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Portland’s embarrassing lack of arts and music education in our public schools puts our kids’ future at risk. Along with an amazing coalition of educators, parents, local business people, community leaders and citizens from throughout Portland, I believe Measure 26-146 is a powerful and creative solution that will help keep students engaged in school and on track to graduate. Some have questioned if this proposal is really good for our schools [“Portrait of an Arts Tax,” WW, Oct. 3, 2012]. As a teacher, a PPS parent and the president of the Portland Association of Teachers, my answer is absolutely yes. Measure 26-146 will fully fund elementary arts teachers for all six Portland school districts, ensuring that every Portland elementary school student gets arts education every week. It will make arts supplies, arts programs and arts field trips freely available to K-12 students citywide with approximately $1.6 million in grant funds to schools and nonprofits. And it will fund teachers on special assignment to coordinate arts education opportunities for every K-12 student. Measure 26-146 provides critical new funding and resources that are desperately needed by our schools. It won’t require school districts to spend additional money on arts education at the expense of other vital programs or force schools to hire new teachers if they already offer weekly arts education. Some have suggested 26-146 does not make a significant enough investment in arts education because nearly half of the funds will be administered by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. I believe this package is made stronger with RACC’s inclusion. RACC’s funding of teachers on special assign-

i can’t vote for Jefferson smith for mayor because he is a total fuckup. i can’t vote for Charlie hales because he’s a lying son of a bitch. At this point, any alternative sounds good. Who can i write in that has the best chance of winning? —Michael D.

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Well, Michael, I must say I’ve got a few ideas. Modesty forbids my sharing them with you.* As recently as two weeks ago, I probably would have urged you not to waste your vote on some quixotic write-in campaign. However, it’s starting to seem (ahem) like the Portland mayor’s race isn’t going to be all that close. A few wackos writing in “Adolf Shitler” or “Boner McDoucheathon” aren’t likely to swing it one way or the other, so knock yourself out. That said, if your criterion is electoral viability, I’m afraid you’re pretty well hosed. My research turned up just eight successful write-in

ment, art supplies, K-12 arts programs and arts field trips are essential components of this arts education package. The remaining 31 percent of the fund that RACC will invest in arts access is a vitally important investment for our city. It will further support arts education by funding organizations such as Children’s Healing Art Project, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Young Audiences, Ethos Music Center, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Northwest Children’s Theater, and Tears of Joy Theatre. Some have suggested this measure would be hurtful to the low-income residents of our city. I couldn’t disagree more. And I am not alone. I stand with Street Roots, perhaps the strongest voice for lower-income and marginalized people in our community, which has endorsed Measure 26-146: “For $35 per person we can fund not only public school programs but also programs generating community involvement among people who are social and economically marginalized.” Every tax has its problems. But I believe one of the most important problems we face is the lack of arts and music education in our public schools—a hole in basic curriculum that limits educational opportunities for our children. Measure 26-146 is good for schools, good for kids, good for citizens and good for the city. And our kids are counting on it and us to come through. Please join me in voting yes for Measure 26-146. Gwen Sullivan, Portland Public Schools teacher President, Portland Association of Teachers LEttErs to thE Editor must include the author’s street address and phone number for verification. Letters must be 250 or fewer words. Submit to: 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Fax: (503) 243-1115, Email: mzusman@wweek.com

candidates in municipal elections ever, anywhere (and that’s counting the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, who is an actual cat). Furthermore, I found exactly zero examples of people (or other mammals) winning as write-ins without an active campaign. Mr. McDoucheathon may have fascinating ideas about the gold standard, but unless he gets out on the stump PDQ he’s going to spend yet another Election Eve scraping dried chili off the nacho machine and dreaming of what might have been. Still undeterred? Then pick someone whose name is easy to remember and spell, like “Michael Jackson,” or “Free Beer.” And don’t forget to color in the bubble next to the writein blank—your vote won’t count if you don’t. Frankly, as a write-in, it won’t count anyway, but at least you’ll force the bastards to write it down. *This is a joke. Please do not elect me mayor. Thank you. QuEstions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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YOU’RE EITHER ON THE BUS OR ON THE OTHER BUS. Last week, Murmurs quoted Ron Murray, a founder of Oregon Dog PAC—a political action committee aimed at starting a no-kill shelter—as saying the Multnomah County animal shelter euthanizes 64 percent of cats it takes in. Oops—we should have checked with the shelter before running that stat. County Animal Services director Michael Oswald says those numbers are outdated: The shelter has lowered its euthanasia rate of cats from 62 percent in 2008 to 46 percent last year. “We’re all focused on the same goal,” Oswald says. “It takes time.” The county launched a new pet adoption campaign Oct. 15; its ads show a cartoon cat in an Uncle Sam hat. One of Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s tasks is to clean up the mess left by a 2010 Oregon Department of Energy case. That’s the investigation into how a state contract business was steered to a partnership owned in part by Cylvia Hayes, Gov. John Kitzhaber’s companion. During the investigation, the Eugene law firm of Harrang Long represented Mark Long, Energy’s interim director, who was cleared of wrongdoing. The firm has served the state with an $871,000 legal bill. It’s a bit touchy for Rosenblum: Long’s lawyers were among her supporters in her campaign for AG. Her Department of Justice attorneys told a judge the billings—by Bill Gary ($450 per hour) and former University of Oregon President frohnmayer: $550 an hour. Dave Frohnmayer ($550 per hour)—were excessive and the state should pay no more than $100,000. Last week, however, a Marion County judge awarded Harrang Long $562,569. Rosenblum spokesman Jeff Manning says the DOJ is appealing. The latest Oregon bus project is being driven by the Tea Party. The anti-tax movement is using a former city bus to transport canvassers into contested legislative districts to stump for conservative candidates. “We can drive around the district with the candidate’s signs in the windows, getting out the message,” says Tea Party spokesman Jeff Reynolds. Shipping volunteers on a bus has been a decade-long hallmark of the Oregon Bus Project, the Portland-based voter registration group co-founded by state Rep. Jefferson Smith (D-East Portland). The Tea Party’s ride, dubbed the “Freedom Bus,” is emblazoned with a Ronald Reagan quote. Last weekend, the Tea Party bus sent about 20 volunteers to knock on doors for Scott Hansen, a Republican candidate running against state Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson (D-Gresham) in Senate District 25; and Art Robinson, a Cave Junction chemist and newsletter publisher who’s challenging U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) in Oregon’s 4th Congressional District. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt. 6

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Portland, you have a gambling problem. We’re telling you this as a friend. For too many years, the voters of this city have rolled the dice on engaging but troubled politicians, spun a roulette wheel of tax hikes, and thrown the dice on big-bet ideas that have come up snake eyes. Maybe that riverboat risk-taking is an inevitable byproduct of our idealism. Portland loves to look to the next big thing, to be the city that leaps beyond the everyday. But the results of those gambles haven’t been pretty. We’ve ended up with a City Hall unwilling to tame a police force that too often greets the mentally ill with Tasers. City bureaus stab each other in the back over the dwindling dollars not sucked up by pension funds and urban renewal debt. People in the surrounding counties reject our utopian vision and warn of “Portland creep”—and don’t think the suburbs have missed the double meaning of creep.

There is no governor’s race or U.S. senator’s seat up for grabs in Oregon this year. But the races for two statewide offices—secretary of state and labor commissioner—are far more competitive than usual. The Oregon House, currently split 30-30 for the first time ever, is up for grabs. And the Democrats’ control of the state Senate hangs by a single-vote margin. In 2013, state lawmakers will face big pressure to double down (triple down, actually) on the slow-motion car wreck called the Columbia River Crossing. The ballot measures include a few callow get-rich-quick schemes for people other than you. So if we have to sum up our endorsements, it comes down to this bit of advice: Stop gambling. We’ve proposed choices that offer the least risk, the best chance of breaking the city’s addiction to grandiose flailing, and a sober approach in Salem. We’ve backed candidates with an array of political views, Democrats and Republicans. We’ve said yes to some tax proposals, and no to others. Along the way, we asked candidates to describe themselves in a single word, or to name what they would change about their nature, or to pick one superpower they’d like to have. But mostly we’re asking you to take a breather from magical thinking. Stick with things that work. Play it safe. No more risky business.

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Surprised? We didn’t think so. Four years ago, when we endorsed the senator from Illinois, we said: “Don’t count us among the dewy-eyed who are infatuated with Obama and have conferred upon him celestial qualities: He is not divine. But do count us among those who believe he can inspire the best in each of us, begin to realign America’s international image, restore our civil liberties and expel the criminals and plunderers that have had an all-access pass to the White House since 2001.” So how has he done? Our international image is on the mend. Whether it be carefully choosing sides and degree of support for the Arab Spring, or seeking to marginalize Iran, or aiding Europe as it struggles with a fiscal cliff steeper than our own, the Obama administration has handled most of foreign affairs with sound judgment. On the civil liberties front, Obama fares less well. His statement in support of gay marriage was courageous—but also calculated. His aggressive support of spying on U.S. citizens is Bush-like. And the president has done little to hold Wall Street accountable for its sins. The president’s mixed record does not dilute our support. He promised to deal with three gigantic challenges: ending U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and passing health-care reform. Done, done and done. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn’t yet go far enough, but its historic provisions will provide millions with insurance coverage and make cost control a priority. We wish Obama had more spine when dealing with Congress. His tendency to avoid political conflict has allowed Republicans to roll him too often. They’ve distorted his economic successes. He’s been attacked for saving the American auto industry. He’s been slandered for his health-care reforms. And he’s allowed himself to be badly played on the federal debt-limit debate. Our endorsement of Obama comes not simply because Republican Mitt Romney represents the worst of America: a candidate who would never lend the silver spoon he was born with to help feed others, and who would instead use it to scrape the last dollar from the middle class if it meant giving the rich more tax breaks. We endorse the president with no illusions about the difficulty of the work ahead, but with a belief that Obama’s time in office, slowly and deliberately, is making this a better nation. Call us naive. We give it another name. We still call it hope.

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U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) in January won the seat vacated by former U.S. Rep. David Wu last year. We liked her then because this former consumer lawyer—who earned praise for diligence and intelligence while representing Beaverton in the Oregon Legislature—is the kind of no-drama mama her constituents deserve. She shows nothing but promise. Republican Delinda Morgan, a sincere, affable heavy-equipment operator and martial arts instructor, is brand new to politics and isn’t running much of a campaign. Also running are Steven Reynolds of the Progressive Party and Bob Ekstrom of the Constitution Party. Look no further than Bonamici. What would Bonamici change about herself ? “I’d like to get by on less sleep.”

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KURT SCHRADER

DEMOCRAT

For U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D - Ore.), a veterinarian, his work to find a federal timberland compromise is the hallmark of his second term. He says his plan—which he’s pushing with Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.)—would bring some certainty to timberdependent counties. Schrader is a business-friendly Democrat, a player among the deficit-hawk Blue Dog Democrats. And as befits his district, stretching across Oregon from the Cascades to the coast, he also champions agricultural industries and criticizes what he calls excessive federal regulations. He’s also a tough competitor. Republicans mounted a serious challenge to Schrader in 2010 in his first re-election bid, but he punched back and earned what amounts to a free ride this time. Republican Fred Thompson is an insurance agent with an impressive record as a businessman, project manager and Vietnam War veteran. His views may appeal to many in his district—giving federal timberlands to the counties is an old saw—but he hasn’t demonstrated an understanding of a congressman’s job or made a compelling case for dislodging Schrader. The one word Schrader would use to describe himself: “Tenacious.” cont. on page 13

EARL BLUMENAUER

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U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) disappointed us by not wearing his trademark bow tie to WW’s endorsement interview. Otherwise, he remains very much himself: prickly, partisan and pugnaciously disputatious on every subject. Blumenauer’s seat on the House Ways and Means Committee positions him for battles over health-care reform and public television. (He would be fighting President Romney to protect Obamacare and Big Bird.) He’s particularly authoritative on alternative transportation funding, and rightly so: If any one official can be given credit for securing the billions in federal funding for the Portland metro area’s light rail and streetcars, it’s Blumenauer. He and Charlie Hales may be the last strong voices in regional politics making a ringing case for rail as the backbone of 21st-century transit. With his district shifting along the border with Clackamas County, he remains well-positioned (and just cranky enough) for door-to-door fighting in the streets of Clackistan. He got Milwaukie its MAX money; now he’s needed to defend the faith. Blumenauer faces no serious challenge in this race. Neither Republican Ronald Green, a TriMet bus driver campaigning on trade protectionism, nor Green Party candidate Woodrow Broadnax Jr., an activist who camped at Occupy Portland, showed up for our endorsement interview. What would Blumenauer change about himself ? “I would just like to be faster—and a little more focused.”

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light turnout would have helped Starr. (Secretary of State Kate Brown ended that hope—see above.) Starr, who specializes in transportation as a lawmaker, might still have had a chance in the general election. But he’s done little to win the race, and in our endorsement interview, Starr bombed. He looked uninterested in making a serious challenge to Avakian, offering vague, unsubstantiated anecdotes about the incumbent’s record. Avakian wins by default. What would Avakian change about himself ? “I have a penchant for doughnuts.”

OREGON SUPREME COURT TED WHEELER KNUTE BUEHLER

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Incumbent Kate Brown made a grab for headlines and credibility last month when she pledged to limit her expenditures in this race to $1 million. Brown’s proposed limit was late, insincere and ineffective, befitting a tenure in which she has often seemed a step behind. She probably wouldn’t have been able to top $1 million anyway, making her pledge hollow. Although in 2008 she pledged to support a constitutional amendment limiting campaign contributions (Oregon is one of just four states with no limits), Brown, a Democrat, has not done that or anything meaningful about stemming the flood of money into politics. It’s one of her many failures in this job. She refused to investigate Charlie Hales’ Washingtonresidence duplicity, and she rescheduled the Bureau of Labor and Industries election so incumbent Brad Avakian, a fellow Democrat who faced a difficult re-election race, could delay his day of reckoning until November, when turnout would help him more. Brown denies a partisan sop to Avakian, but her credibility is badly damaged. She’s now the one in jeopardy, facing a serious opponent in Knute Buehler. Buehler, a Bend orthopedic surgeon and Rhodes scholar, does have a record of trying to limit political spending. He was a chief petitioner of a 1994 ballot measure that imposed campaign limits (later struck down). He is a moderate (including on abortion rights) who has twice worked to pass nonpartisan primaries. Buehler lacks Brown’s 20 years of political experience. But he’s been successful not only as a surgeon but as a medical entrepreneur and partner in a 170-person medical office. Some of his statements about the security of Oregon’s vote-by-mail system give us pause, but we’re satisfied Buehler deserves a chance to bring integrity back to the secretary of state’s office. There are two other candidates worth noting: Pacific Green Party candidate Seth Woolley is a whip-smart government wonk. Progressive Party candidate Bob Wolfe is in the race to protest what he says is Brown’s disqualification of otherwise valid signatures gathered by him and other initiative petitioners. (Wolfe was circulating a marijuana-legalization initiative this year and Brown fined him $65,000, alleging his campaign illegally paid signature gatherers.) Wolfe is essentially saying vote for anyone but Brown. We put it this way: Vote Buehler. What superpower would Buehler choose? “I’d like to fly.”

NOTE TO OUR READERS: Following our policy this year, we aren’t endorsing in the race for oregon attorney general between Republican James Buchal and the Democratic incumbent, Ellen Rosenblum, wife of WW’s publisher, Richard Meeker.

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Ted Wheeler’s got an important job few Oregonians know exists: overseeing the state’s investments, handling its cash and watching its debt. He bears the added burden of following a string of former treasurers whose administrations excelled at the most important aspect of the job: Generating above-average returns for $72 billion in state pension and other funds. Wheeler is smart, hardworking and honest. And earnest—often painfully so. It might be easy to underestimate his toughness, but don’t: He recently finished first in his age class in a triathlon. He’s also making smart moves. At the risk of alienating public employees—whom he’ll need for his inevitable run for governor—Wheeler is pushing a plan to reduce the cost of public pensions. At the risk of alienating the downtown business interests—who consider this son of a timber baron one of their own—he produced a damning 2011 review of the financial assumptions underlying the $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing project. He’s pitched an interesting college-funding plan, included credit unions among the state’s bankers, and sharpened the Treasury’s focus on corporate responsibility. His GOP opponent, management consultant Tom Cox, is sincere about trying to fix the pension system’s $16 billion deficit but lacks Wheeler’s financial background and political skills. The one word Wheeler would use to describe himself: “Thoughtful.”

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RICHARD BALDWIN

NONPARTISAN

Both Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Richard Baldwin and Portland attorney Nena Cook have strong legal minds, and both have demonstrated true commitment to helping those with less access to the legal system. But Baldwin, an 11-year court veteran, has the breadth of experience it takes to make calls on death-penalty cases, land use and constitutional questions that come before the state’s highest court. Cook has spent two decades as a business and employment lawyer in private practice and five years as a judge pro tem (a volunteer substitute judge position). She clearly has promise and makes a good case that others—U.S. Supreme Court Judge Elena Kagan, for example—have moved to high courts without previous experience as a judge. But her exaggeration of her own record, including claiming she has heard and decided hundreds of cases as a pro-tem judge, is troubling and not especially judicious. What superpower would Baldwin choose? To be able to instantly understand a person’s experiences and background.

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BRAD AVAKIAN

NONPARTISAN

The labor commissioner’s job is low-profile but vital. The nonpartisan statewide office oversees the Bureau of Labor and Industries, which investigates workplace discrimination and pay complaints, leads apprenticeship programs and referees workplace turf battles. A former workers’ comp lawyer and legislator, Brad Avakian has held the office since 2008. Avakian has made no secret of his interest in bigger jobs, most recently seeking to replace U.S. Rep. David Wu in last year’s Democratic primary. Avakian got trounced. Initially, state Sen. Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro) had a fighting chance to unseat Avakian in the primary when

TIM VOLPERT

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It’s not the top court in the state, but the Oregon Court of Appeals does much of the judiciary’s heavy lifting. The court received between 3,000 and 3,800 filings per year over the last decade. So the court demands someone with experience. Tim Volpert, our choice, a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine (full disclosure: this firm represents WW), has pleaded more than 100 appeals in state and federal cont. on page 15 Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 18

(SOUTHWEST PORTLAND AND TIGARD)

OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 22

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courts—including once before the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 60 appeals before the very Oregon Court of Appeals he’s seeking to join. He’s got the seasoning this fast-paced court needs. Judge James Egan, a two-year veteran of the Linn County Circuit Court, has a compelling life story—a former farm boy and juvenile delinquent makes good—but we’d like to see him serve a few more years before he takes another shot at the state’s second-highest court. What would Volpert change about himself ? He’d be more patient.

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(BEAVERTON AND SYLVAN)

MARK HASS

DEMOCRAT

After six years in the House and five in the Senate, Mark Hass, a former TV newsman turned ad man, has made himself a very effective legislator. As chairman of the Senate Education Committee, he helped push through changes to the university system that will make Oregon’s seven campuses more independent. He got full-day kindergartens passed and trimmed funding for scandal-plagued education service districts. His GOP opponent, Gary Coe, who owns tow-truck companies and other automobile-related businesses, is a sharp guy. But Hass is a business-friendly Democrat who remains a good fit for his district. What would Hass change about himself ? “I’d like to be more patient.”

DEMOCRAT

Ginny Burdick, who works in crisis public relations, has the ideal background for serving in Salem. A four-term Senate veteran, Burdick has shifted her focus from civil rights and guns to taxes. She’s been at odds with the left wing of her party, which defeated her tax-reform proposal and put abolition of the corporate kicker on the ballot over her objections. Her Republican opponent, art consultant Suzanne Gallagher, fumbled even the easiest of WW’s questions, such as this one: After calling herself a “very free thinker,” she was unable to give us one example of how she would vote differently from the GOP Senate caucus. The one word Burdick would use to describe herself: “Sturdy.”

OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 21

DR. ELIZABETH STEINER HAYWARD

DEMOCRAT

Dr. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, a family doctor at Oregon Health and Science University, was appointed to the seat vacated by now-U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici earlier this year. At a time when health care is central both to Oregon’s economy and budget, Steiner Hayward’s expertise and energy are welcome additions to Salem’s upper chamber. Her opponent, Republican John Verbeek, a Washington County insurance salesman, has only a loose grasp of Oregon government and politics What would Steiner Hayward change about herself ? “I’d like to be more detail-oriented.”

DEMOCRAT

Chip Shields, who chairs the Senate Committee on General Government, Consumer and Small Business Protection, manages a medical office when not in Salem. He entered the House in 2005 and initially focused on criminal justice. But since moving up to the Senate in 2009, he has become the building’s resident critic of the health insurance industry, convincing the Ways and Means Committee to hire an outside actuary to review insurance companies’ rate hike requests. His opponent, Libertarian Party candidate Herbert Booth, hasn’t made a case for defeating Shields. The one word Shields would use to describe himself: “Accessible.”

OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 23

(NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTLAND)

(SOUTHEAST PORTLAND AND MILWAUKIE)

OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 17

(NORTHWEST PORTLAND AND CEDAR MILL)

CHIP SHIELDS

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OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 14

JACKIE DINGFELDER DIANE ROSENBAUM

DEMOCRAT

Diane Rosenbaum is seeking a second term as a state senator after serving a decade in the House. She has proven to be an effective legislator, even when given the thankless job of serving as Senate majority leader and trying to keep her fractious Democratic caucus in line. She led the fight to extend unemployment benefits and institute protections for Oregonians facing foreclosure. Rosenbaum’s opponent, Cliff Hutchison, espouses libertarian views, including legalizing marijuana and ending land-use planning, and isn’t running a viable campaign. What superpower would Rosenbaum choose? “I’d like to be able to read minds.”

DEMOCRAT

Jackie Dingfelder is an environmental consultant who has served in the Legislature since 2001, moving to the Senate in 2009. She can claim a big share of the credit for establishing marine reserves off the coast, and for the 2011 expansion of Oregon’s bottle bill to include sports drinks, juice and coffee containers. As chairwoman of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee, she is often at odds with rural lawmakers and the timber industry. But as much as anyone in the Legislature, she fits her district. Her opponent, Independent Party nominee Tracy Olsen, has suspended his campaign. What would Dingfelder change about herself ? “I’d be taller!” says the 5-foot-2 lawmaker. cont. on page 17

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OREGON SENATE, DISTRICT 25

(GRESHAM, TROUTDALE, FAIRVIEW AND WOOD VILLAGE)

SCOTT HANSEN

REPUBLICAN

Voters in this race have a rare choice: two candidates who can truly call their district home. Both Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, a Democrat seeking a fourth Senate term, and Republican Scott Hansen, a dentist, grew up here. Monnes Anderson, a retired public health nurse, has been in a position for a decade to make a difference on health-care reform. Instead, as WW put it in our biennial ranking of Portland area legislators, she has “the political heft of a hummingbird.” Hansen has experience as a businessman, involvement in local schools and knows something about health care—a combination that should add value to the Senate on the biggest issues of the 2013 session. He will probably be a reliable GOP vote, but Hansen will also add spark and energy this district has not seen with Monnes Anderson. What would Hansen change about himself ? “My eyebrows.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 26

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 27

(BEAVERTON AND SOUTHWEST PORTLAND)

TOBIAS READ

DEMOCRAT

Tobias Read, a three-term incumbent, recently quit his job as a Nike shoe developer to work for Portland State University and spend more time on his legislative work. He’s already among Democrats’ more promising House members. Last session, he fought successfully to create a rainy-day fund to help make the budget more stable when state revenues fall. His opponent, Republican Burton Keeble, a retired technical writer, says his No. 1 priority is making Oregon a right-to-work state. His anti-government rhetoric and proposal to privatize public schools puts him out of step with his district. What superpower would Read choose? “I’d like super hearing power, to better hear what is said and what is not said.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 28

(ALOHA AND PORTIONS OF BEAVERTON)

(WILSONVILLE AND SHERWOOD)

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 29

(HILLSBORO, CORNELIUS AND FOREST GROVE)

KATIE EYRE

REPUBLICAN

We probably agree with Ben Unger, the Democratic candidate in this race, on more issues than we do with Katie Eyre, the first-term GOP incumbent. Unger, a political consultant who has the height and energy of a Columbia Gorge wind turbine, is a farm boy turned political organizer. He’s tougher on crime than most Dems and brings a perspective on agriculture land use Democrats often lack. But our admiration for Eyre has only grown. She brings skills—including experience as a CPA—that are in short supply in the Capitol. And she’s put those skills to use. Eyre has been brave and relentless in questioning the numbers—many of them bogus—that underlie the biggest piece of pork on the public spit: the Columbia River Crossing project. She’s done so despite tremendous pressure from the lobby to knuckle under, as Unger and many others have done. We see no compelling reason to replace Eyre—and many reasons voters should herald her work. The one word Eyre would use to describe herself: “Faithful.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 30 (HILLSBORO AND NORTH PLAINS)

JEFF BARKER JOHN DAVIS

REPUBLICAN

John Davis is a real-estate lawyer who won the Republican nomination in this district after the incumbent, Rep. Matt Wingard (R-Wilsonville), dropped his re-election bid following a WW report he slept with one of his legislative aides. Davis is bright and thoughtful, although many of the issues he talks about come right out of the GOP playbook, and it’s not yet clear how, if at all, Davis will show his independence. Still, he is a good fit for his district. Democrat Wynne Wakkila is a management analyst who has served many government agencies, and she ran an anti-sex trafficking organization. But in our endorsement interview she showed a lack of knowledge and understanding about the job she seeks. The one word Davis would use to describe himself: “Attitude.”

DEMOCRAT

Jeff Barker, a former Portland police detective, talked publicly about retiring from the Legislature after the 2012 session. We’re glad he changed his mind. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he’s a steady hand leading prison reform and trying to rein in Public Employee Retirement System benefits. His Republican opponent, Manuel Castaneda, has a terrific biography: born in a tiny Mexican village; moved to Pasco, Wash., to pick berries with his 12 siblings; and founded his own construction company specializing in seismic upgrades. Castaneda now has a single-minded obsession with removing government red tape on small business—almost to the point where he can’t see any other issue. He seemed genuinely unaware he’d been endorsed by Oregon Right to Life, for example, and told us he wouldn’t vote to limit abortion. Keep Barker. What would Barker change about himself ? “I would be a naval aviator. Always wanted to fly, and I never did.”

SHAWN LINDSAY

REPUBLICAN

Democrats have struggled to find strong candidates in this Washington County district, despite having a 2,000voter registration advantage over Republicans. In 2010, they nominated Doug Ainge, a school teacher and political neophyte. This time it’s Joe Gallegos, a retired college professor and administrator who is as unprepared and uninspiring as Ainge. First-termer Shawn Lindsay, an intellectual-property lawyer, is a little too slick sometimes, but his caucus chose him to handle redistricting and he was independent enough to buck leadership on closing a loophole on cellphone use in cars. What would Lindsay change about himself? “I’d like to be taller,” says Lindsay, who’s 5-foot-10 “in good shoes.” CONT. on page 18

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OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 33

(NORTHWEST PORTLAND AND CEDAR MILL)

MITCH GREENLICK

DEMOCRAT

Since he was first elected to the House a decade ago, Mitch Greenlick, a retired Oregon Health & Science University professor and former director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, has been his chamber’s resident expert on health care. Greenlick has been central to the creation of a health-insurance exchange and Gov. John Kitzhaber’s reform of the Oregon Health Plan. He was also one of the earliest and loudest critics of the Columbia River Crossing project. Greenlick’s GOP opponent, Stevan Kirkpatrick, a former Marine, did not bother to fill out a voters’ pamphlet statement. What superpower would Greenlick choose? “I’d be invisible. That would make it easier to know what’s going on around you.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 35

(TIGARD, METZGER AND GARDEN HOME)

MARGARET DOHERTY

DEMOCRAT

A fireplug who taught high school and led a teacher’s union local, Margaret Doherty is a consistent advocate for education funding. Like many Democrats, Doherty is inclined to pretend foes simply don’t exist—a dangerous game to play in Tigard, where light-rail opponents will have to be reckoned with. Her challenger, John Goodhouse, is one of the more wooden candidates propped up by Stimson Lumber money. He spent much of the endorsement interview attacking Doherty for “killing jobs” by supporting a bill limiting online florists—a bill Doherty, who owns her own floral shop, later worked to fix. Send him a consolation bouquet. What would Doherty change about herself ? “I’d be 5-foot-8.”

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OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 36

(MULTNOMAH VILLAGE AND SOUTHWEST PORTLAND)

JENNIFER WILLIAMSON

DEMOCRAT

Rep. Mary Nolan is giving up this seat to run for Portland City Council, leaving Jennifer Williamson, a lawyerturned-lobbyist, to run against Republican Bruce Neal, who recently moved to the district after a long career teaching school in Southern California. Neal’s an interesting guy—he worked for the National Security Agency prior to teaching and now inspects kitchens to make sure they meet kosher standards. But he cannot compete with the knowledge and contacts Williamson has built in stints working for the Oregon Department of Education and Portland State University. (Full disclosure: She once worked as WW’s attorney.) What would Williamson change about herself ? “I’m a terrible speller.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 37 (WEST LINN AND TUALATIN)

JULIE PARRISH

REPUBLICAN

After emerging as a surprise winner in 2010, Rep. Julie Parrish raised eyebrows during her freshman term with her blunt talk and casual inelegance (wearing flip-flops on the House floor is a fashion no-no). She wasn’t especially effective, but she was relentless. That fits her narrative of growing up poor and scrapping her way to college and an MBA. We admire her drive, independence and work ethic. We don’t much agree with Parrish’s right-wing views, however, and were willing to consider an alternative. Her opponent is Democrat Carl Hosticka, a retired professor who served three terms on the Metro Council and, years earlier, several Oregon House terms representing Eugene. In our endorsement interview, Hosticka never made a case as to why voters should send him back, and when we pressed him, he showed himself to be brittle and sanctimonious. He complained about Parrish’s support of online charter schools (which we don’t much care for either), but sounded as if he was working off an Oregon Education Association script. We thank Hosticka for his years of public service, but Salem doesn’t need another OEA mouthpiece. Parrish’s voters should send her back to Salem, hellbent as usual, with hopes she can channel her energy more effectively. The one word Parrish would use to describe herself: “Fireball.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 38

(LAKE OSWEGO AND SOUTHWEST PORTLAND)

CHRIS GARRETT

DEMOCRAT

Two-term incumbent Rep. Chris Garrett got a free ride this cycle when his Republican opponent, Tom Maginnis, a former aide to U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield, abandoned his candidacy. One of the most thoughtful and effective members of the House, Garrett would have won easily anyway. Garrett chaired the House Committee on Rules and represented his caucus in the contentious but successful process of redrawing legislative districts. He’s a low-key business lawyer who’s independent enough to have bucked environmental interests on development, defied the teachers’ union to vote for expanded charter schools, and emerged as one of biggest skeptics about the Columbia River Crossing project. What would Garrett change about himself ? “I’d love to be able to play the piano.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 40 (OREGON CITY AND GLADSTONE)

BRENT BARTON

DEMOCRAT

How the mighty have fallen. In 2009, House Speaker Dave Hunt represented this district and was touted as a future gubernatorial candidate. Now he’s leaving, after losing a bid for Clackamas County chair. Former State Rep. Brent Barton (D-Clackamas), who lost a 2010 Senate race, is now running for Hunt’s seat. Barton slid into the district to make the run—the second time this young politician has carpetbagged. Republican Steve Newgard, 58, a masonry contractor, grew up there and knows the community. He’s also talked about fiscal responsibility while having trouble paying his property taxes, and lacks much rationale for his candidacy. Barton, a Harvard-law-educated trial lawyer, is bright, works hard, and last time around he was willing to vote against his caucus and then-Gov. Ted Kulongoski on a controversial Metolius River bill. Barton is the better choice. What would Barton change about himself ? “I’d like to relax more.” CONT. on page 21

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OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 41

(SELLWOOD, EASTMORELAND, MILWAUKIE AND OAK GROVE)

CAROLYN TOMEI

DEMOCRAT

Carolyn Tomei, now in her sixth House term, usually divides the respondents to WW’s biennial “The Good, the Bad and the Awful” survey of legislators. Some think she’s sincere but ineffective; others, usually those concerned with social services, think she’s a star. We found Tomei to be sharp, earnest and brave in our endorsement interview—she probably knows more about mental health issues than anyone in the Legislature. And she has refused to be a pushover on the Columbia River Crossing, remaining skeptical about the freeway mega-project. Her opponent, Tim McMenamin, is a no-show who parrots GOP rhetoric. The one word Tomei would use to describe herself: “Persistent.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 44 (NORTH AND NORTHEAST PORTLAND)

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 45 (NORTHEAST PORTLAND)

MICHAEL DEMBROW

DEMOCRAT

Grizzled professor Mike Dembrow teaches English and film studies at Portland Community College—and the prospect of an 8 am class under his dour pedagogy has us reaching for the snooze button. But we’re happy to endorse him as he seeks a third term in Salem. Students should be pleased, too: Dembrow’s proudest achievements are bipartisan legislation to provide free tuition at Oregon universities for foster children, and a bill to pump $2 million into high-school career and technical education. Running against Dembrow for the second straight election cycle, Republican activist Anne Marie Gurney remains more concerned about preserving the online charter school her son attends than in pursuing any wider education reform. What superpower would Dembrow choose? The same one as the aliens in a vintage Superman comic, who grabbed Lex Luthor, “put their long fingers on his bald head, and took out all of his rage.”

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OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 48

(OUTER SOUTHEAST PORTLAND AND HAPPY VALLEY)

JEFF REARDON

DEMOCRAT

The first time we interviewed Jeff Reardon, it was like Clint Eastwood’s conversation with an empty chair. He had little to say about why we should endorse him in the primary, but he was running against Rep. Mike Schaufler (D-Happy Valley), who didn’t deserve to get re-elected. Reardon won, has found his voice, and brings a wealth of experience to this race. He’s a Vietnam vet who worked as a logger and sandwiched two teaching stints around 20 years at Tektronix. He also served for a decade on the David Douglas School Board. He’s a flinty, self-deprecating character who could be destined to find a role in the common-sense wing of the Democratic caucus. His Republican opponent, George “Sonny” Yellott, a paralegal, didn’t bother to submit a voters’ pamphlet statement or raise money. The one word Reardon would use to describe himself: “Hard-working.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 49

(TROUTDALE, FAIRVIEW AND WOOD VILLAGE)

(PARKROSE AND OUTER EAST PORTLAND)

TINA KOTEK

DEMOCRAT

We don’t share Rep. Tina Kotek’s enthusiasm for the $3.5 billion Columbia River Crossing project, but she’s got a better argument for it than many of her colleagues. Kotek’s district bears the brunt of Interstate 5 traffic: dismal air quality, truck traffic struggling through inadequate intersections, and refugees from the jammed freeway sneaking through surface streets. A former advocate for kids and human services, Kotek does her homework and builds coalitions effectively. Those skills have put her on top of an often-fractious caucus. Her opponent, truck driver Michael Harrington, is thoughtful and well-spoken, but he’s on the road too often to have built a serious campaign. What would Kotek change about herself ? “I’d like to exercise more.”

MATT WAND JESSICA VEGA PEDERSON

DEMOCRAT

This district has become a launching pad for ambitious pols: U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and current incumbent Rep. Jefferson Smith have worked the lean streets of East Portland to their political advantage. Seeking to replace Smith, who is running for Portland mayor, are Democrat Jessica Vega Pederson, a project manager for a tech company, and Maggie Nelson, a retired Catholic school teacher. Pederson, a third-generation MexicanAmerican who has been active in her neighborhood association and with the East Portland Action Plan, has two small children headed for public schools and is more in touch with this overwhelmingly Democratic district. What would Vega Pederson change about herself ? “I wish I could sing. I have the worst voice ever.”

REPUBLICAN

Republican Matt Wand surprised a lot of people in 2010 by defeating one-term incumbent Rep. Nick Kahl. Wand, a construction lawyer, passed an important accountability measure: making sure lottery money set aside for economic development got spent for its intended purpose and didn’t just pay for county government operations. Democrats are trying to unseat Wand, 37, a steady, phlegmatic type, with Chris Gorsek, who teaches geography at Mt. Hood Community College. Gorsek has previously run for the Oregon Senate and Metro council, both times failing to make the case for himself. The same is true this time, and we see no reason voters should not send Wand back to Salem. What superpower would Wand choose? “I’m terrified of airplanes. I wish I could fly.” CONT. on page 23

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OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 50 (GRESHAM)

GREG MATTHEWS

DEMOCRAT

Greg Matthews is a firefighter and former cop who also served as an Army paratrooper and military police officer. He’s an amiable guy who has proven to be a hard worker for his constituents, especially when it comes to veterans’ affairs. He’s a conservative Democrat and often a reliable vote for the business lobby. Matthews is a clear favorite over his challenger, Republican Logan Boettcher, who offered the curious idea of replacing all taxes in Oregon with a statewide land-value tax to cover all government services. Boettcher acknowledged he had no idea what that might cost the average homeowner—he said he had found the idea on the Internet and still wasn’t sure how it might work. While he Googles, vote for Matthews. What superpower would Matthews choose? “The ability to clone myself and be in three places at one time.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 51

(CLACKAMAS, HAPPY VALLEY, DAMASCUS AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST PORTLAND)

SHEMIA FAGAN

DEMOCRAT

Incumbent Rep. Pat Sheehan, a first-term Republican, is sharp and more independent than many House members. Unlike most Republicans, for example, he’s a vocal death-penalty opponent. Sheehan would get our endorsement over a generic Democrat. But his opponent, Shemia Fagan, a business lawyer and David Douglas School Board member, is one of the best first-time candidates we’ve ever seen. Three weeks after having her first baby, she showed up with detailed critique of Sheehan’s record, an astute analysis of the issues facing Oregon, and a compelling personal story of overcoming poverty. She also displays a blunt honesty that should be a model for veteran pols. “Taxes suck,” she told us. “Everybody hates paying taxes. But we need to do it.” What superpower would Fagan choose? “Timetravel, so I could talk to the greats of the past.”

OREGON HOUSE, DISTRICT 52 (HOOD RIVER, CORBETT AND SANDY)

MARK JOHNSON

REPUBLICAN

One-term incumbent Mark Johnson is a home-builder, which means he understands how tough the economy has been, and a Hood River School Board member, which puts him in the K-12 crucible where escalating costs are annihilating school budgets. Johnson is a moderate who has worked with Democratic colleagues, including Rep. Chris Harker (D-Beaverton), to craft innovative school funding solutions. His opponent, Peter Nordbye, a retired Parkrose High principal, is running an admirably low-budget campaign, but he’s given constituents no reason to toss one of the most effective rookie lawmakers. What superpower would Johnson choose? To make residents of Multnomah County see the world through the rest of the state’s eyes.

CITY OF PORTLAND

MAYOR OF PORTLAND

CHARLIE HALES

NONPARTISAN

Jefferson Smith has the trappings of a great candidate. He’s a gifted speaker and nimble thinker, able to connect the dots in a way that many politicians cannot. His founding and subsequent leadership of the Bus Project inspired voters and many talented young politicos. And Smith, who has represented East Portland in the Oregon House for two terms, deserves credit for a courageous, early opposition to the Columbia River Crossing project. His magnetism and potential are considerable. His performance is another matter. His legislative record is like a spilled milkshake—shallow and messy. Few of the achievements he touts, from fighting human trafficking to increasing voter registration, hold up under scrutiny. His efforts in these areas are either not actually accomplishments or small in scale (his human-trafficking fight amounts to asking taverns to post stickers with toll-free help numbers). His votes against gun control, in favor of hiding the names of people with concealed-handgun permits, and his fights with Planned Parenthood over sex education show a politician who was busy preparing to run for governor someday by creating the record of a political moderate.

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His efforts to hastily recast himself in the past year for a more liberal Portland electorate don’t wash. One of Smith’s favorite stump-speech themes is that you govern how you campaign. Voters can make up their own minds about Smith having his driver’s license revoked seven times, failing to pay his state bar dues, mismanaging paperwork at the Bus Project and losing his temper—whether it’s in his 1993 criminal charge for hitting a woman in college or punching a player last year in a pick-up basketball game. But if voters think Smith’s Oct. 1 visit to the woman’s house hours before he held a press conference to answer questions about the assault was anything other than an attempt to shut her up, they deserve to have him as their next mayor. Smith’s opponent, Charlie Hales, likes to say he isn’t without flaws. That’s an understatement. We’re still troubled by the fact Hales ducked Oregon taxes while living in Washington and yet kept voting in Oregon—in part, we suspect, to keep up the appearance of unbroken Portland fealty in case he ever wanted to run for office again. Character matters—that’s why this newspaper has spent time examining these candidates’ backgrounds. But our pages have also been filled with stories about Portland’s present and future. And as we step back from it all, we see a city that needs an experienced leader. Our police bureau shames the city when it brings its Tasers down on the mentally ill. The U.S. Department of Justice report on the bureau—showing a pattern of unconstitutional brutality the police union refuses to acknowledge—barely gets to the heart of the problem. Our fire bureau, protected by City Commissioner Randy Leonard, is inefficient and wasteful. And we need a candid assessment of the complaints of business leaders that the city is unfriendly to those who want to create jobs here. Where they are right, the next mayor needs to work to strengthen the region’s economy. Hales served as city commissioner from 1993 to 2002. As fire commissioner, Hales did something virtually unseen in Portland: He took on a powerful union and made a tradition-bound group add more women and minorities. Hales also played a key role in developing the streetcar, which has become a signature part of the city (albeit a pokey one). He was instrumental in the development of South Waterfront, which has not turned out as planned but was a blighted nothingness for decades. He played a key role in getting light rail to the airport. He pressed forcefully for a dense urban center—a key to business and livability. He’s a builder who has changed the face of the city for the better. We have found that when Hales makes mistakes—like quitting his job on the City Council mid-term—he takes his lumps like a grown-up. That maturity will matter in the next four years so the next mayor won’t be fooled by bureau chiefs, intimidated by developers (Hales knows their business; Smith does not) or pushed around by unions. The city has gone through two consecutive failed experiments with once-promising mayors: Tom Potter, who never understood politics, and Sam Adams, whose personal shortcomings gutted his tenure. The mayor’s office needs someone with experience, foresight and the ability to listen. City Hall needs adult supervision. Portland needs Charlie Hales. The one word Hales would use to describe himself: “Fix-it.” CONT. on page 25

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AMANDA FRITZ

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In the May primary, we endorsed Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland) over Amanda Fritz, the incumbent in this race. We’ve changed our minds. This newspaper often criticizes politicians for flipflopping. And we accept that this endorsement opens us up for the same criticism. So let’s step right up to it. “We wanted to be able to endorse her for a second term,” we wrote about Fritz in the primary. “We found ourselves liking the idea of Amanda Fritz more than the commissioner who’s held office for 3½ years. Fritz has proven too great a disappointment.” But events since then, and our growing concerns with Nolan, have led us to endorse Fritz. One of those developments was the U.S. Department of Justice’s conclusion that the police bureau acted unconstitutionally in its abusive approach to dealing with the mentally ill. We were not surprised by this finding, given the police bureau’s history. But we were taken aback by the response of the police union, which said it found no evidence of excessive force in the DOJ’s report. We’ve also taken a hard look at Portland Fire & Rescue recently (“Burning Money,” WW, Sept. 26, 2012) and see more clearly than before how that bureau’s inefficient and wasteful ways—including responding to every medical call with a full fire crew—need reform. In both cases, our next mayor will need all the help he can get to bring about real change. We believe Fritz, more than Nolan, is better suited to help a new mayor steer a different course. Fritz has positioned herself as a City Hall iconoclast, and her outsider status often reduces her effectiveness. She struggled managing the few bureau assignments she got, and had trouble installing a new 911 system. But Fritz has also proven to be a true citizen’s representative on a Council buffeted by conflicting agendas. She remains an important, independent voice, unafraid to challenge the status quo. After a close primary race with Nolan, the threat of losing her job has reinvigorated Fritz. She’s the only commissioner to challenge Commisioner Randy Leonard’s secretive fluoridation putsch, and she’s taken a firm stand alongside Adams to draw the line on the police bureau and joined Commissioner Dan Saltzman in scrutinizing the fire bureau. Her penny-pinching appears more admirable as Portland’s budget gets closer to being swallowed by urban renewal areas and fire and police pensions. In WW’s endorsement interview, Fritz made a compelling case that her background as a psychiatric nurse is an important tool in helping cops change their approach to public safety. Nolan, in the Oregon House since 2001, has earned a reputation for getting things done. But she has also demonstrated during this campaign that she marches in lockstep with the public employee unions—especially fire and police—who are backing her. In our endorsement interview, Nolan offered few specifics about how she’d rein in an inefficient fire bureau, while Fritz offered clear and innovative ideas. Nolan was

unpersuasive in claims she would be an independent thinker when it comes to reforms. Last month, the City Council voted unanimously to challenge at the Oregon Court of Appeals an arbitrator’s decision that ruled against the city’s efforts to fire Officer Ron Frashour, a police sniper who shot and killed an unarmed Aaron Campbell in 2010. It’s a case that epitomizes the police bureau’s lack of accountability. Nolan told us she opposed the city’s decision to continue to pursue Frashour’s firing. If she had been on the council, she would have voted to drop the whole thing. That was one of the most disturbing answers we’ve received from a candidate this election cycle. Nolan’s reasoning—that the city will look weak if it loses on appeal, and the community needs to heal from the Campbell case—looked wan in comparison to Fritz’s response. It’s not a matter of political tactics, but a moral choice— as Fritz put it, it’s about justice. The choice has become clear: Vote for Amanda Fritz. What would Fritz change about herself ? “Have hair that would behave.”

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MEASURES 77 AND 78 DISASTER EMERGENCY POWERS VOTE YES Measure 77 grants the governor an authority we hope is never necessary: to call the legislature into emergency session and direct response and spending in the case of natural or human-caused “catastrophic disasters.” These special powers would last only 30 days unless lawmakers extend the governor’s authority. Measure 78 is purely housekeeping, making spelling and grammatical changes in the state constitution. The Legislature sent both measure to voters, and they deserve an easy—and important— yes vote.

MEASURE 79

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Measure 80 is the first Oregon ballot measure in 26 years that puts the question of legalizing marijuana in the state back in front of voters. It’s about time. Pot prohibition has long been a costly failure for the justice system, even amid ever-broadening social acceptance of the drug. This measure seeks to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana sales in Oregon. Opponents worry that legalization could expand drug use among teens, increase “drugged driving” and lead marijuana users to experiment with more dangerous drugs. Nonetheless, DUII arrests did not increase consistently after the medical-marijuana law was made legal in Oregon in 1998. The measure is flawed—lawmakers will have to fix provisions, and it may not survive a test in court because of the way it could conflict with federal drug laws. It would also create an Oregon Cannabis Commission stacked with marijuana growers—not a great idea. But passage will force lawmakers to confront reality. No one benefits—least of all the state coffers—from the prosecution of otherwise law-abiding citizens who use a drug that is already in wide circulation.

MEASURE 81

REAL ESTATE TRANSFER TAX VOTE NO

BANS GILLNETTING VOTE NO

This measure is one of the most cynical and unnecessary initiatives we’ve seen in years. Real estate agents— middlemen—want to amend the constitution to ban a real estate transfer tax that’s already been illegal under state law since 1989. (Washington County had one before that, and it would continue regardless what happens to Measure 79.) If Oregon someday wants to consider a transfer tax, lawmakers should be able to debate the idea, and local voters can make their own decisions. But in the past two decades, no one has even gotten close to enacting a tax on the sale of property. Why is this coming up now? Realtors want to protect their own interests, spending more than $5 million in a misleading campaign to do so, and a handful of political consultants saw a fat paycheck by ginning up fear. Vote no.

Is it too much to call this whole proposal fishy? Sport fishermen have pushed this measure to ban gillnet fishing in the lower Columbia River. (Gill nets are so called because they’re designed to snag fish by the gills.) Most other states ban gill nets; Oregon strictly regulates them. But the argument for this proposal is weak. Native American tribes, who also use gill nets but wouldn’t be affected by the law, stand with commercial fishermen against it. And sport fishermen, who want more salmon, already take more fish than commercial fishermen. What’s more, the proposal would create inequalities between commercial fishermen from Oregon and Washington. After this measure qualified for the ballot, Gov. John Kitzhaber announced he’s seeking a compromise—a far better course.

MEASURES 82 AND 83 ESTABLISHES A PRIVATE CASINO VOTE NO These measures, taken together, would amend the Oregon Constitution to allow for a 3,500-slot machine casino at the defunct Multnomah Kennel Club dog track in Wood Village, just east of Portland. Voters thumped a similar idea in 2010, but two Canadian gambling juggernauts are making us all go through this exercise again. We could talk about whether Oregon already depends CONT. on page 27 Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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REPEALS ESTATE TAXES VOTE NO Currently, Oregon taxes estates valued at more than $1 million at rates from 10 to 16 percent. This measure would phase out the estate tax over four years—and, even more generously, allow family members to give unlimited assets such as stocks, bonds or businesses to other family members tax-free. It’s being pushed by Kevin Mannix, a former Salem lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate. Mannix raised $655,000 for this measure, and, by exploiting the tax code to launder it through his company, hid the money’s true source. The lack of transparency of who’s funding the campaign is only part of the problem. Mannix says he’s trying to help the heirs of family businesses and farms avoid selling everything to pay estate taxes. But there’s already a $7.5 million exemption from estate taxes for farmers and foresters. And although Mannix talks about protecting small businesses, most of the assets in taxable estates are stocks and bonds. It’s true that 31 states have no estate tax, but the taxfree asset transfer Mannix wants is unprecedented and would cost the state even more than the $120 million annual cost of ending the estate tax. Mannix proposes the gutting of state tax policy under the ruse of reform, and would do so without a substantive public debate or a way to replace the money lost to schools, prisons and other services the state pays for. No deal.

MEASURE 85

REPEALS THE CORPORATE “KICKER” VOTE YES The kicker check is one of the most bizarre structures in Oregon tax code. Triggered whenever the state’s revenue surplus is 2 percent more than it predicted, the kicker is divvied between individual taxpayers and corporations. It’s essentially an April 15 version of a Christmas bonus, handed out like packs of Lucky Strikes when Don Draper’s having a boom year. As tax policy, it’s madness. A coalition of left-leaning tax reformers say the corporate side of that irregular windfall should go to schoolkids. They rightly note that it makes no sense to give refunds to corporations—most of

them headquartered elsewhere—in a state where public schools must increase class sizes and shorten school years. They also say that a couple hundred million dollars every now and then will “help Oregon schools get off the financial roller coaster.” It won’t: The kicker is so capricious, it’s more like building a Tilt-A-Whirl on top of the roller coaster. And the advocates can be rightly scolded for tiptoeing around the sacrosanct stupidity of the personal kicker. But no one is making a serious argument as to why any part of the kicker should survive. We wish lawmakers would deal with the state’s tax structure in a comprehensive way. But the kicker is such silly policy, it’s exactly the place for half measures.

LOCAL MEASURES

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CREATES A MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY TAX DISTRICT VOTE YES You know what they say about books and covers. On its face, this is one of the easiest decisions on the ballot: Check yes and the beloved Multnomah County Library system returns to seven-day-a-week service and gets a reliable stream of revenue, taking the library off a string of special levies. The cost? Just 33 pennies added to every $1,000 of assessed value on an annual property-tax bill. If only it were so simple. Our library is already uncommonly expensive—its annual budget is twice the national average per capita. We’re spending $81 per resident when libraries of similar sizes spend about $38 per person. And administrators have kept spending on capital projects and increasing the budget even after a severe warning from the county auditor that funding was unstable. Because of the mechanics of property tax limits, this measure will also cost the City of Portland at least $7 million in lost tax receipts. So not only is Multnomah County squeezing other jurisdictions by disguising a revenue grab, but it’s taking the most popular service it provides and making sure it never has to compete with other services come budget time. So why vote yes? The Multnomah County Library system really is one of the finest in the nation. Its popularity is earned by circulating twice as many materials per resident as the average library: 34 books, tapes and DVDs each year. Though we’d rather see librarians forced to compete on the county’s general budget, here is the rare case of a public entity striving for excellence, not racing to the bottom. We hate how the county crafted this measure, but we think it tells a compelling story.

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REFORMS THE PORTLAND FIRE AND POLICE DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT FUND VOTE YES This measure ends a loophole that has allowed police and firefighters to juice their lifetime pensions by retiring when there’s an extra pay period in the calendar year, inflating the final pay used to calculate retirement benefits. This change and other needed fixes will save taxpayers $46.6 million over the next 25 years. Not much, considering that the city’s unfunded FPD&R liability is $2.7 billion, and this troubled fund needs more reforms. Given that about a quarter of every dollar in property taxes paid to the city feeds this fund, any momentum toward change is welcome.

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CITY OF PORTLAND ARTS TAX VOTE NO The backers of the “arts tax” begin with a valid premise. Arts education in schools is dwindling: 28 percent of schools within city limits have no arts education of any kind; Portland Public Schools has cut all arts instruction from the curriculum of 22 schools in the past two years. This measure, crafted by an arts lobby called Creative Advocacy Network and backed by Mayor Sam Adams, would begin to address this gap for elementary-school kids—guaranteeing one art or music teacher for every 500 public school students between kindergarten and fifth grade within city limits. To get there, this measure requires every income-earning resident to pay a $35-a-year tax. People in households below the poverty line would be exempt, but tens of thousands of low-income Portlanders would still have to pay. We love the arts, but the bigger policy question here is: Why should the city launch a new tax to fix a problem in public schools? And why this problem, and not, say, improvements to math and science? Here’s the answer: It’s not all about the kids. The backers have finger-painted this as all about education, but a sizable chunk of the money—possibly as much as half— would end up with nonprofit arts organizations such as the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Ballet, the Portland Art Museum and about 40 smaller groups. These organizations already have the means to raise funds; latching them onto the city’s spigot is unwise. This measure is being sold as a solution for schools, when the original (and as far as we can tell, primary) motivation was to provide a new subsidy for nonprofit arts groups that already enjoy tax breaks and have other ways to raise money. Even the City Club of Portland, in endorsing this measure, called it misleading. Backers have given fuzzy and contradictory claims about how this measure works—not a vote of confidence for approving a new tax. Many arts organizations are small and deserve help; we suggest you write them a check right now. But should we tax low-income Portlanders to help support a night at the opera? Horsefeathers.

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PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOND VOTE YES It comes down to this: Portland Public Schools is one of the few districts in Oregon that has not issued bonds to build or repair school buildings. Even opponents—in this case the late Don McIntire, who brought Oregonians Measure 5, the property-tax limit that has helped starve public schools—don’t deny the district’s buildings are in bad shape. Last year, voters narrowly rejected the school district’s $548 million bond request critics said was flabby and unfocused. The district reduced the request to $482 million and stretched out the payments so the hit on property taxes would be about $1.10 per $1,000 of assessed value. The board smartly chose a much more targeted approach: The schools with the most needs—Franklin, Roosevelt and Grant high schools and Faubion School—will get the first round of fixing. It’s still a lot of money. But there’s a lot to do. Critics of this measure are right to note the district has been slow to sock money away for these kinds of repairs. A new capital savings fund has been created, but it’s not enough and it’s too late. Lesson learned, and the district could still use budget reforms. But students and teachers shouldn’t be held hostage in substandard buildings in the meantime.

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hot in herre: What’s up with random Alberta Street businesses catching on fire? In a scene reminiscent of the blaze that engulfed Aviary restaurant and Barista coffee shop a couple Fourths of July ago, the Nest—one of the neighborhood’s most proudly divey dive bars—erupted into a two-alarm fire early the morning of Oct. 10, displacing three residents of the apartments upstairs and, tragically/adorably, causing a cat to wear an oxygen mask. (The feline is fine.) Investigators are still determining the cause. In the meantime, fellow Alberta dive the Know is planning a benefit concert for the Nest on Nov. 6, featuring local punks Rotties, rockers 7 and a Switchblade, and Johnny Cash tribute act Counterfeit Cash. big heist: In a September 2011 cover story, ex-WW music editor Casey Jarman declared Seattle rapper Macklemore “is going to be huge.” After years of building a dedicated fan base through mixtapes, attention-grabbing singles and YouTube videos, the MC and production partner Ryan Lewis released their debut studio album, The Heist, last week. Within hours, it hit the top of the iTunes sales charts, outselling Jay-Z’s Live in Brooklyn EP. As of press time, it is forecasted to clock mACkLemore in at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200. And Macklemore did it without any major-label backing. “It just shows it’s attainable,” says Portland hip-hop ambassador Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott. As for the lasting impact on Pacific Northwest hip-hop, that’s up to Macklemore, Scott says. “With success comes responsibility.... Are you gonna give back and open the door for the people behind you?” tAbLe SCrAPS: New cart pod alert: Rose City Food Park will officially open on the corner of Northeast Sandy Boulevard and 52nd Avenue on Oct. 20. It will be the new home of WW’s 2012 Eat Mobile judges’ choice winner and our favorite/only Guamanian cart, PDX Six Seven One, as well as Garcelon’s, Ramy’s Lamb Shack, Chen’s Express, Jonte’s Urban Seafood, Bangkok Xpress and Moberi Smoothies. >> Via Chicago, which you may recognize as the deep-dish pizza place at the PSU farmers market, has applied for a liquor license for its upcoming Alberta brick-and-mortar store next to Salt & Straw and Bollywood Theater, signaling it may be nearing completion. >> Kin, Kevin Shikami’s criminally underrated pan-Asian restaurant in the Pearl, shuttered on short notice on Oct. 11, after 2½ years, reportedly due to a family move to Hawaii. SeCret’S oUt: As if press time, there are still a few tickets left for Willamette Week’s Secret Supper at our 2012 Restaurant of the Year on Oct. 23. Get an exclusive taste of the winner before our Restaurant Guide prints and the lines form. Email secretsupper@wweek.com or visit wweek.com/secretsupper to reserve your seat. boo: Hey, area teenagers, see that old creeper in line to go through haunted houses alone? Oh, hey, that’s us—out reviewing local haunted houses. Look for reviews at wweek.com or catch the highlight reel in next week’s paper. 30

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 17 BETH ORTON [MUSIC] In a recent New Yorker profile, British singer-songwriter Beth Orton said she’s dealing “with some people who just want to hear what I did before.” If those folks exist, they are sadly missing out on the brilliance of Sugaring Season, Orton’s first new album in six years. Recorded in Portland with Tucker Martine, the LP is a stripped-down collection that showcases her feathery vocals. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

THURSDAY OCT. 18 REBEl cRafT RumBlE [CRAFTS] Good ol’ felt gets the Iron Chef-style treatment in this artsy battle: Four contestants face off, with only fabric scraps, bits of trash and glue guns at their disposal. Heckling, distracting costumes and heavy drinking encouraged. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $10. 21+. david ByRNE & sT. viNcENT [MUSIC] If the chemistry displayed on Love This Giant, the horny—as in, buoyantly brass-fueled—collaborative album by the iconic Talking Head and young indie-rock siren, is any indication, then this MayDecember musical odd couple is a match made in Bizarro Heaven. Arlene Schnitzner Concert Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 8 pm. $4353.50. All ages.

FRIDAY OCT. 19 TuRkisH sTaR waRs [MOvIeS] Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, the Turkish version of the Space Western, stole footage from the original and has everything the original lacked, including fight scenes in mosques and Wookiee carnage. Filmusik is performing the soundtrack live. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd, 281-4215, 7 pm. $12.

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THE PROJECT IS A EUROPEAN-STYLE COMIC FESTIVALS. Paint-by-numbers murals, choose-your-own adventure stories and Chinese street art—the Projects is not your little brother’s comics festival. That’s kind of the point, explains co-organizer Jason Leivian. “The inspiration was my friend Dunja Jankovic, who’s one of the organizers and puts together a comics fest in Croatia [called Skver],” says Leivian. “The model of European comics festivals is totally different. There’s no tables, you don’t sell books. You come and meet the artists and make art with them. Everyone crashes together in the same place. It’s a real bonding experience.” Leivian, who also owns downtown comic store Floating

World, is hoping to re-create that kind of environment in Portland: an event that is free, open and accessible to the general public, and focuses on creation rather than commerce. He and the other organizers have recruited artists from France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and all over the U.S. to make collaborative art projects and run workshops at the three-day festival, which will also incorporate Floating World’s annual animation festival, live music, exhibitions and panel discussions. In the spirit of the Projects, we asked artists Angie Wang and Julie Gfrörer to collaborate on a piece for this page. RUTH BROWN. GO: The Projects is at IPRC, 1001 Se Division St., and other venues on Oct. 19-21. See theprojectspdx.tumblr.com.

HaNdmadE BicyclE sHOw [BIkeS] As the rain starts falling, thousands of Portland bikes turn from reliable mode of transportation to gallery piece. See some bikes that actually deserve the tarp. Bonus points for braving Swan Island by cycle. Vigor Industrial Building, 5555 N Channel Ave. 10 am-5 pm Saturday, 11 am-4 pm Sunday, October 20-21, $10. ohbs.oregonframebuilders.org.

MONDAY OCT. 22 killER pumpkiN fEsT [BeeR] The Brewpublic beer blog hosts a week of sudsy fun, including this pumpkin beer tasting at Green Dragon. Your first and best shot at trying hard-to-find pumpkin brews from Beer valley, 10 Barrel, Fort George and Buckman Botanical. Green Dragon, 928 SE 9th St., 4 pm, Beer prices vary. brewpublic.com. Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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THURSDAY, OCT. 18 Laurelwood Grand Opening

Laurelwood opens its new Sellwood public house with a ribbon cutting, drink and food specials, and the opportunity to meet and nerd out with the brewers. It’s Sellwood, so this bar will of course be kid-friendly. Laurelwood Public House and Brewery, 6716 SE Milwaukie Ave., 894-8267. 5 pm.

FRIDAY, OCT. 19 The Great American Distillers Festival

Distillers from around the country make their annual pilgrimage to Portland to set up a folding table at the Tiffany Center and serve you their booze. There will be straight sips and cocktails to sample, plus bottles available for purchase. The press release also promised a man named Tito wearing a 10-gallon hat. Tiffany Center Crystal Ballroom, 1410 SW Morrison St., 234-5404, ext. 25. 5-10 pm Friday, 1-10 pm Saturday, Oct. 19-20. $15-$25 for one-day pass, $25-$40 for two-day pass. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Wetlands and Wellies

The Wetlands Conservancy throws its annual fundraiser with a soiree featuring food and drink from Jamison, Oregon Oyster Farms, Riffle NW, St. Jack, Gracie’s, Classic Foods, Chehalem, Lenné Wines and Rogue Spirits. There will also be a pre-event bike ride through the city’s wetlands to...whet your appetite. Sorry. Visit oregonwetlands.net for tickets. Classic Foods, 817 NE Madrona St., 234-9387. 6 pm. $65.

MONDAY, OCT. 22 Killer Pumpkin Festival

Part of beer blog Brewpublic’s Killer Beer Week, the Killer Pumpkin Fest at Green Dragon will showcase a range of pumpkin beers, a menu of pumpkinfocused food and a pumpkin-smashing competition. Green Dragon, 928 SE 9th Ave., 517-0660. 4 pm. Prices vary. 21+.

TUESDAY, OCT. 23 Pat Tanumihardja at Ping

Food writer Pat Tanumihardja, author of 2009’s The Asian Grandmother’s Cookbook, which compiled family recipes from Asian-American households, will visit Ping for a four-course dinner featuring dishes from the book. If you don’t want to commit to the whole meal, the dishes will also be available a la carte to regular customers at 8 pm. Ping, 102 NW 4th Ave., 229-7464. 6 pm. $65 per person or $115 per couple; both include one cookbook.

House Spirits at the Country Cat

As part of the Portland Cocktail Week celebrations, Christian Krogstad from local distillery House Spirits visits Montavilla’s meaty neighborhood favorite the Country Cat for a threecourse, cocktail-pairing dinner. The Country Cat will also be one of 25 bars and restaurants around the city offering special $7 Portland Cocktail Week cocktails Oct. 21-25. The Country Cat, 7937 SE Stark St., 408-1414. 6 pm. $45 including drinks and gratuity. Call for reservations.

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A small tropical “storm” breaks out in the corner of the room, and Craig Hermann, dressed in a safari hat and vintage Hawaiian shirt, erupts with a delighted grin. We’re drinking cocktails in Hale Pele, a new tiki bar on Northeast Broadway, but in Hermann’s imagination, we’re just players in one big pseudo-Polynesian dream. “A tiki bar is a happening—an artistic happening,” he explains, as fake rain pours from the ceiling. “When you come into a tiki bar, it’s like you are part of the experience. You’re surrounded by the experience—the music and the sound and the drinks and the sights.... I want to be lost. I want to be completely lost.” Hermann tastes his Zombie, and leans back with a contented sigh. “The drinks here are perfect,” he says definitively, before noting he prefers the spice a little lighter, but the drink is, objectively, on point. “It’s so satisfying. Before Hale Pele opened, I couldn’t get a drink like this unless I made it myself in my basement.” This week, bartenders from around the country will descend on Portland for cocktail week, a now annual celebration of craft cocktails with boozy events, parties and guest-bartender appearances in bars all over the city. Expect to see large numbers of earnest gents in waistcoats and Dapper Dan haircuts guzzling Fernet. But don’t be fooled: Some of the most dedicated mixologists may also be wearing garish hibiscus shirts and garnishing their masterpieces with tiny paper umbrellas. Tiki, the tropical drinks and associated culture, had its heyday from the 1930s to the ’70s with bars like Don the Beachcomber and Trader Vic’s. It then dropped out of fashion but never went away entirely. Hermann and other enthusiasts have been building tiki bars in their basements to re-

create the classic drinks at home for years. For the last decade, they have been holding an annual local convention called Tiki Kon, which now attracts hundreds of devotees. But with Trader Vic’s reopening in the Pearl last year, and now Hale Pele on the east side, you can now get a Navy grog or a mai tai as good as any old-fashioned. Still, Hale Pele is not most people’s idea of a “serious” cocktail bar. To enter, patrons must cross a small bridge over the bubbling pond built into the storefront window display. The dark, cavernous space is illuminated by glowing puffer fish hanging from the ceiling. The walls are thatch and bamboo, adorned with wooden idols

a respectable Tiki bar. But with Hale Pele, he wants to create an experience up there with the country’s top names in tropical drinking, like San Francisco’s famed Smuggler’s Cove: fresh juices squeezed every day; his own line of small-batch syrups; and approximately 350 different spirits. For Hermann—a longtime friend of Reynolds’ who also did some bartending at Thatch but has now returned to civilian life as an IT guy—it comes close to the immersive experience he has been chasing since visiting Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room as a kid. He’d like to see some sort of animatronic volcano, though. The new Trader Vic’s, likewise, might sound like just another chain restaurant, but is in fact still a family-owned company, filled with historic pieces and employing a staff of serious cocktail bartenders and tiki aficionados dedicated to re-creating the business’s classic drinks. “Our menu is all Trader Vic’s signature drinks,” says Justin Dupre, a server and bartender at Trader Vic’s who is also an exotica DJ and runs an online store selling vintage Hawaiian shirts. “It’s not like going to other places and them trying to make you a mai tai with high-fructose corn syrup...it really is about mixology.” Sure, Reynolds says, tiki drinks can be fruity, and some are sweet. But if made properly, they’re as balanced as a good Manhattan—and seriously potent. Tiki fans are the geeks of the cocktail world. For many, it is as much about history and science as it is about eating pupu platters and collecting swizzle sticks. Over drinks, Hermann talks about the influence of post-impressionist artist Gaugin; makes a impassioned, evidence-based case for why Trader Vic’s Victor Bergeron (rather than Don the Beachcomber) invented the mai tai; and gives a 10-minute explanation

“[IT WAS] THE FIRST POST-PROHIBITION COCKTAIL CRAZE AND IT LASTED FOR FOUR DECADES.” and masks. It feels a bit like walking into the luau scene from Psycho Beach Party. But there’s a long and storied history behind the seemingly kitschy facade. The huge tiki idols glaring from behind the bar, for instance, originally belonged to Steve Crane’s Kon-Tiki, which opened in the former Sheraton-Portland at Lloyd Center in 1959. And each of the 20 drinks on the menu, some of which contain up to 11 precisely measured ingredients, is from the 1930s to 1970s, and comes with a long backstory—which tiki enthusiasts will recite, unprompted, from memory. “It’s a very rich, unique America history—[it was] the first post-Prohibition cocktail craze and it lasted for four decades,” says Hale Pele owner Blair Reynolds, a guy with a big smile and even bigger mutton chops. “Why is there such a thing called the Rain Killer? Well, it’s because the bartender who developed it knew about the Painkiller. Why is it so different? Well, because it was inspired by the Jet Pilot, which was inspired by the Test Pilot...” Reynolds was a bartender at the bar’s previous incarnation, Thatch, which was

on the evolution of the grapefruit. In Tiki’s heyday, Hermann explains, the contents of drinks were a closely guarded secret belonging of bartenders. Uncovering the original recipes has been an ongoing research project, and for many, the intrigue and mystery is part of the appeal. But, Reynolds says, none of that is imperative to enjoying the drinks. “You can nerd about it all you want, try to get really deep into it, try to solve the mysteries,” he says. “Or you can just enjoy a drink in a freakin’ pineapple, and there’s nothing wrong with either way.” Cocktails drained, Hermann and I cross the tiny bridge out of Hale Pele, and the fantasy quickly fades as cars whir past and neon signs flash next door. He stares into the electric blue waters of the fake pond. “This is just so correct. I’m so happy,” he says. “It could use some sound effects with the rain, though.” DRINK: Portland Cocktail Week runs Sunday-Thursday, Oct. 21-25. Info at portlandcocktailweek.com. Hale Pele is at 2733 NE Broadway, 662-8454, halepele.com. Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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Editor: MATTHEW SINGER. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR LISTINGS, go to wweek.com/ submitevents and follow submission directions. All shows should be submitted two weeks or more in advance of event. Press kits, CDs and especially vinyl can be sent to Music Desk, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., Portland, OR 97210. Please include show or release date information with all physical mailings. Email: msinger@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

Beth Orton, Sam Amidon

[FOLK GODDESS] In a recent New Yorker profile, British singer-songwriter Beth Orton said she’s dealing “with some people who just want to hear what I did before,” referring to her much-vaunted late-’90s solo albums that abetted her folk-based tunes with a light electronic-pop touch. If those folks exist, they are sadly missing out on the brilliance of Sugaring Season, Orton’s first new album in six years. Recorded here in Portland with Tucker Martine, the LP is a strippeddown, gooseflesh-inducing collection that homes in on her feathery vocals and acoustic-based instrumentation, warmly evoking the U.K. folk renaissance of the ’70s. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

THURSDAY, OCT. 18 Switchfoot

[ROCK] Switchfoot’s great coup came in 2003, when the quintet, a middling Christian-rock outfit from San Diego, managed to secure not only a deal with one of the majors (Columbia) but also a legitimate entree into the world’s largest pop-music market (American secular society). The mainstream’s embrace of Switchfoot proved brief, however, and in the years since, the group has retreated to a smaller cultural purview, one defined by a fan base adversely disposed to surprises. On last year’s gazillion-track LP, Vice Verses, the band offered yet more of the post-Puddle of Mudd grunge pop that defined its commercial peak. SHANE DANAHER. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 2250047. 8 pm. $22.50 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Sun Airway, Pure Bathing Culture

[THE BIG CHILLWAVE] It didn’t take long for chillwave to leave the bedroom. When bloggers invented the microgenre two years ago, it existed exclusively in the home of amateur producers making gauzy, vaguely hip-hop influenced lo-fi beats doused in haze and tape hiss. As its popularity spread and evolved, though, it was only a matter of time before its creators got more ambitious. Example A: Sun Airway, aka Jon Barthmus. His first album, 2010’s Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, was a record of glistening elegance made entirely in his Philly apartment. For this year’s Soft Fall, Barthmus went bigger, aug-

Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

[ZEN FUNK] Zurich-based composerpianist Nik Bärtsch is a rarity: a jazzer who also appeals to much younger dance audiences (they have a standing dance-club gig) with his mesmerizing, ethereal-yet-groovy amalgam of improvisation, minimalism-influenced post-classical composition, Japanese ritual and funk. Traces of James Brown, Steve Reich, Thelonious Monk, the Meters and Photek echo through Bärtsch’s Fender Rhodes and his interplay with partner Sha’s sax and bass clarinet (plus bass and drums), creating spellbinding textures while never losing the groove. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mission Theater, 1624 NW Glisan St., 223-4527. 7:30 pm. $15. 21+.

Collie Buddz, New Kingston, Los Rakas, The Holdup

[REGGAE CROSSOVER] Sharing origins from the States and Jamaica, New Kingston is a trio of young reggae musicians with a knack for R&B and modern jazz. Traditional reggae forms are spun around, AutoTuned and typically hit with a towering dubstep beat. The band’s latest record, In the Streets, shows an act at the forefront of the crossover movement, tweaking a 50-year-old genre into something very 2012. The result is a breezy, dancey, soulful style of tropical pop that’s incredibly infectious. Dancehall artist Collie Buddz headlines. MARK STOCK. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

FRIDAY, OCT. 19 Tyler Stenson, Naomi Hooley, Crown Point

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Tyler Stenson’s classically smooth voice doesn’t take much to hold its own. Although the Portlander’s repertoire already leans on minimal acoustic compositions of folky strings, piano and light percussion, the most memorable moments of Stenson’s music arise when it’s stripped down to just the man and his guitar. Therein lies the assurance needed for a singer-songwriter’s existence. Aside from compelling and believably expressive vocals, the lyrics play a crucial role in shaping his songs—and it’s through these two aspects that the former Lander frontman has established an esteemed solo career. Tonight, Stenson celebrates the release of his new album Some Days I’m a Lion, which once again brings his pipes and his pen to the forefront of his Americana-tinged, easy-listening style. EMILEE BOOHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 2349694. 8 pm. $12 advance, $15 day of show (includes a copy of Stenson’s album). All ages.

Taking Back Sunday, Bayside, Man Overboard

[MILESTONE EMO] I didn’t know until today that there is a strange universe right next to ours in which Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 debut, Tell All Your Friends, is so revered that its 10th anniversary is excuse enough for an entire tour devoted to its 12 tracks of emo-pop grandeur. The album is a crisp snapshot of post-Get Up Kids whinging, and now that its devotees are old enough to drink, tonight’s revival should be a fascinating glimpse

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MAKE LOVE, NOT SENSE IT’S THE DAVID BYRNE DATING GAME! BY M At t HEW SIN GER

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Will David Byrne ever find a nice girl to settle down with? Ever since Talking Heads broke up in 1991, the restless 60-year-old musician-author-etc. has been playing the field—musically speaking—making flippy-floppy with everyone from the late Tejano star Selena to tropicalia singer Marisa Monte. This week, Byrne has a pair of hot dates in Portland with two very desirable women: indie-rock siren Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, with whom he just released the collaborative album Love This Giant; and Stumptown’s own riot grrrl, Carrie Brownstein, whom he’s meeting at the Bagdad Theater to discuss his new book, How Music Works. But Byrne must be tiring of bachelorhood: His first words on Love This Giant are, “Who’ll be my valentine?” Clearly, the guy is looking for love—though he’ll probably settle for someone to make sweet, strange music with. Don’t worry, David, WW is here to set you up! ANNABEL MEHRAN

[KING THE GUITAR QUEEN] If, for one day, I could trade bodies with any female musician of my generation, it would probably be Kaki King. It would be unreal to feel what it’s like to effortlessly zip my fingers across a guitar’s fretboard while deciphering intricate tunings and picking patterns that carry both melodies and percussive beats. In 2007, King was the only woman to make it on Rolling Stone’s list of “The New Guitar Gods,” an acclaim that’s clearly deserved after listening to her work. King’s solo music slashes through genres from jazz to Celtic, with instrumental compositions that often include other elements such as the harpejji, lap steel and bowed strings. While the crisp, sprawling, unusual sounds she pulls out of such a common instrument are impressive to hear, they are equally as mesmerizing visually. EMILEE BOOHER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 2883895. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

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menting his dreamy swaths of psychedelic synths with string arrangements and swooning pop melodies not far removed from Coldplay. MATTHEW SINGER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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Annie Clark (singer-songwriter-guitarist) Turn-Ons: Violent, jagged shards of clangorous guitar; elegant, crystalline chamber-pop arrangements; lyrics that, like her music, precariously balance ecstasy with lunacy. Turnoffs: Emotional stability—borrrrrrring! Compatibility Level: GIRLFRIEND IS BETTER! If the chemistry on the horny—as in, buoyantly brass-driven—Love This Giant is any indication, these two are a match made in “Heaven.” Like most May-December relationships, it probably burns a bit too hot for the union to last, but as a one-album stand, it’s positively steamy. And weird. Don’t forget weird. Carrie Brownstein (singer-guitarist-sketch comic) Turn-Ons: Big, blustery guitar anthems; shy, mumbly nerd boys with absurdist senses of humor; identifying the trends and attitudes of her hometown, mocking them; re-identifying the trends and attitudes of her hometown, mocking them again—only this time, it’s the 1890s! Get it?! Turnoffs: People asking if she’s dating Fred Armisen; people asking when Sleater-Kinney is getting back together; people on the street yelling “Cacao!” at her. Compatibility Level: ROAD TO NOWHERE! Although they share an awkward comic sensibility—Byrne’s self-interview on the Stop Making Sense DVD is basically a proto-Portlandia sketch—Brownstein’s taste in music is a bit too rockist for someone of Byrne’s worldliness. Also, we really want a SleaterKinney reunion soon, and we don’t need Brownstein delaying it with another distracting partnership. Tina Weymouth (bassist, formerly of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club) Turn- Ons: Angular, Afro-punk bass lines; white-lady raps only slightly better than Debbie Harry’s; men who used to be in Talking Heads (she’s married to drummer Chris Frantz). Turnoffs: Men who used to be in Talking Heads (she and Byrne aren’t on speaking terms these days). Compatibility Level: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE! Look, you two, we know things ended pretty rough the last time around. David, it was really insensitive of you to just walk out on the band for a solo career. But, Tina, wasn’t it a tad immature to respond by recording a fake Talking Heads album with a bunch of replacement singers? So you’ve both made mistakes. But think of your children—those eight, impossibly perfect albums of peerless art funk you created together. What we’re trying to say is: Can we just get one, measly Talking Heads reunion tour? Please?!

SEE IT: David Byrne and St. Vincent play the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, on Thursday, Oct. 18. 8 pm. $43-$53.50. All ages. Byrne and Carrie Brownstein discuss How Music Works at Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., on Friday, Oct. 19. 7 pm. Sold out. Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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soul nerd: Mayer Hawthorne plays Crystal Ballroom on Monday, oct. 22. at the sad shade of bogus nostalgia new adults are so good at bathing in. If this doesn’t inspire Fall Out Boy to cobble together a Take This to Your Grave tour, I’m going to be very upset. CHRIS STAMM. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $23 advance, $25 day of show. All ages.

Tim Easton, Lewi Longmire (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Tim Easton—Ohio native and current East Nashville resident, following a spell in Joshua Tree—has sustained a decade-and-a-half solo career on the strength of his voices: a singing voice that’s sweet but raspy; a lyrical voice that’s sweet but sharp-witted. His political songs— such as “The Weight of Changing Everything,” from his most recent solo acoustic release, Since 1966— are mercifully unpreachy, while his more personal songs offer fresh perspectives and just the right amount of self-deprecation. Perhaps the singer-songwriter he most recalls is journeyman and one-hit wonder Steve Forbert. Thus far, though he’s earned the respect of peers like Lucinda Williams, Easton lacks that one hit to elevate him into wider awareness. JEFF ROSENBERG. LaurelThirst, 2958 NE Glisan St., 232-1504. 9:30 pm. $10. 21+.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20 Brother Ali With Blank Tape Beloved, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa, the Reminders

[CONSCIOUS HIP-HOP] Everything you’ll ever read about Brother Ali will lead with a few unavoidable facts about the artist, so let’s get them out of the way right at the top and keep this listing moving: He is a 35-year-old legally blind albino Muslim rapper from the Midwest. OK, now let’s talk about his music, beginning with his latest album. Actually, let’s first mention its cover, because, well, using an American flag as a prayer rug is undeniably courting controversy. It might be the most incendiary image—for apple-pie-loving Republicans, anyway—to adorn a politically motivated hip-hop album since the Coup regrettably depicted themselves blowing up the Twin Towers on the front of a record unfortunately released on Sept. 11, 2001. But Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color is not an Immortal Techniquestyle fusillade of vitriol and conspiracy theories. Over alternately heavy and soulful production from Seattle’s Jake One, Ali spits rhymes that aren’t so much enraged with the United States as disappointed, his critiques of the country aimed at making it better rather than burning it to the ground. In indie rap, heart and humanity are qualities rarer than albino Muslim emcees, and Ali’s got tons of both. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. All ages.

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Iceland (record release), Leviticus Appleton

[POST-POST-PUNK] And you thought Interpol sounded like Joy Division. Portland’s Iceland—yes, I know that sounds weird read aloud—so authentically mimics the chilly bass lines and foreboding guitars of Manchester’s dourest gloom mongers it could almost pass for some kind of high-concept tribute band that covers only songs off a lost demo unearthed from Ian Curtis’ attic. Then again, ripping off Joy Division is hardly a criticism these days—it’s practically its own genre, like describing a band as “Beatlesque”—and on Iceland’s debut album, Carrion, the group does it better than most. MATTHEW SINGER. Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave., 2230099. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Calexico, The Dodos

[CINEMATIC FOLK] Of all the phlegmatic folk-pop outfits that earned renown in the early aughts, Calexico has grown to the most satisfying artistic maturity. After turning out a decade’s worth of shuffling, moody Americana, the band has used its recent releases to take half-steps toward bombastic post-punk. It’s a smart move from a creative standpoint, and also somehow fitting with the group’s previous work. Algiers, released earlier this year, reiterates the sextet’s talent for composition, but keeps things fresh by adding cinematic scope to lead songwriter Joey Burns’ story-song arrangements. SHANE DANAHER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $22.50. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Two Door Cinema Club, Friends

[FASTER, HIGHER, POPPIER] If Alec Trimble’s stirring performance during the London Olympics’ opening ceremonies didn’t quite cast the Two Door Cinema Club frontman as the official voice of young Britain, wresting the emotive high point before a billion-some onlookers proved the highlight of an altogether triumphant marathon for the Irish trio. Touring the globe ever since the 2010 release of single-packed debut Tourist Season—follow-up album Beacon, a similarly infectious succession of danceable confections detailing the torments of global tours, launched this spring— the indie-disco troupe vault ever grander choruses with a frankly exhausting athletic zeal. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. All ages.

Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, Dana Buoy

[UNPLUGGED AND ORCHESTRAL] It’s a story that rings indefinitely. North Carolina musician Ari Picker loses his mother to suicide and, from the depths of confusion and

sunday-monday artistic self-questioning, creates one of the loveliest records of 2012. His lyrical prowess and talent for arrangement make for a swelling, timeless, orchestral sound sure to give you the shivers. Like a crystalline sculpture, A Church That Fits Our Needs is so honest and so fragile it must be handled with the utmost care. Not-to-be-missed local multi-instrumentalist Dana Buoy opens. MARK STOCK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 8:30 pm. $10. 21+.

Rusted Root, Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk

[WORLDLY FOLK] Having entered the phase where they settle down to smaller shows and let their music be used to help sell cars to the soccer moms who used to be the hippie chicks that blew them in college, Pittsburgh septet Rusted Root is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a group that peaked early with hit album When I Woke. Rusted Root is a likable enough band, despite yowling frontman Michael Glabicki’s reputation as a bit of a Zen egomaniac, and there are some huge surprises buried in its live set, mainly coming from the percussion section’s ability to unexpectedly explode into frantic, trancelike bursts of tribal mayhem. AP KRYZA. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

Nü Sensae, Sick Rats, Peace, Vicious Pleasures

[’90s NOISE] Sure, ’90s nostalgia is presently polluting various thoroughfares with sauntering, taut bodies draped in whatever the friends on Friends were wearing when Ross still had a monkey, but the glorious flipside to such fashion fuckery is throwback noise

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that shakes the soul. And while Vancouver, B.C.’s Nü Sensae taps into whatever passes for timelessness in the realm of punk rage, the trio’s dueling allegiances to distorted hell-raising and subtly ingratiating hooks are most definitely rooted in the year punk broke. That shit went down 21 years ago, which means we’ve all earned the right to revel in breaking punk all over again. I’m gonna let Nü Sensae have the first crack at it. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. Call venue for ticket information. 21+.

MONDAY, OCT. 22 Mayer Hawthorne, Harlan

[SOUL] Detroit singer Mayer Hawthorne is living the dream of every crate digger. He has become a re-embodiment of the classic soul records he dug up as DJ Haircut in the ’90s, covering songs by the Temptations while also writing original songs that sound like they come straight from Hitsville USA circa 1968. Although he doesn’t have the strong, sensual voice of the greats he idolizes, like David Ruffin and Russell Thompkins Jr., his gentle croon perfectly matches his charming music-geek persona. His first album for a major label, How Do You Do, sees Hawthorne diving into subject matter more suitable for the third or fourth date than the puppy-love ballads of his indie debut. But his sincerity, for both the girls he sings to and the music he honors, is still there. REED JACKSON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

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OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ Born: In Bayamón, Puerto Rico, in 1975. Sounds like: A prolific experimentalist now financially secure enough to operate without any semblance of a creative filter. For fans of: The Mars Volta, John Frusciante’s solo albums, Brainiac, the Gold Standard Laboratories back catalog. Latest release: The synth-heavy Octopus Kool Aid, his third album this year alone. Why you care: When the world last saw Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, he looked like someone silently begging for a sniper to put a bullet in his brain. Onstage this past summer for a spate of highprofile shows with reunited post-hardcore heroes At the DriveIn, the guitarist performed with all the enthusiasm of a guy who only agreed to the gigs to help an estranged bandmate pay off his gambling debts—which, frankly, is the only possible explanation for why ATD-I ever decided to get back together. After the band’s acrimonious split in 2001, Rodriguez-Lopez and lead bleater Cedric Bixler-Zavala formed prog-punk behemoth the Mars Volta, whose rather astounding success gave the duo carte blanche to follow through with whatever outre projects happened to pop into their Afro-topped heads. In Rodriguez-Lopez’s case, that’s meant putting out an endless stream of noodling guitar and synth explorations, with various backing musicians cycling in and out of his employ (his current touring band is a female-fronted four-piece called Bosnian Rainbows). Why give up that freedom and go back to playing decade-old songs if not to save an old friend from having his kneecaps broken? Needless to say, Rodriguez-Lopez is probably relieved to return to this setting, playing whatever he wants, with little regard for the amount of self-indulgence the audience can endure. SEE IT: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group plays Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 20. 9 pm. $15 advance, $18 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week OCTOBER 17, 2012 wweek.com

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SPIRIT LAKE FRIDAY, OCT. 19 [PSYCHEDELIC BLUES ROCK] Uncle Walker’s Amber Restorative, the debut LP from Portland quartet Spirit Lake, has a history far grander than that suggested by the group’s slight résumé. The band first gained attention earlier this year with its inaugural EP, Between Me and the Mountain, a Black Keys-inflected mix of storm and swagger. Both Between Me and the Mountain and Uncle Walker’s sound like the result of at least a decade’s worth of artistic trial and error—which, as it turns out, is pretty much the truth. “Me and [bass player Adam Anderson] ended up forming a band called Marigold in 1995,” says Spirit Lake’s lead singerguitarist Travis Ferguson. “There was one summer where we were doing 19 shows a month. And that wasn’t even touring.” Marigold, a Brit-pop project since lost to the passage of time, enjoyed a sizable moment in the sun near the turn of the century. In addition to garnering praise from Everclear and the Dandy Warhols, Marigold attracted the attention of Outpost and DreamWorks Records, both major-label subsidiaries under the almighty aegis of recording industry mogul David Geffen. “Michael Goldstone, the head of A&R [at Outpost], flew up to Springfield with us and hung out in my parents’ garage while we played a show,” Ferguson says. “He took us out to IHOP.” The band eventually signed with Outpost, though it found the pressures of major-label existence creatively stifling. When the rise of Napster and the record industry’s subsequent panic placed Marigold’s debut on permanent hiatus, Ferguson was relieved. “By that point,” he says, “it was less, ‘I want to be on a major label and be a big rock star,’ and more, ‘I want to explore music for a while.’” After Marigold called it quits in 2002, Ferguson moved to Portland and embarked on a period of creative wanderlust, dabbling in prog-rock and eventually returning to his initial obsession with the blues, rock and country. Spirit Lake, which came together in the spring of 2009, combines its members’ love for the Rolling Stones and Gram Parsons with their history of crafting arena-size pop-rock. Uncle Walker’s Amber Restorative adds emotive sturm und drang to the band’s building blocks of Delta blues and early Americana. Songs like “High Desert Saints” touch on the migratory struggles that defined the Oregon Territory nearly two centuries ago, while “My My My” provides a cowpoke’s reinterpretation of the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.” “With Uncle Walker’s, it was like, ‘I want to write a story,’” Ferguson says. “The perseverance of the human spirit came into play, the idea of the Westward expansion and the Oregon Trail— the idea of just striving to survive.” That’s a theme with which Ferguson should be intimately familiar. Having persevered beyond a major-label boom and bust, as well as a subsequent decade of stylistic meandering, his artistic Promised Land is finally within sight. SHANE DANAHER. Taking the Oregon Trail to blues-rock nirvana.

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Lord Huron, Night Moves

[PoSEIDon RocK] the move from Michigan to Los Angeles polished Lord Huron’s sound some, but Ben Schneider and company are still roughly the same swishing, scenic rock group we fell for when the Mighty EP dropped. crafting galeforce gusts of glimmering, highly Westernized calypso, Lord Huron offers an unmistakably oceanic sound. newest record Lonesome Dreams is as fluid and fascinating as the band’s first effort, bolstered by Schneider’s squally vocals and the band’s stormy temperament. When the modern generation holds its ear up to a conch shell, this is what it hears. MARK StocK. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 2319663. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, A$AP Mob

[SWAG RAP] Discounting for a moment the reckless assertions that A$AP Mob is “the next Wu-tang,” it’s worth noting that A$AP Rocky fronts a crew of outer-borough Mcs with more style, cohesion and aesthetic guts than can be found anywhere else in modern hip-hop. Rocky himself went from obscurity to international acclaim last year, when a French fan compiled his Youtube hits into an makeshift mixtape. Without even releasing a studio LP (LongLiveA$SAP is due oct. 31), Rocky has secured the unanimous ardor of the hip-hop press, pulled down a multimillion-dollar record deal and brought his A$AP Mob to the brink of challenging odd Future for the role of “upstart hip-hop crew of the decade.” SHAnE DAnAHER. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. All ages.

TUESDAY, OCT. 23 Snow Patrol, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

[AFtERnoon GLoRY] Playing behind adult contempo stalwarts in a venue somewhat less than rock ‘n’ roll, tonight’s performance threatens much of what oasis fans had been dreading since the Gallaghers’ schism first sent the brothers to form their own bands. Still, just as co-headliners Snow Patrol have been building upon an ever more interesting oeuvre the past six years after “chasing cars” soundtracked every primetime soap montage—latest release Fallen Empires nears danceable in parts—the 2011 debut from noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds suggested the newly minted frontman may honestly have felt a bit constrained by the limitations of his former outfit. While he doesn’t shy away from covering the platinum songbook of old, he remains more than capable of cranking out a new batch of terrace-shaking anthems with potential to live forever. JAY HoRton. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $37.50-$70. All ages.

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Wolfgang Gartner, Pierce Fulton, Popeska, Imade

[MAStER oF tHE HoUSE] only true lords of the dance music bother recording full-length albums these days, but electrohouse mainstay and complextro pioneer Wolfgang Gartner (formerly known as Joey Youngman, which, frankly, sounds more like a pseudonym) had the faithful chomping at the bit after a string of ever more obsessively intricate and melodically adventurous releases. He’s the rare DJ with a strong enough discography to spin purely his own music during marathon gigs. While the arrival of last year’s Weekend in America didn’t quite disappoint— unlike contemporaries, the West coast-based producer neither simplified his muse for mainstream airplay nor allowed guests like Eve and will.i.am to overshadow the tunes—critics agreed Gartner’s approach grew a bit wearily identical within the long-play format. He’s since returned to thrilling the crowds and filling the floors with singles, including recent standout “Love&War.” JAY HoRton. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 8 pm. $20 advance, $23 day of show. All ages.

Gregoire Maret, Federico Gonzalez Peña, Matt Brewer, Clarence Penn

[HARMonIcA VIRtUoSo] Perhaps due to its deep association with the blues and folk worlds, I’ve always found the harmonica an awkward instrument for jazz music. Gregoire Maret, however, has started to change my mind. the Swiss-born player pulls heartrending melodies from his chosen instrument’s thin body, finding surprising complexity within its reedy tones. the jazz giants of today agree with me, as Maret has been invited to perform with Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny. Maret visits Portland this week with a new quartet that highlights two of jazz’s most underrated rhythm players: pianist Federico Gonzalez Peña and bassist Matt Brewer. RoBERt HAM. Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave., 295-6542. 8 pm. $18 general admission, $22 reserved. 21+.

Ssion, House of Ladosha, Magic Mouth, Beyondadoubt

[ARtSY DAncE PARtY] Growing up gay in Kansas city, Mo., sounds downright frightening, but cody critcheloe seems to have turned out all right. think of him as the male Beth Ditto, fronting a band whose trajectory has kinda, sorta mirrored that of Gossip. over the last decade, the singer and performance artist has been the face of SSIon (pronounced “shun”), self-releasing wildly flamboyant art-punk albums with titles like Street Jizz and Fucked Into Oblivion. Gradually, the group’s sound has evolved to take full advantage of critcheloe’s flair

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TUESDAY for the dramatic. Its latest album, Bent, is a deeply alluring collection of nu-disco, layering throbbing, glittery electro beats over the singer’s seductively androgynous vocals. Although the band has seemed like something of an art-school prank, the pulsating strut of “Li$ten 2 the Grrls” and Deee-Lite-ish bounce of “Blonde With U” are no joke. MATTHEW SINGER. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

The Mob, Tragedy, Bi-Marks

[ANARCHO-PUNK] The Mob might be slightly less well known than fellow Crass Records rabble-rousers Poison Girls and Flux of Pink Indians, but I’m chalking that up to a band name that’s just a tad bit too generic for prime back-patch

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placement. The Mob’s 1982 landmark, Let the Tribe Increase, is unassailably great anarcho-punk. Combining Crass’ tinny pique and Rudimentary Peni’s predilection for downcast dirges, the Mob at its zenith didn’t sound like agitators so much as agitated sad sacks, revolutionaries resigned to the bitter beauty of defeat. The past 30 years haven’t diminished the power of Let the Tribe Increase. Now it’s up to the men of the Mob to show us what time’s done to them. CHRIS STAMM. The Know, 2026 NE Alberta St., 473-8729. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

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CAIT OLDS PRISON CITY (GORBIE INTERNATIONAL) [BEDROOM FOLK] There’s a sense of quiet Western solitude in Cait Olds’ work. The Portland-via-California songwriter recorded full-length debut Prison City at Materials to Outlet, Jake Kelly’s home studio in North Portland. And a home is where Olds belongs, her muted bedroom folk as much a diary entry as a delicate batch of sparse, daydreaming Americana. Prison City is minimalist throughout. Highlights “Indio” and “Hard to Say” stretch the acoustic folk model some, incorporating melodica and brass. Other songs, like “I Know,” come off somewhat derivative, its loose and pluralized chorus dangerously similar to Cat Power’s “After It All.” The musician Olds resembles most, perhaps, is Icelander Ólöf Arnalds. The two share an audible self-confidence, propped up by the quiet guitars they strum. Olds sings of folly, addiction and forgiveness without masking things in a heavy cloak of instrumentation. “My baby’s got a little habit, some say my cross to bear/ I’m full of fear, he might be dead this time next year,” Olds confesses on the haunting, cabaret-tinged “Heroin Cloud.” The tumbleweed and barbed wire of the American West appear in “Stormin’,” a countrified number enriched by lap steel and Olds’ whispered, faintly yodeled vocals. It’s the most promising track on a record that sways between simple beauty and simplicity itself. MARK STOCK.

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3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: Mike Winkle

tualatin Heritage center

8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin Colleen Raney

White eagle Saloon JO METSON SCOTT

836 N Russell St. Paper or Plastic, Northeast Northwest, Felecia and the Dinosaur

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Beth Orton, Sam Amidon

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Medicine for the People, Jon Wayne and the Pain

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Paul Hemmings Uketet

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Fisher Acoustic Oceans, Ben Wolman, Sparkle Nation

Jam on Hawthorne

2239 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Hot Club of Hawthorne

Jimmy Mak’s

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

Kelly’s Olympian

tHuRS. Oct. 18 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Nathan Baumgartner (of And And And)

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Matices Trio

Andrea’s cha cha club 832 SE Grand Ave. Pilon D’Azucar Salsa Band

Arlene Schnitzer concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway David Byrne & St. Vincent

Artichoke community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Fear the Slaughter, Bloodoath, VX36, Voices of Ruin, Nemesis

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Love Loungers

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Vanport Drifters Jam

303 SW 12th Ave. Nathan Baumgartner (of And And And)

Alberta Rose theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Holly Near

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Aux.78

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Moon by You, Patrick Dethelfs, Wesley Randolph Eader Jr.

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Andy Stokes

camellia Lounge

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

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Rosie Flores, Marti Brom

doug Fir Lounge 830 E Burnside St.

The Soft Pack, Crocodiles, Heavy Hawaii

The Mel Brown Quartet

duff’s Garage

426 SW Washington St. Little Volcano, Old Highway, K-Tel ‘79

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

Kelly’s Olympian

Ladd’s Inn

1204 SE Clay St. Lynn Conover

Landmark Saloon

821 SW 11th Ave. Josh Feinberg

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

Gemini Lounge

Laurelthirst

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6526 SE Foster Road Jeremiah Birnbaum

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Mark Sexton Band, Simon Tucker Group

2958 NE Glisan St. Jonathan Warren & the Billygoats (9 pm); Dolorean (6 pm)

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Holocene

9201 SE Foster Road Open Mic

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Vagabond & Tramp (9:30 pm); Mr. Hoo (12 pm)

Jade Lounge

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kaki King, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper

1001 SE Morrison St. Jason Lytle, Sea of Bees

1435 NW Flanders St. Dave Fleschner & Alan Hagar 2346 SE Ankeny St. Jeffrree White

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave.

Mississippi Pizza

Mississippi Studios

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Sleepy Eyed Johns

Palace of Industry

5426 N Gay Ave. Flat Rock String Band

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Spellcaster, Gorgons Stare, Silencer

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. Folding Space

Star theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Nick Waterhouse & the Allah-Las, DJ Beyondadoubt

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231 SW Ankeny St. JPC, the Dancing Hats

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2016 NE Sandy Blvd. The Fenix Project

the Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Death by Stereo, Burn the Stage, Brigadier

thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Open Mic

tillicum club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Chad Rupp

Laurelthirst

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

Mission theater

1624 NW Glisan St. Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Supadupa Marimba Bros.

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, Local Strangers, Miggs

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Joe McMurrian

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Dan Weber

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

Plan B

chapel Pub

Record Room

camellia Lounge

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2025 N Kilpatrick St. Ever So Android, Lydian Gray, Awfully Sudden Death of Martha G., Sad Little Men

510 NW 11th Ave. Storm Nilson Quartet

626 SW Park Ave. A Tiempo

Al’s den at the crystal Hotel

Kenton club

1305 SE 8th Ave. Too Many Moths, Hara Isis, Fukemup, Peak Indicator, Ubercake, Deelo G, Acroyear, Sunfalls vs. Noyouyesme, Rudement, Cult of Zir, Meltingpot Soundsystem, Huey Cobra

Brasserie Montmartre

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426 SW Washington St. The Autonomics, Tigress, Eidolons

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

corkscrew Wine Bar 1669 SE Bybee Blvd. The Big North Duo

8 NE Killingsworth St. Au Dunes, Wet Trident, Woolen Men

Secret Society Lounge

crystal Ballroom

116 NE Russell St. Libertine Belles

doug Fir Lounge

8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

1332 W Burnside St. Switchfoot

Sellwood Public House

830 E Burnside St. Sun Airway, Pure Bathing Culture

Slabtown

duff’s Garage

Someday Lounge

1635 SE 7th Ave. Kaye Bohler Band (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)

east Burn

1800 E Burnside St. The Marvins

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Vices, No More Parachutes

ella Street Social club

714 SW 20th Place Yards, Danny Delegato, Log Across the Washer, Alex Arrowsmith, Teague Cullen

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Martin Zarzar (of Pink Martini), Devin Phillips Band

1033 NW 16th Ave. Akabane Vulgars 125 NW 5th Ave. Lord, Odyska

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Julian’s Ride

the Blue diamond

Sinatra Fest: John Gilmore

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Jennie Wayne, Lindsay Clark, Maymay

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Sound & Rhythm

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Basketball Jones, Face the Box (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Greg Goebel Trio

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Collie Buddz, New Kingston, Los Rakas, the Holdup

FRI. Oct. 19 Al’s den at the crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Nathan Baumgartner (of And And And)

Aladdin theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Tyler Stenson, Naomi Hooley, Crown Point

Andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio

Artichoke community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Friday Night Coffeehouse

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. TheGoodSons, Hellokopter, Stumblebum

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Queued Up, the Wolfman Fairies, Donovan Breakwater

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash (9 pm); Lynn Conover (6 pm)

Hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Con Bro Chill, Ninja Turtle Ninja Tiger

Island Mana Wines 526 SW Yamhill St. Joe Marquand

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Noah Petersen & Emmett Wheatfall

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Freddy Trujillo & the Chairproject (8 pm); Harrison Fulop (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Shanghai Woolies with Janice Scroggins and Reggie Houston

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Papa Dynamite

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Her Ghost, Tyler Fortier

Laurelthirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Tim Easton, Lewi Longmire (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Waxwings (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Spirit Lake, Melville, Alameda

Mount tabor theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Down North, Bottleneck Blues Band

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb & Lauren Sheehan

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Zion I, Diego’s Umbrella

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

Boom Bap!

O’connor’s Vault

Brasserie Montmartre

Original Halibut’s II

Buffalo Gap Saloon

Record Room

640 SE Stark St. Lubec, the Silent Numbers 626 SW Park Ave. Tablao

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Hot Tea Cold

camellia Lounge

510 NW 11th Ave. Marie Schumacher Band

clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503

crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Taking Back Sunday, Bayside, Man Overboard

7850 SW Capitol Highway Jack McMahon Band 2527 NE Alberta St. Jim Wallace

8 NE Killingsworth St. Cockeye, Eiger Sanction, Swap Buck

Refuge

116 SE Yamhill St. Zion I, Minnesota, Diego’s Umbrella, Vokab Company, Mr. Wu

Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. First Aid Kit

Secret Society Lounge

830 E Burnside St. Poi Dog Pondering

116 NE Russell St. Jenny Finn Orchestra, Trash Can Joe (9 pm); Bossa Nova (6 pm)

duff’s Garage

Slabtown

doug Fir Lounge

1635 SE 7th Ave. Karen Lovely Band (9 pm); the Hamdogs (6 pm)

east Burn

1033 NW 16th Ave. Hopeless Jack & the Handsome Devil

Someday Lounge

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones

1800 E Burnside St. Twisted Whistle

125 NW 5th Ave. De La Warr, Bitter Root, Jasper T & the Homies

the Press club

east end

Spare Room

2621 SE Clinton St. SuS Quartet

tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Owl Howl, She Preaches Mayhem

tony Starlight’s

203 SE Grand Ave. Old Man Stares, Blood of Kings, Motorthrone, Ritual Healing, Bloodlust (Venom tribute)

ella Street Social club 714 SW 20th Place Cinema Minimal, Micrasoft, LoOpsss, Pictorials

4830 NE 42nd Ave. 2nd Time Through

Star theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Joey Porter (Herbie Hancock tribute)

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BAR SPOTLIGHT

Like a Villain, Waver Clamor Bellow

LaurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Becky Kapell, Mike Danner, Dan Haley, Tim Acott, Russ Miller, Paul Brainard, Lex Browning, Janet Julian (9:30 pm); Tree Frogs (6 pm)

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. A Happy Death, Honey’s Dead

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Deepest Darkest, Labradora (9 pm); Supervisor (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Howlin’ Rain, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

Mount Tabor Theater

ALOHA LITE: When a bar plays lilting ukulele tunes on its website and sets up speakers underneath its sidewalk sandwich board, I expect a full-on luau. I want a flower lei around my neck, the heat cranked up and a pig roasting on a spit—or at least some hula-dancer bobble dolls on the bar. I want a vacation, damn it. In some ways, Island Mana Wines (526 SW Yamhill St., 971-229-1040, islandmanawines.com) does make you feel like a tourist—on my visit, there were patrons from Washington, D.C., and San Diego. “Oooh!” the Californians squealed, upon learning my friend and I were locals. “Have you heard of Voodoo Doughnuts?” Maybe it’s best to approach the wines—most made from tropical fruit, along with chardonnay and cabernet—as delicacies just too complicated for a dumb foreigner to appreciate. Or, like my friend, you could compare the mango wine to runny sweetand-sour sauce. Island Mana starts to go there—it has a bar made from a repurposed surfboard and two flat-screen TVs showing waterfalls and waves—but it’s just too tentative to transport you to paradise. REBECCA JACOBSON.

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Ken DeRouchie Band (main stage); Sean Gaskell, Kelsey Lindstrom (lounge)

Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Maggie & Patrick Lind

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. New West Guitar Group

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

North Portland Eagles aerie 7611 N Exeter Ave. Aszemar Glenn Band

Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Larry Pindar

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Atriarch, Elitist, Taurus, Night Nurse

Record Room Tango Berretin

6305 SE Foster Road Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble Sextet

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. New Iberians

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Zoo, Voices, Fainting Room

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Veronica Greene

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Billy Hagen

Tony Starlight’s

artichoke Community Music 3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Anne Weiss

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Headless Pez, Coven, Cemetery Lust, Raptor

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Waydowns (9:30 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Brasserie Montmartre 626 SW Park Ave. Jamie Stillway Trio

Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave. Toque Libre

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: Tony Morrettii

Clyde’s Prime Rib

Vie de Boheme

Doug Fir Lounge

1530 SE 7th Ave. Ojos Feos

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Rule of the Bone, Mexican Gunfight (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen, Rita Marques, Dennis Caiazza, Phil Goldberg

SaT. OCT. 20 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Nathan Baumgartner (of And And And)

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio

arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Michael Cavanaugh with the Oregon Symphony

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Elite 830 E Burnside St. Freelance Whales, Geographer (9:30 pm); Neil Halstead (of Slowdive), Alina Hardin (5:30 pm)

Ducketts Public House 825 N Killingsworth St. Heavy Baang Staang

Duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart with the Soul Survivor Horns

East Burn

1800 E Burnside St. Hot Tea Cold

East End

203 SE Grand Ave. The Hague, Special Explosion, Sun Valley Gun Club, Holy Tentacles

Ella Street Social Club 714 SW 20th Place 1491, Doe Eye, the Volt Per Octaves

Fifteenth avenue Hophouse

1517 NE Brazee St. Rogue Bluegrass Band

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Foggy Notion

3416 N Lombard St. The Fur Coats, Crazy Eyes, Bahn Mi, Warvette

Gemini Lounge

6526 SE Foster Road Prom Queen, Dance Hall Days

Goodfoot Lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Dead Winter Carpenters

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Brother Ali with Blank Tape Beloved, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa, the Reminders

Hollywood Theatre

4122 NE Sandy Blvd. David Quiles Guillo, Nice Nice, Regular Music, Plink Flojd

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

1435 NW Flanders St. Rebecca Kilgore, Tom Wakeling, Randy Porter

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Sus Quartet (8 pm); The Low Down Whiskey Rebels, Kory Quinn, Colt Haney, Foster Oren Haney (6 pm)

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Bart Ferguson & the Edward Stanley Band

Katie O’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. End of Now, Lighter Than Dark, Weak Knees

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Don’t, the Lordy Lords

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Satin Chaps, Karl & the Jerks, the Moonspinners, DJ Drew Groove

Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave.

8 NE Killingsworth St. Horse Fingers, Troubadour Dali

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Barry Brusseau (9 pm); Everything’s Jake (6 pm)

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Iceland (record release), Leviticus Appleton

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. The Vulva Underground (Neil Young tribute)

Spare Room

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Cool Breeze

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group, Crypts

Ted’s Berbati’s Pan

The Pinehurst Kids, Monoplane, Baltic Cousins

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Sinatra Fest: Rat Pack Tribute

Tualatin Heritage Center

8700 SW Sweek Drive Nuala Kennedy

VFW Post 907

837 SE Mill St. Oregon Pipers’ Society

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Soul Vacination (8 pm); J-Cam (5 pm)

White Eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. 4 on the Floor, Get Rhythm, Buckwheat (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Bombay Bicycle Club

Yukon Tavern

5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. The Reverend, Country Trash

SuN. OCT. 21 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Calexico, The Dodos

alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Lucy Kaplansky

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero

arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Debbie Gravitte with the Oregon Symphony

ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Insomniac Folklore, the Big Bad Wolf

Biddy McGraw’s

6000 NE Glisan St. Felim Egan

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Threat Signal, Kill on Sight, Chronological Injustice, Gladius, Bloodoath

Clyde’s Prime Rib

5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Two Door Cinema Club, Friends

Doug Fir Lounge

Dilana

Mosley Wotta

830 E Burnside St. Lost in the Trees, Midtown Dickens, Dana Buoy

The Blue Monk

Mississippi Pizza

Ella Street Social Club

2026 NE Alberta St. Nü Sensae, Sick Rats, Peace, Vicious Pleasures

714 SW 20th Place A. Forrest VanTuyl, Gresham Transit Center

Goodfoot Lounge

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Motion City Soundtrack, Jukebox the Ghost, Now Now

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Atole, Goodnight Billygoat, Apartment Fox, Wild Thing

Jade Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Hunter Valentine, Queen Caveat, Kiss Kill, the Happening

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Brothers of the Baladi

Tupai at andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Blackstone Edge Band

Valentine’s

2346 SE Ankeny St. Alexa Wiley

Kaul auditorium at Reed College

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland Gay Men’s Chorus

Landmark Saloon

232 SW Ankeny St. Gallop, Fox & Woman, Harlowe and the Great North Woods

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Catarina New Blues

White Eagle Saloon

4847 SE Division St. Jake Ray

LaurelThirst

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

Mississippi Pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lighter Than Dark, Trick Sensei (9 pm); Lazy Champions (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Rusted Root, Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk

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

836 N Russell St. Max’s Midnight Kitchen, Birdhouse

MON. OCT. 22 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto

ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Open Mic

Crystal Ballroom

1332 W Burnside St. Mayer Hawthorne, Harlan

Dante’s

NEPO 42

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke from Hell

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Doug Fir Lounge

Rontoms

830 E Burnside St. Lord Huron, Night Moves

600 E Burnside St. The World Radiant, Pocketknife

Goodfoot Lounge

Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Open Mic

2845 SE Stark St. Open Mic

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Lucabrazzi

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Dan Balmer Band

Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th Ave. No Po Big Band

4830 NE 42nd Ave. Angel Bouchet Band Jam 13 NW 6th Ave.

The Lovecraft

Tonic Lounge

Hawthorne Theatre

Star Theater

The Know

421 SE Grand Ave. Thor tribute

2845 SE Stark St. Shuffleboil

Spare Room

3341 SE Belmont St. Red #40

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Mr. Ben

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

Roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown, A$AP Mob

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. Moldover, Halo Refuser, John Henry

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Iron Mountain Heathen Shrine, DJ Brooks Blackhawk

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Tom Grant Trio

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Audacity, Youthbitch, Urges

Tiger Bar

317 NW Broadway AC Lov Ring

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Hookers

White Eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Leo

TuES. OCT. 23 al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Buoy LaRue

alberta Rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. The Hobart Brothers feat. Lil Sis Hobart

andina

1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler

arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

1037 SW Broadway Snow Patrol, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St. Cornshed, Father’s Pocket Watch

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. XDS, Grammies

Crystal Ballroom

LaurelThirst

1332 W Burnside St. Wolfgang Gartner, Pierce Fulton, Popeska, Imade

Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom

Doug Fir Lounge

2958 NE Glisan St. Kung Pao Chickens

830 E Burnside St.

1332 W Burnside St.

231 SW Ankeny St. Toxic Zombie (9:30 pm); Wild Child, W.Z., Mighty, Aaron O’Bryon, El Raffa De Alaska, the Deadliest Catch Band (3 pm)

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MUSIC

The Blue Diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sonny Hess Band

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. David Ornette Cherry with Eternal Monologue and LaRhonda Steele (Blue Monk 10th anniversary)

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Spookies, Death Songs

The Press Club

2621 SE Clinton St. Green Tambourine

Thorne Lounge

4260 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Weather Machine

Tillicum Club

8585 SW BeavertonHillsdale Highway Seymour Band

Tonic Lounge

3100 NE Sandy Blvd.

HaNGING ON THE PaY PHONE: Brother ali plays the Hawthorne Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 20.

Calendar ZZ Ward, Yellow Red Sparks

duff’s Garage

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

ella Street Social club

714 SW 20th Place Bevelers, Colin Johnson, Stephanie Scelza, Cory Baker, Harrison Fulop, Timothy Murphy

Goodfoot Lounge

hawthorne theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Alesana, In Fear and Faith, Vampires Everywhere!, Glamour of the Kill, All Human

1435 NW Flanders St. Jazz Jam with Carey Campbell and Hank Hirsh Trio

Jade Lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. Gregoire Maret, Federico Gonzalez Peña, Matt Brewer, Clarence Penn

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Here Come Dots, Quiet Countries, Josh and Mer, Ron Wesley

Laughing horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Forever, Dick Binge, Gloomweaver

Laurelthirst

Brasil Band

Mississippi Pizza

2026 NE Alberta St. The Mob, Tragedy, Bi-Marks

2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw 3552 N Mississippi Ave. Lost Creek Bluegrass Band

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Whigs, the Record Company

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Sassparilla

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Ssion, House of Ladosha, Magic Mouth, Beyondadoubt

the Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sportin’ Lifers

the Know

thirsty Lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. PX Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Teenage Sweater, Lina Lamont, Emp Moe, Virgin Blood

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Rupa and the April Fishes

Wilfs Restaurant and Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band with Amy Keys

the Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St.

ONE NIGHT ONLY WITH THE SYMPHONY!

Nov 9 7:30 pm Mantrap with DJ Lunchlady

Rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. BMP/GRND: DJs Amy Kasio, Rhienna

Star Bar

Wed. Oct. 17 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Cuica

cc Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Tronix: Mike Gong, Bliphop Junkie

Matador

1967 W Burnside St. DJ Whisker Friction

Red cap Garage

1035 SW Stark St Riot Wednesdays with Bruce LaBruiser

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Chris Crusher

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Proper Movement: Bailey, Senseone & the Dirtmerchant, M!nd’s Eye, DJ Mom

the Firkin tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs, VJ Norto

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ William the Bloody

the Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Whiskey Wednesdays with American Girls

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Blackwell

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Death Club with DJ Entropy

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Kerouac

Someday Lounge

125 NW 5th Ave. DJs Mr. Romo, Michael Grimes

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jonny Cakes

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Counter Culture with DJ Coulter

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Synthicide: Tom Jones, Erica Jones, Jared White, Luke Buser

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ El Dorado

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Maxamillion

cc Slaughters

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Whalewatchers

cc Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Flamin’ Fridays with DJ Doughalicious

club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Dollar Bin

element Restaurant & Lounge 1135 SW Morrison St. Chris Alice

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Decadent ‘80s: DJ Non, Jason Wann; Rewind with Phonographix DJs 2845 SE Stark St. Soul Stew with DJ Aquaman

Groove Suite

440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: Easy Company, Ernest Ryan, Melody Fisher

219 NW Davis St. Hip Hop Heaven with DJ Detroit Diezel

Ground Kontrol

Fez Ballroom

holocene

316 SW 11th Ave. Shadowplay: DJs Ghoulunatic, Paradox, Horrid

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Joystick

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Gimme the Night: Cooky Parker, DJ Gwizski, DJ Maxx Bass

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. From Seattle with Love with DJ Misha Euroa

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Noise Friday with Dev from Above

the Whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Cressida, DJ Eddie, DJ Gabriel O’Driscoll, DJ Zoxy, DJ Gotek, Rozanne Barton

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Yard Sale

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Big Gigantic, Griz

Sat. Oct. 20 Backspace

FRI. Oct. 19

Goodfoot Lounge

thuRS. Oct. 18

639 SE Morrison St. Blank Friday with DJ Paultimore

511 NW Couch St. DJs MT, RAWIII 1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, Dundiggy, the Love Loungers, Roane Namuh (9 pm); Aperitivo Happy Hour with DJ E*Rock (5 pm)

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Doug Ferious

Red cap Garage

115 NW 5th Ave. Party Like It’s 1986 with ‘80s Video Dance Attack

Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. Selecta Morganixx

cc Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

Fez Ballroom

316 SW 11th Ave. Popvideo with DJ Gigahurtz

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. DJs I Heart U, Avery

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: DJ Snowtiger, Mr. Charming

Palace of Industry 5426 N Gay Ave. DJ Folklore

Roseland theater 8 NW 6th Ave. DJ Bl3nd

Sloan’s tavern

36 N Russell St. The Witching Hour with Dark Daughter

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself with DJ Cecilia Paris

the crown Room

205 NW 4th Ave. Club Crooks: DJ Izm, Easter Egg

the Lovecraft

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

SuN. Oct. 21 Matador

1967 W Burnside St. Next Big Thing with Donny Don’t

Plan B

1305 SE 8th Ave. Hive: DJs Owen, Brian Backlash

ted’s Berbati’s Pan

231 SW Ankeny St. Deacon X’s Fetish Night: DJs Encrypted, Non

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover

Folk-rock duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers join the Symphony to deliver a beautifully crafted selection of songs from their new CD Beauty Queen Sister.

Indigo Girls

2845 SE Stark St. Kory Quinn, Brad Parsons Band

Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant

MUSIC

Call: 503-228-1353 Click: OrSymphony.org

MON. Oct. 22 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Lightyear

cc Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Maniac Monday with DJ Doughalicious

Ground Kontrol

511 NW Couch St. Service Industrial with DJ Tibin

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Coldyron

UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES DAN WEBER

THURSDAY 10/18 @ 6 PM Award-winning songwriter Dan Weber is a gifted storyteller in the long tradition of great singer-songwriters, entertaining audiences with heartbreaking and funny songs, inspired and energetic performances, and hilarious, true stories from the roads he’s travelled. With ‘Ash and Bone’, Dan Weber brings a new voice to authentic American stories.

ZION I/DIEGO’S UMBRELLA FRIDAY 10/19 @ 6 PM

cc Slaughters

Hip-Hop group Zion I continue to forge new ground musically on their latest LP, ‘ShadowBoxing’, a beat-heavy hip-hop album decidedly grittier than past projects. ‘ShadowBoxing’ features guests such as Bassnectar, Grouch & Eligh, Collie Buddz and Goapele. Diego’s Umbrella have created an irresistible cocktail that is entirely their own, with klezmer, flamenco and punk rock all blended to pop perfection. On ‘Proper Cowboy’, the guitars and gypsy fiddles have been augmented by tubas, analog synths and soaring vocals to create a “futuristic Spaghetti-Western soundtrack.”

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NEW WEST GUITAR GROUP

tueS. Oct. 23 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Easy Ian

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Robb 835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Animal

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Smooth Hopperator

the Lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. DJ Straylight

tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Treasure Hunters Club DJs

trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove

Yes and No

20 NW 3rd Ave. Idiot Tuesdays with DJ Black Dog

SATURDAY 10/20 @ 5 PM

New West Guitar Group has tapped into its jazz roots to develop a sound that embraces various shades of folk, country, rock and pop. With ‘Round-Trip Ticket’, New West Guitar Group explores the idea of forward movement, the beauty and mystery of the natural world and the homecoming that awaits the traveler at the end of the journey.

SASSPARILLA - RECORD RELEASE EVENT TUESDAY 10/23 @ 7 PM

Sassparilla offers one of the most entertaining, sweaty live shows in the Pacific Northwest, complete with dancing, sing-along numbers, and plenty of good times. ‘Magpie’, a 9-track offering of songs that span the gamut of the AM dial glory days, finds Sassparilla delivering a collection of chameleon roots-pop.

GREG TROOPER

WEDNESDAY 10/24 @ 6 PM

Greg Trooper’s music feels equally informed by Memphis soul, Greenwich Village folk and Nashville twang. Music critics praise his poetic feel, infectious melodies and insightful lyrics. On ‘Upside-Down Town’, he’s joined by some of the most talented musicians Americana music has to offer. Greg Trooper will also be playing at the Secret Society 10/25 at 8:30 PM.

1035 SW Stark St

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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: REBECCA JACOBSON. 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: rjacobson@wweek.com.

THEATER The BFG

Northwest Children’s Theater opens its 20th season with this Roald Dahl favorite about a young girl and a “Big Friendly Giant” who must save England from the BFG’s evil, child-eating counterparts. NW Neighborhood Cultural Center, 1819 NW Everett St., 222-4480. Noon and 4 pm Saturdays and Sundays. Closes Oct. 28. $18-$22.

The Black Lizard

Imago Theatre presents an encore performance of last season’s popular, genre-bending production, directed by Jerry Mouawad. Yukio Mishima’s play is about murder, diamond heists, seduction and deception. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Ave., 231-3959. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 4. $15-$30.

Body Awareness

Young playwright Annie Baker is a writer of delicate-but-probing works, quiet plays that have a way of sneaking up on you. CoHo Productions stages her comedy about a Body Awareness Week at a fictional Vermont college, which explores sexuality and all its pain and humor. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 2313959. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 10. $20-$25, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”

The Body of an American

At the beginning of Dan O’Brien’s play, two actors introduce themselves as Paul Watson. One then speaks as Terry Gross, the familiar voice of NPR’s Fresh Air. Soon after, the other also adopts the radio host’s serene voice. A few lines later, the conversation draws in the playwright. Suddenly, it’s a rapidfire exchange between three characters performed by only two men. Confounding yet not confusing, it’s a fitting opening to this intricate production. Watson—the man doubly introduced in the play’s first lines—is a war journalist who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for a photo of an American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, and The Body of an American (premiering at Portland Center Stage) chronicles his story and his relationship with O’Brien, the playwright. Body is an unconventional exploration of trauma, vulnerability and trust, set on a stark stage as photos and maps slide behind. Though each actor has a primary role—William Salyers is both hardened and wounded as Paul, and the superb Danny Wolohan plays Dan with energy, humor and sorrow—they also take on smaller roles, and occasionally speak as the opposite character. Director Bill Rauch deftly harnesses the play’s fluidity, and it’s a treat to watch these skilled actors flit in and out of roles, altering their gaits and voices with ease. After beginning with matters of global significance, it’s Body’s personal questions—about healing, forgiveness and human connection—that most resonate. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays, with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances, noon select Thursdays. Closes Nov. 11. $25-$54.

Duck for President

Think you can escape politics by schlepping the tots to a play? Think again. Oregon Children’s Theatre has pulled a fast one, staging a production about a duck running for the highest office in the land. He supports energy conservation, universal health care and ample vacation time. Sorry parents, only the kids can vote in this election. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 228-9571. 2 and 5 pm Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $15-$30.

The Homecoming

Not a company to shy away from challenge, Defunkt Theatre opens its 13th season with Harold Pinter’s enigmatic play about a son who brings his American wife to meet his working-class family in North London. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 418-2960. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through Nov. 17. $15-$20, Thursdays are “pay what you will.”

The Lost Boys Live!

What’s the deal with today’s vampires, huh? In my day, creatures of the night didn’t sparkle, and they certainly weren’t conduits for the virginal desires of hormonal teenage girls. No, the vampires I grew up with hung out in caves, eating Chinese takeout and listening to the Doors. The Lost Boys—Joel Schumacher’s 1987 horror flick about a gang of stylishly mulleted bloodsuckers tormenting Jason Patric and the two Coreys—was a generational touchstone for kids like myself, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let a bunch of Portland sketch comedians snark all over my childhood. But the folks at Bad Reputation Productions must’ve also spent their formative years obsessing over the movie, because their live stage adaptation is as much a riotously fun homage as it is a gentle mockery. Injecting self-conscious meta-humor into the original screenplay, writers Shelley McLendon and Courtenay Hameister mostly take jabs at the film’s overwhelming Eighties-ness, but the real laughs come from the cast biting down hard on the movie’s hammiest lines. In particular, Tynan DeLong captures the slack-jawed innocence— and vomitous Technicolor wardrobe— of young Corey Haim, and Michael Fetters slips comfortably into Kiefer Sutherland’s great, douchey sneer. The production is remarkably resourceful, utilizing projected comic-book panels, Razor scooters and roller skates. If you’ve never seen the movie, the play is probably a bit insider-y at times. But, hey, if you didn’t watch The Lost Boys every weekend from the ages of 8 to 13 like some of us, that’s your problem. MATTHEW SINGER. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Nov. 3. $18-$22.

“Master Harold”...and the Boys

Profile Theatre, which each year produces a full slate of plays by a different playwright, devotes this season to Athol Fugard, a South African dramatist known for political, persuasive plays about apartheid. The season opener is a semiautobiographical work about three friends—one white, two black—grappling with the tangles of bigotry and institutionalized racism in 1950s South Africa. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 242-0080. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 28. $16-$30.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Theatre Vertigo opens its season with Bertolt Brecht’s anti-war masterpiece, set during Europe’s religious conflicts of the 17th century. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through Nov. 17. $15.

On Killing

Jacob Coleman and Amber Whitehall, both of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, collaborate on a theatrical project about love and melancholy, which incorporates soundscape, grainy video and old voice recordings. The Headwaters, 55 NE Farragut St., No. 9, 289-3499. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 28. $15.

Othello

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Shakespeare Company. Now, he’s directing the season opener at Northwest Classical Theatre Company, which also stars Portland favorite Michael Mendelson as the villainous Iago. Not too shabby. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-2443740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 4. $20.

muted. But as a prelude to a four-play cycle, it’s a compelling introduction to a family worth knowing. REBECCA JACOBSON. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 235-1101. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Oct. 28. $22.25-$41.25.

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Milagro’s annual Day of the Dead celebration returns with another original, bilingual production. This year, time turns backward as a cabal of ostracized Aztec gods reunites two young lovers. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Nov. 11. $15-$30.

Seven Guitars

August Wilson’s 10-play The Pittsburgh Cycle, which explores AfricanAmerican life over the decades, has been mighty popular on Portland stages recently. Now, Artists Rep presents the Portland premiere of this installment, set in 1948 and directed by Kevin Jones. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 2411278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays. Closes Nov. 11. $20-$50.

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Stand-up from the winner of season two of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm WednesdayThursday, Oct. 17-18; 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20. $10-$27.

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All Jane No Dick

Stand-up is a testosterone-swamped arena, but Curious Comedy gives the bro factor a break with this all-women festival, featuring heavy-hitting showcases, panels and workshops. See curiouscomedy.org for full lineup. Curious Comedy, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.., 477-9477. 7:30 pm Thursday; 7:30 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday; 6, 7:30 and 9 pm Sunday. $10-$25.

No, not those Wayans Brothers movies—this is Brody’s annual Halloween show, riffing on classic horror and sci-fi flicks. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Saturdays Oct. 20 and 27; 8 pm Friday, Oct. 26. $9-$12.

School of Sorcery

The Unscriptables heads to Swinemumps (a fictional Hogwarts rival) for a Harry Potter-inspired show. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 309-3723. 8 pm Saturdays through Nov. 24. “Pay what you will.”

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

House lights still on, a rags-clad crowd shuffles about the stage, looking forlorn and doing little. Suddenly, two actors dressed as riot police storm the stage and haul off one of the men, exiting without explanation. Has director Chris Coleman converted Stephen Sondheim’s macabre musical into contemporary political commentary? Not really. Though Coleman places some emphasis on Sweeney Todd’s class struggles, those riot police are the only transparent contemporary reference. Otherwise, this Portland Center Stage production serves the play straight, dishing up plenty of grisly mayhem and a fair bit of gore but stopping short of wild melodrama. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 pm Sundays with alternating Saturday matinee and Sunday evening performances. Noon select Thursdays. Closes Oct. 21. $30-$70.

The Tell-Tale Heart

This Tears of Joy Theatre production is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s short horror story, but all you need to know is it features murderous puppets—lifesize murderous puppets. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 248-0557. 8 pm FridaysSaturdays through Oct. 28. $5-$17.

That Hopey Changey Thing

That Hopey Changey Thing is like reverse dinner theater: Rather than audience members munching on their meal, it’s the actors sipping wine and gobbling pie. But unlike most dinner theater, where the show is fluff, Richard Nelson’s play—set on the night of midterm elections two years ago, and cribbing its title from a Palinism— plumbs knotty family dynamics and the ragged state of liberal politics. It’s also the first in a planned four-play cycle, which will follow a single family, the high-spirited Apple clan, over four years (director Scott Yarbrough, cast and crew have all committed to the project). The dinner here takes place at the upstate New York home of schoolteacher Barbara Apple, who lives with her uncle Benjamin (a rambunctious and affecting Bruce Burkhartsmeier), a former actor who’s developed amnesia since his heart attack. Barbara’s three siblings join them: a lawyer, a secondgrade teacher and a writer, who totes along her actor boyfriend. For much of the production, it’s as if we’re eavesdropping on so many conversations between disaffected liberals. Campaign finance, shovel-ready stimulus packages and the Middle East are weary topics. The personal conversations are more engaging, and talk flows easily from the playful to the weighty. Though arrows never fly—this is a family that tortures by tickling—the skilled cast rouses both quiet empathy and genuine laughter. As an isolated production, Hopey Changey is perhaps too

old Hickory: logan Benedict as Andrew Jackson.

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON (PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE) In Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the seventh president pours himself into skinny jeans, slicks his hair back Fonzie-style and packs a microphone in his low-slung holster. He does beer bongs before signing legislation and orders pizza to the Oval Office. And sometimes, he just sips at a juice box and whines about how much his life sucks. Historical revisionism hits head-spinning heights in Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s swashbuckling musical, presented at Portland Playhouse. Bloody Bloody is a vaudeville romp through Jackson’s life: tragic childhood, battles against the British and Spanish, populist campaign for the presidency and brutal relocation of Native Americans. Set to an emo-rock soundtrack on a Wild West-inspired stage, it imagines Jackson and his fans as hormonally charged and fickle teenagers, driven by blustery impetuosity, clumsy idealism and sophomoric humor. This production, directed by Brian Weaver, gets off to a high-octane start. Jackson (Logan Benedict) swaggers onstage like an emo Elvis, dressed in a nipple-exposing white henley and black eyeliner. “I’m wearing some tight, tight jeans and tonight we’re delving into some serious, serious shit,” he croons to the audience, lip curled. The ensemble, in sexed-up frontier garb, jab fists into the air as they belt the opening song, “Populism, yea, yea!” It’s surprising, silly and very funny. But despite the best efforts of an exuberant cast, Bloody Bloody can’t quite maintain its early energy. The scattershot structure is the primary problem—it sometimes jolts from self-conscious slapstick to jarring didacticism. That’s unfortunate, because alongside some lowest-common-denominator jokes, there are some hilarious lines— “that’s just laissez unfair,” quips a mutton-chopped Martin Van Buren. The show is a mishmash of historical and modern references, but the best moments forgo period appropriateness—standout spots include a battle scene of impeccably choreographed dueling duos, a spooky version of “Ten Little Indians” and Melissa Murray’s deadpan turn as Jackson’s wife, Rachel. Bloody Bloody has plenty of oomph—it just needs a bit more focus. REBECCA JACOBSON. America, the oversexed adolescent.

see it: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson plays at Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays. Through Nov. 11. $15-$38.50.

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Post5 Theatre presents Halloweenthemed sketch comedy, featuring macabre sex, vulgar scenarios and multimedia clips. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 10:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through Oct. 27. $10 suggested donation.

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Choral Arts Ensemble

New music director David De Lyser begins his ﬁrst season leading the veteran choir in music that won greater fame in instrumental versions, including Samuel Barber’s inevitable Adagio for Strings, Sibelius’ Finlandia, Holst’s Jupiter hymn and works by Fauré and choral-music pop star Eric Whitacre. The program also eschews verbiage entirely in Portland composer Tomas Svoboda’s Chorale Without Words, some of Mendelssohn’s ever-popular “Songs Without Words” and the celebrated “Humming Chorus” from Puccini’s opera Madama Butterﬂy. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 3228 SW Sunset Blvd., 246-4276. 7:30 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 20-21. $10-$15.

Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra

The ensemble’s program includes a Rossini overture, the orchestral version of Debussy’s genial Petite Suite and one of the greatest symphonies ever written, Haydn’s exhilarating (and ﬁnal) Symphony No. 104. Montavilla United Methodist Church, 232 SE 80th Ave., 254-5529. 7:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 20. $12-$15.

Oregon Repertory Singers

The choir opens its season with one of the most popular recent works by one of the planet’s hottest young choral composers: the eclectic Norwegian-born, Southern California-based composer Ola Gjeilo’s initially arresting (if ultimately somewhat saccharine) Dark Night of the Soul, a setting of a medieval poem by St. John of the Cross that incorporates driving, dramatic minimalist piano patterns, neo-romantic film-score textures (he studied film music at University of Southern California), lush “Carmina Burana” and jazz harmonies and a string quartet (courtesy of Classical Revolution PDX) to create a contemporary sounding crowd-pleaser that’s topped the classical charts. The admirably diverse program also includes settings of the poem by contemporary Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara and Spanish composer Carlos Surinach, spirituals, Mozart’s perennial Ave Verum Corpus and works by 20th-century British composer William Henry Harris, Mendelssohn, Dave Brubeck and more. First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St., 2300652. 7:30 pm Friday and 4 pm Sunday, Oct. 19 and 21. $15-$35.

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OREGON BALLET THEATRE SE Woodstock Blvd., 784-5847. 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 21. $17-$39.

Portland Taiko, Obo Addy Legacy Project, Mexica Tiahui, Medicine Bear The late, great Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy’s last performance came at an earlier gathering of these diverse, Portland-based representatives of world percussion music traditions. The Portland music legend obviously won’t be there this time, but his music will, along with Japanese, Native American and Aztec sounds. Muralist Rodolfo Serna will create an onsite mural. Charles Jordan Community Center, 9009 N Foss Ave., 288-2456. 3:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 21. Free. All ages.

Satellite Collective

Portland songwriting star Nick Jaina’s piano and strings ensemble performs two original song cycles, one based on the true story of a truck driver who wanted to become an astronaut, and the other about a mysterious collector of discarded childhood objects who hoards them in a secret room under the river. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 2222031. 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 18. $8.

DANCE Akram Khan Company

The renowned Seattle ensemble composed of historically informed, early music specialists, led by the much-recorded lutenist Stephen Stubbs, makes its Portland debut with one of the earliest Baroque works, Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi’s magniﬁcent “Vespers of 1610.” The band will be augmented by tenor Charles Daniels (so memorable in Portland Baroque Orchestra’s recent St. John Passion) and cornetist Bruce Dickey. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave., 715-1114. 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 21. $26-$54.

If you didn’t see Akram Khan’s work during the 2012 Olympics opening ceremonies, you must have been watching NBC—the network preempted the choreographer’s tribute to the victims of the 2005 terrorist bombings on London with Ryan Seacrest’s Michael Phelps interview, in a kind of programming terrorism. Luckily, the Akram Khan Company is coming to Portland with Vertical Road, an evening-length work inspired by Sufi tradition and the Persian poet Rumi. An international eight-member cast performs Vertical Road, which explores the intersections of modernity, humanity and spirituality. Whirling dervishes may come to mind in this propulsive and mesmerizing piece, which is garbed in flowing costumes, shrouded in a fine cloud of white dust and set to a commissioned score by composer Nitin Sawhney that combines digital and acoustic instrumentation. Khan, a Londonbased choreographer schooled both in Indian kathak and contemporary dance vocabulary, has won accolades and awards for his crosscultural creations; don’t miss him a second time. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17. $26-$64.

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus

BloodyVox: Fresh Blood

Pacific MusicWorks

The 130-voice chorus, a classical wind quintet and soloists perform a world premiere of Portland composer Grant Edwards’ new setting of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets From the Portuguese, plus the Portland premiere of Roland Martin’s Adamic Songs, a six-song suite based on poems of Walt Whitman and more. Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, 3203

Halloween is the holiday of choice for BodyVox’s holiday show. The BloodyVox tradition, which began in 2010, continues with a mix of spooky-silly movement narrative, mild gore and snippets of dance on film, starring deranged clowns, freewheeling zombies and nimble ninjas. Favorites from seasons past will return, but company cofounders Jamey Hampton and

Ashley Roland are adding new pieces to the mix as well. BodyVox Dance Center, 1201 NW 17th Ave., 229-0627. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturdays Oct. 27 and Nov. 3. $36-$59.

Lane Hunter > Dance

Shortly before Fox Searchlight releases the biopic Hitchcock, Portland dance-theater company Lane Hunter > Dance revives its dance interpretation of Psycho, based on Hitchock’s ﬁlm and the Robert Bloch novel that inspired it. Hunter and Laura Haney, fellow former members of BodyVox, play Bates and Marion Crane. They’ll be joined by Polaris dancers Krista Loveless and Mike Dawson and Broadway dancer Brad Hampton in the piece, which blends dance and video in a seasonally appropriate choreographic chiller. World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 17-20. $24.

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Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret

If the Brothers Grimm can inspire a local TV show, it stands to reason they can also inspire a Halloweenish burlesque show. Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret stages “Grimm’s Grimmest,” a terrifying twist on T&A. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 226-6630. 9 pm Sunday, Oct. 21. $10-$12. 21+.

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Oregon Ballet Theatre

Body Beautiful is a collaboration with the Portland Art Museum: While the museum boasts the U.S. premiere of the Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece exhibition (on loan from the British Museum), OBT oﬀers a program celebrating the beauty of the human form in motion. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm Friday-Saturday. $23-$147.95.

Polaris Dance Theatre

It’s all about amour, darling, at the Polaris 10th anniversary show, which oﬀers Tangled, a contemporary dance piece about the many forms love takes, and DisCooperire, an indepth, ﬁve-part look at romantic love. Music from Zoë Keating, Bob Dylan, Ólafur Arnalds and company director Robert Guitron accompany the work. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 7:30 pm ThursdaySaturday, Oct. 18-20. $18-$36.

The Rocky Horror Pastie Show

They’ll be swimming the warm waters of sins of the ﬂesh at this burlesque version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with less talking and more T&A. The coveted role of Frank-N-Furter goes to Zora Phoenix. Prizes will be given for the best Rocky-inspired costume. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm Thursday, Oct. 18. $12-$15. 21+.

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Andrea Schwartz-Feit: Full Circle

Leaving behind the fastidious order of her grid-based works, andrea Schwartz-Feit employs a versatile curlicue motif in her new series. Variously resembling trees, fish, fences and Slinkies, this motif allows the artist a gestural freedom and allusiveness that she is obviously relishing. The show’s most compelling works, Amnesia and Innards, isolate the coil motif in a window of illumination, cordoned off from an otherwise waxy, black night. The artist complements the paintings with encaustic sculptures that are by turns whimsical and stoic. Liberated from the grid, Schwartz-Feit has found a new lyricism. Through Oct. 27. Butters Gallery, 520 NW Davis St., 2nd floor, 248-9378.

MK Guth: Best Wishes

There’s something unsettlingly true about the photograph Bar by MK Guth. it’s a self-portrait of the artist sitting in a Las Vegas hotel bar, decked out with two braids tied to her head as part of a performanceart piece. These aren’t ordinary braids. They’re each 300 feet long, piled up behind her on the floor in an enormous heap. isn’t this what we all do when we sit at a bar, trying to look cool or pick people up: bring our baggage with us, the accoutrements of vanity, which we use to prop up our egos, oblivious of how ridiculous we may look? There may not even be anybody else in the room, as is the case in Guth’s photo, but our props take up all the extra space, metastasizing on a mission to eat the world. ah, vanity, thy name is not Woman, but human. Through Nov. 27. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.

Marie Watt: Skywalker/Skyscraper

Marie Watt recently moved from portland’s Brooklyn neighborhood to Brooklyn, N.Y. The artist, well known for her Native american-influenced blanket sculptures and installations, reflects on her move in Skywalker/ Skyscraper. The works reference the skyline of Manhattan across the east River from her new home. Through Oct. 27. PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063.

Naomi Shigeta: Timekeeper

With her grid-based, pointillist technique, Naomi Shigeta does things with geometric abstraction similar to what chuck close does with portraiture. in a bravura suite of works on paper, she uses watercolors and graphite to create hundreds of dots of varying sizes. in aggregate, they look like water droplets on a car windshield that have miraculously coalesced into perfect geometric forms. Through Oct. 27. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

Paul Soriano: Young American

painter paul Soriano channels caravaggio in Young American, a suite of male nudes. in The Call Boy, he directly references the Renaissance master’s Youth With a Ram. in The Anarchist, a portrait of a young man sitting seductively on an american flag, Soriano displays a gift for depicting milky flesh and sumptuous drapery. elsewhere in the show he gives us more men in tight jeans and Speedos, reclining on pink sheets, touching their feet, and wearing hemp anklets as they pout and pose. it’s a twinkalicious celebration of historically informed homoerotic desire, rendered with a polished figurative technique. Through Oct. 27. Cock Gallery, 625 NW Everett St., No. 106, 552-8686.

Reynier Leyva Novo: The Novo Anniversary Collection

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who has exhibited in the prestigious Venice Biennale, shows his work in portland for a limited engagement. Novo’s politically influenced silk-screens, posters and T-shirts are themed around the 50th anniversary of the cuban Revolution and its lingering influence over cuban culture. Through Oct. 29. The Best Art Gallery in Portland, 1468 NE Alberta St.

Wid Chambers: Arc Volant

in some circles, it’s considered tacky for a gallery owner to show his own work. But when you’re as talented as chambers owner Wid chambers, who cares? chambers’ last installation filled the gallery with exuberant shapes and colors and was easily the best portland installation of the year. his new show, Arc Volant, is also a gallery-filling installation and incor-

porates arching shapes that connect the floor to the ceiling. Through Oct. 27. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.

Yoshihiro Kitai: Four New Works on Paper

For years, Yoshihiro Kitai has exhibited medium- to large-format works on paper at pulliam Gallery and other venues such as the nowdefunct (and much-missed) portland art center. in this month’s show at pulliam, Kitai has created four smaller-scale works that incorporate cloud motifs. These clouds seem to be communicating with one another via raindrops, in the form of white dots linking them up, down and across, like communication lines. if clouds could speak, this is what they would look like doing it. either Kitai has a visionary imagination, or he’s smoking something really good. Through Oct. 27. Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665.

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MARIANNE WEX, AN EXHIBITION Gender, bended and re-bended.

German artist Marianne Wex’s challenging show, An Exhibition, is a time capsule of the 1970s, but it retains the power to make us question assumptions about gender circa 2012. From 1972 to 1977, Wex cataloged the body language of men, women and children in the city of Hamburg, Germany, photographing people unawares, then counterposing the photos against images from art history, print ads and TV shows. Reproduced at YU Contemporary 35 years later, An Exhibition shows us how the sexes comport themselves in different settings. On park benches, men sit in expansive, open-crotched sprawls, while women hold their knees discreetly together or primly crossed. On beaches, men flop themselves on the sand splay-legged, wantonly displaying bulging Speedos and beer bellies while women press their thighs scrupulously close to discourage unwanted stares. In a magazine ad, a businessman stretches, feet up on his desk, arms clasped behind his head; a nude woman is shown in the exact same position, her bare feet and exposed underarms signaling not entrepreneurial self-satisfaction but sexual availability. In another subseries, Wex has girls and women ape stereotypically male postures, while boys and men replicate stereotypically feminine carriage. The results are intentionally or unintentionally hilarious, leading the viewer to ask why women can look natural in a pose where men look ridiculous. Wex is getting at whether body movements are inborn or learned. Wisely, instead of a polemical viewpoint, she adopts a documentarian remove. Despite archival feel of dated fashions and black-and-white newsprint, the show poses an evergreen question: Should we celebrate differences between the genders or strive for androgyny? Despite a promising career, Wex stopped making art in the late 1970s and devoted herself to teaching. What if she had kept at it, updating this thought-provoking body of work each decade? Would she have found lessened gender polarizations, or that we’re playing the same old game in a new set of clothes? RICHARD SPEER.

SEE IT: an exhibition is at YU contemporary, 800 Se 10th ave., 236-7996, yucontemporary.org. 1-7 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through dec. 15.

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alongside people who must be satisfied simply to have food on the table. Kinda puts that $7 pineapple into perspective. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, OCT. 19 The Projects Comics Festival

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17 Friends of the Library Birthday Bash

Since 1972, the Friends of the Multnomah County Library have fought like a gang of militants to defend the institution from funding cuts. Celebrate their 40th anniversary with appearances by local authors Matthew Dickman, Monica Drake, Pauls Toutonghi and Karen Karbo. Plus, cake! First Unitarian Church, Buchan Building, 1226 SW Salmon St. 6-8 pm. $10 suggested donation.

Scam Zine Release

Honoring Black Flag’s debut LP, Damaged, and the birth of America’s hardcore punk sound, New York zine editor Erick Lyle interviewed all members of the band for the newest edition of his zine, Scam. With a stop in Portland, Lyle will present a slide show based on the issue. After the talk, local band Defect Defect will take the stage for a few rounds of Black Flag karaoke. Really badass karaoke. Mississippi Records, 4007 N Mississippi Ave., 282-2990. 7 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, OCT. 18 Comma Reading Series

Though proper use of the titular punctuation is an area of fierce debate, the monthly Comma Reading Series remains a peaceful gathering of local literature lovers. Prolific author Duff Brenna will read from his book Minnesota Memoirs, a collection of short stories, along with equally distinguished poet and author David Memmott (The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut). Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, 284-1726. 7 pm. Free.

Comics Underground

Making comics even more awesome through the addition of sound effects and booze, quarterly reading series Comics Underground returns with locals Jeff Parker and Ben Dewey performing their Planet of the Apes comic, Pulitzer-nominated political cartoonist Matt Bors, local creators Leia Weathington and Erika Moen presenting their saucy, adults-only story Easy, and newbie Lucy Bellwood. Jack London Bar, 529 SW 4th Ave., 228-7605. 8 pm. $3. 21+.

The American Way of Eating

Since not everyone can afford to shop at grocery stores with pretentious philosophies, writer Tracie McMillan decided to go undercover to explore how America’s working poor could afford to eat. In her new book, The American Way of Eating, McMillan works and eats

Forsaking Iron Man costumes and mega-commerce for the more experimental creations of artists from across the globe, the new international comicsfest the Projects aims to foster collaboration among up-and-coming comics creators. The fest includes three days of exhibitions, panels, workshops and collaborative projects and performances, all for free. Now’s your chance to test drive your erotic Looney Tunes comic. Independent Publishing Resource Center, 1001 SE Division St., Suite 2, 827-0249. 1 pm Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21. Free.

Gabrielle Bell, Tom Kaczynski and Noah Van Sciver

Because everyone knows books are better with pictures, graphic novelists Gabrielle Bell, Tom Kaczynski and Noah Van Sciver will share their new work at a joint reading. Bell will read from her new memoir, The Voyeurs; Kaczynski tackles the mental side effects of technology in Beta Testing the Apocolypse; and Van Sciver will explore the early life of Lincoln in The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

Lucia Perillo

Acclaimed poet Lucia Perillo (The Body Mutinies, Luck Is Luck, Inseminating the Elephant) will read from her newest collection of poems, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, among other works. Oregon jazz bassist Glen Moore will open the evening. Break out that black turtleneck for a night of poetry and jazz. TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St., 238-3904. 7:30 pm Friday. $10.

SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche

Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche explore how translation really shapes our society, covering everything from hurricane warnings to peace treaties in their new book, Found in Translation. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

MONDAY, OCT. 22 Anat Shenker-Osorio

Communications expert Anat Shenker-Osorio might be preaching to the choir here in Portland, but in her new book, Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About the Economy, she explores how our manner of talking about the economy has led to its downfall and the only remedy is to change the conversation. Let’s talk, shall we? Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Editor: REBECCA JACOBSON. 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: rjacobson@wweek.com. Fax: 243-1115.

Arbitrage

Union. 7:30 pm Tuesday-Wednesday, Oct. 23-24.

TYLER PERRY VS. JAMES PATTERSON

Arbitrage is the first and only time that actor Richard Gere (Days of Heaven) and director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls) have ever worked together. Never mind, of course, that the film is actually directed by feature-film rookie Nicholas Jarecki, rather than Paul Verhoeven. Jarecki so thoroughly channels the hollow-man ambitions, smug moral posturing and incongruous driving-synth atmospherics of Dutch-era Verhoeven that the director hangs in gross plasticene effigy over the entire proceedings. The plot? Richard Gere is terribly suave and terribly rich and he done so wrong with his money and he can’t make it right, no matter how often he tells his daughter and mistress and wife he loves them all. Arbitrage is putatively a story of financial misdeeds—wrapped up in arcana of derivative, doubled bookkeeping and hamfisted industrial espionage—but at its heart it is the fable of Icarus. Gere has gotten too gosh darn close to the sun, and for his sins his charred feathers and tarnished helm will be ceremonially stripped from his body, Shirley Jackson style, by every single aggrieved woman who survives him. No one in this film is likable, all are wrong, all is wretched isolation, and somewhere a young Michael Mann is beating a very angry drum. R. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.

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Argo

A- Halfway through Ben Affleck’s Argo, the main characters stage a script reading for a Flash Gordon rip-off they claim to be prepping for the screen. It’s 1980, and there are green Wookies, gold-chained slave babes and even a Fu Manchu-sporting Emperor Ming type gathered at a table. They start reading— with terrible delivery—perhaps the most hackneyed post-Star Wars script since, well, Flash Gordon. The result is hilarious. Then something harsh happens. The dialogue fades, replaced by violent political speak from the Iranian revolution in which 52 Americans are being held hostage. This stark juxtaposition perfectly captures the tone of this thriller, a bizarre story of a joint mission between the Canadian government, the CIA and Hollywood to extract six Americans hiding in Tehran by posing as a Canuck film crew on a location shoot. It sounds like a recipe for a comic romp, but Affleck is too smart for that. A decade ago, that sentence would have drawn laughs. But over the course of the three films he’s directed, Affleck has positioned himself as something of an auteur in the Michael Mann mold: slick, concise and able to tell complex stories in a straightforward manner, with subtly kinetic camera flourishes punctuating brilliant performances. From its opening sequence of rioters storming the U.S. embassy in Tehran to its white-knuckle finale, this is a film where suspense is rendered not through violence but emotional gravity. By not pandering to sentimentality, Affleck has taken what others would have turned into farce and emerged with one of the year’s best pictures. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Austin Unbound

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about a deaf woman becoming a man. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 18.

Cinema Project: Two Works by Chris Marker

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Cinema Project screens two films from Chris Marker, the boundary-pushing filmmaker who died in July: The Sixth Side of the Pentagon, about an antiwar march, and À Bientôt, J’espère, about a strike at a textile factory. Yale

Dracula

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] A 35 mm print of the 1931 classic, starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm SaturdaySunday, Oct. 20-21.

Dredd 3D

A remake of the 1995 Sly Stallone vehicle, with less incomprehensible mumbling and more POKING YOU IN THE EYE. Not screened for critics. R. Lloyd Mall.

This weekend, Tyler Perry, Hollywood’s defending biggest earner, stars in Alex Cross, adapted from a thriller by airport bookstore kingpin James Patterson. Both Perry and Patterson are wildly

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A fashion documentary about the late Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue editor. PG13. Fox Tower.

prolific and damn wealthy: Perry made an estimated $130 million last year, while in 2010 Patterson outsold Stephen King, Dan Brown, Stieg Larsson and John Grisham—combined. In order for this film to be worth anyone’s time, it should probably have an opening weekend bigger than Avatar and Titanic combined. Alex Cross screened after WW press deadlines, so we decided to see how Perry and Patterson compare.

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B It is strange to discover this, but

End of Watch

C- Are we sick of the found-footage conceit yet? Apparently it doesn’t matter, because the movies keep on coming. The latest attempt to add grit and realism to a well-worn genre is this shaky-cam, faux-documentary version of the buddy-cop movie. Jake Gyllenhaal and the great Michael Peña are two cops in South Central L.A. who say “dude” and “bro” a lot, kill bad guys, and run afoul of a nasty cartel. The camera shakes, the editing sucks, and half the time when writerdirector David Ayer—who loves his L.A. crime movies—drops the foundfootage shtick, he still can’t compose a damn shot. The performances feel real, but the filmmaking—and the copout (sorry) of an ending—feel false. R. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV.

Filmusik: Turkish Star Wars

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, the Turkish ersion of the space Western, stole footage from the original and has everything George Lucas’ version lacked, including fight scenes in mosques and Wookie carnage. Filmusik is performing the entire soundtrack live and in (mostly) intelligible English. Hollywood Theatre. Multiple showtimes Friday, Oct. 19, to Saturday, Nov. 3.

Flow State

The latest ski film from director Warren Miller. Bagdad Theater. 5 and 9 pm Saturday, 5 pm Sunday, Oct. 20-21.

Frankenweenie

EARLY CAREER Worked his way up from community theater. His first movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, made its $5.5 million budget back four times over in its first week.

OEUVRE Has directed 25 feature films and 116 TV episodes.

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Has written 98 books.

BEST-KNOWN PROTAGONIST Mabel “Madea” Simmons, a large and profane elderly woman. Often ends up in anger management class or prison.

Alex Cross, a rational and intelligent forensic psychologist and government consultant. Volunteers at his neighborhood church.

NOTABLE LINES “Whoever heard of putting a bra on a dead body? When I die, if you put a bra on me I’ll come back and kill you.” (Madea’s Family Reunion)

B “Based on an original idea by

Tim Burton,” it says in the credits. It’s hard to read that phrase and not snicker a little. In recent years, the popular knock on Burton has been that he doesn’t have any original ideas left—that all he’s capable of is taking someone else’s idea and turning it into gothic cotton candy. But Frankenweenie is, indeed, a Tim Burton original. Only, it’s an original idea that’s close to 30 years old. In 1984, a few years out of art college and working for Disney, Burton made his first liveaction short film, about a young boy who screws bolts into his dead dog’s neck and brings the pooch back to life à la Frankenstein’s monster. So, yes, Tim Burton is now remaking himself. But maybe that’s what he should have been doing all along, because Frankenweenie is easily the best thing Burton has done in many years. It is, by no means, a true sign of revitalization—how could it be, really?—but it is a reminder that the world wasn’t wrong for embracing Burton’s darkly cartoonish vision in the late ’80s. It’s not like he went and just made the same movie over again, either: Animated in gorgeous black-andwhite stop motion (and shot in thankfully unobtrusive 3-D), the film goes places the original couldn’t, particularly with its creature-feature climax.

A longtime adman, Patterson ran a firm that had more than 1,000 employees and $2 billion in business. He coined the slogan “I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid.”

“I feel like, like pudding,” Iggy groaned. “Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.” (The Angel Experiment)

HACKIEST MOMENTS In Madea’s Witness Protection, Eugene Levy plays a banker who’s been set up as the fall guy for his firm’s Madoff-like Ponzi scheme. When Levy’s family is placed under witness protection, guess where they end up? That’s right, with Madea.

Patterson’s Maximum Ride series features six children who are biologically part bird, who spend their time battling global warming and saving baby penguins. Their enemy keeps returning from the dead, and in the end (spoiler alert!) Earth loses.

DETRACTORS SAY “For me, the imaging is troubling and it hearkens back to Amos ’n’ Andy.” (Spike Lee)

“James Patterson is a terrible writer.” (Stephen King)

FANS SAY “This man never apologized for who we were.... He didn’t go mainstream, he brought mainstream to us.” (Al Sharpton)

“I was at the Container Store yesterday and saw the book Swimsuit on one of the shelves, it was AWESOME!!!!!” (fan on fanpop.com)

HOW HE DEFENDS HIMSELF “Spike can go straight to hell.”

“I’m a good dad, a nice husband—my only crime is I’ve sold millions of books.”

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And at 87 minutes, it hardly feels like a short story stretched too long. There are lessons to be learned here—for Burton especially. Hopefully, it won’t be 30 years before he tackles his next original idea. PG. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

The Great Silence

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti Western, featuring Klaus Kinski as a very creepy bounty hunter. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Here Comes the Boom

C This is a movie about Kevin James getting his ass kicked, which is sadly not as enjoyable as it sounds. In this family-oriented sports comedy, he plays Scott Voss, a dopey, downtrodden biology teacher at a crumbling public high school on the verge of cutting all its extracurricular programming. Upon discovering UFC fighters can earn big bucks simply by competing, Voss, determined to rescue the school’s music program and the lovable old fart (Henry Winkler) who runs it, throws himself in the ring with men who have built entire careers on bashing skulls betwixt their sinewy thighs. Flopping into the Octagon like a roasted Cornish game hen wearing boxing gloves, James flounders from one brutal beating to the next with his signature ham-handed slapstick. Although the ever-hovering annoyance of dialogue generated by writers who have clearly run out of things to say, and the obvious fact that movies such as these are cinematic EasyMac—bland, formulaic and, yes, cheesy—detract from its overall likability, it finishes much stronger than expected. Because no matter how hokey the characters and plot, watching a high-school teacher throw down against professional mixed martial arts fighters is just pure badass. PG. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Easport, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Hotel Transylvania

C- Hotel Transylvania is yet another

example of a studio-made animated picture cast as if the audience were expected to play Spot the Celebrity— only this one plays like the bastard love child of Grown Ups and several, much better Pixar films. The plot, in which Dracula hosts a birthday party for his daughter at his monstersonly hotel, is wafer thin and annoyingly stretched to feature length. It’s all very flashy and dull, and so, so forgettable. PG. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

I Heart Monster Movies

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about horror-movie fandom. Clinton Street Theatre. 9 pm Friday, Oct. 12.

In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey

A [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Music documentaries today tend to revolve around stories of mystery, downfall or redemption—or, if the filmmakers are extremely lucky, a mixture of all three. But to tell the life story of a musician who, while quirky and irascible, led a fairly calm and charmed existence? That’s a challenge, and director James Cullingham was obviously up for the task. In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, Cullingham’s hourlong look into the life and work of the master guitarist, gives the perfect amount of insight into Fahey’s 61 years on this planet (he passed away in 2001). You come to understand his obsession with blues and folk, the development of his finger-picking style, and how the sound of his music evolved over the years. Along the way, you come to meet friends, collaborators (including local legends Terry Robb and Dr. Demento) and fans. And you get to hear plenty of his incredible music via live footage and a wellchosen soundtrack. It’s as spare and

intimate and engaging as some of Fahey’s finest recordings. ROBERT HAM. Hollywood Theatre. 7 pm Saturday, Oct. 20.

Looper

A Brain-bending sci-fi loses its snap

when treated like homework, but you won’t really understand Looper unless you prepare by watching a few episodes of Moonlighting. They will prime you to better appreciate the lead Looper performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who delivers a precise, slyly parodic mimicry of Bruce Willis circa 1987. The ubiquitous trailers have revealed that Gordon-Levitt plays the same character as Willis, and that he’s been given a makeup job to recall a skinnier baby Bruce, but the previews barely scrape the forgery of mannerisms. GordonLevitt has been a regularly mesmeric actor for the last decade, so it’s peculiar that his breakthrough comes from impersonating an icon. But that paradox fits the aims of director Rian Johnson, who used Gordon-Levitt as a teenage Sam Spade in Brick, and with Looper throws 100 years of film noir into a blender. The picture is set in the future—2040, with a brief discursion to 2070—but it is breathlessly in love with movies past. Early buzz is praising the originality, but Johnson has in fact succeeded at repurposing familiar elements in unusually satisfying ways. At various junctures, Looper reminded me vividly of the following antecedents: Point Blank, Donnie Darko, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blade Runner,Chinatown, D.O.A., The Omen, Witness and the anime Akira. Forget neo-noir: This is retro-neo-futurist noir. In resurrecting sights and faces we never thought we’d see afresh, Looper knows what movie lovers always feel: The past is never dead. It’s not even past. And it’s got a gun. R. AARON MESH. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Magnolia

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY, REVIVAL] Paul Thomas Anderson’s manically structured, three-hour psychological drama. R. Fifth Avenue Cinema. FridaySaturday 6 and 9:30 pm, 3 pm Sunday, Oct. 19-21.

The Master

A As you might have heard, Paul

Thomas Anderson’s The Master is the film Scientology maybe, sort of doesn’t want you to see. While it makes deliberate allusions to L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi pseudo-religion, that’s not what it’s actually about. It’s a picture that’s nearly impenetrable on first viewing, but few directors’ films are as worthy of their challenges as Anderson’s. It’s a film you’ll feel the need to watch again immediately out of sheer obligation. For the movie’s first 30 minutes or so, we’re alone with Joaquin Phoenix’s Freddie Quell. It’s an uncomfortable half-hour. In that time, he mimes intercourse with a female-shaped sand sculpture, then masturbates into the ocean; undergoes a Rorschach test in which he reports seeing only genitalia; and attempts to choke a customer at his postwar job as a mall photographer. Although claustrophobic in their intimacy, these early scenes don’t help us understand Quell any better, but then, we’re dealing with a character who doesn’t understand himself. Stowing away on a boat, Quell eventually encounters Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a pink-hued huckster selling salvation through “the Cause,” a self-help movement based on a variation of repressed-memory therapy. It’s here that Anderson drops in bits of Hubbard’s biography. But as Quell and Dodd become increasingly intertwined, the Scientology allegories fade into the background. Anderson is fascinated by these two unknowable characters, to the point of eschewing traditional narrative just to focus on them. Abetted by grandiose 65mm cinematography and a crazymaking score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, The Master is an ambitious enigma that never figures itself

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out, and that’s precisely what makes it one of the year’s best films.. R. MATTHEW SINGER. CineMagic, Lake Twin, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Tigard, St. Johns.

One Day on Earth

[THREE NIGHTS ONLY] Director Kyle Ruddick’s film documents a single day, with footage from 146 countries. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm FridaySaturday, 6 pm Sunday, Oct. 19-21.

The Paperboy

C- How can one director get handed so many perfectly formed building blocks and blueprints yet still manage to bungle the construction? Just as he did with the hot mess that was Precious, Lee Daniels mangles fine source material and sharp acting work in his third directorial effort. The title refers to both Matthew McConaughey and Zac Efron, sons of a newspaper editor in rural Florida, investigating a possible miscarriage of justice in the conviction of a death row inmate (played with unnerving unctuousness by John Cusack). Joined by Cusack’s pen pal on the outside, Charlotte Bless (a brilliant Nicole Kidman in full, oversexed vamp mode), and McConaughey’s writing partner, the four circle around the truth and each other like drooling wolves. Sadly, Daniels abuses this fairly interesting tale and the spotless performances by all his leads. He and co-screenwriter Pete Dexter (author of the novel the film is based on) shoehorn in racist and homophobic commentary, slapping on a voiceover from Macy Gray’s supporting character to tell us everything we really didn’t need to know. There’s a great movie in this swamp of material, but Daniels is not the director to find it. R. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.

underdog comedy about competitive collegiate a cappella groups—based, remarkably, on the nonfiction novel of the same name, which focused in part on UO’s all-female group, Divisi—and the cinematic debut from Avenue Q director Jason Moore, the film takes some obvious cues from Bring It On and Glee, but struggles with exactly what it wants to be: A gross-out comedy like Bridesmaids? More’s the pity, because the source material is such a rich pool of comedic potential, and with some sharper focus and a pointier pitchfork, this could have been one of the best comedies of 2012 (admittedly, it’s a pretty shallow pool this year). As it is, Pitch Perfect is just a very likable little musical comedy, which will nevertheless be disproportionately enjoyable to adults who love the campy, fresh-faced harmoniz-

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A The truest essence of this film

can be stirred up from the angsty sediment in the YouTube comments section for its trailer, most pointedly: “HOLY FUCK I CAN’T HOLD BACKK MY EMOTIONS AHHHHHH FUCKING YES.” Precisely. This teen movie, like most teen movies, harvests the raw power of adolescent passion in all its sloppy, horny glory to craft a cinematic confection that reflects, interprets and glorifies the universally shared experience of being a teenager. In this rendition, Charlie, a lonely, gazellelike high-school freshman (Logan Lerman), fumbles his way into that rare circle of upperclassmen mature enough to be kind to him but reckless enough to get him wasted. Among his newfound crew of misfit seniors is Sam (Emma Watson), an outcast indie goddess, and Patrick (Ezra Miller), Sam’s histrionic yet lovable half-brother. The trio proceeds to engage in a series of typical adolescent shenanigans and, of course, comes to life-altering realizations like, “We accept the love we think we deserve.” This line would be insufferable were it not delivered by Paul Rudd, who plays the Understanding English Teacher and friend to all weirdos. In fact, a slew of other clichéd and contrived teen-movie moments unrelated to Rudd’s sweatervested performance somehow manage to eschew their intrinsic cheesiness and sound fresh. Perhaps it’s because, while such flicks typically stick to a certain level of fluff, Wallflower finds a way to come across as deeply, disarmingly sincere. It is wild, hormonal and hyperbolically emotional, a wellcalibrated film incarnation of an actual teenage life. It’s kind of perfect, actually. PG-13. EMILY JENSEN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

Pitch Perfect

B Pitch Perfect isn’t pitch perfect. An

Presidential Debate in Hecklevision

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Audience texts appear onscreen during the ObamaRomney face-off. Hollywood Theatre. 6 pm Monday, Oct. 22.

The Projects: Plink Flojd

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Audio-visual experimentation loosely inspired by Pink Floyd, with live accompaniment by Nice Nice and Regular Music. Hollywood Theatre. 9:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 20.

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Paranormal Activity 4

The series continues with more handheld camera work and malevolent demons. Not screened for critics. R. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.

ing of High School Musical and those plucky McKinley kids. PG-13. RUTH BROWN. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

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To ThE SlaughTEr: a sacrificial scene.

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST I can’t imagine a more joyless theatergoing experience than a public screening of Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. It’s enough of a bummer to watch alone; sitting in nauseated silence with a room of increasingly ashen-faced strangers would make it even more of a soul-deadening endurance test. In the cult of horror-movie fandom, a film that tries the will of its audience is usually considered a triumph. But one does not walk away from Cannibal Holocaust feeling any sense of accomplishment—or fear, exhilaration or even despair. It induces no emotional reaction at all, only physical sickness, like a video of someone stomping a bag of kittens for 90 minutes—or, to use an example from the picture itself, like watching a group of actors slowly and graphically disembowel, cook and eat an actual giant turtle. Yeah, this is that movie. In the gory severed-arms race of late-’70s Italian exploitation flicks, in which filmmaking devolved into a game of extremist one-upmanship, Deodato took things up several notches by traveling into the Amazon, exploiting indigenous tribes and shooting scenes of genuine animal cruelty (the one with the turtle is just the most notorious). In and of itself, the film’s endless cavalcade of rape, racism and evisceration isn’t any more shocking or revolting than the other parades of degradation produced during the heyday of the Eurotrash cannibal subgenre. Even the animal killings, after a while, reach a point of gratuitousness that lapses into the outlandishly silly. What distinguishes Cannibal Holocaust is its aggressive artlessness. As one of the earliest examples of the “found footage” conceit—an anthropology professor investigating the disappearance of a documentary film crew in the South American rain forest finds canisters lying alongside the corpses and views their contents—Deodato’s only real goal is blunt-force realism. (It apparently worked: The Italian government arrested Deodato, accusing him of making a snuff film.) If he’d left it at that, the movie would have simply been boring, but Deodato makes matters more repellent by disingenuously feigning a point—something about decrying man’s inhumanity to man and the thin distinction between civilization and savagery. Considering the inhumanity that went into making the film, that “message” reeks of bullshit. In attempting to justify his cinematic ipecac, Deodato just made it more distasteful. MATTHEW SINGER.

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F SEE IT: Cannibal Holocaust plays at the Hollywood Theatre at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

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B [ONGOING SERIES] If punk is a culture of outsiders, then Bad Brains is the definitive American punk band. Of course, that cannot be true: No other punk band, from this country or elsewhere, looked or sounded like Bad Brains, and none could ever hope to. As black Rastafarians playing virtuosic hyperspeed hardcore for angry, atheistic Caucasians whose other favorite musicians barely knew how to play their instruments, the group’s members were outcasts among outcasts. In the 1980s, they used sheer, bullet-train velocity to muscle their way to the forefront of a scene that would’ve otherwise excluded them. Mandy Stein and Ben Logan’s documentary gives the band its proper due, as an outfit of unprecedented instrumental power and a peerless live act, but it only nicks the surface of the Washington, D.C., quartet’s complicated legacy. Interviews with big-name acolytes the Beastie Boys, Anthony Kiedis and Dave Grohl will certainly convince the uninitiated of the group’s importance, but the directors’ commitment to linear biography, broken up only by disheartening clips from a dysfunctional and spiritless 2007 reunion tour, means more complex issues— such as the racial implications of being a black band in an all-white community, or the group’s troubling history of Bible-based homophobia, or singer H.R.’s apparently undiagnosed schizophrenia—are merely glanced at. Still, the electrified early live footage interspersed throughout is enough to power the film all on its own. MATTHEW SINGER. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8:45 pm Friday, Oct. 19.

Searching for Sugar Man

B- Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s home country is not an unusual feat. What’s stranger is for that artist to have no clue about his or her fame in some far-flung country until nearly 30 years after the fact. Such is the case with Rodriguez, a Detroit-born musician recognized in the U.S. only by crate diggers and music scholars who revel in the darker recesses of the psychedelic era. In the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, freshman director Malik Bendjelloul reveals that in South Africa, a world away from where they were recorded, his albums were revered. Bendjelloul plays out the story of Rodriguez like a detective novel, adding pieces to the puzzle via interviews with producers who worked with the musician, as well as a South African record-store owner and a journalist who both worked tirelessly to uncover the truth behind Rodriguez’s “disappearance”—the prevailing rumor being that he committed suicide onstage. About halfway through Sugar Man, it is revealed that Rodriguez is alive, well, and still living in Detroit, working as a manual laborer. Once that is uncovered, the now nearly 70-year-old musician is placed in front of the camera. Only then does the film take flight. PG-13. ROBERT HAM. Fox Tower.

Seven Psychopaths

A- In 2008, playwright-turned-film-

maker Martin McDonagh pulled off a nifty directorial trick with In Bruges: He made a crime comedy with soul. Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh’s follow-up, is also a crime comedy, but it’s not at all the same film. It is, in a lot of ways, the exact movie In Bruges wasn’t. It is highly aware of its own existence: Colin Farrell’s character is a creatively blocked, alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, not coincidentally named Martin, wrestling with how to turn an unwritten script prematurely titled Seven Psychopaths into a “life-affirming” work of art. It’s also grisly—death comes via chainsaw, hacksaw, selfimmolation and straight razor—and not particularly concerned with emotional complexity. In short, it’s a lot like all those other post-Pulp Fiction crime comedies where the criminals talk incessantly about movies while

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TAI CHI ZERO the movie talks incessantly about itself. And yet, it works. Maybe not to the degree of In Bruges, which truly seemed new and special. But McDonagh would have to fail pretty terribly to screw up a picture starring Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell as high-profile dognappers, Woody Harrelson as a Shih Tzu-loving gangster, and Tom Waits as a vigilante serial killer with a thing for white rabbits. No, Seven Psychopaths—the movie, not the movie within the movie—is not a “life-affirming” work of art. It’s simply crazy fun. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Stadium 16.

Sinister

B- The most frustrating aspect of Sinister, the new ghost story from Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson, is how good it is. Were it a standard Hollywood frightfest, it’d be easy to forgive Derrickson’s reliance on tired horror clichés. But Sinister is way better than that. It’s endlessly creepy, refusing to relent as it builds to a grotesque climax made all the more horrifying by a setup that takes pains to let you know that nobody— children, chief among them—is safe from the slowly percolating evil. The film chronicles the unraveling of Ellison Oswalt (a terrific Ethan Hawke), a true-crime novelist who unknowingly moves his family to the former house of his latest subject: a young girl who went missing after her family was massacred. After coming across a stack of old Super 8 reels in the attic, he discovers that the murders are actually part of an interrelated series of gruesome cult rituals spanning decades. Derrickson ratchets the tension through a series of gory flashbacks and disquieting encounters with the unknown, turning the screws of horror in an old-fashioned, Polanski-esque descent into dread. But he insists on countering each slick move with a dumb one, and by the time the requisite twist ending hits, there’s a sense that maybe he emptied his bag of tricks a little too soon. But damned if it isn’t a deeply unsettling and terrifyingly entertaining ride before it plateaus into convention. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Pioneer Place, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard.

Split: A Deeper Divide

D+ Why is America so viciously,

politically divided? It’s a worthy question, but not one that Split: A Deeper Divide ever really answers. The 60-minute documentary takes reels of pontificating talking heads, real ’Mericans talkin’ ’bout real life, and Michael Moore-wannabe animated historical primers and artlessly cuts them together, loosely adhered by the pointless narration of director Kelly Nyks. It’s not that anyone is wrong or anything they say outrageously incorrect (OK, some of the real ’Mericans are idiots), but what do we learn? Yep, Americans are divided. Kinda always

have been. Religion, yep: That influences some people. Money, sure. And the media, yeah, we’re also to blame. This is news to no one. The film hits the 58-minute mark before anyone tries to answer the central question, and then, after almost an hour of explaining why this country is so partisan and why the political parties like it that way, all the pundits say is: “The answer is to fix it.” As the kids say: herp derp. This documentary might have some classroom value in providing a quick and dirty overview of this side of American political history, but anyone over the age of 18 with a functioning brain might as well just stay home and yell at the cable news shows. RUTH BROWN. Living Room Theaters.

Tai Chi Zero

D his film hates you. It’s a bully,

pounding you into submission. Meant to bring out the inner child, all it does is make you scowl and want to tell it to get off the damn lawn. Sure, there’s tons of kung fu action. But it’s empty and meaningless, and not even enjoyable: like a one-night stand that sounded like fun after too many drinks but ended up awkward. Tai Chi Zero is a haphazard, almost impressively boring attempt at revisionist kung fu cinema. If anything, it proves that it takes a very skilled filmmaker to pull off a live-action, graphic-novel hybrid. For much better examples, check out The Good, the Bad, the Weird from South Korea or Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle. Even Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which blends humor and video-game logic, has greater success. Nearly every scene in Tai Chi Zero ends with a fight— whenever the awful metal music kicks in, it’s an indication a battle is coming. Random things happen incessantly, the filmmakers assuming their audience has the attention span of a fly. Even kung fu fanatics will find this tiresome. PG-13. ERIK MCCLANAHAN. Hollywood Theatre.

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D- Taken 2: The Takening (our title, not the movie’s, though it should be) is an extremely stupid piece of shit. Typically, with this kind of movie, that should be an overwhelmingly positive assessment. When we go to a movie theater to watch a sexagenarian (Liam Neeson) hammer-punching an endless sea of faceless henchmen in their necks, we expect certain things—brainlessness, one-liners and explosions chief among them. But director Olivier Megaton—whose name alone implies he should know better—sucks all the joy out of the affair in a way that makes Pierre Morel’s joylessly crude original seem like a whiz-bang actioner of the Commando variety. Neeson punches just fine, but the presentation here is almost unwatchable. The film’s so full of hyperactive jump cuts and herky-jerky camera work it’s impossible to tell who even won a fight until the next scene, when Neeson invariably walks away from a sea of lifeless Albanians in track suits

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Trouble With the Curve

C If you wanted to know whether Clint Eastwood yells at chairs in his new movie, the answer is a resounding yes. He yells at chairs, bleachers, doors, garages and Amy Adams. He drinks Schlitz beer and unironically jeers at the “Interweb,” makes old-man wisecracks at his vegan daughter and his own recalcitrant genitalia. Because, oh gosh, Clint Eastwood is old. Trouble With the Curve, directed by longtime Eastwood producer Robert Lorenz, reminds us of this in countless demeaning ways that relentlessly kneecap the red-blooded, American-born, deeply self-sufficient man he has always portrayed. Still, Trouble is one American icon grinding its teeth on another, and for this it is in some small part irresistible. Eastwood plays an aging Major League scout named Gus Lobel who lives, breathes and loves baseball. And he does it for America’s team, the Atlanta Braves. But in a strange turn, the film slowly morphs from a tale about a hard-bitten old-timer facing the end of his relevance to the story of a bright, young career woman (Adams) who finally comes to know herself and find love with a boy-band singer (Justin Timberlake) while on the road with her dad (Eastwood). It is a funny world in which everyone always witlessly says what they mean, every life episode is dubiously calculated for your favorite character’s benefit, and every incompetent person is also morally repellent and physically grotesque. The young men get Amy Adams, the old men get redeemed, and Adams gets everything. Great world, I guess. But as a movie, it’s peanuts. PG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Clackamas, Bridgeport, Movies on TV.

Wake in Fright

A- Spiraling bombastically into a

realm of degradation that few have captured so purely, Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 Aussie opus Wake in Fright is evidence of the wide reach of the era’s cinematic awakening. For nearly 40 years, the film was a forgotten artifact: It was never transferred to video, and the few known prints were in shoddy condition. Miraculously, Wake in Fright has been salvaged and restored in all its grimy glory. The bizarre relic tells the tale of John Grant (Gary Bond), a teacher in the outback who misses his train back to Sydney, loses all his money and is forced to rely on the charity of the dust-beaten inhabitants of the Yabba, a mining town populated by drunks and perverts who oversee Grant’s devolution from nebbish scholar into feral beast. Aesthetically, the film mirrors the hallucinogenic flashbacks of Midnight Cowboy, but its closest relative might be Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, published the same year and similar in its depiction of overlooked sociopolitical strata. Wake in Fright plays like a two-hour version of that book’s blurry finale, a boozesoaked odyssey into madness with a terrific Donald Pleasance playing Dr. Gonzo to Grant, guiding him through a nightmare of hazy memories, rote masculinity and wild-eyed savagery. The film never relents, and the result is a queasy, jarring and inarguably brilliant examination of isolationist fears. R. AP KRYZA. Cinema 21.

War of the Buttons

A kid-friendly tale about dueling schoolboys in World War II France. WW couldn’t make the screening, but critical response has been decidedly lukewarm. PG-13. Fox Tower.

Words of Witness

B+ [ONE NIGHT ONLY] Cairo’s

22-year-old Heba Affify is like any young journalist: bright-eyed, tenacious and stuck living with her parents (though due more to tradition than economics). She also entered the field a few weeks into what would become known as the Arab Spring. As a staff writer for Al-Masey Al-Youm, a prominent independent Egyptian newspaper, Affify is green and ballsy to the point that it’s hard not to side with her often-hysterical

mother, who in shrieking phone calls warns Affify that girls don’t make good reporters (arguments presented as sexist, but which speak to a rational fear for Affify’s safety). But it’s to our benefit that Affify stands her ground in Tahrir Square and wields a video camera as crowds storm state security headquarters in search of missing citizens. Mai Iskander has produced an honest documentary, but the narrative is almost too perfect: We watch Affify’s idealism slowly shatter as she interviews families of the missing and as she discovers the classified files that state security kept on its own people. She begins to doubt the beloved Egyptian army (long thought to support the people), bringing us up to speed on Egypt’s current limbo. SAUNDRA SORENSON. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 23.

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likE fathEr, likE Son: Michel (right) and Sébastien Bras.

STEP UP TO THE PLATE In an early sequence in the documentary Step Up to the Plate, about a father-son culinary duo, the camera floats above a white plate as it fills with ingredients: first smudges of mashed yellow peppers and sesame powder, then leaves, wild herbs, peas, flower petals. It’s a collage in shades of green and pink and off-white, assembled with meticulous care and a bit of sentimentality—a veritable meadow, ready to eat. The slow-building beauty of that sequence continues throughout this documentary from director Paul Lacoste. Though its English-language name makes it sound like a baseball flick (the French title is Entre les Bras), Lacoste’s quiet documentary has nothing to do with the national pastime. Step Up follows lauded chef Michel Bras as he hands over his three-star Michelin restaurant to his son Sébastien (whom he calls Séba). Along the way, it features some truly artful shots of the Brases’ culinary creations—this is sculpture, not Pinterest food porn. Lacoste often shows Séba alone in the kitchen as he whisks blackberry jelly or cautiously skims the skin off milk, the sounds of metal against ceramic the film’s only soundtrack. Séba stands at the counter, hands on hips and brow deeply creased. “I don’t know,” he mutters. His perfectionism borders on piety, with a generous dash of self-criticism. Michel is more playful. As he and Séba rib each other and debate the placement of foie gras on the plate, Michel’s face crumples into an impish smile. Still, Michel’s vision is no less exacting. When Séba presents him with a meticulously constructed dish—a Japanese-inspired dessert of rice paste, soy milk and mochi—Michel studies it like a homicide detective looking for clues. The anxious Séba matches his father’s intensity. “Stop looking!” he finally erupts. “Food is for eating!” Lacoste’s intimate but unobtrusive film work—he forgoes thirdperson narration—conveys Michel and Séba’s closeness, but sometimes lacks an essential tension. There’s no doubt about Séba’s ability to inherit his father’s legacy (the kid wore a chef’s toque as a toddler). But Step Up’s tranquility is also one of its strengths. Compared with Top Chef’s shouting matches and melodrama, some thoughtful meditation can be a very welcome thing. REBECCA JACOBSON. Haute cuisine served family-style.

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BLOODTHIRSTY BUSINESS: When Night of the Living Dead opened in 1968, its flesh-eating zombies scandalized audiences otherwise watching Hawaii Five-0. George Romero’s horror flick follows a group trapped in a farmhouse as zombies terrorize the countryside through a gruesome deathfest many critics now see as a critique of the Vietnam War, American racism and patriarchy. Even today, the gore is still gross—expect to be startled by a close-up of a mangled and bloody face with eyes bugged out, or a scene where a kiddie zombie commits matricide with a trowel—but the film’s nihilism is even more shocking. Everyone dies. REBECCA JACOBSON. Showing at: Laurelhurst Theater. Best paired with: Pinot noir. Also screening: ParaNorman (Kennedy School), Lawless (Academy). Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro laid waste to Peru in 1532, his soldiers found green stones on the land. Were they emeralds? A priest who was traveling with them gave them bad advice. He said that the way to determine whether they were merely colored glass or else precious gems was to test their hardness by pounding them with hammers. In this manner, many actual emeralds were shattered into fragments. Learn from this mistake, Aries. Make sure you recognize treasures for what they are. And don’t force them to submit to unwise tests that misconstrue their true nature.

of a trivial insult you experienced earlier that day. Picture yourself getting intimate with a lover who inspires you to lose your self-consciousness -- up until the point when you decide to interrupt your fun by answering a phone call from some random person. Imagine toning yourself down and holding yourself back because of misplaced politeness or unnecessary guilt or delusional fear -- even though you’re feeling a rushing instinct to surge and soar and overflow. Finally, Libra, understand that in getting you to envision these parodies of your current inclinations, I’m hoping to shock you into making sure that nothing like them happens.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Someone at Reddit. com posted a question to the community: Could anyone help him recreate the aroma of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland? He said he loved that smell. It was a blend of damp earth, rotting wood, and gunpowder. It had musty overtones, a hint of chlorine, and a tantalizing freshness. If only he could get that fragrance to permeate his house, he testified, he’d always be able to work at peak efficiency. You might want to follow his lead, Taurus. It’s a good time to identify and gather all the ingredients you would need to make sure your environment inspires you to the max.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime soon you may dream of being naked at a public event like a class at school or a committee meeting. I think this would be an excellent omen, so I hope it comes to pass. It would signify that you’re ready to shed the disguises that have been making it problematical for you to reinvent yourself. Who is the New You? Stripping down to the bare essentials in your dreams will help you see raw truths about your waking life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you asked me to be your personal advisor, I would prescribe supplements and herbs to build up your immune system. I’d insist that you eat nothing but healthy food and get at least eight hours of sleep every night. I’d suggest that you meditate daily on images that symbolize your most inspiring desires. For fun, I might even advise you to do a ritual in which you create a big circle around yourself using violet yarn and then do a series of playful acts to pump up your freedom, like dancing as wildly as you know how and chanting “love is my creator.” Finally, Gemini, if you sought my counsel, I’d urge you to use your exuberant imagination in concert with your disciplined intellect as you design a long-term plan to charge up your well-being. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Free Will Astrologer: I found your website by accident today and was drawn in fast and hard. No matter what I did I could not escape and get back to my work. Your messages were too interesting for my own good. You gave me too many answers to questions I’ve had for too many years. I felt like I was being cured of problems I didn’t even know I had. Many hours went by until finally I was able to pull myself out of the vortex. How did this happen? - Freaked Out.” Dear Freaked: I was born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, and it so happens that the people of my tribe are currently emanating an intriguing and inscrutable aura. We’re at the peak of our ability to attract and seduce. Many of us are using our power benevolently, but our mysterious mojo could still be a bit unsettling. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The past is headed your way bearing gifts, Leo. I recommend that you make yourself available for its blessings, which may be delivered to you in unexpected ways. For example: The spirit of a dead loved one could impart an enigmatic but useful tip in the middle of the night. An abandoned dream you assumed was gone forever might return from limbo to grant you a wish. A favor you did for someone long ago could finally be repaid. Are you ready to let history reward you in its own unique style?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Visualize yourself heading out on a high adventure with interesting people -- but all the while being distracted by the memory

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As you cross the great water in search of the unknown treasure, navigate by the light of the clouds. That’s your dreamy oracle, Sagittarius. What does it mean? Well, the work you do to figure it out is essential to activating its potential, so I don’t want to give away too much. But here are three further hints to inspire you on your quest. 1. Be willing to go a long way to find a secret you don’t even know you’re looking for. 2. Consider the possibility of cultivating faith in a goal that you don’t quite yet grasp in its entirety. 3. Rely on shadows and reflections to give you accurate information you can’t get directly from the thing that’s casting shadows and being reflected. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Everyone has some kind of power. What’s yours? In the coming days, I suspect there will be some crisis and opportunity regarding how you use it. Maybe you will be invited to assume more authority or exercise greater influence. Maybe your ability to wield your particular clout will be questioned or doubted, and you will be challenged to either stand up and express it with more integrity and purpose, or else relinquish it. For best results, take a moment right now to visualize the precise power you would love to command. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Dear Rob: I really enjoy reading your horoscopes. You feel like a friend I’ve never met. When I try to picture what you’re like, I keep getting a vision of you as being fat, short, and bald with a strawberry blond moustache. Am I right? - Curious Aquarius.” Dear Curious: It’s great that you’ve decided to do a reality check. This is an excellent time for all you Aquarians to see if what you imagine to be true is a match for the world as it actually is. To answer your question, I am in fact tall and thin, don’t wear a moustache, and have an abundance of long silver hair. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve got just the right message to set the tone for you in the weeks ahead. It comes from writer H.P. Lovecraft, and captures the essence of your astrological omens. “Pleasure to me is wonder,” said Lovecraft. “It’s the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” Now get out there, Pisces, and gather up all the mysterious marvels you have coming to you -- all the bracing encounters with uncanny grace.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Just for you, it is Shark Week. During this dicey holiday, you should be wary of all sharks, especially the kind that look like human beings. Don’t get in their way, and don’t underestimate them. On the other hand, I’m not opposed to you getting to know some sharks better. They could teach you some valuable lessons on how to get what you want. Not that you would ever be as cold-blooded and predatory as they are, of course. But it might be energizing to your ambitions if you add just a bit of shark-like thinking to your repertoire.

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