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This article is shameless propaganda [“Fisherman’s Wrath,” WW, June 13, 2012]. First, the proposed ban on gill nets has nothing to do with a social attack on blue-collar workers; it is an environmental issue. Gill nets indiscriminately kill many of the fish that swim into them. This includes endangered stocks of Columbia River salmon and steelhead.... What’s more, abandoned gill nets will continue to kill these endangered fish indefinitely. There was a time when fish runs were strong enough in the Columbia to handle gillnetters. That time, however, has long since expired. Banning gill nets in the Columbia is an important and necessary step in restoring our wild runs. Second, there are substantially more working-class Oregonians—thousands more—who are sport fishermen than commercial fishermen. “Class warfare?” Give me a break. As an avid fisherman, I can say that most of my fellow sport fishermen and women are working-class folks. Sportfishing provides affordable opportunities for people of all income levels to enjoy our public lands and waters. I find it disheartening that WW has glorified private gillnetters who profit off a dwindling public resource and degrade the environment. —“steelhead1”
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Regardless of whether there is criminal culpability, Rep. [Matt] Wingard exercised an exceptional breach of trust by engaging in a relationship with a subordinate employee [“A Violation of Trust?” WW, June 13, 2012]. Even worse, it does not appear outside the realm of possibility that he hired her expressly to seek a relationship. The outcome of the matter is exactly what one would expect: The employer stays employed and the employee is out of work. Wingard appears to have forgotten that he is a “representative.” I suppose we have long left behind the days that we expect a higher ethical standard from our elected officials. But it is precisely this type of behavior that has eroded and continues to erode public confidence in our democracy. The Republican caucus should quickly discipline Wingard to demonstrate it is unacceptable to engage in a sexual relationship with an employee. In doing so he has, at a minimum, compromised his claim to a leadership post. —“Responsible boss” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com
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What is up with Plum Krazy? And on the opposite end of the eyesore spectrum, what about the middlefinger flag flotilla? Can anyone anchor anything semi-navigable freely forever on the Willamette? —Stu by the river Plum what? For all my vast erudition, Stu, the truth is that, outside of a few closely monitored interests, I am frequently oblivious to developments in the physical world around me. Given that Plum Krazy is neither an inexpensive beer nor a new genre of Internet pornography, it’s no surprise I missed it. Luckily, I know someone who didn’t. Racing swiftly to the Trout-Signal, I summoned…. The Riverkeeper! He’ll know! He actually goes outside sometimes! Also known as Travis Williams (like Doctor Strange, he doesn’t bother with a secret identity), the Riverkeeper is head of environmental nongovernmental organization Willamette Riverkeeper. And, yes, that’s his job title.
“[Stu] must be referring to some of the vessels that we see being anchored in one place for a while on the river,” said Williams, rising from the waves in a multicolored spume. “We have had some calls [where] vessels have just shown up offshore, clearly with people living on them.” In short, Stu, that “eyesore” is someone’s cherished home. (You insensitive lout.) Is it legal? Well, the law states that you can’t anchor a boat on the river for more than two weeks without moving it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t say how far. Two miles? Two feet? One suspects the law’s framers, ignorant of the recessions and housing shortages to come, were more worried about abandoned vessels rotting at anchor than folks living indefinitely on a floating Dignity Village. In any case, for now it seems rollin’ on the river is (kinda-sorta) legal. You should try it—I hear it totally beats working for the man every night and day. QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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The top official at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is out after 179 healthcare workers fought for—and won—a union contract in a battle that brought unwanted publicity for the organization. The group’s board has chosen not to renew President and CEO David Greenberg’s contract, which expires June 30. Service Employees International Union Local 49 organized employees last summer, despite Greenberg’s opposition, and then threatened to picket Planned Parenthood’s annual fundraising gala in May. Gov. John Kitzhaber canceled his appearance, and the group had to cancel the $250-per-plate event. “The board decided with David that this was a good time for a change in leadership at the organization,” says board chairwoman Cara Jacobsen, who says the union contract was one of several reasons the organization was looking for change. Adds Greenberg, “I’m OK with that.” The group has not yet chosen a new boss.
The $458 million budget for 2013 passed by the TriMet board of directors June 13 largely brushed aside an alternative budget from riders’ advocacy group OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon. OPAL president Jonathan Ostar says his organization will push for greater accountability by taking away the governor’s authority to appoint TriMet board members. Ostar says Metro, with its regionally elected council, should have that authority instead. Such a change would require an act of the Legislature. TriMet’s new budget raises fares, cuts services and ends the free rail zone Sept. 1. “I think there were some board members that came in with their minds made up, just ready to mail it in,” Ostar says.... Meanwhile, Amalgamated Transit Union Hansen Local 757 elected Bruce Hansen president last week—and rejected Ron Heintzman, the president whose hardball tactics defined the union’s relationship with TriMet from 1988 to 2002. The union’s much-vilified contract expires Nov. 30, and Hansen is a 20-year bus driver with little experience at the bargaining table. He didn’t return WW’s calls by deadline. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6
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Portland Public Schools is paying an L.A.-based consultant $34,900 to recruit a director of human resources. Educationplacement specialists tell WW the fee is more akin to the cost of a superintendent search; recruiting for a department director for a district of Portland’s size usually runs only $10,000 to $15,000. PPS spokesman Matt Shelby says the fee being paid to the Hawkins Company reflects the district’s high expectations for whoever takes the job. “It’s a significant investment on the front end,” Shelby says, “but we’d like to do it right.” PPS is filling the job vacated by Hank Harris, the former HR director who left under a cloud last August.
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SPYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES DRONE AIRCRAFT USED FOR RECON IN AFGHANISTAN ARE NOW IN PORTLAND. BY CO R E Y P E I N
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Military surveillance drones of the kind used to spy on Taliban targets for U.S. forces in Afghanistan are now based in Portland, but U.S. government officials are unclear how or when they might be used over the city or elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. An unclassified 2011 U.S. Air Force document revealed Portland’s status as a drone home. Publicintelligence.net first reported on the document last week, followed by Wired. The Air Force document shows “current and projected” U.S. Defense Department operations involving “remotepiloted aircraft” at two Oregon sites, Arlington and Portland. It’s already well known that a Boeing subsidiary, Insitu, builds drones in Bingen, Wash., about 70 miles down the Columbia River from its test airfield in Arlington. It is news, however, that Portland is a home to drones, although the specific location where they are stored remains undisclosed by the military. A spokesman for U.S. Special Operations Command listed as the drone operator told WW in an email that the Air Force map contained inaccurate information. “U.S. Special Operations Command does not have nor will it have [a drone] base in Portland,” wrote deputy public affairs officer Ken McGraw. But U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) confirms the drones are already here. “Portland is basically a storage area for a few small
drones attached to a nearby military group, neither of which are proposed launching sites for drones,” Wyden said in a statement to WW. “However, in the event of a natural disaster or other legitimate need, they could be launched from there, but it is inappropriate to say that they are primarily launch sites.” The rapidly expanding domestic presence of remotecontrolled spy planes—often without public knowledge or debate—is already sparking controversy. “We have a right to be concerned that the military is bringing drones home,” says Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the speech, privacy and technology program of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. This year’s Federal Aviation Administration budget bill requires the agency to speed up plans for civilian drone use in the U.S. The FAA estimates 30,000 civilian law enforcement drones might be flying by 2030. Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy organization, says the FAA bill will make the rollout of drone use less deliberative. “We have no information on the drones public entities are flying, how many they have and where they’re authorized to fly,” Lynch says. “I think that’s pretty concerning.” Wyden pushed the FAA bill. In 2009, Wyden backed a $3.2 million earmark for Insitu. Its parent, Boeing, donated $10,000 to Wyden’s campaign fund in 2009 and 2010. Wyden spokesman Tom Towslee says the senator’s support for domestic drone use is no sign he is weakening his opposition to warrantless wiretapping, cellphone tracking and other surveillance programs that raise civil liberties issues. He calls his boss a “privacy hawk.”
“We’re not going down this road with the idea that this is going to be used to spy on people,” Towslee says. “It’s an economic development issue. It’s a jobs issue.” The Air Force document indicates Portland could become home to the Raven and the Wasp, two small, hand-launched surveillance drones made by Monrovia, Calif.-based AeroVironment. The Wasp—weighing just under 16 ounces with a 28-inch wingspan—comes loaded with optical and infrared cameras. The larger Raven—with a 54-inch wingspan—has a longer range. Both have been used for reconnaissance and spying in Afghanistan. The Oregon Army National Guard’s 41st Special Troops Battalion has a drone operator in Pendleton. A spokesperson at the Oregon Military Department didn’t return WW’s call. In Seattle, the police chief came under fire this year for testing a surveillance drone without approval from the City Council. Houston police also reportedly conducted secret drone tests, and state police in Texas used a Wasp drone during the execution of a search warrant. The Portland Police Bureau isn’t using drones, but The Rap Sheet, the Portland Police Association’s newsletter, republished an article about building pressure on local police to deploy drones. An April 2012 Air Force policy directive says domestic drone flights may not target U.S. citizens, but information “incidentally” acquired will be provided to federal or local law enforcement agencies. John Villasenor, a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA who has written papers on the policy implications of drone use for the Brookings Institution, says drones’ powerful and constant spying capabilities make current laws and precedents on aerial surveillance obsolete. “Drones are part of this inexorable growth in technologies that are logging almost anything that we do,” Villasenor says. “It’s a sobering time for those of us who came of age in a world where we could move about without necessarily having someone perform surveillance on us.” Willamette Week JUNE 20, 2012 wweek.com
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It’s human nature: Start charging people for something they’ve been getting for free, and many won’t want it anymore. Take, for example, a new toll for a bridge. In the Seattle area, one out of every three cars that once used the SR 520 bridge across Lake Washington stopped doing so before 2011, when the state started charging a $3.50 per trip toll. (It’s $5 during peak hours.) The change was so dramatic, Washington state documents show, it will take two decades before the number of cars using the bridge climbs back to levels seen just two years ago. The Seattle lesson holds enormous value for Oregonians, whose leaders claim the Columbia River Crossing is a $3.5 billion necessity because traffic demands on the Interstate 5 bridge will continue to grow. “There is a compelling need for the state of Oregon to move forward,” Oregon Department of Transportation Director Matt Garrett told a state legislative committee May 21. “We have built our argument on a strong business case.” But documents show Oregon officials are still using inflated traffic projections to justify the project—even with evidence from Seattle that a toll will drive cars away from the bridge. It’s an assumption one outside expert watching the CRC calls “preposterous.” Clark Williams-Derry, director of programs at Sightline Institute, a Seattle think tank, says the CRC is putting Oregon and Washington taxpayers at risk if it doesn’t acknowledge tolls will drive away traffic. The CRC includes a new freeway bridge and light-rail line over the Columbia, ostensibly to help address chronic congestion along I-5. To build the bridges, the states of Oregon and Washington have pledged to kick in $450 million each—but lawmakers have not approved the expenditures. The CRC is also counting on money from the feds, who so far are nowhere in sight. In addition, both states are counting on tolls to raise about $1.3 billion to pay off debt. Oregon
Treasurer Ted Wheeler warned last year that revenue projections were wrong and the bridge would not pay for itself as promised. “What we’re seeing in Seattle is that when there are alternatives, people are definitely avoiding the tolls,” Williams-Derry says. “The two situations are pretty analogous.” Drivers in Washington have two routes that allow them to avoid the tolls on the SR 520 bridge. In Oregon, drivers can use I-205’s Glenn Jackson Bridge over the Columbia. Officials say they have no plans to toll the Jackson Bridge. Nothing will stop drivers from using the Jackson to avoid new I-5 tolls, and the evidence is they will—in droves. Williams-Derry’s review shows the number of vehicles crossing the 520 bridge has dropped 32 percent, from 100,100 to 68,100, since the state starting charging tolls. Washington’s analysis of lost revenues from the 520 comes in what’s called an “investment grade” analysis required by bond companies and lenders before they’ll float money for a construction project. Washington officials have done the analysis in hopes of selling bonds to rebuild the 520 bridge. Oregon has not yet done an analysis that could withstand such close scrutiny. In May, Garrett told lawmakers ODOT estimates 157,000 vehicles will use the I-5 bridge by 2030. That’s a more modest number than the 178,000 figure in the official record of decision used to justify the project. As WW has previously reported, ODOT officials are relying on outdated projections (see “A Bridge Too False,” WW, June 1, 2011). To make matters worse, the experience in Washington of adding tolls means the CRC will be lucky to see its traffic counts climb back to today’s numbers (about 128,000 vehicles a day) by 2030. CRC spokeswoman Mandy Putney says the comparison between the 520 project and the CRC is apples to oranges and that a projected population increase of 1 million people in metropolitan Portland over the next two decades will drive I-5 bridge traffic increases. Williams-Derry says Oregon and Washington should impose tolls on the I-5 bridge now to get a real-world count of how many cars avoid paying tolls and divert to I-205. Without doing so, he says, “They are flying blind.”
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Morrison’s case might have been easy to label as frivolous and, it seems, might have been headed for an early dismissal. Not so. Portland Public Schools officials tell WW they have already spent $172,559 in public money to defend the district against Morrison’s claim that PPS’s Wi-Fi network has harmed his daughter. The case against PPS has dragged on in U.S. District Court in Portland, with hundreds of hours billed by PPS’s outside counsel, the law firm Miller Nash. “The fact that the plaintiffs have so many purported experts, all of whom we had to research and depose, really added to the cost, as did the extensive discovery BY CO R E Y P E I N cpein@wweek.com requests,” PPS general counsel and board secretary Jollee Patterson told WW in an One year ago, the parent of a Portland Pub- emailed response to questions. The legal expense comes at a time when lic Schools student sued the district with claims a new Wi-Fi network in his daugh- PPS is strapped, and the City of Portland ter’s middle school was poisoning her and recently diverted $7.1 million to help bail out the district. potentially harming other students. Morrison did not return WW’s mesAs WW reported, there’s no scientific evidence for such claims (see “Wi-Fi Woo- sage. Nor did his attorney, Shawn E. Abrell Woo,” WW, July 13, 2011). The parent, of Camas, Wash. Last year, Morrison told David Mark Morrison, who works as a rare- WW he thought studies contradicting his book dealer, is part of a pseudo-scientific beliefs were corrupted by industry. One Morrison expert PPS attorneys have movement that claims Wi-Fi and related technologies cause everything from brain had to depose is Barrie Trower, who claims cancer to infertility to digestive complaints. he worked on a “stealth” microwave warfare Most studies that adherents cite as program for the British Navy (noting he had evidence haven’t been published or peer- no rank because he refused promotions) reviewed in reputable scientific journals. and was assigned to a secret British prison Some anti-wireless websites sell literature housing “spies, dissidents, international and protective charms, including amulets terrorists [and] gangland killers.” LOV_WillametteWeek_6-13_OUT.pdf 6/18/12 5:01:05 PM Trower claims a bachelor’s degree in and crystals.
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physics earned in night classes, has been repeatedly turned down by Ph.D. programs, and says he recently traveled to consult with “the king in South Africa” on Wi-Fi dangers. (South Africa abolished the monarchy in 1961.) PPS has its own $400-an-hour expert, Brown University professor of epidemiology David Savitz. “In the case of Wi-Fi exposure,” Savitz writes in his declaration, “there is no epidemiologic evidence whatsoever that counters the lack of biological support for
a potential health hazard.” The school district’s attorney, Bruce Campbell, argued in court filings that Morrison’s experts present “fringe views outside the mainstream of science by witnesses who are not qualified to offer their opinions.” In a written response to Campbell’s motion to strike his testimony, Trower concludes flatly that “Wi-Fi uses a similar frequency to a microwave oven.” Sadly, though, you can’t make popcorn with a Wi-Fi router.
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It might hurt a little. A nasty sunburn may ooze and peel. You may not be able to get your swollen, blistered feet into a pair of shoes. A hangover may leave you in a sour fog until the next day’s dinner. Your back may ache from pulling a double shift to pay for it. But it will be worth it. In our 2012 Summer Guide, you’ll find
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stories about people pushing themselves to the extreme. They’re squeezing everything possible out of these weeks of fleeting perfection, and so should you. Up at this latitude, the sun burns for a full 16 hours a day this week, tempered only by soft breezes and leafy alder. Dawn arrives around 5:20 am. Open the blinds and set your alarm clock; you can sleep again when the clouds come.
Everything you could want for a perfect summer is nestled here in this green valley between the white Cascades and the blue Pacific. After suffering through all that rain, drizzle, mist, flurries and fog, you should seize this. So do something epic this summer. Something you’ll consider quitting halfway. Something you’re too tired to celebrate immediately after it’s done. Something outside. You don’t have to risk limbs—fill a grocery sack with wild black-
berries, picking until your hands are raw and your belly aches. Find a shady spot in the park and plow through that 1,000-page novel on your bookshelf, reading until your eyes itch. We’ve got a few ideas here, but this adventure will be your own. Just remember this: Any summer that doesn’t require a trip to the pharmacy is no summer at all.
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Taken the free shuttle to Spirit Mountain Casino... And met some friendly whitehaired old ladies on the trip. Zoobombed... The legendary weekly bike rides (coasts?) are friendlier and way more dangerous than you think. Ridden on the Portland Spirit... Ideally during a drunken bachelor party for someone you don’t know. Gotten lost in Forest Park... Which is surprisingly easy to do.
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The lesson is that Portlanders shouldn’t measure summer by the length of their shadows or the weather app on their iPhones. The only way to know for sure that summer is upon us is by grabbing the season by the balls and squeezing until it submits to our recreational demands. With that in mind, we offer you this list. Once you’ve done all of these things, you may rest until Halloween.
Swum naked at midnight on Sauvie Island... And watched the ships go by. Attended all 53 hours of the PDX Pop Now! summer festival... And become a Portland music expert in a single weekend. Celebrated Bastille Day... Because we do that here. Gone ice blocking under the St. Johns Bridge... It’s good wholesome fun—so you should probably get drunk first. 1
Attended a Sunday show on Rontoms’ patio... It feels a lot like we imagine Los Angeles to feel. Played in a weekend softball league... Then quit, because who wants to have plans every weekend? Visited antique row in Sellwood... And paid way too much for Blazers pint glasses. Attended Trek in the Park... And rooted, quite loudly, for the bad guys. 2
Rosacea Treatment Study Walked home from the Aladdin Theater... After a really good sit-down show. Regardless of where you live, that’s probably a pretty good walk. Toured 82nd Avenue on foot... Because it’s just as vibrant as Alberta or Mississippi, just way less convenient. Thrown up at a street fair... You’ll be surprised how few people actually notice. Bought fireworks in Washington... And brought them back to Oregon. Taken a MAX train to the airport... Just to use the free Internet and people-watch for a while. Taken the aerial tram... Best three-minute thrill ride $57 million could buy. Discovered the house-show scene... And don’t be a dick about it— you’re rocking in someone’s home. Smoked pot with street kids... Don’t be shy—hear their stories, pet their dirty dogs.
Dropped in at Burnside Skatepark... Break a leg! Gotten your medical marijuana card... Because you totally broke your leg at Burnside Skatepark. 3 Eaten something way too big from a food cart... And paid for it dearly the next day. 4
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Gotten your fortune told at the 24-Hour Church of Elvis... Then said, “Wow, that’s it!?” 5 Bro’d down in Chinatown... You only get to do this once before you turn full-fledged douchebag. Signed a petition at Pioneer Square... Because those signatureseekers are people, too. Taken a kid to OMSI... If you don’t have a kid, borrow one.
Driven to Astoria... Because, damn it, Goonies never say die. Rented one of those dumb four-person bikes on the waterfront... And taken it places it was never meant to go.
Drunk a 40-ouncer on a railroad bridge in the Brooklyn neighborhood... So fucking romantic, you don’t even know.
Done something stupidly Portland... Oh, come on: Join a naked bike ride or get wasted at a beer festival or wait in line for an hour for a doughnut. Because if you keep watching other people do these things, you’ll get bitter.
Had your camping trip rained out... ...in August.
Taken a BoltBus to Seattle... It’s about $8. Not as pretty as taking Amtrak, to be sure, but the reduced fare will help offset the price of your Mariners tickets.
Said “God I love Portland in the summer” Amen.
Gotten deep with a cabbie... Call Radio Cab if you want to meet a part-time tattoo artist; Broadway if you want to meet someone from abroad.
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Gone on the Disk’O nausea machine at Oaks Park... Oaks Park has been there for 107 years—isn’t it time you paid a visit?
Watched movies in Laurelhurst Park... And know that no matter where you sit, you’ll be behind a passionate-make-out couple.
Protested something totally random... To see how many cops show up.
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Played a game of pickup basketball in Irving Park... And vowed to never play basketball again.
1. Ice blocking requires one extralarge block of ice and a towell. Combine, sit and slide down the nearest grassy hill. 2. Pretty sure this year’s enemies are Orions. 3. Other common excuses for medical marijuana applications: persistent muscle spasms or nausea. 4. WW recommends Big-Ass Sandwiches. 5. The Church of Elvis is more like a vending machine than an actual church. It is at 408 NW Couch St.
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Summer Guide cont. wagon outside the glass-and-concrete edifice of Hopworks on Southeast Powell Boulevard a full 12 hours into his quest, “sober as a judge.” One tiny taster glass—and a nag from the day’s only bartender to ban his cameraman, citing “company policy”—later he was headed to the comparatively genteel Commons tasting room on Southeast 10th Avenue. He pushed through the crowd huddled around the short wooden bar and took a nip from a tulip glass as he admired the aging barrels. Then he was off again, to the gritty Green Dragon Quonset hut. From there, things start to get hazy. Lovegrove was legally sober most of the day, but nearing the finish line, he started drinking full beers instead of little taster cups. “I remember easily the first 44 or 45. I don’t remember going to Tugboat but I know we did, and I don’t remember going to Bridgeport but I know we did,” he said. “I was drinking too much at that point.” Lovegrove only faintly remembers crossing the finish line, strolling into New Old Lompoc on Northwest 23rd Avenue, the last bar on his list, just before midnight. It was the last night the bar was open before a wrecking ball cleared it out to make room for condos. He folded up his spreadsheet and took off his microphone. Finally, the twoman film crew that had followed him throughout the day put down their cameras and got a drink, too. Mission accomplished—for now. “I would like to try every Oregon brewery in a week, and maybe culminate that in 60 in a day in Portland,” he says. “I think I could do 60, but I haven’t crunched the numbers.”
Lovegrove’s Picks John Lovegrove has had a pint at nearly every notable beer bar and brewery in the Portland area. We asked him to pick his five favorites.
Nifty 50 John Lovegrove hits 50 local breweries in a single day. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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It was a terrible time for a malfunctioning alarm clock. Don’t worry, John Lovegrove wasn’t late for work or a flight—he was behind schedule on a trip to the bar, missing his 7 am deadline for the morning’s first beer. Extreme, sure, but if you want to visit 50 breweries in a single day you have to get up before the sun and drink until midnight. Lovegrove knew this. He’d plotted this day over months of research. He’s a skilled planner, a travel agent by trade, well acquainted with the logistics involved in such an undertaking. He packed his things and set his alarm clock for 5 am with plans to arrive at the McMenamins Hotel Oregon in McMinnville for first call. Instead, he was awoken by a knock from his first driver an hour late, dashing out of the house unshaven, unshowered and with an empty stomach. With a quick stop for a loaf of white bread and a can of Red Bull, he arrived at his first destination nearly 15 minutes late. One pint of Boysenberry Brown Ale later, he was on the road again. If the rest of the day went like this, it’d be a waste. Lovegrove was on a mission to prove how special Portland’s beer scene is, using a spreadsheet and a map. This is a man who frets Portland losing the title of best beer city decided by a ridiculous online poll—he’s a jealous defender of our 16
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Breakside Brewing reputation as Beervana. Lovegrove is the sort of guy who’s always looking to add his stone to life’s little cairns. A soft-spoken and portly New Zealander with a gray goatee and professorly glasses, he’s undertaken his share of minor adventures. In 1998, he and a friend went to all 28 properties on the London Monopoly board in a day. (“There’s a challenge to do a pint at every one, but we didn’t do that,” he says.) Last year, he and his wife went to the town where Groundhog Day was filmed and re-enacted Bill Murray’s scenes. He’s also done several impressive brewery tours. Five years ago, Lovegrove and a friend hit 22 Oregon breweries in one day, all by public transportation. “No car, just TriMet. We didn’t record it, we didn’t write anything down, it was just something to do that day,” he says. “We didn’t plan it, either; I just had a map.” His beak wet, Lovegrove decided to push it out to 34 in 2009. More breweries have opened in the last three years. He thought he could squeeze in 50—so he decided to try. “Portland is the only city in the world where you could do 50, or even 40, breweries in one day. It’s just so compact,” he said. “San Diego is catching up, and there are places in Europe where every little town of 300 people has a brewery, but they’re far more spread out.” Starting in the hinterlands with various McMenamins, which open early if there’s a hotel, Lovegrove and a camera crew documenting the trip for a YouTube video rode with a succession of five drivers. He only hit spots that brew on site, leaving a lot of low-hanging fruit. For example, Cascade is right across the street from the Green Dragon brewery, but they don’t brew on site, so he skipped it. “I’m really not a beer nerd,” he says. “The actual tasting of beer, and tasting different things, doesn’t mean anything to me—I either like it or I don’t—but I do like breweries.” The sun low in the sky, Lovegrove hopped out of a station
820 NE Dekum St., 719-6475, breaksidebrews.com. “I’ve liked this place from day one, and they just get better. A standard order is the Rogue Smokey Blue waffle fries followed by a pint of their latest seasonal.”
Highland Still House
201 S 2nd St., Oregon City, 723-6789, highlandstillhouse.com. “One of the first places to offer Kilkenny, one of my favorite beers in the world, and the closest decent bar to my house. I can’t figure out how their mac and cheese stays hot until I’m done!”
Fifth Quadrant
3901 N Williams Ave., 288-3996, newoldlompoc.com. “My standard hangout for pub trivia with my buddy John Doyle [of No Fish! Go Fish! fame], not to mention Lompoc beers. Plus, Sidebar and BikeBar are just around the corner.”
Amnesia Brewing
832 N Beech St., 281-7708. “There’s nothing better than sitting on their patio on a hot summer’s day with a bratwurst and a pint.”
Green Dragon
928 SE 9th Ave., 517-0660, pdxgreendragon.com. “Simply the best draft beer list in town. Those Belgian frites are pretty good, too.”.
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Forest Park is only eight miles long—it’s about the same size in area as Nauru, the world’s smallest island nation— but walking from one end to another will take you 12 hours. The Wildwood Trail, which winds along the slopes of the park’s many basalt ridges, is so twisted that the path from Northwest Newberry Road to Washington Park runs for 30.2 miles. That’s over 63,000 steps—four miles longer than a marathon and about equal to the distance from downtown Portland to Woodburn. I walked the whole thing in one day, and so can you. You’ll want to start early. My hiking companions and I arrived at the north entrance of the park, a barely marked trailhead on Northwest Newberry Road, at 7:30 am. If you start any later than 9 am, you’ll be hiking the last few miles in the dark. We drove to the trailhead, but, if you’re very ambitious, it’s possible to take public transit—the line 17 bus stops 1.5 miles down the hill on weekdays. Wear good shoes. Although the path is mostly flat, walking 30 miles in sneakers will wreck your feet no matter how soft the ground. Bring moleskin. I wore sturdy boots and still got blisters that left me limping for days. Pack enough food to make up for the 5,000 or so calories you’ll burn in the walk and enough water to last you through the first 25 miles. I brought two liters—it wasn’t enough. Bring your favorite painkillers, too. The trail settles into a gentle monotony within a few minutes from the trailhead, meandering gently up and down along fern-covered slopes, thick with Douglas fir and Western red cedar. Very little of the forest survived the saws of old Stumptown. The trees are nearly all secondgrowth, few of them more than 70 years old. The quiet is broken only by birdsong, the ever-present trickle of tiny streams and the occasional thudding footsteps and ragged breathing of a trail runner. There are other people on the path, but not many—we passed 78, mostly runners, along with 16 dogs. There are flying squirrels in the park, but we did not see them. Slugs, snails and creeping voles we saw, but no flying squirrels. It is cool and damp and blissfully boring. But for the three points where the trail crosses roads, the city seems far, far away. 18
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We have a lousy economy to thank for the survival of these woods. The lands that would become Forest Park were added to Portland when the city merged with the town of Linnton in 1915, but they were privately owned and slated for development. Leif Erikson Drive, along which the first housing tracts were to be built, was completed that same year, but the beginning of World War I, combined with the closure of the Panama Canal for repairs and landslides in the West Hills, forced the housing market into a downward spiral. The landowners went bankrupt, unable to pay assessments, and hundreds of lots were forfeited to the city and county. Debate over what to do with the land continued through 1947, when a citizens’ committee asked the city to make it a park. One year later, 4,000 acres were combined to create one of the world’s largest urban forests. The first 15 miles are easy. The trails are well-maintained, save for a single washed-out bridge and many low patches that have been turned to thick, sticky mud pits by mountain bikers, who continue to ride the trail despite park rules prohibiting them. We stopped for lunch at the 16-mile marker, where the trail crosses Saltzman Road and there is an informal picnic spot. (The trail is marked every quarter-mile.) By this point our feet were beginning to get sore. We stretched. Stretching is important. The trail grows uneven between miles 9 and 15, twisting about in tight switchbacks. Then it begins to head uphill, and things start to get ugly. Our conversations grew stranger. There was singing. At 24 miles, we began to waver between elation and despair. We arrived at Pittock Mansion ragged and thirsty, refilled our water bottles at the bathroom and took in the view, then pressed on. Drenched with sweat and wobbling, we attracted stares from Washington Park joggers. Everything gained an air of the surreal. Hoyt Arboretum’s labeled trees, an enormous water reservoir, kids at the archery range—all menacing and hilarious. We actually did not finish. Just past the quarter-mile marker, the trail veers left, but we missed the sign. We walked for 10 minutes before we realized our mistake, then cut off the trail, down three flights of steps (a terrible idea) and into the parking lot, where we found the Mile 0 sign and posed. We had done it, more or less. We conquered the Wildwood. That evening’s beers were the sweetest we had ever tasted.
Less Wild The Wildwood Trail is by far the longest wilderness hike within Portland city limits, but it’s far from the only one. Try these first:
Powell Butte Nature Park
Take the line 9 bus to Southeast 162nd Avenue and walk uphill for a pleasant, easy, 3-mile climb through a century-old orchard and breezy fields for extraordinary mountain views.
Sauvie Island Slough
Take Highway 30 to Sauvie Island and turn north on Sauvie Island Road, then turn right at Kruger’s Farm Market and follow Reeder Road until it ends. Then walk along the Columbia shore through bird-filled slough and quiet woods up to the very northern point of the island, where you will be rewarded with views of an enormous paper mill. Seven miles round trip.
Tryon Creek State Natural Area
There are eight miles of trails in this beautiful park, and the line 39 bus will take you right to the entrance behind Lewis & Clark Law School. Go in March to see the trilliums blooming. It’s a nice way to burn off breakfast at the Original Pancake House.
Macleay Trail
Drive or take the line 15 bus to the end of Northwest Upshur Street, just past Northwest 29th Avenue, and walk along Balch Creek—named for the first man convicted of murder in Portland— past the burned-out former visitors’ center known to all local elementary-schoolers as the Witch House and on along the Wildwood Trail past the Audubon Society to Pittock Mansion. Take in the majestic view, then walk back—it’s 4.5 miles each way—or press on another four miles to Washington Park to catch the MAX. BEN WATERHOUSE.
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Grow Your Own marisha auerbach is growing all of her own produce—in a typical yard. BY M AT T H E W SI N G E R
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Abundance is the spice of Marisha Auerbach’s life. As she guides me through the deliberately plotted pathways of her backyard garden on a cautiously sunny Saturday afternoon, dressed in pink overalls and muddy work boots, that idiom sounds less like a cliché with every fruit, vegetable and edible flower she points out. Auerbach and her boyfriend, Zane Ingersoll, moved onto this 6,900-square-foot plot just south of Southeast Holgate Boulevard in late February, and already it’s a veritable farmers market. She’s got tomatoes, onions, lettuce, celery, cauliflower, carrots, beets, squash, kale, fennel, bok choy, potatoes, chickweed, lemongrass, gladiolas, snapdragons, pansies, chives, two kinds of thyme, four kinds of mint, an apple tree, a lemon tree, an Asian pear tree, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, mulberries, raspberries…you get the idea. Oh, and the kiwis, cherries and assorted herbs planted out front. Maybe it’s more accurate to say abundance is Auerbach’s life. Her goal is to grow all of her own fruits and vegetables—year-round—on less than an acre in Portland. She says she can make this happen at her yard-turnedfarm in less than three years. Her quest is inspired by the principles of permaculture, a strand of ecological design theory stressing sustainability and efficiency, of which the 36-year-old teacher and herbalist is a disciple. In agricultural terms, it involves observing patterns in nature and using them to create self-maintaining miniature ecosystems. “The strength of our system lies in the diversity of the system,” Auerbach says, projecting an earthy intensity belying her career as a lecturer. “It’s through all these different things in the system that creates the health. We’ve got plants to build soil. We’ve got plants to attract beneficial insects. We’ve got fragrant plants to discourage pests.” Auerbach learned her techniques living and working on a 150-acre farm in western Washington. But she says the
concept can be applied anywhere. So when she relocated to Oregon, she sought the most average home she could find to prove her point about agricultural self-reliance in the middle of an urbanized area. Auerbach did not grow up in the country. She was raised in Cleveland, by parents who couldn’t quite be described as green thumbs: Her dad couldn’t identify corn growing on the side of the highway. Her interest in learning to grow her own food came indirectly, from her Jewish grandparents, who fled from Poland to Siberia during World War II. “There was definitely this survivalist thing that happened for them,” she says. “They lived in Poland and had their whole family there. Who would have expected, in the situation they were in, that they’d be refugees such a short time later? I think it’s really important for us to have skills that we need for our life.” After graduating from Evergreen State College in 2005, Auerbach honed her own skills at Wild Thyme Farm, an “eco-retreat” near Olympia, Wash. She started there as an intern and eventually became the caretaker. “Everything we wanted was right in front of us,” she says. As she expanded her career into permaculture education, however, those benefits became a burden. “Being from the farm and coming down here and telling people to grow at least some of their own food, the attitude was, ‘That’s easy for you to say, you live on 150 acres out in the country,’” says Ingersoll, 50, in a heavy Wisconsin accent. Hoping to legitimize their advocacy—and make it easier for Auerbach to travel for workshops—they moved to Portland last year. In addition to convenience and a temperate climate that makes it possible to grow almost anything, the relocation made sense for cultural reasons. This is a city open to communal living and obsessed with sustainability, making it fertile ground for the permaculture gospel. Initially, Auerbach lived in a rental home near Mount Tabor with a 22-by-26-foot yard. Seeking more space and freedom, she and Ingersoll started shopping for houses, eventually coming across a foreclosed house on Southeast 50th Avenue. It had what they were looking for: an average-sized backyard with lots of sunlight. Auerbach and Ingersoll meticulously diagrammed their new garden to maximize space. Ingersoll took apart the pre-existing raised beds and replaced them with straw
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bales from a local farmer, then covered the bales with organic cow manure from Craigslist. Nothing went to waste: They buried the decayed wood from the beds to act as soil nutrients, and stacked the excess bales on the porch to sleep on when temperatures rise in the summertime. They installed five rain barrels, which they estimate can collect 5,000 gallons of water yearly from the patio roof alone. They bought three chickens and trained them to eat slugs and other pests. Then, they started planting. Four months later, the system is beginning to thrive. It’s not finished: Auerbach is hoping to add rabbits and bees, and she wants to put in a graywater system, recently legalized in Oregon, so she can irrigate crops with water from sinks, showers and the washing machine. Obviously, Auerbach doesn’t go to the supermarket often. Her cupboards are stocked with jams, sauces and dried fruit made of products taken from her own backyard. She doesn’t have a refrigerator: It takes up space, uses energy, and what’s the use when your food is coming straight out of the ground, anyway? But the point, she says, is not to break off from society. It’s to put more into it. “My goal is not to be independent. It’s to be interdependent,” she says. “As a culture, we need to look at becoming net producers rather than net consumers, and everyone needs to come to the table with something to offer.” Auerbach pauses. She points toward the corner of the garden, where a hummingbird is buzzing among the burgeoning blueberry bushes. For Auerbach, it’s a moment of validation. “That reminds me,” she says, “that I’m not my only client.”
The Berry Best The Willamette Valley has been called the berry capital of the world. They’re everywhere. And let’s be frank—our berries taste better. That makes it easy to enjoy our bounty, even if you don’t want to grow anything. In Portland, strawberries and blueberries are in season now through September. Raspberries ripen in July and blackberries in August. Pull out your Tupperware and get picking.
Public parks
Find the right park and it’s like being at a U-pick without the cash register. In Portland, Powell Butte Nature Park is known for abundant blackberries in August. Forest Park has more variety, with wild salmonberries, salal berries, thimbleberries and blackberries growing dense along Highway 30 and the park’s powerline corridors. Trails tend to be picked over; you’ll do better at the edge of less-trafficked clearings.
Portland’s farmers markets
You can’t walk ten 10 without bumping into a berry stand at any Portland farmers market. But Aichele Farms at the King Sunday Market, Groundworks Organics at the PSU Saturday market, and Unger’s Farms at the Hollywood Saturday market are known to have some of the best berries. Expect to pay $2.75 per pint.
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Albeke’s Farms in Oregon City and Kruger’s on Sauvie Island are now open to sticky-fingered strawberry pickers. Bella Organic, also on Sauvie Island, offers up Totems, Seascapes and the famously sweet Hood strawberries in June. Expect to pay $3.50 per pint. More info at sauvieisland.org. KIMBERLY HURSH.
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Pedal to the Pacific riding to the beach is easy, but it might make you hate cars. BY M A RT I N C I Z M A R
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They crashed through the rainforest like dinosaurs. A distant rumble, a whoosh, and more rumble, before the creatures were gone and I could again hear my bike tires roll softly along the edge of the asphalt. The ride was so peaceful without them, even in the middle of a steep climb, and always scary when they passed, even on a gentle downward slope. Hardcore cyclists tell me you stop noticing the traffic when you’re in the zone. Even the gale from a loaded-up logging truck, they say. I never got there on my 60-mile ride to the Pacific. Rumble, whoosh, rumble. You know how you feel the waves in your sleep after a day at the beach? After biking to the sea, I passed out at dusk with rumble, whoosh, rumble in my ears. I’m not sure why I felt compelled to make this ride. I own a car, and my bike is a hefty commuter with eight lunky gears. I don’t have a bike rack, just a messenger bag. My seat has almost no padding—I can feel my ass after riding seven miles to work. I’m often passed by faster riders on better bikes. I’ve never changed a flat tire. But having grown up in the Midwest, where a trip to the sea was a once-a-year treat, it’s probably not surprising that I became so enchanted by the idea of leaving my house on a bicycle and arriving at the Pacific. So I found myself on Oregon Route 6, following the Wilson River past farms, through a misty rainforest, over a pine-covered mountain, past a muddy bay and out to the sea. Dozens of wildly different landscape scenes rolled by in one day. For a serious cyclist, my 60-mile route was not impressive. I did not approach it as though it was. The trip was planned on Friday afternoon. I got a room at the cheapest motel in Tillamook, $20 worth of trail mix, and one seat on the Sunday bus back to Union Station. My messenger bag was loaded with two water bottles, a book, two new tire tubes and a pump. I left just as Saturday brunch spots started taking names and hopped the Blue Line MAX from the Hollywood station over the West Hills. The train pulled 22
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into the last stop in Hillsboro around 10 am and I rode through Forest Grove and into the rolling farmland of the Tualatin Valley. Cows notice you when you’re on a bike. They never seem to look up for the rumble, whoosh, rumble of the cars—they’re in the zone—but the squeak of a pedal stops them mid-chew. There are a lot of cows on the ride to Tillamook. Tillamook is, of course, home of the cheese. The agrestic burg is surrounded by pastures smelling of both cheese and shit—sometimes cheesier, sometimes shittier. At the namesake industrial creamery and gift shop, the skills honed herding and milking cows have been seamlessly adapted to tourists. The herd feeds on waffle cones as it’s corralled through one line and then another. This must be easy work for the farmers. Electric prods are rarely needed with this docile breed; the bolt gun almost never. Tillamook the town is far less scenic than Tillamook the forest, one of the nation’s most productive timber forests. Most of the ride to the grubby town is through the beautiful forest. Even stands gutted by a forest fire seem lush. I read about that fire on a landmark sign placed along the route’s one really big hill, a 1,500-foot climb through Douglas fir that left me winded and my supply of trail mix severely depleted. Tillamook isn’t the grandest destination, but it is the nearest coastal city by cycle. The tiny Cape Meares beachhead is almost directly across from Portland, about 40 miles nearer than Astoria. The ride is totally doable for anyone in decent shape. With stops to eat, read and drop my heaviest cargo off at the hotel before riding the last 10 miles to open water, I was pedaling by the bay long before dark. I was standing on the soft sand, sucking in a salty breeze, less than nine hours after I left my house. I only stayed at the shore for a few minutes—padded shorts would have changed my attitude about the 10-mile ride back to town—just long enough to snap a few pictures and dip a toe in the water. I really should have lingered, letting the sound of the surf pound out that rumble, whoosh, rumble. : For more information, maps and photos of our epic summer adventures.
Easy Riders Not ready to sit on a saddle for a 60-mile ride to the beach? Earn your spurs with these shorter rides around town:
Esplanade-Waterfront loop
Both sides of the central Willamette riverfront are great places to ride—so long as it’s not a sunny Saturday or Sunday. The Eastbank Esplanade is the better ride, generally less crowded as it goes over a unique 1,200-foot floating walkway while offering views of downtown and the West Hills. The westside path, a sidewalk on the edge of Tom McCall Waterfront Park, has better people-watching and easy access to food and drink. Cross the river at the Steel and Hawthorne bridges for an easy 2.5-mile loop you can finish in about half an hour.
Leif Erickson Drive
The 11-mile Leif Erikson Drive was supposed to be a road to swanky homes. Instead, it runs through Forest Park and is open only to bikers, walkers and the occasional park ranger truck. Don’t try taking your road slicks up the wide dirt-and-gravel path from Northwest Thurman Street. But if you’ve got a mountain bike or hybrid, and don’t mind dodging a few strollers, it’s a wonderful ride.
Springwater Corridor
All but the last two miles of this 21-mile path to Boring are paved with smooth asphalt. Walkers and bikers follow the flat route of an old railroad track across the south edge of town. Oaks Amusement Park, cooling Johnson Creek, a sheep farm that looks to be from the 1800s are along the route. For a shorter trip, ride east to the 205 freeway and you can take the MAX back to the center of town. MARTIN CIZMAR.
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Trampolines
Today’s trampolines are rubbish. They’re surrounded by safety netting and covered springs so our mollycoddled little moppets don’t injure their precious bones. Half the fun of trampolines was the ever-present danger that your limbs could end up twisted and maimed in a mess of rusted steel. The other half was the fun of bouncing off the trampoline onto something— garage roof, basketball hoop, swimming pool. None of these things are possible with modern trampolines. Fortunately, the old deathtraps of yesteryear—vintage recreational equipment, as I prefer to think of them—are available for mere pennies on Craigslist. Just make sure your dental insurance is paid up.
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The dream of every overheated child stuck at home during summer break. It was almost like having a water slide in your backyard, only without all the good bits. Of course, you didn’t have a real Slip ’n Slide, because your parents weren’t about to buy you an overpriced sheet of plastic, young lady, so you had a moldy old shower curtain and a sprinkler. The real thing actually costs only about $20 these days, but it turns out your parents were correct: It really is just an overpriced sheet of plastic. You can construct a bigger, faster, longer, infinitely more dangerous sheet of plastic for about the same price at a hardware store. Just add friends, sun and bubble bath. And don’t forget your Super Soaker.
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[Outdoor] Compared to Portland proper, Sauvie Island is mercifully flat. That makes it a great place for farmers who grow pumpkins and strawberries, and for runners who can keep it in the same gear while running a marathon (or a halfmarathon or 5K). Your efforts will be rewarded with strawberry shortcake made with island strawberries and served by the villagers. The Pumpkin Patch, 16511 NW Gillihan Road. Race begins at 6:30 am July 4. Shuttle available from Silver Cloud Inn, 2426 NW Vaughn St. Registration closes June 28. $28-$100. foottraffic.us/flat.
Kiteboarding 4 Cancer
[Outdoor] The largest amateur kiteboarding event on the continent is in its sixth year. Boarders will ride in either a six-hour endurance race or team relay. Hood River Event Site, North 2nd Street at waterfront, Hood River. July 13-15. athletes4cancer.org.
Portland Highland Games
[Outdoor] The Scottish king summoned the participants of the original Highland Games. Today, it’s self-selecting, though typically draws large men who don’t mind wearing a skirt while throwing something heavy. More of a celebration of Scottish customs than a show of superiority, the 60th anniver-
sary of Portland’s version has a kilted mile run, fiddling competition, dance contests and, of course, plenty of big rocks and logs being thrown. Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham. 8 am-8 pm July 21. $10-$20. phga.org.
Paddle Oregon
[Outdoor] This 105-mile paddle spans five days and will get you intimately acquainted with the Willamette River. Paddle the day away, then enjoy wine, entertainment and catered meals before retreating to your sleeping bag. Put-in at McCartney Park, 28946 Cartney Park Drive, Harrisburg. Aug. 13-17. $549-$649. paddleoregon.org.
PDX Adult Soapbox Derby
[Outdoor] Watch racers roll down a volcano on homemade, wheeled contraptions. And if you’re interested in besting the neighbor boy, there’s still time to enter. Unlike the kiddie version powered by gravity alone, this one is fueled by sweet, sweet ethanol. Mt. Tabor Park, Southeast 60th Avenue & Salmon Street. 10 am-4 pm Aug. 18. Free to watch. soapboxracer.com.
Hood to Coast Relay
[Outdoor] One of the world’s largest relay races covers 199 miles and goes right by Portland. Runners start at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood and wind their way to the beach in Seaside. After the 1,050 teams of 12 runners com-
plete the route, spectators can join participants in the sand for a beach party with live music and an awards ceremony. See hoodtocoast.com. Aug. 24-25.
RiverFest
[OUTDOOR] The capper to summer, RiverFest celebrates the Willamette. Events for 2012 haven’t been announced yet, but fireboats are usually the highlight of this three-day festival. See portlandriverfest.org. Sept. 21-23.
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[Outdoor] One of the “20 best triathlons in America,” according to Men’s Health magazine, the Portland Triathlon is also remarkably green. You’ll find local organic food at aid stations and medical tents staffed with naturopathic doctors. The swim in the Willamette River under the St. Johns Bridge is a highlight for spectators. Cathedral Park, North Edison Street & Pittsburg Avenue. 7:30 am Sept. 23. $80205. portlandtri.com.
Pedalpalooza
[Bike] There is no interest too quirky or hobby too nerdy to combine with biking at Pedalpalooza. Are you Scottish? Kilt Ride. Expecting? Pregnant Pedal. Think you’re too badass for those? Try the Badass Challenge. Various locations. Through June 30. Most events are free. shifttobikes.org.
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[BIKE] For five hours on several Sundays this summer, the city closes off miles of streets to cars and opens up the neighborhoods to foot traffic. There’s food, music and family activities in parks and on sidewalks along the route. Various locations. 11 am-4 pm June 24, July 22, Aug. 26, Sept. 30. Free. portlandonline. com/transportation.
Bridge Pedal
[BIKE] Once a year, the bikes get the bridges. Nearly 20,000 bicyclists and pedestrians will cross the Willamette River’s bridges in an event that benefits the Providence Heart and Vascular Institute. Routes from three to 35 miles include the top decks of the towering Fremont and Marquam bridges, offering breathtaking views. The celebration continues at Jeld-Wen Field for a Providence Health and Wellness Expo. Starting location and time varies by route. Aug. 12. $15-$50. blog.bridgepedal.com.
Portland Twilight Criterium
[BIKE] Old Town streets are sealed off and filled with spectators, food carts, a hand-built bike show and a beer garden. Around them runs the course of a highspeed street race. North Park Blocks, Northwest 9th Avenue & Couch Street. 4-9 pm Aug. 10. $25-$30 to race. portlandtwilight.com. Free bike parking at Northwest Park Avenue and Flanders Street.
Portland Century
[BIKE] Take in stunning views of Portland and surrounding areas such as Bull Run, Marine Drive and Smith and Bybee lakes while riding routes of 40, 80 or 100 miles. The real draw? It’s catered, with refreshments along the way. Ride begins at Portland State University behind Smith Memorial Student Union, Southwest Montgomery Street & Park Avenue. Aug. 19. Check-in times 6-9 am, depending on route. $71.50 adults in advance, $10 under age 10. portlandcentury.com.
Cider Summit
[FOOD & DRINK] The summit features 50-plus ciders from producers in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, California, England, Spain and France. The pressing matter at this event is the apple. Elizabeth Caruthers Park, Southwest Gaines Street & Bond Ave. 11 am-7 pm June 23. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. cidersummitnw.com.
North American Organic Brewers Festival
[FOOD & DRINK] Combining organic beer and sustainability, this festival boasts more than 50 organic brews and ciders, including locals like Alameda Brewing Company and Upright Brewing. Even the cornstarch glasses “made from domestically grown corn by a zero-waste, solar-powered company” are reusable and compostable. Overlook Park, North Fremont Street & Interstate Avenue. Noon-9 pm June 29-30, noon-5 pm July 1. Free admission. naobf.org. 30
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Picklefest
[FOOD & DRINK] It’s a pickle party! Kenny & Zuke’s hosts its second annual gathering of picklers and pickle lovers at Wallace Park. Some of Portland’s top restaurants enter vinegar-soaked foodstuffs in four categories: classic cucumber, sweet pickles, non-cucumber and Portland weird. The first person to pickle a Voodoo Doughnut takes the latter. Wallace Park, Northwest 25th Avenue & Raleigh Street. Noon-6 pm July 21. $7 to taste.
Puckerfest
[FOOD & DRINK] Sour beers can take up to three years to barrel-age and are sometimes a risky venture. When they turn out well, though, watch out. For the sixth year, Belmont Station supports sour-makers by putting more than a dozen sour beers on tap. Several “meet the brewer” nights will let you meet the people behind the beers. Belmont Station, 4500 SE Stark St. July 13-19. puckerfest.com.
Bastille Day Festival
[FOOD & DRINK] Bastille Day is now Bastille Days, as events are spread over two days in the city and at the vineyards. As long as wine and butter-laden French sauces are on the menu in both places, we support the expansion. The Portland Waiters Race is also well worth watching. Tips, we’re sure, are welcome. Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. Noon-6 pm (race at 2 pm) July 14. Free. WillaKenzie Estate, 19143 NE Laughlin Road, Yamhill. 11 am-5 pm July 15. $30. afportland.org.
Portland International Beerfest
[FOOD & DRINK] Portland beer snobs can be a provincial lot, but at this fest they embrace the wider world. Pearl District North Park Blocks, Northwest Davis Street & Park Avenue. Noon-10 pm July 20-21, noon-7 pm July 22. $25-40. portland-beerfest.com.
Oregon Brewers Festival
[FOOD & DRINK] Alphabetically, you’ll find everyone from 10 Barrel Brewing to Widmer Brothers here. Live music, a minimuseum of beer memorabilia and homebrewing demonstrations help set the scene, but you’re here for the beer. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Southwest Oak Street and Naito Parkway. Noon-9 pm July 26-28, noon-7 pm July 29. Free admission. oregonbrewfest.com.
IPNC Passport to Pinot
[FOOD & DRINK] It’s worth the trip to wine country to take part in wholesome McMinnville’s debauched wine-tasting weekend. You’ll find 70 pinot noir producers, and 60 or so chefs and artisans, at the big party to close it out. Linfield College campus, 900 SE Baker St., McMinnville. July 27-29. Day $150. Weekend $975. ipnc.org.
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Bones and Brew Festival
[FOOD & DRINK] Brisket and beer—what more do you need? More than 30 beers from Oregon craft breweries, a barbecue contest, and brisket and ribs from local restaurants are here. Proceeds benefit the Oregon Zoo, so you can feel good about supporting baby animals. Buckman Botanical Brewery, Southeast 9th Avenue & Belmont Street. 11 am-9 pm Aug. 4, 11 am-5 pm Aug. 5. $10. rogue.com.
The Bite of Oregon
[FOOD & DRINK] They say it’s a bite, but it’s more of a nibble. This party is more about the music and booze than the food since the best small restaurants want to truck in their food for a mostly out-of-town crowd that won’t be back for more. But for a $5 lunch, it’s worth dropping by. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 SW Naito Parkway. 11 am-10 pm Aug. 10-11, 11 am-8 pm Aug. 12. $5 day pass, $15 full weekend, kids 12 and under free. biteoforegon.com.
Festa Italiana
[FOOD & DRINK] Pioneer Courthouse Square becomes “Piazza Italia” for Portland’s yearly celebration of everything Italian. Events include a Giro de Portland bike race, pizza toss, bocce tournament and Italian movie night. When in Rome.... Pioneer Courthouse Square, Southwest Morrison Street and Broadway. 11 am-11 pm Aug. 23-25. Free. festaitalianaportland.shutterfly.com.
Feast Portland
[FOOD & DRINK] This celebration of Oregon’s status as a foodie mecca brings local and national cuisine stars like Hank Costello, Amanda Freitag and Mark Bittman to the stage, where they will give talks on cooking, eating and policy. Unlike your average school lecture, however, this one comes with dinner and wine. Locations vary. Sept. 20-23. Prices vary; weekend pass $350, VIP pass $650. feastportland.com.
Rontoms Sunday Patio Shows
[ARTS & MUSIC] Consistently the hottest—and free-est— Sunday night ticket in town, Rontoms pits local up-andcomers with national buzz groups and throws some of the summer’s finest shows in a rare-for-Portland outdoor setting. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St. 9 pm Sundays all summer (warm weather provided). Free. 21+.
Concerts at the Oregon Zoo
[ARTS & MUSIC] All-ages concerts by everyone from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff to local symphonic pop juggernaut Pink Martini and, of course, Chicago. 7 pm June 22-Sept. 14. Various ticket prices. oregonzoo.org.
Summer Free For All Movies in the Park
[ARTS & MUSIC] Portland Parks & Recreation presents movies in parks across the city. View classics like Citizen Kane as well as newer flicks
like Moneyball. Schedule at portlandonline.com/parks. June 29-Sept. 8. Free.
Dive-in movies at the MHCC Aquatic Center
[ARTS & MUSIC] Swim with Tom Cruise (in his Top Gun, pre-Scientology glory days) while enjoying the community college’s Olympic-sized pool. Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 SE Stark St., Gresham. Schedule at mhcc.edu. 7:15 pm June 29-Aug. 31. $4.50 for adults, $3.25 for children 18 and younger and seniors.
Sundown at Ecotrust
[ARTS & MUSIC] Each Thursday, Ecotrust hosts a concert at the Natural Capital Center (also known as the Ecotrust Building), powering the amps of local talent including Laura Gibson and Typhoon with a generator that uses only solar, wind and biodiesel fuel. Ecotrust, 721 NW 9th Ave. 5:30-8:30 pm Thursdays July 5-July 26. ecotrust.org.
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[ARTS & MUSIC] They call it Summer Free for All, and it really is. Almost every night in July and August, enjoy a smattering of everything from Celtic to neo-Bohemian cabaret. Various parks across Portland. Schedule at portlandonline. com/parks. Free. All ages.
Waterfront Blues Festival
[ARTS & MUSIC] Chicago has the nation’s biggest blues festival. Portland has No. 2, drawing more than 120,000 people to shows by the Steve Miller Band, James Cotton, Bettye LaVette and Booker T. Fireworks down by the Willamette. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 700 SW Naito Parkway. July 4-8. Schedule and entry prices at waterfrontbluesfest.com.
Bridge Festival Block Party
[ARTS & MUSIC] Celebrate “the bridges that connect us all” with music from Solovox, Excellent Gentlemen, the Quick & Easy Boys and more. The Slate, 2001 NW 19th Ave. 5 pm July 7. pdxbridgefestival.org.
Mississippi Street Fair
[ARTS & MUSIC] The Mississippi neighborhood prides itself on being one of the most diverse and vibrant in Portland, and its street fair certainly doesn’t hurt that image. North Fremont Street to Skidmore Street on Mississppi Avenue. July 14. Free. mississippiave.com.
Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn
[ARTS & MUSIC] Big-name acts from Ringo Starr to Gotye to My Morning Jacket perform in a setting that’s more relaxed, intimate and conducive to personal space than most outdoor concerts. Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale. July 17-Sept. 29. Schedule and ticket prices at edgefieldconcerts. com. All ages.
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Summer Guide
Top Down Rooftop Cinema [ARTS & MUSIC] If it’s a dry summer—knock on wood, folks—the Northwest Film Center will reprise its series of great outdoor cinema. Top Down will be held six nights this summer atop the Hotel deLuxe’s rooftop garage. The party starts at 8 pm with live bands and refreshments. The films start when the sun sets, so long as it’s not pouring. Hotel deLuxe, 729 SW 15th Ave. July 26-Aug. 30. $9. nwfilm.org/festivals.
PDX Pop Now! Summer Festival
[ARTS & MUSIC] Bored, disgruntled youth of Portland rejoice! Unlike festivals with expensive tickets or prohibitions on underage attendees, PDX Pop Now! remains open to all ages and is completely free. Refuge PDX, 116 SE Yamhill St. July 20-22. Free. All ages. pdxpopnow.com.
Flicks on the Bricks
[ARTS & MUSIC] For four weeks this summer, Friday night means movie night at Pioneer Courthouse Square. BYOC (bring your own chair) and snag some free popcorn as SmartPark presents four movies: Karate Kid (July 27), Clueless (Aug. 3), A League of Their Own (Aug. 10) and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Aug. 17). Pioneer Courthouse Square, Southwest Morrison Street and Broadway. Fridays at dusk. Free. pcspdx.org.
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[ARTS & MUSIC] Check your vowels at the door—you won’t be able to decipher speech anyway after experiencing the earth-shaking volume of Smmr Bmmr. This annual garagerock festival will feature King Tuff, Shannon and the Clams, and Personal and the Pizzas, among others. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave. Aug. 3-4. dmmrbmmr.com.
Pickathon
[ARTS & MUSIC] The city’s biggest outdoor festival continues to drift away from its grassy origins, but with headliners like Y La Bamba, White Denim, Dr. Dog and Neko Case, it’s hard to pine for the good ol’ days. Pendarvis Farm, 16581 SE Hagen Road, Happy Valley. Aug. 3-5. $190 for the weekend. pickathon.com.
Warped Tour
[ARTS & MUSIC] Ride your skateboard (or your mom’s minivan) down to the Rose Quarter for Warped Tour, which this year features Rise Against, Pierce the Veil, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard and a bunch of kids that look vaguely like Justin Bieber but are actually totes HRDCRE! Rose Quarter Waterfront, Aegean Lot, North Thunderbird Way. Noon Aug. 5. $31.50. vanswarpedtour.com.
Alberta Street Fair
[ARTS & MUSIC] Alberta Street has worked for over a decade to become an art district and cultural center, and this event shows that off with a focus on local businesses, vendors, artists and performers. Northeast Alberta Street between 10th and
30th avenues. 11 am Aug. 11. $2 suggested donation. albertamainst.org.
Oregon State Fair
[ARTS & MUSIC] Until someone opens a county fair food cart, the state fair is your best bet for scoring a slice of deep-fried cheesecake and a deep-fried candy bar. Peruse 500 deep-fried exhibits or try your hand at deep-fried carnival games. Oregon State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th St. NE, Salem. Aug. 24-Sept. 3. 10 am-9 pm Sunday-Thursday, 10 am-11 pm Friday-Saturday. Ticket prices $6-11. oregonstatefair.org.
Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival
[ARTS & MUSIC] Jump state for Vancouver’s finest wine, jazz and art festival. Esther Short Park, 8th and Columbia streets, Vancouver. Aug. 24-26. 4-10 pm Friday, 11 am–10 pm Saturday, 11 am–9 pm Sunday. $20-$25. $60 three-day pass. vancouverwinejazz.com.
Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert
[ARTS & MUSIC] Join the Oregon Symphony as it kicks off the 2012-13 season with a free concert. The festivities culminate in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and fireworks. It’s tradition. Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 1020 SW Naito Parkway. Aug. 30. 5 pm Portland Youth Philharmonic, 7 pm Oregon Symphony. Free. orsymphony.org.
MusicfestNW
[ARTS & MUSIC] Portland’s largest music festival is back. The festival humbly offers up to Portland a figurative feast of musical talent with Beirut, Girl Talk and Silversun Pickups headlining in Pioneer Courthouse Square. Various locations throughout Portland, see musicfestnw.com. Sept. 5-9. $75 all club shows and one show at the square, $125 all indoor shows and all three shows at the square, $250 allaccess VIP pass.
TBA Festival
[ARTS & MUSIC] Hit the workshops in the morning and the impromptu galleries by night as the Time-Based Art Festival turns Portland into an all-hours exhibit of contemporary visual and performing arts. This year’s event includes Mexican theater company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol, musician Aki Onda and filmmaker Sam Green screening a documentary on R. Buckminster Fuller with a live score by Yo La Tengo. Various locations. Sept. 6-16. $8-$25 individual events, $250 fullfestival pass. All ages. pica.org.
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER: The Wu-Tang Clan will play Refuge in Southeast Portland on July 6. The mid-sized venue recently received a sonic makeover and this show—the biggest in the dance/hip-hop-centric club’s two-year history—will be its coming-out party. No word yet on which Wus will be present, but we’re pretty sure David Wu (aka Tigersuit Killa) is out. Dead Prez co-headlines. >> Legendary Swedish hardcore act Refused makes its Portland debut at the Roseland Theater on Aug. 29, and the third incarnation of the Great Idea, an annual music festival held at Enchanted Forest in Turner, is Aug. 10 with Quasi and Typhoon headlining.
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KONE HEADS: Able Brewing—the newish name for Coava Coffee’s line of coffee-brewing products and accessories—is doing some of the most innovative work in Portland’s coffee scene. Last year, we wrote about the Kone (“Building a Better Brew,” WW, Jan. 18, 2011), its reusable, stainless-steel filter for the Chemex brewer, which was released to great acclaim in 2010. Able is about to release the third generation of Kone, which has smaller holes and fewer pointy bits, along with an entirely new brewer to go with it. The Able Brewing System is a two-piece ceramic pot made by local Mudshark Studios. The Kone sits in the top half of the pot, which is removed at the end of the extraction, and a lid fits over the bottom half to create an adorable little jug. The filter and system are being pre-sold exclusively on Kickstarter—the project has raised $91,378 so far and runs until June 30. OH, THE DRAMEDY: The 33rd annual Drammys, an award ceremony honoring Portland theater, was held last week, and the big winner was...well, everyone, really. With multiple winners in 28 categories, it’s hard for any one play to dominate. Portland Playhouse’s ambitious trilogy The Brother/Sister Plays and Broadway Rose’s Hairspray picked up six awards apiece, including Best Production, an honor they shared with Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus el Rey, which won five awards. Jane Unger, founder of Profile Theatre, received this year’s Special Achievement Award. Overall, 60 individual awards were handed out.
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 20 PEDALPALOOZA [BIKES] Riding events stay weird through the end of June. This week, Portland’s MILFs, wizards, robots, skeptics and (scariest of all) lawyers take to the streets. Various locations. Free. Calendar at bit.ly/ L0vW10.
FRIDAY JUNE 22 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER [MOVIES] It’s Abraham Lincoln. Killing vampires. Need we say more? Multiple theaters. MARK GARDENER [MUSIC] Mark Gardener has no new album, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy. The 42-yearold former member of shoegaze dynamo Ride spends most of his days producing U.K. bands. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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No one details the psychopath-dating-a-stripper dynamic better. “I’m hating what she’s wearing/ Everybody here keeps staring/ Can’t wait till they get what they deserve/ This time somebody’s getting hurt.”
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SEE IT: Nickelback plays the Rose Garden on Thursday, June 21. 6 pm. $39.50-$79. All ages.
NW CIDER SUMMIT [DRINK] Portland’s cider festival is back for a second year. More than 50 ciders from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, California, England, France and Spain will be available to taste, plus food from Lebanese restaurant Ya Hala, live music and cider-pressing demonstrations. Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 SW Moody. cidersummitnw. com. 11 am-7 pm. $20-$25. DR. SEUSS [PERFORMANCE] Bringing Dr. Seuss off the page and onto the stage, AMP Theater will present four classics—The Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose and Horton Hears a Who!— through music, acrobatics and other theatrics. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630, amptheater. com. 5 pm (all ages) and 9:30 pm (21+) Saturday, 7:30 pm (all ages) Sunday, June 23-24. $15 advance, $20 at the door. PALINDROMANIA [AINAMORDNILAP] Never odd or even, the Peculiarium is where the world’s reigning palindrome champion Mark Saltveit performs his palindrome slam. Competing in Brooklyn against six other palindromists, Saltveit earned his title with this winner: “Devil Kay fixes trapeze part; sex if yak lived.” Peculiarium, 2234 NW Thurman St., peculiarium.com. 7 pm. $7.
MONDAY JUNE 25 LAURA MARLING [MUSIC] Marling introduced herself to the nu-folk community when she was 16, performing with the onceubiquitous Noah and the Whale. Her new album, A Creature I Don’t Know, shows more than a hint of Joni Mitchell’s sweet poetics. It’s also fantastic. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. 8 pm. $20-$22. All ages (minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian). Willamette Week JUNE 20, 2012 wweek.com
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It’s the last show at Darcelle XV Showplace on a muggy Friday night. The audience is a mixed bag: a birthday party in the center, friends of a drag queen near the wall, a posse of bros in the back. In the front row is the only bachelorette in the house. It’s an unusually poor turnout for Darcelle. The bachelorette’s name is Lindsay, and she’s from Salem. She’s flanked by eight friends. Their fresh manicures and flat-ironed hair say this night is special. Bachelorette parties have a bad rap at gay bars, and justifiably so. As a gay man in a gay bar, nothing is more aggravating than a bunch of screaming banshees clogging the drink line and manhandling you on the dance floor. And celebrating a wedding someplace populated by people who can’t get married is insensitive, at best. So when West Hollywood’s popular bar the Abbey banned bachelorette parties last month and encouraged other gay bars to do the same, there was delighted approval around the globe. But so far, no Portland gay bar has followed the Abbey’s example. The bars have their reasons, most of which should come as no surprise in a city which frowns on exclusionary action. At Darcelle, bachelorette Lindsey sits quietly throughout the show, back slouched and chin up, balancing her tiny bridal tiara. Lindsay is a short, mousy girl with small glasses and shoulder-length red hair. She cheers sheepishly for the drag queens, showing the most enthusiasm for the Liza Minnelli act. When the show ends, she’s called onstage for her congratulatory Champagne. She giggles a lot. Bachelorettes like Lindsay make up most of Darcelle’s business, and Darcelle has no intention of banning them. As show coordinator Summer Seasons puts it, doing so would be “absolutely ridiculous.” But Darcelle isn’t necessarily a gay bar, per se. It’s more of a drag cabaret. And though co-owner Darcelle and his partner, Roxy Newhardt, are gay, and drag is a linchpin of gay culture, Darcelle bills itself as an “all-inclusive establishment.”
Still, Darcelle is where the bachelorette madness begins. On a typical night, the women come for the show and stay for the male strippers at midnight. If they continue the gay-bar wedding march, they stumble next door to CC Slaughters and down Southwest 3rd Avenue to Silverado. Neither CC nor Silverado ban bachelorette parties, though CC has considered a ban and Silverado has banned them in the past. The trouble with banning bachelorette parties is that such parties are rather loosely defined. For CC, it all comes down to costumes (read: penis necklaces and straws). CC has considered banning groups in costume, says Steven Fosnaugh, the bar’s marketing director, but no decision has been made. “CC Slaughters is a non-discriminatory business,” says Fosnaugh. “If we ban one costumed group, we’d have to ban them all.” Silverado until recently had a sign at its entrance that stated “No Bachelorette Parties.” But the bar removed it under legal advice, just as it now charges men and women the same $4 cover despite priding itself as a “gay men’s bar.” Of course, not all bachelorettes flounce around gay bars on their special night. Lindsay, for one, doesn’t even want to stay for the strippers at Darcelle. But Lindsay doesn’t speak for every bride-to-be in Old Town. Enter Megan. Megan went to an earlier show at Darcelle, but returns to leap onstage for what she thinks will be her second Champagne toast. Clearly inebriated and wearing impossibly tiny white shorts, Megan is shooed off the stage. As the crowd files out and the strippers come on, Megan is one of the few in the front row. She later corners a stripper to take issue with his sense of equity. “I took a shot off you,” she argues. “You have to take a shot off me!” Meanwhile, Lindsay and her friends gather outside. It’s raining now, and they caucus about their next steps. Dixie Tavern? No, bad idea. They walk toward their car. Lindsay’s friend Chrystal hangs back. It was Chrystal’s idea to bring Lindsay to Darcelle. Chrystal is aware of the bachelorette-party backlash, and wholeheartedly disagrees. Chrystal is a lesbian—her girlfriend, Carlie, was at the show with her—and she’d like to be married one day. “Why ban something that you’re working toward?” she asks. “You can’t be closed-minded.”
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Portland’s cider festival is back for a second year. Around 73 ciders from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, California, England, France and Spain will be available to taste, plus there will be food from Lebanese restaurant Ya Hala, live music and cider-pressing demonstrations. Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 SW Moody Ave. 11 am-7 pm. $20-$25. 21+.
SUNDAY, JUNE 24 Summer in the Vineyard with Beaverton Farmers Market
Beaverton Farmers Market celebrates 25 years with an afternoon at Laurel Ridge Winery in the Yamhill Valley. Laurel Ridge will provide the wines, while farmers market vendors provide the eats. Laurel Ridge Winery, 13301 NE Kuehne Road, Carlton, 852-7050. 12:30 pm. $20.
MONDAY, JUNE 25 Bhap Sang Preview Dinner
It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for Han Ly Hwang to open up Bhap Sang—the brickand-mortar version of his sorely missed Korean food cart, Kim Jong Grillin’—and it looks like we’re finally getting close. He’ll be cooking up a six-course preview dinner of Bhap Sang’s dishes, with cocktails from New Deal Distillery, at inner-Southeast ramen joint Boke Bowl. Boke Bowl, 1028 SE Water Ave., 7195698. 6 pm. $70. 21+.
ENSO Winemakers’ Retrospective
Local winery Enso—which is all of 2 years old—is holding a retrospective going all the way back to its 2009 wines. The dinner will be four courses from Lovejoy Food paired with “extinct” wines from Enso’s library. Taste the history. ENSO Winery, 1416 SE Stark St., 683-3676. 6 pm. $60. 21+.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Irving St. Kitchen Tapping Party
Pearl District fancy Southern eatery, Irving St. Kitchen, is kicking off a series of “tapping parties” to celebrate the wines its bar taps straight from the barrel. The first will feature a 2011 Love & Squalor Riesling, and winemaker Matt Berson will be there to chat about this drop, alongside complimentary “bites” (which usually translates as “something smeared on a crostini”) from the kitchen. Irving St. Kitchen, 701 NW 13th Ave., 3439440. 5:30-7 pm. 21+.
HOT POCKET TO RUSSIA: Eastern European pastries in Lair Hill.
PIROSHKI & A PICKLE COFFEEHOUSE Natalia Gurzhiy wants to build a Portland piroshki empire. Three months ago, the Russian-born baker and her American husband opened Piroshki & a Pickle Coffeehouse. It is exactly what it says on the box: coffee, pickles and traditional Eastern European pastries called piroshki. The couple has set the lofty goal of opening another seven Piroshki & Pickles in Portland within a few years. They’d probably be well on their way to a fiefdom by now if they were east of the 205 freeway, but conquering the sleepy Southwest neighborhood of Lair Hill, where their flagship cafe sits, is going to be difficult since few locals know what the hell a piroshki is. I’ve eaten my way through a good portion of the menu, and I’m not even sure I know. Seemingly, some sort of dough encases some sort of filling. Beyond that, Gurzhiy’s piroshki—her mother’s and grandmother’s recipes, made for the cafe by a local Russian bakery—come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. There’s a breakfast piroshki of chopped egg, green onion and dill ($4.25), wrapped in a thin, flaky pastry. A shredded-vegetable piroshki ($4.25) is shaped like a Cornish pasty, but made with a thick, slightly sweet, bready dough. And a big, glossy, knotted bun twisted around a divine poppy-seed spread ($3.50)—yep, that’s piroshki, too. All are delicious. In a quest to be the next Burgerville, Gurzhiy is experimenting with some less traditional, Americanized fillings to win over the city’s hearts and stomachs. A scrambled egg, spinach and bacon piroshki ($4.25) is the biggest seller. Fortunately, Gurzhiy’s mom has given that one the thumbs-up. “We tried a hamburger filling,” says Gurzhiy, “but my mother said, ‘No, that’s not piroshki; if you want hamburger, go to McDonald’s.’” RUTH BROWN. EAT: Piroshki & a Pickle Coffeehouse, 4237 SW Corbett Ave., 502-2682, piroshkiandapickle.com. 6 am-7 pm Monday-Friday, 7 am-6 pm Saturday-Sunday. $.
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SIC SEMPER LACTUCIS I may never return to the original Caesar salad. Tijuana, where the Caesar was created by an Italian immigrant in 1924, is supposedly still safe for tourists. I’m not so sure. That salad—long ribs of crisp romaine bombed with umami through anchovies, raw egg yolk, Worcestershire sauce and Parmesan—made a lasting impression. But so do photos of bloody bodies scattered by a beach where sunbathers lay in a disconcertingly like pose. Why venture down Tijuana’s Avenue de la Revolucion, risking pickpockets and the remote possibility of an errant bullet from warring cartels, when there’s an equally impressive Caesar salad at Portland’s Mextiza? At my table, that salad ($8) inspired a Mexican standoff over the last garlic-infused, lime-kissed crouton. Eyes narrowed and forks twitched before we halved it. Mextiza is the second restaurant from Autentica chef and owner Oswaldo Bibiano. I can’t speak to what Autentica was at its peak, but it now feels deflated, especially after a visit to its younger sibling. Two miles west on North Killingsworth Order this: Caesar salad ($8) and Street, Mextiza’s menu is much emparedado de jabali ($13). more adventurous, hitching I’ll pass: We tried two desserts without being impressed. out of Bibiano’s native Guerrero to explore regional dishes from around Mexico, most tagged on the menu with their state of origin. The flavors are noticeably brighter and the prices slightly lower. Yes, the industrially stark exterior looks like a Chipotle, but the woody interior is warm and sexy. What’s not to prefer? Seven months after it opened, Mextiza also seems to be hitting pace. The wonderful emparedado de jabali ($13), a wild-boar sandwich slow-cooked until meat and juice meld with their chilies, was added last month. Served over bread with avocado chunks and an herby pico de gallo, it’s the pen’s prize pig. The open-faced sandwich isn’t tied to any specific state, but it doesn’t matter. I greatly preferred the boar to the local suckling in the lechon yucateco entree ($20), a bony pork chop topped with a slaw of cilantro and radish and served on a bed of plump and salty black beans. The cabrito ($18), shredded young goat roasted slowly but finished with crispy tips and large slivers of red onion, is a better large plate. The meat, a speciality of northern Mexico, can stand on its own, and the accompanying orange chile vinegar sauce is better used to dip fried potato chunks. There are a few rough edges. The $7 guacamole appetizer— mashed avocados with fried tortilla pieces—is not everything such pricey guacamole could be. We left half a bowl undipped, longing for the complimentary salsas and tortillas over at Autentica. Likewise, the drink program is a little heavy-handed, offering tequila, mezcal, tequila, sotol and more tequila. If you love tequila—and aren’t already a Matador regular—Mextiza has plenty. On the other hand, the first cocktail I ordered, a mezcalbased Morena made with chocolate bitters, cinnamon, coconut and chile was unavailable. I was pushed to the boring El Mayor, a Manhattan with tequila and cherry-bark bitters, but then retreated to a Bohemia beer. To pair with that Caesar salad, Tecate, Tijuana’s local beer, would be more appropriate. Authenticity, however, isn’t everything. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Mextiza, 2103 N Killingsworth St., 289-3709, mextiza.com. 11 am-3 pm, 5 pm-“late” daily. $$.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 The Southern Lord Tour: Poison Idea, Black Breath, Martyrdod, Burning Love, Enabler
[HARDCORE] While Southern Lord Records hasn’t yet forsaken the crushing metal that put it on the map, the past couple of years have found the L.A.-based label committed to the fast, nasty business of hardcore. Tonight’s touring showcase highlights Southern Lord’s latter-day focus on sinister punk-derived sounds. It’s an unassailable lineup, but expect Black Breath to own the night: Sentenced to Life, the Seattle quintet’s second LP, is one of the year’s best albums, a masterful blast of metallic hardcore reminiscent of ’90s luminary Integrity, only Black Breath doesn’t labor to fashion an evil identity. It simply slays with sound and leaves you stunned. CHRIS STAMM. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7:30 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show. All ages.
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[RAW ROLLICKS] Ezra Furman creates music that has a way of contradicting itself, and he’s an artist I want to both love and hate. His messy, reckless vocals clash with thoughtful and intentional compositions; lively guitar riffs bump into pleasant clarinet runs; smart, confident lyrics ring with topics of heartbreak and uncertainty. But then it all seems to come together. The cracks in Furman’s voice reinforce the rawness in his writing, and the dynamic instrumentation rolls out an absorbing layer of intrigue. The songwriter, who previously played with a backing band called the Harpoons, recently released his own effort, The Year of No Returning—one of the more diverse and finely crafted compilations in his collection. In the end, I think love will conquer hate in this internal battle of mine. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 9 pm. $12. 21+.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21 Jonathan Coulton, John Roderick (of the Long Winters)
[MEME ROCK] Jonathan Coulton is that rare Internet meme we may all have to start taking seriously. His early hits include a tribute to Mountain Dew called “Code Monkey” and a fingerpicked, whitewashed take on Sir Mix-
A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” but one gets the feeling his music—which these days sounds sort of like a more human and hi-fi take of the quirky rock of They Might Be Giants—would have caught on sooner or later even without the series of tubes. Seattle Twitter celebrity/Long Winters frontman John Roderick is on board—he sings on Coulton’s slick, smart and occasionally sweet new disc Artificial Heart and will open tonight’s show—and his opinion goes a long way around these parts. Ever less nerdy and more sincere, Coulton is finding his voice as a legitimate songwriter. His ears, though, have been there since the beginning. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $25. All ages.
Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, Revocation, On Enemy Soil, Nemesis
[DEATH METAL] Dying Fetus has persisted through 21 years of banddom and more than a dozen releases, despite its constitutional inability to achieve a mainstream breakthrough. In addition to the aforementioned bullheadedness, props must be given to both the trio’s ignorance of all but the most wrist-destroying of tempos, and frontman John Gallagher’s inexplicable ability to produce Cookie Monster growls for two decades on end without succumbing to debilitating vocal-cord contusions. Reign Supreme, the trio’s seventh LP, came out June 19, carrying with it a bonus track titled “Dead Whores Like to Fuck”—just in case you were worrying that the group had gone soft. SHANE DANAHER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 2337100. 7:30 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.
Andrew Oliver with Tunnel Six, Blue Cranes
[NORTH AMERICAN JAZZ] Startled by the chemistry they achieved after meeting and playing at the celebrated Banff International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music a few years ago, the rising young stars of Tunnel Six (Portland pianist Andrew Oliver, Toronto saxophonist Ben Dietschi, Seattle trumpeter Chad McCullough, Toronto guitarist Brian Seligman, Halifax bassist Ron J, and former Oregon—now New York—drummer Tyson Stubelek) resolved to reconvene for annual tours between their regular gigs. The group’s summer 2010 per-
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Jack Coleman knows that “Portland” and “electronic music” aren’t exactly synonymous for most people. Like many fringe music makers, Coleman— who has produced techno and house music in this city since the mid-’90s as JAK—regularly confronts the fact that indie rock and folk music rule the day. “We’re not fooling ourselves,” the skinny 34-yearold says from the shady patio of Nepo 42, shivering slightly. “This isn’t Berlin; this isn’t L.A. We have a small scene. But when you get into Groove Suite, you can get 50 or 60 people into that room and have a nice party—the system really kicks.” When Coleman and his friend Gustavo Lanzas—a gregarious 39-year-old ex-hardware engineer and music producer who goes by Audioelectronic— brainstormed a local electronic-music festival last year, packing small clubs was their highest ambition. They came away having lost $17 and knowing they would throw the party again the following summer. The second, slightly larger incarnation of Closer starts this week. We asked the duo to speak on a handful of subjects close to their hearts.
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FIVE PROMISING TRIBUTE SHOWS THIS WEEK. Replacements tribute (Star Theater, Wednesday) Chase a screening of the excellent Color Me Obsessed with a musical tribute to the band that made rock ’n’ roll cool again. Joey Porter does Sly and the Family Stone (Mississippi Studios, Friday) The preeminent keyboardist and tribute tycoon does Sly justice, with a giant-sized band and an explosive stage presence. John English does Sinatra (Trader Vic’s, Friday) Dubbed “The Voice” for good reason, John English has a tight grasp on Ol’ Blue Eyes and his martini-melting ways. An Old Bowling Alley does Willie (Spare Room, Friday) A night of Willie Nelson tunes, brought to you by country act Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine and that always-classy DJ AM Gold. Erotic City does Prince (Mills End Tavern, Saturday) Prince taught you how to love, cry and feel. Pay him some respect.
want to do an experimental thing,’ they’re like, ‘Nope!’” Besides, Coleman adds, the dancing thing is big: “In a world that’s cynical and ironic, that’s not always easy, but I want to see people move.”
Portland’s reputation “I don’t think the scene is particularly good at reaching out beyond itself,” Coleman says. Part of this is an overprotective reflex from the musicmaking underground here, and low-drama rifts between new and old purveyors of dance music can aggravate the problem (high-profile local analog house act Miracles Club has garnered loads of national attention as of late, while other acts have been met with crickets). Most national press about the Portland scene has been snarky, at best. Coleman is confident this will change: “This city is a media darling—The New York Times loves us for our food and beer and indie rock. Maybe someday they’ll see electronic music that way, too.” Experimental music “We want to be inclusive,” Lanzas says. “But at the same time, when we go to a club and say, ‘Hey, we
Old-timers In addition to an influx of young producers and DJs in the Portland scene, Coleman says many old-school Portland musicians have recently come back into the musical fold. Coleman and Lanzas, both parents, are two of them. “In the ’90s we had this scene, a lot of us were pretty young, and it just fell apart around 2002,” Coleman remembers. “Then people realized they still love this music.” The music has grown up, too. “It’s still party music, but it has more substance to it,” Lanzas says. Dubstep “We’ve definitely taken somewhat of a hard line” on excluding dubstep, Coleman says. The exception is a showcase from LoDubs, a Portland-based electronic label that releases dubstep more highminded and tasteful than most of what’s currently swarming blogs, video games and snowboarding videos. 6Blocc, the highest-profile dubstep artist playing Closer, was as of press time incarcerated in a Mexican jail on expired visa charges. “I finally got freaked out and went down to the Mexican consulate here in Portland,” LoDubs’ Jon AD explains. “And ultimately I pointed them to a contact that got the FBI involved.” Fingers crossed, 6Blocc will be out in time to play the festival. Headliners on which to get stoked Dave Aju’s latest album, Heirlooms, has been rightly hailed as a new classic. “He plays in crappy little dive bars in San Francisco for drinks, then goes all over the world and plays huge clubs,” Lanzas says. Raíz is a set of twin brothers from Los Angeles who do a mix of DJing and live electronics. Caltrop is “a phenomenal, incredible producer,” Lanzas says. “Super musical. He’s this short, unassuming guy and he’s one of the best DJs in San Francisco.” SEE IT: Closer runs June 21-24 at various Portland venues (including two free, all-ages park shows on Saturday and Sunday). Festival wristbands are $40. Most shows 21+. Schedule at closerpdx.com. Willamette Week JUNE 20, 2012 wweek.com
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[CRUST-METAL BESTIARY] Founded in 2006, the Goregon Massacre Festival has enjoyed a solid outlier status in Portland’s festival scene. Favoring a genre willfully ignored by most of the city’s music cognoscenti—and pulling a majority of its lineup from outside the Northwest proper—Goregon Massacre has struggled to gain a steady foothold, even as it successfully outpaces its competition in terms of volume and girth. A five-year gap separates Goregon Massacres II and III, and I’d like to call the festival’s return “glorious,” but everything having to do with Goregon Massacre angles straight for the willfully, gleefully putrid. Headliners Phobia and Cianide lead a pack of 28 (!) lesser scourges through two solid days of the sort of growling, pummeling metal to which the only proper responses are headbanging and/or the punching of inanimate objects. SHANE DANAHER. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. Noon. $15. All ages. Continues on Saturday.
[JAZZ] This is a rare opportunity to catch two jazz masters on the same stage. Glen Moore is a former member of seminal world musicjazz-classical group Oregon, and his solo work includes innovative bass-and-singer-only collaborations with Portland’s Nancy King. David Friesen has always used world music to add ethereal and wistful elements to his writing and playing. This isn’t the first time this duo has performed together—in the mid-’90s, they did a concert similar to this for the release of the excellent Ageless Pathways collection. Moore and Friesen both play piano well, so expect a more varied and interesting evening of music than “two bass players” might suggest. DAN DEPREZ. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 2234527. 7:30 pm. $15. 21+.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22 The Skabbs, Deep Fried Boogie Band, Magnetic Health Factory
[WHAT THEY DID WAS SECRET] While most of the supposed tragedies culling the first generation of L.A. punk hordes appear in retrospect the furthest thing from senseless—overdoses, suicides and pick’ems may be sad, but are hardly unavoidable—the death at 26 of Skabbs frontman Steve Salazar from complications related to a lifelong heart condition so shook the SoCal troupe that it immediately disbanded for just over three decades. Re-forming for a brief West Coast tour to support the (long-, long-, long-awaited) release of their original 17-track demo through Jackpot Records, the Skabbs were the act that should’ve bridged the high-energy, lowlife Class of ’77 provocateurs with the jittery rhythms and artful strivings soon to come. JAY HORTON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm. $7. 21+.
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[GLOOM POP] British sisters Colette and Hannah Thurlow, aka 2:54, have had quite a year. In 2012 alone, the duo has opened for the XX, played SXSW, and turned out its much-buzzed-about self-titled debut. Named after the time of a favorite drum solo in a Melvins song (“A History of Bad Men”), 2:54’s catchy, ominous, atmospheric garage rock reverberates in a way that leaves the listener in a chilly trance. It’s a seductive mess of post-apocalyptic siren song and fuzzed-out guitar. Brooklyn dream-
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[BRITISH PSYCH FOLK] Mark Gardener has no new album, but he has managed to keep busy. The 42-year-old former member of shoegaze dynamos Ride spends most of his days in the studio working with other bands from the U.K., or participating in a audiovisual collaborative project with abstract artist Simon Welford. His return to Portland is a welcome one, even with no new merch to pick up. Gardener has moved past the overdriven guitars of his former band, replacing them with electroacoustic textures and some gorgeous melodics inspired by the rich tradition of English folk music. ROBERT HAM. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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GET THE BLESSING TUESDAY, JUNE 26 [FUNKY DARK JAZZ] In 2010, the Performing Right Society for Music in the U.K. proclaimed Bristol the most musical town in England. Its sole criterion was the number of musicians born and raised in the city. And it’s hard to argue the point when looking at some of the acts that have come to fruition in Bristol in the past few decades: the dark electronic Portishead and Massive Attack; drum-’n’-bass pioneers Roni Size and Reprazent; even reggaeinflected post-punkers the Pop Group. One corner of this musical city yet to be explored by outside interests is Bristol’s rich jazz scene. “It’s pretty vibrant,” says Pete Judge, trumpet player for Get the Blessing. “There’s lots of great stuff happening on the edges of what you’d call jazz. And it’s pollinating the different scenes going on around the city. It’s exciting for us because that’s how you are able to get pushed in different directions.” Listening to Get the Blessing’s latest album, OCDC, the sense of how the various sounds of Bristol and beyond have sunk into the skin of the band is palpable. Of course, some of that feeling comes from knowing that its members are often busy with other projects—drummer Clive Deamer is a member of both Radiohead and Portishead. Mostly, though, a feeling of cross-pollination flows right out of the speakers as OCDC plays. The title track features spiraling tenor sax lines courtesy of Jake McMurchie alongside a fuzzed-out bass line and soul claps. Other cuts, like “Between Fear and Sex” and “Pentopia,” layer dub effects and motorik keyboard riffs underneath sturdy melodies. What OCDC and the other two albums that Get the Blessing has recorded since the band formed in 2000 is the same giddy disregard of the jazz playbook that so many of the group’s influences took great pride in. In fact, one titan of the avant jazz world helped bring the quartet together 12 years ago. “We spent a long time being an Ornette Coleman tribute band,” remembers McMurchie, conferenced in on Skype with Judge. “We started the band for a bit of fun, just playing these songs in [bassist] Jim Barr’s studio when it was free. We had no intention of gigging, or anything else. So it took us a few years to work out that we really liked it and that we should try to write some music.” Since that collective epiphany, Get the Blessing now adores playing live, using stages in its hometown and around the world to help shape and inform songs, which can take upward of five years for the band to commit to tape. Even then, Judge says, songs continue to evolve: “We’ll still turn them upside down. We can go in all sorts of different directions. We’re certainly more polished live now, but we’re more likely to take liberties than we used to.” As far out as the music gets, there is still a pop heart beating at its core. To that end, one wonders whether this tour, which finds the quartet booked almost exclusively in jazz venues and festivals, is somehow meant to cement its bop bona fides. “It’s not a deliberate effort,” says McMurchie. “[But] that’s where our natural home is. That said, we can play to the sit-down jazz crowds or at rock fests like All Tomorrow’s Parties. And lots of things in between. One of my favorite things is when someone comes up to me after a show and says, ‘I don’t really like jazz, but I like what you’re doing.’” ROBERT HAM. Bristol, England, is more than just Portishead. That said, a dude from Portishead is in this band.
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DON’T FENCE ME IN: Van Hunt plays the Hawthorne Theatre on Sunday, June 24. a pretty good first impression. Tonight the local outfit opens for ex-Local H frontman Scott Lucas’ own alt-country big band. CASEY JARMAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.
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[SIGN O’ THE FUTURE PAST] After more than a decade spent making his way through the R&B mills— ghosting R&B filler, recording a pair of modestly intriguing efforts for Capitol, supporting Joss Stone through a Grammy-winning Sly Stone cover—Van Hunt had every reason to believe 2008’s (defiantly titled and still unreleased) Popular would find a home at one label or another. Sadly, even Blue Note found the punk- and proginformed album too adventurous, so the honey-throated charmer had little cause not to indulge the furthest flights of an especially itinerant muse on last year’s What Were You Hoping For?, and the resultant mishmash of panty-dropping vocals, professional songcraft and a dizzying range of touchstones illuminate a fascinatingly unfettered soul. JAY HORTON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 9 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. All ages.
Commotion, Excellent Gentleman, DJ Hanukkah Miracle (Afrobeat Michael Jackson tribute)
[KING OF AFROPOP] Local wunderkind Ben Darwish can do most anything, whether it’s tickling the keys during jazz sessions, making the floor shake with his world beatfunk group Commotion or remolding classics, as he’s done with his now-infamous Afrobeat Michael Jackson tribute and will do again tonight. Not content to simply add shitloads of drums and horns behind songs like “Thriller,” Darwish spent hundreds of hours rethinking MJ’s catalog through the perspective of Fela and King Sunny, carving out intricately balanced compositions that completely morph the songs. Anyone can form a cover band. Darwish poured his heart into a true tribute not just to the King of Pop but to the Nigerian masters of getting down. AP KRYZA. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 2397639. 8:30 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Busdriver, Gray Matters, Cars & Trains, Half Man Half
[HI-HIP-HOP] When you can rap fast, folks tend to want you to do that. Los Angeles MC Regan Farquhar, better known as Busdriver, is capable of rapping real fast. But it’s easy to understand why Busdriver—still best known for recording the lightning-quick classical/hip-hop fusion cut “Imaginary Places” a decade ago—has resisted relying on dazzling displays of verbal jam-packing to gain an audience. There are black holes in Busdriver’s discography, though, that feel avant for avant’s sake, squeezing handfuls of sharp ideas into soft places with little regard for a bigger picture.
New disc Beaus$Eros, though, gets just about everything right. It has a feel all its own—sorta Cyndi Lauper meets trip-hop—and fantastic individual pieces (the pop gem “Kiss Me Back to Life”; the funny, dreamlike “Picking Band Names”) that form into an absolutely stunning whole. Seldom does groundbreaking production (by Belgian electronic producer Loden) meet masterful MCing— Beas$Eros is one of those records where it does. CASEY JARMAN. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry
[IRISH LULLABIES] I want to give some love to modern recording technology. Without it, a voice like Lisa Hannigan’s would lose its finest details. Each inhalation, each whisper and each tiny intonation is crucial to fully appreciating the songs she delicately spouts. They are like haunting secrets cooed in your ear. The Irish singer-songwriter—who played with Damien Rice’s band for a number of years—has since released two solo albums, including last fall’s Passenger. The decision to fly alone was a good one for a couple of reasons. For one, Hannigan’s solo stuff is far less depressing than Rice’s, and second, her talent is finally fully showcased the way it should be. While there’s no doubt she makes a lovely duet partner, Hannigan needs her own avenue for all of her stylistic idiosyncrasies to be revealed. EMILEE BOOHER. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. 21+.
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[ONE-MAN ELECTRONIC ORCHESTRA] This has been a good year for Adam Forkner. Already riding a wave of glowing press and fantastic live shows with his nu-soul project Purple and Green, he started off 2012 with a loud, wobbly splash via White Rainbow, his expansive melding of psychedelia and dance music. Forkner’s Infinity Beat Tape was a straight-up mind fuck, sinking into the central nervous system via warped, tunnel-vision beats and slippery vocal samples. His latest effort, a two-track single called Trick Shot, goes one step further with an opening track that rivals Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” in achieving a cinematic dynamism through 20 full minutes of electronic sound. ROBERT HAM. Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, 227-0116. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.
MONDAY, JUNE 25 Laura Marling, Willy Mason
[NU-FOLK] Back on April 11, a petite, fair-haired young folk singer
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FUTURE HISTORIANS SOMEHOW IT IS NOW (SELF-RELEASED)
[JANGLE FOLK] Dave Shur is a master of taking somberness and peppering it with giddiness and goofballery. He’s a melodic acrobat who can lull you into a folksy, dreamlike haze then snap you right out of it with a subtle assault of pop bliss that teeters on bubblegum without losing its flavor. On the Shur-led quintet Future Historians’ third effort, Somehow It Is Now, the group has matured beyond its excellent previous records. That’s not to say the group has ditched its knack for lacing lamentation with sugary bouts and “doo doo doo” choruses—those flourishes remain, though with less frequency, on an album marked by an increasingly mellow and soulful blend of folk, country and rock. It’s a record of contrasts, bounding between goofy rock numbers and laid-back balladry. Shur’s acoustic-guitar strumming is punctuated by Andrew Stern’s electric licks, which cut through songs like the twangy “So Long” and “This House Don’t Rattle,” which starts as a plucky folk tune before exploding into an all-out stomp-rock ruckus with the refrain “I lost a step/ I fell behind/ I lost my nerve and fell in line.” Perhaps most indicative of the band’s continued growth are the tracks that bookend the record. The opener, “Golden Age”— with Shur’s ethereal lyrics evoking childlike images of traveling the globe prodded along by Rob Iggulden’s driving drums—could well be mistaken for a Graceland-era Paul Simon outtake with added jangle pop. And the closing track, “Good Life”—which the band has played live for some time—is a feel-good anthem that laces together everything that makes the band great, with goofy lyrics about a couple’s journey through a world of sex tapes, rock tours and big-kid jobs set to an alt-country, jangle-rock tune that sticks in your head as much for its sweetness as its structure. It’s the perfect destination point for an album that plays like a journey through every emotion imaginable, held together by the glue of absurdism and bliss. Even when that adhesive is awash in tears, it sticks with you. AP KRYZA.
WITCH MOUNTAIN CAULDRON OF THE WILD (PROFOUND LORE)
[HEAVY METAL] Witch Mountain’s past two albums have traced a stylistic devolution—not a regrettable situation, seeing as the Portlandbased sludge-metal quartet (which features WW contributor Nathan Carson on drums) has defined its 15-year career by teaching new tricks to the old dogs of metal’s thunderous roots. Following close on the heels of 2011 comeback album South of Salem, Cauldron of the Wild continues Witch Mountain’s process of reverse aging. Behind the story-song mythos of “Lanky Rae” and the foot-dragging fuzz of “Shelter” hides a devotion to the Precambrian forms of metal that still made an open secret of their debts to blues and psychedelic rock. Cauldron of the Wild takes Black Sabbath’s down-tempo grind and follows the style to its logical endgame. The shortest of the LP’s six tracks clocks in at 5½ minutes, a natural consequence of composing your songs exclusively from breakdowns. Whereas on previous releases, Witch Mountain made room for occasional interludes of technical thrashing, Cauldron of the Wild relegates its sonic interest solely to the dirge. As on South of Salem, Ula Plotkin’s vocals steal the show. Able to produce back-to-back Platonic examples of a crystalline, Valkyrie’s alto as well as a subdemonic growl, Plotkin serves as the deciding factor in pushing Witch Mountain a head above its doom-metal compatriots. Cauldron of the Wild closes out with “Never Now”—a nineminute slow-burner that cuts Plotkin loose near the five-minute mark and lets her tear her way through the track’s remainder like a gale-force wind. On an album predisposed to overdosing on its colossal scale, it’s impressive that its best moments can still stand out as legitimately epic. SHANE DANAHER. SEE IT: Future Historians play Doug Fir Lounge on Wednesday, June 20, with Desert Noises and the World Radiant. 8 pm. $5. 21+. Witch Mountain plays Backspace on Saturday, June 23, with Lord Dying and Spellcaster. 9 pm. $10. All ages. 58
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MONDAY-TUESDAY stood on tiptoes to reach her microphone, opened her mouth and proceeded to take away the collective breath of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall’s audience. Her voice was clear and disarmingly genuine, and she picked at her guitar with nimble confidence. At the time, Laura Marling was opening up for Andrew Bird, but she returns to Portland as a headliner on the 26th. Originally from Hampshire, Marling introduced herself to the English nu-folk community when she was 16, performing with the once-ubiquitous Noah and the Whale. She then ventured out on her own with the thoughtful Alas, I Cannot Swim in 2008. Now, at 22, she has further matured her sound; her third album, A Creature I Don’t Know, has more than a touch of Joni Mitchell’s sweet poetics, as well as Joan Osborne’s world-weary edge. Bring a sweater; the chills don’t stop. NORA EILEEN JONES. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
Russian Circles, And So I Watch You from Afar, Crypts
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[BATTLESHIP POSTMETAL] A Midwestern just-this-side-ofinstrumental trio trailing impeccable facility and ineffable name (apparently referencing a routine practices by the 1980 Red Army hockey team), Russian Circles’ post-rock defies coherent summary, which hasn’t yet stopped worshipful critics from attempting to divine order from the post-rock entrails. In truth, fourth album Empros’ furious bursts of a proficiency beyond reckoning—moments of ethereal grace swirl chockablock with a foretold brutality; nods to earlier acts neither comment upon nor complement the riff-strewn maelstrom and suggest only an infernal design—could as easily be meant to soundtrack skating exercises as the militaristic devastation that’s typically offered as a metaphor for the band’s sound. JAY HORTON. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 8:30 pm. $15. 21+.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Hawthorne Heights, Forever Came Calling, Failsafe, Super Prime, Chin Up Rocky, The Brightest
[THE SCREAM RETURNS] The boys of Hawthorne Heights are still cutting their wrists and blacking their eyes with the best of them. One would swear it was summer 2005 again listening to “New Winter,” one of the tracks off the band’s new Hope EP: The guitars churn, the scream is back, and the lyrics are refreshingly full of teenage despair and Midwestern nostalgia (their hearts are still in Ohio!). Hope is the second of three new EPs promised within the next year; Hate came out in 2011, and diehard HH fans are left waiting for the third. Though the band’s sound may not be for everyone, it has definitely solidified and become as mature as emo pop punk can get. Now that lead guitarist Micah Carli has stepped up to fill the big black Chuck Taylors of ex-vocalist and guitarist Casey Calvert, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007, the band’s sound has become stronger, moodier and more capable of speaking to teenage woes than ever. NORA EILEEN JONES. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 6 pm. $10 advance, $13 day of show. All ages.
Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside
Di Di Mau, Youthbitch, Modern Lives
[POST-PUNK] Of the many bands that regularly attempt to ape Joy Division’s steez, only a rare few synthesize the off-kilter energy that defined that group’s appeal in the first place. Di Di Mau, a quartet hailing from this very city, is one of that chosen number. By mixing Ian Curtis’ monotone laments with the squalid momentum of Bad Brains and the omnipresent combustibility of At the Drive-In, Di Di Mau has produced a series of engrossing, 90-second squalls paradoxically engaging in both their visceral and intellectual respects. And in case you’re curious, “di di mau” is Vietnamese for “go quickly.” SHANE DANAHER. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 10 pm. $3. 21+.
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Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Skip vonKuske, Eric Stern and Ashia
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Muriel Anderson, John Doan
Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Session, Our First Brains, Profcal
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Robert Richter
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Stringed Migration
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Monkey Trick (Jesus Lizard tribute), 1-2 Buckle My Shoe
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Jazz Jam with Errick Lewis & the Regiment House Band
Cartopia
SE Hawthorne Blvd. & SE 12th Ave. School of Rock (Minor Threat tribute), Bad Music
Doug Fir Lounge
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9:30 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)
East Burn
Laughing Horse Books
12 NE 10th Ave. Hides, Don Peyote, Young Dad
LaurelThirst
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18 NW 3rd Ave. Rip, Holy Grove, Party Foul, DJ Creepy Crawl
Valentine’s
1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam
2958 NE Glisan St. Joliff (9 pm); Counterfeit Cash (6 pm)
East India Co.
Lents Commons
232 SW Ankeny St. Huntress; Upstairs, Downstairs; Derek Monypeny
Mississippi Studios
836 N Russell St. The Fur Coats
821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Mark Matos & Os Beaches, Yuni in Taxco
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Early Hours, Trio Flux
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Southern Lord Tour: Poison Idea, Black Breath, Martyrdod, Burning Love, Enabler
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio (8 pm); Jim Templeton (5 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Roy Zimmerman (Oregon Center for Public Policy benefit)
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eggplant, SS Curmudgeon, Patti King
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)
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Songwriter Roundup
9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ezra Furman, On the Stairs
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Xambuca and Saifir, Irr. App., Ricardo Wang, Squim, Ecomorti, Ryan Ray Accumulation
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Tropical Popsicle, Elliot Tinsley, DJ Ikon
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. P.R.O.B.L.E.M.S., Modern Pets
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Bastards of Young (The Replacements tribute)
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Heathen Shrine, Mutant Supremacy, Sadgiqacea, Hivelords
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King
White Eagle Saloon
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Shelly Rudolph
Thurs. JUNE 21 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. Skip vonKuske, Will West, Ashleigh Flynn, Groovy Wallpaper
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jonathan Coulton, John Roderick (of the Long Winters)
Alberta Rose Theatre
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Snarl!, Brain Capital, The Rushmores, Sons of the Late DC
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Fringe Class, Ghostapes, Small Places
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Sloe Loris
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Acoustic Jam
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Icarus the Owl, Shelter Red, It Came From the Sea, Baltic to Boardwalk, My Mantle
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Dan Duval & Bill Athens
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Brooks Robertson, Chance Hayden, Andrew Gorney
3000 NE Alberta St. Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra’s Funk ‘n’ Groove Workshop Band, The Heavy Brothers, The Top-Hat Confederacy
Chapel Pub
Alberta Street Public House
Corkscrew Wine Bar
1036 NE Alberta St. Janet Robin, Brian McGinty, Stephen Baker (9:30 pm); Coleen Raney (7 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Matices
Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave.
Rhett Miller & the Serial Lady Killers, The Spring Standards
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Countryside Ride (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place No More Train Ghosts, WORK, Jollapin Jasper
Funhouse Lounge
2432 SE 11th Ave. The Heevees, Curious Hands, Obnobs
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Polecat, Renegade String Band
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, Revocation, On Enemy Soil, Nemesis
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Tango Pacifico (7:30 pm); Mark Simon (4:30 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Andrew Oliver with Tunnel Six, Blue Cranes
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. No More Parachutes
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Cars & Trains, Ascetic Junkies, Siren & the Sea
Kenton Club
430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin
2025 N Kilpatrick St. B-Fifty Thousand, Shy Seasons, Mycelium
Clyde’s Prime Rib
Laughing Horse Books
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Boy and Bean
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Carlton Melton, White Manna, Glitter Wizard, Bison Bison
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.
12 NE 10th Ave. ++++, Bear Trap, Peaks
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Debbie Clinkenbeard, Robert Richter, Brad Creel & the Reel Deel (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. David Friesen and Glen Moore
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Will Coca, Kelsey Lindstrom, Faeroplane (9 pm); Amanda Christine, Rhea Makiaris (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rose’s Pawn Shop, Buoy LaRue
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Janet Robin
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb
Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. Lady Elaine
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Children of the Plow
Rose Garden
1401 N Wheeler Ave. Nickelback, Bush, Seether, My Darkest Days
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Tumbledown House, The Ukeladies
2201 N Killingsworth St. My Fellow Traveler, James Faretheewell
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Lynn Conover
Bipartisan Cafe
7901 SE Stark St. Cardboard Songsters
Branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Skelator, Last Empire, Tanagra, Ritual Healing
Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Djangophiles
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Dryland Farmers Band
Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. SuperJazzers
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. ON-Q Band
Dante’s
Sellwood Public House
Spare Room
830 E Burnside St. 2:54, Widowspeak
8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Original Music Showcase with Sam Densmore
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Leaves Russell, dKOTA, Rollie Fingers
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Hornet Leg, Neighbors, Fine Pets
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Sadgiqacea, Hivelords, Tsepesch, Usnea 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sneaky Tiki and the Lava Lounge Orchestra
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Bear and Moose, Duover, Rat Bite Fever
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Tin Silver, The Local Strangers, Fort Union (8:30 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)
Fri. JUNE 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Skip vonKuske, Carmina Luna
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. Sons of the Late DC, Vantucky Ramblers (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Rueda
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. TheGoodSons, Knox Harrington, My Journey Between the Holes
Backspace
The Nu girl: Laura Marling plays the Aladdin Theater on Monday, June 25.
Beaterville Cafe
350 W Burnside St. The Skabbs, Deep Fried Boogie Band, Magnetic Health Factory
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Duff’s Garage
Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band
Artichoke Community Music
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Doug Fir Lounge
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Franco Paletta & the Stingers, Boogie Bone (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Fresh Track
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Goregon Massacre Festival: Phobia, Mass Grave, Bloody Phoenix, Roskopp, Dis, Transience, Sorrower, Streetwalker, Theories, Six Brew Banthia, Night Nurse, Wilt, Burials, Worthless Eaters
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Fanno Creek, Brite Lines, Boreas
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Iceland, The Silent Numbers
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Michael the Blind, Jack Ruby Presents, Sean Spellman
Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Ezra Weiss Sextet (8 pm); Wade Kirtley (5 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Frank McComb, Patrick Lamb
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Muddy River Nightmare Band, Minty Rosa, Avenue Victor Hugo
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Back Alley Barbers, Cherry City Deadbeats, Baby Le’Strange, Lucky Lucy O Rebel
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ex-Girlfriends Club, Sugar Sugar Sugar, Howlin’ Wino
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CALENDAR
BAR SPOTLIGHT
Dante’s
VIVIANJOHNSON.COM
350 W Burnside St. Nicky Croon & the Swingin’ Richards (Rat Pack tribute)
Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Friends, Splash!
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Shanghai Woolies
East Burn
1800 E Burnside St. Bottleneck Blues Band
East End
2 LEGIT 2 QUIT: The MC Hammer card is a good omen. Hanging at Coalition Brewing (2724 SE Ankeny St., 894-8080, coalitionbrewing.com), it shows MC at his peak, gold harem pants in full flutter. He is untouchable by U, me or anyone else at this cozy tasting room. I had the exact same card as a child; some kismet is at work here. Unfortunately, my growler is dirty. “Oh, I can clean that.” I’d love to taste the porter. “Great, and here, try the hefe, too—it’s fresh.” I try to Shazam the song playing on the stereo above the din of a crowd that’s filled every seat inside and out, most people chatting and one table of guys watching an NBA playoff game on their laptop. “Brother Ali is what you’re looking for,” says the bartender. The bill doesn’t look right. “Oh, Wednesdays are $2.50 pint night. You picked the right time to come.” Stop, so this is Hammertime? MARTIN CIZMAR.
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Freak Mountain Ramblers (9:30 pm); James Low Western Front (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, 4 on the Floor (9 pm); Troy Richmond Dixon Band (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Joey Porter (Sly & the Family Stone tribute)
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Big Monti
Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli
2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood
Pendarvis Farm
16581 SE Hagen Road Dixie Mattress Festival: Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, Stunt Poets, Quasi Horse
Peter’s Room
8 NW 6th Ave. Y & T, Broken, Garden of Eden
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Raw and Order, Vamonos, Raw Dog and the Close Calls, Mouthwash Enema
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Ever So Android, Der Spazm
Spare Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. Johnny Credit and the Cash Machine, DJ AM Gold (Willie Nelson tribute)
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Mark Gardener, Sky Parade, Hawkeye
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Pat Stilwell Band
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The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. New Solution
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Kontrasekt, Frustration, Funeral Parade, Terokal, DJ Ahex
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Mentes Ajenas
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Griefhammer, Pinkzilla, Doomsower, Wolfpussy
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Evvnflo, The Greencarts
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. The Hard Bop Collective
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. John English (Frank Sinatra tribute)
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Lincoln Crockett, Halelupe, Michelle Klopper Band (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Dick Berk with Pete Matenverni
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. This Charming Band (The Smiths tribute), For the Masses (Depeche Mode tribute), Xploding Boys (The Cure tribute)
SAT. JUNE 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Alberta Street Public House
1036 NE Alberta St. The Old States, Riviera, Paula Sinclair (9:30 pm); Carl Solomon (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio
Artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Jill Cohn Trio
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. The Drawingboard, The Burning Bridges, The Hit Man Harts, Saturn Cowboys, Starts with a C
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Witch Mountain, Lord Dying, Spellcaster
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St. Elke Robitaille, Gabby Holt, Anna-Lisa
Biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Jim Boyer Band (9:30 pm); The Barkers (6:30 pm)
3416 N Lombard St. Weirding Module, Frozen Cloak, Fellwoods
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Barrett Martin Group, Philly’s Phunkestra
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Van Hunt, Arjay, The Love Loungers
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Commotion, Excellent Gentleman, DJ Hanukkah Miracle (Afrobeat Michael Jackson tribute)
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Hard Bop Collective (8 pm); Laura Cunard (5 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Heavy Voodoo, Crag Dweller, Wounded Giant, Doomsower
Record Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Dirty Kid Discount, The Warshers, Back Alley Barbers, Taint Misbehavin’, Town and the Writ, Boston T-Rex
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Busdriver, Gray Matters, Cars & Trains, Half Man Half
Scottish Rite Center 1512 SW Morrison St. The Portland Lesbian Choir
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Margo Tufo
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Professor Gall and the Eager Beavers
The Know
317 NW Broadway Vice Riot, Swampsurfer, Castdown
Tonic Lounge
LaurelThirst
Tony Starlight’s
5012 NE 28th Ave. Operative, Bee Mask, Matt Carlson
Lucky’s
440 NE 28th Ave. Thë Ünïcörnz
Mill Ends Tavern
833 SW Naito Parkway Erotic City (Prince tribute); Tracy Klas
Mission Theater
Brasserie Montmartre
Mississippi Pizza
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Morettii
Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Gaea Schell and Dave Bones
Trader Vic’s
1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Deepest Darkest, Brave Julius, Welfare (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Dick Berk with Pete Matenverni
Wilshire Tavern
626 SW Park Ave. Pete Krebs Trio (9 pm); Eddie Parente Trio (5:30 pm)
Mississippi Studios
4052 NE 42nd Ave. Bubble Cats, Rllrbll, Gutters
Buffalo Gap Saloon
Mount Tabor Theater
128 NE Russell St. Lisa Hannigan, Joe Henry
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. JGB, Melvin Seals
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Matthew Lindley Commission, Jeff Campbell
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. Scott Lucas and the Married Men, Mission Spotlight
Camellia Lounge
Alberta Rose Theatre
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Randy Star Band
Clyde’s Prime Rib
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Men, Hurry Up, Hausu
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Mission Spotlight
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew, Dave Captein & Randy Rollofson
Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Cool Breeze
Wonder Ballroom
SUN. JUNE 24 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, The Don of Division Street
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Tigress, Panama Gold, A Moment of Substance
Beaterville Cafe
2201 N Killingsworth St.
1036 NE Alberta St. Les Racquet (9:30 pm); Devon McClive, Harrison Fulop (6:30 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Atlas and the Astronaut, Blast Suppression, Manx
Backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. The Stephen Losambras
Branx
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
320 SE 2nd Ave. Hawthorne Heights, Forever Came Calling, Failsafe, Super Prime, Chin Up Rocky, The Brightest
203 SE Grand Ave. K-Holes, The Shivas, Hurry Up, DJ Magic Beans
Ash Street Saloon
Bunk Bar
Ella Street Social Club
115 NW 5th Ave. Battery-Powered Music
1635 SE 7th Ave. Wendy DeWitt
714 SW 20th Place White Rainbow, Heavy Hawaii, Megazord, Eye Myths
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Neo G Yo, Dual Mode, DJ Winston Lane, DJ HAR-1
Hawthorne Theatre
Landmark Saloon
2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Cry, The Satin Chaps, Sundaze, DJ Drew Groove
Little Axe Records
Alberta Street Public House
350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret, Dead Animal Assembly Plant, Strangeletter
Slabtown
The Blue Diamond
Aladdin Theater
Dante’s
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dylan Jakobsen, Capture the Flag, Moneta, Summer Soundtrack, The Last Department
1033 NW 16th Ave. Hot Apostles, Antique Scream, Holy Children
303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Laura Marling, Willy Mason
116 NE Russell St. Z’Bumba (9 pm); The Martens Combination (6 pm)
Secret Society Lounge
Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
Clyde’s Prime Rib
East End
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Original Middleage Ska Enjoy Club, DJ Simmerdown
2958 NE Glisan St. Huckle, Big E, Brad Parsons (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)
6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan
Red Room
Kelly’s Olympian
Kenton Club
Biddy McGraw’s
Duff’s Garage
Tiger Bar
426 SW Washington St. Wizard Boots, Bob & the Dangerous Brothers, Brother Elf
Doc McTear’s Medicine Show
8 NE Killingsworth St. Doomsower, Hellstroms Five
221 NW 10th Ave. Linda Hornbuckle
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Krebsic Orekstar (9 pm); The Hill Dogs (6 pm); Tallulah’s Daddy (4 pm)
320 SE 2nd Ave. Nickel Arcade, The Globalist, I Digress, Stories and Soundtracks
16581 SE Hagen Road Dixie Mattress Festival: Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, Mexican Gunfight, John Shipe & John Gilroy, Reverend Brimstone
2026 NE Alberta St. School Knights, Pataha Hiss, Welsh Bowmen
Branx
303 SW 12th Ave. Skip vonKuske, Groovy Wallpaper Allstars
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1624 NW Glisan St. School of Rock (Jimi Hendrix tribute)
510 NW 11th Ave. Circle 3 Trio
3000 NE Alberta St. Martin Zarzar
203 SE Grand Ave. Goregon Massacre Festival: Cianide, Gravehill, Dead Conspiracy, Cardiac Arrest, Skarp, Blood Freak, Coffin Dust, Bone Sickness, Elitist, Heavy Voodoo, Scourge Schematic, The Drip, Shroud of the Heretic
Pendarvis Farm
4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Dan Haley & Tim Acott (9:30 pm); Freak Mountain Ramblers (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Jeff Martin, Gwenyth & Marko (9 pm); Christine Havrilla, Gypsy Fuzz (6 pm)
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Ramune Rocket 3
NEPO 42
5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic
Pendarvis Farm
16581 SE Hagen Road Dixie Mattress Festival: Jerry Joseph & the Jackmormons, Jeff Crosby Band, John Shipe Band
225 SW Ash St. Open Mic
Backspace
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Russian Circles, And So I Watch You from Afar, Crypts
Duff’s Garage
1028 SE Water Ave. Di Di Mau, Youthbitch, Modern Lives
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Madi Diaz, Harper Blynn
Duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Dover Weinberg Quartet (9 pm); Trio Bravo (6 pm)
Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Les Racquet, Sleepwalk Kid, Dead Teeth
1635 SE 7th Ave. Blues Train (8 pm); Paula Sinclair (5:30 pm)
Goodfoot Lounge
Goodfoot Lounge
Hawthorne Theatre
2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Aesthetic Perfection, [x]Rx, BlakOpz, Dead When I Found Her
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Dick Hyman (Portland Chamber Orchestra benefit)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. LaBella, The Outliers
LaurelThirst
2845 SE Stark St. Jujuba
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Aer, OCD: Moosh & Twist, Calvin Valentine
Ivories
1435 NW Flanders St. Get the Blessing
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Septet (8 pm); Tree Palmedo (6:30 pm)
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jeff Crosby & the Refugees (9 pm); Jackstraw (6 pm)
2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens (9 pm); Portland Country Underground (6 pm)
Mississippi Pizza
Mission Theater
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Baby Dee, Tim Cohen
1624 NW Glisan St. The Mountain Goats (solo set)
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Virtue Brothers
Mississippi Studios
Plan B
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben (kids’ show)
1305 SE 8th Ave. Chop Top, Danny D. Harvey, The Strikers, Radio Threat
Mississippi Studios
Record Room
4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band Jam
Mount Tabor Theater
Roseland Theater
Star Theater
Plan B
Rotture
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Denver, Celilo
Spare Room
13 NW 6th Ave. Urban Sub All-Stars
The Blue Monk
3341 SE Belmont St. Hard Bop Collective
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Order of the Gash, Sorrower, Slaugh
Mississippi Pizza
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers, Mark Pickerel 4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Straight Line Stitch 1305 SE 8th Ave. Phalgeron, Heathen Shrine, Sarcalogos
Star Theater
The Bing Lounge
The Blue Monk
The Blue Diamond
The Know
Tillicum Club
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Soulmates
8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet
The Firkin Tavern
Tonic Lounge
Tiger Bar
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Quetzal, Dopebeds, Fatha Green
White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Open Mic
MON. JUNE 25
315 SE 3rd Ave. Radio Moscow, The Dirty Streets, Billions and Billions
The Blue Diamond
The Waypost
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Satin Chaps, Brothers of the Last Watch, The Prids, The Pynnacles, Holy Children, Ninja, The Gnash, Giant Bug Village, Beyond Veronica
8 NW 6th Ave. Kid Ink
13 NW 6th Ave. Ants in the Kitchen, Brian Harrison & the Last Draw 1210 SW 6th Ave. Les Racquet
3120 N Williams Ave. The Weather Machine
8 NE Killingsworth St. Bath Party, Cigarette Burns, Objects in Space
1937 SE 11th Ave. Karaoke
317 NW Broadway Tetramorphic, Chapters End, Filth Machine
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Brain Drain, DJ Matt Scaphism
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Bass Mandolin, Gideon Freudmann
TUES. JUNE 26 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, Chris Marshall
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones 3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band 2026 NE Alberta St. Dirty Filthy Mugs, Rum Rebellion, Thorntown Tallboys
Thirsty Lion
71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Tiger Bar
317 NW Broadway Franco Pietta, AC Lov Ring
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Julie O. Show
Troubadour Studio
1020 SE Market St. Sloths, Habits, Counterfloods, Outliers, The Psychonaut
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Will West, The Druthers, The Sale
MUSIC D R O I D B E H AV I O R . C O M
CALENDAR
WONDER TWINS: Raíz plays Refuge on Friday, June 22.
Trance Mission with DJ Zoxy
18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Wels (10 pm); Saturdazed with DJ GH (7 pm)
Tube
Valentine’s
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Baron
WED. JUNE 20 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Nick Bindeman
Ground Kontrol
FRI. JUNE 22 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel
303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Anjali & the Incredible Kid
511 NW Couch St. TRONix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie
Beech Street Parlor
Holocene
CC Slaughters
1001 SE Morrison St. Rice, Beans & Collard Greens: DJ Equestrian, Boyjoy, DJ Common Denominator
Red Cap Garage
1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser
Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Proper Movement
Ted’s (at Berbati’s)
231 SW Ankeny St. World Music Dance Party with DJ Jason Catalyst
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ William the Bloody
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell
THURS. JUNE 21 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Maxamillion
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Closer Festival: Barry Weaver, Mario Maroto, Maximus, Sappho
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Classixx, RAC, American Girls
Refuge
116 SE Yamhill St. Solstice Pre-Funk-10: Pumpkin, Solovox, Woo AllStars
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Closer Festival: Hesohi, Manoj (9 pm); DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes (3 pm)
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Synthicide: Tom Jones, Erica Jones, Jared White, Luke Buser
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coloured Glass
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Purple Crush (10 pm); DJ Sethro Tull (7 pm)
412 NE Beech St. DJ Old Frontier
219 NW Davis St. Sound Glitter with Peter Calandra
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox
Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice
Gold Dust Meridian
3267 SE Hawthorne Blvd. DJ Drew Groove
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Closer Festival: Vize, Suff-X, Echoik, DJ Tronic
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Happy Life Solution: DJs Solomon, Hojo, vVv, Initial P
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. Closer Festival: Raíz, Cyanwave, Jak, Ryan Walz, Miss Vixen
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Closer Festival: Dave Aju, Audioelectronic, Gold Code, Mutor, Caltrop
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Blank Fridays
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. Closer Festival: Elan, Graintable, Tyler Tastemaker, Carrier, Rap Class
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid
The Whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave.
Tube
Tiga
18 NW 3rd Ave. Hoodrich with DJ Ronin Roc (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Allan Wilson
SAT. JUNE 23 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Standing 8
CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb
Colonel Summers Park
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Ted
SUN. JUNE 24 Director Park
815 SW Park Ave. Closer Festival: Marcus Fischer and the Oo-Ray, Ethernet, Widesky, Wndfrm, Mike Jedlicka
Matador
1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t
Plan B
1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive with DJ Owen
SE 20th Ave. & SE Belmont Closer Festival: Piltdown Sound, The Perfect Cyn, Jon Ad, Kala, Matt E Star, Dan Craig, Jak, Audioelectronic, Michael Grimes, Josh Romo
CC Slaughters
Element Restaurant & Lounge
Ground Kontrol
1135 SW Morrison St. Closer Festival: Jon Cates, Ernest Ryan, Anna Langley, Tronic
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz
Groove Suite
440 NW Glisan St. Closer Festival: [A]pendics.Shuffle, Bryan Zentz, Centrikal, Lilroj
Ground Kontrol
511 NW Couch St. Roxy’s Ego Hour
Gypsy Restaurant & Lounge 625 NW 21st Ave. DJ Velvet
Palace of Industry
5426 N Gay Ave. DJs Bang Tidy, LankyLad
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Closer Festival: Audio Soul Project, The Architects, DJ Mercedes, Mason Roberts, Micah McNelly
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Darkness Descends with DJ Maxamillion
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. White Woman, Jizz Wisard
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Closer Festival: 6Blocc, Djunya, Jon Ad, Ryan Organ, Monkeytek
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Roy D Scratcher
MON. JUNE 25 219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious
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511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. Metal Mondays! with DJ Blackhawk
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Rat Creeps
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Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Stylss: Quarry, El Cucuy, Photon, Shk Tht, Frankeee B
TUES. JUNE 26 CC Slaughters
219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb
Eagle Portland
835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal
The Crown Room
205 NW 4th Ave. See You Next Tuesday: Kellan, Avery
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Straylight
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. David Fulton
Tube
18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ OverCol (7 pm)
Yes and No
20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog
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THEATER Death/Sex: Portland
Milepost 5’s resident theater company, Post5 Theatre, presents a collection of comic pieces about death and/ or sex. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through June 23. $10.
Hamlet
Shakespeare’s doomed Danish prince in Portland’s oldest cemetery? Spooky! Portland Actors Ensemble presents the tragedy. Lone Fir Cemetery, Southeast 26th Avenue and Stark Street, 467-6573. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through July 14. Free.
It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues
The history of the blues is complex, meandering its way from rhythmic African chants to Southern spirituals to Chicago pop hits. In Portland Center Stage’s final production of the season, however, this history gets only shallow treatment. That’s a shame. The show is a rousing, entertaining jaunt, but for those unschooled in the development of the genre, more guidance would have been helpful. The more than 30 musical numbers in It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues unfold chronologically. The performers, largely out-of-towners, are terrific and varied: Mississippi Charles Bevel shows phenomenal range and soulful restraint; Jennifer Leigh Warren has powerhouse pipes and endearing spunk; and Sugaray Rayford is built like a linebacker but whips out some of the show’s smoothest dance moves. Director Randal Myler, one of the five creators of the show, keeps the staging simple and the choreography subtle. As a musical revue, It Ain’t Nothin’ is delightful. But as a piece of theater, it lacks something. The title describes the show literally; I wanted a little more. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 Saturdays-Sundays. Through June 24. $39-$69.
Measure for Measure
Northwest Classical Theatre Company closes its season with a production of Shakespeare’s last (and most nihilistic) comedy. Butch Flowers directs. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2pm Sundays. $18-$20.
Mormon Redneck Thespian
CoHo Productions stages Cory Huff’s one-man show about growing up as a redneck surrounded by Mormonism, drugs and abuse, and how he eventually found enlightenment. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2050715. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday. $15.
A Night in Parris
Capitalizing on the current zombie craze, Monkey With a Hat On presents a performance from Justin Parris, featuring a zombie-themed game show, interactive theater (uh-oh), live music and a screening of The Ballerina Corpse, a silent zombie romantic comedy. The Piano Fort, 1715 SE Spokane St., 314-6474. 8 pm Monday, June 25. $5.
November
Elizabeth Huffman directs a production of David Mamet’s snarky Oval Office farce for JANE, A Theater Company. Brian Harcourt stars as a beleaguered and corrupt incumbent with bleak reelection prospects. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 816-5444. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays through July 21. $20.
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival bills its performances as
more championship sports game than stodgy theatrical production, featuring minimal rehearsal, improvised blocking and energetic audience interaction. This summer, the company stages As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night in parks around Portland. Multiple locations, 890-6944. Times vary, see opsfest.org. Free.
Twelve Angry Women
Move over, Henry Fonda—Magenta Theater stages the classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men with an allwoman cast. Magenta Theater, 606 Main St., Vancouver, 360-635-4358. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays June 23 and 30. $12-$15.
Two Houses
An improvised romance culminating in a wedding. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays. $8-$10.
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Chamber Music Northwest
The annual summer festival opens its 42nd season with the soon-toretire Tokyo String Quartet, playing two of the greatest of all chamber works, Claude Debussy’s dazzling 1893 String Quartet and Mendelssohn’s brilliant Octet for strings, the work of a 16-year-old prodigy who already sounded like a master. The appropriately youthful Amphion String Quartet, who received audience raves in their previous CMNW appearance, joins the fun. The third entry, Mozart’s tuneful Oboe Quartet, would be the star on most other programs, especially since soloist Stephen Taylor plays with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and several other major chamber ensembles. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 8 pm Monday, June 25. $15-$50.
AMP THEATER PRESENTS DR. SEUSS
Dick Hyman, Gerald Robbins
Octogenarian jazz legend Hyman joins various local jazzers to play some of the innumerable classics he’s mastered in a career spanning more than six decades. The lifetime New Yorker, who scored most of Woody Allen’s most famous films, and former jazz adviser to Eugene’s Oregon Festival of American Music has lately been appearing elsewhere in Oregon, including this year’s gig with the Portland Chamber Orchestra, which this concert benefits. Robbins will open with light classical piano music. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 6:30 pm Monday, June 25. $25-$35.
themes. Studio Two, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm Saturday, June 23. $15-$20.
AMP Theater presents Dr. Seuss
A musical circus interpretation of beloved stories by good ol’ Mr. Geisel. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 5 and 9:30 pm Saturday, 7:30 pm Sunday, June 23-24. $15.
Allie Hankins
Late-night comedy show with improv, sketch and stand-up. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 10 pm every second and fourth Saturday. $5.
Anyone who missed the sublime women’s vocal ensemble’s April performance of music composed and inspired by the medieval mystic and abbess Hildegard of Bingen is commanded to get to the Gorge Music Festival’s encore performance. Hood River Riverside Community Church, 317 W State St., Hood River, 283-2913. 7:30 pm Friday, June 22. Donation.
Famed turn-of-last-century ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky’s life and work has been a wellspring of inspiration for generations of choreographers, including Allie Hankins, a member of the Seattle-based performance group Salt Horse. In Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth, Hankins draws from some of Nijinsky’s most notable roles, as well as from her own experience, to create work that speaks to transformation, isolation, desire and movement’s capacity to move its viewers in myriad ways. Nationale , 811 E Burnside St., Suite 112. 7 pm Saturday, June 23. $3, free for members.
Open Court
Junior Symphony of Vancouver
Groove National’s Power Dance Concert
Comedy Monster Open Mic
Open mic hosted by Jen Allen and Mandie Allietta. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 4779477. 9:30 pm every first and third Thursday. Free.
Mixology
In Mulieribus
Team-based, long-form improv open to audience members and performers of all stripes. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm every first and third Thursday. $5.
New director Collin Heade leads the orchestra in music by Lully, Handel, Richard Meyer and more. Vancouver First Church of God, 3300 NE 78th St., Vancouver, (360) 696-4084. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 23. $10.
The Weekly Recurring Humor Night
Sandra Hyslop, Leslie Garman, David Ewart
A comedy showcase hosted by Whitney Streed. Tonic Lounge, 3100 NE Sandy Blvd., 238-0543. 9:30 pm Wednesdays. “Pay what you want,” $3-$5 suggested. 21+.
CLASSICAL Astoria Music Festival
The expanded festival continues Wednesday with a multimedia upgrade: a family friendly, live, realtime 3-D video accompanying the Los Angeles virtuosi’s performance of Vivaldi’s famous Baroque violin concertos, The Four Seasons, and their late-20th-century Argentine counterparts (played last month by the Oregon Symphony) by Ástor Piazzolla, plus music by Saint-Saëns and Erik Satie. Friday’s chamber concert includes a fabulous Schubert piano fantasy, Francis Poulenc’s bountifully breezy Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet and, possibly the greatest music ever written by a teenager, Mendelssohn’s magnificent Octet. Saturday’s orchestral Brahmsfest includes his popular Academic Festival Overture, Symphony No. 2 and the mighty Double Concerto. Sunday’s Viennese matinee features music from Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Haydn’s gorgeous Cello Concerto No. 1 and Mozart’s most famous piano concerto with the dreamy slow movement—“No. 21”—plus one of his ebullient concert arias. All performances are at the Liberty Theater, except Wednesday’s, which is at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (588 16th St. Astoria). Liberty Theater, 1203 Commercial St., 224-8499. 7:30 pm Wednesday and Friday, 4 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday and 4 pm Sunday, June 20-24. $15-$40.
The pianist, singer and violinist team up for music by Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Sousa, Irving Berlin and more. Tabor Heights United Methodist Church, 6161 SE Stark St. 4 pm Sunday, June 24. $5 suggested donation.
Timucin Cevikoglu
The Ankara-based percussionist, neyflute player and singer plays Turkish classical and Sufi devotional music with an ensemble composed of his American students. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St., 703-2435. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 23. $15.
ViVoce
Portland Revels’ women’s a cappella vocal ensemble performs songs and stories from Eastern Europe, the British Isles and beyond, plus sacred works by two of the best Renaissance composers, William Byrd and Tomás Luis de Victoria, and music by folkmusic-influenced, early-20th-century composer Zoltán Kodály. St. Michael and All Angels Church, 1704 NE 43rd Ave., 284-7141. 7:30 pm Saturday and 4:30 pm Sunday, June 23-24. $12-$15.
DANCE 9 Ladies Dance Theatre
Archetypal female characters— mothers, seductresses, waifs and warrior queens—come alive in Flirtility Rites, an evening of traditional and contemporary belly dance from 9 Ladies Dance Theatre. Guided by storyteller and mistress of ceremonies Nico Bella, the dancers draw from a range of cultures and time periods to create a kind of dance theater that shares variations on recurring
Dancers of all ages stage a summer concert that ranges by genre from hip-hop to tap. Skyview High School, 1300 NW 139th St., Vancouver. 6 pm Saturday, June 23. Price TBD.
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest
Catch dinner and a show at the same time as Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Northwest stages Feedback, a live performance and dinner centered on food trucks. As part of the 3-year-old company’s ongoing mission to stage sitespecific contemporary dance, the show combines choreography—performed by Reed College dance-department head Carla Mann and Teeth dancer Noel Plemmons, among others, who danced in and around an Airstream trailer parked in lower Albina—with original music and food from Portland’s Koi Fusion food truck. The show serves as a kind of appetizer to the company’s main course, to be served up in August: Expulsion, a collaboration with Disjecta and Painted Sky Northstar Native American dance company, danced on three stories of scaffolding. 8:30 pm Saturday, June 23. $60.
London Calling
It’s not every day you encounter a gin-and-tonic bar. Then again, it’s not every day a Portland dance company gets a gig at the Olympics. London Calling, a benefit for the Northwest Dance Project’s stint at this year’s Olympic arts festival, has a British theme, with the aforementioned bar and dinner from Equinox, British songs song by jazz chanteuse Susannah Mars, a live auction with wine tours and vacation packages and a performance of the piece the company is taking to London: Ihsan Rustem’s State of Matter, winner of the 2011 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest. Vagabond Opera’s Eric Stern serves as the master of ceremonies. Northwest Dance Project Studio & Performance Center, 833 N Shaver St., 421-7434. 6:30 pm Saturday, June 23. $125.
PICA Symposium: Bodies, Identities and Alternative Economies
For years, Bay Area choreographer Keith Hennessy has made thoughtprovoking theatrical dance about the times we live in, turning AIDS, gentrification, war and, most recently, financial upheaval into art that makes you laugh, gasp and squirm. Longtime Portland dance fans will remember him from his visit with the exhilarating Contraband company back in the ’80s. This time around, he and his company take up a weeklong residency at PICA’s Bodies, Identities and Alternative Economies, a series of multi-disciplinary performances and conversations about issues in contemporary art and society. The series includes a performance of Hennessy’s Bessie award-winning solo, Crotch, on a sculpture-filled stage (8 pm Thursday, June 21, at Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont St., $15-$20); dialogue and dinner with Hennessy and A.L. Steiner (7 pm Friday, June 22, at PICA, 415 SW 10th Ave., rsvp@pica.org) and an open rehearsal for Hennessy’s Turbulence, a dance about the economy, which premieres at this fall’s TBA Festival (2 pm Saturday, June 23, at Studio 2). Happy-hour reading groups and various other events and discussions are also slated as part of the series. Check pica.org for the full schedule. PICA, 224 NW 13th Ave., 242-1419. Various times Thursday-Sunday, June 21-24. Free admission, various prices for workshops.
Risk/Reward
Hand2Mouth Theatre’s festival of new performances from the west coast returns for a fifth year with a terrific lineup including Seattle alt-clown Jeppa K. Hall’s Queen Shmooquan. I am.; Anacortes dancer Corrie Befort’s so-so Pinto; Portland choreographer Tracy Broyles’ adaptation of Deborah Hay’s Art & Life; Portland dance troupe Decepticons’ --->WWWEEERRRQQQ<---; and Hand2Mouth’s own love story/rock concert mash-up Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 235-5284. 7:30 pm Saturday-Sunday, June 23-24. $14-$20.
So, I Married Abraham Lincoln
So, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy So, I Married Abraham Lincoln..? Paufve Dance, along with Portland performers including Michael Barber, Stephanie Ballas and Celine Bouly, offer this dance-theater exploration of political wife Mary Todd Lincoln’s life. Conduit Dance , 918 SW Yamhill St., Suite 401, 221-5857. 8:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, June 21-23. $14-$17.
TGIFF (Thank Goodness It’s Fourth Friday) Dance
Mary Ann Carter teaches dance lessons from 7:30 to 8:30 pm, followed by open practice to big band the Pranksters. Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., 236-3401. 7:30 pm fourth Fridays. $8.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RICHARD SPEER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual Arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: rspeer@wweek.com.
Tom Hardy sale
At 90, beloved Portland artist Tom Hardy has decided to shutter his studio, but not before holding a massive studio sale to liquidate everything: drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, books, furniture, lighting, antiques and artworks by other artists he has collected. A longtime arts educator as well as a nationally exhibited painter, Hardy was most recently showcased last December by gallerist/curator Mark Woolley, who mounted a mini-retrospective at the old Ogle Gallery space in Old Town. “To me,” Woolley tells WW, “Tom Hardy is the epitome of the independent Oregon spirit...one of the last of his era.” The sale is from 10 am to 4 pm FridaySaturday and noon 3 pm Sunday, June 22-24, at 3449 N Anchor St., Suite 600. For more details, visit tomhardystudio.com.
Out of the Bottle and Onto the Plate
The most intriguing work in the three-person exhibition Out of the Bottle and Onto the Plate comes from Paul Wig. Wig’s invigoratingly grouped suite of mixedmedia paintings integrates diverse imagery: a reimagined rococo portrait slathered with red paint; studies of horses and naked women; and an enigmatic figure with scary hands that’ll give you bad dreams. Then there’s a text piece you have to love just because it says: “Spray my balls with your spit.” Through June 27. Graeter Art Gallery, 131 NW 2nd Ave., 477-6041.
Christine Clark: Herded
Ships, ships, everywhere, all over the walls, clustered densely here, spaced widely there—this is the visual poetry of Christine Clark’s installation, Herded. The paper-andwire sculptures, shaped like ships, make for a serene viewing experience and put Nine’s boxy space to jauntier-than-usual use. Through July 1. Nine Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 227-7114.
F*CKED
Gallery owner Paul Soriano continues Cock’s dedication to transgressive work with F*CKED, an exhibition of four artists based in Brooklyn. The show-stealer is Anthony Viti’s slideshow, Asspig, which speeds through 4,000 images collected from gay Internet porn. It is an orgy of homoerotic gerunds: dick-sucking, ass-fucking, fisting, pissing, sucking, rimming and other activities that flash by so quickly, you can’t quite identify them. Although people unfamiliar with this sort of imagery might be scandalized by it, most viewers will become quickly inured by the breakneck pace and sheer prolificacy of photographs, which, after a few minutes, come to seem almost quaint. Through June 30. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., #106, 552-8686.
Gay Block: About Love
Photographer Gay Block’s About Love encompasses many of the photographer’s series, but the body of work that resonates most thoughtfully is The Women the Girls Are Now. The series counterposes portraits of girls at summer camp in 1981 with those same girls— now women in their 30s and early 40s—re-photographed in 2006. The side-by-side photos are startling not only because they highlight the youth that has been lost, but also the accoutrements that have been gained: the Cartier watches; generic power suits; and makeupcaked, Botox-deadened faces that too often dissipate authenticity on the great American ascent from childhood to middle-aged yuppiedom. A chilling, unforgettable show. Through July 1. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 225-0210.
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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.
Jenene Nagy: Measure
Former Disjecta curator-in-residence Jenene Nagy (now a curator at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colo.) takes on famed “neo-geo” artist Peter Halley in her drawing exhibition, Measure. Minimalist and monochromatic, these drawings are about as far as Nagy could have gotten from the woodsy, jagged sculptural installations for which she’s best known. Her transliterations of Halley use opposing vertical and horizontal pencil marks to delineate the contours of Halley’s rectilinear motifs. Sometimes, as in Measure 1 (after “Lost Signal”), she messes with the proportions of Halley’s originals, giving the top-most prison motif only two inner bars, whereas Halley unfailingly uses three. Whether intentional or unintentional, the disparity contributes to a feeling of slightly skewed familiarity, as Nagy reinterprets well-known iconography. Fans of the artist’s installations needn’t fear she’s given them up; she has one coming up next February in Port Angeles, Wash. Through June 30. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.
John Dempcy: New Work
Viewers familiar with John Dempcy’s rapturous abstractions will revel in his latest tour de force but also notice subtle evolutions in the painter’s technique. In Octopus’s Garden, Dempcy’s signature concentric circles yield to spindly, multitendriled spokes. In Dark Star, he varies the size of compositional elements and creates greater compositional dynamism, while in Evo Devo and Inferno, he rakes his paintbrush down the picture plane, interrupting the field of subdividing cell-like forms. Dempcy’s chromatic adventurism, however, remains constant; in the algae-hued fantasia Fugu; he gives an object lesson in making the viewer, quite simply, go “Wow!” Through June 30. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.
Mark Steinmetz: Summertime
It’s fitting that photographer Mark Steinmetz’s new show is called Summertime, because the ambiences he captures resplend with
the sunny glow of halcyon memories. He excels in photographing young people in their natural habitats: hanging out at swimming holes (as in Portland, Connecticut), sitting on porch swings (Momence, Illinois), making out with their girlfriends and boyfriends while sitting on the hoods of cars (Derby, Connecticut), and checkin’ out the chicks while riding shirtless on their motorcycles (Revere, Massachusetts). Steinmetz is a loving chronicler of white trash and the middle class, and these photographs, which date mostly from the 1980s, feature plenty of feathered hair, baggy T-shirts, and beater cars. The pictures are time capsules, yet still feel timeless. Through July 28. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
Martin Mohr: Playing Fields
The last installment in Victory’s three-part series spotlighting emerging German artists, Martin Mohr’s show, Playing Fields, impressively showcases the Berlin-based painter. In pieces such as Venus and Primordial Soup, Mohr juxtaposes creamy impasto with utilitarian brushstrokes, crackly textures, grayscale and jewel tones, and an interplay between flat and glisteny surfaces. This is a promising artist with a confident, sophisticated technique. Through July 1. Victory Gallery, 733 NW Everett St.
Metamorphosis
Among the standouts in the group show Metamorphosis are Brenda Mallory’s intricate constructions of waxed cloth, nuts and bolts; and Vanessa Calvert’s sculptural installation, which evolves her meltingfurniture motifs into forms that resemble diminutive, three-legged animals, grazing on the hardwood floors. Through June 30. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.
Susan Sage
There’s a sultry, low-rent insouciance to Susan Sage’s paintings. Portland captures a couple of guys playing cards while drinking and smoking (is there any other way?), while Parlor Tricks pays tribute to the archetypal tattooed, stretchedand-plugged urban Northwest freak. Finally, the saucily titled A Natural History of Molasses gives us a voyeuristic through-the-window peek at a girl hiking up her shirt, a silk fan placed strategically in front of her privates. This is charming, lowbrow work, well-suited to Backspace’s charming, lowbrow vibe. Through June 30. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900.
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BOOKS
JUNE 20-26
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By PENELOPE BASS. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit lecture or reading information at least two weeks in advance to: WORDS, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: words@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 Makin’ It With Destination DIY
Whether you knit, scrapbook or shellac live kittens to forever preserve their cuteness, everyone is a little crafty. Drop in for a project night and listening party with Destination DIY, the locally produced public-radio show. Hear unreleased new episodes of the show along with music and free beer and pizza. Scrap will provide materials. ADX Building, 417 SE 11th Ave., 830-4785. 7 pm. Free.
Terry Tempest Williams
Literary siren of the American West Terry Tempest Williams was given all her mother’s old journals and instructed not to read them until after her mother was gone. What was revealed in those pages has become the subject of Williams’ new book, When Women Were Birds, about what it means to have a voice. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Jonah Bornstein and Steve Dieffenbacher
Really good poetry both inspires your inner writer and irritates your inner slacker. The Mountain Writer Series will present Oregon poets Jonah Bornstein, who co-founded the Ashland Writing Center and most recently authored Treatise on Emptiness, and Steve Dieffenbacher, author of The Sky is a Bird of Sorrow and an editor at the Mail Tribune in Medford. Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., 233-5656. 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21 Judith Arcana and Vanessa Veselka
As part of Broadway Books’ monthly Comma reading series that pairs two regional authors, Judith Arcana will read her poems and essays in advance of her forthcoming chapbook The Parachute Jump Effect. Also reading will be Vanessa Veselka, a former teenage runaway, sex worker, union organizer, paleontology student and Oregon Book Award finalist. It’s gonna be a live one. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
Matthew Batt
Home renovations are more often the cause of marital grief than its solution. But when writer Matthew Batt and his wife found themselves struggling, they decided to renovate a former crack house in Salt Lake City rather than call it quits. Batt recounts the adventure in his new book: Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House into Our Home Sweet Home. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Chuck Palahniuk and Lidia Yuknavitch
Because nothing complements great writing like straight-up vodka, acclaimed Portland authors Chuck Palahniuk and Lidia Yuknavitch will do a joint book reading along with a vodka tasting by New Deal Distillery and tasty snacks. Palahniuk will present Invisible Monsters Remix, a new version of his 1999 book. Yuknavitch will read from her PNBAwinning memoir The Chronology of Water. The Bing Lounge, 1210 SW 6th Ave. 6 pm. $100.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23 AMP Theater Presents Dr. Seuss
Bringing the tomfoolery of Dr. Seuss off the page and onto the stage, AMP Theater presents four classics— The Cat in the Hat, Fox in Socks,
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose and Horton Hears a Who!—through music, acrobatics and generally theatrical storytelling. Fun for children and drunk adults alike! Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 2067630. 5 and 9:30 pm Saturday, 7:30 pm. $15-$20.
MONDAY, JUNE 25 Joe Sacco and Chris Hedges
Reporting from coal fields, undocumented-worker colonies, reservations and cities and states across the country slipping into bankruptcy, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award-winning cartoonist Joe Sacco paint a grim picture of an American underclass in crisis in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. The news ain’t good, people. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
Sheila Heti
SKIDMORE PRIZE 2012!
Touching all the bases of a ’90s sitcom, author Sheila Heti explores love, sex and friendship in her bawdy, based-on-real-life novel How Should a Person Be? Because, you know, sometimes it feels like you’re always stuck in second gear. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26 BK Loren
Tracking a murderer through the harsh American Southwest is a rough job, let alone when the confessed killer is your brother. Colorado-based author BK Loren will read from her debut novel, Theft. Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.
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REVIEW
SHEILA HETI, HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? In How Should a Person Be? ( He n r y Ho l t , 3 0 6 p a g e s, $16.50), the narrator, Sheila, not yet 30 and fresh from a failed marriage, struggles to write a play about women as she drifts lethargically among her circle of equally lethargic, struggling artist friends. The author, Toronto-based But what about me? Sheila Heti, is both the subject and writer of this story. But in an interview with Torontoist, Heti says her deeply introspective novel, while not entirely fiction, cannot be called a memoir, either. She insists instead her book represents some undiscovered genre that exists between the two. Flouting convention, it seems, is a theme in her life and art. Whatever the genre, this book is character-driven, not plotdriven, and Heti excels at developing a cast of engaging, colorful and flawed characters. Sheila is deeply self-involved, often weak and entirely believable as a recent divorcée and blocked-up playwright. The supporting cast receives just as much depth and detail. At the center of the novel is Sheila’s friendship with successful painter Margaux, and their relationship lightens what could otherwise be a depressing read. Though Heti explores most intimately a relationship between women, as implied by the title, the themes apply to men as well. This titular question is also indicative of the novel’s overall tone. While most art asks “how ought we to live?” in one way or another, most leave it in the background. Subtlety, however, is not Heti’s goal, and her novel boldly declares its purpose on every page. While this blunt introspection is exciting at first—a number of passages stand out as particularly refreshing—the unfiltered narcissism becomes a bit much after 30 pages. The novel is saved from existential ridiculousness by the fact that Heti does not shy away from addressing those very tendencies. Her characters are acutely, almost painfully, aware of their own limitations and contradictions. The result is an honest, if somewhat self-centered, reflection on life. KIMBERLY HURSH. GO: Sheila Heti will read at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., on Monday, June 25. 7:30 pm. Free.
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MOVIES
Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, send screening information at least two weeks in advance to Screen, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
It’s Abraham Lincoln. Hunting vampires. What more do you need to know? Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Pioneer Place, 99 Stadium, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns.
The Avengers
A In helming The Avengers—the long-
awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose. Those are his words, not mine, and they’re actually spoken by Loki, the effete alien overlord presenting the avenging force with its first challenge. Still, what an apt and appropriately fustian description of the monumental task Whedon has taken on. The Avengers 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 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Battleship
C- Battleship is generic and forgettable, a glorified Navy recruitment video full of lobotomized patriotism and loud noises in lieu of narrative. But that’s all it is. It is not the unprecedented affront to the art of cinema it was pegged as being before anyone saw a single second. And for its first 45 minutes or so, the movie actually emits a kind of dimwitted charm. PG13. MATTHEW SINGER. Division.
Bernie
B- Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, smalltown true crime. Nice-guy killer? Meet Bernie Tiede, hymn-singing assistant mortician with a penchant for wooing blue-haired ladies. Macabre corpse disposal? The body of Marjorie Nugent, Tiede’s 81-year-old benefactor, was stashed in a garage freezer for nine months. Ironic upshot? Tiede was so popular after giving Nugent’s fortune away, his trial had to be moved out of town. Yet the one truly daring element in Bernie is the one that makes it seem not like a movie at all. Linklater is a Texas native whose best movies (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) exploit his easy rapport with his shambolic Lone Star compadres. For the first half of Bernie, he uses mockumentary interviews with the mainstreet gossips of Carthage, Texas, as a kind of Greek chorus. Their piquant observations—“she’d tear you a double-wide, three-bedroom, two-bath asshole”—form the film’s backbone and highlight. The fake interviews, however, make the bits of drama in between seem artificial and secondhand: It’s impossible to suspend the knowledge that you’re watching a re-enactment, because the picture itself keeps using a distancing effect. Imagine Waiting for Guffman if all the talking heads were audience members thinking back on the big play. PG-
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13. AARON MESH. Forest Theatre, Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower, Tigard.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
C “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 crissakes, 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 late-afternoon poignancy and corny lines. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lake Twin, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.
The Cabin in the Woods
A How does someone in my position
discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s pretty much guaranteed I’m going to ruin something without even meaning to, so it’s probably best to avert your eyes right now. Before you do, though, allow me to offer a painfully generic imperative: Go see this film. It’s some of the craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.
Cyrano de Bergerac
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Oscar-winning 1950 adaptation of the play about the swordfighting poet, decidedly not starring Gerard Depardieu. Clinton Street Theater. 6 pm and 8 pm Friday, June 22.
The Deep Blue Sea
B 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. As her betrayed husband, Simon Russell Beale looks like a wounded, declawed polar bear; his sympathy is well-earned. And Hiddleston is tremendously amusing as Hester’s dashingly dim lover. His finest moment comes in the middle of an argument at a museum over his lack of culture, ending with him stomping off in a huff. “I’m going to see the Impressionists!” he shouts. 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
Double Feature: Harvey Spanos and Machotaildrop
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A pair of skateboarding-themed satires—the former a short, whose Fuel TV film contest win helped fund the latter—from Corey Adams and Alex Craig. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 21.
First Position
B According to one expert in First
Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find six dancers who possess all four—and none is old
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DRAW BACK YOUR BOW: Merida, about to let her arrow go.
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Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up with a single female protagonist? Indeed it is: For almost two decades now, the studio has been staging one long cartoon stag party. Until seeing Brave, the company’s 13th feature and its first charged by a current of girl power, it never occurred to me that all of Pixar’s most memorable creations, whether taking the form of an adolescent clownfish, a rodent gourmand or a cantankerous Joe Paterno look-alike, are, in fact, dudes. Maybe it’s the bias of my Y chromosome talking, but that fact has hardly ever seemed to matter. In the same way Pixar’s movies refuse to speak down to the youngest members of their audience, they’ve also never pandered to gender: Remember, the Toy Story franchise ended with Andy, the benevolent overlord of Buzz Lightyear and Woody the cowboy, bequeathing his boyhood playthings to the little girl next door. Its stories, themes and emotions are not illustrated in stark hues of pink and blue. They resonate as universally human, even when the star is a sentient trash compactor. Still, introducing a touch of femininity to the anthropomorphic sausage fest should register as a progressive step forward. But Brave is the most conventional movie the studio has yet produced. A fable pitched directly at the princess demographic, it’s set in medieval Scotland, features run-ins with witches, excursions into deep, dark woods, and a few very expressive bears, and concerns itself with a rebellious daughter of royalty. In short, it feels like a classic Disney picture. Normally, that’d be a compliment. In Pixar’s case, it represents a regression. To be fair, the young lass at the film’s center is a piece of work. Her name is Princess Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald). She has eyes the color of the Tahitian ocean and a tangle of bright red curls erupting out of her head like magma from a porcelain volcano. (Her flaming locks are the most wondrous bit of animation in the film, so intricately detailed they’re practically a world unto themselves.) Handy
with a bow and arrow, she’s like Katniss Everdeen for the Dora the Explorer crowd. As her carefree childhood gives way to teenage angst, she clashes with her loving but sternly traditional mother, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). Literally hemmed in by tradition, Merida is stuffed into an ill-fitting dress for a betrothal ceremony and made to face a lineup of suitors from neighboring clans: a long-haired, beschnozzed beanpole, animated as Adrien Brody playing William Wallace; an oafish blockhead who speaks in an indecipherable gargle of consonants; a puny, slack-jawed mouth-breather. Considering the options, she’d just as soon wed herself. And that’s precisely what she conspires to do, duping the dolts into competing in an archery contest for her hand, then clandestinely entering herself and winning easily. Naturally, her mother isn’t pleased. To the credit of the screenwriters—co-directors Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman and Steve Purcell, and Irene Mecchi—the story does not go
IT FEELS LIKE A CLASSIC DISNEY PICTURE. IN PIXAR’S CASE, THAT REPRESENTS A REGRESSION. on to introduce another bland Prince Charming archetype. Instead, it draws on Scottish folklore to explore maternal bonds and the effects of unyielding pride on mother-daughter relationships. But in comparison to the movies of Pixar’s past, Brave feels stultifying simple. It still looks great, the scenery coming alive with richly landscaped hills, jagged peaks and crystalline waterfalls, but rarely has it ever been said of a Pixar film that the visuals are the most compelling part. It’s true here. Emotionally, the film is upstaged by the short that precedes it, a lovely little thing called La Luna, about three generations of celestial custodians. As with most Pixar viewing experiences, you’ll probably well up with tears. Only this time, it’ll happen before the feature presentation even starts. B- SEE IT: Brave is rated PG. It opens Friday at Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
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The Godfather
[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] A young man returns home to take over the family business. That joke is borrowed from Graham Ellwood of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast, because literally everything that could possibly be said of The Godfather has already been said. R. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, June 22-24.
Grindhouse Film Festival presents Don’t Go in the House
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] I’m guessing someone ignores the title’s advice. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 26.
Headhunters
A- A high point of nerve-wracked
Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rainslicked road on the rural outskirts of Oslo. He’s behind the wheel of a tractor with a pit bull impaled on its forks, clad in nothing but underwear and human excrement. Adapted from a book by Jo Nesbø, 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. Then Roger discovers his partner’s lifeless body in his garage, and the film turns, on a dime, into a bloodstained, shit-caked, bruisedblack comedy of mounting indignities resembling Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. 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, Roger 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
The Hunger Games
A 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 high-schoolers killing each other with bricks and swords in the woods. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Lloyd Mall, Tigard.
Hysteria
B- It is absolutely true that many Victorian-era doctors would masturbate their female patients. It wasn’t a fetish marketed as legitimate treatment but a widely accepted cure-all for the blanket diagnosis of “hysteria.” We encounter this strange world of clinical sex acts through Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), loosely based on the Mortimer Granville who invented the electric vibrator. For our purposes, Granville is an idealistic doctor fighting for progress in a field that still deals in leeches. Unfortunately, through his eyes we end up with a steampunk caricature
of 1880s England, with more figurative winking at the camera than a sense of authenticity. As Granville stumbles uncomfortably into a gig of physicianprescribed fingering, it’s as though director Tanya Wexler is screaming at us: “Isn’t it great how we now know that female orgasms are real?! And that mental disorders are nuanced?!” But Dancy carries his lot quite well, playing Granville with earnest charisma even as the good doctor begins to develop carpal tunnel syndrome. The richest moments come as he’s on the cusp of innovation, in the company of his childhood friend Lord Edmund (the always extravagant Rupert Everett). Edmund’s hobbies include futzing with electrical generators and sexual debauchery. It’s only a matter of time before this duo stumbles onto the idea of a handheld marital aid. Then, Hysteria becomes what it really is: a sex comedy with a hint of slapstick. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Hollywood Theatre, Fox Tower.
In the Family
B- Patrick Wang’s debut feature
arrives trailing one of those heartwarming creation myths that makes it difficult to harsh the film’s mellow. Self-financed and rejected by festival after festival before catching the attention of a few important critics and eventually finding national distribution and widespread critical acclaim, In the Family is a little-movie-thatcould success story that’s pretty much impossible not to root for, even though the film itself doesn’t quite live up to the quiet hype surrounding it. Writerdirector Wang stars as Joey Williams, a father fighting his deceased partner’s family for guardianship of his son in the face of homophobia both institutional and painfully personal. Wang’s direction favors long static shots that often ease into stretches of silence and empty space, while the unadorned performances, which border on a kind of Bressonian blankness, conspire with the unobtrusive aesthetic to keep In the Family from flailing into hack melodrama. The self-conscious subversion of dramatic convention does lend the film a dry didacticism, though, especially in the film’s final act, when a lengthy legal deposition devolves into a monologue that seems to argue not for Wang’s character’s case but for Wang’s film’s worth. One thing is certain: Patrick Wang is a great promoter of Patrick Wang. CHRIS STAMM. Cinema 21.
The Intouchables
C Can there be a more insulting “fish out of water” trope than putting a bored black man in front of a chamber orchestra, then holding for laughs? It’s where poor Omar Sy finds himself as Driss, the street-savvy, reluctant caretaker of Philippe (François Cluzet), a charming and disenchanted quadriplegic. To be fair, French cinema has been less plagued by minstrels and blackface. American audiences have much more baggage, knowing there has been a very deliberate effort to snuff out typecast racism in our films. In France, The Intouchables is experiencing record-breaking ticket sales. Stateside, there has been a bit more pearl-clutching, but for good reason. Yet the film doesn’t collapse on itself, thanks to the palpable chemistry between Cluzet and Sy. The victim of a paragliding accident, wealthy Philippe (Cluzet) is so bored with his situation that he has nothing to gain from standing on ceremony with Driss. Instead, he takes pleasure in Driss’ company and comes to admire his caretaker. Unlike the movie’s tone, there is no condescension here. Driss, for his part, is a joy to be around, lowbrow humor notwithstanding. It’s a testament to Sy’s comedic timing that he doesn’t come off as a caricature, even if this seems to have been writerdirector Olivier Nakache’s intention. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
Lila, Lila
C [ONE WEEK ONLY] In this German
rom-com, David (Daniel Brühl) finds a love story in the drawer of an antique nightstand and publishes it as his own—to much critical acclaim—all to get a girl. Trouble ensues when the author turns up, and David’s
lie begins to control his life. We’ve seen it all before. While the plot is nothing new, a German (rather than Hollywood) treatment manages to keep the film fresh, through unknown (to Americans, at least) actors and understated, monochromatic cinematography. The film’s director, Alain Gsponer, also attempts to comment on postmodern themes that don’t normally appear in romantic comedies. David’s girlfriend, a controlling literature student, sees in David the chance to write and construct the perfect love story in her own life. She looks for perfect moments and is disillusioned when they fall apart. Life is too unpredictable to mold, the director suggests. But the themes that could make this film something great are mostly hidden underneath a contrived, cliché story. This is a movie I might watch on Netflix Instant while home with the flu. I wouldn’t make much of an effort otherwise. KIMBERLY HURSH. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm FridayWednesday, June 22-27.
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
rial so deftly as when the couple—in shades of Badlands and Godard— reaches a blue lagoon. Here, Sam pitches several tents. “It’s hard,” Suzy whispers as Sam presses against her, after they’ve danced to Françoise Hardy like marooned Parisian mods. Indeed there is a core of tough-minded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Moreland Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.
Monsieur Lazhar B
It was most startling image of this year’s Portland International Film Festival: A boy peeks into his middleschool classroom, and through a sliver of doorway sees his teacher’s lifeless body hanging from the ceiling. Not a conventional way of starting a “magical schoolteacher” movie, but
don’t worry: It gets conventional pretty quick. The titular Mr. Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) is hired as the dead woman’s replacement, and soon he’s not just teaching these kids...they’re teaching him. Still, writer-director Philippe Falardeau keeps things simple enough, allowing the sincere performances from Fellag and the young Sophie Nélisse and Émilien Néron—both from the “so mature it’s unnatural” class of child actors—to bolster the film beyond its clichés. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
Music from the Big House
B Blues is the musical crystallization
of melancholy and sadness. In no place is this music more fitting than prison, and there is no prison more fitting than Angola prison farm, the former home of Leadbelly and one of the birth-
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enough to vote. As she chronicles the dancers’ preparation for the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix in New York, Kargman maintains an inspirational tone, even when delving into the harsher side of ballet life. Questioning isn’t Kargman’s objective at any point in First Position. It’s merely to show the fruits of youthful ambition. That’s fine enough to make a compelling documentary, especially when the payoff is a series of dazzling performances. Still, our eyebrows are raised and never really come down. An issue the film does address, in some small measure, is whether the intense dedication to forging a career is robbing these kids of a normal adolescence. “I think I’ve had the right amount of ballet and childhood,” contends Miko, 12. But like all of Kargman’s subjects, she displays a striking maturity that’s at once endearing and disconcerting. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.
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The third installment in the inexplicably popular, exceptionally loud animated animal franchise. Sorry, parents, but WW was way too hungover to make the Saturday morning press screening. PG. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Men in Black 3
C Nobody ever gave a shit about the Men in Black. Not the movie—in fact, the original is pretty great, a lean, awesomely ridiculous creature feature in the vein of Ghostbusters. The characters were wonderfully broad, with Will Smith playing the scrappy wiseass to Tommy Lee Jones’ sourpuss while they turned aliens into goop. We weren’t really asked to care about them as people, and it was perfect. A decade after the wack sequel, the prospect of resurrecting the original’s scattershot whimsy is a welcome idea, especially given the setup, which involves Smith going back in time to prevent a gnarly alien biker (a snarling Jemaine Clement) from assassinating Jones’ younger self (Josh Brolin, doing a frighteningly accurate and hysterical impression of his No Country for Old Men co-star), all along encountering everything from racist cops to Apollo 11 and Andy Warhol. But hey, what about Smith’s daddy issues? Or Jones’ relationship with Agent O? Or the father-son relationship forged between Smith and Jones? An even better question: Who gives a fuck about any of that? Director Barry Sonnenfeld does, and he lets it detract from the promising premise, wedging in forced emotion and pushing awesome Rick Baker-designed alien action to the background. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Moonrise Kingdom
A- Of all the Wes Anderson
movies in the world, this is the Wes Andersoniest. Those who find everything that follows Bottle Rocket fussy and puerile have fair warning: Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s Boy Scout film, set on an imaginary island. The director’s debt to Finnish colleague Aki Kaurismaki has never been more patent—Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand and Bill Murray all have self-pitying stoicism down to a kind of kabuki. Without the leavening influence of Owen Wilson, Anderson’s melancholy can feel brittle, even with Robert Yeoman providing his most agile cinematography. Yet a fresh breeze airs out Moonrise Kingdom in every scene where the 12-year-old runaways Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (Jared Gilman and an astonishing Kara Hayward) arrange an elopement from their Norman Rockwell world. Anderson has rarely been funnier, or his compositions more packed with detail, than in the epistolary montage in which the young rebels make plans (while Sam is menaced by greasers). He has never handled delicate mate-
CARMAGEDDON: Keira Knightley, dog, Steve Carell.
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD Love in the time of apocalypse.
In a world where the Armageddon plan of attack didn’t work and the asteroid is still coming for us, a dialed-down Steve Carell sits listening to a forecast of the end of the world. His wife flees the car without a word, and Carell throws himself into a feature-length existential crisis with a shrug and a “so it goes” attitude. Initially, anyway. Much like comic brethren Will Ferrell, Carell is at his best in more dramatic roles where his chaotic shtick is kept in check. As Dodge, he is an insurance salesman who has only vague ideas of how to live out his last three weeks. He’s surrounded by the whole spectrum of human reaction, witnessing suicide and hedonism and traffic jams in equal measure. Carell continues to show up for work and is offered the now-vacant position of CFO. He loses it only when he finds out his estranged wife had been cheating on him. He doesn’t want to do the work of dating just so he doesn’t have to die alone. Luckily, fate and smoke alarms deliver him downstairs neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley) and a chance at reclaiming a lost love: Penny has hoarded his misdelivered mail, you see, and it includes a months-old letter from the one that got away. Dodge is easily persuaded to revisit his past, and Penny wants to board a plane back to Britain. Armed with a dog Dodge was stuck with after a bender in a public park, the two of them have all the fixings for an end-times roadtrip movie. Because it seems so inevitable that they’ll fall into each other’s arms, the chemistry can at times feel lacking between these two. Knightley injects the film with an unfortunate dose of twee, as when she flees her apartment during a riot and grabs only a stack of beloved LPs rather than going for the weed she spends the rest of the film pursuing. That Seeking succeeds is due in large part to Carell’s heartbreaking mug—I swear to you, he pulls off a montage set to “The Air That I Breathe,” for chrissakes—but writer-director Lorene Scafaria has created a solid story and a relatable world, even if it transitions unevenly from tight black comedy to sentimental romance. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. A- SEE IT: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World opens Friday at Fox Tower, Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Bridgeport.
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New Czech Cinema Series
The NW Film Center’s survey of the new wave of Czech film concludes with Leaving (7 pm Friday, 5 pm Sunday, June 22 and 24), a political satire from late Czechoslovakian president and playwright Václav Havel, and Ondrej Trojan’s Identity Card (7 pm Saturday, June 23), a comingof-age comedy set in the 1980s. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. See nwfilm.org for a complete schedule.
No Return Midnight Movie Madness presents Geek Maggot Bingo
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] A totally bonkers, amusingly amateurish take on Frankenstein from 1983, starring the great punk poet and inadvertent fashionista Richard Hell. Clinton Street Theater. 10 pm Friday, June 22.
Not Yet Begun to Fight
B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY, DIRECTOR
ATTENDING] Ostensibly a documentary about wounded combat veterans on a weeklong fly-fishing retreat, Not Yet Begun to Fight is really about how fucked up war is and how much it fucks people up. Most of these five men learning to fish in the wilds of Montana have physical injuries— lost legs, eyes, voices. All have far deeper internal wounds that can’t be fixed with prosthetics or computers. Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, they reveal their stories. Marine captain Blake Smith was left a paraplegic after being thrown from his helicopter in a mid-air collision. Four of his passengers weren’t so lucky. “It’s shameful,” says Smith. “How the hell is he going to get over that? Can’t,” says the program’s founder, Vietnam vet Eric Hastings, on the verge of tears. “What you can do is…go fly fishing. Because that’ll put some salve on the wound.” This film is every bit as depressing as it sounds. But as the fighting in the Middle East continues, and hundreds of thousands of young Americans return home irreparably damaged (if they return at all), these are stories that need to be told—and stories that must be watched. RUTH BROWN. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, June 21.
Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
C- Peace, Love and Misunderstanding doesn’t have a bleeding heart so much as a sloppy, suppurating wound hiding beneath its brittle romcom carapace. During the rare moments it manages to shake off rote heteronormative faith in the redemptive potential of the perfect PIV pairing, that drippy thing is actually in the right place at the right time. Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener share top billing as an estranged mother-daughter pair who reunite after 20 years when Keener’s Diane tows her teenage children up to Woodstock, N.Y., in a fit of post-divorce desperation. Diane and her hyper-literate kids are thus thrust into a lefty heaven of spit-shined antiwar protests and crystal-worshipping goddessness, the whole Nag Champa’d shebang in thrall to Fonda’s Grace, a parade float of hippie clichés and a walking caution against smoking weed while throwing pottery. Everyone falls in love. Director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) and co-screenwrit-
ers Joseph Muszynski and Christina Mengert paint the well-heeled left with a broad brush, but they are to be commended for even half-assedly attempting to hijack generic dreck with a clearly sincere consideration of the way political and ethical convictions make a mess of interpersonal relationships. The movie is not good, but at least it tries to be. R. CHRIS STAMM. Living Room Theaters.
Prometheus
A- In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s longanticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a philosophical query that has dogged mankind since at least 1995: What if God were one of us? A think piece on the origins of man probably doesn’t sound much like the Alien prequel you were expecting. Well, for starters, Prometheus isn’t a true prequel. It’s an “expansion of the Alien mythos.” As such, it has mythology on the brain. Just look at the title, which hints at the big ideas Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof are considering here. But the heft of their musings cannot weigh down the sheer, sprawling spectacle of the film’s vision. Scott isn’t a great philosopher. He is, however, a magnificent stylist. The movie starts in a cave of forgotten dreams, and it’s worth wondering whether Scott took a tip from Werner Herzog’s documentary about the ancient pictograms of France’s Chauvet Cave, in which the German madman embraced 3-D as a way of crafting a more tactile viewing experience. With Prometheus, Scott folds in the technology with a similarly subtle hand. He uses it not to jab the audience in its nose, but to make palpable the wonder of discovering a new world, and the terror of actually exploring it. It’s a stunning, horrifying success. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
Rock of Ages
C- For a little while, at least, Rock of Ages—director Adam Shankman’s bigscreen adaptation of the Broadway pop-metal musical—exudes a certain innocent charm. It’s a genuine celebration of the big-glam ’80s, even though no one involved seems to have any recollection or knowledge of what that period was actually like. That’s OK, though. Somehow, a totally misremembered, idealized ode to an era defined by blatant inauthenticity feels appropriate. But oh, Christ, the music. It’s not really the songs themselves, bloated and pompous as they are. There’s just too many of them. Not two minutes go by without the screen erupting into a lavish performance number, giving the already thin story no chance to breathe and leaving the more dramatically talented members of the ensemble cast—Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, a horribly bewigged Alec Baldwin, and an amusing Tom Cruise as Stacee Jaxx, the film’s resident decadent rock god—with little to do but primp, preen and, in the case of poor Bryan Cranston, get bent over a desk and spanked. They call these things “jukebox musicals,” but this is more like a six-disc Monsters of Rock compilation come to life, with songs piling up one on top of another. By the time the camera pans over the “Hollywood” sign in the final moments, I prayed a plaid-patterned bomber would appear on the horizon and nuke the entire goddamned city. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Hilltop, Lloyd Mall, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.
The Room
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Tommy Wiseau’s transcendentally terrible cult favorite returns, again. Cinema 21. 10:45 pm Saturday, June 23.
Safety Not Guaranteed
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man!” Why are we sitting in front of that screen, indeed? That’s a truer basis for Safety Not Guaranteed than its origins as an Internet meme, a late’90s want ad of sorts that sought a time-travel companion. For our purposes, screenwriter Derek Connolly has reimagined the infamous clipping by tracing it back to a sleepy seaside town in Washington. It’s there that tenured magazine contributor Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) drags two listless interns (Karan Soni and Aubrey Plaza) in an attempt to secretly profile an earnest if unhinged grocery-store clerk who fancies himself a regular Doc Brown (Mark Duplass). The skeptical trio stumbles onto what is possibly the greatest space-time paradox: You can never go back, except when you can. This is the rare film where dialogue is natural; the major players gloss over their respective tales of love and loss, yet we know every detail through the kind of inference that makes us feel like a part of the conversation. Subtle, too, is what the film does with the source material—specifically, a line in the ad that reads “I’ve only done this once before.” Keep these words in mind. Without saying too much, I’d suggest they add a gratifying, if unspoken, subplot. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.
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War of the Worlds: The True Story
[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] A first-person account of the conflict depicted in H.G. Wells’ novel, originally slated as a multimillion-dollar studio tent pole before slipping into production hell and being resurrected by the filmmakers as an independent feature. We may have to hunt this one down for a review at wweek.com. Cinema 21: 7 pm Thursday, 9:55 pm Friday, June 21-22. Hollywood Theatre: 4:30 pm Saturday, 3 and 5 pm Sunday, June 23-24.
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[ONE NIGHT ONLY] An unearthed 1970s visual poem about the tiny West African coastal nation of Mauritania, accompanied by a pair of ethnographic films about the country’s traditional and modern music cultures. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, June 25.
Your Sister’s Sister
This heavily buzzed-over indie dramedy from the director of Humpday, starring Emily Blunt and the suddenly omnipresent Mark Duplass, was, inexplicably, not screened before WW press deadlines. Look for a review at wweek.com. R. Fox Tower.
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places of the genre. Music from the Big House follows Canadian blues and roots artist Rita Chiarelli as she organizes a concert not just for, but with, the inmates at Angola. The members of the bands that join Chiarelli onstage run the gamut from gospel to blues to country, but they have one thing in common: They are all serving 30 years to life. Director Bruce McDonald waits until the final credits to disclose their crimes so the viewer can see the individuals as musicians rather than murderers and rapists. Testimonials from the band members, such as chaplain Ray Jones, show genuine remorse for their crimes. Chiarelli opines that there simply has to be a better way than life without parole. Music has given these men a purpose, a distraction from the violence and abuse of prison, but does it absolve them of their sins? The documentary never provides a compelling answer. At least the music is pretty good. JOHN LOCANTHI. Hollywood Theatre.
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beautifully, blessedly graphic. It goes far beyond threats of dismemberment and filicide. There’s the dark forest, which provides Snow White (Kristen Stewart) with questionable sanctuary but plays out like an LSD-laced fever dream, populated by banshee marsh creatures and every infestation imaginable. And, of course, there’s the Queen (Charlize Theron) and her method for keeping things tight, which is a little bit bloody Countess Báthory, a little bit The Leech Woman. Theron, with her constant facial cracks and rejuvenation, fits of rage and bipolar lapses into quiet, pulls much of the film’s focus. She undoubtedly has more charisma than her on-screen stepdaughter, though let it be known that Stewart does, uncharacteristically, show signs of life here. This is also the Snow White revision that feared going the way of Moonlighting. It hints at romantic attachments, but shirks from giving the assumed Prince Charming much screen time, which is fortunate, as Sam Claflin is not the most compelling love interest. The restorative power of love is touched on but co-opted by deft military strategy and Stewart in full armor. It’s unfortunate that soldier Stewart was made to be so much the center of the film and its marketing. While it offers a great message for young girls to be proactive, another scene of Theron wining and dining on the blood of the innocent might have made for more compelling cinema. PG13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. City Center, Fox Tower.
That’s My Boy
D There’s a gag running through That’s My Boy in which Donny Berger—another in a long line of manchild characters created by Adam Sandler—rescues his long-lost son (played by now-former SNL stalwart Andy Samberg) from a beating by whacking the assailant over the head with a bottle. It’s an easy bit of slapstick, but also an apt metaphor for Sandler’s brand of humor. The 45-year-old comedy star loves nothing more than to beat his fans into submission with broad physical humor, gross-out jokes, sexual peccadilloes, references to pop culture from 30 years ago, casual ethnic stereotyping, and the one-two punch of overweight people and elderly women saying and doing inappropriate things. The trouble is, no one watching gets rendered unconscious in the process. Instead, the viewer is left to endure one bludgeoning after another until the closing credits roll. Did I mention Vanilla Ice plays a prominent role in the whole thing? God knows I didn’t need to, because what does it matter? If you’re reading this, you already have your mind made up if you’re going to see this movie or not. So, Sandler fans, allow me to assuage you: This is more of what you want from him, and then some. R. ROBERT HAM. Lloyd
WHAT COULD THIS IMAGE POSSIBLY REPRESENT?: Human ostriches in Surviving Progress.
SURVIVING PROGRESS Surviving Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crook’s harangue against modern civilization, is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World for those who prefer their pre-apocalypse movies aggressively nihilistic. It’s a documentary whose central thesis reads thusly: The human race is fucked. Actually, that’s not totally fair. It supposes we could colonize another planet, or start genetically engineering all the things needed to sustain life on Earth—although we’d probably just mess that up, too. So Surviving Progress isn’t exactly a how-to guide. Based on Ronald Wright’s cheekily titled book A Short History of Progress, the film is more interested in describing the handbasket that’s transporting us to hell. As you can probably guess, it’s being weaved from overpopulation, deforestation and greed. It’s all stuff anyone paying the least bit of attention to the world is already aware of, yet Roy and Crook treat it as some kind of revelation. A number of scientists and economists, including Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood and the mechanized voice of Stephen Hawking, line up to serve as a sort of doomsday chorus. Wright himself, wearing a black turtleneck and an air of self-satisfaction, pops up regularly. He classifies our conundrum as a “progress trap.” Culture, Wright argues, has evolved faster than our brains. “We are running 21st century software—our knowledge—on hardware that hasn’t been upgraded for 50,000 years,” he says, hilariously, before adding, “We have to confront the possibility that the entire experiment of civilization is, in itself, a progress trap.” Ah, crap. Well, at least the movie gives us pretty things to look at in between all the gloomy handwringing. Roy and Crook buffer the talking heads with aerial pans over big-city China and the Amazonian rainforest, balletic footage of rockets exploding in space, blended images of amoebas fusing into schools of fish and submerged statues, and static shots of monkeys playing with blocks, which is always amusing. If only they’d offered some solutions, too. The directors tack on an empty message of hope at the end, essentially saying mankind will eventually get its shit together, because solving problems is what we do—even though we’ve just sat through 85 minutes of arguments to the contrary. It’s unconvincing. All of it, really. MATTHEW SINGER.
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I M A D E T HIS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Swans, geese, and ducks molt all their flight feathers at once, which means they may be unable to fly for several weeks afterwards. We humans don’t do anything like that in a literal way, but we have a psychological analog: times when we shed outworn self-images. I suspect you’re coming up on such a transition, Aries. While you’re going through it, you may want to lie low. Anything resembling flight -- launching new ventures, making big decisions, embarking on great adventures -should probably be postponed until the metamorphosis is complete and your feathers grow back. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2011 car traffic began flowing across Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, a newly completed span that joins the city of Qingdao with the Huangdao District in China. This prodigious feat of engineering is 26.4 miles long. I nominate it to serve as your prime metaphor in the coming weeks. Picture it whenever you need a boost as you work to connect previously unlinked elements in your life. It may help inspire you to master the gritty details that’ll lead to your own monumental accomplishment.
it or question whether it’s true. I’m calling this is to your attention, Libra, because in the weeks ahead you’ll have more power than usual to modulate your stream of consciousness. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says, “Don’t believe everything you think”? Make that your mantra. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the hands of a skilled practitioner, astrology can help you determine the most favorable days to start a new project or heat up your romantic possibilities or get a tattoo of a ninja mermaid. Success is of course still quite feasible at other times, but you might find most grace and ease if you align yourself with the cosmic flow. Let’s consider, for example, the issue of you taking a vacation. According to my understanding, if you do it between now and July 23, the experiences you have will free your ass, and -- hallelujah! -- your mind will then gratefully follow. If you schedule your getaway for another time, you could still free your ass, but may have to toil more intensely to get your mind to join the fun.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An apple starts growing on its tree in the spring. By early summer, it may be full size and as red as it will ever be. To the naked eye, it appears ready to eat. But it’s not. If you pluck it and bite into it, the taste probably won’t appeal to you. If you pluck it and hope it will be more delicious in a few weeks, you’ll be disappointed. So here’s the moral of the story, Gemini: For an apple to achieve its potential, it has to stay on the tree until nature has finished ripening it. Keep that lesson in mind as you deal with the urge to harvest something before it has reached its prime.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): What is your most hateable and loveable obsession, Sagittarius? The compulsion that sometimes sabotages you and sometimes inspires you? The longing that can either fool you or make you smarter? Whatever it is, I suspect it’s beginning a transformation. Is there anything you can do to ensure that the changes it undergoes will lead you away from the hateable consequences and closer to the loveable stuff? I think there’s a lot you can do. For starters: Do a ritual -- yes, an actual ceremony -- in which you affirm your intention that your obsession will forever after serve your highest good and brightest integrity.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Rob: In one of your recent horoscopes, you implied that I should consider the possibility of asking for more than I’ve ever asked for before. You didn’t actually use those words, but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant. Anyway, I want to thank you! It helped me start working up the courage to burst out of my protective and imprisoning little shell. Today I gave myself permission to learn the unknowable, figure out the inscrutable, and dream the inconceivable. - Crazy Crab.” Dear Crazy: You’re leading the way for your fellow Cancerians. The process you just described is exactly what I advise them to try in the coming weeks.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As someone who thrives on simple organic food and doesn’t enjoy shopping, I would not normally have lunch at a hot dog stand in a suburban mall. But that’s what I did today. Nor do I customarily read books by writers whose philosophy repels me, and yet recently I have found myself skimming through Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness. I’ve been enjoying these acts of rebellion. They’re not directed at the targets that I usually revolt against, but rather at my own habits and comforts. I suggest you enjoy similar insurrections in the coming week, Capricorn. Rise up and overthrow your attachment to boring familiarity.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture yourself moving toward a building you haven’t seen before. Trust the initial image that leaps into your imagination. What type of path are you on? Concrete or dirt or brick or wood? Is it a long, winding way or short and direct? Once you arrive at the front door, locate the key. Is it under a mat or in your pocket or somewhere else? What does the key look like? Next, open the door and go inside to explore. Where have you arrived? See everything in detail. This is a test that has no right or wrong answers, Leo -- similar to what your life is actually bringing you right now. The building you’ve envisioned represents the next phase of your destiny. The path symbolizes how you get here. The key is the capacity or knowledge you will need.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The ancient Chinese book of divination known as the I Ching speaks of “catching things before they exit the gate of change.” That’s what happens when a martial artist anticipates an assailant’s movement before it happens, or when a healer corrects an imbalance in someone’s body before it becomes a full-blown symptom or illness. I see this as an important principle for you right now, Aquarius. It’s a favorable time to catch potential disturbances prior to the time they exit the gate of change. If you’re alert for pre-beginnings, you should be able to neutralize or transform brewing problems so they never become problems.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My first poetry teacher suggested that it was my job as a poet to learn the names of things in the natural world. She said I should be able to identify at least 25 species of trees, 25 flowers, 25 herbs, 25 birds, and eight clouds. I have unfortunately fallen short in living up to that very modest goal, and I’ve always felt guilty about it. But it’s never too late to begin, right? In the coming weeks, I vow to correct for my dereliction of duty. I urge you to follow my lead, Virgo. Is there any soul work that you have been neglecting? Is there any part of your life’s mission that you have skipped over? Now would be an excellent time to catch up. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my nomination for one of the Ten Biggest Problems in the World: our refusal to control the pictures and thoughts that pop into our minds. For example, I can personally testify that when a fearful image worms its way into the space behind my eyes, I sometimes let it stimulate a surge of negative emotions rather than just banish
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Neurophysiologists say that singing really loudly can flush away metabolic waste from your cerebrum. I say that singing really loudly can help purge your soul of any tendency it might have to ignore its deepest promptings. I bring these ideas to your attention, Pisces, because I believe the current astrological omens are suggesting that you do some really loud singing. Washing the dirt and debris out of your brain will do wonders for your mental hygiene. And your soul could use a boost as it ramps up its wild power to pursue its most important dreams.
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