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INBOX OREGON’S GREEN ENERGY

Well, the current laws only seek to pad the pockets of wind producers who get enormous subsidies and forced legislated demand [“A Big Dam Fight Ahead,” WW, March 27, 2011]. All of this at the public’s expense. What a joke. I’d like to see windmills actually be profitable and self-sustaining without crazy subsidies. Wind companies rammed these measures through the political process in the first place, often requiring “green” power to be added to a utility portfolio regardless of whether the utility has the growth to justify those added and more expensive resources. —“justaguy” With the American Legislative Exchange Council’s fingerprints on this, I will oppose it and tell everyone I know to do the same. I will spread the world on ALEC at the same time. —“hotstuff ”

LIVING NEAR LOUD BARS

I can understand why the noise would be annoying if you are trying to sleep next door [“Take It Inside,” WW, March 27, 2013]. But you chose to live on Belmont or next to it, assuming to take advantage of all the ’hood has to offer. You can’t complain about noise! Legitimate noise at that. Perhaps [the complainers] need to drink more. Or move to Tigard. It’s nice and quiet there. I lived on Holgate Boulevard for a year, and there was constant traffic noise. I didn’t like it, but I knew it came with the territory. —“B”

I’ve submitted some great questions to Dr. Know, and have read only lame questions answered lately. I conclude that the column is a clever ruse, like letters to a famous porn magazine of past. Nicely done, but a fake nonetheless. —Frustrated in Portlandia Frusto—may I call you Frusto?—I take umbrage at your implication that I make up my column questions out of whole cloth. The answers, sure, but the questions? You wound me. That said, what strikes me most about your letter is not the opportunity to clear my good name (such as it is), but the delicate, Proustian whiff of hand lotion blowing through its lines like a Kleenex on the spring breeze. These days, any marginally competent 10-year-old can get 3,000 channels of hardcore screaming through his broadband within 20 seconds. Men my age, though, will forever recall Penthouse magazine’s letters section as their first 4

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I’ve worked in bars around the area for 12 years, and I can understand the problems here. One bar had a patio, and the bar worked hard to be a decent neighbor, but complaints still happened. There’s a reason they call booze “loudmouth soup.” The smoking ban a few years ago created a problem, forcing people to go outside to smoke. Whether it’s on a patio, sidewalk or parking lot, bars now have people hanging out outside. Also, most people don’t want to go outside and smoke alone, so now you have a group, and, naturally, they are going to be a little rowdy/loud. So closing a patio at a certain time may help a little, but you’re still going to have people outside smoking and talking/yelling/laughing/screeching. —“Nopo”

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Did your mom or wife piss in your cornflakes this morning? [“Commentary: AP Kryza on Bob Seger,” WW, March 27.] You must really like Justin Bieber with that bad taste in music. Every time I read one of your articles I just want to puke. Dumb ass! —“Dave M” You must be one of those 20K-a-year critics that Toby Keith sings about. —“Dave M” 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

and best source of grossly erroneous information about sex. (Among other things, it made pizza delivery sound like a much more exciting job than it later turned out to be.) Most folks believed the letters were faked by the editors. I’ve always assumed they were faked by the readers, with a smattering of actual true stories—albeit ones involving much uglier people than you probably imagined. In answer to your question, approximately 80 percent of the questions I answer each week come over the email transom, just as yours did. The remainder are texted to me by bored acquaintances, asked in person by boozy strangers at cocktail parties, or shouted at me from the windows of passing cars. So there. Moreover, thanks to appalling inbox hygiene, I still have every email ever received by this column, and I have no record of any prior question from you. It is not I, sirrah, but you who isn’t real. J’accuse! QUESTIONS? Send them to dr.know@wweek.com

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NEIGHBORHOODS: An all-out fight over no-parking apartments. 7 POLITICS: Going for the bronze: Jason Lee vs. Mark Hatfield. 8 ENVIRONMENT: Sinking the Office of Healthy Working Rivers. 9 COVER STORY: Oregon’s dependence on alcohol. 11

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Good news for East Portland: Not only is Mayor Charlie Hales announcing April 3 that the Portland Bureau of Transportation has restored funding for a $1.2 million sidewalk project on Southeast 136th Avenue (“Whacking Cracks,” WW, Feb. 27, 2013), but Rep. Shemia Fagan (D-East Portland) is seeking $3.6 million in state money to triple the sidewalk project’s size. fagan “I don’t want there to be just one little chunk of sidewalk,” Fagan says. Her request would extend the project to 1.8 miles, from Southeast Division Street to Foster Road, and include the stretch of 136th where 5-year-old Morgan Maynard-Cook was killed by a car on Feb. 28. Her death galvanized opposition to the cuts proposed by Hales’ administration, prompting the mayor’s reversal. The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division has cited the defunct Police Activities League of Greater Portland for three health violations after finding exposed asbestos at the PAL youth center on Northeast 172nd Avenue. The citations—first reported by The Skanner newspaper—include findings of asbestos in the girls’ restroom from deteriorated tiles. The complaint was filed in November, three months before PAL folded under financial duress and gave the center to Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland. Gunga galunga: It can’t be good karma for the scalpers who are jacking up ticket prices for the sold-out Dalai Lama event May 9 at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center. When he signed up to visit Oregon, the Dalai Lama required that his “appearance be for the promotion of peace,” says Leigh Sangster, spokeswoman for Maitripa College, the small Southeast Portland Buddalai lama dhist school sponsoring his trip. Tickets with a face value of $15 to $100 are now priced $150 to $329 at Ticket Liquidator. Sangster says proceeds from the original ticket sales will be donated to charities selected by the Dalai Lama. Tickets for a May 11 environmental conference featuring the Dalai Lama at Veterans Memorial Coliseum are still available, so you have that going for you, which is nice. Read more Murmurs and daily scuttlebutt.

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The fluoride battle this week produced a phone-book-sized collection of voters pamphlet statements, with 46 pages of arguments for fluoridation and a whopping 85 against. Most supporting arguments came from the pro-fluoride campaign, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland. But a wide variety of prominent opponents produced their own: the Sierra Club, Columbia Riverkeeper, Cascade Policy Institute, Ralph Nader, trial lawyer Greg Kafoury and Mike Lindberg, who served 17 years as a Portland city commissioner, but who writes his health troubles have soured him on fluoride. “Our existing environment already contains thousands of chemicals that can affect our health,” Lindberg writes. “We can’t take the risk of adding another.”

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MAYOR CHARLIE HALES’ PLAN TO CHANGE RULES ON BIG APARTMENTS HAS EVERYONE FIRED UP. By AA r o n m e s h

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When smoke drifted out of the halted construction site on Southeast Division Street early March 29, the owner of nearby Victory Bar called the cops. It wasn’t his first call about the unfinished 37th Street Apartments: Two weeks earlier, he’d reported seeing a man ripping out copper wiring. Police said the latest incident at the controversial project wasn’t a political statement: just three drunken men in their 20s who broke into the half-finished building, set fire to a page of blueprints and shot off fire extinguishers. But Beaverton-based developer Dennis Sackhoff is hiring 24-hour security for his project, which has already been incendiary enough for many people along Division. The building is at the center of a political fight over the city’s planning and transportation policies. A decade ago, the City Council approved rules allowing developers to forgo onsite parking for new housing close to transit lines. The idea was to encourage more density and help developers keep down costs. The change has spurred a rash of large apartment buildings—including seven along Division—with no parking for tenants. Neighbors have complained the streets in front of their homes are now jammed with cars. The issue blew open last summer as one of the commissioners who wrote the change, Charlie Hales, was running for mayor (“Block Busters,” WW, Sept. 19, 2012). Since then, Hales has been backpedaling from the policy. Sackhoff’s 81-unit building project has four stories of bicycle racks but not a single automobile parking space. He’s waiting for the city to let him apply for a new building permit after a state land-use board disallowed the project on a technicality unrelated to parking. When city officials tried to find a quick legal fix for Sackhoff’s project last month— without a promised hearing—Hales stepped in to quash the plan. The hearing is set for April 4. What’s clear is that the city’s current policy is all but dead. The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is now proposing that developers offer at least one parking space for every four apartments in buildings with more than 40 units. Division Street activists want the city

to require Sackhoff to add 20 parking spaces to his half-finished building. “The best interest of the city should be in serving its neighborhoods,” says Richard Melo of Richmond Neighbors for Responsible Growth, “not bailing out land developers who have impulse-control issues.” Even in a town famously enamored with public process, this is a free-for-all. At least a dozen organizations from competing sides will present their case for how the city should change its policy. “This is out of control now,” says Tony Jordan of Portland Neighbors for Sustainable Development, a group advocating against rule changes. “It’s a circus.” Here’s who else is joining in: Naysaying Neighbors: Homeowners who thought the neighborhood associations too milquetoast started their own splinter groups, such as Richmond Neighbors for Responsible Growth, to fight the apartments. What they want: One space for every three apartments, though nobody agrees whether the rule should start at 20 units or 40. They also want sign-off privileges on designs of new projects. The Enviro-Planner Coalition: The yin to the homeowners’ yang, smartgrowth fans—who want the city to stay the course on dense neighborhoods—created Portland Neighbors for Sustainable Development in December. The group includes pedestrian group Oregon Walks and two old lions of Oregon land-use fights—former 1000 Friends of Oregon directors Robert Liberty and Bob Stacey, neighbors who live near Division. What they want: The city to stick to its guns and say no onsite parking is needed. But they’ll settle for the city’s proposal, plus neighborhood parking permits. Home Builders: Hales used to be a lobbyist for the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan Portland. But large apartment complexes aren’t really home builders’ bread and butter, so they’re willing to give Hales a pass. What they want: One onsite parking spot for every eight units, increasing for buildings with more than 40 units. The Commissioner: City Commissioner Nick Fish was unusually visible as the apartment controversy heated up last month—even calling himself “outraged” when Bureau of Development Services officials tried to gin up a new permit for Sackhoff without a hearing. What he wants: A compromise that starts with one onsite parking spot for every five apartments for buildings with more than 30 units, and moves to one spot per three apartments for buildings with

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PARANOID PARKING

“ It’s just punIshment after punIshment. If they want a publIc floggIng, I’ll agree.” —Dennis sackhoff

more than 50 units. The Developer: Sackhoff—until now mum as nine apartment complexes he’s building in Portland have been denounced as huge, cheap and ugly—tells WW he’s being unfairly scapegoated for following the city’s rules. What he wants: His original deal with the city: no required onsite parking for the 37th Street Apartments. “It’s just punishment after punishment,” says Sackhoff. “If they want a public flogging, I’ll agree—maybe next Friday we could do it. I’ll take my whacks, and then let’s get going.” Willamette Week APRIL 3, 2013 wweek.com

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STATUE OF LIMITATIONS WHO DESERVES A PEDESTAL MORE, JASON LEE OR MARK HATFIELD? by An n - d e r r i c k g A i llot

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The Oregon Legislature wants to send the late Mark O. Hatfield back to Washington. A bill with 36 sponsors would mount a full-size bronze of the debonair and determined Republican statesman in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C.

Co-sponsors Vic Gilliam (R-Silverton) and Tobias Read (D-Beaverton) promise the statue of Hatfield will cost zero tax dollars—an ironic honor for the state legislator, governor and five-term U.S. senator who brought billions in federal pork home for the Beaver State. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for millions of people to take a fresh look at Oregon,” Gilliam says. “I don’t think there’s a better modern hero than Hatfield.” Each state gets two statues in Statuary Hall, and installing Hatfield, who died in 2011, means one of the two current statues has to go.

Jason LEE

Fur baron John McLoughlin would stay. And Jason Lee would be out. No, not the Mallrats Jason Lee. We’re talking about the Methodist missionary and state founding father. Hatfield’s friends—with a wink from the late senator himself—saw that plenty of things in Oregon got named for Hatfield: a courthouse, a marine science center and even a U.S. Capitol hearing room, to name a few. But Lee has his fans. A “Save Jason Lee” movement is afoot, with a protest scheduled at the Oregon State Capitol on April 19. It’s led by Reviving Oregon’s Amazing Roots, a conservative Christian group urging people to “help kill the bill that attempts to casually manipulate Oregon’s amazing history.” Sounds like a good old-fashioned feud. Whose side are you on?

Mark o. HatFIELD

GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT

Responsible for enticing settlers to the northwest and establishing Oregon’s first mission and provincial government, and for delivering a petition to establish Oregon as a U.S. territory to Washington, D.C.

took principled stands as a pacifist—especially in steadfast (and often lonely) opposition to the vietnam War. Despite overseeing spending bills, he never voted for a defense appropriations measure.

BIGGEST FAILURE

founded a school to educate and convert native children in the Willamette valley. Of the school’s 39 children, all of whom lacked immunity to diseases brought by white settlers, seven died, 16 became ill and five ran away. few students were converted. One boy lee took back East as evidence of his success died on the trip. Understandably, many natives kept clear of his mission.

Used his power to mandate increased logging on federal lands, leading to overcutting of Oregon’s federal forests, placement of the northern spotted owl on the endangered species list, crippling of timber communities, and a decades-long battle between the timber industry and environmentalists.

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY CRED

he converted his failed indian mission into a school catering to the white children of settlers. lee’s indian manual training School evolved into Willamette University.

Earned his bachelor’s degree at Willamette, served as associate professor of political science and then dean of students, and has a library on campus named after him.

HOW RELIGIOUS WAS HE?

Dude, he was a missionary.

A devout Baptist and resolute dove.

WORST SCANDAL

the methodist mission board was displeased with lee’s departure from his original mission. the board charged him with misappropriating mission funds for land speculation, and it revoked his title of “missionary of Oregon.” lee was eventually exonerated and his title was reinstated.

Supported a wacky African pipeline idea promoted by a shady greek arms dealer who paid hatfield’s wife $55,000 for “consulting” on real estate. An fBi investigation called the payments bribes; the hatfields were not charged. he was later rebuked by the Senate for failing to disclose $42,000 in other gifts.

BEST BILL

helped create an 1839 bill that offered 1,000 acres of land to settlers who came to Oregon—as long as they were white males over the age of 18.

Among many lasting measures, he led the fight as a state lawmaker to pass 1953 legislation barring racial discrimination in Oregon housing and public accommodations.

COOLEST THING NAMED FOR HIM

Jason lee Elementary School, “home of the leopards” in portland.

mark O. hatfield Clinical Research Center at the national institutes of health in Bethesda, md.

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DRIFTING AWAY: City Hall is looking at killing the Oﬃce of Healthy Working Rivers, a city agency run by Commissioner Amanda Fritz that counts among its credits sponsoring the Big Float on the Willamette.

FLOATING AWAY TARGETED FOR ELIMINATION, THE OFFICE OF HEALTHY WORKING RIVERS MAY BE YOU-KNOW-WHERE WITHOUT A PADDLE. BY M IC H A E L M U N KVOLD

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When it comes to government agencies with endearing names, none comes close to the city’s Office of Healthy Working Rivers. It’s not just the hopeful adjectives in its title— it’s the tiny bureau’s very mission to honor and enjoy Portland’s rivers, even to encourage citizens to take a swim in the Willamette. But the bureau may be too precious—and not effective enough—to stay afloat. The Office of Healthy Working Rivers, with its $779,368 annual budget, is being targeted for elimination. Since then-Mayor Sam Adams created the office in 2009, the four-person agency has struggled to show real accomplishments that live up to its hopeful name. The office’s supporters say it promotes the river as a healthy resource for recreation and a vital part of Portland’s economy. Its detractors say that, in light of Mayor Charlie Hales’ efforts to close a $25 million budget gap, the office is like dessert—nice, but unnecessary. “The office lacks focus, authority and welldefined relations to other bureaus,” says Bob Sallinger of the Audubon Society of Portland. “They pick up projects catch as catch can. We have to question whether those projects are worth funding given the budget cuts we’re facing.” But Ann Beier, the agency’s director, says the office has been carrying out its mission: to make sure all city bureaus work together on issues related to the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Beier says the office helps coordinate communications between the various agencies that interact with the river, as well as creates opportunities for businesses and environmental groups to be heard in city government. “People who have jobs relating to the river would be losing a voice, and the business community would be losing a place to take their river-related concerns,” she says.

As a result, the office is part clearinghouse, part public relations. Sponsors of the Big Float— the inner-tubing event that drew more than 800 to the Willamette last summer—credit the office’s publicity with making their event a success. And Healthy Working Rivers’ website points to other recent activities, such as sponsoring a brown-bag luncheon on salmon migration, hosting a talk on floodplain mapping and promoting a children’s art competition. But its role as a conduit for dealing with river issues has put the office in the middle of a turf battle—and made it not especially effective at dealing with one of the biggest issues confronting the river: the Portland Harbor Superfund site. Plus, the office is in a politically awkward spot. The city’s Bureau of Environmental Services— the municipal sewer utility—funds the office. That bureau’s director, Dean Marriott, has proposed cutting off Health Working Rivers’ money and returning its duties to his bureau without the direct oversight the office now gets from the City Council. “The Office of Healthy Working Rivers is not required by state and federal permits,” Marriott says. “This, along with several other activities, is low priority.” (Audubon’s Sallinger, who is critical of the office, sits on a budget committee that works with Marriott’s bureau.) Travis Williams of Willamette Riverkeeper says that the office has worked well within an unusual framework—an independent office funded by a bureau with its own agenda—but still adds value to the city. “I think the Office of Healthy Working Rivers has existed within a difficult environment,” he says. “Trying to figure out how to move politically within that situation takes time.” Adams gave the office to City Commissioner Amanda Fritz to lead. She did so until Feb. 4, when Hales took back all the commissioners’ bureau assignments. Fritz, who says she wants the office reassigned to her, adds she hopes the City Council will protect most of the agency’s funding. And she says Healthy Working Rivers can give environmental and economic health issues, especially for the Willamette, the attention Marriott’s bureau cannot. “[Environmental Services] only focuses on watershed health,” Fritz says. “There are many different bureaus working adjacent to the rivers, but only the Office of Healthy Working Rivers is working with all of them at the same time.”

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Devon is hauled into the Central City Concern Sobering Station, a Portland cop on each arm. He has a dazed, faraway look that, as he puts it, “a whole lot of Hennessy” provides. He’s quickly booked and placed in one of two large holding rooms for men too inebriated to function. It’s 1:45 am on St. Patrick’s Day, and Portland police are delivering a steady stream of humanity into Portland’s drunk tank. It’s not the official name, and it’s certainly not a nice name, but it is what it is. Devon, who weighs about 240 pounds, was picked up outside Couture Ultra Lounge, an Old Town club. He’s instantly on all fours. He emits a foul-smelling red vomit, complete with chunks of what may have been Mexican food. (All the floors in the sobering station slope to a drain for a reason.) A “sobering technician” handles the mess with an industrial mop. Devon—a first-time guest—passes out on the floor. He’s next to one of the regulars, a guy named Teddy who is supine in slumber, his right hand down the front of his pants. “Teddy, ease off your balls, man!” another regular calls to him. Teddy shifts his hand to his backside. cont. on page 12

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OLD TOWN, NEW STORY: Old Town has long been a boozy scene, but it’s only in the last five years that it has become a destination drinking spot. And it’s right where much of Central City Concern’s clean and sober housing is located. “There’s nothing we can do about it,” CCC’s Sarah Goforth says.

three bills that would corral behavior in the Northwest Portland district. In addition, the city is experimenting with a solution of its own, and Multnomah County is trying to curb binge and underage drinking there. As honorary Oregonian Homer Simpson most aptly said: “To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” It’s half past midnight, and Portland Officer Chad Phifer brings Adam to the sobering station in handcuffs. As he enters, Adam sees a sign reading, “Central City Concern Sobering Station,” and the serious faces of three intake workers. He pauses a beat and says, “Sobering station... yes, it is.” He’s 26 and a hipster personified in a plaid shirt and mustache that’s artfully curled at the corners. Admits

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The 6,806 admissions to the sobering station last year—many are repeat clients—represent the extreme end of Oregon’s dizzyingly complicated relationship with alcohol. (Because of medical privacy concerns, WW has changed the names of sobering station clients for this story.) Government spends money to care for Oregon’s alcoholics, but it also sells them the booze and taxes it—and profits immensely. “We have a schizophrenic relationship with the product,” says Paul Romain, the formidable lobbyist for the Oregon Beer & Wine Distributors Association. And while the Central City Concern Sobering Station, located at 51 NE Grand Ave., often hosts men and women who have blood alcohol contents the average person rarely achieves, it is still accurate to say that as a whole, Oregon is a drunken state. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Oregon’s 2010 rate of alcohol-induced deaths was nearly double the national average. Almost 60 percent of those seeking treatment for addiction in Oregon are alcoholics; nationally, it’s just over 40 percent. In Portland, arrests for drinking in public have gone up almost twofold since 2005. During that time, the population growth has been only 5.7 percent. “We are one of the most intoxicated or loaded states per capita,” says Sarah Goforth, Central City Concern’s senior director of integrated behavioral health care, whose responsibilities include the sobering station. Last year, the state earned $194.1 million in profits from state-controlled alcohol sales, taxes on wine and beer, and liquor licenses. It’s the state’s third-largest discretionary revenue stream, behind income taxes and the lottery. “We’re addicted to liquor money like we’re addicted to gambling,” Romain says. To be sure, a steady stream of booze money helped Oregon limp along during the last recession. And the vast majority of Oregonians enjoy happy hour without unhappy results. But if you spend time with drunks, or even heavy drinkers, it’s hard not to conclude that Portland and Oregon’s relationship with alcohol is a paradox. Nowhere is this conflict better illustrated than in Old Town, a mile from the sobering station, due west across the Burnside Bridge. There sits a swath of real estate that has become a genuine nightlife destination—and a boozeaddled street festival that requires maximum police attention. This month, the Oregon Legislature is considering

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to the sobering station can broadly be divided into two camps. First are the repeat clients—men (they’re mostly men) who are chronic and, in some cases, late-stage alcoholics unable to function without the juice. CHIERS, the transport van the nonprofit runs to collect the intoxicated from the streets, has a 40-page, double-sided list of repeat clients. In 2012, one man was responsible for 73 admissions (at a cost of nearly $14,000). Then there are the newbies, men and women who simply had way, way too much fun—often in Old Town. As with all new arrivals, a staff member asks Adam what he was drinking. In this case, it was Jameson. Enough Irish whiskey that Officer Phifer found him face down on the sidewalk in Old Town. The station’s emergency medical technicians take Adam’s blood pressure and pulse. Next, they clear out his pockets, stashing a smartphone, wallet, a pack of Black & Mild cigars and a comb for his ’stache in a plastic bag for safekeeping. He’s led into one of three communal holding rooms, which are equipped with a metal table, toilet, sink and nothing else. Five staffers watch Adam and the others from an office lined with windows facing the holding rooms. There’s an opening at the bottom of the windows, through which they can hand their charges water, granola bars and soup. Adam isn’t long for the communal room. He’s uncooperative, refusing to back away from the window. He’s going to isolation. The green cell, the color of an Andes mint, is about 4 feet by 10 feet. There’s nothing but a toilet. “You fucking faggots!” Adam shouts at the commode. He screams for the next two hours, kicking the room’s locked door so hard the tempered glass window visibly flexes. The lack of a pillow—which, along with blankets, isn’t offered for sanitary reasons—becomes an urgent matter of civil rights to Adam, who can’t lift his liquor-addled head off the concrete floor. “I want a fucking pillow!” he bellows again and again. The drunks at the sobering station are not charged with crimes. Rather, they can be held up to 48 hours under the state’s civil commitment law—meaning they’re a danger to themselves or others. Most people stay about four to eight hours, however, before staff members allow them to leave. The chronics know the drill. Sleep. Wake up. Eat a cup of vegetable beef soup. Wait for release. cont. on page 14

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GETTIN’ BOOZY WIT IT: Most weekend visitors to the sobering station are binge drinkers, not chronic alcoholics— many of whom come from Old Town. The busiest nights for amateurs are New Year’s Eve, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo. Sobering station workers say they get far more Portland Timbers fans than Trail Blazers fans.

It’s the binge drinkers who cause the most problems. “People get all like, ‘Am I in Afghanistan? You can’t do this to me!’” sobering technician Matthew Knowlton says. “People just spew the worst hate. I’ve been told by one guy he wants to lick my tits and rape my daughter.” The isolation rooms are almost always full, particularly on big party nights: New Year’s Eve, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween. And the stories are legion. Knowlton recalls a time when an elderly man came up behind a passed-out partier and began rubbing his penis on the unconscious man’s forehead. Staff quickly stopped the man, and didn’t tell the victim what had happened. “I figured, would he really want to know?” Knowlton says. The sobering station is the only real choice for Portland’s publicly inebriated, other than hospital or jail. Most arrive in the back of a cop car or are collected by Central City Concern’s CHIERS van. The van’s $432,000 annual budget comes from the Portland Police Bureau. The sobering station’s $1.3 million budget is split between Portland (44 percent) and Multnomah County (48 percent), with other counties contributing the rest through a $127-per-drunk per-night fee. Clients themselves do not pay for their stay. The station has been part of a perennial battle between the city and county, with each side threatening to pull funding. In 2007, the county said it would cut $1 million from the station. At the time, then-county Chairman (and now State Treasurer) Ted Wheeler said housing the drunk was a police service and the city should pay. Ultimately, the county capitulated and continued chipping in. This year, it’s the city threatening to cut off the money. The Police Bureau budget submitted to Mayor Charlie Hales includes no funding for the sobering station. Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson says it’s a county problem. “We’re looking at 27 actual police officers being laid off,” Simpson tells WW. “We can’t pay for something that is someone else’s responsibility.” A spokesman for Hales’ office says all cuts are still on the table. On Jan. 20, Rebecca Bray, a 20-year-old from Gresham, was killed by a drunken driver at 2:30 am. Bray was standing on the edge of Old Town, at Northwest 5th Avenue and Everett Street, with a friend waiting for a ride when prosecutors say Brent A. Warstler, 42, drove a pickup truck through a red light, hit a taxi and smashed into Bray and her friend, who sustained critical injuries. Warstler’s blood alcohol content was .20—more than double the legal limit of .08, police say. It’s not clear where

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TYING ONE ON: Trained EMTs check the blood pressure and pulse of everyone admitted to the sobering station. Sometimes they’ll administer a Breathalyzer test as well. The staff says the highest blood alcohol content they’ve seen is about .38—nearly five times the legal limit of .08.

Warstler was drinking that Saturday night, the district attorney’s office says. Old Town has transformed in the past several years into Portland’s premier nightclub scene. As a result, it’s also become the city’s top spot for binge drinking, county officials say. Many of Central City Concern’s drug- and alcohol-free housing units are located in the middle of this nightlife. It puts Portland’s party-hard crowds directly in the face of those who struggle to stay sober. “Old Town, which used to be Scary Town, is now Party Town,” Goforth says. “There’s alcohol- and drug-abuse housing above, and clubs below. It’s a little surreal.” Marvis Cotton has lived on the sixth floor of the Estate Hotel, located at Old Town’s epicenter, Northwest 3rd Avenue and Couch Street, for 3½ years. He’s 58 and wears a “one day at a time” tag on the zipper of his down coat. He says seeing the drunks every weekend does him good. “I look at them and say, ‘I don’t want to be that way,’” Cotton says. “It’s a constant reminder of what not to do.” Public officials are trying a number of measures to address the excesses of alcohol in Old Town. Last year, the Multnomah County Department of Human Services won a $200,000 state grant to target binge and heavy drinking among 18-to-25-year-olds. A work group is studying ways to cut back on overserving alcohol and underage drinking; among the tactics being considered are purchasing signs to post in Old Town to promote responsible drinking, and buying bars ID scanners to better weed out fakes. More significant, the Portland City Council voted unanimously last December to exclude cars from a sixblock area in Old Town from 10 pm to 3 am on weekends for 90 days as a way to reduce fights, ease crowd control and improve traffic safety. (Bray was killed just outside this area). “We really like it,” says Officer Ariana Ridgely, who works weekend nights from the small cop outpost set up on Northwest 3rd Avenue and Couch Street. “There’s been a lot less fighting and assaults.” The three-month trial ended April 1, but cops and many of the Old Town bars hope the car ban will return when the weather becomes warmer and even more partiers flood the streets. Chad Stover, Mayor Hales’ law enforcement policy assistant, says his office is working with police, neighbors and businesses to assess the district’s success.

IT ALL GOES DOWNHILL: A sobering station technician mops up a puddle of vomit as a regular client sleeps it off on the floor. No blankets or pillows are provided for sanitary reasons, but the floors are slightly heated and heat lamps also warm from above.

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In Salem, three bills that could have a big impact in Old Town are still in committees. Few expect success for an attempt to raise the beer tax. Oregon has the fourth-lowest beer tax in the nation, and hasn’t raised the tax since the 1970s. Proponents say the bill would stem problem drinking and raise more funds for treatment. “There’s a strong relationship between price and underage and heavy drinking,” says Devarshi Bajpai, addiction services manager for Multnomah County Mental Health and Addiction Services. Rep. Jules Bailey (D-Portland) says the tax hike lacks the votes this session. He is among those against it. “I’ve been consistently concerned about the impact of a maltbeverage tax increase on our craft-beverage industry.” Also left in potential limbo is House Bill 2008—legislation that even House Speaker Tina Kotek (D-Portland) may not be able to push through. Kotek has been trying since 2007 to deal with problem bars. Among the provisions in HB 2008 is to give law enforcement the power to close down liquor-licensed establishments for 72 hours if it feels the businesses are an immediate threat to public safety. Shootings occur in Old Town about once a year, occasionally with fatal results. If HB 2008 were to pass, and a gang shooting occurred outside of a bar—as it did when 19-year-old Andre Dupree Payton was killed in 2010 at Northwest 2nd Avenue and Couch Street—cops could close the nearby venue to thwart possible retaliatory shootings. Jared Mason-Gere, Kotek’s spokesman, says that while the Oregon Liquor Control Commission already has the authority to close problem establishments, police could do more. “Cities and law enforcement have asked for this authority because they’re able to be more responsive than the OLCC,” he tells WW. But that’s a big reason why the influential Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association hates this bill. Lobby vice president Bill Perry says he could see closing down bars after major crimes, but Kotek’s bill—which also includes provisions for shutting down bars with too many noise complaints—steps over the line and gives law enforcement and cities unprecedented levels of latitude. “It gives a police officer the right to close down an establishment with no third-party oversight,” Perry says. “It lets them close a place on a reasonable belief that something happened. There’s no due process.” The bill with the best shot of passing is one that proponents say would keep the public intoxication of both the weekend warriors in Old Town and the winos on the street in check. Sen. Jackie Dingfelder (D-Portland) and Rep. Carolyn Tomei (D-Milwaukie) are championing House Bill 2702, which would give the OLCC clear authority to institute what are called “alcohol impact areas.” “While there is no clear path for HB 2702, advocates are working hard to address industry concerns,” Dingfelder says. “This is an uphill battle, but not impossible. There have already been several amendments proposed to this bill, and I am encouraged that we are on the path to compromise.” Old Town has one of the state’s highest concentrations of alcohol outlets—both bars and stores that sell beer and wine, and the bill’s supporters say alcohol impact areas— zones where high-octane malt liquors and fortified wines would be removed from shelves—would help. A Multnomah County study found that on a per-capita basis, the county outpaces the rest of the state for binge and heavy drinking (21.8 percent of men binge drink here, compared to 19.7 percent statewide; 14 percent of women binge drink here, compared to just 8.7 percent who report the habit statewide). Portland spent more than three years trying to start such a zone in Old Town. The OLCC told city leaders it had the authority to create an alcohol impact area. But after a lengthy bureaucratic back and forth, the OLCC reversed course and said it actually didn’t have the legal right to ban particular boozes. HB 2702 would clarify the law to give the OLCC the authority to do just that. Business lobbyists oppose the bill and say the state cOnT. on page 16 Willamette Week APRIL 3, 2013 wweek.com

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shouldn’t be in the business of regulating what is sold in certain locations. Alcohol impact areas would unfairly target the poor and simply push problem drinking outside impact-area boundaries, they say. “The main thing is that they don’t work,” says Romain, the beer and wine lobbyist. “They move problems from one place to another.” The city’s drunk tank was originally named after David Philip Hooper. A track star at Franklin High School and Linfield College in the 1930s, he later became well-known in Old Town. He was arrested 93 times for panhandling and public intoxication. It was in jail that he died, on March 6, 1971. His death galvanized city leaders to create a safe space, supervised by medically trained staff, where drunks could sober up. It opened in October that same year. Today, Central City Concern’s medical detox program—which is separate from the sobering station and serves about 2,000 people a year—is named for Hooper. His name is gone from the drunk tank. The good news is, business is declining for the sobering station. Admissions have dropped more than 60 percent from a peak of more than 19,000 in 1992. Why there has been such a drop—at a time when broader alcohol-addiction statistics are on the rise—isn’t clear. Part of the explanation is that Portland’s cops changed their policy in 2009, when they began transporting some drunks who commit low-level offenses, like offensive littering or drinking in public, to jail instead of the sobering station. The department already cut $100,856 from the CHIERS budget last year, and the van’s hours of operation were cut back to 10 hours a day from 16 hours, resulting in the transport of fewer clients. Central City Concern’s Goforth, a slender woman in her mid-50s who counts herself as 27 years sober, also has a few theories. The first is that her own nonprofit has upped its drug- and alcohol-free housing units from about 50 units 30 years ago to about 900 today. Some of the drunks that were on the streets are now in housing, receiving regular exposure to group support. The others? “A lot of the severe alcoholics are dead now,” she says. The sobering station isn’t the place where most drunks find a 12-step program. Rather, staff makes sure to let out the latestage drunks in time to get more alcohol before they start having seizures. It’s palliative care, Goforth explains. “Sobering was always about chronic folks, it was never about the people partying at bars,” Goforth says. “But that is a lot of who we pick up on the weekend.” 16

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hook us up: Finally, the Portland trend that makes the most sense of any Portland trend, ever, is spreading: On April 4 at 5 pm, Green Castle Food Court (1930 NE Everett St.) gets its first hookah cart. Nargila Garden will have hookahs, which are water pipes with flavorful, fruity Middle Eastern tobacco blends, to be enjoyed along with food from five nearby carts. It will also skirt the city’s smoking nargila garden ban and give kids under 21 legal access to some sort of mind-altering substance in a social situation. “Low, cushioned seating in a garden setting complemented by a wood stove and an epic fire pit provide the best ambience in town,” says cart boss Ian Griffonwyd. >> In unrelated news, the often-idle Artigiano cart at 3302 SE Division St. has applied for a license to sell beer and wine out of its “alfresco restaurant.” The City of Portland has been fighting a losing battle with the Oregon Liquor Control Commission over booze at carts—recently shutting down Captured by Porches beer buses for a few months.

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boring no more: Life in Boring, Ore., is about how you’d expect from the city’s name. Thankfully, VitaminWater—a company that knows something about taking a basic human need and giving it pizzazz—is here to help those poor, entertainment-deprived, um, Borinians. (Boregers? Boredoms?) On April 3, the Brilliance Uncapped Concert Series invades the sleepy santigold burgh 40 minutes east of Stumptown, shaking up what we assume is the daily drudgery of bean-picking and horizonstaring with a concert featuring B.o.B, Santigold, Matt and Kim, and Yung Skeeter. That’s not all: While in town, VitaminWater is also planning on “livening up some rather ‘meh’ situations.” “Think a heavy-metal salute at a flag-raising,” reads the press release. The show is not open to the public, but will air live on Fuse at 6 pm. reality check: Portland stopped being polite last week, as the first episode of MTV’s The Real World: Portland aired. It contained no surprises—the cast members got drunk, made out and cussed out each other—but that doesn’t mean it’s no small delight to glimpse token Rose City sites on the tube. (TriMet got more play in the first episode than all seven housemates combined, and Dante’s made a notable appearance.) Starting today, WW correspondent Jay Horton will be filing weekly Real World reports—look for them at wweek.com. romance lives: On April 1, Guitar Romantic, the only album by Portland pop-punk legends the Exploding Hearts, turned 10. Although the band’s career ended tragically less than four months after its release, the record’s influence endures. To commemorate this anniversary, WW partnered with video-production company Generator and Pabst Blue Ribbon, and filmed six Portland bands covering all 10 songs on the album. Watch the videos at wweek.com.

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THURSDAY APRIL 4 paul taylor dance company [dance] Paul Taylor is one of the most lauded and influential modern american choreographers, and tonight White Bird presents three works that mix classical scores with asymmetrical movement and disparate sources of inspiration. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 2451600. 7:30 pm. $26-$64. Karen ruSSell [BOOKS] Following the colossal success of her novel Swamplandia!, Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell releases a new collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

FRIDAY APRIL 5 madonna yoga [yOga] get into the groove and shake your asana with Portland instructor-dJ duo chris calarco and dJ Shakermaker. Material girls and enlightened yogis vogue at this all-levels class. Snacks and Sokol Blosser wine served post-savasana. Yoga Pearl, 925 NW Davis St. 7:30-9 pm. 525-9642, yogapearl.com. $20. unKnown mortal orcheStra [PSych FunK] On uMO’s sophomore effort, II, the funky, cut-andpaste sound experiments of the Portland trio’s debut have been replaced by 7-minute stoner jams and tricky pop songs that could almost pass as late-period Beatles B-sides. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

SUNDAY APRIL 7 tweed ride [BiKeS] Break out the tweed and wax your mustache for a classy, leisurely ride from Mount Tabor to the Velo cult after-party. now in the event’s fourth year, dapper Victorian garb is required. Meet at Mount Tabor Park basketball court at 2 pm. tweedpdx.net. Free. orcheStral manoeuvreS in the darK [elecTROnic icOnS] The english synth-pop pioneers have pulled off the rarest of coups in the music world: staging a reunion of the original lineup and producing new music that sounds as vibrant and vital as the group’s well-known work from the ’80s. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 8:30pm. $27 advance, $29 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY APRIL 9 gulp [BOOKS] author Mary Roach talks about a smorgasbord of taboo food topics in her newest book, Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal. She promises to answer burning questions: What makes crunchy food so addicting? Why don’t terrorists hide bombs by swallowing them? and how much can you eat before you burst? Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free. Willamette Week APRIL 3, 2013 wweek.com

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Oregon breweries nudge out wine for a night of romance with local chocolates. Beers from the likes of Alameda, Pfriem and Hopworks join chocolatiers such as Alma and Woodblock to celebrate Beer West magazine’s spring issue. Alma Studio at the American Brush Building, 116 NE 6th Ave., Suite 101. 6-9 pm. $25. 21+.

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Indie, artisan wineries from the West Coast—the Willamette to Napa valleys—rush Portland with their rare and hard-to-ﬁnd bottles of pinot noir to primitivo. Taste unknown vintages alongside bites from local chefs. Leftbank Annex, 101 N Weidler St. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75. 21+.

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Home gardeners and aspiring market sellers convene for crop talk focused on successive planting. Seth Belber, farmer’s market maven and banjo player, leads the planting planning. People’s Co-op, 3029 SE 21st Ave, 674-2642. 10 am-12 pm. $22.

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In springtime, hibernating cider barrels are finally tapped for enjoyment. Pix will pour a flight of four alongside their token petit fours and chocolate truffles. Pix Patisserie, 2225 E Burnside St., 971-271-7166. 2 pm-2 am. $10$30. 21+.

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Author Mary Roach talks about a smorgasbord of taboo food topics in her newest book, Gulp. She promises to answer burning questions: What makes crunchy food so addicting? Why don’t terrorists hide bombs by swallowing them? And how much can you eat before you burst? Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

TEFF GIG: Exotic new food carts continue to open in Portland.

RAHEL’S ETHIOPIAN FOOD It’s common to hear a certain class of foodniks proclaim the local food-cart craze is over. Which is true—if by “craze” you mean a “brief period when trained chefs thought it would be cute to make opulent sandwiches in a cart until the right investment scout winked as she swiped her finger across the Square-equipped iPad.” Now that those people are ensconced back in their LEED-certified towers, the cart scene is again a platform for hard-working outsiders trying to claw their way into the restaurant industry by serving busy people and immigrant communities. At least that’s the dynamic driving traffic at Southeast 102nd Avenue and Stark Street. Rahel’s, one of the newest carts at that pod, is the second Ethiopian cart in town, meaning Portland has twice as many Ethiopian carts as there are Ethiopian restaurants Order this: Siga watt ($7). in the states of Alabama, Arkansas Best deal: Miser kay watt ($6). and Mississippi—combined. The cart even sells $5 bags of green coffee beans to be pan-roasted before being ground and brewed in the traditional Ethiopian way. “The Americans don’t buy those,” says the cart’s owner. “Just the Ethiopian people.” Rahel’s sells six main dishes, including doro watt (slow-cooked chicken in spicy berbere sauce, $8), siga watt (stewed beef, $7), tibs (pan-fried beef cubes, $7) and miser kay watt (red and yellow lentils simmered with berbere spices, $6). All are served on a blanket of thicker-than-average injera with a side of crisp, pleasantly bitter collard greens. The greens, beef and lentils are all allowed to keep a little of their crispness, avoiding the mushiness that is a common problem with Ethiopian food, especially when it’s served from a row of slow cookers. Rahel’s may or may not eventually grow into bricks. But, as it’s 50 blocks east of the nearest Ethiopian competitor, I’m happy to see it, trends be damned. MARTIN CIZMAR. EAT: Rahel’s Ethiopian Food, 10175 SE Stark St., 896-7204. $.

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burrito in art-deco format. It’s brilliantly aestheticized trash, and guiltily delicious. Asian fusion has become overfamiliar and falsely upscale, with exotic ingredients added as accents to continental ideas—Saucebox, for example, still oh-so-innovatively douses salmon fillets with soy—but Nudi is entirely the opposite proposition: Cooks with Thai sensibilities are at cheerful, casual play with our own local BY M AT T H E W KO R F H AGE mkorfhage@wweek.com bounty, in ways wholly alien to Western palates. It is a restaurant one might expect to find About halfway through a meal at Woodstock’s in a midrange Bangkok hotel, not on Woodstock Nudi Noodle Place, my dining companion looked Boulevard. The carbonara belly ($13) combines spaghetti up and said, “This tastes good, but I feel like I with charred pork belly, pumpkin chunks, spindon’t understand what’s going on anymore.” The tiny, friendly Thai-fusion restaurant—in ach, cherry tomatoes, almonds, Parmesan, bacon both food and décor—is at once comforting and and garlic, with a mint pesto on the side. It is as disorienting. Upon entering, diners are greeted by confusing as it sounds, as if a sudden late-night inspiration in a pan. The a nonfunctional glass door Angus gravy noodle ($10) is hanging on the wall, emblaOrder this: For a light meal, grab the essentially a spiced sloppy zoned with the words “BEAU- duck wrap ($10), khao tang canapes Joe with ground beef and a TIFUL PEOPLE THIS WAY ($6) and the pumpkin dessert ($6) to For hearty eaters, the twisted diner wide rice-noodle base, far PLEASE.” (We followed the split. Americana of the Angus gravy noodle from refined but deeply satarrow, on the assumption the ($10) is irresistible. sign was generous in spirit.) I’ll pass: The carbonara belly ($13) is a bit isfying in a way that recalls excursionary with its ingredient list; childhood meals. Nudi’s khao Meanwhile, the figurative too the winter salads underwhelm. tang is served in canape form symbols for man and woman ($6) rather than dipped— hang in 3-foot-tall, artificialturf cutouts on the restroom doors; the bar is girded coconut-pork-shrimp sauce draped over crisped with tree bark and irregular panels of acid-washed rice crackers—and is approachable and light. The lak sa ($12)—denoted helpfully on the metal; and the dining room’s chandelier has been menu as Nudi customers’ favorite—is kitchenovertaken by thick, stringy moss. The deadpan whimsy of Nudi’s aesthetic seems sink Indonesian, with pork, shrimp and egg to have descended from anywhere but where we pulled into a peanut curry. It is, oddly, much are, a tract of Southeast Woodstock Boulevard more familiar than the Westernized fare. A best known for third-generation sausage-making semisweet dessert with coconut-milk flan baked and amber-preserved reconditionings of the old- inside a wee green pumpkin on a bed of coconut sauce ($6) is likewise more traditional Thai, and timey Lutz Tavern and Delta Cafe. The restaurant’s gift for idiosyncratic pre- entirely successful. The menu changes seasonally—meaning a sentation extends to the food. The meaty filling for the spicy-sweet duck wrap appetizer ($10) switch to spring produce is soon forthcoming— arrives in a glass bowl, with a plastic syringe but after eating half the fall-winter menu, I’ve of plum sauce plunged deep within. The rice- precisely half a notion what’s found there. Barand-coriander hot wings ($8) come awkwardly becue pork sticks, Italian-style kee mow and whole-limbed in a shakeable paper bag, while the coriander spinach-noodle duck remain wholly wafer-thin, tempura-fried pickles ($8) are piled a mystery. Not everything at Nudi succeeds, but atop a perfect circle of hot sauce, centered on each meal is guaranteed to surprise. a perfectly square plate—a geometric puzzle as EAT: Nudi Noodle Place, 4310 SE Woodstock treatise in food design. Blvd., 477-7425, nudipdx.com. 11 am-3 pm and Never mind that the pickles’ hot sauce tastes 5-10 pm Monday-Friday, noon-10 pm Saturday, almost exactly like TacoTime’s, a crisp pickle noon-9 pm Sunday. $-$$.

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Wild Ones, Ash Reiter, Stepkid

[WONDER POP] Danielle Sullivan’s singing voice is as playful as a puppy, untethered and airy. It lends a certain feeling of comfort, doubly so through the clean pop engineered by her band, Wild Ones. The Portland quartet formed about three years ago, scoring a deserved ranking on WW’s 2011 Best New Band poll. The former Eskimo & Sons lead sings at cloud line, pulling the instrumentation with her on a weightless, sun-soaked ride. Back from SXSW with new material and a forthcoming album, Golden Twin, on the horizon, Wild Ones is establishing itself as a pre-eminent force in Portland music. MARK STOCK. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 8:30 pm. $7.

Joel Harrison’s Spirit House and Brian Blade, Blue Cranes

[CHAMBER JAZZ] A bassoon in a jazz band? Paul Hanson’s unusual electric axe certainly signals the classical music influences that pervade guitarist-composer Harrison’s new project, but true jazzers fearing pallid Third Stream crossover can find reassurance in the presence of one of contemporary jazz’s greatest drummers, Brian Blade; Seattle trumpeter Cuong Vu; and Guggenheim fellow (and erstwhile West Coaster) Harrison’s own distinguished 14-CD-strong jazz-rock résumé. This show will feature originals for the ensemble by Harrison, Vu and Blade. Portland’s own accessible progressive jazzers, Blue Cranes, makes an appropriate opener. BRETT CAMPBELL. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $15. 21+.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Rllrbll, Zouaves, Lord Master

[LOST SOUNDS] The press release on Zouaves sells it as a supergroup. At long last, members of Night Mechanic, Susurrus Station and Pikara have combined forces to fight for a common goal! Well, I haven’t heard of those bands, either, but Zouaves does play nice, smoky, subdued garage rock with high-pitched vocals that aren’t far off from the Flaming Lips, Band of Horses or the twins from Blonde Redhead. The band’s name is cryptically derived from a type of 19th-century French infantry that sported “openfronted jackets, baggy trousers and often sashes and oriental headgear.” Bottom line: This band gets the seal of approval from Rllerbll, so you know that you’re in for something eclectic and special. NATHAN CARSON. East End, 203 SE Grand Ave., 232-0056. 9 pm. $5. 21+.

Janis Ian, Diana Jones

[SINGER-SONGWRITER] “I learned the truth at seventeen/That love was meant for beauty queens.” So reads the headline of Janis Ian’s website in an endless montage of her lyrics and photos, most from a time when hats were frumpier and pants were flared. She can be forgiven the nostalgia. In 1967, barely a teenager, Ian wrote and recorded a single, “Society’s Child,” that was as controversial as it was successful. A decade later, she saved herself from one-hit wonderdom with the Grammywinning “At Seventeen.” Ian’s folk pop and politics cut an unforgettable swath through the style of the ’70s, but she’s not ready to be made completely irrelevant yet. In addition to her being lionized in Japan, the audio version of Ian’s 2009 autobiography, Society’s Child, just won a Grammy. MITCH LILLIE. Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 719-6055. 8 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

Low, Thalia Zedek

[PIONEERING SLOWCORE] The notion that bands must continually expand and build upon what they’ve established, brick by brick, in order to endure is a farce—one that Minnesota’s Low makes evident. The band’s 10th album and most recent release, The Invisible Way, finds core members Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker crafting the same melancholy, acoustic rustle that has more or less defined the band for more than two decades. Previous albums that dabbled in distortion and synths seem to have been merely a digression from the band’s hallmark sound, a stark yet short-lived contrast to the glacial guitar work, delicate harmonies and profuse piano that distinguish the band’s latest effort. And with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at the helm as producer, the skeletal mix of finely constructed songs put forth an eerily familiar and natural Americana feeling. BRANDON WIDDER. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 9 pm. $18. 21+.

Tech N9ne

[HIP-HOP] There’s a simple reason why it seems Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne is always in town: The 41-year-old MC tours more than any other rapper in the game. Last year alone, Tecca Ninna performed 90 shows in 99 days—that’s a lot of shitty tour food to consume. On top of his performances, which are sweat-slathered romps fueled by battle chants and face paint, Tech

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[PSYCH FUNK] As guitar gods go, Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson is pretty low-key. It’s only in concert that one realizes the extent of the New Zealand-bred frontman’s labyrinthine licks, and even then, he employs such precious little guitarface that one must watch his fingers to appreciate the intricacy of his leads on songs like “Jello and Juggernauts” and “The Opposite of Afternoon.” UMO’s sophomore effort, II, makes more obvious use of Nielson’s hands than did its predecessor, but it’s his singing and songwriting that feel fully evolved. The funky, cut-and-paste sound experiments of UMO’s debut have been replaced by 7-minute stoner jams and tricky pop songs that could almost pass as latter-day Beatles B-sides. CASEY JARMAN. Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., 234-9694. 9 pm. $15 advance, $17 day of show. Under 21 permitted with legal guardian.

[BEAT MAKERS] Worshipers of the beat have an entire night to lose themselves in reverent ecstasy, for the bill at Branx is packed with producers and DJs who are making some of the most righteous bass-heavy jams around. The L.A. phenom Daedelus is the obvious headliner, having earned the adoration of EDM heads and indie aesthetes alike. But keep your body loose and your ears open for the other acts in play here, including the twerk-ready Nashville-bred instrumental hip-hop duo Two Fresh; the pride of the Canadian club scene, Ryan Hemsworth; and Samo Soundboy’s squiggly house workouts. ROBERT HAM. Branx, 320 SE 2nd Ave., 234-5683. 9:30 pm. $14. 21+.

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The Dude’s only connection to the music industry was as a Metallica roadie on the Speed of Sound tour. The band was, he informs us, a bunch of assholes. The Abiders, the Jeff Bridges band that comes to the Aladdin this week, is not named for Bridges’ most musical role (Crazy Heart), first Oscar nomination (The Last Picture Show) or highest-grossing flick (Iron Man) but for a 1998 flop that makes use of so very few of his acting skills. Surely, this lion of American cinema could come up with a better band name from his massive oeuvre. We decided to do that for him. And we’ve made it interactive. Below is a list of better Bridges band names and their corresponding movie inspirations. Draw lines to match them up, and check your answers at wweek.com.

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has an amazingly consistent track record on wax. Many of his songs— “Einstein,” “I’m a Playa,” “That Box”—are shadowy club anthems as danceable as they are disturbing. The cover for his newest album, Something Else, which is set to drop this summer, depicts a black-eyed Tech on ﬁre, his heart adorned with angel wings. I’m not sure what this means, but it undoubtedly signiﬁes more good music is on the way. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $32. All ages.

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Shovels and Rope, Denver

[RETRO AMERICANA] The husband-and-wife duo Shovels and Rope—Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst—oﬀers up an earthy mishmash of sounds on its debut album, O’ Be Joyful, incorporating folk, country, rock and Americana together in an engaging if slightly familiar way. Hearst’s scratchy, occasionally Janis Joplin-like vocals mirror the sometimes arid emotional and visual landscape of their songs, while Trent’s steady vocal presence keeps the tunes grounded when Hearst threatens to overpower the music every now and then. Sounding like a throwback to a bygone era, with talk of Bonnie and Clyde and lamenting someone leaving the South for New York City, the album yearns for a simpler time, and these musicians make you yearn right along with them. BRIAN PALMER. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $12 advance, $14 day of show. 21+.

James McCartney (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)

[BEATLE BARELY] James McCartney is such an innocuous name for popmusic royalty, isn’t it? As the son of Paul and Linda McCartney, he is basically the Woodstock generation’s Blue Ivy Carter. OK, maybe not. But the guy does have the Cute One’s iconic mug, and a bit of his dad’s voice, too. Anonymity is sort of his thing, though. He didn’t even bother giving the family business a try until his early 30s, and when he did, his music— breathy singer-songwriter stuff with fluttery electronics vaguely influenced by The Bends-era Radiohead— turned out to sound like, well, what you might expect from a dude with a name as generic as James McCartney. MATTHEW SINGER. White Eagle Saloon, 836 N Russell St., 282-6810. 9:30 pm. $15. 21+.

Polica, Night Moves

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[RIFF ROCK, NOW WITH LYRICS] It’s been six years between drinks for Seattle rock veterans Kinski (assuming the band only drinks when it puts out a new album), and a few changes have taken place in the intervening period. For one, the band left Sub Pop and has just released its first album on Kill Rock Stars. For two, the new disc, Cosy Moments, marks a pointed sonic shift for the four-piece—from psychedelic noise rock to a far more pop-oriented sound. The crunchy riffs, sludgy bass and guitar freakouts are still there, but songs are shorter, more traditional in structure and—where previous records were almost entirely instrumental— there are actual vocals on most of the tracks. And those vocals are great. Lead single “Conflict Free Diamonds” sounds like the kind of garage gem that might have come out of Seattle 20 years ago, with a glorious fuzzy hook and guitarist Chris Martin displaying some surprisingly tuneful pipes. RUTH BROWN. Bunk Bar, 1028 SE Water Ave., 894-9708. 9 pm. $10. 21+.

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VICE DEVICE MONDAY, APRIL 8 [DARK SYNTHS] Even if you didn’t know the members of Vice Device play in a band together, you could probably guess just by looking at them. Seated in a booth at Liberty Glass in North Portland, Bobby Eagleson and Andrea K—who declines to give her full last name—sport stylishly severe coiffures. Outside of Eagleston and Devin Welch’s matching maroon sweaters, everybody is wearing black. The band says the color coordination is accidental. But, fashion aside, common tastes brought the Portland trio together. When Eagleson and K met around 2007, it was years before the current revival of dark, synth-driven post-punk kicked off. The two found themselves geeking out over then-obscure punk offshoots, like minimal synth music, German New Wave and coldwave. “It wasn’t like you could just pick up a comp,” K says. “It was exciting when you would find other people who were into that kind of music.” K and Eagleson spent years trying not to sound like the groups that had inspired them. “We’d write a song that sounded like this band, and then like that band, or just was not good,” K says. At the same time, the duo felt their mostly electronic project lacked some vital organic element. The addition of Welch on bass helped. But the real breakthrough came in the form of funky old analog gear: a German drum machine, multiple keyboards and a “crazy, unruly beast of a synthesizer.” “The types of synthesizers this band uses were designed to emulate traditional instruments,” Welch says. “When they’re employed in a way that’s, you know, not the types of sounds that are in the instruction manual, there’s a lot of potential to do really strange sounds.” “Strange” is one way to describe the sounds Vice Device is making. Others include grim, gloomy, glowering and, in spite of it all, terribly alluring. On the material Vice Device has released so far—an excellent 2012 EP, Breathless, and a split 7-inch with locals Hot Victory—the band deftly treads the line between New Wave pop and No Wave experimentalism, melding danceable rhythms with dissonant synths, noisy effects and at least one squalling sax solo. “Vice Device, ultimately, is writing songs that resemble pop songs,” Welch says. “But within that framework, there’s room for a lot of interesting things to happen.” As the band continues exploring the dimly lit nooks of pop structures—it’s currently working on a new EP—the new wave of darkwave doesn’t look to be cresting anytime soon, and for Vice Device, that can only be a good thing. “People have more of a palate for the sort of thing that we’re doing,” K says. But for music nerds like K and Eagleson, the popularizing of their once-esoteric fandom has some drawbacks as well. “Now,” Eagleson says, “everyone’s looking for the same records as you.” JONATHAN FROCHTZWAJG.

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UPCOMING IN-STORE PERFORMANCES THE WE SHARED MILK THURSDAY 4/4 @ 6 PM

The We Shared Milk has succeeded in advancing the growth of a unified musical community. The band plays unique riff-soaked psych. TWSM heralds their second full-length album, Lame Sunset, this April!

PONDEROSA

FRIDAY 4/5 @ 6 PM

Part spiritual awakening, part rock ‘n’ roll, Ponderosa merges surrealism and satire in both sound and style. After surviving many adventures in a wide variety of locales, Ponderosa rises to the pinnacle of their profession, promoted to Admiral’s of the Fleet, knighted as Knight’s Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st Baron Hornblower.

JONNY FRITZ

SUNDAY 4/7 @ 3 PM

Nashville songwriter Jonny Fritz’s work ethic and boldness have paid off in spades. Dad Country is also his first release under his real name, Fritz, with Jonny ditching the “Corndawg” moniker he’d carried since his early teens. Now a music veteran with a decade of touring under his belt, he’s grown into an accomplished, mature voice in country music.

LITTLE GREEN CARS TUESDAY 4/9 @ 6 PM

Growing up together in Dublin, Little Green Cars came together five years ago at the tender age of 15 to begin crafting their emotionally charged rock songs. With influences ranging from early REM, to Elliott Smith and Woody Guthrie, Little Green Cars’ sound is accomplished and belies their young age of just 20.

SUE ZALOKAR

WEDNESDAY 4/10 @ 6 PM

An Ohio native, Sue Zalokar followed a passionate wanderlust and landed in the Pacific Northwest. The matter that holds Sue Zalokar together is music. With a love of writing and lust for music she has immersed herself in the vibrant Pacific Northwest art and music scene.

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SEE IT: Vice Device plays Rotture, 315 SE 3rd Ave., with Void Vision, Pressures and Futility, on Monday, April 8. 9 pm. $5. 21+. Willamette Week APRIL 3, 2013 wweek.com

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2012 debut, Give You the Ghost, by embracing electronically aided vocal correction devices as unabashedly as any top-40 prefab puppet show. Whatever instrumentation might seem most appropriate for tunes encompassing reflections on a crumbled marriage—Polica’s standard set-up of two drummers and a nimble bassist wringing heartache from sheer momentum—there’s little shame in demanding an idealized clarity of vocals, but a string of recent buzzbuilding live shows has proven chanteuse Channy Leaneagh more than capable of perfecting her pitch without resorting to technological gimmickry. By immersing herself in the digitized artifice, Leaneagh’s tortured solipsism achieves a distinctly alien grandeur. JAY HORTON. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 9 pm. $15. All ages.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 The Airborne Toxic Event

J O RY CO R DY

[WHITE NOISE, PINK HOUSES] No matter how ordinarily worrisome the self-conscious excesses an overeducated artiste may wreak upon rock ’n’ roll (grave crimes have been committed by awfully smart people attempting to show their intelligence through this dumbest of all genres), Airborne Toxic Event continues to succeed despite choices that, honestly, should seem insufferable. Founded by a literary fiction writer-turnedfrontman—the group’s name references a Don DeLillo novel—with a penchant for symphonic orchestration, the group delivered its first two albums overstuffed with hyper-articulate, riff-fueled modern rock confections. While the serrated edges and candied hooks beg for comparison to the latest wave of Brit pop, the Los Feliz, Calif., troupe is resolutely American. Indeed, it has been inserting a Springsteen-PettyCougar medley into recent sets, and though this suggests troubling reports that a yet-to-be-released third LP, Such Hot Blood, will focus

on heartland themes, at least it has studied the appropriate canon. JAY HORTON. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 225-0047. 9 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. All ages.

Sky Ferreira, How to Dress Well, High Highs

[SMOOTH JAMS] Academic journeyman Tom Krell is the personification of time management. The part-time philosophy graduate student and part-time experimental R&B artist sounds like Justin Timberlake covering Jamie Lidell, or vice versa. Under stage name How to Dress Well, Krell shook the indie world with freshman release Love Remains in 2010. The titillating pop structures and impassioned vocals helped create a whole new genre that folks like Autre Ne Veut and the Weeknd continue to sculpt. With sophomore release Total Loss, we see Krell’s insides, torn up by loss but elegant in delivery, thanks to a fondness for ’90s R&B. Synthpop princess Sky Ferreira shares the bill. MARK STOCK. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi Ave., 288-3895. 8 pm. $10. 21+.

OMD, Diamond Rings

[ELECTRONIC ICONS] Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark has pulled off the rarest of coups in the music world: staging a reunion of its original lineup and producing new music that sounds as vibrant and vital as the group’s well-known work from the ’80s. It certainly helps that the quartet is continuing to mine the same synth-pop influences that inspired its members to join forces in the late ’70s—upcoming album English Electric even features a track co-written by former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos. Yet this new disc and 2010’s History of Modern have the same warm, steely glow, and a view of the future that is simultaneously skeptical and filled with awe. ROBERT HAM. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 2848686. 8:30 pm. $27 advance, $29 day of show. 21+.

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BY B RA N DON WIDDER

ALT-J Formed: In 2007 in Leeds, England. Sounds like: A poppy, sonically schizophrenic take on what it’s like to search for authentic folk in a world burgeoning with wobbly dubstep and cryptic trap music. For fans of: Grizzly Bear, the Magnetic North, Radiohead, Foals, obscure keyboard shortcuts, multilayered radar imagery and homages to Maurice Sendak. Latest release: An Awesome Wave, the band’s 2012 Mercury Prize-winning debut. Why you care: England’s Alt-J never had glowing aspirations to be the next big thing. The University of Leeds grads, who named their band after the Mac hotkey shortcut for variable change, were content just getting their album into the hands of a few people. Despite the modest goal, what they released was a nuclear bomb of a record that blew up in the blogosphere, making Alt-J one of the most lauded British acts in recent memory. An Awesome Wave is an album entrenched in genre-bending shades of electronica and rootsy experimentation that is difficult to label. While properly deciphering singer Joe Newman’s drony vocals amid the synths and spacey nuances is almost impossible, the album takes on a surprisingly intimate tone when you do, resonating with the subtle burden a sinner brings to a confessional. The culmination of five years of creative flair and slow-growth tenacity, An Awesome Wave showcases what the overwhelmingly hyped quartet does best: create refreshing, polished tunes that sound more machine than man—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. SEE IT: Alt-J plays the Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., on Monday, April 8. 8:30 pm. Sold out. All ages. 26

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MONDAY, APRIL 8 Phosphorescent, Strand of Oaks

[PoSt-coUntRY] Like Palace Music and Wilco before it, Matthew Houck’s Phosphorescent peddles a skewed sort of Americana that appeals to those for whom the traditional American Dream has lost its luster. His take on country music embraces the dying wideopen spaces and rolls around in liquored-up American heartbreak. It is anxious and uncomfortable and pretty, and Houck seems intent on being as much a soul singer as his fragile voice will allow. ten years in, Phosphorescent sounds more honest and weirdly patriotic than ever. Last month’s Muchacho, while less experimental and less Southern than 2010 outing Here ’s to Taking It Easy, is a subdued sundown record punctuated with sudden blasts of immense, gospelstyle joy. cASEY JARMAn. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., 231-9663. 9 pm. $13. 21+.

Soul Asylum, Throwback Suburbia, Cellar Door

[ALt-RocK SURVIVoRS] coming of age as a band in ’80s Minneapolis must’ve sucked. not only were you toiling under the shadow of Prince—such a dominating figure his music became literally the “Minneapolis sound”— but you also had to compete with both the most ambitious indie-rock band in America (Hüsker Dü) and the flat-out best band in America (the Replacements). A band like Soul Asylum never stood a chance. Yet here we are, 30-some years later, and Prince is living off his back catalog, Hüsker Dü and the Replacements ain’t never getting back together, and Soul Asylum is still putting out new records. Even if those records mostly play like arguments against allowing punk bands to grow old—2012’s Delayed Reaction, while a solid example of veteran tunesmithery, sounds awfully nostalgic—it’s still more than anyone could’ve expected from the guys who did “Runaway train.” MAttHEW SInGER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 7:30 pm. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 21+.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 Lucero, Langhorne Slim

[MEMPHIS coUntRY PUnK] the title of Lucero’s seventh proper album pretty much encapsulates everything the tennessee outfit is about: Women & Work. It’s fitting, given that the sextet has been on the road the better half of 10 years, releasing a flurry of country-punk rock-’n’-roll albums awash with frontman Ben nichos’ tobaccotinged rasp, brazen steel guitar and lush backdrops of Memphis sound. Lyrically, the new album represents no departure, but it builds upon the soulful honky-tonk of Lucero’s

2009 record, 1372 Overton Park, adding a healthy dose of horns and a gospel touch that continues to twist and tinker with the band’s altcountry roots. BRAnDon WIDDER. Hawthorne Theatre, 3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 233-7100. 8 pm,. $20 advance, $23 day of show. 21+.

Real Emotion: Magic Fades, DJ Rom Com, New Moon Poncho DJs

[VAPoRWAVE, WE GUESS] the Internet-based micro-scene “vaporwave” is as hard to explain as its ethereal name suggests, but we can tell you one thing: It’s giving cultural-studies nerds everywhere scholarly boners. the fledgling mini-genre gleefully pastiches cultural references with Webfueled hyper-awareness to create musical mashups of cheesy-R&B and smooth-jazz samples and a visual aesthetic mixing and matching video-game, Asian and potculture iconographies. Still with us? Anyway, vaporwave’s foremost local representatives, Magic Fades and Romcom, will be behind the decks at Holocene’s new monthly night for “R&B slow jams, cosmic soul, neoromantic pop and other love songs.” If their own music is any indication of what they’ll be spinning, the evening should be like hanging out in an ironic porno. JonAtHAn FRocHtZWAJG. Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St., 239-7639. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Audios Amigos, Gary Newcomb, Bad Assets, Lord Master

[SURF RIot] Finally filling the void left empty by a total lack of surfinfluenced instrumental bands with a knack for going all mariachi and country before exploding into kaleidoscopic fits of heavy rock (it was a big void), PDX quartet Audios Amigos brings a rowdy, bruising sonic knuckleball to every show it plays. And it’s fucking amazing. With thee Headliners’ Jeremy terry shredding along with former members of country girl Lana Rebel’s the Love Lasers, the band has honed an ability to keep completely on point as a collective while simultaneously letting its individual members roar. If there is a honky-tonk bar for surfers somewhere in Baja, Audios Amigos should seriously apply to be the house band. AP KRYZA. Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick St., 2853718. 9 pm. Free. 21+.

Dillon Francis, Oliver, JMFS

[ELEctRo-DAncE] For the EDMsavvy, it may come as shock that Los Angeles producer Dillon Francis is just now getting around to releasing his as-yet-untitled debut album. For years, Francis has been blasting his brand of dance music—a combination of reggaeton and electro-house—to venues packed with scantily clad women and neon-adorned youth. Dillon’s sound is a break from the harsher sonics currently dominating the EDM landscape, tending toward the slower and exotically bouncier. Don’t be fooled, though: Just like a

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MUSIC Thursday, April 4

9pm. 21 & Over — FREE! First Thursdays with DJ Cry Baby DJ Cry Baby • The Slow Death Faster Housecat

Friday, April 5

9pm. 21 & Over — FREE! Tourniquet Presents... The Lovesores • Hot LZs •Rat Party Lucky Boys •DJ Riff Randell

Saturday, April 6 12pm. 21 & Over — FREE! March Madness It’s the Final Four! The only place in town with “When Doug Loses, You Win” drink specials!

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Skrillex or Diplo show, Dillon’s performance will brim with aggressive ass-shaking and intoxicated makeout sessions. REED JACKSON. Roseland Theater, 8 NW 6th Ave., 224-2038. 8 pm. $25. All ages.

Spiritualized

[SOUND AND VISIONS] Immediately after leaving a Spiritualized show, it’s hard to know what songs were played or what moments stood out. Frontman Jason Pierce never really addresses the crowd aside from the occasional appreciative soccer clap, and eight-minute songs are joined with 12-minute songs before the resulting 20-minute songs are connected to lush 10-minute instrumental interludes. Looking back on Spiritualized’s previous Wonder

Ballroom engagement last May, I mostly remember two hours of strobe lights and gospel singers and dropped jaws. I know there were sweet bits and soulful bits and rock bits and a distinct sci-ﬁ buzzing sound that didn’t stop after I left the club. Drugs might have helped, but then, Spiritualized basically is drugs. Come ready to spend a couple of hours confused and weightless, and you’ll get an awful lot out of it. CASEY JARMAN. Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell St., 284-8686. 7:30 pm. $18 advance, $20 day of show. 21+.

ALBUM REVIEWS

THE WE SHARED MILK LAME SUNSET (SELF-RELEASED) [PSYCH-POP] Boone Howard is bummed. On the second album from Portland trio the We Shared Milk, the singer-guitarist sings and plays like he’s trying to navigate through the fog of a particularly lamentable morning-after. It’s not a terminal depression—just the strain of vague melancholy that exists in everyone, the kind that comes wafting to the surface whenever we spend too much time alone with our thoughts. In other words, Lame Sunset is about bummers we can all relate to. Howard’s expressive, fuzzy-headed riffs and the liquid interplay between drummer Eric Ambrosius and bassist Travis Leipzig ripple through the hung-over haze, from the title track’s wavy, vaporous shimmer to the distorted doo-wop of “Joe.” Saxophones and keyboards are added to the mix, as well as revvedup tempos. But the band is at its best when it’s crawling. “I think I’m going inside/ For the rest of my miserable goddamn life,” Howard sings on “Regrettable Everything,” the album’s languid highlight. If that’s what it takes to keep the We Shared Milk churning out material, then I’m all for it. MATTHEW SINGER.

NICK JAINA PRIMARY PERCEPTION (FLUFF & GRAVY RECORDS)

[FOLK] Portland folk-pop singer-songwriter Nick Jaina’s latest record asks you to take a walk with him in search of meaning— whether in regard to relationships, God or the everyday choices we all make. Jaina explores themes of truth, love and being comfortable in your own skin, and he makes you feel good about coming along for the journey. Jaina rhapsodizes about everything from struggling with notions of faith (“These Fair Hands”) to fruitless pursuits (“Expense Reports”), focusing on what is, rather than pointing to what could or should be. That is not to say his songs are devoid of new revelations. “All the Best Fakers” marvels at how pockets of mankind still seek authenticity, while “True Hearts Are as International as War” expresses similar surprise at our ability to be loyal to something other than ourselves. Sonically, Jaina mixes things up with a slightly heavier focus on rock sensibilities. “Don’t Come to Me” is right in his folk-pop wheelhouse, but on “Man Without a Head,” the already moody guitars turn gritty partway through, and the driving electric guitar on “I’ll Do the Time” is both kooky and ominous. Jaina’s insights about searching for purpose are accurate, and the fact that the lyrics are half-spoken makes them more direct. Primary Perception is full of well-rounded, thought-provoking material, communicated with enough musical variety to keep you listening. BRIAN PALMER. SEE IT: The We Shared Milk plays Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E Burnside St., with Aan and Yours, on Thursday, April 4. 9 pm. $7. 21+. Nick Jaina plays Doug Fir Lounge, with Paper Bird and Pony Village, on Wednesday, April 3. 9 pm. $8 advance, $10 day of show. 21+.

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Bossa Nossa, El Cuadro Gallo (9 pm); Jenny Sizzler (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Low, Thalia Zedek

Mt. Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Loveness Wesa (theater)

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Ponderosa

record room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Blood Beach, Haunted Horses, Hot Victory

red lion on the river

909 N Hayden Island Drive Cascade Zydeco Dance Camp: T Broussand and the Zydeco Steppers, Mary Jane Broussard and Sweet La La

red room

rOAd Trip: polica plays Wonder Ballroom on Saturday, April 6.

Wed. April 3 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jeffery Martin

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Matt Lande, Shang Pav, In Bloom

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. FMPM, yak attack, DJ kelbel

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. Daedelus, Two Fresh, Ryan Hemsworth, Samo Soundboy

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Nick Jaina, Paper Bird, Pony Village

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. The Gladness, Pile, Fat History Month

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Na Rosai Irish Jam

Goodfoot lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Shafty (Phish tribute)

Hawthorne Theatre lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Jeffery Trapp

Holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Wild Ones, Ash Reiter, Stepkid

ivories Jazz lounge and restaurant 1435 NW Flanders St. The Native Jazz Trio, Christian Fabian

Jade lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Carl Solomon, Paul Kwitek, Betsy Langston, Dany Oakes

Jimmy Mak’s

221 NW 10th Ave. The Mel Brown Quartet, Chuck Redd

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Yogoman Burning Band

laurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Butter, Little Webs, Baby & Bukowski, Copper & Coal

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. The Want Ads, Dawn Oberg

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Joel Harrison’s Spirit House and Brian Blade, Blue Cranes

reed College, eliot Hall chapel

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd

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The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Criminal Code, Big Eyes, Arctic Flowers, Freedom Club

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Soilwork, Jeff Loomis, Blackguard, Bonded By Blood, Hatchet

Holocene

Tony Starlight’s

1001 SE Morrison St. Asss, Mbilly, ThiefTeam, DJ L-Train

Valentine’s

Kelly’s Olympian

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Bo Ayers 232 SW Ankeny St. Heloise and the Saviour Faire, La Pump, DJ Jodie Cavalier

426 SW Washington St. Damn Divas, Blind Lovejoy

Vie de Boheme

2958 NE Glisan St. Left Coast Country, Kory Quinn, Lewi and the Left Coast Roasters

1530 SE 7th Ave. Snyder-Ribner Loop Service

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Ribbons, Kyle Polensky, Better Days

White Owl Social Club 1305 SE 8th Ave. Eternal Tapestry, White Fang, Gubia

Wilfs restaurant &Bar 800 NW 6th Ave. Ron Steen Band, Mitzi Zilka, Joe Millward

THurS. April 4 Alberta rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Taarka

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

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Mortal Plague, Facinorous, Sacrament of Impurity

Buffalo Gap Saloon

6835 SW Macadam Ave. Annapaul and the Bearded Lady

Chapel pub

430 N Killingsworth St. Steve Kerin

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. The We Shared Milk, Aan, Yours

duff’s Garage

1635 SE 7th Ave. The Palavers

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Rllrbll, Zouaves, Lord Master

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Eat Off Your Banjo Bluegrass

Goodfoot lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Scott Pemberton Trio

Hawthorne Theatre lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. Kivett Bednar, Dan Lavoie

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Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Sparkle Nation (9 pm); Drew de Man (6 pm)

Fri. April 5 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wampire

Alberta rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St. Janis Ian, Diana Jones

Ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. Stoneburner, Hang the Old Year, Anunaki, Rolling Through the Universe

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. Cool Nutz, DJ Fatboy (9 pm); Piefight!, Ruby Calling, Lather, Rinse and Repeat (3 pm)

Branx

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Ancient Heat, Atole, DJ Ben Tactic

320 SE 2nd Ave. The Contortionist, Within the Ruins, I Declare War, Reflections, City By the Sea, Sisyphean Conscience

Mt. Tabor Theater

dante’s

Mississippi Studios

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Eddie Spaghetti, Drugstore Cowboy, Truckstop Darlin’, Chris Wil

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. The We Shared Milk

record room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Prize Hog, Mustaphamond, Rohit

red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave. The Whiskey Dickers, Skoi, Burn,Burn,Burn, Flight 19, Dirty Kid Discount

Sellwood public House 8132 SE 13th Ave. Open Mic

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Adam Brock

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. No Good Lovers, Slim Fortune, DJ Matt Stanger

Thirsty lion

350 W Burnside St. Bob Wayne, The Outlaw Carnies, T. Junior

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Ramble On, Spirit Lake

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Drunk Dad, Hidden Towers, Gaytheist, Crag Dweller

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. The Keplers, Cascadia Soul Alliance

Ford Food and drink

2505 SE 11th Ave. Lewi Longmire and Dan Eccles, Daniel Mateo

Goodfoot lounge 2845 SE Stark St. DJ Magneto

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Ensiferum, TYR, Heidevolk, Trollfest, Helsott, Anonymia

Katie O’Briens

71 SW 2nd Ave. Hair Assault, Appetite for Deception

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. Callow, Destroy Nate Allen, Danger Death Ray, Sam Fisher, Matt Schoch

Tiger Bar

Kells Brewpub

317 NW Broadway Karaoke from Hell

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. All-Star Horns

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Loose Change

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. McCoy Tyler Band, Jack Dwyer and the Bad Liars (8:30 pm); Brothers of the Hound (5:30 pm)

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Souvenir Driver, Just Lions, Glassbones

Kenton Club

2025 N Kilpatrick St. The Greedy Texas Bastards, Cody Foster Army, Knights Of Courage

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave.

2530 NE 82nd Ave. American Roulette, Pre-Embalmed, Echoic, Bloodoath, Grim Ritual

roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Tech N9ne

Secret Society lounge

116 NE Russell St. Redray Frazier, Swansea, A Simple Colony, Dominic Castillo

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. The Steve Hale Trio

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. The Lovesores, Hot LZs, Rat Party

The Alleyway Cafe and Bar

2415 NE Alberta St. Badr Vogu, Wilt, Black Magick Dragon

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne The Sindicate, Smash Bandits, Stuck On Nothing

The Blue diamond

2016 NE Sandy Blvd. Franco Paletta and the Stingers

Solid Gold Balls, The Cool Whips, Lights Sounds

Backspace

115 NW 5th Ave. The Atom Age, My New Vice, Three Round Burst

Bunk Bar

1028 SE Water Ave. Kinski, Mark McGuire

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Shovels and Rope, Denver

east end

203 SE Grand Ave. Dinner For Wolves, Iceland, Vultures in the Sky

eastBurn

1800 E Burnside St. Kenchuckey Darvey, Inspirational Beets

Fifteenth Avenue Hophouse

1517 NE Brazee St. Adam Sweeney and the Jamboree

Goodfoot lounge

2845 SE Stark St. Paa Kow’s By All Means Band, De Solution Band

Hawthorne Theatre lounge

1503 SE Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. The Parlotones, Dinner And A Suit

Hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Veio, A((wake)), Mohawk Yard, The Flurries, Elora, Chaotic Charisma

Jade lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Wadhams & Huston, Olivia Stone, Keegan Heron, Laura Chase

Jimmy Mak’s

Callow, Destroy Nate Allen, Danger Death Ray, the Tanked, Sam Fisher, Matt Schoch

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Sami Rouisi

Kelly’s Olympian

426 SW Washington St. Pheasant, Albatross, Luminous Things

Kenton Club

Nagas, Doomsower, Mane of the Cur, Disenchanter

The Analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Autonomics, A Happy Death, Noble Firs

The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. The Ocular Concern, Trio Subtonic

The Know

2025 N Kilpatrick St. Dina Y Los Runberos

2026 NE Alberta St. Panzer Beat, Motrik, Scriptures

Mission Theater

Thirsty lion

1624 NW Glisan St. Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms, Leapin’ Louie, Gideon Freudmann, Iberians Unplugged, Jon Dutch

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Tim Snider, Glue Horses, Lefty and the Twin (9 pm); Tin Silver (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Holiday Friends, Hook and Anchor

Mt. Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Erotic City, Ruby Rae

Oregon Historical Society

1200 SW Park Ave. Shawn Mullins (Evening for Autism benefit)

Original Halibut’s ii 2527 NE Alberta St. Bill Rhoades

record room

8 NE Killingsworth St. Hurry Up, Palo Verde, Tyrants

red room

71 SW 2nd Ave. Brian Odell, DJ Soulshaker

Troubadour Studios

1020 SE Market St. Lithopedion, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Bubble Cats, Billions and Billions

Vie de Boheme

1530 SE 7th Ave. Dusu Mali, Cameron Quick

White eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. James McCartney (9:30 pm); the Student Loan (4:30 pm)

Wilfs restaurant & Bar

800 NW 6th Ave. Bill Beach and Brasil Beat

Wonder Ballroom 128 NE Russell St. Polica, Night Moves

Sun. April 7 Al’s den at the Crystal Hotel 303 SW 12th Ave. Jason Scott Dodson

221 NW 10th Ave. The Linda Hornbuckle Band

2530 NE 82nd Ave. Kingdom Under Fire, Soilroot, the Suppression, Solar Sea

Aladdin Theater

Katie O’Briens

ringside Fish House

Ash Street Saloon

2809 NE Sandy Blvd.

838 SW Park Ave. The Djangophiles

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave.

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Jeff Bridges and the Abiders 225 SW Ash St. Dead Remedy, Zebrana Bastard, One Man Train Wreck, Machine

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The Blue Monk

3341 SE Belmont St. Twisted Whistle, Conjugal Visitors

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Guantanamo Baywatch, Benny the Jet Rodriguez, Cosmonauts, the Garden

The Waypost

3120 N Williams Ave. Gallop, Green Hills Alone, Haley Keegan

Thirsty lion

71 SW 2nd Ave. Reverend Hammer

Tony Starlight’s

3728 NE Sandy Blvd. Signatures

White eagle Saloon 836 N Russell St. Garcia Birthday Band (9:30 pm); Reverb Brothers (5:30 pm)

SAT. April 6 Aladdin Theater

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Steep Canyon Rangers, Blackberry Bushes

Alberta rose Theatre

3000 NE Alberta St. Edna Vasquez, Felicia and the Dinosaur, Sara Jackson-Holman, Ezza Rose, Naomi LaViolette, Michele VanKleef, Rachel Robinson, Annie Bethancourt, Kelly Anne Masigat, Naomi Hooley

Artichoke Community Music

3130A SE Hawthorne Blvd. Matt Meighan and Kate Mann

Ash Street Saloon 225 SW Ash St.

EMPTY NEST: The cavernous Rookery bar (1331 SW Broadway, 222-7673, ravenandrosepdx.com)—above Raven & Rose in the ancient Ladd Carriage House—looks like the thick-raftered parlor of a man whose things are not to be fucked with. Swizzles are molded into art-deco skulls, crystal bowls are strewn casually on ledges, and water is held aloft over the bar by silveroid angels. The bar’s dark-marbled rock looks to have been cracked and hardened by magma, then cooling river. The liquor selection is even more impressive than the room—oft-neglected rum sports a meticulous selection, including Zaya, Appleton Estate, Neisson, DonQ and Mount Gay Black—but rarely has such imposing opulence been put to such pedestrian, if eminently tasteful, purpose. Cocktails, such as a $12 old-fashioned named after the founder of Reed College, are designed less to surprise than to pickle drinkers in history. Middle-aged diners talk quietly and contentedly in easy chairs near the large gas-lit hearth, approximately 15 years après-ski. Two large flat-screen TVs hang muted and unwatched and tuned to sports, while the pool table sits vacant, pristine as sculpture. The Rookery’s hearth-side birdcage is equally vacant, holding steady only the air. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

April 3–9 Crystal Ballroom

duff’s Garage

doug Fir lounge

east end

1332 W Burnside St. The Airborne Toxic Event 830 E Burnside St. Brainstorm, Houndstooth, Hustle & Drone

Ford Food and drink

1635 SE 7th Ave. Susie and the Sidecars 203 SE Grand Ave. Exogorth, Totes Brut

Goodfoot lounge

2505 SE 11th Ave. Tim Roth

2845 SE Stark St. Sonic Forum Open Mic Night

Goodfoot lounge

hawthorne Theatre

2845 SE Stark St. Twangshifters, Lonesome Billies, Counterfeit Cash

hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Mayflies In April, Lukeus, The Hoons, Lighter Than Dark, Youngsun, Sketch The Rest, Criminal Mastermind

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. The Weeks, Jonny Fritz

Katie o’Briens

2809 NE Sandy Blvd. 48 Thrills, Primitive Idols, The Decliners, erynn star and the moonlighters

Kelly’s olympian

426 SW Washington St. Yourself and The Air, People Under The Sun

laurelThirst

2958 NE Glisan St. Kris Deelane, Rachael Rice & Darka Dusty, Freak Mountain Ramblers

Mississippi pizza

3552 N Mississippi Ave. Bordertown (9 pm); The Rainbow Sign (6 pm)

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. Sky Ferreira, How to Dress Well, High Highs

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Jonny Fritz

nepo 42

5403 NE 42nd Ave. Open Mic

Secret Society lounge 116 NE Russell St. Danny Schmidt, Alexa Wiley

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Charles Ellsworth, Shadow Puppet

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Grand Style Orchestra

The TardiS room

1218 N Killingsworth St. Little Pilgrims, Hooded Hags, Dracula and the Cruisers

Trail’s end Saloon

1320 Main St., Oregon City Rae Gordon

Valentine’s

232 SW Ankeny St. Protomartyr, Turn To Crime, Cockeye

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Padam Padam

white eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. Quiet American, Ruby Rae, Martin Gilmore and Patrick Dethlefs

wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. OMD, Diamond Rings

Mon. april 8 ash Street Saloon

225 SW Ash St. The Sindicate, Item 9, Skatterbomb, Defunked

Branx

320 SE 2nd Ave. The Casualties, Goatwhore, Havok, Chronological Injustice, Kong At the Gates

dante’s

350 W Burnside St. Karaoke From Hell

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Phosphorescent, Strand of Oaks

MUSIC CALENDAR

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Soul Asylum, Throwback Suburbia, Cellar Door

Jade lounge

2346 SE Ankeny St. Jaime Leopold

Kells Brewpub

210 NW 21st Ave. Traditional Irish Jam Session

Mississippi Studios

3939 N Mississippi Ave. More Pork Chop

Muddy rudder public house 8105 SE 7th Ave. Paris Slim

roseland Theater 8 NW 6th Ave. Alt-J

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Vice Device, Void Vision, Pressures, Futility

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Metal Monday: DJ Desecrator

The elixir lab at al Forno Ferruzza 2738 NE Alberta St. Blue Flags and Black Grass

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Facinorous, Antikythera

white eagle Saloon

836 N Russell St. The Weather Machine, Jeremy Murphy, Booty and the Bandit

TueS. april 9

wed. april 3 andrea’s Cha Cha Club

832 SE Grand Ave. Havana Night: DJ Albeton

Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Sweet Jimmy T

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Jason Catalyst

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Seleckta YT

Bossanova Ballroom 722 E Burnside St. Wednesday Swing

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Trick with DJ Robb

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ samFM

The Firkin Tavern 1937 SE 11th Ave. Eye Candy VJs

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Without Sympathy: Acid Rick

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. Bill Portland

ThurS. april 4 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. DJ Family Jewels

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJs Def Ro and Suga Shane

CC Slaughters

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

ash Street Saloon

Jones

dante’s

Slabtown

225 SW Ash St. Phreak: Electronic Mutations

350 W Burnside St. Tonight On the Rocks

doug Fir lounge

830 E Burnside St. Little Green Cars, the Young Evils

hawthorne Theatre

3862 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Lucero, Langhorne Slim

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Real Emotion: Magic Fades, DJ Rom Com, New Moon Poncho DJs

Music Millennium

3158 E Burnside St. Little Green Cars

roseland Theater

8 NW 6th Ave. Dillon Francis, Oliver, JMFS

Shaker and Vine

2929 SE Powell Blvd. Superjazzers

Slabtown

1033 NW 16th Ave. Outer Space Heaters

The analog Cafe

720 SE Hawthorne Melanie

The Firkin Tavern

1937 SE 11th Ave. Jom Rapstar, Lord III, Sparkle Pony, Ten To Midnight, Tha-Thunder

107 NW Couch St. 80s and 90s Hip Hop: Doc Adam, License to Ill 1033 NW 16th Ave. DJ Cry Baby, the Slow Death, Faster Housecat

The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. Dirtbag: DJ Bruce LaBruiser

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Vortex: DJ Kenny, John and Skip

The whiskey Bar 31 NW 1st Ave. Bass Cube: Ookay

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Folklore

Trader Vic’s

1203 NW Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove

Fri. april 5 Beech Street parlor 412 NE Beech St. Musique Plastique

Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. Cloud City Collective

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Fetish Friday with DJ Jakob Jay

Crystal Ballroom

Valentine’s

1332 W Burnside St. ‘80s Video Dance Attack

white eagle Saloon

1001 SE Morrison St. Fresh.: Orchard Lounge

232 SW Ankeny St. Secret Colors 836 N Russell St. Brown Show, Balto, Purrbot

wonder Ballroom

128 NE Russell St. Spiritualized

holocene

Jones

107 NW Couch St. Holy Trinity: DJ Zimmie

Shutup&dance: DJ Gregarious

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Uncontrollable Urge: DJ Paultimore

The lovecraft

421 SE Grand Ave. Brickbat Mansion

The whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Steve Duda, Hatiras

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Koop

SaT. april 6 Bossanova Ballroom

722 E Burnside St. Aries Birthday Bash: DJ Kun Luv, DJ George, DJ Bossie

CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Revolution with DJ Robb

Club 21

2035 NE Glisan St. DJ Drew Groove

holocene

1001 SE Morrison St. Booty Bassment: Dimitri Dickinson, Maxx Bass, Nathan Detroit

Jack london Bar

529 SW 4th Ave. Sinister: DJ Ghoulunatic

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave. Andaz: DJ Anjali, the Incredible Kid

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. Go French Yourself: DJ Cecilia

The whiskey Bar

31 NW 1st Ave. Habit Forming Sessions: Jamie Meushaw, WayWay, Rubin

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Avant to Party

Sun. april 7 Berbati’s

231 SW Ankeny St. DJ Linkus EDM

Star Bar

639 SE Morrison St. DJ Riff Randell, DJ Baby Lemonade

Star Theater

13 NW 6th Ave. Hive

Mon. april 8 The Know

2026 NE Alberta St. DJ Kelly Hallinburton

Tiga

1465 NE Prescott St. DJ Little Axe

Tube

18 NW 3rd Ave. Matt Shadetek, DJ Anjali, Chief Boima, DJ Tarsier

TueS. april 9 CC Slaughters

219 NW Davis St. Girltopia with DJ Alicious

dots Cafe

2521 SE Clinton St. DJ Drew Groove

eagle portland

835 N Lombard St DMTV with DJ Danimal

Vie de Boheme 1530 SE 7th Ave. Salsa Dancing

rotture

315 SE 3rd Ave.

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= WW Pick. Highly recommended.

Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles

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THEATER Anything But Brilliant: A Love Story

[NEW REVIEW] A loudly sniffling audience all but drowned out the soundtrack as opening night of Anything but Brilliant: A Love Story wound down. This love story from lights Up! cofounders, co-stars and life partners Bobby and Tyler Ryan is anything as simple as its title. post-modern set design, where the bed is vertical and the door horizontal, sets the scene for abrupt shifts in time and place. In one instant, we observe the gay couple enjoying a tropical picnic. In the next, playwright Sam (Bobby Ryan) writhes on the floor in grief over his partner’s death. Soon after, the roles are reversed, with Tyler Ryan’s Jesse mourning Sam. Guiding both audience and characters through this perplexing web of grief, Jane Fellows plays the schizophrenic role of Noodles, part muse to Sam, part mother to the men, part mystical spirit of the couple’s deceased pet cat. It is a metafictional, metaphysical maze through concepts of grief and gayness. With the exception of one comedic respite, where Sam hilariously embodies Jesse’s mother to enact an ideal coming-out scenario, the play is as mournful as imagining a lover’s death. ENID SpITZ. Theater! Theatre!, 3430 SE Belmont St. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and Monday, April 8 through April 20. $15 Fridays-Saturdays, “pay what you can” Thursdays.

Clybourne Park

portland audiences got a taste of Bruce Norris’ particular brand of prickliness with Third Rail’s The Pain and the Itch last season, and now portland Center Stage presents his 2011 pulitzer-winning drama. The play, helmed by pCS artistic director Chris Coleman, is set in the same neighborhood as lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 work, A Raisin in the Sun, and it explores issues of racism and gentrification. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm TuesdaysSundays, 2 pm Sundays and select Saturdays, noon Thursdays through May 5. $39-$65.

The Devil and Billy Markham

Shel Silverstein’s epic verse play, performed here by Jonah Weston, follows a man who plays dice with the devil and then travels to hell, heaven and back again. Graeter Art Gallery, 131 NW 2nd Ave., 477-6041. 8 pm FridaySaturday, April 5-6. $12-$15.

Fool for Love

Asae Dean directs Sam Shepard’s play about two hot-headed characters in a motel at the edge of the desert. The Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through April 21. $12.

The Gin Game

[NEW REVIEW] From a distance, the excitement level of The Gin Game looks to be a notch below Mondaynight bingo. Two seniors, Weller (Allen Nause) and Fonsia (Vana O’Brien), bitch and bicker over an unending series of gin rummy games on the back porch of a cheap retirement home. They first meet at the opening of D.l. Coburn’s 1976 play, Weller supposedly a card shark while Fonsia is just learning the rules of the game. Their lives appear increasingly desperate over the weeks-long series of games, which Fonsia continually and demurely wins. Weller, crotchety and foulmouthed, endures the repeated defeats in hilarious outbursts of “Goddamnit!” Director JoAnn Johnson does not allow her actors to ham up their quirks and faults, so The Gin Game is tragicomic in a Chekhovian way: We cry when they cry, but we laugh when they fall. When Fonsia

asks if Weller has any ailments, he bitterly snaps, “I have one of the most advanced cases of old age in the history of medical science.” The line is one of the play’s funniest, but also one of its saddest. Throughout, Weller and Fonsia’s love/hate relationship plays out unexpectedly, and though the ending is downright lugubrious, we laugh all the way there. MITCH lIllIE. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30 pm Tuesdays-Sundays, 2 pm Sundays through April 28. $25-$50.

Guapa

Guapa (Michelle Escobar) loves soccer, and it might be her only chance to get out of the hopeless Texan barrio where she lives, naysayers be damned. These include her adopted family: her motherly, bubbly “aunt” Roly (Sofía May-Cuxim), Roly’s son lebon (pablo Saldaña) and lebon’s cousin and polar opposite Hakim (Tristan Nieto). They all want out, and the big soccer tournament in Dallas is Guapa’s chance until she celebrates a little too hard. Corny jokes get cracked, mostly about kids texting and using Google to befuddle their crotchety elders. (All the seniors I know can Google just fine.) After a strong opening, Caridad Svitch’s play dissolves into a live-action telenovela with the dawdling plot of an American soap opera. MITCH lIllIE. Miracle Theatre, 525 SE Stark St., 236-7253. 7:30 pm Thursdays, 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through April 13. $17-$30.

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer

pCC Sylvania’s Women’s Resource Center presents a sampling of monologues by a long slate of playwrights and authors, including Edward Albee, Eve Ensler, Edwidge Danticat, Jane Fonda and others. The Little Theater, Portland Community College, 12000 SW 49th Ave., 971-722-8101. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, April 5-6. $5-$7.

Mother Teresa is Dead

Trembling and anxious, young mother Jane (Nikki Weaver) tells middle-aged expat Frances (Gretchen Corbett) that she doesn’t remember coming to India. But she knew she needed to help someone, and that’s what compelled her to leave England, unannounced, to pursue charity work in Madras. Jane, though, isn’t well, and after hoping to aid others, she ends up in need of help when she’s found alone and wailing in a public square. Helen Edmundson’s Mother Teresa Is Dead picks up as Jane’s husband, Mark (Chris Harder), arrives from England to retrieve his wife, and the unfolding drama pulses with fraught emotion but occasionally slips into flat characterization. Slick, British-educated aid worker Srinivas (luke Bartholomew) is a cad who’s suave enough to sound well-meaning; Mark espouses racist and paternalistic views without fully realizing it; Frances and Jane are oft-hysterical women subject to masculine manipulations. But, as ever from portland playhouse, the production is deeply felt: The performers bring vulnerability and nuance to roles that can feel one-dimensional, and Isaac lamb’s taut direction imbues the action with palpable emotional suspense. REBECCA JACOBSON. Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St., 488-5822. 7:30 pm ThursdaysSaturdays, 2 pm Saturdays-Sundays through April 11. $23-$32.

The Possessions of La Boite

The Reformers, a new collective that includes several current and former members of Defunkt Theatre, employs interactive projection, theater and movement in this ensemble-devised work drawn from family letters. Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont St. 8 pm FridaysSundays through April 21. $15-$20.

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PERFORMANCE

The glorified Broadway tribute to the Beatles returns to portland. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-7453000. 7:30 pm Friday, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Saturday, April 5-6. $29.75-$71.75.

St. Nicholas

Deep into Conor Mcpherson’s St. Nicholas, our devilish, graying narrator is engulfed by the irresistible spell of vampires, swept into their london mansion of dark wood paneling and blood-red carpets. But it’s Ted Roisum’s stirring performance that casts the real spell, creating an impeccable theatrical reflection on what it means to be human. Roisum performed St. Nicholas with CoHo productions in 1999 and three years later in San Diego. But this revival, directed by Gemma Whelan, is the first full production for fledgling Corrib Theatre, which is on a mission to bring Irish drama to portland. Roisum’s thunderous voice and claylike facial expressions guide the audience through a sumptuously visual tale. It begins with a bleak and despairing Dublin populated by writers on the precipice of liquor-induced self-destruction. A theater critic in his late 50s looms perpetually drunk and self-important above his fellow writers. When sudden infatuation with an actress, aptly named Helen, reduces him to an obsessive Romeo, he abandons Dublin to woo her in london. Instead, vampires woo the fallen critic into their patronage. Roisum makes it all tangible: the shadows dancing around Helen’s sinewy ankles, the smell of over-ripe fruit in the vampires’ backyard, the beer-tinged irony of a critic’s desire to please. ENID SpITZ. Kells, 112 SW 2nd Ave., 389-0579. 7:30 pm Mondays-Thursday, April 1-4, and Monday, April 8. $15.

The Winter’s Tale

[NEW REVIEW] Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, more than 30 plays and about 10 histories. So it stands to reason that not all of them are gems. The Winter’s Tale feels as if the Bard had an unfinished tragedy, half a comedy and a longing for a bouncy musical number. The result is a little disjointed. The first half features the jealous and paranoid King leontes (Grant Turner), whose rush to judgment leaves a good portion of the cast dead by the end of the act, including one poor fellow who gets devoured by a bear. The second act goes for laughs with the lighthearted buffoonery of peasant shepherds and a lessthan-honest peddler. True love prevails and a miracle is thrown in for good measure. But the cast handles this grab bag of Shakespearean devices admirably, delivering polished and entertaining performances, particularly a heartrending monologue by the besmirched Queen Hermione (Anne Sorce) as she stands trial. Die-hard Shakespeare fans should be pleased to catch the infrequently staged production, while non-aficionados may just be perplexed. Is winter coming? pENElOpE BASS. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 971-244-3740. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 pm Sundays through April 28. $18-$20.

COMEDY & VARIETY Bang + Burn

John Breen and Beau Brousseau improvise a spy-thriller packed full of sex, testosterone and explosions. Brody Theater, 16 NW Broadway, 2242227. 8 pm Saturday, April 6. $9-$12.

Iliza Shlesinger

The only female winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing brings her snarky stand-up to Helium. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Thursday, 7:30 pm and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, April 4-6. $15-$25.

The Incredible Boris

A trained hypnotherapist, Boris Cherniak’s stage acts combine comedy and hypnosis. Helium Comedy Club, 1510 SE 9th Ave., 888-643-8669. 8 pm Wednesday, April 3. $15-$20.

sHimmy on doWn: A makeshift harem.

ARABIAN NIGHTS (POST FIVE THEATRE) a whole new world, replete with fart jokes.

Before Arabian Nights begins, Post Five’s performers move about the theater. Clad in harem pants and embroidered vests, they squeeze into black vinyl pews, wrapping an arm around an audience member or exchanging pleasantries. That beginning sets a fittingly informal tone for Mary Zimmerman’s 1994 adaptation of The 1001 Nights, which draws on Arab traditions of oral storytelling that encourage audience participation and dramatic gesture. Stories of sacrifice, endurance and generosity spiral into ribald tales of sex, greed and flatulence, and under director Philip Cuomo the play becomes a lively and often bawdy ode to the immersive power of storytelling, even if the inconsistent cast stumbles in the more reflective or cerebral moments. With the low-ceilinged black box looking something like a bargainbasement harem—walls draped with gauzy curtains and the floor layered with Persian carpets—Arabian Nights begins with the cuckolded king Shahryar (Gilberto Martin Del Campo) wedding, bedding and slaying a fresh virgin each night. But when he marries the clever Scheherezade (Nicole Accuardi), she staves off his wrath by telling him story after story, always arriving at dawn with a sultry cliffhanger. As Scheherezade tells each tale, the large ensemble adopts a string of guises, becoming lovesick merchants, hip-swiveling temptresses, bulgy-eyed kings and, charmingly, an elephant. The cast is most comfortable with comic tomfoolery and lusty pantomime, as when Jessi Walters plays a sexually voracious adulteress with a string of blue-collar lovers. From the flour-dusted pastry chef with his baguette-sized rolling pin to the marble-mouthed green grocer with a giant cucumber in tow, each lover milks his profession to the utmost phallic potential. Things turn even lower-brow with the tale of a king exiled for unleashing a colossal fart (the ensemble sings a cautionary ditty about chickpeas), but the highlight of the first act is a squabble over a magic bag. Waged between Sam Dinkowitz and Sam DeRoest, it’s a heroic and hilarious game of one-upmanship, which, at least on opening night, incorporated the hand jive and Monty Pythonesque accents. But after a first act propelled by cheeky stories and earthy physicality, the cast struggles to keep its steam with the more plaintive stories of the second act. Stories feel more recited than performed, particularly problematic with Sascha Blocker’s strangely smug wise woman. In the first act, the cast’s exuberance distracts from certain problematic Orientalist elements—why must all the women be dressed like Jasmine from Aladdin?—but they begin to grind as the play winds on. It’s compounded by the lack of a director’s note or program to contextualize the play or its source material. Still, while Post Five seems minimally interested in challenging perceptions of the Middle East, that’s not really the purpose of Arabian Nights. When Scheherezade tells Shahryar that some of her stories “might seem licentious or lewd to those with gross or narrow minds,” Shahryar instructs her to continue anyway. Here’s hoping Post Five does the same. This is the young company’s first non-Shakespearean foray, and while uneven, it establishes the troupe as a spunky force in Portland’s theater scene. The performers’ bawdiness might sometimes get the best of them, but with a few more rubs of the bottle, who knows what might be released? REBECCA JACOBSON.

see it: Arabian Nights is at Milepost 5, 850 NE 81st Ave., 729-3223. 7 pm Fridays-Sundays through April 28. $10 Fridays-Saturdays, “pay what you can” Sundays.

APRIL 3–9

CLASSICAL Brent Weaver

Instant Composers Pool Orchestra

Since 1967, composer-pianist Misha Mengelberg’s Dutch free-jazz nonet has been exploring the frontiers of improvisation with other avantjazz titans such as Ab Baars, cofounder and percussion master Han Bennink, and even a couple of Americans. In this Creative Music Guild concert, they’ll go where no jazz orchestra has gone before. Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5431 NE 20th Ave., 897-8264. 8 pm Friday, April 5. $8-$20.

Oregon Symphony, Dave Frishberg, Patrick Lamb

Two nationally known Portlandbased jazzers join the orchestra for separate sets. The ﬁrst features veteran pianist-songwriter Frishberg playing his own compositions with the OSO, while crossover saxophonist Lamb will play pop covers and more. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 228-1353. 7:30 pm Saturday and 3 pm Sunday, April 6-7. $21-$96.

Portland Vocal Consort

One of the city’s most valuable classical music series continues with PVC’s annual Best of the Northwest concert, focusing on homegrown music, including a U.S. premiere by UO music prof Robert Kyr and works by PSU profs Bryan Johanson and Ethan Sperry, Portland’s David York, Seattle’s Karen Thomas and the winner of PVC’s third annual young composer competition. First Christian Church, 1315 SW Park Ave., 209-7539. 7:30 pm Saturday, April 6. $5-$20.

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Unless you’ve heard Joseph Haydn and C.P.E. Bach’s ﬁne piano sonatas on the instrument and in the tunings they were composed in, you haven’t really heard them. Here’s a rare chance, courtesy of the award-winning AmericanAustrian forte pianist (and UO dis-

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Even if you caught their performance last summer, you still might to catch the famous foursome one last time before they retire after 42 years—especially since they’ll be joined by one of Portland’s favorite visiting classical pianists. Monday’s Friends of Chamber Music concert includes quartets by Mozart and Smetana and Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor, while Tuesday’s performance features quartets by Bartok and Beethoven and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 2249842. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9. $30–$45.

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Three Portland pianists celebrate 150 years of classical interpretations of the quintessential Polish folk dance music in great mazurkas by Polish composers Chopin, Karol Szymanowski and the latter’s 20th-century student, Roman Maciejewski. Polish Hall, 3900 N Interstate Ave., 715-1866. 1:30 pm Sunday, April 7. $10.

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The George Fox University faculty member, one of the city’s most accomplished composers, presents a wide-ranging survey of his music. The performance includes pieces for electronic instruments, piano, saxophone (a response to school shootings a decade ago), tenor and piano (a song cycle setting the poetry of 20th-century Spanish poet Antonio Machado) and a brass ensemble (inspired by a scene from C.S. Lewis’ Narnia books). Bauman Auditorium, 414 N Meridian St., 554-3844. 7:30 pm Friday, April 5. Free.

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The award-winning Seattle-based choir has been premiering dozens of new choral works (many on its 14 CDs) for two decades now. This concert features a quartet of new compositions by Eric Banks (a setting of a Cavafy poem), and two of America’s hottest, young composers: Ted Hearne (including a work based on the killing of an innocent family during the Iraq War) and Mason Bates. Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, 1620 SW Park Ave., 725-3307. 4 pm Saturday, April 6. $10-$20.

Paying homage to ‘80s era movies, this cabaret-comedy performance features roller-derby girls, parasitic aliens and puppets. Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., 8416734. 7:30 pm Thursday, April 4 and 7:30 pm Fridays-Saturdays through April 20. $10-$12.

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Paul Taylor Dance Company

A selection of three contemporary works marry movement and music in a way that has compelled and confounded critics over the years. A favorite of White Bird and an instrumental player in the nonproﬁt’s launch, Paul Taylor remains an acclaimed American choreographer, but also an enigma. Taylor mixes classical scores with asymmetrical movement and often disparate sources of inspiration. In The Uncommitted, the newest work of the performance, a haunting series of solos, duets and trios brings new vigor to music by Arvo Pärt, which has become all too popular among choreographers. The complex Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) is a detective-story ballet set to a live two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s 100-year-old revolutionary score. Finally, Taylor reprises his buoyant Brandenburgs, a 25-year-old musing set to Bach’s concerti. Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 248-4335. 7:30 pm Thursday-Saturday, April 4-6. $26$64.

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Picture the opening ceremony for the Beijing Summer Olympics, except right in front of your face in the Keller. Shen Yun, a worldrenowned, New York-based company, has what it takes to make fans of Chinese traditional dance. With a full orchestra, kaleidoscope of colors and never-ending wardrobe of costumes, the show will leave your mouth agape. Keller Auditorium, 222 SW Clay St., 800-745-3000. 7:30 pm TuesdayThursday, April 2-4. $65-$185.

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Infinity vs. Eternity

Madison, Wisconsin-based artist chele isaac turns the hallwaylike Vestibule space into a mind-bending, never-ending corridor in the installation Infinity vs. Eternity. a video projection onto the space’s far wall shows a smooth, moving shot of a camera traveling through a hotel’s labyrinthine hallways. This gives the illusion that Vestibule itself has turned into the hotel, and you the viewer are walking through it. The video evokes the Overlook hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining—so much so that you expect a little boy to ride through at any moment on a Big Wheel. Through April 7. Vestibule, 8371 N Interstate Ave.

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Kenneth Josephson: In Retrospect

Octogenarian photographer Kenneth Josephson has chronicled the course of american life and artistic thought for generations. his imagery is diverse: a light bulb hanging in the center of several photographs of light bulbs; a photo of the pyramids of Giza held in front of the chicago skyline; a car racing underneath a bridge at night, the street lights heightened by multiple exposure. But Josephson’s studies of the body hold the most enduring relevance: an image of a pencil held clinically at a woman’s hips, like a cosmetic surgeon’s scalpel; and a prefab cutout of a breast, held up to an actual breast, as if for the purpose of comparison to an ideal. These images are archetypal and chilling. Through April 27. Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, 134 NW 8th Ave., 287-3886.

Space Is the Place

architectural space meets space of the “final frontier” kind in disjecta’s

lively group exhibition, Space Is the Place. artists Guillermo Gómezpeña, david huffman, Wendy Red Star and Saya Woolfalk offer up cheeky paintings, sculptures, costumes and a video installation in the style known as “afro-futurism.” Basketballs are a recurring motif, stacked in a pyramidal sculpture and used in a geometric abstract painting that’s not quite abstract after all; each of the tiny circles in the composition, upon close inspection, reveals itself as a miniature depiction of a basketball. The show is wittily co-curated by Josephine Zarkovich and elizabeth Spavento. Through April 28. Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Ave., 286-9449.

Stephen Scott Smith: Seeyouyousee

images from his travels in Southeast asia from the 1980s through the 2000s. Through April 27. Augen DeSoto, 716 NW Davis St., 224-8182.

The End and After

Bullseye’s previous show was about memento mori; the current one is about apocalypse. The staff should start handing out Zoloft to gallery visitors. despite the moribund theme, the new exhibit, The End and After, is surprisingly lively, with oil paintings and kiln-formed glass works by Michael endo and mixedmedia pieces by Stacy Lynn Smith. The most striking of these is Smith’s interactive Blue Spark, which invites viewers to pull a pin out of a steel contraption, which makes a rectangle of glass crash to the floor and shatter. The sound of the shattering is amplified and made to reverberate by four microphones, which are hooked up to an eerie sound installation designed by Robert Burns. Through April 27. Bullseye Gallery, 300 NW 13th Ave., 227-0222.

Ty Ennis: JKJKJK

Stephen Scott Smith worked on Seeyouyousee for 60 days, carving 10,000 pounds of plywood into a fully immersive installation. a sophisticated handler of diverse media, he’s appointing the show not only with sculpture, but also video, closed-circuit television, reflective objects and light effects. he often references nostalgia and personal biography in his work, and while some of his past shows have bordered on the solipsistic, they have never wanted for sheer visual panache. Through April 20. Breeze Block Gallery, 323 NW 6th Ave., 318-6228.

Steve McCurry: Southeast Asia

Steve Mccurry is best known for taking the most famous photograph ever to run in National Geographic magazine: the sublime 1984 portrait Afghan Girl, which shows a young girl with striking green eyes. Mccurry continues to photograph and exhibit around the world. his current show at augen showcases

anyone who saw Ty ennis’ You’ll Love It Here in 2009 at the nowdefunct New american art Union isn’t likely to forget that show’s creepy documentation of Spokane serial killer Robert Lee Yates. ennis’ new show at Nationale takes a major stylistic turn, with paintings in a lowbrow style depicting still lifes of incongruous objects. Still Life With Weapons, for example, incorporates a zebra-striped cowboy hat, a honeycomb-patterned minimalist painting, a bouquet of flowers, and a porn dVd titled Weapons of Ass Destruction. The self-conscious awkwardness of the rendering gives the show an endearing snarkiness. Through April 28. Nationale, 811 E Burnside St., Suite 112.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 Ancient Egypt Lecture

American Egyptologist Cynthia May-Sheikholeslami has lived and worked in Egypt for more than three decades and will be bringing her extensive knowledge to Portland for the lecture and slide show “In the Realm of the Ancient Egyptian God Montu: Temples and Rituals.” You know your inner Indiana Jones is dying to go. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm. Free.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4 Karen Russell

Following the colossal success of her novel, Swamplandia!, Pulitzer Prize ﬁnalist Karen Russell is releasing a new collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Suitably bizarre and entertaining, the stories follow characters such as a depressed teenager who learns the universe is communicating with him through objects left in a bird’s nest, a massage therapist who can manipulate tattoos with healing results, and an abducted community of girls held captive in a silk factory morphing into human silkworms. Never let it be said that she lacks imagination. Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 228-4651. 7 pm. Free.

University of Hell Press Reading

Proving yet again that all the great ones end up in hell, University of Hell Press founder Greg Gerding will host an evening of readings with four of UHell’s authors. Eirean Bradley will read from her debut book of poetry, The I in Team; Stephen M. Park will share the gonzo-like misadventures from his memoir, High and Dry; Leah Noble Davidson waxes philosophical about the chemistry of the human condition in Poetic Scientiﬁca; and Brian S. Ellis will recount his 9,000-mile journey through nearly every physical (and mental) state in the country in American Dust Revisited. Go UHell! Powell’s on Hawthorne, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 228-4651. 7:30 pm. Free.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 Alive at the Center

Launching its new poetry anthology, Alive at the Center, Ooligan Press will host a reading with contributing poets Carl Adamshick, Emily Kendal Frey, Paulann Petersen and others. Everyone loves a creamy center. Literary Arts Center, 925 SW Washington St., 227-2583. 7-9 pm. Free.

Publication Studio Reading

With two of its authors releasing four new books, Publication Studio is celebrating with a reading by ﬁction author Matt Briggs (Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys and The Double E) and poet Howard W. Robertson (The Green Force of Spring and Odes to the Ki of the Universe). Trevor Dodge, host of the podcast Possible Architect, will join the conversation. Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny St., 360-4702. 7 pm. Free.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 Sister Spit Literary Road Show

For more than 20 years, San Francisco-based lit event Sister Spit has been bringing queer and feminist ideas to the stage through

readings and performance. Catch the literary road show in Portland featuring author and event cofounder Michelle Tea; awardwinning author Ali Liebegott, promoting her newest novel, ChaChing!; artist and writer Cristy C. Road; Australian artist TextaQueen; Bay Area writer and performer Daniel LéVesque; and accordion-wielding costume designer and performance artist DavEnd. It’s gonna be weird and fabulous. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N Interstate Ave., 306-5217. 7 pm. $10.

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Oregon Book Awards

Like the Academy Awards for the lit crowd (think fewer tuxes, more tweed jackets), the annual Oregon Book Awards will honor local writers across a multitude of genres. Nominated writers include Portland favorites like ﬁction author Brian Doyle (Bin Laden’s Bald Spot), poet Carrie Seitzinger (Fall Ill Medicine) and nonﬁction writer Cheryl Strayed (Wild). Presented by Literary Arts, the ceremony will be hosted by Tin House co-founder Elissa Schappell. Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 445-3700. 7:30 pm. $10.

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AGGRO RAG FREESTYLE MAG! PLYWOOD HOODS ZINES ’84-’89 Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag! Plywood Hoods Zines ’84-’89: T h e Co m p l e t e Co l l e c t i o n (Stovepiper Books Media, 443 pages, $24.43) is radical, and not in political or mathematical terms. Rather, this is a surprisingly engaging testament to the underground freestyle “Me. I ride for me.” BMX circuit of the mid-’80s. Aggro Rag is a collection of 12 fondly remembered fanzines by the same name, with notes and essays from original editor Mike Daily and other contributors. Daily began the project as a high-school student in York, Pa., working on it between 1984 and 1989. Born on mimeograph and Xerox machines, each issue of Aggro Rag is more of a scrapbook than standard zine, originally distributed at competitions and nationwide by Daily’s neighborhood post office. The eclectic content includes everything from music reviews and prolific interviews with up-and-coming riders to news blurbs and how-to guides for performing the latest tricks, complete with directions and photos. The much-romanticized zine is a lost art form obliterated by Pentium-enabled digital publishing. Daily’s hodgepodge approach to the mini-mags may have helped it hold up: Aggro Rag has the ragtag finesse of a well-done barspin, probably because of handson dedication so easy to skimp on in the Tumblr age. The collection has the tone you’d expect of kids whose sole pleasure in life seems to be cruising around doing cherry pickers. “And how about when a total moon babe moves in down the street?” Daily writes in an editorial about the many uses for a BMX bike. “Your bike sure does come in handy when you’re tryin’ to win her heart by cruising your scoot past her house standin’ on the seat and give her the peace sign with a rose clenched in your teeth!!” The photos are mainly amateur action shots of Daily and his peers performing flatland bike tricks. Other images include cartoons and candid shots of Van Halen’s David Lee Roth meant to help retain the reader’s gaze when bike photos fall short of gripping. For all its unpolished humor and bike-related jargon, the collection is brimming with insights that further its appeal beyond the freestyle junkie. When Daily tackles the role freestyle plays in society, one can tell he’s taken time to consider how bikes help keep teenagers from doing vandalism and drugs. Ultimately, Aggro Rag’s best quality is its subtext as a journal of Daily’s progression as a writer and person, with writing and stories becoming more concise, vivid and compelling with each issue. Daily went on to work for two national BMX magazines and write two novels—the fact he’s not embarrassed by something he photocopied at age 15 speaks volumes. BRANDON WIDDER.

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6 Souls

A psychological thriller starring Julianne Moore as a forensic psychiatrist whose patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has multiple personalities— all of murder victims. r. Living Room Theaters, Forest Theatre.

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C Paul Weitz’s lukewarm dramedy takes a subject, the neurotic frenzy of college admissions, that could be played seriously or for laughs, and lands in an erratic middle. Tina Fey is an uptight Princeton admissions officer who receives a phone call from a former classmate (Paul Rudd), who runs an alternative school. There she meets Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), a genius autodidact with ghastly grades. When John tells Portia that Jeremiah might be the son she gave up for adoption during college, her life goes into a tailspin. Fey plays Portia as a neatfreak Liz Lemon, and Rudd does his usual deadpan act, but the screenplay is too tepid to generate any real laughs. Sorry, Admission: After review of your application, we have voted to place your name on our waitlist. pG13. REBECCA JACOBSON. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, City Center, Division, Movies on TV, Tigard.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[THREE DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Before helming 2012’s Killing Them Softly, Aussie director Andrew Dominik made this 160-minute epic, starring Brad Pitt as the notorious outlaw and Casey Affleck as the man who shot him in the back of the head. r. Fifth Avenue Cinema. 7 and 10 pm Friday-Saturday, 3 pm Sunday, April 5-7.

The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival

[THREE DAYS ONLY] A collection of 11 award-winning animated shorts from North America’s largest animation festival. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday-Saturday, 5 and 7 pm Sunday, April 5-7.

Beyond the Hills

A- A penniless lesbian orphan, strug-

gling to rekindle a faded romance, is confined and subjected to exorcism by the women of a remote monastery. No, Cristian Mungiu’s fourth feature (his second, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, won the Palme d’Or in 2007) is not a seedy sexploitation flick à la Chained Heat, and if that synopsis has you hot and bothered, then this movie might feel like a cold shower. Quiet, austere and strikingly shot, Beyond the Hills divided critics at Cannes, with some hailing the film as a masterpiece and others dismissing Mungiu’s deliberate style as vacuous or pretentious. With a running time of 155 minutes, Mungiu’s mysterious tale of shifting identities will inevitably test the patience of some viewers, but I found it electrifying. A kind of Chekhovian horror story, Beyond the Hills grapples with material that’s equal parts tragic and banal, and the result is totally unreal and yet utterly convincing. If that all sounds like a bunch of baloney, then you might be better off renting Cellblock Sisters. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Living Room Theaters.

Birdemic in Hecklevision

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Not only will your snarky texts appear onscreen, but the stars of this 2010 low-budget thriller—basically The Birds without any psychological depth—will also be in attendance. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Friday, April 5.

The Call

C- Apparently in a stiff competition

with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Adrien Brody to see who can stretch the goodwill of an Oscar win the farthest without snapping it completely, Halle Berry knows no bounds. The Call is beneath an actress of her caliber. It’s

pulpy, shticky, slimy, manipulative and bombastic. But here’s the problem: For a while, The Call is a good film. There’s a sense of real peril that jabs your heart and makes your teeth grind. Then, just as it brings all its nifty tricks and narrative sucker punches to a climax, it becomes the worst kind of terrible: the predictable, sleazy, torture-porn kind of horrible. Berry plays Jordan, a top-notch Los Angeles 911 operator who’s forced to take a call from an abducted teenager (Abigail Breslin). Then logic itself totally leaves the equation, with the film spiraling into standard horror fare when Breslin and her kidnapper arrive at a creepy murder den. What’s most frustrating is that director Brad Anderson has taken a great—if sloppily executed— potboiler of a premise and boiled it down to the basest, most contrived and idiotic revenge fantasy imaginable. r. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Oak Grove, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

The Croods

B So here’s the thing: The Croods fails to conjure a complex or logically consistent world. It fails to populate that world with credible characters, or to usher those characters through a series of dramatically satisfying trials. But so what? In a nutshell: Nic Cage, voicing a knuckle-dragging caveman, cracks wise, pulls faces and delivers zany, half-cooked monologues on death and love and family. That’s all you need to know, that’s pretty much all you’ll get, and that ain’t necessarily a bad thing. pG. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Moreland, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

Drawing Dead

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ATTENDING] An hour into Mike Weeks’ debut feature documentary, a card appears onscreen (literally, a title card) informing us that “drawing dead,” a typically colorful piece of poker jargon, describes when a player has “no chance to win, regardless of the cards yet to be dealt.” Permit me an analogy. After bluffing his way into a sprawling story touching on addiction, celebrity, politics and neuroscience, Weeks rounds up a promising pair of online poker players; he raises and re-raises with the introduction of a secondary story line concerning a much-maligned piece of legislation known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act; he goes all in with the tale of Michael Korpi Jr., a winsome addict traveling on foot from Washington to Massachusetts; but then Weeks tips his hand. The title card feels like an excuse, or maybe an apology. His story flatlines, and Weeks is drawing dead. The world of high-stakes poker has provided fodder for a smattering of good-togreat films (Rounders, California Split, Maverick), but Drawing Dead, like The King of Kong, is ultimately concerned with the inner lives of men who stare at screens, rather than with the game of poker itself. Unfortunately, Dusty Schmidt and Korpi turn out to be variations on a theme—nice guys with a jones for poker—and their trajectories, though opposite, run parallel. The movie fizzles in the final 30 minutes, as Weeks goes searching for a villain and settles on Congress, an easy target if there ever was one. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Thursday, April 4.

Emperor

B- Talk about burying the lead. Hirohito, the enigmatic Japanese monarch whose endorsement of criminal atrocities during the Second SinoJapanese War and World War II is now a matter of historical fact, doesn’t actually appear on screen until the final minutes of Peter Webber’s dour

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A couple years ago, Noah Hussin didn’t eat roadkill. Now it makes his mouth water. In November 2010, Hussin and his brother Tim set out, on bicycles, to document communities of radical homesteaders in the American South. White, well-educated and privileged—Noah, 30, was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, and Tim, 27, has photographed for National Geographic in Bolivia—the Florida natives spent almost two years living with communities and filming their experiences for America Recycled, an in-progress, feature-length documentary. WW spoke with Noah about Southern pride, living hyperlocally and how to choose your roadkill. WW: What was your goal setting out? Noah Hussin: My brother and I had always played with the idea of going on a storytelling partnership. We had these vague romantic notions of alternative America, whatever that meant in the 21st century. We were looking for people living hyperlocally. How do you define “radical homesteading”? I think back to the settling days when people were coming over the continent and going toward what, for their culture, was unexplored land. They’re finding land and they’re making a home on it. And it doesn’t already have existing infrastructure, so it was out of necessity for them. That would mean they were growing food, they were learning how to forage food, they were hunting, they were keeping livestock, they were writing their own music around campfires. When you take it into a modern context, where the entire country is filled in, it’s a very intentional thing. It’s not out of necessity, but they’re trying to do it in the same ways. Some of these homesteaders look like Burners transplanted to Beasts of the Southern Wild. You’ve hit on a certain truth there, that there is a certain exotic element because it’s Southern. They’re individualistic, and that’s reflected in their style. But even though they’re radical and progressive, they’re still Southern and they’re proud of

that. Despite the problems the South has in terms of prejudices like racism and sexism, there is a very real sense of Southern hospitality. You can also do what you want on your land, and that’s huge for people who are trying to homestead. What relationships did you see among homesteading communities and their neighbors? The rural Southern Americans we talked to, they’re coming from a homesteading heritage, and they’re often lamenting the loss of that. The older people remember when they had a small town and a family farm and a general store and that whole clichéd America that Republicans keep telling us they’re going to bring back. Then these more modern radical homesteading people are trying to re-create some of this, so I feel like there is a connection between the ideals of the two. How was it riding bikes through the South? As two white American brothers on bicycles, we felt completely immune to police. We could have been trafficking cocaine and nobody would have caught us. All these good ol’ boys, cops, they’d be like, “Riding across the country? Wow, I love adventure, I always wanted to do something like that.” What kind of roadkill did you eat? One of the most defining roadkill experiences we had was in Terlingua [in Texas]. It was Christmas Eve, I want to say, and we went to the farmers market and it was closed, but along the way there was a coyote on the road, and it was beautiful. We bagged it up and we skinned it and we processed it and we made a big stew out of it for the town. We made an effort to tell people it was coyote, but I guess the word didn’t completely get around, so some people ate it without knowing what it was, and they’re like, “This is amazing.” Coyote is so good, I had no idea. Just thinking about it now, my mouth is watering. We became known as the Coyote Brothers. How does other roadkill compare? Our favorite regular one was probably rabbit. I like squirrel, depending on the squirrel. Obviously deer. Bear is pungent and kind of sweet. People hear we eat roadkill and imagine getting a shovel and scraping it off the road. No, we had standards. SEE IT: Hussin will screen five clips from America Recycled at Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave., on Thursday, April 4. 8 pm. Free. Read the full interview at wweek.com.

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Evil Dead

A remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 cult hit, not directed by Raimi. Screened after WW press deadlines, but look for Jay Horton’s review at wweek. com. r. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, Bridgeport, City Center, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy, St. Johns Twin.

From Up on Poppy Hill

B- The newest addition to Studio Ghibli’s emporium of wondrous Japanese animations is a tale of schoolgirl romance, containing all the delight but hardly the depth of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle or Spirited Away. Umi is a Cinderella of sorts, running her family’s coastal boarding house after her sailor father dies and her mother leaves to study in America. Her prince is daredevil activist Shun, who’s set on saving their school’s unkempt “Quartier Latin” student center. Set in a post-WWII Japan ignited by social ferment, the film’s young characters battle authority and discover love to a soundtrack that sounds like Asian Gershwin. This family affair—Miyazaki worked on the screenplay and his son Goro directed—is dreamlike, endearing and fiercely visual. But scenes of Umi gazing over a misty harbor fall short of the mystical wonder expected from the studio behind Howl’s living, teleporting mansion. pG. ENID SPITZ. Fox Tower.

The Gatekeepers

B The Shin Bet is the Israeli gov-

ernment’s 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. The Shin Bet leaders’ replies are honest, astute and even compassionate as they let the cruel skeletons out of their closet. pG-13. MITCH LILLIE. Laurelhurst, City Center.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

D As “How You Like Me Now?”

blares presumptuously over G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s end credits, dejected viewers will be excused for muttering, “I actually liked you a lot better before.” While this sequel/ reboot boasts the same slapdash storytelling and risible dialogue as its predecessor, John M. Chu (Step Up 3D) can’t infuse the material with the same cartoonish energy Stephen Sommers lent 2009’s The Rise of Cobra. Displaying an aversion to outrageousness, this action flick instead traffics in garden-variety ridiculousness. Consequently, minor pleasures are the best it can muster, such as Jonathan Pryce’s mischievous turn as the Cobra terrorist who’s assumed the president’s identity. When he orders an airstrike that reduces the G.I. Joe ranks to Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) and three others (who share a dozen lines between them), the supposedly international strike force holes up in an abandoned gym and calls on a retiree (Bruce Willis) and his NRA buddies for backup. Given such dreary alternatives, Snake Eyes (Ray Park) understandably defects for a vastly superior subplot featuring ninjas, RZA and cliffhanging melees. Ultimately, this over-thetop tangent only serves to illustrate just what a joyless slog the actual climax is. A surplus of explosions is no substitute for a few narrative fireworks. pG-13. CURTIS WOLOSCHUK.

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Getting to Know You(Tube)

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A tour through the depths of YouTube. Hollywood Theatre. 7:15 pm Monday, April 8.

Ginger & Rosa

B- It’s customary enough for British actors to have to perfect their American accents to break into Hollywood, but it’s rare for an English-made, English-directed film to contain almost no British actors. At heart, Ginger & Rosa is a deeply melodramatic ’60s comingof-age girl-buddy flick with a hamfisted nuclear-bomb metaphor and a sociopathic Lothario dad. But the delicacy Elle Fanning brings to the

role of Ginger just plain breaks your heart, even as the lines she’s sometimes asked to deliver do the same. pG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. Fox Tower.

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

B Werner Herzog’s 2010 documentary takes us to a remote fur-trapping village in central Russia, where 300 people live a long helicopter ride from civilization. Divided into segments 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. Nevertheless, Herzog’s hilariously poignant

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period drama. According to Shinto tradition, the emperor is arahitogami, “a living god,” which poses a problem for Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) and Gen. Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), the men tasked with investigating Hirohito and bringing Japanese war criminals to justice. When the emperor arrives, the movie really starts to hum. Too bad the credits are already beginning to roll. pG-13. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Living Room Theaters.

MOVIES

TaIl of woE: Silje Reinamo.

THALE A brief synopsis of Norwegian folklore: Nature is scary as shit, and everything’s out to get you. In a vast and frigid nation still so afraid of wolves it almost eradicates them each year, the out-of-doors never looks like a friend. Old Scandinavian tales reek of lonely death, and thus are perfect fodder for the shapeless fears of old-school horror. On the heels of 2010’s cultishly popular, low-budget Norwegian horror flick Trollhunter, a faux documentary in which student activists discover ancient trolls haunting the barren North, we now have Thale, a horror-tinged mystery based on the old Norwegian myth of the huldra: a sexy, superpowered forest girl with a long tail who might just as soon snap your neck as kiss you on the cheek. Like a lot of Scandinavian cinema, Thale is unremittingly patient in building a slow-mounting sense of dread. Director Aleksander Nordaas extends each shot for so long he seems bent on testing the boundaries between suspense and outright tedium. This feeling of unease is mirrored by the characters, who vomit excruciatingly throughout. (One’s sick, the other’s just a weenie.) The plot is simple. Elvis and Lut—two crime-scene cleaners— find a naked, mute girl (Silje Reinamo) in a bathtub full of milk in the shed of a murdered man. Tape recordings reveal her as a foundling of sorts, a subject of grim scientific experiments. And it turns out she can communicate only telepathically. As the girl huddles against a wall, mystery gives way to a sense of the askew: Something is obviously terribly wrong with her, the room and the world. Most of the 77-minute film takes place in the shed where she is found, but the skittering, tensely soundtracked, Evil Dead-style camera work lets the viewer know there is something terrifying in the forest. The tone is made yet tenser by the estranged, half-silent relationship between Elvis and Lut. Their conversations take on the glacial tension of gothic horror, and neither is likeable enough to suggest they will make it out alive. But amid the slow-burn fear and wonder, plus occasional blood and guts, the enduring feeling is not terror but sadness. Its true villain has no gun and no claws: It is the specter of unending loneliness. MATTHEW KORFHAGE.

a tense Norwegian tale of the tailed.

B+ SEE IT: Thale is at NW Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium. 8:45 pm Friday-Saturday, April 5-6.

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monotone, laid over scenes of desolate beauty, helps redeem the film. MITCH LILLIE. Living Room Theaters.

The Host

Given the supernatural train wreck the Twilight series was, Stephenie Meyers’ next novel-to-film adaptation inspires little confidence. In this fantasy-romance mash-up, an invisible enemy takes over people’s bodies and erases their memories. Not screened for critics. pG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

Identity Thief

C- 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. But 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. Eastport, Clackamas, Movies on TV, Sherwood.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

D+ Goofy wigs are always a bad omen. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone seems pitched by a really good wig-maker who thought it would be hysterical to plop ridiculous feathery rugs on Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi, a postgrunge one on Jim Carrey, a scraggly old-man one on Alan Arkin, and an intentionally fake-looking one on Olivia Wilde. Those wigs sure look funny. Too bad nothing else is. pG-13. AP KRYZA. Lloyd Center, Tigard.

Jack the Giant Slayer

B Jack the Giant Slayer is focused on

moving from one epic fantasy scene to another, whether it’s Ewan McGregor shouting, “Tally ho!” as he zip-lines across the beanstalk or a two-headed giant bursting through a tiled floor. pG-13. JOHN LOCANTHI. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Movies on TV, City Center.

Jurassic Park 3D

That velociraptor is reaching out to get you…and your wallet. pG-13. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sandy.

Lore

B- Cate Shortland’s Lore fancies itself an atypical World War II movie. Insofar as it’s told from the perspective of a 14-year-old German daughter of SS parents, it lives up to that distinction. Fleeing but not necessarily repentant, Lore (Saskia Rosendahl, excellent in her debut) and her four younger siblings trek through the Black Forest and struggle to reconcile who they know themselves to be with the way the postwar tide is turning. A constant stream of saturated colors and soft focus make Lore a gorgeous visual experience, but the story line isn’t always as powerful as the premise suggests it could be. MICHAEL NORDINE. Living Room Theaters.

Mental

C+ In the opening scene of this outrageous Australian comedy, a plump Mrs. Moochmore re-enacts The Sound of Music while hanging laundry in the garden. This does nothing to quell the paranoia of her five teenage daughters, who all fear for their own sanity. When the girls’ absent politician father sends Mrs. Moochmore to the loony bin, Shaz (Toni Collette), a hitchhiker dressed like an ’80s hooker, materializes with her psychic pit bull to play babysitter. P.J. Hogan’s autobiographical tribute to suburban madness explodes Australia into a psychotic world with oversaturated colors, its extravagance walking a thin line between irritating and enthralling. ENID SPITZ. Living Room Theaters.

A 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 soda-commercial 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. r. ROBERT HAM. Cinema 21.

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MOVIES

Occupy: We the People

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary from G.G. Williams exploring the local Occupy movement, centering on two women’s experiences in the banking industry. Bob White Theatre, 6423 SE Foster Road. 7 pm Saturday, April 6.

Olympus Has Fallen

C+ Olympus Has Fallen harks back to the late-’80s, early-’90s subgenre known as the “Die Hard on an X” flick, that special brand of knockoff adrenaline rush that includes such escapism as Speed, Passenger 57 and Sudden Death. With Olympus, it’s a literal army that storms the White House, taking the president (Aaron Eckhart) and his cabinet hostage. Luckily, his disgraced former head of security (Gerard Butler) survives the initial onslaught and proceeds to stab, shoot, blow up and maim his way to saving the boss. Olympus Has Fallen is firmly grounded in the early ’90s, when all we wanted to do was watch sinewy men spit one-liners at menaces from foreign lands before going on killing sprees. r. AP KRYZA. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Mill Plain, Cornelius, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

On the Road

B+ The journey to create a film

version of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 ode to the Beat Generation has been a treacherous one. How, then, did director Walter Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera succeed? The two accepted the challenge by embracing the challenges that lay within the text. Rivera hacked away at the sprawling and jagged story, emerging with a streamlined narrative that focuses on the strange, almost erotic attraction between Dean (Garrett Hedlund) and Sal (Sam Riley). More than that, the feeling the cast and crew bring forth is a rare one in movies about young people: a sense of inclusion and possibility. r. ROBERT HAM. Kiggins, Living Room Theaters.

Oz the Great and Powerful

B In The Wizard of Oz, the “man behind

the curtain” was nothing but a carnival magician using smoke and mirrors to maintain the illusion of power. Here, the curtain’s pulled back further to reveal the wizard’s (James Franco) origins as a hack transported from Kansas to Oz. In the hands of director Sam Raimi, L. Frank Baum’s world comes fantastically to life. There’s also the matter of the witches (Rachel Weisz, Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams), who muster a few scares worthy of any Deadite. Oz is overlong and often cheesy, but those flaws are also part of the charm of a film that doesn’t try to surpass its predecessor so much as supplement it. pG. AP KRYZA. 99 West Drive-In, Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Cornelius, Mill Plain, Lloyd Center, Oak Grove, City Center, Division, Lloyd Mall, Movies on TV, Pioneer Place, Sherwood, Tigard, Sandy.

Polyester Pulp: Charley Varrick

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] The Hollywood Theatre kicks off a monthlong series devoted to ’70s crime films with Don Siegel’s thriller, starring Walter Matthau as the leader of a small-town bank heist. pG. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 9.

Quartet

B Dustin Hoffman’s seems very aware he’s gently closing the book on an entire generation of entertainers, he nonetheless allows them to do what they’ve always done best: be entertaining. pG-13. MATTHEW KORFHAGE. City Center, Fox Tower, Tigard.

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hEy gIrl: ryan gosling and Eva Mendes.

A TAPESTRY OF MEDIOCRITY THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES BITES OFF TOO MUCH AND ACCOMPLISHES TOO LITTLE. BY a p krYza

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Among the things that made director Derek Cianfrance’s breakout feature, Blue Valentine, so powerful, touching and ultimately devastating was its extremely limited scope. This was an autopsy of a marriage that focused almost exclusively on its two main characters, and much of the time was spent locked in a lurid hotel room as their relationship boiled over and fizzled out. It brought out career-best performances by Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling: The actors were never afforded opportunities to hide behind tired cinematic tropes, which created a tense rawness. With The Place Beyond the Pines, Cianfrance expands his scope considerably, enveloping two families across more than a decade of distress, triumph and tragedy. Yet somewhere along the way, the director loses the heart that marked his previous triumph. The Place Beyond the Pines packs bravado performances across a sprawling narrative. But it’s also about 60 minutes longer than it needs to be, and runs out of gas after its remarkable first act. It’s a film that’s completely overstuffed, and oftentimes overcooked. Cianfrance makes an interesting choice in cutting the film into three distinct but interconnected sections, allowing the events to play out chronologically. There’s a certain realism that results from this aesthetic, but much of it is lost on a script that goes through some very familiar and overused story beats: the desperate bank robber, the goodcop-in-a-corrupt-force drama, and the trouble of bullying in high school. In the film’s most captivating section, we’re introduced to Luke (Gosling), a carnival stuntman with a thing for facial tattoos and one-night stands who fully embraces his nomadic lifestyle. That all changes when he discovers that a fling with a local woman (Eva Mendes) has made him a father. Suddenly shouldered with responsibility, he takes a job with a local mechanic (the terrific Ben Mendelsohn), whose criminal history leads the two

into a secondary career as bank robbers. This leads Luke on a path that soon intersects with that of rookie cop Avery (Bradley Cooper), whose actions garner him considerable media attention and put him in line with a crew of corrupt cops led by a particularly snide Ray Liotta. It also leads the film into a lull as Cooper, himself a new father, struggles with his conscience. Finally, the film dives headlong into cliché when it fast-forwards 15 years to a high school where the sons of Luke and Avery—unaware of their fathers’ history—become friends and drug buddies, eventually shouldering their fathers’ past traits in ways that feel forced. That’s no fault of the young actors. Emory Cohen brings depth and confusion to the

IT’S A FILM THAT’S COMPLETELY OVERSTuFFED, AND OFTENTIMES OVERCOOKED. high-strung Avery Jr., a child of privilege whose identity goes into a tailspin of narcotics and violence. Rising star Dane DeHaan, meanwhile, gives the best performance in a film stacked with nuance as Luke’s son, a scrawny and good-natured kid tortured by a mysterious past. At 140 minutes, The Place Beyond the Pines has ample time to set up its complex narrative tapestry. But each segment has a rushed quality, racing past the most interesting aspects before skidding to a halt in a bloated midsection. The moment Gosling’s character decides to strive for a better life, he’s sticking up a bank. The minute after Cooper’s cop becomes a symbol of good, he’s forced into a shakedown with civilians. There’s too little time given to fully develop motivations. Had Cianfrance given his characters room to breathe, the film might transcend the genre trappings it falls into so easily. It’s a noble effort: beautifully acted and sprawling in its ambitions. But in widening his lens, the director loses focus on the big picture. C+ SEE IT: The Place Beyond the Pines is rated R. It opens Friday at Fox Tower.

APRIL 3–9

Reality

C- Everybody knows there’s

nothing real about reality TV. But that doesn’t stop an otherwise lucid Neapolitan fishmonger from upending his life and ruining his marriage in an attempt to get on Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother. If you don’t know what Big Brother is, then you should skip this movie. If you do know what Big Brother is, then you should skip this movie. If you thoroughly enjoy Big Brother, or if you yourself have been a participant on Big Brother, then shame on you, and you too should skip this movie. According to director Matteo Garrone, whose previous film, Gomorrah, was selected to represent Italy for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Reality is based on a true story, but that doesn’t excuse the film for being overlong, unfocused and ultimately cruel to its hapless hero. R. MARSHALL WALKER LEE. Fox Tower.

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. 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. PG-13. ENID SPITZ. Clackamas, Mt. Hood, Tigard.

Side Effects

B- Steven Soderbergh 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. Alas, just as the ﬁlm ratchets up the jitters and paranoia, it takes a turn for the conventional in the second half. R. AP KRYZA. Fox Tower.

Silver Linings Playbook

A- One of ﬁlmdom’s funniest

stories of crippling manic depression. R. AP KRYZA. CineMagic, City Center, Fox Tower, Lloyd Mall.

Spiritual Visions in Modern Dance: Sybil Shearer

[TWO NIGHTS ONLY] Archival footage from 1940 to 1960 of works performed by Sybil Shearer, an American modern dancer known for her mystical and intuitive movement. Yale Union, 800 SE 10th Ave. 7:30 pm Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9.

Spring Breakers

B- The words “spring break” are repeated so often in Spring Breakers that they eventually begin to lose their meaning. That may seem obvious, given the title, but it’s worth pointing out: The phrase takes on a mantralike quality in Harmony Korine’s most outwardly conventional outing to date. Still best known for writing Kids and directing Gummo, the backwater auteur teams up with a Disneycentric cast to turn up the decadence and sleaze to 11. Neon lights, blinged-out cribs and James Franco’s white-trash gangsta rapper Alien make this akin to an art-house installment of Girls Gone Wild crossed with Scarface. The many Skrillex-scored party sequences never quite transcend their own vacuousness or oﬀer any insight into the culture they’re at once glamorizing and lampooning. That said, an utterly sincere rendition of Britney Spears’ “Everytime,” performed by Alien and set to a violent montage, is an early contender for sequence of the year, and nearly enough to forgive the ﬁlm’s shortcomings. R. MICHAEL NORDINE. Cedar Hills, Eastport, Clackamas, Lloyd Center, Division, Fox Tower.

MOVIES

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about the recording of the chanteuse’s 2011 solo album. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Sunday, April 7.

Stoker

B- South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s American debut, a coming-of-age psychodrama, centers on India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), a moody 18-year-old who becomes even more sociopathic after the accidental death of her father. For all its elegant weirdness, Stoker adds up to little. R. REBECCA JACOBSON. Laurelhurst.

The Suffering & Celebration of Life in America

[ONE NIGHT ONLY] A documentary about one metalhead couple’s travels and travails in the United States. Clinton Street Theater. 7:30 pm Tuesday, April 9.

Sunset Boulevard

[TWO DAYS ONLY, REVIVAL] Billy Wilder’s brilliant Hollywood satire. Hollywood Theatre. 2 pm SaturdaySunday, April 6-7.

Twilight Zone

[ONE NIGHT ONLY, REVIVAL] Three classic episodes on 16 mm. Hollywood Theatre. 7:30 pm Monday, April 8.

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War Witch

B Shocking and heartbreaking but

never exploitative, Canadian director Kim Nguyen’s Oscar-nominated film examines violence (in this case, in an unnamed sub-Saharan region) by focusing on two lost children bonding. The narrative is framed by Komona (Rachel Mwanza) as she tells her unborn child about being torn from her village by rebels and forced to kill at age 12, and her eventual status as a tortured “war witch” who can see the ghosts of the fallen on the jungle battlefield. It’s the emergent romance, tragedy and melancholy that set War Witch above the typical Third World war film. It takes on the bleakest of subjects, but somehow manages to bring hope to the front lines. AP KRYZA. Living Room Theaters.

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Wrong

C At the opening of Quentin

Dupieux’s last film, Rubber, the French director and electronic composer featured a monologue stating the film was an ode to “no reason.” Apparently, a 90-minute film about a randy tire that telekinetically made people’s heads explode didn’t get that desire for nonsense out of Dupieux’s system. With Wrong, the director once again populates his screen with all sorts of insanity, from an office where it’s always raining to caninefocused zen masters, telekinetic feces and transforming trees. At its heart is lonely slacker Dolph (Jack Plotnick), whose beloved dog goes missing, launching a series of encounters with bizarro freaks like a clingy pizza-store clerk (Alexis Dziena), an unorthodox detective (Eastbound and Down’s Steve Little) and, most delightfully, an acid-scarred guru (the great William Fitchner) who urges Dolph to find his furry friend by unleashing the power of his mind. The central joke here is that all this weirdness is presented as normal, and oftentimes it’s a head-scratching joy to listen to conversations go in circles or watch deadpan reactions to increasingly insane plot twists. After a while, though, it becomes evident that the film is weird for the sake of weird. In the end, it turns out weirdness can be sort of boring, especially when it’s presented as milquetoast. AP KRYZA. Hollywood Theatre.

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roadhouse

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BEER ME: Some things are just better with a beer or six. Take, for example, the sight of a shirtless Patrick Swayze ripping out a dude’s throat. Or a gigantic bug sucking out a man’s brain with what appears to be a megaschlong. When then-WW film editor and current news reporter Aaron Mesh (who’s no longer associated with it) and movie nut Jacques Boyreau launched the Beer and Movie Fest three years ago, the idea was simple: combine the joys of suds and cinema, then screen some weird shit (highlights of year one included The Human Centipede and Hausu). But the beauty of BAM lies in a trend that’s been percolating ’round these parts for years. Movies—particularly old-school revivals like the ones BAM embraces—are becoming an increasingly social medium. Sure, you could down a sixer and watch Roadhouse as it runs endlessly on TBS, but it’s not the same as the roar you’ll hear in the theater when that throat goes “pop.” Likewise, your neighbors aren’t going to want to debate fascist imagery after you’ve watched Starship Troopers alone. BAM allows us these social experiences. While it can be argued BAM has lost some of its luster as a revival fest, it’s still a great excuse to gather with a group of friends, the Swayze and some giant bugs for a beer—or six. AP KRYZA. Playing at: Academy and Laurelhurst. Best paired with: Ninkasi Allies Win the War Ale. Also showing: Sunset Boulevard (Hollywood).

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Lloyd Center 10 and IMAX

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “All my best ideas come from having no answer,” said pioneer filmmaker John Cassavetes, “from not knowing.” I hope that testimony cheers you up, Taurus. As hard as it may be for you to imagine, you are on the verge of a breakthrough. As you surf the chaotic flow and monitor the confusing hubbub, you are brewing the perfect conditions for an outburst of creativity. Rejoice in the blessing of not knowing! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sant is a Hindi word that comes from a Sanskrit verb meaning “to be good” and “to be real.” Personally, I know a lot of people who are either real or good. But few are both. The good ones tend to be overly polite, and the real ones don’t put a high priority on being nice. So here’s your assignment, Gemini: to be good and real; to have compassionate intentions even as you conduct yourself with a high degree of authenticity; to bestow blessings everywhere you go while at the same time being honest and clear and deep. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to pull off this strenuous feat. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Let’s take a look back at the first three months of 2013. How have you been doing? If I’m reading the astrological markers accurately, you have jettisoned a portion of the psychic gunk that had accumulated in you during the past six years. You have partially redeemed the shadowy side of your nature and you have to some degree ripened the most immature part. There’s also the matter of your heart. You have managed some healing of a wound that had festered there for a long time. So here’s my question for you: Is it possible for you to do more of this good work? The target date for completion is your birthday. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Naturalist Charles Darwin formulated the theory of evolution, which has been one of history’s most influential hypotheses. A crucial event in his early development as a scientist was a five-year boat trip he took around the world when he was in his twenties. The research he conducted along the way seeded many of his unique ideas. The writing he did established his reputation as a noteworthy author. And yet before his journey, his father tried to talk him out of embarking, calling it a “wild scheme” and “a useless undertaking.” Did your parents or other authorities ever have a similar response to one of your brilliant projects? If so, now would be a good time to heal the wound caused by their opposition. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ve got three sets of affirmations for you, Virgo. Say them out loud and see if they might work for you. 1. “I will be engrossed in fascinating experiences that feed my curiosity, but I will not be obsessed with grueling frustrations that drain my energy.” 2. “I will be committed to love if it opens my eyes and heart, but I will not be infatuated with maddening conundrums that jiggle my fear.” 3. “I will give myself freely to learning opportunities that offer me valuable lessons I can use to improve my life, but I will be skeptical toward rough-edged tests that ask far more from me than they offer in return.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Pole of inaccessibility” is a term that explorers use to identify places on the Earth that are hard -- and interesting! -- to get to. On each continent, it’s usually considered to be the spot that’s farthest from the coastline. For instance, there’s a pole of inaccessibility near the frozen center of Antarctica. Its elevation is over 12,000 feet and it has the planet’s coldest average temperatures. As for the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, it’s an area in the

South Pacific that’s most remote from land. By my reckoning, Libra, you would benefit from identifying what your own personal version of this point is, whether it’s literal or metaphorical. I think it’s also a great time to transform your relationship with it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every April, the ancient Romans celebrated a festival known as Robigalia. Among the rites they performed were ceremonies to exorcize the god of rust and mildew. I suggest you consider reviving that old practice, Scorpio. You would benefit from spending a few days waging war against insidious rot. You could start by scrubbing away all the sludge, scum, and gunk from your home, car, and workplace. Next, make a similar effort on a metaphorical level. Scour the muck, glop, and grime out of your psyche. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” Tinkerbell says that to Peter Pan in J.M. Barrie’s famous story. Sometime soon, I think you should whisper words like those to a person or animal you love. It’s time for you to be as romantic and lyrical as possible. You need to bestow and attract the nourishment that comes from expressing extravagant tenderness. For even better results, add this sweetness from French poet Paul Valéry: “I am what is changing secretly in you.” And try this beauty from Walt Whitman: “We were together. I forget the rest.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) had an ecstatic relationship with the California wilderness. He studied it as a scientist and he worshiped it as a mystical devotee. During the course of his communion with the glaciers and peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, he came close to seeing them as living entities that evolved over long periods of time. “Glaciers move in tides,” he wrote. “So do mountains. So do all things.” With Muir as your inspiration, I invite you to identify the very gradual currents and tides that have flowed for years through your own life, Capricorn. It’s prime time to deepen your understanding and appreciation of the big, slow-moving cycles that have brought you to where you are today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): American author William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize for literature, an indication that he had abundant talent. The prose he wrote was often experimental, cerebral, and complex. He was once asked what he would say to readers who found it difficult to grasp his meaning “even after reading it two or three times.” His reply: “Read it four times.” My counsel to you, Aquarius, is similar. When faced with a challenging event or situation that taxes your understanding, keep working to understand it even past the point where you would normally quit. There will be rewards, I promise. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Rob: I just consulted an astrologer, and he told me that my planets are very weak because they’re in the wrong houses and have bad aspects. Please tell me what this means. Am I cursed? Is there any way to remedy my afflictions? - Paranoid Pisces.” Dear Pisces: Whoever told you that nonsense is an incompetent astrologer. You shouldn’t heed him. There’s no such thing as one’s planets being weak or being in the wrong houses or having bad aspects. There may be challenges, but those are also opportunities. Luckily, the coming weeks will be prime time for you Pisceans to overthrow the influence of inept “experts” and irresponsible authorities like him. Reclaim your power to define your own fate from anyone who has stolen it from you.

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Across 1 In the best case scenario 7 Become droopy 10 Rooster 14 Nobel Prize winner Heaney 15 It’s hot in Hanoi 16 Tennis legend Arthur 17 Belly laugh noise 18 Total: abbr. 19 Revolved 20 1990s children’s show about how machines work 23 Warm, so to speak 25 Chennai is there 26 Major time period 27 Anderson or Craven 28 Prof’s helpers 30 Watch sneakily over 32 Naughty by Nature hit 37 Kendrick of “Up in the Air” 38 Commie, back in the day 39 Mounties’ acronym 43 Former alternative to Twinkies 46 Like most Braille readers 49 “The Heart ___ Lonely Hunter” 50 Little troublemaker 51 TV chef Martin 52 In the red 56 Letter-forming dance 58 With 63-across, game with marbles 61 Neighborhood 62 Wedding announcement word 63 See 58-across 67 Falsehoods 68 Part of USNA 69 Guiding principles

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Deadline for artwork 4/5

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