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The article was a good start [“Stop Being Broke,” WW, April 4, 2012], but I wish WW would focus some attention on avoiding debt, especially student-loan debt. Here in Portland, some of the young people with the worst financial prospects are graduates of the for-profit schools like Le Cordon Bleu [College of Culinary Arts] and the Art Institute. The folks get a worthless degree for $100,000, and the unpaid internships and the line-cook jobs will never cover those loan payments. But no local news outlets will cover the fraud cases being brought against both schools. I guess Goldman Sachs-owned AI knows how to throw money around. They aren’t spending it mostly on instruction. —“Oregon Mom”
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WW’s decision to admonish you to learn to live with less is a sad reflection of the Obama message of pessimism and futility. Imagine teaching your toddler that her future is bleak and limited, that only the benevolence of government stands between her and utter poverty. What kind of creative entrepreneur do you think she will become with a message like that? You should absolutely reject the premise of this article, and the core of Obama’s bleak vision. Flip them both off. Walk away. Believe in yourself. Fight for your vision of a prosperous future where government shuts up, gets out of the way and leaves you free to create your own bounty! —“Gravity Bob”
How do I stop FOODday? I’ve tried phone calls and emails, to no avail— soon, the offensive, sodden package reappears. What’s the home address of the editor-in-chief? I wanna dump 500 copies of FOODday on his doorstep. —FOODday makes me NAUSeous Stop FOODday? Ha! You might as well try to slay the immortal tide, blot out the sun, or give a wedgie to pantsless Death as hope to turn aside the soggy march of FOODday. For those who don’t know, FOODday is a wad of soft news, recipes and ads that arrives, uninvited, on many Portland doorsteps every Tuesday. The Oregonian, which produces it, would call it a “free newspaper.” Of course, I could crap in your shoe and call it “free compost.” In both cases, the generosity of the gesture hinges on one’s ability to refuse it, and this is where FOODday has made its share of enemies. 4
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Like all other personal-finance writers I have read—and they are many—WW writers casually assume that all you need to stop being broke is to live frugally, spend less than you earn, and invest well. I live on a poverty-level income, I am in student-loan hell (paying $150 per month of my poverty-level income toward student loans), and unable to save and invest anything. So my brokeness continues without hope. —“Terry Pratt”
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I realize this isn’t intended to be accurate [“The Portland Budget,” WW, April 4, 2012], but the amount of money allocated for alcohol isn’t exactly realistic. Probably hard to believe, but about 61 percent of adults are not current drinkers and 25 percent are lifelong abstainers; the top 10 percent of drinkers are heavy drinkers and drink the vast majority of alcohol consumed. This representation normalizes heavy drinking and alcoholic behavior. I realize [the article] was intended to be cute, but I have too many people with alcohol problems in my life to not point out this skewed representation. —“Storm8” 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
The Oregonian’s official position is that if you don’t like FOODday, you can call the newspaper at 221-8240 and it will stop delivery. But many people say FOODday recurs after a few months, like some incurable herpes of the porch. How many? Well, I get letters like yours several times a year. Local blogs are rife with FOODday kvetching, and there are two Facebook groups devoted entirely to wishing FOODday would go away. Multiple emails to The Oregonian were unanswered at press time. The paper probably figures no responsible journalist would rush into print without getting the other side of the story. Joke’s on them! That said, don’t pick on the long-suffering editor—he’s a newsman, not a CEO. Instead, write to the publisher. For all I know, he’s longsuffering, too—but you gotta admit, it’s hard to picture a guy named N. Christian Anderson III clawing his way up from the mailroom. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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DIY taxidermist Emily Humphries, whom we featured last fall (see “The Right Stuffing,” WW, Sept. 21, 2011), says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating her under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Humphries, a hobbyist, says agents showed up at her house April 10 with a copy of WW, which showed her stuffing a crow. (The story noted it’s illegal to possess certain dead fowl without a permit.) Humphries says agents seized the crow and a taxidermied duckling and owl. Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Joan Jewett says the agency is investigating Humphries but declined further comment.
Bar owners, they’re listening: A group of 23 record labels, including BMI, Universal, Sony and Paul Simon Music, filed a lawsuit April 9 in U.S. District Court in Portland against the owners of Coyote’s Bar & Grill in Hillsboro. The labels allege 13 instances of “willful copyright infringement” when the bar allegedly played songs last November without paying licensing fees. Said songs include: “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison, “The Only Living Boy in New York” by Paul Simon and “Snow (Hey Oh)” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Statutory damages under U.S. copyright law range from $750 to $150,000 per infringement. Coyote’s co-owner Wanda Hemenway declined to comment. A BMI spokeswoman says it gave Coyote’s many chances to pay fees before filing suit. Portland Trail Blazers and a Star Trek actor campaigning! Charges of vote buying! Mayoral Madness, our phony yet increasingly realistic City Hall race, has surpassed our wildest dreams. In the elite eight, Columbia Sportswear titan Gert Boyle defeated the Paul Bunyan statue by a mere six votes. She now faces TV thief Timothy Hutton, the favorite after collecting a record 4,816 votes to game Blazers broadcaster Mike Rice. Rice’s ads with real Blazers were trumped by Hutton re-tweets from Trek star Wil Wheaton, who apparently has a galactic Internet following. Divorce lawyer Jody Stahancyk buried blogger Jack Bogdanski. Stahancyk—who might be paying 70 cents a vote on a job forum—faces University of Portland soccer quasar Micaela Capelle, who defeated disinterested China Forbes. Look for interviews with the Final Four on wweek.com. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6
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City Council candidate Steve Novick keeps dredging donaHUMPHRIES tions from Portland Harbor players. Novick has publicly doubted the need for a wide-ranging cleanup of the Willamette River Superfund site—and big costs to harbor landowners (see “Novick’s Harbor Doubts,” WW, March 28, 2012). His latest harbor-related donor: Schnitzer Steel chairman John Carter. Earlier, the Greenbrier Cos., owner of railcar-builder Gunderson, gave Novick $4,001, edging out his biggest contribution at the time by $1. Carter’s donation: $4,002.
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All of Oregon’s navigable waterways are public, but some are more public than others. Or so it goes in Lake Oswego, where the city council has taken extraordinary steps to prevent the public from using a public park to access a public lake. The Lake Oswego City Council, governing the state’s wealthiest city, appears to be dancing on strings held by the Lake Oswego Corp., a private homeowners group that owns most of the shore and lake bed and wants to keep outsiders off the lake. Further proof came April 3, when the city council, under pressure from the lake corporation, voted to make it illegal for people to swim or launch a boat from three city parks along the lake. The council took the action in response to a WW story that demonstrated the public could access the lake even as the Lake Oswego Corp. has tried to close off access to all except dues-paying property owners (see “Lake Affront,” WW, March 7, 2012). Which raises a powerful legal question: How can a private corporation and a city council work together to block access from a public park to a public lake? We may soon find out. Two groups told WW they’re considering lawsuits against the city or the Lake Oswego Corp. to win access to the lake.
If a lawsuit goes forward, you can expect to hear some surprising facts about Oswego Lake. In the meantime, here are a few things the people trying to cordon off Oswego Lake may not want you to know. The state of Oregon ruled Oswego Lake a public waterway 53 years ago. Former Oregon Attorney General Robert Thornton said so in a 1959 opinion. “The Lake Oswego Corporation,” he wrote then, “can enact no rules and regulations governing the public use of boats on Oswego Lake.” His legal opinion still stands today. The Oregon Marine Board holds jurisdiction over the public lake, setting the speed limit, for example, and banning on-boat toilets. The lake corporation owns much of the land under the lake, but courts have said that doesn’t trump the public’s rights. The corporation has a security force, but it has no authority to chase anyone off the water. The ring around the lake to keep the public out may not be ironclad. Yes, the City of Lake Oswego has helped the lake corporation cut you off from the lake. But the lake belongs to you. How does this square? Case law, dating to 1869, says the public has a right to “incidental” use of private lands to access public waterways, such as Oswego Lake. A 2005 Willamette Law Review article by Jas. Jeffrey Adams and Cody Winterton says the interpretation of that legal precedent is wide open. “Oregon courts have not yet defined whether ‘incidental use’ includes the right to anchor or wade on the bed of the waterway,” they wrote in the article, “or stand on the banks below the high water mark, in order to fish, portage a watercraft, or engage in other recreational use.”
Adams, an attorney for the Oregon Department of Justice, declined to comment further. Going into the public lake from a public park could now cost you $1,000. The state Marine Board’s authority ends at the shore. The city’s new ordinance means you may be asked to pay a fine if you launch your boat from a public park, such as the stairs in Millennium Plaza Park, to the public lake. As with traffic tickets, there’s a sliding scale of fines. They start at $145 but top out at $1,000. “That’s up to the court,” says Lake Oswego city attorney David Powell. “It would have to be pretty aggravated.” A $1,000 fine would be more than the Lake Oswego Corp. pays in property taxes a year for the lake bed. The lake corporation last year paid $784.38 on the 404 acres that make up the majority of the lake bed, according to Bob Vroman, Clackamas County assessor. Vroman says it’s a “very unique property,” adding that the presence of the lake does increase property values for homeowners (and corporation members) along the lake. Don’t expect the City of Lake Oswego to fight for your public rights. City attorney Powell says Lake Oswego’s government has no obligation to guarantee anyone access to the lake. The city’s police work to guarantee private access. After an “Occupy Oswego Lake” protest was planned last month, the city’s police chief, Don Johnson, coordinated with the lake corporation in preparation for the demonstration, according to email obtained by WW through a publicrecords request. “I’ve had a couple different people tell me there may be an individual or individuals who want to make a point by accessing the lake without being members,” Johnson wrote to the head of the lake corporation’s security force. “At some point it might be good to get together to [take] a look at possible launch sites so that we are somewhat prepared or to just go for [a] boat ride and enjoy a sunny afternoon.” Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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Tres Shannon had big dreams for the Portland P Palace. Back in December, the Voodoo Doughnut cofounder gave WW a tour of the bar and fun center he was putting together in an old car dealership at 2340 NE Sandy Blvd. He imagined a nightlife nirvana where all the offerings—from putt-putt golf to pool to PBR—would begin with the letter “P.” “In an ideal world,” he said back then, “it’d be like Vegas, and every hour Mount St. Helens would erupt.” Shannon’s plans have since blown up. Records obtained by WW show Shannon’s big idea has been thwarted by city codes and is mired in a lawsuit with the building’s owners, former Dodge dealer Art Laws and his wife, Mary. “It’s just so sad,” Shannon says. “It was the greatest business in Portland that was just a red squiggle away from opening, and now nobody will get to see it.” When Shannon first talked to WW about his plans (see “Voodoo Child,” WW, Dec. 21, 2011), he hoped for a January opening. Instead, he announced the P Palace’s demise on Facebook on March 26, the night before he and his partners had to vacate the building. In their eviction action, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court, the Lawses said the P Palace then owed $15,000 in back rent. The Lawses brought the action against John Hunt, a partner of Shannon’s who owns a majority share of the business. In court documents, Hunt responded that the business had already spent $150,000, including installing pool tables and a nine-hole putt-putt golf course, complete with miniature lighthouse. That was before Shannon and his partners, including Ray “Buzz” Gorder, learned they couldn’t get a permit to operate the business. The City of Portland declared the building wouldn’t 8
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meet seismic standards without a major upgrade. In court documents, Hunt said the required upgrades would cost the P Palace $200,000. And Hunt said in court documents the Lawses knew this ahead of time—and that the lease makes them responsible for all necessary improvements. Shannon and his partners agreed to vacate the building. But now the building owners want their back rent. On March 26, the Lawses sued Hunt to collect the back rent, now $20,475, plus penalties for failing to fulfill the lease, which ran until 2016. Shannon says fault lies with several people. “I can say it wasn’t just the city, and I can say it wasn’t just us, and I can say it wasn’t just the landlord,” he says. “Opening a business is hard.” Stephen Rickles, the Lawses’ lawyer, says it wouldn’t have been so difficult if Hunt, Shannon and Gorder had looked at city building code. “We’re confident that whatever problems Mr. Hunt and his partners encountered are a result of code requirements that they should have known about when they signed the lease,” Rickles says. Many buildings in Portland are unsafe in earthquakes, but a change of use—from an auto showroom to a “family recreation center,” for instance—can trigger seismic upgrade requirements by the city Bureau of Development Services. The building was first constructed in 1919, says BDS section manager Terry Whitehill. “They had a lot of front windows on the building,” he says. “And those are really bad. It’s an old building. Yes, indeed.” Records show BDS employees inspected the building three times since last September. Meanwhile, Art and Mary Laws alleged in Multnomah Circuit Court filings that the P Palace paid reduced rents in November and December, then stopped paying altogether in January. (Shannon says the business was behind only a half month’s rent and stopped paying only when it clearly couldn’t open.) Filings with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission show what might have been. In applying for a liquor license, the P Palace provided a detailed floor plan that shows a wall of pinball machines, four pingpong tables, and something dubbed a “pickle ball court.” The P Palace also submitted its planned menu to the OLCC. Dishes included Pacific lox panini, pulled-pork sandwiches and pasta salad. Shannon says he’d already hosted two parties in the P Palace space. “The mayor attended one, and a former mayor attended one,” Shannon says. “And it was the happiest I’ve ever seen either of them.”
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SWITCHING ON MAYORAL CANDIDATES RETAIN ENOUGH CASH TO HAVE AN IMPACT AS THE CAMPAIGNS HIT THE AIRWAVES. BY N I G EL JAQU ISS
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There’s a little more than two weeks before May primary ballots go out, and the contest for Portland mayor remains wide open. The most competitive mayoral primary in 20 years comes down to this: All three major candidates are sitting on enough money to reach voters with television advertising. Candidates often stumble into the final weeks depleted of money on hand. That can be a big problem for getting your name out there—TV stations require cash up front from candidates to buy air time. “TV is still the No. 1 way in which people get information about politics,” says Jim Moore, political science professor at Pacific University. “It has surpassed newspapers, and social media is not anywhere close.” Airing TV ads was crucial in now-U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s victory in the recent 1st Congressional District special election. She spent virtually all of her money on TV and went on the air ahead of opponents. The mayoral candidates have absorbed that lesson to varying degrees. Brady, for instance, has spent $565,000 without buying air time, but she hasn’t moved the needle with voters. Neither has Hales, who has spent a lot less. A Hales poll conducted in late March shows him at 25 percent and Brady at 23. A September 2011 poll showed both in the same range. Brady released her TV ads this week, followed by Hales. Brady’s emphasize her biography and jobs. Hales’ ads focus on issues such as potholes, sewer rates and schools. Smith hasn’t released any ads yet. He has invested resources mainly in canvassing and blanketing the east side with blue-andorange lawn signs. He’s also a bit of a wild card. As Bus Project director, he oversaw guerrilla marketing campaigns to reach voters in unconventional ways. “No candidate is grabbing the attention of voters,” Moore says. “If you want to win, you’ve got to do something about that.”
SPENDING TO DATE: Brady $565,000 Hales $232,000 Smith $145,000
CASH ON HAND: Brady $314,000 Hales $219,000 Smith $245,000 SOURCE: OREGON ELECTIONS DIVISION
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THE ROAD TO HALES CHARLIE HALES IS RUNNING FOR MAYOR BASED ON HIS RECORD. IT’S FULL OF DETOURS, ROUNDABOUTS AND SWITCHBACKS. BY COR EY PEIN
Not many people remember the great snout-house debate of 1999. But Jeff Fish does. His company, Fish Construction NW Inc., has built homes throughout the Portland area for 40 years. Like many homebuilders, he doesn’t like government telling him how to build his houses. But in July 1999, the Portland City Council, on largely aesthetic grounds, unanimously voted to prohibit “snout houses”—uninviting, suburban-style homes that greet passersby not with front doors but a protruding, piggish two-car garage. It stung all the more because the ban was championed and developed by City Commissioner Charlie Hales. Hales had been the lobbyist for the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland, of which Fish was a major backer. Fish described Hales for the more than 1.1 million readers of The New York Times, which wrote about the snout-house debate. “He’s a traitor,” Fish said. Fast-forward 13 years. Hales—out of government for a decade—is running for Portland mayor. And Fish recently shocked his fellow homebuilders by endorsing the man he once denounced. “To be honest with you,” Fish tells WW, “I don’t remember all the things I was angry with Charlie about back then. I’m supporting him now.” Fish is one name on a long list of former Hales adversaries who have put aside their past problems with a candidate who is treating the mayor’s race like a comeback tour. Hales, 56, has an old-fashioned approach to politics that befits his personal style. He looks more comfortable in a tie than in a T-shirt, still wears his college signet ring, favors PCs over Macs and enjoys sailing. His chief mayoral opponents are easier to pigeonhole. State Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland) is running 12
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as the young intellectual. Businesswoman Eileen Brady is the hippie-capitalist hybrid. Hales is running on his experience—a decade in City Hall when Portland was riding high economically and the city seemed to work a lot better. In those flush times, from 1993 to 2002, Hales championed the Portland streetcar, built community centers and passed a big parks levy. He helped kill a proposed on-ramp to Interstate 5 from Southeast Water Avenue that business leaders wanted, and he tangled with the firefighters’ union to diversify the fire bureau. “All you’ve got to do is ride around this city and you can see with your own eyes all that he’s done,” says T.J. Browning, a Hales volunteer who worked against him during Hales’ first campaign in 1992. “You can see Charlie Hales’ footprints everywhere.” Hales would say he’s a pragmatist with a knack for turning enemies into allies. But it’s not that simple. Hales is a shape-shifter who has adapted to whatever political environment he’s in. Before he embraced density and smart planning, he supported a Washington County highway proposal that would have plowed through farmlands and seeded sprawl. Before he touted himself as a neighborhood tree planter, he advocated allowing developers to clear-cut lots and suggested people who didn’t like it should move to the country. Before he was a Democrat, he was a Republican. Former Mayor Vera Katz, who served with Hales for 10 years and has endorsed him this year, says she never could pinpoint Hales’ core political beliefs. “In the city, politically, there was no reason to do that,” she says. Jon Chandler, whom Hales hired at the homebuilders’ association in 1990 and is now that organization’s chief executive, has privately compared Hales to one of the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers—a replica of himself, cre-
ated overnight, identical on the outside, alien on the inside. “I won’t deny saying that,” Chandler says. All the same, he supports Hales and excuses the candidate’s shifting views. “If you’re a lobbyist, you have the luxury of representing your client,” Chandler says of Hales. “If you’re an elected official, you don’t have that same luxury. He’s a sincere man.” Others are less forgiving. Commissioner Randy Leonard—a fierce adversary of Hales’ since the mid-1990s, when Leonard ran the firefighters’ union and Hales ran the fire bureau—says Hales took too much credit for team successes and rarely admitted to mistakes. “If you’re the mayor, that can be a crippling character flaw,” says Leonard, who endorsed Smith. Leonard calls Hales “an opportunist.” Hales is also a classic revolving-door politician. He set fundraising records in his 2000 re-election campaign with donations from city contractors. Two years later, he abandoned his City Council seat to work for a city contractor trying to break into the streetcar business. He’s back, portraying himself as a concerned citizen— “I’m a Portland guy,” he likes to say. But he only recently returned to the city, after living in Washington state, where he avoided paying tens of thousands in Oregon income taxes. At the same time, he kept voting in Oregon— possibly violating state elections law by voting as a nonresident. (See sidebar.) Hales says he’s committed to Portland, and his ethics are unimpeachable. “People need to know there’ll never be that terrible day where you open the newspaper and say, ‘Oh no!’ That will not come with me,” Hales says. “People may not always agree with me. Of course that’s the case, if you do anything at all in public. There will never be a day when anyone has a reason to question my integrity.” CONT. on page 15
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Charles Andrew Hales was, in fact, a Boy Scout. Born in January 1956 in Washington, D.C., Hales grew up and attended public schools in the suburbs of Alexandria, Va. His mother, Carol Hales, was a homemaker. His father, Alfred Ross Hales Jr., was a structural engineer for the U.S. Navy, designing barracks, runways and harbors. Hales grew up virtually as an only child—his two siblings were much older than him. At Thomas Edison High School in Alexandria, Hales rigged lighting for the drama club, played first-chair baritone horn, and built a glasscrushing machine at home as part of a bottle-recycling fundraiser for band uniforms. He was also mischievous—within certain limits. When his brother, Bud, got married, the newlyweds started the engine of their getaway car only to hear a loud bang. Bud saw Charlie rolling on the ground in laughter. He had rigged a smoke bomb that disabled the spark plugs. “We probably broke some law,” Charlie Hales jokes. But he didn’t get in trouble. “A policeman helped him wire it,” Bud Hales recalls. At the University of Virginia in 1975, Hales joined a club that booked campus entertainment and helped bring two notorious Watergate figures to campus, E. Howard Hunt and John Dean. Dean’s UVA speech was his first public appearance following his release from jail for crimes committed while serving as White House counsel to President Richard Nixon. Hales put himself through college running his own construction firm, Hales & Co., founded with his first wife, Patricia Haywood, his high-school sweetheart. Hales graduated from UVA with a bachelor’s degree in political theory in 1979. That summer, the Haleses moved to Portland. Hales says they were attracted by the state’s spirit of open-minded progressivism. One of their three children, Gavin, repeats family lore about the move: “My mom ended up reading some article that said because of the mica in Portland sidewalks, the sidewalks sparkled,” he says. “That was a selling point for her.” In Oregon, Hales first went to work as a lobbyist. “I was never in a position to try and sell a proposition that I didn’t agree with,” he says. Hales first worked for the Oregon Mobile Home Park Association, a job he now omits from his résumé. Hales represented the mobile-home park owners. In January 1980, he attacked a state program mandating inspections at mobile-home parks, where density sometimes created sewer and water-quality problems. “A mobile home doesn’t need reinspection any more than a regular home does,” Hales was quoted saying in The Oregonian. “This is a holdover from the days when the tenants of mobile-home parks were poor and transient. This is not the case anymore.” In 1982, Hales called mobile homes a “progressive” form of housing. In 1984, Hales went to work for a bigger client: the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland. The homebuilders opposed limits on where and how they could put subdivisions, and what kind of homes they could build. They also fought system-development fees, often charged by local governments to fund new streets and water and sewer services. In 1987, Hales lobbied for a bill in the Legislature that would have shifted development charges from builders to homebuyers, who would have to pay off the fees over 10 years. Critics said it wasn’t fair to homeowners or local governments. Hales had a different view. “The system we have now stinks,” he said. Today, Hales says the bill was an “initial skirmish” for the 1991 statute passed by the Legislature that still regulates how local governments can levy such charges—a compromise Hales says he is “comfortable with.” One of the most controversial stances Hales took as the homebuilders’ lobbyist was opposing a tree-preservation ordinance in Beaverton. The city was trying to prevent developers from cutting down large or historic trees without permission. “If people want to live among trees,” Hales said in 1988, “they can move outside the urban growth boundaries.” Two years later, the controversy unsettled, Hales was
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described in The Oregonian as “Paul Bunyan himself, sap still glistening on the blade of his ax.” But the same story described Hales as conciliatory and persuasive: He swayed a meeting by acknowledging some developers go too far in cutting down trees. He cut a deal to save some trees by exempting developers from other rules. Hales tells WW he doesn’t recall the controversy over the tree-preservation ordinance.
THE INSIDER: Hales won over many former adversaries from inside and outside City Hall.
“PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THERE’LL NEVER BE THAT TERRIBLE DAY WHERE YOU OPEN THE NEWSPAPER AND SAY, ‘OH NO!’ THAT WILL NOT COME WITH ME.” —CHARLIE HALES
By 1990, Hales had his eye on running for office. He switched his voting registration from Republican to nonaffiliated (and, in 1998, to Democrat). In 1992, he announced he would challenge Portland City Commissioner Dick Bogle, who had been politically weakened by scandals involving expense accounts and a sex-harassment claim. Also in the race was former TV newsman Chuck Dimond. Dimond, who supports Brady in this mayoral race, says he was troubled that Hales kept lobbying for homebuilders while running for office. In a debate, he asked Hales about the Beaverton tree ordinance. “He came back with a statement: ‘That was then and this is now,’” Dimond recalls. “He brought a kind of situational perspective to things. It wasn’t based on core political beliefs.” Hales, though, was the long-shot candidate. He overcame it with a talent for raising money and by embracing street-level politics. He opened a storefront campaign office and knocked on thousands of doors—the same strategy he’s using today. And it helped that Hales was an excellent public speaker. Many people expected Dimond and Bogle (who was also a TV reporter) to shine during an April Portland City Club debate, but it was a turning point for Hales. Dimond, grandstanding, declared if elected he would turn down the perk of a city car and drive himself to work. He asked Bogle and Hales to join in his pledge. Hales’ response won over the crowd: “Chuck, I’m amazed you want to drive from your home in Irvington to downtown. Why don’t you ride the bus?” (After Hales was elected, WW reported that he took the bus three days a week.) On the City Council, he made a fast ally with the new mayor, Katz, and competed for attention with a set of skilled politicians also on the council—Mike Lindberg, Gretchen Kafoury and Earl Blumenauer. He surprised critics by shaking off the image of a homeCONT. on page 16 Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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CHOO-CHOO CHARLIE: Hales’ campaign headquarters on Southeast Grand Avenue are along the new eastside streetcar tracks. Hales championed the westside streetcar in the 1990s.
builders’ shill by emphasizing planning, density and alternative transportation. In his first year, Hales was the swing vote in opposition to a new Interstate 5 on-ramp from Southeast Water Avenue in the central eastside industrial district. Business owners there wanted the on-ramp, while real-estate developers, who had visions of a Pearl Districtesque transformation for that part of town, opposed it. Supporters, such as John Bradshaw, owner of Portland Transmission Warehouse on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, felt betrayed. “It still gives me heartburn,” says Bradshaw, who is supporting Brady for mayor. Hales says he was always up front with Bradshaw and other supporters of the project. “No good deed goes unpunished,” Hales says. Hales also made enemies in the Portland Firefighters Association, then led by Leonard, who is retiring from the City Council after 10 years. Hales takes credit for diversifying a bureau famous for being clannish. In 1994, WW reported that the Portland Fire Bureau was 95 percent white and male, compared to 70 percent in Seattle. Hales appointed a new chief, Robert Wall, to improve that number. The union says its fight with Hales was less about diversity than preserving the union’s staffing levels and work rules—and avoiding reverse-discrimination lawsuits. The dispute was bitter. “Last time I checked, Charlie Hales was an elected fire commissioner, not a fire god,” Leonard told WW at the time. Today, Leonard says he and the union deserve recognition for promoting an apprenticeship program aimed at improving diversity, which Hales eventually voted for. But Hales’ most visible legacy is the Portland streetcar, which opened in 2001 after an 11-year planning and fundraising process first championed by Blumenauer. Hales tells WW the initial idea came from a private engineering consultant, Roger Shiels, who was inspired during a trip to Europe. Shiels did not return a message from WW. His firm, Shiels Obletz Johnsen, has won more than $2.3 million in contracts to build and operate the streetcar, and he has donated $2,500 to Hales’ mayoral campaign. Another streetcar contractor, Stacy and Witbeck, donated $25,000. Blumenauer left for Congress in 1996, and Hales took over as City Hall’s streetcar evangelist. Hales presented the downtown streetcar plan at a transportation summit at Benson High School in 1997. A streetcar line running from Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital to Portland State University opened four years later. Hales 16
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earned the nickname “Choo-Choo Charlie.” In 2000, Hales ran for a third term and broke fundraising records for a City Council primary, collecting $286,000, largely from streetcar companies and development firms that benefited from the new line. Once re-elected, Hales drifted away from the job and resigned in 2002. Records show he was absent or on vacation often during his last two years in office. At his last council session on May 30, colleagues presented him with a bouquet of roses, a model train and a lifetime streetcar pass. “I didn’t quite understand why he left,” says former Mayor Katz. “I guess he wanted to make some more money.” Hales quickly spun through the revolving door, going to work for HDR Inc. as a “transit-planning principal.” He traveled the country trying to convince other cities to build streetcars like Portland’s, and helping with design once they’d agreed to hire HDR for the job. CONT. on page 19
STATE OF CHARLIE HALES CAN’T LAUGH OFF RESIDENCY ISSUE. Charlie Hales has been trying to deflect his most embarrassing issue in the mayor’s race with a joke. Between 2004 and 2009, Hales told Oregon tax officials that Stevenson, Wash., was his residence. He now tells voters that, after serving on the City Council, he moved out of Portland for love: He had remarried, and his new wife, Nancy, lived in Stevenson. “I didn’t move to Washington to cut my taxes. I moved to Washington to sleep with my wife,” Hales said last fall, in a typical response. As he put it in February, “It wasn’t tax evasion. It was cohabitation.” But Hales’ quips gloss over the truth: He’s been trying to have it both ways, claiming it was OK for him to avoid taxes in Oregon while continuing to vote here as if he were a resident. Last June, WW broke the story about Hales’ tax avoidance and his voting in Oregon while declaring Washington to be his residence. Oregon taxes income in Hales’ bracket at 10.8 percent. Washington has no income tax. Hales’ tax returns show his Washington state residency saved him an estimated $29,900 in 2008 and 2009, the years covered by the returns Hales released to WW. Claiming you’re a nonresident for tax purposes, the Oregon Department of Revenue says, requires declaring you no longer live in Oregon. “You’re a nonresident if your permanent home was outside Oregon all year,” the department’s guidelines say. Meanwhile, Hales kept voting in Oregon, a privilege state law says is reserved for residents. Records show Hales voted eight times, from 2004 through 2009, in Oregon elections. He did so using a Hayden Island address, even as he told Oregon tax officials he actually lived in Washington. Steve Trout, Oregon’s Elections Division director, says the state lacks enough information about Hales’ situation to know whether he violated elections law. “If he had an intent to return, he could remain an Oregon voter,” Trout says. “Without a complaint and a hearing, there’s no way to establish intent.” Republican candidate for governor Chris Dudley faced similar questions in 2010. He had moved to Camas, Wash., in the 1990s to avoid Oregon taxes while playing for the Portland Trail Blazers. But Dudley kept his voter registration in Oregon. Unlike Hales, Dudley didn’t vote in the years he called himself a nonresident. When WW asked Hales in June about his residency, he made false statements. He said he never declared Washington as his residence for tax purposes. “I am and have always been an Oregon resident,” he said. Today, Hales says he was mistaken in his statements to WW because he had forgotten that he had filed his taxes as a Washington resident. “I haven’t spent the last 10 years walking around thinking about my tax returns,” Hales says now. “Mea culpa. I’m not an accountant.” —COREY PEIN and NIGEL JAQUISS
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Hales says he made the switch because he’d accomplished much of what he set out to do, and he needed to make more money to put three kids through college. He also cites personal reasons: Hales and his first wife, Haywood, had divorced in 2000. He began dating Nancy Sourek, then executive director of the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington. They married in 2004, and Hales moved into her house in Stevenson, Wash. He spread his streetcar message around the country. In Fort Worth, Texas, he told local officials in 2010 that “for every dollar invested by the city, $4 in development will occur, which will lead to higher revenue for the city.” He pitched streetcar plans in St. Louis, Miami, Minneapolis and Kansas City, Mo. Key to Hales’ pitch to all these governments is the availability of federal money. The feds, Hales told officials in Salt Lake City in 2010, were their “new best friend.” He added, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, “They seem to have a habit of trying to find a way to fund streetcar projects.” That money often came through a special federal grant program, created by Hales’ former City Council colleague, Rep. Earl Blumenauer. Hales’ work has created a potential conflict of interest. His wife runs a program at PSU called First Stop Portland that brings delegations from other cities to tour Portland’s urban-design marvels, including the streetcar. At least eight times in the past three years, First Stop has hosted delegations from cities either already doing business with HDR or about to do so. In November 2010, Hales and HDR had been hired by the city of Fort Worth as consultants on a proposed streetcar. That month, Fort Worth officials visited Portland thanks to First Stop Portland. Its budget is largely paid for by taxpayers, including funding from TriMet, PSU, Metro and the City of Portland. It also gets private support, including from HDR. First Stop did not provide budget
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figures by WW’s deadline. This February, Hales took a break from the campaign to visit Kansas City, where officials are preparing to ask voters for approval of a streetcar. That same month, Kansas City officials came to Portland, their expenses in part paid by Nancy Hales’ program.
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Nancy Hales says her husband has no role in selecting which cities’ delegations are hosted by taxpayers. Charlie Hales says HDR already had consulting contracts with cities hosted by First Stop. “There was no marketing advantage to HDR,” he says. If Hales is elected mayor, it will create another potential conflict. PSU’s contract with the City of Portland says Nancy Hales can’t be fired “without prior written approval” of the city’s planning bureau. Charlie Hales says if he’s elected mayor, he will eliminate city oversight of Nancy Hales’ job. Hales tries not make the same mistake twice. Appearing on former Mayor Bud Clark’s public-affairs talk show in 1992, Hales let slip that he didn’t know who Jerry Garcia was. Chastened, Hales showed up to a later taping of Clark’s show with a necktie designed by the iconic Grateful Dead guitarist. Portland’s challenges are different now than they were then. And they are immense. The next mayor must contend with an eroding infrastructure, a troubled police bureau and a stagnant economy. Hales emphasizes the positive and strives to be all things to all Portlanders. Consider his various campaign slogans: “Charlie Creates Jobs.” “Charlie Fights 4 Schools.” “Charlie Plants Trees.” “Charlie Rides A Bike.” “Charlie Likes Beer.” Another bumper sticker labels Hales an “Aging Hipster” with horn-rimmed glasses. As in his first council race, during which he continued to lobby for the homebuilders, Hales is hedging his bets. He has not yet given up his $200,000-a-year job at HDR. Hales says, if elected, he won’t leave office early this time. “I make an explicit commitment to the people of Portland,” he says. “If I’m elected to this office, I will with all my energy see out a full term. And if I seek a second term, and people choose to give me one, the same will be true the second time.”
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SCOOP GOSSIP THAT MAY HAVE A SUNBURN. EXTINGUISHED, ANGUISHED: Fire dancing has been more or less banned in Portland. The art of spinning burning things in the dark while wearing skimpy clothing has a long history in town. It could flame out thanks to a new Fire Bureau rule requiring twirlers to stay 25 feet from the audience and at least 30 from a non-combustable backdrop. The huge stages required are “completely detached from any realistic possibility,” angry dancers say, beyond what’s even available at the Crystal Ballroom and Schnitz. CLINTON’S SECOND TERM: Clinton Street Theater, Southeast Portland’s nearly centuryold movie house, has been sold. The new owners are Roger and Lani Jo Leigh, self-described “independent entrepreneurs” who’ve long dreamed of owning a cinema. While the couple plans to keep the theater’s long-running spirit of independent programming intact, Lani Jo says they also want to expand the scope of the building to be “more community-oriented.” As such, the Leighs will host an open house on Monday, April 16. And don’t worry, Rocky Horror Picture Show fans: The screenings—a weekly tradition at the Clinton since 1978—will continue. “It’s fun, with just a tiny touch of naughty, and I would not put a stop to that kind of legacy,” Lani Jo says. OVER-CAFFINATED: Because there just aren’t enough thirdwave coffee shops downtown, Northeast Sandy Boulevard’s Case Study Coffee has announced it will open a second location on the corner of Southwest 10th Avenue and Yamhill Street. Barista is also planning a third location near Southwest 3rd Avenue and Alder Street, while North Portland’s Red E Cafe is planning a second location in the Pearl’s Ecotrust building, featuring beans from its new roastery, not far from where Sterling is expected to open its new roastery. But is the market already overcrowded? Heart, which opened a small kiosk in West End Bicycles in late 2011, appears to have already deserted the location. Meanwhile, on the east side, Trailhead Coffee Roasters quietly opened its first cafe recently at Northeast 18th Avenue and Burnside Street. TACO TIME: Beloved veganfriendly taqueria Los Gorditos is opening a third location at 922 NW Davis St. in the Pearl, where Sweet Masterpiece used to be. How do we know? We’re too ashamed to say. EVIL OR NOT? Powell’s Books won’t be selling any more Google eBooks. Google has decided to stop selling e-books through other channels after January 2013, leaving the local company, and other indie sellers, in the lurch. Show your displeasure by using AltaVista all day today.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 KASABIAN [MUSIC] Kasabian’s Velociraptor! is that rare major release that makes us sentimental for the era of major labels and major budgets: It’s a lovably bloated loop-and-grooveoriented collection that reminds as much of bands like Pop Will Eat Itself and Big Audio Dynamite as much as it does of the Blur/Oasis heyday. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St. 8 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12 BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL [COMEDY] Portland’s nationally renowned comedy festival is back, this time with more than 200 comedians in eight venues during four days. Don’t know where to start? Tonight’s Best of Boston showcase, featuring Shane Mauss and Dwayne Perkins, is as good a place as any. Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., bridgetowncomedy.com. 8 pm. $20. 21+. STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE AUTHORS [BOOKS AND BLASTERS] When two Star Wars fans fall in love and make their own little ones, they want to teach those nerdlings about the magic of the Star Wars universe. Here, young padawan will learn lessons from their collection of nonfiction Star Wars books. Powell’s at Cedar Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4651, 7 pm. Free.
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WANT TO BEFRIEND AN APE? LEARN TO SPEAK HIS LANGUAGE. Apes seem like hairier versions of ourselves—playful, inquisitive and quick to throw feces when angered. For decades, we’ve been dressing them as bellhops, teaching them to ride tricycles and making them hang out with Michael Jackson. Now, bonobos have been given iPads that control a water cannon, equipping them for their eventual takeover of Earth. But while we’ve been teaching them our language, it seems these crafty apes have been speaking a secret language behind our backs the whole time. Now, we’re learning their language. Andrew Halloran, a Florida-based primatologist, explains what apes are discussing among themselves in his new book, The Song of the Ape. PENELOPE BASS.
WW: So everyone who has claimed to teach an ape English or sign language is lying? Andrew Halloran: Well, I would put most of the language-trained-ape projects into the self-deception category. We create these lab-reared, talking super-apes and, no matter how intelligent they are, or how well they are trained, they are never going to be as good at being humans as humans are. Chimpanzees are good at being chimpanzees. So how do apes communicate with each other? Vocally, chimpanzees learn calls from their groups. If you were to encounter one group of chimps in the forest, they would be utilizing a different lexicon of calls than the next group you were to encounter. If you were to record these calls and create a picture of the sounds, you would see incredibly complex structures and patterns with each of these phrases carrying specific meanings, which you could discern from the situations and contexts of the calls. So what the hell are they saying? Well, each group is different, but I imagine most of it would be profane. Bottom line: How do I get a chimp to be my friend? Will he bring me beers? To be the best friend of an ape or monkey, you would have to let them lead a natural life where they are free to live as the species they are—in an ecosystem unobstructed by our species. Oh, and your beers would almost certainly arrive empty. GO: See Andrew Halloran read from and discuss his new book, The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees, at the Belmont Library, 1038 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd., 988-5382, on Saturday, April 14. 3 pm. Free.
TURKKUSEX CONTEST [SEX] TurkkuSex, “northern Europe’s largest sex festival,” is hosting a local competition to find Portland’s most talented erotic performer with the TurkkuSex International Stripsearch. One lucky entertainer (ladies only!) will win a cash prize and a trip to Finland to perform at TurkkuSex 2012. Expect stiff competition. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $10.
SUNDAY, APRIL 15 DRAG BINGO FOR DOGS [GAMBLING] OK, so maybe it’s bingo to benefit dogs. Cats, too. Multnomah County Animal Services throws a bingo fundraiser, hosted by drag performer Summer Seasons. Hamburger Mary’s, 19 NW 5th Ave. 7-9 pm. $20.
MONDAY, APRIL 16 TOM RUSSELL, RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT [MUSIC] The legendary Ramblin’ Jack Elliott returns to the Alberta Rose after proving there last year he has reached 80 without succumbing to any of the three A’s: arthritis, Alzheimer’s or apathy. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian). Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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Old Town Pizza Fundraiser Dinner at Aviary
Old Town Pizza, everyone’s favorite place to shanghai a new deckhand, suffered a fire recently. If anyone knows how much that can screw with your restaurant, it’s Alberta’s Aviary, which closed for five months after a stray Fourth of July firework set it alight last year. So, the folks at Aviary are paying it forward with a benefit dinner. The meal will pair four courses with beers from the pizzeria’s new brewing arm. Aviary, 1733 NE Alberta St., 287-2400. 6 pm. $45. 21+.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Sake Fest PDX
Think sake is just a sidekick to sushi? Prepare to have your entire world view destroyed. Oregon’s SakeOne and a host of other sake brewers will sample their wares, alongside Japanese (and Japaneseinspired) beers, plum wine and bites from the likes of Masu, Yakuza, Departure, Kalé and Biwa. The ticket price includes a souvenir sampling glass and free admission to an after-party at Saucebox. Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., 224-3400. 6:30-9 pm. $49 in advance, $59 at door. 21+.
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Sweet Jeebus. A meal pairing for dog owners and their hounds. Dogfood cook Rick Woodford celebrates the release of his new book, Feed Your Best Friend Better, by teaming up with Jamie Snell of the Lamb’s Table Catering for a pop-up dinner at a vintage furniture store. Waaay too much Portland right there. Anyway, humans will eat a meal and their pets, will get a meal featuring similar ingredients. The press release says it will be “gourmutt.” Reservations can be made at the store or by calling 208-2580. Seek the Unique, 931 SE 6th Ave., 208-2580. 7 pm. $35 per person. Pets free. BYO booze.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Kitchen Revival Tour
For 14 years, the Architectural Heritage Center has been allowing nosy folks to pry into Portland’s kitchens with its Kitchen Revival Tour. This year will feature eight houses from 1898-1961, including three DIY kitchens and one in the 1925 San Carlos apartment building. Other people’s stuff is so much more interesting than your own. Tickets and info at visitahc.org. 10 am-4 pm. AHC members $20, nonmembers $25.
Celebration of Mazurkas
Mazurek is a type of Polish cake made only at Easter. It will be served up alongside a feast of Polish music at Polish Hall, featuring five regional pianists playing your favorite hits from Chopin, Szymanowski and Maciejewski. The mazurek comes with coffee and tea, and Polish liqueurs will be available in Grandpa’s Cafe downstairs. Na zdrowie! Polish Hall, 3900 N Interstate Ave., 715-1866. 7 pm. $10.
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The Gamechanger Bucket is a 5-gallon bucket created by Nike and Hurley with nonprofit Waves 4 Water containing a new soccer ball and a filter that its makers say can provide clean water for 100 people for five years. W4W is holding a fundraiser to get more of these buckets where they’re needed.
DRAGGING ON: Yin-Yang shrimp is more boring than it looks.
BULL IN A CHINA SHOP A dish called Dragonwell Lionhead summons imagery straight outta Game of Thrones: writhing lizards hatching from the skulls of your enemies doused in Sriracha—or something like that. Part of the letdown in ordering this dinner off the “new dishes” menu at Dragonwell Bistro is that it’s just meatballs. But the disappointment is heightened because they are such bland meatballs. The chopped pebbles of pork leg are satisfactory meat, but they’re braised to a dry uniformity, then served in a bowl of what looks like boiled cabbage and water. The dish costs $16, and it is one of the house’s evening bargains. I don’t want to heap trouble on Dragonwell, a Chinese restaurant that seems to have suffered enough turmoil already: It was owned by local chain Sungari until Jan. 1, and signage in the foyer explains at length how it has feuded with restaurant.com over obsolete gift certificates. But this is the sort of eatery that comes and goes in downtown Portland without notice, and the accumulation of them has come to define the dining scene along the downtown MAX lines, where exceptions like Luc Lac appearing as rare points of light. So its failures are worth examining, if only to ask who pays $22 for Yin-Yang Shrimp. The Yin-Yang dish contains items carefully separated on their sides of the plate: giant prawns in a tangy Mandarin sauce on their end, and bitsy shrimp in Cantonese white wine sauce on the other. It’s actually the most enjoyable meal I had at the bistro, because it offers two options for monotony, while everything else stuck to one. Order this: Seafood is best The recipes here all follow a temhere, if also most expensive; plate: evenly coat meat and veggies try prawns or scallops. in something sweet and sticky. The Best deal: At lunch, similar menu items are half the price. presentation is outstanding. The I’ll pass: I half suspect that consumption is a drag. While nothsoup was hot tofu water. ing is a fiasco—the seafood, especially the battered scallops ($23), struck me as good catches—the taste and texture of each bite is unvarying. Most of these sauces, such as the Champagne orange chicken glaze that’s sticky with actual (seemingly canned) mandarin oranges, are not a far cry from mall food-court Chinese. Meanwhile, the egg drop soup was the thinnest I have ever tasted. It also cost $3.50. Which is the troubling thing about an otherwise forgettable place: Somehow, dining in ostensibly posh environs in the central city seemingly inflates prices to keep the doors open. They’re a good bit cheaper at lunch, which may explain, along with the coupons, how those doors actually remain open. That makes Dragonwell Bistro less a symptom of our troubled economy and popped real-estate bubble than a victim of it, another desperate effort to keep the mediocre times rolling. It is all rather fantastical. AARON MESH. EAT: Dragonwell Bistro, 735 SW 1st Ave., 224-0800, dragonwellbistro.com. 11 am-10 pm Monday-Thursday, 11 am-midnight Friday, 5 pm-midnight Saturday, 4:30 pm-9 pm Sunday. $$.
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Bora Bora
There is no sign of cuisine from its Polynesian namesake, though you might feel like you’ve driven to Bora Bora to get to this dingy-looking Mexican-food truck. The voyage is worth it given the succulent chicken, cooked perfectly on a massive, firespewing grill. AP KRYZA. 15803 SE Division St, 750-1253.
Fire on the Mountain
The new Fremont location of our beloved wing dealer is something of a departure—larger, with its own adjacent brewery and wide wooden booths, like one of those steakhouses where you can shell peanuts on the floor. But classy. AARON MESH. 3443 NE 57th Ave., 280-9464, portlandwings.com.
Nong’s Khao Man Gai
Nong Poonsukwattana’s Khao Man Gai has long been a heavily favored one-dish wonder at the 10th and Alder pod, serving up the eponymous tender chicken and sticky rice with a grotesquely addictive garlic-ginger-soybean sauce ($6.50) and a tart, watery cabbage soup. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. 1003 SW Alder St., 971-255-3480, khaomangai.com.
Pollos a la Brasa El Inka
The long trek out to this tiny Peruvian restaurant is worth it, especially if you arrive later in the day when they are pulling the intensely flavored marinated chicken out of the wood-fired rotisserie oven that dominates the room. Moist with a hint of smokiness, the chicken elevates anything else it’s served with. BRIAN PANGANIBAN. 48 NE Division St., Gresham, 491-0323, elinkarestaurant.com.
Irving Street Kitchen
Don’t ask me how you make fried chicken sexy, but chef Sarah Schafer has done it. She injects her Draper Valley cluckers with butter, Tabasco and garlic, and dips them in a cornstarch batter that shatters into feather-light shards. KELLY CLARKE. 701 NW 13th Ave., 343-9440, irvingstreetkitchen.com.
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RUN CHICKEN RUN The best bird at Run Chicken Run is painted, not plated. Does any Portland food cart have better art than the man-sized rooster scurrying across this trailer’s wall? A vibration of bright colors in sharp lines, the mural is a siren’s song calling us easily amused dupes to the window as effectively as a bad pun. That the cart houses impressively above-average Thai food is a pleasant surprise. Happily, the plates are as bright as the artwork, packed with fresh flavors. Run Chicken Run doesn’t skimp on ingredients like big, thick slices of orange bell pepper mixed in with the Order this: Pad kee mao with chicken rice noodles in the pad kee ($6.50), a large platter of stir-fried mao ($6.50), or several hearty rice noodles with great seasoning. stalks of basil in the spicy basil I’ll pass: Salad rolls with tofu ($3.50) are packed with carrots and have a rice plate ($6.50). A cucumberwonderful creamy peanut sauce, but sized slice of galangal root— the tofu chunks are too gummy. Thai ginger—in the creamy tom kha soup ($5) might be most impressive of all. It’s a quality seasoning, and Run Chicken Run is clearly using a lot of it to give the lemongrass-and-coconut broth soaking about a cup of mushrooms its earthy flavor. (If you find a piece of the root in your bowl, don’t bite it.) As implied by the name, chicken is the only meat on the menu. Tofu is the other protein option, but the pieces in our salad rolls ($3.50) were a little soft and gummy for my taste. Stick with the house speciality unless you’re a vegetarian. On a related note, if you’re looking for some kick, you can feel comfortable asking for “Thai hot,” as ordering your meal “very spicy” doesn’t draw much fire. The chicken itself is in uniformly small, juicy chunks. It’s tasty, but tends to blend in with the rice and noodles, as bold herbs and crisp vegetables actually run the show even as a rooster gets the glory. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Run Chicken Run is at the A La Carts food pavilion, Southeast 50th Avenue south of Division Street. 839-6095. alacartspdx.com. $.
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Ponder this: We live in a city where we can watch celebrity butchers break down a pig via Internet live stream. This will either have you squealing like a schoolgirl, or contemplating a move to rural Pennsylvania. Italian butcher Dario Cecchini will do his thing in front of a live crowd—and you can watch at nostrana.com from 10 am-noon on April 17. At 7 that night, Cecchini and Nostrana chef Cathy Whims will serve up the porker for dinner, accompanied by live opera singers. Nostrana, 1401 SE Morrison St., 2342427. 7 pm. Dinner is $100, plus 20 percent gratuity.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 Arlo Guthrie
[THIS MACHINE SHILLS FOLGERS] In the four decades following the untimely death of his legendary protest-singer pa, coffee pitchman, Renegade guest star and Macy’s Parade mainstay Arlo Guthrie hasn’t so much failed the legacy of the Dust Bowl Troubadour as illustrated the apparently inexhaustible reserves of esteem granted the favored scion of leftist nobility. It’s little wonder the registered Republican supports Ron Paul; any reasonable estate tax would’ve stripped his inherited credibility well before 18 minutes of jokey walking blues rendered Arlo the Bocephus of the peace-symbol set. The current tour (with son Abe, grandson Krishna and set list emphasizing Woody’s centenary) has reportedly drawn an unusual number of families, and the teens dragged along must surely presume “Alice’s Restaurant” is an indulgent jingle for a New England buffet franchise. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 2349694. 8 pm. $39.50 advance, $42 day of show. All ages.
Andrew Bird
[ONE-MAN ORCHESTRA] Andrew Bird has distinguished quite a sound for himself. With each project, his idiosyncrasies become more recognized and more, well, Andrew Bird. Between the layers of plucked and bowed violin, the crisp instrumental whistling and a vocabulary bigger than most songwriters’, he has risen to the forefront of talented and innovative popular musicians. And while watching the chemistry among multiple live performers is a nice component of a concert, experiencing Bird’s one-man act of live multi-instrumental looping is equally, if not more, mesmerizing. It’s like watching each song being constructed from scratch, piece by piece. Sinking your teeth into his new album, Break It Yourself, is quite tasty, too. Although a bit on the mellower side, it still hovers in the same quirky realm of the Andrew Bird sound. EMILEE BOOHER. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $37.50$48.50. All ages.
Atriarch, Alaric, Rabbits, Ephemeros
[GOTHIC DOOM] Local quartet Atriarch has leveraged its noose-tight grip on death rock and doom to become one of America’s leaders in underground metal. Its brother band, Alaric, is not far behind, ruling Oakland, Calif., and continuing an East Bay tradition begun by Neurosis and Christ on Parade back in the ’80s. On April 17, Olympia label 20 Buck Spin (named after a Pentagram song) will release the greatly anticipated Atriarch-Alaric split, vinyl-only record. Atriarch singer Lenny Smith tells me that if the post office does its job (“Occupy now!”), there will be copies available at tonight’s show. Do yourself a favor and arrive early to catch the new funeral-doom supergroup Ephemeros, which boasts members of Nux Vomica, Violence of Humanity and Elitist. NATHAN CARSON. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 8 pm. $8. All ages.
Band of Skulls, We Are Augustines
[HEAVEN AND HELL] Fitting that the pride of Southampton finished its newest record, Sweet Sour, at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales. The barn-turned-music factory has housed big names, including genre predecessors like Black Sabbath and Iggy Pop. Band of Skulls’ second record is big where it needs to be, prone to dirty, hammering tirades of blues rock seemingly too thunderous for the band’s three members to manage. But it also coasts in all the right places, unplugging and breathing expansively without taking its foot off the gas, in a fashion akin to Earl Greyhound. MARK STOCK. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 10 pm. $16. 21+.
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[SURF POP] Featuring members of Inside Voices, Swim Swam Swum and the Parson Red Heads, Portland’s Houndstooth has referred to itself as “Southern rock.” If that’s true, the South must have the loneliest beaches in the world. In truth, the band meshes
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TOP FIVE MUSICAL GENIUSES WHO KEPT GLASSES COOL. Buddy Holly He inspired generations of musical nerds from Elvis Costello to Kanye, not to mention most of the current-day NBA. You know you’ve arrived when Weezer writes a song about you. Ray Charles How is it that blind dudes always rock the freshest shades? Honorable blind guy mentions: Stevie Wonder, George Shearing and Ronnie Milsap. Roy Orbison Oh, snap, we picked Roy Orbison over Elton John! That’s because Elton John’s glasses are often not cool, while Orbison’s always were. John Lennon OK, we still kind of hate the round lenses, but the dude certainly had a look. Ringo, by the way, has terrible taste in spectacles. Kool Moe Dee Honorable hip-hop shout-outs should go to D.M.C, Heavy D, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and E-40 and company, but Kool Moe Dee had the best shades ever. And, yes, we just referred to the man as a “musical genius.” Knowledge is king!
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WALKING IN THE COMPLICATED SHADOWS OF ELVIS COSTELLO’S STORIED PAST. BY CASEY JA R MA N
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From angry young man to Burt Bacharach collaborator to talk-show host, Elvis Costello rarely settles down long enough to take in the scenery. These days, though, the 57-year-old songwriter seems to be feeling a little sentimental. He’s relaunched his longforgotten Spectacular Spinning Songbook tour— which centers on a giant public set list that looks like something from The Price Is Right and requires audience participation to spin—and slimmed down to his 1970s fighting weight. On the eve of his Portland visit, we thought we’d take the opportunity to stroll down memory lane with Costello. A MAN OF MANY MOODS Angry: “When England was the whore of the world/ Margaret was her madam/ And the future was as bright and as clear/ As the black tarmacadam” (“Tramp the Dirt Down,” Spike) Depressed: “Was it a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’?/ A poor little schoolboy who said ‘we don’t need no lessons’?/ The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop/ The pop princess is downtown shooting up” (“The Other Side of Summer,” Mighty Like a Rose) Funny: “Though he wasn’t tall or handsome, she laughed when he told her/ ‘I’m the Sheriff of Nottingham and this is Little John’” (“American Without Tears,” King of America) Dreamy: “I might make it California’s fault/ Be locked in Geneva’s deepest vault/ Just like the canals of Mars and the Great Barrier Reef/ I come to you beyond belief” (“Beyond Belief,” Imperial Bedroom) Showoffish: “All you toy soldiers and scaremongers/ Are you living in this world, sometimes I wonder/ In between saying you’ve seen too much/ And saying you’ve seen it all before” (“Human Hands,” Imperial Bedroom) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Allison: A now-married ex whom the narrator may or may not want to have killed. Veronica: A lovely, but senile, old lady. This Year’s Girl: A very popular lady, perhaps a pop star, who seems bored with her station in life. Party Girl: A young socialite whom the narrator adores but does not wish to settle down with. Sulky Girl: A possible vampire and likely goth who ran away from home at a young age. Spooky Girlfriend: The narrator’s slutty, obedient dream girl. Almost certainly goth. Big Sister: “She is the blue chip that belongs to the big fish.” Duh. THE BEST OF THE BEST Trust (1981) Amazing pop song after amazing pop song. The crown jewel in a stretch of near-flawless late-’70s, early-’80s records. “New Lace Sleeves” just kills. Blood and Chocolate (1986) Perhaps the heaviest Elvis Costello record, which finds Costello playing with dark poetry and stringing together some rambling Dylanesque epics. National Ransom (2010) After a few ho-hum outings, Costello embraces his inner nerdy American record collector by playing an inspired set of smart, semi-jazzy story songs.
THE BEST OF THE WORST Almost Blue (1981) The (fantastic) title track, sadly, isn’t actually on this bland, country-covers album. “Good Year for the Roses” may be the only classic cut here, but two Gram Parsons tunes help its case a bit. Goodbye Cruel World (1984) Costello has rightly called this his worst album: It is besieged by plastic ’80s production and cheesy horns. That said, Daryl Hall duet “The Only Flame in Town” has plenty of kitsch value, and the gorgeous “Love Field” is brilliantly retro-futuristic. Mighty Like a Rose (1991) Though it’s one of the worst-reviewed Costello outings, I think of it as a fantastic EP with a bunch of shitty bonus tracks. “How to Be Dumb” and “All Grown Up” are classic, theatrical Costello. SEE IT: Elvis Costello and the Imposters play the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway Ave., on Friday, April 13. 8 pm. $46.50-$86.50. All ages. Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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The NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum. All ages.
Join the Bus & the NW Film Center for a one-time-only screening of the critically acclaimed, Sundance-Selected documentary. Stick around for a Q&A with producer Alex Kotlowitz.
DOCUMENTARY: THE INTERRUPTERS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 8:00 PM $9
Portland’s one and only place to see the hottest 2012 candidates bare it all (figuratively speaking). It’s the wildest night of candidate-questioning and ego-un-boosting you’ll spend in politics this year. Doors at 6 PM, Radiation City at 7 PM. Bagdad Theater. All ages.
CANDIDATES GONE WILD
TUESDAY, APRIL 17 8:00 PM $5
Heckle your way through 50 years of the most (in)famous political moments caught on tape. It’s a raucous clip show featuring comedians, journalists and politicos flexing their biting wit. Hollywood Theater. All ages.
POLITICAL SCIENCE THEATER 3000
MONDAY, APRIL 16 7:30 PM $5
Meet at White Stag Building. All ages.
Board the Bus and take a tour of Portland’s Activist History in partnership with the Dill Pickle Club.
PEOPLE PLACES POLITICS
1 - 5 PM $12
Dive into deep discussions of the issues facing the state and build your organizing skills. Old Town, various venues.
WORKSHOPS
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Join former U.S. Congressman Tom Perriello of the Center for American Progress and Erica Williams, of the Citizen Engagement Lab, for a discussion on democracy, the Millennial Generation and more. Governor Hotel. All ages.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 20
Union/Pine. 525 SE Pine St. All ages.
Get the weekend conference started at Union/Pine. Get to know the six cutting edge policies participating in the Bus’s signature Policy Contest and rub elbows with other rising leaders.
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Old Town, various venues.
Continue to explore groundbreaking new policies, sharpen your analysis of the challenges we face and build stronger connections with others doing good work.
WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, APRIL 22 10 AM - 4 PM $10
Star Theater. All ages.
Dance the day of workshops to a close and cast your vote in Round 2 of the Bus’s Policy Contest.
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Bargain Me Up, Scotty: Building Power For Workers In The 21St Century Battlefield Uterus: An Open Discussion On The National War On Women Bite The Ballot: Fighting To Protect The Right To Vote Code for America Hackathon: Civic-AppBuilding Marathon Choose Your Own (Social) Venture: Harnessing consumer purchasing for social good Corporations With Benefits: Businesses Making A Better World County Flair: How Local Government Can Do More Do The Wave: The Hidden Power Off Oregon’s Coast Drawing Attention: Politics & Comics E = MC 99% : Understanding The Theories Behind Activist Actions Econo-Bot 3000: Building A 21St Century Economy Entry-Level Ass-Kicking: Kickstarting Your Public Interest Career For The People (But Really): Making UserFriendly Government GOOD News For Portland: Tapping Design To Build A Great City Justice or Just Us: The Reality And Impact Of Oregon’s Approach To Public Safety
Literally Rebooting Democracy: Tapping the Power of Open Data to Bring Government into the 21st Century Live And Learn: The Non-Classroom Factors In Education Making The DREAM Reality: Tuition Equity In Oregon Mend The Gap: Social Innovation For Public Health Equity Mom, We Need To Talk: Winning Marriage Equality, One Family At A Time Skin In The Game: Politics Of The Body Take Some Initiative(s): 2012 Ballot Measure Run Down
Tax-y Driver: How Oregon’s Tax Expenditures Are Going A Little Crazy The Endless Summer: Preparing Your Town For Climate Change The Land Of Milk & Money: Looking For Perfect Campaign Finance Reform The Movement Movement: Organizing For a Better Transportation System “Where” It Out: The Politics Of Space Vote Quimby: Learning to Power Map Through “The Simpsons” Y2K-12: An Education System For This Century
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We’ll be engaging in dozens of conversations, workshops and trainings about the questions our state is facing. You can come to one workshop or buy a conference pass and come to them all. Conference passes start at $99.
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Every night of the week the doors of Union/Pine will be open to all. Come grab a beverage after an event or just swing by for a late happy hour. Union/Pine. 525 SE Pine St. All ages.
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Comedy is a powerful political tool, and Laughter Against The Machine wields it well. They’ve earned praise from coast to coast and will be bringing their hilarious commentary to PDX for one night only. Oh, and W. Kamau Bell just got his show picked up by FX. Dante’s. 21+
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LEICESTER FOXES: Kasabian plays at Wonder Ballroom on Wednesday, April 11. surf-rock reverb with college-rock jangle, with singer Katie Bernstein’s forlorn vocals coloring the music in vibrant shades of gray. Don’t read that wrong: It’s actually all very gorgeous, like standing on a misty shoreline and watching a storm roll in. MATTHEW SINGER. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $5. 21+.
Miike Snow, Penguin Prison
[SWEDE POP] Though festooned with the bleeps and bloops of electronic music’s current cultural moment, both Miike Snow (not one dude but, in fact, several dudes) and Penguin Prison (just one dude) owe a far greater debt to the broad dance pop of A-ha than to their electronic-pop contemporaries. Miike Snow is a Swedish trio whose grasp of pop-music voodoo allowed its self-titled debut to lodge at least one single (“Animal”) solidly in the collective subconscious. The trio’s upcoming sophomore LP, Happy to You, is sure to reach a similar level of saturation. SHANE DANAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. All ages.
Kasabian, Hacienda
[BRIT ROCK] Kasabian made a splash when the English group’s self-titled album debuted in 2004 with arena-ready hits like “L.S.F.” and “Club Foot,” conquering the British charts, magazine covers and festival slots and making waves in the United States. The band sounded refreshingly modern with its adrenaline-infused keyboards, yet like a throwback at the same time, capable of recalling the Verve and Oasis. Following its debut, Kasabian continued gaining accolades overseas, but all but disappeared in the United States. Now, ready for its comeback, the quintet is in the midst of its first American tour in years, in support of latest album Velociraptor! NILINA MASON-CAMPBELL. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 8 pm. $17 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12 Sepultura, Death Angel, Krisiun, Havok, Proven
[THRASHY THRASHERS] The version of Sepultura performing this week in Portland is not the same band that burst forth on the thrash-metal scene way back in 1986. It’s so different, in fact, that there are no original members playing under the name; the longest-standing current member is guitarist Andreas Kisser, who joined the fold in ’87. This is no reason to dismiss the group out of hand, mind you. Its most recent album, Kairos, is a solid collection of groove-heavy headbangers, capped by a fierce cover of Ministry’s “Just One Fix” and the overall sturdy vocals of current singer Derrick Green. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 2345683. 6 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
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[ANDROID PROG] In the buildup to the release of its new album, I Love You, It’s Cool, Brooklyn trio Bear in Heaven slowed the record down 400,000 percent and streamed the whole thing on its website. (It has even put out the full 2,700-hour drone on a 2-terabyte thumb drive, just in case you need a soundtrack for your opium den.) It was obviously a publicity stunt, but the band shouldn’t have to resort to such gimmicks, not after 2009’s stunning Beast Rest Forth Mouth. Initially labeled “synth prog,” the group gets a lot from little—just keyboard, bass and human-metronome drumming—and on I Love You, it gets even more, using its simple setup to create hazy, digitized dream pop like the score to a robot love fantasy. MATTHEW SINGER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
First Aid Kit, Peggy Sue
[SWEDE DUETS] Klara and Johanna Söderberg are the two Swedish sisters behind First Aid Kit—a name you may recognize from the popular YouTube video of the duo’s endearing cover of Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song.” The younger sister, Klara, plays acoustic guitar and sings the lead with a deep and pristine voice that’s continually getting stronger. Johanna mainly sings backup, but without her presence in the bountiful harmonies, the music wouldn’t be complete. With help from producer and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis, the ladies recently released their second full-length album, The Lion’s Roar. Vocally driven and filled with American country-folk influences, the cleanly produced album is quite an impressive second effort by the gifted young duo. EMILEE BOOHER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. All ages.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Kory Quinn, National Flower, Lewi Longmire
[ROOTS] There’s something to be said for just kinda nailing honkytonk and folk tunes without attaching a lot of bells and whistles. That’s what Kory Quinn does on his new EP, Angels and Outlaws. The five songs here are well-built and ship-shape, from the guitar picking to the tight-’n’-twangy vocal harmonies. Quinn’s extremely tight rhythm section has jazzy undertones thanks to Blue Cranes drummer Ji Tanzer and busy local bassist Sam Howard. It’s music built for fans of Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and other artists we only know from black-and-white photos and scratchy 78s, but it’s a musical form tackled in such a simultaneously lively and respectful manner that one can’t help digging on what Kory Quinn is doing. CASEY JARMAN. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St. 8 pm. $10. First 50 people get a free CD. 21+.
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[VISIOGOTHS] That’s Lacuna Coil in the spotlight, ever since a winter’s tour with Motörhead and Megadeth helped the mope-metal Italiano vets land a top-20 stateside chart debut for just-released sixth LP Dark Adrenaline. Beyond the obvious appeal of Milanese stunner and Mustaine duetter Cristina Scabbia for long-in-tooth monstersof-rock devotees, the sextet takes pains remaining a starless band of brooders—eternally incorporating co-vocalist Andrea Ferro’s guttural counterpoint to Aqua Vitae effect— however pop their hooks or pristine their production. Weirdly, the absolute sincerity driving such bloodless pap almost carries the new album on Old World charm—before the “Losing My Religion” cover reminds just why they thought that they heard us laughing. JAY HORTON. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.
The Portland Cello Project
[FOUR STRINGS AND THE BEAT] PCP continues to prove that it’s more than a gimmick by ranging ever farther into territory where no cello has gone before. On the group’s spiffy new CD, Homage, the not-so-final frontier is hip-hop: The disc features covers of hits by Kanye West and Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Outkast alongside pieces by contemporary classical composer Osvaldo Golijov. It all sounds so natural (with a little help from drummer Rachel Blumberg and a horn section) that you’d think cellists were the real OGs. Along with the usual flock of cellos, this release party will include winds, horns, double percussion and a guest singer. BRETT CAMPBELL. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $14 advance, $16 day of show. 21+.
Curtis Salgado
[BLUES-EYED SOUL] Blues is one of the few genres of music in which an artist can hit his or her stride around what would normally be considered retirement age. At 58 years old, Portland’s Curtis Salgado is ramping up to his prime: New disc Soul Shot, his debut for the seminal Alligator blues label, is among his best-produced outings to date. The disc features Salgado’s able band blasting through blues, soul and funk cuts, but it also features a number of notable contributions from artists like legendary Latin percussionist Lenny Castro and Pleasure/Dazz Band alum Marlon McClain. The band is, of course, led by Salgado’s voice—equally informed by Howlin’ Wolf and Van Morrison—which remains commanding and authoritative. While questions of authenticity and ownership swirl around every white bluesman’s career, Salgado’s recent liver transplant and battle with lung cancer ought to quell any doubts that the man is well-acquainted with struggle. Salgado proves his chops as both performer and historian on the new disc. He and his band have two nights to get to all the material at these special Jimmy Mak’s recordrelease shows. CASEY JARMAN. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave. 8 pm. $20, $25 reserved seating. 21+.
Alcest, Amber Asylum, Eight Bells, Anne
[SHOEGAZE GLOOM] Although blunted black-metal spikes do occasionally pierce the diaphanous haze of Alcest’s most recent album, Les Voyages de l’Âme, they are but tastefully applied adornments to a ranging, frequently epic sound. Alcest mastermind Neige (Stéphane Paut to his parents), late of Peste Noire and Amesoeurs, arrives at blastbeat catharsis only after traveling through vast post-rock soundscapes, shoegaze drifts and even brief stretches of cheeseball balladry. It’s not an immediately gripping listen, but Les Voyages de l’Âme’s twilit evocation of mossy caverns and drippy crypts and other
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[EDGY POP] You might remember Perfume Genius’ little YouTube scandal from January. The act’s label, Matador, says a video advertisement for Perfume Genius’ new album, Put Your Back N 2 It, was banned from the popular video site for not being “family safe.” The objectionable part was ostensibly the embrace of two barely clothed guys, one of them a meaty porn star. It’s difficult to understand what YouTube could have found offensive in the relatively innocuous short clip, except, of course, all the gay in it. Now, the actual album is another story. One song, “AWOL Marine,” is inspired by an amateur porno a guy made to get medication for his wife. Another, “17,” includes a metaphor describing a violin strung up on a fence and covered with semen. And the semicreepy video for Put Your Back N 2 It’s first single, “Hood,” brings back the aforementioned porn star (Arpad Miklos) to smear makeup on a dewy Genius. YouTube allowed this one. The imagery is unsettling, but it comes from a true place. Perfume Genius—or 28-year-old Mike Hadreas, if you like—could not have had an easy time writing this album. The songs are deeply personal, and most of them are even painful. Hadreas shares what most people would feel uncomfortable telling their therapists. “I come from a family of oversharers,” Hadreas says via telephone. “Our conversations can spiral up and down. It’s totally normal dinner conversation for it to get really intense or for us to say too much. So it’s what I’m good at.” For Hadreas, Put Your Back N 2 It is the result of a lot of growth, both musically and emotionally. The new album has the same soft intimacy of his 2010 debut, Learning, but the sound is richer. The quiet piano ballads are twisted with synthesized vocals that sound like they’re coming from an answering machine. Over that tapestry, Hadreas sings about overcoming addiction and working through personal demons. He’s also abandoned what he calls the “teenage angst” of his first album and replaced it with a bit of hope. Many of the songs in Put Your Back N 2 It have happy endings, he says, though that depends on your definition of happy: It’s all still relatively depressing. “It’s just as comfortable for me to let out how bleak I’m feeling,” he says. “There’s some strange comfort in that. I don’t need to patch up anything. I can just feel it, and then it will go away.” Hadreas’ music speaks particularly to the gay experience. Not to put him in a box or anything, but his themes of love, addiction and self-loathing practically walk you through the stages of gay shame. Hadreas, who grew up in the Seattle area, says he was selfaware very early. “I remember being like 5 and being at a toy store, and my dad was like, ‘Pick out what you like,’” Hadreas recalls. “I, of course, wanted the big bridal Barbie on the top shelf—the biggest badass Barbie up there. And I remember looking at my dad and the guy that worked in the store and wondering if they were uncomfortable. And that’s a strange thing for a 5-year-old to think. That they’re making adults uncomfortable.” These days, Hadreas doesn’t care if he makes people uncomfortable. Not even the censors at YouTube. AARON SPENCER.
Mike Hadreas’ music is plenty family-friendly—he just comes from an intense family.
SEE IT: Perfume Genius plays Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., on Tuesday, April 17, with Parenthetical Girls. 9 pm. $10. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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TEAR DOWN THIS WALL: Lacuna Coil plays the Aladdin Theater on Friday, April 13. Romantic spaces rewards patience and perseverance. Sit back and let it swallow you. CHRIS STAMM. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Freeway, Tony Ozier with Slim Kid Tre, DJ Zimmie
[PHILLY-HOP] It’s hard to imagine now, but the radio was once dominated by East Coast street rappers. State Property, a crew of rugged MCs from Philadelphia, was partly responsible for that, scoring a number of playfully grimy Top 10 hits in the early 2000s. Sadly, when street rap began to take a backseat to Auto-Tune and club-hop, most of the crew was left behind. Now, the only really relevant State Property member (at least when Beanie Sigel is in jail) is Freeway, who, not coincidentally, was one of the crew’s most talented members. Free’s uniquely intense flow, mixed with his great ear for beats—he has worked with everyone from Kanye to Just Blaze to Statik Selektah— has made him a hip-hop fan favorite for years. Although his songs often lack choruses and structure, there’s something wildly entertaining about hearing his high-pitched growl tear through the sample-based beats he picks; it’s like watching a bull in a china shop. Since State Property disappeared, Free has walked the line between mainstream and underground, signing with both G-Unit and Cash Money while also releasing quality indie albums with Seattle’s Jake One and Statik Selektah. REED JACKSON. The Crown Room, 205 NW 4th Ave., 503-222-6655. 9:30 pm. $5. 21+.
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Last Prick Standing, Moodring, Curious Hands
[TOO MUCH ROCK] Last Prick Standing, which has lately been going by the less in-your-face moniker LPS, plays undeniably raw rock that seems based almost entirely on whim. As such, the band recently finished not one but two new records. The first is Billy Callous, which presents LPS as an angular post-punk/postgrunge outfit with candy-coated New Wave tendencies. The second is the yet-to-be-released Seduce Yourself, which the band describes as “a highly (some would say excessively) produced glam rock record.” The single leaked track from the latter disc, “Push,” sounds more like Squeeze than the New York Dolls to me, but either way, I’m happy. There are plenty of good musical ideas at work here, and considering that LPS intends to release a grand total of five records before 2012 is out—each an entirely different beast—chances are that you’ll like something this band does. CASEY JARMAN.. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
SUNDAY, APRIL 15 Guitar Wolf, The Transistors, Mean Jeans
[RAMONE-A-BES] In Japanese music culture, imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery. Over there, bands are judged less by artistic innovation than by how accurately they mimic their chosen Western source material. In the case of Nagasaki’s Guitar Wolf, the band has been pulling off a pretty great Ramones impression going on 25 years now. Wrapped in leather jackets that never seem to come off, the group basically put its collective head down in 1987 and charged through the proceeding two decades, releasing a dozen albums of dirt-simple punk rock. Even the death of its original bassist in 2005 barely slowed the band down. Its shows play out the same way its career has: loud and fast, with hardly any pauses in the action. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $13.50 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.
Ed and the Red Reds, Country Mice, Melville
[HEARTLAND TREMORS] Brooklyn is where Country Mice reside geographically, but their sound floats somewhere above the heartland like a distant cumulonimbus cloud. Frontman Jason Rueger has a family farm in Kansas, to which much of debut Twister seems to pay homage. Produced by Doug Boehm (Drive-By Truckers, Girls), the record is a wispy mix of Jeff Tweedy-inspired alt-country and fuzzy rock ’n’ roll. The band’s live sets tend toward more clutter and distortion, with bolts of ’90s rock striking often. It’s a rumbling storm, set far, far away. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $5. 21+.
Still Caves, Psychic Feline
[BUZZED BASEMENT BEATS] This is what getting the spins sounds like. It’s dizzying, rapid and sounds light-years away. Portland’s Still Caves lets its melodies work out into gutter-rock instrumental pileups comparable to Dirty Beaches or Wavves. Listen to “Dutch,” a track that starts with burned-out guitar riffs and muffled lyrics and later unfolds into a long, faded gathering of chiming drums, blurry vocals and slick, constrained guitar pangs. Tonight they play a free Sunday session at Rontoms with Portland’s retro-rock Psychic Feline. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 2364536. 9 pm. Free. 21+.
Trust, Vice Device, Asss, DJ Maxx Bass, DJ Musique Plastique
[NEW JUKEBOX HEROES] The Portland music scene now has a new force to contend with: 2510 Records, the imprint started up by Jared White, of Clinton Street Record & Stereo and DJ Maxx Bass infamy. And the label’s first release is quite the opening salvo. The
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MAGIC MOUTH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 [ECLECTIC, SPIRITUAL POP] Here’s a poorly kept secret all music fans should know: As excited as we get about a band’s CD-release parties, by the time said group gets to the point of releasing an album and playing a show to unleash it on the world, there’s a good chance the band is sick of the songs on it. At least Magic Mouth, the soulful rock quartet gearing up to release its first EP, Believer, tonight at Mississippi Studios, is willing to admit it. “It’s really good to get these songs out of the way,” says the band’s guitarist, Peter Condra, relaxing with a BLT sandwich and drinking in the rare spot of sunshine at Produce Row. “Let’s get this recording down and walk away from it and start working on other things.” “This release party is us getting rid of these old songs and coming out again to the world,” says drummer Ana Briseño with a wry smile. “It’s us coming out of the closet again.” That last comment gets a lot of knowing laughter from Briseño’s bandmates. The four members of Magic Mouth—Briseño, Condra, singer Stephfon Bartee and bassist Brendan Scott—are all out and proud members of the LGBT community. That said, they are the first to admit that their sound doesn’t necessarily fit what they see as the usual mold of an all-queer band. “I think the queer community is looking for alternative types of music,” Scott says. “What they usually get is mostly DJs and dance music. There’s nothing gay about our music at all.” It’s hard to put an easily recognizable framework around what the band accomplishes onstage and on its new EP. Condra and Bartee’s vocal harmonies echo the soulful urgency of Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, while the group engages in a spirited musical conversation that links each member’s variety of interests (Scott spins house, disco, and ’90s hip-hop as DJ Pocket Rock-It; Briseño also plays in the all-girl cumbia rock group Reynosa). EP track “Pick It Up” is nothing but soul claps and drums, coming off like a roof-raising minimalist techno track, while the title track starts in downtempo blues mode before bursting through as a garage rock scorcher. As you might guess from a band releasing an EP called Believer, there’s a spiritual element to Magic Mouth’s sound. You can hear it in the band’s Pentecostal-style call-and-response vocals and their invocation of “heaven” as the highest reaches of both body and soul. That side served as the core of the group’s beginnings with Briseño and Condra geeking over their mutual love of early American folk and Nina Simone’s interpretations of gospel. It’s a driving force in the lives of Condra and Bartee, who were both raised by pastors. “We’re not extremely religious,” Bartee says. “I feel like I’m a spiritual person. And there’s a lot of spirit in our group. It comes out because of our life experiences. I don’t think we could avoid seeing things through that lens.” Condra agrees. “It’s the backdrop of our lives,” he says. “And the language of that world comes out in our songs. People really hold on to that when they see us play live. They’ve told us, ‘Oh my God, it’s like going to gay church!’” ROBERT HAM. Taking that whole gay-church vibe out of the dance club.
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MONDAY, APRIL 16 Tom Russell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Jon Langford, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Thad Beckman
[FOLK TRAIN] Roots on the Rails’ Portland Rose train hauls vintage carriages up the West Coast yearly, ferrying a passel o’ songwriters and a few dozen fans to Stumptown and back, with playin’ and singin’ galore led by wise and witty Western troubadour Tom Russell. This year, Russell’s joined by the legendary Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, returning to the Alberta Rose after proving there last year he has reached 80 without succumbing to any of the three A’s: arthritis, Alzheimer’s or apathy; his picking, wit and politics are as sharp as ever. Also aboard is Jon Langford of the fabulous Mekons, possibly the Coolest Guy on the Planet. Cosmic cowboy and Flatlanders founder Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s reedy voice and reflective lyrics make him a can’t-miss on his own, let alone in such company. Portland guitar whiz Thad Beckman rounds out the bill. Train-trippers pay up to $3,500 for a ticket; see tonight’s show at a roughly 99 percent discount. JEFF ROSENBERG. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.
Acid Mothers Temple, Phantom Family Halo
[MYSTICAL MUSICAL WANDERERS] There’s a great picture of Japanese psychedelic explorers Acid Mothers Temple from a recent trip the band made to Portland, with all four current members standing sentry in front of the watering hole known as the Morrison Hotel. Such is this band’s love for American music from the ’60s. But when it’s filtered through the group’s drug-addled minds, what comes out is an unkempt explosion of improvisational wanderings and smoky acid-bathed rock. With the title of its 2009 album, the band asked, Are We Experimental? The answer: You’re goddamn right you are. ROBERT HAM. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.
Slaughterhouse, Illmaculate
[HARDCORE HIP-HOP] For anyone lamenting the Drake-onization of hip-hop—the way the beats have gotten softer, the lyrics more sensitive—please meet Slaughterhouse. A supergroup formed out of a mixtape collaboration among rappers Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce da 5’9�, this foursome of heavy spitters probably doesn’t have a single sweater
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17 Street Nights, Rebecca Gates and the Consortium
[ROCK] Its original moniker having fallen victim to the blight of copyright dispute, Street Nights (formerly Nightmoves) is missing nary a beat as it preps for the release of its debut full-length and frantically re-monographs all of its hand towels. The quartet’s music recalls the Ramones and the Police, while miraculously avoiding multiple opportunities for the aping of both. In addition to the aforementioned full-length, Street Nights is also prepping a 7-inch and making plans to play that weird-as-hell “Portland in Paris� festival, which should actually be pretty cool, provided no one figures out the French for, “Actually, that place has kind of already peaked.� SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 10 pm. $3. 21+.
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115 NW 5th Ave. Chemical Channel, Tempustantrum, Foxall to Foxall
Biddy McGraw’s
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Richard Cranium & the Phoreheads
Branx
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Laura Ivancie Trio (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny & Jason (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bear in Heaven, Blouse, Doldrums
6000 NE Glisan St. Open Bluegrass Jam (9:30 pm); John Roos (6 pm) 320 SE 2nd Ave. Sepultura, Death Angel, Krisiun, Havok, Proven
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Muddy Rudder Public House
Chapel Pub
Palace of Industry
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Plan B
Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Counterfeit Cash
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: Boombox, Lynx
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Water Tower, Dan Henson
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Arlo Guthrie
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Andrew Bird
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Raw Dog and the Close Calls, Poop Attack, End Notes
Blitz Twentyone 305 NW 21st Ave. Chris Margolin
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Atriarch, Alaric, Rabbits, Ephemeros
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Band of Skulls, We Are Augustines
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Left Coast Country, The Bottlecap Boys, Bitterroot, Poor Boy’s Soul
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
East India Co.
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
714 SW 20th Place Hidden Knives, The Verner Pantons, Mangled Bohemians
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Brothers Comatose, Mimi Naja/Brad Parsons
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Jonny Two Bags Wickersham (of Social Distortion, 9 pm); Roach Gigz, Berner, Clyde Carson, Nima Fadavi, Tope, Young Mil (8 pm)
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Houndstooth, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Pigeons
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Gordy Michael/Eric Hailstone Duo (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Renee Muzquiz
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet (8 pm); Mitzi Zilka and Her Talented Friends (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Sioux Falls, Where Division Ends, Jacob Balcom
Ladd’s Inn
1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Sleeper Smiles, Glue Horses (9 pm); The Phoreheads (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Crown Point
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Hoo (kids’ show)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Magic Mouth, Stay Calm, Roy G Biv
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Drum Circle
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Erik Anarchy, Dreizehn, Intentional Harrassment, Feral Drollery, Effword
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. Swing Papillon
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Miike Snow, Penguin Prison
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Black Pussy, Fox and the Law, The Ex-Girlfriends Club
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Coastlands, Imaginary Airship, Almost Dark, Kate Beeman
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Bre Gregg
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Muddy River Nightmare Band, Pitchfork Motorway, Middle Ages
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. The Ribner Brothers
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Ken Brewer & Danny O’Brien
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
128 NE Russell St. Kasabian, Hacienda
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203 SE Grand Ave. Sexywaterspiders, White Fang, Lunar Grave, DJ Noah Sweat
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Josh & Mer
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Emulator, Excellent Gentlemen
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
2346 SE Ankeny St. Brian McGinty, Scott Gallegos, Gabby Holt
Keller Auditorium
222 SW Clay St. Soul’d Out Festival: Maze, Ronnie Laws with Marlon McClain
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. Cronin Tierney
Kelly’s Olympian
Alberta Rose Theatre
5736 NE 33rd Ave. The Shook Twins
3000 NE Alberta St. Glen Phillips, Jonathan Kingham
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Whiskey Puppy, Mighty Ghosts
Andina
Sundown Pub
The Blue Diamond
832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Phoenix Project Blues Jam
East End
426 SW Washington St. 1491, CC Swim, Bath Party
1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio
5903 N Lombard St. Fatha Green, Shiner, Migi Artugue
1800 E Burnside St. Dogtooth
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Water Tower, Pete Leone
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Cold Ground, King Ghidora, RAKSHA!
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Social Distortion, Toadies
Sellwood Public House
East Burn
Jade Lounge
Wonder Ballroom
1305 SE 8th Ave. Wizard Rifle, Diesto, Mongoloid Village, Pinkzilla
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sam Densmore, Subterranean Howl
1635 SE 7th Ave. Gusto Brothers (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen, Linda Michelet
5426 N Gay Ave. Lady Elaine
Duff’s Garage
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Community Jam
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar
2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
1435 NW Flanders St. Josh Deutsch Quintet (8 pm); Laura Cunard (5 pm)
836 N Russell St. World’s Finest
8105 SE 7th Ave. Lauren Sheehan Duo
Original Halibut’s II
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley
Open Mic
3435 N Lombard St. Claes
Camellia Lounge
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
Ella Street Social Club
Mississippi Studios
Mock Crest Tavern
510 NW 11th Ave. Sugarfree Jazz Collective
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626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido
6835 SW Macadam Ave. RocktownPDX Revue, Chris Margolin
SOUL SURVIVOR: Curtis Salgado plays Jimmy Mak’s on Friday and Saturday, April 13-14.
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
Kennedy School
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Planet Crashers, The Protons
Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Mercy Ties, The Sky Above & Earth Below
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackalope Saints, Ezza Rose (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Henry Hill Kammerer
Spare Room
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Wanderlust Circus Orchestra, Ashia and the Bison Rouge, NagaSita, Russell Bruner, Karolina, Sugar Kane, Luther Bangert, Noah Mickens, Miss Alex Kennedy, Zora Von Pavonine
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. Christopher Neil Young, Love Satellite
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam Session
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Audios Amigos, Ghostwriter, DRC3
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Eric John Kaiser
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Madlife, Acrid Intent, Vice Riot
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Gretchen Rumbaugh, Darcy White
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Josh Garrells, Cory Dauber, Wesley Eader
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Andrew Grade (8:30 pm); Faerabella (6 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Hivemind (8:30 pm); Will West & Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Sean Holmes, Fred Stickely
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. First Aid Kit, Peggy Sue
FRI. APRIL 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Water Tower, Ed Thanhouser
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Lacuna Coil, Otherwise
Nicole Campbell (8 pm); Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire (5 pm)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Kevin Deitz Sextet (8 pm); Kit Taylor (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Little Hexes (8 pm); Russell Thomas (6 pm)
Jam on Hawthorne
2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Inspirational Beets, Hot Club of Hawthorne
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Curtis Salgado
Katie O’Briens
Alberta Rose Theatre
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Vinegar, Dr. Stahl, Cootie Platoon, Burn Damage
Alberta Street Public House
426 SW Washington St. Holy Children, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, The Blacklights
3000 NE Alberta St. Kory Quinn, National Flower, Lewi Longmire
Kelly’s Olympian
1036 NE Alberta St. Go Kart Mozart, Felsen (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Kenton Club
Andina
Laughing Horse Books
1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
1037 SW Broadway Elvis Costello and the Imposters
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hunter Paye
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Dubious, Simple Tricks & Nonsense, Tinzen
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Running Team, Yeti Sweater, Why I Must Be Careful (Music in the Schools benefit)
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Ray Beran
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Lynn Connover
Brasserie Montmartre
626 SW Park Ave. Devin Phillips Quartet (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. George Tilsdale Band
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Boom!, Matt Mayhem’s One Man Band
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Return Flight
Doug Fir Lounge
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Spirit Lake, Old Light, Medicine Family 12 NE 10th Ave. Velvet Fist, Screaming Queens, Fucking Lesbian Bitches, No/Ho/Mo
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road The Subjective Perspective
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Sonny Hess
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro The Druthers
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Weekend Assembly (9 pm); Sam Densmore (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Tea Leaf Green, The Silent Comedy
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. New Iberians
Mount Hood Community College 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham Genesis, Jeff Baker Quartet
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio
Nel Centro
830 E Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: The Portland Cello Project
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew & Dave Captein
Duff’s Garage
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
1635 SE 7th Ave. Hifi Mojo, AC Porter and the Livewires (9 pm); The Hamdog (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Trash Can Joe
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Di Di Mau, Si Si Si, Habits
Ella Street Social Club
714 SW 20th Place The Cry, Pink Slime, Orca Team, Jollapin Jasper
Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave.
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Jon Bunzow
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Weresquatch, Perseverance, Tribune, Stonecreep, Fred Ped
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Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Cougar, Bastard Maker
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Soul’d Out Festival: Afromassive, Tapwater
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Student Loan
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Farnell Newton (Miles Davis tribute, 8 pm); Ben Darwish (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Jamie Treadwell (8 pm); Sarah Leah, Daniel Robinson (6 pm)
DOG DON’T HUNT: Until recently, getting Hair of the Dog ’s barrel-aged brews straight from the breeder meant waiting in the rain by a loading dock. Hair of the Dog’s tasting room (61 SE Yamhill St., 232-6585, hairofthedog.com) is a dachshund’s step up. Located in the industrial east side (Bunk Bar and Boke Bowl are neighbors), the brewhouse is the centerpiece of this beautiful facility, well worth a visit if you’re even a little bit into tanks, barrels and hoses. The airy but otherwise nondescript tasting room (“Come visit, no need to call ahead”) is an afterthought. For starters, it’s only open for limited hours from Wednesday to Sunday. Then there’s the lukewarm, fatted bones sold as duck wings. They’re $6 for three; I suffered two. On the other hand, the tasting room pours modestly priced tasting snifters from the tap and sells a dozen hard-to-find vintages in bottles. Lap it up, then get a tall boy and a sandwich. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Curtis Salgado
Katie O’Brien’s
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Flat Black Tomato
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. St. James Gate
Kennedy School
5736 NE 33rd Ave. Mo Phillips
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Last Prick Standing, Moodring, Curious Hands
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Hydrive (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
Lents Commons
9201 SE Foster Road NoPo Big Band
Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. A Simple Colony, The Sale
Quimby’s at 19th 1502 NW 19th Ave. Steve Wilkinson
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Felson, Go Kart Mozart
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Hyborian Rage, Gate of the Gods, Godenied, Wild Dogs, Psychosynapsis, Echoic
Reed College--Eliot Hall Chapel
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Reverend Hammer
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Idiot: S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (Incubus tribute), Deathtrap America, The Rise the Fall
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Vendetta Red, A Volcano, Viper Creek Club, Vises, Duty
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Kevin Greenspon, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Vehicle Blues, Campfires
Touché Restaurant and Billiards
Secret Society Lounge
Trader Vic’s
116 NE Russell St. Jenny Finn Orchestra (9 pm); Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Systematik, Confessions, Blank Stations, Sleepless Eyes
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. Ruby Feathers, The Darlin’ Blackbirds
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Alcest, Amber Asylum, Eight Bells, Anne
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Pierced Arrows, The Lovesores, Di Di Mau
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Bottleneck Blues Band
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Robbie Laws Band
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Shirley Nanette
1425 NW Glisan St. Mike Winkle
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
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McMenamins Edgefield Winery
Aladdin Theater
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
303 SW 12th Ave. Water Tower, Lance Andrew Leonnig
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Hayes Carll, Zoe Muth
Alberta Rose Theatre
3000 NE Alberta St. Live Wire!: Storm Large, Black Prairie
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Laurel Brauns
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Garcia Birthday Band
Melody Ballroom
2201 N Killingsworth St. James Faretheewell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Papa Coyote (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)
Brasserie Montmartre
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Madman Sam
626 SW Park Ave. Pete Krebs Trio (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)
White Eagle Saloon
Camellia Lounge
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Brant Allard, Dan Gaynor
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Con Bro Chill, Pegasus Dream, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger
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Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Davis Hooker, Tada (8 pm); N.E.S. (3 pm)
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. 9th Step, Yo! Adrian, Chase the Shakes, Stepper
Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. Aranya, Fire Witch
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Counting Crows, Mean Creek
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Boy and Bean
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Disliked, Angry Lions, Ninjas with Syringes
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Oh Darling
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. I Can Lick Any S.O.B. in the House, Arliss Nancy, Power of County
The Back Alley Bar & Grill
6503 E Mill Plain Blvd.; Vancouver, Wash. Shotgun Overdose, Deaf Leppard
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Terry Robb
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Plum Sutra
Backspace
Ash Street Saloon
Mississippi Pizza
836 N Russell St. Gavin Wahl-Stephens and the New Americans (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
2621 SE Clinton St. Ed & the Red Reds, Slon Martin
1422 SW 11th Ave. Satori Men’s Chorus
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Beaterville Cafe
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
Press Club
Mission Theater
Andina
Twilight Café and Bar
1530 SE 7th Ave. Ty Curtis
1305 SE 8th Ave. No Red Flags, The Rodeo Clowns, Chaotic Karisma, The Boors, Alabama Black Snake
225 SW Ash St. The Israelites, Northwest Allstars, The Longshots
1036 NE Alberta St. Keep Your Fork, There’s Pie!; Jeff Campbell
1624 NW Glisan St. Gideon Freudmann, Libertine Belles, Macrae Sisters (burlesque show)
Vie de Boheme
Plan B
615 SE Alder St. Inner City Blues Festival Reunion: Norman Sylvester Band with Lloyd Allen, Sara Billings, LaRhonda Steele, Sonny Hess, Jim Mesi, Richard Arnold, Bill Rhoades and Peter Moss; Lenanne Miller-Sylvester and Janice Scroggins (Billie Holiday tribute); Lloyd Jones Struggle; Chatta Addy; Mad As Hell Doctors; Shoehorn
Alberta Street Public House
115 NW 5th Ave. Truckstop Darlin’, Sugar Cane String Band, Riviera, Lincoln’s Beard, Low Bid
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Vanessa Rogers, Slowe Loris, Eric Allen
412 NW 5th Ave. Brooke Pennock, Cool Water (9 pm); Zay Harrison (7 pm)
The Crown Room
1320 Main St., Oregon City Karen Lovely
Trail’s End Saloon
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. The Minds, Le Shat Noir, Chemicals, Hot LZs
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
PINTS Urban Taproom
510 NW 11th Ave. Eric Skye Trio
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: The Portland Cello Project (8 pm and 4:30 pm)
Duff’s Garage
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); The Dapper Cadavers (6 pm); Lorna Miller Little Kid’s Jamboree (4 pm)
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. NoPo Mojo
Montavilla Station
417 SE 80th Ave. Pseudophiles, Trick Sensei
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Curtis Salgado
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew & Dave Captein
1635 SE 7th Ave. John Koonce, New Iberians
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse
Original Halibut’s II
1517 NE Brazee St.
4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Mesi
205 NW 4th Ave. Freeway, Tony Ozier with Slim Kid Tre, DJ Zimmie
The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Barbara Lusch
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Dead Cult, Silent Numbers, Shadow House, DJ Unruly
The Old Church
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. Audio Syndicate
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Sylos with Tracy Klas, Western Family, Vultan and the Hawkmen
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Morettii
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
Trail’s End Saloon
1320 Main St., Oregon City Hot Tea Cold
Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd. DaBerryBrothers
Vie de Boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Billy D & the Hoodoos
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.
Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party (8:30 pm); Blues Jam (2 pm)
Music Millennium
Accessory, Dismantled, Cyanide Regime, Adrian H & the Wounds
White Eagle Saloon
NEPO 42
Hawthorne Theatre
836 N Russell St. Loaded for Bear, Old Age (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Randy Porter Trio
Winona Grange No. 271 8340 SW Seneca St., Tualatin Golden Bough
SUN. APRIL 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
3158 E Burnside St. Soul Vaccination 5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Dom Kennedy, Rich Hil, POLY, Cool Nutz
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Still Caves, Psychic Feline
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Trust, Vice Device, Asss, DJ Maxx Bass, DJ Musique Plastique
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. The Bloodtypes, Jabronis (Joey Ramone birthday show)
Someday Lounge
Biddy McGraw’s
125 NW 5th Ave. Urban Sub All Stars, Tim Snider & Sound Society, Skip VonKuske’s Groovy Wallpaper, Jimmy B Free
Blitz Twentyone
3341 SE Belmont St. Idit Schner Quartet
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Impossible Bird 6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan 305 NW 21st Ave. Peter Rodocker
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Foxy Shazam, Maniac, Cadaver Dogs, Ghost Animals
The Blue Monk
Doug Fir Lounge
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar
2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Guitar Wolf, The Transistors, Mean Jeans
1320 Main St., Oregon City Robbie Laws 232 SW Ankeny St. Pleassure, Old Wars, Koko and the Sweetmeats
2929 SE Powell Blvd. Nicole Sansuree
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic/Songwriter Showcase
MON. APRIL 16
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Jade Lounge
Alberta Rose Theatre
1435 NW Flanders St. Mousai Remix (7 pm); Mark Simon (2 pm)
2346 SE Ankeny St. Singer Songwriter Night with Alexa Wiley
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. David Ros (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
3000 NE Alberta St. Tom Russell, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Jon Langford, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Thad Beckman
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Tomten, Lindsay Candra, Paper or Plastic (9:30 pm); Joanne Rand with Kris Delanee (6:30 pm)
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Andina
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
1332 W Burnside St. Big Vinyl
McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Trevor Res
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); Lisa Mann (6:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ed and the Red Reds, Country Mice, Melville
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music
2346 SE Ankeny St. Mikah Sykes Nettels
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. David Ross
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. David Gerow, Half Step Shy
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
McMenamins Edgefield Winery
McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. The Hand That Bleeds, IX
Valentine’s
Ford Food and Drink
Jade Lounge
Tonic Lounge
Dante’s
830 E Burnside St. Porcelain Raft
1001 SE Morrison St. Acid Mothers Temple, Phantom Family Halo
2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Skip vonKuske with Third Seven
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
Trail’s End Saloon
350 W Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: Skerik’s Bandalabra, Satin Chaps
Holocene
Tillicum Club
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Paganfest, Turisas, Alestorm, Arkona, Huntress, Revolution Overdue, Weresquatch
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ash Street Saloon
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell (10 pm); Chuck Ragan, Cory Branan, Tom Gabel, Nathaniel Rateliff (7:30 pm)
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Freewill (8 pm); Paula Sinclair (5:30 pm)
10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Shy Season (9 pm); Wild Mountain Bell, Robert Richter (6:30 pm); Mr. Ben (5 pm, kids’ show)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Will Hoge, Chris Marshall
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. 42 Ford, The Cryptics, Tokyo Death Stare, Ray Liotta
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Carlton Jackson-Dave Mills Big Band
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: Slaughterhouse, Illmaculate
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Jay “Bird” Koder’s Soulmates
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Deep Cuts
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Explode-a-tron, Choke the Silence
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Brothers Young, Grey Anne, Post Paint
TUES. APRIL 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Sara Jackson-Holman
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Bunk Bar
East End
1028 SE Water Ave. Street Nights, Rebecca Gates and the Consortium
Goodfoot Lounge
Camellia Lounge
203 SE Grand Ave. Totimoshi, Gaytheist, Sons of Huns, DJ Nate C 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
510 NW 11th Ave. Tom Wakeling/Steve Christofferson Quartet
CALENDAR Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Soul’d Out Festival: Jon Cleary’s Philthy Phew
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 Asteroidia
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre Lounge
1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Lone Madrone
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St.
Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell (7:30 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)
Mount Tabor Theater
Jade Lounge
Plan B
2346 SE Ankeny St. Margeret Wehr
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Lincoln High School Jazz Ensembles (6:30 pm)
Kells
112 SW 2nd Ave. David Ross
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Daniel Flynn
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Perfume Genius, Parenthetical Girls
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic with Simon Tucker 1305 SE 8th Ave. City Squirrel, Donkey the Lion, Gage Choat and the 4-Track Orchestra
Roseland Theater
MUSIC
Sickoids, Arctic Flowers, Trauma
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayars
8 NW 6th Ave. Escape the Fate, Attack Attack!, The Word Alive, MEST
Twilight Café and Bar
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
232 SW Ankeny St. Susurrus Station
8635 N Lombard St. Open Mic with Derek W
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Soul’d Out Festival: The White Buffalo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band
The Know
1420 SE Powell Blvd. Open Mic with the Roaming
Valentine’s
Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd. Arthur “Fresh Air” Moore Harmonica Party
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Brad Creel and the Reel Deel
2026 NE Alberta St.
DJ noFADER
Tube
Mirror Dinner: DJs Nick Dean, Stray (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)
Valentine’s
Dig a Pony
18 NW 3rd Ave. No Hands with Yo Huckleberry (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
WED. APRIL 11 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Pretty Ugly
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ-808
Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. DJ AM Gold
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement with Senseone
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Nothing Lasts Forever
The Whiskey Bar
The Crown Room 205 NW 4th Ave. The One Off
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Manchester Night: DJs Bar Hopper, Selector TNT
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Tony Remple
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Expressway to Yr Skull with DJ Miss Prid (10 pm); DJ Sethro Tull (7 pm)
FRI. APRIL 13 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious
31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: American Girls, Crokoloco, Cody Knolls, Harl-One
Dig a Pony
Tiga
Element Restaurant & Lounge
1465 NE Prescott St. DJF & Rhienna
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Juicy Wednesdays: DJs Kryptic, Larry Funkman
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJs Fizzboxxx, Sarah Smut (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Radiation City DJs
736 SE Grand Ave. Jimbo (late set); Katrina Martiani (early set)
1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Cock Block: DJs Rubidium, Ava Delay, Melissa, Miss Vixen
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, ROB3
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Holocene
THURS. APRIL 12 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Marti
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. PDneXt: Natasha Kmeto, Danny Corn, Graintable, Plumblyne, Quarry, Cosmic Revenge
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul with DJ Beyondadoubt
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: EVAC, Slimkid3, Instigatah (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (4 pm)
1001 SE Morrison St. Physical Gold: DJs Zac Eno, Tyler Tastemaker (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with Wampire (DJ set, 5 pm)
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. DJ Yardsale
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Live & Direct: Slimkid3, Rev Shines, DJ Nature
The Conquistador
2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. City Lock: Astronomar, Tyler Key, Joe Nasty, Ben Tactic
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJs of Darkness
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St.
232 SW Ankeny St. Sex Life DJs
SAT. APRIL 14
SUN. APRIL 15 736 SE Grand Ave. NoFader
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
Branx
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
CC Slaughters
The Lovecraft
320 SE 2nd Ave. Paper Diamond, Minnesota, Clicks & Whistles 219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
231 SW Ankeny St. Deacon X’s Original Fetish Night 421 SE Grand Ave. The Black Church
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinoza
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. DJ Gray Matter, Motherbunch
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Chip
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. 8 1/2 DJs: DJ Cooky Parker, KM Fizzy, DJ Cuica, DJ Pretty Ugly, DJ Hanukkah Miracle, Sex Life DJs, New Dadz DJs, DJ Sgt. Forkner (soul and R&B night)
Langano Lounge
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Blackbars
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. with DJ Beyonda
MON. APRIL 16 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Tre Slim
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial Night with DJ Tibin
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays! with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
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18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Matt Scaphism
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Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Soulciety: DJ Drew Groove, Katrina Martiani
The Lovecraft
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UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES RECORD RELEASE EVENT! SOUL VACCINATION
SUNDAY 4/15 @ 3PM
Soul Vaccination is one of the hottest funk bands in the Pacific Northwest. On July 4th, 2011, Soul Vaccination and former Tower of Power guitarist Bruce Conte, closed the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival for over 20,000 enthusiastic R&B, funk, and soul fans. The band followed with two sold-out shows, recorded live at Jimmy Mak’s. Along with the help of Brad Wager, one of the area’s finest audio engineers, Soul Vaccination came away with ‘What Is Hip?’ the amazing recording of their awe-inspiring performance featuring the legendary Bruce Conte.
LISTENING PARTY! DRY THE RIVER
TUESDAY 4/17 @ 5PM
FREE PIZZA & BEVERAGES!! They might look like another 21st century folk group, with their beards and acoustic instrumentation (even a violin), but frontman Peter Liddle decribes Dry the River’s music as “folky gospel music played by a post-punk band.” Between their diverse list of influences—Leonard Cohen, Fugazi, Neil Young, Arlo Guthrie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bruce Springsteen, Devendra Banhart—and their backgrounds in hardcore and emo bands, they stake out territory that is truly their own.
BILL DANT
SUNDAY 4/22 @ 3PM
REGISTER TO VOTE! MEET THE CANDIDATE!
Come hear and meet singer/songwriter and now mayoral candidate Bill Dant musically celebrate the 2012 election season. Register to vote, talk about the issues important to your city and hear songs classic and soon-to-be classic celebrating the sound of democracy in action at Music Millennium. Who The Hell Is Bill Dant? Bill Dant is a Portland native, father, real estate broker, volunteer, musician and currently the president of his neighborhood association. Bill believes it’s going to take a mayor for the city but outside the system to make the bold changes needed to make Portland “The City That Works For Everyone.”
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Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: 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 American Pilot
In the opening monologue of David Greig’s 2005 play, the farmer—we never learn his name—tells the audience that “the American pilot was unsettling.” The same could be said of Theatre Vertigo’s production, the saga of an American soldier who crashlands in an unnamed war-ravaged country and finds his fate in the hands of a rebel leader. Greig’s play has heavy-hitting potential, but the geographical ambiguity proves frustrating and numerous characters are reduced to hollow stereotypes. REBECCA JACOBSON. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through April 28. $15. Thursdays are “pay what you will.”
Anna Karenina
Portland Center Stage turns to Tolstoy for this season’s requisite adaptation of a classic novel. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes April 29. $34-$64, $20 rush tickets.
Fire Island
Defunkt finishes its season with Charles Mee’s disjointed jumble of musings on love. Like a lot of Mee’s work, Fire Island is a medley of short conversations between characters— young and old, gay and straight, cowboys and murderers—who share the same voice and penchant for extended metaphor. Director Grace Carter and cast have injected some variety into the mix with a grab-bag of accents, constant projection of beach views and blowing grass and swan wings, and a lovely soundtrack by Corrina Repp. BEN WATERHOUSE. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays. Closes April 28. $15-$20.
Holy Ghosts
Portland Actors Conservatory performs Romulus Linney’s play about a love triangle at an eccentric Southern church. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes April 29. $10-$25.
In the Red and Brown Water
Oya runs fast enough to earn a track scholarship, but stays behind to care for her ailing mother. Then she turns down the affections of a responsible but boring man in favor of Shango, who swaggers through life with his hand on his cock. Oya’s misfortunes unfold as in a dream, one scene rolling suddenly into the next with a terrible logic. In the Red and Brown Water is the first of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s three interrelated “Brother/Sister Plays.” (Portland Playhouse is presenting all three in repertory. The remaining two open April 21.) The 31-year-old playwright’s words flow as if they’d been passed down from generations long forgotten, sometimes unintelligible but always moving. Director Victor Mack emphasizes McCraney’s mythic tone with repetitive choreography and naturalistic emotion. The cast is among of the season. Their performance is entrancing; days later, I feel I’ve yet to awake. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 2050715. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through April 15; 4 pm Saturdays and 7:30 pm some Fridays April 21-May 13. $12-$23.
Jardín de Sueños
This acid trip at Miracle Theatre is like a Latino version of Alice in Wonderland: A young woman slips into a dream world filled with anthropomorphic creatures that serve as metaphors for her disappointing family members. The performances are ardent and often goofy, especially when paired with
the chuckle-worthy costumes. But the star of the production is unquestionably the set, a lush garden that glows, drips and slowly evolves throughout the story. The play is the first locally produced show by Sofia May-Cuxim, who infused the story with elements of Latino folklore. AARON SPENCER. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 2367253. 7:30 pm Thursday, 8 pm FridaySaturday, April 13-14. $15-$30.
Much Ado About Nothing
Re-imagining Shakespeare can be a tricky business, with results either enjoyably clever or painfully horrid. Fortunately, Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s rendition of Much Ado About Nothing falls mostly under the former category. Here, the Bard’s romantic comedy takes the form of a kitschy ’60s beach party, with characters arriving via surfboard and trickery afoot at the masked luau. The campy vibe is played to pleasing effect and on the whole works well with the playful nature of the material. The only things missing are Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. PENELOPE BASS. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes April 22. $18-$20.
NT Live: She Stoops to Conquer
Third Rail Rep screens the latest live recording from the National Theatre of London. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St., 235-1101. 1 and 5 pm Sunday, April 15. $15-$20.
Sonnetscape
Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents a new play that weaves Shakespeare’s sonnets into a homosexual love story. Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi Ave., fusepdx.org. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and Monday, April 23 (Shakespeare’s birthday); 3 pm Sundays. Closes April 28. $15-$20.
Standing on Ceremony
Artists Rep presents nine 10-minute plays about same-sex marriage by renowned playwrights including Doug Wright, Paul Rudnick, Moisés Kaufman and Jordan Harrison. A portion of the proceeds benefit Basic Rights Oregon. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, 2 pm Sunday, April 13-15; 7:30 pm Friday-Sunday, April 19-21. $25.
Stellaluna
Tears of Joy revives its puppet play about an adorable bat. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 7:30 pm Friday, April 13; 11 am Saturdays, 2 and 4 pm Sundays through April 22. $17-$20.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Chris Murray and George Fosgate star in Mitch Albom’s play about visiting his former professor, Morrie Schwartz, during the last weeks of the latter’s life. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 922-0532. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. No show Easter Sunday. $19-$24.
Vincent River
[NEW REVIEW] Based around the fatal beating of a gay man in East London, Sowelu’s production of Philip Ridley’s Vincent River (directed by Barry Hunt) is a claustrophobic, often harrowing two-act tete-a-tete between the mother of the victim and the man who found her son dead in a train station bathroom. As in Carnage or Luis Bunuel’s The Dinner Party, the characters do not remotely like each other but are compelled by mysterious force—in this case, trauma and the shared memory of the victim—to remain together in the mother’s barren apartment through countless uncomfortable re-enactments of
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YOU THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? WE PUT SEVEN BRIDGETOWN COMEDY FESTIVAL PERFORMERS TO THE TEST. This weekend, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival will bring more than 200 comedians to nine venues along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard. That’s a lot of funny people. But how well do these so-called comics know the classics of their trade? We surveyed some of this year’s performers to find out. COMPILED BY BEN WATERHOUSE. Are black, brown or green people different from white people? If so, how? Maria Bamford: People can only be distinguished from each other under powerful microscopes. There, among the atoms, scientists have found that everyone is black. Or white. I can’t remember which one. Matt Kirshen: All people are the same on the inside. That’s why skeleton people don’t have racism. Dave Holmes: No. But this does remind me of my favorite thing that probably-racist people say: “I don’t care if you’re black or white or green or purple….” You know what? You would and should care if someone is green or purple. They might need medical attention. Ron Funches: They come from different places and have different cultures. This seems like something someone should have taught you already. Jimmy Dore: Mostly the color. Bonus: women, men…? Maria Bamford: Men get what women are talking about because they are women, and the same goes for the ladies and guys. Matt Kirshen: Sadly, you can tell the gender from the pelvic bones, so some skeletons are still sexist. Dave Holmes: You’ll see my uproarious take on the battle of the sexes in my romantic-comedy adaptation of the DSM-IV, coming to theaters this summer. Jimmy Dore: Biggest difference is the number of holes.
Please describe my mama. Maria Bamford: Your mama is so ugly she will not abide by any moral codes. No, seriously, she almost ate me. Matt Knudsen: Your mother is a gracious lover and her rates are reasonable. Shane Mauss: Yo’ mama raises bad publicists. Matt Kirshen: Yo’ mama’s so supportive, she enabled you to pursue a career in the media. Ron Funches: Your mama is like you but older and female, if you are not female. Jimmy Dore: Your mama is mysterious and unknown to me. Dave Holmes: Your mama is so unself-aware, she has no idea we’ve had such fun at her expense. What is the “deal” with airline food? Maria Bamford: Here’s the deal: Food has to be nonperishable, in bulk and easily stored in very limited airplane kitchens. It’s hard to have stuff that’s fresh and palatable to all, so they serve a lot of chicken and pretzels. Matt Knudsen: The last time I flew, the deal with airline food was that if you buy an entree, you get $3 off a well drink. Shane Mauss: Typically, any food and beverages are complimentary for first-class passengers. Everyone else gets a complimentary snack (i.e., bag of pretzels) and nonalcoholic beverages. There are meals and alcoholic beverages for purchase. Most airlines no longer accept cash, so make sure to bring your Visa or MasterCard. Matt Kirshen: I was wondering just that same thing the other day, so I did some research. Turns out it’s prepared off-site by a third-party contractor, and loaded onto the aircraft just before the passengers. Dave Holmes: It doesn’t exist anymore? Actually, airplanes account for 100 percent of my Pringle intake these days, so I’m not going to knock them. SEE IT: Bridgetown Comedy Fest presents more than 200 comedians at venues along Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard Thursday-Sunday, April 12-15. $70-$150 festival passes, $10-$30 single shows. Full schedule and tickets at bridgetowncomedy.com. Willamette Week APRIL 11, 2012 wweek.com
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The radio variety show features director Susan Saladoff, author Wendy McClure, wide-vagina-owner Storm Large and music from Black Prairie. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7:30 pm Saturday, April 14. $18-$34.
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the victim’s life and death. Lorraine Bahr, as Anita, is very effective as a self-dramatizing lower-class woman deeply ill at ease with her son’s sexuality and in even deeper grief over his death; Charlie Hamby, as Davey, is new to the stage and still a bit nervous up there (oddly, this shows up as less natural when the character himself is meant to be nervous), but at home with the character’s increasing desperation as the victim’s story becomes increasingly his own. The play’s many, often plodding setpieces do lead to a somewhat distancing effect, however—as do the players’ occasionally inconsistent East End accents—so that the play evinces less direct empathy than the feeling of watching someone repeatedly ram his head against a clear box in which he’s been trapped: grueling and grim, but also entirely self-contained. Still, the play remains a powerful examination of prejudice’s effects on not only on its victims but its perpetrators. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., $18. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 pm Sunday, April 15. Closes April 21. $18, $12 students.
COMEDY AND VARIETY
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso • Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
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Two Houses
An improvised love story ending in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays through April 21. $8-$10.
CLASSICAL 45th Parallel
The Boston Globe
The busy presenting organization moves from classics to a new work: Portland singer/theater artist Theresa Koon’s decade-in-the-making musical drama Promise, based on the tragic life of 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel, a protégée and lover of Rodin, who spent her last 30 years confined in a mental institution. Kevin Yell directs the four-member cast and Portland Youth Phil’s David Hattner conducts a quartet. Ainsworth House and Gardens, 19130 Lot Whitcomb Drive, 800-494-8497. 7:30 pm FridaySaturday, April 13-14. $15-$20.
Abeya
The young Japanese ensemble performs folk music from several regions of Japan, spotlighting the shamisen, a plucked three-string banjolike instrument which, in the right hands, can attain flashy, bluegrass-level virtuosity and today is often influenced by jazz, rock and pop music. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Thursday, April 12. $6-$10.
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The city’s newest all-star vocal group performs rarely heard British works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten (the lovely Rejoice in the Lamb), Herbert Howells and more. Donations will be accepted to benefit Ensemble member Brian Tierney, grievously wounded in a shooting last month. St. James Lutheran Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 753-8368. 7:30 pm Friday, April 13. $10-$15.
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THE WOLF-CHILD’S MOTHER iceberg, the church organist sought out the music the band was playing in its final gig. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 228-7219. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2:30 pm Sunday, April 14-15. $15-$25.
Melanie Downie Robinson
Fans of Portland Baroque Orchestra, Cantores in Ecclesia and other Baroque and Renaissance ensembles will recognize the early music singer, who will perform wellknown music of J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart and Vivaldi. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1432 SW 13th Ave., 593-7006. 2 pm Sunday, April 15. $10.
Opera Theater Oregon
The innovative little company with the big ideas continues its increasingly ambitious and improbable mashups of film and opera, this time with a rarely screened silent 1920 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that stars the great Shakespearean stage actor John Barrymore. Tenor Daniel Buchanan, pianist Douglas Schneider, percussionist Ian Kerr and flutist Jayde Weide will improvise their way to a new soundtrack using music from John Adams’ acclaimed 2005 opera Doctor Atomic, about nuclear scientist Robert Oppenheimer. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7 pm Friday, April 13. $9-$12.
Oregon Symphony
Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts one of the most appealing programs of the season, featuring the celebrated classical guitarist Sharon Isbin performing in the second-most popular piece by the 20th-century Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, 1958’s ebullient Baroque-flavored “Fantasia for a Gentleman.” The concert also features Ravel’s gorgeous Morning Song of the Jester and his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s ever-popular Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus, a surprisingly charming 1971 piece by Russia’s Sofia Gubaidulina called Fairytale Poem, written for a radio broadcast of a Czech tale about a piece of chalk that’s used to make some beauty in the world. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, 8 pm Monday, April 14-16. $26-$120.
P. Unnikrishnan
One of the most acclaimed singers in Southern India’s Carnatic classical tradition, Unnikrishnan has also recorded several hundred songs for Indian films along with two dozen albums of devotional music, ragas and more. In this Rasika concert, he’ll be accompanied by another successful crossover artist, the award-winning violinist Embar S. Kannan, who has also earned a strong reputation for film music and various world music fusion projects as well for straightforward Carnatic classical performances. Supported by Anantha R Krishnan on the mridangam drum, the pair should weave intriguing tapestries of melodies. Lincoln Recital Hall, Room 75, Portland State University, 1620 SW
Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm Friday, April 13. $11-$30.
Portland Vocal Consort
In this informal fundraiser, early music singer Melanie Downie Robinson, Julians singer Elizabeth Bacon, pianist Janet Coleman and the quartet Fourplay will perform music about love to benefit one of the city’s most valuable music ensembles, which often performs music of Northwest composers. First Unitarian Church, 1034 SW 13th Ave., 807-9437. 7:30-10 pm Saturday, April 14. $35.
DANCE Frim Fram Foxies
With debut of the Frim Fram Foxies, it’s safe to say burlesque has outstripped kickball as the Portland hipster activity of choice. The Foxies’ inaugural show is “Summer Bloom in Paris,” led by Tana the Tattooed Lady and Holly Dai, and featuring performances by Lippy Smack, Onyx Applique, Stilletta Maraschino, Mamie Demure and Rummy Rose. Ooh-la-la. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave. 8 pm Friday, April 13. $10-$15. 21+.
The Göteborg Ballet
Sweden’s Göteborg Ballet has transitioned from a classical to contemporary dance company in the last decade or so, although that’s not terribly unusual; even avowed classicists are mixing it up more than they used to. Göteborg makes its West Coast debut with three pieces that combine classical training and music with contemporary movement and sensibility. Örjan Andersson’s 32 Variations by Beethoven is set to a live performance of Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C minor and Piano Sonata no 8 in C minor (Pathétique). Johan Inger’s Falter, which moves from chaos to order with nine dancers and 64 ropes, makes its North American debut here. And then there’s Kenneth Kvarnström’s Orelob—read that backward and you’ll understand why it’s set to Ravel, sort of. Composer Jukka Rintamäki has remixed that famous bit of music with bells and other embellishments. The choreographers, veterans of and/or contributors to such Scandanavian companies as Cullberg Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater, have made a special point of emphasizing Nordic choreography—tune in as this very international, and very talented, company shares the results. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, April 12-14. $26-$64.
The Wolf-Child’s Mother
A comedic dance show inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, featuring jazz, ballet, tap and aerial dance, plus puppets. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 11. $12. 21+.
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composed and poorly printed, devaluing the high concept with execution worthy of a high-school science fair. Through April 29. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
A Musical Night to Remember
Night-tide Daytripping
Hilariously irreverent, Ralph Pugay’s paintings combine a cartoonist’s gift for concision with a social critic’s wit. Each of Pugay’s lowbrow vignettes illustrates a central conceit: Homo sapiens evolving from ape into corporate-drone family man; a group of convicts happening upon minimalist artist Robert Smithson’s famous Spiral Jetty; a blind man reading a Braille copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; and a group of swingers having an orgy, despite the fact that they all have chicken pox. There is something simultaneously smart and stone-cold dumb in these paintings, which will have you laughing out loud in spite of yourself. Through April 22. Rocksbox, 6540 N Interstate Ave., 971-506-8938.
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Benny Fountain: Kitchen Paintings
A Bundt cake inside a glass-domed cake platter. A half-used stick of butter on a plate. Kitchen cabinets as seen from several different angles. Are you excited yet? If so, then Benny Fountain’s Kitchen Paintings is the show for you. Fountain’s paintings, rendered in an affectless style and a palette of drab neutrals, do not transcend their prosaic subject matter. You have to wonder what Fountain will turn to next for inspiration. Garden hoses? Dust bunnies? Through April 28. Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.
Britta Bogers
A gallery with an international focus, Victory debuted last August with a showcase of Dutch artists, following up in subsequent months with work by artists from Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. This month it’s Germany’s turn. Cologne-based Britta Bogers leads off a threemonth inquiry into German art with abstract compositions on paper and fiberboard. With rigor and a panache that never devolves into flash, Bogers reminds us that there is still much to be mined from the controlled interplay of line and color. Through May 2. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
Differing Approaches: 4 Artists
Differing Approaches: 4 Artists has to be the lamest, most unimaginative show title of any Portland show for at least two years. Much of the work in the show lives up to its facile title. The exceptions are Seattle-based Paul Komada’s witty commentaries on the legacy of modernist painting. Komada has taken iconic modernist masterpieces such as Piet Mondrian’s Victory Boogie-Woogie and Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square and recreated them in hand-knitted wool yarn. For one thing, this tactic wryly references the geometric fabric art of modernist textile artist Anni Albers. For another thing, it’s just a damn funny thing to do. Through April 28. Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665.
Eva Speer: Superficial Injuries
The paintings in Eva Speer’s Superficial Injuries peel back the veil of painterly illusionism. In her depictions of ocean waves, she selectively scrapes back the surface paint to betray the colorful underpainting hiding beneath. It’s a smart, disconcerting effect. The other body of work in this exhibition, a series of chromatic studies, are études
on the techniques of fading and gradation. With their airbrushlike chromatic transitions and eggshell finish, the works recall the ethereally fuzzy color swaths of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, while somehow remaining thoroughly au courant. Through April 28. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
Generations: Betty Feves
To conclude the museum’s 75th anniversary celebration, curator Namita Gupta Wiggers presents Generations: Betty Feves, exploring the output of a groundbreaking but underappreciated artist. Feves (1918-1985) worked predominantly in ceramics, but her appeal transcends stylistic ghettoization. She studied with Abstract Expressionist master Clyfford Still, and her highly organic, primeval-meets-Space-Age forms betray the influences of that illustrious lineage. Through July 28. Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 NW Davis St., 223-2654.
Laura Fritz: Entorus
It takes a couple minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark room that houses Laura Fritz’s Entorus. Happily, the time invested in ocular acclimation pays off big-time. In the inky-black room, Fritz has carefully placed a black table and two inscrutable rectangles lined with wire mesh. In one of these rectangles, cast-resin shapes emit an eerie blue glow, looking for all the world like radioactive ice cubes. Inside the other rectangle, a hidden video projector throws the silhouette of an insect’s flitting wings onto the floor. Entorus isn’t supposed to “mean” anything specific; it’s a serene spatial experience that evokes whatever you want it to. Fritz has always been a poet of light, darkness and enigma, but with this installation she kicks her haunting vision into overdrive. This is easily her best show yet. Through April 29. Special Project Space, 1231 NW Hoyt St., Suite B5.
Maria T.D. Inocencio: Everywhere All the Time
Photographs ring the room, lined up in a hymn to cerulean blue. For the installation Everywhere All the Time, Maria T.D. Inocencio snapped photographs on the 21st day of each of the year’s 12 months, aiming her camera in the four directions of the compass. Conceptually, the result is poignant: a year seen through the conceit of a single day and a single axis as the camera gazes out at a changing world. Unfortunately, the photos themselves are uninventively
“Deliquesce” is a fancy word for what happens to mushrooms when they rot and liquify. It’s the concept at the center of Michael Endo and Emily Nachison’s exhibition, of other spaces. Sculpting mushrooms and other fungi out of cast glass, Nachison uses installations such as the circular Portal to illustrate the cycle of life and death as each of 20 mushrooms grows, withers and melts into the soil. These images of organic decay are complemented by Endo’s images of urban decay. Using oil paint and kiln-formed glass, Endo depicts desolate cityscapes with burning tires and derelict houses. It’s a thought-provoking thematic pairing. Through April 28. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
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Paul Dahlquist
Boobs and butts, sculpted abs and turgid dicks: These are the raw ingredients for Paul Dahlquist’s unapologetically erotic photo prints. Like beefcake photographer Tom Bianchi, Dahlquist employs honeyed light and soft shadows to heighten the appeal of his comely subjects. Unlike Bianchi, Dahlquist rejects the ghettoizing limitations of the mantle of “gay photographer.” Indeed, the artist, who refuses to let his work or his personal sexuality be categorized, is often at his most piquing when training his lens on female flesh. An untitled shot from Goa, India, employs a triangular composition, peering up past the arms and breasts of a woman at the city’s famous beach. Two men stand in the background, their faces out of frame. Dahlquist allows the viewer to guess at the dynamics of the situation. It’s just one of many instances in this show of the photographer’s finesse at capturing evocative miseen-scènes. Through April 30. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., #106, 552-8686.
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Enormous, air-filled plastic balls spatially dominated the main exhibition of Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art. The balls belong to an ambitious installation by Brian Gillis, which, although impressively scaled, seems conceptually confused. Its impact is mitigated by the cheap-looking plastic banners that hang from each ball and describe, in thoroughly uninteresting text, esoteric phenomena such as the 1980s soft-drink flop “New Coke” and the Berkeley Pit tourist attraction in Butte, Mont. On the gallery’s north wall, a large painting by Grant Hottle deftly juxtaposes exterior and interior scenes with motifs such as Mount Hood, a roaring hearth and a human skull. Although well-composed, the painting holds its thematic cards too close to the vest and is apt to puzzle viewers. Through 28. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.
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Israeli peace and justice advocate Dalit Baum’s talk is titled “Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?: Lessons for the BoycottDivestment-Sanctions Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.” She discusses the economics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for corporate responsibility and an end to Israeli occupation. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 7 pm. Free.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Get Lit at the Beach
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Cannon Beach’s Get Lit at the Beach: A Gathering for Readers is a threeday weekend event celebrating literature, OK? Attendees will get up close and personal with featured authors Terry Brooks, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth George and Susan Wiggs; the ticket price even includes a prime-rib buffet with the authors on Saturday night. There’ll be an informal author’s reception at the Ocean Lodge (2864 S Pacific St.) on Friday evening; three author talks and a book signing early Saturday and a hosted banquet later that evening, featuring a presentation by Elizabeth George. The events conclude Sunday morning with a Q&A session with the authors at the Coaster Theatre. Various times Friday-Sunday, April 13-15. $75 for the weekend. Tickets available at Cannon Beach Book Company or by emailing tolvanaartscolony@gmail.com.
Criminal Crafts Release Party
Criminal Crafts is a guide to crafting for hardened criminals and miscreants-to-be, written by Shawn Bowman. Learn how to bake a cake with a file inside or don the perfect bank-robbing disguise. This sounds hilarious. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6 pm. Free.
Wendy McClure
Changing the image of rescue, one animal at a time...
What little girl didn’t grow up wishing to be Laura Ingalls, crossing the prairies with Ma and Pa, eating hardtack and wearing calico dresses? Wendy McClure certainly fell hard for Laura. In her new book, The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie, she explores what it’s like to come back to that childhood obsession as an adult. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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A rare Friday poetry event from Johns Landing’s own monthly poetry series. This month’s reading features Jane Greenbaum and Peter Sears. They’ve also promised the usual open mic to follow the reading, so stop by the Ross Island Grocery and Cafe for snacks, and settle in for the show. Stonehenge Studios, 3508 SW Corbett Ave., 2243640. 7 pm. Free.
SUNDAY, APRIL 15 Kids’ Reading Fair
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Sun or rain, a reader can weather any season. That’s the theme of University of Portland’s 18th annual reading fair, designed to engage kids in reading. This family-friendly event will have books galore, arts and crafts, and a reading by Wordstock author Carmen “T” Bernier-Grand. And, hey, parents: Every child will get to choose a free book to take home. University of Portland’s Chiles Center, 5000 N Willamette Blvd. 11 am. Free.
The Northwest is home to quite a few science fiction and fantasy writers, but I didn’t realize they have their own chapter of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and quarterly reading series. But, of course! Each reading allows a wellknown local author to introduce two of his or her favorite authors to share their work. This time around, Lilith Saintcrow will be joined by
Shanna Germain and Ted Kosmatka. Kennedy School, 5736 NE 33rd Ave., 249-3983. 7 pm. Free. 21+.
Dirty Minds
Kayt Sukel has sex on the brain. In Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex and Relationships, she explains what the latest in brain science tells us about love and sex. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
DERF BACKDERF, MY FRIEND DAHMER There are only two notable alumni of Ohio’s Revere High School. John “Derf” Backderf draws The City, a Crumby comic appearing in alternative weekly newspapers like ( but not) this one. Jeffrey Dahmer raped, tortured and killed young men and stored their mutilated bodies in his apartment. Coincidentally, Derf and Dahmer are both products of their exurban school’s class of The killer and the cartoonist. 1978. Their school years—the backdrop of dazed confusion might have been drawn by Richard Linklater—are the subject of My Friend Dahmer. Derf has been polishing the stories in his graphic novel since Dahmer was caught, more than 20 years ago, and fastidiously pairs footnoted research with memories. My Friend Dahmer is a bit of a misnomer. Derf was president of the Dahmer Fan Club, a clique of band geeks who adopted the spazzy loner as their mascot. As he makes clear in his panels if not the jacket, Derf’s cohort used Dahmer as a muse for pranks, but regarded him as too odd to befriend. In Derf’s telling, Dahmer’s “Glory Days” moment involves being paid to fake seizures at the mall while his classmates laughed for hours. Afterward, Derf and his friends make plans to see a movie. Dahmer isn’t invited. We cringe. Derf has a knack for warm but sober portrayals of pathetic scenes. My Friend Dahmer works when he looks through that lens. His exiguous memories only hint at Dahmer’s warped psyche (actually, he thought Dahmer to be his class’ second-most likely serial killer), but they’re the door to the book’s most interesting dynamic, which is how Derf reprocesses things upon learning his friend’s fridge held a human head. Derf initially sees Dahmer as a sympathetic figure before bemoaning the fact that he “didn’t have the courage to put a gun to his head and end it” rather than kill. A psychopathic murderer, obviously, doesn’t have so much empathy. That Derf can’t muster substantially more is the book’s ultimate disappointment. The big realization? One of Derf’s friends hung out with Dahmer after he’d killed a hitchhiker. It’s a moment far from the weeping fit of confession that closes Sufjan Stevens’ song “John Wayne Gacy Jr.,” about another Midwestern serial killer, or the brutal introspection in Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home. Actually, Derf never expresses guilt over exploiting a weird kid for laughs. Instead, after two decades of mulling, he blames teachers, parents and cops. Three decades after he graduated from high school, Derf is still grappling with the evil in the backseat of his Chevy Vega. You can’t fault him. This is a book he had to write—the Dahmer Fan Club presidency and being your town’s only notable storyteller leave certain responsibilities—but he doesn’t have any answers. No one does. MARTIN CIZMAR. BUY IT: My Friend Dahmer is available at bookstores now.
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Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. 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: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
20th Portland Jewish Film Festival
The Portland Jewish Film Festival opens its 20th installment with three films dealing, in one way or another, with identity struggles: Mabul (The Flood) (7 pm Sunday, April 15) is an Israeli coming-of-age drama; 1933’s Counsellor-at-Law (7 pm Monday, April 16) stars John Barrymore as a hotshot lawyer of questionable integrity (you don’t say!); and the documentary Torn (7 pm Tuesday, April 17) concerns a Catholic priest who discovers late in life that his biological parents were Jewish. Also: a short about Reuben sandwiches! NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Check nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
21 Jump Street
81 I’m betting the original 21 Jump
Street was not quite so explicitly fixated on dicks or as unapologetic about teen hedonism as its crass copy. And I can’t imagine it was this much fun. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as Schmidt and Jenko, a mismatched pair of inept cops who bungle an arrest and get shunted to an undercover unit dedicated to sniffing out high-school crimes. The script might as well have been adapted from a rejected pitch for Harold and Kumar Go to 12th Grade. The unapologetic go-for-broke spirit of the thing results in a few painful misfires (cop-on-perp sexual assault is probably never going to be funny to me, no matter how playful the dry hump), but 21 Jump Street’s episodic anarchy works far more often than it doesn’t. The idiocy is even strangely liberating, devolving as it does from a neat subversion of the high-school-as-hell cliché that guides most teen comedies. In the imaginary world cooked up by screenwriter Michael Bacall and the co-directors who made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, high school is an exceedingly tolerant realm of ethical nonmonogamy, experimentation and play. So Schmidt and Jenko aren’t cleaning up a mess so much as sneaking into a utopia where smart people do dumb things the right way.R. CHRIS STAMM. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, St. Johns.
Act of Valor
The many adventures of REAL NAVY SEALS. Not screened for WW by press deadlines. R. Tigard.
American Reunion
22 The defining scene of American Reunion—and maybe of the entire pastry-inseminating franchise that dies another little death this month—finds Jason Biggs nude from the waist down in his parents’ kitchen, squashing his genitals behind a transparent glass saucepan lid. There’s no explanation how he got there, and nothing comes of it. (For that matter, his dong bears no scars from when he crushed it in a laptop a few minutes before.) There’s a little more rationale for the movie’s existence—vast openings in the cast’s social calendars, nostalgia humping of the most literal kind—but the project has a similar immediate amnesia: It can’t remember anything but high school. “I missed your wedding; there’s no way I would miss this!” cries Chris Klein as he arrives at the 13-year reunion. Most of the laughs here are equally unintended—Tara Reid in particular is a comedy gold mine, mainly because directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg do everything to edit her blank stare out of scenes, up to and possibly including replacing her with a Tara Reid wax figure. But the desperation turns to hostility, and the chief feeling one gets from American Reunion is sadness. These were supposed to be movies about growing wiser (the 7 Up series with hard-ons), but the characters have flattened into hostile menaces. They’re just dicks now. R. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center,
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The Artist
64 Repressed memories drive The Artist. It’s a silent-film homage to silent films—or, rather, the fond, slightly condescending recollection of silent films. Lavished with Oscars, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius (who directed the two OSS 177 spoofs) is yet another take on A Star Is Born, with a slam-bang energetic Jean Dujardin trading places in the spotlight with flapper Bérénice Bejo at the cusp of talkies. The period is apt, since most of the movie’s charms are technical gimmicks. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
Best of the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
68 The NW Film Center pulls together a highlight reel from the shorts it screened last fall. The best by a country mile is Basin, David Geiss’ ominous, wordless travelogue of Alberta’s oil sands. Images of factories shooting flames into the sky make Canada look like Mordor. The longer, dramatic features don’t resonate as deeply (though Woman Waiting tries damned hard to suffocate you in economic despond), and the overwhelming memory from this omnibus is of skittering stop-motion: unspooling cassette tapes in Strands, screen prints in Old-Time Film, and the time-lapse rain forest of Kurtis Hough’s placid giant-slug doc, Mossgrove. What kind of slugs are they? I don’t know. Big-ass slugs. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, April 13-14.
Boy
67 Taika Waititi, in the first part of
Boy, applies the same broad Napoleon Dynamite ain’t-we-retro-trashy popculture brush as in his first feature, Eagle vs. Shark, but this time around the batshit antics are balanced with a slow-dawning reality principle that eventually impinges on the characters’ fantasy-addled lives. Title 11-yearold character Boy and his shantytown Maori cohorts (other characters are named Rocky, Falcon Crest and Michael Jackson) improvise amid the rubble until Boy’s oafish dad resurfaces from prison and pretty much screws everything up so consistently that even his young children are forced to notice; what had been an exercise in style and suspended disbelief becomes something instead much closer to home, if perhaps too late to fully register. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
38 It would be unfair to documenta-
ries to lump Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope with them. It’s a promotional film. And it tries, desperately, to convince people that their life will change if only they would go to Comic-Con. It’s a bad promotion too, because in the examples given, no one really does have that promised altering experience. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) uses a conventional documentary template—vaguely interesting everyday people/exceptional circumstance—for the heart of A Fan’s Hope. Their drama, supported by appearances by nerd-lebrity guests such as Kevin Smith, Frank Miller and Seth Green, attempt to offer a compelling look at the 2010 Comic-Con International convention. But is it really compelling to watch a grown man fight a crowd to buy a toy? Or to see a bartender with no real artistic talent turned down by Dark Horse editors? No. It’s not even pathetic, it’s just kind of annoying, and reinforces the desire to tell these people to get a life. Worst of all the nerds though, is Spurlock himself. He never emerges from behind the camera, but it’s clear he feels really
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THE LAST HORROR PICTURE SHOW THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE CABIN IN THE WOODS. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. BY MATTHEW SIN GE R
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How does someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s a movie whose deliberately veiled marketing campaign insists critics tiptoe gingerly around the details. Other than redacting whole sentences or encircling this entire review with red Spoiler Alert caution tape, it’s pretty much guaranteed I’m going to ruin something without even meaning to, so it’s probably best to avert your eyes right now. Before you do, though, allow me to offer a painfully generic imperative: Go see this film. It’s some of the craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. For those who’ve stuck around, let’s begin by addressing the expectations of a movie titled The Cabin in the Woods. It’s a good place to start, because the film is precisely about audience expectations. Indeed, half the picture takes place in
final corner into assured doom? You just know that thing is about to fly into an invisible, honeycombed electrified fence running up the middle of a wide canyon and vaporize into nothingness. Ah, shit. Maybe I should’ve left that last part out. Well, now that I’ve crossed that line: Y’know how I said only half the movie takes place in the titular cabin? It’s the other setting I really can’t talk about without making you hate yourself for not stopping at the first paragraph. But it is in that other, wholly different sphere of The Cabin in the Woods that writer-producer Joss Whedon and first-time director Drew Goddard scramble horror clichés into something truly, wildly inventive. Meta-horror is, of course, nothing new; the genre is nothing if not in love with itself. But Whedon and Goddard, despite their backgrounds, don’t seem particularly infatuated with the genre themselves. Cabin’s sharply satirical edge will engender comparisons to Scream, but that franchise celebrated the conventions it gleefully subverted, while this film demolishes tropes with a tinge of disdain. In truth, a more apt companion piece is Rubber, the 2010 French curio ostensibly about a murderous,
“THIS FILM DEMOLISHES TROPES WITH A TINGE OF DISDAIN.” a cabin, which is, in fact, located in the woods. Dark, foreboding, isolated woods. At this point, it probably wouldn’t destroy your viewing experience if I told you that into these woods come five nubile college students, each one less an actual human being than a walking archetype: the hypersexualized bottle-blonde, the meathead alpha jock, the virginal brunette, the vaguely ethnic scholar, the paranoid burnout. After watching dozens—if not hundreds—of movies with that exact setup, what would one anticipate such a motley group of friends to do while on a weekend getaway in the wilderness? Leap off a boat dock into a lake? Yep. Play truthor-dare? Definitely. Go down into the cabin’s dank, dimly lit basement, pick up a diary and read aloud the phrases written in Latin? Almost certainly. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, to mention that early on, these kids stop at a rundown gas station and meet a grizzled old-timer who offers vague warnings about going up to that there cabin. Oh, and that hawk the camera lingers on as their RV rounds the
sentient car tire. It’s a movie that openly questioned its own existence, wondering—aloud—why anyone would want to watch a film about a killer tire. Similarly, Cabin questions the use of the slasher flick, with its ever-revolving casts of stupid kids making stupid decisions and getting their stupid heads snared in bear traps. Its response is to throw the whole institution out. In its exhilarating, blood-smeared climax, the movie sends enough horror clichés flying at the screen to give fanboys an aneurysm, and it feels like one great, giant purge—the end of horror as we know it. And really, after witnessing a dude get stabbed through the chest by a unicorn, what else is there to even see? Oh no, I’ve said too much. 90 SEE IT: The Cabin in the Woods is rated R. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
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Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax
61 It’s a classic children’s tale: Boy living in a desolate, foliage-free world searches far and wide for a seedling to bring life back to the planet and a girl into his life. When that movie was WALL-E, it kicked ass. When it’s The Lorax, not so much. Here’s the thing: Dr. Seuss’ tale of a doomsaying critter called the Lorax doesn’t have a love story. It’s just a quick, rhyming tale of some forest creatures whose home is destroyed by an outsider with an ax and an idea. The Hollywood version tosses in lame backstory about people, and The Lorax is no longer about the environment. The story is hackneyed, and the songs barely rhyme. The Lorax might speak for the trees, but clearly, no one is speaking for Dr. Seuss. PG. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. 99 West, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Forest, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.
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Dreadnaught
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Famed martial arts choreographer Yuen Wooping battles a menace by the name of White Tiger. No, that’s not a euphemism for cocaine addiction. Hollywood Theater. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 17. NEW
Fair Game
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More left-wing celebrity grandstanding from studio Participant Media, Fair Game is a tribute to compromised CIA officer Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband Joe Wilson. They are played by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as weepy victims of the Bush administration’s march to war. Time to haul out that news footage of George and the gang, so that Sean Penn can scowl at the television and “Milk” the political glamour for all it’s worth. It’s not worth much. The movie is ridiculous and elitist, reducing the war to one Beltway couple screwing over another. Scooter Libby and Karl Rove are the evil couple who smirk; Plame and Wilson are the indignant couple who shout. The official who actually blew Plame’s cover is nowhere to be seen. Is it because he, too, opposed the administration? Maybe this is Plame’s Hollywood revenge: You’re either with her or against her. Director Doug Liman favors globe-hopping plots and bland staging. He shows the Wilsons arguing in front of their innocent children, so as to justify a triumphant lecture circuit. “Mr. Wilson!” shouts an admirer. “Mr. Wilson! We came all the way from Portland!” The next sound you hear will be that of about seven moviegoers cooing in unison, as their egos—both regional and partisan—are ruthlessly tickled. ALISTAIR ROCKOFF. Cinema 21. 1 pm Sunday, April 15. Presented by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. NEW
Filmed by Bike
[SIX NIGHTS ONLY] The annual cinematic tribute to Portland’s favorite mode of transportation celebrates its 10th anniversary with, well, more films about bikes. Clinton Street Theater. Friday-Wednesday, April 13-18. Showtimes vary. Check filmedbybike. org for a full schedule. NEW
Four Lovers
34 And so, the cinematic search for
unfettered sexual gratification continues. In this French entry to the everexpanding “friends who fuck” canon, two upper-class couples meet cute—in a scenario that’ll have a certain appeal around these parts, the woman on one side hires the guy on the other to design a website for her boutique jewelry business—and, with pretty much no setup, discussion or forethought, immediately decide to swap partners for explorations into sanctioned adultery. Things are going great, until the entire arrangement crashes down in a heap of jealousy and resentment. Of course it does.
In lieu of an original thought, director Antony Cordier offers up plenty of softcore boffing, but even that is mostly tedious. If you’re not going to say anything interesting about the nature of committed relationships— polyamorous or otherwise—at least give us some hot tumbles in the hay. Instead, Cordier delivers an orgy in flour, which just seems terribly uncomfortable. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
Friends With Kids
53 A thirtysomething take on the fuck-buddy comedy, Friends With Kids fancies itself more adult than those two other movies from last year about boffing BFFs, in which Justin Kutcherlake and Natalie Kunisman foolishly sought unencumbered sexual satisfaction in the loins of their hotbodied besties. In this film, the characters are driven by an even more naïve and selfish impulse: to make a baby with no strings attached. Adam Scott and writer-director Jennifer Westfeldt are old college pals who, for motivations never adequately justified, agree to have a child together and raise it as platonic parents. Staging a mini Bridesmaids reunion, Westfeldt gets good performances out of her supporting cast—Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd make an enjoyably kooky couple; Jon Hamm gets to stretch out in at least one strong dramatic scene; and Kristen Wiig, well, she spends all her screen time weeping—but no one can escape from underneath the film’s contrived sitcom premise, particularly Westfeldt herself: It’s just hard to get behind someone who’d voluntarily reduce parenthood to the level of exroommates sharing custody of an Xbox. We all know where it’s heading from the first two minutes, anyway. It reverses the direction of the typical casual-shtup rom-com—love stumbling upon lust rather than the other way around—but it’s just a different route for ending up at the same place. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.
Goon
61 The paint-by-huge-neon-lit-num-
bers sports comedy Goon, which I would call Major League on Ice if I were in a paint-by-huge-neon-lit-numbers sort of writing mood, is obnoxious, offensive, endearingly low-key and sometimes even funny. Seann William Scott, now beefy and buff enough to perhaps require a third n at the end of that ridiculous first name, stars as Doug Glatt, a dim waste of limited potential who puts his thick skull and big hands to use as a minor league hockey team’s go-to brawler. If one is willing to overlook Jay Baruchel’s grating performance as Glatt’s best bud and forgive Goon’s sick insistence that a woman’s desire to fuck a lot of people is a problem that must be solved ASAP, then, well, one must still get over the reek of familiarity permeating the whole affair. But once you resign yourself to being slotted into and then shoved along a well-worn emotional groove, Glatt’s encounters with hard-assed coaches, quirky teammates and rival players do begin to massage the less-evolved segments of the brain, the soft patches that dig dick jokes and hockey and Seann William Scott. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
Hot Coffee
66 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY, DIRECTOR
ATTENDING] Remember the woman who sued McDonald’s, claiming the coffee she spilled in her lap was too hot? Her name was Stella Liebeck, and the reason you remember her is her case became the prime example in the war against frivolous lawsuits. What you probably didn’t know was that McDonald’s kept its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees F as a manner of practice, and the fast-food chain had already received more than 700 complaints about severe burns. The HBO documentary Hot Coffee uses Liebeck’s case as a jumping-off point to explore the flaws of the civil justice system and the increasing influence of corporate money to the disadvantage of everyone else. While most of us couldn’t even explain what tort reform is, we’re still getting screwed out of vital consumer protections because it limits the liability of companies,
putting caps on damages awarded to victims and sometimes eliminating citizens’ rights to take companies to court at all. Hot Coffee breaks it all down with plenty of emotional, outrageinducing examples of corruption in the justice system. Prepare to feel a little more sympathy for the then-elderly Liebeck (and see some truly horrifying photos), and to think twice about your next cup of coffee. PENELOPE BASS. Hollywood Theater. 7:30 pm Thursday, April 12; 3 pm Saturday, April 14.
Hugo 3D
80 The message: Life, though brief,
admits of magic. The messenger: a master magician still. PG. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters.
The Hunger Games
84 A few assurances for anxious
Hunger Games book fans: Actress Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t ruin bowwielding heroine Katniss. Death still comes by genetically engineered dog, spear and swarm of hallucinationinducing bees. There is no way in hell anybody will mistake your beloved young-adult “girl battles dystopian regime” series for Twilight. In fact, director Gary Ross’ movie version of The Hunger Games is more than a bigscreen cash grab. It’s a tense drama with bursts of raw emotion and unsettling (if mostly unseen) violence. In other words: It’s a good movie all by itself. In an era where YA books are often boiled down beyond recognition for film treatment, The Hunger Games is a vivid KO that stays mostly true to great source material. It’s like The Running Man…but with highschoolers killing each other with bricks and swords in the woods. Although the film hinges on Katniss, Games’ secret weapon is its costume and makeup team. Taking a cue from to the book’s use of fashion as shorthand for greed and social decay, the film doesn’t waste time explaining economic schisms. A glance at District 12’s ragged calico frocks and the Capitol nincompoops’ lollipop-hued coifs and elaborately carved facial hair says it all. Never before has the color hot pink been used to convey such epic douchebaggery. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
77 The title tells you a lot about what
sort of movie this might be: downtrodden, acerbic, commuting between office parks and Mom’s basement. And for the first 45 minutes, it confirms those suspicions in spades. Jason Segel plays Jeff, Baton Rouge bong aficionado and holy fool. It often seems like he’s using acting tips garnered from one of the more slackjawed, tattered Muppets. Ed Helms, as his goateed brother Pat, is merely doing a Danny McBride imitation. They are paired on an adventure— well, Jeff sees it as an adventure; Pat sees it as an aggravation and then a crisis—because Jeff answers what he contends is a cosmically significant wrong-number call for somebody called Kevin, while Pat has sussed that his wife (the perpetually underused Judy Greer) is cheating on him. Then the movie makes an unlikely pirouette, and becomes something bewitching and lovely. Are directors Mark and Jay Duplass suggesting, after all this grungy stasis, that some kind of change is possible? R. AARON MESH. Lake Twin, Fox Tower.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
80 Nothing moves quickly in the
world of Jiro Ono. Considered by many to be the best sushi chef in the world, Jiro has been practicing his art for 75 years. At age 85, he still works every day, tirelessly and meticulously, in his tiny 10-seat restaurant in a Tokyo subway station. His apprentices work 10 years before they’re allowed to cook an egg. They spend 40 minutes every day massaging octopus tentacles. His eldest son, aged 50, works obediently under his father’s exacting command until the day he may inherit the business. Jiro’s customers book
months in advance and pay upward of $350 for his set 20-piece sushi meals; each item—a morsel of rice, a sliver of fish—is constructed tenderly with a few swift hand movements and a brush of soy sauce. Many admit to being scared to eat under his unwaveringly stern gaze. “I feel ecstatic all day,” he says, without breaking a smile. Like the sushi master himself, the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi moves a bit ponderously and occasionally repetitively. But as Jiro would be the first to tell you, patience and perseverance will pay off in the end. PG. RUTH BROWN. Hollywood Theatre, Living Room Theaters.
John Carter 3D
85 John Carter is a box-office
debacle. Pixar wunderkind Andrew Stanton decided to leap from WALL-E into live-action filmmaking by adapting a series of penny dreadfuls penned in
1917 by the guy who invented Tarzan. The movie went through sweeping reshoots because the first cut didn’t make any sense, the budget surpassed $300 million, and the title was trimmed so women would want to see it. Women still don’t want to see it. John Carter is played by Taylor Kitsch (he was Tim Riggins on Friday Night Lights), and he often looks, to put it politely, confused about what actors do. The movie lurches wildly between moods, and the plot is nearly impossible to follow. None of these things matter. John Carter has tectonic flaws, but it’s fearless and exhilaratingly outlandish, the first hint that the CGI era can do something radically different than add bigger bubbles to soap operas. PG-13. AARON MESH. Indoor Twin, Eastport, Lloyd Mall, Living Room Theaters, Sherwood.
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important being there with cameras. You can even almost hear the genesis of the movie in every shot: “If I make a movie about Comic-Con I can meet my idols and be on a panel at Comic-Con!” It probably worked, but it’s uncomfortably masturbatory, and uninteresting to watch. PATRICIA SAUTHOFF. Hollywood Theatre.
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A SIDE PROFILE IN PAIN: Alex Libby in Bully.
BULLY Hell is other children, as anyone who came of age in the public school system is well aware. For the average kid, absorbing cruelty from one’s peers is just an accepted part of growing up. In his much-discussed documentary on bullying in U.S. schools, Bully director Lee Hirsch doesn’t attempt to explain the brutal nature of adolescence. He merely films it. To do much more would exceed the scope of a 99-minute movie. Like any social ill, bullying cuts to the cancerous heart of American culture. It’s an issue that touches on everything from the erosion of school funding to media desensitization. Instead of rolling out statistics and a parade of talking heads, Hirsch simply turns the camera on and lets the abuse speak for itself. To some, that might sound overly reductive. It’s a fair criticism. Often, the film starts discussions that Hirsch’s dedication to nonconfrontation won’t allow it to finish. But if Bully understands anything, it’s the visceral power of human experience. The movie weaves together the stories of five bullying victims, including a 16-year-old lesbian who, as far as her tiny Oklahoma hometown is concerned, might as well have come out as a leper; a 13-year-old girl pushed far enough to bring a gun onto the school bus; and two cautionary tales, of children—one only 11 years old—driven to suicide by constant, ruthless harassment. At the film’s center is an Iowa preteen named Alex. Gawky and bespectacled, he’s an easy target for insults, though getting called “fish face” is hardly the worst of his daily torment: Over his nervous, uneven breathing, a hidden microphone picks up a fellow student’s colorful description of how he’ll mutilate Alex if he tries to sit next to him on the bus again. Even more appalling, somehow, are the adults. School officials— those Hirsch chooses to highlight, at least—seem to operate on the principle that if a kid is getting picked on, he or she probably deserves it. In one particularly infuriating scene, an administrator at Alex’s school, who pops up throughout the film as a symbol of the blissful indifference of authority, deflects the concerns of his parents with empty assurances, then shows off photos of her newborn grandchild. It’s at moments such as that when Hirsch’s passive activism grows maddening. In simply giving voice to the victims, Bully generates enormous empathy, and that alone justifies the studio’s highly publicized battle with the MPAA over the film’s rating. Still, like the kids he observes, you can’t help wishing Hirsch would push back once in a while. MATTHEW SINGER.
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The Kid With a Bike
74 Another slice of lower-class life
from Belgium’s Dardenne brothers, The Kid with a Bike focuses on Cyril (Thomas Doret), an 11-year-old whose future abandonment issues we witness being seared into him. Disregarded by every male figure in his life—his father, his foster mother’s boyfriend, the slick-haired street tough who recruits him for a robbery—he is left to survive alone in a boy’s school until literally falling into the arms of a local hairdresser. International cineastes already know of the Dardennes’ warm, realist touch, but the revelation here is Doret. He plays Cyril as a bomb not waiting to explode but silently begging to be defused. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters. NEW
Lockout
It’s Taken in space! Are throat chops effective in zero gravity? Not screened for critics. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville. NEW
Metropolis
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Or: Fritz Lang Invents the Future. Massachusetts’ Alloy Orchestra provide the live score to the German heavyweight’s still awe-inspiring 1927 meisterwerk. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, April 12.
Mirror Mirror
27 Another in a tedious line of recent fairytale adaptations, Mirror Mirror is a picture-book retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves with impressive costumes and scenery and little else. The Evil Queen, played by a bitchy, almostlikable Julia Roberts, casts her stepdaughter out into the dark woods so that she can remain the fairest cougar in the kingdom. Snow White, a vapid Lily Collins, pouts her way into the home of seven thieving dwarves, rebranded with nicknames like Butcher and Napoleon. They teach her how to fight (via montage) and win back her father’s kingdom. Naturally there is also a handsome prince at stake—Armie Hammer portraying a smile with hair—and Snow White’s final reward is marrying this man who earlier in the film spanks her with a sword. By the time the credits roll (accompanied by an inexplicable Bollywood-style music video), you’ll wish someone had offered you some poisoned fruit. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard.
Natural Selection
Rachael Harris goes on a road trip with the thug that came from her husband’s sperm donation. R. Living Room Theaters. NEW
A Night to Remember
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Lost in the polarizing schmaltz and pageantry of James Cameron’s Titanic is the fact that, at its heart, it’s really a story about the sinking of a big-ass ship. Here is a movie, shot 40 years earlier, that’s about nothing more than the sinking of that same big-ass ship, with no Jack, no Rose, and no Celine Dion, but with a dude from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Hollywood Theater. 6:30 pm Saturday, April 14. Presented by Fleur de Lethal.
North by Northwest
96 [THREE NIGHTS ONLY,
REVIVAL] North by Northwest is not a suspense film, though those remembering the oft-homaged cropdusting attack and the climactic melee atop Mount Rushmore can be forgiven for remembering it as such. Those scenes are iconic. But they’re also kind of stupid. So is NxNW, and that’s the point. When
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METROPOLIS most of us remember Hitch, we forget the master of suspense was also a cut-up, and the fourth and final pairing of Hollywood’s greatest director and its greatest star is a gas from front to back, a mistakenidentity caper in which Cary Grant plays Cary Grant on a train-hopping adventure that serves as an excuse to watch the man crack wise in nice suits and romance a dame half his age. The charm of the whole goofy affair is augmented by Eva Marie Saint oozing sexuality, and amazing turns by James Mason and Martin Landau, who play it straight as the film’s villains and score by layering nuance on top of stereotypical scumbaggery. It’s not Hitch’s finest work, but it sure as hell is his most consistently delightful, a pitch-perfect spoof mistaken for a thriller the same way Grant’s ad exec is mistaken for a master spy, and like the bourbon Landau uses in an attempt to off Grant, it has aged beautifully. AP KRYZA. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 pm, 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, April 13-14; 3 pm Sunday, April 15.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
95 As the title hints, it’s a kind of
Western: A small-town posse (police chief, prosecutor, stenographer and coroner) drives by night through the Turkish steppe, trying to illuminate the shallow grave where a confessed murderer dropped his victim. But the killer was drunk, and is now confused. They are, in several senses, lost. And the misgiving that slowly dawns with bleak light over Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is whether they can bear all the evidence they find. It is the monumental movie of 2012: If there’s any justice, this is the picture plucked from the Portland International Film Festival that will leave audiences awed and arguing. That debate should include what it means to draw from Western tropes for a present-day police movie. What lawlessness and isolation is eternal? Cannes-laureled director Nuri Bilge Ceylan zooms toward his actors’ weathered, warped faces for Leone-iconic close-ups—these abstracted monologues seem to take place in a reality just outside the rest of the plot—but the procedural feels like it peeled the violence away from Sam Peckinpah’s canon, leaving the big, self-bruising men to wander in the dust. The showdowns are all internal. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre.
Pina 3D
95 Up to now, 3-D in film has been
an enterprise largely extraneous to the character of film itself: moviedom’s version of the 10,000 lovefattened cherubs overwhelming the interior of a baroque church. German auteur Wim Wenders’ Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is something else altogether, a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the 3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. Pina is, in fact, the most emotionally affecting film I saw last year. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Cinema 21.
The Raid: Redemption
89 Count The Raid: Redemption as
Indonesia cinema’s first big KO. It’ll be all action and martial-arts movie fans talk about this year. About 80 percent of the film is composed of brilliantly choreographed, blisteringly fast hand-to-hand combat scenes, which manage to retain the unique and traditional flavor of pencak silat (it’ll remind you variously of some kung fu styles, Muay Thai, judo and Filipino martial arts, but it’s got its own thing going on) while still delivering on the blood and body count. The plot? Yeah, there’s one in there somewhere. Iko Uwais plays Rama, a rookie on an elite special forces team charged with taking out the city’s nastiest crime boss from his 15th-floor lair at the top of a derelict apartment building. That plan doesn’t go so well, and the team finds itself trapped inside a high-rise full of criminals, drug addicts and nonspecific bad guys armed to the teeth with giant knives. That’s about it: Rama and what’s left of his unit (mostly an assortment of appendages splattered against the stairwell) must fight their way out, floor by floor, apartment full of ruthless killers by apartment full of ruthless killers. So it basically plays out like a video game—Donkey Kong with more violence or Wolfenstein 3D with less robot Hitler. It’s avert-youreyes violent and surprisingly nervewracking for at least 30 minutes, until it’s clear how it will all end and you become acclimatized to seeing men impaled on sharp, pointy objects. Then it’s just brutal, messy fun. R. RUTH BROWN. Cinema 21.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
37 What an extravagantly unnatural project this is! Not the billionaire sheik building a series of dams in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula to create a salmon run that might stimulate ecological and economic growth. That’s the part of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen that makes the most sense. No, what’s really unsupportable is how Lasse Hallstrom’s movie tries to blend political satire with globe-hopping adventure, and cosmopolitan relationships with soft spiritualism. That’s how we wind up with a romantic comedy in which the sophisticated banter is paused so Ewan McGregor can save the sheik from an assassination attempt, by using his fishing rod like a bullwhip to knock a gun from a terrorist’s hand. Accordingly, McGregor’s character is named “Dr. Jones.” He’s addressed by that title for most of the movie, and calls Emily Blunt’s wry consultant “Ms. ChetwodeTalbot” for months after they’ve been working together—formality that can only be explained as extreme passive-aggressive hatred or a Jane Austen fetishist’s form of flirtation. A dead soldier is brought back to life so Blunt can face a notall-that-agonizing decision of the heart, and the love triangle is just like the one in Casablanca, but the exact opposite. The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH. Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
APRIL 11-17 A trio of developmentally disabled adults POKE EACH OTHER IN THE EYE. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com, if anyone feels up to it. PG. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Titanic 3D
It turns out the heart does go on: Titanic is the latest cash cow to be re-milked in 3-D. The release will cause slight heart palpitations in some people and a twinge of bile in others. But it’s also a reminder of a phenomenon never since equaled at the movies. (Sure, James Cameron made even more money with Avatar, but you can’t tell us it felt the same.) Titanic was a romance that defied snide jokes about how everybody already knew the ending, because people returned to watch that ending again and again. PG-13. AARON MESH. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen, Hilltop, Sherwood, Tigard.
pursue half-baked importance. Rent Orphan instead. R. CHRIS STAMM. Fox Tower.
Wrath of the Titans
42 In Greek mythology, the god Kronos feared being usurped by his children, so he ate them. That scene, which would probably make Bully pale in comparison, is missing from the CGI-heavy sequel to Clash of the Titans, but it’s still a fitting analogy for how special effects have swallowed such action movies. This one’s no slouch in the rocks-hurtling-atthe-screen department, but its bigname Brits (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes) are confined to sound stages to throw lightning at each
other. (Titans, it seems, behave suspiciously like wizards.) The indifferent plot—Grandpapa was a volcanic stone—is recouped by some evocative imagery: Kronos recalls Chernabog from Disney’s “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence in Fantasia, flinging lava in swaths like an infernal Jackson Pollock. But the movie gets its only human life from Bill Nighy, who sports a Babylonian soothsayer’s beard and mutters half-heard mermaid-seduction techniques. He’s killed off pretty quick. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, Bridgeport Village, City Center, Evergreen, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard.
27 Ten years after directing the lovely Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay returns to her calling with a film so miserably ill-conceived and clumsy that it wobbles right past awful to collapse in the far sadder territory of the pitiable. Adapted from Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin dances back and forth in time with the stricken figure of Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton). Her son’s terrible crime strands her in the physical present with a community that reviles her while sending her mind casting backwards to retrieve evidence and explanations from the years leading up to Kevin’s awful spree. Ramsay’s knack for trapping moments of fleeting beauty and terror makes for a promising first 15 minutes, as a dense collage of image and sound initiates us into Eva’s posttraumatic stress. But when the film coheres into a more legible narrative, Ramsay loses control and We Need to Talk About Kevin gets worse with each passing minute. The deranged kid of the title comes into crisp focus as a sadistic horror-film villain, with Ramsay exaggerating every loathsome aspect of the character while simultaneously refusing to give into her material’s generic pleasures. The result is a B-movie mess that neglects filthy fun to
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Blue Like Jazz 67 Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast: a pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. The Igby in question is Don Miller (Marshall Allman), a Texas Baptist in the land of ’80s hair whose ostensibly devout mother sleeps with his youth pastor, sending him angrily off to a stereotypically exaggerated Reed College for auto-reprogramming as a pagan rider of tall bikes who uncombs his neat locks and sneers at God to be accepted (while inwardly, of course, remaining terribly conflicted). He falls in love, while losing his way, with a honey-haired and milk-faced lefty do-gooder (Claire Holt), and also befriends a superhot lesbian (Tania Raymonde) and ironical “pope” (Justin Welborn). That Don comes back to Jesus in a terribly ham-fisted way after hitting a predictable drug-fueled bottom should surprise no one. What is surprising is that largely due to Allman’s nuanced performance as Miller, the often laughably broad-stroked film actually takes on a tender, human emotional weight—laden with ambivalence, with doubt not only possible but sensible—before the movie’s insultingly hackneyed final acts of contrition. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Clackamas, Bridgeport, Fox Tower.
Rock & Religion: The Medium of Worship 76 What’s the difference between Jerry Lee Lewis and the Pentecostal churchgoers of West Virginia? When Jerry Lee asked you to handle his snake, he didn’t mean it so literally. Otherwise, they’ve both got a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on—and the adventurous curators at Cinema Project have juxtaposed them in a double feature on the varieties of religious ecstasy. Dan Graham’s 1984 video Rock My Religion makes the comparison more explicitly: It’s like a lo-fi Chris Marker film, with a lot of pelvic thrusting spliced with woodcuts of Shakers. But the case is actually stronger in Peter Adair’s black-and-white, gorgeously preserved 16 mm documentary, Holy Ghost People, which in 1967 coolly considers the rattlesnakehandling charismatics of Scrabble Hill, W.Va. Their tremors, convulsions and dancing amid the wooden pews feel like nothing so much as a good punk show—a reminder that there’s a strain of American Christianity that isn’t judgmental, but ardently seeks the sublime. Then these nice, Norman Rockwell-looking folks pull some rattlers out of a fiddle box and start tossing them across the room, and it’s a reminder that, oh right, that strain of American Christianity is also batshit. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, April 17-18.
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7329 SW Bridgeport Road, 800-326-3264 TITANIC: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 04:30, 09:15 LOCKOUT Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:45, 02:10, 04:40, 07:10, 09:40 BLUE LIKE JAZZ Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 04:15, 07:05, 09:45 THE THREE STOOGES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 01:00, 02:30, 03:30, 05:15, 06:45, 07:45, 09:20, 10:20 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 02:45, 05:20, 08:00, 10:40 THE RAID: REDEMPTION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:50, 02:25, 05:10, 07:40, 10:15 TITANIC 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 03:45, 08:15 AMERICAN REUNION Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:20, 03:15, 04:10, 07:30, 09:50, 10:25 WRATH OF THE TITANS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:40, 10:30 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:20, 07:55 MIRROR MIRROR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:40, 02:20, 05:05, 07:50, 10:35 THE HUNGER GAMES Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 02:50, 03:20, 03:50, 06:15, 06:50, 07:15, 09:30, 10:05, 10:30 SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:25, 04:20, 07:15, 10:00 21 JUMP STREET Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 02:15, 05:00, 07:50, 10:40 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:15 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:40, 09:55
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COCAINE EYES: As if still fueled by all that nose candy at the end of GoodFellas, Scorsese’s desert follow-up Casino is the highest-grade Marty party, with all the tricks of his middle period deployed as often as possible. The double-down on stimulants like superfluous narration can be wearying—how much of Joe Pesci’s parrotlike voice does an audience really need?—but they achieve an operatic excess. Somebody with energy to burn should do a count of how many zoom-pans are in Casino’s 178 minutes: I counted one every two seconds in a single 26-second montage. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst, presented by Beer and Movie fest. Best paired with: New Belgium Cocoa Mole. Also showing: A Separation (Laurelhurst), Wanderlust (Academy, Laurelhurst). NORTH BY NORTHWEST Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Mon-Tue-Wed
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CARTER 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:10, 06:15 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:20, 06:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 08:50
Bagdad Theater and Pub 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 NO FILMS SHOWING TODAY Fri-Sat-Sun-Tue CHRONICLE Mon-Wed 06:00 THIS MEANS WAR Mon-Wed 08:15
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2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 THE IRON LADY FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30 CASINO FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 08:45 WANDERLUST Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 07:15 SAFE HOUSE Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:25 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:30 CHRONICLE Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:40 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 09:15 A SEPARATION Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:40 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND SatSun 01:15
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Manufacturing Maintenance Person
ConMet is a leading manufacturer of aluminum die cast components for the heavy truck industry. We have an immediate opening for an experienced maintenance person in our Clackamas facility located on HWY 212. Skills and Experience: • High school diploma and two years college/trade school, apprenticeship, or equivalent training. Two years related experience with emphasis on hydraulics and electrical systems. • Possession of a Limited Maintenance Electrician card is required. • Welding, rigging, confined space experience desired. • Must be familiar with PLC controls and troubleshooting. Responsibilities: • Troubleshoot and repair production die casting and machining equipment. • Operate machine shop equipment to perform maintenance or repairs. • Perform preventative maintenance procedures. • Excellent Teamwork skills.
This is a union represented position. Pay scales and benefits are in accordance with a collective bargaining agreement. Send Resume:Ron.Ferguson@conmet.com Consolidated Metco Inc Clackamas Plant 10448 S HWY 212 Clackamas, OR 97015
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Across 1 CD section? 5 Former Anaheim Stadium football player 10 “Leave it in,” in proofreading 14 Show opener 15 It may waft 16 No-no: var. 17 Withdraw (off) 18 Exorcist’s target 19 Gave the go-ahead 20 Medical carriers 22 Metallic gray 24 Jumped (out) 25 Tommy Lee Jones, in “Men in Black” 26 Utah city near Arches National Park 28 Scrape reminder 29 Clown name 32 “Never ___ Give You Up” 34 Stratford-___-Avon 38 Scary spot in “Hansel and Gretel” 39 Part of CAT 40 Pretty pink 41 “She Blinded Me With Science” singer Thomas
Down 1 University of Georgia sports fans 2 Put on a winter coat? 3 The shortest Beatle 4 Sweet breakfast 5 Billboard’s 2010 Artist of the Year 6 God who sounds like a zodiac sign 7 Preferred term instead of “Gypsy” 8 “Famous” cookie guy 9 Like a bat out of hell 10 Surface for a pot of boiling water 11 Occupied 12 Guest commenter Roger on the 70th Anniversary DVD edition of “Casablanca” 13 Alan of “Suburgatory” 21 Favorite Brian of crossword writers 23 JFK alternative 27 They support sleepers 28 Slowpoke’s home 29 Muscleman’s asset 30 Cirque du Soleil show with eggs 31 Pouty actress Renee 33 Rechargeable battery type 35 Savannah-based TV chef 36 Planetoid 37 “The Legend of Zelda” console, for short 42 Shrill cries 44 Dos times tres 48 Matt stuck to Greg Kinnear in a Farrelly Brothers movie 49 Word after zinc or iron 50 Song for a diva 51 Car deodorizer scent 52 Light purple shade 53 Glide on a pond 59 ___-cone 61 Code at an ATM 62 “___ Nuff” (Black Crowes set)
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I M A D E T HIS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some people misunderstand the do-it-now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks. Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It’s eternity in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle -- like the compulsive yearning for money, power, and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a white guy from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The flag of California features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular symbol or icon is important to you even though it has no practical presence in your life? If so, this would be a good time to update your attitude. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The cartoon character Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before. I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you had matured to the point where you are now. To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She has turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he had managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.” I offer up this story as a way to
encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favor quality over quantity. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect there’ll be some curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio? Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety-flop and oopsie-loopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months. Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Once upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We all know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait -- before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out -- a wind that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you will see things more clearly.
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