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Bullshit. I remember back in the ’80s when the number passed around with shock and dismay was 1 in 5, then 1 in 4, now 1 in 3! [“1 in 3,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013.] Hell, one of the charts in this story alleges that 55 percent of women [in Oregon] are victims of sexual assault. More than 1 in 2! Feminist domestic-violence propaganda has been jumping the shark for 30 years, and once the shark is jumped, the only way to make headlines the next year is to jump it again, but even bigger and more hysterically. These numbers are fraudulent. They don’t reflect actual victims of violence, whom I have nothing but compassion for, but an endless expansion of the definition of victimhood to include nearly everyone with a vagina who has an unpleasant experience.... Shame on WW for propagating this dishonest, dogmatically driven hate-mongering long after its sell-by date. —“William McGair” The 1-in-3 figure comes from the World Health Organization, hardly a faction of the “feminist domestic-violence propaganda” machine. The study interviewed 20,000 individual women in rural and urban demographics from 10 different countries. It was released in 2005 and reflects the global scope of intimate-partner violence against women. —“jaimeroth” Thank you for this article [“Talking With the Enemy,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013]. Certainly, it will give hope and help in a way that appears to meet
i work graveyard, and my days off are Monday through Wednesday. Where can i meet folks with the same work hours? is there some special place they meet, like a coffee shop or gym, or do they just stay home all the friggin’ time? —The Quirky Midwesterner I sympathize with your difficulties—I also have trouble meeting new people, though in my case the problem is that I meet them all the time and I hate it. But I’m sure you don’t want to be told to count your blessings, so let’s get to it. First, I’m always a bit concerned when people self-identify as “quirky.” Theoretically this could describe someone who likes Martin Denny records or puts mayonnaise on french fries, but in practice it often means the guy is walking around in a crotchless Barney the Dinosaur costume eating lint. Still, let’s assume for the sake of argument 4
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Our property-tax system is inherently unfair [“Compression Bandage,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013]. Two houses with exactly the same real market value (RMV) can pay vastly different amounts. People in compression are already paying more than $15 per $1,000 in RMV, while others pay much less. So what do Jules Bailey and Sara Gelser propose? [They want] to make an unfair system even more so to those who are already paying more than their fair share. These proposals stink. Go after those who are paying less than the compression limits and bring some equity to our property-tax system. —“Stuart”
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[Morgan Brownlow] abuses people in his professional and personal life [“Knives Out,” WW, Feb. 6, 2013]. I don’t care how big in my britches I got, I would never treat people badly. He uses fame as an excuse and, really, it’s always someone else’s fault. Why should someone like that get more chances? Do you choose to use your powers for good or evil? I wish John [Gorham] luck, but sooner or later Brownlow is going to step over the line, and that will be that. —“rye” 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.
that it’s your schedule and not your facial tattoos that are cramping your social style. I’m guessing from your handle that you’re new in town, which is probably why you’re making the mistake of looking for Portlanders at the gym. The truth is that if anyone wants us, we’ll be in the bar. I recommend you explore “Service Industry Night,” a weekly tradition at many taverns. They’re usually held on off-nights early in the week for the benefit of bar and restaurant employees who have to work weekends. The Portland Restaurant Workers Association (pdxrwa.org) has a list. This won’t help you if you’re looking to party after work at 7 am (for that, there’s always My Father’s Place on Southeast Grand Avenue). But on your days off, it should throw you in among a crowd that is largely young, single and attractive—or at least, not so unattractive as to cause a person to lose his appetite. QuEstions? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com
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Move over, Baltimore: Portland has its own Tommy Carcetti. City Commissioner Nick Fish will make his film debut on HBO next month in American Winter, a documentary on Portland families struggling on the edge of poverty. “The most endangered species in America is the middle-class family,” Fish says in the film, interviewed in Bud Clark Commons homeless-service center in Old Town. “Once upon a time, America had FISH policies which promoted a strong middle class.” American Winter follows economically fraught families who called the hotline of 211info, a local nonprofit providing help and information on social services. The 90-minute documentary from the makers of Taxicab Confessions premieres at the Portland International Film Festival on Feb. 17 and on HBO on March 18. (Read WW’s review, page 39.) Oregon gets a lousy grade for the way the state handles its elections. A new report from the Pew Center on the States looks at 17 indicators of well-run elections and rates Oregon 37th. One area in particular note: “data completeness,” which should be a strong point in the vote-by-mail system, drew low marks. Tony Green, Secretary of State Kate Brown’s spokesman, notes Pew raised Oregon’s marks from 2008 and 2010 but acknowledges the state needs to improve campaignfinance transparency and increase the percentage of eligible voters who are registered. “Oregon has more to do,” Green says. “No question about it.” The verdict is still out on the Oregon State Bar’s ethics trial held last fall against prominent securities lawyers Barnes Ellis and Lois Rosenbaum, even though the deadline for a decision seems to have passed (“Crossing the Bar,” WW, Nov. 21, 2012). Normally, the three-member trial panel’s verdict is due 28 days after the trial ends, but a dispute raised by the defendants—who face conflict-of-interest charges—about the official transcript meant the trial record wasn’t made final until Feb. 8. “Our 28-day clock for the trial panel to file their opinion is now officially ticking,” says bar spokeswoman Kateri Walsh. While Salem politicians fast-track the Columbia River Crossing for approval, Vancouver foes haven’t given up the fight to stop the city from spending any money on the project’s plans to extend a MAX line over the river. An initiative petition to do just that fell 32 signatures short because of invalid entries, including duplicates, identified in a review by Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey. Seventy-five plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Kimsey on Feb. 11, challenging a state law requiring him to invalidate signatures that were duplicated. “Six hundred and eight Vancouver voters who are qualified, active, registered voters have had their perfectly valid signature rejected,” says Washington initiative king Tim Eyman, who is working with the Vancouver CRC opponents. “We’re asking the judge, ‘Do you agree?’” The suit was filed in Cowlitz County Superior Court to avoid judges with potential conflicts of interest. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.
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FISCAL BLUFF THE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS CITY BUREAUS ARE BETTING MAYOR CHARLIE HALES WON’T MAKE. By AA r o n m e s h
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It’s budget season at City Hall, the time of year when we’re told what a dystopian Portland would look like. Streets without cops. Homes burning out of control. Empty swimming pools, vagrants sleeping in dry fountains, and a river running dark with neglect. Mayor Charlie Hales faces a $25 million-plus budget gap and has asked all city bureaus for proposals to cut 10 percent of their spending. He may have been hoping for an honest accounting. What he got was a scary campfire story. No city bureau wants to get cut by 10 percent, so many resort to a time-honored tactic: offering up their most beloved programs for sacrifice, betting that city commissioners won’t have the stomach to face angry citizens. That’s what happened this year. The ploy usually works—proposed cuts of marquee programs or critical services rarely go anywhere, and the gambit only delays (and conceals) the tough budget choices City Hall must make in trimming its $390 million budget. This week, the City Council begins a month of budget meetings with all 27 bureaus. We’ve peered inside the budget proposals and found $13.2 million in cuts the bureaus know will alarm us— starting with the most brazen dares and working down to the politically plausible.
FIRE & RESCUE:
CLOSE SEVEN FIRE STATIONS.
Savings: $8.4 million The bureau is offering to cut more than a quarter of its 30 stations. Closing any of these stations would reduce response times to fires and medical emergencies. And, as the bureau warns, any cut increases risk to the lives of Portlanders. (This, from the bureau that has 40 of the city’s 100 highest-paid employees.) “When I heard seven fire stations, I just about fell off my chair,” says City Commissioner Dan Saltzman. The bureau doesn’t actually name any stations it’s planning to cut. In fact, the proposal says Fire & Rescue brass might need to spend more money—to hire a consultant or buy analysis software—just to pick the stations it might close. As Saltzman notes, the bureau won’t name the fire stations to be cut because that would create a panic over budget cuts it doesn’t expect to make. Chances it’ll really happen: We’ll eat our fire helmets. POLICE BUREAU:
ELIMINATE THE MOUNTED PATROL.
Savings: $1 million City Hall staffers say they know it’s budget season when they look out their windows to a joyous scene: Two officers from the Portland Police Bureau’s Mounted Patrol riding their horses up to City Kids—the downtown day-care center for children of municipal employees—so tykes can pet the beasts’ noses. Cops have put the Mounted Patrol back on the list of cuts they’re betting the public won’t like. The popular sixofficer unit is a visible presence downtown. The officers are widely considered helpful in calming crowds, dispersing the occasional protest and patrolling parks. The patrol has been offered up for cuts every year since 2009, saved by an outcry each time. Downtown developer Bob Ball even started a charity, Friends of Portland’s Mounted Patrol, which has raised funds to keep the horses
in their Pearl District stables with a waterfront view. Chances it’ll really happen: Don’t bet against the horses. WATER BUREAU:
SHUT OFF WATER TO ALL 19 DECORATIVE FOUNTAINS.
Savings:: $466,178 Symbolically, it’s an ugly idea. Every major fountain—the Elk on Southwest Main Street, the Skidmore Fountain in Old Town, those otters and bears along Pioneer Courthouse—would go dry. Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversaw the Water Bureau until last week, says the bureau was following Hales’ directive to preserve core services. The bureau, he says, “had no choice.” Shutting off fountains that double as kiddie pools— Salmon Street Springs in Tom McCall Waterfront Park and Jamison Square in the Pearl—would have sweltering moms calling the city nonstop in July. And enraged parents would probably call the Parks & Recreation Bureau— not the bureau that actually shut off the water. Chances it’ll really happen: One of the bureaus would find 500 grand before the first phone rings. HOUSING BUREAU:
CLOSE THE CLARK CENTER, A 90-BED HOMELESS SHELTER.
Savings: $424,650 Homeless services are traditionally split between the city (homeless singles) and Multnomah County (homeless families). Ninety of the 677 year-round emergency shelter beds provided by local government are at the Housing Bureau-funded Clark Center on Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, underneath the Hawthorne Bridge. Homeless advocates spent much of past year carrying out hunger strikes and camping in front of City Hall to cont. on page 8 Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2013 wweek.com
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protest what they call fatal city policies. This won’t help. The county won’t be happy either— but since the Housing Bureau is still funding the county’s homeless youth services, the city could return the favor. Chances it’ll really happen: It’s a coin flip. POLICE BUREAU:
ELIMINATE SCHOOL POLICE FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Savings: $2.1 million So, do we have this one straight? Parents are scared witless about their children’s safety and security in schools, and the police want to cut the cops who patrol school buildings? The Police Bureau’s list of proposed cuts is rife with outrages—we haven’t even mentioned the gutting of the family-services unit, which investigates domestic and child abuse, or reducing the gang-enforcement team. The budget proposal notes repeatedly that Portland police started providing Portland Public Schools with cops in 2001, and that it’s not really their job. But ending the 23-member team of school resource officers puts Hales in a bind, after the mayor has made school safety a loud priority. Chances it’ll really happen: If the City Council presses the public-safety bureaus, this unit could go. PARKS & RECREATION BUREAU:
CLOSE BUCKMAN POOL.
Savings: $146,324 Located in the basement of Buckman Elementary School in Southeast Portland, Buckman Pool has become a kind of running joke in City Hall. It has been targeted for cuts since at least 2006, and because it’s tiny and not used very much, it’s the Parks & Recreation Bureau’s most expensive pool to operate per swimmer. But it’s never actually been cut: The Buckman Community Association raises hell every time the idea comes up. If the city ever does cut it, the Parks Bureau could just transfer angry callers to the Water Bureau (see dry fountains, above). Chances it’ll really happen: We think they mean it this time. BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES:
GET RID OF THE OFFICE OF HEALTHY WORKING RIVERS.
Savings: $779,368 Yes, this is one bureau suggesting the elimination of another whole bureau. Since its founding in 2009, Healthy Working Rivers has been criticized as redundant. But it’s an office that could be relevant in 2013, with Superfund and West Hayden Island negotiations ongoing. And the office has a staunch champion in City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who oversaw the bureau until delivering it to Hales last week. She’s reportedly furious that Environmental Services—recently under Saltzman’s jurisdiction—would offer it as a sacrifice. Chances it’ll really happen: This office sleeps with the fishes. 8
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HOMER WILLIAMS BUILDS NEW PROJECTS WHILE OWING THE IRS AND HIS EX-WIFE MILLIONS. By nig e l jaq ui ss
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Homer Williams is perhaps Portland’s best-known developer, famous for creating new neighborhoods like the Pearl District and South Waterfront. Williams—a top campaign contributor to Mayor Charlie Hales—is scheduled to buy a prime chunk of Riverplace real estate from the city next month. He’s also building a new Pearl District hotel, and planning a second on the city property, with the help of a federal program. But records show Williams is taking on these projects while deeply in debt, including $2.6 million in back taxes he owes the Internal Revenue Service. And as of last fall, he owed another $1.2 million after falling behind on a divorce settlement with his ex-wife, Joan. Williams says his financial problems date back to the real-estate market collapse. He says he was blind-sided when the market cratered in 2007, after he and his partners built $1 billion worth of condos in South Waterfront. “There was a ton of money coming in, and then everything stopped,” he says. “Everything.” Throughout his 40-year career, Williams has pulled off deals that others could not—finding financing for Forest Heights’ steep terrain from the guano-rich South Pacific island of Nauru; developing the Broken Top golf community in Bend; and now pioneering the use of a federal program that allows foreign nationals to obtain U.S. passports by investing at least $500,000 in the United States. “Homer is truly a visionary,” says fellow developer Mark Edlen. Williams, 68, may be best known for helping convert contaminated rail yards into the Pearl District or for pioneering the condo towers in South Waterfront. “He’s had an enormous impact,” says
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Will Macht, a developer who’s taught realestate courses at Portland State University for 28 years. “He’s taken risks that other developers would not take. And many times, he’s been successful.” Williams is using the foreign-investor program known as EB-5 to build a hotel near Union Station. On Feb. 27, he’s scheduled to buy a 1.12-acre parcel in Riverplace from the city-owned Portland Development Commission to build another hotel. Williams’ Riverplace Investors LLC will purchase the PDC property for $5.25 million. That’s a trifling sum compared to yet another project Williams broke ground on last year—a 24-story, $172 million Los Angeles hotel. Yet despite those big-dollar deals, Williams appears to be broke. Last September, his ex-wife, Joan Williams, won a judgment against him in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Her lawyer said Williams had not made a monthly support payment since 2008, putting him $888,000 in arrears. He was also $389,500 behind on a property settlement, bringing the total he owed to more than $1.2 million. Williams agreed to a payment plan and now says he is current on that debt. The court filings show wild swings in Williams’ financial fortunes. In 2008, for example, he reported having earned $1.9 million. The next year, he claimed in court records, he earned just $100,000. Williams’ debt to his ex-wife is the least of his problems. On Jan. 18, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against him for $2.64 million. The lien provides the federal government security for unpaid taxes he owes the IRS—$2.12 million for 2006 and $515,000 for 2007. Those were the years the cash rolled in from the South Waterfront condos, which initially sold like discounted iPhones. “It goes back to when the market crashed,” he says of his IRS debt. “I’ve got a program worked out with them. I hope to have that cleaned up in the next couple of years.” Ironically, it’s probably the feds— through EB5-funded hotel projects—who
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will help Williams pay his back taxes. Williams is a past master at leveraging public dollars. For decades, the heavily polluted industrial lands at South Waterfront lay fallow, until he persuaded the city in early 2001 to sell him land there and invest more than $200 million in streets and other infrastructure to build the new neighborhood. In the late 1990s, while Williams developed condos in the Pearl District, then-City Commissioner Hales built the Portland Streetcar, connecting the Pearl with downtown. When Hales entered the mayor’s race in 2011, Williams and his business partner, Dike Dame, gave Hales $5,000 in the primary and $10,000 for the general election. They made no contributions larger than $3,000 to any other candidate in 2012, state records show.
The Riverplace deal would mark the PDC’s first significant transaction since Hales took office, although the terms were agreed upon last August. Williams started negotiating for the land in 1999, and the deal took so long that the PDC is selling at a market price, rather than subsidizing development as it often does. (Hales has not been involved in the deal, says mayoral spokesman Dana Haynes.) The PDC board had questions about the deal, but none related to Williams’ personal finances. PDC spokesman Shawn Uhlman says Williams’ personal finances were not an issue because his company is paying cash. Williams says his personal debts are not affecting his business operations. “Have I had some problems?” he says. “Yeah, but we’re actually doing quite well right now.”
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ed from home in Southwest Portland to my office. [Line] 43. How often do you ride it? Almost every day. We see a very busy system overall. I wouldn’t say that line 43 is average. It’s one of our lower-performing rides, and it actually got its service cut last year. So there’s no special favors for the line ridden by the general manager. Do you have to pay? I don’t have to pay. One of the bennies of being a TriMet employee is you get a pass. I want people at TriMet to use the system. Do the bus drivers know who you are? Generally, they do. And if they don’t, I usually introduce myself. I generally get a very positive reception from the bus operators.
TRIMET GENERAL MANAGER NEIL MCFARLANE: He’s currently lobbying Salem to end binding arbitration with the transit agency’s union and allow bus drivers to strike. “That moment of drama,” McFarlane says, “is when the moment of creativity occurs.”
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Neil McFarlane built his career on expanding TriMet. But he has become the face of cutbacks. TriMet’s general manager since 2010, McFarlane has been locked in a bitter struggle with the regional transit agency’s employee union over a benefits package he says is ravaging TriMet’s finances. Last summer, citing a $12 million budget shortfall, he presided over fare hikes and the elimination of the Free Rail Zone. Union leaders say the financial crisis is the fault of new expenses McFarlane approved. As TriMet’s director of capital
projects, he spearheaded extensions of the red, yellow and green MAX light-rail lines. He’s now overseeing the $1.4 billion orange line to Milwaukie. On Feb. 13, McFarlane, 60, will use his annual “State of TriMet” address to explain why the agency needs to push the reset button on its union contract. McFarlane sat down with WW to discuss TriMet’s financial morass, the fairness of fare enforcement, and when buses will run 24 hours. WW: When was the last time you rode on a TriMet bus? Neil McFarlane: This morning. I was head-
The most common complaint we hear about TriMet is the $175 fine for riding without a $2.50 ticket. Is that fair? When you freeload on TriMet, you are stealing service. It’s a crime. We have stepped up the enforcement. That has been important to send a message that it is important for customers to pay the fare. It’s still just $2.50, so let’s put it in perspective. Have you been to a fare-enforcement sting outside Blazers or Timbers games? I have, and generally we’ve been pretty successful in reducing the number of people that are stung, if you will. This was something that I’ve seen occur in other cities, like Minneapolis at Twins games. It’s standard operating procedure in a lot of other cities.
TriMet has argued its financial problems are made worse by health benefits in the union contract. Entirely because of the health benefits. [It] is a rich plan for active employees, but that same plan is promised in the union contract to anybody who retires at TriMet. A union member can retire at age 55 with 10 years of service, retain that benefit for the rest of their life—and their spouse and their surviving spouse or, in some cases, dependents for 16 years after the death of the actual member of the union. So it’s a huge benefit that stretches on forever and ever. The length is one problem. The richness is the other problem.
What’s the biggest lie that gets told about TriMet? That somehow we don’t want to grow service, we don’t want to restore service. But what I can’t do is change the math. And a lot of people want to ignore the math about the cost of our union contract.
Last summer, TriMet painted a fairly dire budget picture but is now doing better than projected. Can we expect restoration of service cuts? No matter what level of growth these various revenue sources have, [union] benefits will overwhelm our ability to provide service. The good news as we approach the next budget year is, we are not in the situation where we have to drastically raise fares or decrease service.
You’ve seen backlash to Milwaukie light rail from the new Clackamas County Commission. What have you told them? Our response is that we are contractually committed to completing a project with the federal government. The county is contractually committed to us to help pay for their share. The project is under way. It’s 35 percent done. It’s on time. It’s on budget. It’s doing well.
Any hope of getting 24-hour transit? I wouldn’t suspect that it would be during my tenure as general manager. TriMet had an owl service years and years ago, and it was always very lightly used. What we are seeing is earlier morning buses. We are getting almost 21 to 22 hours of service [a day] on the TriMet system.
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Last week, WW published an issue devoted to V-Day, an international campaign set for Feb. 14 to draw attention to violence against women. Some of the numbers were surprising: 27 percent of Oregon women say they have been raped, and 55 percent say they have faced some sort of sexual violence other than rape in their lifetime. The numbers come from a 2010 nationwide survey of 9,086 women conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Oregon’s numbers were high—putting the state at No. 2 in the nation, second only to Alaska. What’s behind these numbers? We asked a handful of experts, and most aren’t sure why Oregon numbers regarding sexual violence against women are so high. “It’s a bigger problem here than people realize,” says Chris Huffine, clinical director of Allies in Change Counseling Center in Portland. The CDC survey included under the umbrella of “sexual violence” things like stalking, physical aggression and physical assault, and asked women about their experiences that might fit under the CDC’s definition. “We have a lot of victims say something like, ‘It wasn’t a crime like you’d see in the movies,’” says Jessica Amo, director of Portland State University’s Women’s Resource Center. “Everything that falls outside of that definition doesn’t necessarily get reported.” The survey asked women about their lifetime experiences, wherever the incidents might have taken place, and regardless of whether the incidents were reported to police. FBI statistics show Oregon’s rate of forcible-rape reports have
consistently run higher than the national average. In 2011, Oregon’s rate was 31.4 per 100,000 population, compared to 26.8 for the U.S. The CDC also cautions that the state-by-state comparisons are subject to wide margins of error. “It’s bad all over,’” says Gayle Sheller, program director of the Domestic Violence Resource Center in Hillsboro. “The simple mathematics of surveys means you’re going to have some higher states than others. But the national numbers are staggering as it is.” But the numbers do show the percentage of women living in Oregon who say they have been raped or subject to sexual violence are, statistically speaking, higher than the national average. “When that CDC study came out last year, our jaws dropped,” says Debbie Fox, development director for the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Fox says her organization isn’t sure why Oregon ranks so high. “There’s been no statewide comprehensive investment in dealing with youth and prevention,” Fox says. “We as a state have failed in terms of prevention.” Rebecca Nickels, executive director at the Portland Women’s Crisis Line, thinks women in Oregon may be more willing to talk because there has historically been more awareness here than elsewhere. “We were one of the earlier crisis lines in the country, and we’re in the top five for the number of calls we receive,” Nickels says. “These kinds of things may support the theory that Oregon women are more in tune to what’s going on and are more willing to report it or look for help.” Others see situations specific to Oregon as possible explanations. “We have very high unemployment here, and that can correlate with domestic violence,” says Lisa Marshall, communications manager for Raphael House, a women’s shelter. “When someone loses a job, they feel a loss of control, and they exert that control over a partner.” Others say that—regardless of the specific numbers—the survey draws attention to the problems of sexual violence. “I don’t necessarily think we should read into it too much,” says Emily Trussell, sexual assault services coordinator for the Mid-Valley Women’s Crisis Service in Salem. “We are doing a much better job educating people on what sexual violence is, and we’re talking about it.” Erin Fenner and Mike Munkvold contributed to this story.
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Hae Nay Paw is trying to concentrate. A petite sophomore at David Douglas High School, she hunches over her desk, scrawling notes, a curtain of dark hair covering half her face, as if to block out all distractions around her. Her science teacher lobs facts at the 30 students about the periodic table—hydrogen is the first one, the symbols for gold and silver are based on Latin roots, and the bigger an atom’s nucleus gets, the more unstable it becomes. He’s talking too fast for Hae Nay. When she arrived in Portland from Thailand three years ago, she knew two English words: water and eat. She’s now almost fluent in English, an A student who dreams of becoming a nurse. But she still must concentrate more than other students and struggles to keep up with some teachers. A NEW REFUGE: “I love school,” says Hae Nay Paw, a David Douglas High School sophomore, who immigrated to Portland three years ago after living in a refugee camp in Thailand. “When friends skip, I ask them, ‘What do you do all day, hide in the bathroom and cry? Don’t you want to graduate?’ School feels like part of my family and community.”
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“Atom comes from the Greek word atomos, which means ‘indivisible,’” the teacher says. “Who knows what ‘indivisible’ means?” Hae Nay’s attention is divided between her teacher and a loud-talking girl in puffy pastel high-tops who flirts with a boy nearby and fiddles with a friend’s sparkly scarf. “This is so cute,” she says. The teacher glares at the girl. “Zip it,” he says. “I can’t do that,” the girl says with a big smile. Hae Nay wants to follow the lesson, but she admits later the girl’s chatter fascinates her, and that her attention drifted from the elements. Science may be her future, but she is also trying to master the ways of American teens. “I listen to her all day,” Hae Nay says of the girl. “I learn from her.” Wearing pink press-on fingernails and a sweatshirt and Nikes—the David Douglas uniform of teenage girls—Hae Nay has succeeded at blending in. But David Douglas has also succeeded at propelling Hae Nay— and thousands of immigrant students like her—toward graduation in an Oregon educational system too often defined by failure. With 2,893 students, David Douglas in outer Southeast Portland is Oregon’s largest high school. The district as a whole has the highest rate of low-income students in the Portland area. It has gangs, drugs and enough teen pregnancy to warrant an oncampus day-care center. David Douglas High is also a United Nations of teenagers. Students here speak
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more than 55 languages, and almost half started school speaking little or no English—numbers unmatched anywhere else in Oregon. These challenges would sink most schools. But the David Douglas School District has the highest graduation rate— nearly 69 percent—of any district in the metro area except Riverdale, which is fed by the wealthy Dunthorpe neighborhood. In 2010, Education Week named David Douglas High one of 21 national “education overachievers” for a graduation rate that outperforms expectations. Superintendents from Texas to North Carolina have called asking what’s behind the David Douglas magic. The 2013 Legislature has just convened, and Gov. John Kitzhaber is insisting lawmakers push for big improvements in Oregon schools. The state has one of the worst graduation rates in the nation, and Kitzhaber wants to push it to 100 percent by the time today’s kindergartners are high-school seniors. Real change will come from figuring out what works—and a model for that is David Douglas. “They are putting together a way where kids don’t get lost,” says Samuel Henry, a Portland State University education professor and member of the new Oregon Education Investment Board. “Let’s take their best practices and spread them around.” David Douglas’ six buildings spread across its 26-acre campus, surrounded by streets of neat bungalows, boarded-up houses, checkcashing operations, strip clubs, auto-body shops, quinceañera suppliers—the lowzoning mishmash known as East Portland. Inside, you could be visiting any giant high school—trophy cases, dim hallways and the mascot, a red-and-white kilted Scotsman, painted on the wall. When the bell rings, students pour into the hallways and through the breezeways between classes. Trying to move through the crowds is like swimming against a riptide. Students’ voices melt into one unbroken sound. Most kids wear jeans and sneakers. Only an occasional girl in a headscarf and long skirt hints of the international nature of the school. But when the PA comes on, morning announcements include after-school meetings of the Somali and Burmese clubs. And flags of nations representing the home countries of students hang from the cafeteria ceiling. The school started with 46 flags in 2004, and there’s barely room to hang another. In Jennifer Healey’s English-conversation class, Spanish speakers sit near the window, Ukrainians sit up front, and four Chinese boys sit on their desks speaking Cantonese. “English,” Healey says to the Chinese boys. “Practice English.” Hae Nay Paw has no choice. No one else speaks her native tongue, called Karen (pronounced ka-REN). She chats with her friend Vic, a recent immigrant from Myanmar, about Hae Nay’s pink fingernails. Healey, with red hair and a deep voice that grows scratchy as the day wears on, begins the class by explaining the word “the.” Say it with a long “e”—theee—when the next word starts with a vowel.
A TEENAGE UNITED NATIONS: Flags representing the birth countries of David Douglas High School students hang in the cafeteria (top). The school started with 46 flags eight years ago, and the number continues to grow. Hae Nay Paw (above right), who works with classmates, says she knew two words of English when she arrived in Oregon in 2010. She’s now an A student.
“You say, ‘We are going to theee exhibition,’” Healey says, drawing out the eee sound. “Native speakers make this mistake all the time. It drives me crazy.” Hae Nay raises her hand. “Why do we say thuh with ‘hour’?” she asks. “Good question,” Healey says. “The silent ‘h’ separates the ‘e’ of ‘the’ and the ‘o’ from ‘hour.’” “What is ‘exhibition’?” Hae Nay asks. Healey switches to a pronunciation game. Hae Nay volunteers first to read words that sound similar. “Our and are,” she says. “Sheep and ship. Police and please.” Healey smiles. She thinks Hae Nay has turned out to be a fantastic student. “If I had to bet,” Healey says later, “she’s one I’d put money on.” But Healey has seen her share of frustrations and defeats in trying to help immigrant students survive David Douglas. A week earlier, Healey saw four immigrants withdraw from school; her eyes tear up when she mentions it. Latino, Vietnamese, Russian and Chinese speakers make up the larger groups.
But more than half of immigrant students at David Douglas account for most of the 50-plus other languages, including Tagalog, Serbian and Creole. Healey has had students who came to her speaking only Maay Maay, Krahn and Yapese. She’s been a teacher for 16 years, most of them at David Douglas. As a kid, her family moved from state to state, and she attended six high schools in four years. “I know what’s its like to be a smart kid and be failing,” Healey says. “I also know that moving gives you the chance to reintroduce yourself.” She was an acting major in college who started out teaching kindergarten and never saw herself as a language instructor. But Healey, who spoke French, was identified by school officials as someone who could teach language skills. When the number of immigrant students increased sharply a decade ago, the district offered intensive training to teach English as a second language. Healey jumped at the chance. The Chinese students are talking in Cantonese again. “Since there’s already a lot of talking,” Healey says, “we are going to end with extemporaneous speaking. Do you
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cont. voice soft, the “r’s” sticking in the back of her throat. Teachers at David Douglas say the stereotype that immigrant students work harder because they better understand the value of education is no myth. “They tend to be more open; they have an excitement and appreciation that kids who have been in our school system for 10 years might not,” Healey says. Many immigrant students grew up in refugee camps, some having never gone to school, sat at a desk or used a notebook. (Teachers say refugee kids often talk of becoming doctors and nurses.) Math teachers tell of high-school-age students who could not count or understand the concept of numbers. Nor do many know what a test is. One year, immigrant students taking a multiple-choice test were instructed to choose A, B, C or D on a computer screen and then hit “Enter.” The answers all came back “D.” Teachers investigated and realized the students clicked A, B, C and D—and when they entered their answer, their last choice got recorded. “We weren’t as prepared to teach a room,” Healey says, “where there may not be one kid who shares anything with your background.”
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ed States in January 2010, part of a wave of Karen immigrants to East Portland. Hae Nay’s family lives in a two-bedroom apartment near Southeast 122nd Avenue and Lincoln Street and attends a local Seventhday Adventist Church. In the past 20 years, as Portland Public Schools’ enrollment shrank, David Douglas’ grew by 35 percent. While other districts saw increases in Spanish-speaking students, the areas around David Douglas became such a magnet for immigrants that Portland now has the 12th-largest percapita refugee population in the country. By the time Hae Nay arrived, East Portland had already seen waves of immigrants from Vietnam, Russia, Somalia and Nepal. At Ron Russell Middle School, she could not communicate with anyone. “I was really scared,” she says. “But I’m not so shy. I didn’t know how to say, ‘I need a drink of water’ so I just say, ‘water’ and let the teacher figure it out.” She now listens to Selena Gomez and One Direction and counts among her favorite movies The Lorax, The Incredible Hulk and anything starring Jackie Chan. Hae Nay says she doesn’t have close friends and wouldn’t have time to hang out with them outside school—she has homework and chores.
“Quite frankly, our regular kids speak a different language. they are teenagers.” —NathaN OwiNgs
GLOBAL STUDIES: “At home you probably talk in your first language,” says Mahamed Muhumed, a 17-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia. “At school you have to use English. That’s the most good feeling in your life.” Mahamed’s teacher, Jennifer Healey (below), says some immigrant students arrive with “invisible backpacks” of trauma that can be difficult for teachers to understand.
remember what ‘extemporaneous’ means? It means speaking off the top of your head. Speaking without preparation.” Students reach into a tin soup can and draw slips of paper with prompts.
Hae Nay stands in front of the class and reads her prompt: “What is your favorite hobby?” “My favorite hobby is to play with friends, knitting and reading,” she says, her
Healey says a 15-year-old Chinese boy was so traumatized before his arrival he spent his first year just staring out the window. An Iraqi student of Healey’s withdrew two weeks ago to care for his younger siblings because his parents are too paralyzed by their experiences to cope. A student from Myanmar on a field trip to downtown Portland saw a soldier dressed in camouflage and confided to a teacher that the sight triggered memories of her mother’s rape by soldiers. Last week, a girl from Bhutan began screaming in the hallway; no one present could speak Nepali to help her. “Some kids come with what I call ‘invisible backpacks’—trauma, malnutrition, abuse, whatever,” Healey says. “Until they learn some English, we don’t really know what is inside them.” Hae Nay Paw grew up in a Thai refugee camp watched by guards and surrounded by pig manure, bamboo houses and trees she loved to climb. Today she might be 14, maybe 15. She has no records, and has never celebrated a birthday. She is Karen, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, and her family fled to Thailand before she was born. Her relatives shunned her because her father wasn’t Karen. She sometimes lived with her drug-addicted mother and violent stepfather, who she says once tried to kill her with a knife. “My mom say, ‘Run away!’” Hae Nay says. “I ran into the forest. I didn’t know what to do.” She was 7. Her aunt found her asleep in the woods and brought her home. Her new family—the aunt, an uncle and four younger cousins—immigrated to the Unit-
She is fine-boned and short for her grade, not yet 5 feet, possibly the result of malnutrition. “I know I look 12. I hate it!” she says. “The only time I cried at school was when this girl cut in front of me. I tried to say, ‘Hey, you cut.’ She couldn’t understand what I was saying. She say, ‘You are so little, why are you talking to me?’ I went to the bathroom and cried so hard. Why am I so little?” The David Douglas district—when faced with dramatic demographic changes starting in the 1990s—had some inherent advantages that helped its schools adapt. One was thrift. The David Douglas tax base has never been wealthy, so the district—unlike Portland Public Schools— never had the money to create a large, expensive overhead of administrators and executives. With one giant high school, David Douglas doesn’t have to pay a busload of principals and administrative staff, and spends 4 percent less on overhead costs than the average Oregon high school. Conversations with teachers and administrators about why the school succeeds often leave more questions than answers. Some point to the determination of immigrant students. Others point to a strong sense of community. The school offers after-school English lessons for parents, and teachers are encouraged to seek out parents, even to visit them at home if they can’t be reached by phone. And others argue the teaching staff is especially committed to the challenges posed by language barriers as well as dealing with low-income students. cont. on page 16 Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2013 wweek.com
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John Harrington, David Douglas High’s principal until he retired in 2004, says the district and the school gave themselves permission to go out and find solutions, without looking over their shoulders at what state officials in Salem might say. In turn, he says, he hired teachers who had foreign-language skills, but looked even more for those who would share the school’s sense of community. “I looked for a willingness,” says Harrington, now president of Central Catholic High School, “to join what we were doing.” Fourteen years ago, David Douglas High also created sheltered core classes for non-English speakers, creating a place where students and teachers weren’t embarrassed to try new methods and make mistakes. Math teacher Kaitlin Nelson recalls teaching students about prisms, and one student thought she was talking about prisons. “I wrote both words on the blackboard, we practiced saying both,” she says. “When you are teaching math, you are teaching language.” The district has reduced the number of sheltered classes in elementary and middle schools, and started phasing them out at the high school after it cut 30 teaching positions in 2010. District administrators were concerned they could not offer sheltered classes to all who needed them. They also suspected some sheltered classes were actually remedial and not up to the grade level, as federal law requires. The dilemma is apparent in Hae Nay Paw’s experience. In sheltered classes, she’s engaged, outspoken and eager to help others. In her language arts class, Hae Nay is assigned to work with two other students—her friend Vic, and Mahamed,
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a tall, thin 17-year-old sophomore who came from Ethiopia two years ago. They’re supposed to answer questions on “The Quilt,” a short story about immigrant traditions, which they will present to the class. Hae Nay corrects the others’ English. Vic says “lifes.” Hae Nay pronounces it “lives.” “He gave her dry flowers,” Mahamed says of a character in the story. “No,” Hae Nay says. “It’s dried flowers.” But she says she prefers non-sheltered classes because they expose her to how American kids talk—without accents, and with the latest slang. Other immigrant students won’t correct her pronunciation. “American kids do,” she says. “The best thing for learning English would be having class with American students, and with the teacher explaining how to do class work clearly.” But in blended classes— such as Nathan Owings’ science class—Hae Nay doesn’t talk and can’t always follow the teacher. Owings has a bit of drill sergeant about him and has trained students to answer “Present, sir!” when he calls roll. It’s in Owings class where Hae Nay tries to go unnoticed, and the chatty girl keeps distracting her. In 1999, Owings became David Douglas’ first sheltered science teacher for students learning English, and he still uses techniques he learned then, even though his class has a larger mix of kids. In his science class—where a third of the students are learning English—Owings writes notes on the board, tells stories of physicist Niels Bohr, breaks down vocabulary, repeats important points, draws pictures, makes bad jokes, and has the kids answer questions until he thinks they get key concepts. For his students still learning English, Owings admits, he doesn’t pause and check in as often as he should. But he points to what may be one of the secrets of David Douglas High’s success: Teachers such as him who were trained to teach immigrant students found these techniques were also powerful tools for teaching native English speakers as well. “Quite frankly, our regular kids speak a different language,” he says. “They are teenagers.” Next year, the David Douglas district faces an $8 million shortfall, equivalent to 70 to 80 teaching positions. A tutoring program for immigrants may be cut when a city Schools Uniting Neighborhoods grant expires this year. The remaining sheltered high-school classes are also at risk. But if David Douglas has one lesson for the rest of Oregon, it’s this: A school that seeks to change its destiny must have the commitment of teachers and parents, a keen eye on what data show, a willingness to experiment and give up old habits, and leaders who insist on exceeding last year’s accomplishments. This determination to do better year after year has produced a catchphrase at David Douglas: “Plus one.” Students such as Hae Nay Paw only know they have been given a chance they didn’t have before. “If one day I grow up and be a nurse, I think I’d like to get kids that are like me and help them,” she says. “I have a lot of things to learn. I love learning. I want to learn forever.”
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pale ale sails away: Full Sail Brewing has discontinued its mainstay pale ale, Scoop has learned. The Hood River-based brewery needed to free up brewing capacity for seasonal beers, and found its pale was going stale. “We’re in the business of freshness and looking at trends,” says head brewmaster Jamie Emmerson. “It’s not that the pale had volume problems, but it was the softest of our regular beers. Other people just keep those around forever. But, for us, focus matters. It’s not like we don’t have other recipes lying around.” Most of the six-packs are gone, with the final kegs soon to run out. Instead, look for six-packs of previously pub-only Full Sail brews like Nut Brown Ale and Wassail. for pete’s sake: Last week, Pete Krebs, the Portland singer-songwriter best known for fronting ’90s noise-pop band Hazel, was diagnosed with a rare, difficult-to-treat form of skin cancer. Krebs’ wife, Rebecca, made the announcement via fundraising site Pay It Square. Within hours, her plea for donations to assist with the family’s medical bills hit its goal. But krebs Krebs—who battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his 20s—isn’t out of the woods yet. As such, a trio of benefit concerts have been announced: Swing for Pete on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Secret Society, featuring Krebs’ swing-jazz project the Stolen Sweets; Rock for Pete, with Colin Meloy, Black Prairie, the Dharma Bums and more, the following night next door at Wonder Ballroom; and For Pete’s Sake on March 15 at LaurelThirst Pub, with a lineup to be announced. once bitten: An anecdote in a recent profile of Portland illustrator Halsey Swain (Jan. 30 issue) not only upset some readers but caught the attention of animal control. According to Swain, she left her pet rattlesnake in the freezer after it spit venom in her eyes. Animal control left a notice on Swain’s door, not because of her poor treatment of the animal, but because owning a rattlesnake is apparently illegal and punishable by a fine of up to $10,000. Swain was eventually let off the hook as the snake is now either dead or was mythical.
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THE RIVER CITY TAVERN TROT A page from a 1902 edition of Willamette Week, reprinted in honor of the 111th anniversary of Kelly’s Olympian.
Wednesday Feb. 13
MARILYN MANSON [MUSIC] This once-ghoulish minstrel’s antiquated parlor tricks—defacing the Bible, appearing in public sans trousers and adorned in artificial bosoms—have aged as well as a decade-old can of pork griskins. Nevertheless, we can now regard his antics, once considered so frightful, with the same tittering nostalgia as those childhood picture shows that once made us wet our pantaloons. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 971-230-0033. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
Thursday Feb. 14
HUZZAH! THE UNVEILING OF ANOTHER FINE RIVER CITY DRINKERY IS ALWAYS REASON TO CELEBRATE. To wit, each drop of the Devil’s Rum is a thumb in the eye of those scoundrels from First Baptist Church and the Women’s Temperance Prayer League, whose moral snobbery nearly forced Webfoot Saloon to crumble. Happy lushes united, and once again we tip our hats to an Oregon that never shall infringe on our right to imbibe. Now Johns Kelly and Caswell are unveiling Kelly’s Olympian as the pinnacle of a gentleman’s resort, where fine whiskey shall fuel card games and the sweet aroma of pipe smoke shall tickle noses with its joyous perfume. More importantly: no women. A cause for celebration indeed, and what better way to revel than to march these fine streets in a wondrous tavern trot, where whistles can be wetted on the approach to the grand opening of this auspicious and venerable new hideaway. Let us go! —A. Phillip Kryza
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West Burnside Street & 2nd Avenue The great August Erikson bequeathed upon our skid row a marvelous drinkery of the highest order, boasting a pipe organ, a gorgeous oil painting of a slave market and what must certainly be the longest bar this globe has seen. Be wary of the dandies, however, with their long mustaches and ridiculous hats. Portland will be a much better place when these foppish lads finally go the way of the dodo.
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Who knew that Oriental people could cook such a marvelous turkey, or that Spaniards could pour such delightful coffee? Huber’s survived the great flood all the stronger, with gentle owner Jim Louie even taking to rowboat to deliver food and drink. Long live Huber’s, I say!
The drinks are stiffer than Taft’s belt line, but what are these horrid creatures called crawfish? Though a delicacy to the depraved in that whorish hovel New Orleans, they have no place in the great Pacific Northwest. I venture a prediction: This place will shutter its doors in a matter of months.
Only the best in local whores and opium await the vagabonds and workingmen at the new Manhattan Club, but do be wary: Some menfolk have been lured with the promise of a woman’s gentle touch, only to find themselves hauled out to sea upon waking.
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Should it stay open for 111 years, Kelly’s Olympian plans to host an anniversary party Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15-16, 2013. 426 SW Washington St., 228-3669, kellysolympian.com.
VALENTINE’S DAY [HOLIDAYS] Gentlemen, take heed: Even if your lady friend assures you that you’re not supposed to do anything to mark the occasion, you probably are.
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STEAMPUNK FILM FESTIVAL [MOVIES] Tighten that corsetw and ready your ray gun: This steam engine is bound for the Clinton Street Theater, where the city’s finest neo-Victorian moving pictures—featuring detectives, dinosaurs and dirigibles—await. Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St., 238-5588. Various times through Sunday, Feb. 17. $10-$17.
ZWICKELMANIA [BEER] Alemakers across the state, including approximately 40 of our fine city’s establishments, throw open their doors and allow the public to ogle their brewpots and sample the concoctions straight from the fermentation vessels. The chaps at Rogue Public House and the Green Dragon will be serving brunch and running buses between breweries on either side of the mighty Willamette, and thus might be a fine place to begin your day’s festivities. 11 am-4pm. Free. Information at oregonbeer.org/zwickelmania.
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WINGS [MOVIES] This 1927 picture about fighter pilots in the Great War—the only silent film to win the Best Picture Oscar until 2011’s The Artist—vaulted the stoic Gary Cooper to stardom. Donna Parker will provide live organ accompaniment. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 7:30 pm. $10.
HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING DONE RIGHT [PLANTS] Tired of rotten parsnips and dried-up winter roots from the Italian markets on Produce Row? Don’t want to give your hard-earned money for low-quality goods brought in by a shipping vessel? At Mount Hood, experienced grower and forager Steve Schmidt will help the happy homemaker learn to tend to the fruits of her own labors in a home garden. Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham Campus, 26000 SE Stark St., Feb. 18-20, 6:30-8:30 pm. $69. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2013 wweek.com
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With praise from Esquire and Marie Claire, not to mention buzz-building appearances at South by Southwest and on Last Call with Carson Daly, ZZ Ward’s bold new voice may have captured your attention already. Ward forged her one-of-a-kind sound growing up in smalltown Oregon. Her debut full-length, “Til the Casket Drops”, features old-fashioned blues crossed with cutting-edge hip-hop. Cat Doorman is the alias for acclaimed illustrator and Portland indie music scene veteran, Julianna Bright. “Cat Doorman Songbook” features 14 songs whose lush compositions celebrate the uniqueness, potential and power of every child. Amidst the catchy melodies are tracks that reach around the world to encompass the joys, loneliness and mysteries of childhood and life itself.
ANNA AND THE UNDERBELLY SUNDAY 2/17 @ 5 PM
Anna and the Underbelly mixes small town melodies with words found on the sidewalks of the city. “Brimstone Lullaby” is a warm and wandering mix of pedal steel, guitar, banjo, strings, percussion, and harmonies, featuring appearances by The Shook Twins (vocals), Jamie Stillway (guitar, banjo), Lucas Welliver (piano), Paul Brainard (pedal steel, dobro, trumpet) and Rob Stroup (percussion, keyboards, vocals).
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THURSDAY, FEB. 14 Valentine’s Day at Pix
Fragile and boozy do not an ideal mate make. But when Pix Patisserie promises a “fragile sugar shell with a boozy liquid center,” hearts around Portland flutter. The confectionery is open long hours to serve sugary alcoholic drinks with chocolate and strawberries. One $15 box will also contain a pair of diamond earrings. Eat your heart out, Wonka. Pix Patisserie, 3402 SE Division St., 784-3037. 10 am-2 am. Prices vary.
SUNDAY, FEB. 17 All You Can Eat Spaghetti and Meatball Sunday
A whole 10 hours of meatballs. Wear your stretchy pants and leave your self-respect at home. 24th and Meatballs, 2329 NE Glisan St., 2822557. 11 am-9 pm. $12.
Mad About the Mai Tai
Learn way more about the mai tai than you thought was possible at this drink-centric event. It may leave you enlightened and saying Maita’i (“good” in Tahitian). Or it may leave you slurring and sick of rum. Hale Pele, 2733 NE Broadway. 5 pm. $40. 21+.
Chocolate Tea & Valentine’s Dinner
Chocolate teas and sweet treats served the Sunday after V-Day. On the holiday night, couples can share five courses, including seared tuna and tiramisu before snuggling up to watch No Reservations. Reservations are required. Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway, 790-7752. Tea served at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm. Feb. 14 dinner at 6 pm. $75 dinner.
Third Annual Truffle Shuffle
Wine and truffles pair up for a decadent tasting of fungus and fermentation. For $15, you get wine at both McMinnville locations (Eyrie Vineyard at 935 NE 10th Ave. and Walnut City WineWorks at 475 NE 17th St.), and little bites from the Joel Palmer House and Urbani Truffles. Multiple locations. 11 am-4 pm. $15. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 18 Firehouse Gluten-Free Dinner
Local, gluten-free and serving only tri-tip that lived happy lives, Firehouse teams up with Salem’s Wandering Aengus Ciderworks for a family-style meal dedicated to local food and drink. A Wandering Aengus expert will be on hand to discuss the quality of life of the company’s apples. Firehouse, 711 NE Dekum St., 954-1702. 5-9 pm. Prices vary. Call 954-1702 for reservations.
TUESDAY, FEB. 19 Hoops and Hops
Brewvana takes a field trip to the Rose Garden Arena, offering a flight of local microbrews for the pregame. Tickets include round-trip busing, 200-level Blazers tickets, 10 tasters and...a pretzel necklace to go with your Widmer. Coalition Brewing, 2724 SE Ankeny St., 7296804. 5-10:30 pm. $55. 21+.
THE MCWOODSMAN: A solid sausage sandwich blighted by ketchup.
THE WOODSMAN MARKET Upon first glance, the main trade of the Woodsman Market, the concern Duane Sorenson has situated in a vacant storefront between his successful tavern and coffee roastery, seems to be a random assortment of products with attractive packaging. Inside the boutique bodega, you’ll find Cerise Noire cherry jam, a $175 Shun chef knife, 5-pound bags of whole-wheat pastry flour, local bee pollen, Svensk Drom sea-salt soap, Le Creuset mini cocottes (three for $60) Order this: Sausage and toilet paper (Cottonelle, no price). Does breakfast sandwich with no ketchup ($7). anyone buy toilet paper here? “I’ve never I’ll pass: Soup and seen anyone buy it, but maybe if you lived bread ($6). in the neighborhood,” says the cashier. (I live in the neighborhood; we have Rite Aid.) So what does the Woodsman Market do? Sometimes, it sells milk, cheese, deli meat or salty beef-jerky sticks ($2). Mainly, though, it makes sandwiches on hearty bread with fine meats and cheeses. A breakfast sandwich on a crisped English muffin ($7) first caught my eye while sipping at Stumptown next door. With sliced sausage links, a gooey over-easy egg and sharp cheddar, it didn’t disappoint—though I’d hold the ketchup next time and ask about hot peppers. Likewise for the smoked ham version. For lunch, an Italian sub ($8) layers marbled sopressata and capocolla on crusty bread with shredded lettuce squirted with vinegar and oil. It’s a very faithful rendition of the Jersey standby, in an appropriate portion, but it’s a little timid for my taste. Likewise for a milky asparagus soup ($6 with bread). Instead, expect me at breakfast—or, maybe, when I need toilet paper. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: The Woodsman Market, 4529 SE Division St., 971-373-8267, woodsmantavern.com. 9 am-7 pm daily. $.
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FOILED AGAIN: A diner steals goat from a friend’s plate at Simply Vietnamese.
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Boulevard. The steaks brimmed with goat’s distinctive flavor, and the juicy interior was finished with a gentle char on the outside. The five-spice seasoning was perhaps a bit light on heat, but this was remedied by a light brush with the dipping sauce, made with Thai chili in a bath of salt. Among menu items, Simply Vietnamese has BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE mkorfhage@wweek.com a small section devoted to your basic pho or bun tom thit nuong or bun cha gio vermicelli (each Simply Vietnamese is anything but. Or, at least, $7), but these are without particular distinction. it’s not one of the myriad bun or pho or banh mi The real action is in the specialty section, which shops that Portlanders have grown accustomed includes sweetly honey-braised quail ($13) and to. The menu is one of the most distinctive some of my favorite fried wings in the city, a among Vietnamese restaurants in town. mound of fish-sauce-spiked canh ga-chien nuoc Case in point: The first item mam ($6). The sour notes come on the menu is a rarity in Portthrough less than the sweetland, a Viet-Cajun crawfish boil. Order this: Get their goat! ness and salt, leading to savory, Best deal: The $6 orders of wings The building looks like a are extremely generous. kettle-corny junk food. The tart computer-parts outlet, and I’ll pass: Just stick to the left side tamarind-coated wings—canh the dining room resembles a of the menu. (Although, take note: ga ranh me ($6)—popped too did not get a chance to try bizarro-world burger shop, with We sweetly on first taste, but once either of the massive hot pots.) tables striped like barber poles. the sugar coated my mouth and The lazy Susan of a location has overtook my senses, it was difbeen at various points a taqueria, a pho house and ficult not to eat well past satiety. a Chinese restaurant that hosted marijuana meetThe tom kho cu kieu ($7)— dried shrimp and ups. It also recently sported a bar, Seeznin’s, that pickled green-onion bulb—were a boldly spicyPortland police accused of being a gang hangout (a sour assault on the senses, and so served best as sad story, that one.) a bar snack, but were eventually wearying. The But goodbye to all that. onions hadn’t been brined quite long enough, Whatever the utilitarian sparseness of its which in this case overtaxed the sinuses. décor, Simply Vietnamese quickly feels homey A highlight, on the other hand, was the de xao as a hearth. It’s as if you’ve been invited to some- lan ($13), another goat dish; the slightly grassione’s house for dinner after they’ve just moved ness of the meat blended beautifully with prodiin: There are a few boxes in the corner, and they gious peanuts, green-onion shoots and basil. haven’t made a full grocery trip, but they’re pretty The bar section, it should be noted, has alwayssure they can whip up something for you. available karaoke with a distinctly Vietnamese The menu is, indeed, still under heavy nego- selection of tunes. On multiple visits, singers of tiation three months after opening. Various all ages took the stage in tight rotation, among a items are whited-out and added depending on small, familiar crowd. The woman in charge of availability. On two trips, two different servers the karaoke frequently asked if we had songs we excitedly suggested off-menu substitutions. wanted to sing. We politely declined, but almost One was a calamari-ring and onion dish that regretted turning down the invitation. As we left arrived steaming in tinfoil with a light chili sauce on a Monday visit, we received an invitation we heavy on lemongrass, garlic and herb ($11), with a were much more likely to take up. flavor profile that surprisingly recalled cioppino. “We’re slaughtering another goat on Friday!” The other was a five-spiced, medium-rare goat our hostess told us. “You should come back tenderloin ($15) topped with caramelized onion. then.” The goat, we were told, had been bought from a farmer in the hills near Vancouver, and freshly EAT: Simply Vietnamese, 2218 NE 82nd Ave., 208-3391. 7 am-10 pm Monday-Friday, carved in a slaughterhouse on Northeast Sandy 9 am-10 pm Saturday-Sunday. $-$$.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. Prices listed are sometimes for advance ticket sales. At-the-door increases and socalled convenience charges may apply. Event lineups are subject to change after WW’s press deadlines. 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.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13 John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders: Carrie Brownstein, Peter Buck, Sallie Ford, Ben Gibbard, K.D. Lang, Storm Large, Scott McCaughey, Colin Meloy, Laura Veirs
[YOU KNOW THESE PEOPLE] That’s a bill that doesn’t need much explanation, but here goes: John Wesley Harding is a gifted singer-songwriter from England. He hosts a weekly NPR variety show called Cabinet of Wonders. He often invites his friends to perform on the program. His friends happen to include some of Portland’s biggest songwriting talents (and Ben Gibbard), none of whom needs any introduction—no, seriously, if you need me to tell you who any of the people listed are and why they’re important, you probably have no business reading this newspaper’s music section. MATTHEW SINGER. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. Sold out.
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[WITCHSTEP] If you Google “witchstep,” the genre most befitting Bruxa, the band’s SoundCloud is the first result. Bruxa is the most appropriate choice to lead occultish electronic music away from the contrived witchhouse genre that blew up in 2010. Most tracks on 2012’s Victimeyez are bona fide dubstep tracks, but some find
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UUVVWWZ, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Aina Haina
[AVANT-SOMETHING] It’s apparently pronounced “double yoo, double vee, double double-yoo, zee,” but that’s just silly. The Lincoln, Neb., quartet describes itself as “avant-blues,” but that’s also kind of silly. More accurately, UUVVWWZ trades in an eccentric form of art rock. Think of a loosey-goosey Television fronted by a slightly unhinged Karen O—cerebral riffing, the variously sweetly crooning and manically wailing vocal stylings of frontwoman Teal Gardner, and the kind of time signatures that made you give up drum lessons in the ninth grade. RUTH BROWN. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Marilyn Manson, Butcher Babies
[INDUSTRIAL DETRITUS] Marilyn Manson does not need your pity. So long as a decent-sized share of the shock-rock audience appears eager to catch the fascist-provocateur shtick one more time, he’s obligated to trot out all the toys left over from arena tours past: the Nazi costuming; the expressionistic set pieces; the faux-caine crowd dusting; and,
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TOP FIVE MUST-SEE ACTS AT JAZZ FEST Barry Harris with Chuck Israels and Mel Brown (Friday, Feb. 15, at Jimmy Mak’s)
Pianist Barry Harris, still sharp and dextrous at 83, is one of the last great bebop innovators we have, and bassist Chuck Israels is best known for making the greatest musical minds of his generation (including Coltrane, George Russell and Bill Evans) sound even better. Both should shine in the trio setting, especially with that whippersnapper Mel Brown on drums. Hot 8 Brass Band (Saturday, Feb. 16, at Dante’s)
This wild, hip-hop-infused brash brass octet (pictured) from New Orleans has visited our fair city a few times, but this Dante’s appearance should be its most ass-shaking to date. The Jazz Message: Celebrating Art Blakey (Friday, Feb. 22, at Newmark Theatre)
A jaw-dropping collection of legends (Curtis Fuller? Eddie Henderson? George freaking Cables!?) pay tribute to one of the best drummers and most beloved figures in the music’s history. This is an absolute can’tmiss show for Portland jazz fans. Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, George Colligan and Matthew Garrison (Saturday, Feb. 23, at Newmark Theatre)
Another huge lineup featuring another famed Bill Evans sideman! We also get a return visit from Ravi Coltrane, whose distinctive sound recalls—but never apes—the spiritual sounds of his famous father. Galactic, featuring Corey Glover (Saturday, Feb. 23, at Crystal Ballroom)
Funkiest. Jazz Fest. Ever.
SEE IT: The Portland Jazz Festival runs Feb. 15-24 at various venues. See pdxjazz.com for a complete lineup.
PEER REVIEWS FOUR PORTLAND ARTISTS CRITIQUE EACH OTHER’S NEW ALBUMS. bY MATTHe W SIN GeR
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Everyone’s a critic—even artists, who are predisposed to hating critics. So, with several major Portland albums dropping Feb. 19, we let the artists do our jobs for us and take a shot at reviewing each other’s work. (Conspicuously absent is STRFKR, whose new album, Miracle Mile, also comes out that day. The band declined to participate in this article, but a review, by WW’s own Dr. Know, will be available at wweek.com.) 1. Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Untamed Beast (Partisan) By ROD MEyER of Eat Skull
WW: What worked for you on this album? The record sounds pretty good overall. The bass and drums in particular have a cool vibe to them. What needed more work? I would have cranked the guitars a bit more. The guitars have a pretty wide stereo spread on them for the first few songs, but it seems to be a little less apparent as the album progresses. What song do you wish you had written? I wouldn’t say I wished to write any of them, but there were some cool things going on: The vibratosounding guitar on “Addicted” was pretty cool, and the opening drums to “Devil” threw me for a loop. If you could steal one idea from this album for your next recording, what would it be? We don’t really steal ideas from bands. We’re kinda in our own zone. 2. Eat Skull, III (Woodsist) By JEFFREy MuNGER of Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
What worked for you on this album? This album is truly psychedelic. It walks the fine line of being a total mess and totally catchy in the same moment. What needed more work? I suppose the vocals could have been mixed just a slight touch louder on the first track, “Space Academy,” when the bitchin’ loud guitar comes in. What song do you wish you had written? “Stupid
Moon.” What a wonderful title for a song! If you could steal one idea from this album for your next recording, what would it be? There’s a lot of really repetitive, droning background stuff going on that’s really beautiful. We’ve never experimented with those sorts of techniques really, and it sounds like a lot of fun to try. 3. Parenthetical Girls, Privilege (Marriage Records/Slender Means Society) By SAPIENT
What worked for you on this album? They have been described as “saccharine pop,” which I associate with something lighthearted and wimpy, which Privilege is not. What needed more work? If I were to go into any depth about what I think would need more work, it carries over into the realm of a person who doesn’t listen to a specific genre offering suggestions on how to make it more like the genres they listen to. What song do you wish you had written? The single “Young Throats” is possibly my favorite. If you could steal one idea from this album for your next recording, what would it be? Privilege is a condensed version of five limited-press EPs released over the last three years. They handnumbered each copy of those EPs using their blood as ink. It’s too bad I’m writing this, because when I copy that idea, this is proof it’s not coincidence. 4. Sapient, Slump (Camobear) By PAuL ALCOTT of Parenthetical Girls
What worked for you on this album? The production is wide-ranging: From the nearly naked acoustic guitar and voice of “Notroh” to the fullfledged, hip-hop stomp of “Pieces of Paper,” Sapient claims a large swath of musical territory. What needed more work? Though this isn’t explicitly a hip-hop record, there are a number of hip-hop tropes cropping up from time to time. Often those bits of rap boilerplate feel out of place on a record that’s largely a guy playing his guitar and singing sweetly. What song do you wish you had written? The most intriguing cut here is “Opera Pigs,” which, formally speaking, is completely batshit. If you could steal one idea from this album for your next recording, what would it be? On “I Was Wrong,” Sapient has what sound like castanets clattering and slurring into the approximation of a snare sound. I’m biking over to Rhythm Traders to pick up some castanets tomorrow. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2013 wweek.com
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KENNY GARRETT THURSDAY 2/21 @ WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
SEXMOB SATURDAY 2/23 @ WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS FRIDAY 2/15 @ ALADDIN THEATER
KURT ROSENWINKEL TUESDAY 2/19 @ EVANS AUDITORIUM @ LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
THE JAZZ MESSAGE CELEBRATING ART BLAKEY FRIDAY 2/22 @ NEWMARK THEATRE
NANCY KING SUNDAY 2/24 @ WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
MATT WILSON’S ARTS & CRAFTS WEDNESDAY 2/20 @ JIMMY MAK’S
STEVE KUHN TRIO FRIDAY 2/22 @ WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
ACS: GERI ALLEN, TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON & ESPERANZA SPALDING SUNDAY 2/24 @ NEWMARK THEATRE
PATRICIA BARBER THURSDAY 2/21 @ WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
JACK DEJOHNETTE SATURDAY 2/23 @ NEWMARK THEATRE
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n “Smash”, the imaginative pianist, vocalist and composer continues her crusade to retrieve the ground that jazz musicians long ago ceded to pop and rock: the realm of the intelligent and committed singer-songwriter. With a new band and a dozen new compositions, she tackles even familiar subjects (like love and loss) with a nuance and depth beyond the limits of the Great American Songbook.
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arrington released “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue”, her much anticipated homage to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the release of their iconic 1963 Money Jungle album. This recording features Gerald Clayton and Christian McBride, with guests Clark Terry, Lizz Wright, Herbie Hancock and others.
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“One of the most adept, graceful jazz pianists playing in today’s jazz scene.” —JazzReview
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SOUNDS OF SPACE
“Sounds Of Space” comprises 11 tracks composed and arranged by Rodriguez. It includes nods to Cuban masters such as Ernesto Lecuona, but also pianistic models such as Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk; it draws on the traditional, but it has a personal imprint. And now and then, “Sounds Of Space” is also shaped by nostalgia for a country left behind, so near yet so far.
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Over the course of a stellar career that has spanned more than 30 years, Garrett has always brought a vigorous yet melodic, and truly distinctive, alto saxophone sound to each musical situation. “Seeds From The Underground” is a powerful return to the straight-ahead, acoustic and propulsive quartet format that showcases Garrett’s extraordinary abilities.
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Gerald Wilson, jazz’s reigning composer/orchestrator pays homage to his adopted hometown, Chicago on his fifth Mack Avenue Records release, “Legacy”. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Giacomo Puccini also receive Wilson’s musical tips of the hat. Wilson’s son, guitarist/ composer Anthony Wilson, and grandson Eric Otis are also represented by a composition/orchestration apiece, thus extending Gerald’s musical legacy.
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most welcome, the return of original guitarist Twiggy Ramirez. Born Villain, Manson’s latest collection and an admitted comeback nod after a pair of (relatively, to be sure) introspective albums, isn’t quite a return to the epochal anthems of old. But, with newfound stabs at post-rock bleeding into familiar glam and deathmetal tendencies, it’s a game attempt at relevance before that seemingly fated move to the cabaret circuit. JAY HORTON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. Sold out. All ages.
THURSDAY, FEB. 14 Roberta Flack with the Oregon Symphony
[CLASSICAL SOUL] Still amazing at age 75, Roberta Flack has led a relatively quiet life that belies her status among the best soul divas. Her timeless hits include classics like “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly With His Song” as well as other staples of the babymaking heyday of soul. Yet Flack never rose to the status of contemporaries like Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin.Here, the Oregon Symphony continues a long history of putting the greats onstage and giving them the classy, elegant opportunity to do what they do…which hopefully doesn’t include cuts from last year’s Yoko Ono collaboration, Let It Be Roberta, because, well, no. AP KRYZA. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm. $43$128. All ages.
Chaos Chaos
[INDIE POP] Brooklyn-based sisters Chloe and Asya Saavedra, who played under the name Smoosh up until last year, released their first full-length album of percussive, piano-driven indie-pop songs at the ages of 10 and
12, respectively. And for tween music, it didn’t suck. Three years later, in 2007, the girls had already released a second LP, played at Lollapalooza, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and opened for acts such as Eels and Bloc Party. Chaos Chaos is the duo’s new canvas for self-proclaimed risk-taking and experimentation. Exemplary of the typical midcareer identity crisis bands often experience after a decade of playing together—although the sisters can barely drink beer legally—the new project sounds fresh and mature. From Chloe’s worldly percussion played on old coffee tins to Asya’s airy, grown-in voice, the group’s 2012 EP, S, reveals an exciting period of musical wanderlust. EMILEE BOOHER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
Rock ’n’ Roll Prom: Monarques, Pony Village, the Cry, DJ Cooky Parker, DJ Hanukkah Miracle
[PRETTY IN PUNK] Because you’re older and wiser now, and you realize you should have chosen Duckie over Blaine, this is your chance to right those prom-night wrongs. You’re no longer ashamed to buy your dress from a thrift shop, you’re old enough to get drunk legally, and now that you live in Portland, you know your date won’t mind riding bikes back home afterward. And unlike your first prom, which probably featured Boyz II Men on heavy rotation, you’ll be rocking out to the wholesome sounds of power-pop/punk outfit the Cry!, indie rockers Pony Village and Portland’s premier proponents of doo-wop pop, Monarques, who will be playing ’50s and ’60s covers all night long. Plus, the odds of this night ending in sex are infinitely higher. RUTH BROWN. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside St., 236-4536. 8 pm. $5 advance, $8 day of show. 21+.
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FRIDAY, FEB. 15 The Sonics, Pierced Arrows, the Pynnacles
[LEGENDARY NUGGETS] In the 1960s, there wasn’t a scarier band in the Northwest than the Sonics. With lyrics about psychos, witches, and drinking strychnine for kicks, the Tacoma-based proto-punks confirmed every parent’s perceptions of rock-’n’-roll depravity. It wasn’t just their lyrics, either: The band played harder, faster and nastier than any of its regional peers—which, considering Washington’s garage-rock legacy, is saying something. The crater it left behind is wide enough that its occasional latter-day reunion gigs seem less like desperate cash grabs than vital reminders of an age when a few crazy guys with guitars could frighten the bejesus out of an entire country. And even after 40-some years, the Sonics are still plenty terrifying. MATTHEW SINGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm. $25. 21+.
Steelhead, the Resolectrics, Jeffrey Martin and Anna Tivel
[CREEDENCE CLEARWATER RESURRECTED] Missing that CCR sound? Skip John Fogerty’s upcoming self-tribute and hearken to the Resolectrics’ debut album, High Water. That chooglin’ beat and crunchy guitar sound evoke classic Creedence Clearwater, while the presence of keyboards keeps it from a straight Revival. Both lyrics and singing work well, as do the band’s harmonies. Another new debut comes from Steelhead, led by Sloan Martin, late of Celilo. Here, he leaves that band’s more rootsy approach for a more complex soundscape featuring synths and treated guitars. JEFF ROSENBERG. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.
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KEITH JARRETT
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Formed: In 1993, in Seattle. Sounds like: Early Green Day without the fat basslines or affected accents; the Cars without synthesizers; Cheap Trick without all the heavy sociopolitical commentary; a dude version of the Donnas. For fans of: Pizzeria Pretzel Combos, The Drew Carey Show, singing along. Latest release: 2008’s These Are the Good Times People, of which the lead single, “Mixed Up S.O.B.,” avoided any possibility of radio play by requiring its catchy chorus to be extensively bleeped. Why you care: Because of band leader Chris Ballew’s very interesting solo projects. While departed fellow guitarist-singer Dave Dederer started a band with Guns N’ Roses’ 11th-most important member, Duff McKagan, Bellew, under the name the Giraffes, went on to record lo-fi solo albums in his basement about the stuffed animals of his childhood that are intensely weird and undeniably ingenious. Also, he’s got a toddler-oriented project called Caspar Babypants that’s much better than similarly situated indie rockfor-kiddies projects. And, last, because the Presidents of the United States of America are going to give the crowd everything it wants— specifically, the band’s massively popular 1995 self-titled debut, which it will perform in full, including “Lump” exactly as fans remember it, plus one extra round on the chorus. SEE IT: The Presidents of the United States of America play Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., on Friday, Feb. 15. 9 pm. $20 advance, $22 day of show. All ages.
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he Sirens” is an album of mood and melody inspired by The Odyssey – both its epic atmosphere and its timeless humanity. Potter has composed a cycle of irresistible songs without words. Conveyed by a subtly virtuosic, strikingly textured band, Potter declaims lyrical lines over the dynamically inventive rhythm section, as keyboards shimmer like stars in the night sky.
ringing together the albums “Special Edition”, “Tin Can Alley”, “Inflation Blues” and “Album Album”, there are echoes of old New Orleans grooves and Swing-era big bands in this collection, as well as material crafted with the techniques of ‘80s pop singles; there are ambitious suite-like compositions, and there is spontaneously lowdown rhythm & blues.
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he second edition in the Miles Davis Bootleg Series captures the quintet in three separate concert settings, starting with two full-length sets at the Antibes Jazz Festival in France on CD One (July 25th) and CD Two (July 26th). The locale moves to Stockholm on November 5 for the program heard on CD Three. The DVD is the complete 46-minute performance of the quintet at the Berlin Philharmonie on November 7, 1969.
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TOMAHAWK WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13 [PATTON POP] Kristen Mystirie Calderon, a club hostess and makeup artist from Los Angeles, does not like Tomahawk’s new single. “Tomahawk, your music made me wet—juicy even!” she wrote on the band’s Facebook page in December after it released the first track from its new album, Oddfellows. “I would want to make love to the music...but then I heard “Stone Letter.” Now I want to take my sharpest stiletto and ram it through this song. What the hell, guys?! What happened to music!?!? Why did you dumb down and mainstream the music!? :( I’m not turned on.” Duane Denison doesn’t want to hear it. “I have to remind myself not to read comments ever on anything,” the guitarist says with a sigh from his home in Nashville. “No matter what it is, it’s virtually always negative. You have to tell people: Be patient, this is not what the [whole] album sounds like. This is one song.” But Calderon, as Denison, of all people, would acknowledge, is not wrong: With “Stone Letter,” Tomahawk has gone mainstream. Tomahawk is best known as a band that’s very much the sum of its parts: Denison, formerly of ’90s noise-rock outfit the Jesus Lizard; drummer John Stanier from hard rockers Helmet; and Mike Patton, best known as the lead singer of Faith No More but increasingly identified more with genre-bending experimental projects like Mr. Bungle, Fantômas and his work with John Zorn. (A co-conspirator from these groups, Trevor Dunn, recently came onboard as the band’s new bassist.) The band’s first, self-titled release in 2001 was a vaguely terrifying journey through a funhouse of fuzz freakouts, epic choruses, post-hardcore riffs and menacing whispers—and things only got weirder from there. Its previous release, 2007’s Anonymous, was a concept album based on an extensive study of Native American tribal chants. Back together for the band’s first album in six years, Tomahawk is “restarting,” Denison says. And in this post-iTunes world, where the single is king, it’s looking to find a new audience. “After 10 years, you can’t just assume your old fans are going to be there,” he says. “Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making accommodations for the new climate. Thus, the release of “Stone Letter,” a catchy, quiet-loud hardrock song that features Patton screaming at his most tuneful. Denison makes no bones about why it was picked as the single: “‘Stone Letter’ was easily the most accessible, inoffensive sing-along-type song.... It seemed the most like other rock that is on the radio.” Fortunately for Calderon, Oddfellows also contains plenty of the signature Patton weirdness that makes her so juicy: twisted, math-y riffs; rumbling monastic chants; and no small amount of incomprehensible yelling. But if a straightforward “heavy-pop” song like “Stone Letter” is what reels in new fans, Denison is all for it. “If we suddenly have a deluge of teenage girls [at our concerts] wanting to hear ‘Stone Letter,’ I’d love it,” he says, laughing. “If we could get Mike to do a duet with Taylor Swift or Gwen Stefani, someone like that? That would be awesome.” RUTH BROWN. When weird goes pop.
SEE IT: Tomahawk plays Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., with Retox, on Wednesday, Feb. 13. 7:30 pm. $25 advance, $28 day of show. 21+. Willamette Week FEBRUARY 13, 2013 wweek.com
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[HIP-HOP HONORS] It’s been 20 years since Bone first creeped on ah come up and took hip-hop by storm, and the universal prognosis was that Bone was poised to rule the world. For a minute, they did indeed, and the group’s mix of machine-gun patois and harmonization remains stunning to this day. Here, though, Bizzy, Layzie and company have assembled to honor the man who discovered them and made that come-up possible: the late, great Eazy-E. It’s a hell of a throwback definitely worth seeing, if for nothing more than the possibility of hearing “Gimme That Nut” filtered through “First of the Month.” AP KRYZA. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $30. All ages.
The Growlers, the Night Beats, Guantanamo Baywatch
[BEACH GOTH] Legend has it, Black Keys frontman and now Grammywinning producer Dan Auerbach had a stint working with the Growlers. He probably scratched his head over what to do with the Southern California group’s surfy, tripped-out, ’60s-adoring ways. Bits of the Doors exist within the Growlers’ ghostly brand of beach rock. Newest release Hung at Heart solidifies a sound that initially seemed like a drug-induced one-off but has since grown into something nuanced and nostalgic. MARK STOCK. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 9 pm. $5-$13. All ages.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16 Victor Wooten
[JAZZ FUSION] Nothing compares to the simple joy of seeing Victor Wooten play electric bass guitar. His jazz-fusion sound lilts and floats like that of his predecessor as ruler of the low-end, Jaco Pastorius, but Wooten is also capable of driving funk breakdowns. His hands move supernaturally along the neck of his trademark Fodera bass. Wooten appeals to and conjures a spiritual side of music not often seen in such high-quality performers, so don’t be surprised if revelations appear as those stubby, strong fingers fly down the fretboard. MITCH LILLIE. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $27.50 advance, $30 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
Leftover Salmon
[SLAMGRASS] When you fuse bluegrass, there are two paths: You can do the same thing over and over again and become Mumford & Sons—sitting comfortably on a throne among the soccer moms—or you can go for broke and become Leftover Salmon, where your followers drive VW vans instead of minivans and your fame is limited but your soul remains intact. The Boulder-born quartet has actually been doing this since 1989, when it burst onto the festival circuit as a total oddity: a bluegrass band with drums that added rock, zydeco and rootin’ tootin’ country to the mix for a sound that has since been imitated but never at Salmon’s level, the band still going strong on last year’s Aquatic Hitchhiker. AP KRYZA. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $25 advance, $30 day of show. All ages.
Buke and Gase, Ahleuchatistas, Incredible Yacht Control
[CHAMBER PROG] Aron Sanchez and Arone Dyer have a propensity for marrying the dissonant with the beautiful just because they love a challenge. This duo, whose name derives from the unusual instruments they play—Sanchez a guitarbass hybrid known as a “gase” and Dyer a baritone ukulele, or “buke”— makes music that employs a host of surprising time signatures, off-kilter sonic qualities and vocals from Dyer that go from low and brood-
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KENNY FRESH (FRSH SLCTS) A lot of people have heard of 25-year-old Portlander Kenny Fresh. Most don’t know why. The New Jersey transplant, creator of music blog FRSH SLCTS, has become a significant fixture in the Northwest hip-hop scene, but his role is not always obvious. Even his parents are uncertain as to what he exactly does. But to Fresh, it’s pretty simple. “I’m a curator,” he says. “As pretentious as that sounds, that just makes the most sense: finding the right way to frame things in the context that they will do best in.” Through his blog, which he started in 2008, Fresh has released around 15 original albums, most by Northwest artists. He helps arrange artwork and mixing and advises artists on everything from the sequencing of songs to the content of lyrics. His work has helped usher in a new wave of young and talented musicians who have given the city’s hip-hop scene a new identity. Artists like Cassow and TxE, which released their latest albums through FRSH SLCTS, have moved away from the Bay Area-influenced thump of the scene’s veterans and taken on a more wide-ranging sound. “I want to be the gateway for Portland to the rest of the world,” Fresh says. But the blog was not initially meant to promote Portland’s hiphop scene—only the music he liked. It wasn’t until he grew a desire to put out projects himself that Fresh began consistently posting local music. “Some people would expect me to be more willing to work with someone because they’re local, but it’s actually the opposite,” he says. “If I’m putting you out, saying you’re from Portland and this is what we’re showing [the world], you better be the best here.” His high standards have generated some backlash. In 2009, he declined to promote the Portland Hip-Hop Festival on FRSH SLCTS, which scene veteran Cool Nutz took as an insult (the two have since reconciled and worked together). But it has also helped the blog’s popularity, attracting visitors from Amsterdam to New York. Fresh usually posts only a few times a week, to emphasize quality over quantity, and the posts tend to focus on soulful, sample-based beats. For fans of creative underground hip-hop, the blog is a gold mine. “I can be kind of hard to work with, I think,” he says. “I am aware of it and apologetic for it, but it’s just really how I feel. I’m sure no one else cares as much as I do.” Fresh is unsure how long he’ll remain in Portland. He’s a romantic when it comes to his future. He pictures himself running a label in Paris, perhaps. Or, maybe he’ll find the next big thing right here in town. “I don’t really have any grand visions of owning the most successful record label in the world or any aspirations for fame,” he says. “I just want to do cool shit.” REED JACKSON.
How to blog Portland hip-hop and occasionally alienate people.
This is the fourth in a series on Portland’s musical infrastructure. VISIT: FRSH SLCTS is at freshselects.net.
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roseburg queen: ZZ Ward plays the star Theater on saturday, Feb. 16. ing to rapturous and melodic. The stomping, guttural, almost primal feel and tone of the tracks are juxtaposed with memorable chords and Dyer’s vocals, which makes these songs strangely hypnotic as the duo navigates its way through carefully constructed chaos, one track at a time. BRIAN PALMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $10 advance, $12 day of show. 21+.
DJ Vadim, Barisone, Spekt 1
[IRON CURTAIN BEATS] Straight outta Leningrad, Russian DJ Vadim is perhaps the greatest proponent of hip-hop ever to emerge from the former Soviet Union. Since the mid-’90s, the producer born Andrey Gurov has been showcasing just how far rap culture has spread, touring the world with his hard-hitting, Space Age beats, which he’s used to remix everyone from Public Enemy and the Roots to Stevie Wonder and Paul Weller. He’s clearly not a purist: While hip-hop is the backbone of his work, Vadim blends it with liberal amounts of electronica, soul, dub and trip-hop. Next-level shit? Vadim’s been on it for years. MATTHEW SINGER. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
ZZ Ward, Delta Rae, Martin Harley
[ADELE-TA BLUES] Hailed as an Oregonian by most everyone outside the state, Roseburg native ZZ Ward doesn’t get much love from hometown critics, who tend to equate her lovingly layered, R&Bflavored pop with her adopted home of Los Angeles. As her star continues to rise on the strength of her just-released first album, Til the Casket Drops, though, we always have room to embrace a new favorite daughter. Beyond her debut’s smoldering top-40 ballad “Put the Gun Down,” there’s a wealth of blues and hip-hop textures framing choruses tailored for emotive belting. If it all sounds a bit less interesting than the smoky warbles that graced initial mixtape Eleven Roses, that’s life in the big city. JAY HORTON. Star Theater, 13 NW 6th Ave. 8:30 pm. $15. 21+.
SUNDAY, FEB. 17 Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried and Me, Russian Circles
[HOT TOPIC PROG] Let’s get this out of the way: Russian Circles is a great, heavy instrumental postrock band. But it’s not worth $27.50. Anyway, I love prog and metal and comics and science fiction, so I want to appreciate Coheed and Cambria. C&C guitarist-vocalist Claudio Sanchez writes entire graphic novels based on the band’s lyrical concepts. But even though latest album Afterman: Descension (yes, it’s the follow-up to last year’s Afterman: Ascension) comes with five trading cards if you buy it from Hot Topic, I’m still vomiting in my mouth even attempting to listen to the music on offer here. It really sounds like Jonathan Davis from Korn fronting Living Colour. NATHAN CARSON.
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Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $27.50. All ages.
Samothrace, Vassafor, Knelt Rote, Burials
[EXTREME METAL] The only thing in 2012 sadder than Pallbearer’s Sorrow and Extinction was Samothrace canceling its tour with Pallbearer. While Pallbearer took the world by storm last year, Seattle’s Samothrace continued its slow-burning simmer, churning out bleak, turgid doom on the longawaited Reverence to Stone. Before Renata Castagna’s guitar leads bring you to tears tonight, you’ll be subjected to an opening set from Burials, which now features “Fester” from Humors (née Mongoloid Village) on second axe. And did I mention Vassafor is a black-metal band from New Zealand? Bet that got your attention. NATHAN CARSON. Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., 234-5683. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
MONDAY, FEB. 18 Eels, Nicole Atkins
[BULLHORN ROCK] Any band with a drummer nicknamed Knuckles is worth your time. Doubly so when that band is Eels, Mark Everett Oliver’s mighty California-based rock machine. With nearly two decades of work under its belt, Eels continues to make waves, most recently with the alternating arenarock fuzz and dark introspection of Wonderful, Glorious. Oliver’s grizzled vocals and solid songwriting stand strong, emulating Beck without overdoing it. Eels’ new sound is cool and sexy, dressed in searing electric-guitar hooks and punchy percussion. MARK STOCK. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 8 pm. $28.50 advance, $30 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.
TUESDAY, FEB. 19 Mouse on Mars, Matmos, Horse Lords
[ELECTRONIC EXPRESSIONS] This show brings together two of the more quietly influential duos in electronic music for one glorious night of weirdness. Mouse on Mars has been perfecting an indelicate balance of glitchy beats and warmwater dub since 1993. The German duo’s most recent effort, last year’s Parastrophics, uses toasting and rapping in the mix, as if remixed from a vintage Jamaican soundsystem bootleg. Matmos also loves a good dance beat, but at the service of a conceptual construct. Its new LP, The Marriage of True Minds, was created via experiments in which the two tried to psychically transmit the theme of the album to people in isolation tanks. Samples of the people singing or describing what they “saw” were then turned into vivid musical expressions by the pair. ROBERT HAM. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. 21+.
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4144 SE 60th Ave. Brian Francis and the FoPo Follies
Vie de boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Anandi, Randy Porter, Dave Captein
White eagle Saloon GRANT CORNETT
836 N Russell St. The Moody Dudes, Pat Kearns (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)
Wilfs Restaurant & bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Richard Arnold & the Groove Swingers
FRI. Feb. 15 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn, Joe McMurrian
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Afro-Cuban All Stars, Alfredo Rodriguez
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Ashleigh Flynn, Sarah King
Aloft
bATHING buddIeS: buke and Gase play doug Fir Lounge on Saturday, Feb. 16.
Wed. Feb. 13 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders: Carrie Brownstein, Peter Buck, Sallie Ford, Ben Gibbard, K.D. Lang, Storm Large, Scott McCaughey, Colin Meloy, Laura Veirs
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Jason Okamoto
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Mr. Mudd, Mr. Plow, Item 9, Smash Bandits
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Fan Club
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Ruby Feathers, the Lonesome Billies, Lincoln’s Beard
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Suburban Slim’s Blues Jam (9 pm); Arthur Moore’s Harmonica Party (6 pm)
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Privatized Air, God Bless America, Erik Anarchy
Goodfoot Lounge
2845 SE Stark St. Tracorum, the Lesser Bangs
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Bruxa, Textbeak, Nightmare Fortress, Rxch Wxtch
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. John Dover Quartet
Mississippi Studios 3939 N Mississippi Ave. UUVVWWZ, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Aina Haina
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave. Marilyn Manson, Butcher Babies
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. You Knew Me When, Roselit Bone
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. Oreganic, Device Grips
Suki’s bar & Grill 2401 SW 4th Ave. Brian Odell
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Toy, Qwong, the North Wind
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. Black Medic
The Old Church
1422 SW 11th Ave. Kay Robbins
The Press Club
2621 SE Clinton St. The Sea and the Mother, Shawn Lawson Freeman
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Gresham Transit Center, Butt 2 Butt, William Ingrid
Vie de boheme
1530 SE 7th Ave. Pink Lady and the John Bennett Jazz Band
White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. World’s Finest
Wonder ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Tomahawk, Retox
THuRS. Feb. 14 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel
Undergang, Necrot, Scolex, Burning Axe, Spoilage
The Pickups (8:30 pm); Chris Miller’s High Life Trio (6 pm)
backspace
LaurelThirst
115 NW 5th Ave. Sumi-Iro Sunrise, Footcold, Extra Medium Dakimakuras
biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Sidestreet Reny
bossanova ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wanderlust Circus Orchestra
branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Every Time I Die, the Acacia Strain, Vanna, Hundredth, No Bragging Rights
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Chaos Chaos
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. Tony Holiday (9 pm); Tough Lovepyle (6 pm)
Fez ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. Adam Warrock, Death*Star, Bad Habitat, DJ Switch, DJ SugarPDX
Funhouse Lounge
2432 SE 11th Ave. Dre C, Soopah Eype
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. The Sean & Fred Show
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adrianne Gunn
Jimmy Mak’s
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Banh Mi, Superduperfungun, Lps
Kelly’s Olympian
1037 SW Broadway Roberta Flack with the Oregon Symphony
426 SW Washington St. The Century, Mount Mazama, Modern Marriage
Ash Street Saloon
Landmark Saloon
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biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Counterfeit Cash
bossanova ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wanderlust Circus Orchestra
branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Wednesday 13, Calabrese, Cold Blue Rebels, Toxic Zombie
bunk bar
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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115 NW 5th Ave. The Greater Midwest, Tiger House, the Hague
Red Room
1669 SE Bybee Blvd. Denim Wedding
LaurelThirst
225 SW Ash St.
Music Millennium
backspace
Corkscrew Wine bar
Katie O’briens
2958 NE Glisan St. Old Flames (9 pm); Wayward Vessel with Ben Cartwright & Brad Gregg (6 pm)
8105 SE 7th Ave. Stumbleweed
225 SW Ash St. The Get Ahead, the Lovely Lost, the Harm
buffalo Gap Saloon
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio, Danny Romero
Muddy Rudder Public House
Ash Street Saloon
8 NE Killingsworth St. Imaginary Pants, Fake Nails, Wrangell Saint Elias
510 NW 11th Ave. Tom Grant & Shelly Rudolph
426 SW Washington St. The Jackalope Saints, Anna and the Underbelly, Chapweske
Kelly’s Olympian
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Tribute to Women of Country (9 pm); Mo Phillips, Johnny Keener (6 pm)
1314 NW Glisan St. Nat Hulskamp Trio
Camellia Lounge
303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn, Elizabeth Nicholson & Bob Soper
2346 SE Ankeny St. Adam Brock
Mississippi Pizza
Andina
3158 E Burnside St. Greater Midwest
221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown B3 Organ Group with Shirley Nanette (9:30 pm and 7 pm)
Jade Lounge
2958 NE Glisan St. Conjugal Visitors, Cow Paddy Stompers (9 pm); The Left Coast Roasters (6 pm)
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Portland Jazz Festival: Brooks Robertson
4847 SE Division St.
Record Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. Stepper
Rontoms
600 E Burnside St. Rock ‘n’ Roll Prom: Monarques, Pony Village, the Cry, DJ Cooky Parker, DJ Hanukkah Miracle
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Tezeta Band (9 pm); Lone Madrone (6 pm)
Slim’s Cocktail bar
8635 N Lombard St. Closely Watched Trains
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave. Stone In Love (Journey tribute), Redlight Romeos
The blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Ben Jones
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. Sam Densmore, Splintered in Her Head
The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave. Tony Green, Malachi Graham
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. OctaGrape, Karl & the Jerks, Sad Horse (9:30 pm); Open Mic (6 pm)
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Tony Starlight with the Reece Marshburn Trio
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Andy Stokes 1028 SE Water Ave. Hustle & Drone, Old Age
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Andre St. James Quartet
Portland Jazz Festival: Ezra Weiss and Andre St. James
Livid Minds, Ion Storm, American Roulette, Sleepy Creek
Hawthorne Theatre
Roseland Theater
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Sonics, Pierced Arrows, the Pynnacles
Hotel Monaco
506 SW Washington St. Portland Jazz Festival: David Kim, John Letts, Celeste Goguen and Kathryn Hayes
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: David Valdez (11 pm); Rebecca Kilgore, Randy Porter, Tom Wakeling, Todd Strait (8 pm); Jim Templeton (6 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Colin Johnson (8 pm); Chris Baron (6 pm)
8 NW 6th Ave. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, RCG, Kause N Effect, Mdot, Chris B & Gondi, Vicious Demented
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Coco & Ruby, the Jenny Finn Orchestra (9 pm); Boy & Bean (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Roadkill Carnivore, I Have No Friends
SoHiTek Records
625 NW Everett St., Suite 102 Summer Cannibals, Dead Folk
Someday Lounge
Jimmy Mak’s
125 NW 5th Ave. Shane Alexander, Kyle McNeill
Katie O’briens
13 NW 6th Ave. The Growlers, the Night Beats, Guantanamo Baywatch
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Barry Harris Trio (9:30 pm and 7 pm) 2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Dinner for Wolves, Rat Priest, Bitch School
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Wow and Flutter, Souvenir Driver, Talkative, Buzzyshyface, Mike Coykendall, Autopilot is for Lovers, Bevelers (Kelly’s Olympian anniversary)
Kenton Club
Star Theater
The blue diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. A.C. Porter and the Livewires
The Firkin Tavern
1937 SE 11th Ave. The We Shared Milk
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Black Magick Dragon, Battle Ax Massacre, Cryptic Edifice
2025 N Kilpatrick St. System & Station, Dinosaur Heart, Old Light
The TARdIS Room
Landmark Saloon
Tonic Lounge
4847 SE Division St. Portland Playboys (9 pm); Hank Sinatra (6 pm)
Laughing Horse books 12 NE 10th Ave. Reptilian Shape Shifters, Hang the Old Year, Mustaphamond
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. The Psych Country Revue, Ruby Feathers, Osprey Sisters (9:30 pm); Sassparilla (6 pm)
Little Axe Records
1218 N Killingsworth St. Arthur Moore 3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Drats!!!, Bad Assets, Rollerball
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Starlight with the All-Star Horns (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. tribute)
Torta Landia
4144 SE 60th Ave. Those Willows
Vie de boheme
5012 NE 28th Ave. Meg Baird, Daniel Bachman, Plankton Wat
1530 SE 7th Ave. The Melissa Buchanan Band, Joanne Broh Band, Karen Lovely
Mississippi Pizza
West Cafe
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Melao de Cuba (9 pm); Sarah Gwen, Scott Weddle, Michael Jodell, Matt Brown (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: John Nastos and Clay Giberson
White eagle Saloon
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Resolectrics, Steelhead, Jeffrey Martin and Anna Tivel
836 N Russell St. Balto, Chris Marshall, Ruby Pines (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)
1332 W Burnside St. The Presidents of the United States of America, Campfire OK, Aaron Daniel’s One Man Banned, Godfrey Daniels & the Red Balloon
Montavilla Station
Wilfs Restaurant & bar
doug Fir Lounge
Muddy Rudder Public House
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ocean 503
Crystal ballroom
830 E Burnside St. The Ruby Suns, Painted Palms
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. The B-Stars, Can’t Hardly Playboys (9 pm); The Hamdogs (6 pm)
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Iommi Stubbs, Crag Dweller, the Gnash
eastburn
1800 E Burnside St. Giraffe Dodgers
Ford Food and drink
2505 SE 11th Ave. Josh Cole, the Rainbow Sign, Dust and Thirst
HIlton executive Towers 545 SW Taylor St.
417 SE 80th Ave. The Angel Bouchet Band
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Sugarcane, Jeff Crosby & the Refugees
8105 SE 7th Ave. Terry Robb
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Linda Hornbuckle
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Acre, Entity, Swahili
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave.
800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Tony Pacini Trio
SAT. Feb. 16 Agenda
2366 SE 82nd Jagula
Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Kory Quinn, Sam Cooper
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Victor Wooten
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside (Live Wire!)
Aloft
9920 NE Cascades Parkway Portland Jazz Festival: Dan Balmer & Go By Plane
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Toshi Onizuka Trio
Artichoke Community Music
3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Brian Oberlin & Gideon Freudmann
Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Streakin Healys, East Side Speed Machine, Ultra Goat, Haileys Vomit
backspace
115 NW 5th Ave. Terror, Bane, Backtrack, Code Orange Kids, Young Turks
benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway Portland Jazz Festival: Naomi LaViolette
biddy McGraw’s
6000 NE Glisan St. Brad Creel & the Reel Deel
branx
320 SE 2nd Ave. Illmaculate, Onlyone, Vinnie Dewayne, 9DM, Bigg K, Cool Nutz
buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Jorge Ramirez
bushwhacker Cider
1212D SE Powell Blvd. Jenny Conlee-Drizos (of the Decemberists)
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Steve Hall Quintet
Classic Pianos
3003 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Wayne Horvitz
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. Paradise, the Verner Pantons, Sharks from Mars
Clyde’s Prime Rib
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Andy Stokes
Crystal ballroom
1332 W Burnside St. Leftover Salmon
dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Portland Jazz Festival: Hot 8 Brass Band
doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Buke and Gase, Ahleuchatistas, Incredible Yacht Control
ducketts Public House 825 N Killingsworth St. Pageripper, Alarms
duff’s Garage
1635 SE 7th Ave. DK Stewart Sextet
east end
203 SE Grand Ave. Peroxide, Elegy
eastburn
1800 E Burnside St. Boy & Bean
Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse 1517 NE Brazee St. Kelsey Morris
Foggy Notion
3416 N Lombard St. Bullets or Balloons, Outerspace Heaters, Young Dad
Gemini Lounge
6526 SE Foster Road Aaron McDonnell & the Gospel Plow
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. The Polyrhythmics
Hawthorne Hophouse 4111 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ben Larsen
Hawthorne Theatre
3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Southgate, Hell’s Parish, Guillotine, Ion Storm, Wayfarer
Hotel Monaco
506 SW Washington St. Portland Jazz Festival: David Kim, John Letts, Julie Jacobs, and Jon Lakey
Feb. 13–19 Torta Landia
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4144 SE 60th Ave. Kevin Guitron
VFW Post 907
837 SE Mill St. Oregon Pipers’ Society
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Soul Vaccination
West Cafe
1201 SW Jefferson St. Portland Jazz Festival: Carol Rossio and Dustin Hunley
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Radio Giants (9:30 pm); The Student Loan (4:30 pm)
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: David Valdez (11 pm); Two Tenors & Dave Frishberg (8 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Brian Rozendal, My Father’s Pocket Watch (8 pm); Ama Bently (6 pm)
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Lisa Mann with Diane Blue
Katie O’Briens
2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Chase the Shakes, American Roulette, Mr. Plow, Taint Misbehavin’
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. And And And, the We Shared Milk, Old Age, Fanno Creek, Pony Village, the Morals, Donovan Breakwater, Beyond Veronica (Kelly’s Olympian anniversary)
Kenton Club
2025 N Kilpatrick St. Vises, Bubble Cats, Child Children
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Rocky Butte Wranglers
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Everyday Prophets (9:30 pm); Michael Hurley & the Croakers (6 pm)
Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Portland Jazz Festival: Blue Cranes with Wayne Horvitz
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. HyDrive, Gabriel Trees Band (9 pm); Chad Hinman, Camping in a Cadillac (6 pm); Lorna Miller Little Kid’s Jamboree (4 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Kris Allen, Jillette Johnson
Mock Crest Tavern 3435 N Lombard St. Conjugal Visitors
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Ax, A Happy Death, the Blind Pets, the Hoons
Muddy Rudder Public House 8105 SE 7th Ave. Josiah Payne
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Cat Doorman, ZZ Ward
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Mike Pardew, Marc Huchison, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
Original Halibut’s II 2527 NE Alberta St. Norman Sylvester
Portland Prime
121 SW 3rd Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Mel Brown Trio
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Emotional, Haste, Love Cop, Week of Wonders
Red Room
2530 NE 82nd Ave. The Daggers, Anal Bunt, Weresquatch, Goregon Stare, B.R.S
Red and Black Cafe
400 SE 12th Ave. Ghost Ease, Voices, Evyn Oliver
Scottish Rite Center
1512 SW Morrison St. Portland Jazz Festival: Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band featuring Rebecca Kilgore (Stan Kenton tribute), Shanghai Woolies
Secret Society Lounge 116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Strangled Darlings, Lone Madrone, Sidestreet Reny (9 pm); Swing Papillon (6 pm)
Slabtown
1033 NW 16th Ave. Whales, Blind Pets, Cower
Slim’s Cocktail Bar
5819 SE Milwaukie Ave. Gun Room Melodies, Brian Stevens, Sam Fisher, Jeremy Allen, Danger Death Ray
SuN. FEB. 17 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jordan Clark, Joel Uram
Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Music Together benefit (5 pm and 3 pm)
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. Danny Romero Trio
Center for Self Enhancement
3920 N Kerby Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: SEI’s Sounds of Soul Choir 3003 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Alfredo Rodriguez
Clyde’s Prime Rib
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Franco and the Stingers
The Blue Monk
East End
2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Orwells
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: The Tom Wakeling Bridge Quartet
The Firkin Tavern
1435 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Khan Heir, Comaserfs, Dillion Nunes, Dr. Killemoff
2026 NE Alberta St. Black Marble, Bellicose Minds, Dead Cult, Shadow House
The TARDIS Room
1218 N Killingsworth St. Cambrian Explosion, Mister Tang, Brain Capital
Tonic Lounge
3100 NE Sandy Blvd. Fat Opie, the Harm
Tony Starlight’s
3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland Jazz Festival: Gretchen Rumbaugh, Darcy White, Courtney Freed, Sara Catherine Wheatley, Emily Beleele
3341 SE Belmont St. Portland Jazz Festival: The Quadraphonnes
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Ill Camino, Speed Angel, We Are Like the Spider
Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Sellwood Jazz
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Rob Larkin & Joseph Eid, Jack McMahon, Chance Hayden
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St. Red Fang, Federation X, Dog Shredder
MON. FEB. 18 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jordan Clark, Mark Cleaver
Aladdin Theater
Andina
830 E Burnside St. Tim Snider & Sound Society, Not Amy, Blake Noble
Jade Lounge
The Know
The Blue Monk
Doug Fir Lounge
3341 SE Belmont St. Johnny Credit & Cash Machine, Jonesmore & the Blackout Dates 1937 SE 11th Ave. Metropolitan Farms, Magnetic Health Factory, Hawthorne, the Honus Huffiness
Slabtown
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Eels, Nicole Atkins
Ford Food and Drink
The Blue Diamond
Secret Society Lounge
5474 NE Sandy Blvd. Ron Steen Jazz Jam
Someday Lounge
13 NW 6th Ave. ZZ Ward, Delta Rae, Martin Harley
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Samothrace, Vassafor, Knelt Rote, Burials
Yukon Tavern
8635 N Lombard St. Twisted Whistle
Star Theater
White Eagle Saloon
1033 NW 16th Ave. Voices, Blind Lovejoy, Busy Scissors
203 SE Grand Ave. Black Marble, Lighthouse, Vice Device
125 NW 5th Ave. The Bleeding Hearts Band, Ruth Oliver, DJ Cotton Candy
Roseland Theater
Wilfs Restaurant & Bar
Classic Pianos Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
232 SW Ankeny St. Lindsay Clark, Jennie Wayne, Birger Olsen, Barna Howard
8 NW 6th Ave. Coheed and Cambria, Between the Buried & Me, Russian Circles
2346 SE Ankeny St. Alexa Wiley
Langano Lounge
Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Weed, Cascadia, Cellmate
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Hungry, Hungry Hip-Hop (9 pm); Counterfeit Cash (6 pm)
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. Animal Eyes, Sam Wegman, Ryan Stively
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Anna & the Underbelly
Nel Centro
1408 SW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Mike Pardew, Dave Captein, Randy Rollofson
1314 NW Glisan St. Pete Krebs
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Cheryl Hodge Trio (8 pm); PSU Bebop Combo/Hardbop Combo (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Emerson House Band, Fred Stickley
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Gerald Wilson with the PDX Jazz Educator’s Septet (9:30 pm); Gerald Wilson with the PDX Jazz All-Star Student Band (7 pm)
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Saturday Night Drive
Mount Tabor Theater
4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Saint Warhead, Sti-Lo Reel, Ced Linus, Jasiel, AlienShipRex, Avalonne, Brenboy
Music Millennium
3158 E Burnside St. Bobby Long
Rogue Public House 1339 NW Flanders St Portland Jazz Festival: Joe Manis Trio
Secret Society Lounge
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Carlton Jackson/Dave Mills Big Band
The Blue Diamond
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Sumo
MUSIC CALENDAR
Valentine’s
600 E Burnside St. Regular Music, Copy, Paper/Upper/Cuts, Grapefruit
116 NE Russell St. Portland Jazz Festival: Creative Music Guild Collective Ensemble with Wayne Horvitz
800 NW 6th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Devin Phillips Quartet
IN CIDERS: You have to respect the purity of purpose at Bushwacker Cider (1212 SE Powell Blvd., Suite D, 445-0577, bushwhackercider.com). It would be easy to broaden the comfortable, vaguely English pub’s appeal by tossing a few bottled Newcastles in the cooler next to 185 ciders. But it would do nothing to add to the atmosphere, which was informed on a recent Saturday night by a high-stakes dart game, a stray catalog for Settlers of Catan expansion packs, a man in a utility kilt and copies of a weekly Portland-based, nerd-themed periodical. Settle in with a taster tray of tap ciders ($6) and some gluten-free pretzel sticks ($3). From the tasters, I was most taken with a barrel-aged version of the supermarket staple Woodchuck, which tasted like a well-blended but fairly syrupy bourbon cocktail. I ordered a pint, and learned maybe there were already a few compromises on the menu, even without any beer. “That stuff is way too sweet for me,” says the bartender. “But I want other people to find ciders they enjoy.” In that, he’s succeeded. MARTIN CIZMAR.
Rontoms
836 N Russell St. Samsel and the Skirt
WED. FEB. 13 Beech Street Parlor
TuES. FEB. 19 Al’s Den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jordan Clark, Nathan Trueb
Andina
1314 NW Glisan St. JB Butler
Buffalo Gap Saloon
6835 SW Macadam Ave. Evrim
Bunk Bar
1028 SE Water Ave. The Century, Damn Divas
Camellia Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Steve Christofferson, Tom Wakeling, David Evans, Todd Strait
Doug Fir Lounge
830 E Burnside St. Mouse on Mars, Matmos, Horse Lords
Evans Auditorium at Lewis & Clark College 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road Portland Jazz Festival: Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet
Goodfoot Lounge 2845 SE Stark St. Radula
Hawthorne Theatre 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Soulfly, Incite, Lody Kong, 30 Pound Test
Ivories Jazz Lounge and Restaurant
1435 NW Flanders St. Portland Jazz Festival: Art Resnick Trio (8 pm); PSU Contemporary Combo/Vocalists (5 pm)
Jade Lounge
2346 SE Ankeny St. Margeret Wehr
Jimmy Mak’s
221 NW 10th Ave. Portland Jazz Festival: Scott Hamilton (9:30 pm and 7 pm)
Landmark Saloon
4847 SE Division St. Honky Tonk Union
LaurelThirst
2958 NE Glisan St. Jackstraw
Marriott-Waterfront
1401 SW Naito Parkway Portland Jazz Festival: Nicole Glover with Jon Lakey
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave. Max Porter
Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave. The Deer Tracks, Good Night Billygoat, Magic Wands, Like a Villain
Music Millennium
412 NE Beech St. Bill Portland
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. DJ Pretty Ugly
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Danny Dodge
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Magic Beans
THuRS. FEB. 14 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Hans Fricking Lindauer
Dante’s
350 W Burnside St. Discotecque Internacionale with DJ Cecilia
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Marti
East End
203 SE Grand Ave. Metal Valentine’s Day with DJ Old Man Stares
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul: DJs Beyondadoubt, Primo
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Soul Nite: Chazz Madrigal, Alan Torres
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave. ‘80s Video Dance Attack
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Jake Cheeto
The Lovecraft
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Carnage, Sidestep, Kellan
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Ra’Sean
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. Maxx Bass, Freaky Outty
FRI. FEB. 15 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJs Dirty Hands, City Baby
Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave DJ Just Dave
Club 21
2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Nate C
The Blue Diamond
Holocene
White Eagle Saloon
836 N Russell St. Doug Shafer, Eric Stern, Jason Ramirez, Paul Evans
Beulahland
118 NE 28th Ave DJ Just Dave
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Mikee Lixxx, DJ Dirty Red
Fez Ballroom
316 SW 11th Ave. DJ Nature
Holocene
1001 SE Morrison St. Gaycation: Mr. Charming, DJ Snowtiger, DJ Pocket Rock-It, DJ Ill Camino, DJ Bruce LaBruiser, DJ Roy G Biv, DJ Gossip Cat (Gaycation 7th anniversary)
Record Room
8 NE Killingsworth St. Hot Wax–Record Swap with DJ Denta
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. DJ Vadim, Barisone, Spekt 1
The Whiskey Bar
31 NW 1st Ave. Play Saturday: Johnny Monsoon, Colin James, DJ Eddie
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. Hostile Tapeover
Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Erik Menteer
SuN. FEB. 17
Lola’s Room at the Crystal Ballroom
1218 N Killingsworth St. Sparkle Princess Forever
Groove Suite
232 SW Ankeny St. I’m Lost, Oo-Ray, Beaunoise, Ethernet (Experimental Portland showcase)
412 NE Beech St. DJ Doug Ferious
The TARDIS Room
Slabtown
Valentine’s
SAT. FEB. 16 Beech Street Parlor
Dig a Pony
Dig a Pony
2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Rhoades, Porter and Draper
232 SW Ankeny St. DJ Bill Hambone
421 SE Grand Ave. Computer Luv: DJs Acid Rick, Simon Galaga
3158 E Burnside St. Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside 1033 NW 16th Ave. A Volcano, Mythological Horses, Young Dad
Valentine’s
736 SE Grand Ave. DJ Nealie Neal 440 NW Glisan St. Trifecta: Art of Hot, Justin Jeffers, Ernest Ryan 1001 SE Morrison St. Rockbox: Matt Nelkin, DJ Kez, DJ 100Proof
Moloko Plus
3967 N Mississippi Ave DJ Maxamillion
Rotture
315 SE 3rd Ave. Shutup & Dance with DJ Gregarious
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Tones
736 SE Grand Ave. The Man in Black Pajamas
1332 W Burnside St. DJ Anjali (Her HRC Benefit)
MON. FEB. 18 Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Cha Cha
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Tre Slim
Kelly’s Olympian
426 SW Washington St. Eye Candy VJs
The Know
2026 NE Alberta St. Know the Ledge with DJ Montgomery Word
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Cuica
TuES. FEB. 19 Ash Street Saloon
225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Blood Mouse vs. Obsolete Denim, Sunfalls, Rudement, Brakatan
Beech Street Parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Nietzsche
Dig a Pony
736 SE Grand Ave. Last Call
Star Bar
639 SE Morrison St. DJ Bradly
Tiga
1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Womb Service
The Lovecraft
421 SE Grand Ave. TRNGL with DJ Rhienna
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PERFORMANCE
Feb. 13–19
La Celestina
= 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.
Based on Fernando de Rojas’ 1499 novel, this Miracle Theatre production finds a lovesick nobleman seeking help from a sorceress. In Spanish with English supertitles. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 2. $15-$30.
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Macbeth
To inaugurate its new black-box space, Post5 Theatre stages an abridged take on Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-2588584. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays through March 17. $10 Fridays-Saturdays, Sundays “pay what you can.”
Moliere in Love
Readings of three one-acts by French playwright Molière. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 971-266-3787. 8 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 15-16. $8.
Nothing But the Truth
la celestina
THEATRE 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
[NEW REVIEW] As Wendy Westerwelle tells it, Jewish mothers would make great drug pushers. “What do you mean you don’t want the crack?” she asks, slack-jawed. “I’ve been slaving over the stove cooking crystal meth all day!” This sort of humor—simultaneously incisive and borderline outlandish—characterizes much of 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, based on more than 50 interviews and co-written by comedian Judy Gold and playwright Kate Moira Ryan. Gold performed 25 Questions as a solo act, but at Triangle Productions it’s been reimagined as a two-woman show. Ritah Parrish plays Gold, and the throaty-voiced Westerwelle, with the help of an endless succession of hats and scarves (including a sequined newsboy cap, a red crushed-velvet cloche and a glittery leopard-print scarf), plays the various Jewish mothers. It’s a mostly smooth conceit, with Parrish delivering her personal narrative directly to the audience—in a few affecting moments, her character grapples with whether to tell Orthodox interviewees that she’s gay—and Westerwelle reveling in her own scenery chewing. Some of Westerwelle’s impersonations are more effective than others: She produces laughs while defending her interference in her children’s romantic lives, but her outsize persona drowns the more dramatic vignettes. Parrish, too, is more comfortable in the comic moments, which makes for a show with little dramatic payoff but many a lighthearted crack. REBECCA JACOBSON. Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd., 239-5919. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 24. $15-$35.
Anansi the Spider
Tears of Joy Theatre tells two tales of the trickster spider. Winningstad Theatre, Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-0557. 11 am and 1 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. 1 and 3 pm Sunday, 17. $17-$21.
Antony and Cleopatra
Northwest Classical Theatre Company stages Shakespeare’s tragic romance. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Sundays through March 10. $18-$20.
The Box Marked Black
[NEW REVIEW] When completing college applications, Damaris Webb checked her race as “other.” This label also applies to her solo show, which fuses dance, sock puppetry and metafictional storytelling. In the absence of easy description, “delightful” will have to do. Webb, In a quick hour,
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addresses the muddy topic of diversity with grace and dexterity. Even more commendable, she avoids diatribe. A simple chest is the entire set, but Webb traverses states with her Baptist grandparents on their move to Oregon. She travels to South Africa and a Minnesota bathhouse. She weathers discrimination and Thanksgiving dinners, all the while drawing out details to transport the audience as well. We hear the gum-smacking stylists at her Dominican salon in Portland and the buzz of lakeside mosquitoes in Minnesota. While bouts of interpretive dance at first seem confused, they serve to break up what might otherwise plod. Puppets, too, provoke skepticism, but Webb’s mini re-enactments of the television miniseries Roots are well placed. By the time Little House on the Prairie, Roots and Barack Obama share the stage, it’s charming. Taking the audience on an endearing personal journey, Webb goes beyond the uncertainty of “other.” ENID SPITZ. Ethos/IFCC, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 283-8467. 7:30 pm Fridays and Sundays, 3 pm and 7:30 pm Saturdays through Feb. 24. $10-$15.
The Huntsmen
Devon, the central character in Quincy Long’s strange and striking dark comedy, is awkward and fidgety. He’s also a machete-wielding serial killer. Played with mesmerizing zeal by Dean Linnard, Devon is equal parts clumsy teen, moody murderer and smooth crooner. The Huntsmen isn’t a musical, but it’s peppered with catchy doo-wop tunes. Several days later, I’m still singing to myself. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm SaturdaysSundays through Feb. 17. $23-$32.
International Falls
That comedy comes from pain is a well-worn trope, but in Thomas Ward’s compassionate and sharply observed world-premiere play, it’s a two-way street: Not only do misfortune and sadness produce laughs, but comedy also leads to tragedy. This is the case with Tim (Isaac Lamb), a lonely standup comedian. Stuck in International Falls, Minn., Tim meets a Holiday Inn desk clerk (Laura Faye Smith). What follows is 90 minutes of theater that is both piercingly funny and bitterly heart-rending. REBECCA JACOBSON. The CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh St., 220-2646. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 16. $20-$25.
Kiss & Tell
Portland Story Theater celebrates Valentine’s Day with stories both sweet and steamy. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm Thursday, Feb. 14. $18-$36. 21+.
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In devoting a full season to a single playwright—this year, Athol Fugard— Profile Theatre is unique in Portland. The new “In Dialogue” series stretches that mold, presenting readings of contemporary plays that deepen conversation about the featured playwright. First up is John Kani’s Nothing But the Truth, about a South African man preparing to bury his brother. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 2420080. 7:30 pm Wednesday-Saturday, 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 13-17. $16-$18.
Red Herring
Oregon Shakespeare Festival vet Christopher Liam Moore directs Michael Hollinger’s hard-boiled comedy. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Wednesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through March 17. $25-$50.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Portland Actors Conservatory presents Tom Stoppard’s classic absurdist work. Portland Actors Conservatory, 1436 SW Montgomery St., 274-1717. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through Feb. 24. $10-$25.
Something’s Got Ahold of My Heart
Is love more like a fish stew or a Phil Collins song? Hand2Mouth wants you to consider this in its frenetic, nonnarrative show, which packs playful vignettes, goofy choreography, heartrending storytelling and boisterous rock ballads. The performers approach their topic with such unapologetic sincerity that they successfully sidestep sentimentality. Erin Leddy and Maesie Speer enact a 1930s romance between a Marxist Jew and her Waspy husband, which we later see crumble. As Matthew Dieckman and Julie Hammond steer a relationship from initial infatuation to troubled standstill, Something’s Got Ahold probes passion and heartbreak. The show closes with a spirited rock concert, featuring several original songs. In one, “Breaks My Fucking Heart,” the performers howl into their microphones and pound their feet. With their deeply felt commitment, they just might break your fucking heart—in the best of ways. REBECCA JACOBSON. Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm ThursdaysSundays through Feb. 17. $12-$20.
Three Days of Rain
Defunkt Theatre takes on Richard Greenberg’s Pulitzer-nominated drama, about a troubled son investigating the life of his father. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 481-2960. 8 pm Thursdays-Sundays (no shows Feb. 17 and 24). $15-$25 Fridays-Saturdays, “pay what you can” Thursdays and Sundays.
The Velvet Sky
Theatre Vertigo presents Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s phantasmagorical fairy tale about a mother who is haunted by a malevolent Sandman as she searches for her missing son. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St., 306-0870. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays through March 16. $15.
Venus in Fur
Fifty Shades of Grey reduced sadomasochism to handcuffs and spanking. Venus in Fur—while not devoid of dog collars and riding crops—throws into question such simple ideas of control and compliance. In David Ives’ work, the relationship between domination and submission is an erotic power play that revels in its ambiguous stakes. Thomas (David Barlow) is a playwright-director who has adapted Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 novella about a man who dreams of being enslaved by a woman, and as Venus in Fur begins he’s just endured a disastrous string of auditions. But then into the dingy rehearsal room blows Vanda (a mesmeric Ginny Myers Lee), who cajoles Thomas into letting her audition. Opposite this swirling tempest, Barlow falters. Best, perhaps, to turn attention to Ives’ sizzling script, a fiercer whip than E.L. James could ever hope to crack. REBECCA JACOBSON. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSaturdays and most Sundays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays, noon Thursdays through March 10. $25-$54.
COMEDY & VARIETY The Coco & Ruby Variety Hour
Courtney Freed and Rebecca Johnson present a ’40s-style show. The Secret Society Ballroom, 116 NE Russell St., 493-3600. 9 pm Friday, Feb. 15. $10.
I Heart Improv
Lovey-dovey improv. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 14. $15.
Portland Secrets
Sleep with your buddy’s girlfriend? Kill your roommate’s cat? It’s time to spill those secrets—and then see them come to life onstage. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 224-2227. 9:30 pm Saturdays through Feb. 23. $8.
Spectravagasm 2
Portland-specific sketch comedy from Post5 Theatre. Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 971-258-8584. 10:30 pm FridaysSaturdays through March 16. “Pay what you can,” $10 suggested.
Tom Rhodes
Rhodes, the first spokesperson to sign with Comedy Central, now hosts a podcast and does travel writing for The Huffington Post. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, Feb. 14-16. $15-$25.
CLASSICAL Charles Curtis
The cellist offers two different programs. Friday’s Naldjorlak is an exploration of cello acoustics, harmonics, tuning and textures composed by French electronic-music pioneer Éliane Radigue. Saturday’s performance includes a work by American experimentalist pioneer Alvin Lucier, a work by Mieko Shiomi and a graphic score by the Fluxus artist-provacateur Alison Knowles, made of handmade rice paper, beans, lentils, fabric and string, which Curtis interprets by tapping, rubbing and stroking the cello with bare hands. YU Contemporary, 800 SE 10th Ave., Portland, 236-7996. 8 pm FridaySaturday, Feb. 15-16. $7.50-$15.
Jason Vieaux
The prize-winning guitarist has swept most of the fretboard awards in his field, performed with major orchestras, topped the classical charts with solo recordings and even branched into acoustic interpretations of jazz guitar great Pat Metheny’s music. You won’t hear a more adept guitarist this year. Marylhurst University, 17600 Highway 43, 654-0082. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 15. $30-$49.
L. Subramaniam
The master of South Indian violin returns with percussion accompanists to perform mostly Carnatic classical music. Winningstad Theatre, Portland
Center for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. $20-$37.
MC Hammered Klavier
Local musicians offer an alternative take on provocative compositions, with pieces from the likes of Ravel and Schoenfield performed on piano, flute and oboe. The masculine rhythms of Miguel del Aguila’s “Seduction Dance” find an unusual mate in a sultry feminine sonata by Paul Dukas, and expect lusty Latin tunes, African-inspired beats and classical French arrangements, as well. ENID SPITZ. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 8233177. 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. Free.
Musica Maestrale
Baroque lute and mandolin experts John Schneiderman and Hideki Yamaya play rarely heard works. Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis St., 8233177. 4 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. $10-$12.
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Nigerian-Irish double-bass goddess Chi-chi Nwanoku joins director-violinist Monica Huggett and the band for a program featuring late-18th-century Viennese music. First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th Ave., 222-6000. 7:30 pm Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15-16. Hourlong young people’s concert 3 pm Saturday. $18-$54; 3 pm Saturday concert $5-$10.
DANCE Black Grace
The Samoan and Maori dancers of New Zealand’s Black Grace make their Portland debut with a blend of ceremonial and contemporary movement. The program includes Pati Pati, which incorporates body percussion influenced by traditional Samoan seated dance and slap dance. Also on the bill: Amata Act 3–“o le amataga fou” (a new beginning) and Vaka, informed by the history of Maori explorers and using a raft as a metaphor for hope. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19. $26-$64.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
One of the country’s better contemporary dance companies, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to Portland, bringing along a program of exclusively Israeli choreography. Ohad Naharin has woven together two of his Batscheva Dance company’s existing pieces—Three and Max—into a new piece called Three to the Max, built from a dance language of Naharin’s own devising. Sharon Eyal contributes Too Beaucoup; it’s set to a soundtrack spanning Gang of Four to Leonard Cohen to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13. $26–$64.
News from the Hip’s Quarterly Belly-Dance Showcase
News From the Hip, a local journal devoted to the art of belly dancing, hosts a showcase. Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th Ave., 248-1030. 6 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. $12. 21+.
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake has always tested its female leads with the dual role of Odette/ Odile. As it happens, Swan Lake is the first work Oregon Ballet Theatre will stage since former artistic director Christopher Stowell left in December. It will be overseen by former principal dancer Anne Mueller, who has been named interim artistic director of the company. We know the ballet is about good and evil, love and betrayal, with plenty of drama along the way: What we don’t know just yet is how, in this installment, it will end. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-7453000. 7:30 pm Saturdays and Friday, Feb. 22. 2 pm Sunday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 23. $28-$161.
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VISUAL ARTS
Feb. 13–19
= WW Pick. Highly recommended. By RichaRd SpeeR. TO Be cONSideRed FOR LiSTiNGS, submit show information—including opening and closing dates, gallery address and phone number—at least two weeks in advance to: Visual arts, WW, 2220 NW Quimby St., portland, OR 97210. email: rspeer@wweek.com.
Apex: Sang-ah Choi
The glittery panels, cereal boxes and blow-up easter Bunny and Frosty the Snowman that make up Sang-ah choi’s exhibition are intended to critique american culture, yet they are so visually seductive, they wind up celebrating it. Through March 31. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973.
Ceci n’est pas un Vernissage
a fitting end (almost) to chambers’ eight-year history as one of portland’s leading galleries, Ceci n’est pas un Vernissage showcases artwork by chambers’ founder, director and assistant. Wid chambers’ 8-foot-tall circular sculpture highlights the artist/ founder’s gift for large-scale statements, as does director Martha Morgan’s sugar-tablet model for what was originally a 17-foot-high cylindrical sculpture. Finally, assistant heather Lee Birdsong’s etchings have a knack for impeccable geometry laid out in assured compositions. Morgan is reportedly scoping out locations for a gallery to continue chambers’ mission, although details have yet to be fleshed out. Through Feb. 16. Chambers @ 916, 916 NW Flanders St., 227-9398.
Chris Fraser: In Passing
if you haven’t seen chris Fraser’s installation In Passing, run, don’t walk, to check out what is certain to be one of 2013’s most crowd-pleasing, trippy and sheer fucking gorgeous shows. The San Francisco-based artist worked with curator-in-residence Josephine Zarkovich to create an immersive experience that viewers walk through. There’s a long, three-sided corridor on the gallery’s perimeter, with vertical and diagonal slots that spray prisms of colored light onto the interior walls. When you come to the hallway’s corners, the light plays tricks with your eyes, creating a foggy atmosphere that is pure optical illusion. it’s one part James Turrell, one part 2001: A Space Odyssey. You simply have to see it. Through March 3. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.
Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders
is it possible for a piece of paper with a black-and-white image to distill the essence of an era? That’s what photographer danny Lyon is betting on with The Bikeriders, a distillation of the motorcycle-gang subculture of the 1960s. These images are chockfull of bikes and beer guts, tattoos and wifebeaters, greasy-spoon diners and yards upon yards of leather. in short, this is exactly what you’d expect from a photographic essay of this time and milieu, which makes you wonder: is this a portrait or a caricature of its era? Or, in the end, is there any difference? Through March 16. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.
811 E. Burnside
Judy Cooke: Subtext
Judy cooke goes for and achieves “amateur chic” in her oil, pencil and wax works on wood panel. her sloppy grids and awkward forms display a cloying self-awareness of the sort that emerges dually from untrained street artists and Master of Fine arts degree holders. The best piece in the show is Corner, a suavely gorgeous birch panel adorned with diagonal and vertical lines that recall constructivist masters. it should also be noted that any good-quality birch panel without anything on it at all, is quite handsome in its own right. Through March 2. Elizabeth Leach Gallery, 417 NW 9th Ave., 224-0521.
Kayla Newell
a rising star in portland’s art constellation, Kayla Newell mounts a strong showing of mixed-media drawing/ painting hybrids at Mark Woolley’s gallery at pioneer place Mall. in fantastical mountainscapes such as Stone Pile and Ascend, she uses paint drips to suggest waterfalls and majestic, Middle earth-like vistas. her work has a similar feel to that of fellow portland artists adam Sorensen and anna Fidler, but with the addition of meticulously rendered geometric motifs, glitter and sludgy black paint covering up intricate structures beneath. One of Newell’s pieces is called Nihilism/Existentialism, but there is nothing sinister or depressing about this brightly hued, materially inventive show. Through March 10. Mark Woolley Gallery @ Pioneer, 700 SW 5th Ave., third floor, Pioneer Place Mall, 998-4152.
Nancy Abens: Curiosity Envisioned
Two years ago, when photographer Nancy abens plunged her digital camera into tidal pools off the coast of Mexico, she discovered an eerie world of exotic-looking sea creatures and plant life. Since then, she has created a body of work that focuses on natural history: specifically birds, insects and shells. although her subject matter is organic, many of her prints, especially those dealing with geological phenomena, flirt with geometric abstraction, thanks to an assured sense of composition. Through Feb. 23. I Witness Gallery Northwest Center for Photography, 1028 SE Water Ave., Suite 50, 384-2783.
Paul Missal, Steve Tilden, Chris Knutson a mixed bag from Blackfish this month. paul Missal’s and Steve Tilden’s collaborative Bird Suite—wallmounted foam birds hanging from steel branches—is large, aggressively hackneyed and truly “for the birds.” anything this bad should have the good sense not to be this big. Tilden’s
waxy, earth-toned sculptures, however, exude a quaint, antiquarian charm. The most satisfying works, though, are chris Knutson’s photographs in the very back of the space. They juxtapose ebullient imagery from carnival parades with elegantly melancholy studies of rusted factory buildings. Through March 2. Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave., 234-2634.
The Monument of the 7th Dimension
The Faux Museum may well be the next 24-hour church of elvis. its current exhibit, The Monument of the 7th Dimension, has a similarly off-kilter, diY vibe. conceived as a portal to another dimension, the walk-through installation is laid out like a cardboard haunted house. Viewers walk a corridor, through
tin-foil curtains and a papier-mâché cave, past sound-activated hanging bamboo stems and an electric organ that has a conspicuous depiction of a beaver on top. an audio track blends the squawking of gulls with a recording of late president Ronald Reagan’s infamous outtake about bombing the Soviet Union. an agreeably crazed, lowbrow aesthetic pervades. By the time you’re at the end of the cardboard hallway, you probably won’t be to the seventh dimension, but you’ll definitely be questioning the curators’—and your own—hold on reality. Through March 31. The Faux Museum, 139 NW 2nd Ave.
Vanitas
curator Michael endo has long held an interest in the “vanitas” genre of 17th-
century still-life painting, which used motifs such as skulls and botanicals as memento mori. as an artist, endo has explored these motifs in his paintings. Now, as a curator at Bullseye, he calls upon five other artists to offer takes on the transience of human life: Shannon Brunskill, June Kingsbury, catharine Newell, Marc petrovic and Michael Rogers. all five use glass as a material. it’s an intriguing medium for this theme, since glass, like life itself, can seem strong, sturdy and limitless in potential—until the instant it shatters. Through March 2. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.
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KRIS HARGIS, VALE LA PENA One of the basic questions artists face is whether to focus on social, political and spiritual concerns or the narrower purview of their own inner worlds. From antiquity to the Romantic period, artists often deployed human figures as stand-ins for mythological or religious conceits. In more recent times, painters such as Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo and Francis Bacon honed their focuses relentlessly inward, leading viewers on often harrowing tours of their own neuroses and psychosexual bugaboos. Portland-based artist Kris Hargis, a staple at Froelick Gallery since 2002, has tended toward the latter strategy, turning a mirror on his own mind through the prism of self-portraiture. In earlier shows, his weary, sad-sack visages tried too hard to evoke the idea of the artist as a tortured, tragic hero. This undermined his solid technique with an overload of histrionic Sturm und Drang. Then, two years ago, he undertook a new project, drawing and painting American servicemen and -women who had recently returned from tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Opening his blinders from the self to include others, he titled the body of work, tellingly, me and you. Almost overnight his work widened correspondingly, his skill as a renderer finally matched by a vision beyond the solipsistic. Now, in Vale la Pena (which he translates to mean “worth the pain”), Hargis returns to the self-portrait, informed by this newfound perspective. He reimagines himself as a haggard cowboy in El Vaquero, his open expression and ice-blue eyes inviting viewers to survey their own interior landscapes, even as they conjure the dusty vistas of Mesoamerica and the American West. His self-portrait as an alienlike androgyne, Mi otro Yo, Inside, outside, inside...
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has an eerie, transhumanist quality that recalls the star woman in Piet Mondrian’s classic 1911 triptych, Evolution. But the real revelations in Hargis’ latest outing are his haunting floral still lifes: desiccated irises and hydrangeas whose petals stretch out like impossibly delicate fingers, reaching for rain that will not fall. In their virtuosic detail, they impress the eye and guide the allusion-seeking brain to the ache of yearning and disappointment. These are tiny masterpieces: blooms from an aesthetic development that took nearly a decade to sprout, and make for Hargis’ most affecting show to date. RICHARD SPEER. See IT: Kris hargis’ Vale la Pena is at Froelick Gallery, 714 NW davis St., 222-1142. Through March 2.
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Whether you loved or despised his debut novel, The Average American Male, author Chad Kultgen knows how to cause a stir with heavy doses of sex, satire and idiocy. His newest book, The Average American Marriage, follows the same narrator now facing life as a husband and father. The horror. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13 Loggernaut Reading Series
Local literary collective Loggernaut will be hosting another stellar lineup for its reading series, this time featuring prose and poetry falling under the theme “Committed.” The evening will feature authors Luis Jaramillo (The Doctor’s Wife) and Michael Heald (Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension) with poet Matthew Schwartz (Blessings for the Hands). Commit yourself. Ristretto Williams, 3808 N Williams Ave., 288-8667. 7:30 pm. $2.
Avengers Assemble Comic Signing
Mighty Marvel comic authors Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel) and Pete Woods (Superman: New Krypton) will unite for a signing of Avengers Assemble No. 12, the first of a two-part story arc titled “The Widow’s Ledger.” Pick up a copy before they ruin it with a movie. Things From Another World , 2916 NE Broadway St. 7 pm. Free.
THURSDAY, FEB. 14 Kiss & Tell
From tales of true love to erotic encounters at the drive-in, the Kiss & Tell showcase will feature actor, storyteller and Spanish voice of the MAX Enrique E. Andrade along with puppeteer Penny Walter and Portland Story Theater founders Lawrence Howard and Lynne Duddy. Because nothing says love like erotic puppetry. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7196055. 8 pm. $18-$36. 21+.
Amy Temple Harper
It may be across the river in Vancouver, but the Ghost Town Poetry open-mic night will be spreading the love with featured author Amy Temple Harper. The South Korean-born, Portland-based writer will be sharing from her newest book, Cramped Uptown. And if we’re lucky, maybe a snippet from her upcoming memoir? Cover to Cover Books, 6300 NE St. James Road, Vancouver, 360-514-0358. 7 pm. Free.
Nick Flynn
Few people get the surreal experience of being present on the set of the movie being made about their own life. But such was the case for author Nick Flynn, whose memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City was adapted into a mediocre movie starring Robert De Niro. In fact, the experience inspired a whole new book—The Reenactments. Flynn will be joined
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The medical system is broken, you say? Pharmaceutical companies are only out to make money? Dr. Ben Goldacre is here to tell it like it is with his newest book, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
MONDAY, FEB. 18 Erica Bauermeister
Food and romance go together like sex and ice cream—delicious but messy. Erica Bauermeister follows her characters from the novel The School of Essential Ingredients with the sequel, The Lost Art of Mixing. Everybody into the kitchen. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.
Paul de Barros
Legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland may be best known for her long-running NPR program Piano Jazz. But the U.K.-born musician started by entertaining troops during World War II before marrying musician Jimmy McPartland and wowing audiences from Chicago to New York. Paul de Barros’ newest book, Shall We Play That One Together?, chronicles not only McPartland but also the impact of the jazz age. Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.
TUESDAY, FEB. 19 Phil Lapsley
Before every 13-year-old with an iPhone fancied himself an Internet wizard, a group of misfit technophiles figured out how to hack and exploit the largest communication system at the time—the telephone system. Phil Lapsley’s newest book, Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell, chronicles the so-called “phone phreaks” who hacked the mainframe at the rise of AT&T’s monopoly and the war that followed between the phone company, the hackers, the FBI and even the mob. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 2284651. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Director Olivier Assayas has evolved from stylist (Irma Vep, Clean) to an empathetic documenter of the political made personal (Carlos), and his newest ensemble film is a nostalgic what-next for radical youth after the student riots of May 1968. The answer, of course, is that after a failed revolution one is left, simply, with life. The French youth of those days belong also to the youth of today—adrift, a bit mercenary and far from the storm. So what happens to the party when the party is over? Mostly, it seems, it turns into an Antonioni film. A damn good one. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. WH, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. LC, 5:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 21.
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B+ [SWEDEN] More Swedish Office Space than Ingmar Bergman, writerdirector Patrik Eklund’s deadpan comedy features characters with a stunning array of quirks. There’s technology dunce Kenneth, who takes a Luger to his BlackBerry; janitor Birgitta, who suffers from crippling arachnophobia; and technician Roland, who develops oozing facial rashes due (maybe) to electro-sensitivity. They’re all employees of a communications company haplessly stuck in the past, which Eklund shores up with an unceasing succession of beige costumes. Flicker zips between its intersecting tales with a sort of pokerfaced sympathy, whether it’s a woman coming to terms with her husband’s sterility or a mechanical-armed desperado leading a group of radical Luddites in an act of sabotage. The film’s fictional town might be plagued by blackouts, but Flicker keeps its absurdist comedic charge burning to the end. REBECCA JACOBSON. LC, 9:15 pm Thursday, Feb. 14, and 5:15 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
Kon Tiki
A- [NORWAY] Whether you see it because it’s about a guy named Thor braving Mother Nature, or because you can watch ripped Norwegian dudes sailing the Pacific in their tighty-whities, or because you want to witness a shark getting stabbed in the head, the important thing is that you see Kon Tiki. Based on the true story of Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who set off in 1947 to float 5,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft, this gorgeously shot adventure flick is not only awesome because of the epic voyage that could easily fail. It’s awesome because of Heyerdahl’s utter certainty that it will not. EMILY JENSEN. WH, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. LC, 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
as the local documentary Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse (reviewed on page 41). PIFF is growing up, too. While the first week teemed with struggling young people, this second batch features middle-aged office stiffs, swinging senior citizens, elderly painters and even an old dog. PIFF may be a week older, but that doesn’t mean it’s any wiser. Neither are we, but we’ve still taken it upon ourselves to offer some advice. Buck up and take a shot.
The Gatekeepers
B [ISRAEL] The Shin Bet is the Israeli government equivalent of the CIA, and its leaders come out of hiding in The Gatekeepers. Interviews with all six surviving former heads of the secretive counterterrorism group, speaking publicly for the first time, compose Dror Moreh’s documentary. Some events may not ring a bell, but digital re-enactments mesh with photographs to help bring them to life. Aside from these animations, The Gatekeepers relies exclusively on one-on-one interviews, but its clean organization keeps wandering thoughts at bay. Though the Palestinian side of the story is completely absent, Moreh doesn’t pull any punches. The Shin Bet leaders’ replies are honest, astute and even compassionate as they let the cruel skeletons out of their closet. MITCH LILLIE. C21, 5:15 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. CM, 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 21.
Memories Look at Me
B+ [CHINA] Ever visit Ma and Pa, or some beloved auntie with a skin condition, or maybe your ne’er-dowell brother in the capital, and think, “Golly, this would make for a bracingly ascetic cinematic experience”? I have just the film for you. Song Fang’s bittersweet, fitfully funny directorial debut is billed as a narrative feature, despite the fact that Song, who acted opposite Juliette Binoche in 2007’s Flight of the Red Balloon, stars as “Song,” a budding filmmaker from Beijing who travels to the city of Nanjing to visit her aging parents, played by—you guessed it—Song’s parents. Shot almost entirely in her parents’ small apartment, Memories manages to capture perfectly the quiet rhythms and buried frustrations of family life. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. C21, 2:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. FT, 9 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
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A [CHILE] During the 1988 election in Chile that led to the ouster of Augusto Pinochet, TV advertising played as major a role in the political process as traditional campaigning: For 27 days, each side had 15 minutes each night to state its case. No puts this into sharp historical perspective via Rene, a quietly intense ad exec (Gael García Bernal) who brought a sodacommercial flair to the anti-Pinochet TV spots. Director Pablo Larrain amplifies the tense yet hopeful mood by shooting the movie on era-appropriate video cameras, meshing new footage with original ads and news footage of protests and police actions. ROBERT HAM. WH, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 15. LC, 4:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
Sleep Tight
A [SPAIN] César performs his daily tasks as concierge of an apartment building with a calm spirit and robotlike precision. But little by little, the viciousness behind his wide eyes begins to appear, and that’s when your skin will start to crawl. The unassuming figure at the front desk reveals his one simple goal: to make the tenants in the building as miserable as possible. Director Jaume Balagueró and screenwriter Alberto Marini focus César (acted to devilish perfection by Luis Tosar) on his toughest competitor, the beautiful and optimistic Clara (Marta Etura), and let viewers follow every creepy and thrilling step of the way. Like all good psychological horror films, this breathless masterpiece is as repulsive as it is spellbinding. ROBERT HAM. WTC, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 15, and 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 23. C21, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
Something in the Air
A [FRANCE] You could call it something in the air, but it’s more like the poetry of air going out of a tire.
B [SPAIN] Through much of its first hour, Patricia Ferreira’s film about three Catalan teens seems to tell an unremarkable story about the frustrations and rebellions of adolescence. Her characters—graffiti artist Alex, quiet kickboxer Gabi and overprivileged Laura—squabble with their parents at home and with their jaded teachers at school. They get drunk at the park, skip class to go to the beach and sneak into a shopping mall after hours. But midway through this keen-eyed and subtly haunting film, it becomes clear that The Wild Ones is much more than a tale of disaffected youth. Abetted by Ferreira and Virginia Yagüe’s nonlinear screenplay that cuts persuasively between narrative strands, The Wild Ones neither seeks answers nor places blame for the horror that unfurls—and that makes it all the more unsettling and affecting. REBECCA JACOBSON. CM, 6 pm Friday, Feb. 15 and 4:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
EH, WHY NOT? 3 Million
B- [URUGUAY] Documenting Uruguay’s bid to claim the World Cup in 2010, 3 Million is part inspirational sports documentary and part South African travelogue, with popular singer Jaime Roos and his filmmaker son, Yamandu, hitting parties, visiting petting zoos and generally behaving touristy. The soccer footage is electric, with the camera getting up close and personal with players and fans during the epic pandemonium of the world’s biggest sporting event. But when the filmmakers turn the camera on themselves—which they do a lot, as when Roos whines about referee calls in endless voice-over—it feels like watching another family’s vacation videos for more than two hours. AP KRYZA. WTC, 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 16.
4some
C+ [CZECH REPUBLIC] 4some is an enjoyably naked romp through the sexploits of some aging Czechs. OK, maybe more enjoyable for the film’s characters than for viewers: Couples Vitek and Marie and Ondra and Dita are unavoidably middle-aged. The neighbors are peas in a pod—communal dinners, work partners, children dating each other. But familial bliss comes with stale sex lives, and director Jan Hrebejk does nothing to romanticize the cringe-worthy fornication as his unsparing camera work meets American Pie 2 on the couples’ Caribbean vacation. A good half-hour of contemplation and discussion sucks much of the sexiness out of the subsequent acts, but Hrebejk still manages an endearing and sweet film, complete with sagging body parts and even a dusty dildo. ENID SPITZ. CM, 8:45 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19, and 6 pm Wednesday, Feb. 20.
80 Million
B- [POLAND] For those not up on their modern Polish history, here’s a primer to help you through Waldemar Krzystek’s political thriller: In December 1981, panicked about the growing pro-democracy movement, Poland’s authoritarian government introduced martial law. When resistance group Solidarity got wind of the plan, members of its Wrocław branch hatched a plot to withdraw 80 million zlotys from its bank account before it could be frozen. That’s the tale that unfolds in the upbeat 80 Million, which blends its requisite political elements with the brisk pace of a heist movie,
refreshing shots of dark comedy and even scheming Catholic priests. As the jauntily sadistic baddie fed up with his blundering henchmen, Piotr Głowacki is delightful, but the Solidarity activists are too hastily sketched to leave a lasting impression. REBECCA JACOBSON. LC, 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. FT, 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
American Winter
B- [UNITED STATES] It’s a little dubious to litter a documentary set during a Portland winter with images of snow-covered streets (did they film all the exteriors in one day?), but it suits American Winter’s framework well. Directors Harry and Joe Gantz train their lens on families dealing with joblessness, homelessness and hopelessness during the financial crisis as they struggle to keep their heat on and rely increasingly on the kindness of strangers. The film’s narrative is one of devastation, which almost renders the talking-head interviews—with politicos and policymakers lambasting corporate America—unnecessary and overwrought. These are true stories of hardship with little triumph, and the film’s ability to hold a mirror to the problem is at times heartbreaking. AP KRYZA. WH, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. CM, 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
Blood of My Blood
C [PORTUGAL] Ah, Portugal: So trained have they become on the Brazilian soap opera, seemingly everything they now make is either steaming melodrama or—as in João Canijo’s newest—an attempted sly commentary on it. It’s the same have-yourcake-and-eat-it of Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven. But Blood of My Blood is strangely bloodless. The film goes from the gritty social realism of a poor family trying to hold itself together to the massive contrivances of motherdaughter shared sex lives and drugsploitation. Without the lightness of tone or the control of its script that could have buoyed it, Canijo has aimed at a high-style, grittily exaggerated character study in the old Mike Leigh mode but made instead middling TV. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. C21, 7 pm Monday, Feb. 18. FT, 8:45 pm Wednesday-Thursday, Feb. 20-21.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
B [GERMANY] Werner Herzog, in 2010’s Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, takes us to a remote fur-trapping village in central Russia, where 300 people live a long helicopter ride from civilization. Divided into sections for each of the four seasons, the film is a pastoral portrait of the villagers, working wood into traps with the same tools used for generations. They seem no more or less happy than the subjects of any of Herzog’s earlier documentaries, which are better paced and far better scored than Happy People. Nevertheless, Herzog’s hilariously poignant monotone, laid over scenes of expansive and desolate beauty, helps redeem the documentary. MITCH LILLIE. C21. 5:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. WH, 8:45 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
La Pirogue
B [SENEGAL] The endnote to Moussa Touré’s third feature provides a grim statistic: Of the 30,000 who attempted the sea voyage from Senegal to Europe from 2005 to 2010, 5,000 perished. This quiet dedication concludes a film that takes a raw topic—the desperation that prompts West Africans to board barely seaworthy boats bound for Europe— and treats it with balanced naturalism. Touré spends most of his film on the water, centered on a single brightly painted vessel (the Pirogue of the title). The 30 passengers, some of whom have never seen the ocean, forge tenuous bonds that are tested throughout the predictably perilous journey. One man cries and clings to his chicken; the discovery of a woman stowaway prompts anger and fear; and the passengers are met with turbulent weather, sickness and death. But grounding it all is a sense of earnest empathy, which allows La Pirogue to steer clear of sensationalism. REBECCA JACOBSON. CM, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. LC, 7:45 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
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Nazis, so two fellow partisans are dispatched to execute him for presumed collaboration until the Nazis catch them in the act. As the three men fight side by side deep in the forest, flashbacks to old moral dilemmas provide some character development, but these scenes lack clear visual clues to signify the time shift. Stone-faced musings on the nature of war make up the dialogue, which feels tired even at the opening of this two-hour epic. The morbid ending is as bleak as the dim autumn scenery, the fog obscuring what brief beauty there was. MITCH LILLIE. C21, 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19. WH, 6 pm Saturday, Feb. 23.
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identity and the weight public pressure puts on private relationships, Laurence Anyways is 23-year-old Canadian prodigy Xavier Dolan’s bid to become the Pedro Almodóvar of the Great White North. He takes his sweet time rendering the love affair between Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), a literature professor and newly out transsexual, and her girlfriend, Fred (Suzanne Clement), stretching their 10-year on-off romance over nearly three hours. Is it worth the commitment? Eh. Dolan’s got a knack for the surreal: He makes ’90sera Montreal glow neon over throbbing electro-pop accompaniment, and the metaphorical dream sequences are mesmerizingly feverish. It’s reality he has a problem with. Laurence and Fred are the kind of couple who exist only in art films—scrawling poems across each other’s skin, compiling an ongoing list of Things That Minimize Our Pleasure— and Laurence’s transition into life as a woman seems more like a performance art project than an internal struggle. After a while, the movie devolves into a loop of breakups, reunions and shouting matches, and Dolan’s visual panache only underscores the emptiness of it all. MATTHEW SINGER. C21, 8 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. LC, 7 pm Wednesday, Feb. 20.
is to befall the children in this film— murder at the hands of their unstable mother—does not take away one iota of the power of Joachim Lafosse’s quietly tense feature. Rather, it allows you to focus on the mother, watching for the cracks to appear in her delicate façade. Thankfully, young actress Émilie Dequenne is up to this challenge, giving a nuanced and breathtaking performance as a woman struggling with internal demons and the pressures placed upon her by both her husband and his adoptive father. ROBERT HAM. LC, 8:45 pm Friday, Feb. 15. FT, 7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
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Masquerade
B [SOUTH KOREA] Farts ring through
the halls of King Gwang-hae’s palace as his body double, a courtesan house jester named Ha-sun, indulges in the kingly prerogative to do whatever the hell he wants. Ha-sun is pretending to be Gwang-hae following the king’s near-deadly poisoning, in order to prevent panic in the kingdom while he recovers. Though Masquerade initially seems an odd Judd Apatow knockoff, with a surprising bounty of poop jokes for a film set in the 17th century, director Choo Chang-min’s modern riff on The Prince and the Pauper evolves into an often triumphant tale. Sadly, much like Apatow does in his films, Chang-min let it run about 45 minutes too long. EMILY JENSEN. LC, 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
More Than Honey
B- [SWITZERLAND] John Miller, owner of Miller Honey Farms, stops his truck in the middle of an orchard exploding with almond blossoms and the thick sound of his bees. “Can you hear that?” he asks. “That’s the sound of money.” Miller is one of the more capitalistic interviewees in Markus Imhoof’s documentary More Than Honey, which chronicles modern honeymaking and mass bee deaths around the world. An old-school Swiss beekeeper insists on “racial purity” (of the bees, thankfully) and a Chinese woman runs a business collecting and selling pollen, as her country long ago killed off its bee population. Imhoof includes many macro shots, filmed at 70 frames per second—he claims this captures bee movement the best—and these images of dancing and swarming bees go beyond simple nature documentary. However, the natural beauty of More Than Honey is largely invalidated by artificial, computer-generated shots, such as bees against a night sky. MITCH LILLIE. WH, 8:45 pm Thursday, Feb. 14, and 2:15 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
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Polluting Paradise
B [GERMANY] In this documentary, director Fatih Akin takes a devastating look at a small Turkish village whose health and security are threatened by the introduction of a garbage dump. Situated in a defunct copper mine, the refuse heap pollutes groundwater and streams and fills the air with terrible odors. Akin keeps his cameras rolling over the course of five years as community members, including elderly residents and schoolchildren, fight the smug bureaucrats who signed off on the dump, while they attempt to maintain their daily existence as farmers, fishermen and students. Akin does what all good activist filmmakers do best: expose the stark divide between everyday citizens and the people who supposedly represent them, urging viewers not to let a similar fate befall their hometowns. ROBERT HAM. WTC, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 17, and 12:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 23.
Renoir
B- [FRANCE] “Color should control the structure of a work, not line.” So opines Pierre-August Renoir in Gilles Bourdos’ oversaturated but ultimately underwhelming examination of two generations of Renoirs: the aforementioned painter, enfeebled by arthritis in his seventh decade, and his son, Jean, who would go on to become arguably the greatest filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century. Like the elder Renoir, the film Renoir rejoices in the sensual pleasures of Provençal life (it’s easy to have joie de vivre when your vivre consists of seaside villas, lavish parties, naps and picnics) and celebrates the beauty of the female form, specifically the form of actress Christa Theret, who spends roughly 60 minutes in the buff. Like a nice dry Côtes du Rhône, Renoir is mildly intoxicating, but as Bourdos thickly applies his azure blues and lemon yellows, it all but collapses under the weight of its own prettiness. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. LC, 8:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Together
B [TAIWAN] Looking for a PIFFapproved “love story” that doesn’t feature gratuitous nudity, graphic intercourse or incest (I’m looking at you, Pieta)? Hsu Chao-Jen’s Together is just the sort of airy, sweet confection PIFF-ers need to cleanse their palates. Taking a page from the Mary J. Blige playbook, Hsu maintains a strict “No Drama” policy as he leads us through a series of loosely connected love affairs, platonic trysts and near-miss relationships in modern-day Taipei. Will Xiao
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MORE THAN HONEY Mao and Tian Tian ever resolve their lovers’ quarrel? Will Lang accept the advances of co-worker Michael? Will Li, the affable print shop owner, declare his love for the daughter of a business associate? One thing’s for sure: Everyone is sure to walk away fully clothed, mildly contented and more or less unbroken. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. C21, 9:15 pm Friday, Feb. 15.
White Tiger
C [RUSSIA] When faced with the choice of making a film about a ghost tank terrorizing the Russian countryside during World War II and a film about old officers talking, the choice should be as obvious as an armor-piercing shell to the face. Alas, director Karen Shakhnazarov has made both with White Tiger, and the results are wildly uneven. The opening two-thirds of the film plays like Jaws, only the shark’s a possessed tank—a concept that, let’s face it, is awesome. But then, suddenly, the film blows a tread, and the anticlimax follows previously unintroduced characters (and Hitler, oddly) as they discuss terms of surrender and war metaphors. Wasn’t the ghost tank enough of a metaphor on its own? And isn’t it always better when your metaphor’s blowing shit up? AP KRYZA. FT, 9 pm Thursday, Feb. 14, and 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18. LC, 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 16.
FOR THE COMPLETIST ONLY The Double Steps
D- [SPAIN] In the 20th century, esoteric artist François Augiéras painted his “Sistine Chapel” in an abandoned bunker in the Malian desert and covered the entrance with a stone. Over time, it was covered by sand and abandoned to 21st-century treasure hunters. So goes the backstory to Isaki Lacuesta’s impenetrable The Double Steps. The plot centers on Abdallah Chambaa (Bokar Dembele), who inexplicably channels the spirit of Augiéras as he traverses the same Malian desert. A narrator chimes in at intervals to announce cryptic koans like “inside each fruit, there is a fish,” while real-life Spanish painter Miquel Barceló shows off his craft. If this sounds infuriatingly confusing, you’re not alone. The Double Steps is buried deep in a plotless desert of trite symbology, where hopefully it will remain undiscovered. MITCH LILLIE. C21, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 17, and 9 pm Tuesday, Feb 19. WTC, 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 23.
English Vinglish
C [INDIA] Bringing the Bollywood tra-
dition of countless musical montages to the magical world of ESL classes, English Vinglish tells the tale of an uncultured housewife (Bollywood superstar Sridevi) who takes leave of her snotty daughter and husband’s incessant mockery of her Hindi-only language skills to go to New York for a wedding. There, she enrolls in a four-week English class populated by cultural stereotypes (the Chinese hairdresser, the flamboyantly gay teacher, the sexist Pakistani, the horny Frenchman). Eventually she earns the respect she’s craved, but it takes more than two hours to get there—and it’s two hours that feel like hanging out in a freshman-level language course, but with a bit more dancing and a lot more melodrama. AP KRYZA. LC, 8:30 pm
Thursday, Feb. 14; 7 pm Sunday, Feb. 17; and 1:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
Hannah Arendt
C- [GERMANY] Goodness knows there’s a fascinating film to be made about the titular philosopher, writer and theorist, but this sure ain’t it. That’s mostly because director Margarethe von Trotta chooses to home in on a key moment of Arendt’s last years— when she covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker—while skimming over her years as a student and lover of Martin Heidegger and her escape from Nazioccupied France. This candy-colored, overacted biopic instead relies on too many scenes of Arendt staring wistfully out of a window, smoking, as she struggles with Jewish guilt and “the banality of evil.” ROBERT HAM. WH, 8:45 pm Saturday, Feb. 16. LC, 4:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
Here and There
C- [MEXICO] Good intentions are not synonymous with cinematic success. Here and there they align, but in Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Here and There, that’s not the case. Pedro returns from America to his wife and conflicted teen daughters in Mexico, kindling dreams of success with his band. But the film flatlines through trials of limited finances, young men trying to reach America and difficult childbirth. Perhaps the film’s success is capturing the tortuous slog of field work and dwindling dreams, but unbearably long shots and sparse speech dull any viewer investment. When Pedro first returns to Mexico, we watch a prolonged hill climb in real time. The rest of the film is similarly drawn out, only flat. ENID SPITZ. CM, 3 pm Saturday, Feb. 16; 5 pm Monday, Feb. 18; and 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19.
In the Fog
D+ [UKRAINE] In Nazi-occupied Belarus, the resistance fighters in Sergei Loznitsa’s sluggish film each have their moments of cowardice and bravery. Sushenya was captured and released by
D [JAPAN] It occurred to me at various points that Key of Life was probably meant to be a comedy. What else to think of the woman so type-A she plans her marriage without a suitor, an amnesiac ex-yakuza fixer who unwittingly becomes an actor in gangster roles, and a schlub who fails even at suicide before taking over the fixer’s identity? But while this Japanese farce about identity is certainly a bit less tedious than a Will Ferrell vehicle, it takes none of the wild risks and carries none of the wild energy. Its tone, instead, is an animatronic plod through light mud, and by the time the action warms up, the film has already warmed over. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. FT, 6 pm Thursday, Feb. 14. LC, 8:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 20.
The Last Sentence
D [SWEDEN] With this biopic, 81-yearold director Jan Troell works overtime to set up Torgny Segerstedt, the editorin-chief of a daily newspaper in Sweden during World War II, as a kind of antihero. From behind his desk, he spins out uncompromising missives against the actions of Hitler, finding himself at odds with the political leadership in his home country. While at home, he ignores his long-suffering wife in favor of his prized dogs and his mistress. But the stern tone of the film and the pinched performances by the leads (particularly Jesper Christensen as Segerstedt) make it hard to empathize with anyone or anything onscreen. ROBERT HAM. WH, 8:45 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13. FT, 4:45 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
Old Dog
C [CHINA] It’s hard to fault a film for being modest, but let me try: Pema Tseden’s Old Dog is ostensibly a tale of crushing poverty, cultural erosion and family discord set amid the arid fields and amber foothills of the Himalayan steppe, but Tseden’s timid, artless approach to the material is so tedious I feel confident asserting that this very sentence, shambling though it may be, is several times more stimulating than the film itself, which concerns the attempts of an impoverished Tibetan sheep herder to sell his father’s mastiff. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. CM, 2:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17. C21, 2 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TICKET OUTLET: Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building, 1119 SW Park Ave., 276-4310, nwfilm.org. General admission, $11; Art Museum members, students and seniors, $10; children 12 and under, $8; Silver Screen Club memberships from $300. THEATERS: C21: Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave. CM: CineMagic, 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd. fT: Regal Fox Tower, 846 SW Park Ave. LC: Regal Lloyd Center, 1510 NE Multnomah St. WH: Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave. WTC: World Trade Center Theater, 121 SW Salmon St. WW was unable to screen 13 films by press deadlines; visit wweek.com for full listings.
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= WW Pick. Highly recommended. 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.
56 Up
A 56 Up is the latest in Michael
Apted’s visionary, often-depressing series that has documented the lives of 14 disparate Britons, in seven-year installments, since they were 7 years old in 1964. For those who’ve not watched all the previous installments, 56 Up is largely of anthropological or cultural interest; for those who have, there’s a wistful sadness to the affair. Still, it’s one of the great journeys in documentary film; it’s unlikely there will be another one like it. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Amour
A Though it may not contain the
same cold shocks of menace or cruelty as Michael Haneke’s other films, Amour does not relent in its painful realism. And that is precisely what endows it with such power. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower, City Center.
Argo
A- Ben Affleck’s 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, is one of the year’s best pictures. R. AP KRYZA. Clackamas, Lake Twin, Living Room Theaters, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Movies on TV.
Barbara
B Barbara is a somewhat grim interrogation of Germany’s past. It’s an effective and subtle—though also monotone and dreary—account of an East German doctor (Nina Hoss) exiled to a small Baltic town because she’s taken a Western German lover. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Living Room Theaters.
Beautiful Creatures
C As its teenage characters woo each other with Charles Bukowski quotes and Kurt Vonnegut references, Beautiful Creatures fancies itself an impassioned ode to overcoming alienation. But the film—despite any mileage it gains thanks to its eerie Southern gothic setting—hews closer to Twilight than to any other literary forebear. Lena (Alice Englert) is a spookily enigmatic newcomer to the small town of Gatlin, S.C. “She looks like death eatin’ a cracker,” sneers one of her prim, Bible-thumping classmates. But the Vonnegut-worshipping Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich, whose square jaw and frequently unbuttoned shirt will probably recruit him fans) quickly cozies up to Lena, even when she reveals she’s a witch under the grasp of an age-old curse. Lena swears her powers are becoming darker, but as the film plods on, all that supports such a conviction is that she wears thicker eyeliner and accidentally produces more lightning bolts. Aside from scenery-chewing turns by Jeremy Irons as a morally ambiguous dandy and Emma Thompson as an unequivocally evil witch, the cast is wide-eyed and wooden. Beautiful Creatures attempts to make itself a supernatural Gone With the Wind, complete with gauzy Civil War flashbacks and a truth-telling maid (Viola Davis plays a telepathic housekeeper), but a modern-day Tara this ain’t. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Cascade Festival of African Films
The monthlong festival continues with Microphone (PCC, noon Thursday, Feb. 14, and Hollywood Theatre, 7 pm Friday, Feb. 15), about the underground arts scene in Alexandria, Egypt; Tey (PCC, 2 pm Thursday, Feb. 14, and 7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 16), a Senegalese film about a man who returns home from America; and Rouge Parole (7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 14), a documentary about the recent Tunisian revolution.
Friday’s screening is at the Hollywood Theatre. All other screenings are at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus, Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building, Room 104, 705 N Killingsworth St. Through March 2.
Django Unchained
B- If nothing else, Quentin Tarantino’s film has audacity going for it. But it raises a question that, ultimately, makes it tough to enjoy: When dredging up slavery for the sake of entertainment, is being cool enough? Because Django Unchained is exceptionally cool. A mashed-up spaghetti Western and blaxploitation flick, it is the kind of kinetic pastiche job that’s made Tarantino a genre unto himself. But Django Unchained trivializes an atrocity, and that makes it hard to digest as fun, frivolous popcorn. R. MATTHEW SINGER. Fox Tower, Eastport, Lloyd Center, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway.
Escape From Planet Earth
Blue-skinned aliens! Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jessica Alba lend their voices to this animated flick. Not screened for critics. PG. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
February Spaghetti Night: Fort Yuma Gold
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Giorgio Ferroni’s spaghetti Western centers on a Confederate prisoner of war who averts a robbery. Clinton Street Theater. 8 pm Friday, Feb. 15.
Ghostbusters
[ONE DAY ONLY, REVIVAL] Who ya gonna call? PG. Dig a Pony. 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 17.
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
B- There’s little doubt Roman Coppola had Charlie Sheen in mind when writing A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, and not just because their names sound alike. Coppola’s first film since 2001’s CQ charts the breakup-spurred freakout of a graphic designer (Sheen) given to daydreams, in which he rescues damsels in distress and observes devastated onlookers at his imagined funeral. This dream logic leads him from one oddball scenario to the next, and the constant run-ins with friends played by the likes of Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray lend a sense of whimsy to the already nostalgic, ’70s-set milieu. This at once feeds into and deconstructs the Sheen persona; it also serves as a welcome reminder that when he’s not busy “winning” or having a public meltdown, the man is a charismatic onscreen presence. The result—which is something of a vanity project by design if not necessity— isn’t quite on the level of I’m Still Here in terms of its celebrity-confessional stylings, but there’s more honesty to it than there was to the one-man “My Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour Sheen embarked on two years ago. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.
A Good Day to Die Hard
John McClane is back, this time uniting with his CIA-operative son in Russia to fight terrorists. Not screened for critics, but look for Michael Nordine’s review at wweek.com. R. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Roseway, St. Johns Twin.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
B- Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a totally different monkey from the rest of the neo-fairy-tale crop. This is a big, dumb action flick, which finds that Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel
(Gemma Arterton) have got a thing for tight leather and a knack for hunting, torturing and killing witches. There are a lot of glossed-over and highly disturbing subtexts one could bring up in tearing apart this film—among them its rampant violence toward women. But that’s reading too deeply into this tale. This is a gory confection that’s deeply flawed, horrifically acted and utterly ridiculous, but that nonetheless manages to be fun. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
B+ After a slow and decidedly kiddie start, The Hobbit moves at the lightning pace of a chase movie intercut with stellar mini-adventures involving orcs astride wolves, gigantic spiders, soaring eagles and reanimated kings. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Division, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Sherwood, Fox Tower..
Les Misérables
D With the exception of about 10
minutes, the nearly three-hour film is an endless wallow in the fields of squalor, filth, chancre and herpes. PG13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower, Eastport, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway.
Life of Pi
C Ang Lee’s Life of Pi surrenders the more subtle messages of Yann Martel’s novel for ham-handed schlock and slack-jawed awe. PG. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius.
Lincoln
B Steven Spielberg’s stately drama
is shrewd, balanced and impressively restrained. PG-13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Clackamas, Indoor Twin, Bridgeport, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Tigard, Fox Tower.
Mama
C+ Andrés Muschietti’s Mama opens with a deranged father who, having killed several co-workers and his wife, kidnaps his daughters. But he careens off the road and meets an unfortunate fate, leaving his little girls on their own. Five years later, we discover that little Lily and Victoria have survived essentially as animals. The film is strongest when it follows the girls’ social reacclimation and psychoanalysis, which reveals that they invented an imaginary protector named Mama—only, of course, she’s not so imaginary. But the second half of the film teeters into the most macabre episode of Scooby Doo ever. Suddenly Mama is front and center, looking like test footage from The Grudge and less interested in terrorizing the characters than in popping her head directly before the camera.
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Identity Thief
C- If an awareness of dimming economic realities were to occupy any Hollywood genre, you’d figure the gross-out comedy would be a natural fit. Shouldn’t lowest-common-denominator humor cater to the 99 percent? For the briefest of moments, as an ebullient Melissa McCarthy blithely swindles Jason Bateman’s buttoneddown Denver accounts manager by pretending to be a bank employee offering a credit protection service, there’s a hint of the anarchic zeal that could have lent Identity Thief a distinct personality. Before anyone starts pondering telemarketing fraud as a potential career, though, we’re informed that Bateman’s heroic financial services functionary can barely support his beatific family despite his tireless labor, while McCarthy lavishes her illgotten largess on a four-figure bar tab. McCarthy’s effervescent crassness and Bateman’s mastery of the longsuffering slow burn are as richly combustible as you’d expect, but while the sudden eruptions of frankly brutal slapstick work a treat, it’s a long slog in reclaimed-hobo trousers to get there. If we’ve learned anything in the past few years, it’s that there’s no such thing as a comedy too big to fail. R. JAY HORTON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
The Impossible
C Though it centers on the 2004 tsunami that ravaged Southeast Asia and killed 230,000 people, Juan Antonio Bayona’s film is less a tale of cataclysmic human and environmental devastation than a troublingly narrow narrative about one white, privileged, European family whose vacation is spoiled by a crushing wall of water. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Fox Tower, Cedar Hills, Clackamas.
John Dies at the End
B Don Coscarelli has spent three
decades producing flicks tailor-made for the geek/cult set. With John Dies at the End, the director attempts to top a career filled with deranged morticians and STD-afflicted elderly rock gods by adapting author David Wong’s notoriously batshit take on interdimensional lunacy, monsters made of hot dogs, tits, ghosts and necromancing. This giddy freak show follows buddies Dave (Chase Williamson) and John (Rob Mayes) on a quest to save the known universe from some pretty gnarly beasties, taking a fantastic slacker voyage along the way through the realm of creative lowbudget special effects. R. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.
KBOO at the Clinton: Rear Window
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The partnership between the community radio station and the theater continues with the Hitchcock classic, following a preshow performance by Contessa de la Luna, host of KBOO’s late-night music and confessional talk show. PG. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Thursday, Feb. 14.
WHERE THE SIDEWaLk ENDS: James Chasse.
ALIEN BOY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JAMES CHASSE Infuriating, tragic, heartbreaking and incendiary in equal measures, Portland filmmaker Brian Lindstrom’s Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse is a documentary that plays out like a horror film and leaves you absolutely breathless. The story is one familiar to any Portlander who has picked up a newspaper any time in the past seven years: Chasse, crippled by schizophrenia but by all accounts harmless, was beaten by Portland police, died in custody and was the subject of a massive cover-up that portrayed him as a monster. Lindstrom’s film pieces together an impressive collection of eyewitness accounts and courtroom footage to tell the story of a case that pulled Portland police into national focus, painting a portrait of deceit that rocked our self-image as a gentle hamlet for the creative. What Lindstrom forges is an amazing piece of documentary journalism that’s equally focused on the procedural account of Chasse’s death and the people whose lives it affected. Everybody except the officers whose fists sealed Chasse’s fate offer their remembrances, though officers Kyle Nice, Bret Barton and Christopher Humphreys do appear in archival footage of their trial (each refused to be interviewed). But what really hammers Alien Boy home is the Life part of its title. When Chasse was slain, the police falsely labeled him a transient junkie. Lindstrom’s film dives deeply into the life of a man who touched countless lives through his art and the pioneering position he held in Portland’s early punk-rock scene. Ex-girlfriends, family members, musicians, artists and parishioners from his church all tell of a deeply troubled but caring man whose mental despair robbed him of peace. It’s this human setup that makes Alien Boy’s eventuality all the more difficult, and Humphreys’ smug apathy and on-record lies all the more infuriating. Lindstrom has taken a tragedy and emerged with an essential viewing experience. It shows that, once you look past someone’s seeming decrepitude, there’s a soul beneath that needs to be nourished so it doesn’t slip through the cracks. Chasse was starting to slip, but before he fell, his life was extinguished by those charged with protecting him. Lindstrom does a tremendous job showing what we lost as Chasse lay dying on a Pearl District sidewalk: not just a life, but our confidence in those sworn to serve and protect. AP KRYZA.
The human soul behind the monster’s mask.
A SEE IT: Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse premieres at the Portland International Film Festival at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave., at 7 pm Friday, Feb. 15. It also plays at Cinema 21 on Feb. 24-28.
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Could it be that Mama’s real goal is to make the ultimate photobomb? If so, nicely done. PG-13. AP KRYZA. Eastport, Clackamas, Division.
Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films
A- Cumulatively clocking in at a brisk 40 minutes, this year’s Oscarnominated animated shorts are a uniformly charming bunch. The briefest is the 2-minute, stop-motion Fresh Guacamole, in which inedible objects become a bowl of tasty dip. In Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare,” Homer and Marge’s infant daughter is dropped off at the Ayn Rand School for Tots. In 5 minutes, it packs a surfeit of mordant and clever images: Maggie wearing a caterpillar in a Frida Kahlo-style unibrow, a pot of paint labeled “bleakest black” and freaky Raggedy Ayn dolls. Adam and Dog is a lushly illustrated tale about man’s best friend, while the dizzy-making Head Over Heels finds a long-married couple that has grown literally apart, with the husband living on the floor and the wife on the ceiling. But the most delightful of all might be Paperman, a 7-minute wisp that tells the story of a missed connection in midcentury New York City. With its playful sound design, elegant black-and-white palette and bouncy paper-airplane choreography, Paperman delivers. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood Theatre.
Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films
Five shorts vying for a shiny statuette. Living Room Theaters, Hollywood Theatre.
Paper Moon
[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Tatum O’Neal made her film debut in this 1973 crime film, set during the Great Depression. PG. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 9:30 pm FridaySaturday, 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 15-17.
Parker
C+ Jason Statham may be the real last action hero. He’s never made a film to match Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Predator or T2, but his output has been consistently serviceable in a way that few of his forebears and peers can lay claim to. There may be as many strained revelations of Statham’s and co-star Jennifer Lopez’s troubled inner beings as there are pithy one-liners, but Parker’s blend of oldschool action ultimately lives up to the promise of the exceptional heist sequence with which it opens. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Eastport, Clackamas.
Portland Black Film Festival
Up next in the monthlong festival is Rap City (7:30 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13), a collection of archival hip-hop footage, followed by 1964’s Nothing but a Man (7:30 pm Saturday, Feb. 16), about a black couple fighting unemployment and racism in the South. A short film showcase (7:30 pm Sunday, Feb. 17) features several works by local directors. Also screening is Putney Swope (7:30 pm Tuesday, Feb. 19), a satirical 1969 film about a black executive accidentally put in charge of an all-white ad agency. Hollywood Theatre.
Reel Eats
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Several short films about the politics and ethics of food. Clinton Street Theater. 7 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
A Royal Affair
B A brainy bodice-ripper of a tale, A Royal Affair tells the true story of a late 18-century Danish love triangle. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Living Room Theaters.
Safe Haven
D In this happily-ever-after version
of domestic violence, based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, Katie (Julianne Hough) flees an abusive relationship, blood on her hands, with the help of her neighbor, an
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A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III elderly cherry-picker. Her safe haven manifests itself as a tiny Southern beach town, fortuitously home to the tan and chiseled Alex (Josh Duhamel). While Katie copes with the trauma by repainting her kitchen floor canary yellow, Sparksian flames ignite between her and widower Alex. No one saw that coming. Fans of Dear John (Safe Haven is also directed by Lasse Hallström) and The Last Song can enjoy a good heart flutter as Alex lifts Katie off her feet and passionately presses her against a tree. But the deranged, abusive husband won’t disappear so easily, and the events that follow will offend— if not outrage—feminists and anyone remotely knowledgeable about domestic abuse. Think J.Lo’s Enough, deep-fried and coated with extra sugar. PG-13. ENID SPITZ. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Regal Hilltop, Movies On TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Side Effects
B- Warning: Steven Soderbergh’s new film may cause anxiety, frustration, terror, temporary memory loss, episodes of euphoria, Hitchcockian feelings of nostalgia, numbing, exhilaration, dread and apathy. Side effects of Side Effects may also include jaw clenching and eye rolling. Consumption of Side Effects is recommended with a grain of salt. Soderbergh is a master of genre jumping, and with Side Effects, he combines the medical horrors of 2011’s middling Contagion with a noir-style narrative about a young woman (Rooney Mara) who commits a horrendous crime while under the influence of a radical new antidepressant. What emerges is a nail biter that eventually sacrifices a gorgeous concept for standard mystery beats. But the setup, a story about the casualties of mental-health treatment, is damn jarring. Suicidal and prone to sleepwalking, Mara reaches out to an overworked psychiatrist (Jude Law), who puts her on an experimental antidepressant. The first hour plays like a nightmare in which you occupy the head of a severely disturbed mental patient. Alas, just as the film ratchets up the jitters and paranoia, it takes a turn for the conventional in the second half. For all its emotional buildup and unease, Side Effects eventually suffers from multiple personalities. R. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Silver Linings Playbook
A- David O. Russell emerges with
one of filmdom’s funniest stories of crippling manic depression. R. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lake Twin, Moreland, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, St. Johns Twin, Fox Tower.
Sound City
Dave Grohl’s documentary pays tribute to the legendary (and nowdefunct) Los Angeles recording studio. Hollywood Theatre.
Steampunk Film Festival
[TWO DAYS ONLY] Neo-Victorian, retro-futurist films featuring detectives, dinosaurs and dirigibles. See steampunkfilmfestival.com for schedule. Clinton Street Theater. Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 16-17.
Warm Bodies
B+ Director Jonathan Levine’s
goofy wisp of a film is a charming lurch through zombieland that bypasses the usual headshots to aim at the heart—and scores a surprisingly direct hit. The CGI effects are laughable, and it takes a while to adjust to the willfully cheeseball tone. But once it clicks, it’s irresistible. PG-13. KELLY CLARKE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Evergreen Parkway, Hilltop, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville.
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
[ONE NIGHT ONLY] Mary Liz Thomson’s documentary recounts the attempted murder, in 1990, of two environmental activists in Northern California. Clinton Street Theater. 7 and 9:15 pm Wednesday, Feb. 13.
Wings
[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] This 1927 picture about WWI fighter pilots—the only silent film to win the Best Picture Oscar until 2011’s The Artist—vaulted the stoic Gary Cooper to stardom. Donna Parker will provide live organ accompaniment. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, Feb. 18.
Zero Dark Thirty
A- For all the talk about torture
Zero Dark Thirty has generated, you’d be forgiven for thinking director Kathryn Bigelow spends 157 minutes depicting detainees being waterboarded, strung up with ropes and crammed into confinement boxes. This is, of course, not the case. But those scenes of torture dredge up such challenging, uncomfortable and important moral questions it’s no wonder they’ve dominated discussion since before Zero Dark Thirty was released. Yet I’m unable to see the film as some rah-rah piece of jingoism. Instead, it’s as uncomfortable in its relentlessly raw representations of torture as it is in its characters’ emotionally ambiguous reactions to those acts of torture. Zero Dark Thirty builds to the pivotal raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound by a group of Navy SEALs. Much like the film’s earlier depictions of torture, it’s wrenchingly decisive yet, ultimately, inconclusive. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Forest, Bridgeport, Evergreen Parkway, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Fox Tower.
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BURN, BABY, BURN: “This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top,” says Laura Dern’s wayward Southern belle Lula, chest heaving as jailbird lover Sailor (Nicolas Cage in his Elvis phase) runs off to rob a feed store with Willem Dafoe. Dern might as well be summing up director David Lynch’s entire philosophy. 1990’s Wild at Heart doesn’t pretend to be Lynch’s best movie, but it’s the one where his dreamy, outsized id runs freest. Lynch’s lust for the world was always a child’s, and Lula and Sailor are always children, though ruled by sex and chased by death: Sailor in his snakeskin, Lula with her pliable face always a grotesque mirror of the whole impossible world. Though pursued by assassins sent by Lula’s mother and doomed to be caught by the law, the only thing the two care about is each sweet moment of love, burning love. Who can’t get behind that? MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Showing at: Hollywood Theatre, 8 pm Thursday, Feb. 14. Best paired with: Laurelwood Free Range Red. Also showing: Skyfall (Academy, Laurelhurst).
Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX
1510 NE Multnomah St., 800326-3264 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD: THe IMAX eXPeRIeNCe Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:50, 02:20, 04:50, 07:20, 09:50 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:50, 05:20, 07:50, 10:20 SAfe HAVeN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:40, 03:45, 07:05, 10:05 beAUTIfUL CReATUReS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:50, 03:55, 06:55, 09:55 IDeNTITY THIef Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:35, 06:50, 10:10 WARM bODIeS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:55, 02:25, 04:55, 07:25, 10:00 SIDe effeCTS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:35, 02:10, 05:00, 07:35, 10:15 DJANGO UNCHAINeD FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 11:30, 03:00, 06:30, 09:30 THe MeTROPOLITAN OPeRA: RIGOLeTTO LIVe Sat 09:55
Bagdad Theater and Pub
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 503-249-7474 SKYfALL Fri-Sun-MonWed 06:00 PROMISeD LAND Fri-Sun-Mon-Wed 09:15 fLY fISHING fILM TOUR Sat 04:00, 08:00 PLANNeD PAReNT HOOD: IT’S NOT Me IT’S YOU Tue 07:00
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St., 503-238-8899 fORT YUMA GOLD Fri 08:00 3RD ANNUAL ROSe CITY STeAMPUNK fILM feSTIVAL Sat-Sun CALL THeATRe fOR SHOWTIMeS Sat-Sun THe ROCKY HORROR PICTURe SHOW Sat 12:00 5 SHORT fILMS fROM KARMATUbe Mon 07:00
Laurelhurst Theatre & Pub
2735 E Burnside St., 503-232-5511 beASTS Of THe SOUTHeRN WILD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:45 CLOUD ATLAS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 08:50 THIS IS 40 Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:00 SNATCH Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:45 RISe Of THe GUARDIANS Fri-Sat-SunMon 01:15, 04:00 SKYfALL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30, 09:30 HYDe PARK ON HUDSON Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:15 SeARCHING fOR SUGAR MAN Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 09:20 ANNA KAReNINA Sat-Sun-Mon 01:00
Mission Theater and Pub
1624 NW Glisan St., 503-249-7474-5 PORTLANDIA Fri 07:00, 10:00 MIZ. KITTY’S PARLOUR Sat 07:00 PROMISeD LAND Sat-Sun 09:10 ANNA KAReNINA Sun 06:30
Roseway Theatre
7229 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-282-2898 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 03:00, 05:30, 08:00
St. Johns Twin Cinemas and Pub
8704 N Lombard St., 503-286-1768 SILVeR LININGS PLAYbOOK Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30, 07:00, 09:30 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:00, 07:20, 09:45
Century 16 Eastport Plaza
4040 SE 82nd Ave., 800-326-3264-952 HANSeL & GReTeL: WITCH HUNTeRS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 04:25, 10:00
HANSeL & GReTeL: WITCH HUNTeRS 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:45, 08:10 LIfe Of PI Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:30, 07:05 LIfe Of PI 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 05:10, 10:30 SILVeR LININGS PLAYbOOK Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:40, 04:35, 07:20, 10:05 THe HObbIT: AN UNeXPeCTeD JOURNeY Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:10, 07:50 THe HObbIT: AN UNeXPeCTeD JOURNeY 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 03:50 LeS MISÉRAbLeS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:25 ZeRO DARK THIRTY Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 03:30, 07:00, 10:25 DJANGO UNCHAINeD Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 06:45 MAMA Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 04:00, 06:40, 09:30 PARKeR Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 03:40, 10:20 WARM bODIeS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 02:25, 04:55, 07:25, 10:10 IDeNTITY THIef Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:20, 02:00, 03:15, 04:45, 06:15, 07:35, 09:00, 10:15 SIDe effeCTS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:15, 05:05, 07:40, 10:25 beAUTIfUL CReATUReS Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 01:50, 04:40, 07:30, 10:20 SAfe HAVeN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:45, 04:30, 07:15, 10:00 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:00, 01:15, 02:30, 03:45, 05:00, 06:30, 07:45, 09:15, 10:30 eSCAPe fROM PLANeT eARTH Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:45, 07:15 eSCAPe fROM PLANeT eARTH 3D Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:30, 05:00, 09:30
Fifth Avenue Cinemas
510 SW Hall St., 503-725-3551 PAPeR MOON Fri-Sat-Sun 03:00
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 503-281-4215 SOUND CITY Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 07:20, 09:30 THe OSCAR NOMINATeD SHORT fILMS
340 SW Morrison St., 800-326-3264 A GOOD DAY TO DIe HARD Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:10, 04:10, 07:00, 09:40 beAUTIfUL CReATUReS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:40, 04:00, 07:10, 10:10 SAfe HAVeN FriSat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 01:00, 04:20, 07:20, 10:15 eSCAPe fROM PLANeT eARTH 3D Fri-Sat-SunMon-Tue-Wed 02:45, 07:30 eSCAPe fROM PLANeT eARTH Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 12:30, 05:00, 09:50 IDeNTITY THIef Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:45, 03:40, 06:40, 09:30 WARM bODIeS Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:50, 03:30, 06:30, 09:20
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St. Johns Theatre
8203 N Ivanhoe St., 503-249-7474-6 PROMISeD LAND FriSat-Mon-Tue-Wed 09:15 SKYfALL Fri-Sat-Mon-TueWed 06:00 WReCK-IT RALPH Sat-Sun 01:00 THe WALKING DeAD Sun 07:00
Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark St., 503-252-0500 RISe Of THe GUARDIANS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:15, 04:20 THIS IS 40 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 06:30, 09:15 SKYfALL Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 01:40, 06:55, 09:45 THe TWILIGHT SAGA: bReAKING DAWN PART 2 Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:30 beASTS Of THe SOUTHeRN WILD Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 02:00, 09:30 CLOUD ATLAS Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 04:10 HYDe PARK ON HUDSON Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 07:25 WReCK-IT RALPH Sat-Sun-Mon 11:25
Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave., 971-222-2010 56 UP Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 01:45, 07:00 A GLIMPSe INSIDe THe MIND Of CHARLeS SWAN III Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:05, 03:10, 05:20, 07:40, 09:50 A ROYAL AffAIR Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:15, 04:15 ARGO Fri-SatSun-Mon-Tue-Wed 12:10, 02:15, 02:45, 04:30, 06:45, 07:15, 09:45 bARbARA Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:55, 02:00, 04:00, 07:30, 09:40 HANSeL & GReTeL: WITCH HUNTeRS 3D Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 04:50, 10:10 OSCAR SHORTS PROGRAM A Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 12:00, 05:30, 09:20 OSCAR SHORTS PROGRAM b Fri-Sat-Sun-MonTue-Wed 02:05, 09:35 SeARCHING fOR SUGAR MAN Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon-TueWed 11:50, 09:35
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Why do the Heathen rage? And the People imagine a vain thing? The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together [conspiracy]; Against the Lord, and against HIS Anointed, saying: Let us break their bands [chains]as under and cast away their cords from us! BUT HE that sits in the Heavens shall LAUGH! The Lord shall have them in derision. Then HE shall speak to them in HIS sore displeasure... ...I will declare the decree: The Lord has said unto me - You are MY son [Daughter], for this Day have I begotten [adopted] you (Galatians 4:5-7). Now ASK OF ME, and I will give you the Heathen for your inheritance - and the uttermost parts of the world for your possession [dominion]. ... For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show HIMSELF strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect to SEEK HIM! (2 Chronicles 16:9). THEREFORE, as I have said, says the Lord: ASK OF ME WHAT I SHOULD DO FOR YOU! (1 Kings 3:15 and Luke 18:41). Join US in prayer to the ONE TRUE GOD of Abraham, today, for the City of Portland. Chapel@gorge.net
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Afrikaner author Laurens van der Post told a story about a conversation between psychologist Carl Jung and Ochwiay Biano, a Pueblo Indian chief. Jung asked Biano to offer his views about white people. “White people must be crazy because they think with their heads,” said the chief, “and it is well-known that only crazy people do that.” Jung asked him what the alternative was. Biano said that his people think with their hearts. That’s your assignment for the week ahead, Aries: to think with your heart -- especially when it comes to love. For extra credit, you should feel with your head -- especially when it comes to love. Happy Valentine Daze, Aries! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you ever sent a torrent of smart and elegant love messages to a person you wanted to get closer to? Now would be an excellent time to try a stunt like that. Have you ever scoured the depths of your own psyche in search of any unconscious attitudes or bad habits that might be obstructing your ability to enjoy the kind of intimacy you long for? I highly recommend such a project right now. Have you ever embarked on a crusade to make yourself even more interesting and exciting than you already are? Do it now. Raise your irresistibility! Happy Valentine Daze, Taurus! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! After careful meditation about what messages might purify and supercharge your love life, I decided to offer suggestions about what not to do. To that end, I’ll quote some lines from Kim Addonizio’s poem “Forms of Love.” Please don’t speak any of them out loud, or even get yourself into a position where it makes sense to say them. 1. “I love how emotionally unavailable you are.” 2. “I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, even though we’ve never met.” 3. “I love your pain, it’s so competitive.” 4. “I love you as long as you love me back.” 5. “I love you when you’re not getting drunk and stupid.” 6. “I love you but I’m married.” 7. “I love it when you tie me up with ropes using the knots you learned in Boy Scouts, and when you do the stoned Dennis Hopper rap from Apocalypse Now!” CANCER (June 21-July 22): This Valentine season, I suggest you consider trying an experiment like this: Go to the soulful ally you want to be closer to and take off at least some of your masks. Drop your pretenses, too. Shed your emotional armor and do without your psychological crutches. Take a chance on getting as psychologically and spiritually naked as you have ever dared. Are you brave enough to reveal the core truths about yourself that lie beneath the convenient truths and the expired truths and the pretend truths? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Sex is a substitute for God,” says writer Cathryn Michon. “When we desire another human being sexually, we are really only trying to fill our longing for ecstasy and union with the infinite.” I agree with her, and I think you might, too, after this week. Erotic encounters will have an even better chance than usual of connecting you to the Sublime Cosmic YumYum. If you can’t find a worthy collaborator to help you accomplish this miraculous feat, just fantasize about one. You need and deserve spiritual rapture. Happy Valentine Daze, Leo! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Lately you’ve been doing exemplary work on your relationship with yourself, Virgo. You have half-convinced your inner critic to shut the frack up unless it has a truly important piece of wisdom to impart. Meanwhile, you’ve managed to provide a small but inspired dose of healing for the wounded part of your psyche, and you have gently exposed a self-deception that had been wreaking quiet havoc. Congratulations! I’ve got a hunch that all these fine efforts will render you extra sexy and charismatic in the coming week. But it will probably be a subtle kind of sexiness and charisma that only the most emotionally intelligent people will recognize. So don’t expect to attract the attention of superficial jerks who happen to have beautiful exteriors. Happy Valentine Daze! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming days could be an animalistic time for you, and I mean that in the
best sense. I suspect you will generate lots of favorable responses from the universe if you honor the part of you that can best be described as a beautiful beast. Learn fun new truths about your instinctual nature. Explore the mysteries of your primal urges. See what you can decipher about your body’s secret language. May I also suggest that you be alert for and receptive to the beautiful beast in other people? Happy Valentine Daze, Libra! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For the French Scorpio poet Paul Valéry, swimming had an erotic quality. He described it as fornication avec l’onde, which can be translated as “fornicating with the waves.” Your assignment this Valentine season, Scorpio, is to identify at least three activities that are like sex but not exactly sex -- and then do them with glee and abandon. The purpose of this exercise is to educate and cultivate your libido; to encourage your kundalini to branch out as it intensifies and expands your lust for life. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This Valentine season, meditate on the relentlessness of your yearning for love. Recognize the fact that your eternal longing will never leave you in peace. Accept that it will forever delight you, torment you, inspire you, and bewilder you -- whether you are alone or in the throes of a complicated relationship. Understand that your desire for love will just keep coming and coming and coming, keeping you slightly off-balance and pushing you to constantly revise your ideas about who you are. Now read this declaration from the poet Rilke and claim it as your own: “My blood is alive with many voices that tell me I am made of longing.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to physicists Yong Mao and Thomas Fink, you can tie a necktie in 85 different kinds of knots, but only 13 of those actually look good. I encourage you to apply that way of thinking to pretty much everything you do in the coming week. Total success will elude you if you settle on functional solutions that aren’t aesthetically pleasing. You should make sure that beauty and usefulness are thoroughly interwoven. This is especially true in matters regarding your love life and close relationships. Togetherness needs a strong dose of lyrical pragmatism. Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “All these years I’ve been searching for an impossible love,” said French writer Marguerite Duras late in her life. The novels and films she created reflect that feeling. Her fictional characters are often engaged in obsessive quests for an ideal romance that would allow them to express their passion perfectly and fulfill their longing completely. In the meantime, their actual relationships in the real world suffer, even as their starry-eyed aspirations remain forever frustrated. I invite you, Aquarius, to celebrate this Valentine season by taking a vow of renunciation. Summon the courage to forswear Duras’s doomed approach to love. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): To avoid getting hacked, computer tech experts advise you to choose strong, hard-to-guess passwords for your online accounts. Among the worst choices to protect your security are “123456,” “iloveyou,” “qwerty,” and, of course, “password.” Judging by the current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m guessing that you should have a similar approach to your whole life in the coming days. It’s important that you be picky about who you allow into your heart, mind, and soul. Make sure that only the most trustworthy and sensitive people can gain access. Your metaphorical password might be something like this: m*y#s@t&e?r%y.
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