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INBOX SIR NOVICK’S ROUND TABLE

This isn’t an election, this is a coronation [“Novick Unchained,” WW, May 2, 2012].

It’s really unfortunate (and sleazy) that Randy Leonard gave [Steve] Novick advance notice that he was leaving, which scared away other serious candidates.

Now we have a guy walking around spewing ideas out left and right without really caring who he offends. Based on this story, he wants to let criminals out of jail so he can save money and spend it on his pet projects. (?)

He’ll be elected no matter what. A really sad day for this city. A competitive election would force some serious debate about the issues.

Rather, we have an arrogant jerk celebrating his victory before the election.

—“dave” Based on this article, Novick doesn’t seem like he’s serious about becoming city commissioner.

His responses and comments seem like that of someone who won the lottery. Our city needs leadership, not some wannabe celebrity.

—“Your Buddy” Steve is a very smart guy running for the right office. He knows absolutely nothing about criminal-justice policy and is pandering to those in his district who detest the sentencing reforms—yes, sending rapists to prison is a reform. As a city councilman, he will have very little influence over state criminal-justice policy, which is a good thing. Because no matter how smart and quirky he may be, this is a subject about which he has no real-world experience.

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On the drawbridges in Portland, there are signs telling you not to sit with your car idling because of pollution. So why do we have to stop at lights before entering the freeways, forcing thousands of cars to idle?

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analogy isn’t exact (possibly because individual molecules don’t pause to scream obscenities at each other after each interaction), but in theory ramp metering reduces the opportunities for such shocks. Without it, you’d burn more fuel in stop-and-go traffic than you’d save by skipping the signals.

“Theory, schmeory!” I hear you saying. “Those signals just slow me down!” In 2000, the citizens of Minneapolis felt the same way, and, in a failure of democracy comparable to determining prime numbers by popular vote, they successfully pressured their state legislature to have the meters disconnected, just to see what would happen.

With a weary sigh no doubt audible in Iowa City, officials set about disconnecting the signals for a month. Sure enough, they found that average travel times rose 22 percent, accidents increased by 26 percent, and emissions increased, albeit only by the equivalent of 400 cars. Science 1, Democracy 0.

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A federal grand jury in San Diego last week indicted Yonas Fikre and two others for attempting to conceal the transfer of $75,000 from the United States to the United Arab Emirates in 2010. Fikre is the Oregon Muslim who claims UAE officials held him and tortured him for 106 days last year after he refused to cooperate with a U.S. government investigation into Portland’s largest mosque, the Islamic Center of Portland, Masjed As-Saber (see “Sleepless In Abu Dhabi,” WW, April 18, 2012). The indictment alleges Fikre; his brother, Dawit Woldehawariat; and Abrehaile Haile, owner of Seattle-based Red Sea Finance, conspired to move small amounts into a UAE bank account to avoid detection. Fikre’s lawyer, Tom Nelson, said his client committed no crime.

Revelers—including Gov. John Kitzhaber—planned to whoop it up at Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette’s Roman Holiday FIKRE gala on Saturday, May 12, but they face a tough political decision: Support the organization’s annual $250-per-plate blowout, or honor the picket line that Service Employees International Union Local 49 plans to stage. SEIU represents 179 Planned Parenthood clinical workers; the sides have been “unable to reach an agreement on an initial contract despite negotiating since November 2011, says SEIU’s Felisa Hagins.

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City Commissioner Amanda Fritz wants you to believe she has created jobs in Portland—and not just a few.

“Amanda Fritz’s efforts to attract more business helped create 6,800 new private-sector jobs in the Portland area in the last year alone,” Fritz writes in a campaign mailer.

That’s a pretty astounding claim for a city still struggling to emerge from recession. It’s a number bigger than the full-time workforce of the City of Portland, or Port of Portland, or Portland Public Schools.

So where does it come from? Fritz says the 6,800 figure is the number of new jobs the Oregon Employment Department recorded in Multnomah County from December 2010 to December 2011.

In other words, Fritz, running for re-election, is taking some credit for every job in the county last year.

City Hall candidates are rushing this year to present themselves as “job creators,” and Fritz isn’t the only one stretching the truth.

All of them may be liberals, but the leading City Hall candidates have seized on the same focus-grouped phrase—“job creators”—that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is using on the campaign trail.

It’s a neat piece of rhetoric widely attributed to Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster and wordsmith. (He’s also the one who coined “death tax” to describe estate taxes.)

According to a December 2011 Yahoo! News story, Luntz advised Republicans to use job creators when referring to businesspeople or entrepreneurs, in order to counteract the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The focus on jobs is understandable. Polls consistently show that Portland voters’ No. 1 concern is the economy.

So WW looked at candidates’ records and put their claims of job-creation cred to the test.

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CITY COMMISSIONER AMANDA FRITZ (SHOWN HERE IN 2010)

AMANDA FRITZ Fritz, who’s running for re-election, says she deserves some credit for every job that was created in the county last year— all 6,800 of them.

Asked how she arrived at that number, Fritz says she was “a solid supporter for measures that have streamlined and coordinated economic development strategies,” that she supported funding new sidewalk construction, and that she was “instrumental in pushing the negotiations on fixing the Sellwood Bridge to its successful conclusion.”

But a leading Portland economist whom WW asked to review Fritz’s job-creation claim pans her approach. Joe Cortright of Impressa Consulting says it’s very difficult to ascribe short-term job fluctuations to elected officials’ actions.

“The biggest single factor in what happens to the local job market is the U.S. economy,” says Cortright, who has written extensively about economic development.

He notes that in 2009 the economy was in free fall, losing of tens of thousands of local jobs and the near-doubling of the unemployment rate in Multnomah County. Fritz was also in office that year, but was no more responsible for the loss of those jobs, Cortright says, than she was for last year’s gain.

Cortright says Fritz is merely engaging in the time-honored political tradition of attaching herself to any good news.

“In economic development terms, it’s ‘shoot everything that flies and claim everything that falls,’” Cortright says.

“City Council members create the conditions for private businesses to grow and flourish in Portland,” Fritz says. “I will continue to work to keep the cost of government down, and to provide incentives, reduce costs and remove impediments for business growth, to improve wages and incomes.”

MARY NOLAN Nolan, a Democratic state representative for Southwest Portland, is challenging Fritz’s re-election. Nolan actually has business experience. Yet she’s making fewer jobcreator boasts than Fritz.

In 1991, Nolan founded an aviation navigation company, Avrotec Inc. The company has employed as many as 10 people, and Nolan says in the Voters’ Pamphlet she “knows what it takes to grow jobs here in Portland.”

Before that, Nolan worked as a bureau director for the city of Portland. Since 2001, she’s been in the Legislature.

Her legislative record doesn’t include much economic development. Nolan says that as a lawmaker she helped create certainty for businesses in Oregon, helping pass Measure 49, which clarified land-use laws. And as cochair of the budget-writing Joint Ways and Means Committee, Nolan says, she helped set measurable results for state agencies.

Nolan is less focused on job-creation metrics than the business environment. Her campaign manager, Kristi Jo Lewis, says Nolan will focus on providing businesses with three things: regulatory certainty, a quick permit turnaround and a sense the city wants them to be here.

“Nolan believes City Council doesn’t itself create private-sector jobs,” Lewis told WW via email, “but can foster an environment where locally owned businesses and businesses committed to this community can flourish.”

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JEFFERSON SMITH “At the time Eileen joined Nature’s, there were two Nolan’s House colleague, state Rep. Jefferson Smith store locations and approximately 125 employees. When (D-East Portland), has been more specific when talk- Eileen finished her second stint at Nature’s in 1995, there ing about economic development credentials—without were six stores and approximately 450 employees,” her claiming he’s created a certain number of jobs. campaign said in an emailed statement to WW. The two-term lawmaker, who is running for mayor, At Nature’s, Brady served on the company’s executive highlights a couple of laws he helped pass. team and worked in human resources and training. Brady “I championed efforts to grow local businesses and declined to answer questions about the role she played retrofit schools for jobs,” Smith writes in his Voters’ in creating jobs at Nature’s. A campaign aide replied with Pamphlet statement. He’s a few lines from her LinkedIn referring to Gov. John Kitzhabpage, which says Brady “man“IT’S ‘SHOOT EVERYTHING er’s “Cool Schools” initiative, aged the hiring process of hunTHAT FLIES AND CLAIM which Smith co-sponsored and dreds of people” at Nature’s. helped shepherd through the Brady joined the board of EVERYTHING THAT FALLS.’” Celilo Legislature last year.

Group Media, which pubKitzhaber pitched a $100 lishes the Chinook Book coupon —ECONOMIST million Cool Schools program guide, in 2002, on behalf of her JOE CORTRIGHT that could create 1,000 jobs. But then-employer, Ecotrust, an the first phase of the plan Smith environmental nonprofit that helped author is far more modest: $5 million, creating an had invested in the small publisher. estimated 75 jobs statewide.

In 2008, Brady made a personal investment in Celilo Smith’s other primary claim to job creation—the “eco- Group. “She’s not a major shareholder,” Celilo Group nomic gardening” law he sponsored in 2011—has yet to founder Nik Blosser told WW in February, but “she’s been bear fruit. Smith has called for the state to help small busi- chair of the board and has a major role in the company.” nesses that already exist here, rather than throw millions The company now has 27 employees, up from 10 in 2002. of dollars in subsidies at large employers from elsewhere.

The program Smith got passed is a pilot project (not yet CHARLIE HALES started) that will spend about $300,000 to help small busi- Mayoral candidate and former City Commissioner Charnesses with marketing and technical advice. Smith’s Dem- lie Hales could legitimately claim some credit for jobs ocratic colleagues fought to keep “economic gardening” created through public-sector projects like the Portland alive when lawmakers cut the state budget in February.

Streetcar and Cascade Station he helped champion while in office from 1993 to 2002.

EILEEN BRADY But in his Voters’ Pamphlet statement, Hales makes a Businesswoman Eileen Brady, also running for mayor, rests different—and more questionable—claim. most of her job-creation claims on her association with “In the private sector, Charlie created good jobs, New Seasons Market. “We created thousands of jobs with helping HDR Engineering grow from 2,700 employees to health care, even for part-timers and their families, includ- 8,000 employees in 10 years,” Hales’ statement says. ing domestic partners,” a Brady TV commercial says.

What Hales doesn’t say is that HDR added most of The “we” in the ad refers to Brady and her husband, those new jobs outside of his division, and that many Brian Rohter, who was among three co-founders of New came from HDR buying up other firms.

Seasons Market, which had 1,800 employees when the Between 2002, when Hales left the City Council and couple sold their minority stake to a Portland-based buy- joined HDR, and this year, the firm acquired 37 other out firm, Endeavour Capital, in 2009. companies, according to a corporate history and archived As WW has reported, Brady’s claim that she deserves news releases on HDR’s website. credit for founding New Seasons is a stretch at best.

Hales says 30 percent of HDR’s overall job growth Records show Brady was not an original owner of New in the past decade came from acquisitions, and that he Seasons, never worked for the company nor served on its played a direct role in two. His own division grew from board, and personally owned a small percentage of the three employees to approximately 150 in his time there. chain—well after it was already up and running.

He says he played a direct role in growing HDR’s trans“Eileen’s ongoing leadership role was instrumental to portation business and its expansion into Canada. the company’s success and growth,” the campaign said in He also says he can take credit for the job growth a statement. outside his own division, because he has served on HDR’s Brady had a secondary role at companies that were 20-member strategic planning committee. already growing under the direct leadership of others.

“There’s a lot of jobs talk in politics, and I’ve tried to Her campaign gives her credit for creating jobs at New make sure I was erring on the side of being conservaSeasons’ predecessor in the organic grocery business, tive,” Hales says. “I was careful to say I ‘helped’ grow the Nature’s Fresh Northwest. company—and I did. I didn’t do it all myself.”

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The charmed history of the first condominium project to rise in the South Waterfront district— the Meriwether—is entering an unpleasant chapter.

The Meriwether Homeowners Association has sued Gerding Edlen Development Company and its partners, seeking $5.2 million for various “defects, resultant leaks and property damages.”

Gerding Edlen CEO Mark Edlen says the allegations in the lawsuit are “unfounded” and declined further comment.

It’s hard to imagine now, but when developers Gerding Edlen started marketing the 245-unit Meriwether back in 2004, the project, which includes two towers and 17 townhouses, nearly sold out at prices ranging from $759,000 to $1.4 million before the first shovel of dirt was turned.

Demand grew so strong for adjacent projects that Gerding Edlen had to take legal steps to discourage speculators.

But the lawsuit in Multnomah County Circuit Court is potentially embarrassing for a couple of reasons.

For starters, Gerding Edlen is the city’s preeminent developer, responsible for much of South Waterfront, as well as the Indigo in the West End, the Brewery Blocks, and the U.S. headquarters of Vestas in the Pearl District. Gerding Edlen is also on tap to develop the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center.

Second, Dennis Wilde, a partner at Gerding Edlen, the firm’s “chief sustainability officer” and the man most responsible for the firm’s reputation as a leading developer of green buildings, is himself a resident of the Meriwether.

In fact, the project bears one of Wilde’s signature design elements—green eco-roofs, which are supposed to reduce runoff, save energy and even create wildlife habitat.

But the green roofs are a big part of the problem.

A consultant’s report, prepared for the homeowners, says the roofs need more than $200,000 in repairs for “excessive runoff issues” and “vegetative growth and sustainability problems.”

But building residents are more worried about what’s beneath the roofs than what’s on them.

“Our biggest problem is garage drains that don’t work,” says Jim Atwood, chairman of the Meriwether Homeowners Association.

Atwood, a real estate investor who owns downtown properties, says the condo board hoped for a speedy resolution, but the lawsuit has now been put on hold and the sides will enter mediation in June.

In a presentation to the homeowners association March 26, the Aldrich Eike law firm, which specializes in construction-related litigation, outlined problems with the building. The law firm described the most expensive issue as “continued leaking in parking garage due to cracks in concrete slab and inadequate waterproofing.”

One of the challenges in South Waterfront— as the neighborhood’s name suggests—is that it’s built along the Willamette River. Water infiltration into underground parking is a threat.

The homeowners’ consultant found excessive cracking in the Meriwether’s parking garage as well as poor-quality concrete. Estimated price to fix: $2.7 million.

The law firm also presented homeowners with allegations of faulty dryer-duct work, sprinkler pipes located too close to flues, and other construction flaws.

“It looks to me like the workers just disregarded the plans,” Atwood says.

The legal battle does not serve the interests of either side in the fight. Condo owners would like to preserve what they can of their property values—which have plummeted—and publicity about construction defects won’t help.

Nor does it help Gerding Edlen, which has reinvented itself during the development slowdown. The firm is promoting its “Sustainable Solutions” division, which aims to retrofit existing buildings to bring them up to the same green standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design as the 41 other LEED-certified buildings Gerding Edlen has developed.

Atwood is optimistic that the Meriwether building is fundamentally solid.

“The building envelope is sound,” he says.

“No water has gotten through the windows or the shell. It’s a headache, but [$5.2 million] is a pretty small slice of the building’s value.”

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10 LOCAL ACTS THAT PORTLAND’S MUSIC INSIDERS THINK YOU SHOULD HEAR.

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This isn’t a list of our favorite bands. If it were, there’d be a big picture of Everclear on the cover.

Not the real Everclear—just Art Alexakis and the scabs he hired for his upcoming summer tour with Sugar Ray and Marcy Playground.

Instead, Willamette Week’s Best New Band issue aims its spotlight through a reasonably democratic process. Every year, we poll hundreds of local music-scene insiders—club owners, bookers, journalists, label heads, publicists and past winners—about their five favorite new local acts. The word “new” is subjective and the word “band” can mean any music-making entity. This year, the 204 voters provided us with a list of 420 different Portland bands. We totaled the votes, and this is the result.

We want to make all of this clear not just because the process behind the Best New Band issue is often misunderstood, but because it’s truly startling that 45 of those 204 voters—from vastly different scenes and cliques within the Portland music community—agreed on Radiation City.

This nod of approval won’t get anyone a record deal or land them on an arena tour, but it does serve as proof that their art is having an impact. That said, we don’t see this issue as activism.

Sometimes it is a predictor of great careers to come. But, more than that, it’s a snapshot of the most exciting new acts in Portland’s music scene right now.

If there’s one thing we hope this issue does—especially this year’s list, which is arguably the most diverse group of bands we’ve ever featured—it’s getting you out to a local show. Because, as excited as we are about these 10 acts, the poll is evidence there are at least 410 more (OK, 409 if you take Blazers head coach Kaleb Canales off the list) bands playing around this city. Our music scene is thriving, vibrant and worth discovering for yourself.

We hope you’re game. Especially since the Summerland Tour is skipping Portland for Duluth and Tulsa.

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1. Radiation City 165 Points Formed: 2010 Sounds like: Jetsons-era doo-wop

Musicians always say their band is “like a family.” But Radiation City—a Portland outfit that features two couples and a particularly boyish-looking fifth member on bass—actually acts like one. And in the second hour of a three-hour marathon interview at Northeast Portland’s houselike Beech Street Parlor, the family secrets start to slip. There’s very little sex on tour, but plenty of booze. Most of the band members took ecstasy together after their recent release show at Rontoms. There’s a new T-shirt in the works—which, for whatever reason, seems more hush-hush than any of the band’s internal dramas.

And then there are the fights.

Last year, Radiation City co-founders Lizzy Ellison and Cameron Spies nearly broke up on tour. “We had this argument where [Lizzy] was like, ‘We’re done!,’ and I wanted to punch the window out,” says Spies, who is missing a bottom tooth from recent dental surgery. “We had to stop at a gas station to defuse the situation.”

“I will say whatever the hell I want to say. I don’t have a filter,” Ellison admits. Spies, on the other hand, “doesn’t have a backbone.” He also farts a lot.

At this juncture, the whole band embraces self-evaluation. Drummer Randy Bemrose is “the most stoic member of this band, and probably of most people that exist,” Spies says, but he’s prone to bouts of extreme intensity. Eversmiling bassist Matt Rafferty keeps his secrets to himself; he annoys Ellison greatly on tour, “but that’s because he’s like my brother,” she insists. Multi-instrumentalist and singer Patty King is—well, she’s perfect. She sits back watching the madness unfold in front of her.

“I think that, and this is on the record, as much of a bitch as Lizzy can be, it’s actually really good for this band’s honesty and critical nature,” says a grinning Spies.

“She will say the shit that nobody wants to say, but is actually really important.” He reflects for a moment, plucking a loose hair from Ellison’s shoulder. “And I’m not saying she’s always right when she’s a bitch.”

Ellison smiles tightly and shrugs in agreement: “He does say I’m a bitch all the time.”

This is Radiation City. To take the members’ play-

echo-chamber vocals fall over Pulp-esque guitar grooves.

Always, especially in the voices of Rad City’s two female singers, there’s a healthy dose of soul.

“We all really like music you can sink your teeth into,” King says. That would explain recent live covers—the band knows a lot of them—of Ike and Tina Turner’s “I Idolize You” or the Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.” One of the most requested songs in Radiation City’s catalog is its gut-wrenching take on “At Last,” made famous by Etta James. It’s a song that’s hard to imagine another Portland band pulling off, and the Rad City version—which, wisely, the band plays only as an occasional treat—has been known to move fans to tears.

But even in Radiation City’s staggeringly epic originals, there’s a soulful streak that most bands of its generation only dish out in small, ironic helpings.

The genesis of that soul influence dates to the early days of the band, when Spies and Ellison first met and fell in love under unideal circumstances. “I wrote some Arethainspired songs and said, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if we started a soul group?’ to Cam. But to make that come across appropriately is so delicate,” Ellison says. “We’re not—black.

We’re not churchy gospel singers. But that music touches something in you, and that’s our main goal.”

“We all know we can do it,” Rafferty says of finding the band’s soul within its complex, layered sound. “Because there are these moments where it’s happening—where you’re reaching this magical vortex. But we’re improvising.

There’s no formula that we resort to, like, ‘This is the next winning step.’ Any minute it could blow up in our faces.”

Of course, Radiation City doesn’t call itself a soul band— its outdated MySpace page uses the genre “tape music,” an allusion to Spies and Ellison’s cassette-only label, Apes Tapes.

If anything, though, the band tries to create a feeling. “And if it doesn’t hit that spot, we all freak out,” Rafferty says.

That feeling is surprisingly universal. “My dad is in the front row of our shows giving me high-fives,” Spies says.

“That never happened with my old band.”

It’s become increasingly clear that Radiation City has struck a chord with Portland. Recent shows have sold out, and the band is increasingly in demand for national tours and after placing 12th on last year’s Best New Band poll.

This year Rad City received more votes (by far) than any

“WE’RE IMPROVISING. THERE’S NO FORMULA THAT WE RESORT TO, LIKE, ‘THIS IS THE NEXT WINNING STEP.’ ANY MINUTE IT COULD BLOW UP IN OUR FACES.” —RADIATION CITY’S MATT RAFFERTY ful infighting for weakness would be a mistake: When it comes to its music, the band has a work ethic that’s truly impressive. Songs are written and rewritten, recorded and re-recorded, scrutinized by committee and thrown out if they are not “Radiation City enough.” The group has an internal power structure (“I think of Cam as executive producer and me and Lizzy as co-producers,” Bemrose says) that is well-defined. In concert, the band members are obsessive about live sound to a degree that can infuriate sound guys. The group is so fiercely defensive of its sound that the members aren’t sure if they’ll ever work with an outside producer.

Radiation City’s handcrafted sound is harder to describe than its internal dynamics. At the core of the band’s first two releases—last year’s full-length, The Hands That Take You, and the Cool Nightmare EP released in March—is a collision of old and new. Drum machines mingle with bossa nova rhythms, and Phil Spector-style

band in the poll’s history. That’s something that makes the group slightly nervous.

“We’ve heard from a couple people that this scenario can produce stress,” Ellison says.

“Yeah, just this kind of expectation that bands maybe aren’t ready for,” Spies adds.

But like all of Radiation City’s members, who have played in bands that were purely labors of love, Spies is ready for music to be a career.

“I think we’ve wanted these expectations for a while,” he says. “We feel really honored, but also really ready.”

“It doesn’t feel like an accident at all,” King says. “It feels earned.” CASEY JARMAN. BEST NEW BAND cont. on page 14

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2. Pure Bathing Culture 97.5 Points Formed: 2011 Sounds like: A weird dream where Stereolab hangs out with Enya around a campfire on the banks of a river where yellow water runs over chunks of black coal.

New York isn’t ready for the New Age. It’s too busy, too expensive, too removed from the natural world. Or so it seems to Pure Bathing Culture. Back in Brooklyn, the duo of Daniel Hindman and Sarah Versprille ran on pizza and subway fare. Last year they moved to Portland and got into

natal charts and crystals.

“We’ve been super-influenced by a lot of West Coast New Age spirituality, things that we weren’t really looking into,” Hindman says. “We’ve been super-influenced by astrology, and the tarot has become a muse.”

“I’m sure a lot of it exists on the East Coast, in New York, but people on the West Coast...seem to have more space for that type of thought,” Versprille says. “[In New York], there’s a lot of people competing for resources and it’s pretty intense.”

Hindman and Versprille seem comfortably settled into a quieter life in the Southeast Portland house they share with Versprille’s cousin and her elderly miniature poodle.

The house’s open upper floor is a studio and rehearsal

space that “doesn’t exist” in New York, with plush yellow couches, a big chunk of orange calcite (“It’s very calming,” Versprille says) and the spiritualist books that inform the EP the band is releasing at the end of this month.

Hindman, a lanky man with curly brown hair, is originally from Delaware. Versprille, who has sharp bangs, big glasses and occasionally slips a hard vowel into her speech, is from Rochester in upstate New York.

“Some of this music was written in Brooklyn, but I feel like it really developed here,” Versprille says. “We decided we wanted to explore it, but we didn’t have the space or the time because we had to work extra jobs.”

There’s lots of space on Pure Bathing Culture’s self-titled debut EP, a record with obvious parallels to dream-poppy Baltimore duo Beach House. “Lucky One” has Versprille’s ephemeral vocals floating through subtly hypnotic, bloopy drums. Layers of guitar and vocals give “Ivory Coast,” a song the band says is about being obsessed with your muse, uncanny depth. “Silver Shore’s Lake” has a touch of Simply Red-style ’80s blue-eyed soul under layered electro haze. So far, Pure Bathing Culture has played only eight shows, the first in January at Doug Fir Lounge, and yet it has enough buzz to land on this list.

Part of that may be due to the popularity of another band it plays in, Andy Cabic’s folk-pop project Vetiver.

Touring with Vetiver, Pure Bathing Culture met lauded producer and musician Richard Swift, a recent Shins recruit operating out of Cottage Grove, who encouraged the band to come to Portland.

Hanging here, Hindman and Versprille have had time to read and think about new things—like the zodiac.

“I think of the signs of the zodiac almost as like collected folk wisdoms that have been created from centuries and centuries of humans observing other humans,” Hindman says.

Having time to observe and ponder, he figures, is how this esoteric knowledge was developed in the first place. “People didn’t have anything to do besides lay on their back and look at the stars,” he says. “Before the Internet, and before this modern age we live in, people were much more attentive.

They were seeing things that we don’t look at now.”

Versprille stops short of calling it practical: “It’s not so much that I want to read my horoscope and predict the future, it’s more of an interesting intellectual pursuit.”

But there is a Pure Bathing Culture ethos, the band says, something that’s developed since arriving in Portland that channels the spirit of this place.

“If we had any message in our music, it would probably be that you should take yourself seriously, take your relationships seriously—don’t miss it. Don’t miss this opportunity,” Hindman says. “We’re just interested in new forms of spirituality and ways of connecting with something beyond everyday life that gives meaning to why we’re all here.”

As pop music goes, this is an ambitious purpose. Pure Bathing Culture takes it on seriously, but cheerfully.

“Hey,” Versprille asks, “do you want to know your Native American spirit animal?” MARTIN CIZMAR. BEST NEW BAND cont. on page 16

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3. Lost Lander 90 Points Formed: June 2011 Sounds like: A lovelorn woodsman emerging from the forest and struggling to come to grips with this dang newfangled technology.

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A lot has changed in the year since Lost Lander played its first show. For one thing, the band is actually a band now. Initially a solo outlet for songwriter Matt Sheehy, the group came together to bring his lush arrangements to the stage. Through the ups and downs of touring— performing at a packed hometown gig one night, an empty room somewhere in Kansas the next—and the release of DRRT, the first album bearing the Lost Lander name, the project has evolved into a genuine four-person entity.

That’s what Sheehy wanted all along.

“I wasn’t looking to start a band whose players would re-create something that had already been done,” he says, crammed into a candlelit table at Northeast Portland’s Secret Society with drummer Patrick Hughes and keyboardist Sarah Fennell. “I was really hoping to find musicians who I enjoyed on their own and hoped they could bring that to the project.”

Lost Lander is a project rooted in collaboration. In 2010, Sheehy and Ramona Falls frontman Brent Knopf began producing DRRT together, working in tiny recording spaces along the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Guests ranging from troubadour-about-town Nick Jaina to members of psych-folk troupe Akron/ Family also contributed improvised instrumental parts. In the process, Sheehy’s simple songs blossomed into evocative, richly adorned creations, with acoustic guitars, strings and near-tribal drumming swooping around blips of

synthesizer and digitized ephemera.

To assist him with interpreting the songs live, Sheehy recruited Hughes, Fennell and bassist Dave Lowensohn (whom Sheehy, until recently, played guitar alongside in Ramona Falls) last summer. In February, Lost Lander celebrated the release of DRRT at a crowded show at Doug Fir Lounge. Leaving for the tour the next day, the quartet bonded over the shared experiences of the road, like playing for 10 people in a small town outside Boise, Idaho, on Super Bowl Sunday—all of whom knew the words to every song.

“Seeing anybody, anywhere you show up, singing along to a song is amazing,” Fennell says.

There are also fringe benefits. A woman in Wisconsin brought Sheehy a pair of water wings, a reference to the melancholic “Afraid of Summer,” in which Sheehy confesses to not knowing how to swim. An admirer in Arizona baked the band Rice Krispies Treats emblazoned with the Lost Lander logo. It makes sense fans would want to give the band gifts. In a way, it’s an exchange for the gift Lost Lander gave its listeners with DRRT: The CD packaging folds together to form a miniature planetarium. When I spoke to Sheehy in February, he said he hoped the gimmick would bring “a little bit of magic” into people’s lives. “I’ve gotten messages from people saying they’ve shown the planetarium to their kids and had a moment with them, which makes me really happy,” Sheehy says. “Part of me really likes the idea of kids getting interested in planetariums because of the Lost Lander CD.” Fennell laughs. “This band is really a vehicle to educate kids in science,” she says. MATTHEW SINGER. BEST NEW BAND cont. on page 19

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4. Onuinu 68.5 Points Formed: June 2011 Sounds like: A slow cruise through a brightly colored Blade Runner-style landscape intercut with spaces of pastoral beauty.

Dorian Duvall seems to relish his air of mystery.

A tall, attractive gent with a penchant for understated black jeans and single-color T-shirts, the 25-year-old musician always seems to have a puckish grin. He often seems content to sit back and drink in whatever conversation he’s around rather than engaging.

It’s a laid-back style that befits the sultry, spacey electronic pop that Duvall recorded under the name Onuinu for Mirror Gazer, his album coming out this summer on Portland’s Bladen County Records. Lyrically, Duvall is as coy as he is in person, hiding lines like “I never wanted to be alone/ I just want to stay and talk to you” behind reverb. But the low bubble of bass; funked-up guitars; wandering, Bernie Worrellstyle synth melodies; and hip-hop-meets-IDM beats speak volumes on his behalf.

To break through Duvall’s persona, I tried to get him out of his comfort zone, taking him to a listening party for the new album by local doommetal juggernaut Witch Mountain. When I came to pick him up, it took him 10 minutes to hear me knocking. Through the door, it sounded like he was trying out new guitar pedals.

On our way to the party, Duvall told me about growing up. Born and raised in a Cleveland suburb, Duvall was surrounded by music geeks who “were always showing each other new things we’d found,” he said. “I was listening to hip-hop, but they got me into prog rock and Frank Zappa.”

A skilled guitarist, Duvall moved to Portland

after high school with the intention of starting a band that never got going.

“About that same time,” he said as we arrived at the house of Witch Mountain drummer (and WW contributor) Nathan Carson, “a lot of the people I was hanging out with were getting into house music and making dance beats. It was really easy to pick up on that and start making my own.”

Duvall has never been familiar with metal, but at the listening party, he gamely absorbed the waves of bluesy bombast pouring toward us at top volume. He nodded his head to the beat but looked like he was processing it more than enjoying it. On the way out, I apologized for tossing him into the deep end.

“No, no. It was good,” he said. “I might borrow some ideas from that. It was a little weird being around a bunch of people I’ve never met before, but I think I’m going to have to get used to that kind of thing.”

Duvall speaks volumes there. Over the past three years that he’s been performing as Onuinu, he’s seen his fan base grow exponentially. New touring opportunities are coming his way—he’ll be the hand-picked opener for YACHT this summer. He’s looking even further beyond, with one album’s worth of new material already in the can, and his mind turning over ideas for another one.

He hints at the influence of old favorites like Soft Machine, but only has one concrete goal in mind: “I want to write lyrics that have something to say. I think it’s time for me to make a statement.”

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5. Youth 57 Points Formed: 2010 Sounds like: That moment when wide-eyed romantic longing dissolves into world-weary resignation.

Well, this is awkward: For the first time in Best New Band history, one of our winners disbanded during the ballotcounting process. Bummer.

That Youth is the freshly sundered band in question makes the pill even harder to swallow, as this young quartet just barely stumbled its way into toddlerhood before calling it quits. And, according to Youth guitarist-vocalist Maggie Morris, “The split was less than amicable.”

It’s sad because much of Youth’s charm derived from the sound of sweet voices bound together in lament and celebration.

Mostly unswayed by contemporary currents, Youth picked up where Northwest favorites like 764-Hero and Red Stars Theory left off 10 years ago, with a melancholic yet hopeful take on swirling guitar interplay and homesick bedroom voices. Some of that throwback style will live on in the form of Cascades, which three-fourths of the Youth crew—Morris, drummer Stephen Leisy and bassist Matthew Hall—have joined. The new group, originally Genders, has already changed its name.

Cascades won’t exactly be Youth Part Two, though.

“The only Youth songs we will continue to play will be ones that I wrote or sang on and ‘Virginia City’, a song that Stephen wrote,” Morris says.

Youth’s other songwriter, Elec Morin, the lone member on the opposite side of the split, is more keen to leave the past behind. “It’s tough to give up the songs that I wrote for Youth,” he says, “but I just don’t feel like it would make sense to continue playing them, and I feel like there is a lot of new material to write at times like this, when everything is changing.”

To that end, Morin is working on an “as-of-yet-untitled solo project” that will find him “recording all of the instrument and vocal parts, with friends helping out from song to song.”

Music’s not everything, though. “We hope that once we are all working on the creative projects that are right for us, we can rebuild our friendships,” Morris says.

Which, of course, would be great for the friends formerly known as Youth.

And then maybe a reunion? Please? CHRIS STAMM.

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6. Tope 46.5 Points Formed: Started playing shows in high school, formed his group TxE in 2009.

Sounds like: Laid-back regional hip-hop that plays nice with Portland’s indie-rock scene.

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7. Blouse 37 Points Formed: 2010.

Sounds like: A VHS cassette of Miami Vice episodes covered in a sticky glaze of spilled pink lemonade.

A few weeks ago, Anthony “Tope” Anderson performed in People keep thinking Blouse was in the movie Drive. front of students at Central Catholic High School. Some Instead, the band has been driving. kids thought the freshly shaven, baby-faced MC was one One year after playing its first show as an opener for of them. “I almost wanted to lie,” he says. “When I don’t Starfucker at Doug Fir Lounge, art-schoolmates Charlie shave, I look 19.”

Hilton and Patrick Adams are on their inaugural national It has only been eight years since Anderson was one of tour. This winter, buoyed by a 7-inch on Seattle’s Sub Pop those kids, playing Central Catholic talent shows while a label and a self-titled full-length on Captured Tracks, student there. “Those were always really awkward,” says Blouse traveled Europe. the 26-year-old MC/producer. “But it was kind of a big Along with warhorse Glass Candy, Blouse is Portthing. Everyone knew I rapped, even then.” land’s contribution to a global resurgence of sexy, Making it outside of Central Catholic has been trickier. breathy synth-laden dance-pop—a tide of pining for “I kind of knew it would be one of those the muted side of New Wave and its things where I’d have to put out like 10 bruised Casios. The only drawback to albums before anyone knows who I am,” this serendipity is everyone assuming Who’s got next?

Anderson says. These days, anyone paythey know Ryan Gosling. ing attention to the Portland hip-hop Even the director of Blouse’s Los Best New Band Poll 2012, scene—or, considering his contribuAngeles studio-session videos made finalists numbers 11 through 23. tions to the PDX Pop Now! festival and that mistake. “He was like, ‘So you The We Shared Milk last year’s record deal with respected guys were part of that Drive sound(25 points) local indie rock imprint Amigo/Amiga, track, right?’” Adams recalls. “He was Natasha Kmeto (25 points) the Portland music scene in general— just certain. I had to let him down.”

Sun Angle (23 points) knows Tope’s smooth flow and soulful The band has dialed knowingly into 1939 Ensemble (23 points) production. They might also know his the center of the 1980s quantum leap— Support Force (22 points) other groups, Living Proof and TxE. “I was in the future yesterday,” Hilton Litanic Mask (22 points) (The latter, with rapper Epp and rapbreathes on “Time Travel,” “and now Like a Villain (22 points) per/producer G_Force, collected almost I’m in the past”—but they aren’t sure Animal Eyes (21 points) enough votes to place on the poll alonghow deep that wormhole goes.

Mean Jeans (21 points) side Tope.)

“For whatever reason,” Hilton says, Anderson began his career as the “people are kind of drawn to minimal The Memories (21 points) teenage hype man to now-retired Portelectronic music with female vocals Swahili (21 points) land MC Manic D (“I didn’t know what right now. Maybe it’s just because Death Songs (20 points) the hell I was doing,” he admits now). we’re in that world, [so] we think Guantanamo Baywatch (20 points) He was refining his flow and learning there’s a lot of that going on. It’s hard the basics of production at age 19 when to tell how big a movement really is.” his mom died. For a while, Anderson She laughs. “There’s so many movequit music altogether. “I just didn’t have anything to say,” he ments going on at once.” says. “But, after getting through the initial pain of it, I guess So Blouse keeps moving—soundtracked by a road-trip it was motivation. My mom was always a big supporter.” iPod that only shuffles songs within alphabetical letter.

Tope is committed to music these days—his latest “We try to pick the right music for the landscape,” Hilsolo album, Until the Next Time We Meet, garnered ton says. national praise and in April he paid his rent with music “We listened to a bunch of Eno driving through Monfor the first time—but he says he’s still finding himself as tana,” Adams adds. an artist. His next EP, he says, will be his most personal Hilton and Adams don’t need to pick a soundtrack project to date. “I’m not Luck-One, I’m not Illmaculate, for the night they drive back into Portland. They already I’m not Cool Nutz,” Anderson says. “I’m just trying to recorded it. AARON MESH. find my lane. I’ll never be one of the top five rappers in Portland, but hopefully someday I’ll have a top-10 BEST NEW BAND cont. on page 22 album.” CASEY JARMAN.

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8. Sons of Huns 28 Points Formed: 2009, at a party that resembled the house in Fight Club.

Sounds like: Dinosaurs in skinny jeans battling in front of a giant mirror.

So many Portland bands—even the heaviest metal acts— are too shy to play leads, let alone peel off long runs. Not Sons of Huns. This power trio channels volume and energy into infectious, even chipper, stoner-garage anthems.

The vibe recalls the early days of the Who, but Huns are clearly more into Black Sabbath.

The band has come a long way in 2½ years. “That sounds really long when I say it!” says guitarist Peter Hughes. “The three of us started jamming and we wrote a bunch of songs really quick and we were like, ‘Wow, this is great,’ and we just stuck with it.”

To metal scenesters, many of whom are pushing 40, Sons of Huns look like the fresh-faced kids who demolished their homecoming dance. But put the Huns in a basement party in NoPo, and they’ll look positively creepy. It’s just this sort of middle ground the band straddles between rock and metal, between youth and maturity, that gives it so much appeal and potential. Sons of Huns is delightfully unafraid to toss a frenetic piano lick on a tune like “Der Blaue Reiter,” chug apocalyptic on “Scourge of God,” or blow full throttle on “I’m Your Dad.” All those songs are Huns live staples.

But, Hughes says, “We feel like our new shit is even better.”

It’s too easy to call Sons of Huns “gateway metal,” but the fact remains they are the loudest of this year’s Best New Bands. And for those who think full stacks are scary and wonder what lurks beyond the confines of the dance floor, this is the perfect place to start. According to Hughes, there will be plenty of chances to see Huns live.

“I remember how psyched we were to just open the East End block party last summer,” he says. “That was such a big deal. This year we’ve played a lot better shows.

“Shit, I think we have a lot to be happy about.”

NATHAN CARSON.

9. Reva DeVito 26.5 Points Formed: DeVito played her first show in Spring of 2007.

Sounds like: Big-city soul sent out to the country for a dip in the river.

After moving to Portland from her native Washington state in 2007, Reva DeVito was quick to dip her toe into the Portland music scene. But it wasn’t until 2010 that she found her calling, forming a live band and releasing The Catnip Collective, a trippy EP of organic soul dripped over funk and hip-hop-influenced beats. Shortly thereafter, DeVito dropped off the map.

“I took off for a little bit to do some traveling. I went to Mexico, spent some time in California,” she says. “When I came back from that, I didn’t have a place to live and needed to find a job—I had all these priorities I needed to get straight before I could start working on new music.”

As luck would have it, DeVito’s new job at North Portland bar Moloko Plus put her in the company of producer Roane Namuh, who holds a twice-monthly residency there. He had been looking for a female vocalist to work with, and when he handed DeVito a CD of his songs, she was taken aback. “I told him I could sing over every one of those songs,” she says. And then she did.

DeVito and Numah’s collaboration, the eight-song free download Cloudshine, lives at the intersection of moody hip-hop and club-ready dance music. It’s a testament to DeVito’s vocal versatility that the singer—sometimes compared to Erykah Badu or Lauryn Hill—sounds just as home here as she did on the more organic Catnip.

For her forthcoming debut full-length, DeVito is connecting with producers from Portland funk institution Tony Ozier to shit-hot Seattle beatmaker Budo. She says she thinks the disc will have a “future R&B” feel to it, but that her sound is still a work in progress.

Asked about broader career goals, DeVito is succinct.

“I’d like to make music that makes people feel good,” she says. “And I’d really like to get paid.” CASEY JARMAN.

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10. Grandparents 26 Points Formed: 2008.

Sounds like: A spaghetti western played through a broken amplifier in a distant concrete room; punk-rock night at the Sea Lion Caves; a tent revival for woodland elves.

Grandparents is as much a group of friends as it is a band.

Marc Christiansen, Dylan White, Ben Johnson, Allison Faris and Will Fenton all met either at Central Catholic High School or in their first year at Portland State University. They lived together in a house in Southeast Portland that they shared with two members of White Fang.

In that house was a “shitty, moldy basement,” where the group started writing songs together.

“We had sewage gas coming up through the sewage pipe,” Johnson remembers. “We were getting high on jenkem without our consent. That’s how the music started.

In the basement, with sewage gasses.”

When their lease ran out, they loaded their belongings into a van and left on their only tour. “It was successful,” Johnson says. “[But] not financially.”

At their live shows, Grandparents swap instruments and vocal duties. They play with intense concentration, like cultists or computer programmers—or maybe a bit of both. They are both loud and soft, tender and rough.

These days, with four EPs under their belts, Grandparents’ greatest challenge is finding time to practice. All of the members work different shifts, so rehearsing requires some creativity. “If you come down to AudioCinema at midnight or 3 in the morning, you’ll probably see us smoking cigarettes in the parking lot,” Fenton says. “We’re just ready for the summer.” BEN WATERHOUSE.

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Also, Tope, performing with TxE, and Reva DeVito play Mississippi Studios on Wednesday, May 9; Grandparents play at the St. Johns Bizarre on Saturday, May 12.

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BEER BUZZ: A shocker from San Diego, where a little-known Portland brewery snatched two silver medals at the World Beer Cup. In 2010, Columbia River Brewing Co. took over the original Laurelwood Brewing Company location at Northeast 40th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. Who knows what the buzzless brewery has been up to since, but it (apparently) makes great oatmeal stout and coffee beer. Brewmaster Rick Burkhardt is a former manager at Sears who spent 30 years home brewing but never worked in a commercial brewery. >> Meanwhile, surprising no one, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales’ Peche ’n’ Brett, which has been on shelves less than a week, won gold. There’s a review at wweek. com. >> Other winners include the Commons, Hop Valley, Upright, Laurelwood, Caldera and Breakside. >> Pacific City’s Pelican Pub & Brewery will be checking a second bag filled with trophies en route to PDX: Pelican was named the world’s best large brewpub.

FUND RAZE: Portland director Sarah Gertrude Shapiro wants to make a movie. Specifically, she wants to make Sequin Raze, a darkly comedic feminist critique of reality TV, for which she wrote the script. Referred to as “Lena Dunham crossed with Aaron Sorkin,” Shapiro was recently accepted into the American Film Institute’s exclusive Directing Workshop for Women. While the program is free, AFI does not pay for filmmaking expenses. Naturally, Shapiro has launched a Kickstarter campaign to cover the movie’s $30,000 budget.

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BOOGIE BURGER: Now that cars are for losers, are old auto shops Portland’s new hotspots? Voodoo Doughut Too is in a converted car lot, and Tres Shannon planned to put the sadly unopened Portland P Palace in an old tire shop.

Now Boogies Burgers & Brew is going into a former usedcar lot at 910 E Burnside St. Voluptuous Sassy’s strip club proprietress Stacy Mayhood owns the biggest stake, although the shop’s liquor-license application says Boogies will be “family friendly.” (Scoop’s call was not immediately returned, but the application’s nude-entertainers box is unchecked.) We’re pretty sure we understand the burgers and brews, but what are these plannedfor boogies?

IN-FEST-ATION: Having trouble keeping track of Oregon’s busy summer music festival season? Us too, and it’s only going to get more complicated from here on out. Recently announced fests include one geared for fans of untz-untz music (the second annual Closer Electronic Music Festival, June 21-24 at various Portland venues), an outdoor microfestival built around local troubadour Jerry Joseph (the fourth annual Dixie Mattress Festival, June 22-24 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley), and two classical-leaning fests in Astoria (June 15-July 1) and Sunriver (all summer, basically). The powers that be here at WW, though, humbly suggest that our own MusicfestNW is the greatest summer festival of all. It runs Sept. 5-9.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 COMPAGNIE KÄFIG [DANCE] Dancers and dancemakers from all over the world make connections at France’s La Biennale de Lyon Danse, where, in 2006, choreographer/Compagnie Käfig founder Mourad Merzouki discovered 11 young male dancers from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm. $25-$60.

THURSDAY, MAY 10 MARTÍN PRECHTEL [ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE] In history class, they make it sound like the original peoples of the Americas gave up when the European conquistadors arrived. Eh, not really.

Small pockets of Mayan culture are still going strong in remote parts of Guatemala—even accepting recruits like Martín Prechtel. He talks about how indigenous cultures survived, why they’re now disappearing as fast as native plants and how we can stop the cultural deforestation.

Central Lutheran Church, 1820 NE 21st Ave., 541-488-1192, floweringmountain.com. 7 pm. $5-$25.

FRIDAY, MAY 11 HEADHUNTERS [MOVIES] Anchored by an intensely nerve-wracked lead performance, this wild Norwegian thriller teases itself as a sleek heist picture before turning, on a dime, into a bloodstained, shit-caked manhunt of The Most Dangerous Game variety.

Cinema 21. 616 NW 21st Ave., 223-4515. Multiple showtimes.

1. What’s the name of Rose’s Minnesota hometown?

A. St. Paul B. St. Olaf C. St. Elsewhere D. St. Petersburg 2. How did the Golden Girls meet?

A. They answered an ad in the supermarket.

B. They met at the DMV, applying for old-people licenses.

C. They met in a sexy Internet chat room.

D. They met after a Neil Diamond concert.

3. What was the name of the girls’ gay housekeeper in the pilot episode?

A. Pierre B. Rico C. Magnitude D. Coco

4. Why did Dorothy’s mom, Sophia, say she’d move in with the girls?

A. “I’m old and lonely, whaddya want?”

B. “Good water pressure is hard to find!”

C. “They towed my trailer!”

D. “The home burned down!”

5. What activity was Rose’s husband engaged in when he died?

A. Sailing around the world.

B. Having sex with Rose.

C. Painting the house.

D. Playing the trombone in the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

ANSWERS: 1. B, 2. A, 3. D, 4. D, 5. B,

I had to squint, but the Elvis impersonator in the back row at Sophia’s wedding looked awfully familiar. That forehead. That weird mouth. Yes, Quentin Tarantino was on The Golden Girls.

Oh, the things you notice while watching the antics of those great old broads, Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia. It’s easy to forget, in the midst of Betty White’s ironic pop-culture comeback, just how funny and moving this show could be. Someone was always getting married, or being hustled by some fast-talking, handsome octogenarian. Yes, life was fast for four ladies living in Dade County, Fla., in the 1980s. But life was also full of laughs. And 20 years after the show’s last episode, one wonders: What would the Golden Girls have thought about grunge music? About 9/11? About a black president? The world will never know.

On Wednesday, May 9, the Foggy Notion celebrates the Girls’ anniversary with a trivia night centered on the exploits of those sassy silver-hairs. The winners will be awarded cheesecake (the Girls bit into more than 100 of them during the show’s seven-year run) and, hopefully, a sweet light-blue blouse. Here’s a sample test to get you ready. CASEY JARMAN.

BEST NEW BAND SHOWCASE [MUSIC] Radiation City, Pure Bathing Culture and Onuinu have been voted three of Portland’s best bands. See for yourself as to why. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave. 9 pm. Free. 21+. See cover story, page 12, for much more.

GO: Golden Girls Quizzery is at the Foggy Notion, 3416 N Lombard St., 240-0249, on Wednesday, May 9. 8:30 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, MAY 12 THE PROM YOU WISH YOU HAD [NOT GROWING UP] Proms are wasted on the pimply. So grownass Portlanders will stage the formal dance our teens are too sober and sweaty to appreciate. Live music (not Marvin and the Starlighters) plus a DJ and a photo booth.

Mother’s Day is Sunday; extra points for swinging by home so she can snap a Polaroid. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., 248-4700, portlandsprom. eventbrite.com. $15. 9 pm. 21+.

BREAKSIDE BREWERY’S SECOND ANNIVERSARY [BEER] Breakside celebrates two suds-soaked years with specialrelease beers, live music from Denver (the band, not the city), and “celebrity” chefs, including Podnah’s Pit’s Rodney Muirhead and Wildwood’s Paul Kasten, manning the grill. For $15, you get a commemorative tasting glass and five drink tickets. Breakside Brewery, 820 NE Dekum St., 719-6475, breaksidebrews.com. 1-7 pm. $15. 21+.

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Special beers include a gin barrel-aged sour golden, bourbon barrel-aged cherry Aztec and a passion-fruit Berliner Weisse. For $15, you get a commemorative tasting glass and five drink tickets.

Breakside Brewery, 820 NE Dekum St., 719-6475. 1-7 pm. $15. 21+.

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Oyster Fest

Finally, a whole festival to celebrate everyone’s favorite species of bivalve mollusks. Oyster Fest brings together the finest edible invertebrates from Oregon Oyster Farms, Hayes Oyster Farms, Hama Hama Oyster Company, Chelsea Shellfish Farm and Hog Island Oysters at EaT, to be paired with booze from local breweries, distilleries and wineries.

EaT: An Oyster Bar, 3808 N Williams Ave., 281-1222. 3-6 pm. $1 for each food and beverage.

SUNDAY, MAY 13 Mother’s Day at East India Co. 609 SW Washington l between SW Broadway and 6th Walkin or Book online at y-chromebarbering.com

East India Co. is doing an “Indian street food-inspired” brunch for Mother’s Day, with dishes inspired by “items culinary director Pradeep Chandrana remembers enjoying with his mother while growing up in India,” including pani puri, mutton curry and fish masala. East India Co., 821 SW 11th Ave., 2278815. 11 am-4 pm. $21 for adults, $15 for kids 11 and under, plus 18 percent gratuity.

FredFest

Beer writer Fred Eckhardt’s annual beer festival/birthday party/fundraiser, FredFest, is back. Drink from a long list of local brews, eat “cheeses, chocolate, candy and even cereal,” and sing “Happy Birthday” as Fred turns 87. Tickets are $65, but all proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity. Hair of the Dog, 61 SE Yamhill St., 232-6585. 2-6 pm. $65, $60 in advance. 21+.

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Pix Pâtisserie has two things going on for Mother’s Day: a tea service, which includes a pot of Townshend’s tea, and 15 bites to go with it, including macarons, quail eggs wrapped in prosciutto and ice cream. Plus, there’s a build-yourown dessert buffet, a.k.a. “Mommy’s having a mimosa while you kids go play with the sugar.” Pix PâtisserieNorth, 3901 N Williams Ave., 2826539. 11 am-3 pm. $30 for tea service (reservation required), $10 for dessert buffet.

TUESDAY, MAY 15 Portland Food Adventures at Departure

Portland Food Adventures is adventuring up to the top of the Nines hotel for a meal at Departure. Chef Gregory Gourdet is cooking up nine Asian-ish dishes, including grilled shiitake nigiri, crispy pork belly, sweet soy chicken and chili prawns, alongside wine pairings. As always, diners will receive gift certificates to the host chef’s favorite eateries, which this time include Double Dragon, Boke Bowl and Prasad.

Departure, 525 SW Morrison St., 802-5370. 7 pm. $125 per person.

GREAT CALL: Mekong Bistro’s delightful nyum salad.

MEKONG BISTRO When Good Call Sports Bar & Grill was evicted from its Hazelwood home at the end of December—the landlord lost the property—Portlanders lost not only a friendly place to watch the game but also Oregon’s only Cambodian restaurant. So we were greatly relieved to learn Good Call owner Saron Khut was staying in the Order this: Somlaw maju kreoung ($12), a better cure restaurant game. for the doldrums than even When we visited Mekong Bistro, the best pho. his recently opened restaurant and Best deal: Nyum ($9) is yum. bar in a new strip mall across NorthI’ll pass: Cha kreoung ($10), stir-fried beef with lemoneast 82nd Avenue from Madison grass, was bland.

High School, on the edge of a former landfill long returned to meadow, the dining room was still under construction, but the bar was close enough to finished. Khut’s sports fixation continues on several large TVs in the bar, though the only one with volume was playing Bizarre Foods.

The only hint of the bizarre on Mekong’s 72-item menu are holdovers from Good Call—bacon-wrapped shrimp and surprisingly light avocado cheese puffs. There’s plenty of Thai and Vietnamese as well, but stick to Khmer specialties. Our favorites are somlaw maju kreoung, a pea-green soup of watercress and beef floating in a kaffir- and tamarind-scented broth, and nyum, a delightful salad of shredded chicken, shrimp, glass noodles, cucumber, mint and basil leaves. BEN WATERHOUSE. EAT: Mekong Bistro, 8200 NE Siskiyou St., 265-8972. 11 am-2 am daily. $-$$.

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MOUNTAIN RESCUE PALE ALE (GOODLIFE BREWING COMPANY) Mountain Rescue Pale Ale is a hybrid. The idea, GoodLife Brewing says, was to create a beer without either the hoppiness of an IPA or the maltiness of an amber. In this, the new Bend brewery succeeded. Made using an unusual brewing technique in which a massive pile of hops is added after the wort is boiled instead of at other points in the process, this pale ale is more astringent than floral or spicy. The technique, which GoodLife calls “hop bursting,” may help create the strong orange scent that’s the bottle’s best moment. After that sniff, though, it’s all pointless burn. GoodLife says Mountain Rescue has only 40 bitterness units, but the harsh resins register more like 80. I’d say it’s like drinking the Dollar Tree’s Awesome Orange cleaner, except that probably tastes a little like oranges. True to the label, though, there’s nothing malty or hoppy here. Not recommended. MARTIN CIZMAR.

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FROSTY RECEPTION: Not-so-kid-friendly ice cream.

SALT & STRAW But what do the children eat? “Oh, they like the vanilla,” answers the knit-capped woman behind the counter at Salt & Straw. This is suspicious. As a child, I remember screaming for bubble-gum or mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Indeed, the two little blond girls in front of me seem too frightened and confused by the exotic menu to order. “Sorry,” Mom says to me. “Kids and ice cream—not a good combination.”

Yes, somewhere the funnest thing ever—ice cream—has been salted with stylized “artisanship” such that children no longer blithely adore it. Finally served, these girls sit quietly poking at their cups as songstress Anya Marina’s ironically earnest acoustic cover of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” plays overhead.

“Stacks on deck, Patrón on ice/ And we can pop bottles all night/ Baby, you can have whatever you like,” Marina sings.

“Late-night sex so wet, so tight/ Gas up the jet for you tonight/ Baby, you can go wherever you like.”

Salt & Straw scoops out some interesting clots of frozen milk fat. Flavors like honey balsamic strawberry with cracked pepper or pear with blue cheese will draw foodniks into the rope corral leading to the counter at the chain’s new location Order this: One scoop of cinnaon Northwest 23rd Avenue. mon snickerdoodle in a waffle cone ($4.75).

They’ll order the $9 “tasting I’ll pass: The Arbequina olive oil, flight” or a $5.75 double-scoop which tastes just like olive oil. cone and maybe buy a T-shirt or a souvenir wood-handled scooper off the artfully worn shelves. Perhaps they’ll pause to admire the rusty old bucket—er, antique churn—that gives the place atmosphere. They will like this as well as the apothecary table they bought down the street at Pottery Barn.

The ice cream at Salt & Straw is simple, perhaps even oldfashioned. Rich in fat and neither tart with lactic acid nor sweet with sugar, flavors come from the mix-ins. The sea salt and caramel ice cream tastes mostly like salt and a little like cooked sugar.

The faintly green Arbequina olive oil ice cream tastes like olive oil poured into coffee creamer. Only the two best flavors we tried, the warm and nutty cinnamon snickerdoodle and a dandelion sorbet sprinkled with earthy purple flowers, offered real complexity.

“It ain’t trickin’ if you got it,” the shop’s speakers say.

“Do you like it?” Dad asks.

There’s no response. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Salt & Straw, 838 NW 23rd Ave., 971-271-8168, saltandstraw. com. 7 am-11 pm daily. 2035 NE Alberta St., 208-3867. 11 am-11 pm daily. The 23rd Avenue location includes a bakery.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 Ketamines, Nightbeats, Cosmonauts, The Reservations

[NATURAL HIGH] The Ketamines kick off their latest album, Spaced Out, with a track called “Teenage Rebellion Time.” The band plays songs about evil intentions, begging listeners to “Kill Me Now.” But don’t mistake this Alberta, Canada-based outfit for a buzzsawwielding punk group. These charmingly negative sentiments are given an injection of Vitamin D thanks to the quartet’s love of sunny power pop and psychedelia. It’s more of an embrace of the band’s pharmaceutical namesake and the hallucinogenic effect that a healthy dose can provide. Don’t feel nervous, though, teetotalers. The Ketamines will take you higher without nasty side effects or feelings of guilt.

ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

Order of the Gash, Dimesland, Nasalrod, Bronson Arm

[METAL SPECTRUM] Dimesland is a self-described “abstract metal” band from Oakland, Calif., led by guitarist brothers Nolan and Drew Cook. The two take a kitchen-sink approach to metal, never allowing genre bias to limit them. Perhaps Nolan’s membership in the Residents (for real, he’s been touring and recording with them since ’98) will shed some light on just how comfortable the Cooks are with experimentation. Dimesland’s new EP, Creepmoon, is out now on Vendlus Records. Its 18 minutes will unscramble some of your limited ideas about extreme music. NATHAN CARSON. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020.

8 pm. $6. 21+. Also see album review, page 34

Curren$y, Styles P, The Jets, Smoke Dza, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, Trademark, Young Roddy

[SMOKE AND MERGERS] For an artist so enchanted by the devil weed, Curren$y has a damnable motor.

Leaping from No Limit to Cash Money to his own major-label imprint, the New Orleans native amassed a daunting discography—this summer’s The Stoned Immaculate shall make eight albums in three years, should we count his most recent jam-funk collaboration (they call it dope for a reason)— without ever baring much beyond a stoned ebullience. None too especially keen on wordplay, luxuriating in a blinkered worldview bereft of context or reflection, the former Shante Franklin ennobles a peculiarly captivating inchoate directness: the pleasing numb of addled earnestness. Curren$y may well think in 160-character bursts, but, emphatic vapidity being the coin of the realm, these are the prophets we earn. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 9 pm. $20.

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[JAZZ, ETC.] The S.O.U.L. Foundation (“Supporting Opportunities for Ugandans to Learn”) offers an economic and educational kick-start to Ugandans through fish farming, chicken cooperatives (chicken coops?), student sponsorships, health initiatives and other programs. Tonight’s varied lineup is a tantalizing musical buffet.

Both Mary Kadderly’s butterscotchsmooth vocals and Cheryl Alex’s versatile jazz flute and vocals are more than worth catching whenever possible. If you haven’t seen and heard Nancy King live, you must. Period. Dan Schulte is

one of Portland’s bumper crop of topflight bassists, with a more varied skill set and tastes than most. No word yet on which Oregon Symphony members will show up and what they will be playing—but part of the fun is in the surprise. DAN DEPREZ. Tony Starlight’s, 3728 NE Sandy Blvd., 517-8584. 7:30 pm. $7-$15. 21+.

THURSDAY, MAY 10 Mickey Hart Band

[SPACE JAM] With last month’s release of Mysterum Tremendum, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart answers two burning questions: What would millennia-old cosmic noises sound like if applied to rock, and what should we listen to when we get high at Stonehenge? The answer to the former is “a lot like a Peter Gabriel-era Genesis team-up with Jann Hammer and Enya,” with Hart and company combining interstellar sounds like solar winds, microwaves and pulsars with synthdriven and percussive blasts. Sure, the universe is vast, and so is music… but it’s hard not to wish Hart would just incorporate the Big Bang noises into a badass version of “Dark Star.”

AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $30 advance, $35 day of show. All ages.

The Drums, Craft Spells, Part Time

[THROWBACK SURF POP] When the Drums’ lead singer, Jonathan Pierce, performs, he appears as if a lighting bolt is passing through his body and exiting as a song. His free-wheeling movements highlight the capricious tones in his voice, recalling lead singers like David Byrne and Robert Smith. Which makes sense, since Pierce and his band must have spent a lot of time listening to these classic ’80s frontmen, among others, to shape their sound. The Drums recently released a second full-length album, Portamento, which is an Italian word describing the distance between notes, as well as a feature often found on old analog synthesizers. It’s a fitting title, considering the band’s penchant for reverb and synth-heavy tracks and its self-proclaimed love for pioneers such as Kraftwerk and Anything Box. With two freshly added tour members, the Drums’ show tonight should be an energetic merging of genres and times.

EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

The Weeknd

[R&B&MDMA] Why is the Weeknd missing its third “e”? Probably because the Toronto-based alt-R&B artist took it in a drug cocktail (or blacked out that part of his Thursday-on saturnalia). Since dropping debut mixtape House of Balloons last spring and pretty much causing the Internet to lose its shit (fellow Torontonian Drake helped by giving his imprimatur), the Weeknd—whose mom calls him Abel Tesfaye, if he kisses her with that mouth—has carved out a niche between mainstream and underground by creatively and subversively coupling smooth-as-butter hip-hop production with hard-to-digest lyrical subjects like drug abuse, promiscuity and self-loathing. These R. Kelly-influenced tales-insong are sordidly thrilling, and Tesfaye is a gifted singer, but, now on its third mixtape ( Echoes of Silence, released last December), the Weeknd is beginning to lose its potency. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.

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BEYOND AMÉLIE YANN TIERSEN TONES DOWN THE ACCORDION AND TURNS UP THE DRUMS.

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For most of those who know his music, French songwriter Yann Tiersen will forever be associated with whimsical tunes played with a jaunty joie de vivre on an accordion. But ask Devin Gallagher, percussionist for the band Typhoon, who toured with Tiersen and his band in 2010, and you’ll learn just how much has changed.

“It was a lot louder than I think any of us were expecting,” Gallagher says. “Very post-rock; a lot of guitars and a lot of loud drums. At every show there would be at least one old couple that stood up and left. Like, ‘This isn’t the music from Amélie.’”

No, it most certainly isn’t the music from the fanciful Jean-Pierre Jeunet film that helped launched its star Audrey Tautou and the 41-year-

bit. “It’s probably brighter when compared to the older albums,” Tiersen said, calling from a tour stop in Cleveland. “Not the lyrics so much, but the music needed to have more space and needed to be more open.”

To accomplish this, Tiersen brought back the crackling sound of live drums (an element mostly missing on Dust Lane), allowed the chime of guitars to lead the melodic charge for many of the songs, and did ridiculous things like scream and bark his way through the space-jazz instrumental “Exit 25 Block 20.”

“When I recorded that, I just wasn’t that happy with it,” Tiersen recalls, laughing. “It seemed too gentle, too quiet. So I just started shouting into the microphone, and the song transformed from there.”

That kind of experimentation is key to Tiersen’s recent success as an artist. Rather than going into the studio with a plan of attack already mapped out, he throws dozens of ideas on tape, playing all of the instruments himself and chiseling these fragments into song shape. The results can be as epic and silly as “Exit 25” or take the form of the closing track,

“I THINK MUSIC IS SOMETHING REALLY ABSTRACT, AND THERE’S NO REAL MEANING TO IT.”—YANN TIERSEN old musician into the international spotlight in 2001. There’s still a sense of capriciousness to his album-oriented work, but Tiersen has also added darker and weirder colors to his musical canvas.

His 2010 album, Dust Lane, is clouded over with dour sentiments like “Chapter 19,” a track that uses the tones of accordion and bouzouki—both of which played such a huge role in the bouncy sound of Amélie and his earlier work—to provide a small sliver of hope amid the pounding drums and desperate lyrics (“To live outside the pale/ Is to wither and die”). It says something about his mental state at the time (his mother passed away during the recording sessions) that Tiersen ends the album with a lucid bit of folk that balances the black-andwhite of existentialism: “I know you know we are falling into a deep oblivion,” he sings alongside the song’s titular imploring of “Fuck Me.” With that experience behind him, when he went to record his most recent album, Skyline, the intention was to musically lighten things up a

“Vanishing Point,” which he built entirely out of samples of the other eight songs on Skyline.

That trial-and-error approach works great for his studio albums, but has kept him from doing a lot more work for film soundtracks.

“It was nice with Amélie because they just used songs from my first three albums,” he says. “But for other films like Goodbye Lenin! or Tabarly, the French documentary I did, it is more about the length of the songs and trying to provide meaning for the person watching it. That can be really boring and bad and doesn’t speak to the way I work.”

For Tiersen, meaning is overrated. “I think music is something really abstract, and there’s no real meaning to it,” he says. “I much prefer just seeing what happens and seeing what direction I want to go in that day.”

SEE IT: Yann Tiersen plays Wonder Ballroom on Thursday, May 10, with Piano Chat. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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THE FILTH AND THE FURY: Members of And And And kick it at last year’s St. Johns Bizarre.

Q&A IAN YOUNGSTROM OF ST. JOHNS BIZARRE When the St. Johns Bizarre began six years ago, it was a lowprofile street fair with crafts, beer and bands. Today it’s a slightly higher-profile street fair with more crafts, more beer and really good bands—this year’s fest features the Corin Tucker Band, AU and Old Light, among other fine local acts. Ian Youngstrom, a 37-year-old family man who moved to the neighborhood six years ago, has been instrumental in the slow transformation.

We asked him about his aspirations for both the Bizarre and the neighborhood.

WW: How did the Bizarre start?

Ian Youngstrom: People come to watch the St. Johns parade, and as soon as the last float goes by, they get in their cars and leave. I think the idea was to capitalize on all these bodies being here.

Do you consider it a celebration for the locals or something to bring new people into the ’hood?

Honestly, I think it’s for people who don’t know the neighborhood yet. If you throw a rock in St. Johns, you’ll hit somebody who’s a tried-and-true neighborhood booster. I don’t think I have to sell St. Johns to people who live here.

When you started booking music for the Bizarre, was it all musicians from the neighborhood?

Yeah, we all just kind of threw out a net, and whoever knew somebody who was in a band—they were pretty much in. And that’s great. I loved that. But I knew we weren’t going to get people driving up from Alberta or over on Mississippi or other areas; we weren’t going to get them driving up to check it out. So that’s why we started focusing more on expanding the music.

You mention Mississippi and Alberta—do those neighborhoods provide a blueprint or a warning for St. Johns?

There’s a lot to be admired by what they’ve created there, because when you go to those places there are people out on the street at all hours of the night and day. But there are elements of that growth we don’t want to replicate. Would we like to have all of our storefronts filled with vibrant businesses? Sure. Do we want to have the Man Shop, a clothing shop that has been there for 50 years, torn down and replaced by a five-story condo? I don’t think so.

What’s your booking philosophy now?

We try to create a mixture of the more established bands with young ones. I think a lot of street fairs try to find stuff that’s as inoffensive as [possible]—it’s kind of like wallpaper, [auditory] wallpaper. I think all these bands are great, but we’re taking chances with it. I don’t think everyone is going to love all the bands.

Isn’t St. Johns still known as a tough neighborhood?

That’s not at all the St. Johns I know. It’s a working-class neighborhood. It’s a really supportive community. When I think of St. Johns, I think of a great place to raise a family—not to scare off half the crowd I’m trying to entice with rock bands. It will be a great place to see a rock show if you can get around the strollers in the pit.

SEE IT: The St. Johns Bizarre is Saturday, May 12, in downtown St. Johns. 10 am-7 pm. See listing, page 35, for details. All ages.

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Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, MAY 11 Death Cab for Cutie with the Magik*Magik Orchestra, Youth Lagoon

[INDIE ROCK WITH MODULAR CLASSICAL BACKING BAND] In 2008, San Francisco Conservatory student Minna Choi, who’d written string arrangements for hip-hop acts during her days as a studio intern in New York, got word that Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood needed some string players to perform his composition, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, in S.F. The enterprising Choi emailed fellow music students, got the gig, and her young Magik*Magik Orchestra quickly became the go-to ensemble for hire by touring indierockers like Death Cab for Cutie and locals like John Vanderslice, who made it the house band for his Tiny Telephone studio. Now Magik*Magik performs independently, too, and one of its clients, Death Cab for Cutie, is enhancing its sound by letting a Magik*Magik string octet follow it into the dark on its spring tour. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $37. All ages.

Origin, Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth, Aborted, Rings of Saturn, Battlecross, Loculus

[THE HARD STUFF] The pairing of Origin and Cattle Decapitation is logical for several reasons, not the least of which being the antiaesthetic that both have spent a decade methodically cultivating.

While Origin remains one of the United States’ most unphotogenic trios, Cattle Decapitation continues to search for album art that will make its namesake appear quaint by comparison. It should come as no surprise that both bands play metal of the most tonsil-eviscerating, speed-obsessed variety. Entity (Origins’ 2011 LP) and The Harvest Floor (Cattle Decapitation’s 2009 testament) both peddle the kind of dope so potent that it elicits a raised eyebrow from the dealer: If you’re buying shit this strong, there’s no going back. SHANE DANAHER. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 6 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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[FOREVER PUNK] In 1980, Los Angeles was the neglected middle child of the international punk scene: glitzier than London, not as artsy as New York. Little changed after X released its debut album, named after the city that spawned it. But with Los Angeles, L.A. punk finally had its definitive document, a record perfectly capturing the time and, crucially, the place in which it was made.

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From there, the blazing rootspunk foursome went on to make three more flawless albums, and by the time of 1983’s More Fun in the New World, X had transcended both the City of Angels and punk itself to become the best band in America. Celebrating its 35th year, the group hardly seems like a bunch of 50-plus-year-olds desperately grasping for their youth. It still looks—and sounds— like the country’s greatest rock band. MATTHEW SINGER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

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Bassnectar, Vibesquad

[DUBSTEPDAD] While “founding father of dubstep” might not seem the highest of compliments just about now—modern American society evenly split between folks who despise the idiom with a creepily personal passion and folks less prone to ponder legacy—a knee-jerk dismissal of what’s become the disco of the ’10s rather misses the point: There’s nothing harder to mass produce than whimsy. Even with scattershot digitized efferfescence so painstakingly arranged (there’s some question as to whether the former Lorin Ashton does much more than press play before madly cheerleading) and an immensity of sound so palpably labor-intensive, Bassnectar sweats fun by the bucketloads. Among the first DJs to churn an adrenalized metal/ punk/hip-hop amalgam, the Bay Area icon hasn’t much troubled the mainstream—though just-released Lupe Fiasco-fueled “Vava Voom” may change matters—but the gurning faithful sure to overcrowd the dance floor care only to tap that bass. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038.

9 pm. Sold Out. All ages.

Pigeon John, Tanya Morgan, Playdough, Cookbook, Migh

[PARTY HIP-HOP] Not a lot of rap bills can compete with Pigeon John and Tanya Morgan on a pure party level. The former is a Quannum-signed Southern California MC/singer who makes an annual pilgrimage to Portland to throw genre-fucking parties that sound kinda like the Black Eyed Peas before they twisted the knob that made them international pop sensations (one assumes John will find said knob sooner or later); the latter is a Brooklyn/ Cincinnati trio with a confusing name. Tanya Morgan may sound like a pop starlet, but the hip-hop trio is one of the smarter, savvier East Coast exports in recent memory. Producer/MC Von Pea is the Brooklyn backbone, and while his beats help earn the group

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[DEATH METAL] Hearing Configuration makes me realize how many times I’ve seen Order of the Gash in DIY settings with inadequate sound systems. These three good folks operate without ego, always there to help touring bands on local stops at venues like the Know, Tube and your basement. This has been going on for seven years now, so it’s no surprise Order of the Gash is hitting its middle-age stride on its first proper album.

Opening with a gorgeous string introduction by elusive local act Disemballerina, things get ugly fast. The acoustic title track leads directly into an electrified version, affectionately named “Winter of the Dead.” From here on, the group pummels out its own form of thrash-inflected death metal. Aris Wales has never played his drums faster, or with more precision, than he does here. His vocals sound absolutely demonic and scathing. No casual listener will be prepared for Wales’ strangled roar, unless said listener already owns Carcass’ 1993 Heartwork album.

Melissa White shreds on the six-string, lending an endless cascade of melodies to this otherwise brutal music; bassist Paul Kessler brings in the hardcore crossover bass runs during the breaks, adding his low vocal grimness to the bottom end.

Configuration goes by quickly. Ten songs in 23 minutes, and none wear out their welcome. The tunes are intense enough for death and grind purists, but always catchy and exhilarating.

Produced locally in summer 2010 at Dig Studios, the sound is crisp, loud, and punishing. Hearing a local band step comfortably into the boots of an international act is true cause for triumph and, considering just how heavy this stuff is, tribulation.

NATHAN CARSON.

PALO VERDE ZERO HOUR (PHRATRY) [FREE HARDCORE] The striking white stallion that adorns the cover of Zero Hour probably wasn’t meant as a sight gag, but it works as one: Palo Verde, you see, is no onetrick pony.

Drummer Lauren K. Newman and guitarist Terrica Kleinknecht are, however, a group with a shtick: All of the duo’s material is strictly instrumental and improvised. This is as true in the studio—where Palo Verde is confident enough to record to expensive analog tape—as it is in concert.

At the outset, I wondered how much the band’s second album could differ from its first (History for the Rest of Eternity, released in 2010). After all, the only embellishments on Palo Verde’s songs—which range from seven to 15 minutes on Zero Hour—are feedback and simple effects-pedal sounds captured live. But the lack of predetermined structure doesn’t equate to formlessness: Kleinknecht and Newman seem more mindful of this on Zero Hour than they were on History.

Improvised doesn’t mean themeless, either. The album’s apocalyptic message (white horse, get it?) comes across well before the two-minute speech on corporate power from activist/radio host Alex Jones. Kleinknecht, who seems to take the lead more often than not, plucks stray notes from “The StarSpangled Banner” on sprawling opener “Dark Meadow For Long Night.” “Evening Shadow” opens all metal before bursting apart and spilling its guts in every direction.

It’s best for everyone that Palo Verde limits itself to four songs here: Even in its truncated form, Zero Hour clocks in at 44 minutes and is likely to test the patience of all but the most committed guitar-tone enthusiast. But in that 44 minutes, the joy of anticipating Palo Verde’s next move, only to often be proven dead wrong, should hold as much appeal for bebop lovers as it does for metalheads. To great artists, strict creative parameters present opportunities. Palo Verde is going to ride this horse as far as it will take the band. CASEY JARMAN. SEE IT: Order of the Gash plays Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., on Wednesday, May 9, with Dimesland, Nasalrod and Bronson Arm. 8 pm. $6. 21+. Palo Verde plays Record Room, 8 NE Killingsworth St., on Sunday, May 13, with Fucking Lesbian Bitches and Older Women (yes, those are band names). 8 pm. Cover. 21+.

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DRUM GRUMP: Mickey Hart Band plays the Crystal Ballroom on Thursday, May 10. frequent comparisons to De La Soul, the group’s conversational rhymes also bring Little Brother to mind. They are, as explained on “Rock the Bells,” renaissance men: “Boogie Down fitted/ Oregon kicks/ Mexican drinks with my Detroit chick.” Sounds like a party to me. CASEY JARMAN. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

SATURDAY, MAY 12 Beach Fossils, Mac DeMarco

[MOSTLY REVERB] You kids and your ocean-themed band names!

Beach Fossils may share little with its ocean-themed contemporaries—with neither the lush arrangements of Beach House or the perky spirit of Best Coast— but the Brooklyn foursome has captured plenty of hearts with its minimal, ’80s-inspired pop.

The group occasionally reaches euphoria in its simple song structures and Zen-like, circular lyrics (see the addictive “Lazy Day”); More often, though, Beach Fossils seems trapped inside too small a sonic palette. Hell, most of the time it just leaves me wanting to listen to New Order or the Cure, both of which had something to say over their reberb-laden softy dance-rock. Opener and Captured Tracks labelmate Mac DeMarco is a bit more engaging, mixing that warped-tape fuzz that’s popular with the kids and a bizarro Lou Reed swagger. CASEY JARMAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 8949708. 10 pm. $12. 21+.

The Dead Milkmen, The We Shared Milk, The Ex-Girlfriends Club

[HAHA PUNK] Is it safe to call the Dead Milkmen punk rock’s answer to Ween? Or perhaps it’s better to call Ween the college-burnout answer to the Milkmen. Either way, the two groups share a defiantly wiseass sense of humor, although the Philly jokesters deployed theirs via comically amateurish musicianship (as opposed to willfully obnoxious, virtuoso shape-shifting). See semi-classics “Punk Rock Girl,” “Bitchin’ Camaro” and “Takin’ Retards to the Zoo.” Reuniting in 2008 after a 16-year hiatus and the suicide of original bassist Dave Schulthise, the band released a new album, The King in Yellow, out of nowhere last year. The band’s still snotty, and it still enjoys taking a skewer to pop culture. It’s the songs, however, that haven’t aged quite as well. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

St. Johns Bizarre: The Corin Tucker Band, AU, Old Light, Grandparents, Dusu Mali Band, Mo Phillips, Rock and

Roll Camp for Girls showcase

[KEEP ST. JOHNS WEIRD] The organizers of the St. Johns Bizarre neighborhood fair have lined up a bill as endearingly eclectic as their NoPo neighborhood. Corin Tucker, former Sleater-Kinney member and current riot mooom, headlines with her newish band; it is wonderful to hear her wail again. Experimental pop duo AU, which has been getting national attention on the strength of its long-awaited 2011 LP, Both Lights, puts on a radiant live show that’s not to be missed.

Americana four-piece Old Light and its numerous beards are also excellent live: The band’s frontmen rock out sitting down, and it is undeniably cool. Also playing the Bizarre are African-funk sextet Dusu Mali Band and fuzzy-rock outfit Grandparents. How Bizarre.

JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. St. Johns Bizarre, North Lombard Street and Philadelphia Avenue. 10 am-6 pm. Free. All ages.

Black Dice

[ZING! ZANG! POW!] I once thought Black Dice fans must be emotionally stunted, self-destructive outcasts who long for societal collapse. After all, blasting the Rhode Island via New York outfit’s deconstructionist blasts of jagged, grating samples and guitar will either annoy, nauseate or turn homicidal the average parent/neighbor/passerby. Then it hit me while listening to Black Dice’s 2009 full-length, Repo, that its fans are just punker than me.

To turn your ears over to this noise trio is to drop any expectations of hooks or melody and embrace the chaos of whatever miscellany—demonic laughing, roaring chainsaw engines, pterodactyl cries—Black Dice cooks up with synths and guitars. Black Dice has come a long way since its brutal early hardcore-influenced recordings—new disc Mr. Impossible gets downright funky in places—but if you can handle a whole set of this stuff, you’re pretty hardcore in my book. CASEY JARMAN. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

SUNDAY, MAY 13 Sleepy Sun, The Upsidedown

[SMOKING AMPS] For the first time in three years, San Francisco psych-rock outfit Sleepy Sun is taking its foot off the pedal.

No, Bret Constantino’s raucous, Zeppelin-fixated band hasn’t gone soft. In fact, when the quintet explodes he still takes on a crashing, endearing, Perry Farrell-like quality. But with newest record Spine Hits, Sleepy Sun is allowing itself a well-deserved chance to pant, to let the reverb fade

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and broken guitar necks mend.

The band’s current form can be described as a controlled burn, still plenty hot but more constructive than destructive. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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[CLASSIC PSYCHEDELIC ROCK] The first thing you’ll want to know is that singer/bassist Lee Dorman is still in Iron Butterfly, and so is drummer Ron Bushy, famous for his legendary drum solo in “In-AGadda-Da-Vida.” With a couple of younger ringers filling in for the deceased and retired (guitarist Erik Brann passed in 2003 and organist Doug Ingle resigned in 1971), the current band is gracing the U.S. with only two dates in the Northwest. My parents still cite late-’60s Butterfly gigs as both some of the loudest shows they ever witnessed, and the first to feature the famous psychedelic oil light shows. It’s been a long, slow trip from mispronouncing “In the garden of Eden,” to selling 25 million copies of that album, to cranking out a best-of set for the Mt. Tabor Pub crowd. Still: far out.

NATHAN CARSON. Mount Tabor Theater, 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

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[PITCH-BLACK WANDERINGS] The two gents behind Demdike Stare— producers Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty—refer to their work as an “occult project,” an idea they emphasize by putting Ouija boards on their album covers and titling songs with names like “Mephisto’s Lament.” Fittingly, the group’s sound is dark, oozing with moody synthesizers and soul-shaking drones that eventually give way to lumbering beats and piercing tones. This is required listening for folks who grew up on the creeping post-punk of Bauhaus or the mineshaft-echoing industrial noise of Skinny Puppy and Throbbing

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MONDAY, MAY 14 Great Lake Swimmers, Cold Specks

[MELODIC MAJESTY] Given the stiff competition in music-rich Canada these days, a Juno Award nomination is no small potatoes.

Feathery folk troop Great Lake Swimmers earned one nod in ’09 and seem destined for another with fifth full-length New Wild Everywhere. Frontman Tony Dekker is a quiet matchmaker, merging the symphonic folk of Horsefeathers with the pop prowess of the Eagles. As a crafty songwriter, Dekker sources musical inspiration from just about anywhere, from a Toronto subway tunnel (where “The Exhale” was recorded) to the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon (which inspired standout track “Ballad of a Fisherman’s Wife”).

MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, MAY 15 Suckers, Young Man, Vanaprasta

[PARTY FLOW] Wait for the twominute mark in “Black Sheep,” an airy dance track off of Sucker’s 2010 release, Wild Smile. That’s the that point at which everything changes, the air gets let out and thick drums crawl up the track, lightly at first and then pounding so heavy they won’t leave the room without a fight. The Brooklyn outfit crafts its songs with calculated instrumental steps that set it apart from other listener-friendly electro-pop outfits. This year’s Candy Salad, the group’s fourth release, is stocked with huge dance hits like “Figure It Out,” a chaotically chatty party ramble. It also features slower, more fluid songs like “Charmaine,” a glistening track that’s perfect for solo swinging. NIKKI VOLPICELLI. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.

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IMPERIAL TEEN Formed: 1994 in San Francisco.

Sounds like: A series of intense couple fights that always end in cuddling.

For fans of: Sonic Youth, Electric Light Orchestra, the Dandy Warhols, Letters to Cleo, Pulp, Hefner, Blur, Mates of State, Superchunk.

Latest release: This year’s bouncy, keyboard-driven Feel the Sound.

Why you care: Imperial Teen, spearheaded by former Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, has seen turns as a critical darling and a well-connected success (touring with Hole and contributing to a handful of movie soundtracks) over its long career, but has stayed well within the periphery of the mainstream most of that time. The band’s four previous albums are simultaneously devoid of filler and all filler: Bubblegum pop this chewy— excellent 2002 offering On sounds strangely Japanese—usually turns people on or pulls their plug completely. Because despite, or perhaps thanks to, one of the thinnest discographies of its generation, Imperial Teen has aged extremely well. From the exhaustingly sweet, Unicorns-esque opener “Runaway” to the Death Cabbish, epic closer “Overtaking,” fifth disc Feel the Sound is as rewarding an album as fans of syrupy boy-girl pop are likely to find this year. It should not be missed—and especially in this intimate a space, neither should Imperial Teen.

SEE IT: Imperial Teen plays East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., on Saturday, May 12, with the Prids and the Shivas. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

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[MAY 9-15] Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Pete Seger tribute

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Black Hare, The Big Small, Mohawk Yard, Chaotic Karisma

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Critical Hit, Yeah Great Fine, Decades, Gallons

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Bass Mandolin

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. John “JB” Butler & Al Craido

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Priests

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Trace Bundy, Josh Garrels

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Soul Storm Brewers, Flatcars, Ramune Rocket 3

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Half Step Shy

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Open Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis and the Regiment House Band

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Lonely Forest, Campfire OK, The Hague

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 End

203 SE Grand Ave. Ketamines, Nightbeats, Cosmonauts, The Reservations

East India Co.

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Holy Filament, MetaPinnacle

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St.

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Bazillionaire, Jesse Studenberg

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The No Tomorrow Boys, Surfs Drugs, Primitive Idols

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Black Moth Super Rainbow, Lumerians, Pictorials

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Mike Progodich Quartet (8 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Renee Muzquiz

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Ben Medler Group (9:30 pm); The Metropolitan Youth Symphony Jazz Orchestra and the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra (6 pm)

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Big Bang, Evv’n’flo, Soul.Ill

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Sundaze, The Silent Numbers, Shadow House

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. Session Americana (9 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Pete Krebs

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Billy D

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Harm (9:45 pm); Mr. Hoo (kids’ show, 12 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Roane Namuh & Reva DeVito, TxE, DJ KEZ

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Claes

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Brotha Lynch Hung, Drum Circle

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Christine Havrilla

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Mystery String Band

Plan B

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

The Fenix Project Blues Jam

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Key of Dreams

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Julie Collura, Mary Kadderly, Cheryl Alex, Dan Gaynor, Dan Schulte, Martin Zarzar, Oregon Symphony members, Nancy King

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King and Steve Christofferson

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Golden Bears, Hungry Ghost, Matthew Colin’s WW, DJ Walking Tour

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Community Jam

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. World’s Finest

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen with Linda Michelet

THURS. MAY 10

1305 SE 8th Ave. Order of the Gash, Dimesland, Nasalrod, Bronson Arm

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

Roseland Theater

Alberta Rose Theatre

8 NW 6th Ave. Curren$y, Styles P, The Jets, Smoke Dza, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, Trademark, Young Roddy

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Addiction Dream, SuckerforLights, New Century Schoolbook

Sundown Pub

5903 N Lombard St. Laugh at Linus, Curtis Irie, Migi Artugue

303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman

3000 NE Alberta St. Four Bitchin’ Babes

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Thee Hobo Gobbelins, Murderbait

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Greg Wolfe Trio

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Allo Darlin, The Wave Pictures, Adventure Galley

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Sen-Dog (of Cypress Hill), The Literates, The DRP, The Sindicate, Mending Hope, Khaotik, Juarez

FRI. MAY 11 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Kina Grannis, Imaginary Friend

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Gideon Freudmann, Alialujah Choir (Live Wire!)

Alberta Street Public House

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. George Colligan Quartet (8 pm); Jazzesque Duo (5 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Lillian Soderman (8 pm); Russell Thomas (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Andrew Oliver

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti

Kelly’s Olympian

Chapel Pub

Music Millennium

Andina

426 SW Washington St. Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil, Holy Children, Alabama Black Snake

Corkscrew Wine Bar

Original Halibut’s II

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Radical Revolution (‘80s prom)

Crystal Ballroom

Plan B

Dante’s

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Papa Dynamite & the Jives, Jobo Shakins (9 pm); Mo Phillips with Johnny & Jason (6 pm)

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Yann Tiersen, Piano Chat

Psychostick, Downtown Brown, From the Eyes of Cain, Betrayed by Weakness, Taper

8105 SE 7th Ave. John Bunzow

1332 W Burnside St. Mickey Hart Band

Lents Commons

Mississippi Pizza

800 NW 6th Ave. Pete Peterson Trio

1036 NE Alberta St. Basinbillies (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)

1669 SE Bybee Blvd.

Wicky Pickers

Eric Tollefson, Acorn Project

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Richard Cranium & the Phoreheads

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar

Muddy Rudder Public House

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

WED. MAY 9

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Caleb Lang

THE OLD WALK-’N’-ROCK: Sleepy Sun plays Mississippi Studios on Sunday, May 13.

Naomi Hooley

350 W Burnside St. Black Elk, Dog Shredder, White Orange, Norska

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Drums, Craft Spells, Part Time

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The 44’s (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Stefan Andrews

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Chris Bigley, John Ludington, Eleanor Murray

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Watertower

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Danny Barnes, Left Coast Country

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Savoy

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Quintet (8 pm); Mark Simon (5 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Song Circle With Brian McGinty

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Shut Your Animal Mouth, Dinner for Wolves, Pathogens

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Yarn

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Twisted Whistle, Boy and Bean (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale

3158 E Burnside St. Mickey Hart 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

1314 NW Glisan St. Sambafeat Quartet

Kennedy School

1037 SW Broadway Death Cab for Cutie with the Magik*Magik Orchestra, Youth Lagoon

Kenton Club

Ash Street Saloon

LaurelThirst

Backspace

McMenamins Edgefield Winery

Beaterville Cafe

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

Spare Room

Biddy McGraw’s

Mississippi Pizza

The Blue Diamond

Bijou Cafe

The Blue Monk

Branx

1305 SE 8th Ave. The Objex, Dragstrip Riot, Piston Ready, Mr. Plow

Roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. The Weeknd

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Anne Weiss and Gabrielle Louise

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. The Sale

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Sam Densmore, Sad Little Men 2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Tom Grant Jazz Jam 3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Johnny Martin

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Kory Quinn

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Nothing Said, 8 Ohm Prophet, Rohr

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Cabaret Chanteuse

Torta Landia

4144 SE 60th Ave. Open Mic

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd.

Eric Allen Blues Band

Vie de Boheme

225 SW Ash St. In Her Memory, Chapters End, Separation of Sanity, Ocean of Mirrors, From Ashes Fall 115 NW 5th Ave. Music in the Schools’ Battle of the Bands featuring Animal Eyes 2201 N Killingsworth St. Carley Baer, Elke Robitaille, Folk & Spoon 6000 NE Glisan St. Old Custer’s (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm) 32 SW 3rd Ave. Rebecca Kilgore 320 SE 2nd Ave. Origin, Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth, Aborted, Rings of Saturn, Battlecross, Loculus

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Steve Hall

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

LaRhonda Steele

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. X

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Josh Cole Band 3552 N Mississippi Ave. White Fang (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Radiation City, Pure Bathing Culture, Onuinu (WW’s Best New Band showcase)

Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Sneakin’ Out

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

David Nelson Band, Moonalice

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. The Sportin’ Lifers Trio

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Lew Jones Trio

Nel Centro

Doug Fir Lounge

4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

350 W Burnside St. Miriam’s Well

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

830 E Burnside St. Alcoholic Faith Mission, You Won’t

Original Halibut’s II

Duff’s Garage

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar

East Burn

836 N Russell St. Hivemind (8:30 pm); Will West and Tanner Cundy (5:30 pm)

2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale David Cooley

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew

1635 SE 7th Ave. Atomic Gumbo, Too Loose (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)

White Eagle Saloon

2958 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover & Gravel (9:30 pm); Woodbrain (6 pm)

Dante’s

1530 SE 7th Ave. Dan Crothers & the Singers’ Club

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Steve Pulvers (8:30 pm); Faerabella (6 pm)

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Miss Massive Snowflake, Lord Master, Dramady

1800 E Burnside St. Hot Tea Cold

Ford Food and Drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. Nicole Campbell, Dustin Hamman (8 pm); Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire (5 pm)

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

2527 NE Alberta St. Kevin Selfe

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Clackamas Baby Killers, Bad Rabbits, Sugar Tits, Disliked, Five-O

Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Lewi Longmire/James Low Duo

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2035 NE Glisan St. Thee Swank Bastards, Wavesauce, DJ Drew Groove

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Andy Stokes

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Smoochknob, The Smoochgirls, Crazy Like Me

Doug Fir Lounge

8 NE Killingsworth St. Lazercrotch, Simple, Dos Putin, Michael Bruce, Gulls, Cutter Filtoff

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Riastrad, Liar, Godenied, Battle Axe Massacre, Static Thought, Angry Axe

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Bassnectar, Vibesquad

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Port City, Swing Papillon, Daniel Noland Trio

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Survival Guide, Silent Numbers, Ghost Office

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Blood Owl, The Mercury Tree, Better Days, No More Parachutes

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Pigeon John, Tanya Morgan, Playdough, Cookbook, Mighty Misc

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Bottlecap Boys

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Gooferman, Wanderlust Circus Orchestra, Thee Hobo Gobbelins, The Klown Korps, Kara Nova, DJ Mad Dog

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Lady Kat

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Robbie Laws Band

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar 1001 SW Broadway Naomi LaViolette

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St.

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. The Bradley Band

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Dead Remedy, Love & A. 38, Mosby

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Foal, AAPOAA, Antikythera

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Shanghai Woolies

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Jhon Srowell

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)

Twilight Café and Bar 1420 SE Powell Blvd.

Zodiac, Embalmed, Bloodoath

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Taska & the Outlaws

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Lucy Hammond Band

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Matthew Lindley Commision (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant & Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ed Bennett Quintet

SAT. MAY 12 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Trevor Reichman

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Tubes, Josh and Mer

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Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. The Sugar Beets

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Gordon Goldsmith, The Halseys (9:30 pm); Armadillo Speedbump (6:30 pm)

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Weissman, Murante, Dillon & Weddell

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. BasicShapes

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Tango Alpha Tango, The Love Loungers

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Laura Ivancie

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Hot Club of Hawthorne (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6 pm)

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. The Careless Lovers (swing dance)

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. The Globalist, Vessels, I Reckon, Capture the Flag, DJs Kellan & Sasha Coulter

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Djangophiles (9 pm); Tablao (5:30 pm)

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Beach Fossils, Mac DeMarco

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Hurqalya

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

3435 N Lombard St. Johnnie Ward Sharkskin Review 417 SE 80th Ave. Pseudophiles

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The Rodeo Clowns

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Alan Hagar

Nel Centro

Ella Street Social Club

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. The Vandies, Moon Debris, Year of The Rabbit

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Ben Darwish’s Commotion, The Doo Doo Funk All-Stars

Hawthorne Theatre Lounge

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Kinzel & Hyde

Peter’s Room

8 NW 6th Ave. Hoodie Allen, J-Phenom

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Black Queen, Heavy Voodoo, The Family Curse, Doomsower

Record Room

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Lincoln’s Beard, Abe Holderman, Ninjas with Syringes, Grace Sadie, Whitney Streed

8 NE Killingsworth St. Jerry Gari

Hawthorne Theatre

SEIU Banquet Hall

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

The Dead Milkmen, The We Shared Milk, The Ex-Girlfriends Club

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Best of Friends (8 pm); Galen Clark (5 pm)

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Johnny Payola (8 pm); The Robert Whitfield Project (6 pm)

Jam on Hawthorne

2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Old Wars, The Hugs, On Holiday

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soul Vaccination

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

Erik Anarchy, Growler, Pitchfork Motorway, Dartgun and the Vignettes

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Cu Lan Ti

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Bryan Minus & the Disconnect, Vibragun, Space Waves

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Howlin’ Wino, Avi Dei, Sex President, The Gabronies

Laughing Horse Books

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Light Asylum, Litanic Mask, Light House 6401 SE Foster Road Mic Crenshaw (homelessness benefit)

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Opa Groupa, Kef, Daniela Ivanova

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. Suburban Slim, The Oh Daddies, Irie Idea, Silverhawk

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Two Ton Boa, The Ro Sham Bos, Fever, Myrrh Larsen

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Get Rhythm

St. Johns Bizarre

N Lombard St. and N Philadelphia Ave. The Corin Tucker Band, AU, Old Light, Grandparents, Dusu Mali Band, Mo Phillips, Rock and Roll Camp for Girls showcase

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Just People, Worth

Ted’s/Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. The Chicharones, Myka 9, Living Proof, Half Man Half, DJ Ozroc

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Norman Sylvester

12 NE 10th Ave. Embalmed, Five-O, F.M. & R.D., Dead in a Ditch

The Blue Monk

LaurelThirst

The Heathman Restaurant and Bar

2958 NE Glisan St. Eight Dollar Mountain, Wayward Vessel (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Justin Jude, Brad Creel

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Garcia Birthday Band

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

Stumblebum, 42 Ford Perfect, The Dunbar Number

Mock Crest Tavern

203 SE Grand Ave. Imperial Teen, Prids, Shivas 714 SW 20th Place Brandon McCarron, Vinny D

Tonic Lounge

Tony Starlight’s

Mount Tabor Theater

East End

Sorta Ultra, Back Alley Barbers, Little Volcano

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Z’Bumba (9 pm); Level 2 Music (6 pm)

Duff’s Garage

1800 E Burnside St. Daniel Robinson

Fucking Lesbian Bitches, Magic Mouth, Xxxplosionsss (Not Enough queer arts festival benefit)

Mississippi Pizza

Montavilla Station

East Burn

Record Room

1624 NW Glisan St. Saloon Ensemble, Sarah King, Dan Compton & Fran Slefer (burlesque show)

830 E Burnside St. Laura Veirs, Alialujah Choir 1635 SE 7th Ave. The Buckles

TIME MACHINE: How did The Hutch on Holgate (4515 SE 41st Ave., 774-1822), a dim and dingy basement bar with a totem pole in the parking lot and carvings of pilgrims on the wall, come to be? Built as a house in 1927, the building was extensively renovated in 1953 to become Ye Olde Towne Crier, a colonial-themed restaurant known for its apple pandowdy. It well outlived its fellow kitschy midcentury eateries, finally closing in 1996. Then it was Hollyhurst Neighborhood Grill, followed by Grandma’s Restaurant, and eventually became the southern outpost of Northeast Glisan Street’s the Hutch. Its glory days are long past, the tables wobbly and paint faded, but the stone fireplace is still there, as are the baffling bathroom markers for “John” and “Priscilla.” No one’s here for the Plimoth Plantation shtick, though— they’re here for lively ShanRock’s Triviology on Wednesdays, and for Tara, the exceptionally attentive bartender who never forgets a face. BEN WATERHOUSE.

Mission Theater

3341 SE Belmont St. James Faretheewell

1001 SW Broadway Barbara Lusch

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Pinehurst Kids, Monoplane, NY Rifles

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Beth Willis Rock Band

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Neil Diamond Tribute

1425 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera

Twilight Café and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd.

The Boors, Uncle Pooch, Synesthesia

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Contigo

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney (9 pm); Irish Sessions (6 pm)

Kennedy School

5736 NE 33rd Ave. Laura Veirs and the Tumble Bees, Sneakin’ Out, Kinderqueen, DJ Anjali (You Who kids’ show)

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Billy D.

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Arthur Moore (8 pm); Blues Jam (2 pm)

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Hanz Araki & Kathryn Claire

White Eagle Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

836 N Russell St. Rule of the Bone, Mexican Gunfight (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold & the Groove Swingers

Winona Grange No. 271

8340 SW Seneca St., Tualatin Hanneke Cassel, Ryan McKasson, Cali McKasson Kovin

YU Contemporary 800 SE 10th Ave. Black Dice

SUN. MAY 13 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, Trevor Reichman

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Sleepwalk Kid, Ever So Android

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Johnny Payola

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd.

Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd.

Caterina New

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. The Twangshifters, Klown Korps

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. The Boxer Rebellion, Canon Blue

Ford Food and Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Smile Empty Soul, The Veer Union, Ionia, Deathtrap America, Ill Lucid Onset

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Luis de la Tota, Estefanía “La Ichi” (flamenco performance)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Boy and Bean Trio, Jim Templeton

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Slim Bacon

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Modern Golem (9 pm); Jenny Finn Orchestra (6:30 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sleepy Sun, The Upsidedown

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Iron Butterfly, Magic Carpet Ride, The Xperience Jimi Hendrix Tribute

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Irish Music

NEPO 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Fucking Lesbian Bitches, Older Women, Palo Verde

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Blood and Thunder

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. Beisbol, Josh & Mer

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Demdike Stare, Tropic of Cancer, Bruxa, Apartment Fox

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Bad Luck with Cuong Vu

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. No More Parachutes, Wreck of the Zephyr, Cuntifiers

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet

Tupai at Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Galen Clark and Hannah Penn

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Purse Candy

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Classical Sitar

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Naomi Hooley

MON. MAY 14 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave.

Jack Wilson, Medicine Family

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Eric Robinson

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Heroes and Zeros, The Hoons, Hanne Kolsto

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music

Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. E-40, Keak Da Sneak, DJ Chill, Anthraxxx

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Great Lake Swimmers, Cold Specks

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lionel Young Band (8:30 pm); Suzie and the Sidecars (6 pm)

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

R5

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

Kells

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)

McMenamins Edgefield Winery 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Laurel Brauns

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Bob Shoemaker

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Fresh Track (9 pm); Steve Wilkenson (6 pm); Mr. Ben (kids’ show, 5 pm)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Lloyd Jones

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Vanmarter Project, The Warshers, Akadia

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd.

Soulmates featuring Jay “Bird” Koder

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Enabler, Black Hole of Calcutta, Habits, Contempt

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Metal Machine

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Fanno Creek, Tiger House, Bubble Cats

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Pheasant, C.C. Swim, Break Matches

TUES. MAY 15 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Jack Wilson, Shenandoah Davis

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St.

CALENDAR Cotton, Kevin Christaldi, Waver Clamor Bellow

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Pukesnake, Tokyo Death Stare

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Gamma Knife, Muscle and the Marrow

Bunk Bar

Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 E Main St., Hillsboro Jeni Foster

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Simon Tucker Group

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell (7:30 pm); Tom D’Antoni (4:30 pm)

Jade Lounge

1028 SE Water Ave. Pegasus Dream, Adventure Galley

2346 SE Ankeny St. Margeret Wehr

Doug Fir Lounge

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); The Parkrose High School Jazz Band (6:30 pm)

830 E Burnside St. Suckers, Young Man, Vanaprasta

Duff’s Garage

Jimmy Mak’s

Kells

1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)

112 SW 2nd Ave. Tierney

Ella Street Social Club

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

714 SW 20th Place The Shy Seasons

LaurelThirst

McMenamins Rock Creek Tavern

10000 Old Cornelius Pass Road, Hillsboro Open Bluegrass Jam

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sloe Loris

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. White Hills, Kinski

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Open Mic with Simon Tucker

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Lovedrug

Taste on 23rd

2285 NW Johnson St. Brandston Duo

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. K-Tel ‘79, Strong Killings, American Friction

The Old Church

1422 SW 11th Ave. The Athens Guitar Trio

MUSIC

The Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave. The Chair Project, Damn Family, I Am the Lake of Fire

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd.

Bo Ayars

Twilight Café and Bar

1420 SE Powell Blvd.

Open Mic with the Roaming

503.288.3895 info@mississippistudios.com 3939 N. Mississippi

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Live & Direct: Slimkid3, Rev Shines, DJ Nature

WED. MAY 9 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Rickshaw

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Pretty Ugly

DJ Philadelphia Freedom

Rotture

The Lovecraft

Someday Lounge

Tiga

511 NW Couch St. TRONix with DJ 808

Red Cap Garage

The Lovecraft

1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Amy Kasio

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Samiyam, Mono/Poly, Ryat, Mast, Bones

Slim’s Cocktail Bar 8635 N Lombard St. AM Gold

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement with Senseone

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. DJ Wizard Sleeve

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Nothing Lasts Forever

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays: American Girls, Jamie Meushaw, Corduroy

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJs Both Josh, Pickle Barrel

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Creepy Crawl

THURS. MAY 10 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Jorge Páez

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Marti (late set); DJ Squintsy Jones (early set)

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. PDneXt: Natasha Kmeto, Graintable, Plumblyne, Danny Corn

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave.

2045 SE Belmont St. DJ Drew Groove

315 SE 3rd Ave. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul with DJ Beyondadoubt 125 NW 5th Ave. Mixer: Robe Hise-denk, Ryan Organ, Kenzo, Instigatah (9 pm); Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (3 pm)

Ground Kontrol

The Conquistador

421 SE Grand Ave. Manchester Night: DJs Bar Hopper, Selector TNTs

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Aldo (10 pm); DJ Sethro Tull (7 pm)

Valentine’s

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ RNDM Noise

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. No Hands with Yo Huckleberry (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Westin Glass DJ

SAT. MAY 12

ROANE NAMUH & REVA DEVITO

232 SW Ankeny St. Ciara Caruthers, Why I Must Be Careful (interdisciplinary event)

Vino Vixens Wine Shop & Bar 2929 SE Powell Blvd.

Arthur Moore

THE WAVE PICTURES

TXE +DJ KEZ

WED MAY 9th

Mirror Dinner: DJs Nick Dean, Stray (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)

SUN. MAY 13

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Black Sundays with DJ Nate Carson

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Black Church

MON. MAY 14 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Alpha 60

Ground Kontrol

Tube

Dig a Pony

Holocene

736 SE Grand Ave. Hostile Tapeover (late set); DJ Dickel (early set)

1001 SE Morrison St. Atlas: DJ Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid

Element Restaurant & Lounge

Mississippi Studios

1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Cock Block: Melody Fisher, Sara Z, Sappho, Miss Vixen

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJ M_Ron

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Ecstasy: Honey Soundsystem, Robot Hustle, Emotion II Emotion, Ecstasy DJs (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with Treasure Hunters Club DJs (5 pm)

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Holiday

Red Cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St.

511 NW Couch St. DJs Destructo, Chip

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mrs. with DJ Beyonda

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac

Saucebox

214 SW Broadway Connected: Matt Nelkin, Mighty Moves

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Soulciety: DJ Drew Groove, Katrina Martiani

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJs Entropy, MisPrid

The Whiskey Bar

736 SE Grand Ave. Jah Raph 426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Old Frontier 18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Matt Scaphism

TUES. MAY 15 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Doug Ferious

Dig a Pony

736 SE Grand Ave. Mint Revolver & Last Call

Eagle Portland

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

COMEDY FEST’S

WHEN THE BROKEN BOW (Record Release)

+CASEY MONTGOMERY

WED MAY 16th

$8 Adv

$5 DOS

The Oregonian Presents

IAN KARMEL

“Portland’s Funniest person”

WHITNEY STREED +ANTHONY LOPEZ SAT MAY 12th

A&E LIVE 6:30 Doors, 7pm Show

FREE

New York based duo channeling musical energy into a swirling psychedelic and brutalising space rock musical statement

WHITE

HILLS

MIMICKING

BIRDS

w/ DJ BEYONDA 10pm - 2am

SAT MAY 12th

Gorgeous spectral folk from a Portland three-piece of brimming talent

+KINSKI

TUE MAY 15th

$10 Adv

Straddling the boundaries between indie rock, disco surf, psychedelia, and atmospheric folk, Celilo are an alchemy of impressiveness

CELILO

Innovative Portland two-piece who rock bluesy swagger and psychedelia

BEAR &

MOOSE PWRHAUS +HERE COME DOTS

FRI MAY 18th

$6 Adv

Mississippi Studios and opbmusic bring you PDX/Rx:

WILD ONES

GHOST TO FALCO +YOU ARE PLURAL

THUR MAY 17th

$8 Adv

Acclaimed pop singer/ songwriter presenting the soulful songs that catapulted her onto the Top 40 Billboard chart

RACHEL PLATTEN +MADI DIAZ 6:30 Doors, 7:00 Show Mostly Standing / Seated Balcony

SAT MAY 19th

$12 Adv

Woodchuck Cider Sweet ‘n’ Local Presents: Laid back country-folk from a 5-piece of Portland talents, making eloquent and uniquely captivating music

WHAT HEARTS

205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: AKA, Tyler Tastemaker

(Record Release) SAT MAY 19th

+MY BODY FREE

HOUNDSTOOTH +CALICO ROSE SUN MAY 20th

$5 Adv

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Kev It Up

Tiga

Yes and No

18 NW 3rd Ave.

$10 Adv

The Crown Room

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SUN MAY 13th

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal

31 NW 1st Ave. Bass Therapy: Kidz with Tazers, Nathan Jenkins, Simon Says 1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Mercedez

+THE UPSIDEDOWN

18 NW 3rd Ave. Dark Sundays with DJ Josh Dark

722 E Burnside St. Night of Kink: Chaach, DJ Encrypted and more

Bossanova Ballroom

1800 E Burnside St. DJ Gray Matter

SLEEPY SUN

Tube

East Burn

412 NE Beech St. Rex Marshall

California rock ‘n’ roll 6-piece tour in support of a new LP release, Spine Hits, showcasing a whimsical psychedelic expansiveness

736 SE Grand Ave. Bad Wizard

Tiga

736 SE Grand Ave. Montel Spinoza

FREE

Dig a Pony

Kelly’s Olympian

FRI. MAY 11

MRS.

$5 Adv

836 N Russell St. Brad Creel and the Reel Deel

Dig a Pony

Beech Street Parlor

+ADVENTURE GALLEY $8 Adv

THUR MAY 10th

White Eagle Saloon

Dig a Pony

412 NE Beech St. Endless Sumler

ALLO DARLIN

Valentine’s

Beech Street Parlor

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ AM Gold

Indie pop band hailing from the UK bringing us songs of winsome pleasure

Mississippin with Jack Daniels Presents: The Cloudshine Release Party

FRI MAY 11th NicoLuminous, Scuzzy, Barisone, Kellan, N.O.X.

8pm Doors, 9pm Show Unless otherwise noted

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ Overcol (7 pm) 20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog

Scan this for show info

Coming Soon: 6/1 - RAY WYLIE HUBBARD 5/21 - FREEDY JOHNSTON 6/2 - GREG LASWELL 5/22 - JON DEE GRAHAM 6/3 - THE LOWER 48 5/23 - THE ASCETIC JUNKIES 6/5 - TRISTAN TAORMINO 5/24 - BOB DYLAN’S BIRTHDAY 5/25 - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH 6/6 - PHEASANT 6/7 - A SILENT FILM 5/26 - BOAT 6/8 - THE DEER TRACKS 5/27 - ELECTRIC GUEST 6/10 - ADVENTURES! WITH MIGHT 5/29 - THE MOONDOGGIES 6/14 - WILL WEST & THE FRIENDLY 5/30 - CASS MCCOMBS BAND 5/31 - DEER OR THE DOE (Record Release) STRANGERS (Record Release)

& free music

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MAY 9-15

= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead.

Editor: BEN WATERHOUSE. Stage: BEN WATERHOUSE (bwaterhouse@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: bwaterhouse@wweek.com.

THEATER The Andrews Brothers

Broadway Rose takes another shot at the senior-citizen demographic with a new musical featuring tunes from the 1940s. But this show has a twist. The Andrews Brothers are stage hands that manage to fill in for the famous Andrews Sisters (no relation) at a big USO show in the South Pacific.

The musical starts off at Grandpa’s pace, but it makes up for everything in the second act when the Andrews Brothers come stumbling onstage in drag. The ladyboy act is more Some Like It Hot than To Wong Foo, but the girls sell the slapstick. They even pull some real-life World War II vets on stage for some uncomfortable but hilarious audience participation. It’s a hoot, I tell ya. AARON SPENCER. Broadway Rose New Stage Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Ave., Tigard, 6205262. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays.

Closes May 20. $30-$40.

The Black Lizard

Imago Theatre presents the Englishlanguage premiere of a play by the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima— who infamously committed suicide after a failed coup d’état—about a brilliant private detective on the tale of Black Lizard, the female leader of a gang of jewel thieves. Imago’s production, directed by Jerry Mouawad and featuring Matt DiBiasio and Anne Sorce, promises equal parts kabuki and ‘60s camp. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-9581. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays. Closes June 2. $15-$30.

Black Pearl Sings!

Huddie William Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, was unknown outside West Texas until 1933, when the great musicologist John Lomax found him in a Louisiana prison serving time for attempted murder.

Lomax recorded Ledbetter singing hundreds of songs, helped him secure an early release and eventually took him on tour. It’s a great tale, and one that merits dramatization, but it is not the story you will see in Black Pearl Sings. Playwright Frank Higgins, who apparently didn’t think the tensions of race and class were sufficiently complex, throws sex in the mix as well. In his version, Lomax becomes Susannah Mullally, a folklorist for the Library of Congress who, despite her wealthy upbringing, has been passed over for professorships in favor of less deserving men. She discovers Alberta “Pearl” Johnson in a Texas prison, sentenced for Bobbitizing her abusive lover, and persuades Johnson to record the pre-Civil War songs that only she knows. Together, they unsubtly grapple with every dilemma of the early 20th century. Both Lena Kaminsky, as Mullally, and Chavez Ravine, as Johnson, turn in commendable performances. Kaminsky nails the insensitive brashness endemic to ambitious, indignant academics.

It is a wonder she ever manages to hold focus, however, against Ravine’s quivering fury and gorgeous singing.

The play is worth attending for the music alone, which is good, because Higgins’ unfortunate tendency to overwrite means it has little else to offer. We don’t need Pearl to wonder aloud if she should trust Mullally with the song her ancestors brought from Africa—we just need her to sing it.

BEN WATERHOUSE. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Closes June 17. $36-$51.

A Carlin Home Companion

George Carlin’s daughter comes to town with a solo show about her life

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and her relationship with her father.

Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 7 pm Sunday, May 13. $18-$20. 21+.

The Centering

Chris Harder revives his solo show about a political prisoner, driven to the edge of madness by his interrogators, who retreats to a circus inside his head. Harder won a Drammy award for his performance in the role in 2007, but this time the part will be performed by Andy Lee-Hillstrom. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 541-3518386. 10 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $10-$25.

City of Angels

Lakewood Theatre presents a musical parody of 1940s film noir, starring Isaac Lamb. Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St., Lake Oswego, 503-635-3901. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays 7 pm Sundays through May 20, 2 pm Sundays May 13 and May 27-June 10. $29-$32.

Cleaners

Spring 4th Productions’ latest original work is a Greater Tuna-esque two-man performance about a pair of confidence men who buck heads with two sisters who run the only business left in a small Oregon town. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-2121020. 7:30 pm Thursdays and Sundays through May 20. $10-$12.

Everyman

The students of PCC Sylvania perform the medieval morality play with enormous puppets. PCC Rock Creek Auditorium, 17705 NW Springville Road, 690-5906. 7:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through May 12. $10.

Gracie

Triangle Productions premieres a musical by company honcho Don Horn about the life of Gracie Hansen, a Washington housewife who started a Ziegfeld Follies-style cabaret show to raise money for the local PTA. She went on to open her own pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, then moved to the Barbary Coast bar at Portland’s long-since-demolished Hoyt Hotel, and eventually ran for governor of Oregon in 1970. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919.

7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 27. $15-$35.

The Happy Family

The debut production of Tightrope Theatre is a musical adaptation of a 1969 horror film, Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, itself adapted from a stage play, The Happy Family, by the English writer Maisie Mosco. The plot: A family of psychotic upper-class twits lure male loners back to their country house and murder them, until one of their would-be victims turns the family on itself. Lents Commons, 9201 SE Foster Road, 839-0127. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through June 9. $15-$20.

Hard Times

Coho Productions ends its season with an adaptation of Dickens’ finest polemic against the evils of utilitarianism, featuring Ted deChatelet, David Janoviak, McKenna Twedt and Camille Cettina.

The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 715-1114. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 2. $20-$25.

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Well Arts presents a show created by participants in previous Well Arts productions, inspired by Rashomon, featuring stories told from opposite points of view, across time and space. Concordia University, 2800 NE Liberty St., 459-4500. 8 pm ThursdaySaturday, May 10-12 at Concordia University. 8 pm Friday, 2 pm Saturday

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May 18-19 at Launch Pad Gallery.

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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

...You’re gonna have a bad time.

Oregon Children’s Theatre goes ahead and ignores all the warnings in this adaptation of the popular kids’ book.

Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $13-$30.

The Loman Family Picnic

No, not a wicker basket full of sales samples and rubber hoses. In this Donald Margulies’ comedy, presented

by Jewish Theatre Collaborative, the struggles and frustrations of middleclass 1960s Jewish life are turned into humorous, rather than tragic, ends.

Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., brownpapertickets.com. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays.

Closes June 3. $10-$30.

Next to Normal

The reality of a family struggling to cope with mental illness is kind of a downer. But presented with dark humor and biting truth in the rock musical Next to Normal, the subject becomes heartbreakingly real—in a good way. Diana Goodman (Susannah Mars, in this Artists Rep production) has been battling a severe case of bipolar disorder for more than 16 years following a traumatic event, with a continually tweaked regimen of medications doing little to help. Her husband, Dan (William Wadhams—lead singer of ’80s band Animotion!) tries to pretend that everything is going to be fine, and their overachieving teenage daughter is all but completely ignored.

Mars delivers a stellar performance, portraying the utter frustration of struggling with a disease that can’t be seen. The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical questions the way mental illness is perceived and makes tangible the destruction it can have, both on the person suffering with it and the people who love her. PENELOPE BASS. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays. Closes June 3. $25-$50.

Oedipus El Rey

Oedipus means “swollen foot” in Greek, a moniker the ill-fated character receives after he is abandoned in the mountains with his ankles pinned together. In playwright Luis Alfaro’s gritty Chicano riff on the ancient tragedy, set in the ganglands of East Los Angeles, Oedipus’ father does not bind his son’s ankles but slashes the soles of his feet. These injuries give Oedipus a distinctive gait, a limp Nick Ortega converts into a gangster swagger in this muscular Miracle Theatre production, directed

by Elizabeth Huffman. Ortega is brilliant as Oedipus, tightly wound but with a crackling temper. As Jocasta, the mother Oedipus never knew and then marries, Olga Sanchez matches Ortega’s commanding presence with mournful sensuality—their romance reviles as it seduces. Alfaro’s characters ache for certitude, searching for it in crime, in religion, in love. Though the pace slows as the play progresses, and the chorus, so powerful in the first act, largely disappears in the second, these yearnings for conviction resonate long after the production’s brutal close.

REBECCA JACOBSON. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 26. $15-$29.

Playtime! with Pete and Randy

Signal Light Puppet Theatre presents a hilariously violent puppet show for kids and adults, starring a pair of dogs with a penchant for explosives.

Zoomtopia, 810 SE Belmont St., 2909684. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 13. $12-$15.

A Rare Day in May

Readers Theatre Repertory performs two plays set in the merry, merry month of May: Saul Zachary’s The Color of Heatand Lanford Wilson’s A Betrothal. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 295-4997. 8 pm FridaySaturday, May 12-13. $8.

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The Storm in the Barn

CLASSICAL

Portland Story Theater’s festival of solo performance concludes with an evening of stories from PST’s Urban Tellers program. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., portlandstorytheater. com. 8 pm Friday, May 11. $15-$20.

Oregon Children’s Theatre presents an adaptation of Matt Phelan’s graphic novel by Eric Coble, with music composed for the production by Black Prairie (The Decemberists minus Colin Meloy and John Moen) performed live by the cast. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes May 20. $13-$28.

Wild West 10-Minute Play Festival

Monkey with a Hat on presents a festival of Western-themed short plays.

Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 2481030. 7 pm Sundays, May 13 and 20. $5.

The Portland Storytellers Guild do their thing. Kennedy School Community Room, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. 7 pm Saturday, May 12. $5 per person, $10 per family.

ATA Ensemble

Soprano Anna Kazakova, violinist Tatiana Kolchanova, pianist Anne D. Young, flutist LeeAnn McKenna and guitarist Peter Zisa play music by Mozart, de Falla, Gershwin, Dvorák and more. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 6:30 pm Sunday, May 13. $5-$10.

Athens Guitar Trio

Using at least one 11-stringed guitar, the renowned threesome plays everything from Renaissance to folk, klezmer to African spirituals, ancient to contemporary music. The Old Church,

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SEX ED: Spring Awakening sets teenage sexual frustration to music.

SPRING AWAKENING (LIVE ON STAGE) Horny teenagers are going to have sex whether it is explained to them or not. It’s in our nature, and desire can be repressed for only so long.

Following a group of kids growing up in a pious community in late19th-century Germany, Spring Awakening explores the lust and confusion of the adolescents discovering their sexuality while being kept in the dark by their parents, teachers and clergy. Moritz (Robert Head) believes the erotic dreams that plague him are a sure sign of insanity.

Wendla (Beth Scheppke) begs her mother to simply tell her how babies are conceived but, too late, finds out on her own. Melchior (Noah Fish), having learned about sex through books, tries to inform his friends and is convinced that the suppression of desire is a conspiracy among the adults to keep the teens unhappy and complacent.

Adapted from an 1892 German play—which was banned for its frank depiction of sex, homosexuality, abortion and abuse—Spring Awakening opened as a rock musical in 2006, eventually winning eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. Juxtaposing the antiquated attitudes with upbeat, pop-rock melodies, the music brings the students’ inner turmoil to the forefront with songs like “The Bitch of Living,” “Totally Fucked” and the surprisingly heartfelt “My Junk,” all performed with a fresh sincerity.

Presented on the sparsest of sets, the frenetic choreography brings the show to life, depicting a palpable tension as the cast stomps, slams down chairs and practically twitches and vibrates through the performance. It’s manic frustration experienced as only repressed youth can, and the cast pulls it off exceptionally well, feeding off and elevating the energy of one another. Also commendable are the two adult roles, skillfully played by Jennifer Goldsmith and Blaine Palmer, as they rapidly transition between callous instructors, objects of desire, and parents both caring and abusive.

Although the plot begins to snowball in the second act, with dramatic events piling on top of each other, the emotional theme pulls through in the spirited performance of the cast. Desire may be the bitch of living, but it’s got a good beat. PENELOPE BASS. Confronting the bitch of living.

SEE IT: Spring Awakening is at the World Trade Center, 121 SW Salmon St., 208-1742, liveonstage.us. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through May 26. $20-$30.

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1422 SW 11th Ave., 222-2031. 7:30 pm Monday, May 14. $25-$30.

Oregon Guitar Quartet

After exploring Baroque and American folk tunes on their first two CDs, the Oregon Guitar Quartet (David Franzen, John Mery, Jesse McCann and Bryan Johanson) releases their third excellent album in two years: a dandy disk of inventive arrangements of music by Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Richard Rodgers and more. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 880-2267. 7:30 pm Thursday, May 10. Free.

Oregon Symphony

Pianist Arnaldo Cohen is unlikely to roll onstage handcuffed and tied in a sack, only to extricate himself just in time to bang the opening chords of Tchaikovsky’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 1, as Michael Palin did in a memorable Monty Python sketch. But the Brazilian-American virtuoso has won a strong reputation for his chops, and should be up to the task of this Romantic warhorse. The program also includes Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7, a Dvorák overture and the stormy “Four Sea Interludes” and Passacaglia from Benjamin Britten’s 20th-century masterpiece, the opera Peter Grimes. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353.

7:30 pm Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, 8 pm Monday, May 12-14. $26-$97.

Portland Opera

To close a fine season, the company revives its spiffy decadeold production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 Candide, one of the century’s great, if flawed, works of musical theater—especially after the composer, shortly before he died in 1990, extensively revised what had been a messy collection of words and ideas by various collaborators over the decades, including Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim and others. Conceived at the same time as West Side Story (with which it sometimes traded musical ideas), Portland Opera artistic director Christopher Mattaliano’s own adaptation of the darkly satirical, breathlessly paced staging of Voltaire’s wry classic is just as relevant to today’s corrupt political environment as it was during the operetta’s McCarthyera origin. And the glorious music, which ranges from ironically genial (“Glitter and Be Gay”) to poignant (“Make our Garden Grow”), is some of Bernstein’s best. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 2411802. 7:30 pm Friday and 2 pm Sunday, May 11 and 13. 7:30 pm Thursday and Saturday, May 17 and 19. $20-$140.

Tejendra Narayan Majumdar

A protégé of one of the greatest Indian musicians of the 20th century, Ali Akbar Khan, the prizewinning sarod (big, deep-voiced lute) virtuoso is himself one of

India’s most admired classical musicians and composers, regularly performing throughout the U.S. and Europe, as well as at home in India. In this concert of Hindustani classical music, he’ll be accompanied by tabla player Indranil Mallick. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 499-1153. 7:30 pm Saturday, May 12. $10-$20.

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Ukulele Big Top

An all-star lineup including one of today’s true masters of the instrument, James Hill, Oregon’s own wild Brook Adams, Del Rey and others play blues, rock, old-time and other music on the resurgent uke. First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder St., 695-2243. 7:30 pm Friday, May 11. $5-$18.

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DANCE

Me Siento con Vallejo

Portland-based Peruvian dancer Luciana Proaño is known for crossing genres (ballet, modern Peruvian folk dance and even martial arts and yoga) in her work. Here, she puts movement to the work of poet César Vallejo, accompanied by jazz guitarist JB Butler. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 2215857. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, May 11-12. $5-$25. All ages.

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They made it from scratch: ScratchPDX, a rotating group of improvisational performers, meets once a month to test new dance, music, storytelling, comedy and more and get feedback at intermission from viewers. This month features tap dancing, singing, a short play, comedy and storytelling.

Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 358-0898. 9 pm second Saturdays through May. $10.

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Dancers and dancemakers from all over the world make connections at France’s La Biennale de Lyon Danse, where, in 2006, choreographer/Compagnie Käfig founder Mourad Merzouki discovered 11 young male dancers from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Merzouki, already known for fusing hip-hop to other various genres, including martial arts, created two works the dancers will perform as they make their West Coast debut at the close of White Bird’s 14th season.

The first is Correria (“running”), a full-throttle vision of life’s hectic pace. The other is Agwa, in which water becomes both a theatrical metaphor and a complex set piece.

In both works, hip-hop intersects with capoeira, samba and acrobatics in a not-to-be missed, truly international performance. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, whitebird.org. 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 9. $25-$60.

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By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.

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A Different Kind of Normal: Stories of Asperger’s Syndrome

For more than a year, photographer Leah Nash (who has also shot forWW) shadowed five people who have Asperger’s syndrome, an autismrelated condition that impacts social behavior. In A Different Kind of Normal: Stories of Asperger’s Syndrome, Nash explores the ways in which people cope with Asperger’s. Nuanced and compassionate, the series is apt to be cathartic for those who are, know, or love someone who has the condition.

Through June 30. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.

Barbara Stafford: Evening

PDX follows up last month’s restrained showing of Tina Beebe’s floral still lifes with an equally restrained showing of Barbara Stafford’s landscapes.

Discreetly sized paintings of mountains, clouds, waves, trees, cliffs and sky add up to an exhibition that is so calmative and trance-inducing, you may need a double espresso just to make it back out the gallery door.

Through June 2. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Dharma Strasser Maccoll’s most eyepleasing compositions mosaic felt, clay, and other media together in dramatic sunbursts of nuanced three-dimensionality. Other works are less nuanced and come across as crafty, design-y, and facile. Through June 2. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

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.

Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson is a symbolist, which is to say, his paintings use imagery as symbolic stand-ins for other objects or ideas. Generally he does this with

neither subtlety nor sophistication. His work features sharks, wolves, eagles, naked women, peacock feathers, an octopus, roosters, cobras and roses.

There is a sincerity in his approach, but the work would still seem more at home in a tattoo shop than an art gallery. Through May 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.

JoEllyn Loehr: Intimate Symmetries

Like a song in which the same note repeats incessantly, JoEllyn Loehr’s abstract paintings present the same general gestalt over and over. Basically, the only element that varies is the color palette: pastels for Shir Hashirim; earth and sky tones for Steens; blues, predictably, for Azul; and greens for Nansene. This is perfectly innocuous, workmanlike abstraction that is going to look great in somebody’s foyer in Lake Oswego. One last point. For the second month in a row, Blackfish played insipid light jazz over its sound system, lending a soundscape of pure cheesiness. Galleries rarely play music at openings, with good reason: Artwork, like wine, needs to breathe.

Silence and ambient crowd noise allow the work to find its own voice.

Piping in music, especially music this cheesy, smothers the artwork and the viewer. The only cheese that should be present at an opening should be on the hors d’oeuvre table. Through June 2. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.

Jost Münster

Based in London and Ulm, Germany, painter Jost Münster borrows from the lineage of minimalism and geometric abstraction. His most satisfying pieces, Spot and Forever Young, incorporate holes and layering effects.

He also has a gift for coining wry titles such as Drunken Angels Go Blind and its variant, Drunken Angels Go Blind Near Capri. This is the second installment in Victory Gallery’s series of three one-month shows spotlighting German artists—a refreshing infusion of international blood into our art scene.

This is reason enough to check out the gallery. Through June 6. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.

Laura Ross-Paul: Connect

The light of cellphone screens and laptops illuminating their users’ faces in dark rooms provides inspiration for Laura Ross-Paul’s new body of work, Connect. The paintings depict young people staring at screens even in the midst of ostensibly more interesting activities such as fireworks displays, picnics and star-gazing parties. But Ross-Paul resists the temptation to wag fingers at the perpetually loggedon young’uns, instead depicting the screens’ light with the same mystical reverence seen in Renaissance paintings of candles, halos and stainedglass windows. Through June 2.

Froelick Gallery, 714 NW Davis St., 222-1142.

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was among a handful of artists who defined Abstract Expressionism in the middle of the 20th century. It is little known in most modern-art circles that Rothko lived in Portland during his formative years, from age 10 to 18. This retrospective considers the artist’s entire output and is sure to number among the year’s most challenging exhibitions. Through May 27. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.

Ryan Pierce: New World Atlas of Weeds and Rags and Deborah Horrell: Celebrating Beauty

Ryan Pierce’s allegorical paintings are ambitious in their scale and archetypal subject matter, but in the Adam-andEve redux Devil’s Thread and the Noah retread of Chance Ark, Pierce’s conflation of Christian symbolism and environmental apocalypse risks triteness.

He is more satisfying in more direct depictions such as Sun Scorched, whose central sunflower motif radiates peach-colored petals before a background of mother-of-pearl clouds. In the back gallery, Deborah Horrell uses glass and Plexiglas to create oversized wing forms in a palette of sumptuous sorbet tones. Through June 23.

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

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TOM CRAMER AT LAURA RUSSO If the Playboy Mansion were plopped down into the forests of Middle-earth and redecorated by Donald Trump, it would probably wind up looking and feeling like Tom Cramer’s woodsy, sensual fantasia of a show, New Work.

By a kind of aesthetic alchemy, Cramer has wedded pure hedonism with a reverence for art history and a thematic romanticism born of legend and fantasy.

Long known in Portland for his public murals and art cars, the painter and sculptor is at the top of his game in his latest body of work, which is more intricate, varied and materially sumptuous than ever. Abstract sunbursts such as White Star, laden with 24-karat gold, look as if they belong in Fort Knox, while the gilded, blindingly reflective Silver Sunlight would probably set commodity investors’ hearts aflutter for sheer precious-metal content.

But Cramer isn’t content to rely on flashy effects.

He sublimates reflectivity to color and line in the lithe Wahkeena Falls and Morning Glory, organic paeans to the fecundity of nature. In Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon, he allows a bed of luxuriantly carved mahogany to speak for itself, with only intermittent flecks of metal-

Green and gold.

lic overlay. Undulations in carved surfaces have long been a part of the artist’s vocabulary, but in this show he takes them to topographical extremes, as in the welling, troughing grooves of World of Fog. And then there are Cramer’s vividly colored wood burnings, such as Flashes of Light, which link his obsession with intricate, psychedelic-era patterning with the earlier “mod” period of 1960s design. He takes this stylistic integration and further time-warps it, stopping for inspiration in the distant past of ancient Egyptian funerary masks, then wormholes back around into the luscious, vegetal semiabstraction of art nouveau.

A Portland native, Cramer is that rare artist who both defies and defines Northwest regionalism. While his work has been nationally reviewed and collected by heavy-hitters such as philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer and Andy Warhol scenester Paige Powell, it remains deeply rooted in the old-growth forests of the Cascades and waterfall-sluiced crevasses of the Columbia River Gorge. Poetic and mysterious despite their gleaming surfaces, his wood-relief carvings and burnings seem to inhale mountain air and exhale the fragrances of trillium, moss and golden chanterelles. They are at once exotic and familiar, and in this masterful exhibition, they show us what indispensable icons they have

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RICHARD SPEER. SEE IT: New Work is at Laura Russo Gallery, 805 NW 21st Ave., 226-2754. Through June 2.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 Jen Lancaster

Humor writer and all-around sassy bitch Jen Lancaster has cornered the market on both self-deprecating humor and obscenely long subtitles with her seventh book, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult’s Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development, or Why It’s Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner. Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center, 12000 SE 82nd Ave., 786-3463. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, MAY 10 Michael Sandel

Money can buy a slew of cool stuff—cars, designer clothes, elected office. But, in our sacrosanct capitalist society, should there be limits on what can be paid for? Provoking a discussion on the appropriate role of the marketplace, author Michael Sandel questions whether corporations should be allowed to pay for the right to pollute, if children should be bribed to learn and how we protect the civic and moral goods that can’t be bought in his new book What Money Can’t Buy. The event is free, the book is not. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, MAY 11

such as authenticity in memoirs and the ethics of writing about family. James Frey is not allowed.

Gerlinger Hall, University of Oregon, 1468 University St., Eugene, 541346-1000. 9 am-4 pm. Free.

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Grant Petersen

In a city as devoted to cycling as Portland, some of Grant Petersen’s claims could be considered heresy, particularly to the cycling elite. A former racer, longtime commuter and owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works, Petersen makes the case that riding need not be all spandex and clippy shoes, instead arguing that riding your bike should actually be fun. His new book, Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike, is good news for the lazy, fair-weather riders among us. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 2 pm. Free.

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Illustrating his encounters with North American wildlife, Charles Finn’s Wild Delicate Seconds aims to honor the fauna we share our lives with through a series of poetic essays. Sounds familiar…what do you think, Ed Abbey? Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Amy Stewart

Exploring the sinister side of the natural world, author Amy Stewart’s previous books include Flower Confidential, Wicked Plants and Wicked Bugs. Currently serving as Portland publisher Tin House’s inaugural writer-in-residence at PSU, Stewart’s upcoming book, The Drunken Botanist, examines the myriad plants humans have managed to turn into alcohol.

Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 1034 SW 13th Ave., 9856746. 8 pm. $10.

Natural Health Cleanse NCNM Clinic Open House Saturday, May 19 • 1 – 5 p.m.

Independent Publishing Resource Center Grand Re-Opening

Celebrating its new location, the IPRC is throwing a grand reopening bash. The DIY haven for local writers, zinesters, printers and generally creative types will host readings with local authors Trinie Dalton and Cheryl Strayed, live music, hands-on letterpress demos, and beer and cake for all.

Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 7 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, MAY 12 Alison Bechdel

Nothing illustrates a dysfunctional childhood quite like the graphic novel, and Alison Bechdel follows up her lauded graphic memoir Fun Home with another exploration of her family in Are You My Mother?

This time she examines the unrealized artistic aspirations of her mother, who was married to a closeted gay man, and the events that led her to break off all physical affection with then-7-year-old Bechdel. Makes your own childhood seem almost normal. Bagdad Theater & Pub, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 236-9234. 5 pm. $22.

MemoirFest

Bringing together some of the Northwest’s top women writers and media experts, including The Chronology of Water author Lidia Yuknavitch, the daylong symposium MemoirFest will cover topics

Learn about natural medicine and the benefits of a natural health cleanse.

Cheryl Strayed

We all handle stress differently— smoking, comfort food, longdistance backpacking. Cheryl Strayed chose the latter. After her mother passed away and her marriage crumbled, Strayed set out to hike more than 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail alone. The Portland-based writer documented the perception-altering trek in her memoir Wild. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Rex Ziak

Like the Indiana Jones of the Pacific Northwest with an equally cool name, writer and historian Rex Ziak is best known for delineating the final leg of the Lewis and Clark expedition that helped establish the national park. In his lecture for the Oregon Historical Society, The Tragic and Lonely Life of a Sailing Captain’s Wife, Ziak will touch on the centennial of women’s suffrage in Oregon, as well as the transit of Venus, the rarest predictable astronomical event. First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave., 2287219. 7 pm. $10 students, $25-$45.

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21 Jump Street

81 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. R. CHRIS STAMM. Clackamas, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

The Artist

64 Lavished with Oscars, the comedy from Michel Hazanavicius 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. AARON MESH. Eastport, Kiggins, Fox Tower, Movies on TV.

The Avengers

88 The Avengers—the long-awaited

convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster isn’t just weighted by the typical expectations of the normal box-office bulldozer. After five movies’ worth of prologue, the film has also absorbed the expectations of the individual franchises. That’s some heavy pressure. Luckily, there is perhaps no other mass producer of pop culture better equipped to handle it than Joss Whedon. He is blessed with an intrinsic knowledge of what audiences want, and the ability, as a writer and director, to deliver with maximum satisfaction. In that regard, he does not stumble. It’s hard to imagine anyone who’s spent the past five years playing out a vision of an Avengers movie in their head being disappointed with what Whedon has come up with.

It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, CineMagic, Moreland, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, St. Johns.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

58 “For the elderly and beautiful,” runs the rest of the name dreamed up

by Sonny (Dev Patel) for his dilapidated retirement resort in India. The arriving Little England expats qualify for both adjectives: Marigold Hotel is nothing but the dotty-pensioner scenes from British ensemble comedies, always the best parts. But for chrissakes, don’t call it a “movie for grown-ups.” The film, directed by fustian Shakespeare in Love hack John Madden, is hardly more mature than The Avengers, and plays to the same desire to see big names join forces. I’m happy to see Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson in any context, even if it’s a geriatric version of a summer-camp movie, with a similar lateafternoon poignancy and corny lines.

(Dench’s voice-over is so packed with reassuring bromides that I eventually stopped hearing it, like Muzak.) It’s not dealing in harsh truths—it’s a sorbet to cleanse your palate after too much Mike Leigh—but the banalities are undermined by real disappointment and abandonment. Maggie Smith’s early racism is a touch too violent for her character arc, otherwise everyone is wonderfully sympathetic. Wilkinson in particular grounds the project with a typically righteous performance as a gay judge seeking forgiveness from a former lover. Marigold Hotel’s only serious drawback, in fact, is its tendency to treat India as a place for white folks to find catharsis—a wellintentioned flaw it copies from a Wes Anderson movie. It’s The Darjeeling Aged. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

Blue Like Jazz

67 Blue Like Jazz is an odd beast:

a pro-Christian movie condemned by multiple evangelical groups, an

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earnest and often affecting Igby Goes Down for the puppeteering-for-Christ set. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.

The Cabin in the Woods

90 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata, and The Masters of Studio Ghibli 92 The films of Hayao Miyazaki and the other animators associated with Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli are renowned for their illustrative elegance and wondrous imagination. Funny, then, that the company originated in 1985 as a thumb to the eye of the rest of the Japanese anime industry. Its name translates to “Mediterranean wind,” the idea being that the studio was constructed to blow away all others.

As the NW Film Center’s monthlong retrospective shows, it just about has. Screening this week: Miyazaki’s enchanting coming-of-age tale Kiki’s Delivery Service (7 pm Friday, May 11; 1 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13); studio co-founder Isao Takahata’s parallel period piece Only Yesterday (4 pm Saturday, May 12; 7 pm Sunday, May 13); and the epic fable Princess Mononoke (7 pm Saturday, May 12, and Monday, May 14; 4 pm Sunday, May 13).

MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. Check nwfilm.org for a full schedule.

Chimpanzee

The life and times of a presumably adorable 3-year-old chimp, narrated by fellow simian Tim Allen. Not screened for critics. G. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Cinema 99, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall.

Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements

80 [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Color Me Obsessed is an oral history set to film.

It almost doesn’t need the film part.

Though it is about the Replacements— that great, drunk punk band from Minneapolis—the movie is very careful to never actually give the audience the Replacements. There are no videos, no recordings, no photographs of the band. Even the record shelves and store walls behind its dozens of infatuated fans, producers and contemporaries have been carefully scrubbed clean of Replacements paraphernalia. And while the movie trots out truly devoted, high-profile guests—from Tom Arnold to Colin Meloy to Robert Christgau—to confirm that notion, writer Robert Voedisch might put it best when he says he’s too close to know if he even likes the Replacements. What Gorman Bechard’s film really does, quite beautifully, is widen the spotlight around the band to show the whole ecosystem that gives it meaning. It proves that even with a band like the Replacements, whom everyone in this film agrees “didn’t give a shit,” the passion of the fans is what brings the art to life. So even if you’re not a Replacements fan, it’s fun to hear people talk about what matters to them the most. And why the hell aren’t you a Replacements fan?

CASEY JARMAN. Hollywood Theatre.

6 pm Tuesday, May 15. Featuring live Replacements covers performed by the School of Rock.

Damsels in Distress

87 I can only imagine how foreign

Damsels in Distress must seem to someone who has never seen a Whit Stillman film before. For those of us who count his three previous movies

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GAZE UPON MY EGGO, MISCREANT!: Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows.

YOU’RE KILLING ME, BARNABAS DARK SHADOWS IS TIM BURTON’S ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. SORT OF.

BY MATTHEW SIN G ER

msinger@wweek.com

Tim Burton takes a lot of guff. Admittedly, much of it is justified. Any director brazen enough to think the world was clamoring for a mall-goth interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is clearly jumping their own train. But the knee-jerk critical reaction these days to any film bearing his name is snickering derision. Even casual cinema-goers know the critiques: Every movie looks the same, he always casts the same actors, he stays fixated on the same themes. But those things could also be said of Hollywood’s most lauded auteurs. There’s something unfair about that kind of groupthink.

All this probably reads as buildup to a glowing review of his newest project and a declaration that classic Tim Burton is back to silence the haters. Not quite. Dark Shadows, his adaptation of the ’60s cult television drama, is a minor Burton, neither grazing the highs of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands nor wallowing in the muck of his rancid Planet of the Apes remake. Still, the groaning along press row as the end credits rolled at the advance screening compel a soft defense starting with the positives.

First of all, kudos to Burton for finally choosing to rebrand a property not well remembered by the general public. That sounds like a backhanded compliment, but Dark Shadows is precisely the sort of musty franchise he should’ve been freshening up. Some die-hards were concerned about Burton’s decision to convert what was, in essence, a straight-faced supernatural soap opera into a comic farce. Like we need another vampire love triangle taking itself too seriously. Instead, Burton and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter) commit to an unapologetically goofy sense of humor. Their Dark Shadows is basically Arrested Development via Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion ride, with Johnny Depp as a ghoulish, throat-ripping Michael Bluth.

He plays Barnabas Collins, a cursed bloodsucking dandy awakened in 1972 after two centuries buried underground. Unearthed in the New England port town bearing his family’s name, he has two

objectives: consummate a relationship with his great-great-great nephew’s alluring governess (Bella Heathcote, a velvet painting of a cartoon Chihuahua come to life) and help his dysfunctional descendents revive their fish cannery business.

After years of taking on roles as asexual weirdos with no parameters on how bizarre he could play them, it’s refreshing to see Depp—looking like Nosferatu in his little-known Victorian playboy days—hemmed in and mannered, working primarily through his eyebrows. The jokes are generally of the “man-out-of-time” variety, with Barnabas marveling over lava lamps, troll dolls and the music of Steve Miller. So, maybe the comedy

DARK SHADOWS ENDS UP REMINDING OF ANOTHER TIM BURTON ADAPTATION: IT’S SLEEPY AND HOLLOW. isn’t much more sophisticated than that of Encino Man, but it has a certain charm. “Are you stoned or something?” Chloe Grace Moretz asks upon first meeting her great-great-great uncle. “They tried to stone me,” he responds. “It did not work.”

The problem is an overstuffed script. Burton’s got a talented ensemble cast—which also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, the remarkably well-preserved Michelle Pfeiffer and, of course, Helena Bonham Carter—and a TV season’s worth of story arcs, but only two hours to cram them all in. As a result, the narrative is a mess, with the movie seemingly forgetting about certain characters for long stretches, then dispatching them altogether once it has run out of things for them to do. Visually, Burton can still make eyes go wide, but his mall-goth spectacle isn’t spectacular enough here to compensate for the film’s utter lack of focus. Although intermittently fun, Dark Shadows ends up reminding of another of Burton’s adaptations: It’s sleepy and hollow.

59 SEE IT: Dark Shadows opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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The Deep Blue Sea

73 Not to be confused with the movie in which Samuel L. Jackson got eaten by a motherfucking shark, this Deep Blue Sea is about a woman devoured by something else entirely: adulterous lust. It’s probably no coincidence that her name is Hester (Rachel Weisz).

Trapped in a passionless marriage, she begins an affair with a handsome flyboy (Tom Hiddleston), and the guilt drives her to attempt suicide. Then things really go downhill. Adapting Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, Terence Davies gives the postwar British drama a gauzy, painterly translation, but this is an actors’ film. Weisz burns radiantly even while playing a woman whose light is slowly being snuffed. The best scene is a euphemistic squabble between Hester and her wealthy mother-in-law (Barbara Jefford).

“Beware of passion, Hester,” she warns.

“It always leads somewhere ugly.” And then, of course, it does. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

The Devil’s Carnival

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR AND ACTOR ATTENDING] What a very small percentage of the world was waiting for: A new project from the makers of Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Accompanying this screening of director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer Terrance Zdunich’s new “experimental horror film” is an actual road-show carnival of burlesque, costumes, Q&As and meet-and-greets. Clinton Street Theater. 8 pm and 10 pm Thursday, May 10.

The First Movie

45 [ONE WEEK ONLY] Irish-born director Mark Cousins had a fantastic idea on his hands. In 2008, he took a projector into the small village of Goptapa in northern Iraq and showed the children classic films like E.T. and The Red Balloon. Then, he handed a trio of youngsters HD cameras to shoot their own films. Unfortunately, Cousins’ artistic bent gets in the way far too often during this short documentary. His attempts to show “the other side” of this war-torn country does result is some lovely shots of the dusty, bucolic countryside, but he also includes scenes of children playing with balloons for a full five minutes.

It might fly by in real life, but in cinematic time, it is interminable. The First Movie really takes off when Cousins shows the movies shot by the young Iraqis. The talking-head interviews with family members—some recounting the al-Anfal, a genocidal campaign in the late ’90s that killed hundreds of thousands of villagers—and sweetly rendered glimpses into the everyday lives of these impressively resilient youngsters are absolutely compelling.

It’s just too bad that it takes Cousins nearly an hour to get there. ROBERT HAM. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm and 9 pm Friday-Monday, May 11-14; 7 pm Tuesday, May 15; 9 pm Thursday, May 17.

The Five-Year Engagement

51 Quite an interesting experiment Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller have cooked up here: A movie called The Five-Year Engagement that plays out in real time. At least, that’s what it feels like. Cashing in the creative capital earned from 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall and their triumphant resurrection of the Muppets franchise, the writing-acting-directing duo haven’t made a romantic comedy here so much as a two-plus-hour crawl

through a disintegrating relationship with intermittent moments of unrelated comedy occurring around it.

Somewhere, there’s a wall in desperate need of a scrub-down because of all the shit Segel and Stoller tossed against it. Even Stoller, who directs, can’t keep up with everything. On the plus side: Every scene involving Segel sporting mutton chops? Pure gold.

R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cinetopia, Forest Theatre, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Funny Games

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Michael Haneke’s theater of unprovoked cruelty critiques and condemns movie violence with a movie arguably more violent and brutal than those it questions. D’oh! R. 5th Avenue Cinema.

7 pm and 9:30 pm Friday-Saturday, May 11-12; 3 pm Sunday, May 13.

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Gen Silent

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] In their past, they fought to be out of the closet.

Now, in old age and sickness, they are forced to go back in the closet to survive. Often estranged from family and lacking a support system, LGBT seniors face isolation and discrimination in nursing homes or the healthcare system. Gen Silent profiles six of these seniors, from Lawrence and Alexandre, a couple who struggled to find a nursing home in which they felt comfortable being out, to Krysanne, a transgender woman dying from lung cancer with no one to support her. While the message and voices are strong, poor stylistic and editing choices weaken the film. RILEY HOOPER. George Morlan Theatre Showroom. 6:30 pm Thursday, May 10.

Presented by Friendly House’s Gay and Grey Program.

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] The 17th annual appearance of unspeakable horrors. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Friday, May 11; 1 pm Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13.

HD Fest 2012

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Independent high-def films sequenced by a variety of subjects. Living Room Theaters.

7:30 pm Tuesday-Thursday, May 15-17.

Check hdfest.com for a full schedule.

The Hunger Games

84 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. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Center, Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

It Came From Detroit

62 [FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] Flashing

past the glory days of Hitsville USA, James Petix’s high-energy doc on Motor City garage rock begins in the late ’80s with the Gories, a hyperprimitive three-piece that reanimated Motown as a barely-in-tune punk zombie, and runs through the meteoric success of the White Stripes (whose voices, crucially, are missing here) in the early 2000s.

In between, Petix clicks into shuffle mode, cycling through thumbnail profiles of practically every band in the city that ever drew a crowd. The film then becomes a blur of loud guitars, shouty singers and squealing Farfisa organs, and standout groups like the Dirtbombs end up sadly buried in the mix. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre. 9:15 pm Monday-Thursday, May 14-17.

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. Then the

movie makes an unlikely pirouette, and becomes something bewitching and lovely. R. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

Jesus Henry Christ

“A boy who was conceived in a petri dish and raised by his feminist mother follows a string of Post-it notes in hopes of finding his biological father.”

Sounds insufferable, but Toni Collette and Michael Sheen have worked miracles before. Not screened for critics.

Living Room Theaters.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

more here than in any of the numerous other books and films about him.

As a one-stop doc for the fledgling reggae fiend, however, Macdonald has made a precious resource. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

3-D form’s usual emptily virtuosic Ella Fitzgerald. PG. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

Mirror Mirror

Lord (of Wallace and Gromit fame) leaves the English countryside for a romp on the high seas, but he maintains his distinctly British sense of silliness. Following a not-so-fearsome pirate captain named the Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant, whose droll comedic timing is long underrated) on his quest to win the top prize at the Pirate of the Year Awards, the film fully earns its title’s exclamation point with whiz-bang action sequences to rival Spielberg’s similarly globetrotting Adventures of Tintin, the most

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(accompanied by an inexplicable Bollywood-style music video), you’ll wish someone had offered you some poisoned fruit. PG. PENELOPE BASS. Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

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. 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. Living Room Theaters.

Pina 3D

95 German auteur Wim Wenders’

Pina—an elegiac documentary about the work of late, iconoclastic choreographer Pina Bausch—is a brokenhearted Billie Holiday to the

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

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as rare treasures, for we faithful who have kept vigil 13 years for another completed work, the movie is both an advent and an inevitable letdown. For the uninitiated, it must seem as baffling a world as anything in John Carter.

Here is a movie about the mating habits of arrogant, mildly deranged dandies who talk like they stepped out of a Fitzgerald novella and care about nothing so much as starting a ballroom dance craze. Who are these persnickety loons? But if Damsels in Distress is the Stillman movie most out of step with the modern world, it’s also about the difficulty of achieving anything like normality, and the honor in trying. Whit Stillman can never be normal. He’s too good. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

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Juan of the Dead

67 It makes sense that Cuba’s first horror film (that isn’t a documentary, at least) is the zombie comedy Juan of the Dead. This is, after all, a country with a built-in fear of invasion from the outside, so what better way to communicate those fears than an invasion from the inside, with the government circumventing the crisis by blaming it on political revolution?

The film centers on its titular hero (Alexis Díaz de Villegas) and his oafish buddy Lazaro (Jorge Molina), two well-intentioned con men who find themselves adept at zombie-slaying early on and get enterprising with a business wherein they eradicate the undead from people’s property for a reasonable price. Like in any movie of the genre, Juan’s best qualities are its zombie gags, which range from a terrifically gross multi-decapitation joyride and a killer harpoon scene to a well-meaning (if shoddy) underwater homage to Lucio Fulci. The problem is, its characters are presented as inherently lovable, but they are actually just as menacing as the monsters they fight. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

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.

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.

The Lucky One

52 After returning home from his third

tour of Iraq, Marine Logan (Zac Efron, yes, as a Marine) doesn’t get PTSD counseling: He walks from Colorado to Louisiana to track down the woman pictured in the lucky photo he found in a pile of war-strewn rubble. Tiny moments of natural humor and sweetness bloom amid the rote drama before a truly asinine ending—involving a storm, a rickety tree house and Iraq friendly fire—wraps everything up with the biggest, dumbest bow imaginable. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Cinema 99, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Marley

75 Three decades after his passing,

the prevailing image of Bob Marley is not of a brilliant, culturally transcendent songwriter. Thanks to the ganja-puffing frat boys and trust-fund hippies who co-opted his iconography, when most people think of Marley these days, it’s as the patron saint of collegiate potheads. Clocking in at nearly 2 1/2 hours, Kevin Macdonald’s Marley is a hefty rebuke against such marginalization. It is by no means the first thorough examination of Marley’s life, and hardcore fans won’t find much

THE WE SHOT MILK: Aksel Hennie in Headhunters.

HEADHUNTERS A high point of nerve-wracked Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rain-slicked road on the rural outskirts of Oslo. He’s behind the wheel of a tractor with a pitbull impaled on its forks, clad in nothing but underwear and human excrement.

He looks a lot like Walter White in the pilot episode of Breaking Bad, stripped to his briefs and wearing a gas mask, steering his rolling meth lab in a panic through the New Mexico desert.

Roger and Walt are similar characters—prideful men plagued by deep insecurity—but at least Walt can blame his poor decisions on cancer. All Roger’s actions are driven by an obsession with reputation (and a raging Napoleon complex). By the time of his naked tractor ride, his own reputation has quite literally gone to shit. There are plenty more body fluids for it to get splattered with.

Adapted from a book by Jo Nesbo, Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters initially portrays itself as something much less unsavory. Its opening moments tease a sleek heist picture: Roger’s secondary occupation is art theft, and the film begins with a primer on the rules of that particular game. For its first half, the movie is set among an ultra-modernist landscape of boxy glass houses, art galleries and office buildings. Then Roger discovers his partner’s lifeless body in his garage, and the film turns, on a dime, into a blood-stained, shit-caked, bruised-black comedy of mounting indignities resembling Martin Scorsese’s After Hours.

It is best not to give much thought to the plot’s convoluted zigzags. As labyrinthine suspense films of its kind often do, Headhunters makes the mistake of eventually explaining itself aloud and sounding overly proud of the Rube Goldberg contraption it has put together. Those machinations are not worth boasting about. Hennie’s performance as Roger, however, truly impresses. He suffers his way to redemption, all the while looking like a member of the Cardigans with Steve Buscemi’s eyes Photoshopped onto his face. Bitten, stabbed, sprayed with bullets and rammed off a cliff by a semi-truck while pinned between a pair of overweight cops in the back of a police car, he crawls from the wreckage of his life not exactly a changed man, but a man who’s finally earned the respect he’s always assumed he deserved. Hennie transforms him into the rarest of heroes: the douchebag worth rooting for. MATTHEW SINGER.

A riches-tobandages story.

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The Raven

22 The Raven—similar to director

James McTeigue’s previous film, V for Vendetta—is a sort of wish-fulfillment fantasy for gothic-minded 12-year-olds, a Victorian NeverNever Land for the lonely and “misunderstood” in which a series of murders based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe can be solved only by the lovelorn genius himself. There are costume balls with gilt masks and cloaks, death riding horseback, urgent tours through catacombs and a seemingly endless parade of improbable deaths. Really, the film should be crimson candy for Poe’s natural fan base of boys who wear lipstick and girls who part their ink-black hair relentlessly in the middle. But it isn’t. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Living Room Theaters, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

in his car, and not because he is a criminally arrogant hack with no appreciation for his undeserved second chances. It’s because, as Alex, he plays a graceless one-night stand who takes the coffee and runs. PG-13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

The Three Stooges

A trio of developmentally disabled adults POKE EACH OTHER IN THE EYE. Not screened by WW press deadlines. PG. Clackamas, Movies on TV.

We Have a Pope

The Pope Must Diet, papal satire We Have a Pope is a rare film shot at the Vatican. It finally answers the burning question: What would a Top Gun-style volleyball tournament between the College of Cardinals look like? They’ve got leisure time because the newly elected Pope has gotten cold feet and fled. We follow His Holiness as he cruises around Rome for self discovery, and kick it with the Cardinals as they screw around and wait for him to return. It’s lighthearted fun, but tonal shifts toward the serious derail the film’s spirit. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

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66 Filling a void left since 1991’s

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fun involving a runaway bathtub, an Easter Island statue and a monkey in disguise. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, City Center, Division Street, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

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JULY 25th

Safe

Jason Statham blows some shit up, probably. Not screened for critics, because only pussies critique the Stath, bro. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Forest Theatre, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

37 The problems of three little people add up to a pile of dead salmon. PG-13. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

Show + Tell: The Works of Dani Leventhal

76 [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Working

in a diaristic mode that recalls Chris Marker’s perambulations and Jonas Mekas’ obsessive stalking of the quotidian, New York-based video artist Dani Leventhal glues shards of the everyday together into assemblages of associative poetry. Both nights of Cinema Project’s presentation are anchored by the relatively lengthy early work, Draft 9 (2003), which focuses on images of dead and skinned animals while spinning off into seemingly unrelated snatches of inconsequential quietude, many of which feature Leventhal herself. That all sounds like righteous navel-gazing of the worst kind, but Leventhal’s up to more than glorified Facebooking here. Draft 9 and shorter films like Hearts Are Trump Again (2010) play like attempts to replicate the human memory’s odd processes, and Leventhal manages to capture the way a brain freewheels through a repertoire of images while simultaneously imposing a strange sort of order on the limitless catalog of recorded experience. The seeming randomness tests patience at times, but overall, Leventhal’s video explorations reward the attention they demand. CHRIS STAMM. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, May 15-16.

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Think Like a Man

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The problem is Chris Brown. Any argument that this was a fair fight between the sexes is undermined by his tasteless casting as Alex, the quintessential man-to-avoid—not because he might leave you choked

CULT OF LITTLE PERSONALITY: Christopher Denham and Brit Marling.

SOUND OF MY VOICE The blonde leading the blind.

Tract houses and taupe shag carpeting: For the tight few opening minutes of Sound of My Voice, this is the mundanely hellish world of the modern cult. Peter and Lorna (Christopher Denham and Nicole Vicius) pull into a nondescript two-car garage and submit themselves to a kidnapping of sorts, under the guise that flexicuffs and hospital gowns are prereqs for meeting their messiah. In reality, they are aspiring filmmakers out to infiltrate the newest sketchy splinter of Southern California spiritualism.

It’s not fair to say lovers Peter and Lorna are ever at risk of being taken in. They’re bound to unravel on their own, on the outside.

(Peter, in particular, is by turns reckless and at risk of disappearing into his neck beard.) But the cult of Maggie (Brit Marling), a fetching self-proclaimed savior who claims to hail from 40 years in the future, resembles a Silver Lake book club more than teeming masses looking for answers. Director Zal Batmanglij strives for psychological tension over much sense of immediate danger, throwing in low-budget smoke and mirrors to hint at actual risk.

In the background of a generic condo-cum-temple, questionable hospital supplies lie about and unexplained blood transfusions happen regularly. Frail Maggie’s divinity is called into question by her casual drinking and late-night chain smoking.

We’re kept guessing to the point of absurdity, trying to piece together red herrings and a delightfully inconsistent genre. (Political thriller? Existential mindfuck?) Missed opportunities abound.

Nowhere is this more glaring than character actor James Urbaniak’s cameo. “Menacing nerd” is Urbaniak’s calling card, but in a troubling subplot, he plays an affluent father who injects his obsessivecompulsive grade-schooler between the toes with an unknown substance. It matters little that Maggie wants to kidnap his daughter; the man’s talent is wasted in a role that serves only to unsettle.

After the mess that was Marling ’s latest attempt (Another Earth), Sound of My Voice is blessedly free from pseudo-physics.

No one does much to confirm or explain Maggie’s supposed time travel. But not only is there no real threat of where Maggie might lead everyone—it could be Santa Barbara just as easily as Jonestown—on the question of who or what Maggie is, it’s as if, after the Another Earth overreach, Marling and Batmanglij simply didn’t want to weigh in. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. 67

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Y TU CACA TAMBIEN: The best joke of Casa de Mi Padre is that it exists at all. Nearly entirely in Spanish, with Will Ferrell playing a Mexican ranching heir alongside Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, the film is like an extended crank call from Mexico, so elaborately planned you can’t bring yourself to hang up. It’s a parody of Mexican telenovelas so artificial that it becomes a send-up of the absurdity of making movies at all. Once you’re hip to the gag, it’s transfixing but often boring—except when it gives voice to anti-American sentiments, which are vituperative and fiercely funny.

“We will kill each other feeding the shit-eating crazy monster babies,” Ferrell warns. Yes, we are the shit-eating crazy monster babies. Fair enough: Let’s eat some shit. AARON MESH. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Ninkasi’s Helles Belles. Also showing: Jaws (Hollywood Theatre).

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“Stretch Those Quads!”–a hardcore freestyle workout.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants -- and gotten away with it. At least that’s one explanation for how confident you often are about speaking up when everyone else seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes. This quality should come in handy during the coming week. It may be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an obvious secret or collective delusion.

Can you figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say what supposedly can’t or shouldn’t be said?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus actor Daniel Day Lewis will star as American president Abraham Lincoln in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood insiders report that Lewis basically became Lincoln months before the film was shot and throughout the entire process. Physically, he was a dead ringer for the man he was pretending to be. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, he spoke in the cadences and accent of his character rather than in his own natural voice. It might be fun for you to try a similar experiment in the coming weeks, Taurus. Fantasize in detail about the person you would ultimately like to become, and then imitate that future version of you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The idea of a housewarming party comes from an old British tradition.

People who were moving would carry away embers from the fireplace of the home they were leaving and bring them to the fireplace of the new home. I recommend that you borrow this idea and apply it to the transition you’re making. As you migrate toward the future, bring along a symbolic spark of the vitality that has animated the situation you’re transitioning out of.

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last week’s answers

Across 1 Second half of a ball game?

5 Used (to) 15 She uses a bird to sweep the house 17 Computer overhaul 18 Arian Foster stats 19 Little sip 20 Gold, to Guatemalans 21 “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” network 22 Bodybuilder’s units 24 Word before Earth or City, in computer games 27 Drab shade 29 She was Dorothy on “The Golden Girls” 30 Org. that listens for alien signals 31 It’s obsolete 35 Jovial question from someone eager to help 36 It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal 37 SOPA subject 38 Opera follower?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): My friend Irene has a complicated system for handling her cats’ food needs.

The calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the dining room table. Caligula insists on fish stew early and tuna later. He wants it on a black plate placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and beef liver for the evening repast. If it’s not on the basement stairs, she won’t touch it. I’m bringing your attention to this, Cancerian, because I think you could draw inspiration from it. It’s in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated exactitude that rivals Irene’s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The moon’s pale glow shimmers on your face as you run your fingers through your hair. In your imagination, 90 violins play with sublime fury, rising toward a climax, while the bittersweet yearning in your heart sends warm chills down your spine. You part your lips and open your eyes wide, searching for the words that could change everything. And then suddenly you remember you have to contact the plumber tomorrow, and find the right little white lie to appease you-know-who, and run out to the store to get that gadget you saw advertised. Cut! Cut! Let’s do this scene again. Take five. It’s possible, my dear, that your tendency to overdramatize is causing you to lose focus. Let’s trim the 90 violins down to ten and see if maybe that helps.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We all need a little more courage now and then,” said poet Marvin Bell. “That’s what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you.” I advise you to adopt his approach in the coming days, Virgo. Proceed on the assumption that what you need most right now is to be braver and bolder. And consider the possibility that a good way to accomplish this goal is by hanging around people who are so intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub off on you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the Byrds’ 1968 song “Fifth Dimension,” the singer makes a curious statement. He says that during a particularly lucid state, when he was simply relaxed and paying attention, he saw the great blunder his teachers had made. I encourage you to follow that lead, Libra. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an

excellent time for you to thoroughly question the lessons you’ve absorbed from your important teachers -even the ones who taught you the best and helped you the most. You will earn a healthy jolt as you decide what to keep and what to discard from the gifts that beloved authorities have given you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What are the most beautiful and evocative songs you know? What are the songs that activate your dormant wisdom and unleash waves of insight about your purpose here on earth and awaken surges of gratitude for the labyrinthine path you have traveled to become the person you are today? Whatever those tunes are, I urge you to gather them all into one playlist, and listen to them with full attention while at rest in a comfortable place where you feel perfectly safe. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a concentrated dose of the deepest, richest, most healing emotions you can tap into.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tourists rarely go to the South American nation of Guyana. That’s mostly because much of it is virgin rain forest and there are few amenities for travelers. In part it’s also due to the reputation-scarring event that occurred there in 1978, when cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones led a mass suicide of his devotees. Last year, after travel writer Jeff Greenwald announced his trip to Guyana, his friends responded with a predictable joke: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!” -- a reference to the beverage Jones spiked with cyanide before telling his followers to drink up. But Greenwald was glad he went. The lush, tangled magnificence of Guyana was tough to navigate but a blessing to the senses and a first-class adventure. Be like him, Sagittarius. Consider engaging with a situation that offers challenging gifts. Overcome your biases about a potentially rewarding experience.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You have more freedom than you are using,” says artist Dan Attoe.

Allow that taunt to get under your skin and rile you up in the coming days, Capricorn. Let it motivate you to lay claim to all the potential spaciousness and independence and leeway that are just lying around going to waste. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you have a sacred duty to cultivate more slack as if your dreams depended on it. (They do!)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you’ve been tuning in to my horoscopes during the past months, you’re aware that I have been encouraging you to refine and deepen the meaning of home. You know that I have been urging you to get really serious about identifying what kind of environment you need in order to thrive; I’ve been asking you to integrate yourself into a community that brings out the best in you; I’ve been nudging you to create a foundation that will make you strong and sturdy for a long time. Now it’s time to finish up your intensive work on these projects. You’ve got about four more weeks before a new phase of your life’s work will begin.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Is your BS-detector in good condition? I hope so, because it’s about to get a workout. Rumors will be swirling and gossip will be flourishing, and you will need to be on high alert in order to distinguish the laughable delusions that have no redeeming value from the entertaining stories that have more than a few grains of truth. If you pass those tests, Pisces, your reward will be handsome: You’ll become a magnet for inside information, valuable secrets, and unusual but useful clues that come from unexpected sources.

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