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Ellen Rosenblum will make history June 29 when she takes office as Oregon’s first female attorney general. But that’s not the only precedent her swearing-in will set: Rosenblum is the first statewide official in Oregon whose election was fueled by drug money. The nation’s increasingly vocal medical marijuana and drug legalization lobby kicked in at least a third of the $699,000 Rosenblum raised in her May 15 Democratic primary win over Dwight Holton. She will command the Oregon Department of Justice, an agency that regularly takes positions on marijuanarelated issues. Given her willingness to pander to the marijuana crowd, Rosenblum takes office having created significant political and legal conflicts of interest for herself as the state’s top law enforcement official. Rosenblum, who is married to WW publisher Richard Meeker (see editor’s note), is being sworn in to fill the remaining term of outgoing Attorney General John Kroger, who resigned to take the presidency at Reed College. She is seeking to win election to the job in November. Her election marks an increasing reliance on specialinterest money in the Oregon AG’s race. Four years ago, Kroger raised eyebrows when contributions from publicemployee unions accounted for 35 percent of the $1 million he spent winning election. The unions sought to punish Kroger’s opponent, former state Rep. Greg Macpherson (D-Lake Oswego), for backing public-employee pension reform. But the marijuana lobby wants Rosenblum to alter how the state enforces its drug laws, especially following local and federal law enforcement efforts to crack down on medical marijuana operations. She’s already pledged to do so. “As Attorney General,” Rosenblum wrote on her campaign website, “I will make marijuana enforcement a low priority, and protect the rights of medical marijuana patients.” Janice Thompson of Common Cause Oregon, a campaign finance watchdog group, says citizens should be concerned about the kind of concentrated support Rosenblum received. “If a campaign contributor is writing a check for $50,000 or $75,000, they want something,” Thompson says. “Candidates, contributors and the public are all stuck in a broken system.” Rosenblum says she never solicited marijuana donors and thinks they were focused more on defeating Holton than electing her. “I didn’t ask for this money,” she says. “I have made no promises to anyone. I intend to act professionally and ethically and not be beholden to any large or small donors.” Rosenblum, 61, enjoyed a career as a federal prosecutor and 22 years as a Multnomah County and Oregon Court of Appeals judge before running for AG. She handily defeated Holton, a former U.S. attorney for Oregon, 65 percent to 35 percent. Kroger, a Democrat, had announced in October 2011 he wouldn’t seek re-election, and no candidates filed for the Republican primary, although the GOP may yet

the desires of her greatest source of financial support. mount a challenge against Rosenblum in November. Medical marijuana has been legal in Oregon since 1998, Rosenblum made much of her experience and her potential role as Oregon’s first female AG. But her success and 55,000 Oregonians now carry cards that allow legal won more attention for the issue she exploited to win. consumption. Growers may supply medical marijuana “Why the Oregon Attorney General Race Has Nation- users but not sell pot to anyone else. Voters rejected a 2010 al Implications for Marijuana Laws,” wrote U.S. News & measure to regulate dispensaries, but dozens have since opened to serve smokers. World Report. As a Reuters headline put it, “Supporter of Oregon Medical Pot FACT: Rosenblum’s largest Media reports—including those in WW Law Wins Attorney General Race.” and an ongoing series of stories in The non-marijuana contribution was Oregonian—have revealed abuses and Historically, Oreg on’s attorney $25,000 from Nike Chairman Knight. Rosenblum says she loopholes in the system, and many law general acts as the state’s chief law Phil does not know Knight but notes enforcement officials distrust the program. enforcement officer and also provides he is close to former AG and “Medical marijuana is absolutely unreglegal advice and representation to state University of Oregon President agencies. The state Department of Jus- Dave Frohnmayer, whom she ulated,” says Clatsop County District Attorconsiders a mentor. ney Josh Marquis, who supported Holton, tice also handles criminal appeals and, Rosenblum’s opponent in the primary. in some cases, prosecutions. The Oregon DOJ provides legal guidance to state agenBut AGs have increasingly moved away from the roles cies on the state’s medical marijuana law, but the agency’s of regulator and counselor. “The attorney general should be above politics and rep- work runs much deeper. resent the law and the interests of everyone in the state,” In the criminal justice area, DOJ lawyers prosecute says Prof. Ron Tammen, director of the Hatfield School of high-level drug dealers. They also defend all marijuana Government at Portland State University. “In many states, convictions at the appellate level. A marijuana case charged last year by the Oregon DOJ attorney general has become a much more politicized post.” Tammen—a Rosenblum supporter—says he thinks the led to the arrest of a Washington County medical marijuanew attorney general will not operate that way. na grower who, officials allege, was illegally selling dope. Yet her new job will create endless opportunities for CONT. on page 8 conflict between DOJ’s duty to uphold Oregon’s laws and Willamette Week JUNE 27, 2012 wweek.com

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Rosenblum says her approach will have nothing to do with who helped her win. “I’m going to follow the law in every case,” she says. Rosenblum’s position during the campaign favored Oregon’s leniency for medical marijuana over the tougher stance taken by federal prosecutors. But recent civil cases illustrate the tightrope Rosenblum must now walk. In a 2009 Oregon Supreme Court case, DOJ lawyers argued that federal laws prohibiting marijuana use trumped an Oregon marijuana

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card holder’s right to keep his job after testing positive for the drug. On the other hand, the agency filed a brief in the Oregon Supreme Court opposing county sheriffs who wanted to deny concealed weapons permits to medical marijuana card holders. “Every case will be different,” she says. “Sometimes there may be three or four different laws, and you have to look at how they interact with each other.” Rosenblum may face a major test this fall. Petition circulators are trying to qualify two different legalization measures for the ballot. If either passes, Rosenblum would have to direct Oregon’s 36 district attorneys how to implement new laws that would sharply conflict with more stringent federal laws. “That’s when the rubber really hits the road,” Marquis says, “because most prosecutors believe there’s no question about federal supremacy.” Holton kicked open the door for pro-marijuana activists to back Rosenblum. As U.S. attorney, Holton had earlier issued a warning—signed by 34 DAs—that “the sale of marijuana for any purpose, including as medicine, violates both federal and Oregon law and will not be tolerated.”

But the money didn’t start flowing to Rosenblum until after a March 20 Eugene City Club debate, where Holton called Oregon’s medical marijuana law a “train wreck.” Rosenblum found her issue, and she wasn’t shy about selling it. She compared Oregon’s medical marijuana law to another pioneering piece of legislation, the Bottle Bill (without noting organized crime is not typically involved in the state’s glass and aluminum recycling industries). On April 22, Rosenblum visited a Tigard marijuana dispensary—the type of facility Holton and prosecutors have targeted. “I thought that was really unfortunate,” Marquis says. “I would hope that the attorney general-about-to-be would not make that error in judgment again.” Rosenblum says she merely wanted to learn about how dispensaries operate. The marijuana supporters cheered Rosenblum’s boldness with cash. The New York-based group Drug Policy Action kicked in $80,000; Citizens for Sensible Law Enforcement, one of the Oregon ballot measure groups, pounded Holton with $53,000 worth of radio ads; and John Sperling, a Reed College alum living in Arizona, sent in $70,000. Rosenblum’s pursuit of pot money has exposed the DOJ to other unforeseen conflicts. Sperling became a billionaire after founding the Apollo Group Inc., a for-profit education company that operates the University of Phoenix. WW has learned the Oregon DOJ is part of a multi-state group examining the practices of for-profit colleges. As AG, Rosenblum will now have to oversee an investigation into an industry whose leading figure gave her $70,000. Rosenblum says Sperling’s contribution was arranged by Drug Policy Action without her involvement. She says she was unaware of a previous state lawsuit against Sperling’s company or the current DOJ investigation. “I didn’t know anything about him,” she says. “I was kind of in the dark.” Meanwhile, the pot money keeps coming. On May 18, three days after the primary election, Rosenblum accepted another check, this one for $4,000, from a Jacksonville grower, High Hopes Farms.

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On May 15, Ellen Rosenblum won the Democratic primary for Oregon attorney general. Those of you who are regular readers of Willamette Week know this; you also know that Ellen is married to my business partner, WW publisher Richard Meeker. WW did not cover the AG primary race because, as I wrote in these pages in January, doing so presented a potential conflict of interest. Until now, the newspaper hasn’t written about Rosenblum—though WW did donate advertising to her campaign, a decision some took issue with. Now that Gov. John Kitzhaber has appointed Rosenblum to serve out the term of departing AG John Kroger, we will report on her in that office—but not without some accommodation. First, readers should understand Meeker’s role here. As publisher, he has never been involved in WW’s news coverage, nor does he participate in endorsement conversations or news meetings. I’m the one who oversees the paper’s editorial content. Because Meeker and I have jointly owned WW for nearly 30 years, there’s a perception—and perhaps a reality—that it would be difficult for me to objectively assign or edit stories involving his wife. As a consequence, I’ve decided that all decisions about coverage of Rosenblum and the Oregon Department of Justice, while she is serving as attorney general, will be made by WW’s managing editor for news, Brent Walth. He may choose to discuss stories with me. But his word, not mine, is final. This is uncharted territory for this company, but I promise you that this newspaper’s goal is to cover Rosenblum and the office of AG without fear or favor. We trust you will let us know how we are doing. —Mark Zusman

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U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio has held his Oregon seat in Congress for more than 25 years. The 4th District Democrat has been a pugnacious progressive, advocating, for example, a transaction tax on big Wall Street trades. In 2010, he faced his most serious challenge yet—a well-funded Republican opponent, Art Robinson, who is again taking on DeFazio in 2012. Robinson, who finished with 43 percent of the vote, was helped by attacks on DeFazio, funded by a millionaire hedge fund director. DeFazio, 65, talked with WW about working with Tea Party members in Congress, his dissatisfaction with President Obama, and his connections to the state’s craft brewing industry. W W: You’ve been involved with transportation funding for years. The House under Republican leadership is holding up what seems to be a basic spending bill. Peter DeFazio: We had the first-ever partisan transportation bill since Eisenhower. [Democrats] were not involved in drafting the House bill. They wouldn’t show it to us. Even though [Republicans] keep saying, “Oh, we shared with them. They knew everything.” Bullshit. We didn’t see the bill until the day they released it. The lobbyists who wrote it had it before we did. The most prominent thing was, they wanted to end all federal investment in transit. They wanted to eliminate all transportation enhancements—pedestrian

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BOMBS OVER BISTRO: Aviary chef and co-owner Kat Whitehead stands in her renovated dining room with a photo of the fire caused by fireworks on the Fourth of July last year.

ILLEGAL FIREWORKS ARE EXPLODING IN OREGON. PORTLAND’S NEW FIRE CHIEF IS CRACKING DOWN. BY AARO N MESH

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You thought it was a victimless crime, a Portland rite of passage. You drive across the Columbia River, fill your trunk with powerful fireworks that are legal in Washington, and then smuggle them back to Oregon to put on a show. Erin Janssens says you must stop. Portland’s new fire chief is hell-bent on extinguishing illegal fireworks this Fourth of July. “People want to have fun,” she says.

“They believe it to be patriotic in some way. But they’re not recognizing that they really don’t have control. I don’t think they realize the impact on others.” Kat Whitehead and Jasper Shen know what Janssens means. They spent last Fourth of July comforting their yellow Labrador, Daisy, who panicked so much at the explosions of neighborhood fireworks that she barked and tore around until she started to hyperventilate. Eventually Whitehead went to bed, exhausted. Shen had collapsed on the couch in his boxers when his cellphone buzzed. “Oh my God,” the text message read. “I saw the fire trucks. Are you guys OK?” Shen didn’t understand the message—

and then thought about Aviary, the Northeast Alberta Street restaurant he and Whitehead had opened five months earlier, already gaining a following for dishes such as crispy pig ears. They dashed the 15 blocks to Aviary, where firefighters on top of the restaurant were throwing off glowing chunks of roof. Heat from the fire and four inches of sooty water from the sprinklers had turned the kitchen and dining room into a muggy swamp. It would take five months and $1 million to repair it. “Water was pouring out of anything it could pour out of,” Shen says. “It was nobody’s fault—except whoever threw the fireworks.” CONT. on page 12

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This isn’t supposed to happen here. Since 1951, state law has banned most fireworks except in professional displays. But fireworks are still exploding in Oregon: Not just bottle rockets and firecrackers, but Roman candles and mortars. As for cherry bombs or ash can M-80s, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives classifies these as homemade explosive devices, and the Oregon Fire Marshal instructs local authorities to call the bomb squad. The vendors who set up temporary shop in Oregon can sell only ground fireworks, like sparklers and fountains, that don’t launch anything more than a foot in the air. But Oregonians have a proud tradition of hauling illegal fireworks over the Columbia River from Washington, where they’re legal and create a frantic seasonal border economy. In Clark County, vendors, including the fireworks superstore Blackjack, rake in at least $6 million in a single week. Nationwide, the fireworks industry moves 200 million pounds a year—most from China—worth $600 million. Despite the dangers, rules against fireworks are being rolled back across the United States. When cities try to tighten controls—as in Vancouver last week—the plans often fizzle with howls of big-government meddling. Janssens believes she can defy a halfcentury of history. Portland’s fire chief believes she can persuade Portlanders to stop setting off banned fireworks—and, if people don’t listen, make sure they get caught. She thinks she can make the Fourth of July a silent night, except for citysanctioned shows, and bring some civility back to your neighborhood. The new chief is behind the biggest public-service campaign ever aimed at warning people in the

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BOTTLING ROCKETS: Portland Fire Chief Erin Janssens, who lives in Corbett and drives a Triumph motorcycle, compares firework use to speeding.

Bureau in 1988, most of the fire stations didn’t have women’s restrooms, because they didn’t have women. The union— famously an old boys’ network—sued the city in 1994, accusing it of reverse discrimination in job promotions. The suit alleged Janssens’ exam to become a lieutenant didn’t weigh seniority fairly; the case was dismissed a year later. Some firefighters are still rankled about

Last July 4, the Bureau responded to 40 fires, 19 of them caused by fireworks. That’s down from the 10-year high mark in 2004, which saw 75 fires on July 4—55 caused by fireworks. But it’s still more than three times as many fires in a single day as the 12 fires the Bureau sees in an average week. For the week preceding the Fourth, fire patrols routinely witness amateur

“IF THEY CONTINUE TO DISREGARD OTHER PEOPLE AND THE LAW, THEN THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES. AND MOST PEOPLE DON’T LIKE THE CONSEQUENCES.” — ERIN JANSSENS

Portland area about fireworks. She’s already upended convention once this year. On June 5, she became the first female fire chief in the 159-year span of Portland Fire & Rescue—a bureau that had just two other women firefighters when she joined in 1988. If Janssens is going to douse illegal fireworks, however, she’ll first need to extinguish a statewide culture. “I am an optimist,” Janssens says. “But I’m also tenacious.” Janssens, 48, became a firefighter on a dare. Growing up in Boring, she wanted to be a doctor or an architect. At age 20, she tried to convince a friend he should become a firefighter. “You think it would be so great,” he told her, “why don’t you do it?” “I didn’t know of women being in the fire service,” Janssens says. “Everybody used the term ‘fireman,’ and that’s where I began to really appreciate the power of language.” When she joined the Portland Fire 12

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Janssens’ appointment as chief—City Commissioner Randy Leonard, a former fire union boss, picked her over the rank and file’s preferred choice. “There’s a lot of people who like her,” says Jerry Alvarez, who recently retired from the Bureau. “There’s a lot of people who don’t. It’s an authoritative thing.” But Leonard says he appointed Janssens—who most recently worked as the city’s fire marshal—because of how she had stepped up Portland Fire & Rescue’s public-relations barrage against illegal fireworks. “Which I greatly appreciated,” Leonard says, adding, “Firefighters dread the Fourth of July.” In their hatred of fireworks, Portland firefighters can sometimes sound like hyperbolic worrywarts. (Here’s Bureau spokesman Paul Corah describing a sparkler: “The tip of it is 1,200 degrees. That’s the same temperature as a blowtorch. Would you hand a kid a blowtorch?”) But they have real evidence of destruction.

fireworks displays on nearly every corner, with staffing too stretched to cite them all. “It’s like a mini-Vietnam,” says Michael Silva, a senior inspector with Portland Fire & Rescue. “You can’t be fast enough.” There’s other collateral damage: wildfires. Traumatized war veterans forced to relive the sounds of combat. Injuries and frightened children and scared pets. (Multnomah County Animal Services sees a 25 percent spike in wandering dogs and cats on the week of July 4.) Emails to the Bureau from citizens show a lot Portlanders have had enough, too. “We have one neighbor on [Northeast] 28th between Tillamook and Hancock who shoots professional-level fireworks from his driveway, until midnight, with risk to cars and houses nearby,” reads one. “He and his buddy, drinks in hand, light one after the other while their children run about and the entire scene feels like an accident waiting to happen. We have asked them, year after year, to please stop—but they refuse.”

“My kids are up, and my dog is petrified, to the point that I need to sedate him,” reads a complaint from Southeast 167th Avenue. “I have a simple question. Is Portland a city where laws are enforced?” Aviary’s owners now give a testimonial in a new fire and police training video about fireworks. “We don’t want to be the annoying kids who are ruining everyone’s fun,” Whitehead tells WW. “I think until you’ve been impacted, you think it’s not a big deal. But for us, it was huge.” The Aviary fire is a poster child for fireworks-caused blazes, but it’s not alone. On July 25, 2009, a firework landed in the landscaping outside Four Seasons Beauty Supply at Southeast 122nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard. The salon burst into flames and began to explode. “We just went to bed and heard, ‘Kaboom, kaboom, kaboom,’” a neighbor told KATU. The salon never reopened. The next year, on July 4, fireworks debris ignited accumulated dryer lint under an exhaust fan on the roof of Park Place Assisted Living Community near Tualatin. A fire spread into the building’s attic, and the 80 seniors in the residential center were evacuated by staff. In 2007, a 4-year-old Sherwood boy lit a stash of illegal fireworks in his father’s bedroom closet. The seven other people in the two-story duplex ran outside before realizing the child was still trapped in the room. The boy was the most recent death in Oregon from fireworks. Janssens didn’t begin the Bureau’s antifireworks efforts. Portland Fire & Rescue began a PR campaign in 2006, along with an enforcement program called Operation Lower the Boom. But Leonard says Janssens has taken the most aggressive approach to fireworks of any fire marshal CONT. on page 14

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he’s seen in the last 35 years. Janssens is still moving into the chief’s office in Old Town. Boxes are half unpacked. Commemorative plates are strewn around her desk. A watercolor print of the great San Francisco fire of 1906 is propped against the wall on the floor. Janssens talks in the cadences of the NPR shows she listens to during her commute. She could be the host of one of those shows, with her soothing repetitions of words like “impact” and “awareness.” It’s the language of someone who runs a human resources department, not a paramilitary organization. “We’re trying to do educational outreach, and give people the opportunity to make a decision,” she says. “And if they continue to disregard other people and the law, then there will be consequences. And most people don’t like the consequences.” Janssens’ allies and critics in the Fire Bureau agree she possesses two central characteristics: a self-possession in conversation, and a close attention to detail that her supporters call precision and her detractors call micromanaging. She’s put both of those qualities to use fighting fireworks. The $70,000-plus educational campaign sees Portland Fire & Rescue partnering for the first time with four other fire departments: Gresham, Clackamas, Lake Oswego and Tualatin Valley. The blitz includes billboards, radio and newspapers (the Bureau is advertising with WW, The Oregonian and The Portland Mercury), movie theater pre-show ads and TriMet bus placards. Janssens is also giving police more muscle—effectively deputizing every

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BOOMTOWN: Frank McKoy, owner of Blackjack Fireworks in Clark County, will blockade the door of his superstore with a wall of shopping carts to keep out customers before legal sale dates.

But some very different people are just a bridge away. Frank McKoy is stocking the metal shelves in a section of Blackjack Fireworks he calls “mortar central” with explosives named

“LIGHT ’EM OVER THE RIVER LIKE EVERYBODY IN WASHINGTON DOES.” —FRANK MCKOY Packing Heat, One Big S.O.B. and Outta Control. One mortar is titled That’s Your Problem, and shows a cartoon Uncle Sam as a skull with one eyeball. “WARNING,” the labels say. “SHOOTS FLAMING BALLS.” McKoy, who owns Blackjack, is a burly man with a Santa belly, a week’s worth of stubble on his chin and a personal weakness for a novelty firework called Poopy Puppy: a cardboard puppy that excretes

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officer as a fire marshal by giving them authority to issue citations and fines. (Police have had only one option before: arrest and book violators.) “That’s my last-ditch effort,” Janssens says of fines. “Worst-case scenario, if being a good neighbor [isn’t] important to you, then, OK, here’s the law. Because there’s going to be different ways that you reach different people.”

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a brightly colored snake out its backside. “That is funny,” McKoy says. “My other stores sell these like hotcakes.” McKoy was there in 1981 on the day his father opened the now-landmark yellow Blackjack store, easily visible from Interstate 5. “I was 16 years old,” he says. “There were about 150 people waiting in the pouring rain. It was a mob house.” Despite the pirate’s face on the store’s billboard, Blackjack isn’t breaking any laws. The store has been operating for 31 years in Clark County, where Washington state law says McKoy can sell a wide range of Roman candles and mortars from June 28 through July 4. Citizens are allowed to set them off only during that week. But Blackjack makes enough money from that single week to pay the yearly mortgage on its 10,000-square-foot building and surrounding properties. And the vast tents of competitors spring up each summer to wage a price war. Ten days before sales open, banners facing the highway read, “We beat Blackjack every day.” McKoy now lives outside Austin, Texas, and his family also runs stores in South Dakota and Nevada. He imports his wares from China, and each year in a week’s time sells three to four truckloads at the Washington location. In the early 1980s, McKoy says Portland police tried to conduct stings of Oregonians buying fireworks in Washington by using undercover detectives to call in Oregon vehicle licenses in the parking lot of Vancouver fireworks stores. McKoy says he isn’t encouraging any scofflaws. “What people in Oregon don’t know is you can set them off here [in Washington] and be legal,” McKoy says. “They can go down to the river and light ’em over the river like everybody in Washington does.” McKoy won’t say how much he rakes in, but the four for-profit tents within

Vancouver city limits that compete with him reported $1.1 million in earnings in a week last year, according to city records. The Fort Vancouver National Trust, which oversees nonprofits, estimates that charities’ fireworks stands brought in $5 million in Clark County last year. The American Pyrotechnics Association says consumer sales of fireworks topped $649 million in 2011—up from $433 million a decade earlier. In the last two years, five states looking for new tax revenues relaxed their regulations; Kentucky and Michigan legalized every firework not banned by federal law. When officials in Vancouver try to move in the other direction, the idea blows up in their faces. On June 18, the Vancouver City Council intended to pass a fireworks ban just like Oregon’s. The proposal would force vendors selling anything but “safe and sane” fireworks—nothing traveling more than a foot in the air—to unincorporated Clark County, where Blackjack operates. The Council chambers are packed. The Council hears that Vancouver’s 22 seasonal fireworks stands raise money—$2.86 million last year in the city limits—for the likes of the Evergreen High School band and a veterans’ organization. One person who testifies is Brent Pavlicek, general manager of Aurora-based Western Fireworks, which supplies the Vancouver vendors. That’s right: The fireworks sold in Vancouver are imported to the U.S. via Oregon. Western Fireworks is owned by Wayne Scott, a former Oregon House majority leader (R-Canby). It’s Oregon’s largest importer and supplier of fireworks, most of them from China. Pavlicek tells the Vancouver City Council that if it passes a ban like Oregon’s, it will be destroying all fireworks business in the city. Among many foes, there is also an

unmistakable subtext of culture warfare. A teenager quotes Thomas Jefferson. Another man references Bill O’Reilly. Two people recite the lyrics to “The StarSpangled Banner.” It’s as if somebody crossbred gun control with the War on Christmas. “If we didn’t have Fourth of July,” says a man in his 20s, “we wouldn’t have Veterans Day, we wouldn’t have Memorial Day, there wouldn’t be America. Our founding fathers, if they weren’t dead already, I think they’d die.” The Council caves and, near midnight, rejects the ban by a 6-1 vote. Banned fireworks will keep pouring south across the Columbia River from Vancouver. What’s a crusader to do? Janssens hopes a new generation will think differently. “What I’m just focusing on is, how can we change the culture here?” Janssens says. “How can we have an impact on Portland? I mean, wouldn’t it be nice if everybody thought the same way we did?” To better understand how people think about fireworks, we blow some up. Blackjack hasn’t opened by our deadline, but tribal fireworks stands—not limited as to when they can open—are selling. So we drive 101 miles to Thunder City Mall, a kind of flea market of fireworks on the Chehalis Reservation outside Oakville, Wash: plywood booths around a parking lot—like little bunkers, or the world’s most depressed county-fair mid-

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THE CITY THAT FIREWORKS: The author launches a Roman candle in Camas, Wash.

way—with names such as Bomb Shelter and Pyro-Maniac’s. A light rain falls. A lanky boy throws party poppers into the grass. A man outside the square fires rockets into the mist. At one booth, called War Party, we buy the Excalibur, with its 24 canister shells, four Roman candles, 100 Black Cat bottle rockets, and mortar cakes called Aquarium, Robot Rage and The Hustler. Our haul is illegal in Oregon, so we decide to set them off in Washington—although setting them off so early in June isn’t allowed. At Lacamas Lake Regional Park in Camas, we open with a few cheap and dis-

appointing bottle rockets. Then we shoot a Roman candle that unloads five orange projectiles into the sky out of our hand. It’s louder than we expected, like a missile strafing in a violent ’80s cartoon. With night falling, we set up two Excaliburs and light one. The mortar fires a flaming ball 30 feet high, a real pink-and-blue flower of fire blossoms above us, and the finishing boom echoes through the firs. The ashes drift down onto our hair and forehead, like a sacrament on a holy day. Knowing all that Erin Janssens has told us about fireworks, we ought to feel guilty. And not just because we’re interrupting

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people’s peace and risking their property. We might notice that it feels like a political act, in a larger debate about whether our individual good time should trump the quiet society others want to enforce. Knowing the law, the rancor, the border war—being, in short, educated—we might sense that setting off fireworks is taking sides in an endless argument. But we also understand the allure—the burning colors, smells of spent gunpowder, the percussion of the blast. “Awesome,” we say. After the second Excalibur explodes, the Camas police cars pull up. “Do you guys have any idea how illegal you are right now?” an officer asks us. The officer has a friendly face and a white mustache. He seems less angry than perplexed that we could be so stupid. His partner, a younger man, has a flashlight, which he uses to look over our stash. We explain that we are from Oregon, and we don’t normally get to set these things off. We would be legal, the officers tell us, on another day. But not in the park. The mustached officer says he heard Excalibur from more than a mile away. The cops write down a name and address in a notepad, but don’t cite us. “You get out of here,” the younger officer says, “and we’ll call it a night.” They let us take our unexploded mortars back to our car and drive back across the river. They’ve decided this is Oregon’s problem.

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THURSDAY JUNE 28 BOBBY BARE JR. [MUSIC] Though he visits our fair city more often than our in-laws, we just can’t get enough of this cherub-faced, affecting and hilarious twangy songwriter. He’s still touring on 2010 full-length A Storm a Tree My Mother’s Head, but that album deserves a victory lap. Besides, today is his 46th birthday. Bunk Bar, 1028 SW Water Ave. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+. PATTON OSWALT [COMEDY] The diminutive comic has built a nice film career. He’s played a cartoon rat, had his ass kicked by a former NFL player and, improbably, slept with Charlize Theron. But to comedy nerds, he’ll always be the guy who renamed a certain KFC menu item “a failure pile in a sadness bowl.” Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-6438669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, June 28-30. $30-$35.

FRIDAY JUNE 29 NORTH AMERICAN ORGANIC BREWERS FESTIVAL [BEER] Environmentally savvy drinkers sample organic brews alongside live music and food vendors. There are really complicated recycling arrangements and absolutely no car parking. Show your validated TriMet ticket or bring three cans of (preferably organic) food for $1 off your biodegradable cornstarch tasting mug. Overlook Park, North Fremont Street and Interstate Avenue. Noon-9 pm Friday-Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday, June 29-July 1. Free admission, beer tasting requires $6 glass and $1 drink tokens.

THE SCRIPT SAYS TO MAKE YOUR MOVE…NOW! Along with the screaming children eating cheese sandwiches and miserly old folks with elaborate seating arrangements, Portland’s Movies in the Park series offers lots of PDA. To help you make those awkward moves—or know when to keep your eyes fixed on the screen as cheap thrills are copped around you—we’ve excerpted the most sensual moments from the screenplays of this year’s crop. Yes, this is really how Hollywood writes romance. E.L. James couldn’t do it better.

E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (June 30, King School Park)

[Elliott sits down and cries. E.T. touches one of his tears.]

Back to the Future (July 10, Oregon Park)

LORRAINE: I don’t worry about it! [And with that, she throws herself on him, kissing him passionately, climbing all over him, putting his hands on her breasts! Marty is absolutely shocked!]

Wizard of Oz (July 14, Concordia University)

WIZARD: You are now a member of the Legion of Courage! [The Wizard leans forward and kisses the Lion—the Lion reacts, speaks.] LION: Oh—Oh—shucks, folks, I’m speechless!

Roman Holiday (July 19, Caruthers Park)

JOE: Say, you know, you were great back there. ANN: You weren’t so bad yourself. [She stops suddenly, looking into his eyes. He leans forward and kisses her. They stop several moments later and look into each other’s eyes.]

Citizen Kane (Aug. 3, Laurelhurst Park)

[Kane is just stepping into an elegant barouche, drawn up at the curb, in which sits Miss Emily Norton. He kisses her full on the lips before he sits down. She acts a bit taken aback, because of the public nature of the scene, but she isn’t really annoyed. As the barouche starts off, she is looking at him adoringly. He, however, has turned his head and is looking adoringly at the Inquirer.]

The Muppets (Aug. 10, St. Johns Park)

MISS PIGGY: Shhhh. [MUSIC UP: “I’m Your Puppet” by Marvin Gaye.] [Piggy and Kermit stand face to face, framing the violent kidnapping of Jack Black. A long beat as they stare into each other’s eyes. Piggy leans in for a kiss. Kermit panics.] KERMIT: Ummm..... PEANUT! [He joins the fray, leaving Piggy standing alone, puckering.] MISS PIGGY: (angry) That’s it frog! Never again! Never again!

ECOSEX SYMPOSIUM [SEX] Bad news: Scientists are pretty sure about this global climate change thing. The good news? Five academics think sex will save the world from an eco-motional meltdown. They will be talking sex and sustainability, and how the two are related, before getting down and earthy at the Ecosex ball. FridaySunday, June 29-July 1. Various locations and times. Full package $111-$149. ecosex.org.

SATURDAY JUNE 30 MATES OF STATE [MUSIC] Forget the cutesy stories about Mates of State raising kids on the road—this husband and wife duo works because it rocks very, very hard using very, very little. Besides, said couple crafts sing-alongable nonsense lyrics like: “Set the rocks on fire/ You’re playing with a loaded gun.” Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+. HAT PARADE [HATS] Cool hat, but where would you wear it? Oh, the Hat Parade! Lulu’s Vintage hosts a trips to various shops of the millinery persuasion, ending with tea and crumpets. Lulu’s Vintage, 916 W Burnside St. 1 pm. Free. Willamette Week JUNE 27, 2012 wweek.com

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Saturday, June 30

Jack McMahon is a performing songwriter as well host and organizer of the Music Millennium Songwriters’ Showcase. McMahon has been a working musician for all of his adult life and over the years has fronted some of Portland’s more notable bands (Tracks, The Chameleons, Jack McMahon & Friends).

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Adrian H and The Wounds have a sound that is sinfully soulful and reminiscent of a night in a dark room full of hallucinations, secrets, and song. Adrian’s voice and lyrics cut like a straight edge. He evokes impassioned stories of tragic love, lost faith and twisted taboos. On their new self-titled album, Adrian H sings grim stories of broken characters of flesh and blood, human tragedies that chase shivers down the listener’s spine.

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land, where he attempted to form a career as a producer of gospel and R&B records. He cites some successes—such as working with ex-Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams—but the endeavor more often proved an unlikely frustration to Brown’s newfound religious convictions. “What I found out really quickly was that the commercial gospel industry was far more corrupt than the hip-hop and R&B industry,” Brown says. “People were having sex with people who weren’t their spouses, while singing about how you need to not do that. It was just really frustrating.” Brown turned his efforts to preaching. In 2006, he convened seven followers in Northeast Portland’s Fernhill

“LIVING IN PORTLAND, IT’S EASY TO BE 23 AND TO NEVER HAVE HEARD ABOUT JESUS.” —COLE BROWN administering to tasks as various as selecting songwriters to work with the label’s artists and policing Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s in-studio substance abuse. Just as Brown’s childhood aspirations were becoming a reality, he made the fateful acquaintance of a relatively unknown R&B artist named Mike E. Himself a recent convert, Mike E shared with Brown a personal take on Christian theology that had a profound effect on the upand-coming A&R man. Though familiar with the language of Christianity through his R&B obsessions, Brown had never given much thought to a religious existence. “Living in Portland,” he says, “it’s easy to be 23 years old and to never have heard about Jesus.” Mike E’s testimony fascinated Brown, and after a period of initial skepticism, he developed an interest in Christianity. After just two years at Riley’s side, Brown elected to quit his job with Lil’ Man Records and return to Port-

Park and founded Emmaus Church, which later moved into a storefront on Northeast Shaver Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. (Brown describes Emmaus as “a nondenominational charismatic church.” Members who feel so inclined are encouraged to speak in tongues during Sunday services.) Brown began writing shortly thereafter. His first self-published book, 2010’s Lies My Pastor Told Me, addressed the circuitous development of his unique take on Christianity. Lies Hip-Hop Told Me, also selfpublished and due for a July 2 release, follows this same line of reasoning, but takes for its subject matter the twin obsessions that have described Brown’s anomalous career. The book examines 14 of hip-hop’s most ubiquitous catch phrases (like “bitches ain’t shit” and “stop snitchin’”) from the perspective of a hip-hop fan cum biblical dialectician. Lies Hip-Hop Told Me approaches its musical constituent with knowing affection and its biblical sources with

surprising erudition. Brown might be the only biblical scholar ever who has quoted Bobby Brown and the Book of Deuteronomy in the same paragraph. Take this passage from Brown’s chapter on “Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A.: “Jesus died…to save people like you and me and people like the racist, power-abusing police officers N.W.A. rapped about. When we pray for people in authority we glorify Jesus by acknowledging that he alone is able to rescue us (and others) from our slavery to evil and unite us (and others) to God.” “I don’t want my view of the world to be forced upon N.W.A.’s view of the world,” Brown explains. “I believe that N.W.A.’s view of the world is wrong in this regard, not because of anything I think is better, but because I think Jesus is a higher authority than me and a higher authority than N.W.A. So Jesus is going to correct me and he’s going to correct N.W.A., but we still get to express ourselves.” Some of Brown’s passages prove more controversial. In the chapter on the phrase “No Homo,” he stresses that homosexual intercourse is a sin, “but it is not alone on that list and it is not the worst of all sins.” In distinction to the ideologues clogging the mainstream of America’s theological discussion, though, Brown has developed a doctrine that allows for the peaceful coexistence of his religious convictions and secular obsessions. “I still love and listen to virtually all the hip-hop I listened to before,” he says. “I listen to it in a different way, I think, no longer worshipping and absorbing everything it has to tell me, but enjoying the lyrics, the wordplay and the music and, oftentimes, the truth that it tells. I was just listening to Nas this morning. I love it.” SEE IT: A release party for Lies Hip-Hop Told Me is at YOLO Lounge, 412 SW 4th Ave., on Tuesday, July 3. 8 pm. Free. 21+.

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[GRIND] Denver’s Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire self-identifies as “total fucking dissonant anti-life funeral grind,” which tells me a few things: “Funeral grind” is apparently a thing; the three guys in this band definitely know how to party; and CTTTOAFF (whew!) is likely to loathe whatever I write about it. Grumpy Guses, these cats, but there is apocalyptic beauty in their denial of joy. Last year’s split LP with Nesseria found CTTTOAFF slogging through syrup-thick dirges and riding blast-beat mayhem to realms of bodiless frenzy, the whole bloodcurdling journey haunted by deathmetal specters. Hey guys, cheer up! Just kidding. Keep hating. It sounds rad. CHRIS STAMM. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 285-3718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

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[CALIFORNIA COUNTRY] As much as I love the Doug Fir, I wish the show tonight were somewhere grittier, somewhere countrier—somewhere like a honky-tonk in Bakersfield. Because, as you can guess by its name, headliner Brokedown in Bakersfield plays music in tribute to the California city whose raw, eponymous 1960s sound was born in reaction to the clean country that was coming out of Nashville. The supergroup of West Coasters—which includes singer-songwriter Nicki Bluhm and members of ALO and the Mother Hips—pulls from a bountiful list of country classics tied to the area, songs crafted by guys like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. The evening promises plenty of twangy guitar rhythms, foot-tapping pedalsteel riffs and lively harmonies to muster the spirit of the bad old days. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13 advance, $15 day of show. 21+.

FRIDAY, JUNE 29 Chemical Channel, Foxall to Foxall, DJ Caraya

[RAVE FUEL] Though Portland’s electronic music talent has tended toward hyphenate genre tags— electro-pop, electro-goth, indieelectronica—few producers have dedicated themselves to the creation of synthesizer-born rave fuel with quite the orthodox enthusiasm displayed by Chemical Channel. Absent lyrics, winking samples and the invasive influence of nonsynthesized sounds, Chemical Channel’s tracks skirt the edges of trance, layering bleeping tones atop one another to form pulsing, sonic ziggurats. Few shows in Portland could advertise themselves as offering free glow sticks at the door without sounding desperate, but in this case, the party favors are completely appropriate. SHANE DANAHER. Backspace, 115 NW 5th Ave., 248-2900. 7 pm. $5. All ages.

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[SOULFUL POP] Slowly but surely, the world is learning to extend soulful white girls the benefit of the doubt on the authentic-

ity front. That’s a good thing for Sara Jackson-Holman, whose quite authentic-sounding 2010 record, When You Dream, successfully mixed sultry vocals with smart, piano-driven hooks. The followup, Cardiology, is a more musically diverse affair—it opens with synths and drum machines on the opener “Cartography” before diving into an Adele-style wall of soul on “Can’t Take My Love,” bouncing between the two poles as the record progresses—but JacksonHolman’s vocal gospel leanings remain intact throughout. The resulting disc produces at least one track begging for a house remix (“Risk it All”) and at least one that should hit the Top 40 immediately (“Do I Make it Look Easy”). CASEY JARMAN. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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[SAX MANIAC] The No Wave movement that bubbled out of New York’s underground music scene in the ’70s produced a number of iconic figures and sounds, from the strangled-cat guitar histrionics of DNA to the proto-industrial duo Suicide. One of the most striking was the rail-thin, pompadoured soul man James Chance. With his backing bands the Contortions and the Blacks, Chance dared to lace funk, disco and R&B jams with the pulpy skronk of free jazz, resulting in freak-out classics like Buy and Off White. Since his NYC heyday, Chance has bounced between the States and Europe, unleashing a quick torrent of noise before melting into the darkness. Catch him now before he slips away again. ROBERT HAM. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 2320056. 9 pm. $12. 21+.

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HERE COME THE MEN IN BLACK: Chicago Afrobeat Project plays Goodfoot Lounge on Saturday, June 30. ian message: The New York-based band is self-proclaimedly “anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and anti-breeding but pro-choice.” Don’t bring: your babies or your cop friends. Bring: Band-Aids and steel-toed boots. NORA EILEEN JONES. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 7 pm. $15. All ages.

Hungry Ghost, Survival Knife

[RAW ROCK] I’ve always felt bad referring to any quality music as “blues rock.” The connotations are so severe, even in this age of ubiquitous Black Keys and White Stripes, that few would like to find that genre atop their résumé. And truth be told, Hungry Ghost— the project founded in 2010 by Unwound drummer Sara Lund and Irving Klaw Trio’s Andrew Price— evidences more than a hint of late-’90s post- and math-rock intertwined with the mammoth riffs. The trio’s Sam Coomes-produced full-length debut, a nine-track collection of burly, harmony-laden pop that never loses its sense of fun or adventure, is set to drop in late July, but Lund promises copies at tonight’s release show. Her old Unwound bandmates, Justin Trosper and Brandt Sandeno, open the evening as Survival Knife. CASEY JARMAN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave. 10 pm. $8. 21+.

Young Empires, Humans

[M101] For a troupe with such an evident sense of manifest destiny—“Young Empires” refers to the group’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it incorporation of Latin polyrhythmic structures within absolutely au courant top-40 dance as “world beat haute rock”—the Toronto four-piece (with a tastemaker’s European tour already under its belt) doesn’t so much bother applying the same sophistication to the music itself. Debut EP Wake All My Youth hits all the right, faintly indie-fied electro-pop spikes and swells to guarantee more than a few floor fillers this summer, but the absence of any hint of underlying complexities doesn’t augur well for a long reign. JAY HORTON. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 2266630. 9 pm. Cover. 21+.

Chicago Afrobeat Project

[SUB-SAHARAN GETDOWN] Once you get over the initial surprise at the Chicago Afrobeat Project’s overwhelming predominance of white people, you’ll find it hard to stop dancing. CAP, born in the Windy City in 2002, owes a hefty debt to Afrobeat legend (and, as some say, creator) Fela Kuti, but the group manages to add its own special twist to the churning beats and cyclical riffs of its Kuti-inspired compositions. The group, which ranges in size between seven and 14 pieces, just released Nyash Up!, its best-produced studio effort since 2005’s self-titled LP. Ten years old and going strong, CAP is the most rhythm, tenor-sax buzz and funky electric guitar fuzz ever to be crammed into a vegetable oilpowered tour bus. NORA EILEEN JONES. Goodfoot Lounge, 2845 SE Stark St., 239-9292. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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EL-P, Killer Mike, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Despot

[ELECTRO-CRUNK] Who better to pair with hardcore Southern MC Killer Mike than a rapper-producer whose debut album was titled Fantastic Damage? El-P’s piercing synths and monstrous bass lines go perfectly with Mike’s viciously clever lyrics, which touch on everything from political corruption to Tuesdays at the strip club. The duo’s recently released collaboration (El-P on the beats, Mike on the vocals), R.A.P. Music, is a cohesive beast, full of lyrics and beats that will either make you feel smart or totally zonk your brain into mincemeat—and maybe both. El-P’s solo album, Cancer for the Cure, also recently released, is in the same vein: This is intelligent music built on chaos. Add to the mix New York’s Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, who makes music so unapologetically ignorant that it makes your teeth hurt, and you have one wildly entertaining and painful night. REED JACKSON. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

Delicate Steve, Adventures With Might

[INSTRUMENTAL DOODLES] Instrumental rock is a tough sell. Half the time, we don’t know what vocalists are saying, but we seem to need their voices anyway, as a sort of human reference point in the music. The most successful instrumental acts have overcome this need with a go-big-or-gohome approach: Think of the epic post-rock of Explosions in the Sky. New Jersey’s Delicate Steve, a.k.a. Steve Marion, not only doesn’t gobig-or-go-home—he stays in to begin with, composing offbeat, African-inspired pieces on his distinctively brittle-sounding Dobro slide guitar. Marion’s 2011 debut, Wondervisions, sounded promising but underdeveloped, like a “delicate” schoolmate’s notebook sketches; follow-up Positive Force, out July 10, will tell whether Steve can do more than doodle. JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8 pm. $8. 21+.

Bass Drum of Death, DZ Deathrays, Ghost Animal

[CRASH ROCK] The fearsome sound that Mississippi band Bass Drum of Death turns out belies its personnel count. Last year’s debut, GB City (Fat Possum), proved that two people can create an entire wall of blistering hard rock. It’s the kind of raw music the manic Looney Tunes character Taz would dance to. Offering a Hives-style post-punk charge and a jagged, delightfully unrefined playing style, BDOD is well on its way to bringing back the stage dive and postshow destruction of the drum kit. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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MIKE SCHEIDT FRIDAY, JUNE 29 [SINGER-SONGWRITER] Mike Scheidt looks glassy-eyed and a little wobbly, desperate for his first coffee of the day, as he searches for a seat at the downtown Stumptown. Twelve hours ago, he stepped off a plane, returning home from playing some international festival dates with YOB, his long-running and critically lauded doommetal band. In a few short hours, he’ll fly to San Francisco to jam and record with a new project featuring former members of the avant-metal outfit Ludicra. Although Scheidt is relieved to be home, when he’s asked about the events that inspired his first solo effort, Stay Awake (released this month on Thrill Jockey), a look of extreme anguish flashes over his heavily bearded face. “I won’t get specific,” the 42-year-old says, tearing a chunk off a pain au chocolat. “But I will say that sometimes things don’t go how you really, really, really want them to. It’s a constant lesson in humility and a constant lesson in how life is. I felt an intense need to process that and purge it.” Even without all the details, learning that something painful inspired these new songs isn’t surprising, especially when you dig into the lyrics (“This is the price to truly live/ Is to watch it die and not turn away,” he sings on “The Price”). Dark themes are normal in metal. What is shocking about Scheidt’s new record is his chosen medium for this catharsis: quiet, humble acoustic drone-folk. In truth, Scheidt has been studying acoustic playing for years, starting with some lessons from legendary Captain Beefheart sideman Zoot Horn Rollo (“I make a point of letting people know I was his worst student”), and then on-the-job training at a guitar shop in Eugene. Unlike the Merle Travis-style finger-picking Scheidt learned in those days, the sound of Stay Awake is full of slowly unfolding melodies and long, drawn-out chords over which he reduces his usual furious growl for a wobbly tenor that cuts deep. On “In Your Light,” he even affects a bit of falsetto, a nod, he says, to his love of Cat Stevens and Gordon Lightfoot. It’s daring enough to hear Scheidt, as he puts it, “tear my chest open and let it all spill out” in such an unadorned fashion. But one gets a real sense of the huge risk that he’s taking when you see him perform the songs live. At a recent Mississippi Studios appearance, the burly, tattooed musician looked so much more exposed (and smaller) than usual without a huge amp stack and eardrum-crippling volume at his back. “It felt like I was skydiving without a parachute,” he says of his first time performing solo, at the behest of another metal musician with acoustic proclivities, Scott Kelly of Neurosis. “This music was born out of very deep, personal pain; putting that in front of people was horrifically frightening. It’s made me better as a musician, but every time I do it, I’m scared to death.” ROBERT HAM. What scares the hell out of a doom-metal icon? Taking the stage solo with an acoustic guitar.

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RISE FROM YOUR GRAVES: Sara Jackson-Holman plays Doug Fir Lounge on Friday, June 29.

Spookies, Woolen Men, Point Juncture WA

[SQUALL POP] It takes quite a sonic personality to relegate beloved, hometown indie-rock collective Point Juncture, WA, to an opening slot, and Spookies has just such an excess supply of moxie. Composed of members of oftenmourned sunshine rockers the Shaky Hands, Spookies has slated its Secret Hell Yeah EP for a July 31 release, though those feeling constrained by the molasses-slow progression of time can listen to the EP’s four tracks on Bandcamp at this very moment. A lo-fi potpourri of surf rock and indie-pop squalls, Spookies’ aesthetic is united by a nonsensical excess of charm. SHANE DANAHER. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $5. 21+.

NoFest: Sir Richard Bishop, Marisa Anderson, Plankton Wat, Blake Mackey and more

[GUITARIST SHOWCASE] This is the kind of show that serious music geeks can dine out on for years: catching an iconic musician in an unusual venue. In this case, it’s the virtuosic guitarist Sir Richard Bishop performing a set of enraptured blues, jazz and drone in the tiny natural-foods store and restaurant Proper Eats. The concert is part of the annual St. Johns NoFest, which takes up a total of 16 neighborhood venues and runs all day. For this showcase, Bishop will be joined by a murderers’ row of guitar talent, including fellow blues-informed genius Marisa Anderson (of Evolutionary Jass Band notoriety), the suncooked explorations of Eternal Tapestry’s Dewey Mahood (playing as Plankton Wat) and folk troubadour Blake Mackey. ROBERT HAM. Proper Eats Market and Cafe, 8638 N Lombard St., 445-2007. 1-10 pm. Free. See nofest.net for complete festival lineup. All ages.

Doctor Theopolis, Old Light, DJ Safi, Yards, The Buttery Lords, DJ Gregarious, Mighty Misc, Mic Crenshaw and more (Beastie Boys tribute)

[R.I.P.] When Adam Yauch passed in May, the outpouring of tributes exposed those who tuned out during the Beasties frat-rock infancy to something fans knew all along: The Beasties’ musical legacy is one of the most robust, inspirational and eclectic in pop music history. The band evolved from pranksters to trailblazers—shepherded by Yauch—while dabbling in everything from punk and rap to jazz, reggae, folk, country, world music and everything in between. The group’s work was crafted with political consciousness, innovation and—above all—humor. Portland’s tribute is a testament to that complex legacy, with everyone from punkish hip-hop goofballs the Buttery Lords and funksters Dr. Theopolis to two supergroups comprising members of the Decemberists passing the mic for the dopest wake this side of Brooklyn. AP KRYZA. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 9 pm. $10. All ages.

SUNDAY, JULY 1 Bill Kirchen

[ROCKABILITY] Bill Kirchen helped Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen achieve takeoff. Of course, the Airmen have long since vanished into thin air, probably unknown by 90 percent of this section’s readers, so let me explain: Cody and company brought roots styles like honky-tonk, rockabilly and R&B to a hippie audience back in the daze. Kirchen’s reality-warping guitar largely defined the band’s sound, never more so on than on the top-10-hit cover of country classic “Hot Rod Lincoln.” To this day, Kirchen still cracks open that chestnut in concert, stretching it into a 10-minute epic featuring spot-on imitations of several iconic guitarists’ signature styles (“And then Chuck Berry pulled up! [instrumental] And then Link Wray pulled up! [instrumental] And then these four guys from England..,” etc.). Tonight, sans backing band, he’ll really show ya what he can do with that git-tar. JEFF ROSENBERG. Duff’s Garage, 1635 SE 7th Ave., 234-2337. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

TUESDAY, JULY 3 Justin Townes Earle, Tristen

[FUTURE FOLK LEGEND] A showman through and through, Justin Townes Earle plays crowds like a fiddle. The son of legendary countrysmith Steve Earle is just 30 years old but sports the songwriting charisma and professionalism of a man twice his age. Earle’s latest effort , Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, is as endearing as the title is long. His songs have gained a polished beauty over the years without plummeting into the soft-rock danger zone. These days, Earle’s heavy-hearted, highly sophisticated folk ranks equal to the likes of M. Ward and A.A. Bondy. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $20. 21+.

Atriarch, Whitehorse, The Body, Usnea

[DOOM AND GLOOM] Atriarch’s side of its recently released split with Oakland’s Alaric doesn’t give Portland’s conjurers of terror quite enough time to summon something as suffocating and nighmarish as last year’s Forever the End—true dread feels interminable, and 10 minutes just doesn’t quite cut it—but album centerpiece “Offerings” is most certainly a beast to be reckoned with and then gutted by. Two minutes of atmospheric spookiness give way to incantatory death doom before Atriarch opens the gates and unleashes a maelstrom of driving black metal, while frontman Lenny Smith shapeshifts throughout, his vocals by turn haunted and haunting, pierced and piercing. It’s an impressive display, and a promisingly bleak glimpse into Atriarch’s future. CHRIS STAMM. Plan B, 1305 SE 8th Ave., 230-9020. 8 pm. $6. 21+.

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Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Del Rods, Wavesauce, Aloha Screwdriver (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)

East Burn

S I R R I C H A R D B I S H O P. N E T

1800 E Burnside St. Boy and Bean

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Long Knife, Surfs Drugs, Whorehound, DJ Lamar Leroy

Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Fruition

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Dinner with a Bear, Censure, Iditarod, Bury Your Horses, Whispers of Wonder

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Alan Jones Jam

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Outpost, Sono Vera

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Karen Maria Capo

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Habits, DJ Matt Scaphism

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9 pm); Kory Quinn (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tara Williamson

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Blouse, DJ Cryder, DJ Hero Worship (Planned Parenthood benefit)

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Gaea Schell/Thomas Barber Quartet (8 pm); Mark Simon (5 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Les McCann, Javon Jackson, Mel Brown, Frank Tribble, Ed Bennett

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Stumblebum, Advisory, Good Intentions

EYE OF THE TIGER: Sir Richard Bishop plays Proper Eats Market and Cafe on Saturday, June 29, as a part of the St. Johns No Fest.

WED. JUNE 27 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, Run On Sentence

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Open Mic

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Better Days, Second Player Score, Ramune Rocket 3

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Depopulator

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Anna and the Underbelly, The Jackalope Saints

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Brian Harrison and the Last Draw, Andrew Paul Woodworth

Camellia Lounge

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

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Boo Frog

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); High Flyer Trio (6 pm)

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Irish Music Jam

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Black Magic Horror Ritual, DJ Dennis Dread, Eternal Tapestry

East India Co.

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Analog Abuse, D.pel, Grahamsound

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Redray Frazier, The My Oh My’s

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mike G (of Odd Future), Vince Staples, Speak

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Truculence, General Nasty, Dead in a Ditch, Psychosomatic

Someday Lounge

1435 NW Flanders St. Jim Templeton

125 NW 5th Ave. Year of the Rabbit, Moon Debris

Jimmy Mak’s

The Blue Diamond

Kenton Club

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project Blues Jam

Ladd’s Inn

2026 NE Alberta St. Piss Test, The Cigarette Bums, Pink Slime

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet 2025 N Kilpatrick St. Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Burials 1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray and the Cowdogs (9:30 pm); Bob Shoemaker (6 pm)

LaurelThirst

The Know

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. PCC Student Showcase with Mitzi Zilka

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Nancy King

2958 NE Glisan St. Mark Lemhouse and His Lonesome Divine (9 pm); Counterfeit Cash (6 pm)

White Eagle Saloon

Lents Commons

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

McMenamins Edgefield 2126 SW Halsey St., Troutdale Foster the People, Mayer Hawthorne

Mississippi Pizza

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

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Grandparents, XDS, Grapefruit

Mount Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Fortunate Youth, Tatanka

OMSI

1945 SE Water Ave. Radiation City, The Robinsons & the Psychedelic Family Band (OMSI After Dark event)

836 N Russell St. Bitterroot, Goose & Fox, The Infinity of It All

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Trio with Laura Stillwell

THURS. JUNE 28 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, Kevin Blackwell

Alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Tom Waits Tribute (variety show)

Alberta Street Public House

Borikuas

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

Artichoke Community Music

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Mane of the Cur, Nasalrod, Old Junior, Honduran

Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, Henry Hill Kammerer

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Cait Olds, Nate Harpel (9:30 pm); Mikey’s Irish Jam (6:30 pm)

Ash Street Saloon

LaurelThirst

115 NW 5th Ave. Chemical Channel, Foxall to Foxall, DJ Caraya

Backspace

Ash Street Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

Biddy McGraw’s

Backspace

Mississippi Studios

225 SW Ash St. Swamp Devil, Horus, Riastrad, Heavy Baang Staang 115 NW 5th Ave. Nilika Remi, Sleeplong, Top Hat Confederacy, I Digress

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Mammoth in Space

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Biddy’s Acoustic Jam

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

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Chris Margolin, Will Coca, Matthew Price

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Bobby Bare Jr., Quiet Life

Burgerville (Hawthorne)

1122 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Butter, Profcal

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Valerie Lopez and the Wandering Few, Ivory Leaves

Chapel Pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

Clyde’s Prime Rib

1036 NE Alberta St. Accordion Babes, Contratiempo, Three Times Bad (9:30 pm); Small Souls, The Doubleclicks (6:30 pm)

Andina

830 E Burnside St.

Corkscrew Wine Bar

1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Sellwood Jazz Ensemble

Doug Fir Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rabbits, Sons of Huns, Towers, Turbo Perfecto

O’Connor’s Vault

7850 SW Capitol Highway Kathy James Sextet

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Terry Robb

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Xaggerations, Not Sure, Erik Anarchy, Stepper

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Tiger House, Panther Power, Mangled Bohemians

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Mbrascatu, Lone Madrone

Sellwood Public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Sambada, Bloco Alegria

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. The Brazz Band

Sundown Pub

5903 N Lombard St. Scumbucket

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. Faraji, Madgesdiq, Jagga Culture

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tom Grant Jazz Jam

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Devin Phillips (8 pm); Ronnie Robins (5 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Bart Ferguson, The Edward Stanley Band

Jolly Roger

1340 SE 12th Ave Synrgy

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. On the Stairs, Datura Blues, Light Creates Shadows, School of Rock

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Gaytheist, Rubella Graves

Langano Lounge

1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Shoegeezer, Selector TNTs, DJ Sarah Smut

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Shoeshine Blue, Dead Run, Dan Kimbro (9:30 pm); Alice Stuart (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Laughing Horse Books

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Goose & Fox, Kite Sun Kid (9 pm); The Karyn Patridge Project (6 pm)

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Adventure Galley, Unicorn Domination, Fatha Green

Artichoke Community Music

1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp

Beaterville Cafe

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Acoustic Village

Hawthorne Theatre

Andina

225 SW Ash St. Key of Solomon, A((wake)), Oden

12 NE 10th Ave. Young Turks, Hordes, Cynarae, Urban Struggles

2119 N Kerby Ave. Tiger House, The Roving Eyes, Redcast (music, art and comedy show)

Mississippi Pizza

2958 NE Glisan St. Ridgerunner Summit (9:30 pm); Lewi Longmire Band (6 pm)

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Mesi & Bradley

1314 NW Glisan St.

Kenton Club

FRI. JUNE 29

Get Happy Studios

2201 N Killingsworth St. Alex Nicole, Renee Muzquiz 6000 NE Glisan St. Funk Shui (9:30 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)

Bijou Cafe

32 SW 3rd Ave. Robert Moore

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Saloon Ensemble (9 pm); Cedro Willie (6 pm) 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Mike Scheidt, Sedan, Vradiazei, Aerial Ruin

Nel Centro

1408 SW 6th Ave. Mike Pardew

Noho’s Hawaiian Cafe 4627 NE Fremont St. Hawaiian Music

Oregon Zoo

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Ken Hanson Band, Lloyd Allen

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Kelly Ash

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. K-Tel ‘79, Magic Mouth, PinkSlime, Shake Appeal DJs

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Sara Jackson Holman, Pt. Juncture WA, What Hearts

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Ron Rogers & the Wailing Wind, The Steady Boys

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Jambox Allstars

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. James Chance, Ancient Heat, Dangerous Boys Club, Lick

3341 SE Belmont St. Bronson, Heartworm

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Faster Housecat, The Situation, Abolitionist

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Censure, In Her Memory, Rustmine, I Reckon

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Bloody Hellfire

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bridgetown Sextet

Touché Restaurant and Billiards 1425 NW Glisan St. Linda Lee Michelet

Trader Vic’s

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

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Pine and Battery, Asteroid M, The Dragons (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Tony Pacini Trio

SAT. JUNE 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. McDougall, Poor Boy’s Soul

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Steven Roth, Hannah Glavor, Emily Crawford

Anna Bannana’s

2527 NE Alberta St. Duffy Bishop

Papa G’s Vegan Organic Deli

2314 SE Division St. Forest Bloodgood

Plan B

Record Room

626 SW Park Ave. Tablao

The Blue Monk

Original Halibut’s II

Branx

Brasserie Montmartre

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Lisa Mann

Andina

1305 SE 8th Ave. Echoic, Ashen Relic, American Roulette, Gladius

320 SE 2nd Ave. Dirtnap, Twenty Shades Of Red, Gusher, February 5th

The Blue Diamond

4001 SW Canyon Road Leo Kottke, Jake Shimabukuro

Bipartisan Cafe 7901 SE Stark St. Pretty Little Feet

Scott Pemberton, Tap Water, True Spokes

8 NE Killingsworth St. Little Pilgrims, Big Black Cloud

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Godenied, Murder Your Gods, Gate of the Gods, Aethyrium, Psychosynapsis

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Banda Bostik, Banda Interpuesto

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Sick Jaggers, The Bellicose Minds, The KVB, Di Di Mau

Secret Society Lounge

116 NE Russell St. Naomi Hooley, Justin Jude, Brian Copeland (9 pm); Bossa Nossa (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Only Zuul, Apocryphon, Shroud of Heretic, Omnihility, Miscreation

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Pink Noise, Endless Loop, Pink Slip

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. HiFi Mojo

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio 8716 N Lombard St. NoFest: II Marzo, Cedar Teeth, Marshmallow, Nelika Remi, Marie Black, Dave Greare, Smilin’ Bill

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Alexander’s Real Time Band, Mary Flower, Leah Hinchcliff

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. One Movement, Mighty Misc, Buck Turtle, Bad Habitat, Eastern Sunz, Sammy Mack, Boosen, Soul Ill, Diction One

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Excruciator, Headless Pez, Raw and Order

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. The Freight Miners

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Jobo Shakins

Bluebird Tavern

8734 N Lombard St. NoFest: Rayliota, Irie Idea, The Special Occasionists, The Charlie Darwins, The Jeremy Burton Band

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Leftöver Crack, Juicy Karkass, Hepsi, Patria Jodida Democracia Podrida

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

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Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave.

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The Parlour St. Johns

ROSNAPS.COM

7327 N Charleston Ave NoFest: Betacrack, J. Robin, Pillowhorse, Someone, Gang Radio, Mangled Bohemians

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway American Roulette, Deathtrap America, American Wrecking Co., Amerakin Overdose

Tonic Lounge

Oregon Zoo

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. Xavier Tavera

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. AV Club

West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

8470 SW Oleson Road Caroll Raaum Swing Orchestra, Portland Jazz Connection (benefit for musician Kevin Elmore)

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Hutson, Violet Isle (9:30 pm); Matthew Gailey (4:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

Bunk Bar

LaurelThirst

6835 SW Macadam Ave. The Love Loungers 1028 SE Water Ave. Hungry Ghost, Survival Knife

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Steve Hall

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Norman Sylvester

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Young Empires, Humans

Doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St. Mates of State

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Down North, Big Monti

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place Sundaze, Shana Falana, Appendixes, Mojave Bird

Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. Palo Verde, DJ Androjenous

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Chicago Afrobeat Project

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. El-P, Killer Mike, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, Despot

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Delicate Steve, Adventures with Might

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Frontline Quintet (8 pm); Laura Cunard (5 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Soulmates

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. The Verner Pantons, The Dandelions

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Bubble Cats

12 NE 10th Ave. Pity Sex, Zoogirl

2958 NE Glisan St. Jack Ruby Presents, Cave Country, Levi Strom (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Marie’s

8727 N Lombard St. NoFest: Wavesauce, Joe Paul, Brandon, B ++, Trancsbrass, Wesickboss, Thelonious Funk

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. JKDC (9 pm); Ciri Jaye (6 pm); Anna Antonia (4 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Bass Drum of Death, DZ Deathrays, Ghost Animal

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. King Louie Trio

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Spookies, Woolen Men, Point Juncture WA

Plew’s Brews

8409 N Lombard St. NoFest: Monkey Trick, Party Killer, Pecos, Sexbots, Snowbud, Teflon, Monstersize, Harvey Girls, The Yarbles, John Henry MC, Boyd Anderson

Proper Eats Market and Cafe

8638 N Lombard St. NoFest: Sir Richard Bishop, Marisa Anderson, Plankton Wat, Matt McDowell, Blake Mackey, C.E. Searle, J.D. Helwig, Max Countryman, Reed Cole

Record Room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Bat Fancy, Ruby Ridge, We Are Like the Spider

Red Room

2530 NE 82nd Ave.

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Mohawk Yard, 40 Ways from Sunday, Ether Circus, Battle Axe Massacre, Choaform

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Libertine Belles, Jenny Finn Orchestra (9 pm); Trashcan Joe (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Cry!, The Mad Caps, Sorta Ultra

Slim’s Cocktail Bar

8635 N Lombard St. NoFest: Dr. Amazon, Frogburd, The Food, Mongoloid Village, Lord, The IX, Druden, Raw Nerves, Drunk Dad, Vs. Gasattack, Old City, Banishing

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Teri and Larry

St. Johns Towne Square

N Lombard St. & N Philadelphia Ave. NoFest: The Incredible Kid, Child Children, Lovebomb, Pinehurst Kids, Fiasco, Rollerball, When the Broken Bow, Threadbare, Venerable Showers of Beauty

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. The Upsidedown, 1775, Sexy Water Spiders

Ted’s (at Berbati’s)

231 SW Ankeny St. Calvin Valentine, Illmaculate & Onlyone (of Sandpeople), Dain, Trox

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Bridge City Blues Band

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Planet Jackers

The Fixin’ To

8218 N Lombard St. NoFest: DJ Dirty Nick, LSD&D, Bison Bison, Dirt Clod Fite, Mustaphamond, Swamp Buck, The Silent Numbers, The Hand That Bleeds, Ryan Miller

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Very Little Daylight

3158 E Burnside St. Infantree

Tony Starlight’s

1425 NW Glisan St. The Ribner Brothers

Laughing Horse Books

Music Millennium

NEPO 42

Touché Restaurant and Billiards

Buffalo Gap Saloon

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Delta Rae, Hey Marseilles, Helena (8 pm); The My Oh My’s, Keep Your Fork There’s Pie (patio, 3 pm); Ladies Rock Camp Showcase (inside, 3 pm)

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Towers, Serial Hawk, Lamprey 3728 NE Sandy Blvd. The Tony Starlight Show

CHINATOWN CROWN: On a recent bass-heavy Thursday night at The Crown Room (205 NW 4th Ave., thecrownroom.net), I was able to mingle freely and bro out with a diverse collection of enthusiastic partygoers—most of whom happened to be DJs themselves—gathered in booths and around the periphery of the roomy dance floor. The well-stocked bar, ornamented with a huge glowing bust of Jesus holding what looks like a whiskey sour, had everything short of blender drinks. Cocktails generally run $5, well drinks a little less. Beer-wise, the Crown Room has Deschutes and your typical Milwaukee beers. The club, perhaps best known for its Tuesday dubstep nights, is more relaxed than one might assume, and a “dance-if-you-want-to” vibe prevails. I left with a good buzz, a ringing in my ears and 10 new friends. Not bad for a $5 cover. NORA EILEEN JONES.

Mississippi Studios

800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Doctor Theopolis, Old Light, DJ Safi, Yards, The Buttery Lords, DJ Gregarious, Mighty Misc, Mic Crenshaw, Pine Hurst Kids, Ask for Janice, Nathanial and the Hornblowers (Beastie Boys tribute)

SUN. JULY 1 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Chris “Shift” Schelske

Andina

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic 4001 SW Canyon Road k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang, The Milk Carton Kids

Rontoms

600 E Burnside St. TxE, And And And

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Valient Thorr, Holy Grail, Royal Thunder, The Kickass

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Bryant Allard Quintet

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Cower, Tacos!, Crag Dweller

The Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave. Brandon Brown, Alli Warren, Zosia Wiatr

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Johnny Martin Quartet

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Justin Rayfield, Josh Nielsen

MON. JULY 2 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Chris “Shift” Schelske

Alberta Street Public House 1036 NE Alberta St. Marius, Purrbot, James London Trio, Autumn Electric

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs

Ash Street Saloon

Ted’s (at Berbati’s) 231 SW Ankeny St. Monokino

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Libyans, Wild Mohicans, Long Knife, DJ Just Dave

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Sea at Last

TUES. JULY 3 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

303 SW 12th Ave. Chris “Shift” Schelske

Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Justin Townes Earle, Tristen

Alberta Street Public House

1036 NE Alberta St. Revel Switch, Monokino

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Neftali Rivera

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Torture Me Elmo, The Reanimated, Raw Dog and the Close Calls

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger

Camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Tom Wakeling, Dan Balmer, Charlie Doggett

Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Cory Branan, Audra Mae

Duff’s Garage

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

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Sugarcane String Band

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

225 SW Ash St. Monger, Sluagh, Silencer, Weird Fear

Music Millennium

Ash Street Saloon

Brasserie Montmartre

Plan B

225 SW Ash St. York, Torches in the Trees

Beaterville Cafe

2201 N Killingsworth St. Spit and Shine

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. We Rise the Tides, Above the Broken, When the Lights Go Out, Fire in the Skies, Before You Fall

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Sinferno Cabaret, Three Times Bad

Duff’s Garage

626 SW Park Ave. Eric John Kaiser

Dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. Lily Wilde Orchestra

The Blue Monk

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers

412 NE Beech St. Mudslide Mcbride

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. TRONix with Logical Aggression

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. 13 Months of Sunshine: DJs Dullah, Peace Pipe, Sahelsounds, Cuica, Spencer D

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Psychopomp with Ogo Eion

The Whiskey Bar

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Muscle Milk: DJs Trans Fat, Ill Camino (10 pm); DJ Creepy Crawl (7 pm)

THURS. JUNE 28 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Dan Bryant

Swift Lounge

LaurelThirst

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben (kids’ show)

Mississippi Pizza

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Community Day/ Songwriters Circle

836 N Russell St. Lost and Found, Jelly Bread, Slow Children

Andrea’s Cha Cha Club 832 SE Grand Ave. DJ Sonero

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Yuccan Woman

East Burn

East End

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Landau Boyz

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Big Fun: DJ Papi, Michael Bruce, DJ Humans

The Lovecraft

Someday Lounge

421 SE Grand Ave. Mutant Disco

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Skism, Dodge and Fuski

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Tony Remple

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Sethro Tull

FRI. JUNE 29 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Flight Risk

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack with VJ Kittyrox

Eagles Lodge, Southeast

4904 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Shout!: DJ Drew Groove, DJ Liberator, Katrina Martiani, DJ Hippy Joe

Tiger Bar

White Eagle Saloon

303 SW 12th Ave. DJ Rescue

Matador

440 NW Glisan St. Skyless, Nick Adams, Phoenix Knight

LaurelThirst

SAT. JUNE 30 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel

1932 NE Broadway Funky Broadway! with DJ Drew Groove

3416 N Lombard St. Apocalysp

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring, Sarah Moon & the Night Sky

232 SW Ankeny St. DJ AM Gold

203 SE Grand Ave. Mod Monthly: DJs Beyonda, Baron Saturday, A-Train

1465 NE Prescott St. La Jefa

Thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Valentine’s

Tiga

Laughing Horse Books

2026 NE Alberta St. King Elephant, Neutral Boy

18 NW 3rd Ave. Black Friday with DJ Ronin Roc (10 pm); DJ Neil Blender (7 pm)

1800 E Burnside St. ‘80s Dance Attack with DJ Revron

3341 SE Belmont St. Pagan Jug Band

The Know

Tube

31 NW 1st Ave. Foster the People DJs, Southern Belle, American Girls

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. As I Lay Dying, Separation of Sanity, Kingdom Under Fire, From the Eyes of Cain

Landmark Saloon

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

315 SE 3rd Ave. Excruciator, Apothesary, Blessed Curse, Motorthrone

Hawthorne Theatre

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

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

Rotture

The Blue Diamond

2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. Nick Bellicose, Wild Mohicans, Vicious Pleasures

1305 SE 8th Ave. Atriarch, Whitehorse, The Body, Usnea

Goodfoot Lounge

12 NE 10th Ave. Cower, Dream Decay, Zoogirls, Hang the Old Year

1635 SE 7th Ave. Bill Kirchen and His Tele

3158 E Burnside St. Adrian H & the Wounds

WED. JUNE 27 Beech Street Parlor

Element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Drew Groove 125 NW 5th Ave. Hookahdome: Jef Stot, Anjali, DJ GlobalRuckus, Plantrae

The Crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Affiliated: Doc Adam, Ronin Roc, Rev. Shines

The Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Revolve with KTheory

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Cowboys from Sweden

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Saturdazed with DJ GH

SUN. JULY 1 Doug Fir Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Erothyme, Halo Refuser, Guda, Melting Pot Soundsystem

The Alleyway Cafe and Bar

2415 NE Alberta St. Country Music Record DJ

MON. JULY 2

Foggy Notion

Kelly’s Olympian

Groove Suite

Tiga

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Snap!: Dr. Adam, Colin Jones (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with Nurses DJs (5 pm)

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Philadelphia Freedom

The Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Horrid

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Beacon Sound

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs 1465 NE Prescott St. Champagne Jam

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. DJ Matt Scaphism

TUES. JULY 3 Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Smelly P

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Tubesday (10 pm); DJ OverCol (7 pm)

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tHe Hives

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girl talk

silversun pickups

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crystal ballroom sept. 8

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passion pit witH lp (sept. 5) & tHe Hundred & tHe Hands (sept. 6)

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tHe Helio sequence witH cHairliFt, radiation city & Hosannas

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witH strand oF oaks

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red bull common tHread featuring

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typHoon

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Most prices listed are for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and so-called convenience charges may apply, so it’s best to call ahead. Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. Theater: REBECCA JACOBSON (rjacobson@wweek. com). Classical: BRETT CAMPBELL (bcampbell@wweek.com). Dance: HEATHER WISNER (dance@wweek.com). TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, submit information at least two weeks in advance to: msinger@wweek.com.

THEATER 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, 4676573. 7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, through July 14. Free.

How to Survive a Poison Apple

Mindy Dillard strings together songs, stories and soundscapes for her onewoman show about facing down anorexia. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E Burnside St., 801-641-4422. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 29-30. $12-$15.

Invasion of the Bicycle Snatchers

It’s a play on pedals—the Working Theatre Collective presents its fourth annual bike-ride/theatrical adventure. This year, the group imagines Portland beset by a 1950s-style sci-fi disaster: Think alien invasions and government conspiracies. Riders are encouraged to dress in period-appropriate garb. Ladd Circle Park, Southeast 16th Avenue and Harrison Street. 6:30 pm WednesdaySaturday, June 27-30. Free, donations encouraged.

Measure for Measure

Northwest Classical Theatre Company closes its season with a production of Shakespeare’s last comedy—and his most nihilistic. Butch Flowers directs. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays. $18-$20.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Post5 Theatre presents an alfresco performance of Shakespeare’s fairyfilled comedy, reimagined in Athens, Ga. Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st Ave., 971258-8584. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays through July 20. Free.

The Odd Couple

Clackamas Repertory Theatre presents Neil Simon’s classic comedy about two men (one recently divorced, the other with a failing marriage) attempting to share a Manhattan apartment. The show features Tim True and Michael O’Connell, two of Portland’s most reliable talents, both fresh from strong performances in Third Rail Repertory’s Penelope. Clackamas Community College, Osterman Theatre, 19600 S Molalla Ave., 594-6047. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 pm Sundays through July 22. $12-$24.

Reservoir Dolls

A gender-bending adaptation of Quentin Tarantino’s cult crime classic Reservoir Dogs, written by Erika Anne Sorensen for an all-female cast. There still will be plenty of violence. Bossanova Ballroom, 722 E Burnside St., 206-7630. 8 pm Thursday-Sunday, June 28-July 1. $15-$20. 21+.

The Sound of Music

The hills (of Tigard?) are alive, as the heartwarming Rodgers and Hammerstein musical makes it way to the Broadway Rose stage. Isaac Lamb, of lip-dub proposal fame, stars as Captain Von Trapp. Deb Fennell Auditorium, 9000 SW Durham Road, Tigard, 620-5262. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays; 2 pm Sundays; 2 and 7:30 pm Saturdays July 14 and 21. Closes Sunday, July 22. $20-$42.

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.

You Belong to Me

Elizabeth Huffman performs Steven Wolfson’s play about two women separated by 2,000 years but linked by their mutual obsession with Euripides’ The Trojan Women. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 8 pm Thursday-Saturday; 2 pm Sunday, June 28-July 1. $15.

COMEDY AND VARIETY Aziz Ansari

Treat yo self! Funnyman Aziz Ansari, who plays Tom Haverford on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, brings his shtick to the Schnitz. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 2484335. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 28. $35.75.

Curious Comedy Cover Show

Local comedians perform classic routines. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., 477-9477. 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays through July 28. $12.

Funny Over Everything

The monthly comedy showcase features the charming Ron Funches in his final Portland performance before relocating to L.A. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 9:30 pm Thursday, June 28. $10.

The Liberators

Reliably funny long-form improv. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 8 pm Saturday, June 30. $12-$15.

The Match.com Monologues

Apparently, one in six relationships starts online. Who knew? CoHo Productions delves into that virtual world in this multimedia performance, written by former Mercury editor Phil Busse and directed by Debbie Lamedman. Keep the kiddos at home— this show’s got naughty onscreen images and spicy language. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2202646. 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through July 21. $10.

Patton Oswalt

Comedian and geek-culture enthusiast Patton Oswalt, of the movies Big Fan and Ratatouille, performs five shows in three nights. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday; 7:30 pm and 10 pm FridaySaturday, June 28-30. $30-$35.

CLASSICAL Astoria Music Festival

The festival’s second week features young musicians from around the U.S., conducted by festival artistic director Keith Clark in Friday and Sunday’s fully staged production at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center of Mozart’s delightful last opera, The Magic Flute, directed by San Francisco’s Brian Staufenbiel, with stage movement choreographed by Agnieszka Laska. On Saturday afternoon at Astoria’s Liberty Theater, prize-winning, London-based rising star and Portland native Andrew Brownell performs J.S. Bach’s keyboard masterpiece, The Goldberg Variations on piano, and, that night, the Portland Baroque Orchestra performs the same music in the same venue, but in a very different way: using a string orchestra of Baroque instruments. Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center, 1651 Lexington Ave., Astoria. 7:30 Friday, June 29 and 4 pm Sunday, July 1 at CCCPAC. 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, June 30 at Liberty Theater. $15-$20.

Chamber Music Northwest

The annual summer festival’s second week features oboist Stephen Taylor

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starring in Benjamin Britten’s lovely pastoral 1932 Phantasy Quartet, while CMNW music director David Shifrin joins Denk for one of Brahms’ mosthaunting works, his Clarinet Sonata Op. 120, No. 1. On July 2 and 3, a larger team of first-rate players (not all of them usual suspects—violinists Steven Copes and Jennifer Frautschi, violist Paul Neubauer and cellists Mihai Marica and Ronald Thomas) takes on one of the pinnacles of classical music, Schubert’s sublime String Quartet in C Major. The concert features a lessoften-heard, 20th-century masterpiece, Ernst von Dohnányi’s Sextet in C Major, Op. 37, making this an ideal concert for newbies and nerds alike. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-6400. 8 pm Saturday, June 30 and Monday, July 2 at Reed College’s Kaul Auditorium; 3 pm Sunday, July 1 at PSU’s Lincoln Hall; 8 pm Tuesday, July 3 at Catlin Gabel School. $15-$50.

includes one of the most exuberant symphonies ever composed, his fourth, nicknamed the “Italian” because it was inspired by the German composer’s trip to that country. The festival’s crack chorus joins the orchestra for Mendelssohn’s dramatic 1831 setting of Goethe’s poem, “The First Walpurgis Night.” Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 30. $26-$90.

Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra

Trombone students from PYJO’s trombone workshop and members of Trombone 8 play jazz, classical and Latin music for the horn with the big slide. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 4528685. 7 pm Wednesday, June 27. $10.

DANCE Liz Erber

Berlin-based dancemaker Liz Erber is working with a full movement palette: contemporary dance, contact improv, capoeira, gymnastics and acrobatics, to name just some of the styles in which she has trained. Erber also has been known to add written, theatrical, video and musical elements to that mix. Here, she and her Seattle-based dancers offer Chora Corpora, a reflection, aptly, on physicality and the body. Nationale, 811 E Burnside St., Suite 112. 8:30 pm Friday-Saturday, June 29-30. $14-$17.

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Chamber Music Northwest: Amphion Quartet, Gloria Chien

The 20-something string players who so impressed listeners in their previous CMNW performance return to a rock-club setting to play a pair of searing 20th-century masterpieces: Alban Berg’s intense mid-1920s Lyric Suite (inspired by his secret love affair with a family friend) and Bela Bartók’s 1926 String Quartet No. 3, which masterfully incorporates folkmusic influences. They’re joined by an equally promising young pianist, Chien, in Brahms’ dramatic Piano Quintet in F Minor. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 294-6400. 8 pm Wednesday, June 27. $15-$25.

Chamber Music Northwest: Tokyo Quartet

After 42 years, one of the world’s finest chamber ensembles will disband after the 2012-2013 season, so this might be one of your last chances to hear the Tokyo Quartet perform three chamber works by a trio of classical music’s greatest composers. Haydn pioneered the string quartet as we know it, and of the many he wrote, the Op. 74 No. 3, nicknamed “The Rider,” is one of the most popular. Beethoven’s middle-period String Quartet No. 9 is one of his most thrilling works, while Mendelssohn’s brilliant String Quartet No. 4, written on his honeymoon, is certainly one of his most ambitious and attractive creations. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., 294-5400. 8 pm Thursday, June 28. $15-$50.

Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project

Rising young composer Justin Ralls’ intriguing new-music initiative again benefits the Oregon Food Bank and includes composed and improvised music for whale song, recorder consort, carrot clarinets and cello (performed by cellist Diane Chaplin) with electronics. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 5 pm Saturday, June 30. 2-4 cans of food.

Josh Feinberg and Anindo Chatterjee

The excellent, local sitar player is joined by one of the reigning masters of tabla, the North Indian drum, in classical ragas. Thanks to Portland’s several Indian-music-presenting organizations, we see quite a few of India’s finest musicians, but even among those, Chatterjee (who’ll play a solo, no doubt including parts played at blinding speed) is something special, the Keith Moon or Tony Williams of Indian percussionists. Agnes Flanagan Chapel at Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, 768-7461. 7 pm Saturday, June 30. $15-$20.

Oregon Bach Festival: Joshua Bell

They should call it the Oregon Mendelssohn Festival. One of the most popular soloists in today’s classicalmusic scene returns to Portland, this time with the OBF orchestra, to play one of the most popular of all classical-music works, Felix Mendelssohn’s magnificent Violin Concerto, including his own cadenza (extended solo), as a soloist might have done when Mendelssohn composed it. This concert of Felix’s greatest hits also

POULTRY ON MY MIND: Brian Harcourt and Corey Brunish.

NOVEMBER (JANE, A THEATER COMPANY) A very Mamet Thanksgiving.

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to spare a turkey’s life at Thanksgiving. Not everyone followed suit. In 1947, Harry Truman was gifted a turkey by the National Turkey Federation, which ended up on his dinner table. Most presidents, however, adopted the tradition— Kennedy, Reagan, even Nixon—pardoning one or two lucky birds. From that silly gesture comes November, David Mamet’s political satire—performed here by Jane, A Theater Company—skewering electoral campaigns and naive beliefs about democracy. President Charles H.P. Smith (Brian Harcourt) is whining his way through his last few days in office, assuming his reelection is already lost given poll numbers “lower than Gandhi’s cholesterol.” A meeting with a representative of the National Association of Turkey and Turkey Products Manufacturers to arrange the annual pardoning ceremony becomes an opportunity to extort funding for his failing campaign. Because this is a Mamet play, the real star is the dialogue. The cast handles it admirably, batting conversations back and forth like highspeed pingpong and spewing obscenity-laced rants to comic effect. Harcourt’s President Smith is such a helpless buffoon that even his vitriolic tirades against the Chinese and his own lesbian speechwriter (Kim Bogus) come across hilariously endearing. According to Mamet, Smith isn’t intended to represent an actual president, but his Texas drawl, penchant for threats of indefinite detention overseas, and his complete fucking-over of the country feel familiar. As the play culminates in a farcical fiasco of gay marriage, exploding turkeys and a threat to expose Thanksgiving as an ancient orgy ceremony, Mamet’s feelings on the political process become clear. Everyone, even the most altruistic among us, wants something that can be bartered for. As Smith explains, “To trade this for that separates us from the lower life forms, like the large apes or the Scandinavians.” Seeing the giblets of the political process may kill your appetite for democracy, but at least November makes you laugh. PENELOPE BASS. SEE IT: November is at Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 816-5444, jane-a-theater-company.org. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 4 pm Sundays through July 21. $20.

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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.

THE SQUARING OF NATURE BY MARTIN MOHR

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—rephotographed 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 makeup-caked, Botoxdeadened 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.

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 wellknown 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, multi-tendriled 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) and sitting on porch swings (Momence, Illinois). 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 Berlinbased 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.

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= 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 27 Manifold Greatness

As one of the most widely read and printed books in the history of the English language, the 1611 “King James Bible” has been quoted in everything from speeches to pop songs. Examining what has made this translation so influential, the Central Library will be hosting the exhibit “Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible.” Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., 988-5123. Noon-5 pm Sundays, 11 am-8 pm Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 10 am-5 pm Thursdays-Saturdays. Through Aug. 26. Free.

Jewel Lansing and Fred Leeson

From public hangings and political scandals to natural disasters and iconic constructions, Multnomah: The Tumultuous Story of Oregon’s Most Populous County explores the history of Oregon’s geographically smallest county. Authors Jewel

Lansing and Fred Leeson will give a talk on some choice topics and sign copies of the book. Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Ave., 306-5270. 6 pm. Free.

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 Leia Weathington and Vanessa Gillings

Bold Riley is an adventure-seeking, sword-wielding, badass lesbian princess in disguise. She is Portland’s answer to the Disney princess. Leia Weathington, local creator of the comic, and San Francisco-based artist Vanessa Gillings will be on hand at the release party for The Legend of Bold Riley. Come meet your new role model. Bridge City Comics, 3725 N Mississippi Ave., 282-5484. 6-9 pm. Free.

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REVIEW

JESS WALTER, BEAUTIFUL RUINS In 1962, 20th Century Fox made a movie that almost bankrupted the studio and changed Hollywood forever. The epic Cleopatra was shot on location in Italy and Egypt at a cost of more than $40 million in an age when no movie grossed that much. The real story, however, was between the film’s two stars, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Spokane author Jess Walter Love letters to Cleo. uses the film as the setup for his majestic new novel, a beach book that aspires to be something more, Beautiful Ruins (Harper, 352 pages, $25.99). Walter takes the book’s title from a New Yorker story that described Burton in 1980 as “already a beautiful ruin,” but virtually all the characters in Walter’s novel fit the description. It’s a parade of broken people, right down to a wannabe screenwriter from Beaverton. As the story opens, Pasquale Tursi is the 22-year-old proprietor of a rundown hotel in an isolated fishing village on the Italian Riviera. Dee Moray, a blond American actress from Cleopatra, then filming in Rome, is smuggled in by boat to rest at Pasquale’s hotel after being told she has stomach cancer. She’s actually pregnant by Burton, another prominent character in the novel. Pasquale falls in love with Dee but is haunted by a child he fathered by a woman he can’t marry due to social circumstances. Running parallel to the 1962 storyline, we’re taken forward to find an aging Pasquale in the United States almost 50 years later. He is here to confront Michael Deane, the now-famous Hollywood producer who deceived Dee to protect Cleopatra’s appeal, and to track down the onetime actress and her famously sired son. (Dee names the boy Pat, after Pasquale, and he leads a semisuccessful career as a Portland rocker, whose shows even garner mention in “the Willamette Weekly.”) Beautiful Ruins is alternately poignant and laugh-out-loud funny as Walter demonstrates a dynamic range and a flawless ear for the distinctive voices of his characters. Take the Willamette Weekly’s word for it: This is a delicious summer read. MATT BUCKINGHAM. GO: Jess Walter appears at Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651, on Wednesday, June 27. 7:30 pm. Free. 36

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. 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. GRADING KEY:

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24-Hour Film Race

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Local finalists from the annual short film competition, tasking filmmakers to write and shoot a themed four-minute movie in a single 24-hour period. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Wednesday, June 27.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

C- An odd premise is not what slays

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Yes, it’s surprising to see Honest Abe battle the undead, but novelist Seth Grahame-Smith’s mashup earned great reviews by playfully weaving together history and fanged fantasy. Vampires using the institution of slavery to cover up killing until stopped by an ambitious young shopkeeper? Opinions of semi-literate cinemaphiles aside, as vampire-themed action movie plots go, this is Type A. The political debates, silk top hats and blasting cannons seem screen-ready—not to mention the vampires. But Lincoln goes hunting in all the wrong places. For starters, there’s the total lack of cleverly plied history. A character based loosely on Lincoln’s first business partner and a quick appearance by Jefferson Davis aside, there are no real people to bite into. The film culminates on a train ride from Washington to Gettysburg, but other than that, and the trip to the theater that closes things out, you’d be hard-pressed to assign a date to any event. The vampires are similarly slippery. They look like Predators when ready to kill and may or may not prefer to wear sunglasses. They are invisible, superhumanly strong and fast, and yet totally destroyable with a swing of a hefty silver-bladed ax. Does anything other than silver kill them? Try trampling them with cheesy CGI horses. R. MARTIN CIZMAR. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Avengers

A 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 Joss Whedon has come up with. It’s big and loud, exhilarating and funny, meaningless but not dumb. It is glorious entertainment. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Division.

Bernie

B- Richard Linklater’s new movie contains all the “outrageous” elements obligatory to deadpan, small-town true crime. 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. PG-13. AARON MESH. Hollywood Theatre, Tigard.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

C 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

= Meh

= Ugh

= Blargh

and Tom Wilkinson in any context, even if it’s a geriatric version of a summer-camp movie, with a similar lateafternoon poignancy and corny lines. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lake Twin, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower.

The Big Fix

[FOUR NIGHTS ONLY] An investigative documentary about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Screened as a double feature with Beyond the Spill on July 5. Clinton Street Theater. 6 and 8 pm Monday-Wednesday, July 2-4.

Black Dynamite

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Forget Machete, Hobo With a Shotgun and all those other throwback grindhouse movies. In the realm of gimmicky stylistic exercises, Michael Jai White’s legit-hilarious retro-blaxploitation flick Black Dynamite is king. That’s true for a variety of reasons, but mostly for producing the greatest line in the past decade of cinema: “Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung fu treachery!” Dy-no-mite! Dy-no-mite! R. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 10 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, June 29-July 1.

B-Movie Bingo: Stone Cold

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Allegedly, the most “bingo-worthy” film yet screened at the monthly event is this 1991 cop flick starring NFL player Brian Bosworth. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 3.

Brave

B- 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—failed to come up with a single female protagonist? Indeed it is. Introducing a touch of femininity to the anthropomorphic sausage fest should register as a progressive step forward, but Brave, the company’s 13th feature and its first charged by a current of girl power, 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. Handy with a bow and arrow, she’s like Katniss Everdeen for the Dora the Explorer crowd. But in comparison to the movies of Pixar’s past, Brave feels stultifyingly simple. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Lloyd Center, 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

The Cabin in the Woods

A Go see this film. It’s some of the

craziest fun you’ll have at the theater all year. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Hollywood Theatre.

A Cat In Paris

B+ This year’s token hand-drawn nominee for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, A Cat in Paris is an eyepopping beauty, with a unique style employing elements of cubism. It helps that the story of a cat burglar and his feline buddy protecting a girl from

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COFFEE FOR TWO: A scene from I See Darkness.

NO GUTS, NO GLORY HOLES THE PORTLAND UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL CLEANS ITSELF UP. BY MATTHEW SIN G ER A N D CH RIS STA MM msinger@wweek.com

In the early 2000s, former Clinton Street Theater owner Seth Sonstein founded the Portland Underground Film Festival. His mission—as it appeared from the programming, at least—was to screen the craziest shit he could find. Earlier this year, Sonstein sold the theater and turned PUFF over to Portland filmmaker Bob Moricz. While Moricz’s own movies do not shy away from provocation, starting this year, he says, the festival is going to be different, getting away from “the Troma-type gross-outs and the incendiary elements” and showcasing movies which “peel the onion of the human psyche in exciting and original ways.” Sounds good. But take heed: PUFF is just a letter away from PIFF, the Portland International Film Festival. As we display below, it would only take a few tweaks for the festival, held this year at the Clinton Street Theater, to lose its subversive identity completely. PUFF Shorts Program C PUFF’s shorts program did not deliver the chilling or at least aggravating fillips I expect from underground art, but there ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of conventional aesthetic pleasure. Jim Haverkamp’s idyllic When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl is especially comely, its leisurely mythopoeia rendered in silvery black-and-white tones a perfume ad would envy. I See a Darkness, directed by Dina Fiasconaro, is spoiled by an overwrought climax, but the quiet study in symmetry and matching movements that precede the ridiculous final moments fascinate for a spell. If PUFF were PIFF: Walt Whitman would be a cute dog instead of a girl. CHRIS STAMM. 7 pm Saturday, June 30. $8. Space Disco-One B Experimentalist Damon Packard’s Space DiscoOne is like watching three no-budget sci-fi movies at once through a broken kaleidoscope. There’s a thread of plot in there somewhere, but Packard

yanks on it until the whole thing unravels into a blatantly incoherent jumble of unsettling YouTube videos, references to Logan’s Run and Battlestar Galactica, and farcical fourth-wall breaching, all overlaid by cheap special effects and the nonstop pulse of ’70s disco rhythms. If PUFF were PIFF: A whimsical grandmother would appear at the climax, hovering above the Earth like Kubrick’s Star Child as a symbol of universal love. MATTHEW SINGER. 9 pm Saturday, June 30. $8. Tandem Hearts B Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A musician couple (Quinn Allan and Heather Harlan) move from Boise to Portland, with no job prospects and a vaguely defined living situation. They quickly fall into a sexless rut. She moves out; he mopes around town on a bicycle built for two, then writes a song about it. If that story sounds familiar, it’s probably because it is your own. But songwriterturned-director Jon Garcia navigates the thin line separating cliché and universal experience, articulating a truth every Portland transplant figures out eventually: It’s all fun and cock-shaped doughnuts until your girlfriend goes down on a guy who works at Doug Fir. If PUFF were PIFF: Allan’s brokenhearted troubadour would overdose on sleeping pills before composing his magnum opus on a zither. (MS) 7 pm Sunday, July 1. $8. Bumps B Bob Moricz, Portland’s one-man sleaze factory, returns to PUFF with Bumps, a raw, careening feature about a group of teen girls who enter into a pregnancy pact that goes all sorts of wrong. As with much of Moricz’s work, the film hums with an unnerving vibe of psychotic possibility, but Bumps is a sneakily subtle film, exploiting its subject for a deranged kind of sociology instead of boggling shock. It is raunch that rings true. If PUFF were PIFF: There would be at least one sex scene that renders gentle fucking as something both profound and miserable. (CS) 9 pm Sunday, July 1. $8. SEE IT: The Portland Underground Film Festival is at the Clinton Street Theater Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1. See clintonsttheater.com for a complete schedule. Willamette Week JUNE 27, 2012 wweek.com

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mobsters is breezy fun, coming off as a kaleidoscopic combination of To Catch a Thief, Spider-Man and Cassavetes’ Gloria, with our heroes bounding across Parisian rooftops while eluding bumbling goons and the fuzz. It proved too arty to grab the gold, but it’s certainly evidence that hand-drawn animation is an art form in dire need of preserving. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

Chasing Sarasota

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary following Portland’s Rhino Ultimate Frisbee team on its quest to win a national title. Bagdad Theater. 8 pm Thursday, June 28.

Dancing on the Edge

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A teenage addict finds redemption through ballet. Filmed in Vancouver, Wash., and Happy Valley. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, June 28.

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Headhunters

A- Adapted from a book by

Jo Nesbø, Morten Tyldum’s Headhunters initially portrays itself as a sleek heist picture. Then the film turns, on a dime, into a blood-

stained, shit-caked, bruised-black comedy of mounting indignities resembling Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Living Room Theaters.

Hecklevision: Twilight

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Admit it: You’re kind of curious about this whole sparkly vampire business, but too embarrassed even to add the movies to your Netflix queue. Well, paying to see the first installment under the guise of making fun of it is the perfect cover! Don’t worry: Everyone else will be too distracted texting in their insults to notice your squeals of girlish delight. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Saturday, June 30.

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DIRECTOR ATTENDING] In 1972, KGW-TV commissioned a documentary from filmmakers Mike McLeod and Peter Maroney about Portland’s skid row, then concentrated in Old Town. At the time, the producers assumed the rate of development along West Burnside Street would force out the shelters and lowincome housing within a scant few years, dispersing the area’s downand-out population across the city. Interviewing police officers, nouveau riche shop owners and, especially, the homeless themselves, McLeod and Maroney capture an image of Portland that contrasts sharply with its current “youth magnet” reputation. It’s a fascinating, and frightening, historical artifact. MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Monday, July 2.

Elles

A strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk—or something along those lines—starring Juliette Binoche as a journalist who goes undercover in a university prostitution ring. Cinema 21.

The Extraordinary Voyage

A [ONE NIGHT ONLY] A dream

from the 1890s is alive in color. We’re lucky to be living in the 15 minutes of fame for Georges Méliès’ 15 minutes of wonder: The Parisian cinema pioneer gets a Ben Kingsley cameo in Hugo, and we get a color nitrate print of his 1902 phantasm A Trip to the Moon. Oui, color: The Méliès studio movies (other titles include The Inventor Crazybrains and His Wonderful Airship) were handpainted. The dazzling frames, with their Neptunes and dragons and dirigibles floating through, look like ambulatory gemstones, or those airbrushed T-shirts you buy at the beach. The attendant documentary is serviceable (trailblazing genius, lost works, found work, Tom Hanks). The restored short, with an eerie score by Air, is a candy shop of the sublime. AARON MESH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Sunday, July 1.

Grassroots

B+ What’s this? A political comedy

that actually believes in the transformative power of the democratic process, and isn’t hopelessly naive? How novel. Grassroots is the mostly true story of Grant Cogswell (Portland-born Joel David Moore), a Seattle music critic with a curious habit of wandering the streets dressed like a polar bear, and his 2001 bid to win a City Council seat and oust longstanding incumbent Richard McIver (Cedric the Entertainer). Campaigning on a propublic-transit platform, his core issue is extending the city’s monorail. It might not read particularly exciting, but the film boasts a smart script from director Stephen “Father of Maggie and Jake” Gyllenhaal and several excellent performances. Moore, in particular, is a revelation, playing Cogswell as a font of unfiltered feeling, cutting rage with selfdoubt and crushing vulnerability.

And Jason Biggs, as his journalistturned-campaign manager, shows a spark long thought snuffed by too many American Pie sequels. If you’ve visited our regional rival in the last decade, you probably already know how the election turned out. But winning or losing isn’t Gyllenhaal’s point: It’s that entering the political fray and emerging with your humanity isn’t such an impossible idea. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower.

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STRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC: Magic Mike, et al., standing at attention.

MAGIC MIKE Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the film is a study of a character we’ve seen before: the professional beefcake flush with money and women… but what he really wants is love (and his own furniture business). But after the emotionally cold formal exercises of his last few films—including this year’s Haywire, a stylish action flick oddly dead behind its eyes—it’s nice to find Soderbergh focusing on character at all. If nothing else, Magic Mike is his first project since The Informant! that has some blood flowing through its veins. What’s unexpected is Channing Tatum’s performance. As Mike, a sex object whose true passion is building actual objects, Tatum— heretofore a set of abs masquerading as an actor—slips into the part with a natural ease. It could be fool’s gold: The screenplay, by Reid Carolin, is loosely based on Tatum’s days as a barely-legal exotic dancer in Florida. But the vulnerability he conveys, eking out in flashes from under a veneer of sarcastic charm, is impressive regardless. It helps that he has an easy rapport with his gang of fellow studs, referred to collectively as “the Cock-Rockin’ Kings of Tampa.” Speaking of, Matthew McConaughey just about steals the whole thing as Dallas, the group’s leathery himbo of a leader. Like Tatum, he’s basically playing himself—the closest he gets to wearing a shirt in the entire movie is a workout crop top, and a good chunk of his dialogue is “All right, all right, all right”—and McConaughey goes at the self-parody with crotch-clutchin gusto. Soderbergh bolsters the performances with his signature visual style, bathing the douche-haven of Tampa in his trademarked golden sepia tone. But the movie meanders too long before finding a dramatic sticking point, and you get the sense that the whole reason it even exists is so the director could cross “film choreographed dance sequences” off his career bucket list. At first, the routines are glorious in their cheesiness—try not to grin at the sight of five guys in raincoats air-humping to a dubstep remix of “It’s Raining Men”—but there’s only so much undulating man meat one can take before it all fades into a blur of pecs, cheeks and bulging thongs. Ladies, I suspect, will disagree. R. MATTHEW SINGER.

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B SEE IT: Magic Mike opens Friday at Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Living Room Theaters, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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B [TWO NIGHTS ONLY] How to Grow a Band tells the story of progressive blues band Punch Brothers, the musical reincarnation of Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile. Despite Thile’s past, the trajectory of Nickel Creek takes a decided back seat—a smart move, though it might have bluegrass novices running to Wikipedia for an overview of the barely touched-upon details. Instead, the sound of Punch Brothers is the focus, highlighted with lengthy performance clips. As a genius composer fusing classical and bluegrass into a new, charming sound, Thile comes off looking like the deep, tortured and capricious frontman he is. But this is not a conflict-driven documentary. Tensions in the band are addressed as a side note only, and without dramatization. If the band has any hurdles to overcome, director Mark Meatto implies it’s in its inaccessibility to the general public. The film has a job to do: make the Brothers digestible by introducing its human, humorous young personalities to a new audience. As it would be a shame for anyone to dismiss Punch Brothers, the documentary can be forgiven for taking on this slightly self-promotional role. KIMBERLY HURSH. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm and 9 pm Friday-Saturday, June 29-30.

The Intouchables

C Can there be a more insult-

ing “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. 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. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower.

I Wish

A Japanese boy takes the train to visit his brother, separated from him by their parents’ divorce. Living Room Theaters.

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

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, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Men in Black 3

C A decade after the wack sequel, the prospect of resurrecting the original Men in Black’s scattershot whimsy is a welcome idea. But hey, what about Will Smith’s daddy issues? Or Tommy Lee Jones’ relationship with Agent O? Or the fatherson relationship forged between Smith and Jones? An even better question: Who gives a fuck about any of that? PG-13. AP KRYZA. 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard.

Monsieur Lazhar

B It was most startling image of this year’s Portland International Film Festival: A boy peeks into his middle-school 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, allow-

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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. 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 never handled delicate material so deftly as when the couple—in shades of Badlands and Godard—reaches a blue lagoon. Here, Sam pitches several tents. Indeed there is a core of toughminded wisdom in this movie’s treatment of sexual discovery—not leering, not dodging, but frankly enchanted. PG-13. AARON MESH. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Lake Twin, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

On Any Sunday

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Steve McQueen rides a motorcycle in 1971. G. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Thursday, June 28.

People Like Us

Chris Pine meets Elizabeth Banks, the sister he never knew he had. Michele Pfeiffer also does something. WW skipped the press screening. PG-13. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

PSU Social Practice presents the ’80s Room

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A showcase of ’80s TV commercials, taken from VHS tapes dug out of Goodwills, garage sales and eBay. Followed by a screening of the 1978 pilot for the original Battlestar Galactica, presented by Rerun Theater. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, June 29.

Prometheus

A- A think piece on the origins of man probably doesn’t sound much like the Alien prequel you were expecting. Just look at the title, which hints at the big ideas Ridley 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. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Tigard.

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ATTENDING] A New Age bike movie. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9 pm Thursday, June 28.

Rock of Ages

C- For a little while, at least, Rock of Ages—director Adam Shankman’s big-screen adaptation of the Broadway pop-metal musical—exudes a certain innocent charm. 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. PG-13. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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Safety Not Guaranteed

A There is something heartbreak-

ingly true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern: “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young 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. R. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Fox Tower, Hollywood Theatre, City Center.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

A- 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, playing an insurance salesman named Dodge, 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. 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.

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each other to boink on camera. Go! Your Sister’s Sister regards a bereaved bloke (Mark Duplass) ferried to the Puget Sound cabin of his longtime best friend (Emily Blunt), where he immediately and drunkenly tumbles into bed with her lesbian big sister (Rosemarie DeWitt). Go! Both movies take these contrivances—the mumblecore equivalents of high concept—and work out the results as naturalistically as possible, even making the heroes’ penchant for uniquely bad ideas into an ongoing subtext. (It helps that Shelton keeps turning to Duplass: a doughy Colossus of wrongheaded good intentions.) If Your Sister’s

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Sister feels good in the moment but doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, that’s probably because DeWitt’s character, Hannah, is so indelible (and intelligently performed) that she throws the love triangle out of balance, like a penny-farthing tricycle. A porcupine with a ticking biological clock, bestowing baggies of dried bananas as peace offerings, Hannah is that rare pious lefty not treated as an object of sport— she’s the woman the moms in The Kids Are Alright wanted to be. By comparison, the other two thwarted lovebirds seem like a stock romcom couple in slow motion. But DeWitt’s in enough scenes, so you don’t notice. AARON MESH. Fox Tower.

REVIEW

A- Snow White and the Huntsman is beautifully, blessedly graphic. It goes far beyond threats of dismemberment and filicide. 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 coopted by deft military strategy and Kristen 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 Charlize Theron, as the Queen, wining and dining on the blood of the innocent might have made for more compelling cinema. PG13. SAUNDRA SORENSON. Lloyd Center, 99 Indoor Twin, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Forest Theatre, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

Ted

A talking teddy bear with a potty mouth and the voice of Peter Griffin torments Mark Wahlberg? Oh, that certainly won’t get old after three minutes. Not screened by WW press deadlines. Look for a review on wweek.com. R. Lloyd Center, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Cinema 99, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies On TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

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 man-child characters created by Adam Sandler—rescues his longlost 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. 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. Eastport, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Tigard.

True Wolf

No, it’s not the name of a new Canadian indie-rock band. It’s a documentary about a celebrity wolf named Koani. Cinema 21.

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B Seattle director Lynn Shelton’s

two most recent films are uncomfortable silences that, viewed in tandem, feel like improv sketches at the Pacific Northwest’s most pofaced comedy club. Humpday featured two straight men who dare

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SIGN LANGUAGE: Cancer walkers raise awareness.

PINK RIBBONS, INC. Few threats are as amorphous and frightening as breast cancer. It is nature’s violent misogyny, sex and death bound up far too tightly. Small wonder, I suppose, that Avon or Revlon or Susan G. Komen fundraisers feel the need to pink these fears over with nearly relentless good cheer—with hopeful messaging, party whoops, feel-good merchandising and a frenzy of sincerely well-meaning self-congratulation. Pink Ribbons, Inc., director Léa Pool’s documentary about the fundraising industry surrounding breast cancer research, devotes a lot of time to this aesthetic disconnect. More than once, Pool cross-cuts excited cancer walkers in pink boas with a group of decidedly less cheery terminal cancer patients. The mood shift is indeed jarring; Pool’s point seems to be that we have lost track of the reality of the disease. In practice, it serves to make the largely middle-American masses who show up and donate money to such events seem foolish in their proud sentimentalism. Pool is careful to avoid any hint of mockery, though she is not always entirely successful. Her real target is the corporations who use cancer as a public relations tool, and the corporate-beholden foundations who somewhat self-servingly put vast amounts of money into “awareness” while placing precious little into cancer prevention research. The reason for this is simple, according to the activists interviewed in the film: Cancer-prevention research usually digs into environmental causes. This makes it especially inconvenient for large corporate partners such as Avon, Yoplait and Estée Lauder, who all make products linked to increased risk of breast cancer. The idea, then, is that the high-sheen cancer-funding events exist only to perpetuate themselves and pad their sponsors’ public image, however ardent the commitment of those who attend them. The film makes a powerful case, if also a somewhat diffuse one. It would probably serve its cause much better if Pool had tracked down the actual donation and spending numbers, rather than traffic in implication and the same sort of down-one’s-nose pooh-poohing affected by foodies in a McDonald’s. Such implication is nonetheless effective. By the film’s end, the masses in pink shirts have taken on an almost insidious or funereal quality, as if a frilly-ribboned walk of tears. “I might be alone in this interpretation,” says one breast cancer activist, “but when I see a pink ribbon, I see evil.” It’s sort of a horror film in PR smiles, flower-painted cars and pink Niagara. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

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SHE SELLS SANCTUARY: The greatest joy of Logan’s Run isn’t found in the campy ’70s special effects or the trippy, Moog-driven soundtrack. It’s not even in the whitewashed, lava-lamped sets or in the film’s oftreferenced utopian conceit. The biggest treat here comes from watching the blinding chemistry between a crazed Michael York and a sexy, aloof Jenny Agutter. Each delivers even the most confusing and sterile dialogue with a magnetic and profound earnestness that is hard to shake and easy to remember (“No! Don’t go in there! You don’t have to die!”). At different points, York holds his own against the great Peter Ustinov (as a crazy cat man!) and Agutter makes Farrah Fawcett (as a plastic surgeon’s assistant!) look dumpy. The dynamic duo turns what should be a shambling, psychedelic shit show into a tender (albeit truly insane) date movie. CASEY JARMAN. Showing at: Laurelhurst. Best paired with: BridgePort Kingpin Double Red. Also showing: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Wednesday, June 27), The Godfather Part II (Academy).

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