and Darius Pierce. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 3133048. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes Aug. 7. $24, $15 students.
Bindings
Spring 4th Productions presents a sharp and sassy two-man, two-act comedy with acoustic guitar accompaniment and a spot-on sense of humor akin to finely tuned improv. Reminiscent of Greater Tuna crossed with A Prairie Home Companion, Bindings weaves the tale of a dysfunctional library staff scrambling to host the Book Fun Fair Fest amidst financial ruin. Tobin Gollihar and Ian Sieren play the entire library staff, from the pudgy, chatty circulation librarian to the tousled director who sleeps in the walls. Books are not the only things mis-shelved; storytellers deviate into personal nonfiction, library funds are siphoned into fur coats and a father conceals his true identity to an unknowing librarian. But, between stiflingly awkward hugs, “poop balloon” blackmail and mayo-Oreo waffle recipes, all the stories eventually find their niche. David Gerow and Patrick Cleburne provide foot-stomping live music which, combined with the cozy theater, pulls you into a bookish, boisterous comedy. STACY BROWNHILL. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 477-8245. 7:30 pm Thursday and Sunday, July 14 and 17. $10-$12.
Boeing-Boeing
Ben Plont stars as a Manhattanite Lothario who juggles three flightattendant fiancées with the help of his long-suffering maid until a rube college friend (Leif Norby) happens along to screw up the schedule. Lakewood presents the Portland premiere of this internationally popular farce. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 6353901. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 pm Sundays, July 10-24, 2 pm Sundays, July 17 and July 31-Aug. 21. $25-$28.
The Cherry Orchard
The National Theatre of London’s production of Chekhov’s play about the silly bankrupt aristocracy, directed by Andrew Upton, whose Long Day’s Journey Into Night played Portland in September 2010, and starring Zoë Wanamaker as Ranevskaya. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 2 and 7 pm SaturdaySunday, July 16-17. $20, $15 students.
For Better
Clackamas Rep begins its season with a comedy by Eric Coble about a pair of globe-trotting sweethearts struggling to put together a wedding despite never being in the same city. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays. Closes July 24. $12-$22.
Going On
[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Kristin OlsonHuddle, producer of ScratchPDX, per-
forms her solo show about an orphan who endures further heartbreak. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 9 pm Wednesday and Friday, July 13 and 15. $15.
Hairspray
What happens when you take a John Waters film and make it into a very traditional musical? An unexpectedly delightful alloy of camp and chorus. Hairspray, the musical, hews closely to Waters’ plot: Tracy Turnblad (Blythe Woodland) is a hefty teenager whose greatest dream, in 1962, is to dance on The Corny Collins Show and—when that dream comes to pass—who realizes that what she really wants is to integrate Baltimore television. Despite an awful book and annoying namedropping tic, the show is a real joy: a loud, exuberant tribute to loving yourself as you are, with infectious energy and an immediately memorable score—including “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” by far the best finale in recent memory. Broadway Rose’s production shows all the company’s usual ambition and inevitable flaws. Dan Murphy is a lot of fun as Tracy’s unapologetically hefty mother, but I wish he had a bigger voice—Murphy is a crooner, and the role demands a belter. Alina Ziak dances too well as Amber Von Tussle, the supposedly graceless daughter of the evil former beauty queen Velma Von Tussle. But these are minor quibbles. The show has a great, cartoony set, all wild angles and candy colors, that suits the manic fantasy of the score. Music director Rick Lewis’ band is punchy and loud enough to compete with the enormous cast. And the show is completely stolen by the outstanding performances of two minor characters: John “Jay” Kelley Jr. as Seaweed, who shows off a voice as big as his graceful, bassplayer hands on “Run and Tell That”; and Lacretta Nicole as Motormouth Maybelle, whose delivery of “I Know Where I’ve Been” outshines even Queen Latifah’s performance in the 2007 movie. BEN WATERHOUSE. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysFridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through July 24. $20-$35.
JAW: Made in Oregon Readings
Portland Center Stage kicks off JAW, its annual playwrights festival, with four readings of works by Portland writers: Andrea Stolowitz’s very good Antarktikos, about sleeplessness and the South Pole, at 4 pm Saturday; Matthew B. Zrebski’s Forky, about an unhappy couple who are unexpectedly shown everything—everything—that might have happened had they made different decisions, at 8 pm Saturday; Patrick Wohlmut’s Continuum, about an astronomer who turns to a con man for help when his grant money dries up, at 4 pm Sunday; and Brian Kettler’s Personal, about a mysteriously vanished starlet and celebrity obsession, at 8 pm Sunday. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 4 and 8 pm Saturday-Sunday, July 16-17. Free.
Looking for Normal
Corey Brunish directs Jane Anderson’s drama about a wife and daughter struggling to cope with their husband/father’s announcement that he will undergo gender reassignment. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., hulahub.com. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes July 17. $10-$19.
Maybe It’s Me: Confessions From a Lover of Crazy Women
[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Don Kern performs a solo show about his complicated romantic history. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival. com. 7 pm Tuesday-Wednesday and Saturday, July 12-13 and 16. $15.
[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Memory, old age and the importance of living life to the fullest are the themes of this solo performance by Hand2Mouth Theatre member Erin Leddy, which was honored five times over at this year’s Drammy Awards. The show’s something of a duet, actually, between Leddy and sampled recordings that her now-91-year-old grandmother, Sarah Braveman, made in 2001 and 2010, cleverly edited to create a convincing illusion of live conversation. Braveman serves as narrator, critic and subject, reading poems, critiquing her granddaughter’s lovely, Death Cab-esque songs and recalling painful memories of her childhood. As with most of Hand2Mouth’s projects, the show contains plenty to both appeal to and alienate all comers—a dance sequence that borders on the ridiculous, gratuitous pantlessness—but its good moments are very good. Braveman’s struggle to remember the names of long-dead cats is heartbreaking, and the soundscape created by Ash Black Bufflo, John Berendzen and Holcombe Waller is as immersive and compelling as anything I’ve experienced. Leddy’s performance is physically strenuous and emotionally draining, her best work to date. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival. com. 7 pm Friday, 5 pm Saturday, July 15-16. $15.
Portland Actors Ensemble’s first openair production of the summer, set amid the rushing waters of Lovejoy Fountain. Lovejoy Fountain Park, Southeast 3rd Avenue and Harrison Street. 7 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 14-16. Free.
Threads
[THE 1 FESTIVAL] Tonya Jone Miller knew her American mother and Vietnamese father embarked for Vietnam around the same time as American troops, but she never knew why. After videotaping her mother tell her stories, Miller stitched the anecdotes together into a one-woman show about her mother maneuvering between two cultures in a moment of political hostility. With heavy-handed tone setting, Threads begins with gunshots sounding over Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” and Miller acting as her mother, fearfully running
across the stage. When the shooting subsides, she tells of her journey from Indiana to California to Vietnam in 1968, where she taught English and had many gut-wrenching experiences helping desperate people. With no scenes or set changes, and in a continuous address to the audience, Threads feels more like an hour of storytelling than a play. Though personally significant for both Miller and her mother, Threads is neither cogent nor novel to the objective observer. RACHAEL DEWITT. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, the1festival.com. 9 pm Saturday, July 16. $15.
Trek in the Park
For its third al-fresco reenactment of classic Star Trek episodes, Atomic Arts picked the best of them all: “Mirror, Mirror,” better known in non-nerd
CONT. on page 42
PREVIEW BLAINE TRUITT COVERT
PERFORMANCE
An Oak Tree
Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab—that is, director Devon Allen and friends—presents a very strange play by Tim Crouch. It has two characters: One is a hypnotist, whose act has faltered since he killed a girl in an auto accident; the other is the girl’s father, who will be played by a different actor each night of the run. The actors arrive each night without having read the script, and are fed their lines and instructions by the hypnotist through a wireless headset. I can’t promise this will be an enjoyable work to watch, but I guarantee it will be unlike anything you’ve seen before. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., osarlab@gmail.com. 8 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. No show July 16. Closes July 31. $10 suggested donation.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival
Nothing says summer in Portland like free theater in the park. The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival performs the Bard’s plays the way they were purportedly done four centuries ago at the Globe—outdoors, with little rehearsal, in front of a boisterous audience. Actors rehearse only their own lines before being thrown onstage (grass, technically) where they must improvise their blocking on the fly. A god-like prompter rescues actors’ missed cues and salvages interruptions from public park noise with demands for actors to waltz, sing and invent. Now in its third year, the company is performing A Midsommer Nights Dream, Much Adoe About Nothing and Twelfe Night in parks around Portland and Oregon (the spelling is as original as the performances). Fast-paced plots full of crossed identities, crude humor dressed in Old English, and a vocal audience wielding blankets, boxed wine, “boos” and “ahhs”—this is Shakespeare at its finest. STACY BROWNHILL Multiple locations. Times vary, see opsfest.org. Free.
Over the Cliff Notes on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Shakespeare Liberation Army summarizes Shakespeare’s most overperformed comedy, and adds more Bottom. Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater, 400 SW Kingston Ave., 823-3636. 2 pm Saturday, July 16. Free.
Rumpelstilskin Is My Name
Broadway Rose Theatre Company presents a short musical for children. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, 620-5262. 11 am Wednesday-Saturday, July 13-16. $8.
The Tempest
Nathan Markiewicz directs the
OBT EXPOSED (OREGON BALLET THEATRE) Lunch in the sun with a side of toe shoes.
Oregon Ballet Theatre has a new starting lineup of fresh faces this season, and OBT Exposed—the company’s week of free public programming July 18-23 at Director Park—offers a sneak preview of the new hires (including three new principal dancers from China) and recent promotions. The event is something of a comeback for the company, which used to do Exposed in downtown Portland’s South Park Blocks until 2008, when funding fell short. This edition will serve as a warm-up for OBT’s upcoming trip to Seoul to perform The Nutcracker, but more importantly, it will offer a backstage view of what it’s actually like to be a dancer, as company members take class, rehearse and perform in an outdoor studio. (If you’re anticipating bloody catfights and lesbian liplocks, you may want revise your expectations.) The performance process will unfold daily; viewers are invited to bring a lunch and park themselves. The weekday schedule is class (9:30-10:45 am) and rehearsal (11 am-2 pm and 3-6 pm) Monday-Friday; free ballet classes for kids and adults of all skill levels are also offered throughout the week. The Saturday, July 23, schedule is a little more involved: class, rehearsal and performances of excerpts from George Balanchine’s Who Cares?, plus Trey McIntyre’s Speak, James Kudelka’s Almost Mozart and new choreography by retired OBT principal dancer Anne Mueller. Not all the dancing will be live: OBT is also offering a free documentary screening on the life of one of ballet’s most fascinating figures. Maria Tallchief: Conversation with Evelyn Cisneros profiles the New York City Ballet star who, during her ’50s-era tenure with the company, was revered as much for her exotic, leggy beauty (the product of an Osage father and Scottish-Irish mother) as she was for her elegant performances, which inspired generations to come. The film includes rare footage of Tallchief dancing as well as speaking with former San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Evelyn Cisneros. They should have plenty to talk about: Tallchief went from living on an Oklahoma reservation to joining the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to becoming NYCB’s first prima ballerina, as well as one of choreographer George Balanchine’s many wives. HEATHER WISNER.
GO: Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. Various times July 18-23. The Maria Tallchief film screens 8 pm Thursday, July 21. Free. Info and schedule at obt.org. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
41
July 13-19
circles as “the one where Spock has a beard.” Woodlawn Park, Northeast 13th Avenue and Dekum Street, trekinthepark.com. 5 pm Saturdays-Sundays through July 31. Free.
complements Hurst’s own. For this release concert, he’s joined by pianist Vince Frates. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7:30 pm Thursday, July 14. $12.
The Unseen
Chamber Music Northwest, BodyVox
The Quick and Dirty Art Project presents a recent work by Craig Wright, whose plays Recent Tragic Events, The Pavilion, Grace and The Gray Sisters have been produced in Portland to wide acclaim by Third Rail Rep. In this one, called “an exercise in dramatic tedium” by The Village Voice, two prisoners in solitary confinement converse through a wall and are periodically tortured by a guard named Smash. The Voice was probably being overly negative. Jennifer Rowe directs Christopher David Murray, Matthew Dieckman and Matt Pavik. There will be free beer. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 205-0715. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday, July 14-16. $10.
Urban Tellers
Lawrence Howard and Lynne Duddy coached a group of Portlanders in solo performance and self-discovery. Those six will share their stories at this event. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 793-5484. 8 pm Saturday, July 15. $10.
comedy Bob Sterry’s Atomic Summer Show
Portland singer and humorist Bob Sterry performs a cabaret of comedic songs by Randy Newman, Tom Lehrer and Jacques Brel, interspersed with poetry readings. Sherman Clay/Moe’s Pianos, 131 NW 13th Ave. 2:30 pm Sunday, July 17. $15.
Cheap Date
Sean Jordan hosts a really good lineup of local comics: Ron Funches, Anthony Lopez, Ian Karmel and Shane Torres. There will be free doughnuts. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Thursday, July 14. $6.
Fly-Ass Jokes
Ian Karmel and Tom Johnson headline a weekly showcase of West Coast talent. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8:30 pm Fridays through Aug. 5. $8.
Mice-tro
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.STACY BROWNHILL. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 8 pm Saturdays through July 29. $8-$12.
USS Improvise: The Musical
The Unscriptables improvise “lost” musical episodes of Star Trek, with costumes, sound effects and dance numbers. The Unscriptables Studio, 1121 N Loring St., theunscriptables.com. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, July 15-16. All shows are pay what you will.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
Whitney Streed hosts a weekly sketch and stand-up comedy night. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 2380543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. $3-$5. 21+.
CLASSICAL Adam Hurst
You’ve probably heard the solo cello virtuoso at the farmers market, the airport and other public venues, unveiling his haunting, Middle Easterninfluenced original sounds. Hurst continues to broaden his horizons, with last year’s piano and cello release and now his ninth CD, The Secret, which pairs his cello with an “array mbira”— a four-octave chromatic thumb piano whose shimmering, dreamy sound
42
ken aaron
Performance
Several of CMNW’s young Protégé artists (Amphion Quartet, Wanmu Percussion Trio and others) join the dance ensemble in the first collaboration between the two groups. Along with playing works by Marin Marais, Bartok, Ravel, Sibelius and Debussy, the musicians will also perform live to short segments of BodyVox’s film Modern Daydreams. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7 pm Wednesday, July 13. $25.
Chamber Music Northwest: Amphion Quartet
In this Chamber Music Northwest concert, the sparkling young foursome that has brought so much effervescence and expertise to its earlier performances this summer will have the chance to impress a whole new audience. Lan Su Chinese Garden, Northwest 3rd Avenue and Everett Street, 228-8131. 3 pm Sunday, July 17. $23-$26.
Chamber Music Northwest: Bach and Babbit
Some of New York’s top classical musicians, including the fab pianist Shai Wosner, continue their annual summer Portland sojourn. This week they’ll play music by J.S. Bach, modernist American composer Milton “Who Cares if You Listen?” Babbitt, who died earlier this year; one of the promising Czech composer Pavel Haas’s string quartets (he died at Auschwitz); and the glittering Divertimento Igor Stravinsky derived from his 1927 ballet and Tchaikovsky tribute, The Fairy’s Kiss. 8 pm Thursday, July 14, at Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 7 pm Friday, July 15, at Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 2946400, cmnw.org. $15-$35.
Chamber Music Northwest: Romantic Odyssey
Monday’s and Tuesday’s concerts feature chamber music by composers most acclaimed for their other music. The big news is the Northwest premiere of the 2009 horn quintet by Gunther Schuller, best known for his long career investigating the imaginary border (remember “Third Stream”?) between jazz and classical music, stretching back to his appearance in Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans’ legendary 1949-50 Birth of the Cool nonet. The concert also includes a contemplative late violin and piano sonata by Franz Liszt (best known for his solo piano pyrotechincs), the short Piano Quartet movement by the young Gustav Mahler (better known for his later mega-symphonies) and Dvorak’s great Piano Quintet in A. 8 pm Monday, July 18, at Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.; 8 pm Tuesday, July 19, at Catlin Gabel School, 8825 SW Barnes Road, 294-6400, cmnw.org. $15-$35.
East-West Virtuosi
A violist and pianist from Southern Oregon (Kimberly Fitch and Martin Majkut) and a violinist and cellist from even farther south (Arkansans Geoffrey Robson and David Gerstein) play music by the 20th-century Greek composer Xenakis, Zoltan Kodaly and two works by Brahms, including the big “Piano Quartet in C minor. “ The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 3 pm Sunday, July 17. $5-$20.
Hekun Wu, Elise Yun
In this brown bag concert, the Salem cellist and pianist play Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. Noon Wednesday, July 13. Free.
Lara Downes, Classical Revolution
The acclaimed California pianist joins the local classical rebels in a set of 13 new variations re-imagining the famous aria from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, created by contemporary
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
my mind is like an open meadow: July 15-16 at the Headwaters. American composers. Vie de Boheme, 1530 SE 7th Ave., 360-1233. 6 pm Friday, July 15. Free. 21+.
Plena Libre, Ricard Lemvo and Makina Loca
The Puerto Rican band draws on the island’s mix of African and Caribbean influences to forge a brassy dance groove that should be ideal for the al fresco environs. The opening L.A.based group also blends African and Afro-Cuban rhythms, so prepare to do some dancing after your picnic dinner. Oregon Zoo, 4001 SW Canyon Road, 800-745-3000 (Ticketmaster). 7 pm Wednesday, July 13. $14.
Portland Piano International
The annual keyboard extravaganza reboots with its most exciting program in years. Thursday night’s recital by Lara Downes introduces the festival’s first-ever American theme, with both rare and familiar Copland, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Samuel Barber’s delightful Excursions, and music by Roy Harris and Florence Price. On Friday afternoon, the dynamic Bay Area new music specialist Sarah Cahill plays 20th century classics by the West Coast maverick composer Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford, and music of the dean of Portland composers, Tomas Svoboda, who’ll join her in one of his four-hand pieces. Her Saturday morning interactive lecture-performance features music Cahill commissioned from American composers on the theme of peace and war, including minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Bernice Johnson Reagon, Meredith Monk and Frederic Rzewski. On Saturday night, the duo Stephanie and Saar play a strong program of Stravinsky, John Adams and George Gershwin. Christopher O’Riley’s Sunday afternoon concert brings public radio’s From the Top host in music by Schumann and legendary late Portland songwriter Elliott Smith. PPI also offers master classes by famed teachers Paul Roberts and Hans Boepple, films, lecture demos and a piano dissection. World Forestry Center, 4033 SW Canyon Road, 228-1388. ThursdaySunday, July 14-17. $29-$36.
Wanmu Percussion Trio, Sooyun Kim
In this Chamber Music Northwest Protégé series concert, the flutist and percussionists perform music by 20thcentury Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu and Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American composer George Crumb. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 2 pm Sunday, July 17. $12-$15.
Wendy Goodwin
Best known for her Celtic fiddling
with Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning, the classically trained jazz violinist also sings jazz standards and plays Grappelli-esque jazzy arrangements of classical works by Fauré, Schubert and others. She’ll be joined by local jazz drummer Ron Steen. Wilfs Restaurant and Bar, Union Station, 800 NW 6th Ave., 223-0070. 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 13. $7.
dance A Month of Sundays
Linda Austin dances her way through a work in progress every Sunday in July, accompanied by a different choreographer each time. Performances are layered with video projection (of the previous Sunday’s performance) and short performances by members who will dance in Austin’s final group project next year. Austin’s conspirators include Lucy Yim (July 17) and Philippe Bronchtein (July 31, plus a reprise of Combo No. 2 with Austin, Jin Camou and Esther LaPointeJensen). Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., 777-1907. 7 pm Sundays July 17, 24, 31. $8-$25.
Arabesque
Locally and nationally known belly dancers perform at Arabesque, a weekly Middle Eastern music and dance party. Members of longtime world-music ensemble Brothers of the Baladi play traditional acoustic Turkish, Persian and Armenian music; dancers are signed up a year in advance and rotate weekly, giving everyone a chance to perform, and offering viewers variety from week to week. The band also plays open dance music for amateur dancers, belly or otherwise. Blue Monk, 3341 SE Belmont Ave, 288-4684. 8 pm Wednesdays. $5. 21+.
BodyVox and Chamber Music Northwest For the first time, BodyVox and Chamber Music Northwest have teamed up for a collaborative, multimedia midsummer show featuring the dance company’s pieces SOS, Foreign Tales, and Serien, set to live chamber music by Bartók, Ravel, Debussy and Sibelius. The BodyVox short films Deere John and Islands in the Sky also will be performed to live accompaniment, and in a slightly more unorthodox maneuver, CMNW flutist Sooyun Kim will dance and play Marin Marais’ La Folia Variations. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7 pm Wednesday, July 13. $25.
Imago Theatre Auditions
Imago Theatre is auditioning physical-theater types for its internationally touring production ZooZoo, an animal-themed work featuring acro-
batics, mime, mask work and dance. Prospective players must be U.S. citizens aged 18 to 39; they should wear athletic or dance wear and bring a photo, résumé or short summation of performance experience (no prepared audition material is required). Show compensation is $475 per week, plus per diem and all travel expenses. Contact Jerry at jerry@imagotheatre.com prior to audition. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 6 pm Wednesday, July 13. Free. 18+.
The 1 Festival
Watch and learn (though not necessarily at the same time) at the 1 Festival, an inaugural performance series featuring solo performers from the dance and theater worlds. There will be 22 shows performed by 27 artists in 10 days, along with a series of workshops. Some of the performers are local contemporary artists like Tahni Holt, Katherine Longstreth, Tere Mathern, Linda K. Johnson and Linda Austin, butoh specialist Mizu Desierto and visiting butoh artists Vangeline (New York) and Sheri Brown (Seattle). The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9. Various times July 7-17. $10-$15 for individual shows, $75 for festival passes.
The Rosehip Revue
Portland hasn’t yet lost its taste for old-fashioned titillation, which is good news for the Rosehip Revue burlesque show. Held the third Friday of every month, the revue features a rotating cast of bumping-and-grinding regulars, including Angelique DeVil, Russell “Russanova” Bruner and Burlesquire. Each month’s show also features a special guest, just to heighten the anticipation. Barracuda, 9 NW 2nd Ave., 228-6900. Event takes place the third Friday of each month. 9 pm. $13-$15.
Teeth Intensive at Conduit
Learn a whole new movement vocabulary from choreographer Angelle Hebert, one of the brains behind Portland’s fascinating (and increasingly lauded) contemporary performance group Teeth. The Conduit workshop, which runs Thursday through Saturday, with a special performance-in-progress on Sunday, is also a sort of sneak preview. The intensive will pluck all its choreography from Teeth’s newly commissioned show for White Bird, which doesn’t premiere until January 2012. Conduit, 918 SW Yamhill Ave., Suite 401, 221-5857. Workshop 2-5 pm Thursday-Saturday, performance 7 pm Sunday July 14-17. $130. Find more Summer Dance Intensive classes and register at conduit-pdx.org/SI.html.
For more Performance listings, visit
VISUAL ARTS
JULY 13-19
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115. Emailed press releases must be backed up by a faxed or printed copy.
NOW SHOWING 85 + sunny
Now that warm weather has finally arrived (gods of the skies, are you listening?), the Art Institute is celebrating summertime with the group exhibition 85 + sunny. Theming an art show around a season runs the danger of veering into tackiness, so it will be interesting to see whether the works in this show cohere in ways beyond seasonal gimmickry. Art Institute of Portland, 1122 NW Davis St., 228-6528. Closes July 31.
Cynthia Mosser, Sara Siestreem
Cynthia Mosser’s gouache-on-paper works are resplendent with luscious textures and elegant teardrop shapes. Her Solarplate prints are drier and less effective, while her oval-shaped paintings depart from the traditional rectilinear format, their contours complementing their paisleylike imagery.
Sara Siestreem deploys graphite scrawls and saturated colors in energetic compositions that depart from her previous, kachinalike work. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 546-5056. Closes July 30.
Greta Pratt
Greta Pratt’s gimmick is to photograph people dressed up in Statue of Liberty costumes. The subjects look awkward and uncomfortable, and so do these clumsily lit, unimaginatively composed portraits. Photography at its highest is a medium that can capture the soul; these prints simply capture an irked expression that says, “I’m wearing a dumb outfit for ‘art.’ Are we done yet?” Blue Sky, 122 NW 8th Ave., 2250210. Closes July 31.
Michael Endo
Drawing his color palette from the pain-management continuum used by hospitals and the color code for international terrorism threat levels, Michael
Endo holed himself up for three marathon days in False Front’s exhibition space and created all seven paintings from scratch in the haunting show Pain Scale. The smaller pieces mimic the surface effects in Andy Warhol’s Oxidation series, while a larger tableau suggests the vaporization of human beings in a nuclear apocalypse, or the ghostly coexistence of past and former selves. False Front, 4518 NE 32nd Ave., 781-4609. Closes July 24.
Plots and Plans and Equine
Alfred Harris’ acrylic paintings are jauntily composed in a way that obliquely evokes the late Stuart Davis. However, the works are embalmed under such a thick and reflective coat of resin, they threaten to blind the viewer. In the back exhibition space, a juried group show titled Equine is themed, as the title would suggest, around horses. This is a cutesy conceit that, coupled with Butters Gallery’s unfortunate show last month of Andrea Maki’s horse photographs, makes you wonder why Portland galleries are so hot to trot over horses. A few works do stand out for their originality, including entries by Rick Bartow, Timothy Scott Dalbow, and Dorian Reisman. But it’s time to say, “Enough!” to animal-themed group shows. I mean, what’s next, koala
bears? Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142, froelickgallery.com. Closes July 16.
Nancy Lorenz
The materials Nancy Lorenz uses— mother-of-pearl, silver leaf, amethyst— have plenty of curb appeal, but in the current show, her compositions seem off. The lines meander without a sense of purpose, equivocating and confused. PDX Contemporary, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes July 30.
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
At its mission—cherry-picking a handful of mostly superlative, mostly thematically unrelated artists from around the region—the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards succeeds as a dynamic and thoroughly compelling show. Chris Antemann’s porcelain sculptures nod to Jeff Koons and Rococo painters such as Fragonard and Boucher, while reversing the Rococo taste for placing scantily clad women in the role of carnal playthings. Antemann, by contrast, casts men in that role, stripping them of all clothing and giving them cute little porcelain erections with gold-plated pubic hair. Among the other artists, Megan Murphy contributes gauzy waterscapes with a silvery, pearlescent
finish, while Jerry Iverson’s sumi ink works evoke tree branches and Susie Lee’s HD videos add a poignant contemporary spin on characters drawn from ancient Greek mythology and the paintings of Francisco Goya. Spatially and conceptually, this is an engaging and dynamic show. In short: Bravo, and more, please. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-2811. Closes Sept. 11.
Matthew Picton
Matthew Picton continues his inquiry into the relationship between text and cartography in a suite of impossibly precise cut-paper wall sculptures. Each piece employs a conceptual kernel: Portland uses smoked paper to evoke the erupting volcano in Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven; Dublin’s three colors stand in for characters in James Joyce’s Ulysses; and Lower Manhattan’s smoked and burned newspaper recalls the devastation of 9/11. Rarely does a conceptual artist finesse materiality with Picton’s caliber of obsession and intellectual rigor. Pulliam, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665. Closes July 30.
For more Visual Arts listings, visit
REVIEW
BRAD CARLILE/RIO WRENN Confronting the myth of the great American road.
This month, two local artists wrestle with divergent but equally mythic conceptions of the great American road. In Tempus Incognitus, photographer Brad Carlile’s striking exhibition at Eva Lake’s new popup, the Independent, the artist conjures a psychedelic nightmare of corporate hotels across the country. Carlile takes photos inside hotel rooms using slide film in multiple exposures that last from a scant 1/500 of a second to a languid 96 seconds. He keeps his camera on a tripod and exposes film throughout the day, which yields fantastical effects, superimposing wildly varying lighting conditions onto the same frame. As the hues overlap, they produce acidic lime greens and chartreuses, fuchsias and ruby reds in wholly unnatural combinations as light emanates from lamps and television screens and bounces off mirrors and windows. Except for the occasional rumpled sheet, there is no trace of human life in any of the prints, lending a dissonance between compositional starkness and chromatic oversaturation. The hotels themselves are neither skanky nor swanky; they are the kind of middlebrow pabulum palaces that corporate drones deposit themselves in night after night. They are not going to win any awards for design or decor, but they are conveniently located near the airport and the convention center. Carlile is able to intuit and convey the vulgar neon desperation underneath the banal veneer of contemporary business travel. Where are you, America, and who are you—
RAN BY BRAD CARLILE
the Marriott or the Mustang Ranch? The only difference, Carlile suggests, is in the length of your exposure. At Guardino, Rio Wrenn takes us down another American road, this one leading to idylls of Dust Bowl nostalgia. Walk into the gallery and you almost hear Woody Guthrie singing on the radio of an old, rusted Chevy along Route 66. In fact, rust has always played a part in Wrenn’s artwork, and the current show features work made with old Chevy parts, which she allows to rust over long periods of time, until their outlines imprint themselves, Shroud of Turin-like, onto bolts of silk. The exhibition’s most startling work, suspended by multiple fishing wires to mimic the
VIGNETTE: LACE GASKET BY RIO WRENN
contours of an antique car, creates the optical illusion of a three-dimensional automobile made out of fabric. In other pieces, such as her Vignette series, she suspends rusted auto parts and black lace in encaustic medium, the lace further evoking the Main Street U.S.A. aesthetic that fascinates her: the doily domain of saloons, soda fountains and barbershop quartets. It is an America that belongs more to the realm of fantasy than of history. RICHARD SPEER. GO: Brad Carlile at the Independent, 530 NW 12th Ave. Closes Aug. 7. Rio Wrenn at Guardino, 2939 NE Alberta St., 281-9048. Closes July 26.
Willamette Week is a gem of a paper and is the perfect forum for advertising our gem & mineral store! We've been advertising in Willamette Week for over 20 years. WW provides exposure to our target demographic, reminds locals we’re still here, and brings in new customers. We also love supporting a paper that focuses on the arts and true investigative reporting.
10 years ago, our loved ones went to war. So did we. 7:30PM Friday, August 5th
We will rock you!
Pioneer Place • Concourse Level 340 SW Morrison • (503) 228-6998 • www.fossilcartel.com JEWELRY • CRYSTALS • CARVINGS • METEORITES • FOSSILS
The Old Church 1422 SW 11th Ave.
Tickets: $5 – $25 at showtix4u.com or door The Sanctuary for Veterans and Families, 501c3
This program was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH's grant program. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
43
JUL
13
SCOOP
BOOKS
JULY 13-19
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By NATASHA GEILING. 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.
THURSDAY, JULY 14
J. A. PITTS / Honeyed Words (Tor) Fairies and dwarves and giants abound in J. A. Pittsís new novel.
Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic
Tommy Gaffney, author of two collections of poetry and prose, and a 2010 nominee for the Oregon Book Award for poetry, will read selections of his work. Cover to Cover Books, 6300 NE St. James Road, Vancouver, 360-514-0358. 7 pm. Free.
WED / 13TH / 7P CEDAR HILLS
ALEXANDER YATES / Moondogs (Doubleday)
Novel that pivots around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines.
Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees
WED / 13TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
Join local authors and Will Eisner Comic Industry Award nominees Barry Deutsch, Greg Rucka and Shannon Wheeler, along with fellow nominee and ComicsAlliance producer Laura Hudson, for a reading to celebrate the humor and art of the comic. Powell's on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
COLLEEN HOUCK / Tiger’s Quest
(Splinter)
Houckís follow-up to her best- selling debut, Tigerís Curse. THU / 14TH / 7P CEDAR HILLS
2011 WILL EISNER COMIC INDUSTRY AWARD NOMINEES Join four nominees for the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards to talk about Portland's comics community.
SUNDAY, JULY 17 Monster Party
When short stories about aliens, boys, drinking and violence come together, the result is a rager worthy of monsters and humans alike. Check out Lizzy Acker's debut novel, Monster Party, at the launch party. Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak St., 274-1449. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, JULY 15 Scott McClanahan, Patrick deWitt
Venture to Ampersand's back patio for an outdoor adventure with West Virginia native Scott McClanahan, author of numerous short-story collections. He'll be joined by Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers and the scribe behind the heartbreaking new movie Terri (see review, page 45), as well as Jenny Forrester, creator of the zine Guns God & Irony. Bonus: Free
THU / 14TH / 7:30P HAWTHORNE
Q&A
JOSH RITTER / Bright’s Passage
BILL PLYMPTON INDEPENDENTLY ANIMATED
(Dial)
Deeply affecting debut set in aftermath of the First World War. THU / 14TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
JAN CHOZEN BAYS / How to Train a Wild Elephant (Shambhala) A series of simple practices to help cultivate mindfulness. MON / 18TH / 7:30P HAWTHORNE
BILL PLYMPTON / Independently Animated (Universe) Presents the life and art of the ì King of Indie Animation.î MON / 18TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE / A Stranger Like You (Plume) A taut thriller about the lengths to which people will go to make their dreams come true. TUE / 19TH / 7P CEDAR HILLS
SAPPHIRE / The Kid (Penguin Press), Sapphire gives voice to Preciousís son Abdul. TUE / 19TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
TIMOTHY ZAHN / Star Wars: Choices of One (Lucas Books) A new Star Wars novel of adventure, action, and intrigue. WED / 20TH / 7P CEDAR HILLS
AUDREY BRAUN / A Small Fortune Begins when Celia, an American vacationing in Mexico, is abducted off the street. WED / 20TH / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
WILLIAM DIETRICH / Blood of the Reich (Harper) Four American adventurers in a race to stop the Nazis from acquiring an awesome power. THU / 21ST / 7P CEDAR HILLS
ALICE LaPLANTE / Turn of Mind (Atlantic Monthly) Takes readers into the mind of an Alzheimerís patient who may or may not be a murderer. THU / 21ST / 7:30P DOWNTOWN
WRITE AROUND PORTLAND 10-WEEK WORKSHOP Generative workshop to inspire the writing life. To register or for more information visit www.writearound.org. SUN / 24TH / 10A DOWNTOWN
Visit POWELLS.COM/CALENDAR for further details and to sign up for our EVENTS NEWSLETTER. 44
GOSSIP SHOULD HAVE
NO FRIENDS
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
PAGE 22
Ninkasi beer on the back patio for the 21-and-over crowd. Ampersand Vintage, 2916 NE Alberta St., 8055458. 7:30 pm. Free. All ages.
EphSpec Reading
Winners of the EphSpec literary contest read their submissions as local sci-fi and fantasy authors gather for an evening of and thought-provoking creations. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St. 5 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JULY 19 The Kid
The follow-up to her best-selling novel Push, Sapphire's newest work, The Kid, traces the life of Abdul Jones, son of Push's heroine, Precious, through the issues of race, identity and art. Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
For more Books listings, visit
In Portland-born animator Bill Plympton’s films, learn things from bad films. You learn what not to faces might turn themselves inside out, explode, do, what mistakes to avoid. You can laugh at them. or puddle into primordial goo; they come back blandly whole, the very soul of bureaucracy. But In your book you talk about crashing a party however grotesque they become, Plympton’s full of Pixar animators, and that [they] were animations and drawings are always also drolly jealous of the independence you have in charismatic, dryly hilarious: One is willing to making your films. Do you ever get jealous of accept anything from them. Like many of the the resources they have? best animators, he subjects the world to a new, They were Disney animators, and absolutely. I’m strange, entirely idiovery jealous of the money they syncratic logic. get, first of all, the distribution This idiosyncrasy that they got on their films, and independence and the fame that they get. So forms much of the subcertainly it goes both ways. If ject matter of his new, the money is right, I would do lusciously illustrated it. If they offered me a couple book, Independently million dollars. Animated: The Life and Art of the King of Indie You’ve said you felt a perAnimation (Universe, sonal connection to early 264 pages, $39.95), from animator Winsor McCay? his perhaps-mythical I’m working on a project now beginnings as a baby with Winsor McCay, although doodling in his own crib, he died 80 years ago. I’m revivto art classes at PSU and ing a film of his called The in New York, to the vari- The animator turns himself inside out. Flying House, which was the ous byways, frustrations last animated film he made. and joys of flying largely without a net. Plympton I was amazed at how beautiful the drawing was, famously hand-draws all his animations and the characters, and the story, and I thought how works with only a small, dedicated team, while tragic that nobody has seen this film. It’s blackdoing sidebar, often inspired commercial work and-white, very scratched and deteriorating, to pay the bills. In animation terms, he’s John with intertitles and word balloons to slow it Cassavetes. What’s not to like about that? MAT- down, and there’s no sound or music because it THEW KORFHAGE. was made in 1921. I took it upon myself out of my pocket to remedy all of these. We’re still not WW: Why write a book? finished; we have a Kickstarter campaign where Bill Plympton: I was at the San Diego Comic- people can donate money: the Winsor McCay Con, and my buddy [legendary animator] Resurrection Project. Ralph Bakshi was there. We went out drinking and crashed the Warner Bros. party, which we Other upcoming projects? weren’t supposed to do; they had very good I’m working on a feature—it’s about halfway security, in suits. He asked if I’d ever done an art done. It’s called “Cheatin’,” as in “Your Cheatin’ book, and he said, “Let’s do one.” Heart.” I also just finished a music video by Weird Al called “TMZ.” I did one three years ago It’s an oddity in being both a coffee-table art called “Don’t Download This Song,” and Weird book and a personal autobiography. Al liked it so much he asked me to do another. It’s also instructional; it’s great for young filmmakers who want to learn how to make films GO: Bill Plympton reads and speaks at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. independently. I talk about my favorite filmmak- 7:30 pm Monday, July 18. Free. ers, my favorite artists, films that I hate.... You do
JULY 13-19 REVIEW
= WW Pick. Highly recommended.
ATO P I C T U R E S
MOVIES
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.
Arcade-O-Vision: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NEW
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, LIVE VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACK] Ground Kontrol and Filmusik join forces to present the TMNT arcade game with a live soundtrack composed and played by two local ensembles. After a screening of the Turtles' 1990 movie, Electric Opera Company will perform levels 1-4, and Cosmic Fluke will perform levels 4-6. Tubular. PG. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Thursday, July 14.
Bad Teacher
32 It should have been a riot: Potsmoking, binge-drinking, cleavagebaring Cameron Diaz corrupting junior-high kids and getting down and dirty in the teacher’s lounge sounds like a decadent blast. Trouble is, Bad Teacher is neither dirty enough to make the shtick work as an exercise in shock vulgarity, nor rich enough in character to make its small moments of sentimentality seem anything but forced. Rent Bad Santa. If you really need another Cameron Diaz semen joke, just pop in a copy of There’s Something About Mary and save yourself the trouble of watching her make Timberlake splooge in his pants during a dry humping session. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Lloyd Center, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Beginners
56 For all the big topics director Mike Mills addresses in this little dramedy— death and grief, repressed homosexuality, the idea that life starts whenever we're ready for it—the thing most people will leave thinking is, “Boy, that dog sure was cute.” They're not wrong. Arthur, a clingy Jack Russell terrier Ewan McGregor inherits after his father (Christopher Plummer) passes away, is the fourth most important character in Beginners, the second most interesting and definitely the most adorable. It's probably not what Mills would want audiences to take away from the film, but then, he shouldn't have had the dog “speak” to McGregor in subtitled pearls of wisdom. That kind of irksome preciousness, of which there are many other examples, undermines the genuinely moving story—apparently semi-autobiographical for Mills— of a thirty-something graphic designer coming to terms with the fact that his dad has come out of the closet at age 75. Plummer and McGregor salvage some true heart from underneath the piles of quirk, but as the timeline skips around McGregor ends up spending half the movie stuck in a tepid romance with a sexy mound of tousled hair named Anna (Melanie Laurent of Inglorious Basterds). Mills would’ve been better off cutting the girl and focusing solely on the father-son relationship. Keep Arthur, though. Boy, is he cute. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
NEW Best of the 2010 Ottawa International Animation Festival
[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Thirteen prizewinning international cartoons, big in Canada. NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm WednesdayThursday, July 13-14. NEW
A Better Life
49 You have the right to regard a
movie about the plight of immigrants made by the director of American Pie and New Moon with a bit of skepticism. To his credit, Chris Weitz—a pale-faced New Yorker with Mexican ancestry whose shining credit is his heartfelt adaptation of Nick Hornby’s About a Boy—labored to get the details correct: He shot A Better Life on location in the more impoverished corners of Los Angeles, allegedly altering the Spanglish dialogue to fit the slang of individual neighborhoods. Unfortunately, that attention to specificity goes to waste on a film undercut by tear-jerking sentimentality.
Demián Bichir (Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh’s Che) is an undocumented gardener struggling to provide— sigh—a better life for his impressionable teenage son before gangs and cynicism can get to him. Halfway through, it becomes a MexicanAmerican update of The Bicycle Thief, as the pair scour the city in search of a stolen truck referred to earlier as the embodiment of “the American Dream.” Weitz’s neo-realist ambitions extend to casting actual day laborers and gang members, but the authenticity non-actors can provide disappears when placed against an emotion-cuing Hollywood score and the painful earnestness of the script. Then, they just become people who can’t act, and the film’s good intentions come off feeling strained. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
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. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Tigard.
Buck
78 “God had him in mind when He
made a cowboy,” a friend says of Dan “Buck” Brannaman, the country’s foremost “horse whisperer.” Maybe so, but when Hollywood made up its version of a cowboy, it certainly didn’t have a guy like Brannaman in mind. Exuding Zenlike calm rather than macho stoicism and speaking in a twangy monotone, Brannaman doesn’t make an obvious subject for a compelling documentary, but director Cindy Meehl achieves one anyway. She avoids mythicizing Brannaman’s gift, instead probing the deep childhood pain he transformed into powerful interspecies empathy. Abused by his father, he found solace in horsemanship, eventually coming to describe himself as a kind of therapist who assists “horses with people problems.” There’s a glint of lingering torture behind his eyes, suggesting the reason he stays on the road, away from his family, hosting clinics nine months out of the year is that he’s still using horses to work out his own people problems. Subtly underlining that current of anguish, Meehl elevates Buck above the cute, Disneyfied profile it might have been in someone else’s hands. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Cinema 21, Eastport.
Cars 2
65 It's not every day a kids' movie combines elements of Machete and Inception. Unlikely as it may seem, though, Cars 2 does exactly that. OK, so there's no intestinal rapelling— but remember that part of Machete where the lowriders all jump up and down pre-battle? That happens. And the set designs are nearly as gorgeous and intensely detailed as Chris Nolan's magical Paris upside-down cake. Then again, Cars 2 isn't exactly a kids' movie. Like most of Pixar's work, it's clearly written by and for grownups; kids might like the talking cars and the (many) potty jokes, but it's hard to imagine them keeping up with the plot. And you sort of have to hope that the moral of the story, such as it
CONT. on page 46
Photocaption: tktktk
XXL-HEARTED BOY TERRI FINDS DIGNITY IN SHAME. BY AA RON ME S H amesh@wweek.com
Superficially, opening Terri on the same weekend as the final Harry Potter movie seems like adding insult to insult, since the life of this new parentdeprived teenage boy is resolutely devoid of magic. Terri Thompson (Jacob Wysocki) lives with an uncle succumbing to dementia, he is unmistakably fat, and he’s so bullied and embarrassed about his weight that he has begun attending school in his pajamas, as if throwing himself the only slumber party he’d get invited to. Yet there are ways in which Terri very strongly suggests a fairy tale of
Fitzgerald knows. He gives Terri a malted milk ball. So, yes, Terri is a therapy movie. But it is also a radical inversion of the John Hughes formula—in which all the outcasts are secretly conformistsin-waiting—and a proof that elegant ’70s exploration of outsider lives can flourish in contemporary small-budget cinema, complete with golden cinematography and silvery score. But without the macho posturing: Jacobs and deWitt’s work is in the Bob Rafelson tradition, minus a swaggering Jack Nicholson. Instead, there is a performance of fearless tenderness from Wysocki; behind a wary shield, his eyes and smile betray a capacity, along with gratitude for any kindness. Reilly matches him by finally dropping his recent pose as an Emmett
ELEGANT ’70S EXPLORATION OF OUTSIDER LIVES CAN FLOURISH IN CONTEMPORARY SMALL-BUDGET CINEMA. a perverse kind. The hero, in a heartbreakingly pitiless self-appraisal, calls himself a “monster.” His homework is reading Gulliver’s Travels, and the parallel he sees in the story of a trussed giant is clear. He walks to homeroom each morning through a sun-dappled forest, whoops ecstatic at the sight of a bird, and stops each morning at the chain-link fence bordering school grounds, like a hexed creature preparing to be prodded and tormented by villagers. Maybe you recognize the feeling: the uniquely hollow knowledge that you’re constitutionally incapable of facing social interactions most people breeze through without a second thought. Nothing cures that, but Terri offers a balm, by knowing its characters’ weaknesses as well as they do themselves, but treating them far more generously. Director Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man) and writer Patrick deWitt—yes, the Portland novelist Patrick deWitt, the one who hung out at Liberty Glass and just published The Sisters Brothers—have pinpointed how the very admission of your weaknesses feels shameful, a body blow to your pride. In the movie’s most exquisitely biting sequence, Terri realizes that his weekly counseling sessions place him in the school’s lowest caste—a montage of misshapen frames and untouchable personalities. “I guess I just wish I didn’t need help, you know?” says Terri to his principal, Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly). Mr.
Kelly clown without greasepaint, and returning to his roots as an actor who can make ordinariness seem magnetic. Their conversations are wondrous little exchanges of truth—as is the movie’s queasy set piece, a whiskey-and-pill-fueled truth-or-dare contest between Terri and two equally shunned classmates, one of whom (Olivia Crocicchia) is terribly pretty. The game escalates to an ultimate truth: There are worse things than being rejected and lonely. Acceptance is not a virtue displayed to its best advantage in the movies, which exist, after all, as a fantasy factory. In a decade of reviewing, I can recall only one scene that conveyed a mood of letting go—the penultimate shot of Paul Giamatti in Sideways, opening his treasured bottle of pinot noir at a fast-food table. Terri’s final sequence is an equal, and also features burgers: After Terri’s traumatic experiment, he and Mr. Fitzgerald break into school grounds on a Saturday, grill up lunch, and have one more discussion—a chat all the more consoling because it attempts no answers. Math tests have answers. Life has pain, and walks in the woods, and sometimes burgers. Terri suggests that—to coin a phrase—it doesn’t get better, at least not right away, and maybe you can find peace within the way it is. 88
SEE IT: Terri is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower. Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
45
ircle one:)
MOVIES
“A great spin on the gunfighter movie.”
JULY 13-19
-Jim Slotek, JAM! SHOWBIZ
PAUL GROSS
SIENNA GUILLORY
Fastest draw in the north... kinda.
MR. NICE
STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 15
willamette week’s
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland (503) 281-4215
WWEEKDOTCOM FINDER WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM
2o1o - 2o11 : GET YOURS AUGUST 8TH
1.85" X 4" WED 7/13 PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK
Staci
Freelance 2
Steve
Freelance 3
AE: (circle one:) Angela Maria Josh Tim
McCool
Deadline:
ART APPROVED AE APPROVED CLIENT APPROVED
is, will fly right over their heads. Valuable lessons are learned, including that true friends indulge each other's bad behavior always, and that there's no such thing as an environmentally friendly alternative fuel: Try it and you will probably explode. G. BECKY OHLSEN. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Oak Grove, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
70 Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, a
behind-the-scenes look at the live tour he embarked on while contractually blocked from appearing on TV, doesn’t present O’Brien as anything other than a funny and creative person with a compulsive drive to entertain. His backstage banter with sidekick Andy Richter and faux-bullying of his crew (along with a few jabs at NBC and Jay Leno) is funny enough to earn the film a recommendation, and perhaps the point of it wasn’t to be enlightening, but then, what is the point of making what’s essentially a 90-minute DVD bonus feature? MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood Theatre.
The Double Hour
76 Freshman Italian director
Giuseppe Capotondi builds his haunting debut, The Double Hour, around a twist that allows him to tell the story of a horrendous crime through the perspectives of the two people affected by it. But not content just to let the twist—which actually comes about halfway through the film—do the talking, Capotondi lets his narrative play out as a human story, and his film benefits from the extra care. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
The First Beautiful Thing
73 The First Beautiful Thing has
all the trappings of a sappy melodrama: mother in hospice, junkie son, estranged father, reunions, revitalization and self-actualization. Touching, elegant and witty, it’s a thing of beauty itself, making it easy to forgive its overindulgence in the requisite corn. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.
Green Lantern
29 What’s that line from Macbeth? Something about a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and computer-generated landscapes and Blake Lively in form-fitting business suits and Ryan Reynolds’ abs, signifying nothing? It’s almost as if Shakespeare knew this vacuous Green Lantern adaptation was coming down the pike. Calling director Martin Campbell an idiot is a bit harsh—he gets an extended pass for making Casino Royale— but his preoccupation with bright colors and loud noises and barely comprehensible action sucks this first big-screen appearance for the long-standing DC Comics superhero into a black hole of meaninglessness. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Forest, Hilltop, Wilsonville.
46
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
NEW
Gunless
Paul Gross plays gunfighter the Montana Kid, who moves to a Canadian town too nice for him. Not screened for critics. Hollywood Theatre.
Horrible Bosses
76 An occasionally sublime dollop
of silliness, Horrible Bosses plays like Adam McKay's The Other Guys without the sincere workingman's rage or the full courage of its absurdist instincts. It doesn't need those higher qualities; it relies entirely on the chemistry of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, the motormouth from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia who looks and sounds like what would happen if Bradley Cooper and Casey Affleck had a baby, and that baby, like Stuart Little, turned out to be a mouse. This is a labored analogy, I admit, but it's in keeping with the movie's delight in extended digression. (The single best scene is Jamie Foxx as a parolee explaining, in grave detail, how he received the street name Motherfucker Jones.) Yes, there's a plot about our three pals conspiring to kill their loathsome superiors (Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey, still swimming with sharks after all these years). But you don't care about the plot. The plot doesn't care about the plot. The story is nothing but an alibi for hanging out with three very funny people and their foils. Horrible Bosses contains a kernel of advice for whoever makes The Hangover Part III: Cast dudes we want to get in trouble with. R. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinetopia, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy. NEW
Idiots and Angels
87 [ONE WEEK ONLY, DIRECTOR
ATTENDING] Legendary scribble animator Bill Plympton’s hand-drawn Idiots and Angels couldn’t be further from Portland golden child Coraline in presentation, though they both had coming-out parties at the 2009 Portland International Film Festival. Plympton’s often-grotesque images morph together almost crudely as a soundtrack rife with songs by Tom Waits and local group 3 Leg Torso take the place of dialogue. But its narrative conventions aren’t far from those of Coraline author Neil Gaiman, or fellow fantasy smartasses Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett. The film concerns a low-life barfly who sprouts wings that make him do good deeds, much to his chagrin. The sleazeballs around him see dollar signs and plot to steal the wings for their own benefit. Fantasy blends with noir, action, comedy and dark thrills to create a chilly cocktail Kafka and Aesop could enjoy together, and the art is a wonder of eye-popping ingenuity. It may not have cost $70 million, but Plympton remains in a class all his own. AP KRYZA. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Friday-
JULY 13-19
NEW
The Killer
74 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY,
REVIVAL] Hong Kong director John Woo’s kinetic action sequences have far too often been described as balletic, when what they resemble more than anything is a Rube Goldberg machine—albeit one made of tender meat and bullets. Each shot, chop or spin seems to follow fluidly, inevitably from the previous; of course a firing gun would cause a table to rise in its path, just as every man springing up against a window inspires a behind-theback bullet and a thin spray of red. His 1989 classic, The Killer, revolves, of course, around a killer—a young Chow-Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)—who accidentally blinds a pretty nightclub singer while shooting a bunch of other people to little tiny pieces. Bound by duty and remorse, he becomes her caretaker, which muddies his previously pristine life with betrayal, vulnerability to law enforcement, etc., etc., in a tragic spiral that is likewise inevitable and Rube Goldbergian. While most later Woo is high-fructose, murderous candy (see HardBoiled, Face/Off, etc.), here the exhilarating pyrotechnics alternate with pained silent paeans to honor and slow-motion sentimentality that amount to a wonderfully unlikely— and surprisingly engaging—misreading of Jean-Pierre Melville’s long career of French noir crime fables, in particular Le Samourai. Filmic quotations abound, from Scorsese to Kurosawa to the aforementioned Melville, so it’s small wonder that Tarantino sees fit to quote Woo so often: It saves a lot of time. In any case, Woo will start production on a 3-D remake of The Killer later this year, which should arrive just in time for the inevitable technological backlash. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 5th Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9 pm Friday-Saturday, July 15-16. 3 pm Sunday, July 17.
Larry Crowne
24 Take the NBC series Community, remove its braces of irony so it spills and wobbles onto the screen like a Tom Hanks-shaped Jell-O, and you have Larry Crowne. It announces itself from the opening scene as a gnaw-through-your-own-leg-toescape variety of sunny torture; I spent almost all 99 minutes wishing I had to pee. After being callously fired from his beloved big-box job, Hanks' Larry enrolls in junior college—an apt setting, since the movie feels like it was written by a juco student, maybe one studying English as a second language. It is possible that every character in the movie is falling-down drunk; that's the best hypothesis I can offer. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
NEW
The Last Mountain
64 Documentary filmmaker Bill
Haney knows his way around a hot button: He opens The Last Mountain with the grandiose (and unintentionally comedic) image of an eagle soaring over luscious green space— and into the industrial sprawl of a coal factory. Put to the soundtrack of Robert Kennedy Jr.’s strained voice, The Last Mountain weaves staggering environmental statistics with the stories of everyday people working together to stop a giant corporation from destroying their community’s environment and economy. The film is centered on Coal River Mountain, which Haney bills as the last great chunk of the Appalachians that hasn’t yet been blasted to ashes. Through this “last mountain,” Haney exposes the brutal effect of mountaintop removal on the land and the people of Raleigh County, W.V. In one scene, a little girl presents jars of pennies that she has collected to West Virginia’s pro-coal governor, Joe Manchin, and asks him to help her move her elementary school away from a toxic sludge site. In
another, residents of Prenter, W.V., talk about their community’s toxic well water that has been linked to an outbreak of brain tumors. Home videos of deafening mining blasts are interspersed with clips of police officers carrying the limp bodies of handcuffed environmental activists away from peaceful protests. The Last Mountain is a heartbreakingly manipulative account of environmental abuse that stops short only of coal-dust-covered kittens. It might not be a film to chain yourself to, but it has enough momentum to make you understand why some people might. PG. SHAE HEALEY. Fox Tower.
Midnight in Paris
77 Sorry to break it to you, New York, but Woody Allen is cheating on you. He’s had trysts in the past,
but in Midnight in Paris his flirtation with the City of Light blossoms into a full-blown affair. If it’s any consolation, Paris isn’t about Paris in the way Allen’s classic New York films were about the experience of actually being in New York. It’s more about the idea of Paris, and really the idea of any time and place that aren’t our own. Calling Paris a true return to form for Allen after the past decade’s mixed bag is an exaggeration. It’s more of a charming trifle. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Lake Twin, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
Monte Carlo
35 All you preteen ladies—should any be reading this—take note:
CONT. on page 48
REVIEW WA R N E R B R O S . P I C T U R E S
Thursday, July 15-21. Bill Plympton will answer questions at screenings Friday-Saturday, July 15-16.
MOVIES
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE’RE OUT OF BUTTERBEER?: Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes and minions.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Dobby was dead, to begin with. The final movie adaptation of J.K. Rowlings’ wand opera opened on the gravestone of the house elf, a reminder of all the mortal baggage this series is now carrying, and I took it as a caution that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 should be considered less as an individual movie and more like the series finale of a beloved television show. From that perspective, it is a gratifying resolution, even if resolution isn’t really what we want: The best movies in the series were the third through the sixth, which felt most like a semester-long stroll through the Hogwarts campus. No time for that now; the first act of Deathly Hallows 2 is a roller-coaster ride through goblin caves, and everything else is dedicated to an all-out battle that, with its rubble and dusty light, looks like Saving Private Potter. This World War II tone is the finest thing about the film: Director David Yates and his set-design team have created an atmosphere that explicitly recalls London during the Blitz, with young lovers snogging goodbye as the cathedral towers rain down. It is a good stage for good deaths, and everybody shows a lot of grace under pressure, especially Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis), who gets the most noble bits. Everything almost makes sense, and the backstory of the Potter family and Severus Snape gets its deserved heft. (Also, we learn that Voldemort is an incredibly awkward hugger.) With the exception of a coda where makeup causes the protagonists to look less like they’re middle-aged and more like they’ve contracted tuberculosis, it unspools like gangbusters. That is, if you can see it. Deathly Hallows 2 is the first Harry Potter movie shown in 3-D, and the custom-made round glasses (a charming design, admittedly) dim the picture, so that most of the second act’s nighttime action is obscured in murk, like you’re watching it through a pensieve. You’re paying $3.50 more to see roughly $5 less. Go to a 2-D show. You’ve waited long enough; you should be able to watch the end. PG-13. AARON MESH.
A farewell to wands.
80 SEE IT: Deathly Hallows 2 opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, Sandy and St Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
INVITE YOU TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF
Go to www.gofobo.com/rsvp and enter the code WWEEKSKWR for your free pass! THIS FILM IS RATED R. RESTRICTED. Under 17 Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian.
Please note: Run-of-engagement passes are good Monday - Thursday (excluding holidays). Passes received through this promotion do not guarantee you a seat at the theatre. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and theatre is open to paying customers. All federal, state and local regulations apply. A recipient of tickets assumes any and all risks related to use of ticket, and accepts any restrictions required by ticket provider. Screen Gems, Willamette Week and their affiliates accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any loss or accident incurred in connection with use of a prize. Tickets cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. We are not responsible if, for any reason, winner is unable to use his/her ticket in whole or in part. Not responsible for lost, delayed or misdirected entries. All federal and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Participating sponsors, their employees and family members and their agencies are not eligible. NO PHONE CALLS!
GET SOME JULY 22ND! www.fwb-movie.com Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com
47
relio
mett
MOVIES “AN EPIC PORTRAIT... POWERFUL and BREATHTAKING.” -Jeff Biggers, THE HUFFINGTON POST
“INFORMATIVE, STIRRING, and most importantly, INSPIRING.” -James Greenberg, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“A MUST-SEE!”
-The Joan Hamburg Show, WOR RADIO
If this Selena Gomez vehicle contains any valuable lessons about self-reliance, they’re overshadowed by dangerously bad examples of how to behave abroad (or on your home soil). Ah, but the seemingly endless series of gaffes and snafus unfolds in a glitzy, chaste world with few legal consequences—a world where running off with mysterious Australian backpackers on Vespas still allows a young woman to maintain her innocence. (Again, ladies: no.) PG. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Clackamas, Cinema 99.
Mr. Nice
NEW OFFICIA L SELEC TION
2011
STARTS FRIDAY JULY 15TH 3.825" X 3.5"
REGAL FOX TOWER STADIUM 10 846 SW Park Ave, Portland (800) FANDANGO
WED 7/13
WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK DUE MON 6PM
Artist: (circle one:) Heather Staci Freelance 2 Jay
Steve
AE: (circle one:) Angela Maria Josh Tim
Philip
Deadline:
DISCOVER THE BEST REVIEWED NEW COMEDY OF THE SUMMER. Betsy Sharkey,
“‘TERRI’
IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LOVE. Nearly everything about this very fine film is surprising. ”
John Anderson,
“A
DISARMING, ORIGINAL COMEDY... JACOB WYSOCKI IS TERRIFIC. JOHN C. REILLY MAY HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE PERFECT ROLE FOR HIS GIFTS.” David Fear,
“EXTRAORDINARY... gently
FUNNY and genuinely TOUCHING.” Leonard Maltin,
“ONE
OF THE MOST STRIKING and SATISFYING indie films of the year.” Anthony Lane,
A BEAUTIFUL MOVIE to look at, with an enchanted sense of place... FEELS LIKE A STATE OF GRACE.”
“
Alonso Duralde,
“ATREASURE.”
MOVIE CITY NEWS
Kim Voynar, MCN
“DON’T
MISS IT.”
JACOB WYSOCKI CREED BRATTON and JOHN C. REILLY
STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 15TH 48 3.825”
REGAL FOX TOWER STADIUM 10 846 SW Park Ave, Portland (800) FANDANGO
Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com XWillamette 7" PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK
74 Halfway through Mr. Nice—at the exact moment when all movies about drug kingpins are required to deliver a comeuppance—Rhys Ifans tries to calm his nerves about a big hashish shipment, dozes off at the wheel of his roadster, and sails off a steep embankment, slamming brutally into a sheep pasture. And he walks away from the wreck, goes dancing in a pub, and helps an IRA member steal a projector to watch dirty flicks. Perhaps because Mr. Nice is about marijuana—legalize it!—the movie feels little of the standard compulsion to scold about the dire consequences of drugs, and is free to have a jolly old time. Before the law eventually does come down (and very hard), that cheerful carelessness extends to every aspect of the film, which starts with scenes of international pot smuggler Howard Marks' Welsh boyhood, with Ifans playing the lead even though he is patently 30 years too old. Director Bernard Rose (Immortal Beloved) tries a few visual flourishes—an acidtripping view of urination stands out—but mostly he stages the story of Marks' many aliases and alliances for leisurely swinging pleasure. As an Irish patriot gamesman, David Thewlis is as scruffy as he's ever been (and he's a werewolf in the Harry Potter movies, recall), while Chloë Sevigny seems intent on upending the crime-picture cliché of the wet-blanket wife, screaming "JUST SAY NO!" in time with Nancy Reagan as she fucks our hero on a futon. Chloë Sevigny is a national treasure. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
and weird and rhythmically intense, doesn't entirely fly. Also there is no storyline or narrative structure at all. But this is a love note, and logic has no place here; what counts is heart, gusto, sincerity, and the willingness to risk exposing same. Passione has all of that, plus dancing girls. BECKY OHLSEN. NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Saturday, 5 pm Sunday and Monday, July 16-18.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
31 Cue a high-speed carriage chase through London, swordfights, flesh-munching mermaids, ’splosions, looting, double crosses, and Johnny Depp swaggering around the screen like an effeminate Hunter S. Thompson with a bad accent. Yet it all rings hollow. New director Rob Marshall can’t make any of it pop, mainly because it’s all so bloody
familiar and tedious. The entire franchise deserves to be buried at sea. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Cinema 99.
Super 8
73 In a season of lazy cash-grab
sequels and more tired comic book adaptations, Super 8 is fun and cool and genuine in the ways summer blockbusters used to be. The way movies used to be is writer-director J.J. Abrams’ entire driving principle behind the project. As you may have already heard, the film is exceptionally “Spielbergian.” By its very conceit, it is nothing you haven’t seen before. You just haven’t seen it recently. But you should still see Super 8. It is imperfect—Abrams occasionally trips over the thin line separating homage and cliché— but it is a movie infused with a love of the movies, and that carries it
REVIEW
ART APPROVED AE APPROVED CLIENT APPROVED
McCool
ation #:
JULY 13-19
WED 7/13
Mr. Popper's Penguins
51 Mr. Popper’s Penguins embraces
the old adage of love conquering all. It conquers animal neglect, lying, conniving, cheating, greed, deadbeat dadding and shrewdness. It can even teach penguins to poop in toilets instead of on people’s faces. But no amount of love can make Mr. Popper’s actually pop beyond its surface-value cash-in on cute and cuddly flightless birds and Jim Carrey’s cartoonish qualities. As far as mindless kids’ popcorn fare goes, it’s better than mediocre, but only by a fin. PG. AP KRYZA. Tigard. NEW Passione: A Musical Adventure
71 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY] It's hard to know what to make of John Turturro's latest project. Neither sober nor linear enough to neatly be labeled a documentary, it's also not quite a travelogue; basically it's John Turturro goofing around. He and several groups of musicians wander haphazardly through the musical traditions of Naples. Interviews with locals are interspersed with scenes of random Neapolitans singing on street corners, archival footage of classic songs performed by the likes of Angela Luce, and odd little dramatization numbers in which the various musicians act out song lyrics. At times it's unbelievably cheesy, but it's so damned energetic and over-the-top and Italian that you won't mind. A scene in which Turturro and company don turbans and dig for oil is nowhere near as good as James Gandolfini and a chorus of garbagemen bemoaning heartbreak in New Jersey (from Turturro's 2005 melodrama Romance & Cigarettes). And a crazy multi-lingual performance of "Pistol Packin' Mama," though hilarious
THE UNDER-THE-NAME-OF-SANDERS SHOW: Silly old bear.
WINNIE THE POOH A bear of very little impact.
Let’s assuage some fears regarding the new Winnie the Pooh movie right up front. No, it isn’t computer animated. It wasn’t shot in 3-D. It doesn’t feature celebrity voice cameos from Seth Rogen or Jim Carrey or Angelina Jolie. At no point does Pooh rap or tell Christopher Robin to “chillax,” and it doesn’t end with the cast singing and dancing to a Beyoncé song. It is very much like the cartoons you remember from childhood: simple, unassuming and twee as all hell. It doesn’t launch fart jokes at you, and it won’t make you weep. In other words, it’s a bit of an anachronism. Then again, that was true of 1977’s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Disney’s original feature-length adaptation. The world the franchise inhabits hasn’t changed since the 1920s, when author A.A. Milne created the characters, and this film—the first since Pooh’s Heffalump Movie in 2005—is no different. It’s so oldfashioned, its narrative device is framed around the reading of an honest-to-goodness, paper-and-ink book. A friggin’ book! Was there a need for a new Pooh movie in 2011? Not really. And that’s probably the worst thing anyone can say about Winnie the Pooh. For a barely hourlong picture aimed at the youngest of moviegoers, it’s fine. It has a nice, plain-spoken moral about putting the needs of others before your own (if one wants to give it a more political interpretation, there’s also a message about not allowing ignorance to invent boogeymen and lead us into our own sandtraps…but that’s probably just incidental). It’s hand-drawn, with two of those classic, surreal Disney sequences that make you wonder if the animators were smoking opium. It’s even adult-funny in spots; there’s an exchange of “Who’s on first?”-style wordplay that’s more clever and fun than it should be. It just never justifies its existence, and that makes all its positives feel like a waste. A traditional animated film with no poop gags or obnoxious voice casting or incongruous song-and-dance numbers set to modern pop hits is rare these days—so why does this one have to be squandered on antiquated characters who, frankly, were never that appealing to begin with? Oh, bother. G. MATTHEW SINGER. 62 SEE IT: Winnie the Pooh opens Friday at Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville and Sandy.
JULY 13-19
MOVIES
a long way. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Tigard.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
53 Watching Transformers movies, you can imagine a preadolescent, mulleted Michael Bay lording over other kids’ imaginations, demanding his classmates play the way he wants them to. But he has the coolest toys, so everybody obliges him, in the hope they’ll get their hands on one of his cutting-edge gadgets. And what cool toys they are. With Transformers: Dark of the Moon, he has delivered what we want: a dumb-as-rocks, rock-’emsock-’em popcorn flick without pretension. Alas, like most kids, Bay doesn’t know when to close the toy box. At nearly 160 minutes, the film is as butt-numbing as it is eyepopping, and no amount of chaotic action can mask the fact that Dark of the Moon is at least an hour too long. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinetopia, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin Cinema-Pub.
The Tree of Life
97 “Why should I be good if you
aren’t?” Jack, the young protagonist, asks God—and at this point, Terrence Malick’s movie had my number so completely that I feared it would come up with a reason. It doesn’t, thank goodness. In its final sequence, a grown Jack (Sean Penn) rides up a Houston skyscraper and—in a probably unintentional nod to Willy Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator—ascends to a healing vision of heaven. This is not very persuasive, and it doesn’t matter: What is so piercing about The Tree of Life is not that it knows life’s answers, but that it knows how the questions feel. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower, City Center. NEW
Trigun: Badlands Rumble
46 Full disclosure: I know nothing
about anime in general, much less the specific Japanese comic book and late-‘90s television series this film is based on. So maybe it’s unfair of me to judge Trigun: Badlands Rumble as 90 minutes of totally incoherent action. If I knew the characters, and the tone of the show, perhaps it wouldn’t have been so jarring to watch these cartoons screech back and forth at each other in Japanese about God knows what for an hour and a half. Of course, it’s not my fault the movie makes no attempt to draw in the uninitiated. When we meet the hero, redcaped oddball Vash the Stampede (also referred to as “the Humanoid Typhoon”), he crawls out from under a table, grabs the leg of a burly bankrobber named Gasback and begins screaming something about how he stepped on and ruined the doughnut he planned to have for a snack. That’s where the confusion starts, and it continues for the entirety of this sci-fi Western. I couldn’t follow any of it, but then again, this movie wasn’t made for me. If you’re reading this with any interest, you’re the one it was made for, and you’re going to see it no matter what I say. Have a good time. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Trip
85 Nothing much actually happens
in The Trip. Trimmed down to reasonable film length from a sixepisode BBC television series, it’s arranged by director Michael Winterbottom as a series of daily vignettes that all play out more or less the same way: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat dinner. And that’s all it needs to be. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
TrollHunter
73 Norwegian creature feature
TrollHunter is at once a clever parody of the increasingly tired “found footage” trope popular-
PASSIONE: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE ized by The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield and [REC], and a slick thrill ride using the shaky-cam, firstperson style to perfect effect. It’s ridiculous, and rookie director André Øvredal knows it, approaching the story with a bone-dry humor. When the trolls are terrorizing the people and the landscape, it’s a goofy treat, another Scandinavian fractured fairytale to set beside Rare Exports. PG-13. Hollywood Theatre. NEW The Wanteds: The Part of Rock and Roll They Never Tell You About
30 [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR ATTENDING] We’re clearly working toward a world where everyone has their own reality TV show, a world of minor tragedies and B-reel eyerolls inserted out of context. So I can’t say I was surprised to hear that Tommy Harrington’s longdefunct Portland one-man-band, the Wanteds, had its own documentary. There are far less interesting lives to document than Harrington’s, and far less capable filmmakers than Stephanie Smith to shoot them. Smith does a commendable job in crafting a narrative from the pieces of Harrington’s shattered family history and floundering rock ’n’ roll career, even if she leaves a few holes along the way (Harrington’s midlate-thirties age is never revealed, even as we’re told his girlfriend is 22; his father, despite a lengthy interview, is never confronted with allegations of severe physical abuse). It’s commendable that Smith and the film’s producers stuck with this project for a year of solid filming and checked in thereafter—a rarity in this era of truly awful instadocs—but the film’s major problem isn’t in the telling. The problem here is that watching the slow-motion car crash that is Harrington’s life feels voyeuristic and hopeless and unnecessary: This is two hours of watching a badly broken man-child navigate an even more fucked profession, with only his near-delusional positivity to serve as a guiding light. Around halfway through the film, during a scene filmed in the drivethru window of a Popeye’s somewhere in middle America, expectant dad Harrington says, “I think I could tour six months out of the year and still be an excellent father.” It strikes the viewer that this is a guy who needs some solid friends, not a documentary about his band. And while the doc’s postscript insists that Harrington pulled it together (and became a great dad), any personal transformation occurred in the same place most of us work out our shit: far away from the camera’s lens. “I don’t know if the world needs Tommy [or] needs the Wanteds, but it’s gonna get it anyway,” noted engineer Larry Crane says near the start of the film. Despite the capable filmmaking behind it, the same could be said for a Wanteds documentary. CASEY JARMAN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday, July 15. Stephanie Smith will introduce the film.
NEW
The White Meadows
66 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has crafted a somber meditation on
human sorrow following a man tasked, mysteriously, with traveling by boat to a series of small islands to collect villagers’ tears. Heavy stuff, but Rasoulof finds beauty in almost every scene, from the way the sea and the sand seem to become one and the same to glorious shots of shorelines bathed in white. If only the storyline matched the scenery, the film would be a triumph. Instead, it’s a bit of a depressing slog…and a dull one at that. AP KRYZA. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 9 pm Saturday and 7 pm Sunday, July 16-17.
73
WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM WWEEKDOTCOM “THE MOST THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE“ ”MOVIE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY!” Steve Persall, ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
X-Men: First Class
A prequel to the four preceding X-Men movies, First Class has so much fun with its setup that you almost wish it never got around to the saving-the-world-from-nuclearannihilation plot. It’s a blast watching the young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and the future Magneto, a.k.a. Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender), sashay around the planet collecting stray mutants to protect and school. Even more fun is watching Lehnsherr track down and punish his Nazi tormenters; this could easily be its own whole movie. PG-13. BECKY OHLSEN. Clackamas, Eastport, Bridgeport, Lloyd Mall.
Zookeeper
22 By now you've surely caught wind that Zookeeper is terrible— and it is, but it's a reassuring kind of terrible, like cat poetry or Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies. If it weren’t terrible, you wouldn't know what to do with yourself. It plays exactly like Grown Ups, but if all of Kevin James' idiot pals were zoo animals. (Adam Sandler voices a capuchin; Judd Apatow does an elephant.) It's also exactly like Hitch, but if Kevin James got relationship advice from zoo animals. It's like anything with Kevin James you've ever failed to enjoy, but with zoo animals. Actually, it's often a little surreal how bad Zookeeper is—you'd think that James filmed the menagerie scenes and then the comedians came in and dubbed the thing What's Up, Tiger Lily?style, but there's CGI, so some of it had to be scripted. The closest it gets to pathos is Nick Nolte voicing an abused gorilla who just wants the unrivaled joy of a night at TGI Friday's. I know I hector about this a lot, but these casual-dining intrusions are increasingly common in our national comedy, and are the most vile form of product placement, since they suggest that your life might have meaning if you revolve it around corporate dining establishments. Anyway, Zookeeper bombed, so I guess that means no one will ever eat at TGI Friday's again. Kevin James has saved America! PG. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinetopia, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Hilltop, Lloyd Center, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
COLUMBIA PICTURES AND METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES PRESENT A BROKENMUSICROAD/HEY EDDIE/HAPPY MADISON PRODUCTION MUSIC KEVI N JAMES “ Z OOKEEPER” ROSARI O DAWSON SUPERVISION BY MICHAEL DILBECK BY RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS EXECUTIVE PRODUCED PRODUCERS BARRY BERNARDI JEFF SUSSMAN CHARLES NEWIRTH JENNIFER EATZ BY TODD GARNER KEVIN JAMES ADAM SANDLER JACK GIARRAPUTO WALT BECKER STORY SCREENPLAY DIRECTED BY JAY SCHERICK & DAVID RONN BY NICK BAKAY & ROCK REUBEN & KEVIN JAMES AND JAY SCHERICK & DAVID RONN BY FRANK CORACI A FILM BY FRANK CORACI
NOW PLAYING
CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES
Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011 wweek.com 49 2 COL. (3.825") X 8" = 16" WED 7/13 PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK
MOVIES
JULY 13-19
BREWVIEWS
HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 12:30, 02:25, 03:00, 04:50, 05:25, 07:10, 07:45, 09:30, 09:55 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 12:45, 02:15, 02:55, 04:35, 05:20, 07:05, 07:55, 09:35, 10:05 BEGINNERS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:10, 04:25, 07:20, 09:40 A BETTER LIFE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:15, 02:35, 05:15, 07:35, 09:45 THE LAST MOUNTAIN Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:20, 04:40, 07:40, 09:50 TERRI Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:45, 05:10, 07:30, 10:10
NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium
EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS: For some people, terror is the idea of being buried alive or burnt to a crisp. For me, it’s taking a hot shower and feeling a little tickle on my face. And that tickle turning out to be a big ol’ spider, skittering down the shower nozzle and down my naked belly to chitter across my defenseless bare feet. Campy 1990 fright fest Arachnophobia will forever be on the top of my personal shitlist for turning this nightmare into an actual scene in a movie. The “South American spiders invade small town” flick also includes Jeff Daniels being menaced by a spider the size of a Boston terrier. But it’s the shower scene that does it. I take a lot of baths these days. KELLY CLARKE. Academy. Best paired with: Anderson Valley Summer Solstice. Also showing: The Warriors (Laurelhurst). Mission Theater and Pub
Regal Lloyd Center Stadium 10 Cinema
ACHER” E T D A B “ Z A I D N I O N C A M E R O S A N D J A S O N S EG E L T C U D O R P C I A S N = 2" (SAU) ESENTS A MO JOHN MICHAEULSICHIGGI L ANDREWS R P S E R U T C I FILLER LAD CO UMBIA PTIMBERLAKE LUCY PUNCH TOM WOLFE M BY MICHAEG GENE STUPNITSKY JUSTIN VISMIOUNSICBY MANISH RAVAL KASDAN LEE EISENBER DAVID HOUSEHOLTER SUPER ANDES JAKNEBERG PRODUCEDBY JIMMY MILLER C EXECUTIERVES GEORGIA KA EISE 1 COL X 3" = 3" (SAU) PRODUC E E L & Y K S T I N N P TE U WRIT Y GENE ST B FILLER AD DIRECTEBDY JAKE KASDAN CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMES
1510 NE Multnomah Blvd., 800-326-3264 SUPER 8 Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:25, 02:15, 05:05, 07:50, 10:30 CARS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 11:05, 01:45, 04:35, 07:20, 10:05 BAD TEACHER Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:30, 10:20 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 03:30, 07:10, 10:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 04:45, 08:15 ZOOKEEPER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 02:10, 04:50, 07:30, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:20, 01:50, 04:15, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:00, 02:05, 05:15, 08:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:35, 03:45, 07:00, 10:10 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed THE MET SUMMER ENCORE: TOSCA Wed 06:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D
Regal Lloyd Mall 8 Cinema
2 COL. (3.825") X 10" = 20" WED 7/13 PORTLAND WILLAMETTE WEEK
2 COL X 2" = 4" (SAU) Willamette Week JULY 13, 2011
50
wweek.com
FILLER AD
2320 Lloyd Center Mall, 800-326-3264 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 03:05, 06:05, 08:55 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:35, 03:35, 06:25, 09:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:00, 02:30, 06:00, 09:30 LARRY CROWNE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 ZOOKEEPER FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:25, 03:15, 06:30, 09:00 WINNIE THE POOH FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 03:25, 06:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-
Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:30, 06:40, 09:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:50, 03:00, 06:15, 09:25 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed MIDNIGHT IN PARIS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:30, 03:10, 06:35, 09:35 CHARLOTTE'S WEB Tue-Wed 10:00 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF Tue-Wed 10:00 SUMMER MOVIE EXPRESS - TUES. & WED. 10AM Tue-Wed
Bagdad Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 08:15 MEEK'S CUTOFF Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 06:00 HESHER Fri-Sat-Sun 10:15 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY
Moreland Theatre
6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., 503-236-5257 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 05:30, 08:15
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun 12:00, 03:30, 07:00, 10:30
St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 KUNG FU PANDA 2 FriSat-Mon-Tue 03:30 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 06:00 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Sun-Mon-TueWed 08:40
8704 N. Lombard St., 503-286-1768 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:45, 07:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:30, 07:15, 09:35
Cinema 21
CineMagic Theatre
616 NW 21st Ave., 503-223-4515 BUCK Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:45, 07:00, 09:00
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503238-8899 IDIOTS AND ANGELS FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:00, 09:00 REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Fri 11:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Sat 12:00
Laurelhurst Theater
2735 E Burnside St., 232-5511 EVERYTHING MUST GO Fri 6:45 Sun 1:20, 6:45 MonThurs 6:45 13 ASSASSINS Fri-Sun 4, 9 Mon-Thurs 9 THOR Fri 4:30, 7:10 SatSun 1:45, 4:30, 7:10 Mon Thurs 7:10 THE WARRIORS Fri-Thurs 9:35 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Sat-Sun 2 WIN WIN Fri-Thurs 7:30 HESHER Fri-Sun 4:45, 9:45 Mon-Thurs 9:45 JANE EYRE Fri-Sun 4:15 HANNA FriThurs 9:15 MEEK’S CUTOFF Fri 7 Sat-Sun 1:30, 7 MonThurs 7
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-231-7919 HORRIBLE BOSSES Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30, 07:35, 09:40
Kennedy School Theater
5736 NE 33rd Ave., 503249-7474 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:30 MEEK'S CUTOFF Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:35 THOR Fri-Sat-SunMon 02:30 EVERYTHING MUST GO Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:45
99 Indoor Twin
Highway 99W, 503-538-2738 CARS 2 Fri-Sat-Sun 02:30, 07:00 THOR Fri-Sat-Sun 02:30, 07:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY MonTue-Wed
Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10
846 SW Park Ave., 800-326-3264 THE TREE OF LIFE FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 12:55, 02:40, 04:15, 05:30, 07:15, 08:20, 10:00
1219 SW Park Ave., 503-221-1156 THE WANTEDS: THE PART OF ROCK AND ROLL THEY NEVER TELL YOU ABOUT Fri 07:00 PASSIONE: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE SatSun 05:00 THE WHITE MEADOWS Sat-Sun 07:00
Pioneer Place Stadium 6
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 BRIDESMAIDS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 10:00 SUPER 8 FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:15, 04:00, 07:15, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 03:45, 07:05, 10:25 ZOOKEEPER Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 03:45, 07:10, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:15, 03:30, 06:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:50, 03:55, 07:00, 10:05 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 ARACHNOPHOBIA Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:10, 09:30 THOR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:35, 07:00 KUNG FU PANDA 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 02:20, 04:25, 06:45 13 ASSASSINS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:00 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:45 MEEK'S CUTOFF Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:30, 07:15 SUBMARINE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 TRIGUN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:00, 02:00, 04:25, 09:10 CONAN O'BRIEN CAN'T STOP FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:50, 05:20, 09:30 THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:10, 06:35 THE DOUBLE HOUR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:40, 05:05, 07:40, 09:40 THE TRIP Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 04:45, 07:15, 09:35 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 03:45, 07:00, 08:50 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 01:30, 04:55, 06:45, 07:30, 10:00 SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CALL THEATERS OR VISIT WWEEK.COM/MOVIETIMES FOR THE MOST UP-TODATE INFORMATION FRIDAY-THURSDAY, JULY 15-21, UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED